skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It does have some pilots who are real fans of it:

If you were to write down all the ways in which you could measure an airplane—payload, fuel, ordnance, handling—and ask 100 pilots to rank which is the most important, I guarantee you that 100 out of 100 pilots would say “situational awareness.” By far. Not a single pilot in the world would say “turn radius.” Not one. Because the more you know, the more accurately you know it, the better able you are to make a decision.

In situational awareness, the F-35 is superior to all platforms, including the Raptor. I’d never been in an airplane that so effectively and seamlessly integrates information to tell me what’s going on around me—and not just from the radio frequency spectrum, but laser, infrared, electro-optical. That’s usually the first thing people notice when they get in the airplane. They know so much more than they ever knew before.

https://www.airspacemag.com/military-aviation/f-35-faces-mos...
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I didn't see anything other than anecdotes to back up the claim in the title. Did I miss something?

Also, anyone thinking about a PhD owes it to themselves to understand firsthand what that means before getting started. There is an excellent, low-cost way to do this by joining a research group in your field of interest at your undergrad university.

In every case, the students I saw who had the roughest time during their PhD were those who had not even bothered to try doing research during their bachelors.

A PhD degree is about conceiving and completing original research. If you've never done it, it's easy to overlook these points:

1. Your research project will isolate you. Almost nobody will really understand your project and few will care.

2. It will be thankless, praiseless work for the most part. Don't look to your advisor for high-fives.

3. Your project may fail after years of effort.

4. Your research group will have a lot to do with your success. You won't even know what to look for until you've seen a research group in action firsthand.

If any of these points bother you now, seek answers to your questions pronto - and don't even think of enrolling in a PhD program until you're ok with 1-4.
This is hilarious. Thx!
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When WSOP was in the early spring (when the weather is nice in Vegas and crappy in Boston), I used to go for a week and a bit every year and grind out the trip cost and then some on single table satellites. With the advent of online poker, televised NLHE, and the main event wins by Varkonyi, Raymer, Moneymaker, and Gold, it was like the universe provided an endless stream of avid, willing, timid, and fairly predictable poker players in the weeks leading up to the main event.

Now that WSOP's in the summer, online poker is mostly dead in the US, televised poker mania has died down, and I have kids, I don't bother going anymore, but it was definitely fun and modestly lucrative for a while in my 30s.
The knowledgeable interviewer should be Schmidhuber, that will be fun
Combined with a healthy dose of AI to minimize the pain of interacting with the machines, and to have information that you need right when you need it.

Communication with implants, such as continuous glucose monitoring to present you with a customized restaurant menu for what you should be eating right now (or meal planner for home, etc).
I've been using keybase for quite some time now and I absolutely love it. I suggest everyone give it a seriously try and check out some of the popular public teams chats before finalizing your opinion of it. I'm glad I did.
there is no such thing as dangerous speech
Technically that was probably New Zealander Richard Pearse, not the Wright brothers.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Pearse#Flights

His flight was a bit... crashy. The Wrights managed a fully controlled powered flight first, but even then their "first flight" wasn't as far as Pearce's flight had been nine months earlier. And it also ended in a crash.
Everything you said is on point. You won't find many upvotes in this echo chamber. The majority of HN viewers are on the west coast of the US.
You can know exactly what the attacker can learn because you can see ALL of the information that your client passes to the server by auditing ONLY the client. Your argument applies equally well to every single router or middle box on the internet, and it's just as wrong there.

You prove that it doesn't matter by assuming that keybase is running the most malicious code possible, auditing your client, and deciding that the system is still secure. This is what auditing the client means.

Additionally, to bring up this fact again because it has only been hand-waved away: Even if the server was open source, there is no guarantee they are running that code. Thus, there is no benefit to security until systems exist (somehow?) to prove the server is running the code you expect.

Double additionally: even IF you can prove that the server is running what you expect, how do you know that some box, after https is peeled off, but before the request makes it to the server, is not sending the same request off to some other, malicious, server?
In addition to the scheduling comment below, there's a few really big issues that make this harder:

- There are a lot of rail lines owned by different companies, Amtrak already has agreements with all of them. Depending where you're going, you might need to negotiate with multiple just to schedule your private trip.

- Given the risk of collisions between trains, rail lines are very unlikely to permit random schmucks to drive trains down their tracks. Who's going to give a private engine owner permission to do that? And who's going to insure it?

- The article talked a lot about the expense to get a plain old rail car certified for use on an Amtrak. I'd imagine in addition to the much costlier nature of the engine itself, certifying it might also be an issue. For long haul trips, are there any environmental regulations in play?
Thanks for this, beautiful work!
should read: "It's not wrong to describe these operations as monoidal..."
Sex wasn't exactly supposed to be happening in past generations of teens. One of the reasons people sometimes had their first sexual experience in cars was because both sets of parents would block it at home, and they couldn't rent a hotel room.

