skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You're correct, I cited the wrong article. It was rather on Feb 28th [1] that they published an article which posited that the opposition to Maduro's government may have been responsible.

[1] https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2019-02-28/burning-aid-interv...

To also clarify my position, ZH is not very reputable, but they provide interesting insight into current events and will sometimes post contradictory views from different blogs/news sites. It's up to the reader to determine if the "news" they produce is verifiable or merely conjecture. It should not be up to facebook to make the decision for the reader.

Also it is worrying that a company with the reach of NYT doesn't produce this information till weeks after the event. It allowed for the false version of the incident to complete its cycle in the news without interrupting the narrative being formed, and thus creates and incentive for people to seek-out ZH as a source of info. ZH isn't reputable, but their reputation is improved when they are stacked up against poor reporting from other agencies, which is unfortunate.
That, and it's also possible he's taken more steps than described in this article.
It is censorship. It isn't government backed and hence legal, but it is by definition censorship.

Telling people to divest from facebook is as helpful as telling a chinese citizen to leave china if they don't like government censorship. Especially if facebook becomes entrenched and monopolistic. Also, considering facebook has more power and reach than almost every country in the world, perhaps it's time to think about censorship and corporate power.

After all, government censorship was the norm until we decided that governments have gotten too powerful to allow to exist unchecked. Perhaps it's time to think of large corporations in the same manner.
Alexa researchers improve AI error rate up to 30% by reducing data imbalance
Searchguard is a plugin for ES which gives you TLS + auth. They offer a paid version with more features (ActiveDirectory integration, HIPAA-compliant auditing, etc - actual enterprise features), but if you just need auth/ACLs/transport TLS, it's a great product.
You mean for brand X that offers product Y you would review the (everything but visual) design of product Y?
Here’s a few more from before this crash that I’ve bookmarked:

Boeing Withheld Information on 737 Model, According to Safety Experts and Others (wsj.com)
398 points | 3 months ago | 211 comments

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

What the Lion Air Pilots May Have Needed to Do to Avoid a Crash (nytimes.com)
118 points | 3 months ago | 50 comments

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18471464

How the pilots of Lion Air Flight 610 lost control (nytimes.com)
105 points | 75 days ago | 136 comments

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18761830
Medium's pitch was that they would drive traffic from other sites/publications/etc. in their network to yours. So by being in the network, you would get a free promotional boost you wouldn't get by setting up a standalone web site.

(Of course it eventually turned out that the size of this boost was not as big as many anticipated it would be, which dampened the appeal of being in the network somewhat.)
Facebook did not give “everyone” information without consent. One person gave access to their information - including their friends information (their social graph). This is the same thing. My account has all of my friends’ information.
The entire reason why I switched to Firefox in 2003 was because of its superior user interface (tabbed browsing) and performance. Likewise, the reason I switched to Chrome in 2011 was because of performance, syncing, and auto-updating. For me, it was never about privacy, breaking monopolies on rendering engines, or open source. It was always a pragmatic decision based on what browser gave me the best experience.
Did I say anything that your answer provides a counterpoint to?

No.
I'm not sure we have any evidence to indicate that the universe works that way.
Evacuations on the ground, after a bad landing, during taxi, even at the gate, are a thing.
Yes, but the spreadsheet is configurable to be whatever cycle length you want, they just recommend 30 minutes as a type of standard, try this first, length.

The 30 minute work cycle is 100% focused, with a 10 minute break that I usually get up and do some sort of movement, whether it is a run break or stretching or just going outside to look at the trees, and some type of offline processing happens here where my mind is still "into" the current problem space. It helps break things down into achievable units of work, you get a nice spark line chart to measure if you achieved your goal and it gives you a fast feedback loop on whether or not you are creating achievable enough cycle goals.

Once you do a work marathon this is all much easier than it sounds. I do recommend trying one out. When I get to doing this every day for 8 hours a day I am confident I will be 5x more productive than I usually am. This is a compounding time investment.
> Pilots will be jumping to the override switches at any sign of trouble.

This is a good point. And very concerning!
You have to be more specific. T1 diabetes is almost entirely genetic, T2 diabetes is almost entirely behavioral. T2 diabetes is caused by eating too many calories. T2 diabetes is reversed by constraining calories, regardless of macronutrient composition.
It's a big pity. Even though it's a walled garden, Google technologies have the advantage that at least most people have a Google account. To replace it, I have Whatsapp, Signal and Telegram running on my phone. I need all of those (and messages.android.com) running on my PC.

I guess Google couldn't figure out how to monetize it.
> it drops every 10th request

Who has good heuristics for retry (or other techniques) to achieve reliable communications for a PWA?

