jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
I wonder if there's a fear of good but partial solutions. Maybe they think "we couldn't add tracking because it's too costly" is better than "we added tracking, but it didn't transmit the one parameter that would be crucial to finding the plane we just lost." To be clear, I disagree, but I could see being paranoid of bad PR that way.
Is there a readable mirror. Horrible resource hungry interface kills my modern laptop in under 30 seconds.
A lot of the arguments in this particular thread are based on the assumption that an aviation grade (non-firmware locked to low speed / low altitude like some 90s models) an an antenna are somehow more expensive than $120K or more specifically that it would be more expensive than screwing around with the existing black box and flight avionics.

Making it all even weirder, lets price out something that does an even more complicated task, a TCAS unit that ties into the avionics and A/V headsets and sometimes HUD and the transponder and in real time warns of potential collisions. $15K to $20K installed. But this vastly simpler project is supposed to cost about ten times as much. Don't think so.

Also a lot of confusion about what a black box from 1980 vs 2015 actually records and what is necessary. Yes from a safety perspective a simple location tracker does nothing and you'd need a full black box feed. A classic programming example of not defining your goals means a fail. Have to spec if you just want a lat/lon or if you want a full engineering telemetry feed.

Finally, if the engine controller fails, and you're over an ocean, then you die. Pretty simple. On the other hand, 99.9999999% (seriously) of flight hours, if this flight recorder fails, much like a tcas blowing a fuse, you simply fix it before the next flight. A big old "whatever". Its not like most planes disappear on a regular basis or most planes are involved in near collisions. The MTBF of the all hardware is shorter than the mean time between accidents. So consumer grade is good enough as long as it doesn't burst into flame like a consumer laptop.
Yes and it was hit hard and to make matters worse - it only have itself to blame.

However they are still far from where one would write them off completely.
Ooh, tracepoints, DO WANT! Are they only available in one of the paid versions of Visual Studio?

The VS debugger is excellent, its probably the dev tool I miss the most since leaving C++ and going to JS, and tracepoints are the feature I wish for most frequently in a browser debugger.

So I was about to naively suggest the VS team could push for tracepoints in IE, but OMG! Tracepoints are in IE11. Where have I been? In prejudice-land. This might mean I have to open my mind and use IE for dev, though the bias runs wide, I still might have to use it in secret for a little while, at least at work. ;)
1) Here the real problem is the maintainer of the syntax file who is hard to reach. I have contacted him several times but never got fa reply. No real problem of Vim.
2) merged February 25th. Not bad I would say (again a runtime file problem)
3) merged with 7.4.646
4) yes, sometimes it takes a while.
5) took long but has been merged with 7.4.652
pull the exact same commits in different order

Sort of. The OP doesn't write clearly. He's also confused about how git works. What he means is..

Say Bob has 2 commits (B1-B2) and Alice has 1 (A1)

Scenario 1: Alice merges each of Bob's commits in sequence (i.e. she replays his commit history onto her repo: A1-B1-B2).

Scenario 2: Alice merges only B2 (A1-B2).

The point is that, with git, Alice's repo will be different in each scenario. Because in scenario 2 git doesn't examine commit B1 and use that info to try and figure out what the content in commit B2 "means".

With darcs, on the other hand, her scenario 1 repo will be identical to her scenario 2 repo.

The flip side is that in scenario 2 git will always produce the same result for the same B2, because B1 is irrelevant. With darcs a change in B1 will change the result.

NOTE: "git pull --rebase" actually does "replay commit history" instead of "merge" when pulling code into your repo (result: B1-B2-A1). I use it as my default. The outcome is the same as darcs, the difference is that everything is explicit.
Actually, come to think of it. There exists a possible partial demand-side solution: CGI or drawings, but in recent debacles surrounding this, opinion has been firmly against. Flooding the market with easily accessible, legal no-victim drawn/CGI material at least has the potential of keeping potential consumers of the real stuff away from it.

