skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The problem is that TSA isn't as bad as it was right after 9/11, and baggage tracking is much better on all airlines. You no longer need to arrive 2 hours before the scheduled departure and spend an hour collecting your bags.

With TSA PreCheck, I can reliably go from curb to gate in less than 15 minutes. If you're not someone who feels the need to be the first one on the plane, that means you can arrive at the airport 30 minutes before the scheduled departure time.

So, as a practical matter, that means a SJC->SEA flight is at least an hour shorter than the hypothetical train.

I'm also very skeptical that a train could reach Seattle in 3.5 hours from the Bay Area. That would require an average speed of over 200 mph on the great-circle path.

California High-Speed Rail only promises an average speed of 150 mph between LA and San Francisco (w/ a world-class top speed of 220 mph). Additionally, geography dictates a more circuitous route. CAHSR route-miles between LA and the SFBA (similar terrain) are 25% greater than the straight-line distance.

Realistically, the train would take almost 6 hours, and a plane would be less than half.
>the world has never been as encouraging of trying different things as now

Weed was the counterculture of 50 years ago. Teens exploring drugs in that era are literal boomers.

It's just normalized now. I don't think it has anything to do with tolerance of engaging in the abnormal.

Kink is sorta becoming normalized, but you point to an article about using a hookup app. Wake me up when they publish an article that covers cruising for an understall tugjob positively.
Until now I had not found an eloquent way to express that emotion, but you come close.

Somewhere around the time node got very popular, I started to notice a lot of impeccably branded (is that the right word? trendy maybe?) websites with tutorials that used all the right buzzwords to get me interested. Once I'd step through the content, it'd be very low quality. Despite the smooth lines and round edges, a lot of them were riddled with inaccuracies, assumptions, unabashed spelling and grammar issues, stolen content and lots of candid offtopic observations.. Not to mention they all loaded very slowly.

I used to joke about it mockingly during the early node days that you could judge the trajectory of a project based on the ratio of bytes dedicated to persona and branding vs actual content. Anything passing the 1:2 ratio generally didn't last long.
I'm not quite zero notifications, but I've never installed work e-mail/calendar/slack on my phone. Work notifications are slack direct DMs on my laptop/desktop only. And I sort of condition people to understand that I'm the person who gets things done and I might not respond to you immediately.

If you think you desperately need to be ADHD constantly helping people out immediately with every request they have and this is the way to get forward in your career, you might want to reconsider that. You turn into sort of the helpdesk guy. You can still be the person that does all the extraordinarily hard problems that nobody else can solve, and deliver on the big features, without being the person who is there for instantly answering questions 24/7. If you open yourself up to being ADHD constantly you'll probably never get anything done through being interrupted constantly and you may find yourself stuck at a lower technical level than you want to progress to. Although if you want a management job this is probably the path you want to take.
Thank you so much! I started listening yesterday and cannot put it down. I am not certain how long will it stay up, but it is gold.
I'd be more impressed if they can figure out Ikea directions :-P
Stop solving problems you don't have
This is what so depressing about the CS biz. Any senior developer can provide the data that firmly explains why a product like Stadia does not work. Still, some of these “beyond belief” garbage marketing people think that somehow, they are going to circumvent basic physics principles.

Fire everybody involved.
Even before “influencers” young people often wanted to be media or athletic stats of some sort, so that isn’t new.

The drive to increase “engagement” and ad reviews is killing it (which is related to influencers). YouTube is basically unwatchable without an way to block ads. Young people began to abandon Facebook when they opened it up to everyone and let boomers spam their family and friends with every political chain letter and video they come across.
Ugh, you're going to make me analyze AI drivel. Yes. It reads like nonsense.

> "How is the soul different from consciousness or sensation?"

Red flag 1: it's two wildly different questions in one. Red flag 2: one question makes sense, the other does not.

1. "How is the soul different from consciousness?" This makes sense.

