skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's why I specifically said about office job. If you need your truck for work, haulin onions or for your hobby like mountain bike etc. then that's great, this is the actual truck for you but there is huge amount of people that are using them to get groceries at most. Another thing is, why you need to buy that, huge RAM, wouldn't just a normal height car like australian style pickups aka UTEs (kind of modern El Camino) be sufficient to get your onions/mountain bike to your destination? I don't know the truck you are driving but base model of F150 have a highway fuel consumption of 26 US mpg, base Gulia have 39 US mpg, that's a bit of a difference.
Someone should make Dasher into a "hyperbolic descent runner" text entry game.
How to Choose a Database (2019)
Instead of spending half your comment saying how wrong GP is, why not provide some compelling evidence? I was under the impression that flying wings are indeed more unstable than traditional airframes.

For example:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2008_Andersen_Air_Force_Base_B...

> After the wheels lifted from the runway, which caused the flight control system to switch to different control laws, the erroneously sensed negative angle of attack caused the computers to inject a sudden, 1.6‑g, uncommanded 30-degree pitch-up maneuver. The combination of slow lift-off speed and the extreme angle of attack (and attendant drag) resulted in an unrecoverable stall, yaw, and descent.

This seems to support GP's assertion that "without very precise computer control they are uncontrollable" and "computer failure is a certain airframe and passenger loss"
Somebody ought to do a breakdown by subfield.
I worked at CVS for years before moving overseas. It has been 5 or 6 years since I worked there. I worked at 2 different stores.

All sorts of folks buy from CVS, mostly stuff on sale but not always. Moms with a sick child and elderly folks in to get medicines are a good chunk of the customers. Folks without transportation are a few people, sure. In one store, some of the food traffic was simply because we were in a small town with limited groceries: Some of the food was nearly as cheap as the local places. We got a boost of traffic because of football games at a college about 25 minutes away.

The second store was a 24 hour store, and though the town had 24 hour grocery stores, they weren't next to us at night. We were not far from a small college as well. And again, same sorts of customers, usually picking up one or two things.

Even more extra bonus points on holidays, since we were always open (at both stores). I think people figured we'd be less busy.
Could be. I admit I heard it first in videogames but I am not an authoritative source.
this article is 'Big Tech' propaganda, specifically using "Whataboutism" to muddy the waters.

Oh Techdirt. You used to have morals.
I’d offer a (friendly) counter point. Trusting in the benevolence of a union is very similar to trusting in the benevolence of your employer to watch your back. Both employers and unions ultimately devolve into parochialism. Both ultimately are interested in preserving their existing power structures and NOT in helping the worker. I’d say that the best way to “try and get it” is to make your skills valuable enough where you have more work offered than you you have time for in the day. At that point, raise prices!
TSA Officers aren't permitted to wear dosimeters on the job.

PRetty damning, if you ask me.

Here's their fationale from teh FAQ in the linked article [1]

"Q: Why aren’t your officers permitted to wear dosimeters?

A: There is a really good reason for this. The emissions from our X-ray technology are well below the requirements that would require their routine usage. To help reassure passengers and employees that the technology is safe, however,health physicists with the U.S. Army have been conducting area dosimeter surveys at multiple airports nationwide."

This is at best massively flawed reasoning by the TSA, and at worst a deliberate misleading rationale.

1) While the NORMAL dosage is of course well below any level that would make a dosimeter useful, a dose from a malfunction or bent/broken/missing shield panel could easily exceed dosimeter detection thresholds.

2) Spot checks are nice, but unless they are very frequent, they could easily miss a malfunction and leave it overdosing agents and people for a long time. Even if inspections are every 6 months at every airport station, that will leave a malfunction overdosing people for on average, three months.

3) Detecting, identifying, and repairing a malfunctioning system could be done much sooner and at lower cost by using dosimeters, either on employee volunteers or just hanging them on the chairs & workstation surrounds.

