skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Alternately, if people want to exercise their “right” to not look at apartment buildings, they should move somewhere rural where land is cheap enough that no one builds them.
Mean Julian Days (MJD) are the agreed standard for something like that. Abolishing local time has a number of issues as linked in other comments. The time standards we currently have are all well suited to their purpose, it's just a case of picking the most appropriate one for the task. (Plenty of room for more TAI in modern technology).
For this particular left/right example a much cheaper alternative is to make the enum variants a 1st class citizen of the type system. Then the compiler will be able to use the variant type information from one callsite to monomorphize all the uses without inlining.
Only twice the over run is not bad these days. Nuclear is a fantastic idea on paper. Then that paper gets shredded.

"In the United States, the cost of Georgia Power’s newest twin Vogtle reactors may top initial estimates of $14 billion and reach $21 billion, according to recent Georgia Public Service Commission testimony. Of course, the first two Vogtle Units begun in 1971 took 18 years to build (a decade over schedule) at a final price of $9 billion — ten times the original price tag. BloombergBusiness wrote last fall, “Even as sympathetic an observer as John Rowe [former chair of the U.S.’s largest nuclear utility] warns that the new units at Vogtle will be uneconomical when — or if — they’re completed.”

https://thinkprogress.org/the-nuclear-industry-prices-itself...
Oh don't worry. The Trump administration is taking its War on Government to all the states.
Ironically: Hermes was the name of a JMS user interface/testing tool.
Will we ever reach a point where solar is cheaper than nuclear outside that 2-hours-a-day?
I can only hope that this is benefiting domestic/!china suppliers by making their products more competitive.

It can be rather frustrating when cheap (as in quality) crap enters the market place and drives out better alternatives purely on price. I see it with tools all the time, to the extent that you can't even purchase quality tools for some things any more.
lang_tester: Rust testing framework for compilers and VMs
> They are certainly true for other people, in fact, I bet they are true for majority of them.

Well, no. Everyone who uses TOTP, without exception, has their secret stored in a password manager. That's what the TOTP app or device is.
> through terrain that isn't too challenging

Crossing the California Coast Ranges is very challenging! They have huge elevation changes, minimal usable electrical infrastructure, sensitive environments to protect, and seismic fault lines right where you would want to tunnel. The insane cost and complexity of the Pacheco and Tehachapi passes is the main thing that stopped the project in its tracks.

Granted, the Swiss and the Japanese have pulled off significant projects in similarly challenging terrain, but that's a testament to their competence, rather than evidence that the terrain isn't challenging.
Even for people who hate the "green" aspect, high volume mass transit is important for enabling the vision where autonomous taxis actually serve last mile rather than just sitting in traffic jams for hours like you do in your regular car.
Oh no not the poor homeowners that are being heavily subsidized via Prop 13. I'll be sure to shed a tear for them.
The generally accepted definition of middle age is 45 years old; and young adulthood ends at 40, which gives you five years to adjust I guess!
They'd still have to pay back funds for failing to stick to the original plan. The funding did have some requirements.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/11417387

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20930468

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4365303/
It's now a single-party rule state. For most of the history of the HSR, it was a dual-party state where the minority Republicans exercised veto power over various attempts to speed up the HSR, make fundamental changes, etc. It's crazy, but the HSR is actually in better shape now than when the Republicans were vetoing everything just to make sure it failed.

