skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't a have a slight fear of flying. My refusal to set foot on a Boeing airplane is just common sense. Especially after that former Boeing employee posted how their corporate culture basically does nothing to promote airsafety.

Never boeing again. I'll rather take the train.
I agree. After driving a P3D this weekend one of my conclusions was that if you wanted to street race, there were very few cars that would beat it aside from one of the P-model S's.

But if you want a drivers car, Tesla is not currently in that market. I look forward to seeing someone serve that market. Maybe BMW will try to live up to their motto again.
People are probably less upset because it doesn't take the "systemd all the things" approach of getting rid of huge chunks of old stuff for what is ostensibly an init system. I don't have much of an issue with systemd (except binary logging; I hate that) and just put up with it, but the reasons for which people objected to systemd don't seem to extend to this.
This is the original post I was responding to:

You can easily grow so large that you hit a limit of what a given cloud provider will allow (e.g. API calls or IOPS) at a price that fits into your budget for a task, even if you're not actually especially large.

My response was that what are the chances that a company will grow large enough that it will outgrow the resources of a cloud provider?

And there are really only three cloud providers worth discussing - AWS, Azure and Google. Besides Google (and if you based your business around then you get what you deserve) what cloud provider has raised prices on a whim? Which provider’s cost are so out of line with the other that it is worth the switching costs? Besides, if you’re that large, you’re paying negotiated prices not published prices.

In fact one post was specifically about building out specialized infrastructure at a colo.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19731913

If you’re so large and you are going through the costs and risks to move off of a cloud provider, why put yourself in the same position again by migrating to another provider?
>> you find that everyone is hard coding secrets in code and standing up some secrets infrastructure would take weeks to get right.

You open up the code, find all of the secrets (e.g. using high-entropy substring search), replace them with access to a global variable, and set it from a file set by a configuration from a command line.

Done.
Interesting, I just had a look at nebenan[0] and I was pretty much expecting to see a Rocket Internet[1] logo. No such logo, but it was founded by one of Rocket's main cloners[2] so that seems to be the model here too. Nice that they're so subtle with the name.

An interesting twist is that they seem to be involved with senior-citizen organizations. Maybe older folks are more likely to get involved?

As much as I dislike this German cloning model, and find it sad as there's a lot of real creativity in Berlin, I think a service like this might stand a better chance in a country with strong laws around privacy and slander.

[0]: https://nebenan.de/about (in German)

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rocket_Internet#Controversy

[2]: https://www.ksta.de/wirtschaft/nebenan-de-und-wirnachbarn-co...

[Edit: link formatting]
Exactly. The same goes for news and political commentary. We are in a golden age of media creation and we have the tools to seek out the truth in many areas and spread the messages we think are worthy of spreading.

Whether an audience exists is up to the savvy of the podcast maker themselves. It is not uncommon to see independent YouTube streamers on a laptop with live audiences that put corporate media to shame.
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Howdy. As a fellow F-150 owner let me just point out that two DIN replacements are available for the stock radio with everything from just bluetooth to full blown android or proprietary entertainment centers with digital radio and sirius xm inputs. I realize your dad may just not bother since the dealer (most likely) won't do the work but it is possible to replace the stock radio.
For those curious, University of the Highlands and Islands is in Inverness, Scotland. Quite a bit north of Edinburgh and Glasgow.
News is meant to be objective reporting of facts.

I disagree, or at least that's not the only part of news. News should also include presenting the information that is on hand and the situation as it's currently understood even if the details are too murky to raise to the level of "fact". In addition I actually do want analysis from my journalists. I don't want them to just tell me that congress passed the XYZ bill and a link to the text (objective facts), and want them to tell me what effects they believe the bill is likely to have (opinion).

I'm even OK with activism by journalists as long as they're up front with what they're doing, keep it separate from their overall reporting, and don't let it get in the way of telling the truth.
Miguel demoed a Xamarin.Forms implementation using it, which is kind of the other way around.
same here - although there is a workaround.

https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode-python/issues/79#issueco...
> I always make rock solid software

Everything else you claim is suspect because you said this.
This is, of course, quite standard, but it does feel particularly pressing given that Uber measures its annual losses in the billions. Unfortunately, it is here that Uber’s S-1 is particularly lacking. We don’t know:

- How much it costs Uber to acquire drivers

- How much it costs Uber to acquire riders

- How much it costs Uber Eats to acquire restaurants

- How much it costs Uber Eats to acquire customers

- What is Uber’s retention rate for drivers

- What is Uber’s retention rate for riders

- What is Uber Eats’ retention rate for restaurants

- What is Uber Eats’ retention rate for customers

- Any sort of cohort analysis of any of the above categories

- Ride-sharing revenue and profitability by geography

- Uber Eats revenue and profitability by geography

- Ride-sharing’s take rate overall and in developed versus emerging markets

- Uber Eats’ take rate overall and in developed versus emerging markets

- Ride-sharing revenue and profitability by time-in-market

- Uber Eats revenue and profitability by time-in-market

- An understanding of driver incentives and how they affect top-line revenue, or how “excess driver incentives” have
changed over time

