skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If we were to realize Breakthrough Starshot, then it'd be right around the cusp of how long I'd think we could maintain institutional interest in it. 60 years to get there, 12 years to get the signals back, so 76 years. If you worked on it right out of college and longevity stays around where it is, you might live to see some pictures. You definitely could tell your grand kids about it though.

It seems technically possible, it is just a matter of paying for something like this and pinning hopes on the next generations to follow through with it and appreciate it. It seems like if we had that sort of will, climate change and some other issues would almost be non-issues.
What are the economics of the YouTuber when it comes to this?

If the videos bring in $x thousand a week from adverts then is that how it all works?

Then get Rich from Rich Rebuilds in so subscribers get added to both channels?

If the car is paid for over a period of a loan then the revenue stream from the YouTube income pays, but, to the viewer, it looks like a $50K car has been hacked to pieces.

I do find it cool how Rich from Rich Rebuilds is now the expert. I am sure he feels impostor syndrome with that but he has put the work in and deserves his celebrity status.

If anyone has any guestimate numbers on how this works out as a business proposition then I would very much like to know. If it is lucrative then I just might have to do myself a 'Tesla campervan YouTube series'...
Throwing a failed currency out of a currency basket is like the proverbial tree falling in the proverbial forest. It would not change the value of the Libra at all. The value would already be gone as the value of each stablecoin is computed roughly by taking the entire value of the currency reserves, and dividing it by the number of coins. A good analogy is what happens to the value of a mutual fund when an underlying security becomes valueless.
According to literally the first thing I found on the Internet, the airlines take in about 1% of the world's GDP which doesn't sound like a great deal when they emit twice that much in CO2. However, I'm guessing the businesses they support that wouldn't exist otherwise easily make up the difference. I'd guess ~10% of the GDP (most international tourism, shipping, business meetings).
I see people complaining about the fact that it is just employee opinion.

I agree that just one employee opinion it's not important or so relevant by itself.

But, for most people, a human face for a problem makes the problem easier to understand and to sympathize with the situation. So, it seems that the journalist decided to give voice to Stuart as an stylistic choice. HN readers may like or not this choice. But, it does not invalidate the content of the article.

An example does not invalidate the rule. It would be interesting to discuss the content more than the style, even that it's also a valid discussion.

My take out of the article is that lack of trust on upper management is part of the problem.

> “I want to think that I work for one of the best companies in the world. I want to think that when I come home from a 10-12 hour shift that I’ve done something good. But I don’t know because I see the lies. They’re going back on everything that they’ve told us. So it’s really difficult for me to feel good about any of it.”

Most people see themselves as good persons. Most people wants to do a good job. When your company leadership fails you there is a conflict between that believe and reality. That is why company leadership is so important and it should not only respond to share holders but to all stakeholders in the company including customers and employees.
How do you know that regulations are why the banks haven’t gambled away all the money? There’s no law against me gambling away my savings but that doesn’t mean I’ll do it. There’s other incentives in the system, for example the desire to avoid an angry mob of depositors burning your bank to the ground.

Some regulations are good but the ones we have are overburdensome. Even huge startups like Robinhood can’t get it right and the laws around what constitutes a security for ICO offerings are so vague that no one actually knows if they’re breaking the law or not.
Yeah, I know. But I'm saying there are other factors at play in how people make decisions about where to live.
(see my comment above)
The FAQ is talking about “hundreds of thousands of threads”. It doesn’t make sense to respond by saying that Linux is fine with “a few thousand threads”. Similarly, I was talking about a scenario where a server would end up spawning more than a few thousand threads.

>If you have hundreds of thousands, you probably want true async I/O instead of having stackful threads at all.

This is a completely baseless assertion, and really makes no sense at all. "Async IO" in itself doesn’t even offer a means of exploiting multiple CPU cores. If "async IO" were all that was required, people would be sticking with Node.js for heavy loads.

>even 2kB of stack per thread is 195MB just from thread stacks.

You say this as if 195MB were a large amount of memory for a server to be using! Obviously, if the memory overhead of running 100,000 Goroutines is only 195MB, then memory limitations are not going to prevent you from running 100,000 Goroutines.
This is the company that famously turned doors into desks. [1]

1 https://blog.aboutamazon.com/working-at-amazon/how-a-door-be...
"Faces opposition in France" is the new https://www.reddit.com/r/RussiaDenies/
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I'd argue that democracy doesn't matter nearly as much as constitutional freedoms of assembly, speech (to a certain degree), independent press, ect. China still fears protest/revolution and will work in such a way that benefits their population in order to prevent uprisings and civil unrest.

