skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The 737-Max could not pass 25.173 certification standard. This was the result of larger engines needing to be mounted farther forward due to the constraint of the 737 landing gear.

It was a desire to keep a common type rating that led to the need for MCAS to pass 25.173 because of the landing gear causing an insufficiently (though still positively) longitudinally stable aircraft, not a desire to keep the handling characteristics "similar" to the other 737s, but to keep them legal at all.

1 - https://www.law.cornell.edu/cfr/text/14/25.173
Still working on it - but did my best to document:
https://github.com/rlingineni/Sikuli-Runner
Fake Bot Submissions to Public Can't Websites Cannot Be Distinguished from Human
Functional programming is rare. It's sort of like the PS3 when it came out. Better specs across the board but harder to use and understand so it's hard for me to point to production level examples. Facebook does have one big project done in haskell you can look into that. Also whatsapp is done entirely in erlang.

Also note that the trend I see in the industry is not exactly movement towards functional programs but more movement towards borrowing features popular in functional programming as well as getting rid of classes.
This is great! Now if only it could track what food I had in my house by scanning receipts, it could tell me what I could make right now! Looks like great execution.
Immigration Lawyer recommendation for O1 visa processing?
I qualify for 4 of the 6 O1 visa criteria. Can someone recommend an immigration lawyer/attorney who can prepare and file my O1 visa petition.
Military jets come with a different risk tolerance from civilian airliners. I think there's a defensible position that says this kind of pitch-up behaviour is an unnecessary risk on a civilian plane, however reliable you make the computer system that compensates for it.
What is he working on now? Wiki still list him working on C#.
The system should have a number of alternatives. The first would be to consult the gyro system.
Lacking a free online RSS reader, I use Thunderbird again now

Feedly's free tier works quite nicely if you miss Google Reader.
Honestly, I don't think it matters. I agree with the basic points the article makes as being more salient.. After all, despite the complexities, there are successful hardware businesses.

These robots (I have a Cozmo and a Jibo) are at their core a novelty robot or "thing" attached to a voice assistant.
Voice assistant are not "social" except to the autistic and those that have spent too much time reading about socializing in the academic literature rather than actually interacting with humans not in a study.

So they can't be social, and the robot part at the end of the day is basically a toy whose whiz-bang wears off rather quickly. I find a lot of the research on emotional connections to be a bit self-serving. There are some people that end up attached to a weird head thing, but most require something a bit smarter, it does not make a sizeable market.

Anyone in the toy industry could have looked at their financials and known this was a shitty idea, because at the end of the day none of these products have demonstrated that they are more than a toy attached to a voice assistant. Blaming retail channel cuts is a bit rich.
Its forked version of AzureDevOps Agent

https://github.com/microsoft/azure-pipelines-agent
In what manner is the plane unstable?
The article is from 2011. Certs were expensive back then. People thought TLS was an unnecessary hassle, difficult to configure etc. There was an idea that you just do the really important parts (logins, authorizing fund transfers) over TLS and do the mundane stuff offer HTTP. (Static site assets) XSS was so rampant they gave it its own acronym. The natural extension of that was to do everything over HTTP and for the handful of objects that need to be secured, you just encrypt those ~100 bytes of important data.

Then let's encrypt happened and all that went out the window.
I saw that there’s a warning if someone’s weight loss goal is dangerously fast, which I think is great. The creators should also consider limiting the app from recommending dangerously underweight goals (the app will happily recommend that starve yourself to achieve extremely low BMIs)
Ask HN: How does someone in India access the internet when taken down?
Title is the question. I'm currently living in India, and want to understand what I can do to retain internet access when the government attempts to take it down. Currently, the government run ISP appears to be shutting down, while private ISPs have not yet. I understand systems, networks not so much.
- What are terms I should google to get good information?
- What technology is useful in this situation? Is there some way to access the internet still?
- How do I most easily setup a mesh network for communication?
- What books/manuals should I keep at hand?
Could you elaborate on the practical applications? I find this sort of thing very interesting, but it seems to get computationally infeasible once you apply it to any sort of real-world problem.
The University’s New Loyalty Oath: Required ‘Diversity and Inclusion’ Statements
I think you overestimate how many people know what type of aircraft they're flying, or will care a year from now.

