skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>It's just as bad as AWS UI ever has been.

Why is this though? Is Amazon not employing UX/designers? Is there a culture there that trivializes UX benefits?
Debunked by who?
For a time, I instructed airline pilots in simulators. The aircraft I taught had a similar mechanism with a "cutout switch" like this Boeing. Often, even when they knew it was coming, the pilots would fail to immediately shut down the system when given a related emergency situation, similar to this one. After learning more about this crash, I immediately thought of the tens of times I've seen this happen in the simulator. Sometimes, I'd pause it and ask the pilots if they've realized their error, other times, I'd simply let them crash (poor instructing on my part). In a previous post, this opinion was called racism/profiling, however, I maintain that extreme incompetence exists in many SE Asian airlines. The particular airline for which I instructed (in the US) had many low-ability pilots, and the reaction of these Lion Air pilots matches theirs exactly. We need to increase automation and, little by little, continue to remove the pilot from the equation until we have pilotless/single-pilot commercial aircraft. Humans simply aren't meant to "become the machine", which is essentially what we're asking airline pilots to do.
> That is a feature that just isn't possible in bitcoin without involving a third party.

It's also not possible in fiat currency without a third-party. But Bitcoin not only gives you the option but also provides better solutions on how to involve the third-party. A Bitcoin escrow doesn't need to control your funds, only the permission to approve or deny a transaction, using multi-signature.
I'm stuck in the first paragraph:
"What type of work or situations might you seek out that wouldn’t leave you in a bad mood after working?"

I would go work in many menial jobs, but the problem is that this jobs pay very little and then you're worried and stressed and can't move on with side projects.
If you go to a nice corporate job (not as a career but just as a source of income) you're usually left grumpy as he describes.
Thanks!

"""with a type of "paywall" that requires a payment in civ tokens"""
In my opinion this is the most important part. Why would the Civil paywall work better than a non cryptocurrency based paywall?

Especially, if they want to accept regular payments as well?

They seem to be focusing on the wrong problem - how to govern a registry of news sources. While the real problem is how to get readers to pay for content.
I absolutely do not want to contribute any sort of "guns r bad" vs "guns r good" type conversation on the lovely HN, but I think it is worth noting that (some) national parks are a hotbed for criminal activity. The large and largely untraveled open spaces are attractive to people who'd like to get away with things that would be too loud, smelly, or obvious anywhere else. I don't have stats in front of me (I will hunt later today), but N parks are not always the idyllic and peaceful nature place they should be, especially anywhere near Mexico.
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It just so happens it's the same James Mickens who wrote the Night Watch! What are the odds!

https://www.usenix.org/system/files/1311_05-08_mickens.pdf
'Dubious at best' may be a better phrasing, but it seems to be a touchy subject in some countries (partly because of religion). Still, South Korea is an odd statistical outlier here.
To my understanding the reason helicopters are expensive is the cost of acquiring and operating the airframe.

I would imagine a scaled up drone-like airframe would be a lot more cheaper than helicopter.

That's why I don't think "drones as flying taxis" is as silly as you make it sound. Helicopters are used in urban areas. I don't see any fundamental reason why drones would not work equally well but with more traffic since they would be cheaper.

Like you point out, the unguarded props and so on mean it wouldn't be sharing ground-space with pedestrians - not at least like cars do.

Unless..

I don't know if there any way to do an emergency stop to a large scale electric prop. At least power saws stop instantly to stop cutting limbs away. Maybe there could be a similar "proximity failsafe" in the props of urban taxi-drones.
I think he means your "growing up" quip.
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Ethereum has proved ok at launching tradable tokens on which a lot of money has changed hands, for better or worse.
It probably would be more helpful on the pull side rather than the push side of the channel. Useful for consumption of content in certain situations by certain segments of readers.

Say, someone scanning through a list of legal docs to identify the most relevant ones. A short blurb would be pretty helpful.
The energy radiated from the earth is in a higher entropy state than the energy it absorbs. If the theory that biological beings defied the second law were true, you'd expect the opposite to be the case. Life is a kind of machine that uses useful low entropy energy to create organisms, emitting less useful high entropy energy as a byproduct. Not all that different than any other kind of energy-using machine.
Mickens is brilliant. His style may be polarizing, but he has insight and makes good points.

Talks like this are a nice counterbalance to the most upvoted viewpoints expressed here a couple of days ago https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18516177 where people view their skills only as a way to make money and basically do not care how it is done or how safe it is. How many money makers are running around right now preaching these stupid ideas just to make money without even considering the real life implications their selfish actions will have on millions of people. It's downright terrifying. Technical excellence matters.
Making a neural network say “I Don’t Know”: Bayesian NNs using Pyro and PyTorch
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You think its disgustingly douchey for people to be dismayed that software from a trustworthy dev was turned over to someone who turned it into malware?

