skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Navies are looking into this type of aircraft for opposed boarding operations. Like if they have to seize a merchant ship due to hijacking or sanctions violation. In some situations it could be safer and more effective than sending troops by helicopter.
P3P header? What’s old is new again?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/P3P
Crazy to look back & realize it used to be normal to not just note on your resume if you're married or not, but also your height & weight.
> Replication is slow and can be extremely expensive

Gold standards are identified as such because they’re the best. Not everything needs to meet the gold standard to be debatable. Peer review is adequate for further research, but perhaps not policy initiatives. An unreviewed paper is enough to start simple inquiries. Et cetera
Was anybody arguing we should ditch bikes for scooters?

Why are so many "urbanists" dunking on scooters? Article after article basically saying scooters are worse than cars, when the study doesn't say that and fails to account for the many negative car externalities, like all of the asphalt used to pave roads and parking spots, and the environmental opportunity cost of those spaces, as just one example.

Cars are the enemy here, and scooters are on our side. Yes, we need to make them last longer, and yes scooter companies should not be advertising as "carbon free", but that doesn't mean we should stymie their momentum and push the public back towards cars.

Most of the articles stemming from this study are horrible clickbait trash. It's unbelievable.
They won't take the seats because they refuse to pledge allegiance to the queen.
I have less familiarity with the Red Hat and Kubernetes exams, but yes -- the CCIE is a lab exam. Started out at two days but IIRC it is currently at one full eight-hour day in the lab. We have a few CCIEs where I work and the amount of studying to earn the certification is phenominal. The overall pass rate is about roughly 25%, which is notably low.
Getting a file not found for that link. Is it available anywhere else?
I vouched for this post.

Note that I am not taking sides on this topic, but it is worthy of discussion as presented.

The source has strong editorial policies. The author and the book author reported on have good reputations in their respective fields.

There may be a case that this topic is not relevant for a tech-oriented forum such as HN, but I beg to differ. This topic impacts our work environments and, in some cases, our actual work.

I personally believe that it’s worthy of both HN and responsible intellectual exchanges.
I love Trunk Based Development (or pushing straight to master)
> I don't know if this number is correct, but I just can't understand why guns are still allowed in USA.

Lots of reasons. One is that if congress tried to pass a law doing so, the supreme court would probably stop it thanks to the 2nd amendment. And changing the 2nd amendment is politically infeasible for a whole host of reasons (many states don't have the requisite support, AND calling a constitutional convention opens up a ton of other issues). Oh, and there's literally 300,000,000+ guns floating around in the US. How the hell is the government supposed to collect all of those? How of the budget are you willing to spend on that? Europe hasn't exactly had the most luck trying to disarm THEIR citizens, why would it work in the US with less governmental trust? [0]

But aside from the constitutional and practical reasons... "gun ownership" and "homicide rate" are basically uncorrelated worldwide. You'll often hear otherwise, but the two most common sidesteps are to change to "gun violence rate" instead of "homicide rate" (which includes gun suicides but drops murder by other means) or to only include "western" countries which has its own set of issues. Lies, dammed lies, and statistics!

Finally, even if your goal is only to reduce mass murders, restricting guns isn't really a great way to do that. The Nice truck attack [1] with 87 dead, Oklahoma City bombing [2] with 168 dead, and the more recent Kyoto Animation arson attack [3] with 35 dead all show that guns aren't exactly required to kill a bunch of people. (and also completely ignoring 9/11) Forcing people away from guns to other methods might actually increase deaths in such situations.

0: https://reason.com/2012/12/22/gun-restrictions-have-always-b...

1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2016_Nice_truck_attack

2: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oklahoma_City_bombing

3: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kyoto_Animation_arson_attack
At the time, it just wasn’t there :)

Nowadays it seems to work, but rewriting my code to catch up with today’s version (and cope with the other changes introduced over the last couple of years) is not something I’m interested in doing.
Did we end support for Bernie Sanders after the shooting of the senator?
Optical-based AR is still very imprecise and requires advanced long post-processing to make it somewhat accurate (~1m precision). Usually, most startups quickly bring an 80% solution (a few weeks) and then get stuck forever to make it usable/precise. During that phase they trick their VCs/investors that a solution is right around the corner, internally the ones responsible for the initial phase gain promotions and block the ones that poke at holes in their solution that could never make it to 95%. I've seen it happening first hand...
Why is it not necessarily bad at "early-stage, high-growth start ups?" Some things we regulate are appropriate to carve out exceptions for based on the size of a company, but why is this one?
Sure but then I have to write my real library code using an abstraction, making my code more difficult to read and maintain; a dependency injection system is then necessary in order to have the correct concrete implementations set up at runtime.

