skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Novice speakers employ these unnecessary noises seemingly because they dread the "sound of silence." It's as if someone told them public speaking means that something must always be coming out of their mouth, at all times, under all conditions, no matter what

> The most common justification for all this grunting and groaning is, "I'm not always certain of the next thing to say, so I need time to think of it."

It's not a justification as much as it is the unability to explain why they make those sounds. I myself have problems with public speaking and the problem is neither that I want to fill the void, because I don't know better, nor is it that I'm not certain of what I want to say. It is my fight or fly reflex that makes it hard to concentrate or remember what words I want to use. Even when I could before quote it backwards. It's condecending how the whole article says that silence is better than "um". No shit sherlock, if somebody had told me earlier I could have imrpoved so many of my presentations.

Edit: My wife seems to share the opinion of the author, so maybe I was unfairly harsh. For me it is a sore subject since I struggle with public speaking in general.
>Baltimore City and St. Louis are the only cities in the country not part of a surrounding county and not counties in and of themselves

>This fragmentation results in some stunning inefficiencies that have had a profoundly negative impact on the quality of life for residents in the St. Louis region. For example, not only do St. Louis County and City compete against each other for economic development, so do the 90 different municipalities. This results in massive corporate subsidies as municipalities try to outdo each other in order to attract businesses.

http://www.cphabaltimore.org/2019/03/a-merger-between-baltim...
All lies, science is fake and we MUST reject it. Men and Women are the exact same, its all a social construct!
Really good rant there
Is there any clinical research showing improved health outcomes for combining black pepper with turmeric?
> In attacking the plant, the hackers crossed a terrifying Rubicon. This was the first time the cybersecurity world had seen code deliberately designed to put lives at risk.

This is no regular malware. This is war.
(Including many which you can easily self-host like Minio, for those who are following along at home and weren't sure whether that was just limited to other cloud services)
If you're running a Redis instance as the only thing on the VM instance it's on (very likely in my experience), is there a reason to reimplement all this policy logic in Redis, rather than simply tuning the caching policy of the existing OS kernel to make it perform well for Redis (maybe at the expense of performing well for any other process you might run under that same kernel)?
https://www.yardi.com/products/rentcafe-connect/

https://www.appfolio.com/blog/2015/01/appfolio-contact-cente...

This type of service has existed for a while with the larger vendors. What differentiates your service?

Licensed property managers are on the hook for the decisions you make. How do you and they manage that liability? Is it even legal to have an unlicensed third party field a call and assign a contractor? I know states where it is not.

If you've been small, you may have flown under the radar but getting attention could change that. The difference between Appfolio/Yardi and what you're doing seems to be the assigning your own contractors bit. That's legally questionable IMO. Maybe less so for first-party but definitely for third-party managers - it technically makes you an unlicensed property manager.
The "she, along with many actual engineers" is referring to the desire for GPL; I do not doubt there were. The "are/were there others?" is asking for corroboration on the claim that CDDL was designed specifically to be incompatible with GPL.

The CDDL-GPL drama seems to be one of an attitude of "fuck-ZFS because fuck-Sun/Oracle and their fucking CDDL license".

The validity of the claim that the design of CDDL was 'malicious' is the thing I am skeptical about.

It may have ended up incompatible because of technical-legal reasons, but was that the intent? Cooper says yes, Phipps/Cantrill say no.
Wonderful article... but incredibly selfish. I'm pretty sure if I'd faked my death and then later on reached out to my wife, she would murder me and nobody would know.
They got bitten by this recently: https://matadornetwork.com/read/norwegian-air-emergency-land...

(emergency landing in Iran, can't get parts there because of sanctions)
"Warped" falsely implies that their relationship with a nonsapient meat-machine that exists for the purpose of turning grass and agricultural waste into good-tasting food is in some way unreasonable.

