skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Speaking as an engineer, we, sometimes, underestimate the relevance of a relatively minor system. We can't imagine all possible scenarios and that's why in every single decision with systems that are responsible for human lives there is a lot of people involved - because we rely on someone, at some point, imagining the scenario everyone else didn't. This reduces the odds of letting something important slip through, but it's not perfect and can't hope to be (and, sometimes, we have the grim reminders we aren't all-knowing)

We should not rush to conclusions, since one of the investigations is in its infancy, but, from all the pilot reports that have been accumulating since the introduction of these models, it looks like the impact of the differences between models in the 737 family on crews were underestimated and training for them was not as thorough as it should have been.
Smartphone sales in China continue to decline
What raid system are you using to allow for adding arbitrary drives?
Thanks, but this doesn't answer the question on whether or not the four years start right after "graduation" or when I start my first job. So can I reduce my tuition by slacking around for a couple years?
I just tested and no, it seems not possible yet.
Robert Hughes' The Shock of the New and The New Shock of the New

Adam Curtis' All Watched Over by Machines of Loving Grace

An old documentary on plastic pollution and its possible effects on the endocrine system which I can't remember the name of. I believe it was produced by the BBC and was made before the recent wave of concern over plastic.
Can't the MCAS simply be disabled until further investigation takes place?
Well, speaking very broadly, I was referring to setting a clear definition of done, setting deadlines and getting your project out there to beta readers/testers.
Both writing and building products can be over-developed. At least, that's how I see it.
Suppose there was a bizarro Earth that shared our orbit. Let’s also “ignore” any effect of it on us, gravitationally. I.e. it’s just a point. Now if bizzaro Earth is on the opposite side of the Sun, it’s 2 au’s away. If it’s on top of us, it’s zero. To make things fair, let’s take an ensemble average of bizarro earths over our entire orbit. So Mercury is closer to Earth than Earth is, if you’re gonna be “fair” about it.
Near Addis Ababa, Ethiopia — At least eight of the victims of the Ethiopian Airlines crash were confirmed Tuesday to have been Americans, including Melvin and Bennett Riffel from Redding, California.

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/ethiopian-airlines-crash-victim...
I really appreciate you taking the time to reply. Thanks!

Yeah my original plan was to use B2 as storage and build my own caching system on Hetzner dedicated machines, as you suggested. Excess traffic was very reasonably priced at Hetzner at 1€ per TB. Since October 4, 2018 they've made traffic completely free. [1] However it's the B2 traffic pricing that was bugging me, as they charge $10 per TB.

When the Bandwidth Alliance got announced between Cloudflare & B2 to make B2 traffic free, it was like a dream come true. Especially because at the time this was announced the Cloudflare terms allowed for caching all legal files.

Unfortunately on October 26, 2018 Cloudflare changed their terms again to prohibit non-html caching. [2]

Thanks to your comments here and also jgrahamc saying that forcing to upgrade shouldn't happen anymore, I'm now a bit more optimistic again about using Cloudflare. I need to research & think some more to decide the exact plan, but even something like using Cloudflare to tunnel data from B2 to Hetzner for free sounds pretty nice.

--

[1] https://www.hetzner.com/news/traffic-limit/

[2] Use of the Service for the storage or caching of video (unless purchased separately as a Paid Service) or a disproportionate percentage of pictures, audio files, or other non-HTML content, is prohibited. https://www.cloudflare.com/terms/
Biased blogpost looking for evidence to support his main idea. Basically arguing over the definition is losing the point, which this article is doing?
Google is not using kubernetes internally but it's predecessor "borg".
Kubernetes was build from scratch with the same idea, but not used internally.

https://www.quora.com/How-are-Borg-and-Kubernetes-different
For sure! I haven't had burnout with startups, but I've definitely had it with writing.
IE6 era's Microsoft had an interest in the web stagnating, while Google doesn't. If anything, they used their position to push forward new things that others wanted to slow down.
>For most of its length, the Amazon isn't anywhere close to too wide to bridge—in the dry season. But during the rainy season, the river rises thirty feet, and crossings that were once three miles wide can balloon to thirty miles in a matter of weeks. The soft sediment that makes up the river bank is constantly eroding, and the river is often full of debris, including floating vegetation islands called matupás, which can measure up to 10 square acres. It's a civil engineer's worst nightmare.

