skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Leaving aside everything else...

> and some form of human life looking nothing like we do today would argue 250,000 years from now what caused the first human near-extinction.

Well, they might, but they would probably be talking about the Toba supervolcano 320,000 years in their past.

> You're talking about razor-sharp thin and lightweight object traveling with insane speed.

Shape is not all that important (though I think that a long tumbling object is more likely to break up break up at altitude), the speed is high, sure, but not so far out of line with typical meteors as to make that big of a difference, and the low density offsets the effects of speed (also makes it more likely to break up at altitude). And the later estimates of it's size are not enormous. It would perhaps be a bag meteor impact, but quite possibly not the worst to hit during the existence of humans.

> Upon impact, it would either penetrate Earth surface exploding inside the core, like any hollow bullet does, or it would cut Earth in half like a high power laser and deform itself on way out.

No, it would do neither of those things: it would either explode in the atmosphere or make a crater on the surface.

You seem to think it is a superstrong heat-resistant stabilized penetrator dart coming point first, rather than a tumbling body of (probably) rock and ice.
Amazon actually doesn't run the same Redis as the rest of us, I wouldn't be surprised if they re-wrote a lot of parts of it. They probably re-wrote the storage engine ect ...
I'm a paraglider pilot, not an aerospace engineer, so take this with a lot of salt... but:

Paragliders can have asymmetric collapses of the airfoil due to turbulence, but usually it's no big deal (other than being a little scary). Catastrophic loss of tension is avoided because there's still airflow over the rest of the glider, which remains pressurized. All the pilot needs to do is maintain safe directional control until the full wing re-pressurizes. You feel a sudden loss of pressure and then an abrupt surge of pressure, then things normalize.

My guess is that something if similar happens here, it'll happen asymmetrically, and the props might keep airflow over the other 3 wings, which are still flying. They maintain stability while the wing that went floppy drops, regains its tension, and then resumes normal flight.

Last: I'd wager that they plan on deploying these in stable air, at very high altitude.
"Perhaps calling it a fractal is an unnecessary spin,"

It is, or at least calling it self-similar is, as well as what the image implies: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gB9n2gHsHN4 That's a 3Blue1Brown video explaining why "fractal" and "self-similar" are not the same thing.
Bill Clinton... cheated on his wife that one time
as an FOSSuser you should know that many parts of opensource software used to be outright illegal (e.g. pgp). opensource democratized all of them
Absolutely. Try and work with someone who challenges you to be better as well.
I just realized that a multiplayer Snake is basically the TRON racing game played on a discrete grid.
Honestly, I don't really see such behavior directed towards male names though. Stuff like LucasJones or MikeAtLarge or LordOfKilling doesn't get the same attention that SuzieHealsU or CuteLamb or PrincessHurtful might. If it was equal, I'd expect 'MrKickass' to be questioned and assumed to be grabbing attntion that 'MsKilljoy' gets... but in my experience this distinctly isn't the case.
We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19201889.
Where is "one" then, if it's still "there"? :P
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> It is entirely possible to build something without understanding it. [...] Our relationship with true A.I. will always be a matter of faith, not proof

WTF. I have no problem with building something without understanding how or why it works, but I do have problem of using something without at least some sort of guarantee on its behavior.
This is where I got it from:

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B06XFJ2JGR

Overall worth taking a look at.
Ok, this explanation makes a lot of sense.

However, are we able to reduce down our understanding of "which universe we're in" in such simple terms? I think I'd understand better if I knew how long we've been capable of detecting oumuamuas.
The thing you are saying doesn't even make sense as a criticism of the study. You are complaining about something the study didn't even try to measure (the "why"). The study only tried to measure if there was a difference at all, and whether it was measurable.

