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This is certainly what optimistic WV politicians what to believe, but unfortunately for them there is the problem of Hyperloop being a bunk gadgetbahn that won't pan out and was probably never meant to. (The true purpose of hyperlink, promoted by a man who sells cars, likely being to derail traditional highspeed rail proposals with "but if we wait N years we could build a Hyperloop instead!")

WV is being taken for a ride, but not the sort they hope for.
Hey HN. I'm always trying out new apps, games & websites so I can snap up my name @ben as a handle, just in case the product gets big.
Therefore, I created a product that lets you track your ideal username on new platforms. Would be great to hear your thoughts!
Presumably they'll end of life the car at some point and repair will shift to third party shops. Do they have access to the internals of the car?
sounds like an investment from CCP. China has strong tight with Serbia.
This isn't just a disaster for Google. This is a disaster for competition in the tech industry and a disaster for consumers. If APIs can be copyrighted, what's next? File formats? On-the-wire protocols?
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I think the point is that rustc + llvm has long made everything "constexpr" (well as much as it can). After all it's a missed optimization if it fails to evaluate something at compile time if it can be so evaluated.

`const fn` is merely an API guarantee that the function can always be evaluated at compile time if the arguments are themselves known at compile time.
The people who specifically choose to use iCloud email are far more likely to care about an XSS than the average Gmail user.
What kind of right-of-way would this system have? If it's sufficiently deep, would they need permissions from every land owner along the route, or could they just bore straight through 100m beneath the surface without affecting anything above ground?

>> "a trip between New York and Washington would take just 30 minutes"

Would be great, but I'd worry that they will never get the right-of-way to actually bore underneath these huge cities to convenient centrally located stations.
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Exactly everything candiodari said.

The police are under immense pressure to put somebody away or else they're basically telling the public "we have no idea who did this crime". They need to find and convict a suspect to instill confidence from the public that they're doing a good job, in order to keep their jobs and their funding. This doesn't mean they need to find the actual criminal, only that they need to appear that they did.

The more information you have about a person, the more you can present to a jury selective facts about them that make them look guilty. And with enough circumstantial evidence you could make quite a lot of innocent people look guilty, despite having no causal evidence whatsoever. Google is providing circumstantial evidence, not causal.
> This is a widespread practice in the software industry. Oracle, for example, re-implemented Amazon's S3 API so that customers who built software for Amazon's cloud platform could easily switch to Oracle's rival cloud platform.

Talk about cutting off your nose to spite your face.
It's a very common Vietnamese surname so it's not unheard of in France though, it's often pronounced as "lé", maybe because it's the right pronunciation (I don't know) but in any case it makes it immediately different from the common word "le".

Although when written, if that person has a typical French name like "Jean Le" there might be people who think it's been truncated indeed.
Few billion dollars, sure. Except that little Supreme Court decision on API copyrightability thing.
I remember when they first announced this project. It's exciting that they were able to get this accomplished in such little time.
i feel like slashdot was onto something a couple decades ago with metamoderation. the question is whether you can wrap the moderation decision enough times to get rid of the biases.
> People are impatient and expect everything on three computer to be as fast as the faster things on it. Anything slow can feel like there is something wrong.

True, but an SPA doesn't really solve that either. You still have to make a request to the API and wait for it just like you have to wait for some HTML. The only difference is with an SPA you can show a spinner to the user.

Also, on an SPA, the initial hit of JS can be alleviated with code-splitting (if your main chunk is small enough) but when you switch pages you still need to download and parse a new chunk of JS.
I think contributing to the popularity here is that Rust is interesting to discuss out of an academic perspective due to the niche it has carved out, with the compiler able to see already at compile time whether your code is thread safe with no race conditions, and without memory leaks and buffer overruns. This without support like a garbage collector or a virtual machine overseeing things. OK, it's not bullet proof, but large swathes of issues are prevented that often aren't in other big languages, and you kind of have to go out of your way to shoot yourself in the foot.

As for use in the industry, I see it mentioned every now and then and I keep being surprised because I have low expectations of its adoption, but then suddenly there are big things like Dropbox rewriting their synchronization core (Nucleus) in Rust, and Microsoft releasing Rust bindings for their next-gen Windows API (WinRT).

So I guess it's still rare in the very large realm of software development, but probably more popular than one may expect for a bit of a fringe language. One that I first thought would remain a proof of concept and point of discussion in computer science circles. I'm happy to be wrong because I think it does solve some long standing problems in certain projects.
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I would love to have feedback on this! I will hang in the comments hoping for a good conversation
An important tool for every K8 admin!
One thing from diving into the code of early release of HN (it was running on racket) seems there are quite bit gatekeeper, and the people who has the power to downvote. That seems like an issue of top of the head.
> the paid offerings side is much larger

The fact that a lot of the offerings are paid is a massive negative to me. I don't know of any other language ecosystem that is like this.
This might not just be a disaster for Google - it could be a disaster for software everywhere. If APIs become copyrightable, what happens to any open source software the implements a proprietary API?

