skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well. They run. Compare to public transport in the US.
They have Internet on board. Not always, often slow, but they have it. They have bullet trains and you can use all slow trains as much as you want for 49 euros a month.

Sure, China is better, cheaper. At my time without wifi, maybe this has changed. But compared to most countries DB is pretty good. I love trains.
Use nix to build your container.

You get process isolation, remote execution, the ability to cache and restore your environment… a long list of added benefits of using a container.
And how long from proposal to breaking ground?
And how many can we build at the same time?
Can we find enough sites or extend existing ones enough?
What problems will we have with water shortages for cooling?
And so on.

We are, thankfully, going to continue to build nuclear all over the world, perhaps most importantly in places like China where they may convert thermal coal plants to nuclear, but it's going to be a relatively small part of the energy mix overall and is not going to solve the doubt that the poster had and my original response was aimed at. Renewables + batteries + transmission, and I should add efficiency improvements, can do it now, at scale, and faster than we can imagine.

https://archive.is/s9dQh
Not loud at all but it gives you a distinctive feeling like you've been slapped in the base of the skull by God. The Carl G was the first thing that came to my mind when I read the article.
I specified primates because big cats eat more baboons than humans, but they kill both species in a very similar fashion, so let's open up the problem space.

So, really straightforward, in the context of bears eating people, someone implied that a cat will toy with you to death. I asked for evidence that they do this with primates, someone shared an anecdote about deer that isn't relevant to "bears eating people".

I'm not saying primates are exceptional, rather, that the story about deer is irrelevant.
> Want to solve a real problem, help me create custom benchmarks, clean my data, get my small parameter model to reason better etc.

I recently started a company with a friend if mine to do exactly this.

Ive worked at a few AI startups over the last 8 years, and the problem everyone tackles independently (and poorly) is the long tail of dealing with input data that isn't great. You build a demo with sample data that works well, then you move on to real world uses and the data is suddenly... blehg.
Steroids after cancer-survival! Thats steroids on steroids!
"Personalized" spam generated from templates has been a thing forever. I've received plenty of such emails from recruiters highlighting my past experience, projects and what I'd be a good fit for. LLMs make them a bit more real, but overall the game hasn't really changed.
This has been mentioned before, but I can see the benefit in having curated webrings and similar listings. Where people can verify the content is not LLM generated.
The Fake Oilman Who Conned People Out of Millions
You can bridge to matrix and use a matrix client. Then you get history even offline.
"The Skeptic is the UK’s longest-running publication offering skeptical analysis of pseudoscience, conspiracy theory and claims of the paranormal."

Then goes to claim that a conspiracy theory (young people denying the Holocaust) is not a conspiracy theory.
I think at one point they consired a gouche of 10 meters (about 10 yards?). They wanted to transport ships by train
> nothing else than vscode supports it

Isn’t it just like remote development? I’d expect you to be able to e.g. run Vim inside the container, use Emacs TRAMP to connect to it, or `rmate` to edit the files inside in e.g. Sublime.
(not the person you replied to)

There many things DB can improve on. But I think they have a good coverage with modern and clean trains. They are often late, but I think it's also really hard to run a punctual train network with a country of this size in the middle of Europe, where you also need to consider all neighboring countries that have an effect on your planning and so on (a constraint, for example, that Japan doesn't have).

Sure, for example SBB (Swiss Federal Railways) is more punctual, but the complexity is also much lower due to the country size. Also mind that the Swiss just don't let DB trains into the country when they're late more than ~ 30 min.

Price: I think dynamic pricing is fine, but the range is crazy. If you book ahead of time, you can get from Hamburg to Zurich for like € 30 (8 hour trip). You'll pay double that to go from Hamburg to Berlin (2 hour trip) if you book like one day before departure. But I think on average the prices are not too high. Consider that you can go to every major city in the country within 8 hours for less than € 50 if you plan ahead 1-2 weeks, in a clean train with a nice board bistro.

Wifi: Yes, it sucks.