Add on the fact that the vast majority of issues that we view as democratic victories in the US, were more than anything, driven by direct action or initial change at the local level (a level which is democratic in china). Where in the cases where major change happened in a different way, it happened through the Judiciary which is also not democratic.

Add on the fact that many of the direct democratic measures in the US tend to be destructive (prop 13, voting against any tax increase even if necessary over the long term), and there becomes a reason why a political system with a single party, namely a party with a largely unified political goal, is preferable.

I'd also question when in US history (or elsewhere) has there ever been a time where democratic elections peacefully overthrew the ruling body. Usually there is significant continuity from administration to administration, where any serious political change happens due to outside direct action.
A Fire Upon the Deep is SUCH a good book. I loved it; the idea that something like the '90s net news had gone galaxy-wide was a great plot idea....
Maybe I don't understand the ramifications of this, but it kind of sounds like we missed the offramp where we just stop burning carbon.

Shouldn't we just be moving to something drastic like a massive sun shade project ASAP?
When Chamath was asked about working at Facebook @Stanford.
What soul searching are you doing right now on that?
"I feel tremendous guilt. I think we all knew in the back of our minds, even though we feigned this whole line of there probably aren't any really bad unintended consequences. I think in the back deep, deep recesses of our minds we kind of knew something bad could happen. But I think the way we defined it was not like this.
It literally is a point now where I think we have created tools that are ripping apart the social fabric of how society works. That is truly where we are. And I would encourage all of you as the future leaders of the world to really internalize how important this is. If you feed the beast, that beast will destroy you.If you push back on it, we have a chance to control it and rein it in. And it is a point in time where people need to hard brake"
I just listened to a very relevant Freakonomics podcast, "Why Rent Control Doesn’t Work (Ep. 373)". http://freakonomics.com/podcast/rent-control/
https://www.digitalmars.com/d/archives/digitalmars/D/announc...
For heaven's sake, not this again. Please read the site guidelines. They include:

"Eschew flamebait. Don't introduce flamewar topics unless you have something genuinely new to say. Avoid unrelated controversies and generic tangents."

Vandalizing a thread like this is something we ban accounts for, so please don't do it again.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
In the Information Age, value is chiefly derived from organization & presentation of information, rather than simply its availability.
As for interesting consequences of a vastly different planetary age: in one SF novel (could be Peter F. Hamilton's, I can't remember right now) humans colonized an Earth-like planet only some 2 billion years old or so. Its uranium ores had so high U235 content (as opposed to Earth's 0.72%, which requires costly enrichment), that you could simply smelt it and put straight in a reactor (cheap nuclear-powered locomotives anyone?).
Bitcoin doesn’t fulfil these criteria either - the devs and miners have not become more decentralised over time, if anything more centralised. Of course it is far more decentralised than this ersatz cryptocurrency from Facebook in both spirit and actions.

However the number of people who want a decentralised currency (with the many, many compromises it requires) is globally very close to 0%, so despite wailing on HN about the true meaning of cryptocurrency, this is not a reason to oppose this Facebook coin.

There are much more pressing ones to oppose it IMO - handing control of your transactions and/or finances to an org as amoral and duplicitous as Facebook, or indeed to any global corporation or cabal thereof, is a very scary idea.

I sincerely hope this dystopian effort to impose a global corporate currency fails.
https://www.houstontx.gov/planning/Off-Street-Parking-Ordina...
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I doubt any one company's use of AWS makes a bit of difference in their ability to keep the lights on. You "funding" them in some round about way is irrelevant.
Multiple, but not necessarily very many -- the validators are an exclusive club.
Why the downvotes, you ask.

>the kind of people who Teslas are typically...

Well that is pretty broad especially considering the TCO for an entry level Tesla now is below that of a Honda Accord over five years.

Many kinds of people are buying them now.
In one of my European jobs we'd have quarterly "seminars", where we ostensibly studied something. But they were really quite costly parties at exotic locations.
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I hope this gets anywhere, not because I'm particularly enamored with Facebook (In fact, I hate them and their skeevy practices) but because I want PayPal to feel the squeeze. I just happen to hate PayPal a little bit more than Facebook and any competition in that department is good in my opinion.

I don't see Libra being remotely any competition against Bitcoin, but as an alternative to current centralized payment processors? Sure, and it wouldn't be a huge stretch considering the amount of sensitive information people already entrusts (with or without merit) with Facebook.
AirBnB allows housing stock that would otherwise be inhabited by long-term residents to be reappropriated for tourism and business travelers. That puts local residents in direct competition with tourists/businesspeople for housing, and predictably increases the price of housing for long-term residents.

By regulating the hotel industry and restricting the supply of short-term housing, local governments favor long-term residents over visitors. AirBnB is great for travelers, but long-term residents pay the price.

