skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is all true today, but it was not true in the past. There was a time in the computing industry when everyone believed that pen interfaces with handwriting recognition would be a crucial enabler for highly mobile computing. Both Apple and Microsoft built major product launches around this idea in the early 1990s.
Apparently they're also good for blowing bacteria around the room. But at least we're saving the planet. Hooray.
Kodak may have been boned no matter what, but it's still not the example I seek, of a firm that successfully "played catch against itself".
I would hazard that before the "FROM FACEBOOK" branding last year the majority of users didn't even know it was a facebook property. And even now I bet a large plurality don't know and the majority of the rest don't care.
firstly that $10 billion covers many more cost items than just the software needed to fly the 777.

And going by recent events (i.e. 737 MCAS) it would appear Boeing is not that great at creating reliable software.
In my state, resort fees are a tax imposed by the city and state -- a bit like a sales tax. The business is collecting them on behalf of the city/state, and don't get to keep them for themselves. The business also doesn't determine how much the fee is -- that's set by law.

What they are not is a sneaky way for a business to charge more than their advertised rate as you describe. I don't know how this works in other parts of the US, but I suspect it's pretty much the same everywhere.

I'm with you that these sorts of taxes should just be rolled into the price tag, though.
It's got no grammar, so you don't have to parse it, just lex and recursively eval.
That would have been interesting, but they still would have needed to figure out how to monetize it.
The whole world pays these prices, I come from a poor place and literally couldn't afford a domain name when I was younger.
on google you can find some:
https://www.webmd.com/prostate-cancer/news/20051206/lots-of-...

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/11566656

But, I remember hearing about it from the talks that Dr Milton Mills (Associate Director of Preventive Medicine with the Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine (PCRM)) gave.

And, i've heard it in other places as well. For instance in Forks over Knives (the documentary), they were saying that in Japan there 17 cases of prostate cancer (before they started eating dairy) in the entire country, when in the US there was something like 15000.

And, then there was the China study, also mentioned in that documentary. there's some fairly compelling stuff in that documentary, it blew my mind.
Wikipedia has many similar problems to stack overflow and other different problems. The sites take different approaches to moderation yet “power users” on both feel like they are fighting back a torrent of low quality content. Wikipedia has the advantage of being run by a charity that is not trying to turn a profit.
You need 200 points to flag. Get one now! Use the flag button wisely when you get enough points.

From https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

> What to Submit

> On-Topic: Anything that good hackers would find interesting. That includes more than hacking and startups. If you had to reduce it to a sentence, the answer might be: anything that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity.

> Off-Topic: Most stories about politics, or crime, or sports, unless they're evidence of some interesting new phenomenon. Videos of pratfalls or disasters, or cute animal pictures. If they'd cover it on TV news, it's probably off-topic.

A small amount of repost are ok.

About ads: Some post are almost an infomercial. If it is interesting it is ok. If it is just "buy me" repeated one hundred time no. Some post are about personal projects or a starting business looking for feedback. If it is interesting it is ok. Hey! Dropbox begun as a personal project and was posted here by the author before it was cool. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8863
I'm not convinced that their ad-hoc curse interface is really faster than GUI. First you have commands like "issue view" that... open the browser to display the issue. Then you have commands like "pr create" that seem to ask for tile and then description. What if you want to amend the title while you type the description? Well I guess you can always "preview in browser" when you're done. Might as well just do it from the browser to begin with honestly.

"pr checkout" is the only command that seems truly useful and a time saver to me.
That is largely in line with what Graeber’s book says, in that most of the use we see of barter being out of necessity by people who already know how, and were familiar with using money (say, after their money-using civilisation collapsed), not as much before monetary systems existed (except for some trading between tribes).

And then later you have one of their institutions basically becoming a central bank and issuing a currency!
I was just pointing out that there were reasons it wasn't successful beyond just not being a viable approach.
Agile is not the absence of planning. It's about adapting to change. When it comes to business software this makes sense because the end result is typically unknown. Aircraft avionics have a pretty well-defined end goal. The other big difference is really quality control. Most software doesn't invest heavily in quality because a failure isn't that costly. It's the same calculation that goes into producing absolutely everything. The cost of a quality failure in an airplane is humongous. I use apps that crash at least once a day, but I just restart them and keep going.
‘Swarm’ = 3 drones
I remember that happening. If this is the same thing, its even worse as we never got any notice that this was coming or going to impact us.
It's industry standard for a reason
Found a link to the full paper here: https://www.gwern.net/docs/psychology/2018-morgan.pdf

It explains the difference in prevalence rates: "While median lifetime morbid risk for
schizophrenia is estimated to be 0.72% (Saha et al., 2005), many of our
young cohort had still not passed through the window for schizophrenia
onset."

