skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>In practice, the distinction between banning a subject and banning a conversation about a subject ban, is easy to make

And equally easy to abuse, something which has happened time and again:

Complain about the "ban of X"? Discussion shut down as supporting X.
Many (most?) airlines list the aircraft type during the booking process. Even for those that don't, you can look up the flight number and date on a site like FlightAware or SeatGuru, which will tell you.

But, if the airline needs to, they can swap out the scheduled aircraft for another one at any time up until takeoff. So you might book with the belief that you'll be on a 737 NG, but get to the airport and find (or not even notice) that you're on a 737 MAX.
Same thing, surely? Altering the trim means that pulling a certain amount on the stick doesn't make the plane pitch up as much as it would otherwise, hence you need to pull more on the stick (than a plane without MCAS). So the (intended) end effect is the same, right?
Even redundancy doesn't really solve the issue. The sensors are out in the same environmental conditions, so will likely all fail at once, for example a bad pattern of water followed by cold causing icing.

Instead, the sensors should detect failure, for example by using a motor to detect if the vane is stuck and cannot turn freely.

The flight controls should also be able to fly even if all sensors of a certain type have failled. Angle of attack for example can be approximated with an accelerometer and gyro well enough to keep the plane in the air.
Recessions, and the fear that another one is just around the corner, explained
I sold most @ $16.5k in the dead cat bounce after the bubble.

I just bought quite a few back @ $3800.

You get used to it, this is my 3rd or 4th >80% drawdown. Still remember $30->$2 in 2011/12
I would call it hacking.. you sometimes run into those websites with 50 different opacity bits for all their web app things, and you don’t want to deal with all that rubbish so you set a “opacity: 1 !important” and the whole website looks off but it’s finally useable. I’d call that a hack.

Or also when you run into those websites designed on a $2000 screen that thinks it’s tres moderne to use 808080 text, so you “hack” it into readable text.

I think those are all happy little hacks :-)
My only guess is that they are implicitly ignoring information we use all the time when talking about information in a computer. The number 5 stored in one place in a computer is the same as the number 5 stored elsewhere. In the human brain two words are already different because they are in different places. The researchers aren’t counting information needed to tell them apart.
Admittedly, this is not the way I think either.
What is the relevance of her being black & female to the anecdote?
Maybe the poster above was referring to the Underhanded C Contest

> The Underhanded C Contest is an annual contest to write innocent-looking C code implementing malicious behavior. In this contest you must write C code that is as readable, clear, innocent and straightforward as possible, and yet it must fail to perform at its apparent function. To be more specific, it should perform some specific underhanded task that will not be detected by examining the source code.

Source: http://www.underhanded-c.org/_page_id_2.html
Let's hope it's MCAS ships and can read from two AOA sensors
The argument being pushed here (whether they themselves understand it or not) is basically that "seeing something a little bit to the right > leads a little more to the right > then even more to the right > NAZI!"

But it's not at all! Viewing racism as a left/right thing is wrong altogether. While it isn't obvious in US politics today, the left has often had a problem with race too.

Racism should be abhorrent to both left and right, and that should be independent of immigration views.

Which hilariously is a concept born almost exclusively out of modern leftist and current "_blank_ studies" thought/ideology.

Well actually Facebook has data showing this, so I don't think that's correct.
> it means you have economic incentive to put your wealth to work on creating things-- new businesses, technology, public infrastructure-- by investing it, rather than passively sitting on it.

Reading between the lines, "it means your money is going to go to fund the activities of the rich". Perhaps we shouldn't be surprised that the delta between the working class's wages and productivity has been increasing since the Nixon shock.
Luckily, "civilized societies" are some of the most deluded about this point.

From McCarthyism, to J.E. Hoover, to MLK, Gary Webb, to WMD, to the Patriot Act, to Snowden, to the "collusion" BS, to today's de-platforming, the establishment and the media easily stomps on whoever they don't like with impunity.
Funny you mention rocks in the backpack, that sort of resembles my training when I go for some higher mountains (walking up stairs with heavy backpack). I guess everybody has different perspective on life and priorities
> People deserve credit for taking an idea and running with it.

Yes, as popularizers.

> deep learning would have never seen the explosive growth

This is extremely unlikely to be true. I think the explosive growth occured because neurons and intelligence were unpopular in the 2000s because of PC, deferring progress in this area to occur explosively later. The Hinton cartel were not the only people who were aware that AI research "has become silly" (in his own words).
But its okay to be a south african black nationalist. Its OK to pose with decapitated heads if you are of arabic descent, but its not okay to be white apparently.
It's worse: the pilots are supposed to "jump in" instead of the software when the plane is typically already in the critical state and then to control the plane which behaves exactly differently from the way they are trained. Only when the MCAS operates "properly" the plane behaves as they were trained!

