skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Most print magazines are 90% ads. As for the "local newsletter" style, at least where I live these have all been bought out by larger media groups. To say the content is anemic would be generous, but I can't "unsubscribe" from the physical copies because they are delivered to every mailbox in the area, therefore I cannot voice my opposition to this wasteful media. I'm sure they list me under their distribution numbers of "satisfied readers" of their publication.

With online publications it is obviously different, but I wonder to what extent people are actually engaging with the content of these newsletters. What percent simply get auto filtered into the spam or trash, because the native unsubscribe link was too hard to find?
I work in infra too (storage) so that's the majority of what I see. If all that PHP/JS stuff on the front end is worse I kind of don't even want to know about it. ;)
Yes there are:

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-CA/firefox/addon/ublock-origin...

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-CA/firefox/addon/umatrix/?src=...
How to get a job at a Blockchain startup
We require adblockers at work for security reasons, so we'll be migrating everyone to Firefox or Brave once this happens.
Venus has a very thick, hot and high pressure atmosphere. This both makes it hard to blow off and gives it a strong ionosphere which acts as a stand in for a magnetosphere.
In your world, is there no room for mistakes? Do you expect your service providers to not make mistakes? Do you think that acknowledging mistakes and agreeing to fix them is a desirable outcome?
Anecdotally, a lot more Facebook employees I've interacted with understand they've been at least complicit with evil and want to do better. That's at least a good Step 1.

On the other side I feel like there are far too many Googlers that have drank the vile tautology Kool-Aid that because the unofficial motto is still supposed to be "Do No Evil" that what Google is doing cannot be evil, because it is Google doing it. They haven't even reached Step 1 yet.
> If you want to buy Spotify premium, you can! You can buy it directly from Spotify.

Only if you independently know that it exists. They can't link out to their web store. Apple can though.
So, I’m just assuming, people can say anything they want, and you can’t trust them when they tell you how they decided to convert. But I’m supposed to believe you?

I’m not just assuming, here. For example, there’s the fact that nobody anywhere at any time in history is known to have independently discovered any religion. If it’s really possible to discover the truth through the process you describe, you’d think someone would have done it at some point and come up with the One True Religion despite never having been exposed to it.
Even in the USA, that wasn’t true, let alone outside of the states. Taxi drivers don’t make back their investment (car/medallion rental) often, much more than an Uber driver who can use their own car and need no medallion at all. And...career as a taxi driver? There is a reason driving a cab is on the low wrung of new immigrant jobs, you can barely survive on it.

I guess they did have insurance (again, at least in the states), but so do Uber drivers.
What does real-time surveillance mean in your question?
But what conversation is your comment meant to start?
>That's essentially limiting the liberal arts to only the rich and the delusional.

Not strictly true. If you notice, and you probably have, women are able to get useless degrees and marry a man with a useful one. The reverse is rarely true.
Without giving away too many spoilers, you might enjoy "The Expanse" books/series
I've had an app that's been approved for over 6 months, with a new version every one or two weeks and it's always a coin toss. There are a number of times that I've released an update just to change an image in the app and the app gets rejected for not having enough content. Yet it's been approved over a dozen times without any change to the amount of content in the app.
>Why are we ignoring the fact that this geographic location is unusable now?

Hydroelectricity has made far more unusable geographic locations. The earth is massive. Losing a couple KM is regrettable but isn't comparable to a million people.

>Does money, greed, pride, and stupidity triumph in the end? Yes.

>You're willfully ignoring the reality and taking the hopeful ideals.

The reality is a million fewer people died, despite money, greed, pride, and stupidity triumphing. How is this the idealistic view?
What you're saying does not contradict that the trim switches override the MCAS. Hence, trim could be restored by using the trim switches and throwing the cutouts when not using the trim switches.

I read about this in the newspaper, it wasn't a secret. I do not have inside information.

Again, if I was an MCAS pilot I'd be very interested in following what happened with the Lion Air crash, to ensure it wouldn't happen to me. I'd still follow the procedures set out by Boeing - but when they didn't work I'd do what did work.

