skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
- Teddy Wilson was mocking the "white genocide" conspiracy theory. He's also white.

- Dadito Calderone was making a joke about people who pretend to be concerned about crime in black neighborhoods when really they're trying to demonize black people as criminals.

- ka5sh, and possibly Brian Clevinger, is quoting the TV series Roots.

- Bobbie Oliver was talking about a movie in which a black man escapes slavery by killing his captors.

- Shay Stweart Bouley was sharing a story with an intentionally provocative title

- Tracy Bommeisha-Ann Clayton was ironically using a painfully exaggerated black accent.

- Yasser Lester is saying something similar to Nick Hanauer telling plutocrats to beware of pitchforks and torches.

None of these people were actually advocating for killing white people, nor or they making these jokes in a targeted way that would constitute bullying. Furthermore, many of these tweets are many years old, which indicates that they were found by scraping the bottom of the barrel.
Can't sell planes, or fly the ones that exist, and pay out huge untold sums in death lawsuits.
Apologies, for some reason I misread the hierarchy of your post.
Exposing whether an account exists is a risk, but the alternative is also a hard problem to solve. Sign In screens could throw a generic error that doesn’t reveal whether it was the email address or password that was incorrect, but what about registration flows?

If users can sign up and register to your system, it’s harder to offer a slick user flow without revealing that an account already exists. One way to achieve this is to only capture the user’s email address, send them an email, and they complete the rest of the sign up process as a second stage. A user who already has an account gets sent an email stating that an account already exists.

As a business I assume they’ve decided that the risk of exposing whether an account exists was worth it in exchange for a better user experience.
So, can I vaccinate my kids or not?
software put the plane in a nosedive. when are you going to accept that?
Show HN: A music delivery service built around the WebAudio API
How common is this, payment based on sales, and years later!? I guess you only do that with established companies? Still seems like a risk.
Yep. Nothing epitomizes Ive’s war on usefulness better than music-centric devices with no audio outputs. What a “genius.”
It's possible she wasn't offered a plea, or was offered one so unattractive that she'd rather roll the dice on a trial.
It also doesn't actually accomplish what people are talking about using sum types for. There's also no language support for ensuring you've exhaustively matched every variant.
Yeah, that too, after the fact seems so stupidly obvious.
Why wouldn't this be allowed? This is the company equivalent of a person working on commission vs salary. Salary is more stable and predictable, commission is riskier but has higher potential for upside.
MSI PS63 or MSI GS65?
I need a new laptop, and I'm searching the web to make the right choice.

And I found two Cool laptops with great specs and they are available in my country, but I'm having hard time to pick the more suitable one for my needs.

I'm working as web & mobile developer, I those are my needs for my new laptop:

1- Long battery life ( cause we have electricity issues and sometimes it struggles my work )

2- Running multiple virtual machines.

3- Sometimes I play games (but not so often).

4- High quality screen (I'm watching a lot of series and movies).

5- hoping it will serve me for the next 5 years

Firstly, I chose MSI PS63

1- it has great battery life ( UP to 16 hours)

2- GTX 1050 MAX Q GDDR5 4GB GPU

3- it has Intel Core i7-8565U ( it's not good compared to H & HQ types)

4- 16GB of ram DDR4

4- light weight & very beautiful design

5- the quality of its screen is pretty good

6- 512 SSD

but my friends told me that the type U processor is kinda weak comparing to H & HQ types, and its price kinda very high to it's specs (1800$) for the 32GB, 512SSD version. And they suggested me to take the GS65 cause its has more powerful specs and just cost me only 200$ over the PS63 price to get it.

