skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Funny that you should mention cargo-culting and regulations.

In my experience, much of the cargo-culting is driven by regulations. And a good part of that has been caused by the industries being regulated, as an unfortunate consequence.

Now... I think that warrants an explanation.

Regulations that make sense are often not descriptive - capturing the intent and scope of a rule often requires technical expertise. More than that, it's the type of expertise most organisations do not have. And instead of improving themselves, these companies, who may form the grand majority of the industry, petition the regulators to provide a safe checklist of technical mitigations that can be implemented to remain compliant.

You can probably see where this is going. (I am going to make a wild guess and say that you likely work in the banking industry.) Instead of providing these mitigation checklists as external annexes, they are instead incorporated directly into the regulations themselves.

Regulations always trail reality by a few years -- and in some cases, by decades.[0] The very same checklists that were originally meant to help the smaller players from caving under the regulatory burden are now a drag anchor on entire industries. Instead of doing the right thing and meeting the planned intent, companies are instead ticking nonsensical boxes that the regulators and their auditors demand.

Blindly.

Mindlessly.

Divorced from reality.

And worst of all, unable to improve. Because if you made an improvement that deviates from the historically old, untouched checklist, you would no longer be compliant.

0: Don't ask. I have given a couple of talks on the subject, but refuse to go on record, let alone state the details of my beliefs publicly.
An awfully large number of patents wouldn't exist if there was a requirement to show a working example of each claim.

I would prefer such a requirement.
> The CrossCountry website says: “You can show your ticket ... as a pdf on your phone... the choice is yours!”

PDF is OK, JPEG is not. Absurd.
There's lots of bash implementations on Windows, some with package managers (msys2 has pacman).

It's just one data point in the sum of everything that makes me lose faith in humanity's decision-making ability, like balance bracelets.
I was just reading about how McConnell has steered billions to the Paducah, KY region since coming to power.

Shockingly, the rest of the state hasn’t seen quite as much.

It’s almost as if it’s how the public allows politics to work in general.
Google announces new undersea cable 'Equiano', connecting Africa and Europe
Have they been scraping the bottom of the barrel and reprinting stuff they can only find shitty scans of lately? I haven’t been getting their recent volumes, I kinda feel like I have all the Krazy Kat I need in my life right now.

I’m just gonna assume a humorous accident involving craft beer and flannel shirts for the one missing strip. :)
This is where testing comes in and from the fact packet it appears that the testing was also outsourced to another Indian firm?
From the article it doesn't sound like the people who want to erase the mural believe that the forefathers are people to be admired:

One of the commissioners, Faauuga Moliga, said before the vote on Tuesday that his chief concern was that “kids are mentally and emotionally feeling safe at their schools.” Thus he wanted “the murals to be painted down.” Mark Sanchez, the school board’s vice president, later told me that simply concealing the murals wasn’t an option because it would “allow for the possibility of them being uncovered in the future.” Destroying them was worth it regardless of the cost, he argued at the hearing, saying, “This is reparations.”

These and other explanations from the board’s members reflected the logic of the Reflection and Action Working Group, a committee of activists, students, artists and others put together last year by the district. Arnautoff’s work, the group concluded in February, “glorifies slavery, genocide, colonization, Manifest Destiny, white supremacy, oppression, etc.” The art does not reflect “social justice,” the group said, and it “is not student-centered if it’s focused on the legacy of artists, rather than the experience of the students.”
I think a lot of people here seem to be missing the staggering part of this: the mural is overtly, pointedly anti-slavery, anti-colonialism, anti-George Washington, but it's being destroyed because the school board is claiming it's the opposite.
> makes me skeptical of the quality of the minds involved

There are plenty of us who identified the problem at the heart of this movement ages ago: many interpret the movement to change the way we engage with history as filtered through their own, nuance-capable minds, in which case there are good points to be made about glorifying parts of history that we no longer agree with. But in reality, when movements hit any semblance of popularity, they need to be interpreted through the way most people approach issues: it's entirely unsurprising to me that the reaction to this mural is based on gut aesthetic reactions instead of an attempt to engage any brain cells in understanding the mural's intent.
I'm not updating the wiki for a device I don't own, or plan on owning.

