skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Given the option, I will rarely go with a more expensive option if I know I can stand the cheapest. Standing to get 50%? hell yeah.
Slack has a 5-year, $50M/year minimum commitment with AWS.

From the document:

> In April 2018, the Company executed an amendment to its existing agreement with Amazon Web Services (“AWS”). The amended agreement was effective as of May 1, 2018 and continues through July 31, 2023. The Company has minimum annual commitments of $50.0 million each year of the agreement term for a total minimum commitment of $250.0 million. As of January 31, 2019, the Company had a remaining minimum payment obligation of $212.5 million to AWS through July 31, 2023.
Man, that's terrible. What happens if this hits while you're driving?
He was eventually pushed out, last summer. But it's not like he had to give his $7 million back.
It seems like vaccination info is not kept at the state or federal level. This information is no doubt extremely dangerous - imagine if a malicious actor could get ahold of the "non-vaccinated list." But right now, it's stored at high schools, universities, and workplaces around the country with standard HIPAA-grade security. As an example of what kind of government oversight I'm talking about: in Canada, there are reporting requirements for certain STD infections (including treatable ones: think chlamydia, or gonorrhea). I think some US states have reporting requirements as well.

In cases like this, where there's already an active quarantine, if the CDC or the state kept track of non-vaccinated people, they could be quarantined as well. The idea being, even if they're not showing symptoms, they're at high risk for carrying the disease. This seems like a reasonable trade-off for choosing not to vaccinate yourself, and my guess is people who can't be vaccinated for medical reasons would be glad to consent to quarantine.
with revenue in the same year of $44b, this is pretty much the average profit margin for an american business. I'm not sure which direction you're trying to argue here.
I've never seen it, but I've long thought it would be interesting to see an airline campaign on such a feature. The problem now is that cattle class is cheap, and the next step up is a small increment in comfort but twice the cost.
Do you resent HTTPS too?

I'd rather turn on encryption/signing/security for my mail than contribute to a system like the telephone network where bank accounts get emptied by transoceanic criminal networks on the regular.
Imagine this article being written in the 1930s and you know exactly the city they'd be writing about. You should be equally disgusted by the assertion that this totalitarian regime's city is the "city of the future".
Are you constantly incredibly thirsty? Coffee isn't actually a net loss in water - as Zerofries suggested, something else is wrong, or you're drinking a lot of beer all the time(which I'd argue is probably also "something wrong").
Suburbanization is also a thing. Urban sprawl had barely got started in the 1960s compared to now.
Just put some steppers under them lol
There's no standard DKIM selector though, right? You may have used a different DKIM selector in your query to the one they have set up
My understanding is that face masks help if you have a cold to avoid spreading germs but are pretty much useless in terms of protecting you from other people's diseases.
If something goes wrong, you don't want tampered data, hence immutability.
Larry wheel networth,wins and family
What I can say is that if you to any other country, developed or not, the flying experience seems to be better than the US. For instance:

* not getting groped by the T.S.A.

* not having to book a flight a month in advance to get a good price

* paying less

* being treated like a human being
Chrome extension injects random lines of poetry into Gmail's “suggested replies”
Thanks, I’m actually going into the semiconductor industry :D

I figured that it would depend quite a bit about the timeframe and scale of the project you’re working on, which is why I was curious for some wider experiences and opinions
Temporal and spatial analysis of the media spotlight
There's nothing wrong with the basic principle of email (other than its lack of built-in security, arguably).

The problem is that certain large organisations now claim to offer an email service, but don't actually make it work properly. It might have been better for the rest of the community to block those services until they did work properly to force everyone to play by the same rules, but unfortunately we have reached a point where some of them are too big for that to be a practical solution.

The obsession with fighting spam and malware means some mail services are now far too ready to accept false positives where they block legitimate mail, in order to reduce the risk of false negatives where they let illegitimate messages through. This seems strange, because often the false positive will be more damaging. In the cases where it is not, such as messages being sent with known malware attached, the receiving mail service could still deliver a short replacement message to the intended recipient instead, notifying them that something was blocked because of malware and providing essential details like the sender and subject line, so the recipient could take further action rather than miss something important.
Q – Robinson Arithmetic
Ask HN: What to Realistically Expect from Schools?
I hear a lot of debate about how broken the schooling system is and how it needs to get better, however, when you get into the nitty-gritty of things, it seems like the expectations are all over the place. A lot of parents just want the school to do the parenting.

As a parent of 2, I have thought about this long and hard but I am yet to come up with a concrete set of realistic expectations from the current schooling system. My perspective is, if I know what to expect, I would be better prepared to fill the gaps.

