skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There is a more important issue that is ignored in many comments here, the FAA supervision, what if are dozens of rushed system in this plane, how can you trust that MCAS is the only system with faulty software or design?
This can happen from carrying it in your pocket. Moisture (sweat) from your leg can cause random inputs on the touch screen.
I've used Credit Karma for the past two years, and I'm planning on using them again next year. I have paid zero dollars for things like investments that TurboTax would upsell to me, and as far as I know Credit Karma doesn't do any unsavory lobbying. Highly recommend.
>But if the company could turn a profit, then why not do it privately, show that and then go public?

Because their investors and employees want liquidity, and public investors want in on the pie. There isn't some rule that says companies can only public once they've stopped growing rapidly.
Social media is a threat to our democracy: Carole Cadwalladr speaks at TED2019
I highly encourage you to setup some time to talk to maintainers of open source projects that you think are doing well. Ask them how they are doing and how much help they receive.
The author tells a familiar story of how we got here, but I think misses nuance on what the problem is. It's not the fact that software is used: it works fine normally, but the failure modes were insufficiently considered.

> An aircraft has to be stall proof not stall prone.

The F-117 begs to disagree.
Pigovian Tax
That would seem to be an inadequate response, because not just anyone is allowed by Twitter to libel another person in a way that predictably results in death threats.
Doesn’t Uber use Mattermost these days?

https://mattermost.com/blog/how-uber-uses-mattermost-to-enha...
If you print out the forms and fill them out by hand, the only cost is the the envelope & stamp to mail them in.

What the US Federal Government/IRS doesn't have is a free way to e-file taxes online.
Thank you for sharing your experiences, insights.

#1 - Does anyone send test emails and measure delivery rates? As in send yourself a bunch of emails and see what happens.

USPS and its major customers and vendors do this with physical mail. They measure stuff like UAA (undeliverable as addressed). FWIW, their Inspector General estimates 4.3% of mail was UAA in 2013. Report Number: MS-AR-14-006 https://www.uspsoig.gov/document/undeliverable-addressed-mai...

#2 - What is the responsibility, liability for email relays to treat everyone equally? For comparison, a US retailer has to accept US currency, but can (sometimes) turn away problematic clients. Is there anything like that for electronic exchanges, transactions?
Killing less or not killing at all (anymore) doesn't automatically make someone non-criminal - there are lots of other types of crimes.
lineageos + microg + playmaker for the stuff I still want from the playstore makes it almost usable for me.

But I am with op for being able to taste my desire :)
It is true that lower income folks tend to have simpler taxes and really don't need software. The taxes are easy on paper.

But e-file still wins. Most poor folks could really use the money they get back from taxes and it is definitely quicker. E-file also saves folks from doing things like making copies, buying stamps, and mailing. On top of it all, there is a fair amount less chance of mistakes. Not to mention that there is a sizable number of folks that cannot figure out the legalese the IRS uses for slightly complicated taxes and the IRS helplines are generally of little help.
> Not a deadly virulent disease.

Completely wrong on both counts. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Measles
> Doable with a single 1080ti and a couple of hundred midi files?

A 1080ti would probably require something like several days or a week. It depends on how big the model is... Probably not a big deal. However, a few hundred MIDI files would be pushing it in terms of sample size. If you look at experiments like my GPT-2-small finetuning to make it generate poetry instead of random English text ( https://www.gwern.net/GPT-2 ), it really works best if you are into at least the megabyte range of text. Similarly with StyleGAN, if you want to retrain my anime face StyleGAN on a specific character ( https://www.gwern.net/Faces#transfer-learning ), you want at least a few hundred faces. Below that, you're going to need architectures designed specifically for transfer learning/few-shot learning, which are designed to work in the low _n_ regime. (They exist, but StyleGAN and GPT-2 are not them.)
I've been curious about some questions that I haven't seen discussed anywhere. HN isn't probably the best place to ask them but since I'm not on any forums where aerospace engineers hang out, I'll just ask here anyway:

- Are physics computer simulations (e.g. aerodynamic flow[0]) realistic enough that engineers could have predicted the tendency for the nose to push up into a stall with the forward-mounted bigger engines while still at the CAD drawing stage? (Place some engines on the drawing with X amount of specified thrust, move them forward on the wing, then run a simulation, etc.) Or is the interaction of behavior so complex or so subtle that they had to build the real thing before realizing "Oops, our internal test pilots just noticed the plane is unstable and it looks like we need a software augmentation system!"

