skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I can agree with that definition.
But then again in order to ensure that you would need regulations and enforcement, so then some others might say it's not a free market.

When I read my previous comment again I see it can come off as a bit preachy, I'm actually all for regulated free markets and regulated capitalism.
But I also hate regulations that are only for the benefit of entrenched players, like for example when you need a license to call yourself a hairdresser or something.
I do support the need for a license to call yourself a doctor or structural engineer, so it's a tricky path.
The removal of the FCC Fairness Doctrine[1].

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/FCC_fairness_doctrine
"Activity tracking is built into Mailspring so you get notified as soon as contacts read your messages and can follow up appropriately."

"How contacts engage with your content gives you insight into what's working and what's not. Mailspring can notify you when your links are clicked so you know what's generating interest."

That's something I would actively avoid or circumvent if I discovered it. Do you tell people who you email about this, or hope they don't notice (or care)?
I hope this is a step on the road of phasing out "likes" entirely. I really hate the concept. Even on HN, where it works comparatively well (comment score isn't directly visible, new users can't downvote etc) it bothers me, softly nudging me towards making comments that I know will get easy upvotes or not expressing controversial sentiments.
At the end of the day you can't really get around the fact that these systems encourage people to post "popular" content. That helps filter out the true trash, but ultimately leads to monoculture, in my opinion.
I've been writing React professionally for 5 years straight and I'm absolutely sick of it. I haven't spent enough time with Svelte but I'm sick of React and all the noobs who swear by it. I'm sick of it spinning around in circles and nobody getting anywhere. I'm sick of terrible SPA's consisting of a pile of bandaids stacked on top of one another. I'm sick of testing it with tools like Enzyme. If React were so great, I'd expect to see better things coming out of Facebook. They do one thing well, steal and sell users data. Everything else was bought. Honestly, just sick of Facebook. I was more productive writing stateful apps using C# and ASP.NET with jQuery. In fact, 9/10 we don't need stateful UI's nor React.

GraphQL sucks too. Good luck setting up caching. For instance, hey we forgot caching is important, now that the architecture doesn't allow for it since it uses a single api endpoint... the talked about solution is to use localStorage or sessionStorage. JS is a huge noobfest and those that think React is the answer to everything, probably haven't been in this game long enough.
That awkward moment when you are called in for a plane test and you realize you are mediocre.
I’m not sure why you’re getting upset. I have owned a Model S for 3yrs, I have close friends with Model 3’s that I have driven on a regular basis, and this is a reality that we all agree on. I am most definitely not misinformed. Nearly every setting is controlled on the touchscreen interface. I’m not sure why you would claim that is not the case.
Sure, they fail plenty, and Apple "extends the repair period" on products fairly often. Macworld has a pretty good roundup for recent ones:
https://www.macworld.co.uk/feature/mac/macbook-problems-reca...

These were one's that specifically came to mind for me:

2019: Battery Recall: https://www.wired.com/story/apple-macbook-pro-recall/

2018: Macbook Air Logic Board issue: https://www.laptopmag.com/articles/apple-macbook-air-power-i...

2018: Battery Recall:
https://qz.com/1258843/macbook-pro-battery-recall-apple-ends...

2017: Screen staining:
https://www.macrumors.com/2017/11/17/apple-extends-free-stai...

2018 SSD Issue:
https://www.macrumors.com/2018/11/09/apple-macbook-pro-ssd-s...

2017: Battery recall
https://support.apple.com/15-inch-macbook-pro-battery-recall

2016:
"Flexgate" _ https://www.macrumors.com/guide/flexgate-macbook-pro-display...

2013 - 15 Retina Screen Issues:
https://www.cultofmac.com/514741/apple-extends-free-repair-p...

2010:
White Macbooks Yellowing - "https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/unibody-white-macbook-t...

2009:
White MacBooks crack:
https://appleinsider.com/articles/09/04/08/apple_addressing_...
Also this test pilots may know the inner working of the plane where the real pilots were not told that MCAS was added behind their backs and some buttons/switches changed behavior.

