skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
To a first approximation, the table at the head of the article looks like "Why Tunnels in New York Cost Much More Than Anywhere Else in The World".

But anyway, what's to be done? According to the article:

* Streamline the environmental and approval processes.

* Establish an equitable risk sharing mechanism between the owner and contractor and properly implement it.

* Establish unified contractual terms and conditions for underground work similar to the FIDIC Emerald Book.

* Be fair and equitable in dealing with changes, disputes and claims.

* Reevaluate the need of all soft costs: Owner, PM/CM, EIS/EA, Engineering, etc., lower bonding limits, less litigation, lower insurance cost, etc.

* Revisit labor laws, rates, and union regulations and establish equitable Project Labor Agreements.

* Pay for public amenities and community and stakeholders’ provisions through other funds rather than transit funds. There is no doubt that community improvements and services are needed, but infrastructure projects should not be the vehicles to fund such services or improvements.

* Transportation Alternative Program is essential for sustainability and environmental benefits, but their costs should not be funded through transit project costs.

* Better management of stakeholders’ approvals, public expectation, ROWs, and utilities owners.

* Remove politics from infrastructure projects.

Where have I heard these before?
I hate invoicing and accounting so much that I built my own invoicing and tax accounting systems (no kidding), because it was more fun than actually doing the invoicing or the accounting. Anyway, bbl I need to go do some accounting.
(Not GP but) In the context of this discussion, because they're creepy, an invasion of privacy. In practice, because their relevance to me means I can see through them, that the product's crap, or I already have it, or if I wanted it it wouldn't be the lack of an advert stopping me getting it, etc.
> After 16 months in July 2019, a report was produced but it did not provide the comparisons requested by Congress. Rather, the GAO in its report said making the comparisons was too difficult to obtain meaningful results [...]

As an outsider from Europe, let me try.

1. It always seemed to me that the litigious nature of doing business in the US must be costly to society. The thinking of "If anything ever happens to you, someone owes you money". Lawyers are needed in anything of consequence, and it leads to lots of overhead, distraction and unnecessary work to avoid the possibility of being liable for anything.

2. Then there is corruption. The US ranks lower than most european countries on corruption (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corruption_Perceptions_Index). The article hints at that, mentioning "politicizing" of infrastructure projects. That also costs money to society.

3. Then there is lack of competition. Because antitrust laws have not been enforced for decades in the US (not anywhere else too btw), I suspect that big infrastructure projects are getting distributed among a few large companies, who don't actually compete; they'll all make good money and pay their C-level execs well.

There may be other factors like healthcare costs, and unions adding to costs, etc, but those seem to be a result of the above, rather than a root cause.
Apple said stylus's were dumb and no one would want one. Apple Pencil comes out. Touch screen Macbook pro seems like it would never happen, then Big Sur looks like it has touch targets made for fingers. The iPad keyboard dock thing looks very much like microsoft surface, especially the logitech offerings that you know where designed in part of help with Apple. I wouldn't be surprised if it's a Macbook Pro that either swivels all the way around like a Lenovo and has a touch screen.
Yes but plants have built in solar panels, you need to have solar energy that is much more efficient than plants and also very, very cheap
>We know that intact ecosystem spreads out from the edges. They did studies in South America decades ago comparing recovery rates in rectangular versus square clearings, and the rectangular ones always won.

I don't understand; the perimeter of a square and a rectangle are the same? The amount of "edge" to spread out from should be the same?
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"how could it be that Amazon works without problem and Netflix doesn’t"

Supporting Path MTU discovery (PMTUD), or perhaps just capping their outbound packets to 1450 or similar. Cloudflare found and fixed a problem in this space: https://blog.cloudflare.com/path-mtu-discovery-in-practice/
That works, but wouldn't for me. Discovery is precisely the primary service YouTube does for me. I really only ever click around the top two rows on the main page, all automatic YouTube suggestions. They are relevant and interesting enough for this to work consistently.
Sorry but you can't get COVID reinfection. You've been lied to. Please don't repost twitter comments to HN like this.
I use it because it seems like it might be our only hope for a Blink based browser with minimal Google nonsense. For example, see how Brave, Edge, and Vivaldi (And Mozilla, even though they're not Blink based.) responded to Manifest v3.
Damn, nice rundown. I will check out Carbonite, looks very promising.
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Of the browsers listed, which if any do multiple users? I silo my clients / projects by giving them their own instance (read: user) of Chrome.

If I could get past that then the rest would fall into place.
it's called glamour - you intentionally don't show everything and let the imagination fill in the gaps. It's a gorgeous advertising technique when done properly and a terribly annoying one when done poorly. I'd argue here it might have come close but obviously not for you.

Glamour is mightily hard. I don't even try it when doing products. Apple's pulled it off a few times.
Tire size changes with speed and weight, weight changes with downforce, downforce changes with speed, winds, air temperature.

