skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It turns out, yes, and that’s why these are illegal. But if you argue that vetoing a bill means vetoing every line of it, then vetoing almost every line is a weaker process—like “I can’t carry this whole pile up the stairs, so I’ll carry a few things up at a time” becomes “I can’t reject this whole bill, so I’ll reject just part of it”. But as we see, that argument doesn’t really hold up.
Eh, changing numbers or words to alter a particular sentence doesn't seem like a big issue. Certainly, there's a lot of power given to the governor, but that power is constrained by the words on the page. Now, if you write a bad sentence which still lets the governor change how the money is allocated, you're just a sloppy legislator. :)
Hassle-free flying: JetBlue founder unveils details of airline, Breeze Aviation
I think the same problem exists at pretty much all income levels. I'm having sort of the opposite problem currently. I make considerably more money than most of my friends, mainly just because I was a cs major and they chose other paths. I can afford to go to nice restaurants, bars, whatever, but my friends can't and I don't make quite enough to pay for all of them to go with me. I do find myself wondering what the point is sometimes. for now I'm happy to have people over and pay for pizza/beer, but it seems a little awkward.
I'm with you on this. Mobile tailored versions of websites should be a bit better when you're on mobile, but I find that most of the time there's so much extra whitespace and wasted screen real estate (and sometimes missing features) that "request desktop site" gives me a better experience even on mobile for anything where I'm not just reading text.
Do you have to mount them upside down on a ceiling? Or can you do tabletop?
The stamement, yes; the sentiment is "and therefore we can use not wanting to be tracked as probable cause for treating them as a criminal".
I think it's amazing that you use Dolphin as one of your test-cases, truly great!
Many use Microsoft's and Intel's.
Announcing+Nginx+Plus+R20
I'd be interested to know if this has changed recently - the Xbox One and PS4 are both 1.6GHz/1.75GHz 8-core machines.
Please go on!
>$0.11/hr Spot instance of a g2.2xlarge

I'm not an AWS user, but don't spot instances risk being shut down/paused/etc at any moment? It seems like a bad solution for remote gaming.
I generally find that when people start drawing comparisons between government and corporations, they're probably doing to ignore at least one major difference in order to paint government in a bad light.

Not always, but usually.
AFAIK the main benefit would be lower gravity for launching rockets and easier access (again because of gravity) to mining resources in space. Broadly related: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/In_situ_resource_utilization
> they are just as dishonest as any other politician.

It's even worse, they're not elected.
With a few exceptions like HD video hosting or sites doing a ton of computation for every request, the best response to point 1 is to just lighten the site, which reduces the load from bots and also improves the UX for humans. Rate limiting can also help in some circumstances. Or maybe consider... charging money.

If you don't force botters to take extreme camouflage measures, bots are easily filtered out of logs (and offer a potentially useful metric of their own).

If a business is threatened by "competitors" simply scraping published information, it's probably already doomed from the start. And I would posit that most site owners with this mindset originally got their data by scraping other sites, which is why they feel vulnerable. Compete over elements that are actually valuable!
High dpi screens have made this so much worse.

Try browsing the web on a 128kbps ISDN-like connection, many sites are too slow to be usable or outright broken due to their own timeouts.

What I've noticed is many new sites are using huge high-res images as some kind of maximum-common-denominator to ensure things look great on high dpi screens, while everyone else has to transfer all this junk only to downscale it anyways at render time.

I'm often on a slow link and it's made me stop using the web almost entirely, outside of HN and reddit. Slack for instance is completely broken, it can't even manage to finish logging in without giving up.

It used to be that slow internet users just had to wait longer, but things largely worked correctly. Nowadays, with lots more javascript and async stuff having web developers programming timeouts and probably never once testing on a slow link, a lot of things are flat out broken.
Ask HN: Tips for getting into iOS development for a Back end Engineer?
I am a backend engineer, with over 8 years of experience. I've been interested in getting more familiar with iOS development and want to write my own app soon. What are your suggestions for learning iOS development, as a back-end engineer. I know there are a ton of tutorials, but they're all beginner level, do you know any that are more intermediate, or do you have another method you can suggest?

