skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> You're thinking like a lawyer. I'm thinking like a problem solver.

Yes, the reasons that the USPS is important are mainly legal reasons. Your personal frustrations with what I presume is commercial mail is not one of those reasons. You have alternatives for your commercial needs, and you are free to use them.

The USPS exists because the government has needs that commercial carriers simply cannot fulfill; here's the first 3 examples I could think of:

1. A guarantee of service via direct control. The federal government directly controls the USPS board. Commercial services have no obligation to fulfill any of the government's needs, and could even be legally obligated by their fiduciary duty to deny those needs, even if they wanted to do otherwise. The needs of the government are not always profitable, often they're not.

2. Proper chain of custody. Email simply doesn't address this, and is notoriously awful at it. Commercial delivery services do this better than email, but do so voluntarily, and to their own liking (see #1). On the other hand, some USPS services like Registered Mail can be used for some types of classified documents.

3. Longstanding (and strong) legal precedent regarding its use. Mail has a ton of privilege over electronic communications. It also has privilege over commercial deliveries.

As for the ability of email to reach everyone -- I think your views might be biased a bit by your experiences. https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2019/04/22/some-americ...
No it's not. Why would you want to give telcos even more power? Let dumb pipes be dumb pipes. The whole idea that telcos should moderate incoming calls is just begging for for non-call-neutrality and pay-for-play. HN is obsessed with net-neutrality but apparently the same sentiment does not extend to other communication platforms.
You could just link to them I think, possibly with a hint to specify inlining; the client decides whether to obey that hint or to ignore that hint. (This would be done the same whether the picture is part of the document or is a separate file, I should think. It makes many considerations easier to work with.)
me either in WA
I've heard a really interesting war story from a Googler who was in the NOC when the Japanese earthquake that took out their nuclear power stations out hit - and cut the fibres on the sea bed. He reckons they were probably the first people on the planet to know something was happening.

Apparently their immediate response was just to reroute everything through the cables on the other side of the country that were still top, and let their bosses know it was happening. They didn't slow down to ask for permission to light up half a country's worth of bandwidth, then just did it.
Ask HN: Is there anything you can do if your comment is unfairly flagged?
I recently had a comment flagged that by no means should have been. This was on the tail end of a lot of downvotes. I thought the HN community was more adult-like but I keep getting massive ignorant hate from people who can downvote.

I realize complaining about getting downvoted just gets you downvoted more but also I really don't want to participate in a discussion forum like that anyways.

So can I appeal a flagged comment or am I just to be subjected to the childishness of someone who has received 500 upvotes?
I was under the impression that Japan's anti-cannabis culture came about as a result of American occupation and postwar industrialization (the latter, primarily, to favor synthetic rope and fabric manufacturing over Japan's native hemp industries.)
Had never seen this before

not sure how much I’ll use it with the holidays coming up :)
VR is neat, but I'm absolutely inspired by the idea of improved human-computer interfaces like those described and their more mundane uses. We have eye tracking, the ability to read electrical signals and positioning from hands or head, the ability to feedback to the body through vibration (or sound), and existing high quality peripherals like keyboards for high precision entry and correction. There has to be a way to combine all of this into a better vim.

A couple binary inputs for CTRL and SHIFT from reading brainwaves seems doable. Feedback on whether they're active from different high frequency vibrations on the hands, neck, or ears.

There are lots of easy wins here if I can just push a couple mental buttons with my brain. Trigger scrolling or text selection based on eye movement. Select a buffer or macro based the mental buttons I'm pushing. You basically get a binary digit for every mental button you're capable of simultaneously tracking.

I'm home sick, and maybe it's the fever talking, but I think I'm going to do some basic research and start hacking something together. Very small chance of success, but I want mental modifier keys with vibrational feedback!
Oh so sweet this history revisionism.

