skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ah. I was proceeding on the assumption that a bow and a bow tie were not the same thing. Silly me.

Still, nothing on this site was as bad as the "security questions" on the United Airlines site. All of their security questions are multiple choice. Here's an actual example:

What is your favorite sport?

Possible answers:

Gymnastics
Soccer
Jai Alai
Archery
Snowboarding
Volleyball
Cycling
Diving
Ice skating
Taekwondo

Because obviously no one who flies United likes football or baseball.

The worst thing is that when you have to answer the question the answers are presented in a different order than when you set them up, so a simple hack like "just pick the third answer" won't work. It's genuinely more frustrating than anything on the parody site.
> So those folks are used to managing a high-value crop, a high-labor crop, managing a lot of labor...

> You use the same resources if you do tobacco as you do hemp. You have the same tractors, the same planting equipment. You have the same regimen to get the plant ready for the year. Popping your seeds are the same and doing all that

Clearly, the biggest driver of this shift is CBD oil. Here in KY, there are tons of shops opening up, but also production facilities. Millions of dollars have poured in (lots from CA) to process hemp into CBD products.

It makes me wonder what would happen to our economy were farming marijuana to be legalized. All these areas have years of history growing high labor cash crops, and even though a lot of that infrastructure is gone or shrunk (tobacco warehouses, etc), the skill is still there.
Didn't Good Will Hunting teach the proper pronunciation?
Dude, I wrote that top comment. And I was like iCloud WTF?
I was on a Ryanair flight earlier this year and the integrated stairs were used.

I believe the fleet is mostly 737-800s, and having the option to avoid staircars and skybdridges saves money.
Holy crap this has been a turbulent couple weeks for internet companies and services, eh?
There's no need for this kind of language. You can make your point and be polite at the same time.
I use Switch-Off addon both for Firefox* and Chrome. It has an option to limit how many tabs you can open.

* https://addons.mozilla.org/en-GB/firefox/addon/switch-off

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/switch-off/ehjhebf...
My partner and I have similarly cut beef almost entirely, which has been an almost effortless way to cut our footprint. It's not as large as minimizing flying/etc and may be harder for others, but is almost trivially simple for us so we feel good about starting there.
It's probably a typo: "The Middle East is...".
Yep. As much as people extol lifetimes, my personal opinion is that Rust's aliasing rules are its true golden goose. C/C++'s lax approach to aliasing causes a whole host of issues that Rust is able to avoid by being more strict.
The "prescription" version is even worse. You need a "prescription" from your vet to buy it for authorized retailers, but it doesn't actually have any drugs in it that are regulated in a way requiring a prescription. They've been sued over this (but I think they won).

My vet told me to put my cat on it after he had stress-related urinary problems. The problems went away, but the food is stupid-expensive, I'm a little peeved at how the system is taking advantage of me, but I don't know what to switch to other than starting to give my cat tryptophan.
This, congress and the entire us political infrastructure is morally bankrupt. If the leaders of the community are corrupt the community is corrupt.
You joke, but that's close to an argument that's actually been promoted by The Heritage Foundation: "How Fossil Fuels Will Help Us Confront Climate Change" [1].

Briefly, the argument goes that the average world temperature is about 58 F, and that climate change could raise that by 7 F. Dubai averages about 35 F above the world average of 58 F and they get by just fine by heavy use of air conditioning. They are able to do this, according to the article, because of their heavy use of fossil fuels and government policies that promote "economic freedom and growth".

The article notes that not every county as oil, but they can still share in this fossil fuel driven response to climate change:

> Not every country has oil, but in a globalized market, cheap fossil fuels are available everywhere to spur rapid growth and technological change.

