skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Many people are criticizing mere existence of this project. I would like to however offer my support to the creators of this tool. I do fully admit number of people who will use Mudrex in next 12 months and will make passive income of thousands of dollars per month will be 0. Almost 99% of the users are going to lose their money if they do live trading with this tool. And yet, I think this tool makes the world a better place.

Blaming Mudrex for people losing money is like blaming government for building road towards Casinos. Mudrex itself is not like a Casino, that would be Crypto exchanges and price movements.

Secondly, there are many many positives of tools like this. You can buy some basic books on algorithmic trading and implement some algos and gain a lot of experience in how algo trading works, what different models exist, if the models fail why do they fail and if no one makes money on algo trading why that is the case. There is a stiff learning curve that in my opinion is very valuable in itself. You will not get any new information if you lose money on slot machine but if you have spent enough time putting efforts and learning algo trading you might end up learning a lot. That knowledge itself could be very useful.

I do not expect people to invest their lifetime savings in Mudrex. Most people might spend only few $100 on this and few among them will be serious and will gain a lot of knowledge.

Kudos to Rohi, Edul, Prince, Alankar and Snehil. I wish you good fortune in battles to come. I did play with the tool extensively and I liked the design, how fast it is. I have following suggestions:

1. Whenever I click on a Backtest I should be able to fork the very specific strategy that was used for it and not the current strategy. In short, support strategy versioning. Most often I design a strategy, run a backtest, change the strategy run a backtest and I have like 10 backtests running for different variants of the strategy. Currently there is no good way to go back to the specific varient that a backtest was running.

2. Let me download some file of the strategy. I should be able to send it to my more knowledgeable friend and get feedback.
Which are a sign of political wars within the development groups.
The future of connection with lifelike avatars
AWS is reporting an EC2 outage ("increased API error rates and launch failures in the US-WEST-2 Region") in Oregon currently.
So again, please provide a source! I can't find one.

It's clear that DuckDuckGo used Bing for some result, but not to what extend. Are all result Bing? Does Bing only provide results when DuckDuckGos own crawler fails? Are the results mixed? I very much get the impression that results are mixed, but that's not completely clear either.
I can't think of anywhere in the west that guarantees all of the physiological needs to people who work poorly or not at all. The physiological needs include shelter which many, at least in America, go without.

If anything I'd argue the opposite of what you have to say. People are unsatisfied because Maslow's needs are not being met. I work and I'd say I do it well but I don't make enough money to guarantee shelter for myself.
> "The investigation for the second crash is not complete"

After two crashes in such a small amount of time, the investigation doesn't need to be complete. The planes should be grounded until proven safe, not flying until proven unsafe.
That's true, but it is a good indicator. Here's a better map from Akamai: https://www.akamai.com/us/en/resources/visualizing-akamai/re...

Also, check out the "Attacks" tab. That one really lights up. Like seriously lights up. Something is going on... all over. US, China, Russia, EU...
Surprise Dust Ring Discovered in Mercury's Orbit
Lmao "no disrespect intended" "scheduling it between watching the football and eating big macs." pick one and keep in mind you're talking about Sudan and not the US...
Nominating one isn't so simple.

First of all, there is a backlog of higher priority nominees. It wouldn't be good to distract congress from those.

Second of all, the constant harassment of this administration must be having a huge impact. A person has to be slightly crazy to accept a nomination. They and their family will be facing physical danger, legal danger, and more. Lots of competent people are thus unavailable as choices. The constant harassment has had a real negative effect on the quality of our government.
Not proud of it, but I fit somewhere in that bucket. I do consider it and I have made (slightly) inconventient choices in the name of privacy, but when it comes down to it, I typically say "screw it" because I want what I want.
Agreed. There's no way I'd buy a Google gaming console for this reason.
It's easy to talk in the theoretical but when planes have crashed loosing all hands and in similar circumstances pausing and taking a look at the data is the best course of action.

Planes are grounded precisely because there is no information.

If we had information, then there wouldn't be a grounding (because we can rule out design flaws, etc).

When you are driving in a snow whiteout do you not slow down or even pull over? Or are you one of those people who would drive at the regular high way speed limit while not knowing what's in front of you?
It wouldn't surpise me if this were the final nail that shifted global orders toward the A320 Neo. Boeing has been putting lipstick on a pig with the 737 for 20 years now and people know it. They've only held out so long on their reputation at this point, and now that's in the gutter. The A320 Neo is an all around better, more modern aircraft built with computerized systems in mind from the ground up.
If Boeing can't get away with a software-only fix, it could become very expensive indeed.
Thanks for the feedback.
We are looking into different opportunities - and weighing pros vs. cons on functionality and privacy.
But one thing is sure, we will do our best to create something you will rather use than Facebook, Evite, Paperless post etc :-)

Simon, Stuff.
Not a fan of your iPhone being more expensive than your MacBook, are we?
This shows utter incompetence and detachment from reality by European legislators. Maybe it seemed like good idea in theory but the only practical significant impact is that browsing the web has become more annoying.

