skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Something I've not heard anything about from an authoritative source - in the US, I've noticed laws being written with a preface that makes a political statement about what the law is, does, and why, and it is not at all consistent with the rest of it, which defines terms carefully.

It seems to be a trick to send a chosen message to the media without having any effect on the court system.

So I wonder if that could account for the "unenforceability" of some laws - basically what the law is reported as being, is just a fiction for the public, so the courts don't even engage with it.
The Tesla semi doesn't exist, those are theoretical specs
https://www.inverse.com/innovation/tesla-semi-price-specs
IOMMU Support in Linux (2020)
> Having advanced cancer is a state associated with immense suffering, as much psychological and spiritual as it is physical, even when things are under control.

That is certainly not the experience of a great many people whose lives are prolonged. Many experience lots of healthy, productive years that they woulnd't get otherwise.
That is awesome. I think they are going to have to be more aggressive in this type of traffic, with pedestrians learning they can just wander in front of the car (the car can't deliberately not make eye contact and slowly move forward like a human driver can). I also like the situation at 3:48 where the oncoming human driver waves the car to overtake on the footpath, before realizing the driverless car is not going to do that and he has to back up quite a distance. Not sure what would happen there if there were more cars behind the oncoming car. Swerving towards the dog and giving it a scare at 3:10 seems a very human thing to do though, but I suspect it was probably avoiding something off camera.
Do you want to feel powerful or to have productive devs?
The EARN IT bill was not dangerous before this year; it was to hunt down some child predators in all platforms such as TikTok. I don’t know why they need to pass the bill, but the ways of living under this such a bill will be terrifying; such a thing would be spied like Mainland China when they are using a social credit technique for everyone who browses things online. In other words, we must protest the bill by sending some important details of why the bill must rip off from the checklists due to our own security and privacy. Even I am using ZOOM in my iPhone to chat with my friends, including Signal and Discord. Whenever this bill passed, we must be ready for the REVOLUTION to start. That’s all I have to say today.
The article mentioned something that I didn't know about before: That the yoke feel is computer-generated and that MCAS was messing with that.

It also correctly points out that "with the 737 Max, Boeing has changed philosophies about human/machine interaction" - they didn't just hide a system in the plane that changed the planes behavior without telling the pilot, they fundamentally changed the basic assumptions pilots make, and still called it the same plane that doesn't require separate training. I'd consider that an even bigger crime than the other recklessness that ultimately led to the crashes.
Work from home, definitely. The office was fine but I'm very much an introvert and it's just so much less stress this way. The main thing I miss is random chats with people in the aisles or the break room. Haven't found a substitute for that at all. When our site reopens, we'll probably be coming in for meetings/whatever fairly often, so things should be about perfect.
> Moving to a smaller house (more expensive city) and having kids flipped the situation around.

I lived in an 800 square foot home with one bathroom for five of the last six years, with my wife and two children. My desk was beside the front entryway, with no door.

> Avoiding interruptions at home was extremely difficult because I was always only a door away from someone asking a “quick favor”.

That's a problem of setting boundaries. It never gets easier, but at least the spouse works and the kids go to school and day care.

> I’ve felt that fully remote has been the worst of all worlds. Once Slack becomes the default I’m pinged from every angle all day long. It’s hard to push back against people who want answers now now now and know they can get your attention by typing the right few characters into Slack.

More setting of boundaries. Be firm and say no. Better, don't respond outside of your core hours unless you're explicitly on pager duty.
I am just like you. I used to also maintain a clear distinction between home and office. Also, I like driving and 45min(2 way) commute was therapeutic to me.
Any tools to generate a railroad diagram from EBNF?
Preferably CLI.
In the before times, I (thought I) loved working from the office. I'm a reasonable social person, so I enjoy hanging out with people in the office and after work at the pub.

It took me a while to get used to remote work, but now I couldn't have it any other way. I do miss the social aspects of being in the same physical space as other people, but I greatly prefer the other freedoms like not wasting 1-2 hours of my day commuting to work. I used to get pretty bad seasonal depression over winter which has now disappeared as I'm not longer coming home in the miserable cold dark for a few months of the year.

I'm also grateful that I have a decent apartment with a seperate and dedicated office that is a very distinct area from where to cook, eat, and sleep.

I'm thankful that I have a good social circle (who I all met through past jobs in an office...) that still regularly hangs out. One silver lining of the past few years is that we just go over to each other's place to hang out, which is much more comfortable and cheaper!
This 100%. People are acting like someone is chaining them to their desk. Seriously, just get up! No one is going to say shit, you have all the power in this current market. I'm a huge fan of 2hr lunches that include a nap in the park. Get my best ideas walking to/from the park.
It's absolutely about discrediting it -- look at how effective it is, it worked on you. Your words indicate that as far as you're concerned, BLM == violence and destruction, period.

