skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They figured with Brexit hard or soft, they will miss out on the subsidy from the UK.

Airbus makes planes with government sponsoring. Without this, there is no Airbus.
they disabled their paid tier when they were acquired by github: https://spectrum.chat/spectrum/general/spectrum-is-joining-g...
I disagree.

Subreddits are absolutely owned by the top mod, originally whoever created them. It gets very political but I think your suggestions will just open up an avenue for aggressive takeovers of subreddits.

If someone built a subreddit I think they should be free to do what they want with it. It is authoritarian and causes drama, but not nearly as much drama as if it was democratized and transparent. Bad faith actors can manufacture crises constantly to take over a subreddit. It's happened already.
Check out Trevor Paglen for more: https://hn.algolia.com/?query=paglen&sort=byPopularity&prefi...
> The fact that white people don't feel the need to change to explicit whiteness—but feel represented by the yellow

Having no data at all (it would be interesting how you would even study this properly), but I still wanted to add this: It's not that the yellow emojis make me feel "represented" by being yellow. It's just that I don't care. If I want to express that I'm amused/angry/sad, it's the face that counts, so I see no point in fiddling with it just so it appears in some other shade of color.

You could still wonder about the causes of this, of course. I'd guess that having the same skin tone as a big majority of people where I live, I never had to concern myself with any societal differences in the sense that I was affected by them. Also, it never got to be that big a part of my identity, since I'm "like everyone else" in that regard.
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Why have one interface if, for twice the money, you can have two?
Less than when my forum is full of spam posts and it takes me 1h daily to remove them.
IANAL, but it's ambiguous from my reading—leaning towards no, not without them accepting. The reason being that the reduction in the 'Return Cap' is through a quarterly pay-off-mechanism as a percentage of earnings, set out in the agreement. There may be case law or general legal precedent that requires them to take your money if you wish to pay them off, but a literal reading of the agreement in a vacuum doesn't suggest to me that they have to take your early payment. There is precedent for things like car loans or mortgages or w/e, where there's a penalty for paying off early (They want to keep milking you for interest). So, without an explicit provision I would assume you cannot pay off the return cap, except through the set percentage of earnings per quarter.
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Seem like you can host your own spectrum service now?

https://github.com/withspectrum/spectrum
Concentrating on selling their product to companies with lots of money seems to be working out pretty well for them so far.
A better protest: keep it up, but display information about the article 13 instead of any video against which a copyright claim has been made :>

I'm a Googler. I might try to make this suggestion. But the leadership is cautious about taking strong public positions, so it nearly certainly won't pass.
I see a lot of conjecture and theory and not a lot of evidence. AI models? Maybe for ad behavior but not for this. Google has you and your machine ID'ed and fingerprinted. That's the core of the authentication. The rest is subterfuge and obfuscation.

Is there any evidence that I'm wrong?
I just did this flight last Friday. 16-odd hours, with a slight delay, and I got off the plane without the usual chapped lips and dry throat. To add to what others have said, the 380 has the quietest take off and landing. It’s an engineering marvel.

In contrast, while the 787 is good, the cabin is louder and the air quality isn’t on par with the 380. Even if this is deemed a failure, the 380 spurred the industry to do more, made Boeing do more for the 787, and eventually led to the development of the A-350 which is my favorite plane to fly right now.

All in all, the 380 gave Airbus swagger and the license to seriously compete with Boeing. Costs be damned.

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Your analysis is wrong from many points.

There is a huge market for the plane.

The plane came too early. Build now with lighter materials, better engines and in the long version (the wings are designed for a much longer version, this also makes it heavy for the short version).

Is there a demand for such flights from Chicago to NYC? No.

But Shanghai, Guangzhou, Beijing, Deli, Mumbai via hubs such as Moscow, Istanbul or Addis there is.

So unfortunately the truth is, that there is a market, but the plane come too early. In fact, the Airbus CEO said exactly this in an interview.
> The application layer, which ultimately contains all 'knowledge' of all aspects of the business

I've rarely seen a codebase outlive it's database, but I constantly see databases survive through multiple codebases.
The A380 will last quite a while on long-haul routes with lots of passengers between busy airports. There's no other plane that allows cramming 500+ passengers into the same departure slot, and places like LAX and LHR don't have many departure slots to spare.

Emirates makes heavy use of the A380 because they are geographically forced to operate on a hub-n-spoke model. The same is true for other heavy A380 users such as Qantas, Singapore, and Korean Air. All of them fly primarily out of a small number of hubs. They simply can't do point-to-point. There are also lots of A380's flying between major cities across the Pacific, such as LAX and Seoul, Honolulu and Tokyo, etc. where there's enough demand to fill an A380 every day.
That might make sense if they didn't also offer a plethora of their own built-in-house as well has managed oss relational DBS.
> Even though the protein coding regions of the genome are far less important than we first believed, that does not mean that genetic heritability is necessarily unimportant.

