skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The only commonality is these are both scandals and probably cover-ups - and generally negative headlines for both companies. The difference is there's been a significant death toll in the case of BA. You can argue the same for diesel emissions - but not really along the same dimension. ie: people dying of lung cancer vs people dying in a plane crash..

If you wanted to find the "fair value" price of BA you have to discount its future cash flows to the present. If BA planes are perceived as unsafe - what does this mean for future purchase orders? Does Airbus edge up ahead over time? Do people diversify their fleet with the new China-made jetliners?

From today's perspective, the stock is still in the middle of a crisis that is unfolding. It is impossible to know how much further down it will go as new data-points are revealed. How long will a fix take? Have commercial jetliners ever been recalled en masse?

Short-term trades are more fun than fundamental positioning, in this case, IMHO. Betting on continued high volatility via the options market is probably the safest way to go - as opposed to betting on directionality of the stock. Timing is everything. Happy trading...
In fairness it can add up pretty quickly on popular sites.

I do love NPRs approach though.
Hey, I just checked. The course is still offered, but the lecture notes are only available from within the university network.
Engines are also very different between 737 Original and Classic, so having different thrust vectors between generations is not happening for the first time.
I in fact added to warning to a comment in the code, and the commit, and so on ;)
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You have it wrong. Orange Man Bad!

I predicted two days ago that this would turn into a shit storm of hysteria, justified or not. The President exerting his authority is similar in that sometimes these events turn too emotional and fearful. He made the right call for that sake.
> ...and they are clearly profitable enough if they can buy Super Bowl airtime.

This is not a good reason to limit how much money an app developer makes. You want to make the play field fair, regardless if there are some companies making a lot of money.
they just don't want to pay for it. This is a perfectly valid reason, but I wouldn't call it encroaching on personal freedom, so I'm curious as to how else you see it affecting liberty?

For one thing, why are you so insistent that I'm an opponent of health care reform. (Subjectively speaking, there's this sour stickyness of you assuming things inside my head around that. If you are, please, don't. You would be wasting our time and energy with that.) I voted for Obama the 1st time in large part because of health care reform. That said, I've since changed my mind. The individual mandate in Obamacare is too big an encroachment on individual freedom.

Big government agencies tend to encroach on individual freedom because they tend to accrue de facto then de jure power. Would anyone dispute that the IRS has considerable power, enough to create some potential for abuse? (Not saying we should get rid of them, however.)

As far as individual freedom goes generally, watching the events of the past several years, including those around "activists," and big tech companies, has made me a lot more concerned about individual freedom. A lot of people seem to be paying lip service to concepts like Freedom of Speech and Due Process, but then putting wide ranging things into effect which interfere with or abrogate those rights, though they are not technically illegal. (yet)
There are some extra levels to this. Imagine a country where there is only one supermarket chain allowed. In that case there is no competition and no choice for consumers.

Before you should people should simply switch phones: you can switch phones, but you can't take the apps you bought with you. And even if you switch: there's only one real alternative: Android. If Apple is allowed their 30% cut on literally everythig, why wouldn't Google do the same?

This way you end up with only 2 App stores, 2 Music and 2 Movie streaming services.
In the sense that it proxies traffic through the cloud, almost. The target websites won't see your IP address (although I could add a X-Forwarded-For header passing the origin address like archive.is does: http://archive.is/faq - cloudbrowser.website does not currently do this), or other details of your web browser environment.

Almost all metadata is not transferred through. There are two exceptions I can think of:

1) Browser window size. This is actually a significant fingerprinting leak, since desktop users can resize the dimensions of their browser down to the pixel.Cloud Browser uses it to generate an appropriately-sized image, matching the Chrome instance in the cloud to the end-user's browser. Less of a problem with mobile devices where the browser window is fixed, but could help fingerprint the device type.

If you want to avoid this, disabling JavaScript will prevent Cloud Browser from using window.innerWidth, innerHeight, and devicePixelRatio, and it will default to 800x600x1. This may not match your device. The best way to solve this is probably to run your own Cloud Browser instance, configured for what you will browse it from.

Interestingly, Firefox is implementing a "letterboxing" feature, from TorBrowser, to reduce fingerprinting from this technique: https://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/2019/03/08/firefox-browser-...

2) Time of access. The time Cloud Browser accesses a website will be shortly after the end-user accesses the website, as you would expect from a proxy. Could allow some forms of fingerprinting, e.g. work hours, depending your browsing habits, or correlating with other non-cloud website accesses.

If you are concerned about this, Cloud Browser makes it very easy to share the cached pages offline, in a time-independent manner. That is, you can access the files in cache/ offline as needed. The online browser will try to load from the cache first, but automatically refresh with a live version when it is available. But you could setup a cron job to fetch the websites you commonly visit on a fixed schedule, then only browse through the cache while offline, and then websites wouldn't be able to see when you read them.

