skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not a specialist, but I don't buy this.

In this story, they have a 6-year warning of an asteroid with 35% chance of 700megaton impact.

I just know that with that lead time, and with such an aligning mission, humanity would be able to do amazing things.

The Apollo program was from JFKs speech in '61 to moon in '69, and that's built on a '60s technological and social infrastructure. We have tons more brainpower and tech now, globally.

This scenario would just be so politically aligning we'd be able to mobilize massive resources to stop it in that timeframe; way more than 6 launches. I'd be much more concerned about one they didn't see until 6 months out or something.
Agreed. If one must die an unnatural way, then it is better to die in an interesting way such as by asteroid strike than to die in some mundane way like a car accident or getting mugged and shot point blank in a parking lot.
TLDR: Theres like 7 billion people. We have lottery winners both (specifically) and in other areas in life.
Why would drones be cheaper than satellite photos? If they were, wouldn't the hedge funds already be doing that instead? They clearly seem not to me.

The issue, if there is one, is that it is not cheap to get this data on a large enough scale to be useful.

I suppose it's possible a sampling of just a few parking lots would be representative enough to be useful? In which case you don't need drones, you can just go to the parking lots. Which is apparently what Sam Walton did? I dunno. If that were good enough, again I'm not sure why the hedge funds would be paying for sattelite photos instead.
Huh? I thought we were talking about sharing music this whole time...?

What is your definition of 'music theft' that is distinct from sharing music?
Personal attacks will get you banned here, regardless of how you feel about professionalism. The first concern of a forum like HN is not to burn itself to a crisp, and that's what flames like this ultimately do. Would you mind reviewing
https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and following the guidelines when posting here?
There's also a YC company, (https://secondmeasure.com/), that sells anonymized credit card data to hedgefunds so that the funds can directly check the volume of trade happened at walmart, etc.
They are different.

Unifying is not a bad idea.
What? None of those are free. You need land to do any of that, or permits, or both.
The part of the read where I realized it wasn't a real story I was reading was where it became 35% chance to hit. And I was like, "I think I'd know if this wasn't fictional".
> then perhaps the system shouldn't have billions of users

How do you imagine Google Maps achieving that? Telling people "oh, sorry, can't serve you today"?
Yes, but the longevity doesn't effect the market because they're things rich people collect. People buying them on the whole won't buy fewer because "this one still works", so the rarefied market changes the market forces considerably.

Another example is high-fashion, where things aren't necessarily made any better than low end goods, and it probably doesn't matter because rich people (women mainly, it seems) will wear an item once. So again longevity isn't really a factor as long as it appears to be well made.
Very interesting, thanks for pointing to this. Gitlab appears to be doing a fantastic job a opening governance and writing FAQ-like content such as this one. Truely boosting the core values and interest of libre / open source software and it's business models.
Ask HN: How to Solve Complex Problems?
Is there any approaches that you've found useful?
How do you solve complex technical problems when in the beginning it's not clear at all what you need to do?
InfluxDB Unikernels on Google Cloud
I have always wondered about this and I hope you wont mind one more question:

For me being able to see as much on a page as possible really aids me. For you to get a piece of code into your mind it seems like you’d have to have really sharp memory to store the relevant items in working memory as the screen reader recites the code one word/token at a time. Am I missing something or do you simply overcome this with badass memory skills?
It really is clickbait.

Nowhere in the article does it talk about "destroying the world." You'd suppose they were referring to some kind of near-miss from a massive body causing, I don't know, gravitational forces or something.

What it's actually saying is that there would be a lot of panic in the run-up to an impact, so that even a relatively small event could cause oil prices to spike and real estate values to drop in the impact area.

Hardly anything at all like the headline suggests.
Pub/Sub for NodeMCU 1.0 Using ESP8266 with MQTT and PubNub Arduino SDK
That's not true. A single person can do it at world scale provided they are not trying to do something overly esoteric (though you can actually get pretty far with a Gentoo base). There are even plenty of from-scratch distros that started as a one-man show. Take the recent Void Linux for instance.
Has anyone read the full book this is an excerpt from? If the whole book is like this it could be a fun read.
> Frankly, we couldn't have as many users as we do without a human connection in support.

