skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Agree with glennpratt. When you have kids all you want (and the kids want) is to get off a long-haul flight. I have my kids clean-up, potty, etc. at about the 1hr 15min mark prior to landing. Trust me, we're packed and ready to get off the moment we're at the gate.
An NGO with $100 billion a year to spend with little oversight charged with saving the world! That's going to be so not corrupt and perfectly administered. Speaking of which, who's going to go after them if they're corrupt?
Yeah, the cited pages don't seem to have any scholarly references, and one of them notes that "the authenticity of the story has been questioned", so I rather doubt it.
I like hack. https://sourcefoundry.org/hack/
IMO the main reason for why the kinect failed was because gamers tend to not be in good physical shape and are not exercise-motivated, to put it kindly. Exercise games on the Wii worked because of the audience of that platform (casual gamers who are generally fitter than "hardcore" console gamers).

Wii sports would have failed on Xbox, and Kinect adventures would have worked well enough on the Wii.
Value isn't solely a function of effort, no. Some activities are more fruitful than others. This is a universal truth by the way, not simply a property of our current economic system. If I work up a sweat driving nails into wood with a hammer, that won't make whatever I'm creating stronger than if I used an electric screwdriver or nailgun.
As someone who jumped from chrome since quantum came out, I can't appreciate Mozilla enough, sadly things are not made to last...

I'm guilty too having used such great tool but haven't directly contributed anything.

But from what I hear, it seem the layoffs are directed not by technical reasons, and amazing people were let go. In this case, I fear for the future of firefox, which are not well protected or funded like the open sourced titan Linux.
Wheels are really awesome at fighting gravity when the engine dies so I’m not sure I ever see a time people are flying around in personal aircraft en masse. I’ve seen enough try to drive on the ground.
Technology is morally neutral, the only moral consideration is how the technology can or will be used. People's moral values differ and it's not usually productive to argue about them, but I'm far more sympathetic to the use of technology to kill terrorists while reducing collateral damage than I am to the use of technology to prop up a totalitarian state that throws people into concentration camps, and I don't think that's an especially uncommon set of moral values.
The article says they are market maker of satellite bandwidth, so they have data that their venture have paying customers. They mentioned that the purpose of the satellite is to augment bandwidth when needed and move to another location.
There are "aloof" breeds of dogs so I hate to burst your bubble about cats. My akita-pit comes over to me when she wants to be petted and leaves when she wants to leave. She might curl up next to me for a while. Then she moves over to the other couch: the one I'm not sitting on. My bulldog-pit is a cuddler and is almost always near me if she's not outside laying in the sun.
0.01% of $1mil is only a $100 bonus. You better get that factored in at your annual bonus review!
I worked at the company that owned Cracked.com prior to it selling to Conde Nast, and I was always blown away by the TINY team they had producing all that content. Granted they were supported by a much larger parent corp, but it definitely demonstrated to me that you don't need a lot to create a lot.
The main page's source code actually doesn't contain CSS. That tag is written dynamically by the JavaScript.
So what specifically in your list do you think will cause humans to go extinct?
> The burden of ensuring software quality can be shifted to devs and PMs

This in itself is a not a problem, coming from an oncall minded company. You take care of code you write and you're given time budget to KTFLO.
I am in the midst of switching over to Windows 10, after many happy years on 7. I was very reluctant to switch because of all the things I read about how Windows had tried to put a desktop gui together with a tablet and phone one. But it turns out that Windows 10 is pretty much like 7.

There is one huge difference, that's accounts. In 7 you get in with a password, but in 10 you can also use a pin. Also 7 has two types of account, administrator and standard. In 10 there are two more variables, Microsoft account vs local, and family vs other user, with a different procedure for creating each.

Also there is cortana, but I haven't use it except for the initial setting up.

Let me add that I have found David Pogue's Windows 10 The Missing Manual very helpful.
I was in Japan in 2008 and we didn't have an umbrella, when someone from a store gave it to us I felt so happy and thankful from the store how come a random person be so nice, couldn't believe how they went from Naijinh to Pokemon in one generation
The problem is treating this stuff in an "inheritance" rather than "composition" manner. Which is precisely how most managers think, AKA management fads.

Instead of absorbing the concepts behind PP into the mamagement, they'll declare "our team does PP". We're a PP team now. Or Agile. Or Lean. Or whatever. And they'll fit the team to the book, rather than the other way around. It's rife and terrible.

Sure, I "do" PP... maybe a total of an hour a week, to mentor a junior. Which I do without knowing it's "PP", or calling it that, or caring about that as a practice.

