skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Absolutely. If you're thinking about quitting, but keep putting it off, and they end it instead, they've done you a couple of favors:

1) They supply all the initiative you can't muster.

2) Having been involuntarily terminated, you can usually collect unemployment if need be, and sometimes a severance package.

If even, say half, of your emotions about it consist of relief, it was the right thing; it needed to happen.
I love listening to these guys talk. There's so much wisdom here.
Depends on your definition of “debugging”. That’s actually the entire job of a pilot in the plane during flight, to be ready to respond when something goes wrong.
Taking a forward view — I think FAA needs a way to defray the impact of operational costs by incentivizing the uptake of changes that produce safety improvements.

The ultimate economic reasoning for the 737 MAX was entirely to reduce operational cost: “give us a plane with better fuel efficiency that we don’t have to pay to train pilots for!”. This is actually a deeply broken incentive that, I think this case shows, should not exist. The plane delivered is objectively far worse than it _could be_ were it not for the need to reduce operational cost.

Ultimately — some large portion of that operational cost is induced as a result of the need to comply with safety regulations. That creates downward pressure on unecessary experimentation but also has created this very perverse incentive to design planes that are _deliberately_ not as safe as they could be given application of some approximation to “our best engineering knowledge”.

Pretty early on in the design process for the 737 MAX — there shouldve been a meeting with regulators. The regulators should’ve been presented with this option and the design and economic reasoning for it — and they should’ve also been presented with another option wherein there was a relaxing of the need to defuse operational costs. The regulators should be empowered to then say “don’t build this broken plane, build the safer plane and we will introduce tax credits sufficient to help offset the airlines retraining costs.”
The law as practiced by the state seems to indicate that they are not the same
I lived in a house on a busy street for 9 months. The master bedroom was in the back and there were only 2 types of traffic we could here back there: emergency vehicles and motorcycles with pipes. They were very loud in the front of the house. Motorcycles were far more common than emergency vehicles in summer. Cold weather luckily put a damper on the motorcycles eventually. So irritating. They terrified one of my cats every time they went by. I wonder why there aren't automated tickets for noise like the are for running red lights and speeding?
Talented and ambitious people would hate being in a labor union. It's a place where doing more than what is expected is actively shunned, and knowing how little work you can do is the optimization.
ah but it just so happens that the cause of most air pollution, carbon in the atmosphere, and noise pollution in cities is the same thing: cars & trucks
I've done this and usually get like 5 upvotes and 1 half ass comment telling me to change something. Then if you post again you get even less attention. That's why I don't think posting on forums is really a solution at all. It's like trying to fill a swimming pool with a squirt gun.

SEO, consistent posts, maybe a celebrity endorsement? Paying someone who knows how to drum up support to mentor you. That's the route I think I'll try next.
I can relate. I just paid a total of CA$50 for a 1GB prepaid SIM card. Crazy stuff. I don't understand how nobody appears offering half prices, it's clearly possible given they are overcharging a whole lot right now... and doing so seems that would win a lot of customers instantaneously
Around 1992 I wrote a CGI at Cygnus for reporting the top high priority and important bugs, who was responsible and how old they were. It was used for years, and people would load that page several times a day as they did not want to have their name at the top of the list!

I wrote it in Bash.
I've worked on a couple of million-line codebases that used reference counting. They were a joy, and their latency behavior was beautiful.

These days my smallish async Python crawler runs for 24 hours and then starts having 5 second gc-related delays once every couple of minutes. Diagnostics says it's during gc of the longest-lived generation. Sucks to be me. I probably need to stop keeping my long-lived queues as Python objects.
It's a 737 with lower engines.

The flaw is using software to fix a hardware issue.
> These engines moving made the plane more vulnerable to a stall situation.

I don't think this is correct. A lot is being made about the engine move with regard to aerodynamic behavior, but it doesn't seem at all outside of the bounds of what is considered standard. Pilots report that a similar 'light stick feel' at high AoA is already present in aircraft like the 757.

