skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That procedure wasn't sufficient

Winner, winner, chicken dinner. The existing runaway stabilizer trim checklist does not fit the MCAS failure to a T. The procedure dictates that you stop if the trimming action stops when you counter it with the switches (MCAS pauses when you do this). Unfortunately when you're taught to only think inside the box, you'll go as far down that checklist as you need to and no further.

Beyond that, just after takeoff is one of the busiest part of the flight. In fact, if you look at the graphs you'll see that the stick shaker on the left side was going crazy almost immediately after takeoff (and before MCAS kicked in as a result of retracting the flaps). The pilots of flight 610 were able to reign in MCAS with the trim buttons and almost certainly continued to do so in order to focus on the other failures and their relevant checklists (stick shaker, unreliable airspeed, elevator feel system non-op).

[One thing I've been wondering: somehow the pilots were able to bring the nose back up... it was only (apparently) after multiple nose downs that they eventually failed to recover the plane. What was going on there? It's as if they understood how to correct the stabilizer trim, but weren't aware of the cut-off switches.]

Yep, to me, that looks an awful lot like some sort of hardware failure. Something to look for in the subsequent and final reports.
I feel like everyone is doing social media marketing - or something equally useless while the world around us is breaking down.

In the Bay Area, in San Francisco specifically, voters allocated funds to fix or replace every single Bart escalator. The best hope we have for completing this job is 7 years. Yes you read this correctly 7 years. The problem is we do not have enough licensed escalator mechanics to do the work. Money isn't the problem.

Maybe more people should go into the trades - and not be funneled into higher education. We desperately need better infrastructure, more housing, tangible things. Not everyone is cut out for college.
I don’t think it’s a personal attack to say that someone is telling the truth about the crusade he’s on. It’s your right to be an activist about whatever topic you want. I’m less amused that The Intercept sponsors it as reporting.

Ideologically motivated writing targeted at the things I care about is fine, from a columnist who is part of an interesting stable of columnists. I don’t need NYT to fire Douthat. But they have the good sense not to make him an LGBT issues reporter.
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Runaway stabilizer causes a more dramatic sudden movement than MCAS. MCAS's start, wait 5 seconds, re-start, motion is more gradual. For example you could look at the wheel and it has stopped, only to re-start after you look away (add noise cancelling Bose headphones and you may not hear it)

Pilots are trained well for runaway stabilizer, MCAS was essentially the same thing, but it didn't FEEL like the same thing, so a stressed pilot's mind may not immediately go to that solution/memory item.
I usually drive an hour or so to spend the weekend climbing in the cascades. But during the week, I'm stuck in the city. And no, I won't quit my job to go live in the wilderness. Not yet.
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Ask HN: How could Andrew Yang's 1000$/month UBI impact the US tech scene?
Andrew Yang is a successful entrepreneur and a U.S. 2020 Democratic presidential candidate. His popularity is rising by the day. One of his top proposals is the universal basic income: https://www.yang2020.com/policies/the-freedom-dividend/.

He proposes funding UBI by "consolidating some welfare programs and implementing a Value-Added Tax (VAT) of 10%. Current welfare and social program beneficiaries would be given a choice between their current benefits or $1,000 cash unconditionally. [...] A Value-Added Tax (VAT) is a tax on the production of goods or services a business produces. It is a fair tax and it makes it much harder for large corporations, who are experts at hiding profits and income, to avoid paying their fair share." (for full explanation see https://www.yang2020.com/what-is-ubi/). How could this affect your professional and private life?

> Related thread: Andrew Yang qualifies for first DNC debate with 65,000 unique donors https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19388652
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I feel like this is all my fault
We all love Google until we get their boots on our face with absolute no customer support whatsoever.
You're right[0]. Terrifying.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_navy#Accidents_involvi...
Personally I would say no. For me a CS degree is too general as post graduate study, You don't need to prove that you are capable of coding as (I assume) you have a decent online portfolio of your work / what you are capable of.
You already have an engineering degree - If you are set on doing a Masters I would do it in something you are interested in, that is more specialised, has longevity and is related to your ideal future job (e.g. Data Science, Big Data, Distributed / HPC).

I have recently taken on a Computer Science graduate who is doing a Masters in Data Science because we needed a good "All Rounder" with a focus on Data Science and Engineering.
Because it goes very much against the constant growth required by the economy?
Because it’s a delicate subject. Giving someone the power to decide who is and is not allowed/able/encouraged to have babies is scary stuff for many people.
Limiting who is allowed to reproduce? I mean what could possibly go wrong!
That's a side effect of Caplan's main objection, that a college degree has become a credential, used for signaling, and not indicating any real merit or learning. Once students recognize that (and they have), they put in the bare minimum to get the credential, and administrators respond by forcing new minimums. It's still possible to get a good education if you choose your institution, classes and professors wisely, but it's frustrating for motivated students to be surrounded by slackers. In a good learning environment, you're going to learn as much or more from your peers as from your teacher.

