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Well actually, I've been told that the problem of rail noise comes from improper maintenance of the rail track, not the motive nature of the cars themselves.

Noise on BART is due to a liberal application of NIH. BART literally reinvented the wheel – they used flat profile wheels (nobody else does this) which dramatically increased noise and wear. BART also spaced the tracks too tightly in turns further increasing noise and wear. They made their cars out of aluminum to save weight, creating a bit of an echo chamber (this got worse once they removed the carpeting). Caltrain doesn't have the luxury of lightweight rail cars since they share tracks with freight service.

BART doesn't bother greasing the tracks like nearly every other rail system (almost certainly an artifact of their homebrew train control system). Unfortunately while reinventing everything they opted against decoupling the wheels from each other (a.k.a. using a differential like a car or truck might).

Oh and let's not forget the Oakland Wye, BART's testament to noise, poor service, and political dysfunction.

Simply put BART can't really grind the rail fast enough to keep everything quiet for a meaningful period of time (if they could I assume the wear on the tracks would be astronomical). BART also needs custom rail grinders and whatnot because hey why not throw a custom track gauge into the mix.

So actually, just a change to electric cars will not maintain quiet operations

Caltrain is fairly quiet, at least inside. At the very least the electrification will certainly help with noise while stopped at a station.

I encourage anyone to go ride the high speed rails of Germany, France, Italy, China, Japan, Korea, to understand what properly maintained rail is capable of feeling like. Or even the U-bahn in Munich, Frankfurt, too.

Spain is missing from your list, they were instrumental in getting the Pendolino developed and, IIRC, have more high speed track than any other European country.
First the “rust being a moral programming language” and now this - I’ve never seen a community stain a language so poorly as the rust people. Wow! And I was there when Zed Shaw Cale’s rails a ghetto.
It doesn’t sound too blackpill to me at all, in fact I’d take it a step further. I often wonder whether the domination of Google-Amazon-Facebook doesn’t really serve the interests of the “Deep State” making them essentially bulletproof. Why would you want to break apart a domestic company when they serve as an international parasurveillance apparatus? You hear more from the feds about Apple needing to backdoor their phones than the anti-competitive behavior or spying that the rest take part in. Like you said, it’s probably just lip service from (most) of the Democrats.
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Person whose job title has "senior network engineer" in it here. I work for a mid sized regional ASN doing middle-mile and last-mile transport and transit. Quite intentionally we offer no services to customers related to VM hosting or managed hosting. The closest we come is selling rack space/cooling/power to people who want to colocate their own equipment and be fully responsible for it themselves.

We are considerably smaller than DigitalOcean in staffing head count. But we have a network that is spread out geographically across five states and 30+ cities and towns, built a combination of third party lit L2 transport, dark fiber IRUs, and fiber we built ourselves. We're a facilities based WAN provider.

There are so many different possible types of ISPs. For a small organization it only makes sense to decide whether you want to go after a huge number of $5 a month customers, or if you want to focus your time and effort on customers that spend anywhere from $250/month upwards for last mile broadband services, colocation/hosting services, etc. As a generalization, the higher the dollar value of the customer, the less of a headache they are, and the higher the clue level of the customer is.

I concur with 100% of what the above poster says about the hosting business.

Bulk hosting/VPS/VM hosting is an incredibly brutal race to the bottom in pricing. Extensive well crafted automation tools and massive economies of scale are the only thing that will save you. I truly feel sorry for the people who are working (mostly entry-level) jobs doing first tier technical support/customer service for 5 dollar a month VPS customers.

If somebody wanted to hire me to work for a consumer-facing hosting company I would run away screaming. It's my idea of a personal hell in the ISP business. Those who have found a way to make it work, not go bankrupt and not have mental breakdowns are a rare breed.
Ask HN: Why doesn't the industry have a standard “code interview” certification?
All of these companies are pulling random coding questions from basically the same pool of questions, and having people who aren't experts in evaluating coding ability evaluate people on the basis of whether they happen to know how to solve one or two problems off the top of their head. We all know how inconsistent these interview questions are and how often competent coders can fail them.

What if there were a standardized 3 hour long 'algorithms and datastructures' certification that pulls from this same pool of questions, designed by panels of experts with FAANG-level experience, so when I go on the interview circuit, I don't have to go through the same process over and over again. You should be able to just present this cert that says you've passed a standard code interview. Does anyone enjoy the process enough on either side of the interviewing table enough that that wouldn't be good enough?
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Thank you very much.

Are there some deleted comments that might have been missed?

If not the conversation was civil until the maintainer refused a patch for a "boring" reason.
> Open source participants are volunteers and owe you nothing.

