skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Capitalism involves private ownership, voluntary exchange, and competitive markets. These are all things "the capitalists who run these businesses" are trying to undermine. Netflix/Spotify are built on a stream-don't-own model. Apple wants to lock you into their walled garden where you have no choice but their products. And all the FAANG use regulation and corporate buyouts to keep the competition at bay.

If capitalism is really what you're after, the answer to that is an open, free, and private web where people own their hardware/software/information, have total freedom of choice thanks to free and open standards, and can compete on the strength of their service without fear of antagonistic regulation or buyouts.

The key problem with regulation is that all the large tech companies want the same kind of regulation which helps secure their position against competition and they're all well off enough to afford sizable lobbying budgets. So any regulation will have their say on it, while having little voice in that discussion for the public good (we have, what, the EFF and the CDT?).

If you think that's paranoid, simply review the history of the railroad barons.

Capitalism itself is actually supportive of the web as a platform and it's just that the aspiring "internet barons" are the antagonists. If we let them define more regulation of the internet, we're only securing their position for them and reducing the likelihood of real competition.
What do you mean with saving 10 USD? In volume or in actual product? If you buy things that has been watered out, do you still save money?

It's really not like that, their mainstream products are as good as any other supermarket, better in some cases.
Look at loopback mounting for FS. Please provide an API for that. Fuse support officially would be good.

Also the availability of kernel headers, config tools cross compilers and the scripts compatibility.
Would US be able to breakup non-US tech companies, and if no how would it prevent tech companies from moving outside the US? Some of them have enough money to buy a small country or build a huge seasteading city.
On canned tomatoes:
https://www.cooksillustrated.com/taste_tests/510-canned-dice...
Body adapts quickly to it. I have regular bowel movements, it comes out with no effort, and it actually barely has any smell on top of that.
>Decoding, on the other hand, is pretty cheap. Hardware is still better, but it's been a long time since mobile CPUs were in a state that forced you to use a hardware decoder meet typical performance requirements. Bandwidth is so much more limited that using a software decoder to achieve a higher quality at a given bitrate is almost alway worth it.

It is not. Not with Modern Codec. Battery is so much more limited you will always want to trade high bandwidth than Software Decode. Apple tried VP9 software decode for youtube and all we got was very bad user experience. For most use case within a 20% bitrate, the difference between x264, VP9, x265 and AV1 are small, and you will always want to choose the one your user has hardware decode.

No one expect their Laptop , PC, Mobile, Tablet to get burning hot just watching a video for a few mixtures. Hardware decoding is literally the most important hardware on Mobile usage, and I argue the same for PC.
Eh, or just with Western systems. Presumably when you contact a company through Twitter they already prioritise based on the amount of followers you have - if they do this in real-life interactions as well, I'm not too excited about it either.
Nope, Google Maps is sticky. I've tried alternatives and just haven't had any luck. OsmAnd (Open Street Maps on Android) is good for plenty, but not driving.
> Extremely low productivity in the large. While workers may be fully occupied, and even over-worked sometimes, in the large, a lot of productivity is simply wasted in projects which never take off, are discarded, scratched, changed, etc.

When speed became a major factor in this new startup dominated tech world, people think that they just don't have time to plan.

> Low accountability. Current trends like #NoEstimates #NoTesting #NoProductOwners etc, while may or may not have valid points all lead to a larger #NoAccountability "ideal" where developers seem to want no accountability at all for whatever they do. Not having any responsibilities in what you do is actually not the good idea some think it is.

When developers are not given time to plan and test, what does one expect?

That programmers put in their spare time for the company? Ha!

> - The pervasive idea that it's all horrible but that's alright. That you don't really need to know how to do stuff, you can just copy-paste it from SO or whatever you find on Google. That programmers just don't know what they are doing but haha I change this line here and it works and I don't know why but it works and that's what matters so I'm going to sarcastically twit about it because everyone will understand and concur. That everything could just crash and burn in microseconds but that won't really happen, right?

Again, if developers are not given time to reflect like post-mortems and such, what do you expect?

> - The masterful move of claiming that anyone can program with just good will and disposition. That a degree doesn't matter, that experience doesn't matter, that actual knowledge is secondary to "passion".

I used to believe that passion is important. But after a few years in the field, more often than not, it is used as an exploitation vector.
Could an Eye Doctor Diagnose Alzheimer’s Before You Have Symptoms?
Unexpected conditions is not to mean "the aircraft software design is stupid and will try to kill you".
Agreed - Javascript Standard Library - is a simple but brilliant idea. Optional, so nobody is forced to use it, but if a library has useful functionality, seems to me to be a no-brainer to me to use such, likely to be higher quality and more performant.
Let’s hope they can bring back WebSQL as such a library, Microsoft and Firefox’s appalling decision to drop the amazing SQLite from browsers and force in the inferior IndexDB, needs to be reversed.
A local RDBMS is required, to enable PWAs to more easily match desktop capability.
For a bit over four years I worked a demanding full time job while also getting my Master's degree and maintaining a relationship with my spouse.