This just goes to show that "one child abused is too many" only applies when the solution discussed isn't "wrong".
Is it relevant that third-party recruiting firm fee's are typically 20%, upwards of 30% for "top talent" of the negotiated base salary? 25% is a norm or more "hard science" mechanical / engineering (non CS), while 30% is more of a norm towards confidential financial firms.
The general consensus of this thread is that there are a lot of bad php developers out there that write bad code and this does serious discredit to the language. The example this poster linked to was bad code.

Its not proof the language is bad, its proof the poster is no better than the truly bad programmers who use the language he is trying to make fun of.
This is so good and useful and original that I recommend you try to get it linked to from the main Git website, and from GitHub. Great job! It really helps visualize what all the commands do, what they effect.
Not at all, it’s a known problem here on HN; while this case is relatively untroubling, other domains can be much more problematic (e.g. google.com entries are not always written by Googlers at all).
Of course it can be learned. 10,000 hours to mastery of anything is what they say. Substantially less if you want to be passably good at it.

Best advice I've ever heard on design is "copy, copy, copy, copy until you don't need to". Themeforest or TemplateMonster are both good starting points.
Yeah...it's a great place to meet people, but it's a bit like going to a bar and looking to get married instead of just trying to get a phone number. You're likely to be disappointed if you're expecting a diamond ring.
Other credentials: Big brass balls.

Good on ya.
Instagram is monetised to fuck. It’s 50% ads these days. Almost useless and they keep “tweaking” the time line algorithm so nothing is in chronological order and you see the same things again and again. Often from days ago.

WhatsApp is yet to be monetised but doing so is going to be tricky and messy. There are excellent alternatives with the same functionality for free such as Signal that while not a perfect drop in replacement are more than good enough.

If they fuck up WhatsApp they could lose their users very quickly. That’s the trouble with so many messaging platforms. WhatsApp is nothing “special”. I would argue the only “special” service is iMessage due to the exclusivity of iOS although that seems to be more of a US thing than elsewhere.

I think Facebook see they’re in a shit place with WhatsApp which is why they are yet to make any real changes despite owning them for years.

It is the only acquisition they have made that they haven't made any substantial changes to as I honestly think they don't know how to do so and as it is all tied to a persons cell number anyway migration is pretty painless.

People don't need to share a new username with anyone, just blast a message to all their friends with "Hey it's satysin, I'm using $NewMessageApp now as WhatsApp got all weird with their changes". You get a few people to do that and people happily switch and the network effect takes over.

Most people are using multiple messaging services anyway so it isn't even switching just dropping.

Look at the hell they brought on with their last small change with the privacy policy. You had so much backlash to a small change that they pushed back the deadline and then dropped it altogether.

Imagine actual real monetisation. It would be the end of the service in the blink of an eye.
I don't think they would be able to MITM the connections because your browser would detect that they don't own the certificate for the site.

Unless of course, the CA is also compromised.

I'm no expert so please do correct me if I'm wrong =]
...fossil... finite supply.

This is only true in a trivial sense. As it should be clear by now (although to be fair it also should have been clear 30 years ago), more effective extraction methods are developed at a steady pace.

[EDIT: since this has been confused multiple times, let me clarify that "trivial" and "absolute" are not antonyms.]
The proxies run on their CDN servers as I understand. I was just playing around with the proxy setup a bit to experiment, but I do plan to use this approach in a project if it proves successful.
Facebook wasn't invented in an open office.
I imagine you can use it to ensure that elements that are added simply for semantic purposes (like, say, containers for other elements that are there just to group them logically) do not create any boxing side effects, like default padding and similar non-obvious CSS buggery.
The Angular's level of complexity looks overwhelming. I feel like it creates more problems than it solves. I do hope I'm wrong, the man-hours put into it are not in vain and there is a good niche for this framework.
I actually wanted to make an argument from the hospital's side of things: some of arguments the hospital's making sound heartless, but there's a very good chance that the hospital's insurance company came up with those arguments (well, the insurance company's lawyers).