- How costs are allocated, particularly when it comes to rider marketing and incentives

- A breakdown of Uber’s many offerings (Black versus UberX versus UberPool etc.)
I've decided never to fly Boeing ever again (not just the 737 max). I'm pretty sure I'll remember just fine and stick to my decision. Everyone I have had discussions with about this issue is also not willing to fly 737 max and for some this extends to Boeing as a whole.
Is there anyone here not "aware" of this already? You can't raise "awareness" past 100%. The HN front page could be filled with nothing but this sort of sob story all day long. That's not what it's here for.
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Download link: https://www.raspberrypi.org/magpi-issues/C_GUI_Programming.p...
To me this seems like a false equivalence. There are many characteristics that, in moderation, are not disease states; there are many characteristics that, in excess, are - whether one refers to excessive iron uptake in hemochromatosis, or excess connections between disparate parts of the brain in schizophrenia.

The problem at hand is that mild autism and severe autism have been united by the recognition of their common underlying mechanics and deficits, where they had previously been seen as distinct entities. However, united by common physiology doesn't necessarily mean they are united in pathology - it wouldn't be inappropriate to consider that one is a disease state and one is not, and both are done a disservice by using medical terminology to label both.

The real problem is the absolutists (on whichever side) that believe they have claim to the "real" definition of autism, and that "other" group doesn't get to speak for them.
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Of all of the places a Bee and Puppycat fan might expect to find Natasha Allegri's work ... release art (?!) for OpenBSD 6.5 is perhaps the last I would have expected.
Let's see why author might say that:

- 90% of people involved in crypto are male

- 80% of programmers are male

- 60%-80% of criminals are male (depending on what you count)
It won't just be the FAA that signs off on the Max this time - the review process is to be a collaborative international one. In part, this probably indicates how much the FAA's credibility has been damaged by the 737 Max:

https://af.reuters.com/article/worldNews/idAFKCN1RV1A1
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Yes! Sometimes I play Minecraft while listening to podcasts. The episode becomes associated with what I was doing at the time.
Every architecture? I don't think so. You're conflating a whole bunch of topics here.

Document-stores have their uses but they are not the best for everything. Thinking about structure isn't hard and all modern RDBMS have JSON fields now if you need that flexibility, while still giving you ACID, transactions and the power of SQL.

SOA has nothing to do with ESB/distributed logs/event sourcing, and none of that has to do with MongoDB or document-stores. Event-sourcing is unnecessary for most, MongoDB is not a good event-sourcing system, and the point of materialized views on a stream is that they can be modeled in whatever database works best, not to just accept what the stream gives you.

The last part about treating a database as a cache is also strange. Use a cache if you need one, but that's a much more complex topic then just having a few collections that are caches. And again, it has nothing to do with MongoDB or document-stores being the correct architecture for everything.
It was also all over the map in Q3 and Q4 of last year (when I was buying a Model 3).

However, I would take this any day over the opaque prices at a dealership.
As opposed to what? Most proprietary tools don't have good documentation either. And then you may not even be able to look at the code to see what it does.
Sorry for noob question, but why would one use OpenBSD instead of FreeBSD? I like latter, but also hear good things about former, although there are some limitations (e.g. no ZFS).

Thank you in advance.
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Jokes on them: I'm 33 but have acted like a 50-something-year-old since I was 25.
I don’t know how “minimal political hassle” and “China Model” can be used in the same sentence. Looks like censorship is working pretty well.

Sorry, but your argument does not make sense. People want all of the things you mentioned in all societies.

People who want to live in a modern democracy do not experience lots of political fights because they want it. It is because a modern democracy makes it all visible to all members of democracy that there are so many different voices, right or wrong. Other political systems try to hide that fact by either killing or censoring. And eventually all of them collapse.

Any current issues of modern democracies are “the current issues” that need to be solved. It is naive to say that there are systems that solve all problems. Not even close. I just prefer my system to not hide current problems in my society, so I can work on them.
The so-called masculine pronouns can be gender neutral. Their use is usual and proper when the gender of someone is unknown. This is true of practically every language on Earth.

Another way to see it is that he/him/his are always gender neutral, and only the feminine forms are gendered for clarity when context calls for it. Most often context does not, which could be why you’ll so regularly hear all-women groups referring to each other as “guys”.

Millennia of human societal development doesn’t care about the enlightened PC arrogance of 2019.