I've thought about developing this feature further, it could lead to a better user experience, and avoid some of the problems with running Cloud Browser on a VPS. The VPS would be needed for running headless Chrome, but it could upload the static HTML and images as plain files to any static hosting website, for quick and easy browsing. You would need to "subscribe" to the websites you want to visit, and they would have to be periodically refreshed, however.
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I'm not sure I understand what your issue with the Dell is. I mean I have a Dell XPS 15. It's... fine, I guess.

As for the so-called "Apple tax", I just don't buy into this. I mean I miss the glory days of the 2011-2012 Macbook Airs. These were so cheaply priced they destroyed the competition because no one could produce a similar spec laptop at that price point. But then the numbers men decided dropping the average ASP for Macbooks was "bad" so they had to invent new features nobody needed or wanted to drive up the cost (Touchbar being the poster child) but for the hardware you get, it's actually pretty good. Or it was.

> Is it impossible to make a laptop better than Dell or Apple?

It's clearly not trivial.

> Google: how much goodwill would you receive through developer love?

Based on the bubble that is HN the answer is clearly "absolutely none". Just look at Chrome adding DDG as a search engine option. Where in that thread do you see people saying "this is great"? No, the top comments are littered with theories about how this is just an effort to avoid antitrust or other such ulterior motives.

I guarantee you that if Google produced the laptop that you and 22 other people would buy you'd hear nothing but complaints about it.
Thanks, this helps clear up some of my understanding. I still think its ridiculous that websites can't refuse to serve who they want.
Hey most Intel Chromebooks now support Crostini i.e. you can run native Linux programs . It runs in a VM under the hood and it's well integrated with the outside OS. Give it a shot.
It depends on how accurate our AI performs on a particular task, but as a back-of-the-envelope calculation, if we had a 90% accurate AI that means human annotators only have to work on the remaining 10%, giving us 10x boost. Obviously, there is some overhead not accounted for in this calculation, but with our current technology we can boost up to 10x depending on the type of data.
There are also two purely engineering considerations: scalability and crash isolation.

Scalability -- for when your processes no longer fit on a single node, and you need to split into multiple services handling a subset of the load. This is rare, given that vendors will happily sell you a server with double-digit terabytes of ram.

Crash isolation -- for when you have some components with very complex failure recovery, where "just die and recover from a clean slate" is a good error handling policy. This approach can make debugging easy, and may make sense in a distributed system where you need to handle nodes going away at any time anyways, but it's not a decision to take lightly, especially since there will be constant pressure to "just handle that error, and don't exit in this case", which kills a lot of the simplicity that you gain.

Both are relatively rare.
I have faith that the best and brightest people in the SV bubble will find a way to "surface" that feature.
What? Of course there is somethig wrong with unstable airframes. This is not a figther jet where it may make sense to maximize maneuverability, it is a bloody airliner, where stability and reliability should have been the design goals.
Helicopters are inherently unstable at low speeds, yet there are civilian models.
I believe that the FAA has a strong tradition of acting on evidence, not presumption. It's the flight certification equivalent of "innocent until proven guilty" (although they usually operate at a much lower level of proof than a court of law.)

I don't usually make libertarian-style arguments, but until there's evidence pointing to a specific safety of flight issue from the latest crash there's no justification for the government effectively "taking" airplane owners property by preventing its use.

At the moment there is specific evidence, I have no doubt the FAA will act swiftly.
"then it should waive the tax altogether. It's only fair."

They've still got to at least cover bandwidth (minor) and payment processing.
Even at a very large company, it's probably too common to spin out some logic into its own microservice. Often times owning your own microservice is a great argument for a promo, even if the code could just as well be in an existing service. Companies would claim to discourage that tendency, but it's a false claim.

So that's an additional reason for microservice frameworks: a welfare safety net for software engineers.
Do you think of Messenger as separate from Facebook?
This. Completely this.

Thank you
Forensics on digital documents can be a lot of pseudo-science, especially when you're talking about text documents and spreadsheets. Legitimate documents can have as many anomalies as a half decent forgery.

Confirmation is having somebody to go to the place and see if the materials alleged to be there are actually there. Unless you're lucky enough for them to be clearly and unambiguously visible from public space, that means you need some kind of authorization to go in and have a look. A picture of an unknown container is not very helpful.

> In fact, Twitter is a good (but not even remotely the best) way to get all the interested/competent parties aware of the documents.

