skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Mind-Boggling Predictions for the Next 25 Years
https://www.tools4noobs.com/summarize/
> Unlike similar American jets, you can find Mig-25's in private hands today being maintained and flying.

That's more because post-Soviet military establishments were more willing to sell surplus aircraft to private buyers than because of any quality of the aircraft themselves.
"As more momentum picks up"

This is the crux of what is being discussed, as with the risks involved in that.
Is anyone able to find the patent?
Let me save you some time:

In the end they ditched their "sharing" economy model of food production and delivery, rented a kitchen and hired staff, and became a delivery service with a teeny tiny menu.

It may be successful; the model is as old as civilization and the market allows for new entrants. But it's not easy.
Screen blanking is a very common problem on the default Pi install. I wrote up some fixes here a while ago: https://shutdownscanner.com/blog/posts/raspberry-pi-digital-...

These days you're probably better off using something like Screenly: https://www.screenly.io/ose

I have a fork that I hacked some basic auth into here: https://github.com/jpsingleton/screenly-ose
Oh god, as I read through it I kind of just started laughing to myself. They opened a chain restaurant -- surely VC-money worthy.
What's your point? That you shouldn't try to filter candidates for culture fit because your methods for doing so might be flawed?

Sure, anything done badly enough can be worse than not doing it, but that is a completely obvious and irrelevant assertion. It's still important to filter for culture fit.
Cool! Will check it out, thanks.
Great project - is this in a repo we can fork?
> Pioneering mathematicians Terence Tao and Lenhard Ng were one-percenters, as were Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg, Google co-founder Sergey Brin and musician Stefani Germanotta (Lady Gaga), who all passed through the Hopkins centre.

Didn't expect Lady Gaga to be listed although it confirms one of my pet theories. It has long been my opinion that success in STEM fields correlates with general high intelligence which will affect strongly with a person's success in her field, be it maths or sculpture.

It's only anecdotal but I've noticed that people that have a good grasp of maths when young also excel in their other favorite activities, even if it's physical activities.

EDIT: more thoughts on the article

> In Europe, support for research and educational programmes for gifted children has ebbed, as the focus has moved more towards inclusion.

This is truly a pity, and it's not only about educational programmes, but the general mentality in Europe is against competitiveness, and sometimes people will even frown at you if you suggest that there truly are different intelligence levels among the population.

Meanwhile in East Europe (namely Romania, Moldova, Ukraine, Russia, probably other countries too but I don't know anything about them) competitiveness between children is crazy high in some circles and that's why a lot of the best engineers come from that area.

There was a comment here the other day on a post about interviewing saying that russian candidates were much more likely to excel at technical interviews than european candidates, and in my experience many more engineers in this area are really dedicated to their work.
He may not have had a concept of what $30 million really is. I know I don’t, even at my age.

If he has his needs met, what does it mean to him to have his needs met more? I know logically this can be worked out that lots of money buys lots of comfort, but thinking back at that age, I personally didn’t know squat about the value of a dollar. I grew up with less money than most of my peers (not “food insecure poor”, but “all I got for Christmas was cloths and 1 small toy poor”) but never thought about it. I just thought my parents were careful spenders.

However, to your point; where were the adults in the equation?
Could be, although i am fairly confident that any technological species out there is far more similar to us or a few other candidates than to anything else we might imagine.

There are likely to be fairly strict biological and environmental constraints on the development of technological intelligence and technological progress.

I will admit that non-corporeal beings are excluded from this since no normal rules can actually apply to them.

I also find it quite unlikely that a civilization can exist for a million years because it would be really interesting to see how does biology factor into this, even given our current conditions 1 million years is enough time for our own species to speciate.
You also have to consider the limitation of the existence of civilizations in a relativistic universe we have had 1000's of culture and subcultures on earth developing over very short distance even without considerable isolation, if you put a human colony even on say Proxima Centauri at a distance of only 4.5 light years which would still allow similar communication times to what was not uncommon on earth even several 100's years ago how much time would have to pass before they are no longer the same civilization as earth or SOL?