In this sense, mocks are solving the problem of having code that is full of dependency-injected AbstractFooBarFileSystemWithExtraPickles style of code, which is considered to be pretty un-Pythonic. I spent many years with Java and Spring so I can attest to both sides of this equation.

Those of us using Python are using it because it is an interpreted, dynamic scripting language. If I'm coding in something more rigid like C or Go, then I'd expect to have a more complex architecture in order to achieve things that are fairly simple in a scripting language.
I can look at stats and see them. Or you can simply provide these stats and tell me how they tie into this conversation.
http://www.jqdsalt.com/our-salt/

100s of millions of years old sea salt for cooking from the Iapetus Ocean.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iapetus_Ocean
Yes, I will be reserving space once I finish with the new date format.
I do actually agree that we should apply more funding to replicating results. I disagree that a video log is an efficient way to ensure replicatability. In many disciplines this is not useful at all (math, high energy physics). And in most others, like your biology example, I think it adds an undue burden without much gain.
> even though it kills over a million people a year.

It doesn't actually. It kills around 400,000 a year, mostly because of poor medical infrastructure. That's roughly the same amount of death than the flue (a little more in average), and it kills really little people who have access to modern medicine.

For a strange reason I don't get, Malaria is way more “popular” in the western world than other diseases like tuberculosis which cause much more deaths each year (4 times more deaths, less than a tenth of the media coverage).
Why is the punctuation so heavy? Would it be too delicate otherwise or is it just that the area is smaller so the pressure is higher when the key is struck?
That makes sense really, I’m sure smaller businesses have a harder time with people not working for long periods
An Archaeological Investigation on Matthews Correlation Coefficient
I'm semi in favour of a Canada style trade deal for the mainland and NI, which voted remain, remaining in the customs union, and a border at the Irish Sea. It would be a step towards a united Ireland without changing things too much.
Simpleanalytics is a nice alternative with a lot less tracking. It’s still analytics, just a bit less invasive
Replication is a more powerful statement about the validity of research findings than peer review. Lots of valid research findings will not be replicated before they influence other researchers and the public. The point of this piece is that lay audiences shouldn't expect a simple "gold standard" by which they can distinguish the good research from the bad; understanding research requires critical thinking and access to domain expertise.

And there are also ways in which replication is orthogonal to peer review. Replication can't by itself tell you whether a piece of research makes a significant contribution to the field, or whether it is itself derivative, or poorly presented.
Edit: just realized pbhjpbhj has written much of this elsewhere in this thread, upvote that instead, although I'll keep mine since it is slightly different: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20607528

It would help if companies could respect the rules in EU that says data collection should be voluntary and opt in.

Then the privacy policies could be really short.

That said I agree with others that reasonable standard policies would be great for both consumers and businesses:

Something like the Creative Commons licenses comes to mind:

- 0, green: nothing (no analytics, no state, so no login possible)

- sessions, green: login possible

- telemetry, yellow: anonymized, short lived (< 3 business days) data, not linked to use, not shared outside of development

- 1 party analytics, yellow: like telemetry but longer lifespan and shared outside of development

- 3 party analytics, red: uses Google Analytics standard edition or any other 3rd party tracker that shares data
Here's a nice video showing such a model jet engine slurping fuel.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u42QrTqmYwg

The description of the video contains all the numbers, including:

Max. power: 300N (30,5kg)

Fuel consumption: 980ml/min (at max power)

Price: 5295 €
The 1 percent of people that care often end up doing tech support for the 99 percent that don’t. Each time I help someone with their system I ask them if they want me to clean things u a bit and if they say yes, I show them that I’m setting FF as their default browser, DDG as their default search engine and so on.

People go with what their “expert” friend recommends all the time. If I want to buy a car, I ask a friend who is super into cars for advice, if I want a blender I ask a foodie friend. The same effect can help promote other technologies.
Do bikes and scooters not get stolen in europe? Literally everyone I know in the US who bikes in a city has gotten 1 or multiple bikes stolen. My oldest brother got 2 bikes stolen within 10 minutes of walking into a store and they were locked to a bike rack. My other brother got his bike stolen within a week of getting it and it was in a locked apartment garage! The guy I know from work in seattle who bikes everywhere has gotten 3 bikes stolen.

Admittedly, that's the only 3 people I know who bike but it's not very encouraging when you here about all of these thefts.
In Malcom Gladwell’s Outliers he has a section where he discusses Bill Gates’ early life and the lives of a few other software luminaries. Having read that it is not surprising at all to see him taking such advanced classes as only a freshman in college.
That's a very D&D Rulebook type interpretation :). Not that rulings should be ambiguous, but usually some common sense can be applied (and is expected to be reasonably applied).

