skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
" Google isn't doing us a favor here. They're just another developer trying to make a bunch of money off of our huge need for additional housing."

Though I don't like the prospects of Google doing this, there are two issues with the comment:

- Google is probably 'doing the city a favour'. Google has a gadgillion dollars we've handed to them, and their de-facto cost of capital (internally at least) is very cheap. The project probably won't make them a dime, it's borderline one of those 'moonshot' things, a speculative project that they can maybe learn from, get some PR, a giant branding exercise. They could easily lose a lot of money. They are definitely not doing this is a regular 'real estate play'.

- Toronto 'desperately needs housing'? Then why is Toronto very aggressively bringing in 100K people per year into the city? That seems like a dumb thing to do with a 'lack of housing'? Housing prices are a function of market demand, interest rates, and distorted somewhat by small amounts of inelastic demand from elsewhere.

But your original comment i.e. disusland is apt: the land is very valuable. The city should ideally zone it for whatever purpose we think is best, and then sell it. Then it will very actively 'used' for the purposes in which we have zoned it, and we don't need to worry at all about managing it.

Surely there are some strategic things we could to, but again that has a lot to do with zoning: maybe we want a big park, maybe a huge shopping mall, maybe 10000 identical homes, maybe 10000 entirely unique homes, maybe giant factories, maybe tiny factories - we can mostly zone and regulate for what we want.
A Randomized Controlled Trial of Interleaved Mathematics Practice [pdf]
No need to do so. The aerodynamic forces on the manual trim wheel on Ethiopia 302 were excessive because they were flying about 50kts overspeed.

The simulator is not supposed to teach what it feels like to fly the plane when it is so far outside of its certified flight envelope that even test pilots have not been there.

Instead, the simulator is supposed to teach you how to fly the plane and respond to emergencies so that the aircraft does not depart from the flight envelope to the point where a single failure or control input will cause a crash.

Simulating the sensations of flying the 737 Max upside-down would also require a tricky mechanical setup, but no one feels that such a thing is necessary or appropriate.

Natalie Kitroeff is the chief anti-Boeing cheerleader at NYT. She has a bachelor in International Affairs from Princeton.

I can see no evidence that she has a technical degree, or enough understanding of aerodynamics or any other technical matter to comment on whether someone fixed the drip in her kitchen sink properly. She is the poster child for post-facts non-technical journalism.

The facts of Ethiopian 302 are abundantly clear from the preliminary report: a single component, the AOA sensor, failed causing a common and easily-remedied runaway electric trim condition for which there was a clear and comprehensive memory checklist that, had it been followed, would have resolved this problem without even the slightest inconvenience to passengers.

The fact is, the pilots did not know how to fly the plane manually. The CVR indicates that they had poor cockpit resource management. Their training was hopelessly inadequate. The right seat pilot arrived in the 737 Max type with 98 hours total flight time. They turned the inevitable failure of a single component into a disaster.

Natalie Kitroeff is either a clickbait journalist with no understanding or regard for the simple facts of the matter, or else she is part of a purposeful effort to undermine Boeing, create chaos, and destabilize America and the West.

The facts are clear and unequivocal. All the trolls on here should read the preliminary report. Take a few minutes to look at the data from the FDR. Then put away the torches and pitchforks and stop supporting the fact-free idiots attacking what is almost the last company that actually makes stuff in the USA.
Reasons I Chose Laravel
I've just given up on Linux again. Again. And it's the GUI that makes that decision final. There were also (and I'm still fighting 'em) serious file issues (perhaps related to file name lengths, perhaps not), but these may well have arisen from Windows/Linux interactions or even Windows not getting along with Windows. But flickering and otherwise unusable or unstable GUI features in the distributions finally did me in. Damn. Just plain not ready for prime time. It's not that you couldn't go Linux if you absolutely had to, but the cost is just way too high. (I put the most time in with Ubuntu and ElementaryOS.)
If you are gay, and your gay male coworker accuses you of something it looks worse than if you are a woman, and a gay male accuses you. So, yes, of course it is different. Look at this way, a compatible sexual couple is at higher risk of an accusation than non compatible sexual couple.
I need to read the articles and the comments properly, but this