Different companies and different products are different. It looks like many Google products are good enough to attract many users without support.
But how do they cope? I can't imagine sitting in a bed perfectly fine typing this post while hooked up to a machine keeping me alive and then doctors walking in and saying "It's time to discuss your end of life options."
Burning lithium in a pond sounds awfully spectacular, with an emphasis on the awful.
>Actually, most plans are way cheaper than that. Most people I know are on a $9 or $10 prepaid plan for three months of unlimited calls, messages and 2GB/day.

Which providers?
I would hope Apple would be liable for burning your house down, but in reality they'd blame you for having 'water damage'.
One question: why? Or, rather, what for?
> If, however, they represented an adversarial nation, the data could be extremely valuable.

Yes, heaven knows that data on manned spaceflight shouldn't be shared with all of mankind, only america and it's allies.
AST is less transformable. We transform our bytecode as if it was just an IR.

ASTs are a pretty annoying form to use as a source of shared truth for OSR. JSC has 4 tiers so we need a convenient-to-use shared truth IR. That’s what bytecode is for. For example, bytecode offers high-scalability answers to questions like “where should I exit” and “what is live when I get there”.
The actual OIG report: https://oig.nasa.gov/docs/IG-19-022.pdf I only did the briefest of scans, but the recommendations seem pretty basic best practices stuff.

In my experience, research labs tend to be creative spaces with a focus on collaboration and information security is not foremost on peoples mind. I guess that will have to change.
That’s a pretty good reason also.
I have seen his two videos on Indian Politics , it's outright, biased.

You can go through the comments of Youtube for more clarification.
At six years out, it’s unclear where the asteroid will strike. You think Americans will throw their national budget behind doing “amazing things” for the Caribbean?
>Americans are going to be livid when they learn how cheap data plans

Why? They're cheap because the average income in India is 1000 dollars a year. And there is probably little to no regulation when it comes to setting up infrastructure.
His Book "One up on Wall Street". (which others have mentioned.)
These don't seem like questions to ask before hiring a develper, they seem like questions a developer might (or should) ask of a potential employer.
Google Maps Platform: JavaScript Developer Survey
Here's a small toy to play with the heat equation: https://math.berkeley.edu/~kmill/toys/heat/heat.html
(it probably doesn't work on mobile---sorry!)

It shows the Fourier transform of the curve you draw, and how each summand decays through time.

There's also a wave equation toy: https://math.berkeley.edu/~kmill/toys/wave/wave.html
It is an abusive title; 'disrupt' rather than 'destroy' would better match the events envisioned. (I wonder if the source book from which this was adapted, 'Fire in the Sky', includes other more-detailed scenarios of pre-impact destruction?)
Satellite geolocation tech trialed for rail use
I've written about some of the brilliant people I know who suffered at least one episode of burnout:

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As I’ve gone through my 30s and 40s, I’ve been surprised at how many of my friends have suffered some kind of burnout. In fact, between the ages of 15 and 45, I would say that everyone I know personally has had at least one bad year. Back when I was in school, it seemed like some people were reliably happy, and other people were reliably depressed. And yes, many of those personality traits turned out to be consistent over several decades. But it was a surprise to realize that even the happiest people could fall into a dark spot. Some people are highly resilient, but no one is infinitely resilient.

Depression can end your career, end your marriage, and end your life. But long before most people find themselves facing a serious depression, they typically pass through an earlier stage, more mild and more subtle. What if we could all catch ourselves at that earlier stage?

I’m talking about burnout. Perhaps we can think of it as the mildest form of depression, or a mid-point between true mental health and outright depression. How do we identify something so subtle? Specific anecdotes are useful, because people need to be able to hear a story similar to what they are going through.

http://www.smashcompany.com/philosophy/burnout-is-universal-...
> In all seriousness, what can be done about this sort of thing(mitigating it)?

The most important thing would be to make sure that we can see these things well in advance. No defense is going to work if you don't see the threat at all. Currently we can't see well in the region enclosed by Earth's orbit, in the direction of the sun.

The B612 foundation was going to launch the Sentinel Space Telescope for that purpose, but they lost their funding.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sentinel_Space_Telescope
WASM byte code is structured into a tree, which means an interpreter loop wouldn't perform well. You'd really want to flatten it into a simpler bytecode before interpreting it -- and you'd want to do other transforms on it before optimizing it.

I don't think WASM bytecode is a good format for execution, and it's only mediocre as a compilation target.
How 'bout Ammonia fuel cells?
I agree with your experiences.

I've only use base R for my medical data (subsetting dataframe and such). Very rarely do I need tidy and also I find the pipe operator makes debugging harder. If and when I need it I'll use it that's that.

