skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
One question to ponder: Would the two crashes still have happened without this particular mistake, that is, if the planes had had a working AoA disagree indicator?

It depends, I think:

1. Did the AoA sensor malfunction occur before the takeoff roll?

2. Would the AoA disagree indicator come on early enough to abandon takeoff?

3. Would the crew reject takeoff once the AoA disagree indication comes on?

If it's a "yes" on all three questions, then presumably the accidents would not have happened.

Once you're in the air, and all hell breaks loose (stick shaker etc.) while MCAS tries to dive you in the ground, I doubt that the indication would have made any difference: before the Lion Air crash, crews didn't even know about MCAS. After, they did know, and the Ethiopian Airlines crew, from what I gather, diagnosed the problem, though maybe too late - but again, I doubt whether the AoA disagree indication would have helped.

That leaves above questions.

1. For the Lion Air crash, the AoA malfunctioning was there before takeoff. For Ethiopian, I'm not sure.

2. I'd think yes.

3. Don't know. Anyone an idea? (Today, presumably you'd abort with a MAX and AoA issues. Back then?)
“Everywhere I go I’m asked if I think universities stifle writers. I think they don’t stifle enough of them"

--Flannery O'Conor.

Java EE and CORBA had to go. It didn't matter who pulled the plug.
Wow, lots of awesome links to follow up on (:

I know there isn't a silver bullet, and NL queries will never be as versatile as a real query language, but from testing with various people I know it _seems_ to be an OK on-ramp to more advanced stuff.
Well, there are lots of rare diseases, and mercury could be a factor in some of them. That doesn't mean they are imaginary. It's more of a definitional/philosophical issue, that some other factor is essential as well, so it's not right to attribute the problem only to mercury.

The distinction I'm making is that I am pretty sure low level mercury is not an issue like lead from gasoline, although I can imagine evidence that would change my mind. If it was, we should be able to see blatant differences in large populations, just like we see with lead and violent crime.
Setup Shopify with Oberlo. If you know what you want to sell (and know what will provide good margins) you only need to add products to your site (Oberlo automates this a lot). Install a good shopify theme and you should have a decent looking site. After this all orders get routed directly to the wholesaler, and you shouldn't have to do anything except respond to customer support (have a no questions asked refund policy and you should be good - just make sure your margins allow for it)

After that it's all about getting traffic - usually facebook ads are the way to do this. This is the part thats hard to put on autopilot. Maybe you can get someone to do it for you for cheap - but you need to make sure you have really good margins.

If you have a way to get traffic to your site - actually getting a site up and running is easy.
Cool write up! I am a huge fan of Nim. I use it as a replacement for small scripts, big scripts, and even real code at work, to interface with other languages that interface with C too.

I see in your post that you are about to look into Nim/C interop; have a look at nimterop[1]. It has been immensely useful to me for wrapping Nim libraries around C code exported from Matlab and to talk with C API for SystemVerilog.

Finally, you blog post shows a snippet of Python code, but also show to the world how the Nim code looks [I know that you are sharing the link to the git repo containing the Nim code, but still] :)

[1]: https://github.com/nimterop/nimterop
This. I may be biased as a designer, but I definitely prefer products with better UI if it performs similarly. I'm a firm believer in no matter how great your product is, always invest in good design.
South East Asia isn’t a country and ASEAN has less political fellow feeling than Europe does in the EU. I sincerely doubt the Thai or Malaysian government much care whether a Singaporean or an American company is the dominant player in their local ride hailing industry.
oh thank you for reminding me of that, Netflix has it now.
Referring to plugin security.
There's more to it than potentially thrown out.

Could he be censured for failing to secure information about clients? IANAL, but I'm pretty sure that over-sharing about clients can be a poor career move.

And what if this had been a US lawyer, who was representing someone who'd received a US NSL? Would he have violated the NSL? Who would the US go after, him or Canada Border Services?
What kind of percentage are you talking about? "Fairly often" covers a, erm, multitude of sins.
> Why would anyone want to upgrade from XP?

Is that a serious question?

Security?

Compatibility with Modern hardware?

If you want to use a car analogy, what you're asking is 'why would anyone want to upgrade from a Model T?
Either built a utility, game or a content/community site and monetize with ads. If you're feeling adventurous monetize via utility tokens.

Is there a particular area you specialize in for blockchain? I know there's a lot of opportunities outside of the standard currency/token space.
But it’s not evidence... so what does that say about their sanity.
I almost picked up a part from two states over when Tesla went radio silent for a month plus after 2 months of 'repairs'. Absolute worst customer service I have ever experienced.
Can anyone shed light on whatever is going on with the audio in the video? It sounds vaguely like counting if the counting were done by some sort of creepy bunny cartoon.
The Rebellion Against China’s 996 Culture
My question is if this ON-OFF switch was really a safety feature (and I believe it was and is) then why FAA turned the blind eye during the aircraft certification process and did not ask Boeing to make it Standard on every MAX plane they ship? Shouldn't the blame for those 2 air disasters be equally then shared by FAA along with Boeing because every air regulation agency in the world looks at FAA as a leading org among them all.

