skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Droping stuff from orbit is cool scifi weapon system, but in practice it is surprisingly hard to do (you cannot just drop stuff, you have to impart it with some deltav to cancel out orbital velocity of the station) and inefficient (you have to get the stuff up there, which when you ignore atmosferic drag requires same amount energy as the projectile would release on impact)
IMO it's objectively superior! I'm fine with queuing-without-queuing as long as it's not abused. Queuing at least makes the order absolutely clear so that people can't as easily change the order, intentionally or accidentally.

I assume you're only pointing out that queuing-without-queuing is a thing, not defending queue-jumping or places where the lack of any ordered system means whoever is strongest pushes to the front.
The My Story feature on IG is the comparison to Snap
He's only going to really see them on the weekends either way with his current schedule. The commenter was suggesting that, given this, it'd be more economical to just stay in SF during the week.

However, the funny thing is that apartments in SF are so expensive that the $2300/month he's paying to fly on the small commuter jet is actually not that horrible of a deal compared to renting a small place in the city. So maybe he just enjoys the commute. I've flown on a private jet like this (Cessna Citation CJ2+ in my case) and it's definitely a fun experience.
I actually am waiting for a 4K HDR 144Hz screen (which will arrive soon, actually).

Although I’ll only game on it in 1080p, I want the 144Hz and 4K mostly for easier reading.
So how many transactions does each system fully settle in a month?
Most of the US has a "continental climate", with no moderating effect from nearby oceans, so you end up with hot, humid summers, and overcast, biting winters.

So there's a zone of decent climate, where it is far enough north to have just enough freeze days in winter to kill off the worst insects, and far enough south to have a decent selection of perennial landscaping plants.

The northern contour of the zone approximates lines through these cities:

Pueblo, Colorado
Kansas City, Kansas/Missouri
St. Louis, Missouri/Illinois
Louisville, Kentucky/Indiana
Cincinnati, Ohio/Kentucky
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

The southern contour roughly follows:

Santa Fe, New Mexico
Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
Memphis, Tennessee/Arkansas
Chattanooga, Tennessee/Georgia

North of that zone, you can't really keep a park open year-round, through the winter, and south of it, the summer months get too brutal for tourist comfort, until you get close enough to the coasts to tame the local climate.

A park near the confluence of the Ohio and Mississippi Rivers would have its pick of 5 different jurisdictions, decent climate, and access to nigh-unlimited water and TVA hydro and nuclear power. And you could reasonably buy up a lot of land cheaply without the locals figuring out who is doing it or why, just as it was done in central Florida.
> clearly superior to C for systems programming.

I would argue Rust already has.
What are you talking about? Every US ticket I've bought has been non-refundable. I even tried notifying one that I wouldn't be using it as a courtesy and they were like "why are you calling? You can't get a refund and we don't care that you're not coming."

And of course there's a middle ground: being upfront about which seats are really reserved, and what you can expect for not-really-reserved seats on overbooking. None of this "oh you should have done research to realize what your rights and minimumn payment are and that this voucher is worthless".

Eliminating overbooking is overkill and some people are in fact confused on that matter. But please don't pretend the only alternative is some apocalypse.
Space is empty?

I don't understand. In practice we have explored space to see new worlds. Things are far apart but there's lots of stuff in space.
To add to what other people have said, you can't even compile the kernel unpatched with llvm yet. GCC is still very much a thing.
Yes, I think this was an ingenious move: find a situation that is somewhat easier to deal with yet solves a real-world pain-point.

Almost an Apple move.
Congratulations! I'm totally impressed by the excellent company the Segment team is creating-- both the product and the support are first rate.

And special kudos to Peter, who provided direct hands on tech help for one of my clients during our crunch time.
I think there are some really hard limits on this now. I think the better at branching a chip is the worse it will be at SIMD and vice versa.

Barring some crazy breakthrough I don't see what you want coming soon. Which is sad, because I want it too.
My only qualm is that purchasing an i7 7700 system in comparison to a Ryzen 1700 system is almost the same price (since I'm buying my CPU from MircoCenter).

