skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Boeing is an American corporation, so they're not going to do that. That kind of strategy doesn't yield maximum next-quarter profits.
The differences between them matter though.

The Nordic countries do quite well, but it's on the back of a largely homogeneous population and a significant amount of national wealth from natural resource extraction, and just using the same policies somewhere that isn't the case wouldn't necessarily work. France has generous benefits but such a high youth unemployment rate that people are literally rioting in the streets. Italy is overrun with corruption and people don't pay tax there regardless of what the law says they're supposed to do, so looking at what laws they have doesn't paint an accurate picture of what actually happens.

They're as different as they are the same.
For personal sites like that, curators often do it for the love of the subject rather than a financial reward. Hence why some personal sites are hosted without any adverts.

Edit: I see I’m getting downvoted a lot for this comment. I appreciate creating content for the love of it might seem like an alien concept to many HNers but not everyone is driven by the motivation of turning every hobby into a start up. In fact once upon a time, in an era before Facebook and Google, the majority of an average persons surfing time was spent on non-commercial personal web sites.
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It might be great as an alternative to a "we store all data encrypted, pinky promise!" type of model, where eg you encrypt all messages on the backend before storing it in the DB, to reduce the potential impact of breaches, rogue employees, etc.

I kind of like it for that, to be honest. There's a difference between trusting the good intentions of a company as a whole, and the good intentions and flawless skill of every single employee of it and it's subcontractors.

I wonder if there's something about this approach that I'm missing.

Ask HN: wouldn't you prefer that your data is browser-JS e2e encrypted than server-encrypted or not encrypted at all? In the context of "this is a web app. There's no mobile app or desktop app".

I'm specifically talking about the (rather common?) case in which your threat model does contain morally misguided employees, black hat hackers and stupid mistakes, but not nation state level adversaries.
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The problem, from what I can tell, is that many men only understand hard rules. It used to be that if you had good intentions, you could follow a clear set of (flawed) social rules and you were "safe". But there aren't clear rules to distinguish between flirting and minor harassment; the difference isn't based on exactly which words are said, but on understanding what another person is and isn't feeling. Navigating those lines requires emotional intelligence, and lots of men have underdeveloped emotional intelligence, and are used to relying on do's and don'ts in its place. In today's climate, those people are basically navigating a mine field without a metal detector. So it's understandable that they would just avoid the field altogether.

I think this is mostly a social problem - for a long time men simply weren't taught emotional intelligence while they were growing up. There's definitely been some progress made lately, but that doesn't help past generations. I don't know what the solution is for those people, but right now everyone's talking past each other and I think it's because this hasn't been articulated. Can emotional nuances even really scale to professional contexts? I don't know. Maybe. I sympathize with people who have had uncomfortable experiences within the existing set of social guidelines, but maybe what we need is a new set of rules for those settings. The fact is that there are men out there who want to do the right thing, but suddenly find its precise definition bewildering and hard to follow. If something can be done to alleviate that, it should be.

For the record: the above only covers men who find themselves under fire despite good intentions. There are absolutely others who consciously and systematically abuse women. Though Harvey Weinstein hasn't been officially convicted yet, the evidence is strong that he's one of the latter. The problem, though, is that the public conversation lumps the two categories together.
That statement is why tons of people hate Oracle viscerally.

Just because a thing can be done, doesn't mean it should.

Everything costs something. The cost here is everyone else just itching to take company X down. Zero goodwill.

Yes, they get to do that kind of thing and so does everyone else pushing back increasingly hard.
Gee, I'd love to see you cite ONE conference that has "removed anyone who received the slightest complaint on ground of even minor disagreement." Just one, not the "many" you referenced.
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US warns about alleged spying threat from Chinese-made drones
You're spot on with evil, messed up, unbalanced, sociopaths folks being part of society, and especially sociopaths gravitate towards power. No matter what system we set up they'll corrupt it. I think once we shed some light on psychopathy and narcissism things might look better for the future. I'm following an interesting channel on youtube. The owner, Sam Vankin is a highly intelligent narcissist who has studied himself and is very open about it and even proposes ways to treat it.
>What's the proposed fix in this case?

For the purposes of my reply to the author, the type of fix doesn't matter and its discussion would be a distraction away from my main point: the blog author Curtis "Ovid" Poe misintepreted the comment by Samuel Falvo II and therefore wrote the wrong "solution" as a response. Ovid's health data example of obj.fetchDataFromServer() error and reconstructing data from other sources with a threshold score is not the same abstraction level as the commenter's example of obj.last_name getting broken because the plumbing API was renamed/refactored.

(My guess is that Samuel Falvo II's hostile tone makes it easy to miss that he was actually describing a syntax error and not a data interpretation error.)

