skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The first comment there:

> now everybody needs to use a mix of iMessage, WhatsApp, and Slack

It's funny whenever I see someone list the chat systems that "everybody needs to use" because they're always different.

The top chat systems that I need to use to communicate with my friends/colleagues are Messenger, Hangouts, and Threema. I haven't used Slack in years, since I left tech. I've never seen anyone use WhatsApp in real life, or heard anyone ask that I install it. I occasionally use the Messages app but usually just for SMS.

There's probably 10 or 12 different incompatible chat systems in common use today, and which 3-4 you use on a daily basis depends on your geography and culture and industry. And that's kind of awful.
Why does the title mentions "EU's Biggest Economies", when it is affecting all the european union ? It is a very confusing title.

The original title was : E.U. Suspends All Operations of Boeing Max Model That Crashed
It would involve creating a border between NI and ROI as the UK would otherwise have to be part of the custom's union which most Brexiteers don't want. A few other issues as well.. but that's the main one from what I can see.
> Nothing is stopping AWS or anyone else from copying your API

Aren't APIs under copyright now, thanks to Oracle vs Google?
Plus peoples own life experiences, and temperaments!
Thanks for your insight! I've been thinking of building a data heavy service myself and have been considering using Cloudflare. Your comment is very valuable.

Now when you say that you still use Cloudflare & also that you used over 150TB with B2 last month, do you mean through Cloudflare thanks to their Bandwidth Alliance? If so, is this with a regular $200 Business plan or something more expensive? I've been wondering how much of this Bandwidth Alliance traffic would truly be free like they're advertising until they want me to start paying by the GB.
Seems like a simple/interesting way for residential/commercial monitoring of utility and appliance usage.

Maybe we could teach it how to listen for leaks, too. I'd probably pay for a device that could sense anomalies like fire/flood/etc.

Especially useful to augment the senses for visual/hearing impaired folks.
> I think it's perfectly normal given how politics works now.

Yes, Trump's approval rating is dead average for President’s taking office after the end of Obama’s second term at the same point in their term of office.

But unless you reduce the domain so much that you compare Trump only to himself, it's not perfectly normal.
At the same time pre-pixel phones get features stripped. "OK Google" now requires phone to be awake and unlocked, or plugged in to work.
Good job. Now try to get trending on HN.
What you're suggesting sounds like a good idea. FreeCodeCamp has a number of talented contributors, but maintaining a consistently high quality of content is hard when there's no real "brand/editorial voice".

Good to hear that there's a requirement to demonstrate real subject matter experience. Hopefully that cuts down on the volume of articles that are merely commentary on someone else's original researched work.

Step 2 would be to outright ban "link-bait" titles like "6 things that.." "Ultimate", "Start to finish guide" "2019", etc. I know for a fact that I used to read much, much more online when writers didn't editorialize the title to fit what they think would obtain the highest numbers of clicks and shares.
Different usage profile. Instant messaging was typically used for real time conversations. Facebook messenger, Twitter DMs, etc are typically used for delayed messaging, where the messages are longer and the sender may not expect a reply for hours.
What Is Patent Thinking?
Given the uncertainty about p(crash) that I mention, then to satisfy confidence limits, you should wear a styrofoam helmet for the full duration of your trip. And post a photo.
Microsoft nearly got broken up for a much weaker version of this sort of rule.
For those going to miss HackerNoon on Medium, meet SlackerNoon!

https://medium.com/slackernoon/meet-the-slacks-5bcb9dacdaf6
Well if you read the page they go through a few possible scenarios. If UK does a so called hard exit very few companies are prepared and there will be a rough transition period. Quoting from the page "As it stands, and if nothing changes, the default position will be for the UK to leave the EU without a withdrawal agreement on 29 March 2019 at 11pm UK time. This would mean there would be no transition period, and EU laws would cease to apply to the UK immediately at that time."

