skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Test were done with MCAS regarding how soon you have to react before it becomes unrecoverable. This was 10 seconds and it was hard for boeing-trained pilots instructed in MCAS to recover from this in tests where they knew it would happen.

The problem was that at some point the trim is so much that it becomes nigh impossible to hand crank the trim down, the trim flap applies so much pressure it cannot be overcome by hand. You had to disable mechanized trim because otherwise MCAS would kick in. So you would need to recognize the problem soon enough to prevent MCAS from moving the trim so far that it became unrecoverable.

(Source: Netflix documentary)
Here's an additional option: maybe the person who they hired to do "it" never really knew how to do "it" in the first place, and was really good at selling themselves and overpromising and underdelvering, being really good at avoiding personal blame and making sure that any failures were attributed to the organization and not themselves personally. Basically, fakers. There are a surprising number of fakers at the C-level and VP-level who manage to hop from one organization to another, at best providing little benefit, but at worst leaving a destructive wake. Nonetheless management keeps hiring these fakers because others have done so before, and they need "it". Fakers cover their tracks by making sure to not stay at any one place too long, and hiring people below them to actually do the hard work, take over the mess (and responsibility). I wouldn't assume the people that management bring in are any more competent than management themselves. It's unfortunate but there are many serial fakers operating as COOs, CMOs, CIOs, VP Marketing, VP Product Development, VP Business Development, and a smattering of high-sounding but low authority titles such as Chief Innovation Officer, Chief "AI" Officer, and even sadly, too many Chief Data Officers. Those are the sorts of folks who tend to bring in these "playbooks" that look like they can solve the "it" problems but are all smoke and no fire.
Gundam in the title is an absolute clickbait... as expected
Personally I prefer surface mount over dip on anything other than when I'm using a solderless breadboard as drilling holes(without messing up traces) is a PITA.

But the DIPs are readily available on the *Zon and for fast delivery too!

Of course SMT also requires somewhat of a lab I suppose as a hot air tool is the way to go.
A Pulumi program executes effectively as a coroutine with the Pulumi engine, which calls providers and resolves future values in the program which allows more resources to proceed. The fundamental difference here is that in Terraform the graph must be known up front to produce a plan, whereas in Pulumi the graph is constructed on a more ad-hoc basis. Both approaches have merit in different situations.
Works fine if you’re distributing an app, but you can’t distribute a library this way. That’s where something like this is invaluable (although I haven’t used it, I went down this path and landed on Poetry)
Self-taught amateur programmer using Emacs
yeah, and naturally Linux. I think it is 13 years now. We all have a secret, "Any idiot can make things more complicate, it takes a genius to simplify." Unfortunately, we do have to become geniuses to use computers and open-source. Git will indeed suck up way-to-much of our time. the process of simplifying it requires a "genius" to cut the learning curve for most common use cases. i see some comments here from proto-geniuses. anyway, open-source is always waiting for us to do something great merely simplifying the interface to a program in relation to most-common-use-cases. as far as the commandline and its associated programs ...: hint, it is designed for you to craft aliases and functions that serve your needs. that is the first thing i would teach. I think Steve Jobs remarked, "The best interface designers are multi-discipline synthesizers, not coders. hard-core coders have their own worlds and not many have a larger view of things. say the same for 95% of specialists in our society.
At least shades of https://youtu.be/sXJ8tKRlW3E perhaps.
This seems mostly anecdotal; to offer another data point, as a user I don't care that much about what has been added. I want devs to handle complex changes behind the scenes and give me the improved product.
>That's not true. A bank does not allow universal and unquestioning withdrawal

Neither the "full blockchain solution" would, once the fraud protection and other safety checks are added.

Which is the point I've made.

You can't simultaneously claim the benefits of blockchain being without protection, and respond to the criticism about the dangers with "it's just a toolkit, you can add protection in layers above". Or you can, but you're claiming the pros on both sides of a XOR feature set.
Then that’s not capitalism.

Veterinary care would be much closer to the model of a capitalistic solution.
Short comment to say I appreciate the thoughtful response here, and that implications of public vs private blockchains in real world contexts is something I've not given enough thought to - thanks for the homework :)
The title is "Toloka — Earn money online", not "free money" which is not a thing.

This is basically Yandex outsourcing content classification to whoever has some time and desire to do it.
> Going into debt at the lowest interest rate you'll ever be offered to buy a leveraged asset that's likely to increase in price

To a large extent house prices are sensitive to interest rates. A bank will look to your income and say you can make a monthly payment of $X. At historically low interest rates that’s gonna mean a bigger loan. As everyone’s ability to borrow goes up, so do the prices. As rates rise, for the $X dollar payment, the ability to borrow declines, and that puts a down draft on house prices.
I had the pain, and pleasure, of taking and then (assistant) teaching thermodynamics at MIT.