[1] https://www.heritage.org/environment/commentary/how-fossil-f...
Mainly that there are players that are big enough, with enough concentrated power to care about politics and influence it. When such large industries lament that prices are falling because there's not enough fear, the logical question to ask is "What are they thinking of doing in response?" I don't think there's a constituency of ordinary people that's willing to go to war over cap-and-trade by itself (they will defend right wing politicians though), but what interests would be willing to push their puppets to take such drastic action? The energy companies of course.
Mixture between a desktop, a cheap laptop (which I plan to replace with an X1 Carbon or a Thinkpad isn’t he coming months, although I haven’t researched it yet) and an old Mac Mini when I want to use mac software. OS-wise, I use Manjaro Linux.
Oooh! Maybe this version can be compiled deterministically!
We are still at war. Just look at the wikipedia list of ongoing wars. They are just in parts of the world we "don't care about" except for their resources. Wars have always been about resources and we still have those wars.

We just choose to ignore those wars because they aren't killing our friends and families. We want our cellphones though, so most of the wars are in Africa. We want our oil so these wars are in the middle east.

USA, China, Russia et al continue to murder millions for their resources.

We are not at peace. That is an illusion.
Looks interesting. Any plans to offer a trial outside of the MAS?
Chrome is the new IE.
I'd also read this - it sounds very interesting and inspirational
Is there something specific you’re thinking of here? We do generally try to keep things reproducible, though sometimes things slip in. There’s a tracking issue for this, IIRC.
Alexa feels like like one of those devices that everyone (tech & non-tech people alike) understand to be an always-on recording device, and a proof point that many people do, in fact, choose convenience over privacy.
Volkswagen boss criticizes Germany’s decision to privilege coal over nuclear
This is a nice idea, but how do you expand it to global scale? Something automated perhaps, but the complexity is overwhelming.

I have no interest in Firefox's initial selection, but I'd gladly pay a monthly subscription to a collection of my local news sites.

How do we go from 5 american "online magazines" to a global network? I don't know.
I'd like to think the simplest explanation to this recent spate of outages is that all the engineers at each org spent too long reading the HN comment thread on the previous company's outage, and didn't notice their own servers catching fire ;)
One thing about static analysis tools that seems to be easily forgotten about in discussions about rust vs other languages is that those tools are trivially ignorable. If your CI pipeline doesn't let you get a binary for a given milestone, because the code doesn't pass static analysis, unit/integration tests etc. people will just disable it for myriads of reasons not the least of which will be "management wanted it to be done by yesterday and it compiles, so it's probably ok", "it's probably false positives again [yeah, right...]", "this is the test that fails from time to time, it's probably nothing". A compilation error is a much better protection from the social pitfalls of programming in a corporate environment. So yup, you have all those wonderful tools at your disposal in the C/C++ which I guarantee you will ignore or be forced to ignore at your peril.
Granted, we made the same evaluation about Wowza a decade ago, but it turned out to be useful as a small piece of a large system. Given how much Twitch has grown since then, no off-the-shelf system would be able to handle the scale.

A brand-new competitor, though, won’t have to deal with those scaling problems for a while. They have to figure out product-market fit first, which probably can be done off-the-shelf these days. And then they’ll need to figure out how to keep the lights on, which will take a similar amount of engineering work as it did for Justin/Twitch.
You're getting downvoted on both comments because you're being disingenuous and partisan. The GOP senators absolutely refused to return to Salem until they were positive the bill would not pass if they allowed quorum. They would have stayed away indefinitely if necessary.

Does not bode well for the future of our democracy. I guess we will see what the future holds.
What I find most fascinating is there's no evidence neanderthals were not biologically just as intelligent as homo sapiens. That we achieved civilization and they died out before doing so was little better than luck.
Actually, it's advertising.
Regarding the national emergencies, here's the best part: You can't really declare a military national emergency without a declared war going on. But since the US wants to keep it's emergency-surveillance powers, and it can't choose random countries to go to war with constantly... they declared a "War on Terror", which (while sounding like a campaign slogan) satisfies the requirement for "the country is at war so we can take wartime measures". The best part is "Terror" isn't something that can legally ever lose/surrender (or win, for that matter), so this "war" (and the associated national emergencies) will go on for as long as the US government wants.

