skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The U.S. lost Vietnam because rural farmers thought U.S. troops were working for land lords. Land lords would take control of rural areas and start charging farmers rent after it was cleared of Viet Cong. There is a similar problem in Afghanistan: the Afghan government raises most of its revenues from sales and excise taxes, and doesn't tax land owners on property privately seized from rural residents. Since it doesn't tax land and has not centrally issued titles to rural residents, it doesn't have good records on land ownership and can't prevent private land seizures effectively.

These are not inevitable problems. Our politicians just don't understand the difference between land and capital and have undermined U.S. efforts to promote land reform in Asia after it worked so well in Japan.
I agree with Iraq, but Vietnam, as messy as it was, I think, was necessary. Even Vietnamese I’ve spoken to believe it was the right thing. Sometimes things are clear cut and easy, other times they are messy and problematic.
Because the majority of people that report bugs are most likely customers who don't know how to do something with their device.

If they just implement that heuristic, don't they insulate themselves from any chance of receiving valuable information? Isn't this a form of bigotry substituting for actually processing information?
I think we can put nickel in the "do not eat" category:

https://rais.ornl.gov/tox/profiles/nickel_and_nickel_compoun...
That so far, two years in, have nothing to do with collusion.

Russia has been playing both sides to destabilize the country, and the left's selective hysteria is playing right into the strategy, straight out of the KGB playbook.

The easiest man to fool is the one who thinks he cannot be fooled.
Mind-altering parasite spread by cats 'may lead to schizophreni'
Seems like reasonable choice on the Boeing's part, the objective of the reverse thrust is to provide additional braking to the aircraft, if shutting down the engine has similar effect (albeit to a lesser extent), why not?
Better than getting stuck in a dangerous situation if the reverse thrust was deployed prematurely.
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Polls on HN!? Do you have an example link where it has been used?
And how do you enforce it?

Hmm. Wait. Was that sarcasm?
There can be unforeseen consequences, that's why nobody advocates to just randomly create gene drives for all the insects. The targeted species of mosquito is not the only one, it is an invasive species in many places, and everywhere there are other mosquitos that can take its place.

Should we use gene drives to eliminate species with caution? Of course! But does that mean we should not even think about it just because there may be unforeseen consequences (or as the grandparent comment says: because it is invented by scientists who also invented plastic, which other people used as cheap water bottles, and there is an unconfirmed hypothesis about it being bad)?

I think the answer to this question is clearly no, and the way the grandparent comment is written is simply antiscience fear-mongering.
Android certainly satisfies the user-facing requirement, but not the cross-platform.

Specifically, if all we knew about user-facing Java was that most Android app are written in Java (or something that differs from Java only enough to try to avoid infringing the intellectual property rights of Java's owner) then we would expect many cross-platform user-facing apps to be written in Java.

But we have no need for such indirect evidence because we can directly count the cross-platform user-facing apps that are written in Java. You mentioned one, Minecraft, and I will add Eclipse, IntelliJ and its derivatives and Jin (a "client" used to connect to the Free Internet Chess Server and Internet Chess Club). Since I know how hundreds of user-facing cross-platform apps are implemented, and since four out of hundreds is not much, I stick to my claim that Java never caught on for writing cross-platform user-facing code.
Not a native English speaker here, what is hanky?
It actually does, but for reasons not immediately obvious.

The type of thinking the parent poster spoke of, where you are "not the player, but the operator" is a fundamentally different type of thinking. It's much closer in fact to the desired mindset of an actual statesman.

Your goal isn't (or shouldn't) be to maximize the fortune you (as the operator) or you as the player after having made your changes as an operator reap, but to put in place a fair and equitable mechanism through which the collective needs of the populace (even when the populace is at odds with itself through stalemate or least harmful actiom) are served in a sustainable and resource efficient manner.
> There does not seem to be any equivalent of the notion of soundness in the world of dynamic typing. However, we can still talk about whether a dynamic type system strictly enforces type safety.

My understanding is that there are well understood definitions of soundness for dynamically typed languages. The soundness theorem will generally be weaker ("your program will evaluate to a value or abort on a type confusion") but it is certainly possible to be sure a given dynamically typed language definition will never make mistakes like confusing an integer for a pointer. Though in the scheme of things such theorems are not much weaker than what you get for a statically typed language with exceptions ("your program will evaluate to a value with the given type or throw some exception").
I was really hoping that someone had made an (obviously improbable) potato fish hybrid. I imagine that would be tasty (and full of unintended side effects of crossing a starch and a protein).

