skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They spent $1.1 billion on the first round of the train, and in FY2021 it brought in $55,000 in gross fares.

We won’t be able to spend our way to adoption at that rate. And people aren’t going to adopt public transit in a city built around cars (93.4% of Austin families own a vehicle).

Sounds like we both wish mass public transit was the reality, but sadly it’s just not realistic.
If that money is consumed as capital to further the goals of the business there has to be the possibility that nothing is available that can be returned.

This is the underlying principle of investment, that the money is being utilized by someone for potential economic gain.

If that money is just parked such that its always available for a return then it isn't really an investment.
These are the kinds of things that so many fail to take into account when extrapolating current trends to predict disastrous shortages of some raw material. Increased demands push exploration and reveal previously unknown or overlooked deposits. It doesn’t always work out this way, but it does often.
Ya, luckily we already have one a large bank ready to use it and that's enough to start: https://twitter.com/garybasin/status/1624134955566788608?s=2...
Thought != data
no. team members can take turns being scrum master if they want scrum.

these are fake jobs.

became prevalent with zero interest rate and cheap lending..especially at small companies when they have massive evaluations stamped on by investor class.

with high and rising rates expect to see this kind roles evaporate. mostly a grift
Al Capone would have passed KYC
Newer designs (existing reactors use 1970s technology) are cheaper and faster to build. Look up the concept of "Small Modular Reactors".
Or send him a check for the balance and then put derogatory information under chexsystems and all the other banking blacklists so it can't be cashed.
Could you summarize? I read the introduction there, but am not planning to buy the book. The intro there hints toward a theory with this:

> The book also made huge theoretical advances. Rothbard was the first to prove that the government, and only the government, can destroy money on a mass scale, and he showed exactly how they go about this dirty deed. But just as importantly, it is beautifully written. He tells a thrilling story because he loves the subject so much.

> The passion that Murray feels for the topic comes through in the prose and transfers to the reader. Readers become excited about the subject, and tell others. Students tell professors. Some, like the great Ron Paul of Texas, have even run for political office after having read it.

It seems obvious to me that only the government can destroy (and indeed create) money, but I'm not sure how someone could claim to be the first to have proven that. From that last line I can infer that the general thrust is libertarian?
The problem there is that you would have a complete freak out on HN and other online fora.
Heh a lot of people in this thread also seem to miss that as a company grows you have an accruing amount of vacation time on your team and need enough people to ensure the operation always runs. The operation also needs to be bus proof, over the last 2 years the branch we are in has had 3 people killed in car accidents around the world. And then we also have people leaving and new people being on boarded which means they won't be really useful for a month or more.

We look at people and they generally work 8 hours a day, 5 days a week. Is it going to be surprising we need a whole lot of people running global operations 24/7?
> And then, they wonder why people are being driven to use Cryptocurrency...

If only. Normal people are only buying crypto to speculate. They drive the price up to absurd levels and then write it all off as a scam when it corrects. Meanwhile good technology like Monero remains marginalized instead of replacing the USD as it should.
To add to the other answer, if you calculate the absolute limit on performance for heating and cooling using the Carnot cycle, the 'heating' case is always going to be '1' higher than the cooling case, because you also get to use the 'work' heat.
I also have to walk along the street a little, and cross a small road that intersects my road. It's still probably less than 30 seconds, but it's close enough. It's 30 seconds if you include walking down the stairs inside my house, slipping my shoes on, etc.
Without actually digging into the code and integrations, it's speculation on both of our parts. I've had to work with platforms that made implementing certain "easy" and "simple" features in a bug-free manner difficult to impossible.
Yes, it has declined in countries which invest into renewables: https://www.cleanenergywire.org/factsheets/germanys-energy-c...
If you are saying that the CEO of every company that defrauded/did something criminal to other people should be forced to pay back the stock to the people who invested in it, then yes, let's see it
Perhaps a meta discussion is needed here regarding the potential ability to dismiss a lawsuit in a scenario like this where everyone understands the existence of a legal problem in the need of future guidance.
3D software commonly calls this "zoom extents" to automatically pan/zoom so that the model fills a useful portion of the screen.

