skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
How does a pilot get 1500 hours if [s]he can't get an ATPL without 1500 hours? Non-passenger/cargo commercial flying?
> incentivized to spread their unsuccessful genes

Wow. This is an incredibly ridiculous and damaging statement.

It's sad that the only way you measure hard work and intelligence is whether or not someone has a six-figure income.
Not a VIM user here, but I think it's pretty great that someone used a tool, often seen as a techie, coder tool, and optimize it to his content creation needs....

...on top of all the cognitive space he opens up. And the ability to quickly change his tweaks as his workflow needs further optimizations.

Nicely done.
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I was reading a "biography" of (I think it was the) Nature Conservancy (or a similar legal activist group.)

They got their start when they had figured out that PG&E (California's electric company) could meet their projected demand while saving money and reducing pollution by improving efficiency of existing infrastructure instead of building new power plants. They couldn't convince management to even look at the numbers. They had to sue them to get them to do something obvious that was in their own best interests. That's how gung ho the executives were to "build, baby build". It wasn't a conspiracy, it was just systemic cultural dumbness.
they have been, since ancient Greece..
You're confusing working memory with memorization capacity in general. Memorizing a ten digit number is not significantly challenging and certainly doesn't take "weeks or months even if practiced every day".
The real point I was trying to make, is often people say that verifying people is unreasonable because of costs... My counter to that is there's nothing stopping an organization for absorbing or distributing those costs at the point of entry. I'm not advocating some disclosure zone or requiring all internet activity to be doxable by anyone else online.

There are applications expressly for dating (tinder, bumble, pof, etc...), some also mentioned in the article. It's not an unreasonable expectation for such an app to be connected to an actual, verifiable person.

Aside: It also wouldn't be unreasonable to simply allow minors on a given platform, and give a visible indicator of minor (or under 21 for that matter) status. Other walls may also be appropriate.

As for leaks, abuse or other reactions to peoples behavior, there are already laws and courts for that. It's impractical to solve for every problem. All solutions have gaps, that's no reason not to try. It's up to individuals to reasonably protect their own identity when communicating semi-anonymously. And frankly, I'm not a fan of a lot of the association of real names to online accounts in a number of social platforms in general. My main counterpoint was that cost is NOT a real counter-argument to having a more thorough onboarding as it could be part of signing up for such platforms.
> considered boring

It was boring though. Programming 50's is nothing like programming in 2019. They were doing tedious data entry.
Yes, but Boeing built 744 of the things, and only 78 (or fewer) are still in USAF service (I believe NASA has one …). So the ones being upgraded are from a late production batch (the B-52H) and presumably by that point Boeing had standardized things properly.

Comet production ran to 114 aircraft in four major versions, of significantly different size and engine configuration (they started with a 36 seater, and ended up with 119 passengers in a charter-variant of the Comet 4C). No individual model of Comet got anywhere close to a triple-digit production run.

Oh, and 26 hull loss accidents!
> This is why phone numbers were initially 7 digits.

I cannot find anything to substantiate this claim. Is your statement applicable only to a single country?

In the US, it seems like phone numbers started with a few digits only and progressively got longer over time; I can’t find any reference to starting purposefully with 7 digits for memorizability reasons.
>Lyft (who's only a little better, but still better)

The same lyft and not Uber that is suing NYC to not pay minimum wage of $17.22?

I'm not saying Uber is an angel, but neither is Lyft and at the end of the day both of them are businesses that'll look after themselves first.
I'm not sure if there is or not, but I would hope that any review would also include the reduction of power consumption from using semiconductors instead other non solid state devices. Eg Vacuum tubes vs transistors.
Also the increased efficiency of switching power supplies over linear.
I think you are deliberately trying to misunderstand what is being done in this project.

It's not about what APIs are being used to render whatever. At that level of analysis, all that anybody is every doing, is just doing memcpy and bitblt. Rather, datashader provides a framework for applying semantically meaningful, mathematical transformations on datasets as they're being accumulated, as those accumulations are converted into aesthetic/geom primitives, and as those primitives are rendered into colors. It really is "renderman for data", along with arbitrary vertex/texture shaders, driven by a dynamic rasterizer that can use whatever bins in data-space (not merely physical pixels).

BTW "Out of core" does NOT come from raytracing; in fact its history in computing is a term for anything that exceeds physical memory. We use it all the time in scientific/HPC and data science because datasets are frequently much larger than available memory.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/External_memory_algorithm
>The happiest employees I see (at least outwardly) are those that fully buy in to the Koolaid and do not consider the nuance of what a company or technology enables.

the magic of the blue pill.
IANAL, but I don't think the Ninth Circuit was deciding whether Uber would act in good faith or not; just whether arbitration clauses where unconscionable or not. And they aren't, since the SCOTUS decision on Epic Systems v. Lewis.
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> Your forum/email interface/management API would work better as a normal website.

