skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The only problem with XMPP is that there is no iOS app that's as good as Conversations.
VS Code on a Remote Server
Let us settle this: they were intelligent enough to know how to create programs that were not so good for the public and dragged FB’s reputation down.
Since I'm not logged in to Imgur when I post the albums, it allows me to modify the text only within 12 hours after posting. This annoys me a lot but I've yet to find a better platform that has all the attributes I want. (I don't want to make an account and actually upload it there because then I'm submitting it to an audience that I have no intention of engaging with and know nothing about.)
I use this premise as one of my architectural interview questions- design a voting system.

Having asked it dozens of times, I’ve come to the conclusion that I don’t trust anyone to build a voting system. I like it as a question tho, since it’s open ended enough to really let the candidate focus on the domains interesting to them; scalability, security, data modeling, whatever they want really.
Yes, see my other comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19393869
This is the coolest thing I've seen posted on HN in years, very cool work.

I've been playing with Atari 2600 programming on and off for the past few years and it is so fun programming directly against the specific hardware. I can't help but occasionally wonder if I could piece together a similar system, but I have 0 experience with electronics. I can only imagine how satisfying it must be to actually pull it off.
Wonderful. /s

My car's owner's manual specifically says not to use fuel with greater than 10% ethanol. I don't want to play Russian Roulette with my fuel system.
> Hilariously, gas sold for non-highway use (like farms) is not required to contain ethanol, and usually doesn't

Only seven states actually require the use of E10 for non-farm gas. All the others are just using it to satisfy the corn lobby.
Yes. The parent point is that Tesla isn't evidence of EVs being a `seismic shift` or that `betting against big oil is dangerous`.

The general point is that comparing EVs to the internet and/or mobile phones (which became entirely new, and important markets) is ridiculous. In the extreme.
I was going by what it says in the article: "while Google says it invites user feedback on its maps, it doesn’t always act on those suggestions. And even that process, which involves clicking through three levels of menus, precludes users with limited computer skills."
Procopius piles on to the point that one reflexively doubts him.
Verizon is just a terrible company all around, and they certainly don't know how to run a big social network. Everyone was predicting this when the acquisition happened, and it's come to pass exactly as the critics said it would.

Verizon may well be OK with killing Tumblr. It's far outside their core competency, and unlike their core competency, it's hard to monetize.
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Are there a lot of these kinds of accidents?
It is called "accident" is when there is severe damage to the airplane or fatality. In aviation, the other are called "incident" when there is some damage, or merely "occurrence". But that last one is overloaded with way too many meanings.
Sure. It seems to me that if a company has followed established "good practices" for design and engineering in its field, and the appropriate checks and approvals have been granted, this should go a long way to mitigate its liability for unforeseen problems that may later appear, despite the good intentions and best efforts of all concerned.

This may well be applicable to the earliest B737 rudder incidents, for example.

Acting to rectify the (previously unsuspected) fault should not increase the company's liability for a problem it was unable to anticipate.

But once a problem has been discovered/reported, if the company does not act to rectify it in a timely way, its liability for any further problems that occur should rise rapidly. And once several serious in-flight emergencies related to the B737 rudder had occurred, it seems (judging by the story as presented here) like Boeing was probably guilty of this and should be severely penalized.
Sounds like an xmen. This can't be reproduced on rats? (remove that bit of the brain)
Because once the declarative HTML has been transformed into DOM objects, they are not just dumb data but OO-style rich objects. They have identity and internal state, which may or may not be reflected by their markup (not even innerHTML or outerHTML). For example when you attach an event handler, that object gains this behavior. If perhaps that object has some other change, and a DOM-diff library stupidly deletes the original DOM and add a new one, that could be lost. The same for typed text in <input> fields.

Simply put, the OO nature of the DOM complicates things. If DOM were just a simple recursive tree data structure of which HTML is a serialization, there would be no such issues.
Hopelessly off topic but does your username quote this on purpose?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gFaZyHxQGYQ
> A book is just ideas that have been written down.

So are safety labels which attempt to minimize product liability.

So say I sell a chainsaw with safety labels that say to hold the chain and not the handle when starting the thing...could I be liable if someone is injured holding the chain? I mean the chainsaw was a perfectly safe product, as far as chainsaws go, it was only the following of my written down ideas that got someone injured.

I know exactly what you are saying and there is some case Law on point (a case involving a wild mushroom picking book and the plaintiff relying on the book and getting sick as a result). It’s one thing for the author to take that risk but it’s a whole other animal to force amazon to take that risk when they didn’t want to carry the book to begin with.
This quote is from to the original link used by this post: https://newsroom.fb.com/news/2019/03/a-note-from-mark-zucker...
> What happens when the prevailing opinion in the future becomes that raising boys as boys is dangerous for their health?

