skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The article is making the point that the MAX is inherently unstable because of the larger engines causing the "pitch up" problem with an increasing angle-of-attack:

> Pitch changes with increasing angle of attack, however, are quite another thing. An airplane approaching an aerodynamic stall cannot, under any circumstances, have a tendency to go further into the stall. This is called “dynamic instability,” and the only airplanes that exhibit that characteristic—fighter jets—are also fitted with ejection seats.

So arguably the existence of MCAS in the first place indicates that the aircraft design is dynamically unstable (otherwise MCAS wouldn't have been necessary).
Thanks to the person who added this as an issue on the repo. I was going to do it, but it was already done.
There are snaps and PPAs for this.

At least the PPAs are actually a better solution than a platform like Windows (whose "system" is separated from "application"), where you download binaries for upgrades, since you have visibility of the source code and build process.

I have around two dozen PPAs for the software I need to keep up to date. In the past, I used to upgrade Ubuntu on every release; now, I barely do it on every LTS.
Investigation into Russian Interference in 16 Presidential Election
I live in revelstoke, if we do that Canada cant ship goods from coast to coast from december to april (the subsidy I have in mind is the Rogers pass avalanche control program) Those subsidies exist because they benefit people.
hemp isn't marijuana (referring to psychoactive cannabis strains), by design.

(and less importantly (imo), marijuana is a slang term born from racist origins.[0][1])

I think that you mean 'cannabis related'.

Sorry if there is a perceived pedantry on my part; I just think that the distinction is important both conceptually and legislatively, especially given that other countries have understood the distinction between hemp and other cannabis products for some time.

[0]: https://www.theguardian.com/society/2018/jan/29/marijuana-na...

[1]: https://splinternews.com/the-racist-strain-of-marijuana-1822...
You can't reason about the world through voting numbers in a forum primarily visited by tech people from SV. The bias is just too strong.
Yup, pretty much. I was mostly answering the parent, who in turn was questioning the lack of novelty.

The concept of an evergreen master with testing done in branches, followed by automated merges/rebases is not special. Quite a few companies have been doing it for years, it's the off-the-shelf tooling and subsequent publicity that haven't necessarily been around as long.

As for OP's material? The automated conflict resolution via reordering to optimise parallelism - that certainly feels novel.
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This sort of analysis is older than Tolkien. There are pretty substantial processing requirements to do it at scale and it's pretty inaccurate. In the future people who say controversial things will use short sentence long statements to render this sort of analysis useless.
All practical PID controls have anti-windup features.
I'm sorry you were downvoted for an interesting remark. It resonates with me that sometimes you are stuck within a structure that was created by you and need to completely change environment to be able to achieve new goals. Quite interesting point here.
I didn’t like it first. Then I became ok with it.

But it’s so so so infuriatingly shoddy. Cmd fell out on my previous laptop. On my current one most of the keys feel wobbly. Coupled with accidental brushes againt touchbar and the unnecessarily enlarged touchpad frequently failing at palm rejection this ends up being a very subpar experience compared to earlier models.
> “So, just curious, why did you buy another one?” she asked, referring to the 2018 MacBook Air I’d gotten six months after selling the Pro.

I was hoping she talked more about this part, but brushing it aside by bringing up "Apple ecosystem" is pretty unsatisfactory. It does tell you, though, that Apple has its target demographic by the balls, and broken keyboards are certainly not chasing them away.

Macbooks will get fixed the day tech journalists start writing articles about how they tried a Windows laptop and liked it.
I love it. I recently had to temporarily go back to a 2014 MacBook and it just felt mushy and imprecise. The new keyboards feel sharp and way more precise. Just simply better.
Corporate/university IT shops don't normally do component-level replacement. Both due to time constraints and the nature of their support contacts.

