skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
At least at the San Francisco end, the terminus is in the heart of downtown San Francisco near a bunch of major transi tlines. SFO is 45+ minutes away via BART (OAK is a little closer, SJC is way further away). SFO via car is going to be highly variable, less than 45 minutes best case, but worse in traffic.

Additionally there's the problem of airport expansion. There aren't a lot of palatable options as filling in the bay is (rightfully) a non-starter for most people. High speed rail wouldn't replace air travel but it would complement it (especially with the related regional improvements like electrifying Caltrain).
>but rather the other additional circumstances of the "solitary jail life" which are mitigated for "ordinary prisoners".

In my own comment, I wasn't clear enough that I also had this in mind. There's a lot you can do to make your own environment comfortable. In prison solitary, nothing at all.

Coincidentally, I just finished reading this book. It gives an incredible view into the mind of a hostage kept in similar conditions: https://www.amazon.com/Hostage-Guy-Delisle/dp/1770462791/

(On the off chance you read French, it's originally in that language, and probably better to read that way if you can)

I picked it up for bedtime reading and couldn't put it down. I read the entire thing, into the middle of the night.
How a ‘bent’ policeman could be key to clearing a man’s name, 40 years on
Can you elaborate on why you think the route is drawn for "political gains"? I ask because the route makes sense to me geographically given that the initial useful core route is SJC/LAX.
Yes, I'm happy on my own. I work at home, I like spending long periods of time on my own without much social interaction (though I'm not against socializing). It's a very oppressive environment with a lot of factors feeding into it. The deprivation of sensory input and things to distract yourself with really kicks you into a weird mental space after a few hours. I was staring at marks on the wall for long periods of time. I would make repetitive movements with my arm, slapping it against my chest, doing that until I got bored and moving onto something else. Having no sense of time, how much time is passing, and not being able to get a break from it, it just becomes a really deep churning that can suck you in like a vortex and you can't really escape it.
I think people like corporate taxes because people only have a vague idea of where the incidence actually falls. Clearly, at the end of the day, corporate taxes take money out of the pockets of business owners/shareholders, employees, and customers in some proportion, but no one's really sure what it is. Taxes that you're obviously paying are unpopular, whereas taxes it feels like "someone else" is paying are less unpopular.
This is true but misses the point. Beekeeping is done for the sake of pollination: flowering fruit and crop pollination is where the money is at and the focus of the beekeeping industry. The vast majority of managed bee colonies in the US are used for this purpose. Bloom times are region and species specific. California almonds, for example, are usually the earliest bloom. Hives will be moved around based on those patterns. We're not talking 5, 20, or 100 hives, we're talking 10,000 to 250,000 hives at the high end. As blooms end the hives are moved to new orchards through out the growing season. Think bee hives on flat beds crisscrossing the country. At that scale replacing queens gets very expensive (and the hive may reject her anyway) due to veroa mite stress and the loss of the hive is common. Any honey not used by the bees along the way is sold to third parties which in turn sell it to consumers.
While I obviously think cheaper and faster is better, connecting two of the worlds largest city economies with vacant land is a feature not a bug.
Sincere question: what's the energy usage for e.g. USD or EUR?
Excepting travel time and security time, is the airline imposition of arriving anywhere from 45 to 1.5 hours before departure or you can't check a bag. And all the airlines recommend arrival 1-2 hours before a flight. This is to account for myriad unknown factors that apply to airline travel that don't apply to trains.
Wait isn't one of the selling points of Go that you can just deploy single statically compiled binaries.
Hi, I'm the woman who sued the city, liberated this data, and created this website. Feel free to ask me anything. :-)
Software engineering isn't CS, either, but everyone acts like a CS degree is helpful for doing that job.
More on the subject:

https://www.computerworld.com/article/3218670/web-browsers/b...
So... you're agreeing or disagreeing that a lawyer can ethically represent a client who he believes "did it" by arguing that the evidence is insufficient?

