skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> there are alternate paradigms for programming that rely on a lot less typing.

Sure, but I have yet to see one that beats a shell in a VT for ergonomics, discoverability (most GUIs are just the opposite here,) or documentation.
Yeah, but is that a bigger risk than some dumbass in a truck blowing a red light and plowing into my door? Based on where Tesla is at I don't think it is. They're already reasonably below the median risk we all accept for driving at all. After all, my butt can feel that the car is doing something seriously unexpected way before my eyeballs can. So I'm going to keep singing, with my thumb gently on the wheel and one eye on the road.
I just tried without Wifi and mobile data (good idea!), it was send and received correctly.

I did it from my S10 to someone else A8.
The site is currently down - I'm amazed that archive.org already has a copy:

https://web.archive.org/web/20200212194154/https://www.gsma....
Somewhat related; when a friend bought his first home, he filled bookshelves in the living room with books that were popular in his circles as part of decorating and a means of social manipulation.

He never had and likely never will read any of them, it was primarily an attempt to buy social favor with guests. He'd just say he had a poor memory for books he read long ago whenever someone tried discussing them at a house party.

It was unnerving how effective this was.
Siri does not pronounce the word “gun”
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I blame Okinawa's abysmal public transit situation on:

1. The US administering the island until 1972, while Japan itself was undergoing very effective reconstruction and public works projects post-war.

2. The mainland Japanese government treating the Okinawans almost like unwanted red-headed step-children.

And yes, the southern third of the island has the building and traffic density of an urban area with the inconvenience of American suburbs. Almost the entire population has at least a kei car, unless you work in a snack bar/kabakura (where transportation is often provided, and your job involves getting shit-faced drunk every night so you can't drive home anyway).

American Village is also my least-favorite place to go on the island: the traffic to get into that area is abysmal, especially after 4pm, and during the summer the brutal heat, sunlight, and humidity makes walking around between the buildings unappealing. Ashibina Outlet Mall is similar, but at least has slightly better overhead cover to protect from the sun.
Why are you using stripe to process transactions that large? It makes no sense to pay 3% on that.
Owning more books than you'll read is good for you: https://bigthink.com/personal-growth/do-i-own-too-many-books

You never know where reading will take you next.
The Droid Mini remains my favorite smart phone I've purchased. Even its current run speed isn't a deal-breaker- it's the lack of battery replacements and security patched android that keeps me from still using it. If a modernized phone came out in the same form factor, I'd buy it day 1.
Sounds like a startup opportunity to sell wolf insurance. More seriously, is livestock insurance a thing?
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The coronavirus is the first true social-media “infodemic”
Many digital cordless phones in the 2000's would still allow you to select between pulse and tone dialing. Pulse was fun to use just for kicks, except it added several seconds to the start of your call and most phones were not smart enough to switch the keypad back to tone dialing once the call was established (e.g. to operate an IVR).
But the emails ("designed by clowns", "wouldn't put my family on it") are just the symptom. Even if the whole engineering division had kept its mouth firmly shut the aircraft would still have been designed by clowns, and no one's family should be put on it. This is shared reality. The goal should be to prevent such commentary by picking up on well-founded engineering concerns before management commits to building a product that is not viable because it cannot perform.
The incremental cost for companies is probably small. Although, it would depend on what percentage of domains registered require customer support or other manual intervention. If a customer support request costs the company $20 and 1 in 20 registrations request support, then that's a dollar extra per registration right there.

And there are still large fixed costs. You need security, rock solid infrastructure, outgoing email infra, executives, attorneys, offices, janitorial staff, and all the other stuff that goes along with running a business.
>Do these engineers still not know how stupid it is to be sending emails like that around the company?

I've started to wonder over the past few years myself: maybe in some cases they very much do, and it's not stupid at all? If you know such emails may come out in case of trouble, then it can in turn become a tool for a low level of whistleblowing/accountability in a hard situation. A lot of us are fortunate enough to not be placed in professional/personal situations where we'd see something with life-safety consequences and not be able to blow the whistle or feel comfortable walking away. But what if one were, or what if the situation is genuinely gray? Like, you get the feeling something may be off the tracks in process, and your management chain/reporting processes aren't responsive, but it's not actually at all clear from your level that it's really important. Maybe it's just you. Sending a "private" email with your concerns to a coworker over official email might be then be a good way to bookmark that. If nothing ever happens it'll forever remain an undiscovered internal email. But if things ever go so wrong that the company actually faces subpoenas from the government over it than there will be a record.

