skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Actually I have been using as a drop in replacement of RDP back in the days and it was pretty decent, bad people will misuse all kind of tools but especially the ones that facilitate their crimes (see also Tor)
In my math group in Romania there were more women in the Math classes. I assume in US having a job as a Math teacher is not having such big appeal so this could explain the difference.
"Today, of Americans officially designated as "poor," 99 per cent have electricity, running water, flush toilets, and a refrigerator; 95 per cent have a television, 88 per cent a telephone, 71 per cent a car and 70 per cent air conditioning. Cornelius Vanderbilt had none of these." --Matt Ridley in "The Rational Optimist: How Prosperity Evolves"
Yep. Me and my boss estimated rewriting what looks like a really simple Silverlight application in HTML5 in about 3 months time. He's far better at estimating than I am, and a year later we finally did it. Problem was we chose to use .NET Core cause it was more modern, and who knows if Microsoft will dump .NET Framework at some point (and honestly after .NET Core 3.0 I could finally see this being possible). So we upgraded to .NET Core.

Estimating requires you already understand the very thing you're estimating. This is why plumbers, and electricians give you reasonable estimates. Heck when we hired movers after buying our first home they estimated two hours, and were done just a few minutes before the 2 hour mark on the spot.

The issue with programming is, your tools change, your approach changes with new iterations (usually for the better!) and you notice new problems, or sometimes you do one thing in 5 minutes, and your second run through using a similar approach is broken because it requires an edge case you didn't anticipate code wise.
Considering that MCAS is an added ‘feature’ to avoid stall, you would think they could just remove it and be done. After all, it wasn’t part of the original 737.

Sadly, from my limited understanding, due to the engine location change on the airframe, the plane naturally pitches up... making it necessary.

One thing seems clear to the external observer, this is a 737 in name only.
UK Met Office Climate Dashboard
I’m not sure there’s a single idea of what is an ‘official ID’ like you think there is. If I ask who you are and you show me your digital ID then you’ve just used it as an ID so clearly it can be used as ID. Just some organisations and people may choose not to accept it.
You deserve an award for best "Get Off My Lawn" post of the day. Thank you.
There is a firefox extension that automatically redirects all reddit urls to old-dot
Where's “Close Other Tabs?” [Chrome]
For this case I think it is important to understand the environment and context surrounding the software, and what makes it different from other security tools such as metasploit. The author had a presence on several forums where he posted updates and I guess provided people with support. These forums catered mainly to the "bad guys", and the author was posting updates and providing support on the same forum where banking trojans, and stolen information was sold. While writing malware might be protected by free in France, the author was probably walking on a thin line with his choice of communication channels.

Metasploit targets security researchers over channels where there is no overtly illegal activity, and would likely refuse to support people if it is obvious that it is being used for something illegal.
I used them too and they're fantastic. I even bought a couple of licenses for IrfanView although I didn't need them.

Too bad there's no Linux version.
Then that sounds like escalating taxes would be an extremely effective incentive for behaviour change, despite the fact that employers will be picking up most of the costs!
Modern Data Practice and the SQL Tradition
I'd say it's more of Twitter India issue than main Twitter. Twitter banned many Pakistani and Indians accounts without any notice who were raising voice against 3 months+ Kashmir lockdown against Modi govt.
Wikipedia integrates digital book previews to help verify citations
Climate change: Sea ice loss linked to spread of deadly virus
Works fine on BuyVM, which starts at $20/year. https://buyvm.net/kvm-dedicated-server-slices/
See https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XGexABMTD-A
If companies take too much of China's money, they can and will use it as leverage to stifle free speech.
Just FYI, mocking the term "Toxic Masculinity" shows you either don't understand what it refers to or think those things are good, either of which makes me much less interested in anything else you might have to say because it sets a bad precedent.

Toxic Masculinity does not mean being male is toxic (i.e. harmful). It refers to specific ideas about what it means to be male or how men should act that are toxic. Like not sharing emotions other than violence, not asking for help, never admitting weakness, etc. If you think those things are silly and we shouldn't be doing them: great! But many people (especially men) hold onto these notions and that's what the term refers to.
Agreed, the MAX was only designed to beat the competition to market with the least amount of re-certification and re-training. That gamble (with Boeing's reputation, the FAA reputation and most importantly, people's lives) did not pay off. They won't get away with rushing though certification of a complete rewrite of their flight software. The world is watching now. Time to cut losses and junk the MAX entirely.
Great contribution. Key criticism from my standpoint:

...The buoyancy provided by superhydrophobicity scales
with surface area, while the mass of a ship scales with
volume, so this can only ever work for roughly coin-sized
objects. ...

