skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
When you're putting tremendous direct effort into those turnips, when those turnips will likely make the difference between life & death thru the winter, when others facing bleak prospects are likely to take "the opportunity to make off with those turnips", when there is no viable/relevant police enforcement to speak of, yes you take trespass very seriously.

Contrast that with the modern luxurious miracle of the $1 hamburger: with just 9 minutes of minimum-wage commodity labor, one can obtain a fresh complete meal (bread, meat, veggies, cheese) any time all year.

When you’re living the latter, the gravity of the former is hard to grasp.
> the HN user base is not capable of understanding and reacting to satiric comments.

"the HN user base" comprises people from many different walks of life and many different cultural backgrounds, not all of which jive with your idea of "fun".

Add to that our medium is static text, a format which is widely known to cause misunderstanding. Back when I was young in the 90s we had a term for respecting this kind of thing, it was called "netiquette".

Perhaps, rather than demanding that everybody else jump on board your boat, you should just familiarise yourself with the house rules (there aren't many) and simply abide by them!
The 737 Max fiasco is a tragedy and these emails are damning.

That said, it's likely one could find similar remarks in other high pressure / high stakes situations; what we would need to see to know, are other email exchanges regarding other plane certification processes.
Actually, memory masters ascribe a sequence (a la a song) to store multiple things. I think time/sequence i.e. auto-association is arguably the most important element in human memory. Some have described it as a memory house with various rooms and objects and navigating it.

The more "nonsensical" as you put it, the more distinctive & discriminant the memory is.

Edit: formatting & more details.
100% correct, eInk have been terrible stewards of this otherwise wonderful tech.

I was in a meeting with an eInk marketing person and saw a prototype of this display 2 years ago (the refresh time was hellish, 10-15 seconds IIRC, and their suggested applications suggest the refresh rate hasn't been brought down since then). He was relatively new to the company then, and mentioned that he'd reviewed their CRM contacts going way back, and found, among other things, an inquiry about a small eInk display from (my NDA probably prevents me being too specific) a little silicon valley tech start-up making an IoT wall-mounting thermostat, circa 2012. eInk failed completely to respond to that inquiry at all. What a massive lost opportunity.

I looked at their display range and had an idea for a demonstrator product - which is why we had the meeting, they wanted 3rd parties to help them develop novel applications for eInk displays - so I asked for data sheets on a few of them. I can't remember if we ultimately had to sign an NDA to get the data sheets, or if there was sufficient behind-the-scenes conversation between him and their Taiwanese owners to pull their fucking head in, but 2 weeks just to get data sheets wasn't a good start.

Along with the displays I looked at several of their dev-kits to drive them (before you design your own driver in your own product & get working hardware, so that s/w people can dev code for it before then). They had at least 3 completely different dev-kits for displays in the 1.5 to 4" range. Not only did they have quite different interfaces (signalling, pin-outs, connectors), but all the dev-kits were all based on different microcontroller brands, AND you had to have your own device-programmer for each of those microcontrollers to be able to update the dev-kit's firmware - as recommended by their own instructions before you start work. IOW, they ship dev-kits with outdated firmware, so you have to update them yourself at your own cost.

So I had a follow-up conf-call with this guy & someone new in the tech area and basically gave him the "srslywtf?" conversation about this appalling experience. They were appreciative of the feedback, but I never heard from them again. That marketing guy was in a new job less than a year later.

I found eInk displays from several other sources and moved on, never to bother with eInk Inc again.

The price-tag application has been around a long time now, 5 maybe 10 years, but precious few other applications (San Diego Airport's car-park comes to mind, tho that's ePaper, not eInk (i.e. whole panels, not dot-matrix displays)), but eInk have been completely wrong-headed about how to get eInk to go beyond the near-captive-audience of eBook Readers (which is mostly the Kindle), and the writing was on the wall for that product line to expand way beyond just eInk-based readers a LONG time ago. Sad.
I'm having very hard time believing that this device is in fact "clinically accurate."