“ The 737 engines used too much fuel so to make a more attractive plane for poorer countries ...“

It was AMERICAN Airlines and Southwest (of yes the USA) who pushed Boeing into creating the Max, not “poorer countries” (unless you count the US among those)
>Remember, the issue here wasn't with the flight characteristics per se,

Well, it was and it wasn't. In order to meet the stated demands of their customers (large airlines who didn't want to retrain pilots on a new type), they had to stick to the same 737 type certificate. The engines on the MAX change the centre of gravity such that the handling characteristics were too different. The regulators would not have allowed the MAX to share the type certificate with the 737NG as it was, so MCAS was born.

I'm convinced that the MAX 8 itself could have been certified as a distinct type (without MCAS, using some other system that wasn't half-baked) and we would not be having this conversation because those two crashes would not have happened.

At least as I see it, the flight characteristics led to MCAS because of penny pinchers.
> technical suitability for the 95% of modally-abled users is still an important consideration.

Are you saying that we should give more advantages to people who already have the advantage of having no significant disability, while adding difficulty for people who already have extra difficulties (or at best making only token efforts toward accessibility)? That seems unreasonable to me.

Fortunately, with an open system like Matrix, everyone can have a client that works well for them.
I think they call this cable an RJ50 cable, although I'm not sure if it's the same one that you're referring to.
There's nothing wrong with fly-by-wire per se but it has specific engineering requirements -- including requirements for the skills of the engineers who design it -- that absolutely must be obeyed. Boeing's leadership treated it as "a little bit of software" as though it was merely an Excel macro. Safety critical software is just not in the same category as a mobile app but Boeing execs ignored the distinction.
React has one and only one syntactic conceit which is JSX. Truth be told, that is based on a subset of the now deprecated e4x standard.

Let's look at Svelte's special syntax going over the docs. Everything mentioned here is NOT part of either the HTML or JS spec.

* Uppercase HTML is special (I really don't understand this one as this seems like the perfect opportunity to go all-in on web components)

* Interpolation using curly braces

* magical $$props object

* custom if..else..end syntax

* multiple variants of the custom loop syntax

* custom await, promise, and handler syntax

* custom HTML escape syntax

* custom debugger syntax

* custom element directive syntax

* tons of stuff using the element directive syntax
(especially events and data binding)

* 4 non-standard pseudo-DOM events

* magical <slot> (lowercase) HTML element

* magical <svelte> (lowercase) HTML element

* magical $: syntax for binding updates

That's a ton of magic and doesn't include all the magical code generated to wire everything together. That wouldn't be important except that you can't really avoid it. In React, I can just step over library calls, but since there's no Svelte library, I have to step through the spaghetti it creates from my code (spaghetti because efficient machine-generated code is always spaghetti).
> Does that help?

Yes. You've been able to pitch your explanations at a level that my only-a-BS-in-math brain could grasp.

Thank you very much. It's been a pleasure interacting with you.
Airbus controls have functioned this way since the 80s. A given stick deflection will produce the exact same amount of rotation no matter the aircraft weight or speed.
ha, thanks!
Japan is more of a syncretic society than any one or another thing. I believe a popular saying over there is something like "Born Shinto, marry Christian, die Buddhist."
I would guess that most americans who try to "eat healthy" (or at least not eat take-out / fast food all the time) probably don't get enough fat. I'm always sad when I go to the grocery store and realize that only the premium yogurt has >2% milkfat. I find that when I deliberately choose the full fat version of things I feel satisfied after consuming many fewer calories.
I am not entirely clear on your question, but I am avoiding reliance on any third-party service to keep it a clean experiment.

I have it easy for external access -> static IP and a Gigabit connection without NAT, so all I have to do is setup ports on my router.

For my services like databases and Redit, I expose them only on Cluster-IP, and them you use kubeDNS and get something like 'redis.default.svc.cluster.local'.

