skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Do you have any sources to back that up? U.S. Congress funded development of the SST (Supersonic Transport) back in the 60'ies but stopped funding in 1971 due to concerns and displeasure of exactly the sonic booms (and ozone layer issues). So five years before the Concorde entered service a domestic plane was not seen as being worth.

Heppenheimer's The Space Shuttle Decision has a chapter where this is discussed in detail.
I'm not going to complain about Teams in a world where WebEx still exists.
To me at least, it doesn't feel relentless, and it's not sudden at all. It has been relentless for years now. I'm glad to see it getting more attention, finally, and more people are suddenly paying attention to the problem. This is a short and sweet look at the problem for people who are just now suddenly noticing the problem.

They say it’s the result of inaction, new tactics, criminals having safe harbor and ubiquitous connectivity .

I'm surprised they don't call out the "mostly unregulated cryptocurrency" stuff a bit more as a cause as well.
I think the blog post is definitely worse than Damore's email (although I thought it was pretty crappy in itself), but you're talking here about a blog post from 2007 and an email that was sent via company channels while he was working there.

I can only imagine Bobb was quite apologetic and a lot more aware of how terrible his conflations are there than he was in 2007. That's also 14 years of time to have solid evidence that he no longer holds such myopic views.
And if statement is just syntax sugar over goto.

After using mostly Erlang for several years, 'if' feels like ugly atavism.
Examples of people getting reassigned and not fired:

https://www.clickorlando.com/news/2018/12/20/orlando-officer...

https://www.wtxl.com/news/local-news/assistant-principal-at-...

https://www.wgvunews.org/post/black-detroit-police-officer-r...

https://www.kwtx.com/content/news/Waco-ISD-hires-teacher-who...

https://www.mercurynews.com/2020/07/16/sheriffs-chief-of-sta...
If I were emperor (*), I would ban anyone from homeschooling or private school, with exceptions only for kids with special needs.

Every time a parent who cares about their child’s education pulls them out of public school, that’s one less parent who might otherwise be involved enough to improve the public school situation. You end up with public schools containing only the children of parents who are unable to afford the time or money for other options, only the teachers who can’t get jobs at private schools/tutors, etc etc.

It becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy for everyone to think “public schools are bad, I’m going to send my kid somewhere else.” I really wish we’d focus that energy towards making public schools better.

* It would probably take an emperor to do this, because there’s no way such a law would pass in the US today.
Recent Annals of Statistics paper that uses nonstandard analysis: https://www.e-publications.org/ims/submission/AOS/user/submi...
Confluent’s S-1 Analysis – Forward Motion ⏩
There's operator theory. Treat a spectrum of prime numbers like we treat particles:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Riemann_hypothesis#Operator_th...
“But it’s not about testing; It’s about React.”
I am not suggesting ditching all but applicability, I am suggesting that applicability be present. It's not an "either or."
It's difficult tho, the idea is the student should want to learn that they learn no matter how boring because the teacher/institution says so. I remember when I got introduced to matrix in high school, it felt pointless and stupid. Why would I want to transform matrix? I hated the entire thing, sure I could solve it but for what purpose? Then I learned I could use it for 3D engine, and I could load my object in a matrix and transform to move things around, that got my attention. However, a student that has no interest in 3D engines won't care. How then do you make it exciting? It's not enough to make the problem concrete, but the student will also need to be interested in the concrete application of the subject. Teaching is hard!
I have experience with Docker Compose just a couple of years and I found this article to be very helpful. It contains concentrated know how accumulated over the years. Thank you for sharing this with us.

It would be helpful if sub-topics have dedicated anchors. This way I can add direct links into source code or git commits if I want to point out more detailed explanation why this change was good.
> I wish there was some rulebook on how to spot trends that will be short-lived.

It's not exactly a rulebook, but if you read enough of Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds, there are some patterns that recur over and over. It was written 180 years ago, but it's amazing how little the psychology behind manias has changed.