Maximum theoretical speed on a dyno, sure.
unpopular opinion it seems : in personals 1:1 calls, I love seeing the UI disappear and just have a full screen video of my SO/family member.
I started by moving off Chrome over to Firefox, and if Firefox continues to decline I may have to look at Edge Chromium. Moving data out of Google is a much slower, more careful project that will likely take a few years because of the sheer number of accounts tied to the email.
Yeah, "Tech Twitter" is just whoever follows the guy who made the survey and whoever follows them who saw the retweets. The idea that this survey is anything serious is ridiculous.
I would personally love a new Silicon Mac Mini.

I don't need a crazy desktop computer at this point but I already have a 34-inch ultrawide 4K monitor. I'm even willing to try the new system architecture as a computer.

Clearly Apple has considered this at least for the initial developer model. So I'd love if they decide to also put out a consumer one with the final Silicon SOC.
It makes sense to me, or I wouldn't have used it.

> nobody is arguing that people are "being forced" to use google services

My point is that they entered into the [contractual] relationship voluntarily and now that they have become dependent on their provider some folks here are saying that they want to alter the deal by legal end-run as opposed to just using some other service or trying to renegotiate en mass ("Google users' union", "Boycott Google", whatever) or creating or promoting alternatives.

If you want to be a lemming and jump off the cliff, I don't like it but it's your life. The specific thing I'm on about here today is, don't jump off the cliff and then shout for the government to give you a parachute.
The original DMCA request stated that they violated copyright by suggesting songs in their source code. While this is a dubious copyright claim, surely the easy solution is to uphold the claim by simply replacing the songs with open source items such as big buck bunny in the source?
In response to how many people are influenced by these sorts of posts, I'm a best of breed person so these articles only inform me further but rarely have much impact. I don't use Google, but that's because Google just isn't the best search engine, DDG is. If I want Google results I use Startpage through DDG since they're anonymous, and will once in a blue moon still tunnel through to Google.

I've been meaning to move off of Gmail to Outlook.com for some years. I definitely don't think Gmail is the best, just gave me a lot of space in 2004 during the beta when no one else would.

Youtube is Google's only must-have product in my view. The rest is easily replaceable with equivalent or better choices.
Not to counter your point, but what I've learned and was suprised how cheap it is to letting a company destroy your harddisks and USB sticks - at least in Germany.
Those twitter results seem in line with the general population.

Approval ratings by brand:

Amazon: 91%

Google: 90%

YouTube: 90%

Netflix: 89%

Microsoft: 89%

Sonos: 86%

Apple: 81%

Slack: 78%

Instagram: 72%

Facebook: 71%

Twitter: 61%

The reality is that these are very popular companies.

https://cdn.vox-cdn.com/thumbor/gfN9bwxFARhIiyxEkQfkVKaf2yc=...
We're trying to build an ad network that stands in stark opposition to Google's tracking: https://www.ethicalads.io/advertising-vision/ -- it's still early days, but we're always look for more OSS projects and products to join.
You may overestimate some people, for example myself. I don't like firefox, and I don't like ads. Brave is superb for that use case.
iOS developers use the iPhone Simulator everyday to build their apps.

It doesn't require a touchscreen and I would be very surprised if any apps are unusable without it.
It is confusing when the referent is ambiguous. In the original title, email could mean either of two things, and there is no way to tell which it is.

As an irrelevant aside, if you insist on justifying web content, “hyphens: auto” is your friend.
I couldn't transition to a Linux laptop as I don't think it has optimal battery life nor does the trackpad feel as Mac-like as I need it to be. But I could see ARM Mac laptops being used by a lot of people for connecting to real systems that are still x86. In other words, the Mac laptop is a browser machine or a display to a real work VM.

I think ARM is the nail in the coffin of the non-laptop Mac brand though.
New Zealand has planted ~250 million trees in the past 2 years. still a far way of 1 trillion but more than you might think.
https://www.teururakau.govt.nz/funding-and-programmes/forest...
Looks like FUD. I wouldn't trust this type of information coming from Twitter.
Can you expand on this? I’m not familiar with this space. What capability do you have with these that you lose when you build your own desktop?
In the vast majority of cases, the good investment opportunities are already restricted to people with substantial assets or income.

The vast majority of 'investment' opportunities available to people without substantial assets or income are scams, or very likely to underperform investments.

Even in SV, VCs are feverishly competing to get their investments accepted by the best companies.

The law may feel counterintuitive, but is a good investor protection that needs to be in place.
I was curious, so I ran the numbers on a Toyota Camry. With a mass of 1447 kg, a cross-sectional area of 2.7 square meters, and a drag coefficient of 0.28, it would have a terminal velocity of 391 mph. Other cars which are both heavier and more aerodynamic (e.g. a Tesla Model S) could reach even higher top speeds.
Verifiable content is definitely not the norm through history. I’d love to see an academic analysis of whether misinformation really went down by much (if at all) when photography became a thing. Or when camera phones and social media came along.

