skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My point is not that going to a top college isn't a great opportunity. My point is that for someone who could have gotten into Stanford, the actual admission it isn't defining. Someone with that sort of intelligence and drive will find a way to meet the future CEO, get a great job and so on regardless of whether they attend.

I went to Stanford. I love my undergrad. But I also have faced plenty of rejection and adversity on the way and since graduating. What matters is how you respond to that rejection, which is what the struggle to earn admission reflects. Having your parents bail you out means you will never learn those lessons.
Alex Jones is political humor, have you ever listened to his show? It's like the right wing version of Daily Show, John Oliver, Weekend Update, Bill Maher, or Colbert. Maybe you don't find it entertaining but other people do. By the way he was recently on Joe Rogan and was contrite about calling Sandy Hook crisis actors, he insists it was a hot take and he corrected himself when the situation became more clear. By the way, if you want to hold the left wing media to the same standards about harassment as you are Alex Jones, the world is still waiting for corrections and apologies from most of those shows about getting the Covington kids story wrong and in some cases calling for doxing and violence.
Well, if it is that bad, you should have made a decision to divert to the alternate long ago. Plus, it's not any wind that would cause this.

The older versions of this aircraft have the same ground clearance and have had for decades.
I'm just not sure what the problem is. Outdated modes of production can't keep up with the lower prices for a fungible material. What's new?
Funny, but the Smalltalk Seaside webapp framework was once criticized as old fashioned for this kind of server-centric, javascript minimal approach. And that wasn't that long ago.
Instagram founders say losing autonomy at Facebook meant ‘winning’
It is all about trade offs. We had a good application developed as a SPA and worked well. However we had a monetization flow where we took users credit card details and bunch of information. We developed this flow as a separate stand alone HTML pages and micro optimized, reduced css, used vanilla js and put it on CDN.

That did bump up conversions by good percentage points. It is all about choosing the right hammer and nail for the job.
I'm very much on board with the promise of PWAs, but so far I've never found an approach that didn't feel too complicated/tedious. That said, I've not made serious attempts in at least a few months, maybe a year. Would you say the situation has solidified/standardized in the interim, and if so, could you point me to some resources?
You have a lot more time and airspeed to work with when flying at altitude at full speed.
> "News" today is a "for profit" enterprise [...]

Hasn't news always been for-profit? If not: which news organizations (newspapers, magazines, wire services) have been run on a non-profit basis?

The only recent change (IMHO) has been higher time-to-market pressures (minutes versus hours/days).
The best approach is to keep your source of truth out of the Medium platform from the start. You can use the "import post" functionality to tag your original off-Medium post as the canonical one, which gives you the best of both worlds: Medium discoverability plus full control over your content. https://help.medium.com/hc/en-us/articles/214550207-Import-a...
A discussion about the discussion.
Southwest are extremely experienced with the 737 in general and have specifically trained on MCAS and its potential failures on the MAX.

Southwest have been flying since the 1960s, and have I think a total of (3) fatalities. No relation or association to them but the operator and their training matters. Southwest are by any measure one of the safest airlines in the world.
Except Facebook is shrinking

https://gizmodo.com/1-in-4-americans-really-have-deleted-fac...
Apart from the infrastructure and application, what benefits does Medium provide? Is it the discovery of your content via the links at the bottom? Is that considered the killer feature?

Is there some kind of solution that exists where self-hosted bloggers can send traffic to each other, like the link sharing networks of the old days?
It is not a news site but a fight club (their positioning). And over the years more and more people not worth fighting have aggregated there. It is in some way an anarchistic experiment and the longer it runs the sadder it looks. I learned a lot during the early years and I learned a lot by observing how they developed.
People have tried spoofing with dogs, but dogs aren't even that close genetically compared to other animals. Makes one wonder if they'd be able to detect a chimpanzee.

https://www.thedodo.com/animals-you-had-no-idea-were-so-clos...

