skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
(Aus) Going poorly for me. Started my current job a year or so ago, been looking to leave since. Probably into the 100s of applications in the last 12 months now; I will apply for most anything with a tech fit even if (for e.g.) a role requires on-site that I'm not interested in, just to try and get a feel for the market by whether or not I get at least a screening call. I've had 2 final stage interviews: knocked back in one and dropped out of the other (red flags). Have also had 2-3 applications get a "this role now on hold, soz" response. So I'm getting just enough interest to keep hope alive. Even the steady stream of LinkedIn PMs for vaguely-related jobs has dried up.

I touched up the resume a little bit but otherwise I'm not doing anything a whole lot differently. I was almost allowing myself to quit this ass job if I instead got some vendor certs, but I'm increasingly concerned that a decent job market might years away, not months, so the suffering continues. :)
The only way to reduce the costs of Maglevs is to build a lot more Maglevs.

However, it’s not necessary that there actually are significant economies of scale to be achieved with Maglev.

But the bigger issue is that it’s not clear why anyone outside of Japan would even build Maglev at the moment.

For obvious reasons, faster speed only becomes advantageous beyond a certain distance. But pretty much every country in the world has city pairs where HSR isn’t built out and the distances are too short for Maglev to be built. Any country trying to go in for a high speed transit option is likely to connect these city pairs first before they try city pairs at greater distances where Maglev may actually make sense even ignoring cost.

So you’re unlikely to see a mass rollout of Maglev for decades, so the actual correct answer is that what you need to make Maglev more cost efficient is a few decades and economies of scale.
Seems disproportionately many writers of the 19th and 20th century lived tough (and often short) lives, or at least endured hardship of some kind e.g. Wilde, Orwell, Poe. Wonder if it's true of writers generally?
You might not see devoted Windows users like mac or Linux but if the Windows users were to try the other two, the majority of them are not going to like the experience and the limitations they come with.
> It’s still important to point out how they can be further improved

That's exactly the point of the discussion above. Why is it important to point out?
Have you done/seen any benchmarks between Redpanda/NATS and Kafka for this use case?

Some folks in SigNoz community have also suggested NATS for this, but I have not deep dived into benchmarks/features yet
Is location a factor in your search. I'm seeing some openings around bay area but all remote opportunities have dried up.
Additionally, in China one can ride trains without the fear of being physically harmed by other passengers. In many cities in the US, taking public transportation is a risk to your life.
That’s 120 miles. Sometime in the future that’ll be commutable by maglev.

Here are a few other commutable routes with maglev

NYC - Philly 92 miles

NYC - DC 225 miles

NYC - Boston 215 miles

NYC - Portland, ME 325 miles

NYC - Pittsburgh 380 miles

NYC - Cleveland 470 miles

Cleveland - Chicago 350 miles

St. Louis - Chicago 320 miles

Houston - Dallas 240 miles

Houston - Austin 170 miles

Dallas - Austin 200 miles

Seattle - Portland 175 miles

Las Vegas - Los Angeles 280 miles
Bad.

DevOps/Software Engineer with 20+ years experience. ~100 applications this year, a good number of interviews, but no offers yet. (2.5 calls this week scheduled)

It seems I either get:

- proto-startups with ~5 people and no concrete revenue stream, or

- 5k-person enterprises who want someone with a very specific skillset

Both are fine, but they're picky... as am I, so I'm doing my own consulting for a bit.

What happened to startups? What happened to the thousands of 50-300 person companies who need tech work done? The other day a headhunter called me... because they were bored! Rather different from last year when they were juggling 4-5 excited companies in front of me.

