skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The people I worked with were extremely closed minded. Most of them with many years of experience working in a corporation, so even more closed minded, only caring about their manager’s approval. I was devastated. My team members were the most fake people I have met still to this day. I cannot even explain how terrible it was for me to have to help them, show interest and pretend that I support what they’re doing. You might be thinking — why weren’t you honest with them instead? I tried, but no one cared and my role was minimised, so at the end I was only doing a 1 Excel file.

In my experience when someone says everyone else is the problem, it’s more likely they’re the problem but they lack the introspection to realise it. I mean really which seems more likely, that everyone else was awful, or that something she was doing rubbed people the wrong way? It sounds like Microsoft was just a backdrop to a turbulent few years.

Also after cheating on her boyfriend and spending large periods of time faking doing work (which I’m guessing contributed to her firing) her takeaway at the end is.. to focus more on herself and blame Microsoft and her former coworkers for her mistakes? How is that not just narcissism? I mean self care is important, but maybe her takeaway should be to act with integrity..
Ask HN: Can we get a good theory of categorical personality types?
Look at the types of fundamental particles. There's no nice symmetric number of types of fundamental particles (like a prime power, or a highly composite number such as 72). Types that occur in the universe are usually a nasty number. All existing theories of personality types either come in nice prime powers (2, 4, 16) or they're continuous models (which are not useful for fixing yourself; someone in the Big Five whose dominantly agreeable or dominantly open to experience doesn't get a differently designed therapy from someone who is dominantly disagreeable or dominantly closed to experience).

Is anybody else interested in designing a categorical personality theory that can be used to fix yourself or am I just a fool? If you are, I need you to get in contact with me. I need all the help I can get.
Well, Mozilla does the signing, but we only know that to be true as long as they control the private key. The whole point of expirations is to make mitigate the risk of an older key being stolen (or cracked).

So yes, Mozilla signs the extensions, but that doesn't change the importance of keeping the private key private... that is HOW we know it is Mozilla doing the signing
It has a known meaning for computer security and the article is about computer security.
The risks involved in that were well understood. The Count of Monte Cristo is set a little late, but it's got a good treatment of the phenomenon.

Here's an interesting passage from Power and Plenty:

> in 1594 a "Company of Far Lands" was organized by a group of Amsterdam merchants, and a fleet of four ships sent to the eastern seas, returning in 1597 with the loss of one ship and many lives but with enough pepper for the voyage to be regarded as a success. With this encouragement, two fleets with a total of twenty-two ships left in 1598, one of which, commanded by Jacob van Neck, returned with eight ships and sufficient spices to turn a profit of 400%, causing the bells of Amsterdam to peal with joy.

Today, sending out 26 ships and getting 11 of them back might not be a cause for celebration in the city that sent them out. This is the industry that gave rise to modern insurance companies.
It wasn't a red herring - the post he replied to reads: "we can never make any more until we get to the outer planets."
Love the theme and principles listed but navigation is a bit cumbersome and visual-heavy. Nonetheless, the effort is appreciated!
Years ago I used Twitter streams as input for markov chain text generation. It’s interesting to recognize your own writing style in what is essentially gibberish: http://yes.thatcan.be/my/next/tweet
Great synergies here with the Philip Morris of tech.
Given. However, in Engineering, it is totally expected that when you start getting into areas that sketchy, you say "No. The best I can do is this. I'm sorry."

Instead, Boeing saw dollar signs, and threw caution and people's lives, and years of good will to the winds.
> The linked article says why, but to paraphrase, the training has always said to flip both switches.

And the root cause reason for that is Boeing was hiding changes in order to make the same type certification. Many decisions were made not in the interest of maximizing safety but in minimizing visible changes. This is one of those.

It would have been safer overall to have a new type, and then they could've had a cut-out switch just for the MCAS and trained pilots on how to use it.
How to Work Effectively with Telecommuting Teams
Those special optical discs are traditionally pressed and gold sputtered. Burnable discs are not suitable for long term archives.
I always thought of that book when I watched Bigelow's movie "Detroit". It's not scifi, it's history.
It felt like the key parts of the story were being left out here.

From her telling, it sounds like everything was going well for her in Poland. Then she did a very short stint in Seattle where everyone was "extremely closed minded... only caring about their manager’s approval". I'm not sure what that even means, but it sounds like that triggered in her a major depression. After which she spent a lot of time "pretending to work", which eventually resulted in her being fired. Clearly something major happened in Seattle, but we have no idea what.

Is there anything that MS could have done differently here, to avoid the problems she ran into? Or is this just a case of her investing too much time into her career and burning herself out?
I have adblock and I don't see an ad. Most people commenting at HN use adblock. It's a pretty good illustration of why you might want to prevent 3rd parties from fucking with the content you view without your permission, while also using adblock to fuck with the content you view with your permission.
The identification of fundamental particles is based on scientific evidence: physicists created this theory to explain their observations of the physical world. The current theory can be tested, and disproved if it doesn't hold up. (Previous theories of fundamental particles have been replaced as new facts have been discovered.)

