skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I would like to be charitable about this, as in general a reasonable reminder that software is reaching the end of support and security updates might be helpful.

On the other hand, this is Microsoft promoting Windows 10, so their "courtesy reminder that you can expect to see a handful of times in 2019" sounds a lot like "GWX fiasco, round 2". The post does state that there will be an option to not receive any more notifications after the first one, at least.

As for my own businesses, and those of most of my professional network for that matter, the only "transitions" we're all planning are to other platforms like Mac or Linux if Microsoft haven't turned off the well-documented antifeatures in Windows 10 Pro before the deadline hits.
Also I couldn’t afford to switch to you guys and you guys fold. How well funded are you? What are the chances you’ll tank in a year or more? Or less?
No one knows what consciousness is. Every neuroscientist I've talked to has agreed that consciousness has to be an emergent property of some kind of computation, but there is currently no way to even interact with the question of what computation results in conscious experience.

It could be true that every complex problem solving system is conscious, and in that case maybe there are highly unintuitive conscious experiences, like being a society, or maybe it is an extremely specific type of computation that results in consciousness, and then it might be something very particular to humans.

We have no idea whatsoever.
When airplanes land their longitudinal axis isn't parallel to the ground. If it is they've got bigger problems than engine clearance.

The 737 MAX engine clearance from the ground isn't very unusual. E.g. the A320neo is below 56 cm[1].

1. https://aviation.stackexchange.com/questions/9350/is-the-gro...
Firstly, the application I was talking about[1] didn't have real updates.

Secondly, no one stops you from doing incremental updates with HTML except they way you design your data structures and UI.

In fact, HTML has something that JSON doesn't. Semantics. This means you can create a generic setup for incremental updates based, say, on element IDS.

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[1] https://hackernoon.com/10-things-i-learned-making-the-fastes...
It's really hard to say as these situations are hugely complex and there's only so much info I have to go on (and this is all in my experience anyways... your mileage may vary, and I'm often wrong).

Putting myself in your shoes I see two options:

1) Simply do not address it. Do your work, day in and day out. Do a damn good job of your work. Help out when able to, but don't stretch yourself thin to try and rescue a project and don't try to cover up for someone else (and thus taking responsibility in the end).

When your manager addresses the group you BOTH know they are addressing your sole coworker -- so these group talks really don't matter and don't reflect on you (given what you've said about your manager being resonable is true). Maybe your manager just can't handle confrontation and thinks these group talks are adequate to get the message to the lone coworker. If this is the case, honestly just ignore the group chats and do a good job at the things within your job description.

2) Instead of approaching it head-on as a "you need to manage better" or a "you need to get rid of this person" problem, have you considered approaching your manager and/or CEO for a management or mentorship position yourself? If thats something your interested in, of course.

I whole-heartedly think that you SHOULD be able to approach your manager with a situation like this. That's what they're supposed to be there for. But, in my experience anyways, it never works out. You're either labled a snitch, a suck-up, or reprimended for "overstepping your bounds".

In corporate life, I find it best to be VERY mindful of where my job duties end. If your job duties don't include managing other staff members, I would advise doing everything in your power to avoid "managing your manager", even if justified. Unless it is outright sabotage, ignore it and do your duties to the best of your ability. Smart managers will recognize you for it. Or, you find out that you'd rather be working somewhere else.
E2E hasn't come gracefully to me yet, because my Pidgin still only has OTR support, and so does the one one of my primary Jabber contacts uses, except Conversations has now dropped it in favor of going all-OMEMO. My current answer is to ignore the mobile case like I did most of the time before, but that's not a good answer.

I guess maybe I need to switch to Gajim, but this sure isn't frictionless, mostly due to the lag-induced fragmentation.
We must be willing to make at least a few sacrifices to maintain software freedom, or we won't be able to keep it.
I helped start a independent IRC network more than a decade ago, for a closed group of people/geeks.

It’s still going, but we’ve been able to observe other services draw some of those original people away. Or maybe family or real life did.

Either way, few of the original servers are still are around, same with the oppers.

The net is still there though, and so are many of our old users. Or should I say friends?

God knows how long I’ve known them now.

It's all pseudonyms or handles like the internet originally was, but it certainly feels more real than Facebook despite their "real name" policy and all that nonsense.
> are/were there others?

From your own quote:

> She, along with many actual engineers
I believe that the commercial jet industry works a bit differently. It seems that they just rely on the carriers to make that call, though I could be completely mistaken.

