skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>This is untrue. Stabilator trim can be turned off. Indeed, before Lion Air 610 the previous flight had experienced the problem and had dealt with it correctly.

In the Lion Air penultimate flight, the situation was handled thanks to a third pilot in the cockpit with no other responsibilities contributing extra attention and reasoning. This is not available on every flight, and should not be considered a proof of safe operability. The mental model of a pilot unconcerned with the immediacy of flying the plane is more accommodating to unconventional occurrences due to being removed from the majority of learned perspective.

>Also, re-trimming using the trim switch disables MCAS for some number of seconds.

It also resets the activation cycle, and increments the amount by which the trim is activated. Both these details were unknown to all pilots at the time.

>In the case of ET302, they turned the system off, but allowed the aircraft to overspeed

And did nothing wrong. Given the stage of flight the problem occurred, they left the throttle in exactly the position they should have. Addis Ababa is also a "hot & high" airport, meaning the engines were already in the uppermost range of their operating envelope anyway. Furthermore, when the AoA sensor went bonkers, that leads to an airspeed unreliable checklist due to bad AoA figures throwing off the airspeed indicators which are dependent on AoA being correct for calibration. The airspeed unreliable checklist requires advancing throttles to the appropriate setting for the current stage of the flight regime, which was climb out.

>...and were, as a result, unable to retrim manually. Still, they had a positive rate of climb. It is only when they turned it back on in violation of training/checklist and inexplicably did not use it to retrim nose up that they were doomed.

They turned it back on in the hopes that the electronic trim could overpower the aerodynamic load where they could not, they did not realize that closing the circuit would give at most five seconds before MCAS dove again. Also, by this point, they were out of checklist.

It is almost as if I've heard these arguments before. (I have. We discussed it long ago when most things were conjecture.)

Sibling poster is correct. We've worked through this, and the pilots really couldn't have done any better considering the amount of information there was out at the time.

Also, later on, Boeing also notified airlines that only the MAX 10 I believe should be used in hot and high airports. The MAX 8 could take off due to Addis Ababa's extra long runway, but it just goes to ram home how uncomfortable a margin the Engineering firm was with safety margins afterwards.
It's not easy but it's not inhumanly hard that only special people can do it.

Also believe it or not, if the executive wanted to, he could delegate those few decisions as well. The key choice is he has to find the right people to delegate to, that's it...

If the executive has any type of special skill AT ALL. All it usually is, is having the ability to get to his position. That involves navigating politics, convincing people to give him money, making the seed money himself. These are the only things that make him standout if he isn't a founder or worked any other unrelated job.
They would batch them though, wait for 100 clients who want the same and put them in the batch. So it does provide a marginal service, viewed from that angle.
Diversi-Dial: An Apple II Party Line
Excellent writeup! It's a tricky thing to get right, in part bc it keeps changing. Good job reinforcing the need for devs reading this to understand that and to err on the side of making deliberate, rational choices for their circumstances, vs "here's the best way to do it" leading to ignorant cargo-cult / copy-paste nonsense.
Loved the link, thank you.

I personally believe, the main way to untangle this mess is to make it indifferent for employers to provide primary care plans and repeal Executive Order 9250 that allows employers to claim exemptions.

They are free to provide any secondary and supplementary plans

It's past the time employers and health insurance are tightly coupled.

It's holding back progress.
I was just trying to create generative graphics in Corman Lisp [1], since it creates Windows executables, and then I stumble upon this. The Game of Life demo in the examples directory is fun. I have been playing with F# a few times a year, waiting for something like this to come along. Very exciting. I started using Julia, but several years ago Jon Harrop had a book out "F# for Scientists" a rework of his "OCaml for Scientists" book. That was 2008.

[1] https://github.com/sharplispers/cormanlisp/releases/tag/v3.1...
Tolerating certain things, or tolerating certain people? OP is about kicking people out of society for single past errors.
> The most efficient solution is an "all payer rate set system" - aka One price per procedure.

