skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
From your own quote:

> they merely enable you to audit whether it has been tampered with

That's literally the entire point here (if I've understood correctly). If anyone tried to falsify even the slightest detail, including Honeywell or an entity hosting the database on their behalf, you can be reasonably certain that you would notice it. The history of each serial number becomes effectively immutable once entered into such a database, which is presumably a very good thing given what these parts are used for.

I'd love if purchasing a used car came with anywhere near that level of guarantee about its history.
The article is called "reinventing the small wind turbine," by which I think they meant "redesigning from plastic/fiberglass to wood."

What I was hoping is that they'd talk about how common small-scale generation was a hundred years ago.

We're gradually getting back to where things were headed in the 1920's before the Rural Electrification Act essentially killed the local generation industry.

If you're interested, there's a relatively quick primer on that history here: http://www.windcharger.org/Wind_Charger/Farm_Electric.html
That is not a requirement but rather an innovation first done by Mori Tower about thirty years ago.

Most large sky scrappers are still pure office towers. The mixed use developments are rare and lifestyle branded.
Also sort of pointless since most ear infections don’t need treatment.
Counterpoint: I got a Pixel 2 while also switching from T-Mobile to Fi. Surprisingly only took like 20 minutes to transfer my number over and get the phone set up.

The only problem I've had with the phone is the dumb USB to 3.5mm audio dongle. Each one I've had breaks after only a few months of use. Very frustrating because I generally dislike bluetooth headphones but am forced to use them.

I've been loving Fi (it's great if you travel a lot but are also usually on wifi), I've used it in several countries and I end up paying around $35-40/mo (2 GB data or so). If I need to use more data I just go ahead and do so, without having to worry about what kind of plan I'm on, and I'm billed for it in a straightforward manner. Some people complain that their pricing is bad for heavy data users, but my usage just naturally lands at the 2Gb/mo mark so it works for me. I've had much better coverage in the US with Fi as well.
I think this is false thinking. The 737 is by now a very well tested airframe. Yes, you change some things and there are unexpected results, but the core is sound. Starting over on a completely new design, everything has to be debugged from scratch.

This reasoning reminds me of the tendency to argue "this code needs to be thrown out and rewritten from scratch" among software engineers. It's easy to see the flaws, but not so easy to all the things that have been fixed. See https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2000/04/06/things-you-should-...
Wow, I knew it varied widely across the country, but not between places only a dozen miles apart. Nor that it tracks back 1,500 years or more - which presumably explains the many variations!
Don't be fooled. I use the AGPLv3 for almost all of my software because it's the strongest copyleft license currently available. Apparently, the only reason the AGPLv3 and GPLv3 are different is because of public outrage from some groups, but there's no disadvantages to use the AGPLv3 over the GPLv3 and I recommend it.

What is your project? I'd like to know, if you're willing to tell.
Yeah, I get the sense that this argument was supposed to be a reductio, but as you say it's a decent argument. No, we shouldn't give chimpanzees two-bedroom condos on top of the subway because they'll enjoy it strictly less than they'll enjoy the undeveloped rainforest (and humans are the other way around, so giving the apartment to the chimp and the rainforest to the human is Pareto-suboptimal). But we certainly shouldn't mistreat the chimp because we can, and we absolutely should not destroy the chimp's habitat to build human housing, just because the human has the equipment to do it and the chimp doesn't have the equipment or weapons to stop it!
How MCAS slipped through certification process was not the main issue (mistakes in complex products can happen). The main issue was Boeing not caring that MCAS was dangerous even after discovering it.

After the Lion Air crash, it was very apparent to Boeing that MCAS was not safe. This whole article focuses on how MCAS slipped through development+certification - but really even after Boeing new the dangers of MCAS, the MAX still was allowed to fly.

It was hidden and dangerous. Then it was open and dangerous but was still defended by Boeing. Damning.
I just think if the articles are about X, don't be surprised when the audience talks about X. But I understand your frustration. I'm currently reading the comments on _today's_ 737 max article and feels just like Groundhog Day.
My instinct is that as you fly toward Earth at near the speed of light, earth-bound stopwatches will appear to be going nearly double their normal speed. As you fly away from Earth, the stopwatches will slow to a crawl approaching standstill.
U.S. now requires visa applicants to share social media accounts
Some context for this. The former npm CTO, CJ Silverio, announced this project at JSConfEU '19 and framed it as an alternative to the npm registry. There's a video of the announcement here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xdLMbvEc2zk
Not a proxy but rather a reflection or quick "before and after" analogy.
Getting a major record company to just follow through on the payment of a clearly contracted project is a hassle on its own. It's like they just want to weed out paying any musicians who can't afford to have a lawyer follow up.
Apple Is Shutting Down iTunes
The problem occurred in that that sensor had a privileged (unoverridable) pipeline to the horizontal stabilizer.

