skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Hillary did not win the election, no matter how you spin it.

I didn't say she did. I said she won the democratic election, which you call the popular vote. It's the same thing.

> We also don’t “value some people’s votes more than others.”

This is another tomato tomahhto splitting of hairs. A Nebraskan voter's vote is worth about 3.4 Californian votes. If you don't consider that as "counting some people's votes more than others", I don't know what to tell you. We can argue about whether you think that is a good idea (aka have the electoral college debate). But there should be no debate whether we do systematically prefer some voters over others.
Specifically to bruised apples, the bruising may suggest crisp vs softness and factor into quality of the product. If I go looking for crisp apples, I avoid anything with a bruise as they often feel soft anyway and aren't worth checking. They are still edible, just not what I prefer or choose. I get that is a luxury of sorts, but I'd pick other fruit before a soft apple unless it is for baking.
Nice infographic. I'm sad to say I moved in the wrong direction on a few of these: I used to be car-free and vegetarian. Now that I have a family, I'm neither. Then again, I did get two fewer children than I actually wanted.
No, this is how Boeing has always operated. It's a cyclic industry. Google "boeing employment by year". The charts are practically a sine wave. "Hire 10,000 when demand is high, lay off 10,000 when demand is low" has been how they've operating since WWII.

There are many issues with Boeing management today (I used to work there so I love flaming them as much as anyone), but it's hard for me to imagine how any aircraft company could avoid this. All aerospace employers are laying off (or furloughing) workers by the thousands:

Airbus: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-airbus...

Bombardier: https://www.huffingtonpost.ca/entry/bombardier-layoffs-quebe...

Gulfstream: https://www.wtoc.com/2020/05/04/gulfstream-lays-off-employee...

No word from Embraer yet, but since their deal with Boeing fell through, I imagine it's only a matter of time.
If you're interested in recent innovations on this front: (rather than just retreading the same Web as before)

* Beaker (https://beakerbrowser.com) the peer-to-peer browser just released their beta release - and it has some exciting features. Particularly the built-in editor, meaning you can edit, serve and read your pages all from the browser. (Blogging in Beaker is as simple as visiting: hyper://a8e9bd0f4df60ed5246a1b1f53d51a1feaeb1315266f769ac218436f12fda830/. And the posts are stored locally.)

* https://special.fish/ This completely low-tech social network has taken off. The innovation here is that it's all just focused on profile pages - not feeds of random posts.

* There's a growing subculture of public Tiddlywikis (philosopher.life, sphygm.us, etc) - rather than focusing on protocols and APIs, they are much more focused on how to organize and style personal hypertext.

* As for RSS, well, as HN custom insists, I am also commenting to plug my own fraidyc.at. See, you knew it was here.

* On a related note, I've also been working on an RSS/Atom extension to handle ephemeral posts: live streams, "stories", pinned posts, etc. https://github.com/kickscondor/fraidycat/wiki/RSS-Atom-Exten...

* There's also a forum on tiny personal link directories that's been forming at https://forum.indieseek.xyz. The idea here is to use Yahoo! or DMOZ style link directories at a smaller scale, to catalog corners of the Web. (Note that this whole comment itself is a kind of small 'directory'. Rather than an algorithm stepping in to show you 'related' stuff, I have.)
Not all navigation is created equal. When navigating in a car or boat, you need to be able to look ahead and pay attention. Therefore physical control are better because you can use them without looking at them.

That's not the case in a space ship. Additionally, piloting a space craft is infinitely more complicated. Just take a look at the Apollo 11 control module[1]. I think having a single place where you receive all your information and react to it is way better than having to memorize the location and function of thousands of physical elements.

[1] https://api.time.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/apollo-11-3....
A lot of enterprise developers are just catching up on the NoSQL Hypetrain. Today only I interviewed a .Net developer who was explaining how SQL Server was not able to handle their IoT workload and their team was moving to MongoDB to store the sensor data!
>But I wonder at what point you have to draw the line and quit excusing any and all behavior as the result of misaligned incentives, and simply hold people morally and ethically accountable for the choices they make?

