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> The bottom line is that automation of the computer codes and the algorithms are designed by people, which is what they are actually being designed to protect against

If this can happen in a multi-million dollar airplane that has 3 computers, it is no far stretch to see it happening with self-driving vehicles that only have 1 - and much less R&D. The upside being you're not 35K feet in the air.

There is a phrase I like to murmur to myself that I think is applicable here: "Apple knows best". As of late, Apple has made numerous technology and software decisions that I find quite disagreeable. And many of these have, in fact, significant implications for myself, consumers, and their products overall. But "Apple knows best!" In their infinite wisdom, they call all the shots, good and bad. And if it's a bad one, which to me many are... you suffer with no recourse, because there is ONLY their way.

I feel this relevant because one of the main issues the pilots faced is that the computers are above them in command. They are authoritative - and so don't reveal things to their underlings. In a computer system that is meant to have no single point of failure, they neglected to realize that the computer system itself is a single point of failure. This means the designers of the airplane, purposefully removed control from pilots and gave them no recourse or alternatives.

These are the lessons we need to learn from. While automation of flight has improved safety and reduced human error, it does not allow for humans to reduce automation error. In symbology, the two can work together to improve safety even more, as this article makes clear. With better communication from the computers to pilots, and better ability for pilots to seize control from systems that are misbehaving, there is a greater chance for success.

But I think this solution is in contrast of where the industry wants to go: to remove pilots entirely. And for the bottom line of airlines, that's pretty dreamy. But at what cost to potential lives saved? If QF72 was solely automated, this would have been a very different story.
Maybe we should pay for schools and watch athletes for free rather than the other way around.
I think if students know the basics from Google they'll be fine picking up Office. Lots of people learned Office on the job after coming from Lotus 1-2-3, or electric typewriters.
Previously: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14318663
What's often overlooked in articles such as that is that the 787 and the A380 have the same cabin environmental system hardware; developed by Hamilton-Sundstrand for the A380 and modified to work with the 787's mostly-bleedless engines.

In fact at 38,000ft the A380's cabin can be held at just under 5000ft-equivalent, and not more than 7,000ft at 41k, which is much better than previous types. The 787 can hold 6,000ft to 43k.

Boeing's genius with the 787 was in marketing an airliner directly to the traveller for the first time since the Convair 880 back in the 1950s. Airbus were caught completely off-guard by that and never quite recovered until the later A350.
What do you mean. Lots of people die because of lack of health care acess. Just look at the life expectancies in the undeveloped parts of the planet.
No, it's like having an important resource, period. You have a piece of information that you want some people to have but not others. This is a simple (though not necessarily easy) problem, which happens to get harder as the set of people who you do want to have the information gets larger.

Note that you also don't want this to be publicly known - letting random people find your phone number is also considered a Bad Thing.
Most if not all phone providers give you a way to block specific numbers from even reaching your device. They're usually buried in horrendous web interfaces, but they're there.

Seems like something that was probably just overlooked, or pushed out to post-launch because deadlines.
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The end of the article suggests it's an attempt to detect sandboxed environments that fake all domains.
The motivation for the domain check is to see if you are in a sandbox environment, and if you are, don't do anything. If you read the article, he talks about this.
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I'm a big fan of free software. My desktop is Linux. But I almost never use LibreOffice. Can't access and edit the docs on my Android, nor my wife's work Mac. Nor my parent's Windows PC when I visit them. I'm definitely not installing software on my parent's PC. I'll be responsible for the next 100 "something isn't working" phone calls.
And you're right to. Without proof of blind sample testing and rigorous QA on the process, there's no reason to trust the results. And that type of evidence, if accepted, would only wisely be used for ruling out suspects.

Even considering the defense as the null hypothesis, the US legal process is not as scientific in some very important ways as it could be.
I'm on iOS, but it looks good!
Honestly I thought the name was "glitoris"... I can't say it's not a bad name.
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What makes you think this is entirely down to them (other than the usual eating-your-first-born tropes)? This stuff came to fruition under Labour - as I'm sure you'll acknowledge. Why not look at what both governments had in common? I'd be surprised if it wasn't found to be Home Office mandarins driving the agenda.
The theory is that the malware wouldn't execute in sandboxes for malware analysis, since the analysis environment will accept all connections from the sandbox.

So, if connection = successful, then we're being analyzed and don't execute.

If connection = unsuccessful, then we're on a real workstation, execute!

Then the scheme fell apart when someone registered that domain, so all connections = successful and malware will not execute (but machine still infected).
Well the politician was suggesting that if you lose health insurance in America you won't die because you can show up to the emergency room in hospitals. The statement was widely panned, and I especially find it absurd given the fact that you can die from a toothache. https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/powerpost/wp/2017/05/06/...
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The article doesn't say which ones.
Tunneling still works
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You need two things for nice, straight teeth: Either good genetics, or parents with good dental insurance.