> it just indicates there is existing unsatisfied demand for short term rentals

Yes, but allowing the market to satisfy that demand is not necessarily a good idea. This isn't a case where the unrestrained market will solve all problems. It will solve a problem for travelers, but create problems for long-term residents.
> - A currency outside of traditional governments would theoretically be free of currency manipulation by those governments (ex. China and the Yuan)

You can't live your life outside your country's currency though. It has a built-in demand because you have to pay taxes in it. So you're going to have to buy some of it somewhere.

> - An international currency can sidestep the artificial middleman fees and friction caused by traditional monetary exchanges. Ex. my friend who is currently studying in Japan wanted to get some money from her US bank account to Japan to pay for tuition and not only had to wait for banks to be open, but also had to pay exchange and transfer fees.

Try TransferWise.
It's not a software issue because the software was working excatly as specified. There is no bug.

And its not really an aerodynamic issue either.

Boeing have a massive procedural issue where they didn't do proper safety analysis of how the system works as a whole. The fact that they didn't identify this failure case as a major issue makes you wonder what other failure cases (on other planes too) that they missed.

The original version of MCAS only moved the stablizer by 0.6 degrees, and only in situations with high angles of attack AND abnormally high g loading. That's the version they ran the safety analysis on, it relies on two types of sensors that shouldn't fail simultaneously. Later they modified MCAS to move the stablizer by much larger amounts (2.6 degrees, 4x larger) and they removed the high g loading restriction so it would operate in more situations. This also means it was now relying on a second sensor.

And they never re-ran the safety analysis.
You are right. Besides the obvious they do or used to do construction, construction equipment, movie and entertainment, digital agency, fabric, food, military weapons, insurance, amusement park.
> Daylight saving time rules can change

Which is why all of the good date-time libraries come with the standard timezone database, which contains a full history of timezone changes. So, (carefully) using one of those libraries, you should be handle to handle any date-time ever.
Thank you for such a thorough reply and your perspective.

Can you name a capital city that have a non dysfunctional system in place?

I seem to remember reading about Wienna having an interesting model in play.
It's actually quite common in Paris: http://www.annmah.net/2014/04/08/life-paris-houseboat/
In my opinion, the main thing holding back cryptocurrency is scalability. They are working on that. The other thing is just social momentum.

Popularity and merit are two completely different things. It waxes and wanes. The masses will adopt anything that is convenient and popular (regardless of whether its really great or not).

Look at the #1 Billboard song right now. "Old Town Road". This is the most popular song. Its "what the masses want". What's it about? "Can't nobody tell me nothin'" "Cheated on my baby" "Cowboy hat from Gucci".. Its teenage defiance, materialism, and "macho" unfaithfulness. What happens to be popular right now might mean something important, but it also might just be garbage as usual. (By the way, at the moment, it is popular for humans to create literal mountains of actual garbage.)

The people who created cryptocurrency said what the point was. Its to give us control over our digital money and remove the intermediaries.

People who know better should strive to make things that are worthwhile more popular.
lol, samsung is worth a third of what Amazon is worth. Apple could buy Samsung. Samsung is a big company, but Google, Microsoft, amazon, and Apple are in a whole different league
>Consider virtual reality and remote work. I imagine much of the workforce will move to virtual offices in the near to medium-far future when corporations finally come around to realizing they don't have to waste so much money on rent. There's no need for programmers, graphic designers, reporters, and employees of lots of other professions to work in a physical office. So really, as cities become less of a necessity to certain jobs, I expect a moderate exodus to nicer areas, halting growth or even decreasing population in urban centers.

People have been saying this for decades. Personally, I'd like nothing more than for it to be true so that I can ditch my expensive Silicon Valley apartment. But it's not. Lately I've even been seeing a lot of pushback from people who feel more productive in an office setting and don't want to work remotely.
The Boeing aircraft with recent notable safety issues is the 737 Max 8. Not any 777 variant.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boeing_737_MAX
> Shouldn't we just be moving to something drastic like a massive sun shade project ASAP?

Doesn't that particular option seem like it'd be adding on extra unknown consequences? I wonder how that'd effect our natural CO2 scrubbers.
Isn't this a transfer of power over the movement of money away from the government, and to a corporate consortium?

That’s kind of the point.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Numerus_clausus#Historical_use
Writing a book is easy. You sit down by the keyboard, slit your wrists, and pour your self out. (That's not a typo, btw.)

