skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No, we're back to, "why the heck didn't Boeing honor the regulatory requirement for simulator training, and tell American it was the best you could do?"

Clearly, the condition is recoverable, with simulator training. Throw in a triple redundant AoA sensor on top of the training, plus the inclusion of MCAS implementation details in the training material, and things would likely have had a much higher chance of being dealt with without loss of life.

Would Boeing have had a harder sell? Yes. Would there have been a non-zero chance of losing out on the order? Yes.

Would 300+ people currently be pulp? I think not. I have a great deal of respect for the skill pilots develop. They are only human however, and are therefore subject to the same weakness of not being omniscient.

If MCAS was the bullet, Boeing's opaque communication, and refusal to not game aviation certification regulations was the gun. Of that, I'm fairly certain.

What plays the trigger pull in this sordid affair is the last thing that remains to be declared, but there are some seriously bright neon signs pointing at either somewhere in Chicago, or at the culture as a whole at Boeing.

Let the digging continue. Let's see how deep the rabbit hole goes.
This will likely get flagged as duplicate to the highly contentious previous thread[1], but I hope it doesn't since the other thread was a mess.

It seems that in any climate change thread, many if not most of the comments get downvoted, much more to an extent than other topics.

Could someone scan the 50+ comment climate change posts and compare the controversial comment ratio (e.g. number of greyed-out vs non-greyed-out comments) and compare it to other types of 50+ comment posts? If the ratio is much higher for climate change posts, it seems like there's something nefarious going on (brigading, astroturfing, etc.).

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19897250
I miss the old internet.

Discovery and interaction were the big thing - meeting strangers in strange places. Now, that's basically impossible because each site that you use is designed with the goal of boxing you, keeping you where you are, talking to people who are just like you, because that apparently makes the most money. So now you'll pretty much always be stuck in an echo chamber into which only the angriest, meanest crowds can break through.

You could really be anybody, try strange things and explore strange ideas - and you did it all under an alias that you could just easily abandon if you felt unsafe. No doxxing, because nobody knows your real name. Good luck pulling that off now. The logging, the real name/email/phone requirements, it's just not possible anymore. The combined might of sockpuppet abuse, increasing complexity of bad actors' attacks, and the need for gathering real customers' information took that away.

I miss the old internet. And I don't even know how it could have survived to the present day. It makes sense why we entered the age of surveillance capitalism. You give data, you get free stuff. It's simple. People love free stuff, after all. But I wonder, did people even imagine that things would turn out like this? I wonder, is there some sort of an alternate future where this could be avoided? If things played out just a little differently?

What could save the old internet? Could it be the subscription-like model where sites you visit get a few pennies from you? Could it be keeping things decentralized, keeping the costs low enough to be manageable?

Or is this just it, is an internet that's this corporate-greed fueled quest to gather more data and to show you more stuff the only way?
I haven't seen anything indicating that the operation or repair process requires some sort of online authorization.
You realize that's a terrible argument, right?
In some areas of tech people only buy Intel. AMD might sell cheaper chips but people that place a premium on floating point performance, e.g. because they do 3D modelling, aren't going to be interested. Your gamer who has similar demands might go for price (so they can spend more money on games).

If it is the main tool for your job then you aren't going to want anything less than the best. John Deere seem to have that going for their business strategy.

The tractor business model reminds me of how workstations and mini-computers were sold with vendor lock in. That market didn't survive the 1990's and the onslaught of affordable PCs. There is nothing on the horizon to disrupt the tractor business, it is not as if new affordable mega-tractors are going to come along at ordinary car prices to encourage masses of people to go 'back to the land' and put the likes of John Deere in difficulties.

Bigger and bigger agri-business can't go on forever though, it is built on assumptions about the inputs. Half of the food on my plate tonight comes from places too far away for me to ever fly to myself, but, if climate change action is to happen then my diet and everyone else's will have to be a lot more locally sourced.
How much battery time are you gaining with a 1080p screen?

Agressive ad blocking (eg: DNS throuigh a piHole) and using a more bare bones window manager instead of Gnome/KDE (I'm fond of XFCE) would probably gain a lot of battery back.
You would use a little randomness to counteract that, I suppose. Like how "heat" is used in simulated annealing.
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> In other words, this is a domain where it is pretty clear that the scientific establishment has bit the big one, and alternative treatments based on things more like talking therapy (e.g. Soteria houses) and understanding schizophrenics as requiring stability, empathy, etc., rather than chemical tranquilizers, are more likely to be promising.

How will you evaluate if these alternate therapies are effective? You'll have to use the scientific method to research whether your alternative methods result in better outcomes for patients. Otherwise its just faith or some other nonsense.

