skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The MAX is a case of the actual aircraft manufacturer explicitly compromising the design of a safety feature because they knew it would help them sell more planes

The error was not in the concept of the MAX nor the concept of the MCAS. The problem was twofold:

1. MCAS should have used inputs from both AOA sensors, rather than just one. MCAS had too much authority over the travel, and it should have deactivated itself if the pilots repeatedly countermanded it.

2. The pilots were not trained properly in emergency procedures with the stab trim. Boeing put out an Emergency Airworthiness Directive after the first crash with explicit instructions on how to deal with it, but the EA pilots did not follow those instructions.

https://theaircurrent.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/B737-MA...
Seems pretty unnecessary, cotton wool does a good job on its own from my childhood playing with a magnifying glass.

Perhaps this is a tradition that started in the early film era, and just carried on?
Did you drive 6 hours to a different city and wear a costume to buy the burner?
Seems like this could be an interesting article but all I get at that link is the infinite spinner. How come does an article about surveillance require JavaScript to be enabled? JavaScript is one of the key enablers of surveillance.
In our team at our university we evaluated all of the common products in March and Zoom offered the best features, reliability, and ease of use.

What other software allows a large number of people to meet, has good audio and image quality even when many people are connected, has easy switching between fullscreen, windowed mode and screen sharing, allows you to re-arrange the participant videos on screen, allows you to share documents by drag & drop, allows you to raise a hand in the participant list, is easy to install and works on all platforms, allows connecting via an ID/link and an optional password, allows the presenter to see all participants while sharing the screen, allows the host to mute participants, has good auto-feedback suppression, and allows the host to transfer host authority to any other user and to optionally control who is entering?

All of these features are essential for us. Is there something else that has all these features?
Could it be that most transmissions happen with family and not shopping simply because the majority wears masks?

In countries with actually working contact tracing you have regular cases from restaurants and doctor offices. For example
Yes, they do execute pretty well on a lot of things, granted.

However, I've had no trouble ordering things from many on-line stores/distributors which aren't Amazon and don't use Amazon. So that isn't an Amazon thing per se.
Is there any way to see how this works without signing up?
Colours Can Compute
Apple is ten times better at planning future generation hardware than all other counter part, I believe they are already planning for much bigger M2 M3 chips. I truly think other will have real hard time catching up with apple on performance front anytime soon or ever.
I can tell you that. At least when we tried it out in early 2020, Google meet was unable to display other participants to the person who shared his screen. Maybe that has changed by now (or we didn't figure out how to do it) but it was the decisive factor for us then.

Imagine talking to your own slides for 2 hours without any visual feedback from the audience...
The part about parts spontaneously forming a bicycle is a nice soundbite, but reverse transcriptase (an enzyme) is used by RNA viruses to do just that.
It can't though. Books, printing presses, etc. are all forms of technology. Good content can't as easily propagate and proliferate without the infrastructure created by the tooling that supports the activity. You might be inclined to state that this belabors the point of being specific about modern Web technologies, but still - the medium is the message. They are still linked even if the underlying technologies change.
It's probably not worth continuing here, seeing that you're already pretty hostile.
But I definitely try to minimize the amount of reading necessary to understand a concept. Ideally, the concept should be such that it's easy to describe in few words (note "words", not "letters". Also, using many words doesn't make you sound smarter, often it's the opposite). Things don't live in a vacuum, there's always a context, and that's important to consider when communicating...
I am an Indian and knows Hindi. I am curious to know how it is offensive or an insult. And among students it may earn some giggles and nothing more. And for South India, which probably has the infrastructure to use a library like this, Hindi isn't even the medium for communication.
Microsoft can't do vertical integration right. It's not a part of their DNA.
Conflating "media" and "content" is the issue here.

Facebook is successful because of content. Google+ failed because there wasn't any content.