Supreme court judges just do not have the conceptual framework to properly adjudicate this. I don't think it's going to be possible to teach them the difference between interface and implementation within the parameters of these arguments. And beyond that the conservative majority is predisposed to treat everything as property. This is not going to end well.
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Perhaps something like the Nest thermostat approach might be best: have something that learns your preferences based on time, day of the week, and other factors. Maybe it attempts to see what kind of mood you're in?
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I get that there is a quantitative and maybe qualitative difference, but while we decry heavy handed censorship that happens in these autocratic nations, we’re mostly okay with the subversive soft censorship large social media corps conduct on their world audience when it involves a topic they don’t like or want to kerb. You may say yeah I have no problem with disinformation, right. But what about information that is counternarrative and gets deranked? Or the kind that is “unsafe” but true?
I have to be honest, whenever I read a tech company with the name 'Virgin' in front, I believe that will spend huge amounts of money and not achieve much.

Virgin Galactic and Vrigin Orbit are both burning huge amount of money and have really not achieved much in relation to the amount spend.

However they are always big in the media and Branson is always mentioned along side of Elon Musk. As if Virgin Orbit and SpaceX are even remotely comparable.

As soon as the Hyperloop concept was shown, a company pops up doing it, again making sure the name Vrigin is always mentioned when Elon Musk Hyperloop comes up.

Their method and approach often seem more about big hype and big money raising. These companies also tend to find financing from big money people in the middle east, where with a lot of flash and not much substances you can finance. Virgin Orbit is public and promising intercontinental flight, system they are simply not able to develop by any evidence so far, its honestly borderline scamy.

This plan of spending 100s of million to develop a short test track seem like the same sort of thing. If it cost this much, how much will it cost from SF to LA?

> In a hyperloop system, which uses magnetic levitation to allow near-silent trave

In Elon Musk original hyperloop paper, he was explicit not using magnetic levitation.

Saying: "A viable technical solution is magnetic levitation; however the cost associated with material and construction is prohibitive."

I hope of course they are successful, any attempted at developing new technology is great however I would never bet on them to achieve anything.

I still think the Hyperloop as described in the paper is mostly a good idea, but I think its smart of Elon to switch to tunnels. It makes the legal and safety situation way easier. I think the Boring company is actually developing a Hyperloop test track as well, but this is somewhat speculation at this point.

Here a link to the original paper:

- https://www.tesla.com/sites/default/files/blog_images/hyperl...
The Northeast Corridor is wildly profitable for Amtrak (based on operating costs), despite being significantly worse than flying, and often slower than driving. (It's faster than rush-hour driving, but that's about it.)

Making fast-enough rail that connects useful places, and upgrading the speed of existing rail that meets the same criteria, is a much better strategy IMO than trying to do "better than flying" rail based on unproven technology. Moonshots have their place, but America should try to catch up to the rest of the world in rail transport instead of pretending we're on the bleeding edge of innovation.
That is awesome, I love seeing contributions in this space!
You still have the simple text files, but while you're developing (and perhaps in exceptional circumstances while it's running) you interact with it in a live fashion. But the source code is still there, and the whole thing can be recreated from scratch if you kill the image by loading the code.

This lets you do things like (stupid trivial example follows, Common Lisp not Clojure) write a function from inside out in the REPL, then move the code to source:

> (+ 1 2)
3
> (let ((x 1))
(+ x 2))
3
(defun add-two (x) ;; in a source file
(+ x 2))
> (add-two 1) ;; after evaluating/compiling the above
3

Imagine that these were more complicated things, like you're using a web API and getting JSON files and parsing them. You can develop it interactively, and as you verify that things are correct, you can migrate them to functions (and add tests to really do the verification part).
Docker works inside WSL2; it's one of the improvements over WSL1 that MS has been touting.
> decriminalization gave even more visibility to the addiction problem and newer generations didn't like what they saw

I can believe this. My father used to tell me that drugs like heroin have recurring waves of popularity, because when a dangerous drug becomes popular enough, the Russian roulette aspect becomes so obvious. Everybody knows somebody whose life has been ruined by it. When a drug becomes niche, the few people you know who use it might be handling it okay (or early in their trajectory with the drug) and their experience with it can look cool and attractive. He also said his generation was the last one where basically everybody had seen firsthand what heroin could do to people, but he was optimistic that it had "killed enough famous musicians" that it couldn't come back. That was in the 1990s, so....
Then they are toast before they start. Any supersonic startup must solve the noise problem first. It is solvable with proper aerodynamical tricks, at least in theory.
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yes, this isn't really an objection.
Indeed I was thinking about him, but he's probably not the only one
code reviews and ownership boundaries are less clear on a large code base in a mono-repo. Depending on your team culture, this will either be a pro or a con. While careful design of the build system can mitigate build times, there is likely to be some disagreement on basic practices such as "how to launch a service" or when to use spring vs. guice vs. rails that will be tougher than simply letting everyone go their own way.