The use of my desktop is maybe 5% gaming, the rest is software dev and browsing, isn't there still a reason to prefer an IPC advantage for compilers and other system tasks?

I mentioned this, because I don't think a 12 core CPU would really give me that much more productivity or value gain than an i7 7700 or Ryzen 1700.

I only really need a single linux compatible nVidia GPU, enough cores and ram to comfortably handle 20 browser tabs, an IDE and a relatively hefty docker dev flow.
Wow, you are saying if you take a massive pile of money to hire a bunch of the smartest engineers away from private companies and pay them to solve problems, they'll do it?

And if NASA didn't exist, and these engineers instead worked for less bureaucratic, more entrepreneurial businesses, they'd invent nothing?
My point is that that remaining 10% of the time is some massive problem when there's a simple solution.

Your hypothetical is silly. What if Jesus Christ descends from the heavens and declares air travel to be a mortal sin? That's about as likely. It's not going to be impossible to find a few people among 100+ who are willing to take the next flight for an amount of money that's at least vaguely reasonable.

And if airlines don't want to risk it, they always have the option of not overbooking. This way it's their choice how to handle it.
We learned a whole lot about the greenhouse effect by studying Venus...
Yes.

You'll want to know intermediate JavaScript coming in. We have courses that prepare you for that free, so apply and we'll figure it out.
Unfortunately that is not always a choice.

We own a house that would be an hour and a half commute each day to Boston. We can't afford to sell our house and move on the whim just because we switch jobs (what happens when our next job is back closer to where our house was in the first place!?)

Right now I work out of my house but my wife and I have already discussed that if either of us ever have to commute to an office in Boston itself that we would get an apartment there to spend the night as needed if the commute doesn't work out.

At least until we get self driving cars or they extend the train to go to where we are.
I personally would vote in favor of putting space exploration on hold until we get a handle on the quickly accelerating environmental disaster we humans have set up that seems that it may just wipe ourselves out.

Personally.

One needs beauty in the world, yes, but one also needs to breathe.
It seems to me that the otherwise-intelligent people are seeing the appropriate analogy as refusing to learn to run fast because they're trying to buy a car. Yes, most humans are capable of running faster and for longer distances than they currently can, with training. But training is a lot of work, and if your long-term goal is to go much faster than any human is known to be able to run, it's not clear that training is your best approach.
Philosophy of Technology
Scientists Used CRISPR to Put a GIF Inside a Living Organism’s DNA
Aren’t you just afraid because you don’t really understand how CRISPR works? It’s not a virus or anything, nor is it airborne.
Hypothetical Indexes support for PostgreSQL
I love living 5 minutes away from my parents. We are close enough we see each other frequently, drop by to do favors, borrow tools, carpool to events, etc., but there is juuuust enough friction to getting to the others house it doesn't feel as if we are living together / I'm still living at home.
Been to a few of these cities a couple of times. The development and culture is amazing to see. The Shanghai museum is well curated, dongzhimen st. in Beijing is great for food. Vegetarian food isn't too hard to come by if you're ok with eggs. Monks are vegetarian, and if you can find a Buddhist temple, ask them about food.

Need to make it to Shenzhen, and Chengdu sometime!
Are you just here to brag about being transgender?
This reminds me of a certain cyberpunk staple where a team is assembled by an AI for a task(omitted to not spoil). I wonder if we'll get to the point where this team assembly is mostly automated or if there are things that it will remain cheaper/ more effective to keep humans making the hiring decisions? They say they are using AI, but it was unclear if they are using AI to train on human-picked teams now or if they already have a model that is working.
IIRC, cooling is already the primary limiting factor on current designs. People have achieved some remarkable stable overclocks by using LN2 cooling.
I disagree. Their ability and willingness to remove people involuntarily creates an adversarial relationship where none needed to exist. Everything else flows from that.