It's hard to imagine a system more effective at upsetting people than the US legal system. There's a good chance that the family brought the doctor into the suit to get money from his insurance company. But they may not have had much choice. In the US, the court will spend a lot of time trying to decide if the right people were sued, and if people should be dropped or others added. I don't see how the doctor would have avoided getting sucked into the suit.

The lawyers will spend a lot of time negotiating behind the scenes. The family will try to get the judge to declare any liability "joint and several" which would allow the family to collect the full judgment (assuming there is one) from any of the parties, who then can work out the details among themselves.

The system encourages, and in some cases requires, this kind of manuevering. So don't assume the people involved are actually this weird, mean or heartless.
Even with free speech as a right, there’s still the conflict with other rights.

E.g in the USA, slander or sexual content is limiting what you can express.

In Germany, Holocaust denial and nazi symbols are illegal.

The vast majority of people in these countries seem to agree with these limitations. (I don’t know about the Turkish situation)

The ranking of rights when they’re in conflict with each other is fascinating to me as it can be pretty different by country.
it isn't related to facebook
A couple things.

First is that we are on track to overshoot the goal of limiting warming to 1.5C. It's now more a question of how much we are going to blow past 1.5C. Every bit counts now and a pulse of very potent greenhouse gasses at this time is very unhelpful.

2. There could be tipping points that aren't predictable. Methane may temporarily add a small increase to the global average temps, but could end up being the difference for whether permafrost melt begins releasing large amounts of co2 and even more methane that take us up to some even higher temperatire equilibrium.

Global warming is a massive unplanned, uncontrolled experiment with the thermal and chemical properties of the only biosphere we know of. The sooner we stop that experiment the safer humanity will be overall.
Carless, affordable, and safe?
I can give you basic instructions based on what I've been given at Fire Lotus Zendo and Insight Meditation Society:

Sit, get comfy, and calm down. Relax your eyes, your jaw, your shoulders, and anywhere you're carrying tension.

WHen you're settled, focus on your breathing, pick one spot (belly, nostrils, nose, etc) and count each breath in your mind. Try to count softly; you want to pay attention to your breathing, not your counting. Start at 1 and go to 10. When/if you reach 10, start over again from 1.

When you find yourself distracted by a thought (and you will), that's normal. Just acknowledge the thought, and start counting again from 1.

Get curious about your breath. Is it hard or soft, fast or slow, dry or wet, smooth or ragged? Notice the pauses at the ends of the inhale and exhale: what's it like? What are the parts in-between like as it comes and goes?

If you find the counting helpful, stick with it. If you find the counting too distracting, just try to pay attention to the breath without it.

Lastly, don't worry too much if your mind is bouncing around like a monkey on a sugar rush; that's pretty normal. Most of the practice of meditation is continually coming back to the present moment, not attaining blissful thought-free emptiness (which is quite rare, even on retreat).

Good luck
Tor isn't a browser, it is a network, app and protocol, the bundled browser is just one quick way to use it.

I use it with my normal Chrome browser.

brew install tor

then setup a new user in Chrome and install the proxy switchysharp extension and add 127.0.0.1 9040 socks5 as a proxy.
I think your metaphor is kinda off.

Don't think of it like a stream, where some of the water can be separated off and filtered.

Think of it like a road system. All the roads between Netflix Town and Comcast City have to go through Cogentville, and the roads are PACKED. Traffic is crawling, really slow.

This deal is like opening a new six-Lane highway, direct from Netflix to Comcast, that allows everyone to travel really fast and avoids all the gridlock.

I don't think there was filtering before. I think Comcast just let the traffic get really bad, and was stalling issuing permits for the new bypass.
Can't you pay some sort of penalty and switch to one of AT&T's new, cheaper T-Mobile-like value plans?

