skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>The canoes they used were not tacked, they were shunted, which made it much easier to said into the wind.

I googled "canoe shunted" and these were some links:

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

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

Interesting technique (shunting - need to read more about it), as is tacking. I remember first reading an explanation of how tacking works, i.e. of how ships and boats are able to sail (almost) towards the wind, in terms of two resolutions of forces (which I had just learned about somewhat recently in high school physics), one being of the wind against the sail (which is at an angle to the wind), and the other being of the movement of the boat at an angle against the keel, or something like that. If it had not been for the explanation of the two resolutions of forces and the result (enabling tacking), I would not have believed that a ship/boat can sail upwind (unless I had seen it).

Also, adding my 2c to the discussion about Polynesian navigators (I posted about this in an HN thread some months / years ago): the National Geographic magazine had done an extensive study years ago, in Polynesia and maybe Micronesia, about these ancient navigators and their methods, such as using the waves and patterns in the sea, swells, land, mirages, sky, clouds, birds, etc., to navigate and find their way between those islands separated by thousands of kilometers. They interviewed some of the surviving descendants of the ancient navigators, some of whom were themselves still navigators.

And related, the other point I had mentioned on HN (in a similar context) earlier, was the novel The Navigator, by Morris West, which is a great adventure story, involving threads talking about such ancient navigation practices, psychology in practice, social experimentation and other interesting stuff, all well woven together into the narrative by the author, who also wrote The Shoes of The Fisherman and a few other bestsellers.

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

Also:

Hōkūleʻa:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H%C5%8Dk%C5%ABle%CA%BBa

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polynesian_navigation
I am confused. When I read the article about the Lion Air crash, I thought one cause of the crash was that the pilots hadn't been properly trained in the manual override procedure that can deal with the problem with malfunctioning sensors.

I don't understand how a software update can override a completely manual override.
Many other places have similar laws, and even in the places that don't, the tech companies there typically do those things regardless of whether it's a legal requirement.
I wish it worked as intended. Here's a sample query I put:

https://wiby.me/?q=bag+of+word+model+matlab

See the results and decide.
> However, the current crop of big companies will still be the big tech companies in 2030 and 2040.

What’s the reasoning here? Rewinding to 1999, Microsoft is the only (then) big tech company still doing interesting things. Apple was mostly irrelevant and on the brink of collapse, Google was an academic curiousoty, and Facebook wouldn’t exist for another half decade. A lot will change in 20 years. I suppose Yahoo, Oracle, and IBM are still kicking and probably will for a long while, but they are hardly forerunners at this point.
Look at the video at the bottom of the page (say, at 27 seconds in) -- it is very clear that it has higher resolution than just which key you are touching.

It says there are 80 touch sensors, but presumably each sensor is like a mini track pad, not just an "on or off".
It’s interesting to observe that, if this is indeed caused by a failure in the stall prevention system (and I say “if” since it’s certainly too soon to draw conclusions), the media and discussion around it seems to gravitate towards disabling the system or avoiding the aircraft entirely.

But when we think forward to the inevitable autonomous vehicle accidents that will occur, the conversation turns to how many lives they’ll have saved, and how much safer they’ll be.

Is there a known psychological phenomenon for “negative hindsight, positive foresight” that I can go learn more about?
> The MAX 8 is very literally the 737 being given the 787 treatment.

Not even close. The MAX is as basic a re-engining of the 737 NG as possible. It was an explicit design goal to minimize differences, to the point where pilots don’t even need simulator work to be approved for the MAX. (This was the purpose of the MCAS system that doomed the Lion Air fight, to make the MAX handle as similar as possible to the NG even in almost-stall conditions).

And the 737 NG is itself a refresh of the late-60s 737. Much about the aircraft is unchanged since the 60s: the fuselage cross-section (slightly smaller than the late-80s A320), door arming/opening, lack of RAT, etc.

Much of the cockpit improvements since the 80s (integrated EICAS) are missing from even the MAX, and none of the 787 innovations (composite fuselage, bigger windows, no bleed air/all-electric) were even close to coming to the MAX.
Detroit, it provides a startup with a longer runway than nearly anyplace else.
The linked article just said the that 1/4 of the population drink water that doesn’t meet standards. So your first assertion is wrong.

> Our analysis showed that 82 percent of public schools in New York had one or more taps that exceeded the state’s lead action level

The above is just one example of what is going on.
Real talk: mere hours after posting this dumb joke, we went to Copa Vida in Pasadena, unknowingly during the SCALE 17X Linux Conference, and it _actually happened_ O__o
What I mean by "tech is not banking": Investment banking was playing with the money of their retail bank division. In some crazy years, you could have an unsupervised trader leveraging at 95% with money from the retail division. In that case, it was normal that politicians had to break the retail and investment.
I know I’m at the deepest pit in the heart of the like-button-coding monoculture here on HN, but if that’s really all you can come up with in support of living and working in california you need to step away from the blue light for a while.

weather, geographical features, culture.

or are we equating castro street to all of california?
OP here. Happy to answer any questions.
> That's how you kill people.

