skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Because the 737 Max had been outfitted with larger new engines that could cause its nose to pitch dangerously skyward

I'm stretching to the limit of my understanding of the matter here but I'll try outline why that statement is misleading.

To put it in basic terms, you want to avoid a situation where an aircraft can enter an 'accelerated stall'. I believe this to be the correct term.

In the original documents to the FAA I think the exact quote of the wording was:

> MCAS “was added to address potential nose-up pitching moment at high angles of attack at high airspeeds outside the normal flight envelope.”

Specifically this was in a banked downward spiral, known as a 'wind-up turn' where instead of maintaining constant resistance on the control column, at a certain point the resistance to pulling back would lessen and this could allow entering an accelerated stall situation.

NOTE - from there I think MCAS ballooned into other areas of control, but I believe that the original intent of MCAS.

The reason this possibility arose was because the engines were moved forward, altering their thrush relationship to the center of gravity of the aircraft and, as I understand it, by the design of the engine pods themselves (flat bottomed and can add lift).

Under normal flight conditions an airliner would never enter a wind up turn, but it is a test that must be passed as part of the certification process, as far as I understand it.

So yes, there are circumstances where the characteristics of the 737 Max can make it easier to enter a dangerous nose up pitch. Note only 'easier' i.e. less resistance on the control column so pulling back with the same force in the same circumstance through the duration of a wind-up turn could allow it to be easier to enter a stall state.

But in normal flight and under conditions an airliner would fly, the nose up pitching moment caused by the engines would be entirely 'normal' and in line with what many airliners do (i.e. control column resistance would remain linear) but would have caused the handling to be different is very specific circumstances and so would have needed a new type rating and pilot training to address.

MCAS sought to avoid the need for that type rating by automatically applying trim to prevent any situation arising, even outside the normal flight parameters, that would cause different handling characteristics.

Again, none of this relates to stability/instability as was my original point.

Sources:

I read about this level of detail here quite a long time ago:

https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/times-watchdog/the...

In looking up this article I found this aviation.stackexchange.com answer that also comments on this:

https://aviation.stackexchange.com/questions/66799/what-is-m...
The Swedish economy only stand out for a couple of decades after the war (mostly because our industry was intact), which is when we also started to get any significant immigration. About a quarter of the Swedish population emigrated in the last decades before 1900 because Sweden, in it glorified homogenity, was so dirt poor so the people starved.
We expect to treat a political issue that has lasted for years to be handled in parliaments not in jail. It's not about law. Workers rights, women voting and other now socially accepted rules were not legal then but were demanded anyway, I'm sure people was imprisoned/killed for these affairs also.
Sorry to say but you’re the one doing what you accuse others of doing.
For a more historical take on our relationship with the night, I highly recommend At Day's Close by A. Roger Ekirch
I find it odd to limit ourselves to the structure of 4-day workweek or 40hr work-week

I utilize all 7 days to work on my professional & personal projects

To do everything sustain-ably and optimize output, for some projects, I dedicate couple of hrs for 4 days and for some only a day and for some everyday.

How you time-box your work for maximum potential is a personal discovery and the strategies vary based on the person, environment and the nature of the project.

So if we are talking about weeks, I have 7 days to get things done which are important in my life and I will neither follow 40hr work-week not 4-days a week. I will see the project, where it stands against all things in life, put it somewhere in my 7 day schedule, see if this schedule works and go ahead with the learnings each week.
Apple, for one, is doing just that.
It's quite hard to support freedom fighters around the globe while all along suppressing peaceful freedom fighters at home. Setting this verdict against what's happening in HK doesn't put Spain in a good light.
Regarding TensorFlow, you could use the docker images and run everything in containers instead. They tend to work pretty fine out of the box.
"I'm surprised they weren't charged with treason"

They were. However, they were all acquitted of that charge (called 'rebellion' in Spain).
Peaceful protests? You have to be joking. Just look at all the articles of the violence that took place against the national police trying to maintain order.
Yield Curve Flips to Positive Again. Celebrate?
Benefits system automation could plunge claimants deeper into poverty
Would you have agreed to this if say the EU imposed a 9-year prison sentence for all of the government leaders of a country if they tried to exit the EU?

Also do you think a 9-year prison sentence is fair for something like this?

