skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The route the article suggests is likely to encoutner a lot of existing fault lines. For example there is one running through LAX itself, and a series that run through Santa Monica.

See http://www.cccarto.com/faults/la_faults/ for a map of the bigger ones. (A lot of little fracture zones are not shown there.)

Boring a tunnel through an active fault line still seems risky to me.
Anything less than 5-10 minutes is generally considered to be "frequent service", where it's no longer necessary to worry about hitting a specific train, since the next train will be along fairly quickly regardless.
Right, both the sled and the track/tunnel are left over from the student Hyperloop competition.

Hyperloop was kind of a brainstorm of Musk to get around traffic. But now that he has a track and a sled, he figured what the hey, don't even really need the vacuum part just for travel within a city. Just need to scale up a bit (maybe a factor of 3 in each dimension from the existing sled) and get good at tunneling and you can get fast travel within a spread-out city without bothering with the harder engineering problems that a Hyperloop would require.

Hyperloop still a good idea for faster travel, but as far as an initial step, this tunnel system seems pretty straightforward (except for fast tunneling and permits for tunneling, etc) and gets Musk to his goal of getting around the traffic problems of LA.
While I'm on the side of allowing hate speech this is clearly a discussion of degrees not an absolute choice.

Besides the obvious "fire in a crowded theatre" there a raft of things you may not say:

• you are not permitted to reveal to people material classified in certain ways

• you are not permitted to broadcast copyrighted material

• you may not make death threats against people even if you can prove that you are not a threat to them

• you may not reveal information about certain companies if you are in certain positions

These are speech of 'any' sort and I'm comfortable with the penalties (sometimes criminal) for them. I don't think they're dangerously close to criminalising certain ideas and thoughts. In almost every case you're free to think what you want and imagine what you want.

Any opposition to laws that attempt to abridge hate speech cannot derive from a general opposition to abridging freedom of speech unless one also objects to the restrictions I mentioned earlier.
"Hate speech" is basically a remixed word for blasphemy anyway.
I was digging into the 2010 United Nations resolution on the defamation of free speech, and I found some kind-of good news?

In 2011 the HRC shifted it's stance to be more specific, mainly focused on negative stereotyping and being respectful of religion. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Defamation_of_religion_and_the...

> On March 24, 2011, the UN Human Rights Council in a very significant move shifted from protecting beliefs to the protection of believers with the unanimous adoption without a vote of Resolution 16/18 introduced by Pakistan.

I guess I don't really understand UN resolutions, but I guess that the omission of a defamation clause was significant? The 2011 resolution doesn't say anything about it: http://www2.ohchr.org/english/bodies/hrcouncil/docs/16sessio... [PDF]

Also just a general reminder that UN resolutions are as toothless as a newborn. They can only "encourage" and "call upon" member states to do things. XD
Oh my god Musk is the one pitching the "faster horse" solution here.

He wants to travel faster and doesn't want to deal with congestion, and so he comes up with this zany idea for cars on sleds in tunnels.

Maybe the real problem here is the car. Car oriented infrastructure simply doesn't scale well as demand increases.

His solution is going to run into all the same issues of induced demand just the same as highway expansion has.
>We can't​ pretend interfaces like touch are gimmicks anymore.

Judging by how many people actually use touch UIs for Windows, yes we can.
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Yea, that and the HN bubble is strong here. Transport is one of those issues that's divided along class lines. As you go up in class, you become more segregated from your fellow city goers and this plan exemplifies that. A person at the poverty line takes the bus, a little more money, a car that you park and walk to, maybe a plane ticket somewhere, but at a certain point, your driver drops you off at the entrance to your building and you have a personal jet on standby at the nearest satellite airport fueled and ready to take you anywhere in privacy.
> The US isn't doing great in the Press Freedom Index...

"... which asks questions about pluralism, media independence, environment and self-censorship, legislative framework, transparency, and infrastructure"

that's not the same thing as speech, in the US at least.
I stand corrected. Thank you for the correction.
> This is almost certainly not the PC version of the game, which does run Java. The Switch would probably not be capable of running 4 instances of the at 720p 60fps.

Though I might just be misreading you, the PC version probably isn't slow because it's Java, it's just poorly written.
>> "I struggle to empathize with the sorts of folks negatively impacted by hate speech laws..."

That's only because your pet ideology (whatever it is, I have no idea who you are or what your politics are) hasn't yet been criminalized as hate speech.

Recall that there's no objective definition of "hate speech," and in practice the definition will always be tuned by the loudest faction as a weapon against its enemies.
To be fair, given the neighbours, Thailand seems pretty mild on the issue of "ridiculous laws wielded for obviously political purposes."
The USSR was a republic. North Korea is a republic. Cuba is a republic. Russia is a republic.

