skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Good to see YC expand. I’m curious, though, if innovation ramps up in the startup space in both China and India, will there be a decrease in demand for immigration to the states?

My own experience across the visa spectrum is some want to move here permanently, some want to make their stake here and return back to their home country, some want to come here and build new businesses.

I don’t mean it as A discussion about immigration but more about one of innovation.

We keep hearing, despite obvious growth in other regions, SV is still ground zero for new companies.
Worked with bunch of PhDs so far, had the delightful experience of seeing them being lower performer in comparison with the rest of the team (myself have a MSc. Degree).

While they might be good at research, on the other side they have some limitations when coming to concrete work. The last one wanted just code and skip all the theoretical work (reading docs, specifications etc), bringing us to let him go, because he wanted only his IDE and no more (not even considering other tasks such as taking care of his own work)
You can always quit. Or force them to fire you for refusing to implement a non fix.

In reality though I doubt this narrative even occurred. Some incompetent engineer likely proposed this fix thinking that it was actually a fix.

Edit: I see I've been downvoted for this comment. If we were real engineers working on things like cars and bridges we'd actually be held accountable. Take some pride in your work people, this is one of the most in demand professions in today's economy.
Your comment implies that Nazi Germany had absolutely ZERO redeeming qualities, which no credible historian would agree with. (e.g. no other country since has had the degree of focus on conservationism and environmentalism)

And we went to war because of Japan, whom we put into concentration camps.
Pilots are already trained to handle runaway trim, the idea was that an MCAS failure would behave similarly and the same checklist they already trained on could be used. Due to issues in how MCAS was implemented however, the behavior was different from runaway trim and more confusing.
There is such a thing as the corporate death penalty: revoking the corporate charter. It is used extremely rarely, the main argument goes something like 'oh, but there are so many people working there who had nothing to do with this' and fines levied typically are much less than the profits gained with the lawless behavior.

Another option I see is that the CEO of a company would be automatically personally held responsible for any wrongdoing. There is of course a lot of stuff you could say to shoot that down, for instance that employees might try to do a joe job on their CEO, but a CEO is also in the position to enact meaningful oversight by creating corporate structures to ensure compliance.
Not sure how much you can scale down. To reach high enough to be useful, you'll need some base and proper arm to achieve that.
Honestly, I don't think that it's a bad thing at all to require a Masters/PhD as a prerequisite for being a data scientist. There are too many people in this field who just run data through a library in the most obvious way and when it doesn't work they're out of ideas because they don't understand what happens inside the library. They're ruining it for the rest of us, because they're undermining the credibility of the whole field.

Using a library is something you can learn over the course of a vacation by working through a book or tutorial. But understanding what happens inside the library is something that you will never just pick up on the job. You do need actual time, actual training, and interaction with people who already understand this sort of thing very well over the course of many months or years.
I read the entirety of the page you linked to. Nowhere I found does it say that neutrality is required for the protection to apply, nor that pre-approval or vetting copyright would waive the protection, nor that the protection is in exchange for supporting free speech. Could you point that out to me?

In fact, it links to another page which states:

Wow, is there anything Section 230 can't do?
Yes. It does not apply to [...] intellectual property law

https://www.eff.org/issues/bloggers/legal/liability/230

Which directly contradicts your implication that Section 230 is the law that grandparent was referring to when they stated:

The government [...] granted [internet services] immunity
to copyright related suits [...] (This is a law.)

Furthermore, Section 230 explicitly states that its liability protection DOESN'T require neutrality, and extends to:

any action voluntarily taken in good faith to restrict
access to or availability of material that the provider or
user considers to be obscene, lewd, lascivious, filthy,
excessively violent, harassing, or otherwise objectionable,
whether or not such material is constitutionally protected

(same link)
This is a confusing graph from the Economist that I snipped when I saw it in 2013. Very difficult to wrap your head around what is being shown here: https://pasteboard.co/I7ttkG5.png
You are talking about "old tech". The new tech is an entirely different beast. The new tech is about producing photos styled as if it was painted by Van Gogh. It's about rewriting sentence with correct grammar in word processor. It's about cooling billion dollar data center with highly complex architecture. It's about perfectly removing background from your photo even when it has your hair flying in the air. It's about perfectly translating voice to text and then searching vast knowledge graphs to answer questions. It's about beating world champions in games of highly complex strategy and tactics.

You can't just throw bunch of great coders with high school diplomas at these problems and hope they would workout solutions. Solving any of above problems at the level we solve now would be considered pure magic and utterly surprising just a decade ago. These problems requires extensive mathematical modeling and leaning on research with incremental progress that has been collectively made by 100s of brilliant researchers over multiple decades. This is why PhD is desirable for "new tech".
Can you explain why? It seems like a straightforward application of the law making some activity illegal, when its jurisdiction is explicitly defined as extending beyond the nation's borders. If you forget the border for a moment and just consider it all a single jurisdiction, aren't you basically saying that somebody can break the law and claim immunity from prosecution on the basis that their job requirements demanded that law to be broken?
Maybe this isn't as new of a development as we think.