It's not that the aerodynamic change was worse or better, it's simply that it was a change at all. MCAS was there to satisfy the type rating. MCAS is not anti-stall.

The crucial mistake appears to be the extreme failure mode of the system; it is permitted to input high stabilizer trim angles without limit. Without any kind of restriction, the failure goes from annoying (pull up on flight stick + fiddle with stab control until you solve it) to the deadly crashes we've seen where pilots are in extremely tricky situations.

The fix could be as simple as making MCAS cutout in the case of an AoA disagree (no real hardware changes here) as well as limiting the input of extreme trim angles.
Hype versus Reality on the Dark Web
Stuff like jwt-config or auth-webhook. Anything from here I guess: https://docs.hasura.io/1.0/graphql/manual/deployment/graphql...
It's exactly what i expected evil to look like in 2019
At Sun in 1991, the stupidest thing I ever did was try to use xbugtool to report a bug against itself.

https://www.donhopkins.com/home/catalog/unix-haters/x-window...

(Well that, and installing Solaris.)

https://www.donhopkins.com/home/catalog/unix-haters/slowlari...

#!/bin/sh
# This works...I wonder if it will get me laid
progname="`echo $0 | sed 's:^\./\./:\./:'`"
> Maybe my memory is bad but I don't think OS X ever really had it.

This is not a binary question of either a desert or either a rainforest, but Apple's side of the fence is definitely a lot greener than Microsoft's in terms of UI/UX consistency.

I was a purely PC/MS user up until about 10 years ago, but I haven't suffered as many befuddled facepalm moments from Apple's UI decisions as from the Escheresque nightmare that Microsoft is even now.

> The flag-carrying apps (Adobe, Final Cut, Garageband) had custom UIs. Built ins like Calendar had skeumorphic UIs.

However, almost every macOS app has the same standard menus, same standard shortcuts, and most of them support the same OS extensibility features. Even as a developer you just need to build against the latest AppKit and you get not only all the current features, but usually future features for free too (e.g. most of the NSDocument stuff such as autosaving and previous versions.)

Compare this to the hodgepodge of different interfaces even in Windows' builtin apps alone, and championing a different API almost every other year.
Theres a chain of trust and if you have a signed CA certificate from a root you can sign on behalf of the root
For better or worse, it seems Ant lost the war to Maven (and more recently, others.)

I still appreciate the simplicity of Ant, though.
The last time I worked at a company where “money isn’t everything” with a focus on culture instead it was because they ended up getting bought out by a private firm where most eventually got laid off. Money talks, bullshit walks first and foremost while culture is what ensures those with competitive skill set and high salaries don’t jump ship for 10 percent more, but you still have to pay your employees well. You can’t pay your bills or afford your hobbies outside work with culture.
What qualifies this as evil?
Believe me, I've tried it. Or don't and try it yourself, but smoke a couple years at least before that, to really feel the edge.

You just can't pack enough battery and a heater in the same form factor to beat combustion energy output, even if you cut the "cig" length in two as they did.

edit: besides, their heater design sucks.
That's pretty funny. Similarly in Thailand, the Thai language has gender-specific pronouns and speech patterns. LGBT people are very out in Thailand and many LGBT foreigners attracted to the country as a result. So when a foreigner who may have learned some Thai language from their Thai girlfriend/boyfriend uses trans-gender pronouns or speech patterns nobody bats an eye and just assumes they are trans, even though they may not be.
I don't follow. Flight stability systems are not new, even Airbus has them and even had similar issues before with their planes.

There's a difference between software stability controls and specifically emulating behavior.
> I don't see AV1 catching on anytime soon

YouTube already has many of its videos encoded in AV1 up to 720p. Try it yourself with Firefox 67 beta, or any other browser which uses the dav1d decoder.

Turn on AV1 on YouTube (set it to "Always prefer AV1"): https://www.youtube.com/testtube

Try the AV1 playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLyqf6gJt7KuHBmeVzZteZ...

