skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
3.0.5274a-rc99, haven't you been getting the release notes?;)

(But seriously, it's like HTML5; there probably won't really be another major version ever, just new things built on top of the existing schema)
I believe wind speed and direction has a significant effect on flight times - making them inherently unpredictable and risking knock-on effects.
Making Gecko embeddable is admittedly not on Mozilla's priority list. Certainly not since they abandoned the idea of XUL.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gecko_(software)#Usage

Other web browsers using Gecko include Airfox, Waterfox, K-Meleon, Lunascape, Portable Firefox, Conkeror, Classilla, TenFourFox, HP Secure Web Browser, Oxygen and Sylera (for mobile).

Other products using Gecko include Nightingale, Instantbird and Google's picture-organization software Picasa (for Linux).
I've been reading about space to my six-year old and there are a lot of neat real photographs of the solar system. Then we followed it up with a book on dinosaurs where he proclaimed "That's a drawing!"
Presumably the people who built them didn't call them "desert kites." I think it's pretty clear the author was referring to that name when pilots in the 1920s were said to have named them.
Show HN: ApiSheet – Convert Your CSV File into an API
Hey guys, Made this MVP which converts your CSV file to an API endpoint to which you can send GET and DELETE HTTP requests to query data.

www.apisheet.com

Let me know what you guys think

Thank you,
Most fonts are ugly, see ubuntu.com
No, to my knowledge, each item sold only covers its Nice class it falls into. They don't just sell sausages, they also sell things from a large class of other things. There is an online shop: https://shops.volkswagen.com/de_DE/web/lifestyle
God I miss Opera 12, Presto and Dragonfly. :(
from the description you will suffer warmup time, you just need to start a http server withing 4 minutes.

also cron jobs do not work since the computations only work as long as the container is running.

it also still does not support .net since gvisior does not support it :(

https://cloud.google.com/run/docs/reference/container-contra...
https://cloud.google.com/run/docs/issues

it's basically AppEngine v3 (without long running stuff)
Lion assaults little child on a Mexican television program
Are there any books of this kind for modern languages?
> “It’s entirely possible that the sensitivities over determining whether Zhang was targeting Mar-a-Lago or the president — or whether she was a legitimate guest or member — may have contributed to the agent’s actions on the ground,”

Plot twist: she was a legitimate member with a personal malware ridden usb stick she wasn't aware was infected. /joke
and be the one very strong signal from $VPN_IPRANGE that has a random wacky user agent, along with disabled scripting (and a quite comprehensive CSS fingerprint to boot).
Windows XP dies final death as Embedded POSReady 2009 reaches end of life
Brings back fond memories. That was the book that got me started programming. I didn't even have a computer at the time but loved reading about the games and trying to understand the code by going through it in my head.
Google's self-flying delivery drone service
Google’s Wing drones approved to make public deliveries in Australia
TL;DR:

1) planes fly at a lower speed to save fuel

2) help airlines to claim they have improved on-time (OT) flight performance

3) it makes it easier to swerve the “magical three-hour limit” on delays – the threshold that qualifies passengers to file compensation claims at least under European Union passenger rights’ law.
i think the space shuttle used a couple of AP101's, which were 16 bit machines, with core memory, programmed in JOVIAL...
"The handful of times we've moved forward with a candidate despite not receiving a thank you, we've been ghosted, or the offer we make is ultimately rejected."

Perhaps this is selecting for desperate job hunters who send thank you notes.
I'm confused. The press release says Qaiser "bought masses of advertising traffic from pornographic websites" -- so what's wrong with the BBC's reporting, here?
Film's properties are known and understood and there aren't any "super films" that are better or more capable than another country's. Lenses are also understood.

With electro-optical (EO) sensors, great care must be taken to reduce the quality of the final product when it is publicly released so that adversaries do not gain a complete understanding of the what the sensors are capable of.

Film creates "better" images, but modern EO sensors are more capable in certain circumstances.

