skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Trains not overrepresented? Could it be that you are unfamiliar with the 18xx genre of train investment games? It's an entire genre in itself, with hundreds of games taking place in every conceivable part of the world. Apart from that, there's the Empire Builder-type train games, Trans America, Steam, not to mention a whole bunch of tile-laying games that use rails as their theme.

It's possible train games are more visible to me due to my train-nut family, but there are a lot of excellent train games out there.

"Civilizations" -- my interpretation of that is, well, the original Civilization, and the many, many attempts to make a more streamlined game with a similar feel. If you want to interpret it broader than that, you could include any kind of game where you build up a society out of nothing, including even Catan, despite its lack of technological progress. Or it could include anything involving ancient civilisations, even if it's just as a theme (we are talking theme here, after all). But if you need to include technological progress, then I don't think this is overrepresented, it's just a kind of game that many gamers find really intriguing but is hard to get right, hence the interest when a new attempt seems to get it right.

I agree Lovecraft is overrepresented.

I'm afraid I can't really comment on the focus of the article, as only the first few paragraphs are visible to me.

You've got a good point about the use of "Holy Grail". Many games do enable very different viable strategies, so it's not as unattainable as the phrase "holy grail" suggests. It is still considered to be an important aspect of game design, though, and games where one strategy is clearly superior to all others have failed at it.
It's a simple problem: don't dodge training requirements by falsely stating that there's no need to retrain pilots on this aircraft.

These crashes happened because Boeing tried to market the plane as not requiring retraining in order to boost sales to airlines.
> When he purchased a new car, he picked a much less flashy model, and he used the L.L.C. to sign the papers.

> To register his car, the D.M.V. insisted on a real name — not an L.L.C. — and a street address.

As far as I can tell, the car belongs to the LLC, it's not in his name, but his real identity is a registered driver or some such to said car.
From what I could gather all Boeing 737 MAX have been banned by UK, France and Germany. This is not limited to just the MAX-8.
The ups and downs of sit-stand desks
I think Yang goes a lot farther than warren in that breaking up tech companies still concentrates wealth in costal tech hubs while a UBI would begin shifting that back to the middle states.

It is sort of admitting that tech has “won”, but the power of data at scale is imo fundamentally a part of reality and denying it in the US just means China will develop AI technology faster.

Either way I’m glad to see these ideas being discussed more broadly.
I agree, and disagree.

How trustworthy Facebook is as far as their choices on what to filter is somewhat related to if ZH is in fact trustworthy too... same goes for other sites.
The same idea (e2e decryption key in fragment/hash) is used by the self-hosted Lufi. Public instances are running at https://upload.disroot.org/ and https://framadrop.org/ and the code is here: https://framagit.org/fiat-tux/hat-softwares/lufi
Maybe someone can comment on how Lufi compares to Firefox Send (performance, usability?)

I also think the blog post could explain more why and how the e2e encryption works. Maybe just by showing an example link and then highlight with colors "this part is private"?
> So back in 1999 people thought that Microsoft would be dominant forever - how did that work out?

> It wasn’t government intervention that caused the once The Beleaguered Computer Company that was about to be crushed by MS what it is today.

The criticisms of Microsoft weren't that it was preventing Apple from selling computers; but that it was using it's monopoly in the operating system to prevent competition against its other software.

> Even Spotify came out of nowhere and made the once dominance iTunes Music Store basically irrelevant without government intervention.

And if Apple decided Spotify could not be on the App Store, how would Spotify do then? (Nevermind we're ignoring the "Apple tax".)
What if I'm on a network I don't trust? Is the only option to set a passphrase? More importantly, the UI doesn't call this out explicitly, so uninformed users may think it's "secure enough" without a passphrase.
We merged the related threads. Here are the relevant blog posts:

https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/opensource/keeping-open-source-...

https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/new-open-distro-for-elastic...
I agree with this. For all of their annoying qualities, my employer 1.) doesn't make us work overtime 2.) the work is stable and it's hard to get fired if you are a full time employee 3.) the benefits are pretty good, especially vacation and child leave.
Given this only seems to be afflicting MAX8 craft in terms of material evidence, my guess is they won’t ground the whole series unless/until another MAX craft goes down.
> Not if it costs us our humanity. The mistreatment of animals we eat/farm is astonishing.

"Humanity" not a universally accepted constant. Being "Humane" means largely arbitrary things depending on culture. I'm not sure I accept that your apparent definition of humanity meaningfully exists on a global scale so I'm far from worried about losing it.
But then I'd have to actually read the articles.
I couldn't agree more with Amazon. We build something on Elastic - and trying to work with them to get licensing was at best a major PITA. In ~2017 Elastic decided they wanted to go Enterprise Only. They started to charge $100k for x-pack, though one could get a dev license for $50K.