It's a little hard to discern from the erratic newspaper reports, but during the time the pilots were fighting the MCAS they were using the trim switches and surely would have noticed that those switches overrode the MCAS.

The reason we have pilots, and not a fully automated airplane, is we need them to think outside of the procedures when the procedures aren't working. This is not impossible as the pilots in the flight prior to the LA crash did have MCAS runaway and did successfully deal with it.
The anonymous report box was found to be emptying into an incinerator, the issue has been corrected we are unaware that any reports were incinerated.
> Whether a cash tip or given through an app, 85 percent of drivers agreed that not tipping was a factor in passengers’ ratings.

https://driving-tests.org/confessions-of-an-uber-driver/

> Uber drivers have long been known to give passengers low ratings if they suspect a passenger is going to give them a low rating.

https://www.ridester.com/uber-passengers-ratings-sting/

So, yes, they don't base it off the actual review (that may be a service other than Uber that I'm recalling), but they'll often base your review off the review they expect you to give them.

Seems legit. /s
Concentration camps are just "some shitty things".
Mailchimp changes are far worse (and shadier) than expected
Sorry, should have been clear - the numbers were made up. But, the point still stands - the wages are not high enough to entice workers out of their A/C'ed offices.
We certainly are. We will first cover all the issues mentioned on this thread. We want to focus on building a solid, reliable software instead of acquiring tons of people.

Thanks for the opportunity!
How about energy per kilogram?
IMO formal theorem proving is the future of mathematics for sure. I've been working on Metamath a bit and basically proving a new theorem reduces to a search problem over the theorems already proven.

In 10 years I think every mathematician will use formal methods, it will be like typing your proofs with a type writer not to. Moreover the problems are very amenable to smart tools assisting in the work, there is a smooth path from where we are now to a fully ai mathematician.
Thriving?
https://www.cbc.ca/radio/quirks/april-27-2019-oilsands-emiss...

They are f'd, their DNA is also f'd so...
I feel strongly that his comparison to Target doesn't really apply. Shopping at Target can be compared to browsing the App Store, but it should not be compared to In App Purchases.

When you install an app from the App Store, Apple obviously is involved because they are providing the marketplace. It's like walking up to the cashier at Target and paying for a laptop. Of course Target gets a cut, it's their store. But after you take that laptop home, Target doesn't have a claim on anything related to it anymore. If you use that same laptop to sign up for Spotify, Target doesn't have claim to a 30% cut of the Spotify subscription.

I wonder how Apple would feel if Target started requiring a 30% cut from Apple for every app store purchase made on iPhones that were bought at Target?
Perhaps anybody that read Spotify's public statement to which this is responding.
The retail store analogy is really unhelpful and makes no sense.

There are significant security and privacy concerns in allowing third party App Stores and it opens Apple up to significant legal risk. For example if the other stores weren't as vigilant then you could have rampant piracy, apps with illegal content or apps that siphon user data.
Currencies based on "hard cpu work" should be forbidden for that alone...
Ask HN: StackExchange down for anyone on Firefox specifically?
It works on Chromium, but on Firefox on multiple machines with a profile with no plugins I get the following:

Secure Connection Failed

An error occurred during a connection to stackoverflow.com. A required TLS feature is missing. Error code: MOZILLA_PKIX_ERROR_REQUIRED_TLS_FEATURE_MISSING

The page you are trying to view cannot be shown because the authenticity of the received data could not be verified.

Please contact the website owners to inform them of this problem.
Angular uses semantic versioning and adheres to it very strictly. Most of the time updating between versions merely involves running "ng update --all" and if that doesn't auto update everything you just see which items it errored for and update them. There have been articles showing how very large enterprises have updated their entire codebase in under a day.

If you're on one project or startup using Angular and you haven't kept up with the versioning that's a problem with the developers. There is no reason to be using a version lower then 1 back.

