skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They definitely support the members of their group (except women, every major world religion has an atrocious track record of supporting women), but the world as we know it has been shaped by religions fighting with each other and killing each other en masse. They may form communities, but those communities do not historically get along with communities. And outside of Europe (for the most part) and North America (on the downswing here in the US), religions still do not tend to be too friendly to "others". To hint that being in a religion makes one more passive, or accepting, seems... odd.

/updated grammar and for clarity
Both are significant dangers, but radiation from the sun can be shielded fairly easily. Not so high energy cosmic rays.
On that last line you're referring to MLMs, right?
He may well be out of touch, but at least Musk's suggesting a real solution to current transit problems, even if it's impractical. On the other hand, whenever I read stuff by politicians and engineers with real knowledge and influence in this field, I'm astonished by the total lack of vision.

Even in London, where you have a major, successful transport engineering project (Crossrail) completing, and an entire city dependency on, and supportive of, public transport, you only hear the most anemic plans for future expansion.

For example, TFL is pushing a "New Tube For London" plan that consists of little more than trivial improvements. Some new trains, platform edge doors, etc., scheduled to be delivered in 2050 or so. But absolutely nothing with real ambition, like entirely new lines, that would actually solve London's insane congestion problems.
The book's investigation of quality and how quality relates to a meaningful life has occupied my mind off and on for decades now. But much more so the past few years.

I remember going to Duke Chapel a number of years ago and looking at the stone work there and wondering if there was even enough masons of that caliber to build something like that today. Then I thought what it must be like, being able to bring your children and grand children there and say, "Pappy helped build this place with his hands".

Perhaps it's a case of greener pastures but it sure seems having the ability to draw on those types of experiences would act as a warm blanket when the more cynical me started to develop a cold perspective.
There was an recent article about testing in JavaScript that looked really promising: https://medium.com/powtoon-engineering/a-complete-guide-to-t...
That global cooling thing was a media scare, not science:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_cooling#/media/File%3...

The current climate change fear is, at worst, both.
Yeah, proposing a massive engineering and infrastructure effort with an insane upfront cost in order to be the exclusive provider of the commodity trains for a few years until other manufacturers lobby for manufacturing rights is the real business venture here.
The domain does indeed rapidly evolve, but the technology stacks that you list ("databases, SQL, etc.") are the areas where the least reversible decisions tend to get baked in, so it seems like it would be wise to keep the rapidly evolving domain evolution separate from those areas.
Only if we assume that sea level rise will not be significant, and that the changing climate will not affect common storm tracks.
hub motors?.. no, my point was: what is stopping the car from flying off the carrier?
"... the old Hungarian saying that “good paprika burns twice”"
"The warming is a whopping 0.8 degrees over the past 150 years, a warming that has tapered off to essentially nothing in the last decade and a half."

This article is bullshit.
OP is angry because it's a common occurrence for companies in similar situation to hide behind fluffy language, while OP has the goal to understand what's going on.
And worse in others. This at least has the advantage that people might actually want to use it since it's zero latency and you have your car for local driving.
Sure, the miners are going to be unhappy. But "massive" is not a subjective judgment; I trust the NGOs on the numbers, and if so the miners are not a large enough population that their firing is a threat to social order.
Using a mountain or pile of stuff as a metaphor (and ignoring its potential lopsidedness for now): At the base, you've got some knowledge that might be kind of dusty, but that you can reacquaint yourself with quickly. Then you've got a mass of experience, layered on top of that knowledge, that further colors how you'll approach problems, the solutions you'll choose, etc. You can reach further from there by doing a little research, and put another layer of experience on the pile you already have.

If the job doesn't require any reach, it's "burger flipping". If the job requires more reach than you can get, even from the top of your experience-pile, and building the pile up to extend your reach enough to achieve the goal will take more time than you have, then you're unqualified for the job. So, you want something in the happy middle: not trivial for you, but not out of your grasp.

Your reach should be small, compared to your experience, unless you're just starting out.
You do link to this discussion from TFA, and you can't have had that many relatives who were shot...
This crazy theory has to die, it just doesn't make any sense. I've seen this several times on reddit and hn usually with a bunch of upvotes and perhaps the most perplexing thing is how so many presumably smart people don't see how obviously little sense it makes.

Musks starts a healthcare company? Mars-related of course, he wants to solve the cosmic radiation problem on route to Mars. Buys Netflix? Heh, that's pretty obvious, people on Mars will need some entertainment!
This is the sophisticated version of the 'do nothing' argument. It's not a good argument in any form. If the greenland ice mass melts billions of people who live on the edge of the sea are at risk. If rising ocean temperatures continue to degrade coral reefs, a big part of the world's food supply is at risk. how does bringing people out of poverty offset that?
I had a bramble of related ideas in mind, and instead of putting in effort to untangle them I lazily let them came out as a pithy aphorism. But:

- Even if all of Musk's enterprises were aimed at colonizing Mars (like gp suggested), they can be quite useful here.