I highly recommend his book: The Case Against Education - https://www.amazon.com/dp/B076ZY8S8J.
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that can be used to justify almost any level of commission including fixed fee rate. ultimately its modulated by increase number of realtors coming into the market. the core amount of work needed to buy/sell a house is not that much and can be effectively segmented to specialized (low-cost) individuals like Redfin is trying to do. you could also argue that in hot markets like sf-bayarea homes sell themselves so the workload on realtors is not so much, which means they can sell more houses to make up for 'lost' commission like rest of america.

the problem is that even if a realtor wants to reduce his commission, he has no control over the other party and they'll want to have full 3%. this minimizes the incentive to disrupt the process though in super expensive markets it may still make sense.
The left alpha vane was being interpreted as almost exactly twenty degrees higher than the right.

Is that because the plane was in a banking maneuver at the time maybe? I dont know anything about planes but I heard that when you're turning the two sensors will disagree by some amount
There is a link in https://github.com/YosysHQ/yosys/wiki/VHDL-frontend-efforts
I've sometimes been concerned that headline writing is (metaphorically) subcontracted to buzzfeed everywhere, NYT, The Atlantic, Bloomberg, just about everywhere.
Afaik shipping tankers are very efficient; among the lowest CO2 per mile travelled per ton of cargo moved.

Trains are 185km/L per ton, and ships get about double that. The only more efficient method is bicycling.

Electrification won’t do much to help because batteries are so big and heavy you’re basically shipping batteries instead of cargo back and forth. There’s been recent advancement in adding sails though, that actually make non-trivial differences. [1]

[1] https://www.cnbc.com/amp/2018/08/31/maersk-tankers-installs-...
It’s a clickbait title. More appropriate clickbait would be “the United States becomes the #1 producer of oil while China rushes to electric vehicles”, busses and cars:

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-china-autos-electric/chin...
Sounds like a person in the grip of a big idea, wrapped up in their own thinking. That can be a pain to deal with but it tends to be self-correcting. If someone stops communicating with people effectively, others will withdraw, and that isolation eventually causes pain. Eventually the person who's off in their head will start to notice their needs are not being met, and as they search for a way to return to earth to get what they need, they'll have to do the work themselves to understand others and present their new ideas in a coherent and sensible way. Pulling away from a friend who's talking nonsense can sometimes be the most loving thing to do.
"Chen has picked a successor as interim CEO: Aziz Hasan, who currently heads Kickstarter’s design & product teams."
Also, how did the off-duty pilot figure it out if they are nothing alike?

My assumption is that the jupmseat guy took a very generous interpretation of the checklist. But there may have been more panic about the trim on the earlier flight. If you compare trim inputs on flight 610 to the previous flight, the pilots on the earlier flight were making much shorter, more rapid inputs than the pilots on flight 610. The plane also pitched down far more dramatically than on flight 610.

The graphs for flight 610 seem to indicate that the pilots thought they had the trim situation under control (and they did right up until they didn't).

https://reports.aviation-safety.net/2018/20181029-0_B38M_PK-...
SEC is asking for a First Amendment smackdown.
That's all fine and good, but now you have to find contracts and compete/bid competitively on RFP's for work.
You may find this link interesting: https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/ford-factory-wor...

Here's another link that I think has balanced coverage: https://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2015/sep...

Ford even wrote an article on the subject (which I can't seem to find at the moment). In it he discusses hiring private detectives to follow his workers to ensure that they spent the extra money he was paying him. He was worried that by paying his workers too much and giving them too much time off, he'd create another class of wealthy people. Instead his great experiment was to get them to spend their money, drive the economy and create a market for his cars.

So while I don't consider Ford to be a philanthropist for his moves, and while I recognise the achievements of unions in this area, it would be foolish to ignore the fact that 40 hour work weeks, minimum wage and safe working conditions have always been a win-win situation for industry. There have been companies who realised this win-win much earlier than they were forced to. I think one might even be able to argue effectively that these moves may have occurred even without the participation of the unions. Indeed, it is possible that despite all the good work from the unions, that laws of this nature were only passed because this was rapidly becoming the concensus opinion in industry anyway.

Just an aside while I'm here... I once was asked to sign a new contract with my employer with really draconian terms. I was already under contract and none of the termination clauses had come into effect, so I politely declined. They threatened to fire me at which point I asked them if understood the legal consequences of getting people to sign contracts under duress. Their lawyer, who was present, promptly apologised and wrapped things up.