Features marked for deprecation will at minimum take 2 version to be removed, so 1 year after deprecation was marked. This isn't like Angular 1 -> 2 and I hope anyone who pays attention at all to front end will realize this. Complaining about angular versioning at this point would be like complaining that react bumped a patch version.
This is a brilliantly concise explanation of this. I think it slightly glosses over one thing, which is that in any case where it might actually be implemented, UBI is basically a trojan horse to undercut and defund actually existing and useful welfare programs. That is what happened in Finland: https://www.socialistalternative.org/2017/03/07/finlands-bas...
As others have said, if the investor didn’t perform his obligations under the contract, he is in breach of the agreement, and you can argue that shares were never validly conveyed to him. Get a lawyer, have them review the documents and send a letter demanding the money or the contact will be terminated.
I'm pretty sure it's more common than it should be, really. Everytime I had to create a new project I'd have to copy/paste the webpack configs left and right. Sometimes I miss the gulp days - it was way more straight forward and not so much magic involved.

> Also I've coded a project in Angular 2 and Angular 4 respectively; I have nothing bad to say about Angular but I still prefer Vue

I have used Angular 1 professionaly for more than 3 years with some big projects and when Angular 2 was released I ditched the idea of using it in a newer project. I was using Angular 2 since the alpha days and saw how some things got over complicated. And then I too chose Vue and fell in love with it.
It is a cognitive bias to believe the worst thing that has happened in the past is the worst that will happen in the future. Chernobyl occurred in an era with less people globally, less people locally, worse sensing technology/less transparent politics to more accurately gauge worldwide impact, and smaller nuclear reactors. Chernobyl proves the black swan risk could have been far graver - making Kiev and large parts of Ukraine uninhabitable. Most people are logical to choose a risk they can understand (solar, carbon, etc.) vs a complicated risk they can’t (nuclear). Which may be 1000x worse.

The nuclear argument gets weaker by the year considering rapid advancements in renewables and the decades+ period of time it takes to build a new nuclear reactor. We have the safest nuclear reactor available. The sun.
They didn't need to manually trim it:

1. set the electric trim switches to nose up

2. enable the trim via the cutoff switches

3. wait until correct trim is established

4. cut off the trim via the cutoff switches

> I doubt many of us have the nerves of steel to react so quickly and correctly in such a situation

Indeed. That's why, if I was an MCAS pilot, I would have carefully read the reports on what went wrong, what went right with the previous LA flight, how the trim system worked, and what I needed to do if it happened to me.

It's my own life at stake. I don't understand not doing this.

My father used to do acrobatic formation flying with the Air Force. The idea for everyone but the lead is to concentrate on the wingtip of the adjacent airplane and track it. There were incidents where the lead would fly into the ground and the rest of the formation would fly in, too.

Against orders, my dad said he'd be damned if the lead would fly him into the ground, and would keep one eye on the wingtip and the other on the ground. He died as a very old man.

You might also want to read Chuck Yeager's biography. In it he makes a point of not just following checklists, but learning how the airplane systems worked. Saved his life many times. Yeager's still alive, and has buried many of his colleagues who took shortcuts.
Donation page:

http://forms.nomoredeaths.org/drop-the-charges-against-dr-sc...
I'm not sure about other animals, but 400ppm is a long way away from toxic for humanity. Poorly ventilated indoor environments can easily hit 1200-1500ppm. You've got to hit 70,000 to 100,000 ppm before you start running the risk of coma and death.

Interestingly some studies indicate that 1200ppm and higher might confer some mild cognitive impairment, even if it's a long way away from fatal. This has been used glibly to explain the poor decisions made in office rooms, but one does wonder what happens to humanity if global emissions make us slightly dumber.
I disagree strongly. Neuroscience as it is taught at the undergraduate level is just a body of knowledge you are tasked with memorizing. I can’t think of any job that just requires you to spit out answers to multiple choice questions about neuroscience or anything else for that matter. Surgery, however, is a skill that is honed by repetition. You can’t learn surgery from a book.

