skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"Information Dashboard Design" by Stephen Few was the book that got me rolling. A good mixture of what and why.
Federal government could intervene by stipulating that postal and police trains have priority, because postal service and enforcement of federal law are federal powers in USA.
This is one of those instances where it is fortunate I have a common name. The top results if you google my name is some 18th century scottish architect. Hell, there's even another software engineer with the same name in the UK who always appears above me in search results. He had made a name for himself in the RoR community, apparently - I get emails from recruiters who apparently think I'm him (looking for a RoR expert) all the time.
For Nashville to Atlanta driving is going to be cheaper and way more convenient. Plus you're likely to need a car anyways at your destination. Few people are going to choose the train.

This inexplicable fascination with trains is frustrating to watch. They're expensive to build and aren't comprehensive solutions. The first thing that needs to be done is to get people off of cars. The easiest way to do that is dump a bunch of money into on demand ad hoc shuttle bus size transport. Make public transport convenient and people will use it. If people use it then they will support it and cities will naturally build to depend on it.

Edit:To illustrate the problem, I live about a mile from the center of downtown Atlanta. To get to the Amtrak station would require a bus, transfer to the subway, and transfer to another bus. It would take an hour to get to the station 6 miles away.
Amtrak leases all tracks they use with the highest priority. Nobody could afford a ticket of they had to lay their own tracks.

Private companies are the only ones willing to make these investments in infrastructure so they can leverage the data it provides, i.e. BNSF and Buffet.
The Refactoring UI guys have a lot of decent material, though they do tend to concentrate on a certain aesthetic that won’t necessarily produce the most effective UI in all cases. OP is specifically interested in modern web applications, so it seems like a good fit.
Or a book your username comes from? :)
Gutting them generally doesn't destroy anything. They could list anything they pull out on eBay, which would help anyone trying to get another one working.

For the ones I've listed, there's plenty that keep being relisted on eBay, so the demand for them seems low.
To be fair, it did happen with music. I think DRM-free movies are unlikely to happen, but I wouldn't put the odds at zero.
And by and large, people don't take trains for Chicago to Seattle type distances in Europe. That's further than the distance from Paris to Moscow.
How do you think US built their rail network?
It’s not a matter of capability, they just decided not to. They don’t own the rails, so they don’t have to maintain or repair them. I believe that CSX owns that line, and they repaired it in 2004. Amtrack could have restarted that service any time they wanted to.
> But since it’s trendy people try to apply it to everything.

When people do things you don't understand, don't just say that they're just doing it because it's fashionable. Sure, they might be — or they have their own reasons.

I use Rust in a couple of places outside of its original "systems programming" niche, where, yeah, I don't really need to track every allocation, I don't care about GC pauses, I don't need to ship one single binary, and the overhead of a runtime wouldn't bother me. Things like Web servers for side projects, or small scripts to do a task I need to automate.

However, I found that:

• The effort it took to bring Rust out of its niche, and the time it took to learn the domain-specific libraries for my use cases (Rocket for Web stuff; duct for shell script stuff) was less than I thought;

• The amount of knowledge I needed to retain to use a programming language effectively — the components of its standard library, common third-party helper libraries, how to navigate the documentation, how to fix mistakes, how to avoid traps and pitfalls, how to structure your program, how to handle differences between language versions — was much larger than I thought!

So I stick with Rust for non-systems tasks because the benefits outweigh the detriments for me.

(Granted, I was only able to do this because I already knew my way around the language and the borrow checker; if you already know, say, Python, you can make this exact same argument in reverse. But then you need to know how to wield Python for low-level programming as well as high-level programming.)

I read an article a few years ago called Java for Everything[1] (which was discussed here on HN[2]) that makes the same point, only with Java. If I had to pick an "everything language", I don't think it would be 2014-era Java, but the article did sell me on the benefits of having an "everything language" in the first place, and I feel the same benefits apply here with Rust.

[1]: https://www.teamten.com/lawrence/writings/java-for-everythin...
[2]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8677556
Well yeah, but I don't think it'll fly nowadays. And shouldn't
To get around this misleading marketing, it could help to inform potential buyers about the different levels.

Though it will require some serious material much better than e.g. the picture in this article:
https://www.dxc.technology/analytics/insights/146175-racing_...

The current problem is that Tesla is marketing Level 2 capability as if it is Level 4 or 5.
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The history here seems a bit cherry-picked and rock-focused. Hard to imagine that a lot of the work in establishing tom dimensions wouldn't have happened during the big band era, especially since for quite a while drummers were often the band leaders and there were even staged drum battles. Louie Bellson in particular had some epic drum sets with double bass drums and odd tom arrangements.

https://louiebellson.info/early-drumsets
Maybe skip the vision and simply build one reasonably priced high-speed line somewhere. LA to Vegas?