1- battery life ( UP to 8 hours)

2- GTX 1060 MAX Q GDDR6 GB GPU

3- 16GB of ram DDR4

4- Intel Core i7-8750H CPU

5- 512 SSD

but the battery is the thing that I'm not sure about in the GS65, so guys if anyone used some laptop from the two above help me to pick.

and if some one used the GS65 battery how it was. how many hours gonna last for development usage, and thank you very much for the help, sorry for my weak English, I hope that you will understand me :)
Is this the first case of extraterrestrial life?
Another piece of software worth mentioning in this space is pianobar, which is a terminal based client for Pandora.
That’s a very cool addition! I wonder if this can be used in an event sourcing architecture with minimal overhead.
Do you commonly encounter people who use networked X for scenarios that would not be better solved by other protocols? Cause I have basically never seen that in the last decade.
I disagree on the how the goalposts are moving. I'll outline the three camps I see.

Some people say AI and mean "a thinking sorta-conscious thing that thinks like we do." Like C3PO or R2D2 or HAL or ourselves. That's their definition. People complain that that's not a rigorous falsifiable concept, so they say, "Okay here's a test that I think can only be done by a thinking sorta-conscious thing that thinks like we do." Then someone clever figures out how to do it without something that fits their definition. They respond, "Okay fine I guess my test was bad." It's kinda moving the goalposts, but their fuzzy conception of what AI means is still unchanged. It just remains hard to make concrete, especially since we can't really define things like consciousness in the first place.

Another camp is marketing. It takes anything it can sell by calling it AI and does so. The goalposts lower. Linear regression is branded as AI now, like it or not. This is the opposite direction of what you're talking about.

A final camp is what you talked about. I think these people are really in the first camp I mentioned. They don't move the goalposts on their concept, they just move the goalposts on their test. But there are also a distinct group who consider it as "something normally done by humans that most people don't think computers could do proficiently" or even just "computerized decision making/information processing."

I'm in the first camp. "AI" is no less meaningless than "consciousness" but it's equally hard to define. Some people have begun using the label "AGI" for it. Same concept whatever your word choice. I think of C3PO but understand that words are defined by usage and maybe linear regression is AI now.
Deep-Dive into How Verizon and BGP Optimizer Sent Parts of the Internet Offline
It’s more like becoming a partner or working for shares. Rather than getting a fixed price up front you take a (presumably larger) payment at a later date but accept the risk that there may be no payment.
A Well-Regulated Apocalypse: The Code of Emergency Federal Regulations (2016)
Problem caught during self audit, self reported.

Seems like they're being transparent, and the auditing they have in place has found a problem which is being addressed.

Talk about a misleading headline.
I’m not discounting the possibility of bad workmanship by Boeing. However “temporary workers making as little as $9 an hour to develop and test software” does sound to me like the reporter might have found some highly paid mechanical Turk style employees given the job of battering against a solidly built piece of software just because there would be a possibility of finding a problem.

If the sentence was “the mean salary of $9/hr” then I would be thinking differently.
When I first realized you could do this I was blown away. Just set `DISPLAY` in your environment to an X server (any X server, anywhere) and any applications you run will appear there.

Of course, there are immense problems with this. For one thing, it's usually crippled by latency. Even if the client X application is in a Docker container on the same machine, applications are only halfway usable. Use a local Ethernet network, and things start to fall apart. Going over the Internet isn't really worth trying.

The other major problem is that there's no security. If you have an open X server, anyone can connect to it and run random applications on your display. But in addition to opening you up to annoyance from cyber-hooligans, allowing an X application to run gives it access to all your keystrokes, which may not be something you want. Beyond that, all the X data is going out over the network unencrypted. There's just no security model here.

That said, it would be cool if there were some kind of plugin for Wayland that would let you use this feature (or even something better, if someone wanted to implement that). I've wondered---can you set up XWayland to be an open X server and just let random X applications connect to it? It would be interesting to hear from Wayland experts on this point.
You can't vaccinate your kid.

You might be able pay a doctor to do it, though.
>>"...recalled one manager saying at an all-hands meeting that Boeing didn’t need senior engineers because its products were mature. "

Whatever manager that was, should never be working in an aerospace context, where one design failure or fault can literally kill hundreds of people in minutes (and in this case, did exactly that).