As I was leaving, I mentioned that it would be a good idea to have an ombudsman to review these kinds of contract changes. I was now going to go talk with the rest of my colleagues and there was no way that anyone would sign the new contract from that point on. However, if they had an intermediary, there was a good chance that whatever problem they were having with the old contract could be solved. The HR person replied, "We'll never allow a union here and don't even think about threatening it". The lawyer laughed nervously (I really didn't envy him that day).

And this is the thing that drives me crazy about both sides of the equation. It really is a win-win situation. There is no need to have a "both sides". The company wants a good contract that protects them from crappy stuff. The employee wants a good contract that protects them from crappy stuff. But as soon as one side or the other gets the upper hand, they just try to crush the other side. It's really frustrating. Even the mentioning the idea of working together seems to be crazy talk. While I only mention this anecdote, I am one of the few people who have worked in a union shop as a programmer before. Exactly same thing, other way around. The union would happily drive the company into the ground if it meant getting some pointless concession for its members....
They just put Tesla in the title to get people to click on it
Among many other points, more than half the laws you mention are terrible. We shouldn't be banning people in need from taking food or shelter when there's an extreme excess of both, or loving who they want.
Because population growth is expected to decline over the next century already, and because population is not really the problem anyway. We have the ability to improve the carrying capacity of the earth and we have done so repeatedly over time.

Dire predictions of the negative consequences of overpopulation, ever since Malthus, have turned out wrong. The population doomsayers didn't even anticipate the real problem we face today: climate change.

Climate change is not caused by overpopulation, but rather by the industrial output of developed countries. These countries, except for China, are not densely populated and have lower rates of population growth than the rest of the world because obtaining contraception is legal and convenient.

On top of that, regulating reproduction is a violation of the most basic human freedoms.
What makes you confident they are onboard with limiting CO2 emissions when they are currently looking the other way at rising CFC emissions which are far more harmful.
Yet the bigger elephant is letting the filthy rich do whatever they want including keeping the poor from education.
Population growth is actually slowing worldwide, and we face the very real possibility of a global population decline within the next century. You’re trying to solve a problem that is already “solving” itself.
I agree. We need to not only stop using polluting vehicles, but also reduce the number of people consuming products.

Honestly, the problem is going to solve itself. We're going to see devastating natural disasters and famines. We're going to see causalities like we've never seen. We're going to see massive die-offs of the poor in countries that are in the direct path- coastal countries, Africa, and middle east.

I know I'm going to get hate for this, but the US and other western countries are going to have to face the realities that they are going to need to lock down their borders as we're going to have massive refugee problems. I don't agree with Trump 90% of the time, but he is putting in place a framework that will be used in the next 10 years to keep the onslaught of refugees. America has it good. We can survive the storm, but most of the world will not be so lucky.

And words cannot express what I feel. This whole thing sucks. It's going to hurt. And it's the kind of thing where we can't save everyone.
This is a tragedy of the commons type situation. When your workaholism infringes on the lives of your coworkers, then your coworkers do have a right to say something.
China is a place to look for an example of what happens when you do this. Primarily, too many elderly. Here is an interesting discussion about this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c5jJDywBHwA
Thank's, will do
People talk about "clickbait" but it's not really new. On a website, or the pages of a paper newspaper, there is a bunch of stuff vying for readers' attention and the headline has always been a way of making stories seem interesting.
Not really. A TI-class supertanker has a length of 380m, breadth of 68m, for a surface area of less than 7 acres, and run on a 37,450 kW engine. (Wikipedia). Meanwhile, a 50 MW solar installation in Ohio takes 500 acres of space.(https://www.greentechmedia.com/articles/read/anatomy-of-a-50...). You would need to find a way to increase the surface area by a factor of 10 without ruining the aerodynamics, or use wind power instead.
Landmark forum is a self improvement seminar with pretty cult-ish tendencies. I lost a really good friend to it as well.
Rape or murder are not natural instincts. In fact people have pretty good safeguards against killing others - seeing the oponent bleeding usually makes even a furious man cool off.

And regarding limiting population growth, what solution could possible be there that would be acceptable in a liberal democracy (i.e. does not require authoritarian regime controlling your every move, or the biggest genocide in history of mankind)?
The price of oil is unrealistic, because it does not reflect the terrible damage to our planet. In other words, the current price can be so low because we are "borrowing" the planet from our children and grandchildren. We get cheap oil because they will not have a planet to live on.

If the price were to include a carbon tax, it would likely be at least ten times higher and we would very quickly get rid of our beloved gas guzzlers.
Could you link to your source?

