skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm wondering if we're talking past each other because each of us has a different idea what "delegating" means in this discussion. I'm not against consulting various "fact checking" services to help inform my opinion and help uncover pointers to relevant evidence I can follow up on my own if I wish to. I would however neither trust their impartiality, nor believe that they have some inherent magical expertise that would make them vastly better at those evaluations than me (in both cases: what would the selection function for this look like and why wouldn't it equally apply to news in the first place? News sources don't thrive by giving their readers hard to swallow, non-partisan facts and evaluation – they are inherently tribal).

But "delegating" to me means completely offloading some task to a third party, even if it's one you've vetted before and maybe periodically check on.

To me, delegation in this sense for what news sources I expose myself to offends both reason and civic virtue.

I don't believe in the existence of particularly trustworthy new sources with broad coverage. That such trust is misplaced is easy to verify by picking a few particular examples where you can dig in a bit yourself. Therefore one should be able to get useful information from people one disagrees with or even believes to be evil or dishonest, as long as they're at least periodically willing to make cogent, evidence based arguments. I can despise Tucker Carlson and still agree with him on his evaluation of Max Boot, by looking up the evidence he presents and validating if it supports his claims. Same with Chomsky, Engelhardt etc.
No! We're all the same and must get EXACTLY the same treatment, no matter gender or ethnicity.</sarcasm>
I always wonder why so many projects use the MDA/VGA font. Is it that it's readily available in a HDL-friendly format?

If that's so, I'd love to translate a couple popular open source fonts. Terminus is my usual default console favorite (mostly because the bitmap x3270 font is not in a friendly format).

Yes. I really do hate the VGA font that much. ;-)
> I am only curious if someone is playing against CLO now as "The Big Short" guys did

Absolutely they are. The heroes of The Big Short weren't doing anything particularly unusual or special. They were just using credit instruments to bet that they'd be more foreclosures than the market was predicting. There'll be equivalent hedgies doing the same with corporate debt now.

> Isn't this insurance fraud?

No because it's not actually insurance as others have said. They're using similar credit instruments to bet against corporates that the Big Short folk used to bet against mortgages.

Is what they're doing ethical? Probably not though you have to be careful. If you look at the Windstream example linked in the article, I'd argue that the hedgie is using ethically questionable methods to expose, and take advantage of, ethically questionable corporate practice. Not entirely clear who the villain is with that one. Probably both parties.
Ask HN: What to do during “wait” time at work?
What do you usually do at work when you are waiting for example on a project to build? Or when you are in an unnecessary meeting? I'd like to find something useful besides reading articles on the internet
Don’t believe the hype: We may never know the identity of Jack the Ripper
I do not understand your sarcasm here - the feature is for GSuite, which is at some level of confidentiality, isn't it?
Compaction for MRI's GC
> Real life is a little bit different though. How many option sellers are you going to find if the company is easy to drive to bankruptcy?

Well, right now, "somebody" is selling long dated OTM put options on some ETF's that are filled with +95% junk rated bonds and/or CLO's, with some of the strikes having +100k OI for pennies on the dollar (ex. HYG60P12202019), which in normal times might be easy money from selling… I'm sure the big boys have better ways of getting exposure as well.
Kuala Lumpur and Singapore are much less chaotic these days, and Grab (the guys who acquired Uber) has cut down greatly on taxi driver corruption. Traffic is still a mess, but stay out of KL (e.g. Cyberjaya) and you'll have a good time.
Meanwhile JavaScript frameworks are all the hype rediscovering server side rendering to improve performance.

I have learned it pays off longterm to watch caravans pass by.

Pure HTML and CSS with minimal JavaScript rules rendering performance.
Announcing Broadway for Elixir by José Valim: Code BEAM SF 19 [video]
Spain says microtargeting in elections may be against the law
The fact that this can be stated as a question is fundamentally connected with what the person you responded to has said. It was not a question before this (was their position) and now it also isn't a question (again, their position) because we've just stopped accepting any kind of responsibility because "I have to make money".
The article starts out with saying that drug development begins with studies on male rats and mice, but then goes on to describe difference the biological pathways for pain in men and women. That creates some obvious question. How similar is the pain pathways between humans and rats, and is it more similar than between women and men?

There should basically be 6 sources of differences. Animal M vs Human M, Animal F vs human F, Animal M vs Human F, Animal F vs Human M, Animal F vs Animal M, and last Human M vs Human F.