In particular, a good golden rule is to not follow people into an investment that you don't understand because you are blinded by greed.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extraordinary_Popular_Delusion...
Zurich has one of Google's largest offices in Europe. I doubt the food is as oily or over-sweetened as Silicon Valley. (And yes, broadly, I agree that US prepared food is mostly over the top on oil/salt/sugar.) It would be nice to hear from Googlers who have visited more than one office and its canteen.
Rimac reveals the Nevera, a 1,900-horsepower electric hypercar
One of the reasons I use HN is because of the No Political or Ideological fights rule (because I know I can't stop commenting from time to time even though I'd rather live a life without this crap). I wish rules were here to be enforced, not as guidelines hardly anyone follow.
> And that's because it is true.

And perhaps it's also true that crypto has also made an elite minority rich?
AFAIK logo (the old turtle language) was born as a way to address this. Papert and his buddies wanted to turn thinking into semi tangible forms. More interactions, more inputs to feed your brain to think more.

Also, maybe it's only me, but mathematicians often forgot their own culture. Or maybe it's due to the iconic status of the field during early education, making people never explain why they do the things they do. When you read about history of mathematics you see that problems were 1) very practical ones 2) first tricks were very natural. It is not a thing from the gods.. at least it didn't start like this.. it condensed into a diamond over centuries of refinements. But if you don't show that to the crowd, you lose 90% of the audience. It's a pity.
The economics will never favor this approach. Customers will not choose to pay double to avoid the 1-in-a-million chance of occasionally getting a slightly wrong answer.
I don't mind name clashes: there so many projects, and only a handful of words. Macker could be a good name, though.
Ok, well now I can't do most of the stuff I was doing on GNU/Linux without doing it on a machine that someone else is hosting. So that's still a step backward.
You know there's a sizeable minority of kids that are subjected to chronic torment and bullying in public (or private) schools, which effectively amounts to psychological torture? The teachers simply don't care, or most often don't even know about it. Homeschoolding is a much better option for these particular kids.

Your kids are probably fortunate or socially skilled enough to be outside of that group.
AKA dispersing concentrated poverty so that no one part of the system is overwhelmed.
I think people would more likely associate "boom" with the times planes not-so-spontaneously explode
Sonic booms are a continuous wavefront, not caused only once upon crossing the "supersonic speed barrier", but radiating outward continuously from the aircraft (or rather a compression point in front of the aircraft) as it travels. Everyone under the flight path of a supersonic craft gets to hear the boom as it passes over them, even though it is "already" supersonic.
Boom talks about

- much lower noise than Concorde (mentioned elsewhere in this discussion). Ironically, they reduce the "boom".

- Pacific crossings. 4,900 miles range ( https://onemileatatime.com/boom-supersonic/ ) Tokyo - Seattle is about the furthest within that, at 4,777 miles. California to Hawaii is easily in range, USA to Australia is far out of range, but Brisbane to Hawaii is in range.

- Article talks about 15 planes not one.

Have they solved those yet? They're not flying yet, so no. But that's what they're aiming at.
I quickly skimmed through the book, this looks great for a much needed refresh after 10 years of a non-math intensive programming career. Question: are there solutions to the problems?
Facebook's never done anything great or prescient. They were just at "the right place, at the right time" to be MySpace 2.0.
But that's the whole point of the "Hire to Fire" story. The claims being made here are not that managers are firing people to meet quotas, but that they are deliberately sabotaging some of their hires so they have a sacrificial lamb to fire.
Uninstalled, sorry. Until a 100% offline version is available I'll watch from the sidelines.
> system doesn't allow marking someone as a poor performer after they tell you they are leaving

Haven't seen this being done firsthand. But I've heard from trusted sources, that it's a common practice to mark people leaving on their own as URA.
NFT reminds me that bitcoin doesn't have any legal regulation or protection whatsoever, meaning bitcoins are not legally protected or insured by any government.

