skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The EAD was unfortunately and unnecessarily ambiguous. A couple of paragraphs before noting "Electric stabilizer trim can be used to neutralize control column pitch forces before moving the STAB TRIM CUTOUT switches to CUTOUT", it says "In the event an uncommanded nose down stabilizer trim is experienced on the 737-8/-9, in conjunction with one or more of the indications or effects listed below, do the existing AFM Runaway Stabilizer procedure above, ensuring that the STAB TRIM CUTOUT switches are set to CUTOUT and stay in the CUTOUT position for the remainder of the flight." [my emphasis.] Furthermore, the instructions that this EAD amend do not state that there are any circumstances where it is important to reestablish trim electrically before performing the cutout; in fact, they explicitly say to cut out the electric trim and trim manually if disengaging the autopilot fails to correct the problem - and in the case of MCAS runaway, it will not.

This is particularly relevant in the context of another issue: when the EAD's authors wrote "Manual stabilizer trim can be used before and after the STAB TRIM CUTOUT switches are moved to CUTOUT", they missed an opportunity to point out that if the airplane is significantly out of trim (which is what tended to happen when MCAS went rogue), the load on the stabilizer jackscrew made it difficult or impossible to trim manually. Elsewhere in the AFM, and not referenced by either the original runaway trim procedure or this EAD, it says "Excessive airloads on the stabilizer may require effort by both pilots to correct the mis-trim. In extreme cases it may be necessary to aerodynamically relieve the airloads to allow manual trimming." Note that, in the case of an MCAS-initiated mis-trim, "aerodynamically relieve the airloads" means "stop pulling on the yoke to hold the nose up", and if you are already descending and close to the ground, this makes the situation worse before you can hope to make it better.

There were other missed opportunities here. Firstly, the authors did not mention that in an MCAS-caused trim runaway, the rate of change of stabilizer angle was much higher than in the case of autopilot-caused runaways (significantly, at the time of this EAD, the FAA did not know how fast that was, as it had been increased after flight testing without the FAA being informed.) They also did not mention that, unlike in the case of an autopilot-caused runaway, one caused by MCAS cannot be stopped by opposing it with the yoke.

Technically, the EAD gave pilots sufficient information to handle MCAS runaways, but it was the bare minimum, poorly presented, which lies somewhere on the shoddy - negligence - malfeasance axis when it comes to safety. Did Boeing keep it to the bare minimum to minimize the possibility of more pilot training being re-raised? I don't know, and maybe we never will.
I would love to be able to censor anything about rogue AIs, simulation theory, outer space and extraterrestrials beyond our solar system in general, and anything related to consciousness and qualia. Also end of life care, cancer research, and every single post on Hacker News that says “such and such has died”. That stuff triggers me and I click the “hide” button. My wife thinks I’m a nutcase. I once had a panic attack after someone on Hacker News made some joke about Oumuamua or whatever that thing was named being a swarm of nano bots that are going to destroy the earth. Thanks, random person!

I dunno maybe I’m mentally unwell. If so I’ve been this way for years. Just hate to dwell on certain topics because there’s no “happy” scenario for them.

Then again I don’t know if I’d actually be better off if I was literally never exposed to any of that through some virtual personal assistant keeping me in my safe zone, instead of brushing by it on occasion.
> Even the majority prohibiting something would still be democratic.

The vast majority of people use the services that a vocal few object to. We have already had a vote (implicitly) and we know where the will of the people lies. But there are people who believe the government should unilaterally overrule this because they believe they know what's best for them. That is absolutely undemocratic.

> Wanting others to live healthier lives and saying that aloud has nothing to do with any form of government at all. I don't need to live in a dictatorship to talk about the dangers of alcohol, obesity, or facebook.

Which of course is a complete strawman and not at all what I said, or claimed was ocurring.
Also, when it comes to publication, plenty of stuff used to be essentially banned by 'platforms', it just wasn't obvious because "user-generated content" was barely a thing (letters to the editor) in comparison to people posting on Facebook and Youtube and Twitter and Tiktok.

Random people being able to post content for thousands or even millions to immediately see, with no explicit gatekeepers prior to submission; this is largely a recent thing. And it makes sense that of course everywhere has rules, bare minimum basically nobody likes people spamming stuff, for example, even in cases where it's legal.

If you create a message board about model trains and some rando starts constantly spamming ads for their series of NFT's, I guess banning them is technically 'censorship', but you could also call it 'the bare basics of maintaining a functional community'.