Given my experience, I'll be giving a "Fast Developer/Startup" class to a number of companies. That'll turn into a day-long workshop that will be very valuable :)

Strategies:

- DON'T TAKE IT PERSONALLY

- find roles on e.g. LinkedIn, but _never_ do "fast apply": go to the company's site and apply directly

- use a "highlight positives/negatives" tool to draw certain words in a web page different colors. By interactively seeing a mass of green (or orange) you can quickly make a YES or NO decision on a role. I adore the Chrome plugin Highlight This -- https://highlightthis.net/

- apply for jobs on a schedule (e.g. Mon-Wed-Fri), don't just struggle for hours at a time, it's soul-sucking.

- do Studying (job-related tech) interspersed with Fun Programming (generative art!) -- have fun!

- take care of your health and family, go outside and take walks

- DON'T TAKE IT PERSONALLY
This was a great read, particularly while self-loathing. The author needs to see the bigger picture:

The USA had to keep the money ball rolling in American Heavy Industry after the highly-mechanized WWII. The USA had: cheap steel, cheap gasoline, and...a bunch of guys who had been risking their lives in mechanized equipment around Europe for a few years! Everybody wanted to buy a car after the war, and this resulted in the modern USA: highly accessible to automobiles first, and the associated car culture.

I'm wondering if the author was unable to find this insight themselves, it seems they are trying to find a pattern among the failures, to explain "why USA has no successful high speed rail."

Maybe in a few more generations, everyone will forget about that war, and then, we can ride from anywhere in Megacity One to Peachtrees tower.
> incentivizing people to avoid exploring videos on controversial topics once they learn that if they do so, they’ll be inundated with garbage on that topic

Not that hard to work around frankly. Just delete the offending video that trigger the avalanche of recommendations from history - make sure you did not leave a comment or vote on the video; zero interaction apart from watching (which will be forgotten when you remove it from your history)

> Holy crap, YouTube ads are hot garbage, and it’s embarrassing to think that any humans respond to them. YouTube has abandoned any pretense of offering a good user experience.

This I agree. YouTube (Google as a whole) has stopped trying to match eyeballs to relevant ads. Instead they have handed the reins to advertisers to bid for who they want to advertise to. So if advertisers was to be self-destructive and make your web experience crap, Google will happily let them as long as they get their check.
There's some more nuance to efficiency than just max power at max load, of course. The Apple chips will likely have good efficiency compared to the lower core count (say, 32) TR because the watts per core gets high on those smaller TR chips. Yet if you compared their performance at a fixed 90w, I suspect the threadripper would come out ahead, since chips are much more efficient when at fractional loads that don't lead to boosted core clocks. Then again, at idle, the TR is probably guzzling power relative to the M2 Ultra. I'm only speculating to illustrate; a thorough comparison of their perf/watt characteristics would involve sampling many types of workloads of varying thread counts and levels of per-core saturation.
A New Artificial Eye Mimics and May Outperform Human Eyes
Actually, no - their thing for the past few years has been to build out the most comprehensive test bench across all PC hardware components. "LTT Labs." They are aiming to become the authority on hardware performance and reliability, and have invested heavily in the tools and industry experts required to do that. Linus doesn't do any testing himself; he is just bankrolling it with the proceeds from his main channel and other media properties.

I find this whole thing super fascinating, coming from the perspective of Silicon Valley startups.
>near major population centers

One of the advantages of trains is that there can be train stations convenient to where people go within the city whereas airports are often hell and gone. There are more light rails etc. than there used to be but Manhattan, for example, is terrible for getting into the city from any of the airports. Both Logan in Boston and National in DC are pretty good.

LA is sort of a , sorry, train wreck (or at least very variable) for getting around without a car. SF is better the airport is actually at least as good (via BART) getting into the city as the Amtrak station in Emeryville is.

People use commuter rail in Boston, NYC, etc. too but it's generally less useful (or not useful at all) outside of commuting.
Mr Cosgrove's comments were made on October 13, 6 days after the Hamas attack. Israel announced its blockade on October 9. While technically true that they came around the same time, it might be a challenge to argue he was referring to that specifically.

