skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
With people i know? To a cafe.

With people i don't know? I really don't know. Perhaps a pub. Or a club (like sports club). Or political party groups.
That's a lot less than the statutory minimum in the UK - I got 9 Months from BT on Voluntary Redundancy 15+ years ago.

Some Higher grades got 100,000 k and 6 years extra pension.
Rubbish. You're claiming that "white supremacists" kill more people than the Bataclan murders, the bombing of the Ariane Grande concert and a host of other atrocities (Sweden, etc.) carried out by self-proclaimed ISIS supporters.

That's not only wrong it's highly offensive.
The point of view I'm expressing is skepticism of one thing accompanied by basic knowledge of another. You, on the other hand, are all knowing and skepticism has no place for you.
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Technically, yes, but in practice it is an enormous expense that will likely never pay for itself. In New Jersey, laying less than 8 miles of tracks on an existing (abandoned, de-tracked) right-of-way in the middle of nowhere and building one station cost more than $60 million:

https://www.njherald.com/20171221/train-station-restored-rai...
In the department I was in I was the only non-tenure track person with a phd. All the others only had masters degrees. That is, of course, only one department so may not be representative of other departments. And often it would be difficult to find people to teach the courses. Because there was a limit to how many courses a person could be taught and still be "part-time" the full time, non-tenure track, faculty often ended up teaching extra courses.

Regarding tuition costs, there are a lot of reasons why it has grown so quickly. One is the growth in administration. When my old university announced they wouldn't be doing any more one year contracts and would instead be going with exclusively part-time faculty, I suggested they look into part-time administrators but they didn't seem to think that was a good idea...

Another is the escalating "arms race" of campus amenities. Four year universities feel like they need to add more and more and fancier and fancier amenities to attract students because they feel like if they don't have a new multi-million dollar rec center and the nearby college does that students will be more likely to go to the other college.

A third reason is that the funds colleges get from states is a smaller percentage of their budget now than it was in the past. One of my friends is an advisor at a Big Ten college and she recently posted on facebook that she was going through some old paperwork that had been left in her office and found the university's budget for 1997. Comparing it to 2019, the university's budget had doubled but the amount of money that it received from the state had only increased by about 25%. That money has to come from somewhere (which is one reason why that university has made a big push to attract international students in recent years since they pay a lot more in tuition than in-state students)
Describing groups of humans as a cancer is stage 4 of the ten stages of genocide:

http://genocidewatch.net/genocide-2/8-stages-of-genocide/

You’re engaging in behavior with truly horrifying antecedents.
> They break the law by setting up perfectly legal incentives and requirements that just happen, by their combined effects, to encourage or even require the minions to break the law.

I don't see why this is supposed to be a problem. (Barring "require", but I'm betting you're just exaggerating there.)

Any incentive is going to encourage the incentivized party to break the law. That's the point of the law, protecting some people from what other people want to do to them.

Right now, I'm incentivized to take all your money, because more money is better than less money. And there have been people who saw this fact and decided the problem was the concept of money. But those people were and are insane.
Exactly. ed(1) is the standard text editor:

https://www.gnu.org/fun/jokes/ed-msg.html
Not OP but - No Linux support. I use it on my Windows machines but need something for Linux
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With manufacturer not being US manufacturers the size of Boeing? Personally I would doubt that.

Is there any example where that happened?
This is hilarious. Google is trying to leverage it's search & mobile OS market positions into pushing people towards its podcast app. Unfortunately for Google it has come up against one of the few entities in the world that can just turn around and say "Fuck. That."

Frankly, I think this is a monopolist tactic from Google and it should result in government investigations but I have no hope that will happen. Nice to know people like the BBC have the balls to say no to this though.
WRT "out" parameters, it means that very literally. There the variable is only passed out, it is not passed "in." Steve's test never assigns "A" in Foo() so "A" is an uninitialized variable that then gets stored in the mainline "A" (which has the same name, but is an entirely different variable). The mainline "A" is assigned the value 12 but then gets overwritten by the uninitialized value passed out by Foo().

with Ada.Text_IO; use Ada.Text_IO;

procedure Outp is
procedure Foo (A : out Integer) is
begin
Put_Line (Integer'Image (A));
end Foo;
A : Integer := 12;
begin
Foo(A);
end Outp;

A clearer example would be:

with Ada.Text_IO; use Ada.Text_IO;

procedure Outp is
procedure Foo (A : out Integer) is
begin
Put_Line (Integer'Image (A)); -- Uninitialized variable, random value
A := 42;
Put_Line (Integer'Image (A));
end Foo;
A : Integer := 12;
begin
Put_Line (Integer'Image (A));
Foo(A);
Put_Line (Integer'Image (A));
end Outp;

This will still give the uninitialized variable warning (typically can and should configure the compiler to turn that into an error, not a warning).

