skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The appearance of ads is not the only metric that matters for people. The fact that no one is yet apparently spamming or otherwise attempting to profit from Mastadon is more a reflection of how little it is currently used, rather than something inherent to the service.
Top YouTubers Are Taking Heat for Deals with a Controversial Mental Health App
It's not that simple. Language may be an issue here.

There are people who study how we know stuff. After all the way you "know" that chairs hold you up is different from the way you "know" string theory explains the birth of the universe. Or that language evolved before tool usage. People use "know" and "science" to describe both, but they're different kinds of knowledge.

This is why no matter what the topic (almost), somebody can call it pop science. A lot of what people get angry about is just non-science reporters covering scientists who might exaggerate a bit. I can see where it gets them angry, but I am not sure that it is anything purposefully-bad going on.

So let's define pop-science as things that have broad audience appeal but little in the way of advancing the underlying conversation.

Once we define it like that, anything appearing in a popular forum that strikes up controversy? Most likely it's fluff. Every now and then, about 1 time in 100, there's really something interesting going on. Usually it's just non-scientists enjoying playing mental Star Trek and scientists scoffing at the terrible reporting.

Likewise, any book that tells me things I want to hear, or supports some larger overall narrative about how large groups of people feel about the world, is pop science. You see these a lot in the softer fields where "science" is much more a matter of opinion than anything else.

Hope that helps.

By the way, pop-science can be fun! You just have to know what you're consuming.
This has been the building code in Florida for a quarter century.

Most people do better. Typical construction in Florida is concrete block. There is no "ordinary wood frame house" in Florida. That would be out of place. We have termites, but not concrete-eating termites.

To me it feels like the houses are about 5% wood frame, 90% concrete block, and 5% solid poured concrete that could stop a truck tossed by a tornado.
> benefits the 1%

That's an American slogan and approach, and maybe with their policies of wealth distribution, it's a legitimate target. In Europe the resentment against the very rich is usually reserved for those who dodge taxes.

> the "common" (i.e. actually working) population.

The common, actually working, population usually has pension build up and savings. Try asking those people who formerly had highly volatile currencies how they feel about having those in Euro.
That's why there's building codes. After all, I don't want the wreckage from your house smashing into mine.
First I want to thank you for your honesty. It is so refreshing to read, in this sea of self-promotion of Medium posts that go around here.

You may want to talk to a coach about this. I'm sure you can find someone specialized in finding jobs. You make it sound like you somehow let yourself down, and if that shimmers through in an interview, you won't leave a good impression. I think you need somebody to help you with finding a good way to frame this time in a better light. Not only for your next application, but also for yourself. What started as time off might have turned into involuntary unemployment, with all the negative weight that this brings.
I recently re-read it and didn't find it dated. I suppose if you've taken in its lessons, then it over-emphasises its point a bit, but consider that (as Pinker points out) "its main point still needs to be made 40+ years later. Most journalists, psychologists, and intellectuals commenting on natural selection still write as if it acts for the good of the group or the species, without even realizing they have said anything problematic or contentious."

Also, the stuff on evolutionary stable strategies is very insightful and lucidly explained.
I run deadinsi.de. I wrote some kubernetes definitions and they work, but in the end there was too much overhead, uncertainty about storage stability and cost to keep it running on k8s.

But if you have access to a cluster and want to try it, here you go: https://github.com/SerenityLaboratories/cluster

It includes a storage provider I wouldn't trust all too much yet and the docs are sparse, but you should be able to get it running if you know Kubernetes.
Some data-sets are available as "databases" that you can hook QGIS (or similar software) to directly. No need to download the whole thing, it'll stream only what's required in your viewport.
What's OS do you recommend for non-tech people?
Reopening neverending story...what OS do you recommend for non-tech people?

My corp laptop has Win 10 (corp policy), my small business is runing on Ubuntu 18 good for me), wife has own laptop with Win 10, but disk is terribly slow. I've found that disk (os) replication to ssd is impossible. She has some windows only apps so thinking how to solve it. (She don't wanna MAC OS/device). I'd like to avoid buying new device.

Wondering what is the current HN trend.
Brilliant! That's the kind of people and story we need more of.

But he wasn't a technician, he was an engineering officer and qualified pilot (though not on the Lightning) and commanding officer of the unit in question.
(2 + 2)-Free Posets, Ascent Sequences and Pattern Avoiding Permutations [pdf]
A Far-Right Group Beat Up Protesters and Weren’t Arrested. Police Won’t Say Why
>>72h is a lot of warning?

