skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Maybe you want to state it more clearly, like in math so I can have a better idea what you are talking about. I think I missunderstood you anyway, because I was thinking at airplane crashes statistics and not at the entire world industry.

In statistics you need some basic things to be true, like you need true random independent events, or sometimes a theorem apply only if the distribution of the events is known to have some properties.

What I understood you were implying (I was wrong, sorry) and other comments too, is that if we look at Boeing crashes (not MAX) for latest N years (but we exclude older incidents) then we can conclude things about the future statistics of the MAX.

About the rest of the industry I agree that most things got better. But for example in car industry there was a lot of competition and a lot of regulation bout safety and pollution that forced the companies to be better, if you had only 2 car making companies and have them self approve then we may get in the same situation as with the MAX.
Getting an A++ in Work with Kanban Boards
Interesting--and I carry a 4.7" iPhone, and I do like the form factor. But I suspect it's thrown off a bit by the rise in ASP across the line recently--the newer phones are quite a bit more expensive, and I know I'm not the only one who's delayed the upgrade a bit.
PS - there’s also samples of the original journals that are mentioned to read here - https://www.jordanmechner.com/backstage/journals/
The suicide rate is a horrible judge of sadness among a generation. The rate is never very stable, and the "three times increase" described for girls is going from 2/100000 to 6/100000. And constant internet access could also cause a change in methods, accounting for some amount of that rise.
The book he references (https://www.amazon.com/Making-Prince-Persia-Jordan-Mechner-e...) is a collection of journal entries he wrote while making the game. It's been about ten year since I read it, so the details are fuzzy, but it's a very raw retelling of the process of making a game basically entirely alone and before the internet. I'd strongly recommend it to anyone who writes software.
Pop-psychology on the frontpage?

We're hackers and founders.
Thanks for your reply. Good point!

You are right: the more the amount of the tech debt amassed, the longer the learning curve. Still better if the devs can start from tomorrow, right ;).
Also, once the team becomes familiar with the legacy code once, all further support is much easier.
4" iPhones are 11%, according to this chart, and those are models that haven't been updated in three years. That's pretty substantial, too.
You guys really offer up some of the highest quality (and yet understandable to noobs) material. Kudos!
I'll go further: it's very common for abusive people to intentionally misappropriate the vocabulary of people they abuse. This ranges from "telling me to clean up after myself is a microagression" to "we're going to name our fascist party socialist LOL."

Someone's waving their power around, plain and simple.

EDIT: also, this thread is going to be baaaaaad.
The whole cryptocurrency part is just misdirection and a red herring so they can claim that it is "decentralized". This is a banking consortium and they want to leverage the FB network effect to rent seek on cross border payments and the unbanked.

The problem with your analogy is that unlike your CeC tokens, the FB Mafia completely controls whether you can give them to someone else or not. You can't trade them on their (fake) blockchain to someone else if they say no and without making a direct payment to the FB Mafia. It is also likely you can't even try to do the exchange without using the FB Mafia's wallet application. There is no physical thing that can be exchanged like with your tokens. They have also said they will comply with any government regulations. So if someone reports your CeC tokens as stolen, the FB Mafia can just steal them back and you have no recourse.
Most of the UK's renewable energy comes from Scottish wind and tidal farms. Almost all energy-based corruption (I count giving public money in any form to the coal industry as corruption at this point, given all we know) comes from the UK Government. The Scottish Government is no angel either though: they refuse to outright-ban fracking (there's an indefinite moratorium on fracking in Scotland though, which is better than nothing) and they are not serious about keeping north sea oil in the ground.
Yup, that's the general idea I also had in mind.

Those "try all n in shortest combination" sequences are called De Bruijn sequences in general.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/De_Bruijn_sequence
And, we already know that's not entirely true.

There was a recent decision that POTUS twitter feed is a public space (https://theconversation.com/federal-judge-rules-trumps-twitt...) . We can easily see this extended to any US elected official.

And there is also historical context in an 1980 decision in Pruneyard Shopping Center v. Robins where, based on Californian law, private property of the shoping mall was deemed open to political speech (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pruneyard_Shopping_Center_v._R...)

When its a private, non-political forum, the corps can do as they choose. But once politics and political speech move in along with public elected officials, all bets are off.

(Thanks to hn:dexen for the links. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20268802 )
If you cant articulate it, why is it important for you to argue? If it really means that much that you will spend time looking for proof, why not just learn the proof? And if you cant be bothered learning why have the argument to begin with?
It has extraordinarily high levels of bots, too. Unverified accounts can't get through the quarantine, so it'll be fun to watch that traffic tank.
You have a point, but I think the idea behind the "My" part is that this group has made a commitment that housing is so important that they're willing to be less picky even about things in their own backyard, in recognition of the seriousness of the problem.
This! So much this! Can we please put away the Puritan bullshit ethics in the US that clearly keep getting exported? Those people were booted out a few centuries ago for a reason.

