skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The number of people saying that this voice sounds absolutely female is just an extension of the tendency to imagine anything even slightly deviating from the most stereotypically masculine as feminine by default. The one comment that I saw comparing this to a masculine voice was comparing it to a "gay flight attendant" that they had on a flight recently - and there, again, is the tendency to assume someone's gay just because they deviate slightly from the stereotypically masculine. The voice sounds genderless to me.
You are arguing from theory. That's not how people work. YOU might work this way, but that doesn't mean this applies to people in general.

If you make something addictive, people still hold personal responsibility and can decide to quit, HOWEVER the majority of people will still find it hard to do so and therein lies the issue.
Using sleep is pretty common, as it lets you "side channel" information out of a blind SQL injection.
That fact means nothing when there is no control by field or any other correlated factors. That model also disregards every person who goes into industry.
Thank you for posting this. I have been hospitalized a few times for acute pancreatitis, for 5-7 days at a time. No food or liquids allowed, with just a saline drip and an IV of dilaudid every 4 hours and hydrocodone every 2 hours.

>Delirium in intensive care units is extremely common

The first time after 48 hours the auditory hallucinations started, but I thought it was music traveling through the HVAC from the wing of the hospital that was being remodeled so I said nothing of it. The second time after 48 hours the auditory hallucinations came again and the nurses had uncomfortable looks on their faces when I explained it to them. Basically it was constant hip-hop, metal, or psychedelic music, droning constantly.

>extremely stressful situations, abnormal biochemistry, and powerful pharmaceuticals.

The constant clicks and beeps of the IV machine, the little lights that never turn off, and all the other interruptions of a hospital stay make for a very stressful situation. The last time that I was in the hospital for it a couple years ago (and surely hope it is the last time, for my daughter's sake) they had implemented alarms on the beds for those under heavy pain medications that went off anytime you attempted to get out of bed, leading to the feeling of being imprisoned.

By the end of each time that I was in the hospital it was constant auditory and intermittent visual hallucinations, and it was horrible. Typing all of this has brought all the vividness back (and the feelings of being trapped in a nonsensical world), which makes me think maybe I as well should write about my experiences.
Lately, I experimented with a 'functional' script language, that uses lazy evaluation for generating C code and does not do any concatenation. It has a build-in debugger, which lets you break at output locations, which proved quite handy when debugging code that generates code.
See: https://github.com/FransFaase/cyclonedds/commits/xtypes_ts
I actually think that this might be one of those cases where the borders of a graph matter a lot. The way that they styled it here makes it look like a time series, and makes it really difficult to interpret at first sight. I think flipping the axes to make it much akin to a cumulative distribution function would make it easier to read.
Wait, what? How do you know, if you don't have an account? And what does it tag you as (since there's no account to cross reference)?
What kept him alive was the A-10’s ability to stay above him and keep shooting the enemy. Quick is great, but actually covering troops that we put out by themselves is more important.
I'm usually down voted a lot on threads like these because I usually say that ageism is overblown (I'm 45).

I hope you're right because I'm 42 (today!). I doubt any companies I know would actually refuse to hire an older developer, but plenty of them have hiring practises that are much more likely to dissuade an older person from applying; for example, I recently saw an advert that mentioned "regular all-night coding parties". While that's not ageism per se, it's definitely designed to appeal to people who are much more likely to be younger.
I found that people didn't expect me to speak/read/write any Mandarin being white and from the states.

Elevator rides were interesting because they were crowded and I was taller than a lot of people. People would talk about the "foreigner" standing next to them. One girl told her friend that she liked my boots (Dr. Martens) and when I got off the elevator I turned and said: "They are so comfortable I walk 3 miles from my hotel to work each day in them". I've never had such stunned silence of 30 people in an elevator. :-)
I have read countless of pieces bashing the F-35 without ever mentioning strategic details like that...

I suppose propaganda and political articles tend to put a spin on everything after all...
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We (Norway) cheat a bit, though - we're a small (5M and change citizens) economy with a massive oil extraction industry which we tax to high heaven, hence the large fraction of GDP raised by taxes.

Regular corporate tax is 22%, whereas anything involving pumping hydrocarbons out of the ground is taxed with an additional 56%, leading to a tax rate of 78%.

