skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The menus:

https://www.amtrak.com/content/dam/projects/dotcom/english/p...
https://web.archive.org/web/20190324104909/https://www.amtra...
https://www.amtrak.com/content/dam/projects/dotcom/english/p...

So indeed there's the loss of the steaks, eggs, french toast, etc. in favor of stuff that can be cooked in a microwave oven. On the other hand there weren't many choices to begin with compared to a restaurant.
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I'm kind of entirely sick of mobile devices in every way already, so they might as well go all the way and make one that senses when it is held by naked human flesh, and then tries to carbonize all life within a three foot radius.

It pretty much feels like that's the future we're being forced into anyway. Seems more efficient than self driving cars that chauffeur us to the ovens in an air conditioned capsule, no?
Remember that they would have to maintain it...
Do you have some evidence that paying managers more leads to better performance?

There is no such evidence yet manager’s reward themselves and their peers lavishly anyway. That’s the point. The research is a scam to justify underpaying skilled workers so management can keep it all for themselves.
Great to see!

I also recreated this amazing game a while ago because I could not find it any longer: https://github.com/PetterS/realtimechess
You'll see this on HN every time meditation comes up. Apparently a fair proportion of posters here are convinced that meditation is self-evidently and infallibly beneficial.
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dcurtis and I did the California Zephyr back in 2008 (or 2009) and the dining car was interesting as a fairly representative example of the Amtrak experience. You could tell there was still some magic there, but the china was replaced with flimsy plastic, the food was of poorer quality than what you'd get on a United international flight in Economy class, and - yes - you did have to sit next to people you didn't know.

But you could easily imagine it as a rollicking good time, not unlike a cruise ship: fine tableware and china, well appointed interior, with cocktails and wine, next to other fascinating characters. The observation car is OK and all, but it's not the same.

Millenials don't like it because the experience isn't authentic enough.
Can you give pointers to the external information showing where it's repeatedly shown to be nothing? The wikipedia description sound very plausible.
While I wouldn't have asked for hacker news comments to turn into this genre: this is an underrated comment.
But cost 5 million in lost sales.
> I've made a personal decision to leave the Linux, X11, and Wayland worlds mostly behind.

I understand X11 has a lot of unfixable problems, but what's wrong with Wayland world?
have a product that is appealing to 20-30 year olds, and companies want to (presumably) piggy back off it to hire top young talent

It comes up on HN frequently that what “talent” really wants is an office with a closing door so that they (we) can concentrate. WeWork offers the polar opposite of this experience by design. A company that chooses to base itself in a WeWork is cutting itself off from talent.

I think it’s worth more than zero.

It’s also possible that it’s worth less than zero.
It's fascinating how many "nationalist" leaders are privately part of a global elite class, hobnobbing with foreign interests
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>I'm under the impression that to vote you must register in a voting district, surely that registration requires something like a birth certificate or a SSN

In California, at least, you can just use your state ID number and last four digits of your SSN [1]. California gives IDs to illegal aliens and SSNs are available to many non-citizens. These might have been checked for citizenship or might not. I suspect that they are not since the SSA itself wants you to bring the naturalization certificate if you want to change your non-citizen SSN card to a citizen's one. California never asked me for proof of citizenship so either it has an access to the citizenship data unavailable to the SSA or it just registers anyone with an SSN and a state ID.

1. https://registertovote.ca.gov/
Normal for Europe, well almost.
Make it a 4 week vacation and we are almost there.

There was an example from UK, now for Poland:

* 40 hour week (anything above is overtime paid +50% more for first 8 hours during week and day, in weekends or night it is +100%)

* 20 or 26 (depending how many years you have worked in your life, usually after 2 years you get 26) + 13 public holidays.

* women after birth get 52 weeks off (plus their usual vacation), dads get 2 weeks off to be used during 2 years (the 52 weeks can be split between parents, so a mom can go to work and dad can stay with child for 32 weeks)

* on top of that when you are sick and go to doctor he/she can prescribe you a time off (sick off?), which is additional to your normal vacation (this is not limited to any number of days, e.g. when you break your leg you can be a year sick/unable to work), but pays 80% your salary
Thankfully I was a couple hours early. Checked that spiffy app thing, set an alarm for 8:54, and watched it. It was moving a lot faster then I expected.
You know, it's hard to come up with a good excuse for not doing it these days (if I could actually schedule something, I wouldn't second guess it, and things would probably fall into place, hah). I guess I always feel like I need to get some things in order first (past experiences warning my ego that I'm coming for it, and it preempts with whatever it can in a self-preservation effort?). One issue of course is enough vacation time; it's a tough sell over some other things on my "list".
> I got my girlfriend the Verizon version of the iPhone 11 Pro Max. [...] I'm with Verizon, she's with T-Mobile. I wanted to get the Verizon version in case she ever wanted to be able to switch

Does this actually matter? The tech specs page for the iPhone 11 Pro at Apple just lists one model of the Max, and says it has both GSM and CDMA.

