skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The bell towers did start burning, and their structure is wood to a large degree. Just the bells dropping could have destroyed all horizontal structures and threatened the towers’ stability.

They also literally grabbed and ran out with a lot of rather delicate cultural artifacts.
AMP has a lot of things all together, some of which I like:

* I like that when AMP is used for ads then the ads are fully declarative. Advertisers getting to run custom javascript, even in a cross-domain iframe, isn't great.

* I like that AMP allows sites (currently primarily search engines) to trigger preloading in a way that doesn't leak information to the site that is being preloaded.

* I like the way things like "sorry AMP only allows us to use 50k of CSS" can give developers leverage to push back against bad site designs.

* I like that it centralizes some measurements: instead of every ad provider using their own custom polling system to determine if the ad is on screen they can all subscribe to events triggered by a single well written system. This doesn't affect the amount of tracking (there's lots either way) but it makes it hurt the user experience less.

On the other hand, I don't like that:

* AMP uses a ton of JS, and if all you want is a simple website it's going to slow things down in the non-preloaded case. For example, taking a random post on my site (https://www.jefftk.com/p/trycontra-implementation and https://www.jefftk.com/p/trycontra-implementation.amp) I see a median speed index of 1.611s on non-AMP but 2.051s on AMP: https://www.webpagetest.org/result/190417_XB_22673cb98ce390a... https://www.webpagetest.org/result/190417_PS_1a60378762d87fb...

* A lot of people that don't want to implement AMP are doing it because then they get more search traffic. I understand how there isn't currently a non-AMP way of doing preloading in a way that doesn't leak information to the site (see above) but I think Web Packaging should be extended to support this in the general case and allow publishers to use AMP only if they want to.

* The interaction between AMP and content blockers isn't great. If you have a content blocker set to allow some JS but not all (for example, no third party JS) then it's not going to run the AMP JS or the contents of the <noscript> block, and AMP pages will render with 8s of white screen before the CSS times out. This is a pain, but I'm not sure what the right way to fix it would be. (I wish content blockers were smart enough to figure out which <noscript> tags to run, but that's probably asking too much.)

If you wanted to expand on how AMP seems like an attempt at a walled garden I would be interested in reading it; I haven't previously read any explanations that made sense.
As he's a "mainlander" (外省人, i.e. at least one parent came over with Chiang Kai-shek following the 1949 loss to the Chinese Communist Party in the Chinese Civil War）the Mazu reference seems to be something meant to appeal to Taiwanese (本省人) voters, kind of like a presidential candidate in the U.S. claiming strong local ties when traveling to different regions where that plays well. Yes, he's religious, and he speaks Taiwanese, but I wouldn't assume a huge number of Taiwanese people will back him for those reasons alone.

If Gou has real support from the KMT -- no easy thing, considering he hasn't been heavily active in local politics AFAIK -- he might get some wind in his sails, particularly if he sticks with the practical themes relating to cross-strait trade and economic growth. He understands that very, very well.

If he doesn't have the right political network in place, though, he's going to piss off a lot of KMT people and likely to relegated to the margins -- or siphon off a lot of blue supporters for an indie run, which will lead to the same type of situation the U.S. Republican party had back in the 90s with Ross Perot.
Click the "..." and Copy Task. It will generate the checklist again without anything checked, then just mark the old as complete.

You'd need some system to mark when one list ends and the next begins, KanBan just treats them as individual tasks.

> even basic stuff like re-arranging your list.

All of them let you re-arrange your list. Is this a mobile specific issue?
I think what people really have a need for is ritual and community. These needs were filled by the church in the past, but we have lots of social rituals now, including those of esoteric religion. We mostly still love our holiday rituals for instance, even if the religions that spawned them are long dead and gone. And people still love to break bread together, even if they aren't thinking of the last supper when they do so.
Body scanners and current TSA processes also discriminate against transgender people. The body scanners are obvious (the agent has to push “male” or “female” and someone with “bulk” in their chest and crotch sets it off), but the X-Ray machines also alarm on dilators and lube so my bag is manually searched every time.

Sometimes I get a friendly agent and they send me on with minimal fuss, and sometimes they’re jerks and try to find a way to stop me from going thru security.
> Management perceives programmers as non-conforming misfits who happen to hold the key to the corporate technology

This is true. The rest of the page goes on to state how programmers are faddish, sloppy and lazy psuedo-intellectual pirates, which is somewhat true.

Where the articles fails IMO is the prescription of code reuse as the panacea. Code reuse is a mental illness propagated by OOP programmers. It's only after multiple iterations can we really figure out if the code can be reused or not.

If the organisation wants to keep programmers then instead of getting 1 programmer to do everything, where the programmer has every right to complain about being overworked and underpaid ... they should hire a person for each role.

