skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> it's in your own damn text

The quote is accurate. Your paraphrase of it is not.

> I'm perfectly happy to hear your explanation.

OK.

My invocation of the halting problem did not apply to "any argument", it applied to one specific argument, namely, the argument that because I was ignorant about the details of modern reverse-engineering techniques, that therefore my conclusion about the likely security of iPhone was wrong. There is still the possibility that someone else could raise a different argument for why iPhones should be trusted to which the halting-problem objection would not apply.

Also, I did not "dismiss" the reverse-engineering argument. It's possible that the reverse-engineering community has figured out some devilishly clever way to work around the halting problem for all practical purposes, and that I'm just unaware of this. If they have, I'm perfectly open to being convinced. (But I'll give you long odds against.)
I think only misinformed, powerless people listen to laymen economists.
Docs need to keep a history for multiple reasons, from insurance to malpractice lawsuits, so no.
Where does this metric come from?
For existing database design for many, sure. This requires rethinking how you access your data and changing the architecture and data flows accordingly. I am not in any way suggesting it would be trivial for existing applications to suddenly do this. It requires forethought.
I've noticed this too. On top of that, they nag you consistently to install the app. They have an option to disable the nagging. However, even with this option disabled, they still nag you via ads and every time you refresh the page it blinks a distracting "use app" animation at the top right. Reddit is in a downward spiral and I have no problem discontinuing the use of a web site I have been using for over a decade. I've done it before.
TBH: Aerion has more money, better tech and better technical, monetary and partner backing. Boom's timeline is extremely unrealistic. Aerion will fly around 2024 (give them an extra year as complex product timelines slip), and they have first-mover advantage. Aerion has flown numerous airfoil cross-sections on the bellies of research jets and is likely working on PoC for tech & subsystems, and design. Boom's website is mostly PR & wire-frames.. ambiguously indistinguishable from a scam without seeing other forms of validation (i.e., results (full-scale jigs in that hanger in Denver), partnerships, hires, orders). If Boom wants to secure more funding and orders, they're going to need publish more info to facilitate due-diligence.

http://www.fortworthbusiness.com/news/bass-backed-aerion-giv...

https://boomsupersonic.com/xb-1 (oh boy, strips of carbon fiber and a 1m x 3m hand-laid cross-section)
I think this is very much the case, and most administrators are looking to make sure that billing tasks are completed in a quick and fulfilling matter. IMHO, this is where people should be concerned: one of the primary goals of these products now becomes collecting the data that the insurance companies most want collected.
"Extremely painful stomach cancer ruled out"
> As a point of reference - Google’s TPU V1, which is the one that Google uses to actually run neural networks (the other versions are optimized for training) is very similar to the specs I’ve outlined above.

The TPU V1 is a 2015 chip (publicly announced in 2016, and that Google had been using internally for over a year). 4 years is a big lag in terms of technology.

Additionally, the comment about "actually run neural networks " seems to be, AFAIK, plainly wrong. The first version was limited to inference because it could only perform integer operations, while V2 and onward support both training and inference, as they can perform float operations.

TPU V1 was never available to the public, but both V2 and V3 are available on Google Cloud. I don't have any info on it, but at this point, I'd expect all V1 chips to have been deprecated and likely removed from production, given the savings in space and power from V2 and V3.
The R&D that went into your phone can be derived from wall street types buying cell phones in the 90s.

As technology gets better, the probability that it will become affordable to the masses increases greatly. It's not guaranteed, but its definitely non-zero.
Why DevOps Use DBaaS to Optimize Application Development​: Database-As-a-Service
>If it was hard to get people to test drive your app, then 90% of app installs would not be test runs. They would be one time permanent installs.

That doesn't logically follow.

Consider the possibility: Only 1 in 1000 of people who learn about your app is persuaded to install it. And then, of the small number who install it, 90% of those uninstall after 10 minutes.

I've exaggerated the numbers to make the point.

The point is it can be hard to get people to test drive your app and also have most installs be test runs.

They are not mutually exclusive.
I am surprised, given that humans seem to drive mostly by a pair of video inputs.

Can you go into depth about why this comparison is inappropriate, why it unlikely to be solvable in this way?

(I can certainly understand “not now”, but your claim seems rather stronger than that).
It's not as uncommon as you think. I'm both a paramedic and a developer for an EHR, and we have a number of other medical professionals (including a physician) in various product related roles.
"I have a high tolerance for pain"

I know you said "apparently", but how can you know this for a fact?

How can anyone's pain tolerance be objectively measured? I've always wondered about this...
There's a government document for that too!

https://www.opm.gov/policy-data-oversight/employee-relations...