Considering that McDonnell Douglas management is running Boeing these days…
It 300km in low earth orbit. Press briefing said that the debris will re-enter the atmosphere within a week.
> Therefore, we obviously need to patch echo (and all echo shell builtins) to refuse to output strings containing "GET", "POST", "HTTP", or "Host:".

Unfortunately it is also possible to do this using file redirection or to write a new program that will make a TCP connection and send arbitrary data through it, making it necessary to do the same for all editors, compilers and interpreters.

That sounds like a lot of work though (there are many such programs), so maybe we ought to just patch the kernel to prohibit any of those strings from being written to a file descriptor. There can't be that many false positives.
'Under the table' means 'out of sight'. It is used to indicate money changing hands but that's not the only use.
I've always been confused here on this, does that mean the 737 MAX has a high chance to have faulty reading from their AoA sensors? Or is that pretty much the industry standard right now? This has always seem like the actual culprit.
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.

Yeah, that's factually incorrect. All 737 NG/MAX planes have two alpha vanes to detect the angle-of-attack. MCAS only ever uses one at a time.

Edit: You can see them both plainly in pictures:

https://www.planespotters.net/photo/806268/pk-lqg-lion-air-b...

https://www.jetphotos.com/photo/8686917
So grad school isn't a total waste of time after all! Who knew?
I think CSS is probably good enough that we can live without UA sniffing for this.
Your theory falls flat on its face cosnidering that Ethiopian has quite a stellar safety record and a good reputation.
More accurate to say I've flown a 737 on my computer.
No you can't, I tried that, it doesn't let you enter the code yourself, it requires permission to read SMS, and then reads the received verification code itself.
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While I do like Ansible, it‘s not really the right tool for a tutorial about sensors.

It‘s a lot easier to explain that you need to pull & run some image than it is to explain installing python, get your ansible host configuration right and then run a playbook. There’s just a lot more variance (and therefore margin for error) that you don’t want to deal with when you’re explaining something else entirely.
How to get images from Instagram to compute image analytics
I want to identify some Instagram accounts that are relevant to a topic (eg cooking) and perform image analysis on their posts. However with the new restrictions imposed on the Instagram APIs we can no longer get posts from public accounts. Any ideas on how to get this data or alternatives to Instagram that can provide images posted by users relevant to a topic?
Real programmers don't actually use any language, as their time is best spent in forums and chat rooms arguing with non-real (integer?) programmers why they aren't real programmers.
Are these multi-millionaires really that intrigued by flamenco dancers and baristas at an open house? This seems so cheesy to me.
Xerxes the Great: The Achaemenid King Who Began the Decline of an Empire
Xerxes I was the fourth ruler of the Achaemenid empire. In modern popular culture, Xerxes is perhaps best known as the main antagonist in Frank Miller’s 300, a film based on the comic series of the same name.
https://www.ancient-origins.net/history-famous-people/xerxes-great-achaemenid-king-who-began-decline-empire-005567
PVS-Studio for Java Hits the Road. Next Stop Is Elasticsearch
Meanwhile the US goes around telling other countries not to use Huawei because they can't guarantee security. [1]

[1] https://www.forbes.com/sites/zakdoffman/2019/02/19/huawei-fo...
I don't understand the dig at Mayer. Seems like more nimby bullshit that she shouldn't be able to throw a party at her own house. I doubt the generator is loud enough for her rich neighbors to hear in their bedrooms.

Also, this is the reality bay area voters chose. Perhaps the greatest, fastest transfer of wealth to lucky property owners in human history.
Context–not data–differentiates the role of market research in the tech sector
I keep anonymous on here, sorry. People are unable/unwilling to not take any random thing I say as an official position of my company.

I don't work for a FAANG.
Sensors break. They get gunk on them. They ice over.

Generally a sensor with such a critical failure mode would be triple-redundant - if one fails, the discrepancy between sensors is flagged and the aircraft runs on the other two until the broken one is fixed. In this case, the aircraft had two sensors of the type (Angle-of-Attack), but MCAS was only listening to one of them.
To add on that, if you want to measure particulate matter take an SDS11 and have a look at https://luftdaten.info
#5 The answer is: The aircraft stalls
Good for you. I am seriously thinking of leveraging PWA. My app is pretty light weight, just a frontend to a REST api.
At the moment it takes almost 7 seconds to load a repository details page
That's what I was saying - you need to understand the game. Part of this is knowing the core business terminology in you field :)

ISV - independent software vendor. An entity having an ownership of a software product, usually developing the software as well.

