skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
FPGA vendors are in a tight spot, thanks to their customers. Their customers want better silicon, so they're forced to allocate their resources toward R&D, rather than making their software tools better. If you look at the Xilinx jobs page, you'll see maybe ONE job related to software tools programming, which is shocking given the complexity of Vivado/Vitis.

If some FPGA company comes along and throws out conventional market wisdom (the old Henry Ford quote seems pertinent: "If I'd asked customers what they wanted, they would have said "a faster horse"") and makes a FPGA with software tools that are fast, non-buggy, with good UI/UX, I think they would be able to steal significant market share. Early FPGA patents should be expiring by now...
Why do you believe racist quotas should be inserted into everything?
Try finding something else interesting to do instead, I found it made breaking the habit much easier
I am glad to have read this thread. A few of the issues mentioned in comments have happened to me in the last year, but I just wrote it off as one-off scamming, did not realize it's systemic and sophisticated.
No, it is saying that having perseverence and working towards goals helps:

“Our findings suggest that people can improve their mental health by raising or maintaining high levels of tenacity, resilience and optimism,” she said. “Aspiring toward personal and career goals can make people feel like their lives have meaning. On the other hand, disengaging from striving toward those aims or having a cynical attitude can have high mental health costs.”
I love innovation and stuff. Radical ideas.

But the aviation market is one of the most heavily regulated - bureaucracy beyond comprehension.

Did you ever wonder why Piper or Cessna airplanes look EXACTLY what they did 50 years ago? And why the engines used in these planes (e.g., Lycoming) are referred to as “Lycosaurus”!?

If you go for a sightseeing flight with a local aeroclub - you will find the pilot spending 30min pre-checking the aircraft, checking the weather, reading NOTAMS etc. Not to mention the potentially pretty intensive communication with ATC et al. required to make sure everybody stays safe.

Getting a pilot license is magnitudes more work than getting a drivers license, proficiency has to be continuously demonstrated, maintaining airworthiness of an airplane isn’t exactly cheap either and pretty heavily regulated.

And all that should be “automated”, certified and approved?

Not saying things can’t be automated - but no shit, the spark plugs in a Cessna are like 50$ each for that “aviation certificate”...

Even if there ARE rules and guidelines how to certify autonomous vehicles like that - like how does anybody imagine that a novel aerial vehicle like this actually IS CERTIFIED within a lifetime?

Pilots still walk around a multi-million $ fighter jet or aircraft equipped with the most sophisticated avionics because “a bird nest in the engine intake is hard to detect and difficult to resolve mid flight”.

Investing in one of the most heavily regulated, difficult to scale and extremely expensive to operate industries is brave... Even more so when this industry is low margin and “kept dying every couple of years”...
You are mostly correct. Elisp does however provide many functions for dealing with/sorting text not available on other platforms.
That's true in the US where corruption is legal, in most other developed nations it is severely limited or forbidden, making it much less rampant and outproportioned. Here in Canada (and I assume many similarly developed countries), stories of corporate donations to political parties are often big enough scandals to make the party lose thereafter. Citizens United v. FEC has to be one of the grossest judicial change a developed country could adopt. I doubt political donation regulations are this loose even in tax havens. It didn't birth the US era of crony politics, but it sure does contribute to cement it. It's up to the people now to tackle these issues.

Wikipedia:

>The Court held that the free speech clause of the First Amendment prohibits the government from restricting independent expenditures for political communications by corporations, including nonprofit corporations, labor unions, and other associations.
VAT is basically a revenue tax.