I think that for platforms like Twitter and Facebook, perhaps it may make more sense to end up a situation more like newspapers, where you have more reputable papers like the NYT, WaPo, and WSJ that have stricter rules, and then you also have the National Enquirer or other random outlets that have little to no standards. If Twitter and Facebook want to have somewhat tighter rules where they censor people, that's fine, the people being censored should then just have options of other platforms with different or fewer rules. Just seems like the problem to me is that people expect these mega platforms to be all things to all people, when that's probably not realistic.
The World without us

Its an incredible non-fiction book
It’s not the fiber. Grapefruit contains furanocoumarins which inhibit the action of the liver enzyme CYP3A4. That particular enzyme breaks down most medications.
It’s more or less motivational use in same sense as how “campaign”, “battle” or “war” is used in civilian use cases, but “五方面作戦” indeed sound militaristic. I’d use the word “front” in place of “direction” had I not known the context.

On top of the challenges they faced, I guess JNR had enough veterans with memories from previous careers and it reflected that.
Step by step tutorial to test websites from different countries or locations on real device cloud
> Dollars in things like Venmo are already digital currency.

Yes, but I would prefer to NOT use a private network like Venmo if possible. For one, if it was government-issued with government benefits, everyone would have it, not just tech savvy people. Most Americans don't have Venmo, but almost everyone has some form of government ID (or would get one if they could receive some benefit).
This is gold. Concise and to the point. A lot of self-reflection must be put into this.
In other countries being punctual and reliable is not necessary to have
I'm genuinely curious how some folks get even close to this.

One way to get on the list is to make a lot of politics-related posts.

Another technique to get a lot of karma (don't know about top-10 level karma) is to continually re-post submissions made years ago.
Yes, but think of it like more of circle sourcing capital, users can form groups/circles where the individual circle members contribute regularly to the one of their members capital, just like a village savings in a rotational manner(so everyone benefits) group, no interest no charges , just trust and partnership to build each other on the myfy platform
As someone who has never driven is San Jose or the bay area, it certainly seems much better than a novice driver in a extremely complicated road layout.

The streets have not only tram/train lanes but tram specific signals, keep clear areas,etc. Not to mention a mixture of bike and park lanes.

Never driven a Tesla personally but I'd be pretty confident FSD could handle the 50 mile commute to my friends place that is just interstate, highways, and a roundabout.

My only real complaint in the video is how aggressive it seems but I think that's configurable. Perhaps they should limit the FSD speed/aggressiveness to the specific drivers own capability in the area.
Fitness for Purpose
Donating and contributing to various causes that will hopefully make the world a better place for everyone is what adds a lot of meaning to my life
Why Addiction Theories May Be Wrong
This one:

> PHP4 spaghetti code
well lack of resources and procrastinations seem to be the reason we still haven’t colonized other planet.
Not sure it’s that scary :-)
- Way of the peaceful warrior

- Range

- Conversations with God

- Factfulness

- Accelerate: Building and Scaling High-Performing Technology Organizations
Fake Sublime Site in Google Ads
Pressure tops out at 999?
We should remember that the term free speech was coined many hundreds of years ago. During that timeframe, talking against the current ruler could lead to one’s death.
How do you feel about labor unions in tech or corporate environments? The labor move seems to have its roots in Marxism.
Is there a resource that delves heavy into the application of the OSI model? Specifically, on how tcp actually works under the hood. Or how applications impliment their netcode ontop of udp? Typically we'd just say recv() and get data, but that doesn't detail the underlying process of how packets are handled.
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Maybe it's only possible to project/fake one additional dimension and not two? So if we had a 3D display, holographic or something, then a projected 4-D object might make more sense.
Fecal transplants. It's the latest shit.
I didn't review the linked projects, but isn't the "untrackable" browser one that does not implement or spoofs most APIs?

I think it would be, for the most part, trivial to make a text-based or extremely stripped down browser on top of existing projects, if you had the contracts mapped for appropriate code generation. There are IDLs for most Web APIs, so that is a head-start.

I think this would be achievable, but not as a browser that most people would want to use.
Company edited my review after I claimed copyright theft
According to standard economic theory, shortages only happen when pricing mechanisms fail.
If prices rise, then demand would lower and shortage will be resolved (?)..
> The fiercely passionate actually dont seem to notice

They probably notice but do not care: a lot of (most I know anyway) passionate people tend to not compare/waste time with people that do not help them improve. Indeed remote work makes that easier for 'their side' as well.

But find another job: life is too short.
I'm not discounting manager influence, I'm just saying that for such a matter the engineers should have refused.
Maybe Glenn Gould, a pianist that used the same chair.

https://youtu.be/5SHtyGc8pfk
The kids go back and tell everyone they had been playing football, indeed knowing they weren't playing on a regulation field. And no one in the world has a problem with them calling it football, again despite knowing they weren't playing on a regulation field.
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The person who was impacted had this to say about why reporting the copyright theft wouldn't work in their case:

> Not really an option - I'm not in the US, and the website is just a quick and dirty one where they act as a store front for a person who just sends out rubbish from Aliexpress. I did try to go after the basement advertising agency who knicked pieces of my video and images of me reviewing a different instrument, but that was pointless because again, I'm not in the US.

https://www.reddit.com/r/mildlyinfuriating/comments/smc8rn/c...
And I'm sure that database is already being abused by all manner of federal agencies in ways it isn't supposed to be, so I don't see any reason to make it even easier for them.
You didn’t prioritize relationships. You chased money and now realize that money after a point is just a huge safety net. All you’ve done is check boxes. Go to Europe, check. Buy a toy, check.

