skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This last part confuses me. She admits she lacks in technical experience. Why would she ever work on the VSCode team?

She also mentions that many people at the company didn't respect her position in the beginning. I wouldn't either. Shes paid to party and network and doesn't seem to have any of the technical knowlege to work at a very technical company.
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This is interesting. I think the weird underscore between words (which indicates space) is throwing me off though. I'd recommend removing that.
Recently I have been getting into the pocketknife renaissance and it has been interesting how many issues come up related to handedness. I am right handed, but I carry my pocketknives on the left because my right side is overused already. Furthermore my right hand gets tired and cramped from work so that using my left hand when possible is a huge advantage. In my opinion these issues about handedness go beyond the issue of being a leftie or not into basic flexibility and assumptions that turn out to be wrong when closely examined.
There are always tools that help you improve performance, be it with code changes or tuning. The question is how much effort is required to achieve the required performance. I think that the past twenty years have shown that for a huge portion of server applications, GCs are the approach most developers prefer.
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Congress has the power to "arrest and detain recalcitrant witnesses". The fact that this isn't being seriously considered is further evidence of the erosion of real power congress has.

For an example of what this looks like refer to the Sargent at Arms arresting someone in possession of Facebook documents the UK parliament wanted: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2018/nov/24/mps-seize...
Klaus Jacob's full comment pertains to the inability of the development to sustain changes from climate change, his criticism is not at all aesthetic but functional. He is a geophysicist.
A useful prediction is a prediction that matches experimental results.
I will wait for WiFi via Starlink, connectivity will be everywhere.
It's been years since I read Guns, Germs and Steel, but I think I remember the one or other thing.

Off the top of my head: north/south axis of the Americas vs East/West of Europe/Axis - same crops can grow everywhere. No big mammals suitable for herding had survived in the Americas, sweetcorn only crop suitable for breeding for agriculture.

Writing may have been discovered in some places for fun, but discarded because it was useless - only became established when it was needed for bookkeeping.

One thing I think about a lot, actually, especially with all the discussion here in Europe about the European union: China didn't conquer the other continents because at some point in time, some emperor simply decided China would abandon sailing the high oceans, and China stuck to the decision for hundreds of years. Same thing couldn't happen in Europe because of competition between all the small kingdoms.

In general I seem to remember things from Jared Diamond's books. For many other books I would have to admit the article has a point.
This is a great comment!
Debugging flight systems while the lives of 189 people are hanging in the balance is not something that should be encouraged.
Am I the only one to think the article missed a trick here?

Yes, it may be that traditional books don't work as well as they might. I do know I frequently read articles and come away with very little to show for the time spent. I think partly that's a function of the setting - I seem to retain much more from paper or e-ink compared to something read on a VDU. It's probably also a function of my own state of mind. I know I retain much more when I'm rested and reading earlier in the day. I also retain much more the day after, when I've had time to sleep on something.

And yet, there is something about the art of learning. I did a really good Coursera course that went through this (How to learn), and it, too, explained the importance of working to engage with material. Even doing something like looking away every few paragraphs and giving yourself a quick test to see if you can summarise what you just read works wonders. Combine that with spaced repetition, exercise, sleep and memory tricks like a memory palace, and retention/understanding grows hugely. So I do think there's something to this article.

But I also think about some classic articles that are also models of what they are discussing, and I'm wondering why the author didn't attempt something similar. For example, here's a description of the importance of varying sentence length in writing that at the same time is an example of the very practice of what it's talking about:

"This sentence has five words. Here are five more words. Five-word sentences are fine. But several together become monotonous. Listen to what is happening. The writing is getting boring. The sound of it drones. It’s like a stuck record. The ear demands some variety. Now listen. I vary the sentence length, and I create music. Music. The writing sings. It has a pleasant rhythm, a lilt, a harmony. I use short sentences. And I use sentences of medium length. And sometimes, when I am certain the reader is rested, I will engage him with a sentence of considerable length, a sentence that burns with energy and builds with all the impetus of a crescendo, the roll of the drums, the crash of the cymbals–sounds that say listen to this, it is important." = Gary Provost.

Here's an article about suspense that's also a model of the very thing it's talking about:

https://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/12/08/a-simple-wa...

