skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The flames around the top of the engines is normal, it's the exhaust from the turbo pumps feeding the main engines.

Check this page, the Merlin uses an open cycle, where fuel/oxidizer used to fuel the pumps is just dumped overboard.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gas-generator_cycle

This picture clearly shows both exhausts:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Merlin_(rocket_engine_family)#...
Believing them would be naive.
Just say that the mind is part of the natural world, which means the world isn't simply material. It's both mental and material.

Chalmers position is property dualism where certain informationally rich systems have conscious properties in addition to physical ones.

Anyway, materialism is a monism, like Thales saying the world is made of water. There's nothing that necessitates the world be a monism. Maybe it is and maybe it isn't.

Panpsychism is another dualistic view of the natural world than requires no supernatural component. Everything has a mental as well as material aspect.
I think a lot of it comes from the fact that (almost) every literate human being can communicate (almost) instantly around the planet with (almost) every other literate human being, and the fact that with machine translation, language is less of a barrier all the time.
I think I covered that with:

"Of course the beginnings of what is now ULA were much more innovative than what SpaceX is doing because we simply had not launched any rockets of that size at all and so there were many more failures."

So of course the situation is not 1:1 comparable. But given that it is a new platform some failures were to be expected, it doesn't take a lot in rocketry to have a failure. How many launch failures would you consider to be acceptable over the course of the first 30 launches for a new platform?
I don't think that's the question.

You're speaking of what they charge.

I'm curious (and fwiw I'm not the OP, so I have no idea if they were asking this... :) what it costs.

Put another way, I wonder what this does to their margins?
> Do people really have the energy to keep the outrage going this long?

If you don't know the answer to that by now...
"bias exists against females in both men and women"

Biases exist against everyone. I don't get your point, but the riddle was rather misused and had nothing to do with gender bias. It's not really a bias to have a gender associated with a word.
One of my favorite books of all time.
Its a reach. For comparison, lets start a city on top of Mt Everest? Better air, better weather, lots easier to get to, and help is only days away instead of months. Yet we haven't begun to do things even that ambitious yet.
Of course, provided You or your business, family, trusted partner is directly setting up and managing that VPN's operations. Otherwise the VPN op's, IT techs could just as easily lie to any such inquiry while keeping with the terms of the backroom meeting the USA Gov DHS,FBI,CIA,NSA agents had earlier in the year with them granting them immunity from prosecution if they complied and threatening to shut that server down if they didn't comply and remain quiet about their data collection on all its users, clients, customers.
Do you think it takes a Steve Jobs to drum up supporters or detractors?

You clearly don't understand cults of personality. They're not limited to household names.
They covered it in the webcast, they said they expect 10 cycles. Not sure which block/version they are talking about though.
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Anyone have anything they use that's better?
I don't know that it would be difficult to reproduce the test that is mentioned in the paper linked below, but they do mention the following anyways for EC2:

> A single account was never seen to have two instances simultaneously running on the same physical machine, so running n instances in parallel under a single account results in placement on n separate machines
The point of longevity is that you retain your mental and physical facilities far longer, so it's almost a certainty people would continue working until the last ~20 years of their life, just like now. You'll still only need to save for the last ~20yrs of life, but you'll have a longer time working during which to do so.
Yes, it is required for the creative parts of the job which is building a coherent vision, strategy and planning.
Well, there is probably a reason why nobody thought it was worth doing it again ever since.

More seriously though, just because many projects were wrongly considered foolish in the past, does not mean one can not point at a new one and call it foolish. History tends to remember those who turned out to be brilliant, and forget all those who genuinely were foolish.

The example I like is Franz Reichelt [1]. People around him were watching as he prepared to meet his death. Nobody said "don't do that, you'll kill yourself". Why? I guess because they were not sure, and they did not want to be the person who dissed someone who might be remembered as say the Wright brothers were.

I guess I'm not comfortable being the guy who says nothing as he watches people being foolish or delusional.

1. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FBN3xfGrx_U
Rate limiting, and specifically leaky bucket algorithms that spaces out requests evenly, rather than servicing them as they happens to come in was shown to improve the overall performance in a few systems I worked with.

Using a leaky bucket algorithm, and a per-customer bucket, I think it's possible to build "fair" systems that also improves the performance.

That is, you can run the system with a higher total transactions per seconds, just by queuing "simultaneous" requests a few milliseconds, as they will complete quicker.

The reason is probably that it's reducing contention and levels out the resource usage.

