skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The strong version is hilariously easy to destroy: if you're cognitively limited to your language, then you cannot create new words, let alone new concepts. Since it is patently false that no new words or new concepts are created, by Modus Tollens, it is also false that you are cognitively limited to your language.

The weak version seems true to me. I think it is absolutely the case that your language colors your thought.
Is there a polite way to call them scum-sucking bastards?
Space isn’t the only place women don’t have the right gear
I only posted it because it didn't mention Alibaba was the parent company in the article.

Maybe the article author would have had more luck getting a statement from Alibaba since it has a more significant international presence compared to UCWeb Inc.
Travis CI has been having trouble with Linux builds for close to 24 hours
The source article is attracting some heat. But, this aside, does anyone else think the meta-questions about the FAA and their relationship to Boeing, and the 'same type' certification process begs questions?

I "get" that people wanted this. But a regulator has to ask a subtly different question: is this actually in the wider public interest which is not neccessarily what Boeing wants.
Fully agree that Boeing should have disclosed MCAS, why it's there, and details of its operation to the folks flying the planes. If I were a pilot I would certainly want to know about such a system, even if its behavior is not normally something I have to deal with. Sort of like a stick shaker. It's there for safety near the extremes, but it's not something a pilot ever encounters during line flying.
Sir, your assessment of this particular joke is excellent. We should start a joke approval committee to avoid further confusion.
> Is this person a thief? Have they stolen from you?

not directly, but they sure have redistributed that wealth you originally had. Whether it's legal or not depends on the law, and how much power you can wield.
One of the great things about capitalism is that it has some redundancy and resiliency. Competition may also lead to new features (markets), etc. On the other hand, this is duplicative and wasteful. Contrast the duplication (redundancy) of the capitalist system to the one producer model of communism. Less duplication but less resiliency and less ability to find new features (market). I think when a market is young and returns are high that it makes sense for many producers. However as a market matures, we can shed some of the duplication and allocate it to other new markets. If the monopolist restricts quantity sold? Easy, it increases the tears for a new entrant. The system manages itself in this way (in reality no system at all, it's decentralized coordination).
I'm not saying you have to have specialized aircraft (although, as it has been said, a "swiss knife" tends to to it all but less effectively).

I'm saying you can't easily compare two combat aircraft. You have to be very specific when doing so.
Old new from October 2018?
Finished my PhD in quantum computing three years ago now.

My first post-doc was in laser-matter interactions. We had an experimental team that were focusing PWs of power on to ultra-thin films and separating the substance into its constituent parts (electrons and protons I mean). The plan was to increase the proton acceleration yields & make a consistent, tight bunch (in the energy spectra) so that we could use it for next generation cancer treatments. That's a long way off and no-one really has a good idea what else we can do with this system.

That annoyed me. There's not enough application or relevance there. So I've moved to Earth System science. I do a lot of global climate-economy coupled models & attempt to implement climate models with human decision making as a part of the system rather than some form of external forcing.
The Cult of Homework
You forgot that this initial on boarding transaction is just a tiny step in the complex process you have listed above but this tiny step is already a significant barrier that prevents more than 200 million users to open a channel per year. This is already assuming that those channels never have to settle and no other transactions happen on the blockchain ever.
If your degree is focussed on the US political space, then you were being instructed by people who were way outside the norms of that political space and had an incentive to present a warped view of it. Of course a political science department, being full of actual real-life communists, would incorrectly claim that fascism is on the right.
The New Politics of the Retirement Crisis
Will add Go Modules
As you suggest, it's not always incorrect to shift and rescale data for visualisation. In fact, that is exactly what a linear correlation calculation does: the data is shifted to have mean zero and rescaled to have variance one, then the covariance is computed.

The real problem is that often, the two timeseries being compared are too simple to demonstrate whether there is a relationship present. If they're both essentially straight lines as in the Butcher's Dog graphs, you may see a spurious relationship.

