skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I bet this would be virtually impossible to prove, and career suicide for anyone who tried it.

These aren't mustache-twirling villains who distribute memos that say "Let's ignore safety issues to get this approved faster". They really believe they're doing what's best for all involved. We'll save everyone time and money, and make it easier for pilots. How is that not a good thing? We have no reason to believe safety will be compromised.

Predicting the safety implications of design decisions, years in the future, is not an easy task. If the AOA sensors (I think?) were a tiny bit more reliable, we'd never have seen a problem, and the MAX program would be considered a great success in efficiency.

I'm sure we've all worked for managers who made decisions we disagreed with, but couldn't prove they were making the wrong one.
You're still not understanding. Deliberately sending someone porn or intentionally viewing it on front of them in such a way that you intend them to see it in order to make them uncomfortable in the workplace is sexual harassment and a form of abuse. Is that so hard to understand? Intent matters. It has nothing to do with a conservative or Puritan mindset.

It's abuse when an abuser does it with the intent to abuse another.
> if the tool/service is by its very nature both discriminatory

Is it, in this case? Ad targeting has a zillion legitimate use cases, including some that are outright humanitarian. Yes, it can also be used in a discriminatory way, but Facebook already tried to address that in the cases HUD only nominally cares about. Phone numbers and ZIP codes can also be (and often are) used as proxies for race. Should HUD go after the phone companies and the postal service too? You could probably apply the same argument to Uber, Airbnb, and every other "gig economy" service as well. What you're suggesting is tantamount to making all targeted advertising illegal. If that's the argument you want to make, make it.
I agree with this sentiment.

Worthy of mention: Diablo II's Secret Cow Level. Initially a rumour among fans, Blizzard teased players and posted a screenshot of cow monsters on April 1st 1999 [1]. This joke soon became reality in the sequel, Diablo II.

IMO they used an April fool's joke as an excellent device to entice players. I find it to be genuinely humourous (killing herds of cows brandishing weapons), and best of all -- the joke was on us, it turned out to be a real thing in the following game. It is a classic level in Diablo II and one of the best areas to farm.

To this day it is a memorable joke, often recalled by gamers. It had even made its way into Starcraft (cheat code: "there is no cow level") for additional effect.

[1] https://diablo2.diablowiki.net/Secret_Cow_Level
Lenny. Check out YouTube videos of the telemarketer’s nightmare. NerdVittles and some others have instructions for setup on voip systems.
> If someone is asking then either they failed to find the "duplicate" based on their search terms, or their problem is subtly different and the other answer doesn't help, or they don't understand the other answer.

Or they didn't bother searching possibly?

I think the 'up-vote only' model might be helpful for SO. If 1000 people down vote, but 100 people up vote, who's vote should carry more weight? Obviously, 100 people found the question/answer useful, so it's not useless. Whereas, we don't get a lot of value from a down vote, just that each individual that down voted didn't find the information useful/relevant.

If it's indeed a duplicate, well maybe it is, but perhaps the new question is a better version of the question (more/less generic/specific depending on context).
> The 2 or 3 million? I think I read recently that less than 10% have a million, 2 or 3 million is 1% territory. And if someone does save that and dies early, how is that 'wasted' if it goes to support their family?

In particular, it could have gone back to their family sooner. IE: Leaving money in your 401k plan means NOT paying for your kid's college tuition with that money (or their house, or their first car, or their wedding)

Sure, maybe the kid will get a giant payout when they're 30 or 40 years old. But by then, their lives are probably established and they don't really need the windfall. And they only get that windfall if you die.

> Annuities can 100% bridge the gap.

Annuities have the same failure mode as pension plans: if they fail, then no one gets the money they were promised. When comparing 401k plans vs Pension Plans, its definitely a factor to consider.
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You can't down vote comments. SO is pretty toxic even with their newer policy. All downvotes should be public.
> Emails already support updating by including external image references inside the email.

I think this is not comparable. If an email links to an external image, the external image is not the email, it's a link and behaves as everyone expects a link to behave. The email itself is immutable.

This may seem to you like hair-splitting, but I don't think it is, since blocking external images is a common thing for people to do anyway. Doing so doesn't make email useless.
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UrbanDictionary.com is your friend. In this case, you may want to pass on knowing.
Hey, I posted this last night[0]. Every time I think I know how HN works it surprises me again :)

I absolutely loved this article, and am happy to see it get airtime on HN.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19509107
A large corporation should be able to afford lawyers that specialize in the legality of advertisements...
Ooooh. The classic "people are saying". Since you started with Wikipedia, [citation needed]
I can think of many ways that achieve the same goal. Yes, most require re-cert, as they should. Trying to make an old tool do things it wasn't meant to do (see: Internet w.r.t security, 737 MAX w.r.t. engine placement) has a compounding effect that very rarely works out as well as a clean slate design with the right compromises in mind.

