skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Musk launches company to pursue ‘neural lace’ brain-interface technology
I would happily spend a thousand years contemplating whether or not you're right.
> Does a substantial portion of the subjects actually care about this?

I don't think that's how laws or ethics rules work, for one. And I wasn't talking about a particular experiment, for two.
Or missing lectures and listening RAP music!
There's a tradeoff to using the Amazon just as with everything else and other tasks that are computationally intensive: yesterday, I had 16 16bit 16megapixel TIFFS stitching with Hugin for about thirty minutes flat out.
Sorry buddy, I made a silly mistake, you got it.
Musk is wrong that input bandwidth is a limiting factor in intelligence. We don't efficiently use the megapixel our phones show us, let alone the several megapixels on our laptops.

Improving UIs will provide much more bang for the buck for many many decades to come. A neural lace is the equivalent of trying to increase the yield per square inch of the herbs in your window box when you have 100 acres of empty land around you.
There is no general licence for a "construction worker". There are specific licences for things like "tower crane operator", "intermediate rigger", "advanced scaffolding erector".

Similarly, there would never be a general licence for "programmer". But some day there probably will be (and indeed probably should be) specific licences for things like "have back-end access to personal medical data", "modify source code of nuclear reactor control software", and "install networking hardware via which credit card details are transmitted".

It's not about creating a barrier to entry for a whole profession. It's about licencing people to work in specific situations where there are specific risks, such as privacy risks, public safety risks, and risk of fraud.
A lawsuit over Costco golf balls
The in-game music is a chiptune version of the "Defend Kebab" song.
Why should it only matter if a substantial number of subjects care about confidentiality?

The danger for some people is death or worse. Why are you dismissing that risk?
I'm confused. What was the issue for his firing? Was it because his sex life went public and thus gave the project a bad view?

Kind of if someone abuses legal some legal substance that is frowned upon (I couldn't think of such a substance, let's pretend it exists) and gets ejected when it gets out to the public because they now associate a frowned-on behavior with the project.

OR

Was the issue just that he enjoyed sexual dominance?

Or even a mix of both? I feel like I'm missing something because I don't even understand the situation.
A Startup’s Plan to Cut Air Freight Costs in Half with 777-Size Drones
I think this is the link for the site of the last edition of the 2nd book you mention http://www.obeythetestinggoat.com/
> This gives the false impression that the variables are all related. If they are related, they should probably be encapsulated in some kind of structure.

The true impression. If they're actually unrelated, they're more likely to be in different files outright, than immediately sequential. "Encapsulating" in a struct is pointless/potentially obfuscatory if they're related local temps - but I'll use the same style for initializing structs.

> And once you add the comments explaining what the first three variables are and how they should be used, and the comment explaining why pi doesn't have a decimal point, there is no benefit to alignment.

I align those comments too.

> If you add another long line, you have to realign the whole list

The one drawback.
I'm sure that some people will but there will almost certainly be security in the store that will politely ask them to stop.
This isn't reverse-engineering at all. Frankly, I think this is a reasonably cool project, but it's brazenly dishonest of the author to claim he "reverse-engineered a company" when all he did was conduct elementary statistics on an open dataset. You can reasonably expect that there's much more to OPower's data analytics suite, and furthermore, a company is of course much more than its flagship product.

There are lots of smart metering companies: why is OPower among the most successful? Maybe the interesting thing to really think about is not their analytics but their sales and marketing strategies.
Everyone devotes resources to saving themselves from death each and every day. Every time they go to the grocery store, in fact. If you are willing to undertake that action, you should be equally willing to to visit a physician to push back your day of death by a day, each and every day.

There is something about considering alterations in the current trajectory of aging that makes people say strange things. People who exercise to improve their health span, people who visit doctors to prolong their health span, people who put off death in hundreds of small ways, constantly, all the time. But suggest that perhaps aging should be modified, and people who are 100% supportive of ending heart disease and Alzheimer's suddenly develop a deep philosophical attachment to inevitable death on exactly the current schedule for inevitable death. Seems a little suspect.
Actually, the culprit is Rust's decision to statically link its standard library and all its dependencies by default.

Things like libunwind, libbacktrace, embedded debugging symbols for backtraces, and the jemalloc allocator aren't free.

If you ask for dynamic linkage (with the caveat that Rust doesn't have a stable ABI yet), you get a ~8K Hello World binary.

It's also possible to prune down the statically-linked size by opting out of various conveniences like jemalloc. (They're working toward making the system allocator default but don't want to regress Servo in the interim.)

...and if opt into static linking with GCC and G++ (and ask Rust to make its link to libc static), Rust can actually outdo them on a Hello World.

