skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I just mentioned two rules your comment broke. It wasn't thoughtful or substantive (instead, it was an indignant rant on a divisive topic). And it was a battle comment against an ideological opponent. These are just the things we don't want on HN because they spread flames and kill curiosity.

Perhaps it would help to read https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20013092 in addition to the site guidelines.
You’re thinking of a timeframe in which apps embraced native style of operating systems. Slack does not do that, it’s a web app with a custom UI that doesn’t feel native on any OS. Thus, it would be perfectly sensible to rewrite it once in QML with a single codebase.

If anything, the main objection should be difficulty of hiring QML developers compared to JavaScript/CSS.
> Yes, you need a trusted path to go from physical reality to the token on the blockchain.

You mean a centralised entity that is able to verify all claims input on the blockchain, cross-reference these inputs, and then enforce the execution of the contract.

Why would you need blockchain then if you trust such an entity with so much more than just with part tracking?

> Blockchains let you do either or both of those things since entities can sign off on the provenance on the blockchain.

wat

> You can also have multiple entities sign off on it, similar to GPG keys.

So, blockchain "solves" exactly one thing: inventory tracking. And does it in an overly complicated and highly inefficient way. Everything else is entrusted to external entities.

To quote an amazing article [1]

--- start quote ---

People treat blockchain as a “futuristic integrity wand”—wave a blockchain at the problem, and suddenly your data will be valid. For almost anything people want to be valid, blockchain has been proposed as a solution.
It’s true that tampering with data stored on a blockchain is hard, but it’s false that blockchain is a good way to create data that has integrity.

Blockchain systems do not magically make the data in them accurate or the people entering the data trustworthy, they merely enable you to audit whether it has been tampered with.

How then, is trust created?

... if you look at any blockchain solution, inevitably you’ll find an awkward workaround to re-create trusted parties in a trustless world.

--- end quote ---

[1] https://medium.com/@kaistinchcombe/decentralized-and-trustle...
To be clear, you think all of the following programs look like they were made by a 'high school student' and this is an aspect where electron excels?

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qt_(software)#Applications_u...

Adobe Photoshop Album, Adobe Photoshop Elements, AMD's driver tool, CryEngine, Autodesk Maya, Google Earth, Mathematica, Opera, OBS, Skype, Teamviewer, Telegram, VLC media player, Wireshark, QtCreator, Qbittorrent, Nuke, Xnview
It is also meaningless. Yes, if you get to choose what to do, you can do whatever you want. But you don't, so affordable housing remains an unsolved issue in most places. Things haven't changed and aren't changing just because people become convinced otherwise.
A New Ellipse or Math Porcelain Service (2019) [pdf]
I can speak to this. I have a Google Nexus 7 tablet with the mini-USB connection which I’m no longer able to use because the port simply will not hold a cable effectively enough to charge it.
My favorite line from this article is "blockchain is not internet of things": https://blog.smartdec.net/you-do-not-need-blockchain-eight-p...
Very often, it's useful to frame a question in a way that someone with specific expertise can quickly help you - 'YY' situations come up all the time.
All this talk about how mcas was not designed properly or how it could be prevented from failing is eroneous.

Good safe airplane design is about a neutral flying design without the need for complex systems.

This plane is fundamentally flawed because the engines are in the wrong position because the landing gear is two short to fit them in the correct position.

The test pilot was clear about very poor flying characteristics at slow flyong speeds requiring mcas to be more aggressive.

This plane should not be flying with this engine configuration as it fails the most fundamental principal of good aeroplane design of neutral handling.
Next step, implement a `normalize` function for an `Expression`. Then syntactic sugar for all the primitive types.
I switched in 2012. I never went back to iOS. For me, iOS died with Jobs. Once Jobs got really bad health, he couldn't guide the OS to the next level and iOS became dull in all senses. Android instead jumped to the next level with Kit kat and then with Material design. Material Design is really awesome and i loved all the gestures, customization and services around the OS.
It's not impossible to make it work, and in the future I'd expect more and more automated systems in planes for sure.