What's wrong with bringing them privately to the subset of the parties whose interest is in fixing the problem?
Advertising doesn't require recording detailed profiles of individuals without their consent. Think of magazines, billboards, television, radio, etc.
DDG has a crawler? Have you seen it active recently in your server logs?
The public don't need to know who Dan Elwell is, they need to know that the decision to take a very disruptive emergency safety precaution has been taken by the relevant safety body after evaluating the currently-known relevant information. (The people who actually execute the grounding of the Max know who he is anyway)

I don't actually think Trump is doing anything wrong in trying to take responsibility for the action, and suspect the decision was reached through appropriate channels rather than by him reading something by a pilot on Twitter, but having a president known for more being capricious than his understanding of aviation safety as the figurehead behind the decision does make it look less like a reasoned decision to the average person, especially if they have strong anti-Trump priors.
It doesn't look like anything like the 737MAX crashes though: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_accidents_and_incident...

"an a320 crashes every two years" sounds quite different than "a brand new 737MAX crashes during take off every 6 months because of the faulty sensor thingy".

Also a320 family of 8605 aircraft took the life of 1393 passengers in 30 years, 737MAX is at %30 of that in two years and 350 aircraft.

737MAX accidents look very brutal and specific. It doesn't look like "ironing out imperfections" but more like "this plane is broken, it falls off on take off" - regardless if that's the case, people see a pattern here.
During my master's three years ago I did something similar to literature based discovery, but manually and obviously in a much limited scale.

Hmmm... well, this is all open source, and I'd be glad to collaborate if you would like to get involved at all. :-)

Glad to know that there are people working to systematize the process and automate it.

Glad to know there are other people who are interested in this kind of thing at all!
I've got a few people in my feed who just dump on the right no matter what. I've fact checked them a little bit. Again it's about a 2-1 for me fact checking my right leaning and left leaning friends (typically older). But I keep all of them on there just to have an ear to the ground.
Yes. It's actually one of the strongest points of whatsapp compared to other mainstream messanging services (Though Telegram is often touted as a more trustworthly alternative, it does not E2E encrypt by default and in my experience that means almost no-one does it). They've stuck with it even though it results in somewhat goofy UX (for example, no server-side logs, you can't log into other devices without your phone being online, etc).
hah, thanks! I was wondering if people would discover it =)
I think we should also lay some blame on the airlines as well. Why should they have accepted such planes in the first place? Don't they have their own engineers and safety inspectors to counter-balance a plane company's marketing department?

More so, I hope there are subpoenas of Boeing's internal communications regarding this matter. Rumors I have read elsewhere indicate some real skullduggery if true.

Lastly, it really calls for the need of independent software auditing and compliance. There should be no proprietary software operating in regulated airspace.
And if they carried 500 people we’d think that was a bad idea.
Android Q Beta is out, with support for foldables, a new share menu, and more
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Graphics have been available for a long time, now, they've just never been bundled with the game itself.
> When the dust settles on this episode I won't be surprised to learn that Boeing (and FAA regulators) is found completely at fault

And promptly given a pass by the FAA/regulators.
I generally agree with you but I'm for a single payer system like Canada. Because eventually, you have to stop looking for the ideal system and pick a good one. This has been talked about since Bill Clinton was president.

I run across this all the time with my brother. He's conservative. He's in his 50s. He says, I don't think health care is in a good place, but we can't do X, Y, or Z. It's never what we can do. It's always what we can't. He offers no solutions.

When you're in a privileged position its easy to say we must wait for the perfect solution. When you aren't it's easy to rush to a solution. However, like I said: this has been debated for over TWO DECADES in the United States. It's been enough time. If you can't think of a solution you like, it's not going to happen in a reasonable timeframe.
This is a common trap in game dev. You have to get that steel thread pulled through before you spiral off into building systems in depth.
I would bet they're both using the same storage layer (Google Cloud Storage?)
The beta is open to any Google Pixel phone.
Sure, but you won’t get a refund for your ticket or your time. And some people might feel compelled to alert their fellow passengers if they felt the airline was planning to put them on a plane they felt was unsafe. These things could lead to anger, hence civil disobedience.
Inherent instability in a commercial aircraft seems like a very bad idea. Safety has to the top priority. The military has very different priorities.
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Who do I have to kill to get a Nexus 7 (2020) model?
Facebook hasn't made any more privacy or policy SANFU's over the last 12 months than they have any year before that, and yet interestingly this is the year where the people around me have been taking an interest in what I use instead of facebook and taking active steps to move away from it.

These laws force people who are attempting to take advantage of non-technical users to either stop it, or do so in an obvious way that lets even non-technical users see that /something/ is up.

It's good, I like it. It's driving social progress, as truth always does. I'll get downvoted for expressing that opinion here of course. Too many american software developers who want to inflict their freedom on others I guess.
Especially if they can't sign in via OAuth. To an average