The pilots knew something was going wrong. That wasn't the issue. The issue was that the bloody thing could mistrim the plane to the point of nigh irrecoverability, and no one knew enough about it until two planes full of people plunged out of the sky.

The plane may be able to fly just fine; but the way this thing was developed and brought into mainstream use had critical problems in terms of essential information being communicated.

All the decisions and motivations behind these lack of communication have to some point been traced back to trying to circumvent regulations in order to prop up share price by scoring sales of a new airframe of comparable efficiency to the a320neo.
"A home is not necessarily an asset or wealth."

a home IS an asset and wealth. it is only a liability on volcano's path on big island/Hawaii.
My primary dev machine has been running KDE and i3wm for a while. I feel like I get a complete GUI experience while having all the benefits of a tiling window manager.

The author likes Gnome because of it's UI looking like Mac OS, and that's understandable. KDE did look different when I first switched from Macs. But at this point, the only things running in my dev machine is a whole lot of terminals and maybe 1-3 browser instances. So KDE is almost hidden at all tkmes.
Lately it feels like there isn’t any authority left that can’t be bought off.
I spent my childhood around New Mexico, my family also knew a handful of scientists out at the labs. We heard a lot of funny stories.

I wouldn’t be surprised at all if some gov tech was testing against the Navy. But I also wouldn’t be surprised if we just don’t have a clue.

My uneducated, completely bonkers guesses would be plasma stealth drones or multibeam lasers.

I knew several scientists in the 90s that worked on lasers to create floating hotspots, weapons targeting, and to create artificial chaff.

Plasma stealth has also been in development by the Russians for a long time - perhaps someone was testing such systems also. The idea is to inject plasma around a craft - and also to possibly use it for propulsion in an magnétohydrodynamique drive. Glowing white ball would be an apt description.

Again - it’s all purely speculative and sci-fi. I wouldn’t rule out aliens - but it’s really the last possibility simply because the probability is basically almost zero just due to distance, cost, and energy.
There's a short story (by Alan Dean Foster?) about the Polish empire surviving into the 20th century and leading to a glorious utopian age.
“What part of Hindley-Milner do you not understand?”
The "listening device in the home" is described to only listen to the wake word.
Also, more generally, I assume the NYT's security team has a more considered and more informed opinion on this than anyone in this discussion does. I stated that I think their rationale makes sense: that doesn't mean I think I agree with it. I'm not qualified to. I have no actual idea if it will help, but if they say it will help, it doesn't sound bonkers (the way that e.g. "making everyone in an airport stand in a long crowded line to take their shoes off will reduce mass casualty events" sounds bonkers).
You are 100% correct. Land is valuable, houses & buildings are not.

The small house on my land has decreased to the point where I pay less than $100 a year in taxes on it.

The land that it's on has increased by around 30x in the last 50 years.
> Why’d I write the book?

Non-native English speaker here. Does this mean why would I write the book or why did I write the book?
In discussions like this, I often wonder how there can be enough data to require a "big data" pipeline with things like Spark and Presto.

Stitch Fix seems to be one of those online services that send you sets of clothes that they think fit your style. That seems like a really narrow, low-data kind of industry. How much data can they possibly have? And why so big on the backend? In January 2018 they had 100 engineers. Presumably they're even larger now. Just for a service that sends out clothing.

Maybe I'm lacking in imagination or insight into what takes to run a company like this. On the other hand, a single PostgreSQL instance can run complex ad-hoc queries, with CTEs and everything, on a single node involving millions, even billions, of rows.
All jetliners are unstable at altitude in cruise, and require augmentation.

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

Aircraft design is a giant bag of compromises between desirable characteristics, most which are in conflict with each other.
Companies did that for years with Linux, Apache, MySQL etc., and noone got riled up enough to produce this mess.

I think another commenter got it right: this is a fuss created by commercial entities that wanted to have their cake and eat it too.
Yeah it did nothing to Microsoft. Business as usual.
> Uber not only lacks powerful competitive advantages, but it is actually less efficient than the competitors it has been driving out of business.

Yeah, it ought to be less 'efficient', the Uber business model is far less exploitative than the taxi model.
Well at that point everything turns off :-)

I’m still running the system in, so the (NiFe) batteries are not at full capacity yet (perhaps only at 30%-50% storage capacity). Even so I can easily stay up until 2am watching TV. And that’s only with 4 (25%) of the panels out (it is summer though, I’ve yet to do a winter.). Oh, and I’m running a fridge/freezer on that too.

Still, probably going to get a UPS for the NAS soon.

