skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Chimneys do not require perfect insulators otherwise no chimneys would work. The biggest thing they do is prevent air mixing which in turn prevents a lot of energy exchange. This could work.
what does [counterintuitive.][going_there] mean?
I think you're missing a more important use case, namely, being able to layer contextual information over objects in your field of vision.

Use cases in industry abound. On a trip to the doctor's office, your physician can overlay your medical file and get pertinent information about you. If you are a politician holding a fundraising dinner, AR + facial recognition will supply you with the biographical information, social media profiles, voting records, donation history, etc. of the people in the room allow you to schmooze ever so effortlessly and ever more efficiently. AR tailor made for athletes could do a number of physiological measurements like heart rate, VO2, etc. (with wearables or implanted sensors) that could combine to produce some sort of stamina bar, allowing for more effective substitution patterns. An activity like paintball can will feel closer to an actual military engagement or a video game if a minimap that includes your teammate's location will be in the corner of your vision.

The Terminator franchise did a great job of showing it's utility by giving Arnold "Terminator vision" in shots from his POV. Video games also make extensive use of OSD. A 1st person shooter's OSD really shows the advantages of AR.

Advances in computer vision and networked IoT devices will be a multiplier for AR's utility. Imagine an app that overlays your vision with the mathematical patterns of nature: illustrating the Fibonacci sequence in the leaves, petals and seeds of plants or in the way tree branches form and split. It could highlight all of the phenomenon that exhibit golden ratios. It could show the equations of motion for objects moving or spinning in your field of view or detail the biomechanics of the elegant dancers of the Bolshoi ballet. In a way, you get to experience what the mind of a Leonardo Da Vince or John Nash might be like, like you are able to get an insight into the mind of a genius.
Amazing tensorflow GitHub projects
There's no way to understand anything you can't map on to your embodied experience of the world.

You can only even perceive their apparent desires to the extent you can map them onto your own experiences.

You could offer them language for controlling you, and they could learn to use it according to their desires, through trial and error, but without shared bodily experience you cant understand those desires.

And them being able to control you doesn't solve the benevolence problem. Because benevolence is understanding without ceding control. For you to be benevolent you need to actually understand them, which requires shared experience.

This is why I think consent is a much better basis for social coordination than benevolence.

In the case of AIs it is somewhat moot, because the first general/hard AIs will be clones of humans in humanoid bodies.
it's 2017 nobody calls, voice dial is 2001.

that said my 5.2" phone doesn't have a perfectly usable tenkey, forgive me if I'm skeptical of a watch screen.
He literally just said that
Watched the video. Sounds miraculous :)
Anyone here knowledgeable of atmospheric thermodynamics?
I'm not saying it's feasible or anything, but he's talking about moving air at over 100 miles per hour. It would only take a couple of minutes to get to the top.
So many signals suggesting this is a wild physics-defying idea that could never work, e.g. how many websites claiming 'this one neat trick solves global warming' really hold the key to solving global warming?

I hope that's not the case and by this time next decade we're all laughing about that century and a half where we put so much carbon in the atmosphere wow wasn't that a hoot...

Realistically, I am sympathetic to the idea that geoengineering, massive structures and engineering projects enabled by modern materials, etc. deserve more thought.
A data point about medication:

I just paid for a pair of EpiPens; the generic version was $337 a pair (last I checked, the non-generic version was over $600). I have pretty good health insurance, so I didn't pay that much myself, but my employer paid the rest.

As a baseline, I had the pharmacist look up the equivalent medication for use with a syringe; a ten dose bottle was $5.99. I know, not the same thing. But this confirmed what I'd suspected for years.

I have to assume that the EpiPen delivery mechanism, which is really what we're paying for, is well debugged and optimized and essentially just a matter of ordering parts and assembling them; it would be mind boggling to have a COGs of more than a few dollars, or any significant conversion costs. The cost of the actual medication that the pens contain is apparently about sixty cents on top of that. Mylan is printing money.

Icing on the cake: The pens expire after a year. But you typically can't get pens that last that long, the ones I got already have a few months on them and will have to be replaced before the next school year ends or my son won't be able to attend class (the school is not allowed to administer "expired" medication).

This is an utter and corrupt racket. I'm writing my congressional representatives and senators. Again.
There's a huge difference between "this has bugs, like all software" and "this has known exploitable bugs and there is no mention of this anywhere".

Warranties are not the same as being misleading.
We haven't actually tried that yet. I imagine if you customized your model with words from another language and then pronounced them with an english accent the API might be able to recognize them ok. Would be a fun experiment to try at least!
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Indeed: Benjamin Pierce's lectures on "Software Foundations in Coq" https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLGCr8P_YncjUT7gXUVJWS...
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Erlang's graphical debugger works with Elixir since OTP-19 (last year). See this page after the section on Pry:

http://blog.plataformatec.com.br/2016/04/debugging-technique...