When a managerial practice gets a name, it causes more harm than benefit, because every drone manager out there will get all procrustean and damage existing workflows with it.
yeah after the fact i realized i should have specified this. i should have just said "capital" because in our society it's all interchangeable because everything (time, resources, etc.) is related to its dollar cost
> It's irrelevant whether the mechanism of action is direct or indirect.

If you take that view, then practically everything is an "existential threat". Wars have been triggered by soccer games...

As for whether "existential threat" means "human extinction" - well what else would "existential" refer to other than human existence?

Again, if you broaden this, then practically anything could be an "existential threat" - to democracy, say. And it's pretty clear that the people screaming "existential threat" intend for people to take it as meaning human existinction - the naive people at least.
A text input box effect library for bursting particles
GA's are a good generative path for fuzzers; at a low level that's exactly what they do.
Up to a point I agree with you. I worked with an Indian guy that had been pushed into medicine by his parents and had moved to the US (with an arranged marriage) to escape their influence and quit being a doctor since he really disliked medicine. He had 2 years of secondary education then a residency. Every time I had a medical problem he was able to quickly and correctly diagnose it and tell me what I needed to do. He obviously wasn't able to prescribe anything to me here in the States, but when I went to my regular doctor they arrived at the same conclusion he had. Heck most PA's and NP's here have more medical education than him, but he could get the bulk of diagnoses correct. Why do we need so many physicians struggling under crippling debt to diagnose arm fractures, ear infections, and ring worm? Let the more exotic things trickle up to specialists instead.
You'd be surprised how far 469 heliports go. That's one more than the number of stations the NY Metro has, which is the metro with the most number of stations in the world. Now imagine you could travel as the crow flies between any station in NYC. That's awesome efficiency, and if you still need you can grab an Uber at street level if you're still not close enough.

You're also not limited to just those 469 heliports. The vertices of the convex hull they produce can all serve as jumping off points to go about a 100 miles further to heliports one may have in ones own home.

For the rich in São Paulo, that may be homes in places like Angra do Reis and Laranjeiras. Even places like those two (which sit between Rio de Janeiro and São Paulo, can serve as connection points to jump from São Paulo to Rio de Janeiro with only one or two stops in between the two cities.

When you eliminate the time in traffic traffic to get to Congonhas or Guarulhos and the time spent in airport security, it makes a ton of sense for those with the means. Eventually as the tech progresses and becomes cheaper it will become accessible to more than just the very very rich.
What does 'plodding' mean in this context?

> "...
Last year, American greenhouse-gas pollution fell by 2.1 percent, driven almost entirely by coal’s decline and a plodding economy..."
Monads were not invented to support the needs of Haskell. The concept predates even the existence of microprocessors.

Haskell simply recognizes the applicability of that existing mathematical concept to an aspect (in fact various unrelated aspects) of programming. This isn't really a feature unique to Haskell.
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What makes you think people aren't working on all the problems you think they are ignoring? I personally know at least one person working each and every one of the problems you mentioned.
My parents used to stick me in Economy when they flew Business on long-haul from about 7 onward, and I still speak to _at least_ one of them.
do these have clear benefits compared to choppers ? open question.
Right, I guess a flight nanny is probably easier.
The math stop checking out at level 4.

You have level 5 managers managing 10 each, and you have level 4 managers managing 10 teams each? That stops checking out. The higher you go the more disciplined you have to be about grouping relating teams under the same umbrella for efficient execution.

In fact, the levels don't matter as much as the autonomy at each level. The more autonomy, provided that the right people are hired and are focused on the goal, makes it better and less managerial burden going up the chain.
As a counterpoint to most of the comments here: I work at a company where almost every developer pairs all the time. I absolutely love it. I thought I would hate it. I'm an introvert. I previously worked as a solo freelancer and then as a remote teammate. So I was very nervous about this aspect of the job, but figured I'd give it a shot (other things about the job were appealing enough that I was willing to try it out).

Some thoughts based on my own personal experience:

* The biggest win for me is I am much more focused and productive throughout the day. Having an actual person to be accountable to on a continual basis keeps me from meandering down unimportant rabbit holes, unnecessary/premature refactoring or re-organizing, and general procrastinating (reddit, HN, etc)

* Development is definitely at a slower pace on a daily basis than what I'm used to working on my own, but over time I think it evens out in terms of quality of code and maintainability.

* Knowledge sharing is huge -- when I was solo, I could never truly take a vacation because I was the only one responsible for my piece of work. Now I'm on a team where we all pair with each other and switch around every day... if someone is out, it's no big deal. Also makes it much easier to onboard new people (the company I work at is a consultancy so projects are always ending and new ones beginning).

