skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think "other data" means "not those particular two optional lights that let you know when there are angle of attack issues". But yeah, I think it's spin.
No profits. Check.

10x Revenue Valuation. Check.

Shares locked up for everyone except rich guys. Check.

Houston we are clear for LYFT OFF!
Thanks for the follow-up. Would be interesting to see if it made much difference in the end, guess we'll have to wait a bit longer for all of Windows to be open sourced :P
The author is concise and writes with humility--very nice to read!
Does it succeed 99% of the time?
> So, how can we be running out of good investments? It just feels like I'm nutz here. One one hand, we have all this potential energy, but on the other, there is just no where for the kinetic energy to go. Humans aren't just boulders on hill sides, we don't tend to sit still, we get moving on our own.

There's a lot of factors but the big ones I've noticed are healthcare costs/risks and overall income inequality drastically reducing the pool of potential entrepreneurs. It's less a problem for software engineers but it's a significant limiting factor for any venture that's applying software to specific industries (think transportation, agriculture, manufacturing, etc) when founders can't get their heads above water long enough to consider a startup.

Zoning laws are also slowing growth in many cities so a lot of money that would normally be chasing low risk returns in real estate has to move up the ladder. The number of things to invest into without relying on a bubble just can't keep up with the amount of money coming in from fiscal policy and foreign investors.
Letter from Ridley Scott to the Students Who Put on Alien at Their High School
I think a future where Lyft/Uber collude to set prices is not far off. Similar to soda market where coke and Pepsi collide to sell sugar water with 99% gross margins.
How are those battery terminals connected to the logic board - it has no connector header, just flat leads? Hard to keep up with miniaturization of connectors!
Haha, the concept that any road user follows the rules even 30% of the time is an illusion. People act like this in SF all the time.

"I never run the stop signs. I always follow the road rules. Drivers stop at stop signs, why can't cyclists?".

Haha, total bullshit. Until Stanley Roberts did that piece where he showed that people routinely run stop signs, everyone did this high horse motorist crap.

Turns out everyone lies to themselves. Switching lanes in intersections, not yielding to peds, not stopping at Stop signs.

But fortunately we all judge ourselves by intentions and others by their actions.
If (and this is still a big if) you can send a hundred tons to Mars for a few dozen million dollars, a Mars colony should become totally doable. A self-sufficient colony is a whole different matter, but it doesn’t have to be self-sufficient.
California stops

I wonder how many other places claim this "stop": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Idaho_stop
Agreed. A lot of those people got to veganism through some kind of eating disorder or some other social problem. They started out looking at the world with a different lens than your typical western adolescent or young adult. Some of them thrive on attention and drama.

The usual vegan dietary issues can be solved with a few supplements and a lot less drama.
I wish they would just launch a friggin paid option. No ads, no data collection (for selling, I understand they need some to literally make the site function). I happily pay youtube for an adfree experience and wouldn't balk at doing the same for facebook.
What does a cyclist do when they hit a redlight?

Nothing.
Oh wow, you're totally right. I totally should have realized the distinction there. Thank you for speaking up!
Exactly. Seizures represent massively synchronized electrical activity, so it’s a bit surprising that they’re associated with chemical changes big enough to be detected outside the body.

We do know that this electrical activity is controlled via ion channels and other chemical mechanisms. So a neuroscientist could well have guessed that this might be the case.

But we have all sorts of hypotheses about what “really happens” in the brain. It’s such a fantastically complex system, though, that they’re not too useful for extrapolation in the absence of data.
prior to the ACA

Which the Trump administration and DOJ have now apparently chosen to actively target again, much to the apparent dismay of just about every Republican who has to run for election.

