skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Drosophila are fruit flies. File under "interesting, but likely not applicable to mammals".

Why assume this, without specific evidence? Drosophila are used as a model organism partly because so many effects transfer. We all run on DNA, and our cells all use protein and RNA machinery.
Ronald Reagan was so popular he won re-election with 49 states.

He lacked only Minnesota, the home state of his opponent. Reagan did not campaign there, he said it would not be kind.
Never not trolling
I haven't tried this, but I imagine a situation where computer A uses SSH to connect to VPS B and computer C connect to VPS B using SSH. If both SSH connections port-forward a VNC port, you can use VNC.
So I use TV for occasional family support.

Were machines vulnerable with only Teamviewer:

1. Installed but not being used?
2. Only when being used (i.e. ask family member to fire it up and give the connection info)
Thanks!

We had named the custom authentication header 'X-Time-Door-Token' at first and then switched it to 'X-Time-Door-Key' :)

The name Time Door also has a cool pop-cultural reference, which can be found on our 404 page.
Coca-Cola is an almost wholly evil company. By 'evil' I mean they poison people's quality of life and harm the environment and they do it knowingly. They are in exactly the same category as tobacco companies.
> Around 10.9 OSX got new file open/save dialogs, which were infinitely better if you used a mouse... but lacked any cmd-key shortcuts.

Cmd+Shift+G withing an open/save diolog gets you a dialog where you can enter a path with tab completion support.
Wouldn’t lowering costs for freight mean an increase in trips ?

More things can be shipped farther away therefore more last mile jobs?
There is no need to send extra data to measure RTT. On the TCP handshake SYN/ACK you already know RTT. Linux kernel provides this info in tcp_info data structure.
How can you 'prove' this? It literally has to be a thought experiment because the only way to prove it would be to apply for a job at the same company with the same crime as a non-white man. It's not an accusation it's a social thought experiment.
>why they find this comment so inappropriate

It is just wrong.

>Engineering is a social/ethical process, not a technical one

This is just bizarre.

>Yes, engineers tend to have technical skills

...tend to have???

>What separates engineers from "skilled people" is professional ethics

I'd argue that it is specialized education

> when you use those skills to design a bridge
>An engineer... who does not consider the ethics of their work cannot credibly claim to be an engineer at all.

A bridge is usually designed by a team of engineers, who will get a specification (usually from another team of engineers and other professionals).

One engineer may be a geotechnical expert, another might design piling, a third will specify the cement and aggregates in the concrete etc etc. Each contribution must meet the applicable technical standards and specifications. Apart from making sure your work is correct, how do you bring ethics into calculating the amount of rebar in your concrete slab??
OK, I see. First of all thanks a lot for this link. Fantastic website!

I genuinely had no idea the delta-v of so many asteroids was so small, compared to LEO. It fills me with 'educated hope', in regards to not-too-distant (in time) sustainable space industry — this and many other factors.

Regarding Isaac Arthur (I'd link the video, but there's so many), he definitely doesn't make that kind of rookie mistake, so I assume it's more of a tongue-in-cheek remark, to address popular concerns and show solutions — drive the point that a space-faring civilization is equipped to deal with such 'problems'.

About rare-Sun materials, I was more implying the possibility of finding isotopes or elements scarce in the belt and inner solar system — but you're right, even just the outer system is already full of useful stuff.

You've convinced me that it does seem pretty improbable that we'd get such a good near-earth candidate during the short window of time when it would really help us a lot, though, assuming we don't take another millennia to get out there (and even then).