This will obviously have some problematic impact short term
My biggest issue is that they keyboard shortcuts are not the same. If you could select a "Chrome" keyboard-shortcut profile that'd be ideal.
I agree that it feels wrong. But at least Elaine Chao has experience in her field. Unlike a lot of other Secretaries (ex: Perry has no experience in nuclear, yet is in charge of the Department of Energy / National Labs / Nuclear program. Ben Carson is a medical doctor, but was placed in charge of Housing and Urban Development. Etc. etc.)

Elaine Chao actually worked under Bush as the deputy Transportation Secretary and Chair of the Federal Maritime Commission. She actually knows a thing or two about how this country moves (at least how it moves stuff in the Oceans). I think her words hold more weight than a lot of other secretaries right now.

Chao's history of Maritime Transportation -> Transportation Secretary at least makes sense. Maybe its not the airline experience the country needs for this specific crisis right now, but its at least a valid set of credentials for her position.

EDIT: It should be noted that Chao was voted into her position with a Senate vote of 93 to 6. For the most part, the country agrees that she was a fine pick without much controversy. She's probably the least controversial pick in all of Trump's cabinet.
I'm daft I know but I don't get my ears de-waxed (whatever_) because I like LOUD.
If we're talking about Brendan Eich, I'm not sure how you class financial support to a bill opposing gay marriage equality a "kink" and not a "political view". If that's not who you mean, I'd love to know who did get kicked out for their kinks.

(Nor was Eich "kicked out", per se, in a top down fashion - merely the publicizing of his views practically fomented a revolution within the Mozilla community, including volunteers and donors, to the extent that it was untenable for him to continue to attempt to lead. And so he resigned.)

Some good coverage of this: https://www.forbes.com/sites/quora/2014/04/11/did-mozilla-ce...
Not sure if the overall performance but some people have done streaming mpeg on Nerves using the Picam [1].

1: https://github.com/electricshaman/picam/blob/master/README.m...
I dont think consensus is being reached on trade agreements so we’d fall back to world trade rules. Cargo will have to be inspected at borders which will cause traffic jams at the borders. It’s also just: change. People have been accustomed to freely interact with the UK in the EU. Here’s for example how our company would suffer: https://transloadit.com/blog/2019/03/changing-our-legal-enti... (we’re leaving before a hard brexit could happen)
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Another issue here is that people who are out of employer provided insurance might be ending up consuming painkillers instead of actually getting proper health treatment.
And a Datalist polyfill in the meantime https://github.com/mfranzke/datalist-polyfill (somewhat seems to defeat the nojs point though)
You can’t compare these to the UK. The US, Japan and China are all way bigger than the UK and in a different region than the UK. UK to France is 30 mins by train.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phrenology#Application
Finally. Over the past year or so I've noticed significant increases in the voice recognition lag across a handful of devices and across multiple wireless carriers.
The software itself isn't necessarily the issue, though- it's also all the sensors and actuators involved.

Suppose, for instance, that an aircraft needs more yaw stability.

There's all sorts of design choices that could be made, but consider either A: a larger vertical stabilizer or B: automatic application of the rudder to damp oscillations.

The vertical stabilizer here is essentially a bit of metal. We know very, very well what can go wrong with bits of metal. Fatigue, corrosion, manufacturing defects, bad repairs... But, in 2019, we've pretty much figured out the failure modes of big bits of metal on an aircraft, and we generally know how to prevent and/or minimize them.

Now, the dynamic stabilization approach. We'll need gyroscope data (from the IRS, probably), a software model of flight dynamics (which almost certainly already exists and is running), and possibly faster servo valves for the rudder actuator.

This can work! We can formally verify that the control system we've created damps oscillations throughout all normal flight regimes. The gyroscopes are already redundant and well-tested. And you might not even need the faster servos.

Problem is, now avionics failures are even scarier. Will the stabilization here still operate when you get dropped into secondary mode? Probably not- so now, in unexpected situations, pilots need to keep in the back of their minds that yaw oscillations are more possible, that they may need to damp them manually, etc, etc.

