skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Beeching

The Beeching report of course cut no lines. It was just a report. By "Beeching cut" I mean the systemic policy of the time of prioritizing roads over rail, using the report as synecdoche.

> They believed in future buses (and yes cars) would take car of those communities.

That belief is the core of my comment, not the specific details of which lines were cut.

Once the lines are torn up, and the land not banked for future possible reuse, it's very hard for a car-centric area to switch away from cars.

How much should the sore feelings of those consigned to live in a car-only area affect the decision to promote rail service in order to reduce CO2 emissions?

In my opinion, zero.

> That it was strictly about profitability is also false. If anything it was about cost.

When I wrote 'profitability model' I wasn't saying it was strictly about profitability. The report clearly uses profitability as one of the driving factors, but not the only factor.

My point is that the model which lead to statements like "As soon as the required procedure permits, it is desired to withdraw those passenger train services which are clearly uneconomic" was not applied to roads. Outside of a few toll roads and bridges, the direct earnings of a road is zero, resulting in an expected loss in total gross revenue.

The environment impact to the cuts clearly wasn't included, but neither was the implied increased demand for new roads, nor the higher road maintenance costs, much less concepts of induced demand that Leeming was just then formulating.
The dude demonstrated the ability to infiltrate a client’s Slack instance via their vulnerability. If that’s not enough to make the hairs on your neck stand on end as an engineer, go fucking do something else.
Reading your answers is very frustrating, because you keep referencing a “we / we’ve” when it’s clearly a hobby project by a complete beginner.

It sounds like you’ve come up with this idea via ChatGPT or other LLM, and you won’t take any legitimate criticisms. All your responses sound like taking to ChatGPT.

I’d advise not to lean on ChatGPT. It’s cutting corners. Learn deep, read material online
I'd like to clarify that, given the numerous features of IF, I chose to promote it as a free alternative to Typora to make it easier for people to understand what IF is and to further explore its other capabilities. If this has misled you in any way, I sincerely apologize.
Functional PHP (2015)
Turkish doesn't have articles, I think you meant determiner adjectives there.
This study made me question the Ultra Processed Food narrative: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/31105044/

>Subjects were instructed to consume as much or as little as desired. Energy intake was greater during the ultra-processed diet (508 ± 106 kcal/day; p = 0.0001), with increased consumption of carbohydrate (280 ± 54 kcal/day; p < 0.0001) and fat (230 ± 53 kcal/day; p = 0.0004), but not protein (-2 ± 12 kcal/day; p = 0.85).

>Weight changes were highly correlated with energy intake (r = 0.8, p < 0.0001), with participants gaining 0.9 ± 0.3 kg (p = 0.009) during the ultra-processed diet and losing 0.9 ± 0.3 kg (p = 0.007) during the unprocessed diet.

Maybe the issue isn't the 'ultra processing' but protein amount? Less protein = people eat more = weight gain = health issues.
Cut the ChatGPT responses.
Same for the SNES classic. And both are no longer available. ;-(
The startups in this space were targeting $100/ton before the recent inflation hit.

It turns out if you divide the $/ton by 100, you get $/gallon of gas equivalent.

Burning a gallon of gas emits 20 lbs of CO2 (most of the weight is in the oxygen), and a ton is 2000 lbs.

Anyway, at $6-12 dollars per gallon of gasoline, direct air capture is clearly much worse than just not burning oil. At $1-2, it’s less than the current gasoline taxes in the US.
It's not new, Matt has been trying to reach an agreement for years.[1] To be fair, he has done everything he can for the health of the ecosystem for all these years.

WP Engine leech off the WordPress brand from head to toe. Literally, from trademark to infrastructure, while Automattic covers the bill for the most part.

Of course, legally, WPE doesn't have to contribute beyond its mouth but if we are going down that route then also Automattic doesn't have to put up with funding WPE operation anymore.

