skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You can fix Boeing's reckless greed and willful negligence with software!?

That's impressive.

Everyone keeps saying software is the problem, but the real problem is Boeing's willingness to prioritize profits over safety.
Quote: "The research team found that global green leaf area has increased by 5 percent since the early 2000s, an area equivalent to all of the Amazon rainforests."

That's a pretty big patch of carbon sink. Another 20 years might have global cooling as a problem...
Leaked crashed Russian Air Force MiG-31 was shot down by wingman
(also @reaperducer)
Something I didn't fully appreciate until I got here was:
1. Work (aka enterprise) sends much more email than consumer, and
2. Outlook dominates enterprise. Their market share is pretty astounding.

I assure you there is a lot of email coming from Outlook/Exchange.
A large majority of people providing work on these sites is very far from any country where such a notion exists.
It's also worth pointing out that no energy pathway acts alone. You're always using all of them in some degree, but a particular activity will use one of them over the others. You will strengthen them in conjunction, though what you focus on will improve the most.
Ahhh, just what the lungs need!
I tried the extension for a while and ended up removing it since it removes the top toolbar when seeing a single email.

I hated the design of the new gmail when it came out, and now I tolerate it, but that toolbar is handy nonetheless.
So will you fix OP's problem then, prlambert?
Stopped using mutt! Strange!!
Am I correct in understanding that interest paid to deposits at a credit union get you a 1099-DIV? And wouldn't that mean virtually everyone who banks at a credit union would get that form? Also, anyone who owns savings bonds or CDs. Those are out of fashion these days, but many people still get them. Your point stands that these are still not the majority of the population, I just wanted to add some more pathways a person might get such a tax form.
Isn't the risk of accidentally suffocating the baby quite high when co-sleeping? I think I'd prefer a bed-side crib.
Duh, any major communications platform is a target.
Old suburban areas of the Northeast are largely immune to the bland sameness of franchised businesses that pervades the US. There is little space to build out and liquor licensing can be problematic for chain restaurants.
1.55BN € spent on anonymous (illegal) bank cards for 2M+ migrants
Sounds like no one person or group wanted to take responsibility for the project. If the project fails, they wanted the blame to be distributed among as many people as possible.
Put Another Zero on Facebook’s Fine. Then We Can Talk
Show HN: Office Hours – Hold office hours by phone anytime, anywhere
Hello HN! My name is Rohan Pavuluri, and I’m launching an iPhone app called Office Hours (https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/get-office-hours/id145648052...). The app lets you hold “office hours” by phone anytime, anywhere. You can think of it as the green Facebook messenger symbol but for calls. In real time, easily let your network know that you’re free to accept calls. And easily find out who in your network is free to accept a call from you.

I built Office Hours as a side project on the weekends with a friend to address the personal pain I feel scheduling phone calls. I run a nonprofit, and I love having conversations with everyone who reaches out to learn more about our work. But these conversations are generally painful to schedule for two reasons:

1. The back-and-forth email exchange to find a time slot is exhausting.

2. I don’t want to commit to time slots on my calendar because something that takes priority -- aka anything directly work-related -- may come up. Calendly doesn’t solve this.

Given that I have deadtime during grocery shopping, commutes, and other errands, I thought to myself, what if I could easily schedule all of these calls during my deadtime? What if I could just turn “on” my “office hours” and send a notification to “followers” that I’m free to chat? I also wanted to follow my friends and mentors and get notifications when they’re free, so I could eliminate the friction involved with scheduling. That's how I got the idea for Office Hours.

How it works if you have inbound requests for your time: just download the app, add people who want to talk to you as “Followers”, and they’ll get a notification whenever you turn on your Office Hours. Whenever you’re on a call with someone who follows you, your Office Hours automatically close to your other Followers.

How it works if you want to request someone else’s time: just send them a Follow request. If they accept your request, you’ll get a notification when they open up their Office Hours. When you see they’re free, you can give them a call through the app.

I’m looking for any feedback, particularly around potential use cases. Some ideas: professional networking that’s not time-sensitive such as career advice chats, social catch-ups with friends and family, and teachers and students.

In the future, I hope to implement VoIP, so I can make it easier to schedule calls internationally. I also hope to implement end-to-end encryption. Feel free to email hi@getofficehours.com with any feedback too.
While i agree in general with your post;

> Acquiring skills usually means: practicing, practicing and practicing.

I really disagree with this much repeated simplistic prescription. This is sort of a pet peeve of mine and so let me elaborate. "Mindless" practice is worse then useless. You need full involvement of your mind asking the What/Why/How and building a mental framework as you practice else you cannot build on what you learn. As an example, note all the time wasted by students solving Maths problems using the "plug and chug" method. Another example is the vast army of Arduino programmers doing "copy & paste" programming. Both have their places but you cannot really grow with such an approach. The right way to Practice is what the researcher Anders Ericsson calls as "Deliberate Practice" in his book "Peak: Secrets from the New Science of Expertise".