Just curious, at the current pace (considering 1950-today) and barring any major stall/setback/boost (no WW3 etc), what would be your personal estimate for the first profitable mining operations? 10, 30, 100 years?
Visual Studio Code has a theme called Slack that works well in bright light
I think the author is just not a native English speaker. The typos seem pretty consistent (eg the author thinks chance is spelled change) and there are some grammar errors and unidiomatic phrases but I don’t think it’s particularly difficult to read or that the errors should imply the article is bad. My guess is that the article is a translation to English of an article in Spanish for Spanish-speakers (eg it talks about “international” startups)
What? 10 years?
I am not a sw engineer and cannot work consistently or enough to earn like a normal person. That's the entire problem. My health was ruined and my finances decimated. Since without social aid your health is required to work and buy a life that puts me in an unsurvivable situation.
The Role of Neuronal Factors in the Epigenetic Reprogramming of Microglia
Getting paid isn't some inalienable human right either. Even if it were, Disney is not a human. Disney is a corporation worth tens of billions of dollars. It used a portion of that money to lobby for multiple copyright extensions, eroding the rights of every american. So who's really entitled here? The social contract behind copyright was "we'll pretend your intellectual property is scarce for like 20 years so you can make your profits and once the time's up your work enters the public domain". When was the last time you saw something enter the public domain? You are literally defending the company that did that. They will try again in the 2020s. They have no intention to fulfill their end of the bargain.

If "piracy" could straight up kill Disney, copyright infringement would be a moral imperative. We don't even have that power.
Sourcehut Successful Enough to Hire an Employee
I've been looking at a combination of SoftEther (for dynamic IPs) and Guacamole to replace TeamViewer, ConnectWise, etc.
> What makes 50s Rock n Roll sound the way it does are the chord progressions they preferred.

One thing I learnt from composing (with software) is how much the instrumentation determines what style/genre the music sounds like - almost totally. Play "50s Rock n Roll" - the same notes, chords, rhythms - with string quartet or orchestra and it's classical. Get The Ramones, Metallica, Dead Kennedys, Sex Pistols to play it and it will sound like those bands. Or it will be jazz, folk, country etc when played with the instruments of those genres.

Also, I strongly believe in learning from the music. If you want an answer to such questions, don't believe anyone's word, but listen for yourself. I guess it sells books to discourage people from doing that. But there's a lot of wrong or plain loopy stuff printed in books about music. Those who know, don't write books, and those who write books, don't know, I suppose.
Blue light is not ionizing radiation. In fact, not even UV-C is ionizing. You have to get shorter-wavelength than UV to ionize. UV is harmful because it has enough energy to at least excite electrons to higher energy levels which can lead to, I think, changes in bond rotations, but not outright ionization. UV is clearly dangerous, but not because it ionizes.

I'm not sure how the transparency argument is relative. You seem to be confusing energy, which depends on the frequency of individual photons with intensity, which is the number of photons. Shine all the low-energy photons you want, and you're just going to add heat, not create photo-products or ionize.
Professional writers only use keyboards.
Better typing => Better writer

Poor inference => Poor programmer
I’m not qualified to comment on the mathematical content but given his coworkers in the department I can’t imagine he’s unaware of these things.
yeah, I'm looking. Dude paid for the content with his credit card. Yet netflix still putting up hurdles after hurdles. No wonder dude ended up on piratebay.
If I buy something I expect goods delivered to me. app store, play store, GOG, steam, everything...
But the answer you get isn't necessarily the truth, because humans don't make decisions based on reason. 90% of the time, decision-making is based on emotion, and the reasoning comes afterwards to try and justify why the decision was made. Thus, when you ask the person for justification, you're getting post-hoc reasons.

There's a great book written on this - "The Righteous Mind: Why Good People Are Divided by Politics and Religion"
For the majority of changes, it "just works". For example, here's the part of nixpkgs that configures wireless networking via wpa_supplicant, as well as the actual package build of wpa_supplicant:

https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/blob/nixos-19.09/nixos/modu...

https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/blob/nixos-19.09/pkgs/os-sp...

Because they're contained within the same git repo, if a new version of wpa_supplicant changed the syntax of wpa_supplicant.conf, the upgrade could be handled easily (assuming the user-facing options in NixOS didn't need to change).