The Facebook like button is a web tracker, disguised as a social engagement button. If not its primary -, then its secondary function is to (indiscriminately) track users and non-users outside of its walled garden, like some reversed Trojan Horse.

Hotlinking an image is just that: hotlinking an image. Facebook relies on us and lawmakers to say: "We just can't ban third party content!", while we perfectly could leave innocent third party content alone, and focus our sights on the spy button. It isn't reasonable, nor common sense to conflate the two: even if similar in syntax, the context is vastly different.
Nick Griffin's electoral success was not killed by his appearance on Question Time. In fact, a bunch of minority political positions have had a good deal of political oxygen from BBC appearances: I'm thinking mostly of Farage in the dog days of UKIP's popularity and also the Spiked!/Institute of Ideas collective.

Griffin lost largely because there was factional instability in the BNP and then the rise of UKIP stole the non-fascist right-wing to far-right vote.
> The price argument. Hydrogen will generally be more expensive than gasoline; his argument about current prices is like making an argument about gasoline before it was a widely used industrial product.

Hydrogen is a widely used industrial product. The comparison is totally sound. The hydrocarbons for gasoline are readily drilled out of the ground. Hydrogen needs to be manufactured either from these hydrocarbons (which is pointless for fuel, you can just use the hydrocarbons directly) or via electricity (which is far more expensive).

A mass market for carbon could not reduce the price below that of its inputs. Even if we had abundant cheap electricity it's unclear that hydrogen would really be economical against all alternatives.

> People like electric cars just fine, and the batteries they use are 100x less efficient in energy density.

He's comparing fuels, you're comparing batteries to fuels, which doesn't make sense.

> Fuel cells; yes, these are very hard to do for a consumer product. They are amazingly cool though, and they should still be invested in.

So the six billion dollars of investment mentioned aren't enough?

> Zubrin is a neocon type who works in the defense industry.

This habit of putting people into ideological boxes inhibits your ability to make rational assessments.

> For all we know this could have been commissioned by some oil company types, or maybe he's just being cussed.

You must have overread the part where he argues for ethanol fuel as a means to break up OPEC.

> I don't disagree with the over all message though. You'd have to change a lot of major infrastructure to make hydrogen work for a portable energy source.

That's not the message though. The message is "it doesn't work, period" and "it is a hoax". I'm not in the position to say that his calculations are right or wrong, but given the lack of progress on hydrogen as a fuel, it's probably not far off the truth.
"the DoD would be empowered to start to take over operations and plan a migration to some other company maintaining the cloud infrastructure"

That's still a massive project though that I presume would only be undertaken in extremely dire circumstances, so Amazon only has to do the bare minimum to make sure things don't reach that point.

I'm thinking more along the lines of switching off the primary cloud to a "follower" cloud in a few clicks. I realize that's not at all easy, but I think it should certainly be possible with these kinds of budgets to build in cloud-agnosticism from the ground up. It's hard but it's not that hard--it's just the facade pattern, which is quite commonly applied in other cases like OSes/databases that are arguably just as complex.
This idea fails to account for MANY car externalities, like the effects of paving the roads and parking lots they need, and the massive environmental opportunity cost associated with those spaces. Scooters are net positive if they get any number of people out of cars. Yes they're worse than bikes, but nobody was really saying they were better.
> It’s cool that aws has the data api for lambda to connect to aurora serverless. But then you’re stuck with MySQL instead of postgres, and also stuck with ~100ms db access times.

100ms is pretty damn slow still unfortunately. Also, I much prefer postgres to mysql.
I have a friend who is the perfect candidate for a cochlear implant, but refuses to have closed source inside his head.

He does not wish to have his body hostage to any company, and I can understand that.
I thought it would be ground breaking, but the documentary basically outlined what politicians have been doing for decades to manipulate voters.

We only care now because a guy you don't like is in office. If Hillary would have won, it would be business as usual..Even though she used the same tactics.
> When I see an article punished in an Elsevier journal

I like the Freudian slip in "punished"!
Elderly white man finds diversity and inclusion perplexing; cherry-picks incidents to reinforce self-serving worldview. Here, we find a fellow product of privilege with identical politics congratulates him on his brave stance.

A perspective as fresh as the author himself, thank you for sharing this!
This is the 1st generation that was experimented on by the education establishment by artificially boosting self esteem and using that as a driving factor in policy.

