skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Eric Myers needs to write an article called “Falsehoods developers believe about writing falsehoods developers believe articles”.
The airline industry embraced point-to-point routing in part because it reduces their costs on inelastic infrastructure on the ground, and allows them to tailor their schedule around demand at the two endpoints rather than on maintaining a network. They pay-as-they-use for airport gates and lessened their spending on hubs.

Fixed-guideway transport infrastructure (trains, busways) and dedicated structures (tunnels, bridges, airports, etc) come with high capex that must be borne by the builder. One advantage of road-based transport over rail-based transport is that the road is already there and will (often) already be built and expanded by the government just to allow private vehicles to come and go -- it's multipurpose -- while any other mode of transport requires this infrastructure to be purpose-built and maintained for the transport mode itself. That costs.
The Linux Kernel Continues Being Piped for Intel Umwait Support
> If you're being asked for data by someone you don't know, either ask a manager or someone connected to the account in question.

Most cases I've seen of successful (or nearly successful) spearphishing would have been solved by someone picking up a phone and calling their co-worker.

"I know you sent me an email, but can you just explain again why you want me to buy $1000 in iTunes gift cards and email them to you?"

"I got that invoice you sent. Just wanted to confirm the amounts -- $50k wire transfer?"
I don’t see this doing $50M of good for easing congestion. I would prefer it if they’d commit to a much larger budget project connecting the airport to the convention center and several major hotels and casinos than this low density single lane tunnel.
Nope, strace reports 0.03s for all calls and about 0.02s of that is for filesystem stuff.
I used to take the U2 at Eberswalder Straße regularly, and agree it's a lovely station and blends in nicely with the charm of the neighborhood.

I think the main issue in the NYC metro area is that the offending trains/platforms do not seem to take noise pollution (let alone neighborhood flavor) into account at all. The result is that the platforms and trains are unfortunately more like alien oppressors than helpful neighbors.

It's also worth pointing out that today's Berlin is enjoying the fruits of an unique opportunity to rebuild their urban infrastructure post-ww2 (Gleisdreieck was an industrial train yard, for example). Much of the city was leveled, and then shortly thereafter occupied by East/West Germans with fiscally-backed ideological incentives to compete over who could build the most impressive X "for the people".

Lessons learned: Maybe we should tear down NYC, split each borough in half down the middle, and give one half of it to liberals and the other half to conservatives?
> I can't stand coke, it tastes like soap to me.

No amount of advertising will be able to convince you to like something that you dislike. Advertising is manipulative, but it's not mind control.

But advertising is not trying to (for example) make you like cola if you don't like cola. What it's trying to do is make you choose one brand of cola over another.

For certain types of advertising, such as soft drinks, they're aiming to influence a particular moment. As a Pepsi executive once explained, they're aiming for that half-second when you're reaching for a soft drink and are making a spur-of-the-moment decision about which one. That sort of advertising is about influencing that spur-of-the-moment decision so you're more likely to choose theirs. It's effective because, in the absence of thought, you're overwhelmingly likely to choose a brand that you recognize the most or have the most positive associations with.
Then you could start calculating things like - if a malicious ad spread ransomware and it hit some company and its network... etc.
Agreed. Let's first try and "colonize" places like Nevada. Getting safe drinking water to many major urban centres could become a challenging engineering problem in the upcoming decades, much more worthwhile to solve than living on Mars.
That first crash is a good example of multiple minor problems joining together to create a disaster.

1. "they didn't even get as far as switching off the stab trim" means they were incompetent.

2. MCAS, obviously, was a bad design

3. there was a physical issue with the sensor, possibly due to a bird strike

Fix any one of those, and the flight wouldn't have crashed.
What changes your gait? A heavier mask?
Uh no, according to your own source they died because of tread separation caused by a number of factors, one of which may have been underinflation. But in this example the 'underinflated' value was manufacturer recommended, so a TPMS wouldn't have helped anyways.
It sure is but, I believe the ultimate goal is to become an interplanetary species which would be pretty cool.
I have a 4.20 and it's bizarre. I've never made an Uber wait for me, I'm always outside. I greet them. I'm clean. My routes are always penciled in exactly. I don't see how I'm not the model passenger.

