skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Apple: Rotate tracking IDs on iPhone each month
Java went from 1.4 to 5. Although not completely; it took until 9 for the actual directory names etc to change.
So if it's a matter of increasing the effective aperture, does that mean we can launch some spaceships and do the same trick with an arbitrarily large interferometer?
I'm working on simple traffic simulation for a game that takes place in a city so the main link and yours came at a perfect time. Thanks!
> “They don’t build stuff like they used too anymore”.

Okay maybe, but we have been saying this literally forever.
Has anyone got invites as yet?
> But when you advocate clearly for your needs as a professional, people are generally reasonable.

This has not been my experience. People want ‘estimates’ at all costs, tell you to not worry about any accuracy, and then a week later tell your manager you committed to x date.
I don't have such a feeling at all. It is my understanding(and please correct me if I'm wrong) that even with the best technology there is little to no defense to ICMBs. We have tech to stop some missiles, but with the sheer number of them in existence and the fact that every ICMB carries 12-16 warheads which split off early in descent stage, I think you can quite safely say that whatever target needs destroying it would be destroyed. Then there are weapons like the Russian System-6 torpedo which launches from a sub and detonates off shore to cause a gigantic tsunami destroying any coastal city(and if that wasn't bad enough, it can be salted with cobalt so that any area flooded by the tsunami is uninhabitable for at least few hundred years).

I don't know what sort of confidence level you'd need to have in your defence systems to even start thinking of actually using nuclear weapons against another superpower - the risk is just too great.
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Atom's fuzzy finder also uses ripgrep as of 1.37.0

[0] https://github.com/atom/fuzzy-finder/pull/369
this is where it becomes crucial to know why you're building the thing you're building. That way, you can often structure the project in phases according to your engineering judgement of the way those phases are built and the business value they enable.

Then you can cut scope by postponing (or not doing) some of the phases. Ideally.
>Career success is fulfilling. This is the lie we foist on the young
>I remember when the editor of my first book called to tell me it had made the best-seller list. It felt like … nothing.

Man is projecting.

This article is crap

>Life is an individual journey. This is the lie books like Dr. Seuss’ “Oh, the Places You’ll Go” tell. In adulthood, each person goes on a personal trip and racks up a bunch of experiences, and whoever has the most experiences wins.

He made up some idiotic statemet, that no one brings up, and act like it was problem in society.
The nature of defaults is that they will never please everyone, because opinions on what is useful have been encoded into the defaults. If you want to completely disable ripgrep's smart filtering, than just do this:

alias rg="rg -uuu"
The sad part is that people are naive enough to think that companies that need/want money... are doing things for the better evolution of mankind, or for a better web, or for a better future. Companies are here to make money. Competitive companies will try destroy one another, always.

Google does not give a f... about users/web... They care like any other company to make money, because without money they cannot survive, just simple as that.

If the roles were inverted... Mozilla would have done exactly the same thing...
Which is 6.5mm / 32,000km approximately.
If we try to be a bit charitable, we could assume that they implemented the feature in the bug tracker because of this observed property of estimates.
Neither safety critical software nor critical aircraft engineering relies on the personal quality of people involved. The safety is build into the process and the organizational structure. Usually involving multiple organizations that check each other's work.

What can happen is collapse of the process and regulatory capture.

Boeing is able to cut corners because FAA is cutting corners. FAA whistleblowers have demonstrated that FAA has culture that resulted in "malfeasance, bordering on corruption" https://www.latimes.com/travel/la-trw-airlines4apr04-story.h...