Without additional context that clarifies his statements, it's likely his tweet could be interpreted as supporting Hamas by suggesting that any response was an unjustified war crime.

This raises the important point that allegations of war crimes are significant and it's critical to follow due process, and evidence in their investigation. Attempting to side step such legal principles could lead to the terms being abused as a pretext to try to justify further killings.

Crucially, using the terms in a casual context or without specific clarifications, could be read as an attempt to delegitimize any actions taken by those targeted with such accusations. It could even be seen as part of a larger information warfare or asymmetric campaign waged by an opponent to depict its own acts as justified, through the portrayal of its victims as war criminals deserving of punishment.

Yet such abuse of the terms to justify killing would only pervert the justice that's intended to be served by the notions of war crimes, and likely contribute to escalating cycles of violence that would be wise to avoid.

You raise a compelling point about the use of such narrative techniques to silence legitimate critique of the Israeli government. However, your comment might be interpreted as an attempt to do the same by utilizing the term war crimes to portray the Israeli government as war criminals deserving of retribution, which could be seen as an attempt to justify Hamas' actions.

Therefore, it's crucial to emphasize evidence, legal process and impartial investigation before using terms that could serve as a justification for killings, or contribute to a wider campaign to escalate conflict.

It's important to remember that playing the blame game is unlikely to lead to peace. Instead, it might be more helpful permit notions of criminality and responsibility to be adjudicated by the courts, while instead focusing on the construction of peaceful and profitable solutions now to limit human suffering.
You're understating how long good-quality paper will last. Proper archival paper lasts hundreds of years without fading or discolouration—we have no idea what the upper limit on its lifetime is.

And, in practice, it doesn't matter whether the storage medium can't be read because it's damaged or because the machine to read it doesn't exist anymore. Either you can read it or you can't.
US Constitution etc were certainly revolutionary when they were written, but many countries have adapted similar or improved policies when it comes to basic human rights.
Ask HN: How Potentials does a WhatsApp CRM product have?
To be honest pretty good. But I made the transition from employee to being an independent contractor just before the market turned around. Now a new project is just a few emails away, because I have quite a bit of clients in my network for whom I already completed a lot of work. But its all temporary (but still enough to fill 6-12 months at any given moment).
> Long-term archival storage is going to be an important industry as our data volumes grow.

Unless you care about reading your data, as then it won't be important. Let me know when tape starts taking more of the global storage market share. It's a super mature, functional, and far higher performance storage media, and it's total percentage of global bytes shipped dwindle.
Stress too.

My dogs (especially the Parson I raised from a puppy) knows when I'm stressed and is super affectionate and can also have negative behaviors sometimes too.
PS:1 in Chicago is still going strong.

[1] https://pumpingstationone.org/
You just recently had an event that almost overthrew the executive branch. The US Constitution is literally paper thin and the only thing actually protecting it are the institutions and people behind them.
Which classes are you thinking of?
> Does elixir have an lsp as good as Typescripts? I’m a bit addicted to static types at the moment.

I wonder how IHP [1], the liveview in Haskell, compares with Phoenix liveview for typical use cases now. (Not having used either.)

[1]: https://ihp.digitallyinduced.com/
CS50's Introduction to Cybersecurity
They definitely buried the lede, but it is there in the conclusion:

"...car travel is much cheaper in the US than in many other countries, making high-speed rail comparatively less competitive"
> a very large percentage of the rail lines are built either on elevated tracks near populated areas, or underground for sections

This is absolutely not true in France, where the TGV mostly takes regular lines to exit the suburbs of every city it goes through.