…well, OK, but then you say…

California has been trying to build a line for 5 decades. Now the price is beyond reasonable.

So I'm not sure how we get to that reasonably priced point.
That’s not in dispute. What I’m saying is for the most part these media wore out and often times people had to repurchase those media. I’ve known people who had to replace many of their CDs. They didn’t get to go to the store and “return the defective one” for a warranty replacement.
Since when are companies taxed on inventory? I thought JIT was about freeing up capital and avoiding waste (spoilage, out of date inventory etc)? It's hard to change that...
I was very curious about the "tainted" photo as my education is in imaging technology. I couldn't tell if he meant the radiation was changing the light, or was changing the camera (tbh I kinda didn't believe him), from the picture, looks like the image sensor did indeed arc a lot and even more weird is the amount and colour of them in relational to the other standard ISO issues in the image. In years of studying digital images and image sensors, I've never seen one act like that, at all.
it was already easy to obtain that very song or movie illegally.

Allowing a download doesn't _cause_ more piracy - it just makes the user have more power and control over their content they purchased.
Both - because there are laws against unfair contracts, especially when the unfair portion is only explained to the less advantaged party (the customer) in hidden tiny text.
A reasonably degree of fairness is a requirement to be legal, otherwise the contract is deemed "unconscionable" and void.
The article is one sided. Is there data that proves that 1 dose of J&J has advantages over 1 dose of Moderna / Pfizer vaccine? Right now these people are giving space for other people to get vaccinated, so what they are doing can save lives (Just like what happened in UK)
<3 Rust

The only thing I find difficult in Rust is lifetimes of e.g. "String"s in data structures, e.g. in Scala I have:

case class CustomerSale(name:String, item:String)

and because of GC I don't have to think about life times, copying etc. - data gets removed after a request or when nothing is used any longer.

In Rust it is

struct CustomerSale{
name: String,
item: String,
}

which rarely works that simple. I need to think of the life times of name and item, e.g. when I get them from a database, and I don't want to own it, or if I want to copy them or have &str etc. And in web frameworks in Rust there is no notion of request life times which would make things much easier.
To be fair, Apple has upgraded the quality of several movie titles I have purchased as HD to to 4k, without a charge.

Personally I treat my Apple purchases as volatile and approach the budgeting for them similarly as I would budget for events such as movie tickets.
Today you don't need banks to make money as politician.

Modern scheme in India:

1. Get citizens excited about new infra projects using tons of advertisements, and propoganda YouTube channels

2. Open a tender for the project

3. Pass on the bids to your favourable "company"

4. Now this favourable company puts in the winning bid and wins

5. Favourable company sends money to the political party through electoral bond

6. favourable company which is now a contractor on infra projects is forced to accept subcontractors who are usually acting as fronts and belong to family members of the politicians. These subcontracting firms either outsource the real work or they get into brand/asset building with public money.

This scheme works really well as they are skeaming off 20% of the project budget through various contractor companies and general public has no way to figure out anything.
I’m guessing the problem is last mile. There is a train from Denver that takes you directly to one mountain (Winter Park) but getting a train to any other mountain adds a ton of time and expense because you need shuttles from the train stop. The ski resorts are necessarily far apart (because they’re huge) and the time most people want to go is in the worst weather to be driving shuttles all over.

That Reno to Tahoe drive is still a hike and Heavenly/Squaw/Sierra at Tahoe are decently far apart.
You can buy movies on Vimeo 100% DRM free. It’s the only place I buy them.
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As evidenced by COVID, America is too dysfunctional to achieve this. China's advantage in this arena is that they are a mostly functioning autocracy and can ram through (literally) paths for a train where needed.
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Also In Our Time (another great BBC radio discussion programme) on Songs of Innocence and Experience: https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b07gh4pg
The priorities seem to have shifted, with most standardization efforts being focused on running WebAssembly on the server, rather than web browsers.

Flutter and Blazor are exceptions, but they had to reinvent everything their own way.

Regarding languages, the landscape is pretty much limited to Rust (when using compatible crates), Zig, TinyGo, AssemblyScript and C# (with Blazor).