Isn't this the predominance of what the ACE (Army Corps of Engineers) deals with when it comes to the Mississippi River[0]?

[0] - https://www.tulane.edu/~bfleury/envirobio/enviroweb/FloodCon...
[The Trump FAA are clueless political hacks, not professional safety experts and airmen.]

Surely you have the FAA employee turnover % numbers available since Trump took office?
- Pivot Tables

- Reach goal.

- Simple curve fitting

- Drawing charts in general (even with matplotlib categorical bat charts are a world of pain and then they tell you to learn Altair or something.

- Tables with conditional formatting

- ...
Besides the comment I left... I've seen successful ARP poison attempts and lots of junk broadcast traffic (people running PLEX) on Online.
None of what you say corresponds to what I said.

"Chrome being a monopoly is bad because X" and I say there are lots of issue with only Chrome remaining but not X, it doesn't apply to Chrome. You answer by saying "but there is Y, and W, and Z, and ..." which is basically my point: no need to focus on what is not the issue.
What not to do when interviewing potential users for your startup or project
To be frank, I do the same with the GNU Octave CLI, which is IMO much more suited to evaluating mathematical expressions, and very short programs. Out-of the box, that is.

The right answer is probably to use the right tool for the job, be it xcas, octave or python. Microsoft's calculator is probably better suited for unit conversion, for instance, although units(1) would be a contender :)
Attention and the Moral Life (2016)
I applaud the dedication if this really is just for personal infrastructure.
P2P - no obvious benefit, as neither Gitlab nor Github censor

Programmable - like all others

CLI first - collaborating on anything graphical is less pleasant

Great to hear that it exists, but what is the point?
There was a project, mango [0], that was very similar to this. In addition to using IPFS for storage, it used ethereum for things like permissions control. Unfortunately it hasn't been updated in a while, but perhaps this will bring some attention to it?

[0] - https://github.com/axic/mango
I was so surprised when I received a signed email by Postfinance, my bank here in Switzerland.

I really think it would be very beneficial if all major providers would start to use that. At first not many people would check the signature, but if then this takes momentum probably all major email provider will start to show an icon telling that the email is signed and verified.
Just like Gmail shows when an email was received through a secure channel (TLS).
SPF is in general unusable because there are sufficient domains of sufficiently high value that don't have properly configured SPF records.

Source: spent years maintaining a broken or missing SPF whitelist..
I think if Gmail decided to implement email signing today as a prominent feature where they show a big warning for all non-signed emails the user demand for it would happen pretty quick e.g.

WARNING: You cannot trust this email was sent from who it
says it's from, the email have been modified in transit,
and the email may have been read by hackers in transit

Similar to how Chrome started showing non-HTTPS sites as "Not secure".
Not only validate it matches reality when the plane is introduced, but continuously validating it via crew reports. This feedback needs to be a closed loop.

If a plane surprises an adequately trained crew, then it means someone missed something.
We need to drop Chrome and start using Firefox exactly because of that.
Pop Culture Dystopia, Part Two
Gitlab offers free private docker registry with your non-commercial projects and it's fairly easy to build and deploy containers using their CI when hosting the Dockerfiles there.
Actually it is good for an average user who doesn't care about privacy.
Here's a market strategy: write off-shots of your long novels as teasers. Make them tasty (as their primary reason is to give the readers a taste for the main piece), make them as close in style as possible to the main work, although you may focus on different aspects in each of them, and lastly - make them convergent (towards something that "happens" to be missing). Let's say shorter stories around some independent characters which at some point get in contact with one main work character somewhere at the end of the novel. Make that interaction stand out and the main work character larger than life in some way. The shorter novels should be easier to push onto market, maybe even independently, and should provide the necessary ground for rolling out the main work. Heck, that should be THE publishers' advice for first-time writers out there.
DAOC, but without all the suck, has been incorporated into a newish freeshard; playphoenix.online. It has a healthy population (2-3k pretty steady), and has eliminated most of the grind, but retains PvE funtimes.
What I'm saying is, that "we have a choice" is a void argument if you have just been presented with a solid case that one choice is clearly better than the other.
Google's Approval of $135M Payout to Execs Sparks Fresh Employee Backlash
Anti-VR
Cute way of getting out of having to own the fact that you’re an asshole.
> If it is so easy and quick to teach people how to use git, then why aren't colleges doing it!??!