Given this is possible, I'm disappointed. I tend to agree the article made sense and that there are better and worse models of how to engage with a text. It's even possible that a text can self-guide a novice reader through good techniques simply by good writing. So, my disappointment. I think the article definitely missed a trick here, which would have been to go one level deeper, and tried to not only discuss the importance of a new type of text, but to do so with a model of the very text the author was talking about. As a result, although I think it may be possible to do what the author is describing, I don't know how anyone might go about it. And I'm not sure I fancy reading an entire book on a subject that doesn't interest me all that much in order to find out, either.
Actually, I, as a native Polish speaker have a hard time learning English pronunciation because the phonems are much different from the ones I am used to. Languages like Spanish and Italian are much easier for us, because all the basic sounds are quite similar, no challenge here. Also, Polish have pretty rich grammar, with all those declension and conjugation rules that are also present in Spanish. It makes it easier to learn the language because at least you have a firm grasp of the concept, even if the details (like the actual suffixes used) are different.
It's not a stupid question if you learned something from it.
These are, again, not at all in the same ballpark as the criticisms in the OP article. It is apples and oranges.
There's always something between you and the ball. The era of completely defined and easily observable experiments is long gone. Today we are always composing inherited theories.
If you liked "Burning Down the Haus" you'd probably like Ian Walker's "Zoo Station" which was written actually at the time -- Walker was a British journalist who lived in Berlin for a time and spent time on both sides of the Wall, and was particularly interested in the East German music scene.
I think if the current situation isn't ... resolved ... resulting in a significant transfer of power either by precedent, legislation, or judicial action away from the executive to the judicial branch, the legislative branch, and the states – I think if that doesn't happen that this will be an inflection point leading to the failure of the American Republic.

I think too many people take for granted the stability and continuation of a system of government.
> Read up on the extensive reporting on both accidents. They never reached that conclusion because it was absolutely unexpected

Apparently you haven’t read it either, otherwise you wouldn’t have said what you did. I’m not defending Boeing in the slightest, they should be tarred and feathered over this, but it’s getting really old seeing folks on HN acting like experts and not even knowing the basic facts, especially when the article they are commenting on refutes their own statements.
First half of the article felt more likely to be a modern risk due to earbuds. Actual ambient noise pollution might be a problem, but I doubt it. I don’t see how such studies could adequately control for air pollution. On a related note, this quote from the article didn’t make any sense to me:

> ‘If you could eliminate all motor-vehicle noise or all motor-vehicle air pollution—but not both—which would you choose?’ As a rule, the majority chose noise.”
Good point! I've added a small note to explain it. Will re-work the thing later.
The underscore definitely [feels like it] makes me miss most of the commas.
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I don’t see another way Boeing can begin to regain public trust.
Ann doesn't want to join a creative writing group for mentally ill people, she wants to join a creative writing group.

Bob doesn't want a work-like scheme for mentally ill people, he wants to keep his current job and wants advice about disclosing mental illness to his employer and asking for reasonable adjustments.

These are the things that me and my friends have been campaigning for for all these years- a socially inclusive recovery model.
I think it even weighs less and the footage of burning airships makes great news...
(Author here) You might be amused to learn that I actually have looked into prospects for technologies around learning in one's sleep. Unfortunately, things don't look great. But you might enjoy this paper, on learning smell–sound associations during sleep: https://www.nature.com/articles/nn.3193

To your central point: you're right that effortful engagement is a hugely important ingredient for learning, so we shouldn't aspire to simply remove effort. But do you think that there's nothing that can be done in an explanatory artifact to support the knowledge construction process you're describing? To make it any easier, at all?

Just as an intuition pump, imagine comparing 1. Euclid's Elements, with no figures; 2. Euclid's Elements with figures. Does the latter addition ease knowledge construction? If so, why wouldn't we expect it to be possible to take more steps of the same kind?
> A few guys working both for Microsoft and Partners were treating me like a cute puppy or telling me they wanted to have sex with me while drunk, but all of it seemed minor and acceptable — I was getting so much in return.

jesus, how is this minor and acceptable? i'm a woman in engineering and I can not even imagine having to deal with something like this. Is it that Marketing is that much different? Or am I just lucky to be working with human beings?
This article focuses on grammar, and the conclusions there seem plausible to me. But a related claim is that it's much harder to lose a foreign accent when speaking if exposed to the language past age 13 or so, and there I'm leaning toward thinking that this is true.

