skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Here’s my thought experiment on that: if I booked a flight to my vacation destination and, at the last moment, I discovered that I’d be flying in a 737 MAX, would I cancel my trip or pay a considerable amount of moment to get all our tickets changed?

I very likely would not. Would you? Would others?

It’s one thing to answer a question of a pollster, it’s another to take concrete action.
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It’s such a weird statistic to use though. One crash takes a really long time to recover from in that score. So even if the 737 Max was magically fixed tomorrow, the score wouldn’t change.
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The riders intentionally choose a less safe form of transit and gain many benefits from doing so, including lower fuel and maintenance cost. Good for them, but their noise is an externality: I shouldn't get less enjoyment from my home because someone decided to use a less safe but more cost efficient mode of transportation.

The loud noise also presumably causes something of an arms race with more acoustically insulated, less fuel efficient, cars.

The eventual alternative is outright banning the noise. I think paying for some of that externality would be better.
It's not profitable because movement of skilled labor is free across whole EU.

If you've poor countries in EU then a company from rich EU country can easily buy large farmland or ship out dirty/sketchy industries (waste recycling companies who just set waste on fire) to poor countries. This way you can keep pollution away from your shores while buying the beneficail resources (like farmland) at cheap.

Resources go where money is. Now, resources can be either agriculture lands or skilled labor. If you expand the market by adding lots of poor countries to your free trade alliance, you'll notice that the rich countries get way more richer at faster rate than poor countries.

Think about an EU where every country is equally rich and has equally wealthy population.

Then buying large farmland in Romania will be cost as much as in Germany and what happens next? Romanian companies might also end up owning large lands in Germany.

How is that beneficial for rich members of EU to make poor ones richer? You end up losing country over your country's resources to foreign power.

China knows this and that's why they invest in poor countries to create a bigger market on favourable trade terms. Now, these terms don't even need to biased in favour of China if China deals with poor countries as the naturally China being richer will benefit from the effect outlined above.

So China doesn't need to be unfair to win and become rich while extracting resources from poor countries they invest in.

Is it good, bad or evil? Depends on how you think about other players like Sacadinavia and Western Europe. I don't know why we should treat China any different if I am a poor European country.
Yep. Carefully avoided the word fluent, which was never in question!
Why would SF police seize 15 computers, tablets and cellphone from a journalist?
Absolutely, I'm in favor of specific rules around specific types of content.

In most cases, I'd be comfortable with that genre of content if the financial incentives are clearly indicated and acknowledged. The problem is that this doesn't happen as often as it should.

You mentioned podcasts as an example. Podcasts are more like traditional media in that they produce content that usually isn't generated with the help or influence of outside parties. They may advertise, and when they do, it's clear what that you're being advertised and what you're being advertised.

It's still way too easy to blur the lines on YouTube, and there's clearly financial incentive do so. We all know that ML-driven content screening can only do so much, and that we're not likely to get rid of malicious content anytime soon. That's why its important to create a system where content creators follow specific rules around sponsorship disclosures, and social media companies need to do more to make that data accessible to the public.
Money, fame, reputation, a fast life that isn’t minimum wage and hopelessness. We worship a certain story in the USA and it isn’t 30 years of remedial work so we can retire and garden :)
The sorting is automatic.
What was your original motivation to bring up the country aspect?
I learned Japanese to fluency from zero starting at age 26. I don't know if these qualify as "greatness" but I have read books in Japanese, headed meetings in Japanese, written blog posts in Japanese, presented in Japanese. I even have occasional dreams in Japanese.

I think the "learn early" meme is spread by people who do not have the time/energy to put into late life learning, but who are happier feeling that even if they did, it would be impossible anyway. It's a defeatist attitude, but I suppose it must be comforting. I personally can't stand it though.
I might be generalizing and basing this on anecdotes but often people that work in the drug trade are users/addicts themselves, including the ones who are drawn to positions where it grants them the illusion of unlimited power & material excess. It's ironic that becoming a drug kingpin is the least efficient way of attaining those things, but when you live in a region where there is little to no economic activity, getting a Netflix drama portraying you is the highest point, even if it means doing consecutive life sentences in a maximum security prison where you can no longer enjoy the very things you've worked hard towards.

The "entrepreneurs" who simply come from the same pedigree but who has access to both capital and network with capital that propels them to force the transfer of wealth through deception, including imitating the attires of those that have successfully convinced us they are the good guys, whose popular products produce so much human misery in another country where people couldn't care less about.

