skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
For some reason https://monzo.com/ crashes in both Chrome and Firefox before the pages loads on my linux desktop machine. Never seen anything like that before...
The operating costs of a VLJ are still insanely huge. Example: a piston plane - SR22 can fly 200mph for 1200 miles on one tank of fuel. Approximate cost of that flight including amortised repair and maintenance costs: $1000. A VLJ, like SF50 can do that same flight at 320mph, but at an amortized cost of about $2600. Mostly it is due to engine overhaul costs. Overhauling a piston engine like in an SR22 is about $40k and done about every 2000 hours. Overhauling a jet like the in the SF50 is about $700k, and done every 4000 hours.

Until that comes down, jets will simply not approach uber-useful affordability for even people who buy full-fare first class seats.

(Fuel consumption is also much higher both in gal/h and in $/hr for jets compared to pistons)

And piston planes are not nearly as useful for air taxi due to them being unable to fly high enough to avoid most weather. Oh and in general turbines are an order of magnitude less likely to fail per hour.
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Right, except, like, it does, because airlines are regulated too, by the DoT. Actions here likely constituted a breach of 14 CFR 250.2a
So we could have a good be setup in a darkened room? Like people have with projection TV's?
wmeredith,

Have you ever heard of the HELO LX? You would find this an extremely interesting device. Wearable Technology with Life Sensing Sensors. Check out our 2 minute video at http://Farmer.Helo.Life
> We ARE respectful to content-creators

You claim this... Yet say the following.

> If filesharing were going to kill media producers it would have already happened.

So you claim respect yet you refuse to reward the creator for their work.

"You Keep Using That Word, I Do Not Think It Means What You Think It Means."
You may have been eligible for compensation under EU rules. This can be EUR250-400, depending on the delay and distance.

Some vouchers or access to the lounge, with the passenger then not bothering to claim compensation, is much cheaper for the airline.

http://europa.eu/youreurope/citizens/travel/passenger-rights...
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It appears I am outside the edit window, but [3] should be
https://github.com/larkery/zsh/blob/master/histdb-merge (no .zsh). Thanks for pointing that out.

I don't use a zsh package manager and don't really want to learn one, but if you can tell me the minimal glue I need to add to make these files into a package I will happily duplicate them into another repository and keep them up to date there. Ed.: https://github.com/larkery/zsh-histdb

I haven't done anything to import the history file because some of the information is missing so it would be a bit untidy. You could do something like

history 0 | while read -r num line; do
zshaddhistory "$line"
done

This will make bogus entries where the history includes newlines; you could probably use a loop on history number instead, or do something in the while loop to accumulate split lines by looking at "$num" and seeing if it goes up.
I don't see why society needs to care specifically about their desires. The only reason for copyright at all is we think it's best for the person creating a work to have exclusive rights to said work for a period of monetizing. If they have exclusive rights, a person is probably more likely to pursue creation and innovation. It is my contention that the current duration promotes rent seeking, which is against the spirit of the 1790's act.
The biggest hurdle to biking and walking, for those who are already comfortable doing those activities, is showering. I don't want to show up to the office drenched in sweat, making the work area smell like a gym. And there are some things that you can do, like the wipes and that, but they don't feel anything like a shower. The more offices that either put in showers, or locate near gyms and places that do have showers, the better.
Whenever a junior team member comes to me for help, the first question I ask is, "what are we trying to accomplish". Unfortunately, we have a tendency to lose sight of purpose when going through process. Discussions usually start with what they have tried and what they are doing, but when the question of purpose is asked, it's easier to see the steps to get the result.
Can you expand on what you mean by this? Is it an open source project or community?
'torrenting should be legal but content creators should work in the free market, eh?

I sincerely hope someone invents a protocol that will allow me to torrent a few cents out of your bank account every day. OK, that will be inconvenient for you but hey, that's not my problem. Money is just a social construct anyway so it's not like your loss actually matters in the overall scheme of things.
I've often wondered how you feel when you see other newsletters that use the "$TECH Weekly" name format. I know that in the history of the world it's not unique but, in recent years, it has become likely that a newsletter with that sort of name might be a Cooper Press publication.
We have one of these and it is just a terrible internally developed framework, but we are stuck with it because all teams use it. If there was more freedom on the team level to pick better solutions, then the whole company would have likely standardized on something better by now.
If not for employment opportunities, you should be (gently) exploiting these connections for educational value. They're in the industry and have likely seen examples of colleagues transitioning in from web/backend development. At the very least, they can easily tell you what mistakes to avoid.

I often have the same mindset you do about exploiting connections, and although it's been a struggle for me to change my habits, using people as educational outlets has been something that I've found to be extremely helpful to me personally and also often enhances my relationship with that individual as well.
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Hulu: "We've seen what the cable companies are doing and it seems to be going poorly for them. So we're going to go ahead and give that a shot"
> And America is increasingly becoming less educated and aware.