I take the ICEs often for long distance rides. My strategy: Plan with up to 60 min delay (especially important if you need to change trains) and don't schedule calls or tasks that require a good internet connection. With this two tricks and the right mindset you'll be fine!
Well done for knowledge sharing.

I always impresses me, how many don't understand how to manage their SQL scripts, packages and stored procedures in SCM systems, when this was already a common product from SQL vendors in the 1990's.
Hundreds of thousands of dollars spent on this stuff, and then someone finds the right, undetectable doping mix, and bye bye.
This service isn't making a profit if it isn't even making enough to do maintenance.
Until some company pulls on them what happened to linux to invent git :)
That last paragraph is unnecessarily aggressive, and seems to me an uncharitable reading of their position and how they've presented it.
> You're just going to see more and more people who don't deserve your time until you're wanting for anyone who actually does.

I can see it, perhaps positively, investing far less importance and effort into online things. With admittedly a lot of optimism, I could see it leading to a resurgent arts and crafts movement, or a renewed importance put on hand-made things. People say "touch grass"; maybe AI will make people "touch crafts" (bad joke, I know).
If you want an entry level or intern to help in frontend I can help.

linkedin[dot]com/ in/remilekun-egwuda
Something must be very wrong with someone who continuously laughs at computer jokes so I don't think it will ever reach the level you are expecting (hopefully).
Note for everyone that will come in here to say the secret is drugs : In cyclism taking drugs is not considered a secret, it's common practice.
Probably the best play of the cycle if you're not Nvidia
Pascal Michael's website hasn't been updated with the last results yet, right?

Under "Turing machines with 5 states and 2 symbols", there's no mention of the definitive results
I do believe that commodified attention is the most logical currency of a postascarce society, so best case... quite a lot.

Note my 'best case' scenario for the near future is pretty upsetting.
Yup. The only exception I could think of are prearranged local times, e.g. the meeting will be on -future day- at -local time-. In that case, if, say, the time zone changes, the meeting would still be at the same local time and not move.
Voters and societies don't decide these things very often, in my experience. No one says "we're going to give these benefits and in exchange you're going to see cost of living rise, reducing the value of your savings". If you leave it to point issues, people would want free transport run by people paid a lot of money, somehow. Subsidies make it not a simple issue.
This is a obscure to me but people like Finkelstein and Chomsky point out the aftermath of WWII, where Russia was excluded by the other Western countries from the spoils of war and so forth, was a critical juncture that set back Russia's normal development. I don't know the details but it's an important question to ask, because much of the foundational disagreements between people with different political views on this (as you can see in this thread) depend on what one thinks is the historical context, which side was more the underdog, and who has power today, etc.
I fail to see how this is any better than IntelliJ/PyCharms remote interpreter feature and Services tab and a proper docker-compose file. It feels like VSCode is finally catching up.
Marshall Kirk McKusick talks are always great to watch.
I believe earlier Tesla's used induction motors - which don't tend to have any permanent magnets. The advantage of permanent magnets is pretty small - maybe a couple of percent efficiency. They weigh less, but motor weight is hardly dominant in EVs anyway.

The only real resource usage concern for EVs remains the batteries.
It doesn't exclude SUSE having a market share with their Rancher based solutions
I would love a browser that lets me disable/enable any browser or JS features a la carte. All fingerprinting for example.
> but we're techies and it's in our nature to obsess over details like this

Speak for yourself! Part of good engineering is knowing when over-engineered perfection is useless. The inventors of UTC/leap seconds did not, and made a serious mistake the rest of us have had to live with.
huh? are you doing a bit or just didn't look in to it at all?

even emacs supports it: https://happihacking.com/blog/posts/2023/dev-containers-emac...
What makes you assume that you will have the compartment to yourself? Do you buy six tickets?

