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The article clearly states we have the tunnel tech. That's not the issue. We already have the tech to connect a lot of American cities with decent trains again. It's about buy-in from the communities, the ability to put up stations (safely, faster, more efficiently) and Americans to stop screaming "our spaces are too far apart." They weren't less than 100 years ago. They will collapse back in once we start building transport again.

As shown in the article, the current tech is really good. It just takes time and the biggest problem are the stations, track and power. These car tubes that Elon is proposing are terrible. We need a faster way to put up full metro systems.
While I support the sentiment that privacy is important, comparing encryption to locks in this ghastly context is self-defeating.

Recall that there were more than one instance where critical evidence against a wealthy person, required for the prosecution to make a compelling case in court, was obtained by force with a police raid. At least one such instance happened in the US in 2019 and was well-publicized.

Now imagine a real-life security system that is absolutely, one hundred percent immune to unauthorized entry, even if it is attempted as a part of law enforcement raid.

It is possible to identify with the argument that everyone should have access to such an impenetrable lock. However, it’d be really hard to argue that widespread access to it wouldn’t create a radically new situation.
I'm torn. On one hand, I'd love reasonable competition to Tesla in this space, but I guess I assumed it would be at a much better price.

The other thing is, I don't think the average Ford buyer will purchase this. Simply put, if you're interested in an electric SUV, and have 45-60k you can part with, you'll buy the Tesla Y or maybe the Audi. Who wants to drop 60k on a crossover Ford SUV?
A lot of early cities jacked up their buildings. Chattanooga did due to flooding.

I somehow doubt such things could happen today considering the superstructure foundations under a lot of our modern buildings.
also a common phenomena with gun laws and abortion
At one point Cuba exported 60% of the world's sugar. If not for a trade embargo with the US (its most important trade partner) for the last 70 years, Cuba would be a very different place. Who knows if many of these architectural relics would be in better shape (arguably "progress" might have meant they would have been demolished for newer buildings). They have an amazing literacy rate (99.7%, one of the highest in the world) and incredible doctors, but yet have terrible poverty and a repressive state. I always wonder whether this will be the year that the country opens up and connects with the rest of the world.
Sigh. What we can basically tell from this is that the Five Eyes crew have joint legislation ready to go on this and are now going to insert an easy-to-digest and appealing narrative into the mainstream ahead of the release of that legislation.

The combination of "But the children! You don't support child predators, do you?!", low general technical understanding and overall apathy to the removal of our rights (in the name of "progress") means that this is basically destined to succeed.

Might be time to really re-evaluate our personal relationship with technology and make the appropriate moves to isolate it in our lives. If/when this goes through, technology will essentially have us under surveillance in every aspect of our daily lives.
It’d probably be some new PKI on top of SSH where your private key would be held in escrow by an identity provider. e.g. Your username is your email address, and your email provider retains your key pair. It’d probably be portrayed as an improved key management solution that allows more frequent key rotations and revocations. Might even start with being required for government projects, resulting in supported implementations by cloud providers that want lucrative government contracts. Then they just wait for a crisis opportunity like a cyberattack to force ISPs to block non-PKI-based SSH traffic in the name of national security.

And the largest and most paranoid companies that host their own mail and authentication services on-perm would probably be allowed to use those. But most everyone else is left doing key escrow with Google and O365 for their work and personal accounts...
Also, not to mention SANDAG is proposing to drastically expand the existing public transit system with commuter rail and other modes of transit along major commuting corridors, even going so far as to divert funds historically used for (with, we can say now, disappointing results) highway expansion.

https://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/news/transportation/sto...
The thing about office jobs these days is you usually have multiple locations and people working from home. Working in the office is still working remote. It's kind of a waste.
I agree but this was the sort of thing that I recall them doing in the 70s, which albeit were not the best years of the Mustang (Mustang II - I can't believe they mentioned that one in their livestream early on.) I have to say the car appealed to me a lot and I watched their whole livestream because I was excited by the car; haven't plopped down the deposit yet but the night is young :) .
A nice example of the complexity in this space: the Ben Franklin quote "those who would give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety" means something rather different when taken in context (1).

(1) https://www.npr.org/2015/03/02/390245038/ben-franklins-famou...
If you cut funding to highways for a year it's not like traffic would go down. If you resurfaced every interstate at once, it's not like people are going to be buying brand new cars with magic new disposable income. At a certain point, the global demand on the roads is a fixed number. Induced demand might kick in locally, but that involves people who already have cars waiting out traffic.

That's only because highways cover the country like a fishermans net. Capacity and connectivity are massive for roads. Locally it might back up, but average the capacity of every road in the U.S., and it can probably handle the population of earth. Imagine if that were the case for high speed trains, it would be borderline idiotic to drive.