But the short answer seems to be (from a cursory skim) that they are considered AWOL and that this is a reprimand/PIP/firing kind of situation. Same thing as just not showing up for work. They're not allowed to use previously accrued sick days or leave during a special situation like this. Obviously if it happens at a large enough scale, they probably won't just fire everyone, but there's a certain amount of game theory going on here to be sure. If SOME people don't show up, maybe management will let it slide, if LOTS of people don't show up, who gets in trouble?
They get $16 an hour.

What's that like compared to other jobs?
You’re not wrong, but all such knots are trivial in 4D. The math is discussed here: https://math.stackexchange.com/questions/1426501/why-are-all...
The ROI is not there, when there are significant costs to security, and no repercussions after getting hacked.

Without a solid ROI, it probably won't turn into a gold rush anytime soon.
I can't recall ever finding a useful app through the app store. There are plenty of useful apps on my phone, but I discovered them through Google or personal recommendations.

The comment that sparked this whole thread was "The major advantage of the App Store (primarily for consumer apps though) is the fact that there's some kind of filtering at place". I don't think that's true - I think that the app stores are so littered with junk and offer so little curation that finding something on an app store is a fool's errand.

From a developer's perspective, I don't think that a native app offers any advantages in terms of discoverability or onboarding. The app stores are full of polished, well-designed apps with incredibly low download counts. A native app might be stickier than a web app, it might offer a better user experience in some cases, but installation presents a natural obstacle to previewing and sharing. I think that developing for the web should be the default choice unless you have a compelling justification for going native.
What are the main ways for the consortium to extract value from #0 ?
What lobbyists are allowed to give congress people is very limited. In most cases, food and non-alcoholic beverages is all.
It's a common joke because drinking water at a bar is seen as wimpy or uncool. Put another way, the only way the joke works is if we all agree that there's something wrong with drinking water instead of alcohol. I agree with PakG1's reading.
This is equivocation - parent was discussing the founders' integrity in the sense of whether they are running a scam, not the broader moral integrity of developing this technology.

While I am dubious about commercial supersonic flight (at least without significant investments in reducing emissions, though avoiding afterburning should already help), improved designs will at the very least lead to developments in the field, and possibly in related fields such as suborbital flight and spaceplanes.
There are multiple reasons for this, in no small part because what people think EMR's are and what they really are is very different.

Medical tech has the seemingly simple barriers voting has, but that once you incorporate it into a system they because heavily limiting and expensive.
Unfortunately, OP's argument makes no sense (especially for someone who says they used to work in finance):

"In 2004, the rating agency Moody’s Investors Service downgraded the Bowie bonds (to Baa1, a step above “junk” status)...Yet this downgrade only would’ve been a problem had Prudential wanted to sell its bonds, as they were now considered to be of lesser credit quality. As far as we know, Prudential didn’t. Instead, the Bowie bonds sat in Prudential’s coffers, generating who knows how much in terms of royalty payments for a decade. It’s likely his royalties decreased in the early 2000s, but Bowie was never in any remote danger of losing his songs."

The price of a bond is merely the value of its future cash flows... If the price fell as Moody's thought (to just above junk!), that implies the expected cash flows (royalties) did too, because the royalties determine the price. It is irrelevant to the question of profit whether Prudential sold them or not - selling/holding was merely a question of whether they wanted to take their losses up front (by selling them at the now lower market value) or over time (by receiving lower royalties than they had predicted when they negotiated to buy the bonds).

And we can guess pretty safely that the Bowie bonds did not do well. They were sold at the height of a bubble before the Internet impact on sales became apparent, no one wanted to do such deals after a few imitators did, the decay in bond quality was so obvious a ratings agency would downgrade them, Prudential doesn't appear to want to discuss them given the paucity of available details in this and other writeups I've seen (despite the glamor of the association & being one of the very few financial instruments the public is interested in), and Bowie's career during the described bond period wouldn't've helped the royalties outperform the general music market either (some anniversary albums, plus a lot of live touring whose income presumably didn't go to the bonds - and perhaps that was precisely why he did so many, a kind of moral hazard).
Something as simple as valet parking could save 45 minutes! Very low tech.
What part of TSA screening do you object to? The ID check, or the actual screening of bags?

It’s true that TSA security has been foiled by various “red team” exercises, sometimes in comical/embarrassing fashion. And, there is probably bloat in the agency, as well as problems with the contracting process for companies selling equipment. No one likes having to take off their shoes, myself included. Maybe policies around liquids and gels should be revisited.

At the same time, I think it’s unknowable how a return to pre-9/11 airport security would fare in today’s world; namely a world where private companies were “responsible” for screening, with the FAA providing oversight. See for example: http://www.cnn.com/2004/US/01/27/911.commis.knife/.

> “At the time of the attacks, commission staffers testified, the FAA prohibited passengers from boarding aircraft with knifes having blades longer than 4 inches, tear gas, mace and similar chemicals.

