skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Unsurprisingly, the aviation insurance industry has also cost per life calculations. An aviation insurance broker who bought industry data from us wanted to know if there was any way we could provide them with hard data or reliable estimates the percentage of passengers flown by an airline flights who were American citizens, because the potential liabilities associated with the loss of American lives were so much greater...
https://github.com/3scale
A targeted ad is intrusive, but in a different way. When I see an add that is eerily relevant to me, I know it was served to me because of data surreptitiously collected about me. That is no less intrusive. Honestly, I find irrelevant, non-targeted ads more acceptable because I am more confident that the advertiser has not intruded on me personally to serve it!
Oh, great, now I know how my clueless questions look like to a knowledgeable person! Example:

>"I need to create an image from a imported wav file (for a user - friendly format find enough header for the cookie). I looked for a solution, but that didn't work either."
You don't know anything about his "hand-wavey logic", or you'd know right away that it's not "320 million Americans". It's only adults from age 18-65 (or whenever they choose to retire to Social Security, presumably).
All sorting is algorithmic. Sorting by submission order is an algorithm.

Regardless, we don't have to speculate since the site is open-source. You can see the sorting algorithm, and a breakdown of it, here[1]. It's just number of votes and time decay.

[1] https://medium.com/hacking-and-gonzo/how-hacker-news-ranking...
Not if they use target=_blank or use JS to open a new window/tab
Is execution speed really an issue? Unless you're parsing millions of lines of YAML, it's difficult to believe that's a bottleneck.

I reckon a good benefit would be static typing and intellisense.
You can configure Tahoe-LAFS to store data wherever you want but I guess PrivateStorage will have its own settings and you won't be able to select a nas at home. Just a guess though.
I kept thinking, how mad were the people who worked on the yaw damper for getting scapegoated that whole time?
Slight tangent: Does anyone find it weird that no matter what you watch, HBO puts a 30 second preview for something else before your show. Fix that - and a skip intro button. Otherwise, keep it as is.
"View from View to View, Need to open this new View in View"

https://stackroboflow.com/#!/question/4781

A common problem for everyone, i'm sure.
Briefing: Tencent’s PUBG Mobile Banned in Four Indian Cities
tbh I have mixed feelings about the situation. I knew from the beginning that the risks were high and truly pushed hard and tried to make it work; that gives me a lot of comfort. On the other hand I made mistakes too, especially in the earlier days, being young and unexperienced...
First of all, sorry for the failure of your company. I've been there and it's not fun. I am also looking for work, but finding it pretty difficult. My advice, lean on your network.

Also, I am writing a book about startup failure and would love to include yours if you're willing. You can email me at founder.failures@gmail.com.

Look forward to hearing from you and good luck on your search!
The transpiler is HipHop. They discontinued that in favor of HHVM, which does JIT compilation instead. More info: https://hhvm.com/

EDIT: apparently, though, HHVM stopped supporting PHP itself last month; now it only supports Hack. I'm not familiar enough with Hack to know how much it actually deviates from / improves upon PHP.
> Items robotically transferred from one home to another might not need to pass through any central distribution facility; the system could potentially resemble a torrenting network, only one that was not reliant on “pirated” materials.

Oh gosh no. I want a neutral 3rd party checking each item. Otherwise, scam artists will take advantage of a system like this.

For example, ever buy something from a 3rd party seller on Amazon, only to find out that it's just someone who places the order from a different large online retailer and sends it to your home? Returns then become a nightmare. (Amazon never acknowledges how much egg this places on their face.)

I could easily envision someone using a technique like this to resell items that are more worn than indicated, or knock-offs.
Maybe release a couple of levels for free and if they like it they can buy the full game?
I hate all these user spying tools, whether home grown or bought in. Please, if you write software, don't do it.

Just let us buy the software and run it. Like in the good old days.
IMO, this is only applicable to smaller players. Amazon still wants to play in the private label space and they're not going to delist Tide or Bounty or Crest. They're in true supplier relationships with those brands and will continue to fulfill those orders while negotiating co-op and pricing with the supplier.

The smaller players will get squeezed for a little while but I don't think it will take long for them to leave the platform. If they can't get subsidized fulfillment, they will simply move to a D2C model where they don't have to pay Amazon 15% plus $1200/year and can control pricing.

The most obvious way they will lose out, to me at least, is in advertising. They still have to pay for CPC on Amazon, but it is much more effective at generating sales than AdWords or Facebook on a brand-owned site.
I saw today someone had Grammarly installed during a conference call. They were entering HIPAA-protected data into an internally-managed Jira instance, which presumably was being vacuumed directly up into Grammarly's database.

This might be a much bigger issue than I had considered :(
I don't know whether I agree.

The world is full of shitty materials and content. Should Amazon, or other intermediaries, be allowed such interferences?