And how do you expect Catalans to react to something like this? Fall back in resentment towards the Spanish government, or turn to violence against the Spanish government?
To give some perspective, the setup of http://textsynth.org consists in a single C Linux executable of 250 KB on the server and in 150 lines of Javascript code on the client without any dependency on other libraries...
Why was Mint Julia more stable for you? On my end on the up-to-date version and it's perfectly stable on my hardware. (i5 /w a modern nvidia gfx card)
I'm pretty sure you don't live in Catalunya. There was no violence, and a sentence with charges of 'sedition' and not 'rebelion' is the main difference. There's not caos in the streets as TV try to picture it, so they can justify sentences like this. nonsense.
Depends on what you want to achieve - professional or personal growth. If you want to use the certificate for getting a job, depends on how many companies value the course.
I took a Tai chi for health course online - given that there were no similar instructors / courses locally available, I felt it was worth the money.
If you're still looking for a C++ job in Berlin, drop me an email.
Note: I had written this comment before I had read the actual article, so it is only vaguely related to the topic, but it seems wasteful to delete it...

This might be a subjective thing, but Linux when I used it in 2008-9 (I was a kid then) was unfriendly. My local community was very unfriendly, expecting you to RTFM three times except often the manual didn't exist or was obsoleted years ago.

Linux (Debian was what I used then) was rough. I had standard hardware, but I never got GPU to work without extreme tearing and pink-green lines and artifacts on the display. It was fast, I'll give it that. I often had to solve problems by reinstalling it, because I didn't have the resources (most didn't exist) to fix it "properly". I am not gonna talk about it further, but it was worse than now.

Ubuntu's 10.10 "Чиста Десетка" (as we called it here) was a release that started changing things for the better. The purity and exclusive-ness of the comunity was fading, people became more accepting. I attended meetups, met new people, made friends and got a lot of my issues fixed and many things explained.

In parallel with the comunity's development, the OS itself was developing and improving. IMO Unity was better than Gnome Shell at that time, and it really gave a friendlier feel to the OS. The kernel got more and more support for things you would expect to "just work" (especially in Serbia where so many people were using HSPA+ USB modems such as Huawei E1550 which had awful support before). GPU drivers got massively improved, new filesystem improvements reduced unnecessary latency, initiatives to prioritize UI-responsiveness and fludity came to provide a more awe-inspiring UX than Compiz cubes...

It just became better, and it keeps getting better.
The Cultural History of ‘The Addams Family’
Thanks for the tip. I’ve tried that before, without success, but someone else reading this might have better luck.

For what it’s worth this happens both with a 15” and a 13” MBP from different years.
The most plausible scenario (and the one that is consistent with later highly stratified societies) is that they just could not marry locally due to status differential to all local males outside of the family. That's all the social construct you need to match the observation.

But the article paints that as an act of sending away, when a more passive approach is not only just as plausible, if not more, but also supported by the observation of males that did a significant amount of traveling before settling down back home.
I get the frustration 'cuz all of Apple's stuff seems pretty flaky right now, but there's still a huuuuge difference to the linux of 2000: whatever your config + problems, there's gunna be a bunch of other people running the exact same config, w/ the exact same problems.

Which means that there's a pretty good chance w/ time they'll get resolved. (Especially if you avoid upgrading to the latest and shiniest immediately, since Apple seems incapable of finding and fixing problems in-house.)

With linux, you could be running a mix of hardware + software that _no-one_ had ever tested before, and whatever your particular config was, it wasn't shared by everyone -- so whether you could get that mix to function properly was pretty much an unknown quantity and required a lot of luck and elbow grease.

I do wonder if at some point as the curve of hardware progress flattens out and the space of "what should software do" becomes more explored, we'll start to see more finely crafted software w/ fewer problems. Might be an analogy here to how in the early days of cars they were quite unreliable, but now they're pretty amazingly robust, for years on end. We're in the "new & shitty" stage of software, I think.
Where to Live When You Can Live Anywhere
>Violence was involved trying to take over

This is a lie, only the cops were violent.

E: If you think I'm wrong then post evidence and a bitcoin address, I'll gladly pay you $500 if you can show substantial evidence that there was violence involved. You won't be able to.
Spain was literally a fascist dictatorship until 1975. Maybe some things take a while to grow out of.
Carbon Emissions Are Already Falling in 30 Cities
> Pushing messed-up history is the biggest footgun.

But this one is a footgun only in the sense that you may mess up things for others, and embarrass yourself. Not in the sense of "permanent data loss", right?

"don't pull things" is definitely bad advice (even if it was ironic) - you don't mess up anything by pulling things; you can easily go back to how things were.

