skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Android gets shittier with time in my experience, phones get buggy and unsupported in like 2 years. iPhone software works consistently, and the phones are supported for like 5/6 years by Apple with software updates.
> I encourage you to actually try to figure out what in fact are you feeling and ask you self why you might be feeling that. The basic emotions are: fear, anger, joy and sadness. Start there! You can use more words as you gain more awareness, I guess.

The "Wheel of Emotions" or "Feelings Wheel" is a useful tool in this regard: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/c9/The_Feel...
I like this heuristic! It captures several important aspects of "seniority" in a clever way.

A lot of the other comments are defining seniority in terms of years of experience or breadth of skills developed. Those are both important, but for me they don't capture how "well-rounded" you are. When I was a manager in consulting we used to distinguish between resources who had "5 years of experience" and resources who had "1 year of experience 5 times". Your years of experience need to be extending your capabilities, not just repetition of skills you have already mastered.

I think simple rules of thumb, like "5 years is a junior" or "5 years is a senior" aren't very helpful. When I'm hiring I may suggest a certain amount of experience as a requirement to indicate to candidates that I see the role as suitable for someone "entry-level" or someone further along in their career. But I'm not going to reject a candidate with good experience simply because they don't have the number of years experience I suggested. I'm going to look at what they've done.

One more thought on this topic. For me, years of experience can also be shorthand for variety of experience. Someone with 3 or even 5 years of experience is unlikely to have worked on a lot of big projects in different organizations. Someone with 15+ years of experience is more likely to have worked on a variety of big projects in different organizations. Some commenters here are probably going to tell me "5 years of experience at a start-up" is as good or better than 15 years of experience in a big corporate IT shop. Maybe. Depends on the role I'm trying to fill.
I get it. Your take resonates with me. Playing piano is easy too right? Right after you can do it.
Until then it's mystically hard.

It just takes practice. Training helps but nothing can replace practice.

We can't jus b gud
Meta informing users of text based social platform may drive those users to Twitter seeing how it is superior in information content
Apparently, it's a rebuttal to this article blaming millennials

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/let-the-nightmare-in-ja...
IIRC the Auto Train is the only long-distance route Amtrak runs that is net profitable https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Auto_Train

It's possible other corridors could be identified that could run something like that, though it probably needs to be about 800-900 miles to make it "worth" it time wise - shorter and it's simpler to just drive.
> How is it possible that they cannot give me an accurate inventory of the items in the stores near me?

It's absolutely intentional. It means you have to browse the store. And if something piques your interest -- you know you can't wait to buy it "next time" since it might not be there.
By exact opposite you mean that when Java just came out ('I got an early look at Java, [...]') had good concurrency support?

One can make a solid argument that modern Java is adequate. But I don't buy you believe that of early Java?
I think it'd be roughly an hour between Portland and Seattle, so a daily commute would be within the realm of possibility.

But I think what they mean is say Tacoma or Olympia to Seattle.
Crossings and setbacks too. An HSR line is like an interchange access highway— fenced off and grade separated from everything around it.
Yawn. So maybe we'll have a connection to Spokane in another 80 years and a connection to the Tri-Cities by 2123. Let me know when it gets to my house.

I know perhaps I shouldn't be this negative, but... let's use Germany as an example, as it is roughly comparable to Washington and Oregon. Its residents now have a 49 Euro ticket anywhere in the country, useable on multiple forms of transit. We don't even have buses, trains, etc connecting our major cities. Don't even get me started on other social issues like health care, child care, etc. And as long as Eastern Washington continues to send Republicans only to Olympia, ain't a damn thing going to change for us over here. At least we are finally getting some decent internet - decades after most cities in Europe had comparably fast / cheap internet. Maybe someday we'll have more than one functioning mobile provider.
Taylor Swift will probably profit a billion dollars from her tour I'd guess, all told.

The money for the artist is in touring and licensing in media / commercials / movies. Album sales are for enriching record labels.

My impression is that modern record labels are only relevant because they control payola for radio, and handshake relations with aging executives in other media companies, and probably have lots of inertia from rights and exploitative contracts.

But I've been waiting for the label implosion for the last two decades.
This is from June, 2018. (That should be in the title.) I'm curious how the last five years have been for Costco.
Snapchat. Only schoolkids use it these days.
Wow that is super interesting. Thanks for sharing.
I once saw a comment online that made me aware of this and ever since keep my toothbrush out of the bathroom.
As an academic, I have not so secretly been enjoying the shit storm of revelations lately. Science got along fine for thousands of years without Journals and Conferences deciding what's "correct" and not. It's been a failed experiment. Journals started as a way to help distribute works to other researchers to improve upon the old method of just mailing it to one another. Arxiv is great for peer review. Your work is actually fucking available and not behind some pay wall, where your peers can... review it. Only thing would be better is if we were using OpenReview so we could track discussions, but I'll admit that could get messy real quick as anyone that's open sourced their research work will tell you (lots of questions like "I trained my model, how do I test it?" and "I'm getting a cuda out of memory error, how do I fix this?").

