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In my entire life, I've never encountered the Trolley Problem, and I've never met anyone who has.

Most safety problems in driving can be solved by slowing down.

The problem with AI is all those weird, little edge cases that humans can reason through -- for example: if there's a deer next to the road, then I'll slow down, even if it's not on the road yet. I've known many people who have hit a deer when it spontaneously jumps into traffic. Or something like: someone's not quite staying in their own lane, so I have to be careful when I pass them.
Wouldn't it be easier to train astronauts to be artists than to train artists to be astronauts?
Related: Old computers did it better!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0wDtxYeJdzg (8-Bit Guy)
I mean, if you're careful about who you work with, 0% isn't really a meaningful risk. Bank of America (or, for that matter, Airbnb) isn't going to default on you; the pain the ass you could generate if they did would cost more than the invoice.
Whether it is “good” or not isn’t relevant. It’s necessary.
Elon Musk's SpaceX to name first passenger for moon voyage
The performance of gcj would have to be equal or worse than the jvm almost by definition as it would lack the ability to do optimization at runtime in the way the HotSpot VM does.
Ketones aren't toxins in this context, they're literally food.
I (along with some others here) highly recommend Yasunari Kawabata. In a way, he reminds me of Hemingway because he writes sparsely and with a deep sense of melancholy. He also was focused on preserving the "Japanese character" at a time when there was a lot of pressure to Westernize, so in a way he writing encapsulates a Japanese perspective of what makes Japan unique and interesting.

He is also just an amazing writer (he won the Nobel). Some interesting works by him: Master of Go, the novelization of a Go match between two masters (I barely understand how to play Go and still found it interesting) and Thousand Cranes, which centers around the tea ceremony. That story is interesting because a few old tea bowls are treated almost like characters that exert influence over some of the other characters whose lives are kind of intertwined almost like a Shakespearean drama. Anyway, a very interesting and unique author.

I also recommend Musashi from Eiji Yoshikawa. He writes big historical fiction novels that read like fantasy page-turners. Taiko is his lesser known novel in translation, but it is a really awesome overview of the Japanese feudal period and a fun read as well.
This puts Yusaku Maezawa up there in league with the de Medici's and Borgia's in terms of patron of the arts.
Yes I was looking for design inspiration. Anything wrong with it?
SpaceX Will Send Japanese Billionaire Yusaku Maezawa to the Moon
TL;DR: the atmosphere will never ignite in nuclear fire, but if you add enough deuterium to the oceans you can get runaway fusion in the oceans with an absurdly large nuke.
Why Asia is obsessed with arowanas
$10,000,000 sounds like the judgement I'd expect in a wrongful death suit, not a single episode of mud slinging. Not saying you're wrong I'm just surprised.
Could you elaborate on this in some detail?

I'm in the position of believing I have "1 thing right." I worked in an industry (banking) with a serious software problem and one particular vertical that I'm confident I could build a good product for. I was in a position to evaluate all of the major vendors that would be my competitors, and I'm confident that I could get one particular thing very right. Ths problem is that I have pretty much no idea where to go from there. I've never started a company, I didn't even study business in school. In my career so far I've pretty much done two things: I got very good at that particular aspect of banking, and I taught myself to code and now do it professionally. But I'm so aware of the gap between my own knowledge and the skills required to run a business that I wouldn't really feel confident trying to go get investment money (and wouldn't know how to begin even if I thought I could use it responsibly). I guess what I'm trying to get at is: once you have the one thing, where do you go for help with the thousand?
How long ago was this? Was it a specific region or all over? Did you try to raise funding or it was all bootstrapped?
Can you even train artistic talent? Doesn't it require a natural gift that you're born with?

Not to belittle astronauts, but space travel training is more teachable than true art.
You likely could to a limited extent but artistry would not be their core competency.
I did. IMO, Hugo is the closest of any static gen to hitting the sweet spot of simplicity and feature set.

However, there were some features that I simply could not add to it. Features that if I didn't have the tooling bogging me down, I could implement in 10 minutes.

https://github.com/gohugoio/hugo/issues/3659

I can't fault Hugo for that GH issue though. The author's response is valid.

