skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Given how vague the language is, I don't know that we can necessarily draw a conclusion.

That "single item" might be the component-failure, that which fell through the aligned holes in the swiss-cheese, or it could be "the single layer of the system that was left out" that would have mitigated or otherwise precluding the class of failure.

One could castigate Boeing for not having a more redundant use of sensors the MAX case, or one could say "Why don't you have 'hackers' as a part of your process, whose job it is to find these classes of problems and raise all hell when they do."

Then again based on the phrasing "single, simple cause" I'm more inclined to say you're on the money. That the lawyer is looking at the component-failure rather than "avoiding non-redundant systems" as a class of problem to solve.
As little as two slices of bread may be bought in convenience stores in Japan. I have noticed it seems to go moldy much faster than American bread.
we totally understand the concerns and are hyper-vigilant about security and access to user information.
the permissions we ask to approve are the minimum and standard permissions required by the underlying cloud platform (google, office365, slack etc).
part of the loop functionality allows the user to interact with content that exists on the user's underlying platform i.e. read/reply/forward emails, open/access/edit files etc.
all of that is specific to the individual user, is protected through the encrypted credentials and token provided by the cloud platform upon oauth and governed by out privacy policy and terms of use.https://loophq.com/privacypolicy
When I search for gimp on ddg, the whole front page is filled with information about the GNU Image Manipulation Program. You can try for yourself here: https://duckduckgo.com/?q=GIMP&t=fpas&ia=about

If anything, if people actually cared about the disabled they should rejoice that this word is getting a new meaning. I for one didn't know the original meaning of that word until someone line you told me.

Oh, and if we give in on this the battle doesn't stop there, seems "butt" is next in line: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20831167

:)
Two things I find very helpful:

1. Hang out online where people talk about new technologies. For me, that's HN, dev.to, and twitter (only works if you follow people doing cool things in tech)

2. Try out new technology by doing _small_, mostly pointless, but FUN little projects. That way, you don't have time to "get bored", because they're just little fun side projects! Also, you don't have to worry about them "scaling", etc - because you can just tell yourself that it's just a silly little project. But after several of these silly little projects - you'll be surprised at how much you've learned, and actually accomplished!
Interesting, never knew that!

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/11259152/chrome-ios-is-i...
> they can sell it to contact centres so that sales reps sound super engaged and interesting, and customer support reps seem genuinely concerned.

This sounds so dystopian!

It might even be baked into some phones by default, kind of like image softening to remove skin blemishes is the default post-processing for most pictures in most phones today.
The type system and multiple get rid of so much “if this then do that” code.

multi sub eat-pie( Pie slice where *.is-custard ) { ... }

multi sub eat-pie( Pie slice where *.is-fruit ) { ... }

multi sub eat-pie( Pie slice ) { ... }

eat-pie( a-slice-of-pie );

That’s just awesome.
It boggles the mind. Literally everything happens in the browser except reading hypertext documents.
NPM's move to ban the practice is unsurprising. Consider however that NPM has no qualms about showing various nag screens of their own, such as "a new version of NPM is available," etc. Perhaps they should consider taking leadership in the OSS funding space. "Hey, it looks like you're enjoying these packages x, y, and z! Click here to donate to your favorite OSS projects." Or something.
I wonder where the estimates are sourced, and if the sources of estimates can have a larger effort and still be efficient in supplying information. Or would there be a wall, aka too many chefs in the kitchen.
What would such a license look like? Anyone know of examples?
I am also curious to know if this is a problem isolated to the United States or if the middle-class in other countries are experiencing similar challenges. Relatedly, I wonder if more American parents are sending their kids abroad to obtain their college degrees at considerably less cost.
China to exempt Tesla cars from purchase tax
Polymorphism in C Language (Linux/Kernel)
Radio had and to a lesser extent has a similiar effect - and it was also a robust vector for (dis)information. However it had bandwidth limits and centralization over limited airwaves. Plenty of disinformation was passed before but it was limited to those who had permission or ability to act without it without any consequences.
I meant streaming platforms, where the cost of providing original voice over is close to zero, compared to the benefit of learning a new language.
Also, am I correct in the assumption that U.S. doesn't have access to non-dubbed versions of foreign series?
Yeah, it sounds like the only downside to calling them "high temperature superconductors" is it briefly misleads you when skimming HN headlines.