It seems like recently transit agencies are finally working to improve options for commuters beyond the road network. Simple fixes, needing only a can of paint and a traffic cop enforcing law and order, like bike lanes and buss lanes can be done practically overnight in many urban areas.

LA metro has studies done for hundreds of transit corridors involving bus lanes, BRT, LRT, and HRT. The only barrier seems to be political will, not the engineering. I'm sure this is the case for most large cities, so if we ever get an administration that would prioritize funding transit projects on a federal level, as was done a century ago, we could see a transit explosion.
These are the oldest 'Western' cities in the colonial New World. They were established just after 'contact', just as Byzantine (i.e. E. Roman Empire) finally fell to the Ottomans, at the dawn of the Reformation, before the Enlightenment ... just at the very start of the 'modern period' in Europe. To give some context, Napoleon was 100 years closer to 'our time' than he was to 'that time'. The last English king to die in battle was about this time. The French were not yet a real power. Europe's borders as we know them were just taking shape, and the 'Americas' were entirely Aboriginal.

So they are very intesting cities born at a major turning point in civilisation.
I built supercomputers out of Alphas for 2 generations, and prototyped a supercomputer built with SiByte's chip. Great architecture, and I was reasonably confident that SiByte would turn out to be good given Dan's background. RIP.
Side note: Missed opportunity for the title "Interesting Boring Machines"
Also I think "Security" was the wrong term to use - maybe "Societal Order" is better?

What I mean is if companies are required to build in law enforcement backdoors, we could see X benefit (ie some % reduction in certain types of crime) and Y damage (some reduction in technical security, some reduction in govt accountability, etc).

Personally, I place a lot of value on the Y damage, so I don't think the tradeoff is worth it. But those are just my values, and I think it's possible / reasonable to have different values that change the balance.
That ended abruptly. And on a bit of a grim tone. How many college students leave home and never return, not even once. Oh well, at least it wasn’t written in the New Yorker where it would have required a 10k word “slice of life” preamble before even discussing the star. “Dr. Li always enjoyed feeding pigs on the weekend...”

As for the star, I wonder what type of relativistic effect a person orbiting it might experience. I assume 4 million miles per hour is an appreciable fraction of C.
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Child protection should be treated much more as a "local" than "global" issue. If it's "scale" they want, to really protect children, then local boots on the ground is still the best defense.

Rather than talking about encryption, Interpol should be espousing the benefits of local investigation and intervention based on mandatory reporting.

Removing child abuse content from the Internet is a digital issue. Protecting children from harm is a meatspace issue, and exponentially more important (but also more difficult and fraught with subjectivity).
Agreed. In rare cases when WiFi doesn't work right at first boot for me, I just attach a mobile phone or connect via ethernet, download one package and... connect via WiFi. It's just a very minor inconvenience - I prefer to know that official Debian iso is 100% free and having to manually opt-in for anything else.
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At least they didn't call that a 911. Porsche does have a niche make, but this is reusing a model name.
When they shorten it to “G” they are absolutely trying to deceive.
when they say "it's currently 29000 light years away from earth", doesn't that mean that was its position 29000 years ago ?
I do not agree in the least. Roads should be publicly owned and maintained. Private corporations will always seek to squeeze every last drop of money out of commuters because they are effectively a monopoly, especially on very long chunks of highways.
Area of mainland USA = 2.96M sq mi.

Area of mainland Australia = 2.93M sq mi.

I think this is the apples to apples comparison. Don't include Alaska or Tasmania, or Hawaii, which tend not to be what people are thinking of.
Explorer buyers put up the kind of money easily. Look at their higher trim level prices.

The reason they went with the Mustang brand here is to "macho" up the vehicle. Which most Ford buyers wouldn't otherwise touch.

Electric Crossover = hippie weak bullshit.

Electric Mustang Mach = Manly strong fast.

You think I'm joking.
As a concrete example, Moby-Dick was published in 1851. A quick look shows these examples of periods and commas (and question marks) on page 9 at https://archive.org/details/mobydickorwhale01melv/page/9 .

> But "The Crossed Harpoons,", and "The Swordfish?" - this, then, must be the sign of "The Trap."

Page 10 has:

> "In judging of that tempestuous wind called Euroclydon," says an old writer - of whose works I possess the only extant copy - "it maketh a marvelous [...] Death is the only glazier."

Wikipedia's "Typewriter" entry claims "The first commercial typewriters were introduced in 1874, but did not become common in offices until after the mid-1880s" so it's not possible that Melville used a typewriter-oriented style guide.

It's also set in a proportional font, not a fixed-width font.

