skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Distance does not matter - sustained speed matters.

Higher sustained speeds = shorter trip times.

Go look at a terrain map.

Pacheco Pass
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From Gilroy to San Jose the train can go no faster than ~125, ~150mph because it has to do a fairly sharp turn.

Anyone come from San Francisco is doing the first ~100 miles at speeds no greater than ~125mph.

Altamont Pass
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Trains leaving San Francisco and San Jose join up in Fremont.

Once they leave Fremont, the right of way opens up. The trains can then hit 220 mph until Los Angeles.

This saves in total time ~ 30 minutes.
Commercial devs would have got them long ago. They aren't relying on indie devs to push systems like others do.
Alan Turing Predicts Machine Learning and the Impact of AI on Jobs
It's not a problem for anyone other than the overly self-conscious, who are looking for reasons to explain their anxiety. Literally no one cares.
Kind of off topic, but mind sharing how you molded such an amateur nuclear physics brain?
Maybe that's why he hired a new CHRO.
There is an old saying: a fish rots from the head down.
I just use ctrl-[ to go back to normal mode. I actually do use the CAPS LOCK key for typing in all caps on occasion, so I would rather not remap it.
Going off a comment on the article, using mainly awk to find your commands, I expanded it a little bit, as most commands I use take a first argument that changes how it works. (Aliasing this command might not be a bad idea.)

history | awk '{print $1 "__-__" $2}' | sort | uniq -c | sort -rn | head -30 | awk '{gsub("__-__", " ", $2); $2} !max{max=$1;}{r="";i=s=100*$1/max;while(i-->0)r=r"#";printf "%50s %5d %s %s", $2, $1, r, "\n";}'

It produces a histogram of the 30 most frequent used commands.

Unsurprisingly for me, `git commit` was first. Kinda surprisingly, `apt-get` was third.

Caveat: I convert spaces to the symbol sequence: __-__ and back. If your command includes that symbol sequence, it'll break something.
I was wondering if there is a tool / extension that provides a dashboard that would detect this instead of "it feels slow".
Flagging this garbage:

- Clickbait title

- Paywall

- WSJ has lost any credibility for me after doubling-down on, instead of retracting, their hit piece on PewDiePie.
The headline is indeed hyperbolic; the article admits that this is an evolution of millennials talking on AIM after school or gen X on the phone, with the only difference being the technology and capabilities have evolved. This isn't so much about "replacing hanging out in person" -- this is about communication and connection when hanging out in person isn't necessarily an option or comes with more social risk.

It's hard enough to coordinate transportation when you're 14 and can't drive, but a chat you can quit at any time and do something else. When you have to wait for a ride and are at a mall with 7 of your friends or at somebody's house, you have no such options of retreat.
There is almost always a way to differentiate your product or service.

Also, for most viable products the market is almost always large enough that if you do your marketing and sales correctly and persistently, you can succeed even in competitive marketplaces.
"Workcation" is an incredible idea, as is letting employees work remotely for x weeks/ months per year from wherever they want. Even though it's not vacation-vacation it's still a revitalizing, memory forming experience, and if you want a happy motivated work force, I think it's a great idea.

That and a sound proof studio with piano on premise would be enough to make me quit my job.

That said Uber's been on my douchebag radar at least since their execs bragged about threatening journalists. Hopefully your acquaintances already sold their shares on secondary markets because losing ~3 billion a year would worry me if I was expecting to get rich from them.
The 8-year-old Dyson DC-14 I have is still going strong, and I have an entire pack of Border Collies. It was absolutely worth what I paid for it.
The Metal Unibody Macbooks have been first in class since the first introduction in 2008. It's truly a remarkably designed machine.
I think it is common to have incompetents running HR in these high-valued startups, when the VP is probably just a beer-buddy or the wingman of the founder, with no formal HR education or experience. I have had one of those asking the big no-no questions in an interview and I can't stop rolling my eyes.
That's exactly what I mean. I've spent hundreds of dollars on "great" knives that I never bothered to send in for sharpening that I never use. The ones that I STILL DO NOT send in for sharpening and remain ultra sharp are the ones I use constantly.
I'm never 100% sure I understand FD redirection, but I think you can shorten that even further to:

function cip() {
resolveip -s $1 1>&2 | xsel -b
}

Since this'll copy stdout to stderr, and then stdout will get eaten by xsel
> In the UK, we have a service called the Account Switching Service

