skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Cost per seat should be about the same as full fare economy in an aircraft. Forgot to mention that. - Elon https://www.instagram.com/p/BZnVfWxgdLe/

Looks like fun. I'd love to see the in-flight safety video!

"Make sure there's nothing in your pockets because we'll be hitting 3 Gees. If anything goes wrong, we're all probably toast."

I think this was just an interesting idea thrown out at the end of a talk that had much more interesting stuff, such as redirecting all of SpaceX's resources away from Falcon to build the BFR, and putting humans on Mars by a 2024 'aspirational goal'
Something to realize here:

If you're between 10 and 60 years old, "I don't use social media" will likely not really be an answer at the border. Even a barely-used account will not really be an answer.

They're going to be able to say you're probably just hiding your real account. That could factor into denying you entry into a country.

If this becomes common with many countries, it could become de facto illegal to keep social media out of your daily habits.
Because they're a scam, most will disappear with the funds they raised
Call me a cynic, but I doubt anyone really cares. What this really will be useful is as a database of people of selected race, origin and views to help appear for certain agencies to be working and generate headlines like: "50 suspected terrorists were deported", "terrorists bombing plot stopped" (of course, dummy bomb was provided by the same secret service) to justify even more mass surveillance in near future.
>He just couldn't read as fast as he was talking so he had to stop every few syllables.

Is that your professional medical opinion?
That's an assumption. For some companies such as Augur, this is true and they even enforce that the tokens be used for placing predictive bets. You can't just buy the token and keep it in cold storage. I don't see how a crypto token can be associated to something like a browser. Someone is betting that the browser becomes a sellable product. Very unlikely. I am surely missing something, because Brendan Eich is no ordinary person.
What is an SRE?

Why are people so poor at defining their acronyms these days?
As polyglot dev, I am kind of ok with C++17 and beyond, as ANSI C++ groups at least care about improving the security story, not like ANSI C.
Have you tried micro? It has basically all of that.
The great thing about predicting bubble bursts is eventually you’ll be right! (And if you’re wrong, so what)
Ironically, the talks are given in serial rather than all at once.
So you believe China can fully exist as a bubble, selling to China, recruiting only Chinese?
It's a rentier economy, by and for. Just don't actually tell anyone or you'll be labeled a crank.
It's not all rubbish, I've got a solid wood kitchen table from them which is already quite a few years old and looks like it will last a long time.
As much as I’ve always loved to come to the US and as fascinating as some US conferences are (e.g. StrangeLoop might be my personal fav) – no international attendee or speaker can be expected to put up with this ever expanding amount of bullshit anymore.

If the science community or “our industry” really want to encourage and unlock the magic of diversity we need new venues for a whole lot of conferences either in Canada or the EU.
That's it, yeah, a kind of gated ramp effect at the beginning and end of words.
The Dylan team consciously chose not to provide call/cc. It had a restricted form of call/cc called "bind-exit" that supported only upward continuations.

It didn't have special variables, but it did have module variables, which were lexically accessible from anywhere inside the module where they were defined, or in any module that imported them. THey were more like entries in Smalltalk dictionaries than special variables (a possibly-overlooked point is that the initial design discussions at Apple included several Smalltalk enthusiasts from ATG).

The object system would definitely have looked like Common Lisp. It was CLOS minus some of the bells and whistles, as you observed.

Also, like Scheme and unlike Common Lisp, Dylan was a Lisp-1, not a Lisp-2.

For those unfamiliar with that jargon, it refers to how namespaces are organized in Lisps. In Dylan, as in Scheme, there was a single namespace for variables, functions, types, and so on. For example, <collection> was the abstract superclass of all collections, but the name "<collection>" was just a read-only module variable that happened to refer to the (anonymous) class.

