skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah, if things had gone just slightly differently. That, and also the company may well have ended and another gained US airline dominance.

I'd like to see a James Burke "Connections" style series on near-misses. What could have been. Another case I like to think about is Sears missing the boat on the Internet. They were catalog based 80 years before Amazon and well could have decimated the industry if a few key decisions were different.
Note that per the report GNU wget does this as well. So other well known, well regarded, widely used tools are following this same standard doing the same thing.

That doesn't excuse the standard, but it does mean Chromium is just matching platform on this, not setting any particular policy on its own.
Was that the final resolution then; that Boeing were ordered to replace the part, and the crashes stopped happening?
Was there ever a formal investigation into whether Boeing knew the true cause of the rudder hardover, and chose to ignore it and blame other stuff?
So the answer was yes?
Which movie is this quote from? :)
Medicine free except for Vyzulta eye drops for my glaucoma.
The great thing about the geniuses here is they don't seem to think that Dunning-Kruger applies to them.
Apologies in advance for the meta-comment (feel free to disregard) about this:

> [Opening Paragraph of Article:] One afternoon in August 2010, in a conference hall perched on the edge of San Francisco Bay, a 34-year-old Londoner called Demis Hassabis took to the stage. Walking to the podium with the deliberate gait of a man trying to control his nerves, he pursed his lips into a brief smile and began to speak: [...]

Am I in the minority, when seeing this writing style (for articles covering this kind of content) becomes an instant turn-off?

When an article covers a technical subject or company, I don’t really care whether a founder had an awkward nervous walking gate, or that the conference hall was “perched” on the edge of the SF bay.

In fact, I’d prefer not to focus on such superficial things about people (or places), at least until I exhaust learning about the facts with substance!

So when I read about something like AI (or an AI company), I tend to want to see fact-oriented, event-oriented, concise writing up front (even if it doesn’t have the scope to dive into technical details), so as to grab my attention and reassure me that reading these 10-20 pages of prose will be worth the reading time (in a world of overwhelming information overload).

When I read science fiction (and I do love this too!), I enjoy the paragraphs setting the scene, verbally illustrating mental images, etc. So, it’s not that I don’t enjoy the writing style in general; just that I don’t understand why it’s applied here.

I am still reading this article and I still have no clue if it’s going to contain any useful information content other than textual descriptions of the Deep Mind founders’ superficial walking gate style and speech mannerisms, and perched-ness of various building locations.
Maybe it’s time for change. Maybe a UBI. Pensions and unfunded liabilities that include hacks like pension spiking, union negotiating, political shennanigans have made it a corrupt system. Even today, unions are part of political lobbying.

I am thinking UBI of some sort. I would imagine a good way to test UBI would be for those in retirement. By abolishing pension schemes. No pension, higher pay during the working years. It’s fairer to all.
So I created a Gist: https://gist.github.com/AshKash/ebf1f70949e76439d6ffed9ccde3...

upped it to 10M ops and used .reserve to avoid unwanted allocs.

Go 1.12 is 2X faster than C++.

This was totally unexpected as I feel the basic algorithms are simple and there is not much you can do to make it faster.

If you have know what is going on, please share.
Cool, thanks for this! I'm happily using Cap'n Proto in a side project, and so far have really enjoyed working with it. It's a really impressive piece of engineering.
Not necessarily. Would you say that a museum or university isn't sustainable because its revenue from goods and services is less money than it spends? If they have an endowment or similar vehicle set up, they can use interest to pay salaries, and other expenses. That's the kind of thing that could be enabled by a single large donation and should be considered sustainable despite a lack of other recurring revenue.
> It is just harder to implement technically.

To the point that the major players mostly fail at doing it well enough to achieve a good UX.