Please tell me that people unhappy with this call it a pain in the ASS.
My experience at a former company was that the management would plan a group happy hour and there was a ton of pressure to participate. This in particular hurt those that had families or other priorities and advantaged those that were younger and more willing to drink. I was young and willing enough to go along with drinking but personally felt this was more a requirement since so much in the way of promotions and getting put on the best projects was who you knew on top of technical competency. I will say the dynamic is different when its a one on one socializing vs team outings but in general I think its quite complex. There is no doubt that what happened is wrong, kept happening and constitutes sexual harassment, but its weird to me that sexual harassment so overwhelmingly gets attention when the cultural problems with orgs like this are so much deeper.
You might be able to alleviate it with NLP so you can divide articles into categories. I'm not entirely sure how you could use that to avoid the abuse, but it seems like it'd help be able to help.
I haven't used bittorrent since about 2010. Would a 2006 era uTorrent client still be able to speak to today's network?
Especially since we have absolutely nothing to go on, in this case, except the word of one disgruntled former employee.

Maybe it's all true, maybe it's totally made up, maybe it's basically true but exaggerated and missing important information. We don't know, but plenty of people are happy to pile on.
I liked Alien Blue too, but the UX on the Reddit app really impresses me only in the context of most other apps being not so UX impressive.
Grado headphones.
There is something called the Ballmer Peak, which has even been demonstrated in one study. Up to a point, the theory goes, creative work benefits from mild intoxication. Beyond that point, productivity goes out the window. For me, I believe that point is around two drinks. For you, it could be teaspoons. Either way, I wouldn't generally drink before the end of the work day.

Personally, I find coding is hardest when you're blocked or stumped. Sometimes it helps to turn off the inner critic and experiment with code in a way that might feel unproductive during normal work hours. How I approach a problem outside of work is my business as long as the solution is solid.

This should go without saying, but everyone's physiology is different. While most people get drowsy from pseudoeffedrine, it makes me hyper. That's why even if one treatment works for most people, it might not work for you.
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Zojirushi neurofuzzy rice cooker. I love it!
Seiko 5 automatic watch - Simple, timeless, affordable. It's just a great watch and it always will be.

rOtring 600 mechanical pencil - the feel of this pencil is unlike any other writing implement I've found. It's a legend. My new goal is to find a fountain pen that I can enjoy as much as I enjoy this. Though I fear that will be a notably more expensive purchase.

Yamaha Custom Series Bb trumpet - before becoming a developer I was a semi-pro musician and this is still the most fantastic instrument I've ever worked with. I've owned it 9 years now and it still feels brand new. Every mechanism on it was perfectly made. There's no unnecessary stiffness or play in any component.
this is almost on the same level of stupidity as "All lives matter".
There's also the issue that a certain sector of the political left declared war on Uber a few weeks ago.
Again the reality, for me, is I don't take them in to be sharpened. One does not sharpen their own knives, one hones their own, and takes them to professionals to sharpen.
I'm not much of a collector, but I have always wanted one of those. Beautiful design.
>> There is almost always a way to differentiate your product or service.

Can the differentiate be in terms of pricing? For example if the competitor is charging say 80$ per month, what if my product charges say 10$ per month?
Unless you really need a lot of processing power or ram, the backlash against the new MacBooks is overblown. I was hesitant to get one, but I've been very happy with it. The screen is incredible,the keyboard is excellent, and it's by no means a slow computer for most tasks. The touchbar is a wash as far as I'm concerned, it doesn't add much, but it doesn't hurt much either.
Sure, more time to do things we enjoy sounds great. But do you really think the average person will be given access to greater financial resources to pursue those things? If there ends up being a universal income, what kind of life do you think it would buy?

