skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The entire point of these tests is specifically to break things

When you do these types of tests you are testing for a expected outcome.

If you do a test and the outcome is un-expected (i.e. the fuselage fails prematurely) it means your engineering and the expectations built around that engineering are wrong.
The same type of margins apply to vodka and gin vs aged spirits like whiskey, whisky, and to a lesser extent tequila and rum. No warehousing, no barrels, no forecasting demand a decade out, etc.

If you love booze, you make beer/whiskey/tequila. If you love money you make vodka.

Edit: see also, wine.
This is incorrect. These tests are specifically done because they want to gather data on what the failure loads (which are previously unknown) are.
Goldman’s Coder-in-Chief Ditches Wall Street for California Sunshine
"We'll be able to demonstrate" that the plane meets requirements, "maybe with some refinements needed for certification in time for first delivery at the end of the year," Kracht said in a telephone interview Thursday.

We'll is we will (i.e some time in the future).
I think in general most people would do it to help others, because if things were different you might need the help.

...look for the helpers
Aluminum is a building block of modern large airplanes. When hiring aeronautical engineers I don’t grill them on the finer points of aluminum smelting.
Troubled Pot Industry Shows Its Pick-and-Shovel Trades
> It's also not Google's fault that media known for being wildly off-base when reporting on technical news was predictably off-base again.

Er, yes it is? Or rather, to make a finer point, it was their responsibility—i.e., they knew the causal chain that would inevitably result from their action and chose to perform that action anyway.

If you knowingly give an alcoholic a drink, you’re responsible for them falling off the wagon.

If you leave your pet mouse out next to your pet cat and leave the room, you’re responsible when the mouse is eaten.

If you can clearly foresee something bad happening, and you have an alternative path that avoids that thing happening, and you choose to go down the path where the thing happens: your responsibility.

That’s not to say that nobody else is responsible. Responsibility is not exclusive. A war, for example, is the responsibility of two parties—either side can just give in to the demands of the other, to avoid it. Both parties, in their choice to not give in, are responsible for the war.
Holy crap that could be a public charity. You donate $10 to help keep a service running that honeypots the scammers. Like an automated / machine-learning version of kitboga, the guy on twitch who scams people and thousands of people watch him do it.
Show HN: LifeMotto – aiming to be the largest social CV platform
my husband is an amercian, i'm canadian, we've been separated for a while and we've been living in our respective countries, but still married. i want to move to the US, and he's willing to sponsor me as a spouse. a lot of our relationship difficulties have been resolved and we could definitely tolerate each other enough to live together for several years, and all of our close family and friends know that we love each other. do you think that if i lived in the us with him for a year and then applied for the gc that it would make sense to immigration? i don't think i could apply right away after moving because i want to justly portray our relationship as a strong one
In other words you developed Stockholm Syndrome.
The shift to electric autos will reduce their cost a lot and also therefore the economic foot print of the auto industry. At the same time though, many other forms of transportation will become economic that were not economic in the past and this will create many new jobs. You can see this starting already with electric bikes but that's just the first obvious sector. It's difficult to say exactly how things will turn out in terms of total employment but the result will certainly be better than just assuming a decline in autos and no other innovations with the new technologies.
I'd rather it break in a stress test - than when I'm on it.
Extra queries are a gamble that you don't encounter latency on any of the important ones, right? For example, on mobile data when you're hitting packet loss.

I'm not so fussed about extra queries when they do not delay the user. But if we send out a RDBD query that a resolver doesn't respond to in a speedy manner, what does the user-agent do if it needs to decide how to scope a cookie? You can't exactly soft-fail something like that ...
The A380 was already in production at the time of the Feb 2006 test. No modifications to the wings were required because it did not fail it's structural stress test. The entire point of the test was to gather data on what load the test wings (which are weaker than the production wings) failed at, which is why they intentionally broke the wings. The engineers then used this data to calculate the load limit that the production wings (which are stronger than the test wings) failed at. The calculated load limit for the production wings was above the EASA certification requirement, meaning the wings passed their test.
I disagree. If you want good long term performance, link CEO pay to long term outcomes such as making a large portion of their compensation stock that vests over 10 years.
The article doesn’t contradict my point. It reinforces it. The title connotes severe entitlement culture and has no connection to empowerment or a stream of work of any kind.

The attitude of your reply seems toxic and antagonistic.
Whoa that's hilarious, it's got [1] Randall Park in it before he was famous!

Do you know some other series from that era? I recently discovered "GoodNeighborStuff" which has the same quality sketch comedy feel to it.

