skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Dan Elwell, the acting director of the FAA, is both a military and commercial pilot.

Also important: he's a lobbiest for the airline industry.

It made the news when he was confirmed because of his ties to the industry. He is the Ajit Pai or Betsy DeVos of the FAA.
Why does that matter? There are plenty of natural things that are scary as hell, and plenty of unnatural things that aren't.

The reason you don't see it in nature is that macroscopic organisms never evolved a continuously rotating joint. It's a hard problem for evolution to solve; how would blood vessels cross that boundary?

But of course machines have no such constraints, and the wheel and axle is hardly a new (or scary) invention.
NewsGuar doesn't block any content. It provides ratings of news sites. How does that control what people see, read, and ultimately think? It doesn't even verify or refute specific stories, just overall publication credibility.

It's also not really technology. It's a bunch of journalists doing ratings. Technology is just how they disseminate the ratings, but a lot different (and more accountable) than some kind of AI that tries to do this.
So it's not true?
You can just look at the case history.

https://www.justice.gov/atr/antitrust-case-filings
That's a huge stretch. The fix was to work around a certification requirement that the control forces shouldn't decrease as the aircraft approaches the stall. This is a long way away from the aircraft being inherently unstable.
" in order for the provider of an information society service explicitly requested by the subscriber or user to provide the service."

If I need to get explicit opt-in for "So, remembering your shopping cart when you come back requires cookies, that okay with you?" I'm not sure how much better that would be. It's still gonna be information overload "false positives".

But I think that is what the regulations actually intend. "We need cookies to give you: Shopping cart; search history; login to your account; whatever -- opt in or out to each one, you can still use the site just without those features if you go out."

A) That is actually fairly expensive to implement.
B) I think it _still_ wouldn't accomplish the goals, it's still _way too much information_. Nobody cares whether or not you use cookies to implement a shopping cart. They care about things related to "tracking", especially aggregated tracking, and profiling.
C) But you are exactly right that no company is ever going to tell you what you _really_ care about. Unless regulations make them maybe. These regulations were trying. Not there yet.
What's the difference between this and Eventbrite?
If that's the case, could Spotify work around this by mailing something to the customer every month (like a "Certificate of Subscription")? That way it'd technically be a physical good.
I just wish there was a way to channel more resources into bug fixes.

https://github.com/SublimeTextIssues/Core/issues

1268 open vs 1428 closed issues is not a good ratio. Maybe they could offer a subscription model to finance another dev for bug fixing.
Launch HN: Travelchime (YC W19) – Doc for travel planning with friends
We're Peter and Harry, and we're building Travelchime (https://travelchime.com).

Travelchime is like Google Docs for planning vacation travel with your friends' recommendations. It lets you add places and attractions you're looking to visit to a doc, export them to Google Maps, and collaborate with your friends who've been there or are going there with you.

We used to plan our trips using Google Docs and Sheets, but it was a pain. We'd write the documents, then had to add the same places to a map for when we're on the trip. We also often sent these out to friends who asked -- there's nobody whose recommendations you trust more than your friends -- but it's hard to find which friends have these docs.

We built Travelchime to solve this. With Travelchime, you can:

1. Add all the museums, restaurants, and places you're staying/want to visit to a doc on Travelchime, and see them on a map with their opening times, links to Yelp, and more

2. Share the doc with friends on the trip or ask others for recommendations: multiple people can edit/suggest at the same time, just like Google Docs [1]

3. Export the places to Google Maps for when you're on the go

4. (Optional) Read some itineraries from around the web to get inspired! We use basic machine learning [2] to parse itineraries for the places they mention to help get you started

5. Once you’ve gone on the trip, you can share the full itinerary with notes to inspire your friends

We haven’t monetized, but will eventually link out to hotels that work well with your itinerary and get affiliate commissions there.