However, their claim for a relationship is indeed very weak:
"In our data, this dropped to 0.2% for congenital or early peripheral blindness and was zero for congenital or early cortical blindness [0 cases out of 66]. Our data
further suggest that the protection offered by cortical blindness may extend to a broader range of psychotic disorders and that risk of psychosis
may effectively be reduced to zero."

It's ironic that they start the discussion stating "The results from this whole-population cohort, although possibly
underpowered, lend confidence to findings from smaller case studies". Yes, it is underpowered, and I'm surprised it was published.
Loosening a bolt gets easier as you turn the wrench, no? I assumed thats what the diagram was showcasing
Not to corroborate the parent, but yes, every Chinese company is literally the Chinese government. Mandatory control stake.
Totally not the same thing. If my car's steering locks up and I can't turn because of a software glitch, I'm returning that thing to the dealer ASAP.
NPM module for quick HTTP server deployments
Notably, there's a toggle in System Preferences → Dock:

> Prefer tabs when opening documents: Always | In Full Screen Only | Manually

It's difficult to find because they put it under "Dock" for some strange reason.
If you want to do a really poor, minimal job of implementing something that processes and executes programs, you will find that most of the complexity will rest in handling syntax. Any reductions in that complexity will have a big relative impact on trimming down the code and amount of work.

Now you can duck out of implementing solid semantics, without changing what a language looks like. For instance, programs language with broken scope can look superficially like programs in a language with working lexical scope. Or, a language that works by interpreting a syntax tree using a few lines of code looks and works just as well as a compiled one, just slower.

But if you don't negotiate about what a language looks like, there is only so much simplification you can do while still correctly handling the syntax which allows the language to look like that.

Further reductions in complexity require simplifications in syntax (how the language looks), which leads toward one of several existing well-understood design families for minimal syntax: Lisp-like, Forth-like, APL-like.
The problem with software is "copying is free". So old shit does not die, because it is cheap, it is used also in new programs.
Development time and costs are major dimensions to be optimized.
So similar to socialism/communism you eventually run out of people's money when the people fleecing the system drain the well because it's not being tracked.

I find your open-source analogy funny when we have all these maintainers of major projects protesting about lack of funding.

The gift economy fails when it comes up against human nature at scale.

Humans are lazy and greedy, you need to account for that. When you're not checking who owes what, you're ripe for exploitation.
Jack Dorsey said Twitter will build remote workforce outside San Francisco
> Imagine if aerospace company was to design, test, and build a new airplane in only 6 months.

“[Kelly Johnson] sought and received permission to set up his own experimental department, which he based in a hangar next to Lockheed's wind tunnel. With his team working 10-hour days, six days a week, the prototype was ready just 143 days later. That plane was the P-80 Shooting Star. It arrived too late to have an impact in WWII, but (renamed the F-80) it went on to serve in Korea”
Less BS, it's just vocabulary that isn't widely circulated. Possibly due to a "rationalism" fad. I'm looking at you CFAR.
...and? Are you saying that his assertions are incorrect?
Torque = distance×force, so force = torque/distance, so force is linear in 1/distance.
Not having that seem to be a disaster, you wouldn’t believe the amount of calls I received offering to commercially make my website that were clearly personal by name.
And then the environmental crowd will freak out upon the invention of cows genetically modified to be poisonous to wolves.
I can see a couple of negative interpretations:

1. Lambda school has lost faith in their students or never had faith in the first place. As a result they're trying to exit the ISA positions.

2. This is too similar to CDOs, which have caused a financial crisis in the US before.

3. People are already worried about student debt, and this is a very similar type of debt.

4. Selling ISAs to big bad hedge funds is unsavory, for some reason. People who were too poor to afford proper education now owe money to the rich people running investment funds - that sort of thing.

FWIW, I'm not really biting on any of these arguments. These ISAs take a very long type to pay off, so it makes sense for them to be held by someone with a low cost of capital. Lamda school is in the business of training people and getting these ISAs, they're not in the business of holding on to these ISAs for 10 years (even if they wanted, they're probably not capitalised well enough for this). Holding onto assets for long stretches of time, that's the job of financial institutions and investment funds.

This is just run-of-the-mill finance, really. I wouldn't be surprised if this was the plan from the get-go.
Google Translate results in a giant "/404."

https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=auto&tl=en&u=https...

Makes you wonder if this is intentional or merely accidental.

