skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
With cities I don't think it's 'ROI' so much utility and pressing budgetary needs.

There is always a war over budget. There are 10 projects that 'they'd like to do but can't'.

Every city wants more buses, has potholes, has sewage problems, needs infrastructure.

'Pretty manholes' might not make it to the top unless someone really, really cares. Or it's part of a secondary budget.
Or you could conclude that this person is in there to just get stuff done, and couldn't be bothered with wasting their time to fill in their profile, or was concerned with how their data was used by Github, or is a woman, or is part of a minority group that couldn't possibly benefit from posting a photo, or... There's all sorts of reasons why people don't post their profile online, and factoring this into your hiring criteria is about as valid as using graphology.
This is an interesting take on it: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/15/opinion/federal-aviation-....

Basically, the US has taken the view that any regulation should be strongly supported by facts and evidence, while many other countries are more willing to regulate on a precautionary basis, before all the results are in.
The software fix is probably further automation to disable the system when some other sensor indicates that it is misbehaving - i.e. it is probably a band aid on top of a band aid.
> wacky retirement-lottery scheme whose details I forget

Could it be this?

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tontine
If it be true (as it certainly is) that a man can feel exquisite happiness in skinning a cat, then the religious philosopher can only draw one of two deductions. He must either deny the existence of God, as all atheists do; or he must deny the present union between God and man, as all Christians do.

The new theologians seem to think it a highly rationalistic solution to deny the cat.

Chesterton, 1908
If Texas lawmakers get their way, Tesla won’t be able to fix its own cars
I agree. I think the esp8266 is an awesome platform.

I started out with a board from Adafruit:
https://www.adafruit.com/product/2471

I later switched to this one for cost savings: https://www.banggood.com/Geekcreit-Doit-NodeMcu-Lua-ESP8266-...
> Talent and the capacity for determined effort, sometimes called “grit,” depend a great deal on one’s genetic endowments and upbringing.

It is sad that some people are born dumb as a rock but we shouldn't make them math professors out of pity.
I agree. Be a reasonably intelligent worker. Play the game well enough. Work an adequate amount. Above all else, be consistently reliable, even if that means consistently delivering B+ results.
> What is merit? Is it merit if, because someone is of faith, they donate food to those without? That person who is receiving the food has more than they did prior, the person who had the food has less.

Merit is extremely easy to define. Merit is providing economic value to society. We have an imperfect, but quite impressive system for measuring this, called pricing. If I can create something you want, you pay me for it. I capture part of the excess value of that transaction, commensurate with the uniqueness of what I created.
I get about 9 hours of battery life on my T450s and about 6 on my x220 under load, youtube, vms, coding. That is under load.

My idle times, browsing something like HN, or sitting in #emacs I get near 20 hours on my t450s and about 13 on my x220.

I think low low low idle power consumption is key to long infrequent charges. This is because the second you are not using your computer then it should also not be using power. For example, my t450s without adjusting the screen bigness idles at 2.8W, so tons of idle time with a 97WH battery.

You can't really optimize power for when you are using it. If you are compiling, you want the fastest compile time and use the most power. Same for other things that take power.

I go all weekend not charging my personal laptop and the only times I close the lid is when I am going to bed. Otherwise I leave the lid open, same brightness and walk away for hours and come back and continue where I left off.

So I see your point about people saying "I get 9 hours of battery life." doing nothing, but even 9 hours of doing nothing is fairly low, given I can make a 10 year old laptop get close to 18 hours, and a 4 year old one get near 21 hours "doing nothing".
His twitter is https://twitter.com/paullicino, and he recently started a Patreon for his writing, which is at https://www.patreon.com/Paullicino
I find myself able to deny that it has great resources. The reference manual is very weak.
Depends what you're doing. If you just want "http server" of some kind, then either is fine. Sure, features vary, but how much does it actually matter? Yeah, http2 is nice, newer compression is good, ... features matter, but for a lot of uses it really doesn't make a noticeable impact.
I know people on here will disagree with this, but I think many of these events indicate that online censorship is needed.

I believe it's becoming increasingly clear that merely allowing far-right dialogue online is essentially responsible for ease of radicalization, and that proactive censorship would be the best approach to forestall this.
If my airbag is missing my car won't crash into traffic by itself, if the airplane system fails the airplane points you into the ground.
Is Japan a benevolent dictatorship (psuedo-imperial corporate fascism and guaranteed political monopolies) in exchange for social cohesion. Is there an equivalent concept to a zaibatsu in a republic or democracy? Monopolies here are hidden behind the trident of usury, corporation and government spending; beyond terms like corporate capture, manufacturing consent, military/health/tech/energy industrial complex, conspiracy... With the American Republic at least it seems stability was replaced by extremes, and an active tension is rather encouraged in the population in order for dialectic opposition thesis+antithesis->synthesis. This rule by fear tends to sacrifice a lot of civility and social harmony, as an outsider it appears tiring, but Americans must prefer it or it would have never sold in the post ww2 era as the new normal.
Video of training for runaway stabilizer trim: https://youtu.be/3pPRuFHR1co (time 2:45)

* The clanking sound is the stabilizer trim "runaway". In the video, it starts while the video is zoomed in; when the video zooms out you can see the trim wheels (next to their legs) spinning.

