skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The thing that still bothers me about the 737 MAX information I've seen, in particular from the NYT article that was discussed here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20070509 is that I'm not convinced anyone at Boeing understood the flight characteristics of the aircraft, even after the 1st crash.

When you have a very complex system, which has been incrementally modified over a 50 year period, it is going to be really difficult to understand all the interactions. The NYT article describes a Jan 2016 parameter change on the MCAS to make it faster and more powerful.

I am convinced that the MCAS will be studied and understood, and pilots can be trained to respond appropriately. I'm not convinced that there is a process in place where the consequences of changes to the aircraft are known and tested in advance.

Ultimately, if the pilot is willing to fly, I'm willing to fly, but based on what I've seen, I don't think there was an adequate change control process in place, and as long as that is true issues will continue to be "discovered" in flight. Training is a solution to known problems, not unknown problems.
"Masculinity isn't an unchangeable trait though."

I am masculine. Can't change it unless I take hormones. I can wear a dress but that doesn't change anything.
> Anecdotally when my parents bought their house in 1978, the $600 a month they were paying on their mortgage was a slight stretch. When they were in their last year in 2008, that amount was laughably small.

Hopefully wage growth keeps up with inflation then.
>To verify you need evidence and a way to prove it is correct. Proof is hard.

What's wrong with verification via snail mail? Too slow? Can't automate it?
Several of the examples in the article hinted at familial estrangement, which makes things much worse.

I lived in Taiwan, which also has a stagnant birth rate (only 181,606 births last year, https://www.taiwannews.com.tw/en/news/3611847) and a decades-long trend for young people to migrate to the large cities, or go to China to try their fortunes there.

But there is also a strong tradition of multi-generational households and traditions/holidays that emphasize family relations or filial piety, Lunar New Year being the most obvious. Certainly, family strife exists (and can be exacerbated if people are forced to live together) and many seniors live alone, but I think because of the cultural emphasis on familial contact, there is also a level of contact and awareness that can mitigate the extreme situations described in the article. Being smaller also helps (most cities on the island are no more than two or three hours away by high-speed rail).

In recent decades, there has also been a trend to legally allow foreign caregivers (mostly Filipinos and Indonesians) for people aged 85 and up, and tacitly allow for foreign caregivers for younger seniors and wealthy families. I am not sure how Taiwan's national health system covers those costs, or if the elderly poor can afford them.

Does Japan have any similar system of allowing foreign caregivers?
I'm guessing you meant "wouldn't"?
This happens for LLCs that have never been properly closed (its a pain to actually close an LLC in Georgia). So when they initially seeded maps, that LLC data would pull up all around you or in your house even though the owner of the LLC had moved when you bought the house. :) yeah it happened to us. My only way to get rid of it was to get my "Local Guide" points high enough so that I could say that the business was closed...don't ask me what the threshold was...I just kept increasing my points until it finally removed it. On another note, apparently if you get enough Google Local Guide points eventually they send you some free socks. Seriously...not kidding.
Not the OP, but I'd much rather contribute that information to OpenStreetMap so that it's freely available to anyone who wants to use it (including Google!).
>Never mind my 10x increase in sales. Well, also I was an arrogant prick.

I never understood why "just results aren't enough" for working in some cultures.
Could you spoof the car to exit and continue thinking you were still on a freeway? A car being spoofed into thinking it was still on a freeway, while driving on city streets, might not prioritize certain rules when it approaches an intersection.
They’ve had more than a couple of years with plenty of resources to fix their apps.
Who manages the 'hub'?
there's a real open question regarding app downtime. I know being 'on call' is a common occurrence in a number of tech positions, but if the thing really 'needs' to be responsive and up 24 hours VA day 7 days a week and something can explode and take it down, then one should probably look at what other sectors with that kind of need do and have rotating shift/ rosters...

course, that would probably result in lower wages for those shift

(that being said, in my country, doctors working hours in the likes of hospitals are notoriously unsafe/long/unreasonable/unethical as well, so your mileage may vary)
Sure it's up 50% from the "reference price", but publicly for you and me retail investors we had NO chance at that gain.

You'd have been super lucky to get some shares at where it opened at $38.88 (12:08 EST). It immediately shot up to daily high of $41.95 which is most likely where retail trades would have executed at (assuming you used a market order, which you never should). Always buy with limit orders. See the following screenshot of the graph of today[1] of $WORK for reference.

[1] https://imgur.com/a/ULlMHMl
Many reasons, but the ones that come to mind are:

- Testing - quickly deploy a version of an OS and software to a fleet, then reboot into a pristine state or new state.

- Lab cost reduction. No hard drives in most of the fleet. Less power used.

- Consistent version across many test servers. People change things, reboot or power cycle and you are back into the same state.