If I need to access them for development purposes, I use kubectl-proxy, but a VPN is also an option.
Whenever I see stuff like this I think... "That company must be running out of money... Trying to scam engineers into working for free."
> any other major civilian aircraft

Aside from Airbus? Isn't basically every Airbus in the sky at this point flown by a computer with the pilots making requests for what they'd like it to do? This has long been a fundamental ideological difference between Boeing and Airbus, with Boeing just now starting to get into the same game Airbus has been doing for a while.
Show HN: Spin up your own ridesharing app in an hour
HN is becoming a tad repetitive...

Claims: RSS is dead

Reality: no, its not

Claims: Climate change claim "X" is bullshit after all

Reality: no its not

Claims: Diet "x" is actually good/bad for you

Reality: Everything in moderation people...

Etc...

we seem to be going through the same old cycle over and over.
You heard the old gag about the most important pieces of camping safety gear?

You need to have a meter of optical fibre with you. Then, if you get lost, you just bury it and then ask the backhoe driver who digs it up for a ride home.
> a single questionable design decision for a single passenger aircraft has people calling for their ultimate demise.

It's not a single questionable design decision; it's multiple insane management decisions interfering with design decisions involving human lives. And yes, this company deserves the death penalty; it's executives should be jailed, and its assets broken up and sold off, and the military bits nationalized.

The 787 was already basically an act of treason; outsourcing critical military technology because .... muh MBA just in time says it will be cheaper. Well it wasn't, and those secrets ain't jumping back in the bag.
I think a better analogy is probably that engineers are also not willing to implement any feature anyone asks for.

The company has a lot of public statements that are easy to find, and the people who aren’t “providing comments” are likely either working on the next ones or think providing this comment would not be helpful to the company (including taking into account how much time they can invest in it).

Of course none of this is specific to FB in any way.
part of the problem is that the conventional american breakfast (cereal, fruit, maybe some toast) is almost entirely carbs. unless you go to the trouble of frying some eggs, you're getting off to a bad start that will leave you crashing by the end of the morning and overeating at lunch.
Yeah? You usually have that on rye with a side of hummus as a kid?
> The handling problems were worse than anticipated as is evidenced by the low-speed activation of MCAS

Where the heck did you get that from? The MCAS failures were caused by a failure of the AOA sensors, not any kind of handling characteristics.
This type of display is almost certainly either

a) an artifact (i.e., bug) in the hardware/software detection-and-ranging system or

b) an example of what appears in LIDAR when effective STEALTH is present on a target. IOW the target did not actually go "from like 50,000 feet to, you know, a hundred feet in like second" but instead, transmitted signals to the tracking plane's hardware/software that made them mistakenly interpret the object as moving thusly.
Ring Throws Customers Under the Bus After Data Breach
That delta sounds exaggerated. As I recall, the Concorde was some premium (like 30%) over first class. Which was clearly a significant premium over coach. But 30x for a reasonable comparison seems very large. I can certainly believe a typical economy ticket being 2K in today's dollars given that it's often close to $1K now.

(Yes, you can find cheaper flight but that's a pretty typical airfare on a major carrier today.)
Interesting that the word "cuts" is perhaps-intentionally ambiguous.

I wonder if this was detectable undersea fibre damage, or just Iran/Turkey switching off multiple shore stations at once?
Also known as: "Any sufficiently advanced incompetence is indistinguishable from malice."

However, I tend to disagree with this approach when the final result is that the "incompetent" one stands to profitably gain from their alleged incompetence or ignorance.
More detailed feedback can be tainted with personal bias and potentially skewed personal perspective based on how well you got along with an interviewer

Absolutely. Two weeks ago, interview at a certain top-10 liberal arts college. Meetings with 4 or 5 faculty members, the usual.

Chitchat throughout, nothing substantial is being said, certainly nothing pertaining to the role. There is a tour of the facilities, the research labs are empty, even though the semester is still ongoing. You marvel at the unstructuredness of it all and ask: is this Potemkin's Village? The general impression is that the institution is living on past glories.

The rejection arrives in less than a week, and just for grunts, you ask if there is any feedback to be had. There is feedback: the interviewers could not assess your competence.

