skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think the ultimate root cause that led to the 737 MAX crisis was de-regulation and the airlines race to the bottom on price. The whole reason for making the plane a 737 and not a new aircraft was to cut pilot re-training costs.

No! That's shifting the blame away from those that engineered and built that death trap. Which is the Boeing Corporation.

If airlines demand features, which are just not feasible to provide at the price range they're willing to pay then it's the plane makers responsibility not to provide such planes. Period!

The core issue (apart from what happened much earlier, after McDonnel's reverse take over) was not the fact that airlines were trying to drive the price down, but that Boeing didn't have a competing product in the most critical market and wouldn't have one for a decade if they engineered a modern plane.

So they hacked an ancient 60th design to modern standards and shunned, demoted or simply fired engineers, which dared to raise concerns. Having the FAA in their pockets and spending tons of cash on lobbying instead of investing it into the construction of good reliable planes also didn't help.

This one's on Boeing. Not on airlines and certainly not on pilots. It's on The Boeing Comnpany; period!

And what galls me most is that the only entity, which was in a position to know what was wrong after the first crash did everything in it's power to blame, befuddle, obstruct and deflect from the real cause. MCAS, which wasn't even documented in the manuals at that time.

In that sense the second crash is corporate mass murder for profit and I really hope that C level people go to jail for that one (alas, I doubt it).
Cable Lost, but Streaming May Be Bleeding Out
Saving Suburbia (2013)
Every laptop I've used is thermally limited if you try to do anything interesting computation wise. Simple things like 8 minute compiles turn into 12 minutes on a laptop, with fans at full blast.
I'm sure if he posts a digital signature from a well known Satoshi address, HN will unban him.

I posted instructions below, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21978680

... but I will not be holding my breath.
Can We Do Deep Learning Without Multiplications?
Recent spamming [1][2] has seen nano ledger size balloon by nearly 50%, negatively affecting full node Initial Block Download times as well as archive node disk space requirements.
The PoW requirements go up with network congestion, but at this rate of 5-8 tps are quite minimal.

[1] https://nano-faucet.org/stats/

[2] https://nanocean.org/ (Click on Live Stream)
I may not be successful or prestigious but at least I'm not Obsessed With Success and Prestige.

Yay for me.
Birds and bats have strange gut microbiomes
I wish us italians never started with Giorgio Washington, Ruggero e Francesco Bacone, and so on.

And that's why I loathe reading about Neaples, Rome, Milan, Genoa, Florence, and of course Titian.
https://www.rechargedishtv.in/
Check out Digitalogy.co, should be able to help.
I appreciate the "My last post was about either Wire toothbrushes or Rasterization of coincident edges" bit at the end of the articles.
"from brown coal". Germany is a world leader in producing energy from brown coal.

"Today, nearly a quarter of all electricity produced in Germany still comes from burning lignite, often called brown coal, one of the dirtiest fossil fuels, making Germany the _world's leader_ in the mining and burning of lignite, according to the International Energy Agency"
A Near-Extinct Language Finds a Home in One Brooklyn Building
Also, it's the internet now that everyone is on it. Heavy moderation of a niche group is pretty easy. Try moderating 100 Million + active accounts.
I've been using Hugo for a few years now. Pretty long to set up if you want to addapt one of the available templates to suit your needs, but then it's really great!

I would not advise it to a non-programmer/tech savvy person though.
You cannot choose your allegiance and stick with it. The reality is that there is always various types of evidence to contend with.

Chances are if you were a physicist/cosmologist you would be of the same opinion as the majority because you would be exposed to just about the same evidence.
Yet no one is doing it.
The USA is big but not that big. It's about twice as wide as Sweden is tall. Sweden is all electric rail. From the south of Sweden to Rome, is the same distance as Sweden is tall.

All of Sweden's rail is electric and most of Europe's too.
"People can't see it, but they are swapping dignity for attention."

