skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This.

I'm surprised by the number of HN readers going bananas about never flying in this plane again. Every pilot on the planet knows about this issue now, and commercial pilots are already used to broad differences in airplane handling characteristics and how to avoid a stall in different configurations, as long as they're not forced to fight against 120 lbs of pitch trim.

If the only thing Boeing does is add an "MCAS off" button, pilots will be able to get the thing back on the ground in an emergency, even without new type rating, and even if pitch is a little bit squirley for ten minutes.

This is the same mistake we accuse the public of making when they freak out over terrorism and demand more TSA theater. We have steel cockpit doors and a new cultural understanding of what a hijacker can do. This is what prevents a 9/11 style hijacking from happening again, not the TSA.
> My search for a bookcase starts on ikea.com, where I navigate to the bookcase section, in the hope to get an overview of the different series. I find instead a listing of all 257 bookcase products, including accesories, such as hinges and extra shelves.

This is a very common frustration I have. Eg, go search Amazon for "bike" and sort by price "low to high". None of the top hits are bicycles; they are all accessories.

ML seems to be about guessing what the user wants based on lots of data analysis. But I think there are lots of cases where letting the user tell you want they want, by providing a hierarchical menu or explicit filters, would get much better results.

One "low tech" thing I wish someone would build: an online grocery store with every product categorized by food restrictions (gluten-free, peanut-free, sugar-free, low-sodium, etc, as well as kosher, halal, vegan, etc). Check the boxes you care about in your profile and you'll only see things that match. This would be AMAZING for folks with food allergies. The implementation would be 99.9% up-front research and data entry; the actual filtering would be as simple as WHERE clauses. But I don't know of a site that does this.
But that money is going to exist whether you accept it or not. You not accepting the money doesn't mean the way it was acquired stops happening.
The 4L is an emblematic car around here as well. It's amazing that there are still active enthusiast clubs around many emblematic classic cars (Mini, 4L, Reliant Robin in parts of the UK, etc.)
Unfortunately the article is kind of idiotic, the actual paper [1] has nothing to do with discovering a newly discovered flaw. As the paper's author even says, many students find the same "flaw" themselves.

[1] http://online.watsci.org/abstract_pdf/2019v26/v26n3a-pdf/4.p...
after feeling the "buyers remorse" for every charitable act (small as $5 or large as $1K), I have given up on the concept of Charity. I either feed a person who is hungry, or I dont do any charity (other than volunteering to help).

(I'm just focussing on job creation and improving accessibility)
Right and their program expense is "Distributing food". What do you think that vague description of a program encompasses. Paying drivers? Paying the manager of the drive by the hour? It tells you very little of what your money is actually going to.

Now I don't mean to knock the people of Brazos Valley Food Bank, they might all be volunteers and they might all work out of a volunteers garage, in which case you bet your ass if I knew for a fact I would be donating hard cash and probably even volunteer when and what I could if that was my neighborhood.

But I'm not going to donate to some giant entity that can "scale". My entire point of the comment was that the author paints a picture that your food donation hinders operations and youd be better off to donate just one dollar instead of one can. So I pointed out all of the local cases where your donation goes just the right amount and from volunteers and for people who aren't going to complain about what efforts you are going to put in.
DNA does not encode a complete model of the human that has the DNA, it encodes a bunch of potential clones of that human. This is an abstract, incomplete model. To encode a complete model you would need a complete physical measurement of this particular human as a physical system. But there is a theorem by Thomas Breuer that no physical system can contain a complete measurement of its own state.
I have read all the comments below yours and as an immigrant in an Africa country I wonder why no one says anything about why we want to be immigrants in the first place. I have noticed this debate tends to be about Europe, US and Australia and it seems the world has given up on holding dictators to task. I know it is hard but surely as mostly IT people on HN we know you have to fix the root cause. For the record I think it is healthy to have both pro immigrant and also listen to concerns of those against immigrants.
One of the more interesting things I've read recently is that there's a certain strain in math where a concept isn't considered to be understood until it can be taught to an undergrad math class. Most anybody can make it to an undergrad level of academia.

Meaning the world as a whole doesn't understand something unless there exists one person who can explain it at a level that anybody can reasonably attain. Once this happens, it's only a matter of replication.

The domain of knowledge is far flatter and the role that intelligence plays is way smaller. You need to be really smart if you want to make advances in the knowledge of mankind. Not to understand what's already been discovered. If it's already been discovered and understood, then you can't fault intelligence for not providing you with the understanding.

You just didn't luck into taking the right class.
> And so, having nitpicked that to death to save us death by nested replies,

You saved us nothing. You should have just stopped after admitting you meant to write "This binary tool patches".