I think R have much more packages in medical, especially statistical packages, where many fields within medical cares about inferences not just prediction/forecasting. So I disagree with the "essentially the only thing keeping R in the game". The breath of packages in R is one of the many things that keep R in the game.

The tribalism and highly bias comments makes it very toxic and harder to have an honest discord.

They are just tools, use what makes you happy and get the job done.
> Some of those aren't SPA specific. They're just javascript.

What do you think SPAs are? They are just Javascript. You add all that Javascript on top of web components and you ... end up with an SPA

> Some are benefits, however, two way data flow is a janky model in itself that could possbily be done away with by a nice data structure imo.

Quite a few frameworks don't have two-way data binding. React famously doesn't.

> I expect great things from them. Web Components and their associated libraries can and will do all of those as they grow.

So, they can't do those things and you're asking "what are SPA libs good for"?

You clearly have little to no experience with web development.
Thanks for the idea! That's what always gets me too!
Living about 15 minutes away from Pasadena, if it needed to be evacuated it would take months. There's a meme of evacuating Katy any time it rains because the people there tried during a hurricane and ended up staying locked in grid lock for days. Now imagine that same scenario with the entire city of Houston trying to evacuate. Most people would not be able to escape in a week.
A fourth reason could be psychological. Being expected to win can be a huge burden. It's much easier to be the underdog.
I would love to hear someone justify how multi-stage forms are ever good for the user. It seems to me like an honest site tells you all the information you're going to need to enter up-front, in one form so you can decide whether or not to fill out the form with complete knowledge of what you're going to be filling out, that is, informed consent.

Multistep forms trick the user whether it's intended or not: you're either collecting a little bit of information knowing the user might not complete the process, or you're pressuring the user into completing a process they wouldn't otherwise complete because they've already sunk so much time into it, when they wouldn't have ever embarked if they had known from the beginning all you were going to ask for.

There's a segment of HN that argues that market incentives will always lead to good results for consumers, but here's a clear example where people clearly only care about maximizing conversion and collecting the most data, with no concern for the consumer.
Isn’t this how every business works? If there is no competition, and if there are people willing to pay for the price they set, how is that a fault of the business?

That said, I think Intel has a long history of anti-competitive behavior and we need law makers with a spine to address and punish this type of behavior.
Well you can't claim anything as "secure" either because someone somewhere has a 0-day. It just depends on where you draw the line, and for what application you're using it.
Hedge funds do a ton of crazy research like this. I remember reading about hedge funds buying new cars only to sell them immediately after. They were only interested in their serial numbers which they used to estimate the count of sold cars of a specific model using the german tanks method. Before the sales numbers are out, information like this is very valuable.
There are undoubtedly a variety of ways to bypass things for a motivated attacker. Analog is likely only one of those.

The thing that a lot of these measures protect against is not so much a targeted attack, it's stupid user tricks. It's not protection against Jane the Spy extracting as much information as she can, it's a measure against Danny the drunk who leaves his laptop at a bar or sitting in the back seat of the car where it's visible and stolen.

There are also likely a lot of places where it would be illegal to use something like this with auto expiring messages, though hopefully most such places won't be using Gmail.
For many in younger generations (including myself), watching a youtube video - even a dry educational one - scratches an "I'm being entertained" itch, perhaps born of being raised watching television. Something deeply rooted adores fast-paced audiovisual stimuli. Reading a well written document does not have the same effect. It's troubling.
Interestingly most of the electric aircraft proposals and prototypes I've seen are basically scaled up quadcopters with multiple motors with directly attached props. Range is of course the big issue so the proposed companies are usually something like "fully autonomous aerial Uber", where you set a destination with an app on your phone and one of these big quadcopters flies over and lands near you. You get in and hit go and the thing flies to your destination, then back to a recharge pad. Only good for in-city trips, but potentially a quick (if expensive) way around traffic.
The cynic in me believes we'd do absolutely nothing and just let it slam into Pasadena after people who think it's a hoax fight with scientists.
I find it weird that slack has this unintuitive way of signing into my workspaces, that user experience made me stay away as much as possible. I don't know why they don't make it easy to stay, harder to leave!
Pre-multiplex maybe? Or an atypical urban theater catering to film buffs. Or Imax. But my recollection of most theaters 20-30 years ago is most of the screens being postage stamp size, audio being subpar, and the level of staffing not much different from today.
Yup.

