skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is a very short article with an absolute dearth of information and an extremely misleading and baiting headline. If someone is willing to do the legwork to locate some real information these projects, this technology, and what Duke is doing I’d really appreciate it, but this article in particular is far too low quality to justify its position on the front of this site as is.

Wind turbines can and do kill bats. We (as an industry) unfortunately learned this in the wrong way initially, when we sited and built wind projects without doing the study and siting work that what we should have done. But now when we site projects and machines now we try to do things right. For projects that pose risk to bats that involves wildlife studies from third party experts that include evaluation of bat habitat, identifying bat hibernacula, performing mist netting and bat habitation studies to identify actual species presence, and where needed incorporating turbine curtailment approaches to reduce bat take. We consult with the US Fish & Wildlife Service as well. The approach for birds of concern is similar, but mitigation approaches vary by species.

Note: I am not a bat or wildlife expert myself. But I work with these firms during project development, and I support the technical side of consultations with FWS, and so on.
Stranger in a Strange Land: How Homer Sarasohn Brought Industrial Quality [pdf]
Wow, I really, really wish I could get this to compile, but MinGW just is not having it.
This wasn’t what I was thinking of (time period was ~2010), but is very interesting nonetheless—so thank you!
Gold mostly appear on Earth as a pure metal or an alloy with Silver (that is also valuable), so I expect that in the asteroid it is in one of those forms. (But I'm not an astrogeologist.)

Anyway, the article is probably too optimistic.
New software glitch found in Boeing's troubled 737 Max jet
I sure am glad that no one did a "Go 2 considered harmful" gag.
You can turn that around, if you don't want me skipping the ads don't serve me content through a medium that allows me to do so.

Was it immoral to tape a show and fast forward through the ads?
True. However, relating this back to the software industry, I have often found myself in conversations where somebody says "according to so-and-so / this blog / this author, we should be doing this" - I feel like we don't really know what we are doing with software in the grand scheme of things (although things are getting better) thus many in the industry fall back on the ol' argument from authority. It seems to hold its weight in conversation in my experience. This is bad, everyone's opinion should be questioned and doubted.
> This same panic has been going on since 10.6 with the introduction of the Mac App Store.

And rightfully so! How is this not an obvious trend to you?! It isn't just Apple, it's cell phones and tablets with unlockable bootloaders, Windows S-Mode, Samsung Knox, Firefox extension signing that can't be disabled, and a great many other examples. It's the trend that's alarming, not the specific way macOS is configured right now.

> How do you propose that you would be able to develop software on the Mac if you had to sign your executable every time that you recompiled it?

By paying the Apple tax for a developer license and then just... signing your code every time you compile it? You already have to do this for Firefox extension development if you don't bother to run a dev or unbranded build. Alternatively, just run your (unsigned) compiled code in a VM.

> So what would be the financial motive ...

The financial motive is the glaringly obvious walled garden! It's the vendor's control over the device you purchased!

> Do you really want third party kext to be “free” to crash your entire system?

Obviously not; that is a bad faith interpretation of what I said previously. There are ways to ensure user security that don't remove control of the system from the end user. These options are consistently not chosen, by more or less all the major manufactures. I believe that the motives for such behavior are quite obvious.
"Nobody dies; somebody gets ripped off."

One often overlooked relationship I find to this sort of argument is that economic harm is somehow independent of physical harm.

While in the purest theoretical sense, its obviously clear/true, the more we abstract parts of life away to monetary valuation and control, the more economic effects have real serious indirect physical consequences.

So someone lost a few bucks due to a manipulative ad? Most the time this has no serious consequences as devious as it may be. However, when lost assets become more significant or lead to serious economic distress, it can and does directly result in health effects that have physical consequence.

Obvious extreme examples include cases of financial ruin that lead to mental health distress leading to suicides. Small repeated loss could also lead to unhealthy lifestyles over time coupled with poor financial choices resulting in limited to no access to preventative healthcare... directly leading to a cause of death (say heart disease from poor dieting).

Practices of advertising from the tobacco industry in the past provide a good model for how these can effect peoples choices which over time had serious physical consequences--the main difference being the tobacco industry actually provided a dangerous product that their behaviours pushed. Arguably consumers have to actively make a choice to follow through but with enough data, people are tending to be more and more easily manipulated.
If you look at these accounts, many are 1+ years old. Calling them sock puppets is confirmation bias to avoid reading the article.
>And we should assume that there is an infinite number of industries for humans to constantly move onto why?

Because humans have an infinite amount of wants/desires they'd be willing to pay for if they could afford to hire someone to do it. Practical example in Australia: aged care. The baby boomers, the richest generation, is rapidly aging, so one of the biggest growth industries is aged care/nursing.
I just use Firefox with uBlock Origin on all my devices. Better blocking than Brave and no concerns about future monetization.
I google them
Negative.