As a side note, I recommend meditating on why seeing a female name on the internet upsets you, when you should be well aware that 50% of human beings are female. If players didn't get upset and force females to play under male/neutral names, maybe it wouldn't be as shocking to notice when they don't.
Writing Excellent Issue Tracking Tickets
More and more distributed data stores are becoming available. We (Cloudflare) have a KV [1] which can be read quickly everywhere.

[1] - https://blog.cloudflare.com/building-with-workers-kv/
https://jwcooney.com/

My name is Justin Cooney and this is my personal programming blog that I occasionally post code snippets or random programming related ideas to. I haven't contributed much in the past year(s), but hopefully can motivate myself to post more in future.
There was a software tools company in the 1990s that got up to Series AA. I remember thinking "please don't let this ever happen to my startup".
This is an interesting study, and helps highlight why Overwatch needs a scoreboard. With 6 random people on a team, very limited personal statistics, and no game length team statistics, everyone tends to get toxic once you start losing. I've played everything from high gold (tanked rank for a few seasons) to low masters, and its the same pattern every time. Someone makes an accusation about a player not pulling their weight, demands a swap in a rude way, and the player being accused defends themselves. Then the name calling starts.

It would be interesting to see what roles the author was playing, and the exact SR of the accounts, as there seems to be a great deal of variation in what people will say on voice comms (usually higher SR, because voice comms > chat) and what will be said in chat. People also like to blame DPS first, then demand a Reinhardt (if they don't have one) and then finally blame support.

Without hard data as to what is going wrong with a team composition, toxicity is almost guaranteed when losing.
I think 'assuming good faith' may be the issue, as it cannot usually be reasonably assumed, and without it, everything good about this falls apart.

In that trip of 300, I don't think what you set up quite aligns with the way things are. If it were more realistic, 50 people already are going to die unnecessarily anyways, and 40 of those families will already lead miserable lives for the next few generations. The point is, things are bad in a lot of ways, but making them temporarily worse can making things incredibly better in the future.

Now, of course, the fully realistic scenario there, is that the 5 smartest people end up deciding later on "hmm, well we do have half of the wealth in the whole tribe, we kinda hold the power here now...we could just keep serving ourselves...what's that? 180 extra people will die as a result and every family but those of the 5 smartest will live miserable lives? Sucks to be them I guess!"

Or even if they had good faith life-long, their children may not.

So I agree with you in practicality - its best if someone stands up and says "hey lets just work together as a tribe and do this as fast as possible but avoid ever purposely causing harm, so not as fast as those 5 say"

In principle though, if there was some magic way of good faith staying true, then the 5 people ruling could end up being the best case scenario.
In case Netflix is dominating your time...
This is my Free Chrome plugin that will block Netflix after 1 hour and wait for you to commit something on Github to keep Netflix and Chill'n. Other options like Khan Academy are suppported.

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/studycity/jhehahil...
What changes? The monthly patches?
Interesting!

I work in an agency so I don't think it would be easily applicable in my company (we bill by the day, not by the output), but I love hearing about experiments in companies! Most companies are so boring and afraid to do anything out of the ordinary
Admin was already taken. I tried to get root but someone else managed to confirm it before me. I settled for ww.workers.dev

If anyone from Cloudflare is reading this you should consider blacklisting undesirable subdomains.
There wouldn't be a large gradient. But a big ball o' fluff presumably has essentially no internal cohesion; it's sort of like a liquid in that way. So even very small gradient forces could be enough to disperse it.
I agree with you on this. What I meant to say is that people who use gendered names are going out of their way to show what their gender is; an overwhelming amount of people use completely neutral names. This is, regardless of the treatment you receive because of your gender.
This is a fun read: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_federal_political_scan...

Edit: looks like somebody already posted it while I got distracted reading it.
Speed Test: x86 vs. ARM for Web Crawling in Python
Jeff Bezos, Jack Ma and the Quest to Kill eBay
We can build algorithms to avoid racial bias

Can we? Those algorithms are built/trained by humans with biases - how can you be sure we can build/train AI to avoid those same biases?
> There are way more people who are born wealthy and continue being wealthy. There are way more people who go from poor to poor. Social mobility is piss poor right now in the US.