Of course they do. It’s not legal for you to distribute software that puts others in harm’s way. You’re not allowed to give poisoned food to homeless people as long as it’s free.
There are no decent reasons to want Trump to be elected.
An MLM is a regular pyramid scheme with an actual product mixed in to lend legitimacy and to make it legal in the first place.

The proposed business virus is different. Unlike a pyramid scheme most costs are on signup, and there are no multi-level incentive structures.
You're not wrong! The US DoD is already paying StarLink for proof of concept work for low latency, high bandwidth connectivity services.
Q was which MCU's come with Gigabit Ethernet.

I answered the Formula 1 MCU's (Motor Control Unit). Maybe the official one from Illmore already (I think), and some of the internal ones used for testing (which I worked with).

The NASA Space Shuttle also had several dSpace controllers on board (RTLinux with special IO drivers) and I guess modern rockets and planes also will switch to Ethernet also. It's 1MHz vs 1GHz. It makes a difference when you can afford a fast CPU, i.e. high speed controller and you don't want to wait for CAN messages coming in every 1000 cycles.
That's definitely true. And within 20 years, I'd like to see them take another crack at LotR, in series format.

That, of course, will depend on the thing Amazon is doing. And on what happens with the rights now that Christopher is gone. I personally was happy to think that he was defending The Silmarillion from a godawful adaptation -- and I just don't see any way to do it well. But there will be many who disagree, and if it has to be done, a TV series format might be the least-worst way. (See https://mythgard.org/silmfilm/, which has been treating it as an intellectual exercise for several years.)
Perhaps a company that's already involved in logistics, that could augment their transport fleet to have scanning vehicles? So Amazon, FedEx/UPS/DHL, the U.S. Postal Service?
There's no reason to assume Democrats are more likely to support anti-trust suits vs Republicans. Tech companies and the wealthy individuals that created them tend to provide a great deal of donor support to the party. Whatever the rhetoric may be, Democrats have been fairly supportive of tech up to now.

> Google has its hands in too many pies...

That's one of the reasons anti-trust is such a difficult case to make. Besides search, Google doesn't really have a dominate market share within any of their other offerings (not even Android counts since it's open source and comes in many flavors from phone companies). Their search service is free, so the only party that is effected by their market dominance (in how we've typically defined trusts) are advertisers. Before they can have a strong anti-trust strong case, the government needs to define data as an asset and the disclosure of that data as a cost to the data owner (the Google user).
It is absolutely a bad thing to be negative and snarky. It sews resentment within the community and taints potentially valid points. One can express legitimate concerns and be heard without putting oneself on a pedestal or diminishing the self-worth of others. We as a community must take responsibility for fostering a merit-based discourse, and reject pettiness and snark.
When ATMs were introduced to banks in the 1980s, people thought bank tellers would quickly stop existing. Over time, each bank branch did end up employing fewer tellers. However, ATMs made it cheaper to operate bank branches, so more bank branches opened and there were eventually more bank teller jobs over all.

This comforting trend ended several years ago.

Here's a blog that plots teller employment numbers up through 2015:

https://greatdisruption2018.com/the-project/the-parable-of-t...

Here's the BLS data and outlook for the future:

https://www.bls.gov/ooh/office-and-administrative-support/te...

Teller employment peaked in 2007 at over 600,000. It's down to 472,000 as of 2018 and projected to decline another 12% by 2028.

You need to keep following the numbers to distinguish "the prediction of technological unemployment was premature" from "the idea of technological unemployment is mistaken."
Ok, nm. It is techcrunch that is doing it. I had my network dev console filtered to only show ajax request. Showing all request shows techcrunch returning a 307 (redirect):

https://i.imgur.com/sZM9btp.png
The Internet is so full of spam and noise, people have become dependent on gatekeepers to sift through for signal. Nobody really wants to browse the raw web anymore. If you want to make money online, youre going to have to buy access to someones platform, whether that be Google, Apple, Ebay, Amazon, Facebook. Youre either buying shelf space in a marketplace, or youre buying or selling billboard space. (Even if you are a self hosted website, which is becoming more rare as the CMS market consolidates behind newspaper's tech offerings) youre buying ads from Google, Facebook, or Microsoft.) The one I left out is "content production" whether that be journalism or entertainment, but the same thing applies. Youre going to need to convince a newspaper, radio, streaming service, or Disney to publish you.

However, a monopoly, this does not make. The world being pay to play doesnt automatically mean one behemoth is sole gatekeeper. There are plenty of different platforms you can fight for access on, fights you may win and profit from.
I think for now the best solution is to use this as a mobile terminal for a machine that is running an x86/64 chip then just remote in either via SSH or x2go.
Re: the first point, Amazon is terrible now. I’m afraid to buy things because of all of the fake reviews. How are you supposed to buy products sight-unseen with fake reviews abound?
What exactly is wrong with using master/slave?
I go back and forth on it. I try to also say that I think /r/rust is better than most Reddits, but I think the core problem is structural, and what I say doesn’t matter that much.
This is really bad. Actix Web is such an awesome framework.