I'd like to hear more about this. According to Wikipedia [1], Maryland uses an "all payer rate set system", and it had one of the first per-capita costs. On the other hand, Germany also has the system, but much lower healthcare costs. What's going on?

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/All-payer_rate_setting
If 125% of Medicare is below cost of goods sold then costs need to come down. Medicare reimbursement rates are too high compared to the rest of the world.

Nobody needs to be paid $300 for a 5 minute visit to get a prescription for routine issue. 10 years of training is not necessary for most instances of routine care. Most of it can be done by a midlevel with 4 years of post-high school training.

There's no need to require $500 MD visit ($150 from me, $350 from employer/taxpayers) to get tretinoin cream. I should just get it online for $20 like I would in the UK or Australia, no MD involved.

Scope of practice laws need to be rewritten. Every instance of "you must have a medical license" should be replaced with "you must uphold standard of care". This will allow companies like CVS or even Amazon to provide a lot of routine care directly to patients through midlevels, software, and operations, with direct government safety oversight.

Emergency care with inelastic demand should be federally regulated and socialized.

Federal government should determine scope of practice and standard of care. MDs (all of whom are overtrained in the US) should focus on complicated cases and on pushing medical science forward.

It's time to move away from archaic Flexner-era cartel.
Warp from Cloudflare, from Hype to Scam
Hi,

I am living in China so I was quite excited about the new VPN promised by Cloudflare.

Then they release it, and basically it is just added encryption on top of their DNS server.

So please, don't advertise Warp as a VPN it is so lame. No geolocated server, no kill switch, not able to bypass China's great firewall. Give me my hype back!
It is better to stick to real VPNs like Portal, Astrill, NordVPN, any other or even local ones...

You can tell "Warp adds an extra layer of encryption" but not "Warp is a new free VPN", it is very misleading the way we think of VPN.

Not to mention I did not see any significant speed gain between Warp and Warp+ on the benchmark tests.

To make an analogy, Warp is exactly like those fruit juices that advertise themselves as "strawberries with bananas", when you check the ingredients you see 5% strawberries, 30% bananas, 65% apple.
> Had no real way of submitting it other than emailing it to the interviewer as a zip.

Being good at email (ex: not relying on GMail, knowing basic things about line length, top-posting, signature, having your own domain(s), using an actual email client instead of webmail crap, Sieve filters and mailing list management, actually knowing how mailing-list based development works and being able to use (git) patch/diff, bonus points for offline syncing, 2x bonus for using a text client (3x bonus for xmh), 10x bonus for running your own server(s)) is a way better indicator of technical competency than the ability to sign up for a GitHub account and click a few buttons.

HTML email is a huge red flag for programmers.
Sarah Jeong still works for the NYT, after far worse
and more recent behavior at non child age than what got Carson King "cancelled", but since her intolerance is about old, white, men, it's celebrated.
Huh? I guess if they had a crystal ball.
Buffet is sitting on $120B of cash: https://www.inc.com/jason-aten/warren-buffett-has-a-122-bill...

Bezos isn't a VC, he owns the greatest demand engine the world has ever known, and that matters when spending money.

And Gates ? he deals, smartly, with much lower sums. His energy VC is for example, has $1B.

It's not so easy spending $40B-$50B in 3 years, like the vision fund did.
I don't know about the people who “know and care” being the “elite”. In my experience, attempting to act on that mostly results in being ostracized in the “person who breaks the flow by not doing things normal” bucket, à la the “crypto nut” in xkcd's “Privacy Opinions” strip: https://www.xkcd.com/1269/ (contains suggestive content).
Oh, for sure. Had I been born somewhere else I’m not sure these traits would have resulted in the same outcome.

I guess people don’t feel the need to comment on circumstances beyond their control exactly because they can’t do anything about them though. Saying you worked hard is nice, appending “and I’m still only here because I started 2 leagues behind” is not.

