skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's ironic that it's a Boeing with bad software (or sensors) interfering between yoke and plane. After all, historically, Boeing has had the philosophy of trusting the pilot with direct control of the plane. This is in comparison with Airbus, where controls are by stick instead of yoke, and pilots are taught to trust the flight computer and move the controls less. (Of course, these days both manufacturers build fly-by-wire planes.) [1]

The addition of a 'maneuvering characteristics augmentation system' seems very unlike Boeing. I guess it became necessary after adding too-big engines without otherwise adjusting the airframe... [2]

This "we'll fix it with software later" attitude works well with CPU errata and maybe Teslas, but it doesn't look like we're there yet for airplanes, unfortunately.

[1] https://www.pprune.org/tech-log/10321-stick-vs-yoke-airbus-v...

[2] https://theaircurrent.com/aviation-safety/what-is-the-boeing...
Nerves is Linux with an Erlang init(1), built with buildroot, and using sysfs for peripheral I/O. This is BEAM on an RTOS, which makes it effectively bare-metal.
It reminds me of what passes for journalism these days.
Nobody with a full command of the language uses "fallout" to refer to a debris field. It is most commonly used in the abstract sense, to refer to negative after-effects, or else in the technical sense, for radioactive pollution.
The whole Amazon takes an open source product and monetizes it almost reminds me in a way of someone getting rich off an asset flip on the unity store. Just a big, giant, corporate version.
Open source work for hire can be a lifestyle business (it's not free until you agree to write it), but VC money wants some kind of sustained competitive advantage that drives huge scale.
It's more like getting kicked out of the most popular bar, where 90% of your friends go. Sure, there are other bars, but you want to go to the one with your friends.
A slick solution. But I've given up on runtime guards in JS; life is just better with a type system.
Correct. That's why I recommend people set the widest possible city and field pairing as possible.
Isn't that the idea behind Chromebooks?
Did you ever buy one?
My interpretation of that first link: The new engines meant the plane would stall easier under some circumstances so rather than telling everyone about it, they bandaided this behaviour by adding pitch-down based on the measured angle of attack. However, if the single angle-of-attack sensor fails the plane can suddenly dive.

Sounds like planes need an "automation e-stop", some kind of quick standardized way to return a plane to full manual control.
>You need more than a decade to become proficient with deep learning at the level of researchers solving novel business problems.

No. Even these people haven’t been doing it for a decade.
The quote is from an executive in Denmark, where wages are on a much narrower distribution compared to America and many services are socialized.

If it's the difference between $90k at a hip tech company or $93k at a stuffy bank, people may choose the tech company. If it's $250k at Amazon or $120k at a startup, they'll probably choose Amazon. But those kind of spreads are less common in Europe.
Jupiter could be cracking its moon Europa with powerful magnetic force
What's a representative camera (e.g. resolution, model number) that is used in retail?
I tried to go all out on TJs, but I couldn't make it work. They are, like one commenter above said, "the disappearing middle" even though they're kind of the bottom. Costco beats them out for most of the things I'd buy: booze, meat & poultry, bulk veggies, dairy. The only things I'll buy exclusively at TJs are berries. What's up with their soupy peanut butter too?
and don't forget the free soda as a "perk".
At this rate they’d probably censor that song from Chicago (the musical) too if someone posted it.
People thought Oracle would run MySQL into the ground, and that didn't happen.
Really, flying by instrumentation is what you're saying is the problem and that's the truth. There's no way around that though. I did read that the sensor for the MAX is on both sides but is only activated on the side of who is flying, the pilot or the co-pilot. If the sensor fails, the plane fails. They could at least have both sensors active as a failsafe in case one is acting up.
Why would they be uncomfortable having their LinkedIn found by any method? Forgive me for sounding obtuse, but I just don’t know what the point of having a LinkedIn would be otherwise. It’s essentially a placeholder that says, “I exist and am employed in such and such industry and at so and so company.” It consists of information I would voluntarily give anyone who asked, sitting next to me on an airplane, standing in line for coffee... What malicious deeds should I be worried about being done based on someone finding my information on LinkedIn?
Do you have any contact info? We would live to talk. (Contact in email)

https://Kloudtrader.com
The bigger story here appears to be a "Javascript Standard Library" which is summarized [1] without any list of proposed modules/packages...

