skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Do you know what validation means in that context? Not to be glib, but "validation" and "verification" and "certification" are not common language in those contexts and have fairly precise meanings. It does not mean they will perform the test again, and in practice probably means they will review the activities in the certification with the assumption that "qualified persons" planned and conducted it. Essentially, an agreement that the FAA was competent and trustworthy with minimal checks to ensure that was the case. That has actually been historically very reasonable and sensible, and this is a rebuke to the FAA from the EASA. It will raise costs and time for US airframes to get to EU markets, which essentially means globally.

edit: not precisely my area of expertise, so corrections welcomed
Take Down That Dam: River Ecosystems Bounce Back as Removals Soar
Ok great, thanks for the help Peter, your contributions to the HN community are amazing!
The article makes it sound like an ominous surveillance feature with not justifiable product reasons, so I should point out that this powers beneficial features like face recognition for image accessibility. Thanks to face recognition, blind people can know who's in a photo.

https://www.facebook.com/accessibility/videos/new-face-face-...

Remove yourself if you want to, but people should be aware there's also a useful side of this.
Can you comment on this question - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17175857 ? Basically, how to immigrate to USA being aerospace entrepreneur?
Abyss? They know I'm there and worst case scenario is they copy their unanswered question into an email to me.
They have absolutely ruined this in the past few years. It was once very snappy, and tiled everything perfectly on the screen. Then they made it scroll. Then they added "Timelines". Then they added a zoom out animation that doesn't respond to any of your Windows animation settings. Now, even on a high end computer, it will take you a full second before everything is zoomed out and tiled (with one final flash as it adds window titles and shifts everything around), and at least in my case has a probably 5% chance of crashing explorer.exe and needing even more time to re-launch.

This was the featured that made me go "okay, Windows 10 is doing some good things, I'll upgrade from 7", and now I hate it.
Ok, I didn't read the paper...

But everyone knows the moon orbits the earth with a cycle sort of similar to what we call a month.

How is an earth-moon cable feasible again?
If as a renter you are free to do what you want in an apartment (on par with ownership, so if you end up damaging another apartment or the common areas you are responsible), and can't be kicked out because the landlord decides they want more money, I'm not sure if you would ever want to own a property. Excluding "investment opportunities" of course.
Wow, really? I’m sorry—and I know I’m violating HN rules—but this is just bullshit.
Same here.

Its one of those things that after almost 20 years, I should remember. But it just does not go in.

It becomes interesting when junior programmers are watching how I do something and I end up googl'ing things that they know.

I use the excuse that it fees up more space for other more interesting stuff, a bit like some execs just ware T-shirt and jeans to reduce the number of things to distract them in the morning so that can concentrate on the important things.
That's not how I interpret "using the spaceline can save around 25% of the cost per launch in fuel" (c.f. paper).

If the starting point is 2,880t fuel for 120t payload, so 24t of fuel per ton of payload, then 25% less fuel gives 18t of fuel per ton of payload and thus your 3,000t rocket can now carry 158t of payload, or 32% more.

Even "we can see that the spaceline cuts the fuel cost of such a mission by approximately two thirds" is not a game changer compared to the cost of building the cable.

Space elevators are touted as game changers because although building one would be extraordinarily expensive it would slash the cost of sending payload to space by orders of magnitude, making it worthwhile.
If almost everyone working in a field that is to be 'protected' by patents, is passionately opposed to them, and the almost sole defenders are lawyers and multinationals... well, I think that tells you all you need to know on whether patents for that field are a good idea.
Yes i know that i3 has a lot of keyboard shortcuts, i'm saying what i'd expect it to also have in terms of mouse support - it isn't an either "this" or "that", it is both :-). One doesn't exclude the other.
Yes, I'd previously thought "no adults in the room" was an idiom with a couple particular meanings (one of them related to the idiom of "adult supervision").

This article is changing a familiar meaning, or speaking in a more limited way (though for a constructive and worthwhile message).

It's true that people in organizations don't have all the answers, and you also shouldn't expect to have all your ducks lined up for you anymore.

But the article could also encourage the naive idea that the organization doesn't know anything, and that everyone is totally fumbling along.

We currently have dotcom employers who want cheap and impressionable labor, encouraging the idea that experience is useless (e.g., big dotcom CEO proclaiming they only want to hire 20yos), and the article doesn't help counteract that big-corporate messaging.

In reality, unless you're at a startup of only 20yos, you'll have battle-scarred people who've seen some mistakes before, and who'll be able to recognize and avoid a lot of similar mistakes in the future. And hopefully they'll try to pass on some of that experience the easier way, to those listening, and through good practices.

