skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
How do you know when you hit the peak, though? I remember thinking we'd hit peak mobile phone with Nokia and Motorola putting out slightly-smaller devices each year. Then the iPhone came along.
I have a robot vacuum, but: it doesn't do corners. It doesn't do steps. It doesn't get along with cats. It's orders of magnitude less effective than a human vacuum pilot. Yet this is also a problem that's orders of magnitude easier to solve, yes?
On the flip side, very few people die while mowing the lawn or unloading the dishwasher. If you mow the lawn poorly, you'll be fine. If you unload the dishwasher while drunk, there's no risk of killing a family.

I know enough people that drive terribly to see the obvious benefits to autonomous driving. It doesn't need to be perfect to have a net-positive effect on road safety, it just needs to be better than a human on average. And based on the evidence, it seems they're doing a damn good job of achieving that goal.
There are commercial operations under Part 91, and they require a commercial license. Air tours and corporate flying where the airplane is owned by the company are in there, for example. I've done them both.
Except that tapjets seems to work like Uber and Airbnb now, so they don't fly anything.
The "classic" boards (9 by 9) are all easily solved by straightforward methods. Maybe "trivial" is a step too for for the 'eliminate' and 'search' functions here, but they aren't a lot of code either:

http://norvig.com/sudoku.html
Please use desktop (not mobile) links here, e.g.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1491:_New_Revelations_of_the_A...
> It seems like TapJats is attempting to use "private flights" to skirt commercial flight regulations...

Are you saying that it seems this way for their test flights? Or for their flights for paying customers?
"Doing things you don't want to know about"
"A new scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents and making them see the light, but rather because its opponents eventually die, and a new generation grows up that is familiar with it."
- Max Planck

Imagine stubborn, immortal scientific/economic/government/etc. leaders.
I'm not sure why this link is to an archive of an ancient Geocities site, given that there are a number of copies of this around. Here's the text (although the image link is broken):

https://everything2.com/title/Apollo+13+towing+bill

The only thing i didn't understand was the "modified American plan", which apparently means they only got two meals a day:

http://www.happy-journey.com/demystifying-hotel-plans-ap-vs-...
what other kind of property can't you buy with credit cards...
no..."Compensation" according to the FAA is frighteningly broad.

Example. Compensation can be interpreted as "the prospect of a return favor".

like a stick of gum.
>It actually does make a difference. The main difference between a Private Pilots License (PPL) and a Commercial Pilots License (CPL) is that you cannot fly customers for profit on a PPL (but you can fly people as favors and be reimbursed for expenses).

Not exactly. Under 14 CFR 61.113(c) carrying a passenger as a PPL requires a bona fide common purpose (c.f. MacPherson-Winton interpretation) — you can't just go on a flight because they need to go there and you owe them a favor. Uber-style ridesharing has already been thoroughly rebuked by the FAA after two companies (Airpooler and Flytenow (YC S14)) attempted it, even if the pilot is only being reimbursed their pro rata share, under the justification that pilots cannot be holding out publicly for passengers on a flight they intend to take. It went all the way up to certiorari being denied by the Supreme Court in Flytenow v. FAA.

The FAA action this week makes it clear that Tapjet's flights were under Part 135, not Part 91. Flying a student pilot as SIC is in gross violation of the FARs.
You couldn't do that and have it evolve towards a predetermined value though (unless you make it predictable in a way that any viewer could also predict it).
After the steroid controversy I want to see an unlimited robot baseball league where anything goes but keep the equipment (bat, ball, bases) the same.
Nice to know the details, thanks. But anyway, how can a messenger app know what content is going to be inappropriate? What if I call somebody when I am drunk and say something inappropriate - can the telephone app tell this in advance? How is a messenger different?
> Give me healthcare or I will imprison you is your actual proposition

Uh, no? Private healthcare still exists in the UK, alongside the public healthcare industry. People have a choice of which to go into. You seem to have a complete misunderstanding of how this system works...
Most of the books themselves were destroyed as the work of heretics, e.g.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maya_codices
High-Precision Model-Agnostic Explanations
Not sure about airplanes, but Uber does similar by arbitraging all the existing taxi regulations on safety and security. They do so in the name of the almighty dollar.

