skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Just avoid products with palm oil, though that's getting rather hard to do.

It's infeasible without spending a lot of time studying the tiny print on the packaging of almost every item you buy apart from produce, meat, bread, and dairy. And even then some people will end up having to rigorously change their shopping pattern. This is in addition to all the other environmental and ethical issues in the supermarket: animal welfare guarantees, chocolate that doesn't screw the farmers over, sustainable fishing, local produce, and of course choosing to shop with the goal of eating healthy in that hall of temptations.

This is not something consumers can fix buy voting with their wallets. It's just too abstract: palm oil is used in so many products that have no strong link to that issue (unlike meat and seafood).
The years before the first world war had seen no serious, bloody conflicts since the Napoleonic wars. Most of the techniques and technologies used so destructively in WW1 were tested first in the colonies.

More fundamentally, the basic driver of tensions before the first world war was the german desire for colonies, or rather, export markets to allow their continued economic growth.
I think it's because Amazon holds most of the cards, so if you don't like it, you can go hang....

My figures (quoted elsewhere in a separate post). Sell my £24.95 book on lulu.com - I get ~£11. Same book on Amazon, ~£4. I did another book which I sold on both platforms, and firstly I had to raise the RRP to £7.95 so I'd make more than £1 on an Amazon sale, and secondly, I didn't sell the ~3x as many as I'd need to to make the same money as selling on lulu.com - so I now only sell the second-latest version of any of my main book on Amazon so that people will hopefully see that there's a newer version on Lulu and buy it from there.
Cadbury chocolate always was pretty poor quality but it seems to have gone even further downhill since they became part of Kraft / Mondelez.
> I certainly would be fired if my true beliefs were known

I've gone into work some days and there's been lines of cocaine railed up ready to go. (I haven't taken any drugs in over a month, for perspective). I sometimes hate my job, but I'm terrified of moving company to a culture I can't stand.

I made a throwaway account, for the future.
GitHub Octoverse 2018
Boeing specifically marketed this as not requiring new training. So they did everything they could to hide it in order to satisfy marketing’s desire.

The FAA signed off. I guess the lawyers will argue if it was legal or not.
What everyone implements has nothing to do with what the "cookie law" actually requires. You are supposed to be able to reject tracking cookies and it does not affect other cookies (e.g. for logging in) at all.

The problem is that the law is not being enforced.
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The problem with this is that numerically we work far less than ever before. We work nearly 200 fewer hours per year today than we did just a few decades ago! [1] I think people's discontent is about something much more fundamental. People's lives are pretty pointless. In times past, I think war, overt inequity, and nationalism gave people things to fight for. That's not to say we live in a utopia now a days, of course far from it. But the causes for our problems today are far less clear and solutions even less so. And so what is the point of people's lives?

This hypothesis I also think helps explain the explosive rise in things ranging from 'internet activism' which often results in little more than hurting mostly innocent individuals to the sharp increase in radicalism and division in US politics when actual differences, in spite of rhetoric, are little more than two sides of the same coin. People are trying to find meaning in their lives and its manifesting as it always has throughout humanity's history - division and conflict.

[1] - https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/USAAHWEP
I came across something called bat recently. It's a rust clone of cat with a lot of nice features integrated. This seems to be a thing lately in the Rust community to put out vastly improved versions of tools we haven't really touched in ages. Loving it.
Enthusiasts vs. Pragmatists: two types of programmers and how they fail
I'm from the UK.
I understood the Americans weren't really in the mood for letting Germany off lightly, and wanted to keep fighting. The British were happy to let the hours tick down. Which makes it all the more unusual.

Edit:
But still 3500 casualties, what a waste.
It's still not trivial, but with kubeadm [1] it is much, much easier than it used to be.

[1] https://kubernetes.io/docs/setup/independent/create-cluster-...
>I'm hearing pilots get massively underpaid for the responsibility they have,

I think this is outdated from the post-2008 crisis time, when Airlines cut back on flights. Currently there is a massive shortage of pilots, some make 150k ~ 300k in the Middle East of China.
The UTZ certification process is an example of a consumer awareness tactic that worked: in the Netherlands the majority of products with chocolate in it carries that logo. It now makes more sense for the manufacturer to just get certified chocolate.

But that worked because chocolate is very recognizable as an ingredient. Palm oil isn't, and it's in everything. Perhaps a similar certification process might help, but when you buy something that doesn't carry the logo you'll still have to check the ingredients list because often you have no idea if palm oil was used or not.
> Khan academy could have easily started with another video service.

