skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
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(2017), and original source is located at https://www.huffpost.com/entry/standardized-tests-are-so-bad...
The boundary of space varies depending on who you ask.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/K%C3%A1rm%C3%A1n_line
try "pay attention to the road and press the skinny pedal when its time to go"
What if the shortest path to widespread societal acceptance self-driving cars is by quickly making humans _really bad_ drivers?

Making phone-use irresistibly addictive is one such path, I think.
There will be a more intensive commercial incentive to fix it, so that's presumably a good thing?
I define the police by what they do, not by any dictionary definition. I have several friends and former co-workers who are police officers, and most of them believe that their primary role is to be seen and project a presence over an area. I know there are many, many different specific jobs in the police force (in the USA), but the most man hours are put into driving around (often in high crime areas) and keeping an eye on things. Any police officers want to offer their opinions?
"Don't talk to the police" is a great lecture that explains why you should be extremely hesitant to volunteer ANY information to police.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d-7o9xYp7eE

tl;dw - "Anything you say can and will be used against you"
Yup, no applications provided. Only here would this title be clickbait, but here we are. I would suggest "Category theory may inspire results in other fields", but specific example of that is also not present.
To be honest, I was just trying for the repeat posting meta-joke...

But, I do think that some active process and culture to guard or maintain a waste pile is probably necessary. So, don't fixate on some naive visitor you have to protect from all harm in the distant future. Settle for minimizing the delay and accumulative harm before new visitors figure it out and become the new keepers of the message.
less than 3 years difference, my point was that the market was moving fast enough that it might have made sense to sit back and wait - usb was already sub-optimal for charging in 2009.

But on the other hand, the mobile charger thing was a complete shambles, and there were more players then, each with their own proprietary 'standard', something needed doing.

(and in the end, it's not 'law', it's a Memorandum of Intent, a gentleman's agreement among the industry, so collectively saying 'USB C is where we're going now' probably doesn't require a long drawn out legislative process - and the logic behind why apple doesn't follow the MoI applies to USB C anyway)
> queueing between stages

Doesn't it only support a queue depth of 1 at each stage? Last I checked, if you have a change that is queued up waiting to get into a stage, and a newer change comes along, that newer change will supersede the old one. That makes CodePipeline only good for workflows where you only care about deploying the 'newest' of something.

I think the worst thing about CodePipeline is how hard they make it to run custom code from your pipeline. Your options are Lambda (limited to 15 minutes per run, or you have to rewrite your Lambda function to be called once every 30 seconds, essentially using the first run to start your deployment and every subsequent run to check to see if it's done yet or not) or CodePipeline Custom Actions (where you have to write the AWS SDK code for interacting with CodePipeline).

The AWS Developer Tools team could learn a thing or two from Azure Pipelines. They did it "right", IMO: you can create a 'bash' stage in your pipeline which runs whatever script you want from the build agent (which can either be hosted my Microsoft or hosted yourself). That's all I really want. CodePipeline could support that with a custom action but it's more stuff that I would have to set up.
1. Space is really big so the odds of anything hitting each other are low.

2. They are launching their initial satellites in extremely low earth orbit such that atmospheric drag will cause them to decay and burn up in the atmosphere within 5 years. They are also attempting to design their satellites such that every single part of them will burn up in the atmosphere so that there is no risk of any piece hitting someone.

3. The US government is also concerned about this which is why spacex is doing their initial launch into a lower orbit that guarantees their decay into the atmosphere. Their future launches into higher orbits with longer decays will have extra considerations for such problem and thus will be evaluated by the US government individually so I would not be too worried.
Hi @TacticalCoder, One question!?

From Rivest-Shamir-Wagner's paper[1]:

“Solving the puzzle should be like having a baby: two women can’t have a baby in 4.5 months."

[1] https://people.csail.mit.edu/rivest/pubs/RSW96.pdf
Phase information is already used by precise GPS receivers. The electronic components and software are probably much cheaper than wires in the ground everywhere.

Also, the guy did say they have centimeter precision, not sub-mm. cm is the wavelength of microwaves. The nano referred to nanosecond timing, which is common in every computer these days.

These kinds of suggestions of using a simple mechanical solution instead of a sophisticated one often come up when high tech machines are discussed. Driverless cars should use wires in the road, or communicate with each other using radio instead of vision, SpaceX booster landings should use towers and wires to guide it the final few meters, walking robots should use wheels, Boston dynamics' Handle robot should be a conventional 4-wheeled vehicle with a robot arm on it, aerodynamically unstable aircraft that depend on computer control should not be made, etc. I think people have a bias that says "Tasks I could imagine doing myself are cheap and tasks where I'd be out of my depth even knowing if they're possible are expensive.". But really, hardware is expensive and software and electronics are cheap, at least by unit costs.
>many important routes will have significantly lower latency than any feasible terrestrial system

Is that accounting for recent developments in hollow core fibers?