I've used something like this in production before using NFS diskless. That was a bit messy. For labs, testing, it is great.
> I really value peace and quiet, and true peace and quiet can only be achieved in a detached house

Irony: one of the few reasons I continue to put up with the hassle of homeownership is that it affords me the freedom to play music as loud as I like, as late at night as I please, without irritating my neighbors.
Yes, I've done it before. It wasn't a software product, but it applies.

Had a client who had written a collection of really interesting books. They sold well given that the client is a world renowned scientist.

The latest book sold well during her live presentations but poorly online/offline.

The reason was that the name absolutely sucked. It was just awful.

The client wanted to rewrite the book and re-launch it with another awful name. I just told them to rename it, change the cover image to something related to the new name, get a new isbn, and ship it.

They worried about about people recognizing the product. And well, it really wasnt a big deal. All materials were updated with the new name and a press release was sent to sort of make it official.

No one cared. People loved the new name (I came up with it!). The book sold really well.

I told them to use this as a funny anecdote when presenting the book. They did and people loved the story.

So, go ahead and change the name, the branding in all related materials (you can even lazy out and include a pop up that states the change and not update anything else), and post a press release. Have everyone refer to it by the new name and get on with sales.

If you have any specific questions feel free to reply or email me.
The bit about addiction seriously enrages me.

Maximizing "Player Engagement" is how the F2P business model works. It's one of the prime metrics that guide game design and set the worth of your game to investors and advertisers.

You can't say "well, car accidents will always happen" if you get paid 40h/week to drag people onto the road.
> Their product lines are confusing mess requiring looking up each specific part to get a list of features it does or does not support. There's little rhyme or reason to it.

I got bitten by that back in the Core 2 era. When I built my very last Intel system, around an Intel DG43NB board, I picked up a Q8200, thinking it would be a great bang-for-the-buck chip. Little did I realize from the store display that the Q8200 was the only Core 2 Quad that lacked virtualization support.

The DG43NB died prematurely, due to capacitor plague. I didn't shed any tears for it.
Google doesn't need to go for any of the low-hanging fruit because their PoI data is still the best of the Google Maps / Apple Maps / Maps.me trifecta. Apple Maps is slowly improving their PoI and other data, but for mobile devices is only available on iOS.
The Maps folks played (and are almost certainly still playing) this game of cat and mouse with the spammers. Google comes up with better defenses, and the spammers come up with cleverer spam. I just found the cron job iteration of that cycle particularly memorable and amusing. I don't want to share anything else because I'm sure they still use some of the strategies they used back then, and it's better not to publicize them.
The problem is that Google is so universally relied upon by consumers to find businesses, that delisting yourself from Google is shooting yourself in the foot.
Your comfortable paying $5/no for it? I have a clone that's worth 0 because ideas are useless unless well executed. Slack team executed it very well and that's why it's worth $16B(Rwanda annual budget)
When you're consuming JSON that has deep nesting, arrays that contain multiple types, etc. Something that may be two lines of code in a dynamic language could be as much as 100 lines in some static typed languages.
Google "ECMO walking"
Are we including the cost difference of health care considering: subsidized anything-you-want-for-dinner compared to healthy-food-for-free?

Cuz I'll be honest, with $1000 a month in cash, I would eat less healthy than $500 cash, and $500 in healthful grocery credits.
In EU you have similar policy, but it is mandated by law, for all the things that you buy online. I know of people who bought new 55 inch TV only to watch soccer World Cup, and then returned it.
Some would say that outside SV it really never came back after 2000.
As someone who has been through the pain of using a home warranty I highly recommend against it. When we had one we found one of 2 things always happened:

1. Whatever broke wasn't covered by the warranty. For example on a fridge, the most common component to break is the compressor, and that's not covered by a home warranty because it costs just slightly less than the cost of a refrigerator to repair.
2. The warranty company gets to choose who fixes your problem and they choose the lowest bidder, which is almost always a person who doesn't have better work to do because they aren't very good. Every single time I've used a home warranty, I had to have someone come back and re-do the work because it was so shoddy.

YMMV, but I've heard similar stories from others who have used them. I now consider a home warranty to be a negative rather than a positive because I've had to pay another person to come in and fix something correctly that was done improperly by a home warranty repair person.
My neighbors (college students) advertise their home as a comedy club on Google Maps with shows on Saturday nights. It has a lot of good reviews from all their friends (5 stars). Once in a while they get a call from people visiting town asking for tickets. And if anyone shows up, they'll put on a show. But mostly it's a huge gag and... it's actually kind of funny.
People have weird hobbies!

Edit: I mean he went and bought some random CDs, He discovered this really great photos but how long he is doing this for? How many CDs he bought and looked at?
I increasingly think that for social safety nets to work well, they need to be universalized, if possible.

