skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Facts:

1. Boeing was running multiple studies to replace the 737 -- and possibly the 757 with the same plane -- https://web.archive.org/web/20090615055919/http://www.flight...

2. Boeing Chairman President and Chief Executive Officer Jim McNerney in 2011 February said

> We’re gonna do a new airplane. We’re not done evaluating this whole situation yet, but our current bias is to not re-engine, is to move to an all-new airplane at the end of the decade, or the beginning of the next decade.

For source, put that quote into Google, it's everywhere.

3. Less than a year later, Southwest Airlines bought 150 of this very re-engineered plane. The 737 replacement plane disappeared. The 757 still has no replacement, twenty years after it was canned. The hole this created for the above 200 seats segment is well visible: https://i.stack.imgur.com/Qc47G.jpg (I posted this image to SE after digging it out of some ancient blog post)

4. The MCAS system exists because SWA insisted on no retraining

> Not only did Southwest management not want their pilots who flew the earlier model 737 NG to have to train in a flight simulator for the MAX, they insisted to Boeing that even classroom training be off the table, the filing shows. Southwest insisted on a clause in the sales contract stipulating a penalty of $1 million per airplane delivered if that standard wasn’t met.

https://www.seattletimes.com/business/boeing-aerospace/legal...

Rumor:

It was Southwest Airlines threatening Boeing to buy Airbus instead if it delivered anything but a 737 to them that created the 737 MAX in the first place.

Now you know how far a single-plane airline would go to avoid buying a different plane.
New CSS Viewport units are here. Including 'svh', 'lvh', 'dvh'
> Citus in PostgreSQL main would be great. Currently Citus is one of many solution but being in main would make it the solution. PostgreSQL would officially be a distributed database, not just by stacking some plugins on it.

Scaling concurrent transactions (locally and horizontally across machines) has been one of the valid complaints about postgres for so long, it would be amazing to see it solved so well/reliably in-tree.

This is one of the great things about pg to me -- the cottage industry of consultancies/companies that make truly awesome stuff and build viable businesses is seriously amazing. Most times they merge changes upstream (if only for the clout), and sometimes they just sprinkle gold dust on all of us.

As a sidenote, I have my M$ misgivings like any other dev of a certain age, but it is amazing that they chose to do that. Not only did they provide an exit to one of the awesome companies in the space, they also released such a huge benefit to the community for free. They'll probably get their return back retaining the Citus people inside Microsoft, since obviously they're the ones making the magic.
If donating prior to high ferritin and onset of symptoms, that might be enough, but to handle the former, one needs much more frequent blood donations to push the level of stored iron level down than what donations allow. (at least in Sweden, where you can donate twice a year, but the initial treatment is biweekly iirc).
If I remember rightly, you can use Popcorn Time to stream any torrent simply by dragging and dropping the link into the application. It doesn't depend on where you get the links, even if it does have a default search engine. Maybe I'm misunderstanding.
Intreasting read this thread.

I haven't done any coding since I was a kid and fancied doing some, since my devices are all Apple, iPhone / iPad / Mac, Swift and SwiftUI seemed like a good choice to start learning.

I'm finding it a little slow going and the language seems quite strange to me, I'm not too sure if it's because i've only dabbled in older languages itself or if it's more the language or the framework, but I do hope I made the right choice to invest time into!
It's not even technically correct; it's just wrong.

NAT doesn't make any choices on where a packet gets delivered. For packets that aren't part of an existing steam, NAT will simply not edit the packet. Unless there's a separate firewall that chooses to drop it, the packet will get delivered to whatever IP was already in the destination field, which could be the IP of one of your LAN machines.
Plenty of Hacker News readers get scammed. Crypto for example.
> If you as a private person own a patent, you are losing it anyways

There's always someone who just has to spread the despair and helplessness. Every bloody time. Tell me, in what way does this add to the discussion? I wish there was a ban on these kind of comments.