- Could an unchanged 737-MAX flight simulator from last year reproduce the conditions for the Lion Air and Ethopia crashes? In other words, could a pilot used his/her imagination and said, "What if we make this AOA indicator give a bad reading -- what happens with MCAS?". Similar to how a pilot can choose to simulate a flamed-out engine, could one have chosen a stress-test scenario with a broken AOA sensor? (The infamous deleted video from MentourPilot showed his simulated struggles with turning the stabilizer trim against 400mph aerodynamic loads but it's not clear if a broken AOA can be simulated.)

Yes, the 737-MAX was ultimately a failure of management and financial pressure but I'm curious if Boeing even had the technical debugging tools to predict this.

[0] examples: https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=aerodynamics++s...
If you install noscript and log in the old UI comes back and it's amazing! I've actually stopped using mutt on my laptop for gmail because of it.
Funding an IRA is "incredibly uncommon"?
I file free with DIY tax (freetax.com). I've been using it for several years, but it's not well advertised.
Walker seems to say no, it doesn't catch it up.

"Can naps help with sleep debt?

Walker: And the answer, unfortunately, is no. Sleep is actually not like the bank. You can't accumulate a debt and then hope to pay it off at some later point in time. So sleep is an all-or-nothing event in that sense. So you can't short sleep during the week and then try to binge and oversleep at the weekend."

https://www.businessinsider.com/sleep-expert-naps-dangerous-...
Twenty years?!? My god I feel old.

Also, 1999 was an especially good year wasn't it? The Matrix, Fight Club, Eyes Wide Shut, American Beauty, The Iron Giant, Being John Malkovich, Magnolia...

...and The Pragmatic Programmer.
You can register your recreational club as a 501(c)(3) if you are careful about what the club does.

I know of one club that is a 501(3)(c). They exist for purposes of running a local antique show. When the group has meetings many motions are shot down because it isn't allowed under their status.
You got tricked! Now think what happens to less tech-savvy people.
Okay, but you'd still have to compare it with the scheme used by certificate transparency, which also builds a public, verifiable log. I'd be pretty confident in an organization that does it that way.
They're investing in growth. It's unclear if that investment is good or bad, but looking at quarterly accounting numbers won't tell us. All we can see here is that they're investing more than they're making.

If you created a business that simply bought $1M worth of Stocks (e.x. ETFs) and bonds, the first quarter when you made the initial investment you'd show a "loss" of $1m. You might sell those 10 years later for $2m (or maybe the value goes to $0). You wouldn't know if it was a good or bad investment until much later. Seeing a $1M quarterly loss from that first quarter of investing wouldn't give you any insight at all.

To make matters worse here, the way that quarterly accounting works generally hides what are investments and what are actual losses. Some pre-profitable companies do better than others here but it's fairly difficult to understand what parts of spending are investments and what parts are just burning money when looking at quarterly accounting statements.
>Sure, the sensor needs a redesign and some automation decisions were hot garbage, but 'never fly again' is just FUD.

Are you sure that only that except that MCAS all the other systems are fine and Boeing didn't cheap out on other systems, redesigned other things, other small updates etc? IMO the plane needs to be re-approved, this time for real.
You only go to prison if you willfully and purposely try to defraud the government.

