skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In fact that is an essential part to how theories are evaluated. Not just by what they explain, but by what they predict.

Most theories on physics are evaluated this way. "We theorize that light is a particle, which would explain these properties of light, and means we should expect to see these other properties of light if we test them." If further observation of light matches those properties you predicted then that's pretty good evidence that your theory is on the right track.
There’s also the matter of police militarization being an end run around constitutional protections re: domestically deployed armed forces. I’m not arguing in bad faith. I’m offering a legitimate (if unpopular) critique.
Perhaps I missed it in the article, but did the author control for receiving comments on 'how to play' in winning games vs losing games?

Because if not, the whole study seems sort of moot.
Proof if it were needed that money can’t buy you brains. Making the leap from rodent models where a juvenile and elderly rodent shared a circulatory system to transfusions is so breathtaking in its lack of basic sense that you have to wonder how these guys made it in tech to begin with. Never mind that we’re not rodents, and if we were we’d already be immortal with all we’ve cured mice of. Never mind the morality or risks, just focus on the stupidity of equivocating a pint of “young blood” with hooking your circulatory system to another organism!

Is it really shocking that cadging the use of a young endocrine system, kidneys, lungs etc might help an older organism? No. Is it shocking that supposedly intelligent people have managed to conflate that with a transfusion? Yes!
Guy "joined twitter December 2018". eyeroll.
The ‘black box’ isn’t really that. There’s an open source Node version of it published on the companies github and on their forums
I wonder if this validates the Orchestrated Objective Reduction theory of consciousness pioneered by Roger Penrose and Stuart Hameroff. Seems like it would.
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You may, but the vast majority of the population is already way past that with an iPhone and search bubbles, apps . . ..

And honestly, even if you're in tech, this feild is so broad and so many people are doing so many cool things that there's almost no way to keep up with it unless you're a ludite. If the case we are talking about involves building a single giant computer that no one knows how to use, you won't have much say in that.
I'm curious, what made you write this comment? What's with the negativity?
> How does radiation propel in any circumstance?

It depends on the type of radiation, but two mechanisms jump to mind for me:

The first is direct action of photons, as in a Crookes radiometer. The idea is that the black and white sides of the vanes respond to different types of EM radiation differently. How it actually works is somewhat beyond me (and apparently contentious), but it does work: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crookes_radiometer

The second is is through boiling. If the side of the object facing the sun were composed of a material that boiled when exposed to sunlight, the boiling off of that material would provide thrust against the object in the same way a rocket provides thrust (by expelling gas).

Note that I am not a physicist, and am not proposing that either of these are the reason for the object's anomalous trajectory - just throwing out two ideas through which radiation could propel an object.
This seems to me to be a very pessimistic view.

I think that we the best we can hope for is that the government is rendered unusable, and that the world is able to proceed into the information age free from the constant malice of the hegemonic state.
My site is https://www.lessboring.com

The site is purely Markdown crunched through Pelican, a nifty Python static site generator.

I've been a freelance Django developer for about 8 years and always wanted to build a software product of some kind. The idea was to freelance to pay the bills and spend the rest of my time on products.

Well, the products never really worked out, but the freelancing has worked out really well, especially in the last two years since I learned about business. My site now aims to help other developers learn the business skills of freelancing to help people avoid the pitfalls I fell into.

I've been writing to a mailing list where the good emails go into articles on this site.
I didn't use offset arrays, but I don't expect lots of incompatible libraries if they implemented the proper array interfaces. Julia has duck typing, and thanks to multiple dispatch they can just specialize the few relevant methods that actually use the new type special properties.

Many of the most used Julia
types are defined outside of the standard library, such as StaticArrays (for fixed size arrays) and CUArray (for GPU processing).
No village or small city is self-supporting nowadays. Why would a moon base of similar size be different?

What matters is whether enough money flows in to buy elsewhere what you can’t produce.

If (a big if, but an assumption in Heinlein’s novel) a moon base can be made profitable, and kids get born there, so that people end up thinking of themselves as citizens of them moon, would it be fair if most of those profits keep ending up on earth?

In Heinlein’s novel, the idea is not that those living permanently on the moon bomb those on earth (even though that does happen), but that they use the threat of bombing them to get a fairer deal.
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I think even 1000 miles is a bit generous, since you likely don't get networking in a straight line between your house in the data center.

In Utah I get traffic routed through Denver and a few other states east of me before hitting certain servers hosted in California.

Unless Google has figured out a way to increase the speed of light, I don't think this new service is really going to change my mind about buying dedicated hardware to play games.
Suffice to say, most of what comes out of OpenAI is vanilla type work that I haven't seen go beyond academic research labs. They do spend a lot of time on PR and making stuff look pretty, I guess.
It saves fuel for the downwind leg of the trip.

