skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> with small pods you will never get the throughput with any kind of safety margin between them.

You assert this like it's a fact. But it seems like something that could be proven wrong. I don't see any real fundamental obstacles here.

You'd need to do some engineering obviously. But it's not a particularly hard problem. Don't crash into the thing in front of you if it hits the brakes for whatever reason. That about sums up the scope of the issue.

There's probably a bit of math involved that tells you the minimum safe distance where emergency braking can still work given a certain speed. If you get humans out of the loop (which the Boring company obviously has not yet done), it's basically a function of how quickly individual pods can react to each other. Which would be measured in nano seconds probably. You should be able to get a pretty decent throughput.

The nice thing with small cheap tunnels is that you don't have to squeeze everyone just through one of them because you can have more than one going all over the place. Most subway systems are a compromise on tunnel size where you basically end up with only a few of them because they are so expensive to build.

They are literal bottlenecks because lots of people end up being funneled through a handful of stations via a small number of tunnels. By the millions.

If you've ever tried to navigate the London underground during rush hour, it's not a pleasant experience. You basically have people shuffling back to back through tunnels and being crammed into railway carriages by the hundreds.

The premise of the Boring company is very simple: digging smaller tunnels at scale is going to have economies of scale associated that means you can have vastly more of them for the same money.

I agree their execution hasn't really delivered yet. But it still could. Probably waiting/hoping for FSD to solve the problem of routing wasn't the optimal move. But that doesn't invalidate the core premise. The tunnels they've dug aren't that expensive. So that part seems to be valid.
I'm pretty sure if men would use ChatGPT to catch women lying about their body this conversation would be in a completely different tone.

For some reason The Internet decided that 6 feet was an arbitrary limit, under which men could be just ignored.

Imagine men deciding that any woman with smaller than (insert random body measurement we can't affect) could just be filtered out?
It's going to be interesting to see what Wendell finds out about the oddities on Windows.

I think with this CPU it will also be the first time I'll no longer dual boot for gaming, or for that matter have a dedicated Windows machine only for gaming.
I hope you realize that lithium-ion battery fires are much worse than margarine or flour fires, and almost impossible to extinguish, especially in the confines of a tunnel.

And while prices might look good for the USA (I'm not sure), they are gigantic when compared to similar projects in Europe. And a mass-transport car tunnel has exactly 0 advantages over a rail tunnel.
“Even though DD Poker and the backend servers was shutdown in July 2017, folks continue to play it by manually sharing game URLs”

Anyone have more details about how the above works?
MIT researchers use large language models to flag problems in complex systems
Isn't WebTransport supposed to get P2P via QUIC?
This sentence was almost too perfect. Really says it all.
Pro-tax economist in an era where the source of money is private and just loan them counter "public debt" (an oxymoron by itself) are simply thieves or people convinced by thieves not much understanding economy.

If you want social dynamics you want a world of SMEs not giant corps/conglomerate/* if you want social dynamics you want free education for anyone NOT to form useful idiots, Ford-model workers, but Citizens.

The reality is that the current Agenda 2030 want anyone but a small set of nazi criminals "without ownership" to manage them in "smart cities" modern labor camp for prisoners/slaves as WELL described times ago by a historical thief behind the Bank if NY silver scam: https://dn790002.ca.archive.org/0/items/sciencegovernme00roo... read it, it's strange but short and you'll have a very good idea of the present world.
Can you add a little player box and make this playable with touhou style controls. For testing purposes ofcourse.

Ah. I thought the script was being compiled inbrowser. These are prerendered.
I think there is an intention to add P2P to WebTransport someday. But I wouldn't hold my breath.
> The LVCC so far is more expensive, slower to build [than subway]

This is just factually false. LVCC was something like 4x cheaper than its competing non-subway bid and something like 20-30x cheaper than just the amortized cost per mile of subway in the US. Subway also ages to construct in the US.
Whole authorization aspects missing. Who can edit, who can lock etc..
If you're comparing just to the US, maybe.

