skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Socially, the church itself doesn't do anything other than a big BBQ every year. Other than that the churchwide events are all very much on-mission (mission trips, charity work, youth activities).

Sunday school classes tend to be where the social aspects come from. We'll do a day at the lake or a get together for a meal and some activity.

We've gotten together with one or two other couples to get dinner and do an escape room, shoot targets at a guys farm, gotten the kids together to play. Even got invited to a dueling piano bar, which caught me by surprise since I assumed that would be frowned on. Turns out most grown adults are perfectly content to go have a drink, just not many.
It's less one-way when live-streamed Q&A's and AMAs are now possible.
> Btw good to see your Lego contraption article in IEEE Spectrum.

Oh cool, thank you I didn't even realize it had been published. It's already outdated, the latest re-incarnation has double the drop-off bins for twice the sorting speed.
I have a Samsung, but if I use an unregistered finger a few times it will hard lock.

So, wouldn't you index go her essentially be your duress finger o. IOS?
No, not any socio/psychopath. Only highly intelligent ones. Average or lower intelligence individuals usually end up in prison. They aren't deterred by threats of punishment so they tend to have serious behavioural problems growing up. It takes a special sort of psychopath to defer rewards in favour of long term success in the absence of the usual punishments associated with child rearing.
> At what expense of high paying, quality, American jobs?

Are they high-paying because of the time and effort it takes to procure necessary skills (anesthesiologists) or are they high-paying through artificial throttling of the supply and monopolistic anti-competitive practices (taxi medallions)?

One is the boon to the economy, another one is rent-seeking and employs a broken window fallacy to justify itself.

> I think the flag-of-convenience scheme leads us down a slippery slope where getting the lowest bidding pilot cadets trumps safety.

So far pilot safety has been associated with the number of hours flown, not the specific rates one was paid for those hours. If somebody proves that, given the same number of hours flown, a higher-paid pilot produces more safety per capita, FAA regulations for acquiring the commercial/ATP licenses can be modified accordingly.

Moreover, things are not all rainbows and unicorns in the airline world, especially once you start drilling into those "contractors" you mentioned http://californiawatch.org/dailyreport/pilots-can-earn-less-...
40 Years from Now, the U.S. Could Look Like Las Vegas – FiveThirtyEight
Yes, with friends! As I said, consumers want to interact with each other, not with producers.
I remember a physics academic I knew giving all his colleagues a short question and lots of sample incorrect answers and asking them how they would grade them out a certain mark. There was absolutely no agreement whatsoever. On the other hand I imagine that they all agreed that a correct answer would merit full marks.

Does it matter? In the UK, your final degree generally has one of only four classes and I expect most people end up roughly the right class. There are obviously borderlines but a first class student isn't going to get a lower second or vice versa because of subtleties in the marking scheme.

It's also an issue for me with too much weighting on coursework - work during the course should be for things like getting feedback on how to write proofs properly (if you are studying mathematics). By the time, you come to sit actual exams, you really shouldn't have any excuse for not knowing how to.

In terms of disruption to accreditation, I think one of the main things that a degree of a certain standard signals is whether a person works hard in an environment less structured that school and can learn independently. That is much harder to measure than knowledge or raw IQ.
I upvoted you.
Norwegian now offer connecting flights but charge a fee if you select a connection versus the same two flights unconnected.

https://www.norwegian.com/uk/booking/booking-information/con...
You need karma > 500 to downvote. And even then, you cannot downvote replies to your own comments etc.
Thanks for the links! Reading from a source and weeding out "low-quality stuff" is a valuable skill to have. Not so long ago a study on telomere length was lambasted by HN community for having low sample size [0]

How do you choose which papers to follow? Any rules of thumb/red flags for assessing a paper?

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14575361
ATC was a different kettle of fish. As federal employees they were prohibited from striking, and the strike allegedly caused a public safety issue. If you break the law to strike, you get no protection.

(Police and school teachers have similar requirements in their contracts and will use "sick-outs" to apply pressure without a full strike)
No, Google is large.

But without Google Wikipedia would still be around, without content sites Google wouldn't exist.

And as for email: I'd much rather have the federated system we used to have rather than the few big players that are dominating the market (I'll never give up running my own email server), cheap alternatives to Microsoft already existed (OpenOffice), and an advertising company producing a browser is just plain wrong.

Google is terrible, but we'll just have to live with it.
I mean, NASA helped them a ton based on their previous research to this point.

Going forward I'd expect some slowdown.

