skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There is no FAA requirement to maintain the old certificate. Boeing and it’s customers wanted to do that for cost savings.

It is supposedly costly in time and money to acquire a new rating but it has been done obviously.

The airlines wanted a single pool of interchangeable pilots flying in name interchangeable planes (their existing 737s and the 737 MAX). Supposedly one of the airlines threatened to take new business to Airbus and had penalties written into the contract to make the 737 MAX fly under the existing certificate.

So it wasn’t the old certificate driving these issues, it was Boeing and it’s customers wanting to maintain the old certificate that drove the issues. That is a very large difference.
Facebook figured out how to bring a Usenet flame war to the masses and profit from it, job well done!
On Feb 4th, Google said there were 20 million Youtube Premium users, and I believe the latest estimates put Youtube at 2 billion users, which would be a 1% subscription rate.
I favor splitting up tech companies (see my comment above).

The one counter-argument I do find interesting, however, is that YouTube BECAUSE of their monopoly status is able to throw far more resources into this than others sites do. We don't notice it on those other sites because (a) far fewer people are making a living there, and (b) they aren't targeted the way YouTube is targeted.

But that nevertheless, that monopoly is the only reason they are able to do as good a job as they do. And even if there was tons of competition and you lowered the stakes of getting booted, starting at zero followers on another site isn't exactly lowering the stakes to a point where it doesn't matter that you got the boot.

I still say split up tech companies. That said, so many industries have monopoly issues and rather than getting 90% of the attention tech companies should probably get more like 10%.
People I know who read the news were prepared in mid-February, but they're now extraordinarily neurotic. One of them won't allow visits from even his girlfriend and expects that American manufacturing will collapse within a few months; another doesn't plan to visit restaurants or stores until 2021. They're the ones who I most want to shake and say, hey, it won't hurt you to stop seeking out bad news.
I think a big part of the shift of interactions over the last 5 - 10 years is the communication platform (Facebook, in this case) bringing in new users who had zero experience debating in a text-only format. It’s probably inevitable, unless the platform tries to educate and heavily police new users on what proper behavior is.

Facebook was incentivized to grow as fast as possible. Comments and discussion was one of many vectors for growing; photos, news, and silly images was just as important. The quality of all that wasn’t as important as the content coming from people you know and trust.

Contrast that with a community like HN, where quality of comments and content is much more important, since you have little to no trust for almost all people submitting content.
Seems like there's two possible answers where this makes perfect sense:

- maybe many people who don't know what a shallot is would drop $80 for a Ramsay masterclass (kind of like how Gyms primarily profit from non-users).

- that many people who search for "what is a shallot" in fact do already know what a shallot is and are interested in gaining advanced/deeper information about the subject.
I kind of suck at reading but I can whip through a Dan Brown book fully entertained and not constantly struggling. But then I try some "real authors" as you would say and I have a bit of a hard time.

So which author is better? Not necessarily the one that is more difficult to read...
You aren’t missing anything, your setup would be more private.

There is a valid niche between no privacy and completely self hosted dns-over https, that a service like nextdns solves well. Just as Apple solves a by default more secure yet still not without flaws phone, or how using a vpn provider is a midpoint between a self hosted vpn and no vpn. I think the privacy trade off here is good for many.
> Seems like more entertainment than an actual masterclass which I would prefer

Teaching is hard. Just because you are an expert in a field doesn't mean you can teach it.

Probably the only one I would actually trust is the Gordon Ramsay one. He knows his stuff, and it's clear he can teach it.
I don't think that's quite the same. Apples are very obviously not computers, while MasterClass's offering is extremely similar to what a "masterclass" is, which leads me to read it as meaning "we offer a service that maps to what our name is".
So, that sounds consistent. Outside, the disease quit spreading. Because it was summer, and hot.
Surfboards catch waves, like sound waves?
We don't need to guess about Brave's approach, it is worse: https://practicaltypography.com/the-cowardice-of-brave.html
People often ask me how to deal with periods where one's motivation to work on a project vanishes (it happens to everyone now and then). What works for me is to say to myself "I'm just going to work one minute on it today." It's amazing how that works.

