skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Regardless, you've not refuted the essential truism here, that no western source is always right and that Russian sources are not always wrong.

That's not what I was trying to refute. I'm sorry if you were confused.

The point I was making, is that if you want a diversity of sources, it's smart to select high-quality ones whose real goal is to be accurate and trustworthy. Most Russian media doesn't fit that bill, and certainly not the government-sponsored English language stuff.

To be a little hyperbolic and blunt about it: including propaganda in your diverse set of news sources is expert mode, and it requires an orders of magnitude more effort, skill, and knowledge. Most people who think they're experts aren't, and they can't handle it. Propaganda is created by experts and it's really a specialist job to suss out any novel truths that might be in it.

> when western media were omitting evidence that Anti-Maduro rioters had started the fire, you could still become aware of this information by paying attention to what some in the western press were calling "Russian talking points".

Or just wait a few days for proper reporting to happen rather than inhaling breaking news reports. None of those events have any immediate relevance on my life (and probably yours too), so we can afford to take our time.

Also: Trump's twitter account isn't "western media." I first heard about the aid convoy fire in an NYT story that was refuting the idea that the fire was caused by Maduro's forces, and their original story about the event doesn't assign anyone responsibility for the fire:

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/02/23/world/americas/venezuela-...

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/10/world/americas/venezuela-...
Yes, it is. The 737 NG (700 series, 800 series, etc) has a hull loss rate of 0.27 per million departures[0]. I am having difficulty finding the exact number of departures for the MAX but 737s average about 3-5 departures per day[1]. Only 350 MAXs have been delivered and the first one was delivered on May 6, 2017[2] (676 days ago). So even being generous and supposing that all 350 aircraft were delivered exactly on May 6, 2017 and that each plane made 5 flights daily, that would be a total of 1,183,000 flights. Therefore the MAX line has a best-case hull loss rate of 1.69 per million departures. I.e. the MAX generation has a hull loss rate 6.25 times that of the NG line.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boeing_737#Accidents_and_incid...

[1]: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/274782362_Character...

[2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boeing_737_MAX
No individual is essential.

If Musk slipped in the shower and cracked his head, life (for the companies) would go on.
This sort of thing is the main reason why I do not put photos (or any other identifying information) of myself or others on the open web.
The term monopoly should be well defined. If you apply that definition to the real world situation and ask yourself the question "What does Apple have a monopoly on?". How is that "dangerous thinking"?

You can argue the term isn't well defined or you can disagree with the definition. But you can't say it is "dangerous thinking" when someone simply applies the definition.
My source is me, having to develop and manage a cross-platform mobile app (Android and iOS). Doing anything with the latter platform is an uphill struggle, from the platform itself to publishing the app. On the other hand, working with Android is pretty smooth despite the fragmentation; most issues with it are purely visual and easily fixed.
What about Proper Tail Calls?

Duktape and XS support them. JSC has had them for years now too. That's a big feature to accidentally miss. You switch and then inadvertently blow your stack every now and then because v8 decided to remove their already implemented tail calls for no good reason (Lest we go down the road again, the "alternative syntax" proposal was dropped, so there's zero excuses aside from a deliberate violation of the spec).
Sounds like a good reason not to buy new hardware from Google. They discontinue products too fast.
I gotta wonder if that's why he was fired by the Academy. It doesn't make sense that they are afraid of controversy in light of some of the recent people who they honored, like Casey Affleck & Mel Gibson.
FB is experiencing a multi-continent outage
I'm glad that Spotify is taking this stance. Apple and Google Play together have an effective monopoly on the mobile device app market, which is worth about 70 bln USD per year. Cost of entry and network effects make it essentially impossible to have new competing app stores, so barring new regulations the market will remain as un-free as it is. It's therefore about time for regulators to step in if we want to promote innovation in the app market that doesn't necessary align with the self-interests of Apple and Google, so I'm glad a relatively well-known company such as Spotify is pushing for this.
SSL on the web verifies that the sender is who they've verified to a third party that they are. It does not verify that they're trustworthy in any way, shape, or form.