Regardless of whether the fix is:

- stringsplit(full_name) to extract a last_name

- or change the client code's usage of last_name and only use full_name

- or re-architect the upstream customer object to include both last_name and full_name so there's a gradual migration

...it isn't the issue.

What the angry commenter was trying to communicate was, "tell me about the last_name refactoring causing a syntax error _immediately_ instead of letting it sit there as a ticking time bomb that will blow up and wake me up at 4am".

He doesn't necessarily have to immediately fix it, but he does want to immediately know of the error's existence before a crash at runtime.
The problem with a Marxist Utopia is not in the ideas or in the policies, it lies with the simple fact that humans are the ones carrying those policies out. There's a good quote that sums it up: "power corrupts, absolute power corrupts absolutely." Some group of people will be in charge, and that group of people will exploit the rest. Communism works great in small groups, but breaks down at the population level.
Look, I just want a Moto G4 with a better camera, that's it. I'm not going to pay $400.
I really like the comparison of TD with the Tetris game : "You can’t win. You can only control how quickly you lose"

Already posted on HN here : https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19353352
It would appear that all of your code quality arguments are "people are too lazy to actually write good code." So it's not clear why you would decry that assertion. I don't have a horse in the race one way or another, but you're not refuting mieseratte's objection.
Softbank is trying to merge T-Mobile with the Sprint in the US. Pretty easy to put "some" pressure on a said company by the US government.
Medium CEO Ev Williams Goes All-In on Building Subscription Business on Cheddar
Seems like it's free for open-source projects, so the pricing should apply to commercial users. Sort of similar to what Qt does.
My personal favorites are
Ebay Engineering Blog - https://www.ebayinc.com/stories/blogs/tech/

And Toptal blog.
Check out the book "Options, Futures, and Other Derivatives" by Hull, it covers a huge swath of financial instruments.

[0] https://www.amazon.com/Options-Futures-Other-Derivatives-10t...
Prevention of passive monitoring by commonly installed SSL interception boxes in corporate environments. This is something I would consider if I was designing a app where users complain about their employers for example. Won't stop a state level agency but it will stop the average sysadmin dead.
Do you have a source for all planes being grounded?
And retro fitted can mean a whole spectrum of things from very cheap things to very expensive things.
No, dynamic instability refers to planes that require constant control inputs to avoid departure from unstable flight.

There are no expert sources that describe the 737 MAX as dynamically unstable.

Not many people would be in a position to know this. Random aviation "experts" certainly aren't going to know the detailed flight envelope characteristics of a particular aircraft model.
Ask HN: Avoiding the “Hug of Death”
From time to time I see sites go down due to an influx of traffic from HN or Reddit. There are plenty of great solutions for serving static and dynamic content already out there so my question is, how come some sites still go down due to a traffic increase?

I realize that not every site will use nginx, varnish, or something similar. There are also many CDN services that offer a free tier. What setup would you use to ensure your site can survive a popular post?
Thong in Germany is that CO2 certificates are so dirt cheap that the incremental cost of power generation puts coal plants second behind wind and solar with basically zero variable cost (I'd have to look up where hydro power stands). So gas effectively gets squeezed out of the market.

The easy fix would be cutting the available CO2 certificates or making them more expensive. But for some reason that ain't happening.
I remember when compiling a window manager written in haskell was exciting - I have a newborn here now and must prioritize ;)
... which is how it actually works in many countries. In USA "something you know" is enough to impersonate you, elsewhere you'd actually show up with a good quality forgery of passport or gov't ID card, which would cost you more than you might steal from a random person.

Since USA has this "root of trust" problem, it's also unreasonably easy to obtain fake USA IDs since you (again) can impersonate people simply with "something you know" even for the purposes of obtaining legitimate IDs. It's not so easy elsewhere (e.g. if you claim you're me and have lost all ID, they'd just check biometrics before reissuing ID). Proper checks of IDs (+ verification of lost&stolen IDs databases) can ensure that identity theft cases are very rare. The identity theft epidemic isn't general worldwide, it's mostly a regional issue specific to USA and some similar countries.
Who does it work for far better? Because quite a lot of the Internet couldn't exist in its current state without ads.
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A good question to ask when pondering "who controls the internet" isn't so much "who can cut off themselves from the internet", it's "who can cut off others from the internet".
For this case, the relevant information is that ARM has a design center at San Jose. The news is, in a sense, unsurprising.
Of course, you need to take into account that the more people do this, the probability of natural accidents are higher given that this would basically stop evolution/adaptation. So you will have to engineer a lot of other things to compensate.

> Curing aging isn't immortality. You die at 600 on average by accident.

