skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've seen a couple of suggestions for ways we could theoretically catch it. One is high-Isp rocket motors, which I think would have to be nuclear-thermal like NERVA. If we had one of those already lying around, it might be possible to catch up.

The other possibility I've seen discussed are extremely lightweight probes — chip-scale probes weighing less than a gram — accelerated by zillion-gigawatt laser arrays on Earth (or maybe in low Earth orbit). Since those probes don't have to carry their own fuel, they can reach much higher speeds, a sizable fraction of the speed of light, and could catch up to 'Oumuamua even if it took us a few years to develop the technology.

Neither of those are technologies we have (though we did build and test some NERVA prototypes back in the day) but they are things that we, as a civilization, could plausibly develop.
STOP. Nothing is going to change. 99% of the people using the internet have no idea how it works.
There's also the fact that it seems to be doing a swing-by on the Sun. To pass fairly close to the Earth. But of course, that's why we detected it. Perhaps that are many that we don't detect. Maybe some very fast ones from Sagittarius A* ;)
It's a point of view. To some coding all day is a hellscape, to others managing a network, to others managing a business. I don't think we have to worry about people flocking to the countryside, especially with technology like LED grow lights which were not possible 4 years ago and other technologies which make it possible, maybe even efficient, to run a small garden in an apartment.

Check this article out, it touches on how efficient farming can be, and I think it could be applied in a smaller scale.

https://www.nationalgeographic.com/magazine/2017/09/holland-...
I got a sense of a sort of extremely dry, British humour, with a hint of self-deprecation, from it. Which I thoroughly enjoyed.
In the city as a whole, sure, but I'm not usually willing to travel very far to get a sandwich.
These guys claim to make 6 figures on 1.5 acres: https://modernfarmer.com/2016/10/jm-fortier/
You can know it, but you've to actually evaluate the index lookups first, so ...?
Indian scientist at MIT creates wearable sensor to stop rape
Well yeah- the truism that a hobby turned into a livelihood makes it less fun applies to everything. Coders talk about it all of the time.
Neither iOS nor Android are over 90% marketshare, as Windows was at the time of the anti-trust bundling case.
> But that is Mozilla's problem, not their users'.

Sure, I'm just telling you how we arrived at the current situation and why your proposed alternative is a nonstarter for an experiment that tries to figure out if this feature adds user value in the first place.
When I saw the demo decades ago I was also totally amazed by it. And only 4k. I reverse engineered it with the Turbo Debugger under DOS. Found that most of the code was repetitive to prevent a slow loop construct. So it would have fitted easily into a 1k executable .
Any role for Pilot Wave Theory here?

https://www.quantamagazine.org/pilot-wave-theory-gains-exper...

> An experiment claims to have invalidated a decades-old criticism against pilot-wave theory, an alternative formulation of quantum mechanics that avoids the most baffling features of the subatomic universe.
It will not store "your browsing history". It will store the webpages that you've browsed to, without identifying information about you associated with it and the entries will be intermixed with all other users' browsing history entries, so it's not going to be possible to identify you.
I totally believe that they could attract a few extremely technically savvy people, but not enough of them quickly enough to be more than insignificant. I mention "quickly" because if it turns out to be a significant attraction, Chrome could just implement it.
It seems better to just have an actually progressive tax system. Effective tax rates on the rich are really low in the US right now. If there is an income limit there really is no incentive to make any more money so a progressive tax will probably give you a lot more taxes.
I’m an Extension student and have TF’ed for three classes. I think you get a lot of value for the full course instead of the MOOC. Grading, feedback, ability to ask questions, work on a team all significantly enhance the learning process. I haven’t had a single Extension class which did not provide all the access to professor I could ever need. Plus employers look at the credit with more certainty than a MOOC since there is independent proof that you have completed the material. YMMV, clearly.
The word "duty" is a clue here, and the word "result" is misunderstood. It is asking you to do what must be done, but to be modest in what you expect as return.

It is rather close to the definition of integrity: To do the right thing, even when nobody's looking.
— I often hear people say they “can’t be hypnotized” because they tried it once and nothing happened. In my experience – which happens to match what I learned in hypnosis class – an experienced hypnotist can hypnotize anyone, so long as the subject is willing. Where the confusion comes in is that only about 20% of the public can experience what hypnotists sometimes call “the phenomena.” The phenomena describes any situation in which the subject experiences a full-blown illusion, such as seeing something that isn’t there, or feeling something that isn’t real.

http://blog.dilbert.com/2017/11/06/win-bigly-bonus-chapter/#...
3.9 MB and 300 requests to 28 different domains when visiting this website. It's a really good page but I wish they would cut down a bit on the advertising and tracking, especially since they try to block anyone with adblock from viewing the page.
Eich did not have his rights impinged on. He chose to resign--he chose that--because the community far beyond Mozilla didn't approve of his donations and he saw that he'd lost a lot of people's trust in him. His actions had consequences, which he recognized and owned.

