skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You can for a lot less than $1bn/mile. Crossrail was ~£200m/mile. Even the Channel Tunnel, under the sea, was £300m/mile. Those prices are all inclusive, so that includes building stations, rolling stock etc.

Also unlike old cities, there are no archeological issues when digging under LA.
I wonder if HN news algo reads my mind. In another news thread, I just pulled out the fact that Xiaomi electronics makes overwhelmingly superior gadgetry, yet can't break through the stigma of Asian "uncoolness"

Situation for them is pretty much as it was with Toyota in its first decade in US, and them being greatly puzzled why Americans were so bent on buying Buicks over "twice as cheap, and twice as better" Corollas, and had total nil appetite for the supreme Corona.

To authors of comments in line of "being a minority is actually a boon, statistics wise" I can say this: on the other side of "social invisibility" lies life of being "trophy" talent/socialite acquaintance/romantic partner, and, the most dreaded one, the life of diversity hire.
Any good analysis out there as to why the UP Express hasn't done so well? I took it just this week, and it's certainly better than the bus they have to shuttle from the end of the subway line to Pearson.
I'm talking about "proof for the money". The burden is on you to prove to source, taxes etc.
I recently visited the FBI Museum/Tour at the FBI HQ in DC. There's a section where they talk about tech the FBI had in the 80s, including a camera they used for an undercover operation where they recorded some illegal shit going on in a hotel room.

You walk into a mock hotel room and even knowing the general vicinity of where the camera should be, struggle to find it. I flat out couldn't until a friend who works at the FBI told me - it was in the period on the artists signature of a piece of artwork in the room. A literal pinhole camera recording everything in the room more than 3 decades ago with pretty great quality.

I can't even fathom the technology they have today - there's no chance that'd be on the tour.
Canada appears to be considering it. http://thehill.com/policy/international/392281-canadian-fore...
How is "accounting for a category called 'demographic,'... [pushing] up African-American and Hispanic numbers, while reducing whites and Asian-Americans" maintaining the "good old days"? Or are these stodgy elites just incompetent bunglers?
> nobody in their right mind would fund things like Juicero
> US startups seem to me to be more like schemes

This has little to do with mindset and a lot to do with inequality. SV has the highest percentage of billionaires per million citizens in the world.
They can afford funding pointless startups that buy each other's products - as a hobby.

This also explains the incredibly high salaries and cost of living.

When a good startup comes out there's enough wealth around to boost it into wild success, create more billionaires and the cycle continues.
If they really are footing the bill themselves, what is their incentive to understate price? Closing deals before the real price of the actually-shipped tunnel is known?
I am glad I am not alone in feeling like this. I too have a mbp, and somehow, Apple has lost the magic that once captured me. Even adding apple care, now has to be when you buy the device. Its no longer, one year, plus at the end of the year, add some apple care to extend it for a total of 3 years.

I have been leaning towards some of the same ideas and laptops. You may want to check out System76 if you haven't already.
Maybe some government decisionmakers decided to spend money there as a deliberate matter of social policy, others saw it as a good place to get certain property and services that the government wanted at low cost, and maybe some legislators were good at getting procurement and grant preferences for their home state?
It isn't the airports being protected, it is the airplanes specifically, because airplanes are extremely powerful guided missiles in the wrong hands. Prior to 9/11 even a hijacked plane was still ultimately viewed as an inconvenience at a civilizational level, but post-9/11 it is now recognized that planes are non-trivial weapons of war, the most powerful mobile thing that a civilian can hope to lay hands on. We can quibble with the exact steps taken to protect them, and the effectiveness and cost-efficiency of the steps, but ultimately, it isn't really irrational to protect them.

Especially if you are any sort of believer in arms control, like, even a little bit; if you think civilians shouldn't be in possession of RPGs, and they shouldn't be easy to get, then you should be OK with some security around planes, because they are way more dangerous than an RPG. It shouldn't be possible to just stroll into an airport and casually pick up a 777.
>But, contrary to popular belief investors aren’t total idiots who neglect basic questions

Investors, particularly tech investors often do neglect basic (tech DD) questions.

Sometimes it’s because they’re investing in the “team” and neglect DD. Sometimes it’s because the area is hot and they need to make a play... or just because they happen to know or like the people involved.