Nice observation, though in rare cases not necessarily true.

The thing is, as you point out, status does actually bring potentially huge benefits; People start to come to you with proposals, rather than the other way. Success/Status attracts opportunity. So to some extent we're hardwired to strive for it.
Impossible Dumplings and Beyond Buns: Will China Buy Fake Meat?
I'm running my blog (https://muffinman.io) on Jekyll and GitHub pages, and I've run into the same issues.

For search I generate a JSON array, with the name and the url to each post. Then I just client side javascript to search them. It adds a small traffic overhead, but users said they really like the search - it is instant and uses fuzzy matching algorithm.

Here is the code I use to generate the array:
https://github.com/Stanko/Stanko.github.io/blob/master/_incl...

For comments I use staticman (https://staticman.net/), and it is brilliant. Instead of having a 3rd party comment system, it will issue a pull request to your repo. You can set it to automatically merge PRs or to merge them manually (and moderate them).

The only problem is that because of changes to the GitHub API quotas, their public instance gets overloaded. But you can easily setup your own instance. I use heroku, and their free tier is more than enough for my usecase (I get more than 100k users a year).

I even wrote a short post how to set it up on heroku:
https://muffinman.io/running-staticman-on-heroku/

Hope that helps, happy hacking!
The pig won't exist at all if it's not raised for food.

Some will say that's preferable (for multiple reasons). That's partially opinion though. We'll need to get the pig's input on existence to be certain.

Maybe we'll get our shot at that question in a hundred years when AI is ruling over us: better to live in the service of the AI's ends, or better to not exist at all.
Facebook BANS deepfake videos in run-up to 2020 election
Indeed though keep in mind that the current method for running macOS on AMD doesn't use this and instead relies on patching through Clover. The downside being that whilst the OS itself may run any applications that use an opcode that isn't implemented will simply crash.
What's the Time? A short essay on unitaskers, being present & old-tech gadgets
Maybe the issue is that these jobs are basically seasonal but we are trying to force them to be secure jobs in office? I can imagine there is a lot of people who like to jump project to project and not get caught in maintenance, like I do. I think these (secure job / project hopping) are very different things that shouldn't be compared, and people should not forget about the nature of the job at hand (and, IMHO, shouldn't force it to be something it is not).
> There is nothing preventing you from writing a different front end

Or you could just use a tool where the interface is fine out of the box
The first attack on WTC was a truck bomb which almost succeeded.
Reminds me of one of my favorite songs: Craftsmanship by Buck 65 https://g.co/kgs/23qdoM
I started reading “Masters of Doom” in my school’s library on a break between classes, and I ended up reading the whole book from start to finish in a single sitting.
Research shows that the relationship between sodium intake and high blood pressure is much more complex than just saying that increased sodium increases blood pressure (let alone claiming it does so "drastically").

Too much sodium in the bloodstream causes the body to retain extra water to dilute it. This can cause swelling of the blood vessels, which can cause them to harden over time. That hardening raises blood pressure and makes the heart work harder. When this has happened, reducing sodium intake will help reduce blood pressure by reducing the volume of fluid the heart has to circulate.

But if your blood vessels haven't hardened, there are other ways of helping to regulate your salt levels in addition to, or instead of, decreasing sodium intake. Drinking more liquids will help your kidneys process more sodium, and regular exercise will also help.
What fossils will modern-day civilization leave behind?
When I see these kinds of articles making big predictions but with moderately far-off timeframes, I'm reminded of this comment by Gary Marcus in an Econtalk episode back in 2014 [1]. He was talking about AI, but I think the same concept applies to this kind of genetic engineering:

“..there's this very interesting data gathered by a place called MIRI in Berkeley, MIRI (Machine Intelligence Research Institute). And what they found is that they traced people's prediction of how far away AI is. And the first thing to know is what they found is, the central prediction, I believe it was the modal prediction, close to the median prediction, was 20 years away. But what's really interesting is that they then went back and divided the data by year, and it turns out that people have always been saying it's 20 years away. And they were saying it was 20 years away in 1955 and they're saying it now. And so people always think it's just around the corner. The joke in the field is that if you say it's 20 years away, you can get a grant to do it. If you said it was 5 years away, you'd have to deliver it; and if 100 years, nobody's going to talk to you.”