Especially when the relevant part of the wiki is correct.[1]

[1]https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/PRIME#PRIME_GPU_offload...
We run lots of DC stuff in Cape Town and the connection to Europe is excellent. Which data center are you using? Something does not sound right here - perhaps faulty hardware, dodgy datacenter or similar. If you want, I can refer you several reputable providers.
The school board is required to do an environmental assessment first, that's where the majority of the cost comes from.

https://reason.com/2019/06/20/george-washington-mural-san-fr...
It seems like by doing this, Twitter is increasing the size of their voice as a non-neutral platform, simultaneously displaying the popular tweets and their own message that, hey, this is hate speech.

I do wonder, though, if this will have the opposite effect. There is plenty to criticize about these tweets, and the stable genius behind them, so it's not surprising that many have called for these messages to be banned. But, they still seem like a legitimate use if the platform, so my main reaction reading the messages is "Wait, _that_ would be ban-worthy?". This policy may end up undermining the credibility of the platform more than the author.
EC2 Network Throttling
160-170ms RTT to Europe is common.
There's no default or endorsed OSM app for any platform. The openstreetmap.org website is of course official, but it's not really an end user portal.

OSMAnd gets lots of attention though.
NetBSD on the last G4 Mac mini and making the kernel power failure proof
From what I had read, the majority of the cost comes from the mandatory environmental review, in a perfect storm of San Francisco governance idiocy.
The "solved problem" is using the kernel implementation of muxless hybrid graphics (PRIME), not Nvidia's proprietary one (Optimus).
I’ve always thought it unfortunate that fexprs were dropped for macros in lisp. For a language that touts homoiconicity and first class functions/objects, it feels strange that macros aren’t first class.

My understanding is that fexprs have some perfomance problems over macros, but I’m not really sure why or if the state of the art has advanced since then.

A really interesting evolution of lisp is Shen. The license is terrible and I seriously doubt it will ever achieve widespread use. And while the idea of a kernel lisp sounds great, in practice I doubt that it actually works.

The performance trade-offs that you’re going to need to make become very unclear when you have a language that can run on A python, CL, js, or whatever runtime. The JVM is successful because it unifies language and implementation, instead of fragmenting it further like Shen does.

Racket is the clear horse to pick in this race, I think. Hopefully Racket on Chez will improve the performance to close to that of native binaries. If so, I really think that it would be the last piece of the puzzle.
Holidays or home office
However poor its implementation has been, the ideology behind communism is based is the idea that people should not be stratified by class. The ideology behind slavery is that some people are subhuman and can be treated like animals. The broad brush you are using to equate the two is inappropriate.

The U.S. freedom loving founding fathers participated in not only the legalization of slavery but also the genocide of native americans. Should we lay those sins at the feet of democracy and capitalism as a whole?
Good luck! Will be following this thread
Fast.ai – Deep Learning from the Foundations
If one were able to eradicate one’s microbiome, how would one really know it?
The Fastest and Shortest Algorithm for All Well-Defined Problems [1]

An algorithm M is described that solves any well-defined problem p as quickly as the fastest algorithm computing a solution to p, save for a factor of 5 and low-order additive terms.

(The constants in the "low order" terms are... large. Basically this is a delightful reductio of asymptotic analysis)

[1] https://arxiv.org/abs/cs/0206022
Would the trains be franchises? Or the stations?
I see... Rewrites have to be both justifiable and shouldn't take too long. I am telling that to myself, we have an old code base in php that we would love to rewrite in python, but it must be justifiable. I believe we will do it incrementally, with each new function written in the python framework we have and any code maintenance that won't take too long to rewrite
Most office workers could get away with a Chromebook, I'm surprised this hasn't caught on in offices yet.
$15k is an inconsequential amount for the OpenID Foundation, either. Just based on members listed on their site, they're making around $966 thousand.
According the SF Chronicle, the majority of the cost is in preparing the required environmental impact report:

"Painting over the mural would cost at least $600,000, with the majority of the cost in producing an environmental impact report. In addition, supporters of the mural have vowed to sue if the board voted to destroy it and legal costs could add to the cost, district officials said."