> It appears in the US many of these plans rely upon lower costs where the train is built on the ground. So they end up building tons of small bridges, regrading roads, moving wires, moving drainage, communication equipment etc as the train interacts with existing infrastructure

Building elevated is a shit-ton more expensive
Same location, similar situation. I thought it was just me. At least twenty recruiters on my LinkedIn list, and not a peep since I toggled my 'Open to work' status weeks ago. Used to receive a fairly consistent stream of messages when I wasn't ready.
What features about your profile or approach do you think made your experience more reasonable compared to the overwhelming negative consensus here?
Still pretty terrifying and you're not going to hear the second one falling in after your eardrums are gone from the first bang in such an enclosed space :(
Nah. I live in SF. I'm fine with going to an office. I'm fine with anything at this point.
Tangentially, as an alternative to planes and trains, you can take a bus from SF to LA. A bit clammy, tough.
I like the idea of a resume canary. Can you share the gist of it?
maglevs have an existential capacity issue because the switches take so long. there's a ways to go to push the speed of steel-on-steel trains yet
The challenge with these repairs is that they only focus on the body part. However, nobody knows the damage to the other systems in the car when hit at 45mph. Imo, it would have been better for the insurance company to total the car and pay you to buy another one.
> Flash didn't die because it was bad.

Well, it certainly wasn't helped by the Flash Player being a never ending source of serious security exploits, sandbox bypasses, and more. :(
No. That's why we have these things called "separation of power," and "checks and balances."

No single branch of government is all powerful. In fact, it is a testament to the strength of the constitutional republic the founders built, that even with a man like Donald Trump abusing his powers and a media bolstering his lies, ultimately he was forced to step down, and though justice is slow, he is finally seeing justice for his many crimes.
I dislike the Uber business itself (horrible treatment of drivers, poor customer service, poor safety controls, bullying of small businesses with Uber Eats, shitty executive level team with questionable ethics).

But the underlying technology which carried them to this point is a fascinating read.
In what market? I ate at a fancy Indian restaurant last week where you would just tell the chef what you were hungry for via their WhatsApp and he would cook something up for you. Seemed like a cool concept.
Global Tax Evasion Report 2024 [pdf]
> Hence, my question about reducing the cost of maglevs.

But you're begging the question. What if they simply are that expensive and can't be made cheaper?

> China is pursuing low-speed maglevs that run about 100 mph

Why? What benefit do they offer over conventional rail?

> Japan is proceeding and will open something by the end of the decade

Allegedly. That line's been "about to open" for years but they still haven't even started construction through Shizuoka and still don't have any real path towards doing so. In any case, AIUI they're simply accepting that construction costs are high because on the Osaka-Tokyo route (the most profitable high-speed rail line in the world as well as being one of the busiest air routes) the benefits will justify it.
Yes. One of the two.
There are certainly instances of this happening but this is mostly overblown by the media. The US is a huge country with millions taking public transit safely everyday.

I know more people who have been robbed on transit (via knife) in Europe than in the US. There are a lot of news articles about stabbings on trains in Europe as well.
That comment is replying to someone saying "Windows is a rootkit". To me it looks like someone replying to an absurd, untrue statement about Windows with an obviously untrue, absurd statement about Linux.

Unless this is part of a larger pattern of inaccurately describing Linux, I don't believe he literally believes what he is saying in this comment.
That's an interesting perspective. I always liked Flash. The web, frankly, was a lot better when it was in its prime.
> ... have their children separated from them, and are ultimately killed ...

Oh, you mean like "beans, corn and wheat" as in the comment I was replying to?

That seems to be what happens for them too. ;)

No idea why you're saying the same things happening to them "aren't anywhere close to comparable".
History of the Family
The general idea behind passkeys (and WebAuthn in general) is fantastic. They're phishing resistant (not totally phishing-proof, but way better than existing auth methods). They eliminate entire categories of phishing attacks around site identity. The UX flow provides users who would not be making secure passwords with strong-by-default security, making password reuse almost impossible. Even the cross-device authentication stuff, while not sufficient on its own for things like backup is still an improvement over copying and pasting keys.

Being able to authenticate a device and log in without ever transferring your authentication credentials to that device is cool. That enables some security setups that would otherwise be very difficult to build.

