skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Because Apple has already established a tradition of continuing older generation as their butget lines. People buy new old iPhones all the time. So why not make up new new old iPhones? Apparently "this used to be top of the line just n years ago" is part of the appeal and a made up former latest iPhone (like from an alternative history where nine was not skipped) comes much closer to that than a dedicated lesser version of the current generation. And if they get the processing guts of the current generation, just not the novelty gimmicks, they will actually be better than a real former flagship.

As an Android user I have nothing but envy for the (occasional) availability of internally updated older chassis. If I had the choice I would probably be writing this on a fourth reissue Moto Defy...
Kurzgesagt – What if we nuke a city?
They would continue to ignore the law. I have seen the forced "consent" buttons countless times.
Commodore 64 and Tilt Five AR
Yet four highly trained pilots plowed this "inherently stable aircraft" into the ground.

"keeping the same type rating" lead to creating an "inherently unstable aircraft". As shown by the fact that over 100,000 hours of accumulated training didn't help.

Saying the "737 Max is an inherently stable aircraft without MCAS" is like saying its stable if it never leaves the ground. It has (well had) MCAS by default.

Minimising the size of this mistake is what is detrimental to the discussion. Boeing should go out of business. They are responsible for hundreds of deaths. If this were a person, this wouldn't even be a discussion. But corporations some how get a free pass on man-slaughter.
I'm not convinced but we've taken this far enough I think. Thank you for an insightful conversation.
That is what perfectly safe looks like. The poster child for poor management is acceptably safe. The wiki page includes incidents that are paranoid from the perspective of strategy, eg:

* "resulted in temporary warnings against swimming in the sea along a 10-mile (16 km) stretch of coast between St. Bees and Eskmeals"

* A paperwork issue that was within tolerance of the relevant international standard

* "No radiation was released to the environment, and no one was injured by the incident, but because of the large escape of radioactivity to the secondary containment the incident was given an International Nuclear Event Scale level 3 categorisation."

2/3 of those will be INES rated.

This is all describing a situation that is substantially safer than most industrial operations I've ever seen. Including many building sites. Try running a building site using granite or a banana plantation with no injuries and no radiation escaping into the surrounding environment; this is a high standard.
This is not a well-written article and is in a style that is almost impossible to scan.

tl;dr:

1. Richard, the perpetual fuck-up and fame whore.
2. The balloon-boy saga.
3. The balloon-boy aftermath, and legal consequences.
4. Richard whines that his felony conviction prevented him from striking it rich on Shark Tank and tries to turn his kids into a heavy metal version of Hanson. Fails, of course.
5. Later, the author gets access to the wife's case file through her lawyer and finds contemporaneous notes she wrote detailing the planning of the balloon-boy hoax.
6. When confronted with this evidence, Richard needs a few days to process.
7. When Richard finally contacts back, the wife all of a sudden breaks down and confesses the notes were a lie made after the fact to protect the family - Richard is simultaneously shocked at the betrayal and urging her to speak up so the reporter can hear her.
8. Reporter concludes Richard is still full of shit and coaxed the wife into claiming the notes aren't valid.
I'm not sure why you get so worked up?

From what I can tell flying is far too safe for its own good. Seriously:

Flying is regulated to ridiculous level of safety. At current levels, each marginal dollar spent on flight safety would do much better being spent on driving safety or more radically, preventing deaths from malaria.

If we apply unequal dollar amounts to how much we are willing to pay for each life saved in different areas of life, we are saving fewer lives than we could.
The higher/bigger the building, the bigger you need to replace it with, thus it's a much bigger investment, than finding a lot with a smaller building on it.