It's a little hard to square this with their other numbers, though:

"Other options included covering the mural with panels, which would cost up to $825,000, or obscuring it with curtains, which would have cost up to $375,000."

Maybe there is still small tiny amount of sanity left in San Francisco, and adding curtains doesn't require a full environmental impact statement? Otherwise it means that 1600 sf of paint costs the city at least $225,000. But if no EIS is required, it's hard to imagine spending that much on curtains --- or twice that on panels, for that matter.

https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/article/San-Francisco-sc...
I don't think that's a fair example because it's in France, not Britain.
Six years of SuperASASSN supernova detections
Fuchsia has no real game changing new technology to offer. To me it looks just like a safety backup plan for the case that the Linux kernel can not be used anymore. For a similar reason Valve is pushing for Linux support in Games just in case Microsoft pulls them out of their Business by only allowing their own Appstore.

Google should have forked Inferno OS. The DIS VM looks a lot like Android/Dalvik VM, Limbo looks a lot like an early version of Go and per App namespaces would be a much better alternative to the current way Android sandboxes its Apps.
If your "opponents" are a threat you wouldn't reveal any information other than what you want them to know. If they are a non-threat, it might be like warning a child about crossing a road.
What ToS has NewPipe been violating? I've read the ToS[0] and it seems that NewPipe is perfectly complaint.

It accesses YouTube via "the video playback pages of the Website" so it satisfies 5.1 article C. I don't see any limitation to using browsers there.

Indeed, article H strongly implies that it is allowed to use non-browser software to access these pages - otherwise spiders and robots would be banned and there would be no point to the request limit in that article.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/static?template=terms
Xkcd 2169: Predictive Models
How useful is it to visit intern open houses
Intern Open House – an event, typically including food, speech by a CEO about their mission, some swag and a chance to talk to interns and full-time employees.
Could you share the code for these operations? I have some similar occasional use cases.
Try Portainer
Given the ubiquity of Java 8 in enterprise IT, I think we’ll all be stuck supporting TLS1.2 for at least another 5 years
Maps.me is based on OpenStreetMap data, which the OP said was not satisfactory for him.
Yup. I'm not sure if people are missing it, or just got used to it. This isn't the first time an action or proclamation in the name of "social justice" twists reality into a Klein bottle.
And that it's possible for two places to be more than 24 hours apart.
I'm not sure how that looks like in a modern iOS version

I'd say this is a good example of (light) skeumorphism (which is mostly good and non-intrusive), I was mostly talking about stuff like the notes app https://www.dummies.com/consumer-electronics/tablets/ipad/ho...
>After much deliberation she decided to pay, as it would have cost more in legal fees to fight.

Justice is not a right, it's a product you buy, and wealthy people can afford more and better lawyers. Wealthy people are better, and deserve more of anything they want.

It's yet another neo-feudalism example. This woman is a peasant, and the company is the lord, and what happened was a shake down. And the government is the serf who assisted the lord with this extortion. In no possible way, taking the story at face value, was she intending to commit fraud. The government has abandoned its duty to serve and protect human persons first and foremost, and the long term trust loss as a result of this corruption is not good for civil society.
In EU it works very well.
But obviously capitalists will say that won't work in US
One thing zero dependencies bring is the size would become huge.

Another thing is people either:

1. Use their own boring abstraction every time, and every abstraction might be different.
2. Not using abstraction at all, this makes JavaScript more like C code base.

