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Dude. As a European who used to take high speed rail regularly before Corona when I saw this video I felt exactly like the author of this article.

France has had high speed rail for over 40 years that is better than this. Do Americans just simply not understand what mass transit is? The goal is to move lots of people quickly between destinations where people want to go.

Three things;

-lots of people

-quickly

-desired destinations

This demo literally hit none of those marks. Give it a rest.

Also this.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZDOI0cq6GZM
I already bought the popcorn and just waiting for the next Thunderfoot video...

This and the "Solar Freakin' Roadways" are the absolute pinnacles of human stupidity and ignorance...

...and let all my wishes be granted so fast: https://youtu.be/VrbstnzbhZA
> high speed rail is PREindustrial tech

No, that's canal barges.
> Now let's say you have a high power Amp configured correctly for mixing a -24db classical music recording and then the OS glitches out and you hear 0db noise. That might blow up your speakers, headphones, or even worse, your ears.

I experienced one glitch like that while mixing with headphones, it's hard to describe how loud it was, a bang in my ears that made me fall and left me shackling for a few minutes. If you have ever be surprised by headphones at max volume, imagine it's even (way much) louder (because music at max volume is not a full 0db white noise). To this day I now avoid playing with plugins with the headphones and only put them for the final mix/mastering.
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Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10567408 - title probably should have a (2015)
I had one of the first XPSs, and it was a 'mare for the first few months - I'm kinda surprised it's still that much of an issue to be honest.
Without eating meat human race would have perished longtime back;
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For me, Spotify's personalized recommendations (e.g. discover weekly, release radar) have been quite consistent in quality.
TGV runs very well, except for the weekly labor dispute that's completely orthogonal to the fact that it's not running in a vacuum.

How you people believe the risk of explosive decompression will solve whatever problems a minority of high speed train systems have is beyond me.
The problem is that people excited by stuff like this, aren't excited by public transport.

The idea of sitting on a train with the regular public is horrifying to them.

They are excited by expensive fancy private transport for themselves. How the public transport themselves around, or their wider welfare, is not a concern.
Yeah the tone of the whole article was really off-putting.

Seems they are trying too hard to convey a 'no-bullshit' style of writing but completely overshoot and distract from whatever point they actually wanted to get across.
Interestingly enough, that feature already exists and is being removed from Windows. From the transactional NTFS Wikipedia page[0]:

> Microsoft has deprecated TxF and stated that it may be removed in a future version of Windows

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transactional_NTFS
Part of the problem is an american political practice where once someone's "team" (party) wins, then instead of the voters saying "good, now it's time to exercise our power and make them do our bidding" they instead do exactly the opposite and say "good now we can go to sleep and not pay attention".

Combine that with the cheerleading and party loyalty and the idea that pushing the people you voted for to exercise their power is somehow a form of faithless heresy (where you don't "trust" them or you're "against" them) and we get this.

It'd be like working hard to get a pile of money. Someone then places all the cash on a table for you to take and you sigh "finally!" and turn around and exit, leaving it all behind on the table.

"Empower and walk away" is the american way and until that changes good luck trying to get HSR or anything that benefits the well-being of society.
Note how Musk is not putting any of his money in that shit. That should tell you something.
Trains are what helped spark the industrial revolution, thus by definition they are preindustrial.
The argument pushed here was that covid and flu combine badly. If you have both at the same time, it results in harder case of covid.

So you are supposed to get flu shot, so that if you get covid, you have better chance of it going easily.

The company I work for organized flu shots and you did not had to go to clinic. It was in work, people were spread out so you was in room alone when they shot you.
Correct me if I am wrong but I don't think any high speed train can go as fast as Hyperloop is aiming for. If you want high speed trains why not complain to your politicians?

If your problem is wasting money there are probably thousands of projects and companies right now whose only purpose is to waste money. At least Hyperloop has something to show for all that money it "wasted".

> working just fine even in backward-ass doofus countries like freaking Italy

Nice. I don't know why useless rants like this gets upvoted here.
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And the dudes at Google who made a quantum computer invented the world's crappiest computer.
> I'm concerned that Apple's move to ARM with the next generation will make them non-viable as a daily driver for dev work.

Nothing will change, you’ll have still possibility to work as a developer, with each year even more and more. Adding to that Apple will not ditch intel any time soon, at least until they can satisfied needs for most customers pro and not.

