skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Apart from the root issue here someone need to remind that Switzerland is the parasite of EU. Basically they have all EU rights and no obligations. EU should tax them heavily so that they contribute to solve e.g. EU transportation issues.
That page doesn’t describe anything about evacuations? At least, the ones mentioned are in relation to the tsunami warning.

I find the information surrounding this mega quake can generally be summed up as ‘be careful’. Which is kinda silly. If the earthquake happens there’s nothing special you can do that you wouldn’t otherwise.
Are you sure about that?

I still remember "traingate", the smear campaign that followed Jeremy Corbyn (1) and how leaked CCTV video proved him right much later (2).

(1) https://www.politico.eu/article/jeremy-corbyn-walked-past-em...

(2) https://www.thelondoneconomic.com/news/virgin-release-traing...
How to realize Pod in-place update in Kubernetes?
I wrote this to help me understand the differences.

https://deliberate-software.com/christmas-f-number-polymorph...
How is that privatized, then? If it’s state-owned, the only thing that changed was the legal framework that applies to the entity, none of the incentives of privatization actually applying to it.
Old people who will likely still look like they are in their mid-20s — few people are going to want to develop something that only extends old age, even though people (not sure if "some" or "many") will still prefer that over death.
"The network is simply overloaded," said Böttger. In contrast to Luxembourg and Switzerland, which invested around €575 (about $625) per capita and €450 per capita in rail infrastructure respectively, the figure in Germany is just €114.

Source:

https://www.dw.com/en/germany-whats-wrong-with-the-deutsche-...
> On the other hand, astronauts' telomeres lengthen during spaceflight

I wonder if this is partially the reason (along with great healthcare benefits) why so many Apollo astronauts have live passed the average life expectancy in the US.
This has been true for Germany too. Passenger numbers are at an all-time high, but that's part of the problem - the infrastructure is at it's limit, but building new infrastructure is met with strong resistance by locals. e.g. the planned relief for the notoriously overcrowded Hamburg - Hannover track got effectively canceled, and this is only about the get worse with increased traffic from the new tunnel to Denmark that is set to open by the end of the decade.
For the queue management bit Fabric[0] seems like a decent idea, it's kind of trying to be a personal, private, local AI assistant. You feed it the stuff you'd normally read and it summarises it for you.

Then you can decide which content you should spend more of your time on.

Not nearly complete, but an idea I had even before I found out about it. And kinda similar what Apple is attempting with iOS18 and Apple AI.

[0] https://github.com/danielmiessler/fabric
I think very few Brits would agree that rail privatisation has "worked". Poor and old carriages, overcrowded, slow, late trains, and generally a lack of investment. Oh, and ridiculously high fares (often well over air fares!), which seem to increase above inflation every.single.year.
IIRC the water displacement on open seas is super modest, only when the thing hits shallower water near the coast does it become a problem

Edit: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=-VcWF8dIDj4

They're a few miles off the coast, ~10 m high waves, 38 m deep water according to some comment that translates the audio. pretty scary vid, for sure.
Yes, it's in English, it's light on details, if you can read Japanese, here:

https://www3.nhk.or.jp/news/special/saigai/uploads/advanceev...

https://www3.nhk.or.jp/news/html/20240808/k10014542271000.ht...

It's absolutely wrong to say that it's "silly" to have warning?
I do find the cultish following XRP continues to have kind of fascinating. Obviously a lot of it is astroturfed but surely some amount of it is real. So many twitter and reddit accounts where all people do is shill their bags when, as you say, basically nothing interesting is happening in the XRP ecosystem.

It's like a religion. It reminds me of the weirder side of the Gamestop stuff.
What's your opinion of John Oliver? I just watched a YouTube video of his show https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NqK3_n6pdDY. It seemed pretty good, but I'm also very ignorant.

