skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Maybe there’s a market for dual-OS-installation smartphones, as an extension of dual-SIM ones.
In my experience, PayPal aren't much better.

A few years ago I ordered something off eBay. It was overpriced, but it was the only place selling this particular variant of the item. Anyway, the next day they sent me a message saying that variant was out of stock and could send me another instead, but of course I opted to cancel. After a lot of back and forth (them offering me dodgy extras and me refusing) they sent it anyway and told me to return it.

To cut a long story short, they did indeed send the item, but not me. And the mad part is, PayPal admitted to not caring, even with written proof from Royal Mail that the order wasn't addressed to me, PayPal pretty much said (I cant find the original dispute now, so not verbatim) that as long as the order was sent to someone, I have nothing to complain about.

In the end I just asked my bank for a chargeback, which took 5 minutes compared to the literal month the above took.
Is there a possibility of the free tier no longer being available in the future?
> why Wall Street greed would prefer trains that derail to ones that don’t?

Because they can offload most of the costs of the derailments as externalities while pocketing the money from larger trains.
Exactly. The problem is that so many small teams (even solo devs) believe they should be acting like big corps with 30 teams of N devs.
Wouldn't that be nice! If we can fix that we could build subways and high speed rail for a reasonable price too! But not even China can build reactors in a timely fashion for a good price. It takes them over 10 years and about $10B per.
I think I saw this shared a year or two ago here.
> what solution is there that wouldn't involve massively importing workers from other societies where workers aren't worse?

Yes. (Not agreeing workforce degradation is the biggest problem. But opening spigots on skilled immigration would help.)
Wish them luck but having gone through something similar with another deep learning company that raised a ton of money, things will probably get a lot harder for them after the C round when investors start looking at revenue and not growth, and with a large valuation that limits the pool of potential acquirers.
What are the options for incentivizing long-term performance?
As someone who loves looking at stats, I found looking at some of my favourite podcasts to be pretty interesting. Here's an example stats page for the Accidental Tech Podcast (ATP): https://podcastdetails.com/?url=https://atp.fm/rss
Actually if someone fraudulently removes money from my bank account, I am not liable for the loss. Protections with credit cards are even stronger.
Biggest one of all they always exclude is genetics, intelligence, predisposition, drive, these are not evenly distributed, and why would they be under a system of evolution.
They should've supported TOTP, then phased out SMS. I mean, they should still add support for TOTP, but thumbs up their asses.
Getting a bit off topic here, but I agree it's fully fixable with policy changes.

I'm not disagreeing that it feels like the workers are getting fed up, leaving and putting in less effort. It's why, and you can't blame them for feeling exasperated.

I mean I fully support increasing immigration. More tax revenue, more growth, everybody wins.
>> Air fryers are out. Countertop 3D-printing ovens that transform shelf-stable foods into hot dishes are IN!

Ok. A hundred thousand years of cooking food over a hot surface/fire is all going to disappear in a generation. Microwaves were new, but we did not abandon conventional ovens and BBQs. Maybe cooking things over heat will disappear, but I would still place my bets on us cooking in basically the same manner as before.

>> plankton from the deepest point in the Pacific Ocean, where we have yet to explore the possibilities of food.

There is literally no food down there. It is a remarkably low-energy environment. What is alive there survives on the dead matter falling from above. For the energy it would take to haul fish from such depths we could run greenhouses in space.
When we accept that people who's job title is "futurologist" are full of it.
> I have given up enormous amounts of home and family life for insurance, for a living wage, for a trade that is respectable.

I think this is the problem - paying people in respect that you can't make a meal of. And what does the living wage mean? That you can come back from work, eat a meal and have somewhere to sleep?
It's interesting that people are happy to be taxed to teeth, having very little in exchange and do nothing about the fact that corporations their work for don't pay much and if their bosses pay taxes, then it means they got lame accountants.
The vast majority of Christian Church-affiliated colleges in the USA are either catholic (Jesuit in particular) or Mainline. In both of those cases, the denominational ties do not preclude attendance at the college/university by non-Christians, LGBT, etc. Either in policy or in practice. If a university is Catholic or Mainline, it's pretty safe to assume that the college is open to all and that a huge % of students attending the school are not from that denomination (or particularly theistic).

Places like Wheaton (Chicago), Cedarville, Liberty, CofO, etc. are very much the outliers in terms of how church-affiliated higher ed institutions behave toward non-fundamentalist-conservative-Christians.

BTW, being Christian is not enough at CofO. The important thing is to be socially conservative and fit in with the fundy crowd. Mainline lutherans, for example, definitely aren't welcome. The national-ethnic-religious-political belief complex that is de facto required to get by at CofO is probably not even recognizable as Christianity to a European Christian eye.