(Assuming the Dell/HP/etc. workstations they bought even take standard size motherboards. I've seen some that don't.)
I work for Mozilla. But I have absolutely no clue what you're going on about here. Our whole reason for existence is to support a standards-based web and avoid proprietary lock-in. Yes, you can use Mozilla services. But you don't have to. I imagine that if there were a privacy-preserving service that got popular, and allowed storing and syncing the sorts of profile data that FxAccounts is used for, then Mozilla might be interested in making an adapter (or defining an API layer.) But these things tend to be tightly integrated, so I'm not sure if it would be worth the trouble. (I'm not saying it wouldn't be cool to share open tabs across different browsers...)
Here's the classic referential thread on the matter

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2595605
I believe the idea is that it prevents someone to upvote/downvote solely based on the existing score, and rather based on the actual content of the post.

I remember back in the day that the vote count were public, and there was a lot of resistance to the change. For me, while on a micro-scale I feel like I'm missing information, I agree that on a macro-scale it's a net positive for the community.
A bit offtopic: what happened to gotomeeting? I recall that 10 years it was a go-to software for conference calls / distributed meetings / etc. Now it's mostly zoom.
A lot of the land in California and western states are federally owned so I would not consider those portions aid.
It sure does work culture is different though plus cost savings US vs Remote can be 2X vs for Germany more like 30%
What if it is federally owned land?
but there was a thrilling section about how tourists at Moonbase could fly inside the low-gravity / cavernous pressurized living quarters by donning large mylar wings.

That's from "The Menace from Earth", by Heinlein.[1]

[1] https://www.baen.com/Chapters/0743498747/0743498747___2.htm
I've often thought social media would be far better without a share button or at least some larger barrier to doing it.

Encouraging reposts is one of the big reasons the internet isn't fun anymore.

The push model of content consumption needs a lot of fixes to live up to the pull model of content exploration

The weird wacky web full of discovery is long dead. We need to rebuild it and undo the missteps that killed it
I'm ambivalent about it; remember that every metric can become a gameable target.

Knowing who upvoted seems like a fight-starter.

The old Slashdot system gave the user a choice of upvote and downvote reasons - and the reader could assign their own multiplier! So you could decide that "funny" merited -1 rather than the default +1.

I've never seen that anywhere else.
Amiga IFF file format experiments (2012)
I'm not saying Christians are dumb but atheist > christian conversions aren't as common as christian > atheists. They aren't the greatest at converting people.
Thanks for all the feedback, I tweeted the author about HN link, and someone has created a thread on GitHub. Hopefully, it will help him clear things up about the license.
I believe it is not his intention to confuse us. Anyway, it is a cool tool and big thumbs up for the author!
This is already a thing.
In fact the rumour is that the US govt discovered the identity of Bitcoin's Satoshi using this.

https://medium.com/cryptomuse/how-the-nsa-caught-satoshi-nak...
This nonsensical hate on MBAs has to got to stop. It's just so shallow.
I use enums quite a bit in my code. Makes all my structs so small.
Data Security and the Modern Enterprise
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19697122
A clean and elegant way of saving screenshots at regular intervals
P.T. Barnum (possibly) said it best: "There's a sucker born every minute." There are a lot of suckers out there with MacBooks.
I don't agree with this article.

> Set your secret as the value of an environment variable, then in your program have a section that reads that data and assigns it to a constant that can be accessed wherever it is needed.

I would think sourcing an external file which utilizes filesystem permissions would be a much safer option. That external file would then be only accessible to the user who started the service needing that password. "env" is readable by every user.

Further on the author contradicts themselves:

> Using environment variables to store sensitive information is not a professional solution. Remember that storing other people’s data is a responsibility and a liability.

As for source control, that should be done with templating. If you look at any of the major orchestration softwares, chef[0], ansible[1], saltstack[2], they all support Jinja templating.

If you're going to bother doing this, you might as well do it properly. For a hobby I'd probably use use https://github.com/andreasjansson/envtpl and use a small bootstrap shell script in bash. The good news about doing that is if you decide to move to something more professional such as chef, ansible, saltstack, you can use your same templates as it's all Jinja http://jinja.pocoo.org

[0] https://docs.chef.io/templates.html

[1] https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/modules/template_mod...

