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> So what else is happening to make this financially viable? maybe private car use of the loop lift at a premium? stadium co-funding to promote events?

Elon needs to distract people from Tesla's and his legal trouble.
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Unrolled tweets: https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1029900695925706753.html

It's certainly interesting to read about new efforts to bring about PoS in a way that isn't another dPoS take...

But wow, I don't usually care about chained tweets, yet I can't help but to notice this being 75 tweets long (!?)
This isn't just banter type of stuff or responding to tweets, it's a research history recap, something that'd be nice to be searchable a month from now. Amusingly he links to his own blog posts during all this (1). I wonder why he wouldn't just use that? :/

(1) https://vitalik.ca/
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One of the key measures to reduce death by suicide is to reduce access to means and methods, especially if they are more lethal.

This means you put high fences up around the top floor of a multistorey carpark. (At least one car park in the UK has completely closed the top, open, floor.) It means you put barriers up by bridges. It means you teach gun owners to be more responsible when storing their guns and you consider whether the x0,000 suicide deaths to guns each year are a price worth paying for the benefit of ... well, whatever the fuck gun owners think the benefit is.
Missing the point. There's something to be said about treating every human with dignity, even the traitors.
>It will definitely have some sort of tracks. They've shown demos of a Model X on tracks in their demo tunnel.

The website linked specifically says that it will not have tracks. The concrete itself acts as the 'guide' for the skates without needing any type of other tracks (such as traditional metal train tracks).

>The project will also have to deliver on the same demands wrt. fire suppression as any other tunnel.

This is also address by the website. Fire suppression isn't needed because the tunnel is made only of concrete. There is no concern about other materials (asphalt, high-voltage electrical, etc) catching on fire.

>The station building iself must be sized according to the number of people per hour, not the train length; the physical platforms that you use to step on/off trains on subways typically extend into the tunnels.

I'm not sure what you mean. Train stations are definitely sized according to train lengths. In my hometown, a significant roadblock to expanding our public train system is that we started off with short trains (and short stations to match), and it is very expensive to extend the length of the stations now that we use longer trains.
If you control the desktops and take strong measures to stop horribly-buggy drivers from working, 95% of manufacturers will fix the drivers because they want to sell the product.

In that tradeoff, I'll easily pick the marginally smaller market with vastly better drivers.
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It's staggering! I just compared with traffic accident fatalities in 2017 and it's 40,200 (according to [1]). It hadn't occurred to me that drugs were a bigger killer than traffic accidents. Now maybe there's a big overlap over the two figures?

Edit: just realized the drug death count is only for ODs, so the overlap wouldn't be significant.

[1]: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/02/15/business/highway-traffic-...
But you can centralize that technology at the terminals instead of burying / waterproofing extremely thick cables for miles and miles.

There's no doubt it will be less efficient, especially since the cars are carrying their batteries but the whole point of this is to cut CapEx by 90+% and eliminating miles of power lines is an important part of that effort.

It's a lower level of importance over this 3 mile trip, but it's not uncommon for power upgrades/maintenance to be a multi hundred million dollar Annual outlay for large transit systems.
> Should the US rescue all of them?

I never said that. See my reply to ApolloFortyNine.

> You seem eager to give away other people’s country.

It's my country too, thanks.

Just want to point out, again, that right now you are specifically arguing that convenience at the butcher's is more important than human life. Are you really making your point effectively and convincingly?
Agreed - if you fly Economy. For example, Asia to Europe it's quite pleasant to stop over in the Gulf (sorry, non-Gulf carriers :-)

However, if you fly Business (or even First), my, are these long flights pleasant.

Also, if you wish to minimise the number of take-offs and landings (eg out of a fear of flying, rational or not), non-stop flights are the way to go, obviously.

EDIT: s/direct/non-stop/g
Emailing a plain text password? A bold move...
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I love this idea. It occurs to me that the category of non-shelf stable, just add water meals is really interesting. You are going to be able to produce something more high quality and authentic. And I'd guess that large companies who like to focus on shelf stable products to minimize inventory/supply chain costs will be averse to producing something like this. If I was in the US I'd buy it immediately.

