skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thought experiment: Have, like in aviation, units built of two separate, but parallel architectures designed and built by unrelated, independent manufacturers with software written by independent teams in different languages and deploy them redundantly. (E.g., Airbus does this.) Now you have cranked up the cost for any manipulations to the requirements of successfully attacking two separate architectures in the same realtime timeframe, maybe at several redundant units at once. Leaving the message path. So you're still screwed. (Simply, because the win to cost ratio may be near to infinity. If we have concerns regarding personal messages, how could we possibly guarantee for this one?) Enter the paper trail and printers. – However, does anyone remember the Xerox scanner debacle of misarranged and falsely duplicated data by the compression algorithm, or the debates about Obama's birth certificate (due to image portions duplicated by the compression algorithm)? Things like these went unnoticed for years.

What we may learn from this, a) there's no perfect system involving software, b) if we do not want to invest as much in democracy as we do in shuffling around a few people by aviation, how may we be worth it? Anyway, voting methods shouldn't be about cost reduction.
Is it safe to expose your Firebase API key to the public?
You're sort of missing the point here, which is that the poster above considers sexy sex perfectly legitimate grounds for censorship while claiming to deplore the phenomenon.
I enjoyed the write up.

700 on-the-ground interviews is a lot. On-the-ground implies person to person, right? I think we'd all love to know what were some of your take aways.

I would guess that the idea for this app came from those interviews. It sounds like a good low-hanging fruit, as in good impact and low-cost. Do you have some other ideas lined-up?
Primarily, you would run an init system in a docker container in order to correctly proxy signals to the one process in question, which would otherwise run as PID 1 - for example, sending SIGTERM to docker run running a PID 1 with no registered handler will result in nothing, because Linux won't use the default handler (killing it).

Secondarily, if you want to be neat and save some pids and kernel memory, you need an init system to wait(3) on orphaned zombie processes.

These are the only two use cases AFAIK, which a small init system such as tini satisfies, without the complexity and size of systemd.
In addition, it's hygroscopic.
This actually makes a lot of sense. I think there are a lot of concerns about this being an assault on free speech when ultimately it comes down to it just not being profitable to maintain.
If you have to borrow money, it's expensive. If you just have the money sitting in your treasury, it's a lot more viable.

I never saw the Google Fiber cancellation as a cost issue. It felt to me like more of a scale issue. You have to live in Kansas City to pay Google for fiber, but you can buy an Android device from anywhere in the world. Thus, one of those things is going to make more money than the other, and it makes sense to focus on that.

The economics of ISPs, the way I see it, depend on:

1) Cost of money. (Free if you're Google, 18% a year if you're some guy using your credit card.)

2) Expected lifetime of wireline Internet. Wireless internet isn't getting _worse_ every year. While a lot of us here won't be giving up our wired connections any time soon, many people already have. Their phone is their computer. They can't even plug an Ethernet cable into it if they want to.

If your fiber is going to be good for 50 years... after you've paid off the loan, it costs basically nothing to provide Internet service over. And yet, people will pay more than $0/month to have Internet service. So economically it works out... if fiber continues to be relevant. That is the if that scares people. (The other issue is that it's hard to find free money unless you are, say, Google.)
This is the most prototypical stackoverflow question I have ever seen:

https://stackroboflow.com/#!/question/21467
Of course they're not, that's why the poster is resorting to such hyperbolic language and emotional anchoring.
Pouring one out for Grimne, my favourite MUD, which is unfortunately no longer up. It was an eerie feeling to log on there after a 15+ years pause, the server empty, all the good old NPCs waiting to be slayed. Like a strange fully functional yet abandoned interactive museum.
"It's a trope that Nuclear is failing because of fearmongering."

I think it's a large scale astroturfing effort by the nuclear industry (which is huge, with a very small number of players) and the useful rubes who play along.

