skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
How long does it take to get 100 people in a bus?

China is building driverless low-medium speed maglevs:

https://www.cnn.com/travel/article/china-driverless-maglev-t...

I’d like to see one of your studies to see the assumptions.

60 mph buses don’t really seem like a great way to travel.
Right-click would be equivalent to long-press on iOS. But don’t long-press too hard or you’ll get 3D Touch. Or maybe you do want 3D Touch, so you press hard. Surprise! Your iPad doesn’t support 3D Touch; you were thinking of your phone. Does this particular app even support 3D Touch? Only one way to find out!

Inconsistent and not discoverable, which isn’t anything like a right mouse button at all.
I'm not sure what to make of this post.

3.5 years of which 2 years or so are in dedicated program to rotate jobs across the world seems like an amazing deal to kick off a career many would dream of. Not much responsibility but a lot to learn and observe!

More objectively reflecting ones own performance and actions might good to understand reasons for what happened.

This is business and work, not family and friends. I see a lot of younger people struggling to make that distinction.
From the article "The night sky offers an unlimited source of markers (e.g. stars, constellations, Milky Way, etc.) that never lie about the time of year and location in the world you shot a night sky picture from."

The key word is unlimited. Vega is correctly identified by the many stars around it that are in turn correctly identified by the many professional astronomers and astro-photographers discussing these very pictures. The photo mentions polaris to point out the absurdity of the north star being in the sky of a picture taken in the southern hemisphere.
Interesting - that’s definitely compelling. In a nutshell what exactly is the issue with IME?
I was assuming a global perspective, for which Google is obviously first. (And I quoted Wikipedia confirming that at a shade under 93% market share.)
I find her story fascinating as many glimpses into big corporates are for me.

I've spent my 20s constantly oscillating between going broke trying to build a scalable startup and earning good money by working freelance. I was breaking my back getting things off the ground but also managing the freelancing projects, the effort left little place for holidays/friends or parties. I basically never went to conferences as it was either way to expensive or time that could be potentially billable.

After realising how toxic my lifestyle focused on "making it" had become I decided to join a profitable SaaS company that needed my skills to build a future proof software platform out of their legacy system.

Now at 31 I've got a good position in that company with a good chunk of stock options, I'm awaiting my second son.

Reading her story to me makes me wonder how much I've missed, just finishing University and applying to a large tech company might have been equally backbreaking, but at least I would have seen more of the world, networked more and maybe ended up with some usable savings to show for it. Typical greener-grass situation I guess.
Nabokov was a native speaker of English, with an English nanny and governess. Conrad, a contrario, learned English as an adult.
That depends entirely on what accents you have been exposed to.
Thank you! Are materials like these suitable: http://lessemf.com/fabric.html
when my margins go down I will raise the rents. I currently could charge more but I believe charging slightly less than market gets me a better tenant and some goodwill since I am not a full time landlord.
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San Francisco is a much better UI font than Helvetica
"Second language" is just the technical term for any language that is not a first (native) language.
Yes, it was an example of something you _can't_ do.
Actually what it provides is the necessary context for fear-based decisionmaking, misallocation of resources, metastatic bureaucracy, R&D stagnation, and ultimately departure of talent.

There is a reason why the aviation industry focuses on fixing the problem rather than the blame. A witch hunt makes everybody feel better in the short term but provides no guarantee of actual forward progress.
> There's just no good reason to suspect a brand new design would've been bug free or easier to debug than the 737 MAX.

A brand new design actually supporting the engines used would not have aerodynamic issues that place the airframe outside the limits set forth by regulations.
I didn’t know about “Time Travel” on WatchOS... will check it out.

I’m assuming it’s this: https://discussions.apple.com/docs/DOC-10631
That's an argument from authority without even establishing the authority in question.

Evidence, please.

Edit: Well, that's a lot of downvotes. So you all see the pattern? Why not point it out?

