skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
For the amount they make off community work, they contribute a tiny amount.

Right near the top of their list (in your link) they brag about contributing to Linux. Let's see how well their brag stacks up? Looking at the contribution reports on Linux, are AWS in the top 10?

AWS are not even on the list. https://twitter.com/ibrahimatlinux/status/768631239683158016...
You could download J2ME apps from anywhere. Honestly I used Verizon as an example but thinking back, Sprint’s store was a better example. I think Verizon used something different.

Because retail stores have to provide shelf space with real estate cost, unsold inventory cost, etc. How much is that cost to Apple?

So now the government should also decide what is a “fair” amount of markup?

And it costs 0% to be distributed in a Linux package manager.

And seeing how little money you can make from Linux users, the value add for distributing packages on Linux makes the price about right....
Not sure if someone else mentioned it already, but you actually can play with it for free on https://cloudflareworkers.com/.

Sure, it's a limited version without binding to a specific domain and, correspondingly, without APIs to control Cloudflare-specific features, but it's often sufficient for POC transformations.
If yesterday's Post Reports podcast [0] is anything to go by, there's also an issue with the autopilot refusing to give back control to the pilot in some situations because of what you just mentioned, on the basis that it would spare their clients the associated pilot retraining costs.

Picture being at the wheel of a self-driving car, with an obvious crash looming, and the car refusing to let you, the driver, take back control and steer the wheels or step on the brakes.

[0]: https://www.washingtonpost.com/podcasts/post-reports/questio...
I view willpower as Harry fighting off the Dementors in the Prisoner of Azkaban. He thought his dad was going to show up at any minute and fight off the Dementors (a powerful allegory for depression), but Harry realized he had to fight for himself. Once he realized that he radiated joy and fought off the horde of Dementors.

As an aside, I believe we would be prudent to not give in to substances/habits that form addictions. You could say that John/Thomas have incredibly high willpower that they are willing to keep poisoning themselves even though they consciously know the effects. The dependence on alcohol was trained, and now they have an abundance of "willpower" to continue doing just that.
Maybe true for Europe in general, but at least for Norway, this isn't really the case. It's not as crazy expensive here as in the major tech hubs, of course, but you'll still pay at least 300k USD for a completely average dwelling anywhere near what we would call a major city (population 200,000 or more).

I found food to be similar in price or cheaper when I was on holiday in San Francisco. Avoiding the car is doable if you live in one of these city centers, but then the dwelling will be 400k and up. And a car will run you ~7000k USD per year in TCO, unless you drive an old beater. Taxation is around 50% in aggregate, probably slightly higher if you take care and count all the smaller taxes.

Guaranteed healthcare, workers' rights, vacations, parental leave and social safety net in case of disaster are fantastic, though. Although you'd probably get better _treatment_ if you've good good insurance in the US. It's probably a better quality of life if you're in the bottom 60% of earning power.
nodejs and expressjs are pretty solid stable tools these days. And there is always typescript if you are into that.
That's not what the article suggests.

He was accused of sexism, by someone on Twitter, not #meToo which attributes to the charge of sexual harassment.
Scientists sent thoughts from brain to brain with nothing inbetween
I read the article as against the word not being scientific enough because it doesn't differentiate between the competing theories. He may have a point for specialists in the field, in specific circumstances, a layman may just want to communicate the concept without knowing the details.

To use software terminology, he's arguing against abstraction in favour of implementation specifics.
Startup Provides Bird’s-Eye View of Properties for Underwriters
Samsung could force Apple's hand to adopt crypto
> once you get past Global Warming and deranged chiefs of state, the atomization of the social fabric is high, high on the list. I haven’t fought hard enough to stay connected (not alone in that). And time grows short.

Predicted in 'Atomised', by Michel Houellebecq
> Microsoft is still just as dominant in the PC operating system market and the desktop productivity market as it was in 1999.

The sanctions were on the way they illegally leveraged that (legally attained) monopoly to monopolize other markets. Something which they've been decidedly less prone to do since. Well, at least for a while, they are now pretty much following the lead of the companies Warren is complaining about and, to the extent the latter are benefitting from lax enforcement, so are they.
Alto System Project: Dan Ingalls Demonstrates Smaltalk
Well put. I think that anything I personally do while logged into a database when viewed from any higher level going to look anomalous.

That said, I wonder if what’s going on here is that the admin account was never supposed to be used directly, so that’s why the alert triggered.
> Paid Gmail is spyware

Source?
Theres a pretty good argument to be made that it nearly eliminates piracy, and is good for business too.
The challenge here is that there is an implied expectation that if you started or are the primary sponsor of the project, you should be the primary recipient of revenue resulting from same. Often this expectation is paired with a belief that the project and the product are the same thing (lack of competitive differentiation).

