skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I agree this is smart, because it's a win-win for Warren: either the ad remains online and it does its work, or it gets taken down and that's a forced Streisand.

But I don't think this is an overreaction, specially because this isn't solely about Facebook: if Google removed or downgraded search results for Warren - a US senator and presidential candidate - that would be a worldwide scandal.

Antitrust issues have been risen when Amazon promoted some products over others.

The main questions, at least for me, are: what kind of action is acceptable for these companies? Have they grown beyond their own governance?

And this applies to other companies as well. If Twitter were to shut down the POTUS account for violating TOU, people would also wonder the state of limbo of some platforms: should everyone be treated in equal terms? Does it bear some responsibility as an intermediary for public officials? Should it be subject to some standard verification protocol other than the one put in place by its engineers?

It also raises questions for the user cases: should governments and public officials use social media indiscriminately? Traditional media has a certain democratic access to government: should governments give a specific social media platform preferential treatment? Should there be a call for bids when choosing a social media platform over others?
People didnt jump on blocking Telegram after Russia blocked it also. So I dont see people jumping on the bandwagon now. Well except for maybe other countries ran by authoritarians.
Yes, that downgrades the election from secret vote to concealed open vote.
> Don't try to become a productive superman in one day

can relate. I think if you have a full time job, then trying to take up more than one hard thing beyond that just drains all your energy.

From my personal experience, I can either workout, or learn piano, but if I try to cram both + work I am miserable.

It's like you get only so many coupons in a day. A _lot_ of these things, as I have learned, depend of one's mental health too. Ideas like working in isolation, or extreme will power are fetishised too much at times. Having good relationships and healthy mind doesn't nearly get as much attention.
From a look at the source code, Amazon has Apached 2.0 the entire Floragunn Searchguard codebase (including the commercial part)
>this just doesn't feel very efficient

And yet people could run circles around static typing programmers using Lisp, Smalltalk and other dynamic languages to build programs faster and iterate on them quicker.

Except if you mean "doesn't feel very robust", which I'd somewhat agree.
Is it the 29th of October already? I could have sworn that it was March only yesterday. (-:
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> Let’s hope they can bring back WebSQL

Agreed, although having the implementation defined exclusively by Sqlite (which is why IndexedDB became the standard browser database) remains a rather large sticking point.

Aside from the standards group reverting the deprecation of WebSQL, Firefox adoption has dwindled to dangerous lows, and Microsoft now bases their browser on Chrome, so in the not too distant future one could simply target the dominant browsers, Chrome and Safari, and use WebSQL, deprecated or not (if in 10 years Chrome and Safari haven't removed WebSQL, when will they?).

Unlikely WebSQL will make a comeback though, frontend devs seem to like NoSQL-style structured data, which maps well to JavaScript object notation. Would be great to write the same relational SQL on server and client, but that's a pipe dream unless a drastic shift in standards committe direction happens.
I hear this sort of thing so often, the probability of it happening once during spring break (which I presume is several weeks) would be pretty high, if it were me.
I believe you miss the main issue: Most people don't know or don't want to do computer systems administration.

People don't need to know mechanics to drive a car, or architect to live in a house and Facebook, Google... are doing the same with computers. You don't need to know anything about how computers work in order to use them.

There is no FOVO when you can convince your friends or family members to use a different and better alternative. The problem is that there is no alternative.

There is no alternative. There is not some kind of box I can buy for 30 dollars, connect to my network and instantly being able to connect with my friends, family or workers with another box automatically and without work on my and their side like you can do with a physical telephone.

There are lots of tinkering boxes for geeks. But they are too complex.
Well frankly many pilots struggle to distinguish an A320 from a 737-anything so I wouldn't expect variant-level accuracy from a Captain.

But your comment raises the question of why the Max could be grandfathered in on the same 50-year-old certificate as the 737 NG, Classic and 'cigar-tube' variants when there are such major differences between all of them. For example the NG was rewinged and could fly at 41,000ft which was far above the ceiling of earlier variants, but with a cockpit options pack could be flown by pilots with the old rating.

The root reason is to make certification cheaper and quicker and to sell more aeroplanes. I think that is a major error by the regulators who should be concentrating on safety and technical excellence, not facilitating commercial sales. Perhaps certification should be moved to the ICAO level instead of national regulators who have national interests?
It sounds like no one system of keeping the plane level is fool & error proof.