Or are you merely accepting this blog post without question?
Why would they not have gone with a, say, 757 MAX - it seems to fit the bill spec wise. Is it that global pilot pool is not as great for the 757 as 737?
Ask HN: Need help reading this graph please
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Measles_vaccine#/media/File:Measles_US_1944-2007_inset.png

I'm in a 'discussion' with an anti-vaxxer who is insisting that Measles was under control before the Measles vaccine was introduced, this patently isn't true but they're citing 1940s stats, and from this graph I can see that it was a zig zag.

My question is what's going on in the graph? Why were there crazy lows, then crazy highs? Thank you in advance for any help.
> "the 9/11 Memorial Shopping Mall"

I was disgusted the last time I went there. I was there with someone who lost a family member in 9/11. They were clearly still emotionally burdened by their loss, even in 2017. Yet just a few feet away people were taking smiling selfies next to a literal memorial! I've been to many public memorials, and they are somber places. The 9/11 memorial feels like an almost fitting monument to crass 21st century capitalism.
No, I don't want free lunches
They always knew where they were. There were conflicting reasons as to why the funds were not moving around as expected.
> “We want you to make exactly $this, otherwise we switch to Airbus”

Airbus sold 98 A320Neo to American Airlines, totalling 413 Airbus (the biggest fleet in the world).
I learned Japanese as a 16 year old when I was a rotary student. I learned as a baby would, never had to unlearn poor pronunciation gathered in American schools since I only heard it in Japan, going there without knowing anything. Most people can't tell I'm not native on the phone.

But, I did find myself worried at that age about making mistakes, so I was hesitant to speak often and focused on the writing. I think that meant I lost opportunities to speak with people and accelerate my learning through rapid feedback.

When I was 25 I lived in Brazil. My Portuguese pronunciation is not as good as it turns out but at that point I didn't care about making mistakes. Now, I'm much more interested in attempting to communicate, even when I make mistakes.

I think each era in life has a different set of circumstances that can hold you back and help when learning languages.

I'm glad to see that it doesn't appear that we are at a cognitive disadvantage to learn later in life, since I love learning languages. I hope someday my family can live in Barcelona and we can all learn Catalan together.
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Is there a tutorial like this but based on Python or R?
FWIW I know about it, am not old or unhealthy enough to have fine motor control problems, and can't use it effectively. I have to disable it to get press-and-hold to do what I'm used to it doing, reliably, without requiring several attempts.

Ditto the similar force-press thing on the newer Macbook touchpads—my file drag-and-drop operations drop to a success rate of about 50% with that enabled. Took me a while to figure out what was wrong with my new laptop first time I used one, because I'd forgotten about that "feature".
An 18-month old isn't just learning a language, they're acquiring language itself. At four-years-old, they aren't at "native speaker" level either.

A few years later, they acquire literacy, if taught. It's well-established that acquiring literacy at an older is more difficult. Young brains have higher plasticity.

Is it impossible to acquire literacy as an adult? Of course not. But it's far more difficult, to the point of being practically impossible for many people.

In context, the fact that 1000 out of several hundreds of thousands of samples managed to do something highly unlikely isn't that remarkable. It doesn't support the headline at all.
This article is a garbled mush of ego entrism.

Appeals to authority out the ass with no real argument.
In my Twitter timeline, posts about self harm or suicidal ideation are generally met by a supportive atmosphere of concerned people.

When there is the opportunity, I try to make comments that validate people in a way that doesn't promote or encourage self harm, suicide attempts, etc.

I've attempted suicide. I know a fair amount about such issues.

No, shutting down the conversation isn't a good move. Instead, we need to promote best practices that make such conversations more constructive.

It can be done.
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I do notice that on iPad, though it seems inconsistent & I’d forgotten about it.