I don't really have any insightful tricks, I just found the time.

When friends would go out, I would choose to stay in and either get some rest or do work. My weekends were fully allocated to my graduate work. My spouse was understanding and supportive but ultimately I spent less time with her, my family and friends.

I felt most overwhelmed when I planned out what I needed to get done next - that feeling usually went away when I started working.

One semester, in an effort to finish my degree faster, I tried taking an additional class. A little over two weeks in I found myself physically and mentally overwhelmed and unable to keep up with the work. Upon reflection, I realized that in an effort to keep up with the work, I was putting in 95+ hours of work per week. For me, that was unsustainable, so I dropped a class.

Most importantly, in retrospect, I regret it. Looking back it's pretty obvious to me that the compromises I made were misaligned with what actually matters to me. The tricky part for me was that it was really hard to see when I was in the middle of it.

I also think that my excessive workload actually took a lot of the joy out of the work I was doing. And for me, I think I'd rather go 50mph and enjoy the ride adjusting the direction as I go than 150 mph holding on for dear life in who the hell knows which direction.
Super-powerful Long March 9 said to begin missions around 2030
"Unexpected conditions" are different from "a plane that actively tries to commit suicide"

And if you think all pilots do is respond and detect to fault, I suggest you learn more about their duties on the cockpit.
From the end of the article:

>The company estimates that about 10 Long March 9 rockets will be needed each year from 2030 to 2035 in China to meet the nation's robust demand in heavy-lift rockets at that time, Shang said.
Some background: 3 months ago, also discussed on HN, in the wake of the previous 737 Max crash:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18438607

"Boeing Withheld Information on 737 Model, According to Safety Experts and Others (wsj.com)"

And user Neracked remembered there Feynman's ending of his text in the Rogers Commission Report, 1986:

"For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for nature cannot be fooled."

https://science.ksc.nasa.gov/shuttle/missions/51-l/docs/roge...

(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rogers_Commission_Report investigating 1986 Space Shuttle Challenger disaster, related to how the managers then were responsible)
How would it take some time for news to notice? In the wake of this latest crash, news media and amatuers alike are constantly paying attention to what airlines with the 737 MAX-8 are doing. If they notice that airlines are starting to reschedule their flight plan to use other aircraft than the 737 MAX-8, the news will be out instantaneously.

Indeed, if they do it in secret (attempt to anyway), it will probably be a lot worse than a public statement. I just don't see how you can hide that major a change (I think flight plans are public anyway) without someone noticing immediately in this day and age.
Internet, you're not as free, wild and fun as you were 20 years ago, but I still love you.
Out of curiosity: what do you cook that you do not get at Aldi?
Myself, I could get more than 90% of the ingredients of most recipes at Aldi.
Some things I buy at an Asian or Turkish store, and I have to buy most cheeses somewhere else.
But Aldi has come a long way, now they sell a decent variety of organic, regional produce.
Happy Birthday Internet!
No, because one is still forced to use some of their products by others: captcha, mailing gmail addresses, ads and tracking even in iOS apps, tracking on most websites (which can usually be blocked). Youtube is unfortunate, because many obscure things are only available on it, but it's not an essential service.

FIY if you're in the US they're also buying access to your CC purchase info.
I'd say that Internet was a fluke. Some standards - both electrical and software - managed to spread worldwide and solidify against the opposition of the market. This was a time when being compatible with everyone else turned out to be more beneficial than trying to strike out on your own.

It's important however to contemplate on the degree to which Internet is centralized - or getting centralized. As it is today, everything up to transport layer (TCP, UDP) can be considered baseline infrastructure. Very few market players are trying to mess with it, similarly to how most market doesn't mess with the voltage and frequency standards for electrical outlets in your home. But anything above TCP/UDP is up for grabs, and is becoming heavily centralized.

This is the way of the market. You make money by building barriers, not bridges. And the players that make bridges only do so to tear down their competitors' barriers, so that they can replace them with their own barriers.
Wipe, reinstall or restore your system from running GNU/Linux distribution
I for one am looking forward to DLL Hell 2.0
>> if you don't have kids

Most adults do have kids, though. It's unreasonable to expect that one will not have kids, seeing how we're all here because our parents were in a position to have kids. So I chose to live elsewhere instead.
Lol, I checked your posting history and you're a vegan glorifying tofu as protein source.

