skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Bought a new fridge in 2020, relative decent one, around $2200. Works fine but the plastic shelf parts inside are just unbelievably cheap and shitty. And the replacement parts if you would happen to break one are correspondingly expensive. Meh.
Not if you genocide it with antibiotics or your parents or environment didn't have it well in the first place.

People may want to take a fecal sample before starting antibiotics to "reseed" themselves.

Also, it will take time to map and analyze essential and harmful constituent species. Perhaps there will be the equivalent of "vitamin" essential bacterial for persons of particular genetic makeups and diets.
What a great thing. I've been working on an interactive textbook for React and TypeScript, mostly just to better support one of my courses. I feel like faculty should be encouraged and supported to produce free, open materials like this.
> Those people have decades of institutional memory about what has worked in the past and what has not worked. Software people do not.

> The people who wrote the code for the original MCAS system were obviously terribly far out of their league and did not know it.

Hmmm... having met a few embedded aerospace software engineers, I'm not sure I would be pointing the finger in their direction, although I would love an insider account. All public information seems to indicate these were decisions made at the executive level.
I'm not a pilot either, but I worked for 3 years on the 757 stabilizer trim system and detail design, so know a lot about it. My lead engineer was a pilot and would take me flying and let me fly for a few seconds. A good chunk of the engineers at Boeing are also pilots.

My dad and brother are pilots. Many of my friends are pilots.

FWIW.

But you don't have to take my internet credentials seriously, and you shouldn't. So here's some documents which you should, if you want to be informed about this:

Boeing Emergency Airworthiness Directive

"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...

2018 - 035 - PK-LQP Final Report
http://knkt.dephub.go.id/knkt/ntsc_aviation/baru/2018%20-%20...

Aviation Week 19-Sep-2019:

"The [LA] pilots countered with main electric trim nose-up inputs. At least 25 automatic stabilizer nose-down, pilot-directed stabilizer nose-up exchanges took place and then several nose-down inputs were not countered."

"The MCAS activated twice, and the [EA] crew countered with electric trim."

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-03-09/why-did-b...
The chance of getting a million a year in stock equivalent is next to nil. These are extreme outliers, you can probably count the number of companies on two hands, and maybe name them all.

In terms of statistics, achieving this would be very 'unusual'.
They currently destroy old bills and print new ones into circulation, so destroying black listed funds and sending the legal owner newly minted ones sounds right
I was on a panel with one of the study's authors recently, she's very thoughtful, thorough, and precise. I like how she emphasized that there is no simple TL;DR to explain the situation, and her paper does a good job of covering a lot of ground without taking short cuts.

However, one factor not mentioned in the study is that China, which had announced a plan for foundry independence, had its capacity expansion program disrupted by the trade war, as the US restricted China's ability to acquire key equipment to build out fabs.

As a result China could not build the plants it needed to meet its own consumption, forcing them to buy chips from the same vendors that everyone else is also trying to buy chips from. This is an additional shock which is hard to estimate in magnitude but it's probably not small as it represents the missing capacity of entire fabs for many months or years as they struggle to be built.

Thus while the US trade policy may have effectively hamstrung China's plans for foundry independence in the short term, it may also have contributed to a global shortage of semiconductors and its own inflation problems as collateral damage. Trade wars are tricky: without careful and long term policy planning there is a high risk of even more collateral damage.

Another factor that could also be contributing specifically to the difficulties of the automotive supply chain is that China internally had made electric vehicles a strategic technology focus, which means that domestically China's demand for automotive-grade semiconductors was set to surge. Even before the pandemic I was getting tips from buyers that power semiconductors, particularly those in SiC and GaN, were going to be in short supply, due to that shift.

edit - emphasized original paper
Home. My setup here is better, and my chair doesn’t make my lower back scream.

Plus there is absolutely nothing that can beat lunch hour siestas in my own damn bed, let me tell you
You're not weird. There are dozens of us! Dozens! https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18419378
> Working from home means I get to see my wife and children for more hours of the day.

I wouldn't be surprised if there is a strong correlation between the number of people (partner,family,kids) and how much people enjoy working from home.

I live alone in my apartment and going the first year or two of the pandemic seeing people I know once every few weeks drove me mad.
"long hours in a house alone" != remote work

Remote work is work you do remotely—i.e., outside of a traditional "butts in seats" company office where employees form an in-person collective during business hours.

Obviously the pandemic has put a damper on the various possibilities available, but by way of example, you can work at (assuming all you need is a laptop + internet connection):

a cowork space (either drop-in or rent a dedicated desk), a coffee shop, a restaurant, a mall, a train, a car, outside at a park, a hotel, a library, up on a mountain top, at a friend or family's house, on a boat, and probably one or two other options I'm forgetting. (Fun fact, I've done all of those.)

