skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The article says:

"The ET302 pilots, however, jumped immediately to the step in the checklist that Boeing emphasized in its bulletin after the Lion Air crash: hitting the cutoff switches to stop MCAS from pushing the jet’s nose down. In their rush to do that, they didn’t first bring the nose back up with the electrical switches and didn’t disengage the autothrottle."

What the bulletin (actually an EMERGENCY AIRWORTHINESS DIRECTIVE) says is:

"Initially, higher control forces may be needed to overcome any stabilizer nose down trim already applied. Electric stabilizer trim can be used to neutralize control column pitch forces before moving the STAB TRIM CUTOUT switches to CUTOUT. Manual stabilizer trim can be used before and after the STAB TRIM CUTOUT switches are moved to CUTOUT."

https://theaircurrent.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/B737-MA...

The pilots simply did not follow the procedure.

Note that this procedure was followed in the first incident of MCAS failure, and the Lion Air airplane recovered and landed safely. (That same airplane crashed on the very next flight with a different crew on it.)
Or use a better method than a cheap camera. Like a radar and microphone like the other more famous project does. Because mosquitos have a distinct frequency of flapping their wings. Meaning you can then actually target the biting type. Because .. 95% of the mosquitos around actually do not sting humans(number from the back of my head from a friends paper some years ago). And killing them all has a quite negative impact on biological diversity.
White House cites 'active threat,' urges action despite Microsoft patch
My first car was a 1991 Civic hatchback. It was not built with a passenger door mirror.
The consulting world likes MECE - mutually exclusive collectively exhaustive.
Another app is worse than another website.
what a poor imagination..
I think there are two different kinds of IT value.

The first: I am a competent employee, who can do what needs to be done (in whatever technology).

The second: I am a forward-thinking planner, who surveys and keeps abreast of options and can identify, test, and deploy appropriate ones.

In my experience, it's the second that's lacking. Aka the "we can only deploy if Microsoft holds our hands through it" shops. Usually 1/2 because of lacking talent and 1/2 because of lacking / incorrect policies.

I've seen, but haven't seen too many, instances of "insert crazy state-of-the-art technology." Usually it's just institutional paralysis that prevents anything from getting done.
> it’s an article from 2017 proclaiming bitcoin is worthless for a payment system

It's clear you didn't even pretend to read it. Or understand all the problems listed. Payments is just a part of the first article. The sequel doesn't even talk about payments.

> it is now 2021 and amount of value exchanged on bitcoin is more than ever.

Amount of value exchanged on bitcoin !== it's useful for payments. Actual payments (you know, for goods and services) are a very, very, very tiny fraction of exchanges.

> Author is clueless and the article is worth nothing.

Ah. So you didn't actually read it. Or you'd try to address the authors' points (or link to an article that addresses his points) like:

- The key feature of a new payment system is the confidence that if the goods aren’t as described you’ll get your money back (bitcoin has none, and is busy reinvents centralized institutions to help with that)

- The government-backed banking system provides FDIC guarantees, reversibility of ACH, identity verification, audit standards, and an investigation system when things go wrong. Bitcoin, by design, has none of these things.

- In terms of micropayments, people enthuse that bitcoin transactions are free and instant. Actually, they take about eight minutes to clear and cost about four cents to process. <- This is now outdated. It's significantly worse now. Median confirmation time is ~10 minutes (and was as high as 25 minutes just a few months ago [1]) and transaction fees ar $13 to $30[2]

^ And that's just payments

The article and its sequel go on to discuss the issues with smart contracts, distributed storage, computing, and messaging, authentity verification and so on.

[1] https://www.blockchain.com/charts/median-confirmation-time

[2] https://www.blockchain.com/charts/fees-usd-per-transaction
Nothing, that's what happens. The fish slime is almost entirely water, with only milligrams of protein in it, which you digest just as though you'd eaten a tiny bit of egg. Koreans eat quite a bit of hagfish. It's just seafood.