Also, the HSR as planned goes through 90% Republican territory, and it has been the local Republicans and their former counterparts in the CA legislature that fucked things up.
It’s totally fine you don’t like it, but many people do. They are choosing to live that way because they like the lifestyle, not for the money. If they wanted money, they’d do better by the passing of SB50, and developing multi unit dwelling on their lot. I don’t think you are helping push the discussion forward by mischaracterizing the opposition.
I get a lot of value from Facebook, and it greatly improves my life, even just this past week. I found out about some career opportunities through friends' posts. I saw photos of old friends that made me happy. I got answers to questions I had about a specific uncommon musical instrument I had via a Facebook group. I searched for people who would be in a city I was visiting, to message them to meet up while I was there. I learned news about acquaintences having kids or moving between cities. I read some backstory about a city hall decision that made me more informed about what particular politicians have been focused on and why. I bet I'm in the majority actually, and people who get nothing from it are probably already not using it.
The Bloomberg article did a pretty poor job summarizing the expenses - the linked article actually has a better breakdown: https://www.cnbc.com/2018/03/06/budget-breakdown-of-a-couple...?

$42k for childcare and $23k for food are two of the biggest items listed as "other".
Not much works in California though.

Politically, that is.
It's a "Hello World" app for your system, the most basic app that can run on your platform.
The Xbox One has an NT kernel and DirectX as the graphics API. Stadia's use of Linux and Vulkan are probably about as helpful for a port to desktop Linux as an Xbox One game is for a Windows port.
The simplest solution to all this is limiting the number of houses a person can own. You only NEED one. Two is more than enough. Three is excessive.

It's not gold or silver or stocks and bonds.

People need houses to live in. Other investments don't have practical value. If people want to protect their assets, do it outside real estate.
It's ironic that we moved from the trust / authority model of factual verification to "data driven" model of verification, and now we are seeing how easy it is to even manipulate that. I suppose the only step forward, and maybe has been the only true way all along, is democratized authority and expertise.
What I’m curious of is why we haven’t yet tried contracting the companies responsible for Japan’s train system and just letting them run the show, with our only responsibility being acquiring the required land and clearing associated political hurdles. I’m sure Japan would be willing to lend a hand and they may even be able to do it for less time and money than domestic companies could.
Two words: Gateway Project
Musk’s SpaceX to Launch 60 Internet Satellites on Thursday–With an Eye on Mars
Agreed, and people like me should donate more! But can we agree that to whatever degree the extreme upper class disproportionately controls the country's wealth, they should also disproportionately shoulder the burden of helping those beneath them?
Yes, and the effects of that on local schools as well.
Wow, this is a seriouslu long post, detailing a lot of improvements!

Many take advantage of vectorisation using .NET Core's new hardware intrinic capabilities, many are through further "Spanification", and many are through cleverly reducing allocations.

Also interesting that a lot of these improvements have been contributed by the community - seriously impressive stuff!
Third fatal Tesla Autopilot crash renews questions about system
Traffic may be as bad as it’s ever been, but the areas that formerly were elevated roads are now wonderful green spaces. So thankful they did it, and wish it could be done more both in Boston and elsewhere, but the gigantic cost must make it overwhelming for anywhere to consider doing that again.

At least Boston is finally digging that green line extension!
If you flew low at night I think you'd have a decent chance of getting a drone to the right location. You'll need either a decent setup or a decent position to control it though.

Although as others have mentioned, if you're trying to crash a plane or cause a disruption at the airport there's easier ways. Including just flying the drone over the runway (to close an airport).
The main problem is that the consequences of climate change are affecting areas that either aren't developed enough, or far enough away that the average joe won't be bothered. So what if an ice sheet falls? it snowed last week.

It's akin to saying the Titanic isn't sinking because you're on the end of the ship that's 100 feet into the air. Only until they see the water to their ankles, do they start looking for lifeboats. It'll have to take something disastrous and close to home, and by then it's much too late.
They increase the standard deduction pretty significantly for 2018. I'm assuming in an effort to push less Americans to itemize deductions?
I think it very much depends on the population. Online quiz takers will skew young, whose English is a lot better than that of middle aged and older Swedes, on average. Most Swedes I know have at least competency in English, and I know a lot of them, from being in Sweden too, but I'm sure my sample is also biased. Nonetheless, I'm not suprised at the fluency of Swedes in foreign langauges compared with other countries. As with the Netherlands, they are not an inward-looking culture particularly.
Less than 3.5% of China's GDP is trade with USA.