Yesterday there was a fake Trump tweet with a zillion upvotes on Reddit, and that’s just text. Text is trivial to fake, so maybe the chain of trust we see in text is what we’ll see with everything else moving forward. “An anonymous source within the White House provided this footage,” being countered with, “you can’t trust anonymous sources!” It will come down to who you trust, just like it always has.
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Yeah, completely agree with you there. I think the wording is straight up terrible.

I can sort of understand how this gets implemented this way - Making an excellent experience for the users who are no longer interested in paying you is a great way to go out of business when you have other, more important, problems to solve.

That said, who ever wrote the copy for that button should no longer by allowed to write copy (at least not in english...)
I disagree. Mainly because Twitter doesn't mix politics and relationships as much as the average Facebook feed. Most people don't use twitter to interact with their family - it's Facebook where idealogical differences start harming real world relationships.
I don't understand what criteria is used to get on this page. As an example, Airtable uses Google Analytics. What makes you think Airtable doesn't track you? They clearly do.
Ads that don't track you, sold by a company you can trust
I'm partially degoogled thanks to Hacker News as well as "Tech Twitter."

And as much as I don't think people can be completely "degoogled", we need some healthy competition to keep juggernaut's power in check. And hopefully we can nudge it towards more privacy-aware and open practices.
Just because it's part of the DMCA doesn't mean it is allowed to be used in a take-down notice. Or at the very least such a notice wouldn't have to be construed as such. At least that's what I understood from this article: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24888234

And while formatting is somewhat irrelevant from a legal standpoint it is still one of the tools Github uses to ensure that their take-down requests contain all the required information. Acting upon a request that doesn't conform to the format is risky.
We'll see of course, but I don't personally find it obvious at all that Big Sur is designed for touch. Or, if so, it's only an incidental byproduct of them applying a consistent style between iOS-iPadOS-macOS as they make it easier to make apps that run across all those platforms. I'll be surprised if macOS hardware gets touch versus iPadOS just growing into more and more of macOS's current roles.
You don't even have to be eagle-eyed to see that the roadside objects going past the car are passing by at well under, let's be generous, 150mph. While the GPS speed indicator shows 289, you can watch roadsigns on the right side of the car passing at relatively normal speeds.
Nah, our household has a collection of macs none newer than 2017. My phone and iPad are from 2014 and my gf’s from 2015, and I have a watch 0. They all work fine and, except for the watch and geriatric macs, continue to get software updates.

This will be a good excuse to start a mass upgrade but I won’t be an early adopter.
Is it still that poor?
Some time ago, I switched to google fi. The experience has been pretty positive (monthly bills are low, speeds are decent, the idea of seamlessly switching between networks is appealing).

But when I read horror stories of people getting their google accounts terminated, I realize that losing my google account would also remove my ability to receive SMS 2FA codes, and recovering all my accounts would be even more difficult than for a person who is merely dependent on gmail.

This would be less of a concern if google had a way to associate separate accounts with each service, users could have confidence that google would actually treat them as distinct, even if they're continually used from the same devices, etc.
>retreat from a universal touch-and-pointer UI in Windows 8

Huh? What? Doesn't everything bit of hardware Microsoft sells have a touchscreen? Windows 10 has solid touchscreen support. Why are we talking about Windows 8 or a retreat?
I never -- personally -- used much of Google aside from the search engine. Never GMail. I watched them buy and kill things I was interested in well over a decade ago. At work, I noticed how hard it was to get Chrome off of a machine when first installed and decided against that. Then they rather unceremoniously discontinued their search appliance without giving us much of a transition path, on very short notice, and that was something of a bummer.

I used to attend search engine conferences, with special talks given by someone who spent a lot of time analyzing Google's "special sauce." It became increasingly clear to me that search serves the ads, and everything else is a either a distraction or a temporary step in improving search and/or ads.
Look at what from the transition kit? The only thing available show it having single-core performance that would have been state-of-the-art ten years ago. Is there something newer and more impressive?
Yup... I still keep my old hotmail and yahoo accounts around, just in case google ends up disabling mine for some reason
I don't understand why Mozilla itself doesn't support an Electron clone.
I've been using Brave most of this year and really like it.

The killer feature for me is that it lets you disable scripts for individual websites or 'Allow scripts once'. This basically makes most paywall news sites readable.
Did Microsoft pay its way out of antitrust back around 2000?

The thing with being protected through paying off politicians is that it works, until it doesn’t.
Integrated would be cleaner but I’ve found it to be quite simple to boot off of a USB3 drive on the Pi4.
Some things that become difficult if you don't have a verified email address for your users:

- Most common: a user has a support request because they can't get into their account (e.g. you have sign-in-with-Facebook and they lost their account there, or got banned).