But yes, very impressive IMO that he won all the necessary investments and contracts. My bet is his buddy Theil (idk not really buddy, but collegue) helped out with that.
This is one of the best comments I've ever read. Well said.
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I like how SpaceX has a "pricing" section on its webpage as if space flight was something mundane and pedestrian like an oil change in your car or something.
they call it a "hover-slam" landing
This perception will change the moment one of the rockets explodes, though. It's ~impossible to ride an explosion into space hundreds of times without a catastrophic failure, so I'm just hoping the consequences won't be too bad.
> And many of them make you check in your own luggage, all the way to the belt.

Is this uncommon in the US?

I'd much rather enter the airport, casually walk up to a touchscreen, print my boarding pass and label and drop off my baggage than queuing up in a long line when the check-in counter opens.
I lost $30,000 in two weeks trading options and futures. It seems like a considerable amount but that account was started only a couple months prior with $5000. For me it was fantastic and extremely depressing all at the same time. Unlike most people I don't mind great risk for great reward, and I always learn something. The things I know now are worth more than the 30k lost. That's how I handle it, knowing that I now have possession of information worth more that the amount lost....which means I can duplicate the performance at any time.
We just had some consultants do pentesting on our medical device and its software components. I was pretty impressed by all the problems they found quickly. As developer I find it pretty hard to stay up-to-date with all the possible ways hackers can get into your systems.

To me this was money well spent.
If you were going to get an internship position anyways, getting an internship at a security company isn't a bad plan. I wouldn't take an internship rather than a starting-level full-time position though, if internships weren't already your plan.
One of 'em already has. Look up Amos-6.
Chemists unravel why humans aren’t constantly bursting into flames
https://www.rocketbuilder.com/

(Granted, SpaceX did it first)
Well, open mic nights are still available. Meetups are a way for producers to interact together with interested consumers. Conventions have surely become huge. There are still plenty of avenues for non-celebrity producers to meet consumers.
Can you provide a citation? I'd like to read it.
FTA

>Ask Alexa to send you batteries and you won't get the option of Duracell or Energizer; you'll be shipped Amazon-branded batteries.

Amazon favors its own in-house products the same way Wal-Mart, Target and Costco put their private label brands in more effective places than their competitors.

In any case, if you tell her you don't want those, she will list competitors after.
I'm not sure what the "context of the global internet" has to do with my comment.
It's relatively low but it's not insignificant. It's still about 39%. Also 60% say its to avoid "intrusive ads".
> Added to which the cheapest solar panels in China are often subjected a tariffs of up to 60%.

Because they were both substandard and being dumped. And they drove a lot of reliable US manufacturers under.

In addition, a LOT of installers went under because the warranty they offered assumed that they wouldn't have to show up again for 10 years. 3 years on they're getting warranty calls because the solar cells were failing. Of course, the Chinese manufacturer was nowhere to be found.

There is a big difference between disposable electronics being too cheap and a capital expense being too cheap.

Until US businesses can sue Chinese businesses for bad practices and win "the market" won't sort itself out. In the meantime, tariffs are a good working solution.
Reminded me of this discussion https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11627009

I too am a highlighter :)
Agreed.

I work in infosec as well, and I think the author of this article is confusing time spent vs. passion for something. Coming from software engineering, security is no different than any other technical profession: if you don't love what you do, you probably won't be very motivated to learn, and thus you probably won't be very competent. You need to have the passion. This doesn't need to manifest itself in 80 hour work weeks.

There's a whole contingent of "infosec ninjas" that think there is some type of bushidō bullshit going on, where if you aren't constantly training for your pentesting job like it's a martial art, you aren't capable of doing your job. In my experience, these people are often the most insufferable to work with and driven more by ego and power fantasy than the desire to tinker or craft.

Security is part of my "lifestyle" just as coding is. I work on security-related stuff outside of work not out of obligation to practice infosec kata, but because I actually like it. Some weeks I don't do anything outside of work other than browse /r/netsec or HN; some weeks (like this one) I'm writing some tools for myself to make a code audit easier.
I love to this machine when I set do to programming
Factory worker? Maybe... but there are a whole lot of conplex social interactions and relationships in the breakroom, far more than people expect.
It's actually much cheaper to ship the solar / wind production than it is to send the LNG energy equivalent making this all a moot point.

However, we could cheaply ship electrons to Russia, after that it's just a question of displacement. Aka, does energy from powerplant X get sent east or west. Net result you can send elections from US to EU for vastly less than you might think.