Pick any popular video on YouTube (like a music video) and play it. Check the format with right-click -> Stats for Nerds. If it's AV1 the codec will be "av01".

On my 5-year old laptop, AV1 in Firefox 67 beta is fast enough for 1080p30 and almost fast enough for 1080p60.
IMO, a major vulnerability of social media is ability to coopt the influencer model into an advertising scheme laundered of accountability, and this keeps happening.

We recently saw Jake Paul and others covertly pushing loot boxes (glorified digital gambling) to kids on YouTube.

There needs to be legislation with serious teeth that brings the standards of online advertising and influence-pushing in line with more established forms of media.

You know when you're watching paid advertising on TV, but on YouTube you're banking that whoever you're watching is being honest. And based on stories like the loot box snafu, those guys were getting six-figure checks to create those videos.

Such errors of judgment deserve serious consequences, plain and simple.
I've seen people taking selfies there with an insta approved smile. Word from a local university professor is that many of the current young adults who grew up in NYC don't even know what 9/11 is.
Sureee...
The NYT has had several decent articles on this over the years:

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/29/climate/recycling-landfil...

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/16/business/local-recycling-...

https://www.nytimes.com/1996/06/30/magazine/recycling-is-gar...

https://www.nytimes.com/2015/10/04/opinion/sunday/the-reign-...

Ask yourself: how does recycling help the environment? It doesn't. Recycling arose out of 1980s landfill anxiety but we have plenty of space, what we don't have are plenty of climates. All the money wasted on making us feel better by recycling could be far better spent reducing carbon emissions.

What a waste of tax dollars, especially now that most cities and counties just throw out recycling anyway.
One interviewer blew cigarette smoke in my face, for example.

Literally? That sounds like something you'd experience in the first half of the last century, but not with a tech company today.
So no matter what you do, your success is entirely in Google's hands ? Is that what you're saying ?
You are describing different vowels and not tones. Different vowels are pronounced by changing the shape of the mouth; tones are produced by the laryngeal muscles, like when you hum a tune.
Wouldn't it be pure evil in any year?
Must be children.
The Nun Run
Absolutely. That’s why I’ll be contacting the hearing aid company, who is ultimately responsible for those requirements.
Is my Cosmo going to die? If so, I can tell already I'm going to feel true sadness over it. Good thing my kids never got as attached as I did.
Direct is the future of e-commerce. At the end of the day ordering directly is the only way to be 100% certain you're getting an authentic product.
It's the NYT, not HN, but still they used the phrase 'honey pot for hackers'. The 'for hackers' part is what makes the whole phrase misleading. It's as if they said "Physicist says gravity is only a theory": A physicist would never use the word 'only' there, even though a non-scientist might. The word 'theory' means something very specific to a scientist but its meaning is a lot looser to a lay person.
> We recently saw Jake Paul and others covertly pushing loot boxes

Did Jake Paul mention it was an advertisement or that he had any relationship with the company or game he was promoting?

Most big podcasts have 'live reads' but inter-spliced within the show, but it's very obvious it's an ad (even though they don't always mention that fact directly). Still, what this actually means in practice is still a big question IMO.

What would be the criteria for crossing that line... Non-obvious ads + a target audience of ~90% kids audience? Does it also apply to PG movies/TVs shows on the platform or just Jake Paul-esque 'reality' shows with a young audience? What's about the difference between shows with an obvious relationship with vendors (ie, unboxing) vs just directly hocking it to users?
Literally. It was outside between buildings, as punctuation for declaring that if I wasn’t an expert on X, I couldn’t know anything about Y. X being a common tool in some areas of Y, which I’d done for several years.
Usually I wouldn't even comment on an article about astronomy, but this was a public accusation of fraud. I see questioning such posts as a moral obligation.

