skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That excitement has to last through years of training with crappy hours in crappy locations. Doesn't matter if you are cool fighter pilot if you can't be there for your family, move them out to the desert, don't have any say over when and where you will go for weeks at a time when you aren't deployed, gone for months or a year at a time when you are deployed, move from one crappy location to another every couple of years with sub-standard housing, and deal with a litany of red tape and BS not only on the ground but in the air. Assuming the stomach twisting maneuvers never get old and you still love the actual flying (many people have to learn to keep their puke in their stomachs). You have crazy hours and can't get regular sleeping hours, can't even drink when you want, but are still surrounded by functional alcoholics and professional bros. I could go on. The sheen wears off, the data backs it up. Imagine never seeing your kids even when you are at home because you are gone before they wake up, and home after they have gone to bed. The pilots often have to do more than fly. I hear it's much worse in the Marines since the pilots are also the officers in charge of the enlisted in the squadron, whereas in the Air Force you can be a pilot and an officer with no one reporting to you.
I presume you live somewhere with good internet connection. AMP is a life saver here and people first and foremost care about being able to load the page at all. So yes, they like AMP even if they don't know what's causing a page to load fast.
It's popular because it's not an enormous junk drawer of features that tries to be everything to everyone.

Their success was in keeping a design that was brainlessly simple and easy to use/understand.
Yo guys, I know this may sound crazy to you, but have you thought about imprisoning those junkies? If you're so humane, maybe give them treatment AFTER you take them off the streets? While you're at it, might as well get the name of their supplier and imprison him too -- doesn't sound like a rocket science to me.

I can't tell if you are a troll or not. This is literally the war on drugs for the last 40 years. How's it working out for us??
Do you have a source on the first claim?

I'm curious, as someone who was slightly involved with a documentary [1] exposing pitfalls of standardized testing. Generally the SAT only has shown a weak correlation between test scores and first year (some studies I read showed only first semester, but I don't have them on hand right now) collegiate performance [2].

[1] https://m.imdb.com/title/tt3393042/
[2] https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2016/01/26/new-research-...
Zuckerberg and Dorsey are 'handmaidens to authoritarianism': Journo
I'm sure you've seen this before and promptly ignored it, but still a nice visualization:

https://xkcd.com/1732/
I work on software related to medical drilling. Nurses run through simulations (mostly a situation where something has gone wrong) and get graded.

It baffled me to learn that this is NOT the norm at hospitals. Due to the stress of a situation-gone-awry and inexperience, some horrific things can happen.[0][1] In some situations you may only have a few minutes to enact corrective procedures. In any case without checklists (and without experience from running routine simulations) it's very easy to make mistakes or forget what to do.

I thought the checklists themselves were standard but it appears not...? The more I learn about hospitals' operating practice the more wary I become. I have no idea why hospitals aren't like the aviation industry and have checklists and expiring certifications. (Or maybe I heard wrong and I'm just completely wrong here.)

[0]: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2018/05/10/premature-baby-d...

[1]: https://www.nbcbayarea.com/news/local/Dental-Anesthesia-Unde...

> Mead said the principal risk is a patient’s airway. He explained that a child’s breathing tube can collapse without warning under sedation.

> “It happens instantaneously,” he said. “You have maybe half a minute to make critical decisions about how you're going to manage that child's airway. You can't do that if you don't have somebody competent there helping you.”
It is fantastic to see this pan out in real life. I read the checklist manifesto by Atul Gawande who helped to author the WHO checklist. It really one of these mind expanding books that everyone should read. I have seen below comments that ask why checklists are not standard even though they were pivotal in reducing flight accidents. The reason is that knowledge is often siloed, and people tend to overestimate themselves. How many checklists are you using at work? If none, ask yourself why, and if they could be helpful.

