skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
And, Boeing's justification for increasing MCAS capabilities while reducing sensor redundancy needed was that these were changes in degree, not in kind. Nothing about the FAA certification actually depended on the number of sensors required, or the amount of command the system had, the FAA allowed pretty much anything to fly as long as it was only designed to operate when outside of the standard flight envelope.

This is the gotcha in the whole liability for executives thing. The FAA is extremely deferential to what manufacturers think is the best practice. Understandably it would be difficult to get every single little change to the flight systems approved - in broad strokes this kind of regulatory inertia is what makes physical changes so difficult in the first place, which indirectly caused this whole problem in the first place.

This isn't just a Boeing problem - Boeing was callous and indifferent to public safety, but the FAA let them get away with it. The takeaway from this crisis is that the FAA regulatory system needs significant reform, because it's obvious that it's got some unintended consequences. The correct answer here is that it should have been viable to design the airplane in an inherently aerodynamically safe fashion while the band-aid patch should have received a huge degree of scrutiny, but that's essentially the opposite of the system that the FAA has created.
There is an unwritten NDA stating you can’t discuss these things and people have an innate moral repulsion to anyone who speaks out about it. However the scientific literature is clear: https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/may/24/marria...
That's kind of different, though.

That things start out as toys can mean many things.

a) People create something for fun, it's fun and it turns out that after all, even if it wasn't intended, that thing actually satisfies a need better than current products on the market.

b) People purposely want to make something that's seen as mundane, boring, or annoying more fun. Lots of failed attempt at gamifying work here, but there must've been some successes.

c) People not so much create something that "starts out as a toy", but they create a toy, plain and simple. It's an entertainment product that is particularly well made and people like it because it's inherently fun.

The underlying idea is simple: if we take an optimistic view of things, things that people do not inherently enjoy will either be entirely automated (and "disappear") or be turned into things they inherently enjoy ("toys").

So, if you want endless sources of ideas, think about those:

a) How can you automate things people don't inherently enjoy (probably 90%+ of existing jobs)?

b) How can you make things people don't inherently enjoy enjoyable?

c) How can you make things people already want and enjoy (entertainment mostly), but better?
It generates 40 words per second on 4 Xeon cores!

http://textsynth.org/tech.html
Haskell's compiler messages can be daunting for beginners but in the hands of an experienced user they can act like a surgeon's assistant, putting the right tool in your hand without you having to go and find it. This is the magic of types and features like typed holes, for which the compiler will suggest things in scope that will fit!

Haskell programming at its best starts to feel like you're putting together a jigsaw puzzle, and everything "just works" once you get it to compile.
No one counts elections like that. Not when Dems win and not when Repubs win. It’s disingenuous but it looks good when making a point. Even Saddam or my Kim never got 75% even when they state they received 99% of the vote.

It would be very unusual for a US pol to get over 50% of the raw population of their district.
It says everything. Consumers don't care to support small local stores because they would've otherwise. You realize Walmart was around for 30 years before Amazon? And several other major chains? People want the prices and selection of online shopping and so that industry has changed.

I'm not sure where this rustic idea of "mom-n-pop" general stores comes from because there are still millions of thriving small businesses well integrated in their local communities. The key is that they don't sell the same basic goods that Amazon sells.
Firefox uses your Windows font settings (Chrome does not). Have you tried playing with Cleartype tuner?
Maybe I'm missing something since I haven't touched any of this in years but isn't .net winforms builder the same experience but with a saner language ?
> Ravelry is a place for knitters, crocheters, designers, spinners, weavers and dyers to keep track of their yarn, tools, project and pattern information, and look to others for ideas and inspiration.