China can stop trade with USA nearly completely, and not even notice it really

Few years ago, the biggest US export to China was plastic and paper (garbage)

Now, it changed to agriculture products, airplanes and cars (German American cars...)
You'll be fired from the mail room, but you'll be eligible to apply to be a subcontractor with Mail Room Supply, Inc. As a subcontractor, you'll be eligible for the standard hourly rate of $9 and you'll have the freedom to arrange for your own healthcare, own payment of all contractor taxes, and own retirement. You're also required to purchase your own Mail Room Supply, Inc. uniforms, but there's an easy payment plan for those that cannot afford them. Conveniently, your assigned work location at Mail Room Supply, Inc. will be in the basement of Acme Corp., where you used to work. (Work location not guaranteed.)
How can sequestration not be energy intensive? Carbon is diffused throughout the atmosphere as relativly low energy statw molecules. Even assuming 100% efficiency, what end state of sequestration would not require significant energy just from conservation of energy.
Microsoft’s AI for Accessibility winners: ‘ Be seen as the person you are’
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dakota_Access_Pipeline_protest...
> ... the high rate of death for free-solo climbers.

Honnold made an interesting point in his latest (?) appearance on Joe Rogan's podcast: none of the top free solo climbers has died on a hard free solo climb (and many didn't die free solo climbing, or even climbing, at all).

And of course lots of people die climbing with ropes and protection too, even highly skilled and experience climbers.

Most people would probably consider any significant climb to be 'too risky'. As I disagree, I don't think I can reasonably fault anyone else for choosing some other higher level of risk as being 'too risky'.
I don't know how aircraft systems work. Can a directional antenna spoofing ILS [2] cause the crash of an airliner using ILS to land in bad visibility conditions? Does the plane trust the ILS signal? What if you combine that with a GPS jammer or GPS spoofer? Or do we consider that military technology, like MANPADs, and so out of scope? But some airlines consider MANPADs in scope, and use flares or laser systems to defend against them [1].

1 - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flight_Guard

2 - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Instrument_landing_system
Note that this is not a hypothetical situation: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pellet_fuel
Kids school could be zero if you would go to public school. You can eat out less and eat cheaper food at home cutting the grocery bill by a lot. You don't have to travel. Your misc expenses seem high as well, you could buy an older reliable car (some cars are much cheaper to maintain than others). You could probably get a cheaper house.

You don't WANT to do those things - I don't blame you - but that doesn't mean you can't.
I've seen several parts of the legs laid out already so I was wondering if they can just convert it to a highway. The current highway, route 99, which runs almost parallel to it is beginning to get congested quite often, so it could probably get repurposed for a highway, otherwise it will just be a symbol of failure.
To be fair, those countries have the ideal population density for bullet trains.
(You should note you're telling the author of go-fed how hard it is to implement AS)
> This is something that has been pioneered, developed, and commoditized in other countries, both in Europe and Asia.

Not this length directly along a highly active earthquake fault line and including a massive tunnel underneath an entire mountain range that is exceptionally tectonically active.

> incredibly modest ambitions

I would describe it as hopelessly arrogant ambitions, bordering on technically impossible, and definitely technically impossible within two orders of magnitude of the originally proposed funding.
Fully GDPR compliant, we're looking at behavior rather than personal data. We've been on the front foot there - also why we are advocates of content - win/win without the need for intrusive data usage. More on our site..

And that is the messy part, finding the good from the bad - and is worth solving that issue. That's the wider point, this type of, or framework of problem is going to be more and more prominent.
Here's the sunset rfc draft converted from XML to JSON.

https://www.dropbox.com/sh/duhmxzaehy0dwuc/AADyKPN5UVU1HKT9M...

Looking at the JSON, the structure is pretty basic. You could see it rendering in any format/style pretty easily.
Ernestine is a Saturday Night Live character, played by Lily Tomlin. Strongly encourage you to look up the video ("SNL Ernestine") and watch it, because it is truly evergreen.