For more complicated changes, there's `system.stateVersion`:

https://nixos.wiki/wiki/FAQ/When_do_I_update_stateVersion

An example of this would be if NixOS version A ships with Postgres version X by default, while NixOS version B upgrades to Postgres version Y. stateVersion allows a sane upgrade path where you can update to NixOS version B without breaking your database immediately (because stateVersion is still A).
How is "our developers really like Python even on a million-line codebase, despite its global mutable state requiring discipline" "quite damning"?
It has that feature already : )

3/4 of the food are for either snake, 1/4 is for a particular snake.
Jeff would never give up any control, at least not until there are O'neil cylinders in orbit.
Yeah, there's an excellent series of blog posts by Abrash going through all of the different triggers they found for VR sickness and how they tackled them.
This is what I use. In Unix it just works (TM). If you have an ssh client in windows, it also works with Remote Desktop via ssh port forwarding. In lieu of a (configured) ssh client on Windows, you can send the other person a self-contained Go program to do the job.
Same thing with morality, its subjective.

There are no such thing as inalienable rights. Every right has to be earned and fight for.
Then it's not a compulsory purchase, it's a tax. The money doesn't go to the insurer. Even before the penalty was $0, it was too low to be effective.

In Switzerland, it is compulsory to purchase insurance, there's a basic plan that all insurers must offer, and if cost exceeds a certain fraction of the income, the state chips in.
To all the non-biology people saying essentially "meh, flies," we're not as different from flies as you might think. Model organisms aren't just chosen because they're easy to study. They're chosen because At the genetic, molecular, and cellular level results actually transfer to us. This may not be obvious if you haven't done advanced studies in biology.
Well, there is this https://github.com/dhall-lang/dhall-haskell/tree/master/dhal...
> many Android devices only support level 1

Isn't Android the biggest OS on the planet by # of users?

Wouldn't the impact be huge?
>...tend to have???

I don't know about you, but there are lots of people I know who call themselves engineers but aren't actually very skilled at all.

>Apart from making sure your work is correct, how do you bring ethics into calculating the amount of rebar in your concrete slab??

I think it's pretty obvious that I was using "design a bridge" as a proxy for any engineering work. But to answer your question: by making sure you do your due diligence with your work, and push back against superiors who want you to cut corners in your analysis for money, of course.

The same way it works in any discipline of engineering. The engineers at Boeing appear to have been unsuccessful in changing the cost-cutting culture of their company, and the executives who ordered the cost cutting are ethically deficient. To put the ethics aside is to absolve the executives of responsibility. If you want a technical writeup of the MCAS debacle, the issue has been discussed ad nauseam in the crash reports. But those reports will lead to no material change if the CEO and other execs aren't willing to change their expectations.
How would software that isn't running be vulnerable to random connection attempts?
How Your Local YMCA Could Save the World
Why does your website not have RSS feeds?
And it couldn't be any other way, its economics.

Of course it can. You just regulate the market and don't allow it to operate completely freely because it's well understood that if you do do so everyone will quickly converge on the lowest common denominator.
That's an interesting read. I wish the author good luck and a happy future.

FWIW, I'm from the USA and have lived and worked in several states. I've known many people from India, some well, all have had success in the workplace. I've never noticed any kind of bias against these people (several were higher up the workplace ladder than I was, I believe they earned it.)

Author, if you see this-- please make a good plan and move forward. Let HN know how things go.
That's patently absurd, and you know it.

>Nationalization:

>the transfer of a major branch of industry or commerce from private to state ownership or control.

Employee ownership is not state ownership.

By this logic, the US already has state-owned healthcare, since the government mandates that employers provide health coverage. Do you also believe that the US government is seizing business revenue by requiring that employers pay wages?

You're just desperate to find a snarl-word you can attach to this obviously reasonable and largely undisruptive plan.
Yes technically it could work, but I cannot ask the users to use SSH and configure VNC. The force of team viewer is that you download it, open it, and give number over the phone and it works.
It doesn't seem like they would have excluded a study that specifically looked at that group. Nor controlled for them.