Seems more likely that a government heavily influenced by corporate interests would enact laws that further widen the economic gap. That a life on universal income would be more similar to a life on public assistance today, than to a utopia where unemployed truck drivers are free to make art as a way to find purpose.

I don't doubt the life you describe is possible. But I fear that is not the path we are on, and unfortunately I'm not sure if there is a way to change that.
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My Alclair Audio custom molded IEMs. You literally haven't heard music until you have a custom pair of IEMs. I'm blown away what I hear in music that I couldn't hear before.

*Also protects my hearing from loud drummers
If it was explicitly predicated on race it wouldn't be subtle undertones.

I'd say it's more a pro-establishment than racist or xenophobic bias, but in the US the former ends up producing the latter in effect.
I think your latter guess is correct. SRE@Uber = Ops + DevOps + DBA + DCOps + ... . I spoke with their recruiter recently.
I have to give Kalanick at least some credit- he is pretty good at lying
lol what incentive does she have to lie about this, knowing full well she has to face the brunt of shitlords like you?
I have a 2011 Fit Sport. Great little car.

Doesn't hurt that it's dirt cheap to maintain and insure. I have maxed-out liability limits on my policy and only pay $35 a month.
What I want to know is how this is completed, but the page for the 4.9 kernel is not done yet.

I thought they normally waited for all the stable releases to be completed before finishing the page.
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Software: Winamp. It is so simple and stupid and it works really well.
They just launched cloud desktops for about $78 USD a month, but those are Win10 boxes on VMWare with a dedicated AMD FirePro GPU, which is way overkill for most GPU accelerated needs.
Sadly, a company can have some very bad attributes and still make a lot of money.

Paradoxically, most companies are really good at some things, whilst being simultaneously bad at others.
Dropshipping in WooCommerce
He doesn't "echo" those exact words because he doesn't peddle things like something being "the" enemy. What he has been saying for decades is how the media are being used, not the media having some sort of agenda. He's just not on that childish a level where the interests behind the curtain get ignored, is all. So what's there to "echo"? He's been criticizing the media for decades, often together with other authors -- but how does that and someone else offering nothing even remotely close to that thorough a criticism, but just saying "something negative", even play in the same ball park? That's like saying building a cathedral and putting a shoe on a rag are the same thing, because it's all just "using objects to change the physical space" or something.
So, you're saying she isn't competent to write a book or give talks, despite the fact that she's written a book for a publisher with a very good reputation for high standards and has been hired by two top tier tech companies to work in the field.

On what do you base your assertion that she is incompetent?
My Steelcase Gesture - it is the first chair that I can ignore. It feels so natural.

Oculus Rift - for the first generation, it is surprisingly comfortable.

Oculus Touch - I can see my hands and it feels natural.

Lexus es350 - great car for sitting in Houston traffic. I wish that I could pull back the steering wheel a bit more so that I could stretch out my legs, bit it is still really comfortable.

Ibanez Jem - my luthier makes fun of this guitar, but it is a dream to play. Flat neck, large fretboard. It sounds amazing.

Nest - just works. Took 5 minutes to install and it just worked
The game of Tetris.
Almost every bicycle. Our noblest invention.
Well, personally I prefer using something like https://github.com/TykTechnologies/tyk which basically API Gateway, and in addition to auth (not only oAuth), also adds stuff like policies across multiple API's and rate-limiting and quotas.
The issue I have with DI frameworks is the annotation scanner scanning all jars in the classloader and annotation magic.

It seems that vanilla Guice does not need to fire up an annotation scanner that hits every jar, so that's good. It's been years for me, but I seem to recall Spring Framework does a brutal amount of jar crawling/annotation scanning by default. Unfortunately, it's very easy to corrupt Guice with annotation scanning - Netflix Governator will introduce a scanner for its magic annotations, for example.

As far as annotation magic is concerned, I think having an agreed-upon convention for DI can really help to keep things manageable and easy while still being able to unit test/inject mocks. For example, my team tries to only inject on constructor args. This makes it a no-nonsense affair to factor out features for a unit under test by passing in mocks for injected dependencies.

