skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I believe that this is incorrectly simplistic, if only because these sorts of situations by definition exist at the interface between a railroad and either a private or government road. Having the line operator (which I'm taking to mean railroad owner, in this case BNSF) bear 100% of the burden of providing full crossing protection creates an unbalanced situation (in terms of the cost to be borne). I'm not an expert, but have been following a forum thread on this topic (this Amtrak-truck collision and how to prevent repeats)[0] which points to articles stating that this particular crossing has been "on the list" of not the RR owner (BNSF) but MODOT (Missouri [state] Dept of Transportation) for receiving a "crossing gates and lights" (automated protection) deployment, and that the cost of this prospective deployment is approximately USD400K (per crossing) which would be shared by the state (MODOT) and BNSF, and that, as noted by others posting in this thread, there are a large number (probably the majority) of RR/road crossings in the state (and country) which are similarly unprotected, and whose low use rate has historically not justified the installation and ongoing maintenance costs of full crossing protection. A cynic on the linked[0] thread mentioned it was possible that MODOT had put every unprotected RR/road crossing "on the list" to receive a full protection equipment deployment, so that in case of any similar accident, they could claim to "already be working on a solution, just didn't get there in time" as in bureaucratic CYA.

Given the costs involved, IMO it would probably be better to close at least half of the crossings in (e.g. relatively flat farmland) areas where the road grid incurs these crossings at a rate more than one per mile. But as with decisions to spend money, choosing which crossings to close (ostensibly so that the remainder may have automated protection added) becomes a political "hot potato" that can easily cause the process to stall.

[0] https://cs.trains.com/trn/f/111/t/292768.aspx

[1] https://www.kansascity.com/news/state/missouri/article263049...
Georgia elected Marjorie Greene Taylor and Raphael Warnock. States aren't red or blue; it is a divisive over simplification. To paraphrase that parent comment, What would be unremarkable in San Francisco would raise eyebrows in much of the rest of California.
Contact your city sometimes they have programs for people in your situation.. recently at my work we were contacted through one of these programs about a an older dev in a similar situation as yourself. We interviewed them for an internship and if we take them on the city will pay their wage for the length of the internship.
The price of oil to deep fry is not cheap. Deep frying consumes a lot of oil and if you don't do it often, it is not cost effective.
True true. I'm a bit jaded after being gaslit into spending thousands of dollars on ad networks, one of which convinced me to hand over a few dollars per click that resulted in a bad time. I guess this is my fault, not realizing it was unsustainable.

then I moved on to "content marketing" and "selling before you have a product" and I also struggled. Spending hours and $$$ on content that nobody even read or saw. Without a product I could not even get past "do you have a demo".

This road is full of pitfalls, false promises and outright gambling at times. I wish I had the resources I have now to spray and pray (try everything and see what sticks literally).

I wish I could just hire somebody like you hire coders. The difficulty comes from not knowing if this marketer is just blowing hot air or know what they are doing. Obviously, past performance helps but I find it a lot easier to find coders vs sales & marketing ppl.
Washington Mutual was the biggest bank failure in US history at the time but there were many other smaller failures too
> > A redundant solution doesn't have a perfect uptime just because it's redundant, in fact sometimes it might have even less uptime because of failures in the redundancy mechanism
> I'm fairly sure that google does a better job keeping cloud spanner and cloud run working, and their redundancy mechanisms working, than whoever runs your single linux box will do.

You'd be surprised - the major cloud providers have outages all the time.

Google in particular will have some random backing service firing 502's seemingly randomly while their dashboards say "all good".
Now you go on welfare and find a $400/month apartment in rural Nebraska
this is so sadly that you think you need to explain this ...
Quite. Of course not.

That said, the tower was originally intended to be temporary, for twenty year. And con artist Victor Lustig sold the tower to scrap metal merchants—twice.
i wonder if the recording industry also knee-jerk-renamed "master record" and "mastering", since the meaning is the same in both contexts.

or if "masterclass" and "karate master" will have the same fate.

:eyeroll:

whitelist/blacklist has an unfortunate recent history, but black/white dualism preceeds it by a good margin:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black-and-white_dualism
It’s not true that it’s sorted in decreasing order. See my comment here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31978942
Unfortunately this didn't age well.
And that’s why the founders set up the electoral college. We are a federal republic of states.

The federal government was supposed to be small, because the founders understood the downside of a large federal government.
I mean it must be obvious but the source of your problems seems to be your chronic pain. What is the source of it?

Do you need to go undergo an operation and don't have the resources for it? If not, do medications help? At least to help you get work done?
"Membranes, my boy. Membranes!"