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/not-accident-false-thug...
Timely Advice from the First Head of Remote
There are specific situations where probiotics can be helpful - antibiotic induced diarrhoea for example, prevention of traveller's diarrhoea is another.
Wow brilliant comment. This masterwork concept - I love it. Something only you can solve. Wow. Solving this type of problem it brings a wealth greater than any type of FAANG paycheck, win or lose.
Does anyone else here not type in the home row? I feel like I do more of a hybrid pecking technique. Like, I don't type rigidly as I was taught in school. I type slower than someone who does use the home row properly but I feel I don't get any injuries either.
I think the huge irony of tech work over the last twenty years is that the WFH revolution was preceded by the offshoring revolution. I spent probably half my working days since 2012 working with partly or fully distributed teams around the world or at least the country. I don't grudge because I had some great teammates in Colombia or Ukraine or Costa Rica or Roumania. It was obvious they could do good work without being with us in person. There's very little about tech work that can't be done remotely. I worked in consulting and we had no trouble doing sales and support remotely too.
One thing that the whole pandemic-induced WFH debate has really proven is this: in every HN post even tangentially related to the subject, everyone will state their strongly-held stance on the matter over and over, shouting into the void.

I do it too (there are a few in my comment history), but I don't quite understand why. It's maybe something like: if I state my stance (wfh, prefer working from office, for the record) then maybe the comment-section-at-large will stop assuming everybody else wants to WFH forever. But it rather feels like the community has a collective neurosis, chanting their opinions on the subject in a loop with no purpose. Perhaps we can do better.
There is strong evidence against the assumption that this should be something that a typical flight crew can handle, in the form of the smoldering wreckage of not one but two planes, each with a trained, professional crew.
Matrix: Federated chat E2E encrypted for 1-1 chats and possible E2E on group chats. Cares about user freedom and encourages writing software and clients to integrate with Matrix. Possibly it's super private but it doesn't emphasize privacy that much.
Signal: E2E encrypted with an emphasis on being super secure. Uses proven crypto techniques and doesn't allow unencrypted messaging I think. Does not allow and third party clients or integrations in the name of security, which does mean a restriction on user freedom.
Telegram: Not E2E encrypted by default. Has an option for encrypted 1-1 chat, but otherwise everything is readable by the Telegram admins. Uses a homegrown encryption algorithm criticized by security researchers, but not known to be broken.
Whatsapp: It's owned by Facebook do I need to say more.
I’ve recently learned I have sky-high cholesterol. Doctor mentioned that eating fiber can sequester cholesterol. So along with dietary changes and exercise he recommended Psyllium husk in water. Apparently this is a great way to increase fiber intake. I bet a lot of people could improve intestinal health by increasing their fiber. Apparently we’re now learning that improving intestinal health can have effects on the mind!
This is not a re-thinking. French and the founders of The Dispatch are one of a small group who were and remain "Never Trump" conservatives. I get the sense they are among the few who actually believed in the principled conservatism that Republicans liked to talk about until it became unpopular among their base.

I may not agree with French, but I 100% believe that he is being intellectually honest from his point of view and will continue to share his views that way. See also The Bulwark for a similar group who I think actually seem to be moving leftward a bit in ideology (from center-right to center perhaps; they'd bristle at being placed anywhere on the left) and David Frum. They are the conservatives I find most interesting to listen to because they chose to be honest even when it cost them money/viewers/influence. But there are not that many in this camp.
Smartcard access API should be made in a decade ago, rather than Web * (Bluetooth, MIDI, whatever) API. It's fundamental.
I seriously hope this is sarcasm. The best devs I know are the ones that goof off the most, because they're the ones that know they're good at what they do. The crappy devs are the ones who sit quietly at their desks all day and pretend to get work done. I think you should seriously reconsider your management style.
Our small company went remote-only since well before the pandemic - started out with the engineering crew working from home 2 days a week, to eventually full-time remote, and finally the rest of the employees.

Generally it's worked out well - more flexibility and better work/life balance, but does need adjustment, especially if you have a busy household.

We try to get together for monthly all-hands, and usually try to have some social/team-building activities at the same time (conditions permitting - only remotely during the pandemic).
Managing People
I don't think the exact threshold is public, but it often seems to kick in when there are more comments than upvotes. The term to search for is "flamewar detector". Dan has quite a few comments that offer a little more information: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu...

