skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Major reason why many game engines used to have native core and then some kind of "scripting" language for game logic (think Unreal Engine before 3, but many engines are similar) is that then you can trivially serialize the simulation state (ie. save game) and even run the whole thing as either lock-step, forward predicted or fully distributed network game without much effort on the part of whoever is writing the "scripting language" part of the game code.
>Yeah that's what the Lion Air crew did, and it worked until it didn't (lost control in a turn?)

IIRC the pilot handed control over to the copilot so that he could investigate the issue. The copilot stopped counteracting the trim.

Part of the reason that the MCAS got passed regulators is that it was not given enough authority to override the pilots. It can send you on a wild ride, but it can't crash the plane unless the pilot doesn't counter act the trim when the MCAS is paused.
Don't forget that many power plants are thermal combined-heat-and-power that utilize waste heat from power generation. If you replace them all with renewables, you'd have to compensate for that heat output, not just electricity.
One of the big challenges with data ownership is policing it. If I grant one-time access to my data to some company, the company can store the data and use it many times over, potentially distribute it etc.

I can see this working for datasets like website interactions or search history which companies could pay a subscription for and receive periodic updates which would be of continued value.
Tech Ingredients: DIY Peltier fridge

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YWUhwmmZa7A
They are pretty explicit about it here https://gsuite.google.com/learn-more/security/security-white...
can you drop the need for the : at the end of the line if there's a newline? i.e. it seems like unnecessary syntax
> Which means the expectancy of the involvement of the judicial system

Mob vengeance intermediated by the state is still mob vengeance.

> SolaceQuantum also never mentions "engineers."

The decision makers certainly included management and engineers, and the OP was ambiguous about which decision makers should be punished. I think my statement is just as true if amended to just read "management".

> It's already clear that in this case the "fox was guarding the hen house"

A conflict of interest is not proof that one is making decisions in bad faith. We should certainly strive to eliminate conflicts of interest.

On the other hand, to jump to the conclusion that decision makers are likely deserving of prison time shows a lack of perspective and empathy. I'm sure a lot of people at Boeing will carry a lot of guilt with them for the rest of their lives over this.

Maybe there were decisions made in bad faith, but I think we have far far too little information (and too much hindsight bias in the balance) at this point to determine if those making poor decisions were making them in bad faith, even if there was a clear conflict of interest.

It's comforting to believe that most tragedies are the result of evil people making decisions in bad faith, and that most tragedies can be avoided by identifying and punishing these evil people. The real world is seldom so black-and-white, and I strongly oppose our society's common knee-jerk reaction to quickly reach for imprisonment as the solution to the latest tragedy. By all means, punish people who make conscious decisions to harm their fellow humans, but many tragedies don't fit this simple narrative.
Keep in mind that "thot" is nowadays being used as an acronym[1] that you might want to avoid being associated with.

[1] https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Thot
They address that in the article (Encrypted Media Extensions)
Trinity Nuclear Test Site Open House – Saturday, April 6
Note to OP/mod - URL has a `#Testing...` on the end, so following link starts halfway down. (I assume it wasn't intentional.)
VLA (Very Large Array) Spring Open House April 6
Scientists invent transparent wood in search for eco-friendly building material
Their support pages mention widevine and the article states:

> It drops Flash in favor of Encrypted Media Extensions (EME) for music playback

Although I thought they did that ages ago.
How is that new? Unless I'm in the wrong A/B group, I'd say I've been using the same player for a long time.
This is kind of a bummer for privacy reasons. Sending your application screenshots of my browser feels not-great.

To be honest, I trust you, even as a random stranger on hacker news. But I don't trust that you'll never sell this, and I don't trust whoever you you might sell it to.
The punishment is not being allowed to leave the island.
Is there any value in these driver add-on tools that manufacturers ship?

Like printer drivers they seem to be badly coded messes that create attack surfaces.

For a typical laptop everything except bios updates can be got straight from the vendor of the component.

I'm surprised microsoft haven't started distributing stuff like GPU, Chipset and other drivers themselves.
BLM environmental study now considering terrorist impacts? As if terrorism is even an issue in the United States, other than being a great way to boost media outlet profits. Statistically, they should be enforcing mandatory sunscreen usage rather than anti-terrorism measures if they want to protect the people there.
Hey, Scientology is about making money, aka apples and oranges. Lots of religious movements and suppression’s would be more apt, try puritans.
It is an open secret that you can click on a post's age to open a comment and reply immediately to avoid the cool down periods.

I am not suggesting that remote potential outcomes should be ignored (which is what probably happened in your two examples). I am suggesting that remote outcomes should be kept in perspective.