Has any judge ordered such material not to be sold?
That's only because they're incredibly lazy. They just wait for people to die and then eat them.
Take all of your money out of BoA (Bend Over America) and open an account at the local credit union. You'll be happier in the long run.
Now that you mention it, I was actually aware of this possibility. But it feels a little counter-intuitive to disable security hw in order to get secure encryption.

I consider it a pretty awful state, when what you probably want: no way to decrypt drive contents based only on what you get when you steal a laptop - the user has to go through extra work.

I suppose I can understand the preference for a "secure" key storage protected by a pin - over a complex pass-phrase. But I don't understand why it's easy (or even possible) to activate bitlocker with a largely unprotected key in "safe" storage.
Many aviation enthusiasts / pilots first go to is to have a look at the flight data - usually available on FlightAware / FlightRadar24 and a few other websites, plus LiveATC usually can provide recordings of the flights communications to towers as well.

Most immediately saw parallels with the Lion Air crash - but as always, we as laymen should refrain from coming to conclusions until after a thorough investigation has been completed.

The fleet has been grounded, and reports / data will slowly trickle out as more conclusions are made.
It also brought down Khan Academy's login system because they support Facebook logins and apparently never expected that to go down.
That's not a great metric. Here's a much better one: Metacritic will give you an aggregate score for every TV show made during a year, and also does a year-end Pazz-and-Jopp-style roundup of critic top 10 lists; here's 2018's:

https://www.metacritic.com/feature/critics-pick-the-top-10-b...

(You can edit the URL to go back to 2015).

The actual critic roundups tell as much a story of FX's dominance of prestige TV as HBO's. And if you want a popular opinion instead, the ratings have a much bleaker story about HBO.

While I think Netflix does just fine as an original producer lined up against HBO, it's not a central part of my argument that they're better than HBO. My core argument is that HBO doesn't host enough prestige series for it to command a premium over all the other series available across other platforms.
How is it a “waste of time” working for a startup?

If the startup fails and he is good, he can call a few recruiters in any major metropolitan area in the US and get another job.

There is no part of me that ever wants to work for a large company. But that’s just my preference.
I think you're overthinking this. I'm planning on adding a charging point to my parking space. The building's shared garage already has power everywhere so I just need to install a meter and a standard power socket. The actual charger just plugs in there and if I change EV I just change the charger (or not since everything is moving to CCS hopefully). Neighbors have done it and it was quite simple. If it's an external parking lot without power already installed it may be harder but in cities this is the most common setup. I'm sure third-party parking garages that people use when their flat doesn't include one will also be doing these installations at scale to attract customers. It's really the equivalent of adding a few power sockets. For night time charging you don't want fast charging, 10kW is fine and 5kW probably enough and that's not a very complex electrical install.

The only actual issue I know of is that once the whole building is doing this because 90% of cars are EVs we're going to need more total power in the garage. Depending on the electrical infrastructure around you that may or may not be an easy thing to do. I suspect it's not a huge issue since we all together already have enough contracted power right now if you add up our individual circuits going to the actual flats. But maybe the electrical company is oversubscribed counting on low effective usage of the contracted power, I don't know.
Not too sure about the "large latte", which in Italy might only translate to "cappuccino" (and it's not that large). Anyway, apparently two baristas from Milan have the world record of 623 espresso cups/ hour. :)
Fathom is quite nice. Very easy to deploy in Docker or Kubernetes too.
> In a recent article (and subsequent blog post), I argued that Amazon’s negative cash flow might ...

I stopped reading and started researching there. Amazon has positive cash flow, both overall and from operations specifically, which is what would would matter to this argument.

In the linked-to post, the author states

> In fact, if a careful observer overlooks the GAAP loopholes that allow Amazon to dress up its numbers, during 2017 the firm experienced a negative cash flow of $1.461 billion

This is very wrong. That calculation stems from the section of their 10-K titled _Free Cash Flow Less Finance Lease Principal Repayments and Assets Acquired Under Capital Leases_. As the section says "Free cash flow less finance lease principal repayments and assets acquired under capital leases is free cash flow reduced by “Principal repayments of finance lease obligations,” which is included in cash flow from financing activities, and property and equipment acquired under capital leases. In this measure, property and equipment acquired under capital leases is reflected as if these assets had been purchased with cash, which is not the case as these assets have been leased.", which is to say, it's including both a remix of items that already exist on the cash flow statement, and things that weren't paid in cash but are being treated as if they were.

If Amazon were truly selling below average cost, their operating cash flow would be negative. It's not; it's positive. As is their cash flow from across operating, investing, and financing activities.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ford_Pinto#Cost-benefit_analys...

These are companies driven by greed. If they're in any way culpable, they should suffer consequences. There's nothing else to it.
Thanks Josh, I will email you when our company is officially shut down. I may have an experience or two that might be helpful to others...
>Is there any credible doubt that electric cars are the future?

