skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Shrugs, if the MCAS disables with a clear notification to the pilots I think at this point most 737-Max pilots would know the procedure to deal with that.

The plane is only certified to be 'identical to the 737' when MCAS is on, and operating correctly.

If MCAS has to be disabled in response to a common mechanical problem, then the plane must be re-certified.
The Dom of Cologne (Köln) was finished in the 19th century, and the roof supports (not visible from inside or outside of the church) are actually made of steel. It's amazing to see this relatively modern technology in the "attic" of the church.
If "toots" is the one word that keeps it from getting ruined by mainstream adoption, then so be it. The cycle always seems to be:

1) Look at this great thing a few geniuses developed

2) The intellectuals and forward looking people early adopt

3) It slowly turns from being cool trendy and useful, into a Walmart-like all things to all people behemoth of gross negligence.

4) Some heavy abuses are uncovered, and using it is no longer valuable to anyone.
I posted this a few months ago..
https://www.cs.virginia.edu/~evans/greatworks/shannon38.pdf
Claude Shannon's 'A symbolic analysis of relay and switching circuits'
This is very clearly an issue with copyright lasting too long. I would understand if you guys didn't want this to devolve into the fifteenth thread complaining about copyright this week though.
Not unlike the duties given to presidential spouses.
I lost the ability to easily write English cursive when I learned to write Russian cursive.

слышу

is my go to word when I want to show people how crazy Russian cursive can be.
The 737 predates the 747 and the Concorde, and both of those are out of passenger service.

The circular cross-section, for one thing, makes it like the old American cars that were huge on the outside and small on the inside. The only way you'll really understand this is ride on an modern plane such as the E175 or A220 -- you'll get that you hate to fly not because you hate to fly but you hate to fly on a 737 and never get to fly on anything else.

The overall design of the aircraft is not compatible with high-bypass engines. Thus they bolted MCAS onto it. Even there the 737 Max does not support the geared turbofans that are available for modern airliners and the A320. These are so quiet that it isn't that you hate living near an airport, it is that you hate living at an airport where 737s land.

Modern airplanes use fly-by-wire which reduces weight (sometimes dramatically because the size of the control surfaces can be reduced) and enables flight envelope protection (like MCAS) in a way that is a lot more rational and thought-through than MCAS.

An all-electric plane like the 787 might also improve air quality on the flight. I don't think small airplane competitors have this yet.

Boeing has used it's market power to suppress alternatives to the 737 so you will pay more for tickets, suffer in transit, have noisier airports, and have more global warming. The MCAS system was just one part of this scheme.

The 737 Max is a case of the "undercompetition and underinvestment" connected with secular stagnation; it is like how your internet service sucks...
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Many long term historical buildings had start and stops while under construction because funding was lacking.
That is true, but it is also true that most people who do have reasonable alternatives still don't take advantage of them. This could be due to laziness, inertia but mostly I'd guess comfort level. We live in a society where people yell at McDonalds employees if their stupid chicken nuggets isn't available one day, out of 5,000 days they've eaten there. Point being, most of us have become too comfortable and expect too much, while not doing enough ourselves at the same time.
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Thesis: Developers are good at estimating median time to finish tasks. But the tasks that take longer, in fact take much, much longer than estimated.

E.g. Dev estimates that time to complete each of A, B, C tasks will be 2 days. In reality, A will take 1 day, B will take 2 days, but C will take 8 days.

Dev was right about the median time to complete each task (2 days) but average was much higher. Article goes into how to statistically model the distribution of actual time to complete tasks.
A framework to simplify tests within CI leveraging a docker compatible cluster?
Hi,

Instead of writing scripts for VSTS (TFS) or Jenkins, I would like a simple way to describe an application in terms of containers, the tests to run (also containerized) and the cluster where to run the tests.
For a docker-swarm environment, it could look like a docker-compose file describing the app and one override file for each test to run, each test can have it's own config + containers. Since all the tests cannot run in parallel depending on what they need, a queue is needed. Ideally each test result would be reported to a grafana compatible data source like prometheus for metrics and something else for text, but this can be done inside each container test, etc, etc...

It's not trivial even if the building blocks do already a lot.

I can build all of that custom with some scripts, but well, if there is something out there to simplify my life...

That'all I could find on HN:
http://devblog.mediamath.com/how-we-used-docker-to-lower-test-run-times-from-1-hour-to-10-minutes.

