skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Eyewitness testimony is some of the most unreliable there is. See the gorilla experiment for instance.

It's likely that people rewrote their memories of the event. It's also likely that the MCAS induced stresses on the plane caused a turbine flameout.
Instantly reminded me of this:

http://archive.is/EZX1O
Totally see that. But you can still sideload an app onto an iPhone or Mac and hack around. People were getting Windows onto their x86 Macs before Bootcamp, for example. The point of Homepod is that it does nothing else, by design: it's a device for playing Apple Music on. I don't see a distinction between forcing Apple to open up iOS for installation on any hardware.
That wont help.
Everyone knows your publication is a propaganda rag. The writer of this is a coward that's unable to speak truth to power. A free press is coming motherfucker and it terrifies you.
> to what degree does a platform owner have a responsibility to support the businesses of others?

Perhaps they should not be allowed (by law) to change the terms of the platform for X amount of time.
This is the problem when a society manufactures self-proclaimed experts on everything that do no actual research or scientific studies in the field they discuss. It's one of the many vices of the Internet.
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What nonsense is this? I know many activists and they are dedicated, smart, passionate, clued up people with a social conscience to be envied.
>But you can still sideload an app onto an iPhone

Can you?
Do the headwaters technically count as the Amazon River?
FWIW Malcolm Gladwell's business bestseller Outliers: The Story of Success has a chapter devoted to explaining the superior safety record of American major airlines compared to foreign carriers: "The Ethnic Theory of Plane Crashes". Gladwell comes to the conclusion that foreigners are unsafe because they are ... foreign. They have a strange and defective culture that prevents the first officer (copilot) from speaking up and pointing out problems to the captain. If only everyone were American, the world would be a better and safer place. This article explores an alternative explanation: foreign airlines do comparatively poorly because their first officers have almost no pilot-in-command experience.

https://philip.greenspun.com/flying/foreign-airline-safety
How is that relevant in FAA's decision not to ground the planes? Do you think they'd ground the planes if the majority of the victims were American?
It feels to me like there was a lot of social pressure over the last 10 years or so for open source projects to use the most permissive open source license they could. You were cool and "more free" if you used Apache, BSD, or MIT licenses. I wonder if this is coming back to bite us now.

Red Hat built a very successful business selling mostly GPL software. Would things be different for the companies we've been talking about lately (mongo, redis, elastisearch, etc.) if they had gone with a GPL license and a Red Hat-like business model from the start?
If you ever have some time, you should try playing microsoft flight simulator and you will come to an understanding of this phenomenon.

Aircraft have many states, and there is a lot of information to process to fly an aircraft, even in normal flight. When situations develop in real time, it takes a lot of mental horsepower to understand the situation and react appropriately. Despite all this, aviation is safer than driving a car.

It is one of the reasons I find aviation to be inspiring. Conscientious humans have mastered this unforgiving domain through effort and power of will. When you talk to a real pilot, there are certain mannerisms that they share that tend to show that the practice of flying really makes you a thoughtful person.
I really respect the work you've put in here, but all of those appear to be on the Apurimac River, a tributary of a tributary of a tributary of the Amazon.
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> Globalism and PC culture aside, aren't "cultural" biases bad?

No, not inherently. Cultural “biases” about the meaning of symbols particularly, unless you think language itself is bad.

> Aren't we are supposed to stand united and be against dogmatic principles, prejudices and intolerance?

The meaning of symbols in a particular culture may be influenced by any of those things, but it is not intrinsically any one of them, so those are at best tangentially relevant, and more likely irrelevant, to the issue at hand.

Also, those are tenets of PC culture, not “PC culture aside”.

> As well as I should be able to incorporate that hat and a skirt in any of my designs or mockups if those please my senses and fit my vision, right?

You can, just as you can include a figure with and extended middle finger. OTOH, product designs are a form of communication, and communication done without awareness of what symbols mean to the audience tends to be less effective or even counterproductive.
The “security” of an algorithm is not defined as the duration of time required by a computer to brute force it. Much more important is how safe it is against other known or anticipated attacks.
> I dread the scenario of being in a public place, like a library or about to give a talk, resuming my laptop from suspend, and loud music (or worse!) blaring out of the speakers, with all audio controls unresponsive as the system churns (or crashes!) under the load of resuming.

It's very much this why I fully prep my laptop before I need to give a talk or go into a meeting where I might need my laptop (as much as I despise laptop-filled meetings). All applications closed except for whatever I need in that setting.
Apple invests billions into R&D, design, manufacture, and UX design for its devices. Your logic would then see them dealing with picking up the pieces for bricked devices, hacked passwords, lost data, viruses, etc.