They pre-collected donations for random Web sites without owners' knowledge. I don't care about any technical reasons; a child would know it is wrong and wouldn't do it.

Also the ICO was shady.

uBlock Origin is anti-corporativist. Brave certainly isn't.
We already have an example of how sunset provisions work in the US: the federal budget and tax ceiling. What ends up happening is that some politicians hold the sunsetting provision hostage to get their pet issue. Imagine if instead furloughing federal workers, we had the Purge.
My son and I have created several sophisticated asymmetric magnetic arrays.

They are "unbalanced" or otherwise they yield the flux from one pole in a different shape or distribution than the other pole.

All their videos don't play.
It's like targeted advertising with a flash suppressor.
i can only speak from personal experience, but as a parent it is viscerally shocking. i get scared for her safety when my kid walks in a parking lot. for someone to be in a situation like that, with their kid, and for that to happen, it's horrible.

it's easy for us to live our lives and not think about things like this. to think about sports, or work, or binge watch netflix, or scroll through social media feeds.

but when you see something like this, i think it kind of punches you in the face and for those of us in first world countries, takes us out of the bubble. and we feel angry, and sad.

sadly, nothing we can say or do will make a difference for that father and his kid. but i hope i can do my tiny role in making this world a little bit better of a place for the next one, and for my own kid.
What a load of shit. It's a fucking choose your own adventure, and you can yes it to death without reading a word.

The game does nothing.
Engaging them isn't possible as they ban anyone who doesn't agree with the current Trump position on something. It is a real world example of 1984 the way they change "acceptable" thinking on a near day to day basis.
I find virtually all of these, and especially the original Mac design [1], pleasing even now. Do they look hilarious to younger generations? I’m guessing yes...

http://oldcomputers.net/macintosh.html
Of course they aren’t a first order bird killer because there aren’t that many turbines compared to the first order bird killers. Nuclear power is far more “green” than solar and wind, but for some reason, environmentalists are stuck in wind and solar as saviors. In California, they just declared that hydro doesn’t count as “renewable,” despite it being exactly that. The push for wind and solar is political more than practical. We already have an incredibly green, practically limitless energy technology already available, it’s called nuclear, but instead we want to debate sticking windmills on every patch of ground and covering everything with inefficient solar panels.
A lot of those screenshots are theses too:

- 49 votes, 9 hours ago

- 27 votes, 7 hours ago

- 53 points, 1 day ago

- 66 points, 1 day ago

Go do a sockpuppet and do the same! That won't last long and you'll get down-voted heavily.
Doesn't GP break the same rule then?
The incorrect user input on AF447 happened AFTER all of the automatic systems had failed due to sensor clogging. How could ignoring user input have helped the flight when the plane's computer giving up was the cause of the manual takeover in the first place?
You’re making a distinction between cyber industrial espionage and cyber geopolitical espionage and I’m not. I would classify all of these actions under the broad umbrella of cyber warfare. In this context, the OP’s assertion that Europe and the U.S need to “join the hard line on China” is based on the fundamentally flawed assumption that the EU and the U.S are simply innocent victims of cyber attacks. It implies that they, as pure, liberal and democratic as they are, have never, and would never engage in such reprehensible and illegal activities as hacking, unlike the big bad evil Chinese. It is my view that this is an untenable and fundamentally flawed position.

> I can't think of anywhere else in the world where this is not only routine, but coordinated at massive scale. Can you inform me what I'm missing?

Why would you need me to inform you about something that I’ve never claimed? My claim is that nobody’s hands are clean when it comes to cyber warfare, not that China has never before engaged in the type of espionage you describe.

> Edit: I disagree with your last point too. There's been plenty of reporting on Chinese IP theft dating back years, it's only increased in prominence. Trump is waging the trade war partially because of the history of hacking. It was a point of contention throughout Obama's admin too, but Trump is handling it his way. (Obama's answer was TPP, but deployed too late)

I’ve addressed the industrial espionage point above. As far as the trade war: Trump is waging his trade war because of the trade imbalance between the U.S and China as he has repeated ad nauseam since day one. There was a particular point in time (probably around the time of the as-of-yet unsubstantiated and unretracted Bloomberg Supermicro story) where the hacking narrative was retroactively shoehorned in as a reason. I stand by my opinion that the timing of this report, along with the other recent mountains of anti-China mainstream media stories and social media posts, is highly suspect.
Airlines never use safety angle there is industry wide consensus on that.
It's really weird to see ad-tech defenders on Hacker News in 2019. Create a Patreon. Take the few minutes to create a Brave Creator account. Use a non-invasive ad network on AdBlock's "Acceptable Ads" list. Read an Orwellian novel.
I don’t get it. What is this showing?
I don't believe in the backfire effect - but there is something here that is interesting.

