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Given how many people ride BART, Caltrain, and VTA light rail in my area -- and how proximity to a transit station has become a major selling point for residential development, both old and new -- at least around here it seems to be working out just fine, thanks!

While I presume you're taking a dig at the high speed rail project, it's worth remembering that that's not the whole of what "train service" means. It's also worth remembering that as of yet we don't really have a baseline for how the cost of longer-run train service compares to hyperloop service; as fun as it is to blame HSR's travails solely on being a government project, the reality is that there are very, very few private projects that are conducted on such a massive scale that we can point to and say "look, that was so much more efficient." Last but not least, there are good arguments against using "cost per passenger mile" as the be-all-end-all metric for transit, which you can find pretty easily if you're so inclined.
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That is entirely false.
> Secondary payloads — especially multi-smallsat rideshare — are notoriously hard to coordinate.

Can’t wait for a Lyft Line for space ;)

“Your rocket will depart in 3 months.”
514 contracts, $1.2m (!)
For me, it's mainly because of Communitas -> Community Balance Patch -> Vox Populi (rebrandings and changing devs over the many years) it's what makes Civ V really worth playing (Windows-only because the SDK was only released for the windows Civ version). Far superior AI, balance and more features.

But also because Civ VI feels like it's much more combat focused.
Thanks for the pointer: Here is another one, maybe more recent:
https://ggwash.org/view/32078/musks-hyperloop-math-doesnt-ad...

Some good points, but I also think that the train system is overhyped here (comparing a single hyperloop v1.0 with a single terminal with a whole train station isn't as useful as it could be.) [Aside: Also, knowing the knots Palo Alto and other cites tie themselves in to deal with the high speed lane up to San Francisco, I'm not sure that HSR there will ever be successful, no matter how much $$$ and time is spent. Drives me nuts]

I also don't know how to compare highway costs - dunno what it would cost to increase one lane between SF and LA, plus adding a lane doesn't increase capacity linearly AFAIK.
I don't know, it might be a contributing factor for piracy. They should value their paying customers more.

If its free I'm the product: fine. I can live with that. But if I pay for something I don't want spyware and targeted ads.
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"Your premises are fictional."

And yours isn't?

Seriously, everything you're complaining about their argument, can be applied double to yours.
I am just a weekend warrior, but my primary motivation in the mountains is continuously upping my skills and fitness to move through them faster and more efficiently. I don't feel like I'm missing an experience. To the contrary, I feel like I'm closer to the experience because much of it involves understanding the environment, yourself, the tech, and how they all work together. There are also a number of practical benefits to moving fast. For one, the longer you spend on a route, the more exposure you have to risks from all categories. So the faster you get there and back, the less likely you are to get hurt (assuming your speed is based on skill and fitness and not carelessness). Second, if there is a tangible need to get something done (like a rescue), then being able to do it quickly and safely is invaluable. As such, one of the benefits of the new social media sponsored mountain athletes like Jornet is that boundaries are pushed and we get to learn new things about what humans can do on mountains.
That's not a foregone conclusion, since wages aren't as closely linked to that payment as one might imagine. For example, in California:

> The taxable wage limit is $7,000 per employee.

(Yes, that's per year)

https://www.edd.ca.gov/Payroll_Taxes/Rates_and_Withholding.h...
This move was very puzzling to me, in light of Trump's trade tactics. Especially, of his accusations that China "steals" American technology.

So, given this, why would any new American company, choose to enter into a 51/49 partnership with China? Where China has the majority share, and where the American company must share with their Chinese partner, all the system processes, techniques, and new technology of their product.

This is just adding fuel to the fire, and the resentment that Americans have of the Chinese people.

Here, the American company is willingly entering into such a business agreement. The Chinese side is not holding a gun to the American company's head.

For the Chinese side, they are investing a lot of money into this research project, to fund this hare-brained idea. So, there is a lot of risk on their part, that nothing will emerge from this.

The alternative, is that the American company can just choose not to do it. Don't accept the money. Go it alone. Don't enter the Chinese market. The rest of the world is a huge playground as it is.
If you're looking for a deep look at time -- a Total Perspective Vortex, I'd recommend "Spontaneous Inflation and the Origin of the Arrow of Time".

https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/0410270
Will you have to pay for the current Java 8u181 in prod?

I'm backing up the latest Java 8 for all platforms now.

Goodbye Oracle, Java 8 is the final Java, time to roll up the sleeves and build our own VM language!
I have been running BIND9 on my home network, both as an authoritative name server for my local zone, and as a recursive resolver, for more than ten years. ;-)

But for DoH to make sense, the server must be outside of my private network and my ISP's network.
Someone must have forgotten Java.
"It actually is the same as killing Uber. Paying a guaranteed above-minimum-wage plus benefits would kill Uber's business model and either drive the company out of business or force it to act just like the cab companies. Either way, many customers and Uber drivers would be worse off."