I have a friend who was a driver for Uber, and they got in a wreck. Surprise, since it was a commercial drive (got paid) their personal insurance didn't cover anything. Uber has left them hanging with their promise that they'd fix it up in smoke. The insult to injury was that insurance was legally obligated to report to the state that they were "driving with no insurance". Yeah, fun.

If you drive for Uber/Lyft and use personal insurance, you are in actuality likely running with no insurance if you're being paid for the trip.

Likely, this 'nonprofit' or whatever they're trying to claim was trying to be "Ubercab of the Air". And the FAA is rightly in smacking them down quick. We don't need "$89 trips across the country" that include the fact that 'whoops, we lost 2 airplanes in the Atlantic, and sry, no insurance, too bad so sad'.
I didn't quite understand, what is the problem with Instagram? It's too popular? Or just that it's not dropping in popularity vs Facebook (due to their recent adjustments)?

I wouldn't consider Instagram to be a messaging app - in fact they're spinning off another app from Instagram just to do messaging (because it's not exactly great at that).

It sounds to me more like Facebook might have some problem and Instagram is just doing it's own thing (as are Facebook's other services).
In fairness, cars move in far fewer ways than a vacuum. Vacuums need to make sharp turns and get into tight spaces on unmarked, uneven surfaces. Cars move forward and slightly to each side for almost all of their movement. Cars also drive on mostly flat surfaces that are well marked and mapped.
As for Mayan codices, only three (The Dresden Codex, The Madrid Codex, and The Paris Codex) are known to survive.
Honestly with all the changes to Instagram I find myself using the app less and less. The changes I'm thinking about are ads in the feed and random content to drive engagement.

Both of these things are driving me to use the app less.

I'm realizing that Facebook does two things builds a social network and then strip mines it off all value.
> with aircraft that it was not authorized to use because they were not listed on its air carrier certificate.

So much bureaucracy...
> Driver safety always has been and should be a huge part of that.

But we can all agree no one like the halo... (I kid...)
> There's no difference between the government paying it and you paying it, except the government takes a slice along the way.

Ok, so why don't you pay for the roads in front of your house privately?

Because... guess what, with more money, you can achieve more.

> You are saying france has great healthcare because its provided by the government, because it has great healthcare. There are no shortage of examples of countries with socialized medicine and disastrous results, so we must dig deeper to have a model we can compare.

Yes, France has bad results, and it is still better than what is available in the US. The fact that you have to find a worse model to compare to your country just means that you're already failing.
It's the next step in airline unbundling: Pay extra for a seatbelt! For a floatation device! And take the business-class flights that features actual trained pilots!
I saw a Tesla at a NHRA drag last November against a souped-up Mustang and it was decisively beaten. Was a bit disappointed, didn’t even do better off the line.

Not a great comparison as it looked completely stock, but still expected more somehow.
> How many of the core devs don't work for Google? How much of the overall project direction is decided by people who have nothing to do with Google?

This is why some developers are starting to hate open source. There's no technical excitement, it's all about community and governance and who has power and corporations and codes of conduct, etc... If not, you're going to fail. You get an army of experts scrutinizing your project and it's unexciting.
Not exactly, and the TapJets response doesn't fully lay out that they met all the requirements for Part 91 flying, but they mentioned non-paying passengers.

You can fly under part 91 rules commercially but there are restrictions on how you can operate. You can operate under part 91 rules non-commercially, like I do, and that basically means that my passengers can only pay for their fair share of the gas burned. I can't make any profit. If the trip only burns 20 gallons I can't ask them to pay to fill up my tanks (51 gallons). But I can let them buy me a hamburger, as long as that's something they would have done anyway if I didn't take them flying.