It's not 72hours, but probably since ~ 1492 they knew that FL is hurricane country. They also know that x% of planes are always on maintenance and a certain amount of planes cannot evacuate to a safer base. And while not cheap, it's possible to make hurricane proof hangars. Someone dropped the ball and a lot of money was lost.
On the one hand I really try to be mindful of the concerns someone like Altman faces that I don't, but then on the other hand I don't understand how anyone with any conscience, integrity and basic knowledge of history/politics would be able to have anything to do with the Saudi government.

Furthermore, if something is 'out of your expertise', why get into this situation in the first place? "ich habe es nicht gewusst" should at least not be valid approach/defense anymore.
Things That Will Happen If You Eat 2 Eggs a Day
Study Argues Geographical Centralization of Mining Risks 51% Attack
My Serverless Adventure
Breaking one rule of firearm safety won't lead to death or injury.

Breaking two at the same time might.

It is not one failure. It is at least two.
I make decent pay each month, and when the money shows up on my account, I go "sweet" for 1 second then get back to normal. I once withdrew my whole salary in cash, and wow, the relationship to money is quite different.

I didn't spend as much.
I felt insanely rich.
And I had bucks for the buskers and homeless.

Digital money isn't money. It's just Numbers with no relationship to reality to me (and many others).
Why aren't we all doing this! Isn't this the dream of everyone who ever built a model rocket?
Datalgorithmics
CEOBAL
"[..] spending the future earnings of young and not-yet-born Italians to satisfy the greediness of voters at that time."

If the Italy of the year 3000 is a wasteland without buildings or industries, never mind how much money have you saved, the not-yet-born Italians will be in problem.

If the Italy of the year 3000 is a highly developed country, with futuristic robots and star trek replicators, they will just have a good life.

Sometimes, with all this chat about debt and earnings we forget what is really important.

Do you want the future Italians have a good life? Invest in infrastructure, technology and knowledge and don't do the opposite trying to "save" not-yet-born people money. That should be obvious.
"Selfish gene" notion was debunked by Novak et al. Also Taleb extensively writes in his books about how this contradicts evolution.
The Wikipedia articles are very good in terms of detail, but I didn't find them accessible. I thought about writing some more accessible ones for non-tech people after a request from a colleague for something even a manager could understand!
> people end up on hyper-polarised instances where war is waged with blocks, bans, and federation filters

> here you can build all the walls you want to isolate yourself from anyone who doesn't completely agree with you

Shouldn't isolation of opposing viewpoints lead to less war overall? If everyone is interacting in the same space, every controversial post can potentially provoke an aggressive reply, and each response draws in more followers to participate in the battle. On HN, that is counteracted by having too many comments weigh down a submission (the famed flamewar detector), but on engagement-based platforms like Twitter, the fighting never ends.

If everyone chooses an instance with people that think alike and that filters content they strongly disagree with, it's not going to lead to more people changing their minds; but at least they won't constantly see things that make them mad and draw them into useless fights.
The reality is this feature wouldn’t be required for most people.
With a spouse the 'threat' is that they can unlock your phone when you're sleeping. This isn't about giving in to coercion, but about covert access.

Not sure how this works with an employer though.
It took off because back then having an iPhone was an exclusive thing and Apple promoted it in one of their early app commercials. Being able to 'bump' was a mark of status and one which had a special "handshake".

Not sure why you're picking on the accelerators.
Usually a mix of both, depends heavily on where you are, in my country security is mandated by government but the exact procedures are left to the individual airports and evaluated by government agencies.

IIRC the US has the TSA but Airports can outsource to other third parties if the TSA permits it.

I don't see how that question is really relevant considering your bag will be atleast xrayed by one of the two at some point.
I'm with with him taking his time to think on this, but anything less than a proper statement about this situation and explaining his reasons for being on this board would be highly disappointing.
All articles about underdiagnosis of autism in girls stated "it manifests differently in girls" and "girls are better at masking it due to them using strategies little boys don't".

The whole "people must assume that there is everything exactly the same and only differences are social" is strawman.

Also, it is possible to have lower rates and simultaneously have those underdiagnozed.
It should be noted that he left the project in 2014.
I'm reminded about the STEPS report of using ascii art from the rfcs as a DSL for describing tcp:

Writeup/comment:
http://www.moserware.com/2008/04/towards-moores-law-software...

