skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Do you believe that the Linux Kernel is fragmented? That's exactly what different distros do to the kernel.
People cite them as news precisely because they don't clearly label themselves as an opinion provider. You're going to have a hard time convincing me that the word "opinion" never occurs on their site or printed media by accident.
Yeah, but that still does not mean that most English speakers come from China. It might be true, but it does not follow directly.

That's like saying the most popular social media site in China also has to be the most popular social media site in the world.
> F5 Networks should have been branded a black sheep for its various TLS implementation screw ups (they are the prime reason TLSv1 is considered insecure), yet they came out mostly unscathed.

I'm failing to find more information (googling for ssl issues on ssl termination equipment doesn't work well,) though it sounds like it'd be a good read - if you have any more details to share, please...
It’s likely that part of the reason you’re arriving earlier (especially if flying west to east) is due to higher jet stream velocities in the winter. This increases the ground speed of the plane even if the optimal indicated airborne airspeed is being maintained.
> Such altruism

You think that large open source projects developed by hundreds of full-time engineers are meant to be altruistic? Spending ~$100M a year (that's my estimate; I don't have numbers) is not meant as a charitable contribution, and if it were, I'd rather companies contribute this kind of money to worthier causes than software.

> Can they do this for the TCK?

The TCK is provided free of charge to people who produce OpenJDK builds. It is not provided free of charge to people who produce non-OpenJDK JDKs.

> Why not?

Perhaps because this is still seen as another channel to fund all those hundreds of full-time developers who make this open source software. All open source projects of this magnitude -- Chrome, .NET, Android, Swift -- are also funded by various income channels. I don't think any one of those, including OpenJDK, is open for selfless purposes. That's just not how "Big Open Source" generally works. But it is a fact that Oracle open sourced the entire JDK, and many people think that's a very good thing.
HN can be funny. Since this is an article about the airline industry, a lot of people here are criticizing them for setting lower expectations and padding times. And this is an industry that deals with so many environmental, regulatory, administrative and personnel problems completely out of their control.

On the other hand, if it's an article about how "PMs ruin software engineering by pushing for unrealistic deadlines", all of a sudden a job role that depends largely on just people and their (fairly reliable) computers justifies 2x or 3x the time estimates.
Turtl: The Secure, Collaborative Notebook
> It's up to them which transactions to include in a block.

and "them" is not a single entity or even small number of entities. miners compete for block rewards and every transaction with a fee contributes to the profit - whatever malicious miners choose to leave out will be included by non-malicious miners making them more profitable.

calling miners middlemen when they would only have actual control over which transactions appear on the chain if majority of miners colluded (destroying the value proposition of bitcoin in the process) is very disingenuous.

> talk about inflation and QE as theft from their pockets. The block reward is a fee extracted from the ecosystem in the same way.

i don't even... QE and other fiscal measures are short term decisions made by bunch of powerful humans behind closed doors. Bitcoin emission schedule was decided ten years ago and has virtually zero chance of being changed without destroying the project and it's value. you must be trolling right now if you say you don't see the difference.

as for why is there bitcoin emission schedule at all - because that's probably the most fair process of distributing bitcoin.

> So yeah, you did, you said it was monetary value expressed as pure energy, which is meaningless

either you start reading and quoting me correctly or this discussion is over, i'm done with your manipulative tactics.
Bittersweet to see how much “distracting work environment” is reported to reduce productivity, given that companies abjectly refuse to provide private & quiet workspaces despite it being unequivocally cost effective to do so even for most start-ups in dense urban centers.