Surely there are solutions that don't require a popup on every webpage you visit? For example enforcing no tracking by default for advertising purposes?
The Nadir of Surveillance (Den Digitale Prøvevagt)
There's a brief discussion of tech debt of cleaning up old feature flags in https://trunkbaseddevelopment.com
Not for Democrats. They hate him for winning. There is nothing whatsoever he (or anyone) can do to make them like him.

He was being criticized for not grounding the plane, and then criticized for grounding it. (He had nothing to do with either decision.)

Liberals are overrepresented online. So if your only contact with Americans is online it's understandable what you are seeing. The real world is rather different though.
Bullshit. Anyone who deals with or tries to deal with the FAA will tell you they deal with all kinds of unsupported assumptions. For instance, medical certificates are denied all the time for people who admit to having taken an ADHD drug when they were a kid, even if they only took it once or didn’t want to take it. Why? “An abundance of caution,” which is a frequent cause for actions the FAA takes.
A thing I usually bring up:

Le Guin's parents were anthropologists. Her mother wrote two books about Ishi, last of the Yahi tribe. One novelized accounting of his life and another non-fiction accounting of his entering into the world of the US in the 1910s and the work Ursula Le Guin's father did with him.

When viewed from this anthropologist lens, Left Hand of Darkness and other books are fascinating. She makes a world, a history, a people, and she occupies it. Then she explores that world with the characters. LHoD does this in a very literal sense (with a foreign character learning along with us, the readers). I think that's one of the things that I most enjoyed while reading her books.
> The newer ones are being build on military bases, for added security.

IIRC, the NSA is organizationally part of the military, and it's currently headed by a military officer who gives congressional testimony in his uniform (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nMi241XLeQ8). It makes sense they'd build on military bases, it'd be kinda weird if they didn't.
Learn go draw first. Pencil, paper, eraser, sharpener.

Best way to learn to draw is to go to a life drawing session. Drawing the human figure will be a great challenge and will teach you to look at your subject.

Moving onto painting... Read some basic colour theory. Artists say the primary colours are: Red; Blue; Yellow. They mean: Magenta; Cyan; Yellow really.
Start with a 6 colour pallette, a warm version and a cool version of each primary colour.

I'm currently attempting to forge a career as a professional artist:
https://www.james-o.tools/
Ask HN: Where do you go for reliable market share stats?
E.g. What is the market share of X chat app?

Do you pay for stats, if so, which companies provide reliable numbers? Do you use any free sites that provide reliable info?
Companies break up all the time, it's just that such moves are rarely sexy enough to break through into the mainstream news cycle. Take Hewlett Packard for example, the comapny's very existence is owed to its origin as a manufacturer of test equipment (calibration and measurement equipment) but they decided to spin off that core business unit in 1999 as Agilent (this move was the largest ever IPO in Silicon Valley at the time). Their decision wasn't made on entirely financial grounds either, the idea was actually that a smaller, more focused leadership team would allow the business to become more agile and thus more profitable than it could be while under the burden of HP's broad-focused bureaucracy.

To take that one step further, Agilent then spun off the electronic test equipment portion of the business (which was HP's original market when it was founded) as Keysight to focus on their life science divisions. Each of these decisions was made despite the spun-off division being successful under the greater corporate umbrella.
Don't understand the need for banning. I forgot to copy the link of news article.. Anybody can easily see that it is an official or news language and not a comment from me. It is copied from the below bigger article

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/boeing-737-max-8-boeing-737-800...
> opt out of twitter (which seems like a self-abuse platform) and filter your email.

Putting on blinders doesn't always work. As it turns out, I was involved in an incident on LambdaMOO many years ago that rather famously illustrates the point. Both Sherry Turkle and Amy Bruckman wrote about it IIRC.

Basically I'd gotten tired of one person's nonsense, so I "gagged" them. They knew I couldn't hear them, so they'd follow me into a public "room" within that virtual environment and talk to me. They knew I couldn't "hear" them but everyone else could. My lack of a response to them, though I was active in the more general conversation, was interpreted as either assent or cowardice. Including when the person started accusing me of being a child molester. I eventually became aware of the shenanigans through others' reactions, but it was still an ugly situation. Refusing to hear what others had to say about me was not a solution.

You know what they say: for every problem there's a solution that is simple, obvious, and WRONG. "You just need to..." is almost as bad as "actually..." in conversations among techies.
Ah interesting thanks for the info. I'm now wondering how accessible GMail for instance is. I'm see a lot of tabindex and aria-labelledby but the values seem to be garbage as well. But I temper that against my assumption that GMail, being such a universally used application, must have some mind towards accessibility.
> there are plenty in the EU who are eager to enforce it

But we haven't yet seen it enforced, have we?
So websites are supposed to just absorb the cost? That seems like a ridiculous stance.
GDPR is neither horrible nor half baked. The word you're looking for is flawed. I don't know why you expected it to be perfect from the get-go when it's such a complex subject in the first place.