I'm tired of people justifying WPE attitude and behavior by saying "legally, they don't have to contribute", well let's talk legal, everything happening to them is within those same lines too. Why are you complaining if it's legal?

This is one of those "fuck around and find out" situation. Matt just run out of fucks to give, and decided it's better to teach the bully a lesson even if it comes at a cost.

[1] https://youtu.be/H6F0PgMcKWM
I am aware of the replaceable nibs, and I don’t have a problem with those. I have a Remarkable 2 and I use it practically every day. I replaced the nib with a titanium one and it feels very similar to a ballpoint pen writing on a clipboard.

The new marker requires charging. It is not compatible with the Remarkable 2 or other e-ink tablets like the Kindle Scribe. Look at the features on the store page, both the Marker and Marker+ talk about wireless charging.

Also, from their FAQ about the Marker:

Will other digital pens work on reMarkable Paper Pro?
No. The new Markers have been custom-built for reMarkable Paper Pro’s Canvas Color display. Other digital pens, such as the Markers for reMarkable 2 or those developed by third parties, aren’t compatible with reMarkable Paper Pro. For more details, see our compatibility guide.
You'd need to see the cap table and articles of incorporation to know if the board has any power. Salesforce invested $300m in the D round and doesn't have a seat, for example. Phil Black and maybe Toni Schneider's seats might be protected, but Matt could have the voting power to replace the other two at will.

Current drama aside, good for him if that's the case. Very few founders maintain absolute control past a Series C.
The "doc" page starts off with about 800 words of philosophy. At first I thought it was AI generated, but it's too strange and rambling.

https://if.openages.com/doc

Excerpt:

> In the process of biological evolution, gene mutation is the main source of biological evolution, and the "mutation connection" of neurons is the main source of promoting the "thinking evolution" of the human brain. Two nerve cells that have never been connected suddenly "have a call" at a certain moment. Real life is repetitive, monotonous and boring. You can come into contact with new things and have new experiences. It is a low-probability event. Therefore, from the perspective of probability theory, this "sudden call" requires huge energy and is a low-probability event. It must have unique value.
And Germany has a population of 83 million. Montana has a population of 1.1 million.

I don't get your point.
I'd give it a good editor.
Apparently not. See https://github.com/lifeiteng/OmniSenseVoice/blob/main/src/om.... See also FunASR running SenseVoice but using Kaldi for speaker identification https://github.com/modelscope/FunASR/blob/cd684580991661b9a0...
> Can you explain whether you think it is an appropriate suggestion and why?

Yes, I can explain, no, I don't think it's an appropriate suggestion, principally because here in this context it's trite, beige, and unworthy of mention.

> Meconium is a word of utmost feculence!

* You're likely to be human, that seems to be an unGPT response.

* Smell aside I doubt baby poo peaks the utmost feculence scale, with the majority of babies for the most part it's going to be low in pathogens - there are nastier biologicals out there in the world at large.
I use rubber. For some reason it worked better than latexmk for me. (Don't remember now.)

However, it also had index issues.
There are very good chances Matt control majority of Automattic. It's private company so he can do whatever he wants.

Also their employee "shares" dont have any voting rights:

https://ma.tt/2024/10/owner-mentality/
Someone who gets it. I work in security and everyone hates me because I add friction and cost. On the flip side, I have a lot of PII to protect.
I would like to see this as companion event to the Olympic, just to se how layperson's would fare
Does it do diarization?
I scooped this idea from a book on relationships, but I don't remember which one:

When we think about relationships and who is responsible for what, we may think something like this: In a two-person relationship, each person is responsible for 50% of maintaining the relationship. Together, this adds up to 100%.

However, in this scenario, if one person is not able to live up to this, and only does 49%, and the other person is doing their share of 50%, the relationship maintenance is now at only 99% of the requirement, 1% short.

