skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I present to you the Second Avenue Subway [1]:

> The $6 billion price tag for phase two works out to $2.2 billion per kilometer. That would make it the world’s most expensive subway project on a per-kilometer basis, narrowly surpassing phase one of the Second Avenue Subway, which clocked in at “only” $1.7 billion per kilometer.

Let's compare that to Crossrail, which goes under London, a 2000+ year old city notorious for hitting Roman ruins where the only real solution is to dig deep (ie even more expensive) [2]:

> Crossrail was built in the heart of London to similar standards to New York Projects at $500M per mile.

[1]: https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2017/1/1/14112776/ne...

[2]: https://tunnelingonline.com/why-tunnels-in-the-us-cost-much-...
There are too many I'd need to omit. I would love a whitelist-only search engine, or at least one where my whitelist is shown first and then I can select "show all results" if that's not what I need.

I know that directly flies in the face of what made the web great in the first place, but at this point, the open web has been so thoroughly polluted by marketers that I'm willing to throw the baby out with the bathwater.
Thanks for your answer!

I do hope more fab's are set up around the world, it would be horrible to have to build fabs after just losing 1/3 of the worlds manufacturing capacity, especially as the new fab itself would consume so much semiconductor in its own right.
I had this "conversation" with my neighbor (it was more like me being yelled at) It kind of blew my mind they didnt care about noise interruptions at all hours and told me its my problem. Like maybe if you got a full night of sleep you wouldn't be so angry? I guess this study supports that.

The noise in my current apartment is endless, car alarms, screaming and crying kids along with their loud toys, idling cars, the loudest ice cream truck idles for hours for some reason here, rancheras and bass from cars, instruments being practiced, the leaf blowers are horrible. it really sucks. and it feels like no one cares, but it feels so stressful, like physically too.

and out doors is being ruined too. mostly by portable music.

What i really dont understand is people identifying with being loud. i spent a couple weeks in puerto rico and was surprised that some people seemed to be loud on purpose.
Batteries require some pretty rare and gnarly materials and still hold only a tiny, tiny bit.

It still gets dark for about a third of the day.
This, while unexpected, is not the end of the world.
Imo it should become regulation that all cars have to have some audio transparency tech like headphones have. Then we would be able to lower the volume of emergency sirens which are obscenely loud to penetrate cars.
There should be a date in the title. That was really confusing at first.
If this scares you wait until you hear about “Made in China 2025.”
That definitely depends on the route/city though. There's plenty of routes where the train is a lot faster at otherwise high-traffic times of days.

Completely honest question - are trains in, say, Germany that much cheaper for going between cities? Most of the times I've considered traveling to a country where train travel is more common/normal, I've been surprised by how relatively expensive it is compared to my expectations.

Checking now, for Coach/Second Class Berlin to Frankfurt on a Friday is about 50 USD and NYC to Boston is 75. It's 50% more expensive on Amtrak, but neither is really "cheap", with both of them being about the same length of trip between similar sized cities. It's certainly not so cheap that "people without a lot of money" would be easily able to take that trip on a budget.
Bananas are rich in potassium which can be radioactive. On average, bananas emit roughly similar amounts of radiation as high altitude flight. The intent is to demonstrate the silliness of the argument that flying poses some kind of radiation risk that elevates mortality - would you claim that eating a banana (even at population scale) meaningfully changes mortality?

People hear radiation and lose rationality because of the fear mongering in the 50s and beyond.
Bananas have a lot of potassium which is naturally radioactive
I find myself wanting to write, but petrified that what I'm writing is banal and I only think it's profound and interesting. I suppose I could write some and show it to someone or mail a sample to a publisher.
Oh, I see how you could read it that way, yes. Here let me refute some of these assumptions:

- I don't assert that opposing these things is a moral necessity for everyone, but do find it so for myself.

- I extend civility usually but not always, it depends on the circumstances. If being uncivil furthers my goals or feels correct then I will do it.

- I don't oppose "republicans" generally but I oppose specific harmful acts, including speech in some instances. "Engagement with" is too broad: I'm willing to (and do!) have coffee and discuss any issue privately, but may vehemently oppose the same conversation happening as a public debate, for example.

- Absolutely not everything is permissible and there are many more lines I won't cross than ones I will.

Just for a concrete example, if you read through my history a little you'll notice I fucking hate the police. What you wouldn't guess is my home AA group is all cops except for me. Many years ago I needed help and didn't realize that's what it was and they helped me and I stayed. None of us hide any part of ourselves there. There are men I have opposed in armed conflict in the street and then met with mutual love and grace in the room.