People are always afraid of changes on big scale, but they are good to move industry forward. Embrace it and don’t panic too soon. :)

EDIT: Yes, of course downvotes. To anyone doing this, you can still use your favorite C64 but don’t slow down the rest of the world.
Hey if they’re allowed to miss large bits of information for marketing purposes, so am I :)
It's convenient for a VC who only gets to touch several points of a founder's journey label it as having only 3 stages just to make their lives easier. Bucketing them into these limiting categories is a gross oversimplification. The different pre-A stages have come about to make it more accessible for founders to start companies.

YC started in such a capacity to give smaller checks to more people so that more founders can try something (the seed round). That has honestly democratized the whole game, and I think constricting the different stages to make it seem like there's some sort of golden standard is exactly the kind of old guard mentality preventing new founders from getting started even if just with a little bit of money.
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Or stump up for the Precision 5540 if you have the cash. That running arch and i3 and you are cooking with gas!
I import and export to Excel all the time. I never do any fancy tricks, like exporting format or formulas. I use C# and there are libraries available to make life easy.
When I studied philosophy she had a logic seminar. There is a big field of philosophy where logic (also in the mathematical sense) plays a huge role, and there are works in math that have philosophical implications (Gödel's work for example).
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We don’t even have a significant quantity of people with hardware in hand yet so I’d like to reserve judgement.

At best we have some trite stats about single core performance but I’m interested to see whether or not this maps to reality on some much harder workloads that run a long time. Cinebench is an important one for me...
AMD should easily beat Apple in graphics, all they have to do is switch to the latest Navi/RDNA2 microarchitecture. They are collaborating with Samsung on bringing Radeon into mobile devices, surely that will translate into efficiency improvements for laptops too.

> ARM’s architecture vs. x86-64

x86 will always need more power spent on instruction decode, sure, but it's not a huge amount.
But that's not true. Building new housing, no matter how large, would be a losing proposition, as you'd have to pay for the land, which is expensive, and building lots of apartments would increase the supply, reducing the value of your land and building.

I've lived in a european city without rent control and mostly even without zoning laws (less than 20% of kiel are affected by Bebaungsplänen) and yet rent was even higher and supply even lower. Hundreds of hotels, lots of luxury apartments, but for the average citizen, nothing got built.

Capitalism doesn't optimize for producing the most supply, it optimizes for increasing the value of your assets. And if the best way to do so is by artificially limiting the supply, that's exactly what's gonna happen.
We have a new highspeed rail line between Berlin and Munich. It's old tech. It was old tech when the decision to build it was made.

(Not that I'm happy with the highspeed rail network in Germany. It could and should be much better. It could completely replace short distance flights. But it's quite obviously lightyears ahead of the situation in the US.)
Amazed by the negativity of this article and comments. We haven't invented a new form of transport since the Second World War, don't you think we're overdue? And to Americans who think that getting high speed trains is just a matter of government willpower, might be worth remembering that railways were originally private ventures which only stopped being profitable once they could no longer compete with the newer technologies of cars+highways and air travel.
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That's a problem of the ICE not HSR as a whole. I never had issues with the TGV or shinkansen.

DB is a joke in general. Any time I travel through Germany there's been constant delays.
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1 bar is acutally not that bad.

Hyoerloop pods are smaller, so less lives are at risk.

And most importantly of all.
It's not gonna be explosive, unless you rip the thing open with a bomb and you're right next to it.

Even if you rip the tube in half, the air is going to take some time to fill it up. A few miles from the hole there will be a much more harmless pressure gradient already.

Sure it might shake your capsule, but you're not gonna get shredded.
And even US based folks might now have an Apple Store within reasonable driving distance.
Really, I find that surprising. I use a GTX 1070 and it's still capable of playing a decent number of recent games at 4K with the settings turned down. Seems like the GTX 1050 Ti should still cut it for some moderate 1080p gaming.
According to the original hyperloop paper (https://www.tesla.com/sites/default/files/blog_images/hyperl...) it is meant to be able to help with infrastructure costs. The main difference is that it is all much lighter than conventional rail. This means that you can build it on pylons over the ground, and continuously extrude carbon fibre to build the tunnel. In theory both land costs and construction costs should be much lower.

That was the original paper though, I don't know how much of that is considered realistic now.
There are no working mass transit options. At least not from the perspective of day-to-day travels in areas that are not extremely densely populated. Hyperloop just shifts the problems around, IMO.

