skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
tl;dr: I'm betting: "And while the biggest arms dealer in the world is your boss, the President of the United States, who ships more merchandise in a day than I do in a year... sometimes it's embarrassing to have his fingerprints on the guns. Sometimes he needs a freelancer like me to supply forces he can't be seen supplying. So ... you call me evil. But unfortunately for you, I'm a necessary evil."

Context:

>Jack Valentine: Are you crazy? Or just plain delusional? I don't think you fully appreciate the seriousness of your situation! You are gonna spend the next ten years of your life going from a cell to a courtroom before you even start serving your time!

> Yuri Orlov: [Quietly] My family has disowned me. My wife and son have left me. And my brother's dead. I can assure you I appreciate the seriousness of my situation. But I promise you- I won't spend a single second in a courtroom.

> Jack Valentine: [Scoffs] You are delusional.

> Yuri Orlov: I like you, Jack. [Considers] Well, maybe not, but- I understand you. Let me tell you what's gonna happen. This way you can prepare yourself. Okay. Soon there's gonna be a knock on that door and you will be called outside. In the hall there will be a man who outranks you. First, he'll compliment you on the fine job you've done, that you're making the world a safer place, that you're to receive a commendation and a promotion. And then he's going to tell you that I am to be released. You're going to protest... you'll probably threaten to resign. But in the end, I will be released. The reason I'll be released is the same reason you think I'll be convicted. I do rub shoulders with some of the most vile, sadistic men calling themselves leaders today. But some of those men are the enemies of your enemies. And while the biggest arms dealer in the world is your boss, the President of the United States, who ships more merchandise in a day than I do in a year... sometimes it's embarrassing to have his fingerprints on the guns. Sometimes he needs a freelancer like me to supply forces he can't be seen supplying. So ... you call me evil. But unfortunately for you, I'm a necessary evil.

[Valentine now looks very grim, realizing Orlov is right. There is a knock at the door just as Yuri promised.]

> Jack Valentine: [Getting up] I would tell you to go to Hell, but I think you're already there.
>A significant fraction of people, if asked, will tell you that they believe the work they do has no value.

In optimal conditions, a basic job performed to average standard should be saving life of at least one person. Ideally, of a family. That's no small thing, and that's obviously is going to make the worker proud and self-appreciating.

Hear me out: it used to be that a job, no matter how mundane (a subsistence farmer, a hunter-gatherer, etc.) was all that stood between this person's - and often his or her family - starving and dying. Used to be there was a clear and present connection between even the most basic task, and prolonging and improving life for the person, and commonly also his or her family.

Not anymore. We here in the west have taken this away from most people. No matter how badly they work - or even not work at all - we provide the bottom of Maslow's hierarchy to virtually any citizen anyway [1]. By stripping away the necessity of work we have removed its importance, appreciation, pride, fulfillment and a lot other aspects up top the Maslow's hierarchy.

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[1] not to say "to all citizens at once", but to any given individual? essentially yes.
By that logic lottery tickets would be 50/50 as well; either you win or you don't. That's not how it works
I think it is actually that shifting the gravity forward makes the flight control surfaces more effective because they are now further away from the CG, but that's just from years of developing flight sims for the Navy, and no real knowledge ;)

It also could be with the engines moved forward from the wings a bit, their thrust tends to rotate the air frame "up".
Dafny: Verification-Aware Programming Language
Did the Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy trilogy in four parts do well in China?
Facebook down, try going to Facebook.com
UK bank NatWest to trial fingerprint technology for card payments
Ask HN: The word App is in Apple. Was that a conscious decision by its founders?
I never thought about it, but then it's just so obvious. Was this decision a conscious one? I can't find it on Google. If so, that's pretty clever.

This would imply that the naming of Apple is based on the word "application" which might be slightly far-fetched.

Brandname generation: pick a word (abbreviate or not) then find a word similar to it, pick that as your logo, provided it's not something terrible.
I don't understand what you've written at all. Are you in favour of the US healthcare system, or against it?

There's this thing called "nuance."

In very general terms, I'm for personal liberty and autonomy. However, I also recognize that people don't care about that, when they are hungry or fear bankruptcy and illness. [1]

The US healthcare system is broken, in that large numbers of people are left in a state of risking bankruptcy and illness. For me, the path forward would involve a safety net for such people, while minimizing encroachment on personal freedom. Not sure what that would look like.

[1] - A stable society must provide a minimum across society, based on perception of relative status. Otherwise, people are wired up to cause chaos. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M3XYHPAwBzE
Serious question: Was any value lost? (this may appear sarcastic)

Facebook obviously loses some ad revenue and Facebook customers may lose sales. But do Facebook/Instagram users suffer? But how does losing social media for several hours affect the quality of life of users?
Researchers Find Critical Backdoor in Swiss Online Voting System – Motherboard
This Firefox add-on hides of most of them: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/i-dont-care-a...
Isn't Android Adware ?
> $100M in projected revenue? Yawn. Kill it.