There is no sign that things are getting better. 737 MAX gained FAA certification on March 8, 2017. Meanwhile FAA has been running without administrator for two years. Trump tried to nominate his personal pilot, but when it failed he didn't nominate anyone. Dan Elwell is the acting administrator.
This is on the browser to handle though and only confined on the browser's process(es), it doesn't need to affect the entire OS.
Mastodon will only have robustly succeeded in their mission when people don't think of it as joining Mastodon but as joining some particular social hub which happens to run Mastodon. Think of how people aren't joining academia but are joining Foo University.
The "consequences" could be training, workshops, counseling and possibly a disciplinary.
My wife consults to organizations on managing workplace sexual harassment.
There do need to be consequences but also to understand how damaging this behaviour is
Why is this surprising or problematic? Some people believe in astrology, others just do it for fun. Either way, when did some philosophical concept of “truth” ever guide capitalism You could argue that even capitalists should avoid harming people, and that believing in astrology could be harmful, but they already fund things that are so much worse than that, like tobacco, marijuana and social networks.
This is correct. VS Code uses ripgrep's JSON output format from the binary.

libripgrep is nice for building your own Rust programs for searching stuff. But there is a not insignificant amount if code that translates your argv into uses of libripgrep.
Are there web apps which are open to content and backlinks exchange?
Overhead should be paid by merchants as one time fee for coming on to the platform. Amazon doesn't need to subsume this.
See http://www.skeeve.com/awk-sys-prog.html
>This was inevitable.

Inflammable means flammable? What a country!
Probably Rust too. And Scala.
I really think that Elixir has a shot at staying around for a while
What I meant was: quantum mechanics and relativity have shown that not only is the physical world slightly different from the kind of world our mind can picture (e.g. "mechanistic, but with the universal attraction force"), it is in fact nowhere near our built-in mechanistic model, and we can never hope to build a real intuition about the world.

However, we can still hope to model and predict it more accurately than we would have ever hoped before, so there is that :)
In my previous organization, we dealt with a legacy enterprise software product which had accumulated a massive bug history over multiple years and sub-products. All being tracked by an in-house bug tracking product.

Lots of issues we used to see being reported were either already fixed or had been config issues. In order to (somewhat) quickly find existing fixes/comments for issues that we get reported, I built a search tool (webapp) which scraped the bugs and comments in those bugs in order to find any relevant information around your query and listed them in order of matching probability.

Was a pretty cool learning experience to build that out. I had deployed it on a personal remote VM that devs were granted, have no idea if people are still using it.
Show HN: Encrypted Deep Learning Classification with PyTorch and PySyft
Google, Facebook, CIA, Pentagon... all have been hacked.

> All the great people are immediately hired by the company they’re actually working for, so they’re always left with the mediocre and terrible.

By "great people" I assume you mean the best talent. I assume you also mean that corporate politics (bootlicking, backstabbing, parasitic behaviour...) has no role to play in these hirings.
Ted Nelson's Pre-Final Reply to “The Curse of Xanadu” by Gary Wolf / Gory Jackal
I think we often underestimate how big some of this stuff is.

Astrology is a daily thing for a lot of people for a variety of reasons. 'Alternative medicine' - most of it is objectively quackery (with some possible value leveraging placebo) is also monster, monster business.

We also tend to overlook how massive a lot of regular businesses are. Trucking. Moving. Groceries. Aviation. Energy. Automation. Insurance. Retail banking. All massive.

This is one of the reasons that Uber is so big, and there's so much activity in 'self driving cars'. It makes 'high tech' look small.

FYI note the progress from 'Silicon Valley' being actual Silicon (!), to hardware/software, to basic internet, to cloud services, and then to 'tech enabled business' like Uber, AirBnB etc..

'The Valley' isn't interested in tech, they're interested in how tech can transform/multiply 'the rest of the economy'.
Great to see that big corporations are now fueling startups. This is a game changer.
One of the notional heroes is intentionally wiping out his investors (which is OK, because every single one of them is a Very Bad Person) and another is a pirate. Whilst Stadler joining the State Science Institute is singled out as a particularly egregious example of villainy.

Takes an odd definition of honesty to conclude that it's a book about celebrating honesty...
Mercury Parser (an HTML semantics extractor) is now open-source
That's what the UK has done with their "Smart Motorways".

