skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I can't reconcile how anyone with integrity would work at these firms. Which then it follows that only people without integrity work at these firms.

Now it all makes sense.
It is a little far fetched to think the audience didn't listen or ask questions about any potential risks.

It's easy to go back after an accident and find multiple points of failure and find things that could have been done better.

My guess is that most people thought it was a minor or acceptable risk. Unfortunately, they were very wrong.

But that doesn't mean the PPT slide is at fault.
Yeah, interesting point - this could actually pick up chat functionality for a whole heap of sites that don't have it, but are prepared to do the Keybase integration work.
Speaking as a firefighter, I found Trump's suggestion that they should "act fast" to be pretty disrespectful.
During trial installation of X-Plane 11 I got an notification from Windows Defender that it spotted Trojan:Win32/Bearfoos.A!ml. It looks like a false positive for me, but still it leaves a very bad taste.

Disclaimer: I am not a security expert and I do not take any responsibility for my opinion - it is up to you to verify if it is free of any malicious code.
Insurance companies typically won’t insure nuclear generators due to the enormous liability incurred during a black swan event, which is why government backing is required.
And have a stove, pots, and a refrigerator to store what you cook.
The reason Boeing's new plane crashed twice
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My favourite of all time too. I think it holds up as a whole (including visually, where others might seem dated) extremely well.
>starting from Lisp in Go

Interesting. Please state what is the License of g-fu, so people can contribute.
On a side note, he wouldn't be a friend for very long if I knew the tool didn't tip.
I completely agree. Powerpoint may cause information to be lost, or encourage sloppy speaking skills. But the deaths regarding "NASA's powerpoint that kills" is squarely on the chuckleheads who didn't sit down and get to brass tacks and ask the hard questions.

Powerpoint didn't stop NASA employees from asking "What are the chances of a catastrophic result?"

In times of critical issues, you ask plain and direct questions. You will always be given caveats, muddled answers, and "but ifs". As a decisionmaker, it's your job to 'cut the crap'.
I get both, for what it's worth. Plenty of crabgrass later in the season, but abundant clover, wild strawberries, wild violets, and little tiny blue pansy things that I don't know the name of earlier. Bees everywhere!

Past July though it looks pretty shitty.
I like the Pomodoro method. Basically, focus on a task for 25 minutes, then take a 5 minute break. Every 4 blocks, take a 15 minute break instead.

I work at home, so I do housework in some of those 5 minute breaks. It's different enough that it helps clear my mind enough to focus again after the break.

I'm still trying to find a good way to plan these work chunks, but so far I think emacs org-mode will work pretty well.
"Furthermore, they are not always able to use all functionalities of an iPhone"

If Apple is using "secret APIs" in its own apps in the app store then that is unfair and should change. But sandboxing apps and limiting their access to data and to OS internals is a very good thing.
Super interesting. I've been wanting to play around with BNNs after reading Yarin Gal's post on it [1] but my knowledge is limited on how to make it work. Does anyone here have a library or tutorial they recommend using Pytorch?

[1] http://mlg.eng.cam.ac.uk/yarin/blog_3d801aa532c1ce.html
Voder (1939)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TsdOej_nC1M

IBM 7094 singing Daisy Bell (1961)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=41U78QP8nBk
I can't remember ever dropping a laptop. I'm sure I have, but not so many times that I'd remember... multiple of them. And I'm not terrible agile to begin with. Just sounds like carelessness.
There seems to be a bug on the demo page: the Mercedes spins the wrong way when you drag.
Born in Paris, French, and living near Paris. My phone is in French but some of my folders are in English (e.g. 'Mobility' folder with apps like Uber, Lime, Heetch, Kapten ; 'Payments' folder with apps like Revolut, Lydia, Paypal). I don't explain it.
Sounds like a great way to make the world's biggest backdraft...
Previous discussion of original sources:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19663229

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19665159
Then why aren't they being held accountable? Ever? Banking scandals. This example.

Why aren't those who are tasked with enforcing the law enforcing the law?
Only some programmers get paid that and it usually depends heavily on the location you live.

Here's a generic software developer payscale for Boston which comes in lower. Boston isn't exactly a low cost city. While I'm sure there are plenty of devs making more, this is a good example of what I've seen.

https://www.glassdoor.com/Salaries/boston-software-developer...
> You can see this most clearly in the Metacritic for Tideland which is pretty positive as far as user submitted reviews go, but is one of the worst movies ever if you were to go off the critics reviews.

The problem is, critics are usually right, and the audience usually isn't. This is because critics have studied film, often went to film school, and can point out just exactly how a film fails.

That being said, Gilliam is the rare exception, and I do believe it is because of that ineffable quality about him and his directorial style. Maybe it's because I grew up with it, but "Time Bandits" is still one of my favorite films of all time. "The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus" was not really very well made, but it's still distinctly Gilliamesque, and it actually works around the death of Heath Ledger very adroitly. "Zero Theroem" was also a bit disappointing, but it's still at least different, not your usual Hollywood schlock.

