skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Early airlines were regulated but not to the point where it was basically in a gridlock. This was one of the issues with NASA, they became so risk averse because of the impact it had on their budget.
That's the difference between an acronym & an initialism. An acronym is pronounced as a word, but an initialism is just the letters (usually because it cannot be pronounced).
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Quite the opposite!

> According to a visualization of MOOC completion rates assembled by Katy Jordan (2013), the 50 investigated MOOCs have generated 50.000 enrollments on average, with the typical completion rate hovering below 10%. Put it somewhere around 7.5%, or 3.700 completions per 50.000 enrollments. Meyer (2012) reported that the dropout rates of MOOCs offered by Stanford, MIT and UC Berkley were 80-95%.
For example, only 7% of the 50.000 students completed who took the Coursera-UC-Berkeley course in Software Engineering. There is a similar reported dropout rate in Coursera’s Social Network Analysis class where only 2% of participants earned a basic certificate and 0.17% earned the higher level programming with distinction certificate.

MOOCs are not the solution.

Matter of fact, MOOCs turned out to be the counterfactual that clearly illustrate the depth of problems we have with education - and more importantly re-training.

MOOCs are in so many ways ideal. When Khan academy lectures were first made available online, I had huge hopes for the future of education and therefore humanity.

Education/re-training is a critical lynch pin of the modern model of economic development.

Innovation -> job loss -> retraining -> people return to well paying jobs.

But it turns out, that this was not happening, and that education and training is a lot harder than anticipated.

MOOCs had it all - convenience (always on the net), not time constrained (you can read/watch classes whenever), accessible (taught by the good teachers), high quality (same teacher, able to use visual and other aids) and self-selected by people who wanted to finish the course.

They should have been a massive success.

The self-selected, interested student part should alone, have resulted in large numbers of newly trained students.

It hasn't. Which meant the importance of those factors in educational results was overstated.

This also means, that our current education system, may well be the better state of the art option we have.

OR worse, a large chunk of humanity may not be able to transition to new subjects, and therefore new roles.

This is a huge bloody problem, because that means if coal miners lose jobs, the economy will stall.

This in turn puts huge political pressure to avoid following economics, and instead fight for protectionism, which also doesn't work.

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Side note/silver lining: Perhaps the intransingence of education is a good thing.

If it becomes easier to teach a person how to learn X details, perhaps it can become a lot easier to also indoctrinate a person in Y religion, or belief.

In the end, a technique which has a high success rate in teaching students X subject, could easily be used to teach any subject.

The difficulty in teaching people could well be a natural impediment to mass scale conversion, or invasion of ideas/propaganda.
> What country is that?

The Netherlands.

That 0.5% is mostly on the borders where there is possibility of interference with networks in the neighbouring country. The problem is also being fixed after a bit of national outrage over the fact that people can't reach emergency services in that 0.5% and the operators had to make promises to quickly cover that last bit too.
You can in any way disable automatic downloads and only see what you actually wish.
Completely off-topic but you sure don't want to work for free (hint: the problem with that has nothing to do with the money)
I love that their acronym is ASIC.
Do you know Elon Musk? He absolutely builds and designs. He is CEO and Chief Engineer at SpaceX and that is not just a title.

He knows more about the rocket then probably anybody else.

He said that he spends about 80% of his SpaceX time as and engineer.
Their soyoustart.com server range is also worth checking out. More powerful servers than Kimsufi. Price/value is extremely good as long as you don't mind managing your own server. A dedicated machine with 16GB ram and 1-2TB HDD will cost you $25-30/month.
The Expanse?
I wish the government gave them tens of billions of dollars instead of the military. Even NASA's progress is laughable compared to SpaceX, and NASA gets $18 billion a year.
It's not for your benefit - you are Google's product, and only they get to milk their own cows.
For E2E routes, the rocket doesn't have to be given as much kinetic energy - it doesn't have to escape Earth's gravity well.
I'd agree in theory. But if you're a good engineer in some tech hub like SF or London then finding new contracts will be very easy so it might be worth it in that case.
My investment horizon is a bit more than 530 days.
The English word you want is not stutter, but stumble. Stutter (or stammer) is a medical condition, stumbling over words is the result of a poor quality education.
13MB only ? how come
DNSSEC has a CA-like trust model.

It's only a route to the same thing, but with weaker crypto, no Certificate Transparency, and no ability to distrust bad actors (distrusting Symantec's Verisign CA is feasible, but dropping Verisign's `.com` is not).
mmh, interesting, but maybe Musk should see further to a way to travel (uncomfortably) for leisure. The idea can be designed with more important objectives in mind.