The combination of a federal judge (Reed O'Connor in Texas) deciding that Congress does not in fact have the legal authority to revise legislation and the administration announcing that the DOJ will not be defending any aspect of the ACA whatsoever basically means that everything is in place to run it up through District, Circuit/Appellate and Supreme Court levels and kill it off.
Whenever I find myself in a conversation with a driver complaining about cyclists blowing through stop signs, I ask if they always follow the speed limit. Often I get a rant about how the speed limits are almost always too low.

As far as I can tell roughly the same percentage of cyclists break the law as drivers. Unfortunately most people take a selective view of this, ignoring what drivers do.

(I'm a cyclist who always stops at stop signs. In fact, I have helmet cam video of myself going through a cyclist stop sign enforcement operation without any issue from the police.)
I don't think these types of robots will ever get smart as humans and que terminator music... i think rather companies like https://www.neuralink.com will start doing surgery on human brains and slowly humans will become more and more cyborgs until at some point... yes, a human with a human brain will have all these artifical parts and 1/2 his/her brain now a robot etc. And maybe that "person" will lose track of which side they are on in the human vs robot war?
In my experience, there's no correlation between someone's kindness and their politics.

People are individuals--watch what each individual does.
Haha exactly what I thought. I might be overly frugal, but I'm currently using a $50 backpack that I bought at REI in 2009 (!!) and it still works perfectly, just barely showing signs of wear. I use it every single day for my daily commute to carry food/books/laptop/etc, and on weekends for trips and hikes, to carry water and food.

Maybe I also have a habit of treating my belongings too nicely: most of my acquaintances break a phone on average every year, and they also replace screens so many times.

My iPhone 6S, bought in 2015, it's basically brand new cosmetically, and I literally live on my phone, averaging probably at least a couple hours a day of usage while on public transportation.
Other than nudity and profanity, are there any standards? Oprah, arguably the biggest and most popular TV star, hosted anti vaccine idiots. And then there are the countless garbage Dr shows peddling their BS.
“Workers and Resources: Soviet Republic” Is a Brutalist City-Builder
It's close to it. I can't remember ever seeing an ad in my newsfeed that was incorrectly labeled with a political affiliation disclaimer. Have you?
> "* whatever decentraleyes does"

ha, yes, it's hard to keep track of all these little modules sometimes.

decentraleyes caches bundles (like jquery) from cdn's so the cdn's can't track you as easily.
We are talking about the floating point number format and the behavior of computer programming languages.

In “mathematics”, the meaning of the symbol ∞ depends on what number system we are talking about. In some contexts ∞ is not a “number”, but rather a shorthand for a statement about limits. In other contexts it is a number.

If you want to learn about the “affinely extended real numbers”, which is what floating point numbers more or less approximate, you can read https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extended_real_number_line
I think the sensors are on the side of the nose, about as far forward as the pilots. It looks like one is on the left and one is on the right.

These things are essentially just wind vanes that read the direction that the air is moving past them.

Short of the plane flying obliquely into a tornado, I can't think of any atmospheric effect that could lead to a disagreement.

You'd need an atmospheric effect that causes a significant difference in wind direction between two points that are maybe 3 m apart and the difference that atmospheric effect is trying to cause would have to be noticeable when superimposed on the wind vector due to the plane's velocity.
The float is typical and not small as it is basically all of the shares that are issued for the actual fund raise portion of the IPO. Aside from that the only other shares that can be traded are those that aren’t under lockup, and given that the majority of shares are owned by investors, founders, and employees there are always restrictions there for a minimum of 6 months.
I've personally never seen a public company have such a real time insight into the primary revenue driver of the company. In theory this should be the most effecient stock on the market. Even if this is only a portion of the overall revenue, I'm interested to see how this could affect the performance of their stock in the market.
My iPod Mini still gets use today because my 2013 Hyundai has better iPod integration than bluetooth support. All I've done to it is replace the microdrive with a compact flash card. Shockingly, iTunes has no problem syncing music to a 256GB iPod Mini.
I have partial temporal lobe seizures as well. My primary symptom, which is visible from the outside that is, is that I lose the ability to use language. If I try talking, it just becomes a mangled mess of words in English and Swedish. I also can not understand what other people say.

