skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Germany is somewhat rubbish.

I arrived at the train station in the night after 6 hours train journey. German Railways app shows there will be my final leg train in 45 minutes. I wait in the cold at night, sitting in the station building because it's warmer there. 5 minutes before departure I go on the platform. The local display shows no train, even though the all still shows it. I waited for nothing.

Syncing the app with the train station? Somebody else's problem.

In half an hour there should be a replacement bus for another cancelled train. There are no signs in the app or the station that indicate where that bus is to be found. You just need to know.

Putting sings for replacement buses due to degraded service that's long planned and already happening for 2 months? Somebody else's problem.

An old man asks if the bus will allow to catch the train connection at its destination. The bus driver bitches at him for asking that question -- not his job. Somebody else's problem.

Training the bus driver that, being an official replacement of a train, he needs to know that, clearly also somebody else's problem than that of the German Railways.

It's pitch black outside, the windows are opaque due to moisture, so I can't tell where we are even though I was born the area and lived here for 18 years. The bus driver makes no announcements about the stops, there is no display. Knowing when to request a stop to get off? Somebody else's problem.

The bus is ice cold for an hour. When am old lady gets off and tells the bus driver that it was freezing all journey, he asks "well what can you do". Bewildered she answers "turn on the heating"?
He didn't expect that. He seemed to think that everything except driving was somebody else's problem.

This is just one night's bus journey story. I also got my SIM card deleted and a parcel was lost in the subsequent week. Documenting here the amounts of "somebody else's problem" I encountered in their customer support hotlines is somebody else's problem for me for now.
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> but there is a huge number of things that I have never experienced directly and about which I can think only using language.

This makes me think of the Tao Te Ching, which opens with (translation dependent, of course)

The Tao that can be spoken is not the eternal Tao
The name that can be named is not the eternal name
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Autism can be reliably diagnosed at 2.5 years of age, so we probably aren't looking at a strong cultural bias in in how kids are presenting with autism. These models using data from countries where the healthcare systems provides support for appropriate screening and testing further minimizing bias due to culture. In other words, one would not expect these models to be overfit to phenotypically distinct representations of autism as a result of culture.

Variations in brain plasticity have been suspected of playing a role in autism for a long time. Brain plasticity may vary by region, throughout development, and at a molecular level. If population dependent variations in plasticity are indeed responsible for the lack of model generalizability, then the next step would be to do as I previously suggested. That is, identify where the many genome wide variations converge on biomarkers driving differences in plasticity.
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What's the Qpig algorithm?
I have faced similar issue when logging in as a new user weeks back. Same issue persists now too!
Maybe a judge would see it that way, but FBI agents aren't required to act like judges.
Why would a modern bike fail when the warranty expires? If you want a bike that lasts 70 years you either need to be fine with not having much more effective brakes/gearing or just do regular maintenance on it.

There are plenty of products (eg. especially cars) that are much, much more reliable than their older counterparts.
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I've long thought that that is one of the main functions of corporations. There's a reason they're called limited liability. The fact that you can conjure up new companies at a whim makes it easy to shuffle responsibility into an obscure corner.

This is a strong reason that corporations should not be considered people. People are long-lived entities with accountability and you can't just create or destroy them at will.
> accelerate human body to the speed of light

Nothing with mass can have the same speed as light, but you can trivially accelerate a human body - or something similar - to a speed which is arbitrarily close to it, without risking anything from the G-forces involved.

You just need to do it very slowly.

That is, in any case, neither here nor there, since this is a thought experiment used in a discussion about the effects of moving at a speed close to c - people in thought experiments are stronk.
What do you call software that makes the code available to view, but has a license that forbids actually doing anything with the code other than run it?
Its market cap is 95B. If 55B is debt, that leaves a market value of just 40B as I see it.
I'm curious how this is organized.

> because GIMPS always at least eventually gives out numbers to multiple people to check

For the 40th Mersenne prime, 2²⁰⁹⁹⁶⁰¹¹ − 1, for example, the status page on mersenne.org seems to suggest only a single check (and a handful of later NF checks later), but maybe follow-up proofs and proof certifications and reruns are omitted? https://www.mersenne.org/report_exponent/?exp_lo=20996011&fu...

Also, when you sign up, you're asked to provide an email address in case they want to get in touch with you, so even if OP didn't themselves do so, I imagine they would include their work just the same?

> However, your name could have ended up on that Wikipedia list as a discoverer. :-)

Along the same lines, since each (potential) prime is being worked on by many computers, some looking for factors, some running the Fermat test, some running proof certification work, who gets the "discoverer" title; just the person who ran the PRP test? If so, seems fair enough, since that's where most of the computational budget ends up, but on the other hand, it seems like that would disincentivize running anything but PRP tests. But maybe the people involved are just in it for the mission (or the GHz day leaderboards).
Imagine that in 2031, FSD cars could exactly halve all aspects of auto crashes (minor, major, single car, multi car, vs pedestrian, fatal/non, etc.)