The first is not a given at all, and the second is what leads to it being a foregone conclusion with the question being not if but when someone will eat your lunch whether its Amazon or users choosing to DIY.
And how is other media free of political biases?
Sure, but even if you're caching, you're presumably populating that "how many users do we have" widget's cache at least once a day or so.
Are there any statistics available for how often there has been a need for a pilot to disengage MCAS?

If we speculate (e.g. before the facts are in) that this was similar in cause to Lion air incident, then I would be curious to know how often AoA sensor has malfunctioned and|or MCAS has otherwise gone haywire and pilots have needed to revert to manual control during the two years of service MAX8s have had.
Why is this illegal while underfunding the schools and paying $35K to a "college counselor" not equally corrupt? Because the results of the latter are less certain?
Did you try using the site with the inspector open with Poor 2G throttling? I was still able to interact with the page within milliseconds. Just had to wait for the font to download before text would appear. Then after that, all of the assets besides the HTML was cached.

I think that's pretty damn good; to solve the 2 second latency, I think the developer is better off using a CDN or Netlify's ADN so that your site is delivered from a server closer to the user.
I keep hearing offline-first trumpeted, but I have seen no examples of what that means.

Terrible connections exist. But I fail to see how adding more scripting will always help with that. Service workers are definitely promising, but documentation for common use cases is still lacking.

Even with a terrible connection, I would still trust a server-side app to load correctly on a refresh more than a SPA.

If anything, the minimal use of Javascript is as inclusive as a web app can be.
Chrome DevTools has a feature similar to this: https://developers.google.com/web/updates/2019/01/devtools#A...

AAA line was added in v74. AA line has been there since v65: https://developers.google.com/web/updates/2018/01/devtools#c...

The Audits panel (powered by Lighthouse, which in turn is powered by aXe for the a11y audits) also has an audit ("Background and foreground colors do not have a sufficient contrast ratio") that checks the contrast ratio of all text nodes on a page. In other words you can automate this check.

Disclosure: I write the DevTools and Lighthouse docs.
Haha what happened to the other 800
http://foxie.cool join the new wave!
Earlier discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19365108.
An approach I use is to try and build something in css first, if I can't find a way to make it work then I'll break out the JavaScript.

Css is surprisingly good in places, but it also drives me up the wall as soon as I let myself expect to be able to do more things in it. Yesterday it was gradient masks.
I typically don't like to read into the motivations of articles (or people's actions for that matter) and I take their words as an independent object. Given the article has a logical flow with plenty of high quality citations, I'd say his thesis of "willpower is ill-defined" is a valid statement.

EDIT: The author is an Assistant Professor of Clinical Psychiatry at Columbia University, whether or not that affects your view of the article is your prerogative.
Discussed at the time: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13559072
> larger operations are more efficient

The amount of animal feed grown per acre of land should stay pretty much constant. Also the amount of feed a single cow eats, is constant. So in this kind of energetic respect, small and large operations can be equally efficient.

But larger operations can mechanize and automatize more work, and thus need less human labor, and can save on salaries. In this kind of monetary respect, they are more efficient.
What do people do when confronted with research that challenges the very fabric of modern gender politics?

As more research like this gets out, indicating that males and females really are genetically predisposed to different psychology, what happens to a sizable chunk of leftist politics, which currently allege men and women are identical and that differences in equity are entirely cultural and sexist in nature?

What does this say of modern cultural hiring and university admittance policies that are driven by untested assumptions contradicting research like this?

Perhaps our past measures of merit have not been so skewed as some people with an axe to grind would have you believe.
> It's not inconceivable that we could go from large surpluses of cheap food one year to widespread hunger the next

Can't the US just import a big portion of its food for a couple years, until the situation is back to normal?
Another possibility is that the 737 MAX 8 is, just like the rest of the 737 fleet, an outstanding performer with one flawed subsystem, the AoA sensor. The FAA and the aviation industry in general has been very excited to deploy these AoA sensors; they've reduced regulatory hurdles across the board to get AoA sensors of all different types installed and retrofitted into airplanes of all sizes and shapes. The reworked part 23 rules were first put to work on AoA sensors, and the expansion of AoA deployment was part of the drive to do the part 23 rework (which has ripple effects across the entire industry, for the better.)

But when you push new technology, inevitably there will be unexpected failure scenarios. This may be one of those, with a particularly catastrophic series of events.

It is a simple fix, and Boeing is already rolling out software updates to manage this failure scenario. If it does turn out to be the MCAS/AoA fault, it would in fact be the best scenario, because it's already fixed.
The Lion Air plane that crashed had suffered from the exact same failure on its previous flight, though obviously the pilots managed to recover from that one.
Whoops I meant Amazon (from the map).
Ask HN: Correlation of personality type and programming language preference?
Is there a known correlation between personality type (e.g. Big Five, MBTI) and programming language preferences?