The several straw men (with replies) that follow in the first part are disingenuous and just serve to devalue the rest of your comment.
You get promoted by shipping stuff (at least, when I was there). You get a raise by getting promoted. So there's an indirect connection between launching things and getting more money.

I think that the OP's referring to a phenomena at different big companies where certain divisions get paid more because management deems that division more important. That creates a dynamic where everybody tries to get into that division, and the ones that can't end up bitter, demoralized, and resentful (and hence unproductive). Connecting pay to tangible accomplishments rather than where you are in the company avoids that dynamic, though it does create the one you've observed where everyone is hunting for tangible accomplishments.
Depending on the store, it's not as simple as the systems not talking to each other. It's more likely that the system for the store front is either out of sync or incorrect. The systems that multi-tenant warehouses use were made for a time before e-commerce and has had more modern updates shoe-stringed on.

Even if the software is well implemented, there's still issues of items being damaged during the pick/pack step, items being labeled incorrectly, put into the wrong bin, misplaced, or even stolen. These are things that smaller shared-warehouse store fronts don't have the capacity (in space or money) to cope with it.
> 1: The people are smarter.

I’d phrase this a little differently: the people there can be relied upon to at least have some “baseline” technical ability. Having worked at both FAANG and more mediocre companies, one thing that stands out is that while not everyone at FAANG are super-wizards, you’ll never have to sit there and explain things like “what is a stack trace” and “what happens when you write past the end of an array” and “what is the difference between O(n log n) and O(log n)”. You’ll never have to argue whether using source control is a good idea. You’ll never have people who spend weeks just trying to get Hello Project” to compile. All of which I’ve seen in other companies.

The big guys hiring processes might not be great but unlike most companies they seem to be able to filter out the complete know-nothings, and that alone is probably what raises the average.

TLDR: it’s not that they hire smarter people—they just avoid hiring way-below-average people.
Or, because my time is valuable to me, I'll just not donate to them at all, or donate something like food that no one is likely to line their pockets with. Why is it my responsibility as a donor to do all this research?

> You are oblivious of the underlying business aspect that any nonprofit requires as they grow.

I disagree with the idea that growing should be part of a charitable organizations goals. It is not a business and should not act like one.
Google search is by far the company's most profitable service or product. Compare the investment of putting a dollar into search over a year vrs putting a dollar into android or youtube. You can legally force a company to work against itself but we may have to say goodbye to all the side projects.

also this didn't set well with me

"Access. There might have to be limits on who can access the API. We might not want every high school hacker to be able to build his or her own search platform. On the other hand, imagine thousands of Mark Zuckerbergs battling each other to find better ways of organizing the world’s information."
I just like the functionality and feel of actual buttons. It's like the difference between using the iPad software keyboard vs. an actual hardware keyboard to type on. The Touch Bar makes a row of my keyboard worse.
This is probably a function of the target audience. If most people on HN work at SV-ish companies where all developers are at a very high level, then the biggest observable difference between them is how obnoxious they are.
It's difficult to separate the concept of giving money away from the concept of being tricked or taken advantage of. It was not easy to give up the belief that welfare would be best tackled by shipping big boxes of essential supplies rather than a cash or a credit system.
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>> There's always someone faster, slower, richer, poorer, healthier, and sicker than you.

THIS! made my day!
Guide to Photo Metadata Fields
Except the article doesn't say anything about visas or better salaries back home. Its whole slant is that apparently Chinese graduates are moving away from Silicon Valley because those darn US labor laws mean they can't work nine hours a day, six days a week, for lower wages.

The article is such a pathetically transparent piece of anti-labor rights astro-turfing: China is going to out-compete the US unless US workers can be forced to accept equally shitty working conditions, that I cannot believe Hacker News is taking it seriously.
Not even heavy tasks. Even just installing packages and launching applications is just so much quicker after I upgraded my thinkpad to an NVME drive.
The remove doubles operator is now called "Merge by Distance". You can find it in Mesh > Clean Up. That's actually the first thing I added to the new quick favorites menu which you can access with the q key.
"Merge doubles" is renamed "Merge vertices" (alt-m) > "by distance"... in the "Vertex" menu.
(Though the change makes sense to me, I wish they kept an alias so people can still find it.)
Relevant Simpson's clip: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P9yruQM1ggc
30% became the industry standard not just for video games for a reason. It costs money to seamlessly do business across n countries, and it's not like Valve does nothing else to try and earn that fee either.

Epic's play is to try and see if being a better looking deal for game devs will translate to being better for gamers or other groups (like linux users, open source advocates) too. We'll see. Valve has already demonstrated their goodwill towards all the groups multiple times, even if it's motivated by keeping their platform dominance.
The worst part is when the customer _thinks_ they know the rules, and then don't (consciously), and you have to help them through that cognitive dissonance of realizing that the business rules they "know" aren't actually the same as the ones they know.

