skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Did a site search "boring site:eschatonblog.com" and read through top 30 or so hits. Didn't see any arguments that Boring Company is fundamentally wrong and can't succeed through the limitations of physics.

Valid criticisms:

* Boring Co is moving pretty slowly.

* There are specific problems that have not been solved yet related to station design, the mini bus people mover vehicle (12 people) has not been made yet, self-driving cars aren't real yet, the actual Boring machines are only on version 3, the automated tunnel wall mfg and assembly machinery has not yet been built.

I agree that there are many assumptions (which could be incorrect) that need to be solved for the city to city test to succeed:

* Cheaper Station design for passenger and cargo load / offload.

* 12 person walk on / off bus mover vehicle design, manufacture.

* Self driving.

* Faster elevators and probably bulk elevators to move vehicles between levels of tunnels.

* Faster Boring machines

* Tunnel wall assembly machines from dug out dirt.

* Automated tunnel wall assembly.

The first solutions to these problems will probably be pretty crappy. But they will improve rapidly.

It's not clear how much of the Prufrock (3rd version of TBM) was built in house by the Boring Co. https://cleantechnica.com/2020/03/01/prufrock-next-generatio...

Godot (1X speed) was a straight up purchase of existing tech. Linestorm (2X speed) was partially upgraded from existing machinery from other companies by Boring Co. Prufrock (2->10X speed?) is the latest and version 3.

My guess is they need to get up to version 10 or more for a chance to beat Gary the snail. They still have a long way to go before they have their own machines 100% built by Boring Company that are much cheaper and faster.

Also, it doesn't look like there is much progress yet on the brick making machines. Or the automated tunnel assembly from bricks made from local dirt. The ideal system has definitely not been assembled yet: Boring machine -> dirt into wall sections -> wall sections assembled into tunnel wall.

So yes, there is a long way to go yet. But these are solvable problems that the team is working on.
Yeah, that's one that I forgot -- a lot of families are dependent on the free school lunch.
When I was in school 35-40 years ago (in the south) they would literally beat you in the butt with a board. One coach had a whole collection of different shaped paddles hanging on the wall which he would point out the first day of class.

It wasn't a joke either, I remember a guy showing me his butt with a big nasty purple bruise on it the shape of a board. I got paddled once but the teacher took it pretty easy and I just had a little red. He was a weird old guy and I think he mostly liked hitting bent over young boys with boards.

They could pretty much do it for any reason and some kids not popular with teachers were paddled pretty regularly. Shortly after my time this was discontinued and I was not at all sorry to see the practice go, but now we have gone too far the other way in my opinion. Calling the police on kids for minor infractions is way over the top. But some semblance of order has to be enforced or no one can learn.

I feel like you learned more about life back then (maybe in sort of a "Lord Of The Flies" way to be fair). Most everyone could do what they wanted after school without worrying about stranger danger and having adults hovering over them the whole time and there was a lot of freedom to explore. If you fucked up though, you got paddled and you might get beat up by a fellow kid without a lot of recourse to authorities. It was just a rougher time, but more free as well which probably sort of describes the history of humanity also come to think of it.

I don't know which is worse, then or now. It seems kids were more self confident and self reliant and less neurotic back then. But there were a lot more physical fights and odd kids had a really tough time and kids who came from rough situations often really got beat down by the system. Literally.
Ha! Thanks for the actually out-loud laugh.

(I maintain a handful of small libraries that meet your description, and only recently "awakened from slumber" to release a new version of https://github.com/hunterloftis/throng after five years)
I know others have mentioned it but really the behavior of the scroll on this website is some of the worst I've seen in recent web design. It's completely inconsistent in how it behaves - sometimes it actually scrolls, other times it is shrinking and moving panes around on the screen. It's impressive that they were able to do it yes, but it is one of the most jarring experiences scrolling a website I've ever seen and did make me feel a bit dizzy and felt like scrolling wasn't actually working.

