skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thats not true at all in my experience - programmers who love their work burn out all the time. I had a dream job in the gaming industry but after months of 65 hour weeks decided the tradeoffs aren't worth it. I loved that job, but the sacrifices necessary to do it were too much of a cost. There are a lot of people who would love to play a game for 10 hours a day. Playing and training are different things though.
It's not like having carve outs makes it any less regressive. It just allows the government to paper over a very complex problem with a naive and simple "solution".

Unfortunately, this sort of thinking has been the dominant mode in politics and legislation since, I dunno, the Roman empire? Riddle your laws and regulations and tax-codes with exemptions and deductions and carve-outs so you can please the people who put you in power and who will keep your in power. And since almost everyone is part of some random interest group (and many, part of a lot interests groups like married home-owning couples with kids), it usually works.
I always believe in 50/50 but i think she did the right things here because Jeff Bezos = Amazon. There comes a point in which having more money just does not make any slightest difference.
A very large proportion of low skill labor is done by us citizens- and we don’t have many visas for low skilled labor.

This wouldn’t evade the problem of increasing the cost of low skill labor and thus increasing the cost of goods.

To your point, it would force the poor without UBI into even harder poverty.
Per the article a combination of things put them in that situation. Not just MCAS. Why is everyone so wedded to the narrative that this is the fault of MCAS and nothing else? Complex systems that have millions of man hours spent making them safer don't usually have back to back failures because of one faulty subsystem. We've incrementally refined commercial air travel to the point where single source accidents are basically nonexistent.

I'm not saying that MCAS isn't mostly to blame but the fact that the maximum inputs from the pilot is still lesser than the control authority from the trim raises some serious questions MCAS or not. Had "extend flaps" been at the bottom of the checklist that would have disabled MCAS and likely prevented this crash.
They had an order backlog, and they filled it. Now, like the rest of automotive, they're sales-limited. All the big US auto companies have been able to make more than they can sell since 1956. (In the spring of 1956, supply caught up with pent-up WWII demand. Then came the era of chrome.)

Tesla is in a business where many customers just want to pay their money and drive away with a car. Not "preorder" and wait for months. If they get it right, you'll order on line and the car will show up in a few days. The loaner should show up the day you order.
There might be some value in an "INFER JOIN" keyword that tried to guess what relationship you wanted to use for the join, either based on defined relationships between the tables or based on statistics about the most common join conditions actually used.
> nothing here is obscure

Boeing chose to have the indicators that show the trim is on as a separate add on, not as a default feature (i.e. an indicator showing the trim is enabled). This is beyond unsafe, and unethical by all measures.

For a car it would be like having cruise control turn on automatically and accelerating (without telling you), and worse yet, when you brake to try to control your speed, it doesn't disable or do anything (pulling on the steering column did nothing). To disable you need to do something totally different (which is unnatural for a human).

I hope this error is costly to Boeing, and that the FAA learns from this experience. This should have never been certified.
Bezos divorce agreement reduces Amazon founder’s ownership stake by 25 percent
"MacKenzie said she was “happy” to be giving Jeff 75 percent of their stock in Amazon along with voting control of her shares."

How generous of her. Never marry...
>>Technique buys you so much more speed and/or efficiency in swimming compared to cycling or running.

I know this isn’t the topic, but the exact same thing applies to rock-climbing. After a certain point, sheer strength won’t help you if you don’t have sufficiently good technique.
Welcome to the age of (digital) data.

China understood this several years ago, and who wants to enter that market? Basically everyone, despite the costs and regulations.

It means that EU will have their own WhatsApp, Facebook, etc... If these companies leave, which they don't and never will. Money doesn't have any political preference.
Ask HN: Why does any program I run have access to my browsing history?
When I run a program as my own user it can read anything from my hard drive. It can read my browsing history, look in my Documents folder where I keep important personal files, etc.

Contrast this to a web app, which has very strict default security settings implemented by my browser.

Why does this kind of sandboxing seem to be of major concern to my browser, but not my OS? What's the history that led to things being this way? Why is it still the case today?
It's a bit hard to write this down in a HN comment. I would guess the best answer to that is, be genuinely curious about other people.
Show HN: I made a tool to help older people find senior discounts
He only suggesting adding associated traits to trait definitions from what I can see.

So there shouldn't be any extra abstraction cost. And any actual cost shouldn't be any larger than it is for traits generally.

I believe most of the controversy in this space is about language complexity cost.
According to Bloomberg MacKenzie Bezos becomes the fourth richest woman in the world via the Amazon position, worth ~$35.75 billion, and the 25th richest person overall.

