skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The 737 Max aircrafts that crashed relied on a single AOA sensor.

A second AOA sensor is an option.

Which means code was written to account for both configurations.

Many, many things must happen and change to avoid allowing management to make decisions unchecked.

Because this is a case of bargain-bin engineering and tunnel-visioned management ruining a once-reputable company.
Didn't these come out earlier last week?
Do you have more info about this? As far as I understand if you use e2e encryption with riot/matrix you should be quite safe.
I don't have any intention to do a construction work any time soon, but those are some very useful tips and I enjoyed the video. Thank you!
> the switch on the wall only has the positive terminal in, the ground is wired directly into the bulb socket.

This is the standard practice in many countries. Wiring the return wire is unnecessary.

> So smart switches just don't work.

This is false.

There are remote controlled switches that are designed to work with a single wire. I have one right now in my room, they utilize an energy-harvesting circuit to obtain energy from the changing magnetic field surrounding the AC line to charge a capacitor to power itself. Also, it uses 433 MHz RF, so it means it doesn't have Linux and IoT craps embedded inside, no firmware upgrade, no factory reset.

Yet, I can capture the control sequence using RTL-SDR, and use a 1$ RF transmitter from my Raspberry Pi to control my light programmatically if I want, though I never needed to, fortunately.
How I wish I had the time to do these kind of projects... I have a wife and two daughters - that I absolutely adore - but I so crave the times when I could sit down and spend 9 hours coding.
So count me envious, of your skills and freedom. Good for you! :-)
Good question. Disclaimer: I’m in the lab that made Gen & was on the paper, so not impartial :)

Anglican is implemented in Clojure, and can be extended (by writing new Clojure code) to support new general-purpose inference engines. Creating those extensions requires an understanding of both the statistics and the PL concepts used in Anglican’s backend; you are essentially writing a new interpreter for arbitrary Anglican code.

Gen provides high level abstractions for writing custom inference algorithms for _specific models/problems_ (not entire general-purpose inference engines). Those abstractions don’t require reasoning about PL concepts like continuation-passing style, nor do they require the user to do any math by hand. Of course, since Gen is just Julia code, you can still reach in and implement new inference engines (just as in Anglican/Clojure) if you’re an expert. But I wouldn’t expect people who are not probabilistic programming researchers to do this (in either Anglican or Gen).
I had a wonderful childhood (by normal standards) and my famiy celebrated all birthdays (includig mine)... but I still don’t care :)
It seems to me all of that applies (in different ways, I would concede) to social media as well.
Accounts of phonetic properties of the italian orthography have been ... slightly exaggerated :-)

E.g. Italian has 5 written vowels, although (in many dialects, including standard Italian) if has 7 (the o in "corto" is not the same as in "cosa", and there are some words which would be allophones were it not for the different quality of the "e" vowel, like "pesca" which means peach with a phonetic ɛ/è vs fishery/inflection of the verb to fish, when with a phonetic e/é)
Electric cars: New vehicles to emit noise to aid safety
That's not the point: s/DRM/any sort of "illegal" content/g. Note that I am not discussing (or providing my position on) whether it should be possible to own "illegal" content, I'm just clarifying txru's argument.
Except in a distribution that doesn’t go past one digit, of course (no, really, it isn’t that rare to be able to apply Benford’s irl to sequences that don’t go past ten). But, yeah, not applicable in this case.
Interview with Bjorn Jeffery, founder of pioneering kids app developer Toca Boca
A loosely coupled set of highly trusted and capable security engineers who formed a group to audit such things that upon successful audit could place their seal of approval on a version I would support with a subscription in no time.

A large group of individuals would guard against any one or a majority being compromised by bribes or otherwise. Not entirely make such fraud impossible just less likely.