Now do I actually do the majority of work at my home office? Yeah, sure. I'll grant you that. But by intentionally making sure it's not just my all-the-time default and mixing things up as often as possible, it keeps remote work fun and engaging.
Obligatory: be careful you’re not standing atop Mount Stupid.

https://www.smbc-comics.com/?id=2475
Privacy from whom? If you’re looking for privacy from other users on the platform, Signal and WhatsApp fail miserably because everyone else in the groups you’re in would get your phone number. In Telegram the default is not to expose your phone number to others.

If it’s privacy from the platform operators, then Telegram loses because it stores all normal chats in plain text on its servers (though that makes searching a great experience). Signal, to a great extent, and WhatsApp to a lesser extent, try to avoid storing information about your use of the platform. But they do maintain some metadata until the time you delete your account.

All the above fail on the phone number requirement to sign up. They’re also centralized platforms depending on the benevolence of one team or company.

Matrix is a mix here. It allows you to sign up without revealing your phone number. If you choose to use end-to-end encryption, then all your chats would be encrypted (like in Signal or WhatsApp, where this is the default). But Matrix also stores metadata about you and your presence.

My recommendation would be Matrix because you’re not tied to one provider (you can self host it and connect with other Matrix instances, if you wish). The client UI and UX are lacking, but I believe this has a better future on privacy than Signal (with the addition of non-chat features like Mobilecoin).
Goes to show that the negative commentary on remote work is a bit of a vocal minority situation on HN.
I have a fear that in our current political climate, the introduction of CBDCs at scale will fracture digital money into Democrat money (CBDCs) and Republican money (crypto), and maybe even our economy into Blue and Red, every single economic action tinged with suspicion of either "censorship" or "racism," "communist" or "fascist" (though, to be political, they're the same thing), "self sacrificial" vs "hateful," etc, depending on which one chooses to use.
Of course. Capitalism is a useful tool, because markets are the best known tool for facilitating economic growth.

However, capitalism is in itself an inherently broken system: because of the nature of capital, a perfectly capitalist society will approach a state where one actor owns everything, and everyone else owns nothing. As such, all countries practice a form of mediated capitalism: market functioning is limited by governmental action. Certain markets are not allowed to exist, while others are managed via regulation.

There is no inherent reason why capitalism cannot be adapted to preserve the utility of markets while simultaneously eliminating poverty.
Builds break over time[0]. Generally this is from big updates like gcc, glibc, llvm, openssl, etc.

Most software which is maintained upstream and within nixpkgs is fine. But there's a bunch of "cruft" that you accumulate over time.

[0]: https://hydra.nixos.org/jobset/nixpkgs/trunk

P.S. The link above builds for x86_64-linux, aarch64-linux, aarch64-darwin, x86_64-darwin, which also contributes to the failure rate.
Citation please

edit: Found this. He meant the opposite. Of course.

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/06/01/us/politics/flynn-coup-go...
Agreed.

lon, lat is x, y.
k-NN methods always love more data and can be embarrassingly competitive with far fancier algorithms. Should always be considered as a classification baseline:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/K-nearest_neighbors_algorithm
Perhaps for selfish reasons, I prefer to work in an office. First off, I have small children who have a nanny, and so I get interrupted a lot at home (my office at work is relatively quiet). Second, I live in the Bay Area so I theorize that my compensation is implicitly tied to a need to go into the office.

The fact that my work is not WFH has the side effect of limiting the talent pool to those who can move to the Bay Area. I bet there are thousands of people world-wide who could do my job better and for less pay, if only they could immigrate to the U.S. I expect that paying Bay Area compensation for remote roles is transitory.
> 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.

Exactly this.

The "hmm I should get lunch WHAT DO YOU MEAN IT'S THREE O'CLOCK? CRAP" days are the most productive.
I sent out invites for everyone to my Viagra party and no-one turned up. I guess the invites all went in the spam.
I guess there is a bunch of data hiding behind the curtains, and there is human feeding the data to the model. However I don’t agree with GP here as a ventriloquist’s dummy is not doing anything a human can’t. A well trained language model can produce an output in seconds what it takes human weeks to.
That whole catalog is incredible, like a time machine.

I remember looking in awe at the Sears catalog every time one came by mail, then all the smaller specialty ones.

I get similar feelings looking back at heathkit catalogs from 1950s, 1960s, then there are the Radio Shack catalogs when the TRS-80 first came out, the world seemed like it was going to be amazing...