What scientific facts are there to suggest that there are discrete "personality types"?
Huh? There's no such thing as a "737 pilot", there is a "pilot with 737 type rating". It's the whole "becoming a pilot in the first place" part that's hard, not certifying a new type. Plenty of pilots are certified to fly multiple types. The fundamentals of flight are the same across all planes.

The airlines would've just had to retrain their existing pilots to fly the new type. It's not nothing, but it's a lot less worse than massive lay-offs and rehiring.
Chances of that are ~0.

And still, failure would be detectable, because you'd stop getting emails. And arguably that's better than false activation.

But the point is that this is open-source. So you run your own service.
And the sociopaths blasting music from their cars at 2am.
Thanks for that, that's helpful. That's pretty damning evidence, and I can't find anything that might look similar from Namibia in Stellarium.

Since you mentioned my motives, I'll address that: I'm just tired of the Internet falsely accusing people and want to see more evidence before the pitchforks come out.

But in this case, I'm convinced.
> Regardless of the stupidity, that's still a pretty poor outcome. I assume the same applies if you were shoulder surfed, or you're an early victim of a newly discovered security bug? Or if you're kidnapped and forced to perform a transaction?

All of those are possibly overturned if you can prove it wasn't really you or you were kidnapped. Things like signing away your company or emptying your bank account has the usual countermeasures. The physical aspect of your online identity does mean that you can take clear and simple precautions of it leaving your possession, someone just shoulder-surfing can't do much. It can't just be your SSN (our ID code) leaving your knowledge, it has to be someone near to you in which case no other system protects you either. So it really isn't a downgrade at least in my opinion.

> So you're saying there's no technical aspect that prevents stores from obtaining your identity? That's an outright failure. I've personally moved back to strictly paying cash for groceries [0], so this would certainly not be a welcome development for me.

If you choose to, yes, there's nothing that stops them. If you don't then they can't remotely collect that information. Unlike the CIA or NSA has, there isn't a private-company accessible facial recognition API :P
Someone else pointed it out already, but thank you as well.

But I'm not going to apologize for expecting more evidence in a blog post accusing someone of fraud.
I don't know - a lot of those nuclear plant applications seem to stall ;)
Yes, by applying external pressure in our interests to get what we want from another population.
So a lot is known at this point:

1. The A320neo caught Boeing completely off-guard;

2. The threat of the likes of American Airlines (already a mixed Airbus/Boeing customer and the largest airline in the world) placing a large A320neo order for regional aircraft operations scared the bejesus out of Boeing management;

3. For airlines like Southwest that are pure 737, the prospect of adding a plane that didn't share a common type rating with their existing fleet would complicate their lives and make them vulnerable to a sales pitch from Airbus; and

4. The development cycle for a completely new body was too long for many customers as it would arrive several years after the A320neo.

I don't think any of this is in dispute so the constraints for Boeing were to design a more fuel-efficient plane that shared a common type rating with the 737. To get there:

- They added newer, more fuel efficient engines. These changed the flight characteristics so they had to be moved;

- These engines moving made the plane more vulnerable to a stall situation. To counter this, they added MCAS, which would point the nose down when the AoA sensor told it the nose was too high;

- Standard configuration had 2 AoA sensors but MCAS only ever read from one;

- There was a safer configuration as an optional extra purchase;

- Telling airlines and pilots about this and providing overrides risked the common type rating.

I don't believe any of this is in dispute. It is widely believed, but not yet proven, that the primary cause of both fatal crashes was a runaway MCAS that drove the planes into the ground. It's also believed that with proper training a pilot may have been able to counter this (as happened the day before the Lion Air crash with a pilot in the jump seat).

Now what I find interesting is the response people have to all this. Some claim this is a fundamental design flaw that puts a shadow over the plane. Others believe it will be corrected and everything will be fine.

I'm firmly in the first camp: the plane CLEARLY flies differently to a 737. An automatic system, with no triple redundancy, was required to correct the flight characteristics of the plane.

I'm no expert but it seems to me the plane is fundamentally flawed at this point.
fack man, this is some crappy vendor releasing un-documented APIs.. Except this is a machine that is carrying hundreds of lives.

Regulations needs to ensure every little detail about these planes are articulated to the end-user.
What's New in Android C++ Development (Google I/O'19)
Unbelievable. In 2019 doing that kind of things, it's pure evil.
His opinion denigrates others:

> What an absurd and tiresome article.

> IOS is significantly easier and more intuitive than any PC ever was, including the Mac.

