skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's almost certainly less to do with location scouting and production design, and more about perceived biases. If studio executives think American audiences can't relate to trains or subways because they're less commonly used in real-life, we're going to see fewer of them on the screen. There's probably a cultural blind spot at play there, too; if writers don't ride trains--or even perceive them--very often, they're far less likely to write about them. It's a vicious circle.

As for locations, a quick Google search found a genuine New York City R17 subway car[0] that can be rented out in LA. The Sierra Northern Railway--a freight carrier in California--has rented out[1] its rolling stock, facilities, and tracks to film productions for nearly a century. They've got quite the roster, spanning multiple eras. There's also Amtrak, the various local/regional metro systems, other rental companies, and even private collectors if they need something specific.

As for stations, that's even easier. Various urban backlots have underground subway station entrances[2] where you could characters exiting the station. Or the station platform itself is just a long room; you don't have to show the actual tracks, or you could composite in a train moving across the frame, etc. Plenty of permanent sets can play that role. Set designers do far more with less all the time. Hell, you can just reference it off-screen for a sitcom. That's a huge chunk of Seinfeld (or any sitcom). Shit happens, everyone reacts...often poorly, with hilarious results.

0. https://www.thevillaserena.com/subway-car-standing-set.asp

1. https://movierailroad.com/

2. https://www.alamy.com/subway-entrance-in-the-soho-set-area-b...
This is an old thread and will probably be lost now, but this sort of tool has been industrialized now. At the library book sales in my area, you'll see a handful of people there right as they open, they'll have either a scanner device or an app on their phone. They just scan over the spines of the books and it beeps when it finds something interesting. It highlights the book and they pick it out.

On the one hand, great application of technology. On the other hand, the folks using them have zero interest in reading the books. So, when the library happens to have a nearly brand new copy of "Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix: Illustrated Edition" there's almost no chance that someone in the community who wants to read the book will get it. Instead it gets snapped up by the resellers who make a couple of bucks off sending it to someone else who may be across the country.
I do not find git weird and bizarre at all. First time I hear such nonsense. Why do you feel that way?
Systems differ by country, and part might be paid by state, part from non-governmental managed funds. Yet contributions are taxed from income. And then there is whole split between private, municipal and state employees. Also in some countries it is not personal fund, but defined pension based on contributions with different times affecting in different ways.

In general mandatory contributions that are then managed by myriad of ways. With possibly different ways of payouts.
You should double check that you can't do this. I just created a reminder from the Gemini app on Android.
> Problem is, that also requires public money be spent on rehabilitation programs. It's cheaper for the state to just get people high and let them die.

This is just not true:

>> Subsidies for drug treatment are by far the fastest-growing major component of federal spending on drug abuse. Advanced by many policy makers as the key to curbing drug use, federal expenditures for drug treatment have risen by 341 percent since 1986 -- 20 percent faster than the total drug budget, 30 percent faster than spending for drug law enforcement and 700 percent faster than overall federal spending. This year, the federal government will spend more than $1.1 billion on treatment. (These figures exclude spending for drug treatment by the Department of Veterans Affairs. Owing in part to the extraordinary success of drug testing and other drug prevention programs in the military, spending has grown much more slowly in the VA than the overall rate of government spending.) And Drug Czar Bob Martinez is calling for more spending on education and treatment

Like most things, you can't just throw money at it and expect it to magically get better. There are a ton of resources out there but there needs to be willingness on the participant. Since there's no stigma attached to public drug use and normalization of being an addict, there's even less pressure for people to get treatment so the money is pretty much wasted on every growing bureaucracy and the administrative class

https://www.heritage.org/budget-and-spending/report/the-case...
I’ve been prescribed medication for hypertension for years now. Thankfully the outcome has been a consistently well controlled and more-or-less normal range of blood pressure.

My spouse has put in a lot of work to help me get to a point where I’m not actively avoiding added salt or sodium. Where once the DASH diet and 150/90 made me really scared to season a dish, now I don’t shy away from reaching for the salt, or borderline starve myself of sodium.

The point that my spouse made was precisely yours: almost every meal we make is home made (and kudos to my spouse for being our de facto and a fantastic cook).

I cannot imagine 10+ grams of salt a day.
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In short, describe the actions you want people to take rather than the results you think those actions should achieve. Or perhaps more fundamentally, you should know what people are doing and you won't know that when you are only looking at an opaque metric.
I'd argue that x86 and IBM z/Arch are the ones that stick out among contemporary ISAs in that they need fairly complex fron-end translation into an internal instruction format.

ARM implementations that support both ARMv7 (both ARM mode and THUMB mode) and ARMv8 also need some kind of translation in the front-end, but recent ARMs (like Apple's implementations) don't support 32-bit mode and are simpler in that way.

