skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What sweet tax revenue are you talking about? Cities would make more from a car dealership or an Apple store than a mega office complex. Regardless, it is easier to move the office than build housing for the office. Incentivize companies to be downtown SF/SJ/Oak near transit if density is the goal. Building medium density mid-peninsula is a mess of an idea that will end up creating as many commuters as local workers.
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Good. It was a huge waste of money anyway. It was being built in the wrong order (why would you build the parts that would get the least ridership first?!), it was going to the wrong places, and at the end of the day, it would not have helped the poor communities between SF and LA.

We have hundreds of flights a day between SF and LA. We don't need a train to replace that.
>google is a bigger concern for privacy and personal liberty

Big claim. Any proofs?

With Facebook, what annoyed me was that they set up internal teams to help with political candidates social media campaigns - no matter who the candidates are.

Extremely worrisome if you prefer to have people elected through a democratic process that is based on the discussion. This is not like understanding what people want or how do they think through big data analysis but manufacturing it.

Sure - provocations and lies are not new, it was always the case for politics but with a social media everything is at scale and everything is happening violently.
I can't help but feel that the solution to overblown infrastructure costs would involve less contracting and more of construction directly with state employees and resources. Sure government is less efficient than the private sphere, but government contractors have awful incentives when it comes to cost effectiveness...bilking the state for more hours/supplies is more much profitable than doing a job quickly and cost-effectively, and contractors are very efficient at doing that.
There are sleep tracking apps that integrate with the health app, but I tried two of them (sleep++ and pillow) and I found them to be very inaccurate.
No, it really wasn't. Have you looked at a map of topography of California? I5 was built that route for a reason - it is the easiest route unless you want the route to be in 100s of km of incredibly expensive tunnel.
Some places (mine) are, by local ordinance, unable to receive high speed internet because the company that owns the rights/stupid ass poles that they run everything on along the road offers high speed internet access ALREADY. . . .

SO COOL!!

How do they do it? By defining high speed as dial-up speeds in the ordinance they helped the local small, technologically inept government craft!

God Bless The USA
The only thing that I see is a complete loss of faith in the rule of the law. Hence the Twitter lynchmobs.
That doesn't seem so terrible. More schools and property taxes in poor neighborhoods is an okay outcome as far as they go.
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FWIW, most results from behavioral genetics point to the nurture component of nature + nurture being maxed out for the normal range of experiences that kids have in the developed world. In other words, most of where you end up is genetics + chance. I guess you can make the argument that nurture really matters for ascending into the aristocracy, but the aristocracy is out of reach for the vast majority of people, no matter what they do.
It's unrelated. pfSense is a FreeBSD derivative; not OpenBSD. FreeBSD already has wireguard-go in ports, but the userspace implementation may not be suitably performant for the kinds of embedded devices pfSense targets.
There’s tales of Bay Area families renting and moving their HS juniors and seniors to the Central Valley where UC accepts a higher percentage from.
Its also worth noting that when something goes viral, its often not contained on one social network, and it becomes impossible for the platform to measure its reach and impact.

How could twitter, for example, really measure the impact of something like that video of the Covington High School kids, which was amplified on twitter (shared by a fake account, IIRC), picked up by the media, and then talked about incessantly for weeks, all over the place?
"77 billion for a train in 2033 ?"

Correction - 77B for a train that will be relatively slow when it was scheduled to be unveiled in 2033.

My generation never took Amtrak seriously because it was relatively slower than other transportation modes. In 2033 and beyond, those generations will ignore CA HSR for the same reasons.

SF -> LA in <= 120 minutes or GTFO.
Perhaps developers now value privacy more on average than they did back then.
It is controlled by CDU and SPD who together form the government. Secondly afaik it is one of the best funded public broadcast worldwide.
Applicative Diagram (Functors Hierarchy)
Fun fact. Asian people suffer the health effects from high body mass (such as diabetes) sooner than people of other ethnic groups, and because of this their obesity BMI cutoff is actually lower. So, while you may not see Asians that look huge compared to what you're used to seeing, they do in fact have trouble with obesity.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Body_mass_index#International_...