Otherwise we get welfare traps, ghettoisation or just poor quality (like buses in places where only the poor use em). It doesn't mean everyone has to use it, just that they can. This is common sense in services like health or education, where we're used to it.
I think the other posters all provide clear evidence of the issues raised. I'm wondering if you had a look and changed it at least started to doubt your current views? If not, what would convince you?

More importantly, you seem to be quite educated and tech literate, and use ok f vpn is natural for you. What % of the population would you think is able to access vpns and outside media and sites?
What If Your Neighbor Could Give You a Parking Ticket?
Why would the value of those plummet? Wouldnt the opposite happen? Did insurance prices fall, did insurance stock prices fall, when the government mandated insurance purchases? Do college prices fall when easy access to loans become more available? I dont follow how a free subsidy would lead to less of a crop? Do corn subsidies lead to less corn? The government would be paying rice producers for all the rice people choose to consume. The loser in that scenario is the tax payer who pays a lot and doesnt eat rice.

If anything, the argument against it would be picking and choosing industry winners: pistachio, avocado, cheese, meat markets would find it unfair.
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To me the name sucked, google+ is equivalent to more Google. It doesn't really make sense why they choose that name, seems lazy and boring...

Also from what I can remember, the main features were its integration with all Google services and never really did anything interesting, so it was kind of a boring platform that no one wanted to join (I don't remember anyone being excited about it in my social network)...
LOL, some friends of mine do this. Aaaall the time.
Erlang/Elixir + Dialyzer?
> There's a big difference between standard styling and optional styling.

THIS.

This is not stated enough in the value of gofmt - it's the standard formatting style for everything. I've worked in Java and C++ for a couple of decades, and while every team has had its own style guidelines, and occasionally tools to enforce them, even different teams in the same organization would have difficulty understanding each other's code.

The value of gofmt is that it's the only formatting standard, thus I never have to learn a new formatting style when reading the code for an open-source library, or coming in to a new job. It's exactly the same as what I've been reading for the last 3 1/2 years of working in Go.
I worked with a bad manager and currently work with a really good manager. I absolutely hated coming to the office working for the bad manager.

Bad manager -
- Constant micromanaging - needs an update every day. Sometimes several times a day.
- Has little/no technical knowledge
- Takes most/all of the credit. Makes sure that he's the guy mailing the folks in other teams, not me
- Ends up asking me to fix the bugs of other teams, because he doesn't have the ability to confront others
- Behaves as if he grows because of my output, but not vice versa.
- Schedules tons of useless meetings.
- Probably not his fault, but work was pathetic. Just rote repetitive tasks and fixing bugs on a dead end project. I complained about it, but nothing happened.

Good manager
- Has strong technical knowledge. In fact, he's probably the best code reviewer in the complete engineering team. He spots several errors/flaws that none of us would've spotted.
- He takes up all the grunt work, making sure we're spending our time productively. For instance, there was a recent mandate that everyone should update the jira page about their work. He mailed us saying - "Here's the mandate. However, you guys can just carry on with your work. I know what all of you do, so I'll update it periodically"
- Generally doesn't say no to ideas. A few times it so happened that I disagreed on a particular idea. Our team is not constrained by deadlines, so he asked me to go ahead with my idea. A couple of days into the implementation, I realized why my way is bad, and how his is better. This is my first gig out of college, so this is not something a veteran might face
- No stupid meetings of any kind and No micromanaging.
- Makes sure I get good, interesting work. I once complained that I don't feel challenged enough. He calls me into the office a couple of days later, asks me to abandon the things I was doing and gives me a really interesting high impact project.

One sad part is that the compensation is low and he says there's nothing he can do about it. However, he tries to offset it by other perks like giving more vacation (we have a flexible vacation policy), sponsoring conferences that I want to attend, etc.

I think when a person is knowledgeble, and not insecure about his position, he becomes a better manager than the person who knows nothing and feels constantly insecure as a result.
The same way that all social norms get changed applies here; publicly challenge them and then withstand the viciousness of the backlash without losing your conviction. Then other people will get the courage to agree and it will spread. Not being cowed by the initial furious attacks on you but also not getting dragged into a vengeful battle are the means of social transformation.
What terrifies me about cyberwar is that it happens silently between three-letter-agencies. We may have a world war III threat or may be "right within WW3" without knowing it. One can only speculate that this is the answer of Russia to Trump's "we will hack you announcements" a few days ago. And this smell might be very wrong, even intentionally wrong. Everybody gets part of this weird world of misinformation and manipulation.
I tried to report things a few times but was stuck at some kind of UI so I gave up.

As for evidence, if someone (or several people) uses the maps app to travel to a location, reports that it is closed for good, and travels to a competitor, also using the maps app, that could indicate the report is valid. If other people however navigate to this place and stay before they head back home, that could mean the place is actually not out of business.

