skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I wouldn't say it was picked at random when there is little information available. It seems to me like an application of the precautionary principle. In this case there is a plausible risk that the problem extents to other 737 MAX airplanes, and thus to prevent harm it's better to block the use until there is certainty about the situation.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Precautionary_principle
Also, some would argue it's also good to protect democracy from any entity getting too powerful and having too much influence. None of this of course only applies to tech companies.
Netflix Premium in the Netherlands: €13.99 a Month in Chrome, €15.99 in Firefox
The BBC Micro had a similar arrangement in some of its screen modes.
Adding some examples of quality tiktok content:

https://i.4cdn.org/wsg/1552272052005.webm

https://i.4cdn.org/wsg/1551552722398.webm

https://i.4cdn.org/wsg/1551386495506.webm
Yes. Tested on Chrome, Safari, and Edge.
>You mean the open web of ICQ, Skype, AOL's walled garden?

There were open-source clients that connected to all of them. Accounts were easy to register and didn't have draconian verification. The IMs of the old we used for actual communication and social interaction, instead of some synthetic nonsense that's designed to leak as much of your personal info as possible.

>Even though chrome is basically the only major browser left, almost all content you browse today is written in to an open standard.

Google has far more control over web standards now than Microsoft ever had in the 90s-00s. It's just that they are much better at presenting themselves as the good guys who act in public interest.
No one I've tried it with has ever had it fail on them.

But to answer your question, I uploaded a 100mb+ file to FireFox Send, copied the link, RDPd into another computer, kicked off the download, and then cancelled it midway through download. The link did expire after that.

So I guess they don't have an easy way of telling whether the download is successful or not. Maybe Mozilla's engineers can figure something out if the issue is raised.
The Power of Types in Idris
I can't believe how many comments I've had to wade through to find the one person in these threads talking any sense. This isn't an "us vs them" situation. Different countries and organisations have different approaches, procedures, and decision making processes in place when dealing with these things.

Nobody has to be "right" or "wrong". It's a complicated situation with incomplete information and no right answer.
Actually amazon is the one that I would say doesn't have a monopoly. It doesn't have a monopoly in the retail space (far from it), nor in the cloud hosting (let alone server hosting) business, nor in online streaming (music/tv).

Google on the other hand has close to a monopoly on search (and browsers). Facebook on social medias.
I agree with this line of thinking, but I think it applies the other way as well. If you assume that the UK and China are making political calculations in addition to safety ones, what makes you think the FAA isn't doing that too?
You said "Android phones don't do that anymore", "that" referring to "have it show up as a removable storage device".

Pointing out that the protocol used is leaky or bad in some technical way doesn't change that Android phones do in fact show up as removable storage devices when connected to (at least Windows) PC's. Your original assertion was incorrect.

samcday even said they just wanted to copy some files around. You don't need to be able to modify files in-place from the PC to accomplish this.
I love it as well, but my one gripe with the Android app is that it does not support read/write sync on external storage (SD cards). This means, in my case, that I have to share photos from my phone in a read-only fashion. It's not a deal-breaker by any means, but it's annoying, because if I want to add photos to my collection that were obtained elsewhere (e.g. my underwater camera), I have to transfer those files to my phone first in order for them to properly propagate to all my other devices.

Here is the related issue: https://github.com/syncthing/syncthing-android/issues/29
I worked with some of the people involved in this back when I was on the OASIS XDI TC, before my then employer 'suggested' I leave working on standards and focus on BD. The DID people I know are smart and passionate, with a lot of domain experience. I hope that this gains wide adoption.
Corporate volunteerism: Not the why, but how (for companies large and small)
The ads for it that YouTube has shown me have been deeply underwhelming. A "mildly amusing but trivial" video isn't particularly helped by having the amusing-but-trivial thing happen on one half of the screen while someone "reacts" on the other half. And, yeah, the "amusing" thing hasn't even been all that amusing.