Of course, I'm not saying it's not fragile now. But probably the answer is not as simple as dependency free. Some dialect provides interfaces (like TypeScript), type-classes (yet to be seen in mainstream dialects but I believe this really helps when dealing with fragility because Java could also be fragile because of nominal typing without having type-class) might help in the future.
Is Blue Light What’s Keeping You Awake?
Slackware has no package manager.
what does YouTube app do that the website can't?
You should try living less in a bubble.
Was the mural featured in the article the inspiration for https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Camel_(Parks_and_Recreat... ?
$600,000 to re-paint a wall? I am too distracted by thinking how can I participate, to argue against "erasing history" and stuff.
The big tech companies all tend to have excellent security teams, each of which have particular strengths. Google's obviously includes low-level vulnerability research and browser security. Apple's includes hardware security and cryptography. I would be surprised if they "missed out on a half dozen important security features".
How are the points you have mentioned in your post relevant to the MCAS fault, which the article is supposed to be about?

It is explicitly mentioned in the article that the Indian companies DID NOT work on the faulty MCAS system -
Boeing said the company did not rely on engineers from HCL and Cyient for the Maneuvering Characteristics Augmentation System, which has been linked to the Lion Air crash last October and the Ethiopian Airlines disaster in March. The Chicago-based planemaker also said it didn’t rely on either firm for another software issue disclosed after the crashes: a cockpit warning light that wasn’t working for most buyers.

This looks like a misleading article trying to shift blame away from Boeing management. Yes, there are problems with outsourcing, which the article brings up trying to show as reason for the problems with 737 Max.
Linux developers, or rather its BDFL are hardly the best place to go to, when looking for sane, balanced opinions.

Considering all C programs are valid C++ programs (albeit some requiring minor alterations), it is possible to find a subset of C++ that is less painful to write than C, while also being as easy to grasp, simple, and maintainable, as C code. Google has an internal style guide that attempts to accomplish that, which I didn't agree with much, but oh well.
So how was the code trap implemented?
It's not that big of a leap of imagination when you realise that the data is shown to the user on an Apple Map and that Apple has been collecting location data since iPhone was launched, in many different ways.

- Apple is collecting location data, but not YOUR location data
( https://www.techradar.com/news/phone-and-communications/mobi... ).

- Apple tweaks privacy policy to juice location tracking
( https://www.imore.com/apple-posts-qa-location-data )

(Note the dates on these articles).

Moreover, all this "feature" of collecting data on app usage through "screen time" or the feature of getting location data from other apps to "inform" the user is just a very reasonable excuse by them to collect more data and profile you, in the guise of "transparency".

Having trusted Google once with a similar "Do No Evil" propaganda of how trustworthy they are, and ultimately been betrayed by them, I can recognize that Apple is following the same pattern as Google - collecting more and more data followed with a PR campaigns about how they "care" about a privacy. But despite all this PR about "transparency" note that there is no way to opt-out of any such data collection and sharing!

(No, I am not an Apple basher - I have and use their products and actually advocated for it a lot with others. Still do under some circumstances. But I am losing faith in them ... ).
I was there too. Not at the exact time but around those times. I had enough drive-space so I was never that hung up on it. I guess these things happen. Just as the LCD price fixing and everything else in this world. I was across the compound in the Seagate HDD scenario. Not living there but just sauntering along, just at those dates. Get some Western digital drives, 10tb's maybe, I hear they are shuckable and able now. But now my girl Mary is going to sleep. Signed off by Abraham Lincoln. I've got the 13th or23rd amendment on many drives. Plus in my hat. And also my wife's SCSI. One love. Too bad about Trump. May the Union win and persevere. I heard my favorite show is on Netflix. I may let my trusted Booth spin up the drive. Does anyone have popcorn. Your trusted Abraham L. The end.

