skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Manually operating the motorized trim as soon as unwanted nose-down trim is detected prior to disabling it with the cutout switches appears to be a viable means of recovery.

That's what the Lion Air crew did. They died. The Ethiopian Airlines crew followed Boeing's safety bulletin. They also died.

But I do take your point, which may prove to be correct. It is hypothetically possible to electronically trim against MCAS then immediately cut out the electronic trim system before MCAS has a chance to re-initiate (5 secs after last trim command). Then you mechanically trim for the remainder of the flight, which should be possible without too much pressure on the horizontal stabilizer.

It is crazy to think that that may ultimately be the life saving procedure here, given its complexity/nuance. Particularly for a largely undocumented (for flight crew) system.
The modern keyboard is a throwback from Typewriters, Typewriters had a specific layout to actually SLOW your typing down so that the print arms didn't get jammed by ensuring that letters that are often used together translate to print hammers being fired at as large a distance as possible.

Unfortunately it is pervasive, I have often been tempted to learn Dvorak or one of the 'faster' keyboards but just imagining the annoyance when having to go back to a normal QWERTY puts me right off!
Not really helpful. Youth, and the lack of worldly experience it brings, provides an excess of exuberance for ventures that more mature individuals may lack.

There are viable uses of blockchain, this does not appear to be one of them though. Naivety does not a scammer make.
True, because you cannot avoid JavaScript. If you are building a new web startup, most likely you are going to write a LOT of React/frontend code.

So it makes absolute sense to write the backend in the same language...if you can. Typescript goes a long way in making this pleasant.

Nothing is stopping you from writing the backend in different language...but as an organization, you lose the advantage of shared thinking in one stack.
that's what i was thinking. to me, it is a symptom of the broken patent system. when i see a patent, it is often for something rather obvious. it was my understanding that patents were to be for actually novel improvements, not just some improvement that if people in the industry thought for a second on they'd come up with it too.
> > as opposed to current games, which had the experience from decades to get refined.

> in contrast of newer more "casualized" games that cater to the lowest common denominator as often as people say what you wrote.

If I had to summarize it, I'd say that the decades of refinement have led to them being streamlined at the expense of creativity.
Its the aerodynamics for sure that kill my range and double my per mile energy usage. Petrol tow vehicles have so much more energy density available to them, their aerodynamics are less of an issue.

Still, no problems towing a Waverunner to the beach or an antique sewing machine to a friend’s house from a craigslist find.
I agree with you that the output of the 90s represents an identifiable period in Japanese pop culture, but don't agree with the original sentiment of things having necessarily "stagnated" since then. There may be an argument, as you suggest, that the period was more progressive in a sense, but I'd have to see more examples of what you're talking about before I could agree.

The dominance of things like One Piece or AKB48 don't preclude the creation of "cutting edge" stuff, though they might certainly drown those out and make them less visible. I think something similar could be said for the 90s, with the popularity of Dragon Ball and Morning Musume, for example (though to a lesser degree). Still, the Internet has allowed for the creation and popularity of lots of interesting stuff, even if they may not be "mainstream."
Gotta sympathise with Facebook on this one.

> "Facebook cannot be trusted. They are morally bankrupt pathological liars..."

Sure.

> "...who enable genocide (Myanmar), facilitate foreign undermining of democratic institutions, .... [They] allow the live streaming of suicides, rapes, and murders, continue to host and publish the mosque attack video, allow advertisers to target 'Jew haters' and other hateful market segments, and refuse to accept any responsibility for any content or harm."

I feel this is making making moral statements with great symbolic value, rather than suggesting anything with any serious practical understanding.

The article features paragraphs complaining that the obscene video is still up, but doesn't seem to understand the internet allows anti-censorship behaviour. I'd guess that FB already disallows uploading the video, but the ones which get through what the NZ Privacy Commissioner calls "the AI" must have been modified in some way.