It's still much more expensive to operate, per passenger.
> But it's not a particularly hard problem. Don't crash into the thing in front of you

It turns out that this is a particularly hard problem.

Oh, and if you get it wrong, people will die. In some cases, dozens of people.
> Imagine a world where a hairdresser (for example) tells you the price of the service. You pay that number. The worker is paid a fixed wage. (Ideally a wage high enough that you can live on 1 job.) That person starts paying tax on income once they reach a certain level etc

You're describing every OECD country. The only novelty America adds is the sales tax after, which is a labelling matter.

> may surprise you that most of the world uses this system

What did you describe that amounts to a system? My point is fair and similar isn't a system description, it's a vision statement at best.

Also, are you seriously arguing about the livability of American wages on a quality of life basis relative to the entire planet? Because if you look at the poorest 10% of Americans, their average disposable income is positive [1]. That doesn't mean there aren't huge issues, nor that the average explains every high-COL city. But having any dispoable income, by definition, means your income is high enough to live on.

[1] https://www.bea.gov/data/special-topics/distribution-of-pers...
> The premise of the Boring company is very simple: digging smaller tunnels at scale is going to have economies of scale associated that means you can have vastly more of them for the same money.

...so instead of 1 tunnel with a train in it, we could achieve the same throughput with 10 tunnels with single occupancy vehicles. Brilliant! Cost savings achieved! I'm sure the math will just somehow work out that 10 tunnels is cheaper than 1.
Someone re-designed the Berlin map and every day I hope it becomes the official one: https://www.berlintransitmap.de/
Garbage Collection and Metastability [Marc's Blog]
Non-paywall source https://observer.com/2024/08/eric-schmidt-google-remote-work...

Maybe this thread should be merged with https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41241682 and https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41249946#41250600
Listen to "Well There's your Problem" podcast on this. The maths don't math compared to literally any other form of mass underground transit.
How hard it is to extinguish is vastly, vastly less important than ‘does it stop people safely escaping’ and ‘does it overwhelm the safety equipment’.

It is obvious that having a huge goods fire from a commercial truck that shuts down people's vehicles is dangerous; that directly leads to death and directly prevents rescue. It is obvious that having isolated, separately functioning vehicles that can drive away, and a fire from a specific, planned-for factor of an understood quantity has a comparatively low potential for causing death.
exactly, because the first amendment was passed by SCOTUS after all.
Using our justice system to meter out extreme punishment would mostly impact poor people, and it is not as if the US has historically been very good at listening to the suffering of poor people.

The Bay Area can barely keep service workers in housing and its taken several decades of this problem to get even the slightest bit of progress.
> I do not think of my Obsidian or Notion instances as "wikis"

Because they're not.

There's a weird thing that happened with the word "wiki" where wikis appeared, and then a project came along with the purpose of using a wiki build an encyclopedia, and then people who were confused about which aspect exactly is what made it a wiki vs what it was about it that made it an encyclopedia decided to start going around referring to all sorts of things that couldn't remotely be described as a wiki (but could loosely be described as an "encyclopedia of <X>") as a wiki, anyway.

Previously:

> These people are not building a personal wiki—they're building a personal _encyclopedia_. That's what they're doing. An "encyclopedia of me"[...] It's like if you lived your whole life in a part of the world where iced coffee isn't consumed (and other types of coffee only rarely), then when it's introduced to your people it's to great fanfare, and for no good reason a subset of your countrymen start calling all sorts of unrelated things "ice", whether ice is involved or not. Their sole motivation? The thing they're referring to is a coffee product.

<https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38816853>
The trick to cost saving: stack the tunnels! Exploit the 3D feature of below ground!

/s
Advice to a Friend on Choosing a Mistress (1745)
Let’s take the Elizabeth Line (Crossrail), where they run 24 trains per hour peak (every 2.4 minutes!) with up to 1500 people per train. That’s a theoretical maximum capacity of 36K passengers per hour.

