skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The idea that "billionaires... have pillaged all their holdings from the public" is fundamentally flawed, however emotionally appealing it is. How is Jeff Bezos "pillaging" me? By offering me a broader selection of products than any local store, for better prices and less effort on my part? If this is exploitation, sign me up. (Read Marcuse and other post-WWII critical theorists for in-depth analysis of how this undermined 19th century dreams of proletariat revolution.)
Could this be related to the storm?

I was out shoveling, and came back in to my phone blowing up. Our systems at IronMountain (formerly Fortrust) in Denver all rebooted at once. These are all on redundant power, each systems redundant power supplies connecting to different circuits entering the cabinet, and those two circuits fed from 3 PDUs (two separate, one share). Each of those is supposed to be fed by a separate UPS and generator. Last status update I had says that they are running off generators, but they've been shockingly tight-lipped about it.

Don't get me wrong, it was hi-LAR-ious to call into their NOC and have them pretend that I was the only one having problems. "Can you tell me if there is a major data center outage going on?" "We are trying to gather information, we are making a bunch of client phone calls, we will know after we make those calls." "... Why are you making a bunch of client calls if you aren't having an outage?"
Technically you can use your iPad/iPhone, but you have to use a web browser instead of the Kindle app. A funny thing happens when you do — the website redirects you to the Amazon app, which then redirects you back to the website. Honestly, I don't know how Amazon does purchasing through the Amazon app without giving 30% to Apple, but it seems that they don't let you purchase books this way.
Are you joshing me?
Boeing 737 Max 8 and Max 9 Planes Grounded in U.S.: Trump
The hardest part of regulation is not erecting artificial barriers to entry.

There are a lot of examples where regulatory capture happens to ensure that a near monopoly can comfortably maintain its position, and it strangles competition from startups.
Nope, local violators.
Sounds great in theory...but you've just vastly extended the number of "characters". While text parsing is a nightmare, you also get the flexibility of combining different characters together, such as emojis and skin tone modifiers, which outputs a different display character.

On the other hand, I'm not sure its possible to have a font that represents every valid combination of unicode.
s/likely/clearly/
Still does not explain the relationship between forward shifting CG and abrupt thrust.
Correct link: https://www.reddit.com/r/flying/comments/b08h03/737_max_mega...
I think one problem is he doesn't, or at least it is managed through heroic effort as opposed to efficiently. Updates take longer and longer and have a longer period of 'everythings broken' as the game progresses. From all reports the code is a complete mess. It's an amazing piece of work, but it does seem like there is some wasted potential there (though I can believe that it may not be possible to harness that potential without giving up on the incredible ambition of the game, because this is the kind of thing that can only really be accomplished by someone who is completely unreasonable).
In general, a lawyer saying something with the form "After $client did $actions without consulting us, we recommended that $client take $actions to do damage control, and they did so. We no longer represent $client" is about as far from a good sign as you can get.

Now, he might still have a case. But I'm pretty sure the above is lawyerspeak for "client fucked up, and we don't want to deal with them anymore".
I'm guessing that Southwest didn't have these. They seem to get everything important right.

Edit: I was dead wrong. They had more 737 Max 8's than any other airline in the US.
I think the safety issues with GDPR compliance are minimal (there's a weak argument to be made for inefficiency introduction and contributing to warning blindness, but it is a weak argument).

Larger arguments are in the space of tradeoffs. What could companies be doing with the engineering resources devoted to GDPR compliance (including compliance with the consumer-frustrating applications of the law, like the cookie walls)? Since the US doesn't have a GDPR compliance law (and companies in the US only comply when they want to do business in the EU), we'll probably see with time whether the inefficiency introduced is worth the tradeoffs in a highly-competitive world of software services.
Incremental Development
There's really only one game in town that isn't iPad and that's the samsung.
> My initial impression is that this is an FAA action based on Boeing's recommendation that the White House wanted to take the press attention for.

That would make me feel better if this were true. It seems to match my expectations for who is in charge of various decisions, as well as the politics that Trump likes to play. So it makes sense at least.
Optics for whom? Trump might feel it is better optics for him, if it comes out as something that he has done.
The odd part is that this doesn't select for billion-dollar businesses, it selects for billion-dollar businesses that can be developed with revenue growth that doesn't pass through $100m for more than x-years. Essentially billion dollar rev with discontinuous growth through lower revenue - this seems unnecessarily constrained for any business that plans to be around for the long haul.
Heja Sverige.
My wife is Swedish. She told me you guys were ok with Danish ;-)
Language switch is in the footer. Alternatively hit https://stuff.li/en directly.

