skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Most mass transit systems we have were originally privately built and operated until they became unprofitable in the 1930s-40s at which point they were publicly taken over. More recently there has been a resurgence of "public-private partnerships" where a private company builds a project and then gets a long term deal to extract money from it once it's done. Denver's recent transit expansion is one example.

A potential downside is that we might end up back in the 1940s, when the subways became unprofitable and cities were forced to buy them out of bankruptcy because residents came to rely on them.
I’ve wanted to build a Gerald Bull style space cannon (but the more modern UW RAMAC style) for a long time. Prototype would be $2-5mm, something small which could actually put something decent into orbit around $50mm. I’ve heard there is a group in SoCal which finally got funding to build it.
The star count that should matter for me would be as follows:

1. The happiness and productivity level I have when perusing one over the other.

2. The actual application being shipped and the level of happiness and satisfaction that I get from the customers.

3. The number of features I can quickly ship on top of the application.

4. The ease of maintainability / support for the application. Easier to maintain = more stars in my world.

The feature set that both frameworks offer are pretty much on par, although I would say (IMHO) that Vue is far easier to understand and seems to be less complex, over all the other frameworks I have used (React, Angular, Ember, Knockout).
Seems like it would be easier to set up a basic Node or Python server that just renders markdown documents from a given directory, then check in your blog posts as part of your repo and push the whole thing to Heroku whenever you want to update
At what point do we collectively decide, you know what, this is ridiculous. Why are we funneling most of our money to landlords?

You'd think VCs would push back on this too, because that's where their money is going.

VC -> Startup -> Employee -> Landlord.
You make a good point. OP's point more serves as a scalable approach to reproduction and child rearing rather than sexuality. With widespread birth control available, sexuality doesn't have to overlap as much.
I left my "real job" for entrepreneurship about 8 years ago (at age 23) and haven't looked back. I've run several small companies since then, with a game server host[1] being the most recent.

I'm pretty happy with how it's gone and I have no regrets over leaving. I was happy and well-treated in the real job, but nothing beats the freedom to work on what I want, when I want, using whichever technologies I want.

The biggest downsides for me:

1. Fewer opportunities to meet and collaborate with other nerds. I love working independently, but "argue with smart people" is a great way to refine your ideas. I wish I had more of that.

2. Fewer opportunities to learn from larger companies. Many companies have internal technologies, tools, processes, shell scripts, etc. that are truly inspired. Former employees get to take these ideas (though not the code itself) with them when they leave, to apply to future jobs or to their own startups. The more time you spend in the corporate world, the more of these tools you accumulate in your own tool belt.

[1] https://indiehackers.com/businesses/arkservers-io
In light of how academic testing is done, that might not be a bad thing on its own.
https://github.com/kemalcr/kemal

No idea about ORMs though.
The auto points calculation is another thing that seems kinda incredible no matter what implementation they used.
You think VCs don’t have Bay Area real estate investments in their personal portfolios?
Part of the problem with the Big Dig were the government was defrauded by a materials supplier who used substandard in order to cut costs.
The Incredible Machine was my favorite game growing up! My indie studio is currently developing a similar chain reaction game called Ruberg but for VR: http://rubergthegame.com/
That is an interesting way to think considering that you receive huge benefits from society (in addition to some disbenefits). If everybody lived in a local optimum, the world would probably be a pretty crappy place to live. There is no way for everybody to have everything they want. We make compromises that hopefully allow us to live in a more globally optimized world.
Exocortex tools part I: social media automation with very small shell scripts
I'm curious how are you coming up with these economic projections? Are you running simulations? Reading reports? Are you an economist?

What if China just sells to other customers? What is China subsidizes it's manufacturers, so they get paid and keep their production capacity whether or not they're actually producing? Exactly like soybean and corn farmers in the US are btw.

The whole thing seems incredibly complex, and most of the economic opinions I read about don't say "markets are better when the goverment skims 25% off of all transactions".

So I'm curious how you immediately come to the conclusion "USA Wins, China has no leverage, game over".
No exchanges are collapsing so its about as real as you can get. You might ask 'What if everyone withdraws to fiat at once?' I think if you posit that of any stock market the answer would be the same. Cryptos are a pretty pure free market, if it didnt have real utility or value for people the markets would collapse.
The minimum was wage enacted such that a single breadwinner earning minimum wage would be able to support a family. A family needs 2 bedrooms and a livable apartment, not the bottom of the barrel, squeezed in to one bedroom.
I want you to know you're not alone. I've been programming for 30 years and I cannot find work. I have hundreds of hours of video showing what I can do and it doesn't matter. Because I don't approach toy problems on the whiteboard like companies expect, I'm a loser.

