skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The present day economy from 1995-present is also an outrageous outlier and one that shares many features in common with the period from 1870-1890. Hence its relevance.

If you want to look at the total timespan of human economic history, the only economic systems that have proven stable over millenia are feudalism and slavery. Democratic capitalism (and particularly post-WW2 democratic capitalism in America, which is even more of an outlier) is a comparative blip on the timeline. We don't live in the 1300s, though; we live in 2019, and so it's worth considering how our present time differs from previous epochs and how it might share similarities with some.
Not only that, but the government will inevitably stay requiring you use a key pair which they will supply. Citizens won't know the difference and won't fight it back hard enough. Hello government-sanctioned cryptographic surveillance.

Best not to open that particular can of worms.
> we humans are capable of differentiating "general political party" from "white nationalists", and can target the latter and not the former.

We’re also good at being boiled slowly, like frogs.
Re: 1, today I learned about this:

> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Relaxed_stability#Unstable_air...

> Relaxed stability designs are not limited to military jets. The McDonnell Douglas MD-11 has a relaxed stability design which was implemented to save fuel. To ensure stability for safe flight, an LSAS (Longitudinal Stability Augmentation System) was introduced to compensate for the MD-11's rather short horizontal stabilizer and ensure that the aircraft would remain stable. However, there have been incidents in which the MD-11's relaxed stability caused an "inflight upset."

> Updates to the software package made the airplane's handling characteristics in manual flight similar to those of the DC-10, despite a smaller tailplane to reduce drag and increase fuel efficiency.

Maybe this isn't as new of a development as we think.
The retrieval cost itself isn't too extravagant. For 100 TB, it would cost about $250 for "bulk" retrieval (48 hours), or $2,000 for "standard" retrieval (12 hours).

But that only accounts for the cost of retrieving it within AWS. If you want to download the data to your own server, you have to pay the internet egress rate which would add an additional $7,800.
That's terrible people keep citing retracted papers, there is one with 977 citations after retraction

https://retractionwatch.com/the-retraction-watch-leaderboard...

Someone should make plugins for endnote and mendeley so that people can easily check it. Any hacker here wants to help science?
I think this is a bad misunderstanding of what makes things effective in war.

Yeah, we can count tanks and planes and bases, mobile or otherwise, and declare that the US would win in an overwhelming fashion in a WWIII scenario. But I think that assumes we'd be fighting based on our terms - which never happens in war. I don't think it's consequential, at all, that Russia and China struggle with the carrier vessel concept. These "super weapons" that are supposedly just Russian propaganda would render these things obsolete. Chinese cyber weapons knocking out US military communications systems would be catastrophic. Let's also not forget the very regrettable state the US Navy itself is in[1]. This is simply to say that I think you're overstating the primacy of the US military today for fighting a "conventional" style war. Actually, between the three countries only Russia has done so, fight a "conventional war", in the last decade or so when they annexed Crimea. The US has been engaged in a forever-war of "Counter Insurgency" that most assuredly has atrophied both experience and technical skill for fighting great land wars. I'm not saying it's an even playing field, but I would not underestimate Russian or Chinese ingenuity to exploit weaknesses here.

I also figure that a WWIII scenario would be much more like WWI than WWII, since there will be a myriad of new technologies all clashing together for the first time. I don't think anyone can say for certain today what trumps what. Do hunter-seaker drones take out infantry platoons faster than they can be replenished, or do EW units - something that's never actually been tested against these adversaries - knock out the drones first?

[1]https://features.propublica.org/navy-accidents/uss-fitzgeral...
Not easy to justify that square footage on selling pens alone.
Google’s Rebooted Robotics Program
I'd let the person go that chose the mean stack, in favor of someone more experienced.
You, and AoPS’ target audience of current and potential math nerds are very far from the norm. Inquiry based learning is actively harmful to learning for many students, and much less efficient for more or less everyone.

> Why minimal guidance during instruction does not work: An analysis of the failure of constructivist, discovery, problem-based, experiential, and inquiry-based teaching

> Evidence for the superiority of guided instruction is explained in the context of our knowledge of human cognitive architecture, expert–novice differences, and cognitive load. Although unguided or minimally guided instructional approaches are very popular and intuitively appealing, the point is made that these approaches ignore both the structures that constitute human cognitive architecture and evidence from empirical studies over the past half-century that consistently indicate that minimally guided instruction is less effective and less efficient than instructional approaches that place a strong emphasis on guidance of the student learning process. The advantage of guidance begins to recede only when learners have sufficiently high prior knowledge to provide "internal" guidance. Recent developments in instructional research and instructional design models that support guidance during instruction are briefly described.