In 2018, this led to more than $13B in taxes being paid from oil companies. Joe Q. Public, for comparison, paid $35B or so in income tax.
after working for more than 2 years with PhDs, they never learned standards or better coding practices, because they refused to look for them
If it's indeed solvable by software then it'll still sell fine, but this is one of the articles I have read where the claim is made that it is a fundamental design issue and cannot safely be fixed. I know nothing about aviation but I do spend a lot of time in planes and I sure as hell won't be boarding a MAX until the fix has been flying around without accident for a few years (I try to fly Airbus only anyway but that's not for safety reasons).
Well, that's the idea of Lenin.
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Ask HN: Mathematicians of HN, what's something cool happening these days in?
Inspired by [1] yesterday, I'm curious to hear from mathematicians as well.

Maybe it's not something that you're working on, like the other post, rather something that's happening these days in maths that's cool and may go down in history (even a small thing)

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19500151
No, just bad at expressing myself. I wasn't trying to defend Boeing's management and reasoning.

In fact, I am very much against low costs flights like that and would rather see less planes in the air, as long as they burn fossil fuels.
Can you elaborate to which recent conspiracy theory are you referring to?
What are you talking about... It is man in the middle. This attack is a lot older than encryption, so if you think encryption is required then you've made a big mistake. It refers to literally a person intercepting your message before (or instead of) it reaching the intended audience.
but on xda-developers there's a plenty of custom roms just for Huawei/Honor ones.
So you're saying the JVM wasn't good enough so they had to make a better one? Why does the HN crowd constantly compare WASM with the "obsolete" JVM, when even the creator admits that it is not adequate?
It likely would; if you have a fleet full of 737s and the 737 MAX turns into a new type rating, there's a much weaker argument as why they must get the 737 MAX rather than an A320neo family aircraft, and that gives Airbus a big in-road with potential customers.

That's not to say that Airbus would get all the sales (they won't!), but they then have a much easier time to selling to former 737 customers.
Food safety isn't a function of relatively small changes in the genome of plants you eat, this is pseudo-scientific nonsense. The "natural" corn or animals you eat also experience genetic drift, and the FDA isn't tasked with sequencing them and certifying each "change".

If the purpose of aircraft was to feed them to giants who'd digest them for their raw materials Boeing wouldn't need to certify the 737 MAX either. But aircraft are flown, so minute changes to their construction can make a lot of difference. This comparison of yours makes no sense.
> Mankind came to what it is 99.9% of time without artificial devaluation.

Because productivity was practically constant for this 99.9% of human history. Therefore the monetary base could be practically constant, too. With the industrial revolution, growth became obviously exponential.

Have a look at the following graph (nominal GDP):

http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_VO-2HbQsbSU/S9BbLF6MxBI/AAAAAAAAAR...

Or this one (real gdp):

https://ourworldindata.org/uploads/2013/11/GDP-per-capita-in...

Inflation means the value of money stays coupled to the changes in GDP, just as in the millenia you apparently value for exactly this constant money <> gdp relationship.
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Sure, Russia and China may be way poorer than the US but remember the Vietnam war?

The US was the vastly more powerful and technologically advanced contender but got whooped by some rice farmers with second hand AK-47s.
That's the thing: I do have a pen and paper by my bed - mostly for those "going to sleep" thoughts but also so I always know where one is.

I never remember until I've been awake and moving around for a bit. :)
I expect it makes switching to an Airbus model more compelling - if you're going to have to retrain your crew, you might as well get the plane you want, not just the one you think will be easiest to train for.

I have no idea if the equivalent Airbus (a320neo maybe?) is any better or worse than the 737Max, but losing the common type rating would be one less vote for the 737 max.
The title should be "Why Rust is superior to Ada in 5 minutes".

He is not trying to learn Ada.
B follows from A because in part A makes B economically possible.

Reductions in fuel consumption factor greatly into ticket prices. It's easy to reduce services (luggage, refreshments, leg space) but reducing fuel consumption is entirely up to the aircraft manufacturers.
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Isn't this being sort for beta-phase at the moment because currently the f35 doing the targeting doesn't have to be the one launching the weaponry?
^^ I just made the exact same comment, but this puts it clearer!
That's not a "driver" in the traditional sense, meaning it doesn't talk to the actual hardware directly. It's just a bridge or iptables.
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colocated with parking spaces???

Can you imagine doing that with a general traffic lane? "Oh here's your motorway btw there might be cars parked in it"

That's worse than no lane at all.
> MCAS alternates between the left and right sensor each time the plane lands

This sounds like spectacularly bad design that manages to extract negative value from having two sensors. What is the logic behind this?
Thinking over this, WebAssembly would probably be a better idea for embedding, rather than Javascript.

* Any language which generates WebAssembly could then be used (there are many already. Go, C/C++, Rust, (etc)... with very large growth happening)

* Likely to be a safer execution environment
>I've heard and observed that the Ph.D teaches you one crucial skill - how to take a vaguely defined research problem that nobody has done before, where you're not even sure that a solution exists, and make tangible, rigorous progress on it.