Using an Apple devices is accepting a benevolent dictatorship, and it's a trade off tonnes of users are happy to make.
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It pushes the burden to the people that have to teach these all these little box-checkes
Always happy when bridges get discussed here. Having built (a couple of) bridges across the Mississippi, i can attest that it is possible to build a bridge across the Amazon. This headline is appears to be click bait

A river rising 30 feet is no big deal. I think the Amazon rises more than that actually. The Mississippi very often rises to 40 feet.More in some years. Here's a video of a 300yr flood hitting in the middle of bridge construction - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Orj6B46PJbY (skip and pause at 0:17)
The question isn't whether Apple is violating antitrust regulations, it's whether the regulations will be enforced. Spotify has a slam dunk case in the regulation heavy EU, and a very winnable case in the US (and anyone who Apple competes with in this way). They build competing products and are putting an artificial restriction to the market that they control.

What Apple is doing is a direct violation of the Sherman Act of 1890, specifically Section 1, in regards to artificially raising prices by restricting trade or supply:

> Every contract, combination in the form of trust or otherwise, or conspiracy, in restraint of trade or commerce among the several States, or with foreign nations, is declared to be illegal.
Hey Lambda team. Congratulations on the ISA program and living stipend! I'm sorry for having so many questions. We have an ISA program as well and I found these to be the most important questions people have about coding bootcamp ISAs:

1. Do the payments begin if the new job is not in-field (not related to Software Engineering)?

2. Is there a grace period or deadline (depending on your point of view) before the payments begin? If so, how is the monthly payment amount calculated?

2. Is there a grace period in the event they stop working after the payments begin?

3. Do the ISA payments kick in if it's not a new job? In other words, if they continue working in a job that makes >=$50K/yr?

4. Are the requirements for participating in your ISA program similar to obtaining a loan? Good credit, no defaults, etc..

Sorry if I missed any of these answers in the announcement or terms. We have been offering an ISA program at our Houston and Atlanta based bootcamp for just over 6 months now and recently adjusted it based off feedback so that payments only kick in when the new job is in-field, includes a grace period, and must be a new job. However, we couldn't do much for the credit history requirements. An ISA is essentially a delayed loan and requires the same (if not stricter) credit history requirements. It's a good alternative to taking out a loan for some, but it's usually not a fallback if you can't get one.

Thanks Lambda team!
> There are significant costs associated with the app store, no? Part of the reason users gravitate towards the iPhone is because you can download high quality apps without malware, viruses, etc.

That should be covered by the one time fee that developers pay to Apple in order to publish apps into the App Store. I am not sure if a simple binary needs a 30% cut of the entire Spotify profit to keep up with the costs of hosting an app there.

> Why? They've made the hardware. Why should they have to let Spotify run on it in the exact way Spotify wants? (You can Airplay Spotify to Homepod.)

Because Apple is using a completely different market, which they have a strong presence on, to increase the value of Apple Music and consequently devaluing any other competing music streaming services.
Those secondary effects are all part of the first point: "lose money".
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19321217
Another field where science is on a collision course with online (and offline) activists is genetics. As we decode and understand more of the genome, it is possible that our genes affect more of our behavior than what the partisans of tabula rasa hold for truth. And unless the political climate evolves, in a power struggle between activists and science, I wouldn't bet on the scientists.
Nothing you describe there requires write/admin access though.

I'm not religious about this. My team automates anything we have to do more than a couple of times, and from time to time we do have to manually alter something in a prod db. Do it often/long enough though and someone _will_ screw something up.
At the moment, you definitely can't cross the Amazon by bridge, because no bridge exists. Whether it's possible to build a bridge is a different question.
It's not just scientists. It's most fields and most opinions that don't agree with whatever the cause of the day is.

I deleted my twitter account over a year ago (after ten years of it), and stopped using twitter. However, I still refrain from saying what I actually think about an issue online now. It doesn't matter if it's a left wing or right wing opinion, nor does it matter what the issue is. If you fall afoul of the online activists (regardless of left-wing or right-wing) it can suck up all your time and energy and ruin you.

The big problem is that it's easy to publicly shame and silence someone, with little to no consequence for doing so. And I place most of the blame here on Twitter.
So an obscure book "Chaos Monkeys: Obscene Fortune and Random Failure in Silicon Valley" is an accurate representation of "the" tech industry?

Next.
But hosting full games is a different story than hosting apps. Not to mention that Steam offers more features, such as cloud saves and an entire social network.
I think he/she was pointing to their ethnicity, not so much about nationality.
If doctors aren't careful they can be used as weapons against others. They give people access to very dangerous substances, which can be used for poisoning or ... they may institute mandatory treatment, and use violence against their patients (in case of child abuse, psychiatric illnesses, contagious diseases, war/disaster scenarios ...)