I thought it would be a feature in almost all web servers, since it's been known "since forever" in the telecom world, but I have not seen it. (Have not looked specifically either, so maybe there are good support for this everywhere and I missed it...)
I'm not the OP, but I have both the Oculus and the Vive and, to me, the Vive is a much better experience. For me, the big issue is that, while the Rift is a bit easier to set up (but not by much), the tracking is just not good enough to get that immersive experience. As soon as you lose tracking once, it throws the whole thing out the window. The Vive's tracking is pretty flawless. The Rift, on the other hand, is finicky and, if you even attempt the room scale setup with touch, you'll feel like someone trying to mess with an analog TV antenna.

With the Rift, I'm initially impressed with it (resolution is better, headset is lighter, etc) but then constantly reminded that this is new tech. With the Vive, it's clunkier and more pixelated (not by much) but I forget completely about all of it when I'm deeply immersed in a game.
I don't sense fear from that cartoon - it seems to me a humorously effective lampoon of the wide-left stances of infantilizing so-called marginalized people, and the strange denial of the fact that some adherents to Islam have openly called for the death of the West while attacking it.

I know that the politically correct thing to do is dismiss any such lampooning as a phobia, but that can't be strictly correct even from a PC POV since ideologies don't get privileged treatment that I know of.
A large percentage of the tech workers I have worked with get into the office rarely by ten and often much later around noon. Then they "stay late" until eight or ten or even midnight but when meals and breaks are accounted for they barely put in eight hours of work. An alternative is to arrive at a more traditional work start time and minimize time spent on meals and breaks. This is not about spending more time working but rather about allocating time carefully and densely in order to have a good chance of not staying late.
As dictated by the market monopoly holder.
If that was a real concern, doesn't Google and Facebook also face this same issue? Isn't like 80% or more of their revenues come from ads?

The other business units and moonshot projects are just rounding errors on their balance sheets.
>> Emanuel Swedenborg was a mystic.

> Who isn't?

In the sense that we are all spiritual beings, sure. In the sense that it is a normative belief that mystics are special, and that there are only a few people who experience it, lots of people are not mystics.

> Of course they exist "in every human". Not news. And it is not "more accurate" to generalize what is a very clear cut indication by his own dream. We even have a name.

I think you are confusing some things. It is not a clear-cut indication by his own dreams. It is a dream. Stuff comes up from it. There may be ego-resistance, and there may not be in that particular one. Dreamwork does not just involve the plot and the symbols, but also the tone and emotional energy underlying that. He might have felt depressed. He might have felt angered or scared. He might have felt inspired by that image. Do you know how he felt? I don't.

As far as it is "news", there is a normative belief that homosexuality is something only certain people possess.

> The fact that he was not yet prepared to consciously confront the monumental task of full spiritual integration, that in fact his "ego" fears "castration", is also quite clear by that specific dream. That dream pretty much outs him as /a beginner/ on the path of awakening, as a matter of fac

What you are saying doesn't make sense. He was in the process of the integration. There is no such thing as being prepared or not be prepared. When it happens, it happens. Sometimes there is more ego-resistance, and sometimes there is less ego-existance. That dream does not necessarily indicate he is a beginner.
Nagel acknowledges this in the article, for what it's worth:

Footnote 8, page 9:

> 8 It may be easier than I suppose to transcend inter-species barriers with the
aid of the imagination. For example, blind people are able to detect objects
near them by a form of sonar, using vocal clicks or taps of a cane. Perhaps if
one knew what that was like, one could by extension imagine roughly what it
was like to possess the much more refined sonar of a bat. The distance between
oneself and other persons and other species can fall anywhere on a continuum.
Even for other persons the understanding of what it is like to be them is only
partial, and when one moves to species very different from oneself, a lesser
degree of partial understanding may still be available. The imagination is
remarkably flexible. My point, however, is not that we cannot know what it is
like to be a bat. I am not raising that epistemological problem. My point is
rather that even to form a conception of what it is like to be a bat (and a fortiori
to know what it is like to be a bat) one must take up the bat's point of view.
If one can take it up roughly, or partially, then one's conception will also be
rough or partial. Or so it seems in our present state of understanding.
LinkedIn may pull some of your critical data after Friday
It's interesting how Alaska is the State with the most registered drones per 10,000 population
I once heard Elon quote these: cost of a launch is roughly $60 million. Assuming the rocket can be reused 60 times it'll go down to about $1000 which is what he wants. IOW, he wants to make space travel ad cheap as international flight travel.
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Bezos's Blue Origin is on track to have a very similar system in a few years, and perhaps even better eventually with the possibility of a reusable second stage. ULA still has plenty of contracts and could compete if its parent companies wanted to spend the money to do so. Arianespace is vaguely commercial, is currently cost-competitive, and could also choose to develop a reusable vehicle, if its parent companies/countries can stand the expense. There are also plenty of small-launcher outfits currently working that could also scale up given a contract and/or investment, just like SpaceX did from Falcon 1 to F9, were SpaceX to leave any room in the market by overpricing.
Human-like language acquisition in a virtual environment
NSA Intercept Points in Your Traceroute
The most important part:

"Mike Flynn, President Donald Trump’s former national security adviser, has told the Federal Bureau of Investigation and congressional officials investigating the Trump campaign’s potential ties to Russia that he is willing to be interviewed in exchange for a grant of immunity from prosecution, according to officials with knowledge of the matter.