Knitters-for-The-Donald website going up in 3, 2, 1...
Yeah. I think you have exposed my double think. I really WANT to like that stuff regardless of the facts, but I might not. Monads are not my favorite part of Haskell. They hurt. But purity and immutability is. I want these at almost any cost. And if monadic pain is the price, so be it. Does this explode my entire thesis that Haskell is a good pragmatic language?
How to Fix Wi-Fi Connection Problems on Android Phone
The author mentions power consumption issues in the post. I've seen the same when running RPi access points. Definitely use a decent power brick if you're going this route.
Am I dating myself if i say i started with GW-BASIC... I remember how it was a big deal to code a menu by highlighting text based on the arrow keys... and then based on mouse movement
'I’m excited to see what happens when someone combines BERT’s objective with GPT-2′s corpus.'

Speaking of which: https://arxiv.org/abs/1906.08237 https://www.reddit.com/r/MachineLearning/comments/c2q5k7/r_x...
Can you point to any flagrant privacy abuses that Apple has engaged in when compared to companies like Facebook?
What are you talking about? The missile defense shield is a farce. Sure it could catch one or two ICBM’s, but in all out war we’re fucked
> everyone knows that this technology exists and treats all the pictures they see accordingly

I don't know if everybody knows that. Lot of people believe Hillary ran a child-sex operation and should be locked up. They chant it. Trump has lied 10,000 times and still a lot of people believe him. Surely they would believe a fake video as well, many of them.
Such is the effect of fighting against the paradox of tolerance [1].

[1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paradox_of_tolerance
I'd like to completely de-Google but the thing is that I have sites that run AdSense and I'm happy with it. Not that I wouldn't mind for a viable alternative.
It explicitly says: You can still participate if you do in fact support the administration, you just can’t talk about it here.
The including of the espionage act is a reasonable concern.

The question about helping someone hack the laptop in question (even if not successful) was a clear crossing of a boundary that I would expect most journalists would not cross.
Not only the IPCC is extremely cautious and conservative but since it works by committee it takes years to reach an agreement. Their reports are always full of outdated data.

One example, the IPCC has ignored feedbacks in its latest reports something which has been frequently criticized.

> Mario Molina, who shared the Nobel prize in chemistry in 1995 for his work on depletion of the ozone layer, said: “The IPCC report demonstrates that it is still possible to keep the climate relatively safe, provided we muster an unprecedented level of cooperation, extraordinary speed and heroic scale of action. But even with its description of the increasing impacts that lie ahead, the IPCC understates a key risk: that self-reinforcing feedback loops could push the climate system into chaos before we have time to tame our energy system, and the other sources of climate pollution.”

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2018/oct/09/tipping-...

Edit: "ignored" was probably a too strong word. "Understated" would have been closer to reality.

Edit 2:

Here's what the founder of 350.org said about the last report:

> This is the scariest thing about the IPCC Report — it’s the watered down, consensus version. The latest science is much, much, much more terrifying.

https://twitter.com/Agent350/status/1049717120697753601
> 330 million people

Not to be nitpicky, but the total population of a country does not equal the total amount of people eligible to vote (e.g. children).

Sorry, don't have actual numbers on this though but thought is was worth pointing out.
I'm logged out by default and only log in to comment, which is rare. I don't like leaving my username up for display if a friend/family member has to borrow my laptop for something. I've engaged in a couple of communities that are a little more counter-cultural than my peers.
If Firefox is using an unexpected amount of RAM, report a bug by following the steps below:

1. Open about:memory?verbose in a new tab.

2. Click Measure and save...

3. Attach the memory report to a new bug: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/enter_bug.cgi?product=Core&comp...

4. Paste your about:support info (Click "Copy text to clipboard") to your bug.

> If you are experiencing a bug, the best way to ensure that something can be done about your bug is to report it in Bugzilla. This might seem a little bit intimidating for somebody who is new to bug reporting, but Mozillians are really nice! http://dblohm7.ca/blog/2014/08/14/diffusion-of-responsibilit...
On the other hand, if a small percentage of concerned citizens do everything they personally can without changing the political climate, nothing will change.

In Ontario (Canada) we elected a conservative government who is running advertisements against the Federal Carbon Tax saying:

> “Ontario has a better way: holding the biggest polluters accountable; reducing trash; and keeping our lakes clean. A carbon tax isn’t the only way to fight climate change.”