It works surprisingly well, both through modulating the speed of traffic and by allowing the hard shoulder to be used at peak times.
> Let's make it 10x more difficult to detect that there is a problem.

A problem no one can detect is a problem you don't need to fix ! /s
Blockchain for Insurance: From Preventing Fraud to Automating Claims
"SpaceX has ballistic missiles with a CEP significantly smaller than a drone ship"

It goes quite slowly compared to a real ICBM and relies on GPS that will be jammed in a real war.
I’ve had a lot of success using this method, but it does take having management that understand how software development works. A really good PM will look at an estimate like this as a range, with work complete somewhere between the lower and upper bounds. A bad one will take the optimistic estimate as gospel and build everything else around that.
Recorded on the 20th anniversary of WIRED's publication of the 1995 piece “The Curse of Xanadu”[0] (and adding onto his previous rebuttals in the same[1] and online[2]), Ted Nelson announces his creation of a feature-length rebuttal video to be released upon his death.

[0] https://www.wired.com/1995/06/xanadu/

[1] https://www.wired.com/1995/09/rants-raves-123/

[2] http://www.xanadu.com.au/ararat
> Reddit doesn't make it easy to find what they replied to.

The trick is to add ?context=3 to the end of the URL: https://www.reddit.com/r/videos/comments/bdfqm4/the_real_rea... (or for the better "old" interface: https://old.reddit.com/r/videos/comments/bdfqm4/the_real_rea...)
Advertising is something a lot of people don't like, and the way it manipulates people can be underhanded if it's not regulated well, but it's not deliberately misleading or fooling anyone.
Yes, in theory. The challenges are likely to be dish size and getting accurate enough positioning. Not to mention the downlink capacity required (and also onboard storage).
I'm not sure -i has been implemented, and the regex syntax has gone through a major overhaul.

In your particular example, the global flag is now an adverb you put in front, and characters like ; now have to be backslash-escaped or quoted, ie

s:g/\;/,/

Sadly, the Perl6 regex/grammar engine is rather slow, taking away from its potential as a 'killer feature'...
'Evitable' means 'avoidable'. 'Inevitable' means 'not avoidable'. They mean the opposite, which is what you'd expect.

It's nothing like 'inflammable' and 'flammable', which mean the same thing. Those two have different roots which is why there is confusion.
Hopefully one day we will get there.
I thought that the flight immediately before this one had MCAS trouble too. Were both sensors busted, or was that actually an even number of cycles previous to the crash, and only the previous day?
'Chrome as the only option' is a hugely significant strategic issue for everyone.
It would be better to have more explicit details. The post says we should get this guys fired. Then what does he do? Find another job.
The post from DC doesn't say the executive's name. If new employers call DC to ask what happened, they won't tell them because they could be sued for slander. The trend has been to fire people who get into trouble like this. But should a company pass judgement on someone like that. How much evidence should it require to destroy a person's livelyhood.

If there is evidence DC should hand it over to the police, suspend the executive. Then fire them when the charges stick. Corporations shouldn't be dealing in justice.

If there is evidence I'm more than happy to boycott a co, but if we're asking the public to pass judgement, they should have the evidence.
Essential tools for taking your office on the road
I know software is bad.

But using the same airframe from the 60's and just strapping bigger engines to it until you have to move the nacelle and alter flight characteristics seems like a cowboy move also.
indeed. I know its someone's IP, but if its going in the bin anyway cant these things be released 'as is' and leave it to communities to try and keep running if they want.
Demystifying pre-flight checks in kubeadm join command
Why would awk not require audit and code management practices vs those other languages in a controlled environment?
https://www.myphysicslab.com/
I push back pretty hard on story points whenever I see them. They’re not useful until several iterations in, once you have a baseline for how many points can be delivered in an iteration, and even then one developer’s 1 point story is another’s 5 point.

