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We had been telling you to get training, re-education and other qualifications so that you can change jobs and move up the value chain for more than 30 years. These low-paying jobs will be gone eventually, to other developing countries or to AI and automation. While there are workers who cannot find jobs, there is a severe shortage of computer engineers in the tech industry. These tech companies cannot hire enough engineers. They had to bring H1B workers from India, for example. It is just the way human society develop. 150 years ago, you could make a good living by driving horse carriages. Then cars and trains came along and they stole your jobs. 50 years ago, you could support your family by loading punch cards. Then, magnetic disks and SSD came along and took your jobs. According to research, AI will take away 30% of the jobs in 10 years. The thing is you need to constantly learn and change. For engineers, we need to upgrade our skills all the time. Otherwise you will fall behind and lose your jobs.
Why are you typing comments on HN instead of atoning for your countless sins?
Many TBM's are already nuclear powered, in that the grid power they consume was generated in a reactor somewhere. There is no reason to bring the reactor closer to the dig site.

Also, see e.g. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Core for prior art /s
It's very funny that "Get rich quick! Buy my DVD and come to my training course to learn how" scammers are thought of in a negative light but when you are a university and charge more money it becomes noble endeavor.
>To solve the problem of soul-destroying traffic, roads must go 3D

There are other methods. Public transport on trains of course or more high tech maybe semi self driving cars platooning ( http://www.tech-faq.com/vehicle-platooning.html ) which could almost be done with present tech.
Agreed. He has little to no actual skill, which made his conviction somewhat of a joke as well.
When everyone thinks about flying cars, this is a good thought. At least things won't fall in my head when I go out for a burrito.
But there is still a last mile problem, you have to enter and exit out of the tunnels. That's the last mile. Or do you suggest that tunnel building will become so viable from an economic and engineering standpoint that everyone will have an entry point in their garage?

> This freedom-supporting tech also thwarts the tyranny inherent in public transit (schedules, robbing your life with all the waiting, limited load carrying capacity, forced interactions with antisocial individuals, etc.)

Funny you don't mention the tyranny inherent in single-occupancy vehicles: Robbing your life having to find parking. Paying to park your car (if you live or work downtown). The antisocialness of sitting in your car for 1-2 hours a day with just NPR as your only friend. The inherent inflexibility of SOV travel, where your car carries just 20% of the designed capacity most of the time. And finally, the infrastructure that has to be built to support cars, driverless or not, zipping around everywhere, making it harder to walk or bike to where you want to go.
Your hacker mindset is truly inspiring
In the future I assume Tesla, Space X, Boring Co, etc will all become Mars Corp.

He's said again and again his true goal is to colonize Mars and everything until then is to get to that goal.

What happens when he does get there? Can be claim it? Become President? Or an area of it?
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The old strategy of hiding your outlandish claim in an assertion in the first sentence!

"To solve the problem of soul-destroying traffic, roads must go 3D"

The word "must" is a very strong one here, there are other options:

* Reduce the amount of travel that people need to do (remote work, online shopping).

* Reduce the density of cities (enabled by remote work or longer commutes with better internet access).

* Increase public transport options (higher passenger density).

* Encourage cycling.

I feel like only somebody who lives in LA would make the "must" assertion and not think about all the other options... oh wait:

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/videos/b/6e27fcba-309d-494e-b...
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It troubles me that my mind keeps interpreting "boring" as an adjective and not as a verb every time news about this company pop out...

Leaving that aside, I believe the logistics about getting the cars on and off board of the electric sled will (in most scenarios) defeat the gains on speed once the cars are inside the tunnel.

For public transportation it may be a good idea, IF they are able to deliver all those technological breakthroughs...

Also, is 14 feet small enough for some people to get claustrophobic feelings?
Put some container that can hold multiple people on one of the sleds. Now you have public transportation.
Thanks for that information, that's still really interesting. And wow, Vroom looks exactly like F1: I even see many of the exact same track assets.
I'm digging the tunnel love shown here.
sell drugs while commuting.
We don't know how much worse it might be without any attempts, and how much worse it can get when they cease.

> We've been trying to do that for 2500 years.

Who is "we" though? It's never everybody, right? So all this shows is that the few can't pick up the slack for everybody. Not everybody can be intelligent, but everybody can strive for more intellectual integrity than they currently have. That was true "then", and it will stay true always until the failure to follow through did us in.
Yes, okay. Every part of my real life experience developing web apps at the full stack is just theorycrafting.

I've clearly never done this in the real world, and I am simply thinking about my idea of a way to create a web app. And I've never worked with, thought about, or managed a team.