One of the tidbits that always stuck with me was that astronomers have estimated that observable universe’s total entropy:

When you compare that value to the maximum possible entropy, i.e. the heat death of the universe, and then to the ridiculously low entropy state of the beginning of the universe, we are currently halfway along in that ‘timeline’.

It always brought to mind a grandfather clock; the clock stops when the weight hits the floor, and we are halfway there…
The alternative is they somehow bypassed the locks on the backup on iCloud.
From last time:

> Sales copy for storj.io : a peer to peer encrypted file upload service. The linked video suggests they charge for time/space used of the network, with subsidies for those trading in hd space and bandwidth.
Doesn't the boomer die-off mean that the boomers' children will be inheriting, not just homes, but piles and piles of liquid assets, much of which they will use to get into the housing market?

After all the boomer generation, on average, has over-provisioned for old age, whereas millenials are still underhoused.
My daughter uses my wife's old iPhone 4 as her "phone" (it's not allowed to connect to our wifi nor does it have a SIM card or active mobile phone plan). The battery isn't super robust but it still works well enough to be a kids toy to play with for taking pictures and making little movies and listening to music. Original 10 year old battery.
> One thing that confused us was that the support email came from a domain, githubsupport.com

And it was a real e-mail... Great way to train your customers to be phished in the future, GH.
Especially after getting shot few times.
I have never been able to consistently get Windows 10 to enter deep sleep for more than about 30 minutes, there is always something waking it up. So I have given up and try to remember to shut the computer off when not using it.
Does not resolve the problem, but for some models, this is a possible aproach:

"How To Avoid Flying The Dreaded Boeing 737-MAX"

https://www.godsavethepoints.com/how-to-avoid-flying-the-dre...
The Science of Can and Can't[1] is interesting in how it looks to address a number of fundamentals via counterfactuals including the 2nd Law of Thermodynamics.

Edit: See [2] for background about Constructor Theory.

[1] https://www.chiaramarletto.com/books/the-science-of-can-and-...
[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8DH2xwIYuT0
All I can advise is a little bit of empathy. There are plenty of people who are nerdy, and have horrible social skills. For every bit of how obnoxious “I’m so high IQ - I went to college when I was 13” sounds to you, the flip side is that the person saying that probably:

1) Doesn't have very many friends

2) Which doesn't give many opportunities to practice social interactions

Which sort of cycles back on itself. It's hurting them a lot more than it's hurting you.

Society could use a lot more empathy.
Conflict avoidance keeps people from calling out misinformation in groups
Paying cash in a low interest world is a bad strategy for a number of reasons.

1) The cash is better used to diversify across other investments. These investments will likely out-earn the mortgage interest.

2) The government gives you tax write offs for mortgage interest. Not as beneficial for everyone as it used to be but there’s a good chance you will be able to deduct if your mortgage is in a high cost of living area. Up to $750k in mortgage debt.

3) A home is an illiquid asset. By borrowing the money and keeping your own money in liquid assets you gain flexibility and can jump on good opportunities.

Agreed though that having tons of runway is wise.
It doesn't matter where I bought. If I haven't made much money in the last 5 years, nor has anyone else (on average), regardless of how long they've owned their property.

The suggestion that 'the return will take longer than it has in the past' is a prediction with no evidential basis.
It’s an indicator for very small room for error when it comes to utilization.
This boldly claims that molten salt reactors are safe, but my understanding is that these systems require carefully engineered coatings to function and that in practice every such system has leaked liquid sodium. The statement may be essentially true kind of like saying elevators are safe, but there is still room for risk analysis and expectation of occasional failures.
Thank you! This is exactly our office situation!

I have a friend who walks to his parents house 5 minutes away whenever he has a date at home. And another friend that takes the elevator 14 stairs down to the common washing facilities in his apartment building that has an extra bathroom.
Well most people aren't going to take the money and invest it at a higher rate of return, either.

With 30-year rates around 6% right now, the math becomes a lot tighter as well. Where are you going to find 6%+ investments right now?
First, entropy is a macroscopic property, it makes no sense to talk about the entropy of a single particle. Second, entropy is not a fundamental property, it depends on what the observer cares about. Take the common example of a gas in the corner of a box, in that case we care about the density distribution in the box, a macroscopic property. To make this more concrete, one way to quantify the density distribution could be to tessellate the box with cubes of some size, find the ones with the lowest and highest density, and use the difference between those two densities as a measure of density variation.