Additionally, I would be happy to put my family or my own backside into a Max8 flown by a Southwest, American, or United crew.
If that's the case then both membership and non-membership will be probabilistic, rather than one or the other being certain like boom filters, right?
It's worth supporting Chinese language projects just to see if all the tooling can really handle unicode...

There is still too much software around today which breaks when presented with anything else than ASCII.
Good developers can solve problems and be productive with any programming language/tools. Bad developers can't solve anything unless they use the one specific tool they know.
Another way to put it is that if you always "use the best tool in the tool box" then you better have more than just one tool in the tool box.
Now you're attacking the analogy, which adds nothing useful to the conversation because the real thing doesn't work that way.
Gary Larson Launches a Brand New Website for His Iconic Comic ‘The Far Side’
It’s fundamentally hard to govern YouTube. The tools to analyze and remove harmful video content don’t exist. Pic one, the existence of YouTube and harmful videos or no YouTube at all.
Unfortunately, I'm one of those developers :( My font stack is:

font-family: system-ui, Helvetica, sans-serif;

for prose and

font-family: ui-monospaced, Menlo, monospace;

for monospaced text. The first being the user's preferred font, the second as a good (IMO?) default that I impose on them, and the third as a full fallback. I'm conflicted on whether this is the right balance between user choice and handling browsers that support nothing.
Great book, read it several times and gifted it several more. His second book "The World Beyond Your Head" is much deeper and even more insightful. I hope he continues to probe and write like that.
But mistakes happen.
There are already American users, but they're not paying anything for the service. I don't have ads yet.
On my large screen, the lines are so long that it's difficult to read. But other than that, it's a nice inspiration for how minimal a website can be.
Show HN: A simple garbage collector for C
wait, does the world need another ridesharing app??
I think it is better because it pushes you beyond your comfort zone. You will learn new things. And sometimes those things are better than what you currently think is "best". If you can only function well in a very specific environment then you are not very flexible.
"Membership test: returns true if the key x is likely in S, false otherwise"

I think they circumvent the problem by making a complicated insertion procedure where all of the keys need to be inserted at once, it seems uses a stack to avoid hash collisions

Take a look at https://github.com/FastFilter/xorfilter/blob/master/xorfilte...

I can usually read go, but I've never been that great at deciphering "academic code" so the exact details escape me here.
I run a fork called KeyDB with multithreading as well as a few optimizations directly around large values (redis does unnecessary copies).

It may work well for your use case. https://github.com/JohnSully/KeyDB
Eh, it's a bit more nuanced than that to be honest. Blended-wing body is good, but the total gain after structural reinforcement, increased materials, friction drag etc. is probably not quite as high as you might think.
You are partly correct. Mandarin usually refers to the spoken language and Chinese to the written characters.

However there are still differences in writing / vocabulary even if you disregard the existence of simplified and traditional versions. It's similar to US and British English. Books are are often translated to both versions and it's similar for (Mainland) Chinese, Hong Kong Chinese or Taiwanese Chinese text with even more extreme differences.
There isn't a choice but to bulk collect and map reduce. It's a technical limitation - no one can predict the future.

> Just because that data hasn't been used against you or me yet doesn't mean it never will.

What do you mean? For what reason would it happen? What would be the consequence?

Also, the issue of foreign countries spying hasn't been addressed. They don't collect data and do bad stuff to us? Do they have strict checks and balances to respect Americans? Are they these distinguished moralists that we should let our guard down against?

