skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> ...they are not allowing it to reactivate until the AoA returns to normal.

Puah, but what is "normal"? This is probably kind of tricky to define if you cannot potentially rely on the sensor(s). Additionally I understand that the auto-trim of MCAS was created to actually react to "abnormal" situations (nose too high), which brings us here into a conflict :)
Poe's Law. It's impossible to lay it on so thick that someone doesn't already believe that version.
Confirming a new device should always be separate from the dozens of unique and distinctive scenarios where a user might (or might not) need to authenticate themselves.
> I have no idea why people don't call BS on news orgs that run 'exposes' on Facebook's ad targeting, when they target, track and follow their readers in exactly the same way.

Not only is the media guilty of many of the popular tech company sins, but they originated them.

* Putting us all into filter bubbles where a few big players control and curate the information seen by the masses? The media did it first.

* Using the aforementioned powers to affect elections and democracy, sometimes adversely? The media did it first.

* Advertiser-supported business models? The media did it first.

* Obsessively optimizing the product for reads/clicks, thus leading to sensationalist clickbait headlines, an overabundance of negativity, and an extreme focus on novelty above all else? The media did it first.

The media doesn't like tech for the same reason you almost always see when any two industries feud with each other: because they're competitors and one feels threatened by other.
I still use atom over VSCode because of the UI and the extensions.

The extensions in atom seem to have quite a few more permissions to change the ui than they do in vscode.

At least for clojure development.
> Every single piece of reporting I've seen on the matter refers to MCAS as an anti-stall device.

Assuming you are a developer, have you ever seen some reporting of something technical in the news? Does it not make you cringe?

> Pilots of 737 who have talked to reporters refer to it as an anti-stall device.

Even Boeing themselves do; so who can blame them. The reason that the certification item exists is to prevent certification of aircraft which demonstrate increasingly lighter control forces as the aircraft approaches a stall. The reason being that it makes it easier for an inattentive pilot to accidentally fly the aircraft into a stall. So if you want to shorten that to anti-stall then I'm fine with that.

What I don't really like is the retoric about how these aircraft would fall out of the sky without MCAS "controlling" the plane. It isn't a closed loop control system implementing PID control to account for some crazy instability in the aircraft.
Uber does not have a proven business model until they can be profitable. Once they reach sustainable profitability, I’ll be impressed.

We don’t know what the numbers look like until Uber either raises their prices or cuts their expenses to be viable long term.
Sorry, I meant to write crucial (similar word, quite a different meaning..)

I believe the reason for MCAS was because the had to lower and move the engines forward. So at lower power, the forward engines make the plane nose-heavy. When the engines are near full power, the lower engines push the nose up. Compounding the difference in handling compared to the older models.

Here's the safety bulletin Boeing issued after the first crash. Even when you know what you're looking for it's hard to spot: "runaway stabilizer". It does seem they downplayed how serious the failure is, but they couldn't know how common it could be. That raises another question: Other pilots must have experienced the runaway event, but managed to gain control. What happened to those reports?

There will be lessons learnt from these crashes, in a number of fields.

[https://theaircurrent.com/aviation-safety/boeing-nearing-737...]
Obligatory XCKD Cartoon: https://xkcd.com/2030/
On that Advertisers settings page, it is really lame you cannot click through the list of advertisers in one fell swoop, disabling ads from all of them at once. There is no "select all."

No, you have to click the X in the corner of each one, then click View More after every 12 you have disabled. I got through about 140 before giving up.

I think this was intentional.
> Have you ever had to commute in less-than-ideal conditions? Heavy snow? Sleet? Black ice?

Routinely. The only weather I have encountered that is really problematic is when it's very windy.

I would also note that the conditions you list are also the conditions under which you shouldn't even be driving.

> Have you ever lived in places that are not perfectly flat? or lived in places that are hot that make bicycling unfeasible?

I live in a very hilly area. I don't know how hot you consider "unfeasible", but we top 100 degrees pretty much every summer.

> Did you have sporting gear / work gear that you had to lug? Did you know some people have to fetch their own gear to work

Yes, I do all of that. An urban bike trailer (easily folds up to briefcase size when needed) solves those problems.

> Have you had to shop for more than a baguette or a bagel at a store? You know how cumbersome that gets for even a family of three?

Again, trailer.

> Do you have the slightest clue how much casual violence and crime happen on public transit?[1]

That's extremely dependent on where you live. Where I live, there is nearly no such problem.
Hey, if you and I were in charge of things, we'd get stuff done.

Voting machines and physical receipt, times a million.

Voting day a national holiday -- I think it's a mixed blessing given that this is a burden on families, and I'm not sure what exactly a nation holiday entails (restaurants and stores are open on various national holidays, for example, so I'm not sure that all voters would benefit). I'd be willing to give it a try and measure the effects. Weekend voting seems a little easier to manage for a similar effect.

