skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I watched Downfall and I have to say that while they technically avoided lying about the actions of the EA302 crew, the storyline they presented doesn’t match the flight data recorder data.

Downfall says “the crew knew about the MCAS risk, figured out they had an MCAS fault, applied Boeing’s checklist response, and still the airplane crashed”. All four of those things are independent and true facts.

What is omitted (and readily available to the filmmakers) is that EA302’s thrust setting remained inappropriately high (94% N1, takeoff thrust), causing an excessive airspeed, causing the crew to be unable to return the stabilizer to a normal trim setting by hand after using the electric cutout, which led them to the (correct) conclusion that they should turn the electric stab trim back on and command aircraft-nose-up via the electric system, which they did. That means that they undid the checklist response. Then, after doing that successfully for a short period of time, they stopped commanding nose-up trim and left the stab trim powered up (contravening the checklist), allowing MCAS to continue to command the fatal nose down trim.

So they got dealt an emergency situation and the airplane crashed. Boeing has some blame here, but Downfall’s presentation of the events as the crew responding correctly with Boeing’s checklist would make most politicians blush and worry they’d be caught lying.
Outlook makes sense because they use React Native in their app. If you look at their License sections they are using a ton of libraries which is common.
I like this idea and it has lots of ups and I can’t think of many downsides.
I was more interested in the piece about the stealth bomber in this:
https://youtu.be/PFWT2oPhf1w?t=1570
Cloudflare Tunnel is what I (maintainer of OP list) currently recommend for most people. It's an excellent free service. Main downsides are:

* You can't do end-to-end encryption, ie Cloudflare terminates TLS for all requests and can see your data.

* Cloudflare's ToS specifically says you can only use the free tier for HTML websites. Anything else (ie video streaming, photo albums, etc) is technically grounds for suspension, although that seems to be rare in practice.

* Not open source. You can't self-host the server. (EDIT: Client is Apache licensed now) Client source code is available but not FOSS.
This might be the right model if web media were an ideal marketplace, with a variety of competing options to choose from.

That's clearly not the case. A better model is that Google has tried to limit your options to "either do business with us or don't watch popular media", with only partial success because a lot of people don't like either option. I think the truth of this model is betrayed by the fact that Google has not (yet) embedded the ad in to the same video stream as the content. They have not really tried to out-block ublock because they'd rather you steal youtube videos than support a different platform.
Please correct me if I’m wrong, but aren’t you still being tracked by Google even when using YouTube Premium? So while you not get ads, you are still paying an additional cost that is your data which is used for ads elsewhere.
> grow your customer base

> give away your services for cheap

I think your parent comment's view is that these go hand in hand. Sure, there are tons of bad examples of this which really do only amount to selling $1 for 90c. Sometimes, however, the point of customer acquisition isn't just so that you can switch from selling $1 for 90c to selling 90c for $1 (which won't work), but to solve your scaling problems before you try making a profit. It's easier to fix issues and deploy new or experimental technologies in a period of easy money and customers flooding your doors than it is when you're skating by on thin margins.
Obviously porn is not a necessity to rub one out, especially if you're really, really horny. As I was.

However, being in that really horny frame of mind, you really dont want to jerk off at all, or even watch porn frankly - that is not what you want at all. You want to fuck a woman in the most direct-est animalistic raw kind of way.

I wouldn't have rubbed one out without porn, it wouldn't have happened.

Instead you do stupid shit, like start texting all your EX-es, or going on dates with woman you don't really even like or consider booking a prostitutes and all sorts of fucked up stuff...

Being horny, really horny is a trip, an altered state of mind is what i'm going to say.

Porn very effectively brings you back to earth and disables biological imperatives in a quick and enjoyable way (hell, it's not even particularly enjoyable after an extended long abstinence, since it's is waaay to intense).