The specification started with something very simple but keeps getting more and more complicated, not to mention breaking changes, that don’t encourage writing tooling for it. At least not until things settle a little bit.
Moving a billion people a year by rail is likely much more environmentally friendly than with cars and planes.
Building a new rail line is wonderfully easy when nobody actually owns the land they live on.
A sincere written apology should be 3. You needn’t misrepresent your own intentions to do this, but it does require thinking about the specific harms you have caused (perhaps unintentionally) and enumerating them in a way that doesn’t minimize their import. That is the anatomy of a true apology. It requires taking the other perspective as fact.
Seconded. I got some "great" (for me) shots using a simple barn door build of the 2017 eclipse and the neowise comet. Just needs 2 pieces of wood, a theaded rod, an esp8266, a stepper motor, a hinge, and some bolts
When the market catches up.

I’m no Elon fan, but Tesla FSD is still a generation ahead of anything else available on the market. GM (SuperCruise) and Ford (BlueCruise) make good attempts, but it’s not near FSD quality. Plenty of YouTube videos (@EVDave) out there that compare them against even Tesla basic AutoPilot. Super/BlueCruise are fine for pre-mapped straight line highways, but for the other 90% of the roads out there, Tesla AutoPilot can traverse most of them.
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I wonder this too, the non-mRNA vaccines are inferior technology
Yeah, but employment termination only applies going forward. The employer can't retroactively take back all of your previous pay. Apple here is keeping his money and also keeping the things he purchased with it.
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What are the compelling reasons to switch to Himalaya from mutt?
Then that's a positive change, and it will change the customers' perception when they "buy" something they don't own.
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Do you ever feel like an underdog? And that sometimes all that’s left are scraps? If so, I think you'll enjoy my story, from Google to DigitalOcean to Vultr.
Most of the transcontinentals[rail lines] were heavily subsidized by all levels of government via sub-market-rate loans, land grants, and special local privileges on the frontier.
- Conservative Enterprise Institute
But doesn't typescript provide all that?
On Ethereum, executing a function on a smart contract means you're doing computation and maybe writing data, which involves both CPU and disk. The amount you pay for running this operation is denominated in gas, and is determined by things like iterations, memory used, data written, etc. The end user doesn't get all of this separately, but instead gets a unified computation price. Maybe it sounds unclear at the current scale of Ethereum (which can only perform basic operations), but at a larger scale, we could unify the cost of remote computing in a single metric.
Ideally, people in Minnesota would also want to go to North Dakota. There's ideally some station-to-station ridership, these aren't express routes.
I think their factories were only shut for a couple of weeks and they never took the approach that they would be selling fewer vehicles.
Out of curiosity, what level was Waymo?
Discussed previously here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26390834
But ... but .... to the moon!!!!!???

Sorry, I've been over Tesla for a while now. Huge respect for the engineers, but their hypeman isn't doing them any favours at this stage in their lifecycle.

Massive respect to the company for altering and accelerating the auto markets move to EV's but I wouldn't buy a Tesla just on brand alone.

The Ioniq 5 is currently the top of my list and if I was in the market for a model S or X, I'd instead be looking at Lucid Air. I'm glad realistic alternatives are finally getting there.

Not interested in FSD at all. I won't be using my car as a Robotaxi and I actually enjoy driving. Lane assist is enough for me.

Anyway, n=1
Consider that most regional airline routes to rural parts of the country are subsidized as well (and far more is spent on it). Most of Alaska would lose air service. Large chunks of Texas, Arizona, and Alabama would be cut off.

I think we need to have a concept of essential rail service, like we have with road and air.

These routes should have have any obligation to make money, because they provide a benefit to tax payers. Most infrastructure is just accepted as something that should be funded.

Another reason these long distance routes should be left intact is because they are an important anchor for eventually expanding to high speed rail.

China kept their unprofitable rural slow passenger routes into the distant corners of their country, and now they are converting them to high speed.
If it would be any other car manufacturer they would be facing multi-million lawsuits. Instead TSLA is breaking records.
South Dakota gets no love.
Inventory tax? Is that a common thing? I have never heard of it before and my country definitely does not have it but we still have plenty of JIT.
and I have known many people that lose digital data because they did not back it up, they had to then repurchase that content, including things like DRM free ebooks, or drm free media

This is not a valid line of objection, just because if someone destroyed their CD and did not have a backup would have to rebuy, same is true if someone did not backup their DRM free content.

This HAS NOTHING TO DO with the ability to backup, or the fact that physical media may degrade over time. That is a non sequitur and a red herring all in one

In reality this is not even about digital media copyright, but more about the rights of digital platforms to unperson you and seize your legally purchase products for any arbitrary reason (or in many cases no reason at all)
Sorry but that is not clear or obvious at all to me.
At no point did I write about the absence of intimacy, cohabitation, or Asian 'third world' cultures.

