skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"To this day, I refuse to fly on a 787. I'm sure that the Dreamliners that came off the assembly line after about a year or so were fine but there's that first year of production that, as far as I'm concerned, are ticking time bombs."

He doesn't like the Dreamliner too! Eeek! That was the best value for crossing the Atlantic. Damn, this is gonna haunt me now, I liked flying those :(
“We can’t make those UX improvements to our core open-source product because then we’s have to introduce untested code. The current code is tested because users have used it and reported the bugs and we’ve fixed them.” Is a real thing a project lead said to me at a previous employer.
What I have in mind is cultural pluralism. Take the US; most people accept a certain set of political norms: democracy, the constitution, a republic-style political system. But people who accept those basic norms and institutions can have a wide variety of cultural and political beliefs. They can be left wing or right wing, Orthodox Jew or atheist, patriarchal or egalitarian. But they all accept the basic US framework and recognize that people with differing beliefs have every right to freedom of conscience and lifestyle.

It's not relativism because I wouldn't claim that every group or culture's norms and practices are equally right. I might think some of them are completely wrong. But I do hold that, so long as their wrongness doesn't go against the core norms and institutions of the nation, then we live and let live, with the caveat that people are also free to leave their communities and join others.

So far as I can see, this is the only pragmatic way to organize things, since people are going to disagree about important things and we all have to live together.
While I agree, basing employment on what someone does in their spare time is opressive and more common than ever. It is just an extension of 'cultural fit' where you can descriminate on bias alone. Oddly, the smokers at most of my previous jobs always seemed the most productive, and had the best side-channel communication within the org thanks to the subgroup associations.
"Cowboy" is one person taking shortcuts to get things done but in a risky way.

This was Boeing optimizing very hard at "how do we get better fuel economy while keeping the same type rating". In general, I'm totally in favor of them doing this sort of optimization, since pilot training is legitimately a big expense.

(In this case it clearly went wrong, both in that MCAS was an unsafe design and that the FAA should not have allowed it to keep the same type rating.)
Too bad you can't adjust the speed of the in/out flows. I was looking forward to creating evidence that indicates people who suck at merging and take off ramps too slow screw it up for everyone else.

Being able to adjust the min/max and standard deviation of traffic speeds would be nice too.
Welcome to WhatsApp Pay – A UX/UI Case Study
Where's the sun when it's foggy?
And Juan, the man behind the blancolirio channel, has to be the best citizen reporter out there. He sought many of the real facts and avoided the mainstream media trap of looking for blame purely to sensationalize the issue. He seems to have sound engineering knowledge, even though he is an aircraft pilot by trade. And he was able to put his plane to good use as a great viewpoint during the construction.

He has also provided wonderful interpretation on recent air incidents including the 737MAX ( he flies 777 commercially)
I don't want do be influenced by advertisements and as such I opt out of any tracking ("relevant ads"). I do want relevant videos. The two are totally separate topics.
Christ, that site is probably the worst ad-laden/features promos experience on mobile that I've seen.
Writing UEFI Application in Rust from Scratch
> In general, Infocom games were created by taking previous Infocom source code, copying the directory, and making changes until the game worked the way the current Implementor needed. Structure, therefore, tended to follow from game to game and may or may not accurately reflect the actual function of the code.

Some things never change...

EDIT: this is how I do most of my personal projects!
Add some Kanye genius to your survey
In the famous Intel case, the ability to provide kernel addresses in user space instructions opened the door to exposing kernel data. So, don't permit Kernel addresses in user space instructions? Trap that instead of getting in the way of efficient code execution everywhere.
I’m trying to recall a time when it was both sunny and my windshield was foggy.
This is an interesting idea. Does anyone know if it has already been A/B tested and shown to generate less profit than say building a recommendation profile for the user? I suspect that in the long term, optimizing ads for user profile would be more profitable, considering that the marketing cycle usually takes time from the initial consideration up to the conversion.
Although at least now you're trying to solve a more logical problem. Increasing angle of attack => counter with elevator, if not sufficient reduce thrust
Not if you do some mental gymnastics and actively ignore the content. I've gone completely ad-free (sounds like some sugar-free diet, only for the mind), and its a luxury and quality of e-life that is very easy to get used to.

And then you by accident open web in browser without necessary ad-blockers and want to run away from the horrible pathetic mess a lot of internet became.

Its easy - have you ever bought anything via ad? If yes, you support this industry and current state of affairs.
How is CUE different from jsonnet?
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https://hinative.com/
The world's next wonder material is Borophene
Because that's how the world works, project leaders get fame and line workers don't.

Somehow people are OK when Elon Musk gets credit for Tesla and SpaceX, Steve Jobs for the iPhone but suddenly if it's a women people will dig the github accounts.
She is credited because she did the work.