Neither is “but I’m here mostly because I was born in the first world to a fairly well off family”.
The FAA definitely bears some responsibility, but not because the regulation is too stringent, it’s because they looked the other way. Recertification is onerous for a reason; it’s safety we’re talking about, and the result of not being careful enough is exactly what happened, hundreds of deaths. The FAA’s process in this case is already a product of regulatory capture; Boeing is already practically certifying themselves. Lots of reporting on this already; it’s easy to find more info.
University R&D IP tends to be owned by universities that it's developed at - Google's PageRank patent was owned by Stanford. Investing directly in universities won't have the desired payout.
A hypothetical, completely clean energy source is objectively better than one that emits greenhouse gasses, on its face.
Just be aware that you are victim-blaming here. The people pillorying people for minor ancient errors are the villains, not the people who forget to hire reputation management firms to clean their internet history.
Uh, I think the problem in your example is the "How much did Putin pay you to..." part. That's indeed against the rules.
I didn’t say “humanity.” I said “human civilization.” I do think there’s hope for humanity, but I’m a lot more bearish about civilization.
The Trautonium Gave Hitchcock’s the Birds Its Distinctive Screech
No, I’m (almost) perfectly happy with this.

I went back to Europe last week and I just cannot imagine people simply getting up and leaving at 17:00 anymore.
Another case of reverse causation.
here you go https://i.imgur.com/NsD71Kh.jpg
I appreciate the “this is evil” analysis, but I have a different take on it:

Packaging this capability for everyday people is exactly what we need to get widespread understanding of what is being done to them, and begin to build social defenses.

Political parties, corporations, and all kinds of bad actors are doing this stuff all the time. People need to find ways to externally validate their realities. I don’t see any way that can happen besides widespread adoption of consumer psyops tools.

It feels like Pandora’s Box has been opened, and we need to get comfy with the monsters as a first step, if we are to subdue them.
This is a long standing issue, and why I usually don't touch code. However, as mentioned in other comments, the industry as a whole is moving ops/sysadmin type roles to generic script monkeys.
I agree: in fact the deionization process adds one hydronium or hydroxide for every (mineral) ion it removes:

>Deionization is a chemical process that uses specially manufactured ion-exchange resins, which exchange hydrogen and hydroxide ions for dissolved minerals

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Purified_water#Deionization

In other words, if deionized water is unhealthful because of a lack of ions, distilled water is, too, because it doesn't contain any more ions than deionized water does.
This business is how Google makes its money.
It's a mainstream idea now that masculinity is toxic, so it's not surprising that people are projecting that onto this.

Calling it "New Warrior Training Adventure" comes across as super patronizing. "ManKind" isn't great either. The names alone are surely responsible for much of the pushback that you're seeing.

I did a bit of digging though, trying to keep an open mind, and I was surprised to find that MKP is indeed not a radical program to feminize men.

Their FAQ is pretty informative: https://mankindproject.org/frequently-asked-questions

Their YouTube channel gives a feel for it: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCcR01KkQCYfHbzHwBlI8eeg

Basically, it's a small nondenominational religion for woke men. The leaders are a Marine Corps officer, a therapist, and a PhD of "curriculum studies". It's not very surprising to see all the comments here about how profound it was, because it was designed to be a spiritual experience.

It looks like a cult and is certainly weird (nudity is optional), but the leaders aren't getting rich off of it, and you are allowed to leave. There are regular meetings, rituals, a set of shared values, and a drive to recruit more members. It seems like mostly dudes who want to better themselves and the world at large. A lot of it is classic self-help stuff. They advertise NWTA as "Get Ready for a 48 Hour Adventure that Can Transform Your World as a Man", for example.