2. "How is the soul different from sensation?" This does not make sense without further elaboration.

I've noticed this type of subtle mistake in a lot of AI drivel: compound statements where one item doesn't quite fit. Now for the real pukefest.

> "The soul, I think, is like a sphere, and consciousness or sensation are like circles which move round another centre which moves round yet another centre, and so on in endless cycles." "And the definitions of the soul which you were mentioning," I said, "like that of the circle, were only half-truths?" "Quite so," he answered. "Such a figure as that of the circle is infinitely more like the soul than the said definitions."

This metaphor is completely empty. It means nothing. It provides no value.

> "That is true," he said. "Then let us not presume to say that the soul is the same as consciousness, but let us say rather that the soul is that which becomes aware of any thing."

When did we presume this?

> "But does the soul perceive through the eyes or any other sense?" "Presumably through the senses." "Not through the ears, however," he interposed.

Lol wut?

> "They prepare the soul to perceive after she is prepared through the true philosophy." "How do they do that?" "The alliance of the simple and pure with the pure is a sort of attunement which gives the soul rhythm and beauty, and makes her aware of the true nature of the senses." "You have certainly explained the matter for me," I said. "Not at all," he said. "Yet I admire the natural ability of your mind."

We've gone off topic and the original question has not been discussed.
Or use imgix for that part
Every codebase I've seen has a ton of brand new WTFs in it. If you've been doing it for a decade, you've seen between 1 and 8 codebases. A mix of "yeah yeah everyone does that" and weirdness bespoke to that culture. The "yeah yeah everyone calls 'new' to get a new object" isn't what needs fixing.
> It bothers me that Apple has so much mindshare among the public that people only judge their phones/devices in comparison to Apple devices, while ignoring any non-Apple options.

There’s actually a lot of hidden cost to switching platforms. For me there are 2:

1. I hate Google more than I hate Apple (irrelevant for most people)

2. I’m balls deep in Apple’s ecosystem. Never mind the hardware. All paid apps? Gone. All in-app purchases? Gone. Everything you’ve bought on iTunes store? Difficult to access.
I did too, and so far I've been able to end the messages with "STOP"

They all appear to comply with that older school SMS norm. Who knew?

If you do it for a few, they tend to end overall. Now, instead of getting a few a day (right?!?), I get one out of the blue.

I did not "STOP" Bernie. I like Bernie. I don't like how it went with Bernie and all the people trying for better. Those messages have been considerate, infrequent, etc...

So far, all of the others hit pretty hard and fast, but do "STOP"

This suggests some entities, like Bernie for example, do maintain a list but are not necessarily sharing it. Other entities either share their lists, or will send messages for hire.

Your mileage may vary. Hope sharing these experiences helps.
I am aware how it looks like with JS off, but I'm not doing anything here that Discourse haven't done and they had massive success doing so, so I'm going to stick to it. :)
Yeah. and unfortunately, this is only from publicly listed info. Goal is to create awareness on SIM Swap vulnerability. How can we do better
Mandatory speed limiters added to new cars in Europe
You americans are weird...
> If you’re trading crypto, having a secure phone is as important as a hardware wallet.

It looks like this is targeted towards crypto whale hopefuls who, for whatever reason, store sizeable value in a hot wallet/CEX that's controllable using a phone number/SMS 2FA. The price point of $99/mo supports this hypothesis.

Honestly, not a bad idea. These people clearly have more money than sense.
Linux: < 1 second into a custom gui application

https://embexus.com/2017/05/16/embedded-linux-fast-boot-tech...
Social graph lock-in. :( I use Mastodon and love it, but all of my IRL [weak ties] are on FB and IG.

[weak ties]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interpersonal_ties
Then I'm really not sure what your intent is here. After all, you said it yourself...

>Believing baseless conjecture is dumb imo.