lame PR piece.
Yes, the notion of engineers knowing what they are doing and actually creating a reliable system seems to be largely alien to the HN crowd.
It is my understanding it is only necessary to make the Max 'compatible' with the 737 so nobody needed to be retrained and recertified.
I remember that the EFF used to defend programmers freedom against the government's arguments that hacking tools / exploits could be misused and should be regulated.
What happened? This seems like a total reversal of position.

edit: according to this thread, the EFF is indeed full of shit. Sad.
https://twitter.com/pwnsdx/status/1192459212611342336
I think all of your points are valid, but I'm not convinced that there is only one best solution worth pursuing. For instance, reframing the issue as a problem with the distribution of resources makes sense, but I wonder to what extent the actual problem is people's unwillingness to distribute themselves; i.e. go closer to where the resources are. People want to live where the people are; where the things and the jobs are, and it's these overpopulated urban / industrial centers that people collect in which have the large environmental footprints.

Basically, the population is sustainable if people decide to change their values; move out of cities, distribute themselves across the available land, participate in self-sufficient local economies / work remotely, etc. I just don't believe that betting on people changing according to some timeline to be a winning bet.
I get that, I was sober on a Wednesday at 4pm and the casino wouldn’t let me in.
i was a HUGE third party user, but nowadays i just prefer using twitter web and twitter for android (specially after twitter finally added latest home page instead of those weird curated timelines).

also, list support is a lot better on the official app (and i use a lot of lists so i don't clutter my main timeline with random stuff).
Which compiler is this?
Billionaires overwhelmingly establish family businesses, estates, trusts, and other dynastic structures of wealth. [0][1] By definition and constitution, only elected representatives can decide how to spend tax money. [2] Whether Tesla, or whatever company you today favor, exists is irrelevant, but an excellent segue: Why do we need Prince Elon?

There do not need to be a class of people with unlimited fuck-you money. Such people are known as royalty. Traditionally, they have not made moonshots, but spent most of their money and power on obtaining more money and power. If I buy a thousand trees, then I've spent proportionally quite a bit more on trees than Elon. Note that literal moonshots have been, up until recently, performed by large government agencies using taxpayer funds.

You need to consider the apportionment clauses more carefully. Right now, if my words were to leap off the screen and turn into a coherent taxation and spending policy, then Pelosi and McCarthy, Mitch and Chuck, would be the people holding that power, not Trump. And, more importantly, the people are transient. Sure, Trump's a fascist, but he's on his way out, and while I don't know exactly how Republican power will splinter as a result, I think that it's safe to say that the legislature is not going to suddenly represent less of the peoples' will.

In terms of what I don't want to have happen, let's scroll through [0][1] for a moment:

* Consider the royal families of Thailand or Brunei, or the Sauds or other emirates. They commit a lot of human-rights abuses.

* The Waltons, Kochs, and Johnsons have, to some extent, created and capitalized upon the American consumerist lifestyle, at the expense of the social fabric and the environment.

* Bezos' Amazon commits labor-rights abuses against workers in the USA.

* Thiel's Palantir is developing pre-crime technology; I don't have a succinct way to explain what kind of next-level privacy-violating BITE this is.

Yes, I am suggesting that our elected representatives are better at this than private citizens. And the way I see it, at worst, I'm moving the money away from a group of self-serving individuals who don't understand its value!

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_wealthiest_families

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_royalty_by_net_worth

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taxing_and_Spending_Clause
You meet the PM/PO. They want to do Scrum, standups, retros, grooming, poker planning the whole thing.

Ask them to prioritize the tickets. Maybe they want some rough estimate to decide between some of them, maybe not (which is, suprisingly, in most case). During the same meeting you can groom the tickets.

The developers then start working on those tasks, when they are ready you release them according to your company policy and calendar.

By then everyone have forgotten about Scrum, management is amazed you release so much stuff, you can probably put all that in a one hour max weekly team meeting and everyone is happy.

I'm pretty sure that's applicable in a lot of pure player tech teams and quite scalable (I managed up to a 15 devs team this way but PR validation etc overtook the management part a bit much).
That isn't at all an expected result. Given the range of physical differences between men and women it is quite surprising if there are no mental differences on average and potentially even in extreme situations. Hormonal differences alone could cause any sort of strange divergences and it might have turned out that the ability to pump blood to the brain (ie, raw physical fitness - which is clearly a divergence between the sexes particularly on the tails of the distribution) is a contributor to peak mental processing ability.

It isn't expected that men and women are the same in how they do things. We just don't think the differences are important to what outcomes get achieved when it comes to real-world problems.

EDIT

And something interesting, my understanding is that where men are more likely to be red-green colour blind women go in the opposite direction, sometimes even as far as having tetrachromacy/a 4th type of colour receptor. Maths always seemed to me to be linked to vision, that sort of thing might trigger all sorts of strange results.

Biology is really messy.
> - old reddit

I use this extension and it's super useful: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/old-reddit-re...