- Your authentication partner (again e.g. Facebook) disables your integration for some reason - someone reports your account as abusive (maybe maliciously) and it gets locked, and your attempts to work through Facebook customer support hit a brick wall. If you have email addresses you can at least get your users back into their accounts via a reset-password style flow.

- You have a data breach, and you need to tell your users what happened and what private data of theirs was leaked to an attacker.

- You get a legal threat - a DMCA takedown message for example - and need to pass it on to your users.

- You sell your service to another company and the lawyers involved in the transaction insist on emailing out a terms of service update.

There are plenty more.
While bureaucracies are formally under politicians' control, politicians are elected, and bureaucrats are not. They easily outlast politicians, and definitely set their own conditions for politicians to follow if they don't want their orders obstructed and sabotaged.

I would hazard to say that it's in the bureaucrats' best interest to have politicians unpleasant and unqualified, of the "both worse" kind. Interestingly, quite often election candidates tend to resemble this description, at least if their opposition is to be believed.
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I've been freelancing for ~20 years.

I have a Google Drive template that I use.

Then for clients I copy last month's invoice for the new month, add in whatever info I need to (usually very little) and save it as a PDF to email them.

Once a month I create and send these invoices to a handful of clients.

I also wrote https://github.com/nickjj/invoice to automatically tally up how much I should bill each client.

All in all I spend about ~10 minutes a month creating invoices.
Heh what's the alternative to golang?
It's almost as if it's in the union's benefit to artificially restrict supply ...
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a lot of the companies listed use google analytics on the exact page being linked
I would actually like site-related ads rather than a stupid version of mini-me chasing me around and suggesting crap I don't need.

Targeted ads are dead-end, because they inhibit exploration. They act on assumption that a person is fixed and cannot change or want to change. Before adtech I actually liked ads on paper, because it was shiny and showed things I maybe wanted to want. E.g. watch, suits, travel, home utility. I have read ads out of curiosity. Now it is an idiotic AI that thinks I need items that I bought a week ago, single women near me, and nothing more. I have some money but I don't have any watch, suits and I barely travel, partially because no one suggested that it is cool and I'm too lazy to do full-time research myself. Where are your really targeted ads, adtech industry? Can you do your job and empty my pockets? You're too dumb for that.

Based on a description of powerful datasets they have, they should show me:

- rtx 3080 with discount (free shipping!)
- compare se 2020 and 12 mini at coolstore.com
- stop walking and get a scooter!

All three are at least $800+ to spend at my location. Instead it shows:

- cheap mobile op that sucks and will never regain me a visit cost
- Xiaomi phone that I both have and hate
- python courses (I helped someone with script deployment at my linux box an hour ago)

It is like a psycho that follows you all the time and just repeats every action or mistake you do; every time you kick a stone on a road, they bring it back and pull your arm.
Work here and love it. Happy to answer any qs as well.
I try to remove Google where I can, but for search... let's be honest, ddg and qwant just had inferior results. I try to use one of those, but find myself having to type !g or &g on a disturbing number of searches
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The library of available software will certainly be interesting. I can easily move to ARM, assuming Python, Bash and SSH works, but it would be easier, if I can expect AMD64 emulation/virtualisation in conjuction with Docker. Being able to run ARM based Docker images currently isn’t that useful.

While I would love to see the touchbar go away, I don’t see any use case from a touch screen on laptops, in my line of work. It’s just as much a gimmick as the touchbar, in my case. If they do introduce it, I would hope it’s optional, like the touchbar should be.
Hofstadter has been mostly discredited. Jeet Heer recently wrote an appraisal:

https://www.thenation.com/article/culture/richard-hofstadter...

Tom Frank's new book, "The People, No", is scathing about Hofstadter's elitism and misportrayal of the Populist movement (Hofstadter only used anti-Populist secondary sources).
BSD subsystem for Linux.
> Why are you being deliberately obtuse?

Why are you asking me to explain things I didn't say?

> What is this sentence referring

It's referring to people trying to forcibly make everyone more-or-less equal.

You're asking me why I'm projecting Stalinism... but you brought up Stalinism, not me. If you think that matches Stalinism then that's something you've introduced to the conversation, not me. People opposed to Stalinism like Trotskyists were also in favour of dictatorship and violently forced equality. Stalin didn't have a monopoly on demonstrably shit ideas for oppressively and violently reshaping society.
Didn’t Wendker demo a video game running under emulation? That should work fine for your 64 bit games.

And it’s not like your old hardware will suddenly stop working. If you want to place PS2 games you need an old PS2, and this is the same.

Also, along the line of your old hardware still working: no need to upgrade any time soon.