I think people are right to be skeptical of these types of groups, as they're playing to an audience of disaffected men and trying to improve lives with groupthink and rituals. I'd place MKP somewhere between Scientology and Tony Robbins. Probably a powerful experience in person, but best to avoid it or you might get roped into an organization.
“Women only go into sex trade because they have no better option”

“We should ban sex work, because that’s best for women”

This always felt like an oxymoron to me.
Mostly hardlocking on code, and issues committing syntax to memory. Which of course, given the extremely short timeframe (need to be certified in the next week or so) probably does amplify inherent exam anxiety.
I don't mean to cast aspersions, but her accomplishments seem far more impactful then Aaron's.
I miss them already.
Is it though? I recently bought some clothes, if I signed up with their mailing list I got a 10% discount. The salesperson asked tentatively, afraid I was going to start shouting or something about sending me emails, invasion of privacy etc. I said sure, gave them one of my fake emails, got my discount, sweet.

Like all this internet stuff is just fake, it's more entertainment than real life. Emails you don't like? delete them. Don't want people to find you on facebook, use a made up name, get all your friends to use made up names.

My daughter recently tried to search my on the internet - I don't exist, much to her chagrin. But we're linked on facebook, we share photos etc.

The only thing that does exist is purely professional, maybe these are skills that should be taught. No doubt facebook can do something with face recognition, and google can do some tracking, but I don't leave cookies lying around long, so they're pretty weak signals.
> Every regulation is a response to societal pain. This pain has been cutting in too deep for far too long.

I feel like the societal pain and the regulatory response cycle in healthcare in the US is out of control. We have an itch, and we've been scratching it aggressively since the Kennedy Administration. We've scratched so deep we're not scratching, we're digging deep to the bone.

Everything that's good about the free market is gone from this system. Prices are not dictated by supply and demand: to the contrary, the suppliers (doctors) and consumers (patients) are the ones farthest from the negotiation of price.

Everything that's good about a regulated market is gone from this system. The system is so complex that the only people knowledgeable enough to write regulations are the ones whose profits need to be reigned in the most. The fox is guarding the henhouse.

The system is fucked. More regulation will make the system more fucked. Less regulation will make the system more fucked. We're fucked.
Medium did that. I don't know if it still works, I haven't seen a medium post in anything other than elinks in a while.
The Creation of Graph Theory
You don't need to sell me on sleep. I've often had to fight with c-level execs at some of the startups I've been at before with PROVEN studies and hard data showing that team performance rapidly degrades after 45-50 hours of work per week.
Agreed. On-demand dogwalking is just an awful idea IMO. You absolutely have to build a relationship with your dogwalker and there's no reason to keep Wag in the loop once that relationship is built.

Not to mention that at scale, dogs are going to die/get lost no matter what you do, so there's a ton of risk in having a single brand that owners don't have a strong personal relationship with. I think whitelabeling the tech and then reaching customers via local brands makes a lot more sense.

I don't think food is nearly as bad. The worst you can do without malice is buy shitty food.
How to Crash Your Cluster
The nav is the only issue I see, but yeah it is a pain point.
They couldn't move the manual trim wheel because the plane had been allowed to overspeed.

It was climbing at Vmo; they could have pulled back the power to not let the plane overspeed, rather than exceeding Vmo.

Hopefully at Vmo they could move the trim wheel, but if not, they could wait until they had a few thousand feet more height, aerodynamically unloaded and trimmed.

> So they reenabled the electric trim, at which point MCAS jumped in again and everybody died.

They re-enabled the electric trim, and touched the electric trim switch a couple of times but left the plane far out of trim. I can't figure this out-- there's even an indicator that makes it obvious you're out of trim. Why re-enable electric trim and not really use it?

Then after a timeout after they pushed the trim switch, MCAS jumped in again and everyone died.
Couchbase comes to mind here as well. How are they doing? They have been around for quite some time as well.
If he just feels worse, it's certainly illogical to keep doing it.

It's fairly common for people to have adverse reactions to therapy. Not everyone reacts the same to this sort of thing.
Assuming we are talking about the initial victim, Carson King, I would agree with you. He's just some guy who happened to land in the limelight.

