skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> No, you can't. There isn't a visual indication for AOA - the author is confusing this with pitch. You can have a 45 degree AOA while still having the nose of the plane pointed at the horizon. (The author mentions using the artificial horizon for this purpose, too) If you could read AOA from sensors that didn't require being exposed to the airflow, planes would use them.

I think you may have missed the context of that part of the article. The author was talking about diagnosing a possible AoA sensor malfunction.

Changes in AoA should generally correlate with changes in attitude according to the artificial horizon and with changes to what you see looking out the window. So if you have an AoA sensor that claims you are at, say, a 70 degree AoA for several minutes (like the one in the Lion Air crash did), but you can see out the window that the plane alternating between pitching up and down relative to the ground, you've probably got a busted AoA sensor.
I think engineering degrees demonstrate an ability to torture oneself with boring and routine concepts. A skill which is apparently more valuable in the working world.
Alternative: People know exactly what they're talking about. Kubuntu is just an interesting, related topic and a valid comparison.
Someone else posted it here. I noticed it because someone told me about it on Twitter.

I realized that climbing the career ladder wasn’t my ideal career, despite everything going very well by most traditional metrics. What I hope readers can take away from the story is that succeeding as an employee is not necessarily the most satisfying career path. It can be, but it wasn’t for me.
Well this is on the Commodore 64, and smooth scrolling was quite easy on this machine as it had hardware support for scrolling and raster interrupts.
I’ve been looking into this lately for mine. Definitely need to invest more time. What NAS are you running?
The strange thing is that the number of homeless has not increased that dramatically in the same period of time. There's something going on here besides the number of homeless people that need to poop
I think you put the cart before the horse here. Back in the 1400's, people were going out on ships to explore planet earth backed by monarchs on the assumption that there would be resources to exploit once they got there. I think the assumption here is that first we establish a colony on the moon, and then find a profitable activity.
How has no one mentioned the plastic bag bans of 2012 (for SF) and 2017 (for CA)? The homeless use to defecate in plastic bags and throw them away. Now that option is entire unavailable to them. Additionally, I read that diseases like Hepatitis are on the rise, partly due to the increased exposure to other peoples' poop.
The problem is partially in the way American cities structured. They are either too urban (San Francisco, NYC) or suburban (perhaps Chicago is the right balance, with its alleys where someone can quietly poop). Many soviet and European cities are structured in different way - spots of high and very high density separated by greenery, where a homeless person can safely poop, without creating problems for the neighborhood's dwellers.
Considering cancer, heart disease, or dementia aren't contagious, my individual treatment decision does not threaten those surrounding me.

I want to know as much as possible about treatments, their side effects, and tradeoffs. And if I partially learn about those items from a commercial, who cares? I want more time with my friends and family. I don't care about the source of a potential solution.

And the doctor can still elect to not provide the medication. The treatment decision is expertly gated, regardless of my wishes or insistence that "I know better".
That defeats the purpose of hashing. In your model, the hashed password is all an attacker needs to log in, so the hashed password essentially IS the password. Thus, when you store hashed passwords, you are doing the equivalent of storing plaintext passwords.
I hate having to pay for food

Doesn't mean people shouldn't recommend restaurants to me
Why do we need this though? I'm perfectly capable of typing my address, have been doing it for years. Every time I start typing where I live and some box pops up with a Google logo in it, I feel kind of violated.

Meanwhile in Google HQ, someone wins a bet over in which house this cookie deleting nerd using Linux on turns out to live in.

If we can please stop it, or at least opt out ("click here not to share your address details with Google") and turn the input box into a dumb textarea, that'd be great. Should save you money, too.
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Consumers have already bought into the marketing that 5G is the next big hot, and device makers are merely responding to consumer demand. You would be surprised at the percentage of people who would buy a 5G phone even before 5G service is available.
Completely different graphics hardware, the C64 used the VIC-II, and the NES had a custom Picture Processing Unit (PPU) developed by Ricoh, among other things. The CPU is only a small part of a larger design, and 8-bit computers were created before any kind of standardization arrived.
> At Amazon, for example, they have multi repos setup.

And didn't you find that this created massive headaches trying to build many disparate and inconsistent dependencies across repos? I think the benefits touted from mono-repos are exactly illustrated by the pain points working with Amazon's multi repo setup, in my opinion.

https://danluu.com/monorepo/

"Refactoring an API that's used across tens of active internal projects will probably a good chunk of a day."

This was my experience.
So you want to give the homeowners houses to the homeless people and your "disenfranchised" problem will be solved. Great theory, you should definitely pursue it.
This challenge is more or less equivalent to the problem of how to make public restrooms broadly available that are either difficult to abuse or that people don't abuse.