It used to be that the models sold as AT&T or T-Mobile models only supported GSM, and the models sold as Verizon or Sprint models supported both CDMA and GSM, and so if you wanted maximum flexibility you had to get the later. Judging from current and past spec pages, it appears the iPhone X was the last iPhone that did that.
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What is it called? I've followed a bunch of videos and never heard it referred to in any other way
When you reveal the dirty laundry of the rich and powerful, the tend to fight back hard, and attempt to make an example out of you.
In my opinion, which is worth nil: Why not both? Clearly (alleged) evidence of wrongdoing on the part of some organisations was uncovered during this investigation, and this guy also (allegedly) got this information illegally and attempted to extort people with it.

Investigate all crimes uncovered, and prosecute everyone to the full extent of the law.
Great to see OCaml picking back steam after a few slow years \o/
Moore's Law Graphed vs. Actual CPUs and GPUs
We can call it the year of innovation. For one year projects get funded that otherwise never would. The output would solve many problems and create so many opportunities.
Bobby Fischer would have loved this. He was constantly complaining that chess had become boring because everyone had "memorized the strategy books". That's why he invented Chess960[0].

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chess960
What is this article saying? That mushrooms might naturally compute, because they transmit signals between each other in response to environmental stimuli, or that mushrooms have properties that can be hijacked and used to build a logical device that computes? Or both?
If some of the rich and the powerful got that way by having a getting shit done attitude, then fighting back is just another thing to get done and why not do it well if you have the money?
I wouldn’t accept that as normal. In well-run organizations, when there is a regular, ongoing need for evening or overnight coverage, it’s provided by people scheduled to work during those hours, who are selected and trained to be able to handle most situations on their own.

After-hours calls should come infrequently, or in situations where someone’s personal involvement (for example, as the engineer with primary responsibility for a particular component or its maintenance) is indispensable.

In my experience, things that need a lot of unplanned attention are more likely to fail, if they haven’t already, in ways that have other unacceptable consequences. Fixing them should be a priority for this reason, too.

You haven’t mentioned why you keep getting paged. Is it the same problem repeatedly, or lots of different problems? Is there any hope of addressing the underlying causes?
Plus, you guys drive on the wrong side of the road.
> Coding challenges are a useless metric IMO. They also waste time.

I agree to some extent, here are some that don't do these interviews [0]. But unfortunately, I find that all tech companies and strangely non-tech companies are trying to normalize the coding interview tests. Pre-interview challenges are useless, since a candidate can easily cheat them by searching-copypaste-refactor the optimal solution from another computer into their own editor and submit it as their own. Doing this easily fools many assessment tools all the time, despite their 'machine learning detection' claims.

But nowadays, it is the on-site interviews which is the new normal. But depending on the sort of company you are applying to, I would ask questions on where they actually apply them or use them in their so called 'engineering challenges'. FAANG, large banks and several fintech companies is certainly justified. 10-15 employee startups based on a mobile app? Hardly. I would expect that larger companies that have their own technologies, programming languages or libraries will ask these coding challenges and if an interviewer cannot justify the use of these questions other than 'to see how you program' then I just end the interview gracefully.

I would instead ask the candidate to send a link to some relevant open-source projects or significant contributions that meet the technologies I am using. No silly hello-world/git-flow/test projects. I can easily eliminate 90% of candidates by checking that you have a patch and are mentioned in the AUTHORS file of an open-source project, which is more quicker than these programming tests designed to hopelessly find 𝔶𝔢 𝔞𝔫𝔠𝔦𝔢𝔫𝔱 𝔩𝔢𝔤𝔢𝔫𝔡 𝔬𝔣 𝔶𝔢 յօ𝔵 𝔡𝔢𝔳𝔢𝔩𝔬𝔭𝔢𝔯.

[0] - https://github.com/poteto/hiring-without-whiteboards
You can tell that I haven’t worked in an on call position in a while...
Elvis spent a lot of time in Florida and owned several homes in various regions of Florida. He has said that it was his adoptive home state and that he loved spending time here. The thing to remember is the Florida that he knew was nothing like the Florida of today, it was literally a frontier. I was fortunate to grow up on the tail end of that frontier era as the 80's saw a massive land boom in Florida and by the 90's much of the old Florida was gone. There are still vestiges of it in North Florida, in the Gulf Hammock and down here in the Keys but it's nothing like it used to be.
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I was an undergraduate at Caltech and helped with some admissions work. There is no bias towards admitting females. The student body is extremely small (200-250/year) and the student pool extremely self-selective. The 4 year graduation rate is troublingly low enough (people will transfer or drop out) that admissions will not admit people if they can’t meet the academic bar (and the curriculum is structured so that the first 1.5 years regardless of major require the same classes). They do however emphasize top-of-funnel outreach for women to try to get more to apply.
I will be shocked if they can raise the required amount.