I don't necessarily mind mainstream media (who are so influenced by FB's control over distribution) having a go at Facebook. But, a politician complaining that FB isn't doing a good enough job at censoring what's already illegal for people in NZ to consume raises flags for me.
it's unlikely for there to be that many rides queued up at a single residential location

The premise of this thread was that there were.
The bar exam is different than what doctors go through
USDC (https://www.circle.com/en/usdc) is a dollar-backed cryptocurrency operating on Ethereum. Over $260 million has been converted into USDC, and it is used all over the globe to move small or very large amounts of money securely within seconds (https://etherscan.io/token/0xa0b86991c6218b36c1d19d4a2e9eb0c...). This is a novel application of blockchain technology that is beyond a slot machine.
Priya Ramrakha's photographs of daily life in East Africa, in conflict zones around the world, and in the US where he studied as an international student, were just published in a book that was partially funded by a Kickstarter last year. [0]

The book is incredible, and the Paul Theroux introduction (which is the linked article) is fascinating. The history of the Indian diaspora in East and Southern Africa should be better known. Gandhi spent almost 20 years in South Africa!

[0]-https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/2098875616/priya-ramrak...
If you can tune the specifics-sensitivity curve, you should be able to handle both cases. You have to be willing to refuse to provide an answer when you have low confidence.
I'm 44, and I think I've given up. I've been battling this feeling for almost 7 years now, but I've started to come to terms with the fact that my perspective on life has pretty much settled: it's pointless, and nothing matters, not even family. The only thing that used to spark joy in my life was sitting in front of a computer and hacking away at random stuff. Now I sit in front of a computer and stare at the screen for a long time and say to myself "what's the point?" and just open HN, read a couple of articles, and that's it. For some background: I have a special needs child who requires constant care and attention; in addition, I have a wife who's had her share of PTSD from early childhood that she still carries with her to this day, and it's manifested in non-stop arguments every day over the tiniest of issues. I haven't tried seeing a therapist yet; I don't know if I ever will. Maybe one day. But right now, the only thing that keeps me going is that I have faith in God (I'm a bit religious), and that He put us on this earth for a reason, and that this life is supposed to be about trials and tribulations to separate the good from the bad. But I'm getting very close to the end of my rope, and I don't know if anything will ever bring me back. Pray for me.
They were turned on - we were testing Dual Connectivity of 4G-5G handovers.
I've been deeply involved in the space since 2015. People like this kid's friend are the reason the perception of the industry / space is trash now.
There's plenty of land for tens of TW of global capacity. Remember, the Earth is constantly being struck by ~100,000 TW of sunlight.

And no, an experience curve never reaches zero. It's a power law in cumulative production.
Thanks for asking the obvious, but I sure don't know and the only people who do have a clue (i.e. those who did the downvoting) probably don't have the guts to explain themselves because it would likely prove their pettiness.

That we live in a world full of cowards is the sad-ass truth.
I had to look it up as well. I found this link:
https://www.orolia.com/resources/blog/lisa-perdue/2018/gps-2...
From the text comes: "However, the field that contains the week number is a 10-bit binary number. This limits the range of the week number to 0 – 1023, or 1024 total weeks."
Could be, but it appears that the price of paper started its decline long before movable type was invented.

Using the internet analogy, movable type printing would be more like the LCD flat screen, which contributes mightily to the internet (especially mobile) but well after the Moore's Laws of integrated circuits, magnetic storage, and optical communications technologies have provided the basic infrastructure.
By the same mistake I meant letting Apple be the dominant force in video like it was in downloadable music. It could dictate terms.
I agree, they are morally bankrupt pathalogical liars, but as a platform, they should bear absolutely no responsibility for what their users post. Nor they should comply with any governments’ request to turn over information on who shared what.

Facebook is an evil, yes, but governments are a bigger one. I trust facebook more than I trust my government, and I don’t trust facebook to the extent that I’ve deleted my account and ublocked all their cookies and integrations.
> If anyone is promising a 20% or greater improvement over the current leaders, I immediately file it away as a scam until I see extraordinary proof.