OK, this might be a stupid idea, but what about a simple old spirit level, a fancy oil based one that will never freeze, mounted to the side of the cockpit to give the pilots a emergency true level backup when all else fails?
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The pilot doesn't get a notice in that case? Or was he just like "k what ever"
Prohibition of vote buying does not prevent Bulgarian train style attacks.
I do not think that RyanAir has many 737 Max jets.
Ryan Air mostly flies with 737-800, but they want to migrate to 737 Max over the years:

https://www.ryanair.com/us/en/useful-info/about-ryanair/flee...

They try to only fly with a single jet or a maximum of two, to keep the costs down.
Being nitpicky: WWW is not the same as Internet.
What in this is stopping the intimidator checking with you after the vote closes?
It sounds like no one system of keeping the plane level is ever going to be fool & error proof.

OK, this might be a stupid idea, but what about a simple old spirit level, a fancy oil based one that will never freeze, mounted to the side of the cockpit to give the pilots a emergency true level backup when all else fails?
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Crazy to think it is only 30 years old. In just thirty years it has spread to almost every corner of the world. The amount information stored in the web right now is so large that I can't even imagine it. And it will only continue to grow. I can't help but wonder what our world would look right now if it hadn't been invented.
I expected to feel that way when I got my Tesla, but it's turned out to be the opposite. I switch back and forth between a Model S and an Audi TTS, and whenever I get in the Audi, the engine rumble feels primitive, like a spinning hard disk instead of an SSD.
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> the budget was so small ($100)

Really? The article says: "The ads were limited in size and reach, with each costing under $100, according to disclosure details listed online." Each ad was "under $100," and there are no details as to the exact extent of reach. The total spend could have easily been a few hundred grand.
>Generally, I'm not doing everything I want to do in my life, and I'm wondering how other people manage to do all the things.

As if other people do "everything they want to do in their lives"?

Don't fall for success porn, productivity porn, hustle porn, etc.

Who exactly does "all the things"?

Over 80% of Americans live paycheck to paycheck [1].

An untold number struggle with situational depression, opioids, messy family lives, alcoholism, obesity, and such.

Tons work on low income, minimum wage jobs.

If you don't belong to any of these groups, you are achieving way more than the 90% of the people.

>I just want to know if I'm lacking something fundamental: something physical (chemical imbalance? gut microbiome?), some lack of character development (do I lack "grit"? am I undisciplined?), or something else entirely.

You lack a job telling others BS about your productivity, and selling them conferences, tutorials, sponsored products, seminars and retreats. But then again those are few and far between, and they depend more on having a charismatic persona and good stage presence to sell BS (Tim Ferris and co) than actual productivity.

You also luck the conveniences, assistants, etc, rich people have to make them appear as they do "so many things" (when they don't have to worry about 80% of what a non-rich person has, from cleaning the house, to picking up the kids).

>In the case of the conversation in [0], the user has some external motivation; having faced death by cancer, he now wants to live his best life possible.

And who said the "best life possible" is to overwork yourself with "two or more full-time tasks during [your] everyday"? That's just a sucker myth sold to people to keep them in the rat race.

[1] https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/jul/29/us-eco...
It's simple, and has nothing to do with bots and abuse (after all, a centralized service can handle this centrally, regardless of the client used).

Communication services have inherent network effects, and network effect is how you make money in this space. So first, you need to build your userbase. At this point, interoperability is a feature, because people can try out your service without fully committing to it. Then, after your user base grows big enough, interoperability suddenly becomes your enemy - a way for your competitors to pull on you what you just pulled on your predecessors. So you need to get rid of it, to secure your network. This pattern keeps happening again and again in any space that has network effects.

TL;DR: Embrace, extend, extinguish.
It'd work fine if the plane was stationary but the moment you have any acceleration, you couldn't trust it.
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> I find it really terrifying that somone who's only a "technical writer" would be writing the published documentation of such things

Why? Are you suggesting that technical writers don't have enough understanding? Good technical writers have a thorough understanding of the product they're documenting. An ex colleague of me switched from being a software developer to a technical writer. He very much understands things from a software developer perspective.

As a software dev, I'll take docs written by a technical writer over docs written by a software dev:

- Writers can organize the docs better, will avoid wall-of-text rambling.

- Writers can write (they eg know the difference between "pouring" and "poring").
> So what is the difference between the type command used above and the Notepad application? It’s actually hard to say. Possibly the type command has some special code that checks for the Control-Z character in its input.

Actually, it's very easy to say, and I've been pointing to the code for about a decade.

* http://jdebp.eu./FGA/dos-character-26-is-not-special.html
If the pilots don't have the cognitive load to take over manual control at any time, let alone react to the question of sensors that are returning impossibly divergent readings, surely they are already overloaded.