What's the best way to become informed about a topic? Or, is it better to stay ignorant?
Defensive mechanism. You cannot be stressed all the time and remain sane.
Late response on my part, but I'm happy to report back that shuffling my 17,000 track library does not crash Jellyfin on the latest stable version. Give it another try maybe?
I started my career as a reporter a decade ago. I can't tell you how many stories I filed that an editor twisted into something different to fit their narrative.

There were also stories I was directed away from because they would alienate our audience.

It's a narrative business.
"Privatizing" is not the correct word for it - DB was reformed and is now a company instead of a government agency, but it's still 100% owned by the state. Which however didn't stop it from acting like a profit-oriented private company, favoring short term savings over long term sustainability, which led to the sorry state in which German rail infrastructure is today. IMHO the major issue with the reform is that the trains and the infrastructure were left in the same company (with other train operators forced to use the tracks provided by the "incumbent"), which leads to all kinds of conflicts of interest.
To put this a bit into perspective: long-distance trains in Germany typically travel for at least half a day. "Long-distance" trains in Switzerland can be compared to regional lines in Germany (the country simply isn't that large, and the majority of rail travel in Switzerland happens between Zurich/Olten/Berne/Basel, which are all within 100 km of each other). The likelihood of anything going wrong during a 1:30h train journey from Zurich to Basel is simply much lower than during a 10 hour train journey from Kiel to Freiburg. 3 minutes delay on a 1:30h train journey is a delay of 3.3%, 15 mins delay on a 10 hour train journey is a delay of 2.5%.

The reason regional trains are also delayed is that regional lines, local lines, long distance lines and freight trains are typically using the same tracks in Germany, and delayed long distance trains always get higher priority. A typical situation is that your regional train is perfectly on time, but suddenly stops, and waits for 5-10 minutes for a delayed long-distance train to overtake it. Switzerland has a similar mixed system, but as noted above, does not really have long-distance rail lines, apart from the trains that enter from Italy, Austria, France and Germany, which is the main reason why these trains are not allowed to enter if delayed. This is in contrast to the system in France, where TGV lines typically have dedicated high-speed tracks, where all trains on it travel more or less at the same speed.

Shouldn't you then add redundancy to the system by having time buffers at large stops every 2-3 hours? Or even let replacement trains start at intermediate stops as soon as the delay of the regular train is greater than X to avoid propagation of the delay into to rest of the network? Absolutely, but most stations and rail lines in Germany are either at their operational limit, or above. Having a train wait for 15 minutes in a large station just in case it is delayed would block that track for 15 minutes in the majority of cases, when the train is punctual. Also, DB simply has not enough rolling material to start replacement trains, and the rail infrastructure to even park such trains has largely been dismantled in the years after the privatization (they are doing it sometimes, but not very often).
Notebooks and CRDTs
Could Mars become habitable with the help of glitter-like iron rods?
There are many companies that just do whatever they can get away with and because of their market position, this is a lot.

Maybe someday there will be a movement to boycott these abusive companies or something.

Check out https://futo.org
So what you're saying is they will drive business decisions to ensure the viability of their livestream revenue stream. I feel like we're all in agreement.
my match will get tmi
completely disagree with all points.

she is parroting an older paper from Romeo et al, which imo did a very bad job of playing anthropologist.

they completely ignore monopolist user abuse and commercial interests.

for example, it's harder to extract links and info from wechat's tiktok clone than it's in Instagram. either the wechat in-apps can do what you want or you don't do it!

it's all about lock in, control and reducing options. the paper (and video) conclusion that you are "taken care of" because the app does everything is just bonkers.

about the payment, you see that in Latin America too. "instant digital payments". what the paper (and video) forget to mention is that the purchases entire data goes straight to the central bank. there are zero privacy safeguard in the legislation of china, India, Brazil. my bet is that this data will be used for a gerrymandering 2.0 like we can't even imagine in future elections.
Besides the point that Deutsche Bahn is goverment owned, it is worth pointing out that Western and Eastern German had " to crumbling infrastructure, an insurmountable hardware and technical debt and now to the most complex train system probably in the world. " + much much debts.