However, it's worth noting that if the outward (downwind) and return (upwind) legs are affected by the same wind, the outward savings are more than offset by the extra fuel needed for the return. Suppose the journey in your example is 200 miles. With no wind, that's an hour each way, so 2 hours total cruising time.

With the 100mph wind, the outward journey only takes 40 minutes (200 miles at 300mph), but the return takes 2 hours (200 miles at 100mph) for a total cruising time of 2:40, and a significantly greater total fuel burn.

(In practice, airlines may route the two legs quite differently to optimize better, taking advantage of the tailwind in one direction while avoiding it as much as possible when going the other way.)
But if there is no one around to appreciate or think of "one", does it still exist?
Welcome to the post-information world.

We're going to have to get used to this new reality. Just as those living in the era before recorded pictures or words didn't have reliable records to lean on, we'll grow to distrust all of the things that are posted. This will happen naturally as the volume of fakes increases; people will start to develop a doubtfulness around recorded media.

I don't think we need to worry about propaganda and fake news if the Facebooks and Instagrams become flooded with fake posts from the people we know. It'll become expected and mundane. This seems good for the development of a skeptical public.

When we do need to rely on audiovisual records, such as for court cases, we'll have experts that can investigate and verify.
Interesting. Thanks for the analysis.

So, continuing this general line of thought: what's the largest tidal force it would have experienced? Differential solar pressure? Would it have encountered anything on its journey that should have dispersed it?
Business idea: wooden stakes for sale!!! I’ll make a killing.

Call me old fashioned, but I can’t believe this is a thing.
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This is from the House Oversight committee, a group made up of a bipartisan group of congressmen whose job is to oversee, investigate and report on the actions of the executive branch.
With unlimited PTO and flexible schedule, I take way more time-off. Never will I give up my health, time-off for co-workers, they aren't family or friends, they are co-workers, who will replace you if you die tomorrow.
That wouldn't be terribly different from how Aerogels are made.
A couple of us (marcinzm got there first) stumbled onto what might be a much simpler solution, where we just counterbalance that bias. Perhaps we're missing something, but if so... well, then I missed it :-P

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19193622
No matter how many times I read this headline I can't make it not sound like it came straight from some kind of dickenzian vampire movie with this soundrack -- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZF5uqVdCvnA
Hmmm. The more money companies raise, the less honesty we tend to see from them.
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Peter Thiel is going to be disappointed.

https://www.inc.com/jeff-bercovici/peter-thiel-young-blood.h...

https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2016/08/peter-thiel-wants-to...
It wouldn’t disintegrate due to a sonic boom, because this extraordinary speed is due to the plane being helped along by tailwinds. If the tailwinds disappear, the plane slows down; it doesn’t speed up.

What I’m not clear on is, would the passengers feel like they just decelerated by 200+ mph in an instant?
So the UFO people are right? They predicted this sort of thing all along, without any prior knowledge of Oumuamua. I don’t recall hearing about fractal comets before?
Ground speed is what most people would think of when they think of a speed. How fast is it moving from Point A to Point B.

Airspeed takes into account how fast you are going you are going AS WELL as how fast and in what direction the air around you is going.

Another example would be a person walking on a motorized walkway (like at an airport.) Person A is going WITH the direction of the walkway like someone normally would. Person B is going AGAINST the direction of the walkway but still making progress forward. How fast the person is going when observed from off the walkway is ground speed. To maintain the same ground speed, Person A needs to only walk slowly (less effort/lower airspeed) while Person B needs to be sprinting all out (more effort/high airspeed.)

* Here is an interactive example from NASA: https://www.grc.nasa.gov/www/k-12/airplane/Animation/airrel/...
What's the average life span for someone who's already made it to 77?
The hardest thing about this study to me is that these tendencies aren't only applicable to Overwatch. It's obviously worse in video game culture (because it's more abusive and immature as a whole) but this matches with what I've had women engineers tell me of their experiences (especially in college where I know people who got asked out constantly and also were disrespected in group projects)
Would it be nice? Flying is already a tremendous environmental burden with the focus on fuel economy. I'm happy to sit in my seat a few minutes longer if it means taking away some of that emissions impact
The current state of things are OK enough that it's not worth it to normal people to make the switch. If that time ever comes, people will do so.
everything is randomly bashing things together; every human is randomly bashing things together. we are similar, but have billions and billions of tiny differences that make up the specific things about us.

everything has selection pressures too: just like life forms exist and thrive in different environments, dust behaves differently at different temperatures and gravities.

life as an event, and specific things that happen thereafter are no less “random” than specific chunks of rock/dust in specific configurations
" I left a negative feedback about my manager Uwais Khan in the daily “Amazon Connect” survey. Amazon Connect team sent to me the report showing how my manager can calculate my answer. At our 1:1 meeting, Khan prohibited me to leave feedback in the system. Since then oppression started.
Khan asked me to work on weekends. Then he asked HR how to prevent me from immigration benefits (not informing me about that)."

