skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Another figure illustrates why the practice is necessary from a Swiss perspective: in 2023, 92.5 percent of all trains in Switzerland reached their destination on time, compared to only 64 percent for long-distance trains in Germany.

To add a bit more detail: SBB (Swiss federal railways) consider a train on time if it reaches its destination with less than three minutes’ delay [1]. DB (Deutsche Bahn) puts the threshold at 15 minutes ("Reisendenpünktlichkeit") [2].

[1] https://company.sbb.ch/en/the-company/responsibility-society...

[2] https://www.deutschebahn.com/de/konzern/konzernprofil/zahlen...
Microsoft is a black hole of money and talent
I really liked the plans Samsung employees had to give old phones a new life. I have a box of mostly working phones from different companies and I often wish there was an easy way to use them for different automation tasks around the house.

Anyway, I'm not surprised it didn't work. Engineers see possibilities while lawyers only think about how something goes very wrong and the company ends up in court.
It's in glibc as of 2.38: https://sourceware.org/git/?p=glibc.git;a=commit;h=454a20c87...
People who fear failure in general don't compete in Olympics.

But going naked eye when everyone else wears equipments is the ultimate not giving a fuck.

Especially because it's not your personal competition and if this costs your country medals people will NOT like you and if you say "ah you know it's just because I didn't wear equipments, which I totally could but didn't" they will not like you more because of it.
The long-distance network in Germany has routes that take more than 8 hours. Delays of 15 minutes are because of network complexity not uncommon.

SBB - Swiss rail - doesn't want its schedule to be affected by the long-distance DB - German - services. So it doesn't allow the DB service to enter the country after a given cut-off delay.

This means that travellers need to transfer to an SBB service for the final 1-2 hours of their trip. This transfer typically takes 15-30 minutes.
> privatizing critical infrastructure like this is doomed to fail

It worked great for rail in Japan, so I’m not sure that’s the obvious lesson to learn.
>Tagesschau is all but neutral and the tone of ZDF Heute is very aggressive. At least they are consistently bad and private newspapers are even worse so you know what you get. The state of news in Germany is sad but what do you expect when journalists side with politicians and favor more censorship?

That made me think a little. You are most likely right. Probably it doesn't bother me too much because it just fits into my world view. Maybe neutral is the wrong word here and I don't know which one fits better. Maybe it just feels good, because everyone else (like everything Springer) is so much worse. At least I don't have the feeling that they spread straight up lies or false propaganda. They might be politically biased though, you are right.
Outgoing CEO Calhoun's biggest failure at Boeing: fixing safety
France's most recent source of volume is winding down | has wound down - they have other options for future fuel.

There's an NEA Red Book that's quite thorough. https://www.oecd-nea.org/jcms/pl_28569/uranium-resources-pro...

As the only government-sponsored publication tracking world trends and developments in uranium resources, production and demand, the Red Book is an authoritative source of information on the subject.

is an accurate although qualified sound-bite .. at one point in time the precursor to

https://www.spglobal.com/marketintelligence/en/campaigns/met...

was considered definitive wrt uranium sources, it had all the Red Book data and a good deal of non government mining company internal data.

(late in day for me, I have better recall & resources to hand at other times)
DB has the worst company culture that I'm aware of. Everything has to go by plan, and when it doesn't, someone has to be responsible. So everyone is just ass-covering all them time and not taking any risks.

This has removed the potential for improvisation in dispatching (no one wants to be responsible for delaying that other train), making the train network unable to give any trains room to make up their delays.

There is a reason every other dispatcher has problems with alcoholism.
Dogs can get terrible lovesickness for quite some time. Usually dogs get separated at least after the puppies are born and they are not at all amused by that. Perhaps separating them should be far more questionable than it is.

Parents had some beagles and they could never get enough affection from humans. But for some weeks they would just growl at you if you came near them. Also you could really see the sadness in their faces.
There’s still Eclipse. I prefer IntelliJ by a lot but it actually does work for Java although my experience is that installing a plug in is like Russian Roulette and that anything that isn’t the stock configuration could die of pluginitis.
How many of them do you remember? How many of them have had an impact in your life?
Is that comforting? That the capsule made it this far through “rigorous tests” overseen by a buddy system, without being able to perform a core function in the mission? I know that undocking is not easy, but it’s also the most steady-state part of the whole mission?

It seems to me like one more blatant shortcut9 that regulators permitted, and Boeing leadership check the box on a form saying “capability complete”
It HAS NOT worked great for Sweden.

Source: I live in Sweden there was a DN article recently about it. Here it is

https://archive.is/zaGtb

Mirror: https://web.archive.org/web/20240721074607/https://www.dn.se...

(Its all too segmented, the trains, the track all different companies now nobody sees the full picture)

and https://archive.is/MztnY

Mirror: https://web.archive.org/web/20240726054426/https://www.dn.se...