Francoise Bettencourt Meyers, whose mother owned 1/3 of L'Oreal until her death a few years ago, is the richest woman in the world ($53.6b). After that is Jacqueline Mars (Mars candy empire) and Alice Walton (Walmart heir).

MacKenzie is only 48 years old, it'll be interesting to see what she pursues with her time and money.
I’m pretty sure the bigger issue was that it was a very weak simulation, with relatively little interaction. Exploring a simulation/procedural generation is not about getting to view the infinite permutations that randomness gives us — it’s to explore the rules that create the simulation, and then to manipulate those rules.

The reason sim city and dwarf fortress are intersting, and NMS and Spore were not, is because the simulation is sufficiently expanded as to be worth manipulating (while of course not being so expanded to hinder understanding your manipulations; this is the craft); whereas NMS and Spore had very trivial rules: they didn’t really have any. Which is also why when Dwarf Fortress breaks down, its interesting, while in NMS, it’s pathetic.

Note that I’m only referring to NMS on release; though I doubt the simulation has been developed since (I’d bet that the game has since gotten prettier worlds, but not more interesting ones)

Tldr; it was poor simulation/generation game, regardless of whether the current market has ADD
Well, yeah, there are no absolutes, but it's usually something like the book has just been remaindered and not a permanent situation or is a textbook. In general if you're picking up something current the ebook is a few dollars less, which seems right for printed material.
My co-founder and I have been working on products to improve the lives of seniors & make them less lonely for about a year now. After various ideas, we discovered that the biggest concern from most seniors when it came to activities, socializing, or otherwise getting out of the house was cost.

We also learned through meeting with seniors that they are far more online than people give them credit for.

Owly is at the MVP stage right now but we're building something that is somewhere between product hunt and Yelp to help seniors engage more by saving money.

I've got some known bugs but happy to hear complaints, critiques, and questions!
Here in NZ most people do not need to file - the tax system is deliberately simple, there are essentially no deductions/etc.

Most people who have a single regular income will find that their employer has paid the exact correct amount of PAYE on their behalf, people who have multiple employers may receive a tax refund, they can file for it by filling out a 2 page online return (I think this year the IRD will start doing this for you, you'll just get a cheque in the mail)

As an employer filing monthly PAYE is equally trivial, it can be done with 1 line in a spreadsheet - I spend 30 minutes a month paying bills/taxes/etc for my company
Yes and no.

Yes, the sensor is appropriate for use as an input to a safety critical system.

No, it is not appropriate for a safety critical system to behave in such a manner where if that one vane failed, to kill everyone on board.

While the sensor caused the cascade via it's input, it was the implementation of the listening system that allowed the rest to happen.

Safety critical systems are designed with graceful degradation in mind. The fewer sources of information the system has, the more conservative it's contribution to the overall state of the system should become.

There should have been integration with the second AoA sensor, pilot notification of disagree, and a lessening of the authority of the system in favor of the pilots.

The pilots could then have turned the plane around, and landed it.

Boeing is also on the hook for not highlighting the compounding risk presented by an airspeed unreliable failure compared with a stab trim runaway.

I'd also wager they should have had an MCAS disable separate from the stab trim cutout as a result.
Ah lol I didn't figure anyone would read through that!
I'm a car enthusiast, and you're wrong.
Index funds track the market index, and aren't managed like a mutual fund. The fees are massively lower. You're comparing apples to lawnmowers here. They aren't the same thing.
This is what a commerce war looks like.

It's not about China being an oppressive state, spying, etc. The former didn't matter all these decades, and the latter goes on forever from all sides and nobody bats an eye.

It's about China catching up to (and surpassing in some cases) US tech, and not being content to be the mere "factory of the US" but sell its own stuff. Like Korea, Taiwan, and Japan each did in their own timelines decades ago (from laughed at copycats and cheap foreign manufactures, to competitive themselves).

Expect to see more of China as the "enemy du jour" going forward.
Congratulations on this; it looks great.

Currently this is only designed to open up the fact checking which involves public primary sources.

Limiting the scope to this is wise. It's a tractable problem and it's better journalism. The types of journalists who write "this unnamed source implied that this other unnamed source had implied to another unnamed source..." articles won't like this sort of tool, but those journalists should be encouraged to change careers.

Some might not realize that articles like that are fairly common. For an example, I went to NYT homepage and this was the first article: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/03/us/politics/william-barr-...

First sentence: "Some of Robert S. Mueller III’s investigators have told associates that Attorney General William P. Barr failed to adequately portray the findings of their inquiry and that they were more troubling for President Trump than Mr. Barr indicated, according to government officials and others familiar with their simmering frustrations."

