skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've often seen large gates with hanging chains at the maximal height just before low bridges and tunnels. Wouldn't that also be pretty efficient, reliable and not requiring any maintenance? I suppose having an obstacle spring in front of you would be even more likely to make you stop, but if you're still going when some chains hit the top of your vehicle you deserve to have your license suspended anyway.
That's answered by the FAQ: http://11foot8.com/11foot8-faq/

> Can’t the road be lowered?

> That would be prohibitively expensive because a sewer main runs just a few feet below the road bed. That sewer main also dates back about a hundred years and, again, at the time there were no real standards for minimum clearance for railroad underpasses.
What browser/os was giving you trouble?
And...the drone.
Right. But that'd be overkill. Torrents plus streaming apps do a decent job already. Why couldn't that expand to YT scale?
There's a sewer main near the bridge so, very expensive.
And maintenance. For every 1 of those pretty chapels there are 10 that are falling apart.

Ironically, look at Rosslyn Chapel--it was basically falling apart until The DaVinci Code caused enough tourism that they had enough revenue to repair it.
I grew up in Australia, so would have considered myself a native English speaker. We’re even a British colony!

I moved to Scotland for a year, and London for a few years later. I’d regularly here phrasing I’d never heard before and would need the speaker to clarify or would look up later. In the vast majority of those cases it was most often an old word that appears to have fallen out of fashionable usage. “Ken” being a synonym for “know” in Scotland being the one I remember most given how frequently it was used.

So it’s not just non-native speakers that struggle at times!
Sounds like you didn't respond to your bodies natural negative feedback mechanism. You are bashing the method when in this case you were completely responsible for the failure.

He never says in the article to keep doing something even if it is painful. If you went for a run and experienced pain, I think it would be safe to start trying to stretch or figure out why this happens.

This is still compatible with the method he recommends here.
haha. it’s amazing how complicated even the simplest forms of organic life are. things do go wrong all
the time and there are complex mechanisms to balance things out. that being said systematic imbalance or just “wear and tear” eventually win.
'Adobe Flash Is Going to Die' in 194 Days
Fair enough, but it's not like they couldn't provide a more direct signup option in the Android version if they wanted to. The fact that they didn't is telling, IMO.

To circle back to the original point, blaming Apple for the "trend" of not being able to sign up inside of apps is clearly nonsensical.
I actually have a story about this, while I never did it myself I had someone apply to a role two jobs ago who did. HR didn’t catch it, and I only did by highlighting a refererence name off the resume to put into an email and accidentally picked up more text, white text.

We brought him in, interviewed him, ultimately couldn’t afford what he was asking for but I put him in touch with an agency recruiter I knew to be top notch and would advocate for the fella, only on the promise that he cleaned up his resume and gave him a very knowing and telegraphed look. He picked up what I was putting down immediately.

Got an email from him two months later, he had gotten an offer from a company agency recruiter sent him to and thanked me for the referral. The guy was otherwise qualified, maybe a little green for some of our specific requirements, but throughout the interview checked all the right boxes as an engineer and seemed like a good dude overall, but he just was not getting calls back.

To this day I maintain had my CFO given me more money for the position I would have hired him, I thought he was trainable and could easily pick up and contribute. Ultimately lost contact but I like to imagine he’s doing fine.
I am aware that insulin costs a lot less in other countries. I have read the stories of Americans going to Canada to buy insulin. I have also read the stories of diabetics in the United States who died because they tried to make their insulin last longer by rationing their dose.

If I didn't have insurance my insulin would cost me either $245 (fast-acting) or $700 (basal) a vial.

I was just pointing out that getting insulin for $35 a vial in the United States is a very good deal.
>I think the problem with DRM and ebooks is not the readers. It's the availability of books without DRM... Basically the "GOG" of eBook stores. Even if you have an open eBook reader, where are you going to get the books from?

libgen
The word “only”. The article argues well that efficiency should not be absolutely important - but the remark about Freud missteps by treating efficiency (in this instance, of vertical building) as absolutely unimportant, as opposed to merely unabsolutely important - a factor to be balanced against others.