[1] https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1320827/

[2] https://www.youtube.com/user/GoodNeighborStuff
Instructions on How to Wind a Watch (1962)
This zdnet post seems to confuse free with open source
In NY at least small and medium liquor stores would disappear quickly if their legal mandate disappeared. There's usually one right next to every supermarket, who would love to sell wine.
When I was a kid my friend and I played a lot. We'd bring our favorite AI programs over to each other's house to compete with the other's favorite AI.

One day I stumbled across how to set up keybindings, neither of us knew that it was a thing. I kept it to myself and invited him over, challenging him to try extra hard on his AI. He loaded it up, and I proceeded to annihilate his tank with my human controlled version. The look on his face was priceless and sticks with me to this day.
On one hand I agree with your statement, on the other hand, kids are a choice.

Should I also be giving people lots of slack for getting drunk and coming to work hungover? That was a choice too.

Don't respond with some biological need nonsense. Last time I checked we're not automatons that slavishly need to fulfill our biological needs.
This is a dumb question but are telemetry intervals that far apart ? No data was sent in the last 2.1 KMs ? Or something at that level caused systems to fail immediately. Space is hard.
Their trains kick the US' ass. So this metric is BS.
Really makes you wonder what stuff they're doing now that will be declassified in a few decades
WeWork Goes from Hot to Not as Dream Value Plunges $45B
They give away paid products for free. Products that Google penalizes you for not having. Then, many people needing or wanting that product used their free alternative.

I still don’t know if that vs version with more paying customers is a good thing in long run. Good for now, though.
Books take some time to generate in a professional manner.

the manuscript is one thing then finding a publisher, and getting through the legaleese.

as a result, a published book may be 5 or more years out of date by the time it is published.

This is why some of my "proffs" refused to endorse a particular text, but would publish reserves to the library, and recommend select portions of a text for background information to prime to collegiate for the lectures.

so you can read about how "it" was thought to be, and assimilate what is the most up to date take on "it" from the horses mouth, the person that is actually doing the science that is written about in the texts.

.....and of course i am typing about the uni lecture, and not recreational reading.
One of the big reasons I love being an east coaster working remote for a west coast company is that my day is more like 11am/noon to 8pm+ ... As a night owl that works great for me because I still get plenty of sleep even if I stay up until 4am.
It's referred to earlier as a settlement. It's a form of pre-trial relief when both sides agree that this settles the matter and brings litigation to an end. It's not a contract per se, and to seek legal relief again, you would have to find new grounds - you have effectively used your legal relief. It's the usual end for lawsuits.
The front fell off. It's perfectly normal. They towed it out of the environment.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3m5qxZm_JqM
What does it mean to underwrite an IPO? Isn't it caveat emptor? What is being unwritten?
>spurious misclick of the D.O. but its not cool to delete it so if a mod wants to nuke this bit thats fine
Unavailable here in the UK even from different ISPs.
Show of hands... Who is throwing shade on We while being a tenant?
I share your opinion! And that's actually partially why I wrote this post - it's really great to know the different utility methods of d3.js to help render a data viz (using React, etc).
> Autotools doesn't use posix_spawn because there's no benefit on Linux

Wait, autotools don't make syscalls at all, do they? I thought it's just shell and make.

Is the problem that /bin/sh and /usr/bin/make use fork and it would help to have a Bourne shell and GNU-compatible make that used posix_spawn?
I think I broke Canada.... I dragged it all the way to the South Pole and it exploded to the size of the whole world.
Uh...kitboga doesn't scam anyone, he wastes scammer's time. Unless that's your joke or something.
My question is "why does the symbol '1', followed by '2', ... '52' define an ordered state?" It would seem that the "cheat sheet" which defines the progression is part of the system. Not sure where I'm going with that...

This brought up another set of questions: is it possible to define entropy without a definition of simultaneity, or some other global ordering of events? Is it possible for two different observers to have differing views of entropy? What does rotation of the time-like axis do? Googling didn't find much, but it did find a discussion on physicsforums [0]. The answer seemed to be... it's complicated. Good discussion, though.

[0] https://www.physicsforums.com/threads/time-dilation-and-entr...
Computer Pseudoscience
Aren't REIT mutual funds the most likely vehicle for a retail investor to invest in REITs?
Porsche has to have reasons for using a gearbox but I don't think this article espouses them. The points they hit on are where Tesla's as good or better, so there must be other good reasons.
Stellarium: A free open-source planetarium for your computer
What the even what. This is double speak.
I'm curious what problems you've seen with the Japanese immigration system. Every time I've had to do anything it's been literally a rubber stamp type affair. I admit to not having to deal with any grey areas, though. I've always obviously fit the criteria for the visa.
That's...not something any client wants to hear.
When, years ago, I had a performance car 0-60 was only useful for obtaining shock from first time passengers. Though 20-50 was far more reliable in getting surprised involuntary curses from the passenger seat, as was invoking wheelspin at 70. :) The fact it had a ludicrous 0-60 had plenty of kids revving engines trying to encourage a traffic light drag race. Usually this would have me driving off like an ageing vicar.