This sort of crap gets swept under the rug within a couple of weeks, but we're certainly paying attention to it now.
Psychedelic drug MDMA may reawaken 'critical period' in brain to help treat PTSD
I'm simply referring to the normal reasoning on why Musk doesn't like shorts.
I live in a valley with a very large nordic (cross country) trail system and they have GPS tracking on all of the groomers. It's super useful as skate skiing is very condition dependent: https://skitrails.info/report/methowtrails
Since this discussion is in the context of lap swimmers...
> Unforeseen logistics issues when delivering to a multitude of countries.

Why did PRODUCTION drop? What happened to US demand? The M3 sold 61,000 Units Q4 2018 in the USA alone. Why would expanding to China + Europe lower both production and deliveries?

Why would Tesla only make 51,000 M3 cars when trying to satisfy China + US + Europe?

Note what Tesla said:
> At the end of the first quarter, approximately 10,600 vehicles were in transit to customers globally.

Okay, so lets say all of those vehicles in transit were delivered in Q1. That means Tesla "would have" delivered 70,000 cars (total, S+X+3), which is still a 20% drop from the 90,000 (S+X+3) delivered in Q4.
> This isn't a realistic example at all because your MyError is simple enum that you changed to make it work.

Well, that's what an error is. A simple enum of the error cases and maybe some metadata.

EDIT: e.g. IO errors in Rust's std: https://doc.rust-lang.org/src/std/io/error.rs.html#91-174

If your first guess is this isn't realistic because it's "too simple" then maybe you've never been exposed to this kind of error handling? It's so simple it's unbelievable?

> If you add another error

That's what I did, I added a new error.

> or have more than one level and don't eat the error now you're changing more methods, just as I said.

As I said, if you want an example with nested error types I can do it:

https://play.rust-lang.org/?version=stable&mode=debug&editio...

As you can see, caller() (which would be our "middleman" here, the one that neither produces nor uses the error) didn't change at all.

> If you had an external compiled library the consumed MyError or called caller, you just broke it, becuase you changed the type.

You mean a dynamically-linked library? Yep, completely broken, but that's not the only problem with DLLs. Static linking is fine.

Anyways, the contract changed, so it's a breaking change, so that's good in my book. The contract changed in the case of exceptions too, you just hand-waved over the issue and called it a day.

Wouldn't it be the same with exceptions across library boundaries?
I first got into weight lifting while watching a Star Craft 2 match, one of the teams was shown in a pre-roll going to the gym and lifting weights together.

I realized that instead of spending 3 hours a night watching SC2 matches, I could go to the gym for an hour, and then spend 2 hours a night watching SC2 matches, and end up looking good while doing it!

That path lead me to a job with Microsoft Health, to years of learning martial arts, and to learning all about health and dieting.

Healthy body healthy mind, exercise doesn't take much time, and you'll feel great doing it. It grows neurons (or at very least slows down their decay), and helps prevent life long issues that can come with the weakening of muscles that happens when sitting all day.
Historically, those groups melted into a shared American identity — that’s one of the things the US is historically famous for. Irish, Italians, and the “not white enough” Europeans; Chinese, Japanese, and Asian groups; recent African migrants, etc.

Every one of these groups integrated and thrived over time, without stalling out the process, because they joined a shared American culture focused on merit and cultural fusion via open debate.

Starting with identitarian politics in the 60s that process has stalled, to the point it’s become non-functional in modern times, with antipodal ideas like “cultural appropriation”.

This coincides with the infiltration of academia by Soviets, and the rise of many social movements using Soviet psyop mantras.

“It was always this way!” is lazy rhetoric, and afactual: there’s been a change in American cultural values over the past 20, 50, and 100 years — and we should talk about that, because they’re changes that impact our well-being.
I left my last job because of money, and I definitely would have stayed if they'd made a solid offer, probably even if it was lower than what I make now. But although I got great performance reviews and had plenty of internal domain knowledge they wouldn't even entertain the idea.
If "poor people" is your interest group, then by definition it makes the tax less regressive!
Yes, we Czechs, love our Kofola. Better than Coke!

Not sure why the article is more Slovakia focused when in fact the original factory is in Krnov, CZ. Also it's widely served "on tap" in the Czech Republic too, not just Bratislava. It's very common.
I think switching once you're an established swimmer is going to be virtually impossible, at least if you want to be competitive. I think it's something that should be trained as early as possible. If any established Olympic swimmer tries to make the change, my guess is they won't be swimming at an Olympic level any longer, because breathing on a single side is a pretty good local maxima (only marginally worse than bilateral) but getting out of that local maxima would involve degrading your performance for however long it takes for bilateral swimming to feel just as natural, which might take years for all I know. I don't know if there are any top-tier swimmers who've ever made the switch and remained competitive, I've not looked into it that far, but I suspect there aren't.