Some of them actually do.
In regular mail there are multiple clues of the sender's identity besides the literal content of the message: paper, graphics, handwriting (or typeface), signature, etc.
>As mentioned earlier in the article, the latency reduction is huge.

Well, on macOS offline voice recognition is actually much slower than online. Not to mention the choice of words and Vocab is quite limited. I love to get an offline version, but so far every online version seems to be better.
This is long overdue. I really hope this leads to something.

The anticompetitive behaviour described on that website is just the tip of the iceberg. Apple is doing a lot worse behind the scenes. Cellular service on Apple Watch for example - as a carrier you can't just provide service for the Watch - you have to be an "approved" carrier and this means being friends with Apple and selling iPhones among other things (you only provide SIM-only plans and not interested in selling phones? Tough luck.). Same for visual voicemail, etc.
I would agree with that feedback. The actual visualization is one of the coolest things I've seen in a while, and it makes the UI's slightly less-than-cool design really stand out.
How to Get Your First Web Dev Job with No Experience
All aviation accidents are reportable in most civilised countries, and the reports will be public. For an airliner (which these are) they'll invariably make the news. For little prop planes in GA nobody cares unless someone died.

Take an example from Ireland, an island near me. A crew screwed up and typed the wrong temperature into the computer, which calculated take-off thrust based on higher density air than was reality. As a result they had inadequate acceleration and smashed a runway light with their wheels because they took off far too late. Nobody died, nobody even needed a band aid, but that's a reportable accident and made minor headlines... even though it happened in another country miles away.

As your parent indicated, the US further has ASRS, so that not only accidents, but incidents short of an accident (situations in which something went wrong, but fortunately it did not cause an actual accident), are reported. These are anonymised to protect the reporter but you can see (anonymous) reports by aircraft type in a public system.
Tried it once or twice. But using VS Code (with Git lens extension) predominantly these days. Couldn't find anything VS Code can't do that Sublime can.
The Incremental Diff feature is awesome. IntelliJ IDEA has this feature by default, and I find it really useful.
And one more thing - 2, 3 and most exciting 4 works on Android too.
why shouldn't they have used C++

I didn't say they shouldn't, I just thought it was interesting to see.
Because going from "unbreakable in 12 billion years" to "unbreakable in 3 billion years" isn't a practical reduction in security
It's not a case of not understanding, it's a case of not believing. If you're talking to a lay person that trusts you, they may raise such an objection, but they'll believe you once you reply "that can be, and often is, faked".

Belief is a thorny issue when trying to communicate to the masses, though.
I didn't say anything about Rust, in fact I have never used it.
It's worth noting that this particular plane was new. So 'poor maintenance' is not likely.

I don't think anyone serious literally thinks that 'Boeing built a POS that fell out of the sky', but there are indications that they built a plane that required substantially different handling and tried to abstract that fact via the onboard systems, which makes the pilots unable to handle the actual behavior of the plane when the systems were off for whatever reason, which to me does sound like a pretty big 'oversight' on the part of Boeing.

Now, perhaps the pilots could have handled the situation better, but it does seem like the FAA is trying to protect Boeing, (an American company with enormous lobbying power) and Boeing is sort of positioning this as "3rd world pilots" being at fault, the FAA potentially risking American lives here.