What makes an organization "well-known" enough to be on this list? What happens if an organization is not on this list? What if I'm a completely-legitimate (S-Corp paperwork filed!) organization called amazorn.com?

And what problem does this solve that the current DMARC system does not?
Also: https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2019/3/13/18263719/b...
What about the people you want to invite who aren't on FB? Luckliy (or not) I still get Evites to thing that matter.
Perhaps the hope, on the part of whichever government officials I assume have been asking the media and lawyers involved to hold back this information, is that a story deeply embarrassing to Musk will discourage more dupes from putting down Model Y deposits and becoming unsecured Tesla creditors. Elon Musk ran the company to the verge of bankruptcy on customer deposits once before already.
Most of my social network (urban, educated, US) has abandoned FB, so the value for me is in the events themselves, which aren't published elsewhere.
Eyewitness reports of plane crashes nearly always involve fires in locations no two eye-witnesses agree on, smoke, wings falling off, etc. These are rarely born out by subsequent investigations.

See, eg, "
Reliability of Eyewitness Reports to a Major Aviation Accident" https://commons.erau.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1040&co....

A plane crash is a very fast, horrifying tragedy to witness. It shouldn't be surprising that peoples' imperfect memories afterwards are completely scrambled
This is the first time I experience this. Also note that current session on messenger.com still work, we can still send/receive message, but can't upload any image or send sticker. Looking forward for a post mortem analysis on this.
What about the empirical evidence of thousands of patients who have had success with these therapies? Is it possible their experience shows it's not as simple as declaring PACE completely proves or disproves the psycho/somatic vector?
I remember a (deleted) tweet from the rapper Nipsey Hussle where he posted his payout breakdown. It's been reblogged since deletion and is preserved:

>ATTENTION EVERYONE:
>
>1 Million Streams on YouTube = $690
>
>1 Million Streams on Spotify = $4,370
>
>1 Million Streams on Apple Music = $7,350
>
>1 Million Streams on @Tidal = $12,500
>
>1 Million Streams on Amazon Music = $4,020
>
>Don’t shoot the messenger.
>Jus Sign up 4 @tidal
>
>— THA GREAT (@NipseyHussle) January 15, 2018

The only thing about payout $ is that you have to take into account how many streams you actually get on each service. Are we to believe that Tidal's payouts would stay they same if they had Spotify's much greater listenership? Or Apple for that matter? Streaming services pay the rates charged to them by the record companies based on myriad listenership demographics.

I believe the labels are charging the services, and those labels pay the artist. Am I wrong on that? The labels set the price to be paid, don't they?
> the US airlines the safest in the world

Where do you people _get_ these ideas?!
> Even so, "innocent until proven guilty" is the better standard

You're confusing this with the legal system. Normal people outside that don't have access to formal investigative powers and resources. Their only course is to use their best judgment based on what they do know.

Where greater penalties like fines and jail are involved, a corresponding greater standard of proof is required.
I think general terms are used frequently when having a broad discussion.

But, to grant your Argumentum ad dictionarium, it seems like even here (considering the downvotes) the point parent was making still stands. People don't like discussing the connection between "genetic heritage" and "commonly used markers of general intelligence".
This seems to be relevant background: https://www.thenation.com/article/wikileaks-haiti-petrocarib...
> You are implicitly assuming that CO will be constant and would be independent of CI... We do not know that to be true.

No, we can reason about this fairly easily knowing the extraction costs of calories from macronutrients. You're correct in that macronutrient content can affect CO, but you're vastly overstating the amount. There is no model of digestion we've come up with that accounts for much more than 10% of calories going to digestion, so even if you max that out, you still end up with pretty similar levels of obesity. We cannot fix this problem without radically reducing the amount we eat, regardless of the macronutrient content.