Maybe like a sort of eyectable-seat ships for people working in (and living around) nuclear power plants, or small islands under the influence of an active vulcano, or a way to evacuate almost inmediately in case of a missile attack. You can be more prone to forgive some discomfort or even pain if the other alternative is worse.
Punching through the atmosphere layer at speeds that are economical when every two extra minutes spent there waste more than one km/s of precious delta-v make every storm look tame. But solving the control problem for the "suicide burn" landing? I would not be so sure about that.
That doesn't explain why OVH can offer servers in Canada for about the same price (via soyoustart.com or OVH). Electricity in Quebec is cheap but parts of the US are similar (OR, WA). Perhaps many US companies don't trust European providers so that they have to win on price?
He makes aggressive time lines in everything, I don't think this is any special. The same happens for all other products across Tesla and SpaceX.
This could be a useful way of exposing your local dev (or ci) server for testing via third parties. Seeing how Argo will be required it is likely not for all users.
I'm outside of wifi coverage for maybe 30 minutes a day, on my bike ride to/from work and a visit to the supermarket. 3G/4G coverage is practically 100% (actually 99.5%), only when you get close to the national borders there are some white spots because they aren't allowed to broadcast too far over the border and interfere with networks in Germany or Belgium.

There actually was a bit of outrage over that last 0.5% a while back due to emergency services not being reachable in those areas and the mobile operators had to make promises to cover those areas as well. So yeah, coverage is pretty much total.
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How could it be a pointer comparison? It's checking that the string has a prefix, not that the strings are equal.
Mentioned at the end of the video is the [Magit kickstarter](https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1681258897/its-magit-th...) which is ending soon! Magit is a great piece of productivity improving software so please help make it even better.
And yet Jews, Christians and Muslims all define themselves based on millenia-old folklore collections.
Most of the new offerings are tokens. A whitepaper will list the benefits to the user, usually a % of profits of some new product that the team will bring to the market. So they are acting as company shares.

I'm not trying to justify this and I don't buy them myself, but I am watching teams raise serious amounts of cash.

To me this seems an easier way to raise cash than going to a bunch of VC's becuase with the ICO craze the due diligince is negligable.
One application that would be awesome with NN is instrument separation.

That way one could build much better music visualizations programs, and also be a little more creative. I know I have some ideas if I could do it...
https://gmelius.com seems to block email trackers in Gmail.
> "If you unentangle the first example the author gives, she wants to give a task to the man, without explaining how to do it, and then complains that they don't do it properly."

This is where you're wrong. The wife makes it very clear to the husband how she wants the job done. This is clear because the husband reluctantly acquiesces to her request before deciding to go with a different approach. Once you accept that the wife's instructions were clear, the rest of your argument falls down.
Yeah a typo. I'm slightly sick and wasn't quite awake at the time.

I filled an issue regarding that but the maintainer seems absent.
If that's true, the target of your blame should be the weak candidates who flooded Github with junk repos. And/or whichever journo or blogger started telling those people that "having a Github" was a shortcut through the hiring process.
> Funk de-emphasises melody in favor of rhythm. Melody calls for "active" listening.

I disagree with the assessment that if melody calls for active listening that rhythm somehow does not. It really depends on the listener and what they value.

There was a time when I might have agreed with you. That was before I learned to play drums.
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That's fine, but then you get a normal salary.

If you claim you are responsible for the performance of the company, that goes both ways. You can't claim responsibility ONLY when things go well (and rake in large amounts of cash) and then when things go to shit suddenly act like you had nothing to do with it.
Why? For simple queries with medium load, SSD is not necessary at all. Esp if you don't do much writing and reading at the same time. HDD is still 5-10x cheaper.
Well, New York City probably will be largely underwater in 150 years anyways, but not because of the BFRs. SpaceX plans to synthesize the fuel by using water, solar power and captured carbon dioxide from the earths athmosphere - just like it will be done on mars.
I suppose I'll be the one to post the canonical recap of this concept:

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=YwZ0ZUy7P3E
Oh yes they do. They might have 240,000 miles on them, but poor people, like myself, have/need a vechicle.

And poor people work on their own vechicles.

If you do all the repairs on a vechicle, and don't have high insurance; driving a older vechicle is cost efficient, and a necessity for many poor people.

I cringe when I hear about more gas taxes. Tax people on Income.
How many hours early should we arrive to the launch pad? Are laptops allowed?
Isn't that main goal of Chain Link?

https://link.smartcontract.com
The NASA budget is already pretty large compared to the rest of the world, the problem is just that NASA has devolved into very inefficient organisation that is in a political lock. They could do a huge amount with $18 billion, but a lot of it is bound up in pork projects.