Also were this test pilots had accessed to extra diagnose data where regular pilots were not provided even with a sensor disagree message
Did you even consider an option to give people choice on that matter? Two choices actually: whether to share like count on their posts and to see it on others' posts.
A most excellent example that highlights what should and should not be captured and stored. Though sadly even today we have forms from doctors/governments that ask for race (I always out of principle scrub that out and write "human"). But then they say these metrics are captured to help prevent discrimination kinda argument! As your wonderful example shows, that can be abused.

Really gets down to DNA being useful and abusable in many ways. The real onus should as always with such personal data - be in the hands of the individual and with that, the ability to opt-in/out choice needs to be there. I'd have no problem of my DNA to be used to help identify a crime perpetrated by some genetic relative, some on the other hand would not. But the choice should be with the individual and a complete ban, removes that right from those who would want to aid justice.

When things can be used for good and bad, blanket bans do not work out as well and it should be down to a default position of no, but the ability for individuals to opt-in.
Fingerprints could be stolen from V sign selfies (2017)
I _left_ Svelte because it was headed in a direction I didn't believe in (all the repurposed syntax). But I gave it a try and had to apologize for disappearing. It is extremely well executed.

One of the primary directives in Svelte is that it all has to be valid HTML so that the tooling can simply treat Svelte like HTML for syntax highlighting. Some of the repurposing is explicitly because of that directive.
> Or with some macro magic

Stop! Put down the editor and step away from the compiler, please. No one wants to get hurt.
Show HN: licensor – Write licenses to stdout
Ethical consumer did a report on this very recently.

https://www.ethicalconsumer.org/fashion-clothing/choosing-su...

It's definitely complicated, but their take was:

* Best: second-hand, recycled, or organic

* Middle: lyocell products (Tencel and Monocel), linen and hemp, followed by Modal, acrylic and polyester

* Worst: conventional cotton, non-lyocell viscose, rayon, elastane, nylon and wool
"Average" is a blanket term which includes median: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Average
I think the Turing Test, done properly, would actually be a pretty good yardstick. People often forget how complex the conversation could be when talking about Turing Tests.

Daniel Dennett gives an 'example' Turing Test in one of his books to emphasise the point:

Judge: Did you hear about the Irishman who found a magic lamp? When he rubbed it a genie appeared and granted him three wishes. “I’ll have a pint of Guiness!” the Irishman replied and immediately it appeared. The Irishman eagerly set to sipping and then gulping, but the level of Guiness in the glass was always magically restored. After a while the genie became impatient. “Well, what about your second wish?” he asked. Replied the Irishman between gulps, “Oh well, I guess I’ll have another one of these.”

CHINESE ROOM: Very funny. No, I hadn’t heard it– but you know I find ethnic jokes in bad taste. I laughed in spite of myself, but really, I think you should find other topics for us to discuss.

J: Fair enough but I told you the joke because I want you to explain it to me.

CR: Boring! You should never explain jokes.

J: Nevertheless, this is my test question. Can you explain to me how and why the joke “works”?

CR: If you insist. You see, it depends on the assumption that the magically refilling glass will go on refilling forever, so the Irishman has all the stout he can ever drink. So he hardly has a reason for wanting a duplicate but he is so stupid (that’s the part I object to) or so besotted by the alcohol that he doesn’t recognize this, and so, unthinkingly endorsing his delight with his first wish come true, he asks for seconds. These background assumptions aren’t true, of course, but just part of the ambient lore of joke-telling, in which we suspend our disbelief in magic and so forth. By the way we could imagine a somewhat labored continuation in which the Irishman turned out to be “right” in his second wish after all, perhaps he’s planning to throw a big party and one glass won’t refill fast enough to satisfy all his thirsty guests (and it’s no use saving it up in advance– we all know how stale stout loses its taste). We tend not to think of such complications which is part of the explanation of why jokes work. Is that enough?

