skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The speed of light is not a speed limit on effective travel, but on observation.

It is absolutely a limit on effective travel (if we ignore things like wormholes for a second). Conventional motion through space is bounded by c for several reasons, not the least of which being that the closer you get to c, the more energy it takes to make smaller and smaller changes in velocity (the object acts as though it's gaining mass the faster it goes). In fact, it's asymptotic. Accelerating a particle to c would require an infinite amount of energy.
For those who don't know, the Presto parser is easy to use and analyze if you are programming in Java/JVM. It's close to the grammar and the IR is really good.
No ?

Let me find the first 10 links matching "Chromecast". [1]

ONLY the 1st and 3rd links don't have misleading/deliberately confusing or outright stolen trademarks on them (but they aren't chromecasts). Examples include the "G" on 5 and 6 in the font Google uses or the Youtube logo on 7. Examples of outright stolen trademarks include links 2, 4, 8, 9 and 10 all have the Chrome logo.

For completeness, the (only) actual link to Chromecasts on amazon is here [3].

The first and third links are weird, as in they're an entirely different product category from a Chromecast. Why are they even in there ? They are very much not chromecasts.

I would like to point out that if you are looking for a Chromecast, ALL of those products will be sorely disappointing. 1 and 3 don't even support streaming web content to them in any way, and all the others are chinese wireless display mirroring devices, some are even low-res versions.

None of them have anywhere near the compatibility or functionality that Chromecast provides. If you buy these and expect them to do what a Chromecast does, you'll be sorely disappointed.

If this is what happens to Google, imagine what will happen to you on Amazon to the inventors of fidget spinners, or those cubes. The web is full of articles and forum complaints about fake products on amazon. Link to the trend [2].

Links when searching "Chromecast"

1. Fire TV stick with Alexa ...

2. Wifi Display Dongle,Wishpower HDMI 1080P Mini Display Receiver TV Miracast DLNA AirMirror Airplay for IOS/Android/Windows/Mac

3. Roku Express | 5X more powerful HD Streaming (2017)

4. WiFi Display Dongle,Wishpower 2018 WiFi Wireless 1080P Mini Display Receiver HDMI TV Miracast DLNA Airplay for IOS/Android/Windows/Mac(New Version)

5. 2018 Cymocho G5 Wireless Wifi Display Dongle, HDMI 1080P TV Receiver Adapter, Support Google Chrome for YouTube Miracast Airplay DLNA TV Stick for Android/ Mac/ iOS / Windows

6. Wecast E68 Wireless Wifi Display Dongle TV Receiver Adapter 1080P Full HD support Google Chromecast for Netflix YouTube miracast airplay DLNA TV Stick for Android/ Mac/ iOS / Windows

7. 1080P HDMI Adapter Wireless Display, PTView Miracast Dongle, 2.4G Streaming Media Share Player, Mirroring Receiver TV Stick, Airplay Dina For iPhone, iPad, MacBook, Samsung, LG, Android, Smart Phones

8. WiFi Wireless Display Dongle Receiver 1080P HDMI TV Stick Miracast Media Streamer for Phone TV Support Miracast & Airplay & DLNA

9. WIFI Display Dongle, WiFi Wireless 1080P Mini Display Receiver HDMI TV Miracast DLNA Airplay for IOS/Android

10. Miracast Wireless Display Adapter,Iphone Dongle 1080P Hdmi,TV Receiver Stick,Toneseas Streaming Media Player,Airplay DLNA for Ipad Macbook Laptop Samsung Android Smart Phones - Business Gift

[1] https://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_noss_2?url=search-alias%3...

[2] https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=all&q=amazon%2...

[3] https://www.amazon.com/dp/B015UKRNGS
I find it interesting how the same people that have no problem accepting that the last 10% of a random software project accounts for a significant portion of the total time spent, can at the same time be so unreasonably optimistic that a whole sphere of tech can go from like 70% to 100% (where 100% is also the minimum amount required) in a really short period.
This doesn't surprise me at all and it's because of hidden costs incurred by the driver, combined with an implicit bidding system that drives down wages.