Having said that, this is a snippet from AVHerald's post on the crash (https://avherald.com/h?article=4c534c4a&opt=0) pointing to an AD that indicates an enhancement ("fix") and here's a link to an interpretation of that (https://forums.jetphotos.com/showthread.php?62381-Breaking-n...):

On Mar 12th 2019 Boeing issued following release with respect to MCAS, Lion Air Flight 610 and Ethiopian flight 302:

For the past several months and in the aftermath of Lion Air Flight 610, Boeing has been developing a flight control software enhancement for the 737 MAX, designed to make an already safe aircraft even safer. This includes updates to the Maneuvering Characteristics Augmentation System (MCAS) flight control law, pilot displays, operation manuals and crew training. The enhanced flight control law incorporates angle of attack (AOA) inputs, limits stabilizer trim commands in response to an erroneous angle of attack reading, and provides a limit to the stabilizer command in order to retain elevator authority.

...

The FAA says it anticipates mandating this software enhancement with an Airworthiness Directive (AD) no later than April. We have worked with the FAA in development of this software enhancement.

It is important to note that the FAA is not mandating any further action at this time, and the required actions in AD2018-23.5 continue to be appropriate.

A pitch augmentation control law (MCAS) was implemented on the 737 MAX to improve aircraft handling characteristics and decrease pitch-up tendency at elevated angles of attack. It was put through flight testing as part of the certification process prior to the airplane entering service. MCAS does not control the airplane in normal flight; it improves the behavior of the airplane in a non-normal part of the operating envelope.

Boeing’s 737 MAX Flight Crew Operations Manual (FCOM) already outlines an existing procedure to safely handle the unlikely event of erroneous data coming from an angle of attack (AOA) sensor. The pilot will always be able to override the flight control law using electric trim or manual trim. In addition, it can be controlled through the use of the existing runaway stabilizer procedure as reinforced in the Operations Manual Bulletin (OMB) issued on Nov. 6, 2018.

...
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The situation is not quite as straight forward as you seem to believe: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marsh_v._Alabama

> "Ownership does not always mean absolute dominion. The more an owner, for his advantage, opens up his property for use by the public in general, the more do his rights become circumscribed by the statutory and constitutional rights of those who use it."

Marsh v Alabama may not currently apply to digital spaces, but it's not inconceivable that in the future there will be another SCOTUS ruling to clarify this new emerging scenario.
I wonder how the points of view vary on admission based on:

1) financial compensation (ranging from bribes as described in the article all the way to large donations)

2) affirmative action

both of those approaches result in the admissions process deviating from being 100% meritocratic, and yet both of those approaches can be argued to help the educational institution and society overall (better facilities, more research, adding different perspectives, helping a disadvantaged group etc). I thought about this topic and this comparison in particular on my own over the weekend, so the coincidence of this being posted so soon feels a bit uncanny to me.
Interesting. Thanks. I guess since I keep everything perfectly separated I didn't even know that was a possibility.
Most of the companies on that list are hardware developers adding drivers for their own hardware, which generally benefits nobody other than their own customers. A five-line fix to scheduler performance is way more valuable to the community at large than ten thousand lines of code to support a 25GbE network card. (The 25GbE driver is hugely valuable to Amazon, though! And, depending on how you look at it, may well have been sponsored by Amazon by being a big customer of Linux in the datacenter.)
Automatic Time Reports in VSCode and other editors
This approach was used successfully in bespoke data services like Roshi https://github.com/soundcloud/roshi, the design seems sound, nice to hear.
Were I not a professional web developer who needs to use the best tools available, and were it not for the awful scroll physics on mobile, I'd probably put up with the rest and use it out of principle.
Forgetting may involve more rather than less attention to unwanted information
> Nothing is stopping AWS or anyone else from copying your API

The API of a closed source, propriety and patented software can't just be copied. See Oracle vs Google.
It exists: https://github.com/Eloston/ungoogled-chromium

The general concern about projects along these lines, e.g. IceWeasel, is that they won't keep up with security patches as quickly as the project it's forking. Maybe that's less of a concern here since they aren't trying to recreate an older version but are just tearing out some "phone home" calls and changing some defaults.
Depends on your assumptions, but safe aircraft will crash making the first data point meaningless as you are choosing it at the starting point. Second, you are not just running one trial on one design but many trails on many designs.

I suggest you try the math as the odds are reasonably high.

This changes if you start talking about crashes since the first commercial flight, but those are again different numbers.
C++ Tutorial Book PDF
Right, because meat is the only viable source of protein for humans....?
Could you please review and follow the site guidelines so we don't have to ban you again? In particular, please don't post flamebait or unsubstantive comments.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

You might also find these links helpful for getting the spirit of this site:

https://news.ycombinator.com/newswelcome.html

https://news.ycombinator.com/hackernews.html

http://www.paulgraham.com/trolls.html

http://www.paulgraham.com/hackernews.html
> To my knowledge, the link is only invalidated if the person actually downloads the file.

I've used one-time-link services sometimes, and posting the link to Slack causes Slack to make an HTTP fetch looking for metadata, which then invalidates the link.
"clearly a case of Russian forces mistakenly shooting down a passenger jet"

Why not:
"probably a case of Russian or Ukrainian forces shooting down a passenger jet"?