My high school apparently got complaints from neighboring homes that students were having sex in their bushes.

So, yes, changing social lives may be an issue, but it doesn't seem like it was easy before.
> Fundamentally, the left is about collectivism and the right is about individualism.

No, its not. That's pretty much the libertarian-authoritarian axis, which is largely orthogonal to the left-right axis. Libertarian socialism is not only a thing, it's an older thing than modern, pro-capitalist right-libertarianism. (It's also older than Leninism.)
I feel the same way, and I think nostalgia is a big part of it. Not only did she have an eye for capturing interesting things, but she also had a high quality medium format camera to do it with. They’re a much better quality than most pictures we’ve seen of that era, outside of what appeared in magazines.
I'm not going to recommend a programming language. What I am going to suggest is that you try working through the book "Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs" (also referred to as SICP). The original, which is the one I am trying to get through, uses Scheme as the programming language for the examples. More recently, some courses working through the book use Python for the examples.

I am not suggesting that you learn Scheme. Scheme is an esoteric language, well down the list of commonly used programming languages.

What I am suggesting is that working through the book (using Scheme or Python) will give you a deep dive into many of the fundamentals of computer science. If you get all the way through the book (many more start it than finish it) you will have a powerful conceptual toolkit that will help you, no matter what programming language you're using.
One thing I genuinely don't understand about all this is how Israel fits into it. From wikipedia:

The primary principles of Israeli citizenship is jus sanguinis (citizenship by descent) for Jews and jus soli (citizenship by place of birth) for others.[2]

Citizenship by descent? Lots of Jewish people are white, or at least all the Jews I've ever met looked just like me. Israel is without a doubt intended for ethnically Jewish people, and is thus an 'ethno-state' by any reasonable definition.

So does that make the Israeli people collectively racist? They elected the government that wrote those citizenship laws after all. Is it a white nationalist movement?

Or if someone's going to argue that Jews aren't white, OK, why isn't it a racist non-white nationalist movement then? If advocating for a country to be reserved for specific kinds of people is no longer allowed on Facebook, what happens to Israeli election-related material?

Sure, advocate against white nationalism, they sure have a powerful platform to do it. Banning all discussion of it seems like it puts Facebook in a position of terrible hypocrisy to me.
The key thing you're missing is recruitment. Gloabalists need access to the larger platforms in order to recruit new adherents to their bigoted ideology, which is significantly harder to do if they're forced into "underground" spaces. De-platforming works -- if we make it clear that hateful ideology isn't tolerated in large platforms, then people have to actively seek out such ideologies. If such ideologies are already frowned upon in the public sphere, it makes their recruitment much more difficult.
And observational data suggests that American society (and global society) has gotten better, not worse, at this judgment.

When we started this game, we had slaves, who were defined as three fifths of a human being for purposes of political representation of slave owners. Voting was restricted to white land-owning men. It's getting better.
A surprising number of physics students I studied with, were also mountain climbers. They seem to be very much, 'because its there' sort of people.
Not only is the worst case a disaster, but even the best case is: Imagine the usability of trying to onboard another 7 billion Lightning Network users at 7 transactions per second.
C++/CLI is just ISO C++ plus a couple of language extensions, you know like the Linux kernel is ISO C plus GCC extensions.

I hardly see the difference.

No chip on the shoulder, just an old guy that has seen dozens of VMs since the mid-80s, delved into others from earlier decades, which doesn't buy into WASM marketing.
This is yet another anecdote, but have a look at ML roles at tech companies, most write that they want someone with a Masters/PhD. They will hire people without it, but that's what they write on the tin.
The reason the US banned them from traveling was from bombing their countries for years. Nothing to do with their faith.
Amazon nearly doubled its profits to $11.2 billion in 2018 from $5.6 billion the previous year and didn’t pay a single cent of federal income taxes.
This is mildly related, Matt Levine seems more popular around these parts nowadays, he had a bit a few months ago that I find resonates when I see people who seem to constantly seem to speak vaguely in stock market terms and bubbles and soforth. Not really directed to you, more to the parent.

>On the other hand, if you bet that stocks will go down, you have some compensating psychic rewards. For one thing, occasionally stocks will go down, and you will be praised for your prescience in predicting the crash, and the people who were long will be mocked for their complacency. How smart you will feel!

>For another thing, even if stocks haven’t gone down, you get to borrow psychically, as it were, against that future moment of glory. You can just go around sort of saying “this is unsustainable and eventually stocks will go down and I will be praised for my prescience,” and people will be surprisingly willing to say “yes that’s correct, I admire your hypothetical prescience.” Particularly since the 2008 financial crisis, financial markets—and financial media—have a strongly entrenched narrative of prescient bears and complacent bulls, a widespread sense that any rising market is suspect and that the cynical view is always the smart one.

