skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If they can get the cost down to <100K USD then I’d absolutely sign up for one, and I’m not even from the future!
Disney is ending its vault, giving Disney+ a boost in the streaming wars
Yes! Even just for the fun component.

But if it practically worked as a day to day driver it would absolutely revolutionise traffic in some cities, such as Jakarta with 18 million motorcycles all stuck in traffic.

Cant imagine all the issues you'd have to work through to make that work though. It would be a good time to invest in roof-repair and insurance businesses.
What else can they do to decrease the effectiveness of increasingly hostile trackers?
I read the front page using https://www.fullhn.com/ and it avoids problems like this
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I'd want it if it didn't work so well to be honest. People in the Bay Area complain about how terrible public transport is. Try living in the midwest or southeast. I frequently dreamed of having my own personal Rocketman style jetpack or something to avoid that terrible commute. If I had the funds I'd buy one of these things without a second thought.
There are extreme hobbies, and then there are extreme hobbies.
I work on non-linear optimization problems for most of my work projects, and I know exactly what you mean. One of these years we'll be freed from remembering calculus I :)
s-expressions only give you a data format - just like XMl, JSON, ...

One then maps a programming language to s-expressions.

You could easily map a complex infix/mixfix language to s-expressions.

This is a valid s-expression:

(foo = x ^ 3 * 4 / sin x)

You can imagine variants with more parenthesis, too.
What threat model is it that a email vendor can receive your email in essentially plain text (TLS between SMTP servers doesn't protect you from the provider themselves snooping) but cannot be trusted to store that same email in situ?

Hard to recommend something without understanding the thought process.
If there were only few of those around and you could afford one and it had good range imagine how it would cut your commute. Fly to your cabin in the woods in no time (rather than sit in traffic for hours) to chill for a bit? Worth the money.
Going sugar-free is great and I am certainly not knocking the overall strategy to reduce wasted/empty carbohydrates. Just understand that not ingesting something that has sugar in the nutritional facts doesn't mean your body doesn't produce glucose, the simplest sugar of all.

If your body needs energy it will convert carbohydrate stores to glucose. Even if you go keto and ingest 0 carbohydrates, you can still convert substrates to glucose through a process called gluconeogenesis.

I say all of this because I always worry about people who go SOMETHING-free, whether it's sugar-free, fat-free, carb-free, etc. Someone reads a person is sugar free but their body isn't exactly free of sugar. They just haven't ingested it and that's a big difference. And I say this because even if you don't go sugar free you can achieve roughly the same effects provided you keep the junk sugar (i.e. candy bars, soda) to a minimum.

I do strength sports and I have 30g of sugar with my workout drink during every workout. My resting glucose is 90 (near ideal) and all of my blood markers are healthy. Outside of that I have virtually 0 added sugar but plenty of carbohydrates from fruits, vegetables, whole grains, and legumes. In other words, living life in moderation can produce amazing results and doesn't require a monastic devotion to be completely free of something.

One last thing I will say is that the human body is so complex. The OP isn't just going sugar free. He is also exercising and making other lifestyle choices. That combined with the power of all of that positive reinforcement and changes only magnifies the other effects he is seeing. It's just too hard to solely attribute a sugar-free diet to all of these positive effects. It's really that his whole lifestyle has improved so he's seeing positive changes in lots of places...perhaps even changes where they have nothing to do with all of this but he attributes it as such (not sure x2 hair growth is really correlated to reduced sugar intake).
I am trying to understand your take. Do you also call Firefox nagware, when it pops up with a dialog box where you can click "Don't show this again"?

To me the dialog box is actually worse, because the program often blocks until you close the dialog box (not 100% sure if that is the case with Firefox).

With GNU Parallel you run 'parallel --citation' once, and you are done. We are talking an effort of 15 seconds or less.

When I install a library I often have to run the install command and it often takes longer than 15 seconds.

Finally, I would like to understand why you do not just use another utility? Would that not solve your issue?
The difference is that you don't try to act on the cosmology models to change the way galaxies behave. Most of practical economics tries to derive policies or make choices out of its models.
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Founder of WingsuitGP here, take a look at my application YC!
If it worked well and was free from regulation significantly limiting its use then a guess is there would be a substantial market for something like this.

Most importantly, we’ll never get to a future like what was imagined in the video if people are not taking honest shots at it. The fact that this is being given a chance is very exciting.
"The Speeder is “at least” two years of development time away from ending up in customer hands."

vs.

"Joby Aviation has spent the last decade developing their own electric motors and their current VTOL design from the ground up." [0]

I'd guess that it's at least two years after development has completed in order to get through final certifications for whichever regulatory agencies have a say in this.