Let's make numbers up for that second example. Let's say that the pipeline is guaranteed to generate $1 billion over its lifetime but has a .1% chance of failure that causes $10 billion in damage. Some people might view that $10 billion potential damage as disqualifying. However if you do the multiplication the expected negative value is only $10 million. Therefore the expected value of the pipeline is $990 million and the pipeline is probably still a good idea (I admit I am oversimplifying this issue). This is the same reason why a nuclear power plant is generally a better option over a coal plant even though the nuclear plant has the chance of a much greater catastrophic failure.

There is also always the question of who receives the positive and negative value. The census example was good because the positive and negative values both impact the general population. The Google/Facebook and Nigeria examples are a little different because the people bearing the brunt of the negative value likely don't benefit as much from the positive value as they should. That distorts incentives in a different way, but that is another debate entirely.
Homogeneous, small, rich nation. Qualifiers are important.
Given the choice, I'd take a Komodo dragon over a crocodile any day. They're large for a lizard, but much smaller and less murderous than crocs, and generally not an active threat to adult humans.
At some point I think we just need to accept it. We can't have nice things.
I guess it's because Defender ATP is basically some kind of cloud-service for security and because everyone is running Windows for everything it's targeted at managers or so. I have no idea how useful it is, but I guess they have some advanced techniques to detect certain attacks (like this one, or the dropped DoublePulsar) - If you have to defend some important Active Directory Setup it's probably not a bad deal.

It's still ironic that Huawei get's some free audit for their stuff now and it's sold as they are bad, while everything is terrible - I won't install Logitech software after this epic bug here: https://bugs.chromium.org/p/project-zero/issues/detail?id=16...
Doesn't this leak too much information if both parties aren't being honest? E.g. you could just submit spouse + every likely hashtag--#breakup, #haveKids, etc.--and then see what ends up matching.
Free product idea: Here in NZ, and I suspect other places with lower quality housing, lots of people use electric resistance heaters, and also have problems with damp air and/or dehumidifiers.

How about a solid state dehumidifier+heater using peltlier elements?

A dehumidifier is basically an air/air heat pump, with the cold side optimised for water condensation without freezing, and one issue with them is the noise from the compressor...
Theoretical/computational chemist turned software developer. What kind of skills are you looking for?
>Brennan said the CIA reorganization will be modeled after the agency’s Counterterrorism Center, which runs the U.S. targeted killing and drone program.

I always like to remind people when this comes up - The CIA is a civilian agency. They are not military. They have no legal right to engage in anything remotely resembling military action. Their only legal behavior is to collect international intelligence, though they seem to be capable only of doing everything outside their mandate and not within it. Why they weren't disbanded after the USSR imploded into bankruptcy 2 weeks after they had delivered a report claiming that the USSR was 'not a paper tiger' and 'growing stronger every day' and that they would continue to present the largest threat to the US on the global stage for the foreseeable future I have no idea. Most amateurs could have told you the USSR was on its last legs after years of scientists and members of their military reporting not being paid for years at a time. But the CIA was absolutely certain that they were doing great. And they should know, they had devoted stupendous resources to their intelligence work there. But, nope, they didn't see it coming at all.
That article is out of date. It’s still operational and in use. Policies changed after three deaths in close succession. Still, the point is that manmade pool exists and has for years contrary to the article.
That’s very cool, thanks for sharing!
Something like Socialbakers?

https://www.socialbakers.com/feature/influencer-marketing
You’re letting anyone with an email address send mail (through your service) to another address. It looks like the spammer wouldn’t be able to completely control the contents of the message, but they could still send unsolicited junk emails from your email provider or server, which might get your email or IP address blacklisted by spam filters and prevent legitimate users’ emails from being delivered.

I would implement heavy rate limiting and maybe come up with a basic captcha that would stop most spammers.

Oh, and by the way: if you want italics there can’t be a space between the asterisk and the phrase to be italicized (like * this * versus this).
You're right, I conflated the two.
Ask HN: Best AWS crash course or tutorial?
Cooking myself a crash course for my employees, want to guide myself with something...
It seems (ha!) possible to design the logic for such a system with deniability, like the system has to use the second/third/fourth password to attempt decryption before you know if the padding is encrypted or random noise [if the specific encryption has a signature then each install could encrypt the empty space with a few keys taken from urandom].

First password accesses clean files, second one accesses dummy [legal!] fetish porn collection ... do border guards hold you to get a third password?

An analogue analogue might be: I have a book full of "random alphanum text", I have two (or more) one-time pads for decryption of portions of the book, I also know the page/line the actual cyphertext starts at. The rest of the text in the book is random quotations encrypted using a selection of further random one-time pads. Can forensics find that there is a "hidden" n+1 plaintext when I give them the n pads and starting points? Seems impossible??
You're exactly right, and also why it bothers me so much that some people are trying to solve global warming by encouraging other people to walk more. It ignores the reality that we need to work together to make global policy decisions.
Seems like a series of really dumb choices leading up to that incident.
FAA launches new review of Boeing 737 MAX
Does GitLab have this issue? Don't they offer all this for free, unlike GitHub?
Time really did move fast, but it seems to have slowed down. "The early Internet" - by the end of 90's it seemed like Internet was all over the place and has been with us forever with large sites established their presence and we were on the verge of dotcom. All in all, it was only what, five or six good years (until 1999). All of THAT happened in that time span.