What you need -- in unscientific terms -- is to see one timeseries do something weird, and the other timeseries reacting to the weird thing in a manner that fits the narrative. Straight lines don't really do that, but often the first difference of two timeseries that look like a straight line will be good enough.
I wouldn’t say it’s particularly exaggerated; the “gay voice” is basically male pitch ranges with stereotypically feminine prosody and/or alliteration (I don’t say this as a mockery at all; there’s a documentary on Netflix that goes into the origins of this).

Though I do agree that gender norms are largely cultural — but it doesn’t change the fact that a Spanish man sounds “gay” to most Americans.
I highly encourage everyone to go look at the hall of fame, it was extremely eye opening when I first did!

Even knowing there is an exploit in the code, I probably would never be able to find most of them. My favorite is 2008's winner who's goal is to write a redaction program to redact text. It doesn't use any buffer/array hacks, the code is very straightforward and simple and small, and it would work in languages other than C. It's a terrifying example of how easy it is to write malicious code that would pass multiple code reviews but still has a backdoor!

http://www.underhanded-c.org/_page_id_17.html
World's First Computer Art
To be honest I don't understand what being agender means. I respect whatever presentation and choices you make for yourself even if I don't understand it.

I just don't think things having gendered presentation is an issue. There are many languages with a female sun, male moon, female Earth, male oceans, and so on.

I don't think making assumptions that are true of the vast majority is necessarily wrong. What's wrong is reacting negatively and rejecting someone like yourself who doesn't wish to participate in the concept of gender, and that's cool, but communication based on gender is still efficient in most cases.
There is nothing awesome about SRE (most of the times)
I think Steve is reacting more to this not being a compile error.
Or, "How to get the attention of 18 to 24 year old operators of mission-critical equipment"
> 1) That's an absurd leap to equate porn viewing with being an abuser. Perfect example of the puritan mindset that is very out of date.

You misquoted your parent post. The parent did not say that viewing porn is abuse. The parent said that sending porn to other people, or watching it in front of other people without their consent, is abuse.

So, to state it outright. Watching porn is not a form of abuse. Watching porn in front of someone, or someone sending you unsolicited, unrequested porn, is a form of abuse.
The Vendor Is Not the Enemy
Moving to Hugo static site generation hosted on Netlify
In the state bitcoin currently is it wouldn't even handle the on boarding process of those 500 million users. The blockchain would be congested for years.
The Plight of the Graying Tech Worker
"Age discrimination for older software engineers is real."

Can't say I've seen this in Ireland, I found that good experienced developers are highly valued. Do you think it's worse in places like SF than the rest of the USA ?
Show HN: Causal logging for scientific computing with Eliot
The First Church of Artificial Intelligence (2017)
:) funny to reflect that I used to call JavaScript and html dev fake developers
If someone wants "the facts", are you aware of any publicly available information that does a (in your opinion) fair/accurate assessment of the pros and cons of the available CAS platform options? (Weblogs, forum posts, white papers, etc.)
Interesting, in Fall of 1988, University of North Dakota was using Modula-2 as the starting language for their core classes having switched from Pascal in the Summer. The classes were taught on an IBM 370, so students also got to learn the joys of Xedit, IBM terminals, EBCDIC, and batch processing. They only used Ada for the Software Engineering class which I took and was very disappointed in, but not the language which I liked. Lisp was not fun on the VAX.

