skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
For anyone who is old enough to remember when airbags first came onto the scene in cars, they were sold as optional packages.

Most car manufacturers called these "safety packages". These optional packages were sold basically in the same way as you jokingly mentioned above. "Buy this optional package and when you hit a tree at 50mph, this will keep you from flying through the windshield and will probably save your life."

I actually remember a conversation that my parents had with eachother when I was young about whether it was "worth it" to buy airbags in their new car. Yes, that was a REAL conversation that Millions of people had and a decision they had to make for nearly 25 years before airbags became standard in cars in the late 90s.

Lots of people felt that the optional saftey package weren't worth the money and many people died through the '80s and '90s from car crashes that they would have survived had they splurged for the "safety package" when they purchased their car from the dealer.

It turns out that when people are buying cars, they aren't planning on crashing them. So spending extra money that only helps them when they crash felt unnecessary. These packages could cost in the neighborhood of $2,500 extra. Which on a $20,000 car is over 10% extra! Would you pay 10% extra for a safety package if cars today didn't come with standard safety equipment?

This is what led to the USA making airbags mandatory in 1998, forcing this safety feature on manufacturers in order to save lives.

I imagine the 737 AoA sensors were sold as the same thing. Boeing sold this as a "additional redundancy package" or "safety package" and probably included many other features as part of a larger package.

Just like thrifty car buyers of the 70s, 80s, and 90s who figured they didn't need airbags in their cars and opted out of the safety package. The budget airlines of Lion Air and Ethiopian Airlines had a good history with the normal 737 planes and figured this additional safety package wasn't worth the money.
Indeed.

Mnemonist [1] is a library which looks more like what you're looking for. There are some performance benchmarks here and there on the web, comparing the performance of their data structures with other....

[1]: https://yomguithereal.github.io/mnemonist/
That makes a certain amount of sense. I'm not too surprised seagulls would be ok in the presence of cats. They're large, fairly powerful birds. Crows also seem more common in SF than they were in previous decades, and again, I'd expect crows to be more resilient facing a predator like cats. They're large, highly intelligent, pretty tough, and fight in groups.

Here's the thing - to a large extent, the birds you mentioned are urban birds, by and large. Seagulls are very coastal, but as you said, they eat trash, so the population will be very large in coastal urban areas. Crows also tend to flourish in urban areas. Pidgeons are notoriously urban creature, and while I've seen cats prey on them, they don't seem as vulnerable as smaller song bird species.

I'm interested in whether these smaller songbird species are present in Rome or Istanbul or other places that are cat-heavy, though there are of course factors other than cats (some regions wouldn't have these species regardless of the presence of cats).
Internal vs external. Recruiter vs sourcer. Direct hire vs contract placement.

Your 95% messages are probably coming from external sourcers working on contract placement roles. Their motivation is to get any type of lead and pass you up the chain.

My experience is to ignore them if the job is not relevant or they seem scamy - and to ask simple questions to quickly screen them (who is client? what is salary?) Suddenly 95% of them disappear.

Edit; Turn this setting off: jobs-->career interests-->"let recruiters know you're open"
"How Not To Die" -- http://www.paulgraham.com/die.html

Why? Because it reminds one that one of the most important things to do is just "keep going". Of course there's nuance to that... "keeping going" if you're going in the wrong direction isn't a virtue. But in the context of what he's talking about, and allowing for changes in direction, it remains the case that:

If you can just avoid dying, you get rich.

Also, bonus honorable mention:

"Schlep Blindness" -- http://www.paulgraham.com/schlep.html
OK, you want XMPP. But without the many XEPs, something with a monolithic specification. And you like to use the latest trendy hipster stuff, like JSON over HTTP instead of XML. Then you get:

Monolithic, Awefully Trendy Re-Implementation of XMPP (M.A.T.R.I.X.)

Which is also a dedication to XMPP, which has been invented in 1999, the year of the Matrix film.
Types of user segmentation and what they mean for your product
> The reason they are less safe is because our infrastructure is setup for massive lumps of steel.