Thanks !
I work in the travel industry. I'm always amazed that people are still flocking to those traditional tourist destinations in such huge numbers. Sure, before the internet, travel research was much harder to do and going to places like Rome or Barcelona was a safe bet. But now, with Kayak and TripAdvisor making trip planning easier, Instagram and blogs making it easier to find destinations, cheap flights becoming more common.. it's just so easy to find cool destinations that are a little more off-the-beaten path, not to mention, they're much cheaper! And yet, Paris and Venice are still absolutely flooded with tourists year-after-year.
Ask HN: Natural light or simulated natural light for work-at-home folks?
I work from home 100% of the time now, and I'm wondering about how to get more good light in the room that serves as my home office.

My house is situated in a subdivision, with what I'm guessing is a 12-15' gap between our house and our neighbor. That gap is oriented almost due east/west.

I get some sunlight in the morning hours, but not a lot. There's no skylight, either.

I have some questions about what is best in terms of good health, and getting enough light.

Are bright lights/lamps what you'd need?

How good is the artificial light compared to the sun?

We also don't get a ton of sun here in Oregon, either... so there's that.

Anyone more scientific than me (it doesn't take much!) that can help answer my questions and get set up the best way possible?

Thank you in advance!
I wonder why people were so unwilling to accept Zuckerberg's own sentiment ("dumb fucks") about their data for years. It seems like that's basically the attitude at Facebook from the top down. Everything else is PR spin.
There is a financial literacy class.
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Agreed, but caution is warranted here. (IANAL, but...) Ask yourself if you are willing to risk personal liability at that early stage by essentially operating as a 'sole proprietor' instead of taking the steps to create a new entity that is separate from yourself. For some businesses this may be fine, but it's certainly something to evaluate. For example, if you are (e.g.) aggregating information from various places on the web and then simply presenting it to users, that has a much different liability footprint compared to (e.g.) a dog walking business (what happens if a dog you're walking is run over by a bus?) or (e.g.) catering (what happens if your clients get food poisoning?) etc. In short, it would behoove you to ask a business attorney this question so that she can evaluate your business model and give you a recommendation.
Even the language is not correct: We all call it "estimate", but stakeholders behave like it's a "commitment". Passage from uncertainty to certainty happens in the language, and all the responsibility is on the engineering team's shoulders.
That blurry shot could be anything. I don’t buy it.
Isn't one reason for this because it's such a huge attraction generating so much money, that finishing it might actually bring in less money? That's anecdotal from my Barcelona colleagues complaining..
This is a codebase I’ve long been interested in seeing. I just always assumed it would be inscrutable assembler, though I should have known better given the game’s lineage.

Boy, this brings me way back to playing Zork on a 20 lb amber-screen ibm “portable”.
These are good points. I wish people tried to comment arguments like this instead of downvoting and writing angry comments about how I'm insensitive to people killed by communism. I don't even support communism, just wanted to express that China is not communist.

> Private ownership rights for real estate and securities are also much weaker in China, compared to typical Western nations.

This may be true, but private property is not non-existent in China. Nor do they think it should be annihilated eventually. Capitalist private property owners like Ma exist, and China knows that they let China compete in the world. So I still find it hard to believe China does not operate within capitalistic market.
This isnt new. This isnt even from the early 20th century, when the western world organized its labour. It is much, much older:

https://youtu.be/E4CI2vk3ugk
Probably the innate fear of infinity
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>The software fixes as described sound sensible and it's hard to believe they were not in the original design

Without the benefit of hind sight it's not obvious that it's a better decision. MCAS being turned off changes the flight characteristics of the plane. If you do that silently you might run into a situation where an aircraft stalls because a pilot is used to having MCAS correcting their input.
What about mega-scale engineering projects? E.g., a space craft to Alpha Centauri, to study another star close up? It's 4 years at the speed of light, and it'll likely take us much longer. Or what if the planet there orbiting Proxima Centauri b in the habitable zone is capable of sustaining life, and it could be our first stepping stone off of Earth?

For that matter, what if a megaproject is required for a space faring race, and democracy is the great filter?
It is amazing. They started with chisels and though the original tools are also still employed they use additive manufacturing and cnc as well now. Because of those advances and generous funding from some Catholic societies it will complete many years ahead o shedule with more features than it woul have had.
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Who needs Copernicus if you have machine learning?
Act 1 - G/W/T can be used to express iteratively aspects of an algorithm such that you can derive it without knowing or fully understanding it (algorithm triangulation: think GPS where each satellite is a constraint and you derive through iteration of each passing scenario the general algorithm).

Act 2 - is really about process rather than G/W/T (which is really just AAA, arrange, act & assert).

Act 3 - again process, G/W/T isn't the solution to domain understanding, conversations are. You should be continually communicating to between all stake holders to maintain a current domain understanding.

