skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think BART is the perfect storm of commuter railroads that aren't going to recover. San Francisco is tech heavy, and tech still seems pretty work-from-home heavy. A problem I always wondered about is whether or not BART was the right system for San Francisco, as it seems a lot of the big companies are out in the suburbs and never had public transportation. I walked from the Mountain View train station to the Googleplex once. Nobody does that twice. (These companies have their own transportation networks, which is kind of a shame for visitors.)

I don't know what other cities look like. I've ridden the subway in New York on and off throughout and past the pandemic. This week was the first week that seemed normal to me. I don't commute, but have ridden the subway at commuting times, and it's definitely a little more chill than it used to be. (Easy to get a seat! But the train does eventually fill up as you get farther into Manhattan.) Looking at the commuter railroads, which I think is the fairest comparison to BART, they seem to be 50% of their all-time peak capacity. Not ideal, and I'm not convinced that 50% of the New York metro will be allowed to work from home forever.

It will be interesting to see what congestion pricing does to people that used transit before the pandemic that drive now. When I worked in Manhattan, I had a friend that drove every day. He showed me the spreadsheet that he used to decide between a monthly pass on MNR versus driving, driving was ever so slightly cheaper. With a $20 a day charge to drive into the city coming in the next couple years, that might be the edge that the railroads need to make it a financially viable decision.

I always thought we should make mass transit free and see how the numbers do. If 400,000 people drive into the city every day, and 2,000,000 people take the train, it's clear where the tax dollars should go. But I think as soon as you charge someone that first $1 to take the bus, pretty much everyone decided "fuck it, I'll just drive". The costs are a little more insidious, wear and tear on your vehicle, gas once a week, etc. People count that as free. (For example, do you ever turn on electrical appliances without thinking about the cost of electricity? That's driving.)
https://apnews.com/article/1d856cd98d4c491e8443576b3a817740
> it's been 150 years!

It’s been 60. “Black People Were Enslaved in the US Until as Recently as 1963”:

https://www.livescience.com/61886-modern-slavery-united-stat...
The article doesn’t say but I’m assuming it’s callable, in which case it’s all loss and no gain since they can just refinance it when rates go down.
My uncle ran a small business out of his garage where he got all his customers from advertising. Pretty sure he kept track of his return on each campaign and would only run them if they were profitable to him.
Perhaps they were just not ready to demo any games. Trying to push games on Vision Pro would likely attract more attention than the other use cases they presented.

We may see more gaming announcements closer to the actual release. Rumor has a version of “No Man’s Sky” for Vision OS coming at launch.
> Because there is zero chance in hell Google is getting a multiple of that cost back in value from him.

I have seen engineers at companies 1/1000 the size of Google generate $4 million in differentiated costs savings (definitely would not have happened without them). It seems plausible to me that someone could generate 10x that at Google.
Ideation is a prime application. At least once a week, I work out an idea for something with a long “conversation” chain staring with “I want to design a system that…” and asking for more detail, suggesting resources, etc. that said, being able to do this is not life changing for me. It just saves some time.
many books are given innocent sounding titles while pushing revisionist historical information or outright racist views. A book about Rosa Parks seems on its face to be a good thing. But if you inspect the contents you may find objectionable and false information, not conducive to the development of children.

What if there were 10 Rosa Parks books reviewed and were deemed fine, and that one was filled with false ideological nonsense?

I find this article disingenuous.
> Wait, are you me?

If you hadn't made that HN post I would probably still be scratching my head as to why I have intermittent DNS resolution issues in my personal Kubernetes cluster. I've been having them for years only for some specific software (my mediaserver stack, packaged by linuxserver.io). Since this isn't mission critical stuff I just shrugged it off and dealt with it. Eventually I read your post and it all clicked. I can't find any maintained distributions for that software that don't use alpine/musl sadly so I added[1] dnsConfigs to all of my deployments using musl to force ndots to 1 and accept the fact that all of my cluster name resolution for those deployments will have to be fully qualified. It's a really frustrating situation and made me realize how badly musl plagues the container ecosystem due to its use in Alpine Linux and alpine's popularity because of the small images it produces. Alpine Linux and musl are on my shitlist for life.