But you have to recognize the whole engine hack is just a convoluted workaround to avoid as much pilot training as possible. The entire goal of the project seems to be to avoid ever training pilots for as long as possible. It's a brand new plane, the newest plane on the market, and the first thing you need to do to take off is turn off the cabin air conditioning. Why? Because that's what we had to do 50 years ago in the first 737.

God forbid this plane startup any way besides turning off the cabin air conditioning. If we changed that, we'd have to... gasp retrain pilots!
I don't really understand how this works, but could it happen that another way of verifying is by multiple people submitting the same information? For example, the buyer and the seller of a part recording the transaction.
Tin foil hat time: What kind of exotic or near-future engine tech could produce a signature like that? (No I don't think it's Aliens ... if it's Aliens, they'd have the means to travel interstellar distances and if they can do that then surely they can keep themselves hidden).
Depends on the number of likes I guess.
Late reply, but here are the bullet points:

* Offered expensive incentives to my employees during one particular crunch time -- incentives that were to come out of our pocket, not his -- then lied about it

* Used insulting, demeaning language when addressing me, my direct reports, and some of the first-level employees

* Made racist comments within earshot of the targets

* Shifted goal posts constantly so that last week's goal suddenly became only halfway there

* Tried to get competitive information during contract negotiation time by buying my directs drinks at "social hours" and/or offering seeming insider information to get them to reveal the reasoning behind our negotiating positions

I could go on, but that gives the flavor. My boss got him out by pushing very hard with her superiors and his superiors on a (partially trumped up) sexual harassment charge. Normally that would really upset me, but in this particular case it seemed like old-fashioned rough justice.
The `when` block seems to exhibit a different behavior when used as a block vs
as a statement modifier. The latter lets things falls through until it matches
the most general case. For instance, given

class Audience {
has $.number;
has $.gender;
has $.formality;
has $.country;
}

my @vosotros = <Spain EquitorialGuinea WesternSahara>;

my $audience = Audience.new:
:number(100), :gender('feminine'),
:formality('informal'), :country('Spain')
;

Contrast:

my $message = do given (.number, .gender, .formality, .country given $audience) {
when 1, 'masculine', 'informal', * { '¿Cómo estás mi amigo?' }
when 1, 'masculine', 'formal', * { '¿Cómo está el señor?' }
when 1, 'feminine', 'informal', * { '¿Cómo estás mi amiga?' }
when 1, 'feminine', 'formal', * { '¿Cómo está la señora?' }
when * > 1, 'feminine', 'informal', @vosotros.any { '¿Cómo estáis mis amigas?' }
when * > 1, *, 'informal', @vosotros.any { '¿Cómo estáis mis amigos?' }
when * > 1, *, * , * { '¿Cómo están ustedes?' }
}

say $message; #=> «¿Cómo estáis mis amigas?␤»

with this:

my $message = do given (.number, .gender, .formality, .country given $audience) {
'¿Cómo estás mi amigo?' when 1, 'masculine', 'informal', *;
'¿Cómo está el señor?' when 1, 'masculine', 'formal', *;
'¿Cómo estás mi amiga?' when 1, 'feminine', 'informal', *;
'¿Cómo está la señora?' when 1, 'feminine', 'formal', *;
'¿Cómo estáis mis amigas?' when * > 1, 'feminine', 'informal', @vosotros.any;
'¿Cómo estáis mis amigos?' when * > 1, *, 'informal', @vosotros.any;
'¿Cómo están ustedes?' when * > 1, *, * , *;
}

say $message; #=> «¿Cómo están ustedes?␤»
Which is why despite all the hype, the only use case which has really shown value yet for blockchain is digital currency.
Reinventing, no less!
The left movement since even before Marx was generally very critical of liberalism - that is, the political philosophy based on the concept of rights (in theory rights conferred to all humans but in practice only very rarely so), property rights, and the idea that the only valid way to make changes in society is to vote.