We wrote an article recently on the limits of BDD [1], G/W/T didn't really come up, there are other more glaring issues with BDD when it comes to systems that intersect mismatched understandings of the real world between experts and users. Unrealistic wants and goals are killer. Additionally we started writing a tool to attach metadata to scenarios (G/W/T) so you can capture technical details about things called SpecStack [2]

[1] https://endian.io/articles/limits-of-bdd/ [2] https://github.com/endiangroup/specstack
Totally - and again def not knocking your work. My point is more about chatbots just in general - I've never seen an example of one in the wild, in any context, that wasn't underwhelming.
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In the case of Sweden, the personal duty-free allowance absolutely does not run to the cost of a specced-out Mac Pro: https://ec.europa.eu/taxation_customs/individuals/travelling...

> Other goods (including perfume, coffee, tea, electronic devices etc.)(a) - Up to a value of €430 for air and sea travellers
That word "issue" used in the context of a printed magazine... seems like you don't hear it used much anymore.
In his mind there is one negotiable variable, though - how many hours you work. You want to work 40 hours/week, he figures if he can push you to work 80 hours instead, it'll get done twice as fast. The typical CEO's background as a schoolyard bully gives them plenty of experience in this area.
Another culture war article pushed by the obsessively anti-PC crowd. I'm not interested in yet another "SJWs bad" fusillade.
Slowly? the iPhone is many thousands of times more capable than any of the target systems these software were built for -- typical was a 1 megahertz 8-bit CPU with 32 kilobytes of RAM.

Even the most inefficient ZIL interpreter will spend most of its time in a stall loop.
4 more years till that 2013 plan reaches the 10 year threshold.
The big difference here is that the bot is the product. (An interesting one at that!)

What I find utterly annoying is a chatbot popping on some software webpage, reducing my field of view and interrupting my progress toward the documentation/download/career/whatever section. In this case I find it an overly hyped widget that I absolutely do not need.
Yes, the past isn't worth keeping.
Scooping the Loop Snooper - the halting problem proof in the style of Dr Seuss
As long as nuclear subs are a thing there is no possibility to take out the other side's ability to attack first.
I have a hard time grasping what this thing could even be. Technology seemingly moves much faster now than it did back then. Anything we start now, in 200 years could look like it was started in the stone age. But again, i cant even imagine what that something is.

After millenia of using horse powered travel we've gone from vehicles, to planes, to the moon, to mars in about 100 years.
Is this for real?

That's startling to me. I don't really feel like I "know" something well enough to bother with the overhead of developing computer code until I can at least get the essence of it down on paper.

Computers are for enumerating and increasing confidence in proofs. I find pen and paper to be far more creativity friendly.
Computer Science as empirical inquiry : Symbols and Search.
https://www.cs.utexas.edu/~kuipers/readings/Newell+Simon-cac...
It was not added in the 1800s, it was put back mostly identical to the original. It had been removed in 1786.
Sure they exist but we could and perhaps should make them more efficient?
What I understood is:

You are supposed to capture requirements in Given/When/Then form before coding, and they should be written in a way that is independent of the implementation

The complaint seems to be that what happens in practice is "the devs have taken over" the system, so Cucumber just becomes a test automation software

This has led to writing tests in Given/When/Then format which test overly specific elements of the implementation, and are often written after the fact, instead of as a way to capture requirements.

And some other stuff, but that's primarily what I got out of it.
Yah that gave me shivers. I’m flying a 787 in June.
Let’s just round to 0.
https://www.cancerresearchuk.org/sites/default/files/cstream...
There's mega-scale engineering projects happening every day, all across the world. Just look around. Or on Youtube :)
“Dumb fucks” is more overplayed than “Google is going to shut down <service>”. It’s FUD. Zuckerberg said that when his tiny website was open to his classmates and a few others, and hasn’t been representative of how the company functions.

I seriously cant believe that it’s still a meme people use to justify their hate for Facebook.
Gilliam commented on this notion in an interview. He said Hollywood does not carry grudges because Hollywood doesn't have any memory. After the debacle of Brazil and the economical disaster of Münchhausen, many wondered if he would ever be able to make a movie again. But Hollywood didn't care one bit about all that as long as it seemed like the next movie would make a profit, as was the case with Fisher King and 12 Monkeys.

The mixed reviews is not surprising for a director who is highly original but not so strong in (or doesn't care about) traditional storytelling virtues like dramatic curve and relatable characters. His movies are divisive.

You really think reviewers are afraid to give a Gilliam movie a positive review? Maybe they just don't like them all that much.
Why is it not right? They built it, financed it, drew it, programmed it, marketed it. They own it.

