skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> There's only 119 supercharging stations in the US

That seems too little for 1400 worldwide. This image says 447 in USA. https://www.theatlas.com/charts/BJak7NcSz

Any source for 119?
So? ATMs are everywhere. If you need to access transit in a pinch, you can just take out some cash. It's the universal fallback payment.
Actually Spotify has had advanced search syntax at least since 2011: http://web.archive.org/web/20110718125428/http://www.spotify.... It just apparently is not advertised by them particularly well to the users. To search from label Decca, just search label:decca (and then select, for example, "See all albums"), or add label:decca to your more specific search if you want to use it as an additional filter. To be able to tell which of the "Requiem in D Minor, K.626:3. Sequentia:" is "Confutatis" — depends on which device you use. On my computer when I select "See all" next to "Songs" in the results, then the track title column is wide enough to show also "Confutatis", or it is also possible to right-click on a track there and select "Show Credits". On a phone one option would be to add "Confutatis" to the search term, or you could start playing one of the results and then you can scroll left-right with the finger on the currently-playing-info-bar below and see the full track names there.
is it? I wasn't aware that it was.
I just needed a way to mark a bunch of gruped emails as read on mobile app. Does Gmail allow this.
Smart home, machine learning and discovery
I'm just spitballing here.

Could it be that either deduplication or idempotency are a sub category of the other? Or perhaps describe different aspects of the operation?

Like, you could argue that deduplication is a form of idempotency. Or that deduplication is an effect of idempotency.

I've always thought that an idempotent operation could actually continue an operation where it left off, rather than repeating the whole operation. Deduplication is a side effect of that process.

Is reentrant the right word? Like, you can repeat or continue this operation. This may mean no-op calls, or may mean it repeats everything but still achieves deduplication.
To be clear, that's a link that agrees with me that it can be impossible, not a link that says they just needed to work harder.

It's also from a 20 year-old manual, and isn't present on newer manuals, and pilots haven't trained on it in decades. Not appropriate to expect pilots to know, and possibly not helpful here: the pilots were low altitude, so allowing the nose to drop even further (to relieve aerodynamic load) may have been deadly too.
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They would be the set of assholes who:

1) decided to move the engines forward making the aircraft dynamically unstable, but improve performance and potential sales

2) decided to counter the instability with a software system (MCAS) based on a single sensor, with zero redundancy or fail-safe mode, AND make a second sensor an optional extra cost for the airlines, AND bury the whole thing in a poor UI, in short: cheaping out on a band-aid fix to a critical problem of their own creation, to maximize profits

3) decided to evade normal requirements to make the airframe a new classification, so that airlines wouldn't need to spend money on retaining and separately qualifying pilots for the different airframe, again to reduce apparent costs of the new airplane and increase sales

4) minimized the training on the MCAS system and require no new training when they made changes to the system. AND make the MCAS system automatically re-engage, based on the single sensor to reduce customer costs

5) ensured that this cascade of bad decisions got implemented through the FAA and rolled out globally.

The effect of all of this was to overlook and minimize critical flaws in a complex human flight system, and do so in order to maximize sales and profits over safety.

They killed 346 people already, and nevermind the economic knock-on effects.

No, I'm not going to hunt back and provide a link to every bit of analysis I read gathering the above facts. It is all recent, non-obscure, and very google-able.

Yes, bad engineering and management decision that kill people will tend to get folks a bit riled up. This is a good thing. While this forum should indeed emphasize facts and intellectual argument, this is not a peer-reviewed journal, it is a forum for humans to discuss issues, and we should also keep here the human perspective on engineering.
It sounds like you know nothing about esports to be honest. Players change games pretty frequently. Seagull was TF2, now overwatch. Same with Harbleu.

Imaqtpie was dota, now league.

So yeah, they do adapt, and quickly.
Boeing CEO Dennis Muilenburg Addresses the Ethiopian Airlines Flight 302 Report
While some people tend to say Perl was chosen by the young bioinformatics community because of it's excel in text processing, I think Perl was just the go-to scripting language in the late 90s. In my field (numerical relativity), Perl was also the go-to language in the early days. People then moved on to Python because of the numpy/scipy ecosystem which allowed to combine Perl-like scripts with Matlab/Fortran like post processing. Today, everything is Python. Python2 :-P
Because anon users won't link to "primary sources", which are really nothing of the sort? Because "primary sources" are always correct and trustworthy and never disagree?
Interesting. Similar to how typescript can be added with a rename from foo.js to foo.ts.
Ask HN: What are your biggest pain points with Amazon S3?
Third-party Facebook apps expose 540M users’ details
They can charge higher fares to people who pay with contactless credit cards (as opposed to their own card). Many agencies already do this - for example, Caltrain and BART charge higher fares to those who aren't using a Clipper card. As long as the difference is high enough to offset the fees, this should not be an issue.
The MCAS activation just after 23:33:53 pushes the stabiliser down slightly further than it did at any point previously.