I also wish the X line of phones had the two-finger touch keyboard cursor control... It seems like iPad is innovating (maybe because the potential universe of pissed off users is less) & hopefully we’ll see some of those updates on iPhone in the future.
A quick search shows it lets you block sites too[1], although you have to enable the porn blocker to do so, for some daft reason.

What do you have in mind that can't be done using that, and which was possible using a now-banned app?

[1] https://www.cultofmac.com/570719/block-website-iphone-ipad/
Robert Lord's comments on the issue are probably the best explanation, written with the benefit of hindsight.

[0]: https://github.com/xi-editor/xi-editor/issues/1187#issuecomm...
Off topic, but oh man does that website embody everything that is wrong with display advertising. Left the site open for 6 minutes: 8000 requests, 100MB transferred and a memory footprint of 700MB for that tab and climbing. Absolute garbage.
I always thought Microsoft was one of the tech companies with the best work life balance. Is this not the case? Is it because of the gender disparity/sexism? Can any share some insight how it's to work for MS in Mountain View? Is it a bad idea for someone starting a family?
I second this, though I came in cold rather than from Premiere. Loads of tutorials on YouTube to get you up to speed. The few things withheld in the paid version most people can live without.
Honestly, that seems to describe a lot of companies, including some tech companies, not sure it's unique to loyalty program companies.
Is working for Gitlab remotely in Vietnam on a localised salary as good or better than most local job opportunities?

If so, isn't it still good for the employees?
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Good.

Higher-ups like to see the profits go up, but it's hard to quantify the actual people who suffer (and die) because their medicine is now too expensive to afford.

Instead of saying "oh, they should be saving their money", an ACTUAL objective fact needs to be raised that they are price-gouging their product. Of course, we all complain and argue but nothing happens because it's these people who dictate the price are in power (of their company, and they pay lobbists who enact laws to keep these plans in-place).

It's only when lawsuits like these come out that the people can actually see the negative impact all these people are suffering from because "they just wanted to make profits go up 5% for the shareholders". I just hope these executives realize this fact and our government makes necessary drugs price-fixed (the drugs that aren't mandatory could be in this type of market, that's fine with me).
> The author addresses this:

No, he doesn't. The word "explanation" doesn't even appear in the article.
I have seen an Italian interpreting between a Georgian (US) and a Scot (probably Glaswegian) with all speaking English.
Did you create this website yourself or are just sharing?
I suspect it was related to the loss of Scott Forestall. It’s notable that “metaphor” dropped from the top iOS design principle to near the bottom. And the backlash against “skeuomorphic design” was a popular narrative in the tech press around the time of these changes.
Backflips are a bad example, though. Adults are heavier and more prone to injuries, our reflexes are slower and we tend to worry about other things and not fully devote to learning something.

A better example would be learning to cook or doing a Rubik cube.
Going by your judgement, Boeing too had underskilled and underpaid labor ? Because they too cut corners.
I am on the other end of those "find an expert for a price" (I'm the "expert") and I always expect to be asked touch questions that are hard to answer.

Once -- once! -- I was contacted by a domain expert looking for someone else to discuss some arcane tech issue (he was trying to decide if he should commit to a new display technology for their next gen design, or if it was too risky. I didn't make any decision for him or anything, just discussed the issues with him).

Typically the questions I get are from people who aren't really sure about the right question to even ask, typically in marketing or corporate strategy, and typically mid level (not new hires but not the VPs or senior directors either). They always have a particular question they want answered but don't even know enough to phrase it properly ("we're looking into strategic direction for our next level offering and our teams are recommending either writing it in C++ or using the blockchain" -- not an actual question!)