Playing compiler, the output should be

12 -- Outp()
<random value> -- Foo()
42 -- Foo()
42 -- Outp()

You can make variables in and out by saying that (literally). This will do what Steve expected:

with Ada.Text_IO; use Ada.Text_IO;

procedure Outp is
procedure Foo (A : in out Integer) is
begin
Put_Line (Integer'Image (A));
end Foo;
A : Integer := 12;
begin
Foo(A);
end Outp;
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You're writing your websites wrong.
There have been a few informal studies that have shown its effectiveness. Additionally, the mechanism for action is clear - deplatforming actually breaks up the very filter bubbles that allow hate to become organized. It makes it harder for those seeking to spread hate, and gives more of an opportunity to consider alternatives for those who are perhaps caught in the drain of that bubble.
Its very surprising that Places like Germany get away with this.
How to avoid building a Frankenstein product
If the cost of the recertification is more than the expected profits, we don't do one
I worked on a team that had a lot of amazing talent (many members of the team had 20+ years of experience in the field). Got a new manager who wanted to reduce cost and bring in "new ideas". Funny thing was: those experienced engineers had been promoting many of those new ideas for quite a while to no avail. End result was the green team that was brought in ended up taking way too long to redo everything and missed the market opportunity. They also missed the boat on the new ideas, confusing different techniques and tech for new product features that would be useful for customers. The whole thing died.
Microsoft gives 500 patents to startups
I think if you trust people to not be corrupt you will wind up with corruption. A bad law is one that requires the empowered to not abuse it. A good law can't be abused. Harsh and cynical but true - reducto ad absurdum giving someone the legal power to murder anyone and relying on it to "not be abused" is a law literally bad enough to be causus beli for a civil war.
I came out ahead in the end but it wasn't a lot. I deposited $50 on PS initially, then grinded the micro stakes and mostly hovered around NL25 while taking shots at NL50. I still remember how gratifying it was to purchase PokerTracker with some winnings.

It's funny to think back then I was sitting there 4-6 tabling NL10 with a PT HUD thinking I was on the top of the poker world.

How about you?
Any tips you all have on building the right features for the right audience?
I did! Thanks. I’ll fix that.
The composition of the oceanic "garbage patches" is about 50% discarded fishing gear [1].

The stuff you tend to find washed up on beaches contains a large proportion of land-originated bits and bobs such as lighters, toothbrushes, and beach sandals, but also a large fraction of already-partly-decomposed plastic fragments, impossible to ascribe to any particular source [2].

Personally I'm not in favour of an outright ban (give me back my 100 W lightbulbs and 2000 W vacuum cleaners!) but EU-wide taxation could surely disincentivize plastic cutlery with respect to bamboo or other decomposable.

[1] https://ocean.si.edu/conservation/pollution/marine-plastics
[2] "Composition and potential origin of marine debris stranded in the Western Indian Ocean on remote Alphonse Island, Seychelles" Duhec et al. Marine Pollution Bulletin 96 (2015) 76–86
Shame the BBC Sounds app doesn't support casting though, instead telling people to just ask their smart speaker to play the BBC podcasts directly.

I sympathise with their decision, but it doesn't seem a very joined up one.
https://podnews.net/article/bbc-blocks-google has more on this.
Do you have small kids? Just curious, because having a small helpless human dependent on you for their survival and well being has made me change my attitude towards life a bit away from Stoicism.
What's even worse is that a runway trim could be disabled by pulling hard on the yoke which would disable the autopilot driving the trim wheel motors. Then the wheels could manually be brought into position.

Not if the runaway is caused by a stuck trim switch --- which is why there are the cutout switches and the procedure for runaway trim involves using them. Finally, if that doesn't work, manually grasp and hold the trim wheels:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cQirIH_DuAs

(...and if that doesn't work, there's a big mechanical problem which is unlikely to be recoverable, since the trim wheels are directly linked to the stabilizer.)
I wrote down anything that stuck out: there’s a lot of questions, but also a lot of positive things! I just had more to say about things I was unsure about then things that are like “yes, this is good.”
The amount of hatred in this thread for non-web technologies is insane.
That's not quite what happens. https://podnews.net/article/bbc-blocks-google does go into the actual user experience, rather than what the BBC is claiming.
Wait, there are podcasts and podcast players that don't use RSS?

Why would anyone do that?
Hey! I've opened an issue to discuss about the subcommands feature: https://github.com/celicoo/docli/issues/10

I would love to know your opinion about it.
I cured my X by doing Y.