Google is also good at spam detection, they know everyone who does anything and could flag other actions by a fraudulent user etc.

We know that if Google wants to, they can be this smart. But often aren't these days. I think they just don't have both super capable people AND a functional management in ALL of the many fields that they are in. That would probably be impossible.
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You are right that I was mistakenly quoting a quote. I was skimming the article and was thrown off by the inconsistent formatting. Some of the multi-paragraph quotes are indented to identify them as block quotes. The sections I was quoting from just had a quotation mark at the start then three paragraphs later another quotation mark to end the quote.
So....then....how does Sorbet use the type signature provided to sig?
I always keep TCL around as an emergency boot environment, Just In Case™.
I would love that, too.
This logic transpiles(TM) to this in my brain:
a) I am messing around and need to write 10 lines of code. Can I write it fast and without thinking? Sure and not needing to type int/float/whatever will save me couple of seconds. If I iterate and rewrite that short piece 10 times then I just saved 20 seconds. Chirp chirp ... . Do I need special language for just that? Lemme guess ...
b) I am messing around and need to write few hundred or thousands lines of code. Can I write it fast? Maybe but it is likely that good chunk of time will be spent thinking. I doubt that at this point not declaring type will save anything worth noticing.
But that of course is my opinion
My dad lives in a 55+ community in Nevada, and they have golf carts too. There's even a sign when you enter the development warning you that golf carts are permitted on the roads.

Unlike a lot of retirement communities, it looks like just another suburban housing development. The only hint that it's different, aside from the golf carts, is that every single house is one-story in order to accommodate people who can't (easily) climb stairs.
They don't; GPUs have <72 real cores and thousands of marketing cores. And they can disable defective cores so their massive dies are still usable.
The DMCA is what exempts ISPs and content platforms from direct liability for the copyright violations of their users. Without the DMCA, it's doubtful the Internet could have grown the way it did, and almost certain we would not have user-generated content platforms like Youtube, Instagram, heck, even HN. They all would have been sued out of existence as soon as copyrighted stuff was posted by their users.

The anti-circumvention provisions, to which you're referring, have caused all sorts of problems. But the bill was passed as a whole, and those provisions were part of what was traded off for the copyright safe harbor provisions. You have to look at the whole bill to see the balance that was struck.

All that said, I fully support the right to repair movement.
I think maybe we're splitting hairs here. The point is, the only way for something to be accessed outside of a module is through its boundary, so if something has gone wrong due to code outside, it must be to some code inside that has been exposed incorrectly. That means the fault lies inside the boundary.
I wonder what the reason for not supporting structural typing is. It seems like a very natural fit for Ruby.
Please look up the definition of masculinity. It has everything to do with culture, it is not something you are 100% born with.

Do you have a beard? If no, then in some cultures you wouldn't be very masculine.
Ergo, in those cultures you are not in fact masculine.
The amount of money in the wallet would have to be well over $100 before I was more sad about that than about having to get my ID and various other cards re-issued. I can't get closer to the exact amount where the tipping point would be without it happening, but definitely higher than that.

[EDIT] narrowing it down, I'd probably be sadder about the money at $500. So it's somewhere between those numbers.
You'd be wrong. Athlon 64 destroyed the Pentium 4 and the Athlon XP model names were originally meant to be an equivalent to how fast the lower-clocked AMD cpu would perform to the speed of a Pentium 4 clocked at the same MHz as the model name.

Here's a top of the line Intel Pentium 4 3.46 Extreme Edition being unable to compete with AMD processors running at 66% of the clock speed of the Intel.

https://www.anandtech.com/show/1529

I really don't count Core Duo, even though I had a Macbook equipped with one. The Core 2 Duo was Intel's first real competition to Athlon 64.
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https://github.com/posix4e/blog Deploys to www.wuli.nu. You should be able to mostly just fork the repo, add your own creds, register with cloudflare and be off to the races. I have added hcaptcha support for making big moolah on my website. Soon I'll have video support.
Most of the original x86_32 patents have now expired, that was sufficient to let Microsoft build the emulation layer for WoA.

It might be more feasible now, except in the last ~5-10 years there's been a push to make many PC apps x86_64 only (e.g. Ubuntu dropping i386 support), so the benefit isn't quite as wide any more.
> How many people are killed every day by human drivers? Would it be better if all motor vehicles switched to autonomous and the death by automobile accident rate drastically lowered, but was still greater than zero?

The problem with this is the assumption that autonomous motors are good enough that switching everyone over would even be a net win. Accidents are already rare per mile, so evaluating safety is hard. And the makers of the autonomous vehicles are incentivized to fudge their data as it's potentially a massive market.

That's never mind the fact that there's no clear quality control on what counts as autonomous. As an extreme example, a shitty Arduino app hooked up to servos and a single webcam could count and it almost certainly would not be safer than humans.
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