So the problem is reduced to having a good body shield and few extra planets.
Thanks! Appreciate detailed response, all makes sense.
One thing I forgot and I'd also love to see is some kind of backup/restore support.
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If I read it correctly the patents aren't the main problem, more that no one from ARM is allowed to work with Huawei anymore. No support with problems, no influence on the design of future ARM products, no custom modifications. These things are probably as valuable - or even more - than the licensed tech itself.
Jeff Bezos tells employees he's 'excited' about the auto industry
I'm not really worried. I prefer the A320 Neo because it's quieter and more comfortable, but the odds of dying due to an airplane accident are vanishingly small.

Even if my chances of dying on a 737 MAX are much higher than dying on a tried and true A340, they are probably around the same as me dying from pancreatic cancer and I don't get my pancreas checked regularly.
The word is used to describe companies which tend to be overrepresented in tech communities compared to industry baseline, not tools.

As for "industry-standard tools", I find it hard to use this term in our industry. There's a diverse range of practices and recommendations.

Git is popular in some subset of the industry (around web in particular), but I'm hesitant in calling it an industry-standard tool. I don't know if there are estimates around the size of it, but there's plenty of proprietary 'shadow' tooling and practices hiding under the surface.
I really wish there were places that could legitimately analyze muscle imbalances and suggest corrective exercises. The internet only works for the most common ones, such as pelvic tilt, and sometimes you mis-diagnose yourself.

A lot of the "great" information online is bro-science, and doctors generally don't care at all, so neither is optimal.

P.S. The military uses fancy position sensors to track muscle imbalances in Pararescuemen. I really wish there was some access to that facility:

"To improve, the trainees must first be shown where they are deficient. So when they arrive, they enter the Dari Motion Capture system, something similar to what Hollywood uses to fuse actors with their CGI characters. Dari doesn’t use on-body sensors, just cameras that capture the biomechanical motions of subjects."
https://www.popularmechanics.com/military/research/a26256665...
If by "duck typing" you mean dynamic, then I don't know what you're complaining about. It has a very niche set of use cases where it is needed. If people are abusing it then it's on them. There is no good or even alluring reason to use dynamic outside of it's intended purpose, so I don't feel like it's one of those "shiny hut dangerous" features you see in some other languages.
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Ad blockers are a useful technology for users who opt in. For Safari, we aim to have on-by-default protections that provide privacy protection while still supporting ad-based business models. We see Firefox and Edge moving in this direction as well. We think that's the right balance for users, though, of course, our content blocker model also provides a sweet way of building ad blockers.
GP has a point. Flying on Boeing airplanes is something basically everyone does. Even if the executives themselves don't, they have parents, children, aunts, uncles, best men, grand-children, friends, children of friends, lawyers, and government contacts who do.

It's not like they're sitting by the gate sucking the blood of passengers. They're still delivering the safest method of transportation around, not only by distance, but also by time. I know some Boeing employees, they want to deliver great airplanes.
Am I the only one who still hosts my own static sites on a plain old virtual machine?

It's pretty simple to configure nginx for static sites, and by doing it yourself you reduce vendor lockin to just about nil.

Even if S3 is massively cheaper, $5/month for a tiny VM seems like a small price to pay for being vendor-abstract.

I suppose S3 is way less likely to suffer a meaningful outage than my little VM, but how many 9s do my personal websites actually need?
I second Martin Fowler's book on refactoring. I read it at a time when I had no idea what I was doing (Arguably still don't.).
That's a really interesting perspective, and yes I think you are most definitely in the minority. Your point is well taken, though

I wonder, however, if corporations stop lobbying over taxes, will they just move that budget over to other things? Like lobbying against EPA regulations, etc.? Corporations are going to spend what corporations spend on lobbying, regardless the issue at hand.

I do really like your point that John Q. Public pays more in overall tax but gets significantly less in representation. This needs to be fixed.
Kite building is a hobby I've always wanted to get into.A buddy of mine has build a few of the NASA-style Regallo kites. He uses them with his icebuggys. Apparently, they're not too difficult to make and icebuggys are a blast to pilot.
NYTimes trying to rally the troops for 2020
If (as appears to be the case) you regard any random person on the internet as a source, then sure:

https://www.quora.com/Are-any-commercial-airliners-other-tha...
I don't see how this proposal has anything to do with an Apple walled garden? Nothing here special cases or favors Apple.

We welcome issues on possible limits of the privacy protections though.
Your "p-hacked" comment reminded me of this:

https://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/p-hacking/

It does a pretty good job of illustrating why investigating the rigor of the methodology is as important as the statistical results.
Probably for the best. Id like an internet free of ads. Oh, I have that already thanks to ad-blocking technology. This is more user hostile crap, get it off my internet!
I literally linked 2 articles with expert opinion describing 737 Max airframe experiencing dynamic instability. You have not provided a single source and appears didn't even bother to look at my sources.

Hacker News is a place of discourse. If you think I'm wrong and my sources are wrong, point out specifically where and provide counter sources to validate and support your position.

