skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I hope to build a household that the kids will consider staying without won't havinc to wait until a disaster strikes and 20 governors panic to find a way to avoid accountability by being "firm and comprehensive" rather than finding a balance.
I cannot speak for the other poster, but there are several levels where consistency is significantly better. The GUI is of course the most noticeable, especially as the “iOS-ification” of macOS continues. But for a developer, the methods you interact with are more consistent across platforms and apps. Porting an app between iOS and macOS can be as simple as changing a few method names and setting a new target in XCode. For the most part one can assume things like app bundle layouts and where files will be dropped on the system. Most of this consistency lies parallel to where Apple enforces it, which comes with its own downsides.

That consistency isn’t absolute though, rough spots like the boundary between Mach and the BSD components still exist.
Billionaireness is profoundly extractive by definition. Leave class out of it and billionaires inherently benefit themselves against any and every system they are in, and that's including other billionaires (they're exceedingly competitive).

That means that billionaires also act against the interests of the donor class as a matter of course. If they were not the very definition of unaccountable power, you wouldn't see anybody defending them or their typical behaviors.
Are there any experts here who have read the report? If so I have two questions.

1) How qualified are the congressional investigators to evaluate technical decisions in the MCAS design?

2)Second point: Notably, the article is quite vague about the actual mistakes that where made. Is there any specific bad decisions it notes that would be errors without the benefit of hindsight?
I hope we see a cultural shift toward recognizing that so-called "flyover country" is actually ripe for re-development and cultural renewal. There are tens of thousands of small towns and cities in the Midwest in which buying a house is still possible for the average middle-class person.

The main issue, of course, is the lack of jobs in the area, but with remote work growing, that might become less of an issue.
> Which makes it clear they mostly disagree about what the investigation results say about FAA, not Boeing business.

Yes, but for me, regulatory capture seems to be a central issue in what went wrong, so I am highly skeptical that this is not an ideologically-flavored conclusion.

FWIW, I first approached this incident (prior to the second crash) from the point of view that it was probably either pilot error and/or an unfortunate malfunction, so I think I can fairly say that I have come to my conclusions in a forwards direction.
After having tried Gnome and KDE, I switched back to XFCE last year, and I don't regret the decision.
Nix doesn't solve the problem of incompatible versions in one binary. Nix only solves the problem of finding compatible versions if they exist. Cabal hell is more than one problem.
Not really. Different communist states have had different goals at different times. For example, nobody here is proposing collectivized agriculture (collectivized compute programming?), or purges of people perceived to be members of the bourgeois class.
Sweden and Germany to be added to travel green list
> Rust is a replacement for c/c++

It is modern language with big-enough community and many features making it good backed language. It goes far beyond C/C++ niche.
I think the point is that the sustainability of preventing poverty and making someone self sufficient is nuanced and not just a simple transfer funds. It's such an improvement over the other donor -> recipient charity which _don't_ fix dependency that the anonymization and cheerfulness of the exchange doesn't even matter: fixing the core problem permanently is a higher goal by kind, not just degree.
The optomisit in me hopes that when the truth about climate change really dawns then the effort to battle it could cause a similar transfer of wealth to a post war rebuilding. Lets hope we can actually solve the problem though or it wont matter much.
Uber disabled the OEM (Volvo) auto-braking but not the Uber braking algorithms. IMO, that’s largely a red herring as they could have equally well chosen to base their platform on a car that didn’t originally have a factory auto-braking system.
Anonymous Peer Review: Truth or Trolling?
> and a third party tracking them solely for marketing reasons.

But in this case nobody is tracking anything. The author of the tool himself confirmed that.
>Characters talk past each other constantly.

Part of that is for brevity/interest sake I imagine
Anecdotally at least, all of my friends around my age (32) have by now managed to buy homes at very reasonable rates (<2.5% ish).

Meanwhile my parents are stuck with their much higher 10% boom years interest rate, even though the absolute amount was much lower initially.