So, it's dumb to believe baseless conjecture, but we should believe your baseless conjecture that someone else's baseless conjecture is wrong.
> guarantees protection against SIM Swap

Not from a marketing standpoint, but from a procedural level, how is this guaranteed?
An independent effort to fund the development of such a phone is being organized at https://smallandroidphone.com/
Let's see, you got...my name, my spouse's name, my work email, my personal email, our birthdays, at least 5 of my former addresses, my whole driver's license history, where I went to college, where I went to high school, every company I've worked for, my mom's name, my parent's names, and my gender. That's more than I expected that you could get, wow.

One thing your site could do but doesn't is tell me WHERE it got that information, like exactly where. Why just say "publicly available data?" I want to know precisely where you got all this on me, with annotations. Without that information, this is just a scary page that encourages me to sign up for nebulous services.
I was going to say this.
> You mean because that's obviously way more sane than spewing the installation of every piece of software all over the system.

> There's a reason it's basically only Unix that works like that.

I think you're underestimating how common it is for software on both Windows and macOS (the former more than the latter) to spew its bits all over the system. In the case of Windows especially, this includes things like the Registry and events sent to Event Viewer.
We can call it by name: a fringe theory spread by Christian extremists, a particular kind that’s deranged even by most Christian extremist standards. Same disgusting human trash like the ones behind abortion ban.
Highways and rail create different kinds of disruption in neighborhoods. Highways constantly have traffic, creating noise and pollution all the time. Railroads are mostly quiet, with loud traffic in short bursts.

Passenger railroads are narrower than urban highways. The US-101 freeway cuts through Echo Park and Westlake in Los Angeles, taking up as much as 330 feet of width, counting on/off ramps. California HSR has trench sections specced as narrow as 72 feet[1], and most of its urban rights-of-way are under 100 feet wide.

Walking next to the 101 in Echo Park you can see how it so starkly divides what was once a single connected neighborhood. The light rail lines (about ~40-50 ft to cross) in other neighborhoods don't give that impression.

[1]: https://www.hsr.ca.gov/wp-content/uploads/docs/programs/eir_...
in the context of a ui kit, "dashboard" is not the same thing as what grafana gives you. it's more of a dashboard as in the ui that you get after you log in to some saas app.
Depends on the specific server hardware of course. Generally, yes the hardware RAID controller does consume a great deal of time (often displaying a splash screen with progress on the console, if one is connected at boot).

Server hardware also tends to do other hardware checks/validate before booting as well. Some of these checks are able to be disabled, and some others are not.

Then, there are systems like IBM iSeries running iOS/OS400 which then hands over to the OS to perform a great deal of system integrity checks before enabling services and I/O. Our Power7 series "400" system used to take upwards of 20 minutes to come online before we decommissioned it.

Generally speaking, for a server, boot time is not a factor. Nobody needs their physical server to boot and be ready in 5 seconds... so it's never been a priority. Stability and integrity are much more important in this arena.
Wikipedia Suspends Editing of Recession Page
The people who have extremely low latency internet are all behind a corp or acad firewall
Has anybody actually read the article?

Meta is not arguing against adding the leap second, they just argue that skewing the clock slightly over some hours avoids the 'invalid' time with 61 seconds in a minute and the resulting software problems while keeping the time reasonably accurate for for the general public and computer systems.
Wow, what an incredible story! I can't imagine having to relearn simple tasks and skills honed over a lifetime.
Thanks for responding, and for looking into it.

I don't mean to make too fine of a point from it; the combination of missing pages and slightly "off" formatting (mixed capitalization of the company name, other company logos embedded without rounding or blending) sets off my phishing alarm.
I wish I could still love DFW's work the way I used to, but it's colored by [allegations of significant relational abuse](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Foster_Wallace#Personal_...).
> If Linux could boot in 5 seconds on low tier hardware in 2008, why do I need to wait ~30 seconds to boot it on modern hardware in 2022?