Sure, there are reasons why having gendered pronouns at all can be bothersome in today’s world. There is some merit to the idea of doing away with them, but you can’t force cultural change on human beings. Even if we move to gender neutral pronouns, the zeitgeist would most likely simply revert to he/his/him like it always has, rather than some contrived “xe” or similar such.
I don't get the headline. "Accenture sued over website redesign so bad it Hertz".

Are they trying to use Hertz instead of hurt??
Nope, not at all, but don't mention it or the reply guy will keep burying you in replies until you accept his tidier moral universe
Great new features, though it's a little bit shame that we still need to import a .ipynb file manually to work with it (I know it is not the VScode team's fault).

I really wish that the Jupyter community would consider re-design .ipynb file format, such as separating a source code (cells) as a file and stopping using JSON format.

The current .ipynb file format is highly against modern software engineering. Since it contains everything inside of a single file including giant binaries, it is almost impossible to properly version control, and there is no point of using human-readable JSON format because its content is already not human-readable.
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Most of that code is incompressible to make a portable OpenGL app in C++, not really Dear ImGui's fault.

There's literally about ~10 lines of specific imgui code in there other than the 35 lines of example code in the middle of the main function.

Your problem is perhaps that you don't want to engage in actually reading that code.
I’ve written it elsewhere on HN, but the China model is going to be the more popular model of internet management.

It’s time to understand the implications of a govt sanctioned whitelist of information.
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Human Tongues Can Smell
No, all Boeing need do is change the name. It'll become the 737-1000 or something.
It is the small local newspapers I need most. Anything in a big paper that is important to me I will see online. What is going on down the street is important to me, but not important to anyone who doesn't live within a couple blocks of me. Should my city replace their expensive pumps in the water plant or not - you don't live in my city so you don't care, I care because it is a choice between me able to water my garden or a cheaper water bill but water rationing. (I live in an area where there is plenty of water it just needs to be pumped)
I know it's often mentioned, but I love the simplicity of OpenBSD. Thank you all for the great work.
.NET took the right options from languages like Modula-3 and Delphi, even better now after the Midori improvements.

Just a bad decision, which was not to bet that strongly into AOT (NGEN was only for faster startups).

While UWP (and its former incarnation on Windows 8.x) do use AOT, that is still a couple of releases away to join standard .NET tooling.

Naturally there is also Xamarin and Unity IL2CPP/Bust stacks, but they are special cases.
Works really well out of the box with certain laptops. Excellent man pages. A good amount of software and a good track record with security.

FreeBSD is nice for a file server, OpenBSD for a laptop.
It's a bit disingenuous the way this article is phrased. The entire reason to push people to be empathetic is precisely that it is non-trivially costly, a thing one must make an effort to do, but then the article is written as if the idea that it's costly and that people react to that cost is offensive or something? You can't ask people to effortlessly exert effort.
> Soon enough they will catch up to the status and the money, and the West will have little to offer.

You'd think that, but the middle income trap https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Middle_income_trap happens for a reason, and widespread liberal or even democratic values might be required in order to escape it. The thing is that the wealthiest countries in the world, aside from special cases like big natural-resource endowments, have always featured broadly-liberal values and a reasonably-diffuse power base. Starting at least from the Italian and German renaissance, The Netherlands in the early-modern period, etc. And this dynamic has only become more important in a modern service economy where growth is powered by continued entrepreneuship and innovation - it would be huge news if this became suddenly untrue.
All the OS X users seem to be content running Docker in a Linux VM. It's more secure that way too, fitting with OpenBSD mentality :)

Doesn't help with the desktop OS part though.
absolutely not!
This was in Venezuela over 10 years ago.

It was quite surreal, I was even lectured by one of them about being out at night, that I should be more careful since there's "bad people" out there and I was lucky to get caught by some good ones (!). I guess that shows what their frame of mind is, or how they excuse the whole thing to themselves.
I don’t think so. The book is about learning an adversarial skill, it provides analysis of Josh’s path as a competitive chess player and martial artist.
Yes but if you're out of the ultra capitalist private US healthcare business that we're trapped in, you pay way less through taxes.

https://www.healthsystemtracker.org/chart-collection/health-...
Rebrand to 737 BIG. Same type, different name
Speaking of Beirut.