Automatic voter registration I'm not as familiar with; it looks like it's an expansion of motor voter laws, which seems pretty reasonable. If you're a living person eligible to vote you should not really have to do anything except show up. I guess you have to specify a party for states that have party affiliated primaries, but I'd be in favor of making primaries a private function of political parties rather than making them government run.

I'd also be in favor of mandating simplified ballots (the ballots in New York are organized by party rather than candidate, which makes them a mess) and requiring that states distribute a voters guide that enumerates all the ballot options, with statements and candidate information and full text of ballot measures if applicable (Washington state had this when I lived there, and living in New York it's like trying to pull teeth to figure out what they hell your ballot is even going to look like, and ballot measures, forget it -- even getting the full text is often nearly impossible, all you get is the executive summary, no statements for or against or the full text).
Finding the Truth Behind Funny
Indictments are summaries of the allegations for which the grand jury has found probable cause based on evidence. They don't need to contain any evidence themselves, as their purpose isn't to prove charges but to state them.

> I mean sure presumably there is more evidence, but this indictment seems pretty thin to me.

All criminal conspiracy legally needs is a agreed common purpose which is itself criminal and a concrete act by any of the participants to advance the common purpose.
Its because you don't use Facebook in order to communicate WITH facebook. Just like with the telephone company or an email provider they only have access to the communication by virtue of the fact that they have set themselves up as an intermediary.
I think a lot of people, including the media really liked the idea of WikiLeaks, me included.... until it became clear that whatever WikiLeaks was, it wasn't the the open and nobody gets a pass kind of leak site folks wanted it to be.

But yeah whatever the situation here the law should be applied evenly. We'll see.
Wow, a woman pressed some keys on a computer to create a computer image (not a photo).
Well done.

Did I mention she has a vagina? Apparently that's the most important part of this non-story.

Gee, it sure is odd that when you look up "What is a black hole? Stephen Hawking's final theory", you find a video, and the thumbnail has the same image of the black hole on it, a whole month before it was digitally-created by a woman, with a vagina and everything.
Strange.
Most likely the business model for autonomous cars will be a rideshare - instead of selling the software, the company with the best software will buy cars and rent them out for rides via app. Waymo has already gone in this direction.

Also, Tesla Autopilot is a joke compared to what Waymo or even Cruise has.
Thanks, we've updated the link from https://www.brecorder.com/2019/04/11/488194/scientists-put-h....
Well this is the whole point of privacy, right? Individuals or teams may have a perspective, but the business ultimately wins.
Thank you. So many people seem to assume the US constitution is the be all and end all answer about freedom of speech (or anything else included in it) whereas it's only one interpretation used by the government/legal system in a certain part of the world.

Censorship not necessarily equal government censorship, and its ludicrous that people seem to assume it does.
Cloning primates is difficult because the proteins that guide chromosomes during cell division are not scattered throughout the cell like for other mammals, and this causes problems when the nucleus of an egg cell is replaced[1]

Researchers only reported successful cloning of monkeys in January 2018 [2]. (So if cloned humans exist already, they were likely born in the last few months.)

[1] https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2003/04/problem-cloning-prim...

[2] https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-018-01027-z
Grandparent post is assuming self-driving cars, which take one side of the network (the drivers) out of the equation entirely.
> Many of China’s urban districts were centrally planned and sat empty before they were eventually filled, including the famous Pudong district of Shanghai.

I think it's kind of funny to call pudong an "urban district". It is one, but it feels much more suburban than puxi. It has the skyscrapers, but it's characterized by wider roads, sparser buildings, and much more view of the sky. I think of "urban" as connoting denser buildings.
I'm surprised that Eats is doing more revenue than GrubHub and much more revenue than Caviar.
Also, the following post on reddit might help you visualize this:

https://www.reddit.com/r/space/comments/bc343r/for_those_con...
> Why would Amazon not have every incentive at some point to make it as easy as possible for an existing Microsoft customer to migrate workloads over to their platform, and vice versa

This is what flies in the face of multicloud efforts for me.

Now, most of the big cloud provider's new revenue comes from enabling migrations to cloud infrastructure. But that's a finite amount of work.

At some future point, everyone who will has already been migrated to the cloud. At that point, all the cloud provider's new business will be in the form of enabling migrations from existing clouds.

And then you'll have the resources of Amazon / Microsoft / Google working to enable migrations. Which seems a lot more successful resource match.

(That said, at that point cloud vendors could also really start actively turning the screws on making that difficult. But in a three-party world, where two parties don't, it seems unlikely that would succeed in the long run.)
Heh - didn't know the 2000 was based on the 186, but that seems likely. Most of those machines were well out of the range of my parent's budget - though after they passed away, and I looked on their receipts for what they spent on my CoCo collection (all of which I still own) - well, I just shake my head.