That might not pencil out on its own terms because you're relatively close to the end of your contract, but I think that would take your phone out of subsidy so you can unlock it. The added flexibility while traveling might make the switch worth it.
At least parse it into SQLite. Once.
I'm sorry. I was very murky with my wording. I was not trying to say that the field of Psychology had failed or was a failure. What I meant to say was that, our current state of academia has in this instance demonstrated "a" failure. That failure to me is highlighted by the comment I responded to when it was implied that Peterson's view was more "bonafide" because it was from a "real" psychologist. By all academic standards the commenter would be correct. Peterson is not only a Psychologists but also a professor, A widely published and cited one at that. One who has been afforded debates at collages with Sam Harris and Zizek. This to me is a failure of the academic world to distinguish between leaders of the field of psychology and crackpot YouTube personalities. By credentials alone he is both and this is unnerving to me.

That said, of course, I do not believe that it speaks to psychology as a whole. But again I poorly worded that sentence and take responsibility for the misunderstanding. I would only add that I think, and I may very well be wrong, that if a physicist were to parrot "free-energy/perpetual-motion" to anyone that would listen, that person would be promptly removed from teaching at any legitimate university. That is not to say physics is better than psychology, if anything it implies that it is easier than the still very important soft sciences.
not surprising - the game industry is absolutely notorious for cutting corners. didn't know they cut corners this much though.

will r* fix it? maybe, especially since some person literally did half of the work for them. But given R* is a large company, this probably wont be fixed for a long time, and GTAO is probably being maintained by the lowest bid contractor group.

They probably have all of their full time assets working on the next iteration of GTA.
I think you misunderstand my arguments. I think the ubiquity of masks hurts everybody.
How is this different from the default tiling support in Win 10? If you drag a window to a corner/edge it starts to offer you options to add windows.
Which results in long-term depreciation, such that spending bitcoin is economically irrational.
It wasn't resetting, it was ditching lower priority tasks that it didn't have (real) time to accomplish. Notably, the computer was still doing important work (ahem, flying the LM :-) ), and the tasks it didn't have time to do were not critical.

The team had recently seen similar failures in simulation, and was able to quickly decide it was okay to proceed.
The world needs more data scientists who actually follow a scientific approach to uncertainty and bias - good luck!
TV is 20th century. It has to be public the same way that roads are public.
Same here. Initially thought this was about libraries monitoring what poor people read.
"When a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure." - Goodhart's Law
Hit right-click > open in private window rather than left-click. I'm with the other poster, if you haven't de-googlified your digital life and you don't even bother opening this in private / firefox container, then I don't know what you expect.
This is the sixth time the carbon cycle has extincted life on earth. Why will this one be different? It's as inevitable as the water cycle or the citric cycle.

> one estimate published in 2004 expected that some 90% of the currently spoken languages will have become extinct by 2050.

What is that, but the destruction of human civilization?

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extinct_language

There is no stopping it. We must accept that fact and choose to adapt if humans are to survive as a species on this planet.

Otherwise, I don't think there will be humans 100,000 years from now.

I don't know what timeline you're thinking, but we are doomed on some scale assuredly if we don't get over our hubris.

This planet is not under our control.
Decent idea, I like it. Do you have alerts that can be triggered if someone is spending too much time in meetings? At the time of scheduling perhaps?

A good feature would be a team comparison view option.

Can it sync with mobile/desktop/email calendars?
I guess what I've learned in these comments is that people don't think the Tesla cars have manual, emergency use only, door releases.. Which they do.
As I mentioned in another comment the only true solution to that problem is to use your own domain name. I will also be adding more generic domains to use in the future for users to choose from.
One interesting open-source solution is Areca: http://www.areca-backup.org/

Multi-platform, encrypts, compresses, incremental/differential backups to FTP, network drives, local drives, usb sticks and it has a GUI.
Peter Thiel has funded The Seasteading Institute by Patri Friedman. Their goal is not to start a country, but to allow anybody to do so.
http://seasteading.org/

1) The seasteading.org folks aren't rich, though they can get resources from rich people who like their program.