I see very clearly the humanity of my enemies but nonetheless find I must oppose them. I am rarely truly sure I'm on the right path, but I feel compelled to act and I hope for forgiveness for my mistakes and harms.
Adding movement to my Raspberry Pi camera
People are so unbelievably disrespectful with noise in the US. Peaceful hike? Here's Katy Perry crackling out of my iPhone at full blast! Luxury apartment at $4k a month? No insulation between units, and the guy above you comes home at 2am and never takes his shoes off. Small country street? Here comes Chad with his straight-piped civic with the muffler removed!
It's not fair, it is legal, and there's nothing you can do about it. You will never be able to talk to a human at Google about this. Even paying customers of their all-important ad business can't really talk to helpful humans about things.

The only solution is to support US elected officials who want to break up Google. There is no solution for you in particular.
>>>> . . . in any epoch, to know who is in power, ask who you may not criticise.

> I'm not sure it was about criticism of the powerful.

Are “the powerful” not “who is in power?” The comment of the g-g-g-parent did not mention the Holocaust or any other act of genocide. Unless there is some anti-Semitic hidden message the statement is nearly a banal platitude.

Also, your Biden analogy is as flat as your example of workplace ridicule of people affected by autism. A contrary example might be that the jeers of crowds are allowed for so long as they are not truly threatening or subversive. In the lead up to Biden’s election the news of his son’s laptop was suppressed. Effective criticism is not allowed.
that Lockdown App is not a true firewall app. Lockdown app requires a VPN setting (of which I refuse to grant).
TSA has a 2nd duty that many people are not aware of: It empowers the government to prevent potential “terrorists” from traveling. Think Canadian trucker protestor type people. There will be a time when being part of a political group can get you placed on a TSA red list.

To make this happen they have to screen trains, and perhaps even create check points on state borders.
You could also argue that Israel has done a lot of it "right", at least compared to the rest of the world.
TSA taking the L train
I've done pretty much everything I could imagine to try to identify the root cause, no doctor could give a reasonable diagnosis. My tinnitus started after a night with earplugs, but it could have been a coincidence since I also used noise-cancelled Sony headphones. Who knows ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Those feminists are so angry when they write about feminism. They seem happier when they write about other topics. Clearly, then, we know what to advise them to write about.

You see how that works?
Yup. Paul Graham doesn’t seem to have a very accurate memory of historical conditions.
A generation or so ago vehicle noise laws actually were enforced in California, and now it seems they effectively are not. No obvious technology change behind it, rather somehow the will to enforce has eroded, and/or the burden of proof has shifted away from the perps.
Ah, I had a spare bed there that I ended up using increasingly more.. Sorry, not too exciting.
I like how you took it further. I agree that there may be fewer rules in interacting outside of such a dojo, but there are still some rules. For example, laws governing self-defense that often say people cannot respond to a push by beating the person to a pulp with a bat, lest they get charged for assault and maybe more. And beyond law, just norms on how we agree people should or should not fight fairly.

So I think there is a spectrum from all rules to no rules and that most, if not all, places of human interaction have some level of formal and informal rules on how we expect others to behave.
It's basically a lost cause: for whatever approach you take, the enemy piece of software will always be one ring below you - completely safe from your memory access.

In academics there is nothing really interesting about key loggers specifically.
It's just a software, that reads memory.

You could whitelist processes, but the attacker will patch itself into whitelisted programs at runtime and run under their hood - low level kernel operations are the things, that an attacker ignores, when she already is a kernel module or sits in your ME. That's why Antivirus solutions are basically useless against a skilled attacker.
Continuing my timelapse / security camera using a raspberry pi project, this time I've added a servo so I can look left and right.
I don’t find that I am bothered by constant noises. I have an air purifier in my room and find the constant fan noise to be not disruptive at all. It probably even drowns out the outside noises a little.
As a consumer, pip is pretty good though
>you'll get users who you have to take responsibility for

Why's that? Can't you just provide the service as-is? I have a project that has user accounts and when people ask me for features or support, I either don't respond or say that it's not my focus.
The real-world error bars are quite wide because of the impact of moral character on a person's value, but sight unseen I would give the last seat in the life boat to the non-mentally-disabled person almost every time, yes.

Am pro-abortion in extreme cases involving rape or abuse

See, now that's a viewpoint I don't understand at all. The question of whether or not killing a fetus is killing a person is not affected by the circumstances of that fetus's creation.
To me it can have a few meanings based on context, which I'm sure everyone has their own interpretation ha.

Sometimes it means "giant influential tech companies" in which case you could make a good case that Netflix doesn't belong and some others could be added.

In a career focused context like this I interpret it as "any tech company where most devs easily earn $300k+". So the original FANG plus a bunch of others, including smaller companies like Uber or Splunk.
The difference would be how much of a shock to the system would result in catastrophic effects to you/your family. A hypothetical major 2-week disruption to supply lines and public infrastructure looks pretty different if you are in the country, with well/septic, on a plot of land with a well-stocked fridge/cellar vs. a small downtown apartment with maybe a day or two's worth of supplies and the strong possibility of nearby violence from those that might not be even that prepared.

