skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Part 135 is FAA. Lilium is German/EU.
To me this marketing just looks like a slightly less expensive helicopter. It's great that we can travel to our ski trips or vacations a bit faster but it's not going impact the mobility needs of 95% of people. Why isn't anyone working on improving commutes through dense cityscapes? It's obviously a much harder problem but it's also a more important one.
People within IT have a bias towards overestimating the importance of it. For a LOT of companies mediocre IT services and products are literally good enough. Hell for some companies crappy minimally viable software is practically a feature if it's used to manage cancellations and warranty support and such.

Tech debt is bad and all but so is real debt and paying a lot of money upfront won't mean no tech debt.
> Still for life, only look back about 5 billion years.

This contradicts the clue of the article. Sometimes it is worth to step back and try something unordinary, especially in area where our assumptions are so weak - the Universe.
I was wrong (can no longer edit). The referendum did not confirm the bailout terms. In fact it went against the agreement, but the newly elected government still made a deal.
I wish they showed estimated prices for each of the routes.

If it's $100/flight I might use it once per month to get to Santa Cruz or Lake Tahoe.

If it's $20/flight I might consider LIVING in one of those places and commuting to work.

Edit: Oops, didn't see that they did. Or maybe you want to escape to Lake Tahoe for a long weekend? That would be less than an hour on a Lilium Jet, at a cost of around $250 at launch

Ok, so this isn't going to cause me to move.
Ok, so does the same logic apply to the other freedoms named in the 1st amendment? Specifically the rights of association and assembly?

Does Twitter (and the users of Twitter) not have the right to avoid association with people whose views they find distasteful? Should the government be compelling Twitter to associate with those people?

And, just to take this one step further, how is Twitter different from a private club (which affirmatively has the right to select and reject membership for individuals from the public, even--and I find this idea odious--based on membership in a protected class). Is it just the fact that members of the private Twitter club can choose to have their tweets broadcast to the world?
Apple truly needs to get out of China, the amount of virtue signalling they do comes up sour considering their current manufacturing being heavily based in China. Look, I am all for corporations playing the good guy and standing up for what is right but you don't get a Get Out of Jail Free card with just a message, actions speak louder.

This could be more along the lines of alarmist chatter but should the US get a new President China's best opportunity to act on some of its threats to Hong Kong and Taiwan is after February 2021. Guarantee they took the lesson to heart about how Crimea and Ukraine were handled with effectively little more than hash tag diplomacy.
Thanks, that is very helpful!
Yeah, there are fake PlayStation controllers floating around. Sony issued a warning about fake PS3 controllers a while back: https://www.playstation.com/en-gb/legal/warning-counterfeit-...
Right - and there’s the tacit assumption flowing throughout is that the ‘independent thinkers’ have only good things to say, and that societal norms have not evolved for any good reason.

The state, particularly the welfare state, is partly a recognition that together we can achieve a level of protection for each other that we cannot achieve independently.

And if the independent thinkers don’t much feel like writing open source software, writing political treatises or contributing to Wikipedia articles and instead feel like spreading anti-vaccine conspiracy theories online, then what?

Like most business quadrants of this type, it gets you to agree to its typology of the world and the rest flows naturally from there. But the typology usually can be called pretty easily into question.
From the article:

> If we imagine for a moment that you work in an office in Palo Alto, you could now choose to live in Hayward (5 min flight, $25), downtown San Francisco (10 min flight, $50), or even San Rafael (15 min flight, $70).

> Or maybe you want to escape to Lake Tahoe for a long weekend? That would be less than an hour on a Lilium Jet, at a cost of around $250 at launch and less in the near future. It might not be something you’d do every weekend, but saving you three hours each way might well make it worthwhile for an occasional trip.
And then compare to the current pandemic, that a lot of people are trying to downplay.
>If I was in charge of disclosing to the world that there were aliens, this is how I'd be doing it.

