skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Which, if you think about it, makes perfect sense. Everybody has some unconscious limit of how long they are willing for their commute to be. Am I willing to commute for 30 minutes? Probably. What if it was two hours? No way. I'd either find a closer job or move closer to work.

Average that over the whole population, each with their own individual unconscious time limit. The result is: if commuting is faster, people are willing to live farther from their jobs. If commuting is slower, people live closer to their jobs. Adding more capacity doesn't change this.
Inconsolata doesn't support devanagari at all, so when you try that, you're seeing whatever fallback font your browser chooses.

(IMO, the fact that fontlibrary.org doesn't indicate this is a serious defect in its presentation.)
Summary:
Domain extensions are generally made up of two categories: gTLDs (Generic Top-Level Domains) and ccTLDs (Country Code Top-Level Domains). With 150 million domain name registrations today, ccTLDs make up 40% of the total domain name industry.
Microsoft Makes Major Changes to Windows 10 Updating
ACH is incredibly cheap at scale, but not free.

Frankly, the US financial infrastructure is abysmal - we've papered things over for a long time. I'm happy to be currently working on fixing it.
60HertzEnergy from Alaska Wins Entrepreneurship Award in Norway
From the way you describe it, if the stabilizer reaches the point where human force is insufficient to bring it back then they're toast since MCAS is tied into the electronic stabilizer.

How did this scenario get missed during testing? You'd think they would do extra testing around the new changes.
Researcher Publishes Google Chrome Exploit
Me: pole vault
As long as the browser is GPL-compatable it's okay. Chrome isn't, and Chromium and Firefox might not be either due to binary blobs for DRM stuff.
Ironically, such clients also seem to expect that whatever additions/changes they dream up should be able to be folded in to the plan willy-nilly. Whereas if they accepted an iterative process that would come naturally, without constant re-negotiation or ill will.
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We're really a furnace burning oxygen inside which deteriorate cells faster when you're doing sports competitively, sports are great for health, what about competitive sports? is it really that good? is there any data showing that they live longer and healthier because of those intense exercise?

I exercise regularly but always had this doubt about "over-exercise" that could do more harm than good.
Here's what I think -- if you work in tech you probably know multiple people who enjoy watching video-games (i.e. twitch) and at least one who has watched at least on esport-level thing (be it speedrunning, a tournament, whatever). I think those people haven't brought it up to you because they are afraid of being judged.

I think it's just not quite over the hump where it's "cool" yet. Give it 5 years, and talking about videogames at work will be as normal as talking about basketball, at least in tech sectors.
The MAX is stable in normal flight. It's only when you are pitched up does the engine placement make it want to pitch up even more (and it is only a problem at a speed that is low enough that the normal stabilizer control doesn't have enough control authority to push it back) hence MCAS forcing the nose down every so often via the trim. A normal flight does include pitching up but it does not include pitching up at such a low speed that a little more pitch would quickly cause a stall. MCAS (or at least the nose down function) is specifically designed for an edge case (in that it should be sitting there watching, not actually doing anything during a normal flight).

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That's interesting but I guess expected since a major component of success is access to power and capital. I remember reading something a while back that a significant portion of the post-war japanese and german economy, industry and government were controlled by the descendents of vanquished elites.

I wonder how the children of our politicians and business elites do compared to ordinary folks? In the US, we have been brainwashed with the propaganda about meritocracy that we blindly believe as an absolute truth as children. It's only when we get older we realize that success has a lot more to do with connections than hard work.
> I still would like that SQL read a bit more set-theoretic, if less English-like. It would make it less quirky and more composable.

I wish that it didn't introduce an incomprehensible ternary logic for null handling. SQL with algebraic data types would be amazing.
I think a rigid 50/50 is the wrong way to go about it.

Just because you are in love with someone does not mean they provided half the value you both accrued while together. Taking half of what someone else accomplished just because the laws force you to do it doesn't mean that it is legitimately theirs. It just means the laws are in place to allow such an injustice.
One of the purposes of publishing such papers, as see it, is triggering responses with simpler, easier proposals. They may cover the important 90% of the original, doing away with the most complexity-inducing 10%.
This means that Boeing is now 100% liable for the crash, as there was nothing the airline could've done in this scenario.

It also means that the aircraft will have to be re-designed and re-classified before it ever flies again (it's now a very clear design error, not a training or communication error)
Good article, bad Hacker-news title.
>Parking and road access isn't about individuals, it's about making an entire metropolitan area functional.

You don't need cars for a metro to be functional. This is purely a 1st world construct that we've burdened ourselves with. It can and should be undone.

>where do they get their groceries and other goods?

From stores in the neighborhood. There is typically truck access and back alley ways for things to get unloaded. If there is not, most roads have some wiggle room to them where the truck can pull over.