Not all video players are created equal. It's really hard to make a good video player. Case in point, look at all the crappy video players created by news sites that don't want to embed the YT player. Some can't even pause properly using the space bar or even let you select your preferred video quality.
I suspect "work" here refers to that thing you do so that you can pay for the life-risking adventures worth having. If you kill yourself working how can you kill yourself scuba diving with sharks?
Use them if you like, don't use them if you like, write a self-aggrandising piece to draw attention to how smart you are if you like too. This is faux-problematizing.
Did you drive to the airport? Without even giving it a second thought?

Don't sweat it.
Does anyone have a recommendation for just simply printing a book (epub or pdf) that I'm not interested in selling? Just to print a copy for me?
The entire history of mankind is one of constant, vicious and brutal wars.
Nice, I'll be trying out Insomnia soon.
Interesting! Does this mean that you can focus on publishing a few papers and make a proposal highlighting all your contributions and papers, then apply to get a PhD title.
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Sorry to be offtopic, but how can you link a website that imposes literally thousands of marketing and "unclassified" cookies on you? And they only have the option to "Accept all cookies".. FUCK OFF with this bullshit!

[shit!]https://imgur.com/a/RddlgcR
> no one watches a movie because it's made by Aardman (99% of the people would not know who they are anyway).

Speak for yourself, I know I certainly do.
You seem to be right:

http://rgl.faa.gov/Regulatory_and_Guidance_Library/rgad.nsf/...

> Runaway Stabilizer

> Disengage autopilot and control airplane pitch attitude with control column and main electric trim as required. If relaxing the column causes the trim to move, set stabilizer trim switches to CUTOUT. If runaway continues, hold the stabilizer trim wheel against rotation and trim the airplane manually.
I'm not excusing anything (especially being a native Pole myself), just pointing out a difference between a 19th century authoritarianism and 20th century ones.
Absolutely not? Strong opinion. Care to justify it? I'd be surprised if anyone was convinced by what you've written so far.
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No, Youtube takes a cut from the ads that are run on the videos of the creators. So they are directly profitting from the content. A print shop as metaphor would work if a creator would have to pay youtube to host his video, but all further proceeds would go solely to him.

If Youtube profits directly from whatever they are hosting it is not that farfetched to say that they might also be liable for what is shown
Thank you everyone!
Depends where you live, most products with palm oil here in Europe are part of non-essential products, you just need to avoid the big brands and buy more traditional products. For bread, you just need to buy real bread and not white bread.
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You can usually just open the developer console and delete the modal element, however this site also disables scrolling somewhere it seems. Couldn't figure out where quickly, so I just read the article in the element inspector.

Web 2018, everyone. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Yes, and in particular it seems likely that the pilots could have stopped the automatic down trim by either invoking two trim cutout switches, and/or manually holding/turning back the trim wheel. But it appears they a) had many other things to deal with, and b) did not expect this particular failure mode, so did not recognise it. Terrible.
> All studies have shown that they are risk averse and have poor growth.

You say this like it's a bad thing?
No, the peers just outside of China can choose to reject advertisements of Google by China. Google can’t do much.
It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society.

Consider being crabby a sign of good mental health.
11/11 shows biometrics are the norm for payments in China
I worked with some version of Unix in 1984 that had a program called dog. It would silently wait for a <CR> to be pressed after each screen of output. I've never seen it anywhere else.
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What's being called into question here is the alpha vane (which measures the angle of attack) and AoA disagree warning -- of which the 737 has two and none respectively. This means that there's no quorum (need 3+ vanes for that) and no way for the pilots to know if there's a problem with the AoA data being fed into the computers.

I believe the issue is that this hidden system (MCAS) relies on AoA data which can, per the above, not be validated by the pilots or the computers. Thus the fear is that the plane will go full nose down for no obvious reason. Granted the emergency AD indicates some secondary indicators that your AoA vanes have gone wonky.

Per the AA email:

> The MCAS function becomes active when the airplane Angle of Attack exceeds a threshold based on airspeed and altitude. Stabilizer incremental commands are limited to 2.5 degrees and are provided at a rate of 0.27 degrees per second. The magnitude of the stabilizer input is lower at high Mach number and greater at low Mach numbers. The function is reset once angle of attack falls below the Angle of Attack threshold or if manual stabilizer commands are provided by the flight crew. If the original elevated AOA condition persists, the MCAS function commands another incremental stabilizer nose down command according to current aircraft Mach number at actuation.