Simon, Stuff.
It wasn’t inevitable; if it happened solely because Trump made them do it (edit: the article now seems to contradict this, but did not when I wrote the comment) it’s truly a red-letter day for rationality and evidence-based reasoning.

The conversation around this subject has degraded to irrational hysteria, but really: do you think Trump knows anything about airline safety? Is this really how we want the system to work?

Today it’s an airplane model, but tomorrow it’s banning travel from Africa because of an emerging disease, or capitulating to anti-vaxxers because of a news story.
Notify for Spotify
Website: https://www.notifyforspotify.xyz

So, this is my first side project and I would love to hear some feedback from you.

I know that, just like me, there are people who would appreciate a better notification system on Spotify (release radar is not enough for me at least). For that reason I decided to create my own notification system taking advantage of another thing that could be better used: the artist follow option.

You just have to follow your favourite artists on Spotify and launch the program.

Just some notes:

- As I said this is my first side project so, please, don't have high expectations.

- I am aware of a couple UI bugs that I will try to solve in a near future.

- This is written on the website but just to be sure you are aware: when you refresh you may have to wait up to 10 seconds for the program to load depending on the amount of artists you follow (Spotify API limitations, can't do anything about it right now).
There's simply no nominee.

http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/why-hasnt-trump-nomi...
Instagram seems to load the feed here fine (EU), but doesn't allow you to log in from any device or post anything new. FB is totally fine if you are logged in for reading, but also can't log in if logged out.

VPN to US, insta can login, but still not post.

Distributed services are weird man!
Everyone seems to be zeroed in on MCAS. Completely unknown at this time whether that system was related to the Ethopian crash. What the two crashes do have in common other than the aircraft model is a third world carrier, dubious pilot qualifications, and heavy reliance on automation. But it's somehow not OK to talk about that.
but it also "makes sense" to patronize small and local businesses over large businesses if you care about anything (any other axis) other than just price (a single axis).

your argument is a form of reductio ad absurdum because you're saying your preferred option (buy from large corps) is the only smart and practical choice (so why consider anything else?). but people (like me) choose differently all the time.

with that said, yes, people do take that shortcut (limit choice to large corps) because it's less cognitive load in a world overloaded with moneyed, attention-seeking (self-)promotion, but that certainly doesn't mean it's the best or only choice given the plethora of considerations.
I'll take squandered potential every day of the week if the other choice is "no middle class"...
I purchased ST2 and the upgrade ST3 and I have never regretted it. I literally spend multiple hours a day using ST and couldn't get along without it. For me, it has paid for itself a thousand times over.
> I don't see why this is necessarily the case.

It is not necessarily the case in the sense of logical implication. Its just almost certainly the case, in the way in which laws effect implementing behavior in the real world.

Legislation which is mindful only of logical implication and not practical implication is a good way to screw things up.

> I think it's fair to say that object executive oversight has gone completely out the window in the last 20 years or so.

It is, and that's a problem that should be fixed. Asking Congress to micromanage by legislation rather than fixing the problems with executive oversight is not a solution, however.
The President of the United States made the announcement. Thats what is being written in the history books. It carries weight regardless of who is in office.

In a tiny little footnote on wikipedia it will mention how disturbed citizens of California got the Secretary of Transportation or the FAA to reissue the same order because "orange man bad". You might be led to think I'm being "unsubstantive" but this is how the EO for gold confiscation is recorded (but the Secretary of the Treasury merely reissued it after a court challenge), as well as the EO for Japanese interment camps are recorded.
Media companies, publishers, and copyright hoarders, obviously.
No nominee at all.
Look at how many service providers have increased incidents reported here: https://downdetector.com/

My bet is that people are having problems with FB/Insta and immediately assuming that the whole internet is messed up.
Can't claim they didn't have impact then. :)
Point of the article is that it's becoming toxic to discuss issues; they brought up climate change in the article. I posted a climate skeptic point of view and literally said I was testing to see how toxic it really is.

Absolutely nobody actually responded to the point I made. They called me a contrarian, a troll, being off-topic, using fallacies, and being insincere.

This is the point of the article and I literally showed it.
I guess it depends on the intent of the whistle blower. Is there a Project Zero type of way to publish? Wikileaks? Why does it have to go to any gov't body first? If the information is leaked out, do the governing agencies have a responsibility to investigate based on the leaked information or only investigate the suspect for leaking? Paralysis by analysis can be applied here, so just publish and let the chips fall where they may?
Ask HN: How to get paid work on functional programming languages?
I know, the title seems a bit naive. Let me explain.

