skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
yeah, except they don't have to go through the FAA this time >_>. /s

What drove me nuts about the 737 fiasco, is that the military version of a 767 had a similar issue that was easily overridden by just... moving the stick.

https://qz.com/1718506/boeings-737-max-mcas-has-better-desig...

(the military aircraft is based on the 767 which only has rudimentary fly-by-wire for the spoilers along the wing, so everything else is hydraulic like the 737).
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Good post. A point of clarification though: we are seeing (at least in America) the emergence of two orthodoxies/conventions. Which of the two holds more institutional power is up for debate, and of course either side is going to say that the other is the one with all the power.
Pensions, social security, etc. The point is that the "active economy" will shrink beneath what was expected for those systems to function for the number of elderly they will end up having.
" you need a complete lack of labor rights."

What on earth does a lack of labor rights have to do with capitalism?

Labor can be -- and often is -- unprotected in all economic structures. A laborer in a communist state has historically had very few labor protections.
> General IQ is not measured by very specific technical problems.

I do not see data and algorithm interviews as very specific technical problems.

I do not have a computer science background, and have been able to bring myself up to speed to the general level expected without too much hassle.

I don't think I'm particularly special. I just searched and spent some time learning this stuff over a few weekends. If you are serious about a career, I don't really think that this is too much of an ask.
I'd like to see someone making nails from 2m distance.
I tend to agree that, in many cases, more "natural" is more "healthy" but my main caveats would be:

1. "natural" does not automatically mean better. Depends on the context and many other factors.

2. Determining what is "natural" is also contextual based on what timeline you are talking about and what geographic location. To say "paleolithic ways of eating are healthier" is meaningless unless you think that we a. know exactly what they ate back then and b. every human had access to the same foods regardless of where they lives on the planet
> Then let's raise the cost of adding a ton of CO2 to the atmosphere.

cries in Gilets Jaunes.
Related, and still one of pg's best writing imo: "What you can't say" - http://paulgraham.com/say.html

This one, in additional with the previous essay about 2 different kind of centrists really make me curious of what unorthodox opinions PG is holding and can't say right now.
"In poorer quality apartments, there might be full windows only along the balcony side of the apartment, their kitchens only lit naturally by dingy light wells."

Housing blocks built with 1, 2, and 3 bedroom flats (apartments) are routinely built with windowless kitchens and bathrooms today. This is regardless of whether the housing blocks are 'architect-designed' or cut from generic layouts.

In modern flats, the kitchen is shoved to the back of the living room away from windows and lacks any natural ventilation. This is sold as 'open plan living'.

Mechanical ventilation has became a crutch for many architects and housebuilders. It lets them lay out unappealing single-aspect apartments (including north-facing flats which should be banned). Single aspect means windows run across only one side of the apartment as opposed to dual-aspect design where windows run across two sides of the flat allowing cross-ventilation.

Modern blocks of flats, including 'architect-designed' ones, show a completely paucity of imagination when it comes to layout.
I need to be more accurate... Most cities look similar (beautiful, neat, European)
> It's a proxy for interviewers to jerk their ego.

Interviewers don't have choice here. Interviewers aren't free to come up with their own method.

So this is not a valid explanation.
Right. Capitalism doesn't "drive" cancel culture any more than it drives other cultural developments of all sorts. People have always sought to take advantage of cultural and political shifts, and this is no different.
Why would anyone do that? I mean what kind of customers are going to install a 2nd app store then buy apps through it? Those app stores are going to be full of shady marginal apps. Without a leavening of 'good' 'trust worthy' apps, what credit card processor is going to handle their transactions?
If you're working on a large scale project you wouldn't be implementing a specific algorithm by yourself anyway. You'd be discussing a specific problem and then discussing the pros and cons of different algorithms that you want to implement and implementing POCs in different algorithms. The interview is just to see if you can think and discuss in terms of algorithms and data structures.
You realize there's probably never been a better time to be alive except for maybe 50 years ago, right? (depending on which part of the world you're in)

Yes life continues to be harsh, brutal and tragic. It always has been and in some ways always will be. But if your kids are doomed to live in merely the 2nd best civilization humanity has ever produced, I don't think they have much to complain about relatively speaking.