> It forces true leaders to step up and make the hard choices.

reminded me of a discussion on the radio about the mess of a situation detroit car manufacturing had got into. Someone summarised, saying that the bosses spent decades making easy choices instead of the right choices.
We use Django + Distill on Netlify for static output from Django projects. Netlify is awesome. Example: https://github.com/mgrp/django-distill-example
the most innovative thing i've seen talked about is an a hidden utility corridor running to all the buildings for trash pickup. Which can't actually be an original idea, can it?
"She offers to buy a 50% stake in Austria's Kronen-Zeitung newspaper and switch its editorial position to support the Freedom Party."

Little attention is usually paid to media ownership, yet this nicely shows how crucial it is. I've always found it odd how casual countries are on allowing foreign media ownership. A quick search turned up this: https://www.access-info.org/media-ownership-transparency - apparently, even if one does pay attention, getting the information can be difficult.
Fundamentally different are at least timeframes and security. Think decades of operations and advanced persistent threats.
As a french, I have to say the french local police (gendarmerie) has been using Ubuntu in all their stations for years and they are very happy with that !
> solve the inherent problems with surveillance

Which problems?
> It's that the PIE-speaking Yamnaya ... slaughtered mostly everyone (especially men) except the Basques.

There is no evidence for that blanket claim, genetic or otherwise. No archaeologist or historical sociolinguist working with the spread of the IE languages would deny that some violence occurred in prehistory, but there is evidence for cultural diffusion – yes, even before writing. After all, there are numerous historical examples of language spread by cultural diffusion in the absence of writing, where violence was only sporadic, and the principle of uniformity leads us to posit that the same was possible for the Indo-European languages. Humans are social creatures just as much as they are violent ones, and social pressures lead to language change just as easily as force of arms.

> swept in from the caucuses [sic]

The consensus PIE Urheimat was well north of the Caucasus. The Caucasus is only relevant to IE linguistics for areal typology reasons.
CSS has always been confusing to me. Every year there are a new set of "best practices" that seem to only serve to work around how CSS works (hacks, basically). Now we have CSS grid, which looks like tables, which were supposed to be bad (although I never understood why).

If CSS can't do the layouts we need without a bunch of hacks and bashing your head against the table, why is it still a thing?
I actually hope this project goes through, just because if it's google doing it everybody will be watching closely and there might actually be some privacy regulations that come out of it. The data they'll want to collect is valuable, and sooner or later somebody is going to try to collect it.

Kicking google out of the city doesn't change that, it just means somebody you're less likely to suspect and more likely to sell raw data to the highest bidder will come in in their place.
Why do the 600 existing distributions not do that?

The way Linux systems are constructed is by gluing together a giant pile of disparately developed software, usually with fragile scripts, and trying to pretend that it is a robust and integrated system. Consequently, they require huge amounts of effort to alter, which will all be undone or in conflict with the next update. So what do you do when you get a Linux system working the way you want? You make your own distro, because it's the only way to keep it like that.
Thanks "wing328hk". I'm aware of the fork and the 4.0.0 release.

The list looks impressive and I look forward to more users sharing their real life experience adopting these code generators.

Kudos to your work on open-source projects.
ESign and Archiving Files in One Place
I'm not saying Science Technology Engineering and Math are just for business; I'm saying a knowledge of business is essential to achieving large ambitions.
I think that trying to understand an open source project is excellent advice for someone who already knows how to code and wants to get to the next level, but not for someone who is just starting to learn how to code. When you're starting to code, you need to start with very small programs and work your way up to bigger ones, not by trying to navigate through thousands of files filled with millions of lines of code. Understanding vast extents of other peoples' code is something that even experienced programmers struggle with.
Movie recommendation: We Live In Public
I think it is more that remote is nice when work is a part of your life and not the center of your life. Swap family with other major life pursuits. Family is often a forcing function for people to learn to balance work and the rest of their life. Remote affords more flexibility, but that means it requires more experience and discipline to balance your life.