It's just weird to me there's always people looking to figure out a way to call the top on absolutely everything.
As someone that refuses to use Facebook / etc... I still see the free speech issue in this.

Imagine it from this perspective; whom can a telephone company decide to deny service?

If they have stepped beyond merely disagreeable speech (and I agree, it's often very disagreeable) where was that line crossed so that our court system might process their transgressions?
> Where does the displaced person who can't afford market rate go?

It's been interesting seeing how the "if you can't afford to live there, you don't deserve to" attitude can be played both ways.

But my empathy will fall on the elder living on SS.
> More than one square mile, in Silicon Valley.

I was momentarily outraged, until I found it on a map. The San Andreas fault runs _right_ through the center of the property. Makes me glad it's basically a garden now and not a housing development =)
It's also a cultural principle, right? The whole idea of freedom of speech precedes its enshrinement in the Constitution. It's very important to put it there. But it would be meaningless words on paper if our society didn't generally tolerate and respect the idea of free speech. Book stores tend to carry both religious and anti-religious material, for example. Nobody tends to boycott the book store and force their hand, because we believe in that sort of discussion and debate about things.
Free speech isn't just an amendment for the government, it's a principle for society.

Please point out a single society that has upheld absolute Free Speech as a principle for any significant period of time.

The United States has even killed its own citizens when their free speech collided with national security:
https://www.nytimes.com/2015/08/30/magazine/the-lessons-of-a...
My MS program had two paths: coursework only, or 75% of those credits plus a thesis. I chose the latter as it kept open the chance of getting a PhD, but ultimately chose to leave after the MS was completed. I found the thesis experience to be more valuable than the coursework, as I changed focus from what I studied, and because it taught me what you could call "research grit".
Pretty interesting analogy...

"You’re on an airplane when you hear a loud sound and things start violently shaking. A minute later, the captain comes on the speaker and says:

There’s been an explosion in the engine, and the plane is going to crash in 15 minutes. There’s no chance of survival. There is a potential way out—the plane happens to be transferring a shipment of parachutes, and anyone who would like to use one to escape the plane may do so. But I must warn you—the parachutes are experimental and completely untested, with no guarantee to work. We also have no idea what the terrain will be like down below. Please line up in the aisle if you’d like a parachute, and the flight attendants will give you one, show you how to use it and usher you to the emergency exit where you can jump. Those who choose not to take that option, please remain in your seat—this will be over soon, and you will feel no pain."
This machine reduces the head count of the typing pool. They're all busy looking for a new job.
Learning Go: A Diplomatic Approach
This was a really enjoyable read - thank you for posting.
I've always had difficulty remembering my dreams after waking, so I'm almost jealous of the amount of detail and realism he was able to retain, but then again, I guess 3 weeks of nothing but dreaming would do that
I am going to say this one more time because I think it's a real point and I think you're dismissing it out of hand is unreasonable: there are things that can be learned from the server.

It's one thing to tell people that you aren't logging anything. It's another thing to show everyone you're not logging anything except the account creation date and last access date by open sourcing the software and then show exactly that in a response to a national security letter: https://www.aclu.org/open-whisper-systems-subpoena-documents.
Financially impractical as all this already is, as the article points out, dealing with private railroad cars is such a tiny blip that it's hard to imagine anyone responsible for the logistics of a large-scale rail operation wanting to deal with it. It's pretty much only (sort-of) supported by Amtrak for legacy reasons.

As you say, there may be short sections where this sort of thing could work but that's probably not what people looking to do long cross-country trips are looking for.
You'll able to converse quickly/fluently/easily in real time with someone who you don't share a language with with speech recognition/machine translation/speech synthesis.
I can never get keybase to address this article about them:

"Keybase, we have a problem."
https://freehuman.fr/posts/20238f40da8b01357816236af097d2ae

Maybe user /kbModalduality can
I'm seeing more multi-device verification logic finding its way into various systems (as with many advances in software, it started with a popular game), where the system tattles on every new device that shows up claiming to be you and you have to use an old device to vouch for the new one.

But even if you do that well, you still have a MITM attack at registration time. The surface area is very small here, but a state or even corporate backed individual could certainly afford to perform such an attack. If there is no specific target, hacking an Apple store or a Best Buy to spoof all registration traffic and substitute your own would probably catch a lot of fish in your net.
...falling with style

I like Douglas Adams' description: The ship hung in the sky in much the same way that bricks don't.
> Anyone think it strange that a phone company wouldn't see the emergence of the smartphone?