> Except for guns, large knives, explosives and incendiaries, carriers and screening contractors were allowed to use "common sense" in determining what was prohibited on planes, the staffers said.”

In today’s world, I’m not sure leaving airport security to the “free market” is necessarily a good idea. If there are new types of explosives, will private companies be able/willing to buy new equipment to deal with “improbable” threats?

TSA also deploys agents around the world to screen flights coming inbound to the US that originate in countries that can’t necessarily perform their own screenings. Do we expect private companies to pay Americans to live abroad? Or will they rely on poorly paid locals to do the job, maybe without background checks (if it’s even possible).

From a game theoretic perspective, I think it’s reasonable to assume that TSA provides some deterrent effect. Stringent security procedures do reduce the action/choice set of would-be terrorists. Post-9/11 flights within the US, and to the US, have not been affected by terrorist attacks, incompetent shoe and underwear bombers aside.

Ancillary to the job that TSA does, do you object to heavily armed police or military at airports? Because incidents like these: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brussels_bombings, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2016_Atat%C3%BCrk_Airport_atta..., https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2011_Frankfurt_Airport_shootin..., do happen.

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FWIW, in Israel, the security process is far more stringent. You have pre-airport physical checks, interviews, passing of luggage through pressurized chambers etc. If you fly El-Al anywhere in the world, there is an extra headache associated with additional screening. But, the record of an El-Al (0 successful hijackings) leads many who travel to Israel to choose El-Al.

TL;DR, everyone wishes there was a way to have secure flights, without having to undergo invasive screenings.
Close enough!

There really is an XKCD for everything...
One of our customers who works in the security space was discussing how 'professional' the CC resale industry is. They have customer service centers, will give you refunds if the CCs don't work, etc.

Really insane. I expected it to be shady but apparently it's a big business now!
No it hadn't. There were problems with engines, which were being rectified, moving from NK-15 to NK-33. Fifth flight of N-1 would likely use NK-33 and had a high chance to succeed, given reliability of multiple-use NK-33s and almost-successful first stage flight in 4th attempt.
It feels like you're missing the point, which is that our current level of air travel is unsustainable (just like the rest of our way of life in the USA). Any increase in fuel consumption is unforgivable, no matter how small.

Current carbon tax schemes are laughable and will not be sufficient to prevent disastrous climate change. The carbon tax calculator in the article you linked only goes up to $50/ton, while the IPCC report calls for carbon prices as high as $14,300/ton by 2050. Obviously prices that high would mean a de facto ban on carbon. And that's what we need to avert disaster.
But if you combine the right skills it can be a huge advantage. The money is in the cross-sections of your expertise, that's niche where you rule. Say a translator with an inside knowledge of a particular industry is worth her weight in gold, ask anyone who had to deal with the technical translations done by non-technical people.
I love this idea. You can get decent laptops (i7, 8gb rm) with broken displays for cheap on EBay/Craigslist, and install Linux. Best way to set up a homelab on the cheap.
Definitely a line between not asking for help and being productive.

There isn't really a specific length to hit, but once "cost of not asking" passes "cost of asking" is time to ask.

If someone else has experience in what you're struggling with, there is no real reason to not ask for help, as long as you put in a real effort and time to figuring it out yourself.
When the mistake results in human decapitation, you better not make them.

Tesla is moving too fast for the quality of its own technology.
Or the worst. You still have to install an app. It isn't native. Might be some cases where it makes sense but an spa might be easier for everyone.
I'd bet that lag is simply a front-end display issue.
Yes, but that's not important takeaway. What's important is that with better, recent methodology, we're discovering that the "moderate drinking is beneficial" effect vanishes.
They are grouped by linking them to issues in the issue tracker. All commits will then get a link to the issue and the issue gets a link back to the commit. This way you can easily track and read the full context of old changes.

Example issue, note that public ones are not associated with commits:
https://issuetracker.google.com/issues/122326181
> So you hire a lobbyist who has a closer relationship with the congress person

Off the cuff, I am of the opinion that this is the root of the problem. We live in 2019, not 1819.. it's simply _not_ that hard for a congressperson to be "in touch" with their constituency.

> and convince them why passing this particular law is a good idea.

I don't want them _convinced_ I want them to be _informed_. There's a huge difference.

> I think you will find that just as many good laws were the result of a lobbyist

Yea, it _can_ work.. but we _should_ we rely on that? I would say given the high-mindedness of those who founded this country and the set of laws the left us, the answer should be a resounding "No."
As long as it remembers no locally and just lets me use the web app forever after it's a godsend.
The satellite view is helpful:
https://www.google.com/maps/@37.4527175,-122.1282551,157m/da...

