skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Though if they really dug that much tunnel under a city in such a short time, maybe there's an actual innovation in a better way to make subway tunnels?

I think putting cars in these tunnels is silly and that subways are obviously the best answer personally, but I'm also watching two new light rail lines being put in next to my house. It does not seem quick (though they're elevated). It'd be lovely if those tracks were somehow underground faster and cheaper than above ground.

I'm happy enough it's finally happening, but if it could be done economically in a way that reclaimed the land the rail lines are on to make a park or more housing? And without trains driving by my windows on both sides? Maybe the boring machine itself is somehow better than what we dig tunnels now.
what's it for? i never used it when it was around.
salt on the wound is when you see a new mixed use apartment with the vacant retail on the ground floor being a pit of coarse gravel before a tenant (and their custom floor) are found, but lit up like a target all the same.
Yeah, exactly. I get blasted all the time for it too. Same suspicion here about other users being on our side, though they might not be able to put their finger on what the problem is.
Sure, but the point of a standard is usually to make implementations interchangeable.
I seem to recall some article about their expenses a couple years ago, and that their marketing department and budget exceeded development and infrastructure combined.
Composition is the root of all evil (2016)
Meanwhile I'd go out of my way to use system themers and programs that supported skins just to get that aqua aesthetic in Windows.
Ok, I normally am very skeptical of youtube lifting, but actually these videos are pretty good...
> I'm confused about how you got to your first point. You cited figures from the survey paper that show a spike at 0% genetic (meaning that a bunch of the people surveyed think there's a very low genetic influence on intelligence),

No no no - the spike is not at "very low", but at zero. While the people that believe there's some genetic influence, are about evenly distributed between thinking that influence is anywhere from 10% to 90%. In total, more believe there's some influence than zero influence.

> I wouldn't call that scientific support for the notion of race as a meaningful category.

Neither is it a consensus debunking it. And what the idea used to be is irrelevant to the current understanding.

> argue that there's any way to say that there isn't an overwhelming environmental cause for disparities in socioeconomic status/IQ/incarcaration rates/etc between blacks and whites.

But I never argued that. A and B aren't mutually exclusive.

As for Occam's razor, well, claiming that of all the genetic distance caused by geographical separation for tens of millenia, none of it affects intelligence or personality - that just doesn't seem very likely to me. It's not the case for dogs [1], why should it be for humans?

[1] https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/canine-corner/201304...
There is the Herengracht house index which tracks house prices along the Herengracht canal during a long period of time. Its an interesting read, one notices that house prices flucates over time.

Herengracht index
https://hotelivory.wordpress.com/2010/08/29/a-very-long-view...
> I already got my DNA sequenced, but now that methylation can be measured cheaply as well, I don't see a reason why not to.

Are they just quantifying how many methyl groups are attached to a piece of DNA? Methylation is a mechanism for site-specific in/activation, so I'm unclear (and curious) how this would be useful.
I'm not sure if this is true, if the missile is coming head on. If it is made in a stealthy way, the "head" of the missile could obscure the engine area and make the plume invisible to the target. Having low RCS alongside with hidden plume could make a passively targetted missile relatively stealthy to the target.

Ofcourse, anyone with enough offset to the target would be able to easily detect the engine and thermal release but the target could be unaware.

Another method to hide it is if missile uses some kind of obstacle in order to accelerate behind, for example you fire your missiles and they accelerate when a moon or a planet break line of sight from the target to the missiles. This would make their acceleration burn invisible to the target and could get them very close without being noticed.
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Yeah, I get that! There would still be a named curve though, and things do change over time.

Sometimes I like to force things in such a way that you can’t avoid dealing with some issues. So, by putting these items in the public key, you are forced to look at them and deal with them when you write a library.

Often, engineers will write code correctly because they know all the context. But the next engineer will likely have less and less context as time goes by.

Thus forcing context acknowledgement, while seemingly redundant, might be essential to avoiding future bugs.
Maybe our perspective is just wrong. If you consider that DNA itself is the life on earth, and not "us" in particular and that maybe DNA is the only life possible in this universe then this view makes more sense. Humans could be viewed as just an appendage of DNA.
So does everyone just have a subscription to the economist or are they working around the paywall somehow?
Try codecks.io which I found because one of the devs posted here. It's like Trello on steroids (imports Trello boards, too). We switched our complex product development to Codecks almost immediately and are lovin' it.
I've also had a customer service desk rep give my personal cell number to a customer. Fun times. Chalk it up to "cultural differences": the CSD rep simply could not understand why I might be incensed that a debt collection agency who believes I am singularly responsible for some hiccup in their collection software now has a direct line to me.
Novel is faster and cheaper (because faster and less ventilation cuz electric cars).