It isn't. If you want to go 60MPH on an ebike, it's not just hitting a car at 60MPH that will kill you, it's hitting anything at 60MPH with nothing to protect you from it, including the ground.

The only way for something with no airbags, crumple zones or even seatbelts to be as safe as a car is to limit the top speed to about 20MPH, at which point the collective response will be "no" because you're tripling the length of everyone's commute.
.Net Core Web API with Docker Compose, PostgreSQL and EF Core
You could buy a Poco F1 for $285 - which does 8.5k on geekbench. The bonus being that it's also a phone and has an open ecosystem (with an official LineageOS port).
If you don't wear makeup, you will often not notice others wearing makeup if they use just enough to enhance their natural appearance and hide blemishes.
That's one reason to gently push the others into public transport and bicycles; leaves more room for those who really need a car.
Yes. We can certainly survive without a car, but that life will be different.
Uber & taxis are difficult when you have small kids, because it is much easier to have carseats installed in own car.
Also it is much much easier for a family to go out for picnic, riding bicycles, swimming, or doing all sorts of outdoor activities.
Perhaps not in the U.S., but Europeans could definitely sue their employer if private messages are read (which Slack explicitly supports).

Slack is a shady thing and I'll never install their desktop app, which presumably is full of user tracking.
I think the article is quite specific and articulate about the problem: "Employers of low-income workers listen to phone calls, conduct drug tests, monitor closed-circuit television, and require psychometric tests as conditions of employment."

This makes government surveillance (as serious as it is) feel like a distant, abstract issue.
> to connect their iPhones/iPads to their computers

Why do you need to connect your iPad to your computer? I have never connected mine - everything goes through the cloud or Bluetooth. Are you developing apps on it? That's a pretty niche use-case.
Anecdotally my experience has been the inverse.

Number of my files lost by cloud drive providers: 0

Number of my files lost by me because I'm a dumbass: Tens of thousands, including some of most cherished family photos
Agreed, I feel like Heterdox Academy is one of the few collectives that actually care about solving the problem rather than blaming their outgroup. https://heterodoxacademy.org/the-problem/
I'm 25 and work in software and I have found it to be a decent (not amazing, but solid) daily driver given you're willing to put up with some annoyances.

I use the app Termius to allow me to SSH into a VPS and my home server and do development. I don't really do web development in my free time so I don't have to worry about the pains of not having a js console. I also develop almost exclusively in vim, so paired with the magic keyboard it's basically a very lightweight laptop.

It's great for Lightroom, with a dongle (everyone's favorite thing) you can connect your camera and upload RAW photos, then edit them with Lightroom and upload to your favorite site.

It's wonderful for Plex/Netflix/Hulu. Offline viewing is amazing, battery life is better than my laptop by far so it lasts long spurts where I can't charge it.

For creatives, there are some amazing digital art apps. My friend hypes up Procreate every time we talk about iPads (he's also 25/software and loves his iPad Pro).

And lastly, it's about $1k cheaper than buying a MacBook Pro (which I had previously). I was able to trade in my 2013 MBP and old iPhone and made the final cost about $300, which is much more palatable than the extra $1k or so I'd need for a machine that doesn't really need that much computing power.

Disclaimer: I do use a MacBook Pro for work (running VMs, development in vim) and it's definitely easier (has JS console, can do development without internet, can use IDEs that don't exist on iPad).
While I was working at NASA I was told by a colleague that Trump canceled the asteroid deflection program that was being ran at the LaRC facility. Now looking for a reference all I can find is news about him starting an asteroid deflection program because of this incident.