Architecture, UI/UX, Testing, DevOps and Documentation need not be done the by the same programmer. Frontend and Backend need not be done by the same programmer.
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No. Every book has bias. But bias is not a binary thing, there are degrees to it, and what matters is reducing bias, not the impossible task of eliminating it.

Maybe I have a bad day for literacy, because I don't know how to explain the self-evident notion that you're better off reading a textbook used to train professionals in a field than reading a single scientific paper, and you're better off reading that paper than reading a news piece.
But a coin flip on a large number of people would trend toward 50% predictions over time.
Yes, people do lose their insurance constantly when they switch jobs...and then immediately sign onto their new plan. Is the argument that switching insurance plans is stressful? What's stressful is remaining uncovered. Switching plans is hardly comparable to the transition to a Medicare-for-all program.
> looking for people to voluntarily leave with no commitment/obligation - seemed like a good deal

How’s that a good deal? Presumably you wanted to join and now that’s something you’d never get to do?
Moveworks Raises $30M to Stop Employees from Hating IT
It's sad to think that there's a latent worry about that sort of thing living in this city.

Everyone, including grade school children old enough to be aware of it, used to worry about that sort of thing. That latent fear lay across everything and everyone in the US, until around the time the Berlin Wall fell. It was an incredible feeling of the lifting of a mental burden.
Why the EU should lead against US Tech giants
Given that TSA has never stopped a terrorist, and this is all theater, choosing to continue makes it biased theater.
Habits -- the original checklist that predates written language.

I rely a lot on habits of that sort, which may be part of why I'm not big on lists for my own life.
I don't quite get why you can't disable these notifications at all. I really don't want to see the things I missed or it finds interesting. And they're purposefully pushing you to look at it to dismiss those notifications.
I used to use little snitch and now came across lulu [0].

> LuLu is the free, open-source macOS firewall that aims to block unknown outgoing connections, unless explicitly approved by the user.

I would love to know if anyone else has switched over and what's missing. I haven't had a whole lot of time to do a thorough investigation.

[0]: https://objective-see.com/products/lulu.html
Instagram may have been better performing when it came to users, but likely FB is more profitable per user.
You missed the part about the trusses in the bell tower that didn't burn. If they burnt and the bells fell (13 tons for the biggest one!), then the whole building would have collapsed.

They had guys in the tower, protecting that.
Given the hand they were dealt[1], I think they did a remarkable job.

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/16/world/europe/why-notre-da...
Another interesting link that may be of interest:
https://3dprintingindustry.com/news/champion-racing-driver-b...
The combination of sophisticated space, aeronautical and mil spec 3D printing with these modern braiding techniques are transforming high performance equipment manufacture
Thank you for this link. The accompanying Nature article is [1].

As I mentioned elsewhere in this thread, the study linked in the OP has been in conflict with other measurements. The article you reference is one attempt to synthesize the three measurements available (altimetry from SAR, surface flow rate from imagery, and mass change from gravimetric observations) into a complete picture.

[1] https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-018-0179-y.epdf?autho...
Wow, that's scary. Did he have any signs of schizophrenia before?
It’s great that China has achieved global competitiveness in innovation. Maglevs, electric vehicles, space exploration, AI, etc will improve more rapidly with more competition.

Now we need for other “offline“ countries to join to increase global innovation.
> Now he is a contractor flying drones for them getting paid 3x as much while drawing a hefty retirement.

Contracting him could easily still be cheaper than having him still be in.
Perhaps it's the use of a dictionary? As far as I'm aware, tar, zstd, xz do not use one by default, it's an extra set of hoops to create a training set, create the dictionary, use it for compression, and pack it away somewhere so that it's available for decompression, and then actually use it for decompression. If that's all being done by 7zip just by passing -md=64m that's pretty cool.

Edit: Ahh, I was confused. Neither require a separate training step. Zstd offers an option to do a training step. Both always use dictionaries with a default size that can optionally be changed.
It seems that this may be due to the limitations of machine vision. When the body scanners were being deployed, there was a lot of concern that they could see under clothes and that the TSA officials were basically going to be able to see everyone naked as they walked through the scanner. To deal with that, it was decided to use machine vision to create a stylized "Ken Doll" body and superimpose areas of concern, but not allow the actual image to be seen.

Now, with certain hairstyles, I would guess the algorithms can't reliably distinguish hairstyle from concealed items and just alert. I would guess that a human looking at the the imaging would be able to distinguish, but that would involve the TSA being able to see you naked again.
As a former Air Force air traffic controller, the sentiment is similar on the enlisted side. I remember a Chief called all controllers in for a meeting to discuss his new policies, then asking the NCOs what he thought of his them. Every NCO agreed and said they were needed Chief. I told him they were counterproductive and would cause more problems than solve. He kicked everyone out of the room, and we had a one-way conversation in which I was instructed to never disagree with him, ever, particularly in a group setting.