What is your expectation from the current schooling system?
We're talking about your feelings after a harmful event, and whether the perpetrator's intention matters. I'm using "willingness to forgive" as a measure of how much it matters.
Three team leads were sitting at an airport bar waiting on a flight. The first says "my developers are so strong they can code all day without a single break". The second lead replied "my developers are so dedicated they will work through the night without rest until the job is done". The third listened intently and then replied "my developers are professionals, they eat when they are hungry and they sleep when they are tired".
Yeah, I think the topic is very interesting, and I'm generally in favour of celebrating successful urban planning, but this slathered on the positive adjectives so thick that I'm surprised Xi Jinping isn't on the byline.

Which is a shame, because I do want to know more about this, but it's hard to trust the article.
Most knowledge is inarticulable. It’s not only learned by doing, it’s intimately indexed by our lived relationship with tools.

A culture of evidence and objectivity, well exhibited by this very blog post, has had two implications: (I) actual knowledge that was not based on explicit, technically appealing principles, has been demoted — witness the come-and-go of architecture, for example and (II) people where explicit and technically appealing principles didn’t exist fell for “objectivity strawmen” or, where they were able to socially impose their deeper inarticulable knowledge, they have used strawmen to get the culture of objectivity off their sense.

What’s perverse about this is that people who are cynical about the socially inflated need for objectivity end up making other, more naive, people buy bullshit like the 3:1 ratio; and people who debunk bullshit like this blogger further perpetuate the misconception that insufficient objectivity and bibliographical references are a relevant problem, even while going about the motions of disavowing the role of science (a heightened mode of objectivity discourse) on lowly design-engineering.

Is design even engineering discipline? To its core? Is the world better off when Google does some ersatz research and we start trusting “Material Design” more than the deep civilizational background that artists (industrial or not) are supposed to have at their disposal?
Show me the airline today that has superior seats to all the others that charges the same amount. It’s not a coincidence that seating has gotten crappier across the board.
Crossrail could be delayed beyond 2021 by software bugs
I've been seeing a lot of calls about this incoming downturn (especially HN), does anyone have any articles/analysis they can point me to? Would love to read up on the state of it.
I'm sorry for everyone that doesn't have a Price Chopper.
The problem is that what will actually happen is this new option will become default, and the old cattle class will now be an upgrade, and it won't cost what it does now, it will be 2x as much. There must be some MBA that figured out that someone who will pay a little extra for comfort will probably pay 2-3x as much if you push.
Do others have similar experience? I'm not a fan of Microsoft products however I sometimes have to use them or want to give a try to something like Azure, and so far my experience has been pretty bad. I had to contact their customer service in 2 cases and in both cases they couldn't help me and told me to create a new account (one case was me asking to change billing country in Azure so that I could provide credit card from another country). Also in both cases I had to go through a few emails and a few phone calls and even after they told me they can't do anything, they kept calling me just to check whether I'm satisfied with their solution (!) so that they could close the ticket in their system.
But could also be the thing that will make the market crash nobody knows
I've had Google blackhole me several times. Each time without any apparent reason. It's impossible to talk to a human being at Google who is able or willing to help. I've had similar problems with MS, but at least I was able to talk to a human being and get the situation resolved.
Do you even have a functioning passenger train network? I've heard terrible things.
Reminds me of the IPO rush in 2000/2001.
I'm really conflicted at this. I do not want the internet to be censored, but at the same time, I think that big internet companies are making the world worse through inaction.

Even if a user or $/yr minimum is implemented in law, then what happens as distributed and federated technology becomes more common? What does Mastadon or Scuttlebutt count as?
> It's like we're heading back to the days when people didn't know the difference between AOL and "the internet."

Why is this no longer true?

IMO, other competitors came along offering a better service/experience and AOL just couldn't compete. At the time, you could not know what this better product looked like. I believe the same will happen with the internet giants of today.
All of the people complaining about how Five Thirty Eight is a fraud because they "predicted" that Hillary Clinton would win should read this. They gave Trump a significant chance of winning, more than almost any other poll aggregator did. In fact, before the election, Nate made a post outlining all the reasons that Trump could win and gave him a 36% chance of doing so. They literally said that trump would win based on polls like that 36% of the time, so it shouldn't have been that shocking that he did.

https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/election-update-dont-ig...

You might say that a forecast that's so ambivalent isn't useful, but if someone told you that there's a 36% chance of rain, you'd plan your beach trip accordingly. I don't see why predicting a 36% chance of the underdog winning the presidential race is any less informative.
A Visual Analytics Approach for Comparing Tree-Structures (2012) [pdf]
What is your favorite public 0x domain?
People who refuse all government intrusion on privacy, including search warrants, regardless of circumstances, altogether, have logically consistent position. People who accept that government can overrule any privacy that you might have for the purposes of investigation also have logically consistent position.

