skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Buses are the public transport of last resort for very good reasons.

They go through all the busiest areas to maximize passenger numbers, which is what makes them slow.

Delays compound; since per-stop timetables are unpredictable due to traffic, buses normally just try to make the best time they can. Which means you wait for the bus, possibly for a long time. So a late bus becomes later, as it takes longer to board the extra passengers, and then the next bus catches up, and you get bunching.

You're much better off walking or cycling to a rail option if you have it. Buses in busy cities are barely faster than walking at the worst of times, especially when you add in waiting time.

As a result, the bus works best for those people who can't walk or cycle - old people, mothers with buggies - and poor people who have little choice but to sit in a bus for an hour or more as it crosses town.

Point to point longer distance, special purpose buses that don't need to follow main routes can work much better. Airport shuttles, work shuttles, that kind of thing.
The challenge here is riding the bus is inferior in convenience and comfort, fundamentally, vs other options. Unless price (likely by eliminating any subsidies for other methods; today even a $0 bus fare would still not be enough) or other features (bypassing traffic) make up for it, why would a rational person take the bus? There are probably places on the margin where buses are more acceptable right now (in a downtown core area where they replace a long walk, where other methods are inconvenient), but if the goal is wide usage, this has to be addressed.

Private bus networks with access limited to certain people (employees of companies or groups of companies, universities, etc) seem to work ok; what generally doesn’t seem to work are public buses.

Is the problem density (I doubt Google employees across Bay Area are denser than bus riding public overall within SF) — probably not.

A lot of the unpleasantness is other riders. Without the ability to ban certain riders (either via a whitelist or blacklist), bus ridership will remain limited. BART is bad enough, but whenever I’ve taken muni or peninsula bus service (very rarely)it made the case for this.

Transit agencies are also highly political — unionized labor, political appointees running it, expensive contracts for everything, inflexible policies — so I doubt they could provide the same service as private bus companies.

The solution is probably not public transit, but possibly is multi passenger vehicles. Something like Lyft Line with more passengers, dynamic routing, etc, plus some core routes with scheduled higher capacity service.
I think the author may really be onto something here. I have teenage and twenty-something daughters. My youngest is very excited about her stats minor but when I suggested computer science to her the horror that crossed her face...like it was a personal insult. Another one is into math and science and also wouldn't consider CS if her life depended on it -- physics or chemical engineering, sure, but never CS. Both do have very active social lives -- maybe that's it, or maybe it's because their parent wants them to do it -- kids never want to do what their parent suggests. Whatever it is, as a mom who fell into tech who would love her daughters to get a CS degree, I have yet to find way to make the degree appealing to them, even though they like what I do and actually find the act of coding enjoyable.
This is the reason it's risky as an employer to overpay someone's market value too much. It removes all incentives for them to leave even when they are miserable, which is not good for you as an employer.
Call centers and such. You got a bunch of MBAs "leading" a massive amount of entry-level workers. They pretty much look down on and dehumanize their entire workforce.

I'm not sure what's worse; being on the floor or being the sorta-manager that busted their ass hard enough to scrape a few extra dollars an hour but has to now act as a buffer between the MBAs and the floor workers, of which they used to be, all while being too scared to truly stick up for them due to the risk of losing their job..
Your personal device is your personal space.
This is the problem. I have enough friends that I feel content, guy friends and some women friends. Why the fuck do I risk my life and job by trying to interact with women in office and accidentally come off as harassing. There is absolutely no benefit for me with a risk of losing a great deal.
> [x] not written in python (eg. in go or rust)

Don't you need some kind of scripting capabilities though to create custom pipelines without having to recompile all the app each time you had a new one?
There are a handful of movies that are not surprises, but just fun to watch.

Avengers, TLJ, Black Panther, Greatest Showman are all movies that someone can enjoy watching more than once.
Ugh, these posts go viral everywhere.

Land has value, people. In fact, it’s usually the majority of your home value.

If you don’t understand this and are outraged by people paying money for land, you probably have no business purchasing real estate.
Roku is the Switzerland of streaming platforms, in the sense that they're neutral.

For example, Amazon and Google have been at war, Google pulled YouTube off of the Amazon Fire Stick, and Amazon refused to stock Google's Chromecast hardware or let a cast occur from the Prime video/music apps. Vudu (Walmart) is also at war with Amazon, therefore doesn't offer the Vudu app on Amazon's Fire Stick.

Roku has remained largely out of it, since they have fewer horses in this race. While Roku sells ads and hardware, they don't really compete for streaming space or within retail sales. So you wind up with Vudu, Amazon Prime, and Chromecast all available side by side on a Roku.

