skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> If you consistently get it wrong, either:

> 1. You're not breaking down the work into small enough chunks to properly think about how long it will take

This is exactly what waterfall was. It pre-planned all the small tasks beforehand and required stopping the world and replanning everything when something changed.

Agile was an attempt to move away from that and create a feedback loop where you do some limited work, learn something from it, and then do another thing after you've internalized what you learned. (Original "sprints" were a coordination mechanism between departments that was applied in the automotive industry: there was lots of dead space in-between them). The whole point was the iteration was small enough that it didn't actually matter if your estimate was correct or not.

This bastardization where Agile has become synonymous with estimation accuracy is completely against its original spirit. People have started to care about estimates because Software Project Managers wouldn't have a job if there wasn't a need for heavy-handed planning sessions.
Why is it possible to set the trim to insane? Is there a legitimate scenario where that would be used?
It’s nitpicking time. I’ll only address the Indian ones because that’s what I’m familiar with.

1. Madhyamaka. Can it really be said that it is not well known in the West? It is the basis of Tibetan Buddhism which is pretty popular. Perhaps “pop” Buddhism doesn’t go into all the details but I’ve met plenty of Westerners who at least know who Nagarjuna was and usually much more than that.

2. Charvaka. A few days ago here in HN I wrote about a theory that the charvakas may not have been the anti-religious radicals of popular belief. Be that as it may, Madhavacharya was not a “14th century Charvaka philosopher.” He was an Advaita Vedantin who after becoming a monk became the Abbot of the premier centre of Advaitic thought, the Shringeri Matha and wrote many classics of that philosophy. In his Sarvadarshanasamgraha (“Compendium of all Schools of Thought”) the first (and lowest) place is given to a description of the Charvakas but they had already gone extinct by that time so unlike the other schools, Madhava’s description is not based on primary sources.

3. Nyaya. It should be noted that Nyaya is also “intimately connected to religion.” Nyaya says that Ishvara (God) is the Prime Mover of the universe who has set the atoms which make up matter (a theory of Nyaya’s sister Vaisheshika school.) into motion. Specifically the Vedas are the source of the true religion because the testimony of an apta (expert) is valid knowledge and Ishvara the most expert of them all is the author of the Vedas. Udayana mentioned in the article wrote a treatise called Kusumanjali which offers many cosmological and ontological arguments for the existence of God. Navya (“neo”) Nyaya is perhaps more interesting from a philosophical view. It is a 15th century onwards combination and progression of the older Nyaya and Vaisheshika schools that concentrated on valid means of knowledge. It anticipates many of the ideas of the formal logic that developed in the West from the 19th century onwards.

4. Jainism. I think Jains would be miffed to learn they borrowed concepts from the Buddhist canon. In fact both Buddhism and Jainism developed at the same time and in the same geographical region. It would be fairer IMO to say both borrowed from stock cultural tropes and folk parables.

Sorry this is the Internet. I have to be pedantic — it’s the law. But I did actually enjoy the article.
Oregon students returned thousands of fake iPhones, costing Apple $900k
I don't know much about kernel memory management, but if he was booting memtest86+ bare metal, I wouldn't be surprised if he wasn't triggering the same edge cases Linux would do - which is why I'd prefer to make the actual system try to allocate as much memory as possible, use it and see if the results are sane.
Only if you never sue Tesla for anything - including them infringing your patents
Am I mistaken or is there a missing item in the chronology where the pilots reactivated the electric stabilizer trim?

The timeline mentions stab trim being switched to cutout, and if you look at the FDR graphs there's a (relatively) long period of more-or-less stable trim after that. But then there's an automatic trim down, which is only possible if the electric stab trim is switched back on, and there's no mention of that.

I also can't help but wonder if exceeding Vmo was a factor.