But people who, on one hand, don't have any problem with things like search warrants to go through suspect's home, but at the same time treat any intrusion to suspect's digital privacy as a violation - this viewpoint I find very weird and contradictory.
No matter how the market reacts 3 billions is still 3 billion. People need to stop trying to look for justice in the market trends, investors are not pricing facebook based on how much cash they have in the vault right this instance, and if a verdict comes in below expectations the price is bound to rise.

Could you imagine the absurdity of them passing down a verdict of “and they shall be fined a billion per month until their stock price falls by at least 10%!”
> Indifference that does not cause a business problem remains indifference.

More generally, indifference to small "trivial" problems eventually normalizes the deviant behavior[1]. Evil behavior doesn't happen in one step, it's end result of regularly being indifferent to "minor" problems[2].

For a very good explanation of why this happens, I recommend Richard Cook's excellent talk, "Resilience In Complex Adaptive Systems"[3].

[1] https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Professionalism/Diane_Vaughan_...

[2] https://blog.aopa.org/aopa/2015/12/07/the-normalization-of-d...

[3] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PGLYEDpNu60
I suspect there's more neurodiversity in our image processing stacks than we realize, and we've never before been able to observe it because all of our prior input was actually from a relatively small part of the possible image sample space that the real world can generate.

I find this mildly amusing, but I do the surreal and bizarre for entertainment routinely anyhow. But for the same reasons that I seek out those sensations, I find myself having sympathy for those who rather than seeking them out for occasional changes of pace, can't get away from them as they are haunted every moment of the day and night. That would be much less fun, to put it exceedingly mildly.
Apparently they have over 180 million passengers a year[0]. That means that, at most, they're making $7 per passenger. It's not like they're gouging their customers.

[0]https://news.delta.com/corporate-stats-and-facts
I'm fine with paying a bit extra for more comfort and better service on a flight, but anything short of double the cost of the cheapest coach-class ticket never seems to get me that.
If only, the UK government might consider technology and magic the same thing but when it comes to censorship they are serious about it. It has taken them the better part of 20 years to figure it out but they are now doing real china style censorship that can not be easily circumvented.
It's great that there are a few projects that enable writing software for embedded devices in some languages you don't usually see in the space, but projects like this do not suddenly make the lang a 'systems language'. You wouldn't want to write an OS in Java or C# or any language with a GC & runtime really.

Nerves is also a wonderful project, enabling the use of elixir for IoT devices, but nobody would claim elixir is a systems lang.
The funny thing is, this headline could have been published any time in the last couple of decades, and it would still be true.
> Have back problems? Feel free to pay more to sit in first/economy plus/whatever.

Have freakishly long legs? Feel free to pay more to sit in first/economy plus/whatever.

I like this game. :)
It's funny how nobody calls China a fascist regime.
Similar to Black Mirror: Black Museum. Anda few others in that season.
Soon after the 2008 financial crisis I flew from Ithaca NY to Washington DC multiple times for about $100.

These flights went through what is now American's hub in Philly.

I thought, gee, I'd like to take my son to Philly but then I found they charged $400 for the flight from ITH to PHL.

When the pricing obviously is disjoint from the cost to provide the service, the airline industry just can't expect us to take anything they say about pricing and service seriously. It's just like it is with these pharmacy benefit managers.
You can't use any of the stdlib string functions if you don't have that \0 at the end though, right?
Certainly! I wanted to hear some viewpoints about full vanilla vs framework-based development, and your view of grokking the tools and implementing what it doesn’t cover is a great one to consider.
> We don't need separate processes if the language we use is inherently safe (e.g., modern Common Lisp).

I note the year of the article, which was before Spectre and friends showed that this is not a reasonable assumption these days[1].

So does this mean LispOS is doomed?

[1]: https://arxiv.org/abs/1902.05178
Pirates of Brazil
Most bugs are a waste of time
TSA precheck solves the first one
Another great source of similar understanding are the old National Semiconductor databooks. Those have really useful app notes and datasheets. By now most are yellowed and pages slipping out but still lovingly tended by the people who acquired them, or their successors.

EDIT: And tended to by the great people at archive.org https://archive.org/details/manuals-nationalsemiconductor
But he isn't.
I'm not sure how that's going to work a single person not of the average height, are they saying tall people have to just stand without support and short people get ass-stabbed by the seat?
The MMR vaccine is more effective after 12 months, i.e. there are fewer cases of the vaccine failing to confer immunity when first administered at 12 mos as opposed to earlier.

You can receive a first MMR dose earlier than 12 mos for certain grounds (e.g. international travel, military postings) but it is then recommended that the infant receive a second 'first dose' after 12 months.
That isn't what has happened historically, in this market or in others. I don't know why so many people seem to expect this to happen now.