Edit (as seeing downvote due to the possible tone of the comment):
What I am saying is basically this should have been flagged by the FAA during the certification process. Maybe that was not part of the process but making sure to check which optional features offered are safety related could be absolutely critical for air safety.

Edit 2: I meant ON-OFF Light here
Agree. I have been watching a lot of movies in the last month since I retired but this afternoon I felt like reading a book so I jumped into Liu Cixin’s “The Wandering Earth” and it was a more satisfying than most of my recent movie watching.

I have also been binge writing on a new book project, a three hour writing sprint each morning this week.

There is something satisfying about spending at least a couple of hours in an activity without jumping to something else, like reading email for a few minutes. Concentration is a great thing.
A lot of reasons but two fundamental parts as I see it

First population growth, California's population is 10x what it was 100 years ago, so a family had an acre, now you have ten families on the same piece of land. That makes the land much more valuable.

Secondly people spend a stable fraction of their earnings on housing, so income growth is important, and why a house in California costs much more than a house in say Peru. And why a house in NYC costs much more than it did 100 year ago - with stable population.

If you look at places with stable/falling populations and stable/falling incomes, house prices are stable/falling too, see Rural America, Midwest, Argentina, Russia etc
Considering that in the pre-medchem era (i.e. until 1935 when sulphonamides entered the field) surgery was the only field of medicine that actually worked, this is strange. Physicians could diagnose patients just fine since before the days of Papyrus Eber, but the treatment options were very limited.
I can’t imagine why anyone ever answers the phone. I get at least ten robocalls every weekday. I don’t ever look at my voicemail and I haven’t answered a call in ages.

Edit: I know I’m not alone because CNN just released a poll with no responses from people under the age of fifty, because they couldn’t reach enough of them by phone.
Note: The linked video is by foul-mouthed Canadian YouTuber AvE, in which he disassembles and comments on an angle-of-attack sensor from a C-130 military aircraft. He comments favorably on the build quality of the assembly, but is not impressed with the sensor itself or the lack of internal redundancy.

The analysis is interesting but of limited value to consideration of the sensors and MCAS system on the Boeing 737 MAX.
The same instincts that have given us the world we have now will in time destroy the world we live in.

The accumulation of resources, survival at any cost, the need to find a mate and reproduce without regard to the overall population and ultimately the intelligence to do it above any other species is what ultimately will cause the extinction of the human race unless we are able to overcome our instincts and change our ways.

The irony is that we are suppose to be the smartest species to ever inhabit the earth.
My son is also 11 and a Monty Python virgin. Thanks for reminding me of this necessary cultural education and that it will be at least semi age-appropriate. Damn I'm looking forward to both watching it again myself and watching him watching it.

And, depending upon his reaction it, on to Life of Brian in order to cement critical thinking skills against any future attempts to recruit him into lifelong religious servitude (and of course learning the details of latin grammar).
What we (actually know in 2019) about Lockheed Martin’s mysterious SR-72: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lockheed_Martin_SR-72
Seems to me that mind alteration due to an organ transplant is solid evidence against the existence of the soul.
> So you will slightly increase litter while moderately reducing pollen.

I don't see any indication that the increase in litter would at all be of greater proportion than the decrease in pollen. Only that bit of pollen that gets blown to a neighboring female tree would get absorbed. Not even all of that, since presumably the majority would get blown off the tree. I can't see how any more than a single digit percent of the pollen would be captured, so people with allergies would still be affected.

The increase in litter would be significant if half the trees were female. On my college campus there were parts of the year where certain types of trees would drop seed pods and it littered the streets for the better part of a week. It'd take a significant amount of manpower to clean it up - probably a garbage-bag per tree - so we just left it outside and dealt with vegetation litter for a couple weeks.

Unless the article backs up the claim that the pollen reduction would be substantial and the increase in litter trivial it could still very well be that a mix of female and male plants does not prevent allergic reactions to such a degree that it's worth using a mix of plants.
> but in Australia I think both groups can be called Dr.

They can be called Dr, but will respond with a snippy "Mr Smith" if you do it.
Or the Extension Language Kit of yore, in Scheme.
> my understanding is the sync is entry based over file based

> Google drive sync is kind of moot as the sync happens on a server

Confused, so are you saying there is a server that does entry-based syncing? KeePass it's the KeePass client that resolves conflicts at the entry level with whatever is on Google Drive (which it connects to via plugins).
Yeah, the title definitely blows about four or five political circuit breakers in the anti-flame war power bus of HN's moderation module. Talk about false positives.