What's so sacred about cows that we have to tiptoe around describing what they're for?
Free software. The Cisco H.264 codec supplied with Firefox cannot be distributed with other software, despite being "open". From https://www.openh264.org/ , there seem to be licensing costs involved with the usage of this code, which have been waived for some uses, implying they were not waived for others:

> We will not pass on our MPEG-LA licensing costs for this module, and based on the current licensing environment, this will effectively make H.264 free for use on supported platforms.

EDIT: To clarify, such licensing requirements on H.264 may make codecs fall outside of the guidelines of software distributions allowing only free software, making them supply their browser without one.
At some point, we're going to start seeing an internet connection not just in terms of the benefits, but in terms of the liabilities too. I really would have thought that by 2019 we'd be there with industrial control systems, but apparently not.

One wonders if the governments of the world wouldn't be well advised to go ahead and hack their a couple bits of their own critical infrastructure a couple of times and horribly break it, just to make the point, before a bad actor hacks all the infrastructure. That visibly has huge costs, but it's not clear that the hidden costs of just blithely letting people keep hooking up critical stuff to the Internet isn't orders of magnitude higher.

And by no means could such a result be called a "Black Swan", because that it's going to occur is perfectly predictable. It's only a question of when.
We're staying focused on maintenance right now because maintenance is usually the biggest single headache for landlords and property managers.

There are so many problems to solve with generalized property management that we feel it's much better to stay focused on what we know.
>if you do as the pilots want and achieve very high aerodynamic stability through the air-frame instead of stability control systems (fly by wire essentially) it reduces the aerodynamic efficiency of the airliner

It's crazy to me that that would be an acceptable compromise.
> So how does Apple qualify and Coke doesn’t?

I have neither said that Apple does or thar Coke doesn't; I've never said that either of the two does or does not have pricing power.

> How do you decide what the “right” amount of pricing power a company should have?

It's not a question of “should have”; an anti-trust monopoly (which is not itself illegal, but may make other behavior illegal) exists where pricing power exists in any price range.

> What exactly does Apple have a monopoly on then?

I haven't said Apple has a monopoly, only that, again, the fact that other people sell computers doesn't mean that Apple's computers are not a monopoly (and the same would be true of any other product category besides “computers”.) Whether they have a monopoly is determined by empirical evidence of whether consumer substitution occurs between products, not as to whether products fit into some taxonomic category where there are other products.
It's not "bribing" the school, because what's being paid for is something that the school has the right to give. This comment makes about as much sense to me as saying:

> So, to recap, paying someone to steal my car is bad, but paying me to give you my car is fine. Got it.
But.. facebook and sms are instant messaging? I'm not sure what one you're drawing.
Maybe 1 calorie of cow per 12 of corn, but dairy cows are much more efficient than that:

Cow eats 40.57 MCAl/day [1]

Produces 45.5 KGS of milk [1]

Milk 610 kcal/liter

Energy of cows milk per day 27.755 MCAL

Cow milk efficiency 68%

This feels high as a gut reaction, maybe calculation is missing energy to grow the cow. Still it shows how efficient they are!

Would love a source for your cow meat efficiency numbers, I'm currently exploring efficiency of fermentation methods to produce meat alternatives and that would be a helpful data point.

Source:
[1] http://www.milkproduction.com/Library/Scientific-articles/Nu...
Whereas I'm reluctant to click Medium.com links because I have no idea if the article is from a publication with paid writers, or from the armies of self-styled "thought leaders" and "life-hackers" dumping their blogspam on Medium just as they do with Inc.com, Forbes.com and the like.
You have to admire May for being stubborn. I'd have thrown up my hands and said 'OK, you figure it out then. Have fun!'
Because:

* No clients support multimedia - animated GIFs, videos, audio, images, video/audio calls - only Quassel has web previews and that's about it

* E2E encryption doesn't exist properly

* Signing up to protect usernames is a pain in the ass, especially if people span networks and assuming networks even have something like NickServ

* Users are require to have a bouncer to have some chat persistence

* No clients offer convenience features such as search

* It's a pain in the ass to manage channels to just chat

* Clients can't handle mobile connections well

I'm sure I've forgotten other problems the protocol has.
No, but the pilots will hear/see the trim wheel moving.
I found both of these relevant:

https://leehamnews.com/2018/11/07/boeing-issues-737-operatio...

https://leehamnews.com/2018/11/14/boeings-automatic-trim-for...