Don't they have to be certified by the FDA to be marketed for that purpose? I recall someone at Apple talking about this sort of thing with the Apple Watch monitoring different health functions.
Looks great, I really like the note map feature.
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Bluntly, this is why companies have email "retention"[1] policies. Lots of products have internal emails about all the scary things that can (and will) go wrong. Its hard to put them into context, but if things do go wrong they will be all over the press.

[1] Really deletion policies
I own an Oculus Quest, and it's not bad. But it does take up too much room to play, it's isolating, there's not enough content yet besides glorified tech demos, and both the hardware and the games are too expensive.
“Looks like my jedi mind trick worked again!” the pilot wrote. “These are not the droids you’re looking for.”

Pretty bold culture over there. (When talking about putting pressure on regulators to not demand simulator training for the MAX.)
Interestingly, I've had the most impressive social experience in VR. I got the Oculus Go when it came out and bought Catan (the board game, but in VR). I then launched a game online, and ended up playing for an hour with a finish kid and a canadian dude. We talked like we were all together, and at the end I couldn't just leave without saying goodbye (usually I just quit a game, but here I felt some social pressure to do the right thing). We even shook hand.
Yup, USA culture is toxic as fuck (that's not to say it's different elsewhere, just talking from experience in the US). You're expected to make money and/or have some impressive-sounding career to have "made it", or else you're a loser.

I call this the "loser" class (obviously, I don't personally see them as losers, just in terms of societal expectations). You're supposed to go make money or you're a loser. Hopefully, you're "in charge of people" too, because managers and executives are the only people that contribute to society. Do-ers just cost money. You buy a house and become a homeowner to be a "real American" and not be a loser. You better get a big car and attractive partner too. I think there's a talking heads song about this.

Worse, we think that all failures should be permanent. Once you become a member of this class, especially as you age, it becomes difficult to get out. What have you been doing all these years? Did you not want to sit in a cage for your entire adult life? No degree? Have you ever been fired? Have you had any issues with the law? Well, you're done. No longer a member of the "successful American" class, you're now a loser. A despised and ridiculed lesser class within society.

We'll let a few losers out, and rise to the level of good American, but generally, they stay there. Don't forget that you deserve this, and it's your fault because you're a bad person. I'm not surprised by the suicide rate at all.
I think you have it exactly backwards. VR might not catch on as readily among affluent folks who can afford to have all these great experiences in real life, but will be a great escape for others (yes, I'm aware some will see that as dystopian, but to me it's just a better TV).

The Oculus Quest isn't like 5.1 sound at all. I kickstarted the original Oculus and would agree with your characterization there, but the Quest is entirely different. It's self contained, not needing to be tethered to a computer, and the boundary configuration is a snap. You do it from within the VR, observing your own room with its cameras, and just draw the boundary walls. Many games you can even do seated but "room scale" ones only need about 6ft x 6ft, which most people even in tiny apartments can put together.
infinite minimum wage = zero suicide
I never saw captain Kirk recharging his, nor fiddling with it when he was bored. Space1999 commlocks were also way better than an ipotato.
http://catacombs.space1999.net/main/cguide/umcomlock.html
I live in a tiny Cambridge apartment and I can set up a small play space just fine without external equipment (inside out tracking through Windows MR). Though I do agree, the activation energy of putting on a bulky headset does prevent me from getting into a game at the drop of a hat.
Most people knows that you should give a "real" but insignificant weakness just as you said you wanted in the previous post instead of non-weaknesses. If you don't think that people have practiced such answers and carefully picked their "weakness" then you are ignorant.
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Oculus Quest is 400$, no additional hardware required.
Yup. People look at me weird once in a while, but cash always works. No fees. Censorship resistant, close to anonymous, and accepted everywhere, network or not. I can do without yet another app selling my data.
Ok, if you want to be pedantic, lets be pedantic:

> No changes are ever made to an existing file,

I did not say or imply that there were. it's a new version, of course.

