skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes. This is also a concern. Also people are usually fucked up. How will I know that some idiot wont jump out of his damn car during this?

A restriction would be to simply have all windows and doors locked but this can be circumvented in older cars. Perhaps a restriction would be to cover the entire car in some sort of a housing. This will lead to the size constraints I described earlier.

So all in all, a lot of safety concerns with this but I am confident Musk has something up his sleeve. Something like this is a raging yes to one of his two questions; (Yes - "[Will this do good]" | Maybe - "[Is it tractable]" ). I think a solution like this is great if we have a blank slate, which will be the case on Mars.

Edit: Spelling and grammar.
>Stop recycling and calling blue apron to complain about waste. Instead spend that time calling your congress person to start a carbon tax or to stop farm subsidies.

Sorry, but I can't really agree with that line of thinking because it's basically throwing any and all personal responsibility out of the window.

While pushing for better/smarter regulation is an important part of the whole process, it's only one part of the whole process that involves many different parts.

On an individual basis recycling might only add up to a rounding error but the same could be said about many improvements in energy efficiency, the point here being that many of these rounding errors add up to a bigger actual impact.

If everybody thinks recycling is a waste of time and they should instead just lobby for carbon tax, then barely anybody will be more conscious about their waste production and how to prevent more needless waste from being produced, which is just as much of an actual issue (if not even more) as farm subsidies or carbon production.

It's estimated that by 2050 there will be more plastics swimming in the ocean than actual fish, we are on a steady course of turning this planet into a massive garbage dump.
I'm not a "denialist" by any stretch, I believe CO2 causes warming. I believe the scientists probably know at least somewhat of what they speak (although I am skeptical of timelines).

That being said, what is feasible to do? Stop eating hamburgers? Drive Teslas? Carbon Tax Credits derived in meetings attended by people who arrive in jets? There just isn't a practical solution in sight. There really isn't. Just feel good type measures that don't solve the problem and wont. Never mind that the science is a bit unclear on exactly what, when and how much.

It's a global problem. The "globe" hasn't been able to effectively work together to solve much simpler problems like drugs and human trafficking at any scale. And this is a bigger problem requiring more collaboration.

I'm sorry, for all the hand wringing effective solutions are just not going to happen. No how, no way. Not in a timely manner.

The only "real" solution in sight that I see is a massive population decrease through war or famine or plague. Or else sudden loss of civilization and technology which will produce the same thing.

Is that price worth the benefits? I may consider this when "timelines" actually turn out as predicted. Until that time I'm driving a car and eating hamburgers. And living somewhere away from coastlines.
Yes, very excited for this! It should replace much of the need for marginalia, really nice to see more of these key things needed to get visibility come into Rails.
So... what's going on? are they shutting it down? if so, why don't they just say, "we're shutting it down". Why make me read 6 shitty paragraphs and in the end I don't know what the fuck I'm reading?

good fucking riddance
The trick with this kind of thing is separating malicious deliberate exclusion from just trying to finance a project by catering to people who have money to fund it.

Sure it would be very nice and charitable of Musk to make sure that poorer communities are served by tunnels too, but that runs more risk of his already super risky business going bankrupt. In that case nobody, rich or poor, would benefit.

I imagine he'll follow a strategy similar to Tesla where he starts by pursuing the most wealthy markets while his costs are high and as the company refines its technique he'll go down market and become accessible to a broader swath of the population.
Prior to this new fundraising round Uber took a 17.7% stake in Didi in exchange for handing it's China assets over to Didi, which was worth something like $6 billion. So even though Uber lost in China, they actually kind of won, unless, I guess, they decide to start fighting again in some other market.

https://www.bloomberg.com/features/2016-didi-cheng-wei/
Why do you want to drop it?
It seems like not using it would cause more problems when trying to use other computers besides your own.
Might be fun, if you can actually learn it as well as you are now with qwerty.
Secret Aardvark is soooooo good. Highly recommend it to anyone that wants a great tasting sauce with a kick. I love that it's not just heat like some of the other sauces are.
Advancements in boring technology for small stuff (1.5 meter diameter utility tunnels) would also be a game changer in major urban areas. If you need to do cut and cover trenching to install vaults/manholes and duct for underground fiber in a major city nowadays, a several km distance project can run anywhere from $400 to $1000 per meter or more. Traffic closures, street closures, flagging, shoring of excavations, moving big construction equipment around on flatbed trailer in urban cores, etc.