* The trainer (left hand seat) says "rudder", but he means "stabilizer" (he says it correctly later in the video)

* The pilots in a real plane would likely not hear the noise because they will have noise canceling headsets on, but the manual trim adjustment is the big wheel next to their leg that spins very visibly and they would feel the trim pushing the plane's nose down

* The stabilizer trim adjustment is relatively slow - it takes just under 10 seconds to travel end-to-end, so runaway time is going to be at least five seconds.
Commentator Alain de Botton explores the darker side of a western ideal: meritocracy.

https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=320002...
Are there any signs this may be an investment seeking an acquisition from Adobe or someone else?
Cold War Eagle Driver: F-15 pilot reveals all
I don't necessarily see a problem with locked down devices because if I have a right to control what runs on my computer, then so does Apple or Nintendo on theirs.

One might counter, saying something like "but you 'own' your iPhone, you should be able to do whatever you want with it." But I think such an argument is more to do with not having a common word to describe this kind of transaction -- we understand things like leasing and renting but we still describe 'buying' managed devices with the same terminology that we do a toaster. IT people get close to this model with managed on-prem appliances but it's not quite the same.

The same problem exists with copyrighted works because when you buy a DVD you don't own the movie, you own a single transferrable non-commercial personal-use license losely attached to the physical medium.

We would do well to make these business relationships more explicit and better defined but I wouldn't expect the relationships themselves to change.
The 2019 India-Pakistan Kashmir Air Skirmish – what actually happened?
I didn't realize it was that high. I guess I was remembering from the Cessna 421 I flew, but we were cruising at more like FL250. Looks like the 787 brings it down to like 6k though.
The Rust documentation is deep but not wide: unlike Python (for example) the standard library is small, which means that the well-documented area is small. Almost as soon as you try to get anything done, you will end up reading auto-generated function signature docs and browsing through the source code of whatever crate you want to use. This is true for scientific computing and game libraries, and may not be true for networking which I hear is very well-developed.

Because Rust's type system is so good, auto-generated function signatures are actually pretty useful. However this is one area in which the language is clearly immature.
If you’re looking for something bigger for aircrack etc I use al alfa networks “AWUS036NHA” which is 5dB and you can pick up off amazon for about 30 euro.

For normal dongles a search for “Anadol Gold Line Wifi AWL150 Micro 150Mbit/s USB WLAN S” shows the one I use in various bsds/linuxes with no problems.

Both re0/run0 chips.
The title of this article is literally "meritocracy doesn't exist". Not "meritocracy is overstated" or "we don't live in a perfect meritocracy".
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Luck doesn't exist. People take advantage of opportunities, and working hard is one way to be exposed to a greater number of opportunities.

What seems like a "lucky break' to the casual observer is very frequently the result of years of work that allowed that person to take advantage of that moment. The moment is also frequently only clear in hindsight, and is often more of a "I heard you know about X, do you have a minute to talk to Y about X?" thing, than a "Here's a crazy promotion!" fairytale.
If you think Snowden leaks was about 'one illegal program' you are seriously misinformed and have a lot of catching up to do. These are large scale and illegal mass surveillance programs. [1][2][3][4][5]. More can be found here. [6]

No one has been held accountable for these illegal programs. The then head of NSA James Clapper brazenly lied to Congress and has still not being held accountable. [7]. On the contrary there is a grand jury out to get Assange, Manning is back in jail and Snowden is being hounded and in exile. No good deed goes unpunished.

China had nothing to do with the Snowden leaks or any of these secret mass surveillance programs as you will discover. Happy reading!

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PRISM_(surveillance_program)

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XKeyscore

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tempora

[4] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fairview_(surveillance_program...

[5]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boundless_Informant

[6] https://theintercept.com/search/?s=snowden

[7] https://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/dec/19/republicans-co...
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Maybe you should screw your head right. What is so depressing about the news? Journalism has always been about sensationalism and clickbait, but for every depressing news, there are dozen little victories that the press ignores. We live in an age of unprecedented prosperity and the future trajectory is looking promising on multiple avenues. Millions of people will be lifted from poverty, hundreds of diseases will be eradicated, more and more people are getting connected globally and many things are affordable and will be increasingly so during your lifetime. We are sending rockets to space so casually that it's becoming mundane even to a layperson. Don't get me wrong, sure we are facing serious stuff on many many avenues, but you have to understand the scale and nature of everything that is going on. News only covers the wafer-thin cross-section of the global experience, and even then they just cover the fumbles and foibles.