It is this kind of frankly stupid stick-your-head-in-the-sand reasoning that breeds distrust of governments and the companies that supply them.

[1] https://www.tsa.gov/blog/2011/06/30/tsa-cancer-cluster-myth-...
I was paralleling your own baseless speculation about someone’s motives: “Possibly, or possibly he's finding reasons to rebuff evolution so that the only remaining answer is intelligent design.”
And you, posting on your phone or PC made partly in China, are also turning a deaf ear and then preaching on HN. That's exactly 'letting' them get away with it right?
You can't think of a single rational cause for requiring code signing by default other than them wanting to lock down the system? It's a huge security gain for normal users, and helps application developers by encouraging normal users to trust third-party applications rather than being terrified they'll get malware if they install any non-apple software.

It's certainly possible that Apple has intentions other than to make the platform better and a discussion can be had on if the tradeoffs are worth it, but it's ridiculous to claim that there are zero benefits to anyone but Apple.
Okay, but how is optimization of delivery not going to help address waste, pollution, and health effects. We have so much abundance in Western nations that we fail at times to understand how much optimization through technology, apps, and whatnot, will still provide benefit.

From reducing wasted food by ensuring only what is needed is on hand and in the channel. Covering pollution by reducing trips made by many to fewer delivery groups. To health by offering better choices as part of the service, new menu options never considered because they were not previously available.

The food abundance did not come way of the government but instead by corporations and individuals trying to improve their position in society all the while providing services and goods with improved the lives of others. If anything tariffs and food regulatory groups make food more expensive by preventing our access to other producers and products.
All big companies need and hopefully develop some people who are like this - its certainly part of the role I and few others had as the GOTO fixers.

This could vary from finding /building a pc for a new start when some one had forgotten to order a pc for them, fixing the BACS tape, doing initial deployments of systems including taking enough kit with us to build a network in case that had been forgotten.

The most interesting one was cracking nt4 to break into a client system - I got a break just on a power mac and didn't need to actually use all our sun workstations after ours to run a distributed attack (BT security / Squirrels) might have not been to happy (yes I did get authorisation)
If you have an 80 mile electric (as I do), take your second ICE car or rent an ICE car. No one is going to add 2 3-hour charging sessions (at 24 miles of charge per hour) into a 200 mile road trip and be happy about it.
The software developer who wrote an evil feature bears some responsibility, but that doesn't lessen zuckerberg's responsibility. If the developer is 30% responsible, Zuckerberg's responsibility isn't capped at 70%. he's also responsible for that developer.

As the person with sole absolute authority over Facebook, he is 100% responsible for everything that happens, in addition to whatever responsibility the people under him bear
>One does have to ask, though, why the Democrats have resolutely refused to acknowledge that this is how the electoral college works, and pay more attention to winning in rural and small states.

Nailed it. I lost almost all respect for Hillary Clinton when she refused to campaign there whilst Trump, all of my dislike for him and his ideology aside, campaigned there and truly earned every vote he got. Doubly so when her own husband, all of his failings aside someone insanely great on the campaign trail himself, urged her to do so.

https://wtvr.com/2016/11/11/bill-clinton-strategy/
I'd never take a job there, but that's different than condemning others who have.
Hey guys, Tom Spark here. I'm the video content creator that caused this whole thing. NordVPN hates my channel since I critique and criticize them a lot. They want to censor my channel to remove the bad reviews and so forth (ironic from a VPN company that is suppose to prevent censorship no?). To date, NordVPN is one of the lowest rated VPNs on my VPN tier list at http://vpntierlist.com/.

They are also in the news a lot for various things and I make sure to cover it whereas other VPN affiliates don't (most VPN affiliates are aligned with 100% based comission VPNs like Nord).