Heading tech up against content in some way is also a silly argument. Good tech supports the transmission of content. Bad tech gets in the way. Good content is enabled by good tech.

Ultimately, a web page with some stirring, moving or life changing words on it is going to have more potential impact than all the NerdMagic in the world. But: they're heavily codependent.
This Financial Times article is paywalled, and, moreover, the FT didn't actually do any of the investigative journalism required to show this. Private Eye, however, did, and their report is free online: https://www.private-eye.co.uk/special-reports/justice-lost-i... -- Private Eye was very good at banging the drum for many years and eventually the mainstream media cottoned on and -- following that -- several miscarriages of justice were reversed.

Note that in Britain, following a Tory amendment to the law, you can only get legal aid if you have assets less then £37.5k -- so if you own a home, and are charged (incorrectly!) with criminal proceedings, which you then win, expect to sell it to pay the legal bills. Once you win, you'll get...nothing. No fees. Just a "release the defendant from the dock" and you're good to go. If you get imprisoned, and THEN are found innocent later on, maybe, say, 30 years later (as has happened!) expect to get....nothing. I really recommend "The Secret Barrister" both as a book and a blog. Nobody stands up for funding criminal justice properly -- because what politician wants to support the rights of the accused? -- but it's badly breaking. https://thesecretbarrister.com/2016/02/02/mr-gove-must-now-h...
"from_file", "by_name", etc. are fairly needless here. Most people are apt enough to grasp the first argument relates to the last word of the function name. Use properly named variables so a summary can take care of it, or only omit the noun, "get list of profiles from".

Get itself is a terrible prefix and could be omitted, especially if you keep "from". "list_of_profiles_from(X)" isn't any less clear. Alternatives like "read_list_of_profiles(file)" exist.

"List_of_profiles" can be changed to "profile list". You already did it with "concatenate_profile_lists", showing inconsistency. Alternatively, depending on the context, "list" itself can be omitted entirely, and just state "profiles".

"merge_married_profiles_into_list_of_pairs" can arguably be shorted to "merge_married_profiles" depending on IDE and language: that last bit should be clear from the returned value. Even without, it can still be shortened to "pair_married_profiles", as the context should make it obvious if we look for more than 1 married couple, there will be some kind of collection. Additionally, your naming has one problem: "merge_married_profiles". With all the verbose naming, it is still not clear what "married profile" is. I'll assume it means "pair profiles of married couples", where you might as well say "pair_profiles_of_married_couples".

>Programmers like to think they're smart and original.

It is because they think to be smart and original, they fall into the trap of overly verbose naming. Not from a lack of it. Have you looked at a legacy Java code base? Many of them can be slashed in half just by renaming variables to something that keeps the meaning, or draws meaning from the context very obviously. These guys are going against their own mind's natural ability to read context, or worse, conditioned themselves to learned helplessness.
Which itself is kind of troubling. ut than again, international arrest warrants have been abused for decades.
I only have one computer, my work laptop and I use it for everything.
> Yes, author tells us why he believes it is a very serious problem that people think the show is historically accurate because... the Dothraki are a demeaning stereotype of the armies of Ghenghis Khan. I'm sure they would find it comforting to know they have an advocate in the 21st century

While Genghis Khan is safely dead, the author mentions the impact on actual descendants of steppe people (and plains people), who still exist today and in some parts of the world are subjected to rather unfortunate situations, which negative stereotypes might help fuel.
How, in the new normal, do we ensure that reasoned posts like this and the recent one from the San Mateo Health Officer, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25341289 gain the prominence they deserve so we can avoid hyperbole and hysteria and take sensible steps to solve this type of problem?

Perhaps, software developers, being the reasonable and reasoning people we are need to think long and hard about whether contributing to the destructive patterns in social interaction that we currently experience is the correct course of action and instead consider our long term stature as a profession.