The way I would do it is a slow drip of indoctrination through decades of science fiction pop culture, books, movies, television, and spreading rumors about alien abductions and UFO sightings so that the public is already at least subconsciously comfortable with the premise. By the time they start a flash-mob to raid area 51 and rescue the anime girls then humanity might be ready.

The transition from that to actual disclosure might still be a bit of an existential shock.
You can take just about any measuring tool to a calibration company and get the certificate. Indeed, you MUST do this on a regular basis: calibration is a set of measurements of a system over time. Single-point-in-time calibration is worthless for showing drift. You can also get things tested at a range of temperature and humidity levels, high-grade lab standards may get calibrated at multiple temperature & humidity levels every 6 months.
I've been interviewing non-stop for a few months. For a few months prior to interviewing I watched computer science lectures online, read CTCI, and had a premium Leetcode subscription with a good amount of practice.

I haven't done mock interviews with a friend, but I did pay for a few mock technical interviews.

I much prefer technical assessments that are related to the day-to day. In either case, I'm much more comfortable working alone than I am with someone watching in an interview. I've only ever worked alone and in these interviews I have a hard time concentrating.

I'm not someone who can talk out loud and code at the same time. When I'm coming up with a solution I think about a potential solution, recognize why it won't work, and then go on to the next idea. I feel like this happens rapidly in my head, but if I were to "talk out loud" I would just be constantly saying why things won't work and it would take so much longer to get to the final idea.

It's kind of like how if you were to loop through 100K items in the console. If you don't output anything to the screen it's really quick, but when you start printing the number it takes longer to run.

But really, I just feel like leetcode style interviews don't touch the surface of my working experience and capabilities at all, and only focus on a very narrow thing.

I realize this is where the industry is right now, so I'm looking for roles that aren't a "programmer" but still benefit from my programming experience.
I absolutely guarantee this will be anything but less expensive.

You can get an R44 with better range and payload for a couple hundred thousand. This will be an electronic nightmare requiring extensive certification and maintenance efforts. Cessna can't even sell ridiculously old designs for reasonable prices due to certification overhead.
Who is/are "sb" and why would you hurt their feelings for not acting on their advice?

One thing you might think about is if the advice you get is truly bad. It well might be, but apparently the status quo is also not working.

I am not sure "redo your website" is likely to solve anything, but certainly reaching out to prospects can be very valuable as can advertising.

There could be changes to your site that would be extremely important if your sales funnel is not right (or non-existent). Something as simple as ensuring there is a clear single call to action or thing on every page that you want a prospective client to do or interact with could be very helpful.
I don't think this is something we can blame on the politicians, though. People got grumpy enough about Common Core; imagine how much worse it would go over if a school district announced that it was going to transition towards rote learning.
Should be banned in general.
If the response to a question isn't actionable, it's a bad question, not a problem with the question's granularity.
Show HN: Do you want our robot to show a message to someone in our website?
This is a kind of hack to our own website XD.

1.- Enconde your message in Base 64, you can use any online service, for example this one: http://www.utilities-online.info/base64/

Example:

message: Hi Hacker News!

encoded: SGkgSGFja2VyIE5ld3Mh

2.- Substitute <xxx> with the enconded message in the following URL:

https://randator.com/#/brandGenerator?id=<xxx>

Example:

https://randator.com/#/brandGenerator?id=SGkgSGFja2VyIE5ld3Mh

3.- Share the previous URL with anyone you want, the robot will say the message when it reaches the middle of the screen, keep the message short for proper visualization, enjoy! :-)
PCSX4 is a fake, see: https://www.pcgamer.com/ps4-emulator-pc/
Also, the website underestimates one point.

The air taxi is not on top of your house.

You need to actually go from your house to the Lilium jet starting point (at least 30 minutes or more in these complex urban setups) and you need to be in advance for the take-off, eventual security checks and security briefing (like any plane).

After air turbulences, then you are at the Lake Tahoe stuck in the middle of nowhere.

