skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
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Indeed. 'Notices' can be almost anything.

I was doing simulated flights over the continental US recently. Even small airports may have a lot of NOTAMs. Some are important (for instance, warning about objects close to some parts of the runway, or issues with a runway, or even animals or birds), but many others are completely useless.

Noise abatement restrictions ironically add a lot of NOTAM 'noise'. There should be a separate category for these, as these are not safety related.
Yikes. An "escape hatch" is a funny way to describe economic espionage.
Opening Arguments. It's a law podcast that's packed full of information about current events and is very accessible.
They are more commonly found aboard 'experimental' aircraft because of the certification issues you pointed out.
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What does this language do better than other languages? What can I do with this language more easily? Where is it most useful?

A really useful programming language website would present a medium-sized project, showing the strengths and weaknesses of the language. For example, you could show how Conway's Game of Life would be written in your language -- including graphics and parallelism.

Good luck with your website and your new language!
Gotcha, ya the single post was making it confusing, much more clear now. I'd definitely consider including a snappy couple lines of text that explain how it works.
Game development was a major driver for the design of Skip but for another reason: the GC.

The big problem with languages with GC is that it is impredictable: when the amount of allocated memory globally passes a certain threshold, then a GC pass happens and it’s unclear how much time it’ll take and you may miss your frame.

The idea of Skip is that GC always or never triggers for some functions. So if while you're developing your game/app the time it takes to GC is within the bounds you wanted, then it’ll keep behaving this way in production.

If it is too expensive for your use case, then you can optimize that specific function (and what it calls) using a profiler. You don’t have to think about the context of the entire app to figure out how to reduce GC pauses.
You were the main inspiration for this! Hope it’s okay I used the name! :)
Definitely not, unless they do some amazing magic with restricting resource usage by people's avatars. I can literally put a raytracer inside a shader and upload it. There are worlds that drop down to 30fps on my overclocked water-cooled i7-6700k & 1080ti gaming pc. VRChat's performance demands entirely depend on the world you're in and the amount of optimisation work people have put into their avatars.
I see nothing wrong with them charging money for their work they just can't depend on being able to exercise absolute control over the presentation because instead of being dumb data to be displayed on a remote device its code to be run on the end users device.

You can't separate all the interesting aspects of this distinction and ignore the ones you don't like.
Another interesting one is the guy that was suffering from hypoxia.

"Unable... to control... altitude"
"Unable... to control... airspeed"
"Unable... to control... heading"
"Other than that, everything A-OK!"

Guy landed safely after ATC realized it was hypoxia and ordered the flight to descend.

EDIT: link https://fearoflanding.com/accidents/accident-reports/hypoxia...
> Does there ever come a point where they should be normalized?

The ideal situation is no tariffs on either side, which is normalized.

> for certain situations?

For any given economic scenario there's a practical intervention that would result in a better result than what the theory suggests is the best expected result. There's also an infinite number interventions that result in a worse outcome. The problem is, how do you know what the right intervention is? You don't.

> From most of what I've read in mainstream news coverage, this topic seems to be considered not valid for discussion, as if the answer is self-evident

It's not self-evident, the question just has remained settled for over a century. Economists disagree over all kinds of things, this isn't one of them.
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Imagine if we lived in a society where these stories were about housing startups, not hotel startups. Food production startups instead of food packaging startups. Public infrastructure projects instead of scooter renting apps. Actual creation of wealth and value added to the economy instead of endless insipid rent-seeking, shuffling value around from middleman to middleman until one of them figures out a more efficient way to extract.
This is interesting. My PC is in a little office; if I want to play things sprawled out, I've got a Steamlink (after they went on sale for $5) attached to my TV in the other room. If I wanted to use VR, I'd need to move the PC into the TV room and clear some space.

... or, I could run some long cables. Out of interest, how long are the cables in your setup, and how well does it work?
Hacker News is full of capitalists and libertarians who hate any mention of alternative economic systems.
This submission talks about it: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17915049
It's pretty common for CCD cameras to sense near infared as well as visible light, without a filter to block one or the other.
Palmer left Facebook/Oculus last March.
Yeah, it seems programming as a career sucks. But the ability, skill itself is wonderful, nothing else compares to it.
I did something similar back in 2013-2014 for the initial Makers UPV blog[1], which was much later migrated to Ghost.

The underlying technology we used is drive-db[2], a library I made to use a spreadsheet as the database. Then just used an obscure-ish Google docs API to retrieve each article content. When you wanted to publish an article, you had to create the doc, publish to the web and copy the link to the spreadsheet.

This looks like a very well put together product of the hacky solution I did back in the day, so kudos!

Edit: the best feature of this is that several people can collaborate in real time on an article! Something that Wordpress doesn't have and was used a lot for us in the beginning.