Your statement is contradictory, incentives are what hold people accountable.
This is like the real-world version of applying a userContent.css file to patch a UX flaw in a web application, except in this case he patched a UX flaw in the freeway.

As users of web applications and freeways, I think we tend to overestimate our expertise in designing solutions to the things that annoy us. This story had a happy outcome because the expert user was careful and competent. Thankfully the barrier to entry for submitting patches is relatively high.
As Californian, I hate exit numbers. I typically know vaguely where I'm trying to go, but navigation apps nowadays often favor the exit numbers. Exit numbers are still poorly marked in a lot of places, and are typically harder to spot.

Missed an exit one time because Google Maps said "take exit 34C" and the exit number was only posted far down the offramp, after it was too late. Best part was Maps neglecting to say "for highway XXX", pretty much the most important highway for the area, which would have made navigating incredibly easy.
Why are stocks continuing to go crazy in an upward direction on "optimism hopes" (when headlines of vaccines and openings hit) when we're likely to see a belated fallout due to people's dropped incomes and lost jobs? Is it just that the upper middle class are insulated from all of this? I'm reading that mortgage activity is spiking as well. There's clearly a multiple tier system at work here.
To be honest, Xserve is the only sane option for displaying a NAS (with its many drive bays! :)
Those space suits look so cool, don't they?
Got it. But that is a lot to make it work seamlessly.

How do you plan to make any business out of this ?
I get a meal kit too for variety- three to four meals a week from Green Chef depending on the amount of leftovers.

Edit: If anyone knows of any good vegetarian/vegan meal kits that do better on plastic, let me know.
Ask HN: I have H1B visa, should I be worried
Considering how many ppl have been laid off, even with a valid visa ,think h1b holders will become the easy targets right from our neighbors who lost the job (not related to h1b) to politicians.

Will one day someone sign an executive order and send us back home?
I don't understand, doesn't this play into China's hand? China is trying to undermine it's automony, now US is staying they are the same? Isn't this giving China what it wants?

EDIT Saw this in a Reddit thread by /u/CleverNameTheSecond

HK was one of the few ways China can evade US sanctions as HK is considered an autonomous entity for trading purposes. If HK is considered not autonomous the US can levy the same sanctions as they do on mainland China. They probably don't want this in the grand scheme of things.
Somehow it's always other people who are too emotional or ignorant to vote properly.

I can't remember seeing someone raise their hand and say, "I'm too emotional and poorly informed, please take away my right to vote." Wonder why that is.
I don't understand what your comment is saying, sorry. If total income stays the same, why is the price of the Camry increasing? The point of not depending on the employer is that you can quit a bad job, start a company, etc with much less risk.
> you can add your own custom GraphQL server to Hasura for business logic

> If you are comfortable with REST APIs (or something that already exists)

This is an order of magnitude worse than simply having to "depend on serverless functions". You're saying for any real-world business logic (read: non-crud writes to the database, every app has these), you need to re-implement another graphql server? or simply have something that "already exists" to solve your problem? Isn't that what Hasura is for?

> Now where this server is hosted is totally upto the user.

I think the dream of Hasura-like products is to not have a bunch of servers everwhere that need to be managed and coordinated. This is the beauty and power of Postresql. Containing our business logic in it is ideal. At the very least, containing our business logic in 1 Hasura instance would be 2nd best. Calling out to some other rest api or custom implemented GraphQL server defeats the purpose of a self-contained GraphQL layer. If some of the data lives elsewhere, sure. But what if the data just lives in our database?
Just had grocery curbside pickup last week, including two pineapples. Both looked much greener than any I would have selected myself. (I normally select a pineapple where the inner leaves come out easily.) A bit of research online, pineapples don’t ripen once picked. Cut them up, and they were both fantastic.
It has been my experience as a consultant and in-house that engineering departments significantly overvalue the R&D they perform. R&D has value, but nowhere near what the engineers think it does, especially when all of the costs of bringing that R&D to market are taken into consideration.