In AutoCAD and Fusion 360 it's bound to double-click middle mouse because of how often it's used, though between users of 10 different 3D software packages you'll find 10 different but strongly held opinions on how the viewport navigation should work.
Exactly. Putin started an incredibly expensive war that could prove to be financially ruinous for Russia, I don't know why we're supposed to believe he wouldn't be so careless about a pipeline that wasn't even operational at the time. I'm not claiming to know who did this, but I don't think we can say it couldn't possibly be Russia
Having only worked at SPA places, it's hard for me to imagine not having tools like Storybook, Chromatic, and Mocked Service Workers. Building the UI in isolation means with mocked API responses means I can, in parallel, validate 1000's of use cases with pixel-level precision. The backend teams can keep their focus on scalable, performant APIs. The frontend teams can focus on accessibility, consistency, etc. I've found a secret sauce that works very well in my organization, and I'd be curious to know what the equivalent would look like for SSR apps. But I can't overstate of much of a boon it's been to develop the client in isolation. Nearly all my bug reports go straight to the backend teams. It's bliss.
Let me also add these point that everyone seems to want to ignore:

NordStream 2 was never put into service. Germany halted it due to the invasion. This was considered a very big deal.

At the time of the explosion on 26 Sep there had been no gas flowing on NordStream 1 at all. None! Flows on NS1 were shutdown by Russia on 31 Aug. This came after a series of declining flows from Russia accompanied by various efforts by Russia to get Germany to violate sanctions and persuade other countries to reduce sanctions. It culminated in complete shut off of NS1 and an offer to instead activate NS2 before the explosion (one of those pipes was suspiciously left undamaged).

Russia had been trying the blackmail that everyone feared, and Germany resisted it. I've bashed Germany a lot for it's response to the war but the fact is Germany got off Russian gas at huge costs and resisted the blackmail threat.

Folks who don't believe this can go view the data in graph form here: https://www.statista.com/statistics/1331710/nord-stream-phys...

Or Grab the raw data if you want: https://www.nord-stream.info/

Germany gas imports from Russia: https://www.statista.com/statistics/1332783/german-gas-impor...
You can fix that with an extension: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/high-contrast/djcf...
So, I have lived in Austin since the mid-90's, having come here from the midwest via Silicon Valley (back when it was based on actual silicon, i.e. semiconductor companies).

You know you have become a true Austinite when you first say "it's not as cool as it was back when I first moved here". I was hearing it in the mid-90's when I moved here, I have heard it continually in the 25+ years since. Sometime in 2050, Austinites will be talking about how it is no longer as cool as it was in 2022, back when they moved here.

The thing is, Austin's vibe comes in part from the large number of newcomers. Newcomers to a city add energy, because they are still out and about looking for things to do and new friendships to make. A town of the same size, with the same industries, etc. which had been that size for a while, would not have the same vibe. Cities are vectors, not scalars; what gives Austin it's cool vibe is in part that there is a lot happening, and a big part of that is that new people are constantly showing up.

Sure, Austin has problems from this, because building enough housing to keep the prices down is hard, and keeping the infrastructure up is also hard, and Austin needs to do better on both. But, if you could somehow freeze Austin's size where it is, or where it was in a few decades back, you would not get the same feel. Rather, it would feel stultifying, full of people who already have their close circle of friends and don't feel a need to go out much, or if they do go only to the same things they went to last year. You can't freeze a candleflame, and a growing city is more like a candleflame (reacting and changing) than it is like an ice sculpture.
I finally realized what the difference between gambling and investing was.

Gambling - mathematically, you're going to lose over time. This is why blackjack, the lottery, and sports betting are gambling. Every system that has payouts based on what people put in, minus a cut for the bookie, is in this category.

