skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm not sure where you're getting the idea that co-ops are supposedly more profitable than autocratic workplaces. Co-ops still compete in the marketplace but they distribute ownership and profit among the workers in a democratic fashion, typically on the basis of their contribution.

The parent comment asked how Amazon could stop systematically oppressing their workers, not how workers could stop being the targets of systematic oppression. Amazon could accomplish this goal by distributing corporate ownership among the workers and giving them a democratic platform to make decisions about their workplace in an egalitarian way.
> Good modernist and brutalist homes sell quickly and at a significant premium over prevailing market rates.

I admit I wouldn't be asking if it agreed with my biases, but how do we know this? Seems hard to control for all the other variables.
No, there exists no public API to do this.
This is still my favorite mind-blowing introduction to them, from 2009: http://www.dabeaz.com/coroutines/Coroutines.pdf Don't have hardware interrupts or threads but still want a multi-tasking operating system? Not A Problem.
I made the prediction a month ago and I’ll make it again. MCAS won’t ever fly again.

I think the plane will fly without MCAS with a new type rating, and where pilots specifically train on the stick feel during a power on stall.

They needed the 737 with new engines to fly like the old 737 in order to maintain the type rating and avoid training. Now that they obviously have lost that and require substantial training, I don’t see any reason to keep the system.

Some people think the plane is unflyable / inherently unstable without MCAS. I’ve only flown about 15 hours in my life, and a Cessna at that so I’m not qualified to offer an expert opinion.

But my intuition is that if that were true, if MCAS was not just a bandaid to maintain a type rating, but rather a safety critical system essential for flightworthiness, it would never have shipped in its current form in the first place. Or rather, the 737 MAX would not have been viable to begin with.

If it is the case that 737 MAX is not actually airworthy without a functioning MCAS then Boeing has fucked up an order of magnitude worse than even they appear to have at this point.
How https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19842240 could be captured at a consumer / DIY scale?

From their post:

> The only inputs to make the fuel are CO2 and water (both from the air) and electricity. The only outputs are fuel and oxygen.

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> instead [we] use a process that uses only electricity (no natural gas, etc) and does it at room temperature.

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> we absorb CO2 and water vapor from the air into an aqueous electrolyte.

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> We then react the CO2 in the water with a copper catalyst to directly make alcohols like ethanol, butanol, propanol, etc

> we have a carbon nanotube membrane that replaces it, extracting the alcohols from water in a single step at room temperature

I think the question boils down to: How to remove CO2 from air through "aqueous electrolyte", then convert it to alcohols with "copper catalyst"?
Isn't that something easier to do when the company is private? Now that it is public, recruiters will know more or less what the stock has to hit before you can safely take that out. The employee is at a disadvantage now, to Uber management benefit. No?
The question was "when will Amazon buy Uber?" and my question in response is "does Amazon need to do that or can they do it themselves?"

Making a copy of Uber doesn't require Amazon to buy 4 million cars. They just need to launch a website and an app. Like another poster said above, Uber drivers aren't loyal to Uber and will swap to Lyft wherever and whenever. A third company doesn't cause any friction at all.
I'd rather exploit the moon, to the best of my knowledge nothing lives there, and I doubt we'd make a large enough dent to affect tides or other moon-related events.
It's probably a variety of factors, but people willingly putting themselves and others in danger because of entirely unfounded (and in fact repeatedly debunked) fears around the "dangers" of vaccines certainly ain't helping.
No. (Except for the very minor risks that always come with it.)

I know in Germany the recommendation for the MMR vaccine is to just give it to all adults that aren't sure if they got it as a child (for all adults born after 1970, because they assume all born before almost certainly had the disease).
That's the marketing narrative. In reality, Apple's implementations tend to be just as half-assed as everyone else's.

Egregious security problems like setting the password as the hint on their FDE, date handling bugs forcing people to factory reset devices and lose data, for all the glory people give them on UI stuff, their file manager and window management on MacOS are exceedingly awful.
Looking at how Argo is presented (from the blog post), it seems like you've got a really strong use case for SDN, if you're not already using that already. As far as I can tell, dynamically updating routes across an internal network is one of the best non-internal-to-data-center uses of SDN - can you expand a little more on this, if you do use it, or on why you don't, if I'm completely off base?

Cheers, argo seems like an interesting project.
Don’t blame anti-vaxxers alone. My wife realized she didn’t develop an immunity to measles after a recent test. She’s had all her shots and verified with 2 sources.
The documentary is very good and based on facts, and the Polish church never had and still does not have any means of getting rid of people such as the collaborators who have been implanted there by the old communist governments or child molesters who proliferate in this environment, having unrestricted access to children in schools and churches. They are simply moved from one chapel to another or, eventually, to houses for the elderly priests.

