skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
On both the LA flights, and the EA flight, the crews restored normal trim by simply using the electric trim switches, multiple times. One of the LA flights recognized runaway trim, and turned the trim system off after restoring normal trim, and landed without further incident. The other two flights did not.

The EA flight received an Emergency Airworthiness Directive instructing them to (1) restore normal trim with the electric trim switches and then (2) turning off the trim system with the cutoff switch. They did not follow those directions.

Runaway stabilizer trim is the trim motors coming on and driving the stabilizer in an adverse direction. This is exactly how the MCAS failure presented itself. The author tries to claim it isn't really runaway trim, an argument which doesn't make sense.
Typing tests with random words are garbage for testing your typing speed.

The discordant nature of random words just doesn't flow well and you end up stumbling (mentally) because of it.
I like anywhere between a couple days a quarter to a couple days a week in the office, with the rest at a coffeeshop or coworking space.

I mean...what I ACTUALLY like is not having to work for a living, but I'm a wage slave, so that's not an option
No time to exercise? A fitness routine everyone can squeeze in
every manager worth their salt climbs from being an engineer, so they should already know this
Yeah I’ve been working from home for near on 12 years. I’d rather take a drastic pay cut and change careers than ever go back. I fully understand why some people like (or even “need”) it, but I absolutely despise it.

I get way more work done in a lot less time, save time and stress due to the commute, see my family more, and have significantly better mental health due to all those previous points.

I did miss the office a bit earlier in my WFH career when video conferencing wasn’t as common, but these days it’s not an issue at all and you still get face time with your colleagues etc.
With the caveat that I don't know if I actually believe the premise...

Good.

The tech sector is, without a doubt, incredibly important, and we need it to be strong and innovative if we're to continue to make real advances. But Silicon Valley has become too entrenched, too risk-averse as a whole, and far, far too much up its own ass to recognize what the world in general actually needs.

Hardly a day goes by when I don't see someone working in the tech sector in California posting on here in ways that so clearly betray their staggering failure to understand how most people—including most people working in tech!—live, and by extension what they need, and what will improve their lives. The bubble is real, and it is pervasive.

The world does not need companies with trillion-dollar valuations. It does not need more ways to get people to click on ads. It does not need more ways to make already-wealthy people even wealthier.

What the world needs is a solidarity among tech workers (and others, of course) that recognizes that life, and human dignity and satisfaction, come first, and lets that recognition drive them to create software, hardware, and whatever else they can to improve those things. That's....not going to come out of Silicon Valley as it exists today, so if the shifts currently underway do take it down, I say so much the better.
I believe we have a responsibility to find and trust guides on our own, and make or revise them... I experience, visible in my recent post history on here, many times in recent memory, where I get driven by rage cycles to a point where I'm not who I know I ought to be and could have been. I laugh about it to myself, but I know I love a good verbal joust, which if not handled carefully can be very bad for me and the other person. Some of those "censorship" tools are in my own mind, or accessible to it where I can ignore what riles me up. I'm not omnipotent in that way, but there's work that can be done, and helped, to be appropriately dispassionate.
The text-only browser I am using does not support CSS.

It does not send E-tag headers either. The local forward proxy removes all HTTP headers except Host and Connection, and Cookie where needed.
And you can get even more in India. I don't see the point of this article really. You're just taking advantage of the conversion rate to get cheaper services from a bunch of people that get paid much less than you. I'm not saying this is wrong for others to do, but it gives me a weird feeling personally. If that's your thing there are plenty of countries with favorable conversion rates around the world. But in many countries, just being an American makes you a target. Sometimes for scams, sometimes for violence
I've been fully remote since 2017. It's not just about personal convenience. The fully remote teams I've been a part of tend to have far more efficient meetings. I've now pushed status checks or round robin style stuff to Slack workflows. Every meeting I go to in this "good" remote world has an agenda, and generally good discussions. And I actually feel like more of a part of large organizations.

Yeah, we are planning proper "meatspace" get togethers, which will help gel the team more. But that's 2-4x a year. I don't think that needs to happen a lot to really reap some social benefits.

For everyone seeking more social interaction; just go find it locally, outside of work.

I guess I'm fully in the camp of work being intense, but time bound. And that's what remote work affords me, though I've learned to draw the lines between my work time and my personal time starkly. Once you get it right, office environments feel like such a drag in comparison.
Google-funded opinion: https://kstatic.googleusercontent.com/files/565eb487f8cf9f96...

Posted by: Cato Institute

Written by: Staff at NetChoice, George Mason University

It is not coincidental every single one of these is paid by Google to publish material protecting Google's liability shield.
As a software developer I have been working from home for 20 years, I have no intention of ever changing this setup. I do better, more quality work when I can control my environment and minimize disruption.