I don't think scientists should change their entire domain-specific language to improve your web browsing experience.
Even if that were possible, the societal harm caused by effectively making it illegal for someone to change jobs within their field is not worth the benefit.
that is an interesting thought. I have not worked with Rx.NET, whats specific features does `ObsevableCollection<T>` have?
Native “Share to Dev” Button Is Now on Stack Overflow
> his whole life revolves around cannabis and it seems he missed so many things in his life because of that

Any examples?

Just imagine if you made the same statement about someone smoking cigarettes. And with vaping now, both bad habits are pretty discreet.
We are well aware that Rust isn't a magic bullet.

Likewise we are also aware that 68% of Linux kernel exploits in 2018 were caused by memory corruption bugs easily preventable in any systems language with bounds checking enabled by default.
Here is what’s amazing to me:

The monopoly right to issue money by a state bank.

Using the credit and trust in the banknotes enabled great economic progress especially in areas in Angola that could swiftly benefit from the resources.

A run on the bank just contracted the money supply and caused hardship “out of principle” that only the sanctioned bank could print these banknotes.

On a societal level it says a lot, that official signatures and documents have the weight of arbitrary amounts of money, and that increasing the money supply could lead to a lot of good investment and prosperity but is restricted by banks and governments.

I wonder what dynamics a UBI would unleash.
Are there no farmers selling fresh produce anywhere around? I'm so used to these drive-by honesty stores (take what you want - usually vegetables, fruit, eggs, milk, honey etc - and pay in the box) in rural areas.
My thoughts exactly.

One million per hour? I forgot how to count that low.
My ZSH looks like that, though the arrows are less bold. I don't remember configuring it much, if at all. I think it might be close to the default theme.

In my case, the arrows are purely stylistic. They never change color or ordering.
Isn’t this potentially a copyright violation?

Especially on Qualcomm devices (such as the Jolla phone) Qualcomm explicitly forbids you from distributing their OpenGL drivers. So if facebook copies libGLESv2.so off from the device they are potentially performing straight piracy at that point.

If I recall the damages demanded by RIAA it was several hundred k per infringement.
Translation Search Engine API
Optional yeah, but enabled by default.
Ask HN: Basecamp-like companies that aren't Basecamp?
We often extol the benefits of working at a company like Basecamp (not a VC-fueled, must-grow-at-all-costs startup). They themselves publish a lot of material about how they work and how they've made their business grow.

One of the downsides of being on the sidelines is that Basecamp, by design, is a small company. Unlike most tech companies, they aren't always hiring (if ever?).

I'm interested in what other tech companies operate in a Basecamp-like way.
It's inspiring how quickly ad tech devs can band together to completely remove all ads from their ad tech development environment.
People identify with their hobbies and their consumption habits (music, movie tastes), or the things they own (car, house, electronics).

I'm not seeing how the pot culture is especially destructive compared to say, binge watching Netflix.
We don’t even know how many breakthroughs it will take to get to the level of 3yo’s conversational abilities. And I’m talking major level breakthroughs, like LSTM or Transformer, probably trained on much more data.
thanks miker64
our experience has actually not been that - and once security teams have had a chance to review there has been terrific acceptance.
we are only interacting with information that is already on a cloud platform and our protections, policies and structure look to build on that security not subvert it.
the common fear is that we would aggregate information and sell to third parties and that is dealt with in our privacy policies https://loophq.com/privacypolicy
It's a "slippery slope" argument: if the government is allowed to force it they may force bad things later. However it would be nice if people presented a cost benefit analysis (the risks of sliding down the slope versus the public health impact) rather than just declaring a conclusion.
Good thing that Deontology is nothing but Utilitarianism with a different name. We can think Schopenhauer for pointing out Kant's errors on this one.
Sugar: Open-source software learning platform for children
Extreme Events Modeling Using Continued Fractions
In ancap utopia:

Step 1: Form a gang of marauders

Step 2: Rent all the courts in a village

Step 3: Rob everyone, or pollute their river or extract their resources

Step 4: Have your privately owned courts render a verdict of innocent

Step 5: Profit (because of arbitrage)

Having governments doesn’t eliminate this. Similar things are done all the time by elites in a country, or OPENLY by state capitalists extracting resources from other countries like UFC in Guatemala or BP in Iran. Except they are done systematically and no one can challenge it. Read Smedley Butler from the same time frame. Erdogan even tried to go one further and fire the entire supreme court because they may have convicted his son
It very much is a silver bullet claim (following Brooks's definition). But here's the quote I was referring to, in context:

> Brooks asserts ... that the majority... of the complexity that we find in contemporary large systems is of the essential type. We disagree.

That means a silver bullet is possible (against Brooks's claim), and then they go on to describe what they think is a particular silver bullet.
What do you mean by paid links?
Do all nodes participate as full RAFT nodes? Or can you have read-only nodes?
It doesn't really matter who wrote it, it's a trope of corporate software development. A small team makes project X to support project Y. They go through the usual dev + production + maintenance cycle, which takes 2-3 years typically, sometimes 5, after which the team is disbanded/reorganized, and no new dev work happens on the old projects. The project is effectively abandoned at that point, unless it happens to have picked up enough users that "a community" forms and picks up development... but that's rare, because corporations don't want to give development of their project over to randos on the internet, especially if they're still using it. The best case is it would fork, or move to some other org's code repo.

I like to use projects which lots of other projects depend on directly. That way if the main project goes unsupported, all the other projects using it will band together to support a fork. I believe open source that is not created for a company will last much longer. (I like that they rewrote it in C, though; it would probably survive well as a fork if enough people/projects use it)
Etcd 3.4 Released
The drivers are, but not the firmware running on the GPU (i think it's called Video BIOS). I'm not sure if a completely free GPU exists. But this is not something that RISCV is concerned with.
It isn't just a theoretical supposition, I believe we measure alignment of magnetic fields in igneous rocks and the 'almost always' comes from that, the current field of the earth being fixed in the rock when it solidifies.
yodalang
The creator of Ruby on Rails, DHH, wrote about Open Source: https://m.signalvnoise.com/open-source-beyond-the-market/

To put in a nutshell, his strategy is making money somewhere else (Basecamp) then express himself without any expectation by developing open source project (RoR).

My strategies are similar to his strategy:
1. Create a LGPL/MIT/BSD opensource projects without any financial expectation to fulfill self-expression need and achieve fame,
2. Create GPL / dual license projects that I want to sell / commercialize (the downside is I can not expect other programmers to contribute to these projects).
The exploit gets full root and full access to the keychain store. And apparently the 1password master password is stored in the keychain when sync is enabled (https://discussions.agilebits.com/discussion/10412/storage-o...). So they had the technical ability to steal at least a few 1password passwords.

But 1password is not in the default list of apps to steal (https://googleprojectzero.blogspot.com/2019/08/implant-teard...), so you'd have to know what commands their server sent to get a definitive answer. Most likely they didn't bother, as it seems more like a surveillance / monitoring operation than for financial gain, but then again attackers are getting more sophisticated all the time.
I've learnt basic english with computer games, pirated movies and TV shows (with english subtitles). But to master the language you have to move to a place where they use it. Otherwise, it is extremely hard hard.
Thank you for the information. I am looking for a log server and unfortunately every SaaS solution is at this price range.
Uber, Lyft, DoorDash Put $90M to Possible Ballot War
"Furious attack". For serious? I gave a light hearted criticism of adding a single lynchpin to the entire Go ecosystem. I think that's a legitimate source of concern.