Granted, there is no such undersea cable today and US and Russian grids are limited in those areas, but the undersea distance is not actually that far relative to other undersea projects.
Yes, you're correct. Elon stated in a tweet earlier today that the aluminum fins had burned up their ablative coating on every flight.
If jQuery and Backbone worked for you then, they'll still work for you now. The popular new libraries and tools are all things that solve problems, but you can wait to use them until you think they will help you.
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The related topic of how the domestication of humans by cats assisted them in taking over the planet also appears frequently.
Two of them. AMOS-6 and CRS-7.
And CRS-7 (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SpaceX_CRS-7)
Does the US have more cults than European countries? Or is it just that US folks who leave cults are more vocal about it?
Well there is thinking and then there is thinking. Consumers on the mass consumer level, my self included, think about how we can get the most benefit from the limited amount of resources that we have. So how can I get good shit for the cheapest price. I am not concerned for instance about the global effect of my consumption or even local. That's how consumers in general think on the mass scale. Now you can say that this is not all consumers, but that doesn't really change the effects of their actions. Sure there are wealthy sub-genre of consumers that might think local. But that's not he mass of them.

For a corporation like Amazon or Walmart to survive they only need the masses. The small minority of conscious consumers don't affect them... and even if they do, it's not as if lots of conscious consumers don't buy from Amazon and Walmart anyway, despite the fact that they might disagree with their business practices or business philosophy. Consumers in general in America and Europe don't care that much about these things... and even if they do massive corporations can buy other corporations and sell to them through that brand while still furthering their own business philosophy, business practices: example Whole Foods.
How about steering the car with his right hand on the bottom of the wheel to make it look like there's a problem with the auto pilot?

If someone wants to claim there's a problem with any auto pilot they better have a camera view showing they are not interfering with it in any way.

The idea that one can do things that are not seen on the various reflective surfaces isn't a new concept, television shows rely on camera and object placement all the time to ensure the camera and crew are not visible.

If I were to make a claim about the auto pilot I would have both my hands in plain view in a "look ma, no hands" stance right above the steering wheel for all to see. I would also have a second camera shooting from the side or farther back in order to make it visible that nothing is interfering with the steering, like my leg for example or someone pulling on strings from the back seat.

I don't have a problem with the idea of issues with any auto pilot software. I simply want to make sure claims are not falsified through the use of trickery.
Not sure why they couldn't rename it, make the previous function an alias of the new one, and deprecate it.
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That question actually has an answer. I suspect they may be right in that an underground pipe is better than high voltage wires being carried over land.

But I've long thought that underground high voltage power transmission built underneath interstates would fare much better than overhead poles.
One fascinating niche are online retailers which fill market voids Amazon deliberately creates out of corporate policy. For instance in the US one can readily purchase firearms and ammunition through the internet. Due to various legal formalities, Amazon won't touch that particular market segment. Visiting sites like www.sgammo.com, www.palmettostatearmory.com, or www.midwayusa.com, is like stepping into an uncanny PHP laden alternate reality where Amazon never existed. This federation of specialized retailers offers a glimpse into what the online shopping experience _could_ have become, if it weren't for Amazon's hegemony.
"Senior House has always had a heavy contingent of counter culture types, much more so than other dorms at MIT," -- ha ha. They nuked Bexley first for a reason. Ghetto -- suburb!
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Could you explain how you get around the knowledge silo problem? Fungibility across the team is useful for resource allocation and can prevent bottlenecks - for example if a part of the codebase is higher priority or someone is ill or on holiday.

Loose partitioning seems like it would work if either:

1. the partitions were similar/simple enough for other members to grok easily
2. the documentation and code sharing were thorough and extensive

I don't know how feasible it is to rely on (1) and (2) seems like it would cost an investment in time that would subtract from the efficiency gains of partioning. If it is (2) what are the exact reqs/mechanics for docs/PRs that seem to have worked?

I'm especially curious as "how to structure development teams" is something I am beginning to actively learn about.
I'm glad you asked! Yes, there are people who advocate for genocide. Here's a recent example of such rhetoric from a well-established blog that I'd prefer not to link to here:

Genocide necessarily involves either suppression of fertility or active or passive killing, or some combination of methods. Passive killing might include the refusal to supply aid such as food or medical care, preferring to just let Nature run her course, or refusal to come to the rescue when brown tribes genocide each other. The passive method would cause greater suffering and would not finish the job, as there will always be a remnant population to rebound in time. Clearly, an active genocide using white man methods would be more humane than passively letting Nature or savage tribes to do a much sloppier and less complete job. In the same way that animal lovers cannot adopt and care for every stray, but must accept that many be euthanized or sterilized, so it must be with the lower races of humanity.