He has, presumably, gone on to find other work, after resigning, he still has a platform, he can still talk and associate freely.

You can dislike the fact that he resigned, but blaming anyone for his actions but him doesn't make sense.
Consider that your perception of reality is just that. What your brain tells you and what is really there are not necessarily the same thing. There was another excellent article on QuantaMagazine arguing that there's even an evolutionary imperative that would drive our brains to beneficially misrepresent reality: https://www.quantamagazine.org/the-evolutionary-argument-aga... That article is a bit of another very interesting tangent.

The point is that reality is little more than what you experience. All that simulating a reality requires is that an individual's experiences are able to be constrained to within the controlled ream. Take a child, 'disable' all senses except sight - and install permanent VR goggles. That child, lacking outside interference, will believe in a reality that is not really real. Should it develop the cognition to wonder it will likely do as we do. Why do large bodies attract one another? We can explain the operation of this through perhaps the curvature of spacetime, but that then again one can ask then why is there spacetime? At some level the answer simply ends up being that because that is the way it is - a inherent facet of our universe.
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I can't upvote this enough. There are aspects of agribusiness that are great (built in gym, outdoors, teaching work ethic to children, etc.) but there are other aspects like all the "vendors" you work with (seed supplier, livestock feed supplier, equipment companies, etc.) all sell to you (the farmer) at retail prices but you ALWAYS sell at wholesale. They set their prices to the market, you take what the market gives you. Unless you can be Cargil or ADM, prepare to scrape by.
Yes, lots of ways:

For example, in Minecraft you can build a redstone interferometer to detect things about the computer you're executing on and over time the statistical behavior will detect the physics of the real system.

A character in Minecraft could build a cosmic ray detector, for instance.

So yes, absolutely -- my expectation is that any intelligent structure in a computational "bubble" will be able to detect that it's in a bubble managed by some outside system.

Is your argument entirely from lack of imagination in how it could be done?
Rewarding negative results keeps science on track
I've been wondering about buying electric kick scooter for some time now. Bikes can be dangerous where there is no separate infrastructure for them, but scooter you can drive on sidewalk in places that are almost void of pedestrians (this is my case). It's also way easier to take with in store or office. Pity there is no "rent for day" just to try it out.

I'd love to switch my car for electric, but that is still expensive.
Hey HN,

Librarian is a Chrome Extension that allows anyone to comment on any arXiv paper as well as get the Bibtex of the paper and links to its references. The place where a lot of scientists post their most recent findings before publishing on Journals should also be a place where open discussions around papers take place. Papers are usually dense and hard to read and there's so much information that can be added to a paper to make it more accessible: further explanations, data, presentations, videos, code etc. We think this is an important step towards open science and public collaboration/discussion about papers.

We wrote a blogpost about what led us to build this: https://medium.com/@fermatslibrary/comments-on-arxiv-papers-...
All of the comments on MAS are real user comments, read a few. I don't care if you are ignorant, but ignorant and rude makes dangerous combination.
It would have to be opt-in or the user would have to be clearly informed, if it actually collected personally identifiable information. That's German law. But it doesn't.
The maker of Pokémon Go just raised $200M to build other AR games
While I would personally prefer FreeNAS (or just to roll my own), remember that you're supposed to be planning for the next person in your position. Sometimes a commercial appliance really is the best way to go. If you do roll your own or set up FreeNAS you need to build lots of docs and make sure they're stored somewhere the next guy will find them.

Ultimately it depends on the company, it's just a compromise I have had to make before so I thought it worth mentioning.
> If there is an income limit there really is no incentive to make any more money

Yeah, but for long people were convinced that UBI does not stimulate people to work, but that is just not how it works (experiments show). If the incentive is there at the lower end, why not at the higher end? Why don't we run that experiment as well?

We might find out that if somebody is focused only on money, he or she does not make a good CEO. So the impact may be even better than just a financial one.
I tried out a Specialized ebike. The maximum assist setting was a little frightening. The medium was like cycling with a tailwind, which is always fun.
Where do you shop for things? Direct business websites, or only physical stores?
You can ask questions to the authors of this paper here: https://fermatslibrary.com/arxiv_comments?url=https%3A%2F%2F...
What Was the Strange Noise in Colorado?
Who can say what was going on in the inner world of this hypothetical second-hand story person's mind?

All we know is she took a job and then took a better one.

You're claiming that's an unethical act, and I'm saying, "it's the free market, baby!" They pushed for at-will, they got it, consequences and all.

