skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>As well, the case study doesn't mention cover up once, but instead points out a variety of secondary issues: inadequate communication, a lack of understanding of the problem, a lack of urgency, a lack of oversight, and company culture.

That was a typo on my part. Regardless the media portrayed it as a coverup.
If the answer is not "zero" then the answer is "too much."
I think this 737 MAX issue resonates with the HN crowd because, along with the emotional factors, it’s a high-stakes technical problem.

The two fatal crashes were caused by an interplay of hardware, software design, and human factors, and studying things like this is fascinating to those of us who are interested in building systems so that catastrophes don’t happen.
Are there publicly available repositories of this kind of data? Where?

What are the best modern methods to analyze them?
I agree it's not censorship in the First Amendment sense, but as a large corporation approaches monopoly status I think we should be less tolerant of "curation", even if we happen to agree with it in specific cases.
Youth will strike worldwide for climate action on Friday
I am aware of the Russia/Cuba/US love triangle. It's only recently that the US has become part of the equation. I imagine Russia is helping Qatar with its construction for the upcoming World Cup. Just did some preliminary googling and it seems Qatar now owns a major percentage of Rosneft (energy co.), along with purchasing arms from Russia. All that being said, the situation of US foreign relations is truly sad.
In fact, the first machine I looked inside of was from the late 70's. It was certainly built to last. I think the company that made it was out of business which is why we were tinkering with it in the first place.
Supervised learning with quantum-enhanced feature spaces
'For a police department claiming not to be targeting Orta for his filming of Garner’s death, they sure brought it up a lot. New York City Patrolmen’s Benevolent Association president Patrick J. Lynch released a statement saying: “the arrest of Ramsey Orta for criminal possession of a firearm only underscores the dangers that brought police officers to respond to a chronic crime condition in that community. Sadly, in the effort to keep neighborhoods like Tompkinsville safe, a tragedy occurred. But that doesn’t change the fact that police officers routinely risk their lives for the benefit of the community and that they have earned their support and understanding.”

At his arraignment in Staten Island for the drug charges, an anonymous police source told the Daily News, “He took the video, now we took the video.”'
I was looking for research to say that is a myth. But from a trusted source:
The American Optometric Association:

https://www.aoa.org/patients-and-public/eye-and-vision-probl...
EPA Looks to Move Forward with Blending More Ethanol in Summer Gasoline
Is the same sensor used the same way in landing?
>Beijing is a signatory to the UN Convention against Torture and since 2010, the government has passed several laws aimed at preventing acts of cruelty in prisons.

If it happens (are there any proof?) it would take someone that could strong-arm them to stop if something should change. I can't see who that should be. Clearly not the US as we actually have proof of torture there. The EU? Doubt it.
1. Can a cow predict what a human can do? It takes a genius to recognize a genius.

2. Say what?
Chris was one of the rare people who understood both the technical side and business side of a product/business. There were so many times where an engineer would start blabbling big terms to avoid doing something or an PM spouts MBA Bullshit and Chris just shuts it down.

What outsiders who focused on the PR never knew is that there was a balance of power in FB that kept things going forward. Now, with these changes along with Jan Koum leaving last year, I don't know if there is anyone with enough influence to counterbalance the Sheryl-driven short-termism view.

For people without real defined values, "privacy centric" is yet another empty cover to do exactly the opposite.
It's a trope that Nuclear is failing because of fearmongering. Nuclear is uneconomical, especially with renewable energy dropping in cost consistently. Is France, the long time operator of one of the largest fleets, afraid of nuclear - I think it is very experienced at managing nuclear, both old gen and the very newest gen reactors. And yet this article:

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-12-10/french-po...

France will save 39 billion euros ($44.5 billion) if it refrains from building 15 new nuclear plants by 2060, and bets instead on renewable energy sources to replace its all its aging atomic facilities, a government agency said.

France should spend 1.28 trillion euros over the next four decades, mostly on clean power production and storage capacities, networks, and imports, according to a report from the country’s environment ministry. If it does this, France would progressively shut down its 58 atomic plants and renewable energy would comprise 95 percent of its electricity output by 2060, up from 17 percent last year
I think it's more that nuclear plants are exceptionally large and complex and that makes it difficult to access economies of scale, and each new safety measure introduced after an accident involves additional complexity layered on top, which worsens the problem. There are so many countries with so many different cultures of regulation which have had difficulties with nuclear recently, in particular with the latest generation designs.

I think you could make the situation better by having a dramatic programme to scale up nuclear, because then you can get economies of scale. That worked quite well for the French, but it means a large upfront investment, essentially paying for 50 years of energy in advance, with significant risk of cost over-runs.