- Turning Mars into a self-sufficient habitat is both an absurdly long-term (and laudable) goal and no guarantee of survival. We have to worry about the problems of surviving on Earth today and, in the very long run, how to live in many other places.

(upvoted your comment, because I agree with it)
This is the only possible answer. LA traffic sucks.
Which leads to one of my personal bug bears: that Canada should accept dramatically more immigration if it wants to maintain an independent presence in North America. I think this would go a long way to improving the business, economic and cultural climate in Canada as well as making us less of a push-over in dealing with the United States. Again, an opinion that is not shared. Most Canadians want the current immigration levels to be maintained or reduced.
Prisoners of Korean War
Or you could walk a little bit between stops.
This becomes interesting. Many gemstones are also essentially metal ores. I wonder if this will affect gem and mineral mining/collecting in El Salvador, which does have a decent reputation in the mineral/gem/lapidary circle.
That plan could have backfired horribly. The police would have stopped to help you. Or your contact could have refused to pick up the phone, or could have just said "you made a deal. Now deliver the bag, no matter what it takes."
I like the idea of putting cars underground, because then you can build a human focused city above. But the video shows an urban wasteland of aboveground high-speed traffic and no people. WAT?
If that's the goal, he should know (from the comments on this post, from comments on other shutdown posts in the 100 days he has been here, etc) that this is the kind of language a shutdown post has. It's nothing new.

This was one of the more sincere "our incredible journey" posts I've read since I started spending time on HN.
This is interesting.

Blocking access to a resource would redirect efforts towards other activities.

Countries with abundance of resources or no restrictions to harvest them are not always more prosperous, as explained by the concept "resource course": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Resource_curse
Why the hell would you be optimistic about that.
Gixy – opensource Nginx configuration (security) analisys tool
Maybe I was reading into it, but I got the impression that the end product here was something more of an artistic nature rather than a website.

If the end product is something that is basically a computer program, like a website, then I expect it to fail. My conjecture is that code and a text editor is already the optimal tool interface for creating computer programs. You can't create a superior tool interface, because code and a text editor is already optimal.

When it comes to creating art, there seems to be a great potential for better tool UIs. A guitar and hands is not the optimal way to create music. We don't seem to have found the optimal tool for creating music yet (if there is one).
I thought it was more that they were opening a connection for several queries but doing other blocking IO tasks in between the queries, rather than just computation.
milk is sugary water
Cars are already full of software.
The ongoing maintenance of tens of thousands of sliding doors, elevators, and retracting fences sounds like a biggie to me.
Direct link to Slitheen research paper with diagrams - https://crysp.uwaterloo.ca/software/slitheen/slitheen-paper....
Makes more sense than the hyper loop to be honest...
I didn't downvote you, but I am genuinely curious where you got the idea that we know how to live on Mars already?
I wonder why having to transport a car and not just the passengers themselves.
Wrong grammar. I was actually asking a question.
My experience is the opposite: I've never used a PIN.

I've done some reading and now I believe it depends on the country which issued the card (as opposed to the country where you're using the card). So if you have a card issued in the US and Latin America, you probably won't asked for a PIN -- because you don't have one -- and instead you'll be asked for id and your signature. If you have a card issued in Europe, you'll be asked for a PIN.

Interesting. A PIN seems safer than a signature to me, or possibly the combination of chip + PIN, but it simply doesn't get used where I live.
So you want to reduce traffic by making the roads less enjoyable and more expensive to drive on? Not exactly the type of solution I would like be excited about.
That's a really interesting perspective. I've never made those connections with Elon's work.

You can throw OpenAI in the mix also. If there are strong advancements in AI then it could possibly be used to automate the facilities if there are not enough workers or as a possible fallback option, among other scenarios.
Yeah, no one is trying to get emotional to say goodbye, and this article is useless.
I used to live a couple of doors down from a traditional family run bakery in Bury St Edmunds (sadly closed in 98 or 99).

Bakery hours were a mixed blessing, the wonderful smell of fresh baked bread needs no introduction, but in the summer when I left my windows open at night the smell alone would wake me far too early — not really complaining, the towns other dominant odours are from a brewery and a sugar beet processing plant.
I found the thread interesting and informative up until she drew her conclusion:

Elon Musk doesn't strike me as an innovator when he talks about building tunnels and subways. He strikes me as Robert Moses. Who are these tunnels going to serve? The Latino communities in LA? Or are we just running them straight to the rich neighborhoods?

It's hard for me to believe someone doesn't have an axe to grind when they make statements like this. On what basis does this person claim that Elon Musk bears resemblance to Robert Moses?

