skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Boeing seem to be pushing part of the blame to the pilot's -"Pilot error" - but this isn't due to 'lack of training' but the fact there was NO training and MCAS was not included in the manuals [1][2].

[1] https://www.seattletimes.com/business/boeing-aerospace/u-s-p...

> Jon Weaks, president of the Southwest Airlines Pilots Association, said Monday the airline and the pilots “were kept in the dark.”

“We do not like the fact that a new system was put on the aircraft and wasn’t disclosed to anyone or put in the manuals,” he said in an interview. What’s more, he noted, Boeing and the Federal Aviation Administration have now warned “that the system may not be performing as it should.”

[2] https://theaircurrent.com/aviation-safety/what-is-the-boeing...

> "Since it operates in situations where the aircraft is under relatively high g load and near stall, a pilot should never see the operation of MCAS. As such, Boeing did not include an MCAS description in its FCOM. The explainer continues: "In this case, MCAS will trim nose as designed to assist the pilot during recover, likely going unnoticed by the pilot."

There is another explanation, according to a Tuesday report in The Wall Street Journal: "One high-ranking Boeing official said the company had decided against disclosing more details to cockpit crews due to concerns about inundating average pilots with too much information - and significantly more technical data - than they needed or could digest."
Can anyone else find a source about Etsy being based on Rails? I thought they were primarily a PHP/Node shop.
And yet, when I think of gitlab I think of the insane resources it consumes and the slowness of the system even when you overprovision by a factor of 2 on cpu.

Not saying I dislike gitlab, I actually really like it and we use the on-prem gold edition licensed to 6k seats. (as in, I put my money where my mouth is when I say I like it)

But of the things people complain about regarding rails that's that it's: large, heavy, slow et al.

All of those points carry directly over to gitlab and are the biggest argument against using the product.
Plaid Launches in the UK
Very cool project. Will the traffic boost from HN first page throw electricity consumption over an edge?
TensorFlow Graphics Library for Unsupervised Deep Learning of Computer Vision
Religion offers an alternative to a life based on self interest. To love others, feed the hungry, shelter the homeless, give to the poor, care for prisoners, the elderly, the addicts, etc.
Coding from Life
You don't need to appeal to anything like this to see why religion is bad. Its just straight up crazy. I spend decades of my life trying to have deep arguments about this with people on the internet and elsewhere before it occurred to me that its so obviously crazy that trying to have deep discussions about it are a waste of time. Imagine trying to convince someone that Thor isn't real. That is how crazy it is no matter what religion you are talking about.
I used Oracle ADF by force :S

I was consulting for companies using it as a main java framework for all their work. While you can write Java code, most of the time you don't because it gets generated (along with lots of XMLs) and you need special hardware, IDE, build server etc...

Needless to say, the end result was in each case junk, sometimes so big that dedicated oracle tech crew couldn't fix it in 6 months. Any time you are out of the ADF comfort zone (which is like 10 minutes after you tried CRUD) you don't know what to do or you have amazing performance problems (team was using huge dedicated server which could run easily 100+ services instead of the single one badly).

There is nothing as horrible as it is, its even framed as MVC framework. I would rather Scratch or Lolcat.
100% agree. Developer happiness, conceptual compression is another important concept that DHH likes to talk about. If there's a hard topic that devs need to understand sometimes, Rails makes it a point to guarantee that devs don't need to understand all those things all the time.

Conceptual compression means that you can unpack those ideas and work with them when you need them, or pack them back up and don't pay attention to them when you don't need them.

The biggest example that I can think of is ActiveRecord. I can't tell you the number of times I've seen presentations by programmers who work with other frameworks like .NET, who have embedded large, complex SQL queries into their code. They don't think twice about it, don't even flinch, parsing SQL is part of the cost of doing business in this language.
A government also can and should prioritize amongst multiple simultaneous priorities.
Previously on Hacker News: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19407847
on windows 10 home edition?

try installing security updates only. try denying a specific update. try freezing you installation at a specific build number. try running a machine unattended for a month without it rebooting. and next time you update, check your settings. chances are good that something, somewhere, got silently reset to defaults.

the only option for personal windows 10 installations (i.e. non-enterprise) is to blacklist the windows update service. and with each update, you have to find a new way of blacklisting the service. the settings allow for some changes -- you can defer certain types of updates for up to one month -- but eventually microsoft _will_ push new updates to your device and they _will_, if needed, reboot your PC.
Scientists Discover Fungus That Collects Gold from Its Environment
Fair enough. :)

Docker does have fairly good support for SELinux built in tho (which counts as "using Docker" in my book).

And I do like that Docker makes the SELinux fairly straight forward for the simplest usecases (adding :z or :Z to volume directives).
Emperor yes, military no. What's the point?
The policing can very so much in the US. You have regions where cops will try to seize money / property from innocent travelers as part of county funding instead of raising taxes.