Do I actually need a sarcasm tag for this? I think I do, sadly. /s

I'm being a sarcastic fuckhead. Jesus.
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Here's an instance where I approve of backdoor in encryption. You want a backdoor in encryption, government? Put it in your own fucking software. It's "by the people, for the people"; not "against the peasants, not the elites."
Industry growth and its effect on the Poloniex Bitcoin/Cryptocurrency Exchange
The email address field in your user form isn't public. you need to add it to text in your description.
They should be banned from any and all encryption.

Who do they think they are?

What's good for the goose is good for the gander, as they say.
All those things you propose are controlled by individual companies or the government. Musk is only doing what he thinks he can to reduce traffic.
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Software development is one of those areas where everything has an "it depends" in front of it. If you know what you're doing you don't need generic advice and if you don't it won't help you.

Some random thoughts:

#1 Anyone who has worked on a large code base knows it's littered with TODO comments. Either do it or don't do it.

#3 Yet again half of Knuth's quote. If performance matters don't wait. If it doesn't then it doesn't. But after the fact optimization rarely happens, is more expensive and won't get you there. Don't do unnecessary optimization at the end of the project and don't them them in the beginning either. The necessary ones need to be thought out in advance (choice of right data structure, algorithms, tools) and are difficult to change after the fact.

#4 Arguing about style isn't a good use of time. There has to be some measure of consistency/coherence in a code base but it's easy to take too far.

#7 There's a fine line between a best practice and a cargo cult. Don't do something just because it's a best practice. Do it because you understand the relationship between the practice, the circumstances, and the results.

#17 There's a positive side to personal attachment to the code. You care about it. Also did #34 just state the opposite?
Is there argument here that literally nothing whatsoever could be better than the system we currently live under?

Potentially, I suppose. The only alternatives I hear being peddled are socialist though. So I associate any petty wry remark about "in capitalism, so and so" as a socialist agenda pushing.

In 2017, I don't think it should be considered at all acceptable to advocate socialism in polite company. We've failed that experiment every time we've tried it, we're witnessing two horrific failures in Venezuela and North Korea right now.

Socialism is an extremist view, that ruins peoples lives, and should be marginalised at every turn - the same way Nazism is.
well, who has more economic freedom in the traditional nuclear family? the humane alternative would be to figure out some way to let housewives have their own money, based on the labour they do, not have to depend on their husbands' whims for it. the problem isn't staying at home to take care of the kids, it's that that role gives you less societal advantage and autonomy than the "going out and getting a job" role.
I wonder what the difference is between mean and median in this case?
It's a relevant question, and the answer seems to be immigration-related, it's the Masters Cap.
>There is no room in a civilized society for bondage and servitude through violence.

Absolutely, I think the point I'm trying to make is that slavery or something a whole lot like it has existed long since explicit buying and selling of human lives ended. To make an inappropriate cultural reference, many different situations "just sound like slavery with extra steps"

> a product of an environment that gave her no reasonable alternative

I think a whole lot of poor people in America and the world beyond don't really find themselves it conditions much different than this sort of slavery. Coercive violence and lack of choice not excepted. The illusion of choice and freedom that a tiny wage give doesn't necessarily make liberty real, it just makes slavery a little more difficult to recognise.
How did my grandparent comment strike you?
Any large project is likely to have difficulties of some sort that need to be taken into account to overcome: it's the nature of the beast. You're right, these are valid concerns. Asking the questions as your parent does implies that those at the Boring Company—while they may have not solved them in all cases—are not aware of them, especially as these aren't new problems. I speculate that the downvotes are a reflection that your parent isn't granting them this benefit of the doubt. One can infer from the FAQ that they are thinking of this in part from the R&D bullet point:

> Tunneling R&D. In the United States, there is virtually no investment in tunneling Research and Development (and in many other forms of construction). Thus, the construction industry is one of the only sectors in our economy that has not improved its productivity in the last 50 years.
> The Boring Company is investigating technologies that will recycle the earth into useful bricks to be used to build structures. This is not a new concept, as buildings have been constructed from Earth for thousands of years including, according to recent evidence, the Pyramids.

Yesssss.
That's per capita; not everyone drinks soda. A liter per day could certainly be the average for soda drinkers.
lol, I doubt that.. Microsoft doesn't support internet explorer anymore and would only recommend edge if you're on windows..

People are asking for these services.. just because you don't run them doesn't mean no one does. Skype is still the largest voip network, bing is slowly still growing against goole, onedrive is huge for private and corporations, Cortana ins on over 600 million devices..

As for office on OSX, it is updated all the time and feature comparable if you bother to run 2016 with updates enabled..

THe hate is far from deserved, its misguided.