This is the point I’m making. Skills matter and it may be worth it to pursue a skill-based degree but knowledge is cheap. Why spend $30k/yr getting a degree in neuroscience when you could buy the same textbooks, memorize the same information and yet only spend a few hundred dollars on the books themselves?

I’m not saying neuroscience knowledge isn’t valuable, I’m saying it doesn’t make sense to go get a 4 year degree out of it. The most valuable things I gained out of my college experience were extracurriculars working in a research lab (gained practical research skills), leadership skills from starting and running student organizations, and work skills from a part time job.

And there certainly still would be textbooks even if there were no undergraduate neuroscience major. You could still pursue a graduate degree where you take some classes but then spend most of your time building skills and working toward a real contribution to the field.
Exactly. I feel the same way about waiters.
It actually reads like the quote from Airplane!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pn0WdJx-Wkw

How oblivious and callous do you have to be?
I work for the federal government. Another team in my organization is using it for contact management and some other CRM tasks. They are very happy with it. My team is developing a custom dashboard prototype for leadership. Our results are mixed. Please note that I've only been working on this project part time for about 4.5 months, so I'm far from an expert.

Basic entry and view forms are very easy to create; Basic reporting is very easy, as well as basic charting. But the provided charting components can only be customized up to a point. For example, you can set the color of chart segments by value for pick-list fields, but not for calculated fields, and only for certain types of charts.

Salesforce is a big, complicated system and it takes a while to learn. If your needs can be met by their built-in Sales or Service modules then it may be a great choice. If your needs can be met by a 3rd-party add-on, and you're willing to pay extra for that, it may also be a good choice. If you want to recreate your custom business logic in Salesforce then you may want to hire a consultant.

Salesforce also has a lot of pricing and licensing options, so you would need to be careful about making a purchase before you know all of your needs and understand the different license types and pricing tiers.
Micro Design Critic: Microsoft Word vs. Apple Pages
Been following the 0x project for a while, just want to say this is an amazing project that demonstrates the power and potential of smart contracts and decentralized finance. Keep up the good work!
James, can you make this an open source repo, so others can contribute? Your site could also allow comments for others to suggest more.
The “almost” device. About the iPad and the future of the Mac
Those are attachments, even if they don't look like it in Gmail. Images aren't subject to this particular constraint.
> Unfortunately, http://www.libressl.org/ won’t help you either, because there literally isn’t any documentation of LibreSSL.

This is untrue. The front page contains links to the documentation inline, OpenBSD/LibreSSL converted all of OpenSSL's awful perlpod documentation to semantic mdoc(5) markup, and even wrote new man pages for functions completely undocumented by OpenSSL.

See Ingo Schwarze' EuroBSDCon 2018 talk "Better documentation - on the web and for LibreSSL"

https://www.openbsd.org/papers/eurobsdcon2018-mandoc.pdf

https://youtu.be/jwfN7S1-fRA

And earlier writeups from 2016.

https://undeadly.org/cgi?action=article;sid=20161215221715

It's been a long road to improve the documentation, and it's substantially better than OpenSSL.
Not +1 alone, +1 with area codes. But yes, that makes it more complicated than it should.
Is there a bug bounty on this?
> Splitting information across multiple depths is harmful, because your eyes need to re-verge (and, we wish, re-focus).
> It may be worse in VR, because you have to fight the lack of actual focus change. With varifocal we would be back to just the badness of the real world, but no better. This is fundamental to the way humans work.

This point on the eye focus changes caused while viewing 3D interfaces (as opposed to 2D interfaces) is a very well-founded one.
> Studying something like Biology or Engineering or Comp Sci where you're actually consuming resources as you learn (be it dissecting frogs or cloud computing or 3d printing equipment), so you'd expect that there's a cost that business, law and arts courses don't really have.

The only consumable resources that I expended in my Comp Sci bachelor's degree was some person-hours of ass-in-seat, fiddling with hardware design software.