Guys, it was your job to convey expectations and bring the conversation back on track, if necessary. You just managed to turn a disappointed candidate into a completely enraged one. What a waste of time. People talk to each other, if anyone asks about the institution I would strongly recommend not to have anything to do with it, not as student, not as faculty, not as staff.
In the long run you could save 50% or more if using reserved instances on AWS.
I don’t really want 2 protein smoothies and a spinach salad for lunch.

Or... 2 servings of banana almond butter with 2 servings of peanut butter and carrots.

Nice idea, needs work.
It's that people are too sensitive, is it? Or is it that "culture fit" excuses...uh...suck?

The hand-wringing sorts who are simultaneously so protective of a company's "culture" but are so unable to substantiate how someone might not fit in in a way that isn't telling on themselves should be worried, but not because somebody might get mad at them on Twitter. It's because they're at best losing out on good candidates and at worst perpetuating dark and shitty behaviors onto people who don't deserve it.
Let's be honest with ourselves. The best way to make your content last for a long time is to host it on a platform that is free and very successful. For example, whatever photos I posted on Facebook 12 years ago? Still alive and kicking. The articles I've published on wordpress.com 7 years ago? Still in mint condition, with 0 maintenance required.

In comparison, the websites that I've built and hosted or deployed myself, have constantly required periodic work just to "keep the lights on". I went out of my way to make this as minimal and cheap as possible, but even then, it hasn't been nearly as simple as the content I've published on wordpress.

At some point, people's priorities change. Perhaps due to new additions to the family, medical circumstances, or even prolonged unemployment. And when that happens, even the smallest amount of upkeep, whether it is financial, technical or simply logistical, becomes something they have no interest in engaging with.

If we really want our content to last, not just for 10 years but for a generation, our best bet is to publish it on a platform like wordpress.com. One which requires literally zero maintenance, and where all tech infrastructure is completely abstracted away from you. I know this isn't going to be a popular idea with the HN crowd, and I do not blame anyone at all for wanting to keep control over their content. People are free to optimize along whatever dimensions they wish. But if I had to bet on longevity, I would bet every time on the wordpress article over the self-hosted one.
archive.org use WARC if I remember correctly, and offer guides on creating and reading the format.
This is a good idea well implemented. There is much bemoaning the state of web experiences these days. Visiting this site and poking around, trying out their onboarding workflow, and seeing initial results, provides a welcome counterpoint. I'm in for the free plan. Now, to do the thing is another matter, of course.
WorldBrain's Memex (https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/worldbrain/) has an option to perform a full-text index (not archive) of bookmarks, or pages you visited for 5 seconds (default) down to 1 second (no option to index all pages). It stores this stuff into a giant Local Storage (etc) database, which Firefox implements as a sqlite file.
Yes, it's a dead end, a cul de sac that links to nowhere. And that's exactly what I intended. But if you see something that is of further interest, highlight it and search. That will almost always produce topical results...
That was the demand from the airlines; that there be no training delta. For that you need to remain within the same type, or at least close enough that they're equivalent.

Those are two separate issues. There are currently four generations of 737 on the TC[1] and sim time is required between the different generations. Look at the 777 vs 777X, there are radical changes and yet the 777X is (for now) grandfathered on the 777 TC. A change requiring a new TC (or STC) is an order of magnitude more dramatic.

The training mandate drove the poor design of MCAS but wasn't the reason MCAS was implemented. Even with training the MAX would never have met FAA regs without something like MCAS.

The list price of the MAX is around $100 million, and Southwest wanted $1 million per aircraft if training were reqiured. If it were simply a matter of more appropriate training Boeing would've already taken the 1% haircut and moved on. American talked a good game about not wanting the MAX at all if training were required, but let's face it they'd probably rather take the training hit than wait in line for an A320 production slot. Instead Boeing shuttered the production line because the problem is simply not that easy to solve.

If it were simply a matter of stick force gradient Boeing could've likely just modified the elevator feel computer. Instead Boeing went the route of moving the whole damn stabilizer, a particularly odd choice because the stabilizer moves very slowly -- slower than a reasonable person would want to prevent an impending stall.

