skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes, I believe it is entirely impossible. If I am somehow wrong and it is possible it’s only going to accelerate society’s descent into a true sci-if style dystopia.

I hope to god I am not alive in 100 years. The earth is going to be absolute shit by then.
> What's wrong with taxing Netflix? Internet companies have been able to avoid paying a lot of taxes,

You're mixing two different concepts here. There is a sales tax that applies to any purchase, which many internet companies did avoid for a while - although now you'll see that Amazon does automatically apply a sales tax on purchases depending on your ZIP. Although it would be more accurate to call it a use tax, since conceptually it's the same tax that you should pay if you had gone and bought the product in another state and brought it back home (although no one does this). The idea is that this tax compensates for the loss of business that a local company may have experienced due to you buying the good out-of-state.

In the "tax Netflix" case, it's not a sales tax being proposed (your monthly subscription fee already includes that). It's almost like a vice tax, which is traditionally used to discourage certain behavior (i.e. cigarette tax), except movie theaters in Chicago aren't suddenly going out of business and there's nothing harmful about consuming Netflix.

So it's hard to make an honest argument that there is any socially positive reason for this tax, and I can't see a "Netflix tax" as anything other than an opportunistic cash grab by the city. In my book, that's "wrong", but I guess it depends how much latitude you personally believe cities should have in creating arbitrary tax schemes.
As I understand it, previous 737s did maintain stick force on approach to stall. The MAX, due to different engines, has decreasing stick forces when the lightly loaded, and/or with an aft center of gravity.

My simple solution? Disable MCAS, keep the stick trim switches as on previous 737s, and require MAXs to only fly with a forward CG. 2000 kg of forward ballast might work. Even better, reduce aft weight by increasing economy seat pitch (20 rows rather than 30 or so), thereby reducing aft CG :-)
I think we're talking past each other. MCAS is stability control which a lot of planes have and is allowable to pass certifications.

However MCAS also makes the MAX behave like the older design which specifically led to the gap in training and controls over the system. If they just had stability control but without the emulation of behavior then there would be new training and certification, which is something they wanted to avoid but would've prevented these accidents.
I live in the American south, have some friends in the upper midwest. One of the friends recently built a new house, he used ICF (insulated concrete blocks) for the exterior. They're supposed to be super efficient and super strong. I'm looking around to see if they are as helpful in hot weather as they are cold.
Mostly here and here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19799649

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19782394
Do you have any answer to the question?
> Talented and ambitious people would hate being in a labor union

Doubt it. Mentorship and apprenticeship opportunities are abound. Unions provide a floor for negotiations from which you can up-negotiate.

If your categorization was true, actors would never have breakout opportunities despite their union representation. Reality disagrees with your assertion and any movie star ever acts as evidence contrary to your claim.
What does a demographic transition that started in the 70s and has "long since" taken hold have to do with recent construction? That's not even an argument, it's pure sleight of hand. It only seems convincing to you because you are already convinced.
> Now it is even more so considering that shareholders, who lost nothing of real value

Your point is entirely correct, that people are more valuable than money.

The notion that time isn't a real value, is absurd, however. There are very few things worth more than time. Your time is what your money represents under most circumstances. Your savings - millions of people own shares in Boeing, directly or indirectly - is your productive time frozen for later use, when you're not as able to work (or simply want to retire regardless). It represents potentially years of your life. Years away from your loved ones; years of physically or mentally taxing labor; years of stress; and so on.
> You can probably teach someone to pronounce German (badly) in a day or two. Likewise if you hear a word you can probably spell it with very minor variations.

If they're already familiar with the Latin alphabet, anyway (which admittedly is a good chunk of the world at this point; even if you're, say, Japanese or Korean, you know the Latin script because it's used pervasively). If not, then just learning the characters is gonna take a bit.
One proposed energy storage technology is via liquid air. Air would be liquefied at times of surplus power, then warmed to room temperature and expanded to generate power later.

If adopted on a large scale, tremendous volumes of air will be liquefied daily. One can imagine tapping this stream to extract the helium, which will remain gaseous.
Not every finite resource has to be used toward the advancement of civilization or for some greater cause.

Also, lots of things can have indirect positive effects. I know lots of people got interested in space and other cool things as a result of that jump.

I think sometimes it's good for humans to do a thing just to see if they can.
Hearing that (no pun intended) doesn't give me hope for the new Moffett housing development, which I believe, would be even closer to 101 than Wescoat Village.

https://mv-voice.com/news/2018/06/01/nasa-picks-partner-for-...
Why? Are you afraid of apes using computers? That's pretty speciesist.
This article is great even for HN standards, thank you! Not much info on Shenandoah in prod yet
Speed is not the only measure of clunkiness.
Previously: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13719368
Shareholders lost money, which is definitely of value. Passengers lost their lives. Both of these things are true, and both of them are losses, even though one of those things is worse than the other.