Would you want FSD software to be developed or not? If you do, do you think holding devs or companies criminally liable for half of all crashes is the best way to ensure that progress happens?
> german public transport fascinates with its ease of use and quality

You have something mixed up there.
File a GDPR complaint to test if that is working
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Is there a timeline for the deprecation already? Can I still enjoy it for just a bit longer? ;-;
That was in fact one of the promises of IPv6: Restore the network of peers where every host is in principle a server and a client and communication between peers is unhindered unless a policy is enforced saying otherwise (on the machine, on a firewall, etc.).

> having a public address is actually a security and privacy risk.

Services can be turned off or a firewall instructed not to pass traffic from the internet (by default). That represents exactly the same attack surface as having a service enabled and nobody being able to get to it from the internet because of NAT.

The privacy risk is mitigated by RFC4941 "Privacy Extensions for Stateless Address Autoconfiguration in IPv6". Granted that does not deal with the (delegated) prefix staying the same and when there are only one or very few users in that prefix, some individual behavior could be inferred. Because of that at least in Germany we have the peculiar horror of getting the IPv6 address and all delegated prefixes changed on every redial. That eliminates all privacy concerns while also continuing to make residential internet connections useless for hosting any services.

Anyway. The internet is already way down the road of functioning only as the delivery conduit for a few cloud / service providers mediating all user communication and access to content.
Map is Select and filter is Where to align with SQL keywords.
In the days before voting machines, the dead people simply voted in alphabetical order, eg (1962) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41706655

[my recommendation: try to build a high trust society instead of patching epicycles onto the side of a low trust one]
Unrelated to the word "daemon", but related to the article, I was a bit surprised by this assertion:

> Eventually, though, the theory of quantum mechanics showed why it wouldn't work.

I was familiar with the information theory arguments (the same presented in Wikipedia[1]). Is that why they mean here by "quantum mechanics" or is there another counterargument to Maxwell's daemon?

1: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maxwell's_demon#Criticism_an...
Yeah, looks like work in progress (and when it's ready I think it will be on svelte.dev)
> I believe it is the responsibility of parents to provide a safe environment for humans to grown, learn who they are, and how the world works, until they can operate and exist safely without their parents.

I agree completely, and empathize with children who don't receive this (having been on the receiving end myself and overcoming it).

It is a rare individual relying heavily on chance, who can overcome their own disadvantaged environment and become a mature and productive person after that kind of upbringing.

> This concept is not widely held, in my experience interacting with other parents.

Many parents themselves are shadows of what they could have been, had they not been indoctrinated with mal-adaptive behaviors early in life; behaviors that they pass on to their children repeating a preventable destructive cycle.

Joost Meerloo covers some of this in his books on thought reform (WW2 Nazis/Camp Torture, and Mao). The structured techniques he covers are subtly embedded in most centralized education today. An example, the hot potato of calling students out to answer opinion questions is one example derived from wartime torture techniques. It imposed mental coercion on the student to agree with the teacher, and promotes bullying outside of class for those who receive disapproval.
> The diameter is too small

The diameter of their boring machines?

> There is nothing a startup will come in and figure out that hasn’t been figured out by the construction industry.

Because? Why not? Do you have some domain knowledge here? Is there really no room for new technology?

> Elon’s way of distracting governments away from cheap, highly cost efficient high-speed rail.

Hard to know if this was Elon's intention here. Certainly he held some belief in the Hyperloop concept, even if it ended up being unrealistic. I take it more as evidence that he doesn't have the kind of engineering chops that people ascribe to him.

There's a lot of claims here I couldn't be bothered to fact check, and I think we're digressing from the point of contention.

> Link me a news story about Boring securing a single single rail or subway tunnel contract.

Now, I'll pay that. To date, they haven't used the business to do anything substantial. Boring Company might be vaporware, or misdirection, as you claim.

But back to the point of contention. Twitter has made a clear financial loss for Elon – I'm sure that's irrefutable^ by now. It's value for him is some political sway over right wing voters, which isn't nothing, but it's at best an intangible gain.

The Boring Company has value as a company that digs tunnels. Whether Elon will invest the time and resources to do anything substantial with it? Probably not. But at the least, it's not a money sink like Twitt.. erm, sorry... X.

^ https://edition.cnn.com/2024/10/02/business/elon-musk-twitte...
When I was finishing university I bought into the framework-based web-development hype. I thought that "enterprise" web-development has to be done this way. So I got some experience by migrating my homepage to a static VUE.JS version.
Binding view and state by passing the variables name as a sting felt off, extending the build env seemed unnecessary complex and everything was slow and has to be done a certain way.
But since everyone is using this, this must be right I thought.