Nuclear may be a necessary part of the grid mix, but the panacea presented has never remotely been close to reality -- every build takes much longer than promised, and always, with 100% certainty, costs billions more than planned. Every build has maintenance that costs multiples of the claims, operation that is far more expensive, and with waste products that there is still no viable solution for, with an eternity of costs dragging them down. And nuclear only exists because the public subsidizes it by eschewing the need for real insurance (which would be prohibitively expensive otherwise).

In every economic sense nuclear has been an enormous boondoggle, and they stopped making them because every energy provider got wise. This has nothing to do with fearmongering or some sort of ignorant public -- quite the contrary, the overwhelming public sentiment had no problem with nuclear -- though that claim frequently appears. It's bizarre.
It's dense but the Art of Electronics is the one book I keep coming back too. Better as a reference than a tutorial, once you've played around with an Arduino or the like I found it great to opening up the "what next?" part of EE.
You'd be better served hosting this content on a traditional blogging / content platform rather than imgur, IMHO.

"Picked up without credit" on a platform that provides no attribution whatsoever isn't really a hill to die on.
If it went down, it may create much more value for many more people! =)
This really needs a better title, or at least a subtitle. (I clicked only because I recognized the domain name; the title itself is vague puffery which gives no promise of being interesting...)

'compute beats clever'? 'fast > fancy'? 'better big than bright'? 'in the end, brute force wins'?

Or at least call it "AI's Bitter Lesson" or something!
> Essentially, we already have that – the imperative DOM API.
With WASM the performance gap between libraries and native browser code will be reduced even further.

Why waste time implementing and “reducing it even further” and not just implement it in the browser?

> Just some examples that come to mind

First bullet point is relevant for internals mostly, little bearing on actual API.

Second bullet point is nearly identical in all virtual doms and similar lifecycle hooks exist in WebComponents (which squandered the opportunity to introduce a declarative API).

Third bullet point is valid, but the main problem isn’t the difference between library APIs. The main problem is that there is no browser API, so everyone has to reinvent the wheel. A simple {attrs: {}, props: {}} would render the differences moot (or you would have very thin wrappers on top for your favorite syntax)
Wireless is slower, has higher latency, is less reliable

This all varies based on the wireless tech used. My apartment in Seattle is serviced via point to point wireless with another building across the neighborhood. Currently I see under 2ms RTT to google.com, and can max out the 100mbit port on my router both up and down. (Gigabit is available, but requires an account with WaveG. 100mbit is free with my rent, and on the landlord's account).

Aside from a misconfiguration on my building's switch that allowed a neighbor to act as a rogue dhcp server, I've yet to see an outage in the two years of living here.

Wireless doesn't have to suck.
Yes. The U.S. originally did not use secret ballots in federal elections and we switched to them because of widespread coercion.

A durable record that maps votes to voters does not prevent voter fraud, it enables it.
Wow. This is going to be a major game changer for remote development work, and it's a perfect counterpoint to the "Electron is stupid just write it in C" that we hear a lot. Because of the flexibility provided by separating the Node-based logic and processing layer from the web-based presentation layer, VS Code lent itself well to this kind of innovation. Of course, browser-based IDEs aren't new. But they've always been a beast of their own; this will work seamlessly with the tight VS Code integrations numerous languages and frameworks have.
"Lightning".
Of course, but by the Trump mindset: What are they gonna do about it?

Trump constantly insist on "not taking any options from the table" to stay "unpredictable" as such this would fit neatly right in there along the lines of "We can do this to you, and there's literally nothing you can do about it, don't forget who's holding all the cards here!"
And that was in the early 1970s, where crashes were much more common.

The first crash of the 777 occurred 15 years after it was launched with 1500 aircraft delivered, and even in that crash foul play is suspected.

The first crash (ignoring hijacking) of the 767 occurred almost a decade after it was launched, and the second was almost two decades after launch, and it's still not clear if it was suicide.
At the same time a recall doesn't just cost the amount of parts and labour to collect and refit the effected products, it has a similar impact on the prestige of a company. Even if the company is "acting in the right" it will still be known that the company erred in the first place.
Ask HN: Are web agencies considered software companies or not?
And why or why not? I'm still a bit confused as to where exactly do these agencies fall in as an industry.