Before this, achieving a ribbon on track and field day meant something. It meant you performed better than the others. Afterwards, everyone got a ribbon. Before, there was actual grades, and F was one of them. After, getting an F due to lack of achievement was pretty much forbidden - and many grading systems went away from A-F. I've known teachers who only gave an F when they decided that they were leaving the profession and so they could actually grade with an F without career suicide, rather than giving passing grades to students who absolutely refused to learn or do any work. Before, creative spelling and math were unheard of. After, students get a 100% on a spelling exam, despite not spelling any of the words correctly. I've seen the same thing in math. All in the name of self esteem. Before, graduating from elementary school was no big deal. Certainly, there was no ceremony. It was simply expected and normal. Now, most schools seem to have a ceremony, not just for this mundane event, but for graduating from any grade.

It was predicted when this self esteem boosting was imposed by the education establishment that there would be problems. How would such a generation function once they leave the artificial environment of the education establishment? Wouldn't they be like plants grown in a green house, that die when exposed to a natural environment? We can all see that now.

We live in an amazing time with unprecedented freedom, prosperity, health, etc. Just go back in time 100 years and do a comparison. And yet, what is the focus?

The worst blow to self esteem comes when, as an adult, you realize you've been lied to all of these years during your education and that you actually suck at what you do or you studied a dead end (career wise) path, and have no hope of paying off those expensive loans.
> They will allow Racism, but actively moderate out Spam.

Reddit used to be like that as far as I know, and though there's plenty to criticize I don't think Reddit was intentionally set up to become a breeding ground for violent racists.

8chan's policy about spam is very different from how a policy against racism would look. What it in practice means is that if someone posts the same suspicious link on a hundred boards they may be hit by a global ban instead of leaving the mess for individual board owners to clean up. Even very principled proponents of free speech usually don't mind that.

There's no guarantee that spam will be cleaned up, it just doesn't get the protection of it being up to the board owner. For a long time 8chan didn't even have a functional anti-spam system. It's a practical matter foremost.

A rule against racism would be much more thornier. It would have more edge cases, and it would have to be enforced more consistently. It would be a lot more work and it would be more arbitrary. And it would go against the sensibilities of the original founder, who's a libertarian (I don't know if he's racist).

8chan wasn't created to be a breeding ground for violent racists. It was created to be a make-your-own-forum website with minimalist rules. For the first year, before gamergate drove more people to it, it was just that. In July 2014 an innocent roleplaying board was the most popular: http://web.archive.org/web/20140701141242/https://8chan.co/b...
Real estate (especially smaller, less customized office space) is usually liquid enough to use as collateral for a loan
Someone could theoretically use a modified version of Android to capture the police wifi login even after they forget the network, and then use that to connect and log all captures in the future.
Anyone with enough money can bankrupt anyone with a sufficiently lower amount of money at will.
PHP has a couple attributes that make it easy to start using and deploy, and a massive pile of network effects.

Those attributes have nothing to do with why it's a garbage fire, and 'sophistication' also has nothing to do with it. You could redo PHP to be equally sophisticated, and still have the things that make it popular, but also be a hundred times more consistent and less buggy. Heck, fixing refs and inconsistent syntax could make it less sophisticated.

At least they've been fixing some of it...
Just as a heads-up, you should maybe have a look at mailcow and mail-in-a-box:

* https://mailcow.email/
* https://mailinabox.email/

which essentially provide the whole email stack in a relatively nice bundle it seems (I have not yet forced myself to migrate).
I think mailpile and roundcube are just the "webmail" part of the stack.
I used to run NetBSD/hpcarm and JLime Linux on an HP Jornada 728 in high school.

Those were cool, but in retrospect they did not make sense at all.

Someone was developing a flashrom board for the Jornada 728 that would have greatly improved GNU/Linux support -- including real sleep and truly long battery life. Sadly they never delivered.
Because he is referring to himself as an old fart.
Yeah, this is pretty awful. I don't see myself ever using this.

1. What's the difference between this and just packaging a function as a pip package? The only one I see is just shaving off a few seconds and one less command.

2. Where is the code running from for each plugin? Eval'ing random code just seems like a bad idea. You can argue that it's the same as blindly installing a pip package, but this apparently happens each time on runtime and I see no option to check the code beforehand.

3. f and ff are pretty bad function names. I see what you're doing, but why?

4. Dep management issues aren't as common as you think they are.

5. Lots of these plugins are already in the standard library. XML to JSON is already possible quite trivially with a pip package. Not only that, but this seems like a less flexible version of that - and more obscure. (how to map xml to json?)

I'm giving this a hard pass for me, but looking forward to seeing my doubts cleared. Cheers.
Hey, I have used JLime on my Jornada 728 back in the day, thank you for your work!
I’d guess the number of users that copy and paste a link to share it is statistically is insignificant considering that many modern browsers don’t even display URLs in the header anymore.