That requirement for front-loaded investment means the cost depends very strongly on the interest rate of money borrowed, and a low interest rate on a large, complex project requires government backing. So the fundamental reason is that governments do not have the appetite for that sort of intervention or that level of risk, like they did during the 60's-70's.
Reinventing Our Data Center Network with F16, Minipack – Facebook Code
The core idea is to limit the choices of the rich, not to limit the choices of the poor. You will be prosecuted if you buy a kidney, or if you kill a human, not if you sell a kidney or your life.

With respect to your interpretation of the veil of ignorance, if you knew you were going to be a beggar, why on earth would you want to design the society in such a way that selling your kidneys or life can become the best option left to you (or anybody else in that society)? And if you are able to design it in such a way that it is not the best option, then outlawing to buy such things would not impact your life as beggar negatively.
Couldn't have said it better myself; this annoys the heck out of me that I have to get through six paragraphs just to know what's going on. I cringe whenever I find out that the topic I want to care about is in The New Yorker and pray that someone has written the tl'dr.

I'm all for vivid, engaging prose, but not in news articles. I want "just the facts, ma'am".
Sadly I don't see Nashville creating a municipal ISP. Google fiber has been such a disappointment here. It's only available to a very small area.
I read that as either rate/resource consumption limits, or a hard time-limit for a task to complete before it's aborted (rolled back).
Yes but the tech was dead before Fukushima the first. Da ichi was a 40-50 year old tech, and for the tech it did okay given the circumstances.

So even before Fukushima, there’d be delay after delay for more studies and impact and safety concerns for new projects and old ones getting shut down mostly due to thd ghosts of 3MI and Chernobyl.

Of course it doesn’t help to engender confidence in the tech as this legacy is the baggage any new tech faces in any consideration.
So it is unethical to kill chickens right after their born but no other time?
Renewables are better than nuclear, but nuclear is much better than combustion power. We desperately need to drop coal, and it's gonna take a long, long time to reach 100% renewable.
Is there realistically any other way to do this though? The value of life, as estimated by a human in a generic situation is presumably infinite. However, companies, governments, regulating bodies, etc, have to regulate actual physical measures, which cost money, time etc- all very finite things. These agents need to act in actual physical environment like for example limited budgets or having to choose between two different safety measures. At some point the human life is going to have to enter that equation, if we are going to be talking about safety issues. How do you calculate en equation with finite and infinite variables without assuming a finite value for the human life?
I very much doubt there is any flux around whether or not forcing your child to drink bleach will cure their autism.

Personally, I am glad there are strategic actors exerting heavy influence on the "don't force your child to drink bleach" agenda. You can add me to the list: don't force your child to drink bleach. Ok?
Oh man, sorry for your uncle blowing that amount!

Speaking of training kids to gamble, I'm gonna thread jack with a public service announcement, please avoid letting your kids see any "Surprise Egg" videos all costs. I downloaded "you-tube kids", their supposedly safe curated experience, and almost half of the recommended videos on a completely clean user install was this moronic kiddy click bait that turns youngsters into drooling dopamine rinsed zombies, primed for our loot-box overlords.

Un-install, go play outside.

https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/modern-minds/201703/...
> aren't lewd or pornographic

What's wrong with something that's lewd or pornographic? It's far better than quackery.
It is still impossible to submit a vote without personally verifying it or deciding that you don't really care enough to review your choices. A peripheral device is one more thing than can break or be tampered with. The user experience issue is up to them to implement.

In general, getting elderly people, low-income populations and other late adopters of technology to use touchscreens correctly has been much easier than getting people to use a mouse. The mouse is less physically intuitive than "poke the thing you want." For most of us, though, we hardly notice a difference.
Oh wow, that's brutal. Thanks for explaining.
10% is too much.

Why not 5%?

Actually, why not just ban applicants who are born in China and India?

</sarcasm>
It could replace it faster and cheaper by financing distributed solar or wind and batteries.
Amazon S3 Bandwidth Scaling
Reverse shadenfreude,maybe? The notion that you have been denied the opportunity to "live morally or joyfully" by the condition of misery in the world; the inability to enjoy your own selfishness or competitiveness enough to compensate.

But yeah, what you said. "This, times a million," as my dear heart would say to me.
> More free strange space

I love this typo!
Author here. Shockingly, the company is to blame as much as gmail in most cases.

There are a few settings to configure to be able to receive and send emails and many companies can't bother to do it. This can be as stupid as not setting the MX records or sending email from yorcompany.com (admire the subtle typo). Spam folder guaranteed.

In this article for instance, the issue is incredibly stupid and only surpassed by the triviality of the workaround. It's been known for years, yet nothing is done about it.
Uranium isn't a fossil fuel, and you're going to run out of land to build solar and wind power collectors on long before you run out of uranium.
And it wasn’t that bad before.

The difference between the original Angry Birds and Angry Birds Go with all of the in app purchases is stark.
And Pizza Hut's online ordering system is going to fail on April 20th.
Seems like you just want your freedoms to trample over Amazon's freedoms. Why? Because they're big?