I fail to see the problem. If you cannot give that to your employees, then you do not deserve to be in business, full stop.
> "Google tracks a lot more things than Red Shell, but people never complain about it."

Sorry Abid, but that's not true. I avoid Google products and services because I am uncomfortable with how invasive their tracking program is. I've worked in advertising tech, and I have a good idea of what goes on inside these companies. I do not ever want to participate in that ecosystem again. I even browse the web with JavaScript disabled in order to avoid tracking.

That said, I don't blame Abid. I know it can be hard to bootstrap a small games studio. In fact, I played one of his studio's games (the weapon shop one) and it was fun. I wish him and his company luck, but I hope he doesn't go back to tracking customers without consent. I avoid purchasing products that include this kind of tracking.
I think a big part of it is "how much satisfaction would you feel from taking money out of credit card companies' pockets?"
Our initial tests were with standard template matching algorithms. With the Javavscript implementation we were stuck in the 60 seconds+ range per image search.

With WebGL it was ~0.5s on a "good" machine and ~6s or "did not work at all" on a "bad" machine. We never figured out why it worked well on one machine, but not so on others. Of course, I am talking only about machines with WebGL enabled ;) This would have been a support nightmare.

With WebAssembly we are now in the 0.1-0.5s range per image search and it just works. So far, we have had exactly 0 WA-related support issues, for both, Chrome and Firefox.
If you want to play around with it, there's a tool for comparing different passports and the benefits it gives different nationalities:

https://multinational.io/best_passport/

For example if you're looking to add as many visa free countries as you can to your American passport your best choice would be Ivory Coast (+12 countries):
https://multinational.io/best_passport/the%20United%20States
We are building a new, cool mass-transit system here, there's going to be a small-bore tunnel with electric skates between downtown Chicago and the airport.

Edit: clarified what "it" is.
There are alot more stuff that OpenJDK does not have. Try running it on ARM for example, it's like 4 times as slow, unusable.
This article is honest, but holds back a bit about how incredibly lost the european space industry is now.
Boostnote.
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> if SpaceX rents an unused launch pad from NASA instead of spending $1 billion to build a new one, is that a subsidy

No, it's called renting. If it was unused then the presumably low price SpaceX pays for it is the right one. This is actually efficient capitalist allocation of resources. If SpaceX was not allowed to pay a rent for the launch pad, capital would be used inefficiently on building one, instead of being spent on R&D. Furthermore, the depreciation and abandonment of the launch pad itself would result in a waste of tax-payer money.
Either applies really.
Sound advice(s). I'm in a unique position where I'm straddling both tech and media. One great indicator of a coming trouble is marketing. When you see budget cuts or downright stops in producing commercials and ad space spending... then you know it's coming, in fact it's already there then. It has been a true canary in the mine so far. I haven't seen that happening yet this time around, but once it starts it's cascading fast.
But I can see the appeal, and plenty of people wouldn't hesitate.

It will keep happening until these companies are a black mark on your CV, like say a tobacco company might be. Will people be so eager if it means they will be shunned by the wider research and engineering communities?
CR is an excellent blog. I've been reading since way back when Tanta was writing.

To sum up the entire thing, start being afraid when people are too successful(or fat and happy. Anyone who gets a big exit in a boiling market, you can now safely ignore). When things start getting really good, look for the exit and have at least a leg out the door.
Do you have any recommendation to get at least a decent latency (< 30 ms) on linux or windows 10?

The least infuriating to me is lxterm. Consoles (no X) used to feel ok several years ago, but now I use fbuffer it feels slower (and I can't do without because high screen resolutions make fonts tiny, even with setfont)
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This would be truly revolutionary if used in inner-city American public schools. Just imagine how much more efficiently punishment could be doled out to the largely-delinquent kids in these schools...behavior and compliance would improve substantially, I bet.
I’ve never met a civ 5 fan that uses AI mods. I’m sure many use AI mods, but I must know a dozen or so fans of Civ 5 and none of them play with mods, just expansions. Most didn’t move on to Civ 6, but “no AI mods” wasn’t a complaint that I heard.
"People choose to work where they work, right?"

People who have the ability to choose get to choose where they work. Many people do not have this freedom of choice. Otherwise people wouldn't continue to work for places that steal tips or sexually harass employees.

"Also, last I knew, Uber wasn't driving around forcing people to work for their service."

This is not, and never has been an excuse or defense. It has literally no bearing on anything.
Russia can’t destroy the US through Trump without taking down its economic standing.
Thing is, the law isn't so discriminating for the side-gig part.
25 MB almost fits on a floppy disk! That's acceptable to avoid dynamic linking or external dependencies. And that 25 MB is a fixed-cost (a JVM-subset, libraries, etc) and as the app adds functionality the fixed 25 MB cost becomes less as a percentage.