I am in Thailand and this approach would be very interesting for a number of Thai foods as well. The king of ready-made or easy-prep meals here is 7-11. They even microwave, toast, add hot water, etc. in the store for you. This would be a direct upgrade to many of the Thai meals they offer.
Fine as long as we recognize that taking to oneself (Google for instance) the task of policing content will increasingly become a minefield - a rod for their own back. Irrespective of the rights of a private company to do what they wish (of course they can), the message is: 'we'll decide what you can see and say because you're not to be trusted to make a judgement. We're your moral custodians'. It might take time but someone should see the massive opportunity here.
Because the tunnel is pretty much just concrete and nothing else. There's no flammable asphalt or high-voltage electrical cables running through it that could cause or contribute to fires.
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The appetite for drugs or the criminalization that creates the black market? Heavy drug users have more immediate concerns than second and third order effects of their lifestyle choices. The politicians and lobbyists responsible for maintaining the status quo on the other hand, should probably pull their heads out of their asses.
> fire suppression systems

The article clearly states the tunnels with have a tunnel ventilation system, which is standard fire suppression strategy for underground tunnels for subways.

> electrical systems

They're already laying power cables for the tunnel lighting system which is presumably for their autonomous driving system with cameras, which now has a single dependency on their tunnel lighting system.

The rest, sure, I agree can be cheaper comparatively to a subway tunnel.

> steep inclines/sharper angles

Why would you want steep inclines (more than 5% standard for metros) if you're already underground and use lifts to ascend? The electric skates will still have a kinematic envelope that the tunnel has to adhere to, especially if they're for standing passengers. I don't see how this differs substantially from subway tunnels to allow steeper inclines/sharper angles.
Right..but you leave fsync on in this case, no? This might be incompatible with the locking required by this server-process edition though (I guess, no clue). But more generally speaking, fsync=on with a proper raid controller gives massive performance boost (like orders of magnitude) while being relatively resilient to power loss.
Death penalty is a bit different from summary execution.
I think a large number of those drug overdoses are legal drugs that come from big pharma. The abusers of those drugs certainly don't feel anything about the Meican drug trade.
It's exactly the same size as the London Underground.
So its an upgrade transport system with cost savings, ie carriages that can use the basic concrete tunnel controlled by software like AI road trains to avoid collisions maximising the transport of people and stations above ground for the cheaper space required when carriages need to stack up side by side whilst people engage in the rather slow activity of getting in and out. I cant see why they cant make a profit from that model.
Let me raise another hypothesis. The real value that movie theaters have today is their ability to shape taste and choose winners. Of course, they don't and can't control tastes completely but they can strongly shape them by determining what's put in front of people.

Some mainstream movies are good, some are bad. Some alternative movies are good, some are bad. But for overall movies production and profiting process, the movies that make the most money have spin-offs, have predictable sequels, have merchandise, can be sold to middle-class third world people who aspire to American or European lifestyles and so-forth. These make the most profits.

So movie theaters help the industry by putting more movies with this extra profit potential in front of people. How exactly they get compensated for this is I couldn't answer in detail but ownership of the largest chains is very incestuous.

But this model requires a situation people first to go to a movie and later to decide which movie.

So this would give the result. It's bad to movie goers power to decide to see. It's bad even if that means more movie theater revenue.
While you may genuinely believe what you're saying, I think many people saying as much are doing so out of cognitive dissonance. For instance, imagine if these tech companies decided to start removing all negative discussion of Trump. There would be quite the outrage, and very understandably so. I say understandably so not because of the topic in question, but because these companies have become monoliths of speech in the US. It's not like a local coffee shop or whatever kicking somebody out because of their views - removing direct access to hundreds of millions of people is something altogether different.

One issue we have is that companies today, in the era of the internet, have grown well beyond any conceivable notion of what it meant to be a company in the past. Facebook now has more than 30% of the world's population in monthly users. They have more active users than any country has citizens. And they exercise more control over them (at least within the confines of the digital world) than nations do as these users' rights and privileges are dictated under a set of unidirectionally imposed terms as opposed to any sort of a public constitution or system of rights. In a way it almost feels like the digital era is perhaps echoing back our evolution from master-slave societies which gradually evolved to feudal societies and eventually onto democratic ones.

Should companies begin to be treated more as we might think of governments once their reach begins to expand beyond that even of governments? I'm not sure, but I do think that we also can't simply appeal to former views. For instance the founding fathers certainly gave no consideration to how companies, with more users than the world population in the 18th century, ought be regarded.
The amount of responsibility laundering that's happening is staggering. Is it the fault of the doctors for prescribing strong painkillers or the responsibility of lobbyists for keeping the status quo as it is. Or is it the responsibility of patients to not seek strong opiates for the smallest aches?
On whom falls the blame for this?
Can this type of software be used the other way around, to turn any picture of some building into a picture of that building in Paris?