Why "clearly" US burning the truck instead of say a local false flag or truck malfunction? You make a lot of assumptions for saying something is clear.
We still don't know why MH370 went down, and when MH17 was shot down over Ukraine some other airlines had already diverted flight paths away from that area due to the conflict.

I don't think you could say Malaysia Airlines was at fault for MH17, but it's hardly a good example of a null hypothesis. Since e.g. if BA was operating the same flight at the time it wouldn't have been anywhere near Ukraine.
As far back as 1997, over half of all grain grown in the US goes to livestock [1]. So, going from animal protein to plant protein is a net reduction of farm labor and therefore requires less exploitation.

[1] https://news.cornell.edu/stories/1997/08/us-could-feed-800-m...
> On my 2 computers (MBP/Win10 Desktop) Chrome starts up near instantly and Firefox has a noticeable delay.

You may be experiencing OS caching. If you normally use Chrome, Chrome is already cached in memory by the OS and will open faster than something you haven't started recently.

> On my MBP it also makes the fans spin up.

I've noticed that Chrome tends not to do this while still being slower. This may be related to the way it uses more processes, which consequently requires more resources per operation (and thereby higher visible latency) but splits the load better between cores so that no individual one gets hot enough to require additional cooling.

In theory this could be "better" if the browser actually needed to use 8+ cores for some reason, but in general if that is happening it is some kind of anomaly or defect (like some adspam mining Bitcoin in javascript) rather than any normal behavior. And Firefox does use other threads/processes for most of the few things that actually benefit from it.
https://twitter.com/SarahTaber_bww/status/110525655715412787...

>I don't I've quite articulated why I'm so critical of the tech industry. Tech isn't just software anymore. They're coming for ag, food, & manufacturing- & they're bringing a negligent attitudes towards risk & safety that they learned in the cushy world of apps.

And this malware is affecting industries with a strong incentive for safety, think about what that might imply about every other industry.
Why is this any more corrupt than any other exchange of services for money?

Yes, there's a system available to the masses that the super-rich are bypassing using their wealth. The same is true of anyone who flies by private jet, or anyone with private health insurance in a country where the vast majority of the population uses the public health system. Are these things "corrupt"? What's different here?

If there's no dishonesty and nobody is harmed, what's the moral issue? Why are universities, unique among all society's institutions, required to operate as perfect meritocracies?
The “canfulfill” API for skills is available. Alexa scientists are constantly working on improving the arbitration experience but it’s a very difficult problem, especially due to security concerns.

https://developer.amazon.com/docs/custom-skills/implement-ca...
This is a common question, but cows and chickens eat lots of plants too.

"All the fertilizer, tractor fumes, transportation, ground tilling, you name it, that go into producing a pound of grain are literally multiplied by 4.5 to produce a pound of chicken breasts, or by 20 to produce a pound of ground beef."

https://stanfordmag.org/contents/can-vegetarianism-save-the-...
It's intuitive for lay users that the links are secret, yes. What lay users have trouble understanding is that putting something in an email automatically makes it not secret.
Maybe this is nonsense, but I wish I had a way to lazily load content (images) without JavaScript. The JavaScript solution is very minimal, but maybe an HTML/CSS option would also be simple.
That's the beauty of this type of white collar crime, it allows for so much plausible deniability and difficulty in identifying who is hurt and who benefits.

The simplest argument, however, is that the purpose of taxes is to provide the services that a society wants, theoretically indicated by the way it votes. The services and products that the taxes buy should benefit everyone in the nation. If the country has a budget of $x and needs to levy a tax of $y (obviously must be calibrated to ability of one to pay), then why are we allowing adjustments to this?

Why open up the door to abuse? If you want to donate, then donate, what difference does that make to the money needed for government expenditures? The fact that we would even need a donation to a hospital is indicative of a broken system.

The end result of the tax deduction is that we have abuses, and we now have to spend more resources to police the abuses. And the only way to stop the abuses is to close the loophole that allows it.

All of the complexity of the tax laws simply enable more and more corruption. We should be aiming for transparency and simplicity, and instead we end up playing this "steal or be stolen from" game where you try to suck more out of it (but don't make it obvious) than you put in. How does donating millions to Harvard or an art museum benefit society? And even if it did, why would we want to give up our democracy's power to democratically spend the tax receipts the way we want, and instead give that power to a single person to spend however they want?
Yea, that's the cost of learning a lesson heh.
I think he works for Hypothesis, not Brave:

https://web.hypothes.is/team/

Hypothesis recently made their plugin compatible with Brave and Udell wrote a blog post about that, as he appears to be a Brave user -- but I don't think he works for them.
Apache is full of gotchas as stated. For one, the event MPM is not async :p

It's still creating multiple processes that get recycled periodically, each with a fixed number of threads. Every active request holds a thread.