>"The researchers successfully demonstrated the first high-capacity, low-latency data transmission experiment performed using a hollow-core fibre. In this, they found that light propagated 31 per cent quicker than in a solid core fibre, increasing from 70 per cent of its full speed in a vacuum to 99.7 per cent. To put this in context, this means that data propagating in this fibre would arrived 1.54 microseconds/per km earlier that it would in an equivalent length of conventional solid fibre. Not only did the light almost travel at its fastest possible speed, but it did so with a very low loss of 3.5 dB per kilometre."

https://www.southampton.ac.uk/news/2013/04/speed-of-light-fi...
Nintendo is the video game equivalent of Lincoln Logs. There are people who find freedom in the constraint provided by the lack of configuration possibilities offered by a pile of Lincoln Logs. LEGOs are infinitely more complicated and full of possibilities, but they're going to frustrate the hell out of a Lincoln Log enthusiast.
>> What if in 1955 America we had discovered the equivalent of these warnings, and hints of a huge artificially constructed underground tunnel complex in the same location as Yucca Mountain, and we thought it was buried artifacts from some more technologically advanced precursor or alien civilization?

What is the name of this book, I would like to read it!
I commented on your other submission as well. I’d be interested in buying this, feel free to email me, info is in profile.
They followed the recovery checklist. Step 1: Use the trim cut-out switches to stop MCAS. After the first crash, any MAX pilot would have to be a moron to not be informed about the issue and Boeing's (useless) guidance to resolve it.
Only possible because of regulations and monopolies granted by the state.
“Some humans would do anything to see if it was possible to do it. If you put a large switch in some cave somewhere, with a sign on it saying 'End-of-the-World Switch. PLEASE DO NOT TOUCH', the paint wouldn't even have time to dry.” -- Terry Pratchett
1. Incorrect. Comparing human performance on _recognition_ over imagenet != comparing human total visual ability (object detection, which is a superset of recognition, + tracking) to a machine. Machines are far worse at accurately saying what + where things are + what they will do next. For example, cyclists move very quickly. Can your system not only see them but understand their intent with extremely high accuracy? What if your camera is occluded even partially, what failure mode do you have?

2. That's just wrong. If your image is washed out from low sun angle, all 200fps are washed out and you might misconstrue the red light for a green one.

3. You need n+1 for each kind of detector resilient to different failure modes to call yourself fault tolerant. 2 cameras both suceptible to the same problems isn't fully fault tolerant. Camera and radar have overlapping and joint uses but don't overlap enough e.g if radar fails camera can't do the same things the radar can.

4. This is unsubstantiated. You really think other sdc companies aren't collecting data from cars on the road? What do you think all those cars in mountain view and SF you see are for? What evidence do you have that Tesla is "looking at all cases" -- do they even have the infrastructure necessary to simulate their car's behavior over long-tail situations? (Hint: rumor is it's pretty lacking)

5. The serious L4+ companies e.g Uber are pretty good at driving highways. They're all working on the next phase of the problem.
Hi MrXOR,

first thanks a lot for posting this to HN!

Then: is there a question somewhere in your post which I missed? : )
This feels like the literary version of the "what in tarnation would you ever need this new-fangled multiplication for" critiques of common core math.

> Holbrook wrote that asking students to guess an author's intent in writing a piece of literature is doomed to be a pointless exercise.

It's pedagogy! Students aren't trying to divine the One True Meaning of the piece. They're trying to learn how to read a piece of literature, identify literary techniques, and think critically about it. If a student can produce a justifiable answer, they're winning.

I agree that dissecting literature is not fun, and I agree this is probably not the optimal way to teach it. But these are precursors to learning how to read and analyze critically, and we need more of that in society.
>"My final reflection is this: any test that questions the motivations of the author without asking the author is a big baloney sandwich," she wrote. "Mostly test makers do this to dead people who can’t protest. But I’m not dead. I protest."

I guess that the result of this will be the test makers using long dead authors more.
I'm pretty sure even RMS would agree, a game console is a single purpose device not unlike a toaster oven.
Interesting; I'll take a look. Thanks!
That was basically the plot of the sequel to Planet of the Apes (the original 1968 film, none of this reboot nonsense), no?
> "Please confirm that you are a passenger and not driving this vehicle. Phone interactions are being logged and will be available to law enforcement if a collision occurs."