> "Hey your kid dying might make you feel sad, but look what happened to my balance sheet! I'm the biggest victim here!"

No shareholder has said that, and I don't see anybody claiming that the shareholders are the biggest victims.
Ever lived near a train? Horn blasts, diesel fumes, dust & particulate kicked up from the railbed.

Or a bus stop? Air brakes, audible announcements, and in some cities chirping every few seconds to alert the blind to its presence.
why continuous auction and not discrete timed auctions? four times a day or every half hour or whatever would remove HFT from the equation.
Why do you want multiple numbers? Doesn't something like Whatsapp or FaceTime help prevent you from needing them?
From these comnents it seems that OT requires a central server while CRDT can have a far more flexible topology. Is this true? And don’t we have robust implementations of CRDT for simple trees?
>Unfortunately, users have a strong privacy expectation that random websites will not be notified that you are interested in them until you actually click the link in search results

I'm not sure that this is actually true, at least for the vast majority of users.
Earplugs solve this for most locations.
IDK...Is it just me or do I give the individual adult more credit then, it would seem, most others do?

Russian troll farms...influencers..BFuckingD. People are responsible for their behavior, and just because some good looking tool on Social does this or votes for that sure doesn't mean you're absolved from responsibility for choosing to follow or not.

Sure...kids need to ABSOLUTELY be protected and the punishments to those who attempt to lead them astray should be as deep as any we have for any criminal.

But draconian speech suppression aimed at adult-to-adult communications? No thanks.

I just don't see how that eventually leads to anywhere I would want to live.
Actually, if it's at the end of a sentence, it should have four '.'s. Three for the ellipsis, and one for the end of the sentence....
What do you mean "for free" ?
Harvest of pain – A pistol-packing contractor lured workers from Mexico to
I often catch myself thinking "it's ok to buy this massively overpackaged item because the packaging is recyclable". I have a feeling that if recycling doesn't work, it's far from neutral. There will be a large number of people that rationalise producing far, far more waste than they would otherwise because they falsely think it isn't harmful.
This is ridiculous. Why should every site have to design their own light and/or dark themes? When you visited the site you thought it had a great theme; I on the other hand ended up leaving after 5 seconds because light text on black or near-black backgrounds makes my eyes hurt. This uses gray text which makes it a bit easier than some other dark sites, but gray on black causes issues for a number of other people. A bunch of people think it looks great, a bunch of other people find it unremarkable, and a bunch of other people are actively harmed by the theme.

Why can't the User Agent allow the user to set themes, with some sensible defaults provided? There should be a background color, foreground (text) color, a few accent colors, etc. Custom themes should only be used by applications which have really different requirements; background/foreground/accents/good-bad-error colors should be enough for 95% of them and the other 4% can interpolate to get more colors. This also helps people with special needs such as colorblindness (almost 10% of men) and poor eyesight.

For example, on KDE I can set a system-wide color scheme applied to Qt (and also attempted to apply to GTK) applications. It comes with a pretty good default light and dark theme, but the user can get any custom theme they want or make their own. It seems to work just fine here, with a wide variety of applications looking great even with nonstandard themes.

Of course HTML/CSS has been evolving for many decades, but there needs to be a reset at some point where we switch from legacy technology designed to make reading documents to a new system that is useful for making web applications and interactive documents.

One thing I've done on my browser is to disable custom fonts. Font CSS is ignored; all webpages render with GNU FreeFont (sans + serif; sans is very similar to San Francisco / Helvetica) and Fira Code. It looks great; once in a blue moon I find a page where typography is the focus of the page and in those instances I copy the URL into another browser. When I occasionally use that other browser for normal browsing, the presence of custom fonts makes me feel the same way as when you turn off an ad blocker and surf the web - it's absolutely disgusting. There's no reason to allow companies to push their ridiculous branding styles down our throats.

An idea I just had is to make a browser addon which automatically tries to do this - every element's color value is categorized as light, dark, accent, etc. and then gets replaced by the user-configured theme.
He is like 0.0005% of air. This seems impractical.
I figure if you made the mistake of buying Boeing, that's on you. I don't see why shareholders should be compensated at all. If companies do other kinds of stupid things, and they lose market value, shareholders aren't compensated for that. Why should this be any different?
Wonder how many other Oracle cloud environments will turn out to be bitten by the same bug?
That's part of it. The other part of it is that digital advertising business models turn out to be close to zero cost. There's very little "product cost" when you amortize tech cost over billions of ad impressions - the "cost" really comes from "reduction in addressable market" - ie. what portion of the audience will stop watching the platform due to ads. At least for Google and Facebook, the answer seems to be negligible proportion and in China at least, publishers are finding that many of such people are willing to pay for an ad free experience if you have killer content.