I mean, what you're saying seems to imply that the engineers should have been concerned about keeping Boeing's bad behavior private right? Well, should they? Yeah the company under its modern McDonnell Douglas leadership certainly doesn't want emails like that coming out following the deaths of hundreds of people due to a bunch of company blunders. But I don't think it follows that engineers shouldn't want emails like that coming out. If they're angry enough, they may even actively want such emails to reveal exactly how bad things had gotten internally, in ways that really would embarrass leadership in a newspaper headline or Congressional hearing.
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I'm about 75% joking: restore a new cluster from a snapshot for horizontal scaling. They did launch a feature along those lines, because my joke suggestion probably doesn't scale organizationally: take a look at Concurrency Scaling. This is also a fundamental feature of Snowflake with the separation of compute and storage.
So apple is censoring what you read, nice.
Ok, totally unrelated to the article, but what on earth is up with the same creepy dead comment that is visible on what seems like every article lately (posted by beeschlenker this time). This has been appearing for months now and the user still doesn’t seem to be blocked from HN. I’m a bit perturbed that the text in his comment is even being loaded into my web browser, and while I generally like to show the dead comments, I think I’m going to have to turn them off.
This is for a Hong Kong company processing a US client's credit card. What would be a better option?
Thank you for the detailed response.

I plead ignorance on the specific anti-vax movement and don't know of Wakefield and the events behind it.

I believe the ballpark estimates you provided on the low risks of vaccination. I get vaccines (and my family does as well). I do not have the unfortunate problem that you must have to deal with of convincing folks to make the good bet and getting vaccinated.

I would like to eliminate that problem as well. But instead of the approach of attempting to censor "false" information, I think we need to revolutionize the way we put out good medical information. As you describe it, and I would completely concur with, "the evidence is literally littered in journals and around the web from publications stretching back over 150 years". The problem is exactly that: the evidence is "littered" and even if one works in the field (as I do), it is a huge burden to answer questions with sound data backing.

Imagine if you had a parent express skepticism about getting their 1 year old vaccinated, and you could take out your tablet in front of them and say "show me health outcomes for all babies in the past ten years, grouped by vaccination status" and it would pull up live data on one hundred million patients, that's where I think we need to go.
Or a llama -> https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guard_llama
I find it rather amusing that their page fails to work without JavaScript enabled. They couldn't even build a web page capable of displaying words and pictures without requiring viewers to use a fully-general-purpose virtual machine and sandboxed environment.

One wonders if their phones were as poorly-designed as their web presence.

I don't actually think so (in fact, I was fairly excited to get one in the future), but still it does leave a bad taste in one's mouth.
Not the same guy but

https://i.imgur.com/BspPL2H.png
https://whatsmybrowser.org/b/JZAUZ62

Appears to be caused by using 100vw, which doesn't factor in the width of the scrollbar.

Notably on the selectors:

[control="LandingPage"] .hero-header

and

[control="LandingPage"] .platform-information .info-section
To be fair, humor (on its own) is often detrimental to HN discussions. At least as top level comments.

But for a toy project like this, it seemed appropriate.
https://criticalcommons.org/Members/JJWooten/clips/mitch-hed...
I'm conflicted. Its not like I want the same situation of many background services and tray icons you see in Windows on my mobile device.
If it is a dead an option... that's not better.

It's just a bad option.

The impact of having folks in a debt cycle is obviously bad.
> (as opposed to crash or something like "None" printed)

Stuff like that could also cause data corruption. I don't think xvilka was referring to just miscalculations from less strict typing around numbers.

Also, buckminster is right about /.

ghci> :i (/)
class Num a => Fractional a where
(/) :: a -> a -> a
...
ghci> :m + Data.Ratio
ghci> :i Fractional
...
instance Integral a => Fractional (Ratio a)
instance Fractional Float
instance Fractional Double

You can make your own Fractionals by making whatever type and defining an instance for it. Ratio, for instance, is made of a pair of integers (or rather Integrals, which could be Int, Integer, Word, or some type you make up) representing fractions.

Here's a comment I did in the past about Haskell's treatment of numbers:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18565234
Wonderful! Was that the fruit of your searches? It seems like an interesting topic.
The PH-1 was a beautiful phone, but i'm somewhat relieved to see essential shut down. although it was a nice-looking phone, it wasn't really any better than any other phone. The idea that an unheard of company with no track record or assurance of future support could come out and sell a phone for the same price as apple and samsung's flagship offerings seemed wrong to me.

If essential had done something truly revolutionary that deserved the high price tag, that would have been one thing, but it's nice to see consumers reject the idea that a company can charge apple-level prices with no real justification for it.
Could you share the link to the original Twitter thread? I guess the link was changed on HN before some of us got here.
publicly mock your leaders on the front steps of your legislature

So long as those steps are designated as a "free speech zone".
Just came to recommend idempotency keys as well.

https://stripe.com/docs/api/idempotent_requests
I would love to know how you came up with these numbers.
I am not assuming that it is nafarious, I appologize if I was not clear enough on that point. There are many possible ways it could be the result of a defect and you provided some interesting examples. In either case, it is a curiosity worth investigating.