The real test should be sending in your own genes twice. They might not detect exactly the same because of minor mutagenic differentiation that has taken place (or because you're a chimera!), but they should easily place you into the same family tree as yourself.
The encrypted file is stored in the cloud. The recipient downloads it from there and decrypts it.

P2P would be much better, but this isn't that.
Test-driven development in data science
Cool, nothing like removing protein from the diet of school aged kids to help....?
We aren't talking about objective empirical science. We are talking about partial, subjective and biased media.

NewsGuard was created by media insiders with funding from media insider foundations. There is most definitely cause for worry there. Would you say china's media "experts" should control what the chinese citizens see? Would you say the same about russia, europe or anywhere in the world?

Blind appeal to authority is just as bad as blindly ignoring authority. I'm not saying I have the answers here. I don't know what the solution is. But I'm certain either extreme is bad for society.
> would you even want to go? I wouldn't. It is shortchanging the achievement, and really missing the point of what admission to such a university represents.

I think a lot of people (arguably the majority of people) view a degree as a piece of paper you need for a job. What you learn doesn't matter as much as having a high GPA from the right school and getting a job.

I think if you polled parents, it'd be a split of those willing to do fake scores, bribe officials, whatever it takes to give their kid a leg up.

An officially sanctioned form of this is retaking standardized tests and super-scoring. For those who can afford it, you can retake the test as many times as it takes to get the score you "deserve." If you can't get the right score in one sitting, you can cherry pick the best scores from the 4 or 5 times you took the test.

It defeats the whole purpose of a standardized test. It no longer a random sample of an estimate of a student's knowledge/ability. It's how well did you prepare. How much did you spend on tutors. How many times can you afford to take it.

I guess what I'm trying to say is that SAT scores are all bullshit, especially for top schools.
I am curious if the farmers considered or attempted to become cheese makers themselves?

I would not be surprised to see an American artisanal cheese revolution in the same way that American craft beer's growth has happened in the last 10 years.

The bigram American cheese sounds bad, but there are some fantastic artisinal cheeses produced here.

I have started buying lots of great American farmstead cheese (herd + cheese making are in the same place) while living in NYC, often at ~$30/pound, but much of it comes from Vermont.
For nearly two years since me and my family owned Amazon Echo speakers, the Android app was practically just a browser wrapper that frequently loaded slowly or wouldn't load at all (this issue is now mostly addressed wtih a redesigned native-ish Android app but I'm afraid it may be too late). Looking for new apps was an excruciating experience and navigating menus inside the app was bad. I gave up soon after and have since only used the app to reconfigure network settings for the speaker.

I only use the speaker for casting music/podcasts, listening to news briefings, and timer/alarm/weather queries. Amazon Echo and Google Home do these basic functions well but I'd imagine they weren't the only actions these companies wanted us as consumers to do.
Juice It or Lose It (2012) [video]
I've talked with your sales teams a couple of times about tag-based purging, which is the one Varnish/Fastly feature I cannot live without.

I understand it isn't implemented on one of them (MaxCDN IIRC) and StackPath does not provide pricing suited for smaller projects (where the traffic is GBs/month, but the speed gain from caching dynamic content is the reason for using a CDN).
Pleased to make your acquaintance, geometer! I’m of the algebraic faction myself. I bid you a pleasant day.
If it turns out to be gross negligence by Boeing, I wouldnt like to be the US taxpayer when this blows up and goes to court. Because the US gvt is not going to let Boeing go bankrupt, so guess who's gonna pay in the end b/c Boeing tried to save a few bucks.
I wouldn't be too surprised if they did after a while.
I recently switched to brave because I'm tired of having to trust 5-10 extension authors who may or may not sell their extension one day (adblock had to fork to ublock iirc because of something like that). Most of what my extensions do is baked into brave, so its both idiot proof and requires less trust.