A difference in any of those could potential cause a wrong conclusion in a study. The question I hope researcher has is which of those are more likely to have a significant difference in pain research
The controller was the most exciting part of the announcement, for me. I think it's a really smart move to connect the controller directly to the network and not through the "console". It makes the controller a first class citizen and gives it the ability to do all kinds of neat things.
Congress’ inaction endangers black lung fund
Do you take anything for BD1 ?
The sheer feat of technical complexity in this. Distributed computing, HPC, Networking, hardware, cloud, partnering with other firms etc. It's too complex for me to even imagine the hard work and ingenuity behind it.
Even if the venture fails, I am impressed with the tech part.
Someone might say Apple is using its muscle to get that insane kind of money from Google. It's almost like ransom.
I'm guessing so they don't get people signing up where there are no other users anywhere nearby, and then posting bad reviews when their device never connects to any other devices.
If you err on the side of extreme violence, I think it is perfectly possible to arm machines with "good" results. If making "mistakes" when targeting things or people horrifies you, then maybe you are correct. I posit that the state does occasionally care more about results than about whether or not they are horrified (obviously not every state is the same, but certainly the superpowers are like this).
Spotify vs. Apple Tax
Strategies for the Expected Job Apocalypse
I find checked exceptions interesting. They happen to be the only example of an effect system in a mainstream language. Anders Hejlsberg formulated the main argument against them here [1]
Basically the problem is that checked exceptions are infectious and intermediary code needs to annotate all the exceptions of code that it calls. Which is a chore. Lucas Rytz states in his PhD thesis [2] that the problem is not wich checked exceptions themselves, but that in the java implementation 'not mentioning an exception means if won't happen'. He proposes a system where the default is 'any exception' and being able to turn it off with a compiler flag. And states that the developer experience of that would be much better.
This may become possible in Dotty Scala using the effect system based on implicit functions. But that's in 'proposed' status.

[1]https://www.artima.com/intv/handcuffs.html
[2]https://lrytz.github.io/pubsTalks/ the link to his thesis doesn't work anymore. I cherry pick some of it in my talk for a Scala meetup in Utrecht https://www.slideshare.net/yoozd/effect-systems-in-scala-bey...
> This is why the "health benefits" arguments for legalization of drugs are generally a bad route to take. It would be far more fruitful to argue for legalization based on individual responsibility, personal choice, and related themes.

There's the second-order phenomenon sometimes called the "iron law of prohibition" at work as well -- legal regimes of prohibition tend to incentivize optimizing potency per unit volume above everything else (including safety).

Since THC is the chemical in marijuana that, to first approximation, gets you high; prohibition (through that "iron law") has engineered a prevalence of high-THC marijuana strains. These strains tend have lower amounts of other, less/non-psychoactive cannabinoids such as CBD. Notably, there is research showing that CBD has anti-psychotic properties, which likely counteract the deleterious effects of THC that are mentioned in the article.

For the record, I'm not a marijuana user (the smell alone disgusts me), I don't subscribe to the "weed is a harmless drug"/"weed is good for you" meme-theories, and I don't wish to promote irresponsible drug use -- I'm just pointing out that the set of incentives that prohibition creates are very strongly responsible for making drug use needlessly dangerous (for users and society at large alike). It's not about the health benefits of the drugs, it's about the health benefits (or the lack thereof) of prohibiting the drugs.

And yes, prohibition is definitely still the law of the land, regardless of state/local-level "legalization" initiatives that withhold punishment for small "personal use" amounts or the like. People _still get_ searched/arrested/convicted/jailed for marijuana-related crimes, and as long as that is the case, the "iron law of prohibition" will keep doing its hideous work.
Remember the Gall-Mann amnesia effect: expert believing news articles on topics outside of their field of expertise even after acknowledging that articles written in the same publication that are within the expert's field of expertise are error-ridden and full of misunderstanding

While the article mentions the 2008 financial crisis, it does not mention that CLOs existed prior to the crisis and performed well during that time, much better than other securitized products.

> The CLO asset class has performed strongly, according to a recent report from S&P (“Twenty Years Strong: A Look Back At U.S. CLO Ratings Performance From 1994 Through 2013”), with few negative rating actions on senior notes due to underlying collateral deterioration, few defaults, and minimal loss rates since the agency started rating the asset class in the mid-1990s... Looking at the default statistics, of the over 6,100 ratings issued by S&P on over 1,100 U.S. CLO transactions, only 25 tranches have defaulted and had their rating lowered to D as a result. Based on this, S&P calculated a 0.41% default rate, or just over four tranches for every 1,000 it has rated.

The reason is that the collateral is higher in the capital structure than debt so defaults are much less likely and recoveries in case of default are higher.

I don't like how pop-financial articles talk about risk and debt. Companies aren't "risky" like a crappy car is risky. It's not that they cut corners and put lives at risk. Leverage and debt are normally conscious decisions made by the company. There is some optimal debt level that they strive for. The higher the debt, the higher the cost, but the greater return you can make. So like anything it's a trade off. I also resent the fact that any company with a non-investment grade debt rating is written off as unworthy of credit.