By contrast, in Common Lisp there are separate namespaces for variables, functions, classes, and some other things. Thus, in Common Lisp (but not in a Lisp-1), you can have a function named "address", a class named "address", and a lexical variable named "address", and they don't collide or shadow one another.
guess which people (and what attributes they share) have been biggest contributors to the next generation

Immigrants? Not suggesting that, but how is that angle entirely ommitted?
The system wasn't "designed" in any such manner. The system is the sum of myriad accretions of laws and precedent over the course of centuries. This idea that there is a design with a purpose for which anything is meant reminds us of the "intelligent design" take on biological evolution. In this case, however, the history is clearly written in records recorded in English at the time that each such accretion took place, rather than locked up in obscure geologic formations.
So this means they are not collecting Social Media Data on All Social Media Users?

I was wrong then. I should start using social media as I'm not U.S. emigrant.</sarcasm>
If they want to know what's in my social media feed they can just ask. 70% of it is Happy Birthday well wishes and the rest is making fun of our bonehead in chief.

I expect FB/Twitter will have a sudden growth surge of "new" users as folks make a SFW and NSFW profile. A lot of my military and government employee friends are creating twin personas, or just dropping social media completely.
Is this a common view? About to start fall of Hyperion. I thought people generally liked it and the Endymion books?
ANC is basically realtime phase reversal of the waveform and needs to be almost zero latency. Hard to get a neural network to run fast enough, esp on an embedded chip
It doesn't matter. Right now your entire potential customer base doesn't know that either of you exist. Just start talking to actual people and get your product out there.

Finding customers and making them happy is the only thing that matters.

If your competition have huge team they also have huge expenses, you have an advantage in that you probably have a longer runway than they do.

Even if you had launched first, what would you have done if this competitor came along and launched after you? Doesn't competition validate it being a good idea? Why does being first matter if it's a viable niche?

If you have been working on this for a year, you should already have people ready to be your customers. If you don't, then stop building and start shipping.
I agree that it currently isn’t the most productive choice for most, but Swift wasn’t created just for writing iOS apps (at the least, it targeted desktops, too, from the start), and certainly aims much wider today. https://swift.org/about/:

”The goal of the Swift project is to create the best available language for uses ranging from systems programming, to mobile and desktop apps, scaling up to cloud services”

And if “doesn’t have rich libraries and vibrant communities” were a decisive argument to not start using a new language, there never would be a new language again. I can see that, for some, using Swift on the server could be the right choice (for example because it makes it easier to share code between server and iOS apps)
9/11 on a new level :O
> Don't they test each new generation at same time?

IQ scores are relative to people the same age, so it wouldn’t matter.
Dropbox V1 API endpoints disabled today
In Christian theology, the New Testament God is the Old Testament God. Jesus himself promised to do judge all people likewise:

https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Matthew+25%3A31...

Implicit in your objection is that people are basically innocent and don't have any kind of consequences coming. That's an understandable opinion. It's just not what is stated in the Bible, either testament.

The above passage is, to apply it to my "upset parents" analogy, "Hey, you all are treating my family (humanity) like garbage. Enough is enough."

What about babies and "good people" that don't have it coming? Well, that's a theological rabbit hole I'll pass on for the moment, but the fundamental characterization of the God of the Bible is that he doesn't make mistakes, so there won't be a fair complaint when everything is said and done. His punishments fit the crimes and He doesn't punish people that don't deserve it.

Maybe you don't buy that. That's fair. But it's the ultimate question of the Bible: Do you trust God? Lots of people answer, "No." or even "Hell, no."
The Do-it-yourself part is what protects Ikea from all complaints on this earth. Why would they punnish themselves.
I'd buy that index.
Statistics about how stupid people are outbreeding the smarts would be way more impressive than anecdotes.