The dev isn't responsible for the giant mound of stupid that is npm but we all have to take the world as we find it or fix it.

In the context of the world as it is projects deps having deps having deps where the practical protection against a developers machine getting pwned and eventually millions of users getting pwned is more or less developers checking to ascertain that a given library is bob who works for google and not lame hacker number 2388 its poorly considered to hand over libraries to people you have no reason to suppose are trustworthy. A reasonable person could suppose that might not end well for a multitude of projects where 182 deps of deps of deps aren't vetted again per point release because in practical fact its impractical to do so while it is very practical for individual authors to not transfer control of names and publish info about their authorship.

Unlike never updating or expecting individual orgs to vet 182 deps written by anon people with every bump so a reasonable person ought to do their best to make the workflow that might have some hope of working work.

If you didn't want ANY responsibility whatsoever you could have not published it globally.

Anyone who imagines that responsibility is merely transcriptional that it only attaches when money changes hands has literally missed the majority of human civilization including the more recent parts where people that give away free food are still expected to wash their hands, get food handlers cards, practice food safety, pass inspections etc. You aren't required to provide a vegan or kosher option or even make good food but you can't behave maliciously or negligently.

Given how projects are actually used by virtually everyone authors actions appear negligent. Given the hypothetical bad actually already happened it appears that judgement is irrefutable.

You are your brothers keeper whether you want to be or not. Software isn't special it works like every other civilized endeavor. Wash your hands and don't scratch your ass please.
'The lot is marked “VORHES”, though some articles call it “Voorhees” or “Voorhis”'

I think this might be a derivation of the Dutch word "voorhuis" (https://translate.google.com/#auto/en/voorhuis). The transliteration is "front house" (as in front office, portal, hall) and usually denotes a street level entrance to a larger complex. Given that New York had a lot of immigration from the Netherlands (heck, it was called New Amsterdam for a while) I think this might make sense.
Speaking of Wilhelm Screams of music, the Amen break is nearly as ubiquitous as the 808 clap. It helped catalyze Hip-hop, while Rave, and then Jungle and dnb, were virtually born out of that loop as Athena was born from Zeus' skull.

https://youtu.be/5SaFTm2bcac
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Engineering as Marketing Experiment
After reaching Gabriel Weinberg's book Traction (https://medium.com/@yegg/the-19-channels-you-can-use-to-get-traction-93c762d19339), I was inspired to try Engineering as Marketing as a way to raise awareness for markd.co. Both my co-founder and I like building things and this seems like a good marketing channel for us - something we can actually continue to use.

So we did our first engineering as marketing experiment two weeks ago. It exceeded our expectations and got featured on ProductHunt. Not bad for a two day project! I thought I'd share our experience and learnings here: https://blog.markd.co/post/180553800063/cold-email-template-producthunt-feature

Anyone's got experience with engineering as marketing? I'd love to see more examples and case studies, particularly from small teams!
Which website is it? Seems useful to me!
Racket-on-Chez will be considerably slower than vanilla Chez - Racket semantics incur some overhead. Here are some rough benchmarks from a year ago:

http://blog.racket-lang.org/2018/01/racket-on-chez-status.ht...
My partner and I are 'mystery shoppers' for restaurants. We have our bill covered plus a bit extra on top (but have to fill out hefty, detailed questionnaires afterwards).

One of the things there's always a whole section on is timing: every single interaction has a time-window in which it must occur. You must be greeted within (t1), you must be seated within (t2). Plates must be cleared within (t3), you must have a 'table touch' (is everything ok with your food?) within (t4), etc.

Some discrete note-taking is often needed (descriptions of all serving staff are required too). We're pretty good at it by now, but have been 'rumbled' once. You can tell when it happens—suddenly you start getting offered the opportunity to try all the different wines they have, for free, given free desserts. Of course it doesn't matter as the meal is paid for, and often slows down the service!
This would seem like a good time to invest in urban, vertical, pestacide-free farming enterprises. Anyone have recommended trading companies?

On another note, evolution is an interesting discussion point. https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/are-birds-evolving...

I’m reminded of Henry Ford’s attempt to industrialize natural rubber production and the evolution of the insects in response that made his endeavor very challenging. Are some insects simply avoiding ‘grey patches of death’ ?
He clearly really cares about Clojure discouraging people from freeloading may be beneficial but a crummy tone may discourage people from adding value to Clojure which would be very unfortunate.
BT runs into congestion issues quite often in my experience. I’ve experienced connectivity issues in areas where there are a lot of wireless networks.

Considering that WiFi and Bluetooth both run at near 2.4GHz - I’d assume that areas with a lot of wireless networks could (and have in my experience) interfere with BT.