There is some poetic justice, though, to the cyclic nature: we go from being a new developer who overestimates themselves and underestimates everyone else, to being an experienced developer (who has finally grown to be half as smart as we initially assumed we were)... and we get ignored/dissed by the new-grad hires. :)

Of course, the more-experienced people don't know near everything. They avoid some mistakes they've seen before, and are maybe more likely to recognize when they're staring at a potential new mistake... but, to some degree, they're winging it, like the article said.
Perhaps the government wouldn't get such a bad name for this stuff if they just registered as an advertising company and started paying FAANG for data like they were a college based research company.
>I've never understood the cynical way certain people view EA from the outside. EA is a large business (~30B market cap) and subject to the same sorts of challenges of any business at that scale. From my perspective EA is a federation of mostly autonomous studios trying to "find the fun" in an increasingly competitive entertainment landscape.

Maybe you should listen to what those outsiders are saying. EA ships half baked games for full price and loads them with the most scummy and deplorable monetization models in existence (looking at you too Activision.) I haven't heard wonderful things about the working conditions come crunch time either. It's not difficult to understand.

And let's not forget the now (in)famous "surprise mechanics" debacle. EA deserves every bit of their current public image.
It is deleted, then added to a list of deleted faces.

Just so they can be sure not to re-add it later.

Yeah. That's it! And they're sticking with that story.
They mean "unsolved" in the sense that for eg we cant prove or disprove claims like "all integers are the sum of three cubes".
If a project with only MIT code adds GPL licensed code, then they can't distribute the "merged" new set of code under the MIT license.

Previously, someone could use your MIT code in a closed source product and distribute the resulting executables to their customers without including the source. In the future, that someone would have to start following the GPL rules or stop using your not-MIT-anymore project.
"Power user" has been a computing term for decades, for someone that uses advanced features. (In this case you have toys for power users.)

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/power_user
Nice, what do you think of Whatsapp?
ARM is UK afaik and Huawei is not banned in UK. Maybe after brexit US will force UK to ban Huawei in return for a trade deal (IF brexit goes through and I always maintained that brexit would never happen)
SLACK INSTALLED, 5 MINUTES LATER

Is anyone using dsr55rhel? I need to reboot it. 0:00
Is anyone using dsr72rhel? I need to reboot it. 0:05
Is anyone using dsr21rhel? I need to reboot it. 0:09
Is anyone using dsr97rhel? I need to reboot it. 0:11
..ad infinitum

1 Month Later, some over the top, ITIL compliant business-flow is setup to quash that nonsense. And now everyone is suffering the consequences with hyper bloated business process procedures.

...basically the disease, the cure, and the cure for the cure are all equal when killing productivity.

It really comes down to people and discipline. You're either working with smart, competent, well adjusted adults, or you're not.

If your organization is small, brilliant, tight ...then any/all decent tools can be utilized to maximum effectiveness, because again it's people.

But the larger the organization, it mitigates any and all tools, even the best of tools, and it also mitigates the possibility of having a small collection of really smart, talented people. Smart people in this environment typically will feel suffocated in a few years, unless they are protected from the endless nonsense that large organizations naturally create. This is how brilliant managers operate, and the competitiveness is interesting to see. Savy manager, makes his way up the food chain by being a problem solver. How does he solve it? Pooling talent, shielding them, in exchange he has high expectations from them, they come through, all are heroes, but the manager gets majority of credit. He/she then gets moved to a higher level, or a group that tackles harder problems. He streamlines the group, gets rid of the dead weight, steals better talent from other teams, protects his team pushing the boundaries as granted to him/her due to previous successes, then uses the potential to solve problems that no one else can/wants-to solve. Wash Rinse Repeat.

If someone regulary utilizes a broadcast to ask everyone "who is using this server, anyone on it, can I reboot it?"

Something is terribly screwed up at that organization. And having Slack as the broadcast tool is just an enabler.
Well first of all blaming people is the wrong thing for an accident investigation to be doing anyway.

The purpose of accident investigation is not to fuel Americans' apparently insatiable appetite for revenge, you already have plenty of means for that, the purpose is the Prevention of Future Harm. Why Future Harm? Because we don't have time travel.

You clearly won't prevent any future harm by blaming anybody, whether alive or dead. To prevent future harm you will need to change what is done or how.

Almost invariably‡ the Right Thing™ will be some mix of procedural changes and engineering changes. For example ensuring that the right staff are empowered to stop something that's a bad idea being done even if senior management are short-sighted enough to demand it.

So the result is never "Bob is to blame because Bob did X" but rather e.g. "Bob did X. The Foozle should be modified to prevent doing X" or "Bob did X. Company policy did not say that doing X was forbidden. Change policy to forbid X".