Let’s say our four passenger Teslas can be dispatched every 10 seconds into the tunnel. That’s 360 vehicles per hour, four passengers per vehicle, or 1440 passengers per hour.

Up the pod size to 20 pax and you still only have 7,200 pax per hour. Halve the safety margin to 5 seconds and you still only have 14.4K per hour, 40% of the capacity of the conventional train. And filling and dispatching 20 people per pod every 5 seconds is a pretty tricky logistics problem!
> 2) what's with the Eula?

Yea, there's some strange clauses in the eula. For example, the eula stipulates that your operating system must be validly licensed.

> on your computer running a validly licensed copy of the operating
system

I don't see how or why this is important at all. In other words, pirated copy of windows is disallowed from using this software.

Not that i have any issues with the eula in general. I think this is good enough to be a paid piece of software. It's just weird to see a clause about the operating system itself.
conveniently emitting the fact that this is a reaction to immigrants going around randomly attacking birtish people. If you aren't already consider workong for MSM.
The first $100 US note was issued in 1862, adjusting for inflation about $3,000 in 2024.
Compare it to Europe, same deal, the large constants are just slightly less large.
FWIW, our self-hosted Gitea instance has not had a single second of unplanned downtime in five years we've been running it. And there wasn't much _planned_ downtime because it's really easy to upgrade (pull a new image and recreate the container — takes out the instance for maybe 15 seconds late at night), and full backups are handled live thanks to zfs.

Migration to a new host takes another 15 seconds thanks to both zfs and containers.

I don't know how many GitHub downtime reports I've seen during that time, we're probably into high dozens by now.
Programming vs. Software Engineering (Rust vs. Go)
yeah and do you realise what you are suggesting?

your proposed change will take decades to rework cities to move away from car-centric city design, to introduce public transportation, to rework current districts, to move shopping malls/restaurants closer to living districts etc.

all of this just because you wanted to make stricter insurance just to make it more (by how much?) efficient for insurers, so that they would make more profit.
Why does it ask to select a Google account?
I don't know if there's more depth to it but fwiw I think that's a really cool insight regardless.
> You assert this like it's a fact. But it seems like something that could be proven wrong. I don't see any real fundamental obstacles here.

I think it's just a safe conclusion based on some reasonable assumptions. Just to pick one as an example, Wiki tells me a NY subway train is usually 8 to 10 cars. I'll use 10 to make the math easier. They're between 15m to 23m long so I'll go with 20 and that's 200m. Capacity is around 200 people each which gives us 2000 people per train.

A model Y is 4.7m long and can seat up to 4 people. To get to 2000 people capacity you then need 500 model Y.

500 Model Y, one after the other in a straight line is 2350m so already to get to the same capacity you need 10x the space without even factoring in the fact you need to add space in beteen each and every one of those 500 cars as a safety measure.
You know, I was thinking about how that would actually work, and I just can't imagine it being anything remotely close to efficient.

For example, if you were driving on tunnel level 26 (you had to go down there because it's rush hour and the higher levels are jammed up), wouldn't it be insanely annoying to get back to a higher level? Do we have massive spiral ramps connecting each tunnel level? What about interchanges onto other directions, do you need to be on a particular level, or do you need to spiral your way up to Level 15 West Tunnel Expressway Interconnection Point to transfer to Northeast Extended Tunnel Expressway Business Loop 2A?
Find out: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WD1IX1AFRZg

Your comment seems to totally miss what it would someone would actually feel in such a situation, so posits totally unrealistic thoughts. Who would have "help with research" at the top of mind? Who would choose to pass up a chance to communicate in favor of some weird probability of being killed later at some point?
I remember my teacher lamenting: You will be the first generation that has to pay some corporation for entertainment.

He was talking about how e.g. swimming in a river was replaced with a swimming pool. (This was before facebook etc were popular)
very cool!

does anyone know the original target of this OpenType feature? Struggling to imagine where it would fit apart from code highlighting
The notion of having graduated rates is also from an era when the government operated very differently.