"Brazil" was Gilliam par excellence; I am hopeful his take on Quixote is good, but even if it isn't, it will almost definitely be interesting.
I love doing more than one thing, though
Are we going to rescind the Pulitzer Prizes for the "journalists" talking about the Russian "collusion"? Failure to do so drastically reduces the merit of receiving such a prize. Same thing with the Nobel "peace" prize given to Obama.
Thousands block roads in Extinction Rebellion climate protests across London
The other thing was getting there and seeing people with lenses so big the camera hung from the lens, not the other way around. Good, they've got this handled, I can sit back and enjoy the experience.

Come to think of it, I did shoot some lazy phone video too (I'll just hold this to my chest and aim it in the general direction of the rocket, but not pay attention to the viewfinder because I'm looking with my eyes), and I haven't watched it on anything but the phone. Perhaps I should transfer that over to something with better speakers.. :)
It seemed as much like they thought they had Apple's timeline and luck to follow. In which case copying Apple's limitations wasn't so much a misunderstanding as a profoundly naïve optimism.

Apple had first mover advantage, so the time it took for them to catch up on features like copy/paste was negligible because "no one else" had it either, because consumers thought of it as a new category [0]. Microsoft didn't have the luxury of first mover advantage (or even second mover because Android).

Apple also had the marketing luck of hitting enough sales power early enough to control their own fate with the big US telecom carriers (AT&T especially from the start, but eventually they all played ball with Apple). Microsoft was expected by the telecoms to follow the old rules that they should have known by heart from Windows Mobile <= 6.5, not Apple's (still) very special rules, and that shouldn't have been a surprise. Android played by the old rules and decided the wild west of fragmentation issues was fine enough.

[0] (That is that they weren't feature comparing the iPhone to say Palm, Blackberry, or even Windows Mobile 6.x.)
Perl is still living in their Hamlet fodder world
You don’t really need a good vpn though. Any communications app with end to end encryption such as Signal also works fine. Except if you can’t trust the platform, because then your data can be accessed anyway. You have to be able to trust both the system and the application, either one on its own isn’t good enough.

As for VPNs, those are banned in China for all phones, not just iOS. If a government bans this or requires that, it’s really game over for device or application vendors. They really don’t have any choice but to obey the law, or walk away. Having a closed or open architecture doesn’t make much difference to that. However it still makes a difference in other aspects of security so it’s still a differentiator.

Ok maybe I’m wrong about ideology. But you seem to be arguing that closed systems like iOS lead to worse security, but then say you prefer iOS because of it’s superior security? I’m sorry, I really must be missing something.
Wow...I've heard PowerPoint called many things in my 30 years in corporate trenches, but never something as poetic as "a tool for employee theater"
No sensible protagonist or villain use time travel to become a billionaire. There are usually better pursuits involved.
I don’t agree. I work in the Danish public sector, which means we handle healthcare related software that could potentially lead to deaths.

Our managers aren’t technical wizards, and especially not in the field of healthcare. They are mostly doctors with a masters in management. Their job is to listen to what everyone has to say, and then make a decision based on that.

Our job is to make sure they don’t miss important points related to subjects they may not fully understand. Burying a “may cause significant damage” on a text-heavy slide like that is simply put poor communication.

It should’ve been the only words on a slide, it should have been in bold red, and, it should have said “if you ignore this, people may die”.
This is definitely incorrect.
i know a friend who just uses it to store and retrieve their private key for gpg
The remote git repo feature is nice. But from what I understand, the primary use is to serve as proof of identity. They have other products like a chat app for individual or team use, file storage, PGP operations, and more. All e2e encrypted.
The fundraising dilemma so many founders face
Wow, I really had no idea this is what I was watching in the original video. They should consider adding a "This was filmed in one take on one piano" title card!
OP demonstrates how your Keybase network can offer E2E messaging on Mastadon, bootstrapped via Keybase.

I see Keybase as a secure address book, on top which secure applications can be built.
Show HN: Easily turn your business or store into a social good company
Spacewalks are neither free nor totally safe either. It is possible they calculated that the risk of a spacewalk and the time it would take to do that was worse than attempting re-entry. They were probably wrong, but it's not a free operation.
Well, Indeed I agree: It is quite challenging to balance learning, life, and career development. Actually, I am planning to write a specific article on this - How to properly choose and learn technologies.
I have an article on time management you might like
https://www.cognitiveosman.com/few-tips-and-tricks-you-are-m...
Just wanted to say that i moved from twitter to mastodon sometime late last year amd couldn't be happier with it. Keybase integration is interesting to me, but not realky useful since i don't want to tie mastodon with my real life identity.

the Fediverse as a whole has a very different 'feel' to it compared to Twitter. Twitter feels significantly more commercialized amd stressful...mastodon / pleroma feel a lot more relaxed and pleasant in comparison.