Yes, assault is super-rare in these cases, but unhappy passengers are fairly common. People hate the airlines for overbooking. If they always offered enough compensation for people to be willingly bumped, this wouldn't be the case.
Don't forget that their entitlements promise them much more than their contributions could ever pay for.
Wow, this takes me back to my undergrad days of dabbling in the occult.

If memory serves, an actual copy of Dictionnaire Infernal is ridiculously difficult, and expensive, to track down.

If all you want are the illustrations, you can find them more easily by grabbing a copy of "The Goetia: The Lesser Key of Solomon" for about $20 or so on Amazon.
Slice bread?
thanks @mtmail! just fixed, should be good now! appreciate the report!
I hear you, David, and completely understand your point of view. And let me take this moment to say how much your work is loved and admired. I agree I am in the minority. And I also understand why people love a language like JavaScript: they love it so much that they routinely compile it back into JavaScript before running it o_0 ;)
It's 10% of your disposable income. You're only going to be paying for 20 years if you make next to no money.

If you don't get a decent job, you'll basically be paying almost nothing for 20 years. If you get a great job, you'll pay it off way before then.
It mentions GPUs. GPUs generally only offer low-precision floating point arithmetic. GPUs can do many more 32-bit floating point operations per-second than CPUs.

There must be a huge demand for running numerical workloads on faster kit (GPUs), but the attendant loss in precision can make it very difficult to get good results in high-energy particle physics. The idea here might be to develop numerical methods that make up for low-precision arithmetic yet preserve the speed advantage of using GPUs. If so, TFA is very poor indeed.
That's standard operating procedure in the software industry. If I had a nickel for every time a salesman sold a feature that our software doesn't yet have...
Yeah, I doubt the people paying $200 each way on a trans-US flight are going to hold out for $10,000. Once you're at 5-10x of your ticket price, people who actually have flexible schedules are going to be pretty interested. On most overbooked flights this needs to attract <5 people, so hard to imagine the passengers taking "the airline's money hostage".
Apple Genius Blood Bar. Premium blood at Premium prices.
They publish almost nothing publicly. Certainly nothing useful that I'm aware of.
I've got a lot of slow build in my life. Large compiled projects are CPU heavy, easily parallelized workloads that offer a great ROI on speeding up. The cost of a new CPU is very little compared to wasted engineer time and broken concentration.
I don't think we are in the minority. I think most people would prefer to buy a better-made product that lasts even if it costs a bit more as in the long run it ends up being cheaper. This isn't in the manufacturer's interest though. They would rather sell you 5 or 10 vacuums over your lifetime rather than just 1. This puts more money in the manufacturers pocket and they have zero incentive to keep repair shops in business.

These days it is problematic to even know what products one should be buying because the quality of more brands than not is bad and many of these were well-designed products in the past that come from trusted name companies.
What if space based Earth science is what it takes to solve our environmental issues? Sagan's Blue Marble has done more for environmental preservation than decades of armchair environmental activism.
If your mouth is sewn shut, it doesn't matter that much how fast you can digest food.
Ryzen 7 and 8 targeted the streamer market. That platform has reproducibly breezed through game streaming workloads.

Threadripper is for something else. "Professional work" most likely: developer workstations, 3D modeling workstations, etc. Given that all Ryzen SKUs support ECC [1], this is probably a good platform for individuals who have historically sought out server platforms.

[1] So far as I understand it, they haven't disabled ECC in hardware but don't promise that it works.
If you opt into the income based repayment plan they are cancelled after 20 years of payments. I'm not sure how they retroactively count payments made under old repayment plans if you switch now.
I cant help but chuckle at the exact definition being thrown at me. I guess that by definition this is a lost art. I still think it's a bit over the top though.
Interesting, so Tezos dev team is mostly based in France from OCaml PRO. Just going by the "signals", I think they have a SOLID dev team.

https://github.com/tezos/tezos/issues/46
If someone finds some protected data as controversial as AACS encryption key[2] and creates a "fork" of HIV which contains that information, I'm optimistic that we will get a cure for it in a few years.