Similarly, that same banality we feel towards another far away country, can be amplified towards anything in life. If you ask a criminal why he did it, the answer you get is very much the same as a consumer--"because the opportunity existed". To you it may mean indifference to the children to adults working in horrid conditions overseas, to a criminal, that same indifference is just far more profound and pervasive. Literally a criminal will describe robberies, scams in full pride-just like you they were indifferent to the suffering and damage caused around them, instead these were "opportunities" that they took advantage of because no other options were desirable.

My 2 cents in reply to your question.
Any other answer here is insane. They’re too expensive to write off.
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There are 7 billion people on the planet. Surely we can tackle more than one quality of life issue at a time.
In over 60 years of driving maybe twice. Software doesn’t even come close. Read the part about merchantability and fitness for purpose.
> It’s like faults are somehow contagious.

They are. If 737 MAX was rushed to market and this is the first issue we become aware of, how many more are hidden?

If Boeing makes a habit of rushing planes to market without certification, how many more ticking time-bombs are flying around?
Fermions: 8 * 3 * 2 (or perhaps 8 * 4 *2)

(note: the quarks need to be counted 3 times because each color is different)

(note: I like to count the L and R particles as different)

(note: antiparticles don't count)

Force Bosons: 1 + (2^2-1) + (3^2-1) + something for gravitons when we confirm them

Higgs Boson: 1

Looks like a nice symmetric scheme for me.
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This sort of seems like outrage porn. We don't know anything about the competitive atmosphere in this particular school, so we should be careful about comparing to our own personal experiences.

My opinion: I do understand wanting to encourage students to lay off and enjoy their childhoods, but I feel like the accolades could have been preserved while encouraging a healthy school/life balance.
Well, this article didn’t lead to any answers or any insight for me. The whole unexplained opening of poisoning is cryptic and unhelpful. Does this nurse see the nuclear options as poison or was this doctor trying to give Amit cyanide? Who knows.

I’ve spent a month of evenings at Langley-Porter and then again at Zuckerberg, and the staff there didn’t strike me psychzombies. The last thing they wanted to do was to commit to a diagnosis of schizophrenia for my relative. I sat for an hour with the Attending on his outtake and she did everything to assure us that in her expert opinion it wasn’t black and white - drugs were part of the toolset and not The One Answer.

What’s wrong isn’t that people are ignorant. They always have been and always will be. Until you’ve been there, you won’t get it.

What’s wrong is we have brilliant people who are hamstrung by process. At SFGH it’s “If you aren’t a threat, you’re out” 7 days after the 72 hour lockdown. It’s a factory, because that’s all the runway WE give them.

We’re lucky. We’re wealthy enough and there’s enough of us that we can probably make this work.

But the other 90% in those wards? They don’t have anybody. So unless WE want to fund that level of intervention/compassion, the factory and pharmacology is the solution.
I’ve seen something similar for a mobile app:

https://www.onenigma.com/case-study/typingID

A friend built it a few years ago. It’s integrated into at least one app, and has some serious potential. I suspect a regular keyboard would be the same.
> There are NO chess grandmasters who learned the game at 25. The few late starting outliers started in their late teens.

I think Chigorin is a good counterexample.

Quoting:

> Incidentally, Soltis mentions a few late-bloomers like Amos Byrne, who hardly played chess at all before age 38. Also, there is Chigorin, who started his tournament career at age 27, Then there's George Salwe, number 2 player in Poland in the early 20th century, who didn't start playing in major events until he was 42! English Master Joseph Henry Blake achieved his best result at age 63.

> Talented kids become GMs at age 13-15 these days after 5-7 years of study.

Uh, no, not even close.

Magnus Carlsen, arguably one of the best chess players ever, became a grandmaster at 13.

Hikaru Nakamura became the youngest American to get a grandmaster title at 15.

You have to be damn near a God of the game to be in the 13-15 year old GM category--not simply "talented".
I don’t know about you, but in my real-life other people’s money doesn’t matter either.
Why is “JavaScript” nowhere in the headline of this story? It’s specific to a single ecosystem.
I'm curious about what she means by "community leaders", who are these people, like software influencers or famous conference speakers?
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Lots of coop supermarkets here on the west coast allow you to bring your own container to fill from bulk bins... And refillable growlers of kombucha seem to be at least a bit trendy right now.
You misunderstand. I am not fixating on the terms, but the concept underlying the factors of identification. The point, which I stated in my first comment is that you are not taking into consideration the difference between 1.5 factor auth and 2 factor auth. Then, you are further compounding the security error, but discussing other issues instead of directly addressing that your solution doesn't address the threat model. That is why I asked what threats you are guarding against. There is a large body of knowledge here that may be worth your study, cf cia.

