skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
One of my other comments on this thread includes a link to data that suggests that the aircraft's ADS-B transmitter was working until the end. The vertical speed transmitted by the ADS-B makes in-flight breakup believable, but how likely is it that the ADS-B would continue transmitting in that case? Not very, I'd guess.

Fun fact: Flight Levels are really only used at 18000 feet and above. That's where local barometric pressure is ignored and aircraft use the standard value. I believe it's a global standard to use local barometric pressure below 18000.
I thought Black Mirror was supposed to be a cautionary tale, not a business plan.
What Version of Windows Do I Have?
I believe I am acting well within the official guidelines you have posted for this site (the capitalized words for emphasis i used today are probably the only offense).

I am not introducing off-topic flamewars. Fasting as a healing mechanism has been around for centuries and is well documented in medical literature and I only raise it when it is relevant to a submission or ongoing discussion. I do not attack anyone personally and I believe I am being very civil with my comments. I do not find the basis for which you are asking me to cease bringing up a very valid option for one to explore when dealing with a health crisis.
> this whole world operates at scale. You don't bother making an ASIC unless you really need one

You are the first person in this thread about FPGAs to mention making an ASIC.
The future was supposed to have surface lighting too.
1920's all over again. Civil wars to follow.
What’s a good definition of serverless in your opinion?
Is a domain registration not a natural Monopoly? I was under the impression that if I wanted to but a domain name I would have to do it through a domain register. Is there a way that I can get a .com domain directly from the US government?
I don't mean to give the wrong impression: I'm actually highly amused by it. But at the same time, as a heuristic for judging whether something I might read is worthwhile or not... well, the author gives me the impression of being slightly off his rocker, which makes me question whether I can trust the material.
Though much less strict, this brings to mind the JPL Coding Standard for C [1] - it seems like a similar idea as a lot of JPL's rules, in that it is much more difficult to verify and ensure the stability of less static data structures; compare:

3: Use verifiable loop bounds for all loops meant to be terminating

[1] https://lars-lab.jpl.nasa.gov/JPL_Coding_Standard_C.pdf
Names are big chunky things - you want to use them as sparingly as possible, and in general they should be "well known" - meaning a list function (which does exist as pub.srv.edsu.listings.names, though it's currently not something you can request permissions to) goes pretty hard against the grain of the protocol.

Essentially, you'd only want more than one name if there's different visibility requirements for different parts of your data, or you specifically want to disconnect the state of some of data from others. All of your structure (e.g. lists, trees, lookup tables, etc.) you want to keep in the blocks.

So in your case of having multiple notes, you'd likely want the name block to keep track of the block hash of each one (so, yes, exactly as you say). And correct, if you wanted all of them you'd need to do N block-get calls. However, due to pipelining and chaining, that's not as costly as it might sound: in terms of latency it should be costless, and in terms of bandwidth the overhead is a fraction of a percent if you're using full blocks (i.e. what you'd be doing if you're concerned about bandwidth).

A lot of this stuff is quite low level (think almost SCSI kind of low level) - it's meant to be abstracted away by libraries like basic-storage.js. In that case, having multiple notes is trivial - you put each note under a different storage key, and the library sorts out how to retrieve them efficiently and update them independently, even though they're all be under the same name.

In case you haven't run into it yet, I talk a little bit more about why names are meant to be used sparingly at https://edsu.org/use-cases/storage/
I'd turn it off. Our eyes are not meant for IR flashes.

https://sciencing.com/infrared-light-effect-eyes-6142267.htm...
I can't believe you're being downvoted. The HN hivemind is the worst part of HN.
Agreed, but it also had a groundspeed of 360 kts. Combined speed is then 463 kts. It's not impossible, but getting to that speed from 295 kts at a relatively steady 5000 feet...I don't know what to make of it.
I also had a driver drive close to my place and then steal the food - there was no ability for me to rate them and support was some call center that didn’t understand the issue.

Same here, although there's never been any problem getting a refund from Uber Eats in my experience.

My house is several miles out in the middle of nowhere. Someone went to the trouble of bringing my food within one block after a 15+ minute drive, and then they abruptly cancelled the order and disappeared from the map without a trace. I'll never figure out what the point of that was, but I hope they enjoyed my sushi.
can rsync --dry-run and | output to a file?
Oregon has had 100% vote by mail for 20 years. I would think that if this was a major problem it would have shown up by now.
You clearly have never worked in the food industry.

I have, and I trust most of my neighbors to prepare a chicken cutlet with more care than any revolving-door restaurant I ever worked in.

Consider just restaurants of a rank <= Outback Steakhouse (where I was a line cook for three years). Pure minimum-wage apathy will be cooking your food. Almost anyone can do better than that, especially someone inviting people into their home.