I know I sound grumpy. Hugo is great. It is a far better option than Gatsby. The features that it has are very simple and straightforward (no graph nodes/graphql/webpack-esque abstractions). I actually highly recommend Hugo.

edit: To add onto my original comment, I encourage people to read this blog post.

http://tonsky.me/blog/disenchantment/
I have one of those as well. Haven't turned it on in almost forever.
Right. So many arguments just start from the premise that self-driving cars must be safer and then ask why we aren't racing to replace human drivers with them. In reality the proposition that they are safer is far from proven.
I’m just fantasizing how it would be like, composing a song on my guitar in zero gravity while glazing at the stars. Whoever gets the opportunity, I cheer for you.
I don’t think you can train people to be artists. You can train people to be better writers or painters, but I don’t think you can train people to have the mindset of an artist.
Research shows that nearly every U.S. cell provider is doing throttling
"They should have sent a poet"
Twitter will soon let you switch between chronological and ranked feeds
Possibly this is the dumbest technonerd comment ever!
A shame this was missed/overlooked/whatever by the HN crowd. Touching piece, some interesting anecdotes I’ve not heard before.
This; arguing that a computer can't drive safely in conditions where a human can't either isn't an argument against computer drivers. Just because humans sometimes get away with it doesn't make it a good idea.
The point is to end the constraint that only astronauts can go to space, to open it up to everyone.
I wouldn't be surprised if something like that existed now or in the near future. There are APIs for speed limit, it would make sense to have them for other traffic rules as well.
If monkeys can go into space I think we can send some artists.
Totally glib reply, but here it is.

If I can represent screen state as quibits, and I have a whole lot of quibits, I can represent a game as a little list of player inputs.

Set up an enormous superposition, and as players hit keys, collapse the next frame. The imaginary hardware could be super quick!

TL;DR: yeah probably, but you never know.
Technology changes fast, but technology concepts do not. More experienced engineers can recognize when a new technology is repeating an old pattern, and (if they'll listen) keep their team from repeating old mistakes.
Sounds like it is worth debating, please, provide the argument that demonstrates such a gap.
I was pretty skeptical when I heard that private citizens booked a flight on Falcon Heavy. When those plans got shelved and these popped up, I had a similar level of skepticism. I expected it to be some random celebrity that wanted to go on a fancy tour.

This is anything but that. I feel more than humbled to be wrong. Bringing a ton of artists on a once in a lifetime trip for inspiration purposes is selfless, compassionate, and warm. It’s awesome. I’m so glad I was wrong.
Meet Yusaku Maezawa, SpaceX’s First Moon Voyage Customer
I took a year doing something I had planned would take 6 months. I was inexperienced, I shipped a product that had a very niche market. I got on the PS4 appstore and the algorithm just took me down, way down. Pricing was also screwed up in 60 odd countries for the first month with no control of mine. RIP.
A genuine Hacker News comment if I've ever seen one
From Hamming's paper Mathematics on a Distant Planet (1998):

...before going farther I need to mention a few things in my life that have shaped my opinions. The first occurred at Los Alamos during WWII when we were designing atomic bombs. Shortly before the first field test (you realize that no small scale experiment can be done - either you have a critical mass or you do not), a man asked me to check some arithmetic he had done, and I agreed, thinking to fob it off on some subordinate. When I asked what it was, he said, "It is the probability that the test bomb will ignite the whole atmosphere." I decided I would check it myself! The next day when he came for the answers I remarked to him, "The arithmetic was apparently correct but I do not know about the formulas for the capture cross sections for oxygen and nitrogen-after all, there could be no experiments at the needed energy levels." He replied, like a physicist talking to a mathematician, that he wanted me to check the arithmetic not the physics, and left. I said to myself, "What have you done, Hamming, you are involved in risking all of life that is known in the Universe, and you do not know much of an essential part?" I was pacing up and down the corridor when a friend asked me what was
bothering me. I told him. His reply was, "Never mind, Hamming, no one will ever blame you." Yes, we risked all the life we knew of in the known universe on some
mathematics. Mathematics is not merely an idle art form, it is an essential part of our society.

http://libgen.io/scimag/get.php?doi=10.2307/2589247&download...
This makes me so happy :)
Are they actually going to the moon if they are only going to orbit it? Sorry my English isn’t the best
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/2018/08/29/waymos-sel...

Surprising that Waymo has figured out rain but not things like left turns. Different problem spaces I'd imagine, but still surprising.
I’m confused. I pay with PayPal balance all the time.
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The director obviously has to be Jim Cameron if his health holds up.
atleast time stamp it . god.
- Not sure why they would need to be "trained" astronauts.

- Easy doesn't seem to have any place here.

- It sounds like bringing in diversity of perspective is a large priority here, and starting with trained astronauts would severely constrain that.
There's very little a consumer can do to alter the way their ISP routes packets, however as long as the network latencies between the two machines are below ~15 ms and bandwidth up/down is 15+ Mbps, a near-native gaming cloud gaming is very much possible!

In an ideal world though, ping times would just be a function of distance.

If you're interested in hosting machines, you can check out http://vectordash.com/hosting/
anyone know if it will support pre-auth .. I own a nightclub and this would be clutch. I saw they have a preauth endpoint. But, can I preauth for $1 and capture $100
> Facebook and Google keep trampling with the so called "rights" of people successfully by peddling "free stuff"

I don't think you get this correctly.