Hidden costs:

1. Vehicle wear and tear (cars cost you money when you drive them)

2. Vehicle depreciation (cars cost you money even when you aren't driving them)

3. Interest and fees associated with auto loans and leases

4. Insurance premiums

5. Gas

6. Unexpected/unplanned for tax bills

But the feedback you're getting about your income is just the dollar figure that shows up in your account, which is vastly higher than the true amount you could reasonably keep as profit. It makes $10 feel like $100.

Combine that with the implicit bidding system. And by this I mean, market forces will naturally saturate Uber and Lyft with drivers until the price falls low enough that drivers won't accept it. And because of the factors I listed above, that natural price point is practically guaranteed to be well below minimum wage.

The whole setup is just beautifully engineered to trick poor people into thinking this can be a career. I've often thought about which is worse, this or Herbalife. I think Uber and Lyft might impact more people than Herbalife, and generally those people start with less, so I might give it to Uber and Lyft.

Actually, it's also a profession that has one of the highest rates of workplace fatalities, so I'd definitely give the title to Uber/Lyft over Herbalife.
I’m not so sure.

You can make an argument current tools haven’t really surpassed a Lisp Machine for developer productivity, or a SmallTalk environment.
But hey, they are free to choose their own times and rides. You surely cannot put a price on Freedom. You get screwed a bit, well a lot but it is all for the greater good.
I question the authenticity of the $3.37 number when I see that the paper this article references was published by an organization funded by these bodies:

Alliance of Automobile Manufacturers, BP, ClearPath Foundation, Conoco Phillips, Duke Energy, Electricité de France, EnBW, ENGIE, ENI, Eversource, Exelon Corporation, ExxonMobil, Gas Natural Fenosa, GE, Golden Spread Electric Cooperative, Inc., Iberdrola, IHI Corporation, EDPC J-Power, Kiewit Energy Group Inc., National Grid, Norwegian Ministries, PSEG, Southern Company, Swedish Energy Agency, Toyota Motor Corporation, TransCanada Corporation

I think Uber/Lyft economics are problematic, but these guys have pretty solid incentives to make Uber/Lyft look unviable.

http://ceepr.mit.edu/support/associates
I assume the Russian missile is a nuclear powered jet engine, assuming it exists, while for space you need a nuclear powered rocket engine. Different tech. The US tested a nuclear rocket engine on the ground in 1967 and it looked well cool. I'd vote for giving it's development a go. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_thermal_rocket#/media/...

The US also built nuclear powered jet engines in the 60s but found for piloted aircraft you'd either need tons of lead shielding or kill the pilots. It's rumoured the Russians actually flew one and killed said pilots.
In October 2010, Google announced that they'd logged 140,000 miles with a self-driving car, with a driver, including through San Francisco and a lot of California [1]. So eight years ago is possible, and I'm willing to grant a little hyperbole here.

[1] https://googleblog.blogspot.com/2010/10/what-were-driving-at...
I use this stuff for my fishtank that conditions the water. It is primarily for removing chlorine. So I got a bottle off of amazon. A few months later I am at the pet store and they carry the same stuff. I notice the bottle in the pet store has the label printed directly on the bottle. The one I got from Amazon was what looked like the same label but was just a sticker.

So I buy the one at the pet store and a water test kit. I test both bottles and the one from amazon did the same to remove the chlorine as just letting water sit out did. While the one from the pet store did what I was expecting.

The stuff is a clear liquid and has no odor.
Are you looking for summer interns?
Everything you say is true, but we are farther along than your comment indicates.

With a 6.5 meter space telescope and a star shade, we pretty much have the capability within just a few years to blot out the direct light from the host star and perform spectral characterization of exo-Earths using the light from their host star that is bouncing off of them. In particular, this is a direct exoplanet observation, not indirect like the host-star radial velocity method. An example being studied right now is HabEx (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Habitable_Exoplanet_Imaging_...).