It supports stepping, etc.
Very similar for me. The only emails I get on my iPhone and/or iPad are alerts for $work. For anything else I have to pull up my mail client (I don't use webmail) so it's a huge pain in the ass. I'm hoping this method of "authenticating" quickly dies out.
Whatever people say about UBER and it's less than nice tactics the fact is that Travis Kalanick did whatever it took, short of going to jail, to make the company competitive. There have been other ride sharing companies but he's is the one that's on everyone's mind.

There's one example.
I love static typing. I really dislike almost every dynamic language I've ever worked with. But Clojure is currently my favorite language. I've done C#, F#, Go, JS, Ruby, Dart, C, C++, dabbled in Haskell, OCaml, purescript, D, Nim... (I like programming.) Anyway, once I dove into Clojure, I couldn't go back to any other language. I do wish it was more general purpose (not so slow to boot, had a decent native / non JVM, non JS target.)
I don't think it's meaningful to compare.

Erlang/Elixir work with immutable values, so when you call a function, assuming it's side-effect free, you always get the same result.

Add to that the fact that there are no global variables (outside of table-like things like ETS), and that you can jump on the running system in an Erlang/Elixir shell and call any exported function and immediately see the results, debugging becomes much, much easier. I can honestly say that I have not needed a stepping-style symbolic debugger since 2008.

And when you find and fix a bug, you can copy the fixed code file (.beam file) to the server, start a remote shell, and do this:

> l(my_module).

and the new code is running, with no perceptible perturbation to the system.

There are also other tools like dbg that let you monitor calls to specific module/functions based on pattern matches. The representation of these pattern matches is powerful but not so pretty - but it gets the job done.

Nothing's a panacea, and Erlang/Elixir undoubtedly have their warts, but for the Erlang VM's use case - soft real-time, extremely robust, highly concurrent distributed systems - I believe they are peerless.

One of the warts may be that the ecosystem doesn't have a library for every possible scenario, but that's improving rapidly, and in many cases, some of these are trivial to write. On the plus side, the quality of code is generally pretty good.

It is very challenging to describe what a massive level of confidence a hybrid-functional, battle-tested language and environment like this affords a system designer.

So debugging in this environment is very different and hard to compare directly to a line-by-line stepping debugger. Even if such a tool may be available (and things change so quickly these days, I probably missed that), it's easier to do without it.

It's so difficult to convey the experience of using this ecosystem, one cannot do it justice in a HN comment. T be fair, there are so many mature tools in more heavily used ecosystems like (I suppose) Java, that some may give up on Erlang/Elixir prematurely if used to that level of tooling.
There's a pretty significant difference between exploit research and banking trojan development.
> This case isn't about that

No. It was about fraud.

Why should we NOT punish people for fraud?

The ways that question are answered in this thread prove your assertion is false. This case IS about that, because without that, he'd just be one more pennyless felon.
I have the same fear. I'm leaning towards the xps but I'm not gonna buy one unless I can try one out first physically.
I've started writing some Win32 code for fun and like you I found it a whole different experience from GTK and such. It really is an API rather than a toolkit.

Take scrolling. Scroll bars are provided when requested, but all the interactions have to be implement by the application. There's no 'scroll view' with standard behaviours. This means Microsoft can't easily add new scrolling behaviours as we see with the messy situation around high precision trackpads and touch.

Compare this to Cocoa with its auto layout, data binding and even document lifecycle management.

On the other hand, with Win32 I rarely find myself fighting the toolkit. I'm in control.

Backwards comatibility is also amazing. With my little project I'm targeting Windows 3.1 through Windows 10 with a single binary! I expected most of my effort to go towards supporting old OSes, but in reality I spend more time on modern features like proper per-monitor DPI suport, the gazillion different scrolling behaviours and (conditionally loaded) GDI+ and Direct2D implementations.

Another delightful aspect, although again it comes the beforementioned price, is the speed. My little utility starts instantly and won't skip a beat when you frantically shake the resize grip. Compare that to even the simplest UWP XAML app.
Yeah this is not sustainable or real. It's a myth.
Driverless cars could mean less parking lots... Hallelujah!
If you're requiring an email/login and 40-70% of users never confirm or bother coming back, perhaps your product isn't something they really want. Personally, I hate being forced to go through the process of creating an account only to quickly discover that I'm never going to use application/website/whatever again.
There is no other end of the axis. You might as well say an electricity company because they use power to run.

Some are more cutting edge with newer tech, but that's making the process and operations better, with their end goal still being the same (whether it's selling software or groceries).
How is the performance of Elixer vs Go? I’ve done some web stuff with Go and I like the performance. Elixir looks interesting. Wanted a reason to give it a try.
Sounds like complete bullshit to me. Expanding upwards will accelerate the air above, not compress it.
I will, because it fits my agenda!