All kinds of trains face the same problem. Their target and destination has to be fixed in advance. Thus their cost raises linearly with every new station served. A workable subway net (say, Berlin) has so many stations that you are often quicker by bike, you often wait 10min for a connecting train, and even then the distance between two stations is often barely walkable for a lot of passengers. Oh, and the trains often run close to Max capacity.

Buses are much better, as they can use roads flexibly. They suffer from high operating wage costs (one driver per dozens of passengers) and very small stations, though.

Compare this to individual traffic, especially (electric) bikes: You can go point-to-point, at any time you want, at your personal speed. The only matter is that bikes need to get safer (ABS, lighting) and cities should invest into weather proof roads (coarse asphalt, managed lanes, lighting, if possible roofs). If you combine that with trains that only have to stop every 5-10km you are pretty close to a perfect mode of operations for even the largest mega city, I think. In less densely populated areas, battery-electric vehicles could substitute trains quite nicely.

edit: To the downvoters. I know it sucks when someone challenges your deeply ingrained ideology. But I do live in a city with exactly the problems I mentioned and no amount of political willpower will ever change physics.
Regardless of the content I really don't appreciate articles written with an explicit effort to shit on other people's work.

Flagged.
Highway infrastructure in the US is largely publicly funded. It's no surprise that a mode of transport which doesn't pay for its infrastructure and externalities (long-distance road transport) is more competitive than a mode that does (long-distance rail).
> I think this is talking about digital music, where there was intense competition in the 2000s between services that imposed DRM and services that didn't, and in the end the DRM side capitulated. (Of course, then streaming music arrived and was a whole other can of worms.)

The apogee on the Music DRM side was in 2005 when Sony released a music CD that actually installed a rootkit on your PC[0].

As it turns out, "Don't buy music from Sony, it will put a virus on your computer" was a pretty effective way to hit Sony's public image and pocketbook.

After that, it was no longer hyperbole to describe DRM as malware, and it was apparent that the logical endpoint detractors were pointing to was not, in fact, dismissable as a reductio ad absurdum.

It was downhill for DRM from there. In 2008, Microsoft shut down their PlaysForSure servers[1], rendering protected media purchases useless, demonstrating that you couldn't rely on DRM systems to continue to work, even if the DRM vendor was the richest and most entrenched software company in the world.

One year after that, iTunes went DRM-free, which was the final nail in the coffin. At least for music DRM.

[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sony_BMG_copy_protection_roo...

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_PlaysForSure
Thanks. That sounds like a reasonable explanation, and anecdotally I don't remember ever having major performance problems with SSH, even on mobile networks, so it makes sense that there ia something preventing this particular error mode.
Musk owns The Boring Company, which is currently building a public transit tunnel in Las Vegas.
I'd take a hyperloop over an ICE any time.

Since a “hyperloop” doesn’t exist and you have no basis for understanding what the tradeoffs are, this is not very convincing.

The point remains - high-speed rail is a known and deliverable system. Good implementations exist in several countries. In contrast, a new technology comes with associated engineering and economic challenges, and it’s unclear how those can solve the existing problems that high-sped rail deals with.
Arguably, trains came out of the industrial revolution and amplified it. (The early phase ran on canals.)

The real question, however, is: will Hyperloop meet canal barges in terms of mass moved per distance at a given interval of time (and this for an equal share of investments / at comparable costs)?

Edit: Assuming you'd have to divide the track into air-locked sections for safety concerns, with just a single pod in a section at a given time, which drastically limits capacity.
This is why I like Go and hope they don’t ruin it with a poor generics implementation. It fits in my head. My other usual language is C# which is starting to feel like a London bus at rush hour with feature burden.
This!

Pylons for the win!
A 5 minute Wikipedia search will show you that's not true
The cargo version seem to hanging on my ubuntu 20.04 machine and rust v1.47.
Resident here. Yes, it is, and that's what brought me here, and that's why I stay. Sadly, some of that quality has being eroded over time, but the further south you go the more there is. Sadly, current economics keep me northern-bound.
And neither is Spain, nor France, nor any other European country with a substantial high speed rail network. These networks are the product of decades of cross-party strategic investment in rail to combat the need for short-haul domestic air travel or a proliferation of tarmac across empty countryside to link population centres.
The very fact that the US has failed to invest in rail in any meaningful way since the westward expansion suggests that it's not the european countries that are backward-ass or doofus. What's the experession - 'Those who live in glass houses shouldn't throw stones'?
I personally would recommend to go with the T440 series, as it's the last generation of Thinkpads where you can replace all hardware parts yourself. But it's core i-based, so it needs some work regarding Intel ME etc.