Especially given things like the Flynn effect.
Would be cool to try to train it using the technique from https://blog.openai.com/deep-reinforcement-learning-from-hum...
Dropbox has not only deprecated their V1 API endpoints, they are now also disabled.
This means that any application which has not been updated to the V2 API will now fail. Expect a lot of unsupported apps to break for no good reason.
Or fugitive. I kind of expect some kind of support for git from a extendable coding editor. I've found a generic VCS module BTW.
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Why you must automate functional testing of web application?
When correcting someone on Internet be sure to know what you are talking about.

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Cryptocurrency anarchists find anarchy less than appealing when it happens to them.
Mutant Strains of Polio Vaccine Now Cause More Paralysis Than Wild Polio
I have no great difficulty believing we're due for another pop, but the only one of these that I find remotely alarming is the auto loan one. The rest seem to be one of: utterly irrelevant (number of cryptocurrencies in circulation?), lacking any frame of reference, or readily attributable to the economy still not being really recovered from the 2008 crisis.
I wonder why? HN has very readable text.
Making human life multiplanetary. I'd rather we spent effort finding the life already on other planets (as well?).
Fun fact: Capitalism depends on crises - they are not the exception, they are the rule. People forget that and treat it as something that happens, like a natural catastrophe. This is unfortunate, because this is a purely man-made thing, but still, even the high end media is kind of left in the dark about this central theme (let alone economists, who sometimes get lost in the details of their specialisation).

Now the real analytic question to ponder is: where exactly does this destructive element of capitalism originates from (left as an exercise for the reader).
Such a contract would attract charlatains -- guys like Bernie Madoff. And then, when they found a data breech, they'd pull every trick to keep it hidden.

No doubt that CEOs should be held responsible. And here the board would say, yes, that's why we fired him.
The average citizen already is targeted. People have been voluntarily and involuntarily sharing their personal details, daily habits, purchases, and browsing habits for years. It's probably safe to say that a lot of government agencies and companies know more about you than you do yourself (or at least they have that data).

This move will be heavily criticized (as it should), but there's a false sense of security out there. Outfits like Palantir exist, Facebook and others have never been shy about tracking people without permission, and through public check ins people basically broadcast their physical location. In another thread yesterday someone was saying that they were a former FB employee and FB regularly purchased customer histories from Amazon and tied that to their own internal databases. That sounds very realistic.

It's always strange how upset the tech community gets about actions like this when most of the companies people work for are doing it, and that information is getting sent to the government through things like national security letters, anyway.
Yahoo search results, recommendations, ad flinging code is now open source
Or null results. What's to stop anyone from creating a secret profile and using a VPN (to avoid linking the terrorist persona's IP address with their main persona's IP address) just to talk to fellow terrorists?

Terrorists could even force every recruit to use a common, shared profile or just avoid popular social media altogether when needing to discuss terrorist acts.
> This is becoming more and more untrue by the day.

I see no evidence of this. Your evidence is "Chinese isn't so bad" and "what about Trump and anti-refugee trends in Europe?"

Those are social trends, which still exist at the margins of society (more so with Trump, but he still remains a minority figure).

Business, culture, freedom, lack of corruption. Until China matches the west in these points, they will never be a true destination for the world's best and brightest.
> One day a consultant or another yesman will be able to check in and syphon precious resources with their pipe dream and I’ll watch six figures fly out of the window while my dev team struggles debugging simulated ipads with mac minis.

Six figures? Oh sweet summer child. :)

First you'll need to burn seven figures to have a Big 3 advise your leadership that you need this tech. Then you burn the six figures implementing it with a lower tier firm.
Meh to almost everything here except maybe housing.

Corporate debt is high because DEBT IS STILL CHEAP (fed is changing that). Of course they're going to borrow fuckloads of money, it's practically free by some measures!

The indexing "bubble" is actually a correction for a lack of value from active funds. I don't expect the correction to be corrected.

The cryptocurrency bubble is tiny. 65 billion? That's a rounding error.