Also, you're conflating a current treatment (clozapine) with the scientific method. The scientific method does not dictate that treatments need be pharmaceutical. Just that your treatment efficacy, whether its talking, empathy, Chinese herbs, etc etc, is evaluated via facts that can falsify your treatment hypothesis.

Again, science is not a straight line up. It has hiccups, it makes mistakes. But rigorously apply the scientific method (analyse the data of schizophrenia treatment in detail, accept the facts, revise understanding, challenge the current dogma), and eventually you'll come to a better understanding.
Additional side-note: Winne the Pooh is not banned in China, despite what the media is reporting.
Pretty sure you are there, bud. Their transgressions are numerous and extremely well-documented in major news stories.
`dominion` is meant to indicate a custodial and careful and caring role. Man is failing this duty.
Uber's IPO didn't leave any money on the table but it may haunt Uber & its execs
I'm picturing self-driving tractors as a labour-saver during the busiest time of year (haying). It would be a relatively simple technical problem to solve, and I could see manufacturers going for the market (and locking down the system at the same time - same as Tesla and Deere).
One can choose whether they want to begin a social & hormonal transition but they cannot choose to not have the genetic and biological factors that are at play[1]. I doubt anyone take the decisions lightly. It is a huge burden on your life.

In my case, I have decided to transition after 25 years of successfully living as a male. The burden of not transitioning was compounding with interest and I felt as if waiting any more would result in me being a toxic person both to myself and those surrounding me. Everyone has different factors at play. Personally, I had different hormonal levels than that of a regular male and had some female features as a child (testosterone bulldozes over those during puberty). I have also been told that my body processes estrogen slightly differently than the majority of males.

Three years old is indeed the age where gender identity starts to appear in children. It could be possible that the mother is telling the truth but one cannot say without an actual health professional's advice. It is normal for a child to experience different gender identities at that age since the brain is still forming. Usually the identity begins to solidify around five.

In the case that this identity cause distress in the child (attempting to mutilate themselves, depressive episodes, etc.), they should see a therapist. If there is a diagnostic of gender dysphoria which increase as their body develop, they might choose to use puberty blockers at the start of adolescence to stop the body from going through a puberty that increases this distress. It gives the child and therapist more time to go through those issues. Blockers can be stopped and a regular puberty would occur (with some possible health issue, so you shouldn't prescribe those unless the child is actually suffering). Should the feelings of distress and gender non-conformity still be present, discussion of an actual transition begin around sixteen years old. Children who transition from that path have the chance of not having lived the an extra puberty. It makes their transition easier and makes it less hard for the person to blend in as their actual gender. This avoid a lot of issues which adult transitioner have to struggle with their entire lives and will save on costs (facial feminization surgery, body feminization surgery, voice surgeries, etc.).

[1] A starting point for more information about this could be: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transgender#Scientific_studies...
Event-driven, asynchronous, programming

Here's a valuable addition to your toolkit of mental models for programming: Event-driven, asynchronous, programming (in the style of ES6 Javascript or a similar language. )

Some suggestions about how to learn the basics? tutorials on...

-- building a so-called "single page web app" with a framework like vue.js or even jQuery.

-- node.js to build a complex back-end server without using a threading model)

-- React (to build an interactive program to run in a browser)
Which says that "under the circumstances the captain's decision to ditch into the Hudson River was the better choice".

And you're criticising him for .... what, exactly?
The same could be said for the Facebook IPO (propped up, etc), but Facebook recovered after they demonstrated success in mobile advertising.

Not really offering a counterpoint here so much as I'm saying this has played out in the past with an ending quite a ways different from what's being foreshadowed here.
Value as judged by the customers, not rational actors. Useful as this is, drawing more focus to costs would drive customers to shop elsewhere. A version of this I could see shops actually implementing would be a graph of the "savings" per-item, a metric which is essentially meaningless but gives people savvy feelings.
Sony blesses them, but the ways in which a consumer can obtain those blessed discs is much more varied than the App Store, and Sony doesn’t oversee the sale of discs. You can’t rent or borrow apps, can’t resell them, can’t trade them...
I do likewise. Nice to think that their algorithms might be mis-trained, but I'm sure they can filter it out.
Is there video of the simulation?
PostgreSQL + PostgREST + react-admin == fantastic stack.

You can write an entire application in SQL and PgPlSQL but using an HTTP JSON API as the interface with a static and responsive BUI.

This allows you to be extremely agile in development and ops (because, e.g., you get to use logical replication).

I can't say enough good things about this approach.
Basic income does not address the fact that many of these regulations are required for the safety of the driver as well as other drivers on the road. Removing those to make the job cheaper to perform and thus more profitable doesn’t make it better for society, regardless of who reaps the profits.
I loved Designing Data-Intensive Applications. It gives you the reasons why NoSQL databases exist and the problems they solve. Moreover it gives you reasons to select one over another. It's really excellent and one of my top two CS books
Yup, am mid-40s and already tech employment is a crapshoot in a lot of ways. Not that the jobs are worth working at other than the pay being good. The expectations have gone through the roof.