Maybe I'm just getting old lol
If you believe minimizing death is more important than personal choice and economics then you should really be fighting to ban junk food and support laws that require everyone to exercise.

Cardiovascular disease kills 655,000 Americans each year compared to Covid's 200,000.
Medical care is not fully available. Canada now has a backlog of cancer screenings estimated to last over a year to resolve. Thousands of these people will die from cancer thanks to trying to "save" them from Covid.
Sure, and that's a terrible metaphor for computer security.
There is probably a bias of people who choose to home school. The home schooled person I know was home schooled because their parents were deeply religious and didn't want a school teaching their child unapproved content but they also didn't have the skill or time to properly educate on things like math so they ended up far behind others.

How many people that homeschool are actually knowledgeable enough and have the free time to replace full time teachers.
Bread made without salt also doesn’t work. You get a brick.
I’ve settled on 9g for 440g flour. Focaccia recipes use a ton of salt, and are particularly delicious (see recipe below, for which I half all quantities).

What sort of bread do you make?

https://www.rnz.co.nz/national/programmes/thiswayup/audio/20...
> it's tough to get 2,000 calories eating only broccoli.

See, that's what makes it so healthy
The language may be ahead of events in this case. We don’t need the language when there is no actual cyberwarfare. There has been no cyberwar in developed countries even after 25 years of the Internet. Cybercriminality yes; cyberwar, no. For some, that’s like the Coyote in Roadrunner cartoons running off the cliff but staying in the air. He’s got to fall sometime. At that point, military language and mindset would be useful.

But in Western countries, the idea of preparedness got drilled into the political psyche with WWI and WWII. You do not want to be unprepared...young men die needlessly when you are unprepared.

Be glad it’s just language. Formality of ops, chain of command, well-defined priorities, ability to respond under stress, exercises to assess what you can actually do rather than what you think you can do...combined with a well-honed working culture to support those operating under those conditions.

But we do a lot of that in IT? Yes, and the basic ideas arose from military culture first. When we compartmentalize in schooling military from agriculture from health from engineering from law, students lose the perspective of what those other cultures have provided and do provide. BTW IT could learn a lot from the military about supporting the whole life of the worker.
Can this really be compared to literal wars?
>are essential to our ... happiness.

Citation needed. The idea that we'd be miserable without things invented incredibly recently on an evolutionary timescale is a pretty extraordinary claim and flies in the face of basic thought or world experience.
When I first learned about this in college it really really bothered me. (obviously it still does to some extent)

That time is not constant on a scale that lets us measure it from space vs the earth much less from upstairs to downstairs is somehow deeply unsettling. If you're traveling at 10 m/s as you go out of the gravity well you go faster and faster because time speeds up, but your velocity per unit time stays the same.

Something that is really hard for my brain to wrap around in any meaningful way.

During some radio work this became actually a thing in that if you're doing time-of-flight measurements of originating RF energy and one receiver is in a platform flying above and one is on the ground, at high time resolutions you start having to correct for difference in the rate of time. This is definitely something you have to do if you want to get really accurate time from GPS satellites. So freaky it hurts.
Because it sounds funny to own recreational nukes or hire the McPolice but in reality you wouldn't want any of it.
I don’t defend Subway, but since you haven’t tried it in few decades and say “probably” in regards of ingredients, your opinion has 0 of value.
I can't speak to the site in general, but this article is broadly in keeping with my own understanding:

https://www.climbingnutrition.com/diet/fructose/

There are some references as links, would be nice to find something drier with a thicket of refs at the bottom.

As usual, Le Wik delivers, though I'd enjoy seeing this section expanded:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fructose#Fructose_digestion_an...
Back then, we were told that the lockdown was a temporary measure to avoid overloading the hospital infrastructure. We needed to allow time for hospitals to add beds, respirators, etc. “Flattening the curve”.
Then the goalposts were moved.
What is desperately needed is an honest, open discussion of costs and benefits.
Its true also that there were some very scary predictions based on early models that turned out to be flawed. We do know quite a bit more now, but we don’t seem to be applying it.
> The 1080p60 bug can be fixed by cutting the plastic lid off the Chromecast and adding a fan.