Good for you with your fast, always-on internet, I guess. Some consumers have to deal with expensive and unreliable 3G internet (that downgrades to 2G occasionally) - an offline-capable email (or management) SPA is indispensable for them. Sure, you could write 4 native offline apps for MacOS, Windows, iOS and Android but that is a bigger investment than targeting browser standards.
Warning,

When Medical got regulated in the U.S. the prices skyrocketed, and customer care stagnated. The regulators were incentivized to create a monopoly by the entrenched medical professionals.

Now people are asking for more regulations. Is that the solution?
That's true. And if you really believe you won't be needing vim - or won't be solving the class of problems vim is good for - very often, it may not be worth it to explicitly sit down and learn it. The calculus is correct, but the actual values that go into the equation matter a lot.

My wife has used SublimeText and Notepad++ for total of maybe 10 hours in her entire life. I'm not suggesting her to learn Vim (or Emacs), because the kinds of tasks she does with computers don't benefit that much from a proper text editor. However, most developers spent inordinate amount of time editing plain text files, and a lot of tasks they do in other tools - like task management, time tracking, documentation writing, drawing diagrams, commenting on StackOverflow - could receive stupidly huge efficiency improvements by being done in plain text too. Vim and Emacs are the two tools that are dedicated for precisely this class of problems. In my opinion, the couple dozen hours one has to invest over the course of a month to get some basic proficiency in them is worth the across-the-board payoff in work speed and comfort.

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One trick I've learned is being explicit and deliberate about learning. To things like learning a new piece of software, recursive Pareto rule applies - 20% of time gives you 80% of value. 4% of time gives you 64% of value. So, say you're willing to entertain the thought of learning a little bit of Vim. Allocate a single pomodoro to it right now, and fire up vimtutor. 25 minutes, full focus. You'll notice it only takes a few minutes to break through your own habits and learn the basics of a new interface. You'll be impressed by how much you've learned in just 25 minutes[0]. Next step: commit to 5 hours over a week. 10 pomodoros. Find some introductory tutorials, and work through them this way.

Personally, I did above trick a couple of times to learn new Emacs features. Getting comfortable with multiple cursors, or with paredit, are things that turned out to take 1 or 2 pomodoros, and have been improving my editing speed and comfort for the past couple years.

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WRT. mindset, a proper one can smooth out the learning curve quite well. The most basic trick that I see even developers not recognizing is this: every time you click on a button in your program, figure out if there's a keyboard shortcut for it. If there is, try to use it instead. Soon, you'll find yourself working much faster and comfortable than before.

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[0] - though you'll lose half of it in a day. Committing new skills to long-term memory takes more time and exposure; muscle memory takes even more. Good news is, this happens pretty much by itself, as you apply the new skills to the tasks you're doing.
The Hindu–Arabic numerals are monosyllabic in most Indian languages (e.g. Hindi, Bengali, etc.) as well
According to this article, malpractice costs (including the cost of defensive medicine done due to the fear of lawsuits) accounts for 2.4% of health care spending: https://www.forbes.com/sites/rickungar/2010/09/07/the-true-c...

That’s a decent amount of money but I wouldn’t call it a big reason. One of the problems with bringing health care costs down is that there aren’t any big reasons for it, just lots and lots of little ones.
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As an iOS developer, I sometimes receive emails from some brazen enterprising person with poor spelling and grammar inquiring about the possibility to "borrow" our company creds for registering an iOS enterprise developer certificate, usually with some nonsense explanation like "helping them out with their beta testing needs" (as if testflight doesn't even exist) and that "it won't impact your app store apps" (ha!).

Of course these emails go straight to the junk folder, but it is very apparent that there is a demand and a black market for iOS enterprise distribution certificates, and people are willing to beg, borrow and probably steal such certificates in any which way they can.
It also isn't clear (aside from military) how people are meant to fund/attain ATP status.

There's limited jobs with which a commercial licensed pilot can gain hours (e.g. crop dusting, sky jumpers, instructors, etc) but the number of people trying to attain ATP/jobs requiring ATPs well outstrip the number of jobs to support those people getting to 1500 hours.

As you said, previously some airlines would take the pressure off by hiring commercial pilots and getting them hours as copilots. With the new rules they need 1500 before day one, so that has to come from somewhere and it isn't clear where.

This is one reason airlines are struggling to find pilots.
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Not trying to be unkind here, but you keep bringing up examples from Oxford in a discussion about the American higher education system. There's a big difference in culture between the two, and so discussing Oxford as a counterpoint doesn't really make sense. It's not an American outlier, it's a totally different system with its own issues and culture that don't have much to do with this conversation.