The book also talks about the design of checklists which is not trivial at all.
Ask HN: How to Respond to Patent Threat?
A company I work with has recently been sent threats by Interface IP Holdings, who claim that their website (which is available in the US) infringes on a patent https://patents.google.com/patent/US7500201B2/en

The patent is broadly worded, but seems to cover restricting the values in a drop down based on the other filled in values. Or perhaps searching multiple fields from the same search box. I find the text ambiguous and difficult to understand, but I can't get anything out of it that doesn't seem obvious and standard.

It seems like they've brought a lot of complaints relating to this patent to the court in Delaware.

Is it really the case that you can't use standard UI components on the web without paying license fees to US companies?
This comment made me want to investigate Intel's financials and see whether this qualitative story matches their quantitative data, but it seems to be the opposite:

Revenue grew last quarter almost 20% YoY to ~$20B

Net income has been up 40%-80% each quarter YoY, to ~$5B

While I do believe what was said above, it seems that whatever choices they are making that supposedly are resulting in a failing company from an engineering perspective, are resulting in a successful company from a financial perspective.
In the case of Stack Overflow, it's a great place for organic linking to your own content.

"You can do xyz in order to accomplish this task. Source: <link to my content>"

BAM. Just translated internet points into $0.002
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Mine was completely add free for the first few years that I had it, then suddenly changed one day. Since then I've mostly stopped using it and only scroll through it via their web interface where UBO makes it tolerable.
Wouldn't it be better to borrow from HTTP and allow a head request to the original source - with a reply of a current signature?

Isn't this whole exercise really just adapting public key signatures on top of old school caching?

With a http proxy you ask for an url, the proxy fetches or serves on behalf of the owner. This adds some circumvention around the way tls/ssl breaks that type of caching. But it should still be able to do a head-like request for a current signature - with no need to download the content again if it is unchanged?
https://www.skepticalscience.com/increasing-Antarctic-Southe...

Just because something is happening in one location isn't evidence of something else happening in another. It's also not evidence against global warming, to quote your article even:

>“That is what is SUPPOSED to happen when there is global warming,” says @Smaulgld. “Glaciers get bigger unless they melt -that’s global warming too.”
If I were a school I would just recruit people based on their instagram, selecting for physical attractiveness, psychopathic tendencies, creativity, narcissism and/or special skills/talents.
I thought it will be about the display company and there are some deep infos about customer reach or something like that
A lot of people who appear lazy are just paralyzed by other things. If it wasn't for living at home, my son would probably wind up homeless just for a lack of coping skills. And he wouldn't be able to get out of it, because of a lack of coping skills. That's just how he's wired.
Except they do. Pilots also fly in humanitarian aid, fly out civilians and medical casualties, carry out Search and Rescue, and perform reconnaissance during natural disasters.
I predict that Zuckerburg, when he's old and seeking new prestige, will abandon his (dirty) capitalistic activities and take on the philanthropist persona that many other tech giants (who we often forget the dirty methods they used to reach their heights) have.

The EU, with its often absurd laws (re: link tax, cookie rules) may be the only threat to the juggernaut that Facebook is (and by extension, the power that a cutthroat nerd holds over others).

As for TFA, by now we should not be surprised. This is what happens when you sell your company to Facebook. You hopefully get a nice cash-out, which maybe you can use to do more and better things, but you certainly give over your dear creation for ultimately dark purposes.
Well, it's disappointing DigiCert didn't tell Google to fuck off. I hope this never comes to something like Let's Encrypt, so the vast majority of developers can never use this.

Sometimes, Google needs a gentle nudge from users saying "we don't like this" and hope they reconsider (I doubt it).
And the spouses, naturally, are supposed to get along with the program.
Might be the other-way around.

Apply to many universities that interest you, and then go visit the ones that give admits.
Everyone buying new phones and changing the infrastructure for marginal gains sounds super efficient.
I see it more as poking fun at the human desire for some magical silver bullet answer to life's sufferings and the big "why". We cling to random meaningless things so hard that we could easily mess it all up and mistake someone for messiah. On a macro level, sure it says organized religion is no better than a cult that became mainstream. On a subjective level, it says don't spend your days dwelling on snake oil meant to save you from the sufferings of life, just look at the bright side and carry on!
> You will no longer know when it has been served and by whom

I'm OK with publishers knowing less about the people seeing their content.
>Silicone is negatively charged.