Maybe what I'm saying is that you have to balance your diet with the awesome heroics that people constantly do and broaden your view of what is actually happening around the world. I don't have a simple answer to this, but what I can suggest is that maybe you look for science and engineering news, there might be positive sources for the developing human condition other than trashy journalism.
That's one of my three pieces of advice for young engineers.

Learn to fucking hustle. Learn to say no. Learn to know when to leave.
It’s simpler, I like XD a lot. Being free doesn’t hurt too
Well it is undisputed that ISIS used Twitter and Facebook very effectively to recruit and spread propaganda. Whatever you think of the outcome of the last presidential election in the US and the Brexit vote it can not be a good thing for democracy to fracture opinions and reinforce beliefs by optimising for engagement in the way the Facebook and Twitter algorithm seem to do. Plus the way they work as AD platforms is also fundamentally different compared to traditional campaign advertisement, because not the same ads are shown to everyone.

This is not about censorship and this kind of content is not information. I don't object to this footage being available in an archive and that it can be retrieved by anyone free of charge if they explicitly asked for it. I do not even object to it being freely available somewhere on the internet. What I object to is that Facebook and Youtube can get away with pretending they are passive conduits of information, while they in fact curate and profit directly from the content they host.

They should be held to the same standards as traditional media companies, which they are in the process of displacing. A traditional media company would never have been allowed to show uncontextualized and extremely violent content such as this. If the algorithm does not catch this, that is not an excuse. They should be held accountable, as
they should be held accountable for allowing ISIS to use their platforms.
The experiment is uninteresting, as far as I can tell, without the interpretation from Frauchiger-Renner.

My point in linking the original article was that the media discussion of this (in part driven by the paper's own framing) as disproving objective reality is wrong, something Scott clearly agrees with.
More information about the MCAS than you probably ever wanted to know: http://www.b737.org.uk/mcas.htm

That page includes this noteworthy and unusual design decision:

"MCAS is implemented within the two Flight Control Computers (FCCs). The Left FCC uses the Left AOA sensor for MCAS and the Right FCC uses the Right AOA sensor for MCAS. Only one FCC operates at a time to provide MCAS commands. With electrical power to the FCCs maintained, the unit that provides MCAS changes between flights. In this manner, the AOA sensor that is used for MCAS changes with each flight."
The article later tackles this by examining the love-hate relationship between Trump and left-wing media
(although just briefly):

The more they covered Trump, the more they danced to the music of check deposits. CBS president Leslie Moonves said: "It may not be good for America, but it’s damn good for CBS.” Or in the words of one Washington-based reporter: "‘Holy shit, Trump’s the best thing that’s ever happened to our business!’"

In short, as the amount of information exploded, the media — with business models built for an environment of information scarcity — engaged in a Faustian Bargain. Naval Ravikant said it best: "The Internet commoditized the distribution of facts. The ‘news’ media responded by pivoting wholesale into opinions and entertainment.
I try to add more structure to how I do things these days. It was not that long ago that I could just sit around for hours on social media, but it helped to have life goals that pulled me away from that.

I am only really aware of news in a few enthusiast areas, where it's effectively a source of entertainment, and a bit of local news(and then mostly headlines). When I need to be informed about something(e.g. elections), then it is a research project like in school. My experience with news is that the more you try to "understand" events by consuming news product, the more you get drawn in to a manufactured story of some kind(whether it's "scene drama", conspiracies, apocalyptic fears or ineffectual radical causes). But boring news - demographic statistics, business summaries, legislation, and so forth - contains all the whispers of the truth, all the facts that we very loudly obscure under public dialogue.

To create the world I want to live in, I must actively live in a way that creates that world, which means managing who I am and how I behave, and discarding parts of the rat race, while not going to full hermit/off-grid mode. Letting my grip on things loosen to play is OK, but I have to put myself in a situation where I'm not just looking for random stimulation and grabbing whatever works.
It's not really about corporate greed, it's about people wanting to fly as cheap as possible. Redesigning an entire plane is indeed expensive and time consuming, and that cost would be passed on to the passengers. The airline industry is very cost-sensitive.

Gradually refining an airframe is done all the time and is not a cause for concern. If corners were really cut in analyzing the implications of such modifications, that's where the problem lies. But the vast majority of airframes in use today, civilian and to an even greater extent military, and they were often designed in the 70s. (And some very successful planes, like the C-130 and B-52, were designed in the 50s.)
It's not even an article really. It's a blog post and it seems targeted as a reference for other admins with chargen.one. Not sure why it got posted to HN.
> Wage stagnation leading to quality-of-life declines is the first of these - people can notice this immediately in their life.