The argument you put forth would have us end the species if everyone agreed to it. And I don't agree we should end human existence and squander all our potential in a fit of depressive nihilism anymore then you should sell all your stocks the moment the market goes down for a day.

It's more selfish IMO to make yourself the arbiter of your unborn childrens' future, denying them the chance at a good life just because you want to make it easier on yourself. Not saying you should have kids if you're not ready, but don't use the state of the world as an excuse. All your ancestors are laughing at how spoiled you are.
Ironic given how much flak farmers in 3rd get for any kind of fire use
Thanks for the report
bitwarden_rs solves this.
> The Thwaites glacier is 74,000 square miles, roughly the size of the UK.

> Its collapse would raise global sea levels by more than half a metre on its own

Its size alone is staggering. I'd be interested to find out the scale of the changes we would need to enact to stop it `teetering` over the edge.
"Things you can't say" is interesting because the reason it's dangerous is that a mob might react badly to it. Who is to say that the specific wave washing over social media will hit some people with this orthodox privilege or not?

I think you can mine these things by looking at diverse conversations - including those you don't find online. What sentence would you be afraid might be misinterpreted?
You'll have seen the memes about people wearing a mask and then coughing onto an agar plate.

Here's a study where they did that properly.

It suggests that people should be changing their masks every two hours.

https://www.ijic.info/article/download/10788/7862/

> This study was conducted to check the efficacy of face masks in limiting bacterial dispersal when worn continuously in Operation Theater. A comparison was done to find out difference between fabric and two ply disposable masks. The first sample was collected prior to wearing the mask, using cough plate method holding a blood agar plate approximately 10 -12 centimeters away from the mouth. The personnel were asked to produce “ahh” phonation. Participants were then asked to don the face mask, continue routine work and report to the study center located inside the theater for further sample collections at designated intervals of 30, 60, 90, 120 and 150 minutes after wearing the fabric mask made of cotton. The study was replicated on immediate next day using two ply disposable mask keeping all the other conditions and personnel exactly the same. Bacterial counts before wearing the mask were 5.36±4.38 and 5.7±2.99 on day 1 and day 2 of study. Bacterial counts were 0.96±1.06 (P<0.001) and 0.7±0.87 (P<0.001) at 30 min; 2.33±1.42 (P<0.001) and 2.36±1.03 (P<0.001) at 60 min; 3.23±1.54 (P=0.007) and 4.16±1.78 (P=0.011) at 90 min; 5.63±4.02 (P=0.67) and 4.9±1.98 (P=0.161) at 120 min and 7.03±4.45 (P=0.019) and 5.6±2.21 (P=0.951) at 150min respectively for fabric and two ply disposable mask. Counts were near pre-wear level in about two hours irrespective of the type of mask. There was no significant difference between cotton fabric and two ply disposable masks. Face masks significantly decreased bacterial dispersal initially but became almost ineffective after two hours of use.
Housing costs are up in low price areas. For example, I stayed in Kiev for a month because I can work anywhere. Did the same thing in Vilnius and other low cost cities. Digital nomads and vacationers from countries with high standards of living are pushing up property prices around the world.
Because a certain type uses it as a code-phrase for "smaller cars, condos and fake cheeseburgers". They feel a deep sense of revolt at the affront of that personally, but are smart enough to realize they'll come off like the disgustingly amoral (imho evil) person they are if they complain about it personally. So they project it as a vague "standard of living" across poor/global-south people as a way of concern trolling libs into not taking their truck.
This looks awesome, but I don't understand what this has that airflow, prefect or luigi don't have?
> The only compelling alternative to gRPC I am aware of is capnproto (which is derivative, but in some ways nicer)

I would argue that while Cap'n Proto's serialization is derivative of Protobuf, the RPC protocol is wildly different from gRPC.

