skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Can confirm from first-hand experience: I worked for NASA for about 15 years (1988-2003) so I got to see how the aerospace sausage is made. Everything you say rings very true to me. It's actually kind of amazing to me that there aren't more problems like the 737-max. Even in my day there were strong dis-incentives for anyone to raise a red flag when they saw corners being cut or decisions being made for political rather than technical reasons (which happened a lot). That's ultimately why I quit: I was faced with a very stark choice between doing what I thought was the Right Thing and torpedoing my career, or keeping my very cushy and vert well-paid job and becoming part of the problem. Apply that incentive structure to a few hundred thousand employees and the result is MCAS.
it was grand standing trying to curry favor from the outrage brigades on twitter and other sites which have turned into nothing but means to intimidate and humiliate.

they were more than willing to put their own employees at risk and their customers to score political points while they can safely hide in their headquarters any never experience the issue first hand.

this is no different than government officials in city hall pontificating to the rest how the rest need to accept homeless and more all the while protected in buildings with metal detectors and guards and security patrols for most of the higher ups.
There are a few advantages. You can allow access to most non-customers but refuse heavily intoxicated people.

The McDonalds near me sometimes has to call an ambulance due to an overdose or medical distress in the bathroom. If there was no access control, it would be less likely to notice someone not leaving the bathroom in a timely fashion. A bathroom OD isn't great for business, but a dead body is worse.
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> The source, the entire cause of this mess, was to have the 737 MAX not be a new type. If the "fix" is to not do that, then the 737 MAX is not fixable because it loses the entire reason for its existence.

There are a ton of existing 737 MAX, and Boeing's production lines are all geared up to produce more. The MCAS etc are there so that it could be called a 737, but the "entire reason for its existence" was to mount larger more fuel-efficient engines.
What's supposed to happen is that you explore why some people think it's a low point task and others think it's a high point task.

Typically you'll either find some rats nest of complexity that the low-pointers hadn't thought about/didn't know about: result? Go with the high estimate and the low pointers learn something. Or, you'll find that the high-pointer assumed something was in-scope that isn't: result? Go with the lower estimate and tighten up the story spec with some non-goals and maybe a link to pre-existing done-work.

I've seen the version you describe, but only in dysfunctional companies. There's no helping those people but Scrum isn't the problem per se.
Probably because everyone who dies of something resembling pneumonia is tested. In the first few days when they were hoping to track every infected case, they were testing everyone who was in contact with sick people, but at this point asymptomatic cases aren't tested anymore, there just isn't enough capacity. As tests are reserved to sicker and sicker people, fatality rate increases.

Anyway other countries such as Switzerland, Sweden or France aren't that behind in terms of cases per million people (Iceland was even ahead of Italy as of yesterday), perhaps 10 days or so. I don't feel like my region is particularly unlucky.
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It could be a matter of funding, preparedness, and scale. Northshore seems to be aware of the things you mentioned and are trying to address them. They sent out a survey to asses the scale of the need.

* they've offered childcare for those who need it

* they specifically called out children who rely on meals and have offered to fulfill them

* they've offered to check out school equipment (and training?)

* they've also offered extra assistance for kids in special needs programs that need extra attention

I don't know about Seattle Public SD, but Northshore said they had a 20% absence rate before closing the district. 15% of their staff fell into high risk groups (over 60, pregnant, etc) and that's outside of people being extra cautious when they see symptoms. Realizing that it's not just teaching staff, but janitorial, bus drivers, administration, lunch staff and others makes me think it would be difficult to continue operating normally.

Thankfully, my kid is still young and his childcare doesn't plan to close. My wife is working from home, but would not be able to do anything with a young kid running around. The lesson plan sent from school seems like a huge time suck for parents. The teachers seem to be going above and beyond. They prepared individual physical packets for lesson materials, pre-recorded circle time, and are setting up and reaching out via these new platforms. I'm still not quite sure how a "school day" will look at home. He's in a preschool program, and they've let us know home participation is optional.
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Anecdotally, the Starbucks at the very center of downtown Austin usually has a couple of homeless people in it. They'll come in, use the bathroom, get some AC, maybe even take a nap in a chair. The baristas happily refill their cups with clean water.

As a customer, there's sometimes a smell, and you tend to sit where you can keep an eye out (since you never know the mental state of people in that situation), but I've never witnessed any real problems.

Honestly, it's heartwarming. It's dystopian, of course, that the provision of basic needs like these falls to a private coffee chain, but regardless of that I admire what they're doing (even though it's probably PR-driven, if we're being honest). It's not unpleasant enough for me as a customer that I'd refuse to go to that location (or even walk half a dozen blocks to the next one).
Homeless people really need public bathrooms! Showers would be great, too. So far, even west coast cities haven't really begun to attempt to build public bathroom infrastructure at any scale (AFAIK). Not in Seattle, anyway.

