skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Pleas tell me in what country is it an issue for a software developer to make money?
I mean in this situation, if I were forced to implement such fix, I would do it, but would then quit the next month. Because if I were to stay, not only would I get worse professionally, but I would feel dirty for not doing my work properly. The companies that accept such fixes are more often than not like a factory and treat you as gear in a machine. And also have an ugly software which make good engineers quit.
I used to like Kong a lot but I noticed that it started under performing when they released version 1. I blogged about that in http://glennengstrand.info/software/performance/springboot/d...
The 40 seconds is misleading. The MCAS system could in the worst case run the trim full nose down in 40 seconds (it's active for 10 seconds with a 5 second delay between cycles) if the pilot does nothing to counter it.

It's like if you are driving and the road starts to curve. If you do nothing, yes you will get to a point where a crash is unavoidable. But you know that when your car is not following the road, you turn the steering wheel. Pilots know that when they have to pull the yoke to keep the plane level, they need to trim.
This is kind of ironic in many aspects but the most is one of members under HUD worked for Cambridge Analytica.
>> ASP.NET MVC technology on a real website without too much of a disaster. (In fact .NET has been a huge, unmitigated success for us

No matter what other's esp. those in start up world say, .NET stack delivers value in spades, and it has only improved with .net core.
Another example is the Space Shuttle's solid rocket boosters - the reason they're there, essentially, is to keep Thiokol happy.
Oracle Asks Supremes to Snub Google's Java API Copyright Protest
The idea that SO is "educating" anyone is laughable. It's mostly the place where one gets information about poorly documented APIs.

What's especially repulsive to me is how well trained SO users are, spending many minutes nicely formatting their questions and answers for those worthless internet points.
Sure. Why not?

I just won't talk about anything that I talked about before.

It's exactly like someone asking questions about someone else. That all goes to /dev/null.
Contact me: greg at the domain qbix.com

We are currently using geohash and curious why it’s worse than this.
One thing I'd like to see is a crackdown on bad mods. So many topics get closed for stupid reasons when there is healthy discussion.

Can't count the number of times I've seen people in the thread rallying against the mod that closed it because they were have a valuable conversation.
I want to say for me, it's about how I feel about these companies now, compared to how I felt about them then. Elaborate April Fool's jokes struck me as cute and human and uncorporate, and a lot of the companies who do them no longer feel human and uncorporate to me anymore. So now it just feels disingenuous.

I would also say the quality of the jokes has declined over time.
42 U.S. Code § 3604.

...it shall be unlawful—

(c) To make, print, or publish, or cause to be made, printed, or published any notice, statement, or advertisement, with respect to the sale or rental of a dwelling that indicates any preference, limitation, or discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex, handicap,familial status, or national origin, or an intention to make any such preference, limitation, or discrimination.
We can agree that not all skepticism is valuable skepticism though?

I came across this Rand report on the NTSB [1, 1999?]. The conclusions were not good about the funding & staffing levels vs modern accident load. Partly due to more incidents, but moreso due to increased systems complexity per incident.

So the NTSB, with a budget of around USD$100M, takes multiple years to deliver a report. And they're a professional worldwide standard on accident investigation. Suffice to say, we're not going to crack this case open on HN.

Which isn't to say it isn't productive to debate the relative merits of different regulatory approaches, takeaways for other disciplines, lessons learned, and all manner of things. But let's just have some humility in pretending we're all experts on everything [2].

[1] https://www.rand.org/content/dam/rand/pubs/monograph_reports...

[2] Though in fairness, I wouldn't be surprised if there were at least one expert on any given topic here. You folks are awesome.
The biggest problem with SO now is the volume of content. This ends up trickling into all parts of the community which demands perfection from both the question asker and answerer.

I really hope the SO team is successfully able to move from un-versioned, free-form text based Q&A into an API documentation++ platform.

Ideally a documentation platform that helps drive good debate and eventually consensus.
I was pretty into SO back in '13, contributing and asking questions.

I recently posted a question. Here's how it went.

Posted question, gave some urls to documentation, wrote up code example and asked for help on a specific point.

Downvoted and commented that it wasn't what the rules specified.

Although I didn't find anything wrong with my post compared to said rules, but adjusted the post. Downvoted again.

Adjusted again and still more downvotes and no helpful comments.

At this point I just deleted the question and sought help elsewhere.

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Whereas before you would get your question edited if it wasn't within the guidelines or perhaps people would not downvote but comment on how you could be more specific.

Instead it was as if I had to "do the work" for them to understand what was being asked or do as much as I could so it wasn't taxing for them.

The help I got elsewhere was actually from reddit. Another user actually did go through my code and the solution was trivial. Being a solo developer and not having more than 1 pair of eyes can sometimes get you in the weeds.