(I don't mean to sound as though I'm trying to assign any blame here. Obviously this was a confluence of problems, the most significant of which is the control system reacting to an erroneous 75° (!) AOA indication.)
Public transportation isn't about who owns it, but who has access to it.
Reading through the chronology in section 1.1, it feels like a movie where the aircraft is a malevolent entity that's trying to kill them. So if I were in the cockpit I'm sure it would've been some mix of fear and anger. My life's not in danger though, so I'm only left with the anger, on their behalf, knowing some greedy bunch of assholes were effectively that malevolent entity, whose will was expressed via the aircraft.

EDIT: You guys can fucking blow me. Moderators ban my account please.
Social media bosses could be liable for harmful content, leaked UK plan reveals
"E-sports is this funny thing where everyone outside of my bubble seems to talk about but I have yet to find one person in my bubble who actually gives a shit about it. Like seriously, where is the interest??"

The answer is "outside your bubble".
> Not under any definition of public transit I've heard

From source [3], as provided above:

>> The taxi should not be viewed as antagonistic to public transport, people who use taxis are in general 'public transport users' not 'car users'. Any improvement in the taxi service should therefore be viewed as an important improvement in public transport provision. Any improvement in the provision of taxi services will be very valuable for people with mobility problems since they rely on the taxi for a significant amount of their travel due to the door to door nature of the taxi service.

> They cause congestion proportional to their users, i.e. orders of magnitude more congesting than buses.

As other comments have discussed, this is controversial.

[0] https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2838043

[1] http://www.schallerconsult.com/rideservices/automobility.pdf
"it's that our perspectives and expectations from other people and from government are different in some pretty significant ways"

I think that should not give a license to stop discussion and criticism if you are from a different country. There is a pretty good understanding of political ideologies across the world about authoritarianism. We have seen the results of dictatorships and authoritarian governments and how they turned out. There is absolutely no reason to say that "It is different, it is a different perspective about governance". Absolutely, it is different and there is a universal understanding of what that difference is.

George Orwell accurately outlines what is going on in Kashgar and other regions in China. He outlined it decades ago.

If I were Chinese citizen, I would be the first one to question the government's actions. Except, that the Chinese people tried to protest in 1988 and it ended in a massacre.

I have been to China many times and I love the people there, culture, and how they live lives just like anyone else in the world. Criticism against the government and political ideology has nothing to do with "an attack against China". I know you're not saying that but I wanted to clarify.
The most basic objection is that this seems to criminalize the act without mens rea, and with some very harsh punishments at that. It's one thing to criminalize the deliberate posting of such material - then we could talk about hate speech etc - but to criminalize not being fast enough at removing material someone else posted?

On this:

> I say - we managed to ban assault weapons and bring in a gun licensing system over 20 years ago. It hasn't gone any further since.

This is not true, actually. Your government is currently obsessed with "rapid-fire lever action guns" that are "almost as fast as semi-auto", and actively trying to ban them. Which is exactly the kind of slippery slope that was predicted with your original ban.

For another example, your police has recently banned a straight-pull bolt action rifle from importation. Which also happens to be a good example of the fact that your current system permits arbitrary reclassification of firearms by the executive with no legislative oversight - i.e. it's optimized for slippery slope.
Chicago’s Towing Program Is Broken
yeah, the cost benefit ratio of scans probably would improve significantly w/ less misinterpretation of scans...radiologists tend to notoriously over-call findings for liability reasons, and most MD's don't look at the images, they just read what the radiologist wrote.
You can absolutely change how often you fly. If you're unwilling to make real sacrifices, get the fuck down off that high horse and realize you're also on the team that loses the earth.
This is great. It reminds of that Adam Drakes’ 2014 article “Command-line Tools can be 235x Faster than your Hadoop Cluster” [1] was the wake up call I needed.
1.
https://adamdrake.com/command-line-tools-can-be-235x-faster-...
Show HN: Marketplace for Tiny Houses
Sure, but the article is about a new American car company, and we are discussing problems with production ramp. People often use GM or Ford for comparison, and I'm pointing out the silliness.

