skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So many people don't realize this. There is a lot more to it than just this sandwich has 200 carbs.

Each person is processing things differently. I'm hoping someday for a startup that makes it easy for me to track my insulin response for all my favorite foods so I can make better choices.

After testing on my own I found that the "sugar free Worthers candy" I was eating on my failing low carb diet, actually triggered the same change in my blood sugar as the non "sugar free" version of the candy. I guess this is because some artificial sweeteners act like REAL sugar for some people.
This is what i was told (it was something like "they have 2 flight computers, and 1 AoA sensor hooked up to each").

The reddit thread linked from elsewhere says the same thing.

The preliminary report on the Lion air crash (http://knkt.dephub.go.id/knkt/ntsc_aviation/baru/pre/2018/20...) says they replaced and tested the AoA sensor 2 days prior.

They repeatedly refer to the AoA sensor using only singular nouns everywhere.

Given the report says it was giving faulty data and that was used, the only way this can occur is either:

1. Their are multiple sensors and the software is broken

2. There is a single sensor

Given all other data, i'm going with #2 :)

Nobody has been enterprising enough to publish the MAX8 troubleshooting/etc manuals online, if they did, you could easily verify this.
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I remember there was some ridiculous article here where the author claimed to build world's fastest web app with PReact. It was a hierarchical list of HTML5 features with some tick-boxes. Out of curiosity I converted the giant JSON blob to <ul><li> list. HTML was about 15% smaller than JSON. You could also do most of the "logic" of the app via styling and normal HTML controls.
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4. An interface that allows me to listen to the ratio or to podcasts without having to touch (and potentially get distracted by) my cellphone.
I don't see where that link says that? All I find is a remark about how GI isn't the be-all-end-all of weight loss.

Also, the GI would still be relevant even if it varies, because what you really want to know is the relative GI, and the ordering should at least be preserved across individuals, right? Like if watermelons have a much higher GI than nuts in the table, you're probably not going to find someone whose personal GI is higher for nuts than watermelon?
I will one thing: apt pinning[1]. It allows you to tweak the way apt choses the version to install, and allows you through a configuration text file to give higher (or lower) priority to specific releases, repository components, repositories, package names, etc.

I started using it before 2005, before backports was a thing, and it was a lifesaver for my desktops, as I usually wanted to use newer versions from testing or unstable.

[1] https://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/debian-reference/ch02.en....
I get the snark, but Java, Rust, Erlang are all better options than an interpreted language for backends IMO
These kind of 'freakouts' are just the information asymmetry between sellers and buyers being reduced. The buyers very reasonably assumed they all got the same price, and they're upset that this turned out to be false.

They're probably instinctively aware that, if they allow too much of this price discrimination to creep in, they'll be poor no matter how much money they make, as the prices they're charged will adjust accordingly.
It's funny because if you think it carefully it's like you think they look at the problem for a while and stop until you ask again for updates. haha
Like you need to keep asking for them to work on it. Sounds like an oldschool boss expecting you to be on your chair even if that doesn't mean you're working.
I've taken precisely one psychology class in my entire life, back in High School. But the most important lesson of Psychology was that Psychology itself is a very young field filled with dangerous pseudoscience. (The only younger field is maybe Computer Science, but even Comp. Sci has mathematical traditions that go back centuries). There's a ton of false-science which "sounds correct" but fails to yield any real results when under test.

For example, Sigmon Freud, while one of the first true scientific minds of Psychology, still created the theory of Psychosexuality. The full theories of psychosexuality is utterly insane by today's standards (Ex: Freud's theory that male children undergo an "Phallic phase" wherein they develop Oedipus Complex and sexual attraction for their mother: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oedipus_complex), but its important to study them if only to understand how easily pseudo-science develops. Also, lots of people still believe in Sigmon Freud's ramblings, even today (Ex: Freud's "Anal Retentive" and "Anal Expulsive" theories are still colloquial concepts, even as modern psychologists have dismissed the idea). So knowing the pseudo-science helps you dismiss the irrelevant stuff.

