skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The choice wasn't unconstrained tag-soup markup vs XML. HTML was originally spec'd using SGML, and SGML is a proper superset of XML. However, reporting the exact place of an error in a large SGML document in the presence of tag inference/omission is challenging or outright impossible.

So W3C spent a significant amount of work to bring forward XML as a simplified SGML subset starting in 1997, with the intention that XML eventually replaces SGML as the basis for HTML. Obviously that didn't happen; but that's no reason to give up on structured markup altogether. SGML is perfectly capable to validate and canonicalize almost all HTML 5 documents (save for a few not-so-well-thought-out design decisions from the Hickson era). The same can't be said for the "official" HTML5 validator; even the specification text itself contains content model errors.
So it's like jupyter notebooks but you can't execute the code?
> Yes, and I believe they do not upgrade because it makes no business sense for them.

Agreed. Those little wingtip flip-ups--man, those went through the industry like wildfire. I never saw those and then BAM suddenly they were on every plane I flew on.

The airlines can move like the wind when money is actually involved.
Ask HN: Will spending time working with CloverETL hurt my career?
Our company's "data wrangling" team, which I'm a part of, is working to implement/migrate much of our ETL process to CloverETL. In searching for "CloverETL" there are no books on Amazon, there are no results on "Search Hacker News", and there are very, very few results on job sites. CloverETL seems like a solid product for our use case, but I just don't see it being used. I'm wondering if I'm being set-up for a career set-back.

Does anyone else have experience with CloverETL or have an opinion on hiring people with a background using it?

For additional context: Prior to CloverETL everything was implemented in BASH (I know, not good, I was semi-horrified). There was a push by one person to move to Python, but they botched the job and now he's gone, the remaining folks don't know Python, and we're dismantling the little Python code we had. The CloverETL push is by the group's manager, and no one else has expressed an opinion.
* Start contributing to open source projects. This feels quite overdue.

* Try and buy no new books until I read all the unread ones I already have.
There is, it's called the Light Phone [0]. I've noticed they're engaging in a lot of marketing that seems to be paid native advertising, but the promotion doesn't disclose it's an ad, so proceed with caution. I would maybe wait until they leave the "pre-order" stage.

[0]: https://www.thelightphone.com/
None of these things are inherent to capitalism -- they're a result of current policy decisions, and could be fixed with different policy decisions.

Want to reduce the incentive to inherit money and do nothing? Increase the estate tax and lower the threshold where it kicks in.

Want to reduce the disadvantages of earning a salary? Increase taxes on capital gains and dividends and decrease taxes on earned income.

Want to make it easier for everyday folks to take risks and increase innovation? You can start with a comprehensive safety net, and things like universal health care.

Unfortunately (at least in the US) the party currently in power is going in the opposite direction. But it doesn't have to be that way.
Fuck the FCC, etc.
They don't have jurisdiction here, so this cannot be censored.

The current administration is creating a monarchy. This is scary stuff:

Removed controls from giant media conglomerates such that they are able to control the narrative ever so much so: yes

Changed taxes to favor wealthy: yes

Removed our free and open internet: yes

lets do somethin bout it. lets route around them. lets mesh up. lets win. the internet, and we the people, are wayyyy stronger than this.
Sounds great, I wonder about the maintainability, sounds like what the OP asked:

http://run-belay.ru/to-completely-disassemble-the-nokia-3310...
At Caltech, the grade was totally based on the midterm and final exams. The homework only counted if you were on the boundary between one grade and another. In fact, the homework often wasn't even graded, you'd do the homework and then attend a "recitation" session where a grad student would go over it with the students.

The point of the homework was to teach you the material. Skip it at your peril. Mastering it meant you were reasonably prepared for the exams.
1. Buy land & build a log cabin. I've been planning this for a year now. Finally have some money saved and now looking for land bordering a National Forest in my area.

