skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The 737 overwing exits have a non plug style door which are not permitted any more. It uses a few sensor inputs to engage a lock so you can’t open it during flight.
“What the Hardware Does” Is Not What Your Program Does: Uninitialized Memory
Not everything that is non-critical should be removed.

Autopilot? Not necessary, pilots can fly themselves. Still, it is added for convenience (and its consequences, less mental burden, more mental capacity to do other stuff).
Ads? I'd assume you'd be completely against this, but collecting a whole bunch of voting preferences would probably be incredibly valuable to someone.

Just give proper notice.
Probably a cheat, but a piezo disc setup would give you zero power audio capture and with others to power basic processing, you would be able to do something, though may find yourself shouting during testing, though a capture cone to focus the audio onto the piezo would help immensely. Though I'd seriously have to sit down and work out what surface area of pezios and vibration levels and as such power you could produce. Though could mitigate that with some larger capacitors to capture all the passive sound and low level power the piezo's will capture/produce during the day. Triggering processor to check for your keyword and instigate an action.

Not analogue, but certainly would be Zero power.
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I'm focused specifically on fashion for this reason. It's cronyism, for lack of a better word. The fashion industry is still very insular, and averse to change, especially streamlining their processes. This is true for smaller to medium sized brand, whereas the LVMH conglomerate are enterprise enough. To me, this isn't so much an engineering problem, but a sales problem, and educating the brands the benefits. Engineers are always looking for ways to improve logistical processes, but creative people leading fashion brands do not prioritize this.
> this is because I view each new dependency as a significant cost

I view lines of code that other people have to maintain as less costly than lines of code I have to maintain.
Location: NYC
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Modern medicine is great when you get in a car crash, and it's horrific if you have type 2 diabetes.

Doctors get very little training in diet and lifestyle, because those are low-status and left to non-MD specialists, and many of them dogmatically cling to 1960s-era science.
> Pointing something out about somebody's comment history is not an "attack".

That's certainly true in general. For example, if I post "Hey, I noticed that you've posted a lot about APL. Did you ever work with it professionally?", that's not a personal attack. But the pattern here was more specific than that. If you single someone out by name and insinuate bad faith in their comment history, that pattern-matches closely to the online calling-out and shaming culture. We want to avoid that culture here: its spirit is aggressive, we want HN's spirit to be collegial, and one can't have both. When we post moderation comments like I did above, we're always looking at the effect something has on the site as a whole. The call-out culture is contagious because people are so used to it elsewhere.

It's perfectly natural for someone who disagrees with your view to have various comments in their history expressing that. The way to answer this is with better arguments, not by naming and shaming.

If you say that your intent wasn't to shame or insinuate, I believe you, but that's only a necessary condition for posting here, not a sufficient one. If your post pattern-matches to a standard way people do that on the internet, then readers will interpret you that way (like I did above) even if you intended otherwise, and the effect on the community will be just as bad. In such cases, the burden is on the commenter to make their benign intent explicit and disambiguate from the default pattern.
Isn't that much about how Hollywood works to produce "entertainment"? "Art movies" are different, more inspiring. For them the "scaffolding" might be there and made even more obvious it is scaffolding like in theater you sure know you are not looking at a real-life Swan Lake etc.

There was a curious incident recently where Game of Thrones episode had a Starbucks or Dunkin Donuts coffee mug visible in some scene. It broke the "magic", revealed the scaffolding for most people.

But if you believe in fire-breathing giant dragons then why not also believe in multi-verse where things from Starbucks universe can occasionally mingle with Game of Thrones. It's magic!
Not a single person in the world (rounded down – I’m sure you might be able to find someone) is opposed to people using plastic straws for medical purposes. Just as not a single person in the world is opposed to allowing disabled people access via cars, even if in general cars might not be allowed.