In reading and writing, I'm much better in English than in French. I bet I could pass for a native writer in the former (or fail to do so primarily because my spelling is TOO accurate ;-). But when speaking, I have a pretty obvious accent in English, despite spending years being immersed in it, and working on my pronunciation.

My spoken French, by virtue of starting a few years earlier (and being mercilessly drilled on pronunciation), is better, despite never having reached as high a level of immersion, and having lost quite a bit of my vocabulary.
Just wanted to echo this. Moved from Russia to Atlanta, and did not go out of my way to do the whole immigrant community thing (unlike what a lot of my parents and their friends did). 9 years later, living on West Coast now, and I definitely attribute my proficiency in English to not joining the Russian expat community. Meanwhile, there are people I personally know who were BORN in the US in one of those communities, and they barely speak more than just the very basics, despite their community not being an isolated one at all.

P.S. still have an accent, but it has been getting much better, and almost no one manages to guess where it comes from correctly. Heavy majority of the guesses go in the direction of Scandinavian countries :)
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Agreed. Hopefully there is a big shake up and lots of people are sent home without pay. Nothing else could salvage it.
They should release a patch to remove that feature or add a replacement then, but I guess forcing people to upgrade sounded better to the finance folks.
3 big ones. Tesla and like a dozen smaller ones.
Google Search loads AMP pages from Google AMP Cache. It doesn’t matter how fast a website is. Google needs the assurance that it gets by loading content from their own servers.

(I don’t work at Google. I’m just guessing.)
I got this notice re photoshop that I pay for monthly and I was utterly confused. But it was a good reminder to finally cancel the subscription and switch to another software for a one time fee.
Offices are far more likely to have double glazing to remove the damageing noise like cars, so no.

Plus working from home is known to also be damaging, so you've introduced a new hazard for no reason. ( And I know, the reader can work from home without the damage because 'they' are the exception to the rule )
(Author here) You're right that the piece would have been better if I'd done this. But if it helps, my co-author and I did it here: https://quantum.country.
IMO, I think google was never designed to really drive people to highly detailed resources. Google is more similar to something like wikipedia where it gives you the high-level overview instead. It makes sense as well that it is like this because the vast majority of people want the basic information, not super detailed information, so over time most of the authoritative sites (sites with tons of backlinks) end up just being sites that are "overview" sites, not a comprehensive resource for the subject.

That's why there is still value by going to someone who is an expert in the subject to basically curate the information for you....like in a course. The problem is most of the experts in the subject work for universities and have no interest in giving their services away for free or the people that do are only able to give a basic course in the subject (coursera, udacity etc.) with limited resources that make self-studying the subject difficult.

I think we need something similar to YELP but for online courses that can be used to self-study. There might be 100 online physics courses but no one really knows which one is "best". Some might only have a textbook, others might only have lecture notes and then a few might actually be very comprehensive....but no one knows this unless there is some sort of review/recommendation site to use.
Oh, of course. I have become spoiled from years of graphic improvements in games, I was expecting a depiction of the plane being torn to pieces or an explosion to show that it crashed...
I think (from reading the documentation) an implicit aim of Fuchsia is to treat a device no longer as a holder of documents (a storage medium for photos / messages / candy crush scores) but as a view into a universal storage space.

https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:S9poew...
It's fair to recognize this is not entirely Boeing's fault either: it was the airline industries that don't want to re-train their pilots and wanted this type of plane (American Airlines was specifically keen on getting Boeing to manufacture this plane [1]), so they were kind of told "we want you to make exactly $this, otherwise we switch to Airbus".

[1] https://www.vox.com/2019/4/5/18296646/boeing-737-max-mcas-so...
The answer is unfortunately complicated and depends in part on the resolution of this issue:
https://www.lexology.com/library/detail.aspx?g=96b76e1c-a54a...

But we would like to.
'Narcotecture'. I like that.

It seems to me that to get 100 on that scale you need flesh colored Greek statues in the front yard. ( (prophylactic) yes yes, I know that they used to paint statues. Thanks.)
When a culture becomes this defective, the top people need to end their careers in disgrace. This provides the necessary context, clearance and incentives for others to pick up the pieces and make substantial reforms.
> What is the endgame now for 737 MAX planes?

The bugs will be addressed and they'll still fly. Airlines have no choice, there's a limited capacity in the world for airplane construction, several thousands of orders on the books for the 737 and 320 waiting to be filled. What can an airline do? They can cut back some orders but not all orders.