We do retries, with a few different strategies, but we have a poor idea of exactly how effective (or not) our retries are. Also my code for this is ugly and it's a nasty area to test properly...
Four considerations when writing your system changes policy from scratch
I don't know what Medium is like for writers but it certainly doesn't feel like a better model for me as a reader. I'm reluctant to click on links to Medium on HN at this point because of their incessant nagging and popups for me to register.
I find it weird that email started as an open protocol; various companies tried to make their own private communities but those eventually dwindled and transferred to SMTP.

Why did realtime chat fail to take the same path? I assumed it would.
No. Neither is it an error in the article, since they use the same term in their paper:

https://people.eng.unimelb.edu.au/vjteague/UniversalVerifiab...

It seems there is a class of commitment schemes that's called "trapdoor commitment schemes" and deployed in SwissPost. I'm not aware of these, but they cite this PhD thesis on the topic:

https://www.math.uni-frankfurt.de/~dmst/research/phdtheses/m...

(Disclaimer: I have no idea how these work - maybe the authors mixed up their terminology ;-))
Web inventor urges users to seek 'complete control' of data
Valuable text analytics models don’t need to be 100% accurate
I heard about it recently via HN and took action on it, signed up and completed it. Life changing for my career!

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18769215
In France, this kind of work is proposed by a lot of real estate agencies.
Real estate agencies can even collect the rent for you and “guarantee” you the amount you will get each month. This point is very important as it is a nightmare to evict a bad tenant.

Do you have the same issues in the US? If so, do you plan to manage the rent payment as well?
That's interesting to hear. Out of curiosity, how much writing do you do on Medium vs other places (eg a personal, non-medium blog)?

I'm in the process of resurrecting my own blog, and I've been wondering about how much I should blog on other platforms for readership/exposure as opposed to my own self-hosted blog.
HackerNoon has consistently published bad-faith clickbait garbage and slander. Assume that their description here is similarly misleading.
>betting on a platform as a business is a really bad idea

I can't really think of any business that isn't built or at least highly reliant on someone else's platform right now.

Uber/Lyft are hopelessly dependent on iOS and Android. And that goes for any business that is heavily reliant on their mobile app.

Then everyone else is reliant at leadt on the credit card networks to process their payments. They would go out of business overnight if the processors decided to cut them off.
It's free on F-Droid and there are a couple of free forks and rebuilds. It's also available for the Google Play family library (so it's one buy for moderate sized families).

However Daniel really took XMPP and ran with it: That XMPP is still feasible is in no small part thanks to him, so if you can spare the money that's a simple way to show appreciation.
Not a Windows guy, but I assumed that it was by default. Could be wrong.
For anyone wanting an overview of how KeyDB works, its at the bottom of the Readme.

"KeyDB works by running the normal Redis event loop on multiple threads. Network IO, and query parsing are done concurrently. Each connection is assigned a thread on accept(). Access to the core hash table is guarded by spinlock. Because the hashtable access is extremely fast this lock has low contention. Transactions hold the lock for the duration of the EXEC command. Modules work in concert with the GIL which is only acquired when all server threads are paused. This maintains the atomicity gurantees modules expect."
"Privacy policies are legally binding, and in ours we state that no personal data is collected."

Are you audited by any independent, respected privacy watchdog organizations to make sure that you're adhering to your published policies?

If not, how can I be sure that you're doing what you say you are?

Also, even ostensibly non-personally-identifying data can be de-anonymized.[1]

The only way to be sure that your data can't be used against you is for it not to be collected in the first place.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deanonymization
I feel like many of our competitors focus on either a pure software or pure human operations solution to property maintenance. We approached this problem by combining the two, leveraging the strengths of both to provide a more efficient, and more scalable product. We use our technology solutions to automate the tasks that can be automated, and use a skilled operations team to either pick up where our automation hits snags (e.g. a tenant or contractor doesnt respond to an automated SMS asking for their schedule) or where their knowledge is required to make a decision that a computer may not be able to. It's hard enough to build a quality product with either solution, even harder to meld the two into an efficient engine. We believe this keeps us competitive and makes it hard to replicate our processes.
...which also crashed. It was bumping because it was too long and the pilots couldn’t feel when they touched down. I think it caused 2 crashes.

Which is a lot, considering DC-9 and DC-10 are known for all sorts of crashes, including losing the same door 4 times for the same reason, each time with deaths. Ah, and who doesn’t remember the Concorde crash. Provoked by bursting a tyre on a piece lost by a DC-10. The airplane that literally falls into pieces.
I have researched their approach in great detail and found design flaws in it like: https://github.com/keybase/keybase-issues/issues/1946

A lot of trust is rooted in their centralized proprietary walled garden API and to make matters worse they actually silently bypass hardware security modules in favor of keys exposed to system memory!