To save everyone the ducking of it, I think it is a reference to Mona the Vampire, in which potato jellyfish hybrids do... things. See for yourself:
https://youtu.be/do4e7AJKafE?t=634
The 737 is a short and stubby airliner with its center of thrust far below the rest of the aircraft. The 737MAX version added upgraded, powerful engines. It is theoretically possible for the engines to flip the aircraft up and out of control if power is applied too quickly in certain fight situations.
A big issue with that flash was that there was a way to disable the feature, but Boeing didn't tell anyone about it and it wasn't documented anywhere.
Also because any expectation of privacy you have after hearing "This call may be recorded" is per se unreasonable, so the Fourth Amendment has no applicability here.
I understand your sentiment here, but the broader point here is that we as industry have been historically timid about taking hardline ethical stances. In my opinion, Facebook's behavior here is clearly wrong, and I'm going to state it as so.

By taking a hardline stance, I'm opening the opportunity to prove me wrong. This is an open forum and I'm not calling anyone names for disagreeing with me. In fact if you do have a valid counterargument, PLEASE DO disagree. I'm more concerned about getting to the truth than being right.

But if there isn't a counterargument, then I want my comment to stand out as a stark reminder that we should not accept or be complicit to these types of practices going forward. If we don't take these types of stances, I do not think we will change the culture in tech.
Coercion undermines agency.
The thing that pisses me off is that the numbers are either faked or stolen. The people actually making the call on those numbers need to be arrested and charged with a felony. I don't care if they are some low level telemarketing drone. They are already scammers and are committing hundreds of felonies a day. Put them in prison.
It might make me worry about their fire response capability. On the other hand, there's probably an element of triage involved here (no immediate threat once the runway was closed). More generally, I would expect problems that a tow truck solves to not be as urgent as problems that a fire truck solves, so garaging the tow truck farther away seems plausible.
Yep, every powerful nation or empire in the past has collapsed or faded in significance after some time. The question is, in our case, will it be a rapid collapse or a slow fade (like the British empire), and when?
Still no EFI install media?
Access is a fine tool for a limited purpose that got hacked to be how and bloated.

But Clippy can die, alongside Cortana, Siri, Alexa and Bixby.
When your junk is outperformed by a text keyword search, something is very wrong.
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It's likely software as they suspect.

Another possibility is that there was something wrong with the fuel.
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>I'm having a hard time thinking up an alternative choice of words that is similarly clear and concise.

There's "beyond a certain speed", but still something of a mouthful.
Interestingly, before it went downhill, US advisors told the S. Viet gov that the one thing they had to do to stave off revolution was land redistribution, in the least in the Mekong Delta, (I believe land redistribution was done to some extent in SK), but the S Vietnamese refused, and so the NVA had an “in”.
I really liked this brief overview of type systems overall, but I especially liked that the author took the effort to move away from the terms "strongly typed" and "weakly typed". Too often these terms cause confusion. Even worse is when people confuse them for "statically typed" and "dynamically typed" (respectively), leading to people making claims like "Python is weakly typed" and "C is strongly typed" (which, depending on your definitions, are not true statements).

This material wasn't covered in my core curriculum for my CS degrees, which I think is a shame. Some students might find this stuff interesting, and I think introducing it to undergrads at least a little bit and saying "By the way, this is a thing you can research" could help some students with breaking into the academic side of CS.
Heartbleed was also an example of a bug which was hidden from the various validation/static checking tools because OpenSSL was using custom memory allocation, wasn't it?
Arkansas man pleads guilty to attempted plane theft charge
> Quora also started out as an awesome service just like Medium. Eventually though...

That's the pure growth first strategy. At first it's all roses. Completely free, even ad-free. So there's none of the friction that comes with monetization. But eventually it comes into the picture.

Either a service is monetized from the start or it comes later.
I'd add Microsoft should also immediately drop and uninstall IE and Edge. Same logic. :)
In general...

rotary: tangential entry/exit, large diameter, high-speed, multi-lane

roundabout: deflected entry/exit, small diameter, low-speed, sometimes single-lane
Being heterozygous for the sickle cell trait gives some protection against malaria, which explains why the two tend to be common in the same parts of the world:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heterozygote_advantage#Sickle-...

(Nicely guessed, by the way!)
>Unless you can expand on why this piece is "propaganda" or what exactly the article got wrong, why not enjoy the piece (or not) as a travel diary with the BRI as a broad geopolitical context?

Because it does not market itself as such. It makes some bold claim to answer a question that's probably interesting to a lot of people follwing BRI-developments. Instead it's 'I've visited the Kazakhstan-China border and talked to a few people', but I guess that headline doesn't attract as many clicks.

EDIT: Not the GP and I don't want to claim that this is propaganda.
Do you have experience with aircraft engine design, or landing protocols, or insight in to the meetings when the engines were designed?