Even people who are on the fringes of society because they're difficult or mentally ill or just get a kick out of making things a little bit worse where they can as a fuck you to people for whom things are going better.

It'd be a benefit to everyone, especially people who are on the fringes for other reasons, but really anyone who's ever needed a place to do their business if you can figure this out and really want a change-the-world challenge.
I went through a lot of mental gymnastics justifying the path I took in college for years, when in retrospect the straightest, simplest path to get where I am today was to just get a CS degree at my flagship state school.
Meanwhile:

https://sf.curbed.com/2019/4/10/18304717/shadow-housing-sf-p...

San Francisco can either have housing, or it can have homelessness.
8 bit micros of the era are much more dependent on their graphics hardware, what makes this demo impressive is that the c64 had a much more limited graphics chip than the NES (fewer sprites, fewer colors, and no support for tile based scrolling)
I think social media is fine, but social media + sinister hyper-optimizing advertising tech is something else...
If we’re throwing out anything that doesn’t have a proof of convergence as “not mathematically sound,” you can kiss fluid mechanics goodbye, as well as lots of other subfields of physics that rely on partial differential equations.
Stab trim cutout is not the only way to disable MCAS. Extending the flaps any amount also disables MCAS.

Turning on autopilot also disables MCAS, though this isn’t entirely effective since spurious AoA readings may quickly disable the autopilot again.
SF seems to have become a shithole
That's not how colonization happened though. They went to exploit obvious riches, not to see if they could find something to do.

And the early colonies were plenty underplanned and disastrous.

Also, that's what my second paragraph is about. Given our current resources and capability, an experimental colony is a fool's errand.
Do you mean the construct of probabilistic speculation applies in multirepo because you may end up with a hot spot repo that receives a high volume of commits at once?

Or do you mean that multirepo could also benefit from the construct of probabilistic speculation by ordering commits across multiple repos such that you are maximizing the number of repos that have changed before you build and minimising the number of commits applied to single repos?

Or both :-)
It is none of the above.

The MCAS worked as specified. The specification was criminally stupid. It violated at least two bedrock principles of avionics design. It would not have been approved at all if Boeing had not bent over backwards to draw attention away from it, for fear that pilots might have needed extra training, or the plane need more exanination.
There's some debate about the accuracy of "flashbulb memories".

One side thinks that such traumatic events create durable, accurate memories. The other thinks that such events merely create a strong feeling of confidence that the memories are durable and accurate.

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1111/1467-9280.02453
Yup. Bio bags like for camping/pets at a minimum. Public urinals for numero uno. No million-dollar toilet that charges people like it's Europe.
There used to be plenty, well... enough public toilets in SF. The junkie/homeless problem started in the 60s, and never stopped. With a push by the emptying of asylums in the 80s, and a current resurgance in opiate addiction, the problem just continues. Shelters, enforcement, all have practical limitations. The best option seems to be injection sites, and then a push for open bathrooms. But few actually want to mplement it, no matter how much they may agree in spirit. And we are back to NIMBYism. Bay area in a nutshell.
Root cause analysis shows that pooping is caused by eating. By removing all sources of food, you will solve the problem entirely and indirectly!
Isn't this rather difficult? I thought tracking back an output of something like a neural net to the salient input features was a non-trivial process.
I'm not who you asked but Synology is pretty nice. Runs Docker nicely and lots of applications available for it. Recommend an Intel CPU based vs the ARM based Synology NAS systems. I use it to run various software for my home network.
> Finally, in 1993 [nine years later], DNA analysis of the semen extracted from the girl’s underwear showed that the culprit was not Bloodsworth but someone else, who eventually confessed. Thankfully, Bloodsworth had not been executed, and he was set free that year.

> Over a decade later, DNA testing of the semen taken from her vagina right after the crime proved to be that of another man, who was then charged, and Cotton was set free.

> Finally, however, after Bain obtained assistance from a lawyer and the Innocence Project of Florida, DNA testing was granted—and it completely exonerated him. He was released in 2009, having served thirty-five years for a crime he did not commit.

There ought to be a federal standard for compensating people who have been wrongly imprisoned.

> For example, Texas compensates the wrongfully convicted $80,000 per year of incarceration and an annuity set at the same amount ...

That is, you get $80K per year for the rest of your life. That seems pretty fair. But there also ought to be something like a life insurance payout for families of prisoners who were wrongly executed.
Does it use multicast discovery?
This is an error in the article. 737-MAX is not a fly-by-wire system. The forces felt by pilots are derived directly from aerodynamic forces on the control surfaces.
Author here. I’m perfectly fine if I never get that level of income ever again in my life, or even anything close to it. If I can get more control on my lifestyle and how I spend my time, it would be a great trade off for me.
Even private toilets are disgusting when they service that population.