(The land is not enough to fix trains and the land next to it was reserved but somehow sold to build a sports arena because the train land section became a company that had to post good numbers)

I hear UK is not too happy about their rail too.
https://youtu.be/DlTq8DbRs4k?si=yNWcAUZ69nN1B29O

Seems like it just does not work to separate rail and traffic like that.
Just compare the colored rings (green = on time, orange = delayed more than 3 minutes, red = delayed more than 9 minutes) between the trains in Germany, Switzerland, and France here to get a general feeling of how bad things have become with Deutsche Bahn:

https://travic.app/?z=9&x=890440.8&y=6126327.9&l=osm_standar...

And today is a good day in southwestern Germany, just look at the current general redness in the Ruhr area and Cologne.
The battery in the phone blows up from flat to pillow shaped. It’s chemically spicy inside.
There is one: https://www.freshports.org/lang/dotnet

pkg install lang/dotnet

Note that not everything will work, and it is community-supported. But the effort is there, and there are contributions to dotnet/runtime from time to time to further improve or fix it. It's in a better state than it was 2 years ago.
It’s all part of a general shift to security and privacy. An invisible app sitting in the background recording the screen without the users knowledge is really really bad. So dangerous that it deserves a weekly prompt to make sure you really know it’s happening.
Counterpoint: "intellectual property" sucks, and is the root of their argument.

> Maintaining servers and infrastructure for games with dwindling player bases is economically unsustainable. Forcing developers to release server binaries or carve off single-player experiences would not only be a massive undertaking but could also leave them vulnerable to abuse and unauthorized monetization of their intellectual property.

If they have the infrastructure to distribute the game client, they have the infrastructure to distribute the game server. Saying it's a "massive undertaking" is a plain lie.

> Furthermore, the initiative’s FAQ fails to provide a realistic solution for large-scale MMORPGs. Running these games requires significant resources and expertise that cannot be easily handed over to players when servers are shut down.

Runescape private servers exist. World of Warcraft private servers exist. Heck, there are some Minecraft servers that can be considered MMOs. The author is juat grasping at straws to justify maintaining power over the people who play(ed) their games.
Based on kdrama, this seems common in Korea. You're 10 seconds late, you can't enter the school grounds.
Boeing has burned enough of its reputation at this point that I wouldn't trust their assessment one bit. Bringing back Starliner without the crew seems like a no-brainer, and is the only way to restore some of Boeing's credibility.

So many weeks of anti-Musk cope on Twitter about this issue. People really can't think clearly even about factual issues anymore.
What did they find that was so bad?
I believe it's a reference to the look of a failed LiPo battery: it puffs up and looks like a pillow, but if you puncture it fire spews forth.

Reddit first came up with the phrase "spicy pillow" to describe that combination.
Sure, but this just assumes they don't know what they're doing (which, well, is probably true). It doesn't refute the point that you want to put people who are obsessive about safety in charge of safety.

I work for a healthcare company, and we definitely put in charge of safety people who stress about a patient coming to harm, not people who are so-so about it.
For germany it's easy: cheap gas from russia+lobby from it + auto industry
But what makes you think the ai generated tests will correctly represent the problem at hand?
> On the Freiburg-Basel route, as many as 12.4 percent of trains had to turn back.

This is not as dramatic as it sounds, since Basel is at the border. There's probably many trains into town.
Note that trains to Zurich and Basel SBB then end in Basel Bad (or sometimes they let it go to Basel SBB). It’s a separate train station in Basel which is run by Deutsche Bahn so it’s not literally “turning back at the border”.

IIRC Swiss passengers waiting in Basel SBB get a replacement train travelling at the original time.
I think there should be a middle ground where you dont have to completely remove yourself from the news, just the endless feeds and opinions. It does seem helpful to know what is going on with the world. Whether thats socially or just understanding other events. I fully agree there is a limit and most of what is out there is junk but not all of it.

I have been actively trying to build something to get away from the endless feeds of news.

Essentially a modern day newspaper. So you can read what is important and then be done for the day.

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/quill-news-digest/id1669557131
None of this would be happening if Google search still worked.
Can’t comment on the 90s, but it only seems to have become truly unreliable in the last 5 years maybe? I take a train through Germany 2-3 times a year, and delays and faults are pretty much inevitable on every journey.
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It worked OK for the UK. Passenger numbers, which had been steadily falling, started to increase. On the other hand, there are complaints about high fares.
I saw a throw away container for old phones in a zoo and couldn’t resist to pull out some old bastards.
Things you should know about High NA EUV lithography
Yep, this is achieved using slices, which can be arbitrary regions of the frame. Each slice can have its own quantization parameters (ranging from highly lossy to perceptually lossless). Each slice can also switch between intraframe prediction (more like still image encoding) and interframe prediction (relative to prior frames).