If you agree, that's walking back on your original comment; if you disagree, that seems to go sharply against 1/2/3.

Edit: As the others note, this is going sharply against well-known legal principles. Do you have any authoritative citation that UK lawyers can't represent clients at all on a not-guilty plea while believing them to have "done it"?
I envy those that can quiet their minds in 10-20 minutes. I need to take about an hour to let the dust settle in my head.
>Trying to get pixel-perfect movement (say, in a drawing program) with a trackball can be frustrating.

High levels of acceleration can help. The classic X windowing system input method has something described as "a more natural and continuous formula, giving precise control for slow motion but big reach for fast motion, and a progressive transition for motions in between." which works really well with my Trackman Marble.
If the service can be improved, but can only be improved by bribing staff to do their job properly, that's a terrible indictment of the hospitality business.
The other advantage of rail is that rail is generally less affected by weather. (which anyone that's sat at SFO or waited in the air or elsewhere on the ground for an SFO fog delay will appreciate)

Last time I was in Japan, a typhoon hit, and was working its way up the islands. My flight up to Tokyo was already cancelled due to high winds, but I was able to get a Shinkansen ticket and arrive in time to catch my flight before Narita was affected by the Typhoon.

The flight would have been 90 minutes (not including travel time to the airport), and the train was 5 hours, but still, it was a comfortable journey and I'd do it again. If I were traveling from downtown to downtown, the airplane time would be more like 4 hours (60 minutes to get to airport with padding to get to gate on time, 90 minute flight (scheduled time is over 2 hours, but usually the flight is around 90 minutes gate to gate), then at least 90 minutes to get off the plan and catch an express bus to Tokyo.
How Closed Trade Deals Ratchet Up the Copyright Term Worldwide
Yup, those airports in Stockton, Modesto, Scaramento, Fresno, and Bakersfield are just for show.
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Airports and roads are all funded by public monies. A new runway for SFO was projected to cost over $2 billion in 1999 (in 1999 dollars).

Highspeed rail was projected to cost less than expanding highways and airports. Not sure what it looks like with the increases. OTOH, the budgets for those other modes also tend to balloon over time.
Hmmm. "Vietnam -- US Relations: 1945-1968" seems to be missing from this list ;)

I love Space Technology textbooks from the 1960s. Largely because the physics and math of orbital mechanics can still be provided for good simulations.

Not sure if the same holds true for Game Theory apart from historical interest.

For a better introduction see Networks, Crowds and Markets:

https://www.cs.cornell.edu/home/kleinber/networks-book/
Persona 5: Phantoms of Translation
The real secret is not flying United out of SFO. I typically make it through security in Terminal 2 (Virgin / AA / Alaska) in about 10 minutes. Not much longer with the international terminal.
You can already replace dom with a canvas renderer. Flipchart does it with a react canvas renderer, but yet it doesn't take off, so why would wasm change that?
"Tip creep" or "guilt tipping" is simply milking [1][2][3] the social conventions around tipping while you're standing in front of the would-be beneficiary, card in hand.

Most of the tip goes to the seller, of course. But most payment processors deduct their fees from the total amount after taxes and tips, like Square does [4], so if the final transaction amounts are higher, as they are in this case, they make more money too.

[1] https://qz.com/730315/squares-design-guilts-us-into-tipping-... [2] https://www.nytimes.com/2015/02/01/business/dollar3-tip-on-a... [3] https://www.fastcodesign.com/3022182/how-square-registers-ui... [4] https://squareup.com/help/us/en/article/5068-what-are-square...
It includes a book co-authored by Issac Asimov 'Planets for Man'
https://www.rand.org/pubs/commercial_books/CB183-1.html

Is it really true that people in the sixties thought that interstellar travel is 'just around the corner' as claimed in the blurb to the book? I mean RAND sold this book as a product for serious people.
Yes you get a credit for the foreign taxes paid, but even still it's absurdly punitive for being an American corporation.
At least in the Bay Area, part of the draw of HSR is that it's also the motivation for improvements to Caltrain (electrification, grade separation, mythical extension to downtown).
SFO to LAX is 85-100 minutes, depending on airline and equipment.