This needs to change, and, as a Polish person, I wholeheartedly welcome this documentary. I am glad that it has been made - it would never be possible if it was not for independent filmmaking.

It's time for the Catholic church to stop being associated with child molestation - and in order for that to happen, the child molestation must be purged from that church with all appropriate means. Otherwise, that stigma will just keep on going on.
I’d bet half of the programming jobs continually disappear in a cyclic way.

What proportion of bare metal system administrators is there left now that AWS/GCP/Azure has taken the world ? What proportion of people still work in C ? etc.

Programming is perhaps different because people expect from the start the floor to move under their feet, and try to stay ahead and keep learning new stuff constantly.
Fair enough, it's probably the "unbiased" that kinda rubbed me the wrong way :)
It really seems like every thread asking anything remotely personal (career, moving to another city, work/life balance etc.) is met with the answer "Sure you don't have depression? Go see a therapist."!
>Consumers also cannot make the transition or demand a transition unless there are viable alternatives

There are already viable alternatives. Buy less stuff, travel less, turn down your heating/AC, eat less meat and dairy. When people say "viable alternatives", they really mean "free lunch" - they want to maintain exactly the same lifestyle as they do now, just without the carbon emissions. That's completely untenable, no matter what technologies emerge over the next few decades. Even with the most optimistic forecasts of the pace of technological development, we'll have to make some radical changes to our lifestyle to prevent a climate disaster.

That's bullshit. See [1], individual consumers are one of the smallest contributors to climate change. The main contributors are industry.

Without consumers, there is no industry. Airline companies don't burn kerosene for the hell of it, they burn it because people keep buying plane tickets and keep shipping things by air freight. If we stop buying plane tickets and air freighted goods, they go out of business and so they stop burning kerosene.

The blame game over climate change is just blatant buck-passing. It's not my fault, it's the big corporations. It's not my fault, it's the government. It's not my fault, it's the people who vote for the other party. As long as there's someone else to point the finger at, you're absolved of responsibility. How many tons of carbon emissions does your lifestyle cause? What can you do right now to reduce that number? We'll only see meaningful change if a lot more people start asking those questions and acting upon the answers rather than waiting for someone else to act.
See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19765074 for a bit more context from author of Wireguard.
I'm not sure I get what you mean. Did you watch the video? Obviously the title was chosen deliberately to grab attention from people that believe in the antivax conspiracy.
Grant Sanderson has made a lot of great contributions to Khan Academy as well, particularly in the Linear Algebra and Multivariable Calculus sections.
Any other organization with that behavior that is not a church would already have been shut down worldwide and leadership would be in jail. I hope that believers will put pressure on the church to clean up its act.
Can anyone recommend a reliable, self calibrating CO2 sensors that could be used with raspberry pi and similar or that could transmit data via BLE or wifi?
"Polished" for search engines maybe. Bad UX is rife across most commercial sites, with intrusive ads and social trackers being the worst offenders: autoplay videos, on-scroll triggered, page re-positioning, Taboola garbage, increased load times.

All of this made the web worse, not better. "Gentrification" as it relates to neighbourhoods at least means access to better amenities. When it comes to the Web, Wikipedia offers "amenities" in the way of easily accessible, extensively cited information. Most websites on the other hand gatekeep content via email signups ("get my free ebook!"), and the content itself is basically lead gen for what ever product they're pushing.
Wow you're right, I can't believe no one ever thought to look at who the measles victims are or where they came from. We need to get you on the phone to the CDC right away so that you can tell them all about your novel and important ideas!
There is such a project. Proof media beta (https://proofmedia.io/) allows readers voting on the truth value and bias of news stories. It uses a betting scheme as an incentive.
I doubt Amazon would want to deal with all of those employees. I'm not even sure that they'd want to handle deliveries for other businesses.

With Uber they have a 24/7 flexible contractor workforce and physical interaction with millions of potential customers.

Amazon could help them save a ton of money by moving their infrastructure onto AWS and reduce their marketing spend by promoting it on their properties.

Tying an uber subscription to Amazon prime could also help both businesses. I'm sure both Lyft and Uber are already working on some monthly membership model.
>Just use Google Scholar...

>No reason to add an extension.

There is a fair number of people who want to de-Google their lives, this would work great for them (the Firefox version was linked to elsewhere in this thread).
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The real question is how many US politicians espouse this worldview. They're the ones making the policy.
Might help those who are looking for reference material, a recent discussion on "Mental Models" — https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19895407
> And if the US wants to deliver cheaper LPG, why shouldn't we buy it?

Because it requires building a terminal in Hamburg or another Baltic port and a distribution pipeline. It's easier to keep buying from Russia.

What you do not understand is how energy is being produced/sold. Supply has to meet demand at all times, otherwise energy is sold at a discount or lost. Pure end of the year statistics don't mean much.
So if you run into this problem at 7,500’ above ground level you might just be okay.