I'm seriously having a hoot over someone on the internet using restaurant food/hygiene quality as a standard for any argument.
management and the board
agreed to the deal. Companies are not democracies , while it is nice to have grassroots approval , it is a top down process. the very nature of these transactions make it impossible to disclose until it is done.

Ultimately in a decision like this the board has only one entity to consider -shareholders , if they believe the deal will create more value to shareholders they should consider it

Value maybe subjective Of course shareholders could be against for ideological reasons and prefer not take the money, that doesn't seem to be the case here.
Would you please stop posting flamebait to HN? You've done it a lot, and it leads to shitty discussions of just the kind we don't want here.

This is something like the 7th time I've asked you this. That's a lot more slack than we cut most people. If you'd please take the spirit of this site to heart from now on, we'd appreciate it.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Copenhagen has a different cycling culture to other places. Where I live more people commute on road (racing) bikes and will shower when they arrive at work. This is because it is very hot in summer and you can't avoid getting sweaty, while in winter it is often raining and you get covered in sand that is caught in the road spray.

Many of the cycle commuters in my city also join group rides (peletons) on the weekends. So it is very common to have cycle commuters riding above 30km/hr on both shared paths (pedestrians, cyclists, scooters, dogs etc) and on the roads.

Electric assist bikes are becoming more common here, as they allow people to commute without needing to shower in summer. Legally they are restricted to a 250W motor and are also supposed to lose electric assist above 25km/hr. I routinely pass people riding these bikes when doing a training ride.

There are also quite a few people importing e-bikes and motor kits that have much more powerful motors and no speed restrictions enabled. When I am riding hard (40+ km/hr, >300W depending on wind direction) on an aero-road bike and get passed by a guy sitting upright on a mountain bike who is barely pedaling - his bike has to have a 500W or higher motor.

I would like to see the current regulations we have retained riding on shared paths, but I would also like to see the unrestricted electric bikes added as a new class for road use. A e-bike with a 500-1000W motor is easily faster than most cyclists. With modern disk brakes, stopping at speed and in the wet is less of a problem (c.f. rim brakes). The battery required also makes it easy to mandate powerful LED headlights and tail lights. Adding indicators wouldn't be hard either.
The expected number of sons is 1, and the expected number of daughters is 1 (by the framing of the problem, in every possible scenario, there is exactly one daughter), but the expected value of the ratio is not 1:1. E[X]/E[Y] = E[X/Y] is not a valid identity.

http://www.thebigquestions.com/2010/12/22/a-big-answer-2/
Fundamentals still the same from the Spoonrocket days. $15/hr to pay the drivers. 3 to 5 trips an hour. Avg ticket is $16, and the platforms (P, U, D) take a third.

What's changed?

Consumers changed. People are paying $6 for delivery. They've grown accustomed to room service.

No one's taking 60+ min for food delivery.

What's next is taking India's lead and integrating ordering, prep, delivery all in one.
This is with FaceID turned off!
Fast.AI is the best course out there if you had like to get in to applied side of deep learning. However, I wish people would be more careful about their claims. It's one thing to mechanically apply same technique to same problems. It's quite another thing to compose known techniques in a new way to solve new problems. And still quite different to invent brand new techniques to solve previously unsolvable problems. The first category is "practitioner", second is "engineer" and the third is "scientist".

To transition from practitioner to engineer, one will need to know low level details including directly relevant math and popular prior art. One of the distinguishing difference between a practitioner and an engineer is that later needs to be able do systematic debugging to identify and fix the problem. I often ask folks during interviews how they would go about when their ML model to do X doesn't work as expected. This usually reveals the difference between practitioner and engineer with high accuracy.

To transition from engineer to scientist, one needs to know much broader body of prior art and beyond directly related math. A typical interview that would differentiate between engineer and researcher would be to discuss some known unsolved problem and see if the person can elaborate details of prior art, opinions of top researchers, wins achieved so far and directions for future efforts.

This is again not to say that practitioners can't do debugging OR that engineers can't make ground breaking innovations. Faraday, Edison, Wright Brothers - all either started out as practitioners or engineers and successfully attacked some of the hardest unsolved problems of their time, never obtaining formal academic credentials. On the other end far many more academics have broken new grounds then non-academics. At the end of the day its all probabilities. Claiming that PhD is no longer required to do "AI" doesn't reveal all these subtlety and marginalizes tools and foundation that PhD equips oneself on this journey.
> Fun fact: Flight Levels are really only used at 18000 feet and above. That's where local barometric pressure is ignored and aircraft use the standard value. I believe it's a global standard to use local barometric pressure below 18000.

I don't know if there are any fun facts in this particular conversation. May the crash victims rest in peace, and may their families, friends, and colleagues somehow find peace after this tragedy.