I summarized the entire story with 3 videos if anyone wants the full story. Or the latest take on Nord's blog post here (which I believe to be complete bull) :https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=icD3Bva7xtY
At this point the way Facebook abuses privacy and data is general knowledge to the tech crowd. Anyone working on Facebook knows enough about how the platform works on a high level that claiming innocence through specific technical ignorance is complete nonsense.
Indeed. Glue-laminate beams are a wonderful building material: cheap, strong as hell, and friendly to forests since they are made from wood scraps.
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On planes, belts are to prevent you getting thrown in to the ceiling during turbulence. That's why you're supposed to keep them on at all times.
The rare part is the mix of modest skills in one person who happens to be producing something timely and relevant to a large audience.

Adams would (probably) have been nowhere if he'd been making hilariously cynical cartoons about trout farming.
Their presence in the S&P 500 ensures that countless people are unaware they are even on the boat, by din of their retirement exposure
I think there are intermediate steps possible in some workflows. For e.g. A business app that accepts an excel file as input for further processing. So now you can let them keep the excel file with their existing macros/features, but give them additional features via this workflow.
"Moral hazard" is like many other smart sounding but empty phrases coined by the powers that be: something we apply ruthlessly to the poor and we ignore with a little giggle for the rich and corporations.
It seems a bit like Juicero - maybe investors are trying to find a corner of market based on food subscriptions.
Or you could jump ship and try out Purism's new phone. https://puri.sm/products/librem-5/
Yeh no offense to Comrade Putin but his KGB Career dint reach the heights.
Fuel is on the inside edge. Cargo is behind the passenger compartments. You can see the cargo doors on the image.
It's a legitimate point, though, not mere Whataboutism. The Big Tech companies like Google have been a counter-weight to big Telecom (things like Google Fiber, Google Fi). To go after Big Tech without also going after Big Telecom is to reinforce the market power of Big Telecom.
The implication of what mTCP is doing: Only threads on the same CPU core can communicate at the highest speeds. Isn't this situation broken? Shouldn't we have better hardware support for communicating threads? Why in modern software, are threads communicating through CPU cache invalidation?
Firefox starts blocking third-party cookies by default
FreeBSD Quarterly Status Report Q1 2019
Would you count coding as a kind or a wicked environment? To me, it seems wicked - standards change, you switch languages, frameworks come and go. On the same token, it could be 'kind' if you isolate yourself to one or two robust languages (i.e. your career is built on C++).
CVS and Walgreens across the street? A case study of Hotelling's Law
Don't think of it as "config".

Think of it as input, to a global network of inter-dependent distributed decentralized programs, which control other programs, that then change inputs, that change the programs again, and which are never "off", but always just shifting where bits are.

Imagine a cloud-based web application. You've got your app code, and let's say an embedded HTTP server. The code needs to run somewhere, on Lambda, or ECS, or EC2. You need an S3 bucket, a load balancer, an internet gateway, security groups, Route53 records, roles, policies, VPCs. Each of those has a config, and when any is applied it affects all the other components, because they're part of a chain of dependencies. Now make the changes in multiple regions. Tests add up quickly, and that's just in ways that were obvious. Now add tests for outages of each component, timeouts, bad data, resource starvation, etc. Just a simple web service can mean tens of thousands of tests.

We imagine that because the things we're manipulating are digital, they must behave predictably. But they don't. Look at all the databases tested by Jepsen[1]. People who are intelligent and are paid lots of money still regularly create distributed systems with huge flaws that affect production systems. Creating a complex, predictable system is h a r d (and for Turing-complete systems, actually impossible - see the halting problem).

[1] https://jepsen.io/
Some groups are probably better than others for it, admittedly.

I just know I had seen some horrific lifting practices—or rather that no instruction was given except for "Go for it!".

That's good to hear.
Absolutely whataboutism, and whataboutism that vastly misses on the scale of the issue: Telecoms are limited regional monopolies (and rarely are monopolies in urban enough of areas), tech companies are nearly unassailable global monopolies. The article aims to capitalize on the popular dislike of their ISP to distract from a far more pressing issue.
Developers sue Apple over $99 annual fee, mandatory pricing increments of $0.99
I generally agree, but I remind you that stealing LGBTQ rights to marry was their intended purpose. Spending thousands and using work force as a political army. Stealing a few sandwiches although petty and wrong.. still doesn’t outweigh the wrong that this company was doing for years.

