skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Also, the apps reportedly scraped phone contacts to harass family, friends and others with calls and texts in hopes this would pressure customers into paying up.

Yikes. You'd think with social pressures like this they'd be able to offer lower rates in return.

That would actually be an interesting business model — lend money to people who agree to allow themselves to be publicly shamed if they miss payments. It's like a loan that's secured by your social capital. Of course, this would only be available to people with a significant and verifiable social footprint.
I find that many software companies understand and aim for redundancy. We know the benefits of having redundant servers. "Bus count" is also a well known term.
You use WinDbg and do kernel debugging. The newer WinDbgX UI is quite nice lately. However, there's no replacement for live debugging on the same machine the way that SoftICE did it.
Who else had a monochrome monitor to display Soft-ICE info while debugging video-intensive programs? Text at B000:0000 instead of B800:0000.
Beige is a very common color in hospitals too. Hospital beds are very frequently beige, as well as various other equipment. If white is the most common color in hospitals, beige is surely a close second.

Loads of beige in both of these:

https://duckduckgo.com/?q=hospital+room&iar=images

https://duckduckgo.com/?q=doctors+office&iar=images
There was the 2016 explosion of a falcon 9 during a static fire. Also a falcon 9 explosion during flight in 2015.

Not all accidents have been on an official live stream but I’ve seen more accidents from Spacex than I’ve seen launches from Boeing and friends.
Pretty cool. Reminded me of what this guy is doing, he calls it "orthosonic lift": https://youtu.be/kG6vXGidQbo

Some more info: http://sciencechatforum.com/viewtopic.php?nomobile=1&f=77&t=...

I believe he has a couple of patents on the technology, but not sure he'll ever get around to making something practical with it.
We should use more emojis. :D

It helps convey some intent. Hm, that would actually be interesting. A browser plugin that automatically inserts emojis to convey your current emotions or feelings. You can set it yourself, it may learn from your interactions too.
If they are sold in EU warranty is a legal requirement. Sooner or later this will get them in trouble.
Yes, but my layman's understanding is that the oracle is a theoretical construct that knows in advance what programs halt and what don't -- but as you note, the real-world issue is that such oracles don't exist.

My question remains, how does this tie back to the proof? Is there a path to building such an oracle now?
making the halting problem solvable if you have quantum entangled oracles that know everything. Welcome to complexity theory :)
Reminds me of the proof that time traveling turing machines can solve the halting problem.
>it doesn’t really matter how it looks as long as it’s usable / understandable

What if how it looks makes it more usable or understandable? That's the case here with colored form fields, and if it makes the user's experience better you may be able to increase the rate of users filling out the form. At a glance the brain can intuit a form from the repetition of colored form fields whereas white on white takes more effort to understand visually. With a high volume site that depends on making spending money as quick and easy as possible, the marginal usability over white on white could be millions of dollars in marginal revenue.
Guillotines don't need a network connection.
Just an add on: kong-an and koans are similar things. Kong-an is the Chinese and Korean pronunciation of koan.

It means "public question" literally but is traditionally used in contexts of Buddhism
Building websites for Safari Reader Mode and other reading apps (2018)
Oh no, he made too many things for free.
>But I wish language (and stack) designers also removed features. Cull deprecated stuff. More generalizations. Fewer primitives. Fewer classes. Etc.

Oh Hell yes. I wish they have plan for depreciation. Trial, > Warning > Error > Removed. Push the whole language and ecosystem forward. That is 10 times easier then going to a new languages and making new ecosystem.
This is a case that is not specifically addressed by Amazon's return policy. As is the case with any return, all they really care about is that the item number of the item being returned is the same as the item number on the order they are crediting. Consider the following scenario:

I buy 2 widgets from Amazon, and 2 of the same model widgets from Best Buy. I line up all 4 widgets to test and find that 2 widgets are broken. I have no idea which store the broken widgets came from since they are all identical. I return them to Amazon because it is more convenient. It is quite possible that I returned the Best Buy widgets to Amazon.
What Is Headless Commerce and How It Helps in Your Ecommerce Business
> imagine the inconvenience of not having Uber for the rest of your life

Imagine thinking you need Uber to live your life...
Nothing like a kernel mode mp3 player to listen to music while you step through assembly and see some very colorful symbol names of windows internals.
Airbus plans derivatives trading for airline tickets
"22" should be added to the subject line.

