skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The difference in costs often boils down to domestic state capacity: bureaucracies in East Asia and Continental Europe tend to be better-staffed and more empowered to make professional decisions. The details are naturally more complicated, but the pattern is nonetheless clear: the countries with the lowest infrastructure costs are also the countries where the state acts swiftly, with mechanisms that limit the lag between financing and construction.

In other words, states with bigger and better-run governments have lower infrastructure costs.
> Allow me to opt-out of connections by type: acquaintance, family, friend, school, work,etc.

I'd also love an 'age out' functionality.

As far as LinkedIn shows, someone I work with at my current job shows up as the same strength of connection as a random person I chatted with once at a conference a decade ago. Time and number of interactions should play some role in the strength of connection as displayed in the UX (at least to me).
Another facet is that the private companies are very good at finding ways that off the self designs are not suitable so they must make bespoke equipment when its not needed. For the streetcar they recently installed in Seattle, off the shelf rolling stock was not suitable because someone really wanted it to be battery powered for part of the trip and they had to extensively modify an existing design, leading to all sorts of problems.

What makes this even worse is that Seattle has extensive trolley bus (electric bus powered by overhead lines) infrastructure that works just fine, so they could have taken a trolley bus, put train wheels on it, and we would have had a faster and cheaper streetcar. Trolley busses are much safer for cyclists or anyone else sharing the road with the streetcar as the tracks pose a hazard to pretty much all other uses of the road.
Don't forget rampant corruption. In my sleepy little town of Cincinnati the FBI has been jailing city council members for colluding with contractors and taking bribes. It is so bad they said it seemed to be ingrained into the culture. Pan over to somewhere like New York that is many factors worse than Cincinnati as has been documented in The Power Broker and has likely gotten worse since. I now consider local development corruption to be the norm over the exception.

It is VERY difficult to get shovel ready for a two bedroom house, let alone a new bridge.
1) Ruby on Rails.

The standardized structure.

Convention over configuration gave the app a level of consistency that I hadn't experienced before.

2) Lyft - being able to see who your driver was and exactly where they were in route to pick you up, was amazing.

I think the first couple of years of riding I would always ask the driver when they started driving for Lyft and if they enjoyed it.
I still distinctly remember the moment of shock with the minimalism of their homepage at the time; compared to AltaVista jam-packed with ads and other stuff to the brim, seeing just the logo and the editbox on a plain white page made me startle and pause with some "Whaaat's going on???" and "This can't be true" feelings.
I will say that choosing light rail is helpful in that it forces a certain minimum amount of infrastructure to be built. Dedicated BRT can be a good experience, but rarely is built that way. The same cost-cutting forces that drive the choice of BRT over rail usually keep on pushing until all you're left with is a glorified bus stop.
But isn't #2 a good thing? Like what's wrong with kids gathering at the library, isn't that the whole point of a library?
I honestly love overhearing you discuss your perfect computers, because it doesn't seem impossible that you might get your wish! One really interesting possibility is to recycle the X61s chassis and use modern PCBs, chips, and peripherals to get you what you want. Another possibility is the creation of a PC ecosystem similar to the "Red Camera System" where yes, your m2 module costs $5k instead of $500, but it it comes in a machined aluminum module that fits perfectly with the rest of your tricked out customized laptop.
Google the search engine. Before I had to us Hotbot and Altavista. Google changed the game.

YouTube. The user-generated content helped bring a lot of small time productions to be seen by millions of people. Now you can see a video about almost anything, especially if you need a how-to, tutorial, or learn about anything.

Adobe Photoshop's Content Aware Fill, Healing Brush, etc. This changed the game for photo manipulation. You no long had to do it manually by hand using clone stamp. Now the computer does a pretty good job for you.

Smartphone camera. This is more hardware than software, but they practically destroyed the entire compact camera market. Now everyone has a great camera and camcorder in their pockets. Now with their image processing, they're rivaling DSLR images for low-res images.
> It's not like it's simple to setup a competing service and manage to get a government contract.

In Nebraska you have to ask your competitors permission to compete with them:

"If you are allowed to drive a home health patient to get groceries, can that passenger also get her prescription filled? In Nebraska, that would be against the law unless you had permission from the government to operate a non-emergency medical transportation company. And, by the state’s certificate of need or “CON” law, the only way to get permission is for the existing transportation companies to allow you to operate."

https://ij.org/press-release/new-lawsuit-challenges-nebraska...

Things like this happen all over the place nationally. To me much of it looks like garden variety corruption as opposed to some kind of reward for figuring out how to work with the government.

https://ij.org/pillar/economic-liberty/?post_type=case
It is legalized extortion. Every utility-scale solar project in California has at some point been sued under CEQA by labor unions looking for more money.