Burnt-out dev here. I worked here and there on various projects with different tech stacks and problem domains. But I feel that's an utter non-sense. Always the same problems, always the same outcomes. I'm tired of current mainstream languages, mainstream technologies etc.

But there's something in functional programming languages - Haskell, Idris and so on - that feels natural and brings me the slight hope for our industry.

So the question is - how to enter this field without formal education , PhD and with some experience and love for the subject only? To be paid like intern or something and help to drive the grow of languages, tools and ecosystems around them. I don't think I would be able to produce exciting breakthroughs but I do know that I am able to provide reliable hands to get things done while learning the subject(s) to be even more helpful.
There are browsers addons for removing these annoying notifications, most popular is named "I don't care about cookies"
The pitch up tendency is only increased at high angles of attack, at which point the engine nacelles themselves add extra lift, possibly inducing a stall when you're already near one.
I'd like to think comparing a VC-funded company to one of the largest public companies on earth the very definition of underdog.
Show HN: Riter PM tool has announced its full support for startups
Ghidra – First Impressions of the NSA Reverse Engineering Tool
Regarding your point of bigger engines, I understood it differently.

The bigger engines provide a lot of thrust and with the new position of the engines, it’s a lot easier for the plane to stall. So the plane was outfitted with a sensor and software that reads the angle of attack and it corrects it in case the plane reaches the factor of safety angle.

If the sensor malfunctions, the software would get wrong readings and try to correct something that doesn’t need correction. It moves the plane nose down. Pilots correct. Process repeats. Hence the elevation fluctuations seen in Lion Air and Ethiopian Airlines.
Its a shame that the airplane safety streak we were one has been so firmly and decisively ended.
That would have only carried weight for those who know who Dan Elwell is. He carries no weight with me other than apparently being "acting director of the FAA". The president, even if he's disliked by many, carries much more weight for the average person.
If you discount that different people value different things in life, and take a viewpoint of money as being the sole measure of success, then the median Harvard salary after 10 years is like 90k? Certainly not every Stanford/Harvard/whatever graduate is killing it regardless of how many opportunities they have had. At the end of the day, success is really on an individual level. You make your own outcomes in this world. I could name countless people who've done very much without a degree from a prestigious university, David M. Solomon, the ceo of Goldman Sachs, Andy Rubin, etc... Certainly guys who went to HYP/X/Y/Z will have it easier in many regards, but you can also think of clawing your way to desired outcomes as teaching you life lessons that those guys will never have learned.
>Umm, a little confused here, if the center of gravity shifted forward, why will the pitch up tendency increase?

Because the center of thrust is also moved forward, and its effect is much greater than that offset by the center of mass. The 737 airframe was never designed to handle such powerful engines.
Whistleblower protection laws generally do not require that the "appropriate regulatory agency" be the only person to whom disclosure is made...

Publishing internal documents is the last resort after everything else has failed.

No, that's usually the first and best option once the company has been made aware of the problem and chooses not to correct it...as is what is alleged happened here. Why make vague statements that Company X ignored Problem Y when you can just provide documents proving your claims?
Nah, if anything I'd say I'm primarily an artist, in web/digital as well as interactive A/V works; and I didn't even mention anything about images and text being "too small", don't know where you got that from.

In any project though, and in art especially, there should be a purpose to the decisions made (even if it's as vague as "it felt good"), but in this case I don't really see how the navigation features I mentioned help me appreciate the photos better, or how they work on their own.

Clicking twice to get to a gallery doesn't help me see the project in a different light. Absence of a scroll wheel makes me focus more on hovering my mouse at the edges just long enough to not overshoot or undershoot, rather than the photos themselves.

In the end it's just a web presentation of a photography project! There's not much room to change stuff constructively.
> And if they don't like it they can just pay a small fee to renounce their citizenship.

"Because I don't want to pay US taxes" is one of the few reasons your application to renounce your citizenship can be denied.

You would need to lie on a federal form, which for some people is not a "small fee".
I imagine the NSA uses an optical tap device. These devices create identical copies and require no power or management.
Do you think Spotify has the customers to force Apple to change because of the number of people who switch to Android for their service?

Or does Apple have the customers to kill Spotify by cutting them off?
The harassment in general might be good and scientists would be compelled to think "how will general audience read and understand my research" question before writing "academia speak".