Which means that the practice of putting punctuation before double quotes has little or nothing to do with typewriters and fixed-width fonts.
Sure, BrowserGap is a remote browser isolation product. RBI means accessing the public internet through a browser that runs in the cloud, rather than through a browser that runs on your device. This helps protect you from attacks on the web.
It's less than 1% of c unfortunately [1111 miles per second]. (https://www.google.com/search?q=4m+mph+in+miles+per+second)
It's straightforward to prove that you can't have more than four plane regions that all mutually touch; K5 is a nonplanar graph. But you can construct maps (planar graphs) that have no K4 subgraphs that nevertheless have chromatic number 4. C5 plus an additional node connected to all 5 of its nodes, for example. The challenge is to show that the same thing can't happen with chromatic number 5. I think it does happen with chromatic numbers 6 and 7 on the surface of a torus (but you can also just map K7 onto a toroidal map.)

I recognize that this comment includes jargon, but I assume you'll Google it. I'd include diagrams but HN doesn't support them.
David Suzuki profiled a rammed earth house on Vancouver Island that's a neat overview of it in action:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ra4Pldetd_M
So, replace every major road in big cities with a park or green space over a tunnel? I like this vision :-)
Show HN: Fully functional Go web server with logging, tracing, and demo-apps
Just tried it acouple times and keep getting hit by google captcha...

Maybe this is the Google AI team trying to get more people to solv'em? ;-)
Has the pricing for the model Y been announced yet? Are they the same size?
Thanks I was wondering about the way it was represented, so the surface area of the moon is 4x that of Australia, that's pretty big. Large enough for a human colony for sure.
ReactOS is the answer.
And, if you're interested, read on for more detail.

It works by providing a thin client over the web that you connect your regular browser to. The thin client provides an interface to a remote browser that you interact with the browser the public internet.

This is significant because the internet is a cesspool of attacks. Malware, ransomware, virii, tracking, exploited PDFs, ways to deliver device zero days over the web, browser zero days. All these things can lead to the security of your device and network being compromised, causing significant inconvenience, distress and loss for you.

BrowserGap and the RBI methodology acknowledges that not all threats can be detected and neutralized (such as by virus scanners), in order to face that reality, RBI adopts a "isolation" posture towards threats, effectively isolating them in the remote machine and preventing them from reaching your device.

With BrowserGap, in order to render the content of a web page, the only thing we send to your device form the remote page is pixels. So no HTML, CSS, JavaScript, etc from your browsing is ever executed on your device.

Cloud-based internet isolation is another name for this security practice and it is an emerging industry. Symantec recently acquired a company in this space, and Menlo Security was awarded[2] an agreement to build a CBII prototype for DISA, after a June 2018 request for RBI solutions that could eventually serve 60% of DoD's ~ 3 million users[0][1].

See more about RBI[1].

[0]: https://secureview.cloudbrowser.xyz/uploads/fileajqk.kkpgdih...

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Browser_isolation

[2]: https://www.menlosecurity.com/press-releases-blog/disa-cloud...
"Lawful no-knock raid" is a basic contradiction. If there is no notice that the home invaders are police, then they're actually just home invaders. It's unfortunate that so many will have to die before a sympathetic enough casualty comes along to end the practice.
Before Tesla: 1960s/70s Electric Cars
It's a sports car brand that's got 1-2 generations (really, barely 1) from being completely obsolete. There's very little margin, and gas isn't getting any cheaper. They're in some sense rescuing the brand by separating it from the vehicle.

Remember that Ford killed off all other sedans for North America.
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Muddying the water is not a bad thing here. They’re streamlining the Mustang brand — something they should do to stay afloat. As most people think, Mustang is a sport car but the population is aging rapidly and Ford has to accommodate. Now, instead of a Mustang enthusiast walking in and having to bypass the new model because they have a growing family, they’ll be able to purchase the family-friendly Mustang Mach-E.

The 459 hp/612 lb-ft GT Performance Edition is now the dream combo for the older, family diehard Mustang enthusiasts.
It's 0.6% c.
As someone who worked as a professional writer for many years I never understood why that reform was so inconsistent. After all it was supposed to simplify spelling. So why not go all the way and eradicate the 'ß' like they did in Switzerland. And this is just one of many examples.
Good point, let me temporarily switch the default search provider to DuckDuckGo. This will take a while to propagate to the browsers.

A workaround in the meantime is to enter a URL in the box instead.

Edit: Switched to DDG as default search provider for this. Back up at 21:24 PST.

Edit @23:00 PST: I've opened an issue with Google Cloud Support (the system is hosted on GCP even tho it is cloud-agnostic) and I don't expect they will be able to provide a resolution because this is probably the CAPTCHA behaving correctly.

BTW, it could be the AI team getting some more data, who knows? ;)

Somehow tho I think whatever we do is simply a drop in a bucket for them.
> I think they'll become ineffective, sort of like phising emails before it hits a tidal wave kind of storm and they would be limited to sketchy sites.