To the extent that at $800/meter, a 4 km fiber path could cost $3.2m.

A bored small diameter service tunnel sized lined with concrete sections (basically a mini version of what the Bertha TBM in Seattle has just finished boring), sized to accommodate small electric carts that could be shared by multiple cables stuck to walls would be a game changer.
> The round was said to have raised the four-year-old startup’s valuation to about $50 billion, up from a previous $34 billion after its acquisition of Uber’s China business.

Uber's valuation is ~$70 billion while Lyft's valuation is less than $10 billion. Therefore it seems like the two main players in ride-sharing will be Uber and Didi for the next while.

I can see Didi branching towards other markets (outside of China) and directly competing with Uber and Lyft. This will be interesting in the next while.
The article is actually very good, without being alarmist, giving the facts:

the arctic will be ice free within many of our lifetimes

there are two main feedback effects from an ice-free Arctic that we know will be bad, but there is uncertainty in how bad they will be:

(1) the albedo effect means less of the suns energy will be reflected back into space by white ice and warming will accelerate due to darker water absorbing more energy

(2) the clathrate gun hypothesis - how much of the methane in the Arctic basin that is trapped as ice clathrates will be released into the atmosphere (methane is about 8 times more potent as a greenhouse gas than CO2).

The other main point of the article is that the Arctic sea ice melting is unambiguously bad. Ignore the opening of the NE-passage. It's all-round bad news for us and our progeny.
A game I play with my kids when we're waiting at street corners is to count the vehicles' occupancy. Spotting anything > 1 is like scoring points.

We don't take the car without an explicit reason: we're late, it's far away, we're hauling stuff, it's raining.

But this is Oklahoma, and as soon as you're a block from the OU campus, pedestrians are seen as freaks. Young guys yell at you from pickup trucks. (It's not just me; I have confirmed this with other people over the last 12 years.)

We need electric cars, but we also need a cultural change. We drive, and I don't want to judge people for driving. But I wish it were seen as a fallback, rather than a default.
Didi is pretty popular, you can get it in most cities, though it really depends on how the regulations are being enforced at the time (didi in Beijing and SH can go away for a few days when there are crackdowns on black cabs). As for rates, check out:

https://ride.guru/estimate/Zhongguancun,%20Haidian,%20Beijin...

That is my standard trip from work to home when I lived in BJ. Didi was just 1.3X more than a taxi, though I usually just took a taxi because wepay wasn't friendly to foreigners at the time.
I thought we already knew how to make a home on Earth. What is this in reference to?

That our current methods are unsustainable? There are plenty of ideas for solutions.

That the current state of human cooperation is below the necessary threshold to achieve a self-sustaining society on Mars? Maybe, but I'm optimistic that we'll find the inspirational leaders that are required.
The only though it provokes in me is, Man, here we are a century later, and the ignorant masses are still letting rich white dudes decide their future for them.
Those damn super elite shadow government paid Chinese hackers always finding a way to get their free music!
Concurrency safety and memory safety can definitely be circumvented in D and SBCL too.

https://dlang.org/spec/memory-safe-d.html

https://dlang.org/blog/2016/09/28/how-to-write-trusted-code-...

http://sbcl.org/manual/index.html#Declarations-as-Assertions
I ride my bike most days and leave the car at home. I eat beef one meal a month instead of 4-5 times a week. I pay more for electricity from completely renewable sources. I tend to buy used clothes and I stopped running servers at home years and years ago.