That does not look good to me whatever the cause is, (there's unlikely to be a single one and Boeing is unlikely to be completely clean here).
That state is called “using ublock”.
Judging by the downvotes it's more like the C++ Evangelism Strike Force.
Brisbane too - Google Photos would sync about the time you wrote this comment.
There certainly seems to be a regrettable attempt to diminish the differences between this model and its predecessors in that case. With regard to the MCAS specifically, once the cause of the Lion Air crash was determined, the FAA issued a new Airworthiness Directive [1], and I would be surprised if this information was not sent to all operators globally.

For obvious reasons, pilots tend to take a keen interest in matters of aviation safety, so I wonder if this was not simply a repeat of the Lion Air crash (which, as I said elsewhere, might be even worse news for Boeing.)

[1] https://rgl.faa.gov/Regulatory_and_Guidance_Library/rgad.nsf...
I have friends that worked in admissions office of a state university. Normally, admissions rate will be high for in-state students because college-prep would have started long before application time. And through local alumni, teachers, and counselors students will have a good idea which state schools they’ll be accepted into. But out of state and international admissions is completely different. When state budget cuts roll down that admission rate jumps from 10-15% to 25% and up. And if you can pay full freight that rate jumps to 100%.

When I found that out I was less shocked than I thought I would be. It just confirmed thoughts that I observed but failed to see.
Leo from Buffer about Emotional Resilience
This reminds me of a Romanian joke about the national car maker, going something like this:

Some reporter is wondering around the international car expo, discussing with various car makers. Mercedes tells him "our car is the most air-tight ever produced. It scored 24 on the cat test!" The reporter wonders - "cat test? what is that?" ""Oh, it's a novel test! We put the cat in the car, closed all of the windows and doors, and 24 hours later it drew its last breath".

Impressed, the reporter moves on to Ferrari. They tell him the same story - most airtight car ever made! He asks them knowingly - "How did the cat test go?" to which they proudly reply - "Oh, very well, very well! We put the cat in the car, closed all of the windows and doors, 12 hours later the poor thing was dead".

Next he wonders to the Renault-Dacia stand. They also tell him about the air-tightness of their car, again he asks how the cat test went. The Dacia representative beams: "Oh, wonderful! We put the cat in the car, closed all of the windows and doors, and wherever its head poked out, we quickly plastered over".
Having Firefox and Chrome installed is still less than the bunch of Electron based apps that are so beloved on HN.
https://lambdaschool.com/eu/

And the EU and U.K. Other countries coming soon, Canada in ~two weeks.
You can use the Command Palette to rename and move files.
At least in this particular instance... how is it Boeing and aviation authority's faults that pilots are given an hour's notification they'll be flying a new model of plane?

That would seem to fall directly on the operator / carrier.

Boeing takes responsibility if the training manuals were not comprehensive. Aviation authorities take responsibility if they under-mandated training. But ultimately neither know a given carrier's scheduling and pilot allocation.
I consider someone doing okay if he/she is not having one of the following issues.

(a) He/She lost someone close or someone you love has a life-threatening disease. He/She most likely is having a tough time comprehending life/death or the futility of aspiring to be like someone else. Life changes in a moment and everything that was important thus far becomes insignificant.

(b) He/She has a tooth ache. You'll agree that when someone has a tooth ache, nothing else matters

I'm sure there are other examples that portray my point.
But I think the root cause of this feeling of appearing "incomplete" or "not enough" to yourself is that we as humans tend to unnecessarily compare ourselves with others. I'm not saying you shouldn't have goals to achieve, but just that those goals shouldn't have origins in somebody else's seemingly successful life.

Any small success you achieve on a day-to-day basis should be celebrated. And believe me, a string of such small kinds of successes will make you contented.
Superbooks
Those who do not understand Emacs are condemned to reinvent it, poorly. On a more serious note I could never understand why a closed source editor gained any traction among developers, especially when it lacks many, many features other more mature editors have had for years. Any Sublime users here that could provide their reasons for sticking with it?
‘The Left Hand of Darkness' at Fifty
Love it. Next step.
Even if Boeing didn't change anything in the UIs, different models have different features and pilots need to know these differences before the airline can say they can safely fly a given plane.
I came here to see if anyone was talking about this specific issue and I found your comment (downvoted of course).