Reddit has become such a toxic place since they optimized the platform to make money.

Why don't those idiots just fork Actix Web and make a "no unsafe" version of it? Instead of harassing the author, who has devoted so much of his time and talent to building this great piece of software?
> Many high schoolers take jobs that fall into this category: they have parental support and don’t _need_ money, but they want to have some cash for their own entertainment.

I agree those jobs exist. I had them too. The question is whether we should be setting the rules for the economy and jobs to match that use case or the "family feeding" use case.

> So how can we create more good quality work for people so they just give door dash the finger and move on, rather than feeling trapped in that as the best work they can get.

A federal jobs guarantee, universal healthcare, better and more equal public education; those things will increase the leverage that workers have to give gig employers the finger.

Many of those would let even higher paid tech workers give their employers the finger.
My employer has us get two a year. They generally favor the AWS certs, but certs in other relevant fields, apps, or service work too.
It is a significant deal. She wasn't alone in doing so (her predecessors had engaged in similar behavior to a degree as well). What's interesting is that the heat and light about it wasn't followed by any legislative/policy action of note. It's almost like they weren't trying to right a wrong, but to politically assassinate her.

The sitting president communicates on an unsecured iPhone. The WH staff is using alternate email systems and messaging to actively avoid leaving a trail.

Let me know your concern about that and I'm happy to continue this conversation. Otherwise, you're engaging in partisan politics here and that's not good for HN.
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Did a google cloud associate cloud engineer cert, nothing really came out of it. Not postings are looking for it, maybe it's different for AWS certs, but I don't think recruiters or HMs care at all
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Got one from google, near worthless
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The value, perhaps, is the positivity and empowerment that people feel. People will gloss over a lot of things to feel in control of their lives.
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I would also add buying companies and creating services only to shut them down. With the exception of search and gmail I gave up using services owned by google but their monopoly position ruled out alternatives. They not just expanded into a monopoly, they are also working to keep it in place by means other than competing in the product space.
Omg!

Yesterday I read a post where the author admitted that if people believe it's an advert then it is because they want great people to come and work in the company.

https://blog.digitalocean.com/from-15-000-database-connectio...
> In fact, one could argue that it makes corruption worse, because a candidate only has to win a few key states to tip the election, regardless of the popular vote.

With the electoral college, we don't hold a popular vote.

This provides compartmentalization of corruption --- if election officials in some state cause an extra 10,000 votes to be counted for their preferred candidate, it may affect their state's selection of electors, but can't influence the results of other states. In a close election by popular vote, 10,000 votes could be very significant.

Additionally, the electoral college provides compartmentalization of natural disasters. If there's a blizzard in some state (or several), their voting turnout will likely be much lower, and there is no provision for makeup elections; however, we can assume that voters of different parties will have reasonably equal difficulty getting to the polls, so within the local area, the resulting ratios should be similar to results of a non-disrupted election. However, the disrupted states would cast many fewer votes, so other states would have more influence; if the state was highly in favor of one candidate, it could be a big swing.
Jeez, that's dystopian. Bioterrorism for profit.
What if you run the algorithm on a supercomputer...
That's once you're inside the black hole, and not entirely true; "past" points outwards. I'll admit it's close enough to true.

Which is not to that's how it would look. Photons are also falling, so you'd still be able to see the external universe even if the apparent direction it's in isn't traversable. (The photons are coming from the past. See above...)
The track pad in my Matebook Pro is pretty damn close to my Macbook. Feels like the older mac track pads with the physical click instead of the faked haptic click.
>The article points out that for many DoorDash workers, they aren't getting paid a positive sum, even if they count their time as worth zero.

This just doesn't pass the smell test. It's much, much more likely that their method is flawed than it being the case that a bunch of workers pay DoorDash to work for them.
> What economy of scale can DoorDash achieve?

Brand awareness among both diners and restauranteurs. Integration with POS systems and financial plumbing.

Economies of scale might exist any time you have infrastructure that can be shared.
I don't have interest in having kids. But I guess that if I was facing immortality or the prospect of reaching twice my age I would be even less interested on having kids.

I imagine people with access to anti aging therapies would postpone having children further and further.
I'm not claiming any personal credit for this per se. While I've made some good decisions, the vast majority of my good professional position over the past few decades has been luck.

> Is any tech worker seriously that desirable still that they are being hounded immediately after getting fired?