Maybe i just accidentally joined nicer communities, but i see a lot of small-scale chitchat and genuineness on mastodon than i rarely see on twitter.

I've also had zero issues with the platform from a technical perspective...overall i think Mastodon, etc have done decentralization "right", and have a lot of potential for growth in the future
That's the craziest thing I've read today.

I've worked 12 hour shifts. By the time you eat, shower and commute you have no free time at all. It's horrible.
Sad to think that the Internet is becoming increasingly censored by many governments.

Maybe the Unabomber was right ,and you can't have technology and freedom at the same time. People just don't like freedom when it affects them negatively or benefits someone other than themselves.
Before we have the technology: Minimizing risk from machines and ourselves
Call me nuts, tinfoil, whatever but for last few years I'm having this hunch that politicians along with corporations are trying to "civilize" the Internet and ultimately turn it into cable tv-like controlled medium serving approved content because at this moment it's still running wild, because in their eyes it's too dangerous tool in hands of ordinary people who always can use it to discredit them and their actions.
I don't think there's an official origin for Siri's name. Someone said it was named after a child. I suspect (without evidence) it was named after the female robot in the pilot episode of the Logan's Run who ran Mountain City, a paradise city.
> otherwise there would be 10,000 pr0n sites or ad sites.

There's a middle ground: you can add integration so that it's available from CLI (`keybase prove ...`) but don't show it in GUI ("select integration") so it's not advertising that site.

The proof integration guide looks neat by the way.
You can recognize the cisterns because there are big (like 20 ft in diameter) brick circles inlaid into the street in SF to mark the cisterns. Neat once you know what to look for
> Powerpoint didn't stop NASA employees from asking "What are the chances of a catastrophic result?"

But the bureaucratic morass that Powerpoint embodies does cause people to stop asking questions like this in all forms of industry. You have probably seen it - at much lower stakes - in business, finance, or IT.

The post is picking at the nits of Powerpoint's layout, which I agree with you, seems silly. But the broader picture to blame meeting culture is quite accurate.
True. You could still use this to make two Lagrange points near the surface, mucking up everything. The fact that the hole has to be longer than the distance traveled would greatly reduce the gravitational field coming out of the hole.

You could still drop one end of the hole into the sun... (and I’ve just realized this was a Farscape plot and therefore how the idea got into my head in the first place)
It's at the bottom of the readme, LGPL3; but I forgot the license file.

Thanks for bringing it to my attention.
Or better yet, do the "Contact" thing, and just transmit information. Start with something to generate interest. Then maybe some (hopefully appreciated) knowledge and/or technology. Then instructions for building VR or robots, and data to load them with.
They definitely have access to at least some things. Not sure how it's audited or managed, etc on the backend. I had a problem with something, and what they said seemed to indicate the person I messaged looked at my stored information.

I do like that they have customer service though.
> The CAIB report really is a masterpiece (as is Feynman’s appendix to the Challenger report) of understanding how the understanding of risk can be subjugated to organizational pressures over time.

Agreed. It is a useful document to read for anyone who plans meetings and heavily relies on consensus to see where the problems lay. You need outsiders and first principles thinkers (physicists are good options, as Feynman always demonstrates) to disrupt bureaucratic agreement.
Well, I agree the statement could be over-generalized. It is indeed case by case.
For example, I can objectively claim that React based website with modern UX will have higher user experience as compared to static HTML - the claims are easily verifiable on the extreme ends.
But on the other hand, is Flutter better than React Native just because it is newer or will provide more business value? I find it tough to answer without sound experience and analysis.
I'm 26 and was taught in junior high that he was killed. I believe many news agencies at the time reported that he was run over as well. Turns out it was just good old American propaganda.
This being a limited release, how/where can we see it?
The realism of some payware planes has increased drastically, from aerodynamics to systems and failure modeling. Unfortunately, high quality payware has become very expensive.

As for X-Plane itself, Austin Meyer doesn't seem to have lost his old modeling habits, which sometimes infuriate flight simmers. Remember when he read a book on ground physics and all the wheels and braking were messed up? Now he has mentioned in a live FAQ session that they do HDR lighting "the right way" and that's the reason why cockpits are so dark in relation to the outside...
It definitely sounds odd to my younger colleagues when I explain what it was like when people smoked in pubs by default.

There may be a difference here in that lots of people disliked smoking/smokers/their clothes smelling after going to a pub, perhaps more than there are who dislike the concept of facebook likes manipulating their behaviour more than they like the rewards that likes bring them.
> They rejected the other options

I didn’t think there were any options. Indeed the managers didn’t think so.

From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_Shuttle_Columbia_disaste...