Roku does need to be careful though, they've been trying to offer paid on-demand content and other streaming services, if they're successful they might make themselves a competitor which could cause the above to leave.
I learned React before all these unnecessary addons and it was still borderline terrible. JSX and its school of thought is a horrible, horrible mistake and having to learn to use slightly-different names for everything (className vs class, etc) was infuriating.

Still, everything one needed for an SPA was there. With thoughtful design one didn't need any of those addons. Then, suddenly, Flux comes out and it seems like a few months later the whole scene says React+Flux is the only way to go. (I personally found Flux confusing as fuck, but I didn't give it more than 15 minutes) It amuses me to see some of these JavaScript proponents get so cocky over something that only lasts a couple of months.
Hmm I think I get the difference, but can you accomplish the same thing overlaying with orange + lowering brightness?
Perhaps this is addressed elsewhere, but do you have any plans to support Common Workflow Language?
Ah, ok. Why not just implement your own cycling instead of relying on the system cycling?
The puzzle of beauty
Lots of ‘oh shit’ moments. Lots.
Absolutely. What I don’t know is if the problem is a small number of very bad actors who could probably be blacklisted, or the average “co-rider tolerability” of a larger number of people (such that it would require a whitelist).
> buses and bikes were wonderful. But, they do not stop at my door, and they do not stop at where I want to go.

Welcome to planet earth. It doesn't revolve around you.
Has the Classic Theme Restorer add-on been ported to the new extension API? Until then, I'm staying with my old version of Firefox.
What you're saying is true at the bottom end of the job market, where labor is highly exchangeable. At the other side -- say a one of a kind performer, like Beyonce -- price gets set by an auction of gigs, where she accepts those that keep her busy and leave her with the highest margins.

In between, where most of us live, neither candidates nor jobs are fully exchangeable, so both value to company and appeal to candidate (however imperfectly estimated) come into play. A hiring manager's job is to pay an employee less than the value they generate, but as much or more than they would get at a job they like just as much.

Paying a Utah programmer 80 cents for what a SoMa dev gets a buck for sends the message that (a) you could pay either of them more than a dollar but (b) you could replace either of them for less than .80. Yet (c) for some reason you want them both to have the same left over after paying for their very different apartments.
Ah, it's really complicated. My hunch is that that's part of it but not the full story. I think it takes a mix of factors to make a person self-define as a 'computer geek' by high school, which is -- imo -- a point at which the gender divide in college is already determined. Various efforts blend the categories later on, but they're fighting against the categories that already exist by HS-age.

Some factors:

1a. being socially allowed to love computers, OR 1b. not caring what's socially allowed <- me

2. obsessiveness (3rd-grade me would happily play videogames for 12 hours straight if allowed. Or read, legos, etc. Other kids would, like, learn everything about airplanes.)

3. not caring very much about socializing. 'play over people', if you will.

4. being intelligent

5. having 'growth mindset', the idea that you could go learn something if you wanted to. (I think I got this from books and RPGs and from not being demoralized early on.)

6. not caring very much about pop culture (in my case, because I didn't know about it. sports and music weren't on my radar).

7. being competitive: wanting to learn cool things to, basically, seem cool to other nerdy kids.

8. an innate desire to build things

I would characterize (1b) and (2) and (3) together as being, basically, the 'autism spectrum' angle, which is (I perceive) more prevalent in boys, and I think that's where the main difference comes from.

I think what the social effect you mention exists, but it might come before these categories -- ie, from a young age I was constructed so as to not care what was socially allowed and to want to obsessively play, and so I was basically destined to be obsessed with computers. I don't know how much is nature vs. nurture though.

I also think that on average girls are less (7) naturally competitive and (8) naturally motivated to build things (citation needed), but that very well could be a social effect also.

I think lots of people of any gender have their (5) 'growth mindset' squashed from a young ago.

I also think lots of boys have almost everything on the list except for '(8) desire to build things', so instead of learning to make games, they get really good at Halo and play every day in college, or whatever.

I also think that by the time college rolls around, these categories are all smeared together, and people end up going into tech or STEM (and I guess I mean specifically CS/Math/Physics) for lots of reasons. I'm only trying to describe the commonalities across the nerdy kids in HS.

Disclaimer: all of this is hunches and is from ~2000-2008 and is probably not correct or true and if it was it probably isn't anymore.
No. You don't pay google to run a task. You pay google to run a TPU instance for some amount of time. The time you spend leaving it on, setting it up, tearing it down, etc, are all still time you pay for. When they have TPU lambda jobs, that's different, but they don't. From their page:

Virtual machine pricing
In order to connect to a TPU, you must provision a virtual machine (VM), which is billed separately. For details on pricing for VM instances, see Compute Engine pricing.
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Here are the problems with individuals having solar panels:

1) It's not enough power. Yet. So you'll need to draw from the grid.

2) Sometimes it's cloudy and you need to draw from the grid.

