skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
“git show-me-the-code-as-of-last-Wednesday” is not a command that git understands. Of course, you can _do_ this in git, by memorising arcane commands, and you still only get the output on your terminal. The other option is basically using a GUI interface for git.

On the other hand, finding the folder for last Wednesday and opening it up is easy.
Dear burntsushi,

many thanks for your contribution. I was not expecting to see such an extensive elaboration. Looking forward to see your rewrite, and learn something from it!

Cheers!
What's the current status regarding analysis of the black box data recorder? The only source I've seen [0] states that Germany lacks the software to analyze it. "This is a new type of aircraft with a new black box, with new software. We can't do it," BFU spokesman Germout Freitag said.

[0] https://www.dailysabah.com/africa/2019/03/13/ethiopia-cannot...
Stock was up 50% from the December low. If anything, this is the spot for the longs to unload on this stock which was riding on a lot of momentum.
I remember that, the status page for AWS stored the red icon on s3 which was the service that was down.
Why will grounding the plane cause more people to drive? It does not have large enough share of existing planes to cause significant rise in prices to make people choose driving. Especially considering that it is used for long distance flights, which are more likely be replaced by train instead of car.
Wow ! Mind blowing. This is borderline criminal.
KEI Letter to US DOJ, Opposing IBM Acquisition of Red Hat
IS THIS WHY THE DATA SERVICE WAS DOWN ALL DAY? https://www.theverge.com/2019/3/13/18264092/facebook-instagr...
Years ago I found a thread on an art forum that started with the author saying he wanted to learn how to draw, and progressed from childish sketches of hands and spheres to master-level portraits. I can't find it for the life of me, but if anyone knows what I'm talking about I would love to get a link. :)
is that the case? The Osprey certainly tried and failed that trade off, at least in the beginning.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Accidents_and_incidents_involv...
realized that when trying to play Pokémon Go today, guess I'll break my weekly challenge...
I feel the same way about California Prop 65 warnings. Any overused warning will result in warning fatigue. We'll just blindly click that OK button or lick that pewter candle stick.

Look, it's even a real thing: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alarm_fatigue
The effect I refer to as being unheard of in previous 737 hulls is the positive pitch instability. I don't want to repost the whole comment, because I think that's frowned upon, but someone did provide a link.

My rather limited understanding is that the airframe certification path Boeing used was one meant for fast-tracked recertification of minor configuration changes of the same hull. The main idea being that the manufacturer need only prove that the reconfiguration meets the same or similar flight characteristic requirements as the hull it was derived from.

This lets them produce/sell a technologically refreshed product without having to pass the rigorous testing normally associated with type-certifying a new airframe. The important characteristic of this is that the onus for this certification is left to the manufacturer. I do not know if the FAA actually independently confirms the recert is justified, or just plays it via honor system.

Old 737 hulls definitely didn't have this characteristic onstability, or do-or-die reliance on functioning AoA sensors, so while I agree there isn't anything wrong with incorporating instability into a design to satisfy some specifications per se, I'd still contend that the addition of that instability should disqualify an airframe from being recertified as a reconfiguration of an older one, and should require more extensive testing/training before pilot's are cut loose on it.

If anyone else has more accurate understanding of type certification, I'd be thrilled to learn the specifics.
Yea, fuck people that like Facebook! Even if they could be potential new customers, they suck!

/s
I worked in an adult care facility. One of the patients, a 90 year old man, was a painter. He made so many of the pieces that hung around the facility.

We were friendly. He would talk to me. He would ask for me when he needed something. He told me I reminded him of his son.

He asked me one day if I knew how to paint. I said no. He asked if I wanted to learn. I said yes. He said go buy these supplies and show up here tomorrow morning. $500 later I was ready.

We watched Bob Ross literally for a week. Then he showed me how to gesso a canvas. Then we painted. And painted. And pulled all nighters like we were 20.

He passed away 2 months after. I still paint and I never would have otherwise.