That's an effect I've seen with many deep learning things but that I don't understand.
That's because Paris is stuck in the 19th century with its Haussmannian style.

Usually a city lives and changes to adapt itself to its times, and Paris was no exception... Until the 19th century.

Now the local government wants to "preserve" it for the joy of tourists, to the detriments of locals. Housing is scarce causing high prices. Buildings are old and inconvenients.

Paris is a museum-city. Designed for tourists.
> Passengers will load into electric skates, which access the Dugout Loop tunnel from the surface via a ramp or elevator.

So on the Western Terminus, the 'skates' are parked in a holding lot above the track, then individually lowered via an elevator onto the track as needed.

What I don't understand is why this design is advantageous to just having all the skates in a lot next to/on the same level as the track, and passengers just use an escalator to go down to the skate-parking level?

In my mind that would be more efficient, surely. Both cost efficient and mechanically efficient.
Any chance that you could just fork it? Create cmd2.exe, hell you could even open-source it.
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Can you give examples of the apps you are asking about?
Sadly ironic that the format doesn’t allow JavaScript to ensure pages are lightweight and fast-loading, and yet disabling JS stops them from displaying.
But how did you get the Google Fiber in Beijing?

* edit: grammar.
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I am sure a widescale decriminalization of hard drugs south of the US border will be applauded in Washington. It would solve a large part of the drug crime problems in these countries, while raining down industrial quantities of pharmaceutical grade heroin on the US streets.
>The article clearly states the tunnels with have a tunnel ventilation system, which is standard fire suppression strategy for underground tunnels for subways.

Standard subway systems have to have much more in regards to fire suppression than just ventilation. The entire tunnel has to be protected from fire damage with insulation, some tunnels have sprinkler systems, etc. These wouldn't be needed in the dugout tunnel.

>They're already laying power cables for the tunnel lighting system which is presumably for their autonomous driving system with cameras, which now has a single dependency on their tunnel lighting system.

A power cable for low-voltage lighting is much, much, much different than the electrical systems required for powering a subway train. It's like the difference of running an extension cord to your lamp versus laying mains wiring for an entire house.

There's also no reason to believe that the vehicles would be dependent on the lighting system. Many cars on the market today already come with sonic- or LIDAR-based cameras that do not need lamps to detect obstructions. Tesla's own autopilot on its cars works just fine on unlit roads. There are also automated subway systems all over the world that don't depend on the tunnels being lit, and they don't seem to have any issue avoiding collisions.

>Why would you want steep inclines (more than 5% standard for metros) if you're already underground and use lifts to ascend? The electric skates will still have a kinematic envelope that the tunnel has to adhere to, especially if they're for standing passengers. I don't see how this differs substantially from subway tunnels to allow steeper inclines/sharper angles.

You wouldn't want them, but not being bound to the grade and angle restrictions of a tracked metro train means that you have more flexibility of where your system can go if you need to. It makes it easier to route around existing tunnels, piping, sewers, etc without having to make huge detours or being forced to use elevators.

An example of this is given in the linked website where they talk about the eastern terminus of the tunnel - it uses a ramp (from the looks of it, a ramp with a steepness that a subway train would never be able to use). If space allows for such a ramp, it's probably cheaper than using an elevator.
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Thanks big pharma!
Underground space is more expensive than above.
The mined materials worth something perhaps?

Also, the article only says the project is privately funded, fares could be subsidized?
What you are missing is that having hundreds of Model X based mini-busses going through this tunnel is less efficient (both in costs and energy) than having one subway train carry the same number of people.

Now, if you want to be charitable, you could say that the Boring Company will bore a huge number of tunnels all across LA and install a huge number of stations. That would enable people to enjoy the advantages of individual transport (i.e. being able to go point-to-point) while still removing traffic from the surface streets.

But that's not what is happening here. So far they are just doing a super inefficient mini-subway.
Yeah, I can’t agree, sorry. I’m not sure if you’ve lived in Paris or not, but these “it’s a tourist city” comments almost always come from people that haven’t lived there. There are dozens of incredible neighborhoods in Paris that have little-to-no tourist presence. It’s akin to saying NYC is a tourist city because Times Square is a mess.
Smaller diameter tunnels mean lower cost of boring, certainly.

But some of the costs of satisfying external stakeholders, like buying land; getting approval from regulators, politicians and the local community; and so on would be independent of tunnel size.

IMHO the main reason not to install a conventional metro line is Musk wants to demo something going 150mph, and I've never seen a metro line going that fast.
I believe that anybody can use the link - because I do not think that they are legally allowed to limit the offer to only one gender.