They specifically talked about this:

> Despite our broad inclusion criteria, we identified only one meta-analysis that focused on a population of people with established disease. This was a metaanalysis of two small cohort studies investigating risk of mortality in people who had experienced a myocardial
infarction.

Here's that one meta-analysis:

Coffee reduces the risk of death after acute myocardial infarction: a meta-analysis.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27315099

As far as preventing issues:

> Coffee consumption was consistently associated with a
lower risk of mortality from all causes of cardiovascular
disease, coronary heart disease, and stroke in a nonlinear relation, with summary estimates indicating
largest reduction in relative risk at three cups a day.28
I value experience a lot, over almost anything.

What you mention is very dangerous to the data. Take the medical app example. Suppose there's an app to update a chart that doctors carry around. Suppose there's five doctors and/or nurses working on the patient. Whose prescription or orders do you take? On top of that it gets worse -- there might be dependencies between the orders, orders might be to countermand other orders or in response to others which may or may not exist. It is not a problem that any algorithm or programming can solve, because the whole point is to take the experience and skill of the doctors which is being blindly ignored for some process that the doctors may or may not be aware of who submit the information. Similar problems could appear for any of the examples you mentioned if you dug hard enough.

As for the submission you can simply ban submission unless you have an active Internet connection. 737 Max is also "real world experience" Boeing panicked at Airbus and instead of going through a 10 year design and 10 billion dollar process for a plane they surrendered to market realities at the cost of lives. The fact that "enterprise" has onerous business requirements or even legal requirements demanding technical sacrifice doesn't make it any less technically wrong. If asked to make a sync on the client side I would make it as simple and straightforward as possible and assume nothing.

I suppose so long as it doesn't cost lives or ruins people I don't particularly care if you value handling data on the client in this way as a qualification for "enterprise" mobile developer. As long as it's "good enough" to meet the requirement, great. But it doesn't mean I like it, and it doesn't mean one should ignore technical flaws. Unless it's ACID you don't guarantee anything it's just a feel good (and possibly done in a much simpler way). For all the scenarios you mentioned I can mention another half dozen scenarios or even a very simple one, one person with same seniority making exactly the same change to the same record. Then your system tosses one or the other or even merges them -- in other words you dive into expert systems, NOT anything to do with "syncing".

Experience is important but there's a theoretical foundation to everything and it's wrong to expect an offline node in a distributed network to act as a source of truth for any period of time. Sorry.
Morality is subjective, according to my moral framework, telling people there are 38 room left, if I'm the business owner and the benefit > cost then yes.

Same thing with slavery, extermination camp, weed. To some people these are moral.
I wish I was in touch with people in that space, I used to be at one point. I would say anybody who has worked in ad sales, or an outsourced media sales/publisher representative. I'm not familiar with this firm, but something along these lines: http://www.jamesgelliott.com/
Such an inspiring post. Awesome to hear your story. Did you do it part time or full time? And yes, a +1 to the comment and to the idea that you should write a blog post. Thanks!
A Framework for Secure Digital Administration
Most people are going to think they're going to die in triple overhead surf at any break
Hi Dave,

Thank you, that means a lot coming from someone with your experience.

Based on the feedback, the demo has a high priority for us, so we should have something in the next few days.
Look at it from Netflix’s perspective: most of their collection has legal strings attached, even most of their exclusives, with substantial penalties if they don’t take measures to encumber content and there’s a real threat of auditors catching implementation lapses. If they use HTML video with EME and someone comes up with a way to copy it, that’s a problem for Google’s Widevine (used by both Chrome and Firefox), Microsoft, Apple, etc. as long as they can show they used the system correctly. Similarly, they don’t need to be absolutely perfect in region locking as long as they can defend the mechanism in court. Similarly, VPN detection needs to be at the level where they have a good chance of avoiding a court case – auditors definitely know to try that.