A key-value store isn't quite the first module that leaps to mind for such a toolkit :-)

EDIT: found a collection of module proposals! [2]

[1] https://github.com/tc39/proposal-javascript-standard-library

[2] https://github.com/tc39/proposal-javascript-standard-library...
Here are the two issues I have with your comment.

The phrase "we've made significant progress in the last X years" has been used for a long time nuclear fusion research. Quote mining from Google Scholar:

2007 - "Significant progress has been made in the area of advanced modes of operation that are candidates for achieving steady state conditions in a fusion reactor." https://inis.iaea.org/search/search.aspx?orig_q=RN:38071367

1999 - "Over the past several decades, significant and steady progress has been made in the development of fusion energy and its associated technology and in the understanding of the physics of high-temperature plasmas." - https://e-reports-ext.llnl.gov/pdf/237013.pdf

1981 - "SUBSTANTIAL PROGRESS HAS BEEN MADE IN ACHIEVING THE CONDITIONS NECESSARY FOR FUSION" - https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/6040602

As such, the phrase, while true, cannot be used to infer any sort of near-time (within the next few decades) prediction for an effective fusion power system.

Second, I do not like the appeal to Moore's Law because even if true (I don't know the baseline numbers), all you are saying is that there has been an exponential growth over the decades. However, there are many S-curve growth patterns which appear exponential near the start. What is the basis for assuming that nuclear fusion will be like Moore's law, with exponential growth over many decades, and not an S-curve?

For example, from the 1800s to the 1970s we saw huge increases in transport speed; from trains and wooden ships to moon travel and supersonic passenger airlines. Someone in 1965 (ahem, Heinlein) might point to the exponential growth in rocket ships over a single lifetime and easily assume it would result in Moon bases and tourism within another two generations.

Instead, it flattened out.
Something like that. I never understood why you can't just run graphics accelerated Android apps on Linux using native tools. Linux already has most, if not all, of the sandboxing/permissions components needed for apps. Wish apps were just distributed via containers.
Ditto, it was my impression that direct control / mechanical linkage was the underpinning for the "if it's not Boeing I'm not going" mindset.
This is very significant. Singapore has https://www.faa.gov/news/press_releases/news_story.cfm?newsI... a bilateral agreement with the FAA which "provides for the mutual recognition of airworthiness of civil aeronautical products" (Reuters reported China wants this but couldn't achieve it yet). Now, the SG CAAS did not yet issue a declaration on the airworthiness of the 737 Max 8 but this puts immense pressure on the FAA-EASA-TCAA-etc family to move.
For an industry whose customers are about values, Gaming Industry has none of them. Internet has the power to change it.
Would you be able to name and shame? Which FANG is this?
Some minor notes:

- For permissions WSL uses EAs; for capabilities it uses ADS

- I'm not sure if it's really NTFS that is slow with lots of small files or the I/O subsystem in general... I got the impression it's the latter but not sure.
I like shopping at Aldi because it reduces the paradox of choice. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Paradox_of_Choice

Less choice, less time spent in the supermarket. I buy 90% of my weekly groceries there and it takes me less than 15 minutes to be out of the door.

The remaining 10%, I buy at different shops as those are really specific items that Aldi does not carry.

I like the low prices and the efficiency of the checkout process.

Anecdote: I have noticed a saving of approximately 15% compared to when I was shopping at the competitor's stores.
OpenAI shifts from nonprofit to ‘capped-profit’ to attract capital
Multiple eye witness reports have the 737 trailing smoke and debris and making unusual sounds before impact [1]. That's not the sort of report one would expect if an otherwise intact aircraft flew into terrain due to some flaw with MCAS.