So the solution to this vulnerability, is at least one (or, ideally, both) people to assume responsibility for all 100% of the relationship maintenance. This way, if you are aiming for 100%, and you fall short, you are still likely to end up with at least 100% or more.
You are correct about the previous ReMarkable stylus, but OP is correct about the ReMarkable Pro stylus.

They have introduced a new, proprietary stylus that requires charging. And it’s incompatible with any other device, including previous ReMarkables.
Very cool! Regarding 8" floppy drives, it appears to be possible to connect an ancient 8" floppy disk controller such as a Western Digital FD1771[1] to fairly recent 3.5" floppy drives (and older 5.25" drives) - the signals didn't change that much (though there may be some issues with RPM.)[2]

There also appear to be hard disk emulators (based on the open source FreHD[3]) available for those machines as well[14]. Xenix on emulated HD sounds like a possibility.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Western_Digital_FD1771

[2] https://www.retrotechnology.com/herbs_stuff/drive.html#three...

[3] http://www.vecoven.com/trs80/trs80.html

[4] http://trs-80.com.au/trs80/emulator.htm
Are you interpreting "down on cryptocurrencies" to mean "in favour of cryptocurrencies"? I think GP meant the opposite.
Apparently not. See my reply to satvikpendem.
Ever tried shipping anything to Hawaii?
Aside: each and every post about Wordpress on HN over the past couple of days has been downweighted basically to oblivion (I expect this one to vanish from anywhere near the front page very soon). Is there a reason for this? The topic is rapidly evolving and is relevant to the HN community.
The dietary conclusions and recommendations got a bit muddled at the end.

SA reading this should know that the "overweight" BMI cutoff for SA is 23.0, not 25.0.
Yeah, it is.
But is it growing or shrinking in the market share, that's the real question.
My bad, thanks for the correction!

Gives me another reason I'll be happily sticking with my RM2 and not considering an upgrade, though not 100% sure which I'd choose if buying new now (probably still the older one).
I agree with your sentiments. Makes me think that they are going for vendor lock in. I don’t know if that’s true, but it does feel like it.
Thanks for the suggestion but Voicedream is garbage. There's no pagination for books so it's a massive, scrollable doc when I upload an ePub. Even worse, the TTS sounds like it's from the 90s and doesn't have the latest human sounding voices that OpenAI has.
I believe the comment-to-upvote ratio is triggering an automated down-weighing on most of them.
>how can I have a package that sets every "the" in red colour, without it interfering with a package that sets every "the" in blue or titlecase?

Exactly.

Broadly, the things you might want a package/plugin to do can be categorised as "local" (e.g., add some new type of content in a fixed-size box that the layout engine can then treat the same way as it treats any other such box) or "global" (e.g., change where floats appear). Making local effects play together can be easily handled with standard PL ideas like lexical scoping, but doing the same for global things is much harder: it strongly depends on exactly what knobs (API) the base typesetting engine provides. We now have design patterns like Observer to help make creating such "global" effects simpler, assuming that their effects are genuinely orthogonal, but what if they aren't?

A plugin that sets each "the" to red clearly conflicts with a plugin that sets each "the" to blue: at most one of them can "win", so which is it? Does it depend on which plugin was loaded first? If so, that's no better than LaTeX, and will become an ever-growing headache as the ecosystem grows.

OTOH, a plugin that sets each "the" in italics can sensibly interoperate with a package that sets each "the" in bold -- and can even produce the same results regardless of which was loaded first, because these effects "commute". These effects could be implemented by having the base engine expose an event that can be listened to by any interested plugin.

ETA: The main reason LaTeX is a pain is because it makes no real attempt (that I can see) to manage any of the inevitable complexity of "global" effects. (Admittedly, this is a tough design problem.) I don't yet see signs of anything better from Typst, thus I assume it will become roughly as painful as LaTeX in time.
Do you think that covers the cost of building and maintaining the road network infrastructure?

Do you think that it covers the cost of excess death caused by particle emissions and road fatalities?