Given you need to still draw from the grid, but aren't paying as much... what does that do to the quality or maintenance cost per use for the grid? Do people who aren't on solar gets charged more per kW/h? A move to push them to get solar? Do people with solar get hit with a "grid maintenance" fee for not paying their fair share of grid maintenance (previously built in to their electric bill)? Do we raise taxes? Do we let infrastructure crumble?

I think solar is great, no question. But better if capacity is built through solar plants, that use the existing grid, rather than mandated as part of individual home construction.

Plus... and this is the part that bugs me... does this mean we can't build houses in the shade? Will we have to tear down old trees, or build taller houses than our neighbors have, in order to meet some quota for energy production... what if I want to have a roof-top patio? What if a new technology comes along... let's call it "Solar 2"... and it's better. Are we forbidden to use it until the laws are changed? What if it's just better in my opinion for my life... can I still use it, or am I locked in to whatever standards the State of California deems is best for everyone?

Yeah this law is going to suck.
> Private bus networks with access limited to certain people (employees of companies or groups of companies, universities, etc) seem to work ok; what generally doesn’t seem to work are public buses.

This sounds like an argument for restricting transit access to the most privileged members of society. The real reason private buses are successful is because they have a limited amount of stops, it's more like riding a train than a local bus that stops at every block. If anything cities should be investing way more in BRT, as the private sector has proven that high quality buses can work.
Nor you. We each get a vote. And mine is for cars.
> such as L.A. and Denver, are watching transit ridership decline across the board, in part because investment in buses has trailed so far behind the commitment to trains

That's not completely true for LA (and for the record, train ridership in LA is on decline as well, while the population is growing).

Here's the actual reason http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-metro-homeless-2018...

"People looking for warm, dry places to sleep have barricaded themselves inside emergency exit stairwells in stations, leaving behind trash and human waste. Elevator doors coated in urine have stuck shut. Mentally ill and high passengers have assaulted bus drivers and other riders."

"More than 1 in 5 current passengers has been harassed on the train. In a 2016 survey, 29% of former riders told Metro they stopped taking transit because they felt unsafe."

"Sim said she saw a man pull down his pants, squat over the edge of a platform and defecate onto the train tracks at Union Station. She said she has sat in urine on the subway, “hopscotched through peoples’ feces” on sidewalks, and endured verbal and sexual harassment on the train."

"In one more serious case, Loew said, LAPD officers used a Taser on a man who was brandishing a knife and threatening passengers."

"He kept riding, until he sat down one morning on a seat that was wet and hot with urine. With no change of clothes on hand, he wore the urine-soaked pants to work. Then he started driving to work again."
I have trouble thinking of many perfect laws.
Yeah... it's kind of embarrassing.
What happens when you run `sudo !!`?
> In principle I agree, but I think in this particular case you might have trouble if you mandated a particular maximum level of energy consumption or a minimum level of on-site power generation, since some houses just aren't in a good place to get sun

Which is exactly why mandating a specific solution like rooftop solar doesn't make sense. Your counterargument actually somewhat supports the original argument :)
That's probably because all the great ones work remotely for companies with higher pay.
This example is exactly why I'm dubious of the idea of mass adoption self driving car technology.

Edit: I should add: in the United States.
Writing itself is a convenience and time saver to avoid memorizing and repeated vocal recitation. I don't disagree that there is a continued march of convenience, I'm just not convinced that there is any justification to the idea that there is a “this far and no further” point at which thst March stops being a net gain, and even less coonvinced that that point is conveniently just before the convenience advanced of the last few years (or even generations).
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Also, what about bicycles does not allow them to go to your door or where you want to go?
It was at -4 when I added that edit, and now it’s at -2, so clearly not.
Several universities still teach racket as an intro language. Ex: Brown, Northeastern, Northwestern, etc.

The authors of Racket specially avoid arguments about teaching language X in introductory CS. The pedagogy and curriculum are significantly more factors in effectively teaching CS [1]. The design of Racket with its restricted languages reflects that.

[1] https://www.janestreet.com/tech-talks/curriculum-design/
Citylab's push here is in response to South American cities doing exactly that with great success[1]. Initially developed in Curitaba, follow on initiatives in Bogota have been very popular[2]. Basically, treat the bus like a metro. Give them their own lane. Make sure the platform is level with pickup. And you've got a massively cost down subway system. For an inspiring documentary you should check this[3] video out.

[1] https://www.theguardian.com/cities/2015/may/26/curitiba-braz...

[2] http://www.kpbs.org/news/2016/mar/21/bogotas-bus-rapid-trans...

[3] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j3YjeARuilI
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I think making money and doing a hobby need not be independent. Being able to earn money doing something you enjoy makes the activity more sustainable and provides resources you can pour back into the hobby to take it to new heights.