A coworker of mine used to term this, "Applied Philosophy."

There was a post on HN a few years ago, where a game developer had a game where all of the users were asking for an Undo key. This would have completely broken the game! So he looked into his data, and figured out that what people were mad about was moving into a stream tile and taking damage or dying. So instead, he made it impossible to move onto a stream tile, and the problem was solved.
The primary beneficiary of educating foreigners in the US, is the US because of the tuition that those students pay the schools.

The so called "brain drain" is just a ploy to make you think there's a talent shortage. Companies always want cheaper labor. In actuality, US citizens will benefit from more foreigners returning to their home countries because there's more jobs available for US locals.
i think it all goes back "How much is enough", IMHO, the persons who figured answers for that are the ones to envy ;)
We're still prototyping new models and modifying the dataset, so we plan to release more technical details in the future.
Wolves also would work (for those that might have seen 'Never Cry Wolf').
The article talks specifically about usability testing - though it isn't in the title but it is in the first line of the article. I don't think pricing strategies or matching algorithms and such would fall under this domain.
My given appellation, which I hereby grant permission to you and any other interested parties to use when speaking in reference to me, is Ishmael.
We are not talking about an emergency though. We're talking about regular food drives. Donating to emergencies if a different matter. And if your city is underwater, get your ass out there and help.
This is a big part of it. CPU-only models are much easier to deploy, and not all developers have GPUs, so the first iteration of the local model will be CPU-only. We might release a GPU version later.
> Its weird how it's socially acceptable to admit you're reliant upon this specific drug to get work done. But any others and it's bad.

The most interesting aspect is that this acceptance is near universe across cultures.
US mobile speeds are slow. 5G might not fix the problem
Thanks for this. Truly unexpected and fascinating!
Awesome, thank you! I was waiting for someone to do this! :)
This happens even with WalMart, BestBuy, and Target though. So it doesn't even need to be vendor neutral. Even within a single vendor they're screwing it up.
Where did you see this?
I have not heard of this issue before the launch of the current Ryzen CPUs and x570 boards.
They should use ContraPest Fertility Control:
https://senestech.com/contrapest/
I am surprised after reading the comments here:)

the simple fact is that there are more students from China to US over the years because more students can afford the tuitions, while the H1B visa quota remain the same; also there are more and more students from global as well to compete on the H1B quota.
so most of the students have to go back simply because there is not enough visa for them to stay.
According to the article the Fish and Wildlife Service has researched this extensively. Reports have found it's 'consistent with the state’s marine protection and water quality policies.' Experts who make this their livelihood recommend this course of action.

The public response seems purely reactionary. The comments strengthen this argument with silly quips here and there like, 'we should just drop some cats', etc.. Very little rational discussion by the press and public. As opposed to Fish and Wildlife who is taking this very seriously.

Armchair experts.
Will InformIT sell it in pdf and ebook format like many other books? I try not buy paper format to reduce clutter.
It seems they are simply assigning patients to the top risk decile (more accurately than before). Telling someone they are at a high risk is different than a flat-out diagnosis. Better efficacy of the predictive model (fewer false positives and fewer false negatives than before) is a good thing.
I've met great engineers who were great at driving product, and great engineers that were terrible at it, or uninterested in it.

I've met engineers who could invent a whole new product out of sackcloth to solve a customer need the business was only dimly aware of, and engineers who used all their knowledge of customer pain points and data to fritter around the edges of their systems, redesigning this or that but making little material progress in addressing serious issues.

I have little time or patience for "engineers > PMs" arguments or vice versa. You should be a team working together to solve important problems, and you should each recognize and celebrate the skills each of you as individuals brings to the table. If you're not doing that, the problem lies with your team or organization, not the profession as a whole.
你说的确实是个问题，中国人和中国人之间讨论没问题，但是如果和一个外国人讨论，那就有问题了。
像你这样的，一开始就认为这个国家是专制的，那我和你讨论只会越来越糟，然后你回到了你的国家，谁知道你又会怎么描述我当时所说的东西呢？
1.5 tons isn't very much. You could do that in one trip with a Bell 427.
Are you married? Do you have kids? Do you have a dog? Do you have hobbies that require you to be away from computers?

If you don’t answer yes to one of my questions I suggest you try one or more. I’ve gone through lots of hobbies outside my house (preferably outdoors) over the years including running, working out, walking my dog, and now kayaking.

If your able to get your work done you should swap the YouTube time for someone else outside work.
Do you think you're a representative example? As opposed to what I consider is more likely: People neglect sleep and water consumption combined with natural night owls being forced into a particular schedule.
Remote work will take it even further with remote salaries exploding.
Being underdog in expensive 1st world country vs living like a king while telecommuting from mother's country - no brainer. And human rights become a minority problem. Harsh but real.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artificial_sunlight
Once again, that's a very specific type of nonprofit. That is not true of every nonprofit and certainly not true of churches or small nonprofits. The closer the organization is to acting like a government agency, the truer that article is.