Thanks!
'"I am more interested in maximizing the odds of success for this bold undertaking and making it as safe as any human journey into the deep space can be, than I am in having NASA meet arbitrary deadlines," Rep. Eddie Bernice Johnson — a Democrat from Texas and the chairwoman of the House Committee on Science, Space, and Technology — said at a recent hearing.'

Waiting to make a journey until it is "as safe as can be" means that one never makes the journey at all. This has been NASA's curse since the Challenger explosion. Human space exploration is not going to happen with a "safety first" culture.
You can trim the fat off articles with https://beta.trimread.com. Going to open source too.
The idea that nations go to war for clear, well-considered purposes is stretching things mightily.

But it's also irrelevant to my point. Computer insecurity isn't like war as such. Computer insecurity is like floating military technology, insecure borders, foreign sponsored "rebels" and all things that make war more likely. My actual point is that states oriented to ending these problems but taking advantage of them.

But by all spend a lot of verbiage to show some knowledge about states.
My cofounder and I just quit our jobs to start working full-time on our product. We have no taken on any investments yet. We closed our first customer while both working full-time jobs and have been building enough pipeline to have a clear path to covering our expenses over the next 6 months.

We have been very deliberate about not courting investors yet because we want to ensure we have something people would want to actually invest in before we start the whole fundraising process.

We have gone down the route of trying to pitch the vision to investors while trying to find customers and found the whole experience to be distracting and a bit of a fools errand for first time founders.

My biggest takeaway from the experience was the growth trumps all. Investors want to invest in companies that have a very clear path to growth ($x in = $10x out) in markets that will grow into the future. They are also more enticed if it seems like their personal interactions will be the key differentiator in the success or failure of a business.

If your goal is go full-time on your product, I would recommend trying to close as many customers as you would need to ensure both you and your cofounder can cover your monthly expenses. Once you get to this point, thinking about how to raise money (and more importantly WHAT you will do with it after you have it) becomes more relevant.
It's probably going to vary from user to user - even streaming on my local network (1Gbps wired), playing with a controller feels less than great.
This really strikes me as the sort of advice where one may say: It worked for me, and if it doesn't work for you it's your fault.

Very broadly speaking, there are two kinds of writers: those who just start writing and go where the writing takes you, and those who develop an outline first. In the case of the first set, it is vital to do a heavy editing pass or re-write iteration.

I don't think anyone tackles a thesis without some kind of outline, but I also doubt the universality of this advice. Some people need to explore their ideas before structuring them.

All that being said, this is full of good advice, such as:

"When you write for them (the audience), you put forth effort to make your product good:
neat, complete, proffed (sic), unified, cogent, etc. That is, you craft and polish a well designed product for them to read. However, if you [yourself] are the audience such effort is a waste."
Yep, sticky containers. Allows you to stick a container to an output, floating above all workspaces on that output.
US insurer sends public employees to Mexico for cheaper drugs (2018)
We’ve recently got rid of roommates like that. They owned nothing and borrowed everything. Plus their ideology was that every corporation conspires to poison people. And they were heavy on drugs. And smelled pretty bad.

Sharing is great when you put in something material in, not just try to be bubbly person.
I can name you lots and lots of broke poets and writers from the last thousand or so years, but I can only name you a handful of wealthy people that died more than 100 years ago: Rockefeller, Carnegie, maybe the first Rotschilds (which one, though?), Jakob Fugger and the Medicis.
My experience in the early 90s: the compiler from HP was better than gcc, but for some reason we were downloading each version of gcc from the Usenet, building it (hours) and using it. Maybe some of the servers at university (all HP) didn't have a compiler licence? Or gcc did something the HP compiler couldn't do: maybe it compiled all the GNU userland and the other free/open source and the HP compiler couldn't. I remember that the portability issues were quite big back at the time (BSD vs SysV derivatives, etc.)
20/20 is far vision, you may have it and still need reading glasses.
This hasn’t been the case in my experience. I previously started a company in crypto in early 2017(so as hot as it gets), gained traction, and received literally just one organic VC inquiry. Ditto with my current insurtech company. I’m curious, how do they find you?