1. The project stays fresh in your mind, rather than winding up in the "garage" of your thoughts.

2. It's surprising how much you can get done one minute at a time.

3. Sometimes you discover that one minute had turned into a couple hours without thinking about it.

4. My motivation returns a lot quicker than if I just set things aside.
What still astounds me after 2 months of researching this space is that every day I learn about a new way people store what they write. The other day, I was talking with someone about how he stores what he writes in an Excel file. It's like Abraham Maslow said "if all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail".
what's the equivalent python? (must include async, and proper error handling over the async connections). I'll give you a break on the "not parallelizing if it's got datapath dependencies".
There is indeed the problem of discovery that Mastodon doesn't feel like addressing. Like, you pick a server, make an account and now what? There's no way to bring your existing social graph with you. Even if your friends are there, you won't ever find them without asking each and every one about their username@domain. But I have some ideas on fixing that for my fediverse project — like making a DHT out of instance servers, thus making global search possible while keeping the whole thing decentralized.
I don't know about YouTube, but I know for a fact some kinds of bans on Facebook can only be reversed if you have a friend inside Facebook that advocates for you and contacts the relevant team. Source: I know because I have such a friend, and only going through him and not through the official appeal channels got stuff unbanned (not mine: I was in turn advocating for friends. Not that it matters). The official channels are often so slow and ineffective -- and often inscrutable -- as to be useless.
Is that a limitation of series hybrids, or is that a consequence of the engine used in these specific models? The gasoline engine in the 2nd generation volt has 3x the power of the one in the i3 (75kW vs 25kW).
>"Do you know what they call alternative medicine that has been proven to work?...Medicine."

I don't like this quote. It is mostly true, yet it is not completely true. But because it is mostly true so many treat it as if it is completely true and thus miss the edge cases where it is not true.

Take for example certain substances that are deemed by the US federal government to have no medical value. They cannot be medicines. Yet they are alternative medicines and even prescribed by doctors. Their are even states who go against the federal government by saying these substances do have medical value. And if you go back a few decades, you'll find a time where mainstream science largely ignored any medical benefits of these substances, likely due to pressure from the federal government, and yet at that time those substances were alternative medicines that worked.
I'm 900Km away from the datacentre via a submarine fibre but the way routing is done it feels it is metadata surveillance.
Except for the long list of 'usual' issues. Allocation, regulation, duplicate IDs, spoofing, and on and on.
Seeing Brave’s ads and getting paid in cryptocurrency is opt-in, so nobody is being forced to do so.
The thing is that HN is essentially run like singapore - a benign-seeming authoritarian dictatorship that shuts down conflicts early and is also relatively small and self-contained. One thing that doesn't get measured in this analysis is the number of people who leave because they find that this gives rise to a somewhat toxic environment, as malign actors can make hurtful remarks but complaints about them are often suppressed. Of course, it tends to average out over time and people of opposite political persuasions may both feel their views are somewhat suppressed, but this largely reactive approach is easily gamed as long as its done patiently.
Fitbit for the Planet, like it
No, this does not work.

A forest is a carbon store. Burning trees puts carbon from this store to the atmosphere.

To count it as carbon neutral is an accounting mistake, that could be very costly...

Burn the dead leaves and you shrink humus (or annihilate it, depending on how much you do it), another huge carbon store. So that makes it yet another accounting mistake.