Edit: just to rabbit on a bit more - panels are cheap. They only accounted for around 20-25% of the total system cost. Power storage is the expensive part (more like 40% of the cost). It is interesting to try to tailor my systems to draw power at suitable times of day. At 2pm I have more power than I know what to do with, I could happily run 3kw load for a few hours most days around that time. At the batteries theoretical max capacity I have 10kWh stored, but I’m only getting around 3kWh at the moment.

I’ve got a backup generator to cover any extreme weeks in winter.

Figuring out the water pumping/irrigation has been a fun one I’ve been looking at today. The trees will have wood chip moats around them, a side effect of which is they can be watered at any time of day (which is great), but watering the grass must happen when it isn’t sunny (so maybe I can squeeze in a watering when the last rays are hitting the panels, or first thing in the morning).

As a software developer it’s an absolute dream.
I think cigarettes are a more apt analogy. I think over the next ten to twenty years we are going to see increasingly deadly consequences to phone/screen/content addictions.
You're correct. They included a link to the actual paper: https://stm.sciencemag.org/content/11/492/eaav1102

According to the paper, they achieved 85% sensitivity and 82% specificity (N=98)
> It is an historical fact that the United States has profoundly and repeatedly screwed over nearly every single nation south of it on the two American continents, starting coups to topple democratically elected governments, invading, supporting dictators, and destroying economies over the last century. I think claims about economic migrants and/or refugees that don't acknowledge this background are absurd.

Dude, I just said that people want to be in the U.S. I didn't write an essay on the ultimate moral high ground of America, nor claim that they've done no wrong. I just said many people attempt to illegally enter the country because they want to be there.

>But now I'm physically reluctant to type out this fact, because it could conceivably jeopardize my next visa application.

The values and freedoms that people picture America stands for, and that it bases its claims to legitimacy on -freedom of thought and speech, democracy, for example- aren't values that America has any interest in upholding for people outside its own borders, instead it repeatedly shows contempt for them; and in the case of dozens of minorities (ethnic, religious, gender and sexual) it shows little interest in upholding these values and freedoms for its own citizens.

Well, if you hate the place so much, then why apply for a visa? As for the U.S. "upholding" "freedom of thought and speech" "outside its own borders", that is entirely outside its remit, and it seems that countries outside the U.S' borders have no interest in upholding freedom of speech anywhere (including at home), how exactly is the U.S. supposed to ensure the civil rights of people it does not govern, in countries where those civil rights are not protected?
> Wolfram's self tic is a thing, but the strange way that internet reactions crystallize on it is also a thing. In fact, it's a mirror image of the same thing.

This is the Wolfram effect: when one person's unusually conspicuous status-seeking behaviour in turn triggers the status preoccupations of a large number of people who usually aren't so bad about it themselves.
they work in biglaw. They are ivy-league-educated over-achievers who are in multiple-6-figures of student loan debt. They already beat the odds to even get the job, then have ~5 years to work as an 'associate' lawyer making roughly what an experienced software engineer makes (this is after or contingent upon passing the bar exam, and many biglaw firms are in NY or CA which have two of the top-5 most difficult bar exams to pass) before they either are promoted to partner or get fired. This is not to mention putting up with acerbic and powerful coworkers, putting in 60-80 hours/week, while always being one mistake away from being fired. I don't wish that fate on anybody. checkout abovethelaw.com or the series Suits (it's heavily fictionalized, but it gives you a good perspective) for an insider's look at that lifestyle.
For antitrust? I’d say it did quite a bit, given that it lead to other companies being able to enter the market and take over market share from Microsoft.
We held onto middle data when I worked in ETL 15 years ago. It's normal to save data in the middle for unit testing and lookup tables. I agree with GP this doesn't need a new term.
In Search of an Understandable Consensus Algorithm – The Morning Paper
That's weird. Don't we get enough stories about Rust Belt economic hardship and Detroit real estate horror stories to know that property values don't always go up? Have we already forgotten 2008?
Interesting; could that be caused by most cities being near sea level and most people living near cities, and thus pollution rather than oxygen might be the root cause?
I had the same thoughts reading the book's preface and exploring the author's site (I had to apply a CSS override, my eyes can't seem to handle green on black for long anymore). And this thread is another instance. Most of me is just fine with the JVM's performance and I sometimes have to correct naive coworkers concerned that splitting up a method for testability and readability is going to be a performance problem -- due to the way the JIT works it may very well improve performance.