WhatsApp doesn’t allow you to sync conversation history between devices, even though this is technically possible. It’s just hard, so they don’t do it. Instead, they require you to have a single device (e.g. your phone) acting as a secure conversation-history database, which other devices (e.g. your laptop) can then interact through WhatsApp “thin clients.”

iMessage manages to sync conversation history between devices while also being E2E-encrypted, but it’s the exception (and also unavailable to non-Apple users.)
So instead of seriously looking for a problem, Boeing wasted their engineer's time trying to disprove accusations and deflecting blame.

It's too early to say, but Boeing's tactics don't appear to have changed so far.

Here's hoping Being gets their heads out of their asses before more people die - this time.
Most people don’t live in the US. The cars that are popular in the US are already less popular outside. That trend can continue while everyone else moves to smaller electric cars.

Americans still don’t use metric. That hasn’t stopped everyone else in the world.
> Signal/RedPhone did invent its own crypto (the ratchet), didn't they?

IIRC, they didn't invent any crypto primitives (e.g. cyphers).
Any whistle blowers in Boeing who could come out & share facts on how employees of Boeing are reacting to these incidents?
My parents retired early too, and it looked like we were about to be in a similar situation, but then my mom caught a rare and aggressive form of cancer. It happened so fast. We are all still in shock. Don't take any moment for granted, and call your mom—even if you're busy.
"AWS DocumentDB seems to be pretty much tied to the MongoDB API"

I could imagine that they didn't build DocumentDB from the ground up.

DocumentDB is probably just a MongoDB compatible API for one of their base services (S3 or DynamoDB).

As far as I know, they build Serverless Aurora on top of S3, with the help of S3 select. So they will probably just create another custom-DB compatible API if they have the impression that this custom DB becomes the next big thing.
Did Boeing executives go to jail for this disgusting cover up? I hope that the diesel cover-up of Volkswagen and the people that went to jail will motivate governments to pursue criminal charges against Boeing and/or Airbus if similar things happen.

Fighting blame by lying and deflection at the risk of death should be a criminal offense. It's mass murder.
Ah yes, the magical invisible hand of the market will solve this.
Now when going on holidays, I need to be factor in the safety standards of the planes that will be servicing my route.
Or you know, get a government regulator to regulate airplane manufactures like normal countries.
Maybe ancient Egyptians didnt have noses.
The Wikipedia article on this is also good https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boeing_737_rudder_issues
They might if you package the file in some archive format that stores xattrs. For example, tar(1) can store them, although it doesn't by default (you must pass --xattrs).
"[..] Surely real CIA agents understand that."

I don't follow the argument that this makes the CIA implication less probable.

Surely all the spook agencies of any country understand that and yet it happened.

If something, we could ask ourselves "who's is arrogant enough to do something like that in a foreign country?"
Almost all numbers are normal, so it seems like a perfectly reasonable choice of terminology =)

[On the other hand, almost none of the numbers someone on the street might name are normal, so ...]
>and only takes a few minutes to setup.

The usual trap. That's why we have managed DBs.
I hate how (in open-source projects in particular) anything even remotely associatable with security/privacy can be bike-shedded for almost a decade with no actual work done what so ever.

Talk about snailing your way to irrelevance. And I say that as a Firefox-user.

Sometimes I think Firefox would benefit from a more benevolent leader who just stomped down on issues like this and settled things properly without spending months or years doing so.

This is ridiculous.
Amazing. I am happy they got funded. I have sent across this doc to our team to explore as we need time series + graph db + text search
Ubuntu Touch is entirely a community effort at this point, I believe. Sailfish still has a company behind it, they're trying to license the OS to governments and manufacturers that don't want to rely on the US for their OSs (https://techcrunch.com/2019/03/09/the-other-smartphone-busin...)

Besides those there is Purism's PureOS for the librem5 which you can find a lit of past HN discussion on in the search
The one that first rule prohibits us talking about it.
I'm trying to imagine a productive use case for this? Maybe in reverse for attempting to answer questions?
In case you are as yet unaware, there is a specific 99 Percent Invisible episode about this very thing.

https://99percentinvisible.org/episode/the-soho-effect/
Encapsulation Is Not Information Hiding
It seems to be a duopoly: Boeing and Airbus. There was Embraer, but Boeing is acquiring (acquired?). There's also Bombardier, but Airbus has some partnership deal with them.
When looking at solutions, did you consider using a private git repo?