The successful projects are usually not the expensive once. Compare the cost of Commercial Cargo (1&2) and Commercial Crew to SLS/Orion is truly eye opening.
They could let Shotwell do some of these talks. She's a much better speaker. One of my favorite Shotwell lines was when congress asked how they can be so much cheaper than the competition. She responded "I don't know how to build a 400 million dollar rocket".
Not terribly impressed. I have been working on a 148MiB HTML file the last couple of days, and opening it with textadept was quick enough but it basically hangs when scrolling around.

Notepad++ handles it without any major problems. VS Code almost does, sometimes it has crashed on closing a tab with the file open. Emacs I should not even try... (Wow: spacemacs asked me to "open literally" and the performance is really good! Nice!)
tl;dr: you still need a phone number, which you need to keep control of.
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Can't terminals capture mouse clicks? Does it work over SSH?

I know it's the main feature that bothers me.

I also wonder if you can have all highlighting features an editor like ST3 has.
In (US) English it's "general contractor".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_contractor
This is of course pretty pointless, I mean it's neat but all these tiny containers don't really do anything so it isn't much more than a cool trick.

However there is a great lesson to take from this: you can create single-binary but really useful containers for just a few MBs, which is nothing in practice for a usual sized server, an a lot more lightweight than usual containers based off Alpine or Ubuntu.

In fact I run my static websites using that: a small 8-ish MB statically compiled web server "written" (it's really just library glue) in Go.
Wow, this looks like a huge change to the language. Reminds me of macros done well though.
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You don’t have to be an advocate for eugenics to notice a trend.

Everybody these days is a eugenicist in that they all support the idea of helping pregnant women give birth to health children by ensuring they are well nourished and given good medical support. The section of 20th C. eugenics that is controversial is the part that suggests that one section of society should have more or less children.
Wearing my Bose QC25 and still hearing my colleagues talking - I would really like to have ANC that filters out speech.
This is why I still love and use mutt (NeoMutt, technically) even after all these years.

I occasionally do fire up Thunderbird but only for those extremely rare cases where I actually do need to be able to read an HTML e-mail.
'being useful' is too vague.

You could be really useful to a really shitty employer and yet be a net negative on society.
I gave my first presentation tonight on React Workflows
God I hope not. Blizzard sucks balls at making coherent story.
> "There is no "the goal"."

Nope, there is a clear goal. The author made it clear that a clean house was "a bonus". What do you think that suggests about what the main goal was?
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Tumblr? What would be your choice of platform?
Methane + oxygen (methalox).
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https://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/sql-server+linux

Why can't you get support on Stack Overflow?
No, they're given some of their society's money, since they're a member of that society. That money doesn't belong to any individual, it belongs to society as a whole.
How wisdom and smarts are each are measured are different, which could explain the apparent paradox.
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Do you put the static content into the container?
It would be great to have a good open source noise supressing tool in VST format. The leading software solutions are fairly expensive, e.g. Izotope RX. Only Accusonus Era-N is kind of affordable, but at the price of not beeing tweakable at all.

By the way, good noise suppression hardware is also comparatively expensive, see for example the Cedar DNS 2 [1]. There could be some business opportunities in that area.

[1] https://www.cedar-audio.com/products/dns2/dns2.shtml
Against a dark background could make a good series - you could expand it to say 13 1 hour episodes.
I think being wise and being intelligent are different qualities.
You might solve a puzzle in shorter time if you're intelligent, or remember more things. But if you're wise you will spend your energy to solve the right puzzle and remember the right things.
There is a reason Idiocracy has been described as a documentary :)
Thanks for remark. I explained the reason for my emotions down in the following comments.
Yeah I'm really interested to see the g-forces involved in one of those flights, I can't imagine it's a gentle take-off and landing.
>>The same just isn't true of product development

This statement is laughable. In almost 99% of the companies out there 'product development' is simple a placeholder to describe people who look at the results of A/B testing and say which design to go with. You could supplant a child in their position and it would barely make a difference in any value created.

Product development is the place where MBAs go to retire and for all practical purposes add 0 value to anything real. Mostly its UI designers who suggest ideas. Engineers implement them, a data analysis team crunches data and finally presents it in a pie chart. All the so called product manager does is look at which parts occupy a bigger chunk and make a yes or no decision.
The tbdb database https://www.thetvdb.com/ has an open API.
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I shudder to think what happens in 20 more years, when the last potato peelers are gone :-/ The movie "Idiocracy" inevitably comes to mind [1] :(

However I do think it's something more than just the burden or unburden of our new technology. Logical thinking should be an universal trait, no matter what the environment is like.