And, more broadly, I grew up in the transitionary period from "one job for life" to "throw 'em to the wolves," and I have absolutely zero sympathy for employers, in this world their policies have wrought.
It could be but what collision would output a fragment of this size and shape? Maybe a supermassive one between two large planets
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> Is this not precisely the opposite of mass media?

Under all existing or existed communist government mass media brings The Truth, the government's interpretation of events. If you live here you should know this interpretation, or you risk to show political illiteracy and to be critisized for that. It can damage your career, or you will be forced to attend to courses of political literacy, or both. I believe it didn't work for blue collars, they had more freedom in this sense, but for white collar political illiteracy was a real threat. It was like now in USA with microagression of white males (as I see it from other side of ocean): if you catched on some sort aggression at female, you could be fired and get a "wolf ticket" (in short, it is markings in papers that does not allow to find white collar job), or attend to some sort of training, bring public apoligies, and so on.

> Nowadays, as I am sure you know, the contradiction and control is hidden not in the sentence...

Are you trying to persuade me that USSR was not as bad as it seems from USA? I know that. And USA is not as bad as it seemed from USSR. But I have no intentions to discuss it here. It is a contraversial topic, and it is like swamp: you step there and cannot get out of it. Moreover I see no point in discussing: there is no USSR now. Was it bad, or not so bad -- it does not matter now.

> I don't know where you're getting the idea that I'm in favour of rewriting the past from.

Not you, but all communist states I know about.
It depends... I have no doubts that cryptocurrency will be around in 15 years. But Bitcoin? I am not so sure.
Valuing "public education" means you don't value education per se, but you value the part that maintains your party a voting base of education unions and bureaucrats.

Moving my kids from public school to a charter was the second best thing we ever did for them. The difference in the quality of their education was immense.

Breaking public school unions would be the best thing we could do for public schools. There is ZERO justification for tenure at the school teacher level.
What makes you say that it isn't profitable? The US has the largest GDP of any country by a large margin. Even the entire (pre-Brexit) EU combined is about 10% smaller.
Solve this puzzle, and never do another coding challenge during a job interview
My dad grew up on a farm and has no idea why someone would willingly do the same.
I am attempting to be constructive here and not insulting. We fundamentally agree, and your response just like a condescending adderal fueled tirade.
+1 TP by math teacher. Without him, I'd never have become a real programmer.
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Amazon won't have a hard time eventually generating $20+ billion in net income (assuming very low net income margins of 5%). AWS by itself will hit $10 billion in operating income in three to four years. That business accounts for at least half of Amazon's present market cap. If AWS were a stand-alone publicly traded company, it'd have at least a $250 billion market cap right now.

The market is clearly anticipating Amazon is going to get a lot larger yet. They're still growing at ~25% annually (minus Wholefoods), despite approaching $200 billion in sales. There's also no question that it's extremely richly valued here no matter what their growth is over the next five or so years.
The show Ben-To is based on seizing the moment when that discount happens.
> who knows how long those reviews might last.

One point in Goodreads's favor: they make it easy to export your entire library to a CSV which you can reprocess. (For example, I have a Haskell script which reads my Goodreads export and turns it into a Markdown table.) So even if they go down or start to disappear, people can get their reviews out.
How do you determine that that specific earthquake was directly caused by reinjection? Is it possible that reinjection is creating more frequent, smaller quakes, and avoiding stress buildup that would be released as a larger quake later? Do they get credit against the latter for the former? Is there an amount of earthquake insurance available commercially to cover "all restitution costs"?
> It is a great place to visit and a great place to be from. Not so much a great place to actually be.

I'll definitely echo this. I grew up on a farm / nature refuge in Australia. It's beautiful to go back to, but I could not live there again. My family hovers around the poverty line, work long, hard hours, and are completely at the mercy of the climate and other difficult to control external factors for their lively hood.

Combine this with the isolation, poor (or non-existent) community and education resources, complete void of cultural events and niche activities that require higher population densities. It's nowhere near as idyllic as most people make out.

I now live inner city. When it's nice weather I can drive an hour, go hiking, rock climbing or exploring. During day-to-day life I have everything I need within walking distance. I can live spontaneously. Myself and my partner are talking about children and I'm looking forward to raising them in a city where they can access whatever interests they like.

Once thing I will agree on though is: modern suburban life is a dystopic hellscape. It literally combines the worst of both lifestyles.
What coincidences? I have mine, a lifetimes worth, but there isn’t a framework for saying whether my experiences are somehow special and contrived by a higher intelligence, part of a simulated universe or something else, or just a misunderstood manifestation of some not yet discovered physical law. As far as I know, science doesn’t offer a technique to quantify what we experience as coincidence (beyond the trivial prayer for health example) in any way that evidentially supports the existence of a higher intelligence or design. We’ve replaced superstitions systematically with science, and this trend seems unlikely to change, although a merger of sorts seems an inevitable destination.