Porn is definitely easy to abuse for some people, but it doesn't mean it's all bad, it is extremely useful tool.
This would be a company benefit that I'd be excited about. Have say quarterly talks from people who have built things we are using, maybe have them dig into the internals a bit and walk us through the codebase.
Kobos let you install custom book-reading software without too much hassle. KOReader[0] is the most popular one. I like it because it allows for a ton of customization, can properly render pretty much any EPUB you throw at it (much better than stock), and can reflow PDFs (using K2pdfopt[1] under the hood). But there are some other alternatives, including Plato[2] (simple, easy to use, fewer features) and PBChess[3] (closed source, play chess on your Kobo).

The MobileRead forums[4] are quite active, you'll find a lot more there.

[0] https://github.com/koreader/koreader
[1] https://www.willus.com/k2pdfopt/
[2] https://github.com/baskerville/plato
[3] http://pbchess.vlasovsoft.net/en/
[4] https://www.mobileread.com/forums/forumdisplay.php?f=223
Sorry to rant, but... I drives me nuts when people use "could" in this context.

5G has been in development for over a decade I think. It's been deployed in the real world since 2019. So what the fuck have the FAA and FCC been doing in that time? You would have thought someone would have actually determined whether 5G can interfere with one of the most popular commercial aircraft?

Really? No one checked? No one asked?

This has been a mainstream news story for 4 weeks.

And no one at the FAA or FCC has put a 5G antenna next to an 737 and even tried check? No one has put together pilots logs or looked at aircraft systems logs? And in that time presumably 100s of 737s have taken off and landed and flown over these?

At this point, we know 2 things: It's very unlikely this an issue or we'd have seen a lot of serious incidents probably including an actual crash AND we need a federal organisation that manages aircraft safety and another for communications including EM spectrum to avoid inference and we don't actually seem to have either.

I work with trading tech. Nothing complex or amazing. Just money, nothing safety critical. Sometimes things break or we have bugs. I can say a lot of things to my boss when something goes wrong, I can't say "It could be a massive problem, but I haven't bothered checking despite having 4 weeks to at least start" so I don't really know.
Peloton’s plan to conceal rust in its exercise bikes
The question isn't can you reproduce it in an artificial setup, the question is can you do it in the real world? I can think of a lot of ways to cheat in the lab (turn the power to 11...) that create situations that in the real world wouldn't happen and so I wouldn't worry about it. However that doesn't change the fact that if you can recreate it in the real world I'm really worried.
Incredible! This is SUPER useful!
> people who code in go and hate it do so because their code is buggy.

My experience is that these people hate go because it's less expressive and more repetitive. See `if err != nil` as an example.
> Don’t you see lots of people who stubbornly fail to shop around, even though shopping around totally works? I sure do. For virtually any major purchase, I ask the vendor, “Can you do any better?” And guess what? They cut my price two-thirds of the time. Everyone else pays full price.

That's not "shopping around"; that's haggling. The author sounds like kind of an asshole for doing this.
And where is this published?
It's Boeing's job to make sure that the altimeters they put into planes are fit for use. It doesn't matter if those altimeters are sourced from Boeing, General Electric, Uzbekistan, or the Moon - Boeing is the one who has to make sure they work. It's why they make the big bucks.

Boeing can argue with and sue their suppliers, but that's not a problem for anyone but them and their supplier.
> However, I think it is a problem which consumers can't buy themselves out of; pro-consumer legislation is required.

You're right, but it's very hard for me to believe even halfway decent legislation will be passed. It's clear that the political process is not working for the common people, at least not in the US.
> One of the aspects of Trustworthy Computing is that you can trust what's on your computer. Part of that means that there's absolutely NOTHING on your computer that isn't planned.