[2] https://docs.saltstack.com/en/latest/topics/jinja/index.html
The big comedians backed by the big networks in the prime time slots I don't watch. It's not really the Jay Lenos of the world I'm talking about when I say this stuff. It's the sort of comedians which have picket lines outside their shows and get kicked out of town.

Comedians like the Python Troupe.
It's not near-6502 it's an exact 6502. Die-shots show the exact same transistor layout; even the decimal section is there but disabled.
She was being sarcastic. She wasn't saying that nothing else matters, she was saying that nothing else matters if it fails at being a functional keyboard.
I would call it more of a missing feature than a bug in Chrome.
I updated my work laptop last year to the 2017 model and I immediately determined that I would wait for a better keyboard design before updating my personal laptop. Preferably one without the touchbar, or at the very least with a physical escape key.
I love them. The newer keyboards have a very satisfying clickiness to them. I guess I'm lucky to have a 2018 model that's not had keystroke issues however
Makes sense. Thanks for clarifying. Is hemp a controlled substance federally too?
The usual counterargument to this is that the people who benefit should pay for it themselves. Only if the true price is available to consumers can they make informed choices.

I don't fully subscribe to it myself, since I support some subsidies, but for many things it applies.
I’m one who resisted the change to comment vote display here, and I’m happy with the change. Similarly, at MetaFilter, I’ve adopted the increasingly common practice of hiding favorites. A few Discourse forums hide likes, and so on. People are finding that not having this information makes them happier. That doesn’t mean you are wrong to prefer to see the votes, of course.

I would, though, like if the person you’re replying to could give you a public upvote to signal a friendly end to a conversation.
Would you please explain what you mean?
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Why can vandalism result in a prison term? I'd expect paying damages is a sufficient punishment for stupidity. Genuinely curious why the consequences are structured this way.
Hum, you make claims of this will get you banned and this won't. What are those assumptions built on?

I'm not saying it's not the case, I don't use Twitter and don't know their processes.

That said, in my work, we deal with similar scenarios. Normally, you look for trends and you have different levels of enforcement for different risks.

So say you have automated systems doing monitoring which flags and alerts of possible bad behavior. Normally these are scored and categorized. For some score and category, you might take an automatic actions. Say, block the comment from posting at all and tell the user to reword in a non hateful manner their idea. Or you delete the comment. Now these infractions go towards the account. When there's many if them, indicating a trend, it promotes the account for manual review.

At that point, a person does a holistic overview of the account and its infractions. If they can reverse some if them, feeding back into the automated monitoring and alerting to improve its false positive rates, and they can confirm them, to add weight to those labels. Finally, they can choose to contact the account holder to justify themselves, give them a warning, take partial enforcement like deleting certain posts, or outright ban them.

Even the ban has degrees. You could have the account ban, but be allowed to create a new account. Or you can be banned with cross account detection, so your IP, email, address, credit cards etc. are all banned to make it hard for you to even sign up again.

And the processes in place and their rules are constantly adjusted and reevaluated. And there's even backfill mechanisms, so if rules are relaxed in the future, prior enforcement can be reversed if they no longer hold against the new rules for example.

Would you find that if say Facebook or Twitter were to operate in a somewhat similar fashion that it would seem reasonable?
It is crazy they build the system to a 100 year standard. The Dutch delta works are build to a 2000 4000 or 10000 year standard, depending on the area being protected. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delta_Works
VCs invest in competitors all of the time in order to hedge risk. It only takes one to 10x and make it worthwhile.
I'm conservative politically, but there's a lot to be said, I think, about the written work of the smarter anarchists and those of a similar philosophy on the continental old Left. I'm thinking of, say, Debord and Castoriadis.
May be the only one that thinks this but changing up the keyboard so much on all devices has ruined me on all of them. The old MBP feels weird now I’m used to the new one and old PC keyboards feel weird too, the ChromeBook keyboard feels weird, etc..Hmm how about velvet that smells like lavender wouldn’t that be nice?
Ask HN: How do are they trying to scam me?
The last 2 weeks I have receive in total 7 packages from Amazon, addressed to me and on my addresss that I haven't ordered. All items were of very small value. Less than $10 each. Some as little as $1.