Clearly, Boeing has become infested with people who literally do not understand the fundamental life-and-death consequences with which they are dealing, and who treat everything as fungible commodities. The entire story is essentially about how the outsourcing and commoditizing just expanded and expanded until now, when there were fatal consequences for the passengers, and perhaps even for the company (TBD).

Unless this changes, this is no longer a company who can be trusted with such life-and-death engineering decisions.
Gentoo doesn't use systemd by default, it has its own init system called OpenRC that's kinda sorta like a framework for sysv. Despite being shell based, it's very fast, my system can get from GRUB to Firefox in less than ten seconds if you enable autologin and add Firefox to your.Xsession.

Gentoo maintains forks of udev and logind, imaginatively named eudev and elogind. I use eudev, but elogind is unnecessary for me because I don't use Gnome3. But if that's your thing I'm not stopping you.

Pulseaudio is easy to remove by virtue of Gentoo's source based package model. Dbus less so; many applications have a hard dependency on it.

I think it's possible to use a BSD kernel, but you will very likely deal with a lot of breakage.

Gentoo is just so much easier to administrate that other distros it's unreal.
I don't really know much about Smalltalk, but guix is a linux distro that allows for impressive customize through Guile Scheme.

guix: https://www.gnu.org/software/guix/
guile scheme: https://www.gnu.org/software/guile/
"Rabin, the former software engineer, recalled one manager saying at an all-hands meeting that Boeing didn’t need senior engineers because its products were mature."

Boeing is dead to me.
Apple to Manufacture New Mac Pro Computer in China Instead of U.S.
Do you feel your description supports means the article is FUD?
That natural garbage collection happens during sleep, you need to sleep on it a couple of times. So make that a staged 25 minutes, i.e. 10 mins one day, 10 mins the next, then 5 mins on the third day. Only then will the mental block be gone -- as long as there's only about 7 shortcuts you don't like (and that's plus or minus 2, probably minus).

Oh, and that's a good night's sleep, not a programmer's every-other-night sleep, so better stage that 25 mins over four days, not two.
Why arent we just mass launching probes to all the planets?

Serious question: Why is it not OK to have a standard sensor array on every planet in the solar system?
Yes, but not with processed cheese.
If the weather is such that you need AC or heat, why would you have the windows open? Add humidity to the mix and open windows become even more problematic.

An oversized AC is going to run more if you have your windows open when it's hot out although with humidity may actually work better as it'll run long enough to pull out some moisture (latent cooling).

If the issue is around fresh air your average pre-2000 house breathes plenty with closed windows and newer homes tend to have active ventilation (e.g. energy recovery ventilators).

I feel like I must be missing something or you live in a warm-temperate climate such that a heat pump heats faster than it cools (heat pumps go way down in heating efficiency as it gets cold out and most work very poorly when it's much below 0°F).
Also there's https://news.ycombinator.com/whoami which will let you see your cookie values.
Communism and socialism do not have anything to do with censorship.

Edit: I was responding to parent's first sentence, "I live in Venezuela and our internet service is crumbling and censored (Dont fucking vote for communists or populist socialists)". That is like living in Russia, China, Saudi Arabia, etc. (look here if you want more examples: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Internet_Censorship_... ), and then blaming Capitalism for the censorhip of the Internet.
Really wonder how deep this rabbit hole goes. I could live with the mcas drama but these articles hinting at seemingly pervasive internal culture issue makes me wonder whether I want to be on any Boeing jet at all
What would those principles be, that don't exist in current UIs?
The preservative in question is propionic acid (PPA):

> In the current study, Saleh Naser, PhD and her team at UCF found that when neural stem cells were exposed to high levels of PPA, the neurons incurred multiple changes resulting in cellular damage and inflammation. One of the major effects of PPA they noted was the overproduction of glial cells, the protective outer cells making up the sheath covering neurons, with a corresponding reduction in the number of neurons themselves.