So under this context: is "Willpower" just as busted as a concept as Freud's Psychosexuality? By demonstrating "Willpower's" roots in Victorian-era literature, this article really speaks to those who have actually studied Psychology: this was a dangerous era that was filled with pseudo-science. And therefore, we must question the concept of Willpower.

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With that being said: pseudo-scientific concepts may give rise to true science. The pseudo-science of Alchemy gave rise to Chemistry (Robert Boyle: an Alchemist, is credited with both Chemistry and the modern Scientific Method). But its important to recognize pseudoscience, so we can advance as a people. Alchemists were very wrong about "elements wish to return to perfection: closer to God"... but those Alchemists were the ones who first defined the elements to begin with!

And Freud's ideas of Id, Ego, and Superego ultimately gave rise to modern Psychology and experiments. Perhaps "Willpower" should be treated in the same respect. There's clearly an element of self-control that exists, but it is perhaps poorly understood by... at least... laypeople.

Once again, I'm not very studied in Psychology. But I do know enough about Skinner-boxes and the strong scientific experiments that define addiction. Getting people addicted to something is a very well understood science (precisely exploited by Slot Machines and Loot Crates in modern video games). We all want a solution to addiction, but whatever the answer... its not well understood by laypeople yet.

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The article may be a bit provocative by dismissing Willpower from the get-go. But I'm in agreement with its discussion. Perhaps willpower as a concept is at least partially incompatible with reality. But how is it wrong? What concepts of Willpower are false? And is there any nugget of truth we can extract from the concept of Willpower?
You experience differs from reality, then.

Palestinian-Israelis* are free as blacks under Jim Crow laws were free. Maybe less of a "no colored allowed" signs out there, but the sentiment is. FFS, Netanyahu just admitted in public what until now was known but wasn't said: a large part of the Jewish population of Israel does not consider Palestinian-Israelis to be equal.

Just ask your Palestinian-Israeli colleagues.

* the term you used could be considered derogatory, I'd try to not use it if I were you.
for non Israeli readers, I'll have to explain the joke: the probability he has one is minuscule to none.
Team + pitch, what else?
>What we're lacking in Europe, apart from seeing through the propaganda, is enough companies that can properly utilize technology and would benefit from attracting the best engineers. That would lead to better pay.

Don't forget, however, that cost of living is generally cheaper in much of Europe (maybe not in Switzerland or Scandinavia though), than in the big tech-hub cities in America. Rent is cheaper, food is cheaper (and better quality), healthcare is much cheaper. Also, you can pretty easily get along without a car, which is a huge expense for Americans.
Won't his body just run out of salt?
What you say is true, but this is changing. Red Hat became valuable as a set of skills, because they developed a certification system that is provable. Those are not paper tiger certs. They are earned. While I don't personally have one, most of the people I know who work on CentOS/RHEL for a living are quite capable with other distros as well.

Debian/Ubuntu are used in surprising places, though, as you likely know. Ubuntu and Raspbian on a Pi are great at prototyping stuff. I've used Raspberry Pis for professional projects, and at my last job, a couple of Pis running Pi-hole to blacklist ads, beacons, and trackers for a public library that didn't have a lot of money in their budget for a more "proper" solution.
Amazon’s Alexa Has 80k Apps...

Perhaps, but by eyeball, no less than 95% of those are stupid useless trivia games.
She should instead bring GDPR
Their Github page specifically mentions AWS S3 as a requirement. So they are using it.
If she was Northern European, she evolved with potatoes, and you, a Southern European, evolved with Pasta, clearly /s
The 737 type rating (training/licence addon required) covers pretty much the entire family of 737s from the 200 to the max.