From such spectra, we can use chemical and general circulation models to constrain the atmospheric composition, height, and temperature. We can investigate whether the atmosphere is in chemical equilibrium, or if there is some non-chemical process active. The paper referenced in the article actually does some of this (although this is a larger planet).
The insurance point deserves further discussion - in many states your normal coverage is voided by driving for profit. So if you get into an accident where they can prove you were working, you aren't going to get anything. I know many people who are driving for Uber and Lyft and have no idea about this
> Not to sound like I walked uphill in both directions back in my day

Local minima?
https://www.google.com/search?q=comcast&safe=off&rlz=1C1CHBF...

? I mean it may be true that they will some day go out of business. In fact it's all but certain. But I don't think you could really say it's because of effect that is visible today.
Power of g
I was sort of trolling, but this does sort of get to the heart of the issue.

Stop and frisk is sort of a shitty policy in my opinion because even if it were limited to weapons, some people may be carrying them to defend themselves. Laws against this are really shitty if you were to place yourself in the shoes of someone who is at constant risk of violence and just wants to defend themselves. If someone intends to harm you with a weapon, there’s little chance the police are going to intervene in the situation in time.

But outside of stop and frisk and just looking at policing in general, enforcing laws against nonviolent actions while you’re in areas allegedly because you’re trying to prevent violent crime is a huge driver of the disproportionate convictions of minorities. In my opinion, reducing police presence in violent areas is one of the worst solutions to this problem. That shows disregard for the people living there, regardless of how they may feel about the police. Reforming dumb laws that are getting relatively innocent people prison time would be far better. We need to have laws that allow police to be effective in combating violence without harming the entire area they’re policing with frivolous laws.
The EEO-1 Instruction Booklet [1] that underpins all diversity and inclusion programs do not have an 'other' category, but it has a 'Decline to State'. The EEO-1 booklet states that if a person decline to state their race and/or ethnicity the employer is allowed to classify them on their own.

[1] https://www.eeoc.gov/employers/eeo1survey/2007instructions.c...
Are you hiring software developer intern for this summer?
That looks pretty interesting - Can I ask how Go fits into your stack?

My current role is in Bioinformatics, I've been using Go for a while, but it's not advertised often!
There are more than two alternatives. And there are many flavours of capitalism. Some great. Some not so much.
It's abusive to reply to someone's job post like that. Please don't do it again.

We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16495453 and marked it off-topic.
"Have a happy life!"

News flash arbo! You're still depressed.
> There exists emotions inside of us so terrible that you'd wish no human would have to discover.

This. I have this terrible feeling that I cannot explain; It is so nebulous that trying to decipher it has taken lots of time, effort, intense/extreme emotional roller coasters, and I still don't know how to suppress it.
I feel like I have literally lost several brain cells in the span of a year, lost several IQ points, lost my ability of sharp logical reasoning, analytical/critical thinking and also memory retaining power.
All that I have now is emotional instability, irritability, impulsive anger.
I'm sorry that I am pouring my symptoms here, which should definitely be dealt with a shrink. But whatever.
If an existing seller is listing the product that already exists. It can be examined against other listings and be reviewed. If it’s a brand new seller then interview the seller. It’s not perfect but will provide incremental improvement.
Yes, Bacon Really Is Killing Us
I see those stupid robot cars all over the Phoenix metro area these days, whole packs of them roam Chandler/Tempe/Scottsdale areas.

Now they have permits to run around 100% humanless apparently.
> The sales guys are at the top. They are generally competent. Proof = they sold a massive deal.

Seems very flawed logic. Anyone can make a sale if you promise everything, charge a low price (that can't sustain your organisation/solution), and have no responsibility for actually being able to deliver within the timeframe they promised.