You can take your Instagram picture and wait for the next plane to go back.

Was that really worth saving 1 hour in your life ?

The alternative is to gather with friends on the morning, go get your friends with your car on the way, have a lunch picnic, have a tour around in the nature, discover unexpected places. Come home for dinner.

No stress, no schedule, quality time with friends.
I'm sure that filings will be accepted and receipt notices eventually issued; it's just that decisions/approvals will take forever.
Google reportedly peeks into Android data to gain edge over third-party apps
This sounds like they found an entry way into the market. Having traveled in Switzerland, hopping on this between offices Geneva - Zurich would be a no brainer.

If anyone at lilium is reading. Please contact our firm. Would love to contribute to this moonshot and allocate some of ouwr UI/UX firm’s resources to contribute and help simplify the software side of things. (See bio)
Mapping the Podcast Ecosystem in 2020
If they're operating in the US (given all the pictures of US cities) then they will absolutely be flying part 121 or 135.
SSN is your identity in US. Need SSN for getting a phone, car, house, etc as well as bank accounts, credit cards and so it is pretty important. Not relevant in context of new H1B except that the visa officer might expect it given you had a past job visa.
Spectacularly appropriate metaphor - thanks for that.
Thanks for the comment. Those are some good areas where I can show my expertise.
> Why isn't anyone working on improving commutes through dense cityscapes?

As someone who's been on and off involved in moving-people-technology, it's two-fold: it's "in the physical world" so you have all of the attendant problems (objections from people around the proposed construction, overlapping government bodies, cost, and that "the real world" isn't "sexy" for investment).

And second, if you make something that's very efficient but looks too much like public transport, there's a whole market of people, at least in North America, who simply won't ride it. Where I live, I had several coworkers who lived next to a bus route or train line that went directly to our offices and they'd still pay for a daily Uber.
Ask HN: Should I Ask for a Raise?
I'm in college but doing freelance work on the side. My client is aware of my relative inexperience but has been satisfied with all my work so far and I've been extremely satisfied with the pay (multiples of my last job).

Recently the client has added another requirement which adds a good 5-15% time overhead per small project that I'm undertaking and I'm wondering if it would be worth it to ask for a raise, or would that be taken as crass/naive as (I said before) I'm relatively inexperienced and making extremely good money all things considered. Am I being selfish?
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The most intriguing aspect of these recent developments has been the POTUS being briefed about the sightings.

The current POTUS isn’t clever enough to conceal the truth. So his explanation that the military doesn’t know what these are, but does know they exist, is very close to confirmation that aliens are visiting earth.

Other plausible explanations are a cover story, but that would rely on inferior officers lying to the head of the military which is probably illegal and very unlikely.

Or it’s foreign governments creating tech that is a generation or more beyond USA tech which is almost certainly not the case.

It’s entirely possible that the USA government has definitive evidence that aliens are visiting. It also seems more than likely that they know almost nothing beyond that.
Elevating incompetence over competence, as a policy, has been tested for at least 75 years in some Asian country. One can see the results in the bureaucracy, the courts, the police, the education system, etc. of that country today; it is catastrophic. Of course, Amartya Sen who writes books on rationality defends the irrationality of such a policy in that country. I am not naming the country or the policy for 'sensitive' reasons.
Thanks for the tips, those do seem practical.
What military will go to war to maintain stability of this non-existant mythical cryptocurrency that you just created?

Reserve currencies are not just a currency that has a large volume and plentiful liquidity (so the value doesn't swing significantly when demand changes). They are backed by trusted and stable institutions. In the USA, that includes the banking system, the legal system, the political system, and even the military.
Any suggestions on some “must-read” newsletters?
Maybe that’s exactly what someone said about cars in 1900. BTW: In 2019, 39k people died in car crashes, in the US alone.
Go 1.15 Release Candidate 1 is released
We used datomic in production at Time Inc around 2016. The idea of an immutable database where you can track changes over time, or query the state of the universe at any given point, sounded amazing for marketing or compliance use cases. Unfortunately from a dev standpoint it did not feel like mature system, and the performance was not where we needed it to be.