Any kid who's parents had money in school had braces. I remember hearing parents complain/brag about spending $3,000, $5,000, and even $7,000 on their braces. The other kids? You better hope they came in straight.

Mine came in fairly straight, but like others in my family one of the adult canine teeth never came through. It's still in my upper jaw. The baby tooth is still just barely there, and it's shifted my top row of teeth around a little bit.

The other thing with teeth is you have to take care of them. You have to brush twice a day, you shouldn't eat things that get stuck in there, and avoid crunchy things that can break them.

Even though I had dental insurance from work, I skipped out on going to the dentist after I wasn't living with my parents anymore. And like other hackers, I lived on sugary, acidic, and caffeinated drinks. Years later I succumbed to toothaches, finally went to see the dentist, and spent a couple thousand dollars (with insurance) getting fillings, crowns, root canals, and an extraction or two - all on the rear teeth that nobody can really see.

Back to the top row of front teeth, I saw a orthodontist about having those fixed. When you're an adult, insurance doesn't cover braces. So I was looking at between $10,000 and $12,000 to get it fixed, which would all come out of pocket.

Now, I don't think everyone has the right to perfect teeth, and you can't control everything about how they come in. But most people avoid the dentist until it's too late, they're in pain, need to get in right away, and the fix is expensive procedures like root canals and crowns. If you go every months (a regular visit doesn't cost much, even out of pocket) you can fix a lot of issues while they're cheap and easy to fix.
We detached this flagged subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14330520.
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Except you can see Youtube videos of examples where people started on early versions of DOS in a VM and upgraded all the way to Windows 10. Name one company that does more work to ensure backwards compatibility. You can even read Raymond Chen's blog about times where Microsoft developers wrote shims to emulate bugs in previous versions so that specific applications would continue to work.

And no, Microsoft can't guarantee everything developed by a 3rd party will continue working, and nor should they.

The bottom line when it comes to places like the NHS is that they decided to cut costs by either not entering into a custom support agreement with Microsoft so that they could continue to get security patches for XP, or by upgrading their systems to run on newer versions of the OS.
Yes, but let's run the numbers.

I like to sit in front of a 24' screen, about 50 cm wide and 29 cm high, from a pretty standard distance of roughly 70 cm. Clicking tan^-1 on my trusty calculator and rounding up tells me it's covering an horizontal angle of 40 degrees, a vertical angle of 24 degrees.

Like the plurality of Steam users, I have a modest display resolution of 1920x1080 pixels [1]. In other words, I am comfortable with 1920/40 = 48 pixels per horizontal degree and 1080/24 = 45 pixels per vertical degree.

Humans have a binocular field of view of about 200 horizontal degrees and 135 vertical degrees [2]. To satisfy my modest resolution requirements, I would therefore need 200x48 = 9600 horizontal pixels and 135x45 = 6075 vertical pixels.

Current headsets do not actually cover the full human field of view, so let's consider the current favorite, the HTC Vive. It does about 100 horizontal degrees and 110 vertical degrees, according to [2]. That would work out to 100x48 = 4800 horizontal pixels and 110*45 = 4950 vertical pixels, i.e. more than 8k UHD.

Ways around that (apart from the obvious) are foveated rendering and alternative display technologies (light field displays).

[1] http://store.steampowered.com/hwsurvey

[2] https://www.vrheads.com/field-view-faceoff-rift-vs-vive-vs-g...
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Aside: I find the pervasive use of the present tense throughout the article to be bewildering and quite inexplicably sinister.
Except that is not true, there's BadUSB (https://github.com/brandonlw/Psychson), which updates the firmware of some common USB drives to make it do whatever your want (such as emulating a mouse/keyboard).
> say they aren't doing this.

Well, problem solved! Neither the government nor Google have ever lied to us. ;-)
Far away, most likely. I don't think there's much overlap in the kinds of things that run on Windows and those that run on Linux.

How many people do you know with PostgreSQL or MySQL in production, on Windows? Or with those vertical solutions usually available only on Windows?
Sure, there is this specific situation where Microsoft probably isn't on the hook for anything.

But there is also the more abstract problem of how hospitals and the like go about using computers.
The article is pretty poorly written and lacks focus, but the problem is real. Dental health is just health, it shouldn't be this separate part of our system. It's also one of the few parts of your health a stranger can judge from the outside. I can't see if you have arterial plaque but I can tell if you don't clean your teeth.