It's all very clever, really.
Fees may be denominated in satoshis but unlike the block reward they are not fixed. Users choose their fees at every transaction, and they will not pay more than the value they derive from making transactions. The total value of all fees paid is determined by the actual usage of the network, not the Bitcoin price.

Of course today usage of the network is somewhat correlated with price, but it's not directly proportional and the correlation will weaken in the future.
“It’s taking longer than I thought it was going to,” McMillion told analysts in October of the e-commerce unit’s profitability, “and I have been surprised at just how many brands there are out there to get signed up. ... Who knew we needed 2,000 of them. I didn’t.”

What a naive CEO!
No, the updates stopped at El Capitan unfortunately. There is a way to force it to update to Mojave but I think couple hardware bits stop working(....camera?) and I'm not that bothered.
You’d probably have an opportunity cost of more than that to recreate it, though.
Nowhere in the [original reporting][1] does it say that MCAS was outsourced.

This article (The Coming Boeing Bailout?) wrongly asserts that MCAS was outsourced. There's no corroboration for that.

Mind you, I'm not on Boeing's side. I'm just clarifying what's been reported so far.

[1]: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-06-28/boeing-s-...
I wonder if it somehow can be integrated with Coq[1] and Univalent Foundations[2]. Probably these can be used as a more substantial "base" for this machine.

[1] https://github.com/coq/coq

[2] https://github.com/UniMath
JS required
The bitter truth behind Madagascar’s roaring vanilla trade
Don’t forget that people are behind both corporations and governments. It’s being ruined by people.
>And without actually doing the implementation that question will never get answered.

That's BS. You can answer these questions with rigorous research (or a slow rollout).
One, you can buy something and not enjoy it. Two, you can be given the computer by your employer and not like it. Three, you can not like the current model but buy it anyway because you want to stick with the Mac ecosystem.

I’ve been in numerous meetings where everyone is complaining about their new mpb while others in the meeting saying they are going to hold onto their older models as long as they can.

Finally, they are moving away from this design which indicates they too see a problem with the keyboard.
I think GP meant Middle East.
A lot of the inundation zone is fairly narrow, in many places the mountains get fairly close to the ocean. I would bet that in most areas it is possible to have public services within a reasonable distance while locating those services on ground that is high enough to be [relatively] safe.
You should disable password auth entirely and whitelist the IPs you connect from in your firewall. If you need to conenct from a large range of possible IPs, use a bastion host with 2FA and restricted to IP blocks from countries you actually connect from.
And the "raise" caret.
Yes and https://www.rhyolite.com/anti-spam/that-which-we-dont.html#p... as well.
Everything

It's subtracted from salary. In most cases, a requirement.

It's more emphasis on employer and employee relationship, and in a way control. Your housing depends on your employment. Your housing depends on whom you're put with.

Not to mention, 3-4 in 28sqm is Wayyyyyy to nice for construction worker. Oh, no, that's Chinese Office worker in Philippines. Sometimes it can be just 2 in 28sqm, but it depends on which offshore casino they work for.

So, like - properties:

Acqua Residences - Mandalyoung - low end.
Antel Spa - Makati - low/mid end.
Grammercy - Makati - high end

All within the general spot, and a bit outside the Makati CBD.

Construction workers are 5+ in a place, in worse places (but cheaper for employer) and then are given daily shuttle. Mostly Mandaluyong now for people whom are involved in the new Rockwell - Mandalyoung Bridge project (lol China Aid!)

https://i.imgur.com/6mqL904.jpg

I'm from the USA, perspective is key. While that may be acceptable in China - Philippines largely reflects USA values (in sometimes positive or very negative ways) and employer housing isn't one of them.
Thanks! We considered a subscription service with some added features but decided instead to focus on simplicity. Right now there is no syncing, but we will definitely consider using iCloud if we implement it in the future (and once it's back up).
Our family vet said the same thing. At the time she was personally tracking seven cases of unexplained bladder problems, all of them in dogs who ate Blue Buffalo. This was at a small local practice, not a huge patient base.