I just looked it up. Hydrogen is insoluble in water. Oxygen is quite soluble. So, circulating water through, the hydrogen will bubble out, while the oxygen will be carried away with the water. So, maybe no semipermeable membranes needed.
Careers? Is monetary gain the goal of blogging now? ~back in my day~ we posted to our web logs because we had something to share with the world.
Does this require a PPA? As the Unity version in the main repositories is still 5.5.

https://packages.ubuntu.com/jammy/unity
UIs are not pure functions of the model (2018)
99% of what he wrote is unrelated to what he should have written about, but this is no surprise given that it reads like it's written by someone who, not once in his life, experienced a high.

Because he had barely anything to share about the experience (which means he definitely was NOT high), he filled the article with as much as he can about everything around what he should be talking about.
I suffered with chronic pain related issues for some years. I might have some insights, feel free to shoot me an email if you feel up to it. Mail is in my profile.
> Actually fast food restaurant margins on the “entree” items are extremely low.

Yes, the largest margin is in the drinks. Mostly municipal water.

The fries are in the middle. Potatoes are cheap; there's some prepraration that goes into the final product but it's still just one ingredient and pretty minimal labor in cooking and serving.

The sandwiches have the lowest margin. Multiple ingredients from different vendors, and the most labor to cook and assemble.
It's not a full uninstall -- all kind of weird stuff sticks around that hooks into various places. Just Google all the things people do just to get the Adobe CC stuff out of their Launchpad. Many users just create a junk folder and throw it all in there because there is no way to get rid of it on some machines.
Starlink dishes support ipv6, I've been using it for awhile. Their stock router box does not support ipv6 though.
While we're at it, we should dismantle the Statue of Liberty and the rest of those monstrosities as well, after all, what good are they and the scrap is probably worth a fortune. /s
You don't get to change the rules of the game while the game is being played.

The original problem, as stated by me, was:

"You are generating k random 64 bit integers. Each time you generate the integer, you have to insert it in a sorted collection.

(...)

The question: in your estimation, both algorithms being implemented optimally, what magnitude k needs to be for the linked list to start being more efficient than array list."

The cost is not evaluated for any individual insertion, only for the total cost of inserting k integers.

For some of the integers the cost of inserting to linked list will be higher, and for some the cost of inserting to array will be higher. It does not matter. We do not care. We just care about what is the cost of inserting k integers thus randomly generated a) into sorted linked list and b) into sorted array list.
Not related to GP, but just something that's common on thread like this in general. There seems to be an attitude that the modern world has ushered some eternal era and that since everything is better in the modern world nothing can ever get worse again and the empire will never decline. Not surprised, given the sites association with VCs and startups that operate on the delusion of infinite growth.
These give me some good context to go off of. Are there any resources you’d recommend on an intro to garbage collection for devs without the low level cs background? I’ll read a textbook if I have to, I just don’t know where to start with that sort of thing in terms of biting off comprehend-able amounts of info
I used to call this the "Poltergeist Pattern".

Tons of tiny functions, each doing almost nothing, frantically calling each other, and somehow useful functionality results.

Each function is very easy to understand, but how they together do useful tasks is near incomprehensible.
If you're priorities are 'which companies do my values align with among generally very high integrity companies to begin with' - then you might want to reconsider.

Google is not evil. They're just big, and define some practices which we might think should change in the future.

Once you have the thing up and running, you can start to think about hosting your own.

Also, you don't need to use fancy services because most startups can run just fine on a single instance of whatever, meaning, there are a lot of cloud providers out there.
I'll be duplicating others' advice, but such is life:

- Separate your own issues from your child's. You will react strongly and unreasonably to events; work hard to understand when that happens and own it.

- Learn who your child is. Every child is different, and if you try to fit them into some standard mold it won't end well for either of you.

- Be open to being embarrassed at the grocery store.

- You will mess up. When you do so, own it and move on.

- When infuriated by your child, remember Robin Williams' line from "Night at the Museum": "Who's evolved?" [0]

- Be a safe harbor for your child. If they come to you with a problem, never make them regret it.

- When/if you have a second child, don't compare them. They're different people at different stages of their lives, and will need different approaches, care, and levels of patience.

[0] https://clip.cafe/night-at-the-museum-2006/no-hard-feelings-...
Well for one thing, all of the things GP mentioned are fear-based posts. Furthermore, they attract the worst types of responses, which then sucks in empathetic posters who unwittingly respond to trolls and leads pretty directly to arguments. At least that’s what I’ve witnessed the few times I’ve logged in to check on things of local interest.
Yeah I had the same thought.

But there is something to be said for making a bunch of money for a short amount of time and have enough to be buying your house outright. That will set you up for an easier life in the future where you do not need to be a "wage slave" just so you can keep up with the monthly rent or mortgage payments.

