skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In this case most of the route will be underneath a freeway or the existing subway, so probably not too much to worry about there.
The tunnel diameter is much smaller. Like 1890s-built London Underground diameter tunnels.

The standard with US subway construction today is massive tunnels with huge, expensive stations. Seems to be a design choice from Musk.
Yes. They will bore below all utilities.
None of the people in my gf's family in singapore has ever owned a car or a driver's license.
In Hong Kong, which is one of the densest cities on earth and probably the world capital of public transit, many families (at least those who can afford to) still prefer to use cars to get around.

It's just easier - until car sharing is functionally seamless and available more-or-less instantly, that will continue to be the case.
Hadley Wickham's R for Data Science[1] is a generally good starting reference.

[1] http://r4ds.had.co.nz/
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> Younger people are smarter than me

I feel this too. I'm in my twenties and the small children scare me with their brilliance sometimes. I am excited to see those little guys grow up. I am convinced they will be the first generation to ask, in full, "what should we do?" rather than, "what can we do?". Very excited.
Nah, never developed using C++, always stuck to the original object oriented subset.
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As far as I know, there are already boring machines that assemble the tunnel as they go. I recall seeing video of one being operated, though perhaps it was a prototype? Perhaps those manufacturers' machines don't operate at the speed of Elon's but if that's the distinguishing factor then it's not really much of a distinguishing factor.

EDIT: Theptip below found the URL I could not, for boring machines that assemble the tunnel while operating:
https://www.herrenknecht.com/en/products/core-products/tunne...
That's useful to foreground and I agree that's his target. There is a reasonable argument to be made that a constellation of policies targeted at courting big businesses will bring more of the likes of McDonald's, Caterpillar, Boeing, etc to downtown Chicago, and this will help lift all boats. Meanwhile, it's unclear how much finite political capital and staffer attention this project burns that could have been, eg, directed towards tracking down funding for the Red Line expansion. Maybe they can walk and chew gum. More likely they can only chew like three sticks of gum and I wish this weren't one of those sticks. (Not that you were making a claim either way. I'm just riffing on your post.)
My daughter was 3 when they removed her tonsils. Recurring infections and swelling were making it difficult for her to breath. She still has the occasional cold but nothing like before they were removed. They were huge for a tiny 3 year old.
Setting aside the click-baity title.

The world today is way different than when we came up with IQ tests. Yes there might be a corellation between how good you do on an IQ test and how “smart” you are but I think over and over again your background/upbringing had been show to influence that more than your “smartness”.

If the question is: do we think in different way than we did 50 years ago? I think the answer is a stong yes.

The technology and the tools we have today enable us to do things that were unconcievable 50 years ago.

Is this good? Is this bad? The truth is that human beings are (and always were) pretty limited. Our hardware sucks. The things that enables us are tools and our use of tools. As we get better tools we do better and better and our attention is focused on different things. I would argue that today we are smarter than we’ve ever been and we are getting smarter each day by using more and more powerful tools.
Yes, they are using a part of the dirt to strengthen the tunnel and building a train track (using trains with batteries) to be able to efficiently do the dirt removal. As he said the hardest part of it is creating rendevous point for 2 trains inside the tunnel
None of that is new. The TBM that drilled The Tube’s crosstown could do that as well.
What do people use for self defense? Karate alone?
If they can really do it for that price, that’s impressive. In London one of the tube lines is being extended by 3.2km and it will cost $1.6b (£1.2b):

https://www.london.gov.uk//press-releases/mayoral/nle-tunnel...

London is relatively easy to tunnel in, and as it’s an extension existing rolling stock will be used (so no development or purchase costs).
Uber has filed a patent to determine if passengers are drunk and refuse service
> Is not getting into Harvard specifically such a terrible injustice that it deserves to be litigated in the court of law? What did they lose by not gaining admission in a procedure that is a black box in nearly all institutions?

Maybe not, but a lot of top-tier institutions follow very similar admission policies and so an individual is at the risk of being excluded from all of them solely because of their race. Let's say if this suit against Harvard is successful, it will establish precedent and other institutions will be forced re-examine and amend their admission policies.
Elon Musk has effective control of a public company in which he has a minority stake. He already sold one failing business to Tesla's shareowners (SolarCity). Why not do it again?
I don't know a lot about SpaceX but I think I read somewhere he wanted to buy a rocket, and the price given to him was insane, so he looked up how to make a rocket and figured he could do it for less than the cost of buying one, and then after reducing costs decided it also needed to be reusable.
Being incidentally rejected might not be worth a lawsuit. But the plaintiffs claim, in part, that Harvard is specifically trying to discriminate against Asian applicants to keep Asians out of the student body. I think that's worth litigating over if it's true.
My daughter (8 years) speaks, reads, and writes three languages fluent. It's scary sometimes.
Are these kids smarter or is their environment “better” in such ways thar allows them to be brilliant?
rd might work when prefixing the path explicitly with \\?\; robocopy likely already uses that syntax internally to deal with long paths.
Exactly, I could literally give terrible legal advice and outright claim to be a lawyer in a post and there would be zero repercussions. "I read it on the internet written by someone I don't know" is going to be a tough sell in court.
Face-ism
I seem to recall that a "tonsils out" subplot was commonplace in the American sitcoms of the 60s and 70s, but completely disappeared soon after that. I was born in the late 70s and I don't think I know a single peer who had tonsils or adenoids removed.
I was working on making a reddit auto repost detector bot based on opencv that I was going to leave running on an old phone.