Comment thread:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=846028

The vpri texts:
http://www.vpri.org/writings.php

Appendix e and section "A Tiny TCP/IP Using Non-deterministic Parsing" of "STEPS Toward The Reinvention of Programming: First Year Progress Report, December 2007.":

http://www.vpri.org/pdf/tr2007008_steps.pdf
Interesting video, so it is possible that there is no leak after all, but I think this does not prove that there are no extra dimensions, as the video tries to portrait.
It takes around 3.5 hours in total, so rather safe from accidental activation by pockets or kids: https://twitter.com/gruber/status/1000153761266970624
Or five button presses of power button on iOS.
> - I agree with the notion but I don’t think it’s only because it’s cheap. It’s also about speed. Some projects take ages at large companies no matter how much you throw at them

I believe one thing that really kills (software) projects is throwing too much resources (people) at them too soon in the anticipation of growth and success.
Yeah, its a lot of work to make an HAL with support for all desirable platforms. Just use Linux with KVM and the virtualized devices become the HAL, best-in-class hardware support already included.
Reminds me of the time a brand new a340-600 was run into a wall, totaling it.

https://www.aviation24.be/website/who-remembers-this/a-brand...

https://aviation-safety.net/database/record.php?id=20071115-...
Exercise is neat indeed, and IMO it has similar mechanisms regarding meditation but since meditation is invisible and quite fuzzy.. exercise is easier to use.

If I may, keep the meditation thing in mind, it really changed how I approached my own anxiety and how I could restore a balanced state of mind. Maybe one day it will click for you, I hope.
On iPhone X, you can hold the power button and volume up for 5 seconds and it will lock the phone, disable Face ID, and force entering your passcode to unlock.
Contrary, from the lock screen it disabled biometrics. Your phone must be locked already.
The End of Coal Could Be Closer Than It Looks
The beneficiaries of wealth distribution in Germany are unproductive civil servants and stock holders.

Government money is being redirected to a) prevent revolts (social security) b) sustain the privileges of the civil servant class c) prop up the stock market and house prices for the wealthy.

The Euro facilitates this; giving public funds to country X so that part of it is spent back in Germany (prop up the stock market) is just one gambit of stealing money from the common population.

The working population in Germany does NOT have secure pensions in general. Please look up "Altersarmut" (old age poverty).

And the D-Mark wasn't volatile...
It's easy to find better solutions given that we now know the hangers would fail. It's cheating to know that.

For example, a probable solution would be to place the aircraft far from things likely to become flying debris, then add sandbags... lots of sandbags. Park the planes on the runway, then add enough sandbags to divert the wind over the top.

I'd take that chance if I knew that the hangar would fail, but again, that is cheating.
I wouldn't give much stock in what Taleb writes about anything except options trading.

Can you give a more specific reference to Novak et al.? I don't think the "Selfish Gene" has been "debunked", and find no reference to Novak eg at Wikipedia.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gene-centered_view_of_evolutio...
Similarly, when I pay electronically, I know the business owners have one less option for tax fraud.
Not changed, still works on my Xs
I think that what the last financial crisis shown us is that "too big too fail" is the way to go. If you're big enough, you'll be saved and forgiven, because your fall could create too many problems.

This government, with all its shortcomings, is the first in some decades that tries to put italian people first, rather than finance, the euro, or banks.

That said, the bet is risky. Salvini started his activities by showing how the EU is inept at solving the issue with immigrants from Africa and Middle East (eu countries could not agree on an eu-wide solution, leaving border states to deal with it).

Now the government wants to transfer that ineptitude feeling to the economy.

Is Italy actually too big to fail? We'll see.

Disclaimer: I'm italian.
Mastodon instances are not public spaces. Users can pick how much they want to engage in political discussions by picking their instance or, if they can, hosting their own. (The second part of the argument is flawed because most people can't just throw up a rails app and maintain it, be it cost or lack of knowledge)

What most people don't get about "bubbles", mostly because it doesn't affect them, is that sometimes, if your mere existence is political, getting some rest from it can be quite hard.
5 power button pushes on iOS still works.
Expecting basic competence isn't 'cheating'.

They're planes. Fly them out of the way, it's not rocket science.
I remember Fjord Of The Net Vikings. Dan's Gallery of the Grotesque. I was too young for BBS culture but then I found the Hotline protocol, which gave me a new horizon of musical styles and I even made a music video with some random German dude by mailing CDs across the pond.

Just last night I remembered micromusic.net which introduced me to chiptunes and continues as a ghostship.
I spent a good amount of time getting AWS AppSync to work with different GraphQL clients last week.

Looking forward to check out this one.

Thanks for sharing!
I wish I could read a paper like this one! My takeaway is that is no leak, but this doesn't prove that there are not higher dimensions in space, just that the gravitational waves can't get through it (if exists).
I don't know what I'm talking about but I cannot resist the urge to tell you what I think. As a bit of a background I've been living outside of Italy for many years now, I was there last week for the first time in 8 months. I can think of several reason:

- Italy used to handle Europe's low end manufacturing, like textiles, thanks to our relatively inexpensive wages and nice location. This all disappeared in the last 15 years with production moving to Asia, you can say we got outcompeted at our own game. Here is one example of one such factories in ruin (https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Valdagno_Marzotto.jpg) I saw last week. That thing is massive.