What's the bigger risk: annoying a few people with persistent calls for evidence, or letting a false accusation spread for fear of annoying people?
Thanks for pointing that out. It has been updated.
>Humane by Design is a resource that provides guidance for designing ethically humane digital products through patterns focused on user well-being.

Ironically the website itself is not easy to navigate on mobile.
Looking at his achievements he should have been included in the Turing award.
Ask HN: How to not feel bad/guilty about quitting the current job for a break?
Using a throwaway account for obvious reasons. I am a 28 year old developer working in New York at one of the big tech companies for the last several years. Lately I am finding myself burnt out and in poor health both physically and mentally and all around miserable. I have lost joy in a lot of things in life including the work. I recognized work being a key thing contributing to this and made the decision to quit my job, take 2-3 months off just mentally recovering and improving my physical health and then finding a new job at another company- likely a startup instead of another megacorp.

I have enough money saved up that I could afford to not do anything for many years and live off my savings if I wanted. I am single with no house, no kids or responsibilities and a simple lifestyle, the most expensive thing I own is my $2500 desktop.

However as I get closer to handing in my resignation the more self-doubt is creeping in. The thing is this job pays incredibly well and I feel guilty quitting it to take an extended break without having anything lined up. Another thing is that I have been working basically non-stop since I was 16-17 so the idea of taking 2-3 months off for myself is also making me feel bad and guilty. Moreover I see people who are much worse off then me who continue to grind and that makes me feel even more guilty for doing this.

I imagine there are many here who might have been in similar situations and can share their story and offer advice. I would love to hear your thoughts on this What should I do and how do I stop feeling like shit for considering this?
A long way from home: The life of one insignificant member of the British empire
I don't know which one you imagine MCAS to be but see [1]; specifically:

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. ... This new location [of the engines] and larger size of nacelle cause the vortex flow off the nacelle body to produce lift at high AoA. As the nacelle is ahead of the [centre of gravity], this lift causes a slight pitch-up effect (ie a reducing stick force) which could lead the pilot to inadvertently pull the yoke further aft than intended bringing the aircraft closer towards the stall. This abnormal nose-up pitching is not allowable under 14CFR §25.203(a) "Stall characteristics". Several aerodynamic solutions were introduced such as revising the leading edge stall strip and modifying the leading edge vortilons but they were insufficient to pass regulation. MCAS was therefore introduced to give an automatic nose down stabilizer input during elevated AoA when flaps are up.

> Airbus

Airbuses operate in C* law (they are not positively stable) [2] and the stick is just that, a spring-loaded.... stick; it meets regulations by default.

[1] http://www.b737.org.uk/mcas.htm

[2] https://www.skybrary.aero/index.php/Fly-By-Wire
Passive vs. active.

Passive reading of non-fiction isn't going to teach you much. If you, instead, take reading notes, write a report, cross-reference, or otherwise engage with the material, well, you'll learn something.

There's nothing revolutionary here. College classes aren't just "go read some books"; they involve writing for a reason. This is really basic pedagogy.
Well it is Harlem South. They needed a luxury mall too.
There were "only" two instances (which killed >300 people) before the plane was yanked from the air entirely. That means that, roughly speaking, it was only going to happen in two countries at all, or one really unlucky country. So there's no use in pointing out that it didn't happen in many more countries, because that would have required dozens more accidents with tens of thousands of deaths, which was simply never in the cards because the planes would've been yanked long before then. So there's no use in pointing out that it didn't happen in many countries, because that never would've happened.
Which was a huge change and some hiccups were expected. From a quick scroll through all the complaints in that page have been fixed for quite a while already.
I’ll be making my suggestions to the hearing aid company who sells the devices and the app. If there is any response at all, I expect it will be congenial. However, I doubt it will be resolved quickly since even non-invasive medical devices like hearing aids have rigorous and time-consuming reviews.
Indeed, and that should leave you very scared about the security of MANY online services, not just rewards programs!

Some things to note:

1) A lot of "tech companies" are really marketing companies.