I continue to find the discussion of salary disappointing though. The survey provides a good opportunity for more detailed information.
Advertising is unethical in my opinion when it lies or misleads, or it fosters fears and impulses that negatively impact individuals quality of life, or their social contribution and therefore others' QoL.
One example is advertising toys to kids during kids programming: most of this is done in a way that makes kids feel left out for not having the toys, relies on FOMO, envy, and molds susceptible children into more jealous and materialistic people. It misleads them with its imagery into thinking they will be extremely happy if they just have that thing.
I think that perhaps even the majority of what is done as accepted practice in advertising (across all its forms) is harmful, and further, it will stay that way because the $ales a campaign generates are the only measure of success as far as success is rewarded.
To pile on, they have been steadily employing less people due to technology: https://www.cnbc.com/2018/10/17/bank-of-america-ceo-brian-mo...
I'm curious what percentage of their workforce was below this rate to begin with? I'm assuming the jobs that would be most affected by this are contracted out and won't be affect after all.
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The funny thing is advertising is an area where it is hard to determine /why/ something was successful. Is it the ad campaign or because the new flavor is that good?

If you could give perfect attribution of influence on outcomes you should probably be a world changing billionaire already.

Anything which affects speech affects free speech "corruption" had nothing to do with it. The goal of speech is to spread a message which is a form of influence!

Defamation laws can still affect free speech and can and have been abused to stifle truth and criticism. It is dangerously naive to think that one can just restrict "influencing" and not cause harm. Point out the mayor id taking bribes? Jail for trying to influence elections and operation of the state.

Even most radically you could stop renumiation sure but that doesn't mean influence would be stopped and would only give rise to networks of "not paid for influencing" influencers.
What would stop people from consulting to get more favorable taxes? Very few people need tax optimization[1], and government default doesn't preclude it - maybe Intuit could offer this as a service instead. In any case, I don't think the net tax would be higher than the current one that includes paying hundreds for TurboTax or a tax accountant (multiplied by all filers).

1. A guess. The majority think of rebate as "money from the government", which partially explains why tax-preparation costs as much as it does.
ok, feel free to only include partial cost. how does that change my point?
It’s tied to your job because health ins through your employer gets an effective tax discount compared to that bought through the ACA market. There is no way for latter to be as economical.
You would prefer we segregate people into cities based on some measure of worth? No thanks.

What do you have in mind? The stanford elites get to live in san francisco, and the less-elite get shipped elsewhere?
There were superfilms, film stock sensitive in the infrared/UV spectrum and filters to optimize such film. There was also film sensitive only to very specific colors. Releasing images from these, at any resolution, would indeed give away much of the program's abilities/goals.

The ability to more easily declassify film stock is due less to the technology and more to the bureaucracy within intel communities. The film stock is owned by a single agency and so the declassification authority is relatively straightforwards. Digital imagery is shared instantly with a host of different agencies, many of whom still do not talk to each other regularly, and is stored in countless archives. Declassifying a digital file is therefore an administrative burden in comparison to a roll of film kept by a specific agency.
>But they're really, really Establishment.

What does that mean exactly?

I see folks say 'establishment' and other phrases that seem heavily loaded and used as evidence of something they're proposing... but it isn't evidence of anything.
As I understand it, Jython was not affected by Python Global Interpreter Lock (GIL), is the same true for GraalVM Python? If it is than it would be a great way to to speed up python applications.
Loved the virtual flaneur aspect of this game, just wandering around the neighborhood, checking out shops, buying things, talking to people, heading home in the evening were so enjoyable.

My Summer Car is the only modern game that comes to mind that captures the same kind of experience for me, if anyone has any other suggestions I'd love to hear them.
That's a petty argument. Plenty of times open source projects lack resources, quality or maybe have a different focus than a non open source solution. You can't just assume open source is better than the other
Mozilla could do the same. That said, I do trust Mozilla quite a bit more.
Why would you use curved lines, when they point in the wrong directions at the stations? For example Westkreuz and ICC stations should be mirrored vertically to have the correct orientation. The same for Schoeneberg etc...

Super confusing, the official map is a lot easier to read, at least it's clear that's an abstraction. If you need to locate stations on a real map just use their real map that shows all stops.
American has 24 Boeing 737-MAX8 planes out of a fleet of 963. For comparison, Southwest, who also has a large fleet of planes, has 34 out of 754.