It could be wonderful, but I'm entitled to assume that advertising is "best foot forward" and conclude accordingly.

There's a frequently-quoted XKCD cartoon about how the world is so big that it's always the first time that someone has heard about something. It's always someone's first time to watch some silly cat videos, crazy pratfalls, and stupid stunts. We all do it, and I'm not going to say there's anything wrong with it. What I will say is that it never seems to be a sustainable business; things like TikTok seem to burn through the available "fresh new underbrush" really quickly, then it's another year or two before the next hot thing like this shows up and quickly burns through all the people for whom this is new.
A Matter of Particular Concern: India’s Transition from Biomass Burning
Shield AI Fundamentals: On Planning and Controls
I’m interested that many people seem to be under the impression that inaction is never the right solution.

If the choices are ”we must do something, even if it’s the wrong thing” (a fallacy) and doing nothing because we aren’t sure - I prefer the latter. Anyone with government experience should understand this.

In this case, the truth is Warren isn’t sure. No one is. This entire thing isn’t Standard Oil, it’s just a hollow campaign bulletin point to get her name used.
Hey HN!

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I travelled some 11,000 miles across the US & Canada as part of the Churchill Fellowship, to explore best practice and the use of tech in helping a wider range of businesses engage in corporate volunteerism.

Having met some 60+ leading corporates, high-growth start-ups, SMEs and thought-leaders (such as the UN and WEF), the result comes in the form of ten Benchmarks defining strong corporate volunteerism execution which are applicable to companies of varying sizes (established, high-growth and SME). My aim now is to support companies in strong volunteering delivery in the education world specifically, through my start-up Prospela.

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So there are email addresses, that if properly used, will keep my email from being read within the confines of Russia? You might label that a bug, but I'll call that a feature.
It's because this blog is for mainstream audiences who don't know what GitHub is and might be scared of all that code-y stuff if they accidentally clicked on it.
> Hope that the 800 does not have the same issue.

No "hope" required - it doesn't.
That's the problem with groups like this. Are we really going to get back to the point where we can just type in our own identity providers? Stackexchange was the last big site that I used which still had OpenID support and it had less than 1% usage:

https://penguindreams.org/blog/the-decline-of-openid/
On “Open” Distros, Open Source, and Building a Company
It would be cool if someone published the software on the internet.
You're right. I was wondering how this company is able to collect such data from real users. It's registered in an apartment in Cracow, Poland, a 1-person company till last year (here is their company info in polish: http://www.krs-online.com.pl/perfops-sp-z-o-o-krs-10397838.h... , still an apartment address) . Now looking at the Network tab in Developer Tools I can see they are running the tests from JS on their site using visitors of cdnperf.com. I can see requests for URLs like /500b-bench.jpg?t=1552402827417 to various domains.
Insiders Can Now Mirror Their Android Phone Screen onto Windows 10
Exactly, how many thousands of very strong engineers are there in SV and most of them are not coming up with great businesses.
Turn Video Surveillance into AI-Powered by DeepCamera with ARM GPU/NPU Support
This is an outstanding article with life-changing insights. Everyone should read it. Certainly explains a lot of awful and baffling things I've seen and experienced.

Unfortunately, though it lays out the problem clearly, it doesn't present much in the way of solutions, and indeed, there may be few good ones. It may be that sex and mating is ultimately just a Kobayashi Maru, not so much to be performed successfully as with a dignified, sad grace.
I was confused too. When it worked on non Firefox browser it was a pleasant surprise. I'm guessing this is just to promote Firefox browser. Wouldn't surprise me if they added higher file limit after usage grows and with it a paid tier :)
Tropical jellyfish, eels and sea butterflies are pouring into California’s coast
There is both a visual and aural indicator. That being said, nobody (except Bonin) knew that the PF had his stick completely back until it was too late.