While ATC isn't fighter pilot cool, it was an amazing job to have when you're 18 at the beginning of the war (2003), but after 11 years of many similar experiences, as I illustrated above, I left. What struck me most, was when I told my Chief, Flight Commander, and SQ/CC I wasn't reenlisting, none of them tried to talk me into staying. I was dual rated - Tower and RAPCON (with ARTCC) - with 4 different facility ratings plus a deployment to Balad AB where we were pushing 1000+ aircraft a day. They could care less to keep their experienced NCOs in, their sole focus appeared to be on their next promotion and/or assignment. It solidified my choice while reassuring me I made the right decision.
ROTC paid him for some amount of college without him ever needing to join.
Google the "Out of the Tar Pit" paper by Moseley and Marks. After incidental complexity, Accidental complexity is the all remaining stuff. It's the complexity you wouldn't have to deal with in an ideal perfect world. For example: manual memory management, performance optimisations, JavaScript equality semantics, aspect-oriented programming, dependency injection frameworks or any other ad-hoc technology to work around issues further down in the stack.
Twitter Testing a Feature to Hide Replies on Your Own Tweet
So basically people stop doing checklists and then claim they don’t work. Checklists are great, but they have to be used. Instead of treating them as a learning process, I treat them as something I explicitly do not have to learn. It frees my mind for other things.
Which is worse than 56%
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> It says that you don't know and you don't care which particular server returns your content

Which is plain wrong. I care.

When the URL-bar says I’m looking at company.com, I expect my browser to have used my OS’s DNS-resolver to look that name up, connect to the IP-given and nothing else.

I certainly don’t expect it to send traffic to certainly-not-the-nsa.com which are MITMing my traffic and tracking/monitoring it.

If I can’t trust my browsers URL-bar to exclusively and accurately reflect what is actually requested, it is effectively lying to me, the user, it’s owner.

And then suddenly all URLs are phishing URLs because Google made URLs no longer matter or mean anything.

Completely unacceptable.
You'll get marked as a spammer if you do this too much or in the wrong way.
https://www.dictionary.com/e/slang/thirst-trap/

"A thirst trap is a sexy photo posted on social media to attract attention."

"thirsty" is a slang term that refers to someone who is desperately sexually frustrated to the point of engaging in activities (like browsing and commenting on Instagram, posting lewd comments in forums, paying erotic personalities on Twitch to acknowledge you) whose motivation is sexual gratification yet have an infinitesimal likelihood of success.
The organ casework looks quite combustible to me:
https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10214621195466674&se...
Does this have the potential to be a lightning rod of any kind?
That's interesting. One thing about plagiarism is that derivative works are considered plagiarism, even if the direct language is no longer used.
https://www.copyright.gov/circs/circ14.pdf
A court would have to rule, of course, but I wonder if this would actually get around that. That said, as US caselaw currently stands summaries are completely legal to a certain length -- you can't stop someone from summarizing what exists, it's like sharing a fact -- but you can't create a derivative work. So as long as the resulting output was short enough you shouldn't have to worry anyhow about plagiarism, since summary is covered, but if it's longer, derivative could be an issue.
Anyway, thank you -- very interesting!
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I'm not sure the Boston bird can take any significant amount of heat or water, to say nothing of its ability to navigate a floor strewn with (burning) debris.
As a European, it always baffles me how normal it is in US to be homeless. Seems like it can happen to anyone during their life. A bit of bad luck and you're on the street.

In Europe, there are so many safety nets that nobody should end up homeless. Some still do, but it's really a tiny minority compared to US.

This is also one of the most surprising things I saw, the first time I went to the US: so many homeless people, everywhere. Even in small towns.
> lack of statistical evidence that suicide hotline numbers actually prevent suicides in the long run.

I'm not sure if you say what you mean; but that's not really their purpose as I understand it? Prevent a suicide today, open the door to treatment tomorrow - vs failing to prevent a suicide today, and there being no option for treatment tomorrow?
> It's interesting how the US military copied the British class-based system of management, officers v other ranks.

That’s been the military system the world over for millennia - not really a uniquely British thing is it!

And officers don’t just manage - they lead.

Also - you can be a pilot and an enlisted soldier (Sgt and up) in Britain unlike in the US, so we do not differentiate as much for that role as the US does!
How the quantum search algorithm works
> On the strength of this evidence I guess you agree that they can’t be that common, surely not as much as 70% of all property crimes?

I couldn't believe this based on my personal experience (burglarized 3 times; robbed 0). Looking into it further, police statistics support my skepticism.

In Canada, where my personal experience applies, robbery is considered a violent crime, not a property crime, but I suppose we can compare the rate regardless.