[1] https://makersupv.com/

[2] https://github.com/FranciscoP/drive-db
So the accredited investor requirement doesn't apply in the case you stated?
Show HN: Custom YOLO implementation for CPU real time face detection
That is true, but poor whites are just as likely to be suburban as they are rural. There are also cities that are famous for white poverty; e.g. those in much of the rust belt where Trump got much of his support and places like Spokane and Portland that act as magnets for huge rural regions.
TCAS alerts about "conflicts" with other aircraft on take-off and landing all the time. It's just that those are almost always false positives, so they get ignored.

There are many aircraft on the ground at airports. Given the high approach speeds, this is probably a non-trivial problem.
Could your business benefit from a scheduling solution for your customers?
It's definitely possible. You need to "break the cycle" by adding an additional layer. You can encode any graph as an array of objects were you replaced the pointers with indexes within the array. Of course, the granularity (how big the arrays are) is up to you, and there is a tradeoff here.

The other very important thing to note is that Skip has a memory model suitable for that use case. Every function has a GC overhead, but that overhead is non-contextual. Meaning, the GC will collect the memory for only one function (instead of the entire heap). This is possible thanks to the guarantees of the type-system.
> without advanced tracking.

And thus a completely different experience.

The biggest game changers in VR (in order) are:

1. High refresh rate (DK1 had this. So does the Go). The world feels "solid and out there"...

2. 6DOF head tracking (a huge difference - to the extent that I tend to use the term "real VR" and "sort of VR" to distinguish the two). The world continues to feel solid when your head moves even by small amounts...

3. 6DOF controllers (depends on the experience. 3DOF controllers suck but there's plenty of incredibly immersive experiences that get round this - basically by not using the controllers much. Trickier for games but for narrative and artsy things - it's totally doable)
This sentence right here is incredibly vague:

> Marcus also accuses Acton of “slow-playing” the implementation of a feature that would let businesses message WhatsApp users and ultimately help with monetization.

What does "monetization" mean? Charging more? Ads? Selling user data? If it means ads or selling user data, then that would directly violate the contract that Acton and Facebook agreed to, and thus Acton would have zero reason to implement it at all.
PDF[1] of a 16 page technical paper titled "Pumped Thermal Grid Storage with Heat Exchange" (Feb 5th, 2016) by Robert Laughlin, Dept of Physics, Stanford University, link to from the article.

It would be great if this system can be built and works well. Months of energy storage at pumped hydro efficiencies are predicted.

[1]http://www.w2agz.com/Library/Storage/rbl-storage-05feb16%20(...
I hear you. Healthy skepticism here is important. I want to also suggest that the longer you stare at faces, the worse you'll be at drawing any conclusions. It's really hard to say yes or no...it's just not solid enough evidence to be conclusive. Maybe it's plenty to take this hypothesis and drill really deep for more.
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Right, that's true in the actual world. I'm trying to imagine a world where a startup is developing nuclear power for the very first time, which includes developing/building any enrichment technologies their reactor might depend upon.

I don't think that a reactor requiring enriched fuel is a good Very First Reactor design -- and the actual first reactors did not require enriched fuel -- but enrichment came up in the course of answering whether a startup could invent a modern reactor in the absence of an existing nuclear industry.
NPR is, there are mixed feelings. I think they take themselves and their ideas too seriously.

For all the world NPR (Radiolab, Hidden Brain) are like one of those friendly Christian persons who assumes you're one of their co-religionists. "Join our band of Enlightened Citizens" said the exquisitely specific subspecies of American - it's not the worst thing in the world but it is uncomfortably "Aren't we all Brothers in Christ, Brother!". Ironic but they are parochial, their version of world events is a sort of intellectual McMansion. They are bits glued on, there's a few zero pitch roofs in there somewhere and nobody paying attention expects it to last.

I don't have sympathy for the other team either but only one has enough gravitas to deliver those sermons. I don't hate either belief system but I do wish they'd take something out of Joe Rogan's book. Nobody watching or listening to him is under the impression Joe is delivering 100% serious gospel truths to us. Dan Carlin will often tell me of his beliefs, but I'm never made to feel it's anything other than his strongly held opinion which could be mistaken. The 'pro' media - even their conversations are really monologues.

I'm not as allergic to Planet Money and I suspect that show is more popular than the others because it stays on point and is shorter - so the evangelism becomes more like Thought for the Day if it slips in.
Anyone get the feeling that Acton is, for want of a better term, one of us?

I feel like you'd see him here on HN advocating for the moral tech choices he's actually made, at great personal expense?
Fun set of riddles/brainteasers
What history books are you reading? Boycotts never work unless the product of the company in question is the reason for it.