You can see more here: https://safetyfirst.airbus.com/app/themes/mh_newsdesk/docume...
This seems pointless but I'll clarify the main thing in case you really haven't understood my point.

> You've failed to show that receipt freeness introduces something else that fundamentally "breaks" which wasn't in the original system, despite repeatedly claiming this is so (see also "They fix this issue and introduce others", a claim made with absolutely zero evidence).

The issues that are introduced are exactly all that attack surface that I described how to exploit. You keep insisting that the math checks out but that's not in dispute. The mathematical properties of a well designed electronic system are fine. It's the actual engineering realities of such a system that makes it massively easier to exploit. All those examples I gave and many more are now failure modes you have and didn't before.

> Are you asking what the advantages of e-voting are?

Yes. I live in a country that has heavily invested in e-government but runs very efficient paper elections. I go in on a Sunday at my convenience and get the results for the whole country 2 or 3 hours after the polls close, extremely accurate predictions maybe an hour after. I know of no advantage electronic voting would bring that would be worth the extra cost, let alone the risk and complexity. It's a (very poor) solution looking for a problem.
three.js have marked it as a wontfix and referred it onto Firefox. It's sitting in Bugzilla as a 6-month+ old bug.

Safari and Chrome both had to work around the same thing, so it seems like there's some contention around who is to blame here.

Either way, three.js is (partially) broken for Firefox users.
Scientists in Japan greatly improved speed of charging of Li-ion batteries
> the next generation of great American tech companies can flourish. To do that, we need to stop this generation of big tech companies from throwing around their political power to shape the rules in their favor and throwing around their economic power to snuff out or buy up every potential competitor.

This is part I find interesting. If there is a difference between the titans of now vs old, its that they behave like Kronos, swallowing any potential threat for fear someone may disrupt them as they themselves had done to the original mammoths, not brushing off the threat they know is there, no matter how small.

But, on a separate note, I think that the current anti-trust philosophy isn't equipped to deal with companies whose business isn't driven by physical products, or behaves a certain way in highly competitive markets (i.e. Apple).

Matt Levine often talks about how practically, modern anti-trust in the US isn't there to regulate bigness, but protect consumers via promoting price competition.

I can see that they have a lot of power, and some of the effects that power can have, I just struggle to see how potentially impacting the way these businesses operate leads to better outcomes for consumers and citizens as customers.
> I submit that this is a convenient excuse.

More of an observation that people will tend toward their local maximum utility even while global utility is compromised. Sometimes you might discover a way to increase both, but for most ongoing concerns the way to balance the two is via laws and regulation.
If you use Apple devices, it's called AirDrop and works surprisingly well. I use it a lot, between computers, phones, and ipads, within the family and sometimes with other people, too.
> - Fastly: the most technically advanced CDN, but also one of the most expensive ones (there is a reason why StackExchange and Reddit moved from Cloudflare to Fastly)

Especially with the crazy SSL pricing. I appreciate there are technical difficulties, but LetsEncrypt has been out what - 2 years? And Fastly still want $100/month for a shared certificate.
I think this is the big thing the previous poster is missing. The technical writer isn't going to go out in the wilderness with a copy of the source, assume they understand it after reading it once, write the documentation, and hit publish.

Broadly, good writing (even poetry, fiction, and creative non-fiction) has a deceptive amount of research involved. One of the subtle skills of a good writer is knowing what they don't know, and knowing how to fill the gap.

Whether they're flagging things they don't understand as they go and resolving them in bulk, or regularly checking their understanding with maintainers as they encounter problems, a good technical writer isn't going to just pretend they understand.
The redefinition of the term 'monopoly' to just be 'large marketshare' is very dangerous.

However, as a bit of schadenfreude, its nice to see the leftist big-tech receive the unintended consequences of their beliefs.