These kinds of arguments are such obvious strawmen. I‘m always so confused when people use them, apparently even in good faith, thinking they hold any kind of water. I’m always disappointed when someone uses arguments like that, it’s so absurd.

Overall I would just argue that straw bans and the like are often not enough or waste valuable political capital, even if they might be effective. That much is certainly true. The focus on personal responsibility is toxic and derailing since climate change categorically cannot be solved with appeals to personal responsibility.
How about a former editor of the British Medical Journal: https://blogs.bmj.com/bmj/2018/06/04/richard-smith-the-case-...
Agree with your point but google+ wasn’t shutdown, just isn’t free now. You can still use it with your organization if you pay for gsuite.
> do everything possible to keep the life in the soil alive: do not use pesticides, funghicides or herbicides since the toxins are not specific and kill all soil life.

It should be noted that glyphosate has antimicrobial and fungicidal properties.

Also, plants can turn the bedrock into dirt, either directly, or through their mycorrhyzal and rhyzosphere bacteria. Trees are especially useful to extract nutrient from rocks.

That being said, I think that Merril has a point. we're accelerating the extraction process (by dumping our waste products in rivers, rather than peeing/pooping where plants grow), and I have no idea how long we'll get away with these practices.

Human effluvia is full of drugs, and thus unfit for agriculture anyways...
i'm curious specifically about what you think we do to salt that changes it so dramatically
I've always looked at western medicine as if it was the best car mechanic you can hire, just for your body. If your problem is mechanical, they can solve it. Surgical techniques are amazing. Breakdowns in known processes can be fixed.

But if the problem doesn't fit those known processes, isn't mechanical, and you are relying on doctor for real troubleshooting of problems, that is where it falls short. You can fall into the weird gap of talking to different specialists, trying to find someone who can pinpoint what is wrong. You try different treatments, you see what works. Sometimes you solve problems, sometimes you end up living your whole life managing symptoms.

And that isn't all bad - better to manage symptoms than to live in misery, or not to live. But the word 'over-rated' is quite accurate. It isn't useless, it just is over-rated.
I was rather surprised not to see things like spinach and squash...
Can you quote what you think is non scientific in the article "Is medicine overrated" ?
I've discovered Calculus Made Easy recently and it's wonderful. The edition edited by Martin Gardner is particularly good, with amazing preliminary chapters [0].

I've spent many years "pretending to understand" calculus, but things I remember gnawing at me, like limits & infinitesmals, are accompanied with context and history such that you can finally put yourself into the conversation and understand that my confusion is simply due to only getting a fraction of the story.

You can read the full text for free here [1]

[0] https://openlibrary.org/books/OL351037M/Calculus_made_easy

[1] http://calculusmadeeasy.org/
AI needs an IQ scale as you are right and what we as a mass class as AI is not what marketing classes as AI, it's a scale and with that some way to discern this is needed. An AI equivalent of the IQ scale would go a long way in allowing the masses to instantly comprehend what they are getting.
Sure. But the Balenciaga or Supreme shirt is a good point. This in some ways supports the hypothesis that people buy brands based on social influence. Value on the West Coast tend to coincide with utility, but this isn't the case with these fashion brands. Balenciaga revenue broke over a billion in revenue, and Supreme has been rumored to be a unicorn.
I lose faith in representative democracy by the day

but I can't figure out monetization.

Oh boy.
Great link!

Now I only wish there were similar resources for Linear Algebra and Probability/Statistics.