We've gotten a ton of support from Hacker News in the past: when Yale shut down our courses website, Hacker News rallied and got the attention on it to save it (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7060261), and past HN launches (e.g., for WrapAPI: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11423070) got us our first paying customers. We love the direct feedback we get, so if you're planning a trip soon, give it a shot and let us know what you think either here or by email at peter@travelchime.com!

[1] To enable real-time editing, we use Quill (https://quilljs.com/) and ShareDB (https://github.com/share/sharedb), both amazing projects. We had also tried Draft.js, Slate, so if you want to chat text editing hit us up!

[2] A combination of Google's Entity Recognition API, Google Maps' APIs, and human checkers

[3] For those curious: we <3 React and have an all-Javascript stack with Node.js and MySQL on the back-end
I have my own ad that I made for a client. No third party is offering these kinda of ads because of fraud.
Well they claim they do: https://duckduckgo.com/duckduckbot

I should check server logs at work, I don't run my own web servers, so I can't claim to have seen it.
That's what I do (for personal projects where I don't care about complex commit-graphs) and I do call it version control.
The WWW before cookies was pretty limited, and didn't last long. I mean, the first web browser was released in 1990, and cookies were introduced in 1995.

We didn't have e-commerce before cookies.
Eject gonna cost extra with Ryanair
https://lobste.rs/s/drw8uh/power_types_idris
> I'm also not aware that...

It was the goal of _decolonization_.

Edit: And my point is that making a hard separation between colonial and post colonial circumstances is a mistake, as many of the post colonial issues trace their reasons to colonial decisions.
Which you should do anyway because relying on SMS is only slightly more secure than not having 2FA enabled at all...
This one?

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/i-dont-care-a...
I think you have cause and effect reversed there. The candidates aren’t low quality because they face difficulty. The administration’s candidates face difficulty because they’re low quality.
A Third of America Cannot Be Diehard Trump Fans
Yes, but (at least in New York) the school choice system still drives a non-trivial number of families to flee to the suburbs. Parents really value predictability, and the competitive application process doesn't provide that.

I'm not saying it's a bad system, but there's definitely a trade-off there.
This is solid advice.
You have provided me with a lot of wisdom, making the mistake a little "worth it" to be honest.

Thank for the wise words.
We seem to be abdicating leadership in every area of international policy. Except for maybe incarceration numbers.
We are truly in the "revolution" part of the Information Age now. Our social and legal structures are as ill-equipped to handle problems like this as the Georgian-era England was able to handle things like millions of its people becoming factory workers.

I don't know what the future is going to look like, but, man, we're going to be going through some shit to get there.
In case of the advertising availabe for small sites with a handful of staff (ad networks) untargeted ads pay much less (even 50% less or more) and that revenue may not be enough to keep the sites operational.
Hail Ghidra!
Meanwhile in Russia they are talking about disconnecting their network from the rest of the world.
Some test gone south?... Maybe...
Someone has a traceroute handy?
Isolated horizontal scalability? Sure, microservices aren't the end all be all of architecture design but let's not act like they "bring nothing to the table" technically.
Ad Network Sizmek Probes Account Breach
You are right on this. Maybe they will take the hint, and treat me better.
This is no surprise.

I am of Haitian descent, my parents both immigrated to the US in the 70s and 80s and just this past holiday my aunt told me a story about how she paid hundreds of dollars for a fake passport to obtain passage in the US.

Ever since Columbus arrived Haiti has been a semi-lawless zone where something shady is probably going on facilitated by foreign powers (usually the French and Americans). The amount of corruption in this country is so great it's hard to imagine. Haiti is the poorest country in the Western Hemisphere and if you were to cumulatively rank all Western Hemisphere countries governments we'd probably be at the bottom as well.

It's tough to see because Haiti has some potential. The northern port of Labadee is a tourist destination and other parts of the island could be too with the correct investments and stability in government. It's one of the largest nations by population and land in Central America / Caribbean and labor is so cheap that it could be a great spot for American multi-nationals to set up shop. I always wonder when Haiti will get on it's feet and experience growth like Vietnam or Bangladesh. I guess the answer is still: 'not any time soon'.
DynamoDB has transactions now.

https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/new-amazon-dynamodb-transac...
It does matter why they have them, if you're using their having them as evidence that something else is a problem.