Effectively they are operating a fleet that is 2.5% smaller than normal. I expect some impact to their schedule, but it shouldn't hit it that hard.
Yes, I know you can be required to stay out of the building whilst you're on your notice period but the post was about "cutting off your access and ejecting you from the building immediately" and I'm still pretty sure that can't happen in the UK without gross misconduct.
I wonder what Mr. Ahl has been up to. Last thing I heard was Small Basic with Microsoft.
> I live in Atlanta where the minority population is much higher all around and I don't get the sense at all that there's rampant racism or discrimination.

When you say "minority population," are you referring to white people or some other minority group in Atlanta, or are you referring to black people, who constitute the majority ethnic group in Atlanta?
It's a strangler pattern.

They're going to replace gecko piece by piece until it's all servo.

I'm not sure why people are saying they like or don't like gecko. It's just old tech and they're replacing it from the ground up but doing it in a sustainable way.

In the end servo will be dropped and gecko will just be gecko newer version.
Well, I tend to agree. Companies are amoral.

Where I disagree with the MBAs who say this is the underlying belief, that companies can't be blamed for their actions. They can and should be blamed for their actions.

When an individual behaves amorally, we put them in jail. When a company behaves amorally, we say "companies are amoral, we can't do anything about it!" If companies really are amoral, then we should treat them as a threat just like we treat amoral people as threats.
San Francisco — where drug addicts outnumber high school students

https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/philmatier/article/San-F...
The booming business for smuggling people to the US: 'Everyone wins'
surprised how few people use Microsoft SQL Server. I guess most people don't work with databases at all?
Only if you stay on your network, either by using a VPN or never leaving the house, I recommend the latter.
I'm curious if this is connected to the Danish guy who got caught laundering $450k of Bitcoin. They mentioned they found him depositing laundered money in another persons account who was arrested for hacking - but didn't mention which person it was.

https://thenextweb.com/hardfork/2019/04/08/danish-man-senten...
Is this similar to PAYE or do you actually have to submit a tax return but it's pre-filled for you?

In the UK, most people don't have to submit a tax return at all. Not sure the actual cost of this, but the convenience is unparalleled.
Which ideas in this thread have been debunked?
Yes! The Michael Lewis book is called _The Fifth Risk_, and it's an amazing read. It's a series of contrasting stories: earnest government workers who have dedicated their careers to protecting all of us from threats like nuclear proliferation, on the one hand, and on the other politicians and narrowly interested lobbyists who view government as either a threat to their self-interest or an opportunity to tilt the economic playing field.

https://www.amazon.com/Fifth-Risk-Michael-Lewis/dp/132400264...

From the NPR review of the book:

> Take Trump's choice to head National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, the Commerce Department agency that, among other responsibilities, oversees the National Weather Service. For that critical position, Trump has chosen Barry Myers, who is CEO of the private forecasting service AccuWeather. As Lewis points out, AccuWeather repackages the weather service's own data and sells it to private concerns for a profit. Myers at one time argued that "the government should get out of the forecasting business." In other words, you want to know if it's going to rain tomorrow? Or which way that hurricane is tracking? Well, buy our app, or subscribe to our forecasts. Myers has yet to be confirmed.

https://www.npr.org/2018/10/02/652563904/the-fifth-risk-pain...
I just fill out my taxes the best i can and submit it and if the irs corrects it I send them more or cash the check.

It's not hard and no accountant had ever dabbed me more than they cost.

If you can code you can fill out a form. Every year I day in going to automate it but it's easier to just fill out the forms.

I'm looking forward to an audit for the free tax advice.

Be legit. Stop worrying. Keep living.
Remembering Roger Boisjoly
I have always been shocked by the willingness of intelligent people to accept that fellow humans are stupid and they are smarter. Has anyone ever determined or even asked the Thiokol managers what the basis of their decision to ignore Roger??
China is a vast place, of course there are local dishes. But no-one would seriously even suggest that HK's food isn't Chinese food, or that their culture isn't Chinese.