After this point, the stabiliser looks like it stops responding to trim up commands. The pilots do a few more trim up commands, but the is never a significant upwards response again. Perhaps this is because the pilot's trim up commands appear to be shorter, or perhaps the pilots are pressing the trim up button, hearing a loud girding noise from the electric trim motor as nothing moves, so they stop holding trim up.

With all this talk about aerodynamic forces being too strong on the Ethiopian Airlines flight for pilots to manually trim up, I'm wondering if the Lion Air flight experienced aerodynamic forces so strong that even the electric motor was struggling to trim up.
Does booting a recovery environment work if (Windows believes that) the BIOS memory mapping is hosed, as in this case?
> The way it was reported, it sounds like Sargon did something, whereas videos online show that all the harassment was done by Anita Saarkesian.

He had been involved in a long harassment campaign against her, and then shows up in the front row at her panel. That is not an innocent act.
People see what they want to see (confirmation bias) and delude themselves and gaslight others into maintaining a great lie. Then there's people who actually go out into the world and are more honest about reality.
We use it at work to:

* Insert generated C++ and Python boilerplate code
* Generate parametrized tests based on an external data files
* Copy code from one place to another and keep them up-to-date
* Pinning dependencies across multiple projects using a single source of truth

So this tool is immensely useful.
mod_php was much simpler to use than mod_perl; and much more amenable to shared hosting
This fact is normally used to discredit the UN Human Rights Council.
I... get where you're coming from here, but I'm not sure I'm going to agree. Sure, yes, to some extent you can go all the way to Descartes and believe nothing but your own existence. But back to those works in C minor - there's a lot of evidence of them. Recordings. Sheet music. Orchestras who claim to have performed them, and so on. Now sure, you can say that all of those things are also assertions and not facts but at some point the onus flips, and it's going to be on you to provide some reason for why those things should be disregarded.

If you're not going to operate on a basis of "reasonable doubt until falsified by a better theory" then you're where? In an entirely post-fact state, where sure, everything's an opinion. And sure, if you want to be there, nobody has a right to stop you but it's not a very productive state.

Yes, journalists tend to be pretty careful with claims around things where there is reasonable doubt. But there is a reason journalists are not still writing about Mozart and using careful phrasing like "and it is also believed by some sources that other composers may have composed comparable works in the same key". For humanity to work we have to go with "fact until shown not to be" otherwise we wouldn't make it through a day.
Why is it shady? It's just like Amazon Warehouse Deals or Apple Refurbished and Clearance, but Costco only sells in bulk
The constitution requires that contracts be honored place to place, but not certifications or licenses. Legal and professional groups have different licenses in different states and don't cross honor. Teacher licenses are only good in one state, for example. Many states don't recognize concealed carry permits from states with less stringent licensing requirements.
I recently wrote a little program that will create a Markov Chain from on our perl codebase, generate a few sentences and check against `perl -c`. It takes less than 10 attempts to generate a bunch of lines of [very funny] valid Perl code.
>The big difference is that while Japan was frequently accused of IP theft, the actual occurrences were few and far between as the result of individual corporate activity.

The accusations against Japanese companies at the time were including that the Japanese government were assisting them, and that the IP theft was part of national competitiveness policy. (And of course in Japan - as in S. Korea - corporations and state go hand in hand, though not to the degree of China).

Not that the inverse was also not happening (then and now):

https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/07/31/national/wikile...
Oh no those things are aweful. Those are meant for only strict pay per ride situations. (At least with the credit cards)

Other things you have to consider:

1. Protected classes on the value (senior, students)
2. Wage benefit classes (that's where the fare is pretaxed)
3. Transfers

Being a person that had his CC charged over his ventra card (which has a full monthly pass) this crap pisses me off.
https://www.electrifyamerica.com/locate-charger

Some of them are for charging at 350KW, current Tesla Supercharger's top out at 150KW, and the next gen targets 250KW..
Seeking cofounder(s) for a privacy friendly social network
In their pursuit of growth at all costs, Facebook has failed in its mission to connect the world, and instead has led to increased isolation, addiction, vanity, surveillance, tribalism, and more.

A true "pivot" to privacy would've addressed more fundamental issues, including:

1. The collection and permanent storage of vast amounts of user data (e.g. locations you’ve logged in from, every profile you've visited, etc.) for the purposes of data mining.
2. Tracking people around the internet via the like button, monitoring what they’re reading (e.g. health issues, etc.) and other behavioral attributes without consent.
3. Newsfeed algorithms that encourage addiction, FOMO, and outrage by promoting viral content.
4. Tying user data across owned properties without user consent.

Facebook is likely structurally unable to addresses these issues in a meaningful way, due to technical, business and cultural constraints.