Southbound there isn't much room. Northbound, seems like there is space directly adjacent to the bridge.
I did competitive fencing and we would chug caffeine during tournaments. Almost moreso for the metabolism boost though.

Because that latter effect you can build a huge tolerance for, you had to stay off of caffeine for everything but tournaments.
Needing to consume is a complication from the core insight. If necessary, replace with someone who consumes at subsistence level.

- Person A works X amount, and consumes typically.

- Person B works X amount, and consumes at subsistence.

Judging solely from the perspective of other people, which person is better to have?

Or, for another example, the sun produces without (economically-relevant, purchased) consumption.

What if someone were like the sun, and charged for sunlight, but never spent the money? They just left the money in the bank forever.
There needs to be a way for you to rebut someone you disagree with, even if your argument is ironclad, without dipping into incivility.
What was important at that time was that the child be a recognized heir to the king and queen. Actual birth father is mostly irrelevant.
One thing to note is that this $100 million only needs to allow them to build their 1/3 scale prototype - if they're successfully able to demonstrate the viability of their technology, they'll presumably be able to acquire further funding much more easily.
> There's a lot of investment that goes into building community relationships and the living space itself that doesn't translate into market value.

My proposed solution preserves community relationships.

> So you're making an ethical appeal that old people should be forced to sell their homes to solve homelessness

Nope. I'm arguing that people shouldn't be able to use zoning to wield power over other people's property to the unreasonable extent we're seeing now. That they can do so is a result of laws like Prop 13 - there's no personal cost to being anti-development.

> People are living on the streets because they can't afford housing, because too many techies are moving into town

You're literally arguing that no city should ever increase in population - it should stay frozen forever because god forbid, otherwise the neighborhood might change.

> Young people living in a fun adult playground

What does that have to do with higher rent and property prices? Or anything else?

> Now which is more important: helping wealthier people live in a funner city or keeping seniors in their homes? What's the first priority here?

You can do both and have no homelessness. Oppressive zoning laws prevent it.
Thanks; that certainly explains why I’ve never noticed the passport requirement in UK hotels — being British.
I think this is a little bit ironic. The city of LA just released an app called ShakeAlertLA, which works with the USGS early warning system to let you know when there's an earthquake in LA. The app TOS imply that your personal information is only used locally and not uploaded, but if you look at the app's source (to their credit, it's easily available), your location is continuously sent to an AWS server.
Huawei p20 pro cost less and has better camera
There are enough billionaires in the world to support them if they have a product. Conventional business jets only offer more flexibility with little speed advantage beyond bypassing security.
This article is a pile of crap. You spend thousands of hours behind the desk, which literally is killing your body, missing out on many of the social interactions, working with some really frustrating shit(remember when we used to do IE6 optimizations? Debugging rxjs ffs), building stuff being useful to thousands, sometimes millions of people. Your brain got infected by omnipresent socialist bullshit and money hating propaganda. Understand it was meant to attack capitalists who don't have to do anything but their money works for them. You're still a slave so stop bitching about getting rewarded for doing something useful. Use your mind potential to come up with a business idea or become a scientist instead of overthinking your little role. Maybe that's why you're still a web developer not an actual scientist or engineer, because you're dumb. Yes, I'm a web dev too. Have been for 11 years now but also building my own online projects. My first years was shit salary and recently it does feel much more rewarding.
Here's hoping it's actually Open Source, and not just a no-cost download of a binary-only tool.
This an’t Woodstock ;)
There's a lot of confused comments on this thread.

In my experience, hotels only need a passport or similar identification for non-citizens or non-residents — both would usually have a passport or equivalent to be in a foreign country.

(But to answer your question, for a first adult British passport one needs a digital photo, birth certificate, and a parent's passport number. Everything is done online[1].)

[1] https://www.gov.uk/apply-first-adult-passport
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> This week, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez told 60 Minutes that she believes the U.S. should consider taxing incomes above $10 million at a 70 percent rate. Specifically, the congresswoman suggested that taxing the rich at such a rate would be preferable to forgoing major investments in renewable energy, and other technologies necessary for averting catastrophic climate change.

Agreed 100%. It will be interesting to see how much traction these ideas can get in today's political climate.
Serving Bandwidth-Friendly Video with HTTP Live Streaming (HLS)
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18828293
In Switzerland, the basic insurance plan is defined by the government and everybody is required to participate in at least that plan. Everybody has the same deductible and out of pocket maximum and premiums (as paid by individuals) are capped at 8% of income.

If you don't sign up the penalties can actually be higher than premiums and if you persist in not getting insurance the government will sign you up and allow the insurance company to sue you for any unpaid premiums.

This system is nothing like what "private" means in the US. This would be called communism in our current political discourse.
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I fully realize I'm saying this because I'm not in that bracket, but if you make more than $10m/yr, do you really need the extra money that much?