Edit: just one funny thing I remember. This man asked my wife to the movies! She said yet. She went to pick him up but he was tired. They watched “Dumb and Dumber” (in 2017) and had popcorn. He fell asleep before the moves was 1/4 over. :-)
Eye test can pick up Alzheimer's, study claims
But Apple not only has unilaterally changed the rules themselves time and again, but also frequently decides to interpret (and re-interpret) them in ways to disadvantage rivals like us.

Spotify isn’t so much a rival as it is a serf on Apple’s farm though, right?

Apple could just remove Spotify from the app store altogether, for fun.
Yes, indeed. I didn't mean "legacy" to imply that they aren't still useful. Simply that many of them predate the creation of codepoints which don't fit in 16 bits -- and it's harder to upgrade a binary API distributed in a client OS, compared to changing a web server's preferred encoding.

JS/JVM/CLR all work fine, but I imagine if they were created today, their strings would not be based on UTF-16.
I dunno man, Bloodbath has some bangers. Huge fan of the tunes with Akerfeldt on vocals.
The inline/noinline annotations on the inner functions we only had to add for GHC 8.6 though; on GHC 8.2 it was fast without these. (That turned out to be a downside, relying on a long chain of optimizations is fragile.)
The travel agent market looks like an interesting one, and probably a much less saturated one than the B2C stuff.

For better and for worse I can't ever imagine a trip with friends where we plan itineraries in that much detail in advance, but on the other hand travel agencies are expected to generate something that looks exactly like the trip planner, and probably wish they could sometimes do it collaboratively over a period of time (my brother still tells the cringeworthy story about the travel agent trying to make itinerary suggestions in real time by quoting TripAdvisor reviews...)
I'm a coder who learnt to paint, and what I did was attend a into course over a number of weeks and I found that was a really good way to do it (for me)... it was pretty cheap and it quickly broke my preconceptions. I went in wanting to be quite precise, and that is nearly the opposite of what you need to do. Painting is highly refactorable, mistakes don't doom your painting. A lot of the trick to painting is just to paint a lot and learn what paint does how it interacts with other paint and how you can manipulate it with various instruments ( brushes, etc )

If you are going to teach yourself, I reckon watching Bob Ross on youtube and try and follow along is not a bad way to go.
Hi,

Dev from Sublime HQ here. You can revert changes straight from Sublime Text using the keybinding ctrl + k, ctrl + v or through the menu Edit > Text > Revert Modification.

Additionally you can open up the inline diff within Sublime Text by opening the context menu at the modification, and selecting Show Diff Hunk. This allows to view changes to hunks :)
What Click Farms Look Like
This brings me great joy:

https://youtu.be/T6mUmTDJAME
With ZGC[1], value types[2] and Panama[3], Java will be great platform for gaming and 3D graphics.

Write once and it will work on Linux, Windows and Mac OS X.

[1] https://openjdk.java.net/projects/zgc/

[2] https://openjdk.java.net/projects/valhalla/

[3] https://openjdk.java.net/projects/panama/
This is why WhatsApp managed a $19B exit with only 50 engineers, while so few others have managed it.
you should never actually remove an api without a deprecation process.
basically a message format is part of your api.
actually in a microservice world your interfaces/api should be as stable as possible.
if something gets changed, it needs to go trough a deprecation, that means not removing it until a certain amount of time.
1. The language around what counts as in-field is in our ISA. It's more dependent on what skills you use in your job as opposed to your title. You can see a sample ISA we use at https://lambdaschool.com/faq/.

2. You pay nothing between when you finish the technical portion of the class and when you get a job, and after you start your job, there's a 30-day grace period.

2. The payments stop if you stop working. You can think of them as being 24 monthly repayments that will pause if you lose your job.

3. It does, but only after they finish the technical portion of the class, and they're using the skills they learned. We do look at things on a case-by-case basis.

4. Nope! We don't care about your credit score or your debt load. Things get tricky if you have a fraud conviction, but anything short of that won't impact our decision.