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2939400/
This argument seems rather like question begging.
Yeah, see the file descriptors section on this page http://libdill.org/documentation.html
https://gitter.im/julien-truffaut/fp-foundation
Did I miss seeing anything where they factor in kids with anxiety or other mental issues that make school overly challenging?
More gaming developers becoming familiar with Linux+Vulkan, more games ported to Stadia's Linux, all that means more potential releases for normal desktop Linux as well. Not all who target Stadia will clearly do it, but potential is surely better than without Stadia. So I see it as net positive for Linux gaming.
Yes, but not just. You cannot always statically determine how many objects a particular operation on a data structure with internal dynamic-lifetime nodes would need to free -- it depends on the dynamic contents of the data structure at that point in time -- and as deallocation by refcounting GC takes time proportional to the number of freed objects, you cannot determine the cost of an operation.

A simple, small (in terms of runtime size) refcounting GC does better than an equally simple tracing GC, and simple refcounting has the advantage of a significantly lower heap footprint (a tracing GC uses heap overhead to drastically reduce the cost of memory management). There is also the assumption is that Rust/C++ applications will not make heavy use of GC, all the more reason to use a simple, low-footprint one, in-line with its "cost-free abstraction" philosophy.
Great link/content. Doesn’t work on mobile, unfortunately.
It was built in the "wrong order" because the areas near cities had existing commuter rail, and therefore weren't eligible for federal "new start" grants.

Of course, FAA grant money is available to expand SFO, OAK and LAX... no questions asked.
I don't see for all the world how this isn't an utter failure for both the management for this project and the ultra combative style that the previous and current California gubernatorial administrations approach just about any and all dealing with the feds since Trump was elected. Have a feeling this might be where 'more red meat for the base' might have met it's match in terms of cognitive dissonance for at least some California voters.

UPDATE - : CA Governor Newsom this afternoon (via Sacbee): "The Trump Administration’s action is illegal and a direct assault on California, our green infrastructure, and the thousands of Central Valley workers who are building this project,” he said. “Just as we have seen from the Trump Administration’s attacks on our clean air standards, our immigrant communities and in countless other areas, the Trump Administration is trying to exact political retribution on our state. “This is California’s money, appropriated by Congress, and we will vigorously defend it in court"

Exactly the type of rhetoric, attitude, and threats that help push this situation in the first place (well, along with the gross mismanagement by the state for years) and he still can't quit digging.
LearnGitBranching is excellent to help one visualize what's going on with rebases, resets, and merges. I highly recommend it as well.

Not sure it's aiming at quite the same target user as the OP article though, which is targeting the true beginner. LearnGitBranching is maybe slightly more advanced?
Yeah you think we want a communist dictatorship in the United States huh.
Hyperloop seriously has a better chance of building an SF-LA line than the state of CA, and also SpaceX has a better chance of reaching Mars before 2024 than NASA returning the moon in that time (in 2004, GWB announced NASA would return to the moon by 2020). Government just can't do big projects any more.
Scottish Computing Science exam paper riddled with vulnerabilities
Work on everything other than the Merced to Bakersfield section was indefinitely postponed by Newsom's last State of the State address. The Merced to Bakersfield segment, by itself, is nearly useless.
Everyone knows if you didn’t go to a top school you don’t matter /s.

Anecdotally nobody who went to my undergrad got a new grad offer and then declined it at FB. Because most of them just can’t get offers there, and if they do they can’t get equivalent ones.
Could you elaborate?