Somehow the term "liberal" in the US (though also in some other parts of the world) came to be associated with progressives, who are yet still usually differentiated from the Socialists and other "far left" ideologies. Most of the academic socialist, communist, radical feminist and anarchist work is strongly critical of liberalism, even its metaphysics and epistemology.

Indeed, Marx himself started (if his early texts are anything to go by) as a liberal in that sense. The key turning point for him was his critique of liberalism in his On The Jewish Question. From SEP:

>Marx argues that not only is political emancipation insufficient to bring about human emancipation, it is in some sense also a barrier. Liberal rights and ideas of justice are premised on the idea that each of us needs protection from other human beings who are a threat to our liberty and security. Therefore liberal rights are rights of separation, designed to protect us from such perceived threats. Freedom on such a view, is freedom from interference. What this view overlooks is the possibility — for Marx, the fact — that real freedom is to be found positively in our relations with other people. It is to be found in human community, not in isolation. Accordingly, insisting on a regime of rights encourages us to view each other in ways that undermine the possibility of the real freedom we may find in human emancipation.
Okay, sure. But what does the difficulty of taxing something have to do with the difficulty of building a single central authority that makes good decisions for a population without their consent?

Passing laws is not the difficult part, any government can do that :)
Facebook has already made that mistake with PHP. They are still paying the hefty price for that. Language popularity at a given time doesn't guarantee a higher ROI in the future. For the next couple of decades, CS experts will be debating over languages that optimized for programmer's productivity, optimized for performance and languages that offer correctness (probably via type systems and other mechanisms). Javascript today doesn't fit any of these categories, and although it is quickly evolving, it still hasn't shifted towards any of those sides. It has become more performant than initially, but yet not fast enough (e.g.: for native apps). Sadly the story is old, happened many times - happened to Joe Armstrong and Erlang at Ericson, that happened at MIT when they switched from Scheme to Python. It happens whenever companies ignore their engineers and arguments they make, but eagerly listen to their Marketing and Sales teams.

Honestly, I would love to see faces of those stupid imbeciles who after hearing all John Carmack's arguments that tool X is making him very productive, later tell him that he cannot use that tool.
It might happen if you change your preferences in the app, but then you'd be paying a higher fare. I usually use Uber for "occasions" and I wouldn't be surprised by a model X or model S. Usually it's an Escalade or similar.
With what kind of UAV, though? Some exotic one that can't easily be identified?
Ask anybody who refuses to do business with China whether they have any such qualms with doing business with Taiwan or with Chinese-Americans. I would be surprised if any significant percentage would. It’s very clear that most people have an issue with the Chinese government, not the Chinese people.
Yahoo's core search engine was based on Inktomi's, which was acquired in 2003. There was no PageRank in there, and there was no infrastructure to execute anything similar either. (I worked for a significant amount of time on link-level features during Marissa's rebirth of Yahoo Search.) PageRank is an algorithm that is trivial to understand and prototype, but hard to scale efficiently to 100's of billions of pages.
They aren't, there are no regulations on this. I hope you get what you wish for.
Yes, the open source definition has its own rules. The one that seems most relevant here is:

"No Discrimination Against Fields of Endeavor

"The license must not restrict anyone from making use of the program in a specific field of endeavor. For example, it may not restrict the program from being used in a business, or from being used for genetic research."

https://opensource.org/osd-annotated
Threadreader:

https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1134241230659805184.html?...
A few critical TODOs, but neat so far :)
The Professional KitchenAid mixers (i.e. the ones with bowl-holding arms) are all metal gears, with an electric controller to protect the motor from overtorque. The tilt-head models are mostly metal gears, but have a single kevlar gear that's designed to break to protect the motor from overtorque.