> The OP alludes that HK was kept under the yolk of British rule, and is eager to shed its shackles to return to the mainland. This is simply not the case.

I cannot find any such allusion in this thread. It is true, though that the situation wasn't better under the British, and it was perhaps worse (no LegCo).
Just as a counterpoint to most of the comments here, I find San Francisco to be unique, charming, and beautiful. I have been there ~4 times in the past year and have had a great time every time.

Posts and comments in threads like these cause me to not want to participate on internet communities as my experience in reality seems to not match up with the cavernous anxiety taking place online.
That's a commonly made point, but to be a little pedantic you are definitely twisting the definition of the word 'freedom'. Those are benefits to be sure, and they may certainly be better than the US's, but not really 'freedoms'.
I think you're asking the wrong question with the "more" or "less" type thinking.

My own view is that everyone is prejudiced. But people are different. Some are prejudiced and loud mouthed. Some are prejudiced and liars. Some are prejudiced and just quiet. But everyone is prejudiced, so does it matter if one is more loud than the other?

I mean, if you go into a room full of pregnant high school girls, sure, some are loud mouthed. Some are liars. Some are quiet.

But there are no virgins in the room.
Murder is down, but non-violent crime (burglary, theft, car break-ins, vandalism) is way, way up. San Francisco now has a higher property crime than any large city in the United States. Literally the worst in the nation.

Not to mention, the trash, used needles, and human feces now covering the city.
> but she “appreciates” the (urban) Southern racists ones more because they don’t try to hide, so she knows where she stands.

I've heard this exact statement in a Dave Chappelle standup bit. I've always taken it to mean that bigots in some areas are simply familiar enough with the area's politics, history and justice system to feel comfortable saying openly bigoted things without fear of repercussion.
Absolutely. Why not read the license, though? It's the standard GPL (with an exception that makes it "non-viral") -- same license as Linux.
How about bug reports?
Hmm. A few points.

1) I don’t know what “aggressive political rhetoric” is, but it comes off as being dismissive of political opinions you disagree with

2) SF the city is a small part of the SF Bay Area. There are lots of black folks living near SF

3) Be very careful making projections about racism from your experience of Atlanta. Atlanta is the catch basin for successful black business for a large fraction of the south. I was born in Atlanta, and was really surprised when people would describe the south as racist, because my experience of race in Atlanta was so positive. But you don’t have to get very far out of the city to experience poorly concealed racism.
It has quite a few articles on the topic, such as this one, which has a "What's the benefit to users?" section.

https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-34173732
One of my favourite games growing up. I was disappointed when the sequel became an Xbox exclusive in the west. I imported the Japanese copy of Shenmue II and played it on my Dreamcast. Fortunately there were English subtitles.

I of course picked up the Shenmue 1+2 remaster on PS4, and have backed the kickstarter for the third (coming out this August!). You can bet the third will have forklifts!
1+2 don't really hold up that well today, but like many fans, I bought this purely for nostalgic reasons.

If I were to bet, I'd say Shenmue 3 will get metacritic scores in the 70s. It feels like an impossible task honestly. How to update the game for 2019 whilst also pleasing die-hard fans.
Favorited.

If you were interested in one day creating Star Trek's Replicator, this might be a good place to start. That is, here might be a good place to study the junction between solid and liquid phases of matter (your future Replicator would probably create liquids out of thin air before you figured out how to create solids, and this might be the phenomena you wanted to study to then figure out how to create those solids...)