5 Stocks accounting for most of growth is troublesome when corrected, but still not catastrophic. If we lose ALL of that growth then we go back to 2016 levels? Ok.
It would be different if this was coming from the mouth of the Comcast CEO but it's coming from Musk who has a series of successful achievements of his own, a profitable space company with the worlds first re-usable rockets, the first company to successfuly market an electric car, fastest growing battery storage solution on the market. These things matter.
I disagree. The "this" that happened on his watch was not, in my opinion, that there was a breach, but rather the shitstorm about how it was handled - this happened on his watch and he did not handle it well and that is what makes him a bad CEO in my opinion.

Things happening isn't necessarily an indicator that the person is bad, but how they deal with it (in this case, he didn't for many months!) is an indicator. That's not an impossible standard to reach.
Well I'm glad you cleared all this up for us!
> They could also look at how IQ changes over a lifespan

It doesn’t because it’s a bell curve. You literally can’t figure out your score until you already know the distribution.
There is the possibility of growing crops in Martian soil. [1] Nevertheless many agree with your conclusion that stations in deep space offer decisive advantages in their low-energy access to asteroid resources. [2]

Regardless of which path we take, the immediate technological prerequisite is the same: an economical way to send Earth payloads to space, i.e. a fully and rapidly reusable heavy-lift launch vehicle. That's what SpaceX is developing.

[1] https://phys.org/news/2016-06-dutch-crops-grown-mars-soil.ht...
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/O%27Neill_cylinder
This editorializing is both inappropriate and hyperbolic.

I'm not sure why this post seems fail merging automatically but the topic has been posted recently and received some attention.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15358586

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15360470
Possible in a G650ER

http://australianaviation.com.au/2014/05/gulfstream-offers-l...
Wow, thank you for that tip about Daniel Lismore!

I also really love Klaus Nomi's work too, of course.

While I was exploring Leigh Bowery's work on youtube, I ran across VJ ladypat, who made a mesmerizing video to Leigh Bowery's charming lullaby "Useless Man" (N-fucking-SFW!!!):

A RMX BY ADAM SKY OF THE SEMINAL MINTY / LEIGH BOWERY TRACK 'USELESS MAN'. VIDEO BY LADYPAT. 2005:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MfC5OtT-Dzc

Ladypat also did some other beautiful videos with feedback and cellular automata effects that I like, for a beloved eccentric local celebrity in Brighton named Boogaloo Stu, who's quite a unique character himself:

Boogaloo Stu "Bazooka":
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FBDZ-KZsAzo

Boogaloo Stu "Magic Soul":
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wmEs1PTPNVk

Puppet Paramour and Sock Puppet Side Show - Boogaloo Stu, Dip Your Toe - Brighton Fringe 2012:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=by-GH0J4ZV8
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>I beg your pardon, but since Linux is increasingly used nowadays in quite resource constrained embedded devices, MB definitely does matter.

How are those relevant in our context?

Most of those "constrained embedded devices" (from smartphones to IoT and set top boxes) don't run terminals and editors anyway. And those that do belong to a niche, and those people can install whatever they want, be it nano, micro or whatever fits.

If you're concerned about the programmers of those "constrained embedded devices", that might want to ssh and edit something on them, then those programmers don't use nano anyway, so this doesn't concern them either.
I just finished reading the book The Circle[1] by (Dave Eggers) with my wife, which is about just that, making it illegal not to use social media. Though some of the characters were less intelligent than I am, and thus seemed unbelievable to me (a problem I have with real people too), I recommend the book.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Circle_(Eggers_novel)
That's really on spot but maybe it won't be your case.
Many people don't like accelerations. Braking and turning a car a little harder than usual is much less that 1 g but some people don't feel comfortable with it, even when there is no danger. Remember motion sickness and the puke bags on planes. Lifting off with a rocket is always going to be higher g than with a plane. Furthermore it's probably going to require some amount of fitness. Too young or too old: fly on a plane. In the middle: it depends.
It didn't shut down because the passengers were too privileged nor because it was too polluting. What's next to go? Ferrari and Rolls Royce hit all your criteria for a transport failure too.
One of the great tricks to learn when making decisions is that if it's taking too long to choose then the difference between the choices must be small enough to practically not matter. Make a choice, Any choice. Flip a coin if it helps.
Which is deeply disturbing - I really don't use FB, Twitter, Instagram, etc.