Here, there are public parks, but often those bathrooms (and drinking fountains) are closed in the winter.
I didn't realize you can paste in entire genomes. That makes for impressively large search strings.
They can also fail at maximizing profits with an idea that was indistinguishable from empathy.

Which therefore fits the term altruistic, whether they intended for this or not, as other businesses have not replicated what Starbucks is doing.

With all these possibilities, alongside a potentially contrived ideal of a founder to actually subsidize public bathrooms for all, doesn't that mean it is useless to debate and just accept the reality at face value of "they are providing a service and its nice"
Sympathy is when you feel the same as someone else is feeling. Empathy is when you only understand how someone else is feeling. Corporate Starbucks people would be empathic but not sympathetic - they have access to the bathrooms anyway.
The app (Signal) works just fine on my Android even when I kill Google Play Services, firewall-block then, disallow them from "touching" anything. The only annoying thing is that all alerts/notifications pass via GooPlaServices.. and tyiu won't "see" the new messages u less you fire up the Signal (or any other) application.
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> that has nothing to do with the risk itself being there for everyone

Your words there are clear, and correct.

> it has nothing to do with race.

Your claim there was unclear (what is "it"?) but appeared to be making far too broad a claim.

If "it" is "the degree of worry that you might be falsely convicted", then you're simply wrong: race is a very significant factor in that degree of worry, at least in the USA.

I guess you believe that the baseline degree of worry for white people and black/latino people alike is so unacceptably high that the additional worry attributable to race is irrelevant. To be blunt, I think that is both unsympathetic and neurotic, and I think you might want to consider whether you really have enough knowledge of what life is like for black people in US cities. I am no expert there either, but I err on the side of believing them when they say that there is a non-negligible component of worry attributable to race.
That would be a huge step forward, and would make me seriously reconsider Signal.
I know this would create the identification problem in contexts where one actually wants to give proof of his/hers identity by pairing the client to a personal piece of hardware, but I believe/hope there are better ways to accomplish this without tying the account to a phone number (==cellphone).
Also, old netbooks can be purchased literally for the cost of a pizza at flea markets, and they're much much better platforms for building secure communications terminals; a lot more reliable and trustworthy than cellphones and tablets with their closed operating systems.
I've had good luck minimizing the amount of time spent on sites like Reddit, facebook, and HN. All of these provide a quick endorpine hit and become addictive. As a replacement I spend more time on long format project that require longer trains of thought. Read novels, start project that take longer than a few hours, try a hobby like painting or pick up a musical instrument.

Don't let your brain become dependant on the quick fix.
Can somebody please explain why Rust has so much buzz right now compared to scala?

Scala is a strongly typed, very-well vetted, functional programming language in the JVM. It pretty much has everything going for it. It's even adopted by twitter.
How is everyone's Nestle boycott going btw? Our household has kept most nestle products out for the last several years, but its hard because they own so many brands that we just don't realize sometimes.

An example for background (incomplete list of stuff they do):
https://www.zmescience.com/science/nestle-company-pollution-...
FWIW My outside “office” is a local McDonald’s and I far prefer it to Starbucks. Much less noisy and crowded. If you’re on a budget you can just buy a soft drink for $1 or go crazy and spend $1.19 on a cheeseburger as well.
For most scenarios where estimates are asked of development, there's usually an alternative approach that will yield better results.

Cost-benefit analysis scenario:

Request: We need to know how long it will take to build X so we can decide if we want to build it.

Response: What is the maximum amount of time to build X, such that if it took any longer, you wouldn't have us build it?

Rationale: Estimating whether a project will be over/under a time given frame is more likely to be accurate than estimating a specific span of time.

Dependencies scenario:

Request: We need to know how long it will take to build X because marketing needs to know when to start preparing.

Response: What is the amount of time marketing needs to prepare?

Rationale: Estimating that development is some amount of time away from completing is more likely to be accurate than estimating the entire project.

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Underlying most arguments for estimates from development is an unwillingness by those doing the asking to do their own estimation.
Please note - Most Linux laptops are being throttled due to low cTDP bug. It impacts almost all new laptops, including Lenovo.

You can read more about this -> https://forums.lenovo.com/t5/Other-Linux-Discussions/X1C6-T4...

If you are planning to buy Lenovo, go for higher end (T/P series models) as Lenovo will provide Bios updates to resolve this issue.
Branches break dependency chains. So, correctly predicted branches enable more instruction-scheduling parallelism, essentially running multiple loop iterations in parallel. So, reasoning about this is very uncertain. You have to measure both ways and see.
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> Good way to get your CV dropped in the bin or vice verse to have people ignore or even (put on a do not call list) a potential employer.