In general, the usual request is that questions like this one are better handled as an email to hn@ycombinator.com than as a new thread. Dan is surprisingly responsive and usually willing to provide details if you ask.
Google doesn't want an Internet strong and rich in content: All of it's actions have been in the direction of moving towards the AOL model. Absorbing all the content it can, not paying for any of it, and locking users into a first party model where they have complete control of ad placement, with heavy privacy invasion to ensure maximum profit is extracted. Google has, in fact, killed a lot of it's best sources. (see https://theoutline.com/post/1399/how-google-ate-celebritynet... for an example) It's no wonder HN posts frequently lament the loss in quality of results: Their sources are dead.

It's also important you understand what Section 230 actually does in practice: It provides immunity to a financial partner in illegal activity. Google partners (unwittingly, mind you) with scammers and fraudsters, and an incredible amount of malware distributors, in that it collects money to push their crimes out to a large audience. When the criminals get shut down... Google gets to keep the money. It's shielded from liability in it's participation in a crime. It'd be like if the money launderer couldn't be charged with anything after washing the bank robbers' money.

Rehab scams was an excellent niche example of where Google had multiple millions of dollars focused on an extremely profitable market, that was all fraudulent: https://www.theverge.com/2017/9/7/16257412/rehabs-near-me-go... (Exposure from this article eventually got it cracked down on... but guess who kept all the revenue...)

Of course, what this means in practice is: Tech companies like Google and Facebook have no risk in participation in crime, and hence, no incentive to shut them down. Google and Facebook could do a better job preventing abuse on their platforms, but while they'll make token efforts that cost them little, they have no real need to actually fix any problems here: The criminals make them money, and they get to keep it.

Fraud, malware, and scams make the Internet worse, and they directly harm billions of users. Unfortunately, the authors of Section 230 failed to account for the fact that platforms aren't just about speech, but about business, and billions of dollars traverse these platforms, entirely protected from any sort of liability.
In the UK the cops will knock on your door if you misgender someone on Twitter.
A university teacher. I work from the office for now but without student. I understand the appeal of online classes but man do I miss in-person teaching. In an online class, there's virtually no reaction from students (as most students here prefer to turn the camera off) and I feel like I'm a YouTuber who's constantly talking to an empty camera.
Personally - I'd not hire that person. Sounds like they're completely inflexible and unable to adapt to constantly changing environments. Maybe really good for maintenance work or something but if you do startups, work on growing products, do major feature work that has a lot of back and forth, etc. Very likely to not do well at any of the jobs I've had.
I first learned about Munchausen's syndrome from this story https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/michelledean/dee-dee-wa....

It is quite an interesting story and filled with absolute crazy stuff.

Hulu made a series on it https://www.hulu.com/series/the-act-8cc910fe-b59e-46a5-9966-..., pretty good acting done by Joey King.
Commuting to office at odd hours is one drawback and hence, In the current situation that I am in, I prefer WFH !
> But I don't know, I only learned recently that my own team members had been working around a broken feature that I maintain for over a year without telling me.

I keep getting this happen. Someone wants an improvement/fix to something and just doesn't communicate that, probably because it has to be very intentional now, whereas it used to be something you'd mention over coffee when you saw the right person.
You won’t know, they age like a fine wine - haven’t you heard? You will see very different facets of their personality- before you’re married, after you’re married, after you’ve had kids, after she stops being able to have kids, after the kids have gone off to college.. they are all the same person underneath it all, but you won’t know, you can’t.
They are protesting the fact that the exemption from the mandate was lifted.

Maybe not for limiting transmission but not filling up hospitals with the unvaccinated + infected is a valid public health initiative.
How about Numenta's work?
https://info.publicintelligence.net/USPS-MailCoverRequestsFo...
I don’t believe I can write useful software while following someone else’s conversation. Certainly my best work has been after everyone else left and I suddenly realize I’m hungry or thirsty or uncomfortable and haven’t really moved for hours.
The Little Apple.
Signal is open source and well established. The end-to-end encryption has been audited and cannot be disabled.

Matrix has e2ee but the overall UX of Matrix is still not really there, and the encryption can have issues where messages are not able to be decrypted. It has been audited and is open source. With Matrix you have more freedom because you can run your own server, but personally I would pick Signal since there is less chance of messing things up, for example accidentally having an un-encrypted chat.

Telegram does not do encrypted chats by default and has a history of implementing their own poor encryption. The Telegram server is closed source.