Also, interesting.
I'm not a real engineer, but most structures don't have the ability to flex like this tube could.
How on earth is it world class if you can't do line by line or step debugging?
There are many C interpreters.
Presumably you just lay a pipe that goes up the side of Everest and free power!

I wonder if the author asked the question "Why don't we have tornadoes all the time?"

If they had, that would have lead them to the physics of tornadoes. In my case it was the physics of so called 'dust devils' in the desert which are much smaller phenomena but based on the same ideas. Warm air rising through cooler air.

You might ask, but why don't we have them all the time? And the answer is that as air goes up, it spreads out, and as it spreads out it becomes less dense, and the lack of density is perceived as a colder 'temperature' even though the air molecules still have more kinetic energy and are thus 'hotter'.

In the video the tube is supposed to constrain the air (which it will) and the warmer air will rise inside of it, but without an energy source the warm air rises until its 'weight' is equivalent to the un-risen air underneath it, at which point it stops rising and the system is stable. If you were to cool off the bottom the air would start sinking again.

This has been experienced time and again by inexperienced makers of fires in their fireplaces. If you don't put enough energy into the air to make it rise, it comes back down the chimney and fills your living space with smoke. A fireplace is a remarkable little machine, where the fire heats the air, which pulls in more air as the air above rises, which puts more oxygen into the fire and increases its energy output etc. But without the fire burning in the fireplace the air stops moving.

Tornadoes benefit from a mass of really cold air sitting on top of warm air. This does two things, one the cold air above pushes down on the warm air to pressurize it, and two when a "hole" begins forming in the cold air mass it operates like an inverted tub drain and the warm air starts draining out of the tub. The energy source for a tornado is the temperature differential that is set up by the result of moisture condensing out of the air and super cooling the air around it.

Similarly a hurricane is powered by the temperature differential between the ocean and the air above it.

All three systems (fireplace, tornado, hurricane) share a common theme, there has to be a source of energy for them to operate. Without it, the air reaches equilibrium and just sits there. No magic allowed.

That said, if instead you built a tunnel, then you could connect two different air masses and extract energy from two different pressure differentials. The most interesting ideas have a tunnel under the Rockies or under the Sierras between the Mojave desert on one side and the milder (and moister) climate on the other. To the delta you can get from that is linear with respect to distance and/or a geographic feature that can inhibit the natural balancing of the air masses (like a range of tall mountains).

Sadly neither super chimneys nor lighter than air vacuum balloons are workable ideas.

Edit: It occurs to me that if you could make the chimney high enough you could put the top in the underside of the jetstream, then you could suck air up using the venturi effect.
We already have something that does the same thing as this claims to (facilitate heat transfer from the surface to the upper atmosphere): it's called the hydrologic cycle.
I knew fentanyl analogue were out there, I was fairly plugged into the RC scene a couple of years back. While most of it was filth, some of the hallucinogens were genuinely interesting and exciting.

Carfentanil seems to be a step far further.
More than 99% of all species are extinct. And we are currently at an extinction rate 100-1000x the "normal" rate. I.e. we are in a mass extinction event.

But, 2000 years is nothing. Humans will be off the planet in that time and it would be really, really hard to wipe us all out in that tiny timescale.

Btw, we are not tough as a species. Trilobites are tough. Those fuckers survived 3 mass extinctions. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Aji2VnQFUCs&index=11&list=LL...
Don't get me wrong, I'm not taking the US government's word here. I just disagree with a journalist stating that the indictment is unclear. It's very clear what the FBI are trying to argue.
I don't know Java (I've avoided Java work as intentionally as I've avoided SharePoint work). Clojure was not hard at all for me to pick up.
Why not both?

And why can't you state your analysis without calling other analyses offered in good faith bullshit?
I couldn't put a number on it, but it greatly accelerates development on the front-end. The API call gets you back all the data you need, only the data you need, in the format or structure that you need.

If there were GraphQL for Spotify's API and you wanted an artist's discography, you don't have to make multiple calls to endpoints and work through huge objects where 90-95% of the data is not needed.

For the front-end, it's a no-brainer. I've read that it is a bit more involved on the server-side but Apollo seems to be making great tooling for it.
how do that？
I simply generate non-sensical answers regardless of what the questions are. For example, "What is your favorite place to go on vacation?" was a security question I recently encountered. My answer was something absurd, along the lines of "FourteenZebras".
I meant Dataprim not Retrophin. Sleep deprived.
Your critique of the proposal is ascientific.
Images are also considered "fixed size data" in the textbook. I think this is for pedagogical reasons, the sort of simplifying-lie-that-is-cleared-up-later that is common in science education. In the first section, students are encouraged to think of strings and images as atomic data to be processed all at once using built-in functions, but in the "arbitrarily large data" section, the authors give you tools for converting images and strings to lists (of characters and pixel values).