I am not sure why you have to wait 30 seconds. My current system runs PopOS, and it takes less than 10 seconds. My previous install (NixOS), used to boot in about the same time it took for my monitor to understand that the system was on. The BIOS screen takes about as much time as the OS to run(I have fast boot disabled).

By modern hardware, I assume you are using a SSD.
> Getting complete nutrition exclusively from plants just isn't something that humans evolved doing.

Agreed. I haven't eaten red or white meat for over 5 years now. I'm not strict about animal oils / fats tainting my food intake. I also still consume eggs/dairy/fish. The difference being I consume very little of those things. I may eat fish 2 times per week at the most. I eat maybe 2-4 eggs per week (both cooked and used as an ingredient). Dairy I don't consume other than as an ingredient or the very occasional dessert (ice cream).

I've only improved my health during that time. And as you get older it's interesting to see peers continue to overconsume and pay the price accordingly.

We don't need to be vegans to make a significant improvement on our planet. But what's considered "normal" from a dietary standpoint today is nowhere near a truly healthful diet nor is it treading lightly on our ecosystem.
The two articles are directed at the same people—there is a huge overlap between folks who buy pickup trucks and folks who wear tactical gear. And both take an aesthetic preference and characterize it as something sinister and dangerous for society.

As @some_random observes, it’s entirely fair to ask whether there is a real danger here, or whether the article reflects the “cultural distaste” of the author. The Bloomberg article I cited is another example in the same genre.
There is also Warmate drone (commercial https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=zzzOH5fBAqw) that is used by Ukraine forces.
I don't believe that you're only using publicly available data. What are your sources? It should not be legal to store all this information tied to only a phone number that just anyone can look up publicly online.
Not sure if I agree with the scoring model here.

I tried two phone numbers: my primary cell phone number gets a great 800+ score but reveals an accurate address history of 9 years.

The second one gets a poor score (415), but none of the data is accurate. Have fun: https://gist.github.com/piscisaureus/03d5ebeeb3e77922a858464....
Just to add some numbers, the freight modal splits as of 2018 (most recent year with complete data), measured in tonne-kilometers, for a few countries [1] and the EU taken as a whole [2]:

US: 45% road, 38% rail, 17% other (water/pipeline)

France: 75% road, 15% rail, 10% other

Germany: 62% road, 25% rail, 18% other

Spain: 92% road, 4% rail, 4% other

EU: 76% road, 19% rail, 5% other

[1] https://stats.oecd.org/BrandedView.aspx?oecd_bv_id=trsprt-da...

[2] https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/statistics-explained/index.php...
What data sources are powering this?
> None of these apps are intended to solve your loneliness crisis

> What do you mean? Are you okay?

There is a well documented loneliness epidemic. Thought you were referring to it inadvertently by fawning over an old form of technology.
JC was actually born in Luton. He didn't move to London until he was 7.
It would absolutely be a realistic line of questioning for friends and even family.

There is terms and service, legal systems etc for corporations. There is no such thing for individual server admins. They are right to feel weird about their friend running their private chats as opposed to a company.
I also have this question. My understanding of SIM porting (the legitimate form of swapping) is that it's basically impossible (and undesirable) to prevent if the originating network operator is convinced of the user's identity, which is why phishing is so effective.
Why?

The windows registry is a disaster.

The whole idea is wrong. You want to keep configuration with the thing being configured.

Most Mac installs are "drag the folder on to your disk". You are done.
It's an estimator in this case. A fixed number is an estimator too, it's just not going to be desirable in most cases. But single numbers are absolutely and unquestionably also valid estimators.

In any case, what I'm trying to get at there is that in estimator theory there is a concept of optimality for an estimator over a distribution.
Making providing high-quality randomness without compromises a first-class OS feature seems like a great idea. Especially because it reduces the chances of using a bad/incorrectly seeded/inadequately seeded/cloned from snapshot userspace cryptographic PRNG, and of using a non-cryptographic PRNG for cryptographic stuff.