Having said that, it is my fervent wish that the main stream media becomes a permanent casualty of the pandemic. It really serves no useful purpose anymore.
Once again Javascript is ahead of the game, we've had `var` since forever /s
Good content can't propagate as fast without technology, but it can spread far and wide.

The "tech" used in spreading the Iliad and the Ramayana was the spoken word. And yet they spread across countries and cultures.
Because there is zero proof that species will get past the point where they can start moving between the stars. If you're willing to take it as read that every species that is intelligent (or even most of them) will eventually make it to that stage then yes, your other point will hold as well. But that's a huge assumption that may not necessarily turn out to be true.
https://steamcleanerhub.com/reecoo-electric-steam-mops-clean...
This isn't likely to happen.

What they're calling for between the lines is a coordinated hard lockdown along the lines of what happened in China and, to a lesser extent, in several EU countries in March-May.

Actual lockdowns, where you force all social and non essential economic activity to stop (e.g., where people are forced to stay at home unless if they have explicit approval to leave) are effective, but they're deeply unpopular and - what many EU countries failed to do - have to be reimplemented at a local or regional level whenever there is any sign of reoccurrence.

They also require a level of coordination, preparedness, and public trust within and across states that just isn't there.

Instead, you're likely going to see a continuation of varying light to slightly more restrictive mitigation measures until the general population starts getting vaccinated.
So, the fact that everybody has $X per month extra in my pocket every month, and everybody knows everybody else has $X per month in their pocket isn't going to raise prices? Sorry, but I don't believe it.
https://www.itproportal.com/2013/04/09/youtube-does-not-rest...
That's the most level-headed response I've heard yet. Most people just equate my worries to those of an antivaxxer and move on.

These new vaccines have a 90% efficacy. It's probably a no-brainer to give them to someone in their 70s or 80s with a high likelihood of having an adverse covid case. But a 20-year-old?

Out of a purely selfish wish of having a more normal world, part of me wants to suppress these thoughts and think "I'm probably excessively cautious, it's a good thing that the economic pressures will probably ensure that most are vaccinated in a year or two". But I do worry that many healthy people don't have a complete view of the potential for unknown unknowns when they decide to take it.

The selfish part of me is thankful that someone else does the dirty job for ensuring that those thoughts aren's spread wider. I'm really hoping that the authorities know what they're doing, and I'd definitely be lying awake at night if I was in that role.

I probably won't take it myself - there, I said it - but rather wait and get more data, or maybe go as far as seeing when one of the protein-based vaccines are ready.
> ...what you end up with is something that looks a lot like the tax code. Which makes me think we should generally just approach this sort of problem with taxes: provide a basic version for free and raise taxes to pay for it.

Banks loan money, paid back with interest.

Governments spend money, paid back with taxes.

Government spending is really just a loan.

With two big advantages:

Governments can operate on longer time scales.

Governments can exclude rent seeking "share holders" from transactions.
I looked the video and he says that based on vaccine literature, for the past any important vaccine safety signature was clear within two months meaning two months is enough to conclude whether a vaccine is safe or not. However, I think his answer seems a little bit superficial. Isn't the most part of the vaccine literature based on traditional vaccines? Yes I know that mRNA is not that much new but is literature on long term side effects of mRNA vaccines extensive?
I have a PhD. The acquisition of that certification was perhaps the most meaningless thing of my life. Behind my Bachelor's by far. No one was really proud of me, and I only finished it because I have a problem with not finishing things. Finish it if you have it in you, cut it loose if you do not. Dr. means nothing, and no one in the real world will care either way.
You should read this: https://www.propublica.org/article/the-worlds-email-encrypti...

The person maintaining GnuPG went nearly broke because nobody donated to this widely used project. Only because corporations stepped up, GnuPG didn't go unmaintained.