The punishments can vary so much.

Private prisons create this profit incentive to jail more people.

Prisions should be a cost center not a profit center.
I agree it's not typical in terms of the scope of the project, but Microsoft literally just released a browser based on it, joining Opera, Brave, etc.
IMO there's a fallacy among some that _any_ course of study from _any_ college is worth taking on debt. While education is getting commoditized - and there are no guarantees even with so-called high ROI careers - there is a real risk of falling into a debt trap if its not considered carefully. At that point, its no use blaming "college education" for choices about which college and what education to get, that didn't work out.
Presumably to optimise this website would mean different things? For example would it be better to read from the flash drive or cache things in RAM power-output-wise? I think that's a question we never ask. We would for example consider a memcache versus none for performance reasons but probably never for power output reasons.

Very interesting!
The role of fungi in earth's ecology is endlessly fascinating.

In addition to laying the groundwork for complex life, there's evidence they helped in the emergence of intelligence and consciousness[1] as well as helping save honeybees[2]

[1] https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/pdf/10.1098/rsif.2014... (pdf link)

[2] https://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2015/10/09/446928755/co...
Speaking specifically about computer science degrees, God forbid that the colleges teach useful skills instead of all “theory” because a college degree should not be a “vocational degree” and it should “make you a better citizen of the world and expand your mind”.
I wouldn't say paying for something voluntarily is "robbing". Just bad marketing. And yeah, government subsidies inflating costs is a classic outcome.

Demand has also dropped since the quality of post-secondary students has regressed to the mean of society. Schools used to be more selective, and you'd only get in if you were in the upper percentiles of society in terms of aptitude, ability, and work ethic. In the 60s, only 10% of people had college degrees. Now almost any high school graduate can find a university program.

Unfortunately the selective outcome was marketed as achievable to anyone who goes to university, leading to swathes of people forking over money expecting the best result.
> Accurate, current information on topics that are relevant to the continued health and progress of society is presumably of great value to those members of society - which is to say, people would pay for that.

One of the main reason behind government-imposed taxes is precisely because things that benefit society are not perceived as worthwhile to pay for by individuals, even if said individuals get direct benefit from it. The mission of news platform looks like something perfectly aligned with public funding... except for the risk of government influence on published content.
MUAs that understood ad-hoc formatting with things like asterisks and underscores pre-date the invention of Markdown by more than a decade. They didn't really work well in practice.
13th Grade. — Still waiting for someone to change my mind.

When I was graduating there was no option but to apply to colleges. We carved our time in classes to fill out applications. We were sent to guidance counselor to help select schools. I remember the worst kids in class who hated school talking about what college they were going to next year.

At least now Trade School isn’t a bad word, and coding boot camps are a step in the right direction (sort of).

I shake my head when I see calls for free college. There IS GOING TO BE a barrier of entry SOMEWHERE. We moved it from BA/BS degrees on to Masters, now those are becoming worth less and less as the prices go up. Now people act surprised, but this seems obvious.
Yes, it's there, you can enable it, but I haven't heard anyone recommend it for production use, and it's not enabled by default. I tested it myself, it seemed to make my boring use case a little bit faster, once the JIT cache is initialized.
I read both pages, and I think they do a very good job of explaining the problem part. I don't think they do as good a job of explaining what exactly is the value Volument brings.

As an other commenter pointed, it's not clear whether the images in https://volument.com/learn/how-volument-works are actual screenshots of the product running or just there to clarify the points, and if they are not screens of the product I'm left with no screen of what exactly will be the product.

To me, it does feel a bit like when you're interviewing someone for a position, and they're not able to really separate their own contribution from what their team achieved.

Just my 2 cents though, I wish you the best :-)
Youre only paranoid if youre wrong.
The following business model works well in Turkey: Make your news business loss centre, make money from government contracts that you are awarded in exchange of positive news coverage of the politicians in power. A phone conversation of businessmen discussing creating a fund for that purpose leaked a few years ago, they are now the biggest government contractors in the world.

The outlets that do not depend heavily on government contract handouts utilize all the tactics criticised in the article. Few more "prestigious" or "independent" publications try the donation and subscription models with limited success.

This time the democracy suffers heavily, government accountability is no more.
Again, absence of evidence does not mean much. Nobody is expecting the workers to fall down after minutes of work there, the effects of low level radiation are subtle but given the known mechanism or damage there is no basis for calling such levels safe. Workers working with radioactive tailings may suffer harmful long-term effects. But it is hard to causally connect old age health issues with presence in these areas decades ago. You cannot conclude "likely safe" from absence of information or because the workers seem fine. You would have to do the studies, which as you say, probably were not made.
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Thank you for putting on three sentences my multi-paragraphs :-)
Funny how all it took was Steve Jobs saying "no Flash on the IPhone, it sucks" and that was the end of Flash. Thank God.
great for the publishers with huge audiences, not so much for smaller news sites. How many news subscriptions will people pay for after they sign on for the New York Times, Washington Post, and the Wall Street Journal?