Hope this helps!
Most(every?) app that I’ve signed up for requires an email address. Some apps then send a verification or welcome email. If you mention and link to paid subscription upgrades in that email, will Apple pull your app?
All apps that use UINavigationController i.e. nested still have the back button in the top left corner. Nothing has changed.

More a case that apps have moved away from this UI style in favour of other conventions e.g. burger menu.
Not even Rust necessarily. I mean, this could have been avoided with any of the new age languages with a focus on safety.
You want a couple things for an engineering laptop: Linux support, good hardware (screen, keyboard, build, trackpad, etc), and enterprise guarantees.

XPS sort of does that, but you're still dealing with Dell which has it's own hiccups (variable build quality, archaic sales methods, etc.), also the XPS line isn't quite commercial grade. Thinkpads typically have good Linux support, but sometimes as with these last 6th gen X1's it takes some work to get it right.

The hard part is ultimately enterprise reliability. I want to confidence I can buy 2000 of these for my army of engineers and not overload IT with issues. This kind of support is common enough, but not necessarily for Linux laptops. Hell it'd probably be easier with Linux, the issue is more if the market is big enough to support the operational costs of enterprise support.
"The storm"? It's sunny in the Bay Area for the first time in I don't know how long. I imagine it's nice in other parts of the world as well, other than where this localized "storm" is.
Yeah, but is Tom Mueller, whose boss is Elon Musk, really going to publicly state anything else?
So you're saying the airline stocks should be shorted?
Correct, this is what I meant. UTF-16 can use up to 32 bits to represent a larger number of characters, but cannot uniquely represent 2^32 possible characters.
Another example of Android learning from Apple.
Yeah, nobody is talking about this but I think you're right on the money.
This is the issue with most Google products/services, period.

Literally nothing outside of Google's core services is trustworthy. Even their mail isn't entirely trustworthy! I've come to rely on Inbox and it's being killed for an inferior product.
My first reaction to "could this be related to the storm," was "oh no, now this QAnon stuff has spread to HN."
I'm equally curious about flow-based programming. Treating things as filters has worked well for the Unix command line. There's no reason we can't have processes do sort, filter, merge, lookup, and such in well-defined ways and chain them together as needed for many kinds of applications. Although "network" and "port" mean something particular within FBP it doesn't at all mean the processes can't be on different machines and talking via TCP/IP.
> What standard of risk would you apply?

Separate question - and your arguments are all logical. My question was "given the standard of risk that HAS been applied, why was this time different?"

The safety record of car travel in the US is dramatically different than the safety record in air travel.
I am absolutely not valuing efficiency above all — or even much — else.

My highest "good", and the thing I want to optimize for, is human potential. So maybe Bob wouldn't have been another Einstein, but he could have invented something that made millions of people's lives marginally easier. But Bob had to pay for his (involuntary, on his part) existence, so he ended up driving a garbage truck instead. It's not a bad job, and he's not unhappy, but he knows there's something more, something missing. Do we really want to blame Bob for the structural forces that made "ensuring you can continue to eat" a question he even had to ask?

I'm arguing for a model where everyone is structurally enabled and encouraged to find their own best fitness function, on the theory that such a diversity of thinking and technique will yield a vastly richer world than the "you can have Coke or Pepsi", "Google or Bing", and so on one which we seem hell-bent on ending up with.

EDIT: That's not a question of efficiency. It's one of whether we're structurally dis-enabling people from living their best lives. If we are, what are we trading that for? So the fraction of a percent that already owns most of everything can own a little more of it?

Because, in my categories, when you argue for Capitalism, that's ultimately what you're arguing for: not iPhones and every kind of ethnic restaurant you might want, but more wealth concentration. If that weren't the case, then wages should have risen alongside prices.

Instead, this rising tide is only lifting the biggest boats, while only the waterline is rising for everyone else, and that seems awfully likely to end badly for pretty much all of us. Just look at the history of more or less every other time people have resorted to trying communism in response to exploitation. Those tend to be among the worst outcomes, don't you think?