> but it has far less eco system maturity and mindshare.

That's certainly true.

(I'm the author of Cap'n Proto.)
I fail to see the problem. Lower population means an age of abundance: high supply, low demand, safe environment, automation, freedom, leisure, invention. Think dark ages, plague, Renaissance. Pensions can either deflate with price level, or governments can inflate with basic income. It’s only bad for an elite class of people that benefits from increasing consumption, but doesn’t pay the social cost of it. And if you pay more than 0.1% of your net worth in taxes, that’s not you. The elites have become brazen in their assumption of our stupidity.
I'm not trying to be anonymous.
>We do have an option to make it more expensive to pollute until we figure that out

I'm saying that option only exists on paper because invoking it in any capacity that actually imposes enough cost to make people reduce polluting by a meaningful amount is going to met with too big a backlash to be sustainable.

>Why do you directly relate carbon taxes to a reduction in living standards??

Because anything that raises cost across all goods and at every step of every supply chain reduces living standards because people will simply be able to afford less goods and services at their new prices. That people will have to do things like turn down the A/C and eat out less in order to make ends meet. Individually those aren't big deals but they have follow on effects, the HVAC guy and the restaurant get less business. Those apply through the entire economy compounding the problem. There are also a lot of people who are going to be pushed over standard of living "cliffs" so to speak. The increased cost will be the difference between living in an air conditioned apartment or not. You apply the former type of changes across the entire economy you'll piss everyone off. You sprinkle in the latter and you've got a regime change on your hands. The only way an across the board standard of living decrease like that is tolerated is when it is overwhelmingly consensual (see WW2 mobilization).

I agree we need to do something but what? It's a real shit situation. Doing nothing is bad. Doing a token "something" doesn't help. Doing something that actually helps is not sustainable. Either climate change has to get worse or solving it has to get cheaper before we as a society can (uncontroversial) justify the level of resource allocation that will be required to make a meaningful difference.
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Cloth masks are mostly about preventing spread. Droplets carry the virus well, so preventing them at the source goes a long way towards reducing overall spread and infection rates.

It's been a common approach to public safety outside of NA for a long time.

It's not perfect and certainly the messaging about it was continually bungled in a way that only a government can bungle.

>This Corona is total Bullshit

The people in hospitals are real people. You can go down to one and see for yourself. I don't think most modern governments are capable and competent enough to fake that.
f-15 is airforce, f/a-18 is primarily navy and suited for their roles.

F-22 is too expensive to use most of the time and we are having a VERY hard time keeping the fleet operational.

F-35 has basically been a giant cluster. But getting better.

The primary role of the F-15EX program is to keep aircraft defense manufacturing viable.

And ultimately:

Although Air Force leaders at the time said that the service would have preferred funds to buy additional fifth generation planes like the F-35, officials now say that buying new F-15s is the quickest path for replacing aging Air National Guard F-15C/Ds that are reaching the end of their service lives.

“The F-15EX is the most affordable and immediate way to refresh the capacity and update the capabilities provided by our aging F-15C/D fleets,” Gen. Mike Holmes, Air Combat Command commander, said in a statement. “The F-15EX is ready to fight as soon as it comes off the line.”

https://www.defensenews.com/air/2020/07/13/heres-how-much-mo...
Theranos Emails Show Knowledge of False Positives, Incorrect HIV Test Results
So how would I go about determining whether a company I want to buy from doesn't do unethical things to avoid tax? It's everywhere and nowhere.

For larger companies it's just a cost/benefit exercise - there are professionals and an industry built around making and executing these decisions. If the rewards are large enough, they'll do it. How can I, as a consumer, work out if Apple is paying the correct tax on the app payment I make in the App Store?