In fact, it cannot be unimportant since evidence showing genetic heritability (in the sense of explaining a part of phenotype variance between ancestor and descendant) is not invalidated by the fact that it does not explain the variance completely.
That's because the rich use up infrastructure and protection (they have more stuff worth stealing) more than they would if they were poor. The poor also get a pass because they can't easily pay regular tax rates and we want to lift them out of poverty so we can tax them more once they are (hopefully) in the middle class.
So you're saying this will kill creation without a big media contract?
I wouldn't be so sure that you'd suddenly have many more gifted children. Intelligence isn't entirely nurture.

You would get some additional gifted children, but it's a question of cost vs returns. I agree that programs like that would be cool to have for kids, but I'm not entirely sold on whether they would help.
>Socialism: a political and economic theory of social organization which advocates that the means of production, distribution, and exchange should be owned or regulated by the community as a whole.

I'm gonna need some help figuring out how "means of production, distribution, and exchange" can't be expanded to include almost all private property.
> After extensive research and weighing the pros/cons of different collaboration options (covering tools like Discourse, Discord, Gitter, etc.), we’ve happily landed on Spectrum.

What was wrong with each of those other options? To me, Discourse seems like a much better option, because it's designed to interoperate (rather than to trap).
I’m not sure emergent phenomena and “rocks are conscious” are the only two options. You can imagine, for instance, an underlying and fundamental “ether” or force of consciousness which, by chance and evolution, animal brains are somehow able to exploit. Distinguishing it from an emergent phenomena would be difficult but I don’t think impossible.
Advertising absolutely played into it. You just aren't thinking more than one step out. How did your company know about them? How did your parents?

> Everyone should try living without ads everywhere. It's rather nice. I don't care about buying stuff just because I've heard of it. I only buy things if I have specific needs that I need to cover, and I don't impulse buy anything.

I'm sure that I see similarly few ads to you. I use an adblocker. I don't watch television. But if a product is good enough, it will bubble up to me through the culture. However, even though i'm not directly viewing the advertisements, those advertisements are still necessary to bootstrap that bubbling process. Without advertising, it is extremely difficult for disruptive companies to get off the ground. Companies that create enormous amounts of value for lots of people.
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> Unless there was a transcription issue in the gene for metabolism I think there were identical genes at play. Thus the resulting variance is non biological developmental.

This conclusion is incorrect. The variance was perhaps not due to genetics, but it would be really strange if it wasn't biological.
It seems to me like good news on the "Article 11" front, though. The way I'm reading this, "link tax" is pretty much off the table.
> I think this is a big factor in what killed slashdot

For me it was the pedantic, toxic community. HN is a breath of fresh air by comparison.
What GP mentions might really be just an echo of an even earlier times (60's, maybe 70's) when caviar was pretty much the cheapest thing to be served in booze bars (USSR didn't really care much about actually protecting the fish, or anything else) so lots of people developed taste for it.

When I was a kid it was stuff you'd mix into mashed potatoes to make them taste better, and it came in huge (a Kilo, I think) tins.

But outside of ex-USSR, I don't see why people would pay that much for it. Is it delicious? Yes. Is it that delicious? Not really, for money you can get more of something even tastier, I think.
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Volcanoes are part of the natural CO2 cycle, which is in balance. So adding volcanoes would be like adding the CO2 animals, including humans, exhale. The problem is that we are adding more CO2 to the cycle, disturbing the balance.

Since it only was a semi-serious question I'll assume you knew this, but I still think the balance is a good argument to have when you run into deniers.
Jack Dorsey: Cash App Lightning Network Integration Not an ‘if’ but a ‘when’
There is a big "download all my data" button right on your profile page, which instantly gives you a nice JSON dump. As for "custom proprietary protocols", the entire Spectrum platform appears to be FOSS, released under the BSD 3-Clause license [1].

1: https://github.com/withspectrum/spectrum
Lyapunov-based approach to safe reinforcement learning
Welp, it's a good thing these companies don't have a large amount of control over a lot of people's lives. And luckily their business practices are transparent and we all agree they're fair.

This is fine.
Well, Internet Historian can.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UBPg5ftCMv8
Yes, I think it has been lot cheaper and and more easier to train state of the art models such as fast ai.
The Cassandra design was always a bit of a frankenstein without clear upside to me, but the nosql craze started great conversations.