One of the things I'm a bit ticked about is that they moved the CompSci program from Aerospace to the School of Mines and Engineering. So, just as the drone era is starting they move CompSci to better align with other colleges. What a crock.
SRE as I see it being implemented in various places is a glorified name for cruel on-calls. I'm afraid that the larger the organization the worst and farther from optimal it tends to be. I'm putting this resource here mostly as a future ref as I prepare to test the waters in that role and I'm afraid that the odds are not good.
Kong Raises $43M in Series C Funding
I would love to join a reading group (on slack or another messaging platform) on this book.
I’d actually be interested to see how it performs under heavy voice compression (such as a phone system).
I'd take a squad of dudes with AKs and full auto fire capability over a squad of dudes with ARs. Your tactical options are so much better when you get that extra tool in the toolbox.
That's a amazing. They made a plot and then drew an unrelated scribble through Norway.
Without actually knowing the truth, my guess is outsourcing: Cisco thought it would be a great idea to save some cash on technical staff so they now do a lot of the grunt work through company X in country Y.
You've described a union and said that you hate the things which are not necessarily something a union does. So you want a union that works well for you. I think that sounds reasonable.
AWS App Mesh – service mesh networking across ECS, EC2, EKS, Fargate, K8S
If it's not a challenge, it's not fun.
Of the various estimates that go into this number, I am most skeptical of the semantics one. I doubt that one can draw a clear line between our semantic appreciation of language and the totality of our remembered experiences.
'More accountability': Unilever creates its own network for trusted publishers
I still question the Air Force doing it at all if the F-35 is the answer. How long could the F-35 have stayed above the troops that night? The gun capacity is just awful.
Norsk Hydro cyber attack cost estimates up to $41m
Internal emails show Facebook knew about Cambridge Analytica months before news
>I don't see a valid counterargument in your response?

Yes, there is much you do not see.

>UNIX was not designed to stop you from doing stupid things because that would also stop you from doing clever things.

You've employed another ridiculous comparison by failing to notice that the "you" in this quote is root. Users of UNIX are every day all day prevented from doing stupid things.

Try, please, to remain planted on the ground of this planet, concerned with its history.
And if the US had been the one to capitulate to communism we'd be quoting stats about the lack of income growth of their workers in contrast to the wealthy.

Viewing the health of a nation on the growth of their income isn't necessarily telling the story. Soviet inflation was almost unheard of save for hyperinflation shortly after the revolution, and hyper inflation after the collapse. Also as investment wasn't as much of a driving force since the economy wasn't private, so infinite growth isn't necessarily a good indicator of the state of things.
Did you try https://getawair.co.uk/ ?
That's funny, because technically the answer is B.
Google hasn't ever really "gotten" podcast players. Their first attempt (Google Listen) was basically a bad UI around a special Reader folder -- so you could accidentally mark a podcast as read while you were flipping through your RSS feeds.
>What income bracket is your circle?

High enough that they can afford an iPhone but low enough that they treat it like a treasure they don't want to have to replace unless they've had it at least five years.

I'm surprised at your suggestion that lower income people would be more likely to go through phones. I could definitely understand this for cheap flip phones on a pre-paid plan, but it was my understanding that Signal and WhatsApp are smartphone-only apps, so I figured lower income people especially wouldn't be flying through phones that cost hundreds of dollars.
2 planes crashes in less than 5 months. So yes, there was either a system engineering failure, or a completely inept decision in choosing an oversized engine for an antic airframe. Your choice.
> This is schizophrenic at best, verging on brain-dead/bananas most of the time.

Given how many people have let their kids drain their bank account by letting them play on their phone, I disagree.
> > The weight is roughly a volume measurement while the neck size is a linear one.

so "percent change" is a different dimension in the two data sets, respectively.
Actually, they want the Cisco box because it has those 'badges' and that then allows them to check off all the check-boxes on the semi-annual security compliance report paperwork they have to file with some other department.

But you are right, they don't care if the box is secure, they just care that they have a CYA that allows them to "check off their own boxes" on their reports.
> Suppose they did originally do what the fixed software does now, and disable MCAS if the AoA sensors disagree. The problem Boeing face is that with MCAS disabled when this occurs, the plane no longer flies like an older 737....

But it’s been reported that this was an option you could buy when you bought the planes. And the crashed planes didn’t have this option.

So if that’s correct, then any plane shipped with this optional package would require the recertification. But it appears they don’t either.

If they did it would show up as very suspicious and I’m surprised nobody has reported on it:

Here buy this plane without this optional package and you don’t need new training.