People are not in general evil, academia on other hand is a bit arrogant and engages in needless jargons and complications leading.
A big part of his image, both admitted and admired, is essentially being an asshole. This is unusual, to say the least, and it can't be surprising that the reactions to this president reflect that.
>do you think Trump knows a damned thing about airline safety?

Given his recent tweeting, he sure seems to think he does.
That image looks like it would be a great game board for some sort of strategy game.
If it were an HR screening I would agree but I think there is some responsibility on the interviewer to remain engaged.
> Now every time a package in Alpine gets an update you have to update all 10 containers. Because you will have no way of knowing if that package impacts the security of the service running in that container.

That's pretty much the baseline when dealing with any software system, whether it's a bare metal install of a distro, a distro running on a VM, or software running in a container.

> Now every time a package in Alpine gets an update you have to update all 10 containers.

All it takes is inheriting the latest version of an image and running docker build prior to redeploying.

I mean, this stuff is handled automatically by any CI/CD pipeline.

If you don't carr about running reproducible containers you can also sh into a container and upgrade it yourself.

Do you also complain about package managers such as deb or rpm because most debian and redhat users run a bunch of software full of security holes?

Software updates is not a container issue. It is a software deployment issue. I mean, when you complain about keeping packages updated you are in fact complaining about the OS running on the base image.
This suggests that a specialized app (such as a set-top box, smart TV, or game console) could push more code through the pre-JIT process to further close the performance gap.
(This is interesting to me, because I haven’t seen much interest in pre-JIT compilation since the early days of Java, HotSpot, etc.)
I'm just rehashing an old argument: https is encryption vs https is identity. Sorry
The headline is bad; it appears Trump acted in response to a letter requesting the action from Boeing.
At age 30, World Wide Web is 'not the web we wanted'
You are really the only person who can answer this, but let me offer some guidance:

Creative people are most energized when they have autonomy, mastery and purpose.

It seems you already have autonomy, because you can select what you are spending your time on.

It seems like you already have purpose, because you can see the long term value in skills enhancement.

The last part is mastery. You gain mastery by pushing at the limits of your abilities through deliberate practice, so which one of the two makes you feel the best when you're working on it? Select the one where you get the most done, and not the one that appeals to your ego or intellectual vanity, be very honest with yourself, and hopefully the answer will surface.

Putting my two cents in, I would say do the deep learning stuff, because there's lots more engineers out there who can put models into production whereas having deep knowledge of deep learning is probably more valuable. But I'm a Deep Learning developer, so I might be biased!
Right move finally. Like I said in the post about Canada, at this point it's even better for Boeing. No one in the US wants to fly in this plane so it's better for Boeing if it's grounded.
Firefox has had that built in for years but you have to manually accept or deny cookies for each website and you would still get the popups.

I just use this Firefox add-on to hide most of the popups: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/i-dont-care-a...
Thing is, unless your app is already somewhat popular, Apple won’t do anything for you. Maybe you get more customers. But maybe an app like Spotify invested enough in marketing to reach new customers without Apple‘s health.

The problem is that it’s really hard to measure how many customers Apple really brings and how many would find an app through other means.
Steam also lets you sell steam keys on your own site, and they don't take a cut of that.

There is a bit of an issue with selling your own Steam keys and selling on multiple platforms though. The more people who purchase your game on Steam, the higher Steam's algorithm will rank the game, so there's something to be said for not spreading out sales.
Learn about value, perspective, colour theory, form and how they apply to art and human perception. Things like that I found were useful for learning art as someone who struggled to draw a stick figure for years.
I'm going to use the first definition of capitalist I found on google:

"a wealthy person who uses money to invest in trade and industry for profit in accordance with the principles of capitalism."

As we know there is a huge spectrum of investment strategies, from VCs to Bond holders etc.

Some capitalists like VCs, absolutely value market freedom, others likely don't, but it's too large a swatch of people to generalize by saying they don't care about economic freedom.
I don’t think there is any doubt that our roles have become more specialised over time. It seems an inevitable consequence of globalisation.
He can continue to do whatever he wants and get positive approval, which current sits at around 41.8% [0]

https://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/trump-approval-ratings/
Honestly, Rimworld is the better game. DF may be the better simulation, but most of the time that simulation does not contribute that much to gameplay, and many aspects of DF detract from the gameplay. I would like rimworld to develop more depth, but it has at least acknowledged that how the player interacts with it is important.