skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Concorde is about 4x faster than an airliner with a fairly limited range. BFR is 10x faster with global range. The point being that you can do 10x the trips and make 10x the money compared to airlines. Plus there's no taxiing around an airport. It's purely refuel and go.

Even if my numbers are out Concorde was borderline viable and BFR should be more capable of bringing in money.

Plus you go into frigging space. Branson wants to sell just that, this gets you into space and down to China.

Another advantage I can think of over Concorde is that there should be more space and the trip is only ever 30-40 mins, so no cramping up in the seat.

Finally a Concorde ticket was about $12,000, BFR was mentioned to be $1-2k at the end of the video.
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Here's from a review of it:

> Now, this may sound a little silly - if someone wrote a book called "Metal: The First 5,000 Years," and then filled that book with stories of war and bloodshed, never failing to remind us after each anecdote that metal was involved in some way, we might be left scratching our heads as to why the author was so fixated on /metal/ instead of on /war itself/. And in fact, that is indeed how I felt for much of the time I was reading Graeber's book. The problem was exacerbated by the fact that Graeber continually talks /around/ the idea of debt in other ways, mentioning debt crises (without reflecting deeply on why these happen), the periodic use and disuse of coinage (which apparently is just as bad as debt in terms of enabling the capitalism monster), and any other phenomenon related to debt, without weaving these observations into a coherent whole.

http://noahpinionblog.blogspot.com/2014/11/book-review-debt-...
Not Ryzen but this would do. https://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E1685610...
does it bother you, outside of feeling 'abnormal'? Honest question.
Yes, it’s sad for the people involved that all this happened, and that he managed to escape extradition by fleeing from one corrupt country to another. He likens him a bit like a cult leader, and the whole message of this website continues to build upon that storyline.
You can hit EOF or EOT in a stream of UTF-8 or other multi-byte encoding as part of a character. There must be ways to have it handled through something that understands character encodings and workaround the issue, but I know that dumb shell piping will fumble on those.
Yep and while Mars can provide a possible plan b any disaster other than the planet disintegrating would likely leave a more hospitable environment than mars, and if we have the geo engineering needed to terraform Mars we can terraform the earth just as easily.

That said however settling the Gobi isn’t cool and as such it won’t drive innovation that could and would improve life on earth.
Amazon, Baidu invest $23M in Vesper's waterproof microphones for voice devices
It's hilarious in these discussions that every time someone comes to show how they can do the equivalent code in much less lines of bash there are always always always bugs of these sorts.

And then the parent even specifically pointed out that files with spaces would be a minefield.

Also complaining about looking up docs is just a matter of where you have your knowledge. I would have the opposite problem to understand the "idiosyncrasies" of what the -d flag into cut does whereas I know the python standard library by heart.
Faulty Logic: Debating won’t bring us closer to truth
It's worth noting that bash is really a glue language to call other programs. If you mainly use the tools from the unix toolbox (i'm thinking of grep, for example) you really get the "scaling" (the performance) of native executable code.

Again, it really depends on how you handle your data.

Having a number of filters chained via pipes is really efficient, for example, when compared with looping over an array and executing some python/perl/ruby one-liners every time.
Sorting and paging on distributed data
> and the longest part of the trip is the boat trip

In other words, how to make human pancakes in 30 minutes.

But really, these are ballistic trajectories. Are we going to put everyone in G suits? And you're going to really restrict who can/will go on. They will likely go slower, so everyone doesn't have to go through endurance training.

Plus, being 5k-10k out from land, the total trip is definitely going to take much longer than 30 mins (yeah shorter than the airline flight), to get people on to the boat, onto the rocket, baggage loading, etc. It takes about 30 minutes between when they start loading people onto a plane and when they take off (and baggage is already on!).

Let's be real, if they get it working, it will be 2-3hrs trip. Which is still great, but not 30 minutes.
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When we think about what actually matters when it comes to institutions (public or private) one very important thing is trust.

The NSA has eroded much of the trust it once had. This reduces its effectiveness as an organization and puts all Americans and American companies at increased risk.

Those who committed the crimes revealed by Snowden should be brought to justice, the program dismantled, the hardware auctioned off, and the money returned to taxpayers.

One does not have to be a privacy zealot or an anarchist to believe that the NSA should act within the law.
According to the article they didn’t access friends’ data.

>Like other quiz apps, it requested consent to access the user’s profile (friends’ data was not collected)
Completely dissimilar except for being a cylinder with stubby wings. It's not single stage to orbit, it's vertical launch, it only has rockets not an air breathing engine, It's not a space-place, and it's interplanetary. Much simpler and builds on established technologies.
Most scams rely upon psychological weakness in the victim. People aren't stupid but when they're in the grip of fear or greed they are more likely to lose money. If it seems too good to be true, it's probably a scam, stolen goods, poor quality good/service, etc.
> The only relief at this point is regulatory.