They even encourage users to expose their PGP private keys to their browser and didn't even bother to isolate it to a service worker so browser plugins can't steal it (or just supporting hardware tokens which GPG already did just fine)

Almost everything they do is non standard, not interoperable with anything else, not distributed to keyservers. They are the internet explorer of cryptography.

They did this in the name of UX but it turns out you can have super easy PGP UX AND follow standards as OpenKeychain has demonstrated.

Keybase introduced lock-in and their own protocols for problems that did not at all need them. They are 2 steps forward on UX and one huge backwards step for security.
A lot of the listed problems are basically verbose repeated patterns, which is pretty much what macros are for.
It's a bit more complicated than that even. The 737 was originally designed for a very different mission than it's being used for right now. If you find pictures of the original 737-200s they look very different from the MAX line of today. It was built in an era when it was assumed that 707 and soon after 747 class airliners would serve the hubs and then smaller 737s would serve the small regional airports. As such the 737 was designed with VERY low ground clearance such that it could offload without a ramp and generally be serviceable at these types of low infrastructure airports, hence the lack of wheel doors, the ovoid engine inlets and the generally low stance.

Fast forward to today where airport infrastructure is much more developed and these small/medium size airliners are being pressed into front line service including intercontinental routes. The aircraft has changed drastically to accommodate these changes through the years, enough that it may be time for a clean sheet design. They've changed just about everything on the air-frame from the fuel load/cabin length/wing to the avionics to make this all work.

Now, the other side of that coin is with systems. In theory this should be fine, but obviously isn't. It's hard to differentiate bandaids from regular systems and if either fails then safety is compromised. Obviously the amount of unnecessary systems should be minimized but as time goes on more systems WILL be added to gain the rewards of automation, which is a good thing. As such, we need to educate pilots on ALL of the systems, and rigorously test them before they enter service.

Additionally, 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, particularly with current conventional designs.
>much more ridiculous

Hopefully this can't be read as downplaying the negative character of political discrimination. It's dangerous to expel people from their jobs based on their political views, unless you're an 1800s sweatshop boss working to stop unions. Otherwise you will face all of the downsides of other forms of discrimination (not having the best talent for the role, nobody to watch your cultural blind-spots, and so on) while running a high chance of ending up as an active fighter on the wrong side of history.
The FAA is not an agency that should be assuming something is safe by default. It is an agency that should be assuming something is unsafe by default and demanding the manufacturer prove it is safe.

If it's random chance, Boeing should be able to prove it is random chance. Until then, the FAA should ground them.
> Does being on Medium really give you that much in the way of foot traffic or networking effect?

Don't disagree with your points but as someone who publishes on Medium I think the answer to the above question is yes.
No, Medium, let's not make it official.
> People living in NC and TX generally have a lot more disposable income than people in CA at the same gross income level. (In that sense, those other places are more free.)

Sure, it's just more difficult to get to the same gross income level in those places.
> 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.

Because that kind of "science" was leveraged by many as a reason, with things like "you're a woman, hence..." or "you're a man, hence...", even though the variation within a sex is enough to explain many differences for individuals.

It seems that pushing a simpler hypothesis is easier than explaining statistics to the world.
There was absolutely intervention from multiple governments, and it scared Microsoft so much that they changed their company culture to studiously avoid even the appearance of monopolism — because they knew that if they ever got brought to court again, the break-up would almost certainly happen. If it had really been left just to market forces and time, Apple might have gone under (Microsoft actually propped them up when they were struggling in order to keep up the facade of competition), and Microsoft would have brought their might to bear against all the competitors that have risen up since then instead of being the gentle giant we have known for the past couple of decades.
Same-ish. My Alma was a great place for me at that time. I grew up a LOT and have very fond memories, specifically of my department. Via the push from professors, I learned so much and I am very grateful for that. I used to donate to just the department, but with a change in leadership, that is no longer possible. That time, that place, and that person who I was, will always be special to me.
They may very well be unrelated, but shouldn't the FAA take precautions until that is known?
A comment on the article -

These guys were in constant off duty fights with US Marines of the 4th Regiment, USMC who were permanently assigned to similar duty in China. Several months before Pearl Harbor the “China Marines” were removed from China and sent to the Philippines.

The French and British also had concessions there through 1941, when they were occupied by Japan. I think the Italians there would have had a rough 1940.
Pilot Explains MCAS on Boeing 737 Max After LionAir Crash (Nov 2018) [Video]
I think the proper solution is to go old-school.