[1] https://www.reuters.com/article/us-ethiopia-airplane-witness...
I would absolutely pay for this. If i could walk through verbally how everything works on a large system I'm working on with a company, and then magically get some confluence docs, diagrams, autodocs, readmes, guides, this would be incredibly valuable.
Is the bilateral agreement AND or OR?
They don't get UX at all, "flip these specific circuit breakers" is their answer and it's different depending on the issue

A big red "disable all automation" and better user interfaces that actually tell you why the computer is commanding a maneuver would save lives.
is there such a thing as available source, closed license?
The proposal doesn't seem to take into account the versioning of the included modules.

> import { Date } from "std:Date";

> import { Date } from "std:Date+2.1.6-alpha.1";

Which version is the first line going to include? Latest? First?

importmap for backward compatibility / polyfills is very neat though.

I would love to see lowdash/underscore included as a standard library.
Pocketmail[1]. There was a fairly brief period of time when those were great for emailing out updates from backpacking adventures, perhaps to an early blog. Of course, their utility relied on available (pay)phones, and they were only good for text.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PocketMail
Probably signed NDA to get severance.
I understood "workspace" to only mean the physical space, and maybe the superficial amenities like food, games, events. So from your list only atmosphere, free lunch, and natural light.
Mark Zuckerberg predicted a food trend
In the 90s you would be right, these days web standards don’t get standardized without having implementations first.
Finding the missing heritability in pediatric obesity
Craig Murray: Ten Points I Can’t Believe About the Official Skripal Narrative
I agree and it's also why I refuse to live there. I'm not young and wide-eyed anymore.
Re: “we'll fix it with software later"

On Mar 12th 2019 Boeing issued following release with respect to MCAS, Lion Air Flight 610 and Ethiopian flight 302:

For the past several months and in the aftermath of Lion Air Flight 610, Boeing has been developing a flight control software enhancement for the 737 MAX, designed to make an already safe aircraft even safer. This includes updates to the Maneuvering Characteristics Augmentation System (MCAS) flight control law, pilot displays, operation manuals and crew training. The enhanced flight control law incorporates angle of attack (AOA) inputs, limits stabilizer trim commands in response to an erroneous angle of attack reading, and provides a limit to the stabilizer command in order to retain elevator authority.

...

The FAA says it anticipates mandating this software enhancement with an Airworthiness Directive (AD) no later than April. We have worked with the FAA in development of this software enhancement.

http://avherald.com/h?article=4c534c4a&opt=0
Haven't seen anything from neither WhatWG nor W3C.

Is Google out on another solo raid?

Extra bad because the headline make it sound like a standard.

Or am I missing something?
Isn't this what tech writers do?
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Technical_writer
How to Effectively Refactor Legacy Code
Let me put it this way.

I was an early adopter of a simple sort of body modification - I had a small neodymium disc magnet sheathed in some inert material implanted in a finger.

It was cool and all, but I eventually got it removed because it was sensitive and if the inert sheath ever broke, it'd be bad news. Bodies don't like rare earth metals.

When I got it removed, the person who did it turned out to know the one who put it in (small world), and they told me that the new ones were tiny slivers which were almost impossible to feel, much less remove.

And that wasn't exactly comforting. Mine practically popped out, but a tiny sliver?

Nowadays, I think two or three times about those sorts of 'life hacks'.
I expect that people making the "monopoly" claim are using imprecise language that may vary in precision based on jurisdictional definitions of monopolies, and fb's market share in any given jurisdiction. Laws about monopolies and antitrust exist to prevent or mitigate certain problems that arise when companies have disproportionate power and influence on society. Whether or not fb qualifies as "monopoly", there are many cogent arguments to be made that about its negative effects due to its disproportionate power.
My question to Tesla/Elon critics: How should Tesla have responded to the backlash they received for closing down their stores? Surely one of the two actions should have been positive. It is of course better if one can always make the best decision the first time around. But, failing that, isn’t it better to be open to learning from your mistakes when you receive negative feedback?