First time I called Amazon they told me it was a mistake and I shouldn't be worry.

Second time they told me that they were sent from another account, but they cannot tell me anything more about it and I shouldn't worry.

Third time they told me the name on the account is "Elia" but they wouldn't give me any more details, and again they told me I shouldn't worry.

Fourth time today I called them and they started again with the usual story of saying they cannot tell me who is sending the packages to me. However when I mentioned the name "Elia" the representative lost her guard and came back and told me that after looking further in this account she could see that the card used had actually my name. Not only that, but the account had only 7 orders, all sent to me.

She then proceeded to ask me the four last digits of the card! No matter how hard I tried to explain that I cannot know the last for digits because I don't know which card it is, I didn't manage to make any progress.

She kept insisting that "Elia" is my relative and I gave them my credit card number. Tried to escalate to fraud department but they told me that there is no such department and I can only escalate to the supervisor. The supervisor was even more tight with her replies and she refused to provide any more info.

In the mean time I have checked as many of my credit cards as I remember and non of them show any suspicious activity.

My question is, how are these scammers trying to scam me? Anybody had a similar experience before? If they are not using truly one of my credit cards, how come they use my name? I checked my credit report and I don't think it is a case of identify thief either. What could be going on here?
Do you work with blockchain / crypto companies?
> The more you pump the place dry, the more the place sinks lower.

See also: Mexico City
i am absolutely laughing at this macbook pro 2017 i bought. the keyboard has been replaced 3 times now...the screen was replaced for stagelight effect(broken connector)...they replaced the whole top bit for that(everything north of the hinge gets replaced)

i finally pawned it off on someone else and they promptly fried the motherboard due to water damage(the air intake ports lead directly to the motherboard so good luck to any starbucks warriors out there) so that got replaced too.

Ship of theseus in action - a macbook story. only the bottom baseplate is from the original macbook at this point.
I heard the MCAS was required to avoid a situation where the MAX, after reaching a certain pitch, would continue pitch up into a stall even if both pilots released the yoke. I don't know if that's considered "inherently unstable", but this is against FAA regulations for any commercial airplane from what I heard. That's probably a big reason why Boeing made it so difficult to completely disable the MCAS system.

My understanding is that MCAS altered fight characteristics not only to match older 737s and avoid additional pilot training. MCAS altered fight characteristics so the FAA would approve the MAX as a commercial aircraft period. The fact they could match older 737s flight characteristics for a more speedy approval from the FAA was just gravy.
Meh, pitfall fit in 1/8 the rom size and actually did come out during 2600's heyday.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=doX3BmuoXVw
It’s not rude to assert that there’s an objective reality out there.
SoftBank has used competing rideshare investments to increase valuations by convincing its portfolio companies to stop costly fighting. Perhaps they expect to have a similar need once self-driving companies are also competing for rides.
Considering(from professional experience) how much vote manipulation occurs on online forums like HN, I'm certain no companies with sites like HN will ever implement that. I know plenty of people that make a living(or at least side money) providing voting for sites like reddit and HN and if you had that data you would realize how few of these votes are organic in nature.
Good onboarding. Confirmation of acceptance arrived within 30 minutes of completing my application. It was great to be able to save my application progress: I started on one device, moved to another, and logged out and back in a few times while finding docs and photos between bouts of work-work. Looking forward to discovering where Mercury saves me time and hassle.
The EGA also had hardware scrolling though, and it was what Keen used.
fair enough. Chess then? ;)
Deterrence. To some, the damages are pocket change.
you don't need to double buffer to amortize the copy time. That is you don't need to do all of the copying in the vertical sync time. As long as you stay ahead of the raster you can spread the copy over the subsequent frame. So in my scrolling routine I start copying the top portion and work my way down the screen to stay ahead of the raster. Interrupts still fire during this time and handle some game updates / joystick reads.
Agree. I was against it at first but have come to prefer it.
I dont consider KaiOS a positive development. To me the biggest thing missing in Android that Mozilla could bring to the table is user privacy and the expectation of putting the user's welfare first (above data collection and monetization). Similar to Firefox vs Chrome.