Whatever the reason, it’s dangerous to assume that the investors must have done their DD (see Theranos for example). Not saying that this is the case here, and often things work out anyway...
It seemed a pretty strong statement to me, compared to some off the cuff remark.
> How is this different from being single?

single is a lot closer to "relationship anarchy". there are all sorts of variations of "poly" though, some of which people have tried to put some hierarchical factors in place.

as a civilization, I don't think we have nearly enough data to suggest that it's a "good" idea... but it's certainly something I'm open to trying (p*unintentional).
That's just dividing the (small) minority pie between the 'others'. If African American or Hispanic numbers ever threaten to reach those of the Asian horde, you think they'd keep promoting diversity?
No maglev and rocket fires at a different time :-)
Contemplating this decision myself. Would love to hear others thoughts!
>Reward groups that do well

And what does that mean? Using GPA or standardized test scores as the _only_ criteria? If I have 10 people in the 99th percentile of test scores but I only have 5 seats, do I _really_ think the upper 5 who beat the lower 5 by a handful of points are the "best" fit, or are there other factors that might influence my decision?

To me, these is like taking NFL players only based on their raw sprint and lift stats...yah, it's important...but it's in no way a firm indicator of "best".
Mine varies with traffic speed. At 60 mph, it's about 2x-3x the distance as at 30mph. It defaults to Long, but Short is best for Seattle-area driving.

From the manual: Select a distance from the table below. Note that the distances shown correspond to a vehicle speed of 50 mph (80 km/h). Vehicle-to-vehicle distance increases/decreases in accordance with vehicle speed.

Long ~160 feet
Medium ~130 feet
Short ~100 feet

(160 feet ought to be enough for anybody - almost every modern car and truck has a 60mph to 0mph braking distance under 160 feet on dry pavement. This car's braking distance is 125 feet, so Medium follow distance keeps you far enough behind a car that you could stop entirely in the gap.)
I've also got a multi-reddit for jobs, careers, and freelance: https://www.reddit.com/user/zvive/m/jobs_and_freelance/
> re-establishing the importance of family values

which values?
Idea: marketplace for proxy servers
>There is no more manly profession then working in tech for collage educated people.

Please state the culture for context. This is absolutely not the case in the West.
Society imposes a very heavy fine for the breakup of a marriage and it becomes a huge gamble.

Either it will work out and you'll be happy and you'll recommend it to everyone.

Or it will destroy your life.

If marriage was "cheap" to establish and break up people could do it naturally and peacefully, eventually and successfully move to stable ones if the first attempt doesn't work out.

When the risk taking a particular action gets high enough it's completely understandable why many rational people would avoid testing their luck.
On the other side of the polyamory issue, I am not sure the weakening of marriage is all that good. Single parenthood doesn’t seem to be that good for the children and I also dont see how polyamory solves the issues of paternal responsability. I would also argue for caution when messing with an institution that has been established on every successful civilization. Polyamory also seems to ignore certian aspects of human sexual competition that aren’t really compatible with civilization. I am not saying marriage is a panacea but it seems to be a reasonable compromise to channel human sexuality for the good of society.
There are several runtimes for microcontrollers that feature an elf/hex loader for static binaries, or a bootloader that retrieves a program and executes it in RAM. Sometimes you can re-enter the bootloader from your application software. On some embedded systems (satellite OBSW comes to mind) you can actually hot-patch the code function-by-function while running. You compile/link the software with some extra space before and after your functions for future modifications. Then when you patch, you have to make sure that the modified code is locked out and that the variables used by the functions being patched are in an acceptable state as well as the cache.
Whether all of that extra effort makes sense? - it depends. But in most embedded projects you can just flash a new firmware and avoid the overhead of executing from RAM. (Depending on your target, flash might have a separate memory bus and could be one or two clock cycles faster.)

Edit: Hot-patching in flash is totally possible as well.
Tokyo built a toll road under the Bay they said saved an hour off your commute if I’m remembering. Opened about 20 years ago and they are charging around $21 each way if you use the electronic toll system.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tokyo_Bay_Aqua-Line
What about a PO box? Would that work?
You can't buy these parts from US companies?
The "after awhile" part is the key, there. I also don't remember what I said to my home room teacher on January 19th, 1996 - but I remember largely everything I did yesterday, if not in a eidetic manner.
I can’t understand that (it being considered a failure) - the UP is super super convienent when I fly into TO.
None of the words used to describe the hacker category applies to me or any hackers I know in real life. The manager description is much better for your average hacker, especially the bits about morality, and forgetting about how other people can be different from them.
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Maybe more appropriate for this audience is the companion piece “Manager FAQ”: http://www.seebs.net/faqs/manager.html
While Ruby allows you to choose and provide way too many choices, many guns for you to shoot your foot into. Crystal decided some are not good and actually enforce those best practices.

I think Lucky [1] is actually a more Rails Like framework.
( Or more like both are NOT like Rails. As features rich or heavyweight, Rails provides more then you will ever need. )

[1]https://luckyframework.org/why-lucky/
I'm non-monogamous. I'm pretty flexible about the exact arrangement (because I'm bi and I'm ok with tailoring my approach to my partner's comfort level) but the only thing I really can't do is fullblown monogamy.

