skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think the author mostly makes a compelling case (especially the point about how it's effectively a subway but less efficient and for rich people) but I don't get this particular point:

>L.A.’s highways are congested. Simply putting new ones underground doesn’t really solve this problem.

I mean, more capacity should mean less congestion, shouldn't it?

>Drivers will need to line up to wait their turn on the elevator. If the tunnels were really able to deliver lightning fast commutes across Los Angeles, demand would likely be quite high.

That also doesn't make sense to me. The tunnel will be unsuccessful because it'll be too successful? People won't want to use the tunnel because too many people will use the tunnel? If Musk reaches that point he'll probably already have won.
Google and their ilk picking these childish cutesy names ("Project Loon", "Project Fi", "Malta") is incredibly grating and needlessly detracts from their objectives. Do it once and maybe it's clever. Do it as a rule, and it's hard to take the work seriously. Not to mention, do any of these so-called "projects" outside of Google's core competencies do well once they meet with the real world?
I'm trying it out at the moment, although I find it too easy to snooze or turn-off, which is different from using Timely on my phone, placed across the room. Also trying Alexa at different time intervals.
You know that you can preload memes on your phone for offline usage, right?
Mostly cause, like many Musk claims, it's total crap. Another article, this time from Jalopnik, again provides more light: https://jalopnik.com/what-the-actual-shit-was-that-183121458...

It's utter crap. It's not "affordable mass transit". It doesn't even attempt to approach the advertised speeds. It has no real ingress and egress plans for vehicles nor does it take into account congestion in the tunnel.

The whole thing is needless grandstanding around a poorly built tunnel that doesn't even fulfill 1/10th of its promises. This is why I'm cynical, and why I'm sure others are too.
"the lack of internet usability may create an image of the internet as not being worth it."

People having slower internet speeds is a serious problem with the web (because of modern web design), not with most of the other things the internet is used for.

Personally, as websites have become more dangerous and less usable, I've been finding the web to be a smaller and smaller space as the years go by. For the first time in my life, I can see that it's entirely possible that I will largely stop using the web.

However, that in no way means I'll stop using the internet.
You've got some citizens of Null Island in your data!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Null_Island
Indeed, the anti-musk meme around here is weird. The guy is making an effort to make the world better, and he's spending large amounts of his own money to do it. He's built several multi-billion dollar companies, so he's clearly not an idiot.

It's weird that after succeeding at creating two companies that tons of people predicted would fail at every turn people don't give him a little more benefit of the doubt than this.
Assuming tunneling does need new players to drive down the cost, this isn’t it.

He used an existing used machine.

It took him 18 months to go 6000 feet, a distance the established tunnelers do in 8.

He said it cost $10 million, but that’s really unclear if that’s accurate given how SpaceX was heavily involved.

There’s literally nothing new here except for a hole in the ground.
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Interesting. I have noticed that recaptchas can be frequent on Firefox Android, and yet I hardly ever run into them on Mozilla Brave Android, which is built on Chromium.
It is my alarm clock as I don't think I could figure out how to use a regular alarm clock. They all have lots of confusing buttons and pushing that indented button with a sharp object is really annoying.
Here is my 100% failure rate facial ID software

fun scanFace(data: Picture): Person = null
>Why is it attached to schools tho?

Because people have decided that the benefits of having sports programs are worth taxpayer support. This is largely opinion-based - if you feel they shouldn't be, bring it up at a school board meeting. Maybe people will agree with you.

>Sports are a distraction.

Sports are inherently no more of a distraction than chess club or coding for fun after school.

>I spent only a year at a high school in the US but god I hated all the talk about sports.

Yeah, well, you know, that's just like, your opinion, man. I played sports and enjoyed myself doing so, and gained some perspective and habits that I still value later in life. You are obviously welcome to hold your own opinions about sports, but you're going to have to do better than "I don't like sports" to convince people they are not worth the time or should not be funded by the school systems.
Yeah, before smartphones people turned on the news first thing in the morning. They used to have traffic reports for your commute, weather, breaking news etc.

People even had radios and sometimes televisions in the bathroom to listen to this while they showered.
Yep and considering a very high majority of our work does not require GI we still have huge AI job disruption looming.
I will never understand why people want to hate musk-type entrepreneurs and innovation so badly. People look for any reason to hate him.
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> it shouldn't need to be mandated.

When have you ever know a for-profit business to care if it's not mandated? They only care if it affects the bottom line. As a developer at a company I don't have a ton of say over what we spend time on accessibility-wise and even if I was able to get that code in the QA time to test it would never be approved.
Stop spending so much on military?
Which can be ok. There's no ethical duty to make websites for literally everyone.

