skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I can't help but feel much of this argument is relative. From my experience (I'm no longer a European resident) almost all of the European rail network that I've traveled on (and that's quite a lot) beats much of the infrastructure in Anglophone countries—and I'm referring to both track and rolling-stock).

(...Perhaps my view has been formed by the fact that I've come from a low base in Anglophone countries, so everything seems much better in Europe.)

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Edit: I must be fair, there was one European route that I traveled on that was truly substandard and that was the single-track Kaiser Franz Josephs Bahn (Emperor Franz Joseph Railway) from Vienna (Wien Nordbahnhof) to Prague via Gmünd — not the good two track route that goes via Břeclav and Brno (which I've also traveled on).

The railway track of the Kaiser Franz Josephs Bahn was in dire—most desperate—need of maintenance when I traveled on it and that was a few years before the Iron Curtain fell and Czechoslovakia was still communist.

There's no doubt that's the worst track I've ever traveled on (it's one of those experience one never forgets). The train traveled so slowly that we passengers thought we could get out and walk faster, moreover the carriages rocked wildly from side to side and we had a constant feeling that the train was going to derail at any moment (had it gone any faster then I reckon it certainly would have derailed). I have no idea whether that track is still in such poor condition today or not (at the time I was on the understanding that the track had deliberately not been maintained since the War because of Iron Curtain politics).

Nevertheless, it was by far the exception in my experience.
https://www.cnbc.com/2021/10/01/alaska-airlines-employees-ne...
Did Amazon fail when it opened the flood gates to the mass market? Did eBay? Did Walmart? No. I don't accept your premise that a company switching from handmade to low price mass produced will fail.

Fail means different things to different people, but to the stockholders that the bean counters are beholden to determine fail/success by stock price and profits. What definition the original users of the site expecting handmade/small batch type of items have of fail/success means nothing to those in charge. It's not really a hard subject to understand is it? You have to accept that the "leadership" of Etsy is different now than when it was created. Their ethos has changed. It happens. You are the one that is having problems accepting it, but it will not change reality. People still use Google now that "don't be evil" is no longer their ethos.
I always do date added, and it sometimes doesn't show new files in the file picker view most commonly - and then I have to go somewhere else and back and it seems to refresh.

The other weirdness is sometimes a file gets updated (think "touch") and it won't change it's order in the list.

Most of the time it works fine. It's like inotify or whatever sometimes doesn't fire.
Mount Hoverla
No. I agree with you. I was thinking further down the line, when everyone is in a driverless (optional?) car.
So who takes the train?
Yes, but the chance of becoming one of the ~10 most powerful people at Apple or Goldman Sachs is extraordinarily small, and you pretty much know if you even have a shot at it after you've been working at the company for a year. If you've been there three years and haven't been promoted twice you have zero chance of ever being in the top 10.
I assume it's because if you're not a senior captain in a major airline, most pilots earn very low wages and work long hours. Though it may be tempting to blame vaccine mandates depending on your ideology.
I have no interest in defending the actions of the Unabomber.

I did feel that you were using the tautology of murder to ignore my actual point.

>You: His murders are the working-out of his ideas; his ideas are worth rejecting just on that basis.

>Me: That doesn't mean they are wrong in part or in whole.

If the unabomber said as part of the manifesto that the sky is blue, would you now reject that the sky is blue?

There is nothing about murder that invalidates the logic, truth, or accuracy of an argument, and especially not the individual components of an argument.

It is fine and fair if you don't personally want to learn or engage with an argument that has lead to violence. But that does not mean that it is internally inconsistent, or devoid of accurate observations about the world (e.g. new technologies can impose externalities on the unwilling).
classic numenta TM
I have as well, and your comment matches my experience more than the article does. Different teams own different systems, and there's basically no intersection between "things that require a ton of data/computation" and "things that must be computed online".
In the US the division is arguably worse and the masks are coming off.
"Apparently, the threat actor, which seems to be of Chinese origin, used a known Microsoft Exchange server vulnerability to gain initial access."
> Or is it a “they have sinned and you can’t pay off sin?”

Interesting. Yes, this is the closest of your choices. Not quite
Biblical Sin :), but that will do for the moment.

Please note that I asked a genuine, good-faith moral question. I'm
not making an assertion here.

I removed a remark that "perceived fairness is often more important in
human-centred affairs than summative outcomes" - but then noticed
that you teach human centred design and obviously get that. So let's
explore it together.

> many are reforestation projects in the developing world.

Regardless of how "good" the purchased offset is, it does not impact
the Kantian moral argument - in particular I am thinking about
universalisabilty. I don't think it matters whether one bribes the rich
or poor in this case. the question is about the ethics of transferable
responsibility - for which I used the obviously extreme edge case of
buying immunity from murder charges.