The reality is that most people will actually prefer being in the "public space" of an open plan train car with many random strangers over being closed in in the "private space" of a compartment with a small selection of random strangers. Even if they firmly believe the opposite.
I don't think any lender would allow you to forgo a title search for a mortgaged property.
Fingerprinting isn’t a JS feature, it’s a side effect. Most websites won’t work without JS, unfortunately.
Which do you think is more important? Putting man on the moon or ecommerce? I reckon you been able to get on a device, see a biscuit ads, order one from foo.com and have it shipped to you. Think of how much tech it takes for that to happen, that is more tech than NASA built to send many to the moon, the internet, packet switching, routing, fiber optic, distributed systems, web servers, web browsers, ads, cryptography, banking online, and so on and so forth. We love to trivialize what is common, but that clicking on an ad is not an easy problem. Clicking on ads has generated enormous wealth in the world which is now bootstrapping AGI.

Clicking on ads helped with our goal to AI today. Showing you the right ad and beating those trying to game it is machine learning heavy. When was the first time we started seeing spelling correction and next word suggestions? It was in google search bar. To serve the correct ads and deal with spam? heavy NLP algorithms. If you stop and think of it, we can drop a think line from the current state of LLMs to these ads click you are talking about.
The Learning Styles™ as in "visual vs auditory vs physical" is what the example articles from google searches have been about: https://www.google.com/search?q=learning+styles+debunked

But that's not the same as different types of explanations or different illustrations/animations may finally unlock the key (that "aha" moment) for different people.

E.g. many of us can instantly see trends and correlations in a illustrated graph rather than staring at a long list of numbers for hours. The so-called debunking of Learning Styles doesn't change why different re-arrangements of the same information can work better for comprehension or teaching.
Based on the title I had hoped someone made progress in the Collatz conjecture.
GitUp is an open source altetnative. Probably less feature rich than SM but powerful enough to be efficient.

https://github.com/git-up/GitUp
I started to develop in containers before VSCode introduced the dev container to keep my local machine clean. A few years ago, I switched to the VSCode dev container, and the integration is very good. Having the ability to have a dev environment ready per project is very neat. We started to adopt it in my company. As a team it saves a lot of hassle, and onboarding is much faster. However, we have encountered some issues, mainly when we want to work with GPU and PyTorch dependencies, and that is the opposite of pleasant! Otherwise, now each new project/repo I create comes with a dev container.
> In my humble opinion, a chat interface (API or not) does not a product make.

Well, you are humbly wrong then.

> You would just eventually train and deploy your own model because an LLM is not a product.

Hallucinations aren't exclusive to LLMs it seems.
See how The Sims helped these players change their real lives
“Build a routine of useless things” - no one ever

“I don’t believe small changes can build to big ones” - lots of people

The latter is the much more likely error. Apparently or proximally low-impact routines like exercise, meditation, journaling, reading, etc. are frequently advocated specifically because they are extremely high impact but do not look like they are.

Inversely, permanently improv-jazzing through life and frenetically jumping from “high impact activity” to “high impact activity” feels productive, but if you succeed at this you are almost certain to burn yourself out before it really matters. And much more likely is that there really aren’t that many high impact things you can be doing, so what it actually looks like is either 1) waiting for something high impact enough to justify action, which never just comes to you, or 2) shifting your priorities to start treating highly available low-impact things as if they are high impact.

In the event you do have a series of high-impact things to do in rapid succession, you’re going to be totally dependent on your routines to sustain that work, so you had better hope you built them prior.
It’s more about being on the front of the hype train and being endlessly positive versus competence.
You can do (almost) everything with enough time and resources, but it can be tough. WCF, without CoreWCF couldn't migrate until 2022 release and .Net Core 1.0 was released in 2019. EF Core is different. WPF, ASP .Net WebForms... Microsoft Message Queues usage is a no go.
So yes, you can, not always, not easy, often not worth.
I don't use Dolphin so I don't know what this really means in reality but the article states

> These are proper release builds however, with the full infrastructure and support that comes with them. They are tagged as releases in Git, allowing our distribution partners to properly support us and our users.
Voters and societies are totally fine in leaving those decisions and how to balance them to their elected representatives. That is a decision, too.
You don't have to read any whitepapers. Just copy the `zfs create` command from some guide, it'll work fine.
Thanks for the link. It's interesting, and I hope you find a way forward with that, it would undoubtedly be a useful addition to the ecosystem.