Taxi service is a much more constrained business - you have to pay out product cost plus some incentive to generate supply but you have a strict price ceiling on scaled demand and a lot of competition. The answer for the previous generation of entrepreneurs in this space was to execute regulatory capture and institute a system of restricted supply to boost prices (ie. Medallions, permits etc). So it's going to be interesting to see how these businesses evolve.
Powering a Sonos Play:1 with a USB-C battery pack
it's not an anti stall system it's to satisfy an aerodynamic requirement that the force needed to force the nose up increase progressively with angle of attack.

At least that was my understanding.

I don't think there is anything fundamentally wrong with that. But when you have active systems for that rather than passive ones you're in a different design domain. Boeing was trying to pretend they weren't.
I’ve worked at the stereotypical big SF tech co and agree not everyone can thrive at that kind of place...including me. I can’t drink the koolaid and I don’t like feeling like I have to fake excitement to fit in.
The way she mentions her father's death and then goes on to blatantly blame the image on a nameless intern while claiming she's not blaming it on her is just cringe inducing. This is a grown adult making childish moves. When you screw up, you stop digging, come clean and deal with it.
Ask HN: What are some great website landing/home pages and why are they great?
I have to agree actually. If one is actually serious in wanting to learn this stuff he really should just do a Google search, there doesnt really need to be anymore of these
No, it did not “have a bad propensity to stall”. That’s a very imprecise statement in the first place but if you take it to mean, it would try to stall during normal flight conditions, it’s definitely false.

Airbus aircraft are “safe” despite the fact that dual conflicting pilot input is averaged without stick feedback (see the Airfrance flight from Brazil). If electronics being used to fly the aircraft upsets you, you’re going to be in for a real shocker on any airbus.
> It's not that the aerodynamic change was worse or better, it's simply that it was a change at all.

It seems you are correct [1]:

> MCAS is a longitudinal stability enhancement. It is not for stall prevention (although indirectly it helps) or to make the MAX handle like the NG (although it does); it was introduced to counteract the non-linear lift generated by the LEAP-1B engine nacelles at high AoA and give a steady increase in stick force as the stall is approached as required by regulation.

[1] http://www.b737.org.uk/mcas.htm
A flexible and powerful static content management system
> I probably averaged 50 hour weeks. I also earned enough to max out retirement accounts and make substantial investments in my post-tax accounts. I had enough to where I could start taking bigger risks.

I'm in a similar situation, and feel sad that a "bigger risk" for me - and probably a lot of employees in tech - is putting my foot down and working only 40 hours a week. Without having money saved, I'd have a much weaker hand in sticking up for myself.
Wait, what? Reading this is turns out that flipping both switches on the centre panel not only deactivates MCAS, but also deactivates the thumb switch on the control wheel that the pilots routinely use to change the elevator trim.

So, MCAS trims the plan to a dangerous attitude, then when pilots follow Boeing's SOP to disable, they lose the ability to re-trim the way they have done it a million times before? I can see valuable second being eaten up when pilots flick the thumb switch towards them and sit there wondering why the back pressure isn't easing up.

And the report also says that the manual trim adjustment wheel would be harder to move due to the load on the tail when the aircraft is in a nose (death) dive? This is already on top of the fact that the pilots have to hold around 60Kg back pressure on the control wheel while leaning forward to crank the manual trim wheel?

Recipe for absolute disaster.
Your suspicion is essentially that the critical period hypothesis is false. Linguists have been examining this confounding hypothesis for decades. As usual, most of the research is paywalled, but here's [1] a decent summary of some of the research and evidence as of 1999.

[1] https://web.stanford.edu/~hakuta/www/research/publications/(...
> MCAS was there to satisfy the type rating. MCAS is not anti-stall.

MCAS's only observable intervention is to push the nose down to prevent stall, which means it is by definition anti-stall.

Boeing says MCAS is an acronym for "Maneuvering Characteristics Augmentation System", but a better name for MCAS is "Machine Controlled Anti Stall".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maneuvering_Characteristics_Au...
The engines we placed in a far from ideal position because of low ground clearance making the plane not fly close to neutral that is a fundamental design flaw
Can we have a little bit of both? I’d like to be able to study in a university-grade library (it doesn’t need to be a starchitect tourist trap). I understand that people need local libraries too. I don’t know why so many things have to be either or. Could we have 5 neighborhood libraries and 1 university grade library?
I noticed this was definitely true for me during my first several years here in Japan. In normal conversation, I would end up overthinking my sentences and making mistakes fairly often, but when drinking all of the nervousness and extraneous thought went away, and I could speak faster and more fluently than I thought I was capable of. Even with vocabulary recall, I would sometimes be surprised with myself for using words I probably would never have remembered while sober. Of course I still made mistakes, but the fear of it was no longer an obstacle.