That "omission" was intentional as the Boeing selling point was "it is the same old, no new pilot training needed." That's how they have "sold" the worth of 600 billion dollars of the MAX planes!

The probable strategy for Boeing was "we will blame the pilots" and had the two crashes not happened so fast one after another they would have probably got away with it!
You can see it in most search engines, and after the Ethiopian crash Kayak announced they'll add an aircraft type filter. Other flight search engines will probably follow suit.
Even if you are investing your cash ‘productively’ and keeping none under your mattress you are still paying the 2% nudge as your returns are partially eaten by inflation. It just reduces investment returns in real terms, investment does not make the cost of inflation disappear.

This affects poorest members of society disproportionately because they don’t have spare capital to allocate in order to offset their loss from inflation. They just pay higher prices.
I'm a Brit, but I think in both our systems we can see the electorate making actual decisions and politicians adjusting their policies and behaviour to voter sentiment. Whatever we might think about the outcomes, the swing from Obama to Trump in the US and the Brexit vote in the UK were both examples of the electorate making a real choice.

Big companies have much less influence over here though due to our stricter campaign finance laws.
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Yes, yes they are. Plenty of videos on YT of black israelites attacking innocent bystanders, yelling deaththreats and racial slurs etc.
In Firefox's case, the user willingly searchs for and installs add-ons, UC Browser did it on its own without informing the user
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You're welcome :) Memorable tales and gorgeous illustrations. This is one of the few books I managed to keep in absolute mint condition :) I have a scanned version lying around in my collection. Will upload sometime soon on my blog.
I can totally believe that, but Signal already has most of the infrastructure in place to sync messages and files across devices in a secure manner. It doesn't seem to me that it should be too difficult to repurpose it to do an initial sync between two devices.
It is incredible: the airframe has been designed to reuse the certification of 737. A flaw that could be fixed in a proper way, instead has been worked around using unreliable subterfuges.

The aim of the certification process is to ensure the safety (and reliability) of aircraft. The required mindset shall be that the certification process helps to highlight defects in order to build a better aircraft. Here, the mindset was that the certification process is a burden with arbitrary constraints that have to be fulfilled even if this means a worse aircraft.

IMHO, the people (managers) with the wrong mindset shall be replaced and the faulty airframe of 737 shall be killed.
Yeah I'm the same. I did a PhD because I originally wanted to do engineering (real engineering), but ended up in software anyway because the pay is just insanely better and it's easier work.

I definitely could got where I am without the PhD. Hell I wouldn't have needed the engineering degree either and I'd be pretty rich by now, but I don't regret doing the degree because I learnt loads and had fun doing uni things.
> Would making the sensor more reliable or having an additional backup sensor have prevented the issue? Is it possible for the software to even detect when the sensor is faulty? Maybe the sensor worked fine, and the MCAS worked fine, but the plane itself has faulty aerodynamics.

The sensor on the Lion Air flight was 20 degrees off. While it wouldn't have "prevented the issue", a simple disagree light in the cockpit would have told the pilots that the AOA sensor was "wrong" while they were still on the runway. Simply put, the plane was unfit to fly and had this light been installed on that plane, the flight would have never left the ground and the crash wouldn't have happened.

Boeing charged extra for this light.

Since this has come to light, Boeing have announced that the disagree light will now come as standard on all 737MAX's at no additional cost.
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> but nobody alive had to live through the chaos that inflationary monetary policy was borne from.

This is a dangerous narrative. By strictly econometric measures, the 2008 crisis was not too far off of, say, the great depression. By and large, I wonder if the reason why people aren't dying on the streets (aka "chaos"), etc, is because we have reliable sources of food, access to medicine, etc.
>Absolutely correct, however, they aren’t the only places for public discourse

Small comfort if they are the main places for public discourse - so cutting people and ideas there essentially means relegating them to far less reach.

Strange how when some foreign state censors FB or Twitter it's an outrage, but when FB or Twitter sensor people directly "there are other places".

Not to mention the monetary deplatforming (e.g. Mastercard, PayPal, Patreon and co not allowing funding), in which case there are no "other places" (not many in any way, and not reputable for someone to go pay there).

>People have never been able to demand a newspaper print their article or that a magazine must include their story

Which is irrelevant, since newspapers and magazines where always top-down affairs, written and curated by a specific team. Social media and platforms were supposed to be open to society (hence "social"), not only for a select team of journalists to have an account there.
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Another iOS thing the rest of the world is still missing is Voicemail Transcription.