Everything else was done with off-the-shelf, typically free software, mostly on my personal laptop. If I didn't have one, I'd have done my homework in any of the general-purpose computer labs, also used by mathematicians, art majors, and medical students.

You don't need to piss away $5,000/term in cloud computing costs to get a good 4-year CS education.
Spotify's problem is that they're a feature trying to be a product.
Not sure why the downvotes. What he says is true in the US and in Europe Plaid is relying on psd2/open banking.
If you were new to React or Angular, but needing to choose one for a single developer project, which would it be now in 2019?
Did anyone else notice the double meaning of the term "blocking"? This bit tipped me off to the confusion:

> And he argues that if the blocking nature of the webRequest API really represents a performance concern, Google could just adopt Firefox's approach which uses a technique called Promises to return a non-blocking/asynchronous response.

They do explicitly say "content blocking" in a few places, but in most instances they say "blocking webRequest API" which might actually refer to blocking-as-opposed-to-non-blocking and not ad-blocking.
How would Apple be open to any liability? They don't have any liability when they allow you to download whatever you want to your Mac laptop. It would be exactly the same.
On the other hand, there are many who believe, that automation got us into this. The more we automate, the more we depend on it which leads to problems if exceptional situations occur. [1]

Maybe the 737 Max is just too complex and relies too much on automation to fly correctly? I'm reminded of the Quantas QF32 flight, where pilots were nearly overwhelmed by the endless amount of errors and checklists they had to perform. [2]

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lIusD6Z-3cU

[2] https://www.news.com.au/travel/travel-advice/flights/inside-...
Lets be real here "because China" is a decent enough argument in the US at the moment. Just swallow the propaganda.
if they do train the person, then that person will just then go walk off with the training experience and work at another firm.

That's the free market at work. If a trained [skilled job] is worth $100k, but you're only willing to pay $90k because "they're new", they should walk across the street.

I absolutely hate when self-declared "free market" believers don't understand that there are two sides to every market. And employment is just another market. (not claiming you're making that mistake, but it's one I see frequently when wage discussions come up)
I mean degree inflation, not grade inflation. More people having degrees hurts those who can’t get a degree even with free college because of other factors. (The US already has some of the highest college attendance rates in the world.)

As to the tax system—ours is already more progressive than those of countries that have friee college: https://www.vox.com/2014/10/8/6946565/progressive-taxes-are-.... The problem is that we’re unwilling to tax the middle and upper middle class, which is actually the biggest tax base. AOC’s millionaire’s tax would raise $17 billion a year, even assuming no change in behavior: http://www.aei.org/publication/how-much-revenue-would-the-70.... A European style VAT could raise a trillion.

There is a fundamental political problem in the US, in that nobody will agree to raise taxes on the middle class. The left demands not only a welfare state, but that the rich and corporations pay for it. It’s a package deal. The right won’t agree to raise taxes on the rich and corporations—and they’ve kind of got a point. Our tax burden on capital is already roughly comparable to say Germany, if a bit lower: https://www.chicagofed.org/publications/chicago-fed-letter/2.... Where our tax burden is really low is in middle class taxes: social insurance and consumption. (There is a reason folks like AOC point to how great the welfare state is in say Sweden, but point to US taxes in the 1940s and 1950s, when war-torn Europe was no competition for the US. Or mention Sweden’s top marginal rate, without mentioning that it kicks in at an income level a mid career teacher or police officer might make in the US.)

So to raise taxes without making ourselves uncompetitive with Europe from the perspective of capital, the only avenue to raise real revenue is higher taxes in the middle class. Since that’s a political non-starter, we have the status quo that we have.
That's BS. I graduated about a decade ago and had a similar realization and self-studied my way through a whole bunch of my missing foundations. I've worked my way through at least a dozen multi-course textbooks and who knows how many papers over the last decade and have really filled in the gaps in my knowledge. It's paid off quite well for me. Saying it's out of reach is ridiculous, since you're talking about years of effort. Be patient and just do it.
Site looks great. Nice design.