This is my problem with many politics-in-tech discussions. People who take politics seriously say, "technology always has political implications." True enough; we do indeed seem to forget that. They stir some history into their argument. Even better. But once they have to perform analysis, free of the rigorous standards of thought you have in e.g. math or science, they start saying baseless things.
Fantastic post, thanks.

I have a naïve question about subterrean _housing_.

With the real estate skyrocketing in some cities, and scarcity of terrain, I wonder why there is not much more underground liveable habitations (for example, near an expensive city center with no space left).
"This white dude is a racist. Elon Musk is white! He must be planning to do the same imaginary thing!"

Not through-provoking; just more verbal diarrhea from a very angry, misguided individual that uses twitter as a platform to spread their dumb ideas.
I'm not sure whether you're being sarcastic. In any case, your comment is the perfect n-gate.com fodder.
I actually had it first with biennial, but thought but that would be the word for the event (like the italian Biennale) not the time interval, since it sounded weird as an adjective.
Oh the ambivalence; yet listing the years should make the intent obvious.

Also if you use search, there are some more high profile SVG related posts that don't follow that made up pattern.
I support your plan, and present a proposal for phase two: control and efficiency improvements.

The density of the plasma determines the rate of fusion, and is itself determined partly by temperature. If we were to reflect a significant fraction of the emitted radiation back, then the plasma and its surrounding gas should expand, reducing pressure on the fusing core. That should in turn reduce the rate of fusion, lowering fuel consumption.

In theory, we could even diffuse the entire hydrogen supply into a warm cloud that is not dense enough to fuse at all, and store this until we need more heat. As the system cools, it will contract, eventually reigniting itself.

Even if we fail and die, it will still reignite itself, which clearly demonstrates the inherent safety of my proposal.
It is not a coincidence that Uber's competitors are all raising money at this point in time. It was hard a year ago. Uber's struggles have not only boosted the metrics for competitors [1], but there is increasingly a plausible story about how Uber could fail.

1: http://www.thedrive.com/tech/9739/lyft-bookings-ridership-so...
What are compound movements?
This seems like a fairly average Five Minutes of Hate that Twitter users seem to produce all the time.
I think a lot of people would be happy to implement this if they had the opportunity. In one office job I had a while back, I let my superiors know that I could write scripts to automate repetitive tasks, and they were more than happy to help me work with people to automate a lot of the processes.

I'm talking about very simple operations. For instance, 100 different clients send in information in individual Excel spreadsheets, and the company wants to have a master file with all the info. So they literally have someone open one document, copy all the info on page 1 and paste it to a master file, then copy all the information from page 2 and paste it to the master file, etc. For each page and each file. This is something that's simple to automate, and less prone to error than copy and pasting hundreds of sections by hand. And once a script is made to automate it, it's a simple thing to run it each year.

It's not even that organizations don't want to or try to automate stuff like this - check out how some of them multi-nested Excel formula then end up using in an effort to have some kind of automation. They just aren't familiar with much beyond Excel formula's (or perhaps some clunky proprietary software they struggle with).

Like I said, in my experience organizations are happy to use automation if you can show them what it can do, but they often simply aren't aware of how much it can accomplish. And you need someone comfortable enough to run the script and make basic changes to it, and if that person leaves they're probably back to doing things by hand.

It would be nice if people were taught at least enough about programming that they were able to write scripts to automate simple repetitive tasks.
> stated reasons are wrong and that Uber had some ulterior motive

> What's the motivation to lie?

You're right. Uber didn't have to publish anything. In all of the discussion regarding, I don't think anyone has tried to imply that Uber is lying about their reasons for switching. If that's how you read what I wrote above, that was not my intent (indeed, I tried very hard to make clear that isn't the case.) That's different from the position that Uber, given their resources, likely could have gotten Postgres to work in their environment if purely the Postgres issues they described in the article were why they chose to use MySQL.

Again, I don't think anyone is accusing Uber of lying about or obscuring the reasons they switched from PostgreSQL to MySQL. At least I know I'm not.
> Also, one thing to remember is small 'stupid' companies (like juicer) will be "taken care off" by free market economics.

If I think there's one thing we've learnt from the last several years, it's that the magical free market, doesn't do even half the things it's supposed to do, and really isn't a good solution.
Vue Loop – Infinite scrolling
> what surprised me most was how many friends and acquaintances told me I should've taken the cash when I told them the story.

This has been my experience as well. It doesn't inspire confidence in people.
I know far more people who believe Trump represented military aggression and big business while Hillary'just wanted to help people;' which is a very strange idea given that Wall Street, the Military Industrial Complex, and Saudi Arabia donated more money to her than any of them donated to anyone in history.