I got node running on it without this though, but funemployment ended before getting the proper drivers running on it
I used the word "espionage" in a sentence that had many other words in it -- and it wasn't my intent to imply that they had obtained this information through malfeasance. To the contrary, I think it was much likely leaked by someone friendly to OpenBSD's cause (the "post-Spectre rumors" referred to in the commit[1]).

Regardless, it wasn't handled responsibly -- and to those of us who were under the embargo who did advocate for the inclusion of OpenBSD, the behavior here has made that argument much more difficult.

[1] https://marc.info/?l=openbsd-cvs&m=152818076013158&w=2
Is it theoretically possible? Maybe. Is it practical? Almost certainly not.

Keep in mind that it's not just the L1 cache you potentially need to worry about, but also all the higher level caches, which are really like remote nodes in a distributed system. Even the last level cache would have to be aware of the current speculation state of all threads in the system, which seems like it would be really expensive.

What's perhaps even worse, you wouldn't be able to hit on speculatively loaded cache lines until they have "committed" (because the resulting change in external bandwidth utilization may be observable from another thread), which would probably kill a lot of the benefits of the cache in the first place.
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Chrome removing inline install for all extensions
I've just finished McCann's 1491 and on to 1493, about pre- and post-Columbian Exchange, respectively. Something that stood out was the commentary on why Americans never invented the wheel (given they independently invented agriculture and government)... and the answer was exactly that; terrain. Plus lack of horses... when you have llamas instead, you build your empire's "roads" for walking, not for carriages.
I see as many adults addicted to their phones and social media as high-school aged students. With new technology like this,
its not surprising some people may need help coping with applications designed to be addictive.
But you're only adding prominent to it because you perceive librarian on its own to be a dis. You betray your own bias (or more likely, recognize the framework of bias and are trying to bypass it)

The real and true answer of course is to not gaf about a headline
Plume is the one that switched to subscription only. Eero plus is only extras, the eero’s themselves are still up front and subscription free.

https://reddit.com/r/eero/comments/8qlgbw/_/e0k704c/?context...
Liquid-air energy storage: The latest new “battery” on the UK grid
> install RStudio and are off to the races, with a helpful package installation GUI.

Unless the package needs a native component like libcurl of particular version then it can turn into couple of hours of blindly trying everything you can think of.

> Another great example: in R, data types are pretty fungible, everything is a vector,

Unless it's a dataframe or factor or string or s3, s4 or s5 or a couple of other things.

And the documentation will tell you the reference paper that you can read and some completely impractical example.

Ugh, feels better now, sorry for the rant.
Heh, well I don't feel like the small children are smarter than me. But having raised a smart kid I always find it amusing then an adult talks to her like a kid, then gets counter attacked by a bright kid who is used to adults talking to kids like they are idiots.

Kids are plenty smart, they just don't have the experience, but I find they can handle complex ideas just as well as adults, if given a chance. Similarly trying to sugar coat things like violence and death doesn't really help, and while difficult they seem to deal with it as well as adults.
This is a huge downer for me, since I own an SAAS app that is partially distributed as a Chrome extension. Getting rid of the option for inline install makes my user installation story much, much more difficult and will probably have a direct negative impact on my income.

The blog post says that it's because of sites using deceptive inline installers, so yet another example of "this is why we can't have nice things".
Is there a causal link between the surgery and the increase in long-term disease risk, or were patients who were more likely to get the surgery (because of more severe symptoms or more frequent occurrence of infections) at greater long-term disease risk (whether they had surgery or not)? Without some functional mechanism, I'd be very wary of these kinds of data analyses.
I made something similar as a fun little project https://github.com/mrmagooey/taboo, does the same print function but also does some basic querying, deletes and updates, left and inner joins. I had no idea that the inbuilt version existed though.
> As it is, we have a fairly standard shove everything

Assuming "everything" is "static log statements" which is the first issue I have with this, a developer must have thought before deployment that this could be useful, which usually results in a lot of useless garbage and a lack of actually useful information. And little by little you build up actually technically useful data collection, and rather than being spread throughout the codebase all of the probes are centralised and readable.