> I seem to recall a bunch of animal models where compliance was controlled for and still showed a strong correlation between insulin and set weight.

Please send links, all I can do is respond to the specifics of an actual study.
Right...so there's already Evites right? :)
If you're a regulator, and you have unvalidated data that suggests a plane may be unsafe, how long do you wait for validated data before deciding to ground that plane "out of an abundance of caution"?
Despite the headline here, it isn't looking at suicides during the troubles, but people killed.
I don't understand how we're jumping to the conclusion that Musk is responsible for this. No one seems to be claiming the "anonymous call" was made up, as far as I can tell. For all we know Tripp made the call himself to make himself look like more a victim. It's no less plausible than suggesting Musk made the call himself, or had someone make it on his behalf.
edge caching :-)
Can someone chime in on the following-- One possible lead in cause has to do with either software or sensors related to Angle of Attack (AOT).

For such an intermittent bug in a safety-critical application, how do you even begin fixing it when reproducibility might be a 1 in 500,000 likelihood? (Obviously I'm not in software testing, but I'm curious how one approaches this problem.)
“Oops, an error occurred.” – Instagram down
It looks more of a eventbrite alternative than FB events.

my 2 cts
CRJs do not compete with 737s. If the 737 loses favour, the A319/320/321 would replace it.
the question is if this difference is statistically significant
Give Google some privacy of what is being sent home :)

Chrome (and Chromium) creates at start and maintains SSL connections to Google. It is not easy to sniff what is being sent. Even if you MITM it, like in enterprise transparent proxies, Chrome will throw an error because of cert pinning. google domains should be whitelisted: "we recommend that you avoid the use of transparent proxies." https://support.google.com/chrome/a/answer/3504942?hl=en
crude in the context of the job they were being used to do. I agree Dremels can be awesome! :-)
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> The insufferable arrogance of Prof Michael Sharpe once again on show for all the world to see - Paul Watton

> You need to be as arrogant as men are to believe we changed the climate - Nicolas Sarkozy

I find this criticism - that you would have to be arrogant to believe scientific results - both fascinating and deeply disturbing.

I'm not sure if it's an ingenious thought-terminating troll hack - raising a social complaint (which humans instinctively fear) as a sigint to abort further thinking, or just profound idiocy.
you're comparing different markets. that's like saying Earth has 1/8th the marketshare on planets therefore nothing that happens here can be called monopolistic.
My idea is different. Instead of playbook yaml, playbook go source, that compiles to a fat binary that is transferred over ssh. That decreases the dependencies to ssh only on the target hosts (no python). The framework would include an idempotent API that matches all the tasks that Ansible provides.
It would help a lot if we weren't locked into their everything for anything. Store, dev tools, etc., it's all massively anti-third-party.
Add some nice pictures of what could be a hobby?
I am not sure of the current regulations but engine swapping in Sweden and other modifications were completely illegal since the 90s and basically what Americans consider to be normal and acceptable is flat out not allowed on the roads in Sweden by police or inspection authorities.

This means that 100% stock vehicles are in demand, and Volvo and Saab and BMW benefit heavily compared to a modified Jeep, which would make more sense for Sweden's enthusiasts
The watch is a new, battery constrained device. It doesn’t seem unreasonable to limit 3rd party apps for a bit while sorting out how to work with the size constraints.

I’m guessing apple will add lte support for 3rd party apps in watchos 6. Meanwhile, 3rd party apps have had the ability to make apps with offline support since June 2018. Most audio apps have added this.

Spotify....has not. What’s the holdup? Apple watch users are pretty frustrated with spotify: if all the other audio apps can do it, why haven’t they?

(Lte is an edge case: few watches have lte, and even fewer have an active lte plan. Offline audio is the main use case spotify still isn’t doing)
> They aren't, as far as I know, drastically undercutting the prices of their services to levels that aren't sustainable for other companies to compete.