Probably the most advanced database for triple stores these days is RDFox ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-DnmuHtywFs ). While datomic uses datalog for querying, RDFox uses datalog for database reasoning, and sparql, a w3 standard for querying. As you add data to the database you can infer new facts. If you want immutability, simply add data in append mode only with a timestamp. But this idea you can add the business rules/logic to the database, and have it incrementally apply that logic as you add data is a recent advance by oxford AI research.
I've always thought that in the absence of regulation, pure market forces will always favor power conglomerating into few large entities just due to efficiency at scale. Is the absence of enforced regulation (anti-trust, different tax treatments) still the same as actively picking winners and losers?
No, I'm awesomely clever and did the exact same thing...
I believe Steve Jobs was a narcissist or had some of those traits, but he did just the opposite. It's not necessarily true that narcissists are destructive. I think they are a mixed bag. Sometimes they are constructive and work within the system to improve things, even if it's ultimately to improve their own standing in the world.
> For similar reasons, all successful startup CEOs are not merely independent-minded, but aggressively so.

> So a pack of teenagers who all flout school rules in the same way are not independent-minded; rather the opposite

Which is it?
>Researchers had programmers fix bugs in a codebase, either with all of the identifiers were abbreviated, or where all of the identifiers were full-words. They found no difference in time taken or quality of debugging.

I would not have expected that. Still, I prefer to use full(er) identifiers. I don't like to guess how things were abbreviated, especially when consistency isn't guaranteed. If I were using a different language and IDE, this might be better.
Basically a failing state. No public transit, bad roads, or safety issues between wealthy enclaves.

Yet the market always has solutions up its sleeve! Short range flight!
This could be a really entertaining version of Wheresgeorge/Bookcrossing, but with returned Amazon shipments...
Just imagining the interstellar space does it for me. Our planet is a marble in a cathedral compared to the solar system, and between stars not even a speck of sand.
HiPerGator is the existing HPC cluster

https://www.rc.ufl.edu/services/hipergator/
Those are all desirable properties of a currency.

What distinguishes any given local currency from a reserve currency?
Neat, this should be added to: https://github.com/awesome-selfhosted/awesome-selfhosted
Of course, NIST compliance is a circus.

I use it as a list of what not to use.

Once a senior cryptographer in Citi's R&D lab was grilling me on my use of 25519 being without NIST's blessing. I asked him what he would use, he said, "cryptographically speaking 25519", Ok.jpg.
There are various reasons you may wish to use it on another computer, and you may have the cartridge, but if you can't dump/decrypt it, then that won't work, so they will need to figure out how to work such a thing, so that if you do not have a compatible Nintendo Switch system then you can still dump the cartridge and use the necessary keys to decrypt as needed.
Article linked has many, many examples unrelated to voter ID.
Telegram is where I speak to a few close friends (groups - plenty of gifs) and my developers and VAs are on it who I talk to daily.

Not many people use SMS these days (not within my circle anyway) and anything that comes through SMS is crucial I.e my CRM goes down or there's a bug I get an SMS, which is fine.

Also, I turn all notifications off on my mobile. This puts the powers back in my hands.

Edit, notifications for SMS and phone are on, everything else, off.
How is it a political move when basically every central bank in the world is doing the exact same thing? Also, they have not bought any equities. They are almost entirely just buying our own governments debt and mortgage backed securities as you can see in their balance sheet [0].

[0]: https://www.federalreserve.gov/releases/h41/current/h41.htm#...
I must have missed the part of my own comment where I suggested that the strange part of this was that those people were allowed onto a boat.

The strange part is that they wanted to be there. If you can't swim, this is a self-evidently bad idea. People are still afraid of boats, just as people are afraid of airplanes. Those people are correct -- occupying a vehicle whose failure will instantly kill you is something you should be frightened of.