2) These companies tend to experience weed-like growth, especially during the early stages, which causes other companies to adopt their practices (Dickensian-orphanage employee seating, emphasis on features and innovation rather than quality, short development cycles) in the belief that doing so will make them more innovative and hence competitive in the cloud era -- a form of cargo-cult management.
I, too, thought this piece took a strange position. It would be better titled "Books and lectures don't work if all you do is passively consume them in a single pass", which I don't think anyone argues or believes or prescribes.

The piece touched on the importance of metalearning strategies, but stopped short at simply designing experiences that lighten the cognitive load on learners by doing much of the heavy lifting for them. This is valuable but misses what the true goal should be.

We should be teaching learners how to take some information source (e.g., a book, lecture series, etc.) and apply those metalearning techniques (e.g., spaced repetition, distillation, etc.) in a self-directed manner. Otherwise, you only have learners capable of learning those things that already have great experiences built by skilled learners and are otherwise still not capable of self-directed learning.
Absolutely none of the critiques there ever seemed an issue to me. I have been using iPhones since the 5 and Macs since 2009.

What UI people forget is most people don’t sit and study the UI long enough to ask such questions.

If it didn’t do what they wanted they tap again, the color or highlight changes and they remember.

A lot of UX people want the “answers from the back of the book” right in their face.

For most, after 1-3 taps they get it and stop giving af.
You're wrong, the smoking pen holds about 5-6 mins pers cigarette (Heets), and the device holds around 20 or more pen recharges.

I've been smoking it since March 2017. I'm on my 2nd device. I've been smoking regular cigarettes since 2010 before IQOS.
They do though. For example love to share memes to each other and with phone it’s as simple as pressing the image for a long time. Video formats do need the same kind of actions to compete with the ease of use of gifs.
The people making the decisions weren't engineers. They were managers. And they just passed the buck to the engineers who actually had to go along with it to keep their jobs.

And I know people will try yo claim that it was the engineers fault and they should have just refused and gotten fired. But engineers have mortgages and have to work for a living. They can't afford to career suicide just because their boss is being unreasonable.

The people who made the decisions should be held accountable. That means the CEO should actually go to prison.
How can one gain this kind of education?
Buy Negative Google Reviews – Buy Bad 1 Star Google Reviews
A lot of videos also look like promo videos for people selling counterfeit juul products.
In the post fossil fuel age, garbage could become an easily stored fuel, to be incinerated when there's a lull in wind and not enough sun. Its plastic and other reduced organic contents will be derived from non-fossil sources, and it will be recycled by oxidation back to the CO2 and water it came from.
> but I would be curious to hear from the Xray team on what their current thinking on the topic is

Xray is dead:

https://www.reddit.com/r/rust/comments/bdf3lx/we_need_to_sav...
Wow, that is impressive.
Hmmm, there's no mention of burn-out in the article, but it sounds a lot like that was involved too.

eg too much time focused on one thing ("overdose" on it) -> burn out -> lack of motivation/focus -> needs 5 week (or more) break to gain perspective. (etc)
Luma+Sleep+Awesome+Savings
Wu-tang forever? Sometime I wonder about the full extent of privilege.
For those of you who didn't read, the article states:

"The company’s internal “marketing standards” prohibit it from promoting tobacco products with youth-oriented celebrities or “models who are or appear to be under the age of 25.”

So the age limit in discussion is self imposed by the company, which is 25. The 'young influencer' mentioned is 21 years old.

I don't see this as anything above a journalistic sensationalism.
I think Freddie Gibbs and Vince Staples have played against type here and really engage in metacommentary rather than glorification. It's a heartening trend in rap.
Price of settlement should be proportional to median income in the country. Some lives are just less valuable than others. For example, in Ethiopia the settlement should be 2% of the US one.

An for those flagging and downvoting: I hate you and most of the third world is eagerly awaiting your 20 trillion default.

Dang, find my IP and ban me for good!