I see this similar to the Jepsen set of tests for a given database. A similar code test would be nice. But tough since patches and things would nullify the approval. Some tweaking to the idea would be nice but in general it’s almost a never adopt for me for security focused products because I don’t know if I can trust the creators. Why would I? I don’t have anything to go on.
> Microsoft was directly responsible for a two-decade regression of progress in software system design.

People did buy the products rather than better stuff. However there were monopolist practices that stopped that and monopolist practices are hard to spot when there is hype and a new industry people know nothing about. If you are trying to play catch up to get on board this tech train you don't know that it's a con.

I believe Microsoft's 'regression of progress' goes further back. BASIC is the real culprit. Nobody needed line numbers and goto statements, yet hobby and home computers from the 8 bit era were invariably burdened with lousy variants of MicroSoft BASIC. Including the Commodore things, even if they did not say Microsoft on boot up, they were.

Fundamentally there was open source ethos at the computer club of lore, where it all started. Bill Gates cloned Basic from the PDP-11 he had access to then made people pay for it rather than just copy it. He kind of invented the notion of software piracy being evil and morally wrong.

The UK home computing scene had BBC BASIC and Sinclair BASIC that were not directly derived from Microsoft's effort. The Sinclair contrivance was a super cheap BASIC hat needed the funny keyboard mappings, the BBC BASIC was actually a decent real programming language rather than just the lame Microsoft idea of what BASIC should be.

The only BASIC most users knew was 'LOAD""' followed by a press of the cassette play button to load a game.

MS-DOS was acquired and repurposed, sold to IBM with BASIC doing the groundwork - Bill Gates did not have an OS before then.

So computing was half way there towards being open source before Bill Gates ruined it by making people pay for his clone of PDP-11 BASIC.

Computers were also fundamentally networked before MS-DOS came along. Bill Gates kept it as personal computing, fleece everyone rather than share resources.
Very interesting thoughts. It does seem we're heading towards some kind of technological dystopia, but there is an increasing minority of people who are aware of it. I can see it leading to some kind of schism.
That's an excellent example of the wealth that is on youtube. As he was going through those knots, I could think of a dozen ways to use each one. They're so simple, but effect -- and with zero waste.

He's got a real wisdom in his voice and style.
I feel like most folks haven't read either link. The strike calls for striking against traditional, centralized social media, _not_ other social media (such as the Fediverse).
Again, as far as I am aware, Face ID is intended to be secure against concerted effort to break it. I have not heard of anyone coming up with a serious attack against it, though I'm curious to hear if you have.
No. Individuals openly resisting norms alters the discourse and the boundaries of acceptable thought. Sufficiently aggregated, it is precisely what brings about change.
To be fair this test was from a long time ago and I believe they fixed the things found by the Jepsen folks.

The latest version is 19.1.2
The current largest solar park in India and possibly the world, on google maps here https://www.google.com/maps/place/Thirumani,+Karnataka+57213...
Interesting, but I suppose I got something wrong then, as there must be a reason why pretty much no company offers smart switches in the UK market even when they have smart switches in other markets.
Based on their "crazy guy in first car" example, I expect there'll be more than the occasional example of racism, ableism, etc.
> deleting her stubs — short, unfinished articles that are culled when they sit dormant for too long

Can someone please explain why they do this? You'd think that with $100M/yr in donations, hosting stubs wouldn't be a problem.
Strong disagree on that. Reddit has bots and a massive troll population, neither is present in such a way that affects user experience.
PyMathProg: Mathematical Programming Environment for Python
> There's almost nothing that's unsafe well cooked unless it was rotten to begin with

Boiled rice - op's staple carbohydrate - can be dangerous if reheated. https://www.nhs.uk/common-health-questions/food-and-diet/can...

> Uncooked rice can contain spores of Bacillus cereus, a bacterium that can cause food poisoning. The spores can survive when rice is cooked.

> If rice is left standing at room temperature, the spores can grow into bacteria. These bacteria will multiply and may produce toxins (poisons) that cause vomiting or diarrhoea.

