skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Interesting idea but very weird video. A couple thoughts:

1. "Boring Company" is such a great, funny and fitting name for a tunneling startup. FYI there are people who get so excited about a name they think is just perfect (or title for book or name for a yacht...) that they pursue creating it even though they aren't seriously into the idea. See: the better the name of the yacht, the less the owner uses it...

2. Agree with other comments the video verges on embarrassing. I don't think it helps Musk's cause much...Unless: (A) he subscribes to "there's no such thing as bad publicity" and/or (B) Musk in fact wants other entrepreneurs to see his crazy ideas as a catalyst to start their own copy-cat companies working on the same issue usually with their twist. He has made public comments (especially around the time when he open-sourced his patents) that support both (A) and (B) being true. See: all the new space, solar and hyperloop like companies that started in Musk's wake.

3. I don't think we should blindly give big-thinking entrepreneurs the benefit of the doubt. That has gone very poorly recently and historically. But I think we/the public/government regulators can support innovation and keep an eye on big-thinking well-funded entrepreneurs so they don't do something f'ing stupid full of negative externalities and tragedies of commons and tyrannies of small decisions etc...

4. This particular form of new tunneling as seen in the video might not happen. I hope it doesn't as there are serious engineering and public safety issues. But Musk has a point about needing to dig! AND Musk thinks very long term (the guy is working on going to Mars). Earth only has so much land, as human population increases, especially around cities, we can only build up or down. Both should probably be tried. I remember when Jeff Bezos said Amazon wants to try to deliver your packages by drones, and that Amazon also is out destroy the American economy. Ok he didn't say the second thing. But as for drones, people went nuts on both sides he said that but it's going forward. What if Musk's tunnels started off smaller, focused on delivering packages into and across cities, so not huge tunnels for people but more like conveyor belts for deliveries? There is a need for that or there will be soon. Would that be more palpable and would there be less averse reaction?

Have a good, relaxing weekend to all!
I've often wondered how long Canada can stay an independent country. I doubt it can last 100 more years, unfortunately. Some patriots in 1837 asked this very question as well, wondering why we shouldn't just join the USA and benefit from "more of everything" without sacrificing democracy. They were hanged.

The way Trump has acted towards Canada, talking about NAFTA etc, made me think of someone who has an eye for the territories up north...
> You can't get something for nothing.

If by that you mean that you can't have a developer tool whose "least-resistance" usage leads to anything other than failure (be quick and obvious, or hidden), I'm sorry that that's the nature of the tools you've found. I do think we can have nice things; it's why the level of abstraction of our tools keeps steadily rising over time.
I personally find trains to be dramatically more comfortable than cars. Feel free to disagree, but a) not having to pay attention, b) not facing any congestion, c) not dealing with the motion sickness and dizziness that comes with doing anything in a car, d) not being stuck in a cramped cage, e) not worrying about getting into an accident, throwing away a boatload of money and potentially hurting randoms strangers or myself for reasons that may be entirely out of my control—all of these things make trains WAY WAY WAY more comfortable to me than cars ever can be.

Have you ridden on systems that are better than our crappy one before? Riding in cities like Singapore and Hong Kong is a wonderful experience.

The real problem is that we have nowhere near to as much capacity as we need, and nowhere near to as much coverage either. And that's 100% a result of political incompetence and a lack of funding for something that almost certainly would improve the livability and productivity of this city.

Coupled with how filthy San Francisco is and how pitifully little we do to address affordability and the resulting, predictable homelessness and mental illness crisis we see here, you get an uncomfortable transit experience.

Our lack of a robust, functional public transit network is a big reason I want to GTFO of the Bay Area.
You forgot "humor".
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I enjoy them but would never eat a fresh one, they scare me :) I use minute amounts in cooking because the flavor actually holds up and is different compared to other peppers I had.

I do suggest to someone who may want to try them to use very small amount in cooking so they can enjoy it. I wouldnt want the experience spoiled because it is super hot.

Whatever you do do not touch your eyes etc even after you wash your hands!
and "humor".
I agree on all points - the consultant has his own objectives just like the owners and my manager.

Is it the worst situation EVER!...? Undoubtedly not... but its definitely twisted like a pretzel with problem layers on top of problem. But we also aren't "rewriting from scratch" - that would be too difficult. We are replacing pieces one at a time and breaking/fixing as we go.

I'm compensated enough for the stress and like the people and environment enough to offset the "overall situation".

But yeah... my main point was to say that moving a company from "old broken" to "new shiney fixed" while keeping everything working, adding new features, etc is, at the heart, the largest technical challenge I've faced.

Devil is in the details - and "spinning" it correctly without bad mouthing the company (Which I do like, otherwise I'd not still be there) and while keeping to that main point (upgrading a company) is... interesting.