A particularly egregious example of overhorizontalization would be Robert Moses’ drive to have people commute into NYC by car from Long Island. While, yes, there tends to be more greenery out there, I would contend this clashes with the author’s “harmony with nature” principle by driving an extreme increase in the reliance on fossil fuels, as well as the “make people happy” principle by lengthening commutes as compared to the higher population density permitted with vertical building.
Okay I’ll bite: “Which hospital would I rather convalesce in?”, the one with the best doctors. I find the old fashioned architecture he uses beautiful but even the cherry picked examples of bad architecture some of them I still like; let us look around London today, the Southbank and the Barbican are brutalist masterpieces, the Shard is incredible, especially when the clouds touch the top, together with the rebuilding of Kings Cross or even Terminal 5 modern architecture is everywhere and when it’s good I absolutely love it.

I find it really hard to believe people dislike modern architecture; the problem with building something with fine adornments today is they end up looking extremely cheap and fake, we are capable of building clean crisp forms in ways not possible before and providing spaces that function much better at their purposes today than we were in the past. The article is sentimental about the old buildings and we can be inspired by them, but modern architecture like Taipei 101 or the Burj Khalifa just blows me away as spectacles of what science and engineering have accomplished.

Creating something that looks like the Taj Mahal today would just look hokey and seem extremely dysfunctional for its intended use. Each to their own but I’m a big fan.
Absolutely. And then you do it for a couple of hours concentrating on the road and driving the car between the lines nicely widthwise and you'll forget it when you need it most.

I've done a lot of driving, some of it boxtrucks and larger and when you switch vehicles it is a thing that you need to remind yourself of constantly. The easiest solution would be to dig that road out to standard depth, the next best would be to drop it from all navigation systems so that at least people that do not know about it won't try to use it.
Why don't you go to one of those countries and help it to grow out of poverty? It's pretty easy to be generous at the expense of others.
You're asking the wrong person. I'd have to research just as much as you'd, and judging by upvotes and age, (almost) no one else would care. Sorry :(
Conlang critic's take https://youtu.be/TEsqY4MH40s
Because left to their own devices, some locals decide that stuff like "black kids in the neighborhood" are what bother them.

We had this argument already, like sixty years ago. Your side lost.
Uh, I don't think that "our unsustainable way of life that currently relies on fossil fuels will somehow miraculously be converted to 100% clean energy".

I think fossil fuel use is going to decline over time. That's already happening in a lot of countries. It's going to be a gradual process, and I think eventually it is going to happen everywhere, but some parts of the world (e.g. Europe, US) are going to be ahead of others (e.g. China, India)

Is there such a thing as "100% clean energy"? I don't know if there ever will be such a thing, but so what. If you look at tonnes of CO2 emitted per a kilowatt-hour, over the life of a generator, then a solar farm is going to beat a coal power station, even when you include the CO2 emissions from the construction and the manufacturing of the equipment. Sure, the solar farm won't be "100% clean" (zero lifetime emissions), but it doesn't need to be, it just needs to be significantly better than the coal power station.

In some countries, coal power stations are being replaced by natural gas power stations. Natural gas obviously isn't 100% clean – it still emits CO2 and other pollutants. But it is a lot cleaner than coal. It emits less greenhouse gases for the same amount of power generated. We shouldn't let the perfect be the enemy of the better.
Looking forward to not every browser implementing it and having to implement WebSockets in addition anyway
When the things bothering them are "having black neighbors", I'd say most other systems are more fair.
Possibly an over-simplification. Take this example: I want to sight-sing hymns. I know a bit of music theory but it's been cobbled together over the past year in an haphazard fashion. I pick up a hymnal to sing the first hymn and immediately need to look up the key signature (I never memorized them). Then I see the hymn is 12/8 time and realize I only superficially covered rhythm and time signatures. I go on YouTube to refresh my memory. This is before being able to sing a single note.