My government thinks reducing trash and lake runoff is fighting climate change. Everything I've personally done; switching to public transit, flying less and buying my electricity from a green supplier has been swamped by this huge step backward at the political level.
Honest question. Is Trump genuinely an avatar for white supremacy? I was under the impression that he's a buffoon and white supremacists have subjugated the White House and President by citing his buffoonery.
This specific Huawei modem also works with the Pineapple (it is plug & play IIRC). Its also worth noting that some routers allow a USB modem as fallback (Fritz!Box IIRC).

For anyone who is interested in setting up their own LTE base station (which can be legal, btw) consider the LimeSDR Mini [1]

[1] https://www.crowdsupply.com/lime-micro/limesdr-mini
You should null route reddit.com in your /etc/hosts file. Your exposure to the echo chamber there is worsening your mental illness.
Btw, VB6 still kinda lives on in form of VBA macros on Microsoft Office products
We can hope that Apple is just as ahead of the curve now as they were then. Apple may have figured out marketing, but let’s not equate that to selling you as a good to other corporations a and governments. There’s a lot I don’t like about their model. I think it’s completely Disingenuous to claim that Apple is paying the App Store developers, as opposed to users buying goods. However their privacy stance is something that should not be subject to whatBoutisms.
> Apple, unlike most major tech companies, is strongly inclined to abandon the past in the name of the future.

I feel the "unlike" should have been a "like".
I think it's the belief that since white supremacy has so closely linked itself with Trump base that it is hard to support Trump without the connotations of racism. I could be wrong.

Anyway it should be mentioned this is a crocheting website first and foremost, not a politics one.
> Even Saddam or my Kim never get 75% even when they state they received 99% of the vote.

I think I need you to more clearly state the point you are making. Are you suggesting that the published elections totals for Trump, Saddam, and Kim understate the popularity of each of them?

I have never heard any reasonable person suggest that the elections in Iraq during Saddam's rule, nor any election in the history of the DPRK, are a basis for any particular conclusion about the popularity of those leaders or about how elections might be used to gauge the popularity of leaders.
I think this is the most honest statement in the post.
Well, its not windows anymore since dotnet core, but fair enough :)
Show HN: A point-and-click game engine
Speaking of reddit, you should stop acting like that’s the site you’re currently on.
That's an important part of the point here: is it fair to suggest that Trump has the support of "slightly less than half" of the nation's children because of the configuration of votes cast by the portion of adults who chose to cast a vote?

Of course not.
You're twisting numbers to make your point.

There are 330M people in the US but actually 138M voted in 2016. 63M voted for Trump per your number.

Outside of that we don't know who supports whom.

So we don't know if this move by raverly really effects almost half but most likely does effect a lot more that the 18% you stated.
Lewis-Mogridge Position
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voter_turnout_in_the_United_St...

~250M in 2016
My 7 Year Transformation – Abby Pollock
This is a useless post: bunch of complaining about the author’s own ignorance of FPGA and computational fabrics, willful misunderstanding of the differences between FPGAs, GPUs, ASICs, and lastly, not even an attempted proposal for a way forward past the author’s inabilities.
Why did I just waste time reading this crap?
> the standard way to recover from the flight control computer triggering to much pitch was to flip a switch on the stick. Boeing made MCAS override that command, so the standard recovery could not work.

My understanding of this part was different. The standard way to recover is a pair of switches in the central part of the panel (not in the stick), which cuts off all power to the trim motors; these switches still work (though they work in slightly a different way than previous models). What MCAS overrides is a pair of sensors in the stick, which detect when the stick is being moved in the direction opposite to the electric trim, and in that case temporarily disable the trim motors; since MCAS by design moves the electric trim in the opposite direction that the pilot is moving the stick, it has to override these sensors, otherwise it couldn't do its job.
This starts happening the instant a medium becomes a potential source of revenue. Look at most average TV: endless repetitive nonsense plots, drama, and other filler to serve as a medium for ads.
>In fact, a 0-day was just found last week targeting Coinbase employees.