Here's a copy & paste snapshot I made of it:

https://pastebin.com/WN09Z8eG

Change data from yesterday: data to be released by the National Health Commission

38577 Existing confirmed diagnosis

16067 Suspected

5083 cure

44777 Cumulative diagnosis

8204 Existing severe

1117 death

^ That's a lot of people in critical condition. I respect the rapid construction of those giant, negative-air pressure quarantine and treatment facilities as quickly they did.
Ask HN: Recommendations on Getting Qualifications for SWE/DS Job at MANFAG
How do I (2 years out of school, Berkeley CS) get a job at MANFAG (Microsoft - Apple - Netflix - Facebook - Amazon - Google) companies?
well put, I would even go as far as estimating domain value and matching the squatters prices. Or put differently, lets make real-estate on domain-street as expensive as it should be. Something like: 2 letter domains 100 000, 3 letter ones 50 000 per year. 500 euro per year is nothing if you are serious about your business. Such high prices will force a market in domain names to replace this idiocy where any dumb name is owned by whoever got there first and buying it starts at 20 k and every good name is either a shit or a spam page. Think of the children! (haha)

I aquire that insight from some EVE online economist who argued fees should be high enough to make exploiting the [ingame] property a requirement. (and that this logics should apply to other non-gaming things like land tax) If a game doesn't work like that it just gets boring with few players owning everything while not doing jack shit with it. You get "ghost" towns like London.

A discount for purchasing multiple domains with the same name under different TLD's also seems reasonable. A German should be able to get .de and .com as a package and .fr should be cheap.

With the new found fortune squatters could get a refund for everything they let go of.
IIRC, the BLM charges around 15% of what it would cost on the open market. If the land were sold off like these rugged individualists want, most of them probably couldn't even afford it. Ranchers are usually well-off, but not massively so.

They'd be stuck paying someone else sky-high grazing fees. The market would probably just get taken over by big players just like most of the rest of agriculture has.
Energy expenditures as a percentage of personal consumption expenditures
While the issues aren't a git repo in themselves, their API is actually quite open and usable. I've written a few migration services for a past employer where management insisted on JIRA but developers wanted Github so my service would basically batch migrate changes (issue state, description, comments etc..) from Github to JIRA so management would get the updates while devs used Github solely.
Cool Prefab Home to Buy on Amazon
I find that bezels play a role in ergonomics. Fit the biggest display you can and your phone cannot be held anymore without accidental touches registering.
Idea: write malware that drops random data/encrypted files on the infected devices drive but is otherwise harmless, distribute widely. Bam! Plausible deniability for everyone.
I agree modern macOS has too many UI inconsistencies—but I really don't think tabs are one of them. They behave predictably enough in proper Cocoa apps. (If you're using an app with its own tab implementation that behaves differently, there's not much any OS can really do about that.)

Although to your point of keeping track, I do think tabs could be integrated with Exposé ("Mission Control") a bit better.
Alleged crime.

And this is braindead simple application of the Fifth Amendment. The courts are a joke.
I said, "I think it's crystal clear under US copyright law that on-nadir satellite images are not copyrightable." Google's claim to own copyright in the output of Google Maps or Google Earth may or may not be correct, but either way it's irrelevant, because those are not on-nadir satellite photos, and my claim was specifically scoped to on-nadir satellite photos (and US copyright law). I've cited three judicial precedents to support that claim; you have a weak argument about one of those precedents that suggests you don't understand it, and even the 30-year-old law review article you chose to support your position specifically disclaims the claim you're making, in the case it discusses, which is indeed a public satellite.

Google Maps and Google Earth output are not on-nadir satellite photos. They are composite images produced by an elaborate production pipeline drawing on many sets of data and possibly enough human creativity to produce a copyrightable work. That's a question for a court to decide, not Google or Wikipedia. It seems clear that if their results are found to be copyrightable, it will not be due to the satellite photos that some of them draw on.
Most of those areas are pivoting to tourism with the exception of maybe South Park which is desolate enough I don't see wolves making a habitat there.

Cow excrement is absolutely not just fermented grass. It contains pathogens that can be harmful to humans and end up in drinking water. Cows have existed in this area for less than 200 years, out of the millions of years the biome has existed. It's absolutely an emotional issue if you don't understand how ecosystems work.

I'd rather not give out too many personal details of my living situation but it's safe to say my little car doesn't get much use at all.
It's a merger of two satellite radio systems. They have satellites hanging in orbit over North America, so you can get coverage in places where there's no cellular data coverage for streaming. And of course you can stream 24x7 endlessly, no data charges, because it's a broadcast.
Why commit to small differences in an entire inventory/supply chain problem for a very complex and expensive device instead of a thin wrapper?