Of course this is in Europe, not the states.
Well to be fair, the the prosecutors office is arguing that.

"Yavapai County Attorney Sheila Polk decided in March 2019 that Uber itself had not committed a crime in Herzberg's death."
Here's a simple heuristic for determining if a company has a monopoly: if they say that they have a monopoly, then they don't; if they say that they don't, then they do.

Original author unknown.
They were non-existent and when they did exist they didn't have a billion roads in funding to build everything out before launch.
The computer crimes he is charged with don’t depend on whether the suspect is a journalist or not. And really freedom of the speech and press also apply to everybody, not just journalists.

Edit: where am I wrong here?
I think it’s cultural. American society absolutely looks down on those that live with their parents as failures. If I were to guess, some parents might see their children asking to return home as a reflection on their ability as a parent to prepare for the “real world”, but that’s just my guess.
It depends. For any kind of Limited Liability Company, it cannot be done online, you need to see a notary. Costs and process differ depending on what exactly you want:

* Forming a full GmbH will cost around 1000-2000 EUR for lawyer,notary,tax accountant. You strictly speaking don't need lawyer nor tax accountant, but unless you are very familiar with the process, I'd recommend you enlist their services. It will make your life substantially easier. You will also need at least 12500 EUR in cash that will be the founding capital for the GmbH - you'll need to underwrite a security for another 12500 EUR for the rest of the founding capital or just pay a total of 25000 EUR for the founding capital. You can have the new company pay all fees from that founding capital. It's there to be used, you can pay yourself a (reasonable) wage from day one, if you choose to.

* Forming a UG is substantially cheaper: Founding capital is at least 1 EUR (though you should have more or you'll bankrupt the new company when it needs to send the first letter), there's form contracts that cover trivial cases (up to 3 shareholders, even distribution of shares, ...) and in the simple cases, all fees and notary costs should be in the low 3 digits. Keep in mind that moving money in to and out of limited liability companies is not trivial, so you should have sufficient founding capital to cover the initial expected expenses.

If you don't need the protection of a limited liability company, you can always opt for just freelance status - that's a simple registration at the tax office or, if you're multiple people, form a GbR (either by contract or implicitly, but I would really recommend a written contract). You can then register the business online.
Maybe the axis is not anonymity per se but the dignity preserved by the recipient. Anonymity is not the goal, it's a means to an end. And providing employment achieves that end even better than anonymity does.

In this light the lower levels also make sense, each progressive level allows the recipient to feel less guilty (the donor is not annoyed that they have to help, or doesn't even need to be asked, etc). The really interesting bit here is that the levels are not about how much the donor sacrifices but how good the recipient feels.
A majority? That's astounding. Unless unemployed, why don't millennials do what we did in our twenties, find two or three roommates and split the rent?
No that's exactly it.

Don't give fish. Give fishing rod, fishing right and fishing classes to people who need it.

Only morons think they are better off in society full of poor oppressed people. In a was a social net system is ultimate selfish move as it lowers crime increases productivity and so on. Instead of living in permanent danger akin to current Rep of South Africa.
For point 1 I don’t think it matters if they understand the technical design. As long as they understand the failures that led to a flawed design. Mostly likely the FAA trusting Boeing and a lot of managerial failures on Boeing due to management glossing over engineers and pilot feedback.
How often does an entity, when investigating itself, accurately and truthfully identify the issues the entity is facing? I have immense respect for the FAA and if any regulator could do it I would think the FAA would conduct a more honest self-investigation than most US regulators. But it’s still a pretty dubious proposition that people in Congress responsible for the agency’s oversight would defer to the judgment of the FAA in determining the agency’s accountability.

It’s ironically not unlike the regulatory landscape that led to the Boeing situation in the first place - the entity charged with oversight was much too deferential to those it was supposed to be overseeing.
Typo: "yow far will YOU get?"