"Oxfam says 22 men own more wealth than Africa's 326 million women"
Understanding Day 2 & Day 3 of Operators can be quite daunting. It would be nice to practice with failure, eg loosing a PVC, and then assist the Operator back to normal operations.

What Operator could be used for that? Good enough to handle some failure scenarios by itself and with good metrics to allow alerting for scenarios that need manual intervention. Simple enough to use in an exercise. And managing a Statefull Application, as imho that is what the most important Operators in a kubernetes cluster will manage.
1981 is when we started collecting reasonably reliable data on global incomes. Before that we have varyingly credible estimates.
I was mulling over that sentence too. While I’d probably not characterize them as rude per se, those little pings do intrude more than, say, adding another upvote on the issue. I already know there is a lot more that I’d like to do than have time for, and having these personal pleas add a little more guilt to the mix without providing any more substance are often a negative (especially when there are lots of them).
https://colorpsychologymeaning.com/color-white/
https://colorpsychologymeaning.com/color-beige/

This may seem like mumbo-jumbo but colors have a psychological effect on people. Beige also conceals stains from body fluids better than white. In any case I was explaining the usage of "clinical" and not "hospital beds."
Spinoza's "Ethics". It was one of the first efforts to apply mathematical logic to philosophy (Wittgenstein borrowed a lot from it), and to provide an axiomatic model of emotion. Very roughly, it took a two pronged approach to illustrate there is no objective logical foundation for differentiating between "me" and "not me": firstly, by showing that, given determinism, everyone/thing is part of a single unalterable process, and secondly, by showing that there is no single objective standard for drawing the line between a thing and the things around it. (He doesn't deal with nondeterminism, but most of the conclusions could be mapped directly to a system containing a mix of nondeterminism and determinism, as adding nondeterminism cannot "increase" moral responsibility or "self-causation").

In that sense it gave a (comparatively) rigorous argument for the nebulous eastern concept of "oneness". Using this foundation he then makes a logical argument (given his axiomatisation of emotion) for why we should be happy.

It's also the book that made me realise that, even if the jealous Abrahamic God exists, He is not moral. Because due to determinism every action can be traced back to the initial cause, so it doesn't make sense for Him who created the universe to punish or reward people for actions that were ultimately predictable consequences of the universe's creation, which if omniscient he should have foreseen. (And if some things are nondeterministic, this still applies, because somebody cannot gain moral responsibility through decreased determinism).
As someone who is far away from the average HN user and merely works part-time in food service while figuring out what to do with his life, I don't think people like me care that some amount of people are richer or have more wealth than myself. I care that a good life is becoming increasingly expensive and unattainable to people who do not have the blessing of having a fancy tech job or jobs in that tier that require expensive college degrees. As it is, if nothing changes and I can't figure something out, I'll eventually be priced out of living where I am in SoCal because rent keeps increasing and wages keep increasing(it's good but also bad) so it'll only become more difficult to get these kinds of part-time minimum wage jobs that are often the only option for people like myself. What is the alternative to all of this for me and people like me? Go into a backbreaking trade where you trade your health and lifespan for money you won't actually be able to enjoy using? I feel like, as a person in his early twenties, the only path to obtaining a greater life with good work-life balance that doesn't destroy your mind and body is to make it big in tech or other emerging field. Otherwise, I guess I have to force shutdown and hope shit reboots.
Automakers Changing Tactics on Reliability
Not sure why you're being downvoted. A good peacoat will run you hundreds of dollars...
Congrats, you bought everyone a new iPhone or bike or shed. In a few years, it's ancient history and now you have no money left to loot. You're talking about a one-time distribution that would wipe-out all of the billionaires' wealth. As a one time distribution, it would be peanuts, completely forgotten, irrelevant, and unrepeatable in a few years. It's a nice little one time windfall and not much else.