Many people use Gmail is because it's stable and came with Google Account, so they sign up conveniently.

Plus, not many people still using email as their main day to day communication method these days. After all, there are many specialized tools out there to pick (For example, some people may use Slack for work, and Facebook for friends etc).

So, I think it's not because $50/year is expensive, rather, it's because many people don't care anymore.
Again, that depends on how you do it. Are you going to block them through argument, or positive example? Or are you going to block them through violence and suppression?

Which side is the morally better and truly better side? I think historians will be judging us by our words and actions. My argument was never that blocking X was being X. My argument is always that acting as X is being X. If Antifa wants to argue that they can use assault (or tolerate it from those wearing their colors) because they are only X% as bad as Nazis, then I think we should take them at their word and treat them if they're as bad as X% Nazis.
Do you have a source for any of that? I don't believe ISOs take on any risk. They are "independent sales organizations" and they are a dime a dozen.

They are signing up companies directly to the merchant banks each with their own underwritten merchant account. And they are a dime a dozen. They aren't taking on any risk. Just the effort to onboard new customers.
They aren't going to actually orbit the moon, they're going around the moon. It's called a "free return trajectory".

This is actually less than Apollo 8 did (edit: only talking about the orbit): Apollo 8 actually went into lunar orbit with a burn, and then left lunar orbit with another burn.

However, this is using "orbit" in its formal sense. Most people would look at the diagram of the spaceship flying around the moon and call it an "orbit". I'm not going to tell them that they're wrong to say that.
This guy is only worth $3B, he may be spending half of his entire net worth to make this happen. I hope he inspires the richest billionaires of the world to fund such lofty ventures.
Except for AFAIK there is no HotSpot VM port to MIPS, and gcj was well supported there.
I’m not sure you’re actually heading down the path of assembly in terms of the language itself, but you’re definitely moving towards the architectural lock-in of assembly.

But maybe thats fine if the language can express architectural-specific decisions (like memory layout) and abstract it away in a more sane fashion than ifdefsc and the rest of the codebase can maintain the pretense of portability.
As others have said, this is way better than anything I had anticipated this private citizen arrangement to be. What a wonderful way to kick off human space travel round 2!
On the other hand, we can afford to sacrifice a lot of performance.
It does not therefore make sense to reason from "indecent exposure is illegal in a grocery store" to "here is a set of claims I can make on a grocery store as a public space".

Then how is it that it's illegal for a grocery store to exclude people because of their race? There is clearly some reason that people can't be excluded from a such a space, while there also exist exclusive private clubs.
Much like any other company that does not require user data to maintain business. It is easy for Apple to take this stance as they are a walled system.

Though it does not say that they guarantee the apps available on the platform are also as secure.
>> Can you even train artistic talent?

Yes. 100%. It's a muscle you train.

>> Doesn't it require a natural gift that you're born with?

It helps a lot, but from my experience having parents who can support you with lessons and prop you up well into your 20s is a bigger factor to being a successful artist.

>> Not to belittle astronauts, but space travel training is more teachable than true art.

In my mind it's much harder to be an astronaut than an artist, excluding extremely elite painters and musicians. And I doubt most artists would disagree with this.
It's not really important when the switch between days occurs as long as it happens when most people are asleep. Otherwise people are just going to invent 'solar day' and make everything much more confusing.
My bank will let through thousands of dollars in ATM withdrawals in a country I've never been too. Then lock my card up when I'm trying to buy $12 of groceries in my hometown and force me to call and wait on hold to get it unlocked.
Weren't wireless providers exempt from a lot of net neutrality?
$10M-$20M is more than sufficient for a few generations (in a 100-200 years, our current understanding of the concept of money might not even be relevant, so it's pointless to plan for anything more than that). Anything more is just throwaway cash IMO. If you had the opportunity to become the first private citizen to go to the moon, you'd be stupid to not cement your legacy like that.
Not as easy as you'd think.
Astounding.

I don’t care what you have to say about Elon Musk’s flaws; he’s the most inspirational human to have lived in the past fifty years.

I am unabashedly a SpaceX fanboy.
Yeah I don't think most bosses in Boston are going to let you stay home every time it snows.
This is a good strategy, but businesses care about one thing: the bottom line.

There's no way to attach dollar values to good feedback. There's no good way to quantify technical leadership or experience. They'll fire a senior over a junior simply because they're cheaper. They'll make some vague promises about grooming the junior or providing "growth opportunities". But really, it's about the $$$.
I mean, if you are going to be THAT loose in your definition of 'discrimination', then basically everything is discrimination. It would be discrimination to hire someone who is a better programmer, because you are unfairly advantaging people who have more skill.

So yes, you are allowed to discriminate on those sorts of things. If the attribute you are discriminating for is relevant to the job, it is ok to discriminate.