Finally, no one has said a single specific thing about improving privacy for Americans. How specifically does it need to be improved? Nobody objected to making more narrowly tailored / less invasive procedures for Americans. Why not point out a problem - assuming those complaining even have one? - and suggest an improvement?

But why throw the baby out with the bathwater and say all bulk information gathering is bad in itself? If there is something to be addressed, don't you think it'd be better to just improve that one area?
> Browsers should remove quirk modes and flat out refuse to render anything which cannot be interpreted 100% unambiguously.

Unfortunately the web seems to have de-facto standardized on these quirks and large swaths of the internet would break if you removed them.
god no! not another sidecar. though the repo seems legit, good for folks building real-time dispatch.
Given that google tells you what CPUs they use and that a vCPU is one hyper thread on that CPU, it doesn’t seem proprietary at all. Digital Ocean’s shared CPU plans seem like the ones where you’re unsure what you’re buying. Your thesis might still be valid, but you’ve definitely misled readers about Google’s offering. You’re comparing dedicated resources to shared resources when DO and Linode show you that they have higher prices than what you’ve used for equivalent instances.

Edit: also, you can create custom sized instances so you could have created an 8GB 2 CPU N1 instance for $49.63/mo.
Well, this project as it currently is makes no sense to use for anything real. What this project is trying to show is that ANY computation is possible with this.

So we don’t necessarily have to create an entire VM to, say, run a FHE machine learning model. That can be built directly and specifically optimized for the task. I think that’s where this is currently useful for real world stuff.
I've been pretty happy with it, although I find that I don't have time to read the volume of pieces they recommend with the paid tier.
> "You failed roll of the dice" — so I did everything right and should keep doing that.

I think a lot of job offer/no-offer situations come down to this, because most of us are well meaning, hard working people. The default response to rejection should basically be this (alongside some non-punitive self-reflection to micro-optimise some parameter or the other).
I renewed my Flickr Pro subscription for the first time in a few years after SmugMug's acquisition, but I barely ended up using the site, and let it lapse a month or so ago. It bums me out to say it, but I think photography might have moved on from Flickr. I know mine has, at least.
It would just be a matter of implementing the byte code into the VM. Should be possible. I thought it’d be cool to try Python bytecode haha
Well, the plane did crash twice. Everything else seems wrong though.
How to Write a Pitch Deck
And that's where they are not banned. Many pages simply won't load at all in the PRC because someone thought a Google analytics tracker or a hosted library should load before the content (which then never does).
@kishanht ridesharing is a relatable metaphor for any two sided network with moving supply on one side, being matched with dynamic demand on the other.

@Charles_tse thanks for going through the Github repos. this is indeed a generic on-demand platform kickstarter.
Aren't you just exchanging the pair (,) for /,\ or \,/? What real benefits that implies apart for aesthetics?
At the extreme end of the spectrum people try to marry sex dolls and stuffed animals. There is a continuum of how attached people will get to inanimate or artificially animate objects. So it would also not be surprising if studying engineers and psych academics that you will get skewed data - groups not known for being on the right side of the bell curve for human social interaction skills.

I think even in the cases of those prone to become attached to non-living items, the attachment is not necessarily a long-term bond.

Further, suspending disbelief, and anthropomorphizing everyday mechanical things is not very compelling... I have felt bad for my car.. I think an emotional bond with a car is a pretty typical thing in the US.. However, regardless of how strong and consuming it is, most people don't treat it as a substitute or even similar to a social relationship.
If Jekyll died tomorrow, I still have the HTML to keep the website running, more or less. It's a build step in my pipeline but not one that abstracts it in such a way that I cannot use the final product as my archive. I'm not sure that a CMS could let me do the same.
I will never buy another Microsoft product because they are spineless.
This website made me realize that I become completely disoriented if I see a meal plan that isn't built around a base of rice+beans. I wonder if other Latin American people here felt the same.
As another data point, volument is the first result in my search
> "Reports of these conversations from 2018 are simply not accurate," the spokesperson said in a statement

https://www.crn.com/news/cloud/google-reportedly-set-ambitio...
Chrome was the first browser I encountered that deletes history without being instructed to.
LinkedIn - didn't care for the phony endorsements from colleagues on specific skills.