I'm not sure of the details since I was working in an AI research department.
Where I grew up there were three Kindergartens and two supermarkets within walking distance. A short bus ride away were many more. How many options do you think are necessary to avoid the bad behavior that you fear?
It's all the diesel cars. They pump out a ton of particulate matter that you don't get from petrol.
In my experience, the people who proclaim this are generally not talking about the scientific method, but about specific theories. Generally evolution and climate change (and the safety of vaccination is becoming an issue as well). It's amazing for example how many of these people will turn around and believe hormone-replacement therapy creates a level playing field in sports between trans-women and cis-women.
The opening paragraphs of this article are just another example of what appears to be an ongoing attempt to manufacture conflict between "religion" and "science". The books that were burned at Ephesus were explicitly identified in Acts 19:19 as sorcery books, not "books of nature". Stuff like this gets published in Nature and people wonder why "science" is losing its credibility?
When will we have a world where OpenTable has to signup to me? And I release/sell/donate none/some/all of my data to my friends/family/companies/whomever I want?

Who's working on this?
That wouldn't be a step up over religion, that would just be religion.
The scenarios are a bit different, but MH370 dominated the news cycle for what seemed like an eternity...
All operating systems suck! Linux just sucks differently every time a new kernel is released.

http://harmful.cat-v.org/software/operating-systems/os-suck
I think the argument that Jio’s prices must necessarily go up is suspect. For one thing, the article does not present any reason this should be the case, other than prices being higher before Jio. But the other is that Jio’s business model is equivalent to Xiaomi’s. For Xiaomi, the phones are sold at a price that basically recovers costs, so they can make money off services. Jio is basically doing the same thing, only using its network instead of the hardware as a subscriber acquisition strategy.

It’s very possible that the strategy may not work, but if it does (and the article provides no evidence it won’t, in fact, it reveals that Jio is actually making more money per subscriber than the average telco), then there is no reason to believe prices will need to go up.
So do you stay away from many processed foods like chips, frozen meals, and pre-packaged cold cuts?
The Surface Pro has never had any USB-C ports.

Microsoft released a Surface Connect adapter only last year, and it has terrible reviews: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/p/surface-connect-to-usb-c-a...

The Surface Go, Surface Book 2, and Surface Studio 2 are the only Surface devices with USB-C ports.
Maybe try to have kids do stuff that are compatible with the schedule then, and not the other way round.
I bought iPad 3 in 2013 (I was 25). I liked it a lot and spent almost all entertainment time with it: web, movies, books, games. I even used it for work a little bit (to present design to customer). Unfortunately with iOS 7 release it turned to potato and I never used it since then, except for occasional PDF reading (I'm reading epub from phone, but for PDF big screen is a must). I waited for that announcement and I expected them to update cheap iPad. I would buy it. But I'm not sure about that iPad Air, it costs too much and I probably won't buy it.

Actually funny thing is, it's iPad that led me to Apple ecosystem. I liked iOS a lot and then my old phone broke, so I had to buy new. When I realized, that I can buy iPhone 4S and have the same iOS that I'm using on iPad, it was almost a non-brainer and later I bought Macbook, because it felt pretty natural to keep using Apple product and I wanted to develop iOS apps. I shifted from macOS recently (Apple does not make any computers I would like to buy), but I'm still using iOS on my phone and I like it.
Amazon isn't perfect, but I sure as hell trust Amazon KMS more than most others out there.
Millions of people around America get their kids around the neighborhood just fine without a car. If you continue to insist that cities be designed around your limited vision, then you should be forced to pay for the full externalities of your car-centric lifestyle. The rest of us are tired of paying so you can waste our resources.
That really doesn't feel representative
What's worse is that most of these people do it for the because it's a fashion, harmless, gives you instant media credits.

In the days when it was most needed (in the segregation times, when gay and AIDS was a dirty word, etc) only people with balls supported those minorities, and those people could not care less about BS "politically correct" names and such.

Now, everybody and their dog support causes just because it's fashionable and scores them points.

Such opportunists are worse than active bigots -- if Nazi's where in fashion, they'd score points by being nazis.
Calling someone out as a charlatan is worth saying.
Also, you can install Android apps, so if you have a stylus enabled machine, you can use good note taking apps like onenote or squid. Linux sadly still lacks a good handwritten annotation/note taking app (to my knowledge).
If you lead a child by the arm against their will, is this tantamount to physical violence or no?

