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The Aldi brothers have their share of scandals in Germany when it comes to tainted and mislabeled food. I wouldn’t be so confident that Trader Joe’s is what it claims to be. They are very secretive about where their food comes from and have shunned independent food tracking services to verify the non GMO status of their foood. I’m not opposed to GMO food so this doesn’t bother me but I wouldn’t be surprised to find that their honey or olive oil isn’t pure. It’s hard to find non adulterated products these days.
Makes one wonder if the FAA is too close to Boeing. Not only did they green light this but they also put considerable pressure on EASA to do the same. The FAA's first priority should be safety, not Boeing's bottom line or their ability to more quickly deploy an aircraft update.

Pilots are pretty unhappy about this M.C.A.S. situation. They're literally expected to fly an aircraft, and not even being told how that aircraft functions. And while the checklist may eventually take care of this, that isn't a substitute for a professional pilot in the cockpit. Just the lack of training/simulated failures for this new system is highly irregular, pilots are used to and expect such training while transitioning to a new major aircraft version.

The biggest drivers here seem to be cost and Boeing's competitiveness, not safety. I think it might be time for the EASA to trust the FAA a little less, at least until they get their house back in order.
* on the command line

* in your text editor, for example in VS Code

* in for your build tool, for example in webpack

* via the Node.js API

* as a PostCSS plugin

^ If I was trying to meet compatibility with the above requirements I'd probably pick JS too.

It's easy to complain about npm but the fact is it get so much done every day. I don't want to be compiling binaries and all the compatibility crap that goes on there. I have no problem with well written JS or Typescript.

Yes NPM dependency can be a bit crazy, but it doesn't pollute your system. Using nvm everything is contained in a modules directory. I can literally delete that folder and be back to square one in two seconds flat. Compiling binaries, well, that's where I feel like you end up pulling your hair out.

I have to compile binaries for a certain version of a capybarra gem, to do that I had to roll back x-code. Never had to do anything like that for a straight forward npm.
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It doesn't need to immediately convey exactly what it is - it does make it obvious this is not pure EVOO. That should be enough to take a closer look, and a closer look is all you need to actually read the label and see what's in it.

> and I hope the book is thrown at them

What book? Nothing here is illegal. Smarmy, absolutely, and I would buy this or anything else from that brand, but come on. "Throw the book at them!!1" doesn't really mean anything in this context.
We've been getting along alright so far with photoshop. This isn't fundamentally different.
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This isn't strictly true - you can get good, real extra virgin olive oil at, say, Whole Foods, but it's gonna be from California. Tinted glass keeps UV light from degrading the product, similarly to why no decent beers come in clear glass.

You're completely correct about getting good imported olive oil from a supermarket though, absolutely.
This is just for the MVP. The next phase is to take all those functions, package them up in a monolithic framework so they can work together and then deploy to a machine in the office's server closet.
What would have happened?
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I find this one short and useful: "so you know language X and Y, can you compare some features between them that you like and dislike?". If they get into deep comparisons about the tradeoffs between type safety, state, maintainability, multithreading, undefined behaviour, functional vs OO, libraries etc. that's a good indicator to me.
This is one of those things I never really acknowledged but looking back, all the good olive oil I've ever used has been in a dark glass bottle.
> Well Bloomberg reporters get bonuses based on how much the their stories move the market.

Do you have any evidence of this?
You can be an Apple user without being a part of the Apple ecosystem.

I've been an Android user since forever but I had to switch to iPhone X to dogfood my app. I "switched without switching" -- my photos are still saved to Google Photos, my contacts are synched with Google Contacts, etc.

I'm perfectly fine after the switch. All my mobile workflows are intact. When it's time to switch back to Android, I'm sure I'll be able to switch without any major problems (except for one thing -- I'll likely miss the build quality of iPhone X).
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From a UX perspective what should have happened is the plane telling the pilots: "I've detected the danger of a stall and corrected for it!" with the pilots being able to answer either "Ooops thank you!" but also "Don't do this for the rest of the flight!"

I'm a bit baffled about how the previous flight had the problem, apparently misdiagnosed but resolved it, and the new crew had the same problem but was unable resolve it. How's it possible that the plane takes corrective action without telling the pilots? It's not like getting close to a stall is a routine occurrence, is it?
I’m curious if “free markets” are really driving these companies towards endless growth every quarter or if it’s the result of the sophisticated capital system Wall St pioneered in the late 1800s.

If anything it’s a function of American style public markets and I’m not going for a no true Scotsman argument but rather it’s important to look at the whole system in place rather than dismissive politicized labels.