Anyways, with respect to CofO, the bigotry is really not even relevant. Compare the CS faculty at Truman/Rolla/etc. vs CofO. The work study program is a $20/hr job for 15 hours a week. You can get up to $15/hr easy and your improved internship placements out of Truman/Rolla will put you ahead of CofO even before graduation. Ten years down the road there's probably close to an entire 0 in outcome differences.
I am surprised that they are not stating the word explicitly, only vaguely as "closely connected to a major recent news event" ("He-Who-Must-Not-Be-Named" comes to mind as an association)

Edit: the wording was updated to be more constructive
That word is being used in a different way in this case. Maybe it's an economic definition of "efficient" but I'm not sure. It means they are spending bare minimum on staff/expenses to achieve whatever goals they have. Like "lean".
I had a physics professor many years back who told me about how they sometimes used to measure integrals by cutting out the areas of a plot they were interested in and weighing the resulting paper.
I'm convinced the countdown timer lingers on the 5 longer than a second, also.
I don't think it is a 'perfect balance' so much as trying to maximize the number and length of advertisements that people will tolerate at this point in time. The nature of the business model is that some product manager will be tasked with getting the advertisement revenue higher at some point in the future and they will no doubt try to push the envelope. I also feel like 'total view time' is a metric that is in service to advertisements and not the primary goal itself.
I kept expecting them to mention the safety benefits of not using lead, but it never came up. Guess they didn't care. Explains why nobody was wearing eye protection, or ear protection. Probably not a lot of steel-toed boots, either.
> Which isn't a society.

Your terms are acceptable.
> assumption that without that experience, people are going to be dicks to food service employees

Yes.

> assuming people are dicks by default

Also yes.

Not everyone. But on any given, sufficiently busy day, there would be at least one completely unreasonable person. Kudos to everyone else, but if everyone had the experience, I feel like it wouldn't happen.
> they can offload most of the costs of the derailments as externalities while pocketing the money from larger trains

Are derailments cash-flow neutral? (Honest question. Could be, if the public foots clean-up and insurance the train and lost revenue.)
I'm glad people are connecting with this comment (it's mine), but it's actually not about the article! My apologies, there was another, pro-car article that this should be attached to, but now I cannot find on hn. Carry on!
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Where to start...

In a democracy, pandering to the citizenry is kind of the point.

Long term plans that work and are popular are often continued even by governments with diametrically opposed agendas.

What would lead to better democracy is a populace that isnt informed by network TV and tabloids with owners who have diametrically opposed interests to their readers/viewers, not longer term limits.

Blairite governments werent neoliberal because of short term limits. They were neoliberal coz thats what the blairites/brownites were.

The theory that voters dont punish bad behavior is fairly well disproved just by looking at the last presidential election.
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OK, but how's that working out in the US Senate, or even in the House? It has worked out, at times in the past - there was decent leadership there on occasion. But at the moment, we still have people who pretty much have safe seats, but the leadership is... rather lacking.
https://www.quordle.com/#/

Quordle’s a great alternative.
Efficient money making machines.
if just for browsing, you cand use libreddit frontend like https://leddit.xyz/r/iamatotalpieceofshit/comments/uleq7s/eb...
That website explicitly says that it will not replace FranceConnect and other identification options and will never be mandatory or the only way to identify, though. Maybe you think they're lying on the website and have ulterior motives, but they explain it as just an additional identification option for FranceConnect. I'm welcoming it because I find it absurd to use my social security login to identify for asking for a birth certificate, and chip ID cards are the obvious thing to use for identification with public services.

It looks a bit like what we also have in Belgium, but with more (or different) options and with an app that is not privately owned at least.
Shorter trains are better on a lot of metrics except the number of crews you need driving trains around, basically. Except that everything ends up taking longer with the longer train, so you have a bit of a false economy, although I'm guessing it's not false enough to make it undesirable.

To mention an issue that I don't think was well-touched upon in the article -- in a lot of places, you have single tracks running from point A to point B, with the occasional side track a train can park on to let another train past.

But these side tracks may only be a mile or so long -- what happens when two three-mile trains need to pass each other using a 1 mile side track? A fun puzzle, but not very fun to implement the solution in real time.
Difficult. You need strong, diverse boards. You probably need worker representation on boards. You need a cultural change that's not very American.
I'm surprised the NYT still uses a big randomized word list that was decided upon 'last year'. Why not pick Wordle words, say, one week out? It's not a ton of a work: probably less work over the course of a year than writing a single apology letter for an accidental collision that it would have prevented.
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More important: insect&co to be sold as foods need to be ultra-processed, even if such process does not cost much, witch means: the target is making simple foods disappear. To have food some want to impose industrial-only show to cut out small actors.