But since you mention requirements, I'll note that my parents would not allow me on a boat -- any boat -- before I could swim. Unlike the ability to fly, the ability to swim is not all that difficult to learn. And while it won't save you if you get dumped into the middle of the sea, it will save you if you get dumped twenty feet from shore.
I find myself doing that as well. To my taste, the discussion is much more valuable than the article. In fact, for most cases, I see the article as simply a prompt for discussion with very little valuable insight found in the article itself.
> For similar reasons, all successful startup CEOs are not merely independent-minded, but aggressively so.

Luckily there’s an easy way to verify this - how many of the current YC cohort are B2B SaaS startups?

Today’s collection of startup CEOs are the very opposite of aggressively independent minded - they’re people who 15 years ago would have done an MBA or gone into finance.
But, Hubble demonstrates that every line of sight is actually ends on surface of a star or an object, so what is your point?
>EU negotiators gave Greece a choice too. Agree to our demands or we destroy your economy.

No. The destruction was done in decades of mismanagement by successive Greek governments.

But if you think that I agree with the bailout terms you are mistaken. Quite the contrary. I think there should have been debt relief so that Greece can make a new start.

But I reject the idea that installing a dictatorship is comparable to not granting someone debt relief or not extending new loans to them.
Since H is eighth character in the alphabeth some neo-nazi groups use "88" as a shorthand for "Heil Hitler" - they would even tatoo "88" on their body.
it's as if we should do logging modeling. There's structure to map logging to the code (sub)processes and also a need to relate traces to lifecycle.
May I ask why this is downvoted?
I assume this means you are billing by the job/project rather than by the hour right?

If the client adds an additional 10% requirements to the job and you do not adjust your billing then the client is reducing your pay rate. Upping your bill to reflect the new requirements of the job is not giving yourself a raise.

If you don't want to renegotiate the contract then you can still bill for the project as spec and then by the hour for deviations from spec.
A close friend has a very similar thing recently, except it was/should have been a new Ryzen 3700x, not a warehouse deal.

If you've bought one you'll know it comes in a box with a big cooler on top, and the proc is at the bottom in a bit of plastic packing.

He got the big cooler but no Ryzen. Contacted Amazon, got another Ryzen and cooler sent out.

I think this is incredibly common...
You can throw around statistics but the reality is aircraft receive far more scrutiny. Nobody wants to sit helplessly as one of these things flies them into the side of a skyscraper or watch as one falls out of the sky onto them.

Is that fair? Maybe?

Is that reality? Yes.

This isn't like the invention of cars. We have had all manner of airplanes for over 100 years and know how they work. This is like the NYC helicopter taxi boom in the late 70s and 80s where a number of fiery and high profile crashes put an end to the industry.
If the water was as transparent as space, whales and large schools of fish would certainly be apparent.
We also want crypto systems that work on embedded/constrained environments
Also I don't know about Lilium but one of my biggest gripes about Amtrak and other train infrastructure in the US, besides the sheer slow speed, is the complete lack of basic human necessities at the endpoints of travel. You get off the train and get basically thrown into a dilipidated, desolate parking lot full of locked cars, next to a locked building with no food, often not even bathrooms, no rain shelter, no bus to downtown for an hour, no rental bicycles, and sometimes no signal.

That is a world of difference from Europe, China, or Japan, when you're usually thrown into a food court when you get off the train, and buses leaving every 10 minutes to everywhere you could possibly want to go. Planes replicate that drop-off experience in the US, and Lilium will need to as well in order for it to be a comfortable experience.

That goes for even for suburban trips. How do you get from wherever it drops you off in Palo Alto to say, Facebook or Google's offices? Or the thousand other companies that don't have company shuttles?
I installed the Mac OS X public beta on my family's eMac. The computer had 64 MB of RAM while the requirements listed 128 MB IIRC. But I wanted UNIX! It was so unresponsive, I had to learn to use the terminal.