For me it's ~20 mins driving SF to SFO, ~10 mins for TSA junk and walking to the gate, ~30 mins for waiting and boarding, then the 90 minute flight, ~15 minutes for deplaning, walking, and getting a ride, and then then anywhere from 15-60 minutes depending on where I'm going.
An Armenian friend of mine marinades chicken in onion juice (obtained by crushing halved onions with his bare hands), salt, and black pepper, before grilling. Delicious
Caddy does it all without needing an external dependency or crontab or custom configuration to handle the HTTP challenge. Caddy config files also just end up being simpler in general. When I moved from Nginx to Caddy my vhost files ended up at least 50% smaller, if not more, and with a lot less repetition.

Note that when you create a new vhost in Caddy it automatically gets LE support. No need to update your crontab to pass the new domain to certbot.
It's zero. Exchanging banknotes or coins for goods or services does not consume electricity. Can't believe this was "sincere question".
Take a look at ACELA, the last minute prices aren't that bad (well insofar as I missed my train and booked a seat on the next one with a minimal penalty - around $40).
I posted on FB while working on my degree and got a 5 year memory about it recently. I visualized the miners turning the polar bears black, and I was a good liberal who turned off my lights. Ethics would win. "It was a cool prototype" that I forgot about. Every CS student can figure this out, so it's surprising that we've let it go. Incentives, right.
Blackrock’s attempt to distract public and political attention from the fact that they control such a vast amount of capital. Good PR. Won’t achieve anything but good PR.
Why Information Grows
I think we can agree that some elements of bad UI are obvious, and others are subtle.

Based on the photos of the screen shown in the article, this one's dead obvious.
I'm often reminded of the XKCD quip that web pages are in fact the easily installable executables that so much of the marketplace was looking for over the past few decades.

https://xkcd.com/1367/
I have several musician friends who create excellent content, yet are still fairly niche. Every one of them is getting frozen out of their measly dollar a month from this, as they are all a bit short on hours of listening per year.

At least Spotify/Apple still pays musicians per stream. The small musicians on youtube are no longer getting that privilege. Big Music(tm) screws the little guys again.

(I know this is more than about indie musicians, but this is the effect I am seeing most in relation to my usage of Youtoob)
Sure, if the HSR project ends up doing just regional transit improvements, and don't end up actually building the HSR, that's probably a better use of money.

I expect HSR money is going to get Caltrain grade separation and electrification done, which seemed like it would take 30-50 years otherwise, even though it was planned to finish in 10 years for the last 20 years.
Should the NeoPG project mention why GPGME wasn't a suitable compromise?

I understand the author wants to clean up the core and the API, but if there's already a project that cleans up the API isn't that good enough? Especially considering the standard it implements-- PGP-- is still quite complicated.
This is probably because your business is too small. I’d youbwere making 10s or 100s of millions of dollars in annual profits you would have a pretend subsidiary by now.

Apple has done nothing illegal. If you don’t like it, you can complain about the tax laws, that’s what is bothering you.
Where does the article say this, "Prior to the author of this article conducting her live experiment, 0% of non-white non-males were hired for an entry-level position"?

She's female. She got hired.
Words mean things.

violence (n)

a : the use of physical force so as to injure, abuse, damage, or destroy

b : an instance of violent treatment or procedure

Just because someone made up his own redefinition doesn't mean much. Edit: In fact, making up a definition of "violence" that is explicitly not "violence" not only doesn't mean much, it's Orwellian and indicative of subterfuge.
If you are not a citizen, you can at least avoid it if you are not staying in the US, as you'd be a non-resident for tax purposes.