See, for example, Juicero, Bird, Boosted, Magic Leap, Theranos, etc.
We believe this is "the right way" since it's the only possible way of _accurately_ preserve all Flash content.
If only the prices were lower to reflect that competition. There seems to be a tacit agreement that streamers will pay 6-12 USD a month per service. Netflix began at $8 with almost all popular content available (which could be streamed).

Edit: cut extra word
> very good colour rendering

The one area where everything but good old fashioned incandescent lights fail.

Makes me wonder if anyone is working on applying quantum dots to LED lamps.
I'm guessing he isn't doing it himself because he's 61 years old. His odds of dying are maybe 10-100x higher than the perfectly healthy twentysomethings that he's proposing for an initial trial.
>Who, if anyone, should be 'world police'?

Germany.
Give me all the downvotes
I'm curious what the physical buttons on the seat armrests do.
> There are enough Chinese pro-nationalists using YouTube

And they aren’t any more nationalistic than Americans. Reporting this slogan is the equivalent of, say, an American reporting “Drumpf is Hitler” or “Hussein Obama”. These are all dumb slogans which are spammed just to get a political reaction. Different people get offended about different things, that’s just something you have to deal with in a big community.
It is a problem, but depending on what publications you read, how often it happens can vary.

The reason is that, like AMP, Apple News only supports a subset of HTML. It's up to the publishers to adhere to those limitations. Some choose not to make a special Apple version or change their main content to be Apple-friendly, so Apple News does what it can to show what it can.

It's not ideal, but it's better than being reliant on Google.

Also, if you see an article that doesn't look right, there's an option to report that article to Apple. One of the options is "Content missing."
many farms are small businesses, and thus are closer to a B2C relationship than B2B.

But aside from equivalency, I posit that the general expectation of buying something is that you should be able to do what you lawfully want with it.
The "Hong Kong Policy Act Reports" from the US State Department can be found here if anyone is interested:

https://hk.usconsulate.gov/our-relationship/official-reports...

It's unclear why there's a gap from 2007-14 though.
Here it is: https://gist.github.com/connorjclark/549fa524a0b8fdc8bbb1b48...

I left some annotations in a comment. Hope it helps!
Maybe stupid question from an outsider: Does Biden really look like a bumbling old man, seen from the US? Is that just the Internet propaganda bubble? And if so, could he ever stand a chance? Is Trump so bad that this doesn't matter and he might be elected anyways?

Sorry if this looks like flamebait, politics is a problematic topic to talk about, especially if all one hears is internet rumours.
A person is the “head of site integrity” at Twitter
Replied to my comment with link.
The fact that it draws attention from other things (inasmuch as drawing attention to anything takes it away from everything else) doesn't make it any less problematic that China is clearly attempting to unilaterally change the agreement it signed that gave it control of HK.

To your point, China is very much a superpower, which is why it's so important to draw attention to their flagrant violation of international agreements.
This is a pretty good solution. For a small personal blog that you mostly write yourself it doesn't matter much if you lose a lot of traffic from Google (of course, if it's your livelihood this probably isn't a great solution), and if even one of your posts goes viral or becomes popular and people hear about it and start searching for it, Googles results suffer. It's as good a way as any for small individual blogs and websites to take a stand against Google.
I wouldn't be surprised if streaming to two different channels gives them some redundancy...
NATO and EU headquarters are located in Belgium....

But this will not work (at least for decades.) To get favors from US many will spill the beans. And that's not as bad as doing that to Russia or China. EU is made of countries with their own national interests
The gig economy is part of the larger sharing economy where assets that were traditionally viewed as fixed (e.g. cars, residences, labor) are now seen as variable based on the predictable and limited nature of consumption. Companies appreciate the flexibility of pairing ephemeral labor with ephemeral needs.