2) They have a well thought-out program for making their own land.

3) The land they have is very small, and it's perched on top of tall towers, therefore easy to defend. Private security and agreements with local governments should suffice for their needs.

4) The seasteading folks plan to use flags of convenience, or plan to just not be noticed. The platforms will most likely be mobile, so if they don't like their neighbors, they'll just move.

5) Since each unit is relatively small, they can use the same legal framework that captains aboard oceangoing vessels use.

[1] The seasteading folks seem to be about Libertarian ideals of freedom. I understand that there are indeed some folks willing to die for those ideals. I am not saying if this this is a good idea or not.

Disclosure: I am not a member of seasteading.org. I just think they have neat engineering ideas.
because it's very simple for anyone to build an app that uses Gravatar since md5 is probably the most well-known hashing function.
No, those ones are loosely insightful. These ones are lame: http://www.gnu.org/fun/jokes/declarations.html

;)
The fundamental problem is that liberties in the abstract are too hard for people to appreciate. It takes an old fashioned grope-fest at the airport to get anyone to notice anymore.

So the people aren't crazy or corrupt, they just have different priorities than you or I. The expression of which being that so long as you don't touch them, they'll abide almost anything in the name of security.

Never forget: "In a Democracy, the people get the government they deserve."
Name it Goland and claim .go as tld.

I want 1% of proceedings deposited in the Cayman Islands.

Then make it a bankers paradise and you will be self sustaining in no time.
I think this post crops up on here/reddit every few months. It's funny though.
Not sure "why what" but I made 2 points:

- The shareholders shouldn't necessarily be held responsible because most have no input or knowledge when it comes to any shady business.

- The company would perform worse because without the drive for profit (and whatever gray means they use to achieve them) that most private entrepreneurs have, the company would almost definitely perform worse. Privatized companies usually run better because the state might be a good minority shareholder but not the best when it comes to driving a company.
The radius at which your WiFi AP causes interference with other networks is larger than the useful radius at which your client devices can maintain a decently fast connection speed.

And for many APs with poor management of airtime, having a client device on the fringe of your coverage area can cause your router and that client device to both waste a disproportionate amount of airtime shouting at full TX power and a low data rate, maximizing the amount of interference you're causing to anyone else trying to make use of that channel.
> it does not take into account owner-occupied housing (OOH) prices

It does however take into account rental prices, which exceed owner-occupied housing costs. So the idea that housing cost inflation is fully absent from EU inflation numbers (not you that's saying it, but sometimes implied in various discussions) isn't quite true, either.

Housing costs as a percentage of income for owner-occupiers hasn't risen all that much due to the low interest rates, and is below peaks we saw in the past. Even in nominal figures, due to lower rates, monthly payments are lower too (ceteris paribus). I don't think including OOH costs would massively increase inflation the way people think, at least not if looked at from a cost-perspective. (i.e., interest, maintenance, taxes, hoa etc).

For example, the total payment on a 300k home with 3.5% rates (like the US) vs 0% rates (like Denmark) is 485k vs 300k. That means in the US you could bid 60% more in a world where interest rates dropped to 0% overnight, while having no change in your total costs. That's what's happening in much of Europe: home prices rising purely due to lower interest rates, without necessarily increasing monthly housing costs, for owner-occupiers.

For renters, different story, but that's included in the inflation figures already.
Chicago is one of the most difficult places in the USA to legally purchase a firearm. One of the reasons they have so many carjackings.
Even chess is simulated combat.
I find the section on hashtables funny. I cannot debt that but having a sethash is odd at first. That said, the beauty of how gethash plays with setf is quite nice once you get used to it.

This is even more pronounced when used with mutable lists. (setf (cadr lst) new-element) doing what you'd expect is quite useful. Obviously, this can be abused, but it's a really nice tool in the box.