Well those people would be missing out because some of the most talented scientists write 'codes'.
> why would they in planed economy?

I hope this pun doesn't fly over everyone's heads
I'll be surprised if you can get lag free + high resolution for connections bad enough that it's an issue on TeamViewer. However you could try Parsec. It's a cloud gaming solution first and foremost, but maybe that might help you.
They are going the McDonald's route and trying to be a community hub. I.e. when everything else is gone, they (and McDonald's) will be the only place left to go.
Are you aware of any other forums with high quality discussion? The quality of discussion here can be found occasionally in a few subreddits but they are even more niche and users have less decorum overall.
Runs super slow for me.
> The ?good? news though is that Heroku is really slow

Did you do any measurements and if so, on which dyno types? We found that using Performance-M dynos' gives us a rather large performance boost. Performance-m dyno's are also more stable because they run on dedicatd hardware. They're expensive, but we don't run any apps in production without it.

One thing that worked really well for us is to just put Cloudflare or Cloudfront in front of our app. As I mentioned, we don't do any full-page caching. We cache pretty much everything else, but pages themselves have zero caching (business requirement). I believe Cloudflare and Cloudfront also do edge TLS.

> Read replicas are a good idea, we'd actually like to try that out at some point. It seems pretty doable to put something like pgbounce/pgpool in front of a read replica and let it handle routing write transactions properly.

This is going to be tricky. We weren't able to set up replication from Heroku Postgres databases to hosts outside of Heroku. Another thing to keep in mind that is it might be better to let the app decide what is a read query and what is a write query. We have some parts of the app that we need reading directly from the master, so we let the app handle it. The app receives two database URI's, both pointing to pgbouncer.
This is going to be brutal on working low income parents and their children.

It seems no matter what happens there's always some justification for why poor people end up being the collateral damage.'Prevent the virus no matter what' is a position that's much easier for a well off software engineer (who can work from home and pay for childcare) to hold than for a single mother who gets paid by the hour on a zero hours contract. Many people would prefer to take their chances on the mortality rate than suffer through the measures intended to bring it down.
i think using an emulated serial connection or similar driver interface could be part of a solution to this.
So we didn't do this back in the day of ICQ? Or any IRC/telnet chats? Or emails?
Shared folder on whatever platform, not worth debating over very long.

We use GSuite because that's what we have.

If an investor gets in a tissy about it, maybe rethink working with that investor
My read on the situation is that the analogy for computer viruses holds if, in the process of getting and removing the virus, it creates lots of little memory leaks.

They don’t kill you, rarely do they help you, the rest of the time they are just a very subtle drag on an important resource. At some point when we understand these systems much much better, we might go so far as to try to surgically remove them, but we can’t be absolutely sure there are no consequences.

Turns out the rebooting (ie children) fixes the problem sometimes, but nowhere near all the time.
The exported F-35 should be treated as leased aircraft. Owned by the bank but you're paying for it.
> They made it rely on only one sensor. I can't imagine the logic for that since two sensors are physically present, and damage to AOA sensors is not rare.

The logic for that is really simple: each sensor is wired to one of the two computers. Each computer uses its own sensor. This was an already existing design, MCAS is just a new function added to these computers.

(AFAIK, other aircraft like Airbus have multiple sensors wired to each computer, so for them it would be natural to use more than one sensor.)
It was a terrible controlled experiment. Mostly older people go on cruise ships. We learned about one demographic only from that sample.

The disease is harsh, kills too many in alarming ways (lung cascade reaction) and leaves survivors with lifelong debilitating damage.

This is not like normal flu, and not a thing to be dismissed nor marginalized.
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I thought this was going to be about the opposite: a study on the use of psychedelics to treat patients with PTSD caused by sexual abuse. Too bad.
2009 H1N1 Pandemic
This is exactly how Google maps knows traffic conditions.
I disagree, when you’ve got 4 kids and both arms full of groceries, when the doors open automatically or even unlock on their own it’s a godsend. I’d even say it’s probably saved some lives as the kids race to get in and out of the parking lot instead of waiting on me to shuffle around for the keys, dropping bags in the process, and then chasing each other around in blind traffic.
I'm 57. I was a manager for many years, but kept my tech chops up by doing side projects in the open-source world for a long time. Some of those projects have become pretty intense and big.

Nowadays, I'm working on becoming one of the best Swift programmers around. It's progressing. I'm fairly good at picking up on things, and I've been programming Swift with release-level code since the day it was announced (not 100-line Stack Overflow answer code. Full-fat App Store release code).

My latest learning gig is Bluetooth. I've already written a pretty powerful OBD driver (still has more to go, but it already beats a lot of what's out there. Did I mention that I'm not bad at this stuff?). I've taken a break from that in order to write up an open series on implementing Core Bluetooth as a cross-platform (Apple Platforms) SDK.