Ha, this is just silly. Ok, so what percent were IBM promising? How do you ever reduce anything complicated into a percent change.
I agree with you regards 'main'. Absent that, Pilgrim's source is vastly cleaner and more sane than endless nines of what I see daily.
It's time to boycott Saudi money
I have an OLPC laptop, and I still love that screen.
Perhaps they believe they have enough of a head-start that they has more to gain from a more or less patent free industry than they have from having patents, but then also having to deal with every ankle-biter who claims to have a relevant patent.
Oh shit! I remember this thing! I wrote some example code for asp.net mvc3 back in 2012 haha https://github.com/sergiotapia/ASP.Net-MVC3-Persona-Demo
>when you do it for 15+ hours a day every day for an extended period of time

Does this happen? I've programmed daily for ~11 hours/day between 2 companies, but at 15hrs/day I feel like there is diminishing returns.
Thanks, I just wanted to complain
As someone who has been using Prisma religiously for the past year, I would like to express that this is the largest pain point of working with the platform. Not having the ability to custom define these transformations is brutal.
Yep!

That's why I stated the language so confidently ;)
The problem before (and I think what is still the problem):

1) We talk about very broad macronutrient classes as though much could be said about them that is meaningful. Fats are not interchangeable; carbs are not interchangeable; proteins are not interchangeable. Talking about grams of fat doesn't actually tell you much (nutritionally).

On a related note, calories are also not nutritionally generic, and our bodies are not simple input/output machines. Calories in / calories out is a gross oversimplification.

2) A substance that is eaten, and the same substance elsewhere in the body, do not have a direct 1-for-1 relationship.

Dietary cholesterol, for example, is not directly deposited in artherosclerosis, and the pathology may have nothing to do with consumed cholesterol at all. (That is, the problem may not be how much you eat, but what causes it to build up as deposits that aren't cleared away.)

3) Measuring blood plasma is a poor metric for many, many things. Intercellular, extracellular, and stored elsewhere (liver, pancreas, bone, etc.) often have nothing to do with plasma values.

And we know this. But we still use it because it's all we can easily do for now. So when we measure your nutrition by comparing blood plasma values of magnesium, for example, we are using a metric we already know correlates poorly with actual magnesium status.

4) Environment matters. Cellular environments are extremely complex. Speaking about nutrition without discussing the thousands of other molecules and tissue structure it interacts with, and where, isn't very helpful.

These factors-- conflating macronutrients, conflating consumption with pathology, using bad metrics for nutrition, and ignoring cellular environment-- are much of what results in all of this nutritional confusion.

We substitute fads or the latest half-understood data for real knowledge, because we don't have much real knowledge. (Despite being able to fill textbooks with what we do know.)
So, no different to most products then? We mainly stick with the ones that work.
This reminds me the talk:

https://maximilianhoffmann.com/talks/programming/the-art-of-...
Not a dumb question at all.

GPS used ten bits for datetime. With a week counter and seconds into that week since 6th of January, 1980. After 1024 weeks it resets back to 0. This has happened once already on 21st of August, 1999. This is the second rollover/reset of the week counter on 6th of April, 2019.

Newer versions of GPS messages use thirteen digits instead of ten digits allowing for a larger week counter (granting 8,192 weeks), causing the first rollover not to occur until the year 2137.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_Positioning_System#Time...
If I ever end up bedridden with no hope for a viable recovery, please just pull the plug or shoot me in the head.

Thanks in advance.
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A number of replies to this comment point out that modern animals also eat bone marrow. However, that may have not been the case a couple million years ago.

In “Guns, Germs, and Steel”, Diamond points out that animals in Africa are particularly vicious and dangerous due to their coevolution with humans. Animals outside of Africa rapidly went extinct as evolved humans spread to the rest of the world, since they didn’t have the same evolutionary opportunity.