Plus, that's a really cynical way to look at people who want to help their fellows, and shows the difference between professional nonprofit workers and people who are just trying to help their fellows. At the point that advice is practical, you are in the NGO world.
Those stories barely saw a fraction of media coverage compared to Trump/Russia. The Obama/redline thing was primarily reported as a story about Syria, not Russia. If you type "obama red line" you get plenty of Syria suggestions which makes sense.

This is the problem with search query anecdotes, it ultimately produces a subjective and pointless debate about how one should interpret search suggestions for arbitrarily selected one-off queries. There is no methodology here, and we don't even know how widespread any particular suggestion results are. Any person with an agenda will be able to cherry-pick search queries that confirm their narrative.
I have to agree Apple makes a great trackpad.

Most other manufacturers' hardware seems to consistently detect a movement as a drag action. Constantly detecting the wrong movement and drawing a box instead of moving the mouse pointer.

It could be Windows OS that's bad or macOS that's good or a mix of OS and hardware.

The Apple OS is nice but too restrictive for me. Windows I find is kludgy and bloated. Linux is nice if I can find the right distro.
Games Have Always Tried to Whitewash Nazis as Just German Soldiers
It may not be a literal calculus flaw, but at the very least it's a part of calculus that's held together with duct tape and chewing gum that people are warned to stay away from.
I am pretty much always going to eventually spend Amazon credit. I didn't buy something because I now had Amazon credit that I wouldn't have otherwise.

I intentionally shop a lot of places that aren't Amazon, and given the same price somewhere else, I will always pick "somewhere else". But I'm still pretty regularly at Amazon just due to either price or selection.
Yeah, they DO need to scale or there wouldn't still be people in LA and everywhere else going hungry.

I'm a Christian who proudly supports our local church's food bank (no strings attached, walk in and take food) -- but I recognize that the Church can't do it alone.
110MB/s was the super-best-case-scenario if you're doing sequential writes with exactly 1MB blocks, which almost never happened anyway.
Surely the people that drove him to suicide are mostly dead now. Turing has a lot of admirers here and few of us are old enough to remember a time when he was alive (I'm guessing there aren't a lot of HN members older than 70).
> how do we identify these people who add nothing positive — or not enough positive — to our lives?

The dude invokes bayes theorem (the theorem that is trending right now) to solve such a basic issue? His grandmother can give him better advices than Bayes.
Some philanthropic donations are kinda prestige-for-cash deals. My employer, Oxford University, accepted a large chunk of change from Wafic Saïd to endow their business school. If they hadn't taken it, he'd certainly still have the money. But we wouldn't have lowered our own reputation by associating ourselves with a... not spotless businessman.

If it's done anonymously, then sure: you're quite right. But if it isn't then there is, in fact, a price. And it's not always a great deal.
Curt Herzstark and His Pocket Calculator CURTA
It sure would be better if the business model were based on optional paid verification and background checks. You could pay to have it verified that you are 6'2" or that you have a physics degree or that you don't have HIV or whatever. You'd be paying for research, then getting an indicator of the claim having been verified. Common claims would have standard prices. For weird claims, you'd just be paying by the hour for research.
I will say though, after the damage is done and its been x amount of time and there is no immediate danger. There is not too much physical donations that can help, but again that's not a food drive problem.
Please consider the source when you read this article. The National Post is Canada's right wing "newspaper" filled with misleading articles and half-truths.
OK facebook is ?injecting? metadata into images uploaded by users, so reuse reshare or original can be distinguished, and the chain of transmission can be logged, as always to serve you better, but how vulnerable is this?
It is possible to forge IPTC for whatever end.
either blank it or alter its chain of origin.

https://www.reddit.com/r/privacy/comments/ccndcq/facebook_is...

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/31120222/iptc-metadata-a...

This is a good read about the finer points of the subject.

https://www.hackerfactor.com/blog/index.php?/archives/726-Fa...
Sure, but depending on the recursion, that technique will vary from "inelegant" to "maddeningly brittle".

It seems like going pretty far just to avoid recursion, unless you're in a resource-constrained domain.
Gustave Whitehead appears to have focused on more powerful engines. His Whitehead No. 21, which allegedly flew in 1901, had a 20 hp acetylene engine to drive the propellers. Power makes up for poor aerodynamics.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gustave_Whitehead
Joke's on you -- the article helped me find a flaw in the theory of journalism!

(Paper is much better yes. I always had trouble with that notation.)
My philosophy has been for a long time that if you're doing anything thats even remotely taxing your laptop, you shouldnt be using a laptop for it.