Is that an anecdote or a data point? What if 150 people tell you the same thing? Having done exactly that, I don't really care how anyone else classifies it, it is my reality.
Yeah, they have the right to look but not to photograph just like you are allowed to watch a movie but not to record it.
If you want a photo of me for your own enjoyment then I may want a fee or I may not want you to have any.
Privacy is not only in your own private space/home just like up-skirting is not legal in public spaces.
That one is a stretch goal, I'd love to do it but they are much less... friendly to this kind of thing than reddit or twitter is.
It invites you to step back from the mundane and consider your life, its infinitesimal place in the universe, its ultimate transience, and the kind of attitude and virtues you want to practice.

It's a form of deep reflection that places your life in a cosmological perspective. In that respect it serves a similar function to prayer and the contemplation of the divine in some religions.
This is all a load of crappy workarounds leading to a convoluted and cumbersome user experience. From a usability perspective, I would not consider such a behavior a solution.
I don't know why BBC pushes it's sounds app so hard. I get nagged to use it every time I listen through Alexa too. There's no BBC sounds smart speaker so why do they care? What do they gain from me using the app?
I think the more experience a person has with software engineering, the more they write efficient and secure software, and quickly. With junior developers, it takes longer to produce working code and it is buggier and less efficient. Same with construction work. Alot of this work is complicated. People who have decades of experience generally perform better.
Stealth is relative; as long as your detection distance is greater than the adversary's, you're good. Also, passive is great, but I'd expect in a war situation all large transmitters would get disabled first.
What is this, off-brand sarcasm?

> Measuring a sensor is so complicated

Well, you need something to ingest & query the data. InfluxDB or Prometheus is a good choice.

You need something compatible to display it. Grafana is perfect for that.

Docker is a pretty simple and decently-lightweight choice to standardize how this installs and runs.

And letting it run on a Pi makes it cheap and accessible.

What exactly is the problem with this setup? Not enough NIH?
The ability to make accountability disappear seems to be one of the greatest tricks we've learned in modern society. You hit the nail on the head, this idea of setting an environment where criminal behavior is emergent is a great trick. If you do it right and the emergent behavior is revealed, you will always have the defense of "I did not intend for this to happen," deferring blame to complexity and other things outside one's control. Is there a handbook or something that outlines these types of tactics?
> For example (I am not saying that happened), the engineers designing MCAS didn't expect incorrect AoA data, thinking the checks were done elsewhere. At the same time, the "sensors" team thought that raw, unchecked data was expected. The integration guy didn't read the specs correctly (sometimes, it comes down to a single word), didn't catch that, and checked the OK box. His manager, focused on a more pressing issue took that as granted and it went to production.

> It is possible that the engineers did an excellent work, but didn't question the specs they had. The integration guy is normally super reliable but he just had a bad day. And his manager handled the other problem beautifully and overlooked the MCAS/AoA because, normally, the integration guy is reliable. A series of small mistakes that ended up in a catastrophe.

What you describe here would be a major failure of systems engineering on the project.

The systems engineers are responsible for flowing top level requirements down to the individual systems. They are responsible for ensuring the specs the engineering teams receive for their systems are correct, and for handling requests to change said specs. If the spec of the output of the AoA sensors does not match the spec flowed down to other teams on the input from those sensors the systems engineers responsible did not do their jobs.

Systems engineers exist to manage complexity like this, to ensure that the various engineering teams across the various disciplines are technically coordinated by providing clear, consistent specs and interfaces for them to work to. If that didn't happen, then I would not say those engineers are competent, let alone smart. It would be especially disappointing to me (as a former systems engineer) if this were the case, as systems engineering is the last place I would expect such incompetence from a company like Boeing. It's at the core of everything they do.

I want to address one specific point in a different context.

> the engineers designing MCAS didn't expect incorrect AoA data, thinking the checks were done elsewhere

You always expect out-of-spec conditions to be a possibility and have something in place to handle those conditions appropriately. To not do so is incompetence bordering on negligence.
I don't think anyone with leftist or conservative views (at least how we define them today) would have it in them to murder 50 innocents in a mosque. I don't see the slippery slope applying here either - the views held by white supremacists haven't exactly evolved over the years .
Do it!

Preferably, the floppy disks should be the 5-1/4 inch 1.2 MiB high-density, double-sided type, 3-1/2 inch disks sounds good too ;-)
vemacs (Visual Emacs)
Not entirely true - Orange has just announced eSIM support (http://dsl.sk/article.php?article=22304) and Apple Pay is definitely coming in next months (I have this confirmed from inside banks).
The writing was on the wall, in the same way that streaming killed optical media and optical media killed LPs. Or in the same way that e-commerce is killing retail once logistics gets cheap enough to make delivery cheaper than buying in store.