Here's a detailed exploration: https://lifthrasiir.github.io/rustlog/why-is-a-rust-executab...
Thanks. Can't read the article, but hopefully he's continuing to fight the good fight.
Ask HN: I was hit by an uber driver who had no insurance, what is my recourse?
My car was hit yesterday by an Uber driver in Denver. He did stop and took responsibility. I have a picture of his ID, a written statement that it was his fault, and his insurance info. Unfortunately his insurance dropped him a few weeks earlier.

There is at least a thousand dollars of damage, but no injury.

My insurance agent said I should contact Uber and they might cover, which sounds like it won't happen. Can I at least report this driver to Uber?
you got the question backwards.

if enough subjects don't care about confidentiality you could use only them and publish the data.
You think smoke from marijuana isn't harmful to your lungs? Particularly as it's often inhaled as deeply as possible?
It seems like sensible advice but with gratuitous insults interspersed, just to make sure you're really clear that the natives are not friendly.
the legitimate market will still have to compete with the black market. Many of my friends in BC prefer going to dispensaries because of the variety and consistency of the products as well as convenience vs. meeting your dealer and buying whatever he has. I also think the legitimate grow ops are going to end up being a lot more efficient because they won't have to make any effort hiding from authorities.
By the same token, humanity hasn't changed so much that the rich and powerful don't eventually realize the terror of their mortality, and desperately try to buy their way out of it. While it's always possible that this will be the generation to discover the Philosopher's Stone, there is no real indication that's the case.

I wish I could agree with your rosy outlook, but my view of a realistic form of immortality is in line with Richard K. Morgan's vis a vis 'Altered Carbon'. People keep looking for a technology to change us as humans, but we're going to have to do it ourselves, and soon, or die. Technology doesn't change our nature, it just empowers us to act more freely on it.
What's strange is that this is something where people haven't even complained about this person's interaction with them, merely their private sexual preferences.

Both things get treated the same way, "if anything about you makes me uncomfortable, I'll take that as threatening and force you out of the community because the things you like are unpopular"

This is the same line of reasoning that burned witches in Salem, kept gays closeted for decades and is the very thing liberal people say that they are against today.

Drupal showed themselves to be complete and utter hypocrites.
Screen size. On my two 24 inch monitors, I can easily have four side-by-side files with 100 characters and a large font size.

This being HN, naturally someone's going to tell me they do most of their programming on a 7 inch terminal screen.

But 80 chars comes with a cost: over terse code, or a lot of scrolling.
They realize that amazon now measures the height of each customer, also has a miniature drone following them around and each floor tile measure the weight of the people for that extra data point, oh and some have employees disguised as customers whom help the system when in doubt.
ah, interesting - thanks for the explanation (and sorry if that was mentioned in the article, I couldn't get past the paywall).
Ask HN: Should I sell my SaaS (400k rev)?
Hi All,

For the sake of my employees, customers, and reputation, I've decided to use this alias.

I started a SaaS co 6 years ago, in a very popular/crowded industry. It's grown to roughly 400k/year in revenue (60% profit margins).

The business has been quite slow the last 6 months and even started to decline (roughly loosing 100 MRR every single month – churn being 10% and growth being 10%). We haven't grown much in the last 12 months (maybe $300 mrr was added, in total, after churn, after 12 months?).

My question to you is, when is the time to pull the trigger and sell?

I'm quite bothered by the fact that I can't fix churn, and my broker believes we can get a good payout for the business.

Look forward to hearing your thoughts
No, I agree we should try. It was just an "aha" moment for me. It highlighted to me the inconsistency in answer these two questions:

1) How soon do you think we'll be able to tap every neuron?

2) How soon do you think we'll understand the galaxy in terms of each and every individual constituent star (not aggregates).
In truth, longer lines would probably be fine, except that 99% of the time when your line is more than 80 characters long, there's a better way to do it with shorter lines. I've made a habit of reducing lines to 80 characters or less, and I would guess that for every 50 times I take a line I wrote that's 80-100 characters long and figure out how to split it into shorter lines, 49 of those times, the shorter version is better. That seems like a good reason to prefer the shorter line limit.

Note that it isn't a hard limit. The actual rule is "[s]tatements longer than 80 columns will be broken into sensible chunks, unless exceeding 80 columns significantly increases readability and does not hide information." So longer than 80 is fine, but only if it significantly increases readability. That sounds about right to me!
I heard once that it was because punch cards were 80 columns. But my guess is screen resolution? We have much higher definition screens and can fit more on a line now? Should we have longer lines of code? Probably not. Could we? Heck yeah.
That's nothing. I reverse-engineered Twitter in one hour using Wordpress.

Sorry. I try not to be to mean, but this title was just crying out for it.
This is such a widely known situation in legal circles.

The United States District Court for the Eastern District of Texas described by the NYT is known as the "rocket docket" and the go-to forum for patent trolls.