Finangaling the finer words isn't my top skill :)
That will be interesting to watch
What types of JS vulnerabilities are you encountering?
I can't speak for OP but for me, I disable it because UEFI is an over-engineered mess that solves no problems for me.
Yes, it worked for a couple years, but right now it's a chaos. A subway would definitely solve the problem.
My failed attempt to find ANY information about his father somewhat proves your theory, or google doesn't wanna tell me?
I wonder if it'll actually finally have useful a SELinux implementation and policies like they promised they'd have before releasing Jessie (8), or remotely up to date clustering software such as pacemaker, corosync, ha resource agents and DRBD which is pretty much unusable in any modern in 7, or 8. Jessie (8) was such a flop of a release so many people and business's I know that were loyal to Debian moved to CentOS 7 + EPEL/Elrepo with great success and given how hostile the Debian community (mainly packing community) has become over recent years and how helpful and inclusive Fedora and RHEL's community and bug tracking ecosystem has become I can't see many of us moving back.
At some point I really do want to visit the black markets in China -- that video of the guy building his own iPhone as so cool. Everything we get comes all plastic wrapped and obfuscated, it's cool to remember it's all still just circuit boards and recognizable components -- just much smaller than we were used to snapping together in the 80s and 90s.
3-D printing offers new approach to making buildings
This is the worst website scrolling nonsense I've ever encountered. Wow.
I hope we find some ETs. Otherwise I'm worried we're either:

- in a simulation, and they didn't bother to simulate other parts of the universe in high fidelity.

- in a zoo, and somehow we're blocked from seeing other civilizations.

I don't buy, for an instant, that in a universe of this size, we'd be the only life forms.
>Surely they could just issue a 'mea culpa'

They did [1], but that was 3 month later and by then it seems most of their users had moved on and forgotten about them. Plus, being an anonymous app they didn't have emails for their users, so there wasn't really any way for them to get the word out that they were reverting back.

[1] https://blog.yikyak.com/blog/optional-handles-and-hot-feed-a...
"But if JavaScript wasn't allowed to run by default, it would have never reached it's current level."

I was thinking about that too but I'm not sure it's true. There are some real universally useful applications (e.g. maps; office suites; email; heck, even social media) that require some code to function and I think just about everyone would have been OK with having to grant permissions one time to use them. And all the companies currently making those types of applications helped make JS what it is. Although the most prominent one is the one that has made all it's money on ads and tracking so maybe that's not such a good argument. Anyway, now that we have JS in its current state, maybe we could think about starting to prompt by default, starting with JS from external domains :) (I know, fat chance).
Ja Rule being involved really reminds me of the Dave Chapelle bit where news crews ask Ja Rule his opinions on a tragedy
Iterations are good, not a "but" at all!

Front end and admin work well enough on an old ipad. Fit & Finish shows in things like contextual keyboard layouts for email and web addresses. User management handles the basics elegantly and without requiring anything info above the core minimum.

Clean, fast, nice. Will check out the repo amd Surreal CMS next.
How much of a military presence do we really need, in order to enforce regulations over shipping traffic though? Surveillance by spotter planes / drones, combined with the threat of legal action against the ship's owners, ought to deter all but the most hardcore bastards.

For them, in theory, a rare single cruise missile from Norad ought to suffice. Even then, you could start with a warning shot, and bill the ship's owner for the missile.

For more complicated missions, we could fly out a small inspection or police team in a flying boat. Instead of relying on arrays of 20cm cannons for protection, they would depend on the above mentioned system (which is similar to the Norad system already in service).
MIT's 3D-Printing Robot constructed a 50-foot-diameter, 12-foot-high dome in 14 Hours
The amount of people that can fit in 1 car is roughly maxes out at 4-7 people, depending on the car. There needs to be enough spacing between each car so that in the case of a failure, cars have space to brake to a stop without catapulting the people in it, or causing them to become overly nauseous. So there's going to be a decent amounnt of spacing between each car.

The number of people that can fit on 1 bus can hit in the ballpark of 50 people, so we're getting a roughly 10x capacity boost here. You lose the "ever-moving system" benefit doing this, but I highly doubt some stopping and starting would lead to an order of magnitude slower speed.

Now, the number of people that can fit on 1 SF BART train is in the realm of 10 cars * 200 = 2000 people per train. The spacing is not going to be on the order of 100x longer than in the individual car case, and the starting-stopping speed is going to be not a bit slower than the bus case.

I'll let you work out the math on that, but it's not even orders of magnitude close. Don't need to be a "visionary" to see that.
It's pure speculation as to how quickly it will even happen. I can imagine a forum similar to this one back in the 60's, 70's or 80's talking about how cold fusion will revolutionize the world. Uber's problems are in the immediate term, the idea that they will even exist when true self-driving cars actually make it to market is far-fetched already.
I take issue with the last point: JS has matured like bread, not cheese. No matter the age or ingrained status of a language, we have to be able to admit its flaws, rather than go on with some learned helplessness over the whole ordeal.