Now you throw in some extra factors- turbulence, IMC (which would probably make detecting those oscillations manually that much more stressful), and trying to solve whatever problem dropped you into secondary mode in the first place... and you have something a bit concerning!

A bit of metal won't do that to you. We can make much better estimates of a bit of metal's reliability, and its failures are also less correlated- they aren't much more likely to crop up when you already have another problem.
> How is the FAA responsible for crashes outside of its jurisdiction?

They have jurisdiction over the type certification as the responsible regulatory body for the nation of origin of the airframe.
A market of 450 million people vs 60 million people. I guess the rest goes without saying; no point in staying in a failing monarchy when you have the free world right next door.
As an aging guitarist, I've become more serious about my hearing after I learned that I've lost everything above 12.5k. I've switched to an IEM system live, using a Kemper full-time for my "cranked amp" sound, and always having earplugs and backups in the truck and at concerts. Nothing's worth losing any more frequencies. I hardly break 80-85db anymore.
You should contact the FBI and report this as hearsay. It might be useful in the ongoing investigation.
Fascinated to see that both white AND brown rice are more insulinogenic than white pasta.

That's one for the Mediterranean diet.
> what I meant by more expensive was the new plane costs more than if they just kept making the old design through 2019

It's the opposite that happened here: the more consistent redesign was avoided and the software trick employed (and even kept hidden initially, according to some reports) to compensate for the change that was introduced. The new planes are anyway bought, it's Boeing who tried to pass their badly fixed old planes as "improved but the same." Had they not done that, it's Airbus who would have (rightly so, based on my impression of these two accidents) sold more of their new efficient planes instead.
It's not a memory safe language though.
I don't know...I think it raises an interesting distinction between "What planet is the closest to us right now?" and "what planet gets the closest to us?" and "what planet is the closest to us most of the time?"

It's cool to be reminded that these are different concepts, even if the actual results should not surprise us too much.
Is there any way to provide incentives to devs to prioritize mac development? Like a bug bounty of sorts?

I'd happily contribute to a patreon or something if it meant increasing the chances of having a usable version of firefox on my mac at some point.
20 parts per billion isn't "consuming" aflatoxin-laden feed - it's eating regular feed with trace contamination. That there are guidelines for achieving this "safe" dilution makes you wonder why the effort is being spent there instead of using the grain for other purposes. Also worth reminding that these measurements are taken via random sampling - as per my cyanide example.

Dont intentionally feed aflatoxins to dairy animals! (or any animals, really...)
The Lion Air pilots were not even aware of the existence of the MCAS system, because Boeing at the time did not include any information about it in its manuals.

The behavior would be similar to runaway stabilizers, though, for which B737 pilots have memory items to perform (turn off the trim). This would have solved that problem. However, several other warnings and alerts, like stick shaker, might have been going off at the same time, making the situation chaotic and problems hard to diagnose.
Interesting!

From the table at the end, it also turns out that the Sun (at ~1AU) is even closer to Earth, on average, than Mercury.

(The Sun is almost certainly average-closest for Mercury itself, but unsure if the Sun would be average-closest for Venus – the table doesn't explicitly include the Sun.)
I understand it's not a fly by wire system.
I was comparing it to the other common use of AoA sensors.

Do you have anything real to add here other than "I am Very Smart and everyone else is not"?

For example, whether it is a fly by wire system or not does not change anything about what i said about the sensors.
>>And in case of the electrical system being down

That is what the RAT is for, alternative electrical power. If the entire electrical system is down, ie electrons no longer flow anywhere anyhow, then everyone is doomed. But that is up there with the tail falling off. The are no backups for the wings/tail either.
Google does not need any excuse.
Hell.js
> lenders wouldn't lend to students studying for useless degrees

And why is that a bad thing?
Small design feedback: the I character you use to divide text in-line looks strange to me. I've actually never seen I used like that before. Perhaps you want to consider using | instead of I? Here's an example of the difference: https://i.imgur.com/NRiERLN.png (top is |, bottom is what you have now).