> I see this as "I made a mess in the street and I hired cleaners to
clean it up." Sure, I didn't do the cleaning myself, but I’m still
being responsible for it, right?

No, I think that's where I would differ. Let's say you made the mess
the next day, and the next, and the one after... and each day you pay
someone to clean it up. You're not off the hook. Somewhat like the
broken window fallacy, you're still creating a net loss to society.
Unless you think those cleaners have nothing better to do with their
lives than labour cleaning up your mess.

Let's consider another slightly more ordinary place this logic
operates and fails. Parking or speeding fines. Why do we have motoring
restrictions? Ultimately it's to reduce loss of life. Careless driving
or parking gets people killed. But paltry fines have no effect on
those who simply see it as an extra charge to be factored into being
an anti-social driver. Now suppose that instead I can simply pay
another driver to stay at home so I can speed around by the local
school and park across the hospital entrance.

Being "responsible for it" would be not making the mess in the first
place. You're "making amends for it" - those would be better words.
But if that delivers no deterrence from doing it again, a fundamental
aspect of justice necessary for regulating human affairs is not
served.
The bane of package managers is when you have to go beyond what they supply for whatever reason - horrible memories of trying to upgrade php on old versions of CentOS still haunt me.
Ask HN: I want to start a company, but I am currently overemployed
Context: I have been working multiple SWE jobs, remotely, since early in the pandemic. None of the companies know I am doing this. It's been very time demanding, but also financially and intellectually rewarding. Some of the companies are FAANG.

I want to start a company, but I'm worried about the potential legal/ethical fallout from what I have done. I've kept a low profile so far, but obviously if I start a company I will need do a lot of networking, and people will need to know my background. If my work history is publicly known, there is some risk of litigation from the massive-cap companies that I have worked for.

I don't feel I've done anything ethically wrong. I work 80hrs most weeks, and received feedback and promotions from each of the companies. I have never breached any NDA or employment agreement, except for the obligatory clause in most salaried contracts: "don't engage in any other employment, not even as a cashier at Taco Bell". That said, it is a legal grey-area, and a well-funded lawsuit could drag on for a long time.

The company I want to start would be creating a software product which plugs into, or perhaps replaces one of the products I currently work on (it's a very old piece of software). I don't believe this would breach any contracts, since other competitors were born out of similar circumstances (minus the overemployment)

I wanted to get some other perspectives on my situation. Is it salvageable? Or did I ruin my chances by having a non-conventional work history?
> I hope there will be more investment, especially in the Baltics.

There is an ongoing development, Rail Baltica, European gauge, being built to join Helsinki through the Baltic states, to Poland, which will link up with Germany. The end date has slipped (it was supposed to be in 2024, now it's pushed to 2026) but construction is already ongoing, and it looks quite promising.
I think a good litmus test for if something is a good argument is to see if it is something possible to disprove by proving the inverse.

If you were to take this argument:
It is nearly impossible to get an honest current thought from a Chinese citizen about that... and therefore Chinese must not served/satisfied by their government.

So the inverse of that would be "it is possible to get an honest current thought from a Chinese citizen." So since that is not something I can prove or disprove your claim tells basically nothing as well. This is because even an actual Chinese person telling you their honest thought cannot prove to you, by your standards, to have given you their honest opinion because you make hand wavy arguments that their true opinions are being suppressed already.

You've already disqualified any potential rebuttal because saying "that tells you nothing" can be literally applied to any data or stats thrown at you... because your whole argument is that the data/stats/opinions of Chinese people cannot be trusted.

> Some wealthy Chinese have a designated family member move to hedge their wealth preservation bets while galavanting around in a western country. I don't think trends in that metric reveal anything except how many are willing to play that game.

You can literally apply this as a counter argument to anything. I could claim that Americans' satisfaction with their lives is just a select few that you happened to talk to that are rich and galavanting around. The only way to counter this would be to catalogue every single person and of course also audit that every person was accounted for because any survey covering people can be discredited by saying that it didn't count everybody or that answers were given under duress.

The reality is that not even 20 years ago most Chinese who left did not have plans of returning, but given improving conditions the rate of repatriation is increasing. After the revolution people tried to escape, but that's not the case anymore. Rather than automatically discrediting any Chinese or stats that go against your pre-determined narrative, which is not something people can argue against, present evidence that can actually be proved/disproved.
You've literally improved my life with this comment. Thank you.
Atlassian does not care about individual customers. They are purely driven by numbers. I listened to a presentation by one of their founders a long time ago where he admitted that statistics and number management was part of their DNA. They don’t think about the customer’s name, maybe this is right, maybe not.
I don’t think there is any way to reconcile those things. If your primary concern is protecting individual rights in every corner of the country, you need centralization. And frankly you probably need to limit democracy as much as possible—which is what we did in the last several decades by having the Supreme Court take over many issues that other countries have decided by legislation.