I prefer stealing food over corporations taking away rights / privileges any day of the week especially in the name of research and education.
Microsoft Research enters fashion tech
Wow, you nailed it. Your post describes our household precisely. The only shared password I have is with my spouse for a grocery list app. The most annoying account problems we have are with accounts for household gear such as wifi-aware garage door opener and pool pump.
Interesting idea, similar to Betfair in the UK, have you had any traction on the site so far?

I also know that many countries limit access to online sports betting, how do you deal with gambling regulations? Also I have heard of a number of crypto exchanges being hacked (Mt.Gox, Coincheck), how is SportX any different?
I have always liked the saying that "the only place success comes before work is in a dictionary". It's clearly not entirely accurate, because of course you can gain advantages through something like inheritance that look a lot like being successful, but there is a lot of truth in it if you look beyond factors that really are dumb luck.
It certainly cycles back and forth.

In this day and age where hiring managers filter folks based on alphabet soup lists of tech and hum and haw over not 8 years of one of the dozen things and ... it's not even a thing it's a just file format ... and they can't stop using Java and JavaScript interchangeably damn it!

sigh

It's easy to get frustrated by the demands folks have for ... both.
1989 was the year that communist regimes across the world fell under pressure from their own people. China was the exception.
"the other ~40%" -- are NOT necessarily valid purchases. Most likely they are fraudulent purchases that were not charged back.
Zcash Governance: A Step Toward Decentralization
Because telecom companies' monopolies are easy to understand. Google doesn't have to run wires to everyone's house. In fact, they tried and failed. It's a lot harder than building a website.
As an artist it's sad that someone who made so many people happy now is a shell others take advantage of for money. While having assistant paint parts is a longtime tradition (even back in the Middle Ages) this is simply ripping off a man who doesn't know any better, and flooding the market with what are really knock-offs.
But in this extreme case of the fuselage being inside the wing and making it much thicker than typical and necessary, this isn't necessarily true, at least it's not obvious.

If this design actually provides the claimed results, connecting 2 such wings (one behind the other) with a long fuselage (i.e. >---> which would incur almost no additional drag and twice the lift) would be even better, no?
What is the future of Java in the next 5 years ?
What do you think ?
I don't see enterprise going to pay.
Is it going I slowly die?
Private Info of over 1.5M Donors Leaked by UChicago Medicine
Ask HN: Capacity Planning in the Cloud: An Oxymoron?
Obviously, there is some sarcasm in the question above. Arguably, the cloud's greatest benefit is its elasticity, which implies that most aspects of traditional (focused on own or rented hardware) capacity planning for the cloud environment are not really applicable. However, clearly, some capacity planning is still needed, both for initial deployments as well as for ongoing operations. So, the real question is: "What are the optimal strategies, tactical approaches, potential issues and best practices for capacity planning in the cloud?". Comments and/or points to relevant resources are welcome.
Blue Canvas | San Francisco | Interns/Remote Okay

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We are building a push-to-deploy CI system for the Salesforce ecosystem. Currently, Salesforce developers suffer from: no source control, tedious manual deployments, and no roll back. We've built a hosted service with automatic source control that "just works", and modern tools to review and deploy updates. We are in a growing, opportunity-rich enterprise market: $13B are spent every year on professional services for Salesforce development.

We believe in maintaining high-revenue per employee is the best way to ensure that the team is always fun to work for. We admire companies like Basecamp, Mailchimp and Atlassian. We are funded by customer revenue and Indie.vc.

You’ll get to work directly with the CEO and CTO and learn the ins and outs of running a dev tooling startup on the business side.