Swap out "instability" for "drab paint jobs" and see:

> I disagree that "drab paint jobs are not a problem". In military aircraft that have drab paint jobs it's common for everyone in the plane to be in an ejector seat or to have a parachute. Can you provide statistics on how many (or what proportion of) military planes with inherent drab paint jobs routinely carry passengers without parachutes?
Yes, steep is an understatement!
The cost to serve the page is a misleading number to use. You also have to factor in the cost to create the content, manage the service, etc.

I mean, by your argument, all digital goods should be free, since it never costs much to transmit the bits.
and autocorrect - it's doubleplus bad
I don't understand your argument. Obviously, if you refuse to delegate any decision you make to experts, you will make worse decisions. If evaluating news media isn't your full-time job, you will do a poorer job of it than someone who was trained to do it and has years of experience and context to do it with.

You seem to be under the weird impression that I'm saying all experts are trustworthy. No, obviously not. I don't trust Max Boot (I trust Tucker Carlson far less). I'm selective about who I delegate parts of my decisionmaking to, and you should be too.

Again: the point isn't that NewsGuard is good (I have no idea if it is). The point is that the very concept of NewsGuard doesn't offend reason or civic virtue.
I can see both sides of this. Having read most of nih.gov /PubMed, it is easy to see how some research can easily be classified as paid advertisements. They are quite easy to spot once you have read through enough research. Telltale signs are a lack of prerequisites, lack of reproducible methods, lack of test subjects, lack of funding references, lack of email addresses. Some folks have even found it rather easy to get fake research papers published without anyone having actually vetting the data. So in summary, I believe some of the blame falls on the scientific community for not doing a better job policing itself and making it easier to report pseudo-research to moderators using a publicly transparent methodology.

In terms of the patients getting frustrated with a lack of acknowledgment of their issues, I believe that is due to a misconception about the medical industry. It is very rare to find doctors that will "color outside the lines", so to speak. If a medical condition is not well documented and accepted by the medical industry and insurance companies, then a doctor is risking a journey down a rabbit hole and risking the patient being frustrated without having a clear path to a treatment (for symptoms or a cure). It is frustrating for everyone involved, but I don't think this is something that medical professionals can do anything about. I have no idea what the right path is. For my own issues, I have considered starting forums for scientists and biohackers to share findings, but I am just lazy and busy enough to kick that can down the road.
In other news, productivity everywhere skyrocketed!
Do you want to explain why you believe it's not [HN worthy] news?
From cameron90 above:

Shopping baskets, load balancer cookies and login tokens are fine (provided you only use them for those purposes!).

Third party advertising tracking cookies are absolutely not (without consent).
Thank you for your input.
What if Spotify takes your phone number and sends you a text link to sign up to pay?
If the person who called in the anonymous threat declines to come forward its hardly up to Tesla to disclose their identity.
True, I have been trying to steer clear of the "centralize everything on our servers" trend in tech lately so I keep forgetting about that one...
Meanwhile, even though the _only_ user-tracking we do where I work is Google Analytics (no advertising features) (and you say your lawyers say you don't need consent for that) -- the official word on high where I work is all our websites need the stupid "i consent to cookies" banner if we use cookies.