In any case, what you're referring to is the Transition Altitude, where pilots switch from local altimeter settings to a standard setting of 29.92. In the US and Canada, this is 18,000 feet, but it varies in other countries. In Australia, for example, the transition altitude is 10,000 feet. The transition altitude in any country is supposed to be above the highest elevation of any point in the country.

That's the theory anyway: the highest elevation in Australia is 7,310 feet, but the highest elevation in North America is Denali (Mount McKinley) at 20,310 feet - which puts it up in the flight levels.

Leaving that aside, the idea is that when you're flying at lower altitudes, you not only want to know your altitude relative to other aircraft to avoid collisions, you also want to know if you will clear any obstacles on the ground. So you set your altimeter to reflect current local air pressure to get an accurate altitude above mean sea level, which also lets you determine your altitude above ground level.

But once you're well clear of any terrain, this isn't helpful. It simplifies things to have all aircraft use a common altimeter setting, even if it doesn't truly reflect local conditions. In the Flight Levels, you are no longer worried about the ground, you're only worried about other aircraft. (And Denali!)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flight_level#Transition_altitu...
I agree with you, but if the point is to help non technical people I'm not sure Functions as a Service is any better.
It turns out that

This isn't a 'it turns out that' - that's just Gab's narrative. It's a site that was built by actual bigots to provide a platform for other bigots. It's a substantial category error to equate them to any actual, principled free-speech efforts.
FlightRadar24 has a more detailed chart of the telemetry with a link to the granular data: "We have processed the granular ADS-B data received from #JT610. Last signal was received at 23:31:56.030 UTC from -5.81346, 107.12698 at 425 ft AMSL. Final ADS-B data received from the aircraft indicates a high rate of descent."

https://twitter.com/flightradar24/status/1056758281929154565

(FlightRadar24: "A word of caution: ADS-B data can be incredibly useful, but to speculate on a cause at this point would be conjecture. The Flight data recorder and Cockpit voice recorder will play an important role in the investigation, as always. #JT610")
They probably don’t much care for you or for me, but at least some people will get audited every year, at which point they have the usual remedies: information sharing agreements with foreign governments and financial institutions plus “OK, show us your paperwork.”
Naked short selling [1] and short and distort [2][3] were also a big part of the pump and dump then the crash, they nearly broke the entire market.

> During the takeover of The Bear Stearns Companies by J.P. Morgan Chase in March 2008, reports swirled that short sellers were spreading rumors to drive down Bear Stearns' share price. Democratic Senator Christopher Dodd felt this was more than rumors and said, "This is about collusion." Chase was victimized by a similar "short and distort" scheme six years earlier when rumors arose about its purported relationship with Enron.

Naked short selling rules went into effect Thursday, Sept. 18, 2008 three days after the Sept. 15, 2008 Great Recession cliff that dropped Lehman and kicked it off [3]. Much cheaper to buy value and extract it when it is cheaper from a crash, the worst kind of players in the market extracted the value from the value creators.

Lots of the games played then are back with hedge funds creating movement to skim, short and distort and in some cases try to shakeup companies [3][4]. Amazon, Tesla, Apple, and many more are getting these attacks currently, we aren't ready for another big game, they might truly break public markets next time.

[1] https://www.sec.gov/news/press/2008/2008-204.htm

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Short_and_distort

[3] https://www.sec.gov/news/press-release/2018-190

[4] https://corpgov.law.harvard.edu/2017/11/27/short-activism-th...
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This article is a piece of shit that doesn't present any major shortcomings of the Python language. Additionally, it's simply incorrect in its claim about Python's copy semantics for variables. This is the garbage that makes HN stink.
I have a one-person startup, and sure, it's more of a lifestyle business. But it's fully automated and provides passive income, so it's pretty awesome. (Not sure if that fits the definition of "lifestyle business".) I don't feel like I need a co-founder to get different perspectives; I have customers (first and foremost), friends, and plenty of internet communities where I can ask for advice and feedback (Stripe Atlas, Indie Hackers, HN, Reddit, etc.)

I wouldn't trade my autonomy and independence for anything, and I'm really glad that I don't need to chase after an exit with a 10 year deadline. The other important point is that this business should give me a really solid base for pursuing even bigger ideas in the future. Hopefully I will be able to keep this running in the background, and then go after some bigger ideas where I do actually want to raise VC funding and hire a team, because I won't need to take a salary.
Please don't post personal swipes like "calm down a little" and "take a deep breath", even if someone else is wrong or misbehaving.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Crossing into flamewar will get you banned here. Please post civilly and substantively, or not at all.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
> Lightning is broken, sadly - not enough trust.

Can you elaborate on this?
I'm not really sure how an audit of an overseas taxpayer would work. Uhm...e.g. does the IRS pay for translation from Chinese or does the taxpayer?