- You heard this before, but taxation is huge. It's one of the reasons I left and it is especially depressing given the next to nothing we have to show for it. We do have a corrupted political class we can't seem to get rid of. I didn't really follow but it seems that in the process of replacing it we ended up with a worst evil, that is populism. I guess stealing a bit from everyone for your own profit is a thing, stealing from future generations for feel-better political manoeuvres is even worse.

- The huge divide from north to south. It's a long story, but if you ask the north they will tell you the south is spending all their taxes, if you ask the south they will tell you the north conquered them and stole all of their wealth 200 years ago. The region I'm from, Veneto, used to be one of the wealthiest in Europe until very recently. The big majority of our taxation ended up being redistributed in the south, again, with nothing to show for it thanks to corrupted politicians, mafia and I will add, a general disinterest in improving one's condition due to the very nice weather and the very little you have to do in life to live comfortably in the south. Which I hope doesn't sparkle any debate, it's something I believe you can observe in the whole of Europe taking a train from Sicily to Norway.

- English. We don't speak it. If we do it's just a notch above barely. With the internet and international commerce that is holding us back more than you would expect. I wish we had cartoons and movies with no dubbing on national TV.

On the positive side, one Indian friend of mine jokingly told me his parents still buy textile machines from Italian companies, which is a nice example of the kind of industries that managed to survive in Italy to this day.
Italy is banking on the welfare Northern Europe is giving them. Not unlike how California and New York pay for the US.

If Italy can't lend money they are finished and they know it. Politicians don't believe their own words.
it would be an alarm bell (big one) if none of the founders has a technical background. When you join a new group of people who you have no history with it, then it takes some time to build trust (battles fought together under which bonding can occur) and learn their motives.

My fav resource (only discovered it recently here on HN) is this document https://docs.google.com/document/d/1ZJZbv4J6FZ8Dnb0JuMhJxTnw...

it has helped me a great deal to assess a new situation and figure out whether the non-tech founders and decision makers in the firm are actually on the ball doing their part.

Understanding their role (what is their strategy in finding product market fit) is crucial in evaluating "your bosses" performance and ultimately if whether the team and product can make it post MVP.

Just focusing on MVP is a fallacy IMVHO because it lets them isolate you (the engineer) into sticking to your niche within the org. The problems then start once you have the MVP and bosses then realizes they have missed all the steps (because they didn't know and unlike you are still learning the hard way how to do things) and you as a team are actually nowhere. It always ends in tears unless all of you are already at eye-level.

good luck!
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I guess it is more a question what is wrong with humanity ... despite all progress, what matters most to most people is, how does someone looks.
And it sure does tells a lot, but not at all enough.
Who paid 99¢?
The products are 'out of warranty' and effectively antiques.

The article states how much it would cost to get the tooling back to make more of the planes and you would be looking at spending billions to make replacements.

There is no 'series production' going on and therefore that means that 'maintenance' is more like 'restoration' with these dubious machines.

I wonder if it would make more sense and provide as much utility if the Air Force just settled for a fleet of classic concept cars. It wasn't as if the Air Force was of any use whatsoever on that day seventeen years ago when action stations was actually needed.
I’m a 21 year old italian from Milan studying my last year of engineering and can’t see a future for myself in this country.

As soon as I finish my degree I’ll move somewhere else, most of my friends (that attend the best universities in the country) want to do the same. The only reason most of us stayed here for uni are the incredibly high quality universities that are super cheap.

Here are some of the problems we face in my point of view:
https://ferrucc.io/italy-s-problems/
Which is also why some poorly configured network devices firewalls will eat pings - if they for example whitelist tcp and udp protocols and drop everything else (yes, that's a bad idea).

https://security.stackexchange.com/questions/22711/is-it-a-b...
Micromusic.net chiptune radio (1999)
I'll check it out then :)

Also, I'm new to hacker news but.. shouldn't you tag this as 'Show HN: ' ?
Where then?
Energy consumption numbers every power geek should know
I might be wildly off about anigbrowl's comment, but for a while now it's been a bit of a 'meme' in the progressive(?) / left-but-serious-about-it camp that mainstream (US) democrats, and I suppose the bigger 'left' parties in Europe, have a weird kind of obsession with 'civility' and 'protocol' and whatnot while the world is burning, so to speak. his comment reminded me of that.
The magic came from getting the important things right, the software was amazing for demo purpose, which is what most people want anyway.
I love the crazy animated gradient!

This is weird enough to go viral
The most outrageous part of the 2007 election was that they won. State politics is so unbelievably uninspiring
What unit of selection other then the gene is there?
You can also tap the power button five times in a row, which brings up the emergency screen (Power Off, Medical ID, SOS call), but also disables face recognition until a pin unlock has happened.