Australia is not a republic. Canada is not a republic. France is a republic.

A republic is a country that does not have a monarch as a head of state. It has no bearing on how free, or democratic, or representative a country is.

The United States is an (arguably weak) representative democracy, that happens to be a republic.
It certainly didn't work perfectly in 2009. I had to turn off transparent blocks and greatly reduce the draw distance to get decent framerates on my laptop at the time. Maybe you had a better PC then I did. Java Minecraft still requires at least 10x more processing power than it would in a more suitable language.
Actual calls to violence are also covered. So "all liquor stores deserve to be burned!" is protected speech, but "let's go burn that liquor store now!" is not.
Java Minecraft definitely used to have lots of issues with large worlds on my 2009 laptop. Low framerates with freezes every time a new region was loaded, even with draw distance on the lowest setting.
I used to work in the ecommerce space.. along with PCI our security/compliance people made us do lots of vague things with our delivery pipeline with the broad excuse of "SOX compliance"

When asked for the specific rule we had to follow, there was never any response.
Next: lossy lyrics compression where using words that sound the same could yield higher ratios! I wonder how well that would work for Sting where nobody can understand anything anyways.
I think I know what the problem was for me now. I started using their new site when it was in beta at this url: https://apnews.com

After reading your comment I pasted that into a different web browser and it came up so I went to my default browser and removed their cookies and cache and it loaded for me.

Cool link you shared!

Thank you for responding!
You cannot have GPL-licensed code in closed-source code. It's a violation of the license so the code ceases to be GPL-licensed and becomes unlicensed. If you distribute that code, in source or binary form, you can get sued by the copyright holders which is what this case is about.
You realize that in itself is hate speech right.

You are denying my diety.
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The solution to this "last mile problem" is to improve the public transit network and urban design such that the last mile is a pleasant walk or bike ride on public bike share system integrated with the public transit system.
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He got about a quarter of a billion.

He almost went bankrupt in ~2008.

Edit: my correction of a correction needs to be corrected

> In October 2002, PayPal was acquired by eBay for US$1.5 billion in stock, of which Musk received US$165 million.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elon_Musk
What you just said hurts my feelings and makes me want to be violent. The greatest freedom is the freedom to be personally responsible. Laws that curtail speech generally are orthogonal to that freedom. Think about it.
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Well long in terms of odd, not time.
The issue being exploited in the ransomware attack was patched months ago (MS17-010).

The reason that it's successful is a) people don't apply patches quickly b) people us unsupported versions of the operating system and c) the NSA dropped a reliable exploit for it.

All software has bugs, from all vendors. Security patching is a fact of life.
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So was 25I-NBOMe.

The biggest difference is that 25I-NBOMe can kill you. On the other hand there isn't is single conclusive case of death by LSD poisoning.

With RCs you are essentially a guinea pig. So if you want to do LSD, do LSD, and make sure you test it first. Not only it is one of the safest drug (for the body at least) but if things take an unexpected turn (they will), decades of accumulated knowledge is a good thing.
Your right. Thanks.
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I have the same problem on Firefox a 2560x1440 monitor. (Still very nice presentation though.)
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In the US, in this enforcement climate, chancing whether the Federal Analogue Act applies to this compound is quite a risk, especially if the hypothetical taker can be shown to have had intent in obtaining it as an analogue.
As someone who worked in Civil Engineering (EIT) who writes software now I'll agree.

When an engineer gets a license from the state they stamp the drawings. If anything goes wrong, they go write back to the engineer who stamped it. When I was in civil engineering we were asked to redo another firms calculations when things didn't go well (mostly slope stability).

Though for software, I did work on mission critical systems (radar), and they did have a pretty good review/testing regimen. They tested a lot.

For smaller shops, there is pressure to get it done fast and ship yesterday, quality isn't the first consideration. I think liability for attacks from your boxes that have been hacked is low, so even then people aren't as vigilant. See IOT devices..
There's a big difference between being anti-free speech and just not wanting someone to speak on your campus.
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OK, I stand corrected. I'm removing the rant.
> I feel hate speech is an offense against free speech, but I still don't think it should be allowed. Honestly, things like being racist to someone on the street shouldn't be allowed in any country.

The problem of racism "on the street" (and most other places, really) is almost always more subtle than blatant hate speech.

Besides violating free speech, hate speech laws don't help with the cultural root causes of racism.
Thanks. IANAL, which I probably should've said up top.
They can work in reverse too, when the majority is compelled to silence over a few sacred cows.

It's been said that man has a natural desire for freedom, but it certainly isn't the natural state of existence. Despite many warranted criticisms against my country, I'm very grateful to be American.
Then any source patch would fall outside of licensing.