> right to commercialization has nothing to do with intellectual property.

I don't understand. If I don't own it I can't market it, right?
Hello microsoft o/

It strange u posting shit that way just a day after I shown some tricks with binaru... :)

Anyway my slogan is "Everything is free, so deflate!" :D
Yeah sometimes they test vocabulary, sometimes they test general knowledge (or at least your ability to google or have an anagram solver). So you do learn while solving, which is a plus.

Also yes, your Britometer is operating correctly.
We've built an (open source) asset inventory product just for that use case, to continuously discover all inventory, not just what's provisioned by Terraform (or Pulumi, etc.).

Link to the repo in my HN profile.
Recommend reading "Breath" by James Nestor! Amongst other things, purees for babies...so many parents give their babies sugary pouches..Uh!
Funny how it goes with the entities that talk like banks but are set up as regulatory bypasses
A polished turd is still a turd.
I didn't edit it much...
That was never the objective, nor the result. It's just an ill-informed meme.
Easier to learn but severely limited in what can be achieved. But also, the springs and struts (“autoresizing masks”) is simpler than the SwiftUI system, but just as powerful.
> Is it wise to sink your time into something you don't really like doing?
If it pays your bills and gives you spare time to do what you like, then often yes.
Their Terms and Conditions regularly state that users of the platform don't deposit their money, but actually lend that money to the platform, and that the platform isn't obligated to pay back that loan in case of default.

Basically, for a marginal yield in a volatile industry, you are increasing your exposure to counter-party risk. People using these services are greedy and dumb, and I can't for the life of me understand why anyone would do this.

Also; I expect that a significant number of these companies will eventually be sued and will be forced to repay their customers.
If you want that kind of security, normal banks are a better place for your money. Traditional finance may have its drawbacks but at least customers losing their deposits because the bank went bankrupt is extremely rare these days.
The PyCon Italia 2022 multiplicity
So either rent a server in some country that doesn’t recognize copyright law, or uproot your entire life and move there? Why would anyone choose the second option?
But I loved creating it - I said so! But that alone would not drive me to do it nearly as much as getting a more tangible benefit.
Yes, but objects, refs, tags came all in 1.2.

StrictYAML got rid of all these, as all the safer YAML variants. E.g. perl5 still uses 1.0 for its cpan metadata abstraction, and still has to restrict these. I maintain the https://metacpan.org/pod/YAML::Safe module, which allows whitelisting of certain objects.
Wayland doesn't specify the APIs required to support screen recording, so each Wayland server implementation has to decide if/how to offer its own such interfaces. This basically means it's up to each desktop environment, although there are now some shared implmentations of this and other features in wlroots.
Having a 7 year old kid, I'm outraged at reading this. There is no single benefit to individuals or society from apps like these, they hijack our brain on the lowest level and makes us junk content feeding zombies.

It's not just the consumers, but entire generations of "influencers" and "content creators" wasting their lifes on creating something that will give them instant recognition and will be forgotten the moment it is swiped to the next video.

Apps like these are causing mental decline, addiction and behavioral problems on a large scale, but the parents just dont care. As long as the kid is quiet with the smartphone in hand. So sad.
Ask HN: E-reader without vendor lock-in
I am looking for a simple e-reader device without any shop integration, user account, censoring, vendor lock-in. Just a device with SD Card and/or Wifi acceptable battery life good e-ink screen. It should handle common formats epub, pdf, html ...

I thought that would be easy but it seems to be only Kindles and Tolinos. Maybe the Pocketbook is the closest to what I am looking for.