If we're busy redefining what is the acceptable behavior in parenting, we better discuss this all the way to the limits.
I think you’re right. I have one but never use it. My dad, however, in his 70s, loves his. He still has a laptop but rarely ever uses it now. The iPad is basically his computer.
>People who live outside cities still need cars. The manufacturers try to fill that need. The manufacturers, sellers, etc. make the economy go 'round.

Sometimes I wonder if it has to be that way- how much more does a light rail or bus line cost than a highway does to connect smaller towns?
I see your point but it is slightly flawed. Slack has a relationship with a customer. AWS in theory does not.
"doesn't have the vulnerability" is an unfalsifiable claim, so the onus is on researchers to prove that it does have the vulnerability.
I control it because I almost never take the time to make reservations. In fact, places in which a reservation is necessary almost by definition means a degraded experience for me.
...MySpace lost these, too. Damn you Tom, I'm not proud of you.
How do buyers trust you that your data is actually legit and not something you made up?
A definition of violence that doesn't distinguish between a completely non-injurious form of discipline and an abusive, injurious form is not very useful and its proponents are willfully obtuse.
Charging, transferring photos and MP3s. Granted many people are using wireless (airdrop, iCloud etc) but not all.
Religion and science derive understanding about the world in fundamentaly different and incompatible ways. To call it religion is just incorrect.
Oh hell yes.
I wonder if just using standard OTR over slack for sensitive stuff is viable.
If it's meant as a punishment it's not "to get their attention"; it's done to inflict pain. Again, it wouldn't be acceptable with an adult; just apply the same standard.
No, the regular home consumer won't know what to do in 5 years time when one of the disks is failing but all they can buy is SATA when it's expecting an IDE connector.

Also, next to no one knows what those terms even mean.
Because they want to do a manual backup instead of just iCloud?

Because it was initially designed and delivered that way?

Because they like manually managing music and videos?
etc
I gave one to my mother and father to use to manage their email and surfing the web while at home and RV traveling; many parks of wi-fi and there is always McD. They are just the right size to easily portable and big enough with pinch/zoom to make easy reading for even poor eyes.

the logic was it kept them from being stuck in the room with their computers. even laptops seem to find permanent homes but not a tablet. my father even figured out to use his cell phone as a wi-fi hotspot.
It makes sense that very minor differences don't require extra training if the differences have no meaningful impact on cockpit design or flight characteristics. But in this case, flight characteristics were clearly different, and MCAS was supposed to compensate for those differences.

I don't know how they measure such differences, but you'd think that different engines, different aerodynamics, and a new control system to compensate for those differences, are enough to warrant a new type certification.
I'm pushing 38 and an executive and iPads of various generations (which I have refreshed yearly) have been my main working/travelling machine right since the release of the very first versions. I still have a i7 MacBook, a specced-out quad-core 2012 MacMini (with dual CinemaDisplays) and a trashcan Mac Pro, but somehow the iPad (currently in it's 11” iPadPro incarnation) is always my favourite tool both because of its portability and because of its focus. You'd be amazed what I can do locally on this machine: construct, symbolically solve, and make predictions based thereupon mathematical models being one of the things that surprise people most. Writing and locally executing Python code. Storing versioned copies of business plans.
Well, LKA would actually help to stay in lane while drunk, no?

That thing has a good default that is still overridable by the brute force (force that's less than the force needed to steer if the power assist fails altogether).
Potentially but not necessarily. Two thoughts:

1) I may not need to see the data itself during most (or all) of my dev loop, but just see any errors that are thrown.

2) Taken as risk mitigation, data temporarily cached in your browser is less risk than data permanently stored on your laptop, esp. when the threat you are mitigating is lost / stolen laptop.
The iPad mini is extremely popular among pilots. The iPad Pro is too big for the general aviation (and even commercial aviation) in my opinion, and iPad non pros so far does not have enough oomph to run ForeFlight.