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1207/s15326985ep4102_...
You live in a nice world, because usually the actual power (and duty) of a dev team member is to advise, not to agree or refuse.
Traditional media, competing social media, forums, blogs, posters, demonstrations, sticker campaigns.

Journalists would be absolutely salivating at the thought of writing about Facebook's new policy, especially if it was that blatant.

FB and Twitter are not the entire world. It's good praxis to be involved with people in the real world.
Android's Storage Access Framework is really underrated. Just ask the user to choose a document (file or image or whatever) by firing an intent-- then Android's built-in file picker starts up and you don't have to deal with implementing any of that UI experience. After the user picks the file, a content:// URI is returned back.

https://developer.android.com/guide/topics/providers/documen...

Best part-- along with the URI, you get the permission to access the document/file/image/audio/whatever "for free" without ever having to request it! Because you kind of just did-- the act of the user picking the file auto-gives you the read permission, which can be kept ("persisted") across system/app restarts.

This file may not even be on the actual device. It could be on some cloud service or a file server or something else you've never even heard of. Android handles it all for you. An example of this is Google Drive. If they've installed the Google Drive app and it's linked to their account, the Storage Access Framework will let the user pick stuff from there just as easily as their own external storage.

You can also use the picker to create/save a new file or even choose a whole (directory/folder) tree.

Reading from the content:// URI is a little different than from a file:// , and I know there are some situations where this won't cut it. But starting in Q you'll be kind of limited in where those files can be accessed.

But in most situations involving External Storage, the SAF is really what you want to use anyway.

Watch this little-seen video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C28pvd2plBA
God creates dinosaurs, god destroys dinosaurs, god creates man, man destroys god, man creates dinosaurs.
MCAS operates on the horizontal stabilizer (and is not a stick pusher like the article claims) the yoke operates on the elevators. The elevators are much smaller and lack the pitch authority of the stabilizer. The stabilizer moves much slower and by the time you've stalled under the conditions MCAS is designed to prevent, you may not have time for the stabilizer to move.
I've seen that "tracking in exchange for free service" notion around HN a bit before, it sort of makes sense. But what about the case when you're paying for everything and still getting tracked?

I think most people expect tracking by the website that they're on, and ONLY that website. That's mainly for improving the website experience and so on. It wouldn't be a privacy violation since it's only their behavior for that website specifically, and no behavior from the other websites.

So in reality we're talking about websites that allow third party tracking or sell tracking information to third parties. That's a privacy violation.
I'm certainly not a lawyer, so absolutely may have misinterpreted.

However, what I've quoted above is referring to the definition for a designated communications provider, as opposed to a 'contracted service provider' - the latter of which makes sense not to include employees as they're not 'contractors'. However, technical assistance notices (which are compulsory, as opposed to 'technical assistance requests') can be served to designated communications providers, as covered by 317L.

So the fact employees aren't considered a 'contracted service provider' is therefore not relevant?

Again, just reiterating, not at all a lawyer, however at this moment in time, this is my interpretation of the legislation.
I don’t have an aeronautical background at all, but a hunch I heard from some aviation forum is that the plane must be certified to be safe when flown by merely an “average” pilot, and if the Max was more difficult because it had this tendency to stall, that might mean it needs a pilot with more skill, therefore more training for existing 737 pilots. So MCAS was needed to ensure no skill difference or training difference whatsoever for the pilots, even if a typical pilot should be capable of flying without MCAS.
> have essentially morphed into "person I don't like"

I’d say it’s even closer to “people I disagree with”.
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My dad has aFib... should I get him this or Kardia?
People can say whatever they want about their own grandma, but I've seen many comments that were clearly referring to grandmothers in general.
I mean, to really address this problem, don't we need genderless employees in the workplace?
> “Who would design a system with a single point of failure?”

According to the original design, the MCAS was only supposed to adjust trim to a level that was easily overridden by the pilot essentially just pushing on the stick/adjusting the trim. If it had been implemented this way, sensor failure would not have been catastrophic and hence doesn't require redundancy. At some point this was either changed or implemented incorrectly so that MCAS had much more authority.
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I'm sure that tons of conservative/Republican leaning stuff has been censored on Facebook then overturned on appeal.