* Despite being an introvert, I feel no more "drained" of energy at the end of the day than I ever did at any other job. One-on-one interactions with people I know and build trust with just doesn't affect me the way other social interactions do.

* Pairing is not a panacea. Some of the comments I've seen here are about how horrible it would be to pair and feel judged all the time or one personality overriding the other... I suppose that's possible but it doesn't happen at my job because my company values and encourages trust. My team is comprised of mature people who all value team cohesion and working together towards a goal over having to be right all the time or proving to someone that we're better or whatever.

* I am never "stuck" pairing with just 1 person for a long time... we switch around every day. I probably pair with any given person only once per week (on a team with 6 developers). But each team has autonomy to structure the pair switching however they want.

Those are just some thoughts off the top of my head. Happy to answer any questions anyone may have (and if it sounds interesting to you, my company is always hiring... we have physical offices around the world, as well as a "virtual office" for remote employees).
Your point is that all algorithms respond the same way to inputs, and a counterexample helps prove it?
Well a bit further down Mitchell Baker is being skewered for making $2,500,000 annually. I'd assume that the multiplier at Mozilla is much, much lower than 70x.
> but crypto has the lowest if you don't need speed

Fees are a moot discussion when the underlying crypto is unstable. I'd much rather have higher fees than an unpredictable "currency" like bitcoin that could be worth 50% less one month than when it was collected.
There is also a “toxic valley”, where an org has outgrown what can be managed by informal social mechanisms, but has not (yet) had the time/reached the size for professional practices.
Maybe not in the way JMTQ is expecting. You could bring your npm modules over and call them through Elm ports, but you’ll still have to declare type signatures of those ports and have a bit of ceremony about calling them.

It might be better to ask what those npm packages are doing, exactly. There’s a decent chance that either the npm package is filling a shortcoming of the JS standard library (e.g. moment) where that shortcoming doesn’t exist in Elm, or an equivalent Elm package exists.
Just because they're working on the problems doesn't mean they're going to solve them. When you look at all the pieces and read that article about the clusterfuck that is Kitty Hawk, you start to get a sense of just how much buzz and how little substance there may be.

FWIW I've interviewed at many of the eVTOL companies and found too much sizzle and not enough steak.

But to each his own. Ultimately it's just my opinion. Reality will assert itself regardless of what I think.
Interested to see what happens with Shakti, the newer iteration of Kdb
To receive federal and state funding as well as accept residents hospitals have to run an ER and accept patients regardless of payment ability. Some facilities will do their best to help a patient that will be unable to pay. Others will simply stabilize the patient until they're not going to die immediately and then kick them out. Since medical care is very expensive a single non-covered ED patient could EASILY cost the hospital 250k+ per visit. For example maybe a homeless person is found and brought in unconscious. They're then discovered to have untreated diabetes, rot in their feet, and psychiatric issues. They'll be in the hospital for at least a week, surgery to clean up any rotten tissue, and then maybe a stay in the psych ER or other facility. Every day wracking up huge charges which the hospital will never be compensated for..except by spreading the loss around to others.
The US has stricter conflicts rules, and typically impute conflicts to the firm, except inherently personal conflicts (spousal conflicts). Chinese walls require client consent, and some jurisdictions, like Texas, do not give effect to Chinese walls at all.
Excluding children, for whom exceptions can be made, I'm not sure I understand why this is much of a problem. Does it really matter if you walk fifty feet without being next to your travel partner?
This is fascinating. What are (or were) those reactors for?
I am an introvert (although I don't have social anxiety). I work at a company where we pair program every day. I was very nervous about it at first, but I absolutely love it.

Sure, if your coworkers suck it's going to be horrible. But I've found that most people who go into programming are themselves introverts, so as you get to know your teammates and build trust, you know how to interact with each other, take breaks, not talk over each other, etc.

In fact, I think someone who is more extroverted or someone who is loud/obnoxious, would have a more difficult time pairing since it might be harder for them to listen to the other person and step back a bit.
For sure. I saw your above comment about laundry -- I don't have W/D so have to go to a laundromat about half a block away. I thought it'd be a dealbreaker for me but it's not so bad, I just make a thing of it every 2 weeks, listen to podcasts, and get through it. I've also used a pick up laundry delivery service on occasion, so if you went that route you could factor that into your monthly rent budget.
If there are multiple flights in a day, you might be able to fit it all in one!
I'm more than pretty sure it isn't.
There are rights that you cannot sign away. For example you can't sell yourself into slavery in most countries. The signed contract is irrelevant because it is unenforceable in law, in much the same way as if it contained a clause putting you in indentured servitude for violations of the TOS. Its only purpose is to obscure people's rights.
True. The sound of a single drone is enough to disrupt a nice quiet afternoon sky, imagine 100 multi rotor, large enough to carry multiple people. Like a swarm of giant mosquitoes constantly buzzing around.
IMO medicine is currently in a pre-germ theory of disease state when it comes to sleep. The importance of sleep is completely disregarded for residents, as well as for patients. There really isn't much that's more important than sleep.