2. Deploy my SAAS project on AWS. I've spent last few months learning how to script out stacks in AWS and run an ECS cluster. Just need to wrap this up.
That's not even close to what happened. Neither side did what you said, your post is a complete bold-faced lie.
Hopefully they can do a better job than Jeff Garzik's previous B2X shitcoin.
Hey Peldi,

Do you have remote?
If you have a system with an extra 82599 perhaps you can use it in a VM via PCIe passthrough?
It's an interesting article, finally listing some specific use cases. But I'm curious - why now? What makes blockchain better than using other possibilities between each pair of banks? I don't expect bank A to care about transactions between banks B and C, so the distributed blockchain doesn't sound very useful. On the other hand, I expect banks to care about guaranteed atomic transactions rather than consensus.

(Transfers between many banks in the UK were instantaneous for a decade or so, so apparently it can be done without a blockchain ;-) )
Admittedly, I envy you. I still use an iPhone, which I justify for work and the camera. But I know it's a problematic item, and I am very aware that it is bad for me and was designed and optimized to interfere constantly by interjecting nonsense into the brain. It's a very tough habit to break.

When I really think about it, the camera is likely what I'd miss most. That's the true convenience offered by a smartphone.

I imagine if someone released a new dumb phone that happened to have an amazing camera onboard, it would generate substantial interest.
The front end styles/fads change so often that it's hard for UI to become a commodity. The back-end is a bit more stable, for the executives won't complain about not having the latest UI craze because they can't see the back-end. It may indeed pay better to be in UI, but it usually also means you have to keep your skills up to date on your own dime.
To assert the existence of surplus value, one must also declare the baseline. For Marxists, the baseline is the “labor-value.”

That the labor theory of value is entirely bunk is trivial to see. If you present to a buyer two indistinguishable instances of the same good but describe how one was meticulously hand-crafted by skilled artisans and the other produced by machines in a factory, in the prospective buyer’s view the former is no more valuable than the latter. Value is imputed by the end consumer who is willing to pay only so much for a pair of shoes, a hat, a computer, a book, an automobile, a house, whatever. Marxists object that this is “commodity-fetishism,” but their many syllables fail to camouflage their deep confusion.

Even employers — rather than exploitative expropriators — are sellers of goods or services but buyers of labor, one of many factors of production. Consumers set prices with their willingness to buy. Producers seek to meet this demand at a profit. (Running a break-even operation is a bad model: at best you end up back where you started and otherwise book red ink.) To take profit, they must produce at a cost below what the consumer will pay, the prevailing price. Raw materials must be bought ahead of time. Employees expect regular paychecks. The employer must risk all of these costs by paying up front for a chance of turning a profit in the end.

Employees likewise are sellers of labor, a role that Marxists fail to recognize or else they’d have to slap expropriator labels all around. Employees shop their skills to find the buyer who values them most highly. When a better offer comes along, we usually congratulate the person for finding a better situation even though it is the same worker now supposedly “extracting” more value. The downside is sellers compete against one another. When the value proposition grows too rich, we buyers start shopping elsewhere. “Cheap labor” is nothing nefarious; everyone is looking for a better deal. Sellers of goods, services, and labor must all continue to improve their offerings.

From top to bottom, this is a network built on voluntary exchange with no extraction or exploitation. The ruthless player is the fickle consumer whose tastes, demands, foibles, and sense of urgently are always changing. There’s also Mother Nature, sometimes gentle and sometimes furious. We live in a world of scarcity with the future uncertain. Where will tomorrow’s dinner come from? How will parents pay for their kids’ college years down the road? How will I pay the light bill next month? Capitalism’s aforementioned complex network of voluntary exchanges — “the market,” for short — is a search process for how best to allocate what we have now in order to obtain what we need and want tomorrow.
It's worth mentioning

https://www.mediamatters.org/about

Media Matters for America is a
Web-based, not-for-profit, 501(c)(3) progressive research and information center dedicated to comprehensively monitoring, analyzing, and correcting conservative misinformation
in the U.S. media.