Either not widely reported or lost in other confusion, that I find important about Lion Air, from the first article:

Indonesian crash investigators have said the 737 MAX involved in the crash has flown with unreliable airspeed information in the last four flights.

That very well could make identification and corrective action for the problem more difficult. And then, there is in fact a different behavior in the MAX with MCAS in normal operation that pilots weren't made aware of, and results in this central question in the 2nd article:

How should [pilots] know that pulling on the Yoke didn’t stop the trim?

In previous 737's, pulling on the yoke does stop trim, but that's contrary to the point of MCAS which is why it has different behavior, but it's a behavior pilots aren't aware of and haven't trained for; and both Boeing and the FAA have been saying 737's all have the same behaviors and flight characteristics. And that becoming clearly not the case is really pissing everyone off.
Social media where actual conversations are happening
Brexit: May defeated by 391 votes to 242 as MPs reject revised deal
Why is any of this necessary? Why don't paper ballots suffice?
If I've got this right, the file is encrypted using a secret key which is generated on the client and appended to the anchor in the link, like:

http://send.firefox.com/download/<fileid>/#<secret>

Anyone who obtains the link (e.g. via email interception) gains access to the file.

Since browsers don't transmit the anchor when requesting a resource [1], Firefox servers never see a copy of the key. Provided you trust their JavaScript.

[1] https://stackoverflow.com/questions/3067491/is-the-anchor-pa...
What are the differences between your services and SMS Assist? (https://www.smsassist.com/residential-repair-maintenance-ser...)
Both crashes happened soon after takeoff (6 and 13 minutes) and Boeing seems to think that they know where the error is (stall in high angle-of-attack) and have a fix in pipeline. FAA is taking calculated risk.
Timeline for the next days is at https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2019/mar/08/the-brexit-...
What should be clear is that neither the American nor Russian media will always be right, and neither the American nor the Russian media will always be wrong, and sometimes one will be right while the other is wrong, while other times both will be wrong or both will be right.

I mean all of that is just common sense. The relative rate at which any of those scenarios unfolds is up in the air, but it's pretty clear all of those scenarios happen at least some of the time. When you see somebody claiming otherwise (e.g. "Russian media disagrees with American media, so the Russian media must be wrong." or "American media disagrees with the Russian media, so the American media must be wrong") you can be sure their opinion is invalid. They could legitimize their opinion by acknowledging a degree of uncertainty, by adding the word "probably" to either of those statements.

Here is the key: recognizing the possibility that you could be wrong. Acknowledgement of uncertainty may run counter to ego, but it's important. Or maybe I'm wrong about that.
Suck my fucking dick you corrupt piece of shit mod. You can't ban me.
I too wish Safari was better about feature parity, but I console myself with the fact that WebKit is significantly more power-efficient than Blink, which is extremely valuable in a battery-powered portable electronic device. Maybe not as important for a desktop computer, but even there using less CPU means the browser works better when my computer is under heavy load (such as when I'm compiling).
> Why don't paper ballots suffice?