Microsoft is so cross platform Visual studio for OSX is full RTM, Visual studio code runs great in Linux/windows/OSX, they're writing Linux drivers, they have the Linux subsystem for windows that runs native windows apps, they're a core supporter of the Linux foundation. .net is cross platform now too and they're starting to merge xamarin/XAML/xml forms so apps can be written once and run everywhere..

doing more for software and systems than google is but people will continue to have this misguided hate
So in the concept video it shows passengers loading on to a sled at surface level that can hold maybe a dozen people, and then it descends on an elevator 50 metres to the tube and goes down the line. This sounds cost effective compared to a full on underground subway station, which really aren't cheap to build even if you 10x the cost of tunneling, but it isn't good for much unless all those passengers intend to also get off at the same stop, which isn't really something that happens. So if one of those dozen passengers wants to get off, then all 12 will have to go all the way back up to the surface and back down again, which could end up being cripplingly slow.
Me too. My wife (housewife) and I was discussing about swapping jobs as we both envied the other's
This is extremely well-written. Kudos!

Basically all 8/16-bit console graphics tricks take advantage of one (or both) of the following two facts:

1. 8-bit and (particularly) 16-bit consoles are built to draw and move 2D tiles crazy fast. If the effect you want can be achieved (or faked) by a series of animated tiles, you can do it. The most obvious example is "segmented" characters (usually bosses, but also the protagonist in Vectorman) that are made up of multiple sprites (tiles) that are animated in such a way as to fake smooth 3D animation

2. The screen is drawn one row at a time. Left to right, top to bottom. Like a typewriter. You get a little bit of processing time after each row, and a little extra time after the last row. You can use this time to tweak things (like, the position of the background, or the position of a sprite) in between rows. This is how you can achieve "line scrolling"

"Simple" line scrolling where you change the background scrolling rate on each horizontal line, for a very smooth effect: https://youtu.be/hIiMz_NUDEw?t=97

More advanced line scrolling where you manipulate both horizontal and vertical scroll in between lines: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QN2Yoz0INrI

I am not sure, but I think many of the abstract effects (not the polygon animations, which use tile rendering) in the Over Drive 2 demo that this article discusses are achieved by extremely precise manipulation of sprite positioning and/or scroll registers as in #2 above.
That doesn't mean it makes sense to make dietary decisions based on these studies.
You might enjoy reading The Circle.
Does phabricator include git repos? I've only used it for code reviews.

Also, does it have a CI facility?
Any attempt to rationally ground morality is going to boil down to some set of axioms that are just taken for granted: this is good, that is evil.

Sometimes people try to get around this by choosing different words - for example, a popular adage is that rational morality is "do no harm, except to prevent greater harm". The only problem with it, of course, is that you then have to define "harm", and it something fundamentally just as subjective as "evil" (as evidenced by the fact that the same thing can be harmful or not depending on consent - i.e. on the subjective determination of a person).
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Seems in line with MBA costs.
As long as the server sends "Content-Disposition: inline", the browser should use its own PDF renderer (unless it doesn't have one, but I think that's rare these days).
"Labor follows the same supply demand curves as any other commodity."

Yes, it does. The demand dropped.

What you hear about real wages is in reference to the US and other parts of the global north. Those manufacturing jobs moved to the global south and now there is less demand for them here.
There's a Quartz piece about how Musk conceives all of his ventures that goes into some detail about the considerations behind The Boring Company, but the issue you mention is one of the ones where the technology still needs to advance, I believe.
Quite the contrary. The colonies must be builded underground to protect them from radiation and cold, so boring'll be used a lot.
Musk is proposing a technology. You are proposing social(ist?) ideas.
The "problem of soul-destroying traffic" will exist for as long as driving remains the best all-round option. It's induced demand: build more roads > capacity increases > driving becomes easier > traffic increases until driving is as hard as it was.

Add a congestion charge or tolls, and a proper public transport network. The solution is not more roads, it's fewer cars.
So, the key ideas are:

- Smaller diameter tunnels. 14' is suggested. This is slightly larger than the deep London Tube lines.

- Electrically powered TBMs. Those exist. However, often the business end of the machine is hydraulically powered. Musk is probably thinking of going all electric, at least for the cutter head. After all, he has lots of experience with high-torque electric motors.

- Do cutting and tunnel ring assembly simultaneously. Some TBMs already do that. Those exist; they're called double-shielded TBMs.

Issues glossed over:

- Soil variability. Very different techniques are required for different soils. Sometimes the soil has to be "conditioned", adding something to make it solid enough it can be drilled through.[1] This is the biggest practical problem in tunneling. Too much water is the usual problem.

- The back end. TBMs are long machines. The front end does cutting and ring assembly. The back end, which can be several hundred feet long, is mostly material handling. There's usually a two-track narrow gauge railroad behind the TBM, carrying ring segments forward and dirt backwards. It's constantly being extended with new track sections. That's part of the TBM's job.