I can't tell if you are serious.

I can imagine circumstances where this would work, but... they involve the chromecast having a temp sensor and software to lower the clock speed to prevent overheating, resulting in skipped frames, but at the same time somehow not be able to lower the bitrate of the video stream.

Seems... mildly improbable.
I agree. Imagine the big brains at work here and what those brains could be doing elsewhere. Honestly at this point the FAANG are starting to seem like a black hole for brains. I’m starting to wonder if these companies are starting to hold us back by sucking up all the talent. I don’t fault individuals here. We all have to eat and put a roof over our heads. This just seems like such a frivolous waste of resources.
It doesn’t take permaculture levels of agriculture to make it better than it is now.

For example insurance companies dictate how and when farmers apply chemicals, the insurers are influenced by petrochemical companies and are also risk adverse.

So while we could do better with more careful and targeted application of chemicals there’s not a huge incentive to at a systemic level. The risk is too high for farmers to try and do something different, because the insurers dictate the terms
With centralized power options, you are dealing with market forces that give them every incentive to behave this way. Expecting them to behave otherwise would be wishful thinking.

Decentralized power options like locally owned (down to the household level, even) solar and wind, augmented with batteries, give freedom and control to individual people, so they don’t have this problem.
> Are we pretending that polysaccharides are the staff of life, but when you get down to disaccharides they become the Devil?

Devil or not devil is off topic: it's not about not-devil or devil, it's about the difference between bread and cake. Which isn't a value judgement at all. But that is a line that will unsurprisingly be drawn differently in different cultures.

The legal issue isn't putting too much sugar in a product, it's putting much sugar in there and then labeling that product in a way that is deceptive in the local language (and in this case a tax angle, but it could be a court issue even without that).
K: The Overlooked Variable That's Driving the Pandemic
The only tool I remember teachers or schools having the ability to wield against students when I was in school was suspension or expulsion. Are US schools not allowed to suspend kids?
What programming languages does it support? I couldn’t find out from the press release.
If 90% of cases are unsymptomatic or have minimal symptoms we'd expect an order of magnitude underreporting of cases, assuming people were only tested when they go to the doctor/hospital.
> The C++ STL may be the most impressive achievement in language standard libraries. Where most programmers are stuck complaining that their language’s default strings aren’t performant enough

Although that is an amusing turn of phrase, I guess I'm not "most programmers" because I never use "performant" as an adjective, preferring the traditional "efficient" (perhaps with appropriate modifiers such as "power efficient" or "memory efficient" as needed) or other simple adjectives such as "fast", "reliable", etc..

Besides that, I'm pretty OK with strings in Python and Java (for example) and I have few complaints about the efficiency of strings in C.

I do admit that STL and C++ seem to be slightly less painful to use in 2020.
The Big Dig was for suburbanites to drive into the city, and anyway was $1000/person which is pretty darn cheap over 20+years of use.
you can get rid of liquids in the meat by heavily pressing it. The reason why aged meat is expensive is time and special conditions that let specific mold grow
My Apple 2 also has a USB interface.

I plan on recapping it soon.
Recoil Todo Example
I recently bought one of the new generation remotes. Order of magnitude better and only $30 (has a backlight and mix still!)
no, my grudge against them goes back to the days of 16bit and their kneecapping DOS era comms software. its only childish for so long, then its "quirky"
How about some diversity in the governors mansion?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_governors_of_Californi...
Some say that one of the first signs you are developing the wisdom that will make old age sweet is to be slow to judge.
So underspec'd that it hurts...
>South Korea, Vietnam or New Zealand where they have now near zero cases it was as never a politics or economics issue.