Calling the Deutsche Bahn private is a very good indicator that the person isn't able to look up Wikipedia Article and think critically.
> Multiple studies over those years showed that The Daily Show watchers were significantly better informed on issues than cable news viewers.

This comment only makes sense if you're trying to imply the Daily Show increases how informed people are.

It seems plausible that causation runs the other way: more informed people are more likely to watch the Daily Show, because then they get all the jokes.
Granted, the EU is pushing back against some of this. But it's far from enough, it's only one continent, and like others mentioned, their solutions often have technical problems.

I'm still glad they're at least trying to do the right thing.

I've seen the patterns you mention, but yes, they're not coming from the same people. It's indicative of differing opinions, so the hive mind comparison is not a good fit (in this case :).
How many astronauts died in the Apollo era? Nobody wants a Chinese moon base. That's worth a few lives.
Those are the little known Null Island reactors!
I Hate the Sunfish
> However, every unread tab I close feels like a personal failure to keep up.

I used to think so about books... but after some thought... why?

If you still read enough articles/books/whatever (so it's not your attention span failing), and if the article/book wasn't "good enough" to keep you reading it, why does it matter if you didn't finish it? There are many more articles and books than you are able to read, keep with the 'good ones' and forget about the rest.
In Scandinavia i would say Denmark is the anomaly. Their bet is on wind power.

I think they also had a negative sentiment towards nuclear because Sweden built one of their (now closed) plants very close to Copenhagen.

Norway has so much high yield Hydro power that they would not need it.

(The difference between Swedish and Norwegian hydro is that the landscape is more dramatic so they can get a big height difference. Whereas Sweden has to rely on huge reservoirs to store water).

Both Sweden and Finland has Nuclear power, at the scale or higher than their population would sustain, and Finland opened their latest plant as late as 2023.
I think most journalists these days are not much more than poorly informed and poorly paid professional sh*tposters/provocateurs who learned how to write an inverted pyramid in j-school. I can easily find poorly informed and attention-grabbing opinions from a number of places, including even here :).

Disclosure: I learnt to write an inverted pyramid in j-school but dropped out after a year, I didn't want to work in this industry. Also maybe I just wouldn't have been a good journalist.

An interesting book on this subject is Flat Earth News by Nick Davies, it's where the term "Churnalism" was coined.
" Which however didn't stop it from acting like a profit-oriented private company, " Except it does not make any profit. It is tightly controlled by the government. They could change any management behaviour. But they don't.

So its just a goverment agency.
It really depends on who is in charge. I'm reading Kissinger's "On China" at the moment, and Mao, who led the most populous country on Earth for a significant time, was way more motivated by ideology and the notion that "struggle" was the highest priority, than he was by the comparative military strength of who China engaged in wars with.

That being said, he wasn't single minded either (e.g. he also mostly followed Chinese principles of not being overly interventionist, unlike the US), and his views did seem to gradually change over time.

But he also said things like: "We have a very large territory and a big population. Atomic bombs could not kill all of us."

Repeatedly.

===

Nazi Germany and Japan weren't deterred at all by military strength either, I don't think? Again ideology overrode every other consideration with WW2? So I'm not sure if "deterrence" really helps prevent major conflicts at all...
The problem with the legislature about funding is that regular maintainance of the railroad network would has to be paid by Deutsche Bahn itself, whereas creation of new infrastructure or complete rebuilding of completely degraded railway infrastructure is to be paid out of the federal budget. Taking preventative/regular maintainance also is at the discretion of the Deutsche Bahn as a corporation. Of course this incentives the executives of the Bahn to let the railroads rot.

I have a hard time imagining that the perverse incentives in the system have not been obvious to those in power at its inception.
Its also easy for me to see as a 3rd party. Perhaps ifixit should manage the whole manufacturing and logistical aspect of maintaining all those spare parts themselves?