As an adviser to Mr. Trump’s presidential campaign, and later one of Mr. Trump’s top aides in the White House, Mr. Flynn was privy to some of the most sensitive foreign-policy deliberations of the new administration and was directly involved in discussions about the possible lifting of sanctions on Russia imposed by the Obama administration.

He has made the offer to the FBI and the House and Senate intelligence committees through his lawyer but has so far found no takers, the officials said.

Mr. Flynn’s attorney, Robert Kelner, declined to comment.

It wasn’t clear if Mr. Flynn had offered to talk about specific aspects of his time working for Mr. Trump, but the fact that he was seeking immunity suggested Mr. Flynn feels he may be in legal jeopardy following his brief stint as the national security adviser, one official said."
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The launch video is amazing! How are they able to get clear video with stable tracking of a rocket >10km away? What sort of lens and camera makes that possible?
> We can also give Georgia the benefit of the doubt

Something I might be inclined to do if they fixed the problem after becoming aware of it.

Did Georgia arrange a deal whereby its citizens can read the law of their land for free?

Did they declare the annotations were no longer considered part of the law?

Or did they spend tax-payer money on prosecuting somebody for having the temerity to make copies of the law?

I think it is not at all reasonable to give Georgia the benefit of the doubt.
Thanks. Damn, it's amazing that I forgot that.

There are examples in Peter Watts' work too. Siri in Blindsight, and Lianna in Echopraxia.
Interestingly, Nagel actually seems to acknowledge/anticipate this point on page 9, see reply to sibling:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13999907
Curious how this will affect Oculus, if much at all.

In the long run, I don’t think Oculus is good for the industry. Their room scale tracking hardware is inadequate, and their exclusive titles are dividing a fledgling market. I say this as a Vive owner and enthusiast. This along with the lawsuit… maybe it’s for the best.
The two Jewish tribes were expelled.

http://www.pbs.org/muhammad/ma_jews.shtml
Illiterate people can too using Skype and such. Instant planetwide communication between any party of humans sharing a common language is now pretty much a given.
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"The Left supports the so-called "path to citizenship" only because the..."

I had no idea why I support human rights until you explained it to me, just now. Gratitude.
I don't know, honestly, but hand waving and saying doctors should all take the initiative to self educate won't do it. Maybe they should, but many likely won't.

The only thing I can think is to make it mandatory continued education. But even that is iffy. Part of the problem is that there's just not that much additional data on new drugs. By definition the FDA thinks the drug is safe (relatively) and effective so what's the education going to look like and who's going to put it together?
Everest isn't really better weather. Parts of Mars get up to 70 F in the summer day, and the thin atmosphere means even a big storm doesn't have much impact even on someone walking around (the events that start The Martian simply can't happen as depicted).
Yeah, Khaybar and the massacre of the Jewish tribes of Qurayza, Qaynuqa and Nadir never happened. Medina/Yathrib was all hunky dory kumbaya tabarakallah.
You're confusing my comment with some sort of value judgment. I'm not saying it's good or bad. I'm just saying that some customers care more about reliability than cost, and those customers will provide a steady stream of revenue for ULA and friends until SpaceX improves in this area.

I have no opinion about what is "acceptable" or not, but my opinion doesn't matter. What matters is the opinion of the customer. There are enough customers out there which find SpaceX's ~10% failure rate to be too high to keep ULA around for now even at a hefty premium.
It seems to me that the entire point of the post was "let's write a bare-bones program to create pretty pictures out of fractals", and that's what the post does.

Set theory is fantastically interesting and powerful, but it's very very understandable to brush past it so we can get to the pretty pictures.

Also, if I do actually "take 3 seconds and search 'introduction to set theory'" I find two (excellent)[0] resources that, in their introductory paragraphs alone, rival the largest sections of the original link.

[0] - https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Set_Theory/Introduction

[0] - http://www.math.toronto.edu/weiss/set_theory.pdf
what does ML stand for here?
I appreciate the pushback. Here is what Nagel says in his essay (emphasis mine). I wonder if you still disagree?