But my gut feeling is that there's not enough interest in RSS right now to drive widespread adoption of a new version of the spec. My approach would be to focus on improved UX over existing feeds, rather than speculatively expanding the spec to make feeds richer.

The main advantage of my approach, I think, is that it adapts to the individual end user's needs. If all my subscribed feeds are tech-focused and I use a generic published taxonomy, I'm going to end up with 60% of my items in "Technology" and 30% in "Computing". If I use a chatbot to dynamically bucket stuff, I'll get "Micro PCs", "Graph theory", "Golang", etc etc.
Same here. I'd feel a tad more comfortable if I could set an upper limit for the extra Chat credits that are used, but I guess it's hard to rack up 100s of $ when using it manually without noticing, so I'm not super concerned.

Overall I really enjoy the new functionality, and I've cancelled all the other GPT integrations I used so far in PyCharm.
> They have chosen their particular physical process: "as if someone stood with a stopwatch"

It's not well-enough defined for all purposes.

Where is that person standing? Earth's surface is shifting and moving all over the place willy-nilly, so how do you define that particular location in the first place? Over what timescales is that definition valid? What physical process do you mean by stopwatch? What particular synchronization protocols do you define? What physical models do your definitions invoke?

Answers to these kind of questions will generally generate mutually-disagreeing time standards. I mean, with suitable transformation rules, they'll often agree up to some precision limit, but if you need anything beyond that, you've now gotta choose the one(s) that best correlate with the natural ticks in your problem domain.

Also, any standard like "someone standing with a stopwatch" is forced to just a fiat declare the stopwatch as the Definition of Time, a la the platinum sphere kilogram. We all know how great that was. Do you now want a team of canonical stopwatches and some aggregation process? How do you deal with measurable drift between the tick rates?
Just checking - if you're suggesting my Ask HN is from a bot, it's not. And btw, that's a wild flailing hijack.
On Linux, I've set up a compose key so I csn press compose key, ~ and A to get Ã.
Those who don't learn their history are doomed to repeat it...

For those interested, the first comment on the launch thread for Dropbox here on HN had very similar sentiments to belter...

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8863
I don't know what you're referring to, but as far as I know satellites can work perfectly fine without a leap second. I'm not aware of any practical advantage of leap seconds anywhere. The only difficulty in abolishing the leap second is that some systems have it incorporated in their protocol, but that's a protocol issue and not an intrinsic time drift issue.
I've never seen so many screenshots for a git tutorial. Are windows users ok?
Next someone should make a hackernews meta search engine :)
>DB is better than it's reputation.

Their self reported punctuality for long distance trains was 64% in 2023.

https://ibir.deutschebahn.com/2023/en/combined-management-re...
What are pig butchering operations?
Since when do humidity and AC cause joint issues?
Beryl remains a category 5 hurricane with 160 mph maximum sustained winds.

Beryl is expected to make a direct hit on Jamaica tomorrow as a major hurricane.

https://theeyewall.com/
> Why would anyone choose to use local time for anything other than display?

You need to store it for certain applications, e.g. timetabling. if school starts at 9am, it starts at 9am local time, and if local time changes (DST, or more rarely a change in the time zone rules) then school start time runs with it. Or similarly, if a commuter train timetable has it stopping at a certain station at 7.05am, that’ll be local time in the local time zone.
Do they really care? DB Cargo is doing well. Maybe it's a case of demand extinction?
I'm not sure exactly which former ticket they meant, but such an approx. 150€ ticket was probably not just restricted to regional transport just like the Deutschlandticket, but also only valid in a small part of the country. Prices would have varied somewhat by federal state or region. The card that gives free travel on all trains costs €380 per month (€4550/y).
Tbf, millions is spent on that part. This seems to be a drop in the bucket.
Leap seconds do absolutely nothing to fix the problems you’re talking about, for anyone. If we had never invented UTC and used TAI (+ time zone offsets) for civil time, the fact that civil time is drifting away from solar time on the order of a minute a century or so would at most be an obscure curiosity.
> I didn't know that night and calm days with no wind are economics and politics

Planet is round. Your winter solstice midnight is someone else's midsummer midday.