I would imagine something like that would happen if some other prestigious firm invested previously and it shows up on crunchbase
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In most corporations, the CEO takes direction from and serves at the leisure of the board (and if there isn't a board, there will typically be some other mechanism where the owners exert control). They typically have a broad mandate (which I suppose is what you are getting at), but they don't literally have unfettered control of the company.

(CEOs that own majority stakes in their companies get close to complete control, but that's not what you are arguing, that control flows from the ownership, not the executive position).
The Pragmatic Programmer Comparison: Original vs. 20th Anniversary Edition
Uber claims top spot in Indian ride-hailing market
Good question. Maybe (just speculating here) because it would be dangerous to land with too much fuel on board? Planes dump fuel for that reason when aborting shortly after takeoff, but that may only be a problem with tanks close to full.
I don't see any reason why it shouldn't be possible, but VR is extremely latency sensitive so I think the experience would suffer pretty badly.
Ultrix was MIPS (DECstation) and VAX, not Alpha. Alpha was OSF/1, which became Digital Unix and then Tru64.
Stellar – Running Multiple PHP Projects Using Docker
I3 can already do floating sticky windows which is essentially the same thing. It used to be possible to pop Chrome into a floating window from full screen but now both browsers fall out of full screen when floating - maybe this will bring it back - or is that what you meant?
I agree but don't know how do we can do this when the party in charge isn't interested in democracy.
> "In the USA, if your flight is more than 20 minutes early, you are usually stuck on the tarmac waiting for a gate."

I've experienced this in the US and Canada too, but it doesn't seem to be a problem at Heathrow in my experience. LHR is slot constrained, but not gate constrained. Worst case, you end up on a remote stand with a bus ride in to the terminal.
Petition: Free Assange Before It's Too Late
changing numbers does seem like a big issue. there's a lot of power given to the governor. Now you change the money allocated.
That's $2000+ more at 100,000 to 110,000. If we pick a different state even more. 5700 left out of 10000.

I know a lot of worthy causes that could benefit from the $2000 where it would make a meanful impact.
We had some storms and network outages yesterday. I was down to 3G, it seemed like dialup speeds. Hacker news faithfully loaded after 30 seconds (I think most of that time there was zero connection, so when a few bytes could fly through it loaded up).

I couldn't get any other site to load. Not even google.com.

It made me want to create a website called "lowbandwidthsites.com" or similar that is itself minimal and just lists the sites that you can load when there is low bandwidth for news etc.

A low bandwitdth read-only repeater for sites like reddit.com would be handy. Or maybe a general purpose low bandwidth repeater that can take any site - a bit like outline.com/mysite.com but even lower fidelity - just returns the markdown!

Edit looks like it has been done: https://www.textise.net/
Everything old is new again it seems. Anyone used Maxthon Browser before? It was multiengine browser, which used both Webkit and Trident under the hood. It has that feature for ages, just for flash content back than.

If only someone would built good email client into Browser like old Opera, that would be godsend. Opera and Maxthon were ages ahead in terms of certain features.

It is little weird for me, they ended up putting video within shadow DOM container.
Yeah. The author has a good point about _the specific way the co-worker went about things_ being wrong. But there was also a lack of understanding to explain things. I'm assuming we, the blog audience, had a better explanation for "no, just no" than the co-worker did.

See another post by this author for a similar tone: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22277582. Maybe work right now is tough. It sounds that way.