When you die, nobody will give a shit about the toys.

Stop looking at what people brag about (money, travel, toys) and concentrate on relationships.

Look at it this way - unless you have some physical impairment, how is it that you’re so successful, yet not ONE person wants to be your partner? The answer of course is you haven’t made yourself interesting and attractive to ANYONE.

Either you don’t go out enough to find her, don’t engage enough, don’t take care of yourself enough, etc.

Make it your priority, work on it like a real problem, and see where it gets you.
Hi, sorry to hear that you're feeling this way. It sounds extremely similar to what I went through when my daughter was born. The most important thing to keep in mind is that it gets better. The first four months after my daughter arrived were the most unhappy I've ever been in my life, but after that things started to become easier and parental responsibilities felt more fulfilling.

I'd strongly recommend seeing a therapist. You might also want to see if you can arrange your schedule to get more sleep; I know it might seem counterproductive when you already feel a lot of time pressure, but sleep deprivation is absolute torture and makes everything worse. Getting my daughter on a regular sleep schedule was the single biggest life-satisfaction improvement I've ever experienced.
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TEDx ruined TED, in my opinion. I worked for a person that did a TEDx talk and over the course of my employment learned they had absolutely zero authority to talk about any subject, let alone on a stage in front of a bunch of people.

The integrity died in the name of views, I think. I don't miss TED.
…I imagine the whole thing wouldn’t be running off a single server + hard drive. There’s not any conceivable system design where this bit flip would be possible
We still don’t take them seriously. The media just discovered that they make the most advertising money by seeking the most extreme examples of the “other” and holding them up as if it’s their average view.

If your audience is liberal, you find someone bombing abortion clinics and tell them “this is what conservatives are”.

If your audience is conservative you find the people who make accusations of racism because they heard a word in a foreign language that sounds like a racial slur and you tell your audience “this is what liberals are”.

These aren’t representative of the vast majority on either side, but they’re what drives lots of engagement so that’s what gets shown. The more it gets shoved in everyone’s face the more they believe that the “other” are just completely insane psychos who can’t be reasoned with.
Incidentally, the behavioral psychologist B.F. Skinner published "An apparatus for the study of animal behavior" in that same year.
Strong disagree on any type of animated chart. All the information in the animation could be represented in a single image as a multiseries line graph. Animation adds no value and spreads the information over time.
There is a frame of reference where the merger hasn't happened yet. Let's use that as a universal frame of reference.
anf other online tool to help you https://anyconverters.com/pdf-converters.html
You’d have more takers over on Twitter
The author mentions firing people in almost every point. Is firing people in the US so easy that it is a go-to solution to solve these problems?
In an article in The Guardian (linked in this comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30238350) she explains the nuances of her decision. She already had a resident's permit, renewable every 10 years. She knew she would be questioned, and was even reassured about this by her husband.

Essentially, she still had roots in Xinjiang, and Chinese nationality.
Work from home. Office may be an okay option but only if it is not an open space and if don't have to spend more than 1 hour commuting both ends (which is almost impossible here in Moscow).
What is easier: getting 20,000 banks in the US to adopt a new protocol, or issue a new central government USD app? In theory yes, regulation could enable easier banking and faster transfers, and this has been tried with SEPA in the EU -- still far from being a truly instant transfer system. In practice, it would be much faster and more efficient for the central government to do this themselves. Part of the reason this whole crypto craze happened is because banks are incredibly slow to innovate, and there is STILL no way to transfer money internationally instantly.

As for "privacy" and "controlling what you can do with your money", Visa and Mastercard have pretty much full control over that now anyway, unless you're dealing with pure paper cash, which almost no one does anymore.
Personal observation is scientific.
Wow these 250%+ capacities are pretty crazy.
TED was like clubhouse. It started out decently with good guests talking about interesting subjects, then it turned into a flurry of anyone who simply wanted to spout off.
> it was simply necessary to have.

Of course, you can't transport dozens of millions of people everyday if you start being unreliable. The whole system would collapse if a train is 10 minutes late because it would block dozens of trains behind it.
> Don't load your work onto others in the company.

I've seen this at companies small and large, especially where you might have a "politically" appointed manager, rather than someone a bit more useful.