It appears to me that for the Tesla bear community, Tesla is damned if they do, and damned if they don’t no matter the decision.
Are you asking whether Singapore addressing the airworthiness of the Boeing 737 Max 8 would automatically extend to the USA and due to other agreements to the EU , Canada and Australia? No, the Airworthiness Directives are legally enforcable and it's a matter of very fundamental principle no country can create law in another. It would not automatically follow but it's basically unthinkable they wouldn't issue similar directives in rapid succession. For example, when the 787 got an Airworthiness Directive in 2013 https://www.faa.gov/news/press_releases/news_story.cfm?newsI... then the EASA adopted it https://www.easa.europa.eu/newsroom-and-events/news/boeing-7... immediately but it needed to adopt it -- the FAA has no power in the EU.
Marco, CTO of Kong here. Kong is not only built on top of Nginx, but also extends it significantly to provide features that Nginx doesn’t do out of the box (dynamic configuration, SRV records resolution, dynamic Plugin based system, data plane API and so on).
Sure, zfs send does not actually send a section of a blockchain. It could have, but that wouldn't have been as space-efficient.
They work perfectly fine on Firefox for Android v65.0.1
Here is more context;

https://mobile.twitter.com/garrytan/status/11053119390668840...
You're talking about a distributed solution that will never happen. A centralized system will tend to behave more efficiently than a distributed system, and the owners of that centralized system will undercut the distributed system at every stage. Corporatism will block any such movement via pricing, ease of use, marketing, FUD, and legislation.

If you don't include corporations and governments in the model, that model will fail.
Most of the cameras I've seen in new retail premises in the last few years are HikVision IP cameras, somewhere between 1080P and 5MP (2592 x 1944). YMMV though, and obviously you've got settings and NVR settings when considering quality of footage (and distance, lens etc.)
Ask HN: Has anyone successfully been able to completely quit using Google?
And if so, how?
Thank you! Let me know if you are open to try an integrated pilot with us.
To be clear, the use of tobacco has been an element of human culture (broadly construed, not all cultures) for millennia, on that we agree. I also do not have a problem with people growing it for small scale use. I do have a problem with the perverse incentives of industry to scale and market the product far beyond whatever niche it might otherwise occupy in human society. Furthermore, I object to the inflation of market share by targeting children.

I thought about this a bit overnight and I think if we wanted to use this technology in a way to reduce harm and improve human health, we would offer it mainly through doctors' offices. While it would reduce reach among current smokers, it would also be fairly specific to that population sans some small scale cheating. This would prevent uptake by children and non-users. Instead, we take the opposite approach of selling it for profit and expand the market as far as possible. This is a gross behavior that does not care for the value of human life and health and we allow it.
Reparse points and ADS? Do you have a reference handy? I’ve never seen such things or anything like them in ZFS.
They were different sensors though. In Air France 333, the pitot static tube, which measure airspeed, was jammed by ice. In Lion Air 610, the Alpha vane, which measure angle of attach, was faulty.

But I agree that the solution is not as simple as pilot vs. software. At the end of the day, these sensors and computers need extra redundancies.
embrace, extend, extinguish?
I believe that's only for the Google Summer of Code if you live in the US. IIRC, GSoD participants do not receive a stipend.
Super interesting, he's really great at explaining things in laymens terms. Thanks for sharing
You should check out videos of sheepdog trial finalists. Here's one: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tdrwm-8c354

Pretty impressive and fun to watch.
My understanding is there are two FCCs (flight control computers), but there is only one sensor package used for the MCAS. Normally separate sensor packages would feed into the separate FCCs and require agreement before taking action.

I'm not sure why something that overrides pilot input wouldn't absolutely require multiple sensors monitored by the independent computers.

My understanding is each computer is dual-CPU, though I'm not sure if they exclusively have each computer check the other or if each CPU checks its partner within the same computer (or both), and whether that applies to all tasks or just some of them.
This is, I think, another example where one may consider to discard factor 1 and to look only at factor 2 and 3.

(Of course, a better approach if possible would be baseline normalisation.)
My neighbor flys 737 s for a major us airline and he said he was told failure was due to a bomb. Why is this being downvoted?
Yes. As far as I can tell. Google lost me the day they shut down Reader. There are plenty of alternatives as long as you're not forced by your job or a particular client into using their services.

