skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think this is the core of what I was trying to ask when I submitted my questions.

Whats the difference between me and them? What do I lack that another doesn't?

> Is about to build habits to make those high productive activities effortless.

I know others have spoken on this, but could you also expand on this?
Amazon's cloud service has plenty of competition. No need to antitrust that part in my opinion.

What's hard to disrupt is their amazing logistics network for delivering impulse purchases on the cheap and fast.

But while I have nothing but contempt for sponsored products, enabling Amazon arbitrage like it's eBay, and for deleting keywords to increase the size of search results because that defeats my spearfishing for specific products, it doesn't seem like something someone else couldn't build.

Start by addressing all of the bad customer experiences with counterfeit products, badly shipped items, and lousy customer support. What makes this difficult is that (beyond the challenge of execution itself) I don't think traditional venture-capital would invest in this so you have a chicken and the egg problem that I suspect will never be solved until someone manages to come up with a business model better than Amazon's at a time when Amazon is too large and inefficient to respond properly.

And I think they're getting there. I worked there for six years and left recently. I'm never going back. The culture in my opinion is horrible. And that's a second area where you could do better than Amazon and brain drain them. I'm sure there's more.
> It's only recently been possible to actually use HEVC/x265 for transparent encodes, previous versions of x265 removed film grain/digital noise to such a degree

And even then I've found that it still requires tweaking. With x264, pick a preset, crank the RF high enough, and it'll come out transparent. I haven't seen any of my own x265 encodes, even for high RF encodes (RF16+), come out transparent without adding '--no-sao --aq-mode 3' (without aq-mode 3 - dark areas are prone to blocking (especially SD sources), without no-sao - film grain is easily lost).
Europeans join in grounding of Boeing 737 Max 8
> Take e.g. tensorflow by google. The software itself, is per se worthless, so they can release it as OSS as some kind of calling card or recruiting tool. The crown jewels they are guarding closely and are never letting any outsider access directly is their data.

No, I think it's a little more complicated than that. I don't think this is a good comparison.

Tensorflow is only "worthless per se" because it was completely open sourced. It's quite a sophisticated library and a substantial product could have been built using it if it was kept proprietary.

However, Google got to the space first and Google is fundamentally a software service company. The reason they open sourced Tensorflow is because they have data and recognized the data would be more valuable; hence, they decided to commoditize the complement. By open sourcing Tensorflow they made their data even more valuable (likewise for their services which can be used to build and manage a data pipeline).
I understand why it is unethical, but what law did they break?

The coach is not a government employee, so aren't you legally permitted to bribe them?
> ...therapy that helps them accept they are a just girl...

... yes, that is called conversion therapy.
So what do we call it? Resolve?

It’s a very interesting article with a tantalizing suggestion that if we just redefine the problem, then we can pass the blame and find other solutions. But I don’t think I buy the logic. Take the litterbug example. The author argues that a more finessed understanding of what motivates people means we don’t have to hold people responsible for littering and can look at big soda for manufacturing litter in the first place. It’s tempting, who doesn’t hate soda these days? But if we don’t hold people responsible for their actions then who is? How do you structure ethics and laws in a socierlty built on preserving individual liberty if you delete ego?

I’m sure in psychology it’s useful to understand how priorities shift and evolve over time. I hear the point that scientific understanding is lacking. Great! But I’m not sure I’m onboard for the extent to which the author argues this should impact our society with respect to human ego. Maybe I’m just not ready to submit to the swarm...
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I think the premise presupposes some level of funds. I mean if you don't have any excess cash what are you worried about in the first place?

But with that said you can buy houses for $20k in lots of places in this country, which I suspect the average HN reader could probably swing.
Yes, turmeric isn’t a nutrient, it’s a spice made up of nutrients.

Believe it or not vitamins and minerals are nutrients.

In nutrition science vitamins and minerals are generally referred to as micronutrients whereas fats, sugars, proteins are referred to as macronutrients.

And no macros are not all absorbed the same. As a general rule the longer someone’s intestines the more macro absorption they will have than someone with a shorter intestinal track. As I have already suggested digestive enzymes play a role, so if someone ate black pepper as I suggested before, that will secrete more digestive enzymes allowing for more absorption of calories and macros. There is also gut bacteria (microbiome) take for example the study of African twins where one is healthy and the other malnourished, where it was determined the malnourished twin with the same diet wasn’t absorbing the same amount of nutrients as the healthy twin because of the difference in their microbiome.
> What would you do with a list with millions of rows?