Additionally I think maintaining ownership and flexibility of schedule is good to a certain point, but having deadlines and external stakeholders (which you preferably choose and control) also helps for motivation. It's always more rewarding when you meet those than question your commitment to your hobby when you forget about it for a few months because "you were busy".
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Realistically, most people have already forgotten or will really soon.
If the rest of the discussion revolves around how to drink as much as possible without going broke or getting caught then that would be a fine response.

Yes, improving your social skills can be damned hard. But that’s irrelevant if you don’t even want to do it. First we need to convince people that self improvement is the solution, not isolation. Then we can talk about how.
Biking in freezing rain isn't wonderful either
There is a specific regulation applying to law enforcement, in addition to the core GDPR.

https://thinkgdpr.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/DIRECTIVE-E...
I suppose I envisioned the app as something that simply slotted on top of the native system behavior and wouldn't break anything when closed. Less hassles, less maintenance, and the user doesn't have to worry about automatic processes changing their system settings.

As a consequence, you can set the wallpaper for each Space to a different image or directory in System Preferences, and the app will only expose its "gallery management" features when it can match the current wallpaper with an image in its assigned Source directory.
I hear this often enough, but I don't buy it.

I think this mostly comes from being less than totally confident socially, or perhaps even having some social anxiety.

To my knowledge I've never accidentally harassed somebody and can't imagine it happening. But it's still something I worry about because I'd really hate to do that to somebody.

It just adds another layer of concern onto an already somewhat uncomfortable proposition.

I even found one of my good friends (who is female) by offering help in a CS lab. I still worry about these things, and all things being equal, I know I have and would ask a question of the guy sitting next to me rather than the girl. It's just easier.
I agree. The author wants to write about himself, but I'm not interested in that person, I wanted to read about Ive. I gave up after the second or third paragraph.
It’s like when people quit going to Chipotle for a few months, but all went back.
> If people would rather pay $20 for lossless, vs $20 for not lossless, what is the issue?

This is remarkably similar to the argument people make when backed into the corner for pseudoscientific health claims.
Force the middle class out of the city, give them shitty transit options, then tax the hell out of them when they decide to drive.

Wonderful.
Is this seasonally adjusted, or just raw? Most big internet properties have peaks in the winter and troughs during the summer.
Once we see their Q2 results then we might be able to conclude something. Right now using this datasource its almost guesswork.
The public “express buses” seem to have most of the same problems. This is possibly due to inflexibility in how/where they are deployed, or riders, or other factors.
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If everyone in SF all the sudden agreed to work for 1/2 the cost and your salary was cut in half as a result, would you feel that was wrong too?

There's nothing wrong with paying people less in lower cost areas. If a worker can get the job done for half the price in Austin than SF, that's the market forces telling the company to get the heck out of SF.

Ultimately it's not about the value you provide. You might work at Google and provide x10 value of your salary or you might work at a startup that has no chance of success (thus providing 0 long term value) and still earn a normal salary.

It's about the supply of labor and demand for that labor. that's what dictates the cost.
Something I'm forced up against frequently at a company that provides fixed bids for projects and refuses to bill anything hourly: How do you determine a fixed bid for fixing or modifying an existing product you're unfamiliar with?

If a client comes in and says "one out of every 50 times you load a page in this web app, it renders a blank page, how much is it going to cost to fix?" what do you say?

Every hour you spend investigating or familiarizing yourself with the problem is basically just spec work with all the risk that entails. In many cases when you're "fixing" something, the project could be entirely spec work as you spend 8-16 hours determining that the problem is simply a misconfigured setting that will take 5 minutes to flip.

Clients very rarely (in my experience, never) specify problems to a degree sufficient to create a concrete scope of work, and they're not going to pay you hourly to do so.

If I take my car to a mechanic and say "it makes a funny rattle sound, how much will that cost to fix?" he's not going to give me a fixed bid.
I read “have a pulse” as “it doesn’t matter how qualified or pleasant these women were, the men were eager to have any contact with a woman and would have taken them on just for that.”

Does it mean something else?
But what bitcoin owner is going to be willing to sell up and lock in their losses? They'll keep HODLing to the end, with only the occasional sale (to someone else in the ever-shrinking circle of people who care about bitcoin) to meet immediate needs.
Did anyone else lose the ability to scroll by clicking the middle mouse button in the 57 (Quantum) upgrade? Still missing for me in this version.
Remwmber that you exist should be first on the list.

You tend to forget this simple fact and just live your life which is always a problem.

The last two points are also valuable and you tend to forget it even if you are aware of it. This should be a poster, so thank you
Out of how many? 1.3B might be a drop in the bucket for FB.
Perhaps you want new tabs for your shell instead of typing 'fg' every so often.