So, a store deciding not to carry a book is the "thought police" but raising your child to eschew any behavior or, dare I say, thought that you deem insufficiently "boy-like" is....not the thought police?

How do you feel about Christian bookstores? Should they be forced to carry the Koran, satanic literature, atheist books, and everything else they might disagree with? Or is it ok for them to exercise "censorship" since they're not censoring any ideas you like?
Randy Gardner didn’t sleep for 11 days and 25 minutes, under observation, at age 17.

This is the longest verified time spent awake by a human. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Randy_Gardner_(record_holder)
Older people are less aware of anger and fear
Shadow DOM has nothing to do with this.
Interestingly someone just posted this:

http://widgetsandshit.com/teddziuba/2011/10/node-js-is-cance...

Edit: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19393747
Meanwhile Amazon got rid of the Underground Apps program that made available many mobile "staple" games without ads.
Significant portions of NYT's reporting have been highly misleading, to the extent that it's difficult to conclude it wasn't intentional.

"Facebook allowed Microsoft’s Bing search engine to see the names of virtually all Facebook users’ friends without consent, the records show, and gave Netflix and Spotify the ability to read Facebook users’ private messages." [0]

Netflix and Spotify have Messenger plugins that allow you to share movie trailers and songs from directly within the Messenger app. Spotify's desktop app also used to connect with Messenger to enable similar functionality. NYT equated having standard "read/write" permissions necessary for basic app functionality with Netflix and Spotify being able to access, store, and modify all of your private messages.

Read the comments on that article and any prior discussion of it on the internet and you'll see that many technology illiterate people misinterpreted what that meant.

Also, it's fair game to examine what Facebook has been doing, but it's also fair game to examine what NYT's motives are for scrutinizing them so closely. When Google, Twitter, Equifax, and others have been largely ignored one naturally begins to wonder if there's an underlying agenda at play.

[0] https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/18/technology/facebook-priva...
"We agreed then to implement a hard-coded permission for Google Accounts when utilizing FIDO U2F API credential support, whether that was via Web Authentication’s backward compatibility extension, or via Firefox’s FIDO U2F API support hidden behind the “security.webauth.u2f” preference."

Directly, https://support.yubico.com/support/solutions/articles/150000...
These seem really likely. Being a bigtable operator is exactly like being Mickey Mouse in the Sorcerer's Apprentice. You want buckets of water? Okay.
What's your specific issue in media coverage of Facebook? Seems like they do this to themselves.
It never made sense because it requires more than a gallon of fuel to produce a gallon of ethanol. It is a horrible idea, and only exists due to pure unadulterated corruption.
I find that Instagram is incredibly puritanical. Art posts featuring nudity are routinely taken down.
Printing press allows the spread of ideas. It doesn't guarantee or imply the free spread of ideas. Many countries with printing presses tightly control what ideas can be printed.
My problem is that there is plenty of legitimate things to criticize about Facebook but the media manufactures their own issues and agenda and applies them. I don't know anyone who was or quite frankly is concerned about privacy on FB. I don't think the "Russian ads" had any effectiveness on US politics. The Cambridge Analytica "scandal" was allowing friends lists to be public via the API (something everyone did back then). But when you look a the NYT and other mainstream media coverage, it's 100% Russians, "hacks", privacy...

What do I see as the real issue with FB (and Instagram in particular)? It rots people's brains out. It's like crack. I know multiple people spending their life savings to travel the globe for the perfect Instagram shot. I know many, many relationships that have been utterly destroyed by Facebook. Turns out staying connected to all of your ex-partners on a social network kinda makes it hard to get into new relationships. Facebook has been an absolute blight on humanity, just not for the reasons the mass media tells you.
"“The damaged part of the body is no longer able to do its job,” Bleiberg explained. Without a nose, the statue-spirit ceases to breathe, so that the vandal is effectively “killing” it. To hammer the ears off a statue of a god would make it unable to hear a prayer. In statues intended to show human beings making offerings to gods, the left arm—most commonly used to make offerings—is cut off so the statue’s function can’t be performed (the right hand is often found axed in statues receiving offerings)."
Reminds me of the Checklist Manifesto.

For complicated processes with a degree of failure, having a clear task list can help reduce errors.