Sadly, the realities is that they will just hire ex-regulators as 'consultants' to help enshrine their businesses into quasi-state protected monopolies.
The plane announces "priority left/right" and the pilot whose input is being ignored gets an indicator on their display.
React Hooks Now Available in React Native
> MTP is a horrible protocol which renders the abstraction very leaky in my experience

Nevertheless, it's still removable storage that can take the place of the most common use case of portable flash drives: moving files around from one computer to another. Which is explicitly what we were originally talking about.

Pointing out that it doesn't work for some other use case that you yourself brought up doesn't make any sense. That's not what everyone else was talking about.
Somewhere else I saw posted "two's a coincidence, three's a pattern." Right now we're at two.

I'll be genuinely curious to see what results from the investigation -- if this turns out to be a knee-jerk reactions from politicians wanting to look good (when it really is a coincidence), or if this will turn out to truly have been a failure of the FAA's safety processes, and the US will appear negligent for not also banning.
I upvoted you. Yes, APT was the major reason I chose Debian 15 years ago. It was much better than RPM without YUM (it wasn't part of RH systems back then IIRC).

Nowadays the competitive edge of APT could have diminished, but I never looked else where because I have been quite happy with APT.
Controlling a mobile phone while driving while using your voice is definitely a thing.

And I suspect if you have your phone hooked up to your car stereo, or integrated using Google or Apple's in-car docks, then using your voice to play music is also possible.

I think your point about not having a good model is correct, though, for anything other than basic uses (phoning, messaging, playing music, navigation, weather, etc)
Here's what young talent wants, at least, this is what I want:

- Give me a powerful enough computer that it provides me no hindrance, with a couple of decent sized widescreen monitors so that I can see everything I'm working on at once. The more balls I need in the air at the same time, the more monitor space I need.

- Allow me the latitude to pick my own tools without shoving your security policy down my throat every 10 minutes.

- Give me room to speak my mind freely and consider my opinion with the kind of respect that's worthy of the paycheque you sign me every month.

- Don't mire me down in meetings and process beyond what we need to effectively produce dependable results.

- Provide some occasional time that we can gel as a team.

- Show me where I can get food and tea for a reasonable price. Free tea and milk and a kettle that actually boils water if you really want to impress me.

- Allow me the facility to work from home without complaint if needs dictate.

- Trust me to do the job you pay me a small fortune to do. Treat me with the kind of trust you'd expect to be treated with if you were in my seat.

- Judge me based on my results, don't micromanage me. You're not my Mother, I'm not an infant. You hired me because you believed I can do the job. I can. Get out of my way and let me.

- Recognize everyone's contributions to the team. I don't need awards, but I do want the occasional "Hey, you really showed up for us this week, it was a critical week for our success and we couldn't have got through it without the contribution you made. You really made a difference and helped pull us through it. Thank you."

Realistically, most of my list is about being provided with decent tools, treated with respect and being allowed to do my job without hindrance...and tea.

I don't need gimmicks and bowling alleys, table tennis, sleep pods, etc. I'm happy when I feel like I'm providing a meaningful contribution. I've paid my dues many times over and I continue to pay them every day, but I'm not here to impress you or claw for recognition. I'm here because I can make a real difference. So let me.

Edit: Although, if there were a free gym with decent equipment and showers onsite, I wouldn't knock that. Perhaps spend some of the money from all your other gimmicks to pay for a handful of personal trainers we don't have to pay for and allow us enough time during the day to work out - i.e. lunch break or whatever.
How do I get one of these outside of the UK? I'm also trying to find the Beatrix Potter and Shakespeare coins.

Edit: https://www.royalmint.com but it's going to cost me... a lot.
I think that farming out so much of the certification to the manufacturers can lead to problems as they work to make things "lean" when the easy gains have dried up.
Wow, this is really awesome and really cool! First I've heard of it. Just tested it and it worked great.

Is it possible to audit the tech? Is Firefox send open source?
I'd say the Alexa is more like birth of the personal computer. Computers weren't very good in the mid 1970's.