What do you use?
Thanks for any recommendations!
> sell it to someone who also [cares about the company]

That's easy to say

But it partly requires reading someone else's mind
At the time Google Books started, “big data” was in vogue and there were data-driven ML approaches to NLP e.g. word2vec, that would have benefited from a large corpus
The problem was that the people in the audience all needed cars and couldn't afford them. They didn't have money. Finding $6000 to keep a gift when you're broke is a hard problem.
There are other business models than waiting on possible royalties, if you feel the need for additional incentives. People use patreon, eg.
Right, it would be stupid to spend big on storage that cannot be charged up from renewables that exist. First you build enough renewables, to displace fossil fuel (and opex), then build storage when you cannot displace much fossil fuel, any more.

All this is easy for an operator to figure out, daily: add solar, fuel cost falls in exact proportion. When you have to turn off enough banks of panels enough of the time, you start building stuff to absorb that energy for later. But not until building more panels cuts your fuel cost less than building storage cuts your night-time fuel cost. (Wind input makes this calculation less deterministic.)
I mean I'm reading that as hyperbole - the point is that the head count to keep it running should be a lot lower then the head count to build it, keep building it, etc.
Was that user testing on new users, or experienced ones? There's a big difference between how to make the onboarding as easy as possible for someone who's never used your system before, vs making it efficient to use for power users. The former gets you Ribbon UI and similar - which is really really good at that - but it means that people like me get annoyed when something they have to do 50 times a day now takes 3 clicks instead of one. I can understand that I'm on the losing end of a tradeoff that's a global improvement, but I still get annoyed.

When you're building bazaars and not cathedrals though, there's no good reason why everyone should be using the same UI. Maybe I'm part of a 5% or less of the population who wants the title bar of the active window and only that to be my accent color, but the solution here is to just let me configure that. And I don't mean in the sense of "I can spend a summer learning and editing the source code and build a custom distro that looks the way I want", I mean that I remember the old days where this was either a switch, or the default, or a couple of lines in a config file. I gave up on GNOME when everything became "sure, you can do a term project on configuring the CSS files" if you really don't like THE ONE true design choice.
Your comment is the essence of why I totally hate software consultants.

"Hi customer, after months of meetings and calls and briefings and checklists and ... here is my final 76 page presentation about an ideal not buildable extremely expensive software that if finished will look like Homer's car"

Never had experiences different from the above, be it from big or small players.
This is pretty niche but in a home workshop it's much easier to make something with a slotted head than posidrive, torx or hex. You can do it with no special tooling. Heck, you can even do it with a Swiss army knife.

The best solution for more complex shapes I've seen for that is a rotary broach, a device clearly powered by witchcraft[1].

The problem is that rotary broaches are not cheap tools for an amateur so if I have to make any kind internal fastener socket myself, for now, it has to be a slotted head still despite being clearly inferior.

I had a new found respect for simple stuff like screws, bolts and fasteners, that cost pence or less, once I started making things in a workshop.

1. Actually rotary broaches are really simple but weirdly fascinating devices once you know how they work.
It's not very over-engineered; most parts of it work the same as v4 does, just with bigger addresses.

Writing the addresses in hex is because doing so is easier. It lines up with the binary better which makes subnetting easier, and do you really want to deal with addresses that look like "32.1.13.184.133.163.0.0.0.0.138.46.3.112.115.52"?
One of these days when I’m feeling salty I’m going to make a wiki page called “why is it taking so long” and list every feature that drew out the schedule. Hopefully it’ll be seen as helpful, but probably not.
So you're betting your rent money on future royalties which might never appear even if piracy were impossible?
TOS:
" Due to the market being in a nascent stage, during a market disruption or during a force majeure event, you may face difficulties or impossibility in liquidating your position under certain market conditions. "

"23.3. Please note that in particular, any of your losses caused by any of the following events, including but not limited to: "

" loss of profits, sales, business, business opportunity or revenue; " (they made this section a lighter hard to read gray than the rest of their TOS)

https://www.vauld.com/legal/terms-and-conditions

Even Celsius was more straightforward

"In the event that Celsius becomes bankrupt, enters liquidation or is otherwise unable to repay its obligations, any Eligible Digital Assets used in the Earn Service or as collateral under the Borrow Service may not be recoverable, and you may not have any legal remedies or rights in connection with Celsius’ obligations to you other than your rights as a creditor of Celsius under any applicable laws."

https://celsius.network/terms-of-use
A LOT of regulation goes along with that. These entities eschewed regulation and those investing talked about the benefits of eschewing it.