Dennett: “The fact is that any program that could actually hold up its end in the conversation depicted would have to be an extraordinary supple, sophisticated, and multilayered system, brimming with “world knowledge” and meta-knowledge and meta-meta-knowledge about its own responses, the likely responses of its interlocutor, and much, much more…. Maybe the billions of actions of all those highly structured parts produce genuine understanding in the system after all.”
> some fruitful discussion is often possible even though the definition is fluid

I 've seen too many discussions using those "fluid" definitions to be running away from them. Fluidity is usually employed as a smokescreen tactic to derail any productive argumentation by constantly shifting the goalposts
Near-universal (pre iPhone 11) iOS bootrom exploit
I’ll give you an example I know from personal experience. Initial versions of the app would let you search for a delivery, select a job, and complete the run. Then you would simply repeat the whole process again.

Newer versions try to plan out a sequence of deliveries, and even concurrent deliveries where you do two pickups and then two deliveries, e.g. two pickups at the same restaurant and then two drops nearby. In urban environments it’s not uncommon to have orders bundled that go from the same restaurant and deliver to different units / offices at the same address.

Intelligently batching orders so that they are delivered both faster and cheaper (saving time by using a courier that’s already at the restaurant, balancing that against needing both orders ready before they can leave)

Every efficiency improvement means more tips for the driver and lower cost for the platform. It’s basically the singular focus of these companies to improve their queuing, matchmaking, pricing and routing algorithms to decrease delivery time and increase driver tips (flip sides of the same coin).

You may have seen basically the same kind of improvement within Uber, where your driver will have a pickup already matched in their queue before they even drop you off. Ideally the app even brings the new pickup to exactly the same curbside location as the drop off. This makes more money for the driver and for Uber - incentives are perfectly aligned, and probably even saves the pickup customer time because they are getting picked up faster with less fumbling around in between customers. Triple win.

Zero training / low skilled doesn’t mean there are no basic requirements (e.g. literacy, but also it may be physically demanding work). It means you don’t need a high school degree and you can start doing the job essentially on Day 1.

Lastly, it’s important to note that the convenience of these apps has ushered in an explosion of growth in the food delivery market. It’s a huge win for restaurants and couriers alike. Maybe not so much for grocery stores and waistlines? Not just new types of food being delivered which normally would not be available for delivery, but growth in the overall delivery volume within well established traditional food delivery verticals like pizza and chinese.
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The Concussion Crisis in Australian Rules Football
For a similar contemplation on Los Angeles, see the 2003 film "LA Plays Itself."
Des Moines Register grapples with how to handle reporter’s past tweets
The flip sides are not equal. The government has far more capacity for harm than criminals do, and there are other levers for reducing crime than destroying civil liberties anyway.
Among other use-cases, high-elevation astronomical research can strain hardware.

ESO, the European Southern Observatory, has its Llano de Chajnantor observatory at 5,100m (16,700 ft), in the Atacama Desert. Low humidity is a major concern for electronics due to static buildup and discharges.

Not sure how much Apple kit they use.
Sure, but they absolutely can simply come to your home, seize your cash, all stuff you've bought with it, seize the home itself and you as well.

A sovereign government has full control of the life, liberty and assets of everyone in their territory, subject to all kinds of due process on how they're going to exercise that control or not. The main restraints on gov't power are the ethical and legal choices we the people make to say what the government should be allowed to do, not a physical impossibility to do them. It's not really relevant to debabate whether gov't is capable to seize your virtual assets if it's capable to come and shoot you in the head; it doesn't do that because it's not supposed to do that, not because it's incapable.
Request for Feedback: an “opportunity fund” for underrepresented founders
Flood of new streaming video services could turn viewers toward piracy
> ... I consider myself consciously aware. I don't see what any of that experience has to do with language.

How do you consider yourself to be anything if your mind does not use tokenised abstractions, ie some level of language?

Cogito ergo sum and all.