Paper work isn't even standardized, you aren't getting a W2, it will just be random stuff you collect to prove your income. And even then, the IRS still doesn't care where your money actually came from, just that it is all reported.
I get food from UberEats and DoorDash that are still hot to the touch. I’ve had some food that I had to cool down. This is in stark difference from delivery in the 90s (the last time I got delivered food). I’m very willing to pay extra for this and not have to pay tip to the restaurant.
The problem is Canada has very weak AML rules to begin with, and even weaker capacity to investigate and prosecute violations of those rules successfully.

Canada doesn't really have a specialized national police force - the RCMP's primary function is to be beat cops in rural areas of the country - and it has no equivalent of the SEC (the Supreme Court ruled the federal government doesn't have the authority to set one up). So the highly specialized capabilities needed to investigate trans-national white-collar crime just isn't there. It's hard to take an agency that primarily writes traffic tickets in Yellowknife and task it with tracing sophisticated international money laundering.
>What is an actual phenomenon that is well modeled by a poisson process?

I used it in a cell tissue simulation where the user could define how frequently the cells divide. If you start with 100 cells and want them each to divide, on average, every N iterations, using a Poisson formula to decide if a cell splits or not based on a random number is ideal, very precise (in the aggregate), and avoids a lot of odd artifacts.
Oh man, I'm old. Haven't heard "gnuplot" since my second job in 1988 (departmental programmer for Dept of Physics, Monash University; which is where my HN username comes from btw).
Yes, gnuplot is cool. One of the oldest OS codebases still in active use I reckon.
The rules vary by school and state and whether the contributions used school resources or were created as coursework.
Care to explain how historically low interest is bad for governments in debt? Because that is completely the opposite of how it actually works for lenders (high interest destroys them).
Not to disagree with you, because I understand your point of view, but for me the hiding doesn't come across as censoring so much as marking as "off topic, meta discussion".

People who care about that kind of thing click through and read it, otherwise it lets people skip over to read comments about the article.
You took this thread on an offtopic tangent. When people do that by baiting the discussion into being about some hot generic controversy (Rust vs. Go! type system wars!), thread quality suffers. The generic baity discussions are all the same, and usually become flamey too.

Other users have started to complain about you doing this repeatedly, so we need to ask you to stop. No more of this, please, regardless of how much you like Rust.
Given the erratic altitude and speed throughout the entirety of flight, and the fact the pilots radioed to turn back pretty early on, could it have been something similar to the Peruvian flight where the static ports were covered, leading to lack of basic altitude and speed data and causing a crash?

(The other possibility I can think of is icing, but since Indonesia is a tropical country, and the flight never got above 5000 feet or so, I'm guessing it wasn't.)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aeroper%C3%BA_Flight_603
On Firefox, I am unable to access the comments. Clicking on the comments link results in nothing happening.
In some courses publishing coursework on GitHub can break academic integrity rules related to plagiarism. It’s hurt students as more hiring processes assume portfolios. CS departments are behind the times.
PS: I can see a couple of use cases for it - e.g. teams working on projects or tracking media coverage of specific issues. [Disclaimer - I know Jed]
Yes, people do have responsibility for their own finances. We blame people for mindlessly speculating in cryptocurrencies, there is no reason to not do the same when they take on an adjustable rate mortgage that takes 3/4 of the family income to pay.

Nobody struggling needs to buy a house. That's what renting is for.
I don't want to ban you and don't personally have any objection to your view on this. But you've created so many flamewars by posting about it that your account has basically become a troll on the issue. Indeed users were complaining to us the last time this came up.

If you keep doing it, we're going to have to ban you. Regardless of how right you are or feel you are, it's more important to avoid degenerate discussion here.
Don't most providers let you roll your own images? Outside of some (mundane) virtualization issues, you should be able to get BSD images running fine at places like Linode, et al.
What brand/model are those servers?
Pretty sure the gp is referring to employees and top management, rather than shareholders. I.e. the actual daily functioning portion of the company.
Amazon Kindle Paperwhite 4 is available this week
Oh no :( Condoleances to the familiy of the victims, it's really sad how that part of the world keeps having really bad plane crashes year after year
If I were sure it's ok and the university/company is not going to be mad at me I would just publish my code as public domain and let whoever can make use of it decide on themselves. Perhaps some FSF-approved developer would pick the code up if it is useful to them.
I think the "paradox" comes from how people implicitly assume "any number of sons" is somehow distributed or weighted in a way that favors towards numbers of 1 or above.

In contrast, "0 sons" is going to describe a full half of all marriages.
Not a real option for some of us.
China’s Maxim: Leave No Access Point Unexploited
The law says that the regulator has a bunch of power to regulate the banks. They are following the law and the constitution, all of it. Stop making up bullshit conspiracy theories.