No one is going to take your word for it.
Not popular as much as natural.

Without deathism, race could go extinct during famine. Opposite, during nice times, longer life has evolutionary benefit via mentoring, safety etc.
Bell Labs — and ETH Zürich, where Robert Griesemer worked as a PhD student under Niklaus Wirth on Oberon, which had a big influence on Go [1].

The earlier languages that Rob Pike et al were involved with, Limbo and Newsqueak, were also heavily influenced by Wirth.

[1] https://talks.golang.org/2015/gophercon-goevolution.slide#15.
>today, the use of any of this data must be explicitly detailed

Do you have any examples of papers which source such data? I'm curious to read the justification of it.
If it is under Apache 2 license as the repo claims, very few commercial projects are going to have an issue with using it under the open-source terms. You can't say "this is open-source under license X, but you can't use it commercially!" (well, you can, but you are creating your own license that's not compatible with open source projects either). Qt solves this by being under license(s) not all commercial users want to comply with, and selling support etc.

It seems what they are selling is not the software, but services it can use to manage exchange between users etc.
Maybe because hundreds of millions are spent to lobby for it:

https://www.opensecrets.org/lobby/indusclient.php?id=H04&yea...
Consumer Reports: Latest Autopilot “far less competent than a human”
Savido.net also works for saving online vids, including PornHub and YouTube.
The GoF book was written for Smalltalk and C++, so the limitations that compel the invention of design patterns clearly apply to Kay’s own language as well.
Agreed. I was going to say that this is a good trend. Business tax is consumption which is regressive which if you're on the left you should want to minimize or do away with. But there seems to be a popular narrative that to tax business is to somehow penalize the "man" or the "wealthy" and is thus a good thing. Has always seemed to me like punching yourself in the face.
China offers 5-year tax breaks to chip makers, Sw Developers to bolster industry
I've always thought academics need volume as well as quality publications for tenure, this looks like a landing spot for cutting-room-floor CV filler papers that would normally get ignored. Still helpful for career progression @ good universities.
Poe's Law is a bitch.
> A beneficial owner can simply sit on their share of the company as it earns profits and becomes more valuable, and incur capital gains taxes if and when they sell.

That's half the problem with income taxes. They provide an incentive for the rich to never sell their investments because if they sell they have to pay tax, meanwhile they give the working class less incentive to invest rather than consume because they do have to pay the tax on their earned income immediately even if they invest it rather than spending it.

So you get bigger corporations (the rich can't sell to invest in a startup without paying tax), more incentive for international tax avoidance/arbitrage to the detriment of smaller businesses who can't do that, and more wealth inequality.

> They can defer these taxes indefinitely - if they need cash, they can simply use the stock as collateral for a loan in lieu of realizing capital gains taxes.

Because we're not using consumption taxes. You can't avoid VAT by taking out a loan.

> And when they die, the cost basis gets reset, wiping out whatever taxes have been deferred (and replacing them with estate taxes, if those haven't also been optimized away).

Again solved by consumption taxes, because there is nothing to reset if the money is taxed when spent rather than earned.
Yes, however they can refuse Hauwei permission to sell the phones in the US.
Consumption taxes, like the VAT,are regressive, but can be made progressive when implemented in conjunction with a universal refundable tax credit system or a universal basic income. For example, Andrew Yang proposes a 10% VAT and a $1,000 monthly UBI per adult. Napkin math suggests that unless you are spending $10,000 per month on VAT-taxed consumption, the $1,000 UBI provides a net gain. I think it is unfortunate that we focus on the disadvantages of the VAT (i.e. regressive), when there are advantages to it in terms of making it more difficult for companies to avoid paying taxes, if it is placed with policies that together become quite progressive.
Marketers don't want parameters to be tuned on them, I expected this reaction. And as a user I dislike that this scheme relies on delaying reports, obfuscation is not privacy if you can be deanonymized.
The article you link in this thread reports comments from this person:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Garrison

How would this person know in detail the aerodynamic characteristics of the 737 MAX?

The other article you link gives no source for its claim, expert or otherwise. You should also check the comment by Jake Brodsky on that one.
QR is fast, reliable and incredibly cheap to implement. It scans at a distance, with no significant chance of unintended transactions or MITM attacks. If I'm a roadside snack vendor and want to accept mobile payments, I don't need to buy some sort of NFC widget, I just need to print out a QR code and stick it on my cart. I can send 100rmb to a friend in a couple of seconds, without worrying whether their phone is NFC-enabled.

QR payment exemplifies the sort of innovation that is powering China's growth and that American companies profoundly fail to understand. It isn't sexy, but it works well enough to become ubiquitous. America is just barely catching up with a two generation old payment technology (chip & pin), while China have leapfrogged them with a worse-is-better solution.
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