They should at least tell us what those projects are so someone can pick up the scraps.
I mean just think of how many tens of thousands of individuals are employed building, designing, and selling the nth re-iteration of a CRM product that already exists on the market and is virtually indistinguishable from one another
RimWorld has a giant and engaged modding community. I know many people with multiple thousands of hours in the game.

There's also a very active subreddit at r/RimWorld
Too bad they never had a fully supported way to install Linxu on it. I vaguely remember reading that google internally used a heavily modified Ubuntu for themselves. (or maybe just some custom repos)
at the same time, most of the valuable inventions have come from massive R&D efforts by large companies. That engineering doing a boring job in a large firm is more likely to add to a great invention than working alone in his garage.
No, lawyers are now more willing to fire clients that do stuff without consulting them first. Trump has taught them it's not worth the hassle.

It says nothing about the merit's of the clients case, but usually says volumes about what a pain in the ass it is to work with a client like that.
It was my clear understanding that "pre-checked boxes" would be illegal. Meaning that if you want to have 200 trackers on a page, then the user needs to click accept to all 200 trackers. So that if you just dismiss the "Cookie warning", you would be default get no tracking. That pretty much solves the issue right there, most people would effectively have zero tracking.
This is a good point, honestly I didn't consider it, or know of Guacamole but I agree it could be a better solution.

Looking into it more, maybe noVNC or Guacamole, with VNC or RDP, tethered to a remote browser instance. This would solve the problem of user interaction with the web page, which is currently very limited with Cloud Browser's image maps (hyperlinks only). On the other hand it would increase the end-user browser requirements (image maps date back to HTML 3.2! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image_map), but still not run the target website's content, so it could be worthwhile and most browsers actively in use now support HTML5.
What makes you think that Trump isn't an armchair airline safety savant? He's spent enough time flying around that his lifetime risk is proportionally higher than that of the general population.
The center of thrust is shifted forward when the engines are shifted forward.
Does anyone have any idea WHY the US was the holdout here? I'm not well-versed, but my understanding is that aviation safety is generally very good, and that the US is not an outlier on the bad side. While grounding a plane at this point is premature from the stance of conclusion, it seems reasonable from the standpoint of excessive caution that seems to be the norm for the industry.

I can conjecture about Boeing being a big US manufacturer, etc, but is there any evidence at all for why the US held out on this one? My initial reaction was that there must be a good reason for the holdout, given our safety record, but on reading more about it, I've not seen one. (Again, relative to the stance of excessive caution).
"Soon there's going to be a knock on that door and you will be called outside. In the hall there will be a man who out-ranks you. First he'll compliment you on the fine job you've done - on you making the world a safer place. That you're to receive a commendation or a promotion. And then he's going to tell you that I am to be released. You're going to protest. You'll probably threaten to resign. But in the end, I will be released.

The reason I'll be released is the same reason you think I'll be convicted. I do rub shoulders with some of the most vile, sadistic men calling themselves leaders today. But some of these men are the enemies of your enemies. And while the biggest arms dealer in the world is your boss - the President of the United States, who ships more merchandise in a day than I do in a year - sometimes it's embarrassing to have his fingerprints on the guns. Sometimes he needs a freelancer like me to supply forces he can't be seen supplying. So. You call me evil, but unfortunately for you, I'm a necessary evil."
Interesting that many of the comments here attempt to label this as false research simply because it's taking one state and changing it to another.

Absent from the conversation seems to be agreement on what exactly "time" is.

Much has been studied and said about time, but if we think of time as being something other than an observable change—or that of a recognizable, unified state to one of chaos, aka entropy—what is it?
this gdpr....argh.. all smoke and mirrors bs leftist incompetence, breaking the www experience, luring users into using even more more opaque 'apps' (usually simple ux making http api calls). The real question is who will be siphoning 'our' (eu) data in the near future (more), china, u.s. or full on balkanisation?
With Docker each service runs on a dedicated container that's isolated from every other system.
Potentially much value was gained (or stopped hemorrhaging)
"Move fast break things"
Tesla caused a hype around EV cars and is probably the primary cause as to why everybody is talking about EVs.

I doubt regular manufacturers would have begun releasing real EV cars without their pressure.
The name for such a header should have been included in the EU directive about cookies.

HN, can we get a political movement going to make the EU adopt this?
In China the number 8 means wealth or fortune. It's not a coincidence that Brooklyn Chinatown is on 8th Ave. Their 'numerology' is interesting
It's not the center of gravity that causes pitch-up - it's additional lift by engine nacelles at higher angles of attack; this lift increases the AoA further due to the position of the engines relative to the wing. This feedback loop leads to a stall when the angle gets high enough
Yes, because that was the exact crash that led to a number of improvements in air safety in the US...
Not prioritizing the investigation of complaints filed by Tesla when they refuse to cooperate and not issuing press releases on command is commendable.