Most other ISAs are much closer to the metal, although many implementations still do some level of translation in the front-end (mostly fusing/splitting certain instruction combinations for better efficiency). Examples: ARMv8+, RISC-V, MIPS, Loongson, TI 6x & 7x DSP, and of course most GPUs (and my own MRISC32 ISA).
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I'm also the complete opposite of the ADHD types who forget things, are late, miss details, etc. I'm pretty sure that happened because I subconsciously developed a whole series of tactics and systems to make life less challenging over the years. But that just added new issues around living and dying by to-do lists, becoming addicted to "accomplishment" (at any level), constantly in my head 24/7 about what I need to do next, what hasn't gotten done, how I'm going to do all the things I want to finish. Also wouldn't dream of announcing this to colleagues.
Look, I’m all for someone being excited for something they’ve never explored before. There is a joy in personal discovery of things you see.

I’m not a fan of a fabricated premise in order to show “look how brilliant I am, I discovered RDS from first principles” when this mostly documented (1).

In contrast, look at the Mike Harrison Eidophor talk. The guy pieced together a history of a significant technology that is otherwise poorly recorded on the Internet (2). This is new and novel info.

(1) https://www.2wcom.com/fileadmin/redaktion/dokumente/Company/...

(2) https://hackaday.com/2016/04/19/mike-harrison-exposes-hot-oi...
Really it's anyone using teams on older or cheaper hardware.
Wait why is botting okay if it's on a private server? You mean the other players are okay with it?
Build systems often define constants by passing them as -D defines, which toggle code in different preprocessor #ifdef sections, so the analogy isn’t far off.
A big reason is the Rekordbox software used to manage song libraries. Another is standardization - DJs move from club to club and encounter the same hardware setup. They are very well built, work in rain, ...

Today you also have influencers which are DJ-ing, but they don't have the skills, so either they have a pre-recorded mix or just use the CDJ auto-mixing features. Having a standard device they know how to operate is again critical.
Good for you sport. You sure showed me whats what.
Quote :"The number of large satellites in low Earth orbit has increased 12 times in five years, in large part because of SpaceX. The new space race is ramping up quickly: Some experts estimate an additional 58,000 satellites will be launched by 2030...."
As another adult Chinese learner, does something like the Heisig method really help with language acquisition or just memorizing characters? I’m skeptical because of the immense amount of time it takes to learn even without elaborate story construction for each character. I’ve kind of resigned to being a word processor idiot, and only memorizing characters in handwriting as a bi-product of usage.
I also subscribe to a testing pyramid but I think it's commonly upside down IMO.

You should have a few very granular unit tests for where they make the most sense (Known dangerous areas, or where they are very easy to write eg. analysis)

More library/service tests. I read in an old config file and it has the values I expect.

Integration/system tests should be the most common, I spin up the entire app in a container and use the public API to test the application as a whole.

Then most importantly automated UI tests, I do the standard normal customer workflows and either it works or it doesn't.

The nice thing is that when you strongly rely on UI and public API tests you can have very strong confidence that your core features actually work. And when there are bugs they are far more niche. And this doesn't require many tests at all.

(We've all been in the situation where the 50,000 unit tests pass and the application is critically broken)
In a way, you’re right. But of course the reason there are so many onerous regulations is because the market has demonstrated an inability to do this kind of thorough analysis itself prior to inflicting vast negative externalities on the commons.

Not that all of these regulations are perfect/necessary/ultimately good, but they’re not coming out of nowhere. There’s no one in some dingy room with filing cabinets dreaming up ways they can “slow down progress” for the fun of it.
The same way the prevent stations from broadcasting 90 seconds or more of pure silence: you loose your license if you do.
https://www.iso.org/footer-links/frequently-asked-questions-...

"Developing, publishing and maintaining ISO standards incurs a cost, and revenues from selling them helps ISO and its members to cover an important part of these costs. Charging for standards allows us to ensure that they are developed in an impartial environment and therefore meet the needs of all stakeholders for which the standard is relevant. This is essential if standards are to remain effective in the real world."
> Most places in the world that are slightly more exposed to weather than average run the risk of power outages

Heavily depends on how exposed the infrastructure is, I'd say. I currently live in Spain and been experiencing way more power outages than in Sweden, where I was born and raised, even though the weather is much more extreme in Sweden. Main difference, as far as I can tell, is that Sweden mostly digs trenches for all sorts of cables and infrastructure, while Spain tends to (still) hang cables in the air and on the outside of walls. I still get my fiber from a cable that comes hanging down from the front-side balcony of my flat here in Barcelona, and that's the official installation from my ISP.
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Chrome Extension to Automate AWS Dialogs
First time open sourcer and first time HN poster.

I've written a little (very little) Chrome Extension to speed up my own workflow when using AWS answering all the warning dialogs. I wanted to share it incase anyone else found it useful.