This is why having the ability to disable MCAS without disabling electric assisted trim is so important and such a big factor in this accident. Additionally its raised another possible accident scenario:

The runaway trim cutouts were put in place after electric trim in case the switch (or some other aspect of the electric trim) got stuck in an on position that would cause the trim to go to full deflection one direction or the other, hence runaway trim. And hence if you notice this happening you cutout the power to the electric trim completely.

But now we know you can’t manually trim the aircraft above certain speeds with some trim levels. Should there be an expectation you can? What if runaway trim happens and ran to full deflection before a pilot cut it out. That would be equivalent to the same conditions experienced in this accident - the pilots now needing to manually trim but being unable to.

So on top of needing separate cutouts for the MCAS and electric trim, should the manual trim not be investigated for installing some higher ratio gearing/pulleys to enable over coming the forces experienced here?
Challenge: Can you program a two-armed robot (interactive survey)
> Infowars may have the best coverage of a story

Has there ever been an example of this?
Yes, but. Highly socialist systems are working well in other countries. Interestingly, they seem about as effective as highly capitalist systems in other countries (except, of course, for the American system). So I don't think "socialism" is the problem here, and I worry about the magical thinking of reactionary politics when I see that used as the argument against.

Medicare is, in fact, the largest single payer system in the world, and it's a large chunk of the American system. Criticizing single payer would do well to start by criticizing the current Medicare system. But that means separating it logically from the privatized employer-based insurance model, and that's a very difficult knot.
Google Assistant 2.0 isn’t just a minor evolution – It’s a game changing upgrade
Get-closer: Golang project that helps you to find out closest network hosts
https://pimbook.org/
Got it. Let me see what Google responds to our last inquiry, then I'll contact.
So far believers (and the government which is in bed with Catholic Church here) cry it's "an attack on the church".

EDIT: someone even flagged this.
> Uber Technologies Inc. shares extended the free-fall on Monday

Everything was in free fall on Monday. Nothing noteworthy about Uber going down too.
When I was a kid, I worked at Office Warehouse (now Staples or whatever bought them). We sold lots of 'Signature Stamps', which were simply a custom-made rubber stamp with your signature on it. IIRC, the customers that bought them were business owners who needed to sign lots of checks. I'm pretty sure this was both normal and considered legal in the US.
Thank you for that. I didn’t realize that was a fake headline grabbing number. It makes no sense to me that the headline numbers are not actual 24/7/365 average generating capacity and rather peak capacity, since it can be calculating quite accurately in the long run.

The numbers make a lot more sense with that. As I was typing it it didn’t seem right.
In 1985, making $50k would make you one of the highest paid engineers in the country. Now it's a much more common pay range. Is your issue that pay hasn't outpaced inflation at a high enough rate?
Brett Kavanaugh was barely confirmed in the senate 50-48. If the small handful of individuals in the GOP who supported the legalization of abortion felt that Brett Kavanaugh would be bad for women's rights, they could've successfully rejected the nomination.
The correct size for an insurance pool is “whole country”. Nothing else makes sense.
Or the aluminum hood on my car that has a massive paint defect that isn't covered by the paint warranty because it needs to "rust" through for them to cover it. They added that clause to the warranty agreement knowing that aluminum will never rust, rather than fixing an issue they knew about for over a decade.
Looks like there's a 2nd ed (mips based?) and an "arm edition" (more recent?) of the same title by the same authors. Online reviews are sparse, wonder which is better now?
It's generally lard/butter based, so calling it a dry rub is not technically correct, but watching it applied that still feels like a close enough approximation of an analogy.

Also, thought I should add the disclaimer I'm from Louisville, KY so most of my experience of Nashville Hot is definitely filtered through Hipster Fad lenses, so I am very much not an expert on the subject and you can take my knowledge with a grain of salt.
In the model where identifiers are URLs, your example would most naturally look like this: /invoices?customer=/cust/123456. /cust/123456 is an opaque identifier for the client. Since /invoices?... itself is a URL and therefore a URI, it must be the identifier for something—it is the URL of a query result. You can also have a property of a customer that looks like 'invoices: <url>', in which case that URL is opaque. Regarding your second point, it is true that clients still need to understand the entities of the problem domain, but this is still simpler than having to learn the entities and also learn the URL templates that are used to access them, which is the alternative.
What makes you think that John Deere would allow you to install any arbitrary AI module into their tractors?
That sounds a bit like Fyre Festival ad...
When I read most HN threads, whether about new technologies, new businesses, or new societal trends, the stories and comments make me think that William Gibson had it right when he uttered his famous quote: "The future is already here. It's just not very evenly distributed."[a]

On the other hand, this post about the recent outbreak of a long-defeated disease due to an anti-vaccination movement whose pseudo-intellectual roots trace back the 1700's[b], makes me think of a different quote: "The past is never dead. It's not even past" - William Faulkner[c]

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[a] https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/William_Gibson

[b] The anti-vaccination movement has its roots in the 18th century: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6122668/

[c] https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/12124-the-past-is-never-dea...
True, but they shouldn't be blamed for the outbreak if they are not responsible.

