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Ask HN: What extensions or userscripts do you feel are musts to browse HN?
I've been a heavy user of the Reddit Enhancement Suite for a few years, but only a lurker on HN. I've decided to become more active, but I was surprised to see no one had made a comprehensive tool suite.

I put something together by finding a collection of Firefox addons, and some Greasemonkey user scripts. Here's what I'm using:
QoL improvements:
* My HN Special: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/my-hn-special/
An all-in-one kind of addon, that enables infinite scrolling, dark mode, open in new tab. I like that things can be toggled.
* Hackers New: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/hackers-new/
Includes content from /new on the front page.

Really nitpicky:
* Hacker News Night Mode: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/hacker-news-night-mode/
It's made somewhat redundant by My HN Special, but when I use the dark mode from both, it makes a the body and background have a different dark tone, which makes it easier to focus.
* HN-Collapse: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/hn-collapse/
Super nitpicky. It adds a second collapse button, but this one is on the left of the comment rather than on the right. I like that it's aligned and easier to find.

I feel I'm still missing keyboard navigation, but it's a good start. What's your setup? Is there anything you can't live without?
I'll take my government insured bank account over cryptocurrency any day of the week.
> The autopilot systems cannot cope with AoA disagree, that's why MCAS came into play. The Ethiopian pilots (for some reason) kept trying to engage autopilot. Unfortunately for them MCAS is only needed when autopilot is disabled.

Factual errors in this post include:

- MCAS wasn't designed because "autopilot systems cannot cope with AoA disagree." MCAS couldn't handle AoA disagree, that's the whole crux of the problem.

- MCAS wasn't enabled at all when autopilot was. Only manual flying.

- MCAS was designed to simulate the non-Max 737's thrust curve to maintain a similar type rating FOR PILOTS. It had nothing to do with autopilot at all.

- The Ethiopian Airline pilots never tried to enable autopilot, and didn't "keep trying to engage autopilot" that's pure fiction.

MCAS used trim to counter-act an overeager upwards angle during key parts of the flight like take-off. It used electronic trim to accomplish this and a single AoA sensor to determine when.

The Ethiopian Airline pilots, per the initial crash report, correctly disabled the electronic trim system (both disabling the yoke trim switch and MCAS). However were unable to manually re-trim the aircraft using the trim wheels due to the aerodynamic forces placed on the aircraft (via hard trim counteracted by hard elevator).

This forced the Ethiopian Airline pilots into a difficult choice; and they ultimately decided to re-enable electronic trim and use the yoke trim switch (which is more powerful) to fix the trim. Unfortunately MCAS trimmed the aircraft further, they lost control, and the aircraft crashed.

At no point did autopilot play any role in the crash.
Batteries, mostly. Tesla's battery technology is light years ahead of where anyone else is and their charging network is already better than anyone else out there, including the private companies using standards, and they've just recently made them even better and faster through a software update. If anyone catches up to them, I'll be very, very surprised.
I wholeheartedly agree with this. I think people don't quite understand the extent of GDPR. Hurting start ups and hobby projects that might make some money on the side means that you'll have fewer successful businesses down the line. It also means that you'll have fewer qualified workers.

The problem in the EU is that GDPR isn't the first such signal the EU has sent either. The cookie law was a signal that indicated that the EU regulates things without understanding what they're doing. The data retention act from over a decade ago was similar. I'm sure there were others even before that, but probably on a national level.
True. But thinking ahead "Resurrected" could be awesome.
Ask HN: Tips for reading Hacker News comments
I am looking for tips/suggestions/approaches people use to get most out of the comments on hacker news.
Are new systems being constructed in Java .. when starting on new projects Java was at one time (about 6-8 years ago) the leading alternative for Corporate IT (if they weren't a Microsoft shop). I doubt it very much.

Oracle is playing this not-so-good role, that Microsoft used to play, under Steve Ballmer, monopolistic, and evil.

I found Java hideous, the gratuitous OOP taken to extremes put me off. Spring came in, and you had class names that were a hundred characters long - your actual line of code was shorter than the class name. The problem with Java (and every programming language has its own achilles heel) - is everything has be class oriented - however much you try to bolt on, on top of that , to make it seem not so. . Java kills creativity, and expressiveness in software by its bloated syntax and OOP. We took up Java because at the time alternatives were few, but now its on its way being the new Cobol - this will sound ridiculous if you still are fully or partially, inside its bubble

I ran from our Java shop. My software architect mocked me "you'll be back in 6 months" - instead, he quit the Java shop and stuck his head outside of the Java bubble and realized there was life outside.
The 10 people who died from the pollen storm in Melbourne was interesting.