I trust KaiOS less than Android in that regard.
>1. Produces the characters 2. That I intended to type.

if it helps, the butterfly mechanism fails at doing that if even a tiny speck of dust/grit gets in the mechanism
Meh. GDPR involves not being a dick with other people’s data, and don’t Americans have to deal with inter-state tax as well?

In the UK I can setup a new legal company in an hour online, and have access to top notch banking from across Europe almost immediately.
Exposing the utterly meaningless number seems to hugely encourage playing to the crowd on sites where it's visible. It's one of the worst aspects of reddit that almost every thread has the same pattern. I may be wrong, but it seems like that pattern stems from playing for karma. Not for interest, not for discussion, just points which encourages the smart arse in every sub thread.

Exposing who would just further encourage tit for tat.
Best possible combination: Super Mario Bros for the C64 using NES bluetooth gamepads:
https://youtu.be/G77mDe3NuBs
One question I've had is why Boeing changed the design of the stab cutout switches from the 737NG from a pair of switches - the right side switch that disabled the autopilot control of trim and the left side that disabled the trim motors entirely [1] - to a design with a similar pair of switches, but each controlling the primary and backup control motors of the elevator trim [2] instead of controlling the source of the input. (If you look closely at the yoke trim switches, there are two independent switches that are grouped together by a frame so that they move simultaneously. One drives the primary motor, and the other the secondary).

Assuming they'd kept MCAS on the switch associated with the automatics, the procedure would have been to throw the AUTO PILOT switch, disabling MCAS, but keeping the MAIN ELEC switch on, allowing them to trim back to neutral for that speed.

[1] https://www.airliners.net/photo/Australia-Air-Force/Boeing-7...

[2] http://www.b737.org.uk/mcas.htm#stcs
And today we drove hard drives to save 6 hours!
It risks biasing the comment - for example, even before you read it, you'll see a "7 votes" or "23 votes" and immediately take a glow to it you wouldn't otherwise. Well, I wouldn't trust that I'd be immune, at least. How can there not be a cognitive bias?

I do wish it took more than a single downvote to "grey" a comment. First of all, a single vote doesn't mean much statistically, and shouldn't change the color of text. Secondly, some stuff is just controversial. I've had comments go -2, +5, 3, down and back up.
It’s not really a subsidy, just poor use of tax dollars. I like my taxes being used for wise infrastructure projects. As a whole, the benefit the whole. Individually they benefit some individuals more than others. But I don’t consider that a subsidy.
How many enterprise web tech products from 1997 do you think survive today with a healthy architecture and usable design?

Plus that whole "I told Cisco leadership, but they didn't listen" surely was not the first time it ever happened.
tranfer? I would have a typo in the title.
Not sure about this article, but there is some work using ultrasonic transducers that I don’t see mentioned frequently. (Magnetic stimulation has a longer history.)
I was close to down voting not for trump but for "more rockets for moon tourism".
We are already messing up our planet with air travel. IMHO, make moon tourism a thing, with the associated rise in rockets launched, and rockets go from "amazing tech that sciences" to "yet another thing super rich people use for enjoyment while fucking over literally the entire planet"

From what I understand, the amount of stuff rockets carry into literally every layer of the atmosphere is already concerning. If someone can put my mind at ease with a paper not written by Big Rocket I'd be all the happier. ;)