And it's a well known fact that the extreme residency model was pioneered by a cocaine addict [1], but yet no progress has been made. It's fucking absurd.

1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Stewart_Halsted
Apparently Brenden Eich, who helped develop Firefox when he was at Mozilla, seems to be innovating with monetizing a browser, first with cryptocurrency and now with sponsored images: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22061348
Maybe because it's totally missing the point? It's like if I ask "is mypy worth it?" and someone answers me: "not worth it, Rust has a better type system".

Also from a business/management POV, it's quicker to migrate JS->TS than JS->Elm and easier to find TS devs (because nobody uses Elm btw) or teach TS to JS devs.
Thank you for rr, once again. Great tool. I hope to contribute one day, as soon as I find an itch to scratch.
What's the problem with that part exactly? He's showing the method which most airlines use, which is boarding by boarding class, The algorithm that they use is not ordering person by person, there's going to be randomness with who gets into line first, which is what allows for the lack of optimality. The whole point is that the current approach doesn't allow ordering person by person.
The takeover of real jobs by bullshit jobs
This is one of those stories that's seemingly low-stakes compared to everything going on in the world, but that I find unusually affecting. It's a perfect illustration in microcosm of how fundamentally despicable most people are.

Out of curiosity, what airports was the flight between?
Maybe. Smart-phone based 2hr experience in the Red Dead world, perhaps?
Facebook, brown M&Ms, and skin in the game
After years of stagnation at around 911 million tons of CO2 Germany managed to reduce carbon emissions by 40 million tons in 2019 alone.

Meanwhile, France has consistently had around half the per-capita CO2 emissions as Germany due to not giving in to the fearmongering over nuclear power.

It's absurd that this incredible progress is held back by the fear of losing 20k coal jobs when the reality is that those 20k coal jobs prevented the creation of hundreds of thousands in the renewable energy sector.

It's true that preserving jobs is a terrible justification for keeping coal around. But similarly "it takes a lot more green jobs to produce the same amount of energy" is not good; it is bad. We should switch to cleaner energy despite that, not because of it.
Idea #2 is genius. In my experience early employees become a liability as you scale and exceed their experience skill level. This makes it a win for them and for the org. Nothing worse than an early employee who is hanging on to a high level role when everyone knows they aren’t cutting it. What are some possible downsides of this?
The Catholic Church has thought long and hard about this, and came up with purgatory.
that smog tho...
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If you'd like to be properly pedantic. 52% of the folks surveyed in one poll were against Prop 8, 52% of the voters voted for Prop 8. Other polls ranged from 35 to 55% against. Prop 8 was designed to prevent a minority group from attaining equivalent rights of the majority so it's not really surprising that Eich got skewered for that. For fucks sake Prop 8 wasn't "quote-unquote bigotry" it was absolutely bigoted — bigoted enough to be struck down by the courts.

Edit: to be clear what I'm getting at is that there is a difference between voters, voters who actually voted, and the overall California population.
It doesn't happen that often but it does happen. Foreign residents are required to carry a resident card at all times and the police are allowed to check for it. This can come with a search.

Japanese nationals don't need to carry any form of ID by law, so you can see that how the police choose who to stop might be somewhat problematic.
It's not necessarily that they didn't care. When there is a natural action and people have a habit of taking it, then they may just forget the instruction and do what they have always done. Yes in 30s.
I dunno, boarding could be much faster if they did window, middle, aisle instead of the random order they do now, and I don't see any airlines picking up that proverbial $20 bill
Do Applicative Functors Generalize the S and K Combinators?
I was curious so I put together a chart comparing Baker, Eich, James Cook (the treasurer, not the explorer), and a baseline of 500k with a 10% raise per year:

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/e/2PACX-1vR2HoMXrWo3H...
Americans would find it rude because accepting help is a burden on the giver and a failure of the receiver's independence.
I guess the inheritance could be a good reason.
As someone who hasn't checked a bag for a decade, this seems fair. I save a TON of time and hassle not checking luggage, and it seems only fair that those who do check luggage not be held up further by my choice.