I’d like to elaborate on this a bit further. In my experience as an academic researcher in a technical field (math), one of the most important skills is the ability formulate precise statements/hypotheses that satisfy several criteria. First, they should relate to the existing body of research in your field in a meaningful way. Second, they should have non-trivial answers (in the context of math, i mean that the proof of your hypothesized theorem should be legitimately nontrivial, not merely obfuscated to appear that way, as good mathematicians will be able to tell) or reveal something that was previously unexpected (such as a connection between two previously different topics). Finally, they must be testable/verifiable/provable/etc using your available methodologies and within a predictable timeframe.
As I understand a simple software fix is not possible according to regulation.

The problem is as follows, as you described it partly: 2 sensors are not enough. If the MCAS is an important part for the flight safety, a simple redundant safety system is not enough. Because an airplane is not about functional safety but mission critical safety. In functional safety, if there is an error the safety function is triggered and the system is transferred into a safe state. But there is no safe state here. If the system is mission critical, then it is not safe to assume to switch it off in case of an error. That means for mission critical system we need at least 3 readings and with a vote can decide on which reading is most likely the correct reading.

If the MCAS would not be part of the mission critical path, then we could ask why is there in the first place? There must be reason why it was introduced.

I assume, it is not done by a simple software update, if there are only 2 sensors. It will be partly redesigned to fit the requirements and regulations. But of course, this will not be publicly announced. Think about the share price. They will maintain a communication that assumes that this is an easy (and cheap) fix, a software update.
It's incredible to watch the degree to which intelligence wants and needs are dictating the coming regulatory environment of internet & tech generally.

Losing access to an information stream due to routing or encryption. Matching allies' and rivals' levels of information access (a la prism). Denying them access... From the perspective of the spooks (asio, in this case) these are equivalents to exposing a microphone in Bin Laden's proverbial cave.

Meanwhile, FB & Google's revenue streams are, at this point so big and so tightly coupled with creepy ad-tech/spyware that the economy depends on privacy intiatives failing. Narrowing down a list of FB users who are >n% likely to sign up to a new candy subscription is a lot like producing a list of >n% likely to march in charlottesville or support some specific jihad. Colaboration is inevitable.

Lets not underestimate where these roads are leading.
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> So let’s hope that CNN, and other media that got it wrong, will reassess their approach to divisive, controversial issues. Their viewers are entitled to hear contrary views, even those that make them uncomfortable.

Coming from a Fox News contributor, this is a bit much to swallow.
Perhaps it'll sell, but were I a buyer I'd be asking what else that Boeing might have skimped on and FAA rubber stamped.

We know the plane was built in a rush, and the single-sensor MCAS is an odd choice. It's unlikely MCAS is the only problem, although hopefully it's the only dangerous one.

Don't forget the perception of your ticket-buying customers.
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afaik unstable airframes are the norm for some military/experimental planes (fighter jets for example) to allow more manoeuvrability.

It's definitely not something you want (or need) on a commercial airplane, it adds a ton of complexity and you're not going to do a high G turn or a cobra manoeuvre with a 737.

https://www.boldmethod.com/learn-to-fly/aerodynamics/3-types...
1) is obviously false, since an engineer could be competent and evil. Or competent and under duress - needing to keep their job to keep their visa, family health insurance, etc. Or competent but misled - "Implement the suggested fix to show how easy it is to work around" "OK, here it is" "Now work on something else", while it ships.

2) Why should you? Unless you're willing to be homeless and leave society, you're not going to find a way to live in a capitalist society which is pure idealism and no compromises, and you can't effect change in a system from without, only from within. Quit, and someone else will implement this fix - you feel good, which is worthless, and the fix ships, which is bad, and Cisco doesn't change, which is bad. Pick your battles and you could use this result in future - to build other people's trust in your recommendations, to widen the review process before future fixes are agreed upon, to have a proven record of the cost of doing things twice.
* "All, in all"
I agree that there will always be some instances of key changes, and that you can't make that too scary or else it just drives users away.

But it's not all or nothing. Signal could do better at improving their UX to reduce the number of key changes people make in practice. If they did, they could probably make the prompt slightly more scary (but not Keybase-level scary) – but even if they didn't change the prompt, the mere fact that users wouldn't see it as frequently means they'd be more likely to pay attention when they did.