> so there are never any merge conflicts

Does not follow. There is only one HEAD (latest version) of foo.txt on the master branch. In a merge, it has two (or more) parent objects (1).

> All changes result in a new object/file ... therefore never any merge conflicts.

And yet somehow git calls the process of deciding what's in this new (version of the) file with two parents "resolving a merge conflict". Because the two parent changes can't be automatically reconciled. They are in conflict.

1) https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com/questions/3142...
If you're interested to learn about systems and complexity in a humanities style: https://unintendedconsequenc.es/blog/
There are many examples historically of people choosing death over following orders.
That is indeed a shame and I was also not aware of them shutting down some of their services. But as far as I know their text document editing tool is a slightly improved etherpad, which is mentioned in the article.
So they say, anyway. It's best to take any Valve announcements about actual games with a grain of salt.

Some YouTube streamers that I watch did a big run of VR games over the past year or so, and without exception they were gimmicky experiences that would have been better with a more conventional setup. Of course needing the equivalent of a GTX 1080 is a big barrier too.

My prediction is that when and if this new Half-Life game comes out, there won't be enough of a user-base actually using VR gear to sustain it; I hope that they have planned for that case and will release it as a normal PC shooter as well.
> Syntax is something you become used to in a few hours.

This is completely subjective and not at all universal.
I've been seeing a lot of stuff about Windows 3.11 lately, did they release it free recently? Like they did early versions of MSDOS? https://github.com/microsoft/MS-DOS
Latest Starlink Plans Unveiled by SpaceX Could Create Astronomical Emergency
Surprised not to see the reactivity feature using the label statements as it is the one thing that sets Svelte apart.
There is in fact some indication in the movies that HAL and similar computers are indeed sentient enough. HAL claims to be afraid. If we admit this is a real feeling and not something HAL is just echoing, an entity than can feel fear can also murder.

Moreover, there are a couple of poignant scenes in the film 2010 The Year We Make Contact:

Dr. Chandra has the following dialogue with SAL-9000, an AI in the same class as HAL. He is disconnecting SAL as a test for what will happen with HAL:

"Will I dream?"
"Of course you will. All intelligent beings dream. Nobody knows why." [0]

Later in the movie Chandra is asked the same question by HAL, but gives a more honest answer:

"Will I dream?"
"I... don't know" [1]

This leaves room in the mind of Dr. Chandra, an AI specialist, to wonder whether these are truly "sentient" beings or not. If they are, they are certainly capable of murder.

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[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T2E7sxGAmuo
[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3OlCzxFuV9c
In reading Knuth's volume one a few years ago, I was surprised by the threaded tree structure he presents. Gives easy ways to do stack free traversal of a tree.

I confess there is no good reason this surprised me. But it did. I share your thought that there are probably more uses for this than I've seen. I'll modify the thought and say I just assume they are getting used and I don't know if the doors directly. (I'll note that you can view a DOM tree as threaded, do I have seen stack free traversal used. Just not often.)
Elroy Air and Embraer will develop a cargo-carrying eVTOL aircraft
That same argument could have been made for 3D tech in TVs a few years ago, and we all know how well that technology took off. It seems most people seem to want an incrementally “better” experience, not a fundamentally different one.
A 48khz digital music player for Commodore 64
Ask HN: What makes you loose credibility on a web resource?
What makes you close a site immediately (like a GitHub project, a landing page, a HN posts, a blog post)?
Or, you know, cash.
I found that odd too. Typical examples like https://confluence.atlassian.com/bitbucket/yaml-anchors-9601... are pretty easy to map to their example of why they need repetition.
This must be the famous write once read never coding style I've heard so much about, a bit like my FINO list of bookmarks, where project like this one are always welcome
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The device mentioned here has to be held over the heart to measure blood pressure.