I believe people should have a healthier option and I’m looking for cofounders to take on the ambitious challenge of building a mainstream social network that doesn’t track you. Think: a mobile-first social network that collects minimal metadata, encrypts as much as possible, and is designed to encourage good behavior (e.g. chronological feed, feed updated every 4h, etc.)

This idea won’t be easy to execute, but if it works, it could be massively good for the world.

I have a deep understanding of privacy (having worked at a leading privacy-oriented company) and growth. Would welcome smart, scrappy folks (ideally with skills in product, design, or engineering) to reach out if interested in working on this. Remote is totally fine.

Please email privacychef@protonmail.com.

Thank you!
Does everyone remember the study from 2014 about American oligarchy? https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/northamerica/usa/...

Cycling the same story every 5 years isn't going to change things..
Surely it's possible to build more houses and nationalize them?

Landlords are parasites, full stop. You can't claim something is as cheap as it can be when they're still in the picture.
Essentials of self-organizing maps [pdf]
Your 7.3 is gold, that engine will last till the heat death of the universe. And you’re maintaining it. For some reason people think that a well maintained vehicle is a grenade because it has service history, while one being run into the ground is great because they haven’t paid for anything recently.

Newer trucks aren’t more reliable. They’re just newer. You won’t find a truck cheaper to maintain than the one you’ve already got.

(The people who tell you your truck ain’t worth fixing sound like my mother in law who traded in her car ‘cause the windshield wipers broke.)
It's not pertinent, so much as it's a quirk of English grammar/pragmatics
I actually agree - I thought a one hour turn around time was not bad. But it actually involved people calling Facebook to make them aware. But also the point it was posted to 8chan is thier point as well. He wouldn't have been able to do that if it was detected quicker, is that deterrant (considering he was caught) enough to potentially make the perp 2nd guess his actions? Of course the counter argument is simple - never stopped anyone before either.

There is an element of best of both worlds here. We want the tech to be able to distinguish a unique horror and prevent in ASAP but everything else should be OK. I totally get the counter arguments why people are strongly dissenting of this law and everything it stands for.

The best counter argument I heard yesterday was media. Why can TV show graphic details with a warning, but essentially now online journalism will only be able to write up text articles until someone takes the time to fine tune this legislation. There are so many unintended consequences being raised because it was a 3 day hatchet job of legislation and the process of doing this needs to stop.

Edit: I want to add, I personally believed this was a reining in the internet type of bill that had been speculated with recently. Now that I have heard industry bodies domestically speak about it, the intention of the law I still kind of agree with to an extent. The way it is written (and the gaps it has), how it is solidified and the way it came about is totally not OK.
Most people do not have income that doesn't already show up in the IRS records. Yes, there are those of us who are self-employed and would still have to fill out stuff. Charity? Most people don't itemize and if you don't charity doesn't matter. Unreimbursed expenses? Didn't that get eliminated this year? Kids? Same as last year, if that changed you modify the return. Marital status? Same thing.

Personally I wouldn't gain that much from simply a pre-filled return (I'd keep B and D and chuck the rest) but many would.
More expensive cars are purchased by people with more money. Total shocker.
It goes something like this: corporations hire lobbyists, lobbyists write bills and hire former gov officials and judges to go over the proposed bills and catch any flaws in them. Then they lobby the current, elected officials and bribe them to sponsor the bills and put their names on them. Finally, they lobby the rest of the Congress to vote for the bill. And if they fail, they wait for a while, modify few things, get new politicians to sponsor them and the cycle repeats until they get what they want.

Corporate lobbying is nothing more than legalized corruption.

Even Eric Schmidt, former Google CEO and Chairman had this to say on the topic:

>"The average American doesn't realize how much of the laws are written by lobbyists" to protect incumbent interests, Google CEO Eric Schmidt told Atlantic editor James Bennet at the Washington Ideas Forum. "It's shocking how the system actually works."

https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2010/10/googl...
Ask HN: Voting System for Office Lunches?
Off the bat, I enjoy the free lunch at the my office, mostly because it is free. Somedays when it isn't very good, I skip it, and so do other people, there is sometimes a lot of food waste. I was wondering if people would like to have a service that gave you a few options for each day for the following week, and you can vote/rate your interest. The rationale is that people have an opinion on what they are going to eat. Would this be something you want to use?
Back to the original citylab article. They should get the fed to reduce cc fees so things like this are cheap.
Canada is like this as well.
If you opened up public transport for everyone, you'd never be able to use it. The homeless will overwhelm it as a new home. They do that in Chicago but it's much more limited because they have to spend money to do that.
There's literally nothing stopping govts from putting up licence plate scanners everywhere already. This seems like a silly criticism.
Same. In fact, I've had every iPhone and never even used a case until they started with the camera bump. I dropped them all the time and only broke my first screen a couple weeks ago. Thankfully Wells Fargo credit card covers the $280 apple repair for $25.
Funding the opposition is great. However, if there are profits to be made if a law is passed, and zero profits to be made if a law is not passed, there will likely be no companies all that interested in helping ensure the stoppage of the law.