Convincing everyone to join up, that's economics and politics.

> How much wind and sun needs to shine somewhere to cover the needs of, say Europe, on a quiet night?

I've seen EU night power draw is about 87-107 GW, so 85% of the area of Rhode Island but in Australia: http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=107%20GW%20%2F%20%281%2...

> Note that that somewhere will need to cover that somewhere's needs, too.

And our day provides their night.

It's called "trade".

> you're also likely underestimating how large the area covered by nighttime

Your links are, bluntly, an insult. Everyone here knows the thing they show.

~50% of the planet technically, more than that in practice because local structure; average capacity factor (24 hour including night) of PV is 10%, so I'd be happy to approximate that as a 12 hour day-focused capacity factor of 20%.

> I'm guessing your proposal is to pump energy from China to the US through the Pacific Ocean?

China has an actual proposal for a demo project to go further across the Pacific and connect to Chile.

If that works, they might feel like making it thicker and longer.

> Or ever. You underestimate the size of the Earth

40,000 km, requires 1 m^2 cross section to keep the resistance down to 1 Ω when using Aluminium; this requires just over a year of current global production of aluminium and has a material cost of a few hundred billion dollars at current metal prices.

> You know that Europe has a unified power grid, right? And that the US has three major grid regions?

Which is why it's a political problem. There will always be a place like Texas is now that wants to be difficult and independent even at its own expense.

> Just because you have batteries in electric vehicles doesn't mean you have enough batteries to provide electricity for a country/continent.

There's approximately a billion cars on the road today.

Half a billion cars multiplied by let's say 60 kWh per car is 30 TWh; current global electricity use (which includes daytime) is about 2 TW, that's therefore 15 hours before I include trucks, bikes, busses, etc.

But night use is lower than day use, so in practice the capacity to build that many batteries is also the capacity to build enough batteries for overnight use too.
That sounds great! Here in Canada the bar scene is mostly about watching hockey on big screen TVs. That’s a lot less interesting to me than games.

I never learned backgammon though.
> The West can push back.

Isn't it obvious that the West, particularly the US, as their decisions are most influential, does not want to fully push back? By "fully" I mean desiring Russia's collapse. That’s why, even after two years, they haven't provided jet fighters (yet), nor have they permitted the use of their weapons to target Russia more extensively (only on borders with Kharkiv after 2 years of war). Actions speak louder than words. This behavior is clearly reactive, enough weapons are provided to maintain the status quo, ensuring that Russia does not advance further, but not enough for Ukrainians to alter the current situation on the battlefield. If the US wanted to, they could supply Ukraine with enough weapons to defeat Russia on the battlefield. But that’s not the goal, it’s not about Ukraine winning, but about not losing and preventing Russia from winning. A complete defeat of Russia is contrary to US interests, anarchy and chaos in a nuclear state would be far more dangerous, especially given that regions like Tajikistan have significant potential for terrorism (consider how ISIS started). Such a scenario would likely push Russia closer to becoming a Chinese vassal, which is against US interests.

If you believe that a genuine democracy could emerge from that chaos, then you don't understand Russia at all. The deep state there is as entrenched, if not more so, than Putin, and it holds enough power and influence to prevent any truly democratic force from emerging. There is no real opposition left after Navalny's death.
This feature is at least 5 years old, why isn't (2019) in the title?

https://github.com/microsoft/vscode-docs/blob/3bafb9f610bd6b...

Hacker Olds, amirite.