But why would the government intervene in a private decision that citizens have made?
I still haven't found a good talk or essay about how exactly 'AI' will change anything. The only obvious difference is shifts in wealth.

The Google Duplex appears to be a great breakthrough. But what happens if it's sold and deployed? More wealth to an already wealthy Google. Low income earners who can barely make it as a receptionist will be out of work. In the restaurant example, owners cut costs and possibly earn more -- which is great for these types of operators. But as someone who wants to schedule an appointment, my life doesn't change.

Google also just released auto complete and response emails. How does something like this change my life?

Any drastic change in AI is abstract and hypothetical, based more in science fiction than reality. In the 1940s, with advances in Nuclear research, it was thought that nuclear power for energy would change the world. 70 years later, we're still using over 80% fossil fuels. Not a great example, but I'll hold this line about 'AI' until I'm convinced otherwise.
This man who had advanced pancreatic cancer wouldn't have qualified for a real handicapped tag? People are getting bent out of shape over nothing here.
They brought this on themselves.

The root problem is they have two conflicting missions: one is to help USA secure itself and the other is to read all comms worldwide.
I don't think "anything round and orbiting the Sun" equates to thousands of objects[1]. Maybe we can project that it will in theory, given how many there might be in the outer solar system, but it's not thousands yet. Furthermore, instead of dividing things into arbitrary categories of "major" and "minor", we could just as well divide things into near by and far away, since all the additional large objects are going to be very distant.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_gravitationally_rounde...
Towards the end of the article Kissinger states

"Other countries have made AI a major national project. The United States has not yet, as a nation, systematically explored its full scope, studied its implications, or begun the process of ultimate learning. This should be given a high national priority, above all, from the point of view of relating AI to humanistic traditions."

Which seems to me a disappointing end to the article. An appeal for a national effort to manage AI.

"Other countries have major AI projects" but what exactly should the US model itself after?

"The United States has not yet systematically explored it's scope" but US publishes the second most research papers on AI (https://www.timeshighereducation.com/data-bites/which-countr...) which I think in general is a bad metric but if you're looking at the output that a system produces, it's the best metric you're going to get.

Looking at the private sector, the AI makeup of the leading AI/Robotics ETF $BOTZ (https://www.globalxfunds.com/funds/botz/) is comprised of mostly American companies. Similarly, look at the sheer number of ML/AI startups in SV.

So I fail to see where the crisis is. If American universities are among the leaders in AI research and American companies are among the leaders in the AI economy, why is there such a tone of urgency in this article? Kissinger's argument leads me to believe that he's advocating for a blanket "AI" initiative but he doesn't have a clear idea of what he wants this initiative to do. Without a clear direction for how he wants the US to be "relating AI to humanistic traditions", whatever he's proposing here is just the marriage of shallow musings about the consequences of AI and some kind of blind belief in federal government initiative.
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I recommend this essay by Eric Weinstein on Russell Conjugations: https://www.edge.org/response-detail/27181
Good point! That's on the list already :)

Seems like it's relatively easy to convert a Chrome extension into a Firefox addon. So I'm going to do that as the next step. The source code will be in the same repo on GitHub (https://github.com/soulim/lgtm).
Regarding mechanisms, I was under the impression that DNA methylation was widely accepted as a primary mechanism for epigenetic inheritance. Not so much, or is that one of those artificial scenarios you referenced?
How is this different exactly from Throwhammer?
There are many, many cases where a shell script is appropriate. I don't see a shell script as inherently evil, especially if you use one as conservative as POSIX sh. I ship shell scripts with my software often and for a wide variety of tasks.
Brilliant. This phrase is so loaded with passive-aggression and condescension.
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I can't help but think of the telephone sanitizers from planet Golgafrincham in Hitchiker's Guide to the Galaxy whenever someone makes the claim that a class of jobs is useless.

These tales of impending doom allowed the Golgafrinchans to rid themselves of an entire useless third of their population. The story was that they would build three Ark ships. Into the A ship would go all the leaders, scientists and other high achievers. The C ship would contain all the people who made things and did things, and the B ark would hold everyone else, such as hairdressers and telephone sanitisers. They sent the B ship off first, but of course the other two-thirds of the population stayed on the planet and lived full, rich and happy lives until they were all wiped out by a virulent disease contracted from a dirty telephone. [0]

[0] http://hitchhikers.wikia.com/wiki/Golgafrincham
OK. For the record, I worked at a government agency, at a GSE (both as a contractor, my company and the client both provided laptops only), and at a Fortune 100 company in the timeframe I quoted.