When I do attempt to sing, my mind's ear says I'm way off (even when I've never heard the hymn before). I'm not hitting the notes. So now I need to learn solfège and music intervals.

Doing the "real thing" requires having the tools and basic skillset first. I suggest the opposite of this article: break the goal down into manageable parts and work the periphery. Get some small wins. Then you can realistically take on the "real thing". There may be no other way.
From this article it appears they can use private funding to purchase things without oversight.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/jun/18/police-found...
primitive humans also lived 20-30 years tops. today at 20 you can eat whatever you want and you’ll mostly be fine short term.

i’m tired of people justifying their life choices by what primitive humans were doing. we’re not primitive humans.
~10x higher framerate?
Google reader used store every entry in the feed ever, and it was my primary reason for using it. I was subscribed to tons of webcomics, and this allowed me to easily keep track of where I was. The only limitations to this was the rate they checked feeds at (I never read about any complaints about this, but also wasn't looking and wouldn't have been interested at the time), they only had history starting when the first person added a feed, and a large number of blogs and comics would only put notifications in the feed, without any actual content.
Ah ok, thank you for clarifying that. So that leaves the next best option: remove it from all navigation systems, that way at least the route will be only used by locals familiar with the situation and all other traffic would automatically detour around it.
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I am not a programmer, but had to make a conscious switch to cloud/kubernetes in the last 3 years. FWIW -

1. Will your kind of work remain so in the next 10 years? It means technology (ex. Oracle). You should strive to move into a domain that stays relevant for next 10 years.

2. Are there areas that you can expand into? Given your condition (family and kid), you do not have the luxury of a fresh grad. Put it other way, how many guys (say 40+) do you see working in your type of role? And what adjacent areas do you see people growing into? For example, move from coding to product management or business development or solution architect? I am biased to this path.

3. Did you work on virtualization, linux or any platform? Kubernetes is a platform. Do you want to switch to kubernetes platform, or build applications on kubernetes? Time is essence. Unless you have prior knowledge of Linux platform, virtualization etc. it will be a long learning curve. In contract, app development is a different skill altogether (micro services patterns). If you pick app dev, Golang is the way to go if you have to pick a new language.

4. Do you deal with data a lot? If so, how about Python and data science, and then figure out how to use various data analysis tools on kubernetes. Again, this has to be an interim step for you to move into something that interests you.

5. Switching to a new role/project in your current company is better than looking one outside.
> And then you do it for a couple of hours concentrating on the road and driving the car between the lines nicely widthwise and you'll forget it when you need it most.

Must be different locations being different.

But where I'm from you couldn't remotely just drive regardless of your vehicle height. You'd smash into something within minutes.
I went for a long period of time - after discovering Figma and thinking it was wonderful - of being unable to use it because I could never remember what it was called.

I remember emailing colleagues, googling for "online vector editor" etc.

To be honest I'm not sure it has sunk in even now. I just haven't needed it for a while.
The simplistic illustration is absurd: The population outpaces food supply, yet it continues to grow exponentially.

Nature has a solution to this: Starvation induces infertility. Problem solved!
My point was to make people go do their own research and not believe what some random person writes (including me). If some one doesn't want to know the truth and here only for spicy half-truths/lies, it's up to them. Don't give me the spirit of HN crap, this is just another website.
Spot on. I've witnessed Chinese and Indians (all with decent English skills) be unable to conduct business meetings due to difficult understanding each other's accents. On that project, I frequently 'translated' from English to English, with little/no change in word choice or sentence structure.
That would, I'm guessing, make things worse by both increasing the risk of t-bone collisions, and giving drivers turning from the cross street even less chance to do anything avert a collision.