Been out for nearly 3 years, yet remains USA-only to this day.
If you can’t discern the joke, the joke isn’t for you to begin with; so it doesn’t matter.
Regarding frogs, maybe. Regarding people, it has never been debunked, and it has been proven time and again to be exactly right.
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19345288
When you ban groups with relatively harmless names such as "Its OK to be white" I think you just end up giving people an eye opener... Its NOT OK to be white? I guess that makes it easier for Caucasians to decide their political affiliation... I mean just search for terms like "kill white people" "Kill whitey" etc. There is plenty of people glorifying white South Africans getting slaughtered in their bedrooms on facebook. But I guess thats OK, because fuck dey white man am i rite?
And the smell was amazing too :)
> The problem Boeing face is that with MCAS disabled when this occurs, the plane no longer flies like an older 737.

The other problem Boeing faces is that with MCAS enabled the plane no longer necessarily flies like an older 737 - it can try to force its nose down unexpectedly.
The CCP obviously (Chinese Communist Party, aka CPC), which he already mentioned.

Not sure if CCP has a FB page, but that far is obvious.
Government/DoD security is much different than any random company's it security. Even large corps don't care about nationality for security team, just visa status / employment rules for most projects. (Again, when not related to gov projects)

I honestly don't know how SpaceX does what it does. (Update: they are regulated as working on military stuff so it's the same as DoD rules)
I'm curious.

Suppose you're a VR app and you invoke a picker to open a... I don't know... you want to open a sound file. How should the picker's UI be to fit into your general VR interface?

If a sound file is particularly badly suited, then some other kind of file (but in that case I'm interested in why that's easier/better than sound).
Just make the employees shareholders
Ask HN: What are some financial newsletters you subscribe to?
This question is for those who are actively trading or investing in stock markets.
Because Java exists for a different purpose, namely to run Java. (Ever tried to run your C or rust code on the JVM?)
Some time ago I went through the list of all the major router manufacturers and rated them on 1) security, and 2) long term usability, and 3) culture.

My conclusion was that I would buy my infrastructure from Allied Telesis. It's pretty much a Japanese version of Cisco, but it's still healthy.

Ubiquity was number 2. I refrain from buying from them only because of their glossy UI.

Mikrotik was on that list. Until I saw how horrible their winbox protocol was. And their implementation of SMB.. I must assume there are still plenty of unknown RCEs there.
> But allowing speculators to hold the land for ransom

Property owners paid all the development costs, directly and indirectly,as well as all the maintenance and bureaucratic work.

If you rent an appartment, you're not paying for a percentage of the lot. You're paying for the fraction of a whole system (structural, electrical, sanitary, etc) which exists only because those who invested their hard-earned cash puting everything together.

More importantly, that little lot is only worth something because other investors spent their hard-earned cash investing in that area, either in urban development projects or in commercial and/or industrial activities.

So quite obviously that sort of exploitation angle makes no sense as it is based on a very weak strawman (i.e., there is only value in occupying a specific region in space) that had no bearing in reality.

Let's put it this way: what would happen to San Francisco's housing costs if magically the entire tech industry raised their figuratice anchor and moved elsewhere?
That's exactly the point. In Africa, India, South-East Asia, and other places there is a lot of violent racism and nationalism going on.
So, can we as humans learn from history? Can we establish better, more thoughtful, and more balanced societies as time and our understanding progresses?

Or have we already built the pinnacle of society at some past point, and everything we ever do in the future is doomed to be as bad or worse than what we already have?

I'd like to choose optimism here, personally.
If you do not want to need 10 different RPIs for running 10 different functionalities (Pi-hole, RetroPie, remote access, cloud, side-projects, air quality monitoring, etc.), docker is a good solution to easily deploy several services on a single RPI, and it prevents dependency hell.
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Ha! If I only knew about 'Build Your Own Lisp' three months ago!

I needed a simple language as a vehicle for a compiler talk I'm preparing for this summer, so I hacked along an extremely reduced LISP (a 'Non-LISP', as I call it), whose C++ implementation from scratch came out at about 1K -- 1.2K LOC with the AST optimizations I meant to demonstrate for the talk. Self-contained code here -- no libs or (much) STL: https://github.com/blu/tinl

OP, thank you for sharing Tim Morgan's work -- it's a work of love!
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It's not a bad graph, it is just not familiar.

Perhaps it would be more clear sticking to a single value of US GDP, e.g. as "% of world pop. above 1/4 of US GDP per person, over time", but the data shown only has three time points ...

(Thanks for the pic, it was interesting.)
Most air quality measurement involves particulate matter, specifically PM 2.5. This is primarily wood smoke, car exhaust and a couple of other combustion-related. When the news talks about air quality, most commonly they are referring to PM 2.5.

If you are looking for out-gassing (paints, carpets, furniture etc) you probably need to invest in formaldehyde and other gas sensors. In your case you ought to look at your furniture and electronics as they will produce the most out-gassing. This is different from the above particulate matter.
So, all of it fits on a floppy? Nice.
If you want to fly from Germany to the Canarian Islands for 50 EUR round trip then you're going to end up with unstable airframes.