Can find tons of studies on this, it's an interesting topic.

Please post.
Edit: spelling.
Alexander Wales' rationalist take on Superman, "The Metropolitan Man", is great.

Text: https://www.fanfiction.net/s/10360716/1/The-Metropolitan-Man

Free audiobook: http://www.hpmorpodcast.com/?page_id=1705
There's no mention of being part of (or missing out on) social debates or discussions. The author also doesn't mention any online clubs, teams, or groups which would miss them

These things existed long before “attention economy” was even a thing
What I can't understand though is how it even makes sense at LHR.

A380 requires 'super heavy' spacing between planes AFIAK, as opposed to 'heavy' for 747 and below.

Surely all the gain you get from more passengers is lost as you need significantly more spacing between the plane and the next one? So you might as well just run two 787s instead and extract more point to point incremental revenue?

Please do reply, I've wondered this for a while and haven't been able to have a good answer.
Analysis of UUIDs vs. Integers for primary keys
Gender-related topics are extremely contentious on HN.
Nearly a billion people have been pulled out of poverty in India and China over the last 25 years. Their wages have at least tripled on average in real terms in the last 20 years. So, it's you who's burying your head in the "America first" sand.

The middle class in the US had enjoyed the fruits of global inequality resulting from colonialism and WW2 during the second half of the 20th century.

As the gap in skills and education between the average American and the rest of the world have disappeared, the former US middle class will see their income gap with the rest of the world also disappear. A teacher, factory worker or a store clerk in the US isn't 20x more productive than a teacher, factory worker or a store clerk in India or China and there's not reason for that wage gap to exist any more.
Till now, cargo operations are built on the backbone of older aircrafts that require relatively inexpensive modifications to haul pallets. The economics of the business rarely encourage brand new aircraft purchase with the exception of UPS and FedEx and ad-hoc specialized operators.

In the future, this might not be the case. In the era of fuel efficiency most passenger aircrafts were not designed to haul cargo. In-order to save on weight the main deck on the 777 was made of lightweight materials that is acceptable for passenger traffic. This in-turn makes it very expensive for cargo conversions.
Shared register
Or Uruguay here in South America, or New Zealand... You can actually emigrate here very easily.

Maintaining an U.S. lifestyle OTOH is much more expensive, but healthcare is a BIG plus.

And you WILL pay a lot of taxes - Healthcare-only taxes are 4.5 to 6% of your gross income, and sometimes more on top of it. And then you have 22% VAT and something like 30% of your salary if you're a software developer, and the 12.5% social security tax (all of those on your GROSS salary, and almost no deductions)... prepare to get paid less than half your gross salary in hand.
Spotify and iTunes in your macOS menu bar
Just move to the 5.8ghz band. There's an extra 50MHz of bandwidth available and these frequencies are much more strongly attenuated by walls. There's also usually much less interference from other unlicensed equipment like cordless phones, baby monitors and microwave ovens, although you can occasionally get hosed by a dodgy Chinese video sender operating at well above the legal limit.

You might need to replace a couple of older pieces of equipment, but it's a hell of a lot cheaper than turning your house into a Faraday cage.
Ask HN: Is it worth using Atlas from Stripe?
I'm from country that is not on the Stripe's list of available countries. So I'm considering to use Atlas to establish a corporation in Delaware. However, I'm not sure that it's the best option for me.

If there is anyone who used Atlas before, could you please provide a feedback on this service?
Ripple can connect all the banks, blockchains, and currencies together.
That’s part of the reason US based airlines don’t fly to most gulf region airports anymore.

1) they could essentially justify a lightly loaded economy section due to Business / First passengers (I’ve done several cheap mileage runs before where I had multiple rows to myself in economy). When those $$$$ passengers switched to the nicer Emirates/Etihad/etc flights, they lost that marginal advantage.