A friend who is a patent litigator in a major US IP law practice, recently was moved to TX to be near the Court's location. Relocation driven by the disproportionate economic activity surrounding that jurisdiction.

Hope the Supremes will do something to mitigate the disproportionate influence of the Eastern District Court in patent matters.
Yet we still find some reason to regulate just about everything, because people are pretty creative about finding ways to pass the consequences of their bad decisions onto other people.

I don't know real estate developers to be any sort of exception, do you?
Numbers and math are required for theoretical space travel, but not necessarily for practical space travel. Catching a ball requires solving differential equations, but children and animals are capable of performing this action with no problem.

Given that there is so much of physics that we have yet to understand (assuming what we think to be true is actually true), and given the infinite possibilities of what forms alien life could take, you can't make any assumptions about what sort of language they'd have. This was a point they briefly tried to make in the movie.
Well, no ones coding on a VT100 terminal anymore :) It started as a physical constraint. Most computers, even laptops, have wide enough screens that 80 characters looks kinda compressed.

Personally, I've started using 100 columns for personal projects. But I stick to 80 for anything someone else is going to have to look at. To some extent, its more important to have a standard, so you don't have to worry about weird line-wrapping placements when someone else looks at your code, than it is to have one that fits superwell on the average modern screen. So we're probably stuck with 80
I think they will still have people working in loss prevention / security. I'm not sure though.
Death comes for all, and I agree the finite span helps to give meaning, but maybe the 'when' doesn't have to be correlated to biology
Traversing a Path to Freedom
If a gay guy was ejected for being into S&M, people would be screaming.

It's surprising that anybody cares at this point. "50 Shades Darker" just finished its run. SF has had Bondage a Go Go for over 20 years now.

The Gor thing is a joke at this late date. It's mostly something people do in Second Life now. It was cool in maybe 1975, when Norman's first books were out. He's still writing those books, and they sell to women as romances.

(An amusing note on political correctness: the State Department has some documents on line for their staff returning to the US and re-integrating into American society. One of the items covered is how political correctness has changed in the last few years. If you've been working in Ankara or Kuala Lumpur for the last few years, you may have missed the whole gay marriage thing.)
The Techcrunch story posted is better. It's linked in another comment here.

Edit: Sorry I meant the Inc. story.

"Garfield's accusers ... insist that Gor enthusiasts sincerely believe in the misogynistic philosophy of gender presented in the books. They point to Garfield's history of professing less-than-PC opinions about race and gender."
At the end of the day the impetus behind the desire to extend life doesn't matter. If the outcome is that we are around for centuries at a time, we all win as a species. It's a bit idealistic but it would be wonderful to have truly wise people in power who have to care about the long term for once, even if at first not all of the masses get to live much longer.

Right now life is so short that by the time you barely start getting a grasp of what's going on, it's already time to go.
So children are not allowed in the store? What's stopping someone from just stuffing their kid full of high end goods and asking them to wait in the car?
Other people are complaining about the 80 character line limit, but personally, I'm shocked and dismayed by the preference for no braces on `if` statements with single line blocks. It is so easy to accidentally add a line to what looks like an `if` block (but isn't since there are no braces), and then you have a bug that is visually very difficult to spot. I'm pretty strongly against this rule!
EDIT>

We can hand-wave estimates for the number of constituents in each of these systems. But it's interesting that we don't really know how many neurons there are in your individual brain, or in mine, etc. We can't yet look across the scales required to e.g. count and localize every single cell in your brain. Also, at what time? It changes. Just interesting questions when you get to a fine scale...
I've found I'm exceptional in being at all concerned about privacy. I think that if you asked, most people would only want minimal effort put towards confidentiality, especially since the trade-off is that other researchers won't be able to double check the analysis.
It often takes 10-15 years on the stand up circuit to get to where they are
Bitcoin talk has been hacked
I remember discussing this topic with elderly relatives, still fairly capable people who weren't terminally ill and mentally quite with it. They would often tell me they want to die, simply because they've had enough.

From what I could gather it was coming from more of a reflective, happy space, not a negative space, because they would often say things like, "I've had a great life, but I want to go now".

It's hard to imagine what it feels like to be that satisfied.
I'm almost tempted to install this just to see how much it hinders the experience of using HN. User identity isn't something I look at before judging a comment, and total user karma has an even smaller correlation to value of any specific comment or submission. Anecdotally speaking, I have high user karma but I know most of my comments and submissions are pretty middlebrow. As another anecdote, on the front page is a very interesting submission about Mega Man on Temple OS [0], but the creator of that program only joined after seeing his work linked to from HN (i.e. he didn't submit it himself). And the most interesting comment I've seen today is from this user with <200 karma [1].