The people whose withdrawals are suspended are NOT depositors. They’re unsecured creditors, the terms of such services generally say they transfer the right in the tokens to the exchange or lending co.

These companies aren’t banks. They should not have been allowed to grow as they did; they were obvious ponzis. Had they had the regulations you advocate they could never have formed in the first place, or they never would have got capital.
thanks for feedback.. I definitely also didn't get the email for this response... maybe I'll sign up again or something.
> The MCAS system exists because SWA insisted on no retraining

This is somewhat inaccurate (and appears to trade on the oft-repeated but completely incorrect misunderstanding that the MCAS acts as a sort of “normal 737 emulator”).

In fact, the MCAS exists because without it the MAX would be 100% uncertifiable for commercial flight.

The central problem is that, due to the lopsided aerodynamics of the MAX, as the nose of the MAX moves up and approaches a stall, the forces on the pilot’s stick “invert” such that it becomes easier to continue to pull into the stall than push away from the stall.

Commercial aircraft are not allowed to have inverted stick forces at any angle. When Boeing realized this, they decided to implement a kind of hack that would use the trim to put pressure on the nose downwards to counteract the forces on the stick such that they never invert. The MCAS is the system that commands this downwards trim.

The desire to avoid retraining led Boeing to conceal the existence of the MCAS, but it is not why it exists. The plane flatly is uncertifiable without it. No amount of training would change this, as inverted stick forces are a failure of fundamental airworthiness requirements.
Planning the Most Important Windows Ever
Most people writing books, e.g. these, https://www.oreilly.com/ would not do so if they could not monetize it - which would be even harder if there was no legal protection of the work they did. I don't like your idea at all.
tldr: each stamp has a unique code. I didn't really believe it until I hit the single mention of "unique" in the text.
I feel like I just got tricked into taking a test to measure Sunken Cost Fallacy quotient or something.
Yup. 2 forkhandles-worth ~ 1 teaspoon for me.
It's not a privacy nightmare. You could just run a proxy on your gateway and your connections would legitimately end up coming from it, but it wouldn't actually do much for your privacy.
I suspect Russia could now help with this one :-)
The whole "kit car" nonsense started as a tax dodge that worked in a brief era when there was a UK tax on cars (as "luxuries") but not on car parts, so you could save a lot of money by buying parts and assembling them.
> There's always someone who just has to spread the despair and helplessness. Every bloody time. Tell me, in what way does this add to the discussion? I wish there was a ban on these kind of comments.

It you only want answers you like go talk to a mirror. The way this adds to the discussion should be pretty obvious, but let me spill it out: If one of the main arguments for IP is wrong it's costs/benefits have to be reevaluated.
I love the idea of panspermia, it’s fascinating, but I think the evidence is against it. If life evolved elsewhere we would expect it to have undergone significant evolutionary development before arriving on Earth, but that does not seem to be the case. The earliest life forms on Earth were incredibly primitive in terms of their molecular construction and biochemical pathways.
Without knowing more the cheapest is free (at the cost of some time). Find a static site generator + template + host on netlify/github pages (use their subdomain, or fork our a few dollars for your own).
In the limit, there are some startups that could run production on a single Linux host - I recently helped one get off Heroku and their spend went from ~$1k/mo to ~$50/mo and it made debugging and figuring out performance issues so much easier than what they were doing previously...
One of the crypto selling points is the independence from legislators evil.
No one has to "access this website" because they can read its contents in Internet Archive, Common Crawl, Google Cache, etc. Page size and caching behaviour will not work if the person is using HTTP/1.1 pipelining to request multiple pages from a variety of websites from Internet Archive, over a single TCP connection. (Using CDX API not HTML form at Wayback Machine page.)