Elevating the device to to the level of your heart seems like standard practice. Every home blood pressure monitor I've ever used requires this. And it's also the way my doctor does it in his office with both electronic and the squeezie bulb blood pressure thing.
I don't know why they have to invent something new, if you're just managing kubernetes manifests, kustomize already is good for this task and simple to start with.
Could someone please explain to me why critical infrastructure is even reachable by anyone not on a VPN owned by the infrastructure operators using 3+ factor authentication? And why are the source IP's not nullified internet wide and special forces going to the source ISP's to melt them into the ground? How is this even a thing?
The price. That's the only reason for me. Other than that it's wonderful; Once the prices reach affordable for the masses level, it will surely blow up, given the right apps come with it. People yearn to fantasize, break away from reality, new sensorial experiences etc. If VR offers that at good prices it'll be an explosion. That's my view on it.
Depends what types of sleep you want to track.

Simply if you're sleeping or not? Oura is studied to be relatively accurate at determining if you're asleep or not.

What stage of sleep you're at, and if you're at REM? They all seem to fail this. In all cases, apps (phone/watchOS) are pretty much universally bad. Hardware like Beddit doesn't seem to pass the test either [0]. Oura has some OK results for basic tracking but it isn't great either [1]. This source talks about Oura more comprehensively [2]. Fitbit Ultra seems to be OK at sensitivity [3]. There's an interesting test from an undergrad researcher at Brown University from 2017 too [4].

There's a couple of other studies and also studies interpreting other studies you can find on the topic.

The short version is that it depends what you're after. If you're happy with just knowing whether you're asleep or awake Oura and Fitbit seem to be the best the market has to offer with reasonable accuracy. Oura has some results with OK estimations of deep sleep, but nothing I would rely on for accuracy. If you have the money there's some FDA approved products that are pretty expensive.

I must say it's slightly amusing that we're fear-mongering over self-aware superintelligent AI taking over the world while we can't even reasonably replicate polysomnography on a consumer device.

[0]: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30853052

[1]: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28323455

[2]: https://nutritionalrevolution.org/2019/07/20/why-the-oura-ri...

[3]: https://academic.oup.com/sleep/article/38/8/1323/2417994

[4]: http://sleep.cs.brown.edu/comparison/
Same here, the Quest is a game changer. It seems like most comments here have tried some limited or light VR gears, when everybody I demo the Quest to is amazed at the thing.
At least the concept of PhD as a requisite credential. That was a really interesting read—thanks for linking it.
Yes, that is why I am talking about. I guess just providing a new object type for your custom extension should work fine.
Show HN: Backup 3CX and other SFTP systems to cloud storage (OneDrive, etc.)
Very interesting. I've been reluctant to adopt Helm for Kubernetes resource management because of a gut feeling that it's a heavyweight solution for what seems broadly like a templating problem.

With ksonnet having gone quiet[0] this looks like a promising initiative.

I'd imagine that it'll need something like a package manager (or at least a curated list of common packages) in order to gain good adoption.

[0] - https://blogs.vmware.com/cloudnative/2019/02/05/welcoming-he...
I always love when something closed source goes open.

While I never played this game in particular (looks like I've missed something!), I love to study code. It's always interesting to see how other devs tackled a problem or just structured their code.

Thanks a lot!
I do really love these ribbons, you can find them everywhere at just about any geek/fandom convention these days.
The publishers are a fake authority, any legitimacy comes from the peer review. To underline and accentuate this I think one should make the review process public (with anonymous reviewers). And at publication time, also publish the name of the reviewers (possibly just a list, unconnected to the review comments). This way reviewers actually have a personal stake in the quality of a paper. Don't want your name associated with the recommendation of a bad/flawed paper. And on good papers, its nice to get actually some credit for doing the tedious review work.
which are heavy, and nonportable

I have one that runs on AA batteries, is half the size of a snack size bag of chips, and feels like it weighs under two pounds.

It's not even new tech; I've had it for at least six years.
just wanted to say that I like your take on this, good and positive advice.
I don't understand how a DAO would solve their problems.