This actually makes sense. If they understood a bit about they domain they would already have contacts, hopefully ones they trusted, to help them decide. The kinds of people who pay (well, get their company to pay) to "speak to an expert" are not idiots, merely domain-ignorant and smart enough to know so. So what I end up giving is a kind of off-the-cuff interactive survey white paper to someone who hopes I don't know who they actually are (well, where they work).
Yep. I mean sure, I guess technically those books are serious and are non-fiction. But the fact that those are the books the author chose as his examples makes it pretty hard for me to take his opinions about reading seriously.
Seems to me that redundancy in mission critical systems where failure means loss of several hundred lives is a basic engineering principle. MCAS apparently relied on a single AOA sensor's input. The system had no way to validate the data or handle a mismatch, and the only recourse was to light up an (optional) disagreement indicator - but still relied on just the one sensor to apply control forces.
I don't know if you've been to the UK, but you should look at some Victorian building projects - town halls, libraries, theatres - for comparison.

It's easy to ignore imperfections with a modern sensibility, but those older buildings were crafted in a way that modern buildings don't seem to be.

The driving ethic was typically local pride, and the buildings were designed and built as public statements to showcase that.

Modern mall projects seem to be the opposite. There's no pride among either designers or builders. Everyone is there to do a job, including the building - which is primarily a cash extraction machine optimised for ROI, ineptly dabbed with superficial signifiers of status so it can appear appealing to people with money they can be parted from.

At a guess, that's what this article is really objecting to.
Direct link to actual source of Medium "regurgitation": http://www.alteredimagesbdc.org/national-geographic/
The problem here is corporate greed and willfully blind governance. It’s not a technical issue.
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> ...except it actually took effort to make it that bad. Plain HTML without any styling whatsoever would be more readable

Handcoding HTML is a lot more effort than picking up one of the many canned tools that you configure some settings and throw text at and it produces a blog.
> The problem with having a hurricane-proof house in New Jersey is that your neighbors don't -- yet.

Not really. The biggest threat in high-density areas is damage from small projectiles. Proper hurricane shutters are a thing and quite effective. How effective? Consider surviving 3 Category 5 Super Typhoons back to back on a small island with nowhere to run[1][2][3]. Not even South Florida knows what that's truly like.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Typhoon_Ivan

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Typhoon_Keith

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Typhoon_Paka
Microsoft is probably one of the best options you can pick if you want to have great WLB but still do worldwide impactful work - and majority of teams have good culture and are fun. At least that's the vibe I get from friends that work there.
This question is too broad and you provide absolutely no context.

What is the product?

What is the target market?
> Popper heavily criticizes the value of explanation

You have misunderstood Popper. Psychoanalysis is an example he cites of a bad explanation (because it's not falsifiable). He doesn't criticize explanation in general. That would be throwing out the baby with the bathwater.
One of several reasons: ISPs meddle with content.

https://www.infoworld.com/article/2925839/code-injection-new...
Yes, but if you use that feature, the prefetched sites will fingerprint you and track you.
Good. That is they way they should be. Maybe you would prefer if they were all optimists just talking everything up, ignoring issues? No, I prefer them to point out issues.
How prescient was to buy CS6 in the last days of its availability...
Even the author calls it "naive falsificationism". That's the strawman. The author is right that it's a crude version of falsificationism, but I doubt that most people believe it.

I suspect most people believe the version that the author calls reasonable: first confirm the experiment and its conclusions before questioning a proven theory.
I used to think my office was quiet until I got noise cancelling headphones. Now every time I take them off I am hit with a deafening ambiant noise which I think is a combination of the fans in peoples computers and the sound of cars making it through the building walls.
Your situation sounds different than that of GitLab employees. GitLab would pay you $190-200k in SF and $90-100k in Vietnam.
The EB-5 visa isn’t an affordable housing program and NY state doesn’t have a fixed allotment from it.
In fact, Bing does have a news carousel with AMP icons and their own AMP cache. Microsoft has long used AMP and their support is increasing:

- https://blogs.bing.com/search/September-2016/bing-app-joins-...

- https://blogs.bing.com/Webmaster-Blog/September-2018/Introdu...

- https://www.bing.com/amp/s/venturebeat.com/2019/05/09/google...