[0] https://techcrunch.com/2018/07/08/the-electric-aircraft-is-t...
Cloud?!
I love so many things about this, yet at the same time I don't get the positioning of this product.

1 - Is this is a product for consumers who buy $300-500K super sports cars?

2 - Is this targeted to the consumers who buy private planes?

3 - Is this for search and rescue market?

Group 1 - I don't know. Why not buy a drone-based technology that runs on batteries that might be cheaper and perhaps more reliable. Yes, it may not have the same energy density of batteries, but you can get your 20 min of thrill, super charge it and fly again for another 20 min.

Group 2 - I don't see this being comfortable, they'll buy a single engine plane with seats for 4 that is more comfortable and you don't freeze, or for more adventures people a trike at a fraction of a cost would do fine.

Group 3 - For search and rescue, you probably go as a team of 2-3 people and if you're rescuing people you need to bring them back. So you'll need a fleet of these. I understand helicopters are expensive, but once you add a few of these, then you're compete with a true and tested helicopter model.

Maybe at the end of the day, they'll make this autonomous, put a few missiles on it and then sell it to the pentagon. It's agile and fast and probably can make an argument for its tactical advantages.

edit: typo
Luma+Sleep+Coupon+Awesome+Night+Sleep
classic straw man argument.
The immigrants in question are not ISIS and are not anti-america.
While most people are focused on how it will work for commute and day to day activities, even if it doesn't work for those use cases, it is great for theme parks, adventure rides type of use cases. People spend millions of $$ every year on those "weird" roller coaster rides and theme parks.
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/02/nyregion/taxi-drivers-sui...

It's easy to be cavalier if you ignore the effect on Taxi workers. Ride sharing replaced a stable, unionized, middle class career with low-paying, low-benefit gig jobs. It ruined people's lives and destroyed a stable field of work. This wasn't a technological innovation -- it was a legal one, where they figured out a way to evade regulations to undercut the current system and drive down wages.
>> Another difficulty is that in many cases (macroeconomics for instance) we cannot do experiments to test theories. This makes it much harder to learn from the data.

I assumed another reason Economics is so hard is because cycles are so long that there are not many to test theories with, especially once you consider unique contexts around specific cycles. Would appreciate if you could opine on this aspect of difficulty?

Also, I'm always amused that after so many years there is still such a two sided dogma on Keynesian vs non Keynesian economics - is one side being difficult or is there really room for debate?
The $150,000 investment seems like a great deal for marketing. If the product ends up being feasible that's an added bonus.
That's nonsense. The car had a human backup driver and human pedestrians, all not under the autonomous cars control.

An automatic emergency brake doesn't prevent a computer or human driver from braking when it wants to. If the autonomous system can't even avoid interaction with emergency brake, the prototype belongs in a lab, not on a public road.
Motorcycles can already do that due to the wonders of lane splitting.

Wouldn’t you need a pilot’s license for this? If it only flies so low that you don’t, isn’t it then suuuuper dangerous?

I say the dangerous part as a former Boosted Board afficionado and current motorcycle rider
I hope the Chinese government sees the irony of this situation - the fact that a Chinese company can and will file a law suit against the US Government is a testament to the functioning and well-oiled American judiciary system. Evidently, as we've seen with numerous instances where Chinese government can boot US companies from operating in China without recourse, appeal or objection should raise flags for any American business that wants to manufacture its goods in China.
AWS Fargate would be and easy entry point for you..!
If you do not like the sharing economy, then do not participate in it. "Other people should not be doing this, and should not be doing that, ..." is one bridge too far. For heaven's sake, who the hell are you, to tell other people what to do?
A catch all address is just asking for a sunami of spam.

But maybe something*@example.com

I have two Gmail addresses. A public and a private. For anything that is public facing, that exposes the email or that I don't trust as much, I use the public email. For everything important, I use the private one (and sometimes with the + method).

My private address is set to forward to my public. I only respond and send email from the public email.
My thoughts go out to her family. And the many many people who die every day because of reckless drivers and accidents. Driverless or not. Really sucks to lose someone due to no fault of their own (other than being there).

To add, driverless or not, most who kill others using a car are not criminally liable. Often times not even liable beyond what the state minimum is. Unless the victim sues for personal assets. So in California, that's 100k. Which is one of the lowest in the USA.
I've seen a demo where given my email address they could pull up my name, address, profession, age, and I forget what else. Yes, it's already in unscrupulous hands.
There's an easy way to handle composability: pick a quoting syntax that doesn't appear in the target language (or is unlikely to appear in it) and embed the inner language in that. Stuff like {{/}} (common in templating frameworks) or LLVM TableGen's [{/}] are decent examples.
Why remove the hyphens? If that’s wanted, there’s the more direct:

crypto.randomBytes(16).toString('hex')
> You don't go to prison for "mistakes", you go to prison for criminal negligence.