AFAICT Denmark has about a hundred deaths per year due to speeding cars and zero due to all kinds of cyclist transgressions. I couldn't find numbers for non-fatal consequences, but still I'm curious what you mean about higher consequences.
Contractors have been hobbling this project, the last thing we need is to bring in more piranhas but that might now be inevitable unfortunately. Caltrans should have had complete control over this project and plowed through the engineering and construction in house. Instead a new agency was created with nearly zero staff, and was forced to buddy up with a private sector all to eager to milk every public dollar possible out of this project and give the littlest return possible, as in their eyes doing anything short of that is leaving money on the table.
IMO the answer is pretty simple; they were vital to building modern society, and as a result we're culturally accustomed to their use.

It probably helps that many (though by no stretch all) horses are very well taken care of and have a job to do. Show animals on the other hand (horse or dolphin) have a long track record of abuse, exploitation, neglect, and boredom.
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Yeah but MBP aren't running 4k. 3k/2560p screens seem to have a lot easier time with battery life at the moment. I actually think Apple is being more sensible than say, Samsung when it comes to the resolutions they choose.

I looked at reviews of several laptops with a 1080 vs a 1440 vs a 4k option and 1440 > 4k was the biggest drop in battery life.
The goal of admissions is to accept students who enrich their college in one way or another.
Might was well change their name to Meh Britain
If you have time, can you elaborate why you believe Google is a larger threat to personal liberty and privacy?
Obviously that's exactly why they are NOT at facebook, though I chuckle at your attempt to reducing it to something as inconsequential as personal preference.
>> It's simple: teachers, nurses, baristas, garbagement, plumbers, etc. won't be able to live there. Nor do they need to.

> I think you will be hard pressed to find individuals who are willing to spend 25% of their adult life commuting too and from work. Certainly, not enough will be willing to satisfy labour requirements.

To the extent that there are no people who will do the jobs (i.e. they won't pay $ + time to live close enough), those jobs will need to offer more money, or go unfilled.
There is also an issue with the 'evaporative' effect. If no one who works there is seen as 'ethical', then you'd expect the people that do work there to be unethical/dubious. So, trying to get a promotion is then more cut-throat, the lunch crew has a few more 'jerks', the HR is a bit more biting, etc. Your hackels get raised and you are more suspicious of the motivations (however begnin) of others. Better to just not get involved.
Atomic refcounting consumes global, system wide resource of inter-core and inter-CPU (like QPI) communication. 20M-50M of those events per second can render your 4 CPU 128 core system frozen.

Also just freeing memory can create a surprisingly long pause. Depends on allocator, of course.
San Fran to LA via Merced and Bakersfield? If they were serious, they would have done San Fran to San Jose where the dollars spent would actually be useful rather than moving people from Nowhere to Nowhere Else.
I don't think you're disagreeing with the parent comment.
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Exactly. I just rode the Shinkansen in Japan from Tokyo to Kyoto. The train peaks at 185mph, and a significant portion of the route is straight through mountains, in tunnels. And don't forget just how prone to earthquakes Japan is. Finally, this line was first built in the 1960s!

California is just pathetic if they can't build something that's much less ambitious than that in the 2010s/20s through terrain that's much easier.

Oh, and that's just one Shinkansen line (and the most heavily-used one). They have them all across the country. I rode another one to the west coast, and saw yet another line under construction; that one was elevated.

Finally, about Japan in general from what I saw there: there was lots of construction of all kinds going on. New buildings, renovated buildings, new train lines, construction on subway stations, etc. When they need something, they just seem to build it. Over here, we just argue about stuff and then never get any kind of public-works projects done.
The Bridge and Marble Canyon Dams were also impossible in their day due to so called environmentalists and in order to replace the power that would have been provided by them, the worse coal-fired Navajo Generating Station option was completed near Page, Arizona in 1976 for the the Central Arizona Project.
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My problem is when this company fizzles out in 2 years and stops servicing or supporting their product.