Refactors and cross-service deployments can become much simpler in a MonoRepo.
The Facebook top 10 is dominated by a large set of right wing media figures, with it varying quite a bit which subset appears during any given period. Your splitting theory does not work.
Use them whenever things are one project, only split them up when it's legitimately separate projects.

At work I set up a repo with our back-end code in one directory, the front-end in a directory, and the ansible playbooks/other deploy stuff in another..

This allows us to automatically create servers for every branch because we know that everything goes together. Working on other projects where they have all of these separate is a nightmare. Especially when they use microservices and each service has its own repo and each library has a repo... I want to smack anyone who ever thinks that is a good idea
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> only frustrated by Apple giving it Windows support a decade after it's creation.

Swift was only publicly announced six years ago.
FWIW, Television-based mass education has been mainstream in India since late 1980s. NCERT (1) TV slots in the government-run free-to-air TV channel (Doordarshan) is how many thousands learn, and graduate (in combination with IGNOU, which is an open university).

(1) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Central_Institute_of_Education...
This is exactly why they’re writing a blog post about it.

This type of social proof, when executed well, is a boon to one’s career opportunities and credibility for getting future consulting jobs.

If they’re not hired by Apple, they’re going to move to the top of the list for info section recruiters everywhere. Being able to point to this blog post makes them an easy sell relative to some other person with a generic resume.
I agree. I wrote an SPA with Mithril a couple of months ago and the entire app fit in 38kB gzip.

For me the biggest drawback of an SPA is that it's a lot more work.
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A hole in the tube would cause air coming in, isn't that the opposite of what that video[2] shows?
What I like about argparse is that it will handle stuff like --infile -v (-v means filename in this context since it's value of the infile parameter)

or -- -v (-v is forced to be interpreted as positional in this case since it comes after --).
Pales even next to NYC which is aiming to have 2000+ cameras just for generating traffic ticket revenue and these are just part of the NYPD Domain Awareness System[0]. The wikipedia article does a good job of defining the scale of it.

People just don't get it. The observation has been here for years if not decades, its only because similar technology is available to the general public that we are now just beginning to understand how little privacy we have and how much government is watching and recording.

[0]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Domain_Awareness_System
Vacuum chambers are generally safer because they don't explode; they implode. Also, the maximum pressure differential is quite low, by definition, around 14psi.

Although if your traveling at 500mph towards a section of tunnel which has deformed in any way your are pretty screwed.
You're focused too much on the vacuum aspect of the tube, and not nearly enough on the fact that it's a tube, with enough self-support to be elevated on pylons and is an order of magnitude easier to build than pouring a foundation for maglev tracks.

High speed rail track is dramatically more difficult and expensive to build than a hyperloop tube system. This was, from the beginning, the huge differentiator between the two. Hyperloop tubes aren't comparable to road or rail bridges/tracks, but instead are comparable to constructing oil/gas/water pipelines. We know how much easier it is already to build those.
I don't know about Virgin system but Elon Musk original Hyperloop paper clearly stated:

> The problem with this approach is that it is incredibly hard to maintain a near vacuum in a room, let alone 700 miles (round trip) of large tube with dozens of station gateways and thousands of pods entering and exiting every day. All it takes is one leaky seal or a small crack somewhere in the hundreds of miles of tube and the whole system stops working.

> However, a low pressure (vs. almost no pressure) system set to a level wherestandard commercial pumps could easily overcome an air leak and the transport pods could handle variable air density would be inherently robust.
The site selected is about three hours from DC. But yeah, nowhere near NYC.

Interestingly enough, I was reading an article[0] about how Wheeling and Pittsburgh were competing to be the gateway to the west. When the National Road bypassed Pittsburgh, that was a big win for Wheeling. Most of the rail ended up going through Pittsburgh, though, and then the PA Turnpike opened a path through the mountains that further solidified Pittsburgh's advantage.

For WV's part, I could see them being very motivated to try and bring a new mode of transportation through their state.