But if you are a non-citizen who is a resident for tax purposes, then yeah you are out of luck.
I'm just finishing up a tool that lets you use Google Sheets as a data API resource that returns JSON. In my particular case I have many clients who want the ease of use of WordPress but don't have the resources to keep it properly maintained in terms of update security. Many of these clients do not actually need to update most of their site on any sort of frequent basis. The case that prompted my new project is a restaurant who updates their daily specials on a daily basis, their seasonal specials on a monthly basis, and other menu items maybe 2-3 times a year in addition to semi-frequent homepage background image changes and an occasional flash message. Instead of giving them WordPress, this is what I did:

The site is built in Jekyll so it is 100% static. The dynamic portions of the site like the food menu makes use of Jekyll's data files feature. The site owner makes changes to their menu in a Google Sheet (which is where they typically store this anyway) and then chooses a deploy target and submits a custom Google Form. The form submit pings a listening Go server on the deploy target which then kicks off a build script. The build script requests the Sheet data one sheet at a time and stores the results in JSON files which Jekyll can use. A couple of additional steps to get images into place and then the site is compiled by Jekyll and linked into the nginx webroot. The script even writes back to a log sheet to let the user know how the build went. With selectable deploy targets the site owner can preview her changes on a staging site first before deploying to prod.

And just like that, the user has a site with all the speed and security of a static site and all the flexibility of a dynamic site.
That is an excellent question. In fact, it may be something that is becoming a common problem in need of a solution.

Start by brainstorming the goal. I think you are on to something when you say you want to establish a network of collaborative work at scale, with equitable pay, and maximal impact. Best of luck!
Good news for anyone who is interested, it seems Microsoft is working on bringing the Bedrock (C++) version to Linux and Mac OS: https://www.reddit.com/r/Minecraft/comments/769uli/confirmed...
Care about budgets, and cut the waste such as losing wars and corrupt, broken nonsense like the F-35. Care about price controls in the health sector, and care about investing in infrastructure.
Well, they are highly correlated for tables. Or are you selling 10lb tables for 60 cents?
> Leask agreed, saying an immediate declaration of invalidity would pose a "potential danger to the public or threaten the rule of law."

What the fuck. I mean, thanks to Judge Leask for invalidating this practice - but that part is utter nonsense and causes up to a year of further suffering for affected people. They're not going to walk around in society so what is being threatened here?!
Why not? It's an introductory course...everyone has to start from somewhere and the most experienced experts in this field only have a few years experience given the newness of the field in general. Don't underestimate yourself!
Not to mention the potential export market. Textiles are a great example of comparative advantage at work--even if a richer country can manufacture better textiles than a poorer country, importing textiles from the poor countries frees up resources for the rich country to manufacture other goods. There are good reasons Bangladesh is a major player in the textile industry.
Ok, last one. :) You've really just made a mockery of the ideology of competition haven't you? In fact, that is what corporations do. There's an awful lot of highly concentrated market power lying around for exactly that reason.
New California declares 'independence' from California
The X per Pound is just the standard liability insurance. If you have valuables, or items that would exceed that there is a process where by you can buy additional insurance, but the X per pound is normally what is included in the Movers Fees.

More of a CYA for the mover than protection for your property.
That's not how Amtrak works now, they price it the same way as airlines, last minute is more expensive.

I'm in NYC and would never, ever fly to Boston or DC. For what that's worth.
Always love Tom Scott (and 12tone!)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oyC4lLTOyL8
Just the other day my Security instructor played to my class a video of Kevin Mitnick who mentioned during his prison sentence he was put in solitary confinement for a year. The story goes the US government believed Kevin could whistle into a payphone and trigger the launch of nuclear missiles.