The avionics are the same but because the planes have substantially different air-frames, the software parameters and possibly some functionality will differ. It's not unreasonable for differences in these flight parameters to be a factor.
It is just me, or is it hard to read this website? I'm reading this website fullscreen on 22" monitor, and it's still too hard to read, as I find the main text (Raleway 16pt) too thin. Also the text changes sizes dramatically, from 16px (main text) to 22px (quote) to 13px (sub-text).
That part seems logical, but the query on its own shouldn’t be cause for concern.
Even consumers frequently love the idea of a protected ("managed" market is a misleading term for "we subsidize and protect certain incumbents"), particularly when it is a national market (for nationalistic reasons) or when it is associated with a romantic/emotional vision ("oh, the poor little honest canadian farmers, working dawn to dusk and being protected from the evil massive corporations").

This is particularly true when you're not price-sensitive (i.e. poor), which by being on Hacker News, you most likely aren't.

So you don't mind paying more for that emotional feeling that you're "protecting" those farmers, even if other people might be more sensitive to the cost.

A government protecting farmers isn't any different than it protecting monopolies, and is just as bad. The only difference is the emotional & nostalgic impact on people.
Was slightly surprised to see Narisawa on the list. The multi-course meal I had there was easily the best (and most expensive) meal I've ever had. I had to book pretty far in advance, but it was absolutely worth it.
You mean companies have to pay to be a part of a marketplace? Software distributors use to pay retailers 60% of the retail price to be sold in stores. It was 70% to be distributed in online app stores like the ones that Verizon use to run to distribute J2ME apps.

And you act as if most revenue from online stores is not coming from in app purchases of consumable goods.
Good. Sayonara.

I'm glad to see the dairy industry struggling. Torturing cows for their milk that we shouldn't be drinking anyway is abhorrent.

Oat milk is way better anyway.
Kafka also leaves the caching to the OS.
"Investigators allege the scheme was run largely through Key Worldwide Foundation, which ostensibly was a nonprofit but, according to the FBI, was really a conduit for bribing college employees to get rich kids into elite schools."

Well, it's not like there's truth in advertising:

"We partner with your son or daughter to identify their strengths, unlock their potential, choose the right college, position themselves for admission, and outline a course of study and extracurricular experiences to lead to a life of success." -- http://www.thekeyworldwide.com/
But they still record the name of the person who registers it, right?

It's not like they'll find a homicide tied to a CC and then be like, "oh, the CC is in the name of an ownerless corporation, I guess we're out of luck".
I don't think it's enough justification--you can get a "dumb" bluetooth- or wifi-enabled speaker to hook up with the voice-enabled smartphone you already have in your pocket. The value proposition for an Alexa or Google Home has to be over and above that functionality.
Surely airlines purchase insurance to hedge against this sort of thing?
That's one of those weird quirks with Shotcut -- it takes the aspect ratio / resolution settings from the first video/clip you import into the app.
Pragmatically defensible corruption is still corruption.
That's definitely a mischaracterization of what the airlines do. Anyone that has been in a cockpit of a plane knows that you fly by checklists.

There's a checklist procedure for almost any scenario they will run into (of course not every). This exact issue was seen by other airlines and the pilots followed the checklist procedures to safely regain control of the plane as expected.

In theory, these checklists are optimized to resolve these issues and regain control as quickly as possible while ruling out other causes. It is very rare the correct course of action for the pilot differs from the checklist procedure.

There is 0 expectation that the pilot should remember everything. Pilots are trained specifically to communicate with each other to go through these checklists as quickly as possible.

That being said, there is a major concern that this issue will popup while taking off and being too low to the ground to properly follow procedure in time to recover control of the aircraft.
This seems to keep the important bit about Redis single threading, that is that you have exclusive access to the db in a script or `multi`. That property allows for a lot of things that wouldn't be possible otherwise. Also leads to very predictable performance characteristics.