Most of the EU based car manufacturers are even older than GM / Ford.
> As of 2016, Stack Exchange served 200 million requests per day, backed by just four SQL servers: a primary for Stack Overflow, a primary for everything else, and two replicas.

This was the most enlightening piece of the article for me. Their alexa rank today is 48 (globally, 38 in U.S.), so whatever your site is, you are probably not dealing with as heavy a load as them. What techniques do you have to employ to serve this many requests from a single database server?
>It's just one way to manage our data

Sure, but there are tradeoffs to any approach. More services == more devops == more complexity in fault tolerance, communication, data storage/consistency, etc.

I'm not saying it's a bad model _for you_, obviously I have no idea, but the point of the article is that some tend to jump toward complexity when they shouldn't.
Kurt Vonnegut has always had the right to ignore me, regardless of whether or not I'm cursing.
Really? Blatantly ignoring patent laws, IP, international waters, the sovereignty of other countries, as well as their well documented strong arm capitalism-for-the-sake-of imperialism, like their infrastructure projects in Sri Lanka and other places for the purpose of bankruptcy is just seeking the common good?
Its very funny to me how you praise them for championing "open source" philosophy with other people's IP etc... adn then at the end of your statement wonder allowed about them not sharing any of their own. Uh, thats not "open source" thats imperialism by any and all means.
Disclaimer: Im not trying to paint this onto China as an entirety or as a culture. There are government forces at work, as well as private entities supporting and abetting this behavior for the purpose of Chinese Imperialism. There are good people and good institutions in China, unfortunately they are not the winds of progress there currently
Blaming the sensors seems pretty plausible, because the expected failure rate of that sensor is roughly 1:100000 and there have been about a quarter million 737-MAX flights since the plane was introduced.
Interesting the article mentions spatial data and Oracle Spatial, but no PostGIS. The latter, afaik, is state of the art for spatial data sets.
A great and seemingly minimally biased resource for this type of preventative care(mentioned in the article):

https://www.uspreventiveservicestaskforce.org/BrowseRec/Inde...

It presents an evidence based pros v cons listing on screening and tries to present a informed approach, with less financial bias. The most toxic component of this entire issues also has to do with a form of defensive medicine that physicians engage in. Basically if you don't want problems don't look for them, not to say all physicians engage in this type of behavior. This mentality is very common amongst the older generations of physicians who fear the repercussion associated with minor mistakes.. Ie. doctor sends patient for CT suspicious finding are noted, doctor forgets to order future followup or some other variety of mistake... Patient ends up having cancer and the physician is slapped with a malpractice suit.
> I clearly needed to find the four error parameters that used to be displayed with the blue screen on older versions of Windows. Windows 10 hides all the information by default

A somewhat disappointing trend in user interface design…
This is so arrogant and wrong.
Could have disable it, but didn't? We don't actually know yet whether they did or when they did, and if they did if it was already too late. Critically we don't know their mental state, as we don't have transcripts yet.

If the pilots are reactive or even panicked at the unexpected uncommanded pitch behavior, they may have been doomed right from that moment. The previous flight, Lion Air 34, the pilots likewise did not immediately cutoff autotrim. We have no transcript from that flight either. None of these pilots have been told of, or simulator trained, an MCAS upset scenario. Startle factor is relevant and can cause total cockpit breakdown. The 737 PCU design flaw and subsequent accidents show this. Can problem specific training mitigate crashes? Sure. How would these pilots have received MCAS upset training when they don't even know MCAS exists and the simulators didn't have such an failure option? And should they now be required to have such training? Including simulator training?

As for why MCAS is triggered below 1500' AGL in the Ethiopian Airlines case, that is a very good question. I have not seen the altitude above which MCAS is supposed to apply, and I haven't discovered how that trigger altitude is determined, radar altimeter?

Most of the facts we still don't know.
Define "critically", I implore you.