Now, look at the last six years.
You can't use Show HN for that, though. Take a look at https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html
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Migrating to GitLab would solve this issue.
World War Bot
Thomas's videos are awesome. Anyone who touches a keyboard regularly should watch.
With GitLab you can have a private repo for your Pages.
I have been doing this for a little over a year now. The most difficult/frustrating thing was using it on my phone. Luckily, TermBot [0] solved that, allowing me to choose an external agent for my key with OpenKeyChain [1]. A Yubikey 5 with NFC and I feel real futuristic tapping my phone to my pocket to gain access to remote computers. I get to do this with my password manager too [2].

[0] https://f-droid.org/en/packages/org.sufficientlysecure.termb...

[1] https://f-droid.org/en/packages/org.sufficientlysecure.keych...

[2] https://github.com/zeapo/Android-Password-Store
Komodo Dragons are notoriously reluctant to breed in captivity. There have been ~200 born in captivity the last 20 years, making the economics of your Dragons farm questionable.
I don’t believe so, especially given how dangerous it is. Several died a few years back and policies became even more restrictive. It’s other name is the Underwater Explosive Testing Facility.
To be fair, this is an engineering “how the sausage is made” post, not a product one
I have a large and ever-growing (> 100,000) photo collection that isn’t particularly well curated, and I have worried for years that I’m accumulating too many pictures at too low a signal:noise ratio. But now I actually think that I’ll be able to hold out for machine learning to come along and help me get more value out of it. Apple and Google are now good at finding faces, and soon enough I imagine they’ll have pretty good algorithms from sorting good photos from bad ones.

Sometimes you really can just ignore a problem long enough until someone else solves it for you.
Generally true, although the kernel is now unencrypted by default.
Origin of European Megaliths
Netflix’s Our Planet Says What Other Nature Series Have Omitted
Your job isn't your life. The problems with the code aren't your personal problems. It can definitely feel like it at times, but they just aren't.

You'll move on from that code. Probably to some other code that is also fresh hell. Doing a good job in our industry is hard. Doing a great job in our industry is neigh on impossible.

Take it one day at a time. I worked on a product for 5 years and couldn't tell you all the moving parts. I'm now 3 months in to a new job and the complexity of the software I'm working on is absolutely overwhelming, but you start small and work towards the bigger problems.
> Providing a proof is not free knowledge. Providing an argument is free.

I’m not sure what you’re trying to say here. Formulating a cohesive statement requires effort, which can include supporting evidence if you are aware of it.

If you make claims and not only fail to support your case but don’t even know yourself if what you’re saying is true, that’s called conjecture. It can be entertaining but is unlikely to be persuasive.

If you intend to persuade your audience, the audience should demand proof and you should have to provide it.
This is exactly the correct behavior. I've been trying to figure out if it could be enabled through an extension.

I'm a little worried that sites will all start using javascript to trigger stuff following any user action, much like a bunch of terrible sites do now with popup ads. I think the best behavior would be to only show the icon, and let sites that need it use the DOM to tell the user to click the icon. If sites want to trash their own DOM so try to get users to enable notifications, so be it, but at least this could be blocked by ad blockers. On the other hand, I don't see Mozilla doing this because they're far too concerned with discoverability by novice users.
RPi 3B+ models are pretty good.

- USB boot

- PoE / PXE boot

- Low-end aarch64

- Decent GPU to drive small displays

- ARM == Serial console available

- Inexpensive

Can't see why they aren't server class. Easy to headless boot them and get productive.
Probably because it's rapidly becoming the quintessentially evil corporation, and there's a correlation between not having a problem with that and being a ding-bat who belongs in a cult.

edit: I mean it. I'm a programmer and I would not work at Google. It would not matter what their offer was. In my eyes, people who work at Google are hurting their prestige as opposed to helping it.
The Evolution of a Product
I tend to take pictures that tend towards the surreal, such as a life sized plastic cow as a lawn ornament [1] or a bear dressed as Goldilocks serving a human skull [2]. Or a human sized teddy bear just chilling out on a park bench [3].

[1] http://boston.conman.org/2014/10/29.2

[2] http://boston.conman.org/2014/10/30.3

[3] http://boston.conman.org/2014/10/31.2
Using htaccess to provide better Open Graph images
Cross reference this list[1] with this one[2]. I just don't see any evidence for a claims like "Western democracies with hate speech laws are less democratic".