Those "hard workers" that are successful usually had serious connections, money, and luck to start with. Most actual hard workers end up poor and ignored.
Bad clutch plus bad brakes (but not so bad as to be unserviceable in light, normal use). Story is not implausible.
If they are really educated, that means knowing both sides of the story, not just what the echo chamber feeds you.
If the 11th fastest is 25 minutes, and the fastest is 15 minutes, then probably either there aren't many players, or not many players who post speedrun times...
A 15% drop, not too bad.

I remember when there would be 20-30% swings about 5 years ago that were commonplace.

Overtime it seems that volatility is stabilizing compared to what it used to be (when you compared % volatility vs a number), however I don't have data to show this and it is based off personal observation of these markets, so I very well could be wrong.
Pop-psychology actually seems pretty common among hackers and founders.
Coal has declined markedly, in good part thanks to the EU (2020/2025?) target to cease coal burning. Drax is now mostly biomass not coal. Biomass that's mostly imported US pellets from mature woodland, so far from as green as it's painted. Still counted in the renewables total though. Drax remains the UK's largest single emitter.

Something like 20% of UK energy is now wind, mainly offshore. There's about 20GW capacity, with 5GW more planned or being built. Many of those are Danish owned or E.On. This is happening despite the government not because of. They've effectively made onshore wind impossible now, hence all the offshore.

Solar is about 5% of the total. Nuclear about 20%.

We already had a 2008 Act committing to 80% reduction by 2050, all Theresa has done is add the rest.
How to get cash from your startup stock before your company IPOs
Is there any reason not to use a singular field for this? It seems so much simpler to just give the user one input field and it would cover all scenarios.
I encoded about 100 1080p-sized images to AVIF yesterday. I was a little disappointed that each of them were taking about 30 seconds, fully loading an i7-2600 CPU. Realtime AV1 encoding is good news, maybe those optimizations can reach the still image format?
We are a small business and we only buy HP laptops.

Developers typically get ProBooks with matte non-touch screens. Everyone else gets Envy or whichever they decide.

We usually get 15" laptops specced fairly minimally then immediately pop in a new NVME M.2 along with more RAM. Upgrading them usually only takes a few screws.

There is one laptop here from about 4 years ago that required no screws whatsoever to remove the bottom. That was pretty awesome.

edit: We've had such good luck with HP laptops that we decided to buy a small server. Mistake. Do not attempt. Dell servers, HP laptops.
Does your friend group include both iPhones and Androids? From experience, any group chat that includes both is going to result in splits (like in IRC), messages simply not going through, and messages arriving multiple days late. In addition, they don’t have the usability features that you get from apps, like read receipts, or being able to add a person to a group message and them being able to see the entire history.

EDIT: That said, you don’t need a $1000 iPhone. A $200 used smartphone (easily found for iPhone or Android) is good enough.
Very good book. This book came to my mind the moment I saw this post.
Understanding problems in society is relevant in deciding what to hack and how to build a company that fits into that society.
You very clearly do get it, since you posted it to HN.
Libra and Remittances
>iOS 13 drops support for the iPhone 5S, 6 and 6+. These iPhones currently account for 17% of my userbase.

A shame to see. I like my SE and will own one for as long as Apple allows, but designers are already forgetting to account for the 320 screen width. I see it with increasing regularity, in apps and on the web. I'd imagine that this will only accelerate once the SE is the only 4" screen left.

I don't get it! My hands are probably bigger than 95% of all humans, and I don't think a phone needs to be much bigger than the SE.
Wow! This is a blast from the past! I'm trying to think... It's got to be 20 years old now. Anybody know if it's been updated in that time? I don't really remember it being quite so long. And for some reason, I remember the background being black or something weird like that.

Edit: Well, from the "unsolicited testimonial": 'On Tue, 2 Nov 1999, Alan Carter wrote' So, I guess I'm pretty close on the 20 year thing :-)
Here's a playable version hosted by the Internet Archive: https://archive.org/details/msdos_Prince_of_Persia_1990

Enjoy !
Yeah that's why I'm wondering if perhaps there's a knock-on effect where a reduction in a local bat population causes trees to suffer, shifting a local ecosystem out of balance.

I suppose though, all things considered, this might be preferable to razing the mountain for coal.
spell checkers are not magic though, and can be fighting with auto-complete and other auto correction processes.

I think it's more common than ever to be typing correct phrases in English be have it replaced by something else matching the user's native language, or a more common word that just doesn't fit in the phrase that was written.

Of course it's a good sign if someone reread everything before it gets submitted, but otherwise having some minor typo shouldn't stop a developper for instance from getting an interview IMO.
I am not kidding: A graphical terminal emulator.