Psyllium fiber is an indigestible carbohydrate, usually consumed in quantities thousands of times greater than the amount of protein in fish slime.
If you were to choose someone to lead one of the world's largest charities, would you choose to hire some random guy and train him from scratch or would you choose an expert in public health?

If you were to take some random bozo off the street and put them in charge of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, they would learn a lot about medicine and sanitation and education and so forth. It would also be obviously stupid. Yet that's pretty much the way the current system. Our society hands control over massive amounts of resources to rich people because they made money doing entirely unrelated things.

It's even worse here. William Henry Gates III is rich because of his malicious and illegal actions as the head of Microsoft. He is worse than a random bozo; he's been selected to be powerful because of his bad behavior.

Maybe you think Gates's tenure at Microsoft wasn't completely destructive. I disagree, but whatever. Substitute in your favorite brain-dead celebrity or "job creator". The problem is the same: we hand over control of our institutions to morons because they have money.
An already dead veteran of pair counseling here in Czechia once wrote that of 400 randomly chosen cases of marital infidelity that ended up in his office, 397 started in the workplace.

People spend a lot of time together in the workplace, more than with their family. It is likely that sex will continue to happen there. No doubt some of it is really exploitative; but nowhere nearly all of it.
A cabin or hike without (or poor) cell service where this would provide just enough connectivity to real life.

I like the idea of being able to read the news and maintain comms but can live without live 2-way video.

Also cool to imagine there will be a nano/micro cubesats with a enough gbs in SSDs circling earth every couple hours making that possible.

Could have different levels if priorities to balance supply/demand.
Yes, at 300mm range, it's just a toy, and mounting a 1W laser with a targeting system on a drone is a terrible idea. I can see ways to make this work, though.

You need a good way to tell that you're on target. The way to do that is to use the vision system only as a search radar, to find that there's something to shoot at and approximately where it is. Then point the laser near the target, at low power, and start scanning around the target. Modulate the outgoing beam, so you can see when it's illuminating something. Get range from time of flight. When you find something worth shooting, go to high power and take it out.

This is roughly how radar-controlled anti-aircraft gun systems work.

An ordinary UV lamp with bug zapper will probably be more effective.
Competition from other landlords
You should always try to have your personal website, as it's almost the only internet asset that you can actually own.
ArmorPaint: An open source physically-based texture painting software
Naturally people who are designing these systems believe they're doing the right thing. Despite the overwhelming evidence that messing with touch screens while driving is distracting and dangerous.
Seriously. I suppose Santa’s elves issue drivers licenses.
> I guess you knew what was coming but still

I'm not sure what this is a reference to.

I was pointing out a discrepancy about the accuracy of the article, not the relative safety of power generation methods.
A PC remote controller for YouTube and Twitch using Python
Some? I've never seen anything newer than Windows 7 on a corporate PC. I'm sure they're out there somewhere but none of the companies that I've worked at in the last 9 years has ever had Windows 8 or newer.
Depends on the mosquito I would say.
I used to train martial art skills by catching mosquitos midflight.

Most are indeed very lethargic, but there are some much more agile variants out there.
I would think that in my city, most restaurants would have struggled to survive through lockdown without Deliveroo and similar services.
You have to look at the bottom line. The only benefit of decentralization is cross publisher items. If it's through the same publisher it can be done in a centralized way. Publishers care about their profits. If NFT can increase their profits they will do it, but if someone buys a WoW sword on Etherum and uses it in Destiny (I haven't played either so please don't nitpick that Destiny has no swords).

Why would the publisher behind Destiny care? Blizzard is the one profiting off the items. Each publisher would create their own mutually incompatible smart contract to maximize profits. Companies absolutely hate the existence of secondary markets. They want cash shop items to be tied to accounts so that every player has to rebuy the same items over and over again. It simply won't work except as an easter egg.
> we stumbled across Notify: a simple Shopify plugin that would pop up at the bottom of a website, displaying a purchase another customer had recently made.