Consider, the global economy produces $80 trillion A YEAR, and all the billionaires combined accumulated, total, over the course of MANY YEARS AND DECADES a current trove of $8.7 trillion.
The vagueness of your comment makes it difficult to understand what you mean. Can you rephrase with shorter words and sentences?
They’ve had two falcon 9 systems explode unintentionally. The CRS-7 system failed in flight, and AMOS-6 failed on the launch pad during fueling. They also unintentionally blew up a Crew Dragon capsule.

It is true that they do testing differently from Boeing. Boeing uses a NASA testing plan where hardware is verified on the ground through extensive part or subsystem-level testing. This method has a downside which is that many things end up needing a higher factor of safety than absolutely necessary due to uncertainty in the risk calculations.

SpaceX uses a different testing strategy where a lot more stuff is tested as a complete system. There is increased potential for full system failures, which we have seen, but the entire system can be vetted more quickly.
No, I believe the immersion blender trick can be explained by https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bernoulli%27s_principle

Whereas the suction cups in the article, use spinning water as a way to seal suction cups on rough surfaces (the water fills in crevices of rough surfaces I presume, allowing the suction cup to seal). The water is also spinning (i.e. it has an inertial force) so that it counteracts the vacuum pressure in the center of the suction cup.
Most adult evening classes are open to the general public, and many dedicated aspiring artists actually take the same classes. Even so, the atmosphere is very safe (not at all intimidating, even for non artists like me), and beginners are welcome. It’s non-auditioned so you don’t have to worry about that. There are auditioned programs which are tougher to get into (I believe people like Stephen Colbert and Tina Fey were graduates of these programs) but the general classes are accessible to all.

There are dedicated public speaking classes, but the class I found most useful was “storytelling” (oral). It wasn’t hard per se but it does push one out of one’s comfort zone a little (not in a bad way), and for me, I could actually see the improvements in myself. (Bearing in mind I was starting from a low baseline)
I had always wondered about that feature. I reckon Turbo Debugger supported it too but MDA adapters were hard to find when I started my debugging adventures.
Compiling a single function containing over 100,000 lines is a rather pathological case. And while you could argue it's a compiler bug, it's honestly not one I'd expect anyone to be spending any time on.
I, too, have pasted error messages verbatim into Google queries only to have garbage returned. I did include the error message in quotes. I started filtering sites from the results eg `-site:quora.com site:stackoverflow.com site:github.com` etc to start to get a hint of other developers with similar issues and/or some bug reports and/or documentation and/or source code.
I've been banned for Uber for filing a security report.

Honestly, I've given the money that I spent on Uber to Lyft (and Carey car services).

It's not the end of the world.
Security is the main issue: you can’t just give away control of a widely used tool without vetting the new maintainer because that would open all your users to malicious code.
Someone in a previous thread that I, unfortunately can’t remember, suggested that it might not just be the SEO but the internet that changed. Google used to be really good at ascertaining meaning from a panoply of random sources, but those sites are all gone now. The Wild West of random blogs and independent websites are basically dead in favor of content farms and larger scale media companies.
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This outlook of "the only good jobs are fancy tech jobs" is entirely false, and largely propagated by the media.

Yes, tech jobs are nice right now. But there are plenty of other good paying options.
I don't use uber, or any other taxi app. Depends a lot on where you live and whether public taxis and public transport infrastructure is well developed. I can imagine this would be a nightmare in the USA, it was when I lived there pre-Uber days, waiting for a bus could take 45 mins. Out here in Asia, Tokyo, Singapore, Hong Kong etc, there really isn't a big need for Uber, sure it's useful, but plenty of alternatives that are just as convenient.
That was my thought about the "Dealing via Boundaries" section. The solution of "defer some maintainer responsibilities to someone else" never came up. When you insist that you have to do everything by yourself, you are creating that massive asymmetry between users and maintainers.
> On the contrary, according to relatively recent Pew numbers from 2018 [1], around ~38% of American's identify as independents, with ~%31 democrat and ~%26 republican.