It's not viable for built-in Linux tools, etc. But for a custom tool where performance matters, it's a great solution.
They have a couple Data Models:

Calendars [0] is a simple Event + Attendees model
Contacts [1] Re-uses vCard
Mail [2] wants RFC 2822 compliant strings
Photos [3] have just basic metadata with a URL to fetch pixels
Tasks [4] is a simple to-do model

Overall the data model seems like a significant amount of wheel-reinvention. These data models are all just JSON records... they should be JSON-LD with @context pointing to a shared schema, probably defined at schema.org.

[0] https://github.com/google/data-transfer-project/tree/master/...

[1] https://github.com/google/data-transfer-project/blob/master/...

[2] https://github.com/google/data-transfer-project/tree/master/...

[3] https://github.com/google/data-transfer-project/tree/master/...

[4] https://github.com/google/data-transfer-project/tree/master/...
Which is why I really don't see it being that relevant outside of the browser, where we already have bytecodes in production that sorted out these issues.

Naturally it is a good way to move the browser into a general purpose VM.

Now to transform it into a general purpose OS, it is another matter.
You're notably not fighting my point that Facebook has total control over their platform. Thus it follows that Facebook implicitly endorses Holocaust denialism. If they didn't, they could remove it.
Make sure you have deep social links and honour both sides of the deal, giver and getter. Social connectedness is strongly linked to good outcomes
Yes. If you dollar-cost-average into funds (e.g. invest the same dollar amount every month), you will automatically buy more shares when the market is low and fewer when the market is high. Long term this is exactly what you want to do, and it doesn't depend on being able to predict price movement.

I even buy gasoline this way, because prices at the pump seem to change almost randomly. I buy $25.00 at a time. So I buy more when the price is low and less when the price is high.
They are apparently also logging the Steam ID which is unique for each Steam account. In my eyes the Steam ID is PII as very few people with more than one game on it will change their Steam account.
This was also my first thought, however they claim that was just sewage:

"The stinking reddish liquid turned out to be sewage that penetrated the sarcophagus through a small crack and completely flooded it from the inside. At the nearest inspection it was found out that in this ignoble vein the heavily decomposed remains of not one, but three people floated."
I’d love to see a tech news mag that covered tech the way “The Microprocessor Report” covered microprocessors.

Tech news today is more like TMZ for the tech industry and all about either “coolness” or about “causes”.
No he's definitely right. The US drone program has a social credit kill list [1]:

> In 2014, former CIA and NSA director Michael Hayden said in a public debate, “We kill people based on metadata.”

> According to multiple reports and leaks, death-by-metadata could be triggered, without even knowing the target’s name, if too many derogatory checks appear on their profile. “Armed military aged males” exhibiting suspicious behavior in the wrong place can become targets, as can someone “seen to be giving out orders.” Such mathematics-based assassinations have come to be known as “signature strikes.”

> “When I learned about signature strikes, that was incredible,” Faisal says. “If the criteria is being armed or having a beard – that is everyone in Yemen.”

1. https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-features/how-...
It's funny - I'd have said that this is a fairly good outcome, including the "pings you on Slack" part. It separates "this question is best answered in person" from "this question is best raised in person", which does a lot of good.

It means that if you need 30 seconds to save, commit, and pull the relevant branch (or 50 minutes for an urgent bugfix), the other person doesn't have to hover awkwardly or walk away. And it means that if you don't know the answer and have to check something, you can do that before talking to them. And then, yes, you can talk in person. Because that still really is the best answer a lot of the time.

I think I understand their complaint, because depending on how an open plan office is laid out this might be efficient for 2 people and distracting for 10 around them, but I don't think that's inevitable. Even with open plan, it's possible to have relatively low interference and seat people who talk often close together. (Companies seating by rank or function instead of need for contact are, obviously, doing it wrong.)

For all the complaints about Slack as a distraction, my experience has been that it's a huge boon relative to what it replaces. It's pretty well understood that in-person and phone contact mean "answer now" and email means "answer in some hours" or even "tomorrow morning". Channel messages as "someone answer in 10-60 minutes" and DMs as "answer in a few minutes barring a crisis" are a huge improvement in terms of focus.
Indeed, he is sponsored by Suunto https://www.suunto.com/en-GB/About-Suunto/People/Kilian-Jorn...
Surviving outside the Van Allen belt would require your spaceship to have 4ft thick lead walls.

I assume that is a big part of it.
Why you cannot trust this model 101: because it's practitioners understand the value of the labor/product,
capitalize on the OSS ideal and then push it to the unsuspecting.

I don't know how many bait and switch
episodes from google I need to see but by 2008 I
was done with them -- for the first time.
Ad-nauseam.