This wasn’t limited to 1 set of devices though. Tried it with my AirPods and a pair of NC Sennheiser headphones. Both cause issues when walking into busy (in terms of WiFi) areas.
But isn't moving "STAB TRIM" to CUT OUT a memory item even in the 737 NG in the case of a trim runaway?
> do not do what you usually do, as it [...] worsen the situation

This sounds like the worst UI evolution. Could they not have come up with something that's more natural? I don't know anything about controls and procedures for commercial aircraft, but it is so complex that nothing is natural? Like listening to Formula1 team radio where the engineer tells the driver to set some cryptic mode in the steering wheel menu.

I wonder how much of a competitive advantage it would be to make easier/safer to fly commercial aircraft. It would be sad to hear that these are the results of great effort of that goal.
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I wouldn't advocate being an asshole usually, but for Parisians speaking in English at you to be snobs, just compliment them on their impeccable English skills and suggest that means they must have some Englishman blood in them.
Opening in the same tab is the default behaviour of links in most browsers. If you want to, you can probably configure yours to always open links in new tabs, or like Tomte said, middle click on them. I don't like websites altering default behavior either, especially since it's usually so easy to open in a new tab anyway when you want to.
Microsoft was still publishing security updates for Windows CE 5.0 in 2014, ten years after release.

Windows CE 6.0 was supported for twelve years.
Sonnet against Entropy

The worm drives helically through the wood
And does not know the dust left in the bore
Once made the table integral and good;
And suddenly the crystal hits the floor.
Electrons find their paths in subtle ways,
A massless eddy in a trail of smoke;
The names of lovers, light of other days
Perhaps you will not miss them. That's the joke.
The universe winds down. That's how it's made.
But memory is everything to lose;
Although some of the colors have to fade,
Do not believe you'll get the chance to choose.
Regret, by definition, comes too late;
Say what you mean. Bear witness. Iterate.

John M Ford (originally here: http://nielsenhayden.com/electrolite/archives/003789.html)
We’ve had a poor experience with Cloudwatch for logs. The UX is poor and queries over large data sets take forever. So much so that I’m sure we’re ‘using it wrong’. What have others’ experiences been like?
I agree too. I kicked off an application server project for a business unit in a large company using Docker. Aside from the core image of my application server, I used docker-compose to orchestrate nginx and Redis instances to support it. That setup remains available to a small team of developers. From the first production release and to date, corp DevOps build the core app server image in their pipeline, and deploy it with a different load balancer and a compatible key value store. It worked in that configuration the first time, and there's never been an issue.

The flexibility and modularity is a big plus to me.
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HN 'sticking it to the man' like how mods purged the open letter critical of Google's authoritarian Dragonfly project? The thread that should be on the front page right now, with more upvotes than all other front page threads combined?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18542830
Preliminary report: https://www.flightradar24.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2018/1...

As far as I can tell, one of the angle of attack sensors failed on the previous flight, the aircraft started to continuously trim nose down, the pilots trimmed it back up again a few times before switching off the automatic trim motors, declaring PAN-PAN, and continuing the flight. They reported the fault, the engineers "fixed" the wrong thing, and on the fatal flight it started playing up again. Except this time, the pilots didn't switch off the automatic trim motors, but just kept re-trimming nose up to counter the continuous automatic trim nose down. Eventually they got overwhelmed and crashed.

It's a tragic accident, and blame can be spread all round. It's good that the previous flight were able to work it out, and terrible that the fault wasn't properly fixed, and the subsequent flight didn't work it out. Also, that the aircraft wasn't resistant to this particular fault.
I did try that once, and found it quite a challenge. It feels like all the controls go well beyond '11' for the intended (bass line) use.
The cynic in me says that this is because they weren't just hurting the interests of the U.S. government - they were hurting the interests of the largest mega-corporations on the planet.
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Not directly, but when someone like with the reputation Jacques mentions something that important then yeah, I'm going to investigate further (and cancel if it checks out).

Regards Greenpeace specifically: I was already on the edge because they've quite frankly become more part of the problem than part of the solution for their stance on existing nuclear energy production. It makes absolutely no sense to close any nuclear generators early when you're still burning coal / peat / ignite / biomass without carbon capture and storage.
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The successful entrepreneur makes his money by capital gains in the share or venture capital markets and not by extracting it from his employees. Employees compete with each other for salaries. Employer competes with other employers for both a)market share b) hiring employees -bidding up their prices.
By comparing gains from entrepreneurship with regular salaries, you are comparing a stock variable with a flow variable. Even Marx got this part correct
Every day I save a little more to leave this pathetic shithole of an island. It is an embarrassment that I cannot identify with and that I can no longer endure.
Has something like this happened with any java packages like in Maven-Central or even Eclipse managed repos ?
> It's already a good deal so no need to take risks with marketing :)

No, it’s an insanely bad deal. Stop acting like this is an amazing deal - it’s not, it’s verging on predatory.