That's not “on the contrary”; 38% < 50%; most Americans don't identify as independents.

Heck, even 43% (the number that don't identify as either Republicans or Democrats) is less than 50%; most Americans specifically identify as either Democrats or Republicans.

> but independents are much more important in politics than they are usually given credit for.

On the contrary, independents are given outsize importance by the major media, because they are treated as just as large of a group as they actually are, but are treated as if their voting behavior was much more different from that of self-identified partisans than it actually is.
WinDbg Preview is also quite good and free on Microsoft Store: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/p/windbg-preview/9pgjgd53tn8...
Because the difference between scoring in the top 94% vs top 97% in the SAT does not correlate well with how good the student will be
Exciting application of "cognification" to enhance the speed at which you can program in Python. Other languages coming soon, just sign up to be notified.
Nuclear fusion is a necessity in assuring diversity among energy sources in the long term. It's probably much more fruitful an endeavour with eventual returns than macroscale particle accelerators.
> free speech absolutism is linked to fascism

war is peace

freedom is slavery

ignorance is strength
I wished they Open Source the "Old" Opera Engine.

It was small and Fast. If I remember correctly it had the browser engine, Javascript, Email client, RSS etc all in the sub 15MB download.
Uber will ban you even if charges are reversed due to someone using a stolen card. It happened to someone I work with.
And if you have a g suite account, even if you're only paying a few dollars a month, you can call a "Google Support" number and get help. They say it only covers g suite services, but I've gotten help with issues with unrelated Google products through it.
That is fixed since 1.24.3b7 / https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/releases ?
You said this wrong thing:
He specified a search for "site:reddit.com" and claimed it was irrelevant. THAT IS NOT A RELEVANCY TERM. It correctly scopes searches to the specified site.

The entirety of the problem is the date query is not working, because of SEO for freshness. You also said this other wrong thing: "That's not actually the problem described here" . That is the problem here. The page shows up as being updated because of SEO.

The date in a search engine is the date the page was last judged to be updated, not one of the many dates that may be present on the page. When was the last reddit design update? Do you think that didn't cause the pages to change? Wake up.
At least they had 3 redunant ADIRU units.

Stuff like this has happened multiple times:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Air_data_inertial_reference_un...
Plain, white, and minimal (in a strictly unadorned sense, as opposed to filled with hip furniture). Clean lines, no frills. 'Sterile' would be a similar description within the same metaphor even, if that helps.
Wikipedia is surface level knowledge. Using wikipedia what is AM4 socket’s pinout? Do a google search and you find several people asking the question but no answers. On the other hand you can easily find that for an old 8086 cpu.

What’s sad is Google has generally indexed the pages I want, it’s just getting harder to actually find them.
Picking up one of these safety critical guidelines with the intent to raise your own quality standards as an engineer or team is certainly a great idea. There is a lot of thought put into these documents and it's likely there are at least a few things you haven't thought about or perhaps you discount too quickly.

That being said, this isn't a spec for good software. It's more of a spec for auditing software that has to work in a predictable way. The main consumers for this are, yes, software engineers and managers, but it's especially useful for framing quality assurance efforts.

It's entirely possible to check all the boxes while still cranking out swill. For instance, I'd be surprised if the Volkswagen software that famously assisted in cheating on emissions tests was properly MISRA reviewed since a lot of the guidelines have to do with making sure the code does exactly what is intended, no more or no less. A full review with someone who could read code would either require the reviewer to ask "this is the code that cheats on the test, right?" or to be oblivious as to the full purpose for the code.
Frank’s written a tutorial style mdbook on Differential [0] that I highly recommend in addition to his blog posts. There’s also the research paper on the spawned the Timely and Differential projects, Naiad [1].