It's telling that when it's a woman getting the credit you're hanging on about teams, but when it's a man getting credit you say nothing.

https://mobile.twitter.com/thisgreyspirit/status/11165185449...
I can't help but think that initiatives like ad-id and DoNotTrack are a diversion at best than actually addressing the real problem of user-tracking and malvertising. This is simply Shirky's Principle at work [0].

Some people argue for tougher regulation and laws-- sometimes regulations have resulted in solidifying hegemony of established players (telecom industry, for instance), and laws have worsened the situation when government has its skin in the game (key disclosure laws, for instance).

Can't leave it up to the free markets either, but, they seem to get things right. Privacy oriented alternatives to existing tech today are facing a hard battle given the growth opportunities they leave on the table. I guess, we are poised for a tech breakthrough that'd settle it in favour of the users [1]: I hope when WASM goes non-web and cross platform, all kinds of apps are compiled to WASM and something like uBlockOrigin would simply shut all the trackers down on all platforms at the application layer. Of course, there are problems at other layers, for instance baseband on mobile phones that are known to track location, and ISPs that keep tabs on traffic flowing through their pipes...

[0] https://kk.org/thetechnium/the-shirky-prin/

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bullrun_(decryption_program)
Google isn't bringing the internet to Louisville. So yes, nice roads are better than the internet that Google isn't providing us.
They weren't the photographer's "new conditions". The original agreement said she wanted credit for he photos with her full name. Quite reasonably in my opinion, especially given the zero price offered under those conditions.

After having agreed, and right towards the end of the publication process, the editors refused those originally agreed conditions. They paid according to new conditions imposed by them. (Apparently with poor grace on the part of the editorial communications, but with at least outward signs of professionalism and good manners on the part of the author.)

End of story, sure. But it was an interesting story none the less. I'm glad she told it (and appreciate whoever posted it here).
Is it an american thing not to learn cursive?
I'm from the UK, 30 years old and everyone was taught "joined-up writing" as it was called.

Nowadays I write about half and half. Joining up letters where it's natural to, and leaving some unjoined.
W3C-Strings on Web: Language and Direction Metadata (First Public Working Draft)
Show HN: Cyp, a modern web-based client for the Music Player Daemon
"Observation" in the sense of _any effect at all_.

> It has since become clearer, however, that the uncertainty principle is inherent in the properties of all wave-like systems,[8] and that it arises in quantum mechanics simply due to the matter wave nature of all quantum objects. Thus, the uncertainty principle actually states a fundamental property of quantum systems and is not a statement about the observational success of current technology.[9] It must be emphasized that measurement does not mean only a process in which a physicist-observer takes part, but rather any interaction between classical and quantum objects regardless of any observer.[10][note 1]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uncertainty_principle
Don't worry, we can still worry - now the question is, how much more should we add to the environment beyond what is already there?
Well, Google's balance sheet tells me otherwise.
This is why that's not great:
https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2015/02/nsagchq_hacks...
Might be a silly question. But do you leave the burden ( may be not really ) of the whole invoice management process on the contractor - how good/bad is it?
This. No mater how minimally you try and use them brake rust will not be a problem on a car that's driven at least weekly.
The Coming AI Autumn
Found some funny scripts used for the unreleased game "The restaurant": https://github.com/historicalsource/restaurant/blob/master/t...
> it's the only motor sport where a pit pass is actually a pit pass. You can go into the pits and talk to the mechanics and drivers if they're not busy.

H1 Unlimited begs to differ. :)

The "pits" are weird; there are dockside cranes that lift the boats out of the water into the pit area, and lift them back when they're done; servicing is always done between races, not during a lap.

But with the appropriate pass, you can wander right in. Don't touch the propellers; they could be made of adamantium-duranium alloy and poking 'em would still be rude. But otherwise, yeah, welcome to wrenchville! It's a bit drippier and smells weirder than other motorsports pits..
Leaving aside the environmental damage, which is obvious albeit somewhat sensationalized in this comment, how is said plastic actually harming human health today?

The article from Scientific America in the comment refers to the harm plastic can have in other animals in words such as "may", "might", "could". Has there been any study on how it is, now and actually, harming our health? Any measurements, case studies, or collective data from people suffering from any sort of disease related to plastic pollution?
>I'm suggesting everyone on the planet automatically tunes out ads, what is shown is irrelevant no matter how relevant it is

Makes you wonder what all the people around here who dreamed of and/or do work for Google/Facebook are doing with their lives. Saving the world, I guess.
Thank you for the link, I had not seen it before. Reading the follow-up article, the glassbox library appears to be a clear violation of Apple rules -

"In an email, an Apple spokesperson said: “Protecting user privacy is paramount in the Apple ecosystem. Our App Store Review Guidelines require that apps request explicit user consent and provide a clear visual indication when recording, logging, or otherwise making a record of user activity.”