> The longer cooked rice is left at room temperature, the more likely it is that the bacteria or toxins could make the rice unsafe to eat.
I wouldn't say "the only reason". A sealed case can help with waterproofing, strength, and of course thinness.

You can now have BestBuy replace your battery for $49, which isn't too terrible. Other shops charge $39.
It's good to see a successful think tank (Open Markets Institute) devoted to the anti-monopoly cause.

I guess this means that there is a faction of the moneyed class which thinks monopolies aren't such a good idea.

Edit: some background on OMI: https://www.wired.com/story/freedom-from-facebook-open-marke...
US President Trump and North Korea's Kim Jong-Un Shake Hands Inside North Korea
> I also believe that constraints boost creativity and the fixed amount of rows/colums in a terminal and limited set of colors is great for that.

I agree and it's similar for web vs mobile apps. It would be great to come up with design constraints for web apps, but more like Jupyter where you have a way to mix text and graphics. Perhaps a web framework for creating admin tools that can include graphs?
A silent suffering, and intense;

The rock, the vulture, and the chain,

All that the proud can feel of pain,

The agony they do not show,

The suffocating sense of woe

Think that's a no.
~~Note that the article mentions Pb-210 not Po-210, ie. lead not polonium. Pb-210 was known as Radiolead.~~ (edit: it actually contains both)

Po-210 is deadly when ingested but not very dangerous when outside the body. It also has a very short half life, so you need it fresh out of a reactor if you are to poison a defected spy or a dissident with it.
Sounds like present day mainstream media... e.g. if you “think independently” and decide that affirmative action is bad, you’re branded a “bigoted racist” or “sexist” or “nazi”
How do you prevent the last person to select a number from deciding who goes first?
Kite building and flying. It involves a bit of engineering and a nice reason to get away from the computer screen. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19980440
No free will needed. You see the predictions. Let the model learn and then change your sequence. It takes some time for the model to adjust. This way you can get the prediction rate to 50% or below.
So this relies on that being a somewhat normal distribution (7 being the most common number).

What if the people were primed by the first person saying 7? What if the first person had said 3?

So really you'd need to get your 'random' numbers, check the distribution, than redistribute your 'random' numbers. Which doesn't seem random or 'random' to me.
If you’re going to link a video at least summarise the arguments so we have some idea of whether it’s worth watching.
> no company offers smart switches in the UK market even when they have smart switches in other markets.

Honestly I don't know, I'm not sure about the UK.

Perhaps those "smart" switches can't be powered by this technique due to their higher power consumption? But then, why can't one just use dumb RF switches, and put the heavy-duty digital "brain" inside a separate unit as I suggested? Because the encoding scheme doesn't scale? But it should...

In all possible ways, the same principle should be fully applicable in the UK... Sorry, I don't understand, it should be answered by someone who knows better than me...
I use Innolitics's DICOM browser for looking up tags every day. :) Thank you :)
It isn't very weird that these smart surveillance thingys go off on the wrong things. What do they have to train those AI? They can't have that many "sound bites" from actual school shootings right? Maybe they actually have some but probably not enough to train a reliable AI on imo. I wonder how they did to create more data. Did they hire some actors and tried to create some "aggressive noises" themselves? I really wanted the journalists to ask the companies this.
The larger point was that though kids don't need their parents hovering over them and planning their activities, as it happens now, they still need a community - whether that community is are immediate or close relations, or a tribe, doesn't matter. If a kid has 6 siblings, you almost don't need parents to be anything other than income providers since the kids will socialize and raise themselves. The alternative of a parent living their own life, and abandoning kids to a nanny and a set of structured managed activities isn't that great. The nuclear family is perfectly fine too. That was also a reality throughout a lot human history.

This mother describes the worst of all worlds. She's not involved in the lives of her kids. The kids are shuttled between her and her father. The nanny and her preschool teacher are the primary caregivers. It just isn't great. The fact that she wrote this article in the nyTimes to pat herself on the back for what a great job she's doing for society (Hint: She's not that important and society will survive without her) - is distasteful.
No it really wasn't.

