skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Even a plane with a bunch of faults is much safer than a typical journey by car.

Ground a few planes, and the extra car journeys caused by people choosing to drive due to disruption to their travel plans easily causes more deaths.

Humans are particularly bad at handling unlikely events (such as the risk of a plane crash), and in those cases, their 'gut reaction' frequently is the wrong one.
how does "TechCrunch" "~300 tracking, data collection and ad companies" impact you?

i'm asking because my government knows everything about me: my private and public IPs, what sites I visit, my comments on those sites, how old I am, how often I go downtown etc etc etc
Whether there's a use for 40 digits or 40 trillion digits, needing more accuracy is not why we find these numbers. There's no 'need' for this at all. The same way there's no 'need' to find bigger prime numbers. We're just seeing how far we can go, maybe seeing a new pattern emerge.
Exactly this! I'm using it for demo(scene) stuff. Demos, interactive presentations, learning (and make fun) shaders.
Japan's population is crashing, so they need robots to take over jobs where there are no longer people to do those jobs. Because of immigration, the United States' population is rising and the economy is unable to provide sufficient stable well-paying jobs for all those who would like them.
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Signal on Android relies upon Google Play Services for the microphone and camera permissions, which can't be turned off.
It is open-source [1] so one could install it without going through the Google Play Store (it's not on F-Droid though), but it's another case of Google's ever-expanding grasp over "interesting" (read: competing) Android apps.

[1] https://github.com/signalapp/Signal-Android
So that Google can make Chrome render fast on the sites most people use the most often, for example?
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This is a cheap way out. I don't think most people are putting down Go as an outright terrible language.

So, when so many engineers with lots of experience say that, for instance, no-generics is a problem with Go, it's worth considering that may be it really is a problem.

I wonder what you will say if Golang introduces generics in a future release.
Have you tried looking at docopt?

There are cases where it is not flexible enough but it is good for quick and dirty little scripts because:

* you use the docstring to generate the args. This way you always have a minimum usage that is valid

* Argument parsing is a bit more limited than doimg it yourself, but everything you usually need is there

* Docopt is exists not only for Python, but many other languages implemented it too.
Remember the 737 has been slowly growing each generation: the A220-100 doesn't compete with the 737 MAX at all (it's smaller than the 737 MAX 7, and the MAX 7 has only 61 orders, out of over 5000 total orders). It provides a possible replacement for the A318 and 737-600 (but also neither of those sold well either!); it's biggest competition is probably the E195-E2.

The A220-300 competes with the A319neo and 737 MAX 7 (and the A319neo isn't selling any better than than the MAX 7).

I don't think really an abandonment is on the cards: too many fleets are too heavily bought into the 737 family, and the cost of migrating away is real. By way of comparison, the A320(ceo) hardly had the best of starts to its life either with the Air France Flight 296 crash (which while different, still wasn't exactly good press!).
That’s not true. My work laptop has been a ThinkPad for the last five years, and while I like the TrackPoint for some things, I use the precision touchpad on my X1C6 more. Modern touch pads have good heuristics for fine motions versus large sweeping motions. And the touchpad is way better for scrolling through documents or web pages.
Telegram's end goal is to create value for shareholders. Eventually they will profit from user privacy violations. Not to parrot other comments, but we should all use Signal. Its' existence isn't based on investment dollars that expect returns in more dollars.
The top comment on Dropbox's original announcement went like

> For a Linux user, you can already build such a system yourself quite trivially by getting an FTP account, mounting it locally with curlftpfs, and then using SVN or CVS on the mounted filesystem. From Windows or Mac, this FTP account could be accessed through built-in software ... is it reasonable to expect to make money off of this?
I'd guess most "new sections" are just part of the Mines/Catacombs of Paris whose access was previously blocked by the official organisation in charge of them, the Inspection générale des carrières.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inspection_g%C3%A9n%C3%A9rale_...
Can't agree more. Have been using Telegram since I quit using Facebook, and it proved to be far more reliable then even whatsapp. The only problem is that most of people I know prefer and use whatsapp and it's been challenging fo me to maintain all the contacts in one app.
I've never used Telegram but I do use Signal daily and if it really offers a "far superior experience" then Telegram must be akin to connecting to an IRC server with telnet as a client.

Seriously though, Signal's UI is pretty terrible and they go out of their way to discourage third party clients. It's fine as a replacement for SMS (the way I use it) but if you're used to more fully featured web messengers it's a pretty big leap backwards.
Well, if it would sync, it's not private. Unless the app allows you to sync the keys offline. Telegram doesn't sync either if you enable e2e encryption.