Every flight under part 135 is considered "commercial," meaning that pilots must have a commercial rating as well as numerous other requirements like extra maintenance, inspections, and record keeping. Even if there are no paying passengers, a flight might still be under part 135 rules, but I'm not sure about the specifics.

I believe it's legal (but I'm not a lawyer) for a plane that flies under part 135 rules one day to be operated under part 91 rules the next day. Imagine flying a chartered flight under part 135 rules to Los Angeles. While on the ramp, the 100-hour inspection comes due, but the plane is still current with it's annual inspection. The owner of the jet would still be allowed to use it under part 91 rules, but it would not be allowed to conduct another charter flight until it passed the 100-hour inspection.
I'm guessing you were downvoted by mistake.

The smile links are not affiliate links for individuals, they are for directing part of the proceeds to the specific charity of the buyer's choice.
There often is no peak, just plateaus from which to get to the next plateau gets often more and more difficult.
I didn't know what the difference between a freeze or a lock is, but the article mentions it about halfway down.

>Equifax’s new app offers a lock instead of a freeze. Locks works similarly to freezes — both restrict access to your credit file — but it should be easier to unlock your credit file since you can do it from your phone with a swipe, and doesn’t require a 10-digit pin or a fee.

>What is not clear, however, is what disadvantages may come with locks. Many state laws exist that govern freezes, offering consumers protection. By creating locks, the companies avoid them.

Looks like it's a nice end run around existing laws. I don't understand why they are allowed to do things like this without any consequences.
Yep. The majority of our purchases at my house are now delivered via Amazon Flex, which is the name for their services that contracts ordinary people to deliver using their personal vehicles.

The degree of professionalism here is lacking, compared to USPS or UPS.

In one particular instance I spent 20 minutes looking for a package, checking with neighbors, etc. The Amazon app said "delivered to mailroom" but I live in a single family home.

Turned out the driver just chucked the package out their window while driving by, and left the package in a pile of leaves along the street.
Many former actors, lotto winners are also broke afterwards. Maybe a lot of millionaires go broke after the cash dries up and they continue their millionaire life style. The relation to medical bills seems unproven
Yup. amazon needs to understand that they have at least partly become a luxury/convenience brand. We're willing to pay extra (not a huge amount extra, but definitely extra) to save time and effort. If you have third parties selling me counterfit garbage, then I need to spend a lot of time defending against that... and if I have to spend a lot of time evaluating that sort of thing? I might as well move over to ebay where it's cheaper.
Updated my comment. Thanks for calling out my mistake.
What that certificate attests is that the airline has appropriate infrastructure in place to operate the specific aircraft type(s) safely. That means appropriately trained and qualified technicians to maintain the aircraft, a proper supply chain to procurement airworthy spare parts, properly trained aircrew, etc.

Operating aircraft isn't like web development where you can just push a buggy pile of JavaScript and fix it a few weeks later. We're talking about people's lives. This stuff has to work.
It's a thing I've seen people do. Visiting a neighboring city to take advantage of their tax holiday for back to school shopping, for example, or buying a car from a neighboring state to avoid in-state registration.

People avoid taxes all the time, it's just that 5% savings on an average income doesn't save millions of dollars and cause Twitter to hate them.

Personally, I take the mortgage interest deduction, claim my real dependents, and put as much into my 401K as is legally allowed. Those are all tax avoidance strategies that people routinely engage in.
It makes more sense when you think of “header” as newspapers think of “headline”.
The price of gold is set by what people will pay for gold, the cost of extraction is only tenuously linked. In short, you have it backwards.

http://www.lbma.org.uk/assets/blog/alchemist_articles/Alch75...
Sequioa's timeframe is far beyond that of stock cycles. They have been around since 1972 and have been investing in tech for decades.
Ah! That's right! Thanks
> not to reflect reality.

