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Really terrible headline for a totally decent article.

The Garth Brooks solution is super interesting.

> He adds shows until they no longer sell out. In recent years, on single tours, Brooks has done the following: He played nine concerts in a row in Edmonton, Canada. He played a dozen shows in Chicago. He played six in Kansas, nine in Tulsa, and eight in Denver.

I'm wondering how many shows he does in total per tour compared to other artists. It seems likely to me that he wouldn't be able to visit as many locations which still results in some fans not being able to see him.

Right on. The comment you replied to is a perfect example of the zero-effort, knee-jerk, dismissive comments that are such a tired trope of this site.

PS: Had a great time giving my second peer practice interview on your platform this morning. Love the product and the insights you provide in articles like this one!

This all makes sense. On the flip side I'd imagine that there are some abortion clinic operators who are already strategizing with legal foundations to deliberately bring an ideal test case as soon as possible in order to establish a favorable precedent.

> Texas will claim jurisdiction since in its eyes a citizen was murdered.

But this just isn't how it works, right? "Claiming" jurisdiction I mean. Take your previous example but instead imagine the woman from Texas took a trip with her husband to New Mexico and paid a hitman to murder him during the trip. The suspected hitman would most certainly be arrested on a layover in Texas (or any other state) but that state wouldn't have jurisdiction to prosecute for a murder that happened in New Mexico. The suspect would instead be extradited to New Mexico to face charges there.

> Would you be willing to risk arrest if you were a doctor in New Mexico and a Texas resident comes to you for an abortion? Even the threat of arrest has consequences on peoples’ actions.

I certainly agree there and definitely cannot speak to the risk assessment that abortion providers might unfortunately be contending with but I can't imagine that this will remain a question for long. Federal courts definitely do not like legal ambiguities between states.

> Will people have to be careful where they travel now?

It seems pretty clear to me that in your scenario Texas wouldn't have jurisdiction over anything that happens outside its border. I'm certainly not a lawyer though and would be interested to hear if there is any precedent that says otherwise.

Thank you. It's not just the ridiculous title either. The inaccurate framing permeates the whole article. It's straight up embarrassing.

Thanks for the recommendation! I am indeed sketched out by most extensions that require the all-hosts permission but this one does seem pretty legit so I'll give it a shot.

Can you think of another way to implement it that wouldn't be just as obnoxious though? I feel like anything that could be perceived as unobtrusive could just as likely be seen as trying to hide or minimize the presence of the banner which might be construed as a violation of the law.

I feel like EU regulators should have worked with web standards committees to add a technical means and requirement to classify cookies. Then browser vendors could allow users to choose which types of cookies they are willing to accept from which websites.

I left a thumbs-up reaction on the GitHub post. The cookie outrage is completely absurd.

So then why do you think you see them?

*Edit: Sorry if this came off as rude but it was a legitimate question. I honestly cannot think of another plausible reason that would explain the proliferation of the banners.

How do I grant universal consent to be tracked so that I can browse the web in peace? The law failed to consider this and made the browsing experience considerably worse for those of us who couldn't care less about being tracked.

Not to mention teaching users who are not tech-savvy to blindly click "I Accept" and "I Agree" without thinking about it which is an absolute disaster since such users cannot distinguish between a marketing cookie prompt and an OS elevation prompt coming from a piece of malware they just downloaded.

Why should I be mad about a tracking cookie?

> Understand that cookie banners are malicious compliance and they make a lot more sense.

How are they malicious compliance? The laws are poorly-reasoned and poorly-written. I'll continue to be mad about that.

I don't understand why people care about cookies. The stupid cookie banners are an actual nuisance.

Ctrl + F => "bio" and this comment was the only result out of 100+. Surprising!

I think biometrics sounds like the best solution. YubiKeys will get lost/damaged/stolen and then you're back to square one. With biometrics you shift the burden of paying for and managing hardware onto the library and individual users don't need to be responsible for anything.