If so, I'll take back my words but considering the manufacturer doesn't know exactly why this happened, and the engineers on the ground said it seems like a "software bug", it seems a bit presumptuous and frankly a bit comical to start saying things like:

"Surely a better solution would be to just"...

Ah well, glad a 5 sentence comment on the internet can resolve an issue in a hardware, software, and social engineering challenge decades in the making.
Easy to electroplate with?
The particulates that process might make would be a problem of its own
When Google Play came out, that was all that they started with, and once enough people started using it, they started selling music on it as well.

I initially started using it as a way to easily sync music onto my phone, since it has a LRU of all your played songs, as well as any albums you mark explicitly for download.
I've seen managers game this kind of system out.

1) Reserve 5%-10% of your staffing for people going to be laid off.

2) Hire people that won't make the cut after 1 year.

3) Fire them

4) Rinse and repeat

In other words the only reason they were being hired was so that the manager could protect the performers of this team.
Basically if the manager's view is the only one that matters, he can pretty much get away with it.
They also changed their answer ranking algorithm. It started giving much higher weight to answers from users who answered many other questions on the site.

I guess the goal was to incentivize users to answer more questions.

But Quora was nice because you would find for almost each question an answer from a real expert in that specific question. And that's pretty unique by definition.

Result was that the best answers were often not the top 1 despite having way more upvotes -> bad user experience. True experts almost stopped answering because what was the point if it was going to be hard for users to find their answer, and certainly they wouldn't bother to start answering a bunch of questions on the site just to increase their ranking.

Low level/high volume content took over Quora.
>What about their dubious involvement in recent elections does that bother

It mostly bothers because it seems like a great deal of the recent hate towards FB is because people blame them for Trump. If Clinton wins I don't think people care.

That said, yes I think FB should do a better job of "know your customer" when selling ads. Obviously they shouldn't sell ads to Russian intelligence. But it doesn't bother me all that much. For one, I don't think it had that big of an impact. For two, it's a dangerous path to go down when you start questioning if your political opponents have the right justifications for their votes.

>You’ve presumably not read about Myanmar or fbs involvement in organising genocide?

Which part of that involved a FB employee going out and literally killing someone?
Blockchain for real business
“I could go on and on about how I feel mp3's promote the sales of CDs, but that's an argument for another day.”

Yeah. That worked out. ;)
I've never had a Medium account and don't want one. I stopped reading Medium articles because of the annoying popup begging me to "make this relationship more serious" or whatever and get an account.
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Sounds like one of those scenarios where the side we picked to support was itself corrupt, so the general population saw no good reason to support our side over the opposing side.
Most things in aircraft automation systems depend on sensors that could fail (those sensors could be redundant etc. but the same can be done with the sensors on landing gears). It is sane design.

> What if the landing gear don't drop?

I don't think that there is need for reverse thrust in such a scenario.

> Is there a situation where you would still want reverse thrust without landing gear?

Even if there is, there could be a manual override.
This is kinda like trying to tell someone that png is a waste of space, just use jpg, you can't tell the difference.

It's not just about being able to tell the difference. Remixing is another example of things that require losslessness. Archiving as well.
Expect many of these bugs with WebAssembly.
It’s cool and all but an explanation of why it was faster would be helpful. What we’re they doing wrong before?

Also the wheels are not connected to the pistons anymore so that rocket is going nowhere.
If that split is over something with no middle ground, that every person considers more important than everything else put together (including survival of the democracy), then it quite simply doesn't.

Otherwise, if it's to survive, it does so by compromise, tradeoffs, bargaining, and leaving many people at least a little unhappy but not enough people unhappy enough to dismantle the system.
There's very stressful competition in academia, especially in early academic careers, so depending on the place and person the experience could be stultifying as well. You could also work on uninteresting (or at least unimportant) rubbish in academia, or you could work on interesting stuff that doesn't deliver; in either case you're heavily published for that. No one gives a damn about "ten years of experience" if you weren't producing quality papers on a regular basis within that period (actually, in that case ten years of experience might be worse than no experience).

> that's bound to drive wages down at some point.

Yeah. But at least in my field, the pay is guaranteed to suck in the early career (we're talking close to a decade here), and won't get that much better afterwards, assuming you're successful. Kinda hard to fall that low.

I guess it does boil down to grass greener on the other side of the fence for the most part.
Please distinguish between fonts-for-data and monospace-fonts.
E.g. http://input.fontbureau.com/info/#writing has a sample of a not-actually-monospace font with IMHO awesome legibility in the mentioned "matter-of-fact" category of typefaces.

0 with a dash and O without are not at all bound to monospaced fonts.