‡ I've written about this before on HN. The one investigation report I've seen that did _not_ have any actionable recommendations was into an accident where two people died when their fishing boat sank. The cause? They'd taken so much heroin they couldn't operate the boat safely. Why no recommendation? Using heroin is already illegal. Using any intoxicating substance while in charge of a boat is already illegal. This was already obviously a terrible idea.
It is like `cp`.
My most recent Google search is "reddit brushing teeth at work"
> First, the sophisticated attack was narrowly focused, not a broad-based exploit of iPhones “en masse” as described. The attack affected fewer than a dozen websites that focus on content related to the Uighur community.

Of course, being 0-days, this is speculation on Apple's part.

> When Google approached us, we were already in the process of fixing the exploited bugs.

This is an interesting twist: Apple apparently knew about these bugs prior to Google Project Zero's involvement? The media overhyped the vulnerabilities (as they normally do), but this statement seems like it's blaming Google for making a big deal of something that Apple supposedly didn't need help on. Not a good look for Apple to be throwing shade in a public statement :/
Shouldn't it be that I have to tell Facebook what they are allowed to keep?

Especially since I have never had and never will have a FB account.
When the seeker gets pissed off enough about how well people are hiding, they take the people they found and go inside and watch a movie.

As grownups, maybe the bar, or just hang out in the Ikea food court?
I didn't read this as a slack good / slack bad article at all.

At my current job I was asked to join a client's slack group (added without my consent) and it was a nightmare. The problems have nothing to do with notifications or interruptions, but it gives them the implicit understanding that I am a custom developer for their needs. Since they can reach me at any time, they assume that I am going to fix their bugs, add their features, etc. It circumvents what I think is the proper procedure for work. I suspect that's more the heart of why the author is saying they aren't going to join their client's slack group.
They say that Slack brought them closer to the clients on a personal level and then they chose to kill it. That's a terrible choice that clearly shows their 25-year priorities are whacked out.

As long as the output is basically acceptable, clients are going to prefer to employ contractors with whom they have strong personal rapport. Making communication difficult and intentionally avoiding the "distraction" of building that relationship is a quick way to die.
It could be less about them being CS grads per se and more about their age and relative experience in the world. I'm a CS grad who originally dropped out and screwed around for a few years, but in the end came back to it. In fact, while researching at the graduate level, I realized then that even professors and advisors aren't necessarily going to teach you everything you need to know or set you on a course, it's your job to extract their knowledge and find the answers to the questions you come up with. I also worked all through high school and college. I think my experience sets me up for disappointment in the workforce because I know how to get things done and see what's important, and often I feel like the only adult in the room with a bunch of kids who don't want to listen and who don't know how to really chug through long-term challenges while minding short-term issues.
Great list. Would be awesome if the search terms were clickable. To be clear, I am lazy and do not "expect" them to be clickable, only that... Hey... Making computers easier is mostly what a lot of us do.
Vue PWA: A Progressive Web Application Example with Nuxt
If Huawei can make a set of comparable cloud services (app store, push notifications, maps ...)

Oh, is that all they need to do? History has shown that most hardware companies are really good at writing software, so they should have this in the bag.
Bias in Technology Has Hurt Women’s Voices
Nicki Minaj announces retirement to “have my family”
The Chemical Basis of Morphogenesis (Turing Patterns) [pdf]
Anyone with enough money and libido can buy property and staff it with prostitutes. Anyone offering enough grant money can hang out with famous scientists. I don't see why that is hard to believe.

That article can be summarized as: "We don't know where he got his money from, therefore let's speculate". It's good entertainment, but reality is usually pretty mundane. It's easier to believe Hoffenberg's claim that Epstein made off with the proceeds of the Tower Financial ponzi scheme. But that too seems heavily investigated already.
If you haven't yet you should check out Isaac Arthur on youtube (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCZFipeZtQM5CKUjx6grh54g)

Specifically this video: https://youtu.be/86JAU3w9mB8
Doesn't a log scale make the price increase look lower?
I mean, do you know what winters can get like in Medicine Hat? Part of it was probably just realizing that they didn't have to suffer in the winter as they're accustomed...
I’m not very good at physics but - intuitively- would not attaching a payload that have not reached geostationary velocity pull this space line thing to the side and down with the force for which it was not designed
I am currently on STEM OPT and work for local County government. AFAIK my employer is not affiliated with any institutions of higher education. Will I qualify for cap exempt H-1B visa?
For starters:

techcrunch.com/2018/06/27/study-calls-out-dark-patterns-in-facebook-and-google-that-push-users-towards-less-privacy/

www.cnet.com/google-amp/news/facebook-accused-of-misleading-advertisers-then-trying-to-hide-it/

theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/dec/20/facebook-violating-privacy-mark-zuckerberg

FB's entire business model is fundamentally in conflict with any semblance of privacy. Why anyone believes anything that comes out of Zuckerberg's mouth is beyond me. FB is built around exploitation of user ignorance, apathy, and unwarranted trust.