One thing I'd still like to achieve is to find a permanent solution for avoiding communication with people who use Gmail. Strong-arming them into a new e-mail service is a non-starter.
Disclosure: I work at Amazon, and from time to time I help out with open source policy.

There have been a number of changes to Amazon's policies over the years, and personal participation ("outside activity") is really straightforward now. For the vast majority of cases you just need to submit a ticket with details, and then it is auto-approved.

For comparison, you can have a look at Google's open source policy on personal projects here: https://opensource.google.com/docs/iarc/

If you are an employee and have questions, drop me a line at msw at amazon.com
A9 (Amazon's search & advertising subsidiary) is in Palo Alto. That's the office I'm most familiar with, although perhaps that's because of the revolving door of high-level employees between it and Google.
You can make even an RPi survive harsher conditions with proper housing. Though it’s easier to work with the RPi compute module for that.

What kind of signal processing? The computational libraries are somewhat rough. Though the Elixir communities are slowly adding more libraries, like Matrex (https://github.com/versilov/matrex). It’s surprisingly easy to write C and Rust extensions.
This depends on what you mean by regulation. If you're talking about net neutrality, then it's wrong to assume regulation will benefit rentseakers. That's a matter of protecting freedom of speech from corporate infringement.

If you're talking about regulating social media interactions... that's more complicated. I don't see a good way to stop people from spreading fake news, propaganda, etc without abolishing free speech legislation like the first amendment of the US Constitution.

There may be a way to curtail privacy invasions via legislation, but that's highly unlikely to happen since the government itself is collecting data gathered by Amazon, Google, Facebook, etc.
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Preliminary eyewitness reports are often fairly unreliable, so I won't put much weight into those. In any case, flames and vibrations can be explained by the engines experiencing a compressor stall [1] due to turbulent airflow or the aircraft otherwise operating outside of its design envelope [2].

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MQWYhsYfMxE (Boeing Training Video on Compressor Surge/Stalls)

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compressor_stall#Causes
No mention of the Solid technology from Inrupt that TBL is meant to be touting.
Like Holo.host?
As an enginner I really love and support open standards.

As a user I’m on Apple everything because shit just works and gets out of my way.
$2 of lettuce (~1lb) buys you 63 calories.

$2 of rice (~3lb, uncooked) buys you 5,000 calories.

Lettuce is a garnish cash crop you can grow under a lamp in your garage. Rice is what will keep you alive, though.
I think you’re slightly mischaracterizing the cause in the AF447 flight in that there was a lot more going on than just the airspeed indicator:

AF447 crashed because of a cyclical series of erroneous inputs based on unreliable prompts from aircraft systems; a cycle that fed on itself to the extent that control was never regained. The BEA’s final report attributes multiple factors to the AF447 mishap: temporary and repeated inconsistencies and loss of airspeed indication; inappropriate control inputs; failure to identify unreliable indicated speed; the approach to stall; the full stall state; and the inability to apply an appropriate response in these flight regimes.

https://sma.nasa.gov/docs/default-source/safety-messages/saf...

Also, in the AF447 case the computer had to defer to the human because it didn’t know what the air speed was. In contrast, one thing that’s surprising to me in Lion case is that the MCAS seemed to be willing to trust a faulty AoA sensor:

The DFDR recorded a difference between left and right Angle of Attack (AoA) of about 20° and continued until the end of recording.

http://avherald.com/h?article=4bf90724/0009&opt=0

So it’s got a pair of AoA sensors that aren’t in agreement (split brain, as it were) and it’s going to command nose down anyway?

(I’m sure there’s a reason there aren’t triple redundant sensors where two have to agree or some such. I think the flight computer does require the various different kinds of sensors to agree, but I don’t think there’s triple redundancy of each sensor.)

(Edit: sorry folks, I edited this a bunch of times so the replies below may not make perfect sense. I should really start typing my replies offline.)