I'd like to see you push a mentally ill person from pooping into the street into the heroine-needle ridden prostitution hub of a public toilet.

Hell, I see the prostitution happen in front of city hall, where there is a childrens playground in open daylight!
We don't know the MAX is inherently unstable. That's still conjecture at this point. MCAS may have altered fight characteristics to match older 737 to avoid additional pilot training. If the MAX is inherently unstable, then this scandal is much bigger and far reaching.
I would imagine that it's a mix. A rise in reports (thanks to the availability of the 311 mobile app and such), as well as a rise in incidents. I don't have much to back up the rise in incidents (besides everyone's general feeling that things have gotten worse on the homeless front, and maybe something to do with the opioid crisis), but it certainly feels that way anecdotally
yes, This is what I call privacy by design:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Privacy_by_design

ps: I am a contributor of it ;)
IMF and World Bank launch a ‘learning coin’ to teach staff about blockchain
Do you know of any companies doing that?
Let's hurry up and start watering our plants with electrolytes
Consider Lambda School. That way you have skills and education. You'll be an easy pick for employers.
Gov. Brown struck down the proposed safe injection sites.
I wasn't aware of this. I updated my comment to reflect this.
The airlines knew what they were doing when they didn’t pay for the “upgrade” and they doubly knew when they didn’t pay for it after the first crash. Airline management is just as culpable in this debacle.
Problem is wolves also poop on the street. The poop-trade off is very inconclusive.
> You would have to ignore a whole heck of a lot of evidence to call the story a "hoax".

What's the evidence?

It started with Russians in the bushes in Wisconsin hacking voting machines and bumping votes for their favorite candidate. Remember the Green Party recount how many donated and believed we'd find evidence of hacking.

Then it was about a pee tape of some sort. What happened to that? There was complete certainty if you listened to mainstream media that it was true. Where is that evidence? Any impeachments from it?

Then Comey's testimony. Remember people took time off work to watch it waiting the Russian collusion to finally be exposed. What happened to that? Any impeachments came out of that?

Then it was a constant stream of "just you wait till next week, the report could be out and it's the end of it, impeachments surely are coming next week" for the last ... what? Year or year and half?

So what should we do? Wait for another Mueller report now?

> That is an absurdly specific denial, not even close to "no collusion".

Right, so the hoax continues, because the conclusion wasn't general enough and we'd just have to wait till next week when ... impeachments will finally be here?

> President who is at the center of it all acts extremely suspiciously

But imagine for a second there was no collusion. (A pure thought experiment). After being called anything from Putin's "cock holster" (https://pjmedia.com/video/stephen-colbert-says-donald-trumps...) to "muppet" to whatever, non-stop, 24/7, by the CNN, MSNBC and the likes, do you think he might be a bit irritated? What would you do if everyone around accused you of something you didn't do. Can't say I wouldn't be taking sarcastic jabs back at them and fighting to stop the farce.
Maybe, maybe not. I'd be hesitant to conclude that people on the streets don't understand the impact of their conduct. I've seen people that are on one hand doing obviously illegal things like processing stolen bikes, but on the other hand take steps to avoid unnecessarily inconveniencing the neighborhood so as to avoid attracting the ire of residents.

Regardless that's largely tangential to the ridiculous claim you made earlier that open defecation is somehow better for the community than using a squat toilet. Not only are you advocating a highly unsanitary activity that can easily lead to hepatitis outbreaks for example (which would disproportionately affect people living on the streets), you're portraying the homeless as some sort of spiteful group that wants to deliberately inflict suffering on the rest of society. I cannot fathom why you thought that comment was productive.
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I'm looking at it from a couple of levels to support my data scientists. They're primarily python-based but we are adding newer data scientists who have experience with R. Algorithmically, we built a neural network for phenotyping.
>HN is for technical/scientific discussions. It is quite common for political topics to get removed.

>[ Edit ] As PaulHoule mentioned, also business.

Also, apparently, wondering why more people than ever are defecating on the streets of San Francisco.

A thread which is almost entirely political in its content, by the way. And quite popular, judging by how much of the /newcomments feed it takes up. And not flagged.
I can see that. From personal experience, when I’ve been given the opportunity to own something, such as a project at work, I found a sense of pride in it that I wasn’t expecting. So I am suggesting that providing people the chance to own something can be a transformative experience.
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It's the perception.

The perception of cycling is that pretty much everyone is doping. Just like the perception of football, and baseball, rightly or wrongly, is that everyone is doping.

Whereas with soccer and basketball the perception is that, while some of them may try doping, the elite skilled players cannot possibly have gotten that way by doping. So people see Steph Curry, or Neymar, or Kyrie, or Messi, and, again rightly or wrongly, they assume these guys have elite skills that the other players just don't have. The perception is that the other players won't ever get those skills either, no matter how much dope they take. The elite skill guys in basketball and soccer are perceived almost as artists. It's almost like those skills are more like art.