Ostensibly they seem like a software company, in that their main source of revenue from building websites or apps for different clients. Client wants a piece of software, agency builds that software for them.

On the other hand, they are highly "sales-driven". The sales process feels tightly coupled with the flow of the development of the websites. Salespeople close deals, due to the promises of features or estimates that the product team make to them. The developers are swimming deep in deadlines to hit the estimates made by the product managers, so barely any time to establish good development practices. No time for writing tests, or to have a CI/CD pipeline set in place. At least with the agencies I've seen.

If most agencies are not like this, you can correct me. But I'm generally having to trouble categorizing this type of business if its primary products are software but done in a very "non tech" approach.
Ads strike me as a laughable local maximum on our ability to monetize spare brain cycles of the human mind. Critical thinking cycles, arguably the most precious resource, is subverted for single digit clickthrough rates. Ad tech makes me cry, and after reading science fiction, depressed.
Let's please please gtfo out of this paradigm and figure out how to bootstrap these things between our ears for creation, than consumption, of something.

And to go a bit deeper for a moment, it seems likely to me that what we now call critical thinking is the same thing as what Chomsky and Berwick mean when they use the word "language": an ability to hierarchically represent the world using symbols. Our "external representation" or ability to communicate ideas to one another, according to them is a byproduct of that effect. This was from their recent book, Why Only Us, and go on to point to the specific gene, FOXP2, that they believe caused this ability for the mind, and then assert that this emergence caused us to leave Africa (Out of Africa Theory). And if that's even remotely true, then the human mind is inherently more able and creative than we will ever know. Or said another way, the cross product of Dunning & Kruger with Berwick & Chomsky suggests an almost infinite unawareness of our own potential.
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How do we know that the 10% drop off in traffic isn't "just" due to the increase of latency by the nature of adding additional the additional ad package that dispatches and draws on the main thread, slowing everything down (Linden, 2006)?

http://glinden.blogspot.com/2006/12/slides-from-my-talk-at-s...
Great idea! Yes, the current process of sending money is so long... literally 39-46 digits (including waiting times) per payment.

Thanks for the Angaza reference, we will work on creating simple videos!
> For obvious reasons, a whole frame parachute in a 737 is a crazy proposition. It is ridiculously heavy[...]

It's still crazy and impractical, but for what it's worth I think that's nobody's suggestion of how something like the Cirrus Airframe Parachute System would work on the scale of an airliner.

The mockups I could find of such proposed systems (e.g. [1] and [2]) all involve just the tube that forms the passenger cabin somehow ejecting as a whole and then parachuting to earth with some system similar to what was used for the Space Shuttle's solid rocket boosters[3], maybe with added retro-rockets for the landing.

You could also imagine a system where each passenger is sitting in an ejection seat taken from a B-2 or F-35. The cost would be insane, but it could be done.

1. https://www.forbes.com/sites/danielreed/2016/01/20/detached-...

2. https://www.defenseone.com/technology/2015/11/why-your-plane...

3. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_Shuttle_Solid_Rocket_Boo...
Path2ai
I hope someone submits this as an issue to the ruby repo, bc this is awesome.
Wish I could read this. Unfortunately artsy.net shows a cookie consent popup on mobile with the label "Agree" next to the popup close icon, and on desktop it just straight out writes the cookies without asking.
I feel like the game is being played backwards.