You also kill people by not giving them the medication they would want to get, or making it to expensive for it to exist. There is no "clean-hands" solution on this.

> here's a reason we have an FDA approvals process and it's not because the barbershop surgeons and snake oil salesmen were doing so well that big government needed to step in and ensure we didn't save so many.

Yes, the 1920's of medical licensing, restricting doctors supply, hospital grants etc. You can see how medical expenses became an issue right after that.
21st century will be defined by biology
You couldn't hear my motorcycle over the sound of your own engine idling, I guarantee it.

The problem is not motorcycles. The problem is people who think loud vehicles of any kind compensate for their shortcomings.
It's rule dependent.

In Conway's game of Life, known replicators are very large (gliders that destroy the original don't count as replicators) and randomly generating one of those would be take astronomical timescales. It's possible that there are smaller replicators.

In Highlife (slight rule variation) there is replicatior withing in 6×6 box. There are only 2^36 different states in 6x6 box. With random sampling it would take some time but would eventually emerge.
The engines are more powerful and further ahead of the wing on the MAX. This means that the plane may pitch up significantly (and potentially stall) if you apply a bunch of thrust. MCAS was designed to prevent this.

There was, IIRC, a similar incident in an 737 Classic (go around in England that achieved a dramatic nose up pitch IIRC — not the Tailwind incident) but I can't seem to find the entry on avhearld.
Okay, but if the small changes were disastrous, whats the guarantee that the big ones will not be?
Pilot here. I predict that airlines are going to soft ground the Max while this gets sorted out. They might not take them out of service completely, but would not surprise me a bit if they rely on other equipment where possible until this gets sorted out. Better to take a hit on increased fuel costs that risk the loss of an aircraft and all on board.
BTW "they" is a gender-neutral pronoun that has been used as a singular pronoun for over 600 years (longer than singular "you"), is less awkward than "he/she", and is inclusive of non-binary people.
I am American who has lived in tokyo, Los Angeles, Seoul, Singapore, New York, Paris, and San Francisco.

I can tell you you are wrong. Too long to go into it.
Well this is pretty much the model of most industries, and especially with energy, the oil gas and coal industries.

As for one person’s choice, I wish all my neighbors would make the same choice.
You might like the book 'Vaka Moana' if you haven't read it yet.
Why do you think trusting third parties is less secure than operating your own pki infrastructure?
Sorry about that, I edited it according.
My experience trying to update a package was similar.
I use Ubuntu so I had the extra friction of using their Launchpad service first, then being told to go-to the Debian lists instead.
“Summary of why Grammarly are predatory and you should avoid them”
Randomly initialized life quickly collapses into stable structures, most of the time. Modeling it as if it continually permuted randomly though possible states does not fit how it really tends to work in practice.
What does free will mean in this situation? It’s still your brain making the decision, whether it’s conscious or not.

It seems to me that if you have a materialist theory of consciousness that there have to be unconscious essentially mechanical processes underlying it. But as long as those processes are contained within the being making the decision, it seems to me that it should still be considered ‘free will’.

Now, perhaps there is some level of determination there that makes the traditional idea of free will hard to maintain, but I’m not sure we have to toss the concept out entirely.

I’ve always largely considered it a convenient fiction useful for legal and ethical discussions.

If you’re designing a legal system, I don’t think you care as much about the first causes of human action compared to whether the action was done by a particular human being without being forced to do it by some external actor.
It's not just about "low quality" bug reports. The entire system is baroque and messy to use even for experts. I've been using it for 2+ decades now.

As a maintainer, I frequently needed to change bug tickets. Tags, versions, dependencies, and other details. All need doing through the control@ email interface. Changes can take over half an hour to be processed and acknowledged. It's inefficient and tedious, and prone to error if there's a single typo. While I'm not a fan of web interfaces, bugzilla, JIRA, gitlab issues etc. are all a world more effective and efficient to use.

The Debian BTS does what it does well. However, the other systems all do a much better job. The Debian BTS is a couple of decades past its prime. Nowadays we don't need email interfaces to services like this, we have much simpler and more immediate ways to talk to services, which are even easier to script for non-interactive use.

Take a typical interaction. I need to respond to a ticket I didn't originally file or get CC'd on. With any other system, I'd log in, find the ticket, make a comment and any metadata changes, and press "submit". With the Debian BTS, I need to find the ticket, download the mbox mailbox by hand and open that in a mail client by hand, then find and reply to the relevant message(s) and make any other needed changes using the control interface. It takes much longer, and it wastes huge quantities of valuable time. It is not a pleasure to use.