For each iPhone sold in Finland the government gets ~20%. Plenty of countries have a similar system.
I think you may have missinterpreted my comments. "Developing technology that can take the risk of exploring Mars for us" and "developing some tech that can successfully and efficiently colonize and explore other planets for us" meant using machines instead of humans to do it. Your arguments don't actually contradict this.
This is an article that is poorly written and leaves out many things. One being that 2/3 of those unemployed or underemployed have been getting more money than they did when they were working (not "in some cases" as the article suggests). In no way should people have been late on rent yet since the extra $2,400 a month doesn't run out till next week. Those people have been fully taken care of already...you are talking about things you clearly have no grasp of because you don't even live in the US to see what is going on.
I stared at nothing. I stared at absolutely nothing and it was everything that I thought it could be.
#hot-takes is pretty fun. Some recent examples:

"The imperial system is awful compared to metric, but Farenheight is a better temperature scale for humans than Celsius."

"soft-close hinges/slides are a worthless and annoying novelty in modern cabinetry. they feel worse to open and closing a drawer without slamming it isn’t that hard"

"Cartoon Network was way better than Nickelodeon in the 90s-00s. Both of them win over Disney Channel any day"

"email should be banished, just like faxes and cheques. it’s an extremely inferior and unsuitable medium for how we communicate online these days"

"cucumber is an overrated and is only good in gin and tonics"

Basically, nothing is actually of consequence there, but people get fired up and have strong opinions. It's a fun interaction.
Biden will reverse course.
This is correct based on data I've looked at. In fact if you are okay choosing non-capacity constrained housing and education, even those are not having much inflation. If you are okay with community college or even better self motivated to learn online it is very much affordable. If you are ok not living where every else is, the cost of a house is inflating by cost of lumber and local labor costs versus infinite inflation for houses which face land/NIMBY/zoning constraints.
I think this is an experience common to enough people that it's frequently used as a prime example of the explore/exploit concept in machine learning.
Shouldn't it be "Foxconn started making iPhone 11 near Chennai"? Apple is not "making" anything in this case.
I use the one provide by my domain name registrar. I get 5 email accounts for free with Gandi.

I regularly use 2 email accounts, one work, one personal.
> With a range of up to 300km (186 miles), we’ll be able to focus on connecting entire regions with high-speed transport, rather than trying to persuade you that we’re quicker than a crosstown journey on an underground train or bike.

As an air-taxi skeptic, I have to say I am refreshed to see a startup actually spend more than five minutes figuring out the market fitness problem. Focusing on bypassing geographic barriers seems to be a much better use case.

I am still pretty skeptical on the idea overall. Everyone drools over the travel times and not enough on the confounding factors. Getting to and from the taxi. Dealing with regulations. We can't even make public transit in dense urban cores work - why would this much harder idea work?

I find it amusing that one of their examples of bypassing noise ordinance restrictions is to follow existing infrastructure routes. The irony seems lost on them.
Try having "morals put into law" and what you end up with is Sharia law. In democracy you should avoid doing that, because people typically do not agree on what's moral.

Laws should made from purely utilitarian point of view, not the moral one. The reason why, for example, murder is illegal isn't because it's immoral, but because most people do not want to fall victim to such crime so they voted to make it illegal. Same for theft, or even such minor annoyances like fining someone for playing music too loud.
No, those have much better marketing.
As far as I can tell, insurance only makes sense if the cost of the insured event would ruin you. Otherwise, you're better off just setting aside some cash into a savings account and calling it your insurance fund.

Insurers will always set premiums so that you're on the losing side of probability. Their real product is protecting you from the damage of going negative.
This is what they say:

> The Lilium Jet engine has been fully developed in our in-house sound lab where we have used proprietary acoustic modelling software, simulated on high-performance computing clusters, to optimize its design. As well as a customized electric motor, it contains innovative liner technology which means the aircraft will be inaudible from the ground when flying above 400m and will only be as loud as a passing truck while taking off. On the ground, the aircraft will move to and from parking bays using separate electric motors, allowing it to be as quiet as a typical electric car.

The usage of future tense (will be) makes me somewhat skeptical
That will depend in part of your country of birth. For many people, an EB3 isn't a long wait and at a minimum, establishes a priority (place in line) for other green card filings for the same company or a different company. Whether you would qualify for the other classifications will depend on the work that you do and your qualifications: education, experience, and achievements. Oftentimes, the EB3 is the only option.
Honestly that is as it should be.