Too unprofitable? Too much hassle? Oh..
So far as I can tell the main things we did was make it illegal to build homes, and say that you can buy stuff made by slaves with horrible environmental impact so long as it’s imported.
Well, the Schrödinger equation only describes the evolution of the wavefunction over time (which is indeed a similarity with classical mechanics). But how the wavefunction then further relates to the actual "state of system" is up to the interpretations of quantum mechanics. And there in lies my point: That because of the superposition the way time works in quantum mechanics (properties are simultaneously in a combination of states) is very different from classical mechanics (properties are in exactly one state at a time), even if both have a "t" in their equations.

> For example, in classical mechanics you cannot rotate in a way that makes the time coordinate fall in a space coordinate, while you can do that in relativity

That is a good point. Maybe it is fair to say that in classical mechanics we start out with an additional separate geometric dimension (which only translation / shifting is allowed in). And in special relativity it gets promoted to a full spacial dimension, allowing all sorts of transformations.
The extraction of the eyes is done client side.
I'm still waiting for the trickle-down economics from tax breaks to corporations and the ultra-rich to trickle my way. Maybe if I wait harder.
True, but maintaining status quo has unknown opportunity costs.
These 3 reputable, scientifically backed, sources disagree with your anecdote:

United Nations:

https://www.un.org/sustainabledevelopment/blog/2021/10/trans...

US Department of Transport:

https://www.transit.dot.gov/climate-challenge

WRI:

https://www.wri.org/insights/current-state-of-public-transpo...
It's a classic case of efficiency vs latency.

Swiss railways optimise for punctuality, sacrificing line capacity (compensated for with double-decker cars).

Meanwhile every other European rail transport authority seems to be bent on squeezing out the most of the lines it has.

I grew up in a city that had two parallel rail lines in the east-west axis - one for long-distance connections, cargo and everything else, the other a refurbished old main line with trains only once per hour.

The latter was punctual almost to the minute(even if comparatively slow at an average 30km/h including stops), while the former was a mess and you were often better off driving instead.

My friend living in the suburbs close to that refurbished line always boasted how it took him a grand total of 18 minutes to get to the city centre and he could rely on the train to always arrive. That was quicker than I could get there by any means, despite a similar distance.
In Sweden there is also a closed down reactor close to the Stockholm city center at the technical university (KTH).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R1_(nuclear_reactor)

Not the same as the Ågesta reactor, which is mapped.
Strongly depends on if it's a deep water portion or if it's shallow.

In deep water, a tsunami is boring and nearly unnoticable. There's some motion, but it's essentially all low displacement coherent movement and very little other motion. When that mass of water gets to shallow water, it's essentially the opposite, there's effectively big mass of water that's pushed on land, and that's very turbulent.
Hard to imagine what it must've felt like going over the crest of that wave and just wondering what's next. Anyone who has surfed decent sized waves know this feeling.
I usually ask for ChatGPT for a 1000 word summary. Works quite well for getting rid of unnecessary details.
But for writing tests that's less of an issue.
You start with known good/bad code and ask it to write tests against a spec for some code X - then the evaluation criteria is something like did the test cover the expected lines and produce the expected outcome (success/fail). Pepper in lint rules for preferred style etc.
Really good answer in terms of how they "feel" to use.

Just one note, since there's a design decision Google and AWS made differently that feels nice but makes availability more precarious:

> "Google's VPC (i.e network) is global across all regions which is nice for data locality as you can use the same VPC and put subnets across regions."

It's also not uncommon seeing your entire global footprint go down when there's a network plane issue.

AWS — for the longest time — was fanatical about keeping services uncoupled across regions, leading to far fewer "global" outages.

Sadly, many customers complained, wanting services to be cross region, instead of having to replicate environments across regions. Fifteen years in, AWS is accommodating, allowing you to build services that span a couple regions and go down if either region is down.