The sensitive information leakage thing is protected via full disk encryption in all those cases.
Short Circuit: The High Cost of Electric Vehicle Subsidies
Did you try changing your screen resolution? Firefox apparently has issues with certain resolutions on MacBook Pro.
The Option/Maybe monad is very common in FP languages. I don't know if it's native in Elixir, but apparently it's pretty easy to implement: http://www.zohaib.me/monads-in-elixir-2/#maybe

There are lots of ways to conceptualize monads. I think "functors that flatten" is accurate, but is just one way.
The vast majority of programmers make it clear that they don't want to use anything but the one of the several popular languages du jour, regardless of what that language looks like, and of what any other language looks like.

There is hardly anything familiar to complete neophytes in any programming language. Beyond simple arithmetic expressions like a * b + c (where the use of asterisk for multiplication is already unfamiliar) and function notation f(x, y), everything else is new.

Some languages with awful syntax have enjoyed popularity.

If you clone the salient features of a popular language to make a new language, you will not automatically end up with a popular language. "Off brand" versions of popular languages largely languish in unpopularity.
Chinese women are hiding their faces after a ride-sharing murder
Image Steganography: Hiding Text in an Image with PHP
No, you can't have my bank account transaction history. I am speaking on behalf of every human being on the planet not employed at Plaid. Why is this a question?

I looked it up - I'm sure the regulation is massive so not going to read through it entirely, but that looks terrifying. Great time to buy a plot of land somewhere not covered by google maps and start burying gold. I can't really imagine a product that would I would use on top of that and I'm kind of curious who exactly lobbied for that legislation.
The correlation is if you spend months or years working on something that has no value or that immediately ceases to exist, then your job is BS.
Cmdtypist – A command line typing tutor written in c
OpenWrt forums lost because of hardware failure
Ive come to accept that nerds only care about copyright when its about GPL'd code, and not music/movies/proprietary software.
I really don't like the idea of some of this. Facial analysis just seems creepy and prone to dismiss people who would make candidates because they don't like their photo being taken etc.
I like the idea of automated filtering to some extent and see how this would be useful but disagree with the use of photos.
Infinite Training Data for AI
While it won't necessarily help you with this, AMD has support in all Zen CPUs, not just the EPYC server series.
The trouble I had with spacemacs was it didn't see programs that were part of the nix-shell path which was incredibly annoying. As an example having a rust development environment, spacemacs couldn't find cargo, but it was clearly in my shells path.
Yeah which is waaaay more significant both in the field of chemistry and biology. The work Turing was doing at that time was seriously advanced thinking, and really on the right track for how things like transcriptional regulation works in embryogenesis. If he had lived longer its really depressing to imagine what he might have contributed in biology, and how much faster we would have got to where we are in molecular biology. Unlike this write up on Feynman, Turing genuinely provided a hypothesis with some insight and rigour that turned out to be important. It was first found to be a real thing in the world in chemistry with the discovery of the Belousov–Zhabotinsky reaction, which then directly tied the maths to an actual reactive process. The way biology works is a bit more digital and discrete, but the general idea and concept is similar. Turing couldn't have anticipated that his ideas on computation were probably even closer to biology than his differential rate equation models. If he had lived to see the evidence of the tie ins between his works, I think he would have dropped some seriously epic stuff we cant even imagine right now for dealing mathematically with molecular biology at various scales.
I've skimmed through Grimes' book a little and liked what I saw. I've independently taken a similar approach to TA and it has mostly worked out well for me.

My personal take on TA is that Markets are psychology and TA is a slowly evolved form of feature engineering that has been finely tuned to be used by the most advanced visual pattern recognition algorithm we have, our brains. Many of these features can be tested and proven statistically, but they require additional feature engineering work to convert them from their visual pattern recognition purpose into something more suited to statistical inference. And just like any form of feature engineering, a lot of it doesn't work, but when you find what does work, it's pretty awesome.
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No. They were not. They were illegally purchased.
He has a PhD in chemistry. I don't know about the Goodenough's battery debunking, but imo his analysis on BFR Earth-Earth flights is spot on.
Pray tell, what "objective and universal" object are you referring to?
The language is inspired by Puppet, but reactive and statically typed. The configuration can depend not just on current, but on historical observations about the system, and is applied continually. I think the QEMU example in the article illustrates it well.

Edit: Puppet has what it calls "data types", but they are not checked statically.