Stripping the plastic gear in the mechanics is like blowing a fuse in the electronics. It's possible it was a bad component, but it probably means you've overloaded the circuit. If you need more torque, buy the models with the bigger motors designed to handle it. The main trade-off between the various mixer models is basically price vs max torque.
It's more like having an unauthenticated API open to the network, where in this case the network is sound waves in your local space. The idea that anyone is using voice for priveliged operations ("buy X", change my calendar, etc) is horrifying to me.
It is naive to think the belief in this skewed, biased, self-referencing, curated group is representative.

The general internet user is different, much less concerned with the underlying tech or anything else, and about other things. The general internet user thinks Facebook is the internet, don't realize they are online, and only use online services to text and take/post pictures.

Android phones have a camera icon. Ever thought about the camera app associated with it? Not really if an Android user. You just use it or use it as a backup. If it were another app, you'd be using that one. Wouldn't notice.

Most people don't spend time digging, unless it's something they are really into. Most also don't read reviews or research, though that's been changing over the years. They just go with whatever, unless important (to them).
My personal experience has been a key card check to get into the building and another at your secure area. Corporate security made it very clear that holding the door open for someone else would be taken extremely seriously.
Any interesting anecdotes on HN? I haven't seen anything like this unfortunately, but I've heard enough stories from people I consider reliable to believe that some of these UFO sightings are ET ships/drones monitoring us. All the stories seem to have incredible accelerations involved and chaotic movements as a common theme.
Not to mention that the US Dollar and the UK Pound are much more attractive for foreign investment than the Japanese Yen. We can easily measure this by comparing Japanese bond demand with that of the US, UK and Europe. Not to mention that Japan is not currently an attractive place for Chinese investment for reasons I will not go into here.

Real estate is going up due to foreign investment. We are watching in real time as the slowdown in China is showing a direct correlation with west coast US and west coast Canadian real estate markets cooling. Buffalo, NY, and many other rust belt cities, have seen significant increases in housing prices while their populations decrease rapidly.

I second how boring listening to the trope about Japanese real estate prices when it has nothing to do with attitudes towards building. North Dakota has little to no zoning restrictions and we certainly don't see those prices staying in reasonable amounts.

It is so obviously false to anyone even remotely involved in investment or real estate, that I sometimes wonder if there is some kind of agenda that pushes this nonsense outside of your typical internet obsessive ideologies.
The drop in net worth is caused by people not buying homes? Huh?
In what world is scrapping the airframes due to a (serious) software fault the best and most sensible solution? Do you believe there could be undiagnosed problems with the wings, fuselage, tail, hydraulics, electrics, fueling system, gear, etc.?
I have wanted the Star Trek world where we talk to computers for a long time. But at no point did I envision everything Kirk said to the computer being transmitted, monitored, and recorded by Big Brother. Especially when there's no technical reason it has to be this way. Fuck FAANG, I'll keep my keyboard.
Amos Tversky to Murray Gell-Mann: "There's no one in the world as smart as you think you are" (from The Undoing Project, by Michael Lewis)
In a system that is not so strictly for profit, this would exist.
In what world is scrapping the airframes due to a (serious) software fault the best and most sensible solution?

A world in which the faulty software was required to fix faulty hardware.
Alexa also has the drop in function that turns it into an audio listening device
If you make the plane wider you run into issues finding room for it at the gates.
I agree with your statement as far as it goes. I met several people irl that I had known only on Usenet back in the 90s. My question is, what are your relationships with relatives like? What about friendships with people who live nearby and share similar interests?

I recognize that not everyone has family that lives nearby, and some have lost their natural families, which is very difficult. And there many who are estranged from their families for various reasons. I was estranged from my family, but that improved greatly with some considerable (and still ongoing) effort on my part, even though some of them have diagnosed mental illnesses.