And yes, schools in the US do care, deeply, about extracurriculars. Harvard could fill every seat, every year, with the valedictorian of a different high school class. Since nearly every data point is tightly grouped on the most immediately available metric, they turn to other data points to make their decisions. (And there's a long history of using that flexibility for both exclusionary and inclusionary purposes.)
Yes, datashader actually gives you the ability to dial-in as much gamma compensation as you want, to account for the human visual system's nonlinear response to luminance.
I think the modern understanding is that the number is actually 4 for the working memory. The 7±2 already includes recoding of stimulus items into larger chunks. When you look at number 6745123 you group it into 2 to 4 parts and then remember them.
Perhaps you could partner with https://www.vpsbenchmarks.com/ , they have different benchmark data for major providers.
Carl Sagan, MLK, Einstein and others all talked about how our technological progress has outpaced our moral/human progress.

There are plenty of more recent examples of such brilliant minds but you'll be hard pressed to find them if you're attention is fixated on shallow toxic dinsinformation platforms like cable news (CNN, Fox) and social media (FB, Twitter) which promote hatred and division over love and community
"your work"… thing is, all creativity is derivative. The actual result of "your work" is itself limited when the resources to draw upon exclude all sorts of stuff limited by copyright and patent laws.

I do release everything where I have copyright under free/libre/open terms. But that's not enough to cover the concerns I'm referring to.

I'm saying copyright should be eliminated because it's in the public interest to have more open access (both plainly and for derivative use) to all resrouces
>You're confusing working memory with memorization capacity in general. Memorizing a ten digit number is not significantly challenging and certainly doesn't take "weeks or months even if practiced every day".

It's certainly to memorize something short term (eg repeat your QQ number over and over for a period of time) but there needs to be spaced repetition over longer periods to make that memorization permanent.

Feel free to provide specific citations, as I did in my parent comment, if you would like to disagree further.
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Yeah, some info seems to be incorrect. Like it shows vmhaus has Windows instances but after signing up I could only find *nix.
Yes, perhaps ignorance really is bliss.
Try Heidegger's Being and Time. It's a super tough read (I read portions of it for a class) but it's motivated by the same frustrations you mention.
> Frivolous lawsuits drive up the cost for customers almost everywhere. It's a big reason why medical costs are so high. People see a big organization that has some cash and they think they can file a suit as a way to quick riches.

I've seen that bandied around for as long as I've lived. But considering that in the 90's there was a significant push to limit damages to a multitude of "people" (doctors and med companies), I'm going to need some citations for this claim.

My counterclaim why medicine is so damned expensive in this country, is people are willing to pay for it. Not like they have any other good choices. (Source: https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/2018/11/26/why-prescr... --- because they can)
Check out olivine weathering.
After two years of undergrad, my child has been accepted into the professional program for graphic design. At a state university. With no debt.

My child worked part time for a couple of years in high school. My child worked hard to get good grades. My child worked hard to get accepted into the program, while holding down a part-time job. My child is pretty pragmatic. Being free of debt will allow them to be a poor starving artist.

You can be pragmatic, debt-averse, and an artist, historian, counselor, or anything else.
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I hope you are following this case, because I sure am

https://newyork.cbslocal.com/2019/02/12/jussie-smollett-atta...
And the TSR2 :-) could walk away from a lighting on a single engine.
Nope. Their problem is narcissism. The system told them they were gifted, and they grew up to find out the world isn't a blowjob parade. How anyone handles that defines their character.
>when you value things that are based on things outside your control e.g. social validation, financial success, you will struggle to be happy.

These are outside our control? I found both were achieved by choosing to be an engineer and going above and beyond.
I had to upgrade my two year old phone because GMaps was turning into a sluggish nightmare that wasn't usable on a non-retina display. Google has serious QC problems. Their varsity team still doesn't turn out best of class software.
and takes forever to load on a typical cellular network in Canada.

Fuck PWAs, I've seen some retailers who ditched it because it ended up hurting their conversions.

Certain demographics DO NOT want to see stare at fucking blank page with grey rectangles because it offers 'superior customer experience essential'. They want webpages that load fast, they don't even give a shit about Responsive designs.

Yeah, if the entire world was on 5g already, but even then, people simply don't trust PWAs vs apps from the Google or Apple store. In their minds, its safer because a large corporation is "looking after" them.