I guess it paid off - they did live long enough to see me become a software engineer (though as a kid I never gave that career choice an iota of thought).

Anyhow - Radio Shack/Tandy always did have a thing about custom machine designs; they always wanted things to be in-house, and that too probably helped cause their eventual demise, because it took a long time for them to sell a "clone" (I can't recall which was their first true clone; I want to say it was the Tandy 4000 or 5000 - I think it had an "MPC" designation, and came with a CD-ROM drive, and was super expensive at the time).

Of course, they eventually just started selling other brand's clones, and not even rebadging them, much like they did the RCA line of audio/video components (I have a Realistic 100 watt component stereo that I got in high school picked from separate components - still works well; got an amp/receiver, the 15-band EQ with the LED display in the middle, and a tape deck - coupled to a pair of 12 inch 3-way speakers they sold - still a nice system, though a bit rough on the edges today).
Hmm there is some groupthink, lack of reason, or bullying going on here.

Look at this image for yourself. The article is titled: "Here is what scientists think a black hole. Looks like:"
https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2019/04/here-s-what-scientis...

There are not massive differences in the images, but the Vetiasium prediction was (and this is very plain) much more accurate.

This isn't controversial at all.

I also thought the particular statement, "why is it like this, because it is just going to look like this" was bad form.

This is very plainly reasonable.

I think the fact that you and a few other users turned this into an opportunity to go through the effort of writing belittling comments and even put downs and troll bait over something as plain and ordinary as this is indicative of some bad qualities of humanity expressing themselves here.

Of course, your only response will be further negativity as bad people dont possess the ability to admit when they were wrong.

And the statement about Assange is very widely expressed. See here(1). There are articles all over the media, just like that one, echoing the same exact view. They are literally everywhere.

Finally, I noticed over the last 30 minutes all my recent comments went down by -1 each. That really makes it look like I'm engaging with some quite petty and insecure people.

Edit: see, right after I wrote this comment, all my recent comments each, in perfect synchronization, down by -1 again haha.
I think there's an oversimplification here, that seeing someone's race is going to determine your reaction. You see lots of things in that same second. You see their clothes, their posture, gait, and other body language. In fact, those other things may be easier to determine than skin tone is, particularly at night. Clothes and body language may correlate with race or ethnicity, but there's no direct causal relationship.

You mention race because it's a lot easier to categorize based on race than based on a hundred different clothing and body language parameters, but it's those complex non-racial, non-ethnic things that really make your decision for you about whether someone is likely to be a threat.

Many more blacks or hispanics, on the street in an inner city or bad neighborhood, may exhibit nerve-inducing fashion sense or body language, but you're still not nervous about their race, you're nervous about those other things, and the location (alley? possibly late at night?), and forming a post-hoc explanation based on race because it's cognitively simpler.
> to make this kind of technology work perfectly.

That is a flawed premise. Humans do not operate cars perfectly either. The highest requirement you could put on them is to be as good as the average human driver. And given the other benefits that self-driving fleets offer we can even go a little lower and still come out positive according to various utility metrics.
Who cares? Doesn’t mean it’s not something we should hope for.
The judicial system presumes innocence. The media, and public opinion, does not. It's debatable if the court of public opinion should presume innocence as well.
> The indictment just has to establish enough to arrest the person.

The indictment doesn't actually have to do that, that's what has to be done to get to the indictment, but the indictment doesn't need to actually recapitulate the evidence that supports it, only the factual allegations that the grand jury found that the evidence supported.
I'm noticing more chains offering delivery, I wouldn't be surprised if McDonald's is next.
Nothing could be further from the truth. These folks are fierce with nationalistic and sectarian pride in their vehicle.

https://mobile.twitter.com/teamspaceil/status/11163129311033...
This is fake news.

Russians "visiting websites" is different than "targeting" them. There's really no substance to that article at all, it's simply more of generalized "Russian collusion" narrative that is supposed to lead the reader to believe that the 2016 Presidential election was tampered with by hackers in Russia for the benefit of Donald Trump.

Except that it isn't true.

There is no actual evidence any such thing took place.

Furthermore, every single IP address is routinely "targeted" by all kinds of bots looking to add nodes to their bot nets. That some originated in Russia is not surprising. It doesn't mean that the machines were known to be part of voting apparatus. The whole "prove a negative" thing comes into play here. Prove Russia didn't hack the election. Sorry, I can't. Nobody can prove a negative.

What was uncovered during the recounts was evidence of massive vote tampering in many large cities and counties, all to the benefit of the Democrat candidate(s). That's the news the media refuses to tell you, however.
Back then, the business model that incentivized mass data harvesting didn't exist, and neither did the infrastructure necessary to store and process those mountains of data.