What was useful in real world driving was 40+ top gear roll on acceleration, or 70+ on the track, as was the enormous amount of engine braking. 0-60 really didn't matter other than as indirect indicator of capability. The fun, and performance was elsewhere.
Bibliographies of books I find interesting. New works citing those works (citations index). Further works by the authors in question.

I don't have a problem maintaining a reading list. Quite the opposite.
Good point about it being normal for stuff to break during a stress test. However, it seems the door blowing off is not something that normally happens and that to me is more worrisome than if it was a common failure when the stresses greatly exceed the theoretical limits.

>Former Boeing Engineer Dr. Todd Curtis runs Airsafe.com and said this doesn't happen often. "I've never heard of a case where a door popped off like this during a stress test before," he said. "Doesn't mean it hasn't happened before, I'm just not aware of it."
There is a large fee (~$5k iirc) to apply for a TN by mail. The fee for applying at the border is around ~$100.
Hong Kong's long struggle against Beijing
> The A380 was already in production at the time of the Feb 2006 test.

There is more than one version of the A380.

But there was no A380 Airbus with a 550 seat capacity in service at that time.

The whole point of that wing testing was so this newer, higher capacity A380 could get certification.

http://www.modernairliners.com/airbus-a380/airbus-a380_histo...

25 October 2007 - The first commercial flight of the A380 took place from Singapore to Sydney. All seats were auctioned off for charity.

FYI that link also shows the certification wing test failed:

14 February 2006 - Stress testing of the wing revealed that the wing broke at 146% of the required level instead of 150%. Further strengthening was added which increased the weight by 30Kg
Waffle House, better than The French Laundry:

https://youtu.be/bct8stbZafI

(RIP Anthony Bourdain.)
How many volunteers are doing it because they need the hours?

Does WH pay employees who can't show so they can still cover their bills?

Is it ethical to pay someone $7/hour (the average wage of a WH employee) and then ask them if they would volunteer to travel to work in a hurricane?
The underwriter guarantees that the company will raise a certain amount of capital, by agreeing to take up the shares themselves if nobody else does, in exchange for a cut.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Underwriting#Securities_underw...
I mean you could always tell Facebook to do whatever.
Though the calorie count is misleading because so little of it is metabolized
Your addiction isn't the act of smoking. Your addiction is making stupid ass excuses because there's something you hate about yourself and feel the need to self-harm, otherwise you'd stop buying those fucking cancer sticks.
Investors and Operators: Lessons I've Learned from Both Worlds
Carriers release (or work with manufacturers to release) versions of phones with a bunch of custom stuff added onto a vanilla Android OS.

PC makers also put various crapware on phones and use to do shell replacements. That never stopped anyone from upgrading...

When Google releases a new OS or an important security fix to Android, carriers need to merge this stuff in with all of their custom stuff, assuming that they still care to do so and support that device. As a result, phones running Android can fall years behind on patches.

Microsoft also allowed various carrier changes to Windows Phones but they could still offer upgrades across devices.

Phones sold by carriers but running Apple's OS would also have this problem, but Apple doesn't let anyone else sell phones with their OS.

Microsoft has had a vibrant ecosystem of third parties selling PCs running its OS for decades. The entire idea behind WinHec and Plug and Play in the mid 90s was to solve this very problem. The issue that either Google doesn’t know how to properly run a platform or didn’t make it a priority. You see that Google can architect a system where Google Play Services can be updated across manufacturers. They care enough to keep their spying mechanism updated.

The difference between your computer's patches and your phone's patches is that you are allowed to update your computer's operating system, but your phone has probably been carefully locked down by your carrier to prevent you being able to do this, which is very upsetting but that's a different matter.

That’s only because Apple wrested control from the carriers before any iPhone shipped to keep carrier crap off their phone and to keep control over its devices. Google never cared to. Android is just a badly architected system in this regard. Microsoft solved this problem two decades ago.
LG43UD79B - Fantastic display, I suspect it may be the same panel as the Dell unit.
> it has almost always been a manufacturing issue

"If you do it right, it's harmless." Problem is, people are doing it wrong. They do a lot of things wrong, and reporting on that is quite valid. People use guns wrong, but that doesn't mean there's anything improper about reporting on people being shot.
So it’s worse to have a reboot to patch than none at all....
Round numbers? Something approximating zero...

