skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is pretty exciting but doesn't look very efficient and the Strehl ratio is probably going to be as high as looking through a bottle of water. The cost of a 100-meter Overwhelmingly Large Telescope (OWL) proposed in the 90s is around $1.7B (the bid was lost to the ELT design.) Assuming adaptive optics is used, this instrument might achieve comparable level of resolution. To launch a mission like Terrascope, which with a 1-meter sized detector is equivalent to a 150-meter telescope, we are probably looking at expenses on the order of $10B - I'm looking at James Webb and Hubble. Imagine the spacecraft technology of exposing a 1-meter mosaic of CCDs in orbit and keeping it thermally controlled.

Although I am only an amateur astronomer, the biggest disadvantage I see is that the Terrascope won't have the collecting area of a 150-meter telescope, as Earth is not transparent. We get the resolution of it, but we're basically looking through a very large atmospheric ring with what - >90% central obstruction? I cannot imagine the exposure times required to get anything meaningful and, also, the complexity of post-processing required to correct the ringing artifacts. Then, you're limited to just 1 square degree of sky to observe - unless you maneuver the Terrascope detector in orbit, which is prohibitively expensive due to the limited fuel. Imagine the slew times measured in months... Finally, it's going to have shorter mission design lifetime, if compared to a ground-based telescope. It can possibly be extended with a refueling mission, which would add to the cost, however. I think the overall value of this instrument is rather low, a curious proposition, but why?
Probably not. The method by which it communicates that increment can be, though.
AI lie detector developed for airport security
Only that Siri doesn't happen on the iPhone, and it's easy to prove: try using Siri with aeroplane mode on.
Educated or not you can't 'unhear' something. What if the conversation is political or financial and has major implications on someone you know? Will you still be able to remain professional and not act on the information?

I feel like devices like this should at least give the user the opportunity to play back whatever is sent for manual evaluation. e.g. it could send you an email at the end of the month listing the recordings it would like to use.
Yep, I posted that comment because some (including me) tend not to click on pdf links.
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Yep, but trains/trams have a romantic aura which is exploited.

And being a fixed high visibility project makes it so much easier to exploit.
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Who pays the $100M? Yes, the customer of the bank, of course. Which usually means you and me are paying in the end.
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Yes, because you get a bunch of meta information when any device of mine uses my internet connection to connect to your servers to increase that counter. If you save that information or not, you created a trail.

I expect from any app that it doesn't establish any connections per default to be honest. You can have that as an option that I can enable if I feel like it.
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The biggest problem of all is Apple, a company which constantly brags about its privacy stand, is that doing this without explicitly telling its user.

One of the thing with Tim Cook's Apple is the smell of Hypocrisy. I am giving Apple's the benefits of doubt, and they will need to explain this better.
Static linking works now? Or I have to use Musl to have this feature working?
I'll tell you what they can do and what they should have done. If, on your iOS device you go to Privacy > Analytics you will find this: https://imgur.com/a/LTV9bGc

Where Apple explicitly asks you whether you are willing for your data to be used to improve a variety of services and you can opt-in or opt out. Apple dropped the ball by not specifically including Siri as a separate item in the list. Bad Apple.
The GNU software which broke just didn't compile (with no upstream fix available for a long time, which I found incredible; I had to go find arch linux' repos' patch and apply that whenever I wanted to compile GNU build tools).

The electron thing was apparently an LLVM linker thing according to your sibling comment.

EDIT: the m4 patch in question: https://git.archlinux.org/svntogit/packages.git/tree/trunk/m... - apparently they still use it.
Well, that was his prerogative. I don't think it's the standard.
You just write an app and then let it run? Where is the problem?
From what I gather you're either:

1) Assuming it would be OP's first job.

2) Requiring previous professional interaction before even a job interview.

Both seems weird to me and I'm grateful my first company didn't have those requirements for hiring.
Complexity is never reduced, but made more manageable. Microservices make a good architecture a lot harder, certainly if you have to start with a blank slate and don't really have an idea what you're up against.

However, things that are virtually impossible to enforce or even very hard to implement in a monolith, are made manageable if you have the proper setup. That includes central standardised logging, tracing, metrics and monitoring. If you have these in place and can enforce them, you're off to a good start.

These things rarely happen in a v1 though - which usually is a POC that ends up in production, and if you have a full-blown microservice architecture from the start, this will probably grow into something a lot worse than huge PHP monolith. With microservices you need to design a 'platform', and ad-hoc POC development never results in a good design, but just something that functionally works.
As I understand it, GSP on a single item is just a standard second price auction which is truthful.
Can you elaborate on what you found most unconfortable or difficult to adapt to?

I switched to Firefox ~1.5 years ago and it does everything I need, actually never picked chrome up again. The android version is very good as well, but I just switched to iOS and it's not a very smooth experience there.
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I find the timing odd [0] that php since v5 ressembles more and more Java very explicit type system, while Java is going backward to more implicit and infered.