Maybe it's just because I'm a gringo in Mexico? Maybe I should use a little more small talk charm? Or offer them gum? Improve my accent? Bring them a bottle of S.Pellegrino, nicely chilled? It's a stupid system.

Edit: A sibling comment inspired me to ask my girlfriend for her rating. It's a 4.89. Yet she always stays inside until the Uber driver arrives to pick her up, often honking outside for her while she finally starts turning off lights and shutting the house down.
I can't tell if this is satire or just very sad.
$700 million.
Your organization becomes more secure if people aren't afraid of revealing their mistakes.

Seriously, you should give people who fail phishing tests cupcakes and additional future phishing tests. If there is a continued failure or inability to learn then there is a problem to be fixed perhaps with firing.

Cultures of fear breed disaster.
There are at least some regions in the nation right now where the trades are absolutely in demand. There are also some college majors right now that add nothing to your income. Which trade/region, and which major/university, are necessary for any worthwhile discussion of which is a better option.
Regardless, Uber should be able to detect those biases and hopefully correct for them. It wouldn't look too good if a discriminated group start getting kicked off
You can have power, and use it for good. But the toxic idea is that you must pursue power first, and that you must pursue power to fulfill some in-born, per-defined reason.

Warren Buffet did not set out to make billions of dollars of donations. He wanted to be a businessman, and ended up rich. Great, he's trying to do right by the billions he has, but could have probably had a bigger impact over the course of his lifetime by being directed at helping first and foremost.
Just consider the source. That's all you need to do.

https://freebeacon.com/politics/aoc-to-bartend-for-a-day-to-...
There's also mitigating the Great Filter: https://waitbutwhy.com/2014/05/fermi-paradox.html
First off, yours is a great message to send out to anyone reading this. You can mitigate risks like this by having a more direct relationship to your users, and this was a wake-up call to me.

That said, a few counterpoints:

1. Something like 70% of all installs, for all apps, come from App Store search. It's the most popular way for users to find what they're looking for.

2. My business had to come alive before it could grow to be robust. I built this app from scratch. I didn't have an audience. I just built it, and App Store search connected me to people who were looking for an app like this, and it grew to the point where I could do it full-time.

Has the time come for me to take steps to make my business more robust? Yes. And your advice is great in that regard.

But a fledgling business must first survive before it can grow to be robust. This is a tale of me hitting an inflection point. I hope to learn from it, and grow.
It sounds like satire, reminds me of the Black Mirror episode.
Natural Gas characterized as Freedom Gas in official US government press release
>Meanwhile, other rich countries offer college that is significantly more subsidized, sometimes even free.

It's not free, it's financed by exorbitantly high tax rates, which in the long-run is arguably more expensive.
Had hoped there was a happy ending, hope for the dev and his family that there will be one.
That seems to have become the norm. To me that's just people misunderstanding how to use a gradual scale.

I recently got a phone call from my apartment management after I left a bunch of 3s and 4s on their annual review, they seemed distraught they got such bad scores. From my point of view they were doing just fine. The fact that they're not excellent in every regard shouldn't be surprising when I'm not paying through my nose to live there, I'm perfectly happy with 3.5/5 since that's what I'm paying for.
Based on my ballpark guesses at the cost of the tunnel, I would be surprised if The Boring Company actually made any money on this. They're liable for all cost overruns, and they have to bear the costs of developing the custom Tesla car manufacturing and safety qualification themselves.

The most galling part to me is that I can't see how they make the mandated 4400 people/hr limit. That requires 26 second headways between vehicles (assuming that 4400 people/hr is a bidirectional capacity, not unidirectional), and I don't see them getting station dwell times low enough to permit those headways--airport people movers usually run around 30-45 second dwell times.
Those existing buildings have people inside. Pulling them out to demolish the buildings and add new, taller, skyscrapers has significant costs I think you aren't factoring in. Like all those businesses inside have to relocate... which costs money.
Yikes, reading this comment section is pretty eerie. People discussing a number that people who were paid for a service have given them.