We don't have the option to completely replace car infrastructure, but we shouldn't act like it isn't heavily subsidized.

That said, the positive externalities are also significant, but so are the positive externalities from rail traffic.
no, processed food has a processing problem
- Decent Interval - Frank Snepp - About Saigon's fall by a CIA analyst
- Inside China's Nuclear Weapons Program - Danny Stillman
- Operation Dark Heart - Anthony Shaffer - Afghanistan. "The Pentagon" bought and destroyed the whole first printing
- The Targeter - Nada Bakos - About fighting ISIS

The last guy's alluding to right wing books though. I remember Axios reported that the Turner Diaries and Camp of the Saints are going for hundreds now, because printing has been ended: https://www.axios.com/2021/01/28/racist-novels-skyrocket-in-... But books are now available on Amazon for cheap and pirating is easy, but here are some which libraries don't seem to have stocked and mostly aren't purchasable.

I imagined Holocaust denial etc. are effectively banned/not stocked by most libraries. Googling, I found discussions about My Revolutionary Life by Leon DeGrelle, Into the Cannibal's Pot by Ilana Mercer etc. But things from other movements too like an Ulster loyalist Ian Paisley's Messages from the Prison Cell or Uncomfortable Questions for Comfortable Jews by Rabbi Meir Kahane. Pinochets memoir is also inaccessible.

Then there are books about bombs or e.g. Put em Down, Take em Out by Pentecost about knife fighting ($60/now used). In the UK, a nazi was jailed 13 years for having a pdf the White Resistence Manual: https://www.itv.com/news/calendar/2023-08-31/prison-officer-...

I'll stop there. There are long lists, with about half the entries seeming plausibly banned.
Don’t casually suggest “mental breakdown” for people and situations you do not know or have first party insight to.

First, blaming things on “mental breakdowns” is incredibly lazy and shallow and belittles the struggle that people with mental illness have.

Did you ever stop to think that maybe this guy is just greedy, or an incompetent CEO?
Your company already doesn't really care about you (for the vast majority of them at least), so there is a conflict of interest but you personally shouldn't take the side of the company.
Apparently they landed the SH booster within half a centimeter of the target position at the last attempt.

So I'd say they definitely have carried over some important lessons from Falcon 9.

The actual catching part might perhaps not have been very transferable, given how Falcon 9 can't roll using it's single engine unlike Starship booster, and the large difference in mass.
What kind of lawyer would let this happen in the middle of a lawsuit? I know lawyers do not control their clients, but this is ineffable. Even common sense should know better.
Do note that there is barely any comments on any. So, maybe that is a factor.
There's no such thing as downvoting a post on HN, only a comment.

There's flagging a post, but that would show up next to the post - do you have any examples?
> Perhaps that would go away if our society experienced a cataclysm disabling all the smart devices out there.

Except this can't happen without other catastrophic consequences, so maybe we should instead learn to deal with it.
Could you suggest some hobbies? I grew up an only child without any close friends so I learned to do everything solo at an early age.
No worries. Sorry if I came off as combative.
"If they’re willing to do this, I wouldn’t trust any plugins hosted on WordPress.org."

Yep yep yep.

Jesus Fuck Matt, put down the crackpipe and open the window. You are _totally_ out of control here.

I am 100% going to start another much more urgent discussion at work on Monday about how we remove all risk of relying on anything from Automattic, wordpress.org, or The WordPress foundation. This will include opening a discussion with WPEngine (where we host about two dozen internal and customer sites) about what their short/medium/longterm plans are and what sort of guarantee they are planning to provide about updates and security fixes to the plugins and themes we rely on. It will include an internal discussion of whether we own it to all our clients running WP to inform then of this stupid stupid drama and the risks in represents and what we are doing to mitigate them. It will also include a very serious discussion about a million dollar government RFQ we submitted last month for a project that has a plan to use WP for the public facing website component.
Yep. They've shut down 180 in the UK.
Of course it's not generated by AI. These emotional expressions are my heartfelt words, which AI can't produce too many of.
I agree with you that it's important to avoid using such a bad strategy as feel good vibes, which could easily happen if one is careless.