I was by no means pithy, I was by no means being dismissive. Thinking you need something just because you had it elsewhere is the definition of cargo culting - and is something the Go developers have otherwise largely avoided.

Just because something is faster doesn't make it better or worth it, particularly when it comes with tradeoffs and is already really fast - which is my argument - that the tradeoffs aren't worth the benefit.
Compiling dynamically generated C programs on demand to provide packet filtering? It's clever but not in a good way. This is a really dangerous approach to solving this problem.
From the vim website:
"Why those ads?

The profits made from ads and links on vim.org go to ICCF Holland to help poor children in Uganda."

Is there somewhere you can point that states ad profit is going to developers?
> My guess is that soon or later people will learn how to game that AI.

To be fair, the GP here is specifically describing that he gamed the AI via a copy-paste of a critique of the AI, his kid submitted it on their own accord, it was graded without comment, and then when the GP went into comment on the gaming of the AI, the teacher not only did not care that the AI was gamed, but expressed gratitude for the AI saving hours of work, still ignoring that the AI fundamentally made things worse, all at the expense of the entire point of being a teacher in the first place.

The issue, for the teacher, is that in 'the system' in which they collect a pay-check, the AI works flawlessly. The point, for the teacher, is not to educate children. It is to have assignments that children pass with some sort of distribution that can be sent in and calculated by some person in a beige suit, wide tie, and hair troubles. The difference is subtle at first, but when you get further along to the point where the GP is sitting, then the difference is comical.

The AI allows the teacher to increase their effiency in processing assignments, ones that never really mattered to the teacher in the first place. In valley-speak: the incentives are not aligned.
Former sweeper here (years and years ago). We were also responsible for restrooms, which I still find are generally a pleasant experience relative to other public restrooms. When sweeping, you had an assigned area that you were expected to circuit every 15 minutes. Emptying trash cans was its own special assignment. Restrooms was an hour-long cycle covering a designated set of restrooms that varied according to park crowd/staffing.

My first job out of high school was a summer cleaning restrooms at Disneyland. One important lesson I was taught then that I still apply as a software developer today: Don't just deodorize (i.e. mask the smell). Eliminate smells at their source.
The lack of speculative execution or a Management Engine strongly suggests these claims are true.
Strange - one of my former supervisors had modded his truck's center console to use a Android tablet of some sort (don't recall which one, but it was fairly high-end - maybe one of the Samsungs) - it was basically "built-in" and non-removable; in fact, if you didn't know, you'd believe that it was OEM (it was a very clean install he'd done).

I'm in Phoenix, Arizona - and even in the middle of summer, with the sun beating down and turning the inside of every vehicle into an impromptu slow cooker (seriously - you can slow-cook in your car here in Arizona; that is, if you don't mind your car smelling like a working kitchen afterward), the LCD never had any problems that I could see.

I was honestly very surprised, as LCDs are normally very temperature sensitive (more to cold than to heat - but I would think that the temperatures inside a car in the summertime would be hot enough to cause problems). Usually, though, whatever the temperature - if the LCD has problems, once it comes back within it's normal range it will start working properly again.
"Your lung infection is not my fault because the office is filthy, it's your own fault for not taking your antibiotics"
Enterprise companies pay for "support" all the time. It's usually utterly pointless and very expensive annual fee that lets you enter a support ticket.

Enterprise companies also don't like to run "unsupported" software. So there is definitely an opportunity here.
I had a guy in our local IKEA (mainland Europe) explain to us that using a certain combination of items for our closet doors would look "fugly", which led me to believe he mainly learned English at internet forums full of trolls.

It was not that the combination wasn't fugly, he was right about it. But I was somewhat surprised to hear that kind of language from a sales person.