Thanks for pointing out an easy way to disable imessage on iphone. Apparently after doing that iphone defaults to MMS. It still might be best to just turn off data and wifi.
Boeing posts zero new airplane orders in January
The old joke about Suhrkamp: if you buy ten meters of Suhrkamp and display them you are civilized. If you read them you are cultivated.
Not on a rotary phone: spinning to the first position is easier to find than the 9 (especially if trying to not go too far and hit the 0). On a traditional rotary 9-1-1 was one hard to dial number followed by the two easiest.
It's great to hear that Dracula is one of the first things you do when you get a new machine!

Unfortunately, I don't have a side-by-side comparison but what I can tell you is that it's similar to the original one with several color corrections to balance the lightness and saturation. Plus, the 6 new variations.

About the license, this is mostly to prevent people from purchasing one package and then sharing with their entire company. It's totally ok if you use it in more than 3 devices as long as it's for personal use.
It cannot run on most ARM SBCs; I can't run it with any reasonable consistent responsiveness on any but my newest PC. Gnome 3 is _still_ a pig; and utterly useless to most of the world which still operates on half decade or decade old PCs.

It's a prime example of privileged western developers overlooking the needs of their users.
Does it assume I know SQL though?
Just checked my steam account...
I assume the title is such as yesterday was women in science day.
No, I could never get the hang of Dvorak.

I have it because when I make a command line mistake, I more often say "shit" than "fuck". It feels more natural to type what I'm actually thinking. :)
Hah, this happened to me when I cancelled Audible. My solution was to use the remaining credits for the first four of the The Wheel of Time (14 novels long). But now I'm addicted and had to sign up for Audible again.

Also the credits expire, even when you are signed up.

(Also, as far as physical books, you should see my basement... Buying technical books was a business expense when I was self-employed).
What? The pixel 4 is a half inch smaller than some of the the smaller phablets of 2014 (the iPhone 6XL and Nexus 6). I can't find a single "phablet" releases that is smaller than the pixel 4 (and similarly an iPhone X, although the 11 seems to be larger than the smallest phablets).

If you compare with the largest phablets, those with > 6 inch screen sizes, modern phones are like an inch smaller in both dimensions.
This does not fall within the normal range of meanings of "conflict of interest". Cattle owners are not in a position where their personal interests conflict with their official duties. Those are perfectly synched up.

By your standards, voting is a conflict of interest.
Uhhh, no. Why would we? Their interests aren’t the only interests in the world. We live in a democracy not some sort of Orwellian world where we just do what the experts say. That would never work out well.
They don't need to publicly admit anything, thanks to Wikileaks and Snowden, it's a matter of public record.

Since we don't have any choice about whether or not to participate in the panopticon, and it's clear no one is going to do anything to stop it, then it should at least serve some public good. Offer a public API and let Western countries build services directly on top of it.
Oh man, I just saw one of the product exec's LinkedIn and he spent 3 years at Juicero before spending 3 years at Essential.

That's gotta hurt.

If you're a reasonably talented product & engineering person don't work for a hardware startup. Startups are lottos already as is but hardware is so unforgiving. I think Ring's acquisition by Amazon was the last one I can think that was a true success.
This is good, because having something that owns ca. 60% of the SSL certificates on the internet supported by corporate largesse is not a good route forward. I'm glad that's shifting.
I always forget the order of arguments and what they mean. For me it is an awful function that should not exist.
> I don’t really understand comments like this. US has lots of problems but we do have the semblance of rule of law

I, as a European citizen have no practical way to benefit of that semblance of rule of law.
....oh lord! I am not the only one then!
It has to be said that this 7-8% average is inflated due to being at the end (?) of a ten year bull market.

Vangaurd is predicting low growth of 3-4% over the next decade.
totally same. Have like books ranging from bartending to philosophy and never finishing it.
I got the first two from the On sale section. Sounds amazing.
Yeah I'm discussing with my editor now about when to put out the beta it'll be out either after we finish editing the chapter I just finished writing or the next one. So pretty soon. I hope to have the whole book finished by July but that's a bit more TBD up to how soon I finish writing the last few chapters.
Just tried this in Ontario, networks were Bell (iPhone 7) + Koodo (Pixel 3) and it didn't deliver.
It doesn't seem difficult to avg +1% per month doing relatively basic trading in my experience.

The challenge I have is remembering to actually care about it and do the trades, life gets too busy and before I realize it a month has gone by.

But whenever I'm on top of it, 1% gains have been very easy over the past decade, I'm rarely in the market for more than a few hours. But I risk having a pile of cash to trade with I suppose, the dollar could crash.