Publicly announcing that no crimes at the Gigafactory will be investigated seems like dereliction of duty and abandoning the tax paying workers of Tesla to a potentially unsafe environment.
To me it feels like Engineering really delivered on the Pixelbook. That it didn't sell well was a marketing failure (not the first). So higher ups should take a real hard look in the mirror and work on developing a team that can brand and sell good products.
Haha, yeah maybe, but aren't those "happy accidents?"
> Max 8s come equipped with a sensor that reads the plane's angle relative to the wind flow

Just the one sensor?
Fortunately there are laws against him being a "CEO". The "spoils system" he has sought to restore permitting him to fire those who disagree with him politically and place those he favors in their place are blocked by a series of progressively increasing laws culminating in the 1978 Ethics in Government Act which limits his ability to engage in CEO-like acts of political influence over the civil service.

His ability to directly influence, and damage, the executive branch's operation in service to the people to what he wants is thus limited.
That is a good point. It helps to think of Precision and Recall (so by extension F1-Score) from your test data as random variables sampled from a distribution modeling the probability of getting each value in your sample based on a "True" precision/recall value. I won't go too deep into the math, but this was part of the approach in the confidence calculations towards the end of the paper: being able to factor in the uncertainty of your classification metrics to confidence calculations.

To formally answer your question, the main things that matter in determining how stable your F1-Score from your test set is are:
- Size of the test set
- % of test set that has the label (in our case feedback tag)
- the values found for precision and recall
Study shows programmers will take easy way out, not implement proper pw security
For application purposes where you don't want to source the audio from the microphone,
is it possible for an Android application to feed audio to Gboard in order to source audio from other sources than the microphone?
Maybe the Pixel has a mixer which allows audio from sources other than the microphone?
FB has been down for me for around an hour, but has just come back up again.
Sketch has raised $20M in Series A funding from Benchmark
They're not just useful to the employer, but useful to the customer that the employer serves. This mindset of work being above certain jobs is completely alien to me.

The truth is that capitalism is less selfish than communism, because you have to negotiate and produce something that is valuable to others.

We can imagine that society would be well served if we all spent time on our own hobby projects, or if we could subsidize artists to produce creative works...but what about the great bulk of hobby projects and creative works that are ultimately not valuable or desirable to society as a whole?

That is to say, there's nothing wrong with pursuing hobby projects for your own sake and your own satisfaction. But doing that to the exclusion of what people need and want, and then having society subsidize that...that's wasteful and inefficient. It's part of the core reason why communism fails as an economic model.

There's no such thing as a bullshit job.
Not very assuring that the administration decides to first spread bunch of whataboutism in an attempt to move the conversation to other topics.
Obviously this could be argued differently from a shareholder perspective, but I would say otherwise no. Interestingly, this might be one of the only times where a large outage could be claimed to be adding value. Again, not for FB, but for users, sure.
Biohacks to Master Before Worrying About Other Biohacks
Ok, now you are supporting two different user experiences, depending upon your site that could have massive software implications, i.e. extra cost, versus just checking IP location and saying "sorry no".

I'm not defending the decision, I'm just providing a possible explanation as to why businesses, when faced with GDPR might choose to block EU users.
Yes, I can't help to entertain the thought of another Stuxnet going wild.
Recreating “The Clock” with Machine Learning and Web Scraping
SWA supposedly opted for an upgrade that would warn of the erroneous readings
Right - this was very shortly after the FAA just released a statement saying the 737 Max was safe.

What a behemoth this Trump guy is.

Doesn't need an intelligence department, doesn't need an aviation department. He's just exposing government waste - left, right and center.
Apple was founded in 1976. There was no idea of downloadable apps back then.

From a Woz interview in 1984:

"[Steve Jobs] was working from time to time in the orchards up in Oregon. I thought that it might be because there were apples in the orchard or maybe just its fructarian nature. Maybe the word just happened to occur to him. In any case, we both tried to come up with better names but neither one of us could think of anything better after Apple was mentioned."

https://archive.org/stream/byte-magazine-1984-12/1984_12_BYT...
To me, this is the most likely scenario. Boeing assures Trump the planes are safe and they'll take care of it, time passes and the US stands alone, people freak, Trump realizes this and then steps in front of the cameras to look like the "protector".

What's silly to me is how Boeing doesn't realize that another crash IN THE US would be disastrous, much, much worse than the position they find themselves in now.
The huge range of mods available for RimWorld allow you to address both of these things to whatever level you see fit. I find RimWorld shifts back and forth between a lot of micromanagement and a lot of passive automation depending upon how advanced your colony is and how dire your current set of circumstances is (e.g. I tend to do a lot of microing early on, and after the colony is established I only really have to micro during specific tense situations, like heavy raids).
I disagree -- with traditional VMs, you have to deal with multiple mutable systems. In the Docker/OCI container world, containers are immutable, so you can manage all your changes atomically, from a single source of truth (your Dockerfile collection).
> a) you have 10 setup scripts rather than 1.