EDIT 2: Preemptively, no, I don't think the fact that (some) people can buy iPhones or big-screen TVs or whatever means things are great. The real measure of the health of an economy is better taken with things like the prevalence of precarity, than how whiz-bag a thing someone can buy, if they happen to have the right number of monkey status points available at the moment of purchase.
The Surveillance Economy
I feel similarly these days about a lot of "gamey" games. However, I've still found story or environment driven games, where the gameplay is in service of something greater, to be worthwhile. If you haven't played them, I'd recommend:

- Psychonauts for something wacky and hilarious that will leave you satisfied and vaguely wistful that it's over.

- Nier: Automata for something gripping and tragic that will leave you wanting to find your loved ones, give them a hug, and let them know how much you appreciate them.
FYI Warren Buffett never said that, it's an internet myth. I saw an interview with Buffett and he was asked about it and denied saying it (although he did say the advice seemed reasonable).
[nit] It was some dudes from the US and two Serbs (who are green card residents of the US and work for a security firm here).
IDK, I think there's room for improvement in this area. I've had an idea rolling around in my head for a couple of years but I've never pursued it:

I lived in NYC for a few years, and every so often I'd find myself wandering around the city on a weekend afternoon, wondering what I should do. Ideally, there'd be an app where I could simply open it up, look at a map, set it to the current time or maybe within an hour or so, and easily see events near me.

That app just does not exist. You can get kinda close with a few apps, but not really. In this context, I don't care what my friends are doing, I just want to find something cool period.
Then Apple is using its success in one market (Selling phones) to price-dump in another market (music).

It would be the poster child of an anti-trust case.
In recent years computer animation is being used to render astonishing bio-molecular vistas. Drew Berry seems to have pioneered this around 2010. Björk promptly used his work for her music video "Hollow".

Here is an example of the 'genre'

[1 - Harvard MCB : The Inner Life of the Cell ]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VdmbpAo9JR4
> Most of the internet is based on American English.

Emoji are rapidly becoming a staple of American English.

(Edit: and apparently HN filters emoji out of posts!)
So here's a thought that just occurred to me.

For context, I've never understood death metal or anything in that realm. The screaming in particular... but I realize that's just my personal preference. No judgment intended. Just opinion, not objective fact.

So only recently I discovered the ASMR phenomenon. And it seems like ~10% of the population (estimated) get a particular response to those sounds.

Other commenters here talk about a "wall of intensity" and things in that realm. What if metal appreciation is the same way as ASMR? By this I mean, what if you just have a predisposition to the sound intensity?

Just a question. I have no answers. This might be ridiculous. I have no idea.
> For the $1000 it costs for a faster laptop, work gets many thousands of dollars back due to more efficient development.

In that case, why are you looking for a “reasonably priced” laptop? The Apple tax is indeed 50% or more, but it should be a straightforward decision if it fits your other requirements.

Sure, there are diminishing returns; but I don’t see why you wouldn’t spring up $3000 for a maxed out Macbook, considering the cost is still orders of magnitude less than what your business brings in. Unless you really hate the touch bar?
Lenovo, like Apple, charges a ridiculous markup on SSDs. However, unlike with a Macbook Pro their laptops are user serviceable.

If you want a 1TB SSD and know how to use a screwdriver, you can save $250 by buying the SSD yourself. If you're willing to start with a 256GB SSD and hold off on upgrading until you actually outgrow your storage space, you could save even more.
Apple never got rid of the buttons though.

They just removed the border but you can easily add them back in by going to Accessibility and enabling Button Shapes.
Because F0RTRAN is so much better and safer than Javascript. Riiight.
Gender’s Journey from Sex to Psychology: A Brief History
It's been proven over and over again that people won't pay for content that gets successfully monetised with advertising.

You only have to see the howling every time someone posts a subscription only newspaper link on HN to see how vehemently opposed people are to paying for stuff like news.
For the way many people play DF, I think Rimworld is a better game. However, one of the core features of DF is that the world persists and has history. That's why there is no winning condition. Rimworld has a kind of lame winning condition (get off the planet), but it's there for precisely the reason that it doesn't exist in DF: Rimworld is a game with mechanics optimised for good gameplay. DF is a fantasy world simulator where you immerse yourself in the world and do whatever you want.