On that thought, you could potentially hook it up to Google Sheets or editors that integrate with remote git repos. Skipping 3rd party hosts, you could host your own git server for cheap too.

Awesome project nonetheless! I'm a hypocrite still using GA but want to move off of it this year, so reading your solution has me thinking about my own.
Even still, why would you deface something you want to sell?
Ha! I never thought of it that way! Yes maybe it was karma but not against the rooster.
What can I do to become sophisticated in applied mathematics
I am a experienced applied physicist, especially, fluid dynamics. I often feel that it is a little hard to develop simple model to describe the problem I have meet. i would like to practice/improve my knowledge of applied mathematics. I really admire the work done in a group in Princeton.
https://stonelab.princeton.edu/
Simplified model and analytical fashion... I am wondering what mathmatics I should learn to get the similar skill like them.
Book Summary: Radical Candor by Kim Scott
The only reason there is any confusion about this is because the modern day Egyptian looks non African. And the only reason for this is because the indigenous population was displaced by Arab people during the spread of Islam.

Whether or not the noses were intentionally destroyed or not it is most parsimonious to believe that the indigenous people of Egypt were African people. Thinking they werent would be like looking at the population of The United States today and believing the Native Americans were white (and if we didn’t have photographic evidence of the natives we can be sure that would have been suggested, and if anyone suggested otherwise they would have been met with “what a crackpot theory!”).

In either case, the Europeans revered ancient Egypt for sure. But this is only because of their mention in the Bible and their interaction with the Ancient Greeks. But when Western Europeans got there, the people who lived in Egypt looked more like them than Africans. But this is only because of the displacement of the indigenous population serval centuries earlier.
We don't really care about the performance (speed) but mostly about features (text search + timeseries) and scalability with clusters
The Feynman Technique. This is basically the gist of it https://mattyford.com/blog/2014/1/23/the-feynman-technique-m...

For example a text I worked through with exercises to determine the cache performance of code snippets, ie: the total number of reads, the miss rate, ect. When I first did that chapter I'd just work through the exercises and move on. Then I'd forget everything a month later. The second time I explained the answer to myself like I was giving a lecture, after working through each exercise for example explaining spatial/temporal locality, stride-1 reference patterns that will be prefetched by the cpu, ect. That was about 2 years ago and I still remember that chapter. So slower at first, but you remember all the concepts which means you don't have to go back and re-do the material again which for me is 'faster learning'.
I didn't really mean to frame it as right vs left; that's just the context that I've seen the topic discussed in. I was hoping to be as neutral as possible with my query.
Hey HN. Wrote a pretty extensive summary of Kim Scott's Radical Candor.

The book has been by far the best I've read when it comes to the topic of building effective teams and relationships.
As someone who really likes foxes, I don't like hearing about them dying, but I can understand the chickens' perspective.
I'd love to know more about this story! Care to elaborate?
Windows Kernel Logic Bug Class: Access Mode Mismatch in IO Manager
Quick question. Is 22/7 an approximate value of pie? What is the correct formula and why?
I liked the idea very much, but I guess I won't use any unmanaged infrastructure software any time soon.

I had too many struggles in the past with MySQL and RethinkDB so I will go with what cloud providers are offering.
I was going to ask if this was his, I always look forward to the new one each week.
Here we go. Someone uploads an image from Jan and all the sudden whatever it says must be interpreted as fact in some way and true. [1]

We don't know who the poster of this is or even if this is correct:

> Images sourced from The Seattle Times, the NTSB, Boeing, Tails Through Time, the Colorado Springs Gazette, The Times of India, Wikipedia, TribLIVE, The Flight 427 Air Disaster Support League, and Forbes. Video clips courtesy of Cineflix and the Weather Channel. Special thanks to the Seattle Times for its series of articles on the subject in 1996, which brought to light many of the details referenced here.