Does that kind of regulation inhibit progress in some domains, sure - is the cost of the loss of that progress worth it against the likely outcome of de-regulating it absolutely.

Safety regulations are written in blood and when organisations like the FCC, FDA etc fall down on the job people die.

I want my cyberpunk aircar as much as the next geek but not at the price of having them fall out the sky because some programmer made an error at the end of a 70hr work week to make a deadline for shipping.
Can you not see how that just amplifies the potential for confusion and bugs?
> VTOL is what really allows you to experience what the ultra wealthy with access to private jets and helicopters have experienced.

I don't really want to experience what Kobe Bryant experienced though.
> Even at tech salaries those are expensive commutes.

Are they really that expensive?

I was paying 40$ on Lyft one-way to office earlier this year, which was a huge part of my transportation costs (economically speaking, I should've driven, but this allowed me to take the bullet back in the evening, which beat driving by a lot).

50$ for SF -> PA isn't that much more expensive than Lyft in 2019.
There are more things in Garbage and Collection, bananaface, than are dreamt of in your philosophy.

http://gchandbook.org/

https://www.cs.rice.edu/~javaplt/411/15-spring/Readings/wils...

https://web.archive.org/web/20191108025442/http://home.pipel...

https://web.archive.org/web/20191008134612/http://home.pipel...

https://web.archive.org/web/20191231120253/http://home.pipel...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fragmentation_(computing)
I may have wrongly assumed heat because we mostly didn't touch them and used them for build servers. It's still hard for me to imagine it was anything other than the heat.
Since you're using your own Switch for this method (right? :)) then I'd imagine you could use your joycons?
That probably says more about the composition of your social circle than anything else.
I also see “88” in hacker news commenters’ user names more often than any other 2-digit string. Strange!
Sure the commute would be expensive, but if it lets you live in a lower cost area it may be more than worth it.
Joe Rogan Is Leaving LA for Texas
What does this have to do with Amazon? Return scams have been around for as long as returns.
Are you a US citizen? Because if you aren't, the process has been suspended per proclamation; if you are, then it simply depends on when the Consulate will reopen fully.
That's absolutely hysterical! :-)
Yeah I’m not actually stoked on big keys, just being snarky.
Could GPT-3 help us spot Fake News or be a Writing Tutor?
Since near as I can figure they've only built 2 technology demonstrators, they have basically no safety record right now. Interesting idea, tho.
1. This is beautifully executed.

2. It's a beautiful reminder that any number of websites may be tracking us this way.

A fun security course assignment would be to have students use this website and discuss the ethics surrounding it.
Haven't humanity learned that celebrating and running after their 'abilities' is not a wise move?
So now I'm curious; it is pretty obvious your only goal is arguing for the sake of arguing; why are you doing this? What's in it for you?
I'd certainly believe sqlite can be taken very far. Never done it so far.

But what does "properly architect your sqlite system" mean and how does this compare to just spinning up a postgres service (nothing sharded or fancy otherwise)?
It's often the case that you need to consume some fat in order for your body to uptake certain nutrients. I'm not sure if omega-3 is one of them.
They are. Stars are of the order of thousands of star-diameters apart from each other, while galaxies are of the order tens of galaxy-diameters apart.
It’s a question of resource allocation too. To advance science, you want to give more resources and control to people who can potentially make the best discoveries and breakthroughs. How do you find these people? Currently, it seems to be this competition with papers published on the best journals with high citation numbers.
Yeah... Thanks but no thanks. I think I'll just keep my plastic one for the foreseeable future...
I wonder what would happen if the car (or something similar had never been invented) and someone came out with a modern saloon today.