"Oh, we pay you an inflation-adjusted equivalent of 1980s $50K a year so you should be absolutely devoted to us."

Yeah, whatever.
A Sully level pilot is one with extensive experience, particularly in edge cases. There are many such pilots... They have decades of experience that include pre-automation days.

Don't underestimate the accumulated knowledge and experience that gives one the ability to make a series of very important decisions in an extreme stress situation.
Not sure who is down voting you or why. Maybe because you (gasp) gave a recommendation on health insurance. Although I do not want to recommend anything to anyone, I will say that I DEEPLY REGRET the COBRA that I paid for and sincerely hope that folks will strongly consider that insurance != health.
I'm glad you made that decision for yourself and I think such perspectives are missing from the discourse about working-class folks dealing with addiction.
Really, DOS? And new versions of Microsoft Windows? That's not even remotely comparable to the situation with open source Android forks.
Over 10M people hit in single Australian data breach: OAIC
Not technically a paywall, I think access is free if you give them an email address to spam.

email: DumbFace81924@mailinator.com

password: bugmenot

source: http://bugmenot.com/view/aviationweek.com
Instead, what if receipts just include a QR code to a web page giving all kinds of details? customer could save or integrate with their personal financial management service.
The author was using it to illustrate how broken the market currently is:

>Of note, there are more than 10 Walmart stores for every Whole Foods store. The opposite is true for medical care as most physicians and hospitals strive for high standards and very few concentrate on lowering costs.

That puts things in perspective for a layperson - if 9/10 grocery stores were Whole Foods, the 1/10 Walmart would not be nearly enough to serve the poor population.
Okay that's a good point. Also I love the DF reference, DF is my all-time favorite game.

My original comment somewhat lacked empathy, perhaps because I don't suffer from problems with free time fragmentation because I'm always possessed by a Strange Mood. I still think my point stands though. I meet a lot of people with what I know to be fairly large chunks of time that don't do anything with them anyway, not because they feel like they can't achieve something in that time but because they don't have any hobbies or ideas, or particular skills. In fact, that's true for most people I meet, and it's actually difficult for me to tell whether that's an artifact of perceived free time fragmentation or not. And this is in a culture where people are 100% encouraged to develop skills and hobbies.

But think about it, as much as we hear about retired people doing epic things, we also don't hear about retired people, like my grandparents, being terminally bored and ending up back to the workforce.

Here's the thing. As much as jobs can be boring and soul-sucking, to an extent they provide more of something then doing nothing while on UBI does. In addition, they provide a lot of training for life, like perseverance through boring things, and people skills (this is my experience at least) that you can't really get anywhere else. Plus, while jobs might be unfun, developing any kind of skill and competency at something genuinely gives people a sense of self-worth. Often, jobs provide the sort of skill that is easier to master than, say, art or poetry. Unless UBI comes with some sort of education or structured skill development, it really won't be good for people in the way you're suggesting.

I'm willing to consider it possible however that there might be more people capable of learning skills and achieving self-actualization than we currently see manifest in society, and that with UBI those people will be freed up to do things. I just don't think that it's a totally positive thing. Besides all kinds of other logistical issues and issues like it ending up subsidizing drug addictions and such.
Would a possible recovery method be to roll the plane somewhat so that when the nose is forced down, it doesn't take the plane directly toward the ground?
In 2019 Makefiles are a useful tool for automating project-level things. Too often webapps will require you to install X to install Y to run producing artifact Z. Since Make is old and baked and everywhere, specifying "make Z" is a useful project-level development process. It's not tied to a language (e.g. Tox) nor a huge runtime (Docker). Make is small enough in scope to be easy, and large enough to be capable without a lot of incantations.

The big downside of Make, alas, is Windows compatibility.
What are you going to do when you need to replace them and there are no such option available anymore? (that would be the time that they come for you) Anyways, enjoy it while you can.
Privileged as that may be, how does it contribute to climate change? If anything I would expect a restaurant meal to be more efficient due to economies of scale.
Hmm. I usually like Nadia's writing a lot. This article, though, seemed to be much less "crisp" than others, and it confused me quite a bit.

Most of what she tries to describe in the initial part reminds me of the concept of "Moloch" (specifically in the sense described by Bertrand Russell's A Free Man's Worship, and Allen Ginsberg's poem): almost like a super-entity, resulting from the interactions of many individuals, but with a specific behavior of its own.