Same for urban housing projects and "community benefit organizations" aka neighborhood shakedown outfits.
"salt is cheapest" does not take into account all the associated damages they cause as well, from eating away at bridges, roads, and vehicles, to polluting waterways that are starting to kill off freshwater fish.
I don't think it's that big a deal. (Disclaimer: I'm not a hiring manager.)

It's even something of a plus. If I hire someone, I don't want to hire someone who's going to jump ship in a year. You were at your first job eight years? That puts you a leg up on people who have had five jobs in eight years. I'm not interested in being their sixth job in nine years.
You have built a social credit system [0]. Such systems harm individuals and society.

I think you overestimate the willingness of people to participate in such a system.

And if you succeed in manipulating enough users into joining, would your conscience make you miserable?

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_Credit_System
> profitable

> we look forward to doing so again in 2028

Oligarchs and capitalists benefit, the masses lose though. Especially those most vulnerable socioeconomically.
Wow. How long does your number go unavailable if you port out?

I may.
Not really. Although I could have generally lived with a lower presence on DS9. (But it made at least more sense in the context than TNG.)
Who is Camille Noûs, the fictitious French researcher with nearly 200 papers?
You’re expecting people to use the same standards for their ingroup as their outgroup. That rarely happens.
They don't call them laptops though.
I have a 300k position as a result of a modest investment of about $20k I made 5 years ago. Christ, I never said $300k was the modest investment and on a forum filled with software developers making 6 figures I’m sure more than a handful can invest $20k toward their future retirement.

Of course now I’ve been pelted with downvotes and no one will remember what I actually said.
Maybe most of them stem from one common cause: large interest groups.

On the other hand, there are also deep corruptions behind large projects in China, but they get to move forward fast.

Things in the U.S. is strange, large interest groups (regulatory agencies, all kinds of big contractors, political parties) all want to take a piece from the big pie, but they don't care to move things forward. Maybe because everybody knows the things are overcomplicated anyway, and nobody is going to take the project away from them. If the heads of the large interest groups can take bribes (above millions) as those in China, I guess the projects can move much faster.

More, because bribe money is out of sight, the game becomes all about power, i.e. politics. So instead of all sides comes together to take money, they fight for power, political influence. So comes backstabbing, sabotaging.

In the old days, there were gangsters and big unions, whose lives were depended on those big projects, so they actively engaged in "persuading" politicians to push the projects and they resourcefully removed obstacles. Nowadays, gangsters are long gone, unions declined, politicians come and go, nobody is actively pushing those projects anymore.
Keep in mind this is not the American continent and there are considerably less firearms to begin with.
Yes, parking is the big expense that makes Uber/Lyft worth it.
You have to walk a fine line with Akka IMHO. Having inherited and supported an Akka Cluster for 4+ years, I'd strongly recommend that you evaluate whether you really need an Actor based system or if a plain-old set of services talking to each other via a message-broker would suffice.

The particular system my team inherited gave us nothing but issues: cluster coordination issues, so quorum wasn't met and things wouldn't start cleanly, network partitioning issues so nodes would randomly be considered dead, actors "becoming" (the term used IIRC) other types of actors based on messages received... the whole thing was just.. too ephemeral and organic for our tastes. I used to get excited thinking about systems like that, but I've since grown more conservative in my technology / architectural preferences (i.e. choose boring technology). We actually ended up replacing it with exactly what I suggested: a plain-old set of services talking via a message-broker. It's stupid simple and we've all slept better.

Edit: I will say that the use of actors constrained to a single service to handle concurrency is probably way more supportable than in a clustered mode.
Enzyte
No, there is a lot unnecessary red tape involved with them. They aren't used as a political pawn.
The Millennium Dome (notably the Millennium Experience inside) was terrific. I don't know why nobody showed up, but it was really uncrowded and enjoyable to visit!

One futuristic thing that has stuck with me from the Millennium expo was a demonstration of structural/mechanical and electrochemical simulation of the human body with computers, for example the skeletal, muscular, and circulatory systems. Which of course can be augmented with models of various organs and micro-level models of cellular interaction and cell internals. The brilliant bit seemed to be the idea of using a finite element and/or modular decomposition, potentially at multiple levels of resolution and abstraction. It seemed like the sort of thing that could yield huge benefits in medicine, health/fitness, education, and video games/animation. ;-)
> You don't understand the technology and how it will penetrate every sector of society. Bitcoin is the KittyHawk of aviation. Yah no one flies the original plane anymore but it started an industrial revolution.

I feel like you're about five years late to the blockchain-will-change-everything bandwagon.

Also your chronology is all wrong. The industrial revolution started well before 1903.
Experts Exchange also used to do that awful thing where they let Google index the solution but would hide it from visitors until they'd signed in.

I believe Google penalised them for doing it so they used another sneaky trick where they showed a obscured/pixelated answer first and then the actual one further down than most people would scroll.