If you already have the skill, remote gives you more flexibility to balance. But if you're not intentional about it being remote gives you more rope to hang yourself with, so to speak.
> it seems that the PIE culture itself was the result of early agriculturalists in the Pontic steppes being invaded by ousiders from farther up north in Eurasia - known only from molecular-level evidence, and labeled the "ancient north Eurasians"

Can you cite this, please?
Just because everyone gets the same model doesn't mean you can't have targeted ads. It just means the prediction model isn't modeled specific to your behavior. It can still make personalized predictions based on your search input, email content, etc.
what's the difference between a custom distro and a customized installer?
Seems this is one thing that nations with compulsory enlistment really have an edge with. It helps offer perspective on top of providing useful life skills, instilling more self confidence, physical training, and so on. Big problem is that, unlike most of these other nations, we tend to actively deploy our armed forces and in ways that are of dubious value which really makes compulsory enlistment a non-starter.

Big reason I mention this is that even if the indulgence you're describing might be the most effective means of getting your tasks done, it makes one wonder about the consequences of this change in society on a macro level.
No, and I probably shouldn't have derailed it by mentioning rape. The point is that people react to the possibility of accusation by thinking up the most extreme scenarios. So I'm saying that if you're going to base it on extreme scenarios for men, you need to compare it to extreme scenarios for women -- which happen more often in practice, so can't be faulted for being more extreme.

It would be more useful to not use the extreme scenarios when working through this stuff. They're really bad, but rare, and so not all that relevant.
The buried lede here is the desperation that built a subscription mandate. How long can the goose lay golden eggs before it's starved by competition that doesn't need monthly feeding?
depends on which country this is and with which hand. the left hand, i would probably take offence, despite being left handed myself.
A good software assurance program in a flight environment should also be ensuring simulators are of high enough fidelity for testing and training.

As this story develops, it sure seems like there are either gaps in Boeings QA program or there is a culture that overrides quality concerns
Static binary lifting is, in general, undecidable. Actually, correct disassembly is itself undecidable, and binary lifting builds on it. Doing it dynamically, like QEMU/tcg does, is doable.

It's really not too difficult to write a lifter, but it's time consuming. You have to take every instruction from the source instruction set and model its side effects in some IR. To make things simple, "whole binary" lifting tools seem to use a global CPU state (registers, flags, etc...) and so the IR you get is quite different from what you would obtain from a compiled program.
Small nitpick: I don't think MCAS is well characterised as an "anti-stall system".
That's Nautilus for you. Pages of fluff for a few lines of facts...

Once upon a time their articles had more substance.
That's quite the story!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bertha_(tunnel_boring_machine)
Spotify automatically creates a playlist from songs you've "liked" while they're playing on radio. So just start a certain song radio, like the kind of songs that go into the direction you want, and then start playlist radio on the "Liked from Radio" playlist.
To be fair, "a new distro" often isn't that much different: You take the package repository of an existing distro, tweak some packages and add your own packages on top.

I'd say the main difference is that just an additional repository on existing system might break if that base distro updates, while you control that if you go entirely through your own repo.
here's the picture that should have been in the lead

http://static.nautil.us/16038_96fb9b48825b741083d35b0137af1b...
Question:

> In a tense meeting with the American Airlines pilots union after the crash, a Boeing vice president, Mike Sinnett, said he was confident that pilots were equipped to deal with problems, according to an audio recording review by The New York Times. A top Boeing test pilot, Craig Bomben, agreed, saying, “I don’t know that understanding the system would have changed the outcome of this.”