Can someone please point me to a study that supports this claim? Based on the Pew Charitable Trust's latest economic survey, 57% of people born into the lowest quintile rise above it. And, 60% of people born into the highest quintile fall below it.

See Figure 3: https://www.pewtrusts.org/~/media/legacy/uploadedfiles/wwwpe...

I just started digging into the research surrounding economic mobility in the US, and it does not seem to substantiate the claim that the poorest class are just absolutely screwed.
patent troll defense as a service: https://www.unifiedpatents.com
>In mathematics you don't understand things. You just get used to them.

Yep, one of my favorite math quotes and highly under-rated.

One thing I've found is that if you find yourself using the wrong "types", you're almost certainly going in the wrong direction. For example, if you're trying to solve a complex analysis exercise and you find yourself thinking about how the complex numbers = the real-coefficient polynomials modulo the ideal (x^2+1), STOP: You're getting nowhere! :)
Making Our Strikes System Clear and Consistent
Let's consider two scenarios:

1) Somebody starts flipping a coin they claim is fair. You're not sure whether or not that's true. It comes up with 10 heads in a row.

2) Somebody tells you there's a 1 in 10,000 chance of something happening each day. You're not sure whether or not this is true. It happens tomorrow.

Which, if either, do you think has reasonable evidence to begin to doubt the claimed odds are the real odds? Which do you think is better evidence of the proposed claim being false?

With the logic you expressed in your post you might suggest the first is better evidence of a false claim, but it's not. The odds a fair coin going 10 heads in a row is 1 in 2^10, or 1 in 1024. Even though it's 10 'events', it's ultimately just a 1 in 1024 happening if we assume a fair coin. By contrast the second event is about an order of magnitude less likely to have happened by chance. So even though the second event is only one happening, it's more likely that that event is not a 1 in 10,000 event than it is that the coin is not fair.
Note to readers, land speed not equal to air speed. As the article discusses it doesn't break the sound barrier.

That said, the news here is that the jet stream is carrying more energy than it has in the past (air mass is moving faster, kinetic energy content is 1/2mv^2). I read a paper a long time ago which talked about the impact of thermal 'tubes' where denser cold air travelling at speed would "punch holes" in high pressure systems leading to more complex weather patterns. Sadly I cannot find it! The question I think about when reading this is the impact on the duration and temperature swings of the winter months in the north east of the continent. In particular, atmosphere so cold as to support hurricane formation over land. Most famously exploited in a fairly mundane movie "the day after tomorrow" but the modelling works if the temperatures meet certain conditions.

I don't know if winter "super storms" are possible due to other moderating influences but if they are, having the jet stream behave in a new way is a prerequisite (feeding very cold air into the system).
Haha, yes! We actually had a "Tron Mode" at the tournament last year that just flooded the board with food to replicate light cycles.
Isn’t that the one that truely matters some you want to go from A to B?

Genuinely curious I know nothing about aviation.
>that its a free game

Wait... Shouldn't it be the opposite? Paying for the game should make you more reticent to being an ass because losing access to it means you've lost money.
Previously posted, but got very few comments. I really think that it’s worth reading (as is most of Steve Yegge’s work).

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18529896 - 0

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19048740 - 0

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18834801 - 1

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18660775 - 1

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18664513 - 1
> It doesn't make a difference that majority of meteors burn in atmosphere and barely hit Earth surface. Oumuamua may have traveled through earth atmosphere and hit Earth undamaged. The difference is obviously like day and night.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Impact_event

Contains some tables with actual numbers (based on a 17km/s impact), including how big of a airburst a non-impacting object makes and how much of a crater an impacting object makes.