You're not making much sense.
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No government would agree to that. Better have your citizens die of covid and blame it on foreign governments than to take all the responsibility yourself while giving outsiders indemnity. Governments have to play politics.
I wish these kinds of vitriolic posts cited some specific instances and sourced their claims. Otherwise I'm left to Google "NYT bad" to try to corroborate any of it.
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> Nobody could afford a ticket of they had to lay their own tracks.

Only assuming ticket sales needed to cover all operations, which definitely need not be the case.
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"The Waymo Driver operates at Level 4 autonomy, meaning, Waymo says, that “no human driver is needed in our defined operational conditions.” This, Waymo continues, represents “fully autonomous driving technology,” with the Waymo Driver being “fully independent from a human driver.” "

(https://spectrum.ieee.org/cars-that-think/transportation/sel...)

Also, your question refers to Waymo in the past tense, but not sure if you meant it that way. Waymo still is building and shipping and driving, AFAIK.
Indian banks are public, government owns majority share in them. It's ultimately the government shareholders and general public who loses when tons of loan suddenly go NPA.

As someone whoes family is in banking, it's not a low level employees at bank who is bribed. High level executive at a bank is pressured into passing a loan for a project which otherwise wouldn't pass bank's strict loan approval in return sometimes the high level executive will be offered financial favours when he would have retired

Sometimes the high level executive would have sent his son or daughter to US or UK for studies and suddenly they turn millionaire and banker claims they made good business there but infact it's the money laundered to UK from India, ending up in their foreign bank accounts
Ever seen a plastic bag blow across the road? Or a cat cross the road? Or a roadworks barrier blow over in high wind? Or traffic lights be broken and stuck on red? Or a branch fall? Or a little old lady waiting for someone to stop the traffic so she can slowly cross (even if there is a crossing just 30 feet further up the road)? These (and thousands of other random occurences) aren't insurmountable obstacles to a human driver, but would likely cause a program to fail or act in an unintuitive way.

I don't see how self-driving cars can ever be good drivers on the road. They are running a program, but not all eventualities can be catered to.

More generally, I find the idea of bundling the idea of self-driving cars with electric cars disingenuous. Its contrived as an executive decision has already been made that the masses should not have personal transport (like cars). Instead in the future, we should call a self-driving Uber. This sounds nice perhaps, but I resent it. It is yet another manipulation to take away existing freedoms.

Even if local government drops speed limits by 50% to cater to them (they say this relates to safety) or decrease lanes and parking, self driving cars will still be dangerous. Perversely though, the slower speeds, narrower lanes and other traffic 'calming' measures that create traffic jams, will force people of the road. We will want this solution to a governance created problem.
They’re not the only ones to do that, but yeah, they have a rep. I’ve heard of FIAT (now Stellantis) routinely paying suppliers 3 to 6 months after a contract is fulfilled. Absolutely ludicrous.
Oh I see, you mean you were just making the descriptive statement that people will speculate if they are not given information? I took you to be saying that they (the family or whoever has the right to give out that information) were actually obliged to tell people.

In that case, sorry about the misunderstanding. I agree with you in that descriptive sense, that people will speculate.

I also think they ought not to speculate or demand information, and that it's quite l̶u̶r̶i̶d̶ [edit: morbid, rather] of them to do so. I understand the psychology behind it, because generally information is transparent and accessible by default these days. And generally that's a good thing. But people may not want to share certain information when grieving a loved one's death - and when they may still need to tell people who were close to him, rather than letting them find out from a trending Twitter topic. They may even never want the manner of their loved one's death to be an open fact on Wikipedia, like for instance David Carradine's family might have wished. I'm sympathetic in either case. I think we internet people as a whole really ought to be sympathetic too. Some of the comments on this thread are appalling in their sense of entitlement to know this information.
It seems like the value proposition of this sort of extortion would rapidly fall if you just made a GPT3 bot that slandered people using a name generator to iterate over the less than 1 billion unique names that exist in the world. Publish and spam social media, mangle search results, then we'll be back to where we were in the 90s, with no one believing the contents of search engine results.
ROW = right of way

NEC = northeast corridor
> Amtrak leases all tracks they use with the highest priority.

Not in any useful way: freight delays passenger trains in the US with impunity.

http://blog.amtrak.com/2019/05/why-are-amtrak-trains-delayed...
Especially because every so often we as consumers get an email saying “we made some updates to the EULA / ToS, here’s the full 50 pages document without any markup as to what actually changed, you are now bound by these new terms that aren’t exactly the ones you initially agreed to”