The gif on the readme shows it all - there's nothing more.

Obviously sacrifices safeguards for speed, so if you don't like that don't use it :).
Speaking as an American: our commercially produced, restaurant, and fast foods all tend to be fairly high in sodium, but it doesn’t always taste salty.
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They went with the summer time
The purpose of my "14 things I built in the last week" post was not to demonstrate large software - it was to show how the cost of building small applications has effectively fallen close to zero for me.

I can knock out small but useful applications in genuinely less time than it would take me to Google for an existing solution to the same problem.

You can call them dreck if you like. I call (most of) them useful solutions.
By "legacy", I mean "old stuff we thought were good, but is not useful for new projects". Now nothing prevents people from using a useless technique for new projects.

Anyway, I don’t care about what we should mean by this and that. What I do care about is whether inheritance is useful or not. And so far, I have seen no evidence that it is anything more than highly situational — meaning, doesn’t have a better alternative for almost everything.

The study I recall didn’t measure productivity, it counted bugs.

Anyway, I spent enough time on the subject to close the case. Until I stumble upon cogent evidence to the contrary, inheritance is not worth my time. I won’t use it, I will steer my colleagues away from it, and I will quit gigs that use it too heavily.
On the anecdotal side of benefits and addiction, podcast host Shawn Ryan, former Navy Seal and CIA operative, states very clearly that his experience with DMT abruptly excavated him from a pit of addiction that included alcohol and heavy prescription drugs. He described the experience as vividly showing him all the poisonous aspects of what he'd been doing. The impression was powerful enough that he immediately dropped it all and hasn't foundered since.

There are extensive reports of heavy addictions being virtually vaporized through DMT. Obviously some measure of openness and desire to change is important, but I personally do not think the potential here is debatable.
On the very first screen via link. 80 seconds of music.
He means phlogiston. He's just inventing words to make it sound more interesting than it is.
Are there physical controls that mount on a digitizer? E.g. instead of a rotary dial on a potentiometer, the bottom sits on a digitizer that can translate the "touch" event into circular motion. Same with buttons, like with a keyboard membrane, but capacitive. Wouldn't that be cheaper?
I came to make the same comment, so glad it's been brought up and reenforced.

https://mdxjs.com/
That doesn't make sense to me. You can use Nix on non NixOS distros in your user space. Home manager is quite popular.

Have you tried using it in user space?
If you drive the weenermobile you'll get a similar reaction, but it doesn't mean people want to buy it. It's an oddity, a curiosity they're excited to see in person.
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Yeah I have that feeling about Path of Exile 2. I also know I won’t be able to resist.
Russia has no reason to blow it up because they can turn off the pipe on their own end. Even Germany can turn off the pipe at their end. So that future is open to normalcy if required.
Human Embryology and the Holy Quran: An Overview
The link is under a paywall, though.
Rumble in the Jungle 50 years on: how Ali danced rings around apartheid
Changing into new species is just a longer time frame of more an more adaptations.
Not sure why people aren't able to extrapolate that.
> The issue is clearly with maga/qanon right-wingers who were told this benign left-wing talking point was in fact a plot to keep them in their homes.

The placard literally says 'Stay Home!'
I think a simpler explanation is that terminally online people just don't like the politics of the CEO and like to take any chance to dunk on him.

In a world that has been stagnant for decades in terms of design and doing things out the box, it's something at least trying to be different. Don't get all the hate
In existing cities, train stations are just as hard to build in the city center as airports -- neither happens

only in countries where they neglected building train stations before the cities grew to todays sizes. but even then it's not true. US cities are less dense, so it should be easier to find space. train stations are also much much smaller than airports and trains don't make as much noise as airplanes. there are many more reasons not to build airports in the middle of a city, none of which apply to trains.

the main problem for trains is finding a route for the track into the city. that can be and is solved with tunnels though. or the chinese approach where the high speed trainstations are sometimes built away from the center of the city and instead the center is connected by a dense network of subway lines. a process that started less than 20 years ago but now puts many chinese cities at the top of the list of the largest subway networks in the world.
If you get one ticket for the whole journey then it's the provider's responsibility to get you to your destination, even if you miss a connection due to a delay.

If you have bought multiple tickets covering the journey, there are a few European agreements that may be relevant in the event of a missed connection:

- Connections between certain high speed services allow you to 'Hop on the next available train' (HOTNAT) if both services are members of the Railteam alliance

- Connections between most services on international journeys are protected by the newish 'Agreement on Journey Continuation' (AJC)

It's definitely confusing and it's far from perfect, but the situation is improving.
Absolutely. Here's a map of the catacombs of Paris overlaid on a real map of Paris.

https://i.imgur.com/6ywDpJX.jpeg
Seems pretty plausible to me. But as usual, there's a reason this piece wasnt published - it's not great.
This took 30 years.