I also belief (with no scientific evidence) that training bilateral from the beginning is even more advantageous for mediocre to poor swimmers, since the symmetry in breathing will make their form in general more symmetric and consequently more efficient. Obviously bilateral breathing is not necessary to achieve excellent form, as demonstrated by the vast majority of Olympic swimmers, but I believe it should make it easier for the common swimmer.
It seems like a major UX improvement, but is somebody looking for Prince Harry's Instagram account going to know http://www.instragram.com/sussexroyal, or are they going to enter the app and search "Prince Harry", click the first link, and then "Favorite" that account for future reference?

I know I personally very rarely type a direct URL. Either it's already bookmarked, or I google it.
What if time's arrow can be reverted, and is being reverted all the time, but we don't notice it because, just like and omelet would become an egg, our brain state would revert to a previous one?

As far as we know time could be running in reverse, but the process in our brains would make us feel like it flowing forward. The book "Permutation City" explores this idea, albeit in simulated brains.
To be clear, I don't think there should be a congestion tax in the first place. But flat prices are how everything else works in a free market, so it seems fairer than carve-outs or god-forbid, a progressive congestion tax.

Which sounds fairer to you: a movie theater that charges $5 for a ticket, or one that charges a percentage of your income?
My life's joy: I married well to have a stable household to raise competent and inquisitive children.
> I added code to the Linux startup sequence that ignored everything the BIOS said about memory maps, queried what physical DIMMS were there, and rebuilt my maps by hand.

I'd love to see this code; doing memory management entirely in the OS and ignoring the BIOS sounds like fun (modulo working around BIOS-specific memory reservations so the OS doesn't get its memory stomped on by the BIOS).
Cars don't have network effects like smartphones do
Obviously I mean the word "fuck". What other usage of F-bomb are you familiar with?

It is an issue when I'm in a call with a client and somebody in the same room as me yells the word "fuck". Do you struggle to understand why?
Wow, I never thought of it that way, but it's a great point.
Heaven or High Water — Selling Miami's last 50 years
There were numerous terrorist attacks, with one of the worst being in Kunming (2014) where 31 people were killed and more than 140 others injured.
The existence of it seems entirely ethical to me, given that ReCAPTCHA will refuse to allow audio or other accessible checks for anyone who's "not human enough" because they're running an adblocker.
Is Perfectionism the Root-Cause of Startup Failure?
Me too! I do have remote access to POWER9, but this machine is kind of sick since its results are completely abysmal. As I don't know its configuration it may be whatever. I do have access to POWER8 which I know very well and I can benchmark that. Ubuntu 18.04 LTS, gcc 7.3.0:

long lived tree of depth 21 check: 4194303
real 18.00
user 17.97
sys 0.03
pixels[15476] = 7
real 7.61
user 7.61
sys 0.00
tccgcggatttaccatcctc
ctgatgttaattctctgtggtcagatacagaccaaaaac
real 1.18
user 1.18
sys 0.00
> Yes, urging people to walk/cycle/bus instead of driving around in single-passenger cars is exactly the same as filling your city with bears.

If someone says that managing programmers is like herding cats, retorting that programmers are not exactly the same as cats is not very helpful.

What is your actual counterargument? Why should we make driving worse instead of making alternatives to driving better?
The US is not an imperialist power?

Are you kidding me?

We have military bases and troops all over the world. Our black ops interferes in the internal affairs of any country it wants with virtually no oversight.

We use our economic might to twist arms and bend other countries to our will.

We have a ridiculous treaty with Cuba that cedes use of Guantanamo Bay to us in perpetuity for $2000 a year.

We pretty much invaded Iraq for the oil. No one believes they fucked up so badly that they thought there were WMDs and then whoops couldn’t find any!

And then there's Puerto Rico. We won't let them become a state despite multiple referendums with the outcome in favor of statehood. Instead we keep them pretty much in colony status. Sounds great for us. Sucks for them when they have no right to provide input into their own national government.

The administration is threatening to invade Venezuela because they don’t like the government.

And to go straight to your specific definition of imperialism, the only thing you have is that we are done conquering. And now that we’re done we get to tell others that they can’t do it right?

I mean really there are good arguments that can be made here but “The same cannot be said of the US” is not one of them. We just make it look cleaner.