This is an example of a tragedy of the commons. Market forces found a solution to a problem (for one actor) that externalized long term costs for the sake of sealing a short-term deal, that in the end, was not guaranteed to stick around.
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This seems to be the paper referred to in the article:

Srivastava & Cox, "Microdeletion in a FAAH pseudogene identified in a patient with high anandamide concentrations and pain insensitivity" (22 Feb 2019) https://bjanaesthesia.org/article/S0007-0912(19)30138-2/full...
Big bad management gets to keep their jobs when they make bad product decisions, so let's call it a wash.
It has always surprised me how many developers are OK with just going radio silent when things aren't going well on a project. It's a bridge burnt, plus they often don't get to collect their last payment. It's a lose-lose, just a horrible way to exit a professional contract.
A mercury switch is probably not as reliable as a wind vane in high turbulence.
It's amazing how much PR bullshit they instead do, like in the article, claiming it's just a small number blah blah blah. How about deleting threads on their support forums?

Next up, airpodbatterygate.
For anyone curious about why pain is an incredible predictor of/protector from danger, and why lack of pain experiences often leads to massive injury and early death, please watch this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lCF1_Fs00nM

The lecture is given by a respected pain research scientist, and it also covers much of modern pain science (including why the biomedical model of pain is outdated and how the biopsychosocial model of pain is more representative of observations of human pain experiences).
The historical precedent for Facebook ad targeting is allocating one's print ad budget according to the readership of a given periodical, or one's TV ad budget according to Nielsen's analysis of a show's audience.

Or more personally, advertising the room for rent in your house at your white-collar job but not at the welfare office.

Does the Fair Housing Act address this? Doesn't look like it.
Strong enough to bother trying to figure out if there’s a causal relationship.
> No they don't, they just hate harmful pranks.

couple years ago we reached peak april fools day. every single corporate went "hello fellows kid" and the social pushback was real.

so yes there's still some lingering sense of "genuine april fools are fine but keep your forced advertisement away"
When I Knew Cloudflare Was the Right Place for Me
Internal Documents Show Apple Is Capable of Implementing Right to Repair
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It's more than the tide. They showed in the video that the container is deeply embedded into the rock and mud. It's not just a matter of walking into it and picking up the phones. Most of it is buried.
How is it that Amazon only sells 7.5% of all "Amazon-Brand Consumer Electronics"? Am I missing something?

I would suspect this number to be 90%+, and only because some third party sellers may be selling second hand units.
Recreating a 16-Bobbin Rope Braiding Machine
Plagiarism detectors are a crutch, and a problem
Why soft skills are becoming more valuable
Working from home mostly. I can't focus without a quiet and calm environment. As with many things related to worker well being, companies just don't seem to care about this. I honestly think that had it not been for the conviction and determination of most software developers to do good work inspite of the sometimes sisyphian conditions they work in, most companies would flop.
glitch.com is like jsfiddle.net on steroids. You get multiple files and a node based server to test with. With jsfiddle you just get one page. with glitch you can build an entire site both front end and back end.
nice. I have looked for url shorteners but didn't find this one. thanks!
We did have far bigger problems :-)

The April Fool's joke just added a cherry on top of a shit sundae. I could have lived without it. I haven't worked at a company yet that implements April Fool's jokes correctly (defined as noticeable improvement to sales/marketing KPIs, which I think is what they would be going for), so YMMV.
I had to chew a guy out the other day. He freely admitted that he wasn't a Python programmer and was looking for working code that he could run without modification. He tried to justify it by saying he was only asking for someone to "share their expertise".
Australia Considering Jail Time If Tech Execs Can't Scrub Hate Off Platforms
At scale, anticipating the interactions your code is going to have with the rest of the world is very difficult. See, for instance, https://www.computerworld.com/article/2517969/google-s-pac-m... . It's hard enough for normal code, but April Fools tends to exercise some very undertested pathways in both code and organizations, and the results are often unamusing, and potentially serious.

Google and Microsoft and such are the behemoths of the computing industry, and the metaphor works fairly well this time; imagine a giant trying to figure out how to "prank" all the Lilliputians around them. It's gonna end up with squashed Lilliputians, no matter how careful you are.

Leave it to smaller entities.

(Although I do want to say I'm speaking about "pranks" here, like hacking Gmail, or changing the Google homepage too much. Putting up a fresh new website with something fun and cool, something that you have to choose to go to, is fine. But that's not really an "April Fool's prank" anymore, just some new fun and cool site.)
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I did. It's simple, but intentionally so - essentially just a linear list of stripcharts and some basic formatting.