But equally not all tax evasion is on the scale of Apple's. There is plenty going on at the other end of the spectrum. How can I, as a consumer, work out if my local window washers are paying the correct tax on their cash payments?

I would argue it's virtually impossible for a consumer to establish these facts. And that's the way it should be - we ought to be able to rely on specialist agencies to enforce the rules.
Imagine a video showing leader of a country discussing pre-emptive nuclear strike on another nuclear armed country, only that content of the video is not real but an ultra realistic deep fake video?

Not sure how accessible is the Israeli tool used for detection of manipulation in the article.

There is an urgent need gap for accessible tools for detecting deep fake[1](Sorry for the plug, it's my problem validation platform, if your startup has such tool or you know of any open-source tool feel free to comment there).

[1]https://needgap.com/problems/21-deep-fake-video-detection-fa...
Hm. Not sure what a medical researcher is going to do, plunked down in a country without resources or labs or anything, really, they need to be effective.

Its an efficiency argument, that concentrating resources yields more results. Ideally, for everyone. That's not working out so great, but the solution is probably to work on that, and not cripple innovation for spite.
A monopoly is not the same thing as a lack of choice.
cyclic workflows have strange rerun/retry behaviors. Lazy DAGs are implementable with subdags.
Well apparently not, according to the ruling being overturned today by the EU court. They are the legal facts.
I think it will be great once support is broad enough.
It might, ironically, increase the current fashion for framework churn, but at least there will be no single language for developers to derride.

In fact, I wonder how ECMAScript will fare in a post WASM world... I suspect it would still thrive tbh.
Or perhaps people will take to other flexible, expressive languages for UI development. Like Python's niche in computer graphics, or Lua in games and AI research.

I can still see myself using JS in that future.
But not for everything.
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Should [insert retail business here] be in a position to destroy a business by removing a product from their shelves whenever they want?

Why is software special?
Ngl I view this as a straight up feature—anything intransient enough to go in a thread should go to a more persistent area like a forum. Otherwise it gets lost in slack and is extremely difficult to find later. Slack anxiety sucks; email and forums are highly searchable and linkable and there’s no shortage of cheap, open-source software providing this AND they don’t have built-in corporate incentives driving engagement in a chat platform like it’s a good thing in itself (hence why the notification and “unread count” settings are trash).

Like how do you store a thread to find it later—loudly announce the subject in as much detail as possible with a “SUBJECT:” index prefix? Deep link to put in your wiki and hope slack actually honors those links in a year? Is slack search usable yet?
> We clearly need better tax laws to combat this

Just lower your tax rate to match the most competitive jurisdictions, easy.
It's free open source software. Take it or leave it. Fork it if you want. Use an old version if you want. At the end of the day the maintainers (presumably) decided to do this to etcd. They could've rejected the changes but didn't
> too many candidates and not enough positions.
so sad, some of these smart and talented engineers will take the failure personally. The system needs to change, the only way we can progress is to not waste talent like this. We cannot rely on a small set of institutions (Harvard, Oxford, IIT etc) to output a small group of "elite" engineers, surely the world would be better if everybody that wanted to become an engineer had access to "elite" level education. Top companies have one major complaint: not enough engineers.

Bootcamps don't help either, what you want is that "elite" education with a bootcamp price, possibly many bootcamps over time, as skill sets need to adapt and grow.
I had the first impression as you but IIUC they are saying the rep's poor ethics/judgement are enough to make them unemployable and we should all realize and agree or our judgement is also questionable.

E.g. Bob's super smart and gets 10 times the work done as anyone else but he also sexually harasses the secretary and dips into the petty cash drawer at least once a week.

It should be clear we don't want to have Bob as our employee. See Susan Fowler's experience with her boss at Uber who sexually propositioned her repeatedly but HR said they would not remove because he was a high performer...
https://www.susanjfowler.com/blog/2017/2/19/reflecting-on-on...
The author of that article also writes these fascinating articles "Things I won't work with"

https://blogs.sciencemag.org/pipeline/archives/category/thin...
Yes, but that is very different than the sign I posted above. Businesses generally do not have the authority nor capability to judge anyone's medical conditions.
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> I wonder why nobody did any studies on COVID patients asking very simple questions such as "how often did you use a mask in public?".