The bit is basically "F U. We're the phone company; we don't have to care."
I would like nothing more than to get married early, but between two cross country moves in the last 4 years and potentially more in the future, unless my partner wasn't working or tied down, that seems very unlikely to happen. My parents also got married early, but could transition from single to dual income at the time, something harder to do nowadays.

Waiting to marry until you are stable seems like the smart thing to do given that traditional "man works, woman takes care of the house" isn't the way it works anymore.
I recall reading a report that somewhere on the order of $200-$250 MILLION had been paid to "consultants" alone so far with not a single foot of track laid.

And that's without all the other massive issues related to security, ACTUAL cost of construction and TRUE cost of operation, and bifurcation of the landscape, etc.

If it's such a wonderful and amazing project, why aren't people just falling all over themselves to invest in making it happen? Why do these glorious, wonderful projects always seem to take authoritarian government squandering other people's money to bring about?
It creates a market for fake solutions and PR-Responsibility Artfull Dodgery. Gambling artificially created rule systems is always easier then following them.

Dr Market decided to not treat the source of the problem, but to apply gracious amounts of morphin. Patient is beyond treatment! Next!
Web dev is a fairly broad term. If you only know Angular/CSS/Typescript, you're kinda out of luck unless you start brushing up on your Node chops. If you're writing web APIs, it's a much smaller jump. Embedded systems are a whole different ballgame though.
Wow, thank you so much for this comment; I really appreciate it, and this feedback is immensely helpful. Thank you!
Thank you for the explanation and edit.
I know multiple au pairs living in the tri state area (mostly NYC). They seem to love the arrangement and send a ton of money back home, earn college degrees here, etc. Honestly outside of the fact they need to acquire a visa I'm not sure how this is different from having a nanny (au pair make similar pay this isn't a means to rip someone off from what I know)
In California it is caused by enabling local municipalities to have a say and pretending you will ever get a consensus, instead of just saying "hey, we are the state, we're doin it, tough crap".

(the NIMBY lawsuits part is separate from this)

That failure mode definitely exists in other states.
If you do look seriously at running for Mayor in most towns you tend to discover that there isn't any budget for doing anything interesting, it is hard to raise local taxes, it is hard to raise debt, and if you cross major business interests you'll get sued personally.

Thus it is a lot of work and a lot of risk but you can't necessarily accomplish anything.
I do not understand how quora gets its answers but it still frequently shows up in google results with the best answers. Most recently the answer to me trying to find the mythical Bezos memo [0] “web services or you’re fired” that Yegge referenced.

[0] https://www.quora.com/How-did-Amazon-successfully-grow-inter...
I understand the issue to be dealing with three or four layers of government in each municipality as well as sourcing labor—not engineering competence.
I predict the audience will be huge. The audience for watching Let's Play's on Twitch and Youtube is enormous. I would be surprised if a significant portion of that audience doesn't convert when the barrier to entry is clicking a "play" button on Youtube.

It's not just the people with $1k phones: it's all the students who's parents got them a MacBook Air for college, and all the kids and teenagers who's parents won't buy them a console for Christmas. Not to mention markets where gaming hardware is several times more expensive than in the US or Europe.

edit: if the experience is decent
For married couple you'll still be looking at 320,000 in post-tax income at least - probably more if you have 4 kids. The rent is an over-estimate (6 bedroom house in central SF) and can easily be reduced.
I have no idea how reliable it is, but quoting wikipedia [1]:

"Testing has found that overall "input lag" (from controller input to display response) times of approximately 200 ms are distracting to the user. It also appears that (excluding the monitor/television display lag) 133 ms is an average response time and the most sensitive games (fighting games, first person shooters and rhythm games) achieve response times of 67 ms (excluding display lag)."

