skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Um, Yes. How do you know I’m not your neighbor? I’m middle class in the tech world and built an airplane. It cost less than a lot of luxury cars probably parked outside your workplace.

There are 600,000 GA pilots in the US. It’s ignorant if you think we all have Gulfstreams.
HQ Trivia: Quiz app ends with drunken broadcast after 'running out of money'
Another video about what you can achieve with Excel: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bkQJdaGGVM8 (HDR Image processing)
> Facebook and other large successful companies try to only commit crimes when they know the profit from doing so exceeds the risk of being caught and punished.

While this statement is often true (big companies make these cost-benefit decisions), I don't think it really captures what is happening to Facebook. Doing a cost-benefit analysis like this requires having data on potential costs and benefits. In most cases, Facebook didn't have this data.

When an individual, company, or institution is faced with a decision, but lacks data to properly evaluate it, they fallback on other decision making tools, including instinct and principles.

Facebook almost certainly didn't know the consequences of the many decisions they made, they didn't know the potential costs or benefits. But they did have some underlying principles, namely: maximizing platform engagement, convincing people to share more personal data on their platform, and exploiting user data for better advertising.

With these foundational principles, you can end up making some really bad decisions even without a proper cost-benefit analysis.
The information release so fare makes this look more like a bad flu with a 2.5% mortality rate, nothing like the Spanish Flu's 10%~20%. The Spanish Flu was also especially bad because it effected young adults disproportionately[1]. This caused massive problems because that was the age group of most care givers.

1. as appose to 0.1~0.2 for regular flu
2. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3734171/
pretty girls (without money) have access to a wide pool of potential candidates, while a charming boy without cash won't. This is what I see in Eastern Europe. Some towns are also dying because of this (the other reason is availability of jobs ofc)
Absolutely. Many of Dijkstra's EWDs have aged remarkably well. [1]

[1] https://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/EWD/
I think you’re misunderstanding. Hedge fund people want the locations of CEOs, CFOs, mergers and acquisitions lawyers, etc because they can infer a lot about potential deals (or issues). Nobody usually cares where the hedge fund analysts themselves are.
How to better manage 502 Bad Gateway Nginx errors with dynamic name resolution
"backed by git" doesn't mean the user has to interact with git at all. The user makes a change in the interface, the CMS creates a commit and pushes to the repo.
Sometimes I find myself thinking that working in porn could actually be pretty interesting - what with massive caching needs, video encoding etc etc... Unfortunately the few job ads I’ve seen were for super-boring stacks like PHP or Perl, which I’d rather avoid.
Buying a house with the expectation of it doing anything other than housing you reliably as long as you maintain it is just a bad decision.

A huge part of what a house is located around is predicated on zoning laws that can change at any time.

A huge part of the business of booming areas is predicated on large business in the area. For instance: being an Amazon employee and living in Seattle makes buying a house unappealing. As far as 'investments' go, housing is not a stable proposition, doesn't help diversify against risk for the average use case, and doesn't promote tangible economic benefits that support its own appreciation.

Regardless -- durable goods are often more valuable in certain situations. That doesn't make it an investment to keep one that's more valuable and hold it.

If you're going to invest, at least treat it like a poor speculative investment
The Hubble parameter. It's not defined to be constant in time, only in space.
For anyone interested in something similar but for sea vessels check https://www.aishub.net/rpiais

Also...the DCSA (Digital Container Shipping Association) recently published the first API spec for shipping lines to provide tracking info to the public https://github.com/dcsaorg/DCSA-OpenAPI

Glad to see industries moving towards more open standardized API.
So not really C in 4 functions then. Just some mini language that’s a subset of C, in four functions. That’s a much simpler target to reach, I guess.
“There are only nine meals between mankind and anarchy.”

Alfred Henry Lewis, 1906
No, or maybe.

If you look at the data, the secondary (manufacturing & construction) sector in China has been mostly stagnant. Almost all of their recent growth has come from the tertiary/services sector, which isn't as export focused or tied into the global economy compared to the US or EU.

Manufacturing has been hit - hard, but keep in mind that the quarantines started during the new year holiday, when most factories would be operating at a lower pace or closed entirely. Now that people are actually starting to go back to work (depending on the city, either last week or this week), we'll be able to get a better gauge of the long term effects on industrial production through the end of the crisis.