So track people when they are the passenger, or are on a train? I'm not sure that strikes the right balance.
Compressed air is pretty terrible at energy efficiency. The main source of energy loss is due to heat at compression. When you compress air, a lot of the energy ends up just increasing the temperature of the compressed air and this is then quickly lost in the transmission process.
> For example in 2008 the CDS market alone was at some point "valued" at close to $36 trillion [1], while for comparison the US GDP back then I'd say was around $14-15 trillion

People say this all the time, but regardless of whether or not the CDS market was or wasn't a shitshow at the time, comparing the outstanding notional to GDP is meaningless.

At the time, the CDS market worked like most derivatives markets: you face a small set of players and you are constantly offsetting existing transactions and subjecting them to netting rules on a master isda.

So like, let's say Foocorp has 100m bonds out there. I want to buy protection on 1m of this (basically, I want to buy default insurance). You agree to sell this to me. Ok, there's 1m in CDS contracts' notional value outstanding.

Now, our views, other risks, whatever changes. Maybe I sell the bonds, and holding this CDS is too risky for me now because it's just a naked short of bonds I'm not long. Maybe you buy a bunch of these bonds, and now you're not only facing the default risk of the bonds but paying the default insurance to me.

So you decide to buy another CDS offsetting your existing one. I'm also trying to flatten out here so I sell a CDS offsetting my existing one. Now (mutatis mutandis) we're both at 0 CDS risk. We each have entered into 2 swaps, they're directly cancelling.

But the total notional? Now it's 2m. Contracts expire, so the number doesn't strictly go up, but given how the products are bought and sold, it mostly does. It would be like looking at the stock market not in terms of the market cap of all the companies, but as the dollar value of all the trades made in a certain time period. It's not that this number is meaningless, it's just that it does nothing to explain how much is "at risk".

Of course in reality this is all much more complicated, but the basic principle holds.

Anyway, I know this isn't your main point.
It depends. If you're connecting to a data center across the street, the latency will probably be worse. If you're connecting to one on the other side of the world (or somewhere where the packets have to take a more circuitous route), the latency might be better. The satellites aren't that high up so latency won't be a huge issue.

I think bandwidth limitations will be more problematic. The Earth is really big, and there's not really a good way with LEO orbits to focus your satellites over urban vs rural areas. IOW you can focus coverage on lower latitudes but not really certain longitudes.

IIRC previous FCC filings said each satellite would have ~20 Gbps of bandwidth. That'll be great if you're in a rural area, and I think the gigabit speeds some people are hoping for are actually possible in certain situations. However a lot of people think that they're going to be able to replace the Wifi router in their apartment with a Starlink antenna... I don't think that will be practical any time soon. I'm not an RF person but I doubt there's enough spectrum for each satellite to have tens of thousands of users simultaneously.

edit: also, like with 5G the signal quality is going to be crappier when it is rainy or cloudy.
Not all trade schools work to reduce the supply of labor. If you hold a trade school that teaches people to be a plumber or carpenter and you don't artificially constrain who can and can't work as a carpenter or plumber then this isn't behaving like a guild.

Certifications are more complicated - definitely some instances of certifications function as little more than to reduce the supply of labor. But there are some cases where wanting to certify some level of competence may be desirable.
Depends on the frequencies being used. Starlink is in the ku and ka band so it will be affected by weather, especially heavy rain or snow(called rain or snow fade in the field)

Standard solution to rain fade is to make sure you have a power budget and can ramp power when heavy rain starts.
Yes, we still have food poisoning outbreaks. No institution is all-powerful or all-knowing. I'm 100% positive we have fewer food poisonings with the FDA than we'd have without it. Your "this is false" assertion is, while technically true, fairly obviously a case of asking for perfection before doing anything.

Given that the Trump administration is scaling regulation of pork products way back (https://www.specialtyfood.com/news/article/trump-administrat...) we get to be part of an experimental test of this!

I disagree with you about oligopoly because of regulations. If we enforced sensible anti-trust laws as we did from about 1900-1960, we wouldn't be in the dilemma of having 3 pharma companies, or 3 grocery store companies, or 1 ISP. Yes, the regulatory environment is a result of capture and oligopoly, but without the regulation, the oligopolies, which have close to zero market forces to check them, would really abuse the consumers. Asserting that this is circular is kind of like saying that without ticks, rabbits wouldn't have need of blood. Ticks, (and/or similar blood suckers) co-evolve with their hosts. Regulatory environments, particularly when the agency has been captured, and I'm sure we can agree that the FDA has been captured, co-evolve.
Chances are the data is being fed into a black-box neural network and they don't have damned idea why the black box says your driving is good or bad.

"we can tell with technology and science" ie. "magic".
I would argue that the first piece of code provided as an example is much more readable than the other.
Well that fills me with confidence for the future of safe air travel. What could possibly go wrong?
> TacticalCoder last HN comment is from Dec 5, 2015. Checks out.