This skewed incentive system then gets combined with another common problem and made far worse. Public stock market corporations are not the only ones who decline in caring about their core values. This happens to many actual public government agencies, non profits, or any large organization when later generations of executive take over...people who weren’t there for the original vision. These people care more about the organization itself than they do about what value the organization delivers to society.

In public stock companies this usually means the people who then start to only care about the accountants demands (tons of CEOs are accountants, few are engineers) and what public investors think and feel (their moods often determine prices as much as reality) and most importantly not caring first about their value to customers... which had created the whole empire [1]. Ala the Iron rule of bureaucracy [2].

[1] GE is the perfect example of this, where the finance/Wall St guys took over, created the highest growth rates, then nearly destroyed the company in pursuit of growth, and changed the whole company away from their core engineering business and nearly destroyed it. They are now slowly slimming the Capital division and retiring to making things

https://www.wsj.com/articles/ge-powered-the-american-century...

[2] https://www.jerrypournelle.com/reports/jerryp/iron.html
Im asking to attempt to provide a justification for the commonly held belief that a person has intrinsic value.

If you reject that belief and don't believe it is justifiable, why is that the case. Either way it doesn't really matter to my point.

If you arbitrarily decide that all why questions are how questions, then you can't really ask a why question can you?

>if they have "answers", then that's only because the answer is assumed in the question,

Many ethical systems make the assumption that human happiness has intrinsic value--that it is an inherently good thing.

They work backwards from that because what is "good" can't be discovered from observation and experimentation.

>I am not sure it necessarily does

It's definitely one of the basic tenets of Utilitarianism.
Mozilla probably if you are thinking of household names. AMD and RISC-V have some optimism on the hardware side.
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Does anyone have recommendations for a good, privacy-focused domain registrar? All of mine are on Google at the moment but I'd like to switch away.
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> Indeed, this is the very foundation for the GDPR policy in Europe: users should have a choice about how their data is used, and be fully-informed on its uses in order to make the right decision for them.

I still fundamentally disagree with Europe's stance on data ownership. If I collect data on a person in a public location, I believe I own that data, not the person. If a person walks into my store and I take a picture of them, I don't believe I've "stolen" anything from them, nor do they have the right to demand I give them a copy of the picture I took and delete the picture from my hard drive. This fantasy world where everyone should be able to be perfectly anonymous and erase all evidence of their existence anytime they want is a bad idea. There has to be a balance between publicly available information and private information. If you are in a public location, I should be able to glean information from observations.
Why doesn't it count as 3D? I seem to be able to move the character in 3 dimensions. Some parts of the floor are higher than others. What else does 3D mean?

Could you represent this map using just two components for each point? I don't see how.
> There are many parts of the US where this isn't the case, because cars are the only transportation available.

There are few places that have no level of at least bus service. And bicycling and walking are generally considered mass transit, which you can do in every part of the US I'm aware of. The number of places accessible only by car is negligible.

But the mass transit in many places is terrible, to the point that a fifteen minute drive becomes a thirty minute walk followed by a twenty minute bus ride followed by a two hour walk. And the preference for cars comes in comparison to the alternative for the person making the choice, so people in those places obviously have a strong preference for cars.

You could get them to prefer the bus there by making the car trip take three hours or cost $100, but what good is that? Whose life does it improve?

> There a decent amount of people who just want to get to where they're going and don't necessarily care how.

That's the point. If you want more people to take the bus, don't make it worse to drive, make it better to take the bus. You get the result you want, but you do it by improving someone's life instead of making it worse.
A statically-typed stack machine like Wasm is homomorphic to SSA form with liveness, and it's impossible to lie about liveness in this format. Most of the complexity in the streaming compiler that I'm working on is around producing good code for locals when we have no liveness information for them. I explain why this is in the article.
There were actually 130 (I had forgotten CALayer's drawInContext:). Of these 100 were either direct NSView subclasses or CALayer subclasses. Of the remaining, a quick scan indicates around 20 direct or indirect subclasses of NSControl.
The big insight in this post to me is learning how someone else handles a crisis of identity. Something you usually don't know you're going through until it's over and have had time to reflect.

Thanks for sharing, Frank.
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Perhaps US police have shoved too many of these cases under the rug and now they need a scape goat because it is becoming too obvious that US companies cannot bribe, influence, or demand justice from their own government when the opposition is "businesses" with the backing and protection of China.
I got a little excited that it would replace Prettier except with [insert more reasonable style preference here].

Alas, they list the autofix support as partial/experimental.
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> Hell, there is even a very close example: Greece.