Or buy it with the optional package and you need to learn about these new components we’ve added that may be disabled and undergo new training.

It seems too obvious.
I changed it back to Google.

curl -X DELETE https://www.jsonstore.io/9cfa993cd55704f2254949dc21a5f3a7a63ae2c6425fb242b575a1951d359b69/AaaaAaAaAAaaAAAAaaaaAAaAaAAAAaaAaAaaAaAa
curl -X POST -H "Content-type: application/json" -d '{"AaaaAaAaAAaaAAAAaaaaAAaAaAAAAaaAaAaaAaAa": "https://google.com/"}' https://www.jsonstore.io/9cfa993cd55704f2254949dc21a5f3a7a63ae2c6425fb242b575a1951d359b69

I was considering pointing it to my GitHub instead, but decided it was too shameless.
Aside from that - is there really a way to express neural connections in the brain in terms of bits and bytes?
I feel like beavis constantly thinking "FIRE FIRE FIRE" at work
Your numbers are incorrect. 1m transactions per day is almost twice as fast as the theoretical capacity of Bitcoin. (~600k transactions per day assuming 7tps)
The limit definition of differentiation is definitely intuitive, but epsilon-delta refers to the most common definition of what it means to take a limit. It's also simple, because when you say it in words it makes perfect sense, but it's not at all obvious why someone would define limits in such a way, or what the alternatives are.
Intel Blasts Nvidia for 'Inferior' Self-Driving Technology
> "big boy" tools

I read that as "big boy stools".
I think that's his/her point. Norway is obviously an outlier, so fitting the curve through Norway makes absolutely no sense!
I rode on a similar service in Switzerland, where it's the only way to get a car across a mountain pass in a couple places. As one would expect from the Swiss it's a model of efficient operation, but even in that context it only seems like it really makes sense when there's a reason, like a giant mountain in the way.
Working at a startup that does b2b software it's pretty clear. "Tail wags the dog" development and placing the highest priority on C-level personal relationships
>Ask the Russians if you can buy some SU-25 Frogfoots. It's the best CAS in the world.

\laughs in CIA supplied MANPADS\
Could be Wilson:

https://github.com/seattlerb/wilson
I agree with the navel gazing and blinkered thinking prevelant at the Beeb.

I tried the BBC Sounds app, once I learnt about their intention to phase-out the excellent standalone iPlayer Radio app. The sound quality was markedly worse for live radio and coupled with a haphazard UI/UX - the app just got deleted. Also, there is no dearth of apps to consume podcasts e.g. I use the native Podcasts app on iOS and Deezer/Spotify on Android. BBC Sounds does not bring anything new or radical to the table.

https://www.wired.co.uk/article/bbc-sounds-iplayer-radio-pod...
Wait, how did you authenticate them the _first_ time? An anonymous contact who you will not meat in physical space who had no possible way to share a public GPG key with you prior to your original authentication...?
The reason it's hard to pick which chart is better is that both charts are far too detailed for the tiny amount of information they convey, which is "both values shrank over time"
There is the Lone Scout program (part of BSA that almost no one knows about). The youth does not have to be in a troop, can still earn ranks/Eagle, merit badges, etc, can still participate in district/council/national events, and gets to wear a cool Lone Scout patch.
With C++ you have to compile to a specific plattform. So yes, that works, but is different to WASI, where you compile once and can deploy whereever a runtime exists.

And apart from that, yes .NET is the only alternative I see today. But you don't see the benefits, of a new lower level option, entering the field?
Saying they aren’t biased doesn’t mean they don’t have a viewpoint, which they themselves disclose:

“We do not attach ourselves to any political party. Our public agenda is liberal in the classical sense. We have supported free trade ever since our foundation in 1843 when we opposed Britain’s corn laws, which sought to keep the price of grain high by limiting imports. We have continued to advocate bold policies in favour of individual freedoms, such as same-sex marriage and legalisation of drugs, regardless of whether they are politically popular, in the belief that the force of argument will eventually prevail.”

https://www.economist.com/about-the-economist#editorial-phil...