Hand counting is costly, time-consuming and error-prone. Paper ballots with supervised electronic tabulation puts forward the best of both worlds. (It's how we do it in New York, too.)
Didn't Tim Berners-Lee have a hand in approving Web DRM and abandoning consensus? He did [0][1][2]. For all his accomplishments in creating the Web as we know it today, his considerably more recent involvement shows that even he has given up on open standards, cooperation, and consensus.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14720591

[1] https://boingboing.net/2017/07/07/eschatology-watch.html

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15278883
Yes it's WOFF2, served over gzip. I do not think that I can eliminate extra character ranges because Slimvoice is used all over the world.
As a vegan, you depend on large corporations and the modern industrial society to exist. So it's strange to say you hate large corporations. A vegan lifestyle isn't one that you could maintain without international trade and industrialized life. Without global trade, oil, lab research, pharma companies, etc, you couldn't survive as a vegan. So I don't understand why you hate large corporations.
> If it’s Github, it’s going to look like this:

> Go to the website for the thing, click fork

> Now clone that fork or add it to my .git/config, hack, and commit

> Push the commit, go back to the website, and submit a PR

> Github’s email integration is so poor that I basically have to go back to the website for most parts of the conversation. I can do little from the comfort of mu4e.

> Remember to clean up my fork after the patch is accepted or rejected.

> Compare that to how I’d contribute with Debian:

> Hack (and commit if I feel like it)

> Type “reportbug foo”, attach my patch

> Followup conversation happens directly in email where it’s convenient to reply

I've actually seen this type of thing quite often in criticisms of GH/web-based workflows, etc. And frankly, they're all complete madness. The leaps of logic made in the above bullets are so enormous they can't not be wilful. The author is really stretching.

1. The equivalents of "going to the website", forking, adding to local git config, are all skipped for the Debian workflow; it is assumed one has already set the project up locally. For a new project, these steps are 100% guaranteed to be more complex for Debian (or any project not on a website with fork-like features).

2. "Github's email integration is so poor": why have we brought up email here. Github integrates PR links into the server response of the git push itself. You have actual cli integration here, shown in the output of git. Why bring up email?

3. Pointing out that you should clean up branches in your fork is superfluous.

4. The second step in the Debian workflow leaves out two things: you haven't included the setup of the reportbug cli, and—since we're clearly more comfortable with a cli than with a browser—ignores the fact that there are equivalents for interacting with the GH API without ever going near a browser.
This letter is clearly not written by someone who interacts with customers. As someone who has tried to work with Elastic, their pricing is atrocious even for the most basic of features.

You can't get alerting without paying a king's ransom for features you'll likely never use.
And increasing demand from the security-industrial complex that also does military/classified work.

Boeing can’t H1-B its way out of underpaying like other engineer employers.
VP8 can only be contained in MKVs and WebMs files, so I do see this happening. Apple is also part of the consortium working on AV1, the successor to VP8 and VP9; it also uses the MKV and WEBM containers.
The Boeing Max 8 entered service in May 2017. Assuming a linear deployment rate, the 350 planes in service have seen an average life of 10 months. Assume 4 flights/day, that's 420,000 flights so far. 2 have gone down. A best estimate of the likelihood that a plane goes down (MLE), p = X/n = 2/420,000 = 1/210,000 ~ Binomial(n=420,000, p=P(crash)). According to the Economist [1] the likelihood your plane goes down generally is 1/5,000,000. So based on the fact that the plane crashes had similar characteristics, the Boeing Max 8 is 25X more dangerous than a regular plane.
25X is the difference between surviving a commute on a bicycle vs a car [2].

[1 https://www.economist.com/gulliver/2015/01/29/a-crash-course...].

[2 https://www.riskcomm.com/visualaids/riskscale/datasources.ph...].

EDIT: The Economist source that estimates a plane's p(crash) is questionable, for a passenger plane. If anyone wants to dig into this further, I found this source too: http://www.baaa-acro.com/crash-archives
One thing that I keep rolling over in my head is right now it wouldn't appear that the pilots should have been been able to fly without instruments when they crashed. And both crashed apparently due to the pilots being unable to control pitch.

Two lost aircraft. Both new. Both with the same symptoms. Under conditions you would not expect to lose an aircraft.