>how do they expect medical services to reach them in an emergency?

Via the road. But you don't need parking for emergency vehicles. Not sure what world you're in, but emergency services don't just throw their hands up in the air if all the parking spaces are taken. Not sure why you think they'd act any different with less parking. It's a really funny example, to be honest.

>How do they expect commerce to occur within an arms reach but at reasonable prices?

Not having a car free's up a lot of money. Assuming you think the cost of goods would rise to some absurd amount, it'd still be way, way cheaper to pay for those goods in comparison to getting cheap goods because you own a car, and forcing the entire community to pay for miles and miles and miles of road.

>We all pay for the roads because we all use them

Roads aren't going away. We just probably need less of them, and we need to not construct our cities and metro's with a "car's first" attitude. Because it just shifts the costs elsewhere, for absolutely no gain and quite a few negatives.

You know what's great? Not having to drive 30 minutes somewhere. That's 30 minutes I can spend walking out in the sunshine. Not dealing with traffic while risking life and limb, and not paying a boat load of money to go buy $20 worth of goods.
Data point: I'm a current Tesla owner who during Q1 was in the market for replacing my remaining gas-powered car with an EV. Looking at the options available, the direction I'm seeing with respect to charging infrastructure, and the character of the company (yes, there's a touchy-feely part to me), I went with a Jaguar I-PACE instead of another Tesla. I feel that directly contributed to at least one lost potential sale for Tesla.

If they wanted to sell me another EV, they'd need to do several things differently. First, give me buttons for the common stuff I do. Stuff I do commonly is A/C, audio on/off, audio volume, suspension height, and driving mode (sport or comfort -- I share the car with a spouse who hates vroom vroom). Second, adopt CCS. I don't want to take a hard dependency on a proprietary charging infrastructure that entirely depends on a single company to keep it on life support. Third, stop lying to me about fully self-driving capabilities. While we're on the subject, sell me the car as it is now, rather than as you speculate you can make the car be in the future through a software update. Fourth, nail the fit-and-finish and the quality of the interior.

For me, Jaguar got almost everything right in what they were shipping in Q1.
Being a big believer in Open Source and Freedom of Knowledge, I think we, as humans, would progress much more quickly if we broke down barriers to knowledge sharing. It would help everyone progress much more quickly. Keeping knowledge secret, especially in research, which is usually publicly funded is not the right thing.

We can debate all we want but the reality is that China has progressed and its people have benefitted through better living standards. Now those people are investing in other countries creating jobs and improving living standards across poor countries. Weirdly enough one such beneficiary has been India and African countries. Just 5 years ago India could not domestically manufacture cell phones. Now there are over 260 factories with 95% of the phones being produced in the country. This has been a big benefit to India and its people.

Funny how that worked out?

I am not sure what counts as "stealing" in terms of IP. I am a firm believer in protecting IP but at the same time you cannot argue that freely sharing knowledge has its own benefits. IP laws (especially patents) need to be revisited to make sure they serve their purpose and reasonably help inventors benefit from their inventions.

Edit: I must also clarify that this goes both ways. The way Chinese don't end up sharing knowledge is bad. They also do not respect IP law and contracts which needs to drastically change. If they would have respected those and given a fair playing field for foreign companies, I don't think this would be a big issue today.
You'd just noted and moved comments to this submission from another, which is confusing.

(emailed to hn@ also)
Yes they are manually connected but not mechanically assisted in any large (maybe any) part and the nose down trim and full back on the yoke made the manual wheel impossible to use. Thumbing the switch will work to disengage the mcas temporarily yes.

I think the only way to survive this is to use the electrical trim assist to get to level flight and then shut off the system. After it’s level you can go ahead and trim using the manual wheel. Well the other way to survive this is to not have Boeing design the mcas to read from one sensor only and also have mcas operate in a narrow authority.
MacKenzie Bezos keeping 25% of their Amazon stock after divorce
Correct, both the U.S. and China plays dirty tricks. In fact the whole world plays dirty tricks. The only difference is that the U.S. is expected to be the role model of the world, and will always look worse than others even when carrying out an equivalent dirty act. China, Russia, and others know this and they use this to their advantage.
No, you don't. Zero examples come to mind.

Which US tech companies have literally attempted/stolen proprietary lab tech from a Chinese tech co?

Are brain drain interviews the same as being invited back to your native country for a job interview and being detained?

And that's just comparing magnitude, not even talking about frequency.
The study that I remember off the top of my head is the one that came out of UC Berkeley. News article: https://news.berkeley.edu/2015/05/29/motorcycle-lanesplittin...

There's been a couple of others that I remember seeing, but I don't remember them or which sources I saw them at.
The US Federal Reserve is currently trying to work towards faster payments - and seems to want to let private industry solve the problem.