This is something the HN community should really start paying attention to. You may be employed now and it may be great but something rotten is happening in the industry and it's only getting worse.

I have a MacBook Pro from circa 2013 I can donate to you if you need it. I'll make sure my email is in my profile. Otherwise, if you'd just like to speak with someone who understands (some) of what you're going through, let me know.
Very similarly was HyperCard. It was a bit before my time, but reading up on it, it seemed so powerful and yet friendly for non-programmers to use to make useful tools.

For a demonstration of HyperCard's power, play the original Myst some time. The original Myst runs on HyperCard (the Mac versions anyway; it obviously had to be ported for Windows and other releases). Incredible.

I struggle to think of tools like these that exist today. Access, perhaps? (and of course the tool in the article)
> Look up average SAT scores of different ethnic groups admitted to elite colleges as well. The disparity is glaring.

Yes, everybody appeals to SAT scores. SAT scores are easily gamed. That's why more and more colleges are deprioritizing or abandoning them completely.

What American colleges are increasingly uninterested in are excellent test-takers. Nobody is persuaded that students who are able to grind out excellent numbers (usually with the help of an army of private tutors) will actually add anything new to the university. This "anti-number bias" as I've heard it called is just that -- an anti-number bias. There's absolutely no evidence that minorities are gaining some extraordinary advantage from this process.

> But let's be realistic about the facts here.

There are no "facts" here. This story and your link introduce nothing new. You're making a circular argument: "Going by the SAT scores which colleges are discounting more and more the best test takers are being discounted more and more." Duh.
New form of matter may lie just beyond the periodic table
What have you got against symbols exactly?

I don't know enough about the reasons why they are implemented to argue this strongly, but I know that they are immutable and that they are one step closer to the language in the sense that, constructions which you may not use in an unquoted symbol, are also not allowed to be used in a Ruby method name.

That seems like a handy data structure to have around next to a string (and nobody's stopping you from using a string if you wanted a string and not a symbol, ...or are they?)
I've had the experience of talking this point with someone and their argument essentially boiled down to "women are overgrown children who need men to guide them." This is why I don't entertain "family values" arguments.
I'm a dev.

I did this a few years ago, started my own company.

I failed for two reasons:

1. I wasn't experienced enough as a developer IN THIS TECHNOLOGY to hit the ground running.

When you are self-employed, time = money. You don't have time to learn the technology, figure out your business, and write the code. You have to hit the ground running and burning time on ramping up is extremely expensive.

2. I lacked the discipline required to maintain myself while working extremely hard at my start-up.

Additionally, I didn't take good enough care of myself. I was ignorant about how to be productive. I was working all of my waking hours, martyring myself for my start-up and then getting up the next day and doing it over again.

Here's a tip: This is bad and leads to failure if you aren't careful with your time, food, and sanity management. A lot of people like to glorify this behavior but really, excellence is a 24-hour job.

Working out, eating well, getting a good night's sleep, and then coming into work the next day with clear-eyes beats running yourself ragged with panicked late-night programming sessions every time. ( Although, some people like to work at night and that is totally fine, we all have our own form of productivity. )

My point is really more about taking care of yourself and BEING DISCIPLINED. Unless you are wealthy, you do not have time ( remember, time=money ) to make mistakes. Discipline is your buffer between your degrading sanity and your ability to make good decisions.
A time when unions were strong, when the 1% were taxed at ~90% and when "social security" and "pensions" were not evil words.

I feel zero sympathy for Americans and for the utter clusterfuck of misery that awaits them over the next 20 years. This is just the beginning.
Fortnite is 100 people per game on a single gigantic map, with tracked state for everything (as it's important for the gameplay that, for example, an already-looted house is empty when the next player comes along).
The people making the claim are citing 50% because that's what they've heard their entire lives, not because they did some kind of statistical analysis to balance the different factors involved.

There is a big difference between a specific statistic (divorce rate) and the larger picture (in this case, each of us is probably interpreting this differently). A specific statistic is purposely isolated, and then can be used as one piece of data among many to analyze whatever one might view the larger picture as.

For the divorce rate specifically, if there are fewer divorces because there are fewer people entering into poorly chosen marriages, wouldn't the resulting decline in the divorce rate still hold some significance to you?
"To better understand how rents and affordability have changed over time, Apartment List analyzed Census data from 1960 - 2014. We find that inflation-adjusted rents have risen by 64%, but real household incomes only increased by 18%."
-- https://www.apartmentlist.com/rentonomics/rent-growth-since-...