> Guffawed when I saw those phone booth picture phones.

It's how these things usually work: The Future Is The Same, But Different

The Same: Things basically click along they way they do now. Want to make a call away from home or office? Use a payphone. Most natural thing in the world.

But Different: Well, payphones aren't going to stay the same, are they? Videophones have been a Coming Thing for decades now, so obviously we'll have Video Payphones.

All of those Coming Things. Where have they all gone?

The interesting thing to me is this: Car phones had existed for decades by that point. They'd slimmed down to bag phones for the masses, and bricks for Gordon Gekko and his proteges. But AT&T didn't prognosticate their continued slimming driving payphones into irrelevance. You don't even need the smartphone concept, which was a truly interesting convergence of cell phone and computer, to get the idea that "Cell phones getting smaller" leads to "I can carry a phone with me" leads to "I don't need a payphone" leads to payphones no longer existing.

Oh, and Bag Phone, because nobody else seems to remember them:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motorola_Bag_Phone
which is why I'm confused about all of the top ranking comments complaining that android will change their API for this. Will this require a change for android app developers if this is the case? Regardless, this seems like a more fundamental layer of improvement.
Supercharging Server Timing with HTTP Trailers
I'd add that a PhD in the sciences is like getting punched in the face by mother nature every day with a, "hah! try again!". The rigorous thought process that cultivates by the end is hard to replicate without those very hard constraints. It's possible to do, I've met tons of people who have that same rigor without having wasted the time in a PhD, but it's quite an effective method.

When I've worked with non-PhDs in a science environment, it's the rigorous breakdown of experimental approach that's often missing. Unless the individual had a really strong track record demonstrating this skill, I'd heavily favor PhDs for biotech/science positions on a leadership track.

That said, I'm quite biased, have to justify the years I lost somehow :)
My router bans Facebook content.
Revival? Even at the height of the bubble nobody actually used it in real world transactions.

Meanwhile the evil banks are bringing us ever closer to the cashless society of instant electronic payments we all dreamed of.
had to make a series of poorly-marked binary choices in a certain order to correctly deploy a bugfix

Unfortunately this is not uncommon. Tools like Jira are sometimes configured with a maze of steps and jumps around the UI (buttons, fields, dropdowns, popovers in various orders) to get a ticket into the correct state.
Nah, just bytecode verifiers, security managers and access capabilities, but whatever.
They'd have to overcome the 125k/month cost it seems, but it would definitely be cool if they managed it.
So, basically forever. Services may come and go, but someone will have the data.
Did you notice how your proof rests entirely on the NSA letter, and not the source code of the server at all? Isn't a world conceivable where they open sourced the server, with no logging, and then sent an NSA letter that contained information that wasn't logged in the open source code? If this is somehow impossible, please explain how.
Actual article: https://www.wsj.com/graphics/apple-still-hasnt-fixed-its-mac...
What does this mean for host bindings?
> I don't know to what extent the movie "Social Network" is based on facts, but if it is a true picture of Mark Zuckerberg, then that's what is happening is not a surprise.

If your only information to support your post is a fictionalised movie, then maybe it's appropriate to wait to make your post until you can gather more information.
They've left a lot of room for the details to be stupid.

1) In particular, what about black nationalists, Chinese nationalists, etc, etc?

2) One of their main justifications is "conversations with members of civil society and academics". It seems unlikely that these conversations are with politically neutral groups, particularly since academics focused on race relations tend to self select for slightly off-beat views of the world.

Also, to poke touchy subject, white nationalism includes some much milder ideas than white supremacy does like 'white people should maintain their majority in majority-white countries'. A reasonable and rational person could hold that view after reviewing what happens to minorities in any country. Look at the Jews in Germany or the white farmers in Zimbabwe. Whites don't have a magical pass to be free from racial discrimination and ethnic cleansing.

Whites should be allowed to organise around race like everyone else, as long as they keep it civil and nonviolent.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_nationalism
Florence Sabin: Medical Science Pioneer
I always ask what is the best and worst part of your job to the interviewer(s). I am actually interested in discussing that though so it might go terribly if you don't actually want to understand more about what they do.
It should be clear. For it to be clear you need to see what the other timeline looks like. Perhaps war on the scale that pulls in the rest of the world.

Regional powers are in check. Iran or Iraq were trying to get the bomb. Pakistan and India were on the edge of dropping a bomb on each other. Israel has been trying to get someone to attack Iran.

Keeping warlords in power is easy but longterm it works against your interests. Having a free Iraq has changed the region. It has given voice to oppressed people. It probably has caused Turkey uproar over the Kurds in Turkey wanting to join with the Iraq Kurds. But that is to be expected.. each problem solved will reveal two more.