I didn't realize... Your comment is actually extremely funny: I love it : )

Yeah, it's more or less when I started computing that. This is hilarious.
It isn't, but it is very likely against the developer's agreements with Nintendo.

Things like this are why Nintendo doesn't freely allow save file access, or even allow them to be accessed without encrypting them.

If they work this hard to prevent file loading exploits, you can bet your ass there is contract language to prevent what this guy did.
How would you prove that? The only way I can see is with even more intrusive tracking.
I just posted the word length distribution graph on Github repo. In fact, contrary to the GP’s claim, Quantum Lorem Ipsum contains a larger % of shorter words than vanilla Lorem Ipsum. Also, the distribution isn’t perfectly normal. I used 16 paragraphs from both and wrote a small Julia script to analyze the word length.

I think the assertion that designers want to have a perfect normal distribution of word lengths is arguable. I’d be curious to analyze large datasets of books to see what the actual distribution of word lengths is. Heck, this may be an opportunity to actually fix vanilla Lorem Ipsum and write a script that can generate paragraphs that simulate real world distribution of word lengths! Looks like I have a project ahead of me this upcoming weekend :-).
Not really - it's about as simple as buildbot with a nicer UI. All our builds trigger off of Github pushes - I have a handful of cheap Ubuntu VMs on Linode doing builds and tests for our code, and one Mac Mini doing builds for some developer tools - the latter is in a small rack in our office, but it works all the same.

Each build pipeline is just a small shell script which does some setup and runs make to build or invokes our test entry points.
I was always looking to make a business, though I really enjoy the creation and product side of things. It turned into a business pretty quick, though: we had customers within 3 months and paying customers within 6. 18 months later we had $1m ARR.

I enjoyed running the business up until about 15 employees. When it turned to 25 people I asked someone else to take over as CEO, which was a pretty good decision in hindsight. Circle is now 200 people, and the activities that the CEO does are not ones I would enjoy.

I'm the CTO of https://darklang.com now, and honestly I much prefer being CTO than CEO, especially now that I appreciate how hard being CEO is, and given that I'm working with a great CEO.
Being profitable is their problem (I can purchase a connection from someone else), but latency is something I have to worry about.
Flamethrower – a DNS performance and functional testing utility (by ns1)
I suppose the safest method would be to switch off a phone, or switch it to airplane mode, while driving. Would a requirement to use such an app while driving prevent that approach?
This isn't going to be lower latency than existing low latency solutions.

EDIT: For more context, the old low latency fiber path between Chicago and New York was under 7ms, and current low latency radio solutions are under 4ms. SpaceX's solution is marketed as being "as low as 25ms".
Better than some other cases (http://archive.is/TEp6g) , in which not only is a dadaist bit of a very wild book (which i really like and recommend) used as a test question, the ending was changed so it really really makes no sense!
I did guess Javascript, as it happens.

Was I wrong? If it was meant to be a reference to Lisp, I take much of it back.
I have mixed feelings about this article. On the one hand I’m completely here for the argument that standardized tests aren’t a good way to evaluate poetry (or other sorts of literature).

But in the current environment that frequently reduces to an argument that because it’s not obviously quantifiable we shouldn’t do it. That I disagree with. Most problems don’t have objectively quantifiable metrics naturally so being comfortable in frameworks that allow for that ambiguity is important.
Horns are safety features. They are meant for avoiding an accident, not for venting frustration. Here in California at least, using your horn because you’re feeling impatient at a green light is illegal. (Granted, so is using your phone while stopped in traffic, but that doesn’t make you in the right for honking.)
> Technically, its parent company is the We Company, whose stated mission is “to elevate the world’s consciousness.”

Well, they're right. I'm now more conscious of how absurd their mission is.
Expensive phones are really a status symbol in the same way that clothing labels are a status symbol. The fix for Google is to design the phone so that people can tell it's an expensive phone vs a $200 phone.

Google has too many engineers in the marketing department. Engineers want to make a phone other engineers will love. The problem is that there are not enough engineer types that will buy a $1000+ phone. Make it a status symbol and watch the sales grow.
The best overview of the topic I know of is https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/wp-content/uploads/..., which describes the state of the field ~18 months ago.

The major field where it's already being applied is in automating the conversion of data--building the program that can take "John Doe" and turn it into "<name>John</name> <surname>Doe</surname>" just by example. You can also do similar generalization to automate things like constructing highly repetitive graphics (e.g., draw a few teeth of a gear and the program does the rest). Superoptimization is the other main prong, where you really combine the synthesis and the verification to get correct faster code.
The 30ms figure is just the earth->satellite->earth part though. It still has to go through terrestrial wires to the server, and then be processed, and back through wires to the transmitter.