> I'd honestly like to see the 737 MAX taken out of service and Boeing simply ending this line.

I have an alternate history fantasy where instead of going with the MAX and then trying to kill the C-series as they did, they instead bought into the C-series. Swapping the cockpit for a Boeing cockpit design. Built the -500 stretch of the C-series, and then used the C-series to replace the 737 line in the <165 pax market. And moved ahead on the 797/NMA for which they'd have a shorter version covering the 200-270 pax market as a pure passenger mover as it's proposed.
The article is basically a hatchet job.

I have a theory that writers in the media are disposed towards complaining, or rewarded for it with readers. It's also easier and frequently more fun to be negative than positive. So on almost any topic (Facebook, Hudson Yards, Tesla, whatever) there's a tendency to needlessly accentuate the negative.

Meanwhile, the writer has no idea what he (or she?) would've done with Hudson Yards, given the same opportunity and budget. Neither do I, for that matter.
I once visited Google’s Mountain View campus. When I pulled out my Android phone, the employee showing me around suppressed incredulous laughter and told me that everyone there uses an iPhone.
> It looks the business but it lacks the single most important feature for popularity: a GUI.

It's a matter of perspective. My first thought when reading the docs was, "All someone needs to do is slap a GUI on this baby. Good thing the designers made a simple CLI that it could interface with."

They've already done most of the heavy lifting. At this point a GUI is trivial to add. "Terminal–first" doesn't imply "terminal-only". In fact, quite the opposite. I wouldn't be so quick to assume that they don't envision a GUI at some point-- Why not contribute to the project and get the ball rolling?

The patch command [0] has a propose subcommand that describes what you're talking about. It generates a patch from a commit (on any branch, I presume). This can be applied however you see fit. And the checkout subcommand even lets you generate branches from patches similar to GH. What seems to be missing?

[0] https://radicle.xyz/docs/#rad-cli-reference
I completely agree with you, except Apple indiscriminately destroyed an entire industry of parental control apps under guise of Privacy. How is a parent supposed to enforce this (blocking Instagram).
I think that the author spent too much time problematizing books and teachers in exaggerated scenarios. At least for this audience and medium. Most people are aware that the cognitive burden to internalize the material is on the student. Very few people actually believe that a book or a teacher can transfer knowledge directly into a student. This led to numerous "you're holding it wrong" negative type of responses.

I feel that I have to take the time to say that your comment is great. It conveys the same message as the article but in three short paragraphs and two examples. Also the API analogy is right on the mark to drive this message through to this audience.
They had to install MCAS because the plane was unstable in high AoA mode, i.e. during takeoff.

And it was unstable because larger CFM engines could not fit under the wing anymore so they had to put it further forward and a bit up. This increased the pitch up moment when a full power is applied.

Also, can't really see how the height of the fuselage above the ground affects fuel efficiency.
That would have been noticed if someone had at least attempted to make hard copies immediately. The second I encrypt a DB (which i've only done once so far, so i'm far from an expert), I get a copy of, verify and duplicate the key, otherwise all backups from that point onward will be useless...

The point you add encryption and fuck up the keys is the point you are able to recover and try again, instead of waiting for days, weeks or months like these guys - you check it immediately - if you didn't get a copy of the key or it's invalid, that's ok, your old unencrypted backup isn't out of date yet.
Gotcha. Yep, I'm sympathetic to this view.

Research stemming from Piaget suggests the need to introduce information not authoritatively but rather in response to "disequilibria"—authentic intellectual needs in the listener/reader. Of course, good authors can also work to create these disequilibria.

Do you think that the presence/lack of this intellectual need is the highest-order bit? That is: if you really have questions you want answers to, you're not going to have any trouble absorbing what you need, no matter the medium's shape? I guess I see it as a both-and situation!
Broken on apostrophe.

`don't` got stuck on the `'` char.
It seems to me that they need to work harder at building temporary structures.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XopSDJq6w8E
>Our epistemological process is primarily scientific reasoning

"Our" is a pretty loaded term there. Empiricism is "primary" in only a few limited bubbles of society. Religion, common knowledge, consensus, rationalism, etc are other epistemological processes familiar to many.
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Maybe better as locking trigger. When a system detect the previously authenticated user is no longer the active user it could lock keychains, tokens and sudo timers. This is less intrusive compared to locking a complete system every time you take a step out of the room.