Also, the list of exotic states of matter in the article is worth reading and re-reading...
It's definitely has created distro hell. I feel like a huge reason Linux can't get more desktop share is because we don't combine our effort and a lot of duplicate work is done between the distros. It's inefficient. There are things like flatpak now though...
Persona 4 has a lot of this. Very strong sense of place—you feel bonded to the town and the people.
Imagine if the power company made YOU figure out how much you owed them every month.
it's almost like we need a way to aggregate these sites and rate pages based on tags and how many people list their site. maybe not in the traditional del.icio.us sense but also as a potentially self hosted thing.
> Here the airlines are doing pretty much exactly what I, as a passenger, want, which is to predictably arrive at an airport by a certain time more often.

I was flying to Edinburgh for Christmas a couple of years ago, we were slated to leave at 9pm and arrive at 9am (7 hour flight + 5 hour time difference, made sense).

Then the plane was late getting to us, and they didn't arrive until 9:30, they quickly kicked out the passengers, then the new crew climbed aboard to start cleaning. By 10pm, we were still waiting in the terminal. at 10:45, we were finally allowed to board the plane, and after a couple of minutes it backed away from the gate and taxied to the runway, where we sat for over an hour. We were the last scheduled departure, and when the plane arrived late, the de-icing crew had gone home. We didn't leave until after midnight.

And we arrived... at 8:45 am, 15 minutes earlier than scheduled.

I slept, so I'm not sure if we hit some massive jet stream, or a black hole, or what, but that was the day that I stopped believing flight times.

Edit: Took this photo[1] waiting outside the hotel for an early check-in.

1: https://megapickles.photo/2017/12/25/reflections-of-edinburg...
I actually did and it turns out the idiot was Roger, not the managers.
A Soviet Pilot’s Defection to Japan Benefitted MiG – Russia Beyond
Hadley Wickham got intuitive function names for tidyr by simply polling users
This is a good point and a good article. If Bank of America like many other companies outsources a lot of its lower-paid positions, and these new standards won't apply to the outsourced jobs, then a higher minimum wage that mostly applies to people that were already being paid that much anyway won't do too much.

I wonder if they're going to do something like my employer, and mandate minimum wage and benefits for all of their contractors as well? https://www.forbes.com/sites/rakeenmabud/2019/04/09/googles-...
OK, we've changed to that from https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/04/science/white-dwarf-fragm....
In fact the mutation is likely to make it slightly less deadly, since it's likely to involve tradeoffs that make the virus less fit for other purposes.
Nice blast from the past.

I taught myself to code by typing these in by hand on my TRS-80. And trying to debug when something wouldn’t work.

Back in the day when something didn’t work and you had nowhere to turn, you had to bang your head against the code until you figured it out.
I'm betting none of those would be an 'Ad by google' in which case this is very unethical (I'm pro adblocking but google is targeting competitors)
The concerns you list don't stop this from being a good thing, I agree. My bigger concern is what BoAs rate of low-wage direct employees versus contractors looks like, and will look like in the future. The overall trend seems to be that contracted service work is paid somewhat worse than direct, but also faces no benefits, high firing rates, and far nastier working conditions. I don't have numbers on BoA, and I doubt they'll publicize them. But my concern is that moves like this (without a corresponding guarantee for contractors) create an incentive to offload ever more work into conditions that might be even worse than the current state of affairs.

I don't want to undersell this, though. I doubt bank tellers will become contract labor anytime soon, and this will actually represent a significant raise for them.
But the whole bitcoin climate change story isn’t true, the people making the claims may very well be well intentioned, they just aren’t correct.
Sorry but I'm not going to start flossing when I can use a Waterpik instead. There's just no need for it.
> Thats one of the benefits of notarization (which Microsoft also I believe requires now)

How does code signing work in Windows (for normal win32 programs)? I know I don't have any problems running 15 year old programs, which I have to assume predate any type of code signing.
I would love automatic filing in France. The process isn't that complicated, as long as it's just a single income. I dread the day where I'll sell my shares or qualify for a tax-return, because it's not going to be fun.
Is not sleazy. They have two systems but no export from one to the other and why should they? It's free.

You build it for free.