We quickly built a SQL parser for Elastic, an alerting engine, some other bits. These are all bits that just went poof yesterday when Amazon released opendistro - and I couldn't be happier. Sure we'll have to slice out a bunch of code, but at the end of the day it didn't have value to our core business.

I just wish Elastic as a company was easier to deal with. We'd be months ahead if not for them - and ultimately just worked around them. This is in spite of MY using Elastic for ~9 years now.
>Why would they be uncomfortable having their LinkedIn found by any method?

Harassment.

How would you feel if you broke off a conversation on Tinder and someone moved over to LinkedIn to harass you? That's a real world example that has happened to female friends of mine.

Even if you use a different phone number, email, and photo, just first name + city alone can be enough to find someone on LinkedIn if you know what they look like.

Social networks cause context collapse: we live in multiple spheres, but technology allows those streams to cross, and the result is often unpleasant.
> The link between insulin and aging is super well understood.

This is really overstated. The paper is a paper on round worms, which is really one step above basic cellular science (which is important but only a building block of the whole picture). We do not have large scale, epidemiological studies about sugar, and the ones that we do don't point to sugar behaving differently than other calories with regards to health outcomes. The problem is blood sugar not dietary sugar, and it turns out high blood sugar can come from many places that are not dietary sugar, and a calorically controlled diet that is high in sugar does not result in high average blood sugar levels.
I thought I came up with this independently--glad to hear it's not just me.

I quit smoking by pretending there were three of me: past, present, and future. Initially, it was up to present me to conspire with past me to trick future me into doing what we wanted. This took the form of letting my social group see me tearing a cigarette into little pieces every time I usually would smoke one. Destroyed about two cartons this way. I knew they'd make fun of future me for being so wasteful if I ever started smoking again.

Once we got a bit of traction when it comes to reigning in that jerk (future me) we began to realize that diplomacy was more effective than trickery. The compromise now is exactly one cigarette per year. Five years in and I think all parties are happy with the agreement. There's a sort of trans-temporal respect we're building.

This may sound like the ravings of a madman, but people occasionally comment on how balanced and in control I seem to be. I think it's a better way.
There are projects working to promote a better future for the web. Scuttlebutt and Dat to name two.
Not to mention that onr could always encrypt it themselves then use ff send
Lead Scoring Can Help with Targeted Marketing
do I need install firefox to use this tool? looks neat!
Reading that list feels like browsing an aisle at Big Lots, or those tables of cheap stuff at Fry's
What part of controlling your impulses in order "to not be pieces of shit" "doesn't make sense"?
So instead of me making a call to a database, a human has to be involved before I get my data.
In that vein we have FLASH support baked in. It works a bit differently than Redis Enterprise (uses File System snapshotting), but it’s also a lot less complicated.
I’d like to see the math on that cost savings now.
Apparently there are no more drug cartels to go after? We’re now worried about a has-been actress who paid $15,000 so her kid could cheat on the SAT?

I’m skeptical of the FBI’s investigative priorities. Wall Street is suddenly squeaky-clean? No more insider trading? Ponzi schemes have all gone away? Municipal governments across the land are staffed by honest and dedicated civil servants? All defense contractors are scrupulously precise about their billing and would never ever bribe a DOD procurement official?

I’m not saying it’s right to engage in cheating on the SAT or bribing someone to get into a university. But inarguably there are many more crimes that are far more serious.
Problem is, if they've added so much automation that trained pilots cannot determination the proper course of action 100% of the time, the system is at fault.

"You don't have to do anything, the plane will fly itself. Unless there's a catastrophic emergency. Then you better remember everything you haven't practiced from 18 months ago" seems like a failed implementation.
> However, some proteinand fat-rich foods (eggs, beef, fish, lentils, cheese, cake, anddoughnuts) induced as much insulin secretion as did some carbohydrate-rich foods (eg, beef was equal to brown rice andfish was equal to grain bread).

what? that makes zero sense, at least in case with fat. anybody got quick explanation for this?

Edit: found the TLDR explanation in another part of the paper

> postprandial insulin responses are not always proportional to blood glucose concentrations or to a meal's totalcarbohydrate content. Several insulinotropic factors are knownto potentiate the stimulatory effect of glucose and mediatepostprandial insulin secretion. These include fructose, certainamino acids and fatty acids, and gastrointestinal hormones suchas gastric inhibitory peptide, glucagon, and cholecystokiin(25, 26). Thus, protein- and fat-rich foods may induce substantial insulin secretion despite producing relatively small bloodglucose responses.
So, to recap, bribing individuals is bad, but bribing the school is fine. Got it.
Agreed, there needs to be a paradigm shift in registering intents. I should not create a skill that the user needs to remember a command for. Instead, my skill should be able to hook into intents and return structured data. For example:

"Me: Alexa, find me a hotel near the beach in Destin, Florida that is available next week"

"Alexa: Hotels.com has a three star hotel available for $987 for six nights, and Airbnb has a four bedroom condo available for the same dates. Would you like to book one of these, or hear more options?"

