skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Doing the Right Thing would put them on schedule.

This isn't some stupid race. This is making a machine that can safely be flown.

The market doesn't need a risk profile that drops plane loads out of the bloody sky Because a company pushed their people into hiding things from their customers.

I'm normally all for free market optimization when it makes sense, and all actors act in reasonably good faith concomitant with the magnitude of lives they are endangering. That didn't happen here, and the regulatory agency responsible for making it happen was powerless to do it's job to stop or raise a red flag on it either.

By no definition of sound risk assessment should this plane have flown without training. Period. Boeing failed its job at being a trustworthy corporate citizen in a high-impact infrastructural industrial vertical.

Honestly, I'm not sure how to get over this one. I don't believe some sort of fine and move on is really sufficient in terms of contrition. It won't bring those people back, and it seems a bit too "cost of doing business"-like to successfully act as a deterrent to future malfeasance.

Breaking up maybe? Clearly competition in the sector seems to have devolved into a duopoly to some degree.
Trump aside, the US has steadily become more authoritarian and insane since 2001, and the main argument for staying is you might not find anything better outside of the imperial center. Both political parties are basically "banks, looting and eternal war" parties who don't care about ordinary people, and who use political wedge issues, sexual politics and paranoid propaganda to divide the people. Outside of the upper middle class "money spigot" cities most of American HN readers lives in, you see widespread social and physical decay. Nobody is doing anything about it. Most people don't even notice, because they're drugged to the gills and obsessed with what the propaganda tells them about the dangers posed by their fellow countrymen and various invaders and imaginary bugaboos, such as the whole "Muh Russia" conspiracy theory touted in most of the mass media, or the "AI apocalypse" nonsense the Davos types are presently selling us to excuse not fixing bridges and the opioid epidemic.

Arguments for staying: high rate of pay I guess. Also, maybe some people enjoy living this way. I don't!
1. What makes you stay?
2. Were you one of the people who gave Putya credit for fighting corruption and dreamed that he would invest in small business and education, but then those hopes and dreams were crushed?
I guess the number of comments show how much love rails is still getting
The China Model vs. the American Model
But don't Southwest planes already have the AoA disagree light, which they bought as an option?
The Significance of Software Testing Services in Energy and Utility Sector
Do you think people who say things like "universities are useless and haven't thought me anything" ever _saw_ an actual proof?
That's kind of a convincing argument.
The problem with greedy people is that it is never enough - not even if they have more than enough to retire on, not even if it is more than they can spend. Cynically it is a feature and not a bug to the corrupt - otherwise they might start developing a conscience when they realize there isn't anything to meaningfully gain as returns diminished.
I'm going to disengage because I believe this is getting too far into local politics for me.

However I want to make sure you understand my point.

"...I think anybody that's educated can filter out the noise usually and get at some element of the truth...Anybody that's easily swept up by rumours and bullshit..."

You understand that's not the way it works, right? This isn't an intelligence test. My point was about how humans make decisions, not how stupid people gossip and believe things they shouldn't. That's a great topic, but not my point. You don't educate or smart your way about of being human. It doesn't work like that.

I used to love to discuss politics with folks, mainly because it was the one area in which really smart people believed really stupid things. It was -- and remains -- an excellent place to observe clanning and how the human mind works. (I stopped bringing it up, though, because as it turns out, text conversations have a completely different dynamic than in-person conversations.)

Thanks for the chat!
But you're retro-attributing 'peace in Europe' to organisations that didn't have any substantive existence until the mid-1970s.

NATO was formed in 1949 and has more relevance to preventing war in Western Europe than any subsequent organisation. By the time the EU was formed the Berlin Wall had fallen!

The EC&SC, EEC and EU could exist because of peace in Europe.
Ask HN: OCR/ML on Supermarket Ads How to Do It?
I have always thinked about many ways on how to obtain structured information around the Super Market Advertisement scenario: https://www.theblackfriday.com/walmart-blackfriday.shtml

I have thinked about approaching in many different ways, but it ends up that OCR technology is always best but I can never associate like this text is for this product because it's always many in one.
I have always thinked about this problem would be the following steps: 1) Have AI Computer Vision to slice the ad in pieces, then run OCR for each "slice".
There are many different types of ads and content so it would have to be a AutoML scenario for a AI image slicer has because I wanted to be able to put a Walmart then a whatever other market paper ad there too, this would be awesome to recnognize patterns on a paper by utilizing ML.
I Have no idea and never got to a point where I would say hey this is it, if anyone has any clues of where to start looking for this at least the slicing part it would be great, the OCR I have found a couple but for me recognize the different sections in a page would be totally cool.
> Based purely on what a photocopier does, and without knowing anything about how it works, can you deduce the result of photocopying a mirror?

Setting aside technology the only thing I'm left (no pun intended) with is the experience of a mirror's handedness swapping.