Not only are these kind of pop ups incredibly annoying and an invasion of the purchaser’s privacy, they are also considered to be dark pattern.

https://webtransparency.cs.princeton.edu/dark-patterns/ (See: Social Proof)
Solugen (YC W17) is hiring a director of marketing
> if, say, Google steals your bike that would be purely economic damage. Surely the UK legal system would still punish that...!?

Yes, they would. This is because there is a specific Act of Parliament known as the Torts (Interference with Goods) Act 1977 which specifically addresses the tort of "trespass to goods" also known as "wrongful interference with goods".

You would need to prove that Google "deliberately" interfered with your bike, on the balance of probabilities. However, Google would have two defences:

- Consent (e.g. you trespass on to their land, and they clamp or detain your bike - you are seen as consenting to the consequences of your trespass, namely the clamping, so cannot argue wrongful interference with goods)

- Distress damage feasant (e.g. you trespass on to their land, Google is entitled to seize and detain any property you brought with you until you leave, or (if damage has been caused) until you pay for any damages).

There are no other specific defences to this tort, only general defences to a tort (such as limitation, illegality, etc.)

In your stated case, assuming you proved the tort on the balance of probabilities, you'd be entitled to damages per Section 3 of the Act.
They don't do it when they prosecute cyber criminals. You don't dump data and information you seize in investigation because you can use it in further operations or because you will need to use it in court.
> To be clear, the program does not and never did try to use ESP for spying. Instead, they convinced Americans that they had.

This is not how I remember "Men Who Stare at Goats" and I don't think it's true regardless.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stargate_Project

You could argue MKUltra also bleeds over into this territory, but that's a murkier argument.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_MKUltra

And just to add it as a reference:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Men_Who_Stare_at_Goats
This is an amazing effort, very cool!

I'm not sure why the author is having so much pain with Qubes. Indeed the lack of GPU in guest VMs is annoying but it is possible now to assign a GPU to a HVM fairly reliably thanks to all of the VFIO/gaming-on-linux enthusiasm in the past years. Otherwise, I also find that running browsers in multiple VMs on laptop is a problem if you don't disable JS by default because modern websites have become so bloated, it's a tragedy. The LVM remark is also strange. It's very reliable for plenty of people, but there is the risk of running out of space for metadata [0]. Thin-pools for VM storage allows for some great Time-Machine-esque incremental backups also [1]. But for managing multiple development environments, Qubes is a blessing, not even including all the security benefits.

Another option for Xen fans is XCP-ng + a thin client machine for accessing the VMs. One can also use firejail+Xephyr to achieve graphical isolation [2] (not sure about Wayland).

It looks like architecture changes in Qubes future [3] may make KVM a reality.

This is still a very cool effort, I'll have to give the Wayland bits a close read.

[0]: https://github.com/QubesOS/qubes-issues/issues/3243, https://listman.redhat.com/archives/linux-lvm/2018-July/msg0...

[1]: https://github.com/tasket/wyng-backup

[2]: https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/User:Sakaki/Sakaki's_EFI_Instal...

[3]: https://www.qubes-os.org/news/2020/03/18/gui-domain/
Until fairly recently clickbait didn't exist in English too. Once the concept got a catchy English name it spread to other languages.
>Markets have no morals, principles and ethics by default

That's not exactly true. "Markets" are made of people, and the morals principles and ethics of each participant imbue any given market with certain characteristics. The market doesn't reflect the exact morals of one particular actor, but it is nevertheless a product of them. Think matrix multiplication.

For examples look at Roman civilization, Jewish civilization, the meeting of the two. Or look at the Wire.
Nope, we did not do this. We invested a ton in the business and didn't take a dollar out (besides small salaries) for 2.5 years.