But part of me agrees and wants things to go further, since "machine code" is just an abstraction on the microcode. x86 is too high of a layer for what's actually going on in modern CPUs and I hate that to write the most optimal code by hand you have to layout the assembly in a way that coerces the CPU to do what you want at the lower layer (and coerce the compiler to layout the assembly that way too if you aren't working at the assembly layer). At least FPGAs offer salvation to mostly do what you want without lower interference (but there are no "pure" FPGAs, i.e. they actually contain dedicated hardware like DSP slices they can use to be competitive for common tasks rather than just pure programmable gates), but then you're going to be fairly application specific instead of having something more general purpose with lower level hooks or a meta protocol that can give you choices on the tradeoffs instead of being forced to use the one the creators chose. I guess the complaint is that there's just lots of performance left on the table that can't be captured generally.
>The StackOverflow Reflex, where the person responding doesn't believe you've actually explored other solutions sufficiently because in their experience the vast majority of the time the person asking for help hasn't actually explored other solutions effectively.

Heh. Encountered this just the other day. I asked a question about how come an ugly kludge was faster in Python for doing a particular task, and mentioned that I had tested this using timeit and perf.

I got a bunch of answers back that assumed I was doing something stupid that I didn't really need to do. Needless to say, the code samples they posted all ran 5-10 times slower than my kludge, which means they hadn't even tested them.
I am expressing (hopefully humorous) disbelief in the provided claims given my own experience.

As you apparently don't have relevant experience, you seem to be unable to add or subtract authenticity to the claims.

I suspect an uncharitable answer is: "One or more of our senior partners likes to accost people in the stairwells."

A more charitable explanation is that it could be a more "New York" thing in that people are at the office, drunk, late for various reasons (office parking is a good spot to park the car for late events; hit the office before riding mass transit for 30-40 minutes for a pit stop; etc.)
The author is suggesting to curb source-available licenses by modifying open source licences to become... source-available licenses.
Uber reports $1B loss in first post-IPO quarterly results
Step by Step to De-Virginize the Mom
FTA: The Max wasn’t handling well when nearing stalls at low speeds.

In a meeting at Boeing Field in Seattle, Mr. Wilson told engineers that the issue would need to be fixed. He and his co-pilot proposed MCAS, the person said.

It is not clear this translates into a fundamentally flawed design. It's a serious assertion, even though at the same time it's vague. Why did it need to be fixed? To avoid pilot training? Or to pass a FAR 25 airworthiness certification requirement? We can't tell from this reporting. Months after these accidents, people are still asking this question. The difference matters.

I'm very skeptical that software can legally be used to paper over aerodynamic flaws, as I read FAR 25. In fact, neutral design is not adequate, it must exhibit positive static and dynamic stability in all three axes. Fly by wire software doesn't make a plane with negative stability behave as if it has positive stability, the software provides various safeguards in a layered manner.
They are whadrant charts not graphs. While the article is written for people in the wholesaling industry it really says “if you just think of a customer in terms of what they mean to you you may be missing most of the value”
Reason is well and good, but the article linked is all about how Pinker's are arguments are not, in fact, as dispassionate and reasonable as he'd like to think
Points 3 and 4 personally. Feel free to disagree, but some of the homeless are bums IMO (note IMO). I'm willing to help them if it helps everyone else because it's cheaper than any other alternative, but I'm not going to pretend I don't know what they're up to. If I knew a way to reliably isolate the cheaters, I would. I don't, and I'd rather see everyone housed and fed than stay up at night worrying about freeloaders in this age of plenty if only we didn't consistently squander our surplus.

I don't tell people what to do with their lives and the thought of a well-intentioned bureaucracy doing so doesn't thrill me (perhaps from being placed in all the slow classes against my will as a child I am biased here). I like the free market for jobs. Empower people to make their own choices. Give them free community college even. But let them make their own minds up.

California could turn a lot of its secondary cities into job markets as well as suburbs for the major cities if they could build cost-effective mass transit. It seems incapable of getting that job done though so it seems like the only alternative is remote work, and without a cultural shift, that is piecemeal solution. Also look at what happened to SB50, shot down by effectively friendly fire from NIMBYs, not the conservatives.

https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2019/05/california-sb50...
I think from the context it means "why did I write the book".
Still healthier I think. Boredom was a motivator in the old days. Military school might be an option too, haha.
> Why not?

SSH reads the password from the terminal, otherwise it couldn't read the password on a piped input
Listen, after decades of listening to the American Civil War being refought, this discussion is fascinating and entertaining. But can we keep it somewhat civil?
anecdotally ( i turned off ads for my users and switched to contextual-only since GDPR) non-targeted ads bring ~40% less revenue. I suppose it varies widely between publisher type , country etc. I do not believe their data is representative, and i also think it is the wrong kind of data.

My hypothesis is that advertisers overpay for targeted ads, but this is not the right way tot test that. They would need to find data or experiment that correlates advertising spend to revenue generated.
Not pointless at all. If you can track it easily at home and only visit the doctor when it becomes an issue that's a win for everyone.