That's a really really bad sign.
Might also be worth considering P(2 Crashes | N Miles across 350 planes where at least one operator has incompetent maintenance), because that might not be all that different from P(1 crash | N Miles across 350 planes where all operators properly maintain their planes)

Look at things like Alaska Airlines Flight 261 [0] - safe airframe, deficient maintenance, plane loses all pitch control and impacts ocean. Yes, this still means that Boeing needs to improve things - single points of failures are never OK on a plane - but it also doesn't (IMO) mean the plane is fundamentally unsafe without those fixes.

0: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alaska_Airlines_Flight_261
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> I can walk into any mobile store and have a choice between dozens of phones. Most people can’t choose their homes internet service provider.

No, but they can choose their home, which is the relevant analog. If you don't like Charter, just move to another city. If you don't like the Apple App Store, just buy another phone.

If the thing you have to buy to get a choice costs 1000 times more than the thing you're choosing, it's not a real choice.

> People can choose whether they want to spend money on an iPhone or an Android phone knowing the trade offs just like people can choose whether to buy an Xbox or PS4.

"People can choose whether they want to spend money on a house in Charter's service area or Comcast's service area knowing the trade offs..."

And it being no different for consoles only means that the same rules should apply there as well.

> Seeing that there are competing products for everything that Apple sells

What is the competition for Safari then? Notice that "Firefox" on iOS isn't even real Firefox because Apple requires it to use Safari's engine internally.

Also, the App Store is an app.
well some needs to create a framework around this concept. Have the build process spit out only HTML and CSS that employ these exotic strategies.

It's entirely unsustainable to have a team build an app using these patterns.
The current BBC headline is "Brexit: MPs reject Theresa May's deal by 149 votes", which is a better summary of the situation.

For a variety of reasons (legal, procedural, and political) MPs can't simply resolve to reject Brexit, and didn't do so today. What they can do is reject the exit deal that May has negotiated.

Some of them have voted to do this because they want a 'softer' Brexit with a closer ongoing relationship with the EU, or no Brexit at all. Others because they think the deal is insufficiently 'hard', as it envisages some kind of ongoing relationship and they'd rather see a clean break and then deal with the consequences.

The upshot is that we leave at the end of the month with no deal unless something happens, there's currently no majority in Parliament for any of the options, and we look like international idiots.
Why do politicians always seem so uncivilized to me?

Both sides of an argument always argue as if they believe the other side is stupid and they know for sure they are right.

That is the biggest stupidity in itself.

Why are there no politicians that spend their time on trying to understand the other side, rather then shouting out their own message? Those would be the ones I would vote. But they simply do not exist.
Yes. I still don't know why Apple is not supporting getUserMedia() in WkWebView which is required for the WebRTC
If I remember correctly, only decoding for online video streaming doesn't require licensing fees. Cisco hits the fee cap with the products they sell already, so letting everyone use their binaries doesn't cost them anything.
How familiar are you with state laws? Performing walkthrough inspections as a third-party without being licensed is illegal in many states - a felony, even. I'll source it for you shortly.

EDIT: Here: https://azre.gov/LawBook/Documents/SPS_Documents/SPS_2017.01...

"An unlicensed assistant shall not perform the following activities:

- Perform a walk-through inspection or Tenant Vacate Inspection

- Provide advice or negotiate with anyone regarding a property

Pursuant to A.R.S. 32-2165(B) A person who performs acts that require a license under this chapter, other than a broker’s or salesperson’s license, without being licensed as prescribed by this chapter is guilty of a class 5 felony."

Arizona is not unusual in this regard. I helped build a publicly-traded REIT with an internal manager and worked with general counsel on these issues. Some of the laws seem silly but if you can do what a property manager does then what's the point of having property managers be licensed? And I for one think they should be. People complain of property managers now but imagine if there was zero training or licensing. I also deal with HOAs, which require no training or licensing, and they make property managers look like geniuses. They manage HOAs when they don't even know their own CC&Rs, let alone the law.
I have been using ff with noscript and have no desire to switch. If a site does not load with ff, I can do without.