The graph lower down on the page is informative, too: only in Las Vegas and Austin did the median rent increase equally to the change in median renter income. In every other urban area, the rent went up faster.
To be fair, everything about Pearson is hard. I've always found it difficult to navigate - everything feels backwards and confusing, even simple things like the terminal names (there is no Terminal 2!?). UPX having the same problem is unsurprising.
Which was the status of minimum wage jobs up until the mid 1970s.

The average minimum age worker is 35, so it's not really fair to say "just don't have kids".

https://mobile.nytimes.com/2014/06/10/upshot/minimum-wage.ht...
Source for that claim?

Minimum wage has been $4-10/hr (inflation adjusted) throughout its history in USA; only about as high for the single-person poverty level ($6/hr for single, $10/hr equivalent for a family of 3)

https://bebusinessed.com/history/history-of-minimum-wage/
Erlang isn't in the same category as the languages being discussed here. It's great for long running parallel tasks, but is slow af.
I would like to see the comparison for the EU or Japan... I found this https://www.citylab.com/equity/2015/06/where-europeans-spend..., which suggests it is more reasonable, but doesn't reflect the minimum wage. Maybe it isn't such an unreasonably high standard?
Okay, my bachelors was in civil engineering and I have worked in construction and engineering for just over two years now.

Most public projects today have generous structured incentives that are given to companies for meeting goals for time and budget. We work to these incentives.

Keep in mind that often you cannot be aware of the things that will go wrong until you actually do them. This happens in software development quite a bit.

I am not aware of any extensive private tunnel construction that has occurred without public financing inside of the U.S.

So here are the drawbacks to Musk's plan:

1. He may prioritize speed over safety, either unintentionally causing loss of life or limb because of construction practices or geotechnically destablize the foundations of the buildings and infrastructure that he's traveling under.

2. I firmly believe that it's going to cost far, far more than 1 billion. That leaves the chance of a big hole in the ground that may eventually fill with water.
Actually thats pretty much exactly how the Fed works.
>What computer hardware can best make Apple money in the next five years?

I think the GPs point is that they have the resources to figure that out (as opposed to some random HN commentor), but they seem to be stuck in a rut.
Heck no I don't regret it.

Just over three years ago I left my cushy job at Facebook to start a company. It took a year and a half of grinding to make our first dollar. Now we're ramen profitable and still growing strong. [1]

The reason it took so long is because I was an inexperienced founder. I could build the product, but stuff like getting customers, pricing our product, writing a landing page... These are not things that software engineers at big companies have to worry about. It took years for me to pick up these skills, and I'm still learning loads.

And I'm so glad I learned them because now if I started all over again, it'd take a fraction of the time to build something successful.

Now, different people are different. If you really love solving technical problems and don't really care about sales/marketing/business, being a founder might not be right for you. If you have a low risk profile, or care a lot about work/life balance and comfort, big companies can be great for that.

[1]: https://canny.io
And who are?
You are correct and it will be fixed. The rate limit on LE certificates for subdomains was too low for my usage. Since LE have recently released support for wildcard certs, I will be enabling HTTPS traffic on Blot subdomains as soon as I can.

https://community.letsencrypt.org/t/acme-v2-production-envir...
My first thought was that maybe this would lower the cost of particle accelerators like the LHC, due to more mass production of superconducting magnets.

The other consideration is that apparently we now have much more powerful, higher temperature superconductors, at least the talk about MIT's current fusion project says so.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L0KuAx1COEk

Not sure if they are cheaper, but since there would be less bulk and no need for liquid helium, that would be my guess.
> The National Low Income Housing Coalition used that number to calculate the hourly wage a household must earn to afford a home while spending 30 percent or less of their income on rent.

This is a nit, but I don't think that's a reasonable way to calculate the relationship between housing cost and affordability. Some expenses do scale with housing cost (mainly things that depend on local labor), but many important ones don't (car payments, grocery bills). So in an area with very high housing prices and a relatively-high minimum wage, you'd expect low-income workers to be able to spend more than the "standard" 30% on housing, and still be able to afford other daily necessities.

I certainly don't mean this as a refutation of the article however -- the Bay Area is a very hard place to live on a low income.
Congratulations on starting a great project!. I've been experimenting with App Maker for an internal Edu project and it looks great. I noticed that Drive Tables are gone; did they not scale well?
We've gone backwards from the 60's in some areas. For example, there are no planes as good as the SR-71 any more due to their incredible costs, cheaper to use satellites over the long run.