However it might suffice to find a strong justification, rather than a pure quantification. One way to build such a justification is to consider rail transport as a part of a coherent whole, as part of a broader vision.

Indeed I think such a strategy can result in a better outcome than the one arising from optimizing everything in isolation; the latter risks leading to a local optimum.

However it is key that the vision is feasible and correctly evaluated. If one were to bet everything on one vision and that vision failed, if say one important factor was forgotten and not accounted for, the result might be rather unfortunate.

So concretely, making local public transport cheaps could fit into a vision of "where will people live, where will they work, and how will they commute from the first place to the second". Whereas including intercity rail and bus is harder to understand maybe it would fit into a vision of "how people will keep in contact with old friends and relatives after moving cities". Maybe "how people will spend their vaction, or go on business trips"?

Let's focus on the former one. It could then go hand in hand with zoning regulation, public-private partnership of building housing+utilities etc. Trying to encourage certain industries to provide jobs.
> Lugging your children around on public transit builds character that chauffeuring them around in a car does not

I'm talking about ages 0 to 3 when parents need to use a stroller. It's a huge pain to do this in public transit. It's easier when the kids are older but if you have more than one child the car still wins.
Assuming that the amount of value you create corresponds to the amount of money you are rewarded with - within the same market, then it's just about revenue.

In your examples, you open up new markets, and doing that changes the other side of the equation: you need more work to get that extra income later.

In the end, that example changes all three: the amount of work, the amount of reward, and the time distribution, so I don't think it really shows that inertia is so common.
One issue is that people often benefit from infrastructure without explicitly using it.

Example, road network isn't paid by car owners. But non-drivers clearly benefit from the road network, is the road network subsidized?

Other example, people who rarely take the train still benefit from rail infrastructure (freight, reduced congestion etc). Is the rail network subsidized?
It is a tense. It can simultaneously function as a mood, that doesn't change its tense status. It changes the time aspect of a verb. I don't know how more tense you can be than that.
Someone in the comments mentioned this costs 3B per year when in comparison Germany spends 20B per year on Oil/Gas subsidies/tax benefits.

Arguably if more people are using rail it can become palatable to shift that money away from the tax benefits and subsidies for Oil which (equally) artificially lower fuel prices from real market prices (and which people seem to have no problem with).
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The sad thing here is that it is extremely effective and permeates everything. The mainstream media has their talking points and narratives, then a counter culture arrived not to fix this, but to provide their own talking points and narratives.

Every time a family member calls me it's either something they saw on MSM, or something they saw on Twitter/Facebook. Nobody seems to actually educate themselves and have a discussion, it's just talking points. Half the time they can't expand beyond the headlines.

It feels like we're at peak attention media. At least, I hope so.
Check out “how are stories ranked” in the FAQ: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html

Overheated discussions get demoted. I think the idea is that the comments should support discussion of the content, but not usurp it.
I don't know much about WordPress, but it's pretty amazing to me how much staying power it's had. It seemed crusty, bloated and not long for this world 10 years ago to me.
What’s the story with Ghost?
This is the "underlying reason" for building this feature. As a developer, I need a starting point when creating something. You might consider this starting point philosophical, but for users, they don't need a tool that converges; they need a lifestyle that includes life philosophy.
To be honest, it was obvious that things were going the wrong way even before this

The people that stayed are probably the ones that feel "married to the job" (pro-tip: you aren't your job)
All the things you listed are examples of "other axes" that I listed as being valid objections. I also agree that it's hard to estimate the dollar cost or benefit of these things. But I think we do have to attempt to estimate it, since we have no other sensible way to decide how to allocate public funds.

It's not even all that difficult to estimate, really. For example, every business does it, of necessity.
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