$ cat test.pp
function f(Boolean $arg) >> String {
5
}

if false {
f("not a Boolean")
}
$ puppet apply test.pp
Notice: Compiled catalog for foo in environment production in 0.03 seconds
Notice: Applied catalog in 0.02 seconds
People rag on bash a lot, but it now forms the core of a major deployment system I built at work. I'm not happy that it's in bash, but every other solution was worse, and it calls out to other tools (e.g. Ansible and Terraform) when they're appropriate.

People have forgotten the subtle art of realizing what tool is best for the job. If all you're doing is stitching together other tools and doing some logging, bash is hard to beat.
i havent seen an ad on facebook (the website, i do not use apps) for quite some time.
Why would you ever compare two items if they were identical?
Speaking of axes, tiny nit for stratechery - "axis" should be "axes" directly under the "Moat Map" heading.
I don't see why would any Non-American company would accept any of their thoughts/designs after their sneaky backdoor prng.
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Do you guys have a different, approved shell for prod?
I think the answer can be found by this search:

https://hn.algolia.com/?query=rt.com&sort=byPopularity&prefi...

But I'm sure this topic will come up from another news source. RT.com is definitely anti-US propaganda. Unfortunately they hardly have to lie or exaggerate to do so.
Why You Should Make Your App Artificially Intelligent
> Interestingly crystal has neither sum types or pattern matching (and it doesn't need them) :)

Well, the use cases will be there, and any general-purpose language will need answers for them. One can of course achieve the same effect with other language features (e.g. Java's famous use of the "visitor pattern" for those cases), but there's a cost in verbosity and maintainability.
Common Causes of Complexity in Software [pdf]
You mention UT99/2003/2004, did you play competitively by chance? I miss the good old days of gaming, clans, ladders, forums & IRC.

If it weren't for UT's modding & hacking community I wouldn't have got in to this industry. A lot of people I know have similar stories.
About the enigma of why he was cursed and expelled of the jewish community:

"If we think that God is like us, an agent who acts for the sake of ends and who, by issuing commands, makes known his expectations and punishes those who do not obey, we will be dominated by the passions of hope and fear: hope for eternal reward and fear of eternal punishment. This will, in turn, lead us towards submission to ecclesiastic authorities who claim to know what God wants
The resulting life is one of “bondage” – psychological, moral, religious, social and political enslavement – rather than the liberating life of reason."

.. well, if he said something like this before and in a way, that people listened to him, than this was a direct assault to the priests, the Rabbis, of the community. And also to the general foundations of jewish religion - so they probably saw it as a existential threat - therefore their harsh reaction.
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I have read financial books, got an MBA, worked in Finance. Read more books.

~70% in 2012 of the market trades on computers/algorithms.

I recommend reading some finance books, but at the end of the day, you probably going to want start to build a financial trading algorithm.

I recommend Black Swan or Fooled by Randomness
True. Snowden made it happen :)
I'm guessing OP is asking about market analysis in terms of evaluating whether a business idea is good (or not), not market analysis for investing. E.g. what is the market for X product (units and revenue), who are the competitors, what is the profitability X product can achieve if it meets its goals, etc., etc.
We had a problem advertising Clojure, everyone showed up wanting to write Clojure but didn’t care about our product.

As a series A company it was hard to get purist to focus on shipping and we started weeding candidates out that gave off a ‘I just want to work in Clojure’ vibe. Eventually new stuff got written in Java and we migrated off of it due to the hiring pipeline mostly but when we told candidates some honestly dropped out because they were excited to work in Clojure.
If one or two clients don't implement the standard correctly, the clients are broken. If all but one or two clients don't implement the standard correctly, the standard is broken. Part of what makes good standard design is knowing how to avoid pitfalls in client implementation.
Trevor Perrin also asked to kick some NSA chair from the IETF board. On my phone can't find the thread.
Faculty interview questions I asked and got asked – Austin Z. Henley
Yeah. It was basically like Underwood in HoC.
I really don't understand the "switch to Python" thing. Bash scripts are good for calling sequences of command line programs. That is not particularly convenient in Python.
The way it's supposed to work is that they try to have the best code cracking, and then they want everyone to use the second best codes so no one else can crack code. If they aren't the best the plan can't work and you get junk like clipper chip or whatever it was called.
Unless you're trying to thank him.
You're arguing over proximate vs. ultimate causes, when both are causes.

This was proximately caused by Snowden disclosing what the NSA was doing. It was ultimately caused by NSA monitoring major swaths of the population.

ETA: decent summary: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proximate_and_ultimate_causati...
History of Symbolics lisp machines
Yes, because Snowden taught us not to trust the NSA because they're shysters and crooks. How dare he!
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HTTP headers we don't want
This is an international standard. Pretty much any non-American country told them to fuck off.