You put your personal interpretation of the general principle of freedom of speech above actual rights and freedoms. Nothing noble about that.
At this point it's more noteworthy for Google to not abandon any project.

This is indicative of nothing more than Google behaving consistently.
When something happens 2 times, even a simplistic error analysis is going to show at least a 3x range in probably (2+/-1 incidents is 1 to 3)
What does that prove?

Your electronic voting machine could completely tell you the truth about every ballot you ask it about, but lie about the total.
If you do that last thing, you may be a psychopath.

Edit:

The basis for the “trolley problem” is precisely how you handle accounting for the numeracy of death versus the emotional involvement and personal culpability.

People who rationally perform cost benefit analysis about lives and well-being seem to have more psychopaths: see CEOs and other leaders. This isn’t necessarily bad, but it’s worth noting.
Out of the handful of messaging services with end-to-end encryption, I'm pretty sure Whatsapp is the most popular. So the security would probably be the main driver, and the popularity would be why Whatsapp in particular.
I wonder how the economcics between nuclear, natural gas, and coal would pan out if the negative externalities (including both emmisions during consumption of the fuel and those created during mining/capturing of the fuel) were accounted for into the cost of the produced electricity.
I guess you may call them that way. They are very similar and although you can discuss some tiny details, in the end for such project it's a matter of taste, really.
> But after 2016, we both realized we had too much important work to do to improve our products for society

"Primum non nocere."

I cannot help but laugh at this statement. I think Facebook has done, and is still doing, way more harm than good for society. Like many other addiction-based services, it generated massive revenues for very few people, at the expense of society.
I think the thousands of people who saw the ads and then bought the product appreciate being shown the products' existence. Pretty much matchmaking in action.
The part I don't like is the printer. They're woefully unreliable devices. Having been an election judge, handling a bunch of flaky tech in polling places is the last thing the poll workers need. They have a lot to do already.

In MN, we use paper ballots with Scantron readers for excellent results. I'm not sure what problem this new system is supposed to solve that the Scantron model doesn't.
The slippery slope argument is pretty lame. Where's the line? Parents shouldn't be allowed to harm their children. There's the line right there.

Is the vegan diet harmful to the child? Probably not, but you'll have your child taken away if your child is malnourished.
Are those tamper proof? I recall some engineers testifying before congress about specifically making paper ballot systems that were designed to allow altering results. DieBold I think? I don't have a link handy, but it seems that is just as fallible.

Or do you mean hand written ballots? Does anyone still use those?

And yeah, the digital ones have been hacked at DefCon by children. (their parents taught them how to hack the devices, so I guess that is cheating)

Maybe throw in some Blockchain or did I use a BS Bingo term?
> how does the current system, or any voting system, prevent coercion?

By only allowing you alone into the voting booth, not allowing you to show your ballot to anyone, collecting the ballots in a sealed ballot box that's located in public that anonymizes the votes

> Even if votes aren't all logged, you can still be tortured for the answer.

No, you can't if there is no way for you to prove how you voted.

> I would much rather the country have an individual coercion problem than a mass voting fraud problem.

Why would one have anything to do with the other?

Also, one way to keep a country free from individual coercion problems is by having a reliable election process.
>Why does nobody weep for the poor spammers who just want to sell you cheap Viagra

How does ad bot spam fit the profile of:

> books, films, news... that are considered obscene, politically unacceptable, or a threat to security

???
Ken Griffin says less likely to move Citadel to NYC after Amazon's exit
> A second, no-less-impressive but smaller model will follow. The 777-8 <..> Covering 8,700 nautical miles, <..>, the plane is Boeing's challenger to the Airbus A350ULR's crown as the world's longest-range airplane.

IIRC A350ULR can get you all the way from Auckland to Istanbul, Warsaw or even Copenhagen. 777-8's 8700nm gets you to Moscow at most - none of the European flight hubs (that I know of).
Agree. I don't think something like FB or even Amazon.com going down has huge impact. People just come back later and get what they need done.

OTOH, having a subscription based service in specific going down can be catastrophic because you lose so much customer trust (think Azure, Spotify, etc.). In that sense, I guess amazon.com can be bad too with things like prime video, etc.
Ok, you put a gun to my head and tell me to vote for Hillary. I go into the ballot box and vote for Trump. I come out and you ask me if I voted Hillary. I say yes, I voted for Hillary, of course.

If there is no possible way for you or me to know (edit: prove) if I'm telling the truth, how is that worth your time and energy? It's not.

The benefit of a secret ballot is that it greatly reduces, if not removes, the incentive for coercion.
My (naive) hope was that after a while they'd give up.