I know little about evolutionary biology or zoology, but I’m curious if the modern behavior/capability of animals to eat bone marrow could be the result of evolutionary pressure from coevolution with humans.
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We didn't do everything we could, but this goes beyond palliative care.

We underinvested in research. We aren't as far along as we could be, and we're moving slower than we can.

We, the voting public, are responsible for this tragedy. The US allocated just 2% of its budget to scientific research, and we elected officials who want to push it lower still.

There shouldn't have been a tradeoff between quantity and quality of life. The real tradeoff was made years earlier, between research and slightly more material comfort. We chose material comfort, and she paid the price for it.
This looks great! Every once in a while I decide I want to setup vim like an IDE, and inevitably lose motivation whenever I try to setup autocomplete or linting or language server stuff.
Probably why your colleagues are ignoring your emails
I find this comment pretty confusing for a number of reasons.

One Piece started in 1997, and many argue that it's only gotten better with time.

The Matrix came out in 1999, but so did things like Star Wars Episode 1: The Phantom Menace. I think there's a major survivor bias in your analysis.
To add to this last comment, I would say that the entire point of early JRPGs was grinding. It was a simple formula:

Go to new area -> grind -> level up, buy gear -> defeat boss -> go to new area

Even in later 8-bit JRPGs such as Dragon Quest IV, that's pretty much all there was. Very minimal story/dialogue, rare puzzles ("get item A to proceed" type). Story was necessarily limited by the small ROM size.

I find that grinding has an almost calming, meditative quality that sets JRPGs apart from action-based games that require a lot of focus.

With recent JRPGs, the shift has been to lessen grinding and include a much larger emphasis on story and dialogue. The downside here for traditionalists is that more of the game is spent reading dialogue than fighting random battles.

Does any of this reflect bad game design? I doubt it. I would say that the gameplay of DQIV is highly polished for its time. But you must approach it knowing what it is (a game of turn-based random battles) and what it is not (a game of rich story and dialogue).
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> A biography of Al Smith is the one that I’m sorry I’m not going to get to do. The more you learn about Al Smith, the more you realize he is probably the most forgotten consequential figure in American history.

Oh, man. A Caro biography of Al Smith would have been a fantastic project. I'm as sorry at not getting to read it as he is about not getting to write it.
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Is it possible that the marketing people just didn't really understand the technology and let their imagination carry them away
What I've heard is that CPU manufacturers (intel specifically in this case) optimize for consistency over time - the crappy intel thermal paste will still be the same level of crappy in 10 years time but a lot of (much) more effective enthusiast stuff might degrade and stop performing as well before then.

Of course I don't remember where I heard this, nor do I have any sources...
Python’s type system is a particularly bad example. It’s not ergonomic and the type checking is immature.
Sounds like an opportunity for trailer manufacturers to make aero trailers for electric vehicles...
Decent styles and markup. I like the simple design, but:

- the font is too small. It's impossible to read on a mobile or tablet. Body font is set to 10pt; comments to 9pt. Just use the browser default size (1em ~= 16px)

- the markup is really bloated for what it does. The nested tables are unnecessary.

Bookmarklet to fix the font size on mobile: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19468463
The greatest thing about BlueMix was its promotional budget. Saw The Force Awakens on IBM's dime, and got about $50 worth of movie theater gift cards. All I had to do was sit through a 20 minute presentation about BlueMix case study integrations.
This will hurt individuals who sell at very small volumes the most. It will now be more risky for individuals to sell their used stuff on eBay.
Isn't the fact that societies change part of what nostalgia is?

Sure, the internet and social media has contributed heavily to changes in taste and modes of consumption, much like television and motion pictures (and video games!) before that.
I somewhat agree but slowpoke on the sidewalk are also somewhat of a modern problem. Because of the priority cars are given over humans, walking in cities is essentially a 1 dimentional affair, so it's somewhat understandably infuriating when someone is holding up everything and has no awareness
Just wait the score include in the social credit
> SQL results, coming without any translation layer, are untyped.