Mastering the usual command line interface (terminal emulator, interactive shell, maybe a terminal multiplexer) is non-optional if you want to use CLI tools at or close to peak effectiveness.
"In other words, the more you pay attention to political media, the less likely you are to understand the true beliefs of your political opponents."

Paying attention to political media does not make you educated.
She suggested people 'contribute to OSS'; the organisers told her it was against the event's code of conduct because it was a form of 'micro-aggression' and 'othering' (whatever that means).

It took me a while to work out what the problem was too - but you need to read the screenshots in the first tweet, or at least the last one. (I clicked and the first one opened without indication of more, and seemed innocuous.)
I'm flagging this because the inevitable HN thread will consist only of people tripping over themselves to mock the people involved, and zero serious discussion.
I think you missed the sarcasm. Electromigration is simply not an issue for PCB design, period. The relative scales of the devices are separated by many orders of magnitude. The effect wasn't even discovered until photolithography pushed scales to values much smaller than we see on even the tiniest printed circuit.

Maybe, just maybe, there's a high current, high voltage board out there with tiny traces that was designed with some kind of trivial electromigration mitigation. But if there is, I've never heard of it. And electromigration is absolutely not a reason to avoid 90 degree turns on your digital logic board, don't be ridiculous.
I haven’t read the whole thing yet, but the structure and format and content-richness is a breath of fresh air.

I miss sites that were about sharing ideas and helping others rather than getting claps.

The only way I could think of making this better was if it was generated from a git repo so that one day if I’m ever worthy of asking a question or sending a suggestion, I could send a pull request. But that’s totally author’s prerogative and I’m happy they shared this in a non junky-way.
Daisy chain enough non-unique ID's together and you get something that's close enough to unique for the purposes of the people who will be implementing this.

While the guy who's getting droned or the dude getting the shit kicked out of him by a bunch of cops may care about identification, the people doing those things don't really care as long as they get the right guy often enough compared to the wrong guy.
I appreciated the article - being I'm a coder with a psych minor, and like the article points out - there's lots of way for people to be different, and there's good odds that a lot of types will be in any particular circle.
I don't know gab too well, but the chans and voat DO contain worthwhile discussions as well as news/facts that are removed from HN/reddit etc.
The sentence right before is: The pad included receipts for a mushroom burger for C$1.50 ($1.12; £0.59) and a package of cigarettes for C$1.00.
i remember feeling the adrenaline going through my body while playing it, to the point where when i was on the further levels, my hands would shake so much i couldn't play properly.
I don't need an armchair assessment of my worldview, thanks.

It's well known that large US companies offer perverse incentives for their executives. As long as they don't do anything super illegal, there's often no recourse. I mean, recent history is replete with examples of executives optimizing-for-bonus.
Also knowing that there is more to it, than two sides.
Musipedia
If it's just about the fact that larger phones generally also have very high dpi (text is too small and hard to read), you can use Android's native dpi scaling to make the phone screen "smaller". I personally can not use newer M-XL size phones on factory settings because the text is too small to read. But then I just scale the display to lower the dpi to a comfortable level in Settings.
Thank you for pointing this out, @greenyoda. The reason we're asking for the deposit is to cut the usual customer validation routine and make it possible for you to jump on a call with the Team lead tomorrow.

This is more a marketplace product than saas - hence the way it works.
Exactly.
I had high hopes for the sharp r2 compact, which has current high performance specs in a small form factor, but sadly it won't be available in western market. It looks like there is also a demand for small size smartphone on the asian market, so we might see some new ones soon ?
I might disagree with his conclusion which seems to be that things are just as bad now, or worse than they were say 70 years ago. I would argue the problems we face have changed, and that some of the big problems we dealt with 40 or 70 years ago are substantially smaller now then they were then.

That being said that doesn't mean our problems are any less real now but for example, lynching is much less of a problem in the US then it was 100 years ago, and the risk of someone losing a limb during a blogging accident is substantially smaller than the risk of someone losing a limb whilst working with heavy manufacturing equipment. Over course I don't mean this in every case, but across the board many of these conditions have improved.

Now it seems that many of the problems we face are much more mental and emotional than physical, That doesn't make the suffering they present any less real for those experiencing it but it does mean in some ways things have gotten better, even if we now face different problems.
Short answer: no.
Long answer: nooooooooooooooooooooooooooo.
Is it too nerdy to just write "BUS 55", "+5MIN" ?

You'll also have 50% more screens in the same amount of time.
Sony Xperia X Compact here (2016). A little too thick but lightweight. Newer models weigh more.
Do you have more information on that?
Prices is a big deal these days. Most iPhones X derivitives are hitting $1000 real fast. For those of us that don’t want to pay $29.99/mo just to rent a phone for 2 years and would prefer to buy outright that’s cost prohibitive.