Not much, but that doesn't mean folks won't.

https://stackoverflow.com/questions says "17,335,212 questions " and the pagination goes "1 2 3 4 5 … 346705", if you want a real-world example.
The underlying problem is that a college only needs a smattering of renowned alumni in order to maintain its academic prestige; graduating a whole lot of dummies who paid their way in doesn't detract from the cherry-picked examples of academic achievement. The remaining bulk of its prestige can be rooted in money and social position. That seems to be the formula.
I'm sorry, I wouldn't be able to provide any specific reading on this. My comment above was rooted in two things. Firstly, my own observations from several years immersed in the massive internet culture war between left and right that seems to define and frame the politics of our time. Secondly, my understanding of postmodern thought which I have gained through university tuition. As such, my thoughts on these topics tend to be based in intuition not rigor, which is perhaps ironic (or even hypocritical) given that it is postmodernism which I am criticizing, but I feel that my point stands nonetheless.
Sure, when you drive it to the maximum. Efficiency at all costs absolutely leads to outcomes that are pretty universally considered evil.
>> Maybe he was the only one that applied and made it through HR.

Do we live on the same planet? On my planet, my mom, my grandma and my dog would all have applied for the job.
It's likely a (deliberate) training fault on the part of Boeing here.

The new engines+nacelles change the handling characteristics of the aircraft and add a substantial pitch-up characteristic. Boeing wanted to brand this as a drop-in replacement for your existing 737 fleet requiring no additional re-training beyond normal ongoing certifications, so they added new systems to address this flight characteristic, and neglected to document this in their flight manuals or any of their training materials. The system activated erroneously in-flight and the pilots could not cancel a system they did not know existed.

https://www.seattletimes.com/business/boeing-aerospace/u-s-p...

https://outline.com/t78kad

https://youtu.be/zfQW0upkVus?t=220

There are other contributing factors here, there are apparently multiple failure conditions that can activate this system without appropriate degrees of redundancy (which is a design fault and will probably be rectified at some point), but the primary cause here is that Boeing suppressed information about this system's existence in an attempt to make their new aircraft more attractive compared to Airbus's alternatives.

The aircraft itself is not faulty in the sense that it cannot be controlled when these failure conditions occur. Boeing was negligent in its training and marketing of these aircraft.
Any reason you need more than ha proxy? (assuming you get the part about spinning up on a server for multicore support out of the way?)
Reading this defense makes me think Debian is stuck in the past and will have trouble attracting skilled developers and maintainers in the future.

The section on personal preferences is one example of this. Very few people new to the project would prefer debbugs and a text-based mail client over a Github workflow.
Oh boy: https://www.goldennumber.net/golden-ratio-of-earth/
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When Disney creates a streaming service, are they using their market power to crush Netflix? Or when Netflix promotes their own original content are they using their platform to unfairly compete. When I buy store brand cough syrup, rather than the name brand, am I being harmed? Is the cough syrup manufacturer?
You do run Linux I suppose. Try to compile the Linux kernel from scratch and see for yourself the bewildering complexity hidden in there. Hey, there is a hypervirtualization module hidden in your kernel, with tens and tens of knobs to tweak if you are so inclined. And yet, 95% of that complexity is most likely unused by your workloads and whatever is left very very rarely surfaces during an emergency break scenario. When it does, it is indeed painful. I still remember pulling hair because of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nagle%27s_algorithm more than a decade ago.

Conceptually Kubernetes is a trivial system, a Plan9 of orchestration systems. Everything is an executor watching a key/value store and triggering on various state configurations. What trips people is the network / DNS layer, which is also implemented as a bunch of executors watching the key/value store. When it breaks, you're helpless as a novice, plus debugging networks is painful for anyone. If Kubernetes had a '--network-driver=none' that just uses the host network as is, akin to Minikube & '--vm-driver=none', we'd never had this 'complexity' argument thrown around.

Fortunately, once you understand the architecture, debugging the network is straightforward: poke around the system network/dns executor logs and the culprit will soon reveal itself.
Why does it have upload limits at all? Your client encrypts it, the data is sent over your internet connection to someone else's, their client decrypts it. Why would the data pass through Mozilla's servers?
I hope that as people notice that the centralized data-gathering walled-gardens that track our every move are not all they are cracked up to be, we will head back to decentralized solutions which do more of what we actually want. This applies not only to messaging, but also to blog postings and RSS.

Pendulums swing back.
Very nice tool !

Quick suggestion: consider adding user-select: none on the color selection buttons, on mobile it triggers text selection popups.
> Canada's protected dairy market is about far more than keeping farms going. It is about regulating a stable food supply and associated external impacts.

Canadians do consume a fair amount of dairy in global terms, but honestly it's not a big part of most people's diets by calories. If dairy got more expensive for a few months, or a decade, or forever, people would just buy less of it. If it got less expensive, those inclined might buy more of it sometimes.