And people who may care very much about stopping it may work at a company who wants a law passed. The people who work at the company have much less spending money than the company itself to devote to promoting such legislation.
You are 100% right, I should have left it there. I only rarely edit/delete my own comments, and almost always it is because I realize I have waded into a political argument I don't want to be part of.
It is pretty big online, but I still think it didn't take off as people expected it to. I think that is probably a thing in general that it is hard to get critical mass for new big things. The Internet hasn't really come to that yet, maybe it never will. Its hard to have ownership of something when FAANG owns everything.
How about the US just gets a proper transit system in the first place? Is this really our biggest problem?
You might be onto something. I went and took a look at the the Lion air data:

https://spectrum.ieee.org/image/MzE4Mjg2OQ.jpeg

They were successfully doing trim up commands for at least 21 cycles to counter the MCAS trim down commands. Then after the last few activations, they try pressing trim up again, but the button presses are shorter and the stabiliser barely moves up.

Did MCAS push the stabiliser down past a point the aerodynamic forces were so strong that even the electric trim motor was having problems trimming up?

That could explain why the last 4 trim up commands were so short, if the pilots heard a large electric motor stuck noise they might have stopped holding the button.
The design is this way due to a long number of decisions going back 50 years. All this due to a staircase that not even exists any more[0].

[0] https://www.latimes.com/local/california/la-fi-boeing-max-de...
Most transit systems do not provide any change. So if you go to an ATM and get $20, then break it for a $2.00 fare, you lose $18.00. That's not a solution.
London already doesn't allow cash on buses. There's huge costs in installing bill collectors. People paying cash on a bus slows everyone else down. Making everything electronic would solve a lot of issues.
They have to do that to balance out the bad press of "you're holding it wrong" when there's a mass design defect.
There are transit systems that literally do not accept cash. The light rail trains, trolleys, and to some extent BRT all come to mind in Seattle.
> Yes, that is the idea. But you can "white label" legislation too. What's stopping "you" (in the broader sense) from simply competing with ALEC?

I lack the resources to compete with large corporations.

Are you arguing that we must all join large well funded organizations in order to have a voice in our laws?
> There's literally nothing stopping govts from putting up licence plate scanners everywhere already.

Except for the courts which have started to tell them that they can't do that.
Would be better to have some kind of digital payment system that didn't involve credit, and that was free, essentially a true electronic currency. It doesn't have to be blockchain and it's fine if it were centrally managed. Would be nice if it were anonymous.
Fair enough! Cheers.
> AND make a second sensor an optional extra cost for the airlines

This would be extremely egregious, but it's not what happened. Every MAX has two AoA vanes. Every MAX only hooks up the MCAS to one vane. The optional feature was just an "AOA disagree" light and display, which wasn't even hooked up to an error alarm. It's a red herring for these crashes, in my opinion. The pilots aren't going to hunt around the cockpit during an emergency and notice a disagree light and be able to conclude anything meaningful about what's happening to the plane and how to stop it.
How is gibberish or incorrect better than blank boxes and question marks? At least with blank boxes and question marks it is obvious that there is a problem. Gibberish would be useless to a reader who knows the script, and might cause someone (such as a developer) that doesn't know the script to think that there is no problem.
If you watch the video, that kid with the long face was just standing there looking goofy because he was uncomfortable as the drummer walked right up to his face. There is really no way to misread that interaction. He's a teenager for god's sake and he was being harassed by ideologues.
Every single time China appears on HN these days, it seems that it's nearly impossible to make headway in the threads because of the whataboutism that inevitably crops up. I was recently told that it's not _actually_ whataboutism, it's $SOMETHING_ELSE.
Assuming you’re in the US, what do you do if you lose connectivity, like leaving an urban area? What’s your option if you break your phone?

what options would you suggest for the unbanked or those without smartphones?

Just because you haven’t handled actu al cash in a while doesn’t mean others haven’t. A large percentage of people still rely on cash transactions to get thru the day.
Doesn't seem especially different from the arguments for or against the Federal highway system.
Just to put their "mistakes" in context - Sully, America's favorite hero pilot, accidentally put his airplane into an almost stall as he was performing the Miracle on the Hudson (due to the A320's design philosophy, the airplane prevented the stall...). It goes to show- even great pilots doing good work in a stressful time can make critical oversights.
That's great. Apple to to dump their e-waste on China, and ends up paying the Piper.
I know what you mean, but I don't think I'd call any method of fraud a "great" way to make money. Even as small as he is, that's still taking him to jail when he gets caught. Eventually he'll get high enough on their list that he'll be worth stopping.