Very solid list of concrete tasks for debugging a neural network. The emphasis on tracking is very underrated and much easier now than ever before.
Note that the same thing was said about rural electric. Rural areas often got electric when the locals banded together and created a coop and surprise electric to rural areas is now common and not much more expensive than cities (the coop doesn't have a profit motive as the customers are also the owners)
Does Instagram put much effort into mitigating adult content? I can think of a shit ton of risque stuff on Instagram. If you're not logged in, you have to click a button saying you want to see adult content.
Well, since it takes more than a gallon of fuel to produce a gallon of ethanol, we can assume it's completely subsidized.
Note that if you enable 2fa with Chrome, then you can log in with Firefox. Just adding/removing keys (in Google) doesn't work.
The optimization VDOMs make is orthogonal to the optimization that batching offers. VDOMs prevent you from having to update more of your tree than is necessary. Batching is a separate optimization, and could easily be applied to VDOM-originating mutations.
Most channels have a bot running that logs it. If you really care to read through every message you can go read the log.
And add fingerprint identification, like other countries do.
"The ideal flight crew is one pilot and one dog. The pilot is there to feed the dog. The dog is there to bite the pilot if he touches anything."
You confused secrecy with ignorance.
2024 is an eyewatering timeframe, but the actual construction might not be the hardest part. The Chinese have figured out how to do prefabbed skyscrapers in 19 days [0] and the prefabbing is probably highly parallel. If a nuclear plant is 100 times harder than a skyscraper to build that is still only about 5 years as a lower bound.

If they've already done the scoping, fundraising, location picking and had a construction firm who optimised for speed & quality but not cost then I can see ~5 years as achievable, although they probably won't manage it. This is one of nuclear many advantages over more usual nonrenewable, things can happen orders of magnitude more quickly because the physical footprint is so small.

[0] https://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/apr/30/chinese-constr...
That was a surprisingly good read.
Very easy to compress a frame that's identical to the previous one. I guess they should wind it up to 120Hz to make it look even better..
Thanks a lot :)

It really is super satisfying to get this far, I still turn it on sometimes just to check if it really works.

And I also had zero experience with electronics (and I still don't know as much as I should...), so yeah I think you could piece together something like this. :)
Imagine actually believing Facebook will ever tell you the truth about anything.
Paper ballots are pretty trivial to cheat too, you’re dependent on the honesty of party officials and poll watchers.
Anything that relies on secure hardware/software is broken, since those are impossible to assure. The only part that can actually guarantee secure voting is everything that's outside the hardware. Things like cryptographic signatures, hashes, paper trails, whatever. Things that don't rely on the black box you're presented with when you vote to work how you think it works.

Researching that doesn't require a prototype. So why are they building one? As a first step to using a voting system based on it. This isn't 'research', it's propaganda to sell the idea that hardware can be secure. They'll give it to Defcon or whoever, and once they fix all the weaknesses hackers can find, they'll triumphantly declare it's 'secure', and that we can switch to e-voting, and not to worry our pretty little heads about chip/compiler-level backdoors, or if the builders of the system themselves subvert it.

They can state they won't be the implementer of such systems all they like, that doesn't change the intent of this program - to push e-voting reliant on 'secure' hardware.
Virtual DOM is needed to enable a programming model where in each UI iteration, you return the entire UI tree anew. Actually creating a new DOM tree anew would be terribly wasteful, and you might lose lots of state (e.g. half entered text or selected text or something) so instead you do dom-diffing. For some reason, people consider that model to be more hip than the normal one where you take care of updating yourself. Probably because writing code to create the entire UI tree anew is more easy to write, but tbh it's also more wasteful. Classical ease of use vs computation tradeoff.
Largely impacted by this outage was how it affected those who use Facebook Login as a convenient OAuth option. Good thing for developers to remember if someone asks them to avoid a native login option.
We've come a long way though and I'd still rather take my chances with today's engineering discipline and regulatory practices than say, a saber toothed tiger.

I think these sorts of missteps always have and always will occur, and yet in the grand scheme of things, we build remarkably safe systems. If you look at any man-made disaster, you're almost always going to find the same sorts of things that led to the Boeing rudder issue. I'm sure you're familiar with the Citicorp Tower story:

http://www.slate.com/blogs/the_eye/2014/04/17/the_citicorp_t...

https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Professionalism/William_LeMess...
Something else that's not mentioned here which I've seen in other coverage is the issue of financial aid. Students who did not require financial aid were given preference over more qualified students, simply because they could afford the full ride in cash. Had I known this when applying for college, I would've checked no on the financial aid intention.
I'm part of a small startup and we've found that most customers are happy to provide feedback and feel like they are helping craft the system with us.

One other thing we noticed is that people don't want to fill out surveys, and you can get much more insight by just sitting next to a person using the system.

As for signal/noise... try to keep the majority of users happy
It prevents all cars failing at the same time worldwide.
They’re employing classic straw man argument
1. "The government is bad at a lot of things but it's great at writing checks to people on time", because there's no income cutoff or other eligibility requirements it becomes a lot easier to manage than existing welfare programs.

2. VAT is designed to capture value from companies which employ few people, generate a lot of value, but report little in profits, which are a lot of tech companies today.

4. We spend more on healthcare to worse results than other developed countries, a lot is institutional inefficiency.

There's definitely evidence out there to support that people are suffering more even though GDP goes up, look at the labor participation rate of working-age men in these swing states.