Because retrospective self-reporting surveys are not useful science.
Whiteboard interviews, in every situation I've seen and heard of, are always performed with someone in the room. As such, an interview where the candidate is working alone on the whiteboard is an artificial construct for the purpose of this study.
It doesn't seem to be an Irish tax bill, it's a EU tax bill which Ireland opposes.

One rather curious feature of this case is that if the ruling had gone the other way, and Ireland had been on the losing side, its "punishment" for breaching EU law would have been to receive a large amount of money: taxes the Commission said were owed by Apple.
godzillabrennus probably meant "snuff out". Let's not get hung up on that bit.
Just to be sure we follow, could you name or describe those two orthodoxies?
The indicator in any fuse indicate system draws minuscule current compared with the normal running current of the device (one hundredth the normal operating current or less would not be uncommon). Essentially, if say the power supply capacitors short-circuit and they blow the fuse then the residual current through the indicator and its current limiting resistor is so low that no additional damage will result. Incidentally, the current limiting resistor and indicator are power rated for short circuit conditions (i.e.: I^2R rating of the indicator and its limiting resistor are such as to maintain the indicator working indefinitely).

extrapickles is correct, and he's right about spring-loaded fuses in old telco gear. Moreover, there are many other systems for indicating faults depending on the type of fault. The issue here is that they don't indicate a fault until one actually occurs—by default they're 'off' until a fault appears.
Why I quit Brave to go to Firefox
already happened, and it wasn't even a fake:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/We_begin_bombing_in_five_minut...
Hard to imagine that we went from a total lockdown 1 month ago to suddenly racial wars/ BLM the next month. Absolute clown world. Toxicity of this has already spreaded all over the world, people advocating for the same crap. Corona! BLM! Masks! Vaccines!
> I wonder how quickly Apple would start to restrict APIs so that certain apps can't even be written, making it moot whether the app is available from other app stores or not.

There's precedent against this in US v. Microsoft Corp.
Every time I get the flu shot it feels like someone punched me hard on the shoulder where it was administered for a couple days, and I feel generally unwell (but not 'bad' per-se).

But the alternative is I could end up in the ICU with pneumonia without it (and have, in the past, from the flu), so the risk/annoyance is worth it.
> Perhaps the solution is to appeal to politeness. If someone says they can hear a high-pitched noise that you can't, it's only polite to take them at their word, instead of demanding evidence that's impossible to produce, or simply denying that they hear anything. Imagine how rude that would seem.

Alright then! Can we apply this to the Master/Slave and Blacklist/Whitelist debates, and to the use of the "Lena" image?

Edit: guess not :(
Time. I saw the HP Envy on Linus' Tech-tips review and the battery life on AMD CPUs is ridiculous. 14 hours on battery. For most people, you might be able to bring your laptop to work WITHOUT a power brick.

I'm personally not a fan of HP laptops, but i'm looking forward to AMD CPUs on thinkpad and Dell XPS laptops. There is no way there isn't going to be a X1 type laptop with an AMD CPU. Lenovo can't leave that kind of battery performance on the table without losing market share to Dell and HP.
Wow, this is slick. I'm sure there's a lot of work to be done, but how far along is cross-signing at this point?
Probably largely the same everybody else is holding.
The power of that article for me, and what makes it interesting, is he never says what it is he can't say. It lets the reader imagine all sorts of possibilities in their mind, and determine what outrages themselves.
Why should only the financially desperate be asked to sacrifice for their species? What a repugnant stance you've adopted.
There’s already CWL, which isn’t that successful.
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> meaning that conservative unsuccessful people will out-breed them

So will conservative, successful people. It'll be fine.