Difficult to compete with free on a large scale, you can only compete on niche audiences at that point. Gmail feels like a good example here that effectively drove out most of the other competition's relatively limited free tiers for personal users, leaving only larger businesses and privacy-oriented individuals to continue to pay for email.
I think we both agree that this is not violating the second law of thermodynamics.

We disagree in that this time reversal operation need energy. It's possible to do this experiment with a frequency doubler [1] crystal in reverse to split a photon in two photons with less energy, then use mirrors to reverse the photons, and then you will be able to "see" that the photons return to the crystal and produce the original photon. [Good luck aligning all the optical equipment perfectly. This is theoretically possible, but it would be very difficult to make the experiment. Perhaps it's easier with other particles.] Anyway, the time reversal operation in this experiment only use a few perfectly aligned mirrors, so it doesn't need additional energy.

In the experiment in the article, they use a setup that is like a quantum computer. It use energy to keep everything working, but the additional energy is not necessary for the main part of the experiment. (The energy is important to make the experiment possible, i.e. transform "perfect alignment" into "we can build this".)

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Optical_frequency_multiplier
'Decentralized Github' is an oxymoron because the 'hub' means a centralized place where people come to collaborate and git is already decentralized.
Different President, Different Secretary of Transportation, different FAA chief.

Obama's administration was run grossly different than Trump's administration. Case in point: FAA doesn't even have a Trump-appointed administrator yet (Daniel Elwell was only appointed to the position of Deputy administrator and is only "Acting Administrator" for now).
In a more fitting analogy, Amazon is actually a model citizen compared to Apple.

Both Hulu and Netflix compete directly with Prime Video, and both 1) are available as free apps for Kindle and the Amazon Fire Stick TV and 2) literally rely on Amazon hardware to run through AWS.
Google has a very different definition of optional.
Facebook is having issues too. Looks like its Joey. `&sdk=joey` getting added to my requests.
Who should he have leaked it to? Where should he have published it?
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Where is the proof? The Bloomberg story is as one sided as it gets. "An anonymous caller" == Elon Musk responsible?
What Elon believes the requirements are and what the legal requirements are two different things.

Not to mention that Tesla failed to file an 8k form in a timely manner, and when it was finally filed it clearly showed that funding had not been 'secured' under any reasonable definition.
This is a brilliantly simple solution to a problem a lot of us face, but unfortunately, I think you're going to have a lot of difficulty in getting users – simply because most corporate information security guidelines disallow forwarding emails to non-essential third parties.
Preferred by the monopoly and nobody else, is what you mean, yes?

Which is to say it is against the will of the people,
I agree, there's so much friction trying to get a group of people to signup for and use another platform.

A personal anecdote: people were willing to fly thousands of miles to come to my wedding, but (almost) nobody wanted to use the site/app we chose to avoid using Facebook to plan the event.

I think the only option is to make it seamless for Facebook users--let them log in with FB, use FB Messenger to send them updates, etc.
It's been 23 years since MIME Security with Pretty Good Privacy (PGP) was proposed.

http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc2015.html

I'm starting to think that someone really doesn't want this to happen.
>Setting aside the store issue for a moment, what you suggest is impossible if Apple is also making apps.

No, it's very easy to implement and commonplace in all sorts of businesses. Apple need to treat their in-house app development teams in exactly the same way as they would treat a third-party developer - they get the same APIs, they get the same documentation, they go through the same approvals process and they pay the same fees.

Apple can hardly claim that they lack the expertise to compartmentalise information in this manner - prior to the iPhone launch, the software team had never seen the hardware and vice-versa.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_wall
> people in the USA are filtering out 737 MAX8/9 flights now

Is that actually an option for Kayak?