Apache quickly runs into troubles when having long lived requests (slow API calls or large file downloads) or when using websockets (hold a thread permanently).

The tuning to balance processes, threads, connections, requests and resource consumption is extremely complicated and it doesn't get very far.

HAProxy and nginx can both handle 10k concurrent connections out of the box. Apache requires extensive tuning before 1k.
I agree with you in this particular case. What I was arguing against is the grandparent's claim that the aviation industry doesn't make any tradeoffs involving human life. It is absolutely necessary for them to make such tradeoffs as I was trying to show with my hyperbole.
For those without full context, this comment is by Hacker Noon's CEO ^^
>>> I'd politely disagree, for most of the points yes, it's achievable for folks with disposable income, however I don't think the average reader (NYT or HN) can afford to buy 2 new homes and 1 new vehicle all in cash.

>> People living in NC and TX generally have a lot more disposable income than people in CA at the same gross income level. (In that sense, those other places are more free.)

> Sure, it's just more difficult to get to the same gross income level in those places.

I'm not sure how you would manage to read this comment thread and think my comment is about the person in the article specifically.
Under what situation is H.264 not available in WebRTC and require the use of VP8?
Maybe as a bitcoin shill, he should not have crossed the threshold of people WANTING to do that to him in the first place.

Then at least he could still stay in touch with his friends and family, and so many people wouldn't be so motivated to extract their revenge on him.

But no, running his illegal get-rich-quick pyramid scheme and fooling and exploiting other people was more important to him than his own and his dog's safety.

If he wasn't just doing this for cosplay and attention, and was actually concerned about his privacy, then maybe he shouldn't have contacted the New York Times and had them write an article about him, huh?
> Or they should just announce that they are no longer committed to open source.

Why? Because < 100% of their code is open source? This seems infeasibly idealistic, and a false dichotomy. You can be a proprietary software company that is still very committed to open source. Anyway, if < 100% is the standard, surely Amazon is worse yet, no?
One amelioration would have beem a simple "MCAS ACTIVE" announcement every time it activated. That would have eliminated a lot of checklisting and guesswork in moments of high stress.

"What the hell is happening?"

"MCAS ACTIVE"

"Flip the cutouts!"

Why that wasn't mandated by the FAA I have no idea. Instead the pilots are expected to systematically analyse the options whilst trying to stay airborne.
> See Oracle vs Google.

That’ll (maybe) be a more compelling argument for one side or the other of this argument when it is finally done.

Especially if the Supreme Court rules, and it's not just the Federal Circuit’s interpretation of what the Ninth Circuit would say, which is not binding on lower courts (or other circuit courts, including the actual Ninth Circuit, in other cases.
What about the other fad diet boogeyman, inflammation? Is there any relevance between that and insulin responses? Or anything else?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19369794

This is an example that is completely lock free.
Right, people hate it for a hundred other reasons. But I have a Facebook name that I can give to a stranger on the street and then negotiate which chat to use. That everyone has it and you see their rough location and such, is where it has some value even for a FOSS and self-host nut as I.
What’s your objective for the project?

You can do anything, but a weird license restriction is going to turn off many potential users. I don’t know or care about who you dislike, and my counsel will not sign off on deploying something that cannot be used by some random people.
Agreed.

We use essentially a Scantron sheet in Massachusetts.

Easy to fill out, computer countable, with a hand recount as an easy backup option.
> It doesn't look to me like paying an admissions officer to admit your child is a crime at all.

I have not had a chance yet to look properly at the case, but I'd assumed the "fraud" charges are for precisely the act of paying an admissions officer to admit a child. Do you have reason to think that's not the case?

> bribing a maitre'd to seat you more quickly is bribing a specific employee to act against the interests of his employer, but it's not a crime

It's petty enough you wouldn't expect anyone to be prosecuted over it, but are you sure it's not a crime?
BBC News, France 24, Al Jazeera, NPR..?
That's a very useful website. Nice work St Louis Fed.
Indeed, every university has a "development" office precisely to collect "bribes" openly.
I use Firefox almost exclusively, but it freezes up a lot on me. The new engine they use cuts back on RAM usage but it seems CPU usage has increased. I will probably give the new Edge a chance when it comes out, because it gives the best of two worlds. One that isn't tightly wound to the Google ecosystem, and yet still is highly compatible.
My social circle on IRC has been consistently growing for years. IRC is not trying to monetize you. It's just trying to connect people. That, more than anything else, is why my friends and I still use it. It's been around for 30 years and I'm confident that it isn't going away any time soon. What other technology has remained relevant for 30 years? IRC is older than HTTP, and only slightly younger than GNU. Only Unix has it beat by more than a year or two.
Wear a condom, you ah*le!