What it is however is a major step up from before. It's an excellent start. You won't do any better by scrapping the whole thing and starting over. You can improve it.

Explain to me why you're better off without it.
Maybe I'll finally try playing it. It always seemed fascinating.
Even if this is true (which I suspect it's not, I think being able to override trim in all positions is a certification requirement, but I could be wrong), disabling the trim just disables automatic trim. It's still possible for the pilots to manually move the trim wheel to trim back up.
This is not the end-result at all. It is an intermediate result. European data protection agencies will start handing out fines, then courts will start ruling, and in a few years we will see the end-result.

My prediction is that these Cookie shenanigans will be ruled as illegal according to GDPR, and then they will disappear.
Oh man, I’m so sorry for the people involved who are in this position, yet I’m torn because the outcome here beyond that is ideal. I’m going to assuage my conflict with a big donation on bay12 and then I’m going to tell everyone I know who didn’t want to get into DF that the time is now!
https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/b0jpko/program...
Boeing to recommend FAA to ground 737 Max
ELI-NP laser tested today reached 10PW [pdf]
Could say Germany, decide differently?

GDPR seems like it could evolve quite quickly, and sort of fork a bit here...

Also makes me wonder, do they have to have access to the whole site?

This feels like a war on cookies, and there are bad things done with cookies, but I'm not sure if they're fighting on the right front long term here.

If people simply just say yes all the time / don't know, not sure we're making progress.
> consent must not be a condition of service

So what do you do if your website literally cannot function without cookies?
Thank you. I've spotted a few views that needs some love. Will have it fixed by Friday. Thank you for the heads-up.
-Simon, Stuff.
I'm pretty sure that such a web framework exists. There's <audio> element and web audio JS API.

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Element/au...

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Web_Audio_A...
No idea, the point is that it didn't take off anywhere else.

Here in Germany I only saw them a couple of times in a few consumer toolchains, as regular visitor it was interesting to watch their price being reduced across weeks until they could finally get rid of them, and never again on display.
Spin up developer tools and see if the cookie has been set
You’re missing the point: Apple seems to be abusing its power as a platform to unfairly charge content based providers with 30% tax while not applying it to themself. On Amazon, it would be comparable to charging you 15% while not charging themselves the same on their Amazon Basic products.
I can imagine entire swathes of my office being eliminated after a manager figures out how to use Zapier or Microsoft Flow.
That depends on what you mean by noise. In the case of text classification, a lot of the noise in training is disagreement between human labelings. Unfortunately, classification systems will only be as good as the labels they are trained on.

However, if you are referring to noise as in typos and misspellings - then yes, depending on the training and/or preprocessing steps, classification systems could potentially reduce the noise in the input data to still achieve good results.
Realistically it's all but impossible.
Actually the opposite is the case. The aircrafts should have been grounded world-wide Sunday based on the available information and flight path, to err on the side of caution. The U.S./FAA now look like idiots and are trying to save face.
Please build me a Linux laptop for software engineering, Google.

For engineers only. No software support beyond ensuring the BIOS and the drivers work and are updated.

I hate Dell, but I got a Dell XPS 15 because it was the only laptop I knew would: boot Linux reliably; last two Ubuntu LTS upgrades (4 years); have a high spec (i9 etc); and was reasonably priced (Apple tax was 50% higher for worse hardware).

Is it impossible to make a laptop better than Dell or Apple? Google: how much goodwill would you receive through developer love? Why do I have to pay for Windows when the OS division seems to be actively working against making my work easier? Google, you have the skills and size to make a secure laptop.

Google, maybe it is because most of your engineers internally just need a good terminal, instead of a fast laptop?
You call crime racist? I used to work in Owings Mills also. And the mall was the bomb. it was nice, clean, had every store you could want. I'd walk over for lunch regularly. After a few years... nope. Last time I walked thru that mall I was afraid of being mugged in daylight. 1/2 the stores closed. Somebody was killed between the mall and the light rail when it was just a path. While this was going on, the local business base increased. More companies moved in. More housing was built. But the crime overtook that. Everyone I knew that lived there sold and moved out. They kept their jobs there, but they left after work.
The attacks tab says the current count is "100% Below normal". It does not support what you think it supports.

It "lights up" because there are always attacks happening.
The 737 Max is probably the safest plane to fly right now. Pilots are not complacent people.
Based on the physical fact that the engines are different, mounted in a different place, and generate different thrust vectors.
Are you modelling after Wikipedia?