That being said:

Poly has severe complications that most people in it don't really advertise. High status, attractive men are much more likely to get partners. This can lead to a dynamic where an average looking male partner is theoretically allowed to date other people, but if he's honest with potential partners about being in an existing open relationship then the pool of women willing to date him evaporates. Meanwhile, his female partner ends up dating men that in a normal monogamous context would be difficult for her to attain, potentially destabilizing the relationship.

Then you throw sex into the whole equation. Reasonably good chance that you're not going be the best sex your partner has ever had forever. Or even if everything is great, you could be someone else's best sex ever, and it could destabilize their primary relationship and it could cause real hurt to both of them.

Meanwhile, less than average looking or low status men date even less than they used to. The whole incel movement will just get worse if the whole world goes poly because men are generally less picky than women and are happier with lots of casual partners.

This isn't always the case, of course. Some people can handle jealousy. Some people can compartmentalize different sexual experiences, but most humans struggle with it. Monogamy has a stability that I don't see as frequently with poly relationships. Though many people cheat, of course.
I'd rather be single than have someone else fuck my wife. I suspect most people feel the same way since infidelity a major cause of divorce.
Well I'm going throug a 31 hour Udemy "course", after doing a couple of other tutorials (one having some SQL/ORM issues which I had to comment to point out the issues and fix). Also I find it still feel funny about learning something about things done in text through videos, so that's probably why I really haven't come across the usage of Vue.JS yet.
Wouldn't that lead to the same trade deficit Trump decries, and thus new sanctions?

A production move would be expensive, and presumably hasn't already happened because of cost differences between China and, say, Vietnam. You might be able to keep the cost increase down, but not non-existent.
But after 10,000 years (or whatever) that distinction might be lost.
For jobs Angular is best for corporate dev. React is a requirement for most new startups.

Things change quickly though.
That would be awesome. I'd love for other countries to not blame ALL of us, for the actions of 1 individual...and would be nice to see him throw a huge hissy fit about it on twitter.
This was why this holistic admission was introduced in the first place: anti-semitism. Jewish applicants were becoming too good at the existing criteria used for admissions, so these universities switched to more subjective standards that they could use to disqualify these candidates.
It's a small fraction of the overall list. I only included those things which might be of interest to a hobbyist/startup designing and manufacturing electronics for consumer use. The point here is that the list is far-reaching and all-inclusive. If you're looking to start a business making hardware, there is almost nothing that you'd use in the design, prototyping, or manufacture of your device that _isn't_ on this list.
Any unintended consequences of remote working that you've found?

Good or bad.

It certainly is a leap of faith initially but you can make small leaps to get started.
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sfl4j of pretty solid.
I normally don’t post on HN, but I wanted to to add some clarity to this. My wife and I are poly. We’ve been poly for about a decade, we were in a triad for two years (all three partners in relationships with one another), and have had many committed relationships over that time.

It’s absolutely not for everyone, and anyone who says folks are “too square” are needlessly self-righteous. There’s nothing inherently good or bad about polyamory. It’s frankly playing relationships on hard, and you need to be extra committed to working things out early and often. With the right personalities, it can force better relationship health because of the high risk, high reward nature of the lifestyle. I credit poly with giving me and my wife the skills to have hard conversations early and work through problems in good faith, and we do our best to conduct ourselves the same way in all our relationships in order to practice polyamory ethically.

I also take issue with you saying it can “never” work. It absolutely can, but as I said, it’s not for everyone. It also doesn’t mean every relationship lasts forever. Looking at any relationship in isolation, it’s just dating; people fall in and out of love naturally, and there’s very normal feelings of pain and loss sometimes. Those same feelings don’t stop monogamous folks from dating, and it’s the same in poly. But when that fallout does occur, there’s a wider safety net of people who are close to you and care about you and have more intimate understanding of you than having them as a friends alone, so there are definitely advantages if you put in the effort.

Because it does involve very different configurations of relationships when there’s more than one, poly requires rethinking what relationships mean generally, and it allows for a wider variety of relationship types, and I don’t just mean a linear friends with benefits to committed marriage. I mean accepting a broader range of human interactions and expectations as part of a valid relationship.

The result, if you’re willing to do the work and if it’s something you WANT to do, is a very rich set of experiences and deep relationships you might not have if you were monogamous.

So in short: it can work, it’s not for everyone and requires way more work than monogamy, and it is also inherently no better or worse than monogamy.
No. He started out that way (a college professor) but he was fired when his relationship with Olive became known. He then struggled for a long time before inventing Wonder Woman. But even then, comic book author was not a "high status" profession in 1940.