One of my favourite quotes (from Chinese Martial Arts) that i periodically remind myself of goes;

"To show one the right direction and the right path, oral instructions from a master are necessary, but mastery of a subject comes only from one's own incessant self-cultivation".

There is a lot to unpack and learn from the above deceptively simple quote.
It's not just small fries getting hit by this. Google regularly refuses to deliver mail from backerkit.com to my account, by far the most popular Kickstarter fulfillment support service. I frequently have to contact Kickstarters and ask them to manually send me mail because Google is refusing to accept it, which is annoying and wastes their time.

I wish Google had a way you could tell it "messages from these people/domains are never spam (or I'll deal with it myself)".
Not enough subjects to test modalities while excluding learning effects and losing predictive power. If you did 4x as many devs then a factored design is possible.
Don’t discount the gentrification issue. In places like Austin, San Fran, and West LA the “techlash” started when small businesses and non-tech workers could no longer afford to pay rent in their city, and their culture was pretty much replaced.
Yes, I've been upfront about the error, acknowledged it, and I've edited the original post.

I still stand by my assessment it's not cool to nudge people not to save.

There are many people who'd like to save, but don't have 401ks. (Ex: students doing internships, contractors, or people working in the service industry)

The limit for a 401k is ~18k IIRC and ~5500 for an IRA IIRC. If you had say, 10k from a summer internship, you'd put the difference in a normal, taxable brokerage.

Having a brokerage account does not mean one is affluent.
What is Microsoft? It's not a singular person born in the 80s and is now 40 years old. It's individual people who have come and gone over decades. The same people who were ultimately responsible fpr "personally burning you over and over again" are either retired or happily leading at other companies that you support. And new people with fresh ideas and fresh ideals may have replaced them.
And history. And search. And attachments. And video calls. And a decent experience for non-power-users. And a decent integration/API story. And multi-person DMs. All of which are immensely useful features.

I get that HN likes to think "it's just chat", but a decent chat application (having used gChat, Slack, IRC, AIM, …) is way more nuanced than that.
>Absolutely any successful aircraft has pilots on the development team

Of course it does. But I'm a bit unsure as to how this has gone from academics don't know nuthin. To design teams who never listen to users are bad. The latter is a measured, reasonable argument. The former is just anti-intellectual nonsense. No one every said anything about having zero pilots on an aircraft development team.

>And you're absolutely right that us in the computer business DO spend a lot of time navel gazing instead of listening to the users. It's endemic.

That's endemic everywhere from CEOs, to the guy changing your brakes, to the real estate agent selling you a house. It has absolutely nothing to do with academics.

And again this is a much different argument from Computer Scientists rarely produce anything useful.

The problem with the OP's argument is that you can't pin it down. Academics are bad--except when their R&D work produces something useful. Then they weren't academics, they were problem solving engineers, and it was the guy on the ground who did the real work their anyway. Computer Scientists are bad except in the case of something like asymmetrical encryption--well in that case it was one of the rare instances where they did something useful.
I'm not sure how you could have bias in a system that literally just measures packages moved per second.
Intel Desktop CPU Roadmap Leaked, Comet Lake and Glacier Falls Coming This Year
No. The people who murdered innocent families in pubs and on busy shopping streets are terrorists. Are you really saying that the murder of hundreds of British civilians was a price worth paying?
Also, buying cpu power is a lot easier than recruiting devs.
Bubble Activity Graph, a better commit list for busy people
I think these are very valid reasons to push Tesla on.
I'd recommend https://www.taxhawk.com/. Its 100% free for federal and $15 for state; seems like a pretty ethical company/product. You can even do your federal for free without doing your state (I've done this when I needed to do state on paper for complicated reasons). You can also use it to generate the 1040 and mail it in rather than e-file if you wanted to for some reason. No dark patterns or upsells.

I gave CreditKarma a go last year to see how it compares and in my opinion, the TaxHawk UI is way better than CreditKarma, and the UI is the main reason I'm using tax software in the first place. TaxHawk also covers a lot of cases where CreditKarma doesn't support.