Instead of subsidizing a single solution to some kind of externality we should be taxing the cost of the externality itself and allowing all potential solutions to bid on the mitigation...
Mental health problems are on the rise among American teens and young adults
Fair enough, I meant "non-renewable". I don't think that comparison makes much sense; available land limits the power, not the energy.
Human-powered fuzzing! As a parent of three kids under 6, I wholeheartedly endorse this.
Paper ballots aren't scalable or transparent. Open source hardware and software can be audited by anyone and every one and can be formally verifiable.
As much as I enjoy quickly building circuits on a breadboard like in many of the photos, they’re hell to debug, because there’s so much that can go subtly wrong. It’s much easier with digital than analog circuits, of course, but it still can be crazy hard to logic-probe every connection to get it all to work. I have spent far too much time fixing little bugs in breadboarded circuits. The toughest issue I encountered was when someone melted through part of a big, expensive breadboard with a soldering iron and it caused shorts on the other side of the board. I couldn’t even trust that the holes that were supposed to be connected were in that case, and I sure wasn’t going to copy over the project onto a new breadboard.

However, I’m not sure if there is an easier way to get quickly prototype electronics. Opting for more ICs and a lower BoM count helps, because there’s less wiring to do in the first place.
Like I mentioned in another branch of this thread, if selling is allowed, then it would be immoral to not allow buying; punishing someone for buying something that's legal to sell would be entrapment.

In fact, doing so might even pass that immorality down to the grandfather seeking compensation for his suicide; if he's aware of the illegality of buying his life, and yet exercises his right to sell it anyway, then at best it's a meaningless gesture and at worst he's complicit in entrapping prospective buyers.

That's what I mean when I say buying and selling are intertwined. Without one, you can't have the other. If one is moral, the other must be moral as well. If one is immoral, the other must be immoral as well. Attempting to carve out an exception is inevitably going to run into all sorts of moralistic and/or logical snags.
I was thinking more when helping the visually impaired.
Let's not overlook the recent skirmish with adjacent nuclear power, Pakistan.
There are some projects like https://writtenrealms.com that are trying to modernize the MUD and lower the barrier to entry, but they are still coming together and most of the ones with an established player base / full feature set are still the traditional telnet setup.
> But the scale required to make a difference, and the cost to get to that scale boggles my mind. You can't just whip up one pack of mammoths and call it a success...

I assume the idea is that if you can create your big furry von Neumann machines correctly in the first place, you only need to whip up one pack of mammoths and it will indeed then be a success eventually.
scissors does
How do you link to a single file you want to share ?
Finally. I've been saying this for years, as I'm sure others have.
It’s rare in Chicago to have multiple fiber options and lots of the city has none.

I don’t necessarily disagree with your point but your experience may be on the rare side.
It’s ironic when I’m responding to someone framing the use of paper ballots as a security feature, yes.
These are basically my thoughts on it: https://twitter.com/ajsharp/status/1106308735142526976.

Normally, this level of outage would come with a technical post-mortem. Instead, they issue a super vague statement.
But is it web scale?
Good catch. But the current article has new information. I've attempted to give it a more specific title.

If anyone suggests a better one (i.e. more accurate and neutral), preferably using language from the article itself, we can change it again.
Author here. The one you got is yet another bug. It's also possible that the behavior changed since.

In the case I described, the email is not opened with only 3 dots showing, it is instead completely collapsed. Like if you clicked the header to collapse it manually.
Be right back, I’m going to run screaming into this crowded building which I definitely believe is on fire based on no particular evidence, and no one can prove otherwise.

In fact, it’s not just this building, every building is on fire. Right this second! And it’s your civic duty to join me in warning people.

I’ve written a book explaining all this and if Amazon won’t sell it in their store I’m going to cry foul.

If you can’t say I’m lying, is there a better word for it?
Louisville's representatives likely missed that because they were wearing rose-colored glasses. They were thinking "big picture" about would a successful project could mean for the city and were ignoring the details. They were probably (rightly?) assuming that an organization like Google would be able to learn from their mistakes and "this time would be different". Really, it's hard to fault them for thinking this way, but just like every other situation in business, if it seems too good to be true, it probably is.
The 9360 hardware sucks, too. Search "9360 coil whine". The CPU (i7) throttles all the time. The fan noise is intolerable. (I run Fedora 29 too)
Youtube kids/safety/restricted mode removes ads.
Brexit: MPs vote by a majority of 211 to seek delay to EU departure
From what I understand:

* FastMail has implemented WebAuth, the newer standard, which Firefox supports

* Google hasn't implemented WebAuth because they have to(?) wait for the end-of-life of old Android devices.