[1] https://www.econtalk.org/gary-marcus-on-the-future-of-artifi...
OT, and possibly unpopular here, but this really gets on my nerves:

> In Paul Graham’s essay on, How to Do what You Love* he warns us about the prestige trap: (...) you have to like the actual work of novel-writing if you’re going to be good at it; you have to like making up elaborate lies*

PG's contempt for anything literary pervades in many of his essays, which may reveal some kind of unhealthy obsession, esp. for someone who brands himself a "writer".

But this quote shows a deep misunderstanding of what literature is. Literature is about the TRUTH. It may be the only way to gain an actual comprehension of human nature.

A novel can be viewed as an experiment: put characters in a controlled setting of your design, and then see what happens. This is the best tool we have for this.
Are Hugo really substantially better than say pelican or Nikola or all the other 'established' SSG?
Can a 3-4yo kid learn basic dev skills using trains?
No man's an island. What some post online is nothing but free-wheeling, disconnected from feedback.
Models shift blame for Neanderthal extinction away from modern humans
This REPL is a great quality of life improvement over the default one. I love how fast it is in giving suggestions, and how well the UI is though of.

I find it interesting how the autocomplete and autosuggestion perform much better in ptpython compared to VS code. Especially the autocompletion is not very reliable in VS Code, as sometimes it just stops working for method calls or function signatures.
What's stopping the NSA from inserting a backdoor to recognize it's running kernel randomness code and change the results too? If you don't trust your CPU, you can't trust anything it does. Expecting the backdoor to show up in one solely instruction is hopelessly naive.
New Hope for Migraine Sufferers
The problem is that no one agrees what the facts are.

And each faction is sure that the other group is poorly informed and/or stupid.
Way to ditch bad habits: what science can teach us
Visiting a zero carbon data center
The cost of a bad date is low. The cost of a bad hire is high.
Killed in a Title 10 area in Iraq
New Clues to Origin of Life on Earth from Meteorite Discovery
> Then, users will slowly stop their BCH full nodes because it becomes a bother to keep them online.

Why do you assume BTC/LN will improve scalability properties but not BCH? On-chain capacity can be optimized over time without increasing the average cost for running a node.
Yes this is where I got blocked on this too. I like using the WP Android app to upload photos when travelling. Obviously a static site by its very nature cannot interact with a phone app, so this seems like a difficult/intractable problem.
If climate change is your worry, then you probably shouldn't have children and grand children, as overpopulation is the single greatest cause of climate change.
This is a strawman. Why are you talking about public infrastructure in a submission about privately owned vehicles that are exclusively used on privately owned land that has no paved roads or any significant traffic?
Grades is what will get you into university.
An implementation that is not good by itself. Not least because on some AMD cpus the CPU takes the XKCD approach [1] [2].

[1] https://www.xkcd.com/221/
[2] https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2019/10/how-a-months-old-amd...
I used VisualAge's Envy for 3 years while working in a Smalltalk project.

Envy does versioning of classes and methods, and you can programmatically access to the model.

It allowed us to build tools around the VCS. For example, we had tools to merge multiple feature branches and resolve conflicts automatically.
We also used the same tools to produce migration scripts for our database (GemStone).
That was 18yrs ago! and today sounds irreal.

You can build tools on top of git, but the versioning “unit” gets in the way. (e.g imagine the possibility to encode refactorings in your change history and reapply or rollback them).