The 7TB is via torrent, not via HTTPS. No rDNS needed.
Monitoring can be important too. I don't intend to restrict them, but there's some responsibility to keep the pedos away from the girls.

With a little technical skill, you can control the wifi, but that doesn't keep them from using mobile data and such.
Thanks, that was something I am trying to understand.

In other words, these are only pixels on a screen and these affect me in a different way than a real llama does.
> But how do you foster a culture in which everyone keeps it up to date?

Every service has a runbook. To ensure that they're kept up to date, teams are required to do twice-yearly Disaster Recovery (DR) drills where they fail their service out of one region or data center and into another. (This is for each service. They can be rescheduled - modulo some nagging - if absolutely necessary, but you still need to do them eventually as a part of OKRs / KTLO.)

DR exercises by necessity require that the runbook is up to date and that capacity measures and load testing are recent and accurate. By doing these semi-regularly, your team retains full familiarity with the operational characteristics of the system. Your service, your data stores, your dependencies, and your dependents. Hopefully you (or adjacent teams) won't discover any unknowns, but if you do, they also belong in a runbook or postmortem with action items set to address the issues.

Furthermore, every team keeps a weekly "oncall log", which is essentially a human aggregated and summarized log of pages received. The oncall engineer logs anything that crops up, including new failure classes, and triages fixing them (or gets assistance if they're junior). Novel happenings can easily be discussed during oncall handoff or briefly during standup. Some of these items will naturally find their way into the relevant runbooks.

And as another commenter suggested, use Google Docs. These should be super easy to edit with zero friction. The requirement of creating a PR increases the odds that something will get skipped.

FWIW, several of my previous teams required more than five nines of uptime as we'd lose millions for outages. We had a very mature process.
I really doubt that the Walkman's audio quality is "better" than the iPhone 8's in any objective sense.

> I’m not an audiophile, and I’m sure said people would blanch if they read about the files I play. But the audio quality is a noticeable upgrade from my iPhone 8. It sounds so much clearer, especially in the midrange. Its EQ settings also add extra sparkle and pop, for want of better words! It’s the biggest uplift in sound I’ve experienced since I bought AKG monitors for home.

According to gsmarena measurements, the output of the iPhone 8 is extremely accurate across the entire spectrum[1]. Sampling a few gsmarena reviews, this is also true for a typical modern Samsung or Xiaomi phone, or even an ancient iPhone 4s.

I believe accurate audio quality is indeed a solved problem, and what the author's describe as an upgrade in quality is just more pleasantly tuned (though distorted) EQ settings (c.f. the "warm" sound of vinyl vs accurate redbook CD-audio).

[1] https://www.gsmarena.com/apple_iphone_8-review-1664p7.php#
I love 'em but I don't usually use them on nuts, since there's better tools for the job. The fact that they're parallel makes them good for a lot of situations, like pushing something into another thing, or even just gripping onto things over a larger surface without marring them too much (e.g. I use them to get 3d prints off the print bed when they're really on there and refuse to give. Although I've also occasionally used the tiny version of them for e.g. installing a new faucet, when I couldn't get other things into the space.

It's a good tool but I wouldn't reach for it first in every situation. If you have a regular nut with plenty of space, there's better tools.
The thinking behind this seems odd. I'd have thought that the overlap between people who want something like barcode-esque links to digital info and improved online tracking and people who queue up at the post office to buy stick on stamps would be vanishingly small. I don't think I've bought a stamp in the past five years, possibly ten. Any time I need to post something, I just print the postage online. Much lees hassle*

*[apart from the obligatory half hour spent threatening my bastard Canon inkjet printer, to get it to actually print the damned thing]

EDIT: Forgot to mention: when you print postage online, it doesn't have any picture of the queen at all. Just the QRcode.