There is no moral or practical benefit to to Canadian society at large in "stabilizing" the dairy supply, if the current regime could even be considered that.
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Doesn't make sense to query the db for a count of the number of records that are returned. You can figure that out from the result set inside your application.
And less energy.
The only reason my Adium still has anyone at all is because a lot of people sign into Google Talk automatically when they open Gmail and don't realize it. Otherwise my list would be mostly barren.
There have been a total of 5 commercial air disasters in 2018 and 2019 with fatalities that didn't involve hijacking, landing short of the runway or overshooting the runway [0].

And that includes the crash of a cargo flight with no passengers where the crew was killed.

The 737 Max 8 was involved in 2 of those 5 disasters.

There are between 25,000 and 39,000 commercial aircraft in service depending on who you ask [1].

With 350 737 Maxes delivered so far, that's at most 1.4% of the total today, probably less than half that this time last year. Let's call it 1% on average for 2018 and 2019 combined.

There are 10 ways you can have 2 Max crashes out of 5 total crashes. So the probability is 10 * 0.01^2 * 0.99^2 = 0.00098

Even accounting for n choose k and longer endpoints, it's still an infinitesimal probability that we'd see two catastrophes with the same rare aircraft -- unless that aircraft contributed to the catastrophe.

It should be grounded.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_accidents_and_incident...

[1] https://www.telegraph.co.uk/travel/travel-truths/how-many-pl...
From the guidelines https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html :

Be civil. Don't say things you wouldn't say face-to-face. Don't be snarky. Comments should get more civil and substantive, not less, as a topic gets more divisive.
When disagreeing, please reply to the argument instead of calling names. "That is idiotic; 1 + 1 is 2, not 3" can be shortened to "1 + 1 is 2, not 3."

I'm not really sure what 'gatekeeping' is in this context, but I think that it is closest to calling names/snarky.

For what it's worth, the tax information is more or less accurate to the best of my knowledge.
Although most of my friends prefer Matrix these days, XMPP is still my favorite way of chatting. You can easily run your own Prosody instance [1] on a $5/month VPS and have a very modern chat experience - offline messages, syncing between devices, OMEMO end-to-end encryption, group chats, push notifications, HTTP file upload, etc. My wife and I use it for all our communications.

There are some great clients for Android [2], iOS [3] and Linux/Windows [4] that support all the modern XEPs. Sadly, there aren't any mature, actively developed clients for OS X that I've found. Adium is pretty much abandoned. Monal is in active development though and seems promising.

It's so nice to use an open protocol with native clients. Most other self-hosted chat solutions require electron apps, which can be painful to use unless you have top of the line hardware.

[1] https://github.com/cullum/dank-selfhosted/blob/master/roles/...

[2] https://conversations.im/

[3] https://chatsecure.org/

[4] https://gajim.org
The biggest issue is that, with such gender-related differences, it is virtually impossible to differentiate between what is biological in nature and what is the result of socialization. You're basically just limited to fetal development and infant behaviors, which you can't exactly extrapolate to career choices and adult cognitive function.

Looking at modern-day gender ratios in careers and just hypothesizing a biological cause is specious reasoning. You need so much more evidence to make that claim.
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Its easier for everyone to just cover their ass and err on the side of caution. If another accident happens politicians would be held accountable.
For the US its harder because they have a stake in Boeing and they don't want to damage them.

Honestly why not ground a few hundred planes just to be safe? It doesn't bother the Netherlands or Singapore. There are other aircraft, nobody is running out.
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You aren't looking hard enough if you don't believe people will flat out deny that biological differences exist between male and female cognition and neurobiology.
I guess it still has value if you have a non-privacy reason not to use voice control on your phone.

Some people don't consistently have their phones on hand when they're at home, which would do it. And some people have problems with unwanted voice activation - my experience was that the voice-printing on "OK Google" was not actually all that personalized, and sometimes it did totally unexpected things like breaking out of navigation to make a phone call. Last time I tested it, keeping Google voice recognition on was also a massive battery drain, but I assume that's improved.

(That phone call was particularly ludicrous: Android offered me an unprompted 'helpful tip' that I could say things like "call mom", but since the tip fired when it was already listening for a navigation command, it accepted its own instruction.)
Profit is a function of competition. If Apple had competitors, it would not be able to charge as much as it did for its computers.

Are you really saying that Apple has no competition in computers?

Apple has been competing against commodity PC makers for 40 years.

Or are you saying that Apple doesn’t have competition making MacOS computers? Apple competes with generic PC makers by making a differentiated experience. There was nothing stopping any PC maker from doing the same. It wasn’t like Apple was making massive profits in the late 90s when it bought NeXT and started developing OS X.

You argue that Apple does have competition, and that's nominally true if you are very coarse and sloppy with your comparisons, but due to marketing and their walled garden, they are basically a monopoly over the upper / more artistic portions of the market:

They out competed. Any of the PC manufacturers could have produced a differentiated ecosystem in the 80s or 90s instead of using Microsoft. Apple didn’t have a monopoly on marketing channels.
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I'm still able to use it in Pidgin as well.
Woah both these tools are awesome, thanks for sharing them!

