skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So the prevailing thought is that the NTSB is delaying the documents to protect FIU officials, and not to prevent undue influence of the public before the release of the report?

It certainly doesn't look good from this quoted paragraph...

"Public records made and received by the Department from February 20 until the bridge collapsed on March 15 obviously were not obtained by the Department during an investigation because there had been no accident, much less an investigation into an accident,'' he wrote in a response to the FDOT motion to dismiss the lawsuit.

"Florida law is clear that if an agency’s record is a public record at the time it is made or received, then that document does not lose its character as a public record if the document is later given to an investigative agency in the course of a subsequently initiated investigation."

Still could be to prevent a public outcry before the facts are in, but that does seem mighty fishy...
+1 for

> "the two mule team of 'because we need it' and 'because we can!"
There already exists an entity with the actual purpose of getting answers to those tough questions, which is in fact already doing so, the NTSB.

The Miami Herald is suing to get more material so that it can run more speculative headlines, which doubtless is great for the Miami Herald, because it drives revenue from selling papers and from advertising. But unlike the NTSB the Miami Herald has no real interest in the prevention of future harm.

Accident investigators like the NTSB need legal protection so that they get honest answers, in the service of the prevention of future harm. The harder you make it for them to do that job, the less effective they are.

There's often a fantasy in play in which people suppose that surely if everything was out in the open we'd fix all these problems, wouldn't we? But we've actually run that experiment already and the results were not good. Without the methodical independent investigation big vested interests are able to direct the narrative as they choose. And their interest isn't preventing future harm... except to themselves. So nothing improves, you will read the same stories, and be pointed at the same scapegoats, forever.

The specific focus on _preventing future harm_ is what's important about accident investigators. You might think a court seems like the right place, but courts are about _justice_ which isn't interested in future harm at all. Here's a nice modern British example that shows this difference:

A young woman drunkenly leans against a train as it departs, to the horror of those inside the train she falls and is killed.

The accident investigators look at that and their concern is: How should we prevent similar things happening? They look at lots of evidence as to exactly what happened and when, they interview people, they review the technology in place, and they make recommendations for how we can prevent the same tragedy re-occurring.

The court says: The train guard has a legal responsibility towards passengers, the evidence shows he did not do everything by the book, and a passenger died. If you have a legal responsibility but you don't do things by the book and someone dies, that's manslaughter. Guilty. Prison.
I'm in the same boat, I really like touchid. I have CAPS LOCK mapped to ESC and have rarely if ever use anything but the function keys on the touchbar. I wanted to like it and use it, but it just doesn't work well for me.
"Give me liberty, or give me death" is admirable as a philosophy for precisely as long as your own life is the only one being wagered.
PyTorch is rivaling TensorFlow in popularity now. Lua Torch is basically dead.
Is the goal to make beautiful structures, or is it to make beautiful structures as if they still have the characteristics of wood?

I’m inclined to believe that, if the original masterful wood-crafters had instead began their professions with stone, that they would have created beautiful structures that fully explored the capabilities of stone, and that their contributions to architecture may have looked a little different, but no less aesthetic.

So, assuming the will of the original craftsmen was to simply make the most aesthetic structures that their materials would allow (and maybe I’m wrong about that), would it be paying homage to them by making stone copies of their wooden accomplishments while working in a new medium with different characteristics, or would it be paying homage to them by continuing their pursuit and fully exploring the capabilities of stone, as the forefathers had done with wood?

That’s a question with no right answer... but I personally believe that homage is not to copy one’s output, but to copy one’s input.. To seek what they sought. To do as they would have done if they had stone instead of wood.
The current Minis on sale aren't attractive or economical, given that they are so outdated.

Yes, you can buy one, but you'd be paying too much for 2014 hardware.
Eyes doesn't send the entire picture to the brain at once at a constant sampling rate either, they work more like event cameras [0]. Combine this with micro movements of the eye, and specialized brain structures and it's not as easy as saying that because we only need two eyes, robots only need two cameras. Sure, stereo vision might be enough, but what kind of cameras, and what kind of computers do we need to reach feature parity with our own sight?

[0] http://www.rit.edu/kgcoe/iros15workshop/papers/IROS2015-WASR...
99% the jobs for PHP "development" I've come across in the past couple months have been requiring lots Laravel experience. And quite a few of those have required a bachelors in computer science...
Is this phrase (two mule team) a common one? It's an apt turn of phrase.
If you like Jekyll, GitHub pages has first class support for it. All you have to do is commit a new file for github pages to rebuild your site.
It specifically was NOT a cable-stayed bridge. It was a non-redundant truss bridge with a tower and faux stays that contributed nothing to the structural capabilities of the bridge. The arrangement of the truss structure mimiced the stay angles purely for aesthetics, not for any other reason. The choice to use a single truss structure rather than a more traditional redundant set of trusses was due to the desire for a striking design.