Some people are also worried about the "free" price point of CreditKarma ("if you're not the customer you're the product"). I'm not one of them, personally.
Well, now its 404.
Please list a few. I need 3 personal inboxes, 2 home business inboxes (bills, etc), and the ability to make new inboxes for stupid startup prototypes you buy a domain for, hack on for a few days with dreams of huge sales, and then forget about for a year until the domain expires. You know, normal hacker stuff.
Ah, but you forgot to send it from a Gmail address! That's the big important requirement!
Show HN: Masquerade: A Postgres proxy that masks sensitive datasets in real time
Runaway Saudi sisters urge Google and Apple to pull woman-monitoring app
Raspberry Pi Becomes the Encrypted Password Keeper You Need
Why do they call it a "design system" instead of a framework .. you know like 99% of the web does
Am I the only one to notice the rest of reviews? All of them seem generic with the same names I see in my spam directory:

> cindi m was a great help. she fixed my issues right away and her bosses should give her a raise. cheers
Rise of Capitalism as Tragic Element in Anton Chekov’s the Cherry Orchard
I tried Freelancer.com for hiring. After a quite search and failure to find someone to do the job, I decided to pull out. They refused and did hold around $500 of my money there. They also ended up locking the account. That was many years ago. Needless to say, I stopped using these websites for good either ways (hiring or being hired).
Trump doesn't want a "better" deal with Iran
I'm quite happy with the ease of setting up and running a Mail-in-a-Box [1] instance. After seeing this article I did an experiment and while my hosted mail sent to a @gmail.com address did not bounce it went straight to the Spam folder. At least I can add other users to my email and enjoy private conversations.

1. https://mailinabox.email/
My experience with Azure was awful. I moved a desktop app with 5000 paying customers to SAAS and wanted to not have to worry about the database management side and wanted to use azure. So not a huge business by any means, but growth potential is good.

I signed up, started to look around, maybe a test table and that was it. It was end of the day. Next day, account deleted for breaking the TOS.

Tried to contact support, few days later, got a reply saying I had broken the TOS. Yes I know. But how? What did I do? You broke the rules. No I didn't. I am from the EU (personal details / bank etc) but live abroad, this sometimes causes issues when I say I am from a country that doesn't match my IP so I ask if this was the issue ? No reply, I was just blanked after that.
Let me let you in on a little secret. Slack makes TONS of money. Take that as a truth and then think about why they're still reporting they're losing money..
You should read the 7th (2013) edition of Who Rules America? by G. William Domhoff.

It's a little pricy (it's a textbook) for a used copy on Amazon at the moment, but I watched the listings for a while and managed to pick up two copies for less than $31 a piece this winter. Not perfect, but it's pretty accessible and systematic.
I wrote this about the pragmatic programmer a while ago

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17031609#17031874

Long story short, great book if you read it in the first year of your career but you'll get alot less out of it if you read it later on in your career.

Again it wasn't a knock on the book, I also put the Mythical Man month in the same category.

The "problem" these books have is that they cover alot of foundational concepts about being a programmer that you'll eventually learn on your own if you are even half way introspective.

Reading them early can really jumpstart your programming abilities, reading them later on in your career could have you wondering why everyone recommends a book that just lists out all the common sense ideas that you already know because you earned that knowledge.
Looks like folks have snapshotted it: http://archive.is/https://www.trustpilot.com/reviews/5cc32fe...
I love 5/3/1 but I don't know if I would recommend it to a beginner. The progression is just too slow compared to one of the daily progression programs like 5x5 or StartingStrength.
I read (while considering both for numerical routines) that the CLR could more effectively generate efficient instructions for arithemtically dense code and value types, including for generics, where the JVM uses simpler approach involving type erasure and treats built in types distinctly from user objects. JVM originated for Java which came earlier, so it’s not a fair comparison. And I’m not an expert here.. I stuck to C, CUDA and Oython in the end.
Is it true that: Pragmatic means logical, and Practical means real ?

And logical doesn't need to be real. (While being real means logical)
My pet peeve with HN. People here boil everything down to a trivial engineering problem. That Slack is "just a chat app" is grossly underselling all the other parts of the business - sales, marketing, design, product - that makes it tick.
I believe that the majority of the users are trained to ignore g-mail spam since it's been working good enough for most people. Unless we condition the customer to always view the spam folder it's asking them to do something on top of already checking their e-mail.

My mother would just simply ignore the spam and often times spam catches majority of the phishing e-mails too. So it's a double edge sword educating and conditioning the users to review the spam folder. Why is it the end user's job to determine what is spam and what is legitimate ?
ProtonMail actually has a dedicated export tool: https://protonmail.com/support/knowledge-base/export-import-...

ProtonMail also encrypts emails, contacts, contents, attachments, of all emails you send and receive, with end-to-end encryption.

However, the most important differentiator is the trust model. ProtonMail has Address Verification, which means it is trust on first use, which is significantly more secure than the trust on every use model Tutanota uses for key distribution. Details here: https://www.reddit.com/r/ProtonMail/comments/b84kd3/why_is_p...
I see, though for the airbus I'd have thought a warning system would be better to implement than more complicated to implement control system.
There is a large interview with Chuck Moore of Forth fame on O'Reilly Safari Online.