When estimating I tend to use a coarse scale of hours, days, weeks, and (in extreme cases) months. All estimates then get turned into a range between the minimum and maximum the estimate could mean - for example hours becomes 1 hour to 8 hours, days becomes 1 day to 5 days, and so on.

Anything estimated as weeks or months probably needs scoping until it can be broken down into tasks that will take between an hour and a week.

I find this method works well because it’s intuitive, comes out with a suitable amount of uncertainty relative to the size of the task, and finally results in estimates with units that are useful to project managers and the wider business in scheduling other work needed to get a feature into production.
15 Months of Fresh Hell Inside Facebook
Can a Computer 'Own' Something?
Isn't it the same in price negotiation? Only the producer knows the costs. Perhaps the difference is that money can be shifted around more flexibly. Even if I come out with a negative money balance from a negotiation (costs more than the buyer pays), it might be worth it for long term goals. But you cannot borrow time. You cannot do the 1 week project in -1 weeks and then compensate by doing the next 1 week project in 3 weeks and break even.
That's already protected by copyright. I do not support software patents.
Once you allow to call Python, keeping things sandboxed becomes pretty hard, doesn't it?
So isn't the problem with the exchange revealing data before it is "committed"? How does one frontrun if the exchange doesn't allow it?
When I read “exit deal” I tend to think about an agreement being reached to terminate a contract.

This is an incorrect assumption.

This is only Google making the City of Louisville whole for damage to their road infrastructure.
How fraudsters made money by intercepting emails
This solution doesn’t work if the number of vehicles has met the road’s carrying capacity. There is no avoiding traffic once the upper limit is reach, due to the differences in every vehicle’s acceleration/deceleration, as well has inclines and declines in the road. At a certain number of lanes and a certain speed, each vehicle needs a certain amount of space at a specific point in time to pass through a specific point on the road. Once this has been exceeded, the vehicles must start slowing down, and this will cause a ripple effect backwards until this congestion has cleared.

We can try to smooth out this ripple, but if the congestion situation exists for long distances, all it will do is push back the ripple to the end of the congestion.
And how would people get services typically offered by a bank? Sorry but most of people on this planet need banks because they don't have enough cash to buy real estate. Are you suggesting that people should not own their homes?
Well I look around in an Indian IT shop and it's all people brow beating each other and chatting with each other. As if it's all an FD income to them and no one wants to seriously work.
My usual advice is to also check out Aaron Hsu's talks on YouTube and his posts on HN (user arcfide I think). Really eye opening and alien stuff.

Dyalog also sells a standard keyboard with the APL symbols printed on the keys. You might find that interesting.
I think this jab is unwarranted. Android with security updates is not significantly less secure. Talking historically, Android started with more security measures than iOS, with app sandboxing from the get go. Nowadays modern devices contain dm-verity for verified boot, layered security at various levels including SELinux, etc.

Not suggesting there hasn't been more security issues with Android overall, but there's also more devices and more available source code with Android, and iOS is far from having a clean track record for exploits either. If it did, you wouldn't be so limited in which versions of iOS you could restore in iTunes...
I found this talk (by the same person being interviewed) to be concise and convincing on how to do better than typical practice, without going to full formal methods.

Hillel Wayne - Beyond Unit Tests: Taking Your Testing to the Next Level - PyCon 2018
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MYucYon2-lk
> raising the surface temperature of the glass by up to 10 °C.

That's interesting. I wonder how that will affect the car on a hot day?

Will it cause more heat (as the material is designed to encourage the conversion of light into heat)?

Or will it reduce the heat (as most of the easily convertible wavelengths get converted on the surface of the car, not on the dashboard)?

Or (as I suspect) will it have next to no effect either way?
Doesn't help you if someone else already made the document on Google Docs and asked you to collaborate on it.
Semi-seriously, e is a number defined by recursive growth.

So if you estimate to Level 1, and then break down to Level 2 sub-tasks, then Level 3, your estimate will be out by the same amount each time. and your total error will be a multiplicative series.