If you want to understand the mindset at the time, it was all about hardware drivers. The only thing that mattered was hardware drivers, and the hardware manufacturers created drivers for dos/windos and nothing else at all.

Drivers was one of the primary challenges holding back any competition to MS. True also of OS/2.

OS/2 was seen as a solid architecture, but it arrived without a GUI, right at the time that the GUI became the key feature needed in any OS. It didn't take long for the Presentation Manager GUI to arrive, but it was nothing exciting.

The other thing seen as an issue at the time was that OS/2 was built for the rather terrible 80286 when really what was needed was full 32 bit 80386 support. It eventually got the 32 bit support but this was a bad start.

Microsoft released Word and Excel for OS/2 then discontinued them. That was the finish of OS/2.
I feel like you are jumping to a lot of conclusions. I have worked with a number of different bash implementations and terminals on windows. I haven't found one I appreciated as much as the ones I use on MacOS or have used on Linux.

Am I correct to understand that you dismiss my arguments about why I prefer another operating system and prefer a certain computer type in spite of higher cost as entirely invalid and part of some intellectual bankruptcy?

You seem to have no interest in seeing how another perspective might make sense to another person. If I were to argue like you I'd go with "No one cares to pay for hardware and software anymore. That's why Google gets away with eroding our privacy. Your hardware is full of bloated driver management tools. Your operating system has ads. It is just one data point telling me that people have no standards and lousy taste."

That's how I experience your arguments, no curiosity. I've been politely considering that your opinion probably reflects your needs. I would have appreciated the same courtesy. But what do I know. I'm just a signifier for humanity's decision-making. Bah.
Yes, but they are the "machine" (that doesn't deplete). The inputs are air, water and electricity just as the title says.
Revature is not a scam, but they will treat you very poorly. I would compare it to being enlisted in the Army / bootcamp.

The design of this program is to replace some of the H1-B labor that is now being restricted. Just like H1-B you are not going to get treated great but you do have more rights certainly.

This is the best way to think about: the developer community is very active on Twitter / definitely liberal on labor issues. We all are also well paid and not very concerned about being fired. If Revature was a total scam, it would not be long before we heard stories on HN (indeed we are hearing one now) and then I guarantee both Revature and the companies employing their services would be faced with such fire and fury it would shake the whole tech world...just look at FB contractors right now.

NOTE: Trilogy Bootcamp sucks I know
https://www.ft.com/content/75bffe36-9330-11e9-aea1-2b1d33ac3...

> Banks in China are facing a pinch on liquidity following the government takeover of a commercial bank that is resetting the rules for trading in the country’s interbank market.
Just ask everyone to write their number down and reveal at the same time.
You can't deduce that from the data in the article, so if you have another source do share. Most of India's capacity was built in the last 2 years [0] and almost all in the last 3. They might simply still be in some sort of build-and-spend phase and yet to sit back and start realising profits.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_power_in_India
Strong disagree. HN is not a social media. Because we do not use it for social purposes. This site has no concept of user relationships, and it does not encourage you to use real/identifying information about yourself to use it. It is centred on topics and discussion - sites like this, Reddit, and other forums can develop social networks, but this is a byproduct and not the intent, which I think is the single most important factor. HN's purpose is not to keep you in touch with your friends or community, thus it is not a social media.
Signs If You Are Good at Something
That is a claim being made, but it doesn't appear to be one that is actually supported by the facts.

In this case, the editor in question had a longstanding dispute with Wikimedia connected party (a party whom, had, in fact been sanctioned by the community for their actions).

I understand that monarchy is now in fashion in communities, but the arguments for democracy in its various forms as opposed to various kinds of dictatorships remain strong enough that I'd want to see some pretty good evidence that self governance isn't a good trade-off. I don't think that anyone would argue that community self-governance won't make errors, all systems of governance will. The abject failure of centrally moderated large web communities certainly do not argue for that approach.