Never joined Facebook, twitter, etc.

I keep tabs on my regions physical and mental state via Nextdoor.
>If I'm wrong and some secrets are truly necessary we're still best served by restricting ourselves to just those secrets and not creating a Matryoshka doll of secrets kept for their own sake and little more.

Therein lies the problem. How can you restrict secrets to "just those secrets" when you can't ever find out what the secrets are and you are promised that "this secret is definitely one of THOSE secrets, honest."?
I'd love to be able to skip breakfast! 2 meals selects breakfast and lunch, but i just want lunch and dinner
TCL is kind of like Lisp with strings instead of s-expressions, if you squint at it right and hold your nose. All evaluation is simply text substitution.

But TCL is not nearly as powerful or efficient as Lisp.

TCL's historic advantages (which were unique and important in 1988) are that it's free, easy to integrate with C code, and it comes with a nice user interface toolkit: Tk, which also has a great interactive canvas drawing api.

Tk is nice because it was designed around TCL from day one, which vastly simplified its design, since it didn't suffer from Greenspun's tenth rule like most GUI toolkits do, because it already had half of Common Lisp: TCL.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greenspun%27s_tenth_rule

>Any sufficiently complicated C or Fortran program contains an ad-hoc, informally-specified, bug-ridden, slow implementation of half of Common Lisp.

Advantages of Tcl over Lisp (2005) (tcl.tk)

https://wiki.tcl-lang.org/page/Advantages+of+Tcl+over+Lisp

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15578238
The planes would still physically fly without MCAS. (They are not unstable.)

The planes could not legally fly without MCAS, because they fail a required stick force linearity certification requirement. (FAR 25.173)
Yes, and to remain competitive in pricing they are incentivized to fix the problem, receiving fewer fines. Of course the tools and people attempting to stop robocall costs money, but as many things in life, there’s no free lunch. Maybe we could find another less expensive solution? Maybe that is specifically one of the cheapest ones, and that which put the onus on those who have more capacity to fix them? Maybe that will be the incentive to revamp our current calling system that basically allows anyone to call anyone at any time? Either way someone always pays.
Why video games and board games aren’t a good measure of AI intelligence
If you get a piece of feedback from one person, you know what you would need to do differently to get hired by that person.

If you get similar pieces of feedback from 3 people, you now likely know what you need to do differently to get hired, period.

It’s not about getting specific, individual pieces of feedback. It’s about being able to triangulate toward what you need to do differently.

And maybe you get 3 pieces of feedback that are all completely contradictory. That tells you that what you need to do is keep trying.
That’s an interesting phrase ‘to break someone down’...I have heard it at least three times in my recent memory. One was said to me and twice, I heard others say about their employees(don’t know their genders).

I asked one of them why they would say that..and..paraphrasing..they said that’s how it’s done in the military..and then the person asked me if I have seen Full Metal Jacket. At that point, I pretended that the cheese platter was calling me and drifted away.
Creative Use of Bitwise Operators
My journey to financial freedom in 2019
For Slack without Electron there's Ripcord

It runs in Windows, Mac and Linux

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19617699
U.S. and World Population Clock
I immediately disregarded the authors opinion when they put OVH in the same league as major cloud providers. OVH is a source of nothing but spam/malware/outright malicious traffic from our perspective.

We have a job that automatically updates an AWS WAF IP blacklist with their ASN ranges from BGP. We don't want their business or their customers business.
> One of the most well-known relatively recent failures of the Airbus system was the Air France flight, and IIRC a main cause was the computer switching to a mostly manual flight mode (due to a sensor failure) and the resulting change in how the flight controls work confused the copilot to the point that he stalled the plane.