Yeah, like _NSAKEY. Much planned. Very trustworthy. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NSAKEY
I agree it's unlikely, but it's a negative externality all the same. In general I try to minimize those. It's also highly dependent on the creator's viewer demographic, since the creator only gets paid for ads watched. A tech focused creator probably sees significantly less ad revenue than one with a more general audience.
I think this is a fairly good post actually, though perhaps gets to the point with more words than sufficient. Now that I've had enough shit experiences and pay bumps, I'd absolutely prefer to stay with a company that suits me well, but probably for a maximum of 2 years (none of my work experiences in the first 12 years of adult life have lasted 2 years or more yet). I'm currently with a company that feels like a great fit, but I'm making less than I should be for the area I live in, and the housing crisis demands that Canadian software developers should probably negotiate more aggressively. If my needs are met along all the dimensions the author mentions, then I'd only seek another company if I can be close to certain that I'd love it, it would suit me, and it would be an after-tax gain of 20k or more annually.
Yeah, the constant ad creep is my justification for ad blockers as well: since the service provider doesn't respect me or my privacy, they'll never be content to serve a few simple ads on the side of a video based on the content of that video to pay the server bills. Instead, they'll build a giant Rube Goldberg machine to target ads, hoover up user data, and shove more and more ads in my face. Even when I pay, I still get "original content" shown in my face because it's cheaper for them to serve than content sourced from other providers.

At the end of the day, you just have to put in the legwork to make things optimal for your use case, because they'll never care about you anyway.
It is something that is still not clear to me, I see the difficulty of the task but also the rapid evolution of AI models. Maybe it will surprise us in not too long.
Anyone's who hires an AI person unknowingly, probably doesn't know the difference.

I mean, you can call it optimization with a specially chosen sparse function if you like.
I agree they are undervalued. That said, AMD is growing quickly in terms of earnings, and intel is not. I think it’s a matter of time and impeccable execution before Intel is winning again.
This is about what I was thinking, there's a bunch of decent hosting services that will give you a real low-end server for $5/month. Can anybody who is currently going to college in a first-world country not afford that? There's even a few services listed in this thread that can give you a real server for free, perhaps with a little more mucking around.
Renaissance Technologies: https://www.rentec.com/

One of the top quantitative hedge funds in the world, 90s era website.

Wikipedia page for RT: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Renaissance_Technologies
Especially with how hard people fought to make cryptography NOT a munition.
Why not make something safe instead of trying to end run an economic incentive to safety? Airplanes are one of the safest per mile form of transportation in the US because we regulate the actual safe flight instead of playing economic games to get companies to act safely.
Yes, I have one I lay on my dash if t sits longer than a few days
Maybe. If you look at the mobile app industry, which emerged when it was easier to pay for services, you still have a glut of demand for free or $0.99 apps.
I've been meaning to add Tor to the list. PRs welcome.
Guard frequency (121.5) is different than "guard bands" in this context. Guard bands are, as was guessed, a frequency range at the edge of an allocation where no energy is /intentionally/ transmitted, and where received signal /should be/ disregarded. Basically it allows the reality of some frequency spillage to be accommodated between what would otherwise be adjacent frequency allocations.
I would not like to order my dystopian cyberpunk future from IBM's or Oracle's or Microsoft's mail order catalogues, please.

IIUC, you needed to license each individual core of IBM's POWER servers. And then license the exact set of software features you needed enabled.

I don't think I need to talk about Oracle licensing.

I only recently learned (aww, can't re-find the comment) that Microsoft volume licensing in enterprise charges a seat license for Macs not running Windows.

This feels like an even more depressed reinvention of that. Me not want.
There seems to be evidence that there's just a turf war going on:

https://www.wsj.com/articles/pete-buttigiegs-5g-crash-landin...

Overall it seems like the FCC was trying to be innovative, while the FAA's precaution in fact is the malaise that's been infecting all of US government: overapplication of the precautionary principle, that any risk, even if small an theoretical, is worth stopping change for (but not asymmetrically for motivating change).
It’s a big deal because it’s shovel ready for improvements.

When the Feds someday allocate billions to bike infrastructure, they’ll get the sidewalks, etc.