The 737 MAX is in part unstable due to repositioned engines. They are larger and thus significantly more fuel efficient, however they would not keep enough ground clearance if they were positioned the same way as on the 737-NG. MCAS corrects for the repositioning, otherwise the plane may start to climb which in turn could lead to a stall.
Well, starting with free for everybody speech platforms, and letting people make up their mind, would be a good start.

Banning ads would also be another good start, but I don't see the idea getting very popular.
Absolutely: Cisco made this happen, not Engineer Alice. If your boss asks you to do something within my ethical boundaries and you have 5 tired co-workers in favour of shipping it, eventually you'll break and say "fine". It doesn't make you responsible or the one that pulled the trigger.
> using unprotected channels

It's not man in the middle. I have seen this mistake a lot lately. Man in the middle only involves encryption. Otherwise it is just injection or redirection. It is not a man in the middle attack merely because something happened in the middle of a transmission. There is always stuff that happens in the middle of transmission if you want to get technical about packet switching ARP resolution.

Specifically man in the middle deals with intercepting a certificate or key request in the middle of a transmission so that the encrypted tunnel is between one end point and the attacker. The attacker then establishes a second encrypted tunnel between themselves and the other end point.

Wikipedia page - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Man-in-the-middle_attack

I am certain about this because I had to study it in order to pass the CISSP exam (first time go back when it was a 250 question paper test).
Never heard of it. Will check it out. Thank you!

PS: One of the highest points during my college prep days was when I managed to solve this kinematics problem from Krotov where the condition for a ball bouncing in a well to get out depends on the ratio of some parameters to be co prime. Good times.
right, that makes sense. Again, I'm sure not all of them do that but since it looks like everyone is shaking hands with both Bezos and Zuckerberg on a daily, maybe some of them do that. thx

Edit: I love opencagedata — hope you guys are doing well
Doesn't mean the point isn't valid though.
would you ? Surely this problem is now nullified - even I know the mcas must be disabled by enabling autopilot/turn stab trim switches to off.
> Speculators create pricing signals, help price things more effectively and create better liquidity.

Care to elaborate on the liquidity part? I fully agree that forex speculators play significant role in price (exchange rate in this case) discovery. Although, the money used for speculation is essentially locked up in the price discovery mechanism and if anything that reduces liquidity available to actual economy.
You just cited "mostly young people work at some positions" as evidence against age discrimination.
Current bitcoin supply is 1800 per day. @ $4k each, you need $7.2 million net inflow per day to maintain current prices. This needs to continue until May 2020 when additional supply drops to 900 per day.

This is only about 3 billion USD inflows required to maintain the market until the halvening, and then supply really drops hard.

Uber is looking to list with a market cap of $120 billion. Australia has $2+ trillion in pension funds alone. Vanguard has 5.3 trillion. $3 billion inflows to get to the halvening should be pretty easy. Return of Goxcoins will have some effect, but any hype at all will send bitcoin on a crazy moon mission again.
You must live in a very nice, ideal world, where simply saying "no, that's not the right way to do it" will convince managers to ignore the pressures placed on them to, at times, value speed over correctness.
Agreed on the skepticism. However you can't just say that a combat aircraft is better than an other. It highly depends on the kind of mission considered (Air defense, Close air support, Ground strike, etc...), and on the underlying warfare infrastructure (refueling tankers, AWACS, jamming vectors, etc...).

As to export of the F35 vs. F22 : the F35 program was designed from the ground up as an international "cooperation program", so as not to say a "sharing costs" program, so it would be exported.
We can find method to solve the Firewall，for example，Shadow Socks or buy some vpn service。For openweb。
Probably this one by the chieftain "Myths of American Armor"?

https://youtu.be/bNjp_4jY8pY
It's popular in Asia.
camelCase, snake_caske, PascalCase, kebab-case, so I think I'd call that Pascal_Snake_Case or something. Other than that this is really great, Ada is pretty neat and used in the most critical systems in the world: https://www2.seas.gwu.edu/~mfeldman/ada-project-summary.html
Regardless of anyone's political affiliation and/or fear or trust in moderation, FB is a company operating a private service. Private as opposed to general elections where you and I have a constitutional right to participate. FB service is FB's home not our collective. So, I don't get why their new rule (long overdue IMHO especially after the NZ shootings) is a cause of concern, criticism or outrage.

I should also remind you that similar (equally sane IMHO) bylaws apply in the current forum - at least from what I've seen as long as I'm here.
> If you want to fly from Germany to the Canarian Islands for 50 EUR round trip then you're going to end up with unstable airframes.

How does B follow from A? That's quite the non-sequitur.
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