I've got to say I'm still pretty happy with the concept of the superego. That consciousness and ability for supervisory control seems to rely on the same handling of complex abstraction as language does.
taken to the logical extreme, why do anything in the kernel for that matter?
Computation Structures (Updated)
Proof-of-violence instead of proof-of-work.
Real stable right? Like MJS files for module loading? Real stability there. It's the inmates running the asylum. We use to have to deal with IE holding things back, now it's the JS/Node community.
RMS slept in his office for some time, in all these decades no one made anything out of it other than 'wow, how dedicated and odd that fellow is'. It wasn't some secret. And suddenly it gets pulled out of context by people who admit to having never met him as proof of something vague but nefarious. wtf.
I don't think it's about WeWork leaving like a normal tenant, but simply shutting down a given location.

>Large tenants leave all the time, it is a cost of business: you factor that into the lease terms.

Big tenants leaving is something that takes a lot of effort to manage. If a tenant is potentially giving back 100k sqft at the end of the lease a landlord is going to be getting in front of that years in advance by determining renewal probability, engaging with brokers to find tenants that might be in the market, and possibly actively marketing the space even while the tenant is still occupying the space. Even with that lead time, that space still might be vacant for 6 months to a year, and that's in decent market. This is all because larger tenants don't move at the same pace medium or smaller tenants do.

As far as being factored into the leases, the way WeWork structures their leases is such that the break even point for a the landlord is farther into the future that most of their typical leases. This is mostly due to the significant build out work that WeWork does their best to get the landlords to subsidize, and the amount of free rent they ask for on the front end. Therefore, if WeWork goes dark before year 5 of their lease, then the landlord has likely lost money on that lease.

When it comes to the landlord taking over the short term rentals, some probably will, some maybe won't. Who knows if the tenants will be interested in that or whether the landlords will make enough money for it to be worth their while, but these kinds of short term rentals are not the kind of business landlords want to be in.
>If you're going to travel the world many times, learn to sail and favor trains.

Don't do it just for "the climate". There's something magic about sail and rail. Traveling this way makes the world feel immense. And it is. We just mostly miss it now riding in sky-cans from one Starbucks to the next.
> The thing that makes this work in Swift is the concept of Progressive Disclosure. One of the main tenants of the language is that it should be possible to be productive with a small, high-level subset of the language

"Progressive Disclosure" is an interesting idea for PL research, but IME Swift doesn't do a very good job at it. There's a million cases I've seen where people trying to do simple things run into a pandora's box of complexity (e.g., the infamous "Protocol 'P' can only be used as a generic constraint because it has Self or associated type requirements"). There isn't really a "small subset" I've found that's usable for anything but the absolute simplest programs. Even the fundamental types like Int and String have a lot of not-entirely-hidden complexity in Swift.

> Because it's a relatively un-opinionated language

It seems awfully opinionated to me. There is a clear preferred way to write almost anything. Ask online about how to do things differently, and you'll be told to do it in a more "swifty" way.

> because of the powerful type/protocol system, it can really feel like you can carve out a DSL for each specific use-case

I'll have to see if the new features in the latest versions of Swift (used for SwiftUI) enable this more readily, but as of 4.2, anyway, writing DSLs in Swift is moderately limited and painful.
Looks interesting. Is there a list of libraries that are productions ready that can be used with it? I'm looking for Formik and ReactRouter equivalents at least.
Hello Hacker News, looking for feedback on how we could expand our "funding for bootstrappers" model to better serve underrepresented founders. Suggestions, comments, critiques, all very much welcome here. Thanks.
The primary design objective of the 737 max was to avoid pilot retraining. Until that stops being a major economic driver in aviation no problem was solved here.

Changing MCAS another dozen times and updating the manuals does nothing to prevent this from happening in new future system design.
A. That was not what he argued.

B. One could quite reasonably object to the use of a term whose legal definition is very different from the everyday meaning or connotations.
It does have wheels, which is an upgrade on mobility from the previous generation.
They already are quietly working, in places that haven't politically made coal a necessity.