Imo securing rights of way that can be a framework for a future system is key.
To take nothing away from the power of the manufacturers, I wonder to what extent local dealerships have had influence. In suburbia and mid-sized cities, the owners of dealerships tend to have a big say in local politics.
I suppose everyone has a different threshold. Personally I'm reminded of this meme:

"Sure I can paint a horse, I've heard them described many times"
http://cdn.cavemancircus.com//wp-content/uploads/images/2019...

The fact someone can write so many words about introversion and never actually explain what it is just helps perpetuate misunderstandings. It takes energy for an introvert to be around other people, extroverts gain energy around others. There are omniverts as well of course. All behaviors are derived from there. See how hard that was to write?

It doesn't necessarily have anything to do with whether someone "has a need for human connection", that is completely unrelated to introversion. But now we have pieces like this try to make the case that introverts have no need for human connection, and then helpfully investigates if this is a condition that needs treatment. Totally harmless.
What happened to the actix project?

Asking, because I use it daily :)
> My main consideration is for content creators, especially since the ad revenue is passed through to them. Any concern I have about YouTube not being able to sustain itself does not come from a place of caring about Google's livelihood.

The best solution I've found to this is to support content creators directly. Subscribe to their Patreon, Liberapay, GoFundMes, etc. Most YouTubers who sincerely try to make a living from their content already do this. Or just disable adblock for a video or two.
I've done this. A long time ago I did QA for a layout product and a lot of the issues were along the lines of "place this square next to this text in this certain way, see the attached screenshot for what it looks like".

The square could have been anything but I had a very cute picture of my toddler so I used a photo of them instead. So now somewhere in a database there are hundreds of reports with a picture of my kid in them :)
> The lack of consumer-oriented legislation is the proximal cause for devices phoning home, spying on you, locking you out of the goods you've purchased (that is, dictating how you can and cannot use the good) and which resist the user's need to repair or extend.

I wholeheartedly agree, and it snowballs. The way I see it is:

1. One time purchases are the least lucrative.

2. Subscription fees, and therefore control of device, are more lucrative than one time purchases.

3. Advertising (tracking, privacy invasion) is more lucrative even than subscription fees.

4. Both subscription and advertising combined is more lucrative than on their own.

5. There are a bunch of other upsell type models depending on the industry. This includes accessories, warranties, in-app purchases, etc. Hard to generically categorize these, but they are almost always more lucrative than one time purchases.

It's easy to see where an unfettered market will gravitate over time.

This could be solved via regulation if (big if) we had enough uncaptured legislators (and voters that held their feet to the fire), however we now have large swaths of the economy who's business models are complete non-starters if sufficiently regulated. So we'll at best end up with some inn-effective watered down regulation that has the appearance of doing something, and probably not for a while still.

It's a slow moving disaster that everyone sees, but only a minority care enough about or even want to try and fix. You know, like artificially low interest rates.
National Public Radio.
Of course there would be revenue to be had. They could be banned for not being reasonably cooperative with people trying to repair their vehicles. There would be a huge revenue incentive to cooperate.
No, but if you are knowingly committing crimes as part of your protest, that falls under civil disobedience, which assumes you are willing to "do the time" for your crimes.

It's not typically expected that you commit crimes in the name of a cause and then just go home and live your life normally.
I wonder when will more projects do what Krita does perfectly, selling the software in storefronts for a one time purchase.

https://krita.org/en/download/krita-desktop/

>Paid versions of Krita on other platforms. You will get automatic updates when new versions of Krita come out. After deduction of the Store fee, the money will support Krita development.

This is honestly one of the perfect way to do it imo
Insurance Data points to Millions of people with vaccine side effects in Germany
Nice! It's really sad what happened to Pebble. Do you know how much power the watch uses?
Knowing people it wouldn’t take long for incoherent generative syntax to become a meme and reinforce the human corpora with new syntactic slang.
When the discussion is based on "negative externalities" of individuals towards tenants who are already at the mercy of a non-negotiable relationship receiving an opaque and steadily decreasing cut of revenue, and when most tenants attempting to create have to rely on more than just ad revenue to keep creating, it seems to me that the more harmful actor in this scenario to tenants is the monopoly and not those who avoid ad revenue.