Some of the benefits are oversold (the privacy benefits seem overblown, there is nothing about passkeys that guarantees that your accounts won't still require email addresses, and there's nothing about passwords that forces sites to ask for email addresses, so nothing on that front is likely to change) -- but in general, the core idea is wonderful and passkeys would be a massive improvement over passwords if they were implemented well.

The problem is the implementation and the development process for the spec.
> A lot of research has been done on this and there's been been discussions if it is things like the decrease of lead in the air, abortions, or other things, but generally it doesn't seem that "tough on crime" was the dominating factor.

On the contrary, COVID-19 didn’t suddenly reintroduce lead, ban abortion (that came a few years later, in only a few places, setting up a natural experiment we haven’t yet seen the results of), or do anything more than shut down schools and shatter the police-public relationship.

Post-Ferguson we knew what happens after anti-police protests (more murders).

https://www.vox.com/22360290/black-lives-matter-protest-crim...

(To be precise, -300 police killings +1000 to +6000 community-based killings)

The current trend looks like Ferguson effect followed by cities suddenly deciding to take murder seriously again. Portland is having success with focused deterrence and cure violence/credible messengers. Hard to say if that’s diverging from nationwide trends because loads of other cities are taking the same approach.

None of that challenges the idea that post-90s crime declines were fueled by more intensive policing.
Did you get any insight into how and why these recruiters operate? The parent comment makes it sound liked it's all about contacting, but you got a full-time position. What's up with that?
Sorry to hear a lot of people are having a difficult time. Let's face it, LinkedIn won [1]. Go ahead and create an account and contact a recruiter. It's the only way that has worked for me in the past several years.

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36903624
I don't know details on how CA compares to Italy, but Italy has built a very good high-speed network. A sizable portion of it is through fairly mountainous, very seismically active, pretty populated regions. I recently took the Frecciarossa from Bologna to Florence and was really looking forward to sitting back and enjoying the view of the Italian countryside. Instead, you spend most of your time going through tunnels, with the occasional quick glimpse of the countryside out the window.

Milan to Rome is about ~350 miles (580 km) and the train takes about 3 hours, compared to a ~6 hour drive. I believe this is about the same distance from LA to SF.
You asked a legitimate question, and also came to a conclusion. Your conclusion is easy to refute, hence you got most replies there. I'll focus on your question.

The short answer is "everything".

Let's start either public desire. Nobody wants a 300mph train to go through their neighborhood. Especially a train they'll likely never ride. One that doesn't stop locally.

Since public interactions are an important part of any major project in the US this has a real cost implication.

Equally public perception en masse leads to the project becoming political, so it can't fly under the radar. (It benefits at least some politicians to be anti so they're anti regardless of merit.)

Get past the people, and you get into the environment. Long distance trains cover a Lot of land so lots and lots on environmental impact studies to do.

So you're spending mountains of cash before you can even be assured the project will happen. Because its such high risk, that cash comes very expensive. (Politically expensive if its public funds, commercially expensive if its loans or investments. )

If you got this far, construction is expensive because you're not just "laying track". Everything you touch will be subject to a million local regulations, which will differ from one county to the next. You will need an army of lawyers, inspectors, endless tweaks here and there, and so on.

The trains will be expensive. Any craft travelling at 300mph will necessarily be expensive. You'll want it to be safe, which means (quite reasonably) this is not an area to be cheap.

You specified maglev, but that is almost the least interesting part. All the above applies to any rail project. Maglev adds to the cost primarily in terms of tech, and the results of tech failing. (The train would need to safely transition between maglev and not maglev, at 300mph).

So, to answer your question, you need to ignore the public, ignore the environment, ignore the effect of public opinion on politicians, ignore local regulations, be able to aquire land (in a straight line) without hindrance, and of course source a cheap train.

And at the end of it? Maybe you'll have a train people will ride. Maybe you won't. (For reasons mentioned elsewhere in this thread, I'm guessing won't).