Microsoft is part of the AMP Project's governance as well, along with Cloudflare, Twitter, and other members: https://blog.amp.dev/2018/11/30/amp-projects-new-governance-...

I wouldn't be surprised if AMP starts appearing in other Bing search results, or if they start supporting links to AMP pages other than news articles in their carousels (which when you get down to it is basically all this announcement is about).
"Also, can't really see how the height of the fuselage above the ground affects fuel efficiency."

It doesn't. They wanted to use a larger, more fuel-efficient engine but the 737's ground clearance couldn't accomodate it. So they moved the engine forward.
Sure, but there’s plenty of a areas of overlap. For example you could compare using a web app like Instagram on both devices
Come on, as if "retail" was intrinsically a good thing. High-end shopping destinations are not part of the solution to the capitalism/consumerism situation we are in, and, most importantly, they don't even cater to the majority.
Like any company, it varies quite a bit from team to team, organization to organization. I and most of my engineer friends at MS work 40 hour weeks consistently, but I do know a small handful of people (usually PMs or other non-tech roles) that work 50+ per week.
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Do you have any references that could help with 'choosing the right algorithm'? That seems to be something that comes with experience, or knowing how a particular algorithm works, or more importantly, does not work.
I'm not an engineer but what about:

A) Adding two more angle-of-attack sensors so a pilot can be reasonably sure of auto-adjust will work. Retrofitting those would be expensive, of course.
B) Put the two buttons back the way they were and add a "light" indicator an angle-of-attack sensor failure.
C) More pilot simulator training so pilots know what to expect in the unusual situation that the system fails.

I suspect the answer would be: "Even now we're not willing to bite the bullet and pay all the expenses we were dodging before".

Searching, it seems Southwest already did something like this (after the first crash, in fact). The problem might be that if Boeing does this on their dime then Boeing would be essentially giving every one of their "bargain" customers the features of their "luxury" customers, which I would speculate might be a vastly expensive proposition especially if it sets precedent going forward.

https://theaircurrent.com/aviation-safety/southwest-airlines...
It's worth noting that Japanese (like many Asian languages) has a certain degree of "sexual dimorphism" unlike western languages.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gender_differences_in_spoken_J...

Interestingly, it also has pitch as a part of accent:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_pitch_accent
I remember when they took down the CS2 activation servers and they made everything available for download with a universal serial number. It was available for a long time, for years. Lot of people downloaded those versions even tho it was technically still illegal. But it was "free" and straight from Adobe. Abandonware if we can say that. Still have my copy too, made a backup just in case. And the page was up until last week and they nuked that too.

And yeah all the CS2 apps are still working fine in 2019 under Windows 10 even tho they are 14 years old.
That's definitely true but in the case of my mother and (former) wife they are a pretty wide scope. Think of their knowledge as a continent with a shallow continental shelf.

My German is more like a Hawaiian island :-) -- very expressive for discussions around the house, politics, earth moving equipment and farm animals (the latter two due to childrearing). I am fine going out to the shops for groceries and calling to complain when the TV cable went out. But at parties I can only talk about so much; discussions of religion, negotiating contracts and the usual business day are utterly beyond me.
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Firefox has that feature for every page that can be given a reader mode/view.
> The bugs will be addressed and they'll still fly.

The engines are mounted incorrectly, so much so that Boeing believed pilots need the assistance of MCAS on take-off now.

The bug isn't with its algorithms, rather the need for MCAS to begin with. They can't "address" it. That's why I'll be very careful not to ever book a flight on a 737 Max, probably easier to simply stick to Airbus-only airlines: Jetblue, Alaska/Virgin, etc.
I want photoshop about once a year and I am literally still using photoshop 6 on windows. It's over 20 years old. Works fine, installs in about 5 seconds.
> Not to mention, it can throw off those ad targeting algorithms a bit by injecting a little disinformation into the mix.

you mean provide them with richer signal about what you will and won't engage with?