Adding the tower or cables would have done nothing to strengthen the bridge. The engineers in the article suggest that the second shorter section of the bridge to be built afterwards may have alleviated some of the stresses on the north truss beam, but the truss itself was unorthodox, so they cannot say anything for certain.
According to Google search traffic, React is 10x popular:

https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=today%205-y&ge...

According to NPM download stats, React is 6x larger:

https://www.npmjs.com/package/react
https://www.npmjs.com/package/vue

For Vue to catch up to the number of React stars would mean that their rate of starring is significantly higher.

I wonder if rate of new Github stars are a leading indicator of future popularity increases? Probably? Would be interesting if someone could study that.

Weird thing, commits to Vue are decreasing over time and are mainly done by a single individual - I've never seen that pattern in a popular library:
https://github.com/vuejs/vue/graphs/contributors

While commits to React are regular and come from a much wider base of contributors:
https://github.com/facebook/react/graphs/contributors

The writing is clearly on the wall (or the stars are on github), Vue is definitely going to overtake React usage in the long run unless another new library appears or React changes significantly.
Probably stuff you've installed.
But FIU's bridge was designed to mimic the dramatic look of a cable-stayed bridge, where the deck is suspended from cables fanning out from a tall mast. In FIGG's design, though, the "cables" — actually metal pipes — were mostly just for show. The diagonal, v-shaped struts of the truss did the structural work.
American prisons are scary places and I believe we lock people too easily. In this case however, this guy should serve the time and not get that easily off the hook.
The families of the people that were killed want to understand what happened. Delays and silence will make their suffering worse.

People are often very forgiving when they know what actually happened. But being shut out of the information flow is a problem.

I'm not saying we need to find the guilty and punish them, but there are people that have a real stake in finding out the story.
I often read “I chose Vue because it feels easier than React”.

Programming in React requires some basics in JavaScript and functional programming. It helps if you already have a dev background, but if not, then you will learn things really useful for a developer. And not only for frontend dev.

Then you just have to learn the React API: 4 concepts (component, state, props, render) & 3 functions (didMount, didUpdate, willUnmount).
A System to Computerize Advertising Composition (1966) [video]
It's dead simple, but you're right everything has an interface. Still I love how simple it is.
> And yet a lot of tools and large packages will spit out an error telling the user to run NPM update.

I've honestly never encountered an error with a message telling me to blindly run npm update. What's a package that does this?
Suicide is deliberate. Any unfortunate death due to overcrowding attributed to suicide is simply false. There is no evidence of intentional death or racing towards a cliff, merely that when faced with no other apparent route of escape, they have a great chance of dying when trying to cross a body of frigid water. That's entirely different from the portrayal by Disney and the associated myth.
Can we trust AI if we don't know how it works?
Does anyone know why you would use an unsigned char array to store the MAC address instead of uint8_t? Char is one byte but a but a byte is not guaranteed to be 8 bits yet MAC is defined as 48 bits
It's a bit tongue in cheek, I don't really recommend that everybody moves overseas.

But for me, I was in a city that I didn't really like, and a job that I didn't really like. I wasn't going anywhere and I wasn't saving any money. Basically, my life was on hold. I had worked at my job for a year, and had saved a total of zero dollars, my boss was never going to give me a pay rise, and I was feeling like shit at work.

I realised that if I stayed where I was, in a years time, I was going to be in exactly the same situation and there weren't a lot of other jobs in my city that would've put me in a better situation.

So I decided that I'd quit my job and move to Australia, which for New Zealand citizens is as simple as getting on a plane and flying over (essentially it's visa free). I didn't have much in the way of savings, but I figured I had 3 months of runway if I used my credit card.

I found a job within a month, and everything else has fallen in place quite nicely.

The main takeaway is that sometimes you need to be able to realise when you're in a situation that you can change, and then do what you need to do to enact that change, even if that means moving way outside your comfort zone.
And note that because it says 'person' and not 'natural person', it includes corporations.

ie. "Boeing" is the person and "USA" is the Party.
You might get a lot of value from the following book

"Magic Box Paradigm: A framework for startup acquisitions"
See. This is what will happen to you on the D forums too, when you say anything negative about D (that the D community disagree with).

A comment like this would not raise the attention of D moderators though.

So who's the real sockpuppter, troll, narcisist, that makes all the post like these (that you'll see all over the D forums, in response to anyone that says negative things about D).
Simpler neural networks clearly have limitations that we might be reaching. Recent papers from DeepMind and OpenAI, among others, show that one can develop more sophisticated architectures that can solve some complex real-world problems much better than vanilla networks, however.

Granted we are still far from AGI even with these new advances, but given the progress of the field in the last few years as resources pour in, we cannot say for certain that AGI won’t be reached in our lifetime.