The difference between the two is what a politically-motivated prosecutor can convince a jury of.
This article appears to be written by someone who has yet to make a profit from property ownership (their deal hasn’t even closed yet, right?).

So it may be useful info, but I skeptical.
Articles like this ignore the impact on individuals. For every group that is trying to full time Uber/Lyft or turn an AirBNB into a hotel, there's also tons of people who are doing in the spare time to make some extra or work the better allocation of resources into something beneficial for them.

See threads like: https://twitter.com/RantyAmyCurtis/status/110272136190510694...

That's what sharing is about, more optimal allocation/usage. It's not an end-all solution to everything, it's a supplement. There will be people who make their entire go at it, and there will be everything in between.

The importance is that you let people decide whether to participate in it or not. They're the ones with which the decision of whether it is a scam or not ultimately matters.

Trying to paint the entire phenomenon as either a total failure or the end-all panacea is dumb. It's a much welcome addition to the broader economy by millions of people.
Until every other idiot driver also gets one, and now you have distracted driving and other poor behavior, but in the skies.

They said the exact same thing about cars when they first came out.
Because all of those are hard, and CRUD is easy?

I mean, I see your point. I’m just not convinced it’s enough given the availability of a thousand other (free-ish) solutions.
I am looking forwards to the legal circus after some rich idiot buys one of these and runs out of fuel over someone else's house.
He said mtm has nothing to do with insurers and ask “where I got my ideas” I said CMS and cited the Law that Medicare insurers have to provide mtm to patients.

Then he said outcomesMTM is a pharmacy patient management software having nothing to with insurance, but it’s a software for insurers to pay pharmacies to provide mtm to the insurers patients and I quoted from their website. It’s really above and beyond ridiculous like me saying google is a search engine and someone say no it’s not give me a cite.
It's "not a problem" until the next round of "why does Silicon Valley only work on trivialities?" articles pops up.
Sendmail and postfix both allow you to configure that. I have my mail set up so '+', '.', and '_' all work the same. I've never seen any site deny the '.' or '_' character.
The specs say it only has a 10 - 22 minute flight-time anyway. This is for joyriding only.
Id guess it would be less dangerous than driving than say, a turbo busa, given you have less things to crash into!
Talk about ethics. You probably won't convince anyone to pursue STEM in a presentation but if you talk about things like Therac-25 you might leave an impression on those who choose to pursue it.
There are lots of ways it's not at all the same, but it's at least sort of interesting to compare this question to the number of dimensions needed for effective word embeddings.
Yeah, how dare we insist that people be paid a living wage! And health insurance is only for employees, not employees-in-everything-but-name!
> If I am to serve a 1 year prison sentence for faulty code or a deprecated LIDAR sensor, I don't see in what scenario I would be willing to leave my fate in the hands of a self-driving car manufacturer.

What if we came up with a reasonably objective test of driver skill and the car outperforms you?

This is and remains the standard argument - the car doesn't have to be perfect, it just has to beat a human having a bad day. If you are worried about the liability, maybe keep the car serviced and sit in the drivers seat and look out of the window instead of watching a movie. Tell the car to dive slowly maybe.

I feel sorry for the driver who is creating this precedent, but this is hardly a road block. The average human is not a great driver.
Mapping Communication Between FB Accounts Using Browser Side Channel Attack
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iXYmFqEkCGQ
login into your machine using ssh
export your display to your ip
xstart and the you'll have the complete remote desktop running on your machine. Of course you'll need a xserver emulator running on your local client.
Key Challenges Encountered by the Testers in 2018 – FeedsFloor
I agree that it wasn't the most scholarly article.

As an alternate, I just finished a week ago this book by the former Secretary of Education that talked about how poorly a lot of the schools in America prepare students for success in the world, and how often they have lowered their standards rather than working to teach kids better.

He told a story at the beginning about how when he was in college he was going to tutor a star basketball player for a rough school in Chicago. He said the kid came from one of the rare for the area homes where both parents were present and working. He had a stable family life in an area where most kids didn't. His parents were doing their best to set their kids up for success.

Anyway, the first thing the author did as part of tutoring was to give the kid some placement exams to see what he needed work on for getting into college. This was a kid who made the honor roll and was a junior in high school. The guy had a 4th grade reading level. The school system had been promoting these kids every year to the next grade even though they weren't learning anywhere near what they should be.

So it may not be 20%, and it probably isn't in any of the better schools that people hanging around HackerNews are likely to have come from, but there are some really rough schools in America where kids are getting terrible educations.