Having been studying the far right for a good many years now, I'm quite comfortable about my ability to distinguish between anodyne center-right policies and a small but well-organized and funded cadre of honest-to-goodness extremists, thanks. I hope you're not going to come back with some hair-splitting argument about the exact position of any given proponent of genocide in your political calculus.
If the company achieved their success via externality of various costs that their competitor is unable or unwilling to, then you'd have an unfair market. This is where govt needs to step in.
The idea of the hoverslam is to arrive at zero vertical velocity at exactly zero altitude. This is complicated, but can be done fairly reliably when "zero altitude" is stationary - on land landings or drone ship in calm seas. In heavy seas as today, the drone ship deck is pitching up and down, and it's really hard to predict the altitude it will be at the exact moment of touchdown. If I had to guess, I'd say the calculations are done against the highest possible or average position of the deck, and during today's landing it was at its lowest point at the moment of arrival, causing the stage to drop the last meter or so. This is what the crush cores in the landing legs are for :)
Elsevier is from the Netherlands, not the USA.
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> and if only they had some sort of historical periods of widespread prosperity to reference and model policy on....

Isn't the problem that no one can agree what historical prosperity looked like especially when thinking about the consequences of the policies that lead to the prosperity.

Was it the 1920's, 1950's, or 1980's? 2000's? Or the age of the Robber Barron's Or some other time?

Personally I think a bigger issue is the failure of our elected officials to deal with the things holding prosperity back - housing/healthcare/education/childcare rising more rapidly than people can sustain.
Right, and both of those had some consequences regarding PR.

I meant to call attention to the fact that we're doing manned missions soon. It's a bit different having an unmanned rocket explode.

Hopefully it won't matter at all. The world might be ready for a "Well, that sucked. Let's move on" type mindset.
6. The Most Banned Book in the World: 200 Years Together by Solzhenitsyn

https://8ch.net/killcen/res/1461.html

(Background: https://bbs.dailystormer.com/t/full-translation-of-the-most-...)

7. The Management of Savagery by Hajji Bakr, Co-Founder of ISIS

http://ekurd.net/mismas/booksfull/the-management-of-savagery...

8. Mein Kampf (banned Ford Translation. You probably weren't aware that you've never read the real Mein Kampf because why would (((someone))) censor it in this day and age? Exactly.)

https://media.8ch.net/file_store/305572d87b624e251a878b757bd...

9. ???

10. ???
They've had many notable failures, from the first 3 attempts to launch a Falcon 1, to two different Falcon 9 failures -- including destruction of payload -- with major consequences and delays that resulted:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Falcon_9_and_Falcon_He...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Falcon_9_and_Falcon_He...

Each did diminish their reputation, but they have kept going. They can weather more failures, and every launch is still pretty nerve-wracking.

The stakes will be higher when they start carrying people, perhaps next year.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SpaceX_Dragon#Crewed_developme...
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Yeah that's my best guess. I was shocked how much it was used for scams. Might also be possible the link is so suspicious looking it's actually more intriguing to click.
Not everything has such a label on it. People use work emails on their phones for example which could contain just about anything.
Stewart is about a 20 minute ($35) cab ride plus 90 minute ($22) train ride from Grand Central Terminal. I've only flown to NY a couple times, and even I've experienced longer transit times than that between midtown and JFK.

source: https://thepointsguy.com/2017/06/norwegian-737-800-flight-re...
I think this is the final version? On the page you linked to, it says: "see the newer version January 2, 2008" with a link to here:
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Our military is a training and infrastructure / R&D investment. Redirecting that into education won't create jobs, it'll just train more people for jobs that don't exist, in some cases because they've recently been cut.
"Mini-nuke" isn't a very accurate comparison. In the event of a leak, the liquid fuel would need to flow out of the tank and turn into vapor before it could catch fire and burn. As a liquid or highly concentrated vapor it's not flammable. It needs to mix with air first.

The result would be a cloud of gas that burns violently for several minutes, depending upon wind and the speed of the leak. Not the instantaneous, crater-making release of energy that a thermonuclear device produces.
Those fins are awesome:

https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/878821062326198272

Cast and cut titanium. They are about 4x5 feet and some of the largest (if not the largest) titanium castings in the world.

Titanium is an amazing material that is super hard to work with (special furnaces), and has its own sets of risks (titanium fire any one). I would love to see what goes into making those things because it simply has to be impressive.
The last lines of the article elicited a bit of cynicism:

"That’s because the market is so oversupplied that it’s even difficult for the wind guys to make money at these electricity rates. And besides, it’s hard to acquire land by the water at reasonable prices."

“It’s pretty slim pickings right now,” Ferguson said. “God is not manufacturing more coastal property".

In 70 years it will be nice and cheap at this rate, which is ironically and sadly just the sort of problem cheap wind power would help alleviate.