Imagine a bunch of little compromises multiplied by millions of people, that adds up.

What about you?
"You posted a bunch of headlines by journos"

So what? The whole thread is predicated on an "article by a journo".

"expect us to take that as some holy grail of evidence that GW isn't happening"

Please don't put words in my mouth. Thanks.

Far from "expecting you to take it as a "holy grail of evidence", I'm pointing out that these sensationalist scare articles have been around for a long, long time (at least since the time of Malthus in the 1700s), and yet the promised doomsday has never occurred.

And far from saying that climate change "isn't happening", I explicitly said "Yes, the earth has been colder than it is now. Many times. It's also been warmer than it is now. Many times."

Do you guys feel any guilt at all when you grossly misrepresent someone else's statements, or does the warm glow of virtue you get from Proper Thinking counteract it?

"considering you're a libertarian"

You act like that's some kind of pejorative.
It's quite difficult to be less competent. To make bad decisions at so many turns...
Ok, I'm sold!
> Does anyone know what sort of impact this will have on their economy?

Pretty much zero. I live in El Salvador. The economy is fucked up since long time ago, and metal mining was unlikely to help in any way, specially when most of the profit derived from it was going to leave the country, and the percentage that would remain here was going to end up in the hands of corrupt government officials, in the form of bribes or funding for lobbying.
Yes, sorry I was still editing that. This is obviously the NGO's point of view which is different from the miners point of view.
Yeah! Ask me in a few years and I'm sure feel equally horrified. This stuff is very fresh in my mind at the minute, but it'll fade :-)
I don't know why you got so many down votes. That's EXACTLY how Elon Musk came up with the Boring Company.
Nope; I'm talking about Visual Studio for Mac.

Here's a news article about it (dated: Nov 16, 2016):
https://techcrunch.com/2016/11/16/microsoft-officially-launc...

They released Visual Studio Code around the same time, iirc.
How dare El Salvador try to use facts to claim that these foreign companies mining their resources don't help their communities but only pollute it!

The anarcho capitalist solution is that the country should privatize their water supply so that outside companies can then legally buy up the lakes and pollute as much as they want! After all the companies will have paid people for it - the people only would have to live there :)
> require usernames (and strongly encourage social media integration)

very possible that they thought it would be nearly impossible to monetize anonymous users

> the fact that they didn't think that maybe they should A B test the change in a smaller market first, clearly demonstrates to me that the founders didn't know what they were doing

Absolutely right. It's just like digg v4.
That reminds me of the HTML Writer's Guild, which used to be a thing in the 90's: http://hwg.org
While working in billing IT at a CLEC, I was asked to produce a phone bill for the CEO, with a printed physical address that didn't correspond to where he actually lived. I assumed (and still do) that it had something to do with a school district scam: he wanted his kids to attend a good school, without paying extra tuition. It was easy enough to do, and I don't feel there's much about the funding of USA public education that's worth defending anyway, but I can see how it could possibly have led to a series of increasingly immoral/illegal escalations.
If a tax would save the world I'd be all for it.
But it won't.
Apparently the answer is no.
They may not be stimulating and Reddit search is not working at the moment, but if you'll search there, there's a lot of commentary at different times and across various subreddits on the book.
This is an area where the vision is very desirable, but user expectations also run sky-high.

A company called The Grid collected about $5 million from users (and another sum in the same ballpark from VCs) with the promise of an AI that designs websites for you. Years later, they still have very little to show.

It seems like most of those tens of thousands of aspiring web creators who paid $96 to be "founding members" of this AI revolution have quietly licked their wounds and given up, because there doesn't even seem to be too much active discussion about the product anymore. (The Reddit forum is dead, with a few messages of the "Can we sue?" kind.)
Make an underground concrete factory in the tunnel system and use the tunnel material to make concrete to make the tunnels.