More context here - https://microconf.gen.co/justin-mares/
In my country at least: enforcement is de facto non-existent and, beyond the most basic formalities, barely anyone cares.
Came to ask the same question. I have a hunch the raid 6 in the storage pool is separate from a file system raid. But I’ll have to do more research.

Just switched to synology for backups and looking to have a data integrity rated system for long term.

Anyone know more?
This is another excellent investigative piece by James uncovering the ongoing bioethics/social biology discourse and how the very same people advocating for the right to kill newborn babies and forcefully sterilize mentally disordered kids -- how these same people are now headlining the immunity passports initiative.
Among the Russian films with a strong political innuendo I've seen, "Welcome, no trespassing" was the sharpest and one of the most enjoyable. It's about a scout camp where the the director oppresses the children with stupid formal procedures, patriotic ceremonies, and abuses of power. I could not understand why this film was allowed, since the camp is an obvious metaphor of the USSR.

I'm also surprised one of the most famous Russian comedies, Sauna Blues, was not in this article. Even more since its main actor died this year. Sauna blues is a funny romance, yet it depicts Russian cities were buildings and furniture are similar and spiritless, so much that people can't recognize their apartment or their street.
Perhaps donating 1.4x not tax free but structured in a way that meets the donors other goals offsets the net cash differential from the tax shield in their “evaluation function”.
Actually the MTBE was simply more easily detected by smell if the groundwater had come from a source where underground retail storage tanks had leaked MTBE-oxygenated gasoline.

The portion of the fuel which does not evaporate can sink with gravity until it rests upon a water table within range.

The vast majority of the wells contaminated by leaking gasoline went largely undetected until MTBE was widely introduced to gasoline according to the Clean Air Act of 1990. When compromised retail tanks in use started to recieve gas containing MTBE, it still took a while to seep down into some people's water just like the plain gasoline had been doing, before they started to notice since the MTBE has a characteristic non-hydrocarbon smell of an ether.

MTBE itself is far less toxic than the hydrocarbons it had replaced in the fuel.

Technically, by experts not considered dangerous to health in the trace amounts found in the contaminated water, just bad taste.

Physicians have treated patients using pure MTBE with therapeutic effect, with side-effects that would be expected also from the more traditional USP Ethyl Ether.

https://medical-dictionary.thefreedictionary.com/MTBE

The natural components of gasoline like the benzene are recognized as far worse but they are not so easy to taste.
I'm good friends with a whole bunch of small-time GOP operatives. No one serious, but people employed full-time in the broader GOP world. Think stuff like "staff for state senator" or "event organizer at regional chamber of commerce type orgs".

I asked all of them in December if they were worried about violence given all the stolen election claims. I had TDS, etc. etc.

I asked after Jan 6 for a post-mortem on their dismissals and every single one said they thought all of the people online were just trolling. Half of them work for employers who ended up sort of half-severing historically very deep ties with state GOP parties.

So, I think there's probably a lot more truth in the GP than you give credit for.
There was a US election.

And one in which many countries i.e. Russia, Israel, China, Saudi Arabia, North Korea did not want Biden to win and who have a record of state-sponsored hacking.

Solarwinds and the Microsoft compromises for example are clearly at a scale beyond your regular criminal hacker.
Linode: DigitalOcean competitor that's been in business 3 years longer than AWS
This site [1] says self-employed (PFA) has an income tax of 16% and national insurance of 10.5% or 26.3%, and another 5.5% (I didn't understand that part very well).

Micro-LLCs [2] have a 3% (no employees) or 1% (1 to 3 employees) corporation tax and 16% tax on dividends.

1 - http://www.fnsadscagrostar.ro/centre-de-formare/item/1891-ce...