It's just the perception. Most people think basketball and soccer take more skill than football or cycling. May not be a fair perception, but that's just how a lot of people see things.
many of my friends who did football did so because their parents made them. I don't think it's reasonable to push back against that if the long term consequences are high (for example, my friend's patella ended up wrapped around on the back side of his leg on a bad hit, he has permanent problems with mobility due to playing football at 18).
What if a city decides it can live without a freeway?
I can't believe this isn't obvious to most people. Equitable (not the same as equal) distribution of resources allows people to invest in their society, community, neighborhood, state, country and the world.

If I were disenfranchised, I sure as hell wouldn't care about society, norms and whatever is of value to the haves.
Refused U.S. visa eight times, Zoom CEO is now a billionaire
For me the benefit of Rust like language is the added benefit provided by the type system. Even when performance is not the critical factor. There some level of unit tests that are not required in Rust like language which would be required in Java, even more so in Golang.
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Because they force users to trust them unnecessarily.
What's so special about the Mandelbrot Set? – Numberphile [video]
That's a stupid stat that's obviously wrong and offensive to everyone who works on these issues in SF, I can't imagine why people keep parroting it.

If you spend $100k and lift 9/10 people out of homelessness, that terrible math shows you spent $100k per homeless person.
Surely Nintendo are going to be all over this and get it removed?
OsmAnd. Not sure you need to use a laptop at all with that, but you can also route over any gpx track so you can generate that on your laptop. The ux is of course not as good, but my girlfriend and I got used to it pretty quickly and use it for all our routing.
> What are you expecting them to do, not host non-reproducible builds at all?

Yes.
No, because if you salt it then that password becomes unique to your website. Since users tend to reuse passwords across websites, the password becomes far less valuable if it is already salted and hashed once first before sending to the server for a second round of salting and hashing.
> No condescension was intended.

You implied (from a reading of a mere 30 words), that I never in my life "accepted my civic responsibility to be informed."

If it wasn't intended, I can only commend your natural ability.
That would be an overworked engineer IMO. Should the engineer that designs the air frame go weld it together?

One issue, if the system resetting and no honoring the maximum authority to do so would not have been caught by a half-software engineer. That's definitely something the software team should have caught if there was any amount of reasonable QA involved.

It's clear to me Boeing doesn't employ capable people on the software side.
Case in point: an Ask HN from a few week ago about what people with Physics backgrounds are currently working on

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19500151
I started writing a budgeting app very similar to YNAB. Had basic integration with the Plaid API, Next.js (React) with PostgREST and Postgres, Auth0, Bootstrap among some other things.

Edit: feel free to reach out via email in my profile.
Microsoft buys Express Logic, adds a third operating system to its IoT range
Here's what I don't understand. I live in DC. There's plenty of homeless people. I see them every day. But there's very little pooping in the street. Likewise in NYC. Homeless people? Sure. Poop in the street? Not so much.

Neither place, in my experience, has an abundance of public bathrooms. There's almost none that are truly public, like a building specifically with a bathroom for the public to use. Most fast food places and coffee shops will have a lock on the door with a code so you have to buy something.

So why is it just San Francisco that has so many people pooping in the streets?
Could it be that there was just no way to report it or that people didn't know to report it.

I've walked by many by such "incidents" in the past without knowing that reporting was an option.
Look closer at my comment and keep the sarcasm to yourself. I’m talking about ownership, not forced wealth redistribution. Ownership can take many forms, from owning a house, to owning a project at work, to building a garden, and so on. I don’t know how to more equitably distribute ownership for various aspects of society, but I have a feeling that it’s part of the puzzle.
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Is it easier to report now? Would not be surprised if somewhere between 2011 and 2018, an app was released that lets you quickly report human shit on the sidewalk.
The best way to do it as a startup is to be partnered with an existing bank. To get your own charter is a long and expensive process.

Partnering with a bank is relatively speaking not too bad. I spent 3 months talking to about 60 banks before picking our eventual partners.

There are quite a few now that have worked in the past with fin-tech companies and they are open to conversations. There are also fin-tech conferences like Money 20/20 that a lot of them go to.
We could always start another non profit to help the homeless and pay all our employees 80-400k. I mean it's not like homelessness is a lucrative industry in San Francisco or anything.
The Cybernetic Hypothosis
This page also shows a nicely presented table with Ubuntu versions and expected support dates:

https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Releases
It's more like rugby than American football.

The physicality of the linemen and other blockers is key to the whole game of American football. It's like you have a group sumo match and then a rugby game happening around it.

It adds strategy, tactics, misdirection, and specialization of abilities you don't see in other sports.
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Is this a reskinned Great Gianna Sisters?