One problem they listed is having a bank account which would hold onto money from a few sponsors temporarily for a particular conference, before paying it out to catering, venue, and airfare.

How would that work for a DAO? Would you have to write a new contract for each conference? What about paying for last minute arrangements (a flight gets diverted and you need to pay more for travel)?
Would the contract allow for that, or block that spending of funds?

Actually, how would it block the spending of funds, or tell what you are spending the money on? It's not like Delta has a bitcoin address you can specify in the smart-contract. You have to pay them in dollars.
I have checked the price and my blood pressure went up!
What if they missed another flaw ? Some older boeing planes have been flying for years without an issue, I'd rather fly on those.
Fifty years of the Paretian liberal paradox
Because everyone and their grandma can whip up a quick Python script after a few days of practice, whereas learning Haskell is a much bigger investment?
Tanka & jsonnet-bundler also work really well with Prometheus monitoring mixins, meaning we bundle up and share almost all the internal monitoring that we use at Grafana Labs to monitor our massive Cortex, Loki, Metrictank and Kubernetes deploys.
Yes, many (but not all) of the top journals are closed.

A lot of scientists talk big when it comes to open access, but when it comes time for them to publish their own work, they published in closed journals since they have a bigger impact factor.

They basically put their own careers ahead of their belief in supporting open access.
Haystack aggregates activity in git to give engineering managers more visibility into how their team's work. We came up with the idea when we realized how difficult it is to answer a simple question: 'Is the team doing better than we were 6 months ago?'. We realized how hard it is to not only visualize trends on their team but get actionable insights into the biggest areas to improve. Whether it's spending too much time in code review, taking on too much concurrent work, or even getting bogged down with technical debt; we wanted a tool that can not only help to spot issues but also alert us so we can take action. Introducing Haystack.
Interesting, this is similar to jsonnet. Does it support deep merging?

For example, in our case we do `default_deployment.libsonnet` to which we add arbitrary overrides like `default_deployment + dev` or `default_dep + us_central1_overrides` depending on the cluster. And in these case we don't need to pre-specify what can be overriden in the `default_deployment` which makes it really powerful (also can come bite you in the arse though).
Knuth-Morris-Pratt in Haskell (2007)
It's such a good game, I highly recommend it. The level design, the music, and the creative names of all the rooms you visit.
Mozilla says a new Firefox security bug is under active attack
Fly a carrier that uses Airbus exclusively, such as Spirit or JetBlue.
It was not
(1) The article is on medium

(2) Pop-over windows (e.g. sign up to our email newsletter)

(3) Ads out of control; not "ads cover content" but "ads cover ads". Many sites like anandtech are designed now so that the pages jitter on mobile in such a way that you try to scroll and somehow an ad gets positioned under your finger and KA-CHING!

(4) Taboolah, Outbrain, anything like that.

(5) "Hiring is Broken", "Does your API need a content marketing strategy?" and other fake memes that are promoted on a pay-for-play basis by Triplebyte, Mulesoft and other information polluters.
That's the entire point. At least for me, it doesn't make sense if my vision isn't entirely blocked and my input from "reality" isn't completely replaced for a virtual reality; That's the point;
> Do sites need to explicitly support them?

The web site will need to support FIDO U2F, yes.

> Can I just use it for 1Password?

I've not used 1Password, so I don't know. The Yubico site should be able to tell you if a given thing is compatible.

> What do I do if I lose my YubiKey, are there recovery options?

Nope. Get two of them.

> Do you use it in addition to an authenticator app or instead of?

Sort of both. So if a site supports the use of an authenticator app but not FIDO U2F, I use the Yubico authenticator app. When opened, it stays locked until my Yubikey is tapped against my phone.
It's a nice piece of work. I like it. Tree's output is probably easier for me to reason about when I'm handling it programmatically. There's a recursive structure.
Take a look into kustomize

https://github.com/kubernetes-sigs/kustomize