I would think the opposite is true.
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Who are the we in your post?
I respectfully disagree. We've recently seen a lot of development in the space and there will always be a need to make new hardware work. Yes, margins for hardware companies will always be slimmer than CloudWidgets Inc. but there's a very solid demand for people who know what they're doing in this space. Just about every electrically powered product you buy will have a uC in it, from your flashlight's led controller to the hundred+ that exist in your car.
capitalism isn't done yet. it will keep being powerful and useful until we reach post-scarcity. capitalism itself is only a tool. for all we know, markets will always be part of our economic fabric. imo building cooperative systems that work with capitalism to deconstruct hierarchical economic systems is where we ought to focus our attention at the present time. as long as we pay attention to where the power is and push to decentralize it, i think we'll be fine.
This is a scary statement that no one is willing to test it. But is it really true? I offer an alternate theory.

It won't lead to an airline bankruptcy.How about we create a cancellation fee. UA can add an incentive (not sure if one already exist) to their mileage club membership giving club member free cancellation up to 5 hours before the onboard time.

* Free cancellation up to 24 hours, and thereafter no refund plus a $30 cancellation fee.

* 50% refund for up to 24 hours

* no refund if no show

* club members get up to free cancellation and 50% refund up to 5 hours, except

* ultra gold club members free cancellation and 80% refund without cancellation fee

IDK. Someone on their business team make up a profitable number.

The truth is though, airline does this because they have a proven statistics the percentage of customers are no-show. According to [1]:

> On average, the number of people not turning up to flights is around 5 percent, but, in certain circumstances, that number can be up to 15 percent. Obviously, that puts airlines in an interesting position.

In the long run as airlines struggle to keep up with profit if overbooking is illegal, airlines will be forced to implement the above.
[1]: https://techcrunch.com/2017/04/11/overbooking/
More advancements in computational biology and genetics will allow us to more precisely determine the effects of glyphosate on public health. Until we have better tools, there isn't enough evidence to make a judgment against Monsanto. However, the moment we are able to make the connection between poor agricultural practices and damages to health, a multi-billion dollar industry will be created for lawyers, and they will hold these companies acccountable.
This seems like a simple thing to disprove. Anyone with access to high quality sensors could compare results. Any professional with a bit of spare time... I'm sure if it was inaccurate that it would come out pretty quickly on review sites.

Edit: the article the person above linked to includes exactly that

> When the first GoBe band was released in 2014, it was the target of some harsh criticism. The medical blog The Doctor Weighs In, for example, made this call based on Healbe's marketing pitch [...]
monkmartinez, I completely agree.

Are you familiar with the Helo? The Helo LX is a device already ahead of Apple's Engineers. You can find the Helo LX at http://Farmer.Helo.Life

look into who Antonio De Rosa is. In short, he is our chief designer and he was on that Apple iWatch team in 2010. We are ahead of Apple on this one. Those sensors exist today and guess who has them?! But this is great, Apple has a much bigger marketing budget than we do.
University police work closely with the local police. They don't have jails, mourges, or investigation units. Basically they deal with traffic and nuisance complaints.
> Cars kill people. At worst current IoT let a pirate control your light bulbs, see your heart beat or record your sleep patterns, waste your food and listen to your music. This won't interest anyone.

The IoS (Internet of Shxt) goes way beyond light bulbs, and in fact it has been around for ages.

There are all kinds of really dangerous devices connected to the Internet - power stations, gas distribution centers, robotic stuff in factories. Each of these three can easily kill or severely injure persons when hacked by someone with this intention.

Remember Stuxnet?
> Then those devices aren't really a security issue and a danger to the rest of the Internet.

They aren't connected regularly, but they are connected eventually. This distinction can be used to great advantage by attackers if the security side ignores it. Also, you are now forcing devices to be connected to the net eventually and call home or they brick themselves? This seems customer/user hostile to say the least.

> Whoever is connecting the device to the internet is liable. Devices must have the capability to call home (manufacturers servers) and update if necessary.

I was under the impression that the manufacturer was responsible in this scenario, not the user.

At any rate, I was moreso interested in trying to get you to think through some of the implications, and see how well you had thought this out.
Inching closer and closer to Big Cable prices. Considering most streamers have both Netflix and Hulu, the cost of "cutting the cable" is slowly becoming noncompetitive.
You didn't address my primary point.

Say we each have TOTP for say 20 accounts and our password managers on our phones with the credentials for them as well. We are system administrators with access to piles of PII. Account password resets require 2FA so email alone is not enough to spider to other accounts.

Both our phones have been rooted and are accessible by a remote attacker because some "coworker" sent us a new beta app that was in fact malware.