All in all in 20 years we'll all be writing ml ?

[0] technological waves diffuse differently across cultures
Beautifully put - I nominate this as the official summary of the subthread. It's the reason why we need to pad time estimates for projects and leave early to catch trains, even when we can't think of any likely reason for delay - the sum of all unlikely reasons can cross the threshold into "likely".

So it's quite correct to say "unlikely events happen all the time".
> decided to stop being a wealthy stock broker to live as a painter

He lost everything after the 1882 market crash and eventually moved to Tahiti to pursue the allure of the 'free-spirited and noble savage'. Whilst there he took three teenage brides and infected them with syphilis, from which he himself eventually died.
The markets on which financial instruments are traded are effectively separate from the ones where policy decisions are being made on, such as labour, vocational education, and healthcare. It's not the derivatives trading that is problematic, it's the market inefficiencies not being resolved by governments.
It's a great question! One thing I might suggest is human migration displacing garum, or displacing the people that had a taste for it. Between "Antiquity" and today, you're as likely to find an immigrant population as a native one. I've been reading a lot about Roman history, and trying to answer questions like this, and many signs point to migration. The various -goths and Vandals in particular carved the Iberian peninsula (and southern France) out of the increasingly fragmented (Western) Roman Empire. According to the original sources, most of the garum in the Empire was produced in both provinces of Hispania. Considering the, uhh... "dynamism" of that place in the ensuing centuries, it sounds believable to me that garum simply fell out of favor culturally. Trade collapsed after the fall of the Western Roman Empire. So garum shipments from the Empire's largest garum-producing region simply stopped.

It is true however that there are still Italian and Greek garum producers, as I mentioned, who claim to have been producing since Antiquity. Though this is 100% unverifiable, there's little reason to think it's not true. The thing about garum production is that IT IS SMELLY! Very, very smelly. Roman law actually forbade garum production within a certain distance to the city walls. And as the Western Empire began to evaporate, the production of most specialty / delicacy items (think wine, garum, honey, cheese, etc) moved to "wealthy manor homes" which -- because of the danger of the roads -- slowly became the armed fortress fiefdoms of feudal Europe. So probably it just fell out of favor as time wore on, except in a small few exceptional places.
Good writers are outliers, most books will sound immature. When the author's gatekeeping would get rid of much of Shakespeare's output, maybe it's too much?
By “progress,” we mean the combination of economic, technological, scientific, cultural, and organizational advancement that has transformed our lives and raised standards of living over the past couple of centuries.

Given in TFA's third paragraph.
Within the minority of people in the world that use TeX/LaTeX/etc., there's a tiny minority of people who use TeX without LaTeX. Most of them use ConTeXt (https://wiki.contextgarden.net/Web_resources), some use extensions to plain TeX like eplain (https://tug.org/eplain/) or opmac (http://petr.olsak.net/opmac-e.html). And some use “only” plain TeX (that's Knuth's default/minimal format on top of TeX), and try to code everything themselves. (With LuaTeX it's even possible to use “TeX without TeX”: http://wiki.luatex.org/index.php?title=TeX_without_TeX)

My impression is that generally plain TeX is used by people who don't like all the LaTeX macro complexity and like to keep things simple (not easy), like to understand better what's going on, build their own tools, etc. In return they give up the ability of using the abundant number of LaTeX packages and standard formatting options, its decades-of-experience code, etc. If you want concrete numbers for a sense of things: on the https://tex.stackexchange.com website, there are currently 179,492 questions (https://tex.stackexchange.com/search?q=is%3Aquestion) and of those 590 have been tagged plain-tex (https://tex.stackexchange.com/search?q=is%3Aquestion+%5Bplai...). Of course these numbers shouldn't be taken too seriously as there are various selection biases in what kinds of people would use plain TeX versus how many of them would ask questions on a site like that, etc.
Apple usually does take privacy more serious than others. That is much appreciated.
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As others have said, first off, most people aren't actually aware. I mean most HN readers would keep saying that these things listening to everything you say and not just "keywords" was nothing but a conspiracy theory.

So #1 reason is definitely the fact that most people don't know what the company is actually doing because the company goes to great lengths to hide and mislead about that fact.

Now, for those who do know or assume that this was happening all along but yet still continue to use something like this, I think it's because they like the feature and find it convenient and they CHOOSE TO BELIEVE THAT THE COMPANY CAN BE TRUSTED.