I think it makes total sense. Rail is so much more complex when compared to an electric bus.
> C# (structs or maybe properties)

Those are not directly analogous to records. As a matter of fact, C# is getting records as well: https://blog.cdemi.io/whats-coming-in-c-8-0-records/
One of the source control companies should take this story to use for marketing.
Begs the question does this include the inefficiencies in its products over the years, which due to their breadth of their adoption, effected hundreds of millions of computers?

I'm thinking the carbon footprint of Windows update's endless (seemingly needless?) grinding and rebooting alone ends up being more than they ever emitted manufacturing and building software.
The difference between one that falls into the ocean and one that brings itself back down into orbit and lands safely is one is cheaper than the other?
Alien ruins would be nice to explore but oh well. If it really is like that, we can at least spread through it in a relative peace. :)
There's Intel today but, also, presumably this could be done with GloFo? They were in the midst of research into 7nm processes but stopped due to competition. Feels like investment there could work faster than 20+ yrs.
What a coincidence. I was searching YouTube for exercise for back pain. I actually have pain in my left side of body. Some pain is in back and some in leg.
And this dude's (jujitsu master) exercise was the only thing to help with my pain
Chinese espionage in Taiwan, perhaps.
> HN can't rationally talk about Google any more. It's kind of depressing.

Unfortunately, it's not the only company where threads turn into this. Every Apple product thread is about removing the headphone jack (still), every Amazon thread is about counterfeit products someone bought. There are others.
Am I misreading your comment, or are you holding up a driver who died by driving into a wall at 145mph as an example of how to do things carefully?
A luxury product company becoming a safe haven pretty much speaks for itself on how distorted things are.
If it can, it will... :)
Exposing a private key to the world is a security problem? No kidding?
And kids who had social skills yet struggled with math still had to do math. School isn't just the Rs, it's also about learning how to function in a society with other people.
But what if it's also tenth the capacity? According to the article this accommodates 4,400 people/hr. BART ridership is 411k/day, and (to pick a random example) Gangnam subway station in Seoul averages at 230k/day. And that's actual usage, not max capacity.
I am working on this! [1] Albeit slowly because it is not my full time job.

What I have so far is support in the schema editor and very basic migration support. The underlying query is defined as a meta option on the model.

[1] https://github.com/SectorLabs/django-postgres-extra/
Personalities doesn't cluster so k-means would not give anything interesting. Big 5 is pretty close to a factor analysis on a questionnaire data set though, so that's a reasonable though. Four colours is not based on anything like that though.

I'd say that astrology is better than DISC in that it's obviously bunk, the problem with the colours is that while some people claim to enjoy it as a pastime or conversation starter, some seem to take it further and base actual decisions on it. People reading horoscopes in a magazine wouldn't typically actually follow the advice therein.
Are there that many poor rural areas that could use and pay for internet? It seems necessary that they have both electricity and digital devices, which isn't really something you see in what I would consider poor rural area on a global scale. You might be thinking of a poor urban area instead, the poor rural areas in sub-sahara africa rarely have built up stoves, so requiring electricity is pretty far fetched.
For the Crossrail project going under London, they used 8 machines in parallel and took 3 years to dig a total of 26 miles of 20 ft diameter tunnels.

That's a little more than 1 mile/yr, an average number that includes overhead like moving the TBMs between the different boring sites. And the cutting surface area (which multiplies linear speed to give material removal rate) is (20/14)^2 = 2.04 times bigger for Crossrail than the Boring Co. machines.
> Tolkien was creating an alien world; Jackson gave us a familiar Sort Of Middle Ages Or Something.

This is pretty debatable c.f. endless scholarship on the connections between LOTR and (a) Tolkein's feelings about England post-WWI and (b) Tolkein's deep connections with actual existing mythology and legend. "Different world", perhaps, but "alien world" seems a bit much.
He said top notch though :-)
Segment Declares War on CRMs with "Platform of Independents"
There is a bit of irony here; as the article mentions, the RSA key that windows uses for updates is safe.

Why is that ironic? Well, Trail of Bits also published this article last year:

https://blog.trailofbits.com/2019/07/08/fuck-rsa/

(Note, the points there are still valid. I just find it funny.)
What's worse, is the lack of control the actual tenants have over their building. My old professors office got so hot he had to open the window all winter. The thermostat on his wall didn't do anything, by design.