It's possible that, short of removing and replacing the bridge (which would have its own consequences, since it serves an active rail line in a major city), the only thing that would actually help much is getting stricter about what size of vehicle people are allowed to operate without special training and a special class of license.
Wild guess: Google would just respond by nuking accounts of those submitting bogus takedown requests.
Are you the author? Thanks for nice article, I always love to confirm my own opinions! I agree with ebg13, the presentation of your article could be a little more attractive. On a web made for reading there are few simple style rules I use for all text. 1st, I use a line-height of at least 1.5 because every browser's default line spacing is too narrow. (Quanta Magazine gets posted here a lot and I think their average line height is 1.875.) 2nd, keep column width to 100 characters or below (the article already meets this). And 3rd, keep background colors desaturated as to not distract from the most important part of the website: the text!
Sadly its the 12 foot 4 Bridge now, and its snacks are much lighter.
I don't think same would happen in Canada. What US lawmakers have done, is to put a tap on green card basis on the country of origin. Indians on H1B wouldn't get their green card, in their life time, period. If there were no Indians waiting for green card, it wouldn't have been a big issue. It is by design. Indians are new B
I've opened an issue to track this request: https://github.com/team-video/tragopan/issues/4
I don't know. What would happen if we apply the same line of logic to undocumented residents? Should the X-word be waiting for you?
It's a feature enabled by UDP. QUIC keeps track of a connection uuid as an identifier rather than an IP.
I think you missed the entire point of the article. The "real" thing is subjective and varies from person to person depending on their experience with the subject.

If someone else had no trouble creating art then this situation simply doesn't apply to them. That person might have a different part of the process that gives them trouble that they SHOULD be practicing.

For Eric, practicing the thing he had trouble with over and over was the best way for him to get over his struggles. Now he can move onto the next thing he needs to work on and continue to make progress.
If it were done well, would there have been 100+ accidents?
Python concurrency from the ground up with David Beazley (2015)
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The Sidney Harbor Tunnel had a similar problem. They came up with an elaborate but successful solution.[1] There are detectors and huge flashing warning signs that light up. Then, there's the last-chance sign. At the entrance to the tunnel, pumps force a curtain of water straight down across the entire roadway. Then a powerful laser system projects a giant octagonal red STOP sign onto the water curtain, filling the entire height of the tunnel opening. That's in addition to the six red traffic lights, flashing red Xs above each lane, and a big STOP with a flashing frame above the tunnel mouth.

That was expensive, but after someone wedged an oversized truck into the tunnel, blocking it for three weeks, it was worth it. Gets tripped about 18 times a year.

[1] https://youtu.be/pRKA7m-tbqM
To my Irish ears, fluent English from Dutch people in particular can often sound slightly American.
no. because the paramedics were asking stupid questions not related to their job that had the potential to aggravate the patient’s condition.
On the contrary, Apple doesn’t force apps that are selling digital content to fork over 30% of their revenue. That is the “reader” category of apps that are allowed to have an outside subscription, e.g. Netflix, Kindle, Spotify...

The apps that must offer the subscription within the app store, such that users benefit from visible and pro-consumer recurring billing practices, are those where you are subscribing to the app’s functionality, not to content.
You make a valid point, but I still would disagree. The closest cliffs I can think of that are just as stark and imposing would be Dover. They are dramatic, iconic, and even beautiful, but would you want to live there all year round? The winter sea crashing against the shore and gale force winds battering you would make you grateful of any shelter, but that's only because the forces of nature have made you feel helpless, pinning you against this bare rock face, far from the safety that other aspects of nature would willingly provide.

I'd like to reiterate that I like brutalism, I'm just trying to convey that I think its very easy to overdo when you only consider the macro scale of a project.
Can't say anything about Cosmopolitan, but I'm a huge fan of TUI:s, so notcurses is a great initiative.