Once upon a time, quite a long time ago, most government spending was public services, e.g. roads and constables and teachers. Government assistance was not a major expenditure. Maybe they would have operated a homeless shelter but there were no food stamps, no social security, no EITC. Then you were faced with the government needing to pay the constable but if you took the money from someone who was already close to starvation, they would starve, so the proposal comes to take more of the money from doctors and lawyers. Okay, sure, so make the marginal rates lower on the poor then. Progressive rate structure.

Then we added food stamps and all the rest of it. Now, most of these programs would be better as cash, but either way they have phase outs so you're not giving food stamps to Jeff Bezos. Except that phase outs and marginal tax rates are really the same thing. So we built a whole complicated system to impose lower marginal tax rates on lower income people, and then a separate whole complicated system to impose means testing and phase outs for government benefits, and these systems cancel out because one of them lowers the marginal tax rate of lower income people and the other one raises it.

This is dumb. Get rid of both complicated systems, make the benefits simple unconditional cash and then use a uniform tax rate.
So Con #3 makes it rather unusable

>For example, words within <p> tags that are JS keywords will be always highlighted
It's in the article.

For instance handwriting fonts
Can't you just make a single-word ligature and
manipulate its appearance, instead of chaining single letters?
Show HN: Highlight Gmail Rows with Colors Using Email Row Highlighter for Gmail
It all started on a typical workday, buried under a mountain of emails. As I sifted through my Gmail inbox, I found myself constantly losing track of where I was. I’d hover over a row, get distracted, and then struggle to find my place again. That’s when it hit me—what if the rows in Gmail could be highlighted with vibrant colors as I hovered over them? It seemed like a small, simple change, but I realized it could make email management so much smoother and more enjoyable.

I started thinking about this idea and realized it wasn’t just about practicality—it was about adding a bit of personality to an otherwise dull task. I envisioned a tool that would allow users to customize the colors, making email browsing not just efficient but fun.

With this idea in mind, I set out to develop the tool. Little did I know, it would be a journey full of challenges. From figuring out how to integrate with Gmail’s interface to ensuring that the color customization was user-friendly, every step came with its own set of hurdles. But after countless hours of coding, testing, and tweaking, I finally created something I’m proud of: *Email Row Highlighter for Gmail™ and Inbox™*.

The tool does exactly what I envisioned—it highlights rows in Gmail and Inbox with shiny, eye-catching colors when you hover over them. You can easily customize the highlight color to suit your style by accessing the settings through a simple popup button. Whether you prefer a calming blue, a vibrant red, or something entirely unique, you can make your email experience truly yours.

Now, I’m turning to the HN community for feedback. I’d love for you to give it a try and let me know what you think. Whether it’s a feature suggestion, a bug report, or just your overall impression, your input will help me make this tool even better. So please, check it out and share your thoughts!
Very true BUT yet in hw terms most systems are NOT designed for LOM indeed, and that's on purpose because LOM means also the need of open standards for interoperability and OEM likes to keep their own lock-in.

Hell, most people even fails to understand how ridiculous are 99% of "modern" OSes who offer no option for a declarative config or a SIMPLE automatic deploy, relaying on classic "archives unpacking on a filesystem" for installers/packages, no built-in replication, no built-in orchestration. No mobos ready to "offer a 'BIOS' access via built-in LOM if a dedicated cable is plugged in, plug and play" etc.

Not to talk about the sorry state of conferencing where from a legacy but at least universal SIP/RTP standard we have switched to walled gardens, walled gardens TO COMMUNICATE, because as anyone know to talk to others walls are good tools.

Just take a looks at how many companies push remote desktop simply because they have no easy solution to properly manage remote workers desktops natively.