As a sibling post a bit up mentioned JP Morgan's 270 Park Av. building 215m and it's getting replaced, because in this case it wasn't easier to "just find a lot with a smaller building", which is probably very rare and rather recent (though once there were multi-storey buildings in place of every skyscraper in Manhattan) solution.
Not sure if this is a loading bug on my end, but if I zoom out, I'm seeing information for the UK, Ireland, India and nothing else. Zooming in anywhere else doesn't seem to reveal any more data.

https://i.imgur.com/OI0NejI.png
Banning advertising doesn't stop you eating what you want.
I had put in a few hours of work to solve a few of these problems when ITA was not yet acquired. [0]

- It was definitely fun working one's way to solve these

- And they are nothing like the LC problems thrown around in interviews nowadays

- Neither are these ITA problems a good fit for a 45 min interview from the duration perspective or getting `the right answer` perspective

[0] https://www.deepaksurti.com/blog/category/ita

edit: added the page link where I posted my solutions
No.

In no way is the aircraft unstable with or without MCAS activated.

Delete 'unstable' from the discussion. It's is a completely incorrect term to be using.

MCAS - Movement Characteristics Augmentation System is a system to give the 737 Max the same handling characteristics as previous generation 737.

The use of larger engines on the 737 Max and the short undercarriage meant that the engines had to sit further forward on the wing. This caused a vary very small difference in handling characteristics but was enough to cause the aircraft to need a new type rating as it didn't handle in the exact same way as previous generations.

MCAS was born to make adjustments to the horizontal stabiliser in order to make the aircraft feel the same as before so pilots wouldn't need retraining and the aircraft could keep the same type rating.

Absolutely no part of the 737 Max is unstable and no part of MCAS has anything to do with stability.

This information is widely verifiable for anyone taking the time to look.
I miss knowing what I'm doing :)

Git has so many footguns it's unreal.
I'm always wondering how the software developers of FinFisher justify working for such shady players like Turkey and other middle east authoritarian regimes. Are they heading home to family and kids after destroying the remnants of the turkish democracy and tell themselves "twas a good day"?
Catalan separatist leaders given lengthy prison sentences
Why Are China’s Internet Giants Reviving Bike-Sharing?
> This analysis is a little bit weird and I don’t think quite tells the whole story.

It's on Twitter, what did you expect.
Are We Wayland Yet?
Personally, I'd vote for iPhone SEX.
The idea of a link between CO2 and a greenhouse effect was expressed before that, by Claude Pouillet in 1838 (but maybe not published in a paper).

sources: https://jancovici.com/changement-climatique/croire-les-scien... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greenhouse_effect

"1838: Claude Pouillet, a French physicist, attributes the natural greenhouse effect to water vapor and carbon dioxide. He concludes that any change in the amount of water vapor, such as CO2, is expected to result in climate change." (google translate).

edit: I think it was this paper https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k95017r/f1.image.r=Pou... but I have not checked (cannot Ctrl-F).
dont you mean by my comment https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21195720 ? :)
It would suck to be an oncologist if that was true.
You might enjoy this series: https://youtu.be/-55jtMMLJxk
Also: most people here probably experienced having to rush some features or deliver facades, because sales team managed to sell something that doesn't even exist in the product, and it needs to be demoed next month.

Given that, consider that when a salesperson from some vendor visits you, they're not likely to be accurate in describing their wares either.
I debated Amazon for this but decided to go to a hardware store instead. Found out they make smoke alarms with 10 year lithium batteries now, and they're not that much more expensive.
I don't understand, why wouldn't you sue Amazon for an exorbitant amount? Seems to me they'd be vulnerable and want to settle.
Porsche Taycan 4S revealed with cheaper starting price, two power levels
More likely "I've been paid, I don't care".
Building a social bookmarking app, https://tefter.io
This week we're getting ready to launch team collaboration through Slack. Using Elixir for this project it this makes me so happy and productive.
Most American houses shouldn't appreciate with age either, as they are made of wood frame and mineral insulation, both of which degrade must faster than brick or concrete.

I've watched some walkaround videos of Japanese urban residential districts, and what I've noticed was their different approach to zoning. There are no front lawns or backyards, the doors lead right into the street or into a tiny courtyard. On the other hand, most houses are just a few storeys tall, there are no giant residential towers.
I use f.lux on Windows and it awesome.