FYI, I left console editors due to their inability to handle my preferred Input Sans Narrow Light 14pt (16pt on my 110 dpi screen), just so you can understand the pain of monospace.
> Why would Google ban apps for using Google's own business model?

If Google is concerned about competition, they might.

If Google is more concerned about being accused of being anti-competitive, then they probably would not.
>Nielsen doesn't explicitly target children.

I'm not sure what you mean by this because Nielsen absolutely targets children. The parents are explicitly consenting to having the box in the home but the box is constantly monitoring what is on the TV and invasively forces you tell it every 30 minutes or so exactly who is watching the screen.

My family was a Nielsen family for a time when I was in college and my 8-12 year old brothers were living at home.
I always love it when you have worked on something for months and someone new comes by and says "Why don't you just X?".
As somebody from Germany, that sounds all kinds of horrible. Is this actually codified in law or just something that's practiced without anybody stopping it?

I always thought these amendment rights are one of the most important pillars of what makes the US such an "amazing free democracy"? How can US Americans simply be deprived of those rights, doesn't that create a kind of "two-class" situation where some people are "more equal" than others?

It's in especially stark contrast to how Germany applies its version of a constitution, the Grundgesetz. Afaik most of them apply to everybody in Germany, even non-Germans who are just residing in Germany.

Not saying Germany always applies this perfectly but denying somebody their Grundrechte is, for obvious historical reasons, usually a very big deal in Germany resulting in a lot of press attention and public outrage.
Exactly. I want the ability for my phone to not ring at all if you're not in my contacts list. Some people have suggested using the DND feature for that but I don't like that solution for this problem. When I enable DND I only want my phone to ring for my immediate family where if they're calling at an unseemly time it's highly likely it's an emergency.
But one issue with RC is that pure read operations might require refcount updates so even a read mostly data structure that it is expected to scale well with the number of readers will perform horribly as each reader acquires and release references.
That's what I'm thinking! I bet it's MongoDB too.
You can still disable the stabilizer trim from switches in the cockpit, though. This was in the checklists that the pilots had, and done by other pilots in that aircraft in the days before the accident.
Agreed. If the original commenter cannot make a cohesive and convincing argument as to why what happened is wrong, then they ought not to say anything. If they believe their argument is convincing, then these kinds of statements are unnecessary
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I think that the README could be improved by adding a brief description of how it works, in maybe 20 to 50 words. Then, consider adding another paragraph if more detail would be helpful to the reader/prospective user.

Separately, a command-line tool to do basic hash verification would also be useful - has anyone seen one?
Samsung Galaxy F Foldable Gaming Phone Patent Reveals Trick Rotating Controller
Instant antitrust lawsuit if apple did that imo. They already have the good guy points here, no need to go overboard and become the bully.
For me, drinking alcohol has an obvious anti-depressant effect, and the feeling of a pleasant buzz is subjectively one of the most enjoyable experiences in my life.

But, like many, I find it hard to keep under control. (And indeed, I'm not drinking at all this month at least.)

If someone would invent a time-lock drink dispenser (like the cigarette dispenser in _The Fifth Element_), I'd buy it in a minute. One can mostly simulate this by bringing home a very measured amount of booze, but it's a lot of work.
Now imagine what's going to be possible in Australia with their compulsory surveillance laws...

Though, I wouldn't be super surprised if they banned people they forced to implement exploits from leaving country =X
Current Amazon employee here (Senior Software Engineer) - I don't speak officially for the company obviously, but I wanted to share my experience. I am not a manager, so I don't know the particulars of what goes on during the process referred to in the linked post, but I can offer a few things:

My experience has been that people at Amazon are generally pretty willing to help each other in various different ways, whether helping a teammate on a project or helping someone new to a technology on one of our internal mailing lists.

Many on the reddit thread take it for granted that Amazon is, as one person called it, a "hellhole." That is not at all my experience - I know others in different orgs or different roles may of course have a different experience. Amazon has been significantly less stressful than almost everywhere I've worked (and the one exception was not less stressful in a good way).

At least among people I know, most of the people who leave our team join another team at Amazon. I've known a few people who have left Amazon, but we haven't had 5% of our team leave Amazon every year as this thread would indicate.
ASAN does handle this. As nkurz noted, custom allocators need only poison/unpoison memory regions to benefit from ASAN and MSAN. For example see how the absl "SwissTable" does: https://github.com/abseil/abseil-cpp/blob/master/absl/contai...
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This may be a disturbing thought to some, but a great many people don't give a damn about any supposed virgin birth. To them, it's about getting time off from work to visit family, various pagan-derived decorations around the home (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yule), seasonal desserts, and of course consumerism/consumption (particularly the giving of gifts, which is what "like Christmas" in this instance refers to.)
I'd love to see how you do this with rayshader.
Yep, Rails