1: http://rgl.faa.gov/Regulatory_and_Guidance_Library/rgMakeMod...
I always wondered why D didn't take off in the fintech industry instead of C++
與C語言相比，它的性能如何
Don’t worry. I’m 20 years into my career and the last job hunt was about 100 applications, 10 interviews or phone screens, and 1 offer. Anyone who can get an offer out of less than 10 applications in this difficult job environment is either very lucky or a top-0.1% wizard in his field.
Mailboxes in the U. S. are in essence Federal property. By that logic, no one outside the Feds can open it. But I’m being pedantic.
A big fan from way back. I was doing the "six snacks a day each less than or equal to 300 calories" a while back. Yes, they do have some weird combos, but the cream cheese + smoked salmon in a tortilla (300 calories) is still a fave breakfast.
Airbus is definitely a civilian manufacturer and all their aircraft are strictly fly-by-wire. But as far as I know they are at least dynamically stable, unlike many combat aircraft and the 737 Max.

Update after reading na85's comment: The 737 Max is dynamically stable.

Also apparently a few Airbus models are not FbW.
You need to offer more questions up front and offer more choices of meals for this to be a product people will actually use as opposed to a demonstration project. Also be cognizant that not everyone cooks.
Nice! My girlfriend is on a low fodmap diet (see
https://www.healthline.com/nutrition/fodmaps-101 ), it would be awesome if that were a dietary choice...
Do you know if this might work for a PO Box as well? I once spoke to an agent at the window of the post office where my PO Box lives about this. I asked if I could put some sort of notice like the one you're suggesting, but the person claimed there was no way to stop receiving fliers in my box because the companies pay a lot for them to be delivered (paraphrased).
The Six Days of Cybersecurity Gifts – Chuck Davis
Where the heck did you get that from? The MCAS failures were caused by a failure of the AOA sensors, not any kind of handling characteristics.

MCAS was originally intended to handle high speed, high altitude situations. Flight testing found that there were handling problems at lower speeds and altitudes that MCAS could "fix". So MCAS was given roughly twice the authority it was originally designed with and it was then programmed to activate in lower speed situations as well. The FAA, of course, was kept in the dark.

If you're curious go through the Seattle Times articles.
The keto generator needs a bit of work. It was suggesting waaaaay too many carbs. Throwing in things like oranges where bacon would be the better keto option
I think only the A300 and the A310 are not fly-by-wire.

Don't forget Boeing's own 777 and 787, both are fly-by-wire also.
Thanks, so I didn’t have to read article. Really misleading title, I was thinking “...How do only 3k accounts leak...?”
My problem with feedback having been the giver and receiver is that both sides are supposed to pretend the giver had this omniscient viewpoint to judge all employees’ work and the employee has to politely take into consideration these judgements. In reality its a charade at best or demoralizing at worst.
Wasting time is the feature. The fact that it wastes the caller's time as well is the reason that it works as a sign of respect.
In Vietnam, near every holiday or major event the internet magically slows to a crawl and the Govt run papers declare that sharks have attacked the undersea cables, it is almost comical how well timed the 'attacks' are...

https://saigoneer.com/saigon-technology/11885-sharks,-anchor...

https://tuoitrenews.vn/news/society/20190528/vietnams-intern...

https://tuoitrenews.vn/news/society/20171016/vietnam-grapple...

https://tuoitrenews.vn/news/city-diary/20170125/save-vietnam...

https://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/gadgets-and-tech/ne...
ha! you are exactly right. so many gatekeepers in our shops infrastructure teams. a bunch of total clowns who can stall your project for years. all the cloud-haters don't understand why people want the cloud. it is to get rid of them.
Yes, but you still have to buy it.

Server-grade ECC memory is slower and more expensive than what people typically put in their desktop machines.
You should stop posting about issues that you are completely clueless about. I'd point out where you're wrong, but in short: everything.