It is pretty obvious that your smear attempts on keto and zerocarb are ideologically motivated.
The closest I've found is Here Maps. The navigation and driving instructions work fine (at least in Norway, Sweden, Denmark and Germany), but the POI search sucks. In Google Maps I simply enter the name of the place I want to go and hit directions. With Here Maps I more often than not first have to use Google to find the address of the place I'm going and then enter that.
I won't argue that it's not exceptionalism. In fact, it is exactly that. Per mile flown, no other country compares.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/danielreed/2016/12/28/in-the-la...
As far as I can tell, only two browser engines ever implemented WebSQL: Safari and Chrome's WebKit (which hadn't yet been forked into Blink), and Opera's Presto (which hadn't yet been abandoned in favor of Chromium). Firefox never implemented it, and neither did IE (Edge hadn't been announced yet), so it certainly wasn't implemented by "all vendors". And both implementations were just thin wrappers around the same library, SQLite, so the W3C was correct in saying there were no actual independent implementations.
Wow, that would have been interesting to visit. A sanctuary for meeting "the other" on human terms.
Data Analytics on Pokemon
I think that's the complete opposite of what they stand for. If I go into Lidl I have to buy their own-brand fake ariel washing powder. Where as if I go to Tesco, I can choose the expensive name brands, Tesco's own brand or anywhere in between.
Brands and Logos. Choose Yours
> I switched to protonmail after losing my gmail password.It was literally impossible to get my account back thanks to gmail "security features"

Same here. I gave them everything there is to identify me yet they refused to help on the same grounds. The only difference was the phone number, because the one associated with the account died. Funny thing is, if it were not for an accidental removal of cookies, I would still be using that account, and I would have been able to login as it only seems to ask for the code sent via SMS is when you lose your cookies and/or change your user agent.

I switched to protonmail for non-serious e-mails.
XLearn Support Windows Now
Ironically, Elastic's cloud offering I believe runs on AWS...
This is an excellent question. I have yet to discover a good API based method. Let me know if you find one.
This article is really inspiring to other industries as well. You can really re-evaluate current business model based on what potentially can be done.
https://www.compressware.in/2019/03/game-making-software.htm...
I don't think it's mostly snobbery. They carry products that are perfectly fine, but they also sell things that (in my view) are just wrong.

One simple example that comes to mind: crisps. I don't know what they do with them, but they tend to be WAY overseasoned. And that applies to salt, pepper, paprika, etc. A significant amount their products have this problem.

Now whether that is worth a premium to you or not is a different discussion. An actual M&M still tastes better than their copycat equivalent. I'm not saying the mainstream brands are always good, definitely not, but I'm happy to pay for some of those things if the quality is better. Just like I don't mind paying for fresh fruit / veggies / meat / chicken etc.

Also, to add to that, the "house" brands (i.e. for milk / sugar / etc) of most more expensive supermarkets generally tends to not be much more expensive than Aldi.
I visited one of the KOLs on Chinese e-commerce platform. It was mind-boggling
Ask HN: How do you know what your users want?
PG says that understanding users is the most important thing for a startup, but exactly how do you know what they want?

What methods do you use?
How do you differentiate signal from noise?
unity pro 3d highly compressed download <a href="https://www.compressware.in/2019/03/game-making-software.htm... 3d pro highly compressed</a>
React Native using shadow-cljs in 3 minutes
I'd argue Kubernetes isn't the best choice for the bottom 90%. There's a lot of companies you could describe as tech and many are doing just fine in the old world of manual application provisioning.
That is exactly how I always feel when working in Clojure. Constant "what is this? What's in it?"

You can't just say "it's a map". Sure, it's a map, but there's data in there I want so can you at least tell me what keys it's supposed to contain? Sadly the language has nothing to help me make up for the lack of documentation other than inspecting values at runtime inside a half-constructed program and this just doesn't feel very efficient compared to returning a defined data structure with specified properties.
This is very accurate. I think it might be somewhat true for the majority of the workforce though. For specialised roles such as developers, management etc. I think the spread is bigger.

If I were to guess, I would say that the lower bound is higher, giving a skewed distribution with a big bloc of salaries around the same avg. range. Couple this with a reluctance for high earners to speak openly about it and you have the illusion of everybody getting roughly the same.

A very clear sign that wages are kept superficially low, is that as a contractor I can get away with asking 3x what I would as a perm developer. In theory I get less job security this way, but in reality there is so much demand that this is a non-issue.
Anti-trust laws? Without people rallying, of course it wouldn't be possible.
PC 1512, the extra W was a typo, as I knew both models and things get mixed up with age. :)
I'm in England and I agree with the first comment. The brand rip-offs are completely shameless. And while Lidl and Aldi do have brand names, they definitely make up less than 10% of the stock
My bad, didn't see that one!
I Learned Python in a week and only sorta regret it
Previous submission: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19337689 (3 days ago)
These are people posting here not robots.
Happy Birthday World Wide Web (Not the Internet)
It's not the Internet's birthday today.
non-paywalled: https://outline.com/BPZ3Uh
Agree!