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Fucking faggotry. Why all the downvotes. Fucking silicon valley cocksuckers. Enjoy your rent and shitty lives. What a bunch of faggots. Enjoy San Francisco and your end of life lives cocksuckers. Just kill yourselves now. You know the outcome anyways. Enjoy your shitty hells.
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New solar technology could produce clean drinking water for millions in need
The internet is free, mostly unregulated west world. That’s what happens when they aren’t enforceable rules. The big guys with VC money eat up the small guys lunch. It’s part of the system.

The internet was designed for everyone but nothing was there in place not to be exploited by the guys. Hell, just look at how much money Verizon makes from .com registrations.

It’s crazy.
Does Offering a “Pay Later” Option Increase Sales? Here's What We Found
Makes LA Guardia look like a testament to efficiency
When you talk to very senior leadership they'll talk about the difference between "strategic" and "operational".

Directors set strategy. Senior managers try to implement that.
Obviously, whomever made the proposal.
Controlling deadly malaria without chemicals
This airport legendarily had all the lights on at night despite nobody being there for months because they couldn't figure out how to turn them off.

https://www.spiegel.de/international/germany/berlin-airport-...
"I'm going to dismiss this because I don't like it"
How ironic is the fact that Toshiba makes back up generators and industrial uninterrupted power supplies ?
Indeed. I had heard of the Simple Spelling Board before, but I didn't realize it was an ongoing process.
Get in touch: jkuria gmail. I can connect you with people who are already involved in this.
Nobody said you should move fast, except Facebook.
This doesn't make sense:

>Toshiba Memory and Western Digital on Friday disclosed that an unexpected power outage in the Yokkaichi province in Japan on June 15 affected the manufacturing facilities that are jointly operated. //

Surely that's not the reason, it would have to be "and local [backup] power failed, and the failovers for that failed too"??

Toshiba manufacture generators too, it's not like they'd need to go far to get backup power designed for them.

There must be more to this? (Which explains why people are assuming it's suspicious, I guess; and this site is making 35% of global NAND output).

FWIW, I hadn't realised that it takes ~2months to process a wafer in to a chip.
It's so easy to forget that authoritarianism is often not brought on against a people, but through their very support. The book burnings of the past were not the product of an unpopular government forcibly purging 'inconveniences'. Burnings were joyous events where people celebrated 'purifying' themselves and their culture by removal of newly unacceptable influences.

"No to decadence and moral corruption! Yes to decency and morality in family and state! I consign [these books] to the flames..." That was spoken by Joseph Goebbels to raucous applause in a crowd of tens of thousands as they celebrated the new and improved morality of the German State, in 1933.

In America we've started down the exact same path, but people accept it because think they believe that banning and burning flags, destroying statues, banning books (see: e.g. Mark Twain), and now destroying art are part of some grand effort to bring about a new morality and new vision for the nation. Instead we just continue down paths that have been tread many a time before yet ever refusing to consider the parallels because, after all, this time it will be different.
> unanimous decision on Tuesday night to spend at least $600,000 of taxpayer money not just to shroud a historic work of art but to destroy it.

I wonder what they can do for the homeless population with that money. With the numbers they have, probably not much, but it's also not nothing either.

> For impressionable young people who attend school to have any representation that diminishes people, specifically students from communities that have already been diminished, it’s an aggressive thing. It’s hurtful and I don’t think our students need to bear that burden.”

Thinking back at being an impressionable young person, seeing homeless people on the streets, in pain, yelling at passers by, or defecating in the streets would have been a lot more "hurtful" than seeing a mural.

There is nothing wrong to worry about the message a mural sends, but it signals that they've solved all the other problems, and now, with nothing else left to do, to keep busy, they are taking care of repainting murals. It just doesn't make them look very competent.
I think cost cutting becomes a bigger priority than expanding to new franchises (I guess expanding becomes harder to achieve after a certain point and cost cutting becomes a better way to improve financials). So they use lower and lower quality ingredients. Burger King is a prime example of this. Chick-fil-A is good counter example.
Is it confirmed that Fuchsia will be heavily involved with Flutter?