"My 3 yo daughter has a development delay and I need to bring her to therapy. For that, I asked Khan for work from home once a week like everybody else in our team. Khan prohibited me to work from home. Moreover, he asked me to come to office at 7 am and sit there alone. All the other team members came to office at 11 am and worked from home without restrictions. And their children were not disabled."

Holy crap is all I can say, honestly.
Or just fly with the jetstream in all cases, all the way around the earth if necessary. Some trips would be quite long, but think how much fuel they'd be saving!
But people wouldn't be encouraged to make original works if their great grandchildren would be robbed of the opportunity to squabble over the rights to it in the courts.
Okay, but pragmatism dictates that we don't get a do-over with the governing structure of the most powerful nation on earth. We can work to make it better, but that's a long and slow process, and in the meantime we need to get the various buttons and dials out of the hands of a literal crazy person.

I'll put it this way: I disagree with Mike Pence politically on virtually every issue. But it would still be a massive relief for me if he finished up Trump's presidential term.
I'm curious why you think his re-election chances are so high?

Comparing to the post-WWII Presidents who failed to get a second term, Ford, Carter, and the first Bush, they all had much higher net approval ratings at almost all comparable times through their terms.

Carter and Ford both had approval ratings almost as low Trump's at this point, but they had much lower disapproval ratings, giving them much better nets.

Scroll down here for post-WWII President approval/disapproval/net rating charges over time compared to the current President over time [1].

[1] https://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/trump-approval-ratings/...
It has really come down to this. The FDA has to warn people that it is a bad idea to inject yourselves with other peoples blood.

I like the idea though. For centuries we've had motif's of the "evil queen" bathing in the blood of innocents to rejuvenate herself. Now in modern times we can move past the idea of wealthy elderly capitalistic vampires sucking the youth out of people indirectly to becoming literal vampires sucking the life out of the young directly.
> Perhaps calling it a fractal is an unnecessary spin

It's a GIANT INTERSTELLAR DUST BUNNY!!!

slinks away
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You can literally make millions of dollars working for non-profits. The highest paid CEOs make several million dollars per year and the biggest non-profits have annual budgets in the billions. The annual revenue from all non-profits in the US is in the trillions.
A quick scan didn't reveal my favorite sample size 1 statistic. If you sample serial numbers starting from 1 and sample N, the best guess is that there are 2N examples.

This was worked out in WW II for estimating tank production.
Formal statement from the FDA: https://www.fda.gov/NewsEvents/Newsroom/PressAnnouncements/u...
> Of course, planes going the other direction will use extra, so overall we don't win

Aren't some(all?) long-haul routes chosen on a flight by flight basis to take advantage of favourable winds where possible?

Compare yesterday's eastbound BA11 (LHR-Singapore) vs the westbound BA12 (Singapore-LHR) flights.[0] Neither route looks like a great circle.

Eastbound routing: London - north of Berlin - Minsk - Voronezh - Volgograd - cross Caspian sea - Turkmenistan - Lahore - New Delhi - KL - Singapore.

Westbound: Singapore - KL - south of Jaipur - Iran - just touched Turkmenistan - south of Baku - Tbilsi - Turkey (just) - south of Prague - south of Dortmund - LHR

[0] flightradar24.com or similar
I'm quite well aware of that. I'm not sure how you read my post as saying anything different.

boyter asked how anything but time from A to B could be relevant. Well, not damaging the plane is relevant. And therefore the airspeed not being 801 MPH matters.
On a round trip, with a constant wind velocity, you use extra fuel overall - consider the extreme case where the wind speed is equal to the cruising airspeed.
It almost sounds as if there is neuron like behavior that emerges due to the information available in the raw electrical phenomena of the brain. It could be analogous to a machine learning circuit where the substrate itself responds neuron like to the overall electrical loading of the board.
Yep, I was almost exactly thinking of "work expands to fill the time", plus maybe a bit of "people take more and longer breaks when they work more hours". It's not a huge distinction, but I think "increased productivity" makes less sense as more output for an hour's work, and more sense as shaving off unproductive time.
I feel like this headline could be from any century
That's just like, your opinion, man
LOL I thought this was a crazy imagined thing for Gavin Belson. So I guess the SV thing was a satire of real life already?
>The average savings account balance in this country is far less than 45k.

I've seen stats that say 60% of US households can't even afford a sudden expense of $1000 so it's even worse than that.
Mars and Jupiter have orbiters and Saturn had one until recently (Cassini). But what good do those do? They are planetary science missions, largely useless for observing very distant objects.