Of course this doesn't solve the issue of the user who is already locked out, but librarians could at least proactively enroll users who have access to their account in order to prevent the issue from happening in the future.

> Do folk genuinely get asked problems like that in technical interviews these days?

No idea! I'm still in interview prep mode though so I'm doing the LeetCode contests every weekend. Even if practicing problems like these is over-preparing I think it's probably a good idea for me because I imagine I'll be much more nervous and less performant during an actual live interview.

> Is there supposed to be a linear time solution?

Yes! Using a monotonic stack to find the "pivot points" of the contiguous subarray groups as well as both a prefix-sum array and prefix-product array to calculate the sum of all subarrays in each group in O(1) time after initially building the arrays in linear time.

There are some great explanations in the discussion section. This is one of the few problems that I got stuck on and wasn't able to solve on my own after a couple days of trying. The LeetCode community is awesome though and getting to see how other people solved the problem is a great educational resource.

Very interesting! Sounds similar to a segment tree: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Segment_tree

I recently learned about monotonic stacks thanks to this LeetCode problem: https://leetcode.com/problems/sum-of-total-strength-of-wizar...

I feel like they're quite possibly the most deceptively simple data structure I've yet to encounter. That is to say that for me at least there was/is a wide gulf between simply understanding what the data structure is (doesn't get much simpler than a stack!) and when/how to actually apply it.

I have not and that's a great idea. Thanks!

As a self-taught developer this book has been an incredibly valuable resource. I'm immensely grateful that resources like this exist freely on the internet.

Did you ever try fasting for an extended period of time during any of that? I've never gone more than ~48 hours but from what I've watched and read, people seem to stop feeling hungry after say four or five days. I wonder if that could maybe act as a sort of hard reset for the constant feeling of hunger you experienced.

I think righteous indignation is all but inevitable when you're sourcing hot takes on the internet. Your questions are interesting but one could write a dissertation on any one of them. Here on Hacker News you might have a higher chance of bumping into someone who has written such a dissertation and can link you to it, but there will still always be a ton of noise in the comments due to the very format of the forum. If you want to have a less flamey discussion of self-driving cars I think you should flesh out your ideas and questions in a well-researched and well-cited article and then post it here rather than trying to start such a broad discussion with such little context.

We can't. At least not always. And they don't even have to be compromised, they could also just be (and often are) wrong. Also, even when they're right it's going to be about about some small part of an impossibly complex whole. I think "what the experts/data say" should play an important, but extremely small role in how we decide to live our lives, with the balance made up by input from our close friends and family and those who are physically/geographically close to us.

A huge problem of the 21st century is that everyone feels like they have a right to tell everyone else what they must do. It's fine to listen to scientists and care about others. My goodness. So tired.

A lot has changed over the past 20 years but playing http://somafm.com/groovesalad.pls on Winamp remains the same. I started donating $5/mo a few years ago because I appreciate having such a valuable constant in my life more and more as time goes on.

I did the same but was already a Fastmail customer. Didn't even realize you could add additional domains to an existing account without any additional charge. Great service!

Fiddler is fantastic: https://www.telerik.com/download/fiddler

Speaking only for myself, the fear of creeping authoritarianism is not about some grand conspiracy by "the elites" but rather about our collective tolerance of such a "new normal." I just responded to another commenter here who was lamenting the fact that the mask mandates are not permanent. That person's vote counts just as much as mine. I don't think it's ever unreasonable to think that any policy that restricts one's freedom has the potential to either a) become permanent or b) lead to additional restrictions.

Have you considered taking steps to possibly improve your own health instead of wishing that a government or corporation would require everyone around you to wear a face covering indefinitely for your own personal benefit?

I've found this book to be very helpful: Mathematical Notation: A Guide for Engineers and Scientists [0]. It's compact, very well organized, and has several indexes to make symbol lookups easier and good summaries of what they mean.

[0] https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1466230525

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