The Linux support is amazing, the only thing with Thinkpads is the synaptics driver which needs a config file to make it work as you want it to.

The thinkwiki contains a lot of information about all models, including a list of known problems. [1]

Before you install Linux on any laptop, I would recommend to check for BIOS compatibility. Sometimes there were OEM versions out there where the EFI vars could be deleted and then it's bricked unless you flash coreboot or reflash the original BIOS on it with an adapter.

If you want to go full tinfoil and libre, why not switch to a pinebook?

[1] https://www.thinkwiki.org/wiki/Category:Models
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> The number include people who die with covid not just due to covid. So its inflated.

There is no significant difference between people dying WITH a systemic disease and people dying OF a systemic disease. And there is no over-reporting in the USA compared to most other countries, so the comparison still makes sense. And even if HALF the reported numbers were wrong (the reality is probably closer to 0.01% or something), it would still be a viral disease much worse than any other active in the wealthy world today.

> Similarly for covid, there are huge downside due to lockdown. The risk due to lockdown compared to the risk of covid ? very very not worth it.

You are acting as if the mild restrictions in place today are as extreme as banning cars. I've already pointed out that the extreme response would be state-wide, military enforced, house arrest for everyone except emergency personnel - that would be the 0 deaths alternative.

Instead, in all places that actually care about public health, we have mild restrictions to control the spread of the virus. This includes Sweden by the way, which has a lockdown more or less as much as everywhere else, except it is more self-imposed since their constitution doesn't allow for a legally-enforced one.

> If for you, you think the risk is worth it and you want to isolate yourself then its fine I won't force you but the issue is if you trying to force other people to isolate too.

It's not about what I think. We have people specialized in assessing these risks, and they have ALL said, everywhere in the world, that we must wear masks and isolate. The risks from isolation, which are also understood and absolutely exist, DO NOT outweigh the risks of the disease. And this is not me saying it, it is doctors and policy makers everywhere in the world.

Do you think the UK WANTS to close its economy? Or France or Germany or Norway? Do you think they WANT to keep their schools closed?

Or is it much more believable that they have looked at the risks, they have looked at hospital capacity, and have understood, unlike you, that Covid19 is much worse than the hardships caused by lockdowns?

And while there are some valid concerns about the impact of lockdowns on all sorts of problems, there is absolutely no excuse for not wearing a mask. Not doing is simply irresponsible and unhygienic, and must be strongly punished by legal and social means.
Off-topic, but I am always wondering why (English and lot of other languages) Wikipedia don't include "accident" or similar word in the title for these articles.

On the contrary, Japanese and Chinese versions do have it (and sounds more natural as a native speaker).
While there are many good critiques of Hyperloop, comparing its speed on half-kilometer test track to established technologies is not one. The article is joyfully bashing a strawman it has built on its own.
Eight year old paper on a 20 year old topic still being current: The CAP theorem
few people before January assumed an infectious disease would ever impact their lives. It was hard to even comprehend.

That seems like an odd thing to say even just for the US, after the SARS and MERS scares, hantavirus, lime disease, not to mention HIV/AIDS.
Ok let me rephrase, and actually make my point stronger.

I'd take a shot at fully funding hyperloop with all the ressources that our current HSR system has, over keeping our ICEs any day.

If it was up to me we'd fund Transrapid. It's also build on pylons, does 500kmh, and is proven tech that has been running for 40 years.
So we get the best of both.

But I don't see a future for Transrapid, because it's not cool enough for political backing.

Hyperloop is, so I'm doing a strategic vote here.
True story:

My Dad flew with BA and once a year (until the age of 25), I could get an annual free flight with him. For my last free trip we went to Hong Kong and Tim Lancaster was piloting, so I got to meet him - enjoyably, everyone affectionately knew him as 'Tim out the window'. He gave me a harrowing account of the whole experience, worst of all was trying to tilt his head backwards so he could breathe.

Also interestingly, as we were approaching to land in HK, we suddenly started gaining altitude again and ended up doing a lap round the island because, "The runway was busy". Tim later confessed to me that he'd hit the wrong button and withdrew the approach flaps.

They also regaled me with stories of the old HK landing strip that involved flying so low through the city, you could see into people's rooms, shortly before banking hard to the right when you saw a giant chequer board on the side of a mountain, and landing.

I then spend a week going out every night in Hong Kong city with several plane loads of Airline Stewardesses. That's another story, but suffice to say, I was very lucky 24 year old boy.