Should that be Craig Bomben "disagreed"?
Search for bidet seat. Pretty fancy thing. Heats up too.

I am now frustrated whenever I have to use paper.
Even if air taxis can be made to fly safely, there's nowhere for them to take off and land. For safety they would need an open space free of trees, tall buildings, and overhead wires. How many of those spaces do we have in dense urban areas?

And they're generally not going to land on rooftops either. A roof has to be designed with a helipad from the start. It's tough to retrofit one later due to structural issues, and use of roof space for antennas and machinery.
So much of that is standard in Ontario (or all of Canada, I don't know). I hate coins for carts. I don't carry currency. Now I have to carry coins. Also they're irritating to handle while also handling my kids. Finally, they make me feel untrusted. Because some classless people walk home with carts and dump them in a ditch, I'm no-longer trusted not to do the same.
Ask Slashdot: Are the Big Players in Tech Even Competing with Each Other?
Does anyone have a screenshot of the rejected Android Auto app? Because my experience with apps from privatised government bodies isn't great and I can easily see how such an organisation can indeed create a buggy or unsafe app and cry wolf when they get caught out doing so.
Untracked: Fit your production bundle ignoring common files
I support the parent's comment.

I've had e-mail messages open in the GMail web interface that when I search for the words I can actually see on my screen come up with nothing.
Resistance to Noncompete Agreements Is a Win for Workers
There's a YouTube channel, called Invicta, that produces videos that cover how ancient civilizations handled commonplace tasks; their "How They Did It" series includes videos on things like how ancient Romans ran elections, paid taxes, and went to the bathroom.

Not part of that playlist, but a beginning recommendation of mine is their video "Everyday Moments in History - A Roman Soldier Prepares Dinner"(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4-l_EbXE3LU).
OK, sorry I called it dishonest, that was out of line since it was assuming bad faith. I just don't think we can pretend .net framework doesn't exist anymore just because the successor is announced.
Amber Brown: Batteries Included, but They're Leaking (Python Language Summit)
There is a process to declare that a parent isn't helping out financially but it's a little confusing. My grandmother knew about it because she's a lawyer, but there are also financial aid experts to help people navigate this system. You have to fill out some forms and get some people to sign some documents under oath that your dad isn't contributing.
I still follow the "Wadsworth Constant" from several years ago, which says one can skip the first 30% of content to get to the heart of the thing being discussed. Otherwise, I just skim through, looking for anything relevant to the title.
GraphQL is definitely something we're looking into. From what we understand, it's not a silver bullet to every single problem. It totally makes sense in certain cases (e.g. facebook).

Glad to know you have very positive experience with GraphQL so far.
where every sidewalk garbage-bin will have its own instagram fan page!
No he is agreeing that the pilots were as well equipped as they could have been, because he believes understanding the system wouldn't have made a difference anyways.
Her background is impressive. It's refreshing to see ethics. Also, this quote;

> Former Blackberry co-CEO Jim Balsillie called the project “a colonizing experiment in surveillance capitalism.”

https://globalnews.ca/news/4579265/ann-cavoukian-resigns-sid...
I don't mean to scold, but I understand that it comes across as pedantry.

It's hard to give good advice in a tone that isn't paternalistic, and I should get better at doing that. Sometimes you just want to ask a genuine question without somebody questioning your phrasing.

What prompted me to give out advice is "Feel free to downvote but please answer". I don't believe the comment deserves a downvote, but I assume (and it may be, as you put it, reading too much into it) that some downvotes come from people who are tired of seeing the attitude I describe in my reply (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7650799#7651343).

It's a case of greedy matching /why would you do/.
I thought they used the 3 shells...
Not all writing is utilitarian.

People in tech, on average, prefer the utilitarian. They also, as a whole, on average, are considered to have below average social skills and below average art skills. Their coincidence is not a coincidence.

> To make it even more frustrating to me the article teases different but-wiping techniques used today without telling me which ones. Thanks for that...