Investing - the mathematical odds are in your favor. Stocks, real estate, etc., as the payouts are based on the ongoing creation of value.
"Anyone who takes 6 months of paternity leave is a loser"

"I had to flee SF, the city literally built in my VC image, because someone said some mean words to me"

These people are a parody of themselves. Talent-less rich kids, spending other people's money all day, and so incredibly insecure they have to constantly find ways to belittle anyone who doesn't treat them like a genius. Narcissism run rampant, and spreading everywhere they decide to touch down on their endless journey away from the consequences of their own behavior.
Yup. Had to tap them a few times on my phone just to realize that they weren't tappable.
> None of his anonymously sourced articles has ever been confirmed true

While not "confirmed true", I think this piece shows that later evidence strongly supported Hersh's anonymous claims in this case:

https://www.rootclaim.com/analysis/Who-carried-out-the-chemi...

It's an interesting style of analysis. You'll need to click on "Show more" below each section to see their actual evidence and reasoning.
Yes you got to play the game to challenge rules
I was excited when I learned about a way to create custom georeferenced map PDFs (say, based on an official, but not georeferenced, national park map document). It used qgis, plus one or two other open source tools. It seemed straightforward, if a bit tedious. But I was never able to get the resulting files to work properly on my Android device. The instructions said to use an app called avenza maps, which would understand the georeference data, and show your maps, other maps, plus routes and tracks, all on one display. It just didn't work consistently for me, sadly.

From what I understood, qgis was doing its job properly. It was a neat tool. I guess the whole stack for this use case was just too fragile.
You could just support new housing development and sane urban planning. Then maybe Austin will still be a pleasant and semi-affordable place to live in 10 or 20 years. Lots of moderately wealthy people moving in could be, in some ways, a boon for Austin, if you don't do everything exactly wrong.

(The alternative is to refuse to build new housing or do any reasonable urban planning out of resentment towards newcomers, and then watch in frustration as traffic becomes even worse, housing prices continue to skyrocket, and you have rapidly rising homelessness and crime. The same way most cities in California handled this situation.)
Yes! Back in the day (around 2012-2015) I did a bunch of regressions in R using YF data to land on my target portfolio value tilt. Certainly not something anyone has to do, but interesting for a finance nerd.
Why does the bombs have to go off immediately when the plane drops the signalling device? If you got through setting all this up, I am sure you can also figure out how to delay the explosion so there would be no obvious connection to a plane flying over.
I dunno, I sent Sam Bankman Fried all my Galactic fiat credits, and suddenly couldn't make withdrawals.

I called my senator to look into it, but then I find out the Emperor has dissolved the senate.
And so MSN writes smear article based on a parody account.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/autos/other/twitter-engineer-says-...
Nothing like Magnolia’s after midnight when you’re a high schooler and have nowhere else to go

And they shut down the wrong Magnolia’s!
> That is a rhetorical tactic that kind of misses the point

As nearly everyone here has pointed out, it not only doesn't miss the point, it _is_ the point, and it's not rhetorical, it's a statement of fact.

Weapons waste is completely different to power-plant waste. That's the whole point of that sentence.
Then this goes back to what I said initially:

> you just need the infrastructure to let you do so

Yes, if your city treats cycling as an afterthought, it will be less practical to cycle. If your city treated driving as an afterthought, it would be less practical to drive. You get what you build for and what you prioritize.

> Even then, we drive on compact snow for 1/3 the year.

Oulu has snow for half of the year and still has a substantial cycling mode share, because they prioritize it: https://youtu.be/s3Sx_OH_wok
> University administration is one of the most ruthless groups you can come across.

No joke, I managed to twist my way around bureaucrats for years, but university admissions was the one first I could just never beat
In that case, what's the risk?
I'm years out of date, but it competed well with ArcGIS until the expert level, to the point that I gave up my ArcGIS license where I was working and didn't miss much of anything day to day.