Experience is often personal and difficult to express using known human communication techniques, much less quantify scientifically. Heck, we can’t even agree on whether there is a hard problem. These explorations for new approaches to quantum physics simply give hope for further understanding of reality that we may have already considered (simulation theory, for instance) or others we have not. Fun to speculate, though, in the meantime.

As an aside, maybe religious folks are right, maybe MWI is true and heaven and hell exist in the multiverse. What’s possible in the mind can overwhelm to the point of shutdown given the right set of perceptions, and coincidence can certainly drive a person to insanity (or enlightenment) if crafted carefully enough. You can claim aliens contacted you, or that you have perceptions and experiences giving blindingly in-your-face obvious (to you) indication of some kind of contrived, controlled or influenced reality, but you’d better have science to back it up.
Travel where? Don't seek a chain (Greggs?!) - you'll be disappointed, just look up.
So happy with Firefox and the Open Web concept. I've completely switched and happy to stop using Google and Apple products. #openweb
As a free-market libertarian there is nothing worse that crony capitalism. And that's what happened here.

When the political leadership of my beloved former lunchtime basketball grounds of East Palo Alto tries to claim they didn't take the RV Park for the school, they immediately contradict themselves.

"She added that the flood-prone street would be rebuilt for the school, so the R.V.s would have had to move in any case."

And you known Chan-Zuckerman was behind it. Eminent domain should never be allowed to be used for one business, even a non-profit school, to take the property of another. It should only be used for the highest public purposes, and only with fair compensation.
Relatedly, with all the clang-based tooling like clang-tidy or clang-format, it's kind of disappointing that there isn't a tool to expand arbitrary macros in a source.

That would have been extremely useful when I was recently refactoring some old C code. I ended up writing a small script that can expand one macro at a time, but I wish I hadn't had to.

I'm sure that script doesn't work in the general case.
Also Subway is available in the UK anyway...
> But a pattern in the common usage is some functionality that needs to be communicated outside the core language.

What a truism. Programming languages exist to implement functionalities outside of the core language. So what? Does this mean that software projects aren't designed, and parts of the design may not be shared and integrated in other projects? Those working on software projects still need to discuss design issues, and it's easier and more efficient to assign names to recurring patterns. Those who don't understand this issue and opt to manifest their ignorance by criticizing the existence of patterns are simply fools who try to feign competence by ridiculing the consequences of their own ignorance.
Our computer systems are not good enough. (YouTube)
That's useful, but if you don't know until it arrives, it's hard to pick the right one.
Farmers markets are ripe with the same deception

https://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/09/24/deception-at-the-f...

http://www.tampabay.com/projects/2016/food/farm-to-fable/far...
You can use software to have social interaction with online courses though.
> when Amazon gets blamed for mass unemployment

That mass unemployment isn't going to happen. The US is going to have an immense labor shortgage over the next 20 years in fact, no matter what AI + robotics do. It's extremely simple math: low population growth (that will get worse) + modest immigration rate (that will get worse) + modest economic growth + large number of retiring workers = labor shortgage for decades to come.

Besides, Amazon is hiring hundreds of thousands of workers, while its chief labor competitor, Walmart, is simultaneously not slashing its 2.3 million employee base.
Why are you unable to distinguish it? It is not, a priori, impossible. It is entirely possible that there may be ways to determine if we are in a simulation, depending on how the simulation is done. No simulation is perfect, and it is theoretical feasible to find the imperfections.
Wonder if Hurtwood House knew the truth that he was second from the bottom or do they just take in anybody with money.
...the pay is terrible. I've barely gotten any retweets/karma/clicks in days.
>For example, in Minecraft you can build a redstone interferometer to detect things about the computer you're executing on and over time the statistical behavior will detect the physics of the real system.

Only because minecraft does a lot of things to save from doing extra work, like unloading chunks or skipping frames if it's under load. If you remove those optimizations (and add some error-correcting ram or a redundant process to double-check calculations to protect from cosmic-ray-induced errors), then it's easy to make a minecraft-like game that's deterministic across platforms and doesn't reveal details about whatever platform it's on.

Take something like Ethereum's blockchain: it's not possible for an executable turing-complete contract to know what type of computer it's executing on, because the VM is strictly specified, and if there were any flaws that accidentally revealed information from the environment, then every nearly every node in the Ethereum p2p swarm would get different results and the blockchain would fork ridiculously and practically halt as all nodes desynchronized from each other until people updated the software to fix that bug.