Source: I am a pilot.
They are great for playing digital board games: Carcassonne, Ticket to Ride, Agricola, Colt Express, Patchwork, Twilight Struggle, Pandemic, Splendor, Castles of Mad King Ludwig, etc.

Though there is also something to be said for the eye sight factor. I'm in my mid-40s and my focusing just doesn't work as well as it used to. Its becoming increasingly difficult to do a lot of reading on a small screen like my iphone 8+.
I use a mix of porcini/shiitake/maitake powders, nutritional yeast, MSG, stock bases (with their hydrolized proteins), fish sauce, soy sauce, Vietnamese mushroom seasoning, and Worcestershire sauce to control my umami, and they all have their specific uses. Nutritional yeast and fish sauce are the most likely NOT to go with the flavors of whatever I'm cooking, and MSG can literally go into anything as long as I know I want to use it prior to doing the final salt edit.
FBotics: Python Client for Facebook Send API
Wait... you are saying that a dog can solve differential equations better than an accomplished mathematician?

If so, please explain.

I'm guessing it has to do with chasing rabbits, but I suspect there are quite a few pro linebackers/jugglers/baseball players with similar abilities.

Just because a being is doing a physical thing well, it doesn't mean they are "math-ing".
I'm not sure that the problem is missing manpower on the implementation side - it's more that it's hard to know as a developer which current blend of XEPs is the recommended combination and which might have the most chance of working between a given client & server (and server & client) combo.

Things like the XMPP compliance suite XEPs have helped a bit with this, but looking at the XEP list and trying to work out which XEPs you should be using on a given day is still daunting - as well as trying to track which clients are most likely to be supporting them.

The idea on Matrix is that you say "Hi, I talk Matrix CS API 0.4" and be done with it - and you end up with much more social pressure to keep up to date with the current latest spec, because otherwise you are simply falling behind (rather than happening to chose not to implement some XEPs).

It boils down to a question of governance & social dynamics rather than anything related to writing code (magically or otherwise).
y, sounds like a change like this:

The system, known as the Maneuvering Characteristics Augmentation System, or MCAS, was incorporated because the plane has larger engines placed further forward on the craft, and so has a chance of facing a stall at lower speeds than earlier 737 variations.

Would require more training than a few hours.
> I used to work at Tumblr, the entirety of their user content is stored in a single multi-petabyte AWS S3 bucket, in a single AWS account, no backup, no MFA delete, no object versioning. It is all one fat finger away from oblivion.

Remember when Microsoft lost all of the data for their Sidekick users? Basically they were upgrading their SAN and things went badly.
You can call it a fourth-order bundle of holomorphic consequences if you like. The difference is fine enough to slice a silk scarf in two.
Just installed ruby-head (ruby 2.7.0dev (2019-03-18 trunk 67296)) and it works very well!
Spotify, the Apple App Store and Why Progressive Web Apps Rule
Looks like it to me. Look at who was involved, at who they are connected with. These are well-educated people operating at an international level. They are rich elites.
Then look at who gave them permission to setup cameras: a central government. And their supporters are international organizations. Did they have the support of the local mullah? Did the local police approve the project? Did they hire local hunters to help install the cameras? Who retained the copyright over the images? This looks like the very typical situation I described above.
AR Apps in the Wild
Depends a bit on how you define successful and legitimate. Online gambling? Funding Alex Jones when the respectable won't deal with him?
Maybe you live in SF? Not every city always has good weather. Cargo bikes are useless for most cities because of weather (rain, snow, winter cold, summer hot). It's useful for fun when the weather is great, but not as a main way of transportation.
In an economy of very poor people it's possible that having dirt cheap prices leads to more profit overall. In economies where people have money it's guaranteed to go up because it's essentially leaving money on the table.
There is a word for it, "Scientism"