(sorry)
I'm going through a distro hopping phase, so recently hopped to Fedora spins (am currently on KDE)...but had heard of regolith separately and really liked the idea. So i went to DistroTest[0] and took it for a spin, and it won me over. I still ant to finish my experiment with fedora spins, but right after, I'll be heading Regolith!

[0] https://distrotest.net/Regolith%20Linux/R1.1
You say mistake as if it were an intentional choice that turned out to be a bad one. I don't know my history of this subject very well, did policymakers really sit down and encourage homes to be treated as investment, leading them to become less affordable? Or were homes becoming less affordable just the natural consequence of having an expanding population and fixed supply of land? I'd always sort of assumed the latter.
Americans really love acronyms that spell out a word.

BASIC is a word, and it means Beginner's All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code.

I don't know why you think it's impossible to have an acronym spell a name?
I'm not sure if Windows 10's GUI is still a fluffy "it-just-works" GUI.

Windows 7 did make a lot of sense, but configuring Windows 10 has become confusing. You have two versions of the configuration tools, the legacy one and the new HTML-like one, and the latter seems to be almost unusable because of how it is structured. Not to mention that the HTML-variant doesn't work when you VNC into a laptop which has its lid closed and the attached monitor is turned off. Then it's not possible to scroll, because the pages are broken, as if the HTML-renderer is unable to obtain proper display metrics.
I've lived my 20s far away from home, and having moved back in in my 30s now, even if it took some time amd awkwardness, my parents understand I've grown and changed and they respect my need for space and intimacy.
What are the better tools?
Funny story--I am also a (recovering) Mathematica programmer! I'm not sure it's quite as good of a fit, for a few reasons.

One is that Mathematica's syntax is, in a lot of ways, already pretty C-like. It uses mutable assignment `x = y`, function-arglist syntax `Fun[arg1, arg2]` instead of a Lisp-style `(f arg1 arg2)`, commas for list separators (in Clojure, they're whitespace), braces `{a, b, c}` are a sequential construct, rather than a map, and semicolons `first ; second ; third` denote sequential expressions (in Clojure, ; is an end-of-line comment).

The second reason is that Mathematica, in my understanding, doesn't treat parentheses as first-class syntactic elements: they're used to control interpretation of the parse tree, but they transparently collapse, instead of being accessible as a reified type. (Are they? I know Mathematica is sort of an endless coal-mine of a language, and it's entirely possible I'm just not experienced enough to know about this!) If this constraint is true, I'm not sure how you would parse `func(arg1, arg2)` vs `func((arg1, arg2))`. Maybe it's inferrable from any symbol followed by a list, since `(arg1, arg2)` gives you a bounded context for the arglist, even if the parens disappear--and we can give up on having `(a,b)` for tuples or `()` as a unit syntax. It might also be inferrable from context, depending on what types of infix operators you allow, and how ; works as a separator. My license is long-since expired, so I can't test right now--perhaps you can give it a shot and show it off here!

I wound up cutting this from the post, but... the full version of this rewriter provides a Java-style OO syntax with property accessors and chainable method calls. A tricky thing in Mathematica might be disambiguating `obj.property` from `obj.method()`, if the `()` isn't reified. For that matter, what do you do about `fun` vs `fun()`...

One possible workaround might be to exploit (as I've done to hack around Clojure's insistence that "map keys be unique" and "maps have even numbers of elements") lesser-used Unicode codepoints, only this time, using alternatives for `(` and `)`, and to roll your own stack parser for arglist parsing... ideas, ideas. :)
Explaining, since you were downvoted without a proper reason:

While everything is possible, most exploits happen on buffer overflows on user-received custom data. and since this is not allocating any buffer to receive anything (besides internal connection structures that are filled by the OS), the attack/exploit surface on this one is really tiny, if existent at all.
Expert systems where the previous iterations of what NeuralNets or Decision trees do today. They where hyper focused/trained in a specific domain. At that time NN where only an academic amusement given computer power.