Email team@bluecanvas.io if you're interested. No recruiters please.
Seeing Apple Enter My Startup's Market – Find My App
I agree it's not a perfect solution, and mine is starting to get old as well, but so far it's things that are replaceable (i.e. battery). And I still vastly prefer it to a 2018 MBP I had for a while and then sold at a heavy discount due to keyboard/touchbar/no Esc key/USB-C dongle hell. But if you don't care about any of that and just want the fastest CPU, it's not the best choice.
You know Saturn is a gas giant, right?
I think because this is a V-shape, instead of a triangular flying wedge.
I remember watching a documentary a long time ago and they said that this design (or one similar) had the draw back that people would feel the turns much more since they would be further from the centre.
You have never flied a kite have you? What do they most of them look like? Flying wing!
BMW Group enhances road safety by sharing anonymised traffic data
Is it?

Look at the rest of the document. It is almost clear from the errors you can find throughout the document that this "report" was posted from some original hard copy run through some form of OCR.

I think this is a particular example of it. Why the number of LOC is 101000?

Maybe the OCR interpreted a bad comma from scanning as a "1", in which case the number would have read 10,000 LOC - and thus "twenty errors".

As another glaring example of this OCR issue, look for this line:

> "There were [.4ECL] people sitting in our offices telling us it [the Therac-25] couldn't hurt anybody when they knew it could."

"[.4ECL]"?

It should read "[AECL]" - but the scan or the copy it was scanned from probably had a small break on the arm of the "A" - which the OCR interpreted as ".4"

You can find other small anomalies like this elsewhere in the document if you look for them. They kinda bugged me, but I could tell from the pixels what was going on.

;)

EDIT: My own mistakes fixed...sigh
I rather pay Apple with my money than the other companies with my privacy to use their product
I wonder what % of Facebook employees actually keep up with this stuff, ie how many of them are regularly on HN, etc? Might be a lot lower than we assume.

EDIT: or even how many pay attention to tech news in the mainstream media, for that matter.
And the real life use http://i.imgur.com/RmfbEsZ.jpg
You can setup command-line flag completion in bash as well. For example, on my Linux systems I have this line in my .bashrc to autocomplete systemd unit file names for when I run systemctl:

complete -W "$(systemctl list-unit-files|cut -f1 -d' '|tail -n+2|head -n-2)" systemctl

Bash also allows you to cd to common directories, but again, you have to set it up. You set the CDPATH variable to one or more paths, and then you can cd to relative subdirectories without typing out the absolute path.
Are you talking about these[1]? Also, would you have a rough ballpark figure on the CPU load reduction you have seen using these?

[1] http://www.mellanox.com/page/products_dyn?product_family=209...
Apple unveils new health features in iOS 13
This step is overdue and i applaud Mozilla for doing it. But:

Why doesn‘t Firefox block all 3rd party cookies by default? That would be a huge win for privacy.
Yes, some sites would break. But if Apple can do it with Safari, Mozilla can do it with Firefox.

Be brave! Do it!
There are a ton of comments suggesting the non-binding vote will not change behavior. I want to throw some light on the opposite side:

Zuk has a strong incentive to listen to his shareholders even if he doesn't have to. If he ignores them, shareholders are likely to sell their shares driving the price down. This (1) reduces Zuk's overall wealth since much of it is locked up in Facebook equity, (2) reduces the total compensation of many Facebook employees who receive options or RSUs thereby making retention harder, (3) makes recruiting engineering talent harder because few people want to join a sinking ship, and (4) reduces the ability of the company to raise capital in public markets (unlikely a significant consequence for Facebook as they throw off a lot of operating cashflow)

So yes, Zuk voted to not fire himself. That doesn't mean he can ignore his shareholders without consequence.
Quantifying the Staggering Cost of IT Outages
If you live on takeaway food, yes. I work for a DSP company partnering with Just Eat and I also do a lot of home cooking with local non-intensive produce.

Food delivery is way too expensive for most people to cater for every meal. A Friday night treat after a rough week has its rightful place in the world.

As for pollution, food is increasingly being delivered by bicycle in many cities here in Europe.