Much of the interview focuses on things like how an OS is uneccesarry and shouldn't exist. Granted, he has drastically different needs than the average user.
> so they turned him over to a nearby zoo

The bird remained silent, but was still jailed. Where's Glenn Greenwald on this?
How does that differ from any other situation? Something is acceptable until it isn't...
I never thought of it as a fat-belly logo, the mockup is pretty funny. I always thought of the logo as similar to a tennis ball. In my country, I remember Pepsi giving away blue/red coloured 3x tennis ball packs with a cases of Pepsi.
Acting as 'lookout' is only quasi-illigal, but it raises an interesting question: if a human trains an animal to do something illegal, does blame fall on the animal or the human?

For example, many pit bulls who attack or maim people these days get put down by animal control. If a court could prove that an animal had been trained/conditioned (by a proven guilty defendant) to commit the offending act, would said animal still be facing death?
The key information does reduce the expected level of interest. Controversy about cancer clusters and pollution is nothing new. But there are other possibilities, e.g. it might be caused by some genetic disorder that's found in a family who happens to live there, and the article might be about identifying and diagnosing that. It might be about some infectious disease that causes cancer like HPV. It might be about a cultural practice, e.g. eating carcinogenic foods like hijiki seaweed. Unless you actually live there, or know somebody who does, all these are more interesting to read about than the real "residents say it's pollution, industry says it isn't, everybody argues but nothing is really decided" story that's happened so many times before.
Twitter is hands down my favorite social media platform, I really enjoy how I can curate a stream of content that is almost always relevant to my interests. It is also a great way to share my own content and interact with the people that are interested in it. There is also the unspoken benefit that unfollowing someone does not have the same social impact as unfriending someone on Facebook.

(Active Twitter user for 10 years, 90k Tweets and a few thousand followers)
I think a lot of people who have accounts at USDT-only exchanges may not realize this affects them. Tether has been marketed as a replacement for the dollar and a safe place to park your wealth when you are "out of the market" in cryptocurrency. Because it's not viewed as a crypto or speculative asset in itself, people might see the headlines but not make the connection that potentially all their assets on a USDT exchange are at risk of becoming inaccessible.

Also, unattended arbitrage bots might end up equalizing the price now but becoming major bag-holders later. Right now, the spread between the Coinbase & Bitfinex BTC prices is > $300. The logical response of an arbitrage bot is to buy Bitcoin on Coinbase (spending USD) and sell it on Bitfinex (receiving USDT); they provide the Bitcoin liquidity that people who want out of Tether need. This creates a counterflow of BTC from Coinbase to Bitfinex, spending down their dollar reserves at Coinbase and accumulating a Tether hoard at Bitfinex. If the bottom falls out of Tether, their accumulated profits (and any capital invested) becomes worthless.
The universe is expanding faster than we thought, and no one knows why
It's not hard. It's all arithmetic.

Before people pounce on me for "trivializing it" – I've written, from scratch, Obamacare Insurance calculators that analyzed hundreds of policies with various coverages, coverage tiers, and you could type in things like "If i broke my leg on this policy, how much would it cost?" (all in real-time).

It was a lot of arithmetic but really not that bad (about 150-200 lines of mainly applying coefficients to standard formulas depending on your policy tier), but it was all addition, multiplication, and division. And it really wasn't that bad. Took about 2 weeks.

Update: Just to clarify, an analyst had already done all the legwork of collecting those coefficients and premiums and costs for me. But all I'm saying is that the actual formulas are never that crazy.

I've also written similar calculators for life insurance and travel insurance.

I really doubt the tax calculations are any different.

Ultimately you gotta remember that these laws are made by pretty average humans and have to be enforced by those same average humans. They're going to be vast, but any single rule won't be mathematically complex.
That sounds like a canary alarm to me. Prob receiving several requests from the US gov?
I am confused by your message. Their story checks out with the dates, doesn't it?
China has a lot of retail politics, it's just in the context of a single-party system.

They're able to do a lot of things quickly, but principal–agent problems remain and there is a ton of corruption. Local party cadres are under a ton of pressure and frequently use overly large carrots and sticks to get stuff done.

This isn't very efficient.

You don't need to be super efficient when you're a developing country, but China is solidly middle-income. The things you need to do to go from 0 to 1 will eventually hurt you, and from their slowing GDP growth it's clear that it's already doing that.
> Amazon...cloned an open-source project and then sold access to it.

This is almost completely wrong.

Amazon sold a managed service for the project long before they forked it. Elastic.co didn't like that Amazon was doing so successfully, so they tried to restrict access to the open source project.

Amazon, on the other had, offers complete access to their fork -- https://github.com/opendistro-for-elasticsearch
Well, I think it relates to historical churn though - B2C churn in general is significantly higher than B2B (see Blue Apron). The switching costs on detergent brands are essentially 0. For us to switch from Slack now would be a fairly major headache.
Then they should do both: bounce it and also show it in a folder called 'bounced'.