QGIS also has server and headless options, plus lots of the QGIS core is importable into python scripts.
Could also indicate some concern about the opposite: the article mentions it was the Xbox Ecosystem Group that saw the most layoffs and I can't be certain but based on the name alone it sounds like the group in charge of things in the larger ecosystem like Xbox on Mobile (the iOS/Android/Switch efforts). It's possible if they weren't certain about the Activision Blizzard acquisition that they might want to focus less overall on non-Xbox Xbox experiences to keep competitive with Sony exclusives.

Of course, this is all just armchair tea leaf reading, so I have no idea, but it certainly seems like it could read either way about their expectations of that acquisition, depending on how you want to spin the narrative.
"Proton Drive is open source, so anyone can verify that our encrypted cloud storage works as described."

So why there's no open source sync client for Linux?
You are technically correct, the most socially isolating kind of correct.

If you can think of a word with different, or fewer connotations I'll gladly swap it in. Mea culpa for the hasty pasting, though.
Looks like we found the guy that pushes everyone away. Who else would excuse this behavior from a “lead” developer? A lead developer should be working (or at least trying) with their team to empower the team as a whole, not blazing ahead on point leaving the squad in the dark, no matter how “brilliant” they are.
He mentioned what he did in the video. Pretty sure he went on ChatGPT and asked it for some lyrics in the style of Eminem and on Future Rave.

Copied & pasted the lyrics in an AI voice generator and probably had to use some Eminem acapellas to train it.

There's plenty of AI Voice generators I watched a segment on one a few days ago https://youtu.be/OEoU9k5hApM?t=1061
> annoy him so much with retarded requirements he will leave by himself

This is rare. It may be the effect. But plenty of financial institutions openly deny risky accounts; no need to needlessly spin wheels.

Your broader point is correct, however. Because of the risk, a lot will be demanded. Because of the reward, nobody is motivated to push back on compliance.
Well the author by her own disclosure is the founder of a nuclear energy lobby group. Or as she calls it "climate activist group". So yeah, I'm sure she was very confused and in doubt with herself, I'm happy it all turned out fine and she finally discovered that nuclear power is the solution to all our problems.
> The context was sanctions and international condemnation,

How odd that you would consider her second question--which wasn't directed at Biden--to be the relevant context for Biden's answer, and not the actual question that was posed to Biden!
Watch the video.[1] The reporter asks Biden if he's received assurances that Germany will pull the plug on the project if Germany invades (then continues to pose a separate question to Sholz). Biden answered "If Russia invades, that means tanks and troops crossing the border of Ukraine, again, then there will be no longer a Nord Stream 2. We will put an end to it."

Beyond that, his word choice only makes sense as a direct threat on the pipeline. It makes no sense as an oblique threat of sanctions or "international condemnation".

> literally no one at the time, even the most Russophilic pundits and anti-imperialist tankies, interpreted this as a military threat.

You don't remember headlines like "Biden warns "there will be no longer a Nord Stream 2" if Russia invades Urkaine"?[0] They were everywhere.

[0] https://theweek.com/joe-biden/1009898/biden-warns-there-will...
[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qKoPA3M7x2o&t=610s
It is all watered down industrially produced ethanol. Tito's puts theirs through a pot-still but its still the same corn ethanol created by some giant factory in the mid-west. If you want to make your own pot still you can take the bottom shelf vodka, run it through the still then dilute it back to 70% with distilled/RO/DI water and get a Grey Goose bottle from the recycling and keep refilling it. No one will ever be the wiser.
It's true that good insulation and sufficiently sized radiators are important. But it's not like those things can't be upgraded in existing houses. In fact, if we're talking about energy efficiency then insulating houses should likely be the first action taken.
I don't agree. If we move to goalposts too far down the field the political resistance will guarantee that we accomplish less. We have to focus on making repairing stuff possible and economically feasible first. And I think it will need to happen somewhat gradually so the industry can learn how to design things that can be repaired. We also need to build a robust repair industry. With training for repair personnel as well as the supply chain and logistics side.