The general idea was that in steady-state operation, the only thing that should really be seen is the data of interest.

Honestly, the thing that's been the most time-consuming is getting data transported efficiently and quickly to the front end for rendering. The rendering itself hasn't been a huge deal, and is essentially the one part of the system where I haven't thought seriously about replacing it with something 'real'.

(The stripchart plot code itself is here, and I haven't touched it in three years. https://github.com/mschaef/metlog/blob/master/metlog-vault/s... )
Second Chinese rocket startup fails to put satellite into orbit: state media
> this administration's own discriminatory agenda

What discriminatory agenda? By all economic measures, Americans of all races/ethnicities are doing better than they have been in a long time. See Robert Johnson's comments on the topic: https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2018/04/10/bet_fo...
Best part of car trains in Switzerland is freeing the mountain passes from cars. Still a lot of cars and motorbikes enjoying hairpin turns and landscapes (Good for them!) but still way less traffic than otherwise.
EU to ban plastic plates, cups, and cutlery by 2021
Examples of Career Progression Frameworks
I disagree. I have only read parts of Epictetus' Discourses and Aerelius' Meditations, but I think it is borne out by both texts. I don't have them to hand. But quickly looking through an online edition of the Meditations, I am faced with a great many passages matching the stated views. For example:

'Though thou shouldst be going to live three thousand years, and as many times ten thousand years, still remember that no man loses any other life than this which he now lives, nor lives any other than this which he now loses. The longest and shortest are thus brought to the same.'

'How quickly all things disappear, in the universe the bodies themselves, but in time the remembrance of them; what is the nature of all sensible things, and particularly those which attract with the bait of pleasure or terrify by pain, or are noised abroad by vapoury fame; how worthless, and contemptible, and sordid, and perishable, and dead they are- all this it is the part of the intellectual faculty to observe.'

Both quotes are from this online edition: http://classics.mit.edu/Antoninus/meditations.2.two.html
Remains to be seen but I am sure all the major certification authorities will be asking this now. Probably by the time it's flying again there won't be any need to make assumptions.
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Perhaps an example would have helped. With numeric coordinates relative orientation is fairly intuitive. It's simple arithmetic. How does your proposed system replicate that?
When computer learning gets that good, programmers will be out of jobs. I don't see it happening in my lifetime.
I remember reading an Obama administration report about this in 2016, but nothing ever came out of it. Nice to see Dr. Carson take up this issue.
Sorry, I should have been more clear. The 'Is it though?" is in response to saying it's a great counterpoint to people complaining about how little they make from Spotify. The author isn't trying to make a living of Spotify, but many people are. Spotify revenue isn't even close to enough for them even if you're extremely successful getting listeners like the author has been.
I like that plan. There could be votes to place playground questions into the library, and those could get preferential treatment in terms of search results to make it easier to find what you're looking for.
Principle behind Google's April Fools' pigeon prank proves more than a joke
This is horrible. Averaging < 1 build per hour for the past 24h. I don't see us staying on Travis for much longer given recent events.
This is 100% a function of your age, not a specific date.
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Agreed, this tradition needs to die a quick and quiet death. I actively avoid the internet on April 1st because of it.

The problem is that the April Fools "sense of humor" is mostly of the "amateur thinks they are funny" quality. The pranks are mostly tech geek inside jokes that look embarrassing to anyone outside that social bubble. I admit I'm inside the same geek bubble but at least notice the outside reactions. Ask yourself who cares about the clippy resurrection referenced in the article?

How does one day of willful misinformation work in a medium used as indefinitely persistent storage of human knowledge?
Yeah it's an observable phenomenon that I've seen on Stack Overflow et al, as well as every Wiki site I've been a part of. Content creators don't give a shit about process, so they don't participate in the moderation echo chamber, so moderators trick themselves into thinking that they are the ones creating value on the site.

Stack Overflow's issue is fixable though IMO. I don't see the same level of aggressive moderation towards those who answer. So from a community attitude, it seems like answerers are recognized as the content creators who you shouldn't drive away. So the solution in my head is to do what you can to recognize the askers as content creators as well. Because they are a vital part of content creation!
> Quitting assumes the possibility of finding a job around the corner and not having people that depend on you.

Quitting assumes the possibility of finding a job after spending 4 months doing leetcode 6 hours a day and not having people that depend on you.
Thank you for mentioning David Hasselhoff. Until you did I didn't realize it was an April fools prank but instead thought it was a clever Google Easter Egg. My only photo with The Hoff is also one with the Queen Helen Mint Julep Mask which became a reddit mini-meme on its own. I figured some Google programmer was actually looking for people in green faces and didn't make the connection to 4/1. Thanks for clearing it up.
According to the article, her medical records said never been given painkillers (although it could well be she's never asked for painkillers, which I suppose is a different thing all together.)