Hopefully, you also don't doubt that there are also many examples of Facebook censoring liberal/left/non-Republican whatever stuff, and then overturning on appeal, many times mysteriously so, after initially rejecting the appeal. (This post presents like a dozen examples in the genre of black activists being banned for discussion of racism, such as uploading screenshots of racist and sexist harassment they received. You might also want a warning that these examples are interspersed with the author's strongly opinionated and bellicose comments. https://medium.com/@thedididelgado/mark-zuckerberg-hates-bla... )

Due to their scale and the shittiness of their algorithms and processes at this kind of thing, surely you're not surprised there are tons of examples on every side. (This article documents more examples on all sides, including exemptions for a prominent Republican: https://www.propublica.org/article/facebook-hate-speech-cens... )

What reason do you have to believe these mistakes always seems to hurt conservative causes or that you tend to see conservative stuff get caught, disproportionately more than non-conservative stuff?
French government announced urgent implementation of Internet upload filters
We are currently struggling with firebase messaging in a multi million user android app. Receiving lots of quota errors which are preventing push notifications to work properly. There is contact support with the firebase team, but there is no solution. I learned that the firebase infrastructure is shared with other developers. If one developer is maximizing load on the system it affects others.
The fact that you basically have no alternative to firebase fcm is really a pita. Each new version of Android makes it more restrictive. I wouldn't be surprised if in 2 years from now every app needs to have buttons with a predefined colour and fontsize
U.S. Orders Chinese Firm to Sell Dating App Grindr over Blackmail Risk
Its been 70 years since the British left, I wonder why the sudden resurgence to go back to pre-British names. Bengaluru was the name for the place prior to the British, but I would argue its the British that made 'Bangalore: the garden city' out of it, that touch still remains although diminishing everyday.
Nice to see YC doing this.
So much for journalistic integrity. Might as well have just said “some guy on the internet”.
Is this aimed at systems without intelligent init systems? I'm curious about the motivation. (What this provides seems to be available in systemd and upstart (and maybe others?) out of the box)
I wonder how many coworking spaces have a slack chat or similar?
Off topic, but did anyone else press play to listen to Polly’s TTS of this article? They seem to have added “inhales” to ostensibly make it more natural, but the pauses and inhales (let alone the quality of the speech) are so off the mark it just sounds really odd. If your voice sounds robotic already, a fake breath only makes it worse.
Why does it have to never work? No technique is perfect.
It seems to imply the only ethical form of control is through capital directly, so through fines. Though it seems obvious that in such a case others in the company would want to punish the individual who got caught.
So many things wrong. Such a shitty product. Bad design, bad sensors, greedy incompetent management trying to make money from a basic safety system. Shut this shit down already.
Your original point was that "[v]irtually [no]" good culture comes out of elite institutions. I cited two examples, there are many more. Of course much more culture is created outside of elite institutions than within them, but that's largely because elite institutions are by their very nature very small.

Those "rich pricks at Yale, Harvard, etc" make up a tiny fraction of society, likely far less than 1%. Accordingly, it would be crazy to think they create a majority or even a plurality of culture.

However, they do have a very outsize influence. They make up less than 1% of the population, but contribute much more than that percentage to culture (I'd unscientifically gander somewhere between 2 and 8%).
Here people is complaining about Google bad policies..but have you ever seen/read/experienced changes in iOS ecosystem? All the new SDK versions must support newer devices while deprecating old versions of iOS.

At least, you pay a fee of 25$ and it's on you (or Google). Paying 99$/year and still experiencing some strong frustration at each newer release and change is much more for fetishism
The main problem is that this just does not scale. Facebook and Google have damaged the business model of local media all over the world – now how can they fix that by reintroducing local media to a few towns below 500 thousand people? If they really want to undo the damage, a systemic change is needed, otherwise it’s just feel good PR.

(I’m from a former communist country and this almost feels like the collectivization: prevent people from running their own businesses and then be so kind as to let them work for the central government. Spoiler: it did not work.)
https://quoteinvestigator.com/2013/04/11/better-light/
> genocidal racism

not allowing people of European decent to have their own state, country, etc IS genocidal. Is it "supremacy" and "racism" to simply advocate for the preservation of a culture and people?

Whether you agree, they should at least be able to talk about it without being labeled "genocidal racists".

(Not talking about actual white supremacists. Don't believe I've ever met one.)
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The theory, as I understand it, is that without tenure or a mechanism like it people might not feel empowered to research controversial subjects, or draw conclusions which challenge conventions, for example.
As long as people can buy ASICs, what's the risk of centralization? I'm pro-ASIC because it dissuades hackers from using my computer to mine crypto. If anything you should be against large mining guilds. That's the real centralization.
> there is some certification requirement that the pitch has to be constant during climb (or something like this); if the plane doesn't have this, it is not certified to fly. It wouldn't pass FAA certification without MCAS.

So what I gather is the issue was that the MAX didn't fit this requirement for steady pitch (hence the airframe problem referenced in the linked article), and MCAS was supposed to be the band-aid to fix this essentially by automatically pushing forward on the yoke during high angle of attack.

If that's the case then the following is especially concerning:

> Boeing offered the single angle-of-attack sensor as standard equipment, and charged extra for a second along with a “disagree” indicator that would allow 737 MAX pilots to “cross-check” a faulty sensor.