It's weird how tech inventions came from publicly funded research, yet it's being adored by libertarians and anti-government people.
> If we're talking AR on phones, where's the killer app?

Off the top of my head, some very big ideas that are being worked on:
* Clothing fit without actually going to a store and trying things on.
* Construction assistance (being able to know where things are in walls, being able to measure things accurately in 3 dimensions, check out the leica RTC360)
* Furniture arrangements or additions in a home. e.g. use the ikea app to plop down a SÖDERHAMN to see how it would work and look in your space.
* See what a room would look like with different paint. I've actually tried this with an app on my iPad recently, and it is still a little glitchy, but was really freaking cool vs using paint swatches or buying test pints of paint.
* Troubleshooting and repair. I tried out this really cool app last year called inspectAR (https://www.inspectar.com/). The desktop app was mindblowing and at my last job when I did lots of circuit board repair/manufacturing adjustments this would have been insanely useful! I can only imagine how nice this would be to have on a trip to Shenzhen for troubleshooting production issues.

Beyond this, yes, games are a huge potential for AR. Brush it aside as something unimportant since it isn't "useful" or whatever, but games are a huge part of people's lives at this point. I've been waiting for a company called TiltFive which basically spun out of valve to launch their AR hardware, it looks and sounds really impressive.

The list goes well past this, but AR has some serious potential.
> The student alleged that Wallace’s satire “defamed” the Stanford Federalist Society, causing “harm” to the student group and to the “individual reputations” of the officers.

This reminds of me of the case of 'Hustler Magazine v. Falwell', detailed in the film 'The People vs. Larry Flynt'.

The court affirmed, unanimously, that with regard to public figures and organizations, people_do_ have the right to try to cause harm and damage to their reputations. And why shouldn't we? In the case of satire, that's exactly the point.
Why was this downvoted? It's useful anecdata. Thank you to share.

At wet markets in China/HK/TW/SE Asia, you might be able to eat for a month on 60 USD.
Researchers in Japan use soybean compound to make catfish 100% female
Even some engineers prefer to work in-person, although I'm now coming to understand it appears to be a minority. At least in this comment thread.
> This article questions the colonial view point it was mostly reported from.

That's funny coming from a member of the colonial power famous for the heroic conquest of 300,000 km² of ocean and thousands of islands using nothing but dugout canoes.

What she really means is that it's the view of the people who came late to the party and played the game on easy mode.
Given that I've never heard of the Stanford Federalist Society, I would be unable to identify this as satire. It's presented as any other official flyer from that organisation might be.

In a way, it's defamation - a false statement (in its accreditation) that harms the organisation's reputation. For some people, this will be their first experience of that organisation, and those people have no reason to take it as satire.
I mean, there's an absolutely ridiculous number of kids who can't do things to grade level in public schools, and grade level requirements aren't particularly ambitious for what a kid could learn, given their age.
Eh. I'm skeptical of self-assessed "my idea went well, they like it, see?"

What about socialisation with peers? What about boring but necessary activities, if they only do what is fun? What about jobs?
For people with an interest in cars following Rimac and Koenigsegg is absolutely worth your time. Both people (and the companies named after them) mainly focus on hypercars but with different technologies underneath. They also work together and supply each other some technology and share their work in well produced youtube videos.
New Optical Antennas Harvest 100 Times More Electricity from Heat
Arm Launches the DSU-110 for New Armv9 CPU Clusters – WikiChip Fuse
Israel heavily disputed its responsibility to help with vaccination efforts of the same arabs of the territory it's annexing, so yeah, that's not great.
10+ year adtech veteran here. This article is nonsense, written by someone without any industry experience.

Facebook has billions of users on several different apps. And people log into these apps to use them. FB, Instagram, Whatsapp. Cross-app tracking is not a big deal, they already know who you are.