I got over this view and just finished the new version of my page. Raw HTML with some static-site-generator templating. The HTML size went down 90%, the JS usage went down 97% and build time is now 2s instead of 20s. The user experience is better and i get 30% more hits since the new version.

The web could be so nice of we used less of it.
Shredchain? Veracity by Proof of Shredding.
The biggest risk with opening a tool like that is that it potentially enables offenders to figure out what can get past it.
What you're referring to is actually permissive licensing (or as I like to call it... /s). It's a scam.

It works fine for trivial pieces of code that no one cares about. But for bigger pieces of software, you're donating your time to Amazon, Microsoft and Palantir. You're volunteering for them. Why would you do that? If they want you to work for them they should pay you. If not for your wallet's sake then for the sake of hurting bad companies.

Copyleft is easy to comply with. Being scared of copyleft is like being scared of servers (which most programmers are according to DHH!).
See also: ‘can’t be fagged’.
The buck has to stop somewhere and a human has to be responsible for things.
But didn’t Vue come before React? And it’s mostly the same from what I understand, it’s not totally different like Svelte. I think it can change, if more people put it on their resumes and LinkedIn and if those that know React say can do things in 1/3 the time with Svelte and mention that in interviews as well. That is a slow way of evangelism for Svelte that can spread.
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https://basarat.gitbook.io/typescript
>the number of unnecessary deaths that I'm okay with in order to alleviate the suffering of a few is zero.

"A few" is doing some serious heavy lifting here

Most deaths aren't pleasant nor peaceful. And modern medicine can keep your body alive for a long, long while as you survive in pain even when there's no chance of things ever getting better
Don’t most European manufacturers just buy frames from Taiwan or even China and just combine them with Taiwanese/Chinese/Malaysian parts from SRAM/Shimano? I don’t think a lot of manufacturing is actually done in Europe.
Fast compilation is needed in all languages.

Nothing is as annoying as waiting 5-15min for compilation of c++ code
And, yet these companies won their lawsuits, and no wide scale voter fraud was ever found.

So, your point is entirely irrelevant.
I haven't read that book, but that contradicts what I've read elsewhere, and it's from 2013. Wikipedia says: "By July 2014, Jeff Bezos had invested over $500 million into the company, and the vast majority of further funding into 2016 was to support technology development and operations where a majority of funding came from Jeff Bezos' private investment fund. In April 2017, an annual amount was published showing that Jeff Bezos was selling approximately $1 billion in Amazon stock per year to invest in the company. Jeff Bezos has been criticized for spending excessive amounts of his fortune on spaceflight." -- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_Origin
And the root of all that? Privatization.
No, the beginning of the thread is earlier. And with that context it seems clear to me that the “you” in the post you linked means “the company”, not “the individual software developer”. No one else in your replies seems confused by that, we all understand self-driving software wasn’t written by a single person that has ultimate decision power within a company.
Can't escape the hype.
Only if the claims are illegitimate.
As one of those people most of the time (communicating with other people is the main exception), I still find it astounding that it's hard for some people to understand.

Take riding a bike: I presume even people with an overactive inner monologue aren't constantly planning their actions (brakes, steering, turns) in words. Then just extend that out to most other stuff.
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I was very amused this summer, hearing a company that I had worked at six years ago is switching from React to Angular. I had thought angular was dead.
GP argument seems to be about "thinking" when restricted to knowledge through language, and "possible" is not the same as "likely" or "unlikely" — you are not really disagreeing, since either means "possible".
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> It's evident to Tesla drivers using Full Self-Driving (FSD) that the technology is rapidly improving and will likely succeed

Sounds like Tesla drivers have been at the Kool-Aid then.

But to be a bit more serious, the problem isn't necessarily that people don't think it's improving (I do believe it is) or that they will likely succeed (I'm not sure where I stand on this). The problem is that every year Musk says the next year will be the Year of FSD. And every next year, it doesn't materialize. This is like the Boy Who Cried Wolf; Musk has zero credibility with me when it comes to predictions. And that loss of credibility affects my feeling as to whether he'll be successful at all.

On top of that, I'm not convinced that autonomous driving that only makes use of cameras will ever be reliably safer than human drivers.
It's definitely easy to use. You show up at the station when the train is coming. You get on the train. Later, you get off the train. No security checks like an airport. No multi step check in. Just be there and get on. In many cases your ticket won't even be checked, and when it is it's while you're seated while the train is moving. Getting a ticket is no problem: the ticket machines are multilingual, and you type in the stops you want to go from/to and the date. You can also book one online and get a QR-like code you can print or display on your phone.

Quality is mediocre. The trains are often delayed, which is a problem with the size of the network and cascading failures. Once they do get to A, they get from A to B just fine, the seats are okay, the luggage space is okay, etc. The DB Navigator app is useful for finding alternative routes but it won't tell you whether your ticket is valid for them. It will tell you if the delay is so long that you're allowed to use any route.