I can suspect that your definition of criticality will include some form of groupthink.

And as a counterexamples to your theory I would like to present to you Isaac Newton (obsessed with Bible) and, famous for equilibrium of his name and beyond, John Nash.

You can use decisions and reasoning of people who are strange. You have to understand what they are saying and verify that.
Startup Law a to Z: Regulatory Compliance
I have this silent debate with my engineers from time to time when one of them gets an itch they feel the need to scratch with an industrial strength back-scratcher. I usually go "lawyer mode" and ask them question after question to justify their choices. They either forget their itch or realize that rubbing themselves against a wall will fix it. I understand their desire to put en vogue frameworks on their resume, but I can't have someone's flight of fancy fucking up our tech stack.
Pilots should have known that MCAS is inactive with flaps extended, per information from Boeing.
Thanks Smenis!

In time I hope that Google will surface Wikiclaim higher in its search results (whether URL or even answer box), so in my mind the competitor is also the ally :)

I don't think the strong suit of Quora (information based personal experiences) overlaps with what I'm trying to do with Wikiclaim (information from numerous reliable sources, editable by anyone), so no issues there either.
Yes but the stack trace is always visible in the logcat, which is the first port of call for developers.
There was no section on "You are not Netflix", so I guess microservices are OK.

Just thought of a naming convention, how many types of microservices do you run:

10? deciservices, 100? centiservices, 1000? milliservices.
You can still point back to Boeing for not recommending flight simulator training of this failure scenario.

One thing that I've wondered though as I've read more about MCAS. MCAS can't kick in till the flaps are fully retracted. Usually when something goes wrong in response to an action, the response is to undo the action. Why isn't the procedure or even the pilot instinct to re-extend the flaps when the nose down occurs just after having retracting the flaps?
Anthology of Mute Buttons in Voice Chat Apps
Do you know how many engineers work at Google and Amazon? A lot. Chances are that many readers of this article actually are Google and Amazon.

My point is: these generalizations in either direction are not helpful. Many people are operating at Google scale, and many people aren't. Be aware of that when you read about potential technologies.
Ah well, I bought the program years ago, and it is pretty convenient—just drag and drop. So I expect I'll continue using it. It has the option to use m4b files too, so maybe I'll try that.

I searched for days before I bought it though, and never came across the ffmpeg method. All sorts of hacks involving virtual CDs and whatnot, but nothing that scaled.
I don't think a lot of people actually think in terms of "they are Google", but more so in terms of "we hope to one day be Google" so they build (more complex than needed) systems with that ambition of scale and everything. Almost as if they are over planning for the future. Not to say that is either right or wrong, but just something worth noting, in my opinion. I don't think anyone actually over engineers something thinking they ARE Google when they are clearly not.
Oh, I had to spend an hour "fixing" my incorrectly autofilled fields for Chrome to please stop playing games with my users data.

I'm acutely aware I'm not Google.
This is true but it's also true that small/medium businesses are riding the same hype train and they'll gladly pay you to take them along for the ride so in the end, meh-money.
That's pretty cool. How long does it take to load a page with that setup?
In my opinion, the Supercharger port (and the junction box) is way more advanced, compact, and cheaper than a CCS port. The Tesla onboard charger is clever enough to sense that it's connected to a DC charger, so they can use the same pins for AC and DC charging.
Otoh, the CCS is a bulky connector + the germans were clever enough to add the PLC protocol as well, to make it even more complex and expensive.

Don't get me wrong, I love standards, and I love, that the EU Model 3 can be charged essentially anywhere, but in my opinion, the Supercharger Type2 connector is better in every aspect, expect for it being proprietary.
The world market is somewhere around $2Bn, even though current supply is not meeting demand. I think it can be much larger. If China and India were to use nuclear medicine at the same per capita basis as the US, those countries alone would be a market of $2Bn each, at a bare minimum.

I have proof of the desperate need of of these materials with two LOIs valued at up to $100M.