We can be dismissive about "memes", but sometimes groupthink is also a thing people think in a group, because it's justified by common experience. JS has been developed and provided for out of extreme necessity, and I don't think it's fair to try and prop it up using the infrastructure that arose out of that necessity - in some sense, it is the ecosystem around a sewer pipe: important, but nothing worth building a national park over.

The day we stop asking "why aren't you using something other than Javascript?" is the day we collectively take a step back in terms of design thinking.
For younger candidates, how about questions like: "Do you have a passion for this industry? Why?" and "What have you done in the past that demonstrates your commitment to completing anything you set your mind to?"
For older candidates, how about questions like: "What do you consider your driving factor?" (with possible answers like "good benefits" or "complex challenges" or "teamwork") and "What sort of challenges do you see in this field/industry and how would you go about solving them?" (with acceptable answers from technical development solutions to "let's outsource" or something creative - something that demonstrates their wisdom, even if the field isn't their expertise).
Yeah, identifying risk is important. But thinking one can "identify risk" as some random dude posting on Hacker News, criticizing a guy with a lot of experience running cutting-edge tech companies that make stuff like cars and spaceships (ACTUAL tech, not these lame web sites that people call "tech" these days), is ... well, delusional would be a polite word for it.
It's too bad Caltrain electrification is getting screwed over... But it's even worse that BART was blocked from just going down the peninsula, to the point that we literally went the other way around the bay to get it down to San Jose. Criminally dumb.
The President's father is Lenovo's founder. I don't know if the CEOs father is a big shot.
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Not that I doubt it - heard similar tales in Chile - but do you have specific events in mind?
Looking at the situation right now I'd think the opposite. It seems dubious for the U.S. as it is structured right now with its internal political tribal conflicts to last 100 more years, whereas Canada is more stable and internally harmonious now than it was for most of the 20th century.

Quebec separatism is mostly quiet. There's a left/centrist government in Alberta for the first time, reducing provincial tensions between the west and central Canada. Trade links with Europe and Asia have been broadened or are broadening. The economy remains spmewhat tepid but stable.

Meanwhile the U.S. itself has progressed closer and closer into the depths of right wing extremism, and shows no signs of healing.
In this context the question is whether "sugary water" is better for removing heat. It's not pejorative to point out that at its core, milk is also sugary water. It's not a health statement. It's a comment about the supposed higher effectiveness of sugary water.
Fun fact, in Chinese recipe, most of the Oyster species can be cooked in similar ways. So it's easy to let Chinese accept this one. One the other hand, Oyster seems pretty healthy since it contains protein but has few fat and sugar, which amuse young people nowadays.

However, since Chinese people already have several oyster-like species locally, importing this one could probably hurt local fish-men's interests.
I feel like part of preparing candidates for interviews is so that they feel calmer during the interview and know what to expect. I doubt you get a very clear picture of someone's capabilities in a short interview if they freeze up from stress.
> If he's looking for mega-good

I doubt it. I think he's looking for the same thing as everybody else: mega profits.
And there is the dilemma. :-)
And we won't have to solve the problem of plasma confinement!
Getting to provide your own seats might just be what convinces drivers to use a subway system.
I do like the idea of coupling self-driving car technology with taxi service and underground highways. When it comes to urban environments, automobiles and associated infrastructure takes up an enormous amount of the available space. It hurts resident's quality of life in many ways (noise, pollution, traffic, stress, less green space, etc). This is one of the reasons I am totally on board with investing heavily in mass transit underground (super excited that Seattle is finally getting their act together on this, which is my home). If the cost of developing underground transport infrastructure is driven down enough by this venture, we could improve traffic flow and reclaim some of the space on the surface as space for people, not cars. Couple that and a future with clean energy for cars and when using a self driving car service is more convenient than owning a car, we could create a transportation system that can get you anywhere, quickly, efficiently, and without transfers.

Self driving car services would allow us to reclaim huge portions of cities by reducing the need for parking spaces everywhere we go, and make driving safer. Tunnels for highways could replace interstates that cut cities in two, as well as provide more flexible routes. Electric cars could make our cities healthier. I think I see what Elon is trying to do...
These investments are intentionally high-risk, though. Most of them go south, including most of those made by famous firms.
Sure, if delusion keeps you happy. It also kills scientific temper and prohibits progress.

I am fine if religious people don't indoctrinate their children. Don't kill their curiosity of the world with lies.
But the speed of light is kinda slow relative to the size of the universe, right?
> If it was really that minimal as per 'NGO' advise then the pollution would be minimal.