The other entity this is often compared against is the ESP - external service provider. I.e. consultants.

I spent years with legacy monstrosity and it does develop important skills. If the organization is otherwise ok it might not be that bad - but generally production software is absolutely horrible. The thing is legacy maintenance is important, and there's quite nothing like it that will teach you about the lifecycle requirements of software development. But I find it much more fullfilling to maintain and develop software that is alive and well and actively kept out of the 'legacy' label.

Not all old software is 'legacy'. One definition is that does it have tests. I've found an equally good definition of 'you are not afraid to modify it' and 'you can understand what changes in one place do elsewhere'.

So to be clear, I was not saying "anyhing but greenfield development sucks".
The reason I use double quotes is because there is nothing geeky about what they do. They deceive people in the name of computer health checks, mostly old people and less tech savvy folks. There are dozens of stories of these “Geeks” that steal personal information from customers’ computers.

I’m not sure what point you’re trying to make?
> Interesting that MCAS wasn't like cruise control where any significant input deactivates the automated controls.

It would disengage... but then would immediately re-engage if the bad sensor readings were still there. And would, in the meanwhile, have reset its control limiter so it would push even harder than the first time.
I feel it mostly comes from insecurity rather than from experience working with academics. Someone feels threatened by someone else having a credential they don't have so they put that person down in some way to make themselves feel better

e.g. "I didn't see the point in going to university because it's all theory and I think practice is more important", "those who can't do, teach".

> I wish that, just because I can do one type of thing well, people wouldn't jump to the conclusion that I can't also do another type of thing well. As in: Just because I understand math, please don't jump to the conclusion that I don't understand databases and can't write clean code. Just because I can see the "right way" to solve a problem, doesn't mean I can't also appreciate arguments in favor of the cost-efficient way of solving 20% of a problem if it gives you 80% of the benefit. etc. etc.

Yeah, it's a combination of insecurity, cliched thinking and gatekeeping. It's quite feasible to get to expert level at many things.

It depends on your PhD as well. Some involve no programming, some just quick prototypes, some more complex projects etc. Generalising how all PhD students must be is stupid.
Wondering if Boeing will be able to recover from this in regards to keeping the MAX flying at all. I mean, I will always pick a different plane from now on - just not a risk I'm willing to take in the foreseeable future. Not sure if my stance is common though.
From what I've read, MCAS is disabled with the flaps down, so it wouldn't be for take-off and landing.
Free speech doesn’t cover incitement to violence, and it is already illegal and that is why it’s a red herring. Advocating for violence against innocent people is not primarily ideology, but someone being a bad human being that should go to jail for breaking the law.

You really don’t need hate speech and white supremacy policies to prohibit speech that is already illegal, but you need it to suppress speech that some people might disagree with when they want to abuse their power to suppress it.
I doubt they are referring to their security bugs.
What I was implying was that instructors =/= professor. Don't really think adjuncts need tenure any more than public school teachers (though I know some public school teachers in certain districts can get "tenure")
If you had a 1 month deadline and were still hiring I'd hope the guy with a decade of experience would see the looming tyre fire and select himself out of the running.

And you're kidding yourself if you think it takes a year to get up and running in whatever GUI stack was cool this year, the guy with 10 years of experience in winforms obviously knows a thing or two about picking stable mature technologies.
> where grinder.phone_number = opm.phone_number

why would grindr have that? Hell, they dont even validate the random string you can put in the email field
It is completely relevant, since the OP mentions that you as an australian working for a company could be compelled directly as a communications provider.

I'm saying that if you are in the employ of a communications provider or a contracted service provider, you do not have to worry about being compelled directly. I take "the person" to mean an actual person, or a legal person, but the employee of the communications provider is not a person (IANAL, so don't use me as legal advice).
The thing about the 737 is that you have massively powerful engines essentially hanging from the underside of the wings, and the wings are in a low-wing configuration (i.e. they sprout from the bottom of the fuselage and not the top like a Cessna).

Imagine you're on final into a busy airport and you have to abort your descent because $reasons. If you slam the throttles forward, the thrust is all below the aerodynamic centre of the aircraft, so you have a net nose-up pitching moment created. In other words, when you slam the throttles forward the aircraft tends to nose up. A 737 pilot told me recently that in a take-off/go-around situation you actually need to push the yoke forward to restrain the aircraft's nose-up tendency until you can re-trim for climb.

MCAS was introduced because the new engines on the MAX, essentially, make the airframe more dangerous at high Angle of Attack than the previous generations of the 737, and so MCAS was intended to automagically keep pilots from entering the dangerous regime.