Oh, I know that well. I just find it amusing. Spock is actually the most illogical character in the show, and the most emotional.

I'm not convinced this is intentional on the part of the scriptwriters. For example, how does a scriptwriter write a character who is more intelligent than the writer is? Most "advanced intellects" in scifi seem remarkably average in their intelligence, reflecting the intelligence of the writer.
No Chip and PIN mandated at most checkouts and ATMs. It's much, much easier to print a fake credit card with a magstripe than a valid chip card.

Also, Americans are richer and have bigger credit lines so the cards are worth more on the black market.
The Work Number is just a particular product within their Workforce Solutions employee-intelligence business unit.

Pay stubs aside, if your employer uses it then they likely also have your direct deposit account, all your personal PII, and your W2s among other things. It's a goldmine for fraud.
Reading on Twitter hasn’t changed for years. It is time for some new ideas
Can I ask how old you are?

Why do you think that Cryto-currencies are fundamentally different to the internet boom which made 20-somethings like Larry Page/Sergy Brin/Mark Zuckerberg some of the richest people on earth in only 10 to 20 years?

I’m sure plenty will get rich on Cryto. I’m unconvinced that this time that makes it different for some fundamental reason.
Oh no, we've got a railgun gap!
> My response to s2g’s reply below because HN is terrible for commenting:

Click on the comment’s link (the “x hours ago”) to reply.
We are working on this, in a sense, with Keep (https://keep.network). The actual storage is done off-chain, with an interaction on-chain, by incentivized nodes. The idea is to also support (initially limited) secure computation, like allowing a Keep to store a private key that can be used to cryptographically sign data via smart contract.

Revealing the key, for dead-man-switch-type operations for example, is also a possibility.
Netflix and Chill
Well, username kind of checks out.

I like the tech because of its ability to prevent the destruction of archaeological sites while still allowing for discovery that would otherwise require an immense amount of digging and other labours.
In the same vein, at my work in the steel construction industry, when asked by internal and external customers how I'm going with their laser cut components I've taken to telling them: "Your job is important to us and has progressed in the queue".

I can't always give an accurate response because our scheduling is constantly being derailed by urgent tasks and the not-so-urgent tasks get complete in between.

People just want to know you haven't forgotten about them, throw in some light humour and a "I'll try to get it done before knock off tomorrow <wink wink>" and they tend to let me get back to working.
If you want to pay 10% more on everything, Prime might be for you.
Accelerate the most demanding tasks of your server's workload. Crypto, audio/video encoding, compression, database lookups, neural network training, computational fluid dynamics, numerical mathematics, high frequency trading etc.
The Dfinity team (https://dfinity.org) is using something like this to underly their blockchain implementation: they use threshold BLS signatures with groups of nodes to sign previous chain states and still be resilient against misbehavior and network intermittence. The signatures are random, but their correctness can be verified once they have been published.

To support our secure key storage work, we'll be bringing a random beacon built on similar core concepts to the Ethereum chain for Keep.
Yup. There are hundreds of fatal plane crashes in the US every year. Mostly private pilots, a few charters and other commercial but non-scheduled flights such as medical evacuation.

People often say things like "Plane crashes are very rare" but they're (often unconsciously) conflating "Plane crash" with "Scheduled commercial aviation accident resulting in fatalities". _Plane crashes_ happen all the time, because people fly planes and people are idiots. They forget to put enough fuel in the plane, they don't check the engine works properly, they do maintenance and forget to put back important components... they lose track of where they are, they make bad decisions, they don't plan things properly in advance, they ignore warnings, it never ends.