If Delta decides to implement these seats and then charge 2x as much for the current seats, United will choose not to and nobody will fly Delta unless they absolutely have to.

Competition keeps this sort of thing from happening.
Well, alternatively the officer could ask you if you used the 'panic passcode'. If you say you did, they'll ask you to put in the real passcode. If you say you didn't, they can withhold your phone and if they find out you did, they can arrest you for lying.
> Especially the part about how "if you are not the intended recipient, you are ordered to destroy all copies of this message." It's my computer. You sent the bad message. You're in no position to "order" me to do anything.

Best case scenario, someone listens and destroys the message.

Worst case scenario, the company is no worse off than if they hadn't included the disclaimer.

Makes sense from my perspective.
Violations of the NLRA are rarely criminal.
I've been trying to vote with my dollars for a long time. The problem is that what used to be economy is now premium and it costs twice what the current economy seats cost. There is no gradient, it's cattle class or $$$$$
Are you a software engineer or product engineer?
TIL there's an exposition for everything.

https://www.aircraftinteriorsexpo.com/
It is that way somewhat, but then on the other hand you have the USA who think they are the police of the whole world, the brute enforcers. Both situations are very bad.
I mean, I am starting a company that's using AR and machine learning to enable remote medical diagnostics for climate change, all on the blockchain, for rural America and the third world. But on the other hand, I'm not. Unless you're investing. In which case I am.
And diseases spread exponentially. Anything that exhibits exponential growth, whether it be disease or Moore's law, requires a different mindset
Operation ShadowHammer: a high-profile supply chain attack
>selection of people depicted in kodak's system calibration cards

The choice of the model does reflect some amount of bias, but it doesn't cause bias in the printing process.

Precise calibration was done with a test chart and a densitometer. Shirley was just a quick reference used throughout the day, to check at a glance whether prints were unnaturally blue or purple or washed out due to changes in the developer chemistry. Fuji usually supplied test films and prints with Asian models, even in European markets; the motion picture industry originally used porcelain dolls. A multi-ethnic test image wouldn't have provided better accuracy.

>I would say that dark-skinned faces are inherently poorly captured by the photographic technology we have developed, which has focused on detail rather than dynamic range.

Except that the opposite was true for the entire duration of the film era. The photographic film industry was acutely aware of the fact that most consumer photographs were taken on compact cameras with mediocre lenses and usually printed at 6"x4". They were also aware that the main complaints from consumers and darkroom technicians were about exposure latitude and colour accuracy. Their development efforts and marketing materials reflected this awareness.

Most consumers had never even heard the word "resolution" until the megapixel wars. Ektar, the only Kodak colour negative film specifically marketed as being especially fine-grained and high-resolution, failed commercially and was discontinued after five years.
I think it's fair to say "no". We have a trained neural net, like the thing that generated this, and this image confounds it with pathological input, so we experience a difference between this image and normal reality. A baby doesn't have very many such trained networks (we do actually come with a few, such as a network that detects faces, but not many), so this wouldn't particularly register to a young baby as strange at all.

Or, to put it another way, we normally have experience A and this picture is giving us experience B, but the baby doesn't have the neural nets set up to support either such experience, and so has experience Zero, which we can't match by having B.
Maybe, however it is quite justified to mitigate the recently applied anti-free speech laws
"Our outbound email is misconfigured, but this is everyone else's problem"?
Great product! Still don’t know why they don’t give the user the option of disabling threaded conversations for self or for entire organization. People have been asking for it for years. Ref: https://twitter.com/slackhq/status/822064778269102080?lang=e...

At least allow me as an individual user to see all messages sequentially without any threads. I am willing to do mental context switches. I prefer doing that to losing messages in old threads.
Thanks, welcome addition to my bookshelf, I guess :)
Obligatory “this may be boilerplate nowadays, but there is nothing traditional about unprofitable companies making public offerings” comment.

Edit: I stand corrected. https://www.wsj.com/articles/red-ink-floods-ipo-market-15383... provides historical context that this is not a new phenomenon, though it is more common than ever.
Well of course - don't trust the client is a rule for a reason. I get the spirit and how it can suck but it seems to be for a reason. Anything which blindly works for "you" can be abused by other "you"s like spammers and other bad actors.
I can make a GUI in Qt and it will work on android, but I developed a simple time and there was a huge problem. When device goes to sleep it don't runs any code in background and I couldn't play or do anything on timeout. Does your framework solves any problem?
I don't believe they have actually flown a single flight yet but supposedly https://www.zedaerospace.com/ will be flying it's first routes sometime this year. They're claiming first class seating for all passengers on all flights. Prices look not unreasonably low if they actually deliver what they're claiming but they're also selling $100/month subscriptions that get you cheaper flights and...I'm not sure what else.