So #2 is a matter of wrong expectations and being too trusting in entities that care nothing more than to do things that make them more money. If there is one thing you should trust about a company is that its #1 incentive is to make money - everything else is an direct consequence of that.
Or a local app with the data stored locally. Or even a web based app, but with the data stored in browser storage.
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what's wrong with giving stuff away for "free"
Are you saying that having previous Open-Source contributions to Mozilla in the portfolio would mean you're not going to have a chance with a job there?

edit: I'd love to be wrong here. Feel free to correct me instead of just downvoting.
No ranking replaces the access to the real work behind a scientific article: data, programs, experimental procedures, etc. Peer-review is a good thing compared with no review, but access to the real data is simply better. Think that reviewers themselves don't have access to more data than other readers, in the actual system.
We know, empirically, that a lack of liquidity increases trading costs, which in turn is directly channeled to the prices of goods and services that rely on this liquidity (more or less everything in the world, even more indirectly ones like education).

It's difficult to say 'things would be X% more expensive' because of the interconnected complexity the GP was talking about, but there is definitely a very apparent benefit.
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>If you think the future will bring amazing medical breakthroughs and immortality, then tubes is only temporary and all you gotta do is hang on long enough.

I'd say don't bet on it.

The changes to life expectancy and quality of life from early low hanging fruits (most of which weren't even that advanced, like clean water, washing hands for surgeries, basic antibiotics, etc.) dwarf later developments such as heart surgery, bionic limbs, and advanced drugs (aside a few important breakthroughs for people affected with specific conditions).

A more realistic outlook is whether you think you might eventually get out of the coma -- which does happen.
Actually sending people to space seems like much less interesting endeavor to me. We are intelligent, but very limited in our senses and abilities.

Where can we really send humans? Moon, Mars maybe, orbit of Mercury/Venus? We also probably want to get them back, so these missions will be complicated by the fact that we don't like to throw away highly trained specialists.

What can people do there that is not possible with robots?
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Well on the bright side it's perfectly reasonable for the function to exist in a perpetual state of deprecation. Let's hope they don't do anything rash.
> I suspect the public would mostly choose the latter.

I'd like a citation for that. I don't think assistants are such a significant feature in most people's lives that they couldn't live without it. Sure, people with various handicaps may find them super useful, but that's different, for the same reason I or most people don't need the hidden and usually disabled by default accessibility features in operating systems.
Only thing that I can think of is that it would make it easier to detect the bottlenecks. Other than that, certainly in high-frequency trading - I only see it adding latency.
Depending on how you define the atmosphere, it is on the order of 100km thick. The Earth has a diameter of around 6400km. So the central occlusion is about 97%.
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Ok, so what if the app is internet connected and has to communicate with some central server? Think a non-p2p messaging app, or an app for a bank/<some internet thing like youtube or facebook or reddit>?
I think the point is, you don't trust judges. Their decisions are open to appeal - and if they're found to be contrary to the law, they're regularly overturned.

The problem is more with non-lethal weapons. If you don't really heavily regulate them, they're obviously going to be used to torture people into compliance, because that's what they are for. A taser electrocutes somebody until they cannot resist. Pepper spray causes so much pain people stop doing whatever they are doing. There's simply a very subtle distinction between using a torture device to stop somebody from doing something dangerous to themselves or others, and using it to stop them from doing something that's simply problematic or against the law.

Non-lethal weapons ask their users to make these distinctions every day, in stressful situations. If the job in general blurs the line, then you can expect their decisions to be equally blurry.
The cookie warnings mostly end up being meaningless “WE NEED COOKIES TO WORK CLICK OK” on every website.
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I don't think it's the age, it's the other life obligations.

In my early 20's I was in college. Graduated in 2008 in to the recession and was lucky to have _any_ job. Spent all of my nights learning coding.

In my mid-late 20's, starting in 2011, I finally got a crappy job with a pay cut in tech (sort of) doing ad operations. I worked hard and spent the evenings getting better at Java so I could use the Dart For Publishers SDK to automate things I hated doing at work (inadvertently helped the company make about a million extra bucks that year, I later realized).

In my early 30's, I got married, changed countries, became a Technical Account Manager, studied Python and German in my free time, and eventually became a dev for a video game company.

In my (our, now) mid-30's, we had a kid, and now I spend my free time on that and house repair, etc. I still like coding but after dinner, bath, bedtime stories, maybe 15 minutes chatting with the spouse, and then other chores, I'm going to bed (before anyone asks, I watch 0 TV and do very little by way of social networks).

I have a colleague who's in his late 20's, no kids, and he's on Slack all. the. time. He talks about stuff he worked on (for work, not for hobbies) over the weekend. I don't think I produce as much as him, to be honest. Makes me a bit anxious about where I stand - hard to compare my 40 hours to effectively his whole life.

I think I need a plan B.

(Related discussion - and the article is 10 years old so the young'uns then are getting in to their 30's now)
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9361580
You are in an accident and have to be operated on, but using anesthesia would drop probability of survival from 90% to 10%. They can give you instead a drug that will prevent you from remembering pain that has no influence on probability of success operation.

What would you chose?

I'm not saying that this is the exact case with infants. Just trying to illustrate there might be valid reasons to inflict temporary pain to save health.