skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The main reason US cities rely on automobiles is because the "job watershed" of a private automobile exceeds the job watershed of train systems everywhere in the US, even New York City. The job watershed is the number of jobs within commuting distance, whatever your tolerance for a commute is, given a transportation modality. In some cities the automobile job watershed is 100x larger than the transit job watershed. Transit systems, especially train systems, in most US cities are hub and spoke systems, centered around terminals in places like midtown Manhattan and the Chicago Loop. If you superimpose that hub and spoke model on top of an employment "contour map" that seeks a level (due to the desire to minimize rents), you'll see that there's a fundamental mismatch between what employers and residents want and the transit network. Rather than a unipolar peak at the transit hub, both employers and residents want to minimize rents which drives sprawl and transportation webs, as opposed to hub and spoke models.

Transit has a future with ride sharing and bus rapid transit since those modes use a cheap, flexible network as opposed to an expensive, rigid rail network. Unfortunately, if you wish rail to become more important, its use is actually declining and has been for decades.
This is exactly what I tell my kids right now as they learn the tables by rote: knowing the answers instantly by drawing from your subconscious makes it vastly easier to solve harder problems later on.

Making it competitive between the two of the kids helps too... after all, sports is “just” being better at getting the ball in the goal better than the other team, right?
Yeah, just to elaborate on this (because I think the point of this comment has been missed a bit elsewhere on the sub-thread):

- TripleByte imposes a cost (having to go through their process) in exchange for getting to signal programming ability, a prerequisite to getting in the door (getting an interview)

- People with strong credentials don't need to incur that cost, so they probably won't do so.

This means TripleByte's pool probably doesn't have any Stanford CS grads who are looking to leave their Google job. But these are also the people who command the highest salaries. Let's say it chops off the top x-percentile of the market, for some reasonable definition of x (10? 15?)

Then, TripleByte's screening process probably also chops off the bottom y-percentile, because those are people who can't actually pass the screening.

Once you restrict the range like that, and also make paper credentials less relevant because there's an alternate signal available, of course the rates are going to be compressed.
80 to 100 is insultingly low for even a startup in Seattle. Sure, some are able to get away with it like Energysavvy, but only bottom tier engineers should put up with it.
SFMTA service is terrible because you’re on a bus stuck behind ubers in the bus lane and an intersection blocked by people trying to get on the Bay Bridge because they live in Manteca. Driving in SF is characterized by total lawlessness. The number one most effective thing you can do for transportation in SF would be to drag box-blockers from their vehicles and beat them to death on the spot. The next best thing is to toll the roads.
HN has this dogma where they won't add any more markup even if it's reasonable. I guess they don't want every comment turning into a fancy formatted mess with different font sizes and lists, but blockquotes are a necessity. > is used a lot, and it always looks bad, particularly for multi-line quotes. HN won't add proper blockquote rendering for ">", so people try to mimic it, badly, using indented <pre>/unflowed text (which HN bizarrely implemented even though they didn't implement indented flowed text). Don't blame people, blame HN.
> Let me know when we invent something that can affordably and reliably take me to the base of mountains for hikes (real hikes, not shitty crowded garbage like Lake 22 or Mount Tam).

If you visit Switzerland, you'll find this is an extremely solved problem.
I wouldn't expect it includes those positions, as warehouse operations/logistics seems to be contracted out to other companies. Not sure, though.
> City and state level political change is very malleable.

Corporations have already figured this out, e.g. ALEC [1] writes laws, then gets sympathetic minions to enact them, but city politics still operate on a human scale in many places. I'd bet that a motivated campaign could reverse this move in San Diego, or at least figure out who pushed for it. I don't think there was massive popular support for cameras in streetlights.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Legislative_Exchange_...
Hooray for "algorithm", not "neural network".
Looking at just base salary is not useful at all for FAANG, since they all operate on total compensation. At Amazon for example, the salary is capped at $165k for all employees in Seattle (including SVP, VP, and director level).
For every guest worker who meets the program's purpose there's 100 more working for the minimum salary in a position that was crafted to turn away domestic applicants.
Do the memorisation by spaced repetition and make it competitive, and it takes almost no time to learn them. Of course if the kids begrudge it, they’ll hate it and fail to work at it.
Because with fewer outside people coming into the cities there is less economic activity in the city.
Maybe if you're talking about a specific type of start up cost where toll revenues from initial infra pays for later construction. Probably just loose usage.
Well, so? Who was holding a gun to retail investors' heads to buy on Friday? Today's sitters-out can be tomorrow's reasonably-satisfied long investors.
That’s because we’re skipping rail entirely http://www.morpc.org/program-service/hyperloop-midwest-conne...