For an introduction to South Asian "toilet technology", both very accurate and very humorous: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dKkryfdtMNQ

[EDIT: also quite humorous is how this is getting down-voted into the toilet. Is it defensiveness? Angry denial?]
Germans who can afford it buy only basic stuff at discounters. Fresh vegetables are bought at traditional grocery stores or markets, bread is bought at a bakery, and meat at a butcher, etc. though these latter two professions are heavily in decline in the last 20 years. Comparisons with France and Italy are unfair; these are in a league of their own with respect to food quality (at a price, though).
Is this title gonna get censored too?
The wikipedia article used quite similar wording and images, and you can click through to some more topics: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xylospongium
Wait until chrome is not fully working anymore and all their shiny webapps require it.
10 days ago, 60 comments:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19856874
I can't imagine living in a society before they invented the three seashells.
Everyone faces advanced threats, large companies etc. The rational thing to do would be to pool talent and make sure there's a product that's well suited to them.

By 'pooling' I mean paying some smart people to do that. Like Rad Hat. Or --> Micrsoft! Or whoever.

Software is like anything else: it has to be made and maintained, it takes work, and someone has to pay for it.

The fundamentally different issue is 'platform monopolies' which we have to watch out for. But other than that it's just a product.

S. Korean gov. probably spends a zillion dollars making and maintaining roads. Do they design and build their own construction equipment? No way. Because it makes more sense for all of us if they pay some specialized people to do that, i.e. 'just buy it'.

More specifically to your point, it might make sense for a 'state version' of some linux distro, that really wasn't a functional variation, but more or less a 'bundle'. Maybe RedHat could do this ...
Guile 3 is happening soon as well, giving us almost 3x the speed. I am a very happy guile user. It is a very fun scheme to be working in, and delimited continuations (as mentioned in the video) blows call/cc so far out of the water that it isn't even funny :)
You don't need to understand business to be an engineer, meaning you can fix something an engineer can be expected to without knowing a damn thing about business.

Also, business is just not interesting for some people. I am one of them and I'm glad I wasn't made to agree with something I don't believe in, in order to be what I do believe in.
Impressive, the Codec 2 can go down to 0.7kbps! http://www.rowetel.com/downloads/codec2/hts1a_700c.wav
> while embracing all the bad behaviors that entails

What do you mean by this?
My bidet uses less water than it uses to flush, which in turn is less water than was used in creating the paper. If you need it heated, it doesn’t take a lot of energy to heat that small amount of water (as it doesn’t need to heat continuously, at most just when you sit down).
I am somewhat in tears now seeing this. I spent weeks at work trying to backwards analyze GCP IAP, which apparently uses this in the background (invoked via the gcloud CLI).

Almost like a lost art, it was impossible to find serious tutorials other than Michael W. Lucas’s book of a couple of years ago or the O’Reilly book from 2006.

Very much appreciated. Thank you for documentation on these very important systems that many of us sysadmins who came into the field later in life missed (other than when we connect to our cloud servers). Soon, even the cloud part I mentioned will be gone mostly to because of ‘kubectl’, as Kelsey Hightower has said.
“One tree produces about 200 rolls (100 pounds (45 kg)).” https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toilet_paper

Now, how much land each tree needs, and how long it takes to grow is not exactly easy to calculate. But, something like 2 * 200 trees per acre / 20 years for fast growth forest ~= 1/20 acre of forest per person for sustainable production does not sound bad.

And that’s assuming you can’t use waste streams from some other processes like sawmills.
This previous story (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19902068) implies that the simulators try to simulate the forces, and in a particular simulation even the simulator crew wasn't able to move the wheel:

"What the U.S. crew found was eye-opening. Keeping the aircraft level required significant aft-column pressure by the captain, and aerodynamic forces prevented the first officer from moving the trim wheel a full turn. They resorted to a little-known procedure to regain control."