In both cases the attacker has all our passwords to all apps via our password managers. That is lost.

We each are logged into 5 of these services and the attacker steals the cookies. Those are lost.

Now what about the remaining 15 services we are not logged into? Things we don't log into super often but some of which ar quite important like AWS root credentials.

In your case, the attacker goes and opens the Google Authenticator sqlite database and gets every TOTP secret you have in plain text. You just lost all 15 remaining accounts.

In my case those secrets exist on a hardware token and can't be accessed at all. If I catch my intruder at this point I can be reasonably sure those remaining accounts were not impacted.

Hopefully this clarifies the wider model I am working from.
Agreed, and "Iron", which, according to frostirosti, "doesn't totally enforce type safety", doesn't describe Rust in the slightest, so it almost feels like anyone projecting Rust evangelism from that comment must be talking out of their ass. You know. :)
Yeah, I had the same thought. Just because you have a ton of experience that suggests you'd be good at doing a job doesn't mean a tech company would do something silly like hire you for that job.
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Perhaps also because they tend make more money in the short term by sacrificing the long term? Sadly, a practice which aligns with the rest of modern society...
Deep learning isn't a dangerous magic genie, it's just math
Did you watch the movie ? The children deliberately chose to live on their own while they could have returned to their aunt - who, despite treating them unfairly, was still feeding them.
I applaud the effort the author put into writing an article in a non-native language...it's hard enough to write well in your mother tongue. But if you're going to do so and publish it for public consumption, at least have a native speaker proofread it for you. If you don't know one, I'm sure plenty of HN readers would be happy to help out.
Yeah, it does need to be rebuilt. but I have seen hardly anyone putting in any effort to do that, while lots and lots of people just help themselves to cultural output and excuse the resulting lack of revenue by saying 'lol copyright is broken.'

Maybe next time try offering some new solutions before wrecking entire industries that you know nothing about and didn't take the time to understand, instead choosing to characterize them as part fo some monolithic Big Media that you feel OK about hating.
I admit the syntax is less than ideal (especially with gofmt), but I believe adding two interfaces to an interface definition is equivalent to union:

func myrw(rw interface { io.Reader; io.Writer }) {
rw.Read(nil)
rw.Write(nil)
}

https://play.golang.org/p/D-lJ1pL3MZ
To add to this, most micros these days are ARM based which are specifically designed to not need assembly in their boot code. I basically never use it anymore. That said, you should have some understanding of what C code will map to what assembly for the purposes of memory management and performance.

Also: to say its a calling is accurate. I love what I do because what I create is physical and interacts with the physical world. I can hold my projects in my hands and say "I made this". I've done web and desktop stuff and can say that this work is significantly more fulfilling to me.
No, Companies Shouldn't Pay Women to Freeze Their Eggs
Not when a HD DVR is ~20$/month on it's own. However, stopped using Hulu a long time ago. If you look at their paid customer numbers is relativity tiny @12 million for $7.99 per month. By comparison 25% of households in the US have 'cut cable' and many people have cable because it's cheaper as a bundled service.
So, arguing that one should be smart when fighting stupid rules means I accept the rule? Being stupid in an effort to fight stupid rules guarantees more stupid rules in response.

What kind of nonsense are you people preaching here?
You don't really need society to enable ownership of physical objects.
Good stuff.

I'll add that while full-time native work may be in short supply, it's an awesome skill to have in your belt. You many not need it often but when you're suddenly up against limits where current technology doesn't suffice(Java/Python/Ruby/etc) it can seem like magic to break down into the lower stack and get 10-50x performance boost.

Having that escape hatch available is incredibly valuable and for me distinguishes the engineers I hold in high regard.
In essence, a big reason why the Intel team was able to do this was because they're getting optimized IR from GHC's front-end[0], and then applying further optimizations with their compiler (HRC) and then converting it into yet another IR (MIL) used by yet another compiler (FLRC), designed by Intel for arbitrary functional programming languages, for some further optimizations and ultimately into C where Intel's C compiler does the rest of the work.

It's interesting that HRC makes relatively significantly optimized programs (up to 2x), but that GHC's runtime (which HRC is not using) is so well optimized that the performance of HRC programs is roughly on par with those from GHC, despite the programs themselves being more performant.

I find stuff like this to be a testament to the practicality of great design in functional programming language ecosystems: Even the compilers are composable!

[0]: For those unfamiliar with what GHC does/how it's designed, this talk gives a great overview of the Core language that is the optimized IR of GHC: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uR_VzYxvbxg
not to mention it is mostly a food desert
Most cellular automata simulators are on a square grid, but that lizard's scales are on a hexagonal one. I wonder if that arrangement makes it easier to produce recurrent local patterns.