I have two dentists in my family and when this topic comes up they focus on the Medicaid issues presented in the article. Medicaid reimbursement rates haven't budged in years and​ for whatever there's a much higher no-show rate among Medicaid patients. The end result is there's no incentive at all for dentists or orthodontists to help these people who need it most.
I don't think there's any notification that someone has added you to their contact list. That is, if you have someone's phone number in your contact list, and they sign up for amazon calling, you see their name in a list. However, if they don't have your number already, they can't see you as a contact. The only information leaking is that someone can learn that you're still using the phone number they have for you and that you're using amazon calling. Contacts in amazon calling don't appear to be two way.
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That compares solar panels in orbit around Mars and Earth. How much do we lose on Earth with our thick atmosphere, ozone layer, and clouds?

I don't think burning anything for energy is going to be an option. Oxygen isn't free.
I wish this were an article about some hot new documentation tool instead of another misguided psalm to slack & kanban.

Making docs sexy would be a big quality of life boost for programmers and the people who love them (i.e. project managers and users of software).
> Being British but not English would make you...

Or an ethnic minority, for example Mo Farah or Archie Panjabi. As far as I can make out, minorities preferred "British-x" (e.g. British-Asian) as a label rather than English even if they were born in England, although there have been calls for that to change [1].

[1] https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2010/jun/23/englis...
I don't think the article is blaming the president. To me, the article illustrates a reason that some people have decided that systems are broken/unfair/inaccessible.
In a sandbox environment (e.g., in a lab trying to deconstruct malware) they'll have a private DNS infrastructure setup to resolve all domains to some local IP address. That way they can intercept and reverse engineer the command & control traffic. The author of this malware tried to slow down security analysts by trying to resolve a "fake" (unregistered) domain. Probably just pounded on the keyboard and added a .com. The idea is that the domain should not resolve. If it does, it's an indication that they're in a sandbox / lab environment so the malware doesn't trigger. Again, this is an attempt to slow down analysis. Of course this was a stupid tactic because registering the domain and setting up DNS stopped the malware from triggering globally.
Eh, they are assuming it's broken as if it was somebody not competent that made it this way.

The current state is intended and legally voted and brought there.

Don't vote for whoever is bribed by the healthcare lobby, otherwise nothing short of revolution will change it.
odrive has a Linux client, & supports Google Drive: https://docs.odrive.com/docs/odrive-sync-agent

Haven't actually tried it, seeing as I don't use Linux that often, but it's Python and hence reasonably cross-platform.
Your 2nd point and obedient acceptance of the inevitability highlights just how much of a monopoly it is and how desperately we need alternatives. Or to just break up the monopoly.
Loads of free software alternatives
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Will visiting that URL cause my IP to "hit" on https://intel.malwaretech.com/WannaCrypt.html now?

The map is populating much faster now, maybe they integrated it with the URL?
>Either good genetics, or parents with good dental insurance.
Not eating carbohydrate-rich food is the third option, as bacteria which destroy teeth need carbohydrates to feed.
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There is a bigger problem. The growth of ETOPS planes (planes with two engines that can fly over the Atlantic or Pacific) with fewer seats that need to be filled for a route to be profitable have basically made this plane irrelevant. This includes the 787, the 777, and Airbus's own A350. Airbus greenlit the project based on original sales projections of 1,200 A380s being sold. So far around three hundred have been sold. In addition Airbus projected a brand new market called "VLA" (very large aircraft >500 seats) would come into existence and demand sixty to seventy airframes a year. They therefore compromised the original design of the A380 to target a re-winged and re-engined stretch version down the line. So far most carriers run under 500 seats, with no-one even coming close the theoretical 850 seats that the current Airbus could do, to say nothing about a next generation A380.

Airbus explicitly bet that point to point routes would go away in favor of fortress hubs and hub to hub traffic. The reverse has instead happened. United is making a small fortune now with hub to previously unserved cities in Asia. Norwegian is disrupting the entire Atlantic market by flying 787s into other carriers hubs, destroying any economic advantage that the hubs have.

Airbus wanted plane that was "the biggest and the best" for prestige purposes. That led them to green-light the A380. The A308s engineering problems are problems, but what ultimately dooms it is a basic conceptual problem with the plane itself. It's basically a prestige project, and is going to leave Airbus and European tax-payers on the hook.

All that said, the A380 is a great plane to fly on. I fly it regularly to Bangkok via Seoul. More often then not, the entire upper deck (which is business only on Korean) is 75% empty.
I gathered the videos into a playlist for better findability: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLF9bYy39t4tGBnJ9FjOSF...
Looks similar to https://thegamma.net .
Sure, but the point of this part of the blog post is that there is a minimum viable sizes for modern industrialized civilization, and it is bigger than Australia (pop. 24M), and probably even Russia (pop. 144M). Russian can't itself manufacture all products it needs simultaneously even if it could do it for any individual product.