1: https://github.com/starcraft66/infrastructure/commit/3b53bb0...
This follows a general trend of roads becoming unsafer since COVID.

Traffic Fatalities in CA:

2019 -> 2020: +3.4%

2020 -> 2021: +7.6%

Unclear about 2021 -> 2022, I'd have to run the SWITRS data myself. Keep in mind these are just fatalities. I'm guessing crash data will show an even larger effect.

Source: https://www.ots.ca.gov/ots-and-traffic-safety/score-card/ and other OTS resources.
A number of very large brokerages have short-term largely treasury accounts returning in the 4-5% range right now. I wouldn't toss all my money there but it seems like a pretty good place to park cash for the next year or two until rates drop.
Twitter's API keeps breaking, even for developers paying $42,000
> The silly part of this is
that the industries he compares software to - music, television, movies - have all been skeletonized and reduced to minimal and repeatable products. Simply looking out the door should be enough to convince you that if you want to bring back the magic, asking to be treated like a television writer isn't the way.

not really sure if this is helpful, but i see this take way too often on here. i’m convinced people who say this about the film and media industry don’t go out of their way to find good movies and listen to good music because the amount of high quality, hard to find stuff being made today is honestly amazing.
In a previous life, for one org's "GitOps" setup, we mirrored Gitlab onto AWS CodeCommit (we were an AWS shop) and used that as the SoT for automation.

That decision proved wise many times. I don't remember CodeCommit ever having any notable problems.

That said: if you're using GitHub in your actual dev processes (i.e. using it as a forge: using the issue tracker, PRs for reviews, etc), there's really no good way to isolate yourself as far as I know.
That quote's from around 1900 but your point stands for print. Nielsen actually got really good numbers for TV using statistics, self-filled form sheets and crisp one-dollar bills.
Implicitly, they do. The murderer dies at some point.
Looks like Runhouse is FOSS (Apache 2.0) and you get to choose your own infrastructure. I will try out Runhouse. Mojo wants me to send them my info to get started.
Gnome (or rather GTK) is currently lagging on fractional scaling support, KDE Plasma seems to get it correct.

For mouse cursors changing size, I fixed that on my system by ensuring the XDG desktop portal for KDE was enabled. Not sure that was the real fix, but it seemed to let KDE handle cursor rendering even over GTK windows.
I like Alfred but I'm not a huge power user. It does have a bunch of other functionality. Out of the box it lets you do a bunch of stuff like filesystem manipulation, clipboard history management, a simple calculator, and stuff like that.

It's also extensible. For example there's a very useful add-on workflow [0] that makes it really quick to open up the next Zoom meeting you have scheduled in your calendar.

[0] https://github.com/caleb531/open-conference-url
I mean, why wouldn’t you let in a kid that has the balls to try that i’m their college essay?
Judging by the way Russians are destroying the West's 'Wunderwaffe' with ease, I wouldn't stake my life on their Sarmat's and Poseidons being useless.

The Russians have a reputation for their weapons to be cheap, plentiful, effective and robust. As Stalin is reputed to have said,"Quantity has a quality all of its own."

Meanwhile both the Germans back then and the Americans now, prefer to have fragile, high-tech stuff that gets swamped by the greater numbers of 'good enough' Soviet/Russian stuff. It's no good having a weapon with a 100:1 kill-ratio, if the enemy can throw 101 weapons at it.
I loved VB6, and HyperCard before that. But when VB.NET came out, I switched to Python.

For a while, I missed the ability to draw interfaces, and tried some tools for building interfaces in Python, but they all added too much overhead and complexity compared to VB6.

Then I realized: My interfaces will never be beautiful. Whether I can draw a layout that's better than random, or worse, is a coin toss. Instead, I wrote a simple "wrapper" around commonly used Tkinter widgets, allowing me to build an interface in one line of code per widget, and my wrapper just lays them out in order from top to bottom. That, plus Matplotlib graphs, which are heavenly.