So, yeah, it's a mess. These "extra" warnings are contributing to user fatigue, I agree with troy hunt that users are just gonna ignore them all. I also understand why a small organization can say "Well, I don't really understand if we need it or not, the lowest risk thing to do is just to supply it." And there's no law _preventing_ you from supplying an unnecessary pointless cookie warning banner...
To be even more clear, this happened because early versions of Unicode consisted of fewer than 2^16 code points, and this was thought to be enough. In 1996, Unicode 2.0 was published and allowed characters whose encoding required more than 16 bits. This necessitated UTF-16 which allows expansion up to 32 bits to represent characters in higher planes (and is compatible with most text that had been encoded in UCS-2).
In medical instruments, we preferred to eliminate a failure mode rather than mitigate it (when possible). That's not the same as saying "just don't build the device".
According to this article[0] the height difference is not significant:

> Across the United States, the average black man and the average white man are roughly the same height and weight. According to what data are available, such as information taken from Centers for Disease Control and Prevention surveys, the average white man older than 20 weighs 199 pounds. So does the average black man. Height averages for black and white men are within a centimeter of each other, with the average white man being slightly taller at 5-foot-10.

[0] https://www.chicagotribune.com/g00/news/nationworld/ct-male-...
Nasa's Mars rover Opportunity leaves us with one final, glorious panorama
I wish these games would still have that effect on me. I mean, I can totally see it happening back when I was 20-25 years old.

When I try to start factorio, df, rimworld today, I can see the systems, I can feel the ocd style appeal and feedback loops grabbing me, until I realize after one hour that 1) this is just the same as work, 2) someone else has already optimized the crap out of this, better then I'd ever have time for and 3) I might be better off doing real work instead, lest I feel guilty.

I then uninstall the game, never to return. It's pretty dreary as ultimately all games end up as thinly veiled optimization or grinding boxes that can be tuned, if you only put in the effort. Recent triple a focus on grinding, addictive elements and microtransactions have made this worse.

I've been thinking a lot about finding a genre or mechanic that would still "work", but I find it sad that I cannot get the long term enjoyment without worry anymore from games as I could years ago.
Bespoke, artisanal data.
That's a lazy-evaluated value, if the function is pure.
Boeing have taken a hit to their reputation, Bombardier and Airbus rejoices at the news. but wtf is up with FAA, I thought this was a no-spin zone.

I just watched the documentary on the guy that created the Joe Sutter, such an amazing feat, I have no doubts Boeing will recover but its the FAA I'm worried about and their delayed response.

No way I'm going on a boeing
We telnetted into places.
If they say yes, you store a cookie that says they said they accept cookies. If they say no, you keep asking them.
From the article:

> Another form of system hardening you can use is containers.

Let's not forget the 8k+ vulns on the top ten docker images, and the general security implications of containers.

Like, let me run my data export from inside the publicly downloaded container that connects to the database and hasn't been locked down, because who actually audits and hardens their containers or manually configures their docker runtime?
> Why use both [UTF-8 and UTF-16]? Western languages typically are most efficiently encoded with UTF-8 (since most characters would be represented with 1 byte only), while Asian languages can usually produce smaller files when using UTF-16 as encoding.

The second sentence is technically correct, but it's a strange followup here because it's not why UTF-8 and UTF-16 exist today. I don't know any Asian webpages that use UTF-16 to save bandwidth, e.g., Japanese Wikipedia is still UTF-8.

The major use of UTF-16 in 2019, AFAICT, is for legacy operating system interfaces.
That's the trust issue with current agreements we are solving.
If an API is down the bound agreement is enforced instantly with our platform, no lies, no call, no pain.
We are actually onboarding companies to try it out!
https://stacktical.com
While running Windows, as long as it isn't some modified version of it, there's always a risk that Microsoft could be collecting information about you. A VM is supposed to simulate a computer as accurately as possible, and shouldn't have any impact on the information Microsoft can collect about you.

I wouldn't say it's insecure though, it's mostly a matter of privacy.
They were probably well into the process of purchasing the aircraft when they realized the extent of this issue, and might already have made financial arrangements that made them hesitate to back out. If this is a short grounding that is resolved by substantially the same measures as Southwest has already instituted, they'll look pretty smart. I wonder if airlines can buy insurance against losses due to problems with newly-purchased aircraft?
All day. 10-12 hour battery life easily.