We're quickly seeing serverless in cloud computing and the equivalent in human capital is inevitable with unemployed and underemployed as well as a high minimum wage with an ever increasing inflation and cost of living. The unpredictable COVID-19 pandemic along with predictable spikes in demand (Black Friday) just accelerate this need.
When in human history has life for most not been stressful? If anything life for most today (even the young with kids, roommates or tiny apartments) is far less stressful than for most humans in history. There's a complete loss of perspective today.
Though they have similar names, GEICO and GE are unrelated businesses. The former is an acronymn for Government Employees Insurance Company, the latter stands for General Electric
> If you don't feel safe in your city, prepare yourself to leave.

Where do you expect people to go? If there is social unrest how will they buy gas to get there? What will they eat? How about shelter?

For reference, I grew up in remote Australia, I spent 2 years driving from Alaska to Argentina, I lived in the Yukon for 4 years (hunting, fishing, winter, etc.), and I spent 3 years driving around Africa.
I've seen my fair share of "it hit the fan" and survival type scenarios (people falling through ice into water at -35C, car crashes, etc.)
https://www.brookings.edu/blog/up-front/2018/12/04/how-the-g...

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/politics/7892788/Middle-cla...

Most recessions/economic downturns have the same story - Great Recession, 1980s, 2008, recent ones.
Writeback latency spikes and lack of data checksums is the main issue with ext4 and xfs.

Btrfs has the checksums, but is a toy.

To my knowledge, NILFS2 (by NTT) is still the best filesystem Linux has in mainline. And, ironically, practically nobody does use it.
Does this in practice restrict to connect workstations/humans with services - or is there support for allowing services to talk to services too?
Just to be absolutely clear, the United States is one (yes, unique) case that does protect all of the types of speech you listed here.
> This company is also in love with the H1-B program.

What ? That rings completely counter to everything I know about the aerospace field.

I spent my whole undergrad (Indian citizen) building planes and the big reason I left it was that no one in the airplane industry would hire engineers without security clearance. H1B engineers were legally impossible.

One of my aunts (US citizen) was a top level exec in GE Aviation, and she straight laughed in my face at the possibility of non-permanent residents / citizens getting jobs at any company deeply involved in defense. I have interviewed (2019) with Pratt and Whitney, and they too made it clear they won't apply for H1bs but they would apply for EB1 Green Cards...until which point (first 2-3 years) I would have to work on the small subset of non-defense projects. My friends who went to US top 10 universities for their masters in Aerospace literally returned to India because no one would hire them and another of my friend who was a scientist at ISRO (and more prestigious Indian defense programs he can't even state on his resume) hasn't gotten any call backs for job applications at Aerospace companies in the US because of being Indian. He has now pivoted to Applied Math as his graduate education.

As an Indian, I literally do not know a single person in the US with a job in the aeronautics industry. (Bar one that works at NASA-JPL in robotics and got his PR on hire, but he is literally one of the smartest and hardest working guy I know)

Now I understand that you aren't lying. But I would actually love to know more about the type of roles these H1Bs fulfill and how they get past these very real security issues.
ISS will be visible from Germany at 22:23 today, coming from north-west moving towards south-east and it will be followed by Crew Dragon and the Falcon 9 upper stage about 20 minutes later. It should pass almost straight over you in the south of Germany.
An earlier system was SLIFER (Shorted Location Indicator by Frequency of Electrical Resonance). It used the same idea of a coaxial cable progressively shorted by the blast wave. However, instead of using reflectometry, it used a resonant Colpitts oscillator whose frequency was 1/4 wavelength. So as the cable was crushed, the frequency increased. Plotting the frequency vs time showed the progression of the blast wave.