If uptime is critical to you, in AWS leverage at least 3 AZs in each of at least 2 regions, and be sure you're using region-only services or a cross-region service that's really single region with a consistency scheme. You'll stay online through most regional issues.

Also note that the three define "region" quite differently. The AWS definition generally includes a variety of availability and resilience constraints, such as at least 2 AZs with enough physical separation to survive local physical outages. Looking closely comparing across them, you'll find AWS's resilience story is more stringent, the other two are somewhat more oriented to putting a pin on the map and call things regions that may be more like single POPs (points of presence).

All that said, it's becoming "less true" in both directions, as large customers complain when any two CSPs don't work similarly. The "voice of the customer" is asking for feature parity rather than exploiting the differentiation.

From our point of view, they're still differentiated enough a firm should consider using each for what it's best at, say AWS for lego blocks, Azure for business integration, and Google for scale-out analytics feeding ML/AI. Again, each is trying to shore up what the others already have in their DNA, but it's harder to copy something when it hasn't been your in-house bread and butter or you didn't invent it.
If you question something like public transportation being climate friendly as being scietific sound, maybe you should bring up some evidence or data to back this up.

Also some anecdote about how buses where used at some major event does not allow any conclusions to be drawn about public transportation in general.

Also "there is a lot of marketing and money involved - especially in green energy" is a rather general polemic statement, which could also some clarification.
I had this moment during the prelude to the invasion of Ukraine in 2022.

First the experts were confindent that the troop movements in Russia were just posturing and saber rattling, there's no way they'll do anything.

Next, once they'd entered Ukraine, it would be over in a few weeks. The Russians would win. When the Russians were getting their asses kicked and it looked really bad, the Ukrainians would win by the end of the summer. Next it would be over by the winter. Next the russians would run out of materiel soon. Next the russians would run out of men soon.

They confidently made every prediction except the multi-year trench war that actually ensued.
Foundations being wet aren't a huge deal. Exterior is recommended over interior because it's easier to ensure no gaps. But it does involve substantial excavation.

French drains around the perimeter help, but you're literally fighting water from all directions... including directly underneath.

Have a perimeter French drain but a crack in the slab? Enjoy watching water bubble up from that crack once things get saturated.
So only white people have power? I doubt that's true for most countries in the world. Hell the president of the United States was black not that long ago.
It's like saying all gov are bad in some way. But Spain gov and North Korea gov are definitely not bad in the same way.
The ticket splitting thing you refer in the UK to works in other countries also.
There is no saving the Deutsche Bahn. Everyone who knows someone working there knows this. Just ban everyone currently working there from ever working there again and reshuffle the cards.
The real reasons were many.
Political nuclear was always a battlefield in Germany.
Safety concerns, how long before something goes wrong.
Economy, going green and gas and eventually primarily green would be cheaper than investing billions in Nuclear.

Today it's also a question of security and with what's going on I would guess Germany has no regret that they don't have these juicy targets available anymore.
It's a neat idea (I maintained an unofficial C port for a while); but, terrible in practice.
I agree with your second paragraph completely, but I would say that a Scandinavian-style democratic socialism has plenty of evidence for a system that works better. A Mondragon-style cooperative system has a much smaller sample size, but even more positive results in a myriad of outcomes.

There's enough alternatives out there to get a conversation started, we shouldn't be dismissive.
It may as well be some money from fossil fuel sellers: https://nationalinterest.org/blog/buzz/russia-funding-europe...
Japan issues advisory over possible Nankai Trough megaquake
i especially dislike the logic too. if he got silver then maybe he would have actually won if he used the same gear? ignoring the fact that he only got silver as the team event and got 13th individually
> not using the correct name (Product Types) for their “records”

There is no single "correct name" as there is no single "problem domain" that covers the algebra of type theory, and the pragmatics of programming in engineering, along with other areas.