The second person that got ripped to shreds and fired over his stupid tweets is a journalist, indeed the journalist who incited the outrage over Carson's stupid tweets. It's little more than karmic revenge to be hoisted on his own petard in this fashion.
Everyone who knows anything about healthcare policy has been on board with decoupling for decades, but the big corporate self-insured plans lobby plus the union lobby plus the loosely-informed general public is too strong.

ACA exchanges set up the infrastructure to decouple in a market-oriented way.

But single-payer would also fix it.
Slightly related: any Lojban speakers here? :)

Linguistic properties of Lojban:

- is designed to express complex logical constructs precisely.

- has no irregularities or ambiguities in spelling and grammar (although word derivation relies on arbitrary variant forms). This gives rise to high intelligibility for computer parsing.

- is designed to be as culturally neutral as possible.

- allows highly systematic learning and use, compared to most natural languages.

- possesses an intricate system of indicators which effectively communicate contextual attitude or emotions.

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Applications of Lojban:

- Lojban as a speakable language

- Lojban as a literary and cultural language

- Lojban as a means of creativity

- Lojban as a potential machine interlingua

- Lojban as a programming language

- Lojban as a speakable logic

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More information: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lojban

Some songs in Lojban: https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=ZA'O+by+Djemyna...
Correct me if I’m wrong, I’m not in the field.

I thought the ACA put limits on insurance company’s profit margins, by saying that they had to pay out a certain minimum from the total monies collected.

This is a perverse incentive for the insurance company to encourage the medical industry to increase costs.

Am I wrong about the ACA?
I think that is meant in humour
As a longtime segment customer, I am excited to see this exist. Segment's product is fairly good but their pricing model is really bad. We recently ran into an issue where they were billing us for almost 10x the number of users we were actually tracking. It was a nightmare that required a few months of back and forth with their support trying to get it fixed. In the end, they gave us a partial refund for the overages but we had to do a lot of technical work to resolve the issue ourselves.

It would be nice to have an open source alternative that doesn't get you locked into an unpredictable pricing model that you have very little control over.
Why should the sick care whatsoever? Why do we need to have this discussion about competitive rates and charging these competitive rates to people who are in genuine need? And most of the time (for the doctors of this discussion), because they are in dire medical need.

Provider networks are just artificial competition. They don't need to exist. They just drive up costs and sink people into pouring money in a system that already sucks.

I've been dealing with it for the last 6 years with my mother. I wouldn't wish the added stress on anyone. It's ridiculous and wrong and backwards.
A lot of bottled water comes from municipal water plants (aka tap water).

That Penn & Teller YouTube link even has a section showing this, though you only need to go to the supermarket and look closely at the fine print of all the different brands of bottle water. You'll quickly find a lot are tap water.
Proven Health Benefits of Peaches
Was this something you actually did and had success with? If so, did you have chronic BV or just acute BV?

Things we’ve tried:
- boric acid suppositories (this helps but the BV always comes back)
- hydrogen peroxide douche (no results)
- a couple essential oil mixtures (no results)
- antibiotics (BV comes back)

Through research it seems the problem may be biofilms. You kill all the bacteria except those hiding in the biofilms and so they just repopulate.

A cursory google shows iodine may bust biofilms, so this May be worth a try.
A minimal realtime voting app in Node.js,socket.io and vue.js
Except that these questions are asked by SWEs who don't like these questions and don't support this idea in general. So there is a interview where one SWE asks another SWE a bunch of behavioral questions, takes notes, then goes back to his desk and writes an full interview feedback with ratings. Then a hiring manager can look at these ratings and make a decision. There is no recording of the interview. In general, SWEs just evaluate the candidate on basis "can we get along? Do I want to want with him?" and if that's the case, the interviewer gives outstanding ratings and completes the interviee's answer to match them with definitions for those ratings.
I'd settle for 75th percentile to force insurance carriers to actually negotiate and not deliberately keep pruning their provider networks by offering terrible rates.
What is the difference?

Give examples of vulnerability that is not also weakness.