Yes, the one you're thinking of included. Before she stepped on any bus, Rosa Parks volunteered to be the spark that the NAACP needed to accomplish their long-term goal of putting Civil Rights in the headlines. The leaflets were already printed and the picket signs were already made. The Montgomery Bus Company capitulated days after the boycott was announced, but the NAACP refused to end it until Parks' case had gone all the way to the Supreme Court and civil rights was dominating the headlines. It was a bit part of a grand political opera, and the Montgomery Bus Company was never the true target, just the excuse. The boycott wasn't effective, the campaign was effective. The wallet was just a stepping stone to the big prize: the vote.

Nothing can stop an anti-consumer corporation with monopolistic power except government intervention. Roosevelt didn't bust trusts by politely recommending alternatives.
A big part of that is the different architecture of consoles though - the graphics and CPU are highly integrated and share RAM so you don't have to do everything over PCI.

This is almost certainly based on an Android phone so I expect it to have the same performance limitations as those.
Brilliant. Best of luck to you.
Ask HN: Does talking to the manager who I'd be working with help my prospects?
For the past couple of years, I've always interacted with recruiters and my experience interviewing at these companies has always been so-so.
Is it reasonable for me to ask the recruiter to connect me with the hiring manager prior to the interview?
Is that even helpful?

Is there even a service that allows me to talk to managers directly skipping the recruiters altogether? Cause that's something I'd sign up for.
I already know my qualifications are worth getting an interview. But I want to increase my interview chances.
That's sad that liberals consistently condemn christian fundamentalism but never fail to coddle Muslim fundamentalism out of some misguided liberal virtue signalling. Muslim women had it much better 40 years ago. Why are liberals so quick to side with their oppressors?

https://www.cnn.com/2014/06/05/asia/gallery/afghan-women-pas...
Because host machines don’t have USB B connectors, you typically only see them on hubs and printers.
I also recommend blendle. It has the most reasonable payment system.

btw, I've purchased a few articles from Der Spiegel but they were around 0,75€.
I run a pfsense + unifi network for the home and it's fantastic.
Uber to Pay $148M in Settlement Over 2016 Data Breach
The amount of verification required depends on the data. Simple data, such as sports results -- coming from high-quality sources doesn't require much verification, and can be automated. More complex data requires human verification, but that will gradually be replaced by distributed machine learning.
Cool. Won't it break if a function is "pure" from the practical point of view but in fact uses some variables (e.g. configuration parameters) declared outside of it?
Cool product.

What's your stack?

Is the persisted request/response information encrypted in any way? Any chance of a locally hosted version being available?

What is your growth strategy? Who are your competitors? How long have you been working on this product?
Why do you think the article is aspirational? It is Bloomberg: the point of the article is to tell people about the business and the fundraising. Both are newsworthy and useful for the target audience (investors, not you). It is like buying a Toyota and then complaining because it isn't a Ferrari.
These are all fantastic things but there's multiple workarounds - from entirely baked lighting to clever realtime shortcuts in the hands of a good artist. I think great art direction is more important for VR than GPU advances.
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Ask HN: Why is HN so obsessed with Google?
So many top articles recently are about a Google product, a startup doing their own “privacy-first” version of a Google product, or someone talking about a Google product.

Why the obsession/hatred? Are they really as bad as 90s Microsoft?
Perhaps not the answer you are looking for, but the super successful launches I’ve seen have built press and public interest long before launch day.

I’ve never been a part of the marketing side, so I can’t tell you how, sadly.
Amazon launches Scout, a machine learning-powered visual shopping tool
Ah, I didn’t know that u2F was even more phish-proof. Good to know!
JPMorgan widens blockchain payments to more than 75 banks
The article actually mentions 4chan, so you're not wrong. That's exactly where it comes from. As a troll, to screw with people who still haven't grasped "how the internet works". Lest people have forgotten about waterproof iPhones, microwaving your iPhone to charge it quickly, making "color crystals" (read: mustard gas), etc. It's a case of people having a laugh at people who really believe it's an alt-right thing. Although it may eventually become an "alt-right" thing. Poe's law and all that. But the thing about the "alt-right" is that they don't exactly try to hide it, most wear it as a badge of honor, and so don't need silly secret hand symbols to signal to one another... Don't forget that the Gay Pride flag is also a symbol of the "alt-right", so claims /pol/, the "gathering place" of the "alt-right".

Try to explain Bowsette to people who just "don't get internet culture". Internet culture has become a giant, collective in-joke that makes fun of people who aren't in on the joke. Think of it like someone who always pulls the chain of their gullible friend. Things like "Taurine is bull sperm, by the way." to mess with their naive friend drinking an energy drink. It's that kind of humor but on the scale of millions instead of single-digits/dozens. Ever get a group of friends in on a joke? Now imagine if millions of people you've never met or spoken to were in on the same joke.