[0] http://www.leveragedloan.com/sp-report-clos-show-strong-hist...
I am quite confortable paying for stuff, do it all the time.

What I don't do is to pay premium for the previlege to use keyboards that break down with a single dust particle and screens that get scratched with the laptop's own keyboard, that might not be replaced without the additional Apple Care package.
To summarise; MCAS will trim the Stabilizer down for 10 seconds (2.5 deg nose down) and pause for 5 seconds and repeat if the conditions (high angle of attack, flaps up and autopilot disengaged) continue to be met. Using electric pitch trim will only pause MCAS, to deactivate it you need to switch off the STAB TRIM SUTOUT switches.
Maybe in end result they are similar.

I think though the institutional problem behind why this happens is compensation and bonus structures.

It is even more foundational in the sense that one guys that manages to land a deal is literally valued $100m to a company which seems like a good cost-to-company argument for a $10m bonus, netting in $90m. Simplistically, at least.
Sorry, I thought you were providing your definition of natural forest
Nearly 70% of Chinese who have bought an electric car regret it
This.

Can we please kill the idea of "safe email" forever. Email leaks like a sieve. In fact, It would be interesting to see if the Carbon Copy (CC:) feature of email violates GDPR.
Why is it kept in a water-filled box in the image on the news article?

Feels freaky like it is a living animal kept alive in an aquarium.

edit> https://www.quora.com/Why-are-black-boxes-put-into-water-aft...
People are social animals. Our opinions on norms (homosexuality, cannabis, murder, monogamy..) are are generated socially. Individuals forming their own opinions, sharing them, dissenting and such is what social norms are made from... Individuals are drawing from the herd brain and contributing to it.

No one's opinions are their own. If you grew up in a different time and place, your opinions would be different.
Cannabis is not actually legal in the Netherlands (rather somewhat "tolerated"), but your point is still mostly valid as there's no real reason for people not to smoke if they want to.
>The manufacturer has said there is a documented procedure to handle the situation. A different crew on the same plane the evening before encountered the same problem but solved it after running through three checklists, according to the November report.

They shouldn't have to do this routinely.
Yep. Except that the "exceptional" conditions under which the MCAS kicks in can also "occur" (=seem to occur) due to sensor failure.
Facebook Settles Civil Rights Cases by Making Sweeping Changes to Ad Platform
Twitter has some really bad autocomplete UI where invariably I am tapping something and a new result gets tapped instead.
We also agree so much with a healthy and competitive market that we're still going to appeal all of EC's anti-trust rulings against us.
So in other words according to your theory, Boeing has made a plane that is only safe in the hands of the best pilots? Better start cancelling thousands of orders then since by definition, at least 50% of pilots will be below average.
It wouldn't be hacker news if there wasn't eventually a comment pointing out that there's always a comment pointing out <x>.

It's fascinating to see this happen on both HN and Reddit, quite often even before 'comment pointing out <x>' is even posted.

This phenomenon reminds me a bit of the annoying fallacy-fallacy, or how any discussion involving -isms (capitalism, socialism) cannot be had without either or both parties pre-emptively defending against being accused of, say, the no-true-scotsman fallacy.

I've been wondering if this is a 'new' thing, or if we've always been having these increasingly meta conversations, or if perhaps I'm just getting old and tired of it.
That's true; you're right that there is a open platform between the AOSP layer and the APK apps that run on top of it.

As you point out there is a fly in the ointment (which is enhanced by Google making it very difficult to ship with anything but the Play Store).

As an app developer like Spotify, the platform is the base of devices out there in the wild and how I build on top of them which, for me, is inclusive of the play services and play store.

Android definitely is a lot more open than iOS. But when the Play Store enforces a mechanism that favors Google, it's not of a practical difference to my livelihood than when the App Store has policies that favor Apple. If you have a really loyal following, like Epic/Fortnite, it's better than nothing. But even then the barrier to your users is huge and even the most establish companies with technical user bases will have a hard time crossing it. Nevermind the fledgling startups or developers with non-technical user bases.
Trump Blockade of Huawei Fizzles in European 5G Rollout
The Mainframe Job Scripting Language, JCL
once it has been submerged taking it back out of the water will cause it to rust in the air.
Your attitude is not one of desire to understand, but rather of desire to dispute. Someone that comes across as you do can rarely be budged, so I won't waste a lot of effort.