Now ask how many Linux users running Firefox without the Widevine CDM installed over a VPN there are likely to be and how much revenue that brings in compared to the legal risks of not being able to check those boxes.
Still produces long life isotopes (disposal problem) and I would bet it's still WAY more expensive than renewable energy.
speaking as someone with a long history of old macs, I'm very comfortable in saying this is a straw-man argument that doesn't matter BECAUSE every single mac I have ever had that they've dropped support for has been EFFING PAINFUL to use long before they dropped support. I've been using Macs since the Mac SE. Apple maintains support for their devices long after any reasonable person that wasn't dirt poor would have replaced them. Any poor person in the US would probably be better off going to the library and using the crappy free computers there, because macs that old are ridiculously slow.
I just checked Wikipedia and you are correct.

It was the OS/2 1.3 release that should have been targeted at the 386 chip.
Congratulations. You've automated workplace bullying. Now we can get rid of all the human managers.
Wait for them to repeat the study with orange light and then completely stop using vim. Then even orange will feel like an assault.
Anybody know of a UDP-based alternative? VNC is TCP.
>When you are in senior management, you make decisions based on their overall effect on the company's financial health or future growth. That is your job, just like it is the engineer's job to make decisions based on overall safety and reliability or future capability.

I find this statement very troubling. You seem to be absolving the corporate/C-level class of any moral or ethical culpability when it comes to the consequences of their decisions, so long as "it makes business sense".
DNS over HTTPS–What Is It and Why Do People Care? [pdf]
Very cool but Bb doesn't seem to work right here: https://1014.org/_/sightread_bb.png
> They didn't know why the trim was kicking in in the first place

Unknown cause is symptomatic of runaway trim.

> The behavior did not present as a classic stabilizer runaway

How is runaway trim different from classic runaway trim? The trim was mysteriously turning on and trying to drive the nose into the ground. If that isn't runaway trim, I have no idea what runaway trim is.

BTW, I worked for 3 years on the Boeing 757 stabilizer trim gearbox. I know what runaway trim is. The cutoff switches are there as the last resort to stopping it, and they're prominently and conveniently on the center console for darn good reason.

> if pilots were really held to account for knowing the hardware they're operating

The point being, even if they knew what MCAS was, the corrective action is the exact same thing as in the instructions provided by Boeing, before and after the Lion Air crash.

> They did follow it actually

I'm glad you read it, but read it again. They did not follow it.

> clearly communicating the severity of the problem

Considering that it was an emergency mandatory notification, and the LA pilots had already crashed, I don't know how to harder communicate the severity. I'm not a pilot, but if I was a MAX pilot, I'd certainly not want to die the same way the LA pilots did, and I'd pay attention to an AD explaining how not to die.

But I do agree that evidently pilots needed more training to understand what to do about runaway trim, which they need to understand regardless of whether MCAS is causing the runaway trim or some other problem. There's a reason the runaway trim procedure is something that is a memory item, meaning pilots are supposed to know what to do about it without needing to consult the checklist. Training in this is clearly insufficient.
> Most people aren't running linux, have legal streaming options available to them... Are there scenarios where typical consumers turn to piracy? Sure, aboslutely

my wife - a non-tech person, really - falls in to this camp. she's turned to torrenting things because the experience of streaming is just... slow. and bad. and stuttery. oh, and we still get ads on things (hulu, for one). She figured out how to find free streams for soccer matches - when we paid for "real" streams, they still had ads taking up 20% of the screen. And still somewhat jittery/stuttery (but - those 2 minute car ads at the start of the stream were never jittery).

yeah, the 'free' stuff experience isn't always great, but when the paid experiences are still kinda crappy, what's the point of paying?
Sounds like a terrible workplace honestly, when your performance is evaluated on subjective and highly ambiguous criteria.
Tools make not the master.

“You should not have any special fondness for a particular weapon, or anything else, for that matter. Too much is the same as not enough. Without imitating anyone else, you should have as much weaponry as suits you.”

- Miyamoto Musashi