Despite popular graphs making rounds, there has been little if any wage stagnation. Moreover, people are also really bad at noticing it: a median and an average Americans now have better housing situation than 50 years ago, in terms of actual living space available for them, fewer roommates, better quality of housing, and yet the sentiment is the opposite.
You have dealt with bad written python programs, sure, but if you have to deal with a bad written shell script, it's much worse!

The shell is full of strange and dangerous behaviors, that make even experienced programmers write buggy scripts. The main reason is that the shell wants to be a programming language but works differently from every other programming language, and has a special and complicated syntax.

Also shell scripts are really not that portable at all, if you write a script on a GNU system it's nearly guaranteed that it will not work on a non-GNU system, and vice versa. Not only the shell but more importantly the commands are different, GNU awk is different than standard UNIX awk, GNU sed is different that UNIX sed, grep is different, and so on. Maybe minor difference that produces bug difficult to find and fix.

For me if a shell script becomes more long than 50/100 lines of code you should consider rewriting it in python, shell scripts are only a valid solutions to rapidly write programs that invokes some commands to automate some things, not a valid solution for doing complex tasks.
It's interesting to see a credential effect here similar to universities.

Which credentials are the most valuable then? Which company as a new grad is most similar to Stanford, MIT?
Aren't you forced into using the RTOS provided with the devkit though?

I don't like having blobs on my laptop much less in MCU firmware.
From experience, not much. I have an open source project with millions of downloads and thousands of stars on the top of my profile. Never once got asked about it across at least 10-15 interviews with both startups and large companies.
It's amazing how quickly people will give up fundamental rights in the name of safety.
+1 for Bubble.is they are definitely a big step in the right direction. They are still a long way from being ideal though. It's pretty hard to get started from scratch and the templates available are not very easy to modify and scale. It would be great if there were a few more players in this space.
Very very nice, some new filters.
My office decided to move from Jabber (Pidgin / Adium) to Slack. Much of the office upgraded computers. Whether Jabber is negligible, Slack used más two to three Gb RAM. It’s simply the most inefficient software I have to Tun continuously on that PC
Enough with the Indian Mig-21 Bison versus Pakistani F-16 Viper Bullshit
كلمات اغنية الساعة بتاعت قبل النوم كارمن سليمان
Why don't you ask yourself that same question right before bed one night.. 'Ask and you shall receive'
Obligatory note that the word "meritocracy" was coined by a sociologist in mid-century England as a distopian ideal, distopian because it was used as a bad excuse for privilege and the withholding of social services. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meritocracy
> If you use your GitHub profile as part of your personal brand / marketing then these things absolutely are relevant.

The problem is when others assume this on your behalf. I would take a lack of proper readme as a signal that the repo isn't intended for viewing and judgement by others, not as a signal that the candidate has poor communication skills. If the repo is for a library that the author has published and is marketing for production use, then sure, but I'd wager that does not represent the vast majority of repos on GitHub, and to assume otherwise is foolish in my opinion.
> I spend 14 hours in a chair

That is unhealthy to spend 14 hours in a chair. If someone finds themselves spending 14 hours in a hair unnecessarily (i.e. they can't walk) then they should probably re-eavaluate their life.
Whatever you buy, don't buy the ThinkPad X1 Extreme. Its fans are on all. the. time, and the CPU goes into thermal throttling even when idle.

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If you're interested at all in Swing (or like fun and interesting documentaries), the movie "Alive and Kicking" is a lot of fun. Looking forward to learning some day.
In the defense of upgrade culture, you ever wonder where those old phones you trade in go? Phone companies have been turning them into profit by shipping them to the developing world. We live in an era where the even the most remote and impoverished places on Earth have, at minimum, a cell phone in their villages. And it's that crappy circa 2000 Nokia you had that plays snake. Now they can call emergency services on demand or keep in touch with long distance loved ones.

Capitalism is such a blessing.
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I'm not saying it's a bad thing. It's just not very useful in a practical sense.
> For a system with the responsibilities and impact on the safety-case that MCAS has, not even a 1oo2D design would be sufficient, since there's no clear way to determine which input is correct or incorrect if they diverge

Wouldn't that depend on how often MCAS is actually needed, and how it handles divergent sensors?

My understanding as a layman is that there are situations where a 737MAX is more likely to stall than a "regular" 737 would, but I haven't seen anything on how often those occur. Are they expected to routinely occur, so a fully functioning MCAS is important for safe operation of the plane?

Or are they supposed to be rare, one in several million events, and the MCAS is there to make handling those events the same as they would be handled in a "regular" 737, to minimize the need for retraining?

If the later, then I'd expect two sensors would be fine, or even just one sensor IF there was a reliable way to tell if it had failed, as long as the MCAS response to a sensor problem is to disable itself and let the pilots know they have to stay out of those "more likely to stall" situations for the rest of the flight.