[0]: https://www.jstor.org/stable/20093288?seq=1
and also proper units of measurement support while we're at it...
I'd love to see your math.

I don't have any math to support my belief just a little bit of logic, but it works like this:
1) 787 burns X lbs of fuel per hour in flight
2) 787 takes Y hours to fly from point A to point B at Mach 0.85
3) X lbs of fuel * Y hours = Z polution
4) Boom burns Xf lbs of fule per hour in flight (could actually be less because it's smaller or could be higher because of additional needed thrust)
5) Boom takes Y.85 to fly from point A to point B at Mach 1
6) (Xf) of fuel (Y*.85) hours = H pollution

So as long H is less than Z then Boom would be decreasing the impact on the environment. Now I know that there are a lot of missing numbers in here like passenger count production impacts, etc. But the solution you seem to imply is that flight just shouldn't happen and I'm not sure this is an option so if Boom can reduce the amount of pollution created by flying then it seems like something you should be for not against.
Is this fingerprinting javascript-based, and therefore can be circumvented by whitelisting scripts, or are there server-side methods as well?
Interesting correspondence between your comment and sfvisser's:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24716903
I don't know if this[0] will help with your scrolling but it helps with mine. I made it so I could more quickly scan new stories today not mixed amongst popular stories from past days. It also groups common themes (e.g. covid, etc) so I can scan/skip them as a group, leaving the unclassified/interesting stories at the top. Any/all feedback welcome.

[0] https://hackerer.news/
Can the author of the article answer this? I have a tens-7000 with the ear clips. They would probably work fine on the tongue. What would I need to set the Width, Rate and Mode to in order to replicate this therapy?
The difference between {Rust, Go} and Ruby is almost entirely about rigor.

The difference between Rust and Go, on the other hand, is mostly pragmatic: Rust is "strict" about design and implementation details Go's runtime handles for the programmer; there's nothing for Go to be "strict" about.

Rust is more rigorous than Go, but to a much smaller degree than Go is over Ruby.
> The Northeast Corridor is wildly profitable for Amtrak (based on operating costs), despite being significantly worse than flying, and often slower than driving. (It's faster than rush-hour driving, but that's about it.)

Worse than flying?

I can take the train from Wash. DC to New York City Penn Station, visit my friends who live in the city by walking alone, and then come back home in time for dinner. (Broadway, Time Square, and Wall Street are all walking-distance from Penn Station)

The closest airport to NYC center is LaGuardia Airport, off of the island. Then you have to spend money on an Uber (or take the train!) into the city anyway. (Cheapest to Uber to the Purple line, then take the purple line into the city).

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The Train's competition is a Bus. There are PLENTY of cheap busses that travel the route.

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Even if you're off of Manhattan in say... Brooklyn. I'd rather be at Penn Station than LaGuardia Airport. Penn Station has a direct subway line to Brooklyn. Its non-obvious how I'd get from LaGuardia to Brooklyn unless my friends spend time to pick me up (or I take an expensive Uber)
You leaked your yoda translate api key in the video (31wiU[redacted]AQeF)
Unfortunately, it doesn’t matter if other people don’t want to play the long game. This team does, they’re executing it well, and it will boost their careers as a result. Everything was done voluntarily by consenting professionals with the rules of the game outlined up front. Can’t really fault them for that.
Yet if I try to reproduce your example, I fail..
On desktop Safari as well.
Hook up your iPhone to your Mac via lightning cable. Open Twitter on your iPhone and then on your Mac open Safari, enable develop mode, and then go to Develop > Your iPhone > Twitter tab. This will open up inspector on your Mac allowing you access to the local Twitter data on your iPhone.

I think that should work.
> A single leak anywhere in the tube could potentially cause explosive pressurization [2].

Also search 'vacuum cannon' for what a long depressurized tube can do. If the tube ever got breached, the atmosphere would rush into it and propel anything inside the tube like a cannonball.
The 'search' is a bit wonky.
I can search 'hiking socks' and it works.
If I enter 'socks' and hit enter, no response (it doesn't even fail).
That others are doing it too doesn't make it less creepy :)

But you can't even buy Cadillac here in Europe.
Note that the article states this will just be a 6 mile test track inside of a former coal mine, not an real-world system for transporting passengers from one part of WV to another.
This does not answer my question, just repeats the claim.
It is, however, worth noting that historically unions were virulently anti-immigrant, seeing them as competitors who lowered wages. Their change in stance is relatively recent and largely involuntary because their attempts to suppress immigration collapsed.

Given the anti H1-B sentiment often displayed in various places, should any of the foreign-born here trust that a software developer union would remain pro-immigration? I wouldn't; there's too much historical precedent.