It really is terrible though and has been for a long time.
> This is extremely well documented by Boeing going back decades, and it presents solutions of either: 1) reengaging the electronic stabilizer trim and trimming electronically back to a point where the forces are manageable, then cutting electronic trim again, or 2) relaxing the stick, letting the nose go the way the stabilizers want it to, which slackens the force, and makes cranking the wheel manually doable. Great if you're stabilizers are trimmed severely nose down at a height of 40,000 feet; less great at a height of 1,000 feet.

They went for option 1 in this case, with the MCAS kicking in 5 seconds later.

> This all seems to add up to Boeing's narrative of "The MCAS is safe, pilots just need to know to hit the stab trim cutout" being grossly insufficient.

Yeah, and even that is understating it in my opinion.
I wonder if part of this settlement was because he actually cares about being the richest person in the world and she was kind enough to make sure he stays that way?

I think you already answered it. I think she's smart enough to know the value of what she has will be more certain if Jeff has control.

And she's also smart enough to know that $35B is way more than she could ever spend/use/invest/whatever.
Global CO2 Emissions Hit an All-Time High in 2018. Hothouse Earth in Our Future?
I wrote a generic version of cog that can use any language as the generator code. It's called gocog, because it's written in go, but once compiled, it's a static binary, and you don't need go on the host machine.

https://github.com/natefinch/gocog

It's directly built off of cog's ideas and mimics much of cog's interface. (I worked with Ned, cog's author back in the day, and really enjoyed having cog to write boilerplate for me).

gocog is some of the first code I wrote in Go, so it's not super pretty code, but it's a very useful little tool for generating boilerplate.
One of the truisms of medicine is that ultimately every disease and every treatment has a 100% mortality, so we can never truly save a life. What we can do is promote the quality and quantity of life. In the US, the rule of thumb is that it's worth spending $50,000 to keep someone alive for a year, with that being the approximate cost of dialysis therapy. So, to save 10 years of life would be expected to be worth spending a half a million bucks. Which is all to say that an additional 10 years of reasonable quality of life is worth a lot, both to society and to most individuals.
The other strain in your comment suggests that people who are presumably in some way responsible for their disease are less worthy of care. This opens up a giant slippery slope. Start with drug use, smoking, alcohol use, being overweight, eating meat, drinking coffee, working too many hours a week... Ultimately only celibate teetotalling vegans are worthy of medical care.
I was thinking about this the other day after the Overwatch League Stage 1 final. That game went to 7, and I watched San Francisco fall apart right at the very end. At that point, they'd been playing for most of the day. I have to imagine stamina played a huge part in that match.
Despite all the "type A" obsessions with it (I was an ultrarunner for example), physical fitness is such a "little goes a long way" activity.

A tiny sliver of overall time dedicated to a professional e-sports routine - possibly as low as 2 hours a week - in order to receive most of the benefits. It would certainly be worth it.
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Post Lion Air, they should have known that.
These are great news, some competition and big corporations with a lot of money trying to improve the lives of those in need and with worse life conditions.

Still I am sceptical about their interests. Facebook intentions were to create a free internet that they would control all the traffic, is it the same for Amazon? Or does Amazon profit from having more people using the internet and creating businesses using AWS?
I'm working through reading the DevOps Handbook (the companion successor to The Phoenix Project), and in it is an entire chapter dedicated to the necessity of dedicating either the time (measured in 20%) or dedicating a small group of people who's express and specific charge is refactoring and paying down technical debt.

They pointed to Nordstrom as an example of an enterprise organization who did this as a part of their internal devops transformation, and it worked wonders at the time when it was needed.

This team didn't tackle new user stories for feature additions or enhancements, they didn't work on existing tickets. Their role was singularly focused on identifying and making payments on technical debt and operational enhancements.

Not every team can afford to focus an entire group of people to the task of paying down technical debt, but what I did take from it is that every team can't afford to not dedicate some time out of the week or month making critical fixes where necessary.
The vast majority of road maintenance and construction is paid for by the states, counties, and cities. Those entities raise gas taxes all the time, or raise property taxes to pay for the roads.
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Sigh. I see you still don't see what I mean. I invite you to analyze the earlier replies not only by me but also by other people who thought what you were doing wasn't the best approach, because no one disagrees with your motivation, just your execution. Have a good one.
2000 Lines of Java? Or 50 Lines of SQL? The Choice Is Yours
Never mind that the units would probably 20tb/s, it wouldn’t be impossible. We saturated our gig ethernet with 8 image upload workers from a flask app. We could have saturated a 20tb line (if such a thing existed) with 160000 workers. I’ve seen bot nets for rent with something like 30k bots. Which means you might be able rent enough machines with enough bandwidth to saturate 20tb/s for maybe $1k/hr. multiply by 8 if you really care about 20TB/s. I do think 20TB starts getting to be big players though, especially since anyone with that much bandwidth is going to have teams dedicated to mitigating these kinds of problems.
What's the point of rendering characters that can't be understood by the reader? I can't read chinese, cyrillic, native american scripts, etc, so it's not worth the 12MB in apps and definitely websites.
"grew apart" is a not how reality works.