On a more serious note, I'm not sure, with this kind of power, if we are quickly approaching a Great Filter[4] or not.

[4]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Filter

[2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AACS_encryption_key_controvers...
What does this have to do with the GIF image format? Wouldn't using something other than LZW compression give them a much faster converging restoration rate?
So Mars might be the Saudi Arabia of the 22nd century?
What would be the benefit to llvm?
Planning for Go 2 announced
NetBSD also supports clang/llvm.

https://wiki.netbsd.org/tutorials/pkgsrc/clang/
> Why BUY books in CHINA when you can read them for FREE!

I don't think that behavior is "unthinkable" outside China at all. Plenty of Americans read books in book stores. In fact, some bookstores even encourage that behavior by installing comfy chairs, couches, or coffee bars.
Sounds like a feature my Volvo XC-90 already has. Up to 35 MPH it can follow traffic in a traffic jam. If it gets confused it beeps and tells me I need to steer. I use it all the time, I love it! And it's a 1 year old car. I can only imagine what Volvo will have once the new Audi comes out.

And I'm saying that as an Audi fan. My other car is an A4.
Though that's assuming the people making online orders even bother looking at the amount paid. I don't necessarily see why they would (or why they wouldn't assume you had merely cashed in some sort of promo or balance).
The question here is not the UI but the call quality. Usually with traditional tools: screen sharing of pptx slides and more than 2 people means some people will have very bad audio quality.

How is Slack doing in that department? Do you have people from different countries? How many people usually participate in the call?
You might enjoy Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut.
On Holberton side:

-How do you track students once program completes?

We are working with http://vemo.com/, they are specialized in Income Share Agreements (ISA) and the goto in the industry if you want to do ISA. Purdue University is also using them. Vemo request access to students tax return so that we can see their income.

- How does the legal binding works?

Students are supposed to let us know about their employment situation so that we can adjust the payment. The deal is that they pay 17% of their income if they make $50k/year or more. At the end of the year tax time, we do a reconciliation where we compare the amount received against the student income, where the student or the school might owe money to the other part.

What is great about this model is that:
-Student only contributes back to the school if they are employed.
-Student contribution is proportional to their "financial success".
-Holberton can only thrive if its graduates thrive, no bs.
There's a reason that GPUs suck at branching.

Hint: It's because they're good at the vector stuff.
Everyone remembers Pathfinder but no one cares much about Eugene Cernan.
Virus retroviral internal machinery has been used for ages.
Lander aside, the biggest limiting factor is getting astronauts back from Mars! We already know how to get things there, and I think the lander issue is relatively easy to solve, but getting all the equipment and -- most importantly -- fuel for the return flight is the hardest problem to solve economically. Of course we could send like, 12 missions to deliver all the required components, but coordinating the assembly of a rocket on Mars is no walk in the park.
more manned money for NASA is just more pork for Alabama.
You can even approach 0 from left and right simultaneously:

while (a -->> k --> 0 <-- b <<-- c)

and you can have dashed arrows too:

k = a <- - - - - b;
I was implementing Segment this week, and I was excited to see that they do far more than customer analytics now. With a single installation of analytics.js, you can turn on tools like Sentry.io error tracking, HelloBar announcements, or secure user accounts with Castle.io. With a single integration, Segment is becoming an app store for websites.
Synchronized comment timelines are nothing new, and are particularly popular in Asia (referred to as "danmaku") where language "density" (meaning per pixel) is higher. However, it's very challenging to get this to work for general English-language comments, as other comments in this thread indicate. Perhaps timed emoticons would actually be better suited. Regardless, it's far from clear that SoundCloud has the optimal implementation of this UX pattern, and I don't think that SoundCloud's demise would mean the end of innovation on that pattern.

https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-319-20907-4_...