The spirit of the offer is to improve the gender balance in technology entrepreneurship. So, if you consider using the link without being one of its intended beneficiaries, then I think it would be polite to share the link with entrepreneurs from underrepresented backgrounds!
What's this for? It doesn't seem to be the same as musl or uclibc, and the only time I've come across newlib (I think) is when I was compiling wget.
> The old "nobody ever got fired for buying Big Blue" argument. It's true that Postgres has been around for much longer than InfluxDB.

Yes. Postgres appeals to managers the same way IBM / Oracle did / do. Right-y-o.
I am sure they got a trial, albeit a 2 minute one, appeals included. Even in China looks like they improved from "Hanged, drawn and quartered," but let's be honest, things are different over there.

Or we may want to ask about being treated with dignity those that are in Guantanamo Bay. Bottom line, one that betrays his country should know the--locally decided--risks. In Russia they kill you even after "forgiving" you (see last case in UK)
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>Last release where godoc has a command-line interface

What? Are they removing “godoc <pkg>”? I used that a lot as a man page. It’s especially useful when you don’t have internet access

Edit: it’ll still be available in `go doc`, just that `godoc` will only be a web server. https://tip.golang.org/doc/go1.11#godoc
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This is an overwhelming story. I'm awed, amazed, and filled with a strange sense of almost religious reverence for the surgeons' work, the family's struggle, and the gumption it must take to endure the suffering. Just wow.
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I'm torn if I should be proud or disappointed that my highest voted comment is a pun. On HN and on a thread that is fairly serious considering it's about modern CPUs catching fire (though I heard Intel was independently working on that catch-fire feature with their newest 28-core release)
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I understand this as a "compatibility with * nix" existing software, not as an "amazing feature." Can anybody suggest why I should like it, except for the compatibility with the software written for * nix terminals? Even ssh being too interconnected with a terminal down to the many details was a shock for me... I expected the simple encryption mechanism, over which whatever communicates, even if that would implement the "sh" part of it only on top of that, but no, it's everything spaghettisized and recombined with everything unnecessary like emulating the devices that don't exist for many decades -- in something that should have a clear separation between the task of transporting encrypted data with authenticating from anything else. I can't see it as being positive, security-wise.

Isn't it strange that today everybody has very powerful GPUs and CPUs and the graphical displays with immense RAM and then using all that to emulate the terminals last existing decades ago appears to be so important, even for something that should be just a secure communication protocol?

Why do we still spend so much energy to decide which console of many decades ago we "support" when it seems that all are flawed, at least compared to what the modern OSes can provide, as soon as the "compatibility" is not needed?

Isn't all that "hardware console" compatibility stuff just a historical accident from the "bad old days" of 300 baud lines between the mainframe and the "terminal" which had a few bytes of RAM total? In the days when e.g. the Thunderbolt 3 can carry 5 GB/s, and the rest of the hardware matches? Why do people still so cling to it? I'd really like to know what I am missing.
With the exception of Denmark, the areas that are in the "green" either have hydro og nuclear.

I understand the issues with nuclear waste, but it seems that's the current trade-off, if you want lower CO2 emissions and don't have access to large rivers.
What's your unique value proposition? What's preventing the competition from copying you and selling the product at a lower price?
Why not try Kotlin. I don't understand why people use Rust for non System programming
> Public transportation is supposed to lose money, not make it, hence the "public" part. It's paid for by tax dollars, because it is impossible for private companies to make money from it.

What? No! Public as in "open to the public". At least in the German equivalent "Öffentlicher Nahverkehr" thats exactly what it says ("öffentlich" = "open to the public").

Systems like the MTR[0] also show that it is indeed possible to have a public transportation system that is directly profitable at scale.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MTR
I used to forget to put "set -e" in bash scripts. Then one went off and deleted a whole bunch of important stuff despite a prerequisite command erroring. Now I include it, but remembering one line of code in the header is easy compared to Go's approach of remembering to check every error.
Yep. It's an example of collaboration in the face of fierce competition. BTW I meant Alexa and Cortana. Oops.
History, line editing and scrollback are provided by readline - at least for bash.

http://web.mit.edu/gnu/doc/html/rlman_2.html
You forgot to mention the drug manufacturers like Purdue, which aggressively promoted their opioids (e.g., Oxycontin) as presenting only a very low risk of addiction and abuse.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2622774/
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> Some crypto funcs now randomly read an extra byte

Can someone explain how this is a feature?