Accessibility is a different issue of course, but to illustrate my point: I have never translated my websites to Chinese, making them unusable for 1/7th of the world population. I don't think it's necessarily a failure on my part.
You’ve clearly never lived in a city like LA or New York. Sometimes it takes 45 minutes to drive a few blocks.

And Boring Company plans on using parallel tunnels, for safety and for increased capacity (two directions of travel).
Who cares about this particular tunnel? This tunnel isn't the point. The point is tunneling technology.
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Use Telegram :)
This is definitely the best tip. Two things have probably helped me more than any others, this and saying people's names.

If you say someone's name you will remember it and I've noticed it helps them also remember you and have warmer feeling about you. Also asking questions will open up tons more information you can spring off of to learn more about them and find shared interests, opinions, differences, etc.

I would say you will have to genuinely care, if you don't people will notice and it comes off fake and creepy. I have noticed this with some consultants / business people. ( not saying it only occurrs there, just anecdotal personal experience)
Did the editor in chief and owners twirl their mustaches like villians after coming up with this plan, too?
"If using that framework means that the developer can churn out something much faster, and therefore has time for more features, even if they aren't perfect or fast, is the user really worse off for it?"

I can only speak for one user, myself, but my answer is -- yes, the user really is worse off for it.
I wonder what's included for the regex of .net. Eg: asp.net core, dotnet, c#, VB.net, f#, .net, xamarin,...

Because there are a multitude of possibilities.
> He managed to do it in a couple of years at an estimated cost of $10 million. Even if that number is wrong by an order of magnitude this is a massive improvement.

Exactly! If he can be so efficient at it, why is he not proposing to improve the LA metro system quickly and cheaply?

Instead, he's proposing his own network, using his own autonomous vehicles. Why?

> The "Elon Musk" persona is no doubt annoying, but is that a reason to undermine and shoot down new ideas?

Again, this isn't a new idea. I'm not saying that what Musk is doing is not impressive, but that he's clearly using the ideas and technologies developed to promote himself and his companies rather than implement them in the most straightforward manner--which would be comparatively boring (no pun intended) and lackluster.

Personally, I think working to improve the existing Metro network would help his image more, but he's very much chasing a specific public image: Out-of-the-Box Thinking Innovator from the World of Tomorrow. And improving yesterday's subway systems won't contribute to that image.
By the way, I am currently investigating an issue were auto-upload of my holiday pictures in Iran to OneDrive is somehow not possible. All those pictures are location-tagged by my iPhone. Maybe it is just an coincidence with a bug, but it is strange. I am now in Germany (I am "pure" German), so in general it should work.
Yes, I think this is what people defending Elon and other would-be disruptors neglect. The criticism isn't just that certain attempts at innovation are stupid or likely to fail, but that they betray the privilege or insular perspective of the innovator.
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I'm not saying there does need to be a requirement.

Businesses are not charity. If it doesn't make financial sense to make their website accessible, then they won't unless they're forced to. I'm making no value judgments, this is simply the reality on the ground.
I think you make some good points. Athletics at school are great for all the various reasons you mentioned.

The problem, from my experience of going to school in Kansas and Oklahoma, is that you have all these small towns where academics take a back seat to sports.

I lived in three different towns until graduating high school. All three towns cared more for football and basketball than any curriculum.

I graduated in 2008. The textbook we used had no mention of Bill Clintons presidency and were from around 1991.

We didn't have a rigorous math curriculum. I had Alegebra 1 and 2, Geometry, and Trig. There was no pre calculus or calculus.

My first year in a CS degree program, I had never seen the symbol for a summation before.

The district spent a fortune on raising funds or using tax payer money (both) on keeping the athletic facilities functioning. Yet we couldn't afford to have better classes or teach math at all. It wasn't even encouraged.

Athletics at school are a good thing. Over index in one area is utter stupidity.
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I think you overestimate his involvement in the day-to-day operations of the company he started.

Actually, I know you do. :-)

Craig's a good guy.
The author gave his reason at the bottom of the article.

I think I'm inclined to agree with him. The underlying problem isn't a symptom of something unique and crazy that one unique AV vendor is doing. It's a symptom of something standard (but crazy) that enterprise AV solutions do.

If monkey patching every process on the system at run-time is something you view as evil, then he's already named and shamed the entire antivirus software industry, and now you know to steer clear of antivirus. Which you were probably already doing, anyway, to the extent that IT lets you.

If you see it as an inevitable part of running AV, and view AV as essential, then there's not really anything to shame. It was an honest bug relating to an obscure corner case. I hope they've already filed a bug report, so just keep your AV up to date and it should get fixed.
https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?doid=2810103.2813707
It's insulting to insinuate that grunt work is insulting.

(lightheartedly; I'm not like disgusted over here :-) )
The only permission dialogue I have seen was the spotify one from a few years back on Stack Overflow.