PWA and AMP are a dud, and the lack of adoption shows this.
Will the outcome be the same when people want to implant chips / computers in their body to augment their reality or restore/change functionality?
Would you be happier with "black lives matter, too?"
A good example of the crack/flood analogy is the current H1B visa system. You do have to be qualified to apply, but if enough people qualify a year, they distribute the spots randomly. Eventually the general public started referring to it as "H1B lottery" and assume it's all a matter of luck.
My initial reaction as well: "What a way to draw out something simple across page of prose."

(1) Numbers in Chinese match well with the tonality of the language making it easier to remember (compare: "singing" numbers in any language works better to remember them).

(2) Chinese students are trained from a young age to memorize.

That's it basically. No "obsession". No hidden stuff. I also find articles like this pretty degrading.

That doesn't mean I'm not jealous of my Chinese half of the family to be able to remember numbers so easily whereas I can barely remember my PIN code :).
It depends on your definition of "useful". It doesn't need to be 100% decentralised to allow exchange to take place without a single technical point of failure existing, but it probably does need to be substantially more decentralised than it actually is to not actually have bigger trust issues than traditional currency (at least for people trying to carry out legal transactions in a developed world financial system).
That is the theory behind guaranteed basic income.
Mensa probably has a couple antidotes floating around as well, so there's that...
Can't you memorize any amount of numbers with mnemonics? I remember multiple 16 digit CC numbers using it.
For me, two years is a pretty bright line for minimum duration on a resume. Less than that, I assume something bad happened. (And on my resume, that's very true.)
This reminds me of Victor Papanek's Design for the Real World.
This document doesn’t really speak to the impact that the operations had in US elections outcomes, just what intelligence tools were used. Plus calling someone a troll or Vladimir just because they ask a legitimate question and don’t subscribe to an accepted group-think is about as childish as it gets. Please stop bringing down the conversation.
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"any programming editor."

Most editors, even most of those with a programmable bent are not very malleable. I looked into improving indentation support for common lisp in other editors, and for editors not named "vim" or "emacs" the support was incredibly poor.

For most, indentation was 100% builtin, so the only way to change the indentation was to either modify the editor itself (i.e. not a plugin), or install a plugin that hooked into the return key. Usually this was only doable from C.

In addition, most of the elisp standard library is specifically for manipulating buffers of text; perl is the only language I've used that's could be argued to be better.
> Is it just that you don't have to write any code to use Flow?

"just"? that seems like a massive selling point to me. If the people that are supposed to use the tool in a company are not technical (or not technical enough) it doesn't matter how good the tool is, the first check is "does it need programming skills"
Here's my most memorable Microsoft snafu: My desktop was just upgraded to Windows 10. The "Favorites" links in File Explorer were converted into "Quick Access" links by the Microsoft migration process, but the aliases (titles) of the links had changed, or so I thought. I renamed the aliases back to what they were under Windows 8.

The phone started ringing with complaints, and to my horror I learned that I inadvertently renamed widely-used WAN and intranet folders. Quick-Access had no aliases: I had inadvertently changed the actual folder names. A colleague walked by and asked, "Why are you sweating and white like a ghost?" Fortunately I renamed them back before too much damage was done.
You can fly with passengers on a commercial license. There’s lots of non-scheduled and non transport category aviation in part 91 and part 135 including private jet flights, various kinds of charters, deadheading, flight instruction, and so on.
> the word ‘four’ in Mandarin sounds similar to the word for ‘death’

The hotel attached to the Shanghai airport doesn't have a 4th floor... or more accurately it's labelled as the 5th floor.

The superstition is real, and more potent than western numerological superstitions such as 13 - the fact that number sounds resemble other meanings in Chinese seems like a valid explanation.
Trying to access this from my iPhone I get:

This version of your browser is not supported.
Try upgrading to the latest stable version.
The argument about the poverty line is a bit weird.

It's completely reasonable that $1.90/day is still very low, and that we might want to take a higher point as a poverty line.

But if the numbers below that line have decreased, that is still a huge win. Going from $1.80/day to $3.60/day, say, is a big improvement. That is true precisely because $1.90 is so low.

Jason Hickel's argument seems to show that there is still a lot to do. But it does not show that we have not got much better.
Related, the ticket system in the link is unreasonably slow on a modern high speed connected desktop.

I'm a fan of SPA platforms, I've worked on web based applications for nearly 24 years now. 7-8 seconds is way too long for a desktop with a fat data pipe to wait for a website/webapp. (Cached refresh still over 5 seconds) Should probably take a few lessons from StackOverflow guys.
The question is if the highlighted area are really more dangerous or if there are just more visitors. Shouldn't one take into account the traffic counts?

BTW: there is similar (open) data for Germany: https://unfallatlas.statistikportal.de/ (It clearly shows the problem I mentioned)

Update: sorry, it seems that this issue is already discussed in this thread