In a few areas of the US, we have Old-order Amish who make a point of trying to do without dependencies on most modern infrastructure. They always live rural, on farms, certainly not by accident.
Genuine Cisco routers were backdoored for surveillance. I’m sure lots of genuine products have backdoors in them.
That and matching bags loaded on aircraft to travelers boarded - the rest is just thousands standing around
> this article isn't about that

Thank you for reading the article.

> This isn't about setting up security checkpoints.

However, all I have to say is: "yet."
> If you write it in Go and package it as a single binary.
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> You can't if you write it in a scripting language that requires tons of programs to already exist on the system

You are close, but you are not exactly right.

If consider real case of application, which create some value (I don't mean just money, may be for example community value or scientific), you will need to depend on some libraries or tools.

This is how our civilization works, we don't create all things from scratch every time, but instead, we take ready parts and construct something new from them, possibly adding our new parts.

Some parts could been compiled/linked statically inside your big one file package, some only dynamically.

Scripting languages difference is just that they usually shipped with rich development library, and in many cases it is possible to cut unused parts of these libraries.

For example, Python now shipped even with sqlite database included, sure this is not tiny package, but it is used in many applications.

To be more precise, python for android (p4a), when compiled as helloworld, results in approximately 6mbytes .apk.
As I said before, there all python standard library compiled with cython.

Sure, if you will compile helloworld native, will got something within 200k, but if add any library, it will grow, and for real application, 6mb is not to much currently.

If add functionality to p4a helloworld, it grow very slowly, because compiled Python representation is relatively compact.

BTW it could be interesting project, to add to Python/Cython possibility, to create single binary package, so it will not decompressed to fs hierarchy, but read all from those binary as need.
Nope. I run a mail server and do not have many problems. All the problems I have had the IT of the destination in question was courteous enough to resolve.
If you've been paying any attention, denying access to cutting-edge chips to China is a key part of the US's plan for competition and/or conflict with China right now. Even if China has no intent to make any major moves anytime soon they'd be complete fools to not be trying to secure their own supply.
Is cargo more vulnerable to supply chain attacks than downloading a C++ lib and compiling?
Anyone who has ever lived next to someone with a barking dog knows how the spikes of adrenaline at random times of the day and night can raise stress levels significantly.
Let’s forget the word “correlated”. Commits might be signed because an organization expects it, and the kinds of projects with that policy might be rather serious (as opposed to frivolous), and serious projects might have rather senior devs. I’m not saying anything about the type I error, just type II error.
I really do not think a Taiwan invasion is imminent, at least short of a huge provocation.
I believe they found a VHS copy of that movie in bin Laden's hideout, so obviously this level of TSA overreach is warranted.
Anyone whose goal is to sneak a weapon through TSA would do a quick google and learn that they fail to catch weapons and contraband snuck through their checkpoints in their own tests about 95% of the time [1].

[1] https://abcnews.go.com/US/exclusive-undercover-dhs-tests-fin...
I have for some time wondered why that most obvious of institutions, the USPS, does not offer a digital counterpart to snail mail. E.g. getting digital mail to your postal address, or opening & scanning mail to make it available online, or provide a guaranteed digital delivery service, things like that. They have a pretty strong incumbent position to offer such a service. Perhaps it violates some government regulation on what services they can and cannot provide.
Honestly it could almost be considered assault. I’d rather be slapped in the face walking down the street than being woken up by a Harley owner at 02:00.
It's a bit similar in HK, what we do though is research the different buildings a few months before our lease is over. That allows us to visit units in those buildings without being pressured to make an offer and once we're seriously looking we have a much better idea of the market.
Very good point: the best reason to sign is to prevent impersonation. This design decision in git is widespread among other commercial implementations, like Microsoft TFS.
Those people are human beings that need to get somewhere, too, and the bus is the cheapest way for them to do it. That's why they're there, and weeding them out with TSA isn't really the best solution IMO.

I think hijackings are over because everyone now knows that if you pull a knife or a gun on an airport, you will immediately get taken down by literally everyone on the flight. People before 9/11 didn't realize the downside risk of a hijacking was a suicide crash. It was just unthinkable. Now that we know, it will never happen again. TSA is not a factor.
"crazy" people wouldn't be prevented from boarding, I'd argue that even high people shouldn't be stopped as we cannot predict the behavior of a high person, and we cannot let TSA evaluate craziness.
Still refusing to answer.

- What ad agency does Tesla use?
- what networks have they advertised on?
- Multiple people in this thread have pointed out to you the difference between advertising and marketing. Do you still claim they are one and the same?