Commercial aviation is safe _despite_ these problems, and one of the ways that's achieved is by having rules that everybody has to follow, and by incrementally improving those rules in the light of what is learned from both accidents (which are rare) and incidents short of accidents (reported anonymously to ASRS at NASA). Not following the rules to be "disruptive" will get people killed.
Yes, I noticed this yesterday while I was visiting HN about the same time this link was put up. Took about half an hour to read, and by the time I came back to HN to read the comments, it had been downvoted or flagged off any of the first few pages despite getting some 30 odd upvotes. I have my doubts whether regular HN visitors at that time of day would so heavily flag something that read like an objective investigation based on government records, because so many other spam links tend to hover around for much longer at that time of day.
Sure, that's basically what they laid out in their response. It's up to the owner/operators of each individual jet to make sure that they are flying legally. TapJets can continue to match up passengers with jets.

On a separate issue, but one I hope TapJets has considered, is helping jet owners maintain rules compliance. TapJets is going to start catching heat if they match up flights with private jets that don't meet part 135 charter requirements. The number of charter flights that TapJets matches is small enough that if the FAA wants to, they can send a representative to every single flight and ramp check the pilots and planes for compliance. If they start doing that the supply of flights on TapJets will go down because jet owners don't want to be grounded.
I wonder what's possible in the way of souping up a Tesla Roadster.

I imagine it would be possible to chop out the computer and roll your own, change some suspension components and tyres.

I suppose you could remove the electric motor and put in a different one. Add or remove battery capacity.

Internal combustion engines must be orders of magnitude more customisable.
I have unfortunately experienced actual "almost died" and experienced none of this. I wonder if it's due to my lack of religious training?
Does that account for pilot involvement (properly certified pilots will avoid dangerous situations more often than car drivers _because_ the requirements are much higher, and will get out of potentially dangerous situations when they arise)?
It's not just furniture, it's staying at nicer hotels, going to Bora Bora instead of Hawaii, buying a Mercedes instead of a Honda, buying a boat instead of renting one. Each thing on its own wouldn't break someone with some money, but it adds up. And you can keep ramping that up, especially if you get into something like private aviation.
And there is more to safety than faa regs. Airlines, those running lots of planes, have other safety advantages that individual taircraft/pilots do not. They will not have institutional knowledge nor the programs common within larger organizations. We shouldnt pretend that solo operators can be as safe as the big guys.
Of course I would expect people to carry catastrophic coverage. And your case with a broken bone would qualify for a catastrophic event. But if the majority of healthcare purchases are driven by 300 million people seeking the lowest price for Vicodin, no one would be able to charge you $1,000 for vicodin even if you were going through insurance for this particular incident.

>And pretty quickly a risk pool means someone has to decide how much that pool should pay to help treat a particular injury... and you're back to where you started.

Not someone, EVERYONE. Each individual person must decide for themselves if they want to try pay a middle man insurance company some profit every time they get the sniffles or if they'd rather deal with that on their own, save money, and just get catastrophic coverage.

All of these things you're concerned about... we have an entire history of the healthcare industry before the New Deal where we saw how low healthcare prices were. We distorted the market with New Deal regulations putting caps on salaries, so companies started offering healthcare to employees. We can undo the damage done by the New Deal without getting all authoritarian about it.
I think it's written because it's interesting, not for any cynical motive.

That said, if there WAS a cynical motive, it's "let us prove that we're independent as a newsroom." Overcompensating for bias, essentially.
I hear this a lot, but every time I try to implement a specific algorithm (in crypto, compression, and ML so far), I find that a GPU practically beats the FPGA on every metric but power, especially total cost. No matter how nicely the problem seems to map to an FPGA, GPUs start from such high performance that I can't seem to beat them- the one exception so far being some genomic algorithms.

Are there any really good papers, projects, or products that show where FPGAs provide a major commercial benefit over a GPU?
I was sad to see the chaos and individuality go away.
The real issue is the term, “Near Death” which is probably even less meaningful than “Near Pregnant.”
This might be a dumb question but does whether a site uses SSL have any impact on browser behavior concerning query strings?

Seems counterproductive my browser is taking so much care to encrypt my querystrings then leaking them to any host from which the site I'm visiting happens to pull content.