What's harder to estimate is the impact to services, since it's harder to find solid proxies. A lot of companies are having employees work from home, but not all jobs can be done remotely. There's also the question of whether a significant slowdown here would boil over to the rest of the world.

My guess is that the total damage - assuming a return to normal in the next couple of weeks & that we're only talking about the global economy - will be a lot lower than most people think. A lot of the hit to the secondary sector was already baked in by the Chinese new years, and the tertiary sector isn't as tied in to global markets as the secondary sector. It's also a lot easier to fake #s from services.

It's a different ball game if the status quo doesn't return to something approaching normal soon (e.g., if there's a flare up in cases outside of Hubei now that people are starting to congregate together again). That said, the impact to the local economy is going to be immense anyway, and I wouldn't be surprised if there are follow on effects at some point.
Parenthesis are not binary operators so the parser doesn't need to know whether LHS and RHS are identifiers or expressions.

This is the same reason why D uses a bang (!) for template instantiation (as well as this exact syntax for declaration) - I think D is the benchmark for generics in 2020, especially alias arguments, of the C++ like languages anyway (so no Haskell!)

I also think the contract system this design and C++ have gone for is overly complicated compared to the highly extensible and extremely simple system D uses (just write if(ContractCondition!Type) between the template declaration and it's body
Which means not making special exceptions for some people, like Assange here.
That, as far as I can tell, is a misrepresentation.
Well 1 watt across 1 Mhz for 1 second isn't a particularly power signal.

But 1 watt across 1 hz for 1 ns is a significantly more power signal that will propagate much better. In fact it's about 1e+15 times easier to detect. Hrm, maybe it's more like log(1e+15), but in any case it's quite helpful.

If we can get space based manufacturing working well we could start making solar powered lasers that orbit the sun. Ideally with a bot that self replicates. Say relatively small panels like 2 meters by 2 meters = 5444 watts (near earth orbit). Assume a 20% conversion ratio and some kind of energy storage. Maybe operate for a 1 ns per 10 minutes on a very narrow frequency with a particular target in mind. Time them all to transmit precisely so that the wave front reaches the target at precisely the same time.

5444 * 10 = 54,444 watt minutes * 20% conversion = 10,888 watt minutes. Released in 1ns would be as bright as 653,280,000,000,000 watts steady state. Obviously there are efficiencies and physical limits to consider. Although maybe not as much as you might think. For instance the worlds brightest laser is already 1 billion times brighter than the surface of the sun. Maybe settle for 1,000 times dimmer, but 1 million of them.

Make a few 1000 or a few million and you could easily outshine the sun for 1ns in a particularly narrow frequency. Ideally a frequency with minimum background noise and minimal absorption in the nearby interstellar mediums.

The system could also act as a defense system. Although given the solar -> energy storage -> laser inefficiencies not sure if the single frequency of the laser would be more effective than just a mirror.

Maybe count up the first 16 primes repeatedly to rule out any natural causes.

The three body problem uses some implausibly small amount of energy to get the sun to resonate in a way detectable from many light years away. Not sure that could work, but maybe a million sats could reinforce a natural resonance in the sun to accomplish similar. That would only be worth it if the sun acted like amplifier and not sure that's feasible.
Definitely, I'm convinced that a lot of people that made youtube and other video hosting sites work in the early days actually came from the online porn industry.
Exactly. More precisely, Uganda, Tanzania and Kenya. Other
The union crowd isn't unilaterally asking for higher salaries. Hell, the Kickstarter employees in the OP aren't even focused specifically on compensation. There are issues at stake such as toxic environments, anti-age/race/gender discrimination, open offices, etc.

Even on matters of comp it needn't simply be "give raises to all the engineers", as pro-tech unionization efforts tend to also support non-technical workers such as the custodial and cafeteria staff, who would be in higher need of pay raises. The pay for engineers is usually more directed towards addressing unpaid overtime, which is more of a work-life balance/anti-death march measure more than a monetary one anyway.

Corporations can't vote, but they do have free speech when it comes to political expression, and tech companies already do plenty of lobbying. Perhaps they could have spent some fraction of those efforts on influencing the housing shortages in the places they set up camp in. Being a good, responsible neighbor should be part of CSR.
Given that he opposed me first, if direct contradiction is what requires source, he should do it anyway.