Shame that this property will probably be bulldozed and exploited like every other natural resource on this planet.

To downvoters, is it because I'm right, or because you don't like the consequences?
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I am a professional and I do not choose my tools based on the job.

I choose the best tools for me, invest a lot of time in getting better at them, and choose jobs I can do with minimal changes to my toolset.

To expand your analogy, if I have spent the last few years of my life getting better at driving bulldozers, I will not take any job requiring me to get into a racecar.
Greed would probably be greatly reduced if people could feel safe without significant amounts of money. In a world where you're one accident/illness/firing away from not being able to afford food, accommodation or medicine or even just a good quality of life, people will want to hoard wealth.
Exactly. We more frequently use the lower two bits for this. This also works on 32bit systems.
NaN tagging is also frequently used.
I would call it saving it.

He specifically acted against bad information and what he was supposed to do, which required bravery and critical thinking to avoid catastrophe. It was also potentially risking very bad consequences for himself, as his superiors easily could have put him in prison, disappeared him, or otherwise punished his life - even just out of spite - for what he did. He says it was a good thing that he was working that shift and he is right. The odds are extremely high that anybody else would make that phone call up the chain of command, and from there the odds of a nuclear response escalate rapidly.
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I frequently commuted on the ICE (on the Netherlands end of the line) for a couple of years. Always rode in the dining car. Many times was quite empty - just me and the 1 or 2 server(s) dedicated to the dining car. I loved it but always wondered how it worked out for them financially. I often had my own 4-person dinner table with breakfast, tea and laptop spread across the table. Made for a luxurious, quiet and productive commute!

I must also say that the service, friendliness and humor of the staff on the ICE was almost always exceptional!
The American economy has been swallowed up by "management as a profession" since Frederick Winslow Taylor in the late 1800s.

You're all late to the party.
PagerDuty makes a lot of money https://www.marketwatch.com/investing/stock/pd
What’s a ricer?
Convicted tax fraud Cristiano Ronaldo?
Like Denmark.
Software engineering is broad and deep. If you want to explore, go explore. You may make less money, but you may make more. You may like something else less, but you may like it more. I think it’s up to you!

That said, I never stayed put very long in any particular programming job. Embedded systems were fun, but I was curious to learn about the cloud, so I went to Salesforce. YMMV
Spotify already does this even with the presence of buttons. If you lower the volume during an ad it will automatically pause, only way to resume is to up the volume again.
How big was the global climate strike? Here’s the best city-by-city estimate
I currently work on software controlling the hardware like video routers, and this is definitely my experience. It’s all very much soft real-time.

In terms of customers and how much they care, the North American market seems to care less than Europe.
> anecdata

I am curious as to about when this word started to be used in favor against "anecdotal data".

On a related but side note: must every phrase be shortened?
I hope someone buys one and tows it to San Francisco and sets up a hip new restaurant in it.
>96% of Americans have a cellphone and that require an ID

Citation that cellphones need an id?
Rather than driving by with some shade, you could see for yourself. It is self-evidently beneficial but that requires putting the "self" in the self-evidently. This casual scorn does nothing good for anyone least of all you.
I always hoped to ride this train some day and try out the dining car.
Not all money that government generates comes from tax payers.

From selling stamps, casino taxes, parking/speeding tickets, lotteries (where out of state purchases are allowed) to charging fees for applications or rent/selling land or charging fees to camp in parks.

I don't have to be a taxpayer for the government to make money from me.

Thinking the govermment is the taxpayer is wrong. The government must represent all citizens very young and old and many are not taxpayers.
And yet I'd put money on the fact that you've never eaten in a dining car.
The primary mechanism of power used by unions to keep wages high is by reducing the available work force. This is done by lobbying for things like requiring certifications to be legally allowed to perform work and lobbying/negotiating for disallowing non-union members from accepting work. This has the net effect of increasing the wages of the high paid workers while reducing the wages of the low paid workers who could do the higher paid work but aren't allowed to.

Here's Nobel economist Milton Friedman discussing it in more detail. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xzYgiOC9cj4
Worked at a FAANG, 5-7 was peanuts for the rotation I was on there. The interesting thing (I don't know if I liked it or not) was that when you're on call, that's all you do (even during normal hours, that is), no "normal" work/projects during that time (which relieves a giant burden for everyone NOT on call). At the end of the rotation, there is a proper hand-off to the next on call; every issue that came up is reviewed and a plan put in place to fix it "for good" (meaning a backlog task gets created and assigned to someone during the next sprint planning). If there's no planning to root-cause and fix the underlying problems, run.
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Like Hong Kong Sydney seems able to keep birds
Where’s a Gates or a Zuckerberg when you need them?
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So, airplane food then.