Now I just use SO for reading and getting hints on what I'm working on myself. It's good in that respect. It's just a shame it's gotten so toxic. I know from reading other forums when someone mentions SO, it's just not the same anymore.

I genuinely feel bad for new comers.
Only so far as we can assume the UI never breaks and the sensors are always correct. The issue is pilots need to be trained to understand where the UI hides the underlying performance of the plane because when it breaks it can go wrong incredibly quickly. MCAS altered the way to aircraft reacted and also would restart it's changes unless completely cut out. Pilots didn't receive enough training to recognize the issue as being the MCAS system adjusting the trim fast enough to prevent the crashes during takeoff and ultimately the whole point of the MCAS was to avoid having to retrain and maintain the common type rating.
How does Google's Plus codes fair in comparison with W3W? It's apparently open-source: https://plus.codes/developers
A deep dive into a live example of cloaking based ad fraud (2019)
It's pretty clearly not the path Google has followed for some years now, though. They clearly have incentive to keep people on the search results page.
Which is a lie. Podcasts are played directly from the source, meaning they have the stats already. The only thing they may not know are subscription rates.
Software Factories
This strategy of for-profit companies masquerading as open-source advocates is really common in science as well.

For instance, based on advertising from the ACS (American Chemical Society, the largest scientific organization in the world by membership), you would expect they are advocates of collaboration among chemists. In reality they will sue anyone that tries to store or distribute their standard for chemical identifier numbers (CAS#).
> With C++ you have to compile to a specific plattform.

In a world where CI servers are plentiful, does this actually matter in the slightest?

And aren't you going to end up doing multiple compiles with WASI anyway since the list of required modules for a platform isn't mandatory?

And even if you only use wasi-core, you're still going to be doing platform-specific builds for either the installer to fetch the required runtime or a fat binary that just bundles it. Most likely the latter, like Electron does.

> But you don't see the benefits, of a new lower level option, entering the field?

Not unless it does something new or acknowledges why previous attempts didn't succeed and how this one will be different.

Plans on doing all the same things but years later and with worse tooling isn't exactly a compelling story for why anyone should touch it.
The latest generation of Volvo's driver assistance system will do emergency braking and swerving at high speeds.

https://www.caranddriver.com/news/a15342750/2018-volvo-xc60-...
The number of people being radicalized by isis decreased and their social media reach disappeared.

There are a few studies in this thread that conclude similar.

The whole sunlight is the best disinfectant trope is only a trope, not a truth.

See also any conspiracy theory and the amtivax movement. When groups appeal to fear, not logic, as a recruiting tool, you can't logic people away.
liberal arts != liberal viewpoints
Cloud computing – 5 important things
"Boeing's software fix, announced today, is to compare readings from both angle-of-attack sensors and disable MCAS if they disagree significantly. The obvious question is why they didn't do this in the first place?"

Because you had to pay for the second sensor and the disagree light.

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/21/business/boeing-safety-fe...
You're targeting a demographic with every type of ad. Sure, the radio station doesn't have checkboxes of who hears your ad, you just pick the radio station you want your target to be listening too.

Same goes for billboards. Suburbs? Subway? The highway 2 towns over?

Print media, TV time...the list goes on.
This is rather useful.. If I notice a Tesla behind me, I'll do my best not to come to an abrupt complete stop. Sounds like if I slow down gradually, it will give it enough data to slow down as well.
That's not the threat, though. If you're attacking a modern Russian armor division, you don't shoot bullets at it directly. You attack the weak stream of rubles linking it to Moscow, and maneuver around it until it runs out of fuel.

The A-10 is still effective against light cavalry and mounted cavalry using low-armored ground vehicles, which are the units of choice for highly mobile hit-and-run guerilla combatants. Shooting pennies to destroy dollars is a viable strategy, and the A-10 spews nickels instead of launching quarters.
Like many developers, I have benefit a lot from Stack Overflow over the years. It has helped me become a better developer and, in answering questions, a better communicator.

I just want to say thanks to Joel for helping make this thing happen and best of luck in whatever is next for you!
What do you believe now?
The thing with fighter aircraft is that you don't need the latest and the greatest at production day, what you need is a extendable platform for the future & and good training platform for the pilots. These platforms need to live for about 40 years with constant updates & training (F-16 introduced in 1978).

F-35 is neither.

Because of design decision of marrying three different military branches requirements (air force, navy, marines) with three different fighter roles (intercept, ground support, reconnaissance) a lot of the extendability is already gone.

Cost of flying F-35 is one of the highest yet for a fighter aircraft (except maybe for F-22), this means that the pilots will not get sufficient training. Sure, with modern on the ground simulation you can get quite far, but you need the real deal, especially when training in formation & against real adversaries, like other countries.

Which fighter aircraft will win the dogfight? The one in the air with a skilled pilot and not the empty one on the ground for maintenance.