WhatsApp has good encryption, the same as Signal, enabled for all chats. But it is closed source.
The vaccines reduce severity. The majority of people hospitalized are the unvaccinated. Preventing our hospitals from filling up is a valid public health initiative.
You implied that Syrian Kurds exemplify how effective armed civilians can be, I pointed out how that is nonsense because they are being backed operationally by the most powerful military on the planet.
100% agree on the non-separation of "home" and "work" being terrible. It's easy to say "just don't work after 5/6/whatever" but in practice not having a physical separation between "this is where I work" and "this is where I don't work" makes that mental switch damn near impossible. I've ended up working far more hours since the pandemic started than I did previously, and when I'm "done" working, I'm still thinking about work and can't even summon the energy to work on hobbies. I'd love a private office in a co-working space, but as I posted in the "problem you want solved" thread earlier today, those are stupidly priced for individuals. Would love to hear how other people solve this.
The Wikipedia article says Apple has received geofence warrants. It does not say they have provided data in response to them. I do not believe they can since Find My data and Maps search history is end-to-end encrypted.

https://www.apple.com/legal/privacy/law-enforcement-guidelin...
https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT202303

Find My:

> Device location services information is stored on each individual device and Apple cannot retrieve this information from any specific device. Location services information for a device located through the Find My feature is customer facing and Apple does not have content of maps or alerts transmitted through the service.

Air Tags:

> The interaction is end-to-end encrypted, and Apple cannot view the location of any AirTag or supported third-party products
Not a book, but this paper “big ball of mud” has resonated with me in describing troubles I’ve faced before, and has me coming back to it as I run into new architectural problems where I’m not confident in my/our approach.

http://www.laputan.org/mud/
> Apparently the 737 Max pitched up a bit too much for comfort on power application as well as at already-high angles of attack. It violated that most ancient of aviation canons and probably violated the certification criteria of the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration. But instead of going back to the drawing board and getting the airframe hardware right (more on that below), Boeing relied on something called the “Maneuvering Characteristics Augmentation System," or MCAS.

Nope, this is 100% false. The purpose of MCAS is to give the MAX the same aircraft handling characteristics so that it retains the original 737's type rating. Thus 737 type rated pilots can fly the MAX under their 737 type rating. A big part of selling the MAX is type rating commonality with the airlines existing 737-train pilots. Juan Browne, a real 777 airline pilot, mentions this in one of his excellent YouTube videos (https://www.youtube.com/user/blancolirio).

> I have been a pilot for 30 years

I suspect this person is a private pilot with no actual airline aviation experience.

Edit: This is the same guy that boosted his aviation credentials by citing that he's flown a 757 simulator (https://www.eetimes.com/software-wont-fix-boeings-faulty-air...). So yes, he's a GA pilot that has flow in some aircraft simulators.

> Among Boeing’s critics is Gregory Travis, a veteran software engineer and experienced, instrument-rated pilot who has flown aircraft simulators as large as the Boeing 757.
Work from home has a huge list of tangible benefits to employees. It seems hard to argue against.

Less time driving and travel costs.
Freedom to take a breaks however you please.
Fewer distractions (YMMV).
More autonomy.
Better office equipment (depends).

That said, there's far less camaraderie in my teams with WFH normalized. Initially, people put effort into talking regularly. The effort has evaporated. Now talking only happens for project-related things. There is far less passive "team building".

When we were in the office, there were many random events that I miss.

Eating lunch with people, often from other departments/projects.
Free food in the break room.
Playing MTG with coworkers.
Playing Smash Bros with coworkers.
Random hallway discussions.

As a naturally introverted person, I love WFH.

As an introspective person, I think WFH has done hidden damage by enabling my introversion to an extreme degree. However, I think that's more of a strike against my personality than against WFH.
Fever for 2 days. Head cold, chest congestion for a few more days. Affected sense of smell/taste for a few days then back to normal. Confirmed by home test. During Omicron timeframe. About the same symptoms, spans for the rest of the household with slight delay.
Would probably depend on the role and team culture right?

There are good and bad fits for that attitude
"Textbook" often has a connotation of being written to the needs of teaching a particular course, which I think "text" does not.
You're right that there's something wrong with the training. There were 3 flights that had MCAS failure. All three were able to restore normal trim with the electric trim switches, which override MCAS.

#1 turned off the trim system and continued the flight without incident. (This flight is almost never mentioned, as it doesn't fit the narrative.)

#2 never turned off the trim system and crashed.

At this point, an Emergency Airworthiness Directive was distributed to all MAX pilots instructing them to restore trim with the electric trim switches and then turn it off.

#3 turned off the trim system when it was severely nose down, and crashed.
Sure, that’s fine with me, but then if you choose to go against the common good then you shouldn’t have the same access to health care as someone that does. Our hospitals are filled with the unvaccinated infected. Plenty of people who followed the rules have seen their surgeries and other treatments postponed as a result.