Here's a good overview of TBMs design, from Machine Design.[2]

[1] http://www.therobbinscompany.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/...
[2] http://www.machinedesign.com/archive/art-digging-hole
I wonder if it's possible to have a negative value for the Goodwill line item of the balance sheet.
Money is just a medium of exchange. An exchange without money is not 'uncompensated'. That makes it sound like she's living in a slave shed and has to come into the house every day to cook and clean.

The housewife and the traditional father consume the same products. They go on the same trips, eat the same meals together, live under the same roof, drive the same car(s), watch the same TV, sleep in the same bed, etc. Her work is just as compensated as his.
I found the Statistical Learning self paced course on Stanford's site to be a great formal intro to ML algorithms implemented in R, and it is taught by the inimitable Hastie and Tibshirani: http://statlearning.class.stanford.edu

This post on ML in medicine is a pretty good overview of everything that has been going on recently and the nuances often lost in the current hype: https://lukeoakdenrayner.wordpress.com/2016/11/27/do-compute...
$100 in January 2005 had the purchasing power of $122.55 in 2015. Having $105 instead ain't great. Your "zero risk" investment tied up money for a decade, and you had less purchasing power at the end of it.

Interest rates incorporate inflation expectations. What's bizarre now is the way we are playing footsie with deflation.
This is consistent with the other 802.11 speed ratings, back to 802.11b. You can generally divide the bitrate by 2 to get the maximum practical goodput.
The traditional way is to use straw.
Ask HN: What was the most prominent linux-attacking worm or virus, if any?
I am curious, given the recent spate of events.
do you have any suggested reading about this topic? it sounds interesting
> That is still reality in a lot of places in the world. We don't want to hear it, but there is some truth to the idea that you need a middle class income to afford middle class morality. There are parts of the world where large numbers of people have no hope of anything resembling a middle class American lifestyle.

Not only that, they likely don't even have hope of anything resembling a poor American lifestyle.
> that can hold maybe a dozen passengers

there's no reason this system couldn't carry a bus.

musk markets to the elites first, then uses that to subsidize the mass market solutions.
Good luck.

Right now Harvard has the best course in the US.
Stanford and Berkeley are a joke.

The best path into PM is still doing something hands-on in that area. If it is enterprise, then start in consulting or pre-sales. Consumer is pure chance.
Using the grid there must be a lot of transformers and cabling involved. Plus with massive amounts of power in situ one might be able to process the waste rock differently (e.g. if it's looser material with fissures, compress it against the sides of the tunnel or perhaps even melt it rather than removing it. Admittedly I'm rather ignorant of soil and rock physics.)
I think you're right that stops will be longer, but it's my understanding they'll also be less frequent and they'll cover greater distances than a regular subway track (in say, NY). So you'll end up getting there faster and not have the stress of driving in traffic.
>Reduce the density of cities (enabled by remote work or longer commutes with better internet access).

I hope you mean increase the density of cities. Low density is what creates bad traffic. Sprawling cities like LA and Auckland in NZ have awful, awful traffic while dense cities have much more manageable traffic, as public transport is viable.
I have to say openai website is very well designed. Love those gradients.
I'm not trying to trivialize slavery but force a recognition that's there's a hair's breadth difference between many instances of being a domestic slave and very many instances of being a housewife. One is demonized and the other is celebrated.

The way you hear a minority of Bible-enthusiasts talk about the role of a wife is in _no way_ different than the slavery described in the article.
Total price for this new masters would be above the listing price, after housing and other things are factored in. Good MBA can be had for 25k.
Ask HN: Good anti-virus for Windows?
I'm a Linux user, but I've resorted back to dual booting with Windows for reasons. What are great anti-virus tools for Windows today? I was going to install ClamAV but as someone out of the loop for a couple of years I was wondering what other great tools exist now.
The Left is not the epitome of tolerance it pretends to be any more than the Right is the epitome of morality it pretends to be.

I remember very clearly who it was that made my mother miserable for daring to enjoy being a housewife and mother, and it wasn't our conservative friends.

I also remember who made our family miserable for loving and caring for my gay brother as he died of AIDS, and it wasn't our liberal friends.

( http://slatestarcodex.com/2014/09/30/i-can-tolerate-anything... for an excellent essay on the topic. )
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Isn't most of Manhattan ground solid rock? There are many other places where the ground it's just compressed dirt
It's literally hundreds of times more expensive to dig underground than build up. Underground is a public space, it should be reserved for public transport.
Maybe GP was posing the question to a literate audience?
No last mile problem, as in your autonomous vehicle will drive the last mile
There is a saying : “To the privileged, equality feels like oppression.”

If you already belong to a community in a geo-location which holds and controls entry to key places in every walk of life. It makes zero sense to migrate to a different place and stand in the queue like a plebeian.