Phones are thin! The case makes them reasonably sized. Treat a naked phone the same as you would a naked human: unsuitable and unprepared to go outside.
Quora was a very good site when the userbase was small. All the content was very high quality, and I learnt a lot of stuff reading it back then.
Now that quora has a very large number of users, it resembles the real world more closely, as in the average quality of content is very low. I am wondering whether there are websites which manage to retain high quality discussions even with a huge user base (HN certainly is one, but I think HN has way less users than quora, and HN is geared specifically towards certain people looking for intellectual excitement).
You realize we are talking about natural habitats here, right? It's not a lawn. Most public grazing land is arid, and quite fragile. Grazing can turn a rich ecosystem into a moonscape very quickly.

Not to mention the feces destroys water quality.
There are rumors of a new iPhone SE 2 coming later this year[0]. If true it might be right up the gp's alley.

[0]:https://www.techradar.com/news/iphone-se-2
They did a bit of a bait-and-switch. They started with paying high-profile people to be there, and moderating hard, then the floodgates got opened, and what happens everywhere that loses exclusivity happened; everybody decent got bored or fed up and left, and it turns into idiots arguing back and forth.
I was holding my old iPhone 4 not too long ago and I think it’s my favorite one so far. I’m still stuck with my iPhone 7 because everything has just gotten too huge.
Yes software is seldom broken out - the space shuttle software spent $200 million, with an original estimate of $20 Million according to https://history.nasa.gov/computers/Ch4-5.html. I guess thats in 1970-1980 dollars
I don't disagree with the sentiment of the post, but unfortunately this has been the norm for web service terms for a very long time. As far as I can see, there's nothing unusual in what Quora specifically is doing here.

Even HN's privacy policy and terms include both an arbitration agreement and phrases very similar to the ones he's complaining about, like:

> By using the Service, you agree to the practices described in this Privacy Policy.

> Your continued use of the Site after the date any such changes become effective constitutes your acceptance of the new Terms of Use.
Alternatively, the rule becomes: secure your computer, or end up in jail.
Not about the article specifically, but as far as the XKCD comic goes, I'm not sure it necessarily tells people what they think it does. The electronic voting system concept is arguably the only concept software engineers would universally say is a bad idea/worry about.

And that's more because of the practicalities involved in that particular idea rather than something about software enginering as a whole. What's necessary for a secure and trustworthy voting system puts it at odds with any attempt to provide such via a machine/app/program/website.

Ask the same people about say, reliable hashing/encryption libraries or what not, and their attitudes would probably mirror those of the aircraft designer or building engineer.

There are probably also examples of things in aircraft design or construction that would have people in those fields freak out too.
The US probably does want to reveal the backdoor because its likely they are exploiting it themselves.

If they reveal the backdoor and Huawei closes or replaces it, they'll be locked out
Only under the Functional area.
That's... like the whole point of the article. That mentality causes less reliable software.
> 325 times between 2013 and 2015, cops and employees who misused databases “were fired, suspended or resigned.”

https://www.computerworld.com/article/3124641/cops-run-unaut...

> The act imposes some new limits on the bulk collection of telecommunication metadata on U.S. citizens by American intelligence agencies

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USA_Freedom_Act

And shortly thereafter:

> The National Security Agency (NSA) has formally recommended that the White House drop the phone surveillance program that collects information about millions of US phone calls and text messages. The Wall Street Journal reports that people familiar with the matter say the logistical and legal burdens of maintaining the program outweigh any intelligence benefits it brings.

https://www.engadget.com/2019/04/25/nsa-drop-massive-phone-s...

Sure, the US isn't perfect.

But I'm still very certain that I trust China's approach to data privacy a little less, since they currently do all of the following to happen, without suspicion of a crime:

* mass collection of blood and hair DNA samples for citizens living in minority regions

* literal government occupation of people's homes to take photos and collect information

* installing government cameras inside of peoples homes

* using that information to track, detain, and send ~1 million minorities to re-education camps without being charged or accused of a crime... where they are subjected to forced sterilization and torture.

https://www.hrw.org/news/2018/05/13/china-visiting-officials...

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/08/world/asia/china-uighur-m...

https://www.rfa.org/english/news/uyghur/abuse-10302019142433...

The institutional attitudes to privacy are simply not comparable to the US. US authorities are not nonchalant enough about privacy that they think anything close to that that is remotely acceptable in the US.
Who's doing this? Amazon is using model checking on simplified models of real-world software systems, that's not "theorem proving". Microsoft is doing some related stuff in low-level code (Sing#, etc.) but they're not in FAANG. Galois is not even close, they're a relatively small shop.
Also, maybe MWC just isn't interesting enough to be worth it?
I wonder if these would work?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boerboel

My old neighbor had one, and prior to meeting him I had heard from others the he owned a 'bear'. One of the biggest dogs I've ever seen, and all muscle.
Ha! I respond to texts with a single "?" a lot of times, so it's funny to know that they're getting a blank text