The usual sites I use to search for flights do not allow filtering on airplane type (except maybe "exclude prop planes").
No, you don’t. Just don’t work with Apple.
The official unicode documentation on normalization is good reading, and quite readable. It's actually an even more complicated topic than OP reveals, but the Unicode Standard Annex #15 explains it well.

http://unicode.org/reports/tr15/

OP has a significant error:

> You can choose whatever form you’d like, as long as you’re consistent, so the same input always leads to the same result.

Not so much! Do _not_ use the "Compatibility" (rather than "Canonical") normalization forms unless you know what you are doing! UAX15 will explain why, but they are "lossy". In general, NFC is the one to use as a default.
and phones have [some fraction] marketshare on overall devices people buy, what's your point?

the argument is markets within the ios ecosystem, of which there's effectively one, and how it affects developers' ability to build on that ecosystem.
Tehanu is my favorite.
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> The dataset does not link the photos of people’s faces to their names, which means any system trained to use the photos would not be able to identify named individuals.

But isn't that like the point of a facial recognition algorithm? Recognizing individuals by their faces? Presumably from a reference image that has a name?

Also it seems pretty trivial to reverse lookup the images if they were from a public source and some of those will have names, unless they are significantly downsampled.
I have really good news for you.

UTF-8 encoding is compatible with ASCII. As long as you just use ASCII characters, they your strings are also valid UTF-8.
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Regulatory capture happens. Top level leadership starts overruling career professionals and then that dominion gets reversed. Not saying that's what has happened hear but boy did Boeing pull one over on the Faa with this planes release. And Faa leadership has incentive to hold the line. Faa fucked this up long ago.
I had a similar frustration where the media keys would control videos in Safari instead of my music.

This little app lets you go back to the old behavior, or set a priority: http://milgra.com/mac-media-key-forwarder.html
Huge fan of any effort that gets rid of FB events.

My biggest feature request in this space is around address book and inviting new people to a larger event. I want something that can, for example, check my email or other contacts and surface anyone I've been connected with since the last party.

Btw, I no longer have a facebook account and only held on to it for events, until I didn't. Now when I don't get invited to events personally I just think it wasn't worth it in the first place. Haven't tried the site for an invite yet, will do my next one on it. Been using paperlesspost. It's fine.
I'm the same with KeePassXC but use Resilio Sync for redundancy between devices. There's also SyncThing for a free solution to Resilio Sync but haven't dived too much.

Bitwarden is pretty nice, using it at work. I do still like my control that KeePass gives, though.
I do think that the smartphone has lead to some sort of degradation in terms of everyday social interactions, along with an increase in people consuming more clickbait and subjecting themselves to advertisements, etc.. Basically just consuming garbage.

Of course, one could argue that if you choose to not consume those things, you can harvest the benefit of having information and fluid communication at your fingertips. The reality is that in the aggregate, we likely waste more time on the things like browsing <insert_favorite_site_here>.

This could have been phrased so many different ways, and its tricky to point out what exactly is wrong with it all..but I believe soon we'll be at a sort of short/medium term high-point with this sort of behavior, and people will start embracing more natural interactions, etc..

I also think much of this has to do with economics/markets. For the past decade theres been a massive run up in capital and with low yields it's been invested in about every scheme imaginable. Large companies like Lyft lose a lot of money and investors apparently haven't had enough yet...

In 2009 this would not have worked. Next time we have a recession, it will 'slow down' a lot of investment and in that sort of market it will be hard to continuously lose money; and this is where it gets a bit vague (if it hasn't already) but I feel that society needs that slow-down, since these days there's constant hype of this new service, app, way of doing things, etc..
The right thing is to ground the plane. It's just one plane out of many. It doesn't matter if nothing is wrong with the plane. Until they have clear answers it's better to not take any risks with people's lives!. At this point it's even better for Boeing from every perspective. The plane cannot leave the US and most of US passengers avoid flying it anyway. I'm sure airline crews are also very unhappy that they need to fly it. I wouldn't be surprised if some US airlines would ground it if the FAA doesn't.