How can you claim this when South Korea's response was completely different than Vietnam and New Zealand's (no forced lockdown/stay at home orders in Korea)? If they were all following settled science, presumably all those countries would have responded the same?
The goal posts were not changed. Once the curve was flattend, the lockdowns were lifted, and measures relaxed.

While we did manage to flatten the curve in spring, growth is back on an exponential curve in Canada, which means the threat of overwhelming the health infrastructure is still looming. A sweeping lockdown may not be the best answer, but measures needs to be taken to slow the growth.

Exponential growth is no joke. Hospitals are more prepared,
but exponential growth means that even if you double the hospital capacity, they will still be outmatched rapidly if nothing is done to slow down the spreading.
> over a million billion times per second

So... Over a quadrillion times per second? I don't get why people do this. Stephen Hawking did the same in his book ("X star is over a million million million million miles away"). Just give me the number straight. Breaking into millions of billions of trillions just makes it more confusing as I try to consolidate orders of magnitude.
Perhaps bordering on conspiracy, but I wonder how much influence the motoring lobby has on urban design and lackluster public transit investment? With the demise of trams in the 1960s in many places due to lobbying, the General Motors streetcar conspiracy to buy up public transit networks in the United States, and well known connections between motoring lobbying and governments, this wouldn't surprise me.

I'm sure there are other vested interests here, but motoring/transit is certainly one that comes to mind.
I feel the same way. Given a reasonable initial Forth implementation, one can throw a dictionary at it and bring a whole tool chain up.

I have seen embedded Forth developers do this on new CPUs and its fast and potent.
Big Roku fan here. Was an early adopter, have had many versions of the device over the last dozen years and been a brand evangelist to my friends and family.

I also try to avoid being a panelist in behavior datasets. For this reason there are financial planning services I won't use and I won't buy a Vizio TV.

So, I'm very curious about your assertion that Roku is doing analytics for sale. I hadn't seen that before, so any further insight would be appreciated. Thanks.
C++ the Good Parts (2014)
c++ 11 & 14 goodies: concepts, lambdas
Germany has a similar law around beer - "the only ingredients that could be used in the production of beer were water, barley and hops" [0]

0: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reinheitsgebot
Flour, Salt, water and yeast thays bread. Start adding sugar or fat your making something in between a levened cake and bread.
I use tabbed for Alacritty, it works in any WM.

https://tools.suckless.org/tabbed/
THANK YOU so much for this post with sources!

You're saying exactly the reason I haven't been concerned about the virus since day one. Early reports truly weren't that earth shattering when one looked at the numbers.

I truly encourage everyone reading the parent's post spread this information.
I’m in my 30’s and am not worried about dying. I’m worried about my health insurance annual out of pocket max.
He would be “dirty” ie has knowledge of Stolen IP.
"The biggest givers in our latest report, based on 2018 data, were New York, which paid in US$22 billion more than it received; New Jersey, which paid $12 billion more; Massachusetts, which paid $9 billion more; and Connecticut, which paid $8 billion more than it received."

So the 4 biggest payers in 2018 were New York, New Jersey, Massachusets and Connecticut. Aren't these all "blue states"?

The 4 biggest recipients are Alabama, Kentucky, Maryland, Virginia. Aren't those all "red states"?

https://www.usnews.com/news/best-states/articles/2020-05-15/...

Actual numbers:
https://rockinst.org/issue-areas/fiscal-analysis/balance-of-...
The ability to use streaming apps like Netflix, Hulu, Disney+, HBO, etc etc etc?

Besides, a lot of these streaming sticks are cheaper that an RPi. The question is why should you use a Pi over the streaming stick, not the other way around.
He is saying that. If the original algorithm was badly coded and they ran the least optimised variant ignoring all updates, then the QC version may indeed have been faster, but it depends: was it tuned to a specific problem, and is there a better than model-T classical computing algorithm for the same specific problem.