Having a guaranteed roof over your head whatever happens (even if you can only afford candles and basic pasta to eat) frees you up a lot. I guess in America it probably doesn't help much since you might need medical treatment one day so you'll need several hundred thousand dollars in reserve for day to day medical expenses, but anywhere else in the world you could live quite happily on the odd small contracting job here and there if you know you have zero housing costs (or close to zero when considering maintenance and taxes etc)
Tor Browser – 11.0.15 (Android, Windows, macOS, Linux) – Release (July 2, 2022)
> I'd argue that running k8s effectively is no less knowledge-intensive than running VMs.

LOL - are you f'ing kidding?

Running VMs is much closer to running your app locally than containers and k8s - it's not that hard to do badly, and only marginally harder to do well.
This issue is definitely felt by me several projects into using JS tooling. It creates a language wide feedback loop that is IMO net bad.

New tools have to support old tooling. Want to build a new react competitor? Users should be able to use webpack, babel, esbuild, etc. Users should be able to use sass, less, etc. Each axis that has more options increases the effort to make something new.

I feel this is also the reason there is no rails-like JS framework today.
And then you try gaming and it is comparable to a Ryzen 7 4800H (45W)/ Nvidia GTX 1650ti (50W).
The Scouts who responded to this incident were passengers on the train that derailed. They were returning from Philmont Scout Ranch in New Mexico. It is traditional for Scouts to take the trip to and from Philmont on a train.
> be unfailingly patient

In concrete terms. When being late for work and getting the kid to daycare and they just absolutely insist they cant leave without having correct coloured socks.

Take a deep breath. Realise that that work probably can wait an hour, and that being heard and getting needs respected probably is much more important for your kid, and the colour of the socks might actually not be the real issue if you just take the time to figure it out
I don't think we can establish an objective classification for entertainment in terms of time wastefulness.

I'd rather stare at the sky than use TikTok, by the way.
You can't afford to pay 10% interest reliably.

However, this is a place to start: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Continuous_interest
This doesn't matter. I know no one will believe me, but there's no benchmark that can show the difference.
> and set up a scalable infrastructure

As a rule, for anything in an startup, adding that "scalable" adjective is a waste.

Of course, exceptions exist, but it's one of those problems that if you have them, you probably know it, and if you have them and don't know it, you won't succeed anyway. So any useful advice has the form of "don't".
Dafq, I live in Europe, ex-USSR in fact, and Ive NEVER ever seen a circumcised man (and we have a huge sauna culture, so its not for the lack of possibilities)

To cut something from your child just for "looks" or smth...fck thats sick.
I like to think of the TinyCore as (const)Linux.

TinyCore boots from a fixed instance state. When booted, this state can change as usual, but on reboot it will be reinitialized to the defined state.

Persistent changes to the state are done as 'backup' of whatever change aspects. The backup is driven by lists -- special text files that define files and directories to persist.

TinyCore apps are packed in a custom .tgz format and are downloaded from a number of mirrors or locally, if cached.

[0]: TinyCore Concepts http://www.tinycorelinux.net/concepts.html
Show HN: Learn Chinese through lyrics with pinyin and translation
22 MB is impressive, although I assume usage will be quite limited. My favorite small-distro is still puppy linux [0], which has a good size/functionality tradeoff.

[0]: https://puppylinux-woof-ce.github.io/
Similarly, the iconic Forth Rail Bridge in Scotland used to be repainted almost continuously.

However, a decade ago they repainted it using more expensive paint, which should last two decades.
No, but a $5bn personal injury case might actually get Tesla’s attention.

I’m not at all familiar with the relevant law, but I imagine the FTC could sue to force a refund of the FSD charges.
a lot of CS undergrads compress out recursion knowledge. They learn that most recursion is best skipped in favor of iteration/dp, and they learn that they should implement things efficiently.

It’s possible the undergrad assumed you were referring to an efficient recursive algorithm or simply forgot most recursion.
I'm not sure what the cause of your chronic pain is, but I would highly recommend reading John Sarno's "The Mindbody Prescription." I've dealt with chronic pain for years and it's the only thing that's had any effect. Please, please, don't write it off until you've read the book. Note that Sarno's work focuses on back pain, but it applies to all types of chronic pain (including migraines, which he discusses in the book).

- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8jQtmSZetJM

- https://aaroniba.net/how-i-cured-my-rsi-pain

- https://www.nytimes.com/2021/11/09/well/mind/john-sarno-chro...

- https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2021/well/chronic-pain.h...
> Modern Macbook which is overpriced elite computer sells with 256GB storage

its just that our industry is a joke, imagine they'd sell cars with three wheels and carge you extra for the 4th.
>>We’re one country but we don’t share a single set of values.