And if we take even longer distances then there is almost not way for it to work, at a 100 light years away by the time the message would arrive from one point to another both the sender and the recipient would have likely to expire, at 500-1000 light years the whole civilization might not exist anymore or be considerably different, at a few 1000's light years and above the species itself might not exist anymore.
No, the party that is fucked is the last step in the distribution chain, the one that actually sells the sock to the end user. The rest don't care, since the the sock store is just going to have to buy an additional sock from them to replenish stock.

That's the thing with physical goods. Once you receive money and give your customer the thing, if it gets stolen it's the customer's problem.
YouTube De-Monetization Explained
Imagine if the Siberian tundra were replaced with forests and farms, and current forests and farms were replaced with desert.

You can't just look at the potential upside, assume it will be huge, and also assume there aren't any negative effects that might outweigh it.

The argument that the Earth used to be warmer or cooler or whatever is completely nonsensical. We're not worried about Earth, we're worried about people, and more specifically civilization. The fact that the tundra used to be lush doesn't mean anything in that respect.
I agree, and to carry it a little further: the essence of engineering is good tradeoffs (can I build an adequate bridge for the needed cost? If I can carry more cargo in this plane, can I make the fuel requirement grow linearly or better? zip we cut the range 10% we can cut the op ex 20% -- will that still work? Do I really need to spec precision resistors or can I compensate somewhere else?

The trade off skills apply outside the engineering domain as well.
Only Apple could get away with killing the headphone jack
Agreed. This title tells nothing of the article, and I don't inherently fault OP for maintaining title integrity.
You've actually almost exactly described how PiBakery works - except that PiBakery obviously can write the image as well. Once the image is written, PiBakery just writes some scripts into the /boot/PiBakery/ directory, which is checked by a systemd startup script, and executed.

And if you want to create custom blocks to add in to PiBakery for your own tools/scripts, you're welcome to do that! I have a guide on the PiBakery website - www.pibakery.org/docs/contribute.html - that describes this process that you can look at if you want.
Mad Scientists – Vladimir Demikhov and His Two-Headed Dog
> block quote formatted so it takes mental effort to even figure out what's the previous message and what's the reply

You think it takes mental effort to read proper quotes, e.g. in https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/CANP8%2BjKvbe2jwOzUMGo...?

That's proper quoting style. It's incredibly readable, much more than the top-posting scourge we must deal with on so many mailing lists.
I think you misread my comment. I haven't tried the stuff and I'm not about to endorse something that I haven't tried. Moreover, there are things I do recommend but I still advise potential users to stay safe and be smart.

Now back to my original point: there are things on the Schedule I list that can change people's lives. Some of the most interesting things on the list can, on first use, pull back the veil and allow the user to re-evaluate their most basic beliefs.

My argument is that the establishment does not benefit from people doing that, when so many of their workers have BS jobs.

The list might exist to protect the basic health and safety of our population, or it might exist to protect the status quo.

You say this stuff is great? Well don't be surprised it's on the list, then! :)
Sure, except the problem is "the last mile". 4g solves this by virtue, and they're offering it for free for this advantage.
really glad you pointed this out. I had to run to my copy of Kingdom of Fear after reading the Leary quote and get away from the internet after reading some of this stuff.

My favorite passage is kind of a combination of the crazy guy, eloquent and beautiful writer, with deep and insightful commentary: http://www.goodreads.com/quotes/1074-strange-memories-on-thi...
ask him:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L%C3%A1szl%C3%B3_Polg%C3%A1r
You know, in the real world, the dreaded F-Word is used by just about anyone who's not deeply religious.. and even they might sometimes fail to censor themselves before saying it.
So beautiful and upsetting at the same time. Is there any way we can donate to this lawyer and these refugees?