That said, Redis has always been faster than I've needed, and that's leaning on it pretty heavily, so I kind of agree with antirez that adding this complexity may not come with much benefit. Will be interesting to see where this goes.
Thanks for the suggestions guys, they are all very good ideas for improvement, I'm not really a front-end guy. I thought about making columns but this would probably affect the readability. Hyperlink idea: especially good considering the anniversary :)
iOS apps (including Dropbox) can sync data in the background, but it's a bit janky. You have to give the app permission to access location services. It'll upload a bit of data in the background every time your phone location changes.
To be fair, that's inaccurately reframing the argument. Apple with an Apple store for Apple Apps is the equivalent to what you're saying. Tesla doesn't sell Teslas _and_ BMWs.
Hi, Anton, the creator of Color.review here.

I can agree that WCAG guidelines are a bit harsh sometimes but it makes sure that everyone have a good chance to view the content. Eyes, colors & computers interact in complex ways.

Also, in many countries, by law, you have to follow WCAG, specially for the public sector.

If you are interested how and what values W3 have chosen you can read more here: https://www.w3.org/WAI/WCAG21/Understanding/contrast-enhance...

Don't fully understand what you mean by providing "color around the WCAG".
> So back in 1999 people thought that Microsoft would be dominant forever - how did that work out?

They were convicted of antitrust violations, sanctions were imposed, and they weren't dominant forever.

Since a key part of Warren's criticism of the past that has led us to the current state of internet giants is that it results from a complete failure to enforce antitrust laws along the way, there is implicitly a contrast with Microsoft where, even if it was fairly light touch in the US due to timely election of an MS-friendly administration, there was enforcement and sanctions.
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Aflatoxins are excreted in milk. You shouldn't feed aflatoxin-laden feed to dairy animals.
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I think it's probably fair to change this:

> but I’m also sure their perspective is warped by the need to make profit out of them.

to something like this:

> but I'm also sure their perspective is based on their need to subsist on them.

I think your heart is in the right place, but characterizing family dairy farmers as "warped" and profiting is not going to end up connecting or being helpful.
The literal definition of the word implies a 100% share:

> A monopoly (from Greek μόνος mónos ["alone" or "single"] and πωλεῖν pōleîn ["to sell"]) exists when a specific person or enterprise is the only supplier of a particular commodity. [1]

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monopoly

The legal definition implies a tremendous advantage such that consumers would have no alternatives if the company raised prices:

> courts ask if the firm has "monopoly power" in any market. This requires in-depth study of the products sold by the leading firm, and any alternative products consumers may turn to if the firm attempted to raise prices [2]

2. https://www.ftc.gov/tips-advice/competition-guidance/guide-a...

I don't think Amazon can raise prices substantially without negatively affecting their market share. Costco, Walmart and Google Express are big enough players that they could handle an increase in volume if Amazon tries to raise prices beyond what the market is willing to bear.
> How often do you design a database query to get the count of all rows from a table?

Any time I paginate a list, so it can show the "x of y pages"?
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Original announcement [1] with its links intact, including one for the actual paper with technical details [2] -

[1] https://about.unimelb.edu.au/newsroom/news/2019/march/resear...

[2] https://people.eng.unimelb.edu.au/vjteague/SwissVote
I live close to an Aldi in the US. When it was first opened (Aldi 1.0) I would agree with parent that the selection and availability made it difficult to get the bulk of my grocerie needs there but since they remodeled (Aldi 2.0) they have wider selection and larger more reliable inventory especially for fresh items (produce, meat, dairy) and now it suites most of our needs. This my play a part in the varied experiences commentors are reporting
It sounds really stupid for Boeing if you put it that way.

I can imagine it looks good on the marketing material, 'no pilot retraining required!', but as far as I understand from all the analysis so far, it's actually not that hard to disable the new MCAS system and prevent a crash. As a pilot you only need to know it is there, and what happens if it somehow fails.

I would be surprised if they had sold even a single plane less if they advertised it as 'very minimal pilot retraining necessary'.
> over-the-top

Looks like tit-for-tat to me.
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This is basically a PR piece on how careful they're being and how "seriously" they're treating it.