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/37827417-how-schools-wor...
I'm not familiar with the details there. IIRC, the engineer was going around a curve much faster than it was rated for.

Whatever. Failing to detect that an employee is not fit to do a job which potentially jeopardizes many lives is a very serious failure. I might -want- to ask which executive the company will expect to do the time.

Airlines and railroads seem to prefer to blame their operators, particularly when the operators are killed and unable to defend themselves. In this case, however, the vehicle had no operator to blame.
The road should not have been designed like that, allowing high speed traffic at a pedestrian crossing. Cars are a dangerous incursion on human environments, akin to letting lions wander freely in town. The whole automotit ecosystem is morally liable, joint and severally, for this assault on human life, from collisions to pollution to the appropriate of public real estate.
I don't think anyone is claiming "purity" at all. Purity, if anything, would make things simpler.
> By November 2016, Autopilot had operated actively on hardware version 1 vehicles for 300 million miles (500 million km) and 1.3 billion miles (2 billion km) in shadow mode.[21]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tesla_Autopilot
> ...Urban public schools seem to be a failure overall....

This is just not true. My kid, now 13, goes to an LAUSD school and it has worked for her and her classmates. (We left a higher-"rated" [and there's another topic] suburban district by choice, in fact.) A lot of people in LA view the charter experiment as generally a failure and a distraction from actually improving the schools we have.

This overview (https://laist.com/2018/07/22/do_not_publish_-_ref_rodriguez_...) provides a good run-down of the sorry end of the "pro-charter" majority that prevailed in the LAUSD board.

The pro-charter board president was directing public funds to a private charter organization he was separately paid by. He had support of Reed Hastings, the Gates Foundation, and a host of well-meaning billionaires (and some not so well-meaning).

> ...So long as the institutions last over several generations...

This kind of stability isn't going to happen in LA or any significant city. I really think that my point about the difficulty of informed "choice" by parents in this "market" is important, and your comments on it (like this one) are ludicrous.

In general your comments on this topic seem rather un-grounded in either experience or research. You must be aware that many former charter supporters (e.g., Diane Ravitch) are now strongly against them?
Cloudy with a Chance of War (2014)
>>Facebook doesn't owe anybody a free ad-optional platform to engage with people, they aren't a government entity.

Unless you are just claiming that shadow profiles are not a real thing [1], I think Facebook is becoming more like a government entity in the sense that you cannot "opt out" of Facebook any more than you can "opt out" of your government, or you can "opt out" of having any friends in your life.

Unlike a government, which, even at its most corrupt and inefficient, is actually supposed to be built with a system of checks and balances to help serve its constituents, and in theory can at least be overthrown via coup or elections, the only thing you have with Facebook is this expectation that they don't "owe anybody" anything.

Make no mistake, Facebook is devious enough to know this, and it also knows there are lots of "useful idiots" (and I don't mean you, I mean the others who think this point shouldn't even be up for discussion!) who keep saying Facebook doesn't owe anybody <anything> without acknowledging that we have a phenomenon here which has never been seen before.

[1] https://www.cnet.com/news/shadow-profiles-facebook-has-infor...
Can’t “really”?
They promised my generation flying cars growing up. They never, not a single time talked about flying motorcycles.

I don't mean to be negative but here's a few questions:

What happens when you hit turbulence?

What happens if you get caught in a rainstorm?

What happens if you fly into a flock of birds?

What happens when you fly into lightning on a clear day?

None of those have to be fatal in an airplane, but potentially could be on this machine.
The prosecutor has no doubt thought long and hard, and there is no evidence of a bad call here. We don't even have the benefit of hindsight yet.

The driver being criminally liable is a more powerful incentive. People will not buy & drive vehicles that have a reputation for getting their drivers criminally prosecuted. And the government can still regulate for high safety standards on self driving vehicles independent of criminal liability.
I wish there was a "moonshot" for something like The Kidney Project (https://pharm.ucsf.edu/kidney) A project to produce an artificial kidney. It was kept alive by small donations by kidney patients over the years. Now maybe on better footing and closer to human testing. But still nothing funded like these pie in the sky moonshot project that people will care nothing about in a few years.
My point is it’s not possible to uniquely reconstruct an arbitrary polynomial by just knowing the extrema because there may be information loss in the general case. I will stop here.
It is the same as betting on SpaceX in some ways. You have to take a few moonshot bets.
What's the fail safe for aircraft with this kind of thrust?

Planes can glide after a loss of power, helos autorotate, do these just fall out of the sky on a nice ballistic arc?

Maybe one of those whole plane
parachutes?
Allowing people to participate in activities is useful, but that assumes that they are well-informed and rational. People also willingly participate in multi-level marketing; that doesn’t mean it’s good for them and society to do so.