Well, does there need to be more than three? I'm not sure where the assumption came from that news is broken if we're not all consuming 15 different outlets every day. In the past it was normal for people to subscribe to just one news outlet! Three is pretty good going, and not going to break the bank for many readers.
People argue (morality aside) that one of the major deterrents to many crimes is how they’ll make it almost impossible to have a decent life after being convicted.

Avoiding a university education does the same thing. Why do we have no farmers and electricians? Why do we have too many graduates and too much student loan debt? Because everyone is threatened into attending university.
I work in the Danish public sector and we currently have 300 systems from various contractors. Almost all of them are moving toward a C#/JAVA api based backend and an Angular front. Only one of those systems uses Vue. None of them use React.

Outside the public sector React is a bit more popular, but it’s still mainly used outside of enterprise and Vue rarely sees any use.

The job-market doesn’t seem to follow the tech hype cycles much, at least not when you live in a country like mine.
Absolutely agree - these skyrocketing tuition fees should be causing a rise in trade schools and other (shorter, less expensive) paths to a career. Not everyone needs a 4-year or postgraduate degree to make a decent living.
I just saw Lobsters can send new stories and comments as plain text emails. With an advanced MUA (e.g. mutt) you could probably implement your own scoring algorithm.

(I'd appreciate an invitation, too: <hnname>@secure.mailbox.org)
Why not publish a specific threat?

These vague "The Chinese are up to something but we cannot reveal what" isn't really helpful, particularly given the current trade tensions (and political motivations e.g. "bring jobs home").

I'm not really "siding" with the Chinese, they may be up to something, but the US has really done themselves a great deal of damage when their own allies don't really believe them.

Just publish technical information. It isn't hard. It would do huge damage to the Chinese and reinforce the US's whole argument. But yet after over a year, nada.
Python3+ and PHP7+ are faster than Ruby though. Maybe they were comparing modern ruby to 10 year old PHP/Python?
> and way fewer millennials went into trades.

Ive been doing a lot of renovation on my condo lately...and found there's a couple distinct categories of people in trades.

- Those who suck at their job
- The scammers
- Those who are so overbooked they have a 4-8 months waitlist and charge 3 times as much as the rest.

Even the first 2 categories can be hard to come by, too. But for a good, let say, carpenter? I'll happily pay north of $200-300/hour. Because those who are cheap are usually just scamming/screwing me anyway and will cost more in the long run, so may as well get it right the first time.
well 16.8 (which basically was the latest version)

also btw: https://reactjs.org/docs/hooks-faq.html#do-i-need-to-rewrite...

and I still have no idea how I only do stuff on the client in a SSR environment (stuff that i did in componentDidMount)
The accumulation of random bit flips on consumer gear is going to bring the thing into a weird buggy state or kill it eventually anyway.

There’s no appetite for selling consumers ECC memory either.
I too use colours and table from time to time in e-mails.

But unless their e-mails are the length of a Shakespeare play, people aren't hitting the 102 KB limit with <b> tags.

They're hitting it with <td valign=3D"top" class=3D"pre=
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The labor markets for entry-level professionals is broken. On the demand side, we have companies looking for competent professionals. On the supply side, we have high school students.

In between we have guidance counselors, standardized test purveyors, lenders and scholarship providers, college ranking guides, universities and their career offices, internship recruiters, recent college graduate (RCG) recruiters...a line of middlemen!

Improving the transmission of information, most critically wages, as well as hiring conditions and preferences, from the demand side to the supply side is something we need but seldom discuss. How can we incentivise those close to high school graduates to have--directly or indirectly--skin in the game down the road? Or, vice versa, incentivise those close to RCG hiring to talk--directly or indirectly--to high-school graduates.

Many markets have lots of middle men and long transmission channels. But few are so benign about broken price transmission.

(Anecdote: I inadvertently avoided this problem by aggressively pursuing internships early on, including in high school. This let me peer through the process to the decision makers on the other side. I don't know how scalable this is as a solution, however.)
Is the CEO really the best person to ask about such in the weeds details of the codebase, like how the choice of web framework is working out? The CTO seems like a much better choice but even they might be too far removed, I’d rather hear from a sampling of engineers and tech leads that are actually coding and solving technical problems in the app every day.
But the real question is will they include the sound stage the moon landing took place in /s. I am actually a bit sad that stamps are not as big a deal as they used to be. I always enjoyed getting weird stamps as a kid on letters. It seems like a loss for society that these little bits of art aren't as popular.
more like

Colleges: "Pay us $100k so that the interviewer will call you back"
Sorry, but body text of 28px? The first 5 lines have a font size of 42px?