> This is a popular sentiment, but I don't think it's true

My personal experience is of a diverse USA. In the late 90s I toured
the states, a gig in a different city each night then back to the tour
bus and off to the next one by daybreak. Okay, not a great sampling of
ordinary life because on the road you mostly meet audiences, people in
bars, diner waitresses etc. But while I recall how the USA looks
superficially similar (giant cars on giant roads and the same brand
logos in every city) it's not. I saw quite a range of poverty and
wealth, segregation and integration, friendliness and aloofness, dense
cities and wide open country. Much like travelling around Europe.
The "use things I don't choose the hardware for" is the more relavent part. And I didn't mean the torx is actually hard to find in stores, rather that I don't see it much in the wild. I have torx bits I'd love to use more, but minus some small electronics I rarely run into the screws in the wild. Even electronics I see hex far more often. Like I said, just what I see in my activities
Mostly out of practicality. Gone are the days of safety running binary warez. (Code)
[malware]. Too many malcode and viruses.

Data on the other hand, is far less risky, as malicious content would need to exploit the file format parser, etc which is much harder than Trojan using a binary. You probably are not getting malware from mp3s.
I've heard that SSDI with a lawyer is much more doable than without one.
The term is originally intended to be offensive. To split the “good lesbians” from the “evil lesbians”. But I’m not surprised that people try to rewrite history on this one too.
Citation needed? How would digitizing their systems have saved the industry from all three of its primary revenue streams being hoovered up by free online classifieds, free debundled online news, and online advertising?

If you're going to blame the industry, it seems weird to claim it's because of strategic mistakes made in the 2 decades after peak circulation and not the moment ad revenue became indispensable?
no one forces you to consume 8 frozen patties at once. Especially since they already are frozen, why not keep them in that state until you crave burgers next time?
The "news" are the findings of the paper. Not sure why beliefs should matter for the value of scientific work
For CUDA, iirc these tasks (kernel launches) are put into streams (similar to threads) and scheduled for execution by the driver. Within each kernel launch, each 32 threads, called a warp, are executed together in a single unit, skipping some instructions when they have different control flow. I think the driver perhaps schedule in a warp level, and these warps are executing similar things so can be scheduled together. I am not an expert in this so I am not sure if this is how they do it.
I haven't tried the app but I know from experience that ymmv. For example, ASMR videos on YouTube do nothing for me, but some people say they experience frisson. I am susceptible to trypophobia and avoid any pictures with patterns of holes like that.
I like the concept of Talkers vs Doers, that I leant from Nassim Taleb. Whenever reading advice on the internet, one should check the author and ask themselves "what has this person actually *done* that gives credit to their words?".
I just looked it up. Solubility of hydrogen in water is negligible; but oxygen dissolves readily, although better in fresh than in seawater.
Can you write code? Plenty of places will hire part time, let you work from home, etc. Don’t look for big companies, look for small and mid sized private businesses. As an aside, I think this is an important reason to develop and maintain a social/professional network that you can lean on in times like this. I’m sure I have friends that would give me a chance at work under these circumstances. Maybe you have some of those from years past that you could reach out to? You may be surprised who is willing to help.
Agree 100%.

But if you have your own domain pointing to other people's land, then it's easy to switch.
An underrepresented point of view, certainly. As a software developer at a small game publisher, our idea of hell was a dozen incompatible platforms, none of which had a decisive advantage over the others, few of which could be ignored if the company were to prosper, and all of which were just different enough to tie up resources for porting that were badly needed for product development.

Wintel made a lot of good things possible that simply could never have happened in a fragmented market.
Would it be enough to slice the data between different connections when a country with restrictive laws is detected, so that no user is actually sharing working copies, not even single pages, portions of a song or single frames of a movie? That would be doable by separating data at atomic level, say odd nibbles here, even nibbles there, and transmit/receive them on different connections so that even by intercepting 100% of a transmission from point A to B there would be no chance to reconstruct the data, even in case the encryption, if present, was broken. The only way would be to tap also other connections containing the other half plus data for reconstruction, which would probably require physical access to the endpoint, or a court permit to intercept all data from to that endpoint, which is totally doable but on a whole different level, that is, if they are doing that then the user is already in trouble.
On the subject of sleep, there's no point in both staying up if you don't need to. Take it in shifts so you both get rest.
Start therapy or some sort of personal coaching the moment your child is born and keep doing it regularly.

Every session has made me a better parent, sometimes because I learned something explicitly about parenting, but more often because I suddenly resolved some deep dysfunction that had made life unreasonably difficult.

I only figured this out 9 years in and I regret not starting earlier for my and my kids' sakes.
I'm guessing food, car payment, gas, insurance, it adds up. Also, your comment comes across as really inappropriate.
I think you need to explain endofunctors.

An endofunctor is the category containing monoids such as the monad.*

*This is probably wrong. Please don't explain.
Agreed, this article provides clear evidence that the industry is declining but no evidence of it being linked to a growing divide. I’m sad, but not surprised, to see so few comments engaging with the contents of the article itself.