In 2017, there were 62 reported robberies per 100,000 people. This is in comparison to 3,523 property crimes per 100,000 people. Thus, robberies would make up 2% of all property crimes.

https://www150.statcan.gc.ca/n1/pub/85-002-x/2018001/article...
There are really bad problems with search, but sometimes it is just enough to type in/remove a single letter. I think that's a mechanism for you to be able to pick between options without the need to stop typing your keyword.
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The drones you mean? The Colossus by Shark Robotics is designed and made in France.

Impressive thing. 8h autonomy, can go up stairs.
Yep, that's what I was thinking of. Didn't realize they actually stopped using it. I haven't watched TV in many years, I am falling behind the times.

A quick Google search suggests they now say "most watched most trusted" instead. That seems more like the garden variety lying-with-an-element-of-truth I expect to see from an entertainment news source.
CuriousMarc, a volunteer at the Computer History Museum, recently finished a video series restoring two Model 19 teletypes into working order. It's a long series but eventually explains how the devices work at all levels, and shows off some of the more niche features of the ttys. Well worth the watch.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_NuvwndwYSY
Don't-scare-new-users-away mode. Ease you back in with a gradual increase in ads the more engagement they see from you?
America, for one, recognizes Taiwan as an independent country ("province") and has enough weight that they can do that. Other countries, especially those in Europe, are not big enough to be able to do so and still maintain a trade relationship with China, and default to the choice that makes economical sense.
It not just "hold down a job".

When your own family can't stand being around you, I would say that qualifies as a serious problem.
Good for most people they use neither of those things then.
Where have you seen that difference apparent? That's not the case, in my experience.
Is there a term (preferably derogatory) for replying to a comment/article that contains a list by extending the list? "I would add <unnecessary additions to list>" ... drives me crazy!
> Switching plans is hardly comparable to the transition to a Medicare-for-all program

The big stressor is having to pay two deductibles in one year. That said, from an individual perspective I don't see what would be different. Before you had an (Aetna|Cigna|BCBS|UHC) card, now you have a M4A card.
Maybe, instead of asking - if I'm x months into a y months project (assuming y months is the initial estimate) - ask if the project is x% feature complete. Based on the remaining features identify how far the project has progressed. Though, this approach has the problem of scope creep. As the requirements are fluid, especially in a long-running project.
> Glancing through yznovak's post history, he's a Ukrainian

Hmm. Is that something you do often? Why not just say you disagree with him instead of the need to point out his nationality. That looks like xenophobia at first glance.
I use a combination of Open Shell, Launchy and Search Everything as my workflow. Works pretty well for me.
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Technical discussion is usually still leagues better on reddit than here
Flying drones close to a fire seems like a counter productive idea, flight is achieved by pushing lots of air around, pushing lots of air around increases the amount of oxygen available to the fire.

Edit: Oops - not flying - so this comment makes no sense. I thought you meant some of the bird-like drones we've seen.
that could be something, but you would have to weigh in the damage from water vs fire. watering relics could potentially damage and destroy relics as much as fire. Same with walls: you can water them to prevent them from catching fire, but that will eventually deteriorate the structural integrity, so you need to be careful.
The reason it is an issue is because the TSA is disproportionately singling out people for more invasive searches under the guise of, "we have this shitty technology that can't tell the difference between explosives and black hair or a 'turban', and that's what the procedure tells us to do." Just because it isn't designed to explicitly 'single out black people', that was the outcome of using this combination of technology and procedure.

To top it all off, we are all paying millions of dollars for this, via taxes for some fancy security theater to tell us, whether there is the "ability to hide contraband", which seems utterly insane.
Integer overflow flaw discovered in libssh2 before 1.8.1
For any fellow e-reader users, Kobo readers have Overdrive integrated, so you can loan books from your local library on it and it's great. I think Kindle has something similar but only in the US.
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Especially pilots with biplane experience, I'm sure.

Why are we building manned warplanes?
> The fact that certain hairstyles are more popular within a racial group IS the discriminating factor, not the machine.

Ah yes, the good ol'

> You start out in 1954 by saying, “Nigger, nigger, nigger.” By 1968 you can’t say “nigger” — that hurts you, backfires. So you say stuff like, uh, forced busing, states’ rights, and all that stuff, and you’re getting so abstract. Now, you’re talking about cutting taxes, and all these things you’re talking about are totally economic things and a byproduct of them is, blacks get hurt worse than whites.… “We want to cut this,” is much more abstract than even the busing thing, uh, and a hell of a lot more abstract than “Nigger, nigger.”

If you build discrimination into the system you don't have to explicitly discriminate, it's just "the machine". Even better if that's a convenient side-effect of having only ever tested the machine with and for populations you had no desire to discriminate against rather than having had to explicitly build-in the discrimination.

> it's a machine that detects areas of suspect density that could presumably be hiding contraband.

The article is about the TSA, not Border Patrol. Looking for contraband is not the TSA's job.
Once, the ‘Judeo-Christian tradition’ united Americans. Now it divides them