The new site is way way slower to load, which i can notice immediately if i open it on a browser that doesn't have the extension installed :/
Except from .io games, browser games have never recovered from Flash times. Guess it's mostly due to the proliferation of mobile games. There were promising demos for high quality triple A games on the browser before, but it didn't catch on. Maybe with WebAssembly. Who knows;
Teslas have moved past the "theoretically can we drive across the US" a long time ago. Nobody questions if any EV can do it given a careful selection of start and end points, route planning, and luck with third party charging stations working properly (they often do not).

The practical range-based use cases are way more meaningful, and they're proved out every day by real world Tesla owners doing normal things.

But it is nice to see these proof of concept demonstrations with other EVs. I think it's been a few years since a Tesla going from Niagara Falls to NYC warranted a press release.
IME, sales people usually change the estimates to much lower than those reported to them, leading to no end of frustration and overtime on the engineering side.
If I understand correctly "fixing" MCAS would be quick but audit found out more problems and Boeing started basically a refactoring of their computer architecture (including hardware changes) which itself takes a lot of time and didn't pass new audit yet.
You should start with async-await, but know that the ecosystem is in the middle of catching up, and so you may run into packages that are more awkward to use at the moment.
They have some close ups of the sand and it effects light transport
Docker registries you can use for your private projects with an always free plan
So isn’t that an argument against worrying about the big bad studio monopolies? They put out a product, people don’t want it, they lose money. It sounds like capitalism for the win to me instead of wanting the government to intervene.
The Lens
Never had performance issues on scroll ? The demo app on the ios app store has lagging scroll performance for a simple app on an iphone X
In my first required digital design lab I picked as a final project the problem of building a Nim [1] playing circuit. I almost used an acoustic delay line to hold the game state. This was long before the days of RaspberryPi or any other microcontrollers. (Our lab at MIT still used the predecessor to TTL logic known as RTL logic.)

I didn’t end up needing the delay line, I got by with around two dozen flip flops instead.

How times have changed!

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nim
TensorFlow 2.0 Tutorial: Basic Image Classification
Didn't I read from another hacker news poster that the software engineering and design was outsourced? Anyone know?
> [...] they're talking about one case where someone wrote highly unethical software.

It is worse. Oxygen, a chemical substance, is used by highly immoral human beings, such as Kim Jong-un, to breathe, and continue living and causing havoc on the oppressed North Koreans. These immoral human beings are also eating and drinking. Cars are used to kill people as well. iFixit toolsets could also be used for this purpose. CPUs and other hardware are being used to exploit Chinese citizens via GFW and cameras. Meanwhile, evil girlfriends can abuse RATs to spy on their boyfriends as well.

Instead of these ridiculous narratives we need to look at

1) The main purpose of a tool.

2) The relative abuse of the tool, or collateral damage, and the impact of such abuse and damage.

Which is why the above examples, and OpenSSH Server as well, are each bad examples.

It is a lot more difficult, to be nuanced. I'd like to learn more about the exact software, and where it was advertised back in the days (2012 apparently). Was it legitimately used?
> ...and the dedication to keep things going long after most people got bored of them.

... has become a virtual impossibility in the age of short-lived consumerism and fad-driven development.
The bible is an interesting, mysterious, historical phenomenon. You don't have to be religious to read it. I'm not religious and I'm currently on a plan to read it in Spanish in one year by my next birthday. Just for fun and to say I did it.

I like this website because it lets you compare different bibles and translations side by side:

https://www.bibliacatolica.com.br/la-biblia-de-jerusalen-vs-...
- Paint Shop Pro 7 (the last good version and one of the easiest and snappiest image editors IMO)
Rolls Royce: Mini nuclear reactor vision backed by government and industry
The main issue is that this only works on things that are tiny enough that a micro-layer of surface air can substantially affect their buoyancy. It's a cool trick, and I'm sure it has uses, but it's not going to do a thing for planes and ships. It'd be like trying to float a Buick by tying a party balloon to it.
We only have a few years to bring back Sealab 2021.
So if you could introduce a capability (via plasticity) and we keep practicing it regularly over time does it become long term? If so, that would be a great jump start.
I’ve been a lawyer practicing in this area since the mid-90s. Nothing meaningful has changed since then. They pass laws and regs, consultants and lawyers get rich by scaring their clients about upcoming rule changes, and the regulators hand out completely ineffectual slaps on the wrist while the big players openly violate the rules.
Yes, that was the gamble. But as others have pointed out, instead of actually ‘updating’ the plane Boeing changed it materially. Calling it a 737 was a stretch at best.
Ok, fair enough, not a king. To me it'd be kingly, but I guess I feel like a king quite quickly.