These numbers are from the PS3/XBox 360 area, which certainly sold massively well. Since display lag is not included in these 67ms, this is what these streaming services would have to aim for. It doesn't sound completely insane given the 30ms round trip latencies of home connections.

On a more subjective note, I think it's going to be really hard hunting down high end gamer PCs. On the other hand lots of games don't run particularly smoothly on consoles (especially "normal" PS4 and XBox One, rather than PS4 Pro or XBox One S) that these services are directly aiming at. I can perfectly imagine a stadia version of The Witcher 3 running circles around the PS4 version that lags so much... But I don't think it would hold against the PC version.

But I don't game much at all anymore, so my knowledge is mostly outdated. The last games I played were 80 days and A Dark Room on my iPhone (both pretty good games). So I guess I'm now more in the target demographics of Apple Arcade.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Input_lag
We learned how to act for motion capture
This is true of Japan as well and they have no trouble with significantly more ambitious projects. Don't buy into California's snowflake syndrome.
How about all of the other towns which are redlined by major broadband providers?
Most people will buy a 1K phone they can take with them than a 1K PC they can't.
I thought wireguard is kernel-mode software and I disliked it because of that. Interesting, may be there's Linux version of user-mode wireguard. I wonder what's the performance difference between usermode and kernelmode wireguard.
I think that if you look at the history of the trend, and the politics behind it. The decreases in top marginal tax rate, decreases in corporate tax rates. It starts to really _feel_ malicious. Although you're probably right, I don't think that all of the current c-suite occupants in the nation are acting out of malice.
And New York, where the Second Avenue subway cost 5-7x as much per mile as systems in London or Paris. And DC, where a well funded Metro system had to be taken into federal oversight because deferred maintenance caused it to kill people.
>That's what the free will debate in philosophy is about: whether there's a coherent conception of free volition that can justify holding an actor morally responsible for their choices.

Well, I don't care about that question. I'm interested in whether free will exists as a matter of [meta]physics, prior to questions of morality.
Air Force pilot once flew nuclear bomber under Michigan's Mackinac Bridge
New Research Database: Blockchain Impact Ledger
Upzoning helps the homeowners who are upzoned, though I don't know how many of them realize it. Land can be sold at much higher values to developers if it's upzoned, and so its market rate is generally higher. It's those homeowners whose property isn't upzoned which are left out of the economic benefits.
I'm reminded of the "Rathergate" incident that got Dan Rather fired from CBS, where they went to air with documents critical of George Bush that were clumsily faked, purporting that a typewritten document from 1973 used Times New Roman in the exact same size and spacing of Word's default settings.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Killian_documents_authenticity...
Totally safe nuclear reactor operations are easily
defined by placing a mandatory employee daycare center
in the containment.
Not in SV. $400k gets you to the lower middle class. That is you probably have a tiny chance of buying some real estate in your lifetime. House and expenses related to maintaining it is a huge chunk of change.
Residency scams are a long-standing issue around Boston and in Boston itself (parents of suburban kids attempting to get their kids into exam schools like Boston Latin). This article explains the difficulties and expenses associated with catching families trying to get around the residency requirements: https://www.patriotledger.com/x792538354/Quincy-schools-crac...
though this article is basically an ad for the oura ring, i do think sleep hygiene is an interesting topic and worthy of conversation. Would love to hear what the HN crowd thinks.
No power to fine or arrest isn't entirely true.

What stops them from finding who's transmitting and then filing a civil suit?
Thanks; I fixed that.
Quora: yahoo answers with login restriction.
Ask HN: Best website performance optimization resources?
What are the best resources for learning website performance optimization techniques + best practices?

eg: https://developers.google.com/web/fundamentals/performance/why-performance-matters/
I don't think that it has anything to do with altruism. Back then, it was not the right time to optimise for profit as new and exciting things were happening daily, it was time to explore not to exploit.

These days the exciting things are happening in other areas, so for the Internet giants, it's time to optimize for profit.