If you get into it, the library itself is well documented on docs.rs and there’s an active Gitter channel.

(Disclaimer: I work with Frank at his company, Materialize.)

[0]: https://timelydataflow.github.io/differential-dataflow/

[1]: http://sigops.org/s/conferences/sosp/2013/papers/p439-murray...
Then they ought to make people agree to a background check before signing up for an account.
Ask HN: What Can't Google Figure Out Multiple Users
Why can't Google support multiple accounts across all products (including G Suite accts with custom sign-in pages) without requiring users to use multiple browser profiles or manually edit URL parameters?

It sounds hard, but not impossible, and don't Google employees themselves often run into this issue (because I would guess they have work and personal accounts)
A quick Google search suggests that the Bank of France itself tracks defaults.

As I understand it, the American weirdness is that this is a private sector function rather than a service of the state. Not that it exists.
actual paper https://aip.scitation.org/doi/10.1063/1.5129958

video 1 (response measurement): https://aip.scitation.org/doi/suppl/10.1063/1.5129958/suppl_...

video 2 (picking up block): https://aip.scitation.org/doi/suppl/10.1063/1.5129958/suppl_...

video 3 (hexapod): https://aip.scitation.org/doi/suppl/10.1063/1.5129958/suppl_...

video 4 (human climbing tiled wall): https://aip.scitation.org/doi/suppl/10.1063/1.5129958/suppl_...

video 5 (human climbing concrete wall): https://aip.scitation.org/doi/suppl/10.1063/1.5129958/suppl_...
> there is no objective logical foundation for differentiating between "me" and "not me": firstly, by showing that, given determinism, everyone/thing is part of a single unalterable process, and secondly, by showing that there is no single objective standard for drawing the line between a thing and the things around it.

I don’t see it. Does he address the fact that dozens of other philosophers over the years have argued the opposite?

> ultimately predictable consequences of the universe's creation, which if omniscient he should have foreseen.

Isn’t this just free will? Is that the nondeterminism that the author is ignoring?
> I taught myself to set boundaries: it's okay to say no to a feature solely on the grounds that you don't want the added maintenance that comes from it.

This makes perfect sense. The author seems to understand well that there's a balance to be struck when working on OSS; you can't always work only on the stuff you want to work on. On the other hand, being the one who initiates and maintains some FOSS has to mean something. If it doesn't mean you get to decide (within reason) on somewhat subjective calls such as "is this feature worth implementing when weighed against the maintenance burden?" then contributing and maintaining OSS ends up meaning nothing other than willingly doing work for free and letting everyone else in the world be your boss. Clearly that's an untenable situation.
Bezos is not simply some idiot who happened to be first. He runs a massive organization with extremely tight margins, hits targets year after year, delivers low prices from consumers, keeps a giant bureaucracy in check and prevents it from rotting and becoming complacent, and constantly launches Amazon into new ventures of its own. Very few people have that kind of talent. The wealth and wealth-producing machine this man has produced are truly incredible.

That's not to take away from any criticisms of Amazon and Bezos. I don’t care one bit for the man’s politics or his newspaper. But it's really ridiculous to say him and Amazon were "simply first." Most people would never even have the audacity to try what he and his partners have done, let alone the perseverance and skill. There are truly remarkable people on this world.
I read “The Way We Live Now” at the height of the first dot com bubble. Amazing. There is truly nothing new under the sun.
He passed away in Egypt on one of his travels suddenly, apparently: https://reverseengineering.stackexchange.com/a/2430/30837
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Gertsenshtein Effect – converting electromagnetism into gravity and back
Yeah. I’m sure this guy was not at all doing something sketchy for Facebook to shut down the account. This is a one-sided view designed to spark outrage from all the people who are like “I don’t even own a Facebook!”. The perfect clickbait for the ultra-paranoid viewer...
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