If you have an infinite number of levels - which is reasonable for most real-world projects, although this may not be obvious in the planning stages - e will get you nicely in the ballpark.
Okay, you have your copyright. The exact strictures of the religion are considered important by these people, so if you're not willing to follow those strictures, you're just not part of the same group. No harm, no foul.

If you don't want to cut your son's genitals, you'll also not be welcome in the same way.

Edit: to be clear, I agree with the way that Deborah resolved this issue. But I'm just not sure how she could take offense, but continue to follow all the other common orthodox Jewish rules/interpretations on the basis that she hasn't personally been offended by them. It seems like a bit of a shallow way to decide what rules are appropriate.
Maybe, but a sovereign country requires a centralized government. The government of Scotland has representation in Westminster, but I'm not sure to what extend this means there is only one government.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scottish_Government
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Not quite what you're talking about, but very much related is normalization of deviance:

What these disasters typically reveal is that the factors accounting for them usually had “long incubation periods, typified by rule violations, discrepant events that accumulated unnoticed, and cultural beliefs about hazards that together prevented interventions that might have staved off harmful outcomes”. Furthermore, it is especially striking how multiple rule violations and lapses can coalesce so as to enable a disaster's occurrence.

[1] https://danluu.com/wat/
It absolutely is scummy. When reviews are bogus, I stop shopping. Plenty of other places to go. They're poisoning the well.
Vista was 6.0. Windows 7 was 6.1 and 8 was 6.2 (8.1 was 6.3). They finally bumped up the version to 10 with Windows 10.
> Does it all take that long?

That's just a question. Asking questions is OK. If you have such a high need to please other people and such a low self-confidence that you will change your answer simply if someone asks you twice, that's the problem with you, not them. I say it as someone who have been like that and have changed it through therapy.

I was a nervous mess and always thought that people around me don't like me, pressure me and in general was very nervous around any interaction where I and other person have some disagreement. But turns out, firmly saying "No" is quite OK, people react well to it, respect you for it and nobody is going to fire you for giving good estimates.
I would like to see how Boeing and FAA decided to pretend that all is fine after the first crash, there were enough clues that MCAS has issues and I would like to see how was decided that is safe to fly while the software fix was not deployed.
Ask HN: What's the Best Asana Alternatives?
I've been using Asana for a couple months and somehow it's too much for a todo list. I've moved to Quire https://quire.io/ but I'm not sure if there's any option out there? To me Asana is way too complicated for personal use, Quire is simple enough, but I'm still curious if there's anything better.

I've tried Todoist, Wunderlist and Workflowy and tbh I don't like any of those.
Not always, true; but there are plenty of cases where it does.
Amazon reviews are a huge issue and a huge let down from the platform. I love shopping on Amazon but today, I rarely do it due to 1) not believe any review 2) seeing the same product branded twenty times.

Various teams at Amazon need to do a rewrite of the entire reviews specs and treat them like CC details. It's totally abnormal to find reviews about another product belonging to a former product from the same seller. It's unacceptable to have most of the reviews on new products coming from paid gigs and fakers.

They need to sort this quick – even my mother who barely understands a thing to computers is now wary of Amazon reviews.
I multiply my estimates by the number of people involved.
> It's time we solve it again, through regulation

You had me up until here. The last entity I would look to to solve this first-world problem is the clumsy, over-bloated arm of government.
Did those 100 signatories know the exact details, or did they sign because they though it was serious enough their colleagues were signing it?

From this description, this could have been just a bit of overenthusiastic dancing and bumping into someone. That there is a mob wanting to fire a person with this tiny bit of information is the real crime here.
Neither the code nor the server has to know which browser you are.
Well, each antenna needs to be sensitive enough to pick up the signals at all.

You also need very high data rates for producing interference fringes with 1.3 mm waves, which is probably one of the reasons why a satellite like RadioAstron works at longer wavelengths.
Touch-typing feels good but isn’t for me