Make repairs attractive, and cheap enough and we might not need to bring up a wall of legislation that makes market access too hard for new entrants. This could quickly develop into a game where only companies with really deep pockets are even able to produce anything.

(I work for a startup. We occasionally have to make hardware. Enabling people to repair the stuff we make is something we're happy to do. But if we had to be accountable for the entire lifecycle, that would be another thing. What happens if we go tits up?)
There's absolutely no need for two nulls / nils. But the story of JSON is that it was created by extracting part of JavaScript... so, that part was kept because it was part of JavaScript, which has never been known for making good language choices. So, bad choices made once just stuck with this format. I don't think the author gave it much thought really.
> In the 80s, Jordan was out in the first round

He joined a horrendous team when he was drafted.

And your statement is just wrong:

89-90 - Lost E. Conf. Finals

88-89 - Lost E. Conf. Finals

87-88 - Lost E. Conf. Semis

Then we know what happened after that.

> 80s and prior it was a team game and you had to play great as a team to win

Have you watched the Spurs or Warriors win multiple championships in recent times? It's not like team ball (more like UCLA teams) vanished, it's just rarely the way to win in the NBA.

Also, Pistons played as a team, and then Jordan took over and ended that era.

Some teams win playing team ball. Some teams win with a few all time greats taking over. That's always been the case.

Just because you had more passing and slower scoring, doesn't mean those were "real competition" or better teams.

Jordan was the leader of the best team of all time. The 95-96 Bulls. Any talk about "team game" in 80s and before doesn't change that.

I also don't think many give the Bulls teams credit as playing as a team. Jordan was dominant but you won't find many teams EVER that played defense as a team any better than those Bulls teams. And even on offense, everyone clearly understood their role (Pippen, Kukoc, Paxson, Kerr, Kukoc). That's 100% team ball, it just doesn't look like a John Wooden UCLA team or Showtime Lakers.

You can play team ball without passing the ball around 20 times each play before shooting. And team ball doesn't mean every starter has to average 10-20 pts.
It was pretty clear from the first moment that NFTs were of no value. The only people showing interest were speculators. It got an extremely brief flurry of interest from artists, who hoped that it might allow them to retain some kind of financial stake in their art even after it was sold, but that disappeared within days.

The AI is already producing things of production value. People use the art that comes out of it. There's a great demand for mediocre art -- product logos, book illustrations, making web pages feel less empty. It's not great art, but it's the kind of thing you'd have to pay a fair bit of money for.

It's less clear to me that the language models are worth much. Unlike art, there's no great clamor for more mediocre text. At best they're a nod in the direction of something more interesting, in a way that NFTs never did. They may yet burn out without producing anything of value, but it feels like there could be something there.

So you could be right that there's no lasting, meaningful impact. But I don't think I'd compare it to NFTs, which existed solely to push the cryptocurrency bubble a bit further. (Cryptocurrency itself did seem to have some promise, and it yet may. It seems to flounder not on a fundamental uselessness, but more on not providing sufficient value to replace the inertia existing currencies. It was attractive only to illegal transactions, and even that was swamped by pure speculation.)
Maybe just an untimely experience, but I visited Austin once a little over a year ago during the summer, and downtown was basically a ghost town. I assumed it was because UT was on break, but still I couldn't help thinking "where is everybody?" given the Austin hype.

That being said, as a remote worker becoming increasingly disillusioned about Bay Area cost of living and politics, Austin is on my radar. Any Austin transplants here who can shed some light on moving there? How easy is it to establish a social network/sense of community as a newcomer?
These two parameters you're mentioning were chosen to optimize for startup performance. By definition, they have to be preselected. I may be wrong, but it sounds to me like you're under the false impression that this quoted stuff is somehow subject to jitting. You could be more sophisticated about picking these parameters for sure, but that would be orthogonal to jitting.