This is a constant issue and hardly anybody can survive on private donations alone. Government grants and corporate donations keep the lights on.
Forescout Labs Releases the Project Memoria TCP/IP Stack Detector
I think "Parsing Techniques" by Grune & Jacobs is the bible when it comes to parsing, it covers all subjects you mentioned and gives a detailed overview of most practical parsing approaches.
It's more than just the value conversation. The best interviewees are relaxed and act like they have other good employment options (and they often do). If you've been laid off and don't know how to make next month's rent, acting like you have better options is both an act and a gamble on your part. It's understandably difficult to pull off.
Microdegree – Full-stack software remotely and pay later
> Music discovery is easy, relying on a streaming service for discovery is lazy.

People are lazy. Automatic discovery works well enough so why bother unless music is something really important in your life?
A simple TTY terminal I/O application
I thought it was so that no one kills the author to end their copyright
For me, doing a postdoc would mean relocating regularly, my wife having to find new jobs with me (a big stress point for her), a huge amount of job insecurity, etc.

By not doing a postdoc, I’ve been able to find a permanent job that pays significantly more, buy a house, and actually start to think about starting a family, which is more important to me.

I think if you’re single and male then it’s OK but it’s not surprising for e.g. that there are underrepresented groups in some fields of science at lectureship level when they basically have to sacrifice any stability in order to get to that position. I grew up quite poor and do not want to get into that position again - and I can’t afford to not have a job gap for 4 months which is the sort of length I’ve seen friends endure while one contract ends and another starts.
For quick 2D sketching of an L-system design
https://inkscape.org/
(Extensions->Render->L-System on menu in Inkscape)
From an older version of Inkscape, but still similar functionality:
https://thebrickinthesky.wordpress.com/2013/03/17/l-systems-...
These are incredibly general statements. Obviously we'd all love it if our infection numbers were lower, so what? If achieving low infection rates would be simple we'd all be doing it, it's just that it's not.

I feel there's also some weird fallacy in this, the authors say infection numbers need to stay low in order to make contact-tracing work. That's what we did all summer, but then all of the sudden, infection rates exploded. Which, to me, sounds like contact-tracing alone doesn't really solve our problem here it's not this magic bullet that once you reach a certain threshold you're good to go. The other thing being masks. I've personally seen very strong adherence to mask-wearing in public throughout Europe in summer and autumn - again that, too, did not prevent this wave from happening. One cannot help but wonder how much those masks really help (especially the cloth types, proper ones probably help better).

I feel many virologists and epidemiologists are trapped in this spring 2020 way of thinking, they focus on masks and lockdowns - instead we need to start focusing more on super-spreader events, centralised quarantines, intelligent mass-antigen testing, technology-facilitated tracing, and active protection of the vulnerable with proper face-masks (Germany distributed them just this week...) and mass-screening.

We've also completely thrown over board many of our learnings from the aids epidemic - you won't defeat aids by banning sex. It just won't work... It's incredibly difficult, expensive and probably impossible in the long-run to control and ban these aspects of human life, just like banning small human gatherings is - we're social beings after all. The only way is public education that builds up individual responsibility (start using condoms, etc.)
I'm occasional listener. I share Spotify subscription with my friend from work. I listen like once a week. It is far less then when I was 20 years old (it was 20 years ago). Then I was listening like
4 hours or more a day (on the way to school and back using my Walkman, at home using my HiFi, radio and cd player and MP3 collection). Today it's more of luxury time, when I'm done running errands, taking care of child, cooking, cleaning, then I can sit down and relax and listen to the sounds of my past to travel to the careless times.
Today we sat to eat morning breakfast, my 4yo daughter, partner and me. I turned on HiFi and connected Spotify with Chromecast to listen to Christmas playlist. During whole breakfast it disconnected rapidly like 10 times. I had enough... Really it is less then pleasurable than putting old CD into player and just forget. Technology ruins good moments, especially for someone like me, and that person likes everything perfect. And I just got annoyed,...
You can turn this off in the settings, it's called Autoplay.
To scroll the screen on the C64 actually involved a non-trivial amount of CPU usage, because the hardware can only shift the screen by up to 7 pixels, so every 8 pixels, one has to manage all of that because the VIC chip can't — this involves offset copying all of the screen RAM, which can be done over previous frames, and same for the colour RAM, except this must be done in realtime (because the colour RAM has fixed location / cannot double buffer). Doing all of this actually takes a significant proportion of available CPU time per frame in C64 games. And that's just for the character-based graphics mode, not the bitmap graphics mode — which you simply have not got a chance in hell at scrolling on the C64, because the VIC offers no assistance here and the CPU is nowhere near fast enough to do it.