First of all, the archetypal psychedelic (e.g. mushrooms, LSD) are some of the safest substances one can consume from a physical health standpoint. The dangers come only psychologically and, to be fair, you cannot know beforehand what your reaction will be. However, these risks can be mitigated by doing research beforehand, taking an appropriate dose, testing your substance. As for addiction, psychedelics in particular are on the lower end of the scale. Caffeine and sugar are more addictive by orders of magnitude (though this is personal anecdote).

> actually can mention something enlightening which they learned during a trip

Now, it seems like, for you to be content, you want some pearl of wisdom or utterance that would sound unlike anything that's ever been said before. That will not happen and it is an unfair yardstick. Enlightening is the state you experience during and after the experience; you simply would not believe that your brain is capable of taking you to that place.
You are comparing the rare best case scenario for EVs against the normal every day scenario for ICE fill-up. Hardly realistic
I know it's a bit old, but since I read this I cannot possibly take Tutanota seriously on anything crypto:

https://tutanota.uservoice.com/forums/237921-general/suggest...
https://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2015/Jun/58
How I'm able to take notes in mathematics lectures using LaTeX and Vim
I don't understand do you think they're listening to music or something?

Having a headset on doesn't stop you hearing noises in a cockpit. How did you think all the other verbal alarms and callouts worked if they can't hear anything?
I don't think it's a question of skill. The US has more big tech companies because of its approach to business and regulation (if that's what you mean by culture), not the raw skill of its US-born workers.

I mean, look at the leadership of a lot of these companies. They're foreign-born, typically from Asia.
I like this. Slightly related, I am planning on building a house eventually and I really want to incorporate a domestic biogas generator for cooking. Something like https://www.homebiogas.com/
The content is stored on servers run independently from each other and they usually operate with slightly (and sometimes wildly) different rules.

Users can report posts which then has to be looked at by the mods on that specific instance/server. Since most servers have a modest amount of users, and a relatively high moderator to user ratio, moderation becomes quite manageable.
"Here is a language so far ahead of its time, that it was not only an improvement on its predecessors, but also on nearly all its successors" - Hoare

http://www.computernostalgia.net/articles/algol60.htm
>Only if your chance on a "good" compatible laptop.

So there's no need of "Windows Certified"? I had a fair deal of the problems you described on Windows laptops (private and company provided, all certified for Windows, no less).

Linux desktop has its fair share of problems, but Windows runs far from flawless either. I liked Windows when it didn't spy on users but after switching to Linux I was positively surprised. And some stuff I really care for such as incremental remote backups with a decent user interface runs way better on Linux.
>I don’t understand why you are raising this here, but also arguing my same point in your other comment?

It's not the same point. In the first comment I was responding to a direct and specific thing being an aspect of the culture before and not now (namely, corporate ethics).

I don't believe that specific thing was a part of the culture in the past any more than it is now.

(Other things, though, I do believe have been better back then and worse now, or present back then, and lacking now).

In my response to you, on the other hand, I responded to a more general thing. My objection was with the part of your comment that I quoted in my response ("There’s a strong case to be made that the recent past was less pleasant for, for example, women, blacks, same-sex attracted people, religious people from any number of denominations.")

That I see as orthogonal to the point the grandparent made, and wanted to address it as I think is a common fallacy people make when responding to comment's like the grandparent's.

The past could have (or not have) corporate ethics, regardless of the fact that women, blacks, etc had it worse in society.

So, to the grandparent I respond: "I don't think corporate ethics have ever been a strong part of US culture".

To you I respond: "I don't think whether some groups had it bad means that a previous era didn't also have aspects good for the whole of society that we might want to bring back. Pining for one such aspect (as the grandparent does, even if he is mistaken) is not the same as pining for every aspect of an era -- so whether some groups had it bad in other aspects then is not relevant to the specific aspect the grandparent pines for".

Still a little convoluted, but it makes better sense now, right?
for quickly, I would have chosen a dynamic language (python, php)
Given the option, people don't flock to low paying jobs, so the market works both ways. If you want to have a good pool of good workers you have to pay accordingly.
I'm already doing it mate.

No Microsoft (for two years now), no Google (for 6 years now), no Facebook (for two years), no Amazon (for a year) services here.

The reason I don't use their services is that I don't want to support shitty companies that have no respect for the people of the countries in which they operate, and I believe these companies are primarily responsible for turning the web into the ad-infested walled-garden shitscape it currently is.

There are alternatives for everything, and some are far better than what the big tech players offer.

The difference is I'm willing to pay for a quality service. Most aren't.

Besides, those companies would never leave the single largest trading bloc on Earth. Their shareholders would crucify them for it.

In that sense, the EU is doing these companies the favour, because they make so much money doing business in the EU that they'll never leave. They'll adapt and fall in line, like everyone else.

Trust me, nothing of what Facebook, Google, Amazon or Microsfot offer is irreplaceable.
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