I went to a Catholic high school, despite my family being basically non-practicing Presbyterians. And in an area with a ton of private schools.

At the time public schools were a road to nowhere, and private schools were easily $20,000 in today's dollars, maybe $30,000 depending on the school. Catholic high school cost $8000 in today's dollars, and the only "downside" was a couple of mandatory masses.
I think much of the value can be gained by collecting the data with some kind of differential privacy noise added to keep it from being traced back to any given user. But obviously data collected in this way is less useful--it may not matter, given diminishing returns, for services with enough scale, but yeah these techniques can make things harder for smaller services.
I've seen a blind programmer code before. His screen reader tool was set to go REALLY fast, and so to me it sounded like tiny short rapid fire bursts of audio but to him, he was getting like hundreds of characters per minute or more of context.
Building an integration is having someone:

- deal with the target platform's API

- deal with APIs of the many platforms that are being integrated

- maintenance and SLAs

I honestly doubt you can create half a dozen good integrations that require more than just notifications in a channel (for example, PagerDuty notifications and the like).
I think it's reasonable to start bringing Servo into limelight, and start removing all Chromium based code eventually, given the amount of control Google has over Blink.

I for one, would like things like Opera/Electron to start moving us over, because of the fears that Chromium may no more be safe from eventual interference.
Is it possible to pregenerate that bytecode?

For example for hybrid desktop/mobile apps.
Interesting tangents:

> PC manufacturers got obsessed with "2-in-1" machines, etc

It's Microsoft that has been long obsessed with the "2-in-1" and its the other PC manufacturers that have begrudgingly followed (then been surprised that the efforts make money). Microsoft's interests in Tablets have long seemed more in service to 2-in-1 goals than simply Tablets for the sake of tablets. (The Surface was the first big "2-in-1", the Surface Laptop pushed thinking in 2-in-1 design, such as shifting the battery between both parts and complex multi-GPU arrangements.)

Microsoft isn't just worried about tablets (and phones) eating the PC from the low end, but about the very definition of PC falling out from under them. Microsoft seems pretty adamant in their marketing that a PC isn't just one form factor (desktop or laptop or tablet or phone) and isn't just one HCI paradigm (keyboard/mouse or keyboard-only or touch or AR/VR), but that a PC, a computer, should flexibly be all of those things, respond to any and all input paradigms as the user decides. Their message continues to be hardware form factor shouldn't matter, because software should be capable of adapting to user interest. It's precisely the argument to expect from a Software company that deals in hardware only begrudgingly and only if it has something to prove about Software (such as the OG HW reason for them: that mouse wheels are extremely useful in productivity applications such as Excel).
> As an occasional retail trader, it doesn't bother me at all that other market participants are trying to be better informed. In fact, it means that market prices are more likely to be properly-priced.

What about companies that find out about your retail trade before it's even executed, and are able to act on that information to profit from your very intent to trade?
I'd argue that stickiness has transitioned to independent content creators. Feels like an individual can always be more honest than a corporation even if they're in it for profit.
> it doesn't bother me at all that other market participants are trying to be better informed

You should stop trading now.
I think folks are missing your point, which (I think) is something like:

I don't care if that car is faster if it is already on fire.
liquefied methane/natural gas would be a much better choice. The energy density per volume is about 2/3rds that of jet fuel and higher per weight. It's slightly less efficient to produce from electricity than hydrogen.
Isn't c++ a large language? And yet it's still used.
With a title like 'How will movies survive?' and an opening like "There were 350 more movies released theatrically in the United States last year than there were when “Avatar” came out in 2009.", I think the question has, unintentionally, been answered. Movies are doing fine. A multitude of options for reaching and watching films has made room for more kinds of films and given viewers better access.

About twenty years ago, some co-workers were predicting that home theater technology would make the public movie theater obsolete. My counter-arguments at the time were that there would always be room for seeing movies with the best possible light and sound (better than the best home theaters), and there would always be room for seeing movies together, not just your friends, but a large group. I feel like there's something special about sharing the audience reaction (FTA,"That social aspect of sharing a movie with friends and strangers and family, that’s such a strong part of our tradition."). There's certainly something special about seeing a movie with a date who's not yet comfortable coming to your house. I don't, yet, see a reason to update my viewpoint. Movies will survive.
It probably helps that kids are a rare sight in SF which are generally the cause of annoyance at a theater. Alamo has a strict no children rule except for family specific showtimes, so it's a good option if you live in a more kid friendly city.