All that said, a solid takeaway is that sometimes people are naive and you need to say no. The next step is: alongside saying no, ask what their aim is. You're saying no to the solution and you don't know the problem.
Just looked it up, definitely not a body builder. Incredible physique? Yes. Bodybuilder? Not even close. I'd estimate he's around 175lbs there. He'd need almost another 80-100lbs of lean muscle mass to be considered a bodybuilder.

The word you're looking for is athletic.
Good response, I definitely never though of that before. Serious case where you don't want Bots buying stuff up.
How do you define "one thing"?
Lightsail for fixed pricing a month.
Taken from the "Top 10 signs the US is a totally nuts."

... and still not the topmost one!
This is a common misconception, but very much incorrect. I am a private pilot.

When an airplane is in a body of air which is moving across the ground, the airplane moves within that body of air with no knowledge that it is in a strong wind. Airspeed is unaffected, except for gusts or shear events. The airplane maintains it's normal airspeed within that body of air, even though that body of air is moving very quickly in relation to the ground.

This is evident in all phases of flight. For example, landing into a strong headwind does not change the approach speed required or the thrust required to obtain that approach speed. The only allowance is for gusty conditions, during which a gust will momentarily affect airspeed due to the inertia of the airplane. The heavier the airplane, the more time it takes a gust or shift to defeat the airplanes inertia.
This is staggeringly out of date (it's from around 2007) and really ought to be taken down.
In Amazon’s Bookstore, No Second Chances for the Third Reich
You mean the entire Apollo program cost $145 billion. This is one mission to the moon with much better technology and lower costs. You just can not compare costs like this.
Argentina won't repay IMF debt till recession over, VP Fernandez says
The thing that raised my eyebrows was that my work laptop had this issue. And this is a serious work laptop, managed by a large & conservative IT org. I'm so locked down with GPOs/McAfee/Zscaler/Cylance/always-on-VPN that I have trouble opening my normal applications that I need for my job. And then Microsoft comes along and breaks stuff locally on my machine by changing something on their servers. So all the firewalls/VPN/proxy/cylance smart rogue program detection failed to do their job...

And to top things of the issue did not fix itself, as of Friday afternoon my start menu search still did not work.
As other comments have mentioned, a glass of water tells you nothing about the conditions outside the plane, which are the ones that matter.

But also, it is sometimes useless at telling you about the conditions inside the plane too. If you're rolling and yawing at the same time (known as a coordinated turn), the water in the glass will stay level (relative to the bottom of the glass), and the glass will not slide along its surface, even in a 20 degree bank.
It sounds like the person was told to stop and directed to the people to discuss the correct solution with.

And then it sounds like the person did it anyway, at a later date, and broke shit.

If that person repeated that behavior it is someone I wouldn't want on the team, or at least having access to certain systems.
Every time I see someone bring up that others have it worse, everyone else has seen huge improvement, etc I've always gotten the impression that they are somehow trying to minimize the issues people are talking about as not being worthy of consideration because of the other. From your reply it seems like I may be missing something because I can't see how anyone's level of gratitude or acknowledgement/lack of acknowledgement re the improving status of others is relevant to the concerns they have regarding their own situation or productive in resolving said concerns. And thus, I usually conclude that the only reason it is brought up is to minimize whatever issue the original poster brings up.

But I'm really curious as to what the underlying reasoning here is. I can sort of understand when it comes down to obvious luxuries, so long as those luxuries are not in fact mandatory for being a productive member of the corresponding society (eg complaining about not being one of the 100 people to have one of those newfangled telephones vs complaining about not having a telephone in an age where having a telephone is the default expectation).

How would having a basic posture of gratitude aid someone in resolving issues they face that deal with what may be seen as luxuries in areas that are improving but which may be necessities in their own area? What relevance does the improvement of others have to resolving or mitigating the backwards slide of another? Is it not better for everyone to be experiencing improvement? Is there some fundamental mechanism that requires some areas backslide in order for others to improve?