This is a completely different matter. Here you are giving examples of services getting replaced by a better competitor. How does Google or Facebook improve on local journalism? They have just destroyed an important public service with no viable replacement in sight. The situation has maybe improved for the advertisers, but the public has lost a big time.
From this article:

> Talking to Podnews, a BBC spokesperson said that Google is required to sign a licence to link to their podcasts; and that the Distribution Policy also requires Google to supply user data to the BBC. There has been a “consultation with Google”, and the BBC “has no choice but to stop Google from making podcasts available via Google products.”

> However, Ofcom, the UK media regulator, requires that “the BBC must offer the public services to third parties in response to reasonable requests for supply, except where the BBC has an objective justification for not doing so. In offering the public services for supply, and in supplying those services, the BBC must act on a fair, reasonable and non-discriminatory basis.” (¶3.3.2).

> In recent months, the BBC have been removing some of its podcasts from third-party platforms, and placing them exclusively within their BBC Sounds app. BBC podcasts are supported by advertising outside the UK, though BBC Sounds remains unavailable to non-UK listeners.
This brings to mind Home Depot's free "water tests" hanging at the entry to every store, emblazoned with the Home Depot logo. Free water test! Make sure what your family drinks and bathes in and cooks with is safe! they say.

The reality is that everyone gets an urgent call from a sales rep about some vague characteristics of your water that urgently need to be corrected by one of their $7,000 water softening systems that nobody actually needs. The salespeople are relentless, they call daily, and insist on finding a time when "both spouses" will be home to listen to their pitch. I haven't been subjected to that but I'm sure it doubles their chances of one person caving to their high pressure sales tactics.

When I first came across this, I was stunned that a big name retailer with a lot to lose would do something so shady and unethical. I wonder if they even actually do test the water and would notice or tell you if it was actually loaded with lead or something else.
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>> Kingsnorth said this is because the words we use to describe our world shape our perception of it.

That's the concept of Linguistic relativity, also known as the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linguistic_relativity

The strong version says that language determines thought and that linguistic categories limit and determine cognitive categories.
The weak version says that linguistic categories and usage only influence thought and decisions.

My understanding is that this idea is controversial and in any case, difficult to demonstrate, because it's mostly impossible to know one's thoughts without asking them to put them into words, and also because language understanding is subjective and it's impossible to understand what someone is saying without placing it in the context of our knowledge and understanding of the world in the first place.
You can’t be sued for discrimination based on the employees location, which is actually the issue at stake here. Citizenship doesn’t appear to be relevant.
> 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.

It was added to meet certification requirements for handling at high angles of attack. Specifically, to counter an increased pitch up tendency due to the larger, more forward engine nacelles.

As to how mission-critical it is I don't know, but as I understand it the angles of attack where it would become active are not encountered in normal commercial flight. It's more of a system that is there to meet requirements for handling near the "edge of the envelope."
Same guy, although I don't think that was the precise talk in question.
I tried a few podcast searches through Google chrome desktop and Android and I don't really see what the big deal is. The first search result link is the podcast website, and the top few buttons integrated into the results page are just listing episodes and series and such, the same way done for movies, books, etc.
My daughter has had a strong interest in biological subjects, but when we talked about careers some years back we both agreed that going for a PhD would be a bad move. She was more interested in medicine, and that's turned out to be a much better career path.
A lot of the comments on the page address the fact that the BBC sounds app isn't available outside the UK so switching isn't an option. That seems like a pretty serious oversight...
What is qualified in Austria? In the USA, in most states, you must be licensed to have engineering in your business name. Your name is usually suffixed with PE.
We can see from the data that the left stick shaker is running almost continuously, while the right one is not. That is nominally saying that the airspeed is dangerously low. I assume that asymmetry is also a consequence of the faulty sensor, and I wonder if pilots are taught that this asymmetric stick-shaker response is a sign of equipment failure (and would it be clear to the pilots that this asymmetry is happening?)

Of course, if you don't know about MCAS, you won't know that it could also be messing with the trim. While trim runaway, at least when considered in isolation, seems straightforward to detect and stop, the pilots were trying to make sense of a set of not-clearly-related symptoms. I am curious as to how the pilot training and certification requirements are presented - for example, are they required to demonstrate handling a trim runaway, or to recognize and handle the various consequences of a given system component failure? It might be argued that there are vastly too many variations of the latter to be covered, but if so, that might be indicative of a broader issue, as real problems don't always present themselves like an exercise in responding to one specific symptom.
I wonder if that phenomenon is explained by people being more willing to admit to hallucinations if they've been told it's an expected result of the drug, and not because they're crazy or weird.
To have analytics that are reliable, and to have more control over the experience. Not saying it’s a good decision, but there are reasons.