One watershed moment I would look out for is when an AI wins a Starcraft tournament. Winning Starcraft requires many of the ‘general intelligences’ humans excel at (relative to current machines). In my estimation, it is much harder than Go (continuous state space, multi-agent interactions, etc.). DeepMind has announced they are working on it but I’d guess we are at least 2, likely 5 or more, years away from achieving the milestone.
1. Apple doesn't refresh the UI components annually. In fact the last time it happened was 3 years ago. Not to mention that the Cupertino widgets are very limited in nature.

2. This project definitely feels different compared to some of their others. The experience is just so much better than writing iOS or Android code that I think they would be insane not to support it.
Ask HN: Do you have a small business accountant that you highly recommend?
If so, who are they?
It's far more important to do something and finish it than to do it right or perfectly.
What is very well known and understood with React Native is that Facebook has surprisingly limited resources to work on it, so Facebook developers mainly work on parts of React Native that Facebook uses. It's understood that if you have a feature or use case that Facebook also doesn't have, you should be prepared to contribute that yourself.
Thanks for posting the link to the previous thread. And congratulations! Blot is a marvel in simplicity.
Thanks, I saw many articles about PyTorch lately, but didn't realise that most people had switched for good.
Do you doubt that the bridge collapsed? Or do you expect that someone besides the engineer or builder will be blamed for the collapse?
History says no.
Forgotten audio formats: Elcaset (2016)
Definitely not bashing the simplicity. It's not a product for me, but I can certainly imagine this would be a great solution for many.
How is persuading script to run su not easy? I just tried script -c su /dev/null and it worked as I expected. (/dev/null is there to prevent script from logging the interaction to a file)
I upgraded a 2012 Mini with a 240GB SanDisk [0]. It wasn't too bad, but watch the YouTube videos first. (And, as noted above, the 2014 may be trickier.)

[0] https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00M8ABEIM
At a certain scale using cloud services at all is too expensive. At a certain scale you write your own databases. You make your own chips.
It seems particularly focused on high growth startups, which makes me feel like it's less suitable for smaller and slower growing cash flow type businesses. But I may be wrong.
Why were you asked to not give the talks? Context is everything.

Are you asking for the company to pay but the travel/training budget is insufficient? Sell your boss on why this is valuable to the company and why the budget should be expanded or funded some other way.

Does your manager not think you’re good enough to be giving the talk? Your options are probably to prove him/her wrong, get a better manager, or live with a manager who doesn’t trust/respect you.

If your manager is good, talk to him/her about the concerns and go from there. If your manager is not good, figure out a path that gets you a good manager. Staying with a bad manager is pretty much destined to end in a bad situation.
In my experience, if you need to "manage the manager", it's not a good situation, do whatever you need to do for the short term to get through it, but be looking for something better at the same time.

Your manager should be someone that you can learn from, not someone who requires your management.
How to Install VMware Workstation on Ubuntu 18.04 LTS
Most copyleft licenses are not, in the manner normally entered into, “commercially negotiated contracts”, and many are gratuitous licenses, not contracts at all.
GDPR is helping US internet giants and squelching smaller players. I work in the media space and can see where advertiser money is flowing. Advertisers who had previously spread their money supporting smaller publishers including European publishers are now concentrating it in walled gardens to limit any potential liability reasoning that the walled gardens will better be able to handle any arising litigation through their bottomless cash reserves :-)
Should You Use a Front-End Web Framework?
It might not be the author's intention, but I think there is now a push for MAC addresses to be 64 bits instead of 48.
What? I just expressed an opinion about a programming language. I didn't realised that was a crime on HN.

You must be one of those D forum members that don't like other expressing opinions about D, (i.e. ones like TorUser warns us of.)
Twitter to Face Claims by ‘White Advocate’ Over Banned Accounts
Loved the Air, esp. the keyboard.
I'm actually curious - how does the React (Native) team feel about such efforts? Initially RN was pitched not for cross platform app development, but "learn once, write anywhere". I guess this is the reason why sharing more code between RN and web hasn't been prioritised by the FB RN team, but do you see your team wanting to encourage this?
Didn't Facebook say they were deliberately unprioritizing news article in favor of posts written by friends?
It's our version of sports teams. ("Cavs are better than 76ers!")

We pick a tribe and can be loud and obnoxious in support of them.
Sure!
Google is a huge part of my brand and identity. It's where I've learned everything about building products. It's where I've perfected my craft. It also helps others know my background and my pedigree to some extent.
When my first company went down the crapper my now ex-wife said "you had your chance. We are never doing that again. You will get a job like the rest of the world." But before we were married she and I talked often about entrepreneurship and building things and how my path was different. Our marriage was over at that point, but it wouldnt end for several more years. Wasted time.
I wish Ebay's Marko got any mindshare. It'd be nice if our choices weren't limited to React and Vue.

https://markojs.com/
Any source for this?
I concur.