SO was better in every way.
>I have two virtual (US) numbers - one through Twilio

I've heard good things, can you port a cell number in or is it strictly voip? (I haven't done anything phreaking adjacent in ages)
Amazon EC2 X2gd Instances
Yes, I do know the Windows os git repo uses GVFS. In fact, I shared my personal experience with git in the os repo some time ago:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20748778

When I left Microsoft about half a year ago, GVFS and Scalar were both in heavy use there.
Loop Alignment in .NET
I don't think the comment was wrong. The driver is limiting the rate and the card validates you're using a signed driver. It's still the whole protection system, not just the driver.

I.e. you couldn't update the driver yourself. That relevant "hack" seems to be the official beta/development driver without the restriction. (The other solutions don't modify anything)
It's also much better to grow up with enough money rather than not enough money. But what good are you doing by going around announcing that?

You speak as if single parent households are that way by choice. I'd wager 99.99% wish they had a stable partner helping them out.
HN rule: Don't snark - https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html.

> Be kind. Don't be snarky. Have curious conversation; don't cross-examine. Please don't fulminate. Please don't sneer, including at the rest of the community.
It's true - Standard Oil was just minutes away from closing their doors before the breakup happened.

It depends what kind of corruption we're talking about, nepotism and waste tend to get cleaned out pretty decently in private enterprise, but exploitation along with anti-competitive and unsafe business practices thrive.
> One thing I think they missed, environmental impact studies (that aren't even associated with reduced environmental impact!)

The Atlantic has an article about exactly this happening in California[0] with increasing frequency, mostly fueled by NIMBYism.

[0] https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2021/03/signature-...
That's why the article goes on to explain how to fix that. I believe they are two independent points, the taxation proposition is independent from the AI revolution and could be applied today. What the article argues is that the AI revolution would make wealth accumulation so massive that we will need laws and taxes, and new ways of looking at the world.
Post title resonated with me because I've been failing to Leetcode my way to a decent level for the past 5 years, but I know the reason why is because I simply haven't put in enough time and effort. I find that as long as I keep grinding, I can eventually sniff out the patterns, instead of treating each problem as some sort of one-off.

How you got let go might not be your programming skills, it could just be something political, your personality not being received well, or the business not doing well. I've been through this as well - I was obviously not very focused on my job, and was frequently distracted, and didn't fit in with the team.

The problem is you equate Leetcoding well == programming, and you used one outlier post on the internet to confirm your suspicion that you suck.

Even if you do quit, you're going to have trouble finding a job that pays as much as a non-FAANG that doesn't ask you Leetcode questions.

If there's a takeaway from my comment, its to separate your concerns... Leetcode is just about interview prep and nothing more (maybe an entry to competitive programming, where Leetcode is actually a bit too easy). Job performance has nothing to do with Leetcode or even so much programming skills, but more to do with communication, work visibility, meshing with coworkers, taking responsibility and initiative, etc. And programming, just as a hobby, has nothing to do with the above.
It also came out at an interesting time, because everyone was trying to push data-to-redundancy ratios to their limits. Since storage was so expensive back then, storing multiple copies of data made little sense when looking at it from a data storage view, even if the speeds were much better

Then Google dropped their MapReduce paper: https://static.googleusercontent.com/media/research.google.c...

Which quite literally paved the way for modern data processing, and works extremely well with the Google Filesystem architecture
Damage control: https://www.netgate.com/blog/painful-lessons-learned-in-secu...
Ineffective, or using side-channels
How HashiCorp Works
Of course, even the Interstate Highway System followed existing railroad right of ways a lot of the time. Although exit ramps and feeder roads still required a lot of eminent domain exercise. (The house I grew up in lost a bunch of property to eminent domain for this reason.)
I think the main problem is that by using it you're still giving google decision-making power over the future of the web
* Redis and Memcached

* MapReduce

* Column stores
OS X / macOS. After about 5 years of Windows, 10 years of various Linux desktops, I got converted to Mac in 2012 and never looked back.
I mean, they're all nonlinear at some point in the range of possible doses. Radiation too. I should have specified I was focusing on the "very low" bit of the curves. Chest X-ray vs two chest X-rays, rather than Louis Slotin vs the guy at the back of the room.
Hey, I give them credit for that. Centrist Dems like Obama and Biden seem fine with some role for nuclear power on the electric grid.
I see American governance being stuck in different situations without a possible way out. For example, Prop 13 in California, it is clearly not a good idea long term, it will keep suffocating the state and yet I don't think it is possible to repel it, game theory is just that strong.
Ah yes, insisting that everything is racial is a great way to overcome racism eyeroll

How long until night is no longer dark?
None of these are valid complaints akin to their rights.
I came to say this. Well put. Take my vote.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.businessinsider.com/abandon...
Nobody lives in the internet or in mass media.
You might want to investigate GrafX2: https://pulkomandy.tk/projects/GrafX2
Kleros has some complexities that we dont need, while we need some things that Kleros doesnt have, ie potential reviewers are not necessarily just token holders, but other users with reputation above certain level etc.
The problem for most countries is that it can be decades between hosting two Olympics, meaning that facilities are either worn out not fulfilling the current Olympic technical requirements.