Testing complex systems, for me, is the killer app for DI - if I am writing something I need to test, I abhor the new keyword and FactoryFactories in my production code.
put an ssd in it.
Engineer who turned into a PM, here (now a Project Manager, same situation applies). I, too, found there was no upward career path as a software engineer, and thought a role switch would help. It doesn't. Same root cause: The pyramid gets very small towards the top, and companies' only advancement opportunities involve going up the pyramid. At some point, you find you're not going to advance unless your boss quits, and even if that happens, that one promotion will just as likely go to one of your 20 peers.
My Altec Lansing ACS48 computer speakers. I paid $299 for them in 1999 and to this day they still work flawlessly and beat most every other computer speaker. Audiophiles swear by them, and still buy them in bulk when they can find them.

Here's the Amazon reviews: https://www.amazon.com/Altec-Lansing-ACS48-Computer-Speakers...
Google and Microsoft agree to anti-piracy code in crackdown on illegal downloads
For me, the trustworthiness of news sites comes down to whether they issue corrections when they run questionable stories. It's the easiest binary test I know of. Mistakes and ignorance happen, it's only stubborn refusal to ever admit to being wrong that is unacceptable.
I've never used one that didn't have one of those connectors. What you're describing as the old way sounds like barbarism. How did anyone put up with that?
Really? I find Razer products to be cheaply made and "flashy."

When it comes to mice I prefer Logitech, they are the only company whose mice have lasted me more than 5 years. I use to own a MX518 until it died on me after nearly 8 years. Now I own a G502 since they no longer make the MX518.

For keyboards I've been using a Noppoo Choc Mini with blue switches at work and at home I have a Pok3r with red switches.

Both have been in use longer than the Blackwidow I use to own.

If you want to get really crazy about mechanical keyboards checkout https://www.reddit.com/r/MechanicalKeyboards/

Might buy a full Ducky in the near future as well.
I made the jump from a late 2011 MBP to the late 2016 MBP with touch bar. While I wouldn't recommend it to just everyone, I've been very pleased with it. If you're the kind of person that regularly needs all of the ports that the new MBP lacks (specifically without dongle or dock) then it's not the computer for you.
MPW - macintosh programmers workshop circa 1988 (when I first used it) had the notion that selections within windows could be treated as just another file. It had a lot of posix-y commands but lacked multitasking and all pipes were done via temp files, alas.
What a despicable company. Change is happening not because a change was needed, but because it's generating negative press. Everyone in HR and management that participated in these lies and behavior needs to be fired. That's how you fix the problem.
DO NOT BUY THAT!!!! Get an OrangePi+ 2e, Xunlong released the OrangePi+ 2 and it has a USB Hub unlike other OrangePis (where you'd have 4x USB ports direct wired into the SOC, each can do 40MB/s) and a few other design compromises that make the OrangePi+ 2 a bad buy.

The Armbian people bitched at Xunlong for making such a terrible board and Xunlong replaced it with the OrangePi+ 2e, which is much better.

The power supply they offer is also pretty decent, so I'd nab it with that: https://www.aliexpress.com/item/Orange-Pi-Plus-2e-SET4-Pi-Pl...
When someone senior gets fired, I'll start taking them seriously. Until then, it's all PR.
This comment is a pretty good demonstration of the Fundamental Attribution Error.

Remember that time you wrote a badly buggy site or piece of software? Remember how you probably did your best to not write bugs?

Would someone calling you incompetent really have been helpful to anyone at that time?
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That's... not true. I was in a unionized software development shop at L3 communications in Camden. It was... different. Having a published document showing how the "top performers" were going to get a 3.5% raise this year while the average people would only get 2.5% was odd. Counting my hours (including signing out for lunch and getting management approval for overtime) was very different. Getting paid overtime was nice!