For that and other reasons I don't know if it's as difficult as you say; these sort of things are where very intelligent UX design can play a major role.

For impossibly divergent sensors as there were in this particular case, if the difference between divergent sensors is between a normal flying pattern and a crazy disastrous scenario, two things should happen— (1) both sensors should be considered untrustworthy and their use in automation should be suspended, and (2) the pilots should be asked the straightforward question "are you in a normal flying pattern" and if so, re-enable the sensor which fits this pattern.

Additionally/alternatively, they could fit a few off-the-shelf commodity accelerometers/gyros directly to the circuit board of the flight computers and use their readings exclusively to predict which "real" sensors is most likely correct. For example if one "real" sensor suddenly swings and the other one didn't, has there been any corresponding shift in the accelerometers? This would be a perfect candidate for machine learning with a few thousand hours of flight simulator data with simulated sensor failures based on known sensor failure modes.
>I'd argue Kubernetes isn't the best choice for the bottom 90%.

Exactly. Instead of having something so simple that scales for 90% of everyone's needs. We have solution that Most enterprise wants and filter down from top to bottom. And it is true in almost all Tech things related.
> The usual solution to a weak radio signal is to find a bigger signal, for instance, by picking a different radio station or by moving to the other side of the room.

The former solution is as sustainable as repairing your car by taking the bus.
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I've been surprised to learn that several of my non-technical friends forget their passwords and rely on cookies, and then reset the password using their phone number whenever the cookies are lost.
Iran also blocked Telegram, but it was before Russia blocking it.
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I am experienced in software development, mostly on embedded and desktop platforms. I have a client who has requested me to develop for them a web application. This will be my first web application that will be deployed. I have in the past developed web apps but it was for learning purpose and were not deployed in the wild. So I would like to know, when starting a web app/development project what minimum(or maximum) things should be taken into consideration from the point of view of security, scalability and maintainability so that there is minimum disruption as the project grows?
Readability could go a long way on desktop.

Advice:

- Make two text columns vertically.

- Chose better colours. Either learn colour readability, or pick a palette from a generator.
Would you say that at this point it's starting to be a peer pressure issue? Once several national regulators ground the aircraft, if any regulator chooses not to and there's an incident then they'll be raked over the coals. Legally and career-wise, it's far safer for anyone in the hot seat to follow suit.
Is there a good overview of different concurrency/parallelism models and related abstractions somewhere?
Also ML models, which in modern application boil down to "throw everything you have at some DNN and see what sticks". Which also encourage hoarding anything you can get your hands on, since you never know (and really, don't care about figuring out through thinking) which data feature will suddenly be the key to make your ML product work.
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This entire industry is (was?) based on "safety-first" principle. After two very similar incidents, I find it incomprehensible that airlines are still flying with this aircraft. Two catastrophic incidents within a few months for a new aircraft is simply unprecedented.

At the very least, MAX8 fleet should be grounded for a few days, just until the FDR/CVR of ET302 are analyzed. They've already found the boxes, so it should be only a few days before we have a preliminary report.
He lost 65lbs (starting from 240lbs looking at the indiegogo page) on a very high caloric deficit diet of 1000kcal/day, loosing an increasing 10%+ of his body weight every month. Way higher than the usual 1,5-2% recommended to maintain most of your muscle mass.

But I'm not even sure if the math makes sense here, using the bro-science 3500kcal/lb of fat ratio we get a required 2500kcal daily deficit. This kind of deficit seems really hard to reach (even factoring for some water/muscle loss that would reduce the required daily deficit), considering that no additional physical activities where added (again, recommended to maintain muscle mass when you are loosing weight).

Need more details.
It's not in Windows in the first place. The headlined article does explicitly say this.

It's library code in a large number of applications programs.

* http://jdebp.eu./FGA/dos-character-26-is-not-special.html
It looks like Amazon and Elastic have maneuvered themselves into a lose-lose situation.

Amazon has to invest into an Open-Source fork, probably won't benefit from some of the feature development Elastic will be doing, and won't get any help running their ES-as-a-Service.

Elastic won't see any revenue of the AWS ES-as-a-Service, and has lost a lot of goodwill with (potential) customers.

I think they could have reached a compromise where AWS makes sure a share of their revenue from their ES-as-a-Service ends up at Elastic, and Elastic recommends and supports ES-as-a-Service for their customers who are on AWS.

But these are apparently not the times for compromise, so we end up in a situation that is worse for AWS, Elastic and everyone in the wider community.
> Well frankly many pilots struggle to distinguish an A320 from a 737-800 so I wouldn't expect variant-level accuracy from a Captain.