The rule, that has been thought very careful about for thousands of years is that a doctor CANNOT override a patient, or responsible parent's wishes, except where it poses a clear and present lethal danger to others. If the patient cannot make their wishes clear, it is assumed (but confirmed ASAP) that they want to follow the doctor's best judgement to let them survive. Vaccination is generally not considered one of the cases where overriding the patient's wishes is reasonable.

There are other WTF medical opinions of people that doctors will advise on, but NOTHING else. Chief among them "but my natural healer/homeoptahic/guru/... said to ...". A close second "I hate doctors because they're evil/money-grabbing/... and so I'm not going to get ... treated". Both cannot be overridden, not even in psychiatric patients.

If the child wants it, but the parent refuses, I believe they mostly have a free choice legally and ethically at that point, but every doctor I've ever known would vaccinate under those circumstances.
It is the Ivy League - there is no "turning" about it. Many practices were goal-post moving to keep model minorities out including ridiculously biased vocabulary in test questions like yaucht sailing vocabulary which is covered nowhere in even the most in depth historical or literaty sources.
Given the number of times I've tried to read a paper and found that it's locked behind a paywall, I'm all for the idea.
I didn't read it as breaking the second law, but rather a quantum theory of the second law.
Using Opera only superficially sidesteps the big Google problem, as you still contribute to the Chromium monoculture that reinforces Chrome's dominance and benefits Google.
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Well yeah. The poor certainly don't have the means to bribe Ivy League schools.
I've seen this often, maybe there is a need for a new law, "Any article with a headline claiming how something was done is not about how but that it was done". Compare with Betteridge's law of headlines, "Any headline that ends in a question mark can be answered by the word no".
> that the pain is real, it's just caused by processes in your brain, not the rest of your body.

I was also helped by Dr Sarno's book, and for me the news that it was "all in my head" was encouraging.

I can control my mind[1], and if my mind is the source of the problem, it's a lot easier for me to fix it that if I required surgery or medicine.

[1] At least partially, the mind is a slippery thing too.
From what they posted, 30% is not the main reason of their complaint. I guess it's more about that they now have to face Apple Music, which has such a huge advantage over them, no fee, better OS support, .etc.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19377322
Snowflakes everywhere.
That's a good analogy. There's something to it.
Yup. Look at the way Facebook and others circumvented the app store using certification recently.
What's astonishing is that during its closest approach, Venus is a mere 130 light seconds away from Earth. That's a mere 4⅓ light minutes for a round trip!
Oh sure, I was never arguing for that. I'm just saying that you need to at least attempt to triage your emails. You can at least make the conscious decision of "I'm not going to deal with this email." However, I will say that walled gardens do not necessarily improve on this problem. If everyone is within the same walls then it's the same situation all over again.
Thank you, apocalypstyx - your comment is insightful and useful in analyzing certain present-day trends.

Bit of a tangent, I remember reading a comment regarding old art's propensity towards showing past as nearly the same as present. Take medieval christian paintings - while depicting scenes from era way past and cultures far removed, they were typically depicted with then-current clothing, equipment, housing, etc. It's only during renaissance (hopefully not mixing that one up?) that people commonly understood past & other societies were significantly different from the present, with different customs, culture, technology, etc. Accompanying the awareness was ongoing research into how the past actually was; what were the possibilities and limitations; what was the culture and what drove people to certain choices, however misguided they may seem in the hindsight.

Through your comment I realize we are in process of losing the ability to clearly delineate the past, and to hold it as imperfect, but necessary, stepping stones to the present day. And perhaps also to run effective, objective research into the past, without feeling the urge to nudge it into direction of a preferred narrative.
Why bother you then?
> As we decode and understand more of the genome, it is possible that our genes affect more of our behavior than what the partisans of the tabula rasa hold for truth

What “partisans of the tabula rasa”? Activists of both the left and right seem more likely to be partisans of genetic determinism, though of which aspects of intellect, identity, and behavior varies between them.
It spells weakness. Weakness disguised as a tolerance of intolerance.