Goes on to show that after all these years, we havent progressed in generalisation of artificial intelligence.
How to train a machine to see 3-D in the dark
> But a single nuclear power plant has the potential for continent-wide devastation.

This is not true.

The space destroyed to make way for coal strip-mining in Germany alone, is larger than Tchernobyl exclusion zone.
It's not pessimism!

I guess it wasn't worded clearly, but I meant that it's the only hope for a less wasteful economy.

EDIT to add: In the short term! Right now the infrastructure is totally oil based, and consumerism relies on ecological destruction. But I am definitely not saying that we can't have a global zero carbon everything you want economy. But that is a question that I do not have the patience or information to ponder seriously!
> regulatory boom and bust

The root cause is pretty easy to describe: benefits are apparent and risks are hidden.

It's much harder for people to weigh things that might happen against things that will happen. Especially when the former is negative and latter is positive (positive outcome bias).

Consequently, in meeting after meeting, risk safeguards are erroded. Because each meeting has a relatively minor "Do we want this benefit, or to hedge this risk?" decision, and in aggregate, people pick the former.
Not Bell Labs specifically, but its parent company AT&T had a vertically integrated monopoly which gave them control over essentially all communications technology, and also virtually all telephone service, which it used to dictate (high) prices and constrain the growth of their competitors.

Now, the monopoly profits AT&T may have been worth it, because without them, AT&T would not have funded Bell Labs creating among other things C, Unix, the transistor, the laser, and photovoltaic solar cells.

I will just note that if you want to measure it was worth it, consider what the GNU in GNU Linux is commonly held to stand for.
There's a great three-part discussion of Dune, and Dune II here:

https://www.filfre.net/2018/11/controlling-the-spice-part-1-...

Click "next" to move forward to the following-parts.
I'm a fan of the TempleOS approach: divine dithering. Because TempleOS only supports 16 colors (as God literally intended), other colors are dithered a different random way each frame, yielding a dynamic "snow" like effect, but otherwise good results. Presumably, Terry used the same RNG that allows God to talk to him through his OS; hence, God is dithering the images.
Is refinancing not a thing in Europe?
Stripe Is Offering $20k Bonus to Employees Who Relocate
Not trying to be snarky. Honest question: Why use C11 over C99? Or even why use C99 over C89? What significant advantages do the new standards provide that cannot be done in plain old C89?
Google News seems to get fixated on some things. For a long time, it was recommending to me an endless stream of videos and stories about Dave Grohl, including stuff from low quality celebrity rumor sites.

I didn't even know who Dave Grohl was.

It turns out he was the drummer for Nirvana, and the founder of the Foo Fighters. I've heard of both bands, but have never purposefully listened to either of them.

As far as I can figure out, someone I know posted on Facebook a video of Grohl bringing a kid from the audience on stage to play guitar [1]

I watched it, and Google apparently decided from that single viewing of one video that for the next several weeks Grohl was the most important topic in the world to me.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rhUgNciW2fs
I would actually have expected more to such a topic. Science was often brought forward not by consensus of available theories and instead by people that went beyond established knowledge. The reference to vaccines, evolution and climate change can induce instant coma by now, even if you agree with the author, which isn't that unlikely.

Falsification is about the futility of elevating an idea to general truth if it cannot be tested. It is not about giving up a thought by the first sign of a contradiction. I am not sure how a contradiction manifests for gravity in the periapsis of Merkur or the Moon, but it is probably solved by today or the exception proves the rule.

We don't need to abandon anything if it wasn't correctly parsed in the first place.
No they haven't. They just won't make special provision for them.

Is there any recognition in UK law for this role?

Can they not watch the same feed as the media?
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Quoting Craig Murray TFA:

"The Washington Post, the New York Times, and all the “great liberal media” of the USA are not in court to hear it and do not report it... Are they really so stupid as not to understand that they are next?

Err, yes."

NYT editorial defends the establishment. They are neither left nor right, liberal nor conservative. NYT is the status quo. Exactly and precisely, nothing more and nothing less.