Phishing emails are incredibly effective. Thats why they continue to exist. Just because you don't fall for them doesn't mean millions of people every day don't. These are the largest source of stolen account credentials and credit cards.
Why do we care about public transportation turning a profit? The benefit of a good transit network is massive and far above simply the fare fees.
The title of your article is about CO2, not emissions. California enacted tailpipe emissions tests specifically to address smog in LA. California can, has, and will continue to have steep gas taxes as the primary mechanism to address climate change, and those state taxes aren't being challenged here. Switching to shitty diesel VW Jettas will make the problem worse, not better, despite the reduced CO2 footprint.

Second- bullshit. Every commercially viable coal plant burns much hotter than any gasoline or diesel engine, and will have a much higher efficiency as a result. (Wikipedia "Carnot cycle") Line/conversion losses will not make up the difference.

Third-we're talking about California. We don't have any coal plants. So even if we pretended physics wasn't a thing, our relatively large supply of wind, solar, geothermal, nuclear, and hydro production would fix it. We're trying to replace natural gas with "batteries" of some sort, but even at the worst case, natural gas plants produce very little smog, even though their CO2 production is unfortunate.

Fourth- (well, three point fivesth) smog from coal plants in states that we share a grid with is their problem- winds generally blow west to east, so that smog won't end up in our cities. If the states where that smog ends up wants to enact federal smog reduction standards I'll be at the table shoulder to shoulder with you.

Trump has done a lot of shit to piss me off. As a resident of the bowl that includes Los Angeles, this is probably the issue that makes me the angriest, even though its national significance is fairly small. We need air quality protections here. We can't survive otherwise, and solving this problem at the state level had worked out fairly well so far. I'd rate it of more importance to me than the housing crisis, (our fault, we're doing nothing to address it) or the wild fires. (partially our fault, we're talking steps to fix it on a global scale with the knowledge that it won't ever be enough by ourselves)
I'm not sure, but I've read in the past that Tesla expects the Y to be more expensive than the 3 and less than the X, so the range would have to overlap a bit.
> There's very little margin, and gas isn't getting any cheaper.

* Barrel of Oil in 2009: $53.48 (Not yet adjusted for inflation)

* Barrel of Oil in 2019: $46.25

I think you're underestimating how much oil we discovered through the fracking process. There's a reason why SUVs went out-of-favor in the 2007 era (~$90+ per barrels of oil), but SUVs + Trucks became popular again come 2015+. Gasoline got way, way cheaper.

> Remember that Ford killed off all other sedans for North America.

Because gasoline has gotten so cheap, people have stopped caring about MPG-efficiency. SUVs are selling out while cheap econo-boxes are losing money.

The current trend is big, boxy SUVs with lots of room. Very few people seem to care about efficiency these days.
There is no 'blockade' of Cuba, they are free to trade with the other 186 or so nations on planet earth, and can buy/sell most American goods via other destinations. They are a member of the WTO (!!) Since commodity markets are fungible there isn't a huge reason for sugar to be seriously devalued.

It's hard to 'blame America' for the totalitarian rule of Castro Inc. in Cuba, this subject makes me wonder deeply about the nature of perspective of populist leftists, anti-Americans etc.. Cuba is always an interesting litmus test for those who are willing to completely look the other way so long as the 'red flag' is on the pole.

The revolution made a few leaps and then failed miserably, as so many do, which is a real shame, because it's such a wonderful country otherwise. It'd be amazing to see what that country would be under some kind of normal leadership - I suggest it would be the richest in Latin America.
Wow, that's awesome! Seems like it opens a lot of powerful possibilities.

I am a pretty technical person but also didn't know (and couldn't find) info on what RBI is and how it can be used - would love to see this information highlighted on GH and the website.
C is a low bar. If a new language doesn't beat C, it's not serious about performance.

Of course Lisp is the opposite of new, but it has had more time than any other to get itself together.
https://www.americanbanker.com/news/2018-bank-reputation-sur...

Lowest ranked banks: Wells Fargo, Bank of America, HSBC, First National, Citibank, Chase

It's not really surprising for the second lowest ranked bank to close accounts without warning.
What’s not accurate? When I read “a black hole”, I don’t assume we’re talking about Sagittarius A*, just a black hole.
Yes it is substantially better because it grows in sea water. Which is to say that it is self healing with respect to erosion. They give examples of roman maritime concrete that is over 2000 years old and still functional. No existing concrete does this (hence the DARPA call for research topics).

It is also why a concrete hulled boat using this stuff would not suffer hull erosion like the existing cement fleet did during world war II and afterwards.

It isn't clear to me (but I've not found a good paper on Roman "maritime" concrete either :-)) how it interacts with barnacles and other marine life.