Instead of downvotes, maybe clarify how you mess up things with git? Maybe I can help. I really find it very hard to mess things up. Like, how do you mess up pushing the wrong tag? Unless you force-push it, but why would you do that? Or you mean, you've tagged something wrong? Where's the (permanent) harm in that? I mean, I can imagine "harm" in the sense of "inconvenience", but nothing more serious, unless the mistake goes unnoticed for a very long while (and then, how would any other version control system help you?)
I think you misread my comment. I'm comparing it to normal photovoltaics without overnight storage.
Interesting related discussion over on pprune and referencing relevant material:

https://www.pprune.org/rumours-news/623171-loss-control-flig...

http://publicapps.caa.co.uk/docs/33/SafetyNotice2019005.pdf

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=35Zy_rl8WuM&feature=youtu.be
Exactly, you don’t simply try to separate unilaterally from the country. That’s what Catalonian leaders did, and got punished for it.
Coal kills more people than nuclear over all time periods, including nuclear accidents. The numbers are not close. The death toll attributed to coal is down to a historical low of (low-end estimate!) 7,500 people per year in the US.
You're right, active evilness is not the only case or necessarily the bigger problem. Not knowing what you're doing doesn't mean you aren't acting unethically though when you risk others' welfare for your own gain.

But actions your automated systems are still your actions, regardless of intentions and outcomes. If we hold people responsible for negligently causing damage, we should also hold them responsible for negligently causing damage using an automated system. And of course, we should positive outcomes a system causes to the people behind it as well.
I spent some time in Catalonia last year and asked everybody I met (probably about 5 dozen in all) what they thought of the movement. Most were against it, and of those who were in favor, there were three distinct flavors:

* People who simply identified as Catalan and wanted to have their own language and culture as a separate political and social unit

* People who were wealthy and had assets to protect from real or perceived looming economic correction in Spain

* People who formerly opposed secession, but were pissed to live in a country with high-profile political prisoners.

It was hard to form a solid takeaway from all this; I'd need many more months to start to really understand the political dynamics at play.

One thing about which I feel strong and certain, though, is this:

The fact that something is a crime according to the entity claiming jurisdiction over a given landmass makes it neither right nor inevitable that people engaging in that thing.

The right to dissolve bonds that arbitrarily obligate people to the whims of a state to which they don't consent is a real and enduring right.

Whether or not the movement is righteous, it's not OK to jail people for peacefully (even if disruptively) trying to separate.
A lot of monitors, especially cheaper ones, don't have the serial number fields populated in the EDID, so that the OS can't distinguish between them.
Whilst I agree that there are some very wrongheaded policies out there which waste resources, good scientists and medical researchers (or if you prefer, people who could potentially be good scientists and medical researchers) are a limited resource and they’re not being diverted, on the whole, to the war on drugs etc.

It might be more relevant to think/complain about eg why data scientists are going into advertising instead of certain types of medical research where their skills might be very relevant.
Just like all the violence taking place against the poor police in Hong Kong, as clearly documented in the Chinese national media.
Here I foolishly claim that I have a fix for the bug in their CoC.

Even if you're only interested in English I think it makes things clearer if you make the rules language-neutral with English as an example. The main point of the rules is that although people should have a right not to be misgendered they should not have a right to force other people to use a particular form of language.

So here is what I think the rules should probably be.

* If someone has indicated to you that they identify as male or female then you must refer to them either in the way that they have indicated they would like to be referred to in the current language, if they have done so, or in the way you normally refer to people of that gender.

-- For example, in English, suppose that someone has indicated that they identify as female and that they prefer to be referred to with "xe" in English. If you normally use "she" for female persons then you may refer to that person either with "xe" or with "she". If you normally use "they" for everyone then you may refer to that person either with "xe" or with "they". If you normally use "ey" for everyone then you may refer to that person either with "xe" or with "ey".

* If someone has indicated to you that they identify as neither male nor female then you must refer to them either in the way that they have indicated they would like to be referred to in the current language, if they have done so, or in the way you normally refer to people who identify as neither male nor female, however you must not refer to them in a way that implies that they are male or female.

-- For example, in English, suppose that someone has indicated that they identify as neither male nor female and that they prefer to be referred to with "xe". If you normally use "they" for people who identify as neither male nor female then you may refer to that person either with "xe" or with "they". If you normally use "ey" for everyone then you may refer to that person either with "xe" or with "ey". You must not refer to people who identify as neither male nor female with "he" or "she" unless they have indicated that they prefer or accept that usage.

* If someone has not indicated their gender identity then you must refer to them either in the way that they have indicated they would like to be referred to in the current language, if they have done so, or in the way you normally refer to people of unknown gender, however you must not refer to them in a way that implies a particular gender identity.

-- For example, in English, suppose that someone has not indicated their gender identity but has indicated that they prefer to be referred to with "xe". If you normally use "they" for people of unknown gender then you may refer to that person either with "xe" or with "they". If you normally use "ey" for everyone then you may refer to that person either with "xe" or with "ey".