More generally, it is good practice to separate well atmospheric carbon (CO2) and captive carbone (anything in solid/liquid state). Just show that faithfully in the accounting method, and a lot of good will follow.
"Slow news day"
>advertising in all mass media is regulated to prevent outright lies from being spread

Advertising in mass media is regulated. You are very much allowed to publish claims that the government would characterize as outright lies, you just can't do it to sell a product.
I learned about the risk from individuals on twitter long before mass media took it seriously. A news channel is a pre curated collection of editors and reporters. I don't think many do a good job of it, due to my ideosyncracies and their incentives. I find it much better to curate my own channel from around the web ... like HN. Modern tech makes it easy.
> Trouble with these "disinformation" campaigns is that when your entire "news" is disinformation people don't trust it and learn to read between the lines. And the Soviet people were experts at that by then, so almost nobody believed this bullshit.

My understanding is that the the ultimate goal of disinformation isn't get get people to believe the lies, it's to politically neutralize them by making them cynical and mistrustful of everything, including the truth.
To put an even finer point on it:

- to indulge in syntax design

The author of this advice explicitly calls out syntax design as pointless. As if Java, Lisp, Python, Haskell are the end-all of syntax design. Haskell in particular is notorious for indulgent syntax design.

One thing I've noticed about my students (undergrads) is the first thing they are interested in playing with when it comes to language design is syntax. They have ideas about syntax they want to try out, and it gets them interested in parser design. Probably because it's the most tangible thing they have access to and experience with. When they try out their syntax ideas it opens up new pathways for them and they eventually move on to greener pastures.

But the idea that syntax is done and solved and there is no more room there for innovation is completely foreign to me. What about syntax in other (natural) languages? Languages written from left to right? Top to bottom? Languages with a non-roman character set? What about syntax with emojis? There are entire programming languages written with emojis now (https://esolangs.org/wiki/Emoji). Did the author of this consider them in 2006?
bring back rss feeds

then I choose what I read in my reader
I copy and pasted it for you, to save you a click.

Route 53 - Holy shit! It's NSD

WAF - Holy shit! It's modsecurity

SES - Holy shit! It's Postfix

Inspector - Holy shit! It's OSSEC

GuardDuty - Holy shit! It's Snort

Data Pipeline - Holy shit! It's Cron and Bash

Athena - Holy shit! It's Prestodb

Glue - Holy shit! It's Hive Metastore and Spark

OpsWorks - Holy shit! It's Chef

VPC - Holy shit! It's a VLAN

Snowball - Holy shit! It's a truck full of hard drives

CloudWatch - Holy shit! It's syslogd

Neptune - Holy shit! It's Neo4j

ElastiCache - Holy shit! It's Redis

DynamoDB - Holy shit! It's MongoDB

S3 Glacier - Holy shit! It's DVD backup

EFS - Holy shit! It's NFS

Elastic Block Store - Holy shit! It's a SAN

Elastic Beanstalk - Holy shit! It's Apache Tomcat

EMR - Holy shit! It's Apache Hadoop

Elastic Cloud Compute - Holy shit! It's a virtual machine

Kinesis - Holy shit! It's Apache Kafka

QuickSight - Holy shit! It's Tableau
For better or worse, one of the main drivers behind piling everything onto ports 80 and 443 is the silliness of corporate security theatre. If your product/service/idea communicates by any other port, regular employees most likely won't be able to use it, and you'll have harder time selling it, as dealing with IT is often too much of a hassle for the interested manager.
> f-droid is a horrible experience though IMO.

What are you installing to make it a bad user experience?

I don't have google services (no google account) at all, only use F-Droid and Aurora store and haven't any problems. Even convinced a friend to go the same route with minimal handholding and they aren't technically inclined - no problems.
That is how it is today. But does it have to be like that ? What is the minimum revenue per user required for service like FB to run.

While everyone is sceptical on whether such a service can reach critical mass to make financial sense, a brand new FB replacement may not be able to do it, However FB itself can certainly give that as an option without hurting their revenues substantially.

I was sceptical on the value prop for Youtube Premium, I am constantly surprised how many people pay for it, if google can afford to loose ad money with YT premium, I am sure FB can build a financial model around a freemium offering if they wanted to.
> I see a lot of people complaining about things like this, but I also see a lot of people complaining that YouTube/Twitter/etc aren't doing enough to take down false/immoral/illegal content quick enough.