That would depend on the database's wire protocol, wouldn't it?
I use SpaceVim for everything! In a nutshell, its a "shared" configuration for vim (neovim really imho), as well as an extensable framework for adding new functionality.

For example, its nice to have to have plugins offer similiar functionality on similiar key combos. Have a shared configuration allows for once idealogy to take hold. The Spacebad + mnemonics approach of Spacemacs + Spacevim is a really good base to build on.
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I use to feed street dogs in Thailand. I gave them BBQ-cooked chicken legs, and gosh, there would be nothing left in 10 seconds.
Breakfast cereals are about one of the worst things you can actually eat for breakfast. At best it's just a bowl of wholegrain carbs (e.g. oatmeal, muesli), and at worst just a bowl full of refined carbs and sugar (frosted flakes, Froot Loops). They're so devoid of nutrition that they usually have to fortify it with vitamins and minerals just so that people don't end up malnourished from eating it.

You'd genuinely be better off eating cheeseburgers for breakfast than most breakfast cereals.
> Promise-fatigue

JavaScript actually handles async IO nicely, and I've never heard this term before (callback hell, yes). So promises and async/await sugar actually make it pretty nice.

> poor ecosystem

Ecosystem is fine, just don't jump on everything new. The well-known problem is standard library, it is indeed a problem, usually addressed with a mix of additional packages.

> For the extra tax you pay in terms of build pipeline

This pipeline is norm in the frontend development, so in case you have people proficient in tooling, it is not that high (of course, it is hard if you have Java developers).

> Typescript vs Javascript as if these are the only two possible options for web development

They are not, but the nice thing about it is that you can have almost the same tooling as on your frontend, if you have some sort of complex application. So that increases speed of development, and TypeScript gives you some sense of scalability.

Last part is that TypeScript can be adopted incrementally, while another languages will require complete rewrite (and different deployment, etc).
I'm surprised that Ada's Camel_Snake_Case isn't more common. It's no more verbose than snake_case but easier to read the words like a natural language and avoids acronym capitalization ambiguities, e.g. "XML_HTTP_Request" instead of "XMLHttpRequest".
Why 11hr/day?
I actually don't understand what problem this and other API gateways solve?

Let's say I have a bunch of services calling each other. Which I already do... Why should I add this?
I'm not sure that I follow you, just to clarify:

Muon.ssize == Rust.isize == Go.int ('usually', according to https://tour.golang.org/basics/11)

Muon.usize == Rust.usize == Go.uint

Muon.long == Rust.i64 == Go.int64

This is a list of all core types in Muon: https://github.com/nickmqb/muon/blob/master/docs/muon_by_exa...
Well, the regime knows that with increased economic liberty, the complete political control is not sustainable.

Which is why they came up with the social credit system and this. It’s a desperation move. The Chinese aren’t stupid. The regime will fall sooner or later. They always do.
This is a shit situation to be in, but honestly until you have something lined up I wouldn't recommend doing anything just yet as you don't want to compromise your only source of income. Document everything but keep quiet and focus on the other issue which is that you need another job.

> The market where I live is bad this year.

In that case you might need to consider relocation - staying in a market that bad (no offer in a year of job hunting is crazy) would be a huge risk/liability anyway - imagine if you lost your next job. As shitty as this situation is, at least you are given the opportunity to look for a job on your own terms and not just suddenly shown the door.

Once you're out (and only then) you can look into getting back at them - talk to a lawyer and give them the documentation.
Meego could actually succeed if Nokia continue their support. Instead,they pull their life before it hit the market.
And boy, did it do great. N9 to me was like when first iPhone was introduced, such a revolutionary phone.

I always wonder what the alternate reality is if Nokia continued with Meego instead of Windows Phone. I know there are Sailfish OS, but the support needed is huge for a new OS when Android and iOS already dominated the market, and they cant carry them forward.

Even in modern mobile OS, although they improved, the UX is not as intuitive as Nokia N9.