I guess my point is that if you have family members, it is well worth it to try to salvage what you can. If you do not have any family, it is well worth it to try to make one. Yes, those family members could be found on Reddit. Better to make the effort to have "real-life" friends and family you can see and talk to and touch daily so you don't have to be miserable alone. It can be hard to see when you're in the midst of it, though.
How about Chinese people living in the mainland? It’s arguably the largest portion, order of magnitude larger than the other pieces combined and have always been under-represented. I can tell you, “most” of them support their government, because they do the right things a lot.

However, I’m well aware that at this scale there might be millions of dissidents/minorities. The government has to make some tradeoffs, which I admit is bad at times
"Uber incurs huge start-up costs with each new city and country it enters."

In other words - people won't use the next Uber unless it has drivers available every time you open the app, but drivers won't be available unless they know there will be riders paying them fares. To fill in the gap, rideshare apps have to pay drivers when they enter a market, even if there are no riders yet.
And is also a way to send a signal back...
Crazy from the individual perspective; natural from the group's.

"We have a mark, lets suck it dry until we can throw it away and find new and better marks."

Sustainability tends not be a concern until after a group's leadership jumps ship and parasitizes other hosts.
The middleman will take 60%, unless the publisher builds their own ad tech system. The incentive to do so for a big publisher would be large. Hire a few ML engineers, build your own ad tech system.
https://i.imgur.com/ohchNyd.png xD
eolling? Don't you mean rolling? ;)
The article says it had 122 failure due bird strikes plus 85 unnamed problems in about 30 years of data.

Considering the number of flights, that does sounds reliable to me.

I still think two failures in the same sensor, in the same airplane, under the same condition, in less than one year did not happen by chance.
I am conflating Open Source and FSF, and I think people are very right to call me out on that. Especially in this context :)

The point I was trying to get at is that regardless of existing debates over the merits of permissive vs. copyleft licenses, neither side of that debate would say that SSPL belongs here.

Permissive license advocates would say that while they dislike GPL's restrictions, adding more restrictions is a bad idea. GPL advocates would say that the point of the GPL is to safeguard the 4 essential freedoms, and SSPL doesn't safeguard them.

Techcrunch is arguing that because there isn't perfect consensus within FOSS, FLOSS, and Open Source communities, that we might as well just turn this whole thing into a free-for-all.
He complains about more fundamental things than the splash screen, which I agree is an unimportant issue as it is manufacturer dependent.

For example, he mentions the issue of getting updates one by one, or being stuck with an old system.
I haven't heard of it ever activating except in the incident/accident flights.

You wouldn't hear about it unless the activation was triggered by egregious pilot error and you're scouring aviation news sites.

It's not fine if the wheel position sensor fails and this causes the car to slam on the brakes going 65mph down the highway.

Been there, done that. It's an unpleasant failure mode, but it is survivable.
> Needless to say, the terrorists have already won, we’re slowly giving up everything that separates us from them.

I’m against using vague threats like terrorism to increase surveillance, but the two are not equivalent.
Enter internationalization... äüöß is just the beginning.
Yea, how a lot of my ideas go. Thanks.
A new round of antitrust questions can’t go well for Google
Of course they thought it through. They just don't get health insurance. The choice was between having an income with no health insurance and having no income. It's not easy to get work.
the writing is FUNNY!
The same thing happens when people who criticise the policies of the Israeli government are called antisemitic. IMHO it's just a bad-faith smear to derail discussion of an issue.
The problem with USB C is that it carries data as well, so the easier you make it able to fall out the more likely it’s going to do so when you’re trying to run bits through it.
You can't get VC for any consumer hardware product that doesn't generate a continuing revenue stream. That means either charging a monthly fee for cloud connectivity or selling customers' data. Both require Internet connectivity, even though that doesn't really add much objective value (and creates huge security problems) for so-called "smart" home devices.
So how do you apply the zapper? At the plug or directly on the chip or what?
I have not worked with nylon, but have with PETG (no gears yet). I wonder how they compare.
Consumer loans with compounding interest should be illegal. The human brain is incapable of conceptualizing it and it results in inescapable debt once a person starts to fall behind on payments.