And of course, future development of highly advanced UAV:s & future radar & missile technology will make the case for expensive fighter aircraft even tougher.
I don't understand how something can be inaccessible in this day and age. Helicopters? Boats? Submarines? Is it really impossible to retrieve the wreckage or just economically impractical?
How long has the keyboard issue been going on? Have we seen Apple take any accountability? In case you have tech support staff at your employer, go talk to them about how widely prevalent this issue is. When I heard the defect rates I was amazed that Apple has not issued a recall.
Best thing for me besides chat working with some friends regularly is the amazing file sharing option between multiple parties easily.
I'm already in 2 unions. Pros and cons, with the biggest con obviously being pay since now you have to collectively bargain and most union leaders are selected based on popularity and political ambition and not their negotiating skills, so your wages and benefits will go down though your overall job security will increase, and they will have to pay you overtime.

A pro is the work environment is much more honest, you are free to speak your grievances about management in front of everybody without worrying about them trying to fire you or scheme to make your life hell. You will have employees elected as shop stewards to handle all employee disputes instead of bringing in the heavy hand of management to deal with petty personal issues. Anytime you are summoned to a meeting room for discipline you get to bring a representative, and you get to appeal every single bullshit disciplinary action they take and almost always win, managers have no clue of the collective agreement.

Your job also changes to being a contractor, as you are contracted to do specific things which of course means if you finish them early, you can leave and still get paid 8hrs. You can also refuse work you have not been contracted for, and this is of course the major complaint about union employees how 'they're lazy and won't do what I ask' but if you asked the plumber you contracted to install a dishwasher to also mow your lawn for free they wouldn't do it either. That's how a collective agreement works, you have entered into an agreement to do X, unless there are special provisions for Y you don't do it. One of my collective agreements has provisions for extra work, and every day we push software on time in a research lab without some manager hovering around.
Right, sounds like they drop a bandpass filter on the down-converted Doppler spectrum. It's the simplest way to "solve" the clutter problem by just getting rid of everything stationary.
Absolutely, without any hesitation.
That's likely WHY they announced they were getting rid of extremists. They would have had knowledge of these charges today, as well as knowledge of other things the government is looking into vis-a-vis their business. So I'd imagine their lawyers are preempting a lot of things because they seem to be entering an age where there is potential to be charged even if you are secondarily associated with criminal activity. (Potential not just for Facebook, but for everyone else too.)

It's a crazy time right now, because you never know what some person you provided a service for might do.
I don't have a problem with podcast advertisements because it's essentially a return to the old way of doing advertising, free of tracking and crazyness. Like on terrestial radio or in newspapers. That means advertisers need to make the ad relevant to the podcast somehow, because it's the only heuristic they have. Podcast players always have skip forward and back buttons, anyway.
Please define boofing? I'm too old to get it organically.
> shouldn't be HUD after those who configured such criteria, not Facebook?

Indeed they should. This is basically like going after the phone company because somebody else was using number prefixes as a proxy for race. Even though this is a fundamental property of any system that doesn't explicitly preclude such targeting, Facebook already took steps to limit this type of discrimination in ads for housing or credit. That was good enough for the ACLU, Fair Housing Alliance, and others who have a sincere interest in the matter. It should have been good enough for HUD too, which brings us to the real crux of the matter.

Sufficiency of the new limits on targeting was not the sticking point between Facebook and HUD. The sticking point was HUD's demand for all user data, without any safeguards. It's a fishing expedition. What would HUD do with that data? It's not a stretch to believe they'd use it to further this administration's own discriminatory agenda. HUD is not fighting against discrimination at all. They're on the other side of that battle. Rejecting their demand was IMO the right thing to do.
You have said this in 4+ places in this thread. People who have strong connections with the place (similarly with a person who's name has changed) can use their discretion which name to use, if the person in question is alright with either name. However it is inappropriate for an outsider to use an unofficial name or deadname without permission, especially in official context. That's all I have said.

Please stop bringing up taxpayer money, it's not like taxes can only be used for a singular issue at once. I could say the US taxes shouldn't be spending trillions on military before fixing other problems like homelessness in SF, but that's not how taxes or governments work.
I'm falling in love with MS. I hated them from the moment I know them, because of windoze, and IE, and monopoly and all the other things. But now it doesn't matter.
NO FUN

"data tells us that trying to be funny on this day can have limited positive impact and can even cause unwanted news cycles"

¯\_(ツ)_/¯

edit:

no, but seriously, humor has significant psychological effects. it's overlooked because of the "business first" attitude (tradition) but actually being able to have fun is highly motivating; i'm alone here, at the bottom of this thread, for wanting to live in a full color world, instead of a film noir.

https://www.degruyter.com/view/j/humr.2009.22.issue-4/humr.2...
Sounds like a real joy to work at Microsoft. Just when my opinions of the company were starting to change, too.