I can not understate what a huge time sink it is to use the Debian BTS to work with dozens of tickets every day. It's an exercise in frustration.
But do they do those things because they must compete with the Californian companies that are required by law?
Your first anecdote was also captured in the opening scene of "Enemy at the Gates", a movie about the Battle of Stalingrad that became one of the turning points of the war.
Sure, it's a construct, but do you really want to throw responsibility over board? Why punish people if their choices are just consequences of weird electron configurations?
Microsoft's containerization strategy heavily depends on Docker (they've got a licensing deal so that Windows server can use Docker EE for free) they might well pay good money to by Docker
The procedure that pilots are taught to override auto trim was unchanged, but I think that previous auto trim systems could also be "out muscled" just by pulling back on the yoke without actually switching on the manual override. It's that second part that people are pointing out (though I will in turn point out that the pilots on the flight prior to 610 faced similar issued and used the manual override to respond to them).
Debian hasn't used mailing lists for reporting bugs since the 90s: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Debbugs
Good luck flying Southwest in Africa.
Show HN: The Jankest Autonomous Drone Built and Programmed from Scratch
I'd like to try it. I could imagine getting used to it quickly.

People seem to be confused as to whether the resolution is one unit per key, or if there is a grid on each key. Clearly, based on the video, it is much higher than one unit of resolution per key.
IIRC shunting meant that they could keep the outrigger down wind at all times, which is supposedly more efficient than sailing an outrigger canoe 'the wrong way' half the time.
I am in the "screw even bothering with leaf raking for anything but recreation" camp but I think that is essentially the longstanding state of progress when it comes to efficiency. It often pays off but not without costs and it shouldn't be done to extremes. We don't use x-rays to fit shoes anymore for instance.
I think its a good article, but I'm confused about the author's implication that the state government is consciously choosing to depend on income and capital gains tax revenues. California does depend on those taxes, but not by choice: Prop 13 made it basically impossible for property tax revenues to grow at the same rate as the economy.

I also agree with the other comments here that this author seems to think SF == Bay Area. Much of his comments about hippies and landlords conspiring make no sense in the rest of the bay, where it is actually relatively wealthy homeowners conspiring to prevent growth in order to ride the surge in home prices.
The Inner Life of a Sinking Ship (2018)
I tried it on a couple of sites I have with ~1k users using pretty heavily. I made $1.50 USD over a couple of months, and most complained that it was being blocked/giving security warnings when visiting the site.

Not that I am making much from ads either, but it just really wasn't worth it. Affiliate revenue, while small on a grand scheme, was much more effective .
Maybe, but if governments of the world decide to treat every Starship launch as a potential ICBM, wouldn't it be cheaper and easier to just deny landing rights entirely?

A sky full of friendly traffic makes the hostile traffic more difficult to spot, after all.
Bad reports can be closed with a message. But you can't do much about good reports which never got filed because the process was unnecessarily complicated.

There are tools like reportbug which already help to filter out inappropriate use by asking simple questions and doing basic checks. I'm sure that could be further improved to help triage and improve submissions.
The iPhone (or the "smartphone" in general)

It was both the sensor array: microphone, cameras, IMU, GPS, etc, and the paradigm change of everyone having a computer in their pocket that got me excited about software.
>>I’ve lived in the Midwest, on the Texas/Mexico border, and in New York, and when I moved to San Francisco I was surprised to see that anti-immigrant sentiment was quite socially-acceptable there

The author is not an immigrant as the word is commonly understood if he’s only lived in these places.
Ubuntu bug reporting is just as shitty. No reply for 6+ months was common for me. One time I even tracked down the issue, which was fixed upstream just one commit after the one they used for their package. Still no reaction, but about a year later they asked of the problem still persists with the current release. I didn't bother to reply and stopped reporting to either Ubuntu or Debian.
Athenz operators in this manner: https://github.com/yahoo/athenz/blob/master/README.md
Didn't IBM just buy Red Hat for $34 Billion? Can you imagine a future where Amazon acquires Docker to optimize it to run on AWS and perhaps perform a bit worse on GCP. Any small advantage you could get in the space would equate to large changes with as ubiquitous Docker is and as large as AWS is.
Your goal at college was to "challenge your masters"?

Why oh why wouldn't they want that kind of person around?

Challenge masters on your own time, or when they invite it. Otherwise they aren't there for your shenanigans.
Can websites please stop using these bright, loud colors to display text and html links? Its very hard for me to read this article!
California is fucked because normal people can’t afford to live here anymore. At least not in the Bay Area, LA, and San Diego.
In San Francisco a favorite pastime is to blame tech workers for “driving up rents” anyone who has taken economics knows prices don’t work that way. Prices go up when demand exceeds supply. We also are quite aware of WHY demand exceeds supply. 1) People keep coming here because we keep hiring, and 2) people who already live here block new housing construction. The objection we see in every community meeting is “we don’t want to change the character of our city”. I assure you, driving out your teachers, bus drivers, baristas and librarians is changing your city even worse. It leads to congestion, increased homelessness, loss of diversity. For every ten jobs we create we build two new houses. It’s not the people with new jobs that suffer.