But I agree that Telegram apps are great. Both Android ones, and the desktop ones as well. Small, fast, reliable, great UX.
But what role would a Blockchain have in the parallel computation of pi?
Hacking your body with tech looks rough
> I don't. I believe in AR but not short-term. I think AR will go into a "winter" soon and will be picked up by the mainstream some years later after key technology challenges are solved. I think AR (glasses) is at where VR was in the nineties.

> Currently AR has two form factors, phone and glasses.

> Phone-based AR is gimmicky. It can be fun and can work in some scenarios but it's monoscopic, has a ridiculous field of view, requires holding your phone in the air, and it's not really augmenting reality anyway, it's augmenting a video stream of reality (increased latency, reduced dynamic range, motion blur, etc.).

> Glasses-based AR will be great but currently has fundamental challenges with field of view, latency, optics, and integration of augmentations in the real world (e.g: procedural objects dynamically matching physical obstacles). It requires new inventions in hardware and software to fully realize the vision we have of it.

> On the other hand VR has a clear technological path for the next decade into human-like field of view and visual fidelity. The full enclosure means we can get +200° and fit eye tracking cameras in the headset. Foveated rendering, only render what you actually look at at full res. The advent of ray tracing hardware (easier foveated rendering and non-linear optics). There is no fundamental barrier to get from here to 60 pixels per degree at 200° fov.

I 99.9% agree with this assesment, particularly with respect to the timeline of product maturity/adoption. However, I also agree with Andybak above, that AR & VR applications are complimentary, but largely different. One will not displace the other, but the technologies will merge such that you can seamlessly transition from AR to VR nd back using the same hardware (likely Virtual Retinal Display-based displays) and operating system.

I use VR in my job (evaluating power plant designs), and for that, I need to be immersed in a 3D model as opposed to AR where not being fully immersed would be unnecessarily distracting. On the other hand, after a plant is constructed, AR will be extremely useful (not yet, but eventually) in identifying where the actual design departs from the contractual model, or for training (new people learning how to operate the plant), or for monitoring (seeing overlays of temperature/pressure/planned maintenance data/etc., and so forth).

VR right now is mature in that the quality of display and ease of UI make it useful. It's still a pain to set up and get the models imported. It also still suffers from relatively low resolution. Resolution is still too low to say, emulate a computer monitor (i.e. present a virtual desktop computer monitor and use it at normal seated viewing distance - which requires a minimum 35PPD). For my needs, it's hard to read even large text on virtual signage in VR (you have to get VERY close to the virtual sign to read it). So, unlike the above comment, I think the VR industry has quite a bit of work to get from it's current sub-35PPD to a 60PPD display approaching the limits of human eye resolution.
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It may be time for signal to adopt channels too even if they can't guarantee too much privacy due to the nature of the medium itself. But channels/rooms/groups have always been popular and will likely continue to be. They need the feature just to get more people to use private messaging as they join the app. Signal also needs to stop depending on phone numbers for usernames.
While you may have multiple residencies, legally you have one domicile. This is the location where you live and verification of you actually living there is required by most contracts and is enforceable in a court.
> Signal has a far superior user experience

No. It doesn't.

If you're going to advocate for an open alternative, at least be intellectually honest about it's pros/cons. You might have gotten used to Signal, and be unfamiliar with Telegram (and sure, much of usability has an element of subjectivity to it), but... the above statement simply isn't true in the general sense.

Personally, I tend to try and advocate for Riot.im over Signal when trying to push friends to an alternative platform—it's preferable from an openness perspective for a lot of reasons. I am however well aware that Signal (along with most things) has a better user experience than Riot.im does currently.

Telegram and WhatsApp are quite close in usability (they've each copied quite a few UI features back and forth, so there's a lot of familiarity in switching). And unfortunately not many alternatives really come close to either of them.
You will be just fine, shipping real products to real customers is invaluable. What is your skillset?
Of course they're crude, however the fact remains that with very few hours in the air, 2 737-maxs have crashed in similar circumstances, both under 6 months old. If this doesn't raise concerns, what does.
Are you missing the low-hanging fruit on your data tree?
Yeah they could save $25K by just putting down a coffee vending machine. Like at truck stops.

I don't get the "they took our jobs" vibe from this video. Especially considering these things probably come with support contracts (and troubleshooting, maintenance, etc) that cost more than an employee, because it's specialized hardware.
Godot now has native bindings for many languages. Search for gdnative and your language of choice.
Telegram is scary and questionable.
Inventing your own encryption is never the answer and reeks of horrible understanding of security, at this stage there is no reason they should not adopt a standard of communication like Signal protocol.

Signal app itself is ok, it's a little....annoying as it requires a phone number and the UX needs some love.