[1] This reminds me of emails back from the mid 90's on the internet. Those were always a version of (at least) my brother is a Harvard trained doctor and he sent me this!
Why not? (Fix the fkn downvoting)
I think its clear that the Article is not a technical piece at all and is instead about Google and Deepmind's working relationship so I think your criticism is unwarranted. You can find great technical articles on Deepmind's website though.

https://deepmind.com/research/
That isn't what happens in reality though.

The end result is appeasing 3rd party scanners like Powermapper without actually making the site any more accessible and in some cases making it less accessible. I've had to remove ARIA labels because Powermapper flags it as a problem for some screen readers. That's right. The markup we added to make the site as accessible as we could for screen readers was flagged as an issue and we had to remove it.

My job isn't to make websites more accessible because of these lawsuits, it's to put a stop to the lawsuits by any means necessary to the detriment of everyone. To quote my earlier post, I actually despise my job because I don't get to spend time making our websites more accessible to users but instead spend most of my time appeasing lawyers with too much time on their hands.
Can attest to that. My lab recently stole three pizzas(placed on a raised table twice his height) when we left the room, sicked it all up from the sheer volume, then lapped it all up again; all in the 5 minutes we were out. Their hunger can truly not be sated.
Maybe I am reading your post wrongly, but two attempts, with a 50% chance of going through over a year long time is "really quite simple"?
There's also GoAccess [1] which can monitor and parse your nginx or apache logs to show you realtime stats in a html report or even directly in your terminal. The numbers do not fully match google analytics numbers, but I love how it looks.

[1] https://goaccess.io/
As consumers, we do at least have the choice on some routes of whether to buy a ticket on a Boeing or not. While you can't guarantee 100% that the airline will use the equipment claimed at the time of purchasing the ticket, I've found at least for short haul within Europe and on one recent long haul holiday, I was able to make a reasonable choice between Airbus and Boeing machines without having to make significant tradeoffs around price, flight time, choice of airport etc. For instance, wherever Ryanair and Eurowings serve the same route, I have my pick of Boeing or Airbus respectively. For the record, when I have a choice, I tend to fly Airbus anyway.
Why are you assuming what you have just seen is even true? An image, no attribution and you honestly don't even know who cooked it up or why.
I think it goes beyond cities, in England 200 miles will get you half way across the country, even someone in suburban or rural areas could charge from home and carry on as normal 99 days out of 100. And the motorway network for that one day is being rolled out.
Hey Simon, nbd - just a nit. Keep at it!
On Brian J. Boeck’s Biography of Mikhail Sholokhov, “Stalin’s Scribe”
TBF I interviewed companies where floors were mildy dark, people packed, and the air moisty.

That was just not a place to keep workers 8 hours a day. If I was more witty I’d precisely ask that question at the end of the interview.
I don't have an issue with this feature, but to play devil's advocate: it obviously isn't being adequately advertised if it's surprising to so many people on HN. And if many among the audience of HN find it surprising, you can be certain it's even more-so to the general public.
It's the rms power of a 4-dimensional sphere signal of radius 2^(1/4).
I understand that they'd kill each other, but why would they all kill each other, who eats them, and who puts the carcasses in the bucket?

So many questions this raises...
I've run Replicant (as an exercise, not for serious privacy/security requirements), but I don't really recommend Replicant.

Replicant drawbacks include:

* Starved for developer time (e.g., low device support, slow/no updates for known exploits, question of how many eyeballs seeing changes, no current semi-secure way to browse Web).

* Only kinda barely minimally almost works.

* The supported hardware devices are not only few and old, but have fundamental security weaknesses in hardware.

* Android is a huge code base, and, going forward, to some degree you're at the mercy of whatever the developer decides to do with it.

* You're trying to adopt a platform that was, to some extent, designed around surveillance of the user. You can disable a lot of snooping, but you would design it very differently if privacy&security were goals.