"Four Soviet diplomats were kidnapped in September 1985 by a fundamentalist group called the Islamic Liberation Organization. Russia quickly dispatched its Alpha group, tasked with counter-terrorism hostage-rescue operations, to Beirut. Once the team learned that Arkady Katkov, a consular attaché and one of the four hostages, was killed, they responded quickly by tracking down and locating one of the kidnappers’ leaders (or relative it’s not clear). In order to send a clear message to the terrorists, Alpha group members castrated the hostage, cut him down into pieces and sent him to the hostage takers. They also threatened to kill more of the kidnappers’ relatives if the Soviet diplomats were not free."

https://blogbaladi.com/how-russia-responded-to-the-kidnappin...
When you're a small startup and you're just starting up, you can create a single MongoDB instance (ignore everything about you've heard about Web Scale) and stuff data into it as needed, without thinking much about the structure. You can add in contracts on your database functions, which slowly specify the contract, as you learn more about what your project is really about. To get a sense of that style of development, please see what I wrote in "How ignorant am I, and how do I formally specify that in my code?"

This strategy seems like it forgoes what I consider an important step in any project, which is, thinking critically about your data model and getting that right before you start building code on top of that structural foundation.

I could see doing what you're describing to build a prototype, which I would then extrapolate my learnings from, and subsequently toss out, but this seems like a dangerous way to get started with something that will end up in production (and potentially maintained for years to come), as it glosses over the importance of coming up with a really coherent data model, and let's face it, data is the heart and soul of most projects.

Am I wrong?
That's how opinion polls work. The article in question has the following at the bottom:

> SurveyMonkey Audience polls from a national sample balanced by census data of age and gender. Respondents are incentivized to complete surveys through charitable contributions. Generally speaking, digital polling tends to skew toward people with access to the internet. SurveyMonkey Audience doesn't try to weight its sample based on race or income. Total 1,178 respondents collected March 16-17, 2019, a margin of error plus or minus 3.07 percentage points with a 95% confidence level.

This isn't some random internet voting widget, there is discipline behind it.
> MariaDB 10.0.38

Can anyone share some insight why OpenBSD does not provide a more recent MariaDB Version ?
Its going to assume your gender, lol.
C for GUI programming? GTK2 for starting a new project today?
I think new learners would be much better off with Python 3 and GTK3 (or Qt5)...
Do the popular podcast styles eventually feel like a transform that muddles the truth of the experiences? I could see how it could cause some anxiety when actual experience isn’t condensed into truthy bits. I think that’s something I’d see more in writing, but haven’t personally expected from podcasts.
A bit more of a deep dive, but stuff on Daoism (esp. Zhuangzi) might be a nice complement too -- it influenced Zen (or Chan, as it was called in its original Chinese form). And not coincidentally, Mihalyi's son Mark works mainly on Daoism at UC Berkeley.
Ask HN: Would you paid for a better version of Mint.com/PersonalCapital.com?
Mint.com/PersonalCapital.com are nice but they have ads or trying to upsell you some other services. Also, P&L could be better.

I'm wondering if you would be to pay a subscription and how much for having all your personal finances in one place?
There's not really much choice than trying to use qemu command line directly on windows. I didn't find any single useful GUI that was usable or newer than 3 or 4 years ago. It's a pretty sad state of affairs. I spend hours until I discovered that I needed to add some magic flag called machine for acceleration even work.
https://airwaysmag.com/industry/easa-transport-canada-to-see...
Met Andreas in Budapest like 4-5 years ago, showed me this post, using Gmail this way since then, and it's a bliss. Thanks Andreas.
It seems Hyundai doesn’t suffer from these problems, at least now. Is this just a difference in the priorities and expectations of leadership there? FWIW their reliability is generally considered to be nearly on par with Toyota and Honda now
If I remember correctly, it's not that the skill level needs to be high, but that the task has to be difficult enough to be challenging without being so difficult as to be daunting.

So you can still reach a flow state as a low-skill person as long as you flirt with the limits to your own skill level without getting frustrated (i.e. being highly skilled is not necessarily a prerequisite to be fully engrossed and challenged).
I could see how that would be considered inflammatory, but it was not intended that way.

I have a somewhat fuzzy definition. "A programming language that has more 'intent' to it."

For example, Rust. The designers had definite ideas about what they were creating, noted the trade-offs, and implemented features based on those decisions.

You can say that about lots of languages - Java, C#, Swift, or if you need to go back 10 years, Java <g />, C, or maybe even Python.

JavaScript on the other hand was cobbled together in a few weeks by some poor fellow who was under impossible deadlines. And it shows. We've all seen the "Wat" video. Programming in JavaScript is a minefield of bizarre phenomena. Function scopes as namespaces. Nutty math. It succeeds in spite of itself because, a. It's rarely used for anything truly important, and b. It runs on the most popular run-time environment on the planet.

Not that you can't do great things with JavaScript. But just about any other language would have been preferable.
I'm sure mongodb is fine now but it's too late. I don't care. I'll never use it again or recommend it to anyone
These passengers are still driving cars, even though they're much less safe.

The solution is simple: subsidize ticket prices. The cheapest ticket always wins. People would literally fly standing up if they could get a ticket for $1 less. Just ask Ryanair.
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