Source: https://www.reuters.com/article/ethiopia-airlines-trump/trum...

Some background: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-ethiopia-airlines-trump/t...
"Rates for PLUS loans, which are for graduate students and parents, rose to 7.60%" [1]

7.6% interest for 5 years on a $30k loan is $43,269.57.

However that is:
- a government loan where default rates don't directly drive the interest rates
- effectively subsidized by the govt

In your situation you must have much higher costs of capital from capital markets than the government's t-bill rates of 2.5% [2]. Especially given that your product is effectively equivalent to a unsecured loan in the eyes of wall street.

Then compound that some percentage of students don't make the $50k income requirement in the first year or two after the program and others who are even further delayed. We can equate this to a traditional default rate except the are no negative consequences to your student for delaying (in comparison to traditional default which hurts their credit), all the while your cost of that original capital keeps growing.

Given that your upper bound repayment is 50k and most students won't make more then $100k their first couple years out, then that is an effective interest rate of 11% if the 50k is paid over 5 years.

All in, you guys have a tricky problem. That is unless you can get as good as Sofi at picking which people to finance, i.e. Those that will immediately many >100k and with a quicky increasing salary. But Sofi has it easier bc they just cherrypick all the Stanford MBA grads who already have high paying jobs and first refinance their Debt. You on the other hand have to forecast accurately who will be successful.

Total capital cost isn't that much though. 1k students at $30k is $30M. You can easily raise VC to cover that (actually already raised $48m [3]) and don't need traditional capital markets / wall street to prove the idea. Only when you begin to have 20k+ students would you need traditional debt facilities. Thus, isn't your cost of capital just giving the VC ownership in the company instead of a repayment cost of capital (for now at least)?

[1] https://www.nerdwallet.com/blog/loans/student-loans/student-...

[2] https://www.treasury.gov/resource-center/data-chart-center/i...

[3] https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/lambda-school
In general, maybe, but they take accessibility concerns very seriously in my experience.
Bennu, target of Nasa's sample return mission, is rotating faster over time
> 'Food security' is a national strategic concern.

As I mentioned in the post you replied to, that has nothing to do with family farms. It has to do with farms in general.
Could I ask you something, or maybe on Steam?
I really enjoyed reading this. I like Stross' nonfiction work and wasn't aware that he wrote sci-fi, which I will now have to check out.

A couple things to add, as a writer and publisher:

* There are all kinds of tools to help writers get going. I have twice used NaNoWriMo (https://www.nanowrimo.org) to force myself to get fiction and nonfiction ideas from outline to rough draft. I also found the writing program Scrivener (https://www.literatureandlatte.com/scrivener/overview) to be very good for organizing fiction chapters, characters, spinoff short stories, etc.

* Short science fiction is unsurprisingly far easier to write but difficult to find a market for. The remaining publications and anthologies are swamped with quality submissions, and no one goes to Amazon to buy short stories. Some people publish to Wattpad or their own blogs, but there's a chicken/egg problem to contend with and Wattpad requires constant effort to curate an audience.

* The Kindle store, especially Kindle Unlimited, has tons of scifi series, many from new authors. Unfortunately, I've found some of them to be lacking in depth and character development. I'm not sure if that's because they aren't properly edited, or they are "writing to market," i.e. giving people what they want (lots of series with keywords stuffed into the title, like "hard science fiction" or "space opera"). This is a matter of personal taste; I see that many of the same series have hundreds or even thousands of positive reviews which seem sincere.
Good concept!

Very good that you've decided to go live without waiting for a fancy design for your front-end. Early feedback is more valuable for this product.

Nice job.
"V8 is Google’s open source high-performance JavaScript and WebAssembly engine, written in C++." from its home page. I didn't immediately know
> Statistically, that's sufficiently improbable

Is it?