It's clearly a derivative work, as described.
They don't need your empathy. They need their rights respected. Society needs their rights respected.

If you don't like their ideas, it's your duty as a member of a free society to engage with with them in meaningful dialog to show them (and everyone else paying attention) what's wrong with those ideas.

Free speech is the mechanism by which people resolve their disagreements without killing each other - Jordan B. Peterson
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Exactly, I live in Iran, and you won't believe how much I do hear from people "Even in the west they have rules against bad mouthing god/prophets" (for a smart person this is a very bad sign. Theocrat people using a rule as their defence. Something should have went wrong seriously with these laws in West).

This is fucking barbaric. I say whatever I want and I don't care what your beliefs are. If you don't like it, you can say whatever you want about my beliefs too. This is freedom of speech.
Then I'm having trouble understanding what you mean when you say:

> > The stock market's quarterly focus

> This idea constantly resurfaces. It's easily shown to be incorrect. If it was true,

> 1. companies would have low P/E ratios

But it looks like companies do have low P/E ratios—the S&P 500's P/E ratios are considerably lower than Amazon (which is company where the stack market does have a longer term outlook), and (as you say), the market as a whole you'd expect to be lower than that even. So when you say:

> Lots of companies have high P/E ratios, meaning the investors believe in the future of the company rather than next quarter.

What companies do you mean by that? Among big companies (that can afford significant long-term R&D spending, which is what began our thread of this conversation) what do you think counts as a high P/E ratio?
Where do we draw the line? When the Westboro Church protests funerals, we allow it, even though it dramatically upsets the mourners.
The NHS one was posted on Slashdot earlier. A bunch of companies and governments seem to be affected and it's spreading across much of Europe. Whoever started this is probably going to make a killing.

The trouble is, it's not unreasonable to open en e-mail attachment if it looks like it comes from someone on your work network. You may be expecting spreadsheets or PDFs every day, and the most recent MS issue was due to the scanning process itself; you didn't even have to open that attachment.

I feel like several things need to happen here. Non-tech jobs need solid white listing. A lot of white listing software is crap and at B-sides 2016, there was a talk on how to bypass a lot of them. Solid white-listing based on application hashes and complete paths of the binary needs to become the defacto standard.

Many PCs need to stop being PCs. If it's order entry for a doctor or nurse and the software already has a web interface, a Chromebook or Linux box that just boots straight to Firefox/Chromium or something else that's very simple/kiosk is a much better and cheaper solution. You don't need a full blown Mac/Win laptop for most of the applications we use them for. (Maybe Win 10 S could even be an option in this situation, if you can connect it to a domain and offer only company apps instead of store apps?)

Large organisations need solid backup strategies, snap-shoting storage systems for staff, backup verification (would suck of that storage rack had a ransomware timebomb waiting to encrypt your backups) so they're never out more than 24 hours of date.

Even though a lot of this is a "less is better" approach, it does increase costs, it is a learning curve, it does add some limitations and, for public organisations like the NHS, it will be a burden on already taxes IT departments.

It sucks, but I wonder if we'll start to see better practices due to this and if these types of ideas will become common practice in the next decade.
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Any clue if musl has the same issue?
I honestly can't imagine using any other tools to do my job than office. As a student I tried the Google suite/docs and years of usage has me relieved that I could leave them behind. Thinking back the only thing I remember about them is the instances of them not working or not working correctly. Printing was a mess. Left/right clicking to open more complex interfaces would often interfere with native browser/system functionality.

There are no true alternatives in my opinion. Everything else just does not cut it. Websites are slow and more often than not come with all kinds of garbage. Such as advertisements and the latest and greatest font or version 1.25.2.3 of whatever.js (that developers insist must not get cached because they use continuous integration! (note '&t=' parameters when GETting a script)).

No please, PLEASE, let me keep my efficient clean familiar office applications. They are everything I need, I think it's great not much has changed about the basics since they were introduced. I love the fact that I can sit down behind office 2016 and office 2000 and be just as productive when working with simple documents. I love the fact that my dad, whom I often support with computer related stuff, did not even notice the update from word 2003 to 2010.
Your cautious optimism is well-founded. Having worked in the space for a few years, I've found voice tech in the car isn't quite the promised land I was hoping it would be.

The experience is still uneven. There are times when I'm amazed the recognition and language models could pick out proper names of friends and other times when I'm red in the face shouting "I SAID 'PLEASE GET CELERY', NOT 'PLEASE SELL TO ME!'"