> The only people who could possibly find iOS unintuitive are those whose minds have hardened in a PC shaped mold.

Sounds like he has no place for alternative opinions of any form.
I don't think those are relevant at all? Those are package repositories, this is a decentralized repo pull request system, basically.
This is probably it, but even if not, there's a large amount of randomness in these kinds of situations, so it's not clear you'd be able to derive anything meaningful at all. Disasters are a highly complex, multi-factor, chaotic phenomenon.
One thing to be aware of is the individual ability when it comes to acquiring language skills varies, a lot!

The same applies to any skill really. We all know self taught programmers who are great. We all know top school programmers who suck.

If you have a knack for it, age won't be much of an issue. If you don't, it'll be hard regardless. Children don't have a choice in the matter so they all learn. Once you have a choice, most will opt out of struggling to improve their language skills to remove accents, etc.
Yes, it doesn't matter which two countries it was, but it's fine to point out that many airlines in many countries didn't see these problems. The planes flew in many places every day with no trouble.

You are calling me out over nothing. This is uncharitable, to say the least. Why make trouble?
You can actually add nightly-gpu-py3-jupyter if you'd like GPU level tensorflow as well :D
this is what marketing people are paid to solve. they'll rebrand it, have some feel-good TV commercials like BP did after they dumped millions of gallons into the gulf, and somehow get on with life.
I agree with this. I recently implemented similar changes in my daily routine. I am at least twice as capable and productive.
IQOS is crap, it failed from the start and this is just a face-saving act.

If anyone is interested, it could never have had enough battery for a decent puff.

A half-hearted attempt at beating ecigs. It could not have succeded.
Do you realize that most of us can't remove our breasts in the morning for work & put them back on for a date?

Having a female body is not a mixed signal.
Didn't seem to transform it at all?

Google "White Lobsters", far better stories out there -

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2007/oct/09/international....
that c++ compilation and injection stuff looks like some very exciting black magic shit..mist check it out
But that just amounts to using business and work as your family and friends. Which is still kind of a failure to distinguish and is all the more tempting if your "work family" provides all the validation your regular family used to, plus throws in a bunch of perqs.
> That's right, I was laying down a very liberal criteria

> but the answer is going to sound pretty silly.

Yes, I was trying to illustrate that the line between 'science' and 'metaphysics' is necessarily a blurry one, and the choice of (and justification for) where to draw it itself lies in the realm of metaphysics.

The broader the universe of claims you admit as scientific, the more 'testability' and 'falsifiability' lie closer to the realm of theory. However, even theories (and paradigms) that can't be directly placed on the experimenter's bench today can point towards fruitful lines of investigation.

On the flip side, we can't but to make metaphysical (and therefore non-scientific) claims and hold them as true, despite our best efforts ... the strong version of 'scientism' (that only scientific claims can have meaning) is a self-defeating one.
That's not it. The biggest issue is that people who have this disorder can't interpret what other people are saying properly, like someone might be talking about taking a dog on a walk and the person thinks they are talking about how they are a dog. And being around other people who have the disorder makes it even worse because you have people that have delusional ideas and speech inspired by those ideas bouncing off other people that are interpreting that speech in a strange way. Which leads to an amplification of the perception of the disorder.
If I understand correctly, if you wanted to switch from 737s to 757s, you don't lay off your pilots and hire new ones. You take a few pilots at a time off of 737s, and spend months re-training and certifying them for 757s.
Umm... the DSM-V has psychopath and narcissist. Those are two distinct categories of personality.

So which one is more parsimonious: there are two discrete personality types (narcissist and psychopath) and everyone else is ill-defined, or everyone exists in a discrete personality type?
You need to get the house off the ground to allow the storm surge to pass underneath. 15 feet (5 meters) is about what you should plan for. You would need concrete piers going down 40+ feet (13 meters) to provide enough shear strength to protect against the wind load and also the sand erosion that will happen.

Something to consider is that all that weight up high (if you elevate a brick house somehow) will cause the house to function as an inverted pendulum. The wind in a hurricane isn't constant - it has both infrasound and pressure waves[1] in the audible range and if it happens to match the resonant frequency of your building, that's bad.

Maintenance is constant in coastal areas. They usually use fiber-cement siding ("Hardie Plank") as it doesn't rot and provides some resistance to wind-driven projectiles (aka your neighbor didn't bring his patio furniture indoors, and now the chairs are missiles). Air conditioners last half their usual expected lifespan because they're constantly running and the salt-laden air corrodes them.

[1] Apparently hurricanes can induce "earth hum" via friction contact. https://arxiv.org/html/physics/0509103
Thank God I'm not the only one who can't drum up support on reddit. One thing that has worked for me in the past, though, is buying upvotes. Sometimes that works and sometimes it doesn't. People really love to downvote things. I mean they love it. They'd marry downvoting everything that isn't a meme if they could. Also, I think reddit is probably wise to bought upvotes. Either that or my super power is making people universally downvote my posts until the upvotes I purchased run out. I mean reddit can be good but successful posts are pretty random as far as I can tell.