https://www.google.com.au/amp/amp.abc.net.au/article/9907120

It also interesting because it possibly only showed up because it hit the media, but it should have been see-able before if proper stats were kept over the long term.
Ron Davis has worked on this day and night for years. I remember reading about his effort to figure out CFS to save his son. I'm not even sure this was his field of expertise. He just wanted to save his sons life and gave his every waking moment to try and figure it out. It makes me very happy that he seems to have accomplished it. I'm curious if his son is still with him, he was in really bad shape back in 2016.
Other car companies are not doing this. The equivalent to a certified repair would be a dealer shop, right? They can hold on to a ready supply of OEM parts, unlike every mechanic.
thanks for the heads up, now alive!
Sure, if we also provide every citizen with the entire set of laws that they are supposed to obey, in an intelligible format. As the prosecutor said in TFA, "everyone is guilty of something", because there are too many laws in force, and no-one knows them all.

Add to that the costs of defending a court case, and the prosecutor has more-or-less complete power - they can financially ruin someone at will, just (as in this case) by deciding to enforce an obscure law that the defendant didn't even know about.

So making the prosecutors adverserial to the citizens, while giving them absolute power to destroy anyone they don't like, is a recipe for corruption.
Not good electric cars. Batteries are still a large portion of the cost, and so a modest electric car effort will end up over-spending on the battery, being over-weight, and with too low of a range without very careful attention to efficiency. Compare the per-mike efficiency of the e-tron vs the Tesla Model X.

...it also increases charging infrastructure costs.
Is it true what vessenes said above about the Internet Archive receiving a dataset of book spines? And would it be possible for the IA to release that dataset publicly?
Did they look for any other file extensions or was that literally it?
Actually I do teach English, we have a core class for more traditional teaching then project courses where we use English in an active environment (programming, cooking etc).

We looked into front end, and while a few students enjoyed it, the majority weren't interested enough. That's why we're looking into MakerBots and such to give them a more physical object to code.
But this can't go everywhere my password are needed, why would I use this?

Not to be harsh, but LastPass (and others) works across Mac, PC, IOS & Android in multiple ways. A password manager to a degree needs to make my life easier, this means being portable and compatible.
Tesla wants vertical integration and is willing to reopen the battle lost by GM years ago about warranties and parts to save a few bucks.

It makes sense as long as the PR machine generates new customers faster than their operations teams piss off old ones.

It’s also one of the big reasons Tesla fought so hard against normal franchised car dealerships. They can save money by providing shitty service and don’t need to worry about dealers making noise about Tesla issues or dealers telling them to piss off.
The terminology is still going to seriously hinder uptake. All of what you said can be true and better terminology would still be better for them.
This looks awesome. Sadly when I try to run it on Windows I get:

error: execution engine failed: The file was not recognized as a valid object file

Anybody have any idea what's up?
I thought ELK was ElasticSearch, Logstash, and Kibana.
Are you upset r >> g? What if you had to retire on savings that were sitting in a bank account earning .1% APY?

If you make on average, $100k a year over a short 30 year career, saving only 10% at .1% APY, what are your savings? $314.5k. What if you invest instead and earn on average 8%? $1.2MM

How about over 40 years? $418k vs $2.8MM.

Compound interest has and will continue to be a major driver for wealth throughout the world. Reducing its benefit to a moral argument of the rich getting richer is sad.

Many of the richest Americans are taking part in the giving pledge, allowing their wealth to build and take advantage of compound interest over their lifetime and giving a large portion of it back. The alternative is giving 40+% to the government each year, who will not be earning compound interest with it.
https://givingpledge.org/PledgerList.aspx

Compound interest coupled with the fact that people can’t take their wealth to the grave makes for a natural ability for money to both amass quickly and then be transferred back to the public or to heirs or wherever else.
> “When escalators break, they actually become stairs”

Properly stopped, but functioning escalators become stairs. Escalators that break can become death traps that will kill you.
[Edit: people downvoting this, care to explain what you disagree with in it?]

Breaking news. In a series of explosive toots...

The foreign minister was forced to resign after a number of offensive toots...

OMG, your toots are so funny!...

Everyone's talking about what J K Rowling tooted today...

I can't believe you tooted that!...

...and so on

If you think I'm joking then that shows how bad a name "toot" is. Because these are all phrases that people would say about tweets, and which need to sound non-ridiculous for any such system.
I find the idea that society should not keep corporations and their behaviour in check because "the economy may be damaged" to be frightening and dangerous.
I'm now imagining a 737MAX8 in a flat spin...

(I've had the controls of a 172 and a Tiger Moth briefly, but have never _really_ flown a "real plane". I have flat spinned many many rc planes, mostly recovered fine, but also to their occasional doom...)
> To me all these bifurcations seem to me to stem from a change of a world of more evenly distributed wealth (for working, lower middle, and middle class) and one with wild inequality.