It's like someone out there trying to monkey wrench a neural net with adversarial images, except the neural net is us. It's a picture of a tractor and a rabbit in a farm field, but with some carefully selected noise we find it to be quite the stop sign.
"at not cost." A scam warning with a typo.
I don't know, I could see the big mobile networks going off on their own and highlighting trusted callers from their own networks. And it would take only a few peering points between the big providers to cover the vast majority of cell users. I would actually switch networks for this (presumably one would do it first).
Ask HN: Quitting without anything lined up?
Graduated college in 2018 and got a job at a startup immediately after graduating. After about a week I realized I hated it. Weird company culture, bad micromanager, disgusting codebase, no WFH. It's not terrible but there are certainly better jobs out there. I decided to stay; the pay is decent and I had a lot to learn (about being professional, office politics, marketing, knowing when you have PMF, sales, branding, stock options, NOT engineering). Just for a year though. Then I was gonna switch to another, better job.

What I didn't anticipate was being incredibly burnt out. I want to quit and not work for a while. Issue is I heard that's "bad" around the Internet.

Here's what I have going for me:

* I can live with my parents at any time for as long as I want no questions asked.

* About 10 months in I started getting regular pings (2x per week) via email/LinkedIn from recruiters for various other jobs, varying from startups to Uber/Facebook/Google.

* I have been shipping production-quality software since 2007. Based on my experience at this startup I believe I have the equivalent of 8 YoE but that's hard to put on paper.

* I have friends at various other companies that could refer me.

Basically my career goal is to bootstrap a SaaS company and either turn it into a lifestyle business or get acquired for like $1-5M. The job market is a backup plan for me. I've had 2 engineering jobs at this point and I fucking hated both of them.

Will this recruiter outreach stop once I quit? I'm also kinda worried about closing the door to Google/Facebook/Uber but honestly I'd rather work somewhere that let me work part time remote so I could focus on my own stuff. Working on other people's code blows and I'd prefer to do as little of that as I possibly can.
In theory, any ruling in any Common Law country could be cited as precedent in any other Common Law country.

As the US has the 4th amendment, most US search-and-seizure cases rest on it. If anyone were ever so bold as to argue a positive right to privacy for all humans--rather than the weaker but easier to prove prohibition against US governments committing privacy-violating acts--and the case was decided on it, that case could be used as precedent everywhere.

Judges are generally careful about not doing that, for obvious reasons. If a lawyer tried to make the case about a right to privacy, the judge might decide the outcome of the case base on that, but the opinion would certainly say that the litigant won or lost because of some other reason.

Statutory law is generally robust enough that judges can almost always decide based on it rather than on discovered law. So it's not that Canadian courts couldn't accept American precedent, it's just that American courts make special efforts to not set any Common Law precedent that a Canadian court can use. If it ever happens, it's likely to be in civil equity cases between two or more non-government parties.
I agree, the laws are the problem. I can't do a whole lot to change the laws, and I am a citizen of the country I think is most likely to try something like that, so the technical solution is really all I have. So far, I have not had to employ it.
It's Hatsune Miku, a synthesized computer voice.

https://blog.piapro.net/2019/04/z1904231-1.html
The paper mentions survivorship bias but doesn't talk about markets that went to zero in this period. If you were investing in the last 19th century you'd have had big allocations to China, Russia etc that would have been completely lost as Communist governments nationalized everything. Also its easy to forget that Argentina, Brazil, Southern Africa, Egypt etc were wealthy and growing economies 100 years ago that pretty much went to zero too. Its disappointing this wasn't even hinted at.
What's the use-case for time-travel queries vs. just using time series databases? (ie. influx, timescale, kdb etc.)
Damn...I read that link as "Incontinent Moon"
Lens as a Divisibility Relation: Goofin’ Off with the Algebra of Types
VS Code Extension: New Remote Development Pack Introduced
I cannot unsee this. My eyes are going to hurt for a while from the moving background.
Which is as far as I can tell, nothing more than what we knew in 2018.
Facial recognition system rollout was rushed, Queensland police report reveals
I've gone back and reread my initial comment. It has plenty of qualifiers. I think it is adequately clear and stands on its own just fine, without further clarification.

I have no idea why you are nit picking this. I'm not going to discuss it further with you.
Show HN: BattleBots Made by 5th to 8th Graders in Robotics Club
The 737 has AoA sensors by default, the autopilot uses them and the flight computer corrects the flight speed based on the AoA and issues stalling warnings based on the values.

But the display which displays raw AoA readings to the pilots is an optional extra, only 20% of 737 maxes ship with it enabled. Normally pilots (or at least commercial pilots) are trained to fly without referencing the AoA by staying well within the safety margins.

So, if the AoA isn't shown anywhere in the default configuration, there is no way for the pilots to crosscheck them and see the fault. Which is why you need the AoA disagree warning message.