If Firefox sold a privacy version of Firefox, I'd buy (edit: ie, with my privacy features/extensions built in)
I agree. How do we start the movement back to a more decentralized software daily life. This is solely a feeling: I remember my youth being filled with an ever-changing and growing amount web portals, communication tools, and methods of of sharing data (music). Today, a few big entities control all of those experiences. I don't think my life is any better for having a Google controlled cloud service (gdrive) vs another open source or vendor solution. I found it enthralling to be online and discovering new experiences as a kid. Somehow that is gone today. Could just be my age.
The poster is allowed to empathize with another party.

However, I took would like to open the market to cheese. Let the consumer tolerate if they want to buy 'bad' cheese or, as advertised by the proponents, the 'better' Canadian cheese. Let the consumer choose.
you can use hangout for Fi text messaging, but it's not required.
But companies don’t want to be sued by regular people, they want to be able to sue people for grossly disproportionate amounts
Thanks! Working on a fix right now.
In my crypto lecture we did automatic protocol verification using proverif. Since here the implementation is at fault, and not the protocol, the next thing seems to be a (proven) compiler from the (proven) protocol specification to an implementation?
> it was a major pain

It demonstrated that it can overcome major pain points though: Gajim (Desktop), Conversations (Android) and Monal (iOS) [edit to add: and conversejs on the web] cooperate quite well these days.

Matrix? Let's see how they overcome their first major paradigm shift (such as the introduction of mobile devices with spotty
ever-changing network environments, or E2E encryption both of which took a while for XMPP to handle gracefully)
Actually, "de facto" is in contrast to "de jure", meaning "in law" or more generally "officially". If they leave the planes in the air, then whatever the offical reason, they are de facto asserting that there is no (significant) problem. (Grounding them on the other hand could just be considered a excess of caution, so at most it asserts "We aren't sure there isn't a problem.".[0])

0: Which action, if either, is definitive might differ if the stakes weren't inconvenience vs death, or if the FAA openly didn't care.
As a pilot (sadly not a Boeing, or anything close to that side), I think this is a non-trivial point. Every second professional airline pilot you will talk to will talk about that philosophy difference between Airbus and Boeing, and 99.999% of them will take Boeing's side.

Sadly, pilots really don't have much of a say in those discussions. They'll fly what's put in front of them, but I can assure you that all feel safer being given a plane not trying to actively fight them.
>watch the classes online and self-study, and pay a nominal fee to exam?

We are already far past the point on using exam scores as a basis for admissions. Many of the Ivies, famously say every year that they could fill their incoming class with students with perfect scores and perfect GPAs many times over forcing these schools to consider other factors. The US DoE says there are 16.9m undergrads, assuming ~4m are freshmen, the top 1% is 40,000 students. The Harvard freshman class size is 2000 students. At this point its only natural, according to the "market", that people would be paying for slots.
The whole thing is a solved problem. You can easily render React apps on the server and send HTML down the wire, then lazy load the rest of the JS. Author could have installed next.js and called it a day.

If you put your app logic in something like Redux it'll work on server-side rendering, client-side rendering, and can be included in react-native down the line.

In the time the author re-wrote his app, I could have gotten the same benefits with SSR and ported it to react native. But yeah, javascript bad REEEE
These days, American big banks want to know who is controlling LLCs when accounts are opened. This is due to new KYC rules.
If by "right-wing" you mean xenophobic/fear-inducing wrt nationality/ethnicity/culture then yeah. Or do you have examples of actual right-wing folks being banned?
That's a way to lose flagging rights on HN. This issue is indeed annoying, but has long been settled on HN: If there's a workaround, it's ok. Users usually post workarounds in the thread. This is in the FAQ at https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html and there's more explanation here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10178989

https://hn.algolia.com/?sort=byDate&dateRange=all&type=comme...

Now that you know this, can you please stop posting off-topic comments like this one and https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19299014?
A barrier to entry is something a competitor cannot acquire.