Finally:

- How to you live with yourself? Don’t you ever get tired of, you know, being you?
I guess if your skills are low enough that it could be difficult to test memory chips but you should test them anyway even if they are “genuine”.

Personally I’ve never had much of an issue testing ram… lots of tools to do it.
I thought that was part of the experience. Red Line in chicago I regularly had schitzophrenic people start to breakdown with violent tendencies in front of me, watch people shoot up drugs, smell a mixture of piss and shit and general stench of months long unwashed clothing of the unhoused. Watch the news and even the CTA employees on the red line have been known to shoot customers whom they disagree with in the back [1].

Public rail in many places is a dangerous, dirty, and chaotic experience. A gritty, anarchistic, and truly American experience. Yet, this is why I loved it. I hope it never changes -- a complete departure from the sterile, arrogant, and uninspiring clinical reality of air travel. I'd rather be stabbed on the red-line than watch it descend into a dystopic clinical, authoritarian, dressdown administered by the TSA in the name of safety.

[1] https://chicago.suntimes.com/crime/2022/3/27/22998488/cta-wo...
I wouldn't describe my relationship with my daily driver as babysitting. Once I get going it pretty much feels like an extension of myself.

In my case it's also very low maintenance, maybe equal effort to maintain as my bike - charging batteries, adjusting brakes, lubing the chain etc. compared to filling up gas and occasionally topping off the oil, which is all the maintenance my Jeep tends to need.
In some contexts, fastmail is viewed as a "throwaway" email provider. I ran into this when I was trying to provision a couple of VMs at a hosting provider. My fastmail email address was rejected. After contacting their support, they said they did not accept "throwaway" email addresses. I had to use a gmail acccount. The irony did not seem apparent to them.
Want to go to the beach? Well here's Toby Keith on your left, Christian Radio on your right, Mariachi in front of you, and Ye behind you. I want all beaches to be public, but then I hate public beaches. meirl.
Ask HN: What are some good places to get a jump start on the state of crypto dev
i am interested in experimenting with tools and languages that are the current state of the art in crypto. i really only know about BTC and ETH and vaguely understand blockchain and would like to do some catching up and see where i could contribute or develop something new. there is a metric shit ton of info out there so rather than randomly googling around i would like to find some solid sources of jumpstart info for someone new like myself but who has dev skills. i am interested in ways to create coins, contracts, etc but really all info is welcome.
Every time I read that the government says they aren’t doing something, I am instantly convinced that they are. Why else would they bother saying they aren’t doing something? “We’re not sharing names with Amtrak.” Never thought you were. But now I do. The government always tells people exactly what they are doing in the form of overt denials.
I think it's attitude. Being loud is rude, but some how also calling others out in their rude behavior is more rude so you can't do it.
That is the case on some government websites.

The added friction to reject unnecessary cookies is a type of dark pattern, I believe.

I do wonder how necessary invasive cookies are. Site file access logs, referral addresses, and geolocation of client ip addresses would greatly improve on info gathered as compared with traditional advertising, and shouldn’t require cookies.
In February or March my mother in law asked her local office which replied they would not ensure her exit permission.
Like "Sign in with Google" is any better.
Massively reducing car usage is a much better solution with much more wide-spread benefits.
Maybe because lots of cops like Harley's with straight pipes, or are sympathetic? But they'll certainly ticket bassy low-riders.
Part of spy agencies' job is to plant news stories, so I find "just trust me, there's something substantial you don't know about besides the flimsy evidence we did provide" pretty hard to accept.
https://www.npr.org/sections/coronavirus-live-updates/2020/0...

may be that story? that says LA though, not New York.
I’ve thought about this, does it actually work? I worried there would be weird feedback issues.
We are not obscenely overpaid. We're relatively more well paid than other workers in our class, but we're still generally getting the short end of the stick.

Even people in my boat. I recently won a decent IPO jackpot at the company I have worked for a few years--have $3MM or so in investments as a result. The CEO has well over 100x that, and well over 10x any IC who's been at the company from day 1. There's no good reason for the CEO of this company to have benefitted to the tune of over $3Bn when ICs who've been at it as long and hard as he has might have cracked a few $10s of millions at best. Are these ICs disgustingly rich? Am I? Of course. But, relatively, we got shafted in comparison to the people who benefitted much more.
I wish we'd turn into something positve the data learned when the world shut down for a few weeks in 2020 to see how clear the air got, how quiet the neighborhoods got, how still the ground got all from the massive amounts of cars not being used.
> I periodically check my phone for the next 5-10 minutes. The driver arrives right on time. I would have had no issue just waiting there.

You had no issue this time. If the driver cancelled you'd still be standing outside and you'd miss your flight. Unlike public transportation, there isn't another arriving in 30 minutes.
As well as motorcycles and noisy diesel trucks.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2020/04/02/train-derai...