Is there a better response, you think, that would possibly decrease the number of ads I see?
Facebook loses two of its top execs
> On Monday 11 March 2019, Google SREs were alerted to a significant increase in storage resources for metadata used by the internal blob service. On Tuesday 12 March, to reduce resource usage, SREs made a configuration change which had a side effect of overloading a key part of the system for looking up the location of blob data. The increased load eventually lead to a cascading failure.

Just some guesses (not affiliated):

I wonder if there was something related to Tombstones and deletion of extra data? That can often be a failure of replicated sharded big data systems using sstables and tombstones for deletion.

Another guess might be that some sort of internal shard count was increased resulting in some lookup process needing to check n more shards per call.
Convicted of what?
Smells like scapegoating.

"The investigation concluded that among the causes of the crash were poor maintenance, as well as the control system of the stabilizer not meeting basic aviation standards”
I wrote a bit about this here, with some small GC.stat hacks to manage it a tad, when I talk about how ruby has it's own heap and manages garbage collection lower down in this post: [redacted]

Even fluentd had this issue with a default heap size lower than what was needed to initialize itself, causing hiccups, until the GC.stat RUBY_GC_HEAP_GROWTH_FACTOR was tuned in the source code.

Ruby memory bloat is everywhere. Being familiar with gc.stat and being able to tune ruby applications as you test them is a good habit to have if you develop or work with ruby based tools.

Julia Evans, an SRE at Stripe took a sabbatical to work on a ruby memory profiler. Her updates are here: https://jvns.ca/categories/ruby-profiler/

This is a great blog post, it's what I would have wanted to know if I went a bit deeper into this. Good stuff.
Also, because boeing said,

'we should label these switches like this and put them here', and southwest said,

'no, that will change the type and we will have to retrain pilots, we'd rather have things be the same type with an asterisks and just let our pilots know than retrain'

And because southwest is the largest consumer of the 8max, Boeing did it. From what I understand, that was a precondition of sale for the contract.

And the result it seems is that the plane can act in a way that is confusing to people who are expecting one behavior and seeing another, this comes right down to labeling switches as one thing, when they are kinda another.

My assumption, and this will probably be borne out in the investigation, is that, because southwest was part of the decision process here, they are at very little risk because of a little additional lite pilot training where they point out these switches are labeled wrong and this behavior will seem funny but this is what it's going to do. But not all airlines are going to train like that, it's the same type right?
I just don't understand how anyone can believe his vision for "a privacy-focused social network" is even possible this late in the game. There is too much money riding precisely on the reductions of privacy Facebook has enabled for this to be realistic anymore. The ad dollars come from knowing you, not concealing you. Plus, once you're a public company, the rules change—you have shareholders to honor—and if you got to that IPO by being shady or unethical, backing out of that position is going to be nigh impossible. Their entire business model developed itself on a privacy-destroying data-suck of colossal proportions so where is profitability without that?

"It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends upon his not understanding it."
This is not a valid inference.
It does already happen. There are many cases like Fetlife etc ...
And the solution to the flaws of butterfly ballots was the proliferation of insecure, dangerous touchscreen machines. Screw that. Give me a well-designed paper ballot.
Can somebody explain to me what happens with all the nuclear waste? How is nuclear power anything else but an environmental catastrophe waiting to happen? We pile the waste on and on, how do we deal with that?
Fire in a crowded theater is a famous exception. It’s also from a 1919 case that was subsequently overruled as the Supreme Court broaded free speech protections after WW2. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schenck_v._United_States
Here in New Zealand, facebook handles a lot of the smaller scale commerce (like craigslist or gumtree might in other places), also many organisations and businesses only have presences on facebook. It's unfortunate, but there certainly are people here who are impacted by facebook outages.

I've heard that ebay's culture has a sense of responsibility to the people who make a living on their platform. As an outsider to both, it does seem like they owe their existence to their users so that sense of responsibility is appropriate.
I think that is more of a fault with "modern" apps than it is with web developing in general, ie, dependency hell with arcane libraries doing god knows what for god knows what reason. If you simplify, then anyone and their grandma can write a basic html page with some tutorials and google-fu.
As a consumer I care about a cost centric view.

If the ebook is higher than the book i'd likely pirate it out of principle.

When business becomes visible to the consumer you run the risk of the consumer not liking the business. Things like limited runs of e-books (fucking really?), charging more for e-books, or releasing paperback weeks before the ebook are all consumer visible business.

I don't see e-books as a convenience, I see them as a more cost effective and eco-friendly way to obtain books because you don't have to pay for the paper, the binding, the press, etc. In this view the value of an e-book comes from the fact its cheaper, trying to charge more for that removes the whole point.

But in a larger view, I have always looked at value based pricing as cancerous. I avoid phones without removable storage for this reason, I avoid apple products ever since I got my first apple product as a gift, for this reason.

The price of an item should be the cost of the item plus a modest profit margin. Anything past that is crony capitalism.