Even now, I probably still speak more fluently when drinking, but I think the gap has almost disappeared.
How hard would it be to add two more sensors to every plane? I'd imagine insanely expensive but this is clearly the ideal solution in addition to whatever patches they can do via software and existing hardware/controls in the whole plane.
This is your company’s fault, they chose the wrong tool for the job.
This is the key parts in one of the articles:

>”Mandatory recycling programs aren't good for posterity. They offer mainly short-term benefits to a few groups -- politicians, public relations consultants, environmental organizations, waste-handling corporations -- while diverting money from genuine social and environmental problems”

And while the Three Rs make some sense, it’s overwhelmed by the above. The ‘crisis’ is kinda fabricated and a whole bunch of people make money off the fabricated crisis.

That’s not to say cheap consumerism isn’t s problem, I think if is, we should strive for quality and low impact, but beware behind every crisis are myriad bands of concerned groups making lots of money.
Australia’s Owen Gun
For a little while. But earplugs are not comfortable for hours of use, and they can cause tinnitus-type effects if you do that.
It would be nice if browsers had a built in standardized design mode to let people view the content the way they want. Like reader mode but more powerful, and standardized.
People in the construction industry in the /r/nyc subreddit are saying that finish issues are common when a building first opens, and that overall quality should be judged a year out from opening, when everything has been addressed. The logic goes that there are lots of custom-fab components required in any sizable construction, some of which will inevitably be damaged during transit or install. It may take months to replace them, and you don't want to hold up the entire opening for months for some insignificant fit & finish issues because you'd be losing huge amounts of money.

So you get the place to the point where it opens, and then you do a trickle of night work over the coming months as replacement parts come in and you can finally get everything perfect.

Hell, this happened to my parents' house remodel recently. They scratched a custom-order door in a way that wasn't repairable. Rather than leaving my parents without a door for a month, they left it as-is and then came back a month later with a new door (once it was ready) and installed it.
You could go check yourself before going and doing essentially the same.
As long as safety is regarded as a luxury feature, these failures will continue to happen.
From the article: " such claims are no guarantee of a windfall for victims’ families". Windfall? what a terrible way to frame it as winning the lottery.
It is, for what it's worth, one of the most common reasons I hear from Chinese friends of mine who move back to China after living in the USA. They like a lot of things about the USA but expressing their full intellectual range is a constant and often unsuccessful struggle even for the ones who speak English fairly well, and they feel like they're not able to live up to their potential as a result.

Having lived in China a bit to immerse myself for language learning, I can totally get that. It is very humbling to hear something in a conversation, have complex thoughts about it, and be completely unable to respond with any nuance or subtlety or precision.
Cryptochrome
> No shareholder has said that

Which is... rather the point? Nobody would ever say that, so nobody should reasonably expect a larger compensation than the aggrieved families either.

I already get a migraine whenever I hear of monetary compensation for the loss of a human life, but this time it's just that much more twisted. Quoting myself here:

> If you insist on putting a monetary value on human life, at least make sure you got your numbers in order.

The answer to whether we should put a price tag on a human life is: We should not, but we have to. So let's at least get it right.
I think for most people this kind of empathy is a skill that can be learned and improved. It is very easy to forget the assumptions you make everyday. Very carefully studying how e.g. your parents use things or remembering how foreign certain parts of a computer felt to you the first times you used them are valuable excercises.

This is a bit like writing novels with main figures that are very much unlike yourself: if you want to paint a convincing picture, you will have to research and figure out how people do things. And if you go deeper you need to understand where their ideas come from.

It is quite sad, that many people in the tech world have a very one-dimensional collection of possible user characters. In the worst case they divide the world into people that are like them and idiots who have no idea.

The only thing worse than this is not thinking about design at all.
They don't though. You're in a bubble of a minority use case.

Video formats don't need to compete with GIFs. That competition is already over. GIF files are too big to be practical at scale. Video won the file size war a long time ago, which is precisely why Twitter "GIFs" are videos.
What if the book made SQ3R easier?
Downvoters: You're not actually making the world a better place by downvoting comments that describe a reality you don't like. I don't like it either. Don't shoot the messenger.
No I'm not.

It's just depends on a person's smoking style.

It was not delivering a satisfactory puff for me when it still had a charge, then just fell flat because the dimunitive battery couldn't take more.

I also never achieved anywhere close to 20 recharges of the pen. More like 7-9.

This was not acceptable, especially as the tobacco itself was pipe-grade, much better than the usual nitro paper one finds in cigarettes.

In fact I extracted all the unused tobacco and smoked it in my old pipes.

After that, I'm mixing my own ecig juice and that's much healthier and nicotine doses are much more controllable.

Also: to hell with Philip Morris.