> Danmaku comment is a comment technology that overlays user comments directly on the video and creates a co-viewing experience. It originates from Japan and becomes increasingly popular on video sharing sites in China, particularly among the young generation. This exploratory study investigates reasons for watching Danmaku videos through two focus group studies. The results show that the users who watch Danmaku videos found it a way to entertain themselves, to be in company, to have the sense of belonging, and to seek information. Those who do not watch Danmaku videos, however, complained about the abundance of information, the imperfect information quality, and the look and feel. We summarized scenarios suitable for Danmaku commenting from three perspectives: the content, the complexity of information, and the number of viewers. Possible improvements and new applications of Danmaku commenting were discussed.

https://books.google.com/books?id=MAUqDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA512&lpg=...

https://www.computer.org/csdl/proceedings/hicss/2016/5670/00...
Kano model for product managers: Beginners’ guide
A reasonably large proportion of workstation-type tasks do parallelise very well. The example I'm most familiar with is professional audio. A typical audio project will include hundreds of plugin instances, each with their own thread. Performance for this workload scales more-or-less linearly with core count. As I understand it, many VFX and video editing workloads are also highly parallelisable.

>Or is it more "Everything is 99% idle until I need to run that Photoshop filter, and then it does it really fast"?

Using all your cores all the time doesn't really matter. A Digital Audio Workstation is very much either/or in terms of CPU use - as soon as you stop playback, your CPU usage drops to idle. If you run out of CPU overhead during playback then everything grinds to a halt, which can be absolutely disastrous when you've only got 3 milliseconds of buffered audio. We want enough FLOPS to cope with our normal workloads, plus a substantial overhead to cope with spikes.
FP is going to kill it when compilers catch up to utilize new SIMD instructions.

I think we are going to see more per core "L0" caches and less reliance on the shared "L1" cache. With that many caches to juggle you want a strongly typed compiler doing it, not by hand.
It's also entirely possible that the email isn't being sent by them or anyone affiliated with them. FROM headers on email are miserably easy to spoof.

I've had thousands of spam emails sent with senders listed as nonexistent addresses from one of my domains. They were sent from third-party servers (my servers were not compromised and I had no open relays), and I only found out because of all the bouncebacks from naive receiving servers.

The only thing the domain holder can do at that point is to set up DomainKeys and similar measures - which still won't prevent spammers from using the domain, it'll just cause more of the mail to bounce back as spam.
Liu Xiaobo, Chinese Dissident Who Won Nobel While Jailed, Dies at 61
Real-World Angular Series – Part 6: Reactive Forms and Custom Validation
while no fan of the system at all, there is a certain amount of reciprocity. Either you voluntarily accept an inducement to fly at a different time or you get paid ~0-400%[1] of the one way fare of the flight you got kicked off of plus they still need to fly you there. I personally think that number is too low...

[1] https://www.transportation.gov/airconsumer/fly-rights#Overbo...
>there is no threshold for your salary for when you have to start paying back.

There is. You pay back 10% of your disposable income. Disposable income is income above 1.5x the Federal poverty level.

If you make less than that, you pay $0.
Can we stop with the slippery slope arguments? No, CRISPR will not be used be teenage hackers in the future to infect humans and keep them hostage. CRISPR can’t be “spread” or “transmitted” and is a local technique to introduce DNA snippets into the main genome of the organism. And to anyone who thinks that CRISPR could be potentially used to infect humans, this technology is nothing new: viruses have already had DNA editing machinery for millennia, search up retroviruses.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Retrovirus
Plebeian.

One per floor per house, of course. You don't want to have to carry them up and down stairs.
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Anecdotally, my group at NASA has seen several of our smartest engineers leave for the private sector in the last couple of years. They are all making heaps more money, but not one of them is doing the kind of innovative research that we do at NASA.
"There are many reasons for that. A obvious one is quick economic growth makes many less educated normal people can afford previously luxury tourism."

I always assumed it came down to exactly this. Give people money who have never had money before and there are going to be some social growing pains but eventually everything will normalize.
The electoral college is in conflict with the one person/one vote requirement, but it is also part of the Constitution so it is still legal.