"It'll revolutionise personal transport but we estimate it'll kill 40,0000 people in a horrible way per year"

Like many things that are harmful in some way cars got grandfathered in (as did alcohol and tobacco) - if someone came out with an equivalent of alcohol with the same side effects it would be banned immediately as well.

In fact the UK did exactly that with the psychoactive substances laws - we didn't ban a particular drug we banned any drug with a set of side effects - largely because the chemists got really good at tweaking the underlying chemical structure enough to evade the law.
Trust me - Germans wish they had FAA because it is magnitudes more customer focused and actually “reasonable”.

The German LBA is literally Prussian Bureaucracy stuck in the 19th century...
There's more than two. New York has about ~8 million pop. From the top of my head I can at least tell you that Shenzhen, Guangzhou, and Chongqing have over 10 million residents but there's probably more.

I think you may have pulled up NYC's metro area population and compared it to the urban population of Chinese cities. The metro population of large Chinese cities is in the 20-40 million.
The only time I hear about deflation is where asset values (like the housing crisis) mass drop. In that case a lot of people are losing a lot of money, so they stop buying as many things.

I never hear about produced goods deflation that is a price drop like from mass efficiency gain where the existing money/assets start being able to buy more things. That should produce more demand, wouldn't it?
Can an American please explain how a 3h41 minute car journey to Tahoe turns into an 8h49(!) train journey? Are your trains pulled by horses or something?
It outprortionally transfers the cost of doing business to normal taxpayers, even those not interacting with said companies. It swoops local money and hides it in coffers of unrelated countries. I don't blame them for doing it, I blame it on global politics (it will probably require a global response), but it doesn't make it any more moral or damageless, tho I guess it's somewhat subjective.
Anyone know how the newsletter mentioned in the article, Heated, has a custom domain[0] on substack? As far as I know substack doesn't allow you to use a custom domain[1].

[0]: https://heated.world/

[1]: https://support.substack.com/hc/en-us/articles/360037454992-...
> Now, there are a number of updates one may want to apply to a signed PDF:

> [such as] filling in form elements (in documents where multiple people have to fill out parts of a form and each have to sign their parts)

> For that reason, signature validators have to decide, for all incremental updates that follow a given signature, whether the changes done by those incremental updates are harmless and constitute an intended use case like the ones listed above, or whether they are potentially harmful and try to give the impression that something else was signed than what was actually signed.

I don't see how filling in form elements could possibly be considered harmless? Why is that listed under intended use cases?
You're getting far more microplastics in your diet just from interaction with packaging and household materials than what you're going to get from an ocean-caught fish.
It is the debacle I was referring to.
ICE Says Newly Enrolling Intl Students Can't Come to US If Classes Fully Online
Your condition only affects 1 in 500,000 to 1 in 1 million newborns, whereas major depression has a 20% lifetime prevalence in the USA. For anxiety disorders, the rate is 30%.
The weirdest part to me isn’t the concept of an advanced alien civilization visiting earth but rather the notion that they crash so god damn often which kinda undermines the whole “advanced” part or means that visitations are so ubiquitous that the law of large numbers comes into play that would make crashes actually likely.

Our own aircrafts crash quite rarely, and space craft accidents especially for manned flight are even rarer and arguably we are still newbies that have no idea what we are doing compared to a space faring civilization capable of interplanetary travel not to mention interstellar travel.

If these crafts are so damn common then they would also be commonly tracked, stealth in space is hard, stealth during re-entry is near impossible. We currently track objects as small as 5cm and under in orbit regularly with systems like the SSN and the US isn’t the only one with tracking systems capable of tracking 1-5cm objects, orbital tracking is actually easier than tracking objects at lower altitudes due to the horizon.
Huh... None actually. I use quite a few but all the SaaS apps I use have a free tier/version that's sufficient for my needs...

I do pay for Spotify and Netflix. Do those count?
> Nobody is going to check inside a "factory sealed" box.