I fail to see how that shows the sales person is competent.
Titan’s athmosphere contains non-trivial amounts of methane but no signs of life so far.
Everything fails all the time – build for resiliency
When I read "REMOTE (Toronto preferred)", I think to myself: "If I get this gig, I'm going to be the remote guy.. the unpreferred remote guy".

Just sayin.
What it does show is that even if there is a "more deterministic mechanism" then it doesn't perform better than random luck.
A Kubernetes quick start for people who know just enough about Docker to get by
When my girlfriend traded in her car, they asked if it was ever used as a taxi/uber/lyft.
Yes, that’s the one! I don’t know, Outer Planets all look the same to me.
There's a joke that if you're considering making something but think it would cost too much or take too long, just send the design out to some Chinese companies for a quote, but don't order any. Then wait a week or so for it to show up on Alibaba, buy a bunch and resell them under your own brand.
How Close Google Got to the Human Brain
As a former pizza delivery guy, this seems odd to me. Before expenses, I’d make between 12 and 20 an hour depending on the night. The car I drove then had a KBB value of less than $3000 and it would have been eligible to use as an Uber. I just don’t see how you could possibly have such high levels of expenses unless you were paying like $600 a month for your car.
The recent internal Uber study found that long-term drivers learn how to optimize their rides for the highest fares. So there are significant differences between what the median driver makes and what the "pro" Uber drivers make.
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1207/s15326985ep4102_...

"Why Minimal Guidance During Instruction
Does Not Work: An Analysis of the Failure of
Constructivist, Discovery, Problem-Based,
Experiential, and Inquiry-Based Teaching"

> Evidence for the superiority of guided instruction is explained in the context of our knowledge
of human cognitive architecture, expert–novice differences, and cognitive load. Although unguided
or minimally guided instructional approaches are very popular and intuitively appealing,
the point is made that these approaches ignore both the structures that constitute human
cognitive architecture and evidence from empirical studies over the past half-century that consistently
indicate that minimally guided instruction is less effective and less efficient than instructional
approaches that place a strong emphasis on guidance of the student learning process.
The advantage of guidance begins to recede only when learners have sufficiently high
prior knowledge to provide “internal” guidance. Recent developments in instructional research
and instructional design models that support guidance during instruction are briefly described.
"typically it’s hard to maintain more than dual citizenship"

I am considering taking a 3rd. I am aware of some of the hurdles but out of curiosity, where do you see problems?
It's sustainable because we're on the cusp of the autonomous vehicle revolution.
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/02/26/technology/driverless-car...

This is similar to how the huge army of people stuffing DVDs into envelopes at Netflix is going away. It might be slow, but I don't think there will be tons of people watching DVDs from them in 2030...
https://www.cnbc.com/2018/01/23/netflix-dvd-business-still-a...
> Most wealthy and successful people I've met are intelligent, confident and likeable people.

That is not a large sample. So not even close to being evidence for anything. As a counter argument: I have met more than one wealthy person who is a sociopath. So there.
Uber and Lyft both now verify that you have supplemental insurance. It's kind of screwy. If you have a passenger in the car, Uber/Lyft coverage is in place. If you are driving around working but no passenger, it's the driver's rideshare insurance - which is typically a rider on their personal policies. This probably changes regionally, but that's how it works in California.
This is why after having a kid I shifted my purchasing 90% from Amazon to 90% from Target even though I have to drive 15 minutes to the Target. Amazon was the lazy mans approach.
It also doesn't make sense to apply US demographics to an industry where ⅔ [1] of the workers are immigrants. Silicon Valley recruits outliers from around the world.

Immigrants are misclassified into US demographic categories from the EEO-1 Instruction Booklet [2] that underpins all diversity and inclusion programs, and they risk discrimination for this.

[1] https://jointventure.org/images/stories/pdf/index2018.pdf

[2] https://www.eeoc.gov/employers/eeo1survey/2007instructions.c...
I checked. I'm at 360mb for 8 separate Slack processes grouped together. I'm on Windows 10, not sure if that matters.

There are no Slack helpers.

I'm not sure why you're this adamant about it.