However one thing which is eating into that equation, is logical thinking is almost never promoted in modern education. Even in a declining IQ environment, promoting and teaching logical thinking would reverse a lot of the seeming "stupidity" in our society.

But I still do think there is something more going on. It's not just (lack of) education.

[1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kAqIJZeeXEc
there sure is. but the marketplaces are so slow and fragile it's essentially impossible (aka too indeterministic/risky)
He addressed this. You can make methane from CO2 and water, so it can be carbon-neutral.
What if you have millions of unlaundered cash that you have no idea what to do with?
Yeah, but they are mentioning aging. Do you mean that the older men having children is reducing IQ of future generations?
So? I would just be the first episode. You don’t do the whole book in an hour.
For teaching a noob how to edit in commandline nano is always a go to for me. I often use vim if I want to show someone some code and don't want to look like a idiot fumbling for a mouse. If I'm on a long stretch of programming I prefer sublime for awesome multicursor functionality and prettier text than a terminal. Haven't tried this micro but if the config is easier to learn than the rest then that's a obvious plus.
A string check for an error type in a typed language is a shortcut/laziness really. There's more complex ways (which are less elegant) to typecast the error type into a "concrete" type and figure out if it's really the issue you are looking for.

In Go error is an interface type that is expected to implement the `Error() string {}` method. That makes it quite trivial to implement a ErrFunctionDoesNotExist type which wraps the native "error" types returned by the lower down functions, and compare against it with a type assertion.

Doing this a lot gets really old, however so maybe the author took a shortcut. If that's the case, at least it's greppable.

For what it's worth there's a technique in use throughout the Go stdlib which embues the `error` type with extra methods which allows you to check the specific fault with a url.Parse9), for example https://golang.org/pkg/net/url/#Error
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Emacs is a fast, minimalist, and extensible cross-platform text editor.
Just to add a small anecdote, I have no involvement on the design side of the house but there isn't a rocket that leaves Hawthorne without touching my hands at some point, and I've always been impressed with Musk and some of the other more senior engineers, Tom Mueller deserves to be called out in particular, for how much they know about the low level technical things that go on here. I'm very, very, very low on the hierarchy here but I've escalated things to Musk and other VP's in the past when I felt it was necessary and they always took the time to respond to me.

Also, and this was particularly true when we where in much more cramped quarters on the production side, I would run in Musk on occasion in my area and he knew way more about the intricacies of my work, and the equipment I was using, or complaining about, than I would have assumed considering all the things he's responsible for.
In this case the two stories are complementary not contradictory given the young populations are not drawn 1:1 from the old population.
Thank you, I edited my original comment.
Interesting (to me and hopefully to others!) Side note, this is why eve-online added the option to bot autoload images in the forum.

As eve-online has a shit ton of spies(and some people take this game very seriously) a large alliance was using self hosted images and logging ips that we're viewing those images. Through matching posts they were able to scout out alternate accounts and catch spies.

That's how we all heard about it at the time anyway, while technically fesable, I don't have first hand knowledge either way.

Although it did make me start to think about those emails with images and convinced me to turn them off by default ;-)
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Basically any existing TV show or movie can already be considered part of Culture verse. Take any character and imagine it works for Contact.
... controlling for income distribution?
Kedit, the text editor of John McPhee
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XEDIT

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/09/28/magazine/the-mind-of-john-mcphee.html

> McPhee sat down at his computer and clicked around. Green text appeared on a black screen. That was all: green text. No icons, rulers, or scrollbars.

> McPhee began to type in command lines.

x coded.*

dir coded.*

x coded-10.tff

x coded-16.tff

> Up came portions of his book “The Founding Fish.” He typed in further commands, and hunks of green text went blinking around: a complete inventory of his published articles; his 1990 book, “Looking for a Ship.”

> I felt as if I were in a computer museum, watching the curator take his favorite oddity for a spin. McPhee has never used a traditional word processor in his life. He is one of the world’s few remaining users of a program called Kedit, which he writes about, at great length, in “Draft No. 4.” Kedit was created in the 1980s and then tailored, by a friendly Princeton programmer, to fit McPhee’s elaborate writing process.
Looking at the Sublime Text 3 documentation [1], I see very little functional difference to Pygments. In fact, they seem remarkably similar. Pygments models a state machine via regex matching and actions, including pushing/popping state, sub-lexers, and so on.

What is the "richer highlighting and semantic information" to which you refer?

[1] https://www.sublimetext.com/docs/3/syntax.html
If I have to believe Elon, the fuel for the BFR is 'incredibly cheap' to produce. And the concorde flew over land and cities, a rocket goes straight up (for the first part) so noise problems should be acceptable.
How do we measure wisdom? Is there a "WQ test"?
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