Also, redshift is available for at least Linux, the BSDs, and an experimental version for Windows.
According to this article https://spectrum.ieee.org/aerospace/aviation/how-the-boeing-...
the engines had become so big that they had to be moved in front of the wings instead of under them, which in turn causes the plane to pitch up when the engines apply power (which was not the case with previous 737s). Whether this can be called 'unstable' or not seems to be a matter of definition. Sure it's not unstable the same way that something that completely randomly pitches up or down is. But if you got to drive a car that veers to the left at high speeds and to the right at low speeds, and needs a computer to compensate (oh, and this computer compensates based on sensor readings that may be faulty, so you might need to disable the computer's compensation and compensate yourself), would you perhaps call that unstable compared to a normal car? Doesn't seem unreasonable to me. It's unstable in the sense that controls that are normally independent are not.
Oh but there are user-visible changes - just not good ones. Good and useful features are destroyed every update: Miracast, system backups, a whole bunch of widely-used APIs are crippled (SMS, WiFi scanning, drawing on top, clipboard...) to give Google's apps an advantage... That, along with some really bad UI changes, makes people dislike updates and/or actively avoid them.
My theory is that people are keeping devices longer; which leads to being stuck on an old release.
Yes.

Markets heavily bias in favour of the richest consumer.
This is article is nothing more than a hidden message of praise to migration, however empirically it is not true, the two most successful economies in the world from about 1870 to 1970 was Sweden & Japan, the two most homogenic countries at that time.

It is very simplistic to assume that variety of opinions will lead to success, it definitely can, but it can also be a barrier.

Variety of opinion must be within some parameters, too much variety can hinder progress, if your team is not even on the same page of what your are building then it will be very hard to get anything done.
In Germany (where I live), the job market for software developers is not that you can arbitrarily choose for whom you want to work; you have to take the job that you can get (and I know quite some people (in Germany) who work in software development who would love to find a better job).

So I personally believe that these people simply could not find a better job with less moral dilemmas.
> The plane is with its geometry inherently unsafe without some clever devices correcting the "inherent" behavior.

No it isn't. It is a stable design. To claim otherwise misunderstands the term.

The 737 can be flown just fine without MCAS turned on as it has absolutely nothing to do with making the aircraft stable.

Many people seem to want to shit on Boeing for making an 'unstable' aircraft. They simply did not make an unstable aircraft. They made an inherently stable aircraft that handled a little bit differently and then to save money (in order to prevent the need for a new type rating and pilot retraining) they used MCAS to make it handle like previous generations.

To repeat, the 737 Max flies just fine without MCAS (indeed previous flights of one of the downed aircraft pulled the stabiliser cut out switches and flew just fine) and MCAS was about handling, keeping the same type rating and saving money.
You don't mention a big part of the puzzle : security updates.

Given the current state of infosec, any OS that has not received any security update for a year or two is doomed to become a sitting duck for malware. Device security is a whack-a-mole game where new vulnerabilities are found daily and security updates are the only way we have to keep our computers secure.

In a perfect world, UI-and-features-related updates would be optional while security updates would be seamless. Also in a perfect world, older OS releases would receive long term security support and you should not have to upgrade to a more recent release to be secure.

Alas, we do not live in a perfect world. Apple doesn't provide any easy way to accept security updates but refusing others. Android just doesn't seem to provide a seamless update experience, either for security updates or not.

So you should really apply security updates, and if it takes getting other updates for that, then so be it.
So if it is stable. Then it crashed because of pilot error?

(No retraining required. These pilots never crashed a non MCAS plane, and MCAS was actively moving the plane towards the ground). <--- How do you conclude this plane is stable?
If you don't test it in your automated testers, it's broken
> Linking to a monetary basked is another idea borrowed from economics that is based on the less than accurate understanding there of how monetary systems actually work.