There is certainly merit beyond fashion to the dynamo architecture, and there are workloads where (for example) HBase is simply the correct type of tool despite the lack of polish of its management interface
The problem with being engaged with these enforcement agencies is that this is probably a significant amount of "bloat." Google would need to engage with all 28 EU governments on this issue. They didn't even allow a bunch of Eastern European countries to sell apps in their play store until a few years ago because they were that's insignificant.
Another lesser known alternative to Slack is Jandi, which is cheaper, better free tier, has more eastern language support and is built more like a chatroom. Though the walled garden is still there and free tier only goes up to 500 members. I'd actually like to see more communities adopt it and see how it goes.
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Air Force 'rods from god' kinetic weapon hit with nuclear-weapon force
Cutting Through the Hype: When Serverless Works and When It Doesn’t
Flagged for being political and ideological drivel hiding behind and pretending to be concerns regarding automation.

What the fuck has Trump suddenly to do with the impact of automation?
That's an odd selection of cities you propose.. there's not even daily flights between some of those city pairs, let alone an a380
You don’t “loose” copyright, you never had it in the first place.

Copyright is (read the law!) a temporary monopoly granted for works meeting certain criteria, being creative is one of them. You’d hold copyright for the code you wrote to generate the “art”. If you download somebody else’s code (as this site uses Nvidia’s), you lack the creative element.
It's a bit off topic since it's not a resource for learning, but:

http://tatiyants.com/pev/#/plans

(Postgres Explain Visualizer)

When dealing with query optimization in practice, it helps a lot since it enables a clear, convenient and synthetic view of an EXPLAIN (ANALYZE).

Just yesterday, it helped me improve a big analytic query from executing in 10 minutes to 5 seconds by just adding a small index.
I've active in at least two free Slack communites. The limitation of message history isn't so bad; it's at least better than IRC. And one can still set up dozens of private chat rooms.
Show HN: The Marker How to is a list of pragmatic tutorials for indie makers
Python Pandas in 5 minutes – Part 2
How fascinating that they might need to develop new tools for the unique circumstances. Does anyone know if they would keep the design proprietary and e.g. mine it for profits, or are they under any requirement for open-design, open process?

It strikes me that in what can be described as a "disaster" from many angles, they are potentially modeling a working containment-and-recovery process from other angles. This could be extremely valuable, the exception to the safety tradition that writes new rules providing higher leverage in working with beneficial and yet hazardous materials.
> Finally they combine all of this data with their knowledge of the person using the computer. Almost everyone on the Internet uses something owned by Google – search, mail, ads, maps – and as you know Google Tracks All Of Your Things.

Human [n]: Entity that uses Google®-brand services.

— Google Dictionary, 2020 edition
No offence, but something is seriously wrong with your head
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> As an ecommerce developer I appreciate recaptcha. And we should also appreciate it is free.

It's not free, it's a part of Google's worldwide data collection machine.

Actually, for medium to small websites recaptcha is not even necessary, a simple question, even stupid ("who is the author of the famous book by Hemingway?") is far more useful because it doesn't lose the user's time. You know, if they get annoyed, they might not place the order.
Yeah I remember the whole supply chain mess of the 787.
Turns out outsourcing everything is not so ideal after all.

Airbus had it's own fair share of development troubles with the A380 though, including the infamous cabling issue due to different software versions between France and Germany, and accompanying years of delays.

I also highly doubt that the A380 has broken even.

Building these beasts that are modern airplanes is just tough. I am fascinated with the whole supply chain topic though.
NPR had a very interesting article on scammers in the 1800s: https://www.npr.org/sections/npr-history-dept/2015/02/12/385...

The first guy would be a perfect fit for GoFundMe.
>IMO, it seemed that the purpose of GDPR was to create a legal arrangement to tax/fine Google (and other big US tech companies). The fine was going to happen one way or another, the question was just how big it would be in the end.

This is what I think as well. The attitude EU politicians (especially German and French) have taken against foreign tech companies is incredibly hostile. I assume they do this because we don't have many large tech companies in the EU. If they hurt foreign tech companies enough then perhaps there's a chance we might get some in the EU ourselves. What they don't understand is that the reason the EU doesn't have many major tech companies is because the environment is hostile towards them.

Think back on when Zuckerberg was at the EU Parliament and he was asked to name an EU competitor to Facebook to show that they're not a monopoly.
Whoa I didn't know that, that's huge as well -- There are some overlays that don't even come with NetworkPolicy support at all -- didn't know they supported FQDNs as well
A better question might be "This sentence is false. True or false?"
The Human Revolution in Understanding Programs [pdf]
The Powder Toy includes Wireworld elements, among other electronic bits: https://powdertoy.co.uk/Wiki/W/Elements:Electronics.html#Wir...
I teach on a 'gifted programme' and I will read this article, but could you say what you think are the most important findings in the article? I'm always interested in what other people take away from literature.
I understand what you are saying and there is definitely a difference in phenotype but from what I've read the it's not possible to make a distinction because the interrace variance is smaller than the intrarace variance. It might be hard targeting a specific race with biological tools when it's hard to specify race biologically. But yeah there is difference in people appearance depending on location of origin.
They need to hire a UX designer A$AP.
Tell HN: Coffee Meets Bagel hacked, yielding at least names and email addresses
Just received the following email. I'm disturbed that they have not mentioned this on their blog or Press page:

"Hello,

We recently discovered that some data from your Coffee Meets Bagel account may have been acquired by an unauthorized party. We would like to make sure you have the facts about what happened, what information was involved, and the steps we are taking to help protect you.