I have also seen Facebook exec emails about obfuscating permission dialogues in order to get more permissions, though. It seems to have been pretty accepted practice.
This is rewarding bad behavior. The offspring should be conditioned to awaken themselves by having an unpleasant experience occur when they don't awaken when expected.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Classical_conditioning
So, you then are staking your claim that Elon Musk has invested 8 figures of his own money in an area that he has no hope of improving upon the state of the art? And you are willing to predict right now that he has made no such substantial improvements to tunneling technology?
Important note: Not by direct intervention, but by cronyism, international distrust, and an almost comical propensity to promote quantity over quality.
It seems clear enough in context to me. Is it worth it to get into a semantic argument about what consititues wealthy on what is a tech website? Or is the definition of wealthy actually unclear in this context?
[sweeping generalisations alert]

I think that a lot of British people have a set of beliefs about their country that are mostly inaccurate and increasingly divergent from reality.

One is that other countries look up to Britain and are keen to trade on terms dictated by Britain. Brexit is exposing this delusion.

A second is that Britain has a fearsome military that allows it to project its influence as a global power around the world.

A third is that Britain is the birth place of civil rights, has always fought against totalitarianism and has a legal system that since Magna Carta has always protected the primacy of the individual against the state. It's much easier to ignore the increasing number of CCTV cameras when you can just tell yourself that Britain invented Magna Carta so how could Britain's civil liberties not be the envy of the world.

With ID cards I think some of the opposition to them comes from the belief that they're the kind of thing a continental European country would do, as well as resentment against being obliged to carry something by the government. RIPA and CCTV aren't so much of a concern because they don't impose a physical obligation and so are only going to be bothersome to suspect people anyway.

I sometimes think that if/when Britain becomes a dictatorship it'll be a brutally-enforced version of Middle England, with death sentences for people who don't put their bins out properly and so on.
Musk took a full year to dig a small, utility-sized 1 mile-long tunnel under a road in a relatively sparse (for LA) suburban neighborhood, and spent at least $10 million on that mile, not including R&D, Capex, etc., that other projects properly disclose in their audited financials.

NY spent $2.7 billion to dig a tunnel 10x the size of Elon's, including rerouting existing utility lines (and including hundreds of miles of unmapped/undisclosed plumbing, electricity, internet, etc.), in one of the densest cities on the planet. All this while attempting to minimize disruption to the millions of people in the area.

Don't let your schadenfreude get in the way of recognizing that what BoringCo did is not an achievement by any definition of the word. It's the equivalent of Baby's First Tunnel, and unless you are Elon's parents, it's not something worthy of praise.
Won't post-glacial rebound counteract rising sea levels?
Yes, but that doesn't mean that they consent to Facebook using that data. Whatsapp for example asks "read SMS" permission to verify your phone number. It also requires access to your contact list or else everyone's name will be shown as a phone number.

The average user seems to assume that the information is used to provide the service and nothing more. The last person I asked if they were worried about how much information FB has about them replied something among the lines of "Yes, but it's only things that I deliberately chose to share." (paraphrased)
There are some useful screen shots for Spotify and Netflix here: https://newsroom.fb.com/news/2018/12/facebooks-messaging-par.... Not the permission dialog but the integration UIs from the user perspective.
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Slack doesn't even know someone's race or ethnicity, thus can't discriminate against that. They are just disabling accounts based on the IP they were created from, which was the best they had to go by to abide the sanctions. This is for sure inexact and bound to have false positives though.
Still holding out for someone to care about Equifax that arguably did far worse by not only collecting large amounts of data, but failing to give consumers any control over it. Their whole business model is collecting and selling personal data and opting likely has financial penalties.
He states that he created the account in Canada [1], though may have used it from Iran.

[1] https://twitter.com/a_h_a/status/1075691620081623041
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The nefarious problem with FB is the illusion of recommendation/discovery. They're not trying to find new and interesting things for you the way say, the cultural aspects of HN performs this feat; they're trying to define your profile and then serve up more of the same to increase engagement or capture your entire sphere of awareness so they can manipulate and shape your perception.'
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What was the "proof of concept"? When Boring was first unveiled, it was sold not as a tunnel for cars to drive through, but a system that included "electric skates" and subway-car-like pods: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u5V_VzRrSBI

I doubt Boring would have gotten much hype at all if Musk had admitted up front that it'd be little different than an underground highway, something which people have been using for decades.
Just let the man build some tunnels.
Also, just because the demo shows a Tesla model X doesn't mean that other services like the pods are discluded, as the article states. It's simply a matter getting some 7+ seat cars and stuffing a bunch of people in them.
> I mean, more capacity should mean less congestion, shouldn't it?