I've been thinking about using dynamic instrumentation tools (bcc/dtrace) for that purpose instead, you know you need something when you actually do need it, at that point you can add it to the probes/instrumentation (which is external to the program and deployable separately), and all information would be collected in a structured form in a database you can interact with (probably not something relational).
IF VACCINE IS Not RESPONSIBLE FOR AUTISM THEN WHAT IS THE CAUSE?
I thought I was the only one who hated R.
Guess not. I gave up trying to make a simple repreeeesentation when I couldn't find a tutorial on how to import data into R without using fucking excel.
Linux is a UNIX clone, every programming language besides C on an UNIX system is a second class citizen.
For that second one: That sounds like a vulnerability in virus scanners even without junctions, although junctions make it enormously easier to exploit:

* Create a directory in a location you have permission to, but you think a higher-privilege user will create it later.

* Create and quarantine a file in it.

* Delete the directory.

* When the higher privilege user creates the directory, you can restore your file into it.

The fix is for virus scanners to operate at user permission level when restoring the file.
As others have pointed out Madoff might not be a solid example as it was a single firm committing fraud vs the possibility of multiple actors abusing a bubble (and possibly committing fraud as well).

It might be closer to the abuse of sub-prime mortgages and mortgage-backed securities. Is feeding a bubble the same as pumping and dumping? Sure can be.
I am always amazed when I hear that people use Python in any type of production pipeline.
I'm seeing this myself, with an unusual calibration. My kids are learning music, as I did when I was a kid. The classical repertoire has not changed much since then, so I know what level they have reached compared to me at the same age. Granted, much about music is subjective, but some of it can't be faked, and so I can gauge my kids according to fairly objective measures, and they are far ahead of where I was at the same age.
At what point does a state become a "surveillance state" in your opinion?
Your last point is basically what Spectre v1 mitigations are all about, at least if you throw in the word "speculation" somehow. The rule is: don't speculate past branches that depend on untrusted data (though there are certain additional considerations about what the speculated code would actually do).

It's just that there are a lot of branches that don't depend on untrusted data. Speculatively executing past them is perfectly fine and extremely valuable for performance. That's why nobody wants to get rid of speculative execution.
If you have your tonsils removed you most probably have not a very strong immune system, originally. So it's OK to expect that you're less healthy during the life. I don't think that tonsils removal is causing this, the root of the problem is deeper I think. I have my tonsils removed a year ago when I was 32 because of problems with my joints. They are better now actually. So I would say, you need to remove your tonsils when it's absolutely necessary.
Nope, Intel got hit because they did it wrong, and the others did it right. If you speculate you need two status registers. One for the good and one for the bad case.
Same for meltdown: you need one for the kernel and one for user space. Intel didn't care, others do.

But Intel got the government ("legal") backdoors in. Priorities.
I thought it had been shown over and over again that Iq had more to do with it than your upbringing?
I can do the same at Starbucks :-)
Most media isn't interacted with, so no, not really.

I don't particularly care what the average HN user thinks of what I post. I post to share my opinion and experience. Most users are twenty-somethings filled with angst and frustration at a world they have no influence over.

It wasn't downvoted at first, but now it is. There's a small group of users that follow my posts around and snipe them. It's whatever. HN doesn't really ""moderate"" content unless you're doing thoughtcrime or bringing attention to some of the censorship here.

Anyways, Facebook is an interactive medium. It's not the same as TV or movies or music, it intrinsically carries a responsibility to maintain what users are shown. Sort of like a TV channel,and by this I mean the people that determine what is broadcasted. If natgeo suddenly stopped showing educational content and started shoveling drivel, the audience could just leave. (Bad example, since they DO shovel garbage on natgeo now... )

Facebook is not generally understood as an instrument of advertisement the way it really is. The same as google. The veneer of "I can message my friends and see photos of their food" is enough to fool most users. This is especially heinous with kids, since they are much more impressionable and I think that demands an obligation to do what it takes to keep them safe and help them avoid content that is not healthy for them, and also to help them learn to moderate their content towards that same goal.

Kids these days aren't as critical of what they consume. Now, there's eons of people complaining about "kids these days", and like everybody else, I never thought I'd be one of those people but I guess it's just societal upkeep to do it. Anyways, kids are not as perceptive as industry veterans when they are being manipulated. It's like New Coke. I've seen the world change and people change WITH the world. The new world seems to be about how much you consume, and not the what or the why of the consumption.