"Me: Book the first hotel."

...and so on...

In this instance, Amazon has to define the schema for user intention, and hotels.com and Airbnb must provide interfaces to that intent, responding with normalized/standardized data that Alexa can then reconfigure into an appropriate response. Amazon has to throw their weight around to get other companies to play the game, and it's on them to organize the returned data into an appropriate response. This is probably where a discussion about the semantic web would be useful :)
My experience managing my own procrastination for years makes me think this could be true.
I go to the gym to avoid cleaning my aquarium, I'll rewrite a software module for a personal project to avoid some undesirable work. The avoiding activity doesn't seem to take any willpower, but does when they become the avoided activity.
Last winter I didn't go on vacation, but took 2 weeks off to catch up on personal projects and training, etc and what I realized is that those side projects require more than full time hours.
As the story about the wine drinking lawyer in the blog post, maybe the problem is we don't really appreciate how much stress we are under. It causes anxiety that makes it extremely difficult to act.
At least it’s not the country bound and determined to prop up the brand at all costs. If it was 2 A320s that went down, you can bet we’d be banning them instantly in the states.
Women Do Ask for More Money at Work. They Just Don’t Get It
Super! I can confirm that I can use protonmail without VPN in the glorious Russian Federation.
Fundamental design principles for non-designers
It sounds like part of the problem was that only some individuals were involved out of the institution. So it was a case of some coach being paid off to transmit false info to the admissions committee about someone being on a sports team (making it federal wire fraud). The admissions committee was then influenced to accept based on that fake info.
How do you actually define "Fiduciary duty to the charter"? Since charters tend to be vague, and are definitely not legal documents, almost anything can be said to be aligned with the charter.

Similarly, what's stopping an investor from implicit control by threat of removing their investment?
>> It may not be meritocratic, but it's not corrupt

Maybe not in the 1800s, but doing that today violates any number of published school policies. It likely also violates several laws, especially if the school receives state/federal funding (they all do). Violating published policies, circumventing established admission systems, and denying a spot for a qualified candidate in order to accommodate a wealthy donor, that is the definition of corruption.
Well I'm glad I asked, because that sure is neat!
> Apparently there are no more drug cartels to go after? We’re now worried about a has-been actress who paid $15,000 so her kid could cheat on the SAT?

This is a false dichotomy.
Yes, a subnet per rack is a best practice. Often people DHCP & PXE over the 1G out-of-band network which is dumb L2.

In most ASICs everything is the same latency since packets go through the whole pipeline whether they use all the functionality or not. Anyway, the latency of plain routing would have to be equal or faster than VXLAN encap + routing.
Apache Flink and Prometheus: Cloud-native monitoring of streaming applications
> I'd encrypt it myself with something like gpg or openssl on the command line.

> This fills a handy gap for a lot of people with smaller needs.

You point out exactly the problem: the people who are technical enough to deal with GPG's UX competently are also technical enough to evaluate whether they should put a particular document through this Send service.

I don't think nontechnical people have "smaller needs".
A couple videos I cannot watch is not a valid source.

Again, there is a repeat issue of the left-wing lying and making false accusations against right-wingers. Ben Shapiro for example is a practicing jew but is regularly called a nazi.

I would love to hear your source but Alex Jones denies ever saying it and I'm not seeing any sources.

Regardless, again the guy is a walking tabloid. He literally calls himself retarded.The guy rants on and on for hours everyday. He gets super drunk and high. The guy is going to say retarded things. Yet you're going back to a 2015 show to find something the dumbass said and you cant even prove it?

That's some pretty weak arguments.
>isn't one of consumer choice but rather of taking advantage of network effects to enable rent seeking behaviour.

If Apple could rely on network effect alone then they could have a hidden setting to enable 3rd party apps to run on the device like Android does. The retort to this is that you're increasing the attack surface of rogue apps but I don't buy that personally.
I guess I'm going to argue minor differences here but I thought the Streisand Effect was more about someone trying to hide a thing via lawsuit or something and that usually involves some effort to actually remove the thing from the internet or visibility.

I don't think Facebook cares if ZH has a website or people can visit. They just don't let that content on their platform.

To me that's different than the Streisand Effect. ZH i'm sure would like similar results no doubt as far as attention goes.
That's a fair point, thanks for pointing it out.
There is no such thing as "willpower" and there is also no such thing as "motivation" (https://medium.com/swlh/theres-no-such-thing-as-motivation-e...). These are both complementary pre-scientific beliefs. Modern, well done science is pretty conclusive on these matters and it needs to be more widely known so we can progress forward as a species.
Most people are constantly screwing over their future self. I found this to be a useful thought process as well. Also, I quit smoking.
That seems like a disincentive to buy American aircraft.