Has any research been done on this topic?
which is not the same as trying to purposely extinguish competition. its about INTENT, not just selling at a loss.
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As far as I know the human body absorbs pretty much all the nutrition from the food it consumes, so yes you can drink from the firehose and get it all. Our feces is just the waste we were never going to absorb anyway like fiber and lots of dead fungi and bacteria that grew along the way.
The day AIM died, I logged in one last time.

A friend of mine was actually online! So i IM'd him. I got a frantic phone call about 30 seconds later.

"how did you DO that?!"

"do what?"

"you made my PHONE play the AIM BING noise!"

"..."

He'd long ago wired SMS notifications into AIM, forgotten that he had done it a decade or more ago, and was deeply confused until we walked through the possibilities.
Can someone (likely younger than me) explain to me why the concept of gender-associated cognitive differences has become so controversial, and why the “blank slate hypothesis” is the only one considered acceptable? This was an entirely different story when I was in college.

90% of all nurses are women, does that mean that 100% of the difference (from the 50/50 ideal-world gendersplit assumption) are men purely socialized not to do that?

I have no interest in sports, yet 90+% of men seem to, but I kinda get it, it makes sense to me that most men would be into that.

And then we get to programming, and raw interest in mechanisms... and possible correlations to gender with that, and all hell breaks loose.

Have all the “monkeys prefer gender-stereotypical human toys” studies been discredited? You can’t IMHO use the socialization argument there: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2583786/

Happy to hear anyone out on this though.
Hernando De Soto wrote a book called "The Mystery of Capital" and in it he points out that the ability to enforce laws and contracts depends on the ability to apply consequences to the people correctly identified who break them. For example, an electric utility can't provide power to a community if it can't identify and shut off power to the people who can't or won't pay their bills. De Soto points out that e.g. having a recognized official title to your own home not only enables the landowners economically, it also gives them something to lose so that the government has leverage to enforce laws and contracts.
Jan -> January, Feb -> February; Mar -> ...
Frequently used parts of language are often irregular. Fortunately, I don't think plaintext you'd use sed against is as irregular.
I read on Reddit that it was a bad translation of "has had children". We don't know who owns the database. It might be from a life insurance company.
I think Debian is so good in its multiple roles because it's used in all these roles by its various maintainers. I don't think there has ever been a Debian "server edition" or a "desktop edition", for example.

I've always felt RH/Centos were a little less flexible when it came to desktop/laptop setups.
The point I was trying to make is that regulation is being posed as the antidote to the self-destructive desires when it will merely legitimize them because it's those desires that will influence how the regulation turns out.

If we had a government free of corporate lobbyist influence, I would probably agree that legislation would be a good approach. As it stands, I'm not currently convinced.
Ubuntu had saner default desktop package sets than most other distros at the time, for a good long while.

You wanted Firefox. Everyone wanted Firefox, pretty much. Obviously. Yet other distros liked to package up Epiphany or some such weirdness when you let them give you the deluxe desktop software installation. Same for lots of other categories of desktop software.

Ubuntu's defaults and the options they pushed to the front were consistently the right ones, for the time. I can only assume politics and oddball personal preferences were behind every other distro getting that so wrong for so long. And yeah it didn't matter that much if you were fine picking your own packages, but Ubuntu tested with their defaults and things worked pretty smoothly with them, plus they were mostly the programs you'd have chosen yourself, anyway. I've never seen another distro where I could just say "gimme the desktop, the whole shebang" and be more or less ready to get going when it was done—all the others it's "no, god no, give me barebones and I'll install what I want".

This is early Ubuntu, mind you. I stopped using it (and, for the most part, desktop linux generally) when they brought in PulseAudio and wrecked audio—previously among the most reliable things on my Linux systems, for almost a decade—and I basically rage-quit Linux.
Hey, there is twitter

(at least many of the ppl in the least have accounts there)
> Worth noting, it took the NYT until March 10th [1] to finally come to the conclusion that ZH had come to on Feb 24th [2], regarding the burning of AID trucks being sent to Venezuela.

The latest update to the ZH article says:

ZH> True to his word, it appears the humanitarian aid trucks being sent from the west into Venezuela have been repelled by Maduro's guards as reports come in from social media that they are all now on fire.

I don't see anything that says that the protestors set them on fire, but might have missed it. The way that is written makes it sound like Maduro's guards did it. The only mention I see of protestors setting anything on fire is the burning of a bus covered earlier on the page.
I think a lot of open source people forget that large companies worry a lot about licenses and clarity around that. Without that clarity and control they get sued left and right and on this very forum we end up discussing how evil this large company has been.

Elastic search is a great product and there is no doubt about it. However I understand Amazon's viewpoint that it should be clear which part of ES are open source and which are not.