I have taken less pay in order to keep this going. It's well worth it when you consider the costs of commuting.
Only with direct link, you’ll notice it’s suddenly not on any of the first 10 pages despite being one of the most, if not the most, active threads during that time. I can keep clicking to see if it’s on the 20th or something, but if that’s the case, would be helpful for HN to explain that behavior as well to avoid us attributing it to maliciousness in the future.
You're right, but that's a different issue from requiring the airplane to be dynamically stable in all its flight modes.
Getting police involved often makes things more dangerous for everybody. It's absolutely not something teachers should be doing except in extreme circumstances.
The idea of data not leaving the EU is something I never fully understood.

Years ago, before GDPR was a thing, it was still required, at least in some situations, to store data in the EU. But...how does having a server physically in the EU, and people on other continents ssh'ing in, protect EU citizens?

It had crossed my mind that maybe only EU citizens were supposed to access it, but I'm not a lawyer, much less an international one.
I'll never go back to an office. I've had two kids since the pandemic started and working from home has allowed me to spend way more time than I ever expected to. It's not worth anything else to be in the office. I don't have a commute so I can use those hours to get things done, plus I'm not fatigued/drained by dodging traffic, etc. I was also able to move to a lower cost of living area, which also happens to be closer to family which also helps with childcare. WFH is more human. Going to work was a total grind which I don't thing I could physically or mentally put up with again (if I weren't forced to by necessity). Plus remote work also allows me to live closer to things I want to do (like mountains for alpine sports).
Probably a "duty of care" thing... if two teenagers are having a knife fight on the basketball court, sure, it's not reasonable to expect a teacher to break that up. Two seven year olds brawling over trivial nonsense? That sort of thing should be easily broken up by a teacher, and in fact involving police would be both a waste of police time that would be better spent on real crime, and also a drastic overreach - that's how you end up with those ridiculous "primary schooler arrested for holding a stick vaguely shaped like a gun" headlines.

Teaching as a profession is in an awful state, but involving more police is not the solution. Better pay, student to teacher ratios, and so on would go a long way towards making it an attractive profession again. Also, in my opinion education (even at the tertiary level) has become too "customer service" focused, and many children are no longer taught to respect educators by their parents, which leads to appalling behaviour. There needs to be an overall attitude shift to help repair the teacher-student relationship.
I'm WFH and will never go to an office again, unless a team convinces me I'm missing something by being there, and I seriously doubt that will ever happen at this point in my career.
It's not difficult at all to use qwerty.
And I don't use Dvorak on mobile... Although I should probably try it.
I have felt some of this. I setup zoom meetings occasionally with coworkers that I used to chat in the hallway with. It is a nice way to keep the connections, and despite the purpose of just shooting the breeze, usually some productive discussion comes out of it.
Where does that wiki say that the FAA requires the active yaw damper?
It wasn’t abrupt… they even say right after they didn’t think it would actually hit. They should have disengaged the moment it started to take the turn wrong. Not let it try to fix itself.
My experience is almost exactly contrary.

At home, I get a "guilty" feeling if I don't work 100% effectively for the whole day. At the office, I never felt pressured to "code" the full eight hours, as I could see nobody was doing so (in Slack it seems everyone else is always green/present.)

At the office, I'd fill the day with conversations, lunch and coffee breaks, and other meaningful interactions with other programmers, managers, designers and various other stakeholders.

At home, when I need to take a mental break I just get bored and start procrastinating with the computer. If I go see my family to the other room we talk family business.

I look forward to returning to the office. Immense amounts of information just never get communicated over Slack & Zoom. I feel like working in a dark tunnel for the past 2 years and going.

If I wanted to sharply focus on a specific task for the whole eight hours I could do unlimited remote already pre-Covid. I used this option rarely, as these days could get quite exhausting.
> Going to an office to write software is absolutely insane.

Why?

Writing software, especially in a large organization, is often an inherently social job, just like many others. You often need heads down time to actually get into flow and produce code, but that doesn't mean interaction with others isn't a significant part of it as well.
That's insane. The cheapest equivalent product over here would cost you 65c AUD (about US$0.50). I'm not even sure 13p would cover the cost of the empty can!
> some companies forbid their employees to even read GPL source

Is this really common enough it's even worth mentioning?
Cut it. Citing a principle from old scripture is not proselytizing. Maybe you don't like reading old stories, but some others do. I enjoyed the read and think it's relevant to the discussion.

We can choose how to look at the shared responsibility. No reason to restrict discussion to current legal doctrine.
I'm a software manager and this isn't what happens in practice at all. The more comfortable they are, the sloppier and lazy their resulting code as they feel no pressure to take their work seriously. I can, and will, stand behind devs for hours to keep them determined and on-task.
Thinking in Circuits
Wfh
Does "praise" mean "cash" or "promotion" (and if so, does "promotion" mean "more cash")? If not, why would you care about praise?
Not sure if it would help you. But i would track this trial: https://clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/show/NCT04997395

Based on this research: https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.abi6110

( Was discussed on HN before)
Prior to covid, was coming in a couple hours before everyone else and get most of my coding done before standup. After standup was lunch, so got the camaraderie. When we started WFH, meetings started to drag out longer and longer. It got to the point where I would DM the PM to stop snoring.