Just me? Ah, alright.
Side Project Awards
Avoid giving clicks to companies like the NYT that are working to kill the open web.

http://archive.is/i60kZ
FWIW, the near-crash in the simulator was apparently not directly related to MCAS, but occurred when Boeing "simulated what would happen if gamma rays from space scrambled data in the plane’s flight-control computers."

> In one scenario, the plane aggressively dove in a way that mimicked what happened in the crashes on the grounded jetliner, the people said. While such a failure had never occurred in the 737’s history, it was at least theoretically possible.

> Because at least one of the pilots who flew the scenario in a simulator found it difficult to respond in time to maintain control of the plane, it needed to be fixed, according to two people familiar with the results.

However, the next sentence seems to belie the implication that this was just an edge case:

> The answer was to modernize what was a relatively antiquated design on the 737.

So, of all the things that caused Boeing/FAA to realize and the accept the 737 needed to modernize its decades-old design, it was a simulated edge case involving "gamma rays from space"? Hate to be overly cynical, but that sounds like the kind of CYA thing you'd say when you don't want to admit it you made a huge mistake by deferring modernization in the first place, of which the MCAS concept was a major and disastrous symptom.
Why not just use the browser client?
I don't know. I wrote a code-generating ORM for my own projects, which is what I use. But lack of generics isn't, for example, what makes Go projects hew so closely to net/http and net/http compatible interfaces, rather than the more elaborate interfaces people write in Python and Ruby; there's also just a "less is more" ethos in Go-world.
Cheap zinc/manganese battery being developed commercially
Western Individualism May Have Roots in the Medieval Church's Incest Obsession
Your car can provide energy.
You should automate because it eliminates future budget. When the next recession comes (which could be transit only: when political winds change and voters give transit less money, or won't allow fares to raise), the automated system is the last one cut because there is so little money to save. Since the trains are your busy routes and the backbone it means when things get better latter your most important users are still users and there are enough riders. If your system isn't automated you are tempted to cut service on the main routes to the point where people who are most likely to use transit buy a car anyway and then they forget that transit works because the car is their habit and they forget the downsides.

Might be too late for anyone to see this...
The starting point is figuring out 'who might want to buy this, and why'
This is the same bs* as trickle down economy.
"If you read a novel in more than two weeks you don’t read the novel really."

Then who but academics--or maybe graduate students--can read War and Peace, The Man Without Qualities, In Search of Lost Time (or really, most of its constituent books), Moby Dick, etc.?

And I can imagine being "partial" to calling myself a reader, but "amicable" seems the wrong word.
Time to Interactive: https://calibreapp.com/blog/time-to-interactive
Or trying to fund their operation? This article seems free anyways
>> Most of this time is spend alone, behind a computer. Very few people are willing to follow this lifestyle, girls even more so because of the lack of face to face human contact it implies.

I don't follow. What does face to face human contact have to do with being a girl? Can you clarify?
Wow, I wish the Fortune 10 company I work for had this kind of insight! The "agile" process I work under is causing horrible outcomes. It's basically a sweat shop operation is what it really is. I'm a tech lead and am always fielding questions like "why did this take so long?" It took so long because there was unexpected difficult A, B, and C, two of the four guys on team are mid-level devs and not senior level, and so I worked a third night this week to try and pull this off. The sprint plan never makes it past 1-2 days each sprint and then I catch a bunch of righteous indignation with phrases like "you committed to this" and crap like that.

"Why can't we better estimate these things?" Because when I give honest estimates I get threatened by my boss. Your process is not reality driven.

"Can we break this work down into smaller stories?" No, I can't break down the final integration of all the parts into a smaller story. Or more commonly, they told me we have "too many stories" and can't keep track of them all when we break them apart.

The best is when a Product Owner or other business type says "I'm not a technical person." Then why the hell are you working in a such technical business and calling the shots on stuff you don't even understand?
Oh, you're an Objectivist! I see. Unfortunately, I do not respect you.

Recall that rights are social constructions. Then, there is no inherent right to private property, personal belongings, or peculiaria. It is granted by the public ("people") to members of the public ("other people").

The question you want answered is hopelessly uninformed. The government's spending appears poor because it is done publically, transparently, and by committee. You are complaining about the fact that sausage comes from sausage factories. In contrast, you might think that a corporation is good at spending money, but in fact, corporations are only good at appearing to be good at spending money.

Let me spell that lesson out more clearly for you: Corporations are not good at anything besides appearances.

So I would say that your question is begged; the government is doing the best that it can do under the circumstances. If you don't like how it's happening, elect better representatives.
> The other day, Mr. Sinka ran into an old friend but had to tell her they could not continue speaking.

> “I hadn’t seen her in six months, and it was extraordinarily exciting, super-stimulating, and I could feel how excited I was,” he said. “So I had to cut it off and I just said, ‘Listen, it’s not you, it’s me, doing this dopamine fast.’”

If this were on HBO's Silicon Valley, we would dismiss it as too over-the-top.