Most people can't actually defend their opinions - I like arguing with people, and something that really puts a limit on how much arguing can happen is that people just don't have deep webs of reasoning ready if their superficial beliefs are challenged.

Even if I think their beliefs are obviously correct it is likely that their reasons are superficially copied from someone else and don't really stand up to scrutiny because they don't fully understand them. So, if I listen to someone representing a view I disagree, it is likely that their arguments are bad even if their ultimate position turns out to be on the money. I've seen a tiny handful of people who I think can really defend a capitalist position, for example, and I'm not particularly sure I'm one of them.

Believing that nobody arguing a viewpoint has good reasons would lead to something like the backfire effect, but it is a reflection of reality rather than a human irrationality.
We need a solution that works for the average Joe, rooting devices don't fall in that category.
"Get a Rope" is not the same as saying pick up a rifle against cops.

Again, that's not the same as just talking about the effects of riots, and at this point I think you have cognitive bias by thinking these things are the same.
I think they, along with every other major vendor, are consistently moving towards precisely this model. I don't think they will do it soon, but I think it is likely to happen eventually.
There is a long history of American automakers and their cohorts in the media and elsewhere who use these scandals to scare buyers away from Japanese makes. See what they did to Suzuki with the Jimny in the eighties for the most egregious example. I watched this “scandal” closely at the time, and it smelled like a rat all along. Fortunately, these tactics are ineffective, but there will always be anecdotal persistence on discussion threads like this. Nothing in any credible source materials proved this issue. Settling lawsuits is not an admission of guilt; it’s Japan Inc rolling their eyes, pulling out their pocket books, and making a pragmatic cost/benefit analysis. The lengths to which the case for the unintended acceleration flaw went is proof enough of what their aims were. If you want a counterpoint to the study you cited, here’s one from the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration when American media and automakers pulled the same stunt to slander German makers in the 1980s: https://www.autosafety.org/sites/default/files/1989%20NHTSA%...
Yes, I guess that's where I say I don't know of a fool proof system, and then yeah how would it know it was incorrect input. I was simply saying incorrect input, given the actual situation, was an issue.
TD bans lots of people. When you are banned it doesn't unsubscribe you which is why their typical ratio of subs to active users was very low.
The absence of a data point is still an identifiable data point
What are these known and trusted technologies ?
1Blocker X is probably best in class.
Does the content creator get a cut from Brave?
If you're not playing a semantics game then when why are you calling Reddit the United States?
Its the ABC, its basically our government funded socialist station. Their journalistic integrity is zero, and its often where the journalists who can't get jobs anywhere else end up. Sort of a catching tray for the unemployable.
Duplicates of entire GitHub site (reasons unknown), hosted by GitHub, publicly available and therefore indexed by Google Search, so it's showing up on search results.
I never criticized them - they can run their business however they please. I'm not a customer (i.e. I don't pay) so I have no right to ask for changes.

I have always been ignoring YouTube recommendations and will continue to do so.

(What I can't ignore is server-side ordering of results, which is a recommendation in itself, so I scroll through a few extra pages of results or use DDG rather than YouTube to search)
How is the economy tanking?
Can a thermostat do that? It takes a time scale of ~seconds for my air conditioner to click on and off.
Use rel=canonical tags guys!
After using my Bose QC25 for years I can't go back to the HD 280, very heavy, not comfortable overall, very tighten on your head, they're cheap with good sound quality but I care more about sound isolation / confort nowadays.

You can have the best sound possible if you hear ambient noise it ruins the experience imo ( especially in an office )
Probably a bad example. A lot more people died from malaria than would ever have been harmed by DDT.
This is okay on countries with a graying population like East Asia, North America and Europe.

This is bad news for most of the Southern Hemisphere with young populations which will continue to grow till the end of this century.

Unless something changes economically or in pop growth, there are going to be massive economic problems.
They're probably not duplicate sites. I wonder if this is some weird config bug.
And what’s wrong with Safari?
What's the scientifically correct ratio?

Or is there not some objective standard for determining that?
Just to flag - the US Government (which operates NASA) was a major stakeholder in GM and Chrysler, major competitors of Toyota, when they investigated Toyota.
In the "Internet of Things", the "s" is for "security" and it comes after every "thing".
I look forward to any supporting evidence for your conspiracy shower thought.
> Is somebody intentionally spreading this stuff and trying to fuel this fire exactly because they want to sow discord among the NRA faithful?

No conspiracy theory is required to explain why you're seeing these stories.

The article goes into this in some detail, but the TL;DR version is that the NRA has been running enormous deficits for years now. The budgetary picture has finally become so bad that it's prompted an internal war over who's responsible, and so previously tightly held information about the NRA's operations is now leaking out all over the place as various factions try to cover their own butts.