Solitary confinement is obviously meant to be torture. It's punishment within an organization where people are already being punished just by being there.
What you can do as one man is precisely nothing, except to make yourself feel a bit better. Caring in the absence of organizing and acting, is that really caring? At the very least our priorities are made clear by our actions and not our attitudes.
As I mentioned in a post on this thread, I was just doing weekends, so it only lasted for 52 hours. It would take a lot of mental fortitude to survive days or weeks (or god forbid, years) of it. It breaks people and they don't just magically get better once their sentence is finished. It's quite horrible.
> And can you do that for less than 60 billion dollars?

Doubtful. Look at the cost per station (e.g. the half billion dollar cable car to the Oakland airport) and cost per mile (e.g. Warm Springs extension). Then look at the mismanagement (they still haven't gotten the new cars to work right) and that BART train control is at capacity and can't handle additional system expansion. Or take a look at eBART -- even BART is self-aware enough to know how expensive it is and thus the BART board is going through with a diesel extension instead of bringing the mainline BART to the boonies.
You can do the same by buying stocks and not paying taxes on earnings (including dividend) until you sell.
> That means that there won't be any more hordes of overseas profits. And means the end of those tax inversions or corporate inversions you have been hearing about. [1]

This won't stop companies selling their IP to overseas shells and then paying royalties.
What are they dodging? They're paying a reasonable tax rate of 23%, as opposed to never repatriating the profits and paying 0%. The US govt gave them a chance to clean the slate at a reasonable rate and they took it.
They're doing slightly different things, but not to nearly the extent of Edge which is doing something very different.
This sounds like a modern-day equivalent of the classic "Fool on the Hill" played on the AM radio sitting on top of an Altair 8800 ( recreated in the video below ):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1FDigtF0dRQ
Game Theory Applied to Mental Health
Every single resturant kitchen with a time clock I've ever been in in my entire life has some variation of the following poster:

https://www.laborlawcc.com/uploads/image/california-los-ange...

And it's always posted in English and Spanish -- including phone numbers of who to confidentially call to report violations. If people choose not to report violations -- that's really on them. We're generally talking about adults here -- not helpless children.
Heroku CI is down for almost an hour
Edge is doing something very different, see the sibling comments for details.
As an Italian, I'm happy that at least somebody did get great service :)

To be fair, it really varies so much between regions and even towns. Restaurants are usually ok, but regular shops in big cities... eh.
Certbot manages its own cronjobs, same with changing the config to handle the HTTP challenge.

A reason not to use Caddy is significantly reduced performance as compared to Nginx.
Actually it kind of does. Even in the animal world, an animal will mark its territory and defend that territory against encroachment.

Humans would do the same thing, except now we have outsourced the violence to the state. Instead of peeing on trees to mark our property, the state keeps a registry of property owners. Instead of physically fighting with intruders, we call the law enforcement arm of the state.

The concept of property or territory you control exists apart from the state.
For eminent domain there's little you can do _legally_, even in California, but politically it can be very costly if you try to bulldoze rich homeowners and business owners properties.

The way less well-heeled NIMBYs hold up projects is through environmental review (California's CEQA makes this all too easy) and historic preservation laws.
>> women are hired for only 19 percent of chef positions, for example, even though traditionally most women are more likely to do a majority of the cooking at home.

> If you visit most restaurant kitchens -- the line cooks and dishwashers are almost always men

So your argument is that the discrimination begins much earlier in the chain?
> I assume someone in the executive suite has an ace up their sleeve this time.

One trick is that you can make a big, powerful vehicle that's much lighter and more fuel efficient than you could in the past: http://autoweek.com/article/car-news/aluminum-and-ford-f-150
Yeah the latter sucks because as a resident I can’t even start a business here. I have to jump through hooves like Estonia’s e-residency program to just publish an app.
> from what I am told, my taxes were lowered

Are you in the bracket of a typical American taxpayer or the bracket of a typical HN-er?

> I am a wait and see kind of person.

We've been slashing taxes on corporations and the wealthy since the Reagan era under the trickle down philosophy, but we're still waiting for that money to actually trickle down: https://www.epi.org/productivity-pay-gap/

If 50 years isn't a long enough experiment for you, what is?