Today, nobody uses my programs because the interface is beautiful. They need a problem solved, and the top-down layout is usually as good if not better than anything I could dream up myself. It's actually liberating.
> Loving flaws like buffer overflows looks more like a Stockholm syndrome to me:

Only if you are the developer (victim ) it is fun to work with buffer overflows if you are the security researcher (law enforcement) or a hacker (kidnapper )
The AI Arms Race and Why We Need to Come Together Now
https://clarksonlawfirm.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/0001....
I feel the bones of a "Falsehoods Programmers Believe About Color" forming in my head.
Yes! Although please note that the version at wolfia.com is more sophisticated and use embeddings to retrieve contextual snippets of code, vs this open source tool doesn't require indexing your codebase and instead leverage Open AI functions calling to let the LLM browse the code.
https://www.cnbc.com/2023/01/20/twitter-is-down-to-fewer-tha...
There’s a parenting tactic out there where you spend the money on private elementary and middle school then turn your kid loose on a low performing HS augmented with outside tutoring. They graduate top or very close to top of their class and stand a good chance of getting into the school of their choice + scholarships.
Higher successful suicide attempts I guess.
You might not, but there’s a ton of great content where the quality is very noticeable – anything related to nature, astronomy, sports, the tons of niche genres which involve looking at real world things in detail like rail fans, building/architecture fans, bird watchers, etc. is really unpleasant to watch at 480p. That’s the size of an iPad icon!

Stuff like conference talks, of course, really don’t matter but there’s so much material that no generalization won’t be inaccurate for millions of watchers.
Star Trek is episodic, not a miniseries. There is no overall story arc.

Also, ST TOS is exceptionally good. I tried watching TNG several times, and find it just unwatchable. I'm probably the only person who has polar opposite opinions of TOS and TNG.
Easily an order of magnitude more than Singapore.
Read the bank's main announcement.

> Can the bank redeem the CD early? (Also known as a “callable CD”)

> No. Only the account holder can choose to redeem the CD prior to maturity (with applicable penalty for early withdrawal).
> "I can almost always get a seat on a train that used to be packed"

> "the fare went from $3.10 to $5.50 each way"

I suspect there is a cause & effect relationship between these two observations. But which is which?
Paying interest on our national debt is more accurate than paying off.

There’s no practical sense in which we’re paying it off nor even paying it down.
The core problem is assholes on the trains. People stopped riding because there’s either someone dangerous, someone crazy, or someone tweaked out. Literally on every Bart car, probably 2/3 of the time I ride. I end up using the Bart watch app to report this stuff every other time I ride.

One guy tried to light a seat in fire. Another tailgated me through the gates and proceeded to push past me. Another was slumped over in a wheelchair (someone called 911 in that case).

To their credit, the cops on the other end of the Bart watch app respond to almost everything submitted. They don’t have enough officers though to cover the whole system.

How do you fix it? Add more cops. No ticket, no ride. Two cops on every train. One at every other station. Arrest anyone who is there without a ticket more than once. Arrest anyone jumping the gates. Enough with the nonsense.
Isn't this just an Appeal to Extremes argument?

I already stated a book that shouldn't be in school libraries, one that is debatable, and one that should probably be included in libraries.

My point about book banning or excluding, was that in the UK, as far as I am aware, we don't have any centralised list of books that can't be in a public or school library. It is left to the judgement of the librarian and not central or local government.
Have you ever played Enventory Sorter series?
For people, if the "garbage" still has positive nutritional value that would otherwise be wasted due to taste.
Disclaimer: my lisp experience is largely with Clojure, and not at all with writing Racket, just earnestly reading about it.

If you’re picking just one language to learn, and limiting your learning to only that one language for a significant period of time, you’ll probably want to learn Rust. You won’t get all of the benefits of also learning a lisp, but you’ll get a lot of the ones which generalize well.

If you’re open to learning 1+N and otherwise lean towards TS, I would say you’re better off learning Racket (or any lisp really) in tandem than learning TS alone.