But, according to a lot of folks, I just need to walk out into the desert to die.
JVM, garbage collected, doesn't have zero overhead abstractions.

Might as well ask why Scala didn't take over from C++.
If I remember correctly, Signal can do push notifications without Google Play Services (using websockets), but it will only do it if Play Services are not present on your device. So by blocking them but leaving them installed, you've put yourself into the very small category where notifications will not work.
Don't expect it to blocked under our current president. Bolsonaro is basically a Bazilian Trump.
If you doomsay about everything that could possibly cause a crisis, you may eventually be right about one of them causing a crisis. Does it make their articles in 2018 about how the economy has about to collapse more accurate?
Sucks to be poor, almost by definition. This isn't some special harm directed at the poor; its a normal result of being poor.

Not to say anybody deserves to be poor; save the rhetoric on that. Just that its not some made-up justification; its an expected result just like physics.

We can be comforted by the fact that the poor are protected by these measures exactly as much as the wealthy (and everybody in between) - they live.
>When the dollar collapses after the Fed cuts rates, the interest rate will rise very high.

As long as the dollar denominated debt outstanding continues to dwarf the amount of dollars in circulation (claims on future dollars far exceeds the amount of dollars that exist), I don't see the dollar collapsing. Interest rates can also rise due to credit risk. Fake interest rates set by FRBNY cant fix credit risk, they cant make corporations/goverments with severely stressed/ no cash-flow solvent.

> The government will be forced to cut spending

This is the usually the opposite that happens during credit busts, they increase deficits. If you doubt a governments ability to generate cashflow, then one should worry.

> and there will be no bailouts this time.

For whom? Some banks merely have to go to the discount window and keep rolling over their loan with any illiquid asset they have as collateral with FRBNY, JPM is doing this now[0].
A few other banks[1] can go to the FRBNY repo market for either a daily/term bailout with their rehypothicated UST/MBS collateral at fake interest rates.

I'd be more worried about the corporates (and the assets they may be holding that will have to get liquidated) who were engaging in bank like activities without the access to these facilities.

[0] https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-02-25/jpmorgan-...

[1] https://www.newyorkfed.org/markets/primarydealers
> In continental Europe, the "loser pays" principle seems to hold quite well, while also having the benefit of discouraging people from frivolous lawsuits.

You'd think the people who came up with it had never played Scrabble, where you lose a turn for a false dictionary challenge.
Are we going to pretend a significant part of top percentile software engineers don't work on advertising or in service of it ?
here is where you can find genbank

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/genbank/
What stacks have you used before MERN, and how did the developer experience for MERN compare to those other tools?
To be fair, the auction model doesn't seem to work well when it comes to spectrum. What you end up with is a few big players delivering awful service while having enough money to outbid anyone, essentially preventing any competitor from ever breaking into the market to provide better service.
What would a 4 day work week mean to a developer
I've done scrum for years and have very rarely had a manager involved in any of those processes, and I have certainly never had senior management involved.

Those processes exist for the benefit of the team and for the team to 'run' itself. There is no reason for management to be there. Stop doing that.
> This decline cannot be calculated from Starbucks’ public disclosures, which lack the comparison group of other coffee shops.

What about SecondMeasure and other credit card tools used for market share?
It's surprising how many companies out there are selling similar datasets.
Or maybe they felt empathy for the homeless and determined there was actually little risk to their employees? What’s the simpler reason?
The guide.

Also, like, most of their examples ignore this data resource. That specific data resource, with terraform 0.12 makes building IAMs so much nicer, because you can mash a bunch of common ones together with for_each and generate policies in a dynamic way without having to learn dynamic IAM stuff, which is it's own thing entirely.
It's what I do, and it's a huge inconvenience.

Instead, I recommend getting a smartphone known not to have dedicated spying hardware, replacing the OS with Lineage OS, installing F-Droid and microG (and perhaps Yalp, but only install apps from it if you really really need them) and then keeping it usually switched off (unless you need it on).
To be honest, I used to frequent a few forums that were high quality because of the established community. RLLMUK was my old go-to for gaming chat and, at least back then, was frequented by gaming/games journalism industry insiders too. It was fantastic and most of the people I chatted with back then found careers as journos and game devs.

That was back in the early 2000s where if people wanted to protest against a forum's new policy, or a decline in quality, they'd just boot up a fresh instance of phpBB and essentially 'fork' the community. I don't know anyone back then who hadn't had experience setting up and modding a phpBB board, or dealing with vBulletin and Invision Power Board. I kind of miss that because now we just have various SaaS that run managed communities through apps...

There are likely plenty out there, but you're probably looking at niche forums that require some time and investment to become a part of. HN is one of those. Reddit will only offer you so much.