If you do +1% per month you're already +12%/yr, I consider 12%/yr the minimum acceptable yield for any kind of investment given how easy it seems to be to DIY.
Ask HN: Best paid courses you've taken?
For 2020 I've decided to focus on taking online courses to further my education. With that, I have a rough budget of $50/month to spend. Looking for suggestions on paid or free courses you may have taken that you found beneficial.

edit: 2020, not 2019
That's a very good idea. We'll definitely be looking into it.
Rolling one's own crypto has become a catch-all phrase. It's of course very important to remember implementing standard algorithms in non-standard way can be incredibly dangerous too. I've seen unauthenticated AES-CBC way too many times. I've seen fingerprints calculated by hashing pre-master secrets (completely insecure), I've seen crypto libraries that rely on completely insecure structures for their RNGs (worst was probably LCG fed from math.random). I've seen fixed IVs with fixed keys, E2EE without fingerprints (way too often), ones with expired primitives (SHA-1 in PGP). I've seen RSA PKCS #1.5 deployed in brand new products (https://trailofbits.files.wordpress.com/2019/07/image13-1.pn...).

So the correct advice is, "don't deviate from best practices, and hire a cryptographer."
How does this work with internally hosted github server? When I tried a command on an existing clone folder, it wants to go to github.com to authenticate.
Pot, kettle, black. Huawei doesnt drop 5 bombs per hour.
Exactly. Or put another way, why is there not more pedagogic material like this on the web? We have Jupyter notebooks in many different academic subjects but so many of them are half-baked. This website serves as an example of how good web-based teaching material can truly be.
Exactly. Part of being respectful of our environment is knowing when to leave well enough alone
I suppose I should have been clearer. Dow Jones republishes all WSJ articles that make it to the print edition. The Morningstar website shows those. It is an ad supported way for people to read these articles without a subscription which still financially supports journalism.
Gender is not relevant, unless it is. People need to see folks like themselves represented, and downplaying gender as "not relevant" dismisses the very real effect this can have. Are her achievements awesome because she's a woman? No, of course not -- they're awesome for their own merits. But if one woman sees this and gets inspired by it, that's awesome.
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Trump administration to release new FinCEN requirements for cryptos
This looks illegal afaik, I remember reading that posting job offers to target protected classes (e.g. posting in a men's magazine, restricting facebook ads to men) is illegal

https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-45569227
Ah, fair point about these tools. I think I understand better what you meant. Point very well taken, and thanks for the informed perspective.
Books do make great decorations. People have been doing the same thing for decades.

“Don’t have sex with someone who doesn’t own any books” used to be somewhat common dating advice. With e-readers, it’s not as applicable, but the principle is still good.
> "good enough" is the gold standard in engineering.

This doesn't really make sense given any common meaning of good enough. A well engineered system or product is optimized. If you want to say that good enough means solving the inherent tradeoffs between safety margins and cost with careful design and precise specs, then you're not talking about the same thing as that blog post, nor would that accurately describe the way Boeing appears to design commercial aircraft nowadays.
It's weird that something that is meant to be entertainment can become a chore (videogames and hobbies for instance). Is it merely because we are tired or because there is another activity available that is so low energy that it becomes more desirable in comparison (e.g., watching Netflix, mindlessly browsing the internet)? Sometimes I wonder... if none of those activities were available in my house, what would I do instead?
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Me and my wife does it because we value and want to reflect to our kids and others ...there's no English word descriptive enough here... but in Greek it's called paideia, German: bildung. Danish/Norwegian: dannelse. Closest word is probably education.. but it's too narrow.
It is much more clever just to use a for .. in loop and write the actions sequentially rather than as a set of anonymous functions. Writing software should not be a competition about who knows more new features.
Chill please. I used the exact number from the paper as quoted somewhere else in this discussion. Which seems adequate when saying that the authors final number (sixhundredsomething) is most likely correct even if the intermediate value "0.02%" is obviously wrong (and probably just a mistake in the print).

If you have questions as to which point in time this number refers to, I kindly refer you to the original paper and/or the authors.
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> another edit: I also believe one reason that this visualization is good is because there's no build process in the JS. The author clearly just edits the code and refreshes the browser. You need that kind of fast edit-view loop to make good visualizations.

You can go a step further and reload code without refreshing the page. This makes it even easier to make the sort of fiddly tweaks that visualizations require while avoid change blindness.

https://roadtolarissa.com/hot-reload

https://github.com/1wheel/hot-server
I use "hub browse" a lot. It's a really quick way to open a local directory's Github repo.

Unfortunately, it's quite limited. No way to open a specific file, for example, or jump to a specific branch other than the current one.

I'd love to have something like "gh open".
I absolutely loved my blackberry pearl too. In these days I would consider it a feature phone, but durability aside, its probably one of the best.

I've gone back and forth with smartphones but I never really enjoyed them. It's not a requirement for work so it just turns into an unproductive timesink.

I was using it as my daily phone a couple years ago and the only things i missed was a flashlight and maps. I'm thinking about going back.
You drive home to get lunch?