The last thing, about the Oliver Stone movie, what a shame.
I agree. The title isn't useful at all. Neither was the first paragraph, had no idea what the article was about.
Add Chess to that list, people argue constantly about which is the best set and which style of pieces are the right ones.

I just bought a 20 dollar vinyl board and some plastic touranment staunton pieces from ebay - the exact same ones the local chess club uses.

I'm also into Cycling and it's much the same there as well, My carbon bike was £800 and I ride it 2-3 times a week, I have friends who spent £4000 and ride it once a month (and have to have full carbon everything) always struck me as crazy but it's their money.
I don't even own a DVD/Bluray player. If I can't find it on a streaming site (whether subscription service like Netflix, or buying it, ala Amazon) Then... :-/ Hoist the Jolly Roger.

It's frustrating wanting to give money for something, and not being able to.
'Cooking is dying'

ugh.
Glad you like PiBakery - one of it's inspirations was actually for the Raspberry Pi club I run at school. Hopefully it'll make your life a bit easier!
The title gives no indication what the article is about, that's the real problem.
You totally can, but more importantly, you shouldn't. :)
For that to happen, an awful lot of Chinese parents will need to start using the service. Anyway, it already happens in Western countries without algorithms.
"Most Soviet designs favored being cheap, hardy, and easy to maintain"

I think it was Max Hastings who pointed out in the context of WW2 that there isn't much point in having tanks that are six times better than your enemies if they have ten times as many tanks as you do!
It's unfortunately required for AR displays to work correctly.
... what?

I guess if it makes sense to you, ok, but "continuous growth in a circle" to explain the complex exponential sounds like cloud-gazing to me: the human mind making up patterns where there are none.

The only way it makes sense to me is by looking at the power series and seeing how the exponential power series is almost the same as the sine and cosine power series (alternatively and equivalently: all of the exponential, hyperbolic, and circular functions satisfy almost the same differential equation).
> Must be backed by a partner accelerator, incubator, or VC firm.

Be nice if this could be used by people who are bootstrapping their company and don't intend to take investment or have anything to do with VC.

Although I guess DigitalOcean is relying on VCs and incubators to do the work of filtering out spurious claims and con artists.
No it isn't like ownership, because I can make a perfect copy without taking away yours. After 3 years or so showing off your clay sculpture and making money from it, why should I be able to make copies freely?
Is ^U same as ALT+Backspace? I use this for deleting passwords. But only works for specific shell/ssh/OS.
Unfortunately you got it wrong, and your AAA example shows it very well.

Just as in 2d with a complex, in 3d you can encode rotations with a 3d vector. The problem is that to reach any point from any other arbitrary point you can't use a single rotation, but a combination of two, sometimes three. Think about how your AAA gun operates or FPS viewpoint controls. Thus you start to use rotations along the three axes of a base which gives you a typical rotation matrix.

As soon as you start to compose rotations along axes you introduce a terrible phenomenon known as gimbal locking, where discontinuities appear especially near north and south poles.

And so, just as a 2D rotation in a plane can be represented by a vector orthogonal to that plane (i.e in a space outside the plane), the gimbal lock and all artifacts that are cumbersome when constraining ourselves in 3D can be dealt with by going up a dimension... Hence quaternions which encode+ a rotation by putting an arbitrary but well chosen axis and an amplitude in a space grown othrogonally to our 3D space.

+ Or isomorohically so
I had my grandfather dying from a bacterial infection developed while hospitalized, not responding well to antibiotics. I know how that feels.

Having close people die does change our perception, but science requires objectivity and a move like this requires careful planning, as you have to admit, we aren't known for making the best choices in healthcare.

And an ecological disaster probably won't happen, but lets consider that it does for the sake of argument, having as result a much lower yield for the crops in Africa or the rest of the world for a while. It's not impossible and the world's supply of food is actually very fragile. So you save millions from the spread of viruses, but then starve them to death.