You aren't splitting the Earth with something the size we are talking about with any of the estimates of it's size, even at 25km/s, which basically a little over doubles impact energy, the same as a 29% increase in diameter does.
Lessons from 6 Software Rewrite Stories
I found the context switch trigger too hard a problem to solve. The real problem for me was that I found any app that tried to watch me work just too creepy. So then any simple app required lots of manual effort.

I built myself a solution that means I can add events to a calendar that describe my day. Different calendars for different clients and different event titles for each project.

This worked well for me and now I’m trying to build it out and sell it. If you’re interested it’s here: billabl.co. I’ll warn you though, it’s early days and likely to break (although I’ve been using it for years).
Nonproliferation strategies do not work with software.

By not open sourcing the model, OpenAI merely slows the proliferation of weaponized language models. Furthermore it insures a temporary period of power imbalance whereby only the most capable can wield these.

The result is the rest of the internet is not equally forced to come up with solutions to increase the resiliency and safety of their online communities.

The internet will need a “captcha for weaponized language models”. We need a level playing field so Google needs a solution as much as any phpBB.
I'm sure there are better sources than what I could find just now, anyway:

Today version 12.8 is 100.3MB [0].
The latest snapshot from The Internet Archive is version 11.10.0 and it is 107.6MB [1]

[0]: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/shazam/id284993459
[1]: https://web.archive.org/web/20180614175700/https://itunes.ap...
> As a part of Google’s TLD launch program, we were lucky enough to obtain workers.dev

This is not 'luck'. You pay the $11,500 fee and with a domain like this you would most likely get it. Many domains are available at the highest fee (previous post). The only way you would need 'luck' is if more than one person wanted this and beat you out. With this particular domain this is unlikely.

For example as of right now (way past launch) all of the following are still open at the highest rate:

digital.dev

bitcoins.dev (bitcoin.dev is taken already)

php.dev

sql.dev

Honestly knowing a bit about this they could have waited and gone in at the lower tiers.

Also the singular is open worker.dev and as a best practice they probably should have bought that (edit: also).
Goldman Sachs did the same thing. They told their client to buy subprime loans while shorting it on the other side.
The cybersecurity community is very similar to your description. Add in a small dash of actual spying and espionage that makes everyone paranoid over what everyone knows / has and it can be very unhealthy.

It is a huge difference from the “learning to program/programming” communities. Those groups can also foster their own feelings of self-lack, but not on the scale of cyber.
I’m agnostic about the short term effects of OpenAI’s decision, but I wonder if and hope that the eventual equilibrium will look more like things did before the internet.

In, say, the 1960’s, if someone stood on a street corner with a sign saying “The End Is Nigh,” most people would react with a shrug. They’d know that if the world were ending they’d probably hear about it from a trusted source like a newspaper or broadcaster.

I’m not worried about being tricked by fakes because I know that the NYT will be doing infinitely more than I ever could to verify hugely important facts, and won’t overreact to random bits of media. If you’re not someone I know personally, and you’re not a trusted source of public information, you may as well be holding a sign on a street corner, no matter how realistic the image or text on your sign.

I think there may be vast unintended consequences that have to do with scale, but intuitively it doesn’t feel like the “who to trust” problem is more than a matter of cultural behaviors around trust adjusting to the internet age.
i seem to remember at least one other company doing software and hardware...

lol the author 'forgot' about Cruise/GM

but what's that compared to the copious knowledge gained by haunting the tesla subreddit
I just dont understand how a solar sail would function outside the reach of our solar system... assume you have a sail that is equidistant between any stars - but some are bigger than others - and assum that the direction youd like to head, is backed by the weakest or smallest star. How will you get the energy youd be hoping for from these stars? How to orient? Or how to head the direction you want if there arent enough stars behind you to provide the thrust you want/need?
I also am saying that I don't believe male gendered names get nearly the same attention as female gendered names. 'PrinceJake' doesn't get the same derision as 'PrincessEla' which is what the study is trying to explore.
>Life is a pretty rare occurrence, as far as we're aware.