* Firefox is going to put an override so that you can use the old standard on Google accounts, which Google does support.

It sounds like Google's slowness to enable WebAuth is a somewhat legitimate issue of backwards compatibility for old devices, though I haven't personally evaluated it.
> Why web browsers can't have accessibility mode which changes the web page to show only data that screen readers and other accessibility tools see. Replace images with alt texts, remove css layout and colors, etc.

if they did, they wouldn't be able to shove advertisements in your face. What you're talking about sounds like Reader view, which Firefox and Safari sure support, but often times popovers and "You've read 3 of your 5 free articles.." garbage blocks you and prevents Reader view from working. I've had visually impaired users complain about this very thing.
OK understood, thanks a lot. In short, is it fair to say that the OP overlooked the difference between Wholesalers and Sellers, made it look like Amazon was mainly doing business with Wholesalers, whereas the nuance is actually important and most of Amazon's business is done with Sellers who are just as welcome as they used to be to use FBA. Correct?
It's interesting how this kind of project has come into the realm of possibility of an individual's pet project (a smart individual, sure, but not a company).

I guess that the availability of information and materials through the internet has helped a lot. And also more people have knowledge in electronics and programming.

Great job, Sérgio. É muito giro.
Requiring people to mix it into their gasoline should be considered a subsidy.
You're equating serving a customer with buying from a publisher.
Interesting. Pretty much every startup I've worked for has run 2-3 databases. Usually Redis plus some search (typically Elastic now). I could see this making that easier.
Absolutely.

If you live in a place like I do, we’re a one party place where primary elections are the real elections, and you don’t have the competitive pressures that are inherent to a multi-party contest.

We also had a huge upsurge in “write in” votes, as the paper forms are difficult to interpret.
> "~80,000 people died from the disease"

This number sounds highly questionable to say the least:
https://www.cdc.gov/flu/about/burden/how-cdc-estimates.htm

With no way to compare it to a gold standard how could anyone know how accurate it is?
Or maybe they don't want to subject their employees to having to police child pornography.
"it could be argued that Perl 5's lack of built-in OO"

That's interesting to me. I consider bless() and package namespaces to be "built in OO."

Is there some OO concept that combo doesn't provide?

Also, for "Parsing a 115Mb log file for lines containing a 15-character word" ? Wouldn't that just be:

perl -ne 'print if /\b\w{15}\b/'

I'm surprised that's not faster.
Shared care can be helpful in that your child gets used to being cared for by other people and interacting with a variety of other kids.

We send our kids 3 days a week and would probably do it even if we weren’t both working.

Room for a variety of opinions here, agree one size does not fit all.
What the article doesn't detail is that a lot of Adobe's best products came through acquisitions. Specifically Photoshop, Flash, Dreamweaver and ColdFusion although there were probably a few more.

I know the Photoshop story because it was built in Michigan (Ann Arbor) by two brothers, Thomas and John Knoll. Where Adobe has really excelled is marketing.
I think, AML vendors that sell their software to banks are adding ACHs/wires to international transfers (transferwise, xoom, ria, etc).
There's data on fraud and chargeback rates for adult-content-related credit card payments. They're much higher than for other goods and services. Major payment processors have blanket bans on such transactions, and will often refuse to do business with companies that don't have such bans. And you can't buy ads if you can't pay for them.
I mean, yea, I don't work there, so I'm intuiting based on:

my own professional experience

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deductive reasoning

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general...intuition

!!!
Unsettling is exactly the word. https://stackroboflow.com/#!/question/16662 leaves me trying to work out what on earth the poster's really trying to do - even though I know full well that there is no poster...