I'm not against killing all mosquitoes, I'm just against doing it without thoroughly researching the effects and having a prepared contingency plan.
Day 5 resurrecting the Xerox Alto
Neither are the next several. It takes awhile to get down to the meat of it: "having your neighbor cook for you doesn't work for shit as a business, so we're just going to open a restaurant."
> Frankly, it would have taken just one thing - remove references to Facebook.

Unless you're part of the team at google with the power to reinstate extensions, I don't know how you can possibly claim to know that.
When the Mission Gambit happens without a market for programmers nothing changes
The factoid about resistance to EMP gets repeated endlessly online and in print, but it doesn't really make sense, and I doubt it's true. EMP damages electrical connections which are:

a) long.
b) thin.
c) far from a ground plane.

In more detail: the induced current depends directly on the length of the conductor; a thin is more easily overheated and damaged than a thick one; and conductors running near ground planes make poor antennas for picking up pulses.

Now, all three of these factors describe vacuum tubes more than solid-state electronics. Vacuum tubes have to have very thin heated cathode wires, and the dimensions of vacuum tubes result in a substantial distance to the ground plane and in long conductors. Compared with solid-state electronics, which, especially in modern design, can practically live on or between ground planes, this makes for a lot of sensitivity to EMP and external interference.

One sanity check is to consider electromagnetic noise emitted by the device. Any device which is emitting substantial RF noise from its internal components is also going to be vulnerable to external EMP or interference, since antennas work both ways - anything which is good at emitting will also be good at receiving. Now, vacuum tube devices emit more RF noise than modern solid state devices, and generally need more shielding.

The components in the MiG-25 radar had more to do with what was available to the Soviet designers in the 1950s. The radar of the MiG-25 came from the Tu-128 interceptor which first flew in 1961, which means that the radar was designed in the mid-1950s at the latest. Wouldn't surprise me if the US radar of the same vintage also used vacuum tubes.
1 -> 2 made a huge difference for me.

2 -> 3 much less (so much so I went from 3 to 2 at home because I wanted the desk space back).

Working on one screen for webdev though is frustrating I agree, I hate working from my laptop now.
Your assumption that one person can serve 50 customers a month seems to be quite low. That comes to spending about four hours per customer to respond, track and provide a resolution or workaround! Of course, the duration would vary depending on what kind of support channel is used (phone vs. chat vs. email). You also seem to be assuming that all paying customers would have major issues that can only be resolved by working with other teams, getting a new resolution or change implemented, etc.

In reality, most customer cases can be resolved quickly by searching for documentation and pointing them to it and/or explaining things better (and improving the support documentation along side when necessary).

I would assume that at least 30 customers can be served per eight hour working day. That's spending more than 15 minutes per customer and is usually adequate (on average) even for phone support! With my extrapolation here, which is again just an example (real scenarios would be different), the basic cost incurred by the service provider for the salary alone comes to about $7 per user per month. Add for overheads and it would still be fine to charge $10 or $12 per month. If service tiers are used, then there could be multiple slabs, mechanisms for support and turnaround times - all these would bring down the actual cost further.
> “A high test score tells you only that a person has high ability and is a good match for that particular test at that point in time,” says Matthews.

If Matthews is correct that scores are transient, then we'd expect test scores to have little to no predictive ability. In other words, we'd expect the rate of career achievement among high test takers to be approximately equal to the rate of achievement among low test takers.

But this claim is directly contradicted by actual evidence:

> Follow-up surveys—at ages 18, 23, 33 and 48—backed up his hunch. A 2013 analysis found a correlation between the number of patents and peer-refereed publications that people had produced and their earlier scores on SATs and spatial-ability tests. The SAT tests jointly accounted for about 11% of the variance; spatial ability accounted for an additional 7.6%.
>at WORST look like this using promises: http://paste.ofcode.org/Nx2infQQ2aESNxxiwJC7cN

I'm sorry but I can't see how it is good-looking code. In my opinion this piece should look like this:

var dbResource = fetchDbResource(query);
var serviceResponse = callSomeAsyncService();
var otherService = callSomeOtherAsyncService();
Yes. I've been getting thrown into the team lead position quite a bit as I've gotten older.