If Apple make made something like this, I may bite.
For a networked multiplayer game, the total amount of network lag is effectively the same, except that the network lag is moved from between client and server to client and "display". Now that the server and client are now just one instance, there is zero lag there.
Damn, I consider it the new Yahoo Answers. More and more pure garbage answers.
I have 20 apps on my Galaxy S4 with Android 5.0 because i don't wanna give them extra permissions they asked for over the time, if they force this shit on me i'll be really pissed
Forget about buying a house part. Say the person can buy a house in texas and retire there. Would you still say it's lower middle class?
If it's important to him he might ask his doctor or head to Cochrane Collab?
Kops now supports K8s 1.12
Don't forget about WhatsApp. It was the main channel of dissemination of fake news in Brazilian Election. Now we have a global warning denier in the presidency and Amazon deforestation is reaching record levels.

Sure there isn't any company in the FAANG that is an altruistic enterprise, but to be only pure evil one is Facebook.

What really impresses me is that there's still a lot of talented people working there.
I'm all for this but I wonder if FLYING autonomous taxis will be a better solution in the end. And couldn't there be flying trains as well?
It was well pointed out before it started that it would cost multiple times the estimates the state was claiming. It should never had made it this far.
"The cardinal's right side appears to be male...while the left side seems to be female."

As a cardinal lover, what an interesting looking bird!
Absolutely true: https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2017/5/24/15681560/g...
Airport pollution is not “devastating” for cities. Studies show that particulates, etc., are higher near airports but still within legal limits.

California HSR, by contrast, would have been a CO2 disaster: https://www.citylab.com/transportation/2011/11/how-green-hig.... It would need to have 10 million riders per year to break even in terms of CO2 footprint. The SF-LA flight traffic is just a third of that.
It's supposedly a aptitude test. Not a ability test
Why wouldn't they? There's a minimum of 30 hours per week and overtime starts at over 40 hours, and sometimes after 8 hours in a day. Therefore the outcome will be 40 hours worked, but with shift times matched to predicted driver demand. Either way, there is no flexibility.

Having a driving job is the opposite of what the vast majority of drivers actually want.
People currently living there don't see it as a "housing crisis". They see it as "too many people coming here, trying to change our single family house peaceful residential neighborhood into bigger buildings".

So "how about limiting influx of new people / new development?"

"Sure, let's do that"

I understand newcomers may disagree with that approach, out of understandable self interest.

But implying people currently living there are clueless or more selfish by defending their interests?? Trying to make newcomers sound morally superior? Come on.... You can do better that than that.
https://www.reddit.com/r/devops/comments/bpc7ms/kops_now_sup...
System76 ships laptops with Intel ME disabled and provides an open-source firmware update tool. I'm a huge fan of them.
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Honestly I just don't get why every single time there is discussion about game streaming, the topic of lag as a potential show stopper comes up, and every time it's a hypothetical discussion, which doesn’t make sense at all - the solutions are out there! Don’t assume - just verify it.

And when you do, you will find out that there isn’t any actual issue. I’ve played games like The Witcher 3 via streaming over three years ago.

Input/output lag simply isn’t an issue, and I’m your average German VDSL user, nothing special.

From my point of view, there is no sense in any further discussion - the empirical data is already in.
Manuals:

• vmd(8) - https://man.openbsd.org/vmd

• vmctl(8) - https://man.openbsd.org/vmctl

• vm.conf(5) - https://man.openbsd.org/vm.conf

Slides: https://www.openbsd.org/papers/asiabsdcon2019-vmm-slides.pdf
Here is an example of file produced by the extension: https://github.com/gildas-lormeau/SingleFileZ/blob/master/ex...
Can someone help me understand the value proposition for Hermes? The only thing I can see is that it abstracts away producing to and consuming from Kafka. The use cases provided answer why you'd use a message broker system, but not why you'd want to do it over HTTP.

Edit: I understand HTTP is easier than Kafka, but is this something developers really struggle with when adopting Kafka? My experience is that they struggle with the nuances, behavior, and maintenance of Kafka/ZooKeeper more than anything.