Does anyone know if there is a cellular automata simulator on a hexagonal grid?
Maybe educate yourself on the existing arguments instead of expecting other people to do it for you?
That's not what the end of civilization means at all. It's not like the country had no structure any more. There were still families, bomb shelters and alerts, certainly nothing close to the end of civilization that occurs like in Threads.
This is a surprisingly common trap to fall into. I worked at a startup in which the CTO criticized my dev team for not having a perfectly linear burn down chart. Every week in our retro we had the same discussion about how to improve the shape of our burn down chart; we tried putting higher valued stories at the front of the queue, involving QA earlier in the sprint, and cranking out 1 pointers mid week to tweak the graph. We rarely achieved the perfect shape. On top of this we also had one week sprints, which made it difficult to plan for the future or work on spikes, so we ended up doing very little high-level, architectural planning.

I remember one week my team cranked through their allotted stories so fast that we ran out of work two or three days into the sprint. We decided to take on a couple extra easy stories that we knew we could finish before the end of the week. Rather than being praised for doing extra work, we were criticized for "introducing volatility into the sprint". In other words, we messed up the shape of the burn down chart.

I'm currently working at a place that has virtually no process, which has it's own challenges, but I'm happy that I'm not arguing about burn down charts anymore :)
Missing link?
I don't have a link available, but I will try to describe it.

Insurance company A needs to help with a wide variety of prescription needs -- cholesterol management, heart disease, kidney disease, cancers, MS, diabetes. Insurance company A negotiates with pharmaceutical companies B, C, and D for how much A will pay for any drug and what copay A will charge to the insured patient.

Pharma B makes a deal to ensure that their diabetes drugs are on tier 1 or preferred status (most likely to be approved/used/paid) in exchange for a very good deal to the insurance companies on the price for each prescription and a lower tier for their cholesterol drug. The agreement also states that all other diabetes drugs (insulin, let's say) will be tier 3 or need prior authorization. This is a contract that might last a year or 5 and is not public.

Company C makes a deal to get their MS drug as the only reasonably priced option in exchange for basically giving away their foot fungus drug. The insurance company is happy because every foot fungus prescription is pure profit. Company C is happy because they are they only game in town for MS treatments on that insurance provider.

Pharma D wants to get their insulin at a higher tier so that patients can afford it and not buy out of pocket. But Pharma B already has an agreement that all other insulins will be tier 3 or lower, so Pharma D is locked out of that insurance company.

The current health insurance and prescription system in the US __heavily__ favors large pharma companies that can negotiate on multiple grounds and leverage competing health interests. Small pharmas that offer a singular stellar product have a tremendous fight to even get past prior authorization.
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I wasn't referring to the wage market, I was referring to the market for developer tools.

However, VCs do deviously manipulate the wage market in early startups by pumping a false narrative about how it takes young (read: naive, as these are virtual synonyms) people to innovate, and how when the company gets really super duper big, the equity will make up for the crappy salary. This trick is used to get young people to accept an apartment split with 6 other "founders" and some ramen, or in the case of early employees, a salary 40%-60% below market, in exchange for a pull on the VC slot machine.
Are you sure? Most of the articles I've read indicated that the cap was UP TO 400% of the ticket price with a maximum of $1,350 which seems to indicate that the cap is a maximum. Although I will say if the airline offered cash instead of vouchers I'm sure more people would have volunteered.
If the reputable publishers banded together and created a single platform that I paid for, where my payment was weighted towards the sites that I actually read articles from, then maybe they wouldn't be in so much trouble. Instead they each create their own platform and ask for a price that simply doesn't represent the value they provide, then bitch that nobody's taking them up on the offer.

Spotify works because they have large enough catalogues that I don't need to also have an Apple Music and a Google Play Music subscription, whereas the New York Times is basically just a donation since I'm inevitably going to have to go elsewhere for other journalism even in the same categories as they report on.

For the case of video, Disney + co have been attacking consumer rights for nearly a century via lobbying and as a result I don't care if they all go out of business. Fuck them for making copyright the 70+ year joke it is today.
Apple drops the iTunes name from its Podcasts app
Reputable sources have basically called it a scam:

https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2014/06/can-you-s...

Also the reviews on Amazon are pretty bad.

If they do claim that it works based on noninvasive blood glucose monitoring that's also a red flag; many have tried to solve that problem, and the obvious application would be a monitoring device for diabetics.
This pricing seems to include live TV + traditional hulu which is not a nominal differentiation
"That" should obviously be "these."
I think you would use protobuff, XML, JSON, etc. The idea would be that you encapsulate all of your services behind a gateway of sorts. External clients would interact with the gateway only, and internal services would just provide a one size fits all response. This way front end teams are responsible for their clients and there is very little change internally because every base is covered in the general purpose response.