Once we arrive at that point and nobody know anymore how to produce foods, like simple poultry farming, the perfect dictatorship is served: no one can even survive without a certain scale of industry only giants can own.
Glad that I am not alone. Just got another rejection email. No LeetCode, problems seemed realistic, I solved them all. Really have no idea what they were looking for.

This was my 4th application where I was rejected after final round. A lot more where I didn't get past initial screening etc. Feeling down right now.

I have 15 years of technical experience, I never got a chance to specialize but I can handle everything, DevOps, database, frontend, & backend. Perhaps that's my fault for just getting work done instead of focusing on my career. Perhaps I am getting really old for this industry. Maybe I really should go in the management.
The genesis may have been hearsay but the claim itself is verifiable. Are trains of the size he is describing derailing on a higher frequency? Are train lengths exceeding the safety margins of the yards and equipment?

Hearsay can be a valuable tool in prompting that process of verification.
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True, Logseq is mainly an outliner. But you can enable free-form text temporarily by pressing t+d (toggle document mode). Alternatively, you can press ctrl+shift+p to open the command palette and type 'document mode'.
Hard agree.

If you aren't familiar, I find The App Continuum [1] to be fantastic for structuring these kind of conversations with my teams :D

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It's a very strange political time.

As you noted, the elderly receive massive amounts of government welfare and handouts while advocating the strongest against it for anyone else.

Young people don't seem to realize that they have a massive cudgel that they could whack the elderly with.

I am not looking forward to the looming funding crisis with social security and Medicare
This part stood out to me also, but mostly for the fact that it seemed poorly substantiated.

The fact of the matter is BNSF, CSX, Norfolk Southern, and Union Pacific are majority owned by institutional investors (Vanguard, Blackrock, State Street, Capital World Investors, etc.) Those institutions are managing these investments on behalf of large capital pools–insurance company float, pension funds, 401ks, etc. Who does all that capital belong to (or who are its beneficiaries)? Regular Americans. Very likely included? The author himself!

While I have no particular interest or knowledge of the rail industry, I am moved by the issues highlighted by the author. However, I think his call to conspiratorial instincts ("a few rich people are working us to death to fund their nth private island") is bad, dangerous logic.
I like the idea of sortition but I can't help of feel you'd end up with employed full-time legislative staff just becoming the de facto representatives. If you're an unemployed HS dropout who gets selected to be a representative, you're either going to listen to the committee staffer who's been working on this tax or education bill for the last 2 years, you're going to listen to whatever other representative manages to convince you to just vote however they vote, or you're just going to vote randomly (or not at all). Option 1 seems most likely.
I can't recall seeing ads on the Android app, but there are definitely ads in the web client. The ads must do a very good job of disguising themselves if you haven't noticed them. I have moved most of my email to ProtonMail. So much nicer paying for that from a company that respects me rather than using a free product from a company who has no other purpose than to drive ad revenue.
The source code seemed extremely simple, but somehow they messed it up so it’s impossible for them to change a word in time. Am I understanding this correctly?
They’re trying not to spoil the puzzle?
Can you give some examples of languages that don't use a stack for function calls? I'd love to read the assembly generated by their respective compilers to see how that looks like on the CPU level.
You wouldn't ask a teacher or nurse to change careers because their employer or government is treating them poorly.

You'd tell the employer to stop treating people like garbage.

I know this is mostly about developers but not everyone is able to just make a job change like you're suggesting. We should be giving people the things they need to be happy and successful in their current jobs.
> If code is kept organized, it can be split into microservices when/if the need arises.

You can even just run multiple copies of the monolith with feature flags to enable/disable different parts of the code.
- Shorter trains need less engines (or rather, they can be run with one or two locomotives). That means when one fails the conductor can immediately hear this and halt the train. When a mid- or end engine fails, it may escalate to catastrophic failure

- long trains have issues with brake apply speed - remember, train cars are dumb. No electricity, all they have (at least here in Europe) is one main brake line where the transmission speed is the speed of sound - that means, for a 700m long train a drop in pressure at the front is only registered after 2 seconds at the last carriage.

- long trains are a nightmare to shunt around. Not just because you have immense distance between the engine and the conductor at the end, but especially if the train has to run over a street level crossing. Old shunting yards simply were never estimated to run such long trains.