I think what you are proposing is having a bunch of large space telescopes around planets. But this might not help very much. All the planets are in the plane of the ecliptic. Interstellar objects are not going to be aligned with the plane of the ecliptic.
No, it saves fuel. They're probably going faster AND using less throttle. Cruise speed is WAY above stall speed.
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Agreed in general, but don't feel it needs to be either or. An assistant could handle it and other time sinks.
In investing / business / etc it's a "virtuous cycle" or "network effect" - the more productive / valuable something (or someone) is, the more productivity/value it accrues (and is expected to engender)

Want to avoid it? Switch to the socialism / union mentality - do just enough to not get fired.
I distinctly remember my CFI in flying school brow beating it into us rookie pilots that "what you lose in a headwind, you never regain in the tailwind on the way back", and explaining it to us long handed on the blackboard. Seems illogical, but the math stacked up as in your illustration above.
>what separates it from a modern smartphone seems to be nothing but bigger/faster sensors

The bigger/faster sensors are a big part of the price. The other big factor is all of the buttons and dials to quickly change settings without having to look away from the scene. The fast shutter, mirror, and optical view finder are also big contributors. Look at the assembly animation below [1] of a Canon 10D to see all of the tiny parts packed into a small, ergonomic package, and you'll get a better idea of why they cost so much. Not to mention I've killed 3 phones by drops no higher than 4 feet, while I've dropped my DSLRs many more times and from higher points and they show no signs of damage.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6-HiBDLVzYw
I sincerely hope that this public blog entry and protest leads to some labor reform. Good luck bro.
You wouldn't. Solar sails need a handy nearby star, or a less handy giant laser.

You won't get much acceleration from distant and/or dim stars. (Without a giant laser.)

Interestingly, Oumuamua is at the high end of in-system solar sail velocities, and extremely slow for powered inter-system travel.

The velocity profile matches a natural solar sail drifting rather randomly through space or - if you're going to go with "aliens", for the lulz - a probe deployed on the outskirts of the solar system with a low velocity.

It doesn't match the profile of a powered inter-system solar sail.
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>The moment [cryptography] becomes a viable way to subvert the state, they'll just change the laws.

Does that sentence make much sense? Government decrees don't eradicate goods, they create make black markets.

>if people actually start using it to smuggle money

If? People already use bitcoin to evade capital controls in China, Venezuela etc

>the 1% will use it to hide their wealth from wealth redistribution policies demanded by liberal democracies.

You're confusing equity (something you own) and equality (rights that you have). Bitcoin promotes equality (each client has the same rights). Arbitrarily making certain people unequal (different people have different rights, some have their wealth stolen, some don't) always leads to more inequity. Voting about who to steal from doesn't legitimize theft. If people who generated wealth through voluntary exchange want to protect their property rights from theft, I won't deny them that. Agents who use the state to expropriate wealth through artificial privilege (the real enemy here) want to perpetuate the existing system, not encourage a neutral rights network such as bitcoin.
* C'mon guys 99% of the work is already done by antirez*

Yes, but maybe he's not a business man or is not in his interest to pursue the road of something like redis labs.
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>Perhaps the 25km/s speed being a crawl for interstellar travel was because it was meant to slow down while passing through our solar system…

We know how much it’s acceleration as affected by solar pressure because we measured it, and it was very low, similar in scale to that caused by off-gassing of comments. Tiny both by interstellar travel standards, and in terms of its actual velocity.

The way you use ‘solar’ sails for interstellar travel is to propel them using a fixed laser at their point of origin, and possibly another laser to slow them down at their destination. Actual light pressure from a star is way too low to give them useful velocity for interstellar journeys.
I would much rather get a metric related to what I, personally, can evaluate as more likely being good, rather than what Netflix thinks I might like.
That would be an interesting way to rig an election, although Google* would have to know who you were planning to vote for before stopping or allowing you through. Maybe separate pages? or tracking which link the person came from like the candidates campaign emails.

*absolutely not saying Google is actually doing anything like this, but it's an interesting thought
1. The plane has to fly sufficiently fast (to avoid stall), and sufficiently slow (to avoid "Mach tug"). As one flies higher (air density sinks), these two speeds converge, forming the dangerous "coffin corner". Now, in general, planes don't fly as high as possible, I'd say, so that there is some leeway in terms of chosen airspeed.

2. For given airspeed, the plane flies less time with a tailwind than a headwind.

So, this does save fuel, I'd think.
If our nearby system (star, planets, and all in between) is to serve as an observation parameter to determine the probability of the occurrence of life, life in not very common.

Yes, it is true that you have plenty of life here, but you have it only on a very (and I mean very) thin layer on this floating rock. It seems a lot on the surface (pun intended), but it actually isn't.