Seems pretty sketchy to ask airlines to cough up extra dough for redundancy on a safety critical system. Who knows what other systems are subject to the same cost/benefit tradeoffs.
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Q is a genderless voice “created to end gender bias in AI assistants
..and Australia, if you have been sentenced for a serious crime (more than 3yrs, iirc). (0)

Hell, we don't even particularly care if we make them stateless. (1)

(0) https://www.sbs.com.au/news/new-laws-will-strip-australian-e...

(1) https://mobile.abc.net.au/news/2019-01-08/neil-prakash-defin...
Too expensive salaries? It's funny to see promises such as 400K$/year (compared vs. the rest of the world) and hear stories like this
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A similar, yet completely different project:
https://luftdaten.info/en/home-en/
Can be seen as a "worldwide crowd sourced air quality measurement projects using cheap DIY sensor/data collector"
> Boeing was worried that #1 would cause the plane to nose up during high angles of attack

Your #2 is flawed. Shifting the center of gravity forward would cause the plane to nose down relative to the older model. The problem is that the engines are more powerful, mounted higher and further forward shifting the point of thrust to a location where the plane would rotate further (nose 'up'), that is why MCAS attempts to push the nose down by trimming the tail plane if it senses the plane to be in a too high angle of attack.
> “Who would design a system with a single point of failure?”

Relevant: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19158562
I think this is particularly uncharitable. YC is probably planning to invest in companies in India, we should be more charitable and not be unnecessarily antagonistic.

Also, I think this is unrealistic. Do you expect others to properly use the names of all cities ? For example : https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kozhikode. The 'zh' sound is not present outside of a few South Indian languages. It is OK if others call it Calicut IMO

EDIT: It seems the OP has edited the comment to make it more polite. Thanks OP.
How successful startups built their product in the early stages?
Fitbit are quite accurate (and it seems they're the most accurate right now), but they're real scum and don't allow chronologic data export. I got one since they have that as a feature, but it's such a shitty dataset that it's impossible to do anything with it. It's even a stretch to call it a dataset.

I'm still using mine in comparison with pencil and paper sleep charts, they agree well. It's just a shame I can't show the data from fitbit to my specialist.
> MCAS operates on the horizontal stabilizer (and is not a stick pusher like the article claims) the yoke operates on the elevators.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stabilizer_(aeronautics)#/medi...

So the issue is that MCAS was controlling the big control surfaces, the pilots' attempts to correct with yoke input operated on the small control surfaces? The former overpowered the latter.

Interesting that MCAS wasn't like cruise control where any significant input deactivates the automated controls. But then again, I know next to nothing about how big airliner control systems work.
There is a way to know since segwit was activated using a user activated soft fork despite not having a majority of miner support

Node control has worked in both theory and practice
Slovakia still doesn’t have Apple Pay, Apple News and no operator supports an eSIM. I honestly don’t understand how this is possible.
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Perhaps this is the case, but I remember digging deep one night and seeing a picture of a StorageTek tape system on what I thought was an AWS page. I can't remember the URL. Oracle is trying to compete in this space, so maybe I'm misremembering.
This seems a rather pedantic difference -- "let it be posted and remove it later" versus "reject it upon submission."
i have used some of the services, let me know the business name so i will be aware of it
Fighters also have ejection seats, which provide the final fail safe mechanism. So you can use more radical and risky solutions without unduly putting the pilot at risk. I imagine the calculus works differently for bombers, cargo, and helicopter aircraft.
I like this article. I think it has been stated many time before in many different articles and books and is mostly common knowledge now. So I think we need some meta principles:

1) Don't think you are the only one who understands these principles and realize people are going to have differing opinions on what is the simplest thing that can be done.

2) Just because you don't understand it doesn't make it complicated. If you don't understand something another is talking about try to reserve your judgement as to how simple (or not simple) it is until you actually understand what is being said.

3) Don't over do it with this advice. Sometimes you need to add a bit of complication to make the big picture easier. "A thing should be as simple or as complicated as it needs to be nothing more".
Wow. Thanks for the link. I think might be okay with SQL instead of Datalog. Besides that I love Postgres.
That's called a union.
tcc is much faster, like 20x faster. You don't need any gcc optimization, you'll do the optimization by yourself in your compiler.

You'd link to libtcc.a and don't need to worry anymore
By pointing out the folly of commodity currency, you are making a good case against bitcoin.

(This, too, is addressed in the linked article).
please look at it for "all time" (that google has data for)

Bangalore: https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=all&geo=IN-KA&...

Bengaluru: https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=all&geo=IN-KA&...

This is a post-colonial battle still being fought, and India's wish to shed its colonial shackles deserves to be respected.