What happened?
On February 11, 2019, we learned that an unauthorized party gained access to a partial list of user details. Once we became aware, we quickly took steps to determine the nature and scope of the problem.

What information was involved?
The affected information only includes your name and email address prior to May 2018. As a reminder, we never store any financial information or passwords.

What are we doing
We have taken steps to protect our community, including the following:

• We have engaged forensic security experts to conduct a review of our systems and infrastructure.
• Vendor and external systems are being audited and reviewed to ensure there are no compliance issues or third party breaches.
• We continue to monitor for suspicious activity and we are coordinating with law enforcement authorities regarding this incident.
• We continue to make enhancements to our systems to detect and prevent unauthorized access to user information. ..."
> She claims she isn’t.

I wonder if the subtlety of that joke will be lost on future generations one day.
I'm pretty sure he's taking about web application...

Sqlite is only really viable if you don't have an undefined amount of nodes pushing commits into the DB

That's a challenge desktop applications don't have
Dropbox has had automatic photo backup for ages and is available on most platforms.
> Turns out outsourcing everything is not so ideal after all.

If you want a good reason military aerospace is a mess and NaSA couldn't build a replacement for the space shuttle, that's a big big reason.
I would imagine JS JITs can determine more specific types at runtime than you can express in TypeScript source code.
Absolutely agree, I fly long distance a lot and really really enjoy flying in the A380, specifically due to the air quality and feeling of space it has. I usually try to pick this plane flying out of SFO so I reallu hope that this plane will be in service for a long time to come.
But there are few major EU tech companies in the first place. These kinds of rules are going to hurt foreign companies because they're the major players in the market.

I'm European and I barely use anything made by European tech companies in terms of final products. I'm sure there are some networking chips or similar in some of the devices I use, but the major software and hardware I use is made and designed outside of the EU.

Now I would argue that the reason we don't have many major tech companies in the EU is because of a hostile environment for them here. I really can't think of many other reasons. The EU has more people than the US that are about as educated. There's at least a comparable amount of capital around, our internet connectivity is actually better, but we have very few major tech companies, even fewer ones that focus on internet stuff.

Why is this important? Because if eventually we want to build automation to do other jobs then we need a lot if qualified tech workers.
Being on the loosing side with a couple of loved languages, I learned something that I always promote in any project I am part of.

Only use platform languages for production code, anything else just adds more FFI, debugging effort, lack of tooling and impedance mismatchs.

So for portable mobile apps, I am a big supportive of C++ with native views, or just plain mobile Web, specially now with PWAs.

For customers only focused in a specific platform, then full native.
I’m Excited with React Hooks?
I'm planning to release at least one app or website per month in 2019. Ideally someone pays me to build their app, but if not, my list of side ideas include:

1. Uber for private tutoring/students. I live in a university town and there's plenty of college kids wanting to teach schoolkids.

2. Random story/character generator based off tropes.

3. Punch card for babysitting, especially for the late night tiers that babysitters are reluctant to charge extra on.

4. Recipe app, focused on instant things like bread makers and pressure cookers.

5. Github but for recipes (this is really just an excuse to make fork puns)

6. A chat with anonymous strangers community, similar to Omegle, except you post something similar to a tweet, and people can chat with you based on it. So you could make a post complaining about your boss, or how happy you are to get a job, then someone can chat with you about it. My main worry is that this could degrade into 4chan and it would be an uphill battle to moderate it.

7. Gamification productivity app. Probably just a checklist, ala Habitica, or it could be integrated with Pomodoro Technique.

If anyone wants to use these ideas, feel free to. Maybe we could even work on something together.
A Response to “On Higher Education”
Kramer agrees.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sMqt1uAxibw
Apple Invites Hollywood Stars to Video Service Launch
A language is just a system of symbols intended to represent objects and things. Any thinking creature must have some system of representing real objects with some abstraction in its brain. Language is only a question of scale.

You can also think without words. You do that any time you visualize something. Imagine an apple floating in an empty black space. Just reading these words probably put that image in your head. Now turn the apple around, look at it from all sides, above and below. I can definitely give you directions on what to do, but I have no idea how to think that visualization in words.