I literally dis this to very whether I am right: https://www.google.com/search?ie=UTF-8&client=ms-android-sam...
*Daniel Baker
That's not part of the threat model - the encrypted data is lost, the point of the defences are to prevent damage to things accessible from that specific machine, not to prevent stealing the machine.
I've personally not seen this happen. Instead, I've seen many oversold ML/AI tools that offer no advantages over using open and freely available tooling that the data scientist (with or without PhD) is already familiar with. I know this must be frustrating to ML solution vendors, but as with any product, the value proposition has to be there and easy to see for the domain expert. And the value has to be great because the downside is the vendor lock-in of the proprietary solution. Hence, ask yourself: given a green field real world ML project, would you use your tool (with the the same learning algorithms, data manipulation methods etc. under the surface as everybody else), or resort to using some battle proven free and open stack.
I’m not saying what OP did is right, however, is creating tools that could possibly bypass a governments’ laws always an ethical issue?

Would the creators of VPN software need to consider ethics since it could break government censorship? Or if the government requested I create a backdoor for them, would that also be an ethical issue?
The article makes so many misrepresentations, I am not very inclined to take what is says at face value.

It tries hard to make it sound like he does not have access to a lawyer, but what it actually seems to say is that he is not able to bring documents to his cell from the lawyer that he does have access to.
Hi, I'm the co-founder of Bearer.sh.

Indeed Bearer.sh works as a package (Gem, NPM) inside your application, and it automatically instruments your HTTP stack, meaning there are zero-code changes to do on your existing integrations to make it works instantly.

But more interestingly, since we're not a proxy at all, it means you don't have to trust us to deliver that very important API traffic of yours (who would?), offer a sub-millisecond impact on your performance and works with any public, private or crazy certificate or IP restricted APIs! APIs are a liability and dependence to your app, let's not add us to that list!

We're going to launch support for many other stacks soon, and also a whole new set of "active features" as you mentioned, by still beeing 100% NOT a proxy - stay tuned in the coming days :)

Feel free to try, we offer 1M API Call per month for free and you can quickly jump to 20M for $49 only.

We're super happy to see all of the interest around that space these days, let's change the API space altogether
> How do you know I’m not your neighbor? I’m middle class in the tech world and built an airplane.

My dad was a pilot and engineer, and we built many things together in my childhood (go-carts, computer video games, an automotive speedometer, more).

But there was one thing that I always wanted to do with him: build an airplane. As a 13 year old, I found different plans from vendors, created a budget, put together a basic timeline, but could never convince him to do it.

In fairness, building a plane is a huge multi-year commitment, and almost certainly more expensive than buying a used Cessna. But the price is not completely out of reach for many folks (<$100k). The real draw is the amount you learn during the process and seeing your handiwork.

I'm still sad we never did it, but it was a big ask of a dad with a full-time job from a twerp son. As a consolation however, he did buy a small wing-section kit and we got to rivet a few panels together over a weekend. First time I ever used rivet fasteners!
Oh good. Another app.

When will people learn that more technology is not only not always the answer, but often the problem?

The biggest fallacy of the 21st century is the idea that the shortcomings and collateral effects of the advance of technology can be addressed with more technology.

I'm not against technology. I'm not a neo-Luddite. But at the same time, the conception that all of the problems we've created or exacerbated through technology can be resolved by more of it is painfully naive. It's "when all you've got is a hammer..." logic.

New technology won't replace or repair the decline in social centers. New technology won't fix our increasing sense of disconnection with our localities. New technology won't help us engage with local politics (in the sense of trying to do good by collective action).

Building new apps and new technologies isn't a cure-all or necessarily a solution for the problems were facing right now. It's time for us to recognize that we (the tech community) don't have all of the right answers, and it's time for us to reach out and try to learn, and try to participate in fixing the problems we helped create.
I pulled most of my info from these two posts:
http://parabunk.blogspot.com/2019/07/aatip-tic-tacs-and-more...
http://parabunk.blogspot.com/2018/07/the-2004-uss-nimitz-tic...

>Do you have a source for this?

It seems the source used is more suspect than I'd like. It's the "executive report" from the To The Stars Academy which I am loathe to put any trust in. The quote in question is "LT ______ was clear in that he couldn't confirm that it was the same object as described by the FASTEAGLE flight. He never had visual, only seeing the object via the FLIR."