( https://heathkitcatalogs.com )
You would likely be interested in pages 5,6 of the paper/proposal. It looks like the "Figure of Merit" (FM) is used to "compare efficiency and performance of aerial screws to conventional rotors." If I read the graphs on page 6 correctly the screw gets in the range of 5-30% of the efficiency of a conventional rotor.

http://vfs.umd.edu/assets/downloads/2020_elico.pdf
> The purpose of MCAS is to give the MAX the same aircraft handling characteristics so that it retains the original 737's type rating.

The article mentions that prominently in a few paragraphs, this is the first one:

“That's because the major selling point of the 737 Max is that it is just a 737, and any pilot who has flown other 737s can fly a 737 Max without expensive training, without recertification, without another type of rating.”
I think the issue less about finding a good number and more about promoting critical thinking so people can go to a space, consume the words and then call bullshit as they wish.
You know how on Twitter sometimes you can "heart" a tweet by mistake (just scrolling and inadvertently tapping the heart icon), and that can be used against you years later?

Donate $1 to some charity, and later it turns out this charity gave to Trump. And you'll be cancelled for life!
Ironic that these designs seem to most closely resemble soviet town designs.

A lot of things didn't work out but some places seem to have had great urban planning. Particularly - look at that picture of the Estonian city.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Urban_planning_in_communist_co...
The proper social immune response is mockery, not outrage or negotiation.
+1 on health as well. I worked at SpaceX earlier in my career. Others wrote about how having just a career for meaning in your life can have downsides and I wholeheartedly agree. Let me tell you that job gave me meaning, novelty everyday, launching rockets into space, non work friends always asking questions.

The downside for me was I absolutely neglected my health because work was more meaningful than basically anything else, relationships, fitness, family. Focusing on fitness, when I left the company I realized how terrible my health situation was. Lots of late nights, lunch at my desk, and lack of physical activity took a huge toll.

Getting to a healthier state fixed all the usual stuff, but also unexpectedly gave me mental happiness and has made me a better data scientist as well. I wrote a blog post detailing out why desk nerds should very much consider taking on healthy habits, and it brings me so much joy to see others here have seen similar results as well.

https://ravinkumar.com/WhyFitness.html
Besides fresh vegetables, I like oatmeal / porridge, freshly cooked with skimmed milk as a breakfast, which is a good start in the day. You can combine it with fresh fruit if you like.

Or take a look at bircher muesli.
Hell f'ing no. Traditional and inverse totalitarianism in one go. This would be "amazing" for taxation, mining people's habits, and financial crimes but brutal to individuals who can be located or shut-out of the economy entirely. The unbanked would also be left twisting in the wind.
Tracing the Tribe
Mysterious illness early on (February 2019), high fever for about 6 hours, loss of taste and smell for about a month. Subsequent antibody test revealed I had original covid.
Yes, that's true. But we also need them to build the housing.
I remember it being unpopular, but haven't seen results on the NYC one specifically. Wikipedia has a roundup of results on a few similar implementations, though, and they seem to somewhat work: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sugary_drink_tax#Consumption
Working from home can get to a point where you feel like you are stuck in some time loop and going crazy, but it's better to take time off and go around and be in different env, than to be required to commute daily and sit in meetings you have no say or impact on you at least with remote you can mute yourself and relax.
Off-topic as it's neither a paper magazine, nor particularly varied, but I recommend Carbon Brief [1]. This is how they define themselves: "Carbon Brief is a UK-based website covering the latest developments in climate science, climate policy and energy policy".

The content is really of very high quality, on a subject that is often butchered in mainstream media.

[1] https://www.carbonbrief.org/
> Notice for example, where are the parking lots and gas stations in this plan?

There's a hand-wavey section about it on Page 18:

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"One of the reasons the traffic jam — with its fretting of nerves and honking of horns — has vanished is that parking in the streets has vanished… Magically you [sic] car has found a place for itself, convenient for you, out of the way of traffic.

Because this central city is planned to do certain things, because space doesn't have to be wasted on things the other cites [sic] do better, there is ample room here… Every office building is on a park and on a parking lot as well.

Every time you put a desk into an office building, you provide space for a car outside. For department store, theaters, the sports arena, and other places where people gather in tremendous numbers, you make special arrangements… underground parking in one place, overhead in another… It can be done… with methodical precision…

Trucking also has almost disappeared from the hub, vast quantities of goods come in, chiefly by boat or train… shoes and food and furniture… motor cars and fountain pens and clocks… for this is the distributing center of the entire area… But the goods are lifted from the boats and the train platform by carriers… and they are distributed by a carrier system to the proper warehouses, and never come into the crowded area."