The big hits are going to be a reduction in data collected by other apps fed to Facebook, and in measurement and attribution (like app install ads). If anything, it can actually strengthen their walled-garden data moat when advertisers realize that it's still the most efficient way to reach users. Their last earnings report shows significant growth and is the opposite of a struggling business.
True, though that's one of the things that 2to3 couldn't deal with, because it's not possible to do so automatically. It can't have had any idea what was supposed to remain a string, and what was supposed to become bytes.
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I use a script to strip it from the file. Definitely not ideal.
That's sort of like asking in what way are African-Americans treated differently under US law. Sure, the law may appear to be equal for all legal members of society, but that doesn't mean in practice it works like that.

The settlement doctrine, removal of Arabic as an official language, and language specifically about Israel being Jewish that were passed in 2018 are also instances where the law actually does diverge for Arab citizens. [1]

There's a pretty decent breakdown of why Israel officially meets the international requirements to be considered an Apartheid state here as well: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MknerYjob0w

[1]https://www.vox.com/world/2018/7/31/17623978/israel-jewish-n...
Law is a guideline. Not reality. Like American Freedom*.
Microsoft's Vision for the Future Windows Is Coming June 24th – HotHardware
I can't wait when I can reply to a specific message on the desktop app
To me these news are like: die, Facebook, die!

But perhaps Facebook will eventually find a new way out anyway.
A Literal Pyramid Scheme
Aerion just went out of the SSBJ business, despite having awesome tech. ):

How is UA going to monetize this if Concorde isn't even (re)flying?
There are several Christian and Islamic countries but only one Jewish one.
But notably the SEO is based on those measurements as reported by actual Chrome users who choose to share data back to Google, which isn't necessarily the same as what lighthouse measures.

Also it hasn't happened yet. They pushed the implementation date to a slow rollout starting in "mid-June"
If those buttons are appealing, I recognize them from this blog post by Josh Comeau https://www.joshwcomeau.com/animation/3d-button/
The popular understanding of Jewish in America is Ashkenazi
The issue is that `int(x) / int(y)` would yield an int result in Python 2, but a float result in Python 3. So you had to find all the spots in your code where `/` was being used as an integer division operator and replace it with `//`.

Since Python 2 does not have any form of type annotation, this made the task hard to do automatically and error-prone.
Almost no one uses mnesia. Those 5-10x faster languages are not as productive as Erlang. Python, Ruby, PHP, Node.js are all slow.

> As long as you stay in the ecosystem you're OK, but if you're using Erlang to speak to a non-Erlang DB, to interact with a non-Erlang message bus like Kafka or something, to call APIs from non-Erlang systems and provide APIs to non-Erlang systems, all this integration becomes more a trap than an advantage.

I fail to see why. You can write an API and communicate with an API just like any other language.

> Erlang's types integrate well with Erlang, but are just quirky enough that it's a pain to integrate with anything else.

You integrate through APIs. I do not see how it has anything to do with Erlang's internal types. Any service designed to be used by a diverse set of clients requires a clean API.

> (Erlang, like many functional languages of the era, made the mistake of defining a "string" as a "linked list of numbers representing characters", which makes lists ambiguous as to whether they are lists or strings.)

Where does this matter in practice? I've been building Erlang software for 10+ years and people keep criticizing it for this and I still do not understand why this is such a big deal to everyone.

> Scaling to "practically anything" is table stakes for a language/runtime now.

Python/PHP/Ruby/Node.js are pretty terrible at taking advantage of many core systems.

> Someone else says languages are "catching up" to Erlang, but to a large degree, they have, and exceeded it in many places.

Erlang is still unmatched when it comes to ease of use building reliable distributed systems and it is not even close. Yeah you could run Kafka, Kubernetes and a bunch of other technologies that do their job better than Erlang does it natively. But at the end of the day, Erlang is one technology that is good enough for most and does not require large operational experience to run. Your entire stack is in your own code, understandable by your entire team.
If this guy were a CTO or something sure. He was chief diversity officer though, there's gotta be a higher standard there.
It’s probably a function of human nature to be conservative there.