Familiarity with the core concepts and idioms of FP are broadly beneficial in any language, and lisps tend to be a good balance of those with low incidental mental overhead, and reasonable escape hatches to do imperative stuff where it makes sense. Racket is probably a particularly good candidate because its optional typing is another overlapping story between the two.

I haven’t written in any lisp for close to a decade now, but I still find that prior experience beneficial every day since. I sometimes miss the simplicity and flexibility of the parentheses. But I can take what I learned—how to reason about state, data flow, data-driven abstractions—anywhere. And those abstractions are particularly useful in a structural type system like TS.
I did some research on this a while ago and concluded that GA is about as dangerous as motorcycling, both about 5-9x more dangerous than passenger cars depending whether you count fatalities or fatal accidents per passenger-mile.

On a per-hour basis, GA is probably more dangerous, given the greater passenger-miles per hour.
The data set lists the book as "Banned Pending Investigation," and I don't see more info as to why or what that means.
Asus Zenfone 10
I've had the same issues, the problem extends to Zoom too.
Not if you compare to commuter rail. I'm further out but if you look at commuter rail parking, the train itself, and subway if I need to take it, I'm $35 to commute into Boston for the day. (If I do it every day, the pass is a bit cheaper.)

Yes, if I don't need to park at the subway and don't need to take commuter rail, it's about $5 but that's not really the norm for a lot of people coming in from the suburbs.
I read the first edition so many times as a young kid... AWK was just such a cool name when I would go to the library and grab a book out of the stacks trying to learn something new.
The bay bridge and golden gate bridge are perpetually being painted.

https://www.sfchronicle.com/projects/2022/visuals/bay-bridge...
> That in turn will remove some of the incentive for companies to go office-less.

The #1 incentive for office-lessness is access to a cheaper labor pool. If you require people to come into the office, you have to pay rates that match the cost of living in the area, even if they are hybrid. If you go totally remote, you can hire people in countries that will accept a third of what an American in a big city will accept and still be excited about it.
Well yeah, but if your local mom and pop diner has to pay, why not google too? That's what the governments are for, aren't they? If google doesn't want to pay taxes in (eg.) canada, they can stop doing stuff that earns them money there.

So, if big companies and small companies are being treated differently, the governments are not doing their jobs and have to be replaced by someone who will do it.
Congratulations, you won todays internet and a big chuckle from me.
The fare increase happened about a week ago.
PCManFM-Qt is highly recommended. Looks and feels right at home in Plasma and is a little less quirky than Dolphin.
I'm one who lives in the east bay (oakland/emeryville area) and don't use BART anymore because I'm WFH now.

I also choose to drive into the city on weekends and off commute hours because the BART always has sketchy people, homeless, some weirdo moving up and down the carts and there's never enough people in the off hours to make it feel safe and worth it.

It's a bummer because I'm down the street from Macarthur and would love to take it more often but I always have to be on guard which is not the travel experience I need in my life right now.
Thank you. I haven't read the book, so I have no idea from which stance it views her life. It very well might be a racist book, and contain false information. Now I am going to have to read it, to make my own judgement.
Affirmative Action is not about social-democratic "lets help poor black people". Nobody is gonna help poor people in America.

Poor people are always told to "pull themselves by the bootstraps (sic!)"

The beneficiaries of AA are:

1. Kids of rich black people (like children of OBAMA)

2. Rich international students from African continent (Nigeria, Ghana etc)

3. Rich white young women (for those colleges that do AA based on gender)
I was wondering if these waves could affect our brains, even subtly. Maybe cause a reaction in one part of one cell that tips the balance between a neuron firing or not.
It sounds like a lot of potential but I’m not seeing a lot of actual even though I run a non-Chrome browser and web devs seem to have forgotten that not everyone uses Chrome, it rarely breaks things significantly.
Yeah, I really want one of those ethical ad programs to go somewhere – limit the JavaScript substantially and serve everything first party, use Cloudflare/Apple’s PAT scheme to assert real user presence vs. spoofing, etc. The problem is that advertisers really want cross domain tracking so we really need tracking protection to become popular enough that they’re willing to give up that dream, and that’s not going to happen with Chrome.
Are you serious or doubling down on my -3 so far sarcasm? Hacker News hates sarcasm.
Also the drivers fund the heavy moving equipment which is a huge subsidy for the roads.