Changing clients is preferable as there are more opportunities for networking, and there is a novelty factor: Each slow-moving bureaucratically-controlled poorly-defined enterprise IT project is slow-moving, bureaucratically-controlled and poorly-defined in its own way.
It's only dysfunctional for non-commercial users. The ones making making money from it are getting richer than ever.
and you know what? Elastic's cloud offering is shit. It's really expensive, it falls over every other week and their support is terrible.

AWS ElasticSearch is not great, but it's way better than Elastic.
I actually meant the PC 1512, not PCW, but your comment still holds.
The AoA sensor doesn't measure fluid pressure in a pipe; it measures fluid direction with a small mechanical wing that rotates to align itself with airflow [0]. Thus it has to move, unlike a pitot tube. If it can't rotate for some reason, it gives faulty data.

[0] https://aviation.stackexchange.com/questions/2317/how-does-a...
It is exactly this reason I wonder if we should just stick to x264. You can do very decent x264 encode in low bitrate if you don't care about about film grain and noise. x265 also has advantage in 4K release due to increase in block size.

But x265 has made lots of improvement, I was watching some late 2016 encode the other day, and the current 2019 encode looks a lot better on the same ( Low-ish, 3Mbps) bitrate.

One reason I am looking for next generation VVC and AV2. The current AV1 an HEVC just don't give enough improvement that matter to me. They are far from what marketing slides want you to believe in 50% reduction.
The extent of the info on that page is:

Run it!
$ runn cu
Boom!

Hard pass.
Customers are already demanding information about the plane assigned on their flight.
Pretty useful. Suggestion based on me looking at this on a phone (I'm unsure how this looks on desktop!) - left align the titles and the copy for each section. Would make the list much easier to scan. Well done for releasing!
Put a load balancer between your reverse proxy and your backends. Problem solved.
> mathematical impossibility
Well to be technical an RTOS is not effectively baremetal. But I agree that it is extremely 'close to the metal'.
He also has an agenda against them, had an agenda against the Java division at Sun as well, so I always take his opinions with a big grain of salt.
Site took ages to load for me. For a moment I thought it was a clever statement about the state of websites in 2019, before realising it's probably being pounded with traffic.
Sorry, I dont believe this for one second. You mean to tell me that this person was given an assignment to "de-annonymize" someone in public, and then coincidentally runs into someone at a coffee shop who very loudly provides:
1. Name
2. Address
3. CC Number
4. PWD's to accounts

While on a phone call, at a coffee shop?!

The professor, the NY Times, and NPR, are all fools if they believe this way too convenient series of events. gauranteed if this "guy in a coffee shop" is even real, he has some connection to the student.
Red Team Project Aims to Help Secure Open Source Software
Potential users should be aware that the quoting in the shell commands on that page is faulty and requires attention.
The State of California’s Public Policy on outside activity is very reasonable. Amazon is just making a virtue out of necessity.
>For all its downsides, Bitcoin is the last exciting open standard I can remember that has done well and maybe has a future.

If you don't mind elaborating, this point comes up rather frequently nowadays about bitcoin/other blockchain tech.
So far the only thing that fell into the "exciting" category for me was ipfs and even that didn't really convince me that it's a viable thing.

I get that blockchain tech is an industry nowadays but from my outside perspective 99% of it and the applications they promote seem rather, for the lack of a better word, self serving. Either that or it's some niche that I don't see will get any mass adoption anytime soon.

Lots of these technologies seem to be technical solutions to problems that are social in nature and thus, again - from my outside perspective, prone to failure. Proof of X tech often looks like stuff that's solved as soon as parties agree on using it in the first place.

edit: formatting
Yeah, right.

But you're forgetting few other categories of regulation. Like, protection of health and life - that's something companies don't tend to do on their own; in fact, it usually goes strongly against their interest[0]. Or, protection of environment. Or, protecting people from countless of individually and socially destructive activities that the market will happily engage in if left to its own devices, as evidenced by hundreds of years of history over which those issues were recognized and then regulated.

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[0] - A common theme in recent discussions serves as a great proof: Chinese counterfeits on Amazon. By far, Chinese export goods are a product of an environment free from regulations applying in the Western world - so how come people are so afraid they'll get a Chinese-made toy or baby formula?
It's also the weak point - do you trust your domain provider he won't allow a domain move / access based on parts of your personal information, like here [0]?

Also is it only domain block and not ip block?

[0] https://medium.com/@N/how-i-lost-my-50-000-twitter-username-...