Commitment to manned space exploration is another.
> women being [...] barely better than slaves.

That's unhelpful hyperbole.
Ask HN: What do you use as browser start page?
iGoogle used to be great, also there are some plugins like start.me which shows widgets
I have my Macbook at work, opposite to my Dell work laptop. I just mode switch and use one key on one machine and the other key on the other.
That works if you have a corporate job that has work life balance. That way you can do both. I see lots of corp jobs that tend to dominate people's lives.
When cars first became available, the rules didn't exist and things like that did happen. That was my point. Here's an article I found with a bit of info and which makes the same analogy.

https://qz.com/1257151/this-electric-scooter-mayhem-sounds-j...
There never was a 90% tax rate. That was a marginal rate, and there were massive deductions.
It's important to remember that the federal government was actively subsidizing the urban exodus to suburbia in the 1940s. The subway became unprofitable due to federal housing policy and the local or state government ended up having to bail it out.
Out of all the people I've met, I have met a single very open couple that made things work.

They met at a strip club, and right off the bat they both said what they were and that was that. Now they're one of the more happier couples I've seen. Been married for 12 years and still doing the open thing.

But I have seen many many more open relationships come crashing down over night.
VC -> Startup -> Employee -> Landlord (VC)
I hope my philosophy isn't Brutalism, because I find most of those buildings heinous.

I'm not an expert, but it seems that Brutalism requires one to reduce all forms to their mechanical function. I think there are plenty of other good reasons to include a form, e.g. Corinthian columns are modeled after acanthus leaves, and I think that's just great. The form is telling a story about our connection with nature, and nobody is pretending that the column is actually an acanthus.
If I had to guess somewhere in the next ten years when the absurd number of boomers who have been putting their retirement savings into second and third homes all try to cash out at the same time, flood the market, and find out that it was all just Monopoly money.
https://github.com/veelenga/awesome-crystal#ormodm-extension...
>There is no way for everybody to have everything they want. We make compromises that hopefully allow us to live in a more globally optimized world.

Perhaps not but the best we can do is uphold individual liberty and empower individuals to make their own choices (and deal with the consequences). This entails not arrogantly projecting fallacious assumptions codified into law, such as how women "need" men or that homosexuality is a choice.
I think he is implying they dont work well for low-status males. Males in particular are known for getting violent in desperate efforts to accrue the status necessary to secure a mate. It’s not like marriage is perfect because some low-status males will always fail to find a partner but if you make that a significant percentage of the population I would expect society to destabilize.
Do you have a source? The numbers don't back you up.

Min wage is the single-person poverty level, and is much higher now than when it was enacted.
That's pretty absurd. There's a huge difference between smacking a kid's backside as punishment and actually causing physical harm.

Furthermore, huge swaths of the population have grown up with the occasional spanking and somehow managed to avoid PTSD or other emotional/mental problems.

Labeling it a "toxic masculine" practice is idiocy.
Houston seems to have the best cost of housing to income ratio for technology people.
Government is the one that holds biggest most advanced gun and won't let anyone take it away from him.

It's very useful to have as few governments as possible. Especially if range of their weapons overlap. It's also useful to have sharp difference between governments and non-governments. Both of those usefult things reduce likelihood of actually using biggest guns and that use severely harms everybody's business.
Isn't this playing into China's hands they want to move up value chain from providing components to whole devices. Now chinese made devices will be at least 25% cheaper on components alone they already have the advantage of cheap labour. In the last few years assembly plants were supposedly coming back to the US now that would less likely.
Return of the bison: herd makes surprising comeback on Dutch coast
We've already collectively decided that. The problem is that a significant fraction of people have been misled about which policies will fix it. The problem is that local governments are controlled by the landlords, and they use zoning restrictions to limit supply and keep prices up. The fix is to transfer that power to the state government, which will allow enough housing to be built.
That's kind of the point the point though. A lot of people will lose focus on the reason for a metric.
Many, which is to say that it's not the framework that makes one satisfied, it's how much it represents what one wants. The people who were suffering in this polyamourous relationships usually suffered because they felt bad about being jealous, not living up to what the community expected of them, not being good enough to let their parents be with other people. What I'm trying to say is that it's not a specific path that makes one happy, it's the ability to choose your path and to constantly recalculate it.
Rent and home values have gone up far faster.
Can someone explain how bad this is in multiples of Heartbleed? Any big time automated processes with decades of dubious history now, etc?
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