2 - https://taxsummaries.pwc.com/romania/corporate/taxes-on-corp...
Those all sound like good ideas.
Actually many restaurants that would have completely closed continued to operate only through Deliveroo and others.
Urban Dictionary censors its first phrase
Different for sure, but better or worse? Here in our culture we don't really do reframing and cutesy phrases. But the public discourse is very vulgar and pessimistic, and this is not a fad, it's like that for decades already.
I am not a scientist but at least in western Europe we were not in lockdown most of the time, however the policies of wearing a mask and washing hands were applied for a much longer time than lock-downs policies. Maybe that explains why there were much less flu contamination?
If you look here, you'll notice how Linode has significantly better network and CPU performance than DigitalOcean: https://www.vpsbenchmarks.com/compare/docean_vs_linode

Furthermore, while DigitalOcean loses money every quarter, Linode is already profitable, and thus more sustainable.

Linode also offers Linode Kubernetes Engine.
TL;DR

Marketing bullshit for some startup.
Something similar happened with "social justice warrior," which was originally used by people on the left.
My dad and grandfather were both doctors, and I somehow ended up in Startups as a programmer. Sometimes, in the middle of retrospectives, I start to daydream about what operating rooms would look like if managed by Agile(®)...

`Dr. Andrew's has certainly given his opinion about what we should do next with the patient, but what does Fred think? Fred says masks are pointless. Dr. Andrew, we're all equals here, you shouldn't let your emotions take over. We'd like you to perform this surgery without a mask...`

Luckily, it's just a software management technique, and generally speaking there are enough adults in the room that it moves forward regardless...
Is there any issue with minorities receiving birth certificates now?
Haggling is inefficient, tiresome and frankly demeaning for both parties.
I work with industrial grade 900MHz radios, and most can do over 1Mbps... with enough SNR, which as I mentioned can be difficult. I would say a typical ~city sized network I've worked on tend to operate in 100-1000kbps modes, with real world throughputs maxing out at more like 300-400 kbps on typically 1-10 mile links.

Manufacturers include FreeWave, GE MDS, XetaWave, 4RF, and others. These are typically ~$1000 radios, so not great for hobbyist use.
Please don't post shallow provocations like this—whether you intended it that way or not, it functions as trolling.

https://hn.algolia.com/?query=troll%20effects%20by:dang&date...

In particular, please don't stoke nationalistic flamewars on HN, regardless of which countries are under discussion.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

(We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26378562.)
Developed by Nets together with the banks similar to the Swedes. If you're looking for public ownership of the various organs and products that Danes interact with on a daily basis: it basically doesn't exist. Just about every software product at the municipal and state level is contracted out to an enormous private megalith that gets paid vast sums of money to execute. And they're nearly all Microsoft affiliate shops, if you were also hoping for some silver lining.

I love my country but the continuing parceling out of everything to private companies has been greatly negative to many public services. See, as an example, the DOT syndicate, which has made it prohibitively expensive to commute via public transit (why in God's name is it cheaper to travel to Germany than take a train from Copenhagen to Odense?) or the bridge to Sweden we're still paying truly insane toll fees for despite having paid for its construction years ago.
You've come to the same conclusions I have about video that I'm using for my next startup (and YC application), though we're using it for a different purpose. We floated the same name as well, so I'm glad we didn't pick it!
Not nearly as convenient.
When I am in high spirits, I am able to catch them in the dark by their sound. But failing to succed in that for a couple of times, makes my high spirit go away very fast and wanting a auto laser turret, too.
If LEO gets data/evidence illegally and they are unable to use it for prosecution, leaking it is the modern anonymous phone call equivalent.
I've read that the biggest thing is referrals. Gotta be in the know or 'trusted' by someone else in the scene
Sure, there are tons of foreigners in Geneva, since e.g. CERN is there. But native Swiss people will never consider you their equal. You can live and work in Switzerland for your whole life, but they will never consider you Swiss.

Of course, they are also very polite about it. I’m not talking about US-redneck-tier xenophobia.
Yeah, I’d like to know why the payoffs are that much cheaper than the work. Just a question of relative negotiating power between the parties involved?
> And the facts are that many supervisor-subordinate relationships are exploitative

It's also a fact that many happy marriages began as a relationship between superior and subordinate.