And this happened to Chrome last month: https://www.zdnet.com/article/google-reveals-chrome-zero-day...
Yes, some deep space missions need to take solar radiation pressure into account due to effects like this.
The simple essence of automatic differentiation
> Outside of that we don't know who supports whom.

That's my point. It is highly disingenuous (and a little creepy) to suggest that an executive leader is supported by "slightly less than half" the population when we don't even have a basis for knowing that.
This is a very good anecdote, and helps us understand that 'shit' is in the eye of the beholder.

If it solves a real problem, and allows companies to do 'xyz' , maybe it doesn't matter if there are bugs and glitches here and there.

If there is only 'one kind of car' and that's all anyone knew, nobody would mind that there were always leaky oil issues if the alternative was 'horses'.
> Google use your personal data to put you in a bubble of your own interests. Creating illusion of objectivity, it narrows our perspective down and slows down the process of personal development.

I don't agree. People want this. Long before computers, let alone Google, people had no problem in absorbing themselves in themselves and their interests.

But, wait, really? Google uses my personal data to put me in a bubble of my own interests? A large chunk of the results for anything I search for are SEO-d garbage and many are irrelevant in other ways. That's supposed to be a bubble consisting of my interests?

> Google ignores websites privacy. Even if the website owner doesn't want to expose any content for search engines, Google will come, get it, and show it on its search results and will make money off it.

Absolute, unadulterated nonsense. The Google spider identifies itself via HTTP headers. It's trivial to refuse service to specific clients.

Example log:

66.249.79.219 - - [23/Jun/2019:15:36:58 -0700] "GET /robots.txt HTTP/1.1" 200 66 "-" "Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; Googlebot/2.1; +http://www.google.com/bot.html)"

I could easily set up a filter to turn that into a 404 based on the request coming from Googlebot. Also note that it's accessing robots.txt. I don't have a link to that anywhere; it is spontaneously doing so; why would they if they had no intention of honoring the content.

I sometimes put private content on a URL to make it easily from somewhere. No links to it exist; you have to know the URL. I've never had such a thing accidentally indexed.

If people leave documents in searchable directories, don't use robots.txt and don't filter out the Google indexer, they shouldn't be surprised if those documents end up indexed.
Yes. Let's say sort here is quicksort (a reasonable choice). Quicksort works, as you know, by partitioning based on a pivot element, putting those smaller before the pivot and those larger after the pivot. It then recursively sorts the two partitions. In Haskell this recursive sort is deferred until the result is actually needed, and a smart haskeller implementing the quicksort would choose to do the smaller-than-pivot partition first--as is the default syntactic choice in any case when concatenating two lists. On each recursion the smaller-than-pivot branch is taken and the larger-than-pivot branch is deferred. As soon as condition is hit where the pivot is the smallest element, it is immediately returned to `take`. The `take` implementation then calls for another value if k>1, and it resumes from where it left of, recursing into the previously deferred larger-than-pivot partition at the bottom of the execution tree, and working itself up from there until `take` is satisfied. Once `k` elements are taken, there's still a partial tree of unexecuted continuations that is thrown away.

In other words, the very nature of Haskell's lazy-by-default semantics makes the straight-forward, seemingly strict implementation of quicksort, or other sorting algorithm, automatically optimized to improve performance through lazy execution.
FWIW. I think keeping the password manager separate from the browser makes wonderful sense.

- There are many times you need a password when you are not in a browser. For instance, on my phone where I don't even have FF installed, my bank's app can still get its password filled in automatically with LastPass.

- Using a separate password manager means you can use multiple browsers with no loss of password access. On my laptop I regularly use both Chrome and Firefox, and I have access to my passwords in both. On my phone, I can use my passwords from Safari.