Somewhat counter-intuitively, the answer to that is often "no", due to induced demand[1].

> That also doesn't make sense to me. The tunnel will be unsuccessful because it'll be too successful? People won't want to use the tunnel because too many people will use the tunnel? If Musk reaches that point he'll probably already have won.

I think the point being made here is that ingress/egress imposes such a significant bottleneck that total throughput will still be low, and very few people would actually be able to benefit.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Induced_demand
Do you have a non-subjective reason to hate digital clocks? I have a strong dislike for analog clocks - hard to read at a glance, and even a .1 second delay in translating the display to a useful time feels wasted (and I spend more time than that because I double check myself, because I'm wrong too often).

An answer like "for some reason manufacturers only use garishly bright LEDs" is (too) true, but not really about it being digital (c'mon eink!), while answer like "I find analog clocks to be prettier/more elegant" can be true but is clearly subjective.

I've just never understood the desire to have a clock that doesn't tell the time but instead shows some foreign representation of the common understanding of time (and not too precisely at that). That doesn't mean there is no argument I'd find persuasive, I've just not heard it yet. Care to share?
No discovery = isolation bubble
Exactly this. I would even hazard that the majority of developers are working on things for intranets in a narrow corporate context where, if it can run on non-standard gear, that’s an added liability with no significant business benefit. Businesses are only moving away from their decade old Flash and “IE only” web apps because the marginal security risk combined with maintenance burden has begun to outweigh the costs of new development.
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You can gain a huge amount using OOP patterns, if your problem domain maps well to the OOP paradigm. I know this from personal experience on many projects.
Do the US sanctions prevent them from giving the user a copy of their data?
You created a straw man characterization of a news organization to further your own cynical world view? Nicely done?
What concept did he prove? That you can bore a utility tunnel? That a car can drive on a concrete road way?

What did we see besides a bunch of smoke and mirrors?

This is a solved problem. The obstacles to better public transit are political and economic, not technological.
The $78 million is for ten miles of the 457-mile corridor for the sea-level rise estimated for 2050. And the rise will only accelerate after 2050.

But yes, that does seem like a low figure.
Hmm, never noticed that; to the contrary, in my practice, Docker's VM eats CPU less aggressively than VirtualBox's.
OFAC's General License D-1 provides Slack with exemptions to offer their services even to users based in Iran:

(a) Effective February 7, 2014, to the extent that such transactions are not exempt from
the prohibitions of the Iranian Transactions and Sanctions Regulations, 31 C.F.R. Part 560
("ITSR"), and subject to the restrictions set forth in paragraph (b), the following transactions are
authorized:
(1) Fee-based services. The exportation or reexportation, directly or indirectly, from the
United States or by a U.S. person, wherever located, to Iran of fee-based services incident to the
exchange of personal communications over the Intemet, such as instant messaging, chat and
email, social networking, sharing of photos and movies, web browsing, and blogging.

https://www.treasury.gov/resource-center/sanctions/Programs/...
I get what you're saying, but for most people the internet, and the web are nearly synonymous.
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Go to the kitchen and cook breakfast. I'm hungry. What could have possibly happened during the night that would take priority?
Use a VPN? We Americans have to use them to get around dumb laws and help protect our privacy, too. There is almost always a digital solution to digital problems. Bypass them.
RaaS? Recommendations as a Service? Disaggregated.
"The web - again, on average - is better to use than it ever has been."

My opinion is very different. Fair enough -- we're different people.

"but people act like every website in '95 was some perfect embodiment of minimalist engineering."

I'm certainly not asserting any such thing at all.
So far, you've said it best as to what's wrong with him.

SpaceX is just using McDonnell Douglas's DCX prototype tech to go into space. Difference between now and then, the gov is throwing money at the development.

Tesla, nothing new there. Electric cars are old. Like, real old.

The Boring Company, tunnels, transit, moving cars on a skid. Old.

Hyperloop, was theorized in the early 1900s. Plans and prototypes in the 70s and on ward, but lacked funding to move these projects forward.

Let's not forget that little publicity stunt with the cave sub for those kids. Then calls the guy leading the actual rescue a pedo because the guy told him not to use the situation as a publicity stunt.

And that little "I'm taking tesla private" and mentions the price. Never happened. There's a reason why that shit is illegal. "The good old days" of the stock market, pre 1930s was filled with that shit. Then he says the SEC are assholes because he broke the law with some scandalous manipulation that historically was always done by greedy assholes. It's interesting how people don't understand how dangerous pump and dumps can be.

If he had the humility to just say "Hey, I'm taking old ideas I think are good and I'm going to try to make it better with bumps in the road." There wouldn't be as much hate. Not over promising, plus getting angry at other people that point out that he's missed the mark.
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