Again, for a lot of DF players that point is lost. They want to set up their efficient workflows or build their wonderful creations or they want to slaughter wave after wave of goblins. However, DF is set up in a way that the player is not necessarily important to the world. You die and the world just continues. You explore the world as an adventurer. You get killed by a duck. Life goes on. Your fortress falls to a weregopher. Life goes on. You explore the ruins of your fortress, track down the weregopher and get your revenge. That's DF. Rimworld has none of that.

Rimworld is a good game. DF is more like a toy.
Not directly.

But employee burnout (and the nascent mass exodus of top talent we'll inevitably be hearing about shortly) may very well be.
Illegal simply because it is murder, regardless how much money the murderer pays in advance.

Immoral because human life and dignity should not become a tradeable commodity. A society allowing this would quickly deteriorate into a system where the rich just buy the desired behavior from the poor, and we would end up with an oligarchy instead of a democracy.

Another angle to object would be Rawls's theory of justice: suppose you would have to design a society, but you wouldn't know into which place of this society you would be born into. You could be born as son of Bill Gates, or as daughter of the poor homeless beggar at the next corner. How would you design a society under these conditions?
What if your student really just wants skill and doesn't care about a personal style or whatnot? Personally, I get a lot of satisfaction working as a software developer implementing practical solutions to complex problems, with no need for personal expression etc. I think it would be equally fun to produce lots of pretty illustrations in the style of Heath Robinson of, well, whatever someone paid for. I think a lot of people agree with me, and then get a teacher like you and are only frustrated.
I like how Spotify uses the word fans in place of customers.

Nice marketing.
This feels almost obligatory: https://xkcd.com/1200/
^+1 for Thinkpads running Linux. Switched from MBPs to these a year ago, never going back.
Are they still third in cloud if you don't count Microsoft's Office revenue?
Imagine if there was no "default" search engine or list of suggested search engines in the settings.

I keep a running list of "alternative" search engines -- not directly Google or Bing, not Yahoo -- that work without JS or session cookies. There are thirteen in the list at the moment.

Takes user a few seconds to type https://www.google.com/?q=%s or whatever into settings.

Would that produce more meaningful "choice"?

Would users choose a search engine based on advertising or word-of-mouth?

Looks like Qwant uses Bing for ads. No ads if Javascript is turned off.

e.g.

curl -A "superagent/1.0" https://lite.qwant.com/?q=example

If get no results, try this first

curl -A "superagent/1.0" https://lite.qwant.com/verify

Can get search suggestions in JSON via Opensearch:

curl https://api.qwant.com/api/suggest/?q=example
I don’t disagree. That’s a separate point though.
Ugh, the decision to kill of Inbox is what frustrates me the most. I don't think I can go back to regular mail after this. I'd love a self-hosted Gmail client that functions identically to Inbox, though (and perhaps is pluggable to other mail providers).
And if I remember correctly, the elements in a cell may interact couple billion times per second.
Yeah I think it's more likely friends and associates in the military complex got them out of a jam.
Planet Money did an episode on this

https://www.npr.org/sections/money/2019/02/28/698763891/epis...
Denver is getting slammed right now — power surges everywhere.
Can it execute direct paths to files or is it restricted to what is in PATH?
<addressing all comments>

Lies, damn lies, and statistics.
The NH is that a plane has 1/10 [M * flights] failure rate. The odds of 2 failures in 20M flights falling in same (random) stride of 150K flights are 150K/20M = 0.75%.

[E: fixed numbers]
[EE: yes, I admit this calculation is incorrect]
The heavy traffic is due to sports events - champions league last-16 matchday live streaming: Bayern Munich vs. Liverpool, FC Barcelona vs Olympique Lyon. The heatmap matches the clubs' home countries UK, Germany, France & Spain quite well.

Dont conflate that with fb/insta problems.