Here's another article covering some more of the etiological history behind this finding: https://www.foundationalmedicinereview.com/blog/the-link-bet...

On a side note: at the risk of both being slightly off topic and/or spreading bad science, there was that controversial assessment of Einstein's brain which noted that he had a higher proportion of glial cells than other brains studied (see Wikipedia for potential issues with the findings): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert_Einstein%27s_brain#Glia...

I'm noting this only as a layman's speculation about glial cell concentration as a potential mechanism behind the phenomenon of higher intelligence and occasionally savant-like abilities in some of the high-functioning ASD population.
$9 an hour works out to about 100,000 rupees a month, which allows one to live relatively comfortably in India.
Time is hard: https://zachholman.com/talk/utc-is-enough-for-everyone-right

This is all because of the fact that we're trying to represent the time taken by the earth (an arbitrary planet that has no impact on the universe whatsoever) to revolve around the sun (an arbitrary star) in terms of the amount of time the earth takes to rotate around itself. These two obviously unrelated things are somehow merged into to create an unsolvable clusterfuck. To make matters worse, let's sprinkle some politics...
Had to run an outsourced team out of India a few years back. Had to sign off on the time / pay paperwork. I believe their Senior-level folks were costing us $20 - $25 per hour. Not sure what they made after the agency took their cut. $9 sounds like very Junior-level staffing.

As for code quality, this team was working on a Spring / Java application. They were instructed to use Spring JDBC templates instead of Hibernate. So of course they build their own query-builder that was just concatenating strings. Naturally we paid them to clean up their own mess.
Well, they were caught (warned about it), so they came clean. It's still a bit troubling that they didn't detect themselves. Better than nothing I suppose.
Without wanting to sound disrespectful, most of the engineers outside US and some EU countries, get paid a lot less from what you’re used to and from what you read in major tech sites.
I know a lot of good engineers in many countries (Greece, Croatia, south-east EU, India...) that get paid less than 9$/hr (myself included).
The bad thing with all the big companies outsourcing positions and working with external partners is that it’s difficult to distinguish the good engineers from the copy-paste developers, self-taught coders and really bad engineers that give some countries a bad name.
I have first hand experience of really bad engineers, working for top companies, who get paid low wages and don’t care about the quality of their work.
I guess that’s how the system works...
This article is written in an irritating style, as if the writer were half embarrassed to be discussing something so arcane as Greek epigraphs and they feel compelled to knowingly wink at the reader about the silliness of it all.
Why Policymakers should fear Libra
The software performed exactly as designed. The problem is a faulty spec for how it should behave. The software is pretty much incidental.
This page says s3 is 9 cents https://aws.amazon.com/s3/pricing/
For one, in part because many managers don't really understand software or software projects and think it's mostly just people * man-hours. "Through this cost-saving measure, we've tripled the amount of people working on the project and expect to reduce the amount of time it'll take to complete by two-thirds without incurring any additional costs." In their minds, it's an easy win.

And they were probably regularly reassured by various internal and external entities that the code was high-quality and thoroughly tested and very safe. Obviously they're not going to outsource if they think it's likely to cause a safety hazard; they just didn't place the odds of this outcome anywhere near what the actual odds ended up being.
Install evil-mode and evil-collection. I use general.el to configure a leader key and make my a personalized, stripped-down spacemacs. It's heaven.

https://github.com/emacs-evil/evil-collection
https://github.com/noctuid/general.el
This is an example implementation of https://www.researchgate.net/publication/288280540_Tell_Me_A...
Psychopaths like William Nordhaus will be the reason we go extinct.
Ask HN: Evening freelancers, how do you manage your time?
So I tend to have a fair amount of time in the evenings, but due to a fairly erratic childcare schedule I never really know when I am going to get the most of my freetime in.

I would like to do some freelancing in my spare time with a view to quitting my job and doing it fulltime once it is up and running. I am worried that clients aren't really going to like the fact that I will not be able to dedicate a predetermined number of hours per week to their project and will only be able specify a vague 10-20 hours per week timeframe.