I’m not trying to criticize git. I think it is the best file based DVCS. My point is that many dev tools that we use today are extremely rudimentary, because the lack of good abstractions. And I don’t think that git provides a good model to build those abstractions on top of it.
I also took issue with that line as it reminded me of a quote from Orwell: "Writing a book is a horrible, exhausting struggle, like a long bout with some painful illness. One would never undertake such a thing if one were not driven on by some demon whom one can neither resist nor understand."
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Such an experience is very atypical, regardless of rural or urban setting. Poor rural communities are just as likely as urban communities (if not more likely) to have issues with substance abuse, violence and family harm. Poverty tends to take your childhood away from you, but good parents can overcome that and bring some reasonable level of stability to the home. But this is absolutely not the norm in poor communities. It sounds like you grew up with two parents, who weren’t neglectful? Well that essentially puts you amongst an elite group in a poor community. Most poor children don’t have two parents, and don’t have any reasonable level of stability at home. If your parents also managed to avoid abusing you, or exposing you at a harmful level of substance abuse, then you would have most certainly had a better childhood experience than the majority of your socio-economic peers.
How to prepare your Input – Andrew S Tanenbaum [pdf]
I agree that such feature would be valuable, but I also have a counterpoint to answer the 'why not'

A difference between a commit message and a code comment/thread is that a commit message is more authoritative.
Definitely a good read, especially if you're hungry.
Sin, Secret, Series A
After digging a bit into machine learning i feel like there is a tendency to be fancy with terminology. For example, do we really need to use the obscure term ’stochastic’ when ’random’ exists?
To add to pritambaral comments.

The top commercial high performance timeseries databases, which ClickHouse can usually best, used by banks to make decisions on your money also don't use fsync. You can literally quit the software and watch your transaction data be written out 5 seconds later.

Edit: a word
Thank you for explaining how censorship works; I hope you're not one of these cypherpunks who whine when censored. ;)
Anyone looking for a static blog but that wants a decent interface for editing, check out forestry.io. once setup, it commits to GitHub for you, your user is none the wiser. If the service ever goes away, you still have your blog in GitHub. And you can deploy anywhere (s3, netlify, etc). I use this setup for my non technical wife.
What I want is Impossible Steak wrapped in Impossible Bacon for half the cost of the real thing. The company that can give me that will have me as a customer.
I work on a registrar and I think the registries are much to blame here. Sure, the registrars should definitely improve their UIs to allow for better control over what is displayed in the whois information but since every registry have their own set of weird rules for domain contact details it is unnecessarily hard for us.

And I wish every registry was as sensible as .se and cared as much about the privacy of domain owners as .se does.
> Land ownership is a social construct

It's a legal construct. Just like the country is.
The website does say "never tested on a touchscreen."
Modular iOS Architecture at Just Eat
Like a huge afterburner that is a dead weight after 3 seconds...
But you have to go through college to do a PhD so I guess they are correlated.
Bitcoin Price Prediction 2020
Now in my 30s with a wife and kid I don't expect to move for 10+ years. The only way to achieve that is buying a house. Which, in SV, means plunking down 3-4 million.

I think you're pretty deep in the bubble or you have really extreme tastes. I have tons of friends in their 30s with kids in SV and NYC. Almost all of them are renters. The actual financial calculation for renting vs. buying in these markets is brutal. You need to stay for 10-20 years for buying to start to make sense.

Also, you don't need $3-4mm in either of these markets to buy a place suitable for two adults and a child. There are plenty of 2 bedrooms for a third of that.
The author seems adamant that blog.domain.com is a worse setup than domain.com/blog - I've seen this argument go back and forth a lot, with both sides claiming advantages and disadvantages.

I am interested to hear the consensus from HN users as to which is better, and why.
Back in the Hospital Again
> There was always food, 2 parents, a roof over my head, education. I had so much luck [...] This guy had none of that, [...] His friends had got him addicted to heroin and then sold it to him, for example.