[1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democracy_Index

[2] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hate_speech
I don't think so. You have to confirm your email, and the target has to enter your exact email + hashtag for it to be matched.
I don't think that there is existing solution for that, but it should not be too hard to implement one.
I used this too, it was great and works flawlessly. I found the author's reasoning unconvincing (and not really argued at all).
In fairness, there’s the whole you-just-might-die aspect. They’re shouting from experience.
The article does not explain anything on their new app organization, on challenges they faced when redesigning, does not give any measured metrics.

The whole article can be summed up in a sentence or two:

We've redesigned from plain js and iframes to the stack we used for our TV app - react+redux, this made the app easier to develop. We also switched from flash to EME.
Hmm ... yes the tech issue here is very interesting.
Judging by its performance on Android, Spotify does not feel led by engineering at all. Then again judging by its UX, it cant be led by UX designers either.
People go to the gym to do a specific thing, it's not a great place to socialise. Group sports is definitely more socially oriented.
You've got some stray punctuation that breaks your link.

Fixed link for the lazy: https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=duneroadrunner
If you have 5,800 people from Wyoming using your service, it's important to Wyomingites.
We still "dial" a phone number even though it's been (for me) over 30 years since I've seen a phone with a rotary dial (at my grandparent's house).
What do we do now that will be considered unthinkable in 50 years?
Recall it was something like they provided him with his hiv medicine and a small stipend....gross. Seems like this poor guy was doomed from day one.
> I also got GPG agent forwarding to work transparently

I found that forwarding the scdaemon socket is more reliable. I configure GPG on the remote machine to use netcat as scdaemon.
>generally not an active threat to adult humans.

Unless say,you were trying to put one in a bag. Also they don't need to hang on to you to kill you like a croc does.
>has to happen NOW

Here in the UK they OK'd the Hinkley Point reactor in 2010 and it will probably produce electricity around 2025, fifteen years later at a cost of around £22bn cash and £50bn in raised electricity prices. These things are not fast or cheap.

I'm kind of optimistic that renewables will grow exponentially and solve things but we'll see. Whatever works best I guess.
When you're talking about 'me' or 'my data' here, do you mean 'me' as in 'scarejunba' or 'me' as in 'the hypothetical CEO of a large health insurance corporation that wants to set discriminatory prices based on a huge data trove'?

When you're talking about 'you' here, do you mean that I, 'floe', personally want to own and control all of your data? Or do you mean 'you' as in 'every single person working to build democratically-controlled restrictions on the use of data'?
I've been using this player for at least 9 months.

This new player misses a lot of features that old web.spotify.com used to have.

For example, you used to be able to sort songs by popularity in search results.

Or you used to be able to start playing artist songs from all the albums.

Now when you "play an artist", all you get is 5 tracks, and to listen for the rest you have to listen by-album.
HCL-Based Color Palettes in GrDevices – The R Blog
Hah! Thanks a lot for the wikipedia article :)

Yes, Lobster is meant to be a much more pragmatic language, for people like myself to actually get the job of making a game done :) Other languages of mine are much more research-y. Though I will say I think the type system and lifetime analysis are pretty novel actually.

I'd like to think there's really only one Lobster, while older versions are still recoverable, they for practical purposes don't exist anymore :) Have you seen https://htmlpreview.github.io/?https://raw.githubusercontent... ? That actually contains some history.
That's true only if "I own my data" means all the data are kept on devices exclusively controlled by me. This is not the case at all for our personal information. Nor do most hardware allow for complete control.
Wow, that Logitech app is crazy huh, they just opened a port from all their Logitech Options users to anyone enabling them to make a remote keylogger.

MS must have written a huge exposé on that one, can't seem to find it on their Security site though.
Show HN: Everyday Materials [Netflix Show, U.S.]
Interesting show about the potential of various materials (by material scientist Mark Miodownik). As a maker/tinkerer I found it really gets the creative juices flowing, so I thought I'd share:
www.netflix.com/title/80185707?source=android
Many of the examples you cite are used as foods. It’s at least somewhat useful.

Rinho horn, bear bile, etc is not functional in any way (except perhaps wealth signaling) and the sooner we shame the Chinese (and other cultures, including our own - big game hunting, hello!) the better the world will be.
It is not an implementation of an existing paper or anything.. I am going to write it up soon, promise!

Feel free to email or msg me if you want to be notified.
Notes/Annotations on Paul Graham's “Startups in 13 Sentences”
> it only toxifies conversation to assume the worst in others

Isn't that what the parent comment did? That's the only reason I commented - i.e. implying that not being serious equals being childish. Quote or not.
#include causes the preprocessor to replace it with the specified file. Why is that bad?
I feel like that just wouldn't be true given that just a scratch from a bite from a Komodo can be deadly - or so I've been lead to believe.

What are you basing this on?