This article is completely disingenuous. First, the reason American millennials don't take trains is that Amtrak scheduling is ridiculous except on the east coast. It ain't about the dining car.

Second, the guy Trump put in charge of Amtrak has said his mission was to kill it. This is obviously just the first step. It won't bring millennials onto trains because that's not the goal. The goal is to reduce ridership of people like me who enjoy using Amtrak. Mission accomplished.

Edit: I may be repeating a railfan conspiracy theory above. I can't find a link that confirms Richard Anderson ever said he wanted to kill Amtrak and Trump didn't put him in charge. Hanlon's Razor applies.
Left entirely alone, I think the trees maintain themselves rather well
It's interesting it only has 4GB of RAM, considering Android phones usually have more. The Samsung S10+ comes with 12GB for example. Apple must be laughing over not having to pay three times as much for RAM.

12GB seems overkill though. My Xiaomi phone from last year only has 6GB and has no issues. I wonder if it's just for marketing purposes...
Was also thinking about the massive issue they have with the large monoculture meaning they can't really support self-sustaining populations of bees.

Of course, it's not just almonds that have this issue, wine regions in my country (NZ) have the exact same problem which they're belatedly trying to fix.
> The trick, of course, is to not document everything. Travel guidebooks don't explain everything about the place you're visiting, only the highlights. Software documentation should do the same.

This makes a lot of sense to me, I think I would do well to remember it, thanks!
Personal references / intros will minimize BS coding tests and challenges.
A blockchain system for land ownership records. Now that might actually work. The problem needs an immutable shared ledger that cannot be easily destroyed or tampered with. Transaction volume is low enough for a blockchain system. There are many countries that lack documented land ownership.

One of the World Bank's blogs suggests this, but not much seems to have been done.[1]

[1] https://blogs.worldbank.org/developmenttalk/keeping-it-clean...
Well, they’re different bad experiences—which, unlike the airlines, you can’t really buy your way out of to a significant degree.
It seems like the story of the chicken or the egg: do these differences come from meditation or are they the reason that push people towards meditation?
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A third rust QUIC implementation. They all have their own crypto lib. Neqo with NSS, Quiche with BoringSSL and Quinn with rustls.
next up, sharing sessions / windows, ie lists / trees / graphs of "tabs" and "pages"
Our github - https://github.com/openthc
The archival support looks cool. Right now I'm using Bookmark OS (https://bookmarkos.com) which may be hard to leave but I will check this out
May I also add here for those interested in the screens, the brilliant Introversion games: Defcon and DefconVR.

https://www.introversion.co.uk/defcon/
I suggest let it be blocked. This partial model is killing both. Let us not let china enjoy totalitarian as well as information to build its empire.
> By your logic, I am not the brain because I am observing its activity. But without it I am nothing, how does that work out?

I don't know your relationship with the concept of "soul" (and I'm writing this way to be careful), but many of us sometimes find it really useful to be able to talk about who we really are.
Have you taken Amtrak anywhere recently? The people I know who are most excited about rail travel are people who have never used it outside of a small commute.

Flight is much more convenient and in most instances cheaper.
oh, and i forgot, the worst part of nuclear power is the fans.
That’s really surprising. I lived in a super Republican state and mail in ballots were allowed for anyone.

This recent article shows the growth in absentee ballots [0].

Most states allow no excuse absentee ballots but some states still require a reason. Some are republican states like Texas and West Virginia and South Carolina, but also includes most of New England- New York, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Connecticut, Rhode Island all super blue.

[0] https://electionlab.mit.edu/research/voting-mail-and-absente...
Beautiful and minimalist style, but it isn't clear what happens when you cancel/pause the quarterly subscription.
Minecraft is the only Java based popular game I can think of. And damn did I love Subnautica.
Capital cost is around $3000/kilowatt of output for p->g.

This is hardly negligible-- indeed it's nearly half the capital cost of nuclear, and doesn't include the costs of storage, the cheap combustion turbine, or the infrastructure to produce the extra input power. Duty cycle for this infrastructure is going to suck, too, because presumably we're not going to be overproducing all the time.

Also, burning the fuel may not be so cheap. Best way to improve the capital cost of p->g relative to actual work done is to do combined heat and power... but this adds its own complexities and costs.

It may prove to be an important piece of the mix, but again: diversity is good.
Not all suffering is necessary. Much potential suffering that climate change may cause is understood and avoidable, if we take action.

If you want actual numbers and the relevant context, perhaps you could read the IPCC report.
My perception of that story was that people that are actively in need of additional assistance are taking a possibly less direct route to that information (unlocking phone, opening google, inputting query, waiting for results) simply to avoid interacting with a stranger.