Epic proposal? Alaska has been running a UBI from the 60s, instituted by a Republican governor and it's wildly popular. A UBI almost passed under Nixon as well, passing the house and getting killed in the senate twice because democrats wanted the amounts to be bigger.

The way I see it, we either do this now or we continue to keep our heads in the sand while the country rots from the center.
Seriously wtf is wrong with some people. Googling for this is indeed... risky.
“if he felt like Facebook was bending things the wrong way he'd say so”

I wish that were true, but this is a rather naive perspective.

Facebook has a well documented history of requiring outgoing employees to sign non-disparagement clauses. For someone as high up as Chief Product Officer you’d better believe that they would have Chris sign something expressly forbidding any overt criticism of the company. Any severance package which in this case is worth millions or tens of millions would be contingent on signing.

I’m actually surprised he was able to say as much as he did.
I’ve come to hate ads for how much they try to get me to buy things I don’t need.

Sure you can say something about willpower whatever, but constantly being bombarded by them is horrible.

I’m pretty happy with what I have, I don’t need all this stuff. But advertising makes me want stuff I don’t need.

I don’t feel bad about blocking advertising to improve my quality of life.
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I think because either yorco.com is a valid domain and fails SPF or it isn't a valid domain and allowing it lets anyone send mail from yorco.com. I don't understand why failing SPF doesn't reject the message in a way the sender can see.
Almost certainly the answer will be somewhere in the middle. A company that can do the shift after most of the hard and expensive work in battery tech has been completed but before their brand is completely ruined and everyone thinks of them as dinosaurs.
This is good. It's been working with FastMail for months so I'm not sure what the problem was.
Well, TransferWise has fees and "fake exchange rate" as well. Forex is not a centralised market ;)

They are doing the same as any bank or forex broker in that regard.
As the article says, the problem set is multifaceted. Nanotrenching doesn't work, and laying infrastructure in any case is super expensive. In a green field implementation in your privately owned parking lot, it would be an expensive undertaking in terms of material and time & motion, tooling. Now add in permitting requirements from the city to do the exact same mechanical exercise, plus coordination to shut city streets temporarily, enviro-impact studies, etc, etc, etc. Then add project managers, regulatory experts & lawyers to deal with the city and navigate it all. The costs are huge.
It's annoying to me that some people gloss over the role of civil administration as a market barrier, but by its nature Telecom as an industry has high capital and expense requirements from installation to O&M. A lot of folks don't fully appreciate this until they work in the industry or like Google, try to revolutionize it.
OT, what do you use to follow RSS feeds with? I've tried a few different feed readers since google reader was shut down, but never settled on one for more than a couple days.

I sadly rely on reddit/hn to get updates/news now.
The same thing happens with lightening strikes. People get hit by the sonic blast wave or distant lines of flux and are convinced they were hit by lightening. In reality, this isn't even remotely possible. The temperature of the contact point in lightening on a human is around 50,000 degrees Fahrenheit. It does spectacular things to the body. Yet, there are often headlines of a person describing being "hit by lightening".
Nuclear war is not be capable of wiping out humanity (although causing potentially billions in casualties), a hostile AGI can likely wipe out humanity to the last person.
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I'm not an expert, but my understanding is most modern (non-carburetor) cars can run 100% ethanol without issue. The problems arise, not from the combustion process, but from the increased acidity causing increased wear on non-metal components like seals and gaskets.

Most consumer gasoline already has ethanol mixed in, I doubt a modest increase will be an issue.

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Also, most consumer stations have 10% (unleaded), 85% (e85), or 100% (racing). I'm not aware of any stations that consistently offer anything between 10% and 85%.

I suspect your car's warning it warning against e85 and racing fuel.
Close to a billion people are going to vote using this method in a month's time.
Short termisim is cancer
Bird lays off dozens of employees
A few years ago I calculated with a friend the accident rate of several cohorts of Brazilian aviation (well, the part of aviation that operates on aerodromes, so no agriculture or sports). Our worst cohort was for private planes, private pilots, on small airports, on fast growing cities. It was just a little bit under 4*10^-6 accidents (all, not only fatal) per airport operation (that is, twice your number).

I was really scared by your number. I wouldn't ever jump into a random private plane, and seems that people refusing to jump into a B733 Max (looks like I wrote it wrong earlier) are doing a reasonable thing.
Vogtle is even worse than that... Ground works started in 2009/2010 -- Best case scenario right now is first power by 2022/2023 and if they stay on budget from here, cost will be 100% more than first estimated. So much good money being thrown after bad.

https://www.ajc.com/business/southern-says-vogtle-costs-exce...
Also, a lot of small engines (with carbs) demand non-ethanol gasoline; apparently ethanol gums up the carbs I think.

Of course, it'd be better if we just stopped using those small engines altogether... one leaf blower being used for one day puts out as much pollution as a Ford Raptor pickup in 100,000 miles.