It doesn't seem like the correct why (dark page) can be adduced from the fundamental of a light emitter/detector pair coupled with lateral motion across the thing being copied because the result would be undefined absent some averaging feature at the output, and that's not what happens with most photocopiers that generate a dark print, and those are all forbidden hows.

Will you be posting additional hints here or at the OP?

EDIT

> Try to answer the question without referring to how the photocopier/scanner works, and only refer to what it does.

The thing reproduces an image of the source, that is, the mirror. I'm not satisfied with that because it feels like it's begging the question or leads to a series of infinite reflections.
Brexiteers frequently position it as the first domino in a cascade that will destroy the entire EU, and assert that this is a good thing.
On the first part, they don't. It's pretty common to hate on any kind of lgbt even amongst more educated slices of population like it people.
The news was that the sensor data was lost. This was in the headline and mentioned near the end, most of the article was indeed a survey.
Not necessarily.
If the insurance wants to you take a different medication from a different brand which is cheaper but contains the same active ingredient, I don't see a problem with that.

Your doctor may have been incentivized by the pharma company to prescribe their more expensive product.
Clojure is awesome. But refactoring a big project without a type system is very hard and error-prone, and clojure error messages are very difficult to understand.
> You can't even pass a pointer to the context's function in the natural way, because only 'int's can be passed, and on any real computer, sizeof(int) < sizeof(void*)!

I checked the API. It looks like a variadic function, so you can pass any arguments to it?
That’s almost it, but there’s one extra point.

If the deal isn’t passed today, the April 12th deadline is for the UK to come up with a new suggestion.

If the deal fails, the UK could request a longer extension, or even revoke article 50.

The EU has strongly signaled that they’d be open to adjusting the political declaration in favour of a customs union, for example. If the UK were to vote for that early next week, it could in principle be agreed on both sides fairly quickly.

The main EU requirement is that to avoid a no-deal exit on April 12, the UK has to actually do something different, not simply ask for more time. If the UK requested time for a general election or a second referendum, that would probably be accepted by the EU (although it’s not guaranteed).
It is not far fetched to imagine a situation where a hard Brexit results in extreme languish of imported food and staple goods into the UK. Austerity was hard enough on the poor - Imagine if food prices doubled or tripled due to tariffs and currency devaluation. Not to mention the land border in Ireland returning to skirmish with patrols and violence.
I actually went straight to one of their references (https://gianniantichi.github.io/files/papers/pciebench.pdf) which was an amazing find. I should keep up more with the academic conferences, I guess.

The most interesting / surprising thing about this paper is how damning it is for the Intel IOMMU.
I recently had an idea about an app and a clever way to hook it into fairly modern, user-facing parts of Windows and macOS (Search/Cortana and Spotlight, respectively.)

I did some feasibility research on Windows first, and very soon hit some ancient win32 interfaces I had to implement, used by parts of the shell that have existed since the earliest days, something I have no intention of wasting my time on.

I was under the impression that macOS would be much better, but was surprised to find that there's no public or documented API, just a 3rd party open source framework implemented as a hack that combines javascript and python somehow, but seems to get the job done.

This got me thinking that you need a serious amount of expertise to implement new experiences on modern operating systems, never mind crossing platforms. Puts the appeal of technologies like Electron that do platform integration for you in perspective.
Maybe, but that doesn't mean that the current situation doesn't warrant special attention given the granularity at which surveillance data can be collected, the scale at which it can be aggregated and mined, and the intelligence with which it can be used to compute analytics is unprecedented?
On learning new technologies: why breadth beats depth
Postgres adds Support for Reindex Concurrently (parallel read/writes allowed)
Wish I had this when I was part of my university's robotics club, this looks amazing.
Learning to write code in any language is not an “advanced topic”. Advanced topics are around architecture, concepts, and ecosystems those can easily be taught by a video. It’s much easier to watch a video where the screen is split between the code and the results of running the code.

2. If a framework is bring iterated so fast that a less than year old video is stale - that framework is probably at the “peak of inflated expectations” part of the hype cycle and most likely should be avoided.

3. Most good videos also come with a corresponding git repo.
I started learning myself in late November 2017. You can get a LOT of mileage off a $10ish book too (eg “expert card technique” or “royal road to card magic”[1])

But yes, I follow a few YouTube channels that have taught me a lot: Xavier Spade, Alex Pandrea, PigCake and a few others. There are some excellent ones, but I noticed that you do have to be careful, there's a lot of "reveals" or "tutorials" that are done by hobbyists and their quality is varied, some would teach bad handling or bad habits. They can be fine to get the concept, but maybe not as an absolute beginner. The ones done by magicians who perform professionally tend to be great quality though. But you probably know this better than I, since it sounds like you've been doing it longer :)

Its really easy to find tutorials and guides nowadays, you just gotta put the time in!