My 4 year CS BS through a state school left me with $45k in loans that I’m still paying off - and that is extremely reasonably compared to this insanity.

A 4 year degree should never cost anywhere near 100k. It’s criminal for a 2 year degree to approach that cost.
Yes. The newfangled plane had a new way for trim runaway to occur, but the action to take in the event of trim runaway shouldn't be (AFAICT) any different. They managed it on the previous flight.
Meanwhile China is actually doing it and soaking up the investor money, interested researchers, and gaining the lead.
Why send them tokens and not real money? Especially if one has to spend real money to get the tokens in the first place...
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Totally agree, I tried to prototype this but the datasets to train ML summarizations from are pretty much all from news articles. Trying to take that model and summaries chats resulted in gibberish for me. The salient take-aways from Chats and other non-factual / loosely structured text seems so dependent on what you care about, summarisation is difficult.
- Attract contributors to ensure a long term thriving ecosystem

- The free availability both in and out of the App Store should reduce the barrier to entry to the collaborative use cases in education, pair programming, etc, leading to good bug reports and use cases that are worth investing some future development in

- Support for more languages, modes and contributions thereof

- Longevity of SubEthaEdit as a product

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Formatted for mobile users.
Well for what it’s worth this service solves the “queries take forever” part. But Cloudwatch logs is just one potential piece of the puzzle. It’s easy to hook into for AWS services and easy to pipe into Lambdas, S3, Kinesis, etc etc. If none of that integration appeals to you then there are probably better products, but for certain workflows it’s far superior to other solutions despite the rough edges. Same story as most of AWS’s services.
Having spent a lot of time immersed in NYC property configurations recently, we can use the calculated sqft of 7.3 and look up the zoning on NYC ZoLa (zone C4-5) gives a commercial floor-area-ratio of 3.4. This means a building serving commercial tenants could be built with a grand total of about 24.8 sq ft. With standard set-backs, you're looking at about 5 floors but the top ones would be tight at around 3 sqft each.
Yeah, my first thought was games as well. If you could make this work in real time, you could do all sorts of nonsense.
> * A solution for streaming out updates that is better than dynamodb streams

What bothers you about dynamodb streams specifically?
Patents and huge up-front expenses to create, certify, market and distribute such a device.
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The FAA issued a mandatory airworthiness directive as a result of this crash. Boeing didn't include training for a new anti-stall automation regime in their type cert update class for existing 737-rated pilots moving to the 737 MAX. There was apparently a malfunctioning angle of attack sensor, which caused a software data conflict which caused the anti-stall assist (which the pilot wouldn't have known existed) to repeatedly trim the aircraft nose-down.

There is also the possibility that a separate pilot assist system read a possible near-stall and enforced difficulty in pulling back on the stick (to prevent what it saw as a potential stall). So the pilot couldn't pull out of the dive that the MCAS (trim changer) had caused.

The blame for this incident does not lie on the pilots failing to RTFM. Boeing changed several systems without telling anyone. Now the plane's been type rated, so software changes to fix it are significantly difficult.

Imagine Boeing as a guy saying "Screw those idiots who operate our multimillion dollar safety-critical product; they're too stupid to know how to work it!" This is a closer perspective to the truth than the parent's comment.

Mentour pilot overview:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zfQW0upkVus
FAA Emergency Airworthiness Directive:
http://rgl.faa.gov/Regulatory_and_Guidance_Library/rgad.nsf/...
Rendering speed shouldn't matter in this case because the terminal shouldn't be trying to render every single line which is sent to it. The terminal should just process the stream and commands, and real updates to the screen.
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It's not being hostile, it's more than that. For example, if I invite my men co-workers to go swimming then there is absolutely nothing wrong with that. But if I invite my women co-workers, then it could be interpreted in a bad way.
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> the software was also installing a root certificate into the Trusted Root CA Certificate store.

This kind of stuff shouldn't even be legal.
Great article. Where’s the write up on the TR-808?!
What a great talk. He brings up a lot of very important points that we all in tech need to consider and keep in mind.
Why are they deploying their own certificate into the root store????

This is shocking behaviour.
What's the difference between this and malicious software.
For some melodic acid, check out Benn Jordan's (aka The Flashbulb) side projects Acidwolf and Human Action Network:

https://soundcloud.com/bennjordan/acidwolf-3035-fm-halloween...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xVeL4shSvt4&list=PLROlZwVcdm...

https://open.spotify.com/album/7JjuavCNCiYsOfjvv3MSOB?si=4Y3...