I'm glad I've never really needed Uber, traditional taxis have their problems but there's no scoring involved.

Edit - Missed a few words.
1. Potential for finding evidence of life outside of the Earth, never mind scientific research into dozens of other topics.

2. Joy and sheer inspiration; why go to the moon, run a marathon, or compose a symphony? Joy and inspiration.

3. Potential to improve our own technology as we strive for the above points. Clear, clear evidence of this in parent's comment and after NASA's innovative tech.

It's irrelevant if you personally don't care, you don't have to do it. It seems there will be billions of dollars and thousands of willing individuals, you can sit back and relax while the rest of us explore the stars.
It's a pretty natural conclusion people frequently arrive at. That said, I don't think it's valid, as I don't believe it was all explicitly planned like that. In particular:

1. Electric cars were created with Earth in mind. Musk was, and probably still is, very interested in ways to help fix the climate issue, and that reason was mentioned explicitly.

2. Connected to 1, not to Mars.

3. I'm not sure what the motivation here is; the official one was that Musk was bored ( :) ) in traffic. It meshes with Tesla's business if properly integrated. That said, the utility of tunnels for Mars settlement seems so big that I'm pretty sure he had it in mind too.

4. No colonies in a nearby future will need a Starlink-scale planetary Internet network. I'm 100% buying the official version here: Starlink exists to generate revenue for further work on the Mars transportation system/BFR (whatever its current name; Starship I think?).

I really don't think these were part of a grand plan all along. But they're all ultimately relevant for Mars.
Targeted phishing always eventually works, at scale.

If successful phishing leads to significant data breaches, that's a technical/systemic problem, not a personal one.
The Military Is Locked in a Power Struggle with Wind Farms
In this vein, Fungi (the third kingdom) evolving to the dominant form of life is the premise in ‘Of Man and Manta’.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Of_Man_and_Manta
My fault for failing to remember how thin-skinned crypto enthusiasts are. Have never met one with a sense of humor.
If all they are doing is recording that one was thrown out of a bar, and the reason _the bar_ says it happened, those are all truthful things. They aren't saying you did that, they're saying that _the bar_ said you did that.

It seems rotten, but I'm sure that's the kind of loophole they'd use as defense. :)
> The Boring Company's main plans, as can be evidenced by their communications (such as their FAQ) and their commitments and attempted commitments to build actual projects

Agree that this evidences their short-term plans (1-5 years), but I actually think it's a poor-proxy of evidence of their long-term (5+ years) plans.

I mostly agree with you about their short-term plans, but my understanding (which could be wrong!) was that they had longer-term plans, of which the proposed tunnels are stepping-stones and learning opportunities towards.

Though, I'll readily acknowledge that the evidence I have for their long-term plans is thin (mostly some interviews with Elon Musk about The Boring Company, and having seen similar developments at SpaceX), so if the counter-argument is that the long-term plans aren't well-enough evidenced to be worth considering, I wouldn't disagree.

I also think it's totally reasonable to argue that those long-term plans aren't realistic or a likely potential outcome.

> Oh, and for good measure, tunnels are not why subways are expensive. It's station caverns and ancillary infrastructure (such as procuring more rolling stock for the extension) that consumes most of the cost of a subway, so it's not clear that cheaper tunneling would actually meaningfully reduce the cost of building new subways.

I don't know that I agree with this. Tunneling is definitely a significant cost whenever it happens under a city. For example, the SR99 tunneling project in Seattle cost ~$2.1B dollars to build (https://www.wsdot.wa.gov/Projects/Viaduct/Budget), and that doesn't involve any station caverns or rolling stock. It does, obviously, involve the highway finishings and road connections, but tunneling is a significant expense whenever it is required.
In terms of Latin, sol is just as generic as stella is. (Modulo the fact that there is only one sun.)