I have clearly described multiple of those. It’s not just difficult to compete. It is impossible for competitors to acquire the insight that Google has amassed, since it is based on historical data that is not available anymore.

Breaking up google wouldn’t make this insight disappear, but the fact that you acknowledge it exists proves my point that barriers to entry are present.

Your claim that I haven’t described a barrier to entry is therefore false based on the implications of your own statements.

I am not arguing that the remedy should be the breakup of Google, and your complaints about that remedy are irrelevant to what I am saying, and do not refute the contention that Google is in a monopoly position.

Nevertheless I am arguing that Google has critical resources that cannot be replicated by this mythical group of genius polymaths because they are now owned by Google exclusively, and that this is certainly a consequence of their market position, power and business practices.

It is ridiculous to suggest that the only thing preventing this is ‘brand awareness’. It’s hard to believe you are serious about that.
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Crashes are useful data because they surface otherwise unknown or poorly understood failure modes. In that sense it is like a zero day vulnerability. It suggests that all aircraft of this type have an unpatched issue. And the best way to think about the problem is with thorough technical analysis of the issue itself.
You think donating tens of millions of dollars for an individual to get their name on a building is theft from everyone in the nation?

What if it's a hospital or clinic in an area? Are those people being stolen from or left worse off for it being possible in their area because someone gets their name there?

I can't help but feel you're being both far too pedantic in wanting to prosecute a crime that doesn't seem to actually hurt anyone (and actually benefits large groups and communities), and also completely misidentifying it as a crime when it's allowed by tax law.

I mean, at least part of the purpose of the law is to encourage people to give their wealth for the good of society by encouraging additional benefits (write-offs) in addition to the benefits that have always existed (recognition), so all I see here is a system functioning as designed, for the good of all. I'm not sure how you're seeing some great miscarriage of justice here.
Did you read the entire article? Once they had confirmed that customer data was stolen, they informed the authorities and the public.

I don't think any company would do that differently.
I use GitHub Pages + Jekyll to host my blog, and it works pretty well. It's free and I don't have to do any administration work or worry about load. It's also trivial to port to another platform (e.g. VPS).

https://github.com/kerrickstaley/kerrickstaley.github.io
https://www.kerrickstaley.com/
Interestingly, just yesterday I was wondering what happened to Jon Udell (whom I used to read for his thoughtful perspective back in the aughts, but haven't followed in a long time.)

Inspired by this post (he is listed among tbray's "grays") I checked him out. Turns out he works for Brave too.

Also, TIL about Brave.
I think vegans attempting to avoid exploitation are being counter productive and exchanging animal suffering for human suffering.

Many fruits and vegetables require planting / harvesting / maintenance by humans because no mechanized system has yet been created. The people working these jobs are usually the poorest people which can be found and often work in squalor.

60% of child laborers age 5-7 are "employed" in agriculture.

If you have a grain-heavy diet with well sourced meat (avoiding confinement-raised animals) you can be assured that the people who worked to produce your food made a decent living.

If you only eat from the produce aisle you have to ask yourself how well the people picking your food were treated and how good their lives were, the answers generally aren't very positive.
With the best air pressure sensor ever on Mars, scientists find a mystery
Bad choice of words. I meant to imply that someone in upper management made this a requirement, and then it was up to the engineers to figure out how to accomplish that, contrasting it to a view that this was a pure engineering failure. If this were completely an engineering consideration, I'm sure they would have come up with a different solution. The (artificial) political constraint is what led to this particular design.
Is this true? Triggering is done locally in the device.
It's meta-derailing; instead of directly attempting to derail, you just post something along the lines of "Well this won't be investigated properly because others put forth ${original derailing argument}". Of course, usually no "others [ever] put forth".
Hangouts, from what I can understand, is simply being split into Hangouts Chat and Hangouts Meet. Not shutdown. Why split it up? Who knows? But, the current version still works, and Chat should probably meet most people's chat needs (assuming it's not completely gutted).
True randomness does not preclude clusters of events. In fact that's the nature of random events.