Librem5 is sorta an option, if you can afford it, though they still use closed hardware black boxes. (Also, even when two black boxes are "isolated", and you think you control the communication channel, you don't necessarily.)

It's too bad that FirefoxOS didn't work out. The Gecko layer and up could've been moved to a purer Linux stack (ditching the Android build tree monstrosity), and to more trustworthy hardware.

Personally, I'm hoping we go back to the original Linux emphasis on mainline kernel, maintainable open drivers, blob-free. The closest effort I've seen is PostmarketOS [1], but it's still in an early state, and it could also be a little more strict about compromise slippery slopes (e.g., the wiki can be misleading about what works on a device, since it might be talking about a non-mainline kernel, and perhaps they should ban kludges to run closed Android drivers). I wish I had more time to work on pmOS at the moment (but am job-hunting, and my new open source work has to be much more near-term employable than this).

[1] https://www.postmarketos.org/
Some say chickens are one of the most abundant vertebrate on the planet (20B+). Let's just hope they don't gang up on us!
It's an old report, they have changed it since:

https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2018-20483

https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-wget/2018-12/msg00034...

After @marcan42 noted this wasn't obvious for users: https://twitter.com/marcan42/status/1077676739877232640
>though you also need a credit card and access to a computer with Internet), so it's not too exclusionary

You'd be surprised
Because it's unnecessary. To them these people looked so much inferior, that they even put them into zoos. Now ask yourself, if you found ruins indicating that [insert animal, maybe elephants] used to have an ancient civilization would you find that incredibly interesting or would you want to destroy evidence of that because it might affect the way we think of elephants today?
Slack would probably just kill your phone instantaneous, because it found new memory to consume.
Apart from whether this is nefarious and/or intended behavior, it seems odd that the bug report specifically uses protection of illegal content as motivation.
We know nothing about how it works, it seems to derive its information and results from somewhere else as if it's hooked some bigger brain ( which can't see ), so analyzing brain alone we don't find anything.
Maybe _Unsafe at any Speed_ ?
Microsoft Game Stack
https://www.latimes.com/projects/la-me-pension-crisis-davis-... : this is an example of how pensions and unfunded pension liabilities are bankrupting California

At the end of the day, it’s speculation. Instead of spitting on the face of millennials and tech and Silicon Valley, they ought to look at unions and the burden of unfunded pension liabilities.

For most public sector employees, the last salary you draw is your pension for life. Law enforcement and fire fighters retire at 50 and are free to work after retirement. Until a few years ago, unclaimed leave could be cashed in..a caltrans driver took home 400+k from leave accumulated over 35 years. Others take the last couple of years off but remain unemployed getting an average of 4-5% hike annually which becomes part of their pension. This isn’t deferred pay. It’s pension spiking. It comes from unfunded liabilities. Which would put every Californian in debt for years to come and will probably never go away until pension schemes are over hauled.
College admissions scandal fallout: Stanford students sue UCLA, USC and Yale
> One thing you sure don't get is performance.

You can optimise per use case. In the monolith everything has to work for every use case. In a service you might not care to write, you might not care if your writes are super async. This means you can start to take liberties with the back-end (e.g. denormalising where necessary) and you have room to breathe.
1) yes, harder/costlier to implement 2) maintaining security is an issue - losing security can cause outage or trust 3) patents are a thing.
Modern supercomputers are still a factor of 10 off of the brains compute power(~1 Exaflop) but I don't think anyone in the field believes that you suddenly get consciousness once you reach a critical mass of compute. It's clearly a software problem.
Is it just me or a lot of big names in various industries are dropping the ball on QA? From exploding Nike shoes to crashing Beings, to faulty MacBooks.
It's less "here's a bag of free drugs, wander off and enjoy" and more frequently "yo, wanna do some blow with me?" I'm sure you've encountered SOMETHING like this.
Predatory Online Colleges Brag of Big Earnings Under Booster Betsy DeVos
I'm expecting Boeing to do everything in their power to spin news from "they were at fault" to "poor little US company is being attacked by incompetent gang of pilots".