A relationship by nature "disintegrates" if you don't work hard to sustain it.

But you are right that no one should be surprised, the outcome is as predictable as gravity and is bound by the same natural laws.
The argument that there was never an American identity is part of the conceptual attack against the American identity. However, the denial of the existence of the identity contradicts any complaints about people's non-admission into it. So which is it:

1. The American identity never even existed, so all complaints of exclusion are invalid.

2. The identity existed, but some were excluded and that was bad, so the identity exists and is good, and assimilation is good.
It is more an admission that fuel taxes are way too low to make any meaningful difference in changing behavior.
A compounding problem is, if the MCAS system is disable, now the flight characteristics are completely changed. Without additional training, there's no way for the pilots to know they have to trim down.
yes, as i understand it, high walkability promotes self-reliance/independence, which correlates highly with quality of life and longevity.

since "love" is an intensified term already, the italics seemed to imply sarcasm to me, but i'm open to being told i misread the prior comment. =)
I periodically smoke, yet I don't call myself a smoker. Yet when I buy insurance I buy the smokers plan, the idea being that if I do need to use the insurance I expect the Insurance company to use any information necessary to deny my claim. Should I be worried about this?
I ran the hacked bios and it worked, for what that's worth. This was when they were fairly new.
So does your toothbrush.
Not necessarily. If the devices used end to end encryption the pipes will be just dumb pipes.
It does not appear to be "precisely" the procedure, in that sufficient nose up trim was not selected by the yoke manual trim switch prior to pulling the trim cutouts. And then they did not work the mechanical trim wheel hard enough to reset the residual nose down trim.

And, the crew left the power setting at climb throughout almost the entire sequence, so they oversped the airframe.

And, when they (against procedure) (apparently) turned the electric trim system back on, they did not use the yoke manual trim switch to fix the nose down trim problem -- which is a big mystery.

The MCAS design inhibits its FCC trim down output when manual trim is utilized. So, if they had just continuously pushed the nose up manual trim switch on the yoke until they got the trim to neutral, then pulled the cutout (either the first time or second time), the accident could have been avoided.

History shows this is not a good human factors design on the part of Boeing, but the crew does not look good, either, IMO.
Even if it does mean separate OS processes (which I doubt), keep in mind that on Linux basic POSIX threads are basically just processes with some shared memory mapped in. There's no real performance difference.
1) Huawei phone has more cameras and sensors
2) Google's version is ~6months old

So yeah, some caveats there
> Tesla Inc. said new-vehicle deliveries in the first quarter fell 31% from the previous three months

Wait a second, so this isn't a year-over-year number? Don't shipments of basically everything fluctuate seasonally? Is this even a meaningful metric?

Alas, the paywall prevents me from knowing. But in general "people buy 31% more high end cars around the holidays" doesn't seem like a clearly incorrect hypothesis.
Being capable of performing a glide without electricity does not necessarily imply that a no-power glide can safely be entered from extreme conditions like diving too fast with trim set to insane.
You may be interested in: https://github.com/iamadamdev/bypass-paywalls-firefox
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/04/world/asia/ethiopia-crash...

Ah yes implying those weird "African" airlines cannot compare to the supreme training of the US ones. You closet racism is pretty self evident.
Hence why I said "typical flight conditions", which includes pitching up. Point being, its utterly commonplace for a plane to pitch up at some point during the flight. They weren't doing anything out of the ordinary.
Many people have this opinion. You can't both require MCAS and be okay with disabling it at the most critical portion of a flight where the system is needed most.
It would depend on what needs fixing? Are we talking engine internals of the stuff that hangs of the engine?
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Unlike some other forms of cancer, random lung cancer is exceedingly rare. The vast majority of lung cancer patients were smokers.

As a society we have limited resources for healthcare. So it's worth considering whether we might achieve better net results by shifting some resources from lung cancer treatment to smoking cessation programs.
Wow. I'm never having edibles again, at least not until it's legal in my state.
Big Hospitality covers the industry news much like HN covers startups but nothing exists that is user curated unless you count the various chan sites /trv/ like 4chan but then it's same problems as already discussed
Good point. fontlibrary.org lists each font's language support in the sidebar but since the page emphasizes the display of the font, it would be better if they prevented such fallback.