Really ? I would for sure. I am no aviation expert by any means, but something as basic as telling Boeing or Airbus apart and many if not all variants ( certainly within your usual involvement with the industry ) I would think is common knowledge for anyone actually involved in flying, particularly pilots.

> But your comment raises the question of why the Max could be grandfathered in on the same 50-year-old certificate as the 737 NG...

I assume you've seen the comments regarding this on the main thread about this whole thing... [1] I do agree with your point of view on this, absolutely.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19356138
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Very cool. Just too bad ideas don’t matter and execution is everything!

I wish the world has more people with technical chops and less “idea guys.” Knowledge of customer and ability to build the minimum viable product is worth more than 100k ideas.
Apache is a good piece of software, nothing wrong with it. People like nginx because it's low maintenance but I'm not sure it still has the performance edge for _dynamic_ apps.

Apache has improved and now has things such as Event MPM inspired by nginx. Nowadays most of us would run applications behind a proxy, not by running mod_php or mod_python directly - which made old school apps very slow.

Also Apache is notoriously easy to configure.
And Nginx still absolutely rules when delivering static content.
There is also Varnish Cache which is very good.
> Aldi is really quite bizarre, in a way the article tries to capture. For all their rock-bottom prices on store brand goods, whose quality ranges from pretty good to never-again mediocre, they stock the store with a rotating selection of random crap that fell off the boat, baiting the impulse for an aspirational or just-in-case buy

That's a serious misunderstanding. Shitty electronics aside, their prices are not achieved by lowering quality, it just means that they very aggressively compete on price, while explicitly being worse in terms of brands, customer convenience and most importantly product diversity. A typical grocery store usually stocks tens of thousands of items. Aldi sells up to roughly a thousand different items, the vast majority being "fast movers" which are bought very often, like milk, eggs, bread, vegetables, toilet paper and so forth. Basically the opposite of an "aspirational or just-in-case buy". This vastly reduced product diversity immensely simplifies logistics and gives them a a very strong position in negotiations with producers.

I really prefer shopping there. They do not try to pull off the usual tricks like having a big box of cereals which is actually more expensive than the smaller one. But the most important thing is that they are not trying very hard to make you buy a lot of shit you do not need.
Are you just copy/pasting this across different discussions on this topic? While I personally like the proposal (I am no pilot so it may be a dumb idea to a professional), c/p the same post is just noise.
“Seventy-seven percent of millennials say that the workspace is more important than salary,”

Probably said by some exec.

As creating that workspace is way way cheaper than actually paying a decent wage
> how do you reliably detect that one of them is bent or installed incorrectly

During standard pre-launch or manufacturing tests. It should be verified by applying some change and checking that this change is measured correctly.

Generally for critical sensors, you can add some circuitry or even mechanical means of checking (eg heater on temperature sensor). If mechanical side fails, whole sensor module is marked as failed. Critical sensors should be designed in a way that you know when it fails.
I don't find this fruitful. Compared to infinite possible intelligence that creatures could conceivably reach either here or other worlds or machines, Einstein was extremely stupid. What good of a convo does it make?
Surely autopilot failure is a predictable fault regardless of the underlying cause?
As per your link and also Wikipedia, Ryanair doesn’t operate any 737 MAX yet, but have placed orders for them.
A spirit level does not work in an accelerating frame of reference. From the point of view of a spirit level, there is no difference between straight and level flight (1g due to earth's gravity) or a spiral dive (>1g due to a spiraling turn downwards).

Gyroscopes work, which is why artificial horizons are a thing. But an artificial horizon doesn't show anything except where your nose is pointing. You need all sorts of other sensors to tell you which direction you are actually going.
is this a question?
I know quite a few people who hang out for the day that the Aldi snow gear reappears. The boots in particular are excellent value.
It's them who whisper stuff to lower ranking Silicon Valley wannabees not the other way around. Unless you are not familiar with them.
Exactly, after moving to Berlin from SF I couldn't believe that I could overhear conversations about art and music and a thousand other things and not the usual talk about what VC you met and how much X company is valued. Incredibly refreshing
It's about priorities. I wouldn't necessarily make all the same choices I made in the past or recommend it. I've sacrificed some health, aged more than I would've otherwise, missed out on social events, lost relationships and damaged others in the name of professional proficiency. I just put that first and didn't let anything else get in the way.

A far better way to achieve the same thing is to lead others (making 5 people 25% more productive is much much easier than doubling your efficiency), though that's less of a personal productivity hack.
I was simply pointing out that explicitly defining an interface is not necessarily a downside.