Yes, there is a fixation on security, since authentication is a security function that is often gotten wrong when people don't know the threat model and rush through a solution. This has been pointed out to you by several people more than once in this very thread.
I'm reminded of how mathematicians do their best work in their 20s. Many assume this is because of brain decline in later years. I bet it's mostly to do with responsibilities and life getting in the way.
FWIW I think current science states that readability is improved with white text on a dark background vs the inverse.

> There's no reason to allow companies to push their ridiculous branding styles down our throats.

Understandable, but on the contrary, you can imagine complaints on the opposite end of the spectrum. "Man, their site is ugly!"

Designers do their best to understand and create experiences that are crafted to their target audience; to, well, varying degrees of efficacy.
The reason why certain voters in the USA dont believe in climate change is because there's a dedicated network of corporations pumping money into the media that repeats this bad-faith claim.

At some point it became table stakes for the conservative identity in America that you should reject climate change.
I have never bought this argument. Motorcycle pipes point backward. On the highway, you can't really hear them until they have passed you and are thus already in your field of vision. If the point is to alert drivers that you are on their blind spot, why not direct the sound forward?
Why is it fundamentally flawed?

There’s no question that Boeing’s implementation had major issues, but there is IMO a higher burden of argument(?) to declare that a fundamental inevitability.

This could simply be a case of Boeing incompetent/reckless/...
I've seen similar critiques of philosophy of science, and it's usually clear that the critique is just a subterfuge for validating the person's own alternative opinions.
It's simple. When the supply vastly outpaces demand, it opens up many doors for exploiting those lower on the ladder. Both grad school and classical music are 2 such areas.

Software Engineering still hasn't reached that point. The profits earned by having top percentile employees, far outpace the compensation packages they demand.
I would say the opposite can be equally true.

If a child is learning a second/third language, they'll be way less interested than somebody that has to learn it to because they're doing it out of genuine interest or for a job.
Well, for one thing, a new design would have to be recertified.
> Instead of batch compiling artifacts to disk like its 1970 [...]

I am delighted to see people discussing this. Batch orientation made sense in a very resource-constrained era. But at this point we have more RAM and CPU than we know what to do with. It seems so obvious to me that the correct solution is to prioritize developer experience and keep everything hot.

My single biggest barrier to developing faster is the latency between making a change and seeing what that does to the test results. I would like that to be well under a second. Given the cost of programmer time, I could happily throw money at RAM and CPU. But standard, batch-oriented tools won't take advantage of it 99% of the time.

I think there's a revolution in developer experience out there, and I really want to see it happen.
I would love a link to the quiz.

One of the interesting things is how bad most "native" English speakers are at English.
He means all the rest of the air will liquefy, and capture what didn't liquefy.
Neon is 0.001818 (only about 3 or 4 times as much) and yet we collect it.

You don't really need much helium for what it's used for, it could work - prices would go up, but we wouldn't run out.
Fairly recently, between five and ten years ago, I graduated from a fairly good, but not 'elite' by any measure, public high school. In the early 2000s the entire school system removed the valedictorian and ranking systems from their high schools.

I used my high-school counselor extensively during the college admission process and they made it very clear to me that the reason why the school system got rid of ranking and valedictorian was to help out the college admission outcomes for the school system.

The school wanted to portray themselves as a great school from top to bottom. By not ranking it would portray a more elite status for the school. If they ranked, a 50th-percentile student from their school may be compared to a 50th-percentile student from a 'lesser' school district. It was purely for helping reputations and not at all about 'mental illness' or preventing winners and losers. But in the end of the day I think the students win from this type of policy. The difference between a student in the 99th-percentile and the 90th-percentile is likely not much at any given high school. I agree with the policy, it could be the difference between getting into a top University, or being rejected.
Loud motorcycles inflict sensorineural hearing loss on anyone unfortunate to get too close to them. I think that's an adequate basis on which to complain and demand something be done about it.
The A350 has 4 AoA sensors: I suspect it is a lesson learned from an A320 that had 2 AoA sensors froze in the same position, outvoting the only AoA sensor that was still working. In other words: failures are not always independent.
> You only have to remember that FAAMNGS are committed to their shareholders

By committing only to shareholders, they miss out on other stakeholders: employees, suppliers, customers, community.
(Jonathan Haidt discusses at 18:50 onwards in this video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iOu_8yoqZoQ
When the company emphasises only shareholders, they miss out on building cooperative relationships with the other stakeholders).
>If these co-workers or managers could share their side, what would they say?

Can't agree with this more. The Seattle bit feels incomplete, there was something there that I'd tentatively describe as 'culture shock' or 'cognitive dissonance event' and I really really wonder what would the 'seattle co-workers' say about this piece.
The difficulty people have with treating the source of a feeling is probably because a lot of the time it's difficult to identify the source. I think many people often go with what their body tells them about what might resolve a symptom that they're feeling in the short term (get drunk and party), but in the long run the root cause may be something entirely different (develop relationships that are more intellectually stimulating).