But there’s no limiting principle to the above. You’d have more protection of individual rights in Europe if France could overrule Poland through undemocratic organizations like the ECHR: https://eclj.org/marriage/the-echr-unanimously-confirms-the-.... That would probably trigger devastating political consequences, however.

At the end of the day you have to make a decision about how much you care about democracy and self determination versus individual rights. I don’t think that in 2022 we are striking the right balance on that.
Send me an email. Happy to share some thoughts.
> Plus, OP's timeframe was 1980. A couple years back then

1977 vs 1985 was an enormous difference in personal computing.
I would love if blimp travel would come back, so long as you get more personal space. A modern airship could make the transatlantic trip in about 24-36 hours, so it doesn't really matter for casual vacation travel. It would be quite relaxing, just floating across the ocean with a nice cup of tea and a good book in a small but cozy cabin.
->Even SpaceX, which from the beginning was well-funded and able to hire excellent early employees, is still years away from sending humans to Mars after its founding in 2002. But the Sjögrens are undaunted. "You have to work hard, but you do not have to be very smart," Tina Sjögren added.

Sounds like an acceptance speech at the Darwin Awards.
Here is a good analysis of why the situation will never improve:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ll92ud6Nufw
I've used trains many times in Germany and they are far far from crumbling.
Not alaska air but: Currently stuck from a flight canceled on Saturday, next available flight out is Thursday night. I’ve gone through every state of rage and have settled on just never flying again when i get home.
That wouldn't be correct either, at least half the time. Problem is that "latency" is used with different meanings, at least two:

1. time from an acoustic pressure wave reaching a transducer (microphone), being converted to a digital representation, being processed by a computer, being converted back to an analog representation and finally causing a new acoustic pressure wave care of another transducer (speaker).

2. time between when someone uses some kind of physical control (mouse, MIDI keyboard, touch surface, many others) to indicate that they would like something to happen (a new note, a change in a parameter) and an acoustic pressure wave emerging somewhere that reflects that change.

The first one is "roundtrip" latency; the second one is playback latency.
Article about the fallacies of groupthink, and how rationality is largely based on our communities.
> Baltic states still use a soviet-derived system

Rail Baltica [1] (already being constructed) is using European gauge.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rail_Baltica
You're suggesting that people do not willingly buy low quality crap, but they most definitely do. Even when knowing it is crap, and even when having the budget to buy higher quality goods. They'll still buy the low quality crap, at massive scale.

I'm from the Netherlands. One of the most successful retail stores here is "Action", which in the category of low quality garbage sinks to the absolute bottom.

Everybody knows it's garbage. One may buy a pair of scissors there and have it break down in 2 months of usage. So then people just buy another one. It's not strictly a budget issue, most shoppers can afford a good pair of scissors, one that lasts 10 years, but they prefer the cheap one anyway.

"Alibaba shopping" is mainstream here. Everybody buys their small items there. One of my colleagues, whom is upper middle class, was proudly telling me how he buys a "value" pack of 10 phone chargers every year. They're all terrible and soon break down, so then he'll just move to the next one. He could just buy a single decent one, but no.

I wish you were right, but you're not. People just want the absolute cheapest thing, and they want it now.
On Mac you generally just don’t minimize windows unless you explicitly want that behaviour (sort of hidden and available manually through the dock). It’s just a different workflow.
Lemon Design – A React component library based on Tailwind CSS
Most Hydrogen is produced from Methane by steam reforming

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steam_reforming
I love this. It feels like only in America (perhaps Canada, Aus/NZ, and parts of Northern/Western Europe?) would a company cop in direct terms to screwing up and needing to do better.

There's little (but not zero) PR-speak here and little (but not zero) passive voice or blame on uncontrollable circumstances: it's a decent enough post-mortem.

In most countries, especially in East Asia or central/Eastern Europe, I never see companies say in public "we messed up and here's how". It's always caused by acts of god, unforeseeable industry conditions, etc. It's never mea culpa.

But speaking of Canada, it'll be a cold day in hell before Air Canada ever admits to being the worst major airline in the developed world.
Hilarious.

No, I don't trip with my dealer. Nor do I recommend it: I suggest that a risk you could incur is your dealer stealing from you while you're blitzed on the floor of your apartment. And should that happen, the police will happily book you for admitting to one crime while reporting another.

And, yes, your therapist would technically be your dealer at that point. But, key difference: the strictures of legality are stacked in your favor at that point.
It's a tax break for the employee and hence for the employer - they can spend $X on insurance and give the employee $x+tax rate in benefits.