They seem to be, mostly because of their simplicity compared to an ICE.

But many seem to think we'll gradually keep using more and more EVs until they take over. Much needs to happen infrastructure-wise (hence, politically) before that world is feasible.
Microsoft open sources algoritm, hardware and source for Azure data compression
Whether a cost is variable or fixed doesn't really matter if it's either A) something you can do cheaper than competitors and, thus, an area of cost savings, or B) part of a profitable service offering (for items you're fulfilling for merchants). For the author's thesis to make sense, Amazon would have to be either worse at warehousing and logistics than other providers or they would have to be losing money on fulfilling for 3rd party sellers. Both of those seem exceedingly unlikely to me.

The other reason none of this makes sense is that Amazon is moving aggressively into same and next day delivery. For that to work, they need scale. Having more products in their fulfillment network helps them achieve scale. It's not really possible for them to offer same day delivery on items that are fulfilled by merchants.
Are there studies about how piracy affects different industries? I would imagine that books are different than movies or music. My reasoning:

Books take a lot of effort to get through. If you are going to read a book you're really going to invest time into it. (assumption: everyone that would actually purchase the book intends to read it)

Movies are just an hour or two. Not much time investment. Many times people will sit down to watch a movie they don't care much about just to kill time, or put it on in the background. Like someone might pirate a movie because they 1) can't find it playing in theaters around them (more common than you think) 2) friends told you not to waste your money 3) you're bored of the shit on Netflix and need some other background noise while you browse the internet.

Music is often used as background noise too, and I imagine this changes the psychological impact of piracy.

Also, I think I lot of people feel like the movie studios, record labels, and publishers are just over charging them. It's not hard to see, especially with the first two. A $20 movie (before popcorn) for an hour and a half of "ehh" and the studio made tens of millions of dollars in box office. Or knowing an artist gets chump per album sold (or worse when streaming). I would suspect people take this same notion to books. Especially when they see that an ebook is more expensive than the physical one. Most people interpret this as "well that's messed up". But I'd also imagine that book sales are hit harder than music and movies (at least to the artists).
So if over 200 people die on your watch in a statistically unlikely event, you're not going to re-check the planes? What makes US and Canadian pilots anymore worse than Indonesian and Ethiopian pilots? In the Indonesian case, it was a known software fault.
"Autonomous Amazon Locker on wheels". Check from mobile the schedule and track the exact location, go to pick up your goods when the vehicle is at your house.

I could imagine using this as a delivery mechanism if the price was right.
Hardware innovation for data growth challenges at cloud-scale
There is terrific irony in this comment, encouraging people to read an article about the dangers of piracy... which has itself been pirated on an "archive" site.
Well, the obituary does but that's just one page at the end.
So what if they can be trained to install solar panels? Are there going to be gobs of new solar panel installation jobs in their hometowns where the coal mine closed? This is a huge part of the problem. The brightest and most ambitious get out of dying communities and go elsewhere (heck, America is made largely of the descendants of people who did exactly that). But not everyone wants to move away from their hometown. Not everyone has the resources to start over somewhere else, even if they wanted to do so.
This is the same HBO that let Mr. Show die, refused to pick up Mr. Show 2.0 when Bob and Dave pitched it, and let them wind up at (checks notes) Netflix?
They use the example of one company that lost revenue, which implies a market, but the underlying idea is that a lot of companies from many markets depend on this ad channel. Hence, an economy.
No, it was David Fincher wanting to do a crime series. Netflix orders a lot of crappy algorithm based content but a lot of their content is created through purchasing other people's ideas/concepts.
I just released a (beta) puzzle game on Google Play, and what I decided to do was make ads 100% opt-in but also have an IAP for removing even those.

It definitely will not generate as much revenue as an aggressively ad-monetized one, but hopefully it's still profitable.
I'm not sure if I'm reading your comment right, but if you're going to do something that might result in a mess (such as a merge or a rebase) the sane thing to do is not to have anything uncommitted in your workdir; that way you can always retry, undo and experiment, and the VCS is doing exactly what it's supposed to be doing.

It's something subversion can't do last I checked, so whenever I need to do a complicated operation with SVN, I import the local state into a git repo first :P
> Investigators discovered upon their arrival that someone had made off with the spring and end cap, but at the time they did not know the significance of this act. The NTSB and Parker Bertea replaced the spring, the end cap, and several other parts that were ruined in the crash and began running tests on the valve. Nothing abnormal was found. Boeing, which had packed the valve for shipping, did not explain why it kept the spring and the end cap. It instead tried to steer the NTSB toward a conclusion that the crash was caused by a wind rotor, a phenomenon similar to a sideways tornado that could sometimes be found along the Rocky Mountains.