That is, provide a traditional desktop PC experience that is augmented and improved by Alexa. It should always be more productive to ask an AI than to Google, if this is to have a chance of success.

The problem was jumping immediately to a new modality instead of bridging toward it from the present.

Android assistant has the right idea.
So how do you suggest addressing this? Continue to cover and try to get them to do less harm?
For anyone thinking about publishing anything on Medium, here's a little story:

Since day 1 I self hosted my blog, starting about 3.5 years ago.

About a year ago I read about how much of an SEO boost and new eyes I would get by re-publishing my articles on Medium (with canonical URLs pointing back to my site) and it sounded good on paper. Medium is essentially a marketplace for blogs and can act as a way to promote your articles...

...but the reality is, Medium won't really do anything at all to drive traffic to your Medium articles. The only articles you ever see trending on the front page or in the Medium newsletter is when a Medium article happens to gain a ton of external traction. That traction usually happens when YOU (as the content creator) are either famous and drive your own traffic to it, or you wrote something good and other people are linking your Medium article around the internet.

In both cases, Medium does nothing here to help you. You could have posted the same article on your site instead.

About a year ago I republished about 20 of my most popular blog posts on Medium and got around 200 hits over 6 months on all of the articles combined. I never sent any traffic to those pages and never linked to them from anywhere. I just let Medium do its thing. Meanwhile just 1 of those articles alone gets 5x that traffic in 1 day on my own site. I've long pulled all of my republished posts off Medium and will never (re)publish anything again on that platform.

Do yourself a favor and just self host your own blog.
Before that, there's the documentation bar of "does it claim to do something useful enough, in a special enough and/or good enough way, to consider its possible use". The "singular vision" needs to be explained in detail.
The anchor hash/fragment (#hello) isn't sent over the network.

https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc3986#section-3.5

"(...) the fragment identifier is not used in the scheme-specific processing of a URI; instead, the fragment identifier is separated from the rest of the URI prior to a dereference, and thus the identifying information within the fragment itself is dereferenced solely by the user agent, regardless of the URI scheme."

Ed: as for an untrusted network, tls should be able to secure that. Except if the network owner can insist on/enforce a tls stripping mitm/proxy.
People who want their country to stay their country (in terms of ethnicity and culture) are still worthy of discussion...it is a valid political position...you can't just say "they don't count, please provide somebody else we can discuss that fit my narrow definition of right-wing"
They have said it. At least, their airline pilots union has.

https://swaparesources.s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/assets/pdf...

.. the MAX aircraft has 17,000 recordable parameters and Southwest has compiled and analyzed a tremendous amount of data from more than 41,000 flights operated by the 34 MAX aircraft on property, and the data supports Southwest's continued confidence in the airworthiness and safety of the MAX. ... SWAPA also has pushed hard for Angle of Attack (AOA) sensor displays to be put on all our aircraft and those are now being implemented into the fleet. All of these tools, in addition to SWAPA Pilots having the most experience on 737s in the industry, give me no pause that not only are our aircraft safe, but you are the safest 737 operators in the sky.
I'm also curious how many newer contributors would see friction in simply "firing up a web browser."

edit: I may have read that part of the post uncharitably, if what the author meant was continually switching between the browser and the command line. Still, the sentence stuck out to me.
Silence is golden, especially when you need to say something important
As someone who was a target of harassment just to reveal the identity of a friend, I can assure you that using friends is not a good way to secure information in the digital age.
I would have to guess because open protocols lead to implementations which trade speed for interoperability, which is OK for e-mail, but not for realtime applications.
A slew of CEOs charged in alleged college entrance cheating scam
Hi HN, my wife and I are both teachers and we've both worked in schools that looked really good on paper - good attainment, great inspection reports etc - but were not very nice places to work in. Speaking to friends, this is a common problem because almost all the publicly available information about schools is for parents, students and sometimes inspectors.

The things teachers care about you can only discover by talking to other teachers, but without a personal connection that's almost impossible. When applying for a new job, schools know a lot about the candidates but the opposite is rarely true. We're trying to redress the balance a bit with Chalkscore. We hope it will let teachers make a more informed decision about where to work, and in doing so, that it will exert a gentle pressure on schools to pay more attention to working conditions and environments for teachers.

Happy to answer any questions!
Many pilots in similar situations would have made the wrong decision. As a passenger you are not necessarily going to get someone of Sullenberger's quality. And it is possible that automation could help in this kind of situation. It could provide an estimate of glide distance. It could use spatial data to identify crash landing sites, avoid populated areas, and design an optimal landing profile. All in a fraction of a second. Of course this kind of failure is so unusual that it is probably not worth designing the automation to deal with it.