Don't even get me started on drawing more than 8 sprites!

(Ex C64 games programmer here)
In SV/NYC, sure. Costs and salaries are different in Europe though.
Why would the Mac mini throttle and not the MacBook Pro? Both have fans, unlike the MacBook Air.
It is not related to OpenSparc. LEON is a SPARCv8 developed initially by ESA and later by swedish company Gaisler Research.
How Shopify Uses WebAssembly Outside of the Browser
Right question. I'm also missing the "Why" from this article.
Peter Saville and New Order’s Colour Code (2011)
The Cirrus Banking Network (1985) [pdf]
Does anyone know what kind of sales revenue this game has generated?

I'm not a gamer but this is the only game I've heard off recently that has not only taken over my news feeds, hn, reddit, youtube and it was also on TV last night. I haven't seen so much media coverage (good or bad) for a game like this before personally.

Is all this bad publicity actually working out for them eventually? I know they are apologizng and everything but at the end of the day it's just a business and so is synonymous with sales.. when the dust settles was it a winner or a loser?
Full Restoration of an old Soviet motorcycle
> Both GTA 5 and RDR 2 have optional first person cameras, in addition to third person.

This is technically true, but these are not cameras that players primarily use, and these are not cameras that art assets and their quality, texture resolutions and LODs are primarily optimised for and benchmarked by.

> They handle streaming pretty much seamlessly, and with no apparent bugs.

Yes. This, I completely agree with. But they are built by a studio that has built and QAed these systems for 20 years (or longer, if you include 2d GTA games). And in game worlds that are significantly less visually complex than Cyberpunk.

Don't misunderstand me. RDR 2 and GTA 5 are fantastic, stunning games. I loved these worlds. But from strictly technical standpoint, Night City has drastically more completely different assets next to each other.
Xkcd: Statistics Tip
But then couldn't one just use ordinary Matrix?
Since you have recently been through this, what were the other available options? There were a couple other rad hard processors under development years ago when I left the industry. Do you know what happened to those?
Indeed. You should be able to read the archived version here:

https://archive.is/ixk9X
One wonders in that case why they didn't put the actuator on the control column, rather than the horizontal stabilizer.
You really shouldn't expect to be able to put up a public website and then get upset when people start connecting to it using a standard, open protocol to retrieve the information you're deliberately exposing to the world.
Remember that Zoom falsify claimed to have E2E encryption that would have prevented it's employee to snoop in on such conversation...
Computing Euclidean Distance on 144 Dimensions
Distribution is King.

Those who control distribution set the price.
A Quirk in the Sunburst DGA Algorithm
As someone who works in AR, the potential downsides of AR worry me.

One the plus side we can make the blind see and the deaf hear. We can keep dementia patients safe, and I can find my fucking keys.

Also AR porn is going to be wild.

However, we really have to interrogate the technology it's self.

Ar needs hyper accurate location to work. This means both SLAM and off device location services.

To make the location services work we need a global database of visual keypoints to allow devices figure out their position to the nearest MM. We are not far away from that now. (google have already launched a service in google maps.)

This means that any picture taken in public, or in view of windows, will leak your location.

What I worry about most is Apps that might be allowed to run on these glasses.

With mm level location services, and onboard acceleration for face detection and recognition, its trivial for an app maker to create a Uber stalking app.