It’s more of a, “Pay what you believe you owe based on your best guess and the laws as you best understand them, and if we disagree we may ask you to pay more.”
With the 996 system (9 am to 9 pm, 6 days per week), this would leave very little time for anything but working and sleeping. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/996_working_hour_system
https://www.cnn.com/2019/04/15/business/jack-ma-996-china/in...
Oh...i've got a copy of that battle for Ghettysburg map. I ended up taking all my dad's DnD books and maps and things. That's one of them. I remember playing around with it as a kid trying to figure out how I could use it as a DnD map. My dad explained it was from a war game. There's so many different random maps and papers and books in those boxes but as soon as I seen that I recognized it immediately. Cool.
When Futurism Led to Fascism–and Why It Could Happen Again
“The overriding problem is the basic unstable design of the 737 Max. An aircraft has to be stall proof not stall prone.“

Say what?
do it with the siren and call 911 :D now you have 2 officers forcing you do use your appliances :D

in my country, police take what they want. they just do, and you can buck up and fuck off if u don't like it. and to be honest, thats how police should be. that being said, they don't randomly beat people up so much :D so perhaps our people are still a bit more forthcoming to them
Didn’t AT&T outsource all their email to Yahoo! a decade or so ago?

Not sure I agree about being able to reach a tech person at Google, even informally. Bitching on Twitter can get some results, but that’s hardly the way to operate a business...
That's not to say naps have no benefit for people who don't have trouble sleeping at night. Walker's research shows that naps can help boost memory and learning.

https://news.berkeley.edu/2010/02/22/naps_boost_learning_cap...
Why shouldn't public investors be allowed to support ventures that won't show a profit for a while? Think drug discovery oil drilling etc.
Software takes time to develop, and time is money. Tax software is especially bad because 1. the rules are insanely complicated and 2. the insane rules change every year requiring updates.

The real question is why don't we have open-source tax software? I'd argue that since 1. IRS is publicly funded and 2. they have to write code anyway to enforce the tax rules as they change, then they should just publish that code.

At a first step, the tax rules could be published in a machine-readable format.
Why free? Do you not pay for your internet connection? Water/electricity?

A good email service is one worth paying for.
I agree, though I wouldn't say my experience with Azure has been "profoundly awful". Not all that great is more like it. I'm commenting because you mentioned the horizontal blade scrolling thing. For me, that has to be some of the worst UI/UX. Drives me absolutely nuts.

GCP is quickly becoming my favorite. The UI/UX of the web console is light years ahead of either AWS or Azure. The GCP documentation is a breath of fresh air. I'm stuck with AWS as my primary provider for now, but for new projects the bias is GCP. Most of the services I have used on GCP are well documented and easy to get around. Compare this to the AWS experience where documentation is often non-existent or out of date or the product itself just feels incomplete and broken.
>One common thing I’ve seen, which I consider very sloppy, is that a circuit can still be made up of common topologies, but the designer didn’t put a lot of effort into making them look like their textbook versions; they realize “I need 4 resistors, a transistor, and a diode”, plop those down, and then draw wandering connections between them. It’s still correct and functional, but not very ergonomic for the user

Very true. This is exactly like spaghetti code and very hard to make sense of for somebody lacking experience.
Well, Zoom is already profitable and Slack could easily go profitable.

But yes, the tale is different for AirBnB, Lyft, and Uber.
Growth/income in the Roth IRA is also tax-free (there'd be no point in the Roth otherwise).
"this viewpoint I find very weird and contradictory"

There are very few things at the intersection of society and justice (like law is) that are logically consistent.

This is by design, because people are not logically consistent in how they operate (provably so, in fact). Maybe in a few million years depending on how we evolve.

But for now, I'm not sure why you would expect anything else.

This is similar to the old saying of "in nature, the optimum is rarely at the extremes"

The extremes tend to be the most logically consistent positions.
Three points:

1. Government is orders of magnitude larger than the biggest companies, and, whats' worse, the inefficiencies scale (my guess) exponentially and not linearly.

2. Government assumes democratic oversight, which is way more costly and time intensive to implement than the rule of the iron fist of the shareholders via board of a company.