I still it's quite a good deal given that my Discord instance has a similar feature-set and is accessing just as many channels/servers/teams as Slack but at a third of the memory.
Oh yeah, insurance and financial products in general are just silent murderers of people's finances. Families get wrecked financially for generations to pay for this stuff and they don't even realize it's happening.

And in order to even be eligible to become an Uber or Lyft driver, you first must navigate through that minefield of auto loans and auto leases and insurance companies. And Uber and Lyft is the opportunity that convinces you that it's a good idea to do that (more similarities to Herbalife).

I say all this as someone who uses Uber and Lyft almost every day. The drivers think I'm paying them to drive me somewhere, but what I'm actually doing is paying for them to take on the liabilities/debt/depreciation associated with owning a vehicle. That's where the value is for me, it has nothing to do with them driving.
Sure! I remember those days. I'm on Windows 10 and over the past year, they've tremendously improved on memory usage.
my only goal in mentioning the statistics sequence at all was to give a familiar example where the standard sequences vary in depth depending on audience. a trivial point, yes, but i wanted to be concrete because it's the internet. apparently that was a terrible choice, as it was far too close to the topic at hand; my apologies for making you search so hard for a connection.

i made my request because it's jarring for me as a reader when you punctuate your (often delightful) expository writing with conclusions about entire fields and large organizations that seem (on the face of it) to be justified by old and/or very limited data.

but that's a selfish request, and you are of course free to tell me to get lost and post whatever you want (and i'll still read it); i'm certainly not going to pursue this further, aside from the apology and clarifying comment above.
Yeah, I did 5 years ago.
That's what the author wants to show off. :P
>I feel a good cutoff age for me is 29. If I don't like the direction my life is going by then, I'll probably take steps to make it not exist, or I'll continue.

I don't know how old you are - but I am 30 and just came out of a depression. I have stuff I'd like to do every day, so I think I'm alright. Even when I was not alright, I was still far from wanting it to end.
This headline is a good example of getting the target (you) to think past the sale: if you deny bitcoin is "something worse" you are implicitly conceding it is, in fact, a waste of energy (when contrasted with HFT server farms, I suppose?)

Trump did this with the "and mexico will pay for it" addendum to building the wall. By getting people to say "Mexico will never pay for it!" they are mentally conceding the wall.

I dislike these sorts of verbal tactics, but they are effective manipulations.
To add in to that, Uber itself seems to offer a lot of "helpful" services for their drivers, such as the cellphone they provide that only runs the driver app and nothing else, that uber charges $10 a week to lose.
That's not entirely right. Each workspace is an equivalent of a tab, not a browser.
Model divergence, nonsense predictions. The whole black art of ML (specifically neural nets) is coaxing them into working.

If you take some sophisticated deep neural net and try to train it on a binary classification where tails occurs 99% of the time - unless you specifically take measures to correct for this bias - the net will just learn to predict tails.
I think this happens a decent amount in healthcare with startups trying to sell to health systems. Startups fight for 12-18 months to get a pilot, but hospitals / health systems don't want to partner with the startup on terms the startup would like. Unfortunately, these terms aren't unveiled until after a pilot, when a hospital has had a chance to see whether the startups product is useful. The Big Client has all the advantage, and is interested in disintermediating the startup to gain more access to data, patients or physicians. The startup has bet it all on this deal, and ended up with a Sophie's choice of giving up the golden egg or staring from square one
You know you can download them and remove the DRM.
To try to put it in a nutshell: However many professional connections you have, you are probably confident they are, in fact, professional connections and not just giving lip service to the idea until they can spring it on you that what they were really hoping for is romance.

Anyway, thanking you for engaging with me. It's been a good exchange.

Best.
Both Uber and Lyft have insurance policies that cover drivers and passengers during rides, and in most cases the maximum coverage per accident is $1 million.

https://www.uber.com/drive/insurance/

https://help.lyft.com/hc/en-us/articles/115013080548-Insuran...