Take, for example, discrimination against the physically disabled - if a construction company requires that you are able to lift 50 pound bags of concrete, it wouldn't be guilt of unlawful discrimination because that is required for the job.

On the other hand, if you require someone be able to lift a 50 pound bag, but their job is to sit at a desk and program a computer... then you would be found guilty of unfair discrimination against the disabled.
On Friday they pushed a uuid beta/submitted testflight beta, according to their latest email. I just got a waze testflight update today, so I'm assuming that was what was pushed.
"Obviously it's also true that if you can fire 10 black engineers on high salaries lots of managers will choose to do that simply because it means they don't need to fire 20 white engineers. It's the easy option."

That's how 22-35 year old you sounds.
It is certainly not a bad thing, was just asking out of curiosity
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No, that event didn't hurt the rich and powerful, just the average Joe. Something more along the lines of search history leaking or being used for insider trading. Something of that nature.
Interestingly enough, this is exactly the case in many parts of China; schools and organizations have a summer timetable and a winter timetable. I have never found this to be inconvenient, it's kind of comparable to shops having different open times on different weekdays.
the reusability is the major differentiator versus Apollo missions.
If that wasn’t surprising enough for you- there’s a cancer line that has been propagated between dogs for centuries: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canine_transmissible_venerea...
Apple also believe providing them with significant margins is also a fundamental human right.

I think this push is because other differentiators (that justify their 'premium' price) are running out...
Agreed with a caveat. Having actually worked with BofA, the amount of overhead for a contract could have put me out of business if I was not a BIG5 employee.

The big boys are not even going to consider me unless I am a safe choice (they really don't care if I am a kickass programmer who can solve their problems - they want to do business only if I am a known quantity so that they don't get fired if a deal with me go sideways).

I am really lucky to have positive cashflow because I can be picky about clients but a lot of friends ask me how to get started and my experience with cashflow is that a fantastic business with client set A can absolutely fail compared to the exact same business with client set B just because of cashflow issues.

Maybe I am too old and jaded but now I always ask people to include and test for cashflow in addition to the efficacy of their business ideas vis. market fit.

Honestly though, this becomes too demanding of entrepreneurs who are already overworked with lead gen, product design and development as is.

You should definitely write a few articles about cashflow. People don't write about it enough.
Ex-pat in Japan, Tokyo area here.

Not having to change clocks is nice. Pressure companies / employers to have flex time to allow earlier starts and earlier leaves. Even though Japan culture tends to lag 10 to 15 years behind, it does change.

Now if the rest of the world (London / New York) would stop shifting clocks around on different dates, it would make global synch ups easier to handle.
Okay, someone tells you they work the night shift -- what time that happens is location dependent and involves you looking up sunrise/sunset and guessing from there. Or you could just have time zones.
Perhaps you can elaborate?
>excluding extremely elite painters and musicians

I think that's what they're going for with this mission. Nearly every world-famous artist would be interested in something like this, so they won't be short of options. If you can, why not pick the absolute best?
I took up EE projects as a hobby! I should write some of them up, but I do some PCB layout / design and embedded systems work on my own time. Most recent was our house door opener which is spliced into the buzzer wires. I source all my components from Digikey.
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For better or worse, that wouldn't be faithful to the original C65. https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/18/C6...
I don't understand why this is hard to answer. The reason you can't do that is because the federal Civil Rights Act of 1964 forbids that explicitly, and includes its own definition of what institutions the law applies to.

I'm also a bit confused by your "then how do you..." framing, as if you might be able to find a first-principles argument to refute my argument, which is a pretty straightforward fact you can just look up in any state's indecent exposure statute.
So much solid advice in here. As a new engineering manager myself, thank you for posting this.
Alright, in order to not have to change the clocks we'll need to usher in massive societal changes that will be annoying to everyone for some hard to quantify greater good.
lol.. have an upvote.

i think everyone replying to you just got wooshed.
I apologize, but that's just silly. Private businesses are NOT platforms that should guarantee everyone the right to speak. If we follow that line of reasoning, then I suppose I could walk into any restaurant and demand to eat for free since as a private entity they shouldn't have the right to refuse me, right?

If you're making the argument that the law needs to change and these platforms need to be regulated, that's another argument. Though I can foresee how that will lead to a dark path. I strongly believe in the right of a human to speak their mind without fear of persecution, but I also think a private business has the right to refuse speech they do not like.
The person to whom I replied said it was $50 that mattered to him. That's the person who spends time on HN, is in tech and I'm guessing well paid.

I'm going to also make an educated guess that someone who meets the "Spends time on HN, is in tech and is well paid" is likely to be someone who is concerned about "privacy" as well as leaks of PI.

How can I possibly reconcile those positions with $50 per person per year is too expensive?