Europe is mostly progressing well, though most could go markedly faster, and start hastening the decline of gas. There's a few going far too slow dumping coal - Germany and Poland to name an obvious two.

UK and Ireland are particularly well placed for wind, much less so for solar. UK has closed 99% of the mines and there's now fewer than 50 people working coal. Pre-war peak was over a million, and about 250k miners in the seventies. There'll be no coal generation by 2025. The little we still have is barely used. Even gas generation looks like it may have started the decline.

Australia and USA have loads of coast, and masses of land well suited for wind or solar. The thing neither lack is space and suitable sites, relevant to where power is needed. China and Russia seem to have a fair bit too. They apparently lack the will.
You realise you are using the internet right now?
[I'm one of the Microsoft Research people who worked on this]

Thanks for your questions! We have thought of many heuristics but we didn't want to constrain the dataset release on some heuristic that we picked, possibly ruining the dataset. Participants in the challenge should feel free to apply additional filters as they see fit. For example, this [1] work could be useful as a filtering method.

Unfortunately, we do not have the budget to provide any compute resources to help with running the models at this time. Note that any techniques developed with this dataset will be owned by those who develop them and it's up to them how/if they will make them available/open-source.

[1] https://arxiv.org/abs/1806.04616
Here’s what I don’t get: why are you all so concerned about what happens to this guy? He didn’t get lynched. He’s not going to prison. He had a comfortable life and he will continue to have a comfortable life. Why does this asshole deserve so much of your time and energy?
"Snuck Past" doesn't matter. They can penalize after the fact.
Hm, yeah it seems like it would make more sense to have something like "Comments are disabled for this video" on youtube.
Checkm8 – Bootrom exploit for many iOS devices
source? or further details?

e.g. either historical discussion or example of other IPv4 system which implemented things as you describe

Pre-existence of IMP's doesn't apply I don't think since we are talking IPv4
Ad.watch – Breaking open Facebook's machine of political persuasion
>Were people editing Marvel movies really waiting a decade for this though?

Given the number of posts telling people in Hollywood not to restart their Trashcan mac Pros because of the Google Raven screw up, I would say that yes, in fact, plenty of people in Hollywood are using Mac Pros, and likely will buy this new one.

> I struggle to find the target audience for this, now that they are alienating home users

This machine has NOTHING, and I mean nothing to do with home users.

Next you'll tell me that Tesla have alienated "normal" car buyers because they make a $100k P100D rocket ship. Tesla also make a $35k regular sedan. Apple also make much cheaper iMacs, and Mac Books and Mac Books Airs for home buyers.

I don't understand why people time and time again bash Apple for making something that isn't in any way designed for "home users", while they still make plenty of things that are.
I don't think it'd be any kind of a challenge to find shitty volunteer pilots, you just restrict your search to PPLs.
Black Hat USA 2019 Presentations
So this line only redirects all script output to a file as well as ensure that that output makes it onto your screen at the same time.

It is unstructured only in the way you allow any running command within your script to dump their output.

I run most commands inside my scripts with `> /dev/null 2>&1` and then rely on exit codes to wrap structured information to be echoed out with this function:

echo_l(){echo;echo '--------';echo "${1}";echo '--------';echo}

Or functions such as this to populate a log:

log_cat(){echo "${1}" >> ${__LOG} }

But the tee named pipe is the winner.

PS.
The __DOC_LOCAL and __DIR variables start with these magic variables below.
These variables are a life saver and allow easy directory and file manipulation, they kind of setup a top-level context:

# Set magic variables for current file & dir

__DIR="$(cd "$(dirname "${BASH_SOURCE[0]}")" && pwd)"

__FILE="${__DIR}/$(basename "${BASH_SOURCE[0]}")"

__SCRIPT="$(basename ${__FILE})"

__BASE="$(basename ${__FILE} .sh)"

__ROOT="$(cd "$(dirname "${__DIR}")" && pwd)"