Also; very few countries has a need for facilities with the capacity the Olympics require, so this would be a huge burden for most of them.
I follow cryptocurrency and they usually say: Bitcoin Fixes This. It sounds pretty silly. Bitcoin hasn't really fixed anything. It's just a generalization. But the motto draws attention to the cause of many problems in America: the US Dollar monetary system. The Dollar's reserve currency status causes other countries to flood the US with goods in exchange for the currency. It causes trade balances.

The US over time loses its manufacturing and tooling capabilities. Most infrastructure work is custom. You can't build a bridge overseas, ship, and install it in the US. You can build the parts overseas. But it'll take a lot more time and resources to design and assemble them into a bridge in the US. So the final cost ends up being more.

I live in a neighborhood built in the 1980s. Up the hill, there are neighborhoods built in the 1990s and 2000s. After 2000s, houses look pretty much the same. The houses are more expensive. But the amount of custom design decreases over time. It's got more and more expensive to build custom things in the US.

I don't think it's possible to fix these infrastructure costs until we can fix the monetary policy. I think a new crypto system can provide a solution to this problem. Until then, we're stuck with cheap and unnecessary goods while our infrastructure is slowly deteriorating.
I'd say it's just inflation in industries that haven't had any made any progress in efficiency - it takes the same or more effort to do the same/corresponding activity. Productivity in manufacturing has increased a massive amount, so the inflation has less of an impact.
The context was a "return to nature" movement, not specifically suburban morals. Rural areas, at least in my country, mostly consist either from intensive unsustainable agriculture, or forests that get logged out with increasing speed. There are attempts to steer to more ecological and climate-change-resistant land management but it's so slow and arduous. Nature is to them just something to be exploited.
Sorry but could not comprehend this "but over 10 years there's a non-zero chance you'll luck into something bigger" Could you please explain little bit what do you mean?
Thanks
Arguing these fine points is a waste of time because I feel like people defending this are missing the complete insanity of this situation. Try a different perspective:

Let's say Apple wants to sell their devices at "Billy's Electronics", which is a tiny kiosk at a mall with minimal foot traffic. Billy tells Apple that he'll only sell Apple devices at his kiosk if Apple agrees to give him 30% of all revenues Apple makes from all of their services from customers that buy a device at his kiosk. This includes things like iCloud subscriptions, app store sales, etc.

That's batshit right? Like literal insanity if Apple would accept that deal. So obviously, Apple would tell Billy to fuck off and will find somewhere else to sell their devices.

Except they can't, because Billy is the only person with a license to sell electronics in the entire country. He got this by convincing everyone that he wants to "protect" electronics customers from scammers and other bad people who want to exploit them. The fact that this makes Billy a trillionaire is just a nice little coincidence.

"Sure, I'm the richest entity in the entire history of the universe, but that's not why I'm doing this. I'm doing this so innocent people don't download an app only to discover that they need to go to another website to create an account first." ~ Billy

> If they make less the $1m through the App Store, it will only be 15%

That's a deflection tactic, and doesn't justify anything. 15% is still too much as long as there are no alternatives.
> I think there's two distinct ideas being discussed. Can people be unemployed because of structural, societal, or political reasons? Sure, and I think most people would agree. We have plenty of example of that happening - depressions, recessions, mass refugees, etc.

> But can people be unemployed because we run out of things for humans to do? That's what the video is arguing, but it won't be the case unless we've fully satisfied all of our desires. If we haven't, there are, by definition, still things to do.

The question at hand though is exactly why is this true of humans but not horses?
Scott Long from Netgate's response: https://www.netgate.com/blog/painful-lessons-learned-in-secu...

"Unfortunately, the public discussion has also veered into vague claims and slanderous attacks. This is where the lack of transparency, the lack of respect, and the inflation of ego is damaging and unproductive. We had hoped for a better collaboration than this, and it makes me doubt the motives of the attackers. And yes, I make deliberate use of the word “attacker” here, because that’s what this is, an attack on Netgate and on the FreeBSD and pfSense communities. Beware of anyone who says that they have all the answers. I also worry about the integrity of those who make vague statements and blanket, over-the-top accusations."
As far as I'm aware, the issue is that the GPL 2 & 3 stipulate that the freedom to copy, modify and distribute any work based on GPL software should not come with any additional restrictions, and the App Store's terms impose additional restrictions on those freedoms.
one of the many reasons I never bought an iPhone... not because I have some beef against iOS/OSX... I just dislike Apple's business antics, a.k.a. greed.