Arxiv/preprints are peer review
Full report here: https://mic.comotion.uw.edu/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/Keepi...

> The proliferation of high-speed rail creates many opportunities for case studies. Cases in this report represent systems developed in areas with institutional and geographic attributes comparable to the Pacific Northwest. While this objective for research did not preclude study of the Chinese, Japanese, and full European networks, it did lead to the selection of the following cases:

> International

> • The corridor linking Paris, France to Amsterdam in the Netherlands

> • The high-speed rail systems of Spain

> • Taiwan high-speed rail, linking Taipei to Kaohsiung

> United States

> • California, linking San Francisco and Sacramento to Los Angeles and San Diego

> • Texas, from Dallas to Houston

> • Florida, linking Tampa to Orlando and Miami

p. 45:

> The rail corridor linking France, Belgium, and the Netherlands is similar in scale and scope to the project contemplated for the Cascadia corridor in the Pacific Northwest, and includes two national border crossings. The high-speed rail systems of Spain were developed after a market of suppliers had developed endogenously within France, Germany, and Japan, allowing for methods of procurement of international expertise that more likely resemble opportunities today in the U.S. The Taiwan high-speed rail project is a public-private partnership that received bids from consortia representing firms from the U.S. as well as Japan, France, and Germany, for the partial private financing of a project that incorporates real estate development of station areas into its revenue stream.

The rest of the report uses existing research about Japan's Shinkansen rather than conducting new interviews on it. Parts of chapter 2 detail some of the factors distancing Japan's system from a PNW system, such as how Japan's real-estate development and urban rail planning were mostly coterminous, creating systems that were conducive to connecting with high-speed rail, while in the U.S. history went mostly in the opposite direction.

In a subsection titled "Researchers caution against direct comparisons of proposed U.S. high speed lines with existing systems in other countries", pps. 22–23:

> This means that Japan has benefitted from a Century of transit-oriented land use development, in ways that strain comparison with conditions for rail development in the U.S. European high-speed rail lines were designed for metro-to-metro service atop existing and robust national rail networks, which served as meaningful platforms for public transportation agencies to grow and develop services. ... In Japan and China, for example, high-speed rail development began at a time when the air travel market was not as well-developed as it is today in the U.S. Compared to the U.S., there were also greater financial disincentives to owning and operating cars in Japan, China, and Europe, which likely influenced the pace and relative success of rail travel in those parts of the world (Deakin and Pérez Henríquez, 2017; Cervero, 1998).
The "Railways Explained" Youtube channel did a video about the proposals a few days ago.

https://youtu.be/KnGjwOCie3c?t=87
> Who listens to music any more?

It might not be your thing, but I frequently use 'active listening to music' as a way to relax after a long day. I don't have ultra high end kit either. I'm doing most of my listening on entry level Grado headphones attached to my laptop. I have a hard time believing that I'm unique in this activity.
I love the flamewar that this post has started

There's the "it IS hard!" gang

and the "it's not hard, you're just dumb"
gang

and the "it's not hard, you just haven't spent the time required to properly learn it" gang
Looks good: https://www.macrotrends.net/stocks/charts/COST/costco/gross-...

And the stock is now at 563 so more than doubled in 5 years, not too shabby.
A bit pessimistic no? The interested always find a way, and it has never been easier with the online databases that the author acknowledges as being extremely useful (sci-hub, libgen, etc). What he is lamenting is the loss of serendipity from browsing a physical library shelf; but it is not at all clear that this experience is incompatible with virtual libraries.
If you were to pick a dozen likely stops on this train, you'll likely end up with a name collision. Vancouver, Washington and Vancouver, British Columbia. It's fun to think about how they would handle this. Would they use the full names in all documentation. Would they give one of the locations a nickname, such as "Southern Washington" or "British Columbia".

I also wonder what would be the largest mishap that could happen because of the name collision. Imagine going to the wrong country because of some minor miscommunication!
Flushing the toilet is something we do 2-4 times per day for all our lives with no real side effects. This "information" is only scary to people who'd rather live in a sterile capsule (usually people having some heavy psychological fear issues).