By virtue of my choice of parents and their choice of locale when I was born, this particular bit of tyranny (I use that word advisedly) won't hit me, but when every other country on earth follows suit...

Waiting for the services to pop up selling fake social accounts as cover for the Officially Socially Atypical types.
The VW logo above "BMW"...
I participated in writing a money transfer service. There's a number of steps, and the actual transfer is just one of them. There can be multiple identity verification checks, and bank authorizations. Each bank has their own internal API, etc. Sometimes their API is just randomly down, if it is some terrible foreign bank.

I know for a fact that Bitcoin's transaction time is not "real time," so why would Ripple's be?
Obviously the MB don't matter in this case and for the target audience of the editor, not in general and in every context.
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Finding missing non-null constraints
> Go back to watching Sponge Bob or Family Guy or whatever crap you watch with your kids.

"Go complain about it on the internet."
You're right that we could collectively define new laws and rules. But what would they be?

Their are downsides to investment banks being private partnerships. On the other hand, I've talked with execs that wish the banks hadn't gone public. Yet they had strong incentives to go public.
Immigration visa is for those that seek permanent residence, while visitor visas are nonimmigrant visas?

Each time I see this news, the distiction isn't made clear if this is intended to be for everyone visiting the country, or part of the process when a person is seeking permanent residence.

cr1895: Thanks!
>most engineers simply don't take that initiative, and many of the ones that do are thinking of features for resume driven development more than for the company's health.

There's no money in caring about the company long term. Increase in salary for an engineer comes in changing jobs, not internal promotion (which, for places where this is even a concept, is usually constrained by some arbitrary limit, where as job change depends on your negotiation skills and resume). We're optimising for what is successful.

>They're too busy arguing about whether Rust is our savior or how dumb blub programmers are, etc.

I know there are lame fan boys, but many of us are actually value focused and realize that a more powerful language is cheaper across the entire product life cycle. Having said that, I wouldn't feel too bad about using even Java these days because they've added enough stuff to lessen the impact of how awful the language is, that it probably doesn't make much of a difference. But you can't say that about every language, some languages are just too expensive time-wise to make sense in any setting.
Buy a new keyboard?
Maybe 50 should be the upper bound. I'm in my fifties and have never had any sort of social media account. Many of my high school and college classmates are similarly situated. None of the major social media platforms were founded before I was in my mid-forties, which is why there was never any incentive to start any accounts.

I enjoy getting older. It spares me a lot of drama.
Well if you are not attempting to stay here then (if I understand this correctly) you will not need to release your social media information.
Exactly. This is a step (or more likely - leap) towards the bizarre future portrayed in Black Mirror episode "Nosedive".

0. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nosedive
This is not necessarily a new problem. College students for years have been warned about employers digging through social media. This led to the rise of apps like Snapchat & more privacy controls with who you share your social data with.

I've been asked by public figures & businesses how to help clear their name after being involved in several negative news stories. My advice has always been to generate as many positive news stories and website posts as you can so that your negative ones are buried & hard to find.

I would imagine both of these tactics will continue to increase.
Not sure how it could actually go that far. Some people just don't have social media accounts, you can't ban people entry for that. If that does happen, there's no way it's gonna stay legal and the simplest solution is a boycott of social media.
The longevity gap
Yeah, I was drawn in pretty much immediately. I was only able to catch the first 3 episodes while waiting for a flight in Taiwan (they seem to have the same Netflix library as the States, whereas here in Canada, the Expanse is unavailable), but I found it mesmerising.