It's definitely not negatively charged, it just has a propensity for accumulating negative charge (like in the cloth and rod static electricity experiment).
Dendrite: Querying large datasets on a single host at near-interactive speeds
See Nassim Taleb's response to this

https://medium.com/incerto/iq-is-largely-a-pseudoscientific-...
This is something of a case of "Physician - heal thyself".

I've advocated the use of checklists in software for decades. I wrote something 5 years ago and posted it here[0][1]. The discussion was enlightening. Read the discussions, keeping in mind the comments here about the resistance encountered by people in the field.

Many of the points in the discussions are useful and can be used to create and adapt checklists, but no, they are being used to dismiss them out of hand.

Checklists? We don't need to stinkin' checklists.

I've given up and just use them in my companies.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7655018

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18522627
I don’t know much about licenses but last week I added a license to one of my GitHub repositories for the first time. GitHub seemed to be heavily pushing MIT as the default.

If the MIT license assumes everyone works at the same place then that seems horrible for GitHub repositories, right?
Artistic Glitch Bug from our own image processing
how else would we go into deeper debt? the budget deficit and debt is not going to grow on it's own.
AFIAA, all/most releases on labels owned by Universal Music Group, and possibly some Sony releases.

https://arstechnica.com/uncategorized/2007/08/universal-to-t...

https://www.mattmontag.com/music/universals-audible-watermar...

https://community.spotify.com/t5/Content-Questions/Audible-w...

https://audiophilestyle.com/forums/topic/18472-audible-water...

https://forums.stevehoffman.tv/threads/is-universal-music-gr...

https://discussions.apple.com/thread/5580197

https://hydrogenaud.io/index.php/topic,112052.0.html

https://hydrogenaud.io/index.php/topic,117462.0.html

https://rec.music.classical.recordings.narkive.com/Nh7Ya8vd/...

https://hardforum.com/threads/audible-watermark-umg-digital-...

etc.
I'm now completely desensitized to potential or current heads of state saying outlandish things.

I had hung on to the notion that there should be some restraint and decorum associated with it for quite a while. That ship, though, has sailed.
> I still don't understand why someone can apply with no major but has to write essays about life experiences and aspirations and what they want to do in life.

Because of what corporate HR calls "cultural fit". Harvard is not looking necessarily for top students or even students with the most potential. It's looking for "Harvard men". While there is some well-grounded suspicion that corporate HR cultural fit is a mask for discrimination, we know this was the case with university admissions. MIT is an academic powerhouse because it was willing to take the influx of smart Jewish kids that applied to Harvard after WWII and didn't get in because they were Jewish.
Ah, so then the extradition treaty that allows the US to request the UK to remove an Australian citizen from the Ecuadorian embassy so that Asange can be sent to the US, which is the country Ecuador gave him refuge against.

Yeah, that treaty. We who don't see this as lawful are just silly gooses, the gov said it is fine. It must be.

I forgot the treaty where powerful countries get to pressure small countries into giving up refugees.
How to Work with a PDF in Python
Is reduced fraud even creating meaningful savings? The simple fact that these changes are driven by government regulation rather than internal efforts makes me think not. I think the main benefit to consumers is that they don't have to deal with identity theft as often.
An Anecdotal "I quit" I read a couple of years ago about the (then impending) pilot shortage:

https://www.jqpublicblog.com/punching-out-latest-dear-boss-l...