It's a very peculiar feeling to be conscious and fully aware of what is happening, but still completely lose such a fundamental part of my brain functions.
I think these guys have a point, actually. We should stop funding roads through a common fund. Or police and fire and schools.

Pay for what you use. Even pricing.

I pay $200k in taxes. If I don't get to use these roads, they don't get to use my money on schools.
Any recommendations for how to start backpacking? Books, stores, guides, etc.
A New Digital Social Contract Is Coming for Silicon Valley
The article is headlined "The Weird World of Vegan YouTube Stars", but it's not about vegans. It's about the weirdo microminority who punish their body with daily enemas, 30-day juice cleanses, and believe that menstruation is the body's way of shedding "toxins".

Any sufficiently large group has it's outliers, zealots, and weirdos.

Raw-foodies / fruitarians are the weirdo subset of vegans.
Flat-earthers are the weirdo subset of Christians.
Sovereign Citizens are the weirdo subset of Libertarians.
White Nationalists are the weirdo subset of Conservatives.
Parents who speak exclusively to their kids in Klingon are the weirdo subset of Star Trek fandom.
What I find interesting is that this varies by country. In some countries, making eye contact with a driver before crossing in front of their car is the right thing to do. In other countries, the best way to cross a road is to pretend that you haven’t seen the on-coming traffic, and to step into traffic without looking at the drivers...
> Or maybe those were proportionate, even restrained responses to warmongering activities by the US, such as.... er... the Obama attempt at a diplomatic 'reset' with Russia perhaps? Maybe it was scrapping the Bush era defence shield plan that pushed them over the edge, or maybe cancelling sanctions against the Russian arms export agency was the last straw.

Putin views NATO moving eastward as a threat. He's not totally insane to do so - Hitler nearly broke the USSR starting from the middle of Poland. If he had started from the middle of the Ukraine instead, the USSR might well have not survived.

But that history only makes Putin not totally insane. He's still mostly nuts on this, because first, NATO is a defensive alliance. Second, there is exactly zero appetite in most of the NATO members for any kind of a major war - even a defensive war, I question whether they would actually fight the way the treaty requires them to. And third, the reason NATO is expanding is because those countries feel threatened by Russia and therefore want a big block of allies to protect them. They sought membership in NATO; NATO or the US didn't push them into it. If Russia were less aggressive, those countries would feel less need to join NATO.
That's an obtuse definition of FBW that has no implementation that I know.

There's no benefit in developing and certifying software that just passes raw pilot commands to actuators.
Likewise, I'm only a pedestrian now. And never seen a driver follow the rules.
I assume that the cops don't respond to the regular break-ins where you live, and instead blame you for your locks being too weak.
The question is who they view as their constituents. Often it's not the voters but only a very small subset. In modern Washington politics they will also put the priorities of their party above the voters.
Off-topic but your post is grammatically perfect as far as I can tell. No need to apologize.
I'm one of today's 10,000 then. I didn't know about alt-text!! Does every XKCD contain alt-text?
They are becoming phones.

A communication-only device that can take photos and browse the web is very useful, but I think it will lose market to a proper computer every time.
From my perspective, they have power over me. I need to keep them happy or they're going to find other jobs. Sometimes this means changing plans to ensure they're not overworked or to ensure that they get to work on interesting stuff after something reasonably boring like UI development (none of them really enjoy it but it has to be done). The business fails pretty rapidly without my development team and I know how lucky I am to have them.
I assume it is in the context of “libre software”. More generally, privacy is consisered to be essential to the concept of individual freedom.
Sweat.
Particle Wipe Generator
All great, but won't sites with ads simply opt out, effectively defeating the point of this feature?
Your anecdotal experience is completely irrelevant to the statement that you made.
Or they'll get in influenced by anybody having access to the parts software and will subtly lose free will and never notice they did.