MCAS was required in order to keep to the "zero training delta" commitment. The solution might be removing MCAS, but that will/would require more pilot training which would essentially render the MAX a completely new aircraft as far as regulation is concerned.
There are some small trains in Switzerland that are like this, they are for those places where there are no roads or they are closed for the winter. The train takes on a bunch of cars, leaves and drops them off a half hour later. Super convenient and sometimes even free, and easily the best part of traveling to that particular destination.

https://www.myswissalps.com/car/cartrains
Does someone who only has an idea, but not done the implementation yet ( or not production ready ) can apply??
Just the documentation to be honest. The basic functions of redis are quite simple to learn and use either using the redis-cli client or a language binding. Basically you PUT keyname value, and GET keyname to retrieve value. There's a ton of additional features and types of structures but the basic use of it is as a key/value store.
FSF - WORDS TO AVOID:

“Piracy”

Publishers often refer to copying they don't approve of as “piracy.” In this way, they imply that it is ethically equivalent to attacking ships on the high seas, kidnapping and murdering the people on them. Based on such propaganda, they have procured laws in most of the world to forbid copying in most (or sometimes all) circumstances. (They are still pressuring to make these prohibitions more complete.)

If you don't believe that copying not approved by the publisher is just like kidnapping and murder, you might prefer not to use the word “piracy” to describe it. Neutral terms such as “unauthorized copying” (or “prohibited copying” for the situation where it is illegal) are available for use instead. Some of us might even prefer to use a positive term such as “sharing information with your neighbor.”

A US judge, presiding over a trial for copyright infringement, recognized that “piracy” and “theft” are smear words.
If MCAS is required for the plane to be airworthy, then it is not airworthy when the pilot disables it via stabilizer trim cutoff. And if the behavior of the plane is not subtly different in approach to stall, stall, or stall recovery, then the pilot might also not be type certified for the airplane with MCAS disabled.

I'm really suspicious, in a variety of ways, of cutoff switches effectively decertifying a plane in flight. And then how it's OK for pilots to not at least be made aware of that potential situation in advance?

An airplane suddenly rendered not airworthy, and pilot suddenly rendered without a proper type rating. It's absurd. I don't know how a software update gets them out of this predicament, if it's true.

Airbus fly-by-wire aircraft have numerous layers of safeguards (laws) in place. Each can be removed or degraded depending on the circumstances. But pilots are expected to know all of them, and know the consequences of each safeguard being removed, including the ensuing natural flight behavior of the airplane.

Anyway the story still isn't fully out yet.
Further to my comment above, here's the line from the Wikipedia entry, which I vaguely recalled:

The F-16 is the first production fighter aircraft intentionally designed to be slightly aerodynamically unstable, also known as "relaxed static stability" (RSS), to improve maneuverability.

1. The F-16 is the first production fighter aircraft intentionally designed to be slightly aerodynamically unstable, also known as "relaxed static stability" (RSS), to improve maneuverability.
Here is something you might be interested in: https://www.aidlab.com
Also, my intention was never to give an exhaustive list of artists that went to elite schools, but your point focused on "great" culture, and while Lady Gaga is definitely beloved by many (and I personally think she's pretty great), it's understandable that some would find that a controversial choice.

So here are a few more "cherry-picked" pop musicians, surely some of them would qualify under your rubric:

- Tom Morello - Rage Against the Machine - Harvard

- Lauryn Hill - Columbia (dropped out, but released The Score while still a student)

- Alicia Keys - Columbia (dropped out after growing fame)

- Greg Graffin - Bad Religion (punk band) - Cornell PhD

In the non-pop world, at least classical and much avante garde, much of the new activity is based out of these "elite institutions".
From what I have understood they used MCAS so that they didn't need to reclassify the plane model and that pilots would not need to retrain for it as with the MCAS the handling would be similar to the older planes.
The actual problem might not be with the design but using workarounds to get through red tape of reclassifying and retraining pilots for a new plane
Is the reason they moved the engines forward to avoid having to lift the plane higher and not having it fit jetways/stairs?
Dubai: W2S Solutions pins another Location on world map
Something that should be taken into account is that THOSE pictures we see today are edited and color graded by today standards, by people who are aware of Wes Anderson and a lot of other cultural references we all share. Photography is way more than pressing the button and editing/sequencing is a big part of being a photographer. We obviously don't know all the frames contemporary photographers of Vivian Maier had trashed because they didn't fit the aesthetic of those times. Saul Leiter is another examples of that. His color work had been discovered 50 years after being shot. Back in the days B&W photography was all the rage and Color was judged vulgar and restricted to advertising... William Eggleston was the one that conciliate color and art 10 years later in the 60S.
While the swings in tournaments are brutal, they're nothing vs having a break even or small losing streak for 200k hands in cash games. I've had a few of those during my years of playing cash games professionally and when they happen you start to questioning why you're even playing, why even try to win, what are you doing with your life etc.

Variance is a bitch.