A the end of the day Amazon or Google can easily buuld a clone of ES from ground up.
What we are doing instead: just started a Redis Proxy project (designed by Fabio and me, coded by Fabio Nicotra, so we started yesterday). We will start abstracting a Redis Cluster this way so that you can talk with to it like it was a single instance, but this is not enough. We also are planning for:

1. Tooling to make it simpler to start a Redis Cluster in a single host if all you want is to leverage all the cores.

2. Smartness in the AOF rewriting so that instances on the same host will do a better use of the disk.

3. A caching mode for Redis Cluster. This is useful for deployments where most accesses are idempotent and you have for instance a cluster of 10 physical hosts running, for instance, 32 Redis instances each. When an host is no longer reachable we don't want failover in that case, but just reassignment of hash slots to the other masters. Think at consistent hashing but on the server side.

Two years ago I had this private branch that I wrote in a few days that threaded Redis, with N event loops on N threads. After realizing that it worked and scaled, I considered how many bugs such Redis would have, how harder it would be to add features, and how incompatible is to have a single huge instance with Redis persistence method. In that moment and after consulting with other engineers I decided that for a few years our strategy will be Redis Cluster. Maybe I'll change idea in the future? Maybe, but first let's explore what can be done with a shared-nothing architecture that keeps the promise of continuing to deliver software that hardly crashes ever.

EDIT: Obviously the proxy itself is multithreaded :-D

EDIT2: Btw jdsully already sent a PR to the original Redis project, so I guess a smart developer exposed to the Redis core is great anyway!
Hi everyone, Anton, the creator of Color.review here.

8% of all men have some kind of color blindness, and plenty more people have other visual deficiencies. Even though they represent 100s of millions, we designers & developers often skip making sure that our designs work for everyone.

I made Color.review to help with that, believing that with better tooling we can change this behavior and get more people to check their colors.

Would love any feedback you have on the project!

Also, a litten gem, if you want you can send links to a direct color test. Such as the HN link color & background:
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Assuming the crisis is limited to just the U.S., maybe. Otherwise no, because everyone would be suffering and stockpiling what they could for their own citizens. There are also geopolitical concerns, such as pricing those exports very dearly, or withholding them barring some concessions.
They're just regular departments of their respective states. That is to say, probably about average susceptibility to hacking and social engineering. I don't know any specifics about what might be sent to the feds, but you can be damn sure if the IRS or any other federal agency calls the state they will fully cooperate. None of this would actually work to hide from the government, just from random non-expert members of the public.
"(L1 + 0.05) / (L2 + 0.05), where

- L1 is the relative luminance of the lighter of the colors, and

- L2 is the relative luminance of the darker of the colors."

https://www.w3.org/TR/WCAG20/#contrast-ratiodef
If using `db-s3-object`, does KeyDB uses that as a seed on startup?

Eg: Running KeyDB on AWS, the EC2 instance fails and is replaced by another one running the same config. Will it read the last S3 dump on startup?
Carbs cause diabetes. https://www.diabetes.co.uk/reversing-diabetes.html
Trapdoor is an older term that means the same thing as "backdoor". I think this author chose to use it in order to distinguish between the modern colloquial meaning of "backdoor" as "a method for an attack to eavesdrop on communication", and the more abstract meaning of a correctness vulnerability in an allegedly secure counting algorithm.
As you say, most of the speculation seems to focus on MCAS in combination with faulty sensor data. While, as a layman, pilots being unfamiliar with MCAS seems like a reasonable explanation, doesn't this theory still require 2 planes in 6 months to have faulty AOA sensor data? That seems unusually high to me as well. I haven't really seen any comments on that.
In the article:
"Worst, it would do so by running roughshod over the idea of judicial independence, invite endless lawsuits and bureaucratic meddling around subjective definitions, and effectively punish consumers for choosing the best option for them."

This seems like a FUD (fear, uncertainty and doubt) argument. How is breaking up a tech giant going to create more of these problems than breaking up AT&T did? We lived through that.
I feel that we didn't read the same article.

This article is absolutely about modernisation and optimization. The dairy business has been guided, partially by government policy, to maximize milk production while minimizing human labor. This drove the price of milk down, and led to a 'go big or go home' drive for dairy farmers. Smaller operations can't compete with this and they're closing.

> It's about large corporations getting paid money by the government to support an unprofitable business

While I don't doubt that this happens, It was not a theme of the article.

> Those not "playing the game" lose their business - it's that simple.

No, business was lost because the small farms are being outcompeted by large farms. This was a consequence of the market, not government subsidies. I think it would be fair to say that government policy shaped the market, but that's not the same thing as a subsidy.
Depends on what you mean by normal but compared to many of the status pages I am tracking, GitHub has a pretty low incident rate (though an uptick very recently): https://statusgator.com/services/github
Why do they bother mentioning Trump in this article? They even followed his tweet with a disclaimer that experts said it wasn't accurate.
Seems like it happened now