I may be biased. My wife and share a LastPass account for all of our passwords. We have so many accounts, I can't imagine managing it any other way. Having access to the passwords on all our devices is really great.
True. I believe version 1 of ngrok was open-sourced, or at least source available.
How to Stop Apps Opening Automatically on Mac OS Startup
who cares, crypto currency is a dumpster fire
It's only by accounting for possible positive feedbacks that the IPCC gets up to the 1.5 to 4.5 degrees C range. It's widely accepted that if there were no positive feedbacks, the increase from doubling CO2 would be about 1 degree C.

So you're saying that after decades of not being able to decide how big the net feedback is, scientists have suddenly established that it's "safe to say" that for even less than a doubling of CO2, an increase of at least 2 degrees C is "a given"?
I've found discord even worse in terms of cliques and meme spamming. And the closed off walled-garden nature doesn't sit well with me.
I don't know if there is a list out of the box, but pi-hole is probably the right choice.
Oregon's Prisons Are Banning Books That Teach Inmates How to Code
I've been using Waterwise distillers for 20 years or so. I used the 9000 model for a long time, and for the past several years I've been using the 3200. I make 1-2 gallons of water a day, every day. Buy a spare container so you can keep one in the fridge while one is being made. They don't last forever, but Waterwise's customer support has been great; I've done repairs a few times and gotten replacements at reasonable prices.

https://www.waterwise.com/product-category/waterwise-water-d...
Or better yet, duck it.
> They’re the exact same thing as if you used clang.

Are you sure functions calls that crate adds on top of every single instruction, transmute(), as_i32x4(), etc., compile into nothing? And do so reliably i.e. every single time regardless on the surrounding code?

BTW, functions built on top of intrinsics aren’t reliable in clang. I sometimes have to use compiler-specific trickery to force compilers to inline stuff, keep data in registers instead of loads/stores, and otherwise not screw up the performance.
A great example of this is AWS. I'm not a power user but I dabble. You have to go back and forth through user docs that all have some % of the correct steps, but no single doc has all of the correct steps. Some reference deprecated api, some just never seemed to work in the first place and you wonder how it even got there.

I get that these ecosystems evolve over time but I'm not convinced that that evolution requires inability to use the underlying features effectively.
Let me take a moment to vent on the garbage that is the dell UEFI firmware. I have an excellent, new machine, an XPS 15 9570. According to systemd-analyze, it took eight seconds to get past firmware, corroborated by my observations. There is flat-out no reason why it ought to be so slow. Dell makes the absolute worst BIOS.
What he’s trying to say is that transmute is also an intrinsic.

They correspond to the machine instructions, that’s their entire purpose. That’s also why they’re intrinsics.
The Art and Science of Software Estimates
What I don't understand is why Google doesn't hell ban these pages

Because Google doesn't have a financial incentive to show you quick, quality answers to you questions.

Google makes more money from you flailing around and fruitlessly searching over and over than giving you the right answer the first time.
Stack Overflow has a problem of outdated answers written ten years ago by people wanting to collect experience points.

Technology moves on and those early answers are simply no good. Recently I decided to learn a few things from first principles - reading the specs. If I then try to put a half decent answer on SO then it will be answer 97, 3563 upvotes behind the 'right answer'.

New person who comes along isn't going to get to my detailed answer on page 5, the one that points out how technology has moved on and why the winning answers are not what you needed. They just need to deliver the deliverables and the first answer will suffice. They will take it and add another plus to the upvotes.

You can't win, the odds are stacked in favour of the mediocre. This wasn't always the way with Stack Overflow, in fact it replaced forums where the same problem existed but only to stall the nonsense for a few years, we are back to peak nonsense again.

I think time is ripe for Stack Overflow to be usurped, nothing against the site which I have so loved over the years, but even mySpace had to be replaced by Facebook.
> Having traveled the country by land for years

Don’t fully get why you have to plug that you are traveling a lot here, but okay.
i misunderstood your point - it is a bit clearer on a reread