There is all kinds of computational and electronic trickery one can do to obtain images that may be impossible to capture on film that you want to keep secret, like fusing short wavelength IR with visible light or using it to discipline visible light to correct or reduce atmospheric distortion. Other EO technologies can determine what an object is made of from great distances.

Technologies like that you want to keep secret.

In a hypothetical Cuban Missile Crisis set in 2019, US analysts would have visible, near- and short wavelength-infrared, thermal, and pan-chromatic imagery to look at, but the 2019 version of Adlai Stevenson would still only show the visible images at the UN.
Some categories show a blank page, selecting the category all works fine though.
> if you're closeted non-hetero sexually

The only way to misinterpret this is if you want to.
because they are part of a ruling elite? I don't know anything, but that's usually the case
That used to be true before it was sold in 2016 to a Chinese conglomerate. As noted above, the Chinese removed VPN apps from the Apple app store, but they left this one. Which means it's compromised.
Eh, I see "Thank You" emails as annoying personally and think others feel the same way but apparently not haha.
In fairness, the command-line world of the BSDs of the 1980s is long gone in some respects, and this is not just some Apple/NeXT idiosyncrasy.

OpenBSD's ftp command has become a generic multiple-protocol file transfer tool, different to the ftp commands of the other BSDs. (FreeBSD puts this functionality into a tool named fetch, instead.)

The r- commands were eliminated from FreeBSD some time ago, with much the same happening to them as happened with telnet on MacOS. They are no longer in the operating system, but are applications that one can install from packages/ports.

BSD re-vamped its command-line interface to ps in 1990. It has been getopt-based, and documented as such, for 29 years and 7 days.

rc.local was labelled obsolete in FreeBSD in 1995, and deleted from base in 1998.

And so on.
You might be interested in Vivaldi, a chromium fork made by some of the same people that originally made opera.

https://vivaldi.com/
Flying slower may actually reduce on emissions.
Keep in mind, Kevin Scott has made most of his career around ads: AdMob, Google, LinkedIn and now Microsoft.
Exactly my feelings. I agree efficiency should be improved, and I would like that total travel time got shorter, but I can accept a small margin to help them adjust if that will give me a consistent arriving time.
Hm, a one-liner turnoff:

const std = @import("std");

* pointless semicolon

* pointless "@"

* seemingly pointless "const" (can you define a mutable import?)

* unnecessary verbosity defining an identifier for the import when there's almost never a need for naming it differently (i.e. it should default to "const std" if you just type "import 'std'"...

I like Go because it avoids pointless verbosity most of the time.
The search for alien life starts in Antarctica
Because the cons are really bad. And the pro's are nifty.
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Sometimes the academic standard isn't realistic because software that large is often written by many people in different stages with little thought to architecture. Coupled with the fact that software design is so ambiguous (i.e. why you get papers with the title meme "considered harmful" to the n power for certain software practices) I don't blame people for being confused. For example, people can make legitimate cases for use of goto, continue, and break which academics consider bad practice because it interrupts program flow. My guess is the primary reason it had 10,000 global variables is because of lack of knowledge, but also lack of structure. And to restructure the code with that many pieces of global memory would probably require extensively rewriting. And I can't tell you how many articles I've read that tell you to never rewrite applications because it implies a death sentence for the company (ie. Netscape).
> Padding drives higher costs in fuel burn, noise and CO2

Where's this garbage, which is repeated multiple times, coming from?

They say padding is just scheduling.

The planes are not flying further according to the article.

Why would an airline burn extra fuel because they are ahead of time?

Also if behind in time they have to burn extra fuel to catch up. So if anything they are burning less by having buffers.

Typically shitty BBC.

So they might circle if there are fees for being early at the destination which are more than fuel, I would not think so, but if true THAT would be interesting.

But they can just go slower on the way if informed of this, which should be more fuel efficient, but if this is not true this also would be interesting but I find unlikely.
There's been a few recent cases reported in our local UK paper where drug gangs are reported to have made £500k, say, and instructed to pay back £50k. They get a 2 or 3 years inside, rent free, then.