Unfortunately, Boeing messed up and the AoA disagree warning was only enabled on the planes with the AoA display option enabled.
Answer: Yes. Elephants have souls. Or, at least, they have the same exact thing humans have, if humans can safely agree that a human can possess something worth referring to as a soul.

But there is no social consensus thereof (whether or not they have the same thing we seem to have), between them or us, because they cannot speak, write or use sign language, to communicate their subjective experience to each other or any other species.

We are the only species to represent a best bet for noticing their sentience, and we would not have contemplated such a thing in a meaningful way that overrules to collective preference among humans, to hunt and poach for things like sport and trophy ivory, at least not until roughly the middle of the 20th century.
Actually, the extra pollution is estimated to cause 60 excess deaths in the US.
I keep off Facebook but my wife is on there. It's distressing how many disaffected, childless early thirties millennials our age we've known committing suicide. It's sad and I don't really know what's going on, but wondering "I wonder what happened to such-and-such" then finding their memorial page is quite jarring and disheartening.

It feels like so many people are desperately lonely, and our digital voyeurism with things like Facebook is NOT making it better.
I feel like if FCC/Telephone providers don't fix this soon, traditional cell phones will become unreliable and we will need to adopt a new system or just use existing framework (facetime, whatsapp, etc.).

If every cell phone has LTE and internet connection, why the fuck do we need traditional cell phone number? I never use it except for calling my pharmacy, customer support or restaurants/shops. All conversations with friends and family happen over messages and Facetime Audio or Whatsapp.

While I don't wish to suggest we move to a proprietary system such as Facetime, I think there is a real need for email equivalent of a VOIP solution where there is automatic spam filtering just like emails.

Also, why can't cell phone providers use same spam filtering techniques used in email filters? I don't know the details of spoofing but I feel like telephone providers are scum of the earth and they have some kind of a reverse incentive to continue allowing spam calls.
So far as I know, wiping free space is a feature that has been available for many years in free utility suites and even recovery software (CCleaner, etc). I believe it's also directly available in Windows' Disk Cleanup utility; on Linux you call just use dd to fill the disk. This isn't as secure as a multiple wipe, but it can also be done multiple times; on Linux you can alternately use tr or some such to tell dd to write ones instead of /dev/zero.
Zelle isn’t even a stopgap solution oftentimes. With Navy Federal Credit Union I can’t transfer more than $2500 anyway through Zelle as their servicer. I really don’t understand why banks in the US kneecap services from elsewhere in the world that seem to have perfectly acceptable rates of fraud while consumer identity protection seems strong enough elsewhere there’s hardly much risk from that side. Nobody’s explained the issues unique to the US that nobody else in the world has that makes our system so backwards in comparison (much like our healthcare system, but that seems rather easy to understand in comparison).
That is largely correct, yes - the issue comes up where numbers are valid from more than one carrier, even though say, carrier A owns the numbers, its perfectly valid to place outbound calls for those numbers via carrier B - there is no records kept for that kind of thing currently however.
The backlog is indefensible but with that said it's a different situation. The fact that no one cares if your BMW has an after market part reduces the demand for OEM parts.
What if it’s only there when someone looks?

https://www.quora.com/Is-the-moon-there-when-nobody-looks-If...
Watch What I Do: Programming by Demonstration (1993)
As a consultant who often comes in to fix broken projects after the team who built them has moved on? Pretty much universally true. I’ll often start a test suite that covers the parts I’m fixing, but I have yet to come across a client project where I said “Wow! This has a great test suite!”
The media is the one who hypes up Tesla?

Musk has pursued an strategy that's built around very aggressive PR. This gives him lower marketing cost and lower cost of capital, so it's a reasonable approach. But he has to take the bad with the good. That includes critical articles as well as the many fawning ones.
It's not even trusted callers, its blocking CID spoofing for numbers in their own owned pools, that are originating calls from elsewhere - this should be blocked, as I can think of very few cases where a cellular provider would find this valid.
FWIW, I recall reading that Airbus uses three AoA sensors because autopilot becomes disabled when AoA is inoperable, and Boeing gets away with two because it does not disable autopilot on AoA disagree.
I'm from the US but have lived in Thailand for the past year. I use Grab every day, often 2 times or more. 90% of the time, Grab is fantastic – quick, clean, cheap. The other 10% of the time, the drivers either can't use a GPS, have a car that has issues, are drunk, tired, or just choose to drive recklessly. Overall I find the service indispensable, but quality control is an issue.

During a recent couple of months in Vietnam, however, Grab was a mess. Drivers would regularly refuse to both pick me or cancel, and I was left stranded (if I canceled more than a couple of times, I would be blocked from using the service for a few days). I spent more than a couple of evenings sitting on the side of the road, playing a game of chicken with the driver on the other end of the service, seeing how many hours it would take them to cancel.