> “data tells us these stunts have limited positive impact and can actually result in unwanted news cycles.”

The jokes are fun for employees and can be enjoyable to outsiders as well. By banning them outright you've sent a message to prospective engineers about your corporate culture.

Too corporate.
Warren Unveils Proposal to Bust Up Big Agribusiness Corporations
The article is wrong on ‘usta’. In modern Turkish, ‘usta’ isn’t used only for cooks, but for all master tradesmen. It literally means ‘master’, and is commonly appended to a person’s name as a form of address. A carpenter or joiner might be also simply referred to or addressed as an ‘usta’, without reference to his trade.

It is not used in the way that the English have used ‘master’ in modern times: as a form of address for male children too young to be called ‘mister’.
Honest question: In trying to avoid unwanted news cycles by banning April Fool's jokes, did they just create an unwanted news cycle?
Now I know plenty of competent and masterful tech pioneers but they are sort of the exception that proves the rule - it generally is or was their career or at least a hobby and it isn't expected for them to know it.

A young person from the first world who wasn't say a mennonite not knowing how to send an email attachment is seen as incompetent. An older person who doesn't is seen as not adapting to a changing world.

While stereotyping is grossly unfair on an individual level judging the group based on the right end of the bell curve isn't a good representation. It would be like judging the intellectual capabilities of all children by 12 year old college graduates. Sure they prove capability and not to dismiss them out of hand but certainly not universality - moving all elementary school students to high school wouldn't be too effective for most.
Artificial intelligence can predict premature death, study finds
There is a difference between justifying and accepting. The article seems to confuse the two.
"Apple hardware from 2012-2015 was really great"

You didn't have your MacBook Pro spontaneously reboot because of the NVIDIA problem? I don't know if it was the driver or the hardware but it wasn't fun.
The village that built its own wi-fi network
This post just makes me sad. It is a sad reminder of just how long lived the plastic in our oceans is. And as a species we are still not doing enough to stop this.
Couldn't help but think that this news was/is part of some April Fools' Day setup.
You can always mount the transmitters in trucks and keep moving. If you can pinpoint the source and fuse the input of, say, dozens of small sensors deployed all over the place, you can pinpoint the plane well enough.
case in point: the MalwareBytes app is no longer allowed to access SMS message info, so it cannot examine links in SMS messages.

so there's a legit security app which can no longer function as effectively as it did before the Google Play Store eliminated its access to the SMS permission.
We have regulations on the books that are there as a result of 100 years of painful human experience.

Wave a computer screen in someone's face and all of a sudden it's a different plane of existence and some people feel like these laws don't apply. I'm glad to see there is finally being some push back.
People 'hear' flashes due to disinhibited flow of signals around the brain
Oh, and more impressive to me is the footage out of the Jedi Transition: https://youtu.be/d9HqVXGRJL0

For those who don’t know, about 3.5 hours from Los Angeles you can go see a ton of amazing jet fighters coming back or going to training exercises. There’s no way to know when you’ll see something, or what you’ll see, but the area is a scene of jet geeks. I keep meaning to go (Should have gone after the recent Redflag).
At Kong we actually like Envoy a lot, because we can deliver our superset features and ecosystem on top of any underlying proxy (NGINX, Envoy or anything that can process a stream or bytes).
Deep Learning in Clojure on GPU: A Simple Neural Network Inference API
Ask HN: My ISP is injecting code to pages. What measures can I take?
Today I saw a strange pop up entitled with logo of my ISP while I was browsing a random page. First I thought it was an ad added by site owner but when I check closely it was even on an another pop up. I checked the source and saw that it was clearly coming from somewhere else. An iframe added to page by using a JS script that sourced from direct IP address. No domain, just an IP and path. I am sure it wasn't part of site because iframe was just a static page. It doesn't contain any tracker links that can be seen every ad today. When I refreshed the page, pop up disappeared.

This page could be my mail or bank account or anything that might contain private information. Is there any practical way to prevent something like this?
Sure you can live without a smartphone, but if you are going to use a smartphone, it is the most secure and private option.
indeed; the tradition dates to the 16th century.
It is about trust in the sense that there was a time when buying Apple products was a safe choice. They were expensive, but you could count on them being well-designed (though you always had to be careful with first gen products) and working together seamlessly. If you could afford them, there was no reason to consider other options. That kind of brand loyalty I had is gone now. Maybe I can't switch yet, but I'm begrudgingly using their products, and am actively on the lookout for alternatives. When the right one will come along, I'm out.
Ah neat! I love that conference.

I mean, I think that's fair: usually, people who can speak deeply about the tradeoffs made for particular syntax or features are the people who were directly involved in making the decisions. I just read the discussions between all of those people. If we didn't have the RFC process, I wouldn't have so much context.
What defines an "engineer", the work or the risks?