Would there be 12yo kids somewhere out there in the world that can only express themselves in 4chan English?
Carbon Footprint of Travel to Burning Man
A good twilio alternative is http://textita.com
Mercurial creates backup files though.
Big Tech’s ‘Innovations’ That Aren’t
TCP Puzzlers (2016)
Ah, I found it. It's the default(?) theme called "sorin" from zprezto: https://github.com/sorin-ionescu/prezto
A lot of produce is already molding by the time it gets to the shelves, it just isn't visible to the consumer. I would love to see that problem fixed.
Acrobits Softphone[1] and Groundwire[2] support iOS push notifications. I have found they work much better than Bria[3].

[1]: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/acrobits-softphone/id314192799

[2]: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/acrobits-groundwire/id37850308...

[3]: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/bria-mobile-voip-softphone/id1...
I'm not saying you shouldn't spend more than 15 minutes a week documenting, discussing, and diagnosing bugs and developing features. I'm saying you shouldn't spend more than a few minutes a day having to wrangle Jira. If you want to find a bug that's relevant to you, it should literally take 1 second for you to load the page that tells you your sprint and backlog and start looking at it. All of this should be managed by a program manager. You shouldn't have to repeat anything from GitHub. You shouldn't have to go digging for bugs to work on. You shouldn't need to go looking for documentation. All of these things are supposed to be done by someone else.

> Jira gets almost everything wrong in my view.

What specifically would you like to be different?
33 city, 41 hwy ?

Yeah it’s not amazing but people are buying trucks and SUVs with much worse MPG for more $$$.

People want the additional capabilities, safety, or even just the status symbol of having a nice truck or expensive car.
Where did he get the news from?
Google Contractors Are Unionizing with a Steel Workers Union
Why Hong Kongers Are Sawing Down Sensor-Laden Lampposts
It's weird, in my experience, bread almost never goes stale. It goes bad by going moldy. I wonder if the bread I eat (usually the industrially produced wheat bread) has higher moisture content than breads of yore.
> Job burnout is an epidemic, and tech workers are especially at risk. Here’s how you can avoid feeling fried – and what employers can do to de-stress their workforce.

Insane work hours and constantly availability is the epidemic here. Workers can de-stress their workforce by refusing to be available for more than 40 hours a week, and not worrying about doing outside projects if they don't feel like it. Employers can de-stress their workforce by not asking for more than 40 hours a week.

> Quick, who is also a professor at the University of Texas at Arlington, tells his students he’s always available – except between 10pm and 6am

This is the solution to burnout? Telling people you are not available to answer emails and send over quick spreadsheets when you're literally asleep?
Also, the swap apparently takes ages and during that time you have loads of magnetic poles floating about and the ionosphere dips by 80% or so. We currently have a little north pole floating around the south Atlantic. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_Atlantic_Anomaly
Yeah they improved it (double?) because it wasn't selling as it was?

Few were going to sacrifice comfort, room, performance for a tiny car with bad mileage. Just because its manufacture was 'eco-friendly'
rqlite creator here.

Yes, exactly, Dqlite is a library, rqlite is a full application.
Querying Reddit's API in Node.js with Snoowrap
This. I sometimes find it hard to find suitable side projects that are

- small enough that you don't lose interest on the last mile

- big enough that it gives you something at least mildly valueable

- easy to entry and easy to work on occasionally. That last point kept me away from some hardware projects because I felt I need to carry the hardware wherever I go, just to do some experiments on the go.

All at the same time.

Any strategies in finding ideas?
If I remember correctly, the eyes of live persons are always twitching a little. It's relevant when, for example, a device needs to take a picture from your retina. Maybe this should be used as an heuristic as well.
It's like that joke: saving leftovers makes you feel good twice; once when you put them away, and the next time when you pull them out and realize you dodged a bullet by not eating them.

My wife certainly treats the fridge like 'write only media' at times.
I think you are making an extremely valid point; i often see the same “think of the children” argument made when discussing advertising and the web. Likewise, no one is saying websites shouldn’t have an income.