Not saying I think these are completely random. But since we don't even know the cause of the Ethopian crash yet, who's to say? The causes may very well be unrelated.
Or for anyone who has already seen Kingsmen:

The King of Sweden : Bluetooth technology.

Eggsy : Which, of course, got its name from the legendary Danish king Harald Blatand, whose name translates to 'Bluetooth' in English.

[back in England, Roxy is relaying all the information through Eggsy's glasses]

Roxy : And the Bluetooth logo is his initials in Norse runic symbols.

Eggsy : And, as I'm sure you know, the Bluetooth logo is his initials...

Princess Tilde : Yup.

Eggsy : ...in Norse runic symbols.
In theory any modern EHR should be able to export an HL7 C-CDA 2.1 CCD containing all essential parts of the patient's chart, and then deliver that to another provider via secure Direct Project messaging. But in practice many organizations don't have those features properly configured, or the connections haven't been established, or staff haven't been properly trained.
But they can ignore/cancel the request server-side, so technically the detection triggers, but no command does.
I wish we still had email, but an increasing number of folks in my circles are refusing to use it too. And you can forget trying to call anybody - nobody answers because every phone call is a robocall or a scam.

The balkanization of communications is real. I've become some sort of middleman/organizer in one of my hobby circles because I'm the only one who uses all of these disparate services; many of which I only use to connect to two or three folks.
These days, I would never run publish myself in a corporate environment. A script that is triggered on pushing tags should take of that to precisely avoid such human errors. And of course changes to this script have to be reviewed.

Also, a .rc file (package manager chosen by the team) with a private registry that refuses to publish unless done automatically by the pipeline set in the root of every project.

The only reason I find it understandable how it could happen at a major bank (these days, they should have a sizeable team that takes care of security measures like I described) is that this was 3 years ago. Publishing to private registries was relatively new back then, so people didn't have proper publishing workflows yet.

I mean... I guess mistakes can still happen. But on a scale of 1-10, I would find such a mistake far less excusable today considering the circumstances. Small, inexperienced team, maybe constant deadline pressure - more excusable. Duh...
I figured saying this on HN would have the </sarcasm> taken as given :)
Per Phipps in September 2006, a few months after DebConf (July 2006):

"""
>
> It would be a critical mistake to underestimate her knowledge on
> the CDDL
> issues.

Nonetheless she is wrong to characterise the opinion of the Solaris
engineering team in the way she does. She is speaking this way
because she lost an argument inside Sun, not because her view is
representative of the views of Sun or its staff in the way she
claims. She, along with many actual engineers, was an advocate of
using GPL for OpenSolaris but the need to release rather than wait
for one of {GPL v3, Mozilla license revision, encumbrance removal}
meant that this was not possible. I am still furious with her for the
statement she made at DebConf, which was spiteful and an obstacle to
a united FOSS movement.
"""

* https://marc.info/?l=opensolaris-discuss&m=115740406507420

Cooper is, AFAICT, the only one that made the claim: was it ever corroborated by anyone else? Phipps and Cantrill dispute it: are/were there others?

Edit: it seems that not even GPLv3 (which they considered) is not compatible with GPLv2 (which Linux uses), so even if they did that it would be a problem. One main thing (IIRC) that was of concern was patent license grants.
Personal attacks will get you banned here, regardless of how bad another comment is. Please review the site guidelines: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html.
Playing songs/podcasts from Spotify on Echo while controlling it from my phone/computer is my favourite use of the speaker now. Ironically this action involves no voice commands whatsoever except occasionally telling the speaker to pause/resume/adjust volume when I'm away from my phone/computer.
Have you tried minimizing that? Are you using WOFF2? Have you eliminated extra character sets/ranges? I know of a tool that can help:

https://www.fontsquirrel.com/tools/webfont-generator