Do you have an example?

These seem like inherently contradictory values. You can either make a safe platform or one that treats its tenants well. Like many of its products, google has not made it clear which set of customers they’re trying to please, pissing off both parties.
> making our own ads you can't block

I keep seeing this claim, but I don't think its true? The ads are opt-in
Nice work here. I personally found around 2-3 years of reading non-fiction extremely helpful in my personal growth. An "inflection point" some would say.

But in the last year, I've been struggling to pick up as many books. I posit that it might have to do with many of the books feel similar. It's almost like once you get the baseline level of information, it's more fruitful for you to go out and learn yourself. Or perhaps I just need to expand my mind and find a new set of books.
I have the source code for the entire Linux kernel as training data, so it's not an issue with quantity

Linux kernel is only ~30M LOC. That's a really small dataset. For comparison, the reddit based dataset for GPT-2 is 100 times larger. Try using all C code posted on Github.

decompile x64 assembly

You can't "decompile" assembly. Either you decompile machine code, or you disassemble assembly code. The latter is easier than the former, so if you're trying to decompile executables, then perhaps you should train two models: one to convert machine code to assembly, and the other to convert assembly to C. Assembly code produced by an optimizing compiler might differ significantly from assembly code which closely corresponds to C code.
Microsoft Teams apps for working remotely
Then what's the business model? Who pays for all of it?

I'm not defending a specific approach or solution, but just pointing out that at this point, FB is a huge entrenched business that makes a lot of money on the status quo, and so convincing them to change "for the better" is barking up the wrong tree until "for the better" means "more profitable".

Splitting the platform and curation means the platform needs a revenue stream. If the curator pays the platform, then all you're doing is shifting the conflict up a notch, not solving it.
Stop watching the news for entertainment. Start watching the news as a means of learning the truth. Change passive consumption to active consumption. Involve your critical thinking, discuss it more, understand opposing viewpoints, be really engaged in it. Even if you do the other things the author suggests, as long as you do it passively for entertainment, they would suffer from the same drawbacks.

As a by-product, you'd realize that you can only consume so much news in a day, and would automatically optimize for the best quality.
1) As far as I could find, he is only accused, with no actual evidence following
2) by people for whom having not just "informants", but people directly involved in oppression in their party means nothing.

So who is a bigger asshole? Accused without evidence, or someone for whom we have explicit documentation of "vigorously defending government against revolutionaries"?
I mean, come on:

> A report in the Moscow Times quoted KGB veteran Vasily Pchelintsev as saying that there was a natural gas pipeline explosion in 1982, but it was near Tobolsk on a pipeline connecting the Urengoy gas field to the city of Chelyabinsk, and it was caused by poor construction rather than sabotage; according to Pchelintsev's account, no one was killed in the explosion and the damage was repaired within one day.[2] Reed's account has also not been corroborated by intelligence agencies in the United States.[3]

From that page.
Do you work at Facebook? This is reprehensible.

In essence, Facebook is under fire for making
the world more divided. Many of its own experts
appeared to agree—and to believe Facebook could
mitigate many of the problems.
The company chose not to.

Unless you are actively pushing to change it from the inside, you should leave now. Take a reasonable amount of time to find a new job and leave.

Otherwise you're complicit.
I would guess the ratio isn't much below 1:1, which I don't find acceptable. If a friend told me shocking stories about my coworkers, and 50% of them or even 25% of them were wrong, I'd stop listening to her.

As I mentioned in another comment thread, I don't think the author objects (and I certainly don't object) to in-depth investigations of national or global issues. That's a vanishingly small portion of what the news as instantiated today does.
This is false. You have to explicitly find and enable ads on Brave. The vast majority of users probably have no idea that they can see ads.

Have you ever used Brave? Even once?
I think you guys actually agree more than you think --

You say "you cannot fully describe 1 student at table of three people as 1/3", which is true: What's missing is the unit (or dimension, I'm ignoring the difference here).