- long trains are a nightmare for residents along the lines for the same reason

- long and especially double stacked trains put up a hell of a lot more stress on the infrastructure than it was constructed for - remember again, this infra is sometimes well over a century old!
The market did figure it out. The status quo is what it settled on.
>People complain a lot about Youtube ads and how awful they are but as a thought experiment I once tried to imagine the amount of storage and bandwidth Youtube must need everyday to operate.

There was a post here about how Vimeo is charging people $300+/month for their videos-- and someone did the math to show thats just the hosting/bandwidth costs. For one creator.

Youtube has millions of videos-- Im surprised their costs aren't higher. Im grateful they provide this service for free at all
A side-by-side study of American and Chinese railways, perhaps a compare-and-contrast investigative journalism article, would make for interesting reading. China seems well ahead of the USA here:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rail_transport_in_China

> "China's railways are the busiest in the world. In 2019, railways in China delivered 3.660 billion passenger trips, generating 1,470.66 billion passenger-kilometres and carried 4.389 billion tonnes of freight, generating 3,018 billion cargo tonne-kilometres. Freight traffic turnover has increased more than fivefold over the period 1980-2013 and passenger traffic turnover has increased more than sevenfold over the same period. During the five years 2016-2020, China's railway network handled 14.9 billion passenger trips, 9 billion of which were completed by bullet trains, the remaining 5.9 billion by conventional rail."

I'm assuming that in the USA the major rail owners don't want to invest in infrastructure upgrades, and longer trains mean lower labor costs? The US government doesn't want to raise taxes to pay for massive infrastructure projects (FDR New Deal programs are not on the horizon for either party), so nobody will pick up the required bill and infrastructure will just continue degrading to Third World status?

The only new rail development being backed by the federal government looks like oil export trains in Utah... not exactly in line with Biden rhetoric on climate and renewable energy.

https://grist.org/politics/an-oil-train-is-set-to-destroy-pr...
I was an HSBC customer for a long time. One of the worst banking experiences I can imagine. Just FYI.
Speaking with railroader friends changed my mind on train unions.

To an outsider, they sound terribly unreasonable, but speaking with people in the trenches has made me a believer in these unions, for whatever that is worth.
"current Wordle technology" is one of the things that made it so great -- it was /is client-side.

I understand that NYT didn't want to step in it, and it was probably a smart decision, but I'd love to live in a world where the editor chose to say, "Well, we defined that word list many months ago and it happened to come up today. The public reaction to today's Wordle simply emphasizes the fact that words, even a single word, matter."
Accessing a publicly-available website using your preferred frontend application (NewPipe) is absolutely NOT piracy. Consider disregarding the future advice of whoever told you this. I believe this is a dangerous and misleading line of thinking.
Last time I tried YouTube music, it was an underwhelming experience. I expected it to show only official videos, but it showed any random video with music. It substituted Google Play Music, where you could have a curated library and your own uploads, with random music videos.
Yes. I use kiwi browser (chrome but with addons) and installed an extension that redirects to old.* reddit, there are a few similar in the extensions store.
Yup. It circulated in a lot of pieces subsequently, up until he mentioned that he'd been using a word processor for the last several books.

Although I think a huge amount of the traction it got was a journalistic in-approval of "See, person who writes technofuturism hates technology."
True, that is also very funny in my opinion. It's our need to play with new toys that makes us over-engineer stuff.

As I get more experienced, I try to find the easiest, most profound solution to a problem. At the same time I "design" escape scenarios. If that business will scale in that x way then I will be able to do y. Most times the need for scale never comes.
While I don't disagree with anything mentioned here, it reads a little like Atlas Shrugged fanfiction
It's the same with railroad engineers. Their average salary is just near $100k.
That's great, but how do I sell a $2 candy bar to someone and not have to charge them a $2 transaction fee (or $20 if there's a gas war), and also make sure their transaction actually goes through.

With crypto you still need to trust someone: the blockchain owners, as they can always do a rollback at any time, as happened with the DAO.
Please don’t be pretentious by citing a “law” dictionary on HN. Even that definition is not completely accurate under California state law.

This is a general forum, the verb “rob” can be used with other meanings more generally[1], “to deprive of something due, expected, or desired”.

[1] https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/rob
> What is dark about the design pattern? They have an ad-free YT that anyone can pay to subscribe.

Yeah, the old "We want everything for free, and will complain if you spy on us or show us ads along the way"
It is mentioned that this letter was commentary in a hearing with the CEOs of BNSF, CSX, Norfolk Southern and Union Pacific. I imagine they wanted to use a more formal style to address these business leaders.
I agree that it’s bad, but just FYI “Request Desktop Website” works, as do i.reddit.com and old.reddit.com.