> Back in the 50s and up to the 80s a single-income middle class household could still send a kid to college, buy a house, and so on.

Is the right word inequality? There aren't less college places, houses in NY/the Bay, etc in the world than there were in the 80s. By extension, the problem is not enough new wealth creation rather than inequality.

I'm open to being wrong, but at a guess there aren't all that many rich people who consume more than 2 degrees, live in 2 houses, etc. There are those that do, but they are relatively rare. Mostly they just get first pick from the existing stock, except in housing where they buy but then rent out in my experience, so it isn't exactly removing stock from general availability. If the rich disappeared tomorrow, would that free up enough resources that the poor could all have "whatever"?

I've no answer, but rhetorically I doubt it. The rich physically can't consume that many resources in absolute terms.
I unistalled it and my add ons are still working!
It's been proven to be misunderstood globally.

Just the word "menu" is more beneficial.
I never played tabletop Harpoon, but the IBM-PC computer game Harpoon was one of my favourites many decades ago. It was a game that highlighted the devastative power of air superiority over pure naval engagements. A squadron of soviet Blackjack bombers armed with Kitchen missiles could take out an entire carrier group or ground base while staying out of reach of carrier based fighters.

Wish there was a version of this game that runs in a browser or on modern tablets.
> "You are not your own user."

Never say this to someone. First, anyone bringing up feedback is doing it for a reason. Weed out what that reason is.

If you say this to someone re-asses your own emotional reason for it. This is a very emotional response.

I've seen people voice interface feedback that was dismissed with this exact response, and 12 months later was implemented. We could have saved 12 months, instead, we had to deal with a designer's emotional immaturity.
It fixed my addons and I uninstalled and my Add on are still working.
How to Stop Eating Junk Food
Play Tetris on a Transistor Tester, Because Why Not?
Nearly every line of that budget screams "luxury", with the exception of two things:

1. The skyrocketing cost of college really does create enormous problems. I'm assuming the family profiled are either doctors or lawyers, because otherwise those $32K/yr payments would only last for a few years at most. (I paid $40K/yr in loans for both my wife and I when I got my first real job, but that happened exactly once... and we weren't buying BMWs or Land Rovers while we were doing it.)

2. Pensions, which have largely eroded away in the private sector, were enormously valuable. The switch from pensions to 401(K)s without a significant corresponding increase in pay is one of the most significant ways in which the real value of take-home pay has declined in the past 30 years.

But everything else could be cut in half, probably without even noticing:

1. $42K/yr on childcare is au pair/"elite" preschool money.

2. $5,000/mo mortgage is pretty high, even for a family of four in a high CoL area.

3. Three vacations a year @ $6,000 a pop. I take more than three vacations a year, but most of them are closer to $500 for a family of 4 (camping/backpacking). The expensive ones never get higher than $3,000. There's "getting away from work for a while" and then there's "flying a family of 4 to Paris a few times a year". The former is not a "luxury" especially for a high stress job, but the latter definitely is.

4. Luxury cars. For $10K they could buy a perfectly functional new car (which would last 10 years) every year. The only way that these are not "luxuries" is if they're required for work.

5. $3K on clothing per year, every year. That's high even for someone who has to dress nicely for work. Yes, nice suits are expensive, but they also last a long time. And your kids definitely don't need "meetings with high value clients" clothing.

6. $1K/mo on "children's lessons". I know how this happens, because I charged up to $100/hr for private tutoring while in grad school. But it's entirely unnecessary. It really is OK for your kid to get a B in an AP course. And if they need $100/hr quality tutoring for every course they're taking, the real world is going to be a rude experience. Also, $1K/mo on "children's lessons" while the kids are also young enough to need childcare is absolutely insane.
In addition, the presence and close involvement of a loved one can have dramatic effects on medical outcomes. Here, the tradeoff may be choosing between saving a startup and saving a child. Seems a no-brainer when weighed this way.
Bookkeeping is basically just tracking your total assets and debts separately. You can break those down into accounts, but it's optional.

In personal context, doing double-entry would have you log a credit (pay from) to your assets and a debit (pay to) to your debts. For example, when you pay your credit card bill with a check. For generic expenses (whether you pay with cash or credit) and income you wouldn't bother with double-entry.

Why would you want to do this? It's all about "balancing" your net worth; when you have expenses or income your net changes, but when you pay a debt then your worth, or "capital" in bookkeeping jargon, is a constant, and follows the basic rule of accounting: assets = liabilities + capital. Doing double-entry is the most reliable way of following this rule.
Madonna says giving her children mobile phones ‘ended their relationship’
Your compound interest is generated by the hard work of other people, and when you transfer it to your heirs you’re just creating aristocrats. I don’t see the public good here.
Step aside granddad. The IoT Blockchain is here.