If they want to smother it with a pillow, they should be able to. It is theirs; the players and fans certainly don't own it.
It's really old, and the main problem is that it's avionics are old, and don't have the same level of electromechanical flexibility that new planes.

Think of the difference between slapping IoT / real-time monitoring capabilities onto an old factory process versus building from the ground up with those capabilities kept in mind.

Obsoletion happens when there is a better alternative available, and there are plenty of better options to the aging 737 airframe.
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Two observers in the same inertial frame can share a clock, can't they?
IANAL, but I think if you were legally resident in the USA for some number of years, and then moved to the EU, you could bring your personal possessions with you.

If you travel to the USA for a week and buy something, that's subject to import duty.
There are specific use cases for which chatbots are great. Lemonade insurance is great application of a chatbot.

What could have been a traditional application form has been made significantly better by a contextual chatbot. It's also definitely better than talking on the phone.

I guess the meta learning is, if the answers are discrete values and the follow up questions are contextual, chatbots can be great.
"... and by the way isn't it time you give our algorithms voting rights and jail time"
> “As we’ve said many times, Six4Three — creators of the Pikinis app — cherry picked these documents from years ago as part of a lawsuit to force Facebook to share information on friends of the app's users,” Paul Grewal, vice president and deputy general counsel at Facebook, said in a statement released by the company.

> “The set of documents, by design, tells only one side of the story and omits important context. ...”

Seems like an easy problem to solve. Release the documents that provide the "important context". Unless they're even more damning or don't exist...
Or the BER Airport.
I feel optimistic knowing how widely surveyed this structure has been over the centuries and the vast amount of data collected, coupled with the abundance of resources available today, it can be restored to a condition, which will do it justice. There have been pledges made by Apple and LVMH today of significant finances, which will speed up the process.

A cross-section of The Notre-Dame:

https://www.thechildrensbookreview.com/wp-content/uploads/20...

Illustrator: http://www.stephenbiesty.co.uk/home.html
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> Negotiation about scope.

I used to work for an online travel site - before every project kicked off, the business analysts would produce requirements documents that always started with a "flexibility matrix". The flexibility matrix had three rows labeled "schedule", "scope", and "resources" and three columns: "flexible", "moderately flexible" and "inflexible" and they were supposed to check one option for each row. So every single requirements document listed "resources" and "flexible", "scope" as "moderately flexible" and schedule, OF COURSE, "inflexible".
They do for the most part because there is always conservation and renovation work going on somewhere.

It is in fact likely that the fire was caused by the renovation work that was ongoing...
>then Boeing nearly killed it by offering airlines a 70% discount on the 737 MAX.

Actually, Boeing lobbied/sued to get punitive tariffs levied on the Bombardier CSeries. While they ultimately lost the case, while it was pending, Bombardier entered an agreement with Airbus to finish assembly of the planes for American customers as a US-based Airbus factory as a way to get around the tariffs. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CSeries_dumping_petition_by_Bo...
Encryption literacy is coming (I hope)
For me it still says: "The author [did] integration of data from several separate antennae."
Author here - if you have any questions then please feel free to ask!
Very well put, if depressingly so!

> easily convince the accounts they're more efficient than indiscriminate advertising via TV and other channels where you can't profile the customer

Does anyone know of any studies here? That is: is there demonstrably better return on "personalised" ads vs. contextualised?

I don't expect Google/Facebook would publish anything other than support for the former. I'd love to think there was some evidence to suggest they're selling snake oil. That may be wishful thinking, but worth asking anyway.
Is React a victim of its own success?
Fascinating. Reminds me of the Neal Stephenson novel, Anathem, in which academic enclaves exist for the purpose of safeguarding knowledge for the long haul and against external calamities.
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Hacker returns with fifth dataset containing over 65M user accounts
Hagia Sophia in Istanbul is one in peril from both politics/religion and physical condition. Visit soon if you have any interest in ever seeing it.
How many of the commenters here still use WhatsApp? Did you try switching you & friends to Signal?
This really should be easier. Every distro has their own bugzilla, some projects use github issues, a lot of bug tracking just happens on mailing lists, it's difficult to keep track of everything. Maybe we need federated bugzilla.

By the way, we've all seen the XKCD about competing standards before.
This bill builds on a different one (iirc) where local ISPs are mandated to use channels of a few big backbone providers—basically Rostelecom and Transtelecom. On top of that, satellite connections were also forbidden without going through an on-ground station (not sure what the path is, in that case).

All in all, every connection to outside will be under the control of RKN and the gov, so no matter how you route, you're going through these points. Pretty much the Chinese model—afaik there's not much choice if you're trying to do about the same thing.
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