If you boycotted and didn't use Google they would wither and die and stop being something to worry about: for immediate google specific free offerings that are sucker bait.
Also for self aggrandizing standards/inclusions and buying
the overt talent. But whatever. The HN community is full of dupes and buy ins, culture whores and fifth columnists. True belief in OSS died when everyone else took it and got rich.
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It's rather amusing that the author assumes that non-associtiave objects are "weird" for physicists (or at least that was my reading), since the velocity addition formula is in general non-associative and that has been extensively studied.

(I remember three separate occasions in my undergrad particle physics class where we actually went through all the calculations involved with the velocity addition formula and finally saw that SOL was wacky).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Velocity-addition_formula

I wonder if that is uncommon or if the article is just a bit ungenerous towards our understanding of non-associative objects.
There’s a whole section on the page with the header “Concern over numerous patches to the match ergonomics feature”.

So if your question is literally, “Does anybody else...” then the answer is yes:

“Users have expressed concern with the frequency of patch releases to fix bugs in the match ergonomics verification by the current borrow checker on a variety of Rust’s forums. ”

If the question is more about being concerned yourself, do the reasons listed in the link address your concerns?
Looks like the libraries use the technique to handle those conditional off-by-one situations that other languages might resolve with a ternary expression. Thanks!
Numbers and class hierarchy in Ruby
Having a 6 months saving account is a smart move regardless of market conditions.
« It may be too late for Tran to successfully argue that the trademark belongs to him.

Two dozen applications to use the word have been filed with the United States Patent and Trademark Office. None has been granted for Sriracha alone. The word is now too generic, the agency determined. »

That was going to be my concern -- that someone else would get the trademark. But maybe he's safe from that now.
Literally nobody is attacking their ability to drive and make money with Uber. If Uber cuts them off out of spite for regulations, that's entirely on Uber, and Uber alone.
Immediately brought this to mind. https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/23209924-the-water-knife
> If this ruling were limited to NYC, that'd be relevant.

It would be relevant either way, but in this case it's a state department ruling on a case brought by a group of NYC drivers against Uber's operations in NYC.

So yes, it is actually totally fair to point out that Uber's role in this case is exactly the same as the role any other FHV company plays.
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I thought Obfuscated-C was hard to read. Then C++ with all its templates. Now, I'm thinking Rust has taken the prize.
Ask HN: Anyone have a good list of non profit software foundations?
I have some volunteer hours and I'm looking to apply them to working on software. The only constraints are that I have to volunteer for Vetted 501(c)3 Organizations. Is there a good list out there? I've looked around on Github and the googles, but there doesn't seem to be a single source of truth that I can find.
For some of these people, the fact that there's natural splendour there isn't the point and isn't relevant. It's like game-grinding. Pick a new achievement - running through mountain trail X - and then grind it. Tick it off, do the next one. Whatever they're seeking is inside their heads and the setting is just a convenience. It could just as easily be a featureless 50 mile tunnel. The setting is relevant only as far as it's a recognised thing to grind and tick off.
Yes, this is probably my number one feature request. The top level “threads” link is helpful for showing recent replies but you still have to remember to check on it every so often.
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Completely serious question given the downvotes: Is this discouraged or banned on HN?

Whenever I hit a paywall from an HN link, I immediately go to the comments to see if somebody has linked to the full article. Thought I'd help folks out since nobody had done that for this article yet, but if I'm out of line I won't do it again.
"impractical and expensive" are invalid criticisms in the face of no other alternatives other than more cars and freeways.

The monorail at Disneyland works great and so does the one in Seattle.
Are they tunneling? That area is really rocky and mountainous, unless it is going on a viaduct I don’t see how this will work out.
Thanks for the response! Oddly enough, I was able to re-create the same account after it was deleted. I'm starting to think I'm going crazy.
We do IT support for small businesses - for us slow-pays and dropped projects are the indicators and we're starting to notice both.
I agree that Trump is a Russian agent, it's more than clear at this point.

Economically though, the same theories that say that tariffs are economically inefficient say that running a $400 billion trade deficit for twenty years straight should be impossible. If you go back to first principles and some basic economic observations, it's fairly obvious that the trade policy of the U.S. over the past 40 years has not served the interests of a large majority of the American public, i.e. it is economically inefficient from the U.S. perspective. Trump wasn't elected by Putin, even if Putin did push him the last few yards over the goal line. If the Democrats are going to win, they need to be the party of truth and standing up for all Americans instead of just opposite-day Trump.
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No dude. It's super real. This partnership makes sense because the next step is a Hyper loop between China and Los Angeles. Very good ideas. Real science. You just move the 99% over INTO the 1%. Now we are all the 1%, or the 199%. I haven't done the maths.
My bad, I read about these too quickly. Still, unless you are in the CLI ecosystem, these are not very compelling propositions. WebAssembly is a response to the shortcomings of previous iterations of the universal bytecode idea.