I'm a kernel expert, so I don't know if VDSO is the right implementation, but the idea seems sound. Make it harder for people to make mistakes that break security!
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As far as I recall, that "final" draft of the XHTML 2.0 that W3 posted is "post-schism" just to get something out to compete with the growing momentum of HTML5 and kick the semantic can down the road again to XHTML 3.0 (after most of the damage of the schism was already done). I recall early XHTML 2 drafts had at least article, aside, section, hgroup, and others. I don't know where you would track down such drafts other than combing ancient mailing list archives.
At that level I think it's just more sales than substance. Many people are great salespeople without realizing it, I think this contributes to the phenomenon of failing upward.
If the data is publicly available as you claim please let us know where exactly so we can attempt to mitigate some of this. Thank you.
Couldn't hold many MP3's on my 2.1GB hard drive back then. I was streaming the 'cool' radio stations from the big cites on RealPlayer!
Also https://www.guitarworld.com/news/joni-mitchell-relearned-gui....
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This is exactly the purpose of this site. Creating a hacker group for yourself, sharing your works and following the posts and online/offline status of the people you follow.

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Under AI:

> "actually a collection of if statements but last I checked AI wasn’t a protected term”

This describes an Expert System which has been a form of AI since at least the 70s. If the author doesn't want it classified as AI it's the author that is trying to shift the definition, not that the definition has drifted.
Because people buy more products and make company more profit in less time.

Mostly people buy product in hopes of flipping it for some quick bucks ( some try to become long term collectors ) and mostly people do this to "stay in loop" and "not fall behind the curve".
hypochondriac? fibromyalgia 2.0?
{ / } jump to start/end of the block.

Between that and 20j and (blasphemy probably) just using the scroll wheel, that handles most of my scrolling needs.
I know this gets said a lot. But this is another example why I keep coming back to HN, I love all the tech talk for sure, but every once in a while, something sweet and inspirational like this gets slipped in and sometimes is just what I needed at the end of a long week.
Once the information is out, it is out. You can't take it back.
Thank you! Admittedly I was sticker shocked and missed some of the key details they were selling.
Religious flamewar is not ok here, so please don't take HN threads further into it.

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Edit: We've had to ask you this kind of thing many times before - here's a small sample:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29916978 (Jan 2022)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29687837 (Dec 2021)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23578435 (June 2020)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23578417 (June 2020)

Edit 2: It looks like you've been using HN primarily for political and ideological (and religious) battle. We ban accounts that do this. It's not what this site is for, and it destroys what it is for.

If you keep this up, we're going to have to ban you, so please review https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and use HN as intended. That means for curious conversation on topics of intellectual interest.
> without check-in or security

The biggest break for trains in the last 20 years hasn't been Maglevs or Japan's bullet. Matter of fact it has been OBL fixation on attacking America in a spectacular and televised fashion.

The lack of security abord trains is shocking honestly. Trains are special, there is something about them which calms people even the most evil, because ill intentioned people like terrorists and mentally deranged domestic shooters just ignore them.
I was just thinking about how much faster and less cluttered things like Word and Excel were back then. Office 2000 vs whatever version we are on now.
Not sure if the German Gewährleistung applies to video games, but if it does you might be able to wield that since not being able to play the game anymore definitely is a major defect.
> To get real time video further out than a few kilometers, not many nations have satellite datalink capabilities.

Suppose you capture video at 4k resolution and 2 frames per second, and you compress it with h.265 at reasonable quality. Most of your image will be the same from frame to frame, so encoding will be really efficient. Then you're looking at ballpark 70 kilobytes per frame, or 1120 kbit/s. If you transmit that over 1.3 GHz and the receiving station has a good antenna, there is no reason why you shouldn't be able to reach 100-200 km range?
Could you elaborate a bit on the data sources and how the privacy laws affect them? I'm curious how the data can be publicly available to you but compiling a profile on someone with that data and disclosing it might not be.
What happens if I put in 911?