But of course the part makers will say they are super secure and will have a PR making them look like as legit as google or amazon today. Because it's convenient, people will do it, considering the warnings comming from tin foil conspirationists.

Soon society will expect the level of productivity those parts give you, and most public and private services will assume this interface so the people not doing it will be more and more excluded from the regular system.
Yeah, I like how they play the victim here. Amelie Le Moullac's death was totally normal in SF and it was covered up super hard.
Absolutely! I see intellectual property as harmful and focus myself on developing totally open source technology. I’ve made one trip to teach robotics in a foreign country and I hope that over time open source could fill needs in the fringes when capitalism doesn’t, eventually leading to a more liberated world outside the capitalist center.
Do you mean someone or some group of people is going to prevent the invention of this technology (individual self sufficiency) ?

Invention of technology doesn't rely on capitalist establishment though, as long as there is at least one engineer out there to work on it just for the sake of it. For example, the invention of linux.
Is there a humanly readable version?

Just kidding, but although I understand the value and importance of the heavy formulation, especially under the circumstances of the media of academic papers where proofs are necessary/desirable, this will be largely useless for disseminating the knowledge of the algorithm for all but a handful of people.

We need someone to write it down for us with all the simplifications that are possible given that we 'trust' all the relevant claims (the algorithm is correct, its complexity is O(n log n), etc.) and we simply don't care for the heavier side of the proofs
Bit off-topic, but love that the URL is just the straight up path to the file on the Windows machine.
Chrome makes addon installation via Group Policy in Windows very easy. I've not attempted with Firefox but it seems similarly easy. The docs are here: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/deploying-firefox-with-...

If you use Windows, you can use local group policy (if you're not part of a domain) and it's not too difficult to export/import for new machines.
I don't think the mass media is any better. I remember the hard pushes for things like low fat diets, ignoring the dangers of sugar and sugary drinks, etc. I don't recall the pre-internet magazine covers being any better or worse than the sorts of things Youtubers push today.
> I noticed that a lot of people are hostile when you say you are doing it for ethical reasons (e.g. for animal welfare or environmentalism), but are satisfied with the idea that you're doing it for your own health.

When you start talking about ethics, it requires other people to consider pain and suffering they may be complicit in, and that will of course make people defensive. If it's just some odd diet, then you're just talking about your own preferences, which are less likely to upset anyone.

Not saying you shouldn't talk about ethics, but of course people are more touchy about that.
In a past life I did somewhat serious cycling in rural Georgia as training for triathlons. So everything I'm about to say is with the caveat that it's my personal experience in one small slice of America.

Myself, and everybody I rode with, had stories of objects being thrown out of windows from passing cars in an attempt to hit you. Mainstay was was bottles but a friend did have a phonebook thrown at them. We laughed about that one...who has a phonebook these days and who keeps it in their car?

Had cars stop and try to start fights as well.

Consistently though, both while on the bike and in my social interactions with others, there is a close association between cyclists and liberals. The cycling was a visible qualifier but the anger, and not surprisingly, dehumanization, was driven more by their political and social leanings than any truly inherent dislike of cyclists.
How much does the course cost?
I had a serious math problem when i started studying at university. Not only had i not used math in a long time (except the most basic algebra).
I had build a sincere rejection mechanism to it, beeing force fed by my rather religious parents, and thus having turned on math with the same scorched earth policy of ignorance i applied to bible studies.

The trick to overcome that almost physical reaction, was to couple it with something i loved. Which was programming games.
So sinus and cosinus was needed? I would add grenades using sinewaves for bouncing, scaled by a time factor.
It was not always usefull or meaningfull work. But i kept the problems in my head, until i understood and could solve them with the new tools i got.

So i guess that is my advice, take something you love and glue what you want to learn to it. Switch frequently so that you have successes and not just non stop starting frustration. Apply in large doses.
When someone's in a car and they see someone else in a car blow through a red light, they say something along the lines of 'that person's an idiot'. When they someone on a bike do it, they say 'cyclists are idiots'.