Now that companies realize there's a product here, there will be an arm's race. Look for big improvements in next decade. Lots of people and billions of dollars are about to go into making these products better.
Lots of people could make electric cars and rockets ("spaceships" lol) if they were handed 10s of billions in investor funds and government subsidies. It's really not that special of an accomplishment.
GitHub Status – Incident on 2019-03-12
The content on the Internet ranges from "free" to "paid subscription":

1) We have volunteers that curate content and they have limited time. We need to be gracious, courteous, and thankful for their effort.

2) Businesses are providing content and generate revenue via subscription, advertisements, or data mining our input. Put another way, in the last two cases we are the product.

In all cases the content will be biased because humans are biased. We deal with that by reading content from multiple points of view and apply critical thinking and reasoning skills.

We also have to continually remind ourselves that there are people with disruptive agendas - both individuals and collectives funded by nation states that have an agenda. How many times have you been notified that your information has been compromised?... Jurisdictional issues make it hard for law enforcement agencies to track them down and shut them down. The situation reminds me of the caricature of the American West in the 1800s - a free-for-all. To be forewarned is to be forearmed. We need to take security seriously.
FBI accuses wealthy parents in college-entrance bribery scheme
Just like Vine... and Snapchat... and MySpace... Who would've thought people grow out of apps targeted at young people.
Presumably the aircraft that keep dropping from the sky.
I appreciate you took the time to run a test to answer my question. Thank you.

Firefox might consider keying off the initial IP seen upon retrieval and extending the TTL of the object until the final byte has been retrieved.
I am surprised it is possible to get a corporate credit card without a human’s name or identity tied to it.
Which kubernetes resource do you recommend?
I am thinking to take the CKA Certified Kubernetes Administrator certification.

What learning resource do you guys recommend.

Course online
Books
etc.

Appreciate your advise.
I disagree. I think Ben's main point is that regulation needs to be a vector, while Warren is proposing a scalar.

He agrees with her for raising this, and does think that some regulation should be in place, but sufficiently understanding the underlying nature of the problem is important to do less harm than good.
According to the participants in that Twitter thread, the prices are somewhat randomized in a certain range (€13 to €18).

Some people suspected that this might be A/B-testing similar to the tests Netflix ran in Italy, but others are reporting that the price they end up with after going through the subscription process matches what they were initially shown.
This is anecdotal, but a trend I am hearing from companies in the cloud hosting sector is that because Ubuntu has been a stronger desktop OS (better at "just works" out of the box, particularly on laptops), developers who use it for their desktop then choose to use it instead of RHEL for servers when they are deploying in their enterprise jobs (use what you know). The result is a rapidly growing usage of Ubuntu for enterprise servers. RHEL is still dominant, but the usage of Ubuntu is significant and continuing to grow quickly.
Very well could end up being a “Toyota unintended acceleration” type event. Being that it is a newer model operator error is just as plausible as a design or mechanical flaw.
Venture capitalists have subsidized the creation of platforms for low-paying work that deliver on-demand servant services to rich people, while subjecting all parties to increased surveillance.

Spot on.
> In Air France 333, the pitot static tube, which measure airspeed, was jammed by ice.

In such a case, all of your 10k sensors would have been iced.
Optix was developed a decade ago and doesn’t require RTX cards. It run on any Maxwell or newer card. It’s NVIDIA’s version of RadeonRays.

What NVIDIA is trying to sell people is a denoiser.

And are you sure RT Cores even exist or are they just tensorcores by a different name?

https://youtu.be/3BOUAkJxJac
How is the word "spec" not anywhere in that article? And HTML isn't statically typed anyway, so, while using Hiccup does introduce a bit of complexity, static typing isn't going to solve that, however, spec can bring back a lot of the functionality HTML-aware editors give.

Edit: Oh, 2015. Should be in the title.
Could you expand on this or share pointers to any articles/posts on this?