It seems that the FAA is trying to optimize for the fewest unknown unknowns, and until the 737 MAX it would be hard to argue that entirely new airframes, propulsion and control systems operating in flight regimes that have only been done one other time (intentionally anyway) in commercial aviation would achieve that objective better than incremental changes.

The associated bureaucracy bloat can be a feature because it’s harder to sustain a ruse over time.

That said, it really does impede development of arguably safer systems.
DeepMind reportedly lost a years-long bid to win more independence from Google
I somewhat agree with this take, although this isn't the result of the shallowness and ignorance of our collective society, but rather the shallowness and ignorance of the people at the top of society. Most people just want to get by, we don't "allow" amazon to keep growing, they keep growing because of the monopolisation mechanics of our capitalist society. You can be repulsed by amazon all you like, but until there's a viable competitor they'll continue to do what they do.
Perhaps we need to hit the reset button on capitalism altogether and reevaluate what it means to be a company, to have human centred capitalism rather than profit focused capitalism. Maybe we'll be forced to move in that direction anyway, because of the social and environmental affects that we see today.
You're right! Ensemble forecasting is great! Vistimo proper (https://www.vistimo.com) does both -- it gets individual high/low estimates from multiple people, and creates a combined distribution from all of them (though each estimate is a log normal, not normal, since it's a time estimate).

But Vistimo is a full project management tool; that space is full and switching project management tools is expensive, so it's hard to get people to adopt.

Vistimo Quotes is a much lighter-weight way to get many of the same benefits without having to talk your whole team into signing up.
Making a Saas for developers is challenging, I will try to come up with some ideas to do the same. Thanks for the advice :)
For dapp, I found the idea of doing asset swap pretty interesting. It’s like the interest swap or the currency swap but with crypto assets and tokens to form a swap pool that functions like a standalone exchange, which anybody can start using the crypto infrastructure.

What crypto presents is the opportunity for lay people to take financial power from the finance establishment. I think that’s why people are so excited.
I think it is a good thing! Allows ACF to grow even stronger
China's gigantic multi-modal AI is no one-trick pony
Damore held and advocated for those beliefs so much so that he communicated them within the company at the time of his firing, and then legally disputed his firing.

Bobb wrote something which he has since recanted, 10 years ago, outside of Google's official channels?
You must be on a different social media outlet than I am.
Yep, my experience too. Critics of Israel get called antisemitic too easily, moderated down here on HN too. On the other hand, people who defend atrocities committed by IDF get easy pass, openly defending stuff like: "the IDF is really gentle in killing civilians (collateral damage)", they nicely warn Palestinians "we're going to destroy your house, so please leave in 5 minutes", or "be silent while we bulldoze your house", etc.

Back on topic, the blog post title is definitely offensive, you can't label people like that. Maybe it was a bad tongue-in-cheek,
thinking about it, I don't think you can even say Israelis or citizens of Israel, since not all people have the same political views or support the same solution of the "Palestine problem".
Diving into GPT-3 right now, but they are on beta now, Applied for the waitlist. Meanwhile Im digging into their docs.
Thanks for the advice
Wow. Thank you to share. How much garbage does this produce just from packaging? I cringe at packaging waste from takeaway. That is my number one reason to avoid it. (To be clear: I don't live in a place that uses remotely "eco-friendly" packaging like pressed recycled light cardboard and balsam[sp?] wood utensils!)
I'd rather just make sure my kid gets a great education than sacrifice their well being and future to your cause, so I'm glad you're not emperor.
I've flown London to Washington DC for meetings and then immediately returned to the airport to fly back, and I'd have loved to have had the ability to fly supersonic for trips like that.

So while "just" flying East might be less attractive, very brief return flights will be attractive even if one of the legs doesn't seem very beneficial.

There are plenty of scenarios cutting hours off will improve. Whether there are enough of them to make Boom profitable is another matter.