Anyways thanks, I guess? Your comment kinda has that snarky "go fuck yourself"-but-in-a-pseudo-friendly tone feel to it. Perfect example of HN's weird echoey self-contained culture.
The word programmer was not invented to describe people who invented an operating system and then invented the canonical programming language for operating systems.
When have businesses not treated people as consumers?
If the reversal of the Flynn effect can be described as just a changing definition of intelligence, why are we so sure that the Flynn effect represented real intellectual gains?
I mean treating people as consumers to extract more and more money from. Note that I am just saying that the current economy encourages such a culture too.
Beyond the environment.
The article is pay-walled for me - but based on the title: people that take IQ tests also have changed. The value and significance of IQ tests have definitely shifted since 1975 so that could be a big reason.
> The reason I say it is a terrible way to tell a story is not because you can't tell a good story in a video game, but because most stories don't benefit from having gameplay elements thrown into them.

Interesting that I have exactly opposite view. Gameplay elements if done well create a tight feedback loop between the game and the player, an illusion that the player is part of the story, not just an observer.

There are reverse design documents for some games explaining how quests and gameplay are weaved together to achieve a desired effect on the player: http://thegamedesignforum.com/features/reverse_design_CT_1.h...
Which also means that passenger loading and unloading can happen outside, thus substantially reducing station costs too.
Fun fact: The original SKAM is a production by Norwegian state-owned NRK TV and radio.
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I don't think they're claiming they have already achieved this speedup. They're claiming some speedup, plus the possibility of achieving more.

Also, as a sibling comment mentions, the 10x claim is pretty disingenuous in the first place.
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4 weeks ago I found an injured pidgeon, took it a rescue place and got chatting to the owner about chickens. I came home, searched for chicked coops on my business laptop. This laptop runs Firefox, uBlock and Ghostery.

Last night, my wife has Facebook adverts for chicken coops pop up on her laptop. We've not spoken about chicken coops since, I've not searched for chicken coops since the original search, she's not searched for chicken coops on her laptop and she's not used my work laptop.

Creepy.

If they want to track you with a "normal" browser, they'll find a way of doing it.
Does anyone have kids that seem less smart than they were at that age? Asking for a friend.
The larger STM32F4 and F7 parts have external memory controllers for adding DRAM. Although it is difficult to get dev boards that have external DRAM.
Could this be because they enjoy the advantage of your mentorship ? I took personal charge of the education of my niece and by age 7 she was more proficient in some areas of maths than I was at 12.
I think you should stay in school. I know it’s harder t justify in America where it’s really expensive, but the benefits can be immense if you use your time in the educational institutions correct. It’s really the most secure path to a meaningful life if you’re willing to work hard at bettering yourself.

That being said I think the article stumbles a little. Where there 1000 Steve Jobs and Wozes working on a personal computer at the time? Where there 1000 people working on an global online payment system when Musk was building PayPal?

I think timing is important, but I don’t think luck makes that much of a difference. You don’t obtain connections by being lucky, for instance, you obtain them because you want them and work hard at it.
My daughter's adenoids were removed after their size caused her ear canals to remain closed, which was causing fluid buildup behind her ear and affecting her ability to hear clearly.

When a child cannot hear, they cannot learn important nuances to speech. Additionally, prolonged exposure to those fluids, if I understood the ENT doctor correctly, her hearing could have been permanently damaged had we left it. We were also taking intercontinental flights at the time and the closed canal could have caused a rupture, further limiting her hearing.

None of these things were associated with an ear infection. We only identified the adenoid issue because she was having trouble hearing and the ENT identified the large adenoids at that point. There was no pain associated with it, and I suspect many parents may not even realize that their kids have this issue.

What are the long term speech and hearing risks compared to the long term health risks?

I strongly caution anyone against a knee-jerk response to a study like this. It could be another anti-vaccination study all over again.
If they're the only people interested in that, I'm okay with staying at 2/3...
There are apparently ~500,000 private vehicles in Hong Kong (population 7.5 million). While I'm sure there are plenty of rich families doing that (perhaps partially as a status thing), it's not the norm.

Apparently Tesla isn't having much luck selling its cars there anymore anyway:

https://qz.com/1024886/nobody-in-hong-kong-wants-a-teslanasd...
https://www.ft.com/content/2b8eb480-0a45-11e8-839d-41ca06376...
No, there is hollow fiber for communication. https://gizmodo.com/5992303/hollow-fiber-optic-tunnels-can-b...
Apple cant do this passively/on demand, as upgrading the OS or Secure Enclave requires the user passcode. Of course the new OS/Secure Enclave firmware could remove this restriction, but generally these sorts of requests are reactionary
The original Norwegian version of SKAM cost less than a million (USD) to produce an entire season.
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I’ve begged my doctor to remove my tonsils and they refuse due to studies like this.

I get tonsil stones every single month and at least one severe case of tonsilitis per year (usually closer to 3-4.)

Anyone have strategies that worked to convince their GP to allow them to be removed? At this point I’m considering just paying out of pocket to get it done.
Yes. With the usual caveats.