I'm genetically minded to be skeptical of QC. The question isn't outrageous, even for a believer.
I had to click around a bit from the PR but:

CodeQL code scanning automatically detects code written in the supported languages

C/C++
C#
Go
Java
JavaScript/TypeScript
Python

Source: https://docs.github.com/en/free-pro-team@latest/github/findi...
I think Elon has said that the constellation is viable (consistent uptime at reduced density) with 1,000 satellites. So to start they need not 2 million but perhaps 100,000 customers to sign up. Then they can grow the constellation concurrently with the customer base.

2 million customers for high speed / low latency internet for $100 / month seems like a very small ask.

SpaceX projections are that they can win 3-4% of US households, or ~3.6 million households in the US. IMO I would expect the US would be their smallest market worldwide.
That's the value of an average life. Health economists at e.g. the NHS actually use https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quality-adjusted_life_year, to account for the fact that e.g. an 80 year old has fewer years of life left than a 10 year old.
What if there's not a(n) _______ with in 40 miles? Yet loads of people live 40 miles away from a lot of things. Somehow the market provides for them.

"What if a large region has exactly one company operating schools?"

Like today with government run schools?

"What if that company goes out of business during the school year?"

Fair point. Are you assuming there won't be competition? Stager voucher payments through out the school year.

"Why aren't other countries lining up to try voucher schools?"

Indoctrination. Very effective way of controlling thought. I would recommend reading the origins of US schooling, from Prussia.
https://www.forcedschool.com/post/69947261758/the-prussian-m...

"Let's see some success stories."

Denmark. Education dollars are tied to the student not the school district. Their kids are pretty smart.

"What are the choice criteria that parents are supposed to sort out when trying to get their kid into an available seat?"

More choice then what they currently have. Markets, devoid of gov incentives (unlike health care and education), do a good job with oversupply.
the high court of my skull likewise doesn’t classify subway as food.
Big Tech Revenue Streams
If I read correctly code scanning is based on CodeQL, and i found this
https://help.semmle.com/codeql/supported-languages-and-frame...

So it looks like it supports C/C++/C#/Go/Java/JS/Python/TS
The point of the classification is to not unduly burden the poor by taxing staple foods, such as bread. It's not about being snobby, everybody can agree that on the outside of a subway sandwich there is bread. But subway is fast food. The ingredients are selected to make you buy and buy more. I wouldn't really call it a staple.
We try to encourage our kids to think/wonder at every opportunity.

When they ask a question, instead of giving them an answer, we just ask what they think first. Often that leads to a rather wild/creative prediction, something that comes out of their understanding of thew world, which although limited, is beautiful. We explore forward from there.

Generally, it helps to put kids in charge of their own life in whichever capacity they can at this point in time. If they know they can put on their own shoes, clean their own dishes, make their own breakfast ...etc, they also learn implicitly that they have full ownership of their thinking too.

To be honest, it's hard because very often it's easier for us, the parents, to just have the kids do what we need them to do, rather than what kids want to do, or think is the best way to do it. But, it's a tradeoff. When they get more freedom, they engulf in it.

My 2c.
The Seattle PD continued to use chemical weapons after the ban, so there's that.
And Medium censored anyone trying to point this out, I remember a very extensive report back then showing what we know now and they got deleted. Twitter lit up with arm chair pathologists demanding the user be banned etc.

I'm about at the point of "F BIG TECH".

[0] https://www.wsj.com/articles/controlling-the-virus-narrative...
"Anyone can always choose to self-isolate based on their own personal risk factors and risk tolerance."

The problem with this statement is that COVID is not a 'personal' issue. It's a systematic issue. Your disease affects everyone.

To put in a different kind of 'Liberty / Responsibility' context - how about we allow anyone who contracts COVID to sue the person they got it from for damages!

Then how many people are going to go out, and how careful they are going to be?

While we may not need 'shelter in place' for <70 populations, we are inevitably going to face social distancing etc..

We need to 'get smart'.

...

And 0.5% IFR already at the age of 50 is scary.

In this 'new era' there are a lot of people over 50 probably nearing 40% of the population or something like that.