The design of the site is a dumpster fire. You shouldn't have to zoom to 67% just to make the article actually readable.
Now they know how everyone else feels
Security researchers in the field have been talking about this for several years. DJI absolutely dominates the consumer/pro UAV market so this is a real issue.

Source: I had a UAV related startup several years ago and got to know some of the security folks.
But it never is by the rules is it?

A ton of startup founders striking it rich were already rich.

A ton of scientists in the medieval and rennaisance era were already rich.

People who went to university back in the day had an advantage because they had knowledge no one else had.

I'm seeing a couple of patterns, they are:

1. You need to have a solid base in life and quite some free time in order to invest in a competitive advantage. This used to be knowledge, but now this is less the case.

2. People who are able to game supply/demand mechanics will win in the game of money. Some people don't play that game, they also win (by focusing on their own goals). Other people who do play that game simply lose.

3. Currently having a strong network is a competitive advantage.

I feel like these things really follow the theory of (I forgot what it was called): something that is an advantage becomes a requirement 15/30 years later.
Agreed. The cafeteria at my workplace finally moved over to all-paper takeout containers.

Even those damned lids—I wish they could move over to something at least cellulose-based. The lid doesn't have to last long after usage—but I wonder if that affects shelf-life... or whether it's just a matter of costs.
If only more people had that self-awareness in high school. Unfortunately, the influence of parents and other social pressures often cause kids to make choices that aren't right for them.
FWIW, I tried both with and without hardware acceleration on my 2018 MBP, and it worked fine both ways.
I'm not crazy about the significant filenames. Maybe I should because I like significant indentation. This might help me see where those who don't like significant indentation are coming from.

https://github.com/sveltejs/realworld/blob/master/src/routes...
GitLab (YC W15, All-Remote) Is Hiring Front End Engineers
They said this 20 years ago, and then they opened up immigration or they will loosen up licensing or some other non-obvious outcome. You'll be amazed at what people will do to keep labor rates low.
It is indeed sickening. But it's difficult to just address these abuses of the system when people are so quick to grab their pitchforks against all religion.

I assume you were referring to my comment. To be frank, I always feel a little threatened by these types of stories because so many people end up using it as leverage to question the value of freedom of religion (a freedom I hold dear).

Perhaps you may have felt the same defensive instinct when a popular response to the sickening display of racism or hate is to call into question the value of freedom of speech.
As a customer, I don't care about your profit. The more obviously you try to maximize it, the more sacrifices you make on the product (by e.g. using ads, "native advertising", tracking, and other scummy business practices), and the less I want it.

In the limit, the newspaper that follows "maximize profits" route look like Breitbart.
> Chrome was free when Opera was a paid product.

Chrome didn't exist when Opera was a paid product.
That's pretty dystopian. Governments shouldn't be commissioning news.
Since JS is the only thing you can actually use[1] in a browser you can argue that anything that runs in the browser is syntactic sugar (and in fact, Typescript is syntactic sugar).

A less flippant analogy might be macro support in Rust. It's clearly part of Rust, but the syntax is completely different and it requires IDEs to have completely separate processing just to handle it. I wouldn't consider that to be mere syntactic sugar either.

[1] Yes, yes, wasm
Sure, provided you already have your own fulfillment operation set up for other sales channels that's an excellent way to get the best of both worlds.
Its regularly astounding how few windows updates don't require a restart when most of my linux ones never do. The two filesystems act quite differently for locks, I know, but it is still a pain on windows.

I don't know how they'll get magic transparent updates when their model is to always require restarts.
Of the 99 articles https://gdpr-info.eu/ only 6 are checked.
You say airlines, but I think you mean airplane manufacturers?

Perhaps the airplane manufacturer and certifier should be separate manufacturers?

How is the NHTSA able
to certify crash tests for every make and model vehicle sold each year?
> ZeroTier: haven't tried it yet, sould I?

Yes. If connectivity to clients behind NAT is important and you don't want to waste effort creating a 'bounce off' server.

ZeroTier makes it really easy to setup a private VPN with minimal config. The real value add with it is the work that's done regarding hole punching and if you have a carrier grade NAT that is tough to get through, it will relay your traffic (albeit at a throttled speed) which can be a great time saver.

The other thing is their online 'Central' where you can add/remove devices, assign IP addresses, set flow rules and more. I really like their service and the best part of it compared to my WireGuard server is I don't have to worry about downtime due to some problem with my server.
There is no such thing as islamic countries.