In 1999, only the original Blackberry and Palm VII "could" do mobile data. I use quotation marks because they both relied on a very rickety, bandwidth constrained Mobitex network that could barely send and receive text-only emails for a few hundred concurrent users, let alone real-time geolocation and web browsing data across billions of devices. Even then, Blackberry had to route every single email through their own servers to compress it before transmission.

Blackberry's business model, like Apple's, was built around an integrated hardware-software solution. There was no incentive to sell their data to advertisers. That only started with the search and social media companies that had no other way of making money.
> The internet is such a game-changer.

Yes but also portable, low-cost GPS enabled internet connected devices are a game-changer. I don't see how Uber or Lyft could exist prior to the iPhone pushing adoption of GPS.
> It's a good thing for Lyft-the-corporation but a bad thing for anyone who bought into the IPO.

Which in turn is and for the company since the new co-owners (shareholders) don't want to lose money but push the executives to "do something" (while in reality even combined most of the new shareholders don't have much voting power
If p(person matches stereotype) is less than .90 I wouldn’t consider it to be accurate... but maybe the payoff is so good and the risk of being wrong is so low that it’s worth it to always make the observation.

What do you think?
Surely you have a proof of your statement?
Bad idea. Overhead from running your own delivery service is high, and the profit wouldn't be more than using the existing network of delivery services. It would probably be negative.
Yes that's more or less it from what I gather. The trim cutout is designed to stop runaway from due to failure of the motor control circuit. Some ommon failure modes leaves the output stuck on. The only fix is to kill the power.

However if you kill the power to the trim motor and then turn it back on MCAS will blindly add more trim on top of the trim it previously added. It doesn't remember how much trim it's already applied.
> If you have to create a special message board that is the only place where you can say what you want to, perhaps you should think about what you are saying.

That only shows that reception to what is being said is overwhelmingly negative. Society has an unfortunate long history of doing that for arbitrary and stupid things. There are legitimate reasons for using something like this.

Granted with the "alt-right" it is a clear case of "They laughed at Einstein but they also laughed at Bozo the Clown".

I can't help but think it is a shame that an overlay messageboard concept like that wound up being used in a double rot13 cryptofascist dumpster fire. Although it would probably always tend toward toxicity given its usefulness for hatedoms of any sort.

I'm imagining a useful fact checker one slapped over news websites and even maintaining "score" of accuracy per author, site, and topic.
Includes gain on divestiture of $3,214BB, plus unrealized gain on investments of $1,996BB
If we're just making up numbers why not assume you'll only drop gross bookings by 0%, or increase bookings even!

Anything can be made profitable if you just invent numbers.
A Must Watch
I always felt SDC is the death of Uber. If you had 5 billion to invest in SDCs for a taxi service, why would you become a small investor in Uber, when you could probably build the app for $10 million and just roll your own?

Also uber could become profitable if they charged more. I've actually started taking taxi's again, since they are marginally more expensive than Ubers/Lyfts. However, if you pick them up from an airport, you don't have to wait staring at your phone for 5 minutes watching your driver just sit around in their car until they start moving.
> Driving to a suburban park and ride transit station, taking the train into the city, and then using bike share to get to your final destination, is a perfectly sensible thing.

And if Massachusetts had that kind of infrastructure, it would work out fine. But it doesn't, and just making a city more bike-friendly doesn't solve the problem on its own.
Discover how an 8th-grader is solving real-world problems with IoT
Indeed. I am always faster than the bus. And, in the city, bicycling is usually faster than driving.
Actually, no, US newspapers don't STEAL information, which is what he's being charged with. If you get it from another source and you weren't part of acquiring it, you cannot be legally responsible for it (it's not like receiving stolen property). But the governments case is that in statements to manning is that he was active in ACQUIRING the information. Therefore he can be held criminally liable. Now whether those statements are really enough to hold up in court are a huge issue, but it won't matter because one they get him here they can add on a ton of charges -- perjury, conspiracy, and whatever national security rules they want. But your point #1 is not valid in that if US newspapers did ever steal information they could be held criminally liable (they don't).
Dagen H: The Day Sweden Switched Traffic Sides
I was referring to separate traffic light phases for different approaches to the intersection. For instance this protected intersection[1] does not have separate traffic light phases for two same direction approaches. While this intersection[2] does. The first one will have turning conflicts since turning traffic and through traffic is allowed to proceed through the intersection at the same time. The second one will not.

[1] https://www.google.com/maps/@40.7631767,-111.8968873,3a,75y,...

[2] https://www.google.com/maps/@37.306157,-79.97767,3a,75y,223....
Sorry missed this. I don't consider Google Maps a website as well. Specially not a static website that AMP is targetting. You move around in maps, give it input and it gives you a different output.