Meanwhile Obama prosecuted more whistle blowers than any candidate in history after campaigning to protect them. Then dropped 26,000 bombs on Muslims last year.

What about the evidence that came out that the Iraq War's WMDs were a fsbrication of the Bush admin's? Who has gone to jail over that? I personally know Americans murdered in this fabricated war for profit and oil. Even insiders like Greenspan wrote about how that Iraq War was for profit and oil.

The people who are represented are not the working class, productive and honest citizens. You are all too tied up in the Dems vs Repubs debate and other politics to notice this though.
Big props for taking one for the team.

Becoming critical of "climate change" just happened to me recently. I've been critical of the usual suspects like foreign policy, finance, media, etc. for a while, but climate change was a sacred cow.

Then I read this.

https://www.fairobserver.com/more/environment/forgotten-sun-...

Before anyone accuses me of bringing scientism onto HN, realize that never did I call climate change a "hoax." Most intelligent people critical of climate change don't either. Obviously, it's happening...to some degree. I'm merely critical of the mainstream perspective of its causes and effects.

And I'm not sure one can ever be too critical in science.
...if everyone lied then no one would trust each other, resulting in an unworkable universe.

The universe worked just fine before humans invented proscriptions against lying. Biological organisms lie to each other all the time. Predators appear harmless; prey appear harmful, etc.

Actually most humans would be well-served by both lying more and being more perceptive of the lies that are told them.
I find that I have plenty of personal space on mass transit as long as there's enough transit. If I'm taking the 2/3 subway (in New York) or the 27-Bryant bus (in SF) at 9 AM on a weekday, it's totally fine. If I'm taking Caltrain southbound at 9 AM on a weekday or the 4/5 towards the Upper West Side at 5:30 PM, it's miserable.

That is to say, there's a known solution already: funding.
Obviously a terrible idea, but a mining/tunnel building company would be a reasonable outcome.
Passing a law like this is no small feat; it probably had lots of support from the population countering all the corporate pressure against it.

Upon some research, seems like even the catholic church was in favour [1], which is what gave it the final push. I doubt this will cause problems to the level of starting riots; rioting against the government is one thing, but having your church and larger community against your cause definitely makes it lose momentum.

[1] http://www.bbc.com/mundo/noticias-america-latina-39451498
Water is a good neutron absorber. Maybe the water is in front of the magnets.
I assume this is part of his motivation. The cost of LA's perpetual traffic clusterfuck must be immense. The car tunnels in the video were silly, but being able to build subway tunnels faster and for cheap would be a huge boon for everyone. I'm sure he's fully cognizant of the utility of tunnel boring technology on Mars though. There's no way he hasn't thought about it.
Mythbusters did a show on it (didn't personally watch it) and milk came out on top for them. Capsaicin is fat-soluble, so the lipophilic casein in milk coats it apparently. The sugar water claim seems to be because they use it when measuring Scoville units, but seems odd to me. Soluble in alcohol too.
Opening new lines, like building new roads, might hurt everything due to induced demand.

You can reduce demand by not needing everyone to go the same place every day. Why does everyone have to work in London and why don't they already live where they work?
This content seems like it is a random selection from a larger work. It finishes in an incomplete way, and it has no references.
>that Canada should accept dramatically more immigration if it wants to maintain an independent presence in North America.

I fully agree with you, but you have to see the irony in that statement: the more immigrants you take in the less independent you are.

Canada already have 20% of its population being forign-born[0]. Dramatically more immigration would mean that percentage rising to 30 or even 40%.

I'm a panhumanist and an immigrant myself, so I have zero problem with this, but I can understand why some native-born Canadians might be worried when that percentage rises too high.

[0] http://www12.statcan.gc.ca/nhs-enm/2011/as-sa/99-010-x/99-01...
Not if you don't believe in the concept of property; then stealing has no meaning.
The quest to crack and preserve vintage Apple II software [audio]
Most peppers will pollinate themselves indoors with a good stiff breeze from a fan. Hydroponics growth and yield is nuts, though. In equivalent containers, a god hydro system wil produce an easy 4x what the soil setup will do.

http://i.imgur.com/Axy5nl3.jpg

The soil tomato on the left is the mother. The hydro tomato on the right was 5 weeks old (cloned from the plant on the left) and already well over the side of the balcony railing, loaded with tomatoes. (Note the lid had to be tied down to prevent the tomato-heavy plant from pulling the lid off and tumbling to the ground below.)
"Users can select a “Most Recent” tab to show posts as they appear, but the setting stubbornly switches back to Facebook's algorithmically-driven feed after a certain amount of time."

Also there is 1 level of threads in comments. A reply in a post can become a thread.
Sorry I only just saw this message: yeah, turns out there's 2:

* https://github.com/qqtop/nimdataframe

And

* https://github.com/bluenote10/NimData