What do you mean? That's essentially how index-fund ETFs work. Is there a reason you think it's not suitable for a currency?
I'm not having a go at you particularly but this is a typically 'faulty' post - you don't say what aircraft experience you have (captain? engineer? or PC Flight Sim?), and even more important you claim something and state "it's easy to find" but don't post it yourself.

If you say "This information is widely verifiable" then post links, please.
Exactly. Some people probably knew well before 2012, but since the publication of Why Nations Fail it should be more common knowledge that doing business with an extractive political system makes very little difference in their chance of becoming inclusive. (A better economy does not translate into better politics.)

It's upon other political systems to ratchet open these totalitarianist systems.
The block reward halving shouldn't shock anything: it's perfectly predictable.

Btw, free market currencies can be much more stable than central bank currencies. See eg https://www.alt-m.org/2015/07/29/there-was-no-place-like-can...
Fortnite black hole numbers potentially decoded as Visitor message
How is marathon running more competitive field than football or American football or basketball?
Why does sequestration involve burning wood? Isn't it easier to leave the carbon in wood form and build e.g furniture, buildings, structures out of wood, and leave the carbon there?
No: The information you present is what was documented as the initial rationale for introducing the MCAS.

But even during the development and the test of the plane it turned out that it wasn't enough. MCAS was redesigned to correct for more than that initial flaw -- check the widely researched and published articles about that. There are different moments at which MCAS was modified to turn itself on, and the more power over the pilot was added, to the point of crashing two planes while the pilots fought against the wrongly implemented device (which was made non redundant "to preserve the type rating" -- i.e. to "not affect the sales").

737 MAX under any type rating can't be certified to fly without something doing something similar corrections to MCAS.

There are articles documenting that.
Taking into account max sentence for sedition is 15 years and they got 12 years for sedition + misuse of public money and they'll probably only spend half of that time in prison... seems like 'lengthy' is not the correct word.
Last time I was in a costco in maryland they most certainly did check membership at the door. Maybe it varies by store/region.
Am I the only one surprised by the whole professional personal brand management of Sully? Do they also sell mugs with his face?

It's not like he is the only person to ever glide with an airliner to a safe landing

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_airline_flights_that_r...
Here in Copenhagen, the city has narrow versions of the usual equipment for clearing bike lanes. The bike lanes are cleared before the car lanes!

http://www.copenhagenize.com/2010/12/ultimate-bike-lane-snow...
John Wanamaker (1838-1922) was a very successful United States merchant, religious leader and political figure, considered by some to be a "pioneer in marketing”. He opened one of the first and most successful department stores in the United States, which grew to 16 stores and eventually became part of Macy’s.

He is credited with coining the phrase “Half the money I spend on advertising is wasted; the trouble is I don't know which half”.

src : https://www.b2bmarketing.net/en-gb/resources/blog/half-money...

my 2 cts : there was never a culture of performance in marketing. Its very hard, especially in a phygital scenario (digital ad, real world spending)
Adobe warns users not to upgrade to macOS Catalina
PuffinBlue's problem seems to be one of terminology and I'd agree with them. "Unstable" is not a good term for what you're trying to describe.

It's like if I started to describe your app's database as "unstable" because your website's down due to cloudflare configuration.

(With that said it's all just petty semantics; we all understand what the post is trying to convey)
Can someone please share some better resource on how to activate it, especially for a Linux noob?
> it doesn’t even make sense: objects need to know which other objects to send messages to, and that means they need to hold references to one another.

Hmm...if your model of OO is one where it doesn't make sense for objects to hold references to each other, then your model of OO is clearly mistaken.

And of course the "origin story" in the Brian Will post is so completely wrong that it doesn't even work when taken somewhat tongue-in-cheek.