> Throughout the risk assessment process, senior NASA managers were influenced by their belief that nothing could be done even if damage were detected.

However the CAIB determined Atlantis could have been used as a rescue vehicle had NASA acted quickly enough. It also put forth a high risk repair procedure:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_Shuttle_Columbia_disaste...
> how are insurers supposed to properly cost and be able to provide payouts for a "cyberattack", which might be anything from "our company website was DDoSed for 30 minutes and we lost 50 customers" to "our production lines were shut down and our company ground to a halt for two weeks"?

The same way they properly cost and provide payouts for, say, fire which might be anything from "one room got slightly scorched" to "the entire building burned down".
Interesting point, thanks.
By "tens of thousands" I meant more on the order of 60k+.

Getting 10 engines there wouldn't be the issue. Supplying them with water would be. Given that it's an island, they would be limited to the capacity of the water main serving the island.
I can't believe they didn't tie them down.
> Given the level of dangerous stupidity they displayed

Wouldn't that apply to most car accidents on the road? Stupid decisions by at least one party leading to someone's insurance paying the bills?
I expected a more fluid experience, especially on mobile (touch events maybe?)

It would be better to use the images and photogrammetry software and instead make a real 3D textured model and use a good OBJ web-based viewer.
I wish that Keybase could work with the Signal team on something.

Signal has a lot of experience in UI [1] and security, and Keybase had the identity proofs. I'd love to see them work together rather than compete.

[1] Signal UI used to be horrible but as of the past few months it's improved a ton! It's now my preferred SMS client.
The roof is not made of wood, but like most old European buildings, its frame is made of wood.

Above the vaults of stone, a wooden frame supports the roof which is covered with metal (zinc). This is obviously lighter, and easier to build and to maintain than a roof made of stone. Unfortunately, after a few centuries it becomes extremely burnable.
During that final Columbia flight, I remember reading a short news story on the internet on the foam falling off. It even had a short video of the foam falling off. (Somewhat of a novelty way back in 2003.) I watched that video several times.

I remember being concerned, but confident that NASA would figure it out.

Then when I saw the headline that Columbia didn't land, I remember immediately thinking, "On no! The foam!". I also remember being puzzled that none of the news stories after the crash mentioned the foam for a long time.

I've tried to go back and find that news story, but I have never been able to find it.
It would be cool to see everyone's Mastodon usernames/domains, I'm on my own self hosted instance where it's a bit more difficult to find other people.

Mine is: https://toot.jeena.net/@jeena
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>Just because Planck times are the smallest possible measurement of time intervals doesn't mean that time progresses in discrete Planck time chunks. That's obvious enough, but maybe seems unmeasurable ... and so what difference does it really make?

Does it mean that time does NOT progress in discrete chunks, or can not? I don't believe so.
Speaking empirically, I have plenty of friends that are renting rooms in investment properties owned by rich people.
Really nice dimension you highlighted - It is indeed many legacy systems are running business critical application which are quite expensive to replace, we see that in the finance, insurance, banking, and aviation domain.
On important dimension to consider when learning technologies is to always invest on learning the fundamentals which rarely change with time.
For example, investing on developing sound understanding of TCP/IP protocol will be helpful regardless of what technology vendor you will use and the basics remain (almost timeless)
"...they will work with you to get you under compliance"

Sure, as long as they are doing so in good faith. An act like this is clearly not in any sort of good-faith attempt to be in compliance with the law. It's obviously illegal. I would expect (hope?) that regulators and law enforcement would act swiftly and with much more than strongly worded letters and small fines for anyone who does this.

Yes, you are correct that I would definitely claim that this was an egregious action. If people are conspiring to limit the employment prospects and potential income of others and are doing so in a manner that violates the law - yeah that's pretty f'ed in my book and they should, in my opinion, be subject to the harshest punishment the law allows for these instances.
This is like going to a film festival to watch spiderman 2. I was hoping to pick up something for next read but I really don't want to read another trump stuff. All the trump/immigrant/women/muslim/minority news have cast a pall of anxiety and dread over my life.

was hoping to get some awarness about a new cause/topic but this just whats in news cycle everyday.
Also no expert, but from the cases I remember, actual construction is rather fast.

What takes time is often the financing: there are churches in Germany where, to this day they are collecting money and constructing piece-by-piece. I don’t know how this will play out here. For example: how much is the Catholic Church still involved? But I would assume the French state to be somewhat generous.

The other potentially delaying question is how to reconstruct. Going for an exact replica often feels anachronistic and sometimes tacky. The German Reichstag, for example, was reconstructed with a rather modern glass rotunda, and feels like a great example of combining old and new. The World Trade Centre was replaced by something entirely new. If they decide to go in such a direction, some time will be spent on architects’ competitions.
https://github.com/pi-hole/pi-hole/pull/2706