"prefer to not have some of their users thinking about their cultural biases" -- extremely negative approach. I don't think you guessed it right. That's the same as saying "we are supporting you cultural biases, don't worry about improving. ever."
That's one of the things that destroyed Owings Mills. The mall there used to be the more expensive mall in the area. Slowly but surely, the metro station led to an uptick in crime. Stores shut down. Entire wings of the mall were empty. By the end, there were more homeless people sleeping in it than there were actual shoppers. The crime that led to that eventually spilled out into other areas of Owings Mills. And, coupled with a huge number of foreclosures in the area, the entire development has suffered. When I lived there, I was the lowest-class guy in the neighborhood, and I had a well-paying technology job for a defense contractor! It was full of middle class families from all backgrounds and races. By the time I left, though, the neighborhoods were falling apart. Houses deteriorating and empty. Shots being fired at the local community pool. You would have 30-40% of the houses on a given block either in foreclosure or on the brink. It's sad what became of that area.
Saying these areas are near the bottom feels disingenuous. Boeing should make minimum safety requirements explicitly clear and not sell planes to areas that don’t comply. Not just ethically, but for business reputation.
The thing about the CCP is that they destroyed a lot of culture. Mainland Chinese have developed their own culture in a sense and because of their population, people tend to reference them when talking about Chinese culture. In truth, Taiwan and Hong Kong's culture is more closely aligned to the traditional definition of Chinese culture.
But the parent post is a website with verifiable claims. You making up hearsay is not. And it's not even relevant.
Concert earplugs are designed to reduce the sound level, but without muffling any frequency ranges like foam earplugs do.
> The FAA is a very hands-on agency

Under the ODA scheme, the FAA delegated testing and certification of the 787 and 737-8 ( Max ) to Boeing.

That's not hands-on, that's arms-length.
Interesting, as I was thinking about going back to Sublime after being frustrated by the Python Language Server eating RAM like a Gremlin after midnight.

https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode-python/issues/2594

https://github.com/Microsoft/python-language-server/issues/4...

https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode/issues/65639

https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode-python/issues/2553
The cheapest one I can see is 1.99EUR/m [1]. Maybe that's an old plan?

[1]: https://www.scaleway.com/pricing/
The new image

https://developercommunity.visualstudio.com/storage/temp/633...

contains a woman (or is it?) driving a male bicyle (with a horizontal bar)
On 5 October 2011, Spotify was a freshly minted single-billion unicorn. Factually, no-one had plural billions of dollars on the line at that time, not even the senior exec I quoted.

Spotify was also comparatively small at the time, with limited hierarchy. The entire office - execs and rank-and-file alike - was respectful, with a fair number visibly upset and mourning.
Because I want to comment. But if someone replies to my comments with the equivalent of hate mail, I won't say that they are "silencing" me.

If I go to that scientist's profile I can read his tweets just fine. Someone quoting him and saying he's an idiot is not "silencing" him.
Thanks. How does this work for Amazon? Do they have to pay a % cut for every Kindle sold? Apple pulled its products from Amazon for a while rather than selling them there because they had to take a margin hit they didn't like.
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I wanted to respond to this because I feel that a lot of reply's are black and white when the real scale is very much a shade of grey.

I agree with you that providing with your kids is a basic human behavior. My fiancés parents fled their country to come to the USA to give themselves and their kids a better live. A lot of people work hard because they want to provide that for their family. I think that is productive and great.

But there is the opposite side of it shown here. People abuse their power and wealth to provide a very clearly unfair advantage. And to make it worse, a lot of society rewards it. I have been in conversations where company X only hires from Ivy Leagues and 4.0 GPAs, and there is a very perceived notion that having such an education will get you places you can't otherwise do it.

One of the brightest and best coworkers I worked with had an average GPA from a state school (he was from that state), and was rejected by several employers. Personally, I look for the ~3.0 GPA student who worked through college, or can show more than just school and a 4.0 GPA. I know that student worked hard to get where they are, and that they have hit their heads against the wall to figure out something.
The HomePod is a horrible device unless you want Siri in a can. The source selection is just so locked down for whatever reason, so unless you're all in with the Apple ecosystem, you're going to be missing out something.
> Vendors should be prevented from shipping an App Store with their OS.

So then how would a novice user get apps the first time they boot up their phone? They would have to know where to get apps from. That seems like an easy way for users to end up downloading a bunch of malware because they think it's the official Apple or Google app store when it's just a random website.

Having a built in app store has huge advantages in security and usability for the end user.
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I've been with Apple Music and Pandora for years. A few months ago my teammates at work convinced me to try Spotify: I love Spotify! Both the content and the UX work for me.

While this post represents Spotify's view without having Apple's to contrast it with, it seem eerily similar to the "Browser War" days leading up to Microsoft's admonishment. Apple seems to be the equivalent of a drunkard walking a fine line.
> If a paper turns out to be flawed, then you retract the paper. In order to retract it, someone needs to figure out that it was in fact flawed. Most scientists don't knowingly publish bad research, they just make mistakes that get missed in peer review. Keeping research hidden away in paywalled journals isn't going to improve the quality of science one iota.

Except OP wasn't suggesting keeping silent, he was suggesting not broadcasting it on social media. You can broadcast it through scientific channels of course, because scientists generally know to preserve some healthy skepticism until something is replicated.

Some new result on social media could easily go viral so almost everyone hears about it, but do you think the retraction on social would get the same attention? Of course not, so it's about stopping the spread of misinformation, which I hope you agree is a problem these days.