Greece (and Italy) are in no way comparable to France. Both countries have the historical problem of tax avoidance/evasion as a "public sport" which everyone from the small baker shop to the multi billion ship owner competes in, with a lot of organised crime/mafia added on top in Italy.

Both governments would have more than enough money to properly fund their citizens and their infrastructure if said citizens would pay their taxes.

> But France has lots of baggage to reform and had lost lots of its influential mojo. Time to downscale.

The question is, downscale but at what cost? Look at how much the "downscaling" aka the "Agenda 2010" in Germany cost... we lost the trust of a significant part of the population in the democratic system as a result and "gained" a relevant far-right party presence in parliaments.
Presumably you'd fake things it would be plausible the politician was trying to keep secret. So you'd expect there to be no witnesses.

For example you'd fake hidden camera footage of politicians beating prostitutes and accepting brown envelopes from russian agents.
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>Who, in 2019, are the "cherished underdogs of today"?

My guess:

- Email: Protonmail get recommended all the time on HN/Reddit

- Analytics: Simpleanalytics seems to be the new champion

- Search Engine: DuckDuckGo

- Browser: Probably Vivaldi, or maybe Brave
What you describe sounds exactly like giving up privacy to me, even if it doesn't sound like giving up privacy to you.

And then when you add in all the other tracking that Google does of your web history, search history, location data, that is pretty much all your privacy gone.

Let's say I pay an assistant to help with my email. Even though they are in my employ, I'm still giving up my privacy for the service. Google gives us email service in exchange for that peek in to our private lives.
The only companies that I know (outside of the big players) hiring people to work on WebAssembly are Perlin Network and Parity Technologies, both blockchain companies. I work for Parity on Wasm stuff.
"Serverless" is one of the worst misnomers I've ever seen.
From the article: "In designing the 737 Max, Boeing decided to feed M.C.A.S. with data from only one of the two angle of attack sensors at a time, depending on which of two, redundant flight control computers — one on the captain’s side, one on the first officer’s side — happened to be active on that flight."

They created a single point of failure that way. Why?
You buy Apple products because you think their products are the best. It's fine if you don't, most people seem to think so which is why they have overwhelming share of high end products.

You're not paying for a future vision at all. That doesn't make any sense because they don't tell you what's coming in the future and actively try to prevent people from finding out.
1. Yes. If your CLI tool is written entirely in JS, you can even bundle all files into a single file and ship the JS file. With native dependencies, you need to use other solutions.
2. Compile into a wasm binary is not possible because JS is an dynamically typed language. No type at compilation time
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Medium seems to be a poor webhost from my POV.
Most people don't, no. A very tiny subset of people in any given field do this.
Dude selling access to the database? What type of contract is this with FBI? Does everyone's DNA get shared, or specific people? Why would anyone trust these DNA companies FOR law enforcement?
I'm a bit skeptical of claims like this. All standard transparent soda lime glass is opaque to short wavelength UV (UV-B and UV-C) but is in fact trasparent to long wavelength UV (UV-A) (transmission drops off rapidly under 350nm). However, what tinting is actually being employed in any particular bottle and how effective is it at blocking long wavelength UV? To be sure, there are some tinted glasses that are effective at blocking long wavelength UV, but can the consumer identify those by sight? Amber glass is meant to be pretty good at blocking UV, presumably UV-A since regular glass will block UV-B and UV-C, but amber glass seems to be a fairly complex formation and it's not clear to me if some formulations are more or less effective than others. Beer sold in clear glass is relatively rare, but green glass isn't particularly uncommon and from what I can tell ferric ion green glass doesn't seem to block UV-A any better than clear glass. Green glass made with didymium is often used as UV filters, but I don't think that's used in beer bottles.

I suspect tinted glass has more to do with marketing, consumer expectations (and maybe cargo cults) than UV protection.

(Also, what brand is in the habit of leaving their bottles of EVO sitting out in sunlight instead of in warehouses, in shipping containers, in stores, etc? When you avoid direct sunlight and electric arcs, the UV threat should be minimal.)
I used it few months and it mostly worked just fine. I had few crashes but those were rare. The main drawback was that their developer console was somewhat buggy, so eventually I switched back to Chrome because I needed it. Also 1Password extension for Edge was buggy as well.

And, oh my god, how many times Google asked me to install Chrome. They are really annoying with those ads which never stop to appear. I suppose that for many users that might be the reason to switch to Chrome, to stop that insanity.
You seem to have two different questions here. The first is about whether there are people who don't won't consider ethics when doing their research. I'm sure there are such people, but they still need funding and other support that they'll lose if they don't follow the ethics guidelines of their institution and/or laws of their country. The scientist who recently announced the birth of genetically modified babies is a particularly strong example of these consequences.