[Of particular interest: this case has all the marks of having received attention through influence (the banned user had a longstanding dispute with a WMF connected party who also quit the project at the same time)-- maybe that actually wasn't a factor here but WMF has not been forthcoming even TO the arbcom in private with a detailed justification for this actions. As a result of the apparent of impropriety and the largely unexplained secrecy it doesn't make for a particularly good argument that it's actually fixing a failure.]
For ease of reference, here is the text at that link verbatim:

Choose a 2-digit number, say 23, your "seed".

Form a new 2-digit number:
the 10's digit plus 6 times the units digit.

The example sequence is
23 --> 20 --> 02 --> 12 --> 13 --> 19 --> 55 --> 35 --> ...

and its period is the order of the multiplier, 6, in the group of
residues relatively prime to the modulus, 10. (59 in this case).

The "random digits" are the units digits of the 2-digit numbers,
ie, 3,0,2,2,3,9,5,... the sequence mod 10.
The arithmetic is simple enough to carry out in your head.

This is an example of my "multiply-with-carry"
random number generator, and it seems to provide quite satisfactory
sequences mod 2^32 or 2^64 , particularly well suited to
the way that modern CPU's do integer arithmetic.

You may choose various multipliers and moduli for examples of random
selection of the types you ask about.

A description of the multiply-with-carry method is in the postscript
file mwc1.ps, included in

The Marsaglia Random Number CDROM
with

The DIEHARD Battery of Tests of Randomness,

available at

http://stat.fsu.edu/pub/diehard/

George Marsaglia
I don't quite understand what I'm supposed to be upset with here. You've got a guy who stalks users and attacks the administration, and they ban him for a year, which kind of seems like a measured approach to be honest.

Some other admins didn't like that treatment and quit. So what? If you see that kind of behavior as something acceptable and the organization doesn't, maybe you shouldn't be there either.

Sounds like much ado about nothing.
That actually would have been a great idea, in hindsight. I have seen far to many people who suffer from intense anxiety if they have no internet or device access, even if it's just for a few hours. It's like a form of addiction. A day away from the Internet each week would condition people to be able to survive without it.
In most Western homes, lighting is a tiny part of electricity consumption, and even more so now that LED lights are becoming prevalent.

Heating, air conditioning, refrigerators, washing machines, tumble dryers, dishwashers, hobs or ovens are typically responsible for more electricity consumption.

Personally, since I don't have air conditioning, only use heating ~3 months a year (I live in a very mild climate) and almost don't use the tumble dryer, I would have a very hard time cutting my consumption by two thirds. Maybe not using the dishwasher, washing clothes less (or by hand) and cooking less, but probably it wouldn't be enough.
What's more suprising is Italy 2nd place, which is a great thing. IMHO we need to transition our energy generation even more into solar, but also changing our habits to reflect that (do laundry during the day vs the night, cool down things during the day, etc.)
Paradoxically, this may be the best answer because it is not the best answer.

In a room of 8500 people, it is likely that there is someone in the room smarter than you and knows a better way to pick random numbers. Come into the room and tell everyone that your objective is to pick a random number from 1-10. Maybe even go as far as to tell them your mod 10 idea. Wait a bit to let them to think about it, then start asking for the random numbers. It is likely that someone will have come up with a better way to pick a random number than your mod 10 solution, and thus their answer will be more uniformly random that what your solution can produce. And thus your solution becomes at least as uniformly random as theirs.
The town I grew up in had a chinese restaurant downtown, right where all the busses stopped at the end of their routes. My mom and I went there all the time, since it was one of our favorite places to eat. I knew most of their family lol - the kids would usually hang out and do their homework on one of the tables in the back next to the kitchen.

Those scenarios are what you make of them. They're not always doom and gloom. :) Honestly I think a family business is a better situation than a draconican employer that expects one to devote their life to them.