This seems like a useful service, although I'm curious what the business model is here. Is it entirely based on the "Request review by lawyers" button at the end? Do you think that the market of people who are willing to pay for lawyers but not pay for lawyers to draft documents is large enough? (or perhaps I'm misunderstanding the angle here)
The US granted China permanent normal trade relations in 2000. Between 2000 and 2015, US imports from China more than quadrupled, increasing the decline of manufacturing jobs.

According to Autor, Dorn & Hanson (2016):

"Adjustment in local labor markets is remarkably slow, with wages and labor-force participation rates remaining depressed and unemployment rates remaining elevated for at least a full decade after the China trade shock commences"
So your theory is that Lopp is taking these steps to protect himself from people who want to hurt him because he talks about Bitcoin publicly and the Bitcoin price has come down? That is wacky.

And you also claim he is a criminal who profited from an “illegal pyramid scheme”? Does this apply to anyone who has sold Bitcoin for more than they bought it for?
"Engineer" and "capitalist" aren't mutually exclusive categories. You can wave money around all day but ultimately somebody with technical skills has to write these applications and maintain these servers.

I don't know what RMS or Knuth are up to these days but I'm positive they're not working at Slack.
That's one of the simpler UK ballots. Some of our council elections allow us to elect more than one candidate, and our mayoral and police and crime commissioner elections uses the rather oddball supplementary vote system.
Gold :D
How Discord Went Mainstream
Hey Tony from Medium, David from Hacker Noon here. We are proudly funded by 1.2k readers, what's wrong with that? Instead of raising money from VCs, we want to be accountable to the people who actually value Hacker Noon. Obviously you don't and won't.
Thank you for such a detailed feedback. This is extremely valuable and we will definitely reach out to you separately!

On each of your questions:

1. We don’t impose any license terms. It’s free to use and share for everyone. The reason being that we want people to share the news and get the benefit of AXDRAFT instead of thinking twice not to violate some kind of restrictions.

2. We don’t intend to monetize on personalization for now, but eventually we want to become a first point of contact for all startup legal work and this will become our source of revenue. We choose not to charge for personalization, because we want users to clearly feel the value between finding a free template on Google or using other services.

3. Market size comes from the number of startups and small businesses and the assumption that we will get around 100USD of fees per startup per month.

4. We will fix it and will hope for your help for this.
Yes. It looks like the UK is headed for a "hard Brexit", having been unable to agree on anything else. Parliament just voted down May's latest proposal. 17 days to go.

An extension requires unanimous consent of the 27 EU countries. The EU leadership has taken the position that they would only consider an extension if the UK got its act together and had a concrete plan that just needed time to implement. Not happening.
Wasn't Gopher fairly un-open model (initially) one of the reasons HTTP/HTML became so much of a thing in the first place?
Why can’t I set the font size of a visited link?
If there is uncertainty at the margins, the category is arbitrary.
Thanks for all the links. I sincerely was asking as a counterpoint, not to troll.

I did know about grain being used to feed cattle, but a lot of the grain they eat is not of "human quality" so saying that we can just switch humans from meat to grain and feed 800 million people is very misleading.
WhatsApp is a non-US thing. In Europe, it has de facto replaced SMS
The easy solution is for the link to lead to an interstitial that shows "do you want to view the content? It will be the only time you can do so.", and make the underlying HTTP resource unpredictable (e.g. different ID to the link) so that it cannot be directly addressed.

It's a very common and easy to anticipate issue, I'm surprised that there are any one-time-link services left that suffer from it.
From a physicians standpoint I am very impressed with the accuracy of the comments on this article. There are a few sticking points/arguable conjectures being made but overall an excellent discourse on a multifaceted topic such as insulin/glucose metabolism....
They took er jobs and gave us fentanyl
Windows user here and I agree with OP that Chrome is much faster than FF.