I personally don’t actually like the double lift because I find that 90% of them, even though they are perfectly executed, just don’t look natural — most laypeople simply would never turn cards over in the way most magicians do and it just looks fishy. Having said that, most laypeople don’t actually notice (it’s ibcredible what you can get away with sometimes!) but I notice it and it puts me off :)

[1] A side story on this book... I may have cost the publisher a bit of money... They have a "video edition" of the book, where many of the techniques and routines have a QR code linking to a video, but when I got it, all of the links were broken. So I complained to the Advertising Standards Authority (UK) and about two months later, all of the QR codes started working. I noticed that they all directly linked to Rackspace CDN URLs (ie not to their own domain). I can't imagine it was fun or cheap to get the exact same identical URLs working again...
I don't. But I did make a conscious decision recently to not buy a phone from them.
You make great points, and thank you for responding with zero perceived animosity, a rarity these days.

Personally, I'm not insecure. I grew up military, and served for 8 years. I'm you're atypical alpha male. I have will and intent in spades, but I care deeply for other people. Let me explain...

My time in the Corps taught me that we are all equal, no matter our origins. I don't play favorites, be it education, time in position, man/woman, it doesn't matter. I believe in earned merit. Full stop. I treat everyone with dignity and respect, but merit is earned and demonstrated. I don't yell at juniors, I lead from the front. There is nothing I will not do for a teammate who tries their best. I tell my teammates even now, please, make mistakes. It's healthy. If you bork a production server, and you did your best, but made mistakes, we'll fix it together. You learn, and I'll learn along with you, because maybe I could have done something better, like documentation, or settings. Good leaders are open to correction. If your ideas are better than mine, convince me. If you're right, I stand corrected. If you're wrong, I still want you to keep stabbing forward. I encourage experimentation, tinkering, and always improving.

As far as social status, I've never been envious of those from that arena. I just don't care. I look like Shaggy Rogers if that says anything. I can afford a much nicer car than I drive, but I don't care. Ditto my clothes. It's point A-B for me. I'd rather my children have better clothes, nicer treats, and time spent together. I have zero tolerance for social snobbery, as it shows an air of superiority that is not real. If you (metaphorically) think you're better than me, let's see how things go when the power is out, the food stops being delivered, and your apps don't work. Me? I would thrive in this world should it happen. When the zombies are coming, you'll be running to my house.
Teen dies of tapeworm egg infestation in brain
Abysmal battery (in 2019) and chinese ad spyware in supposedly pure Android drop this phone to the bottom of competition. If it had rumored 4150mAh battery and clean system I would buy it immediately.
> POSIX certainly has its own ugly corners, but those are the exceptions. In the Windows API, elegance is the exception.

Makes me wonder how seriously OP used POSIX APIs, and across how many platforms... because large parts of POSIX are pretty bad. And as an OS interface, the Windows API is clearly superior in almost every regard (if there wasn't this tiny portability issue).
This is the problem with regimes that value ideology above all else. The most fiercely partisan to the ideology, whether or not they truly believe in it, rise to the top, regardless of actual talent. Anyone who is more pragmatic is forced out. And those with desirable skills will have an easier time leaving.
Where'd the cockroaches come from? Presumably from the outside?
Yes. But the AoA disagree indicator did not disable MCAS. In similar circumstances, SouthWest pilots would not have taken off, because AoA disagree would have indicated as soon as they'd begun their takeoff roll. But if an AoA sensor had failed in flight, it would still have been up to the pilots to manually disable stabilizer trim.
If those victims would be primarily from western country, especially US, there would be almost immediate class action lawsuit against Boeing from families (US citizens seem more trigger-happy to fire lawsuits when feeling wronged, at least from my perspective).

But I guess Ethiopian/Indonesian cries for some sort of compensation/justice would have to go very viral in western media to force a corporation like Boeing into anything (since it is also a clear admission its purely their fault, which it seems to be).
Coast is a framework that focus on traditional server app and rapid development similar to Rails or Django. I don't find it "modern" tbh.
In my experience the new spec system (a sort of gradual typing) greatly helps in both refactoring and both surfacing and explaining errors, if you havent worked with clojure 1.10 I’d recommend to give it another go.

Also spec is still in alpha so it will keep getting better.
Open Source Support – New?
Are people familiar with the original OpenLogic open source support model?
I just learned about this the other day.

As enterprises increasingly begin using open source, many still outright prohibit it, and require someone to call for support, is there an opportunity to launch open source support (with contributors as staff) anew?

To offer best coverage of new technologies and solutions.
Too many people take the path of least resistance and want to deliver quickly....

Isn’t that the entire m.o. of the VC fueled Silicon Valley culture?
One difficulty in drawing a conclusion from your story is that Switzerland is not in the EU.
Analysis: Drugs on Social Media vs. the Dark Web
I think you are wrong. Snap has been excluded from FTSE[0] indices, as well as from the S&P 500, based on the fact that they have a dual class voting structure. It will probably happen the same to Lyft.