(I'm kidding)
I was too busy noticing how there was no contention between the newly raised car leaving the platform and a new car driving into the platform, or the endless line of cars queueing to be raised or lowered, or the amount of time it would take for a car to make it in or out at rush hour, or brain sizzles
I disagree. Europe has many countries with at least the same wish for personal space as the US, and public transport works just fine. I'd suspect a big reason is the car-centric culture, which also gives rise to the image of public transport being only for those who can't afford a car. It's a cultural problem that'll be hard to straighten.
It seems to be a bad deal to get a few thousand jobs at the cost of severe damage to the environment and public health, while all the money is shifted out of the country.
> The anarcho capitalist solution is that the country should privatize their water supply so that outside companies can then legally buy up the lakes and pollute as much as they want!

That's roughly what has been happening in several other Latin American countries. Bechtel being the usual suspect, they specialize at that kind of trick hand-in-hand with the World Bank.
> and hopefully that will be enough for Chrome to autofill it

Doubleclicking text fields or pressing the Down arrow key (with the textbox focused) sometimes produces helpful responses.

If you're just dealing with numbers, though, you only have ten possibilities for the first digit, and actually typing a character is likelier to have higher chances of success.
That draws an interesting counterpoint: the RIAA's long standing attempt to have copying of non-physical things be perceived as theft.
>As soon as United requested LEO intervention; use of force was by definition put on the table.

It was put on the table, but not with intent to harm him. That's the hyperbole part.

It's reasonable to presume that in the vast majority of cases, people tend to comply with LEO instructions without force coming into play. If it must come into play, it shouldn't take the form of an utter disaster as with what happened to that gentleman. That's precisely why this whole situation is an edge case.

>Is that really true? It insinuates that all flight crew instructions considered safety and security instructions.

Yes. Once a passenger demonstrates they're not obeying the flight crew, chances are they're not going to listen to safety or security instructions either.

>Commercial Aircraft of the type being discussed are flying buses, by definition.

We can argue semantics all day long, but I think it's fairly obvious that operating a commercial aircraft is hardly analogous to the operation of a city bus once you move past the fact they both carry passengers.

>The assertion here being that a person should allow their contractual or legal rights to be violated for the convenience of others?

Yes, actually. That's why other avenues exist to settle such matters beyond holding up a flight until an individual dispute is resolved. If there's critical cargo such as organs on the flight the deadheading crew is slated to operate, it's more than just a matter of convenience.
HN thread from a few days ago with more info: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14186699
As a pilot I find this idea disconcerting because my thoughts are so imprecise compared to my actions. However, I suppose it would be like learning to ride a bike; you'd get used to what it feels like for your brain to guide the rocket much like a bicycle rider shifts their weight. But really, couldn't a computer do this better?
Wonder if this can be transpiled to JavaScript?
Agreed. But given the level of social security in El Salvador it will definitely cause some problems. The problem is the latter: all the money being removed from their economy (as well as the resources, the value of which is only going up). This goes for almost all resource rich countries South of the equator with the exception of Australia and New-Zealand.

Colonialism is far from over, it just wears a corporate suit these days.
> But ultimately you aren't going to have tunnels dug by the Boring Company out into the extensive suburbs either.

The point of the boring company is to make excavation of tunnels an order of magnitude cheaper. [1] And if he succeeds, I suspect demand for the tunnels will push them out to the burbs.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Boring_Company
The one you really need to read by him is "The Center of the Cyclone" ;) It is truly, truly incredible. This guy was a real-deal scientist.

I first discovered him through reading this https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/the-ketamine-secrets-of-s... and then went on to read every one of his books except for his last, which I want to save for the right time. This guy has had a profound effect on my life and I cant recommend his work highly enough.
AWS CloudFormation Supports Amazon Cognito and EBS Elastic Volumes
Pretty interesting, giving it a shot now. Is there a way to upvote songs/add to saved music from here? What if I want to play the 'discover weekly' playlist for example and save the songs I like?
Only Teslas will be allowed?
I feel this could be useful as a kind of underground super-highway for some cities i.e. I need to get from one end of the city to the other end without stopping somewhere in between. Tunnels can get built today as opposed to drones or flying vehicles which are at least several years away. It could probably help traffic in some large cities.