As Murray notes, you'd think their own instinct for self preservation would motivate them to care about US Govt applying the Espionage Act towards the journalists.

But that's not what the NYT does.

I don't know anything about WP, so can't comment.

I'm totally fine with there being a "paper of record". I just wish people who should know better understood the role NYT plays.
Bear in mind that the purpose of dialogue on television or on screen is to communicate to the viewer, not to accurately simulate communication between characters. That's why characters often tell one another things they logically should already know in universe.

And yes, dialogue is written to sound cool because it's supposed to be entertaining. Most real-life conversations are not that engaging.
God I wish at least 5% of people I see mentioning communism or socialism could properly define either of those terms.
Flu and pneumonia have contributed to more deaths than Covid since June
Exactly. All these software companies could probably make their apps run on Linux at a minimal development cost. They just don't want to. Microsoft because they want people to use Windows, Adobe for whatever reason.
Depends. When I stay with my parents I somehow forget that I can do the dishes and washing myself. I very deliberately have to remind myself.
I don't see what this will do that kvm can't already do? Seems like a wasted effort.
The manufacturer of the Stirling engine for those submarines, Kokums, is the source of the engines used for a dish-Stirling solar energy system I worked on for a licensee of Stirling Energy Systems[1]. It was a concentrating solar energy system consisting of a parabolic mirror focusing sunlight onto a heater head atop the Stirling engine. Quite efficient at around 30% conversion of direct sunlight to electricity - each unit generated about 25kW under clear skies. Quite a simple system - just a big mirror, sun tracker, Stirling engine and generator. Super reliable - no nasty combustion products. And not very expensive - BOM cost about the same as a mid-size car. But dropping PV prices ended up killing it.

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stirling_Energy_Systems
With virtio-fs I think this is becoming more doable. Of course, it's not quite as fast as running a guest filesystem on virtio-blk yet, but maybe it'll get there.
I also enjoyed Robert Elliott Smith's Rage Inside the Machine (https://www.rageinsidethemachine.com/) which is in a similar vein.
"Major, years-long recessions"? In the lives of anyone 25 and under, there have been three recessions, the current 7-month recession, the 2008 recession which lasted 18-months, and the 2001 recession which lasted 8-months. Recessions in the US almost never last more than a year. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_recessions_in_the_Unit...
Because everyone wants their preferred set of tools/languages to do it using the design patterns they like and there is nothing wrong with that. I don't see myself using Beeware ever really but that doesn't mean people shouldn't work on it.
I started as a trainee broadcast engineer in London on £17,800 a year in 2003. This left me with £1,082 a month (back then student loan payments were far higher than now). Rent for a tiny bedsit with a shared bathroom was £520 a month, 2 mile walk from work. I could live further out, but commuting costs outweighed any savings.

That's the equivalent of £828 a month now. Bills were included.

You can actually pick up a studio flat for £737 in the same area, which actually looks better - it's about 60 square feet which I think it a little smaller than the one I had, but it has it's own toilet. Council tax is on top of that at £45 a month, but still fits in the budget, just.

Assuming the same 50% of take home wage in rent, or a net wage of £1500pcm, would be about £21k/year

My £17800 salary in 2003 would be £28,300 today, or net of £1900pcm, so could afford (on the same ratio) £910 a month, which gives you a fair amount of choice at the moment in W14 according to rightmove.

I'm surprised as I felt renting was far harder now than 20 years ago, but seems it might be slightly better. Of course rents on tiny studios are presumably depressed because of covid19, I'm not sure what they were this time last year.
Sky Drone Data Centers Cover the Globe for Unlimited Range Bvlos Flights
And wanted to prove his own point.
This source code seems tiny - just ~300 lines. What features of c11 do you think would be useful to use there?
Reading this, I wonder how hard it would be to write or generate assembly bindings for libraries like rocksdb and sqlite, and whether you'd be able to do any better than cgo.
This was an amazing watch. Thank you very much for the link.
That was 25 years ago.