If you're a reasonably sized international airline, it seems like a reasonable possibility that you'd have to (or want to) land in a territory that the US in unfavourable toward. Why take the risk?
Diversity and Justice
I’m kinda against running a “cluster” on the same machine. That was a primary motivator for doing this.

It’s offloading complexity from the developers to the users which I don’t think is the right approach.

Also clusters have limitations over single instance redis. You’ll also get more Queries/GB with a Multithreaded approach.
"Repackage other open source projects that was already existing?"

Most people don't realize this yet. They are taking other, existing projects which anyone could install themselves for a long time now and framing it like they built these things for their new fork. So much of their "distribution" is just a collection of other open source projects.

In the case of the security functionality, that is backed by a company named Search Guard who have an Enterprise Version in addition to the Community Version included in the AWS fork. They forked another project, renamed it and now call it their own.
Technically, the same thing, but one side goes to jail because they can't donate millions. One is legal because of wink and a nod, the other is illegal (as it should be) but both sides tried to do their best for their children.
Jared Kushner, the brilliant philosopher went to Harvard at the same his father donated $2 Million to the university.
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/oct/21/what-w...

I understand the legality and the law is the law, but let's cut the c*ap, both sides are cheating. The poorer side gets caught because they don't have the money needed to bribe the University, they have just enough to bribe its employees.
"Requires"? Maybe. In a business setting, sure, $5/month should be nothing.

But for "let's play with this serverless stuff and maybe use it for something real in the future", $0 AWS lambda wins over $60/y Cloudflare workers. Or for hobby projects, doing it traditionally and running it on the $60/y VPS I already have instead of spending the money. And if asked later, CF is going to be the one I can't give a direct assessment of.
https://www.dictionary.com/browse/circumvent
But the IDE's ability to tell you depends on the language. IDE features for dynamic languages are worse because the static structure of the code is not available, so usually devolves into basic string matching. In the case of C#, the language and IDE support are developed together, and new features like async, linq etc are not considered done until the tooling (IDE, debugger etc.) supports them. It's unfair to dismiss the tooling for such languages when they were explicitly designed with them in mind.
Yikes. How would ya like to be a passenger on one of those planes: "We're returning to our departure airport because this airplane has been grounded."
Dukto is great!
> The MCAS system in the new 737-MAX's only have 2 AoA sensors

That's pretty damning if true.
I don't think I'd read this essay before. Interesting quote:

"We expected the most common proposal to be for multiplayer games. We were not far off: this was the second most common. The most common was some combination of a blog, a calendar, a dating site, and Friendster. Maybe there is some new killer app to be discovered here, but it seems perverse to go poking around in this fog when there are valuable, unsolved problems lying about in the open for anyone to see."

It sounds like a lot of people were trying to make Facebook in 2005.
Spotify doesn’t pay an “Apple Tax”. You can’t subscribe to Spotify within the App store.
Oh no, how dare they no longer get paid enough in order to exploit animals...
"An Indispensable Truth: How Fusion Power Can Save the Planet" by Prof. Francis F. Chen[1]

It begins by looking at climate change and explains some of the measurements and physics principles.

Then it continues in the second part to look at nuclear fusion physics and technology, explaining some of the physics involved.

The book contains mathematics and explains things like Rayleigh-Taylor instabilities etc. in very approachable manner.

It is the perfect book for an interested layman and Prof. Chen is one of the most respected experts in the field.

[1] https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/11249163-an-indispensabl...
Hi callahad,

I think there's some confusion about the standards venue this is taking place in. This work is being done in the WICG, at https://github.com/WICG/kv-storage. The TC39 staging process, while relevant for any built-in modules TC39 may want to work on such as temporal, is not a blocker for web built-in modules.

Just like web standards bodies and TC39 already collaborate on built-in globals, we're also collaborating with TC39 on built-in modules. Thus the links to the stage 1 proposal in the article and explainers. But in the end, KV storage is a web feature, and goes through the web standards process, which doesn't use the Ecma staging process. Instead, it uses the process others are discussing elsewhere on this thread: incubation, shipping to web users through early implementations or origin trials, eventually to stable, and then promotion to a standards body like the W3C or WHATWG. (In this case, to the W3C, as part of the IndexedDB specification.)

Hope this helps!
I like this article, but the title is misleading.

"I did actually use some JavaScript on the new Slimvoice, but only when an interaction could not be replicated in any other way."

Overall, the article does point in a good direction.
A good podcast episode about that: https://www.npr.org/sections/money/2019/02/06/692155923/epis...
Whats the concept of Will Power? You as an individual giving orders to yourself to act like in a certain way. And remember your so called will power is vulnerable to your surroundings and nature. And its gonna break you at some point. Instead of "Will Power" take "responsibility" for your actions and accept you have to change for your better future.