I also didn't see how it dealt with concepts like exactly once delivery - any experiences in that area?
There are some fundamental optimizations we don't even think about any more. E.g. the first class I wrote in C++ was a simple container for a byte, with a constructor, a getter and a conversion to int. Then in main() I declared one locally, constructed with 'true'. Then I returned that object as the return code.

Imagine my surprise when the generated code was simply

mov AX, 0xFF

ret

Three or four bytes of code! So some abstractions, encapsulation for instance, provide the user with guarantees but can cost absolutely nothing.
Yeah, I think it's really common to downplay this as an “everyone knows” situation but there seemed to be a sea-change where it went from “maybe people see more spam than they used to” to “major world events are impacted”.
> I think access to shelter is a human right.

Products and services can't be human rights.
I think the best analogy would be SQL is to OpenGL what this API would be to Vulkan.

Ability to define the query procedurally or atleast semi-so vs the declarative approach of SQL would allow direct optimisation of very performance critical queries.
Perhaps a different administration would have let things slide, but the state of CA is pretty clearly in the wrong on this one. All of that federal money was tied to specific parts of the high speed rail project. For example a lot of it was intended for connecting the HSR to Union Station in Los Angeles. If the state has no intention of doing that, it really doesn't deserve that money.

For the Central Valley HSR that is still supposedly being built, the federal money was supposed to be used as matching funds for the state's own money. Even after getting the HSIPR agreement amended to let CA spend its own money more slowly, the state didn't spend anywhere close to what it was supposed to have spent to match the federal funding.
They have disability accommodations for that (which are abused by the wealthy apparently). I learned from the recent scandal news.
When playing online against other opponents, having the gaming machines be very close to each other might make up part of the latency introduced by the distance between the player and the gaming machine. Maybe.

Your first point is key though. Piracy is a big deal. People can say until they're blue in the face that it "helps", or that "they wouldn't have bought the game anyway", and for some unknown percentage its true, and for some other unknown percentage its a straight lie.

If they go from "optionally play a game via streaming", to "this game MUST be played via streaming" eventually, they get the second group (the ones who WOULD pay if they couldn't get it for free) instantly.

Only if it doesn't suck, obviously.
Federal 'new start' grant money cannot be used on existing rail corridors.

Hence this part is being funded as part of the caltrain modernization project, which is literally under construction as we speak. It will turn the existing 2-3tph corridor into at least 10tph each way with all the standard features of a European/Japanese/Chinese train line.
My good dude, once you've heard of them, they are not cool anymore. Cool is exclusive. Cool is mysterious. Cool doesn't care what is popular. When cool goes mainstream, it's not cool anymore! The trendsetters have already moved on.
Not just nylon ropes, but multi-fall ropes: in the early 70's, we didn't trust a rope after it had taken a hard fall. You can't learn a big-wall route if you have to retire your rope after every long fall.
> All government policies are redistributive.

Doing nothing is not redistributive. No policy at all means accepting the distribution that occurs naturally (i.e. without interference) between two or more parties to a transaction.
As Pavlov would tell you, it doesn't need to be a mask. It can be anything. So for the mass market, perhaps a bell would be a better choice.
The claim is that it is the oldest continuously run. Presumably that requires documentation of continuous runningness, the sort of documentation that either hasn't existed for all that long or wouldn't have tended to survive.
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“Easy” isn’t the project. The project is to connect the two major population centers. Nobody cares about Merced to Bakersfield. And expensive? Building a hundred miles of line that nobody cares about is more expensive than building a train people would actually use. Why would I spend 4 hours riding to LA via Bakersfield when I can spend 45 min on an airplane. I live 12 minutes from the San Jose Airport. Facilitating air shuttles wouldn’t require billions of dollars and I wouldn’t have to waste time transiting the Central Valley for no good reason other than politics.