Given median wages it seems like they're getting a reasonable return provided they don't mind the stay in prison. Like would you go to prison if you were paid £70k a year to do so?
I like how Paul Chiusano answered the main question:

"If Haskell (or XYZ) is so great, why hasn’t it taken over?"
"The simplest explanation is probably that Haskell is not that much better than, say, Java,"
"for many of the software systems people write today."
Uhm.. I don't know.. I'm aware this is the case of airspeed indicators and many others, but, for instance, the autopilot is fed with readings of Pitot tubes from both sides and it disengages when the sensors disagree beyond sensible thresholds. Besides, such issue is brought clearly to the knowledge of pilots.

In the MCAS case, however, we are speaking about a computer which not only interferes in the flight controls, but also does that in a way impossible to override and it's too difficult for the pilots to spot the root cause.
Like others have posted, my childhood included a lot of typing in BASIC programs from books and magazines. What I remember most is staying up late one night when I was ten years old to type in the text adventure game from the back of "Basic Fun with Adventure Games" [1] on my TRS-80 MC-10 with 4K RAM. Before I could finish typing it in, I was shocked to get "?OM ERROR" -- out of memory. My first ever experience with running out of resources. :) I knew I was going to need a better computer...

[1] https://www.amazon.com/Basic-Adventure-Games-Susan-Lipscomb/...
I will say it: Wikipedia. You do need to have the common knowledge used to describe the topics but Wikipedia is an amazing source.

(out of your list, I mainly looked at Game Theory, Probability, and Statistics there).
Flying faster uses LOTS more fuel per mile travelled. It's not just the aero but also what engines are optimized for
I was 19 years old and I also wanted one of those.
But I had to choose, and I finally ended up getting a Chess Challenger 7: https://www.schach-computer.info/wiki/index.php/Fidelity_Che...
This is actually what any other mode of transportation that uses a schedule has to do: if you have a schedule, you have to take some precautions to ensure you can keep to the schedule most of the time, otherwise you can forget about the schedule. Here in Germany, this is very obvious for bus lines on streets that are usually very busy - they have so much "padding" in their schedule that on less busy days the buses have to travel at 30 km/h instead of 50 km/h to avoid running ahead of schedule.
IIRC New York City actually has higher rates of housing/sheltering homeless than most other cities in the USA. However, due to population size + density it would still be possible to see the homeless people who refuse/cannot access housing fairly regularly if one lives in or commutes to the densest areas. (For example, I've only ever seen homeless people in the heart of manhattan. I commute to Astoria and Flushing and long island fairly often and hardly ever/never see homeless people there.)
This is a surprisingly poor article from the BBC.

So, padding, according to this article has a negative environmental impact. But that argument isn't justified and doesn't make sense, most time lost is either unavoidable for the airline (e.g. airport problems/weather) or at a phase of travel without the engines running (boarding delays, waiting for a gate, etc).

Flying slower is actually a environmental win since aircraft are more efficient at slower speeds (although costs more to the airline due to staffing/opportunity cost).

They seem to want us to believe that if padding was removed, and airlines magically got more efficient, that they'd use less fuel but what is the mechanism? What phase of flight sees the fuel reductions? It is like they don't know that aircraft often use either ground-power or only the generator while waiting.

In fact the core premise of the article is clickbait. Oh no, airlines are making sure you can plan your travel times accurately by accounting for common delays within a route! The horror! Sorry, but not biting today.
Oh it can get even more ridiculous... yesterday I got yet another $300 bill for an ER visit from October 2017. Now I have figure out whether it will cost me more in lost billable hours than to just pay this bill, knowing that contacting my $1700/mo insurance company to help sort things out will prove to be fruitless.
Can we fix the title? It should be capitalized as BASIC, the programming language, an acronym for Beginners All purpose Symbolic Instruction Code.
> Mics and cameras trigger prompts in MacOS.