Any good recommendations?
Battery Nomenclature
My comments back in January (before the 2nd crash): https://twitter.com/davidu/status/1085881783319699458

"""
Semi-related, they also found the 737MAX cockpit voice recorder from the downed Lion Air plane. My guess is that this will turn into an indictment of the new anti-stall software. You couldn’t pay me any amount of money to board a 737MAX-8 until that system is improved.
"""
"Trust" as against what threat model?
Could they have had multiple sensors, but then fed them through software that determined which one(s) to tell the pilot about, without requiring the additional training? Like perhaps if they had 2 AoA’s on each side, and the software would take a reading that was agreed upon by 3 of the 4 sensors, and would alert the pilots to a failure of the system if 2 agreed and 2 disagreed.
Quick Resumes Fixes to Always Hear Back from a Recruiter
Today I Learned... Thanks!
You can also try Bitwarden. It has a hosted solution with a free tier (that's probably adequate) and paid tiers. Or you can also self-host it with a fork like bitwarden-rs. There are apps and extensions for different platforms and browsers, respectively.
Simple Usage of GNU Parallel
Crispr is less like molecular scissors and more like molecular malware
> last frame house in Belltown

Curious, was that the one on the 2200 block of Second, or the one on Lenora and Post Alley? If the latter, do You have any pics?
most countries do not run brown coal. at least not as much as they used to.
I'd certainly appreciate such an app. I won't guilt you by saying 'what about civic duty' but do consider that it sounds like you want people to be informed such that they know the bad things politicians do, and creating such an app may help achieve that. Meaning of course, benefit to you though not monetarily.

Alternatively, you could always go ads, or maybe preferably, add a paid feature for certain niceties(one touch calling, assistance in writing, etc).
Because not a lot of people prefer touchpads over mice. I'd very much prefer a compact keyboard + comfortable mouse to that setup (and given the keyboards a lot of people are building, I'm not alone)
Modern diy culture is ultimately about publishing.

That's amusing. But not wrong.
Sure, soil building happens naturally.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pioneer_species
> The convenience of throwing something away is a triumph of modern civilization ...

I think you got it backwards. Throwing stuff away was the normal way of life before modern civilization arrived, just like defecating wherever you find convenient, hunting animals for dinner, or riding hoses on whatever side of road you like.

The wonder of modern civilization gave us so much power to produce stuff that it's no longer feasible to just "throw away" stuff we don't need. Just like modern cars necessitated speed limits, stop signs, and annoying lane-changing rules, mass production requires one to think about how to dispose stuff without ruining ourselves.

So, yeah I think you got it backwards. Maybe recycling doesn't work as well as advertised, but that doesn't mean we are off the hook. It just means we need a different solution.
> Adapting old programs to fit new machines usually means adapting new machines to behave like old ones.

Made me think about backwards compatibility. Backwards compatibility often is what allows a new platform to be successful (or to have a shot at success) and yet it can hold it back from what it would have become without it.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Path_dependence

Related a recent comment by munificent on all the effort that goes into JavaScript runtimes:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20413090
I intend to avoid them until they get extensive testing and re-certification by an independent agency (e.g. not the FAA). I do not trust either Boeing or the FAA to do the right thing, the economic incentives are too high.
There is still a lot of Microsoft hate, or people in denial that Microsoft makes some amazing products. People like to think the world has moved on its something. Don't even mention Azure market share, some people hear will go full blown truther.
http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:dCUIbOV...
Exact same thing on Postmates and it drives me crazy: https://imgur.com/iWMyOUZ

I don't mind paying a delivery fee or tipping the driver. I do however take issue with pretending that there is no delivery fee despite that clearly being an outright lie. Not that I'm overly inclined to do so (at the current fees), but it also makes it nearly impossible to compare pricing & shop around -- because you aren't going to see the actual delivery fee ("service fee") on a "Free Delivery" order until you're at the very end of the checkout/confirmation process.

It's obviously not very ethical, though it's unclear to me if it's illegal or not. It probably should be illegal though, and they should have to declare "cost = $0 delivery + XX% service charge" or similar IMO.
Yep. Like shooting JPEG (instead of RAW) in your digital camera.
Haha, I know.... that is the most HN comment ever...

Not happy about the world, wanting to change in some idealistic way, but how to run ads and make money on it?
What does this have to do with Libra? I bet most Americans are in favor of stopping Libra; aka Facebook's private currency.