I don't know where you get this from...just because we have not observed it directly? Based on everything we have learned so far about life here on Earth, it seems entirely reasonable to think that life would be very common throughout the universe.
But still much less dangerous than stuff like nuclear fallout or orwellian propaganda? This isn't to say that unrealistic beauty standards aren't a problem, just one that isn't worth trying to stop the march of technology for. Also, I think advertisements are more to blame here than photoshop. Do you think the ancient Greeks and Romans look like Michelangelo's David or any of their other statues? They weren't bombarded by ads though.
>This isn't really a party issue.

It very obviously is. You'd be insane or willfully ignorant to claim it's not.

Your link is just a timeline chunked into administrative buckets, a lot of those having nothing to do with _actual_ actions taken by the administration.

The one scandal you alluded to started in 2005.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Gunrunner

Considering that the amount of guns actually involved in the "scandal" is a mote of dust compared to the total amount of guns in the U.S., and that the one notable case that was the tipping point for this scandal was actually dismissed, and that the one official who was held in contempt of congress (which was voted along party lines: https://www.politico.com/story/2012/06/holder-held-in-contem...) for continuing a program started under the bush administration, I don't think anything you've linked or alluded to really is equatable in any remote fashion.

Please try again.
what would they do with it? It is a text decorator, it can't make sense of itself. maybe they can make 1000 fake facebook accounts that post a lot. still, i doubt facebook uses text to detect bots, its easier to use ip/network patterns.
:+1: for the design, guy! Cyberpunk done well. Just needs a 90s feel "Metadyne" style corporation name slapped across it and a neon/rain page and I'll never leave.
> With some beer in her system, she’s a master with words and the numbers that drive them.

What does that mean? Does she have to be drunk to be able to work?
Much of China's growth rate over the last 20 years was as a result of starting from a horribly low base after Mao and the cultural revolution reduced GNP per capita to something like $300. They are mostly just catching up with how Chinese were living outside of China in HK, Sing, the USA etc.
I've improved the api and hid the global vars.
There are days when I'm trying to write (as in prose or a presentation) all day and the muses are not connecting, I do a lot of unrelated not-really "research," etc. And that's mostly OK. For a day. But obviously not for a week or weeks in a corporate setting. (And, if I really had a hard deadline, I'd crank out something serviceable. But I usually aim to do better than that.)
It's not fat, it's fluffy.
For a nice easter egg, try double clicking on the page.
WHOIS on workers.dev shows that it was registered a couple weeks ago. They didn't get it today.

Also: https://newgtlds.icann.org/en/announcements-and-media/announ...
This is probably a stupid question, but how is "ground speed" measured?

Is it how quickly the airplane moves past a fixed point at it's altitude, or along the earth's surface? I.e. the plane is effectively moving along the surface of a sphere, but if the plane is 30,000 ft up, then the radius of the plane's sphere is 30,000 ft greater than the radius of the "ground" so traveling at the same angular velocity will require a higher speed the higher you go.

If I'm thinking about this right, across their respective "planes," the airplane will be moving faster than it's shadow. So maybe a better way to ask this is: is ground speed the speed of the plane, or the speed of its shadow?
So...about 1.5 weeks of production at current levels? https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2018-tesla-tracker

...and significantly less than that when subtracting display models, test drive and loaner fleet.

The 8,500 figure doesn't seem alarming to me. Can anyone shed light on why OP is spiking the football as if he's uncovered some huge scandal?
Well, thats the future magic world of building things with proteins.

So, no you wouldn't put ketchup in a lemon, but you might have what appears to be a typical ketchup packet,appears to be made of plastic, but is actually some mix of properties of different organic skins.
Actually that’s cool, in the US they have these features.

The Canadian Wal-Mart website was impossible in this regard, but in the US you can search only in store, today and within xx miles. Appreciate it.