There was a women in an unknown and unadvertised location on campus who controlled all the climate controls in every building on campus directly. A supremely powerful position, almost like being the wizard of Oz. However, due to everyone emailing her constantly complaining about it being boiling hot or freezing cold every day, she opted to go dark and not answer any emails. So now nothing gets done.
I think Ketokivi is the paper I read (no idea what website this is hosted on):

https://www.econstor.eu/bitstream/10419/63693/1/519737458.pd...

aside from the basic claim that large factories are doing some amount of R&D on-site, this read like nonsense to me. Could be my lack of depth in industrial organization / economics.

maybe also search 'industrial clustering' or 'innovation clusters'
Someone I know hurt their back during a deadlift. They were out of commission for months until they had surgery to shave a disk.

So.. don't assume that your results are predictive of the results for everyone (typical mind fallacy/typical body fallacy?)
So that there is a “chain of custody “ from plan to production completely within the US. Presumably the people working in such would be reachable by US law, if not closely aligned with their own country’s interests.
Workers have goals, and they can accomplish those goals while macro goals like 'company success' fail.

The ceo is responsible for those macro goals. Those macro goals are failing, ergo while most works should be receiving increases in comp, the CEO should be seeing a decrease.
If you find yourself in Paris, the National Library has a great exhibit on JRR Tolkien [0] until February 16. Christopher Tolkien's work is heavily featured.
It's fully translated in English (for once).

[0] https://www.bnf.fr/en/agenda/tolkien-journey-middle-earth
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> work for the cause for little money

I never said "little money". Leadership roles signify high status, so you have to pay an upper-middle-class or upper class salary for the area.

But is it not fair to assume that nearly everyone who cares more about the money and is talented enough to take a leadership role, has already gone to the private sector? A desirable CEO candidate determined to stay in the non-profit world is far more likely to look at whether the org excites them, than how much it's paying (again, as long as it's an upper-middle to upper class salary).

For line workers it really may just be a paycheck.
It would continue development, but how popular would it remain without Google blessing?
Alternate title:

"YouTube ads of 100 top brands fund climate information over misinformation at a 4:1 ratio".
The will undoubtedly apply financial pressure, regardless of what other actions they take.
This is ridiculously anecdotal, but I asked a yoga teacher how to make it more comfortable to sit with legs straight in front, and I was expecting some kind of static stretch.

She said to do leg swings back and forth, which I remember I did years ago in Taekwando. I find doing those leg swings really nice for loosing up the hips and all that and as an antidote to office sitting. I also like that I don't need to stretch per-se.

Ymmv, I am not a physical therapist etc. etc.
I heard of an OLPC-like program in Peru that builds a wooden laptop with a Raspberry Pi brain to be used to "improve education". While the Peruvians deserve all props for being able to mass-produce a low-cost laptop for even the poor in their community, my hot take was, if they wanted to improve education, give each kid a THEC64 and limit their exposure to an hour (okay, maybe two) a day. Have them spend the rest of their free time outside.

I think computers have the most to teach us when we are the ones teaching them (i.e., programming them), and that the promise of 1980s computers was that they could do whatever you want (that was within their capacity), the drawback being that they came with very limited functionality out of the box and must be programmed (or loaded with external software) to be useful; whereas today, computers and computer-like devices such as phones come with lots of functionality out of the box, but they do things that might not be what you want. (Crash due to brittle OS/drivers, sudden UI or functionality changes due to "mandatory updates", DRM, spyware...) This plus the ready accessibility of obscene or offensive content makes me very wary about giving internet-connected devices to the very young (< 14 years or so). If kids are to be exposed to computers, we should teach them to be their masters, not their slaves. And we should strictly temper screen time, because their growing bodies and minds need time outside more than they need time in front of a screen.
> BTW, the AI we added did not use neural nets or deep learning.

So proper old-school AI then? Perl and regexes?
In Java years, Kotlin hasn't had anything for a "long time," the language itself is still a baby. Most Java shops are still living in the "Java 8 days."
It can also listen on the actual network interface.
Haha - so true. The first versions of some of the financial packages built on salesforce and elsewhere - so SLOW. Click, wait, dropdown -> wait for it to populate with the 1,500 items when devs probably only tested with 5 etc etc, then click, wait, click, wait. All much better now of course, but the early years were terrible.
It's because it works.

I had completely debilitating RSI where I could only use one hand at a time to type for 15m at a time before I had shooting pain all the way up my arm to my shoulder. His solution (which admittedly does sound like new-agey bullshit) took me from that to zero pain in 3 weeks. I have no idea if his syndrome exists or not, but his solution worked for me which is really all that matters.

Granted, I did not do an in-depth look into the evidence backing his arguments but I did find the argument of referred pain to be compelling, if not robustly proven. (e.g. the lack of existence of RSI in the time of typewriters, the increase in incidence of ulcers as soon as they were tied to stress by medical literature, physical back pain manifesting in some but not others with the same physical symptoms showing in MRI, etc)
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Part of the problem is that I have no context for most of the the stuff in those bills.