"It is impossible to exclude the phenomenological features of experience from a reduction in the same way that one excludes the phenomenal features of an ordinary substance from a physical or chemical reduction of it--namely, by explaining them as effects on the minds of human observers. If physicalism is to be defended, the phenomenological features must themselves be given a physical account. But when we examine their subjective character it seems that such a result is impossible. The reason is that every subjective phenomenon is essentially connected with a single point of view, and it seems inevitable that an objective, physical theory will abandon that point of view."
Vantablack Sphere (absorbs 99.8% (THR) of light) [video]
NASA Mars satellite moves to avoid hitting planet’s moon
Is it correct that the article asserted damages assessed at USD 8K but offered to reimburse just under USD 2K?

I could be overreacting to this, but I had a really strong reaction to this article. I'll preface relating this by stating that in pretty much everything, I would usually side with the large company or startup. Just my point of view. I'm not overflowing in sympathy for people complaining about dealing with companies or large bureaucracies because in my experience that arises from people's insufficient understanding of how to operate with a company or large bureaucracy to their advantage. Most of the time I'd be like, people should learn to be smarter.

With that disclaimer aside this story made me super angry. How could AirBnB treat this person like that? Clearly guests had defrauded AirBnB's system, and the host suffered. The host should be totally compensated.

If this was my company, in an extreme case like this, I'd send out an AirBnB rep to do a damage assessment and collect evidence. And then, not just to be awesome, but to protect AirBnB against bad PR, and to encourage AirBnB to develop more robust guest fraud detection, I'd compensate as a policy 20 - 25 % over the amount. So this guy would get USD 10K and hands on treatment.

A complication I'm not considering is -- who is owed the damages, the guest or the landlord? But the idea above would be indicative of my response, and how I think they should have done this.

I super hate it to read great PR about AirBnB doing awesome things and then to see something like this. And the dereliction and indifference exhibited by the email chain...so angry. The worst thing is: you can judge a person ( and a company ) by how they treat people they don't think they need to treat well. So when AirBnB makes money out of you, and you use their shiny site, everything is grand. But when you suddenly suffer and need their help, their action falls well below their promise.

Like I said, maybe I'm overreacting or not seeing this clearly. But on the face of what I saw this is how I took this. So angry!
I think it'll be sometime before we get to that point. We just need a much larger sample size before I think they can put together an accurate bathtub curve (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bathtub_curve) for their rockets.

I think once Block 5 gets off the ground, and we see maybe 20 flights on re-used rockets, and a couple of rockets used 5+ times, you'll start to see increased demand for "flight proven" hardware.
Or, "if you're a public figure, or plan a public campaign supporting someone who is controversial, don't expect there to be zero criticism of your position because it's somehow sacred".
>They will have been extra cautious this time, but from the above, the answers _could_ be "about 10%" and "almost one year, taking way more effort than building a new one does".

not sure if 1 year is actually correct. From what i've read SpaceX originally was not planning on reflying this core, as it was their best flight tested article and they did not want to risk loosing the value of having it for future reference, but then a later landing with another core was a bit rougher than anticipated and they did not feel comfortable with the margins of reusing that core. So part of that year they were waffling on if they wanted to fly this core or not.
I was brought in by one of those flyer campaigns. We order two meals twice a week, and we're about 100 orders in. The food is pretty good, though they did noticeably raise prices over the last 6 weeks.
Tor Attempts to disguise metadata? Tor anonymous servers first duty is to strip much of the metadata as do all actual anonymous proxy servers. Tor hidden services are additionally wrapped in a higher layer of end-end pgp key encryption.

USA Gov essentially owns all the Tor exit nodes? There are many thousands of Tor Exit nodes far from the reach of the USA Gov in terms of owning, powning, controlling, shills. Tor Exit nodes are at least 2 anonymous global proxy servers removed from the Guard entry anonymous server, the tail of the dog doesn't know what the head is doing. Only that Tor exit node was used to connect to a clearnet website.
This is not the case. Disruption to neighbours could result in a claim of nuisance (things such as physical invasion of the land, noise, and smells all potentially give rise to nuisance).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuisance_in_English_law#Privat...
Yes, that makes good sense.

So then the race is on in a way: will SpaceX be able to get their next platform stabilized before the competition catches up to being able to re-use their first stage? If they can there might be some actual competition which should drive down prices even further.
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So you distinguish between dualism and the supernatural by expanding your definition of "natural" to include a distinct realm of non-material "nature" with no definable rules.

And, of all the phenomena that might be identifiable as emerging from the fabric of reality, the one that distinguishes you (and other systems you recognize as sufficiently like you) from everything else just happens to be the one you've decided must objectively be set apart.

I'll ask again: in this framework, what remains "supernatural", and why can you reject it?