3. A lot of the ways the government functions is passed as laws. If a private business needs to do a major change of strategy, say was the case with Tesla recently where they decided to get rid of the dealerships, they can implement it very quickly - whereas in government, an operational decision of this magnitude (say the IRS deciding to close local branches), would probably require changing many laws - which involves political bargaining and just general queue to get the new law passed in the parliament. BTW this is true even for much smaller stuff, like the template of the forms for tax returns - they cannot be changed willy-nilly, but need a new law to be passed (usually at a lower level than parliament, but still). Imagine facebook needing to go through some internal legislation process every time they change a form on their website - so much for "move fast and break things".
That's news to me, but based on my gut reaction to the way Rippetoe writes and speaks (bloviating and seemingly over-certain about the science of things, which gives the impression that he actually knows very little about the science) I'm not surprised! Do you know of any alternative books or other sources that don't suffer from the same issues?
Most pensions are moving towards defined contribution plans now, so take that as you will (no promises)
This is excellent data!

1. It has long been argued that Twitter has a liberal bias. This data proves it, with 60% of the users leaning left.

2. While the cause of #1 hasn't been established, it is likely that moderators and policy makers in Twitter live in left leaning cities in the US, with admittedly left leaning political views. These folks tend to favor one side in the their censorship.

3. If one considers the fact that 80% of the content is generated by 10%, and the politics of that 10% further skews left, one can see why Twitter looks like a left echo chamber, uninviting to most centrist and right leaning folks.
That's almost certainly what's happening. The pricing of logo design and branding is about how much it's worth to the client and how much risk the designer is taking on [0]. This design firm put its name on a logo for an international corporation worth billions of dollars and people made fun of it for looking like a fat dude; that's a major embarrassment whose potentiality was probably considered in the pricing.

The same people chuckling at how nonsensical the design document is supposed to be (and it really isn't) are probably the same people who could talk your ear off about the esoteric particulars of a given programming language or management strategy, which are also, to some degree, subjective BS couched in jargon and seeming non sequiturs.

0 - https://youtu.be/RKXZ7t_RiOE
Absolutely and almost certainly.
> Well, that's not really a quarantine, then, is it?

Of course it is. The word "quarantine" does not automatically imply the threat of force.
I wish there was a place programmers could go to say "hey we're being asked to do this immoral shit"
> I get where you are coming from, but Lucene is a building block, a library and cannot be immediately used as a valuable service. ES can be used by quite high level developers to implement scalable solutions.

Your argument makes no sense. Even if we accept the thesis that building block components are up for grabs because they cannot be immediately used as valuable services... Well, neither can services. You need to design a system architecture, figure out how and if a component plays a role, pick a component, config the component, setup a deployment ans scaling strategy, config and integrate metrics and health checks, ingest data, monitor the service, etc etc etc.

And if we actually want to make an objective comparison between libraries and services... Well, in the end they are all components of a larger system.

So, obviously there is no objective distinction. There's only intellectual property and companies being hypocrite wanting to have their cake and eating it too. They can't get it both ways.
Someone took the Post-modern Essay Generator[1] to a whole new level it seems...

http://www.elsewhere.org/pomo/
I know some ISPs do sketchy things, but I don't perceive any particular VPN provider as more trustworthy. Otherwise, I would use one.
But there are.

In the US you have a constitutional right to not incriminate yourself and judges have ruled that extends to giving law enforcement pins/passwords.

Biometrics have not received the same status.
You're missing the parent's point. Another (one-time?) JASON who you might have heard of is Bill Dally. He was a prof at Stanford, including being the department chair, and is the chief scientist / senior VP of Research at Nvidia.

Needless to say, silicon valley senior VPs don't usually need extra spending cash.
Re: There has never been urbanization of this scale in the history of the world. All of the world’s great cities are struggling to cope with growth...

Do we really want to stuff most of the population into tiny geographic specks? Work on remote-work infrastructure instead: cheaper high-speed internet and better collaboration tools. Wiki's and discussion groups can be better than meetings if participants follow certain conventions. It's greener too than physically moving people for commutes.