I'm adding links to both from https://github.com/pirate/ArchiveBox/wiki/Web-Archiving-Comm...
I'm also against the idea of willpower in general. All of the people I know with the most "willpower" are just those with great habits; they're not actually exercising willpower 95% of the time we think they are. They're just doing their regular routine and they didn't have to act contrary to our perception of their wants/needs.

Some podcast I was listening to had an Olympic athlete on it, they asked her how she avoided slipping up on dietary things like birthday cake, free pizza, etc. She said she doesn't use willpower, she just has a couple bites only. It's this rule she lives by, no stress, no anxiety, just a couple bites and that's it.

I guess I'll follow her lead and take a couple of bites out of this SQL task...
Almost every (or perhaps every?) swept wing jet has active/positive anti-stall systems, at least a shaker and often a pusher.

The wings need to be swept for efficient travel much over Mach 0.6 and these aero aids are needed for swept wings.

At this point, pushers and shakers are well-accepted fixes for aero that is not inherently recoverable.
Yes they ask about diversity and feminism and call that eq. As another poster linked, you can see that’s their #1 cultural bullet point: https://github.com/about/careers
I wonder if the sex correlation would go away if they controlled for digit ratios?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digit_ratio

When I started reading that they talked about sex hormones differentiating at 8 weeks and I was thinking that we'd have to throw out a lot of things we thought we knew about sexual development if they'd actually seen differences before that but, no, it was was later that this was measured.

It would be nice to have some notion of the effect size. That is, what fraction of female infants would have more FC-GA connection than the typical male. I'd bet that the dimorphism here is smaller than, say, height dimorphism but I wouldn't try guessing by how much.
Just to reply about the speeding ticket (so that no one will try it :-)) - these tickets are now exchanged between EU countries based on mutual agreements. So I can definitely get a ticket by mail for driving in Austria, even though I am registered in Slovakia.
I found the same with the amount of sugar that's in a Splenda packet. Some of us are just very very sensitive to carbohydrates and live our whole lives without realizing.
Naive question - but how could you do any interactions (login, add/edit stuff that talks to a server) without using Javascript?
> How do you propose we protect the landscape, water, ecology?

Through environmental regulation, protected areas, permitting, environmental reviews, etc. This is the common model in most of the world. It works well in some places and not well in others, just as laws sometimes work, and sometimes don't.

Passing subsidies to farmers might (strong emphasis on might) have some unintended benefits to the environment (or not), but it is a terrible way to try to protect the environment, particularly because most (if not all) of the investment in this goes to the profit margins of the farmers.

And sure, there are plenty of real world examples: look at environmental review and permitting processes for your city or state. I happen to be very close to a number of environmental engineers who handle such permits on a daily basis, both on the granting as well as on the requesting side.

Want to build a road on your farm, or increase your farming area? You'll likely have to submit a permit to Fish & Wildlife, as well as to the county water authority, to the Army Corps of Engineers, etc. Depending on the type of work, you might need to hire an engineering firm to do hydrological analysis and understand how the work impacts water drainage and flow, how it impacts flow downstream to other properties, and often enough to sensitive environments miles away.

One example was a friend of mine doing work for a homeowner in an unincorporated area who wanted to build a culvert under their driveway to increase drainage and reduce the risk of flood on his property.

Well, while building the culvert would increase the flow and decrease the risk of flood in his property, it would also mean that the flow downstream would increase significantly, resulting in higher flood risk to other properties downstream. Open, rugged soil acts as a sponge and as "potential energy dissipators", slowing the flow of water during heavy rains. Paving means that all the water flows downstream quickly, flooding lower areas.

Also, the culvert would channelize a lot of the water flow, meaning that the toxic substances from the driveaway and the home's roof would not be spread out in a harmless way (the solution to pollution is dilution) that can be handled by the ecosystem, bubt would flow quickly to streams and pools in the lower areas, increasing the concentration of such substances to unacceptable levels and damaging the critical environment for an at-risk endemic species of frogs.

While the homeowner dismissed my friend's concerns and decided to request the permit anyway, it is highly likely that the permit will be rejected because of the points above (actually, I know the person handling the permit on the government's side, it will be rejected for sure).
> [RLS] suggestions seem to be right only about 75% of the time

That's way better than my experience. I'd say it works correctly at most 10% of the time. Probably less.
Yeah, I had seen links to ZH from top-notch economic blogs I followed during the recession, so I was surprised when they started popping up as sources for all my favorite crazy conspiracy Youtubers.

Their content at this point spans the gamut from needlessly contrarian to peddling propaganda. I gather ZH is doing it for the page views, because stories like that get plenty of traffic.