Fave work environment was at a co-working space in Bali. No talking allowed in the AirCon room. So, you're around two dozen people whom are intently focused in getting work done. No interruptions and yet high energy. For Human connection, just pop out into the other space, where talking is allowed. Plus, shared lunches or tea throughout the week. Best of both worlds.
I'm pretty sure the Pro Max 12 has the same screen settings. I also wonder about maximized windows on a 1080p monitor. I know DPI of desktop monitors at one point was a constant returned value.
Jonathan Lebed's Extracurricular Activities
What was the first best way?
Stop repeating this misinformation. Many of the "deleted" guests still have other episodes that are up.
I see the comment section is already just like YouTube's. Impressive work
Personally I like to eat sliced green bell pepper, carrots, celery, and tomatoes with lite ranch as both a snack and often breakfast/"desert". Not entirely sure exactly how much fiber you get from any of those foods, but pretty sure the green bell pepper and celery are pretty high in it.
That's pretty cool you work for a company with a culture that makes that possible. You're probably in the minority when it comes to office workers, though.

> Why are you pretending to program the full 9-5?

I'm not, because I now work from home. Where people value my actual work output, and not the hours I'm sitting in a chair, where my manager can see me.
Other companies are buying hydrogen locomotives: https://www.trains.com/trn/news-reviews/news-wire/cp-to-buil...
Given the efficiency of rail, is fuel even a considerable part of their costs?
I'm a [graduate] student and developer working from home and doing classes from home. I am without a doubt less engaged in class, and I am completely loving it. I put my headphones on and do chores around my apartment and treat class like a podcast. When discussion or "lab" sections roll around, I pop over to my computer and engage with my friends/classmates for some collaborative social interaction. Especially as a person who is working with code during group sections 98% of the time, it is SO much easier to share what we are doing. The days of 3-4 students crowded around somebody's beat up 2016 Macbook are over, at least for me. Screen share, remote control, and a chat to drop useful links/resources is heaven on earth in comparison. Not to mention, thanks to not needing to make breakfast, eat it, pick out a nice outfit, make my bed, wash the dishes, commute, etc. before class, I am getting more sleep than I can ever remember, because I'm doing all of those mindless tasks during class.
Agree, definitely. Even working from home, for temporary separation from distractions this is ideal. Rooms are unreasonably expensive and the toll of not partitioning and ensconcing enough people and things with them is steep.
I find that I get more emotionally jerked around working in person and can insulate myself from it working from home.

Coworker acts curt to me as though they are superior and more productive than me? Rage ensues and I get an ungodly amount of work done.

Come across an inspiring/encouraging coworker or get recognition for something? I feel great and feel like I take more risks.

Coworker types super loud or acts inconsiderately? My productivity is hampered and I keep focusing on that instead of getting work done.

Attractive coworker or someone I want to impress within sight? I can’t concentrate on actual productivity and try to overcompensate by typing more and acting zoned in.

Feel like a social failure during lunch and forced to sit passively as a couple douchebag workers on adderall dominate the conversation? Feel like a bitch for a few hours.

At home, I’m as productive as I need to be and my motivation allows me to be. No more emotional volatility regarding how I relate to others around me.

Fucking incredible if you ask me.
Yeah I've been WFH since 2018, and I'm not a people person, but dang... I miss people.

On the flip side, being able to drop everything and go to the DMV without feeling the social pressure to skip lunch or work late is nice. I feel like I only have a finite number of super productive hours a day, and it's not eight, and they're not always squished together back to back.
Sorry, it's not meant to be a gotcha, I think it's more than accidentally using the wrong word, I think we are indeed taught that of course we "need" an enemy, such that we just repeat it/internalize it without even considering what we're saying. And it's terrifying.

The point was very much not clear. Go back and look at your first comment. It clearly read to me as saying we needed a common enemy so the question was what country was most suitable. I was not intentionally misreading it. And I don't think it's at all unusual for Americans to think what it clearly said. And it's terrifying.
I struggle with ADHD, and I know I work much more effectively from the office. I learned during the pandemic that I really need and missed the social interactions that occur in the office, both for my mental health and for my job (there's nothing wfh that beats a five minute hallway conversation to meet new people, learn about projects, brainstorm, problem solve, etc etc). I also need the commute to help force me to bike and stay in shape (and it does wonders for my mood!).