I’m completely convinced that my 12 inch iPad Pro blows away my 2014 Mac mini in every respect. Mac mini has 8GB ram, and an SSD. Still doesn’t feel nearly as snappy as my iPad.

My 2010 MBAir is even worse.
I’m cool with just getting Linux on it. Would be like a raspberry pi on steroids!
If you focus on this at the point where you aren't getting what you want its too late. You need to build a relationship of trust before you ask for an exception or special request (in the eye of the manager not you).

Your manager should know the following:

- That if there is a problem you will always come to him/her first not try and work around him

- That he can count on you to do what needs to be done. You will go out of your way for her. If you've ever said "this isn't my job" then you will have only an adversarial relationship.

- That you understand what his/her boss wants, and therefore can exercise good judgement in using whatever leeway you are asking for.

Of all of these, that last point is the most important. You should intimately understand why they consider a conference talk to be something negative. Your manager should know you understand that and can therefore trust you. The fact you don't understand why they are against this conference talk is the root of the failure.

Note that the relationship should be reciprocal. I'm not saying be a slave to your boss, but if you want anything other than the traditional boss/subordinate relationship you need to have trust you have each others backs.
Link to the transcript from the case: https://2kpcwh2r7phz1nq4jj237m22-wpengine.netdna-ssl.com/wp-...

Here's how the Judge describes the plaintiff's case:

"Twitter is the largest communication source in the world.

And the way to get your word out and the way to be heard in the modern era, particularly with regard to such important matters as being able to petition the elected leaders and others who are involved in government, for redress, is to be able to be on the Twitter platform.

And for Twitter to know that and nonetheless impose language, as it did here, an otherwise prolix document that's not highlighted, and done on an adhesion contract basis, and on a take it or leave it basis, it is procedurally unconscionable in a large measure.

And when you have something that is procedurally unconscionable in a large measure, you only need, under California law, to have substantive unconscionability in a small measure.

And it's substantively unconscionable to deprive people of the most important platform to speak and to be able to seek redress of their legislators."
True story. Years ago, I was driving with my wife, and I was wearing an oilskin rain hat. I felt a tickle, took the hat off and looked. Dropped the hat on the floor. My wife asked what startled me. I said "let me stop first". Parked the car. She was very worried by now. Said "weta in the hat". She ejected out of her car door like 2001: Space Odyssey airlock scene. Good times.
22...17...15.. It's about to happen.
Google/NASA Alpha Jet Crash at Mather Field
Yeah, I'm all for the growth of vue in addition to react. Just thought it was a relevant metric to share.
Yes! Good thing you pushed back on the architect.

I have a similar design philosophy that honesty is more aesthetically pleasing than deception.

When designers resort to faux materials and structures, the truth still tends to peek through, resulting in an 'uncanny valley' of forms. For example:
* Brickwork veneers bend in the wrong spots
* Faux beams are placed in the wrong locations with the wrong joints, announcing that they can't bear a load

There's certainly a place for decorative elements, just not decorative elements pretending to be something else.

I spent several summers framing houses, so I'm looking forward to an opportunity to design my own house - and maybe 3D printing it.
Qantas Airbus A380 'nosedives' after wake turbulence from another A380
Gersploosh is clearly the superior framework.
In what jurisdiction? The US does have mens rea.

Mere possession isnt enough; it has to be proven that you sought it, or knew what it was and kept it, and (variable) be in possession of 3 or more artifacts. Keeping it, hiding it in a buried folder and renaming the files using terms common only amongst exploitation rings does not help your defense against any of these factors.

Lots of claims of non-solicitation get made--nobody is going to admit otherwise--but after forensics it always turns out to either truly be a really shitty prank or the recipient was way more involved than they were willing to admit.

Nobody gets prosecuted for simply being on the wrong end of an email. There is always more to the story.
And myth explanations spawn more myths. I had read (forgot the source) that it was a myth and that the lemmings were really jumping off cliffs to swim to an island people weren't generally aware of.

Although swimming to an island is closer to the truth of swimming across a river than suicide is.
I think that when you actually work in a large company, you realise just how large it is. As in, org charts and different campuses and countries.

When I worked at an airline working on their websites, I wasn't privy to, or bothered by their flight scheduling or workplace relationship dramas.
Show HN: Aircrud – No code, no installation admin framework
This is covered by the first episode of the World at War. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0b4g4ZZNC1E
Ugandan wins Africa prize for bloodless malaria test
I had a late 2012 mini that died due to a power spike. I bought a replacement thinking I could move the 16GB of RAM over to it. Man, was I frustrated when I discovered that shit was soldered on in the new ones. WTF Apple? Seriously, WTF? Fix your shit and make it awesome.