IOW hey the plane might try to kill you and while you're busy trying not to die at 5,000 ft please disable the electronic aids and grab the trim wheels by hand. Noting, of course, that it take the computer ~30 seconds to move the stabilizer from one end of its travel to the other. It'll take a person longer if you're cranking it by hand. This is, of course, all after the pilots have realized what the problem actually is. All of this at five thousand feet where you might not have 30 seconds to respond. I'd suggest that if this scenario is at all close to what transpired those pilots didn't have a chance.
Ask HN: Qwant or DuckDuckGo?
I'm willing to stop using Google as my default search engine, and I would like to know what the HN community thinks about alternatives.

I'm currently hesitating between Qwant & DuckDuckGo, but feel free to advise another search engine if you like it better.

Thanks people ! :)
Stratolaunch Completes First, Full-Scale Preburner Test on PGA Engine
I imagine they don't want anyone to find the app with that name, given how notoriously bad AppStore search is.
I get DNS error here. *.dev is probably reserved for local domains by admins. Not the greatest choice of tld for real sites.
Also, if I input n-number of words then search for those words.

Recently DDG has been Googleifying by dropping one or more search words with an explanation "Not many results contain ____". So I have to click a link to search again for the words I entered. Quite annoying when it happens repeatedly each day.
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> “As in the earlier run-up in drug spending, we’re largely uncritical of the price-value trade-off for drugs in the U.S.,” said Michelle Mello, a health law scholar at Stanford. “Though we pay high prices for some drugs of high value, we also pay high prices for drugs of little value. The U.S. stands virtually alone in this.”

(emphasis added)

There is much conflict of interest in modern promotion of patent medicines:

Most of Ramadan's payments were related to
two drugs, Janssen Pharmaceutical's Invega
Sustenna and Otsuka's Abilify Maintena.
Both are powerful schizophrenia drugs that
are injected monthly, replacing a daily
pill. They cost roughly $2,000 more than
generic pill forms of the same drugs.

- https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2018/07/18/6295751...

The most useful small-molecule drugs have mostly been figured out already. I wonder what the drug industry will do when all their patents expire...
Have you been into a Fred Meyer or QFC wearing Amazon branded attire? There are many people who would gleefully help kill Amazon in Seattle, especially those who are seeing their jobs ripped away from them and replaced with non-unionized work for lower pay in an abusive environment.
> AS LONG AS the economic power isn't abused to prevent competition which harms consumers.

Power that can be abused will be abused.
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Tom & Jerry was just a somewhat violent cartoon, but some of the mentioned videos are somewhat disturbing. You can just google elsagate. My opinion is that people exploited a captive market + youtube's positive feedback loop algorithm to create such videos.

FWIW, my brother and I grew up on old tom & jerry cartoons. I think they're great, other than the few episodes with plainly racist stereotypes.
I suspect it will start with persistent login based on a file and grow from there.
If is perfectly feasible. How often do you buy new products?

I skipped major part of sweets that I liked and that is mostly it. Wasn't big problem either.

But saddest part is that in EU boycott worked and it changed nothing due to use of palm oil in biofuels - https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/apr/26/how-palm-oil-b...
> The language is insprired by HLSL, the dominant shading language for graphics app developers.

sorry wat ? https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?q=glsl,hlsl

GLSL is used for multimedia apps, user interfaces (Qt at least uses it quite a bit), 3D authoring apps. ISF (Interactive Shader Format https://www.interactiveshaderformat.com/spec), fairly used in all the software chain around audio-visual installations, is based on GLSL. It's used on android, on embedded devices, etc etc...

> GLSL is the language used by WebGL, and was adopted by WebGL for the web platform. However, reaching cross-browser interoperability was extremely difficult due to incompatibilities in GLSL compilers. There remains a long tail of security and portability bugs with GLSL still being investigated

and how will implementing a whole new set of compilers for WHLSL solve this ?

> And since Windows and macOS/iOS don’t support Vulkan,

now this is just FUD. you can entirely write vulkan code and have it run on windows and apple platforms.

> the incoming SPIR-V would still need to be translated/compiled into another language

yes, that's the freakin point of SPIR-V

Also...