EDIT: Correct typos. Add third clause.
My (12 minute long) KubeCon + CloudNativeCon keynote in Barcelona this year used Foote's discovery of global warming as an example of simultaneous invention, and compared it to the creation of over a dozen container orchestrators other than Kubernetes.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lmGFgZ889kY
https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1YkvOgnnbTqWIzQnyaUUp...
In the past, temperature rises caused by other factors have in turn caused the release of CO2, raising the temperature further. This does not in any way call into question the causality between increasing concentration of CO2 (a greenhouse gas) and increased warming as predicted by gas absorption equations which we teach in high school.
https://www.edx.org/school/mitx
I was on the streets the first of october while voting took place. Police brutality and passive protests is what I saw. show me your articles. Come on, even the charges are for 'sedition' not 'rebelion', crime that right-wing parties wanted. Don't tell me you watch Telemadrid, read la razón/abc...
I live in Madrid, and I am disgusted by the image that this whole event is giving about Spain.
Do a little more than expected. That's where the magic happens. That's how you grow and improve. That's how you build connections, and get freelance work or meet that cool guy who starts an exciting startup, or get recommended for that job at whatever corporate you want to join.

Improve a little bit every day. Honestly this has given me the most returns. It doesn't have to be much at all - find a nicer IDE theme, memorize one shortcut, read up documentation on that command you use a lot but never understood.

Explore things that interest you, not necessarily the one that seems like the next career step. When you're young, your hacker instinct is probably more accurate than most of the data and buzzwords going around.
Makes sense to apply to the sponsorship, either through GitHub itself, with its matching program, or through OpenCollective.
Sorry, the article is BS.

> Apple 2019: plugging an external projector will most likely not work."

Yeah, no.

> Software installation

That was not true for Linux in 2000 (alas, I know, I had to manually compile tarballs for all kinds of stuff, and download binaries of others), and is not true for macOS in 2019. Notarization != the app store.

>Apple 2019: only a limited number of hardware works out of the box, even for popular devices like Android phones.

Yeah, no.
Your first job pretty much determines in what direction your career it's going to go. If you work with tech you like then good for you. If you don't make sure you move within a team that does because your next job will be just an upgrade of what you are doing now, and you better choose the right thing.
Also submitted here, with some comments:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21246233
Blizzard Returns Prize Money to Suspended Hearthstone Player
What prevents someone to replicate the Flash experience with modern web tech like JS, HTML5, CSS or Canvas/WebGL? I mean something with similar editor functionality, producing result drawable in modern web browsers. EDIT: There actually is Adobe Animate so what prevents people from being as creative as in the Flash era?! https://www.adobe.com/products/animate.html
It could provide the motive to begin a(an even more?) massive automation push within the U.S. That could have long-term negative consequences for China.
Show HN: Connect with remote teammates via live video with a sense of privacy
Even if this is true, there’s a crucial difference: 90% of what you want to do in MacOS is very simple and works, on 2000 Linux nothing was simple at all. I know because I only used Linux back then.
We had this game but on our IBM PCjr, and something with the hardware config wasn't what the game was expecting which made the sprites scrambled but still in the spot on the screen where they should go. The game was otherwise playable and audio was fine. I didn't see the actual graphics for the game until several years later!
Why would you buy a google phone? Because they promise to show you how phones "should be done"? Then they stop updates after 18 Months, and more egregiously, security updated after 3 years. Yeah, great track record google. Other manufacturers sell throwaway phones cheaper! (I am just bitter, still miss my Nexus 5)
Shenzhen to Build 1.7M Flats
I'll second this. I work between home and two different offices, each with it's own monitor configuration. The offices each have the same model of monitor, but I configure them to be on different sides of the laptop itself. This has worked flawlessly for years, including with Catalina.
Thanks, will do. I really didn’t understand it either but it was definitely the case!
Apple laptops are incredibly good. But I did notice, switching to a 2012 temporarily, that I only missed like... half a dozen things. It was half the speed, twice the mass, but it got the job done shockingly well. I hated the old hinge trackpad, and the keys weren't to my liking. A few apps (mostly iPad ports) had typography that was hard to read on a non-Retina display. I switched back to the 2018 and yes it was a huge relief, but I could have switched back to my 2018 model 3 or 4 days ago and that says something.
If you are a professional it's unacceptable to only have one work machine and no backup machine.

What if it was stolen or broken entirely instead of "SSD needs replacement"?

Then there would be nobody to replace it for you (in a month or a day), but you'd still have work to do. At best you would buy a new one, set it up again, and lose a few days to get back on track while your customers wait.

And that's assuming you have the credit at hand then and there (and you don't need to do any market research, but can just grab a machine).
Unity impose hardware constraints that are difficult to overcome in poorer places too. I have an old Dell at home and I won't even try to install Unity on it because it struggles to Windows 10. It's a perfect fine machine for coding with a simple Linux distro.
Where can I get me some wild blueberries though?