Dear Boss,

I’ve fucking had it. I’m finally giving up on my Air Force and I’m throwing in the towel. Flying fighter jets is no longer cool enough to outweigh the bullshit, and so I’ve broken the mach for the final time. You’re going to believe that I’m leaving because I’m tired of deploying, that I’m sick of the queep, and that I seek the money bags and greener pastures of the Airlines. I’ve heard you on TV spouting those same lines over and over. Boss, I probably will join the airlines, but that’s not why I’m leaving. I’m leaving because my wife (I love my wife) got tired of hearing me come home every night and bitch about how the leaders of my Air Force are running it into the ground. I’m leaving because you took the coolest job on the planet, you, the leaders of this job, and you ruined it. You took one of the few jobs left in the world that kids hang posters of on their walls, and you made it so damn miserable that thousands of guys like me are calling it quits. And the worst part is, you have no idea HOW you made it miserable, and even less of an idea how to fix it. You are focusing on the second and third order effects, but not the root cause.

Boss, you were a fighter pilot. You were trained for years in how to identify the root cause. I know you have the ability to dig past the airlines, ops tempo, queep, and other reasons you’re currently focusing on, and find the DFP. I know that you know what it is, I just don’t think you have the stones to call it out in public and do something about it, so I’m pulling the handles.

Yes, life in my Air Force has gotten tough. But the real reason I’m leaving boss, the heart of the issue is this. I’m a leader, I always have been. People follow me because I’m good in the Air, I have a strong act in the bar, and I give a shit about the people that work for me. And because I’m a true leader, I will never lead in this Air Force. Instead, the guys that are leading in my place, and in the place of all of the others like me, are boot-licking, risk-averse, yes men who have spent an entire career being faithful followers and couldn’t lead a 2 ship to the end of the runway. They’ve been rewarded their entire careers for being non-confrontational, making only safe decisions, punishing downhill and protecting uphill, and most importantly, being loyal to the bad leaders above them.

That’s the real problem here, boss…. loyalty has become the new CURRENCY of your Air Force. More than integrity. More than excellence. More than tactical ability. More than taking care of the people in your charge. Absolute loyalty to your superiors is what gets you promoted. And in return for that loyalty, you get protection. Protection by your bosses for every stupid, unethical, illegal, hair-brained, vindictive decision you make that degrades morale, drives people out, and makes good leaders like myself write this letter.
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Or the much shorter article https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2007/12/10/the-checklist
Um, let the bidding begin?

I'll bid $200 for the domain. I'm sure there are some windows 8 machines that will never receive the patch. I don't have any nefarious plans besides perhaps setting each tile to rick roll.

Ok, on second thought, in our society I am sure this would put my ass in jail. I suppose it could be considered impersonating the companies behind the tiles, damaging their brands, damaging the Windows brand, running up users network bandwidth, stealing user's computer resources, and then the liability of an actual nefarious hacker using it as a vector to attack or spam obscene advertisements. (Which is kind of what happens when you visit a webpage in 2019 without an ad blocker, but it is O.K. in that case.)
That's a circular argument. "Getting tattoos makes you a bad candidate because it shows that you're willing to get tattoos". You shouldn't want to work for people that think that way. Great way to weed out bad companies if you ask me.

This is just being shouted to the masses, not to you personally: If a qualified candidates only disqualification are his tattoos, he's still a qualified candidate.

Also, I've had visible tattoos (hands, neck, arms) my entire adult life. I've never had an issue with them involving employment. Excluding the time an employer wanted to put pictures of them on their website and I decline. Two weeks later I was laid off. Either they were going to fire me and wanted to take pictures of me on my way out, or they weren't going to fire me and this made me seem like I wasn't a "team player".
Ukraine has 200+ years of reasons to want to look west instead of east - this same truth exists for all of the former baltic republics.
>MIT assumes all contributors work for a single institution

Could you expand on this? I can't see this assumption anywhere in the MIT license, and the link you provide doesn't clarify on this point.