I dunno. I mean, one could have everything you cited and still let his friends get him addicted. And there's people having no chance at all while still staying far from drugs. A personal and non-learnt-by-example inclination to self-preservation and survival may be a bigger factor than sheer luck (IMHO).
Here are some niche but interesting SaaS companies - https://www.vistaequitypartners.com/companies/

Of the list, I find
QuickBase as interesting
Dark matter is definitely not a rounding error [0]. There are multiple evidence for strong gravity effects where we just don't see the required matter the explain the observed phenomenons [1][2]

[0] https://www.forbes.com/sites/briankoberlein/2016/09/23/rotat...

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bullet_Cluster#Significance_to...

[2] http://cosmology.berkeley.edu/Education/CosmologyEssays/Grav...

Briefly, dark matter is very real, it's our knowledge that is dark.
And, greetings again.

=============== @DrCraigWright ===============

Really... What well known address. Not one is PKI'd. There are addresses I have asserted are, ones that others have stated. There is nothing that proves it beyond reasonable doubt. Or, do people just assume as I created it that I must be the only miner? That may be, but it is not more than circumstantial evidence and is a long way from proof.

Signing with a pseudonymous key is no proof. We all know that you want to use the _Dread Pirate Roberts_ defense - I was only just handed these keys... But that will never be. It does not matter at all what you say. You shall learn just how far gone you are this year and just how many people see you as the fool.

Enjoy failure... It has been your life and it shall remain so.
That’s a ridiculous and stupid argument. Do you really believe that or are you just triggered because your believes are challenged?
Exposes an API and lets you use it dynamically but (huge but) doesn't let you modify the entirety of Unreal Engine itself dynamically at runtime.
Heh. It's funny, because your post reads like a parody, but I don't doubt at all that it's true; I stopped having to use that 'skill' at around age 22 or so, I can easily see how people born middle class wouldn't understand.

Having said that, the amusing bit is more that $20 is an absolute shedload of money. Less than ten years ago I would spend approximately that on a week's worth of food.

Eating out is a rich man's game.
Cogent does not own the underlying cables. They buy transport from companies like zayo, CenturyLink/level3.
“you can't be safe from all attacks” doesn't means you should not attempt to protect yourself from the obvious ones.
Try finding 5:4 monitors
Weird Keyboards, Programmable Keyboards
Hasn't John Oliver done an item about this a few years ago?
I do think there's some value in being able to tersely express your exact point to a peer.

For example "a random process" could mean "any process in existence" whereas "a stochastic process" clearly states stochastic as being a property of the process.

I however agree that things can sometimes get a bit wrapped up in sounding cool just to sound cool.
A friend of mine who was visibly successful in his business told me he got to the point where he would say no to every proposal. Something he thought would be a benefit quickly became a burden.
I tried a few about four years back, when I had much less web dev experience than I do today (not a professional developer). I found Jekyll to be the easiest for me. Just powerful enough to make pretty much any static site I could think of, but easy enough that even I could do it. Hosting was easy too, at the time I just FTPd everything to my provider, but I now o use rsync.
And opportunities, networking, sometimes ones that are out of your control like family connections, but most importantly maybe: luck.

The survivorship bias is strong at the top.
He who is not contented with what he has, would not be contented with what he would like to have. - Sokrates
> highly competitive markets with low prices are the best

in some cases yes, in others no.
use the right tool for the job
I dislike chuggers as much as the next guy, but it's not as if they know your situation.

It's not like there's an "I have significant disposable income" walk. I mean, there are markers, but then there are people like Mark Cuban that walk around in tracksuits or whatever.

An iPhone or fancy trainers are weird bars to use. At least where I'm from everyone from those on welfare to billionaires have that stuff.
> What I know from personal experience is that poverty makes one care less about the future. And make stupid decisions like voting for the guy who gives out $1 bread, sprays money in the air and ends up stealing $10mil.

What do you mean by personal experience? That you were poor and made the named stupid decisions? Or that you know of poor people who made the named decisions?