But at the same time, the flexibility of working from home is incredible. I have been baking like a fiend because it's perfectly suited for the periodic breaks I take during the day. I can take a nap or go for a walk almost whenever I want. I don't feel bad about these things because I'm not wasting time walking to a meeting or waiting in line for the bathroom, and they make me more productive.

So, hybrid I guess.
It's already happening: https://www.trains.com/trn/news-reviews/news-wire/cp-to-buil...

You're just outdated on your info.
I would be very surprised if body/emotion metaphors weren't endemic in language.

I don't speak too many languages, but I 've noticed that grokking English expressions isn't too hard for most tourists. "Chip on the shoulder", head in the game (or the clouds), foot in the mouth, butterflies in the stomach, etc; all seem fairly understandable to tourists who hear the expression.

Some have a very literal origin - "scared shitless", for example - that I would look for first.
Surely this post is parody, right?
That’s completely inapposite to the point being made above. Choosing a curriculum is about curation—it has nothing at all to do with free speech, neither in the legal sense, nor in the broader “free speech values” sense.
When I lived in the city I would take hikes in forest preserves and parks. That is what worked for me to cure the doldrums of winter, and even being alone. It made a huge difference.

Look into "Shinrin-Yoku". I hadn't heard about this until a few years ago, but it confirmed what it did for me.

I live in a forest now and still make a point to get outside and walk the paths I have on our little 5 acres. Just getting out and sitting in the midst of it works. Give it a shot.
American cancer society:

https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.cancer.org/cancer/cancer-ca...
It (the post) received only 38 up-votes in the three hours it has been up.

Since story ranking for the front page appears to be in part based upon number of up-votes per unit time, it is very possible that only 38 votes over a three hour period was simply not a fast enough up-vote rate to keep it on any of the first X pages below the front page.
> the hit to team cohesion led to long term productivity losses

It obviously ought to, right, or else why does (should) anyone care about team cohesion in the first place?
I swore I saw docker images mentioned in their docs when I looked the other day?
I found a Green Hills page with a little more info.

https://www.ghs.com/news/20110427_esc_silicon_valley11.html

Sounds like GH's founder just really likes dinosaurs. (To be clear, if I was in that kind of financial position, I'd absolutely have a T-rex skull, or better yet the whole dinosaur, on display in the lobby).
P.S. My dad was in the Air Force during the transition from propellers to jets. He said there were a lot of crashes from expert prop pilots thinking a jet was just a faster and higher flying propeller machine.

Jet pilots require substantially different flight training.
Do you generally have a good time on the web with that?
An abstraction layer makes itself most visible when it fails. Avoiding failure requires better or less abstraction layers. In many cases I don't trust others to build correct abstraction layers, good UI libraries, reliable GPU drivers that don't corrupt memory when sleeping the system, etc. (Filesystems and virtual memory are largely reliable in the common case, though it's still common to avoid filesystems and allocations and swapping in real-time code, and schedulers cause grief when they cause media payback to stutter when I'm running compiler jobs.) Often I trust myself to work with less abstraction layers, more than I trust others to build better ones.
Trade deals may encourage technology transfers
> As an employee: I found that the office felt empty and dead which made me question commuting in. Nobody was really around to go to happy hours or have events. A significant portion of the people I wanted to be around were opting to stay home more.

Having a fixed office day really helps. Also, what I really liked about the hybrid approach is that the commute can actually be better; i.e. I don't mind driving 1h to work if I do so once per week.

> It's a revelation to realize that you don't _need_ to be IRL buddies with coworkers, just do great work together, and then go do your own thing.

You also don't need to love your job, you just need to pay your bills. I don't think this is a revelation; at least for me, being friends with my coworkers is a significant part of what makes working fun. And even with WFH you still spend a lot of time working. This is of course just preference; if you're not much into socializing, cutting out that part of your life and instead spend the time somewhere else can make sense.
"several airliners were deemed to be unsafe to fly without an active yaw damper."
Why Can’t We Pay Attention Anymore?
> Commuting is literally wasted life

Commuting is not the same as setting time on fire. The distraction endemic negates the advantage and makes it worse.
The forced time in the car with limited options lets me use it somewhat productively, notably makes me do one thing. I spend that time thinking about work, taking phone calls, sometimes listening to podcasts and audiobooks. I have read zero books, but finished 2 audiobooks in the car this year. I find myself setting time on fire during weekends on social media. If instead of commuting the hours are spent on Netflix/Social media etc has gone up then the point is moot.
It must have been literally half my life I fell asleep to Robin Lustig on The World Tonight followed by Book at Bedtime, Today in Parliament then Sailing By and the Shipping Forecast. A habit I picked up from my mother, this same sequence of programs (I've left out a few, I know) was broadcast every weeknight from 10pm on Radio 4 since seemingly the dawn of the time until I left the UK. I'm actually surprised I can fall asleep without hearing the Shipping Forecast now!