That's because most of the money leaves the country.
Show me a working 600mph tube train and then you'll have a case of a superior technology. Until then it's just an idea on a napkin.

China is building new, high-speed maglev trains and there's many lines already open for business.

Maybe one day Hyperloop will get built and will be open for passenger travel. When that day comes it's possible that surface rail may have already achieved the same speed because third or fourth generation maglev trains are in service.
It's possible to start your own company and still think Musk's ideas are foolish. People are giving millions of reasons why they won't work not because they are haters, but because there are millions of reasons why they won't work.
Open letter on DRM to the inventor of the web from inventor of net neutrality
I never thought of that but it actually makes perfect sense for a Musk venture.
That may be the case. However, they still assume c is a constant, in the same way as they also assume that gravity is the prevalent force even in areas that have high plasma reactions. The normal assumption (in all the papers I have seen to date by the "conventional" cosmologists) is that the universe is electrically neutral and hence the only significant force is gravity.

This has led to the idea that there has to be additional unseen, unmeasured matter (aka dark matter) and unseen and unmeasured energy (aka dark energy) to explain the anomalous measurements of galactic movement that is not explained by the "gravity is the only significant force" model.

Now, it may be that there is such a beasty. But, I have my serious doubts because electromagnetic fields have more intense effects than gravity, by some orders of magnitude (about 36 orders of magnitude).

In other words, some environments may be completely neutral and gravity is the major effect, in others, the environment may be very electrical and gravity is the least effect.

Our problem is that we can observe only at vast distances and are not able to take direct measurements to confirm our indirect modelling measurements.

Science is no different to any other aspect of people's lives, they will invest great amounts of energy in following their specific model of the world. When challenged, they mostly look at other as imbeciles who are incapable of seeing "the truth". I've seen this occurring in areas like string theory, black holes, dark matter, sub-atomic physics, climate science, immunology and vaccinations, medical surgical techniques, religion, politics, economics, sociology, finance and business, education, archaeology, evolution, etc., etc., etc.

Our models and theories are just that models and theories. We hope and believe they give us insight into the universe around us, but they are not reality. Each has limits and all use simplifying assumptions that are not accurate outside of the limits imposed by those assumptions.

If on the basis of our assumptions, we have to keep adding more and more "strange" entities to make our model fit the observations, then, maybe, we should go back and look at the underpinnings of our models and see if another model will work better (as in the kind of change that eventually occurred when going from the earth-centric epicyclic model to the sun-centred heliocentric model).

The fun is being able to learn more and more about how our universe operates and what we can do within it.
Both groups are real. Certainly there are many, many disadvantaged people who never had much of an opportunity. At the same time, though, there are also plenty of people who have had opportunities and could've created something but didn't due to defeatism, and they're often the most vocal naysayers.
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I have to struggle to think of a dystopian future any more hellacious and soul-crushing than Musk's vision here. It's just tripling down on the concept of living a life centered around the car. Another step to eliminating all human interaction in the course of your daily life.

If, by some stroke of genius and fluke of luck, this thing does get built it will go down in history as the most absurd thing ever constructed.

Then perhaps a hundred years after it goes bankrupt someone will be drilling down there and hit a tunnel that nobody knew existed and re-discover its brief and absurd history just like Chicago has done with their own boring company: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chicago_Tunnel_Company
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It has some examples what happened to the US territory in a warmer climate. Can't remember thinking of a paradise.
I don't prepare either, except to learn about their product and vision.

Why? Because I am the prize.

They should be happy talking to me, let alone kicking ass for them (and getting owned on taxes, working in some shitty open office, and regularly dealing with deadbeats).

Man I love remote consulting.

All results focused, much higher pay, tax savings (I'm incorporated), and can tell any client to fuck off whenever I want.

Working as an employee is like having a parent dictate your life.

Catered lunches, hackathons, useless toys and shit in the office, telling me how often I can go out, telling me how many "days off" I get.

I had a mother do that stuff for me as a child, which was lovely at the time.

You're a 30+ year old man, and you still need/want someone to feed you, dry clean, and bless you with X days vacation that you have to communicate upfront. Please.

I don't need anyone's permission to fly to an all-inclusive resort to swim in the ocean, eat great food, and kick ass everyday on my commitments.
And yet we still use trains and train stations.
I've always thought that this was the most likely reason for our simulation, and the most telling evidence for it:

In a universe where intelligent life is common throughout the galaxy, there'd be no way to tell what our species would have become left to its own devices. What discoveries we would have made, what cultures we would have created, what our destiny might have been.

The only way to discover it would be to simulate human life on a planetary scale in a universe where other intelligent life is mysteriously absent. Which is exactly the situation we find ourselves in.