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>a jamming signal would manifest as intolerable noise throughout the image

What sort of jamming signal are you referring to? The video doesn't involve radar, and I was under the impression that the only effective way to disable FLIR is to shine a laser at it.

>And he doesn't even attempt to describe the extremely precise relative orientations that would be required of two distant objects to keep the "glare" in the exact center of the lens while the fighter is moving about and recording the video.

I'm not sure what you mean with two objects. Can you elaborate? As I understand it, the theory is that there is a single hot object (or perhaps a two-engine jet) in the distance. The glare in the FLIR image is produced in the same fashion as the glare in a regular camera pointed at a bright object; nothing needs to be precisely positioned.

You mentioned restricted airspace, but AFAIK there's no info on the GIMBAL video apart from that it was taken somewhere on the East Coast.
It is a nice solution but I am weary of anything that proxies my traffic. Especially considering the legislative environment. I've been using Bearer [https://www.bearer.sh] which does not use proxy but a library that hooks into the low level calls - It gives us a great view of what is going on with our third party API calls. You can filter out the calls that do not interest you and separate Production from Staging etc... I did not want to have to build the monitoring infra myself, not a core competency and for the money, it is cheaper to use an external service over 5 years vs. building in-house.
This is simply false. Gamers don't start at 27 when they gave up on dating. They just keep playing more and more from pre-teenage years as social thing with friends.

Nor do people start drink after they have been without partner for years. Instead, they are friends with peers and drink with them progressively.

> Do we always live for ourselves? Do we never try to live up to expectations of our family or friends? Or those who believe in us, being on our side in life?

Sure not. But what you want there is a person whose only role is to make you better by making you feel like she expects from you - without getting much in return.

That is not how relationships work, both sides need to have their needs met. Both sides need the other side to give.

Including girls.
So if for example I know that my uncle is not paying all his taxes I'm a criminal too unless I report him? Or is it only for bigger frauds?
Well, read the book :)

But it's not necessarily that the system is "correct", it's more like it allows you to make falsifiable predictions. Say you want to track the health of a culture over 1000 years, or of several cultures based on a certain variable (like degree of deforestation, or climate). In order to have anything other than subjective opinions, you need to have an objective measuring stick that can be reproduced by other people independently.

You may chose average lifespan, child mortality, average daily calories, put them in a weighted sum, and track that.

It doesn't make it The correct measure, of course. But it's something that anybody else can try and check independently, and instead of saying "deforestation sucks for health" you'll say "the health index took a steep dive 50 years after the last tree was felled on Easter Island". That's falsifiable - somebody else can do the math and say "no, it's wrong: people lived longer and ate more, with less child mortality".
This is why I mostly hate (but partly love for the sake of reducing bikeshedding) it when teams add an autoformatter as a mandatory part of a code pipeline -- it destroys relevant spatial information.

If we are going to force autoformatters, we might as well just use annotated ASTs instead of text so we all see our own chosen view of the code.
Here in North America, you just donate 2% of your ill gotten gains to your local Congressperson!
Too right. If future archeologists are anything like current ones, toilets will be described as a “ritual object”.
Another proof that China is now much more running a 19th century kind of exploitative capitalism, than communism.
How's transmission handled?

I'm assuming "the deepwater scenario" means tethered kites supplying power back to land somehow.

Transmission is always the tricky part, and I'd imagine it is even more so in a deepwater scenario where laying cables is even more expensive.
> Do we always live for ourselves? Do we never try to live up to expectations of our family or friends? Or those who believe in us, being on our side in life?

People can of course change over time and be influenced by people around them. However, entering a relationship with another person based on the presumption that you can "change" them is a recipe for relationship disaster.

There are billions of people on this planet. If you're looking for a relationship, you're better off finding one that suits you rather than someone who doesn't and trying to change them into something else.
Perhaps, but all of this talk about forcing licensing and certification to restrict engineering labor supply seems to fly in the face of the actual unionization efforts in the OP- the workplace improvements are mostly about addressing HR-related complaints and building a better environment, not pay raises:

https://kickstarterunited.org/#faqs

The first and only point related to pay is "equal pay for equal work", which is more about gender pay gaps than anything:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Equal_pay_for_equal_work

There's plenty of issues in the tech industry that a union or some other professional association or guild (or even the IEEE, with teeth) could address that have nothing to do with giving developers higher wages.
Your employer isn't your friend either and most of them will gladly throw you under the law enforcement bus if it comes to that.