I get tasked with delivering arbitrary deadlines for impossible features and timelines to my team and managing the outcomes.

There really are no other reasons for some of these deadlines other than higher mgmt. competing against each other. There are no business reasons.

Long ago I just started ignoring them and giving my team deadlines that were both reasonable and obtainable. I don't want anybody stressed on a daily basis.

If mgmt thinks they can do better, go for it.
Surely a chain restaurant with its own routing algorithm is worthy a bazillion dollars?
I had the same thing happen to me with a wifi adapter. I was using the Pi as a server to host ouimeaux (which creates a REST API to toggle Belkin wifi light switches). It worked great, except after an hour of inactivity it would take 1-2 minutes to register an action, before becoming responsive again for the next hour.

Until I properly found out how to disable wifi power saving, I worked around it by just pinging it from another device every 30 minutes to keep it awake.
I think not, the initial delivery is time sensitive. The retrieval of the expensive components is not.
The article makes out that the girl built and designed it herself. This is not the case, it's a slick, locally designed site ( Chinese language etc ) even the link at the bottom is for a parent company of some sort. It's a highly developed and tested site, this is no one person, overnight success.
Thank you! I can't believe that wasn't in the article.
Exactly, I start with the Raspbian Full image and slightly modify it to work with PiBakery. If you want to see exactly what I have changed, I have a GitHub repo of that as well - https://github.com/davidferguson/pibakery-raspbian .

I will be doing the same process with Raspbian Lite (as having a minimal image is the most wanted feature) and allowing users to choose whether they want to use Full or Lite when writing to SD.
I feel like this is at least partially attributable to how we get our entertainment too. During the postwar era, there wasn't an infinite variety of media to consume -- TV shows were on at a set time, on one of four channels, between 6:00pm and 12:00am. Compare that to binge watching on Netflix, and you see people engaging in hobbies less regularly, less intensely.

Couple that with the fact that travel is way easier, and you see disposable income (to the extent that anyone has disposable income) being spent on fleeting things rather than the tools to engage in a serious hobby.

I don't feel like either of the above are a bad thing, but they could just as easily be contributing factors to the lack of hobbies in the modern era. I'm sure that there are a wide variety of others, too, from lack of work/life balance (hello, corporate smartphone) to the lack of hobby education (bye bye, wood shop class, metal shop class, home economics class), plus ones that I'm not thinking of. What hobbies do people engage in now? Were those things hobbies back in the 50's or just necessary chores?
The $30MM if real is probably just skewed for marketing.

It might just be a royalty deal on the patent, and the dollar figure is based on potential over the patent's lifetime
Just using lower-cased v8 would've eliminated much confusion.
Could not agree more, the House of Saud is a blight upon humanity and especially a blight upon Muslims around the world.
Or particularly news-worthy.
Don't forget to silence your phone in church :-)
But are they happy?
Both of his parents are in the medical profession. I think that if you have a child with the right temperament you can coach them into something like this. I've been asking my daughter (who would make someone a good COO) about her thoughts in business.
https://www.gwern.net/iq
I once had a manager who said he played football with a Proat one point. He said this of the game, "he wasn't the strongest on the field, he wasn't the fastest or the tallest, but man - he knew exactly where to be when the rest of us looked like we were just guessing."
Googling "special name" turns up the BBC article. What is the FQDN of the actual website?
How is someone thinking about the universe for half an hour before bed any more meaningful than someone thinking about the Denver Broncos?
LDAP role-based access control with MONyog v6.6
I don't doubt the unscrupulousness of trolls out there, but imagine the optics, stealing from a 14 year old and suing him in court...
Neato, both of you. Thanks for answering!