If I count how many laws people in cars break when I drive home tonight - speeding, illegal parking, etc. - I'll run out of fingers and toes.

Ultimately the worst thing someone on a bike can do to me in a car is cause me a delay. The worst thing I can do to them is kill them. So I give them the benefit of the doubt.
Incase EO Travel Backpack - https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000023VPY/

Tons of room, comfy, and has zipped expansion section for packing for overnight trips.
I think the responder was talking about re-use of parts, though, not devices.

On the day of the iPad Mini announcement last week, my iPad spontaneously threw itself off the bed in a fit of grief and shattered on my concrete floor. Battery is a bit old but the logic board is perfectly okay; Apple is just gonna shred it into confetti.
Thank you, captain obvious, and it's actually not. If the system was doing poorly, we'd be able to directly observe it.

Do you have evidence that their political ad detection does poorly?
Boeing has a design for you, the 747-based Cruise Missile Carrier Aircraft [1]. The marines are currently using the "Harvest Hawk" C-130 kit [2] which launches small close air support mission missiles from the cargo hold. Also, the Boeing P-8 Poseidon [3] is a 737 based Multimission Maritime Aircraft that can launch torpedoes as well as sonobuoys. See also the Kawasaki P1 launching a Maverick air to surface missile [4].

1. https://foxtrotalpha.jalopnik.com/why-boeings-design-for-a-7...

2. https://www.globalsecurity.org/military/systems/aircraft/sys...

3. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boeing_P-8_Poseidon

4. https://www.reddit.com/r/MilitaryPorn/comments/1b5tyd/kawasa...
OT: can someone here tell me why there's a continue reading button after a single paragraph that just repeats the heading? I've seen this trend on other sites and it's incredibly frustrating, especially if it forces a page reload
The unfortunate truth is that bicycles do no belong on the road with cars. The car/SUV weights 2000-5000 pounds and can go much faster than a bike. It is also heavily "armored", in that most car collisions do not result in serious injury to the occupants.

The bicycle has much lower weight, and lower speed. In addition, the majority of bicycle collisions are going to result in at least some minor injury.

The solution to this problem is to build protected bike lanes where cars cannot come. Unfortunately, there is not the political will to do it, so we go with this fiction that cars and bikes are equals, even though that results in a significant number of biker deaths.
The real question is why browsers, which are supposed to be literal user agents, implement these regressive antifeatures in the first place?
I found it odd that the first thing I searched for returned dozens of different ads that were all flagged for being political when they clearly aren't.
I never saw BD as a product company.

> We began as a spin-off from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where we developed the first robots that ran and maneuvered like animals. Now we are taking the next step, combining the principles of dynamic control and balance with sophisticated mechanical designs, cutting-edge electronics, and software for perception, navigation, and intelligence.

They seem pretty clearly to be a R&D company around dynamic control and balance, so it makes sense that they would have rather complicate robots.
That's essentially what the B-52 is: an airliner-sized, subsonic jet bomber with a huge capacity and a long range. And apparently they're still in active service. (After 64 years!)

The main downside that I can think of is that you really need air superiority to use them effectively, because they can't outfight, outmaneuver, or run away from any sort of enemy fighter. That's not a big deal against ISIS, but it's no good for prospective conflicts with China or Russia or whatever. Also, modern tactics tend more towards precision strikes rather than massive carpet bombing or, God forbid, nukes.
Usually they consider stealing the eggs from the chickens to be incompatible with veganism as well, even if the chickens are free range.
‘Brexit is aggressive and dangerously nostalgic. UK in for a brutal chastening’
Not only that, suppose a system update disables app A. It only quits as soon as you open it and the developer has abandoned it. Fine, it's just a photo viewer, I'll get another one. Wait, where are my photos now?