Assuming this outbreak is a serious matter and we need to identify the true reason, it doesn't help to scapegoat one party that may not be responsible.
The opinion is here: https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/18pdf/17-204_bq7d.pdf.

(That was the posted URL, but it's usually best to find the highest-quality popular article on a story and then include a link to the "paper" in the thread.

If anyone finds a better URL we can change it again—I just Googled until I found something that wasn't too annoying.)
>Luckily, I'm in med school now so I don't have to worry about being taken advantage of in that way

Lol.

It's not that the motivation isn't there to get robots to do the bitchwork in science, it's that the money isn't there in an academic setting.
Go look at the p&l... top line revenue was up ~3 billion while costs were only up ~2 billion.
I must have done a poor job at communicating if you think I was trying to support the case for DRM. My purpose was to help people understand where Deere is coming from and some of the details that the "John Deere Bad!" comments just don't capture.

> And I'm not sure too many of your things actually REQUIRE DRM to be carried out.

I actually agree. They're using DRM as a legal fix for what is a technical problem.

I feel like you missed the point about the warranty. We probably agree that if someone re-flashes their controllers they've voided their warranty. The problem for Deere comes when someone screws it up, flashes back to factory settings and takes it in for warranty work. They could have done tens of thousands of dollars of damage. This is not FUD to Deere, it is an actual risk. Their 'fix' for that problem is DRM. (Again, I'm not promoting DRM)
Kavanaugh and Gorsuch, Justices with Much in Common, Take Different Paths
> building an automated solution is a lot harder than an autopilot for a combine that works a bunch of perfectly flat, mile-by-mile plots in Nebraska

Absolutely, and I don't expect it to be a thing for a decade(s) - until after it's a solved issue on roads and/or the large, flat plots out west.

> If you're haying a small factory farm, driving the tractor is a small fraction of the labor

I agree. However, it's also (in my limited experience) the most weather dependent part - there's usually a short weather window to get it cut, dried, and baled - and having an extra set of (self-driving wheels) would be beneficial.

> All of this might eventually get automated a la the recent news on Amazon factories, but we're probably (at least) a few years away from that.

Definitely agree.
Finder is a bad file manager? That's a new one. I'll listen to that take when Windows File Explorer has tabs.
> 3x longer

I used to work for a large payment processing company that supplied POS systems to retailers, I was surprised to find that receipt length does matter a lot to some retailers.

The department that shipped till rolls liked long receipts, it made enough of a financial difference to them to matter.

The retailers hated long receipts, because obviously that meant they needed to buy more till rolls.

(It's worth remembering that the customers for most POS solutions are retailers, not the person who buys something in a shop)
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> On mobile I simply don't install Facebook's apps and use the mobile web browser and still receive notifications via that.

And you're also tracked across (basically) all websites, because they all have this "helpful" Like button embedded.
In fact, this is the distilled essence of software engineering, as I understand it.
Was just at Umass Amherst for my son's graduation. It's an open air museum of brutalism.

Breuer's student center building: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murray_D._Lincoln_Campus_Cente...

The nearby parking garage is better, actually.

The Fine Arts Center: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fine_Arts_Center_(Amherst,_Mas...
Medellín (Colombia) is a city wich tends to modernism and is a great example of a place with no architectural value.
I think the problem has a cultural dimension as citizens praise "Coltejer building" (2nd in the image) as the icon of the city even when it replaced a much pretty theather.
Maybe humans get eclipsed with novelty and can't notice the impact of their creations on early stages.
https://www.elcolombiano.com/documents/10157/0/620x410/20c0/...
Please don't break the site guidelines by going on about downvoting in comments. That rule has been in there for many years—would you mind reviewing them? https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

Also, please omit distracting dross like "get a life".

We detached this comment from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19899824 and marked it off topic.
There are similarities between Argo and the Google/Amazon products you mention (as well as Azure's Front Door). All are aiming to solve similar problems inherent to routing on the Internet.

Re: enabling Argo at the network layer, watch this space :) I'd love to hear more about what you'd like to do such a product — email me! rustam@cloudflare.com
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> Paper is in fact carbon neutral, minus any of the machinery used to manufacture or move the product.

That's a big caveat. Logging equipment doesn't run on paper fuel. It runs on fossil fuel.
Your story seems like it's right out of the game "What Remains of Edith Finch".
hey, I never said relative to what!
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