If it's about healthcare spending, I have no idea how much spending is normal, or to be expected, or where it usually comes from. I have general feelings about this stuff (I'd like to see Americans spend less on healthcare and I'm fine with rich people paying more taxes) but while reading the text of a bill I have no idea whether a good looking paragraph is going to be completely invalidated by a 4 word sentence 2 pages down. Bills are public, but they aren't written for a lay audience.

Instead of reading bills myself, I decide to trust folks who are well versed on the topic to provide me with analysis.
Except this 10% of cost is just a marketing ploy by Musk to sell you the project. When you compare to the price of subways in Europe, this isn't any cheaper. North America is extremely bad at building cheap subways, but other places of the world have already achieved it.
C# struct is a value type, the Java Record is not a value type, right?
These lines from The Silmarillion really hit me the other day. It relates pretty well to death and impermanence in general.

"But of bliss and glad life there is little to be said, before it ends: as works fair and wonderful, while still they endure for eyes to see, are their own record, and only when they are in peril or broken forever do they pass into song."
I believe Google wants to release Hangouts Chat to general consumers and replace Classic Hangouts.
Some implementations and interpretations (iirc, Great Britain for one) don't even require that the person is a minor, only the appearance and illusion of, including animation/illustration.
> useless degrees and vacation homes

Strange to lump those together before considering them separately.

How many businesses did the dropouts start? How many dropouts didn't start busineses?
Yeah, it's definitely a lot.

I think the actual costs will be a lot lower as this will take many years of experimentation before scaling, and by then the cost of the solar panels (which I think is the vast majority of the cost) will likely have continued to ride its exponential downward cost curve. One source: https://earthtechling.com/solar-energy-costs-trends/
Does ho hum mean bad? Couldn't really find it, just that it means routine/dull.
But if good form, then I find it unlikely that you hurt yourself with 400lbs if you progressed to that.
I see no reason to believe Brian Herbert's claims that the work he has released (mostly farmed out to Kevin J Anderson) is actually based on anything real from his father's notes. If they are, he ought to release those to the public so we can form our own judgement. The Brian Herbert books are simply awful, and don't seem consistent with his father's work to me at all.

Christopher Tolkien released extensive amounts of his fathers drafts and brainstorms. It's fascinating material, and underlines the integrity of Christopher Tolkien and the love of his dad's corpus.
Please add an "added date" and ability to sort by that date to only see new entries. I've just looked through 10 pages of games. When I come back next time, I want to view only the ones added recently, so I don't have to look at all the same ones again. :-)
Most people don't die from old age and nothing else, though. If someone doesn't die from lung cancer, they're most likely going to die from some other kind of cancer, heart disease, Alzheimer's, diabetes, or some kind of organ failure, none of which are exactly inexpensive to die from (barring very sudden death from a heart attack or stroke).
I thought that I was the only one who felt this way. I'm pleased to see that there is at least one other.
>More inefficiency than we already have?

Yes, more than there already is. This is the standard thing that happens whenever there is massive redistribution of anything by government fiat. Stuff gets redistributed arbitrarily, people who need it don't get it, poeple who don't need it get too much of it, stuff is lost via administrative error or outright fraud or political finagling, people being careless with billions of dollars in other people's money because it's not in their KPI, etc.

Note that most things are not literally on fire currently and there is no looting. Those things are not guaranteed.

>In the developed world we already have more stuff and kinds of stuff than most of us need.

Really, now. Do you think we'll be OK if we stop the mass production of fertilizers and concrete for a while? Just a few months until things settle down? How about meds? Those tie up a lot of man-hours and medically trained people to produce, and we could definitely use those people elsewhere (or they could go take long, UBI-piad holidays).
You don't think it would be embarrassing to be standing at a whiteboard at work and be unable to spell basic words?
No, it's just a lot smaller. A 12-foot-wide tunnel is, shockingly, much cheaper than a 21-foot-wide tunnel. It also has essentially zero capacity, much like a hyperloop. If you want to punch useless holes in the earth, Elon Musk is your man without a doubt.
For the past several years I had serious problems with lower back pain, once every few months it would get so bad I couldn't stand/sit/walk without severe pain for at least a week, even painkillers didn't help much. One year ago I started to exercise at gym, twice a week, and it worked wonders - no back pain, except for minor one from time to time if I lift something the wrong way, but overall I feel so, so, so much better (and look too xD).
Not accurate. Netscape was the browser company, with servers too (I worked with the McCool twins and Ari Luotonen in first month on board). I have no idea what "not lightweight" means but Netscape took over the market from Mosaic and pioneered SSL (now TLS) for secure e-commerce. This is all pretty well known and many still alive who saw it. Taher El Gamal among them. Why do people make up fables on HN?