Wait till they learn there are all kinds of particles from their shitting in the air too, that's how they can smell it.
And no one follows what happens under the hood because companies don't value it at all (until something goes wrong, at which point they fire the scapegoat)
The rail situation in the US is woeful and it's important to understand why:

1. Privatization has been an absolute disaster for the rail industry. Privatization has simply become a way to privatize profits and socialize losses. The advent of Precision Scheduled Railroading ("PSR") [1]. It not only decreases safety but leads to massive delays for passenger trains who can't pass the longer trains that PSR results in;

2. A car-centric culture that originated after WW2 that ultimately came from excluding poor people, particularly people of color. There is a strong cultural bias against any form of public transportation because many view it as raising taxes even though road infrastructure is heavily subsidized; and

3. Further to (2), there are some billionaires who capitalize on this attitude and fan the flames by fighting against any form of public transportation and passenger rail (eg [2][3]); and

4. The US suffered from a first mover advantage. From the mid-19th century, the US built a massive aamount of rail infrastructure. This was designed for far slower trains. You can't just put high speed trains on the same track. China in comparison didn't have that problem; and

5. The pre-eminence of private property in the US makes building anything like this difficult and expensive. Yes, there's eminent domain but local and county authorities can hold things up for years. If you look into the California HIgh Speed Rail project, you see a lot of concessions have been made with the route and stations in relatively low population centers just to get planning permission, which increases the route length and the LA and SF travel time.

[1]: https://www.npr.org/2023/03/23/1165699563/how-precision-sche...

[2]: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/aug/26/koch-activis...

[3]: https://jalopnik.com/did-musk-propose-hyperloop-to-stop-cali...
I mean this person is trying to infringe on the human rights of a large portion of the people on the planet. I don't really care what they have to say, past a certain point.

Always remember that large enough corporations are simply a form of government.
I was a kid back then but had some close family members who worked with these and I just had a flashback and remembered the joke was that they could spark, living up to the blue lightning name. Is that apocryphal? I have no way of checking the validity of that joke.
I'm jealous of someone only flushing the toilet twice per day.
I don't understand what it is you dislike about the discourse. But to address your point, the United existed before cars. Post WWII, we took very intentional steps to dismantle all the trams and passenger rail we had (we had so so many trains), and to design suburbs that require cars. And by "we," I mean government officals and all levels of governments, along with the wealthy capitalists (car manufacturers could sell more cars if there are more places that require cars, and railroad tycoons made more money in freight than passengers).

Infrastructure is built upon intentional decisions with agendas, not following laws of nature or something.
Whatsapp has no ads, though. If it did my country would probably use a different app.

And nobody has made fun of me for having an android phone. Videos and group chats just work.
There are 13 root name server addresses, but most (all?) of these use anycast, i.e. there are actually several servers with the same address, and your traffic will usually be routed to the one closest to you. There are over 1500 root name servers.

https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Root_name_server
>The UK Government repeatedly fails to understand that there are no boarders on the internet, and it'd be impossible to impose any without the kind of extreme restrictions of a totalitarian regime.

Why would the latter stop them? They have no problem with these.

>Any measures without broad international cooperation

Don't worry, other governments are just as shitty and want the same BS.
Keep away from cheap treats. Better to have something extravagant rarely than shitty chocolate daily.

Find a daily exercize and keep with it.

That party friends don't last. It's kind gross to be the oldest person at a party.

If you have any inkling that you might want to have a romantic partner and kids, lock that partner in by the end of university or at the very latest by the time you're 25. The pickings get slim after that.
Erlang, the Unix Way
Is the situation in rust, where the answer is apparently to vendor the world, much better? Don't many of the big rust libraries still depend on nightly, too?
I’ve been reading about high-speed rail in the PNW for my 20 years in Seattle and I’ve yet to see a budget. And I’ve definitely yet to see how that budget is justified.

I don’t see how it can possibly make sense. The cost divided by ridership can’t be a friendly number. I live in Seattle and I don’t think high-speed rail to Portland/Vancouver is a particularly interesting thing.

I’m not at all a fan of 90 minute commute times. Yeah sure you can read your phone or whatever. But it’s soul crushing. Remote work is far superior to long-ass commute times powered by high speed rail.
24/7 news cycle constantly highlighting every single kidnapping or crime that happens across the country has instilled a culture of fear in most people.

I grew up riding my bike completely across town by myself, before cell phones were pervasive. Parents these days are afraid of letting their kid walk 5 minutes to the neighborhood park…
> The spirit of the company aligns with most people's basic ethics and morality.

Even if it did, the guidelines are still company guidelines not community guidelines. That was my point. Calling it community guidelines is a form of social engineering to appeal to many people's natural desire to conform.

> The difference with a cult is apparent looking at the definition. Google gives me this:

I didn't say hn is a cult. I was just pointing out the common tools of manipulation used by both cults and social media sites like twitter, like reddit, like hn.

> You could argue there's a weird veneration of dang, which I do find kind of odd, but most people wouldn't consider "treat others with respect" as strange or sinister.