I'm genuinely curious - you aren't the first person I have met that makes the assertions you have, and I have experienced the same sense of bafflement every time.
That's kind of the problem - if you have a hundred little micro-cultures involved in a project, and 99 of these cultures value safety and one does not, then in the end you get an insecure product. A chain is as strong as its weakest link.
Wow, they really made it complex, didn't they? On one hand they advertise how anyone can spin up a VM and connect to it but you still need to do some serverless black magic to keep your budget in check. Anyway, thanks for the heads up. I'll definitely try that out.
Secure by Design – The Economics, Stupid
I'm confused. Are you saying that it'll maintain its normal ground speed despite flying through fast-moving air? Or that it maintains the same air-speed?

The former doesn't make any sense, but the latter is what the GP was saying.
Looks like Tiddly+graph plugin but with extra steps.
Right, but the parent claims it will do that when it would fit on a single line, unless I misunderstood something.
Cloudflare and Akamai proposed optional dictionary-compression for HTTP [0] that could help smaller files achieve better compression ratios than gzip/deflate [1].

Given the fact that zipf distribution holds true for natural languages [2], dictionaries can be a simpler solution to text compression in low-power / compute environments?

[0] https://tools.ietf.org/id/draft-vkrasnov-h2-compression-dict...

[1] https://blog.cloudflare.com/improving-compression-with-prese...

[2] https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/fCn8zs912OE
Don't know about the tone. What worries me is the company. There's no procedure for updates that have far-reaching ramifications? Yeah, can see why that would wear you down.
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There's not much reason to settle the moon and mars prior to the remote establishment of an independent food supply. Aggressive remote terraforming through domes, mirrors, foreign microorganisms, explosives, and robots should come first. Establishing automated synthetic systems on these rocks to mimic what nature provides for free on Earth is the hard problem to be solving. Without such systems already place, wages will be extremely low and no one will want to live there.
Should try out http://wiby.me, only light weight websites are allowed on that search engine although the index is comparatively small
The author apparently works for Facebook, which makes all of the vague language in the story make a lot more sense.

Would Facebook really let somebody do this to every external frontend server on a Sunday without some boring authorization first? The authorization could simply be denied with a boilerplate response about the right way to do things, with less emotional resources spent than the author apparently did.
Elon Musk will land on the moon before NASA does. You can carve that prediction in stone.
> Unfortunately, this area is not considered too sexy and does not get too much investment.

You are getting it better than the rest of the world. Power electronics is once of the last semiconductor niche where US has both the edge in already, and a prospect for future growth.

You have to thank your military for that. Military use power electronics is a giant market in USA, but it's also a very pathological one. US military buys simplest bucks and boost circuits (for non-engineers, those things amount to "power electronics 101") for few thousand dollars a pop.

Few months ago, I had a chat with BYD engineers about their own power electronics problem. The best China got domestically are few generations old IGBTs. E6 for example has a 89% efficient powertrain, as I was told. The only Chinese power electronics company on the road to SiC I know is IVCT, and I haven't seen them showing any life signs for quite some time.

They want to eventually do their own power electronics, or at least fully own it from the packaging/integration stage.

You can see how far Tesla went in Model S to Model 3 inverter design when they switched to SiC switches. Model 3's inverter is microscopic in comparison to Model S ones. And apparently, it's also more efficient at the same time, without any extra tricks used.
> don't allow bills that do more than one thing.

I'm afraid you'd probably need a constitutional amendment for that. And it might not be easier than the "getting money out of politics" one (https://wolf-pac.com/the_solution/).
The ground speed will vary, but the airspeed will not be affected by wind (except momentarily for gusts or shears).

The poster I replied to was implying that due to the strong tailwind, they had to maintain an increased airspeed. That is incorrect. The airplane has no idea it is in a tailwind, and airspeed will be unchanged.