It's actually pretty brilliant to let those closest to the source keep investor records accurate and up to date.

Interested to see what the business model is like?
When EW speaks, the silos on the web tremble.

(Ok, maybe not, but was fun to think of a bumper sticker-type phrase.)
Which didn't need RWX by using ROP chains instead...?

The security vulnerability there was that the process had the ability to invoke shell at all, not how they got to invoking shell. In-process sandboxing isn't a thing anymore, spectre proved that. In that context what risk does RWX actually pose?
Does Boeing have the ability to disable the subsystem in the 737 Maxes that is the issue? (I’m not saying that this would be an alternative just curious .)
4. The issue was pilot operation of the aircraft. Apparently it was possible to disable the old 737 autopilot with stick input despite that not being the method prescribed by the procedures. MAX didn't involve simulator training, so a less disciplined crew in MAX might not correctly disable autopilot in an emergency despite the procedures for doing so still being correct.
I've had this feeling in some place that 'SOA' is a bit of a dirty word because it connotes a certain style of systems architect, or working like you do in Java or enterprise-scale PHP.

Many monolithic apps would benefit from a refactoring towards that rather than distributing a call stack across the network. The microservices can come later on if there's a need for it. If nothing else, it'll present a clearer picture of how things fit together when you start enforcing boundaries.
> If your failures aren't isolated and your APIs aren't well-made, you're just building a monolith with request glue instead of code glue.

That’s pretty much every single microservice architecture I’ve ever seen, and I’ve seen a lot of them :(
> It feels like we’re starting to pass the peak of the hype cycle of microservices

I feel like any article I see on microservices bemoans how terrible/unnecessary they are. If anything, we're in the monolith phase of the hype cycle =)

If you're moving to microservices primarily because you want serving path performance and reliability, you're doing it wrong. The reasons for microservices are organizational politics (and, if you're an individual or small company, you shouldn't have much politics), ease of builds, ease of deployments, and CI/CD.
I installed a plugin in firefox that just autoclicks "yes" or closes (no clue which) either way it makes the web much less annoying.
I think the problem is that people conflate race and genetics. Race is much more of a socio-economic marker than a genetic one.

When race is correlated with some condition, it's important to first correct for socio-economic status, then environmental factors, then look at potential genetic factors. Since race is a much stronger proxy for the former than the latter.
I was just watching a video a couple minutes ago about changes to system navigation in Android Q [0].

Oddly, I don't see any mention of it in this blog post.

Can someone explain how (1) switching buttons into gestures and (2) changing the recent apps screen from a list of all apps on 1 screen to a full screen for each app...how are these good ideas? What is the design philosophy for these changes?

They seem like gargantuan steps back in ease-of-use and intuitive design.

I'm looking forward to jumping to a Pine64 or Purism phone before I am compelled to use this mindless ripoff of stupid Apple interface design.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PCM2SR5pDn4
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> Who cares if the Spotify apps for Android/iOS are coded differently ?

It's a different product. It's like saying who cares if you can't sell shoes, go sell boots. Different products, different markets.

> Users have access to the same app on both platforms with the same functionality.

Not if Apple doesn't accept it in their app store.

> And Apple is not stopping these users from moving to Android.

Charter isn't stopping a homeowner from buying a house in Comcast's service area either. Having to replace a $1000 phone in order to get a $1 app is a prohibitively high barrier.

Moreover, in the market for app distribution the customer is the developer. Saying "you can sell to Android customers" is like a company with a regional monopoly in California saying "you can sell to customers in Texas" as an argument that they don't have a monopoly in California.

> And yes Apple has a monopoly on their products. So does every company.

Clorox has a monopoly on Clorox bleach, not on bleach, and other bleach is a perfect substitute. Apple has a monopoly on their App Store, which is the sole app store for iOS and there are no viable substitutes.
Look at the scale. The blue area is 100% below normal. The red are way above normal.
No, it's actually quite different. What you're suggesting is that they manually scattered each electron, and then brought each one manually back into place.
What actually occurred is that a completely different state was induced, which effectively 'reversed time' (I really hate that phrase).
I found a pdf of the study, but I lost it among all the 'Have scientists created a TARDIS?'s.
Basically, it said the maths, and the probability of an electron spontaneously entering the state. You could probably find it, if you really wanted to.
I'm looking at you, AWS...
I doubt if the author had '150 micro-services' in real life. A monolithic that could be separated into more than 100 micro-services is already too complicated like hell and engineers live with pains on it.
...unfair as Apple's rates may or may not be, it's a bit rich coming from Spotify.
For hours, not especially - it's annoying but no worse than a power cut. There could even be benefits.

On the other hand, if someone were to sabotage the platform and prove/convincingly argue that they induced the failure, at minimum it would do significant damage to the tech sector and at maximum cause public panic.

This is a hypothetical, not speculation on the cause of this outage.