Yes networked desktop computing was lost in time on purpose, pushing "cloud+mobile" to push substantial lock-in and no personal ownership, for the sake of giants who NEED THE OFFICE to keep the city up where they can handle people like puppets, but so far they almost succeed everywhere and most people allow them to succeed.
It's not gmail specific, it's standardized as a "sub-address" and not part of the username of the email. smtp has worked like this since the 90s at least.
The problem with most of these tools is the same as when we got the UML driven development craziness, most of them don't map to the actuall source code being written, and most often than not, mistakes get introduced as the actual implementation doesn't match the model.

What the industry is missing is more adoption of Design by Contract, formal verification clauses (SPARK and Frama-C style), Type Driven Development, across mainstream languages, alongside more love for stuff like Dafny, F* and such.
Growing mpox outbreak prompts WHO to declare global health emergency
Tell me you're heavily invested in Tesla without telling me.
In theory this is a good idea, but in practice I'm not sure I trust my ISP to manage that system. I'm not worried that they'll leak my data, they already do that, but I think they'd probably lock me out of content they shouldn't because of bugs and/or poorly designed system.
> I was blessed with the inordinate chutzpah to shamelessly ask faster students for explanations ad nauseum.

That is NOT thinking it through independently. That is someone explaining it to you again and again. Those two are not the same at all. Thinking it independently means that YOU think about issues and actually personally figure it out them.

> I pity the remote junior who interfaces with an infinitesimal fraction of the fidelity I've enjoyed.

Although offtopic, honestly, the primary reason to pity them is that they are massively micromanaged compared to what we had and get only negative feedback. Modern process is a senior that will tell them everything they had done wrong, then he throws a bunch of personal preferences that pretend are objective wrongs ... and they rarely get positive feedback or thanks.
> language, that we just haven't gotten around to analyzing yet.

Indeed. Thanks for putting things in their right, measured, context.-

I guess thid is what I was getting at: How, if deciphered, the process itself would be extraordinary in its widespread application in other cases.-
If more languages adopted Design by Contract, and the capabilities for Type Driven Development, we would already be much better, without formal methods, many of which aren't supported in common languages and there is always something lost in translation.
Plenty of places also use mother's maiden name as a password/secret too.
I think you should implement client-side prediction, it feels very laggy.

https://developer.valvesoftware.com/wiki/Prediction
> No one has a thinking style compatible with mine. Communication is difficult, but the whole point is to share adopt novel ways of thinking. By the end of the conversation, both participants' "thinking styles" have changed.

I can either focus on difficult conversation parts or at topic at hand. Cant really do both.

So, this means I will do only the social thing and wont get to be able to focus on what I was supposed to learn in the first place.
> One interesting aspect of the Loop, that has been rather heavily reported on, is that the whole thing feels remarkably cheap. Perhaps that's not surprising, as The Boring Company's central claim is to be able to construct underground transit on a tight budget. They have indeed delivered on this promise in the construction of the Loop, but it's hard not to feel like they did so more by pinching pennies and eating development costs than by innovation. Nothing speaks to this more than the photo of the OCC the manual provides, which depicts two cheap office chairs at a long desk in a room with worn linoleum floors and distinctly portable-building vibes. It is, by far, the most underwhelming mass-transit control room I have ever seen. I strongly suspect that the OCC is a reuse of the old on-site construction office. To be fair, they will surely have to build something more sophisticated for future expansion, as the current space only accommodates two operators. We will assume it is temporary.

The said photo: https://i.imgur.com/BlIpog1.png

Come on, it's not that bad. I'd admit it looks more like a monitoring room than control room, but in term of cheapness I think it's well within typical range.
https://www.base64decode.org/

I hope this helps you
I had no idea the concept of product market fit was so new
Breaking Down FRP (2014)
Closed-Form 3x3 Matrix Decompositions
> After everyone "has been pwned" then there is no need for HIBP.

You can be repeatedly pwned with updated/different information. It is not a one and done thing.
Esoterica - The Minix of game engines
The beauty is if the extension are updated and compatible with FF you can switch and enjoy your dictionary using v3 and keeping uBlock Origin.