Folks in this thread seem to have mistakenly interpreted this as a value judgement about Russia from the author. "Russia is sophisticated enough to produce any of these products!" is a retort to that claim, buts it's completely besides the point.
My guess was going to be left-handed bricklayers that wear blue hats. Close.
Pirates don't install security patches.
This could be a great Hugo theme. Rendering Github-flavored-markdown into a nicely presented tutorial page. Bonus points if you could somehow incorporate Git commits so tutorial-goers could diff their code to find typos etc. You wouldn't even need an external site with github pages doing the hosting out of the box.
for whatever there's a much higher no-show rate among Medicaid patients

A lot of people are afraid of the dentist, and I'll bet dollars to donuts that Medicaid isn't allowed to cover sedation dentistry and other enhancements that private insurance or cash patients have access to. Sure, "save your pennies," but think about the situation we're talking about here.
We may be taking the first steps to establishing a permanent undersea colonies 1. I'd like to see that happen before trying permanent outer space colonies.

Establishing a permanent settlement in an area uninhabitable by humans seems like an incredible challenge that humanity has never attempted. It will likely have so many unforeseeable contingencies that are impossible to provide for before we actually try it. If we are going to try something like that, I'd much rather the first time be under the Ocean where there is a relatively easy out if we run into problems rather than in outer space where you're just stuck with no way out.

1. http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-29031512*
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Without an example that shows that Google has a habit of lying your comment just wastes people's time. Do your research and make your comment useful.
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Is Windows 7 not affected?
Duplicate of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14330885
GP wasn't implying that every rider should start their own competitor. Juno is an example of a ride hailing company that corrected for low driver wages through market mechanisms.
That's where the real money is in malware. This malware group may have made $30k on the attack, but the malware-protection industry will earn orders of magnitude more business.
In the Netherlands, dental is outside of the national health care plan. And we are still doing fine. I pay all my dental bills out of pocket because its cheaper than insurance(#). So it is possible to have great national dental-health without having a national health care plan.

(#) We have plans that compensate up to 75% of €500 per year, but it will cost you €250. Doesn't really make sense.
When the majority of new jobs do not pay living wages, this argument breaks down.

Sure, people want gig, part time work. They aren't the issue.

Over 40 percent of workers make minimum or below on gig wages.

The vast majority of new jobs pay these wages and they aren't enough. People work at a net loss, the impact being we, who can make it, subsidize the business models by social spending, and or people live terribly.

We aren't bankrolling good jobs lost. A majority of Americans struggle economically today, and those numbers are climbing.

The usual argument is it becoming cheaper to live. The reality does not align to that expectation.

We need to fix this. Either is fine. It really does become cheaper to live, or very large numbers of people need more from their labor, or we accept a much lower standard of living and tepid demand that goes along with all that.

Which is it, and how can we improve?
Having worked on this pretty extensively, my preferred method is: (1) make two implementations of the function I'm trying to speed up, (2) add a wrapper so half of that function's calls get sent to each version, and then (3) profile in Chrome and compare the results (particularly the time spent in the two alternate implementations, but overall as well).

I know that's not the gdb-like experience you're looking for, but as far as I've found it's the best approach. The issue is that modern JS engines achieve their speed by tracking what happens at runtime and dynamically re-optimizing hot functions - so microbenchmarks are largely meaningless, and the performance of a given function can hugely affected by code that's far away.

(The above is for everyday. For extreme deep-diving, one can use JS engine tools to see what kind of internal representation your code has been compiled into after it got optimized. In chrome this is done with IRHydra - http://mrale.ph/irhydra/2/ .)
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I don't get why you are being downvoted (also one word). I thought your comment was quite funny
I resell a lot of dental equipment. The tools are incredibly cheap now and the composites are becoming increasingly more advanced and easy to use. It's all coming from China where things have become deregulated. Also, aligners are now made using machine learning, so those are more affordable than ever. Basically, the tech is there but the regulation in US is lagging as always.
I was so excited to see these animations but I'm getting an application error. There's something about seeing algorithms in action that makes them stick. Hope to see this up and running again soon!
The couple of times I flew the Dreamliner it really wasn't much of a difference to the 777 or A330. Noise level was very similar, same leg room, same seat space. Quite disappointing.

From what I hear and have read, the A380 is significantly quieter. To a degree that is eerie.
I love it.

Leipzig is a great city. The attendees will like it here, although the congress is always at the worst season of the year.

Moved back to Leipzig over a year ago (from Berlin). I guess, I can attend again without discomfort.