Central banking is a huge part of international economic policy and stability. There's a reason private money was outlawed in the 1900s.
I assume you're saying you disagree with this action by congress, but you're jumping past the issue and into something fairly different.

For what it's worth, the two primary issues I've seen raised with Libre is monopoly and finance regulation. I wouldn't be very excited to hear Bank of America is getting into social networking; I'm not sure why I should be excited that Facebook is getting into banking. As for regulation, my (limited) understanding is that if Facebook wants to act like a bank, it needs to be regulated like one.
Your len is off.

Homosexuality was illegal and slowly we've reached the point of gay marriage. A lot of political reforms are still required.

Drug law reforms still need to progress.

Gay rights only progressed because of a personal connection. Using the same method for drug reform is not tone deaf.

It's a little offensive drug reform is a mental/psychological issue. For many it may be a choice over legal choices that cause more issues.
Obviously there was no soil at first since it's dead organic matter.
I know exactly what they mean.
The free peoples of the world need tools to prevent these relentless assaults on our liberties.

Unfortunately, we’ve been sociologically engineered to desire a false sense of safety delivered by “benevolent” overlords, instead of actual community interdependence.

Removal of any sense or ability for individual volition in matters of personal commerce is one of the final steps toward complete servitude.

Fortunately, help is at hand. A new generation of decentralized algorithms supporting cryptocurrency commerce resistant to (state-initiated) Network Partitions will support unstoppable commerce between independent agents, and will work at small (local network) scale, as securely and easily as at global scale (> millions of aggregate transact per second).

And not a moment too soon.
Path Dependence
I make a plain text file of a certain topic (e.g chess, economics, politics) and progressively add my own thoughts on in it and useful info I get from others (books, videos, lectures).
A lot of early modern thinkers had this thing called a commonplace book. like John Locke, William Paley, Jonathan Edwards, Leopardi, Bacon, Emerson and Thoreau. I think it's a pretty good way to learn. I prefer having a digital version of it since it's much easier to access and I don't have to worry about losing it.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commonplace_book
Fascinating and good to see analogue computing at play by any other name.
As a former agronomist there are a couple of things in this article that concern me. It reads like a scare piece. Farmers for over fifty years have recognized the problem of soil erosion and are moving to reduce tillage.

Sadly no-till where farmers plant into last years crop is only mentioned once. No-till requires more management and adoption started slowly. But now better chemicals for weed control, better planting equipment and adoption of a best practices list has contributed to its successful adoption and it's popularity has exploded.

I am skeptical of the discussion of soil microbes which previously have been looked at as snake oil cures promising much but delivering little. There may be a genuine breakthrough this time, but show this skeptic the university replicated and peer reviewed research first. Far too often with these products all you see are farmer testimonials which unaccompanied by university research are a flashing red light indicating a scam.
Hackathons are not a good way to bring the best out of engineers
I personally think that sitting in a room for 2-3 days expected to stay up and build an app/website in order to win some sort of prize/job in the end is not very useful for anyone. Almost everyone that attends says they are exhausted by the end and because of the pressure of needing to produce something quick, you tend to consume unhealthy food & beverages in the process.

I realize that this might be an unpopular opinion but I am open to having a discussion.
Good point. I wasn’t thinking of threats of violence or suicides. If you define the term more broadly to make the “most people know a victim...” statement true (even with the broader definition, I’m not sure it would be true), then we shouldn’t be surprised that support for 2A isn’t weaker.
It was implied by the response that he was using a free option.

I'm sorry for the trouble. 1Password no longer offers a free-to-use option on iOS. It can either be used with a 1Password membership account or it can be synced to a standalone vault created by 1Password for Mac or 1Password for Windows. It wouldn't be possible to create a new standalone vault from 1Password for iOS. Standalone vaults still work, but must be created by a licensed product (1Password for Mac or 1Password for Windows).
Regular exercise, good diet and quality sleep prevent/solve most health problems.