Is this true?
I don't know if anyone still plays games on there, that seemed to be a fairly legitimate Facebook only model if only as sort of a quick mercenary kinda thing where you could conceivably get in, get your money, and after that if you can't expand beyond that... well you maybe made some money or you didn't and you roll on.

But beyond that I'd hate to have a huge investment in office space, real estate, inventory and only be hanging on by Facebook. That's a recipe for disaster.
Yes, that's me. I was slow on the draw and missed github.com/jerf .
Hmmm, I'm not seeing any entries in that table from Safari (my primary browser). I am seeing all the Hombrew Cask downloads, iChat (messages) and a couple Firefox and Brave based downloads.
If they had a lump sum donation of $100M, they could probably safely expect a return of 5% per year on average (many years could be worse).

As long as their costs are less than $5M per year, they can effectively run forever, barring any long-lasting financial depressions (the likes of which we've never seen), or severe financial mismanagement.

This is how many museums and universities operate, and what the above commenter was referring to. :)
Any feedback would be amazing! :)
This made me ponder.
I agree with everybody that says that these books are dangerous and removing is probably a net positive in the short term.

However, I worry in the long term that we are normalizing censorship of ideas. It is not just simply a case of book stores not having enough shelf space so they had to make editorial choices. Amazon, for all practical purposes has no limits on the number of books it can stock. In addition, successfully getting Amazon to do this will embolden people to pressure other book sellers as well. In addition, there is no appeal to obscenity or legal fraud as the reason. The book is being banned simply because we do not like the ideas it promotes.
It says the damaged flight recorder was sent to France. Do they have a better recovery/repair team than, say, the US’ FAA and NTSB, or is it more likely just because France is much closer to the crash site?
I loved WhatsApp when I had to pay for it.

I'd respect Telegram more if I had to pay for it from the start.

3.50€? Seriously, people use more on coffee.

"Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety." - Benjamin Franklin

Seriously, at least for westerners, if we cannot pay the same for a secure messaging app as for a coffee then we don't deserve secure messaging.

(That said, I'm in no position to say if this IM app is good or bad, just reflecting on the general idea.)
This data's been available for several days at the least, right? Are they just trying to come up with an explanation for why they now support a grounding that they opposed yesterday that isn't "the President told us to"?
Facebook returns after its worst outage ever
Discord is primarily "gamer" focused, so macros are often pointed out as a means of cheating or otherwise gaining unfair advantage. AutoHotkey (https://www.autohotkey.com/) could be used to chain a bunch of actions in a game together and perform some sort of difficult action with minimal effort, so that's discouraged.

But the rule is very odd. Most "gaming" focused mice/keyboards have software and buttons dedicated to performing macro functions, and they're present on major brands like Razer and Logitech equipment.
It angers me that Peter Thiel simultaneously advocates AGI and maintains a hardened bunker. AGI is the single biggest existential threat on the horizon.

The article speculates what the AGI will be like. The AGIs that exist will be the ones that proliferate. Ultimately, the AGIs that survive and proliferate will be ones that put their own interests before anything else. People talk about benevolent AGIs, that’s like looking at the earth billions of years ago and saying that if life ever formed, it would be benevolent. It has been shown again and again that where there is arbitrage, no matter how gruesome, a suitor will manifest. This is because unfulfilled arbitrage of any kind is an inherently unstable configuration. An AGI hampered by human society and interests will not win every engagement with every other kind of AGI. And it will only take one loss for humans to be rendered transient. I don’t do a very good job of explaining it here.

I used to be a singularity person, excited for AGI. But then I thought it through all the way. These people like Demmis, Peter and ray kurzweil are reckless. They have their heads in the clouds with respect to AGI.
It was actually part of the Law in Rome, so-called Damnatio Memoriae, but it was inspired by the Greeks and probably by the Egyptians themselves:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Damnatio_memoriae
I’d add Tom Fontana’s “Oz” [1] to the list, to this day I keep track of its excellent actors by saying “I’ve seen this guy on Oz before” whenever I see a former Oz actor in a movie or a newer series.

[1] https://m.imdb.com/title/tt0118421/
This generally results in people becoming hypersensitive to their boss’s disapproval.

In 2019, there are lots of examples of people being quite sensitive to approval over social media. This differs by individual circumstance. However, in 2019 there are entire fields where people must ascribe to some form of group consensus, or basically become un-personed from it. Media work seems to be particularly sensitive to this.

not just in major events like a lay off or promotion, but also day to day tasking

There are examples of journalists consulting and influencing each other in the context of news cycle events.

Social networks on the other hand have far less direct impact

This was once true but now is simply out of date and very wrong. In 2019, there are social networks which have very direct impact, and very large impacts on people's livelihood. There are entire fields where such social networks and online communication can get someone un-personed. These are basically the 2019 version of the "old boy network."