Once we have decided that all we care about is the density variation in the box, we can go through all possible microscopic states and group them together by their density variation. Finally a low entropy macroscopic state is simply a macroscopic state - a certain density variation - for which there are only a few microscopic states that have the corresponding density variation. On the other hand a high entropy macroscopic state is a macroscopic state for which there are many microscopic states that have the corresponding density variation. You can also call the microscopic states low or high entropy but only with reference to the macroscopic property you use to group them, in themselves microscopic states are not low or high entropy.

If you observe a low entropy macroscopic state, then you know a lot about the microscopic state, after all there are only very few. If you observe a high entropy macroscopic state, then you know a lot less about the microscopic state, there are much more possibilities even though they are microscopically indistinguishable. And if there are no limiting constraints on how the microscopic states can evolve, if the evolution is essentially a random walk through all possible microscopic states, then the entropy of the system will increase with high probability as it is much more probable to randomly walk into one of the many microscopic states associated with a high entropy macroscopic state than to walk into one of the few microscopic states associated with a low entropy macroscopic state.
Non-profits generally use substantial income in excess of revenues for expansion, just like many for-profit organizations. Excess revenues can also be absorbed in salary and other compensation or cost increases, usually top down of course. The main difference is that non-profit organizations are prohibited by law from making distributions to owner-shareholders. They can spend excess revenues in any number of other ways, starting with the furniture for example.
> I understand that there's no malicious intent on Facebook's part in this

There mere existence of such system is malicious intent.
Former HackerRank Employee here, while I agree it seems like a very quick response, I just want to point out they have nowhere near 1000 employees. When I was there it was probably a quarter of that.

As a YC backed company, it seemed like almost everything on HackerNews was known about within the company when I was there.
They would develop Office because they were paid to develop office.

Also, government custom developed software is really wonky and the odds that the IP is sold is very low. The greater odds are that maintenance and follow on contracts will only be possible for the company that first wrote the software.
Sure, I just wanted to point out that building merkle hash trees, or blockchains, or whatever you want to call it, isn't "all rubbish". There are some valid use cases.
That's because SEO has ruined everything that isn't heavily community-managed.
I'm not sure you'd use a helicopter on Venus, certainly not at ground level. Maybe an airship that can survive suphuric acid in the upper atmosphere where it's a little more forgiving (albeit with less hope on finding organic phosphene).

We've got Dragonfly to look forward to though! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dragonfly_(spacecraft)
Dupe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31190880, or vice-versa.
"Fastest growing urban area in Canada" is like the "fastest sprinter at the senior center". Sure it's fast relative to other cities, but not in an absolute sense.

Kelowna grew 14% over 5 years? So 2.7% a year? Or 5,500 people per year?

Kelowna is a tiny town in the middle of BC. Jobs are scarce. Vast swaths of undeveloped land surround the town. Wages are pretty typical, yet a modest house is $1,000,000. Does that make any sense?

Your list has Kamloops. Have you been to Kamloops? It's an old saw mill town. Again, lots of room to build. Houses are $800,000 to $1,000,000.

You can buy a small house, within San Francisco city limits for $1.5M. This is where wages are 2x that of Canada. Mortgages are 30-year fixed and there is no room to build any more houses and it's surrounded by water on 3 sides.

So why would Kelowna cost just 33% less than San Francisco? I could see arguing downtown Toronto and Vancouver are "pricey" but not ridiculous, but Kelowna?

And your list has Edmonton! One of the fastest growing cities! But wait, it's actually one of the cheapest too. What's going on?

Like I said, bloodbath.
Bigquery support would be really great for me too!
You can store these on Heroku, but you have to remember that the volumes are volatile - so, you don't really know when given environment will restart and wipe all your temporary files that are not committed to the repo.

If your resources are required, then they should be committed. If you want persistent cache, there are options both inside and outside Heroku.

I think I agree with you though - it's weird for me to have code on Heroku, and then log in to AWS, to put stuff in S3 manually.
open source software from bigco it's only a smoke and mirrors to make it look like they are nice.

https://publiccode.eu/ and the current legislation trends in the EU are not fun, because they are not able to drive the narrative.
That is why survey after survey shows that those who consume such media the most are the most harmed by these messages.

It’s quite sad when you think about it, because those who have a desire to learn more are then taken advantage of until they cower in fear.
The real irony is that these people putting a floor on the market are mostly the same demographics screeching about how housing shouldn't be an investment.

Yet another case of how society would be better off if people practiced what they preached.
Fishing uranium from the ocean with a spider-silk line (2019)
This is the opposite direction to what I expected to see for new theorem proving efforts: "Good old fashioned AI" vs leveraging advances of deep learning for natural language.

I think the direction that is ripe for advance is a two-part process: (1) translating from human-language mathematics proof to computer-verifiable formal proof language combine with (2) GPT3-style automated generation of plausible next-steps in human language proofs.