For Macro, isn't it just longer. 300 years, 3000 years.

How would that be done in a lab to the satisfaction of anybody that would deny evolution to begin with.

There is no experiment that will satisfy people of this because they don't want to know.
I've done it, or at least several long sections. I found that I met more interesting people on long distance buses than Amtrak and VIA. Younger people, more diverse, less moneyed. But the experience is much less comfortable, and the places they drop you to get food are utterly abysmal. My best memory was pulling over at some rest stop in who knows where and everyone is grabbing fast food trash because that's all there is, and I noticed some vegetables on the counter in the gas station, asked about them and the guy says they were free, dropped off by a local farmer. So I got some fresh tomatoes and they tasted glorious after days of stale motel bagels and Burger King.

Another awkward thing about bus travel in the US in particular is if you get off anywhere that isn't a major city, you're often stuck on the edge of a highway miles away from any accommodation that might be available in the town the bus is supposedly servicing. Most people get picked up by friends with cars to get where they're actually going, so if you hitch your pack and walk to town you really are gonna look like a hobo.

To be honest, if where you're going is on the train line, the train is better in almost every way. Much more comfortable, nicer views, somewhat better food, sometimes (but not always) more convenient stops. But there's a lot of Turtle Island the trains don't go and you'd miss so much if you didn't take the bus. Unfortunately even bus service is getting rarer. I remember wanting to visit a town of around 25,000 people and was shocked to discover there was no way to get there at all. I would have had to walk 20km from the closest Greyhound stop, which is absurd. I emailed a local museum and the curator offered me a lift back and forth, which was kind, but holy heck. Imagine being a kid stuck in a place like that! Just bananas.
Mexicans work harder than Americans. People in Turkey and Greece work harder than North Europeans. The general rule of thumb is that people in poorer countries work harder, more hours, and less breaks.

The US is not poor, but there are poor country incentives. No automatic free healthcare, no free high-quality education for children. Large number of elderly people must work without pensions. You have to work harder and have less free time to get the same income safety compared to Europeans.
Well, yes and no. Inside specific areas of all bands there is a convention to use specific modulation. On the Amateur bands, whilst you are free to use whatever you like, there are conventions that CW, digital, SSTV, SSB and FM are generally grouped into sub- bands. It helps people find each other, so is pretty useful. If your receiver is set to FM you might not notice a CW signal. On other commercial bands the mode is enforced.
You-get: Dumb downloader that scrapes the web
Oh well, they did their best. You can't expect them to do better than what is possible. Enough Nirvana fallacy here.
It’s amazing you haven’t heard negative criticism of Git, before! It’s widespread.

https://kagi.com/search?q=criticism+of+git
What is it that you are endorsing? More funding for Israel?

The support or wishy washyness still amounts to funding the military action that is killing thousands and thousands of civilians.

What more do you want? Even More funding and public forced support of this clear massacre?
Totalitarians are kicking in your door at 3am because you’re critical of dark matter?

Exaggerate much… There is a lot of real oppression in this world. Disagreement over how to interpret astrophysical observations doesn’t enter into any of it.
They will extend git so that it works extremely well with their proprietary products, and just average with other tools and operating systems. That's always the goal for MS.
I wonder if music experts could have identified it as a work by Chopin just by the sound? Obviously it's a bit late now, but it would have been an interesting experiment - to ask 100 "professors of music" to guess which composer out of [1] wrote this newly discovered piece.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:19th-century_classica...
I don't keep much track of the alternative theories, my feeds are dialed for space news and every second article is paraphrased as "new JWST observations doesn't fit current theories" It's constantly finding something too big, too old, too early and in the wrong place.

As for dark matter, repeat failure of observation in both man made experiments and inconsistencies in the cosmic distribution. If we called it the "ad hoc variable representing the will of the gods lightly pushing shit around" it would more accurately fit observations. Something spins too fast, arbitrary dial the will of god to keep shit together in that particular place.

Inconsistent with elsewhere? No problem the Gods will it differently there, maybe the average distribution of worshippers is lower in that galaxy? Contemporary evidence is the the same for both formulations of the dark mystery variable that forces observation to adhere to the fraying theory.

At some point the accumulated problems grow so large you don't need to be on a cosmologist payroll to recognize it for being legacy bullshit grandfathered into the present.
The extend phase starts when they make extensions which only work in their proprietary version. Putting extensive work into contributing them back is not the same.
I think the third point (vibrating a container to mix different dry particles) is actually the worst way to do it. If the particles have different sizes (or densities technically, I think), they will separate when vibrated, not mix together. If you ever tried to mix Cereals by shaking, you know what I mean. The proper technique is turning over the container continuously to mix the different layers, like in a cement mixer.