One thing that's become clear from these leaks is that the NRA spends far less on the things you care about ("gun safety training, support for high-school rifle teams and so forth") than they do on marketing and fundraising, where they apparently spend like drunken sailors. The picture that emerges is of an organization captured by its advertising agency, who steered it towards hard-line gun control stances and tighter integration with GOP politics because those things made for bigger fundraising numbers. The ad agency could then profit from that fundraising indirectly by milking the NRA with exorbitant fees for various services it provided. Many high-profile NRA leaders (including Oliver North) were actually paid employees of the ad agency rather than the NRA itself, which would help explain why none of them saw anything wrong with this arrangement.

If you're at all interested in this subject, I would definitely recommend a close read of this article, it is full of illuminating information.
Is GitHub not indexed by Google anyway? I'm probably out of the loop on something here.
I'd be pretty comfortable flying it after all this attention and review. It will probably be the best reviewed passenger plane software developed in America, if not the world once this is over.

Boeing deserves a 9-figure fine though, and its shareholders should lose massively to make sure this doesn't happen again.
Even if you manage to end up as root in a shell on the host OS, the data you're interested in is going to be encrypted at rest, probably with keys that aren't on the same machine, and your access to the machine is going to have been logged somewhere. Access to the underlying infrastructure for the data persistence layer is also presumably granted to a tiny fraction of engineers. Only the relevant teams would need it, and even then not all of them.
Nobody was saying it until the person I responded to did. What you provided isn't a counterexample.
Google Mobilizer Bookmarklet – view just text of web pages
I mean also the fact that the browser most people used at that time was bad may have been a factor. Chrome was a noticeable step up from IE.
Max Jets Have New Problem Keeping Them Grounded
If, a priori, food A and food B seem equivalent to you, and you're currently eating food A, and then you get a weak report that food B is better, then it seems like an ok decision to switch to B. If your prior belief was that food A was a little bit better, then you might switch or not depending on the exact magnitudes of "weak" and "a little bit". If your prior belief was that food A was moderately or significantly better, then the weak report would not be sufficient evidence to switch (though it could be good reason to do more research).
> Either fix it to stop promoting "popular" garbage (which is "popular" because it is auto-recommended and auto-played), or turn if off by default.

Or maybe people like content that you don't? People aren't drones who watch something because it was shovelled into their watch next. Chances are it was decent content. For them.

If you consider this a dark pattern then you probably need to get a better perspective. There are far worse actors online.
That's an imperfect metric, but at the time it was a good measure of the destruction potential you had against other navies. 17 attack submarines, even "obsolete" (which probably just means that the US navy and maybe one or two others could counter them) was an impressive force at the time.
I imagine that nobody has ever been deliberately given this power (why would it need to exist?), and that the auditing implementation is robust against most combinations of credentials that most engineers could put together. The number of people that could pull it off in theory is probably very small, the number that could do it in practice without leaving any trace is probably 0.
SEO Consulting isn't necessarily a bad thing. If it takes someone from completely bad site for SEO -> reasonable white-hat SEO site then that's great for everyone involved.
The best thing I ever bought in an office were the Bose QC25, I just can't see myself not using them. Anyone enjoying music and working in an office should really try a noise cancelling headphone it's a life changing device. The NC feature is even more impressive in a plane.
> The problem is that at screen sizes less than 30" it's basically impossible to read text at 4k. Even at 31" it's a bit small.

I have a laptop with a 12" 4k screen. I can read it just fine. I do scale it 200%, but that just means I would be able to read text just fine at 24" 4k with no scaling.

It's all preference and how well the OS handles it. I think everyone can agree that the are still issues to work through on the OS side w.r.t. display scaling.

Edit: I misunderstood your last comment. Maybe it isn't the OS's fault when programs don't scale well... but the OS should have an override that lies to the program to force scaling. Hacky though that may be, it would work well, at least for an even 200% scale factor.
There are plenty of examples on Apple's side, too. To name a few: Floppy disks. CDROM. USB. Firewire. WebKit.
That would be nice, but they come into normal subs with detached from reality troll comments and disturbing "opinions".
The kind in which FBI agents show up at the homes of executives, board members, and senior management at 5:00am in the morning with guns and warrants.
Love visicalc but multiplan more. 1-2-3 is just work.
That'll help reduce the correlation next time.
I wonder if this will be like secretaries and word processors.

Everybody does their own word processing now, and the world has adjusted.

In the same way, I would like to do my own robotic assembly now.

Or even have a personal factory. (Maybe a cornicopia machine in a suitcase, like charles stross wrote about in singularity sky)

maybe business will be democratized and more companies will exist, with smaller org charts making more specific things of value.
Yeah, I've pre-ordered the Librem 5 for those same reasons. It will likely absolutely pale in comparison to Android/iOS features, but I'm wanting to go full "Off To Be The Wizard" and help develop the lacking apps.