After all, if your internet connected thermostat isn't on the Blockchain, is it _really_ a thermostat?
Or the sensors are on different sides of the plane and the plane is slipping or banking. Which happens routinely during normal flight.
So I draw two conclusions from this clusterF of astronomical proportions:

1. The A320neo really caught Boeing off guard. The 737 MAX was a panicked reaction to something that they thought would threaten their business to a significant degree. The A320neo and A320 have a common type rating too. Googling seems to suggest the differences are fairly minor however. I guess Airbus benefits in the A320 being a newer airframe than the 737 (which is ~50 years old now)?

2. Somewhere along the line this is a management failure of gigantic proportions. That management would risk Boeing's reputation on something that, in hindsight, is so incredibly foolish is mind-blowing. And the buck stops with the CEO. If this ends with anything less than the CEO deciding to spend more time with his family it's a joke. And whoever replaces him should clean house with anyone remotely responsible for this.

This isn't unprecedented either. Through this fiasco I came to learn about the 1990s 737 rudder issue [1] and it's scary how similar the reaction is. "The planes are fine". "There is no issue". You know, until there is.

I expect the only thing stopping a lot of airlines from cancelling their 737 MAX orders and buying A320neos instead is at this point they'd probably have to get in the back of the line and wait years. They really have no choice but to stick with the 737 MAX now.

Actually I guess airlines like Southwest (who are 100% 737 IIRC) are kind of stuck anyway. It's the likes of American Airlines who has such a large and diverse fleet that really bet on the wrong horse.

I really hope this ends in a court case or even better, a criminal case. I really want to know who signed off on this plan and at what point warnings were given and ignored.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boeing_737_rudder_issues
Huh you’re right about that. For some reason your heritage chart makes it look a lot more reasonable, which I don’t agree that it is. I’m guessing it has something to with comparing to GDP?
Yes, he just chose a satisfactory cutoff for whatever counts as a "true" flagship. Some people would say only this generation iPhone. Some would say only this generation iPhone + Pixel + Galaxy. Some would say this generation, and the previous generation of iPhone + Pixel + Galaxy.

And even then, we're ignoring features like internal storage capacity for each phone.

Even if you are making $10 million a year, you split that between your yacht, your car, your mansion, and jewelry for the wifey.

You aren't going to have the biggest mega-yacht and no jewelry for the wifey, so there will be a tapering at the higher end of the demand curve for yachts for people making $10 million a year.
In this case, I was more insecure being subjected to advertising networks (and the malware carried on them) because of Firefox's mistake which meant I wasn't able to load ublock origin. I'm also not sure how many of those "security patches" are intended to make my browsing experience safer, or simply meant to implement bizarre policies that might blow up in my face at any time (as this certificate issue has).

It's a trade off.

I assume (and hope) Firefox will eventually get their act together so I can go back to using it, but if not at least I don't have to jump ship to chrome.
No one in the industry calls drugs 100% unsafe or 100% safe. That’s why there is a long list of side effects on every drug commercial.

A risk/benefit profile is what drugs have.
Show HN: Oatpp Coroutines
With a synchronous garbage collector for cycles. Which is like the worst of both worlds, since you get the constant overhead of refcounting, plus unpredictable interruptions of unspecified duration that can happen every time a new object that might contain references to other objects is created.

To be fair, the GC can be disabled. But it's only safe to do so when you know there are no cycles, and even when such guarantee can be had for your own code, I've never seen a library guarantee that to API clients.
Upon reading the headline I had assumed this had something to do with the ELK embedded operating system, it doesn't. Maybe not a good idea to pick the same name as another product already in the embedded space?
This process itself might be as dangerous as the one it replaces, though. I suspect things like civil rights, social security, Medicare, etc. would be difficult to renew in today's political climate despite public support for them.

Look how hard it is to do stuff like raise the debt ceiling, which wasn't a partisan football until just a few years ago.
4K time-lapse from an 11 hour Australian road trip in a Tesla
Yes, I think the word inequality is correct. It comes as a result of hoarding wealth.
And what's the problem with not having that? Does it suddenly make my installed extensions insecure?

I (somewhat) get it for the standard windows user who gives admin rights to everything, but I think this crowd is a bit more aware of what they install.
Why is such an unscientific question so high on HN?

Or to rephrase, if we don't know what a soul is, how can we hope to answer it WRT elephants? So how and why should a reasoning person rate an article like this?
> Back in the 50s and up to the 80s a signle-income middle class household could still send a kid to college, buy a house, and so on. And living in NY or the Bay are was still very affordable (to the point that both areas had large artistic / bohemian communities living there, and not of the latte sipping urban wealth variety, but the penny pinching / stick it to the man / junky variety).

Houses are very affordable in almost every part of the country. Buying a home is really not that difficult.