It's also a favourite ploy of sociopathic but useless individual contributors, find someone to do your work for you, then repackage it as your own!
I love remote work, but the pandemic made it harder.

I used to bike to random cafés and work from there, but those are not attractive right now. I can't work on my balcony because it's too cold.

When the day is over, I have nowhere to go. It's harder to see other people. There isn't as much to do in this cold, gray weather. Thus I spend a lot of time in the same chair, looking at the same screen.

When the sun returns and the restrictions lift, it will be a great time to work remotely.

My schedule is fairly flexible, so I escaped this dreadful weather and went on a roadtrip. I hike and bike, then work in the evenings. It feels good to be outside.

I wish that laptop-friendly places were better advertised, and that more hotels provided appropriate workspaces. This would make working on the road much easier.
Hi there, appreciate you writing here and the help, this means a lot. Any idea on how to find a therapist? Thanks again
I see he is based in Berlin, Germany (according to his LinkedIn) where it's extremely hard to fire people (especially for reasons he mentioned in the post) once they are past the 6 months probation period. This smells like he is giving advice that he didn't do himself. Firing people is a pain for all parties involved.
Personally I don't miss working from the office at all. Working remotely is better in every way when it comes to doing actual work.

What I do miss though, is hanging out with my colleagues. It's nice to go for a coffee break or lunch break with a co-worker and just chat about (mostly non-work) stuff. We can organise socials etc. but it's not the same.

I do have my own friends and family that I hang out with anyway, so it's not really a problem for me.
Maybe they'll be offered a better deal.
> I believe in freedom of speech.

> (...) we simply cannot give every lunatic a megaphone.

It appears that you do not, in fact, believe in freedom of speech. Being heard is the point of speech.
This is why I believe in universal food stamp cards. Have some regulations attached of course, like nutrition classes, but it takes the place of what some of the money buys, only better.

Child nutrition is probably the single best ROI you can get anyway. Why everyone doesn’t have such a card is beyond me.
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You transition from senior to manager when you first try to understand the importance of the code to the business and whether anyone will ever touch it before bothering to understand the code.
I’m in a similar boat, how did you recover, if you did?
First real-world test of AI traffic lights, could improve traffic flow by 10–15%
We hired a guy when we were still in the office years ago (we went remote long before the pandemic): his trial month was great; he was engaging, smart, etc. We felt lucky we got him. Straight after that month, he seemed to have fully lost interest. A few months later he still showed 0 interest, had to be dragged along to do any work. He seemed to make late evenings in the office though: we did not get it. We collected enough proof he was violating his contract and fired him; upon inspection of his computer, we found terabytes of downloaded porn. Incredibly weird but I guess if you don't like reddit or Netflix...
12 years ago I worked remotely for the first time from a small apartment. For the first 6 months or so I loved it. The flexibility primarily.

But I came to hate the isolation. I crave human interaction in all aspects of life, including work. I never want to work full time remote again.
Well, the people that talk at TED never mention that the idea they claim to be behind the corner could actually be years and million of dollars of investments away, and therefore has a very high chance of never materializing.
Very well said. This has indeed helped me too.
Providing a TL;DR version of an article can be valuable, but only if you hit high enough precision and recall rates.

Here, your comment only talks about the article's main points, giving it a high precision rate. However, out of three key ideas you managed to forget a whole third of the author's conclusion. This makes the recall rate woefully inadequate.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Precision_and_recall
Paperless-ng (https://github.com/jonaswinkler/paperless-ng) is the way to go. I have an instance of it running on a RPI 4 and a network attached scanner. New documents that I need stored are either immediately scanned using the app on my phone (And its free software, get it from FDroid) or via the actual scanner which obviously gives better quality.

Paperless then OCRs the documents and stores the original and a PDF/A version for long term archival. It learns from my tagging and classification and auto classifies them in the future.

The web interface is also pretty slick and allows you to do full text search on all your documents really fast.

Tagging and categories is also a more superior form of organisation than simple folders.
Holy smokes I completely forgot about them until seeing this.
They were really something - I enjoyed the heck out of watching talks the first year or so post-discovery. The moment a fake looking one appeared, that pretty much burnt the bridge.
Gaming, cooking and learning to draw these days. All fun in different ways. Learning to cook both fancy high effort meals and super quick, nutritious meals has been tasty and healthy. Trying to draw life like objects and scenes has been really cool because I found its about learning to see accurately. Good games are often better than most TV/Movies these days. It's a long story you can be part of rather than passively consume.
at the risk of sounding like a broken record freedom from the known
That was sending messages. The curves showed women sent about 40% of messages to the bottom 55% of men. The last chart showed reply rates. Attractiveness affected both.
Nice idea, I really like the simplicity of it and how the design reflects it, too.

Are you sending the emails directly from your server, or using some service in between?