“We have notified the developers that are in violation of these strict privacy terms and guidelines, and will take immediate action if necessary,” the spokesperson added.

https://techcrunch.com/2019/02/07/apple-glassbox-apps/

In my opinion, unauthorized processing of email addresses or credit cards or other personal information is also a clear violation of the GDPR in the EU. Of course there might be shady companies who willingly tries to break the law, but that is business as usual for law enforcement.
The whole article seems to be a marketing post.

I completely agree that you could build a face recognition system in 60$ or less, however the image match described in the post is unlikely to be the real system results, I've been studying image recognition for a year now and it is almost impossible to train a model without having thousands of images classified somehow (usually by hands). One of the biggest problems in AI is that NN cannot match an object in 2 images if it was taken from different perspective unless R. Madonna was hanging out there for 9 hours to be filmed from different angles to collect enough of photos from camera (not taking into account different image resolutions and camera quality)

Thanks for the article, however, the myth is BUSTED :D
My mother taught at Title 1 schools for years. She said the biggest gap was always family support.

Teachers don't have enough time to make up for a missing home environment, and (said in seriousness) it's a misuse of their time to play social worker (because there's no one else / no funding for anyone else).

We do a lot of dumb things in American public education, but one of the worst is misdeploying resources we do have and focusing on symptoms instead of root causes.

There was a school district (Kansas? Nebraska? Maybe?) that got stellar results just from co-locating county social services for parents at the school (unemployment offices, food stamp distribution, clinics, etc).

If a community needs help, don't send only teachers to fix it.
Wow that's not what you expect when you think of Google engineering. In some other photos the actual fibre is now above the ground.
Completely agree about your humanity point, but completely disagree about sarcasm.

I personally use sarcasm far, far too often. And when I sit back and reflect on those times, I am completely certain that it never advances my point farther (vs. the same point made without sarcasm), never makes my point seem more clever, and never makes my point seem more funny.

So why do I continue to do it? Honestly, I don't know. It is a completely valueless communication strategy, and I continue to use it. The best answer I have is that it's a self-protection mechanism, which seems better-armored against a hostile audience than if I made my point with sincerity. So I, personally, will try to do better. But I would also caution anyone with less entrenched habits to consider carefully whether sarcasm is a useful rhetorical tool.
I already came across deal - isn't this exclusively for contractors? If I want to keep a "company culture" - but the employees are hired as contractors - does this work well?
Why Build a Mobile App Using a Template?
I know about colocation, but I was under the impression that once you see an order in the book it is in the book. I.e. your order will be placed after it.
You're forgetting that apple 'vets' apps and can reject them for arbitary reasons.

They're in a position to say 'you must use our Ad-ID, and if you don't and we detect you tracking users by other means, then your app will be rejected'.

And as it happens, that's what they do, when they introduced IDFA they started rejecting apps that use other tracking heuristics, including the old UDID system.
"Zork I is a 1980 interactive fiction game"

Surely, these were called Adventure Games at the time. I never recall them being called that.
My guess is that it converts part of the incoming light into heat and radiates that in both directions. The fraction of light that is absorbed inside the car and then radiates, but don't radiate through the window, is smaller than it would be if nothing was absorbed by the windshield, so I guess it'll be cooler inside the car.

But nobody should trust my math in those matters (because I didn't do any)
Meanwhile in China, a 27 years old programmer died suddenly. Is this the bliss Jack Ma talked about?

Camera captured video: https://www.bilibili.com/video/av49491980/
Youtube's explanation is basically: "It was done by an algorithm. We don't know how our algorithms work. Sometimes they do this. We turned them off for this event."
Outside US too?
Encrypted Internet with WireGuard and Manjaro Linux
>If the ad agencies have better methods for tracking than Apple's Ad-ID then they would be still using those, surely?

Remember that Apple does in fact wield a level of coercive control here. They can ban any app or entire developer they wish at any time. But they do want a solid amount of development going on overall, despite individual exceptions. So just like a real world legal system, there's a dynamic set of cost/tradeoff equations, and practicality/reasonableness really matters. If Apple provides nothing and insists on nothing, the economic incentive to either cheat or simply leave entirely may move to near-requirement for too many developers. If Apple left it as "do whatever" and then slowly added requirements, it's still much harder to police and drive solutions that compromise best.

Offering something official that is less effective then the previous ones but still of enough use to be valuable and also has the advantage of official support and sanction, then blacklisting anything else raising the economic risk, is a fairly tried and true strategy that can be reasonably effective overall. Cheating is disincentivized for those who are legitimate and the search space is reduced, making it turn easier to further enforce. Apple's exact compromise could use more tweaks from the sound of it and evolve better, but the basic concept of "better to have someone troublesome inside the tent pissing out then outside the tent pissing in" seems to apply here too doesn't it?