Make no mistake, no matter how much these dangerously charismatic CEOs speak about positive changes to society, modern large tech companies are 100% self serving and always engaged in carefully prepared corporate doublespeak. They don't give any kind of a shit about your privacy when it is directly tied to the bulk of their revenue. What motivation does fb actually have to delete facial recognition data like they claim, as opposed to just quietly storing it somewhere on the back end? There's no legal requirement and if they get caught, the only people who would care are the kind who by and large have already moved off FB. Meanwhile the upside is huge for future facial recognition applications - this is a massive goldmine of very sensitive personal data.
I watched it happen to someone else, and it started because we were having a back and forth discussion and dang stepped in to berate the other person. I ended up defending the other person as I didn't consider anything they said to be problematic.

OTOH, I value actual discourse over politeness. But dang decided that person didn't need to be on HN.

But thank you for the assumptions, I appreciate them.
"it fees up more space for other more interesting stuff"

I see you take a similar approach to spelling
I looked more into the concepts discussed in this shared HN post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20895212 (Ancient Turing Pattern Builds Feathers, Hair and Now Shark Skin)

This led me to Turing's seminal paper; which I thought would be interesting to share.
From stallman.org:
Facebook made deals for phone and computer manufacturers including Apple, Amazon, Microsoft, and Samsung to access data about its useds and their friends as well. These deals seem to still be operative. [1]

When Zuckerberg testified to Congress, he said Facebook had stopped doing this years ago [2]. Apparently he lied.

1: https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2018/06/03/technology/fa...

2: https://www.commondreams.org/news/2018/06/04/sure-looks-zuck...
Attorney here! What act, specifically, do you believe is illegal, and what laws make it so?
But don't you still have the problem of getting the waste from the Earth's surface to the elevator and thus still have all the danger involved?
If that's true it should be suitable for Bitcoin mining. Are people using it for that?
I don't use Slack, but does it have something like a bot where you can have it auto-reply to messages shorter than n characters?
This isn't even a question to me: it's obvious it was to take out competition in social networking. Facebook has network effects but their organic attempts at starting new apps constantly fail. Acquiring the ones that take off is the only avenue left.

There's no other reason to spend $19B for a company with little to no revenue (and like 3 employees?).
No, but I think you and the other commenter would not have been allowed to be contractors if the IRS rules were actually enforced. Have you read them?
"Unless you have a technical interview coming up"

-me
Surprised to see someone exactly like me. I am Australian citizen with a Canadian PR and US B1.

Pretty sure, I am not allowed to make any kind of money or get any government benefits on B1.

You could sell those books from Canada into US (either cross border shipping or amazon or 3pl)
yup, they’re working on it: https://ikea.today/rognan-robotic-furniture-for-small-space-...

which is not surprising considering how successful the tradfri line of (affordable) smart home products has been (i’m a fan).
I assume it's not anchored to the earth
> I never truly understand issues people have with these things. I tune my notifications as to avoid true interruptions and filter most false positives by quick looking.

The problem isn't the notifications here. Sure, I can tune my notifications to my preference, but when you're a resident in a client's Slack the expectation is that they can directly message you, anytime, for any reason, and for any size request. Like the article says, Slack does not encourage deep and meaningful messaging – it's more like a text. I have found that opening a channel like this almost always brings with it a firehouse of small changes requested in bursts, whereas a single e-mail encourages bundling of issues and requests into minimal amounts of messages. The worst thing about Slack is the constant "10:00am: hey HBOSCH, can you do X?", "10:15am: oh, and can you also do Y?", "10:47am: and while you're at it, maybe you could handle Z? haha sorry for being crazy!", "10:49am: <silly gif>". It's so annoying.

I also tune my notifications effectively by using Do Not Disturb mode on my iPhone from 12:00AM to 11:59PM, along with the "Bedtime" feature in my alarms. This keeps my phone quiet all day, only allowing phone calls from people on my Favorites list to come through, and the Bedtime function in Alarms keeps my whole device totally silent from 10pm to 6am. But that's not helpful if a client is trying to reach me at 8am EST when they need an emergency update before a morning meeting.
Yeah, if it's already been shared with commercial partners, or especially, if it's already been shared with government agencies, the cat is out of the bag. Not really sure what can be done to regain control of that data?

But, hey, at least FB will "delete" it!

So, yeah, I guess there's that? :(