So, with this, you can have high-quality static text in one region of the frame while there is lossy motion encoding (e.g. for an animating UI element) in another region of the frame.
What is the warning? Don’t starve the system of funds?
And yet it can't replicate a human support agent. Or even a basic search function for that matter ;)
> SpaceX is owned by a man who seems to be getting ever more unhinged by the day

How so? Surely you're not claiming that shitposting on Twitter/X is some kind of objective assessment of a person's mentality?
> Under the proposed requirements, developers would be legally compelled to release server binaries or keep games in a functional, playable state indefinitely.

I'm not seeing any statement with regards to online gaming requirements in the text. If a server-environment is required in order to play a game, the OBJECTIVE (not "requirement" as none of this is legal text so far) could also be fulfilled by transferring the server-framework to a third party which will continue operating the game in this state.

In mid-term, this could create a market for a universal server-endpoint architecture, as developers will have to prepare for the eventual outcome of discontinuing the game and will look to simplify the process.
It could lead to an industry-collaboration for a standardized server-framework to save costs for end-of-life compliance for gaming-studios, with code-evolution secured by code-contributions from them (in self-interest as they need to prepare for the hand-over of their games) and operation financed by the standardization body providing licensed access for players to the archive of games (by granting limited monetization).

It could also lead to a market of competing server-engine companies, which will license a server-platform and offer to take over the duties of keeping a game alive.

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> Under the #StopKillingGames initiative, the studio would then be legally required to release the game’s server binaries. The attackers, having successfully driven the studio to this point [out of business] , can now take those binaries and create their own private server, monetizing the studio’s work for their own gain.

To quote the initiative itself:

The initiative does not seek to acquire ownership of said videogames, associated intellectual rights or monetization rights, neither does it expect the publisher to provide resources for the said videogame once they discontinue it while leaving it in a reasonably functional (playable) state.

So generally a legal obligation is bad because an illegal action could be used to force legal compliance to then proceed and create an illegal business?
Noone noticed because most Linux servers does not run Crowdstrike Falcon.
If the same number of Linux servers as Windows servers were affected, most of the Internet would have been down.
I agree except for your „central cause“ hypothesis.

What happens if you throw tons of money on something as dysfunctional and lacking a business model? You get Die Bahn.

Calling for “more money” as a central cause is part of the problem.
If you're going to retire in N years, then that gives you an upper limit to how much you can benefit from learning (or even experimenting with) a new and potentially better approach, versus sticking with what currently works for you. As N gets smaller, the cost-benefit analysis increasingly favors the latter.
Visualizing the Internet (2024)
> I honestly don't think consumer insurance is worthwhile

So no fire insurance on your house?
New mpox outbreak raises alarm; WHO considers declaring international emergency
For "does it run" I'm not talking about how do we test that it does, but how do we either score or compare two+ options?

> when it comes to idiomatic, I'm not sure - but if we're at the point that gpt is writing code that works, do we really care?

Yes - it's certainly preferable. You may prefer working over neat, but working and neat over working but insane spaghetti code.

Remember this is about training the models, not about using them later. How do we tell, while training, which option was better to push it towards good results?
It had already been done a dozen times in the original item across multiple threads.
The Wikipedia editor was a bit naive to think such a basic study could invalidate that whole claim. They measured the correlation between the list price, adjusted for use amount, and development cost. As far as I can tell they didn't take into account number of customers each drug would have, how long the drug would stay on the market before profits are cannibalized by competitors (see e.g. Wegovy), and definitely not the cost of failed drug development.
Just wanted to say thanks for saving pilot lives and making an awesome sport more accessible. As someone with a background in controlling difficult vehicles who has seen the accessibility improvements of electric assists, your plan makes sense to me! And the plane is priced appealingly. Please don't feel discouraged by the loonies who can't do math deciding that today is the day yet another niche sport (0.04% of global emissions) must die at the altar of the Environment. They'll forget by tomorrow.
It's populism.

Germany is a country littered with voodoo "medicine" clinics, to the point that they have even been integrated in the statutory healthcare system. You take those hippie "nature above science" people and tell them about the invisible danger rays and they will found the Green party, and the rest is history.
Thank you for this explanation. This is really interesting. I'm not deaf, so this is very difficult for me to understand, but that doesn't mean it's not important.

I'm trying to find something to compare to, but not sure if I'm getting this right.

I can't sense radio waves in the 87-110Mhz range, but let's imagine that most people can. This means that they can hear all the FM radios all the time.

Certainly, this would be very annoying, especially if you are not able to block it out. In this sense, I would be better off - one less annoying thing to deal with.

Of course, everyone else would be able to be up to date with all the news instantly, as they would always hear them from the radio. And, assuming you also had the ability to "tune the station" that you can hear, you would be able to listen to music or interesting shows all the time.
This would be good and fun.