Furthermore if many users are also more alright with it that too by itself can be a positive, preventing an arms war. Sometimes situations like these can fall into a vicious spiral left on their own: there could be many devs or even advertisers who would prefer to go with less obnoxious and creepy practices, in turn provoking absolute counter attacks, but can't disengage unilaterally when their competitors don't think as long term. Having a higher entity step in and force uniformity won't even make them all unhappy.
And how many people who have done worse have received similar punishments since?
Was talking to my flight instructor about twin engine planes. He was adamant that they were LESS safe than single engines because 1) you are twice as likely to have an engine failure and 2) the statistics indicate (non-intuitively) that an engine-out in a twin is more likely to lead to fatalities. He said the insurance companies used to think twins were safer but they have adjusted their rates after looking at actual data. I was fully on-board with point #1, but #2 was a surprise to me. I suppose that's what Burt Rutan tried to address with the Boomerang design.
The Mythical 10X Programmer
What you mean by
> great contributor that plays against you.

How? How contributor plays against you if you don't contribute anything?
I completely agree with the criticism you raise towards the website. The nonsensical words make typing them much more difficult, but the real crux of the issue is that you can't issue corrections.

I prefer 10fastfingers as a typing test, because it's a list of actual easy words without silly capitalization and symbols. In my opinion, it's more representative of the way I would type most of the time than most of the other tests I've seen.

I will say though, that 40 WPM blows my mind. What kind of a result do you get on 10fastfingers.com? Because I can do 30-40 WPM on my phone with Swype.

EDIT: I used keybr for a longer period of time now and I think the start of the website gives a bad impression. The lessons don't feel quite normal, but once you finish them it ends up much similar to regular typing tests, where most of the words are actual English words.
I have been trying to remember 15 thousand words for the last 3 years during which I have similar experiences.Several times, I pushed myself hard to keep learning for hours, but ended up with efficiency decreasing as time went by. I may be unable to take in anything after two hours of intense learning. Then I try to rectify my own approach to find the most suitable method for myself. Following is my own experiences.
Whether the break is needed depends on my specific task. Whatever task I do, I try to keep doing it without any break for at least about 45 minutes.
If I’m coding, I need less intervals of break, and I can keep coding as if I enter a status called the mind flow. While if I’m reading and digesting a whole book, I need to stop sometimes to think. Well, if I’m remembering and digesting plenty of words and its usages, it’s better for me to take a break more frequently, maybe I will watch a short video about 20 minutes every 45 minutes, to clear my mind.

IMO, it all about the ability to keep oneself concentrated. I’ve heard that some people can stay concentrated for a very long time, like several hours, and I’m not this type of person although I once experienced this state for two days and lost it forever. And I get exhausted more quickly when I am less concentrated than I am.
I disagree that their religion produced them.

Their genetics and their environment did, to varying degrees, but religion is only one small aspect of the latter.

What's your basis to assert that it is the most important factor?
Well, they worked for them, so why should they?
Has there been any study on how it is, now and actually, harming our health? Any measurements, case studies, or collective data from people suffering from any sort of disease related to plastic pollution?

No.

Note that this does not mean they're safe. It means we don't know if they're safe, or the extent to which they're harmful if they're dangerous. It goes from "we got lucky, it's all going to be fine" to "literally everyone will die from the plastics equivalent of asbestosis in the near future". If that doesn't scare the living shit out of you then you've misunderstood the scale of the problem.
I think it's important within the pluralist framework to also recognize that we require conformance from all groups in more than just the small core. We require all groups to be law-abiding in action if not thought. Part of the democratic ideals is that if The People make a law, everyone will follow it, even as they campaign to change it. (Which glosses over some legitimate forms of protest, but this is an internet comment, not a book.)

Whether there are laws on the books that could be applied to this case, or whether there should be, I am not a lawyer or a politician, but American pluralism doesn't require blind acceptance of any practice of another group, even religious practice (polygamy, for instance?). The core of our shared system provides mechanisms for deciding whether a behavior is acceptable, prohibited or obligate.
>We haven’t gotten stupider as a species in 30 years

I'm honestly not sure that's true. On top of anecdotes (in my grandfather's generation, the norm was to fluently speak 3-4 languages), go ask any STEM prof. with 20+ mileage about the general math, science and logic literacy of students nowadays.
Additionally, what I find particularly frightening and unsettling is the possibility that we'll never be able to know just how harmful microplastics are, due to the rapid loss of anything we could call a "control group" on the planet. Rapid industrialization and globalization has led to land, water, and sky all being infused with this stuff; are there populated areas anymore where we could point to and say "this place is untouched by microplastics" and compare the health of the people and ecosystem there to the affected areas?