The BART has to pay for everything out of fares and sundry. The highway authority just has to build and maintain the road not the vehicles.
I agree, but the power of conjuring manageable workout plans without sifting through piles of over optimized forum posts really lowers the barrier to entry.

That analysis paralysis gets me off the wagon a few times a year when I seek to level up my workout game.
The WHO recently conditionally recommended against using non-sugar sweeteners for weight control. Their stance is that we should be reducing sweetened food/beverage intake in general, rather than trying to find healthier ways to sweeten what we eat.

https://www.who.int/news/item/15-05-2023-who-advises-not-to-...
Probably best not to exceed FDIC limits for a novel bank product.
Surely the corollary to this is users monetizing their data? Or is it just Youtube allowed to freely extract whatever value they feel like?
Could we? Is there math that supports this? Wouldn't this require taking some, and then not losing it when the wave passes? I don't see much happening with the earth, as it's experiencing them, so I assume the "extraction" process would be significant and unique.
> perpetuating the logic of groups being advantaged over groups only keeps the identitarian mindset going

maybe, maybe not - the goal, however, is not to "not keep the 'identitarian' mindset going", it is to right past wrongs, make those wronged people whole, and only then ignore identity, as long as everyone else can do it too.
> "Isn't this just an Appeal to Extremes argument?"

An Appeal to Extremes is not always inaccurate, nor always a fallacy.

> "My point about book banning or excluding, was that in the UK, as far as I am aware, we don't have any centralised list of books that can't be in a public or school library. It is left to the judgement of the librarian and not central or local government."

And you assume the government doesn't, or would not, put heavy pressure on any school or librarian that would dare have a book by David Duke on the shelves? Whether it be the UK or California?

I actually like Florida because they make it clear and explicit instead of unclear and implicit, even if the results are identical but censoring different views. A written law, versus an unwritten rule.
I wouldn't worry about it. For every 1% they pay you, they're lending the same money out a half-dozen times at 3-4%.
So long as you're using a single Monad like a black box. Haskell people repeatedly fail when trying to generalize them or explain the underlying premises.
Nitrate laden meat consumption is heavily correlated with colon cancer, no?
> Especially considering Tesla's open patent agreement.

Tesla's "open" patent agreement was completely unworkable and a bad deal:

https://www.roadandtrack.com/news/a35030461/why-other-car-co...

No one was ever going to go anywhere near it.
> Being born a certain race is a disadvantage in the same way being born with physical disability is a disadvantage.

No it's not! That's the most goddamned racist thing I've ever heard. Holy shit.

You should listen to Thomas Sowell, a "disadvantaged" black person, respond to your argument since you clearly won't listen to me: Discrimination and Disparity https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/36222735

To summarize Sowell: telling a bunch of young black children that they're handicapped is the exact opposite of lifting up and supporting those in need. Perpetuating victimhood is not the solution. This worldview is poisoning kids minds and fucking them beyond repair. It is so goddamned unhealthy it's destructive and only serves to reinforce the false narrative that minorities are victims.
Well, no one can complain that the right wing is being censored:

RussiaToday.com
Pravda.ru
WND.com
Zerohedge.com
Breitbart.com
Newsmax.com
Whatfinger.com
TheBlaze.com
TheFederalist.com
Hannity.com

Half of those guys were kicked off Fox News.
I don't know what to tell you... the trend line from the first data point in Wolfram shows an upward slope. And anyway, that's beside the point because it's full-year data, not summer temps.
By then, it will be someone elses problem.
Relevant: Bits About Money, The optimal amount of fraud is non-zero: https://www.bitsaboutmoney.com/archive/optimal-amount-of-fra...