In addition to positives acting in a way that can prolong a mental illness, often they can also deepen it as well. Generally you're aware of what you could be, or should be, or want to be, but can't be and don't understand why. This in itself can trigger negative thoughts and reinforce the cycle.
As a Lambda engineer, I can happily report that we found this very amusing.
While the effect of pushing the nose down is an all-too observable effect, that its purpose is stall prevention is not directly observable.

According to this article[1], the intended purpose was to restore the back-force needed to put the airplane in a stall, as the effect of the new engines was to make the control feel lighter at high AofA. The article also discusses the certification requirements with regard to acceptable handling characteristics.

FWIW, Boeing CEO Dennis Muilenburg is quoted in [2] as saying that "When you take a look at the original design of the MCAS system. I think in some cases, in the media, it has been reported or described as an anti-stall system, which it is not. It's a system that's designed to provide handling qualities for the pilot that meet pilot preferences.

"We want the airplane to behave in the air similar to the previous generation of 737s. That's the preferred pilot feel for the airplane, and MCAS is designed to provide those kinds of handling qualities at a high angle of attack."

Of course, the elephant in the room not being mentioned here is whether Boeing's primary motive for replicating the handling characteristics of earlier versions of 737s was an overriding concern with avoiding pilot training.

[1] https://leehamnews.com/2019/02/15/bjorns-corner-pitch-stabil...

[2] https://www.businessinsider.com/boeings-ceo-on-why-737-max-p...
It's probably both. At the top of the Gauss curve, you can't afford a single thing to be off.
> When you screw up, you stop digging, come clean and deal with it.

This doesn't seem to be true. Are you saying this always produces the best outcomes, or that you wish more people would hurt themselves for your benefit?
Direction of the pipe might be more efficient on that front but it doesn't mitigate that it DOES help. I can hear cars behind me that are loud and their loud mufflers are pointing back too.

You might never have 'bought' the argument but direction of the pipe doesn't take away from the fact that MOST people DO hear them as they begin to pass you. Except when they zip through going illegal mph. That's something that...baffles me. Why zip through WITH loud mufflers. They don't seem to be too bright but...fate comes for those cyclists fairly quickly.
He might be right that breaking up Facebook, the company, might not help. But breaking up the different platforms will. Each individual platform is too big. They all need to be reduced. It seems that managing information at a gigantic scale is a bad thing. After all WhatsApp on its own has been blamed for causing problems in India and Myanmar and Facebook in many countries. Breaking up Facebook the company is not enough. The inability to control what kind of misinformation can be put on the different platforms is a problem that facebook as a company can't control. They want to use AI to solve the problem but even humans have problems figuring out how to deal with the information we read; how can software be able to do it.

The problem is due to scale. The same characteristics of social media that make it a great and cheap advertising platform makes it a great tool to distribute misinformation.

Zuckerberg is trying to save the company so his opinions are tainted so whatever he says should be taken with caution.
That’s such a roundabout way of thinking that I’m not sure whether you believe it yourself.

You’re basically saying that because shitty people don’t want to follow safety regulations we shouldn’t have them.
This seems like a solution to the bromate problem that in a decade or two will be looked back upon as a mistake as the balls deteriorate and leak plastics into the drinking water? https://discardstudies.com/2015/08/16/las-shade-balls-the-ec...

Are there alternatives, like filtering and chlorinating the water on-demand rather than pretreatment and storing in a giant open air reservoir that then needs a bandaid fix like this?
That’s not even close to fair to put the “family and friends” mentality onto young employees.

Tech companies are notorious for baking this into the culture to churn more hours out of employees. The usage of company values, tons of on-site perks to keep people there longer and of course if you’re going to spend the vast majority of your waking hours at/around the “campus” you’re going to consider co-workers friends.
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Yep. This sounds so different from all of my peers at Microsoft.

Across the board, the common thread among everyone I know at bigN, is how mundane it can feel.

I am joining MS next month, so I guess I will find out in time.
>737 pilot also tried to run the same flight in simulator

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19627660#19627755 That video was removed :(
That is the correct order of the R's but there is no incentive to do that in the US and sometimes there even a perverse/reverse incentive in increase consumption and waste. Manufacturers make money buy selling products with pretty looking packaging. Waste management companies make money by picking up garbage and even more by picking up recycling. Recycling plants make money either through subsidies or by operating in regions were they can get the few profitable materials to resell such as aluminum. No one in the chain currently makes money through reduce and reuse.