But also, even if you get like 400 page views (which I did too once, thanks to purchased upvotes) those numbers drop off fast. I wonder if slow and steady advertising on facebook would be a better way to go.
actually you're being really ignorant to the fact that tons more flights originate in the US and UK so if they all have an equally-likely probability of failure, we should have seen one there first. Ethiopia and Indonesia had the first incidents. Boeing is mostly at fault here, but it may not be a coincidence that countries with lower standards of certification had the first incidents.
It was a peculiar aside - you shouldn't be surprised that you were asked about it.
> Having work life balance is somewhat of a luxury,

Tell that to the history of labor unions
Watching to many movies.

The point they catch you in the supply chain is not the ocean part, it's what you do with it when you arrive or intel from picking it up.

> huge downside risk of being caught

People climb cliffs all the time and handle the risk of the rope breaking and dying.

What if you have a fit in a car and crash (Or someone coming the other way does), is that hard to handle? Death is way worse than being caught with drugs.
What seven seater electric is available at a price point below $70k? Any electric minivans yet? How about electric jeeps under $50k? Can you tow a large trailer with electric vehicles under $100k? There aren’t “options at all price points.”
This whole situation was already depressing.

Now it is even more so considering that shareholders, who lost nothing of real value, are likely to receive to largest compensation.

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

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

Here's hoping some of those shareholders take that money and give it somewhere where it does good. Personally I couldn't keep it and live with myself.
I live on Moffett Field and the noise from the 101 is deafening and the occasional noise from a C-130 isn’t even noticeable. Freeway noise is far more disruptive than almost airplanes.
EVs help at intersections a bit, but most road noise is wind/tire noise. Above 20mph, an EV is just as load as any reasonable modern car.

You'd get a lot more mileage targeting heavy trucks, and older and/or modified vehicles.
That's a UX oversight that I can so so so imagine myself doing if given the chance.

Excellent reason to test interfaces with people who've never used it before
> They had to install MCAS because the plane was unstable in high AoA mode, i.e. during takeoff.

Forgive me if I'm missing something, but isn't MCAS disabled while the flaps are extended, which is the case during takeoff and landing?
Fair enough. For my part, I'm tired of the internet (and HN in particular) being quick to dismiss the opinions of actual experts in any given field for superficial reasons. Your original comment that started this thread strikes me as a good example of the so-called "middlebrow dismissal": https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5072224

Yes, one shouldn't blindly accept the words of an authority. That doesn't mean it's a good idea to constantly demand that those authorities constantly back up every little thing they say, even on topics about which they are more knowledgeable than you are. That gets irritating really fast (which I suspect is why you got downvoted), and more importantly, it tends to derail more interesting and productive discussions.
I wonder if these influencers are coming from the Russian troll farms that were trying to spread propaganda during US elections. I would be very surprised if they kept the same head count.
Ah, where do I start. Two of my close relatives have schizophrenia, people whom I’ve known since they were born. They were both diagnosed around 19 and are now 29. In the last ten years we’ve tried many medications, hospitalizations, with little to no avail. I never understood the word curse when I was a kid. I read about it in stories and I had seen people curse each other. Living with schizophrenia is the definition of a curse. Lives wasted in an alternate reality. The lives of the care givers and family impacted terribly.
I don't like the deplatforming craze of the last few years, but getting banned from Coinbase is pretty mild. This isn't like getting banned from Paypal or Facebook, which permanently cuts off your options. It's more like getting banned from one particular web host, at which point you just sign up with another and keep going like nothing happened.

I'd be worried if I thought every exchange would do this, but this area is highly competitive and filled with small businesses that are either run by libertarians (who would defend Milo), or who want to benefit from the free publicity.
Oh no, the press found out. Let's spin this so we look like the good guys. We'll try again later. - Morris
Yeah each day I’d feel less and less guilty using adblockers and router rules.
How about all the lifted trucks with vertical / smoke stack type exhaust while they're at it?
Straight line calculation(not what will really happen) shows $2.89MM per family. Not out of line with US-valued wrongful death losses. Given that many individuals are outside the US, this is probably a good place to be. Of course its no replacement for a lost one.

Headline is clickbait though. It's only one involved component.

Yes, investors also are owed something. This is similar to VW emissions cheating.
Not enough for one puff? Why not? Batteries can hold a substantial amount of energy in them. It seems you are being hyperbolic; what I'm seeing is that they run for 5-6 minutes on a full battery, which is substantially more than one puff.
Go on youtube and search for juul videos and look at how many of these videos are essentially paid advertising targeted at children.