If exercise were in pill form, it'd be the most valuable pill.
If you’re a hobbyist or just want something open-source to play with, this might be acceptable.

If you want a real professional-quality NLE on Linux, there’s Davinci Resolve. In the commercial world, it’s more known for its color-grading features, but it’s a decent editor as well.

If you’re an actual professional (you edit video for money), you’re going to be on a Mac or PC and using Avid Media Composer, Adobe Premiere, or MAYBE Final Cut Pro (but probably not).
Very nice.

Both DNS and WKD are real-time, and modifiable by an attacker. There's no trail of trust/history. It may be good for discovery, but trusting the key requires more.

I guess that it's better to have multiple independent ways to validate ownership of a key after you discover it. Cross-check various methods that require different levels of access, to see if something is fishy.

Anyway, I'm off to implement wkd. :)
My understanding (form my own reading, and a few other comments on this post), is that they needed to maintain the existing 737 type rating, so that pilots would not need to be retrained (this I knew), but also apparently changing the type would mean they wouldn’t be allowed to grandfather in some old, no longer permitted, design elements. This latter bit is new to me and I haven’t seen it mentioned elsewhere so maybe take with a big bowl of salt :)
Any good doctor will advise you to get plenty of exercise and eat a health diet. That's easily the best thing you can do for your health.

Only the vast majority of people ignore that advise.

Also the combination of vaccinations and nutrient-fortified food have worked wonders for public health.
I was linked to this consumer advocacy website earlier today around a different matter (to do w/ airlines), but I think they put this well as part of their values page https://www.elliott.org/our-values/

promotes honesty, fairness and respect between companies and customers.
...
For companies - Honesty means that the price a company displays should be the price its customers pay — no tricks. Customers have the right to know what’s included — and not included — when an offer is initially made.
... (under 'Our causes')
Killing junk fees. Whether it’s a mysterious “access” fee on your cell phone bill or a “convenience” fee on your ticket, we stand opposed to meaningless junk fees that line the pockets of companies.
Are you sure that changing your implementation didn't fix a bug?

I've noticed that a lot of "dependency" problems on "complex systems" are usually programmer implementation problems. Changing the implementation forces you to review the original implementation (or throw it out) and fix the bug that caused you to change the implementation in the first place.
From Laptop to Lambda: Outsourcing Everyday Jobs [PDF]
Lisp is an interesting programming language. Some have strong opinions that it's a good one as well. I personally think it deserves more attention than it gets and the more mainstream languages usually get more attention than they deserve (like Go for example).
Would a really great resume done up in Comic Sans be more of a turn-off than an eye-catcher? This is not a joke question (at least that's not the intent)
Streaming Porn Produces as Much CO2 as Belgium
Ask HN: What does your company do to support employee learning and development?
I’m curious to hear how some companies differ in how they think about employee learning and development. It seems like for the best companies My guess is the best companies (like Stripe and shopify) have a very different approach to this, and that’s one of their biggest competitive advantages. So what infrastructure does your company provide to support learning? What works and what doesn’t? Do you use a learning management system?
Mostly everything, including associating longevity with nutrition and sports when it's been documented ad nauseam that it increased dramatically with antibiotics and vaccines. Not that nutrition and sports don't play a role, but it's insignificamt when compared to modern medicine. Just one example of many on that nonsense article.
I know exactly what I’m talking about. I’ve been an academic. You can call it victim blaming all you like, but you’re just removing personal responsibility from the picture. Nobody forced these people into their profession, nobody is forcing them to publish with any given journal, and nobody is forcing them to remain academics.

We always have choice.

Passing the buck and saying “I believe what I’m doing is wrong, but until there’s a policy that prevents everybody else from doing it too, I won’t change” is just lazy.
I briefly worked for a startup back in 2005 that was doing data analysis on prescriptions to reverse analyze a patient's conditions.

The customers were the insurance companies.