I'm personally fascinated by internet culture - I "keep up" with it in the same way other people would keep up with celebrities. The ability for ideas to propagate across the network in the matter of days, sometimes hours, is nothing short of amazing.
The technology cannot support millions of transactions per second - at least not in the case of a bitcoin blockchain which uses a PoW consensus mechanism. I am not sure how to respond to the second statement as there is some hand-waving and dogmatic proclamation that scalability is not an issue. Saying that cryptocurrencies are used in certain cases today and therefore - scalability is not an issue is like saying you once ate an apple and therefore all apples are edible.
The killer issue for VR is latency. If you have a lot of latency between the motion and the rendering people will throw up. And it's much easier to control that latency on a mobile phone platform than on a PC.

John Carmack has written extensively on this subject if you are interested. One example he gives is that graphics card drivers will aggressively buffer draw commands to increase performance and image fidelity at the cost of latency. In a normal game that's no problem but that is terrible for VR. Even a little bit of delay between movement and the display reflecting your new position is nauseating.

On mobile, the latency can be highly controlled from the driver, OS, and custom hardware even while sacrificing other performance.
I'm curious what your thoughts are on Nim. Especially seeing as we're both FB employees :)

I think you've done a really good job with Skip. I really love the incremental type-checking. It's a breath of fresh air to see a compiler created with IDEs in mind from the beginning.

Effect tracking is something that Nim also boasts so I'm curious how that works in Skip. Are there any docs/articles going into detail about this?
Not once. I have been doing it for just over 30 years now and I run up the steps to fire up emacs every morning. I have lived through an amazing time, from an Apple ][+ with 16k plugged into a black and white TV to mobile and communication technology today that feels like science fiction.

I am very excited to see what the next ten years or so will bring.
> It shows that the government believes some principles should be above making a quick buck.

It shows that congress believes cheap PR for them is above somebody else making a quick buck.
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I've been developing for the Mirage and it's a great device (if you ignore the controllers). You have to make graphical compromises but there's multiple ways to create similar effects to PC VR. In terms of raw triangle throughput it's surprisingly capable.
We need to admit the Cold War is back. Is anyone else as terrified as I am of the assault on reason from all sides right now?
His illusion of integrity is baffling. It's an app. Take the money.
Microsoft's AI-powered Sketch2Code builds websites and apps from drawings
There is a lot of rubbish out there - I probably spend as much time looking for gold as I do listening.
Can't find it, it may have been on chat.

But I did find a very similar request here with a work around: https://www.reddit.com/r/pihole/comments/49ckht/feature_requ...

So I understand you don't control the lists, but you do control the oobe and it seems like it might not be working for some people.
In what way does this fact "shutdown the conversation"?
Isn’t this out side the jurisdiction of US courts? This product isn’t operating in the US, so I’d be surprised if the court would do anything...

To clarify I’m not a google Stan, I don’t even use gmail, it’s just that Google isn’t the only American business to launch in China, why is google being singled out here?
Fair point. Our largest Python image has only 255 Mb of Python dependencies and ~50 Mb of source code. If we could use alpine (our compliance auditors strongly prefer centos base images), it would only be ~400 Mb. This is easily an order of magnitude bigger than an equivalent Go program, but still quite a lot better.
Conversations with Tyler.
Moss is one of the most beautiful VR titles out there. I'm very interested to see how it translates to a GPU a couple of orders of magnitude less powerful.
Edit: I'm an idiot didn't realize hacker news was actually paginated
Cool! Building big-office/building-size WiFi networks had always been such a huge pain... Thank you for sharing your experience!
Panasonic completing 3 new cell production lines at Tesla’s Gigafactory
Snappy comebacks aside, your original post is a load of hot nonsense. I’m not sure what argument you’re expecting when you post the lunatic fringe on an article about quantum physics. Your first link is religious, your second a video I’m not clicking, and the third is more of the first religious stuff. How’s this for an argument? I’ll respect your religion if you keep it out of my science.
UK issues first-ever GDPR notice in connection to Facebook data scandal
FCC OKs Plan for 5G Deployment by Overriding Some Local Rules
The ego is astounding. Its an entertainment app. It's not cancer research.
Yep. It's interesting to see how much cheaper some no-name Android tablets were from similarly specced phones.
Indeed. They were the inspiration for this visualization. I wanted to do something for my book with Jeremy Howard https://mlbook.explained.ai/ and those guys show the way, but of course it isn't a general library. Love that r2d3.us page.
Even though the top 99.9th percentile companies account for half of YC's return, it's possible that the 90th percentile companies nevertheless all produce a great return, more than sufficient to subsidize the 1-89th percentile, and YC just aims for that.
I guess I can understand why gen Xers are trying to build rockets to get off of this rock. No place for them in the system.