If you want to object that "Sol" is the name of an individual star, and that "solar radiation" is named after that name, in spite of the capitalization, rather than deriving from the Latin word, then you can't really make your arguments based on what the words mean in Latin.
I almost took you seriously. Well played. :)
Long-term sheltering mustaches reduce incidence of lower lip actinic keratosis
> We should be paying a lot closer attention and giving greater caution to Gmail, Facebook Messenger and WhatsApp. Particularly Gmail.

I agree. And I voted with my feet on those as well.
Advanced Data Structures (2017)
Another excellent browser that users should be switching to:

https://firefox.com
It's a matter of focus. We'd love there to be more self-study content available for kids also. But MOOCs have a famously low completion rate and it's hard to stay motivated without interaction. So we're focused on connecting learners and teachers and having them interact over video chat.
Because you're trying to manually optimize code, which is kindof like saying 'I konw what I'm doing so TypeScript please shut up'. Take for example the `map_err` function of the `Ok` class. The function returns a different `Result`, but you're using the `… as any` trick to shut up the compiler. The correct implementation would be:

map_err<U>(fn: (arg: E) => U): Result<T, U> {
return new Ok<T, U>(this.value)
}

I see why you're not doing that, because that allocates a new object, and that might seem bad. Even the implementation in Rust 'allocates' a new object, but then it relies on the rust compiler to optimize that out. Here's the relevant code:

pub fn map_err<F, O: FnOnce(E) -> F>(self, op: O) -> Result<T,F> {
match self {
Ok(t) => Ok(t),
Err(e) => Err(op(e))
}
}

See the `Ok(t) => Ok(t)` line? That's the same as `return new Ok(…)` in the TypeScript code. Unfortunately TypeScript is not an optimizing compiler, so it's less powerful than rust. You can either use tricks (`… as any`) and give up type safety or be truthful at the expense of performance.
Yes, work only
She's a scientist with an extensive body of publications in this domain; same with Christine Payne and Sowmya Purushothaman, the other two "scientists voicing concern." I agree that the article would have benefited from more diversity of perspective but it's unfair to characterize these contributors as "advocates pushing their agenda," and it's both inaccurate and disrespectful to use scare quotes when calling them scientists and to imply (if that was your intention) that they do not participate in "real" science.

As well, it isn't clear to me why one would read the title "Scientists voice concern about nanoparticles" and expect to read about about a particular research result rather than a survey of the current state of understanding.
> wondering what I can do better...

Use a service that doesn't micromanage its customers. Lyft, taxis, city transportation services. Or just (shocker) get your own vehicle. If you're travelling, rental cars are also an option.
https://medium.com/@dan_manges/the-modular-monolith-rails-ar...

His talk was pretty cool and helpful if you want to split monolith!
If Uber is providing a platform for independent contractors how can they ban people from using the platform at all? Shouldnt a user be able to accept a driver based on their score?
Except that most of the research that has been done on this subject shows exactly the opposite: social mixing in schools has a great positive effect on the less fortunate and almost negligible effect on the more fortunate (we're talking here about a situation where the composition of a class reflects that of society as a whole, not some extreme example like throwing a wealthy kid in a inner city class).

Also societies that have good public schools (that are universally attended) like Finland, tend to have much less socioeconomic inequality in the following generations. That is: school is the solution to social inequality, not viceversa.
It is common courtesy to indicate you have editted your post.
2 million people running across the border each year aren't 'asylum seekers' - it is mass illegal economic migration.
This is the first time I've ever heard of Metra referred to as "light rail". Metra uses enormous diesel locomotives and runs on freight rail ROW (for the most part)--there's nothing "light" about it.
What is special about 1, 2, and 4 specific to Mars colonization? Even 3. Like those things don’t even seem like the top of the list as the next things to tackle for planet colonization? (Is a Tesla the next important thing to tackle?) What about like food and environmental support since we can’t actually breath there?