That's assuming it presents itself as a mic or camera. What's to say it can't have the hardware embedded in the device but not present it to the host machine? Then any exfiltration technique can get a direct look into audio/video of the area.
Still potentially useful today for small libraries though:
https://github.com/davidedc/Algebrite/issues/83
This goes a bit beyond what most people would consider "unclean code", I think.
Linked List Problems in JavaScript
From the NCA article:

>Qaiser spent the proceeds of his criminal activity on stays in high-end hotels, prostitutes, gambling, drugs and luxury items including a £5,000 Rolex watch.

... and he probably wasted the rest ...

WC Fields' quote:

“I spent half my money on gambling, alcohol and wild women. The other half I wasted.”
I really love it! When did you start the project?
`ethical.net` is running a few third-party trackers (which I can't find on its own list of purportedly ethical resources).
those were the days!!!
From ML to GAN to HAL, a peek behind the modern artificial intelligence curtain
I don't like this idea, just like I don't like the idea of ESG ETFs and whatnot. It presupposes what is ethical and what is not, despite the obvious personal nature of the problem. The 300 "ethical" alternatives are just things the OP thinks are ethical and it seems unlikely to me that such a personal list of stuff is applicable to really anyone else besides himself. Or maybe it is, but just not to me.

Or maybe it should be renamed to "Progressive alternatives to mainstream stuff."
Many of us are the people making those risk assessments. What information would these IT security staff have that we don't?

It's no secret that a lot of companies don't have great information security.

I think that the fact that people are signing off on it just emphasizes how little some people care about information security.
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My partner works for a large hospital network dealing with insurance payments. Their department is not even able to figure out how much bills "should be," which prevents them from being able to prioritize their work based on total costs.

When the process is voodoo for the people who actually deal with insurance payments, normal people stand zero chance because it's unlikely you'll ever find a person to talk to who can find this information out.
Related past HN threads:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19392673

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13853150
"Increasing success by lowering expectations" ;-)
I know organisations which would automatically disqualify candidates who send "thank you" or any other kind of emails. They would call it "canvassing", which is forbidden for job-seekers in these organisations.
Buzzfeed news has easily surpassed them in quality recently. I say that as someone who still harbors a strong grudge against BF for their part in this clickbait mess.
I like it. Since when are you live and which features do you plan next?
There was a lot of pseudo-legal justification and lack of prosecutions for the Bush torture program as well, which was another violation of American norms.

You have a very idyllic view that people can’t break the rules and get away with it: Obama murdered an American in violation of the law, but there is a tradition of not holding presidents accountable for their crimes.

Personally, that lack of accountability seems to have led to a ratcheting level of presidential misbehavior and a collapse in societal norms — precisely what this thread is about.
How is ethical defined here? I cannot see a definition and I don't see what is the common denominator between all those tools. For example why isn't Telegram considered ethical but Signal and Wire are? What is unethical about Word or Excel (given that OpenOffice is mentioned as an alternative), is it the ownership by Microsoft? Or the use of proprietary format in the past? What is more ethical about Steemit or Mastodon than Twitter? I would understand if the focus was on privacy and taking back some control/ownership, but that's not really something I would consider to be an ethical argument.
I'd avoid picking on a language just by one line – it's not a language for writing one-liners, in which case the critic would be valid.

There might be very good reasons for each of those things, but it's hard to say without delving into it some more.
If you want to type one of these out right now, I recommend JS99er [0]

[0] http://js99er.net
The drag/speed curve of an airplane is actually U-shaped. Parasitic drag does increase with speed, but induced drag—the drag that results from the production of lift—is highest at slow speeds. The combination of these two curves is a U.

The bottom of the drag curve is the speed at which the airplane will achieve maximum range for a given quantity of fuel; 76% of that speed will achieve maximum endurance. The distinction between range and endurance is that of distance versus time. Max range will get the most distance out of one pound of fuel, while max endurance gets you the most time out of that pound of fuel.
Haha nice! I totally agree! :)

I think in the context of making business decisions you are absolutely right.