There are still the big pet food issues like melamine contamination, but those seem to affect both large and small brands.
4) it's summertime in the predominantly online part of the world and general human activity is at a peak
Note that donations go to Foundation rather than Corp though. It's not clear how much - if anything - goes to dev projects like Rust.
You don't generally "get past" your firewall rules and into your box unless you have accounts that are not password protected.

If you really had password logins turned off, you need to identify and isolate how they gained access before you put that box online again. Never "hope" or "cross fingers" that it doesn't happen again. Unless you are an interesting target for some reason, chances are that these attacks are automated and you are running some insecure software somewhere.

Start by taking a snapshot of the machine before you do anything else. Go through the logs. Are there any unwanted processes? How were they started? Are there any unwanted binaries in the filesystem? How were they uploaded? Try to find IP addresses that that be tied to any unwanted login, and see search your logs for any previous occurrences.

Pay special attention to any web-reachable software you have installed.
Eh, if it's a menu bar app, no need to keep it in the Dock or ever see the icon.
I’ll never use one for this reason. Apple records my voice to my HomePod but I trust they’re deleted after some time.
If they exploited a service or Web app they might have gotten shell access. The chance of gaining access through ssh with fail2ban is extremely unlikely, unless fail2ban was badly configured.
I wish BSD systems had better support for hardware.
> because the United States, so far, is still the most powerful country. ... But for how long?

What would be the competition to the US other than China (which is insular, nationalist to the extreme and protectionist to the extreme)?

If China is the only superpower competitor, then the structure you just described will continue to work perpetually as there is no alternative.

There is a common fantasy that the US is suddenly going to collapse, because 'all empires end.' It's nothing more than a fantasy because US wealth and power is derived from its domestic economic output, not from conquering foreigners or invading countries like Afghanistan (despite what the collapse-fantasy types would like to believe; the US already had the largest economy by 1890, long before the dollar became the global reserve standard). The US economy is built on its enormous scientific and R&D output, which is unrivaled in world history. That positioning of strength spans aerospace, spacetech, medtech, biotech, pharma, agriculture, software, mobile, semiconductors, intellectual property broadly, media & cultural export, finance & banking (Visa is worth $400b, Deutsche Bank is worth $16b; US banks are eating Europe right now, because of how weak their financial position is in contrast). The US is the world's #2 manufacturer by a large margin and is likely to regain ground on China from here forward (they will lose manufacturing share globally). The US has a position in energy that is unrivaled overall, including its oil and natural gas potential. The US has by far the strongest and most profitable airlines, which are now looking outward and beginning to buy into the rest of the world's weaker airlines.

The US still has 19 of the world's top 20 universities, and 40x of the top 50. That's one of its critical foundations supporting its economy in the post WW2 era. The rest of the world has nothing even remotely like it.

The US position is still expanding, not contracting. It has added an economy the size of Germany + France since the great recession. Simultaneously, China is gobbling up position / influence / economy / power in the other half of the world the US doesn't control.

There is no peer to the US in the 'West' and there is not going to be. Most of Europe has seen zero economic growth since 2006-2007, their stagnation is going to get worse rather than better. They will fall further behind (and their politics will get much worse as that happens). Japan (third largest economy) is going to see little to no economic growth for the next 20 years at least. So where's the competitor going to come from? It's not. The US will continue to grow more powerful, wealthier, and its economy will continue to out-grow Europe and its military capabilities will continue to expand far beyond what Europe is capable of.