Keybase is great, It has ways of verifying you across multiple services and has end-to-end encryption using PGP.
Also offers file storage.
That’s a good point, but often a type signature constrains the possible programs to such a degree that there is only one nonsensical program that can be written with that signature.
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So would everyone except Google's in house design team, which has lost the plot.

There seems to be some suggestion this was done for the purposes of enabling dark mode, which has never made the slightest bit of sense tbh.
It is quite good indeed. Where do you see it lacking? Perhaps this is a blindspot for admins.

The aim is to really have some good discussions from time to time. We definitely don’t want to make it a place to just dump links into.
While temiri is right, I'd like to continue the discussion that you've started by mentioning that their last airdrop, done in collaboration with blockchain.com, was also a fiasco. A lot of people didn't even bother claiming anymore, and many of those who tried (including me and a buddy that lives in the same building), weren't able to claim because the process was littered with bugs. Hopefully, a serious non-profit foundation will take over (fork) the open source Stellar tech, create a good and fair initial distribution mechanism, and then restart the cryptocurrency. It would probably need the help of governments or big corporations like Facebook/Google in order to insure a fair initial distribution.
The linked NASA article points out that with 40 digits of pi you could compute the circumference of the visible universe to an accuracy equal to the diameter of a hydrogen atom. I'm gonna say there's no practical application that would require even 40 digits, never mind a few hundred
"Likes" are possible if you create channel messages via bots. Well, it's a kind of enhanced like. It's called reaction, you can predefine one or several smiles / text entries and channel readers can vote for it under the post. Some bots have convenient option to schedule posts or create self-destroyed messages and lots of other functions.

Comments are also possible via external bots. The discussion isn't really inside telegram though.

But navigation in channel is pain. Especially if you want to jump into the beginning where was no pinned message and channel has long history.

And when you subscribe for many channels it becomes a nightmare to segregate channels and users. They need to improve that experience.
Because a vr platform that is successful would be a great place to advertise.
That's not true, at least not in areas where Telegram is prevalent (Eastern Europe). Here, it's quickly becoming the default 1-1 messenger.
Telegram got some bad press in France after it was revealed that some terrorist groups used it to coordinate their attacks [1].

Now most non-tech people I talk to about alternative messaging platforms know it as "The terrorist messaging app".

[1] https://www.francetvinfo.fr/replay-radio/nouveau-monde/teleg... (French)
Next clickbait title : "BDSM inspires joy not violence". Then replace BDSM with RPG, FPS ...
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Group chats won't follow you though.
> there is no need for a human to stand and make a basic product for 10 hours a day when a robot can do it.

Ultimately there is no need for most of what we work on. Once our basic needs and comfort are covered it's a boundless quest for economical growth and a sense of "fulfilment". Low skilled repetitive jobs are needed if we continue on our current economical path.

A lot of jobs could already be automated, we could probably work half of what we do now and keep 90% of our comfort. The issue isn't technical it's political / societal. People have been talking about automation for 70+ years [0], we're still more or less at the same stage as back then. We replaced factory workers by machines, great, but this didn't deliver them from work, it just made them shift to other low skilled dead end jobs.

Fast food is a good example, they are more and more automated in Europe but in the US it won't happen because many students / people with low education rely on these jobs to survive. Same for walmart, &c ...
These jobs aren't a means to an end, they're here to keep low skilled people busy. We sent people to the moon in the 60s, does anyone really believe we can't make a machine that flip patties and make fries (it would be much more efficient and cost a fraction of the employees it would replace) ?

What would be the end goal ? Efficiency for efficiency's sake ? Seems like the most efficient scenario would be to end up in a Matrix kind of world.

Anecdote: I ofter talk to the barista working for my company's internal coffee shop, he said he'd never change job because he likes human contact and relaxed working hours/conditions. Everything doesn't to be about efficiency / automation.

[0] https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean_Fourastié

"His technological optimism (Le Grand Espoir du xxe siècle, PUF 1949; Machinism et Bien-Être, Ed Minuit 1951; Les 40000 heures, 1965) led him to announce the 30-hour week and an active life span of about 35 years, and to predict that society would evolve relentlessly towards a tertiary type of civilisation, dominated by services"
Maybe. I definitely saw people digging though, and I went through large sections that were newly dug. This was in 2014. Also, sometimes new building foundations are cut into the existing tunnels, and new tunnels are also dug into building foundations. Interestingly, the cataphiles I spoke to strongly 'discouraged' theives from entering buildings in this way. Something about not drawing undue attention from authorities.
Spectral Voice is really something else, take a listen to Blood Incantation.
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Perhaps, but thats an argument for occupancy based tax, not building-value based tax.
"I'll pay twice that if they can also make the arm push a boulder up a hill and have it fall back down again" - VCs probably.
And such a view would also work on a normal screen, and could follow the play smoothly. A VR view relies on the user moving their head, rather than letting a camera man do it for them.
Big fan of land value taxes. They apply pressure to make the best use of the land rather than sitting on it. However, I'm not sure it will help cities like Baltimore, where they were unable to turn things around even by giving away houses for $1 and no taxes for a few years.