[0]: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-snap-russell/ftse-russell...
My impression is the opposite, so in the absence of harder evidence we're at an impasse. But even if Google Maps isn't widely used, Google could trivially spend the cash to market the feature if it wished to, or hell, just pop up an alert upon opening the Lyft or Uber app on Android that says "Did you know that you can compare ride-sharing prices across all services in your area via Google Maps? Click here to try it!" (in the same way that visiting any Google property on a non-Google browser pesters the user into downloading Chrome). Google already owns the platform, Google already owns the maps data, Google already owns the users.
I don't know, you don't know, but only one of us is using speculative arguments (and, in at least one earlier case, fantasy, as lake99 pointed out above) to support her opinion.

From an information-theoretic point of view (which is where we started) even if all non-coding DNA had some purpose, it would not be a sufficient basis for assuming that it is close to the most information-theoretically efficient implementation. On the other hand, the fact that whole genomes can be handily compressed, with straightforward Huffman encoding techniques, settles the infomation-theoretic efficiency question, regardless of whether your speculation about the usefulness of all non-coding DNA is correct.
Recently Clojure error messages have vastly improved: http://insideclojure.org/2018/12/17/errors.

As well, Clojure has an opt-in solution to type issues: https://clojure.org/about/spec
Under the Dome is both a book (Stephen King) turned network drama (CBS) that ran for 3 seasons. Not quite the same as Biosphere or Biodome, but people are trapped under a dome.
Not working for me either, not even in an incognito window.
1. I have a family and I enjoy living in a place where Russian is spoken primarily and Russian culture is dominant.

2. Maybe I was like that before 2008 or so. Didn't make a difference either way.
Did he contact Kaspersky Labs with the intent to sell the secrets or to be a whistleblower? The whole twitter thing doesn't really make sense.

Why is the going to school if he's planning to cash out in a way that he'd have to flee the USG for the rest of his life?
I'm not entirely convinced that the net is the saviour you claim. For example, I'm British but hadn't seen most of these points until more than two years later: [1]

Presumably I didn't see these adverts because I was categorised as a Remain voter, but I can't imagine what my opinion would be if every time I went to Facebook I saw "leave the EU to save the polar bears". I'd like to say I'd immediately search the truthfulness but, honestly, I've got better things to do with my life than google every comment I see online.

The Internet provides a great way for information to be open, but not everything on the Internet is necessarily transparent. Argubly, this is a good reason for regulation on things like advertising to make it more transparent (although what that regulation is, I don't know) which I think would be a case of "politics saving the net".

Of course, there's the "old way" of information being shared which is subject to failure too[2]. But a centralised and curated method like newspapers makes it easier to combat falsehoods.

Overall, I do agree that the Internet is a great tool for information sharing and I think we're better with it, but it's not without its own issues.

[1] https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1059068463933743104.html
[2] https://blogs.ec.europa.eu/ECintheUK/euromyths-a-z-index/
Any normal legislature should be able to say OK we are stuck who is in favor of getting out of this by unconventional means? The unconventional means is “we will find an option by some informal process such as Condorcet, and all representatives that agree this process is a good idea agree to later support the winning option in the formal vote”.

So it’s enough to find a majority for the method/process, and the selection of options to use. There is no need for a majority for a single option.

So at no point would there be anything but normal yes/no votes with normal majority requirement in the legal sense.

It’s a bit like how some US states can agree to put their electoral college votes to the majority winner.
It’s tangentially related, but I highly recommend the Coursera course Learning How To Learn for more insight into how your brain works. The course discusses procrastination and how to work with it.

Specifically, I’d recommend pomodoros, sleep, exercise, and the balance between focus and diffuse mode. The latter could be something as simple as taking an hour walk to let your brain process in the background, and I’ve found that all four are helpful.
Looking at Admissions/Deposits/Fees for the private English boarding school that Low went to (Harrow School), I was surprised at how "affordable" it actually is. /I/ couldn't afford it, but for the level of access you are giving your child to the world of the elite, £30k doesn't seem like its all THAT much money.
The example given in the short article isn't good. If the transaction count is a field in the guest table, there's no need to join the transaction table. I assume the article is meant for someone who never used SQL. As such, I think it can be more confusing than helpful.
> was frankly actually undemocratic

The term you seem to be searching for is some variant of 'stupid', 'ill-advised' or 'deceitful'. There is nothing undemocratic about it; democracies famously turn up flavour-of-the-month decisions in defiance of tradition and whatever the elites think is a good idea. That is why most democracies don't generally go with the old school approach where the whole town meets on a hill and counts hands; the results are too volatile for the powerful to be comfortable with them.