The problem is that if I had stayed there for thirty years, I would have been pretty much guaranteed to make good money. By changing jobs a couple times, I made that same money in 2. So... people who are capable of getting better jobs and willing to risk change simply left, while people looking for stability or who had trouble getting jobs simply stayed. This didn't lead to the type of environment that I enjoyed working in. Your mileage may vary.
I always find myself chiming in that poor people typically buy used cars. And that you can buy a slightly used Nissan Leaf off craigslist for less than $10,000 USD. Financed over 5 years that's about $150/mo.
Google and Bing to demote pirate sites in UK web searches
Thank you I know about Steve Biko, will have look at some time at Wood's book.
The point of the Lido 2 is that it's incredibly consistent (I do French press myself). I'd highly recommend that if you have a standard (presumably electric) blade grinder that you consider an upgrade to say the basic Bodum burr grinder. It makes a world of difference.
K8s written in Go, Mesos in C++ - believe that's what OP was referring to.
"There's only one WC-135, so the plural is wrong."

Wikipedia claims this: "10 original WC-135B, plus 1 converted former EC-135C. Two aircraft currently in active service."

So... is there one WC-135, or two or 10 or 11?

>> the "mainstream media" is doing an excellent job regarding these reports: not reporting on them.

I just checked up on CNN and I can read about "Kung fu granny", "Comic con in Saudi Arabia" and nothing about the above radiation incident. Media doing an excellent job? Maybe.
It matters. The floor is how easy you are to replace. The ceiling is the marginal value that you provide to the company. Considering how incredibly high that marginal value is, there is a lot of upward pressure at the top of the scale.
ive noticed atleast for me that when im sick, ice cream always makes my illness worse. coincidence?
It might also mean "I can make things work in a way that none of the other people on my team can do, and if I leave, they're gonna be boned."
More like "Uber Announces it Will Investigate Sexual Harassment Claims by Ex-Employee"
Apartheid was bad, absolutely. But then according to the stats, it was better than current day USA (which was perhaps the connection you wanted to make?) and much better than current day South Africa (at least insofar as police killings are concerned).
This is much, much stronger than a typical PR response. Heads may roll.
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Why would you take them seriously if they fire someone senior just to respond to the public outcry but did nothing when this wasn't public?
Amazing how bad PR can get a company to start investigating things. They should probably also investigate the total incompetence of their disgusting HR department.
I love my Fogless Shower Mirror:
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B003BQ6QXK?ref_=ams_ad_dp_asin_1

Most others use chemicals (I believe) to stop the fogging, which fades in effectiveness over time. Had this one for 5 years and it works perfect! Wish everything I owned just worked like this does.
It was definitely a challenge to go with it! It's not popular enough to have spawned knock offs, but the various Eames chairs have (particularly the black leather lounge chair). The main distinction between knock offs and the real thing comes down to materials: the colors will fade, the foam will compress, etc. but comparing $X00 to $X000 means you probably won't mind. If there are consignment or vintage shops in your area, you can often get a really good price on a great piece of furniture that just needs a new foam cushion. Best of luck!
Macintosh II with Finder 4.6. Never has a computer system maintained a technical lead for so long, 1987-95, with Finder upgrades you loaded from floppies.
Bridgeport milling machine. People just copy it. They can't improve it.
Ashlar Vellum 2D drafting software for the Mac. Imagine. Drafting objects have properties you can edit.
Lambda Physik (Coherent) FL2002E dye laser.
Excel 4.0 for the Mac. Wrote invoicing and coating design macros that ran a whole business.
Solidworks 2003. Used it till 2008, until I got the "better" newest edition which was a little more capable, but less efficient.
Ipad Air. Still use it, smashed-in screen and all, but it's panting.

You can see I'm mostly stuck in the past. Many of these products had more capable successors, but felt bloated, and were harder to use.
The problem is that men misconstrue the natural social and friendly tendency of most women as sexual advances. There needs to be more education in this respect with men. Just because a woman is chatty and willing to collaborate doesn't mean she wants to sleep with you. I know that sounds sexist, but honestly, I think women just are naturally or at least culturally (does the difference matter in this case, really?) more social and teaching that to immature men would cut off 80% of these situations.