(Note: since Racket supports exact bignums, in a sense numbers are not atomic either! Only Booleans ;-)
Right, plus it's a 30 metre diameter tube. The bulk of the air moving up the centre would be insulated by the outer layers of air near the inner skin of the tube.
Brazil has a TV channel transmitting all sessions (and YouTube too)

http://www.tvjustica.jus.br
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But that's true with all those languages too. If you're an experienced Java programmer moving to Rust, you'll write Java in Rust.

So it's 1 day of learning Go + 1 month of learning style vs 2 weeks of learning Rust + 1 month of learning style. [1]

[1] Note, I think that Rust has the best community when it comes to getting beginners up to par, whether in #rust-beginners or on /r/rust. It just is a hard and not forgiving language.
Voting systems are hard because most democracies expect ballots to be confidential. Is there a blockchain-based voting system that allows a voter to have high confidence that their vote was counted, but doesn't allow someone else to be able to know how that voter voted?
Hi ! Very strange juxtaposition of your examples of "irrational" or "stupidity without established merit".

Subdermal magnets aside, BASE comes in many forms. You may think of it as guys in wing suits zooming past the ground and 5' clearance and killing themselves in droves - and you could be forgiven for this perspective, as it's the one most focused on by media / movies / etc.

It's a sport, performed on the overwhelming whole by highly trained, cogniscent people, in a legal context, in situations well within tolerance, and that's that. Instead of jumping from a plane, it's a fixed point.
This reminds me of Solar updraft tower prototypes [1], which concentrates heat at the bottom of the chimney instead of expecting cold air at the top of the chimney.

There's still a delta of temperature between the top and the bottom, but instead of

T_bottom_chimney = T_hot_ambient_air_bottom
T_top_chimney = T_cold_ambient_air_top

it is :

T_bottom_chimney = T_much_hotter_than_ambient_air_top
T_top_chimney = T_ambient_air_top

Everytime I start reading things like this, I wish I had a home with similar 'magic', like Solar chimneys[2] and other techniques[3],

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_updraft_tower

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_chimney

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ground-coupled_heat_exchanger
I've seen instances of using example.net instead of the primary example.com domain, but as a user I prefer subdomains. It's easier to confirm ("visually", just from the domain name) that it's actually coming from the same company and not a phishing email, for example.
The drug was called Daraprim. I think the linked comment misspoke when calling it Retrophin, but I have heard many of the same things that they are saying. Namely that anyone that cannot get the drug through insurance can get it for free. I don't think that Martin Shkreli is a good guy by any means, but portraying him as "human garbage" is not entirely fair.
Pressure can be efficiently converted to vacuum I believe.
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I know this isn't related to the article, but I'm also surprised that the author had never worked with the trace given that they work in graphics, their company is called Binomial, and their product is called Basis.
What I understand is that they invented a language called Crystal. And they made a compiler for it. The phrase "compiled language" is not very meaningful. It is quite possible for someone to make a Crystal interpreter.
or stay for a > 1 year and just ask
FWIW, Shkreli has said several times on his YouTube channel that he predicted he was serve 2 years and be done. From what I've heard, he'll be sentenced 3-5 and and serve 80% with good behavior. He had an excellent defense and this was probably known from the beginning.

Interestingly, I don't think he pretends that what he did was right - it just understood it was a means to an end: two years in white collar "prison" for 30-70MM when he had less than $1,000 in the bank and owed creditors north of 1MM.
Heh it was trending two days on reddit/r/javascript but is hit or miss.
You make it sound like adding support at the level they have for their other currencies is something they can do on a whim. Unless you've worked in commercial software, that's a forgivable attitude, but it's very far from reality for a company like Coinbase that is establishing a brand of trust and stability, not chasing the latest sparkly fork (of which there are many) and saying oops sorry when they screw up by moving too fast.

"It's not like this was some random fork by some nobody faction." That's Monday-morning quarterbacking, and in fact we have no idea whether we're at halftime or end of game for BCH. Results-oriented thinking like that is one step away from cargo-culting.

"Figuring out how to actually claim my BCC was a (figurative) eternity." Right, so imagine having to solve that same problem for a million or so users in less time than it took you for yourself.
Exhausted all the minerals? Pfft, who cares about minerals when refined alloys and other recyclable materials are all over. The parking lots of one USA town has more metal than the (few) survivors of any civilazation collapsing level event could even use.

Also, civilization existed before the industrial revolution. In fact that would be a good point to mark the start of the fall. Giving the rate of increase in pollution, overconsumption, climate and environment destruction since and before then.