All I'm saying is that the benefits of an idea that has the potential to disrupt banking are much greater IMO than the cost of ironing out faults (that are sometimes exaggerated as in this case).

I'm not saying there aren't valid cons to it or that we should ignore them from a practical standpoint. We need to know what they are to fix them.

I just noticed that people are quick to dismiss something because it's not perfect and that sort of mindset is counterproductive.
Cool! Previously when I hit "Switch theme" it was loading unstyled, but double-checking it now & it's working for me correctly — might have been some plugin on the browser I was looking at it with causing interference with loading the 2nd stylesheet.

(EDIT: Typo)
No I got it. It just wasn't correct. Just giving you some knowledge.
I'm surprised nobody is pointing out the similarities with Nim in terms of features: multiple targets (binary, js...), C interoperability, easy cross-compilation, metaprogramming, targeting many architectures, artifact caching.
privacy isn't the morality question, being misleading about your privacy is the morality question.

Google is collecting surveillance data on it's consumers, that the majority of it's consumers don't even know is being collected.

At what point does it become Google's responsibility to make a reasonable effort to inform people about their surveillance practices? I'd say if polling shows that the majority of your consumers aren't aware of your surveillance practices, you aren't being honest.
Yeah, that's not how that works.
Security pros question Secret Service Mar-a-Lago thumb drive examination
Thanks I was wondering if people had Go written video libs or if these were bindings.
GraphBLAS uses sparse matrices internally, and the API assumes a sparse format. The data structure is opaque, however, so if I want, I could use dense matrices if it's faster (and there are times when that's faster; see for example the vector v in the push/pull BFS in LAGraph, at https://github.com/GraphBLAS/LAGraph/blob/master/Source/Algo... ). However, I don't switch to dense matrices automatically yet.

SuiteSparse:GraphBLAS does have a fast incremental update mechanism, but it's not (yet) as flexible as other approaches. But the beauty of GraphBLAS is that the data structure is entirely opaque to the user, so if a library implementor such as myself wants to plunk in an entire new one, then the user code that relies on GraphBLAS doesn't change. It would be possible, even, to use lua-graph internally (or anything else, license permitting), and then to select the fastest format for the problem at hand. Or, lua-graph (or any graph library) could be augmented to support a GraphBLAS API to its functionality.

Currently, SuiteSparse:GraphBLAS has four matrix formats: CSR, CSC, hypersparse CSR, and hypersparse CSC. The CSR and CSC formats take O(|V|+|E|) space, and the hypersparse formats take O(|E|) space. Hypersparse matrices arise in some problems, and subgraphs are often hypersparse. In the future, I would like to add a CSB format as well. I select between standard and hypersparse formats automatically. The default is CSR and I don't pick CSC automatically. In some cases, it would make sense to hold the matrix in both CSR and CSC formats, simultaneously, thus allowing fast access to both the in- and out-adjacency lists at the same time (at the cost of double the memory). I don't do that yet, however.
I mean... I was taught in high school to always send a thank you email to an interviewer after an interview.

Not only for the courtesy, but also to stay in the interviewer’s head if they were undecided. Most people don’t send these, thus, you’ll be a bit unique and might tip things in your favor.

An interviewer that uses it as a hiring requirement probably wants someone thoughtful and willing to do a little extra compared to others. Seems minor compared to multi hour programming tests.
The book was originally published before there was an MS-DOS or IBM PCs.
I really like Opera and use it as my main browser. Yes, that Chinese company is notorious. Just don't put any spyware in your oversea version. If you have to, please only plant it in Chinese release.
I think your comment does an excellent job explaining the reality. I also agree that I could probably figure out what a well written page of APL/J/K does quicker than the equivalent 20 pages of OO indirection which I find quite irritating. With APL/J/K you can get to the macro level understanding of what is going on pretty quick and then drop down to the micro. With C, I can always read the Main() method, but it fractals out passed that. Aaron Hsu describes this pretty well in some HN posts and YouTube presentations.