If it could be done inexpensively and quickly it's interesting.

Some sort of a cross-country vacuum tube type tunnel that could let you go from NYC to LA in 15 minutes would be amazing and I think closer to the original hyperloop idea, but ridiculously expensive and engineering-wise beyond the initial goals of this project.
That makes sense. Indian meals typically end with insanely sweet desserts, and sweet tea with milk.
Looks impressive. Has anyone tried it?
Spicy food is my favorite, especially Thai cuisine. I eat red curry "Thai Hot" from a local Thai place at least once a week. I'm hopelessly addicted to it, though my friends can't see how I can stomach that level of spice.
A bit of a buried lede, and not quite headline material in the 2007 BBC article:

"My thinking on this is that 2030 is not an unreasonable date to be thinking of."
Stealing Sensitive Browser Data with the W3C Ambient Light Sensor API
I'm surprised to see all the pepper fanatics chugging milk. I'm a spice wuss and know nearly zero about the stuff. But, as soon as I read that Scoville units were based on sugar water, I started using sweet stuff to cancel the burn. Works great. Whereas milk hardly helps at all.
If successful, I assume this will be used to drill underground hyperloop tunnels. That's obvious, right?
We don't have any proven Hyperloops at any speed.
For a good while, Yik Yak was very popular on my campus. Then when handles became mandatory, basically everyone stopped using it. Even after they back-pedaled, though, our feed was merged with several in the surrounding area, so we lost the sense of community we had with it on campus, and it never took off again.

I don't know about overall, but in my social microcosm yik yak was never able to recover its lost users.
Why are you so angry? Did they make you force read the post?
Doing some googling I found this as one of the links:

http://www.lamag.com/driver/l-s-subway-cars-will-definitely-...

It's a shame. Public transportation would be so awesome if it weren't for the bad press.
Even ignoring climate change, our use of fossil fuels is extremely harmful to people. It's also extremely helpful, but we can do better. Fossil fuels only look cheap because we hide so many of the costs. When you look up the cost per kWh of electricity generated from coal, that number doesn't include the death and diseases it causes, nor the economic impact from contaminating ecosystems. Price that stuff in and the alternatives look a lot better. Add in climate change and it's better still.
Sorry it's Death Watch!! My fault!! Some sort of a slip! It's a bit slow as a film, but well-done and engaging. Harvey Keitel and Max von Sydow are in it. The director is Bertrand Tavernier.
Outlook uses small fonts to render the response and there is a noticeable gap in readability between HTML formatted and plain text responses.
I think many people haven't had the issues you personally do with the presentation. That said, other comments in this thread make clear that you are not the only one to have read them as snarky. It's very useful to be charitable and give people the benefit of the doubt when reading their communication. I think there's a lot of useful information in the slide deck presented in a succinct way, and publishing them as-is is a useful and efficient way to do so.

I think with very little effort it's easy to interpret the shrugs as I did above, and there's little if any additional information that needs to be address along with the final shrug. I wouldn't have presented it this way, but I don't see any malevolence or negative intent on the part of the author.
That doesn't make too much sense to me, since your body could be harmed by absorbing only a fraction of the energy of a large radiation dose.
EBay StartUp Cup Challenge Launches in Four Global Cities
Somehow you think this is the important part of the message?
A few thousands jobs at very poor and dangerous conditions. While the owners for the foreign companies that exploit the mines get 99% of the profits. Really bad deal.
You should read up on Client Hints. Allows the browser to automatically send desired size and pixel density down the image request, where the CDN can then serve up the appropriate file. Basically means for most cases you could go back to using a single <img> tag.

It's Chrome only for now but it's a nice future.