I have a really hard time understanding where this commenter is coming from saying FF > Chrome. Have not heard anyone else with that opinion.
Well that's exactly what "correlation does not equal causation" means
>This is just bad design though. Obviously the dust isn't settled on the whole html5 technology yet, but for anyone who is wondering how to make an SPA more resilient to network instability, the solutions are: axios-retry, idempoteny PATCH/PUT, service workers, and basic error handling.

Thing is, you get proper error messages, the ability to retry, warnings if you're about to repeat an unsafe operation etc out of the box if you don't use a SPA and render things server-side. The browser does this for you.

Sure, you can do a better job. But I've lost count of the number of SPAs and JS-driven apps where connection error = infinite spinning loader icon and no feedback or ability to retry. If you're going to willingly throw away the routing you get from HTTP, the progress indicators you get from actual links and non-AJAX requests and the browser error handling you better make damn sure you implement it all again in JS and provide feature parity for the user.

It's not just HTTP either - accessibility features like keyboard navigation often aren't implemented in React components because folks only write an `onClick` handler. Sure - the devs should've loaded "eslint-plugin-jsx-a11y
" and enforced rules that prevent this sloppiness on their CI - but it's far too easy to do it wrong and so devs do do it wrong and the users suffer from a poor experience as a result.
> As long as we don't spoil her it works.

Sounds much closer to hunting, literally targeted marketing.
I'm skeptical of that rebuttal. Are they selecting only those who had a short term unemployment for that group? Perhaps that group is exactly the group who wouldn't be in despair since they were easily able to find new work. Did they normalize that group demographics/industry type to that of those in the original study group? How do they know they aren't selecting all tech workers based on the quick rebound for instance.
Thank you for this! Very to the point. We will improve it.
When I went to college, I thought the textbooks racket was the biggest ripoff I'd ever seen. (New books every year, all at eye-popping prices.)

But loans have far surpassed that. It's like the colleges are shopping malls, and the government gives every shopper a new Visa card when they walk up to the door. The store owners are overjoyed. The people who pay for the card later, not so much.
Boeing 737 Max pilots complained to feds for months about suspected safety flaw
Your comment and x0x0’s are informative, thanks!

I guess I’m just optimistic that there is a solution which won’t require such high cost of placement fees, in addition to other costs. It seems hard to argue that the current PM system is efficient. Maybe it’s just the case that there are good PMs and bad ones.
Interesting that they're using RNN transducer. I thought everyone's moved to CNN lately.
I was under the impression that MOST opioid addictions are caused by an opioid prescription. This would have nothing to do with your current job status.
I wonder how many of these parents tried the "more legit" route, like offering to donate to the school? We'll never know...
> ex: Perry has no experience in nuclear, yet is in charge of the Department of Energy / National Labs / Nuclear program.

Not only that, but in the 2012 debates, Perry proposed that he would want to eliminate the Department of Energy as president:

> Gov. Rick Perry couldn't remember the third federal agency he has pledged to eliminate. "The third agency of government I would, I would do away with, the Education, the... Commerce and, let's see," Perry said, as his brain freeze continued. However, a few minutes later in the debate, Perry remembered that the third department was the Energy Department. "By the way that was the Department of Energy I was reaching for a while ago," he said with a chuckle when he was asked another question.

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/rick-perry-fails-to-remember-wh...
Hrmm, Gboard only? Does it mean they don't/can't use this model for voice commands? I do sometimes dictate messages to my phone but my main use of Android voice recognition is Android Auto commands to navigate or play music.
Ask HN: What chance (if any) do I stand of landing a job with H1-B sponsorship?
The summary:

- British national
- Around 10 years programming experience, 3 in a senior dev capacity.
- No degree
- Consider myself very competent and capable of being productive very quickly in many web stacks. Lately done a lot of react, node, go and PHP (symfony).

But here's the thing. I'm by no means "outstanding". I'm not some rockstar giving talks at conferences 5 times a year and a blog with hundreds of thousands of views.

Is it enough to be a "regular" developer, albeit an incredibly productive and capable one? Or is the lack of a degree a blocker?