But my point is this: saying that polyamorous relationships "work out great if you are a high status male" implies that they invariably do not work out great if you are a female, and the Marsten family is a data point that refutes that (implied) part of the claim. It might be the case that polyamory generally works out better for high-status males than anyone else, but so what? Playing football generally works out better for men than for women too, but that's no reason not to let anyone who wants to try to play football.
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To add slightly, the "worse" a manager is the more important this is. If someone wants all the credit and has the authority, you can only either help or face some degree of consequence.

The more competent and confident leadership is the more they'll work to make sure you get pushed into the spotlight for your work (sometimes against your will if you're shy or unsure). A good corporate culture will naturally make them look good when you look good.

Disclaimer: I've had the distinct pleasure of only working _with_ but never really _for_ a difficult of manager.
HN hug of death.

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The Bike Share War Is Shaking Up Seattle Like Nowhere Else
I built such a system for a PIC32 in a previous job.

When it was online, we'd connect to it over Ethernet and send it firmware updates that it would burn to an external SPI flash chip (we used it for testing communications protocols with a wide variety of products, and it needed frequent firmware updates). If one of these updates had a bug and bricked the controller, it was a hassle (not to mention downtime!) to remove it from the machines on the production floor and bring it back to engineering to plug in the dedicated programming device.

So we set up the SPI flash to store two copies of the firmware. If it went down, you could reset it while holding down a "restore last-known-good firmware" button, and the boot routine would reflash the on-board flash memory with the previous copy of the firmware from the SPI flash.

I wouldn't do this every time you needed to power cycle it - but on a per-revision level it was very useful!
Verne's "Paris in the Twentieth Century" (which wasn't published because he was told it was too negative) has an extremely pessimistic view of the future as well. It's and extremely sad book
> IBM used to report that certain programmers might be as much as 100 times as productive as other workers, or more. This kind of thing happens.

yeah, but that report is worthless, in context.

https://vimeo.com/9270320

This whole article seems like it was written by someone who is still attending high school.
Except being a URM (under represented minority) individual is one of the most beneficial factors for admission at elite colleges.

The statistics clearly show this.
Unfortunately, HackerNews has had a significant influx of users over the last 18-24 months from other sites that shan't be named, and it has resulted in the same toxic behaviour/tribalism/feels-based-voting that exists on the site the same people discovered HN on.

I believe we're at the point where HN may need to reconsider the visibility of the voting system here, again unfortunately.
iMacs have desktop-class CPUs and GPUs, how are they like laptops?
If the Boring Company’s cost projection of $1 billion is anywhere near accurate, that pencils out to $55.5 million per mile—far and away, the cheapest construction cost for any subterranean transit line in the U.S.
Trump slaps 25% Tarifs on Chinese goods
So, to encourage manufacturers in the US to build more stuff in the US, they will increase tariffs on components so that it will cost even more to build something in the US than to build it in China.

Good plan, hello Canada!
That chart is pretty suspect:

- It doesn't go a good job of presenting the data that it is.

- The data it's presenting isn't clearly related to the data discussed in the article.

- It cites the SIPP as the source of the data, but makes no mention of which Panel/Wave(s) (years) it's referencing.
Difficult to do legally; just because the US may be breaking WTO rules isn't license for everyone else to do it.
Cells are intelligent. And have a memory. I'm a microbiologist, studying bacteria (single cells), and let me tell you - these things are true.

The organ transplantation thing seems far fetched and probably BS, but the idea that someone's mood could change after an organ transplant is not that far fetched. My mom studies transplantation and I know a bit of immunology as well. Organ transplantation stimulates an immune response and in turn release of various cytokines into the blood, which could travel to the brain and affect mood. Inflammation in the brain is linked to many mood disorders.

The worst thing about the article is it's way too long, I think the author must like to hear himself talk. I'm also not sure of why he dismisses quorum sensing. Surely the "whole" does not stop at the single cell level. There's the whole community, etc..
How many are for udemy related tutorials verus new projects? I bet the numbers are closer.
You are comparing the current state of the Blue Line against a proposed system, though. The argument is that you could improve the Blue Line significantly for $1B, and also that there's good reason to believe it's not actually $1B.

(Doesn't have to be the Blue Line! Metra at Jeff Park or whatever with a track to OHare makes a ton of sense too.)
FWIW this is exactly why Presidents are supposed to divest themselves of business interests. It is a very bad thing that foreign powers have the ability to apply leverage specifically to his private interests. He's suppose to act in the interests of Americans, but if he were to exempt Canada after they threaten to sanction the Trump organization, that would be the very definition of a conflict of interest.
Is it time to dump Microsoft Office?