Your second question is about different ethical standards across the globe. You don't need a journal that completely ignores ethics to support people a global community working under different ethical systems. You either need a journal that accepts submissions that passed local ethical review or a locally-run journal that abides by the ethics of its locality.
The irony, of course, is that when you open TechCrunch in the EU the first thing you see is a GDPR disclaimer saying “hey we’re gonna collect your data to do whatever we want with”, which 95% of consumers will just click through. This isn’t a Google or Facebook problem as much as it is an internet problem.
This question needs to be broken down into two parts.

Are they doing industrial espionage to steal tech for themselves? Yes, certainly seems so.

Are they embedding hidden things into their tech to spy on the communications of their customers? To my knowledge there’s no evidence of this, but it feels like this should be a serious concern.
I think the question of who owns it is normative, since ownership itself is just a legal/social construct. The question is which policy leads to a better world. On that front, I tend to agree with you. There are few people who will be materially happier or better off from GDPR, and it does close off some analysis that would be beneficial to business. If business is hurt and no one is helped, I call that a net negative.

But, it is the law of the land, and unlikely to change in the near future. Lots of things are suboptimal and I’m not sure GDPR is very close to the top of my list. So you get over it and move on.
Yeah, when the trim is a giant screw changing the angle of the whole stabilizer, rather than just a little tab, it's a whole different ballgame.

There are plenty of single components on an airliner whose failure can cause a stabilizer trim runaway. Different airliners handle it differently. On a 737 can you can cut out automatic control, and use wheels connected to the stabilizer jackscrew with metal cables. On other airliners, you can cut out automatic control, then switch second electric control system and use it manually. A 737 stabilizer runway isn't an instant thing, and is a loud event in the cockpit.
What public metric would you use to prove this (or the opposite of this) point?
That hasn't been the case for nearly five years... Gmail messages are NOT used for any ad targeting.
Absolutely key ==> "Their “attention span budget” can thus be spent considering how your new thing can fit into their lives, rather than trying to recall ..."

UI is all about minimizing user workload, and NOT requiring people to learn redundant knowledge.

Take advantage of every bit of knowledge that they already have from previous systems.

Every split second they must use to figure out your new way to do someting they already knonw how to do another way, is squandered and redundant.

Eliminate it. Work hard to eliminate it, so that they can focus on your real innovation

Note: even if you have actually figured out some truly better UI controls, they must be not merely noticeably better, but better by a margin that exceeds the cognitive costs of both the new learning & the ongoing disconnect from the main UI (and remember, they don't live in your app the way you do).

E.g., the fad towards 'clean interfaces' with minimalistic or totally hidden hotspots may look prettier, but is a huge waste of user time and generates animosity towards the product. Just the example of Gmail hiding the Trash folder; I don't know how many times I've had to help people telling them that they need to scroll down, click on the "MoreV" word (not even transiently highlighted as a control), then scroll down again... I use it so little I've even had to Google it myself in a rush... That and 1000 other things are not an improvement, they are a waste of people's time for some design conceit.

Of course, if you want to give off signals that your core product ideas aren't all that uniquely useful, and you need to create cute & costly UI differences as distractions, by all means, go right on ahead...

If you have a real innovation, the best thing you can do is put zero redundant learning between your user and your key innovations.
Yes compilers are hard, but why make them harder? There is literally no reason to require rebuilding this information. The compiler emitting Wasm has that information and already uses it, having locals and disallowing blocks to take/return values actually means more complexity in both the compilers generating Wasm and the runtimes generating native code from Wasm. That's the entire premise of the article.
We use tags for that. Upon each release all repos get the same tag. Alternatively with tools like mr [1] you can for each release keep a .mrconfig somewhere which keeps the commit SHA for each repo (not 100% sure if mr can create such file by itself, but it's not really hard) so that if you do a fresh clone it checks out each repo at the correct commit.

[1] https://linux.die.net/man/1/mr
Ok, that makes sense. When your streets are lain out in a grid, everything is easier. But most municipal road systems are far less tractable. I can't imagine easily navigating my hometown, or any other town in New England based on grid coordinates.
Such a study is practically inevitable. Studies generally need central tendency to be statistically significant. Long trends are kind of by necessity outliers.

Both are valid and depend on your modeling and time horizon. But if you can find a simple statistical alpha which has more examples, you're probably better off doing that. Which is why HFT was so profitable.
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If you take a picture of a person naked on a beach without their permission, is it ok to use that picture as you like?