2) on top of #1, another major factor is that Etihad/Emirates/etc are heavily subsidized by their national governments. Due to this, the slot fees were much cheaper for them than US based airlines further reducing any money to be made on those segments by US based airlines.

The end result of the above is that now you have to use an alliance partner + connection to get from US to the Middle East (or fly a MENA based airline) where as before you could choose from dozens of directs.
Been poking around. I like his thinking.

Apparently, "Paul Graham is a weenis," though. http://www.idlewords.com/2005/04/dabblers_and_blowhards.htm#...
> The movie Pulp Fiction centers around a mysterious briefcase. We’re never told exactly what’s inside

"Tarantino has admitted that there is no official explanation behind the briefcase’s contents, and that it was simply written into the screen play as an intriguing McGuffin."

I liked the soul theory better i.e. Marcelus's soul was in the briefcase and he sold it to the devil.
Bitcoin's store of value proposition comes from two things.

It's controlled issuance schedule and two the hash scarcity from mining. You can clone a coin a million times but you cannot duplicate hash scarcity.
FOMO is programmed into humans at a deep survival level, it’s hard to fight something that exploits a fundamental chink in your armour. Same with obesogenic foods.
I guess we'll leave this one up since that one didn't attract discussion while this one has.
Thanks for posting these links. On page 20 of the slide deck the author enumerates problems with existing user mode frameworks and one bullet point states:

• Limited support for interrupts

• Interrupts not considered useful at >= 0.1 Mpps

Does anyone have any insight into why Interrupts aren't considers "useful" at this rate? Is this a reference to NAPI and the threshold at which its better to poll?
It shipped, he liked it. As soon as the Apple Watch came out, the Pebble was suddenly a piece of shit.

Isn't that how it works? My 15" GTX 1070 laptop used to be the bees knees. So amazing and compact for a laptop that could support VR. Now, in comparison to some stunning Max-Q designs, it's now pretty meh.
I'm All Up in Your Blockchain, Pilfering Your Wallets
Sounds like you're living the life - I would love to build my own house one day
Nothing on the contents of the comment itself? Appeal to authority, or lack of, in this case.
I would do this in a heartbeat, except having Maps and needing to look up a quick phone number / look for a place's opening hours while out and about is hard to give up. :(
I appreciate the content of the article but I can't help picking up a dose of disrespect from the author towards exactly the collection of people he is trying to persuade.
...into an unrelated political topic.
>The change I'd most like to see to Apple's Terminal.app is that when I want make an edit to the middle of a command line that has not been sent to the shell yet, I can use the pointing device to move the cursor to the location of the intended edit.

I recall being able to do this by holding down the alt key as I left clicked where I wanted the cursor to be relocated.

There's nothing wrong with mouse support in itself. Being able to move the cursor, select text, and in general interface with the OS or an application using a mouse is great. However being _forced_ to use the mouse for any kind of general OS or application interfacing feels like an injustice. A macOS specific example would be moving a window between desktops. The last time I used macOS there was no native way to do this without using the mouse. I had to drag the window to the desired desktop (either by dragging it towards the edge of the current desktop or by going to the desktop overview mode and dragging it onto the desired desktop).
That article is misleading, the Dreamliner is at least a decade away from true profitability, if it ever gets there. When Boeing announces it "turned" profitable, they are saying it now costs less to make each Dreamliner than they are selling for. But that is ignoring over $30B in development costs (plus interest) that it needs to earn back before it can ever generate a true economic profit.