However, a text-centric web doesn't have to be "old technology". With HTML5 and CSS3, pages can look and feel very modern indeed and still not use tons of JavaScript frameworks. And with just a bit of added care, things can work swell in TUI browsers, phones and "modern" browsers alike.
Not only that, ß is useful because it disambiguates some words that only differ in usage of ss vs. ß (and in their pronunciation), e.g. Masse (mass) != Maße (measures).
> Also to your last point, this is something no one can prove. How am I going to prove that a company can hire that talent locally? They’ll just say they met with candidates and they weren’t up to snuff. You can’t prove anything in that situation, all you can really do is look at the numbers from a bird’s eye view and see that hey, over half your staff is world class rare talent apparently.

So, you're telling me that they're gonna pay the same amount they'd pay for a local employee PLUS the H1-B overhead, just to hire a foreign worker?

Put yourself in the shoes of the employer, what are you to gain from this? (hint: it sure isn't monetary)

To me, what you mention seems like veiled xenophobia, I hope I'm wrong.

Posting this again from another thread:
> Employers must attest to the Department of Labor that they will pay wages to the H-1B nonimmigrant workers that are at least equal to the actual wage paid by the employer to other workers with similar experience and qualifications for the job in question, or the prevailing wage for the occupation in the area of intended employment – whichever is greater.

source: https://www.dol.gov/agencies/whd/immigration/h1b
I think this is reasoning does not work on this case.

Take Le Corbusier, the "Cité Radieuse" in Marseille is actively maintained and considered with an almost sacred status by the partisans of this kind of design.

This is a fucking ugly building that should have been destroyed decades ago, in my opinion, but I have a very strong bias against anything related to this style of design.
“The contributions of sound money to human flourishing are not restricted to scientific and technological advance; they can also be seen in the art world. It is no coincidence that Florentine and Venetian artists were the leaders of the Renaissance, as these were the two cities which led Europe’s adoption of sound money. The Baroque, Neoclassical, Romantic, Realistic and Post-impressionistic schools were all financed by wealthy patrons holding sound money, with a very low time preference and the patience to wait for years, or even decades for the completion of masterpieces meant to survive centuries.”

https://books.google.com/books?id=Sw5TDwAAQBAJ&printsec=fron...
I think this is actually a good thing, though... you have something real you are trying to do, which guides you to what you need to learn.

I find it is a lot easier to learn in the pursuit of something I actually want to accomplish rather than studying in a vacuum.

So your approach, for example, is better than if you had just picked up a book on key and time signatures and started reading. You first tried to do something, ran into something you didn't know, so started to learn that thing.
This is not a correct reading of what I wrote. Investing in local (or at least domestic) employment pipelines at all is not philanthropy. Seeing it as philanthropy is patronizing.

Let's just have a thought experiment (maybe we'll see what happens if the ban continues) - what will Big Tech do if H1B is not a thing anymore?

Second thought experiment - who benefits most from H1B? First of all, the H1B holders themselves. Second, the tech industry itself. Further out from that benefits are less clear and more mixed. We are a nation of immigrants seeking opportunity, immigration is important to this country. Immigrants brings a lot of economic and cultural benefits, and we must always fight bigotry and discrimination towards our immigrants. But there is also much more complexity surrounding immigration policies, and they have their cost, too.
Here's the thing: higher ups, more often than not, have no imagination. If your mock-up is not explicit and realistic, you'll get complaints and worries that it's not polished or that not a lot of work went into it.
For windows I use 2 C++ profilers (memory and speed) from
https://www.softwareverify.com/index.php

I like to memory profile on a regular basis. It a is lot easier to catch and fix a memory leak if you discover it soon after you’ve introduced it.
Oops. Yeah you're right. Wrong century millennium, no less!

They do mention the circuit simulator, SPICE in that same thread. But still, not this oregano for sure.

https://groups.google.com/d/msg/comp.unix.wizards/kFdPoJBpcS...