I've written one, and in the process acquired a near limitless admiration for those who can do it for living, book after book, decade after another. Even for a topic you feel should be easy - every page that ends up being in the final result, you have written at least 3x. The editing process alone is brutal, and the harsher, more demanding editor you get to work with, the better the results.
Sure it is; it's not a traditional RDBMS, but a key-value store is by broad definition a database.
The only thing that really matters is the relative percentages of what currency is used in international trade. If you need to buy stuff from outside your country and they want to be paid in USD then you need USD to pay them. The RMB isn't really that useful outside of China, I don't honestly see gold being the substitute because there just isn't enough of it, any gold backed currency would end up deflationary and people would hoarde it for the sake of hoarding it.
"Using Libra means trusting Facebook, which is a hard sell in 2019".

I think this is the essence of the problem that Facebook will have to overcome. Unless Facebook can convince its userbase that it can be trusted with PII data, how could they convince the same userbase that they can be trusted with their monetary transactions?
> 1. The world could use an online independent currency

Maybe, but "Facebook" and "independent" hardly go together.

> Unlike government issued currencies, any monopoly or control facebook derives isn't done through force

True, but the measure of control average person has over facebook is also close to zero. With government, you at least have courts, elections, Constitution finally... it is usually hard to go against the government, but it is possible and at least the presumption is that the government is there to the benefit and by the consent of the people (it's not very useful for a random citizen but at least that's the principle which can have some useful consequences sometimes). Facebook is there for whoever owns Facebook, and has zero obligations to anybody else. It could completely block you any time it wants to for any reason it wants to, could deny you use of any of its resources with no explanation needed and no recourse possible, it could change its policies any time with zero concern for your interests, etc.

> I just wish there could be a deeper exploration of both the pros and cons.

What are the pros of specifically this Facebook proposition that can not be achieved without Facebook being in the picture?
By which definition? Any links?
This has been an issue for a while now. I worked at a retail analytics company that was entirely AWS hosted in 2012, and either Target or Walgreens didn't want us to use AWS because they viewed Amazon as a competitor, and didn't want to feed the beast.

This is also an issue at my current company, and I think a significant driver of the "cloud agnostic" push.
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> The problem with housing there has one simple cause: NIMBYism.

I'm not a fan of the idea of living & working for a corporate overlord in a company town, but I suppose one option to break the back of entrenched NIMBYism is to own all the backyards. Buy up all the things, flatten them, and go vertical.
Better Public Schools Won’t Fix Income Inequality
I like to include (mostly-professional) jokes or humor in my comments and documentation as it's pretty nice to read later.
> If it were possible to build 20,000 houses in the next 20 years, it would absolutely happen without Google's help.

I only took a quick glance at the article, but seems like Google help may do quite a bit.

> First, over the next 10 years, we’ll repurpose at least $750 million of Google’s land, most of which is currently zoned for office or commercial space, as residential housing. This will enable us to support the development of at least 15,000 new homes

They are going to repurpose their own lands, which means there will be more space to build housing. They make it possible.

I don't know where are theses $750 millions of land, but that's still more space.
The benchmark client is memtier: https://github.com/RedisLabs/memtier_benchmark
"car-based truck"
Come on. You think Google, Amazon, Apple, Microsoft, the Chinese and whoever else are going to let Facebook alone have this cake. We are not even talking about what the Big Banks think yet.

This is just the first page of whats going to be a very interesting story.
The thing is, I feel like if both of those planes had crashed on US soil, each full of Americans, then it could have very well been the end of Boeing as a corporation.

Since they happened halfway around the world, it seems like we judge it differently?
The value of a valet is equal to the amount of coins that can be transferred out of it. So if FB&co block transactions you can say bye bye to your “own” valet.
My point was only about extreme consolidation. They can have multiple smaller offices in various cities. It doesn't need to be thousands of people all working from home.
ReCAPTCHA fingerprints users to determine a risk level.
Well, if you have Alexa in your home...what is the difference? Alexa and all these 'smart' gadgets call home. You have a microphone that is always ON. Recordings are stored and manually analyzed by subcontractors of Amazon. There is no fancy AI. Why shouldn't the $Agency use this channel as well?
Voting is not a good way to pursue your own self interest, which is the typical context of business decisions (bounded of course by morality and the law). From a standpoint of classical rationality, it only makes sense to vote insofar as you are pursuing collective goals, but what is the collective goal with regard to Amazon?

You can certainly object to Amazon business practices and take a principled stand against doing AWS business with them, but that's something you would presumably do whether or not they were competing with you.
I mean, I'm more surprised they were invited to the party. You know something like this will immediately spur countries to denounce it as facilitating money laundering, terrorism, the collapse of the civilized world, etc. I would have thought they'd stick with PayPal as their main partner to interface with banks. It's a huge opportunity for Coinbase but they bring the political baggage of every other cryptocurrency along with them.
> we’ll repurpose at least $750 million of Google’s land, most of which is currently zoned for office or commercial space, as residential housing

Generally it's not up to the owner of property how it should be re-zoned...