============

They really tell on themselves there with the description of how their ideal community has freight trains but conspicuously not passenger trains, RE: https://www.gothamcenter.org/blog/the-end-of-the-african-ame... for example.

"From 1890 to 1900 the African American population in Manhattan grew by 41 percent from 25,674 to 36,246. Behind these numbers was the growing exodus of blacks from southern states. Seeking to escape racial violence, declining economic opportunities, and legalized segregation, African Americans moved to northern cities like New York in increasing numbers.

A few years after the 1900 riot [in which whites attacked blacks in midtown following the stabbing of an undercover police officer by a black man], as Harlem land values increased with the first subway line nearing completion in 1904, the black residents, once sought as renters in Harlem, became the targets of an organized removal effort by some white Harlem property owners.

The [New York Herald] article also suggested that a rent increase “which the parlor car porters[0] could pay, but their colored inferiors could not,” had previously been used as a strategy to remove the undesirable tenants. According to The Herald, the owners’ target was the “colored inferiors,” but the “wealthy railroad porters” were also caught in the net of the eviction effort."

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pullman_porter

See also: when people use the dogwhistle "Manhattenization" to describe city growth as a bad thing.
This would be a great idea if our government wasn't complete corrupt and we could trust it. I find it hard to believe that the people pushing it are acting in good faith.
If you're interested in the technical answer, this is the SCOTUS case law that decided that postal mail was subject to the Fourth Amendment:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ex_parte_Jackson
To see how tyranny can be instituted by combining a non anonymous transaction system with vaccine passport look at the promo video for Bill Gates funded wallet Thales

https://youtu.be/PxvNzzgoJX8

All across the world a China style social credit score called ESG is now being adopted by banks.

https://youtu.be/8f1Z57hwbWY

What happens when they decide you used up your quota? No flight, no meat or no car ride for you because they won’t let you spend your money.
I'd rather like to see something similar to `python -m http.server`, that way you don't need a separate server and you don't need to copy the file, just run the program.
First comment on hackaday is "a one gig installer? no thank you".

Exactly the first reason why I don't consider cadquery a viable tool (not the only one): conda is a monstrosity (even miniconda) that will irrevocably maim your system if you're crazy enough to install it.

Another reason is this: selecting a subcomponent in a complex hierarchical model is basically a nightmare:

https://github.com/dcowden/cadquery/issues/29
Reverse engineering biology is like studying the Terminator brain chip from Terminator 2.

Regular expressions, perceptron, neocognitron, genetic algorithms, deep learning...
Benefit of the doubt if something takes longer than I estimate or if I decide to casually take an afternoon off to go talk to my aunt.
I wrote about how my experience in airliner mechanical design influenced the D programming language:

Origins of the D Programming Language
https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/3386323

Software development can learn a lot from aviation designs.
People are tribal. The enemy has to be a tribe of people that are “other”.
When roller-coasters are mandated by governments and employers then your comparison will make sense.
Tuttle, Buttle. Ministry of Information charges.

Also ran into this interesting history-fiction comparative analysis from 2004: http://www.oilempire.us/brazil.html
Google Chrome gets a new logo after 8 years
Speaking as someone who has at times felt the same as OP, some people's empathy or emotional reactivity is just amped up higher than average for whatever reason. You can argue that they shouldn't, or mustn't, or should do something else, but navigating all of that is simply more distracting and exhausting for some than others.
When I want to focus, I pause slack notifications. Slack provide a way to still send it, but in my workplace people tend to respect that setting unless it is a real emergency.
> if someone offers me a job at an early startup I will laugh in their face. For me the future choices will either be my own startup,

If and when you found a company, how do you plan to handle the situation when an engineer laughs at your face when you try to hire them?
When I first came to the Bay Area I was thrilled that California law stated unequivocally that I could work on, and profit by, my own stuff on my own time and equipment. I exploited that law by consulting on other projects while I worked for Intel.

But what I discovered was that since I had made "home" as much an office as "work" I didn't have anywhere to go that wasn't "work." That was very stressful for me since sometimes you really do need to get away.

After that experience I became much more judicious about working from home. A trick I used to help maintain mental sanity was to "set up" a home office for doing work when I needed/wanted to work from home, but then taking it down when I was done. That it wasn't there was the important bit in allowing me to not get stressed out about it.
Not sure if you’re just unhappy about the minimalist landing page, but click around from there, lots of nicely done articles.
Upthread I also stressed the importance of using lower quality displays to account for that aspect of real world usage. The point of having high quality displays to support users who don’t is to be able to reliably understand what’s being displayed in the first place. If you’re working at low fidelity you can only address the users who have the same system flaws you do.