In particular, according on other posts in this thread, the backup/restore mechanism that allows transferring a key between devices currently has poor UX, only works on Android, is buggy. Obviously that should be fixed. Once that's done, they should make the app actively prompt you to transfer the key as part of the setup process, using a QR code scanned from either the previous phone or a linked computer. You would still have the option not to do so, and some users would inevitably choose that option (if only out of laziness), but if transferring the key is seamless enough, a decent fraction of users would do it.
>Angle of attack for example can be approximated with an accelerometer and gyro

I'm prepared to be wrong but that sounds impossible to me. A steady-state descending stall is inertially indistinguishable from cruise.
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Before we make this into 'conservatives being silenced', it's worth pointing out that the censorship problem also exists for leftists outlets that are left of the neoliberal centrist view of the D.C. Democratic Party.
I rather a female assistant voice, because mothers in human societies are women, and we're hard-wired to find motherly voices more soothing.

This is getting out of hand, it's unnatural, fits strictly in the uncanny valley, and is borderline disgusting; both in terms of sound and in terms of politico-cultural values and intentions.
I've sat on hiring loops where this happened -- candidates were not hired because their current level was not high enough given their years of experience.
Depends largely on the style of the cargo bike. Our local IKEA offers (free) cargo bikes, and previously they had much more useful cargo bikes [1] which they replaced with basket-style ones and now it's of no use for bigger loads. Anyways, yes, trailers are great, but for some reason still not massively produced.

BTW now I looked at your (very rich) offer and noticed you don't have any trailers intended for transporting children. Is that not a thing in the US? Most of the bike trailers I'm seeing over here in Europe are for hauling kids.

[1] https://hamburg.adfc.de/fileadmin/_processed_/csm_f22ikea-c_...
And is this book a good read for someone re-learning math having only taken high school physics?
I’ve also said that I think ageism is overblown in software engineering. Yes, this is a clear cut case of discrimination what happened with IBM. But, IBM is far from being a software engineering focused company.

I also don’t live in a fantasy land where the world is fair. I’ve learned a long time ago not to depend on a job for my livelihood, but my career. For software engineers who have kept their skills current, live in a major metropolitan area in the US, and have kept their network strong, in 2019, I know for a fact that companies are falling all over themselves to hire us. How many people at IBM fall in that category?

Given the choice between unionizing and taking the tact I recommend - changing jobs anytime you see that your skills are falling behind the market, keeping your resume up to date, keeping in touch with former managers and coworkers and just really not being complacent- I would prefer keeping my future in my own hands.

I said in another post that I’m 45, Black, with a mild disability that only allows me to type with one hand. If anyone theoretically should have to worry about discrimination it’s me.
https://threatpost.com/hardware-vendor-offers-backdoor-every...

At least Allied Telesis documents their backdoors :)
After a century of better engineering, can't we make hydrogen bags that can contain leaks and flames better?
We can think about making existing products reusable or creating new products from previous materials.

There are a few furniture manufacturers who are taking plastic from the ocean and recreating them into high-end designer furniture.

When creating new products, the functionalities need to closely replicate what plastic has been able to do. There's not enough net benefit to convince people to switch to alternatives at the moment.
Ask HN: How do I take down old links related to me?
Hi HN,

I’ve made some silly websites and twitter accounts before, and unfortunately I used emails I have lost access to to create these blogs/twitter accounts. I used my full name in some of these tweets/blogs, and I want to start making my name search more professional by removing these old stuff. How do I go about requesting take downs for these unaccessible stuff?
I'm so used to talking data types I forgot in math you're absolutely correct!

Cooncidentally in Pascal, real and integer are the names of two numeric data types.
Yep, and if I'm not mistaken they cost 1500€+, compared to normal bikes which cost 10x less.
Ironically, this is the change most likely to break things for customers that use curl for automation.
Where can I find information on how this system compares to other process managers like pm2 etc.?
True, the problem is that replacing carriages with cars was a benefit for society, destroying local press is not.
oh god stop some politician might see this and take you for being srs
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I have always thought that time would be best stored as milliseconds from TAI. It is a measure that is universally constant and unambiguous.
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Are you sure about that? Try searching for "الموت للغرب" on facebook (Death to the west)
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As a former tenured professor (not fired, I resigned to go work on my startup) this is not true. Yes it is nearly impossible to fire you directly, but what the universities do is play musical chairs. Every couple of years (sometimes every year) there is a reorganisation where there are fewer positions than tenured professors. Guess who gets cut when this happens.
I'm on Three in the UK and no visual voicemail, but subscribe instead fo HulloMail which does voicemail transcription and is a very low monthly/yearly cost.

Would still rather my network provided it though, but it's been 10 years now and Three still haven't updated their systems, so I doubt they ever will.