You can only add two things if they have the same units, as per "dimensional analysis" [1].

So this is an entirely meaningless statement:

[students]/[seats at table 1] + [students]/[seats at table 2]

But you can fix the units with some multiplication (because dimensions do form an Abelian group under multiplication):

([students]/[seats at table 1]) * ([seats at table 1]/[total seats]) + ([students]/[seats at table 2]) * ([seats at table 2]/[total seats])

Which simplifies to:

[students]/[total seats] + [students]/[total seats]

Now that's a statement with meaning!

Since I know that

[seats at table 1]/[total seats] = 1/2

[seats at table 2]/[total seats] = 1/2

I've just derived the calculation that I really wanted to do:

(1/3)(1/2) + (1/3)(1/2) = (2/6)

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dimensional_analysis#Dimension...
If you're Googling "what is a shallot," it means you don't know much about cooking and are trying to learn more. Seems like the perfect target market for an online cooking class.
(Edited) The frog was on the low-res developer device.

The much larger “8k” version introduced half way through https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-EA2FQXs4dw has some good tech detail, with the raw pixel mapping shown at 6:30. Calcs seem about right since raw pixel count was stated as 43 million, although it was implied elsewhere they split RGB sub pixels too (which sounds wrong I admit), so maybe 43 million divided by 15? Our eyes are more sensitive to luminance than colour, so maybe they did something there (however, not that I could see from the raw pixel mapping at 6:30).
Yes electricity is more easily transmitted than fuel. Compare: pipeline vs electric line.

And no I'm not speaking of Li-ion. Sorry but I was speaking about Li-metal, a still immature technology.

So that weakens my argument. On the other hand, that shows that the path to improvement is huge, and could why not surprise us by becoming better density than fuel.
> * to try and salvage their reputation

Really? They just recently ban Australia trades because Australia inquire about Covid19 origins.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/may/13/australia-chin...
Better to develop the sophistication to filter out garbage and focus on the significant. It would take a more in-depth treatment than this to disabuse me of the belief that keeping a close on the government and other powerful entities is a fundamental civic responsibility.
This is literally all they do

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hWLjYJ4BzvI
> It seems like the extortionists can keep sending claims until they stumble across a YouTube moderator who guesses wrong and clicks the "this claim was legit" button.

This is exactly what happens. At least, with Facebook. It's not that pranksters or trolls can flag your post/account/page and have it automatically blocked or banned; it's that eventually one of the human reviewers will make a mistake. I've seen it happen more than once and the only way to appeal was through back channels (i.e. via a friend working for Facebook).
The Kevin Spacey one is genuinely brilliant. They've taken it down, but older accounts like mine still have it.
> a lot of people enjoy building an archive. they're all forced to pirate almost everything.

Not just enjoy, many times you'd have to if you want to keep your citations and annotations. Otherwise it's the same type of fiascos over and over again

from last year: Microsoft's eBook store: When this closes, your books disappear too https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-47810367
So basically sort of like a monorepo.
> commonly used phrase 'trial by error'

It's actually "trial and error", although that doesn't speak any better for autocorrupt.
I've a feeling that I've encountered this before on HN, but it's a pleasure to revisit it. Consider, from the intro:

> The potential saboteur should discover what types of faulty decisions and non-cooperation are normally found in his kind of work and should then devise his sabotage so as to enlarge that "margin for error".

Also:

> Be pleasant to inefficient workers; give them undeserved promotions. Discriminate against efficient workers; complain unjustly about their work. When possible, refer all matters to committees for "further study and consideration". Attempt to make the committees as large and bureaucratic as possible.

For so long I thought that I'd been witnessing poor (middle) management. It seems that I had been observing deviously skilled saboteurs.

Excellent stuff.
> Do you have an example?

LMGTFY

https://www.google.com/search?q=youtube+%22not+doing+enough%...
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