Also all the big phones barely fit in pants pockets. For males, maybe, but for females, forget about it - 50% of the phone sticks out of the back pocket.

5.5” and more phones are too big to be a phone, and too small to be a useable tablet.
In my experience its more about the screen real-estate more than the ability to use one hand to navigate a phone that drives people to upgrade their phones to the phablet sizes. People don't seem to care that they can't reach everything on their screen with just their thumb.
I agree, but one persons microaggression is anothers milliaggression.
sizeof is at compile time, and this method is at runtime? Or am i missing something?
Where I live in Scotland there appear to be small groups of windmills every few kilometres and with most of the nearby hills have large windfarms - this map appears to be a bit out of date, but you get the idea:

https://esenergyvis.files.wordpress.com/2014/02/number_of_tu...

The areas of Scotland that have no windfarms look like the various national parks and/or particularly scenic areas. Having said that, I was quite surprised to see this windfarm from a nearby mountain:

https://sse.com/whatwedo/ourprojectsandassets/renewables/Str...

At 600m its no wonder it is described as "one of their windiest sites" - I suspect you probably can't even see that windfarm from a public road.
who is funding the meetup?
When people talk about the "mainstream media" in this context, they tend to mean established pre-web mass media - television, radio and newspaper, and any official web presence by these companies. So Reddit no, Twitter no, Breitbart no, Fox yes.
I'm on the same boat: a year ago, I bought a first-gen Pixel. Back then, Pixel 2 was already out and even Pixel 3 was on the horizon, but 5" is the absolute maximum size I can comfortably operate using one hand. Hell, I would even take a 4.5" phone with decent specs. My old Moto G was incredibly comfortable.
Does this integrate with the native cloud file manager for iOS?
The authors of this article repeatedly ask why Ethiopian Airways did not train the pilots for the situation they faced, ignoring the fact that their training was in accordance with the requirements set out by Boeing and the FAA.

Prior to the Max variants, trim runaway was normally stopped by the pilot resisting it with an opposing force on the yoke; this caused the system driving the trim change to stop. consequently, trim runaways rarely resulted in the airplane being much out of trim.

This is also the case for the Max variants, except for MCAS-commanded changes, as this would defeat its purpose. Training for trim runaway in a simulator goes through the checklist memory items, ending with the toggling of the cutout switches. Any use of the trim wheels, let alone in the 'roller-coaster' maneuver for when they are hard to move, was dropped from training a long time ago [1].

The 737 AFM mentions the possible difficulty of using manual trim when the jack screw is under high load, and outlines the roller-coaster maneuver, but the checklist for trim runaway makes no mention of it and does not say anything about slowing down. Furthermore, the AD, issued after the cause of the Lion Air crash was found, says nothing about these issues. Nor does there seem to be any consideration that the roller-coaster maneuver is infeasible at low altitudes, or of the complication that, as mentioned by Salawat, reducing thrust results in the airplane pitching downwards, on account of the low-slung engines.

So, MCAS raises the possibility of trim runaway being a qualitatively different experience than before, and significantly more difficult to handle, yet Boeing's and the FAA's response was to merely reiterate the existing procedures. Most significantly, they did not require, or even propose, any additional simulator training, even after the Lion Air crash. I think it is likely that no-one in these organizations connected the dots to anticipate the problem, but we should also consider the possibility that someone did, but it was downplayed to avoid the question of additional MCAS-specific training.

As I have written elsewhere, the more you argue that the pilots made mistakes, the more you simultaneously argue that Boeing's and the FAA's response to the Lion Air crash was inadequate. The authors of this hatchet job say that "with hindsight", the situation could have been saved, and maybe they are right, but the one thing no-one has when they need it is hindsight. Boeing and the FAA had a responsibility to substitute training for hindsight, and if they intentionally defaulted on this, and especially if they did so in the name of sales, they are culpable.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n4qDLR4s45U&t=296s
Baltimore approves $10M in funding for cyber attack relief
Speaker said something very innocuous to the everyday, reasonable and sane observer, but someone took offense because they're too sensitive and is using some Code of Conduct as their "reasoning."

While I completely agree there is aggression in the tech world, and much of it aimed at women, this context-less nit-picking is getting out of hand. CoC's shouldn't be used as a weapon against well-meaning people who actually did nothing wrong.
Why do they even need a laser? You can use a simple webcam to get an HR reading from the face. Here's an article from half a decade ago: https://www.geek.com/apps/measure-your-heart-rate-using-a-we...
When did work-life balance become such a bad thing?
I mean task resumption after interruption etc. Like airflow type of tools. Not quite unix task suspend options, this is about data pipelines. For Hadoop-style MapReduce, you can split the task into jobs which can be resumed and discarded etc. Shell scripting is not an elegant way to deal with this, a proper orchestrator tool is better.