I'm surprised Amazon doesn't X-ray incoming merchandise and then use Computer Vision (i.e. face tagging but for objects) to say whether what's inside the box matches what "should" be in there according to a database of SKU X-ray "fingerprints."
Someone did this scam even at a local Best Buy. When I returned it, they unpack it and scan the barcode on the case, but of course not on the actual HDD. (the person doing the scam didn't even do a good job, and broke some of the plastic clips in the process)
If flying in this involves the all-cavity search like for all other passenger flights then forgetaboutit. I'll take a train ride 3x as long just to avoid the hassle of the airport experience.
Yes, people should learn to swim if only for safety reasons. I went to a school that required you to pass a swim test (or take a swimming class) to graduate. I approve with whatever reasonable exceptions are appropriate.

But it's not obvious to me that large boats should particularly be avoided if you have otherwise never learned to swim for whatever reasons. And it's not clear that being able to swim would necessarily save many of the people who have died in major ferry, etc. accidents.
Yes, and we collaborated with a few dozen EPAM developers on some projects at my last full-time corporate job, and all of the ones I worked with (both the in-person EPAM teammates and the remote ones) were very sharp people who definitely enjoy technological endeavors. As development firms such as EPAM gain traction, I expect some of the massive Indian firms will lose ground.
No - those examples are quite clear that the product does not exist, and are seeking funding to build something.
> why would anyone build a ship like this without a keel

Because you want a shallow draft in a riverboat. [0]

[0]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Riverboat#Design_differences
Maybe this: https://customdomainer.co/
I suspect others are seeking the same type of freedom that I am, or maybe it's direct inverse.

I want freedom from the impact of other people; no more noise through the walls, smoke in the halls, or the unwanted scents from cleaning and cooking when the windows are opened for ventilation. Even renting a house I can't escape this and now there isn't one 'grounds-keeping day', it's every freaking weekend day that someone near me decides to mow their lawn.

Conversely people might like living far apart so they've got the freedom to make a mess, do things an HoA would hate (I argue HoA's exist due to lack of proper, and local, laws and enforcement). For that matter, HoAs are also something that others force as an anti-freedom.

I think what I would really like is a bunker, someplace with nice thick insulation and isolation and very good air filters. However I'd still like to be able to easily visit stores for food, so probably some kind of suburban bunker.
The roads are really good (though the official speed limits are lower than they should be), and nobody wanted the trains since they became obsolete for a lot of North American geography, which in turn reduced the overall interest and investment in trains. The U.S. also has very high standards for the structural integrity of railcars, which precludes many international trainset vendors.

The costs of acquiring land for rail projects are also higher, because of very strong property rights.

Basically there are a lot of reasons, some of them are not mere political disagreements.
I worked on a forestry grant platform for a while. It was interesting, but at the end of the day it was the same software problems I solve everywhere else
Here's the part in all these studies that annoys the hell out of me: "Furthermore, clinical studies have focused mainly on overweight young and middle age adults, and we cannot generalize to other age groups the benefits and safety of intermittent fasting that have been observed in these studies."

What I want to know is: for those of us who are already a healthy weight, eat a good diet (low meat, low sugar, low processed foods), and do intense cardiovascular exercise regularly, what are the proven benefits of intermittent fasting? Are there actually any? Most of the studies I read on the topic point to it being a shortcut to health for people who aren't healthy, rather than something that can confer benefits to already-healthy people.
He hasn't been running YC for years now. He left it to Sam Altman to run for the last couple of years. And even Sam has left the post to Geoff Ralston, which is currently running it. PG's twice removed. We're on Thomas Jefferson now.
Integrated light rail/subways that are well designed and well run are pretty much the best mass transport solution we've come up with.

The tricky part is the well designed and well run part and as you alluded to they run into a lot of real world issues during construction.

They also really need to be state run at break-even or even subsidized since the benefit is the general increase in economic productivity across the whole region rather than an opportunity to make a lot of money.

So politically they don't really fly in the US.