Not that there isn't anything to critique in OO, I personally do think it is fatally flawed, but it is the best flawed approach we currently have. However, I think I'd rather read critiques of OO by authors that have actually understood OO.
I can understand the nostalgia and creativity and all of this. But there are two sides to this story. I had flash courses where a significant amount of effort was put into making loading bars... and that pretty much sums up Flash for me: something abused in a way that it slowed down access to meaningful content.
I quickly did something like this for Twitch, seems to work:

document.hasFocus = function() {
return true;
}
Object.defineProperty(document, 'hasFocus', {value: true})

document.hidden = function() {
return false;
}
//Object.defineProperty(document, 'hidden', {value: false})
Object.defineProperty(document, "hidden", {get: function() { return false; }
});

document.webkitHidden = function() {
return false;
}
Object.defineProperty(document, 'webkitHidden', {value: false})

document.addEventListener("focus", function(e) {
e.stopPropagation();
e.stopImmediatePropagation();
e.preventDefault();
return false;
}, true);

document.addEventListener("visibilitychange", function(e) {
e.stopPropagation();
e.stopImmediatePropagation();
e.preventDefault();
return false;
}, true);
Libra is pretty vague about how they would peg.

What's the connection to the GBP supposed to show? You can uphold a peg given the right setup, the pound just didn't have that. (And in this case, the British economy was better off with a cheaper pound.)

Eg balances in my bank account are very successfully pegged to cash. Similar the HKD has been pegged to the USD without much issue for a few decades now.
And what is the problem with PDF? Is it missing information from your input?
I‘m sceptical. 20 recruiters on my LinkedIn profile per month would disagree. I‘ve turned in my notice more than once in Germany and literally had a job offer a day later.
Eradication's Good Intentions
All aircrafts with engines below the wings have the pitch up tendency at high angles of attack. The only problem with that is, that it is required that the stick force the pilot needs to apply need to increase with high angles of attack. Therefore, most airplanes have some way of augmenting the stick forces in those domains.
For what it's worth, I think you did the right thing. I know I would have done the same thing in your place.
Horrible disease, and a shame that we are unable still to understand the problem correctly to be able to strike back

My sympathy for this man and his family. I hope that this will not destroy them, but will be a hard fight. The worst and more challenging three years of their life, that's for sure.
Another interpretation would be that a majority still picked Coffeescript out of familiarity and interop issues in their specific codebase. Iteration speed could be comparable or better in Typescript too, we don't know.
Website Snapshot for Trandoshan Dark Web Crawler
Yet four highly trained pilots plowed this "inherently stable aircraft" into the ground.

This had nothing to do with the aircraft being unstable, but that MCAS had introduced a huge downwards trim as consequence of the sensor malfunction. Had MCAS not been active, none of the accidents had happened.
Ask HN: Advice for my first day as a developer tomorrow
It's my first day in my first job as a developer tomorrow. What are some useful things to know and do to be prepared?
Underscores and SEO Arms Races
Right. If everyone in an organisation is a graduate of the same handful of universities, attended the same lectures from the same professors, read the same books, is about the same age etc then where is the actual diversity?
Hi Chris, can you please contact me regarding work? erich AT xygroup DOT co (not com)
Narrative framing of planned downtime! Genius. I wonder if it's been done before? I guess it only works with something as hyped as Fortnite
No, it crashed because MCAS malfunctioned and drove it into the ground.
Cannot you add it as an alternative to email subscription?
StackExchange new FAQ on gender pronouns
Well, the company claims that the allegations are false and they aren't working with the Turkish government without an export license.
It depends on where you live and if you are willing to move.

However, FinFisher seems to be located in Munich and it is easy to find a software developer job in Munich.
What are you trying to accomplish?

If you want to pay people a basic income, then lets pay people a basic income. No need to sneak than in via the money we are using.

And why force shops to accept any currency? If anything, legal tender laws should be abolished.

(Though in practice, they don't have much bite most of the time, because the shop can just set the official dollar price for a banana at 1 Million USD, and give you a 'discount' if you pay in their preferred currency, be that Euro or Cowrie shells etc.)

FDIC was also a mistake, but let's not get there just now.