Here’s the solution. A new state law saying if a city adds a job it also has to permit the construction of a unit of housing. Done.

I assure you if the City of Mountain View has to follow that rule, the muddy lot next to Google campus (currently zoned for hotel) would have a ten story apartment building in it next year. Why hasn’t it happened yet? Not allowed. Well who doesn’t allow it?
The city. Why won’t the city allow it? Residents don’t want new housing. Why don’t residents want new housing? A mistaken belief that blocking new housing will preserve their city. Blocking new housing will in fact destroy our communities.
We can get out of this mess, but we have to build our way out.
It's a bit of an odd ball, but I loved contributing to the GuixSD project.
I contributed multiple packages after learning Guile Scheme in a couple of days.
It's all about the exits.

You could never get an exit if you were based in Chicago or St. Louis or Montana, etc.
By the time I’m thinking about doing complex data validations in BASH, I would hope I’d be thinking about why I havent switched to a more appropriate programming language already.
There are surely many resources for sales theory. You can use these to inform yourself.

To get good, you’d need to practice and train your mental and emotional intelligence to the task.

Sales is a very human process and carries a lot of discomfort which you need to learn to work with.

Sell 10 things and you’ll get better. Sell a thousand things and you’ll get good. No shortcut.
All you need is to have a battery that takes less time to charge than discharge during normal usage. Then you have one charging from the truck or local mains power while you're using the other and whenever it runs down the other is charged and you can swap them.
>few-to-none signs of subversion

You could make it so you can view your vote and check it was registered the way intended. If you voted A and it came out B that would be a sign.
You don't understand this do you? When you've spent a ton of capital, have loans to pay, paying insurance, etc. You are not in a position to negotiate.

It doesn't make sense because we keep getting fed a simplistic view of "supply vs demand." That is a general trend, but not a rule.

If you know you have to work to keep your means of survival, you don't negotiate. We've seen salaries/bonuses/rates slowly go up, but there's always some other sucker who has to be able to pay their bills. Even if this means stuff getting to their destination later than usual.

A lot of truck businesses are owner operated, they simply don't have the means to say "no."
Yep Apparently the main problem seems to be the fact there is a single point of failure (a single AoA sensor) and it could be resolved by having multiple sensors. Not that some sort of new automation is occurring than before.
Author clearly has never lived anywhere but CA, perhaps ever left the bay area. Its interesting because alot of people that have never left have this same mindset, that Cali is this epicenter of all things good, and somehow the best overall place to live. How anyone could think this, not sure, unless they just have never lived anywhere else or are that uneducated as to the state of the government in California, or are filthy loaded. What I saw from my time living in San Diego was a culture highly consumed with itself, people stuck on eachother, crazy high cost of living, and insane taxes that hardly made it justifiable. It has a beach, and much like florida, if it didnt have one nobody would live there.
couldn't they just maintain a separate proxy indipendent of aws?
This is a motherfucking website – and it's fucking perfect
> The JVM still uses quite a bit of memory, sometimes 3-4x more memory than say Ruby or Python (which are also garbage-collected languages).

The JVM will use as much memory it is assigned. Different GCs are more liberal with memory usage, especially the ones tuned for throughput. Newer, latency tuned GCs (like G1) will commit unused memory back to the OS.

The performance of Java is nowhere near as Python and Ruby. Furthermore, Java is used in memory constrained systems like blu ray players and chip readers. So it depends on the JVM implementation and tuning.

> There is a reason that Android phones ship with several times more system RAM than iOS devices. - The JVM is gradually becoming only suitable for server development.

Android is not a JVM implementation, so you cannot make this claim.
Yep, we're already maintaining a quarterly warrant canary for this reason [0]. Still, this report will cover all the other cases that don't involve an NSL -- the vast majority of requests, I'd imagine.

[0] https://write.as/canary.txt
> My understanding is human body can filter out or otherwise deal with small amounts of metals

Your body certainly struggles to filter heavy metals. Studies have shown that any amount of e.g. lead is harmful.
I can barely read orange over blue text...
On to destroy Texas, Arizona and Florida!
> I don't use a water filter at home, and drink from the faucet, and I seem to still be alive.

A few years ago I tried out Brita water filters. The water tasted weird and a single glass of water didn't leave me feeling as hydrated as straight from the tap did.
Introduction to Memory Management (2018)
Why won’t twilio outbound calls work on internal servers?