What should be done is entirely decouple it so that health insurance AND medical expenses are above the line deductible - or make none of it such. And then let employees pick whatever they want.
Went through that once in the mid- late 90’s. Each restore and test took hours, so 3-4 attempts took 2 days - with me sleeping, crying and praying in a conference room.
My point wasn't to dismiss your anecdotal evidence, but just to highlight that the number per capita can be easily misleading. Yes Amtrak doesn't serve a lot of the US and IIRC has effectively only a single high-speed line. But the average German citizen is using high-speed railway 100 times more often than the average US citizen (for the obvious reasons we both mentioned). You're just not the average citizen.

I'm pretty sure many Germans don't use the ICE at all. While service is a lot better, the way to and from the high-speed train station often makes it inefficient, especially because the German autobahn is also world-class and doesn't suffer from a "last miles" problem.
Larger sensor = an image with a shallower depth of field. That’s all any of us are saying.
I mean, my "issue" with it is right there in my top level reply: Making new kinds of scarcity is just a way to shift winners and losers around, it does nothing to really fix anything.

And this:

> zero-trust solutions

vs.

> obvious scam projects

might be the source of cognitive dissonance people who are into this stuff might need to grapple with before they start throwing shade at people who are skeptical. And yes I'm aware that zero-trust here has a technical meaning that's not related to people scamming with it, but if you want to convince people that this is worth something your idea of trust needs to evolve beyond a dry technical reading.

Also, if I need to prove any credentials back in the early-ish days I burnt out a radeon video card mining a bunch of currencies up to the first rollout of ethereum. I think there's some interesting ideas in the tech (demonstrating that zero-trust consensus protocols could exist at scale at all is super interesting), but what it's become is an environmental and financial disaster zone and I'm not interested in that anymore.
Certainly not in the UK, our ticket prices keep going up massively and the service is getting worse and worse, putting on smaller and smaller trains and more delays and cancellations than ever, with most train stations badly run down.

It's a complete joke. The trains are far worse and largely more expensive than they were ten years ago.

In the past eight months, I have gotten a same day return journey on average once a month and I have experienced:

Twice - Stranded missing my last train home due to delayed connecting trains. One of which I was advised to go to a different station and speak to them there to arrange a taxi, got there station was unmanned and ended up having to sort via customer service on twitter at 11pm.

Had a train that I couldn't move on, standing in the isle, when i had reserved seats that i couldn't even get too due to the amount of people on it, later stops they couldn't even let anymore people on it. This was a train they decided to cut the size by more than half without warning therefore I am not even sure if my reserved seats existed!

2x train home that I wanted cancelled, lucky I had checked the app due to constant issues so I Could change plans and get an earlier train home.

Had a train terminate several stops early and thrown off the train without explanation.

3x had delays (not the ones mentioned on others) of over 15 minutes.
Most recently, left at the station late at night for over an hour as train was delayed, with constantly changing information on screens including saying the train was coming in the next 5 minutes for around half an hour and then various different platform changes only for it to turn up at the original platform, unstaffed station, no staff to help and many annoyed/confused people. I was desperate for the toilet, but due to it being later they were all locked, leaving for an uncomfortable and uncertain wait.
Life itself is fatal. Nothing is without risk.

I'm not a health professional but I think medicine for the mentally ill is clearly overprescribed and this seems to be mostly a US thing. Although sadly, it is spreading.

Times past stepping into a therapists office you'd be sent to get zapped for being a gay man or a hysterical woman and prescribed all manner of questionable treatments from cigarettes to most recently opioids. I heard those things might be bad for you too.

The advice "we don't have data you should do nothing" is essentially a no-op. Useless, but you're fulfilling your primary rule, fair enough.

If the advice is "we don't have data on psychedelics, they have an unknown risk factor. But we do have data on this pill with a known factor, so you should take it instead".. well. We're all adults.
We can spend forever debating this, or we can use our common sense that anything Zuckerberg touches is bad for society and probably causing deep rooted issues.

Look, we can spend hundreds of years debating over which foods are bad for us and which are good, or we can just use our common sense and cut out sugars and bad oils. That'll solve 90%.

Why waste time waiting for glacier-speed science to figure this out when we have this common sense. Stop anyone on the street and ask them if they think constant notifications, scrolling, phone addiction and apps like tinder, TikTok and Instagram are good for our brains.

I'd be sad if people didn't unanimously agree that it's poison
Infectious disease epidemiologist, but formerly data scientist in health tech. I’m really happy with my career currently, but I think some day I want to go back to direct service—- maybe something like a case manager or youth worker or similar. But part-time and only after I feel totally financially secure.
I am a fresher here I’d love to learn