I typically only look at the username when a commenter uses a personal pronoun and the submission involves a major company/organization/person; here's one in which karma score wouldn't have indicated as being particularly noteworthy [2]. It'd be kind of cool to see a plugin that used NLP to highlight these kinds of comments but I find that they are already "highlighted" by upvote count anyway.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13971627

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13966080

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8736450
The problem with solar panels is not that we lack a place to put them. Solar roads don't offer anything other than a bad place to put solar panels (under the tires of our cars).
and knowing/accepting that we will die is a part of growing more self aware and focusing on the good things in life like family and love rather than the wasteful things.

you say, deciding what's good in life and what isn't, what's wasteful and what isn't, and saying that death is a 'part' of growing more aware but implying it's a necessary or specially good part.

I also think a lot of people are scared to death that they spent decades of their life in a rat race and are desperate to get those years back. All the money in the world can't save you from death

You say, deciding that people who wasted their lives in a rat race focusing on your chosen 'wasteful' things do not deserve any chance to focus on the 'good things' and should not be allowed to even try for one, because ... unspecified reasons.

"Lol at all the desperate people who wasted their lives" - that's your argument in favour of their death?
That's true, but nothing on the horizon is changing that for us in our lifetimes, no matter how desperately we wish for something else. Meanwhile problems with solutions do exist, which could enable our species to be around and civilized for long enough to eventually reach that dream.

Our current course ends in death, not immortality.
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My work switched pretty recently (December last year) that is one thing I've noticed that has really annoyed me is that all the Office apps have One Drive set as the default location to save anything. I've never used One Drive, I don't want to use One Drive but every time I hit save in word or excel it defaults to "One Drive" I have to physically click "This PC" button and browse to my local disk to save a copy locally every single time.

No one in my building uses one drive, no one asked for one drive but Microsoft keeps trying to shove it down our throats. It feels like an anti-pattern like the forced windows 10 "upgrade" for home users.

According to word I have Office 365 ProPlus version - I note there is no option to save to docs.com.
If it's a machine learning system (which virtually all face recognition systems are as far as I know) it depends more than anything on the training data.

It's just the same as with people: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cross-race_effect
5 up votes is not enough vigor to trigger the rigger trigger
Quantity of smoke inhaled is several orders of magnitude smaller than with cigarettes. There's some evidence to suggest that, whether due to quantity or other factors, smoking marijuana casually does not substantially harm lung function[1].

[1]: https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/casual-marijuana-...
Used objc a bit; never used swift. Question about this signature:

func drop(while predicate: (Self.Iterator.Element) throws -> Bool) rethrows -> Self.SubSequence

I take it the "throws" on the type of predicate means it can 'throw/return' an error. Why would you do this? Why not just require your predicate function to be able to process any element?

Or I am confused?

It seems like the equivalent in Go, for example, would be something like this

func drop(seq []T, while func(T) (bool, error)) ([]T, error)

which, again, seems like madness.

Or am I confused?
There aren't that many building regulations in the middle of the countryside.

Building busted stuff in the middle of NYC hurts everyone, because there's limited space.

Visionaries can build where other people don't want to be, or convince the people around them that what they want to do is a good idea.
Quotes in the article suggest that the justices want to consider only legislative intent, and not deal with the issue of forum shopping or of East Texas in particular.

This may technically be legally correct, but it is a serious mistake. East Texas has a reputation for unfairness, and that reputation is undermining the credibility of the US legal system as a whole.
I don't think it was accidental. "Residency" is a term of art used throughout the United States Code. A provision that gives broad definition to that term, "for all venue purposes" (rather than "for purposes of this section") probably was intended to have ripple effects on other sections.
I like this very much. Would there be any negative legal ramifications?
I think they mean that if Dries says the real reason, it will be seen as discrimination and thus Dries might be liable, perhaps?
"Mama always said, dying was a part of life"

-- Forrest Gump

https://youtu.be/nFvASiMTDz0
"Isn't it cool that we don't always do things for the money?" Yes, it really is. Glad you had fun ;)
Assuming hourly rate of:
73.91 (wage floor) + 32.50 (benefits) + 2 (bump) = 108.41
And a 40 hour standard week:
108.41 x 40 = 4336 (weekly rate),
4336 x 52 = 225492 (yearly rate)
Assuming double weekend rate, for 8 hours on both sat/sun:
108.41 x 2 = 218.82 (weekend hourly rate),
218,41 x 8 x 2 = 3469.1 (weekend rate,
3469 x 52 = 180394 (yearly rate)

Therefore working 8 hours a day, for every day of the week (including weekends), for one year would earn:
225492 + 180394 = 405886

This is very big money but it's not 'half a million dollars'.
I just have to ask about the corrupt pets... So?
I wish more companies would delay their products due to quality concerns. It shouldn't be viewed as a bad thing.