China will be the sole competitor to the US in the 21st century and the two will split the world in half.
I had understood the part of the article, which I quoted as that MCAS was outsourced. If it wasn't then the article is to blame and my point is moot.
That's calculated with the assumption that you can cluster the events within a 1-month period and that the events happen at a fixed rate.

We are talking about a period of a few days here and about only a handful of services that tout 99.999(9)% uptime. I'm no mathematician but I don't think it's a great comparison.
A bit Off topic but, why does the mac app store open automatically, is there any way to turn that off?

No other kind of link in safari is allowed to open an app like that without confirming it each time.
The touchbar must be instead the trackpad!

The trackpad with some screen abilities... that could be really usefull.
I'm not sure it's the population that's the problem -- there are a number of factors.

If we globally stopped eating meat then a large portion of the land used for agriculture to produce livestock feed would not be needed and could return to forest. And we'd all live and be healthier for it (yay less heart disease and cancer). The amount of land used to grow food to feed cows is a large portion of the total agriculture output.

Organic farming seems like it could be sustainable even if portions of our stocks are taken by insects. It'd be manageable without pesticides. And if we invest more in genetically modified vegetables we could grow them to be resistant to pests without filling the environment with pesticides.

We humans used to be pretty good at permaculture: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Permaculture
Customer protection- credit cards allow you to reverse charges on defective or fraudulent purchases if you are unable to find recourse with the vendor. They usually side with the cardholder as long as a basic paper trail of a good faith attempt to resolve the issue with the vendor is included.

Also, credit cards often include insurance on purchases. For example, one of my cards will reimburse my hotel/car rental/plane tickets in certain cases of trip interruption if I purchase those items on that card.
Show HN: Library for Bayesian A/B Testing with an emphasis on documentation
Facebook, Google, Apple, Cloudflare, Azure, Amazon, WhatsApp, and we have noticed smaller bits of routing weirdness like servers in Los Angeles not being able to hit GitHub for a few hours a few days ago.

This is more like 6-8, not e. It's definitely odd.

One non-conspiracy explanation I can imagine is that maybe all these big providers have a bunch of hidden dependencies on each other.
while it would be nice to have a simple, C like language, with memory safety, but without GC, it may not be possible. Some of the complexity of Rust is to help deal with life of borrow checker land.

There are some middle ground options though, like Zig, which is a nice simple C like language with less undefined behavior and no nulls. so safer, but not offering memory safety.
Perhaps multiple categories:

1. Non-tech people, who don't understand the immediate technical aspects of what's happening, and haven't had much occasion to think about the implications.

2. Tech people, many of us who do understand a lot of what's happening in technical levels, but are conditioned by all the practices around us (and our paychecks/startups depending on it) to not think of this as bad for society.
> 2.b Is the person who wrote the initial version still the main developer?

> Our opinion: Developers don't like to inherit code at this stage when apps tend to be big monoliths. It's common that if they do it, they re-factor (or re-build) big chunks of the software.

Shockingly accurate. It's like these folks can read engineers' minds!
They're a private company and GP is complaining about their poor service. They're not obligated to support multiple languages, but a service that big not supporting multiple languages seems like an incredibly bad move even from a purely business perspective. Doesn't seem entitled to me.
While this is very subjective, I tend to agree. All codebases I've read and worked on in C++ were eyesores in all but the simplest places.

That being said, I think Rust macros are much worse compared to C++, if you ignore templates.

Don't get me wrong, I really like Rust. I just think that it's macros make for some of the most unreadable code I've ever seen.
It's nice to see Nestlé (which has a long history of unethical and despicable practices) doing something nice for a change.

That said, I personally believe that revolutionary tech like this should be released for anyone and everyone to use freely for the greater good (sorta like how Volvo gave up the patent for the three-point seatbelt) but I doubt that'll happen in today's world.
Because the context is the effects humans are having on climate, which were minimal 1000 years ago and nearly nonexistent 100000 years ago.
The page is on archive.org if you want to write a script to cobble together some historical data.