Gowers emphasizes the success of humans at "pruning" to only consider potentially useful next steps in a proof. I think GPT3 demonstrates such pruning in generating plausible natural language text continuations.

And the success of natural language translation between natural languages suggests natural->formal language translation may also be ripe.

Combined with the success of formal language automated theorem provers, it seems plausible to build on current technologies a stack that produces formally verified natural language proofs.
These are nothing. In 1993 IBM cut 60K jobs and Sears cut 50K. In 2008-2009 Citigroup cut 50K and GM cut 47K. Imagine the effect those layoffs had on cities where they were concentrated. If you want to talk percentages, small to medium companies lose 50-100% all the time. Even in tech we've had bigger job contractions. I was working through the early 90s when companies like Prime and Data General went under, DEC was forced into a merge with Compaq, etc. Then, of course, the dot-com boom and subsequent bust. 8% of 26K is a big deal to the people and areas directly affected, of course, but in the larger scheme of things it's business as usual.
You've misquoted the article, and as a result, have confused your pronouns. Nowhere does the article suggest that the USCG operates in the Black Sea.
> Boltzmann imagined that our universe could have reached thermodynamical equilibrium and its maximal entropy state a long time ago, but that a spontaneous entropy decrease to the level of our early universe occured after an extremely long period of time, just for statistical reasons.

I’m interested in reading more about this. Any pointers?
That's the sort of thing you do just to say you did it, not because of the actual quality. Like hiring "Ivy League" consultants to generate fake credibility.
> Gowers makes a point to contrast their GOFAI approach with ML - they're interested in insights, not black-boxes

But I have the impression Gowers dismisses the insights of what he calls machine-oriented ATP. These systems were --- perhaps are --- optimized on all levels of abstraction. From advances in the theory of which parts of the search space could be eliminated without loss of generality to optimizing the layout of c structs to improve cache locality.
Hi,

It's a good read.
I have a few questions/comments:

- given the description of the Rumor-mongering approach vs the Anti-entropy approach, it looks like the Anti-entropy approach:

-- has an important overhead in terms of network/messages sent (since nodes are always chatting even when there are no changes in the cluster).

-- is slower to propagate a change of cluster state to all the nodes. Does it mean that in case of a node failures/shutdown, the cluster will be instable for longer (since dead nodes will receive queries)?

- the article mention a "seed node" but doesn't define what this is.

- on a dynamic quickwit setup (that often downscales/upscales depending on the load), it seems that the size of the metadata in each node will keep increasing since the state of the dead nodes will be kept, unless the same node_unique_id can be reused after a downscale/upscale (but I don't know enough how kube works to see if it's the case).
I own one! Mostly just because it's neat, I don't actually use it a lot, especially after I got a M8. Sounds great for its size! I wish there was a way to edit or at least upload patches without the editor, which only works on windows and mac.
Letter from a Young Distributist: Georgism and Distributism
With the introduction of piloted robots for civil work, there will be also accidents and attempts to use them for criminal purpose. Quickly the Tokio Metropolitan Police will introduce a Special Vehicle Section equipped with patrol labor (instead of just patrol cars) or Patlabors.

You can read more about this initiative on the official Tokio Metropolitan Police page (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Patlabor_episodes).
Parents, or some identifiable, meat based individual person who is effectively the child's parent. In the absence of anyone else, a child is responsible for themselves (some people are forced to grow up fast).

Distributed responsibility / committee oversight has too many failure modes to be used as in a function socially vital as child rearing.
> Facebook's automated moderation systems are famously shit.

Unlike Tumblr's NSFW filter, which is always correct /s

Read: ALL automated systems are bad, the whole AI thing is a joke, and will still be for a long time.
When I was younger the kitchen table and a piece of cardboard was my soldering station for years. In fact truth be told many times I just bring my equipment out and use it there even now that I have my own place. My workspace is generally crowded where as my table is kept clean.

Very similar to the fact that most people don't have a dedicate place to do a puzzle, a card table or kitchen table will suffice.
How do the two arrays you’re thinking of correspond to a BTree? If you’re thinking of two BTrees, how would that work? The BTree will sort the keys and values independently and they won’t line up - there’s nothing that maintains the associativity between the keys and values.
The talk of Japan releasing some water with a bit of Tritium reminded me "that there's Uranium in them there sea water" 4Bn tonnes of it.
I don't even get why that's useful.

Just reflect on yourself at the end of the day.
I think it can be difficult to calculate the actual added value on this basis or at least, I've found it hard to do so for my own blogging which has also led to substantial paid work.

That's because, although I can trace specific projects and therefore specific revenue to things I've written, I don't know what the counterfactual would have been. Would I have ended up doing another, similar, project instead? How much of a premium can I charge because of the channel through which the work came in?