This just sounds like some tortured narrative.
> It's always seemed a bit ridiculous to me that a credit hour of American poetry and a credit hour of propulsion systems costs the same amount, considering the wildly different overhead and input costs.

I remember that (in a University in the USA) one credit hour of a real analysis course cost much less than one credit hour of a semiconductor fabrication course. The majority of the difference was in the "laboratory fee" which was several thousand dollars.
My bad I forgot the verb, I meant “are equivalent”.

Edit: I don’t understand the downvotes though.
4. Removal of single-point extinction event if/when another dinosaur killer asteroid strikes Earth.
> There is plenty of evidence of the contrary though, that kids born in families with low income and educational achievement do much much better when they are in a socially diverse school as opposed to a ghetto. Sure maybe homeschooled kids are slightly better off, but that comes at a huge cost for all the kids who have a single parent who works three jobs that will never be able to afford to homeschool them.

I was that kid, and putting other well off kids in my school did nothing to fix those issues. You're running on a theory with no evidence. Putting kids in a school just brings the kid down to the lowest common denominator, it doesn't have the opposite effect. High performing kids are likely to be picked on, even minority kids will get called out for "acting <insert racial stereotype>". It's works like cancer, not like vitamins. The negativity of the kids from horrible homes effects everyone, the positivity gets squashed by the system and social ostracization.

>If you don't like the distinction between secular and religious, you can take any other strong belief. What if my parents are flat earthers? What if they are holocaust deniers? What if they hold some very strong political opinion? Or even what if they are some staunch atheists? They will just create a bubble around their kids.

What if schools teach other misconceptions that get corrected in college. Like brontosauruses are a thing, or T-Rex's hunt prey. That the founding father's are practical holy figures and did no wrong. What if its a religious school district and they're the ones skirting past evolution, teaching bad concepts and you want to homeschool to correct it. What if you teach the kids secular stuff and the kid gets the politics and beliefs at home anyway and believes it because that's what their parents believe and have more influence over the values and beliefs that kid carries into life than a teacher ever can. You're running on a lot of assumptions that doesn't negate that fact that public schools largely suck, and even a half hearted attempt at home schooling has kids performing on average better than public schools because they suck so very much.
You should launch in Wales: Plaid Cymru!
If you're getting a bunch of stuff with curl from GitHub can't you just use curl to get the patches directly from github?

Append .patch to the end of a pr or commit and it spits out the mbox formatted patch.

https://github.com/jiphex/mbox/commit/f139c575e306a1691a31d8...
My Jaguar will throw a Check Engine for Fuel Cap Insufficiently Tightened.
Georgetown study: To succeed in America, it’s better to be born rich than smart
I think it was Portland (it was somewhere in the Pacific NW) in the 90's had a "custom bus" running late at night. If you lived within 2 miles of a regular bus route, you could phone in a request, and a dispatcher would make up a new bus line for that night that would pick up everyone who called in.
Our iOS engineer at work doesn't even own an iPhone. I just thought I would point that out.
GNU Build IDs for Firmware
With Worlds Adrift closing, promise of truly single-shard MMOs in peril
Why employee learning has failed, and how to do better
If they're an "honest product" then why do they put caffeine in them? Caffeine doesn't change the flavor to make it "as delicious as possible".
I'll give you my answer because I have a project which could have used this.

I created a dapp that allows people to do [stuff] which generate some erc-20 token for users. They can then use this token to access special features on the dapp.

It's easy to let users send and receive the tokens they have. But I want the token to have a value outside the dapp itself.

Unfortunately I cannot get this token accepted on coinbase and other exchanges. Just because it is not important enough.

I still want people to be able to sell or buy these tokens. The next best idea is to create a small exchange platform on my dapp: let people trade the token for ether or for other tokens. It's time consuming to code so I gave up.

Now this is where this thing would have been great.

Hope this helps.
Almost every tunnel has a lining that makes widening prohibitive. Which is why the London Underground is forever stuck with small tunnels on the original lines.
But methane is still methane, thank goodness.