For the time being, we still need analog button backups to handle the cases where speech rec fails or routinely misinterprets. The long tail of error cases can actually be even more dangerous for the driver than a simple button press, since they can take your mind off the road for several seconds.
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This works especially well in areas like Boston with multi-layer transit. Take the subway under the city to one of the stations and if you need to go somewhere local, hop on the light rail that runs above ground and has stops placed much more frequently. Beyond that, you have buses and taxis all over the place as well. It's driving in that city that's inconvenient...
Why doesn't Lyft do similarly?
I think this is partly true. However, there is a significant phenomenon where there is financial/political pressure to play songs (pay to play) which then creates demand for songs since they are then familiar to listeners. So companies/firms can pay stations to play otherwise unremarkable music (perhaps simple songs or those with the highest profit margins/potential available to stakeholders) and in a general sense this influences listeners to want to keep hearing those now familiar tunes. The whole pop-ephemerality of music-as-a-commodity feels like the new opiate of the masses - in general people are more content as long as they have a meaningless tune as the background soundtrack for their day-to-day repetitive tasks.

I wonder what the correlation is between acceptance of repetitive music and the repetitiveness of a listener's daily tasks.
Java is a horribly inefficient language for gaming. Every console and mobile port of Minecraft has been written in C++, and Microsoft is working on getting their Windows C++ version up to speed. It has nothing to do with Nintendo.
$40 is a bargain when you consider how many hours it takes for a person create an entire icon set. It's not as if illustrators are rolling in money here.
> Of course, the homeless and drug addicted use the bus and trains for temporary shelter.

The problem is not the public transit, the problem is how homeless, drug addicted or mentally ill people are treated in the US.

Fix this and suddenly public transit will be viable again...
That isn't at all what the parent comment meant. Significant writings from the American founding fathers of the United States warn about the perils of democracy.
Unrelated to article content:

This site's progress bar that correlates to scrolling down on the page is one of the most pleasing 'new' web ideas I've seen in awhile. I'm surprised I haven't seen it before. It's unobtrusive, clean, and ideally could provide a nice idea of the length of the article.

It would be even better if the bar represented the length of the article instead of the full page which you already derive from the scroll bar.
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Currently using Kafka + ClickHouse for something very similar.

The Grafana integration comes in handy! I've been stalking https://github.com/vavrusa on GitHub for a while ;-)

Thanks for the writeup!
The Press Freedom Index is complete bullshit. A bunch of made-up formulas like this one: https://rsf.org/sites/default/files/formule1_1.png

In the Netherlands you prosecuted Geert Wilders!!! Some press outfits from the U.S.A. would be prosecuted left and right.
I think you need to step out of your little bubble
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I am not going to downvote you on this but using Scandinavian cities aren't great example. Think about the amount of people they are transporting everyday compare said a city in China, in Japan, in Indonesia?
That's still quite different.
It is Sony's in game currency that they messed with themselves.

Meaning, it's theirs to issue/manipulate it as they please. If a third party did that, it seems as though it would be much different.
How can it be illegal to have a yard with native plants?
Free speech has less to do with it being a republic and more to do with it being a constitutional democracy. The constitution itself was an elitist project conceived by a few rich landowners. Luckily the elites in question mostly had an enlightened liberal ideology, with the big exception that "All men are created equal" applied only to white men.
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Is The Netherlands the same country who put a top national candidate on trial for politically incorrect views? https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/worldviews/wp/2016/10/14...

I guess I'd define "extreme end" as a country that doesn't threaten jail time for wrongthink.
The funniest part is that Coulter was invited by a group that disagrees with her views.
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We just release Kryptonite (https://krypt.co), an HSM for your SSH private key on your phone.

The private key never leaves your phone. Pair your phone with your computer to create a secure channel (channel is encrypted + signed with session keys only known to your computer and phone). Every time you SSH, the computer calls out to your phone over this channel and asks you to approve a signature.

SSH logins with simple push notification approvals.
Code is public: https://github.com/kryptco.
not really. especially when it's not your campus, and it's just a publicly funded school that you attend, and you express your dislike with violence.
ah, the 'in theory'/'in practice' distinction
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You folks are overthinking the design of a standing desk. I have been using a (6') kitchen countertop found at any home store supported by (2) three drawer legal size file cabinets. I have my computer monitor sitting up on a 4" stand allowing for plenty of desk space. This idea can be configured in a variety of ways from a much longer desk surface to an "L" shaped design-the possibilities are endless & if you're budget is tight the desk components can be purchased 2nd hand. Or you can do as my CPA buddy did recently; placed his humongous wooden desk on auto jack stands. Did the trick but looked ridiculous!
If we're going to be pedantic, that's not a correction, it's just greater specificity.

The genre of "actually the USA isn't a democracy it's an X" (where X is a subset of democracies) arguments is oddly persistent. I call it the "it's not a fruit it's a banana" argument.
We're talking about hate speech laws.