I recall seeing some research on this topic but I got the impression (perhaps wrongly) it has to make so many simplifying assumptions to get a result that it’s not clear how much carries over to real systems where not all those assumptions hold.
I’m saddened by this aspect of YouTube whereby you’re afraid to explore the site without tanking your recommendations. I wish there was a site that focused on finding YouTube videos in a more focused way rather than some rogue ML algorithm that decides to spam you with weird topics. I don’t feel like I have any control over my YouTube account anymore.
I'd happily put a large omnidirectional wifi antenna on my roof to help out with something like this.... if I could get a fair rate for the bandwidth used. My city has 70k people or so, and is perfectly flat.

Similarly I'd be willing to help with any p2p type wireless, with a radio, antenna, and raspberry Pi or similar. Sadly most p2p wireless <-> internet gateways are proprietary.
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> One of the direct dependencies is a library that renders a loading spinner in command line interfaces, which itself pulls in over 20 transitive dependencies.

Just trying to understand, is this a bad thing?

Someone else made an open source CLI spinner library which also uses other people's existing open source libraries. This saves a lot of time and gives developers many good options.

Should Pika write and maintain its own custom CLI spinner animations? Are you saying the CLI spinners should be standardized in the next version of ECMAScript itself?

How is this worse than the same thing written in Python, for example? (I mainly use javascript, so maybe I haven't been exposed to the kinds of alternatives you're thinking about.)
> If schools aim to boost students’ future income by teaching job skills, why do they entrust students’ education to people so detached from the real world?

Well, precisely because university does not exist to increase future income of its students. It's mostly about extending human knowledge in a formalized way called science, and producing enough doctors to let the institution continues in the future. If one aims to study practical skill there is dozen of other options: engineer and business schools, vocational schools, etc.

I agree however that there is a worrying inflation of required degrees to get an entry position anywhere and that's a waste of time and money for all parties involved.
92 lost nuclear warheads including one near Seattle/Vancouver, one near New York and one near Miami (https://genecurtis.wordpress.com/2011/11/12/lost-nuclear-bom...)
Any attempt to discuss population control will be met with accusations of eugenics and genocide. So what you do instead is promote women’s rights, education about contraception and birth control, health care for children, immunisations, etc.

It turn out that education and empowerment of this kind (especially where you can show women that their children will survive and that everyone can get an education and a job) will naturally lead to lower fertility rates. Apparently women aren’t all hormone driven baby factories (who knew?) and given a voice in the matter will generally prefer fewer children (and more time to pursue life outside raising babies).

So if you support zero or negative population growth, you can do a lot worse than donating to Plan International and other charities specialising in education and support of women in developing nations.

You can empower people (especially women, a commonly oppressed class), save the world from overpopulation, uncover the next generation of genius-entrepreneur, and do this all without being labelled a villain.
Do you have sources for all of these claims?
I would like to propose another explanation.

Schizophrenia typically starts manifesting in people in their teens and early twenties. It is not uncommon for people who are feeling that things are not quite right to experiment with drugs as a way to self medicate.

It appears that stressful situations can be the triggers for this, such as: Moving away from home for the first time, personal relationship issues, or experimenting with psychedelics.

It's not clear to me that the arrow of causality necessarily points the direction that you think it does.
You can load Android apps from microsd card, or via USB cable with ADB. No central server required, just a single file, like in the old times.
I have posted about this on https://windowsontheory.org/2018/05/02/short-non-review-of-c...

I am of course biased as a faculty (though I think his policy prescriptions would negatively effect public schools more than private universities such as Harvard), but I think Caplan's analysis is extremely shallow.

First, note that if he's right, higher education should be an incredible drag on the economy - we're taking 4 highly productive years out of the workforce. Such an extreme conclusion shouldn't be that hard to test without resorting to anecdotes and contorted reading of data. Educational policies and subsidies vary so greatly between different countries and even states, that if it was such a colossal waste we should be seeing it in the higher GDP or productivity of the less educated countries and localities.
(The article is in general very US-centric for an issue that is not specific to the US at all.)

When a locality has less access to education, there would be naturally less of a "credential arms race" and so more people that have just as much base talent but did not go to college. Why aren't employers flocking to those places and hiring high school graduates who would be so much cheaper?

I know one theory Caplan has is that completing college certifies "conformity" and "tolerance for boredom": is spending 4 years and tens or hundreds or thousands of dollars the only way to test for these properties?

Also (at least from my experience in the IDF) conformity and tolerance for boredom are very important for the army, arguably moreso than many other employers, yet they do fine with high school graduates.
Not just China's. But as western nations (Germany re: tor, Aus/NZ re: censorship) rush to implement their own orwellian state they tread China's well worn path.