For the first phase of this project, which is mostly regulatory, I'm raising 1.5 on 12.
It's not a binary question.

Anything public-use paid for by non-voluntary taxes is "socialism."

Public roads, public schools, public defenders, public libraries, public parks, government-funded mail delivery, fire departments, laws that prevent your employer from mistreating and exploiting you, the police, near-universal public access to safe drinking water, etc... these are all socialism, and most of these ideas are also considered American as apple pie.

If you're in favor of any of those institutions or ones like them, you support socialism to a degree.

Successful countries balance some amount of socialism with a larger degree of free market capitalism. Too much of either is often disaster.
I find it funny with all these cloud providers giving huge free credits for startups (AWS giving away 15k for e.g.) like they could utilize all the amount. Reality? 10 visits per day.
93% of Paint Splatters Are Valid Perl Programs
If you liked that, you'll love the video of it being speed & heat tested [0]. I watched it after turning up the sound and putting it on a big TV screen - it's gorgeous!

[0] - https://www.autoblog.com/2018/12/21/bugatti-3d-printed-titan...
This reminds of https://www.glideapps.com/, which was posted on HN a while back.
Is it really easier to build space internet than fight the landline Monopoly on Earth?
1) I've never heard of Nicholas Fandos, Michael S. Schmidt, or Mark Mazzetti. I don't suspect them of anything horrible, but neither do they have "reputations" on which I can rely. Taibbi in his recent essay observed that reporters without established reputations get lower-quality anonymous tips (i.e., "lies") from insiders than better-known reporters get. In this case multiple no-name authors are actually less reputable than one no-name author would be, because we don't know which of the authors received the anonymous tip at the heart of this article.

2) The basic proposition addressed by that sentence is that "investigators are uncomfortable with Barr's summary", but the implication is that there is a problem with that summary. The rest of the article addresses the potential meaning of this "big, if true" implication but gets no closer to the question of whether that implication is true. The alleged feelings of randoms are not interesting to the average reader. If investigators or anyone else has specific knowledge of wrongdoing that should be made known to the public, they should contact reporters directly.

3) Even if the basic proposition were firmer, we're approaching it through too many layers of indirection. The reporter didn't talk to the investigators. He didn't talk to associates of the investigators. He talked rather to "government officials and others familiar", and not about what those officials and others had heard from the investigators but rather about what associates of the investigators had heard from the investigators. How the government officials and others heard about it is not specified. We're at least four layers deep here, and nothing believable is four layers deep. These reporters are under no threat of "going to jail", because even if the basic question were important no judge could decide that the reporters are close enough to the truth to justify contempt.

4) The basic question is not important. Eventually politicians of both parties will read the entire un-redacted report. The public will not, because grand jury testimony will be redacted to protect the reputations of Republican operatives whose transgressions were not judged to merit indictments while "sources and methods" will be redacted to protect Democratic FBI (and possibly NSA?) agents whose transgressions were under color of law. It's not surprising that Barr's report had a political slant. Everything in DC has a political slant. Maybe if they found the Lindbergh baby, this tottering tower of misdirection could be justified. Nobody here found the Lindbergh baby.

5) That this happens "all the time" is actually a serious problem. Every day, well-placed people insert self-interested opinions into the public discourse not as self-interested opinions but rather as journalistic fact. This has terrible effects on our society and on our military victims around the world. Soi-disant journalists should stop aiding this terrible process, and this tool could help them do that.
> established company with a good reputation

are you insane?

CF's reputation is terrible[1]. They are trying to MiTM the entire internet, and frustrate attempts to access some of the most important information online( including but ont limited to evidence of the holocaust, sexual health information and climate change ). They are practically a threat to humanity itself at this point - you shouldn't trust them worth anything.

[1] https://notabug.org/themusicgod1/cloudflare-tor/
If you're Google, you know.

So if you're the audience of this article, you're not Google.