I also find the Blue Oak license much more difficult to understand than the MIT license, FWIW.
Canadian Air Force, but same issues with the overly stringent medical requirements. A minor form of scoliosis disqualified me from ever using an ejection seat. Although I wanted to fly transport planes, the training required the use of an aircraft with ejection seats.
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I am guessing when you say "I do" you must have a pretty good idea of the person you are marrying.
There are ways to connect C64 drives to a PC and other modern things, so maybe you can go that or similar route
I have no idea, but Acer sells notebooks blessed in the name of sea goddess, so Mr. Gou is not alone there
Instagram remains enormously popular because it's not exclusively 1:1 mutual relationships, has a minimal interface/feature set, and most importantly isn't easily susceptible to outrage and anger gawking like twitter/FB are.

They can keep adding hamburgers and FB thirst traps but as long as they don't mess with central idea (big photos only with captions) they won't cede share any time soon.
oh you're correct it is meant to develop C skills not learn Lisp
How many of those earn less than $50 per month, a reasonable ballpark for the price?

I would bet about 75%, if not more.
It's certainly complicated but I think there is no way around it if you want to have correct translations. The same kind of system is used for translating MediaWiki and it seems to work great there. Example message: https://translatewiki.net/w/i.php?title=MediaWiki:Logentry-b...
The linked Verge article has some strange editorialization in it. I find it confusing, because I'm not sure what they're getting at.

> Systrom then immediately peaced out for a few months of paternity leave.

> With Systrom on leave, Facebook began testing location tracking and a disgusting hamburger button inside Instagram, offending Systrom’s delicate sensibilities.

Is the author saying that Systrom was being to sensitive about Facebook's demands? Or are they making fun of Facebook here? It seems like the author tried to inject some attitude into the piece without nailing down their point of view.
A lot of aspects of Notre Dame date to the 19th C. Viollet-le-Duc made a lot of questionable improvements, including the addition of the flèche (spire).

That's part of the building's history now, for better or worse. I expect Viollet-le-Duc's work will be restored, even if some people think he was crass.

This whole issue isn't something that can be resolved easily. It's important not to look down on the activities of repair and maintenance. They might not be as glamorous as artistic creation, but obviously there's love, skill and creativity involved in repair as well. We need more of that.

A bad intervention by a currently successful artist or architect would be nothing to be proud of in future years. "Move fast and break things" is not appropriate in this situation. It's not as if a repair job involves pure boredom, imitation and humility—those craftsmen will be expressing themselves and their passion just fine.

The 19th C fixation on romantic originality, on the heroic artist? We don't need that. Not to be cynical about the state of architecture, but we can't match even Viollet-le-Duc's iffy work now. We need to shift into a different mode with more emphasis on preserving building skills and historical artefacts than on altering them to suit the whim of the people who happen to be alive now.
> The blacks and latinos at Yale, Harvard or MIT likely outclass you

My kids can claim hispanic status through their (very very Mexican mother) and conventional wisdom is that they can both breeze into any college they care to by checking the right box on the application. Whether that's true or not, I've always warned them not to rely on it - if they coast in and find themselves surrounded by people who know the material backward and forward while they're still struggling with the basics, they're going to end up coasting right back out.
There is no doubt something interesting here, but this is rather poorly written.
Using a fresh install of MacOS

1. Install Git

2. Install Rustup

3. Install Visual Studio Code

4. Install Rust (rls) VS Code extension
A few notes before the denial camp arrives:

- They point out that the Antarctic ice sheet is gaining in mass due to the melting/compaction of snow from the past 10,000 years, not because of anything having to do with global temperatures.

- Ice losses to calving (ice breaking off and falling/drifting into the ocean and ultimately melting) are still massive, increasing, and "will catch up with the long-term gain in East Antarctica in 20 or 30 years -- I don’t think there will be enough snowfall increase to offset these losses.”

- Also, this article is from 2015. Here's a more recent analysis from 2018: https://www.nasa.gov/press-release/ramp-up-in-antarctic-ice-.... You can even see the East Antarctica trend that the 2015 article talks about in this plot from the 2018 article: https://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/thumbnails/image/su...