In all seriousness, I actually sat down and read the FEMA recommendations on things to keep on hand. It's surprisingly thorough and surprisingly difficult to keep all of it in stock, rotated so that it doesn't spoil and checked on on a regular basis. Growing up, my mom was an avid coupon shopper, not necessarily because we needed it, just because she could. That meant that we had a pantry that sorta, kinda resembled an edible version of a prepper -- no MREs, but enough commercial and home canned food to last several months without any rationing even without power. Dad also kept a 200 gallon gas tank due to bad memories of the fuel rationing and prices in the '70's. We were as prepared as you could reasonably expect, but we were still not as prepared as FEMA recommended in many ways. These days, in relatively expensive town, in a relatively small house, I cannot possibly keep everything on hand that FEMA recommends, even on the light kit for a few weeks, but I at least make a passing attempt.
Star Trek Ipsum
Wouldn't one need a PhD or a similar degree for EB1?
GreenWheels by Orbis
After reading the landing page copy I am still not sure of the use case. Is it like AWS Simple Workflows which allows to create dynamic workflows for any kind of user, or is it more dev or devops specific?
It is probably a lot easier to do it today than it was 60 years ago when no one had done it. I think it is possible even for a well-funded private company (like Spacex) to at least come close if they thought it was worth it
I know in Vancouver Craigslist is still more popular
Stupid them to test to the levels that allow something visually happen that lets all the armchair viewers throw in their opinion of how smart they are and how stupid Boeing is.

Stupid, stupid Boeing.
When you ask hypotheticals like this, it comes across as an attack. When you attack people, they stop showing up to share their unique knowledge and experience.
This reminds me of the parable of the buggy whip manufacturer. If all your business is in a very niche market, it can evaporate overnight.

https://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/10/business/10digi.html
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marketing_myopia
I listen to a lot of the New Books Network podcasts. Usually the interview is better than the book, but the interview wouldn’t exist if the author hadn’t put the work into writing the book. But yeah, life is too short to see how everybody worked out every idea.
I don't know this research, but I think the candle metaphor shouldn't be taken too far.

The candle is probably more like a source of particles and the claim is that if the particles reflect off the boundary and you can send particles from every direction from the center, then you come arbitrarily close to any other point in the room.

Or something along those lines. Again I stress I don't know the research and haven't seen the paper and I'm just speculating.
You don't want gunpowder burning in an oxygen rich environment, regardless of how the bullets are stored.
I can’t tell if the spelling was...improvised on purpose but I love it either way.
There has been a number of (what seem to me to be) ageist articles like this on HN lately.

Why is OK to post articles like this one, when ones entitled:

* "Never to Pregnant to Excel"

* "Never to Disabled to Excel"

* "Never to Black to Excel"

* "Never to Gay to Excel"

would surely (and rightly) be flagged as offensive?
Maybe. Class A shares should be untradable for 5 years.
If you dont think this is the case then lets hear your critique, please tell me why you think this is not the case.
then if there is time left i can change my most recent actions in this thread

..."The test is meant to push the plane beyond its limits. Engineers had the plane pressurized and on the ground. They loaded it up well beyond capacity and BENT ITS WINGS in an extreme manner, in a way almost certain to never happen in the real world."
"You specifically asked if Project Zero did such a public analysis of a bug, which that post is exactly."

What I "specifically asked" is if they've done anything like this regarding an Android bug. Not if they've ever reported in a passing sense, and in a blame-everyone-else-way about an Android bug.

"More whataboutism"

You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.

Ergo, again we're talking about a huge reporting cycle based upon a Project Zero release. If you think it's whataboutism you're digging really deep to try to prove your rightness (in a very Trumpian sense -- Alabama Alabama Alabama).

"I most certainly did not."

Yeah, you did. You claimed that Apple couldn't know how long it was exploited, yet Google -- because of their crawling -- could. The only possible basis for your argument was what I said (because obviously a widely targeted version base is because there are users out there with that version base, in the same way that a 0-day today for Android 8 doesn't suddenly mean it was invented two years ago, which would be a monumentally stupid claim that would be instantly discredited by anyone who put even a modicum of thought into it).

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20899249
I have a button to clear the current domain's cookies so I use the PSL to determine the eTLD so I don't blow away unrelated cookies but also not limited to whatever sub-domain I'm currently on.

Not sure how to do this without the PSL after reading the post.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Williams_FW15C
I wouldn't say coding algorithms is "irrelevant". It's sort of like saying the SAT is irrelevant. It's a general aptitude test. It's not about the "relevancy" of trigonometry to your day to day work.

You could argue it's stupid and colleges should only look at personal essays and GPAs and extracurriculars. But then there's problems with that too (lack of standardization for one).

You could argue that high schools shouldn't teach trig or calc because they're largely irrelevant to most tasks in most fields and "what does that say about the system". But actually they do come into play once and awhile and lay a conceptual foundation, so they're still sort of useful to learn. And thus they form a good common foundation to test aptitude inside an hour or so, or at least no one's thought of a better one.