That's a rather misleading take, given by people pushing a certain agenda. The first officer in question was hauling the stick back as far as it would go. This resulted in the plane stalling. That's not a matter of confusing flight modes or computer behaviour - pretty much any aeroplane will stall if you pull the stick back all the way (and what else would you expect to happen?)
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19617699
The issue at hand is longitudinal stability, specifically a positive but insufficient amount of it at high angles of attack.

People who run around parroting that the Max8 is "unstable" are telling you more about their level of knowledge of aerodynamics than facts about the Max8 airplane.
It's crazy that there's hardly any training (outside a professional MBA, perhaps?) about how to handle these things, it's really sink or swim while playing with millions of $ and many peoples' careers.
St. Nick Went to Prison
A person in the situation described above is dealing with corrupt and capricious police and prosecutors. Honest cops would have just charged her and asked the courts to shut her down, if they really felt she had broken laws.
How does that discount the flip side of cold weather records?
You can export your WordPress website to static HTML easily with the help of a free plugin.
I cant help but feel like car features being "micro"transactions like this is going to lead to a lot of cars being jailbroken.
: "in a world where you're self-hosting all of your scripts."

Anything self-hosted is already fragile: it will go away when you don't continue to actively maintain it (paying for a domain, keeping a computer connected to the Internet etc.) or when you die.
I recently learned about GitHub Archive, which plans to last "at least 1,000 years".

https://archiveprogram.github.com/

It's specifically for open source software, but I wonder if it can be spun out into personal archives or websites.

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Some years ago, I had an idea for a thought experiment called the Eternal Bit - various angles on the practicality of preserving a bit state "forever".
I don't deny that. But to consciously serve as an advocate/mouthpiece knowing it's a evil mess, for the sake of one's Googliness (the joy of the happy, well rewarded elite family)?
Then electricity would cost four times as much as it would with a carbon tax because power generation wouldn't be incentivized to do the right thing in an efficient way. It would end up as a jobs program and in general have all the same inefficiency issues as the Department of Defense, only funded by the ratepayers instead of the taxpayers, which would be a regressive tax on the poor.

And the fossil fuel energy companies would lobby the national power utility to carry on burning fossil fuels, which they could do more easily than lobbying against a carbon tax because then there would be fewer private companies wanting to sell fossil fuel alternatives lobbying on the other side of the issue.
I actually enjoy peanut butter and honey sandwhichs.
François Chollet: “ If researchers want to make progress toward general artificial intelligence, they need to look past popular benchmarks like video games and board games, and start thinking about the skills that actually make humans clever, like our ability to generalize and adapt.”
Inherently unstable? Where are the CG and CP actually located on the aircraft?
The number of potential re-hosters is increased by releasing everything with a free license. Some won't violate copyright laws, e.g., Wikimedia Commons for individual media files.
Part of that was the widespread use low-resolution, high refresh rate, zero-latency (CRT) monitors, and the use of hardware interrupts instead of a serial bus for input.
Optimizing compilers are good at optimizing obvious code, so this usually isn’t a trade off. Many of the clever hacks you can find in books from the 80s are irrelevant now because the compiler can figure out what your naive code is doing and emit something optimized.

Modern processors don’t even operate sequentially and will execute multiple lines in parallel when there are no data dependencies.

For most code, the performance killer is when you try to be too clever or have too many pointer indirections. The compiler has a harder time with this, and is also precluded from applying other optimizations like auto vectorization, because it cannot figure out if it would change the meaning of your code.

For true performance, you need to enter the land of intrinsics, manual vectorization, and cache-aware algorithms. Domains which very few engineers are qualified to work on.

So just keep it simple and trust the compiler. This also applies to algorithms, complicated ones with lots of branching will often perform far far worse in practice than the naive one, you can’t trust the big-O alone. So profile when in doubt.