I know people who would call that biased.

Disclosure: I’m a subscriber.
> Just adding to your point: in all of the start-ups I worked for, the main selling points were (a) more responsibility sooner and (b) chance to drive decision-making about tech stack and/or work with the best tools (new or old) without red tape.

> I’ve never seen (or heard of) any start-up actually fulfill these selling points any better than medium-to-large companies.

I've had that work out for me. But that was also specifically what I was hired for. Definitely, you have to look before you leap.
I think, by and large, "calling out" is something we ought to be doing much less of.
I didnt even know I needed it. Makes mindmapping while learning something much more fun. Thanks for sharing it here.
This is the super weird reasoning. It is as simple as incentivizing the users. Make one popular podcast only available in their app and let the users consume everything else as is. You'll quickly figure out what content is driving use of their app.
Measuring the Value of Digital Goods and Services
> $406 billion!!! Just imagine how many humans you can bring out of poverty with that kind of money?

$406 billion divided by 7 billion humans = $58 per human. A lunch for two in a rich country, or a monthly pay in a poor country. Hardly a way out of poverty.
Apple acknowledges keyboard problems with recent MacBooks
Yes, technically because it's conducted by someone in the middle of the transport path, you can call it man in the middle. The problem is that if you call all attacks that, what do you call the attack where asymmetric key exchange is being replicated by some attacker in the middle?

Also, it's possible to pull this particular attack off without being in the "middle",. For example, by using DNS cache poisoning or arp spoofing
If every single dollar in the economy is invested and nothing is spent on real products, it's fake money and will inevitably collapse. Investment is not wrong in itself, but investment that is out of balance with spending on real goods is crippling because the real goods are where the rubber meets the road on investment returns. That is what happens when only a few people have all the cash and the rest are just barely getting by. You aren't maximizing growth and, as a consequence, your nation will lose power in the global market.
Medscape published an article a few days ago (below) about this. I was under the impression that there was proof that Duke management knew about the fact that Potts-Kant falsified data. There was also evidence that she did not actually buy supplies necessary to even run the experiments:

>>According to court records, colleagues had questions about whether Potts-Kant had even purchased methacoline, a drug she said she used in experiments. Meanwhile, Duke was trying to control the message. A colleague told Thomas at the time that Duke's research integrity office did not want the case to "snowball," and that it wanted to write any retraction notices.

That would suggest there was no way she could have had the data. Even after they knew the data was bad (or probably bad), it was used by others as well was Potts-Kant to secure additional funding. I think the court couldn't definitively say when Duke became aware of the fraud, but I think they had enough reason to be concerned about the integrity of the data that they should have acted more strongly and been more forthright.

https://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/910922?nlid=129046_3902...
Ask HN: What Longevity Stack do you have your pets on?
David Sinclair mentioned he has his dogs on NMN [1]

He mentions he personally thinks Rapamycin is to dangerous for himself to take. Alternate articles are talking about Rapamycin being used with pet dogs to increase their longevity.

What are people's pet's stacks for longevity?

[1] https://youtu.be/HOTS0HS7aq4?t=4720
Can anyone compare this with Istio (the Google backed service mesh)?

FWIW, both Istio and AWS App Mesh use the Envoy proxy.
I'm also a premium subscriber; while they used to use basic HTTP auth, they've since switched to generating revocable, per-user keys. It's both better for security and easier for podcast clients to manage.
Hatchet. Job.

An article written by a non-pilot about an article by a GA pilot with no experience as an ATP.

The elephant in the room is not the type-rating issue so much as the speculative cause of the crashes: if your aircraft is out-of-trim and control pressure cannot restore it, you have a runaway trim condition and you need to disable the electric trim system immediately.

If, in these cases, it turns out that the AOA sensor was faulty, that is only one of many possible causes for a runaway trim condition.

The core problem is not the specific cause, but the failure of pilots to respond appropriately to a common and easily-remedied situation.