Do you folks have any advice on how I can best handle this?
Here are some resources to read up:

https://cleantechnica.com/2018/03/31/passive-solar-house-des...

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Passive_house

Given increased heat from global warming, we can also borrow techniques from places like Mexico and the Middle East for cooling a house using air flow. For example:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_chimney

https://energyeducation.ca/encyclopedia/Solar_chimney

We've been doing this around the world since well before we invented AC. We just seem to have conveniently "forgotten," never mind that these techniques are actually still in widespread use.
I just do a PPO plan on the health insurance marketplace in the US. I pay about $500 as a single person nonsmoker 30 year old male. It's been fine so far.
If this goes according to plan, there will be more satellites in orbit than visible stars in the night sky.

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2019/may/28/spacex-sa...
Subpixel rendering is different from subpixel positioning.

See e.g. https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=824153 for some gory details.
Microsoft's Linux Kernel
It happens in the best of families
Why I Don’t Use Autocomplete
I think he just needed people like Jobs and others to keep him in check. With Cook at the top I would expect more business people to run the show who don’t have much input in the product.
> People are using the free internet there perfectly, using obfs4

This is not entirely true. It's been getting tougher and tougher to get past TGF, even with obfuscation.
Software was definitely part of the issue.
My point wasn't entirely about survivorship bias. People in a surveillance state are going to be especially careful about what they say to people like foreigners and journalists, as those are people who are likely to be under even more close surveillance than are average citizens. So whatever you say to them is very likely going to be something you say in the hearing of the government, even if the person themselves does their best to keep your secret.
> Naturally we paid them to clean up their own mess.

Heh, basically funding external developers too learn without the benefit of retaining them then.
I reject the premise of your statement. It's only a failure when implemented on top of relational databases which are (obviously) not optimized for it.

What are the failures of EAV except when applying it to a database optimized for something different?
It's possible she could win a jury trial, but if she does it'll be because there isn't enough evidence to meet the burden of proof. Finding experts is never a problem. There are always people willing to say whatever you need them to say for the right price. Also, the science being over the jurors' heads isn't really a big issue in federal court in San Francisco because the jury pool is well educated and quite scientifically literate. It's not quite as good as, say, San Jose, but it's far and away better than most parts of the country.

Source: Myself. I'm a jury consultant in SF and have picked juries in Davila's court.
>I expected the Beijing government would (a) continuously improve its image in Hong Kong, and (b) monitor HK public opinion to ensure they don't push its agenda to the point where it would risk instability.

You fail on two basic points.

1) You think Beijing cares about HK

2) You give too much credit to CCP propaganda

Chinese politics is totally inward facing. The CCP only worries about what Xi thinks or needs. Xi and his followers are the only people who can sack you if you are a bureaucrat.

Beijing would be happy for Hong Kong to disappear into the sea. In 1997, HK was the richest and most dynamic region in China. Now, Shenzhen is much more important and HK is becoming just another Chinese coastal city.

All of the stuff the legal and governance infrastructure that made HK a world capital for finance is dying. The rule of law and personal freedoms are dead.

HK is just a reminder of the Century of Humiliation. The quicker it dies the better for Beijing or CCP anyway.
Evernote had a lot of odd tech bits in it, it wasn't just a CRUD app. At one point you could take a picture of a beer bottle and it would OCR the label for you automatically. I'm sympathetic to your argument (since that's how Pinboard competitors have died) but Evernote was a universe of its own.
Can waves wave angular momentum? This is really neat.
"And, unlike some languages, awk’s syntax is familiar, and borrows some of the best parts of languages like C, python, and bash (although, technically, awk was created before both python and bash)."

Technically??
The risk management is being TBTF. In a nationalist era, is the US going to buy planes from Airbus, or are they going to bail out Boeing?
The managers who saved money would have been promoted well before any accident happens.