I also opened the chassis and added Liquid Metal (Grizzly) TIM. The little i7 stays pegged at 4 GHz without throttling and presumably also improves battery life.
Unfortunately the AI software used to censor fake news from facebook has decided, again, to censor facebook :D
So I really am not going tp be convinced here. Just cause this guy's ego is so huge that he goes and pokes his nose in places he doesn't belong doesn't make him a contributer. I don't care what his fluffer Jim says.
wow. this aired in 2011!
Bob Ross videos, but depends if you want to learn about awesome nature views and mountains with snowy peaks :-)

Bob Ross, my tv painter hero

FD: I don’t paint

Edit: scrolled 2 miles more and happy to see more bob Ross fans
yeah pretty sure it's that one. It works as advertised so far, basically restored the web back to how it used to be pre cookie spam.
Which is irrelevant, because session cookies don't need a warning. There is no reason to equivocate session cookies with tracking cookies.
It's the result of government interference everyone around here loves so much.
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Awesome, I didn’t know he was on Netflix too
"the government" as in >we the people< says to all the restaurants (and groceries): this stripping of all of our clothes before entering is nonsense and we can't choose not to eat, so we will force you.
Right, but if you increase the power, you increase the moment.
I went through a similar thing which resulted in me removing cookie warnings from all but one of the websites I manage, yet I still believe that the law is stupid. It's like outlawing guns to solve your murder problem without considering all the other murder weapons all while keeping the act of murder itself legal.

As far as I understand it, the GDPR does everything and more than the cookie law was supposed to, so IMO it's about time we put that disaster behind us.
Exactly. The plane might well be perfectly safe in properly trained hands, but it seems rather obvious by now that it doesn't fly the same as a regular 737.
We have a running joke that we run macroservices, which is really just a 4 way split of our monolith once the team grew large enough.
I absolutely love the way the Elixir/Erlang + OTP projects (even within frameworks like Phoenix) decouple code organization / administration from the software runtime itself.

You can have both ^^ (and every tradeoff whichever extreme you feel more comfortable veering towards).
"Whistleblower" - The guy is a lose cannon. He's only a whistleblower if his claims were actually true. At this point I cannot see why anyone would believe his ridiculous claims because they made no sense and were contradicting.
Apple should take no cut, and profit only from the sale of hardware. By taking cut on software they are double dipping. Good software makes the phone more valuable for users and drives phone sales.
That's not quite right.

On the web, your approximate unique ID is your browser fingerprint. That can be used to join your activity to other activity.
Your session cookie is your activity for your browsing session (or for users who never quit their browser, your entire computer uptime).

Think about it -- a cookie is information the web server gives to you; it's essentially a bookmark to your current position in the app. The server already knows where you were -- it saw you there!; it just doesn't know that you want to go back there on your next HTTP request.

Tracking data is data you give to the web server. Cookies are only one primitive to enable tracking. Cookies can be replicated by URL query parameters, subject to size constraints.
That just looks a lot for personal use. I know people who click on a message and spend that kind of money each month for coffee during lunch break.

For me personally, that price is nothing. I would pay twice as much and each employer had to buy it if they wanted me happy in text editor regard.
I actually laughed out loud when I got to that sentence.

Glad that I still work in plain ASCII.
While there might be issues of regulatory capture (ie too much influence of the regulatee (<- not a word, but it should be...) on the regulator)), my personal opinion is that there were two consistent courses of action:

1. Ground the MAX after the reasons for the Lion Air crash had became clear, as it's not airworthy.

2. Do not ground the MAX, as it's sufficiently airworthy.

This new crash had not provided enough information initially to conclude otherwise.

However, the FAA is sort of arguing that there is now enough new information from the second crash to support the decision to ground it.
Another Roguelike game called ADOM that has been around since the 90's was brought to Steam with upgraded assets and sounds a couple years back.
Do they expect a user to re-enter their password every time they click a button on a website? Without requiring cookies how do they expect a session to persist between pages?