You are building a straw man. Where did I ever even mention anything about 'treat other's with respect'. You are attributing to me an argument I didn't make. And are hammering at it. I made no assertion about any specific guideline. I didn't say whether they were good or bad. I even went out of my way to say the company has a right to set whatever guideline they want. I was just pointing out the social engineering aspect to it. Whether the guidelines says be 'mean to others' or 'be kind to others' is meaningless to my argument as it is about social engineering. Hope that cleared up the confusion.
Or Apple doesn't care about either, just pays lip service to both.
Costco staples aren't necessarily your staples; there are certain products that Costco has continually had in stock for more than the 20+ years I've been wandering the aisles in search of the Arc of the Covenant (I'm certain it's somewhere in there).

But other things that look like stapes can come and go, some seasonally, some after a few years.

Costco is a very "go first" store - you go there, get what you can, and then flesh everything else out at some other store that will keep things in stock even when they get pricey.

Costco is also not the cheapest, not by far, but they are the most consistent.

Butter and soda are two of the most noticeable for me, you can easily beat Costco on both, butter because local producers often supply local stores cheaper, and soda because it's a loss-leader in many places. There are others, find them!
Few monotheistic groups claim to have the only truth. E.g. Catholicism highlights facets of truth present in many other spiritual traditions.
The most obvious case of that is the KIRKLAND tortilla chips, they don't even try to hide who makes them.

https://images.costcobusinessdelivery.com/ImageDelivery/imag...
What it means is that I just buy it on Amazon rather than wasting my time to see if my local Costco has it in stock.
Costco has been trying to get adoption of their online selling platform, but their lack of real-time inventory is a massive impediment. I tried to use it a couple of times but it ends up being an endless back and forth with a picker who is trying to offer up substitutes for everything. Just gave up on it.

Apparently Costco plans a fully separate online order picking area in one of their new massive warehouses. With that they won't have the uncertainty of shrinkage (Costco has a serious problem with theft), and of course the amount of inventory that is moving around the store in people's buggies.

I don't think there is any intention to it, but it's just a legacy remnant of being a very successful B&M company where they would periodically do an inventory and figure out where they actually stand.
Towards the end of the page it summarizes

> For 40 years, Costco has succeeded with a simple formula: reinvest merchandising profits into lower prices and better products

Significant enough investment in tech infrastructure to get it caught up to what might be considered reasonable seems to go against that principle.
you, however have violated HN code of conduct a number of times.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

Please respond to the strongest plausible interpretation of what someone says, not a weaker one that's easier to criticize. Assume good faith.

Please don't post shallow dismissals, especially of other people's work. A good critical comment teaches us something.

Please don't comment on whether someone read an article. "Did you even read the article? It mentions that" can be shortened to "The article mentions that".
Higher altitude orbits are slower in angular velocity, but faster in linear velocity, assuming a circular orbit. Faster debris ends up in higher orbit.
So how do the millions who fly each year manage?
ACLU: "Hastily passed 45 days after 9/11 in the name of national security, the Patriot Act was the first of many changes to surveillance laws that made it easier for the government to spy on ordinary Americans by expanding the authority to monitor phone and email communications, collect bank and credit reporting records, and track the activity of innocent Americans on the Internet. While most Americans think it was created to catch terrorists, the Patriot Act actually turns regular citizens into suspects."

https://www.aclu.org/issues/national-security/privacy-and-su...
Ask HN: What is the cost in time and resources to replicate LK-99 findings?
Much of the LK-99 discourse talks about replicating results. What is the cost (time, skill, material, equipment, etc.) that it will take to replicate the results? How soon do you think we'll start seeing positive or negative results? And what is the long pole constraint on replication?
Surely this won't help them with sophisticated criminals, as they'll find some other way to communicate. You can easily build your own end to end encryption method based on things on github.

It might help them with the dumb criminals.
What a Field Scientist Eats on $30K/Year in a National Park in Washington
Damn, you're actually right about the archived stamp. I'm confused because he actually did the pry version bump when I asked for it, and he appears to have rolled it back and yanked the gem build from the server. I'm at a bit of a loss, tbh - this is a real Mandela Effect moment for me.

Well, that sucks. Still, I urge people to clone a copy, update the pry dependency and give it a try because I've never run into any issues and it's at the center of my debug game. I'd be devastated to lose it.
For those unaware allow me to present The Seattle Process: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seattle_process

Otherwise known as "decision making through exhaustion" where everyone tries to stop progress as much as possible until the other people get so sick of arguing with you that they give up and you get your way.

The Seattle region might be the part of the country least capable of building infrastructure. I'll believe they'll get high speed rail when I see it.
Huh. That’s the opposite of sprawl. It’s having dense points along the route. It doesn’t make any sense to have high-speed rail that only stops in Portland, Seattle, and Vancouver. For it to even possibly make sense there needs more to be more points along the way. And those points need to be very dense by transit. Aka the opposite of sprawl.