Would I miss the ability that everyone else has? This is a very interesting question and I don't know the answer.

But, I would think that if someone gave me a wearable FM radio that I could turn on/off at will, I would think that I certainly would accept that.

Again, I'm sorry if this is not a good analogy and as all analogies this doesn't really capture all the nuances of course, but would this be similar at least in theory?
The delays in Germany can also be felt here in Linz/Austria.

For years the train from Linz to Vienna was always punctual.

However, recently (Last ~9 Months or so) all trains are super later. The reason is, all of them go through Germany (Innsbruck (via German) -> Salzburg -> Linz ->Vienna), and given everything is delayed in Germany it also delays Austrian trains.
Turns out they do. Source: two muslim co-workers (although living in a non-muslim country, that might be a factor)
One critique of the article is that the initiative explicitly doesn’t require publishers to give up IP or monetization rights. So if they release the server binary and a community tries to sell it to others, said community can be sued and the publisher takes their revenue.

Moreover, the publisher can release a server binary that still has advertisements and micro transactions, where revenue still goes to the company’s bank account. All logic to transfer the money can all be server, e.g. using Bitcoin, so the company doesn’t expend any resources (another thing the initiative explicitly doesn’t require). The publisher can release a server that is heavily DRMed and requires a copy of the game to start, then each connecting player needs a copy of the game (the server can even sell these copies). If the company wants to resume working on their game, the server can receive mandatory updates; it can even receive an update to permanently disable itself if the company restarts their own server.

Not to mention, the server binary is almost certainly obfuscated/encrypted, so extracting IP or disabling the DRM or microtransactions from the binary
is difficult. It’s also illegal, just like putting copyrighted assets in your own paid game or disabling a “free trial” of a DRM-ed application is illegal. Remember, the company is not giving up their IP or monetization rights.

All the initiative states is that game must remain playable; companies must provide “reasonable means” for consumers to be able to keep playing the game. It doesn’t even address companies removing game features or requiring more payment to continue using them, just the game as a whole.

I acknowledge the other issues: that providing “reasonable means” to run a game like an MMO is actually very hard; that if the publishers must continue to provide not just the “game” but specific features, it severely hingers creativity (though the proposal doesn’t require that); and that it’s simply impossible to preserve an online game’s community, which is most of the fun, so these “preserved” games are probably going to die out anyways. Yes, the initiative may have a lot of serious issues. But stealing IP and monetization isn’t one of them.
german auto companies aren't that competitive in ev field and i'm not sure they want to. Thousands of ppl are working at those and that work is related to combustion engine design, switching to ev might mean a huge blow for them. Nuclear, if done like in france/japan/korea, means cheap(er) reliable electric energy which would motivate more ppl to switch to ev's and since there are other players like tesla (more popular) or something from byd (cheaper) german auto industry can be in a tough position.
BitTorrent's mainline DHT is O(log n). Base 2. However you can usually skip 2-3 bits per round of queries. This means you can locate any of the 20 million nodes in BitTorrent in about 7 hops. In practice it's about 20 queries and takes about 3-5s. No persistent connections. Barely a few KB of memory for every client. No other real world implementation is that good.
As I understand, a lot of property and casualty insurance companies are structed as "mutuals" (not sure the exact term). And, most of the annual profit is refunded to customers. They are basically run as non-profits.
Unbelievable, >9 minutes delay seems to have become the norm ..
Does Germany spend less on its trains than Switzerland?
I agree that it's a hard and interesting problem. Yet other countries seem to be managing it better, or there is something structurally different.

I read somewhere that one of the key issues in Germany is that freight and passenger trains share the same network. While a delay of 15 minutes can be wildly problematic for a passenger train (missing connections, stranding at some godforsaken train station etc.), it is virtually irrelevant for freight. Then again, that should make it easy enough to always prioritize passengers over freight, but either that isn't being done or it's still insufficient.
But if you're enjoying the process, then does it matter?

If it does matter and you're not enjoying the process or results ... why continue?
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Multiple studies over those years showed that The Daily Show watchers were significantly better informed on issues than cable news viewers.

Cable news is the junk food, and TDS showed it to be so bad that even a parody news show could do a better job of informing people, a point made very often by the host. Using it as an example of junk news is missing the point by a rather wide margin.

> Better to simply turn off your brain and honestly watch real junk without the false sophistication.

It's all coming from the same six companies, as per the article. It all has a lot of the same messaging - trust the police, the good guys always win, torture is bad but if you have a good reason it's ok, Islam is super scary yo, capitalism is cool actually, being too smart isn't cool, and leave the status quo the fuck alone or get Avengered.

... Turn your brain off at your peril. Junk food can kill. If you really feel the need to watch absolute garbage and ignore the news, you probably need to work less and/or sleep more.