In the 25+ years people have been paying me to do what I do, I've been able to find a new position quite rapidly, once I decided to move on.

In fact, it's gotten easier over time. The last time I switched jobs, away from a startup that in my judgement didn't have good prospects, in six weeks, I had five competing offers, two from 'FAANG' companies.

I'm not some kind of 'rock star': far from it. I usually work more slowly than most of my peers.

Having said all that, I know that nothing last forever, and the blind fortune that brought me a specific set of skills and personality traits will move on.
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They also have a referral program that turned DigitalOcean to free hosting for me. A few years ago I got annoyed with something, wrote an article about how to fix it using a DO instance, linked to DO with my referral code and racked up thousands of $ in a payout. I used most when experimenting and feeling too lazy to shut down instances(because I didn't want to go through backup since maybe I will use it later etc).

For 6-7 years now I'm using DO for free but my only resource-intensive instance is a personal VPN server that I use from time to time(a few hours a day maybe?).

At first, DO use to give referral payouts in cash, then they limited the payouts to credits, then changed the structure and introduced expiration date to these credits.

I would guess that this referral program that probably helped them a lot with the growth at first is now a burden.
It's not really the politicians per se that they pissed off, but the people.

I remember writing something about this years ago saying that if Google and other companies like it continue to shit on their users, there will come a time when they will no longer benefit from users defending them against various governments, and in fact may cheer the governments going after them.

Google lost it when it gave up on "Don't be evil" (and please spare me of that crap excuse of "Don't be evil" being found in a footnote in Google's documents somewhere -- I'm talking about Don't be evil being a guiding principle for everyone in the company).
CCIE is probably the only cert worth a damn. It's hard as hell and they require in-lab, in-person, on-equipment testing or at least they used to. It's very valuable.

The online certs like MCSE, MCSD etc can all be easily hacked via brain dumps. With programming, being able to answer technical questions doesn't mean much without the craftsmanship / artistry it takes to actually build stuff.
I hit a same conclusion about a popular framework (that shall remain unnamed) on a different platform a few years back.

It feels like it should be simple: I disagreed with how the maintainer was doing things, so I decided the package was not for me. No need to hassle them about it. I wish it could be that simple.

Instead, I had to weather a fair bit of defending my choice to use a different, less popular option, and there's apparently no honest answer I can give that won't be taken as an attack on the framework or its users. And refusing to engage with the question is, of course, rude.

I'm finding that Internet culture wears me down, these days. Even when you don't go looking for flamewars, they come looking for you.

With less-popular libraries, it's easier. Open an issue, say hi, make sure the maintainer knows what you're planning on doing, do it, learn a few things, have a nice day. Once or twice I've been asked to more-or-less rewrite the patch because the maintainer didn't like something about my coding style, which is also fine, and often a good way to try a different way of doing things on for size. It's all pretty benign. But popular, well-known projects have this way of getting political.

I suspect that the worst thing that could possibly happen to one of my labors of love would be for lots of other people to like it, too. A few people, great. But I don't want my free time to become Internet politicized.
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I'm always curious about this, too. For anyone who's gone this route (as described in saluki's response), how long have you been able to put off business formation?

The concern I've always had is, what happens if you get some corporate customers, and they ask "Who is Johnny Blades, and why is he billing us $99 a month?"

For those who've encountered this situation (and aren't just speculating), were there any problems?
All the popular machine learning libraries are a Python API to more conveniently communicate with the CUDA code that actually does the calculations on GPUs. The API can be in any other language, but the choice of that language does not really affect performance much, as the heavy lifting in any "Python machine learning library" does not happen in Python anyway.
On reddit, he elaborated that it's just the size of his hands that make it as annoying as all trackpads: https://www.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/eq2pwa/my_review_of_...
If I write something useful, I'm willing to share it with people when I can. It makes me happy knowing I contributed something that might make the world a smidge better.

That doesn't mean I'm willing to accept your patch. As soon as I accept collaboration, I need to worry about copyright on the contributions, whether they follow my coding style, and whether I'm willing to accept additional complexity for features I don't care about.
It's really difficult from my arbitrary perspective to read it as anything other than click-bait sensationalism.

Anything that can be cited as "the biggest" negative movement or trend since any point in the past can be used to signal to our survival mechanisms, "it is important to your survival to click through to this article"

Just like money needs taken out of politics, ad revenue needs taken out of news reporting. I just wish I had a solution to propose ...
100% - they are not a replacement for experience but they get you noticed for sure. Some jobs even require them on the posting.
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Ah, it wasn't just things that needed doing, but things they couldn't do anything about.

But I agree with your point generally.
The maintainer still shouldn't dismiss a patch + test case with "it's boring".