If you have a single setup script to build, package and deploy all 10 services, and you can't build and/or deploy each service independently, then you have more important things to worry about than figuring how containers are used in the real world.
What do you think about that tim apple interaction? If you see proof that the president lies, to doners, and media, does that sow any hint that he is not honest? Credit is easy to lose.
> but the FAA is an independent body whose directors are appointed by the president.

The Federal Aviation Agency was an independent agency, but the Federal Aviation Administration, which it became, is a subordinate agency within the Department of Transportation. It has an Administrator, but it does not have directors, commissioners, or some other multimember voting governing body.
Yes, that is the case, and is unfortunate for the IRC ecosystem, but it's not the case that "no clients support multimedia".
I can tell that he is against

Not exactly. (Or maybe not necessarily.) I could picture a system I'd like that would look a lot like the system we have right now. I'm not expert enough to know how that would work.

but the rest of it was completely opaque to me

Are you part of the societal cohort comprised of left-leaning upper class people in tech and media? Are you part of the societal cohort comprised of lower middle class people working in tech and media? Are you from a different part of society? That would be useful information for writing a clarification. Exactly what part was opaque to you?
Google tells dozens of employees in laptop, tablet division to find other jobs
Google just recently abandoned Android and pushed ChromeOS for tablets. Now this, there is just no continuity with Google.

Unless you absolutely need Android for some reason, I would recommend the iPad.
I'd add here that the observations of this research aren't that striking. We've known for some time that time may not be a single direction arrow but rather one pointing both ways, dependent on what we're observing and our classification of what's possible.

In his book Your Brain is a Time Machine, Dean Buonomano gives an excellent and well-written example of how studies like the one reported here actually work. A favorite quote of mine from that section sums the point as so:

"Decreases in entropy are improbable, not impossible, and given enough time the improbable becomes probable."
https://twitter.com/ByMikeBaker/status/1105909327255080960

This is more revealing than they’d like, I think.
"According to Steve Jobs, the company's name was inspired by his visit to an apple farm while on a fruitarian diet. Jobs thought the name "Apple" was "fun, spirited and not intimidating"" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_Inc.#Corporate_identity
You are right. Airframes are designed to be nose heavy. The wings tends to fly up, whereas the elevators tend to fly down. In a dead stick condition, the airplane is designed to fly with a pitch down attitude so you don't lose airspeed and have enough airflow over the wings to continue generate enough lift to glide. If the CG shifts forwards, it is actually a good thing.

Source: I am a pilot.
This is all in relation to the wing as the point of rotation.
I'm not saying remove them, but I wouldn't argue they're useful if people did not read them....

I've seen nutrition labels reworked repeatedly.

Privacy laws aren't going to be helpful if most people don't know. Even if I opt out on say my phone... it doesn't matter if they get much of the same data form my friend's phone, about me...

I think there's a lot of GDPR banner waving and it's really not helping. People think any criticism of GDPR is a suggestion that it shouldn't exist. You can belive in the ideas, and think GDPR has failed too.
Even for small personal projects, for me the real killer feature is commit messages. Otherwise, it's almost impossible to remember which numbered folder has the change I want, and looking through commit messages is often a good way to get back up to speed on a project I haven't touched in a while.
They should have put spoilers on the nacelles instead of trying to fix the planes bad aerodynamics in software.
Whatsapp now down across much of Europe it looks like. Cannot send/receive messages.
The next best thing is uBlock filter list. What if I told you... [1][2]

[1] http://prebake.eu/

[2] https://www.i-dont-care-about-cookies.eu/
A brand new algorithm as in an algorithm to solve a common problem that has never been invented or an algorithm that solves it faster than known algorithms?
Weylp, now the US has done it:

https://www.cnn.com/2019/03/13/world/boeing-max-8-flights-su...
I can conclusively say that I will never be giving Tesla any of my money.

I can grant credit where credit is due, Tesla did show the world and the market that an electric vehicle can have appeal and doesn't have to look like a glorified golf cart.

But I'm not going to reward them for the appalling behavior of their CEO and/or people acting at his direction in other areas.
Yeah, the article seems to be changing with new information.

If Boeing requested it, it’s obviously a different thing, but it wasn’t clear at the time I wrote the comment, and the original comment was phrased conditionally anyway.
I mean.. the guy did own and operate an airline at one point. So it's a little silly to say he knows nothing about it, no matter how much you don't like the guy.
Haha fair enough. Well I am always open to more perspectives on it - even intuitive ones - so thanks for that.