In a city, you're more dependent on the government to take care of things, and in most US cities, with single party control, it does not happen. They don't take care of crime. They let infrastructure decay. The schools are crap (despite high per-pupil spending). They make crony deals with the unions on pensions and benefits that are not possible to fund.

Not feeling safe and with a bleak future for their kids, people move out. I've seen this happen over and over again with coworkers who initially were big on city living, but eventually moved out when they got mugged or had kids.

The result is insane taxes as population leaves, and subsidies from the surrounding areas to try to keep the failed city afloat.

The high taxes and obvious government incompetence then act as a moat to keep people out.
The only reason I saw fb messenger as popular was because fb was. the chat heads are dumb ( Google is trying to copy that for some reason), it tried to replace basic features of a phone, it randomly dialed people ( in HD!). In 2019, is it really that difficult to design an app, list of contacts, list conversation, timed delete etc in a normal looking ux. The state of messenging apps is terrible. On sure Google will release a new one soon though
In the private sector, bailouts were used to address a liquidity problem—if the companies could survive the crunch, they could be in a position to pay the money back. Municipalities aren’t facing a liquidity problem—they’re insolvent. They owe far more than they can ever hope to pay back, because their tax bases aren’t growing at the rates needed to make their obligations manageable.
I find it quite telling that a short outage does more damage to Facebook than any data breaches and mishandling of user data.
I think it was actually first created for devices (specifically set top boxes) but never really found a home there and then someone wrote a browser in it (HotJava) that supported executable content and it took off from there.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Java_(programming_language)#Hi...
at this point in time you need a job to pay rent and buy food (and, if you're american, have a chance at decent health insurance). for coders it's easy to find a job, for people without such "in-demand" skills maybe not so much.

so any retail or food service job replaced by a robot means one fewer job for someone who might need it. in a just world that would be great, the whole point of doing work should be so that we have to do less work, but that's not how society is structured now. an american barista who loses their job to a robot has more or less no safety net at this point. the only benefit in this story is more profit for whoever no longer has to pay a human when they can pay a robot less for the same job
Discord is a replacement for irc, telegram is a replacement for messenger/blogs. You can't really compare them, it's like matching oranges and apples.
No, as the story says, it's not just adoption essentially.
In my experience Telegram has an outage every couple of months, while WhatsApp only drops dead once a year or so.
The devices just aren't there yet to be the goto solution for low hanging fruit gaming ecosystems with large existing audiences. If you look at the best players and their equipment, VR isn't a part of what's used competitively.

You can see this with racing or flight simulations, genres that translate perfectly to VR in theory (also in practice if you ignore competing solutions).

People there still buy and recommend monitors or projectors to get an competitive edge, to be able to use other peripheral devices like controllers and indicators (which would be blocked out in VR).

This existing market of peripheral devices and their manufacturers are tightly knit with the core audience, and recommending VR would go against their own business. A VR user wouldn't buy a controller that he can't see.

Augmented Reality with a VR like FOV could be a solution for both, VR manufacturers and existing audiences because it doesn't exclude a large part of the existing market and removes that resistance.

The problem with native VR genres is that you can't show off how it's really like to people who don't own VR headsets. On top of that they compete for attention with existing gaming ecosystems which can be seen as hobbies in their own right, meaning that VR really needs to conquer existing genres one by one, which is difficult if it ignores existing market forces.
The focus seems to be on games, but VR has huge potential in the workforce (engineering, medical, perhaps even office work - data mining/etc.). However, utility software companies like Autodesk products have very shoddy and fickle VR support.

I currently have to pay a pricy $2K+ license for a 3rd party software (Revizto) to view Navisworks files in VR. It's worth it for my work, but it amazes me the lack of VR support these companies provide given the huge potential.

VR in my field is still very new. Many engineers (young and old) I show it to have never used it or had just done a demo somewhere and had no idea you could use it for work.

You can do stuff in VR you simply can't do on a 2D screen.
I also think designing in the microservices mindset (i.e. loose coupling, separable, dependency free architecture) is something which can be done on a continuum, and there's not a strict dichotomy between The Monolith and Microservices(tm).

Even if you're working on an early prototype which fits into a handful of source files, it can be useful to organize your application in terms of parallel, independent pieces long before it becomes necessary to enforce that separation on an infrastructure/dev-ops level.