It's also better security. If most commerce is concentrated, then enemies and nut-cases can shut it down easily.
Their elasticsearch fork is literally called Open Distro for Elasticsearch. Its totally open, and all licensed as Apache 2.0.

Their mongodb clone isn't. It'd be kind of cool if it was, but there's substantial evidence its based on the Aurora Storage engine. Through the docs and various talks at Re:Invent, its clear that the ASE is insanely coupled to AWS, with tight integration to S3 and deep availability-zone awareness. It would be useless beyond an academic exercise to someone who isn't on AWS. It would be cool to see it all open sourced, but not really valuable.

AWS has a pretty strong history of open source in the cloud space, such that it feels strange to me that people still think they're an "enemy" or something. Not as strong as Google or Microsoft, but they're certainly not a New Oracle or anything. You should check out their Open Source Blog [1], and notice that new posts are made literally every two days.

[1] https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/opensource/
Heh. I’ll be honest, that sounds a lot like a millennial projecting onto all the old people in this thread.

Sure there’s an element of truth to it, but email was insanely popular before the iPhone too...
IRC was fine. Really. And the clients didn't chew ram.
If you guess that number wrong in good faith, you get a polite letter from the IRS with the correct number. Let's not be dramatic.
As much as I think that Boeing took the wrong decision when going for the MAX instead of replacing the 737 from ground up and that the way the MCAS was developed and put into operations was a big disaster, both from Boeing and the FAA, as much do I disagree with that article.

First of all, while most public know evidence points at MCAS as the source for the crashes, the accident investigations have not concluded yet. The article doesn't even mention that. But, with all what we know so far, Boeing has good reasons to significantly overwork the MCAS software and is doing so.

I am not an aviation expert, but from all I have heard about the 737 MAX (from actual pilots), it looks like the airplane itself is not the issue, it was the specific faults in the MCAS implementation and that the pilots were not properly trained on the aircraft. Beyond fixing the obvious issues with the MCAS implementation, the biggest item for bringing the 737 MAX back into business needs to be pilot training. Training both how to fly the machine with MCAS deactivated as well as dealing with the potential failure szenarios of the MCAS system.

Of course, the whole certification process for the 737 MAX needs to be reviewed to guarantee that the machine has the level of airworthyness one would expect. This is probably the most time-consuming step on the way to restoring its flight-status, but the most necessary one.

Assuming that the 737 MAX after a significant update to the MCAS system passes a proper certification, in contrast to the article I would strongly argue for it to return into service. As much as we know for now, the machine isn't inherently unsafe to fly. But a cancellation could have drastic effects on air travel safety. Boeing decided against a new design in 2011 because of time constraints, and it is now 8 years later. A proper replacement for the 737 MAX wouldn't be ready for many years, probably only at the end of the next decade. If you are worried about safety, you certainly don't want Boeing to rush the development of a new design. Also, there would be little alternatives for replacement. Airbus could increase its output, but that also bears risk of general safety. As does flying the machines, the 737 MAX was meant to replace for more years.

So, unless other issues with the 737 MAX are found in review, it definitely should be put back into business.
That song is brilliant. I think the video detracts a bit. I recommend just listening to it.

My understanding is that it's entirely comprised of sampled clips. A triumph of sound engineering.
The safeties are a fail safe when every other safety system fails. It is not your primary safety component.

A team or partner serves many needs:
- safety in terms of spotting
- safety in terms of feedback to guide you to proper form
- safety in terms of damage control if you suffer an injury and need medical attention (especially if you have a stroke or aneurysm during a lift)
- encouragement to maibtain your routine
Right, that's what i finally figured out too.
Glad I just bought this a few months ago...
The difference is in scope. So if you open a person's phone, you can potentially access their correspondence, browsing history, banking history, location history, etc.

If you take someone's fingerprint to match against a fingerprint you already have, all you get is confirmation of something you suspect.