In the UK at least, most women only use Entonox (a mixture of oxygen and nitrous oxide) for pain relief, and painkillers are only administered during lengthy pregnancy's. I wouldn't be surprised if the doctors/midwives were a little baffled, but just figured she was a hard nut.
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Amazing how libtard tech executives can virtue signal to protected classes of people in one breath and blatantly discriminate against age based on their naive rationalization judgement bias.

Aside from all this stupidity in Big blue management, I wonder if the grey hairs they cut were slackers or not?
States are passing sexual harassment training laws – will they change anything?
The Most Irritating Video in the World Ever Made
Good to know. My experience there was approximately 8 years ago. Im curious how much base salary has increased.
Should Christians Work in the Tech Industry?
42 Acacia Avenue? I take it that Terence wanted to write 22, but was afraid of Iron Maiden's lawyers? :)
Maybe, I don't have enough information to answer that. My guess is doing any work in a coastal cave that is only accessible at low tide is going to be expensive and dangerous.
You seem to be one of the few people here who actually read the story to the end.
Before, during and the week after April fools I do not read the news at all because I just assume it is all garbage. Just my two cents.
I remember reading about this condition in a natural science schoolbook, along with an explanation that it's dangerous for the affected person, since they are lacking the signals warning them their body has a problem.
Boeing obviously felt there was a basically 0% chance of their decision being in anyway unsafe. And they are, arguably, the most qualified people on this Earth to decide this. Of course they probably got blinded by profit a bit, but it's not like this was a Ford Memo moment. A single plane going down is a catastrophe. Two planes going down is something much worse. They obviously felt everything was perfectly safe; they were wrong. Lots of people died. Even though the most likely outcome is they'll get a slap on the wrist, I think there's no way they would have gambled on this.

The reason I mention this is because I don't believe you believe it's impossible to create an unsafe product as you are implying in your statement. Genetic engineering technology enables us to hybridize anything. As a not entirely random example you could combine an orange with genomic data from an arbitrary virus or perhaps certain aspects of various plants in the nightshade family, if you so wished. You can theoretically do great things with genetic engineering, and you can certainly also do awful things. And there is no doubt that you can also accidentally do awful things. And I don't think short term safety is the real concern. You're not going to drop dead after drinking a cola because of some genetically engineered corn syrup in it. My concern would be longterm unforeseen consequences.

For instance weight gain, fertility, and even cognitive and psychological factors are all connected to what we consume in various ways that remain poorly understood. And we're currently running a compulsory experiment in that nearly all foodstuffs in the US now contain substantial components of genetically engineered products. The rest of the world works as a control, to varying degrees, due to radically less consumption of engineered products. What will be the longterm consequences of this? Perhaps we're already seeing them. Or perhaps the issues plaguing the US are caused by something altogether different. The point I was making is that it's ultimately up to the individual to come to their own decisions here. If you're happy to consume any genetically engineered product in full faith then I fully respect your view, even if I might disagree with the soundness of it [1]. I'd ask for nothing but comparable treatment.

[1] - https://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s12302-014-0034-1
My impression is that there were too many countries shown. (Possibly they were mentioned in the article, and therefore relevant to the context?)
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Awesome.
There should be a way to demote a question to non-permanent, meaning the question should remain open but after a couple of weeks after being answered (or inactive) it should be removed from any listing (incl. search engines), and only the creator and the people that already answered it can access it and anyone with the full url (e.g. no referer); that way it satifisfaces people that want a quick Q&A site and the people that want it as a wiki for programming.

The other thing is that a question should never show anything less than -1 as its score, internally they may keep count of the downvotes but never show the user anything less than -1 because its too demoralizing for newcomers.
IMO both problems are similarly serious. Phytoplankton are responsible for producing at least half of the world's oxygen (50-85% depending on who you ask) and at the moment they are under constant threat, as they tend to consume plastic microparticles (not to mention are under heavy stress from the ever-increasing levels of noise pollution from e.g. fracking, oil exploration, shipping, etc).

If the global temperature rises a few degrees, the consequences will be catastrophic, but I somehow think we as a species will somehow survive (albeit many many many people will likely die).

Whereas if in 50 years there is 50-85% less oxygen in the air, I have a feeling that humans will be in a considerably worse position.

But who am I to kid, both events are likely going to happen and we will soon learn the meaning of Fermi's "Great Filter".
Hi. Not OP, but thanks for your great answers !

Does Kong compare more to Istio then (which as far as I understand is a control layer over Envoy), but less focused on K8s ?