> In Metal Shading Language, you could, for example, write a shader that casts a pointer to an integer, adds 17, casts it back to a pointer, and dereferences it. This is a security problem because it means the shader could access any resource that happens to be in the address space of the application, which is contrary to the Web’s security model. Theoretically, it could be possible to specify a dialect of Metal Shading Language that doesn’t have raw pointers, but pointers are so fundamental to the C and C++ languages that the result would be completely unfamiliar. C++ also heavily relies on undefined behavior, so any effort to fully specify each of C++’s numerous features would be unlikely to be successful.

followed by

> The first is the safe pointer. Some form of reference semantics, which is the behavior pointers allow for, are used in almost every CPU-side programming language. Including pointers in WHLSL will make it easier for developers to migrate existing CPU-side code to the GPU

so instead of reusing an existing thing and just add one tiny dot of safety semantics on top of it, well no let's just NIH and reimplement a whole new language.
Seriously, they don't want to use a "safe metal" because "pointers are so fundamental to the C and C++ languages that the result would be completely unfamiliar".

So instead, they write a freakin new language - why the hell do they use the familiarity argument then ?
The perfect balance of sound
This is a perfect line of reasoning, assuming:

a) your ISP can competently run a secure DNS service correctly (latency is not the whole story of 'performance')

b) it's acting entirely in your interests and not attempting to hijack your DNS service to insert ads etc.

Personally, I've had ISPs where neither of these things have been true.
I agree, I don't think Europeans have been worse than others would have been, we simply had the means to do it. However I find it problematic that so much of the brutality gets swept under the rug.

E.g. it is typical of political propaganda how Stalins starvation of millions of Ukrainians is used to disparage socialism. However it is far less known that Britain starved quite a lot more people in India, often in the name of capitalism. Food was shipped out at gunpoint to foreign markets while people starved to death on the grounds that markets should not be disrupted.

There is also the belittling of other people, through ignorance of our own past. E.g. the Chinese with Mao is presented as somehow more barbaric and brutal. The US presents itself as a beacon of freedom and democracy despite slaughtering the native population and enslaving millions of blacks.

I don't think westerners are inherently worse than anybody else. I just dislike the smugness in particular by great powers such as the Britain and the US, who present themselves as these big civilizing forces.
I also don't know how to operate a cannon. Presumably this is definite proof that the United Kingdom has little knowledge of gunpowder.

I think I can use this technique to prove that no country in the world has ever had knowledge of gunpowder.
Or, I suppose, bread, cheese, salami and tomato sauce. That sounds a lot better ;-) Probably shouldn't make a diet of it, but it's healthy enough in moderation.
I don't think I've ever been in a desert where just by waiting a short time, visual evidence of an advanced civilization wasn't available (or in most cases, immediately).

If there's type II civilizations in our galaxy, we don't need to observe things in any more detail than we are now. If type III civilizations exist in other galaxies, we should be able to detect them as well.
Both models are/can be profitable, it's down to a personal (strategic) choice from the authors ultimately.

There are many successful stories of proprietary dbs and also a number open sources ones in terms of profitability, ex: Elastic, Datastax, Confluent, Citus etc etc...

Personally I wished it was open-source, it looks quite capable but there is too much risk involved for me to be confortable using it, not to mention it's quite pricey. 1$/day is for dev setups, prod cloud setups start around 4-5k/year last time I read about it, it might be fine for a single deploy backing your service, not when that's a cost you have to add to every client.

Another thing is that it is very specific to some uses and has some limitations (subjectively) that will often require to pair it with other solutions to be actually usable for some things (ex: strings are limited to 4096 characters, no bytes type). All in all it makes sense given what you should use it for (and not use it for), but that's not your usual db product and sometimes I have the feeling that it's advertised as a potential drop-in replacement for <insert favorite relational db> when it's quite often not by itself (arguably, apples vs oranges).

There are also a number interesting of projects that got inspired by it in one way or another, but nothing directly comparable:

* datahike (and the upcoming datopia.io)

* datascript

That said datalog is a pleasure to use and datomic looks fantastic it's just not for everybody.
I think this is mainly a USian mindset.

I trust my UK ISPs ( Goscomb, AA.net ) to whom I pay a monthly fee for service more than I do some US-based company who wants to provide me a critical service for 'free'. And yet which at other times prevents me reaching websites with a 'One more step...' blocker page.
Yeah, thats not true. The chart you link to says new first officers based in Dublin make 78.400 EUR (with "Productivity" which might not be guaranteed). And since Stansted Captain salary is lower, i would suggest that Stansted FO salaries would be lower too. Additionally, other bases in southern Europe might be even worse.
For many situations though, it can't be abused. Without large barriers to entry and need, the monopoly can only be maintained through providing good value. There isn't much coca cola can do to abuse consumers with a 100% cola monopoly.
This is hardly surprising though, and it was inevitable that studies started to emerge.
IIRC, a prerequisite for the confidentiality of eSNI is in fact secure DNS.