"In the second quarter of 2015, Boeing lost $25 million on each 787 delivered but was planning to break-even per plane before the year end. After that Boeing hopes to build 900 Dreamliners over six years at an average profit of more than $35 million each. But with deferred costs peaking in 2016 at $33 billion, Leeham analyst Bjorn Fehrm considers Boeing can't make an overall profit on the program. Ted Piepenbrock, an academic affiliated with the MIT and the University of Oxford, projects losses decreasing through the first 700 airliners, forecast the cumulative deferred costs to peak beyond $34 billion and its model most favorable to Boeing projects a program loss of $5 billion after delivering 2,000 Dreamliners. Boeing’s original development investment, estimated at least at a further $20 billion, isn't included in these costs.[177]"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boeing_787_Dreamliner
I'm enthusiastic about finishing a project I helped start at work, which involves migrating tens of thousands of lines of complex and undocumented VB6 code into a functionally equivalent C# program. I get a kick out of doing things that seem against the odds and others would deem hopeless.
One of the things that sucks about the battle against global warming is that it is the world's largest collective action problem. In order to realistically stop it we have to cooperate on a massive scale. And there is a massive amount of evidence that we are not going to cooperate effectively on this.

So anyone past a certain point on the individualist/collectivist spectrum might see their non-cooperation toward global warming as pure virtue signalling, without any realistic chance of their individual action having a measurable effect on the world.

Individualism is a conservative/masculine virtue to a greater degree than collectivism. So it is easy to see why someone may prefer to choose a non-cooperative stance on global warming as a pure virtue signalling move.
$1tn / 500 = $2 bn

$2 bn / 7.6 billion = 0.263

Another way to think about it is that the 500 oligarchs of the world were able to capture a worldwide average of 26.63¢ from each person. In the course of 365 days it's as though each person in the world bought each of the 500 oligarchs in the world a full $0.26/$1.50 = nearly 1/5th of a single vending machine 20 ounce bottle of coke. Multiply that by 500 and you can have a very proper sit-down meal anywhere in the world.

Of course, maybe they generated $500, or $1000, or $3,000 in wealth to do so.

After all, the worldwide real income increased by well over twice that.

But it's that fifth of a bottle of coke that bothers me, personally. Why should bill gates get a quarter from me? He obviously didn't work for it as much as I did. If anything he should be paying me. Why, you ask?

What did I make that he uses? Why, I might as well ask: what do the 500 oligarchs of the world make that anyone uses - wait, don't answer that, I have a point to make here and it would kind of ruin it to know the answer.

My point is, the rich need to stop getting richer. It's just not right.

/s

[1] http://www.ilo.org/global/research/global-reports/global-wag...
I wonder how many of these banks think they're using blockchain, and put out press releases stating that, because the engineers have lied to management in order to get projects underway.

Matt Levine has been speculating on this a lot recently: banks traditionally have hugely underinvested in infrastructure upgrades. I imagine if you're in IT at a bank, it must be awfully tempting to go "blockchain! secret project!" to get management on board because the suits are all caught up in the hype. Then you can just immediately pivot to Apache Cassandra (which is strictly superior to blockchain in pretty much every proposed business use of blockchain I've ever seen) and no one's the wiser.
I hesitate to post a slight disagreement here because I think, for the most part, Obama is right on the money.

However, I would hesitate to just put the problem on 'just' social media itself - if person A posts a message that says in a supposedly limited setting and person B uses a datacenter of big data AI / neural net / blockchain / VR or whatever fancy technology you want to put this in a much larger setting than the original statement, it is just a slightly clever (one could alternatively say unscrupulous) way for a person B to say what person A is saying, many many times over, and try to hide being behind it.

The same thing happens in real-life (maybe I should say 3-d) discussions, in albeit, a much more nuanced manner, but still with just as great potential effect.
While I broadly agree with the author's characterization and summary of the importance of "real" soft skills, that seems to be a tiny slice of how the term is used. I've seen discussions of soft skills cover a ridiculously broad assortment of actual skills, cultural sensitivities, in-group identity behaviors, personality traits, and neurological aptitudes. Without being a lot clearer about the scope, I think there's a real risk of a "soft skills are real and important" position mutating into "if I don't like somebody it's just because they didn't work hard enough, not because there's anything strange about my expectations".