It's not productive or in good faith discussion to flip the focus of an examination of negative externalities on those individuals avoiding ads once that is brought up, but again, the largest contributing problem actors are not what you care to talk about.
Chinese Researchers Detail Linux Backdoor of NSA-Linked Equation Group
I think you misunderstand the reason that comment is so notorious..
That might work. It would be yet another thing that would slow down compilation (link phase in this case) but not the worst.

Compilers would have to generate both forms forever (except for new architectures) but probably that wouldn’t be terrible.
You're totally right and I wish I had clarified that more in my original comment. I will probably try out Vanced even though I pay for Premium. I was really looking to hear from the people who primarily use it to circumvent ads, which I assume is the primary draw. But there are a lot of other good features worth discussing.
I find the fetishization of weakness and failure, the "syndromes" like the impostor's, difficult to relate to because I grew up (the contemporary times are overall better than the olden times, to be clear) when the examples of virtue, at least in theory, were self-control in the face of adversity, believing you could do it, and moving on quickly when things did not work out.

There are only a few things as refreshing nowadays as people who are comfortable even the situation is uncomfortable.
Personally I think they might be feeling the heat from Cloudflare Tunnel. To quote myself from a couple weeks ago[0] (note that an ngrok employee responded to some of my concerns):

> As much as it pains me to say it, Cloudflare seems well positioned to eat ngrok's lunch. AFAIK they offer everything ngrok does plus auto TLS certs, CDN, domain name registration, and tons of other features. They also have way more edge servers for terminating tunnels close to the origin devices. And they can afford to do all this for free as a loss leader product. It's the AWS bundling effect. Oh and the client source code is available.

> I don't want to see Cloudflare completely take over this space, but Cloudflare Tunnel is tough to compete with.

> One knob ngrok could still turn is adding auto TLS certs which are managed on the client side. Then you can offer e2ee which is something Cloudflare will probably never do.

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30260530
I've been reading through these for years when on public transit and just this week passed the 500th SCP. It's quite difficult to tell apart different writing styles, so it really does feel like one giant database of scary objects.
You don't need to be a genius to be a programmer. Yes, some people aren't capable of it, but there's a lot of middle ground. Being capable of being a programmer is more about disposition imo than intellect. I've had at least 2 people I don't regularly talk to ask me about getting into it as a career switch, and I say that it's fine, but more miserable than you'd expect.
Is XFS stable ? I tried reiserfs, jfs and xfs at the beginning and stuck with jfs because reiserfs would eat a lot of processor power and xfs would not run fsck when the power got interrupted which resulted in a corrupted filesystem.
Exactly. In my work environment, Go was a serious tool from a big serious company and Rust is a hyped up hobby language without any serious funding or support. For a new project, the guidelines from above were "any language you want except Rust".

This has translated to me as Go is for the weekdays and Rust is for the weekends. It's the equivalent to the 2000's Java for work and $LiterallyAnythingElse for personal stuff. It's a mindset that will age the same as well, I think.
See, with speed runs we're comparing players - people - on the charts. There is no chart about Grand Poo World 2 versus a Quake Total Conversion, the chart is like, OK, Poo is very good at GPW2 and Panga isn't as fast, but Tofu is faster than Poo.

And I can believe a chart could tell me Bob the C++ programmer is better than Jim the C++ programmer at some task a community of C++ programmers agreed on.

But can it tell me that Bob the C++ programmer is better than Sarah the C programmer? Or more so, that C++ is better than C? No, the C++ and C communities are going to disagree about how to measure this.
Not exactly.

I would like others to reciprocate by not caring about me more than I care about them.
Originally submitted link: https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2022/02/inside-project-tinma...
"Abolish and re-create" is a lot different from "just abolish", though.