The oscillator itself was a small circuit board in the blast hole, while data was recorded in a separate trailer. To quote the paper: "In the event the recording facility must be located near surface zero, shock mitigation may be required to assure survival of equipment." The paper includes PCB layouts in case you want to make your own SLIFER system :-)

Thanks to kps for the SLIFER link: https://www.osti.gov/biblio/7352892
Yeah that 20% unemployment is a bit misleading - experienced tech people are still very much in demand.
This is by far my favorite: http://bash.org/?23396
Certainly, but shaming and shunning are interpreted by the human conscience as damage in very real ways. You're not wrong, but I think modern sensibility has such an adverse reaction to using shame as a deterrent that we refuse to call things out as shameful.

Sure, it only works if the people in question care about your opinion, but building consensus on what acts should be shunned only takes about a generation and a half. Segregation, dog fighting, the list is long. If we really think this is bad for society (and I do) then shrugging and talking about incentives isn't the way forward. Especially in the absence of a mechanic to actually change those incentives.
This really only matters for iOS builds, meanwhile I have users that can't upgrade to Catalina yet and I need Mojave/High Sierra environments to build and test against.
Something that I've found confusing in Rust: the fact that the return type of a function call seems to depend on how the returned value is used. This thread [0] has the following example, where the statements:

let v: Vec<u8> = b"3q2+7w==".iter().cloned().collect();

and

let v: HashSet<u8> = b"3q2+7w==".iter().cloned().collect();

are both valid, even though both statements have the same expression on the right hand side. In a language like Java you could assign a value to different types based on a sub-type / super-type relationship (Object foo = Arrays.asList(...)), but that's not the case here, nor is it the case that Vec<u8> and HashSet<u8> have the same layout in memory. Instead, according to the thread, the result from collect can be interpreted as any type that implements the FromIterator trait.

I don't know what the name for this sort of behavior is, and I haven't seen it in other languages. Perhaps it's just a property of Rust's trait system? Regardless, it feels intuitive to me - like the compiler is taking type information and using it to make implicit casts throughout the program.

Not a huge impediment - just something I found confusing that isn't related to the borrow checker.

[0] https://users.rust-lang.org/t/why-cant-the-compiler-the-type...
Interesting! I would say “la porte de derrière" and never heard "la porte en arrière". Can I ask where you’re from?
The docking is automated by default. The manual controls are only to be used in case the automated docking doesn't work.
I do not want to respond too harshly, but the question was whether it takes one to tango. And it does. Germany did not need Poland's permission to invade. All Germany needed is a moment it considered favorable. Everything else is an excuse used for public consumption ( and if you look at Iraq and Iran, the parallels become obvious ).

As for the aggressive actor part, I will leave it for now ( it does not add to conversation and since I am not a historian, I can't authoritatively say that comparatively speaking Poland was the nice guy on the block ).
The problem is, whatever tech we come up with, it'll need a "social protocol" (just as every cryptosystem needs a human element and it has to be factored in during security analysis). And right now you can just give your phone to Decorator Tim with his/her name prefilled and with no numbers, and Tim will likely just type their number. Yeey, success! Sure it would be easier to just wave your phone, show a "contact request" logo/hand-sign, but we're not there yet.

And exactly because bars are loud, but garden parties are too sunny that we would need a very generic/adaptive solution. Currently it's simply solved by raw human wetware processing power, ingenuity and foresight (eg. in case of business cards).

Yes, I think NFC is perfect for contacts, but it needs the social dance too. (Exactly because of the edge cases as in how do you easily accept/reject it if you can't see the screen?)
You need to work with a recruiter who specializes in these. They will be happy to have found you. DM me and I can tell you how to get noticed.
I'm well aware; it cannot possibly be worse than where Hong Kong will be, is all I'm considering. Besides, the Brexit brain drain might actually work in my favour... ;)

That said, I'm open to other options; for example, I really liked Berlin as a tourist, but need to research more on what it's like to actually live there.
We used to have such an API in the UK with Tesco, but that looks to have withered:
https://www.tescolabs.com/category/api/
Audio of Dragon comms: https://youtu.be/90X5NJleYJQ?t=152