I don't thinks that it's about "ideas", as Nadia states; rather, it's the fact that molecule : gas = person : humanity, a person has personality but a large mass of persons has a behavior of its own, an inertia that you can't change as an individual.

In the second part of the article, I get the question, I am not sure it is related to the first part or not, and I am not sure whether it's important to compartmentalize, etc.
>If your prices are already beating the competition, and you already have a solid reputation for low prices, there is no incentive to continue lowering prices, even as you cut costs.

If they could reach many more customers by lowering prices, even a monopoly could potentially find it profitable to continue lowering prices as they cut costs.

A monopoly could also continue to cut costs to head off the threat of antitrust litigation.
are you talking about boycotting Stackoverflow or Facebook? I could reasonably boycott Facebook, sure. But the day Stackoverflow gets boycotted is the day no code gets written. /s
> DACA was differed action, it was not amnesty.

When was action going to be taken? Under DACA participants can renew every two years with no limit on how many renewals they can do. That's amnesty.

Regardless, there is nothing in the constitution that says an executive order cannot be reversed by a later president. The courts acted as if there is and ordered the continued implementation of DACA.
U.S. Internet users are being bled by the internet monopolies.
U.S. Humans are being bled by the health oligopoly.
When it comes to industry hurting society, no one who matters cares, and no one who cares matters.
"It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends upon his not understanding it!"
TFA said it was likely not recoverable under 5000 AGL.
There's nothing in there about eliminating the local warehouses in favor of storing a smattering of items locally in the partners houses/where ever. All this is is replacing the swarms of Amazon vans (and the costs and depreciation of those vans) with their new 'partners' vans. They're basically having people start tiny UPSs or DHLs for a (hopefully for their sake) very small area.
While you're right that long-term matters more, you have to think about the short term implications:

- People who joined late-stage, and that may have taken a lower salary for the upside once they IPO'd.

- Recruiting new people could be come a lot more difficult if the perception is that the stock is worth a lot less.

On top of that, after patiently waiting for years that an IPO is going to be when the fruits of their labor are reaped, but no actually it could be much later than that is not likely to help retention.
Seems like it would be a good idea to add crossorigin="anonymous" referrerpolicy="origin" attributes to user-provided images. This would prevent any 3rd party tracking or referrer leaking.
The best thing about this is that the vessels’ names are inspired by Iain M. Banks’s Culture novels.

https://fivedeeps.com/home/technology/names/
Its usually a brown cardboard overbox with a barcode that has extensive droptesting.

More common these days is for manufacturers to produce items, and separately purchase very durable over-boxes that are sent to eCommerce customers like amazon/walmart/bestbuy/etc.
> The companies are just giving people what they want.

Propaganda is extremely effective.

> Nobody is willing to make the lifestyle changes it would take to have a real impact on climate change. And it’s not unique to the US. Canada and Australia have similar carbon footprints per capita, suggesting it’s more a combination of material wealth and low density. Blaming corporations instead of the people for all that is asinine.

People move where it is cheap to live comfortably. Every level of US government subsidizes the shit out of suburbs and car commuting. If the true costs of people’s lifestyle were factored into the price, behavior would change in a hurry.

Individual consumers don’t have the information or analysis time necessary to factor in systemic effects of every choice.

> And what are our best and brightest from Stanford, etc., doing? Figuring out carbon recapture?

Some of them are. But doing research takes funding. If we want the smartest to take careers as researchers instead of looking to sell out and retire young, we should (a) tax/regulate the financial industry down to near break-even and enforce laws against fraud and other financial crimes, (b) tax capital gains as income, add additional income tax brackets for those making millions per year, tax large inheritances into the ground, consider adding a wealth tax, and crack down on tax evasion, (c) enact sweeping campaign finance reform, (d) pump more public money into basic research, (e) stop subsidizing the fossil fuel industry and shift those subsidies toward renewable energy, (f) while we are at it, clean up the broken health insurance system.
>The 2-month loophole you describe is the only useful thing about Cobra for most people.

Absolutely agreed, but it is peace of mind if you know you're going to be between jobs for 2 months or less.
> In this case, unlike in Illinois Brick, the iPhone owners
are not consumers at the bottom of a vertical distribution
chain who are attempting to sue manufacturers at the top
of the chain. There is no intermediary in the distribution
chain between Apple and the consumer. The iPhone
owners purchase apps directly from the retailer Apple,
who is the alleged antitrust violator. The iPhone owners
pay the alleged overcharge directly to Apple. The absence
of an intermediary is dispositive.

Key paragraph from opinion.
Well, that's the thing. He's not being charged with terrorism. They're just throwing his self-description back in his face as a rhetorical device, to persuade a judge or jury that he knew what he was doing was wrong.

It's really petty and juvenile for them to do this, but they aren't making an actual allegation of terrorism.
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