> Uncovering the full scope of the attack took significant forensic work, the CEO said. However, despite the RAT's presence on the Starwood IT system, at that point, there was no evidence that unauthorized parties had accessed customer data located in Starwood's guest reservation database.

> By the next month, in October, the forensic firm also found Mimikatz [...]. The tool was most likely used to help hackers acquire passwords for other Starwood systems and help them move to other parts of the IT network.

> Yet again, investigators didn't find evidence that hackers had accessed customer data.

> Yet again, there was still no evidence of hackers accessing customer data.

With infrastructure so compromised, and so few protective measures, the default assumption has to be some kind of customer data was accessed. Spin at its worst.

And while I haven't watched the hearing, you'd expect a post-mortem to include maybe how they gained access, and measures to fix it in future. Even if the CEO didn't elaborate, you'd expect a reporter to ask similar questions, and at least point out nothing was said.
I suspect that scanning cells and then emulating cleaned versions of them will be practical before direct frozen brain reanimation. Thus, if you get your brain cryogenically frozen for 70 grand, you may "wake up" 200 years from now in a robot or android body. (The interest on your parking tickets will be yuuuge.)
I gave you a link to an archive where you can listen yourself. Your refusal to do so is on you, not me. I have proven what I've claimed, you just appear uninterested in believing what's in front of you.

Like I said, Jones's comments were made in speech, not in written word, and the easiest place to find it was on youtube.

Since you don't seem to accept that, I am curious though, what "source" would you accept?

>The guy is going to say retarded things.

Your claim was very specific:

>They never asserted this.

Infowars did. I provided evidence of the falsehood of your claim. Your defense now seems to be that it was a while ago. Which is true, but so was the Sandy Hook attack, so that's not particularly surprising. If you don't want to be called out for defending a conspiracy theorist, don't make absolute claims about a conspiracy theorist that can be proven wrong with a few minutes of searching, and certainly don't then double down on your defense because he said them a while ago.

Please don't defend Alex Jones and Infowars. Its not a good look.
There are native apps, but I don't know how compelling they are yet. https://medium.com/@james3burke/creating-stories-using-amazo...

Edit: there's also a third-party skill that will let you play old-school adventure/interactive fiction games. https://www.amazon.com/Vitaly-Lishchenko-Interactive-Fiction...
Lots of comments asking why not ground these planes, so let's just for a moment imagine some reasons why that may not be the best decision if your goal is safety first. First, we know that any decision that forces passengers from flying to driving will likely lose more lives, just due to the inherit risk in flying vs driving. So it's possible that grounding the plane will cause cancellations and force some passengers into driving, especially in the US. Second, perhaps Boeing already has some advance information pointing to a different culprit than MCAS. Third, an MCAS failure need not doom the flight if the pilot responds correctly. Perhaps US carriers feel that their more experienced pilots can deal with an MCAS fault. Fourth, maybe US planes are better maintained and Boeing hasn't seen any MCAS/AoA faults on US planes.

These are all guesses on my part. I don't know. What I do know is that the FAA and Boeing have way more information than any of us, that this situation is complex, that there are factors likely none of us have considered, and that we're all pretty terrible at assessing risk.

Another 737 Max crash is a nightmare scenario for Boeing. If they aren't grounding this plane, it has to be based on something we don't know. Consider that grounding the plane might be the right PR decision but the wrong safety-first decision.
No, because there's literally nothing I could do to change the situation...
Wow, that's weird. I personally never go out to lunch with coworkers, unless the company is paying (which they do once a quarter or so, for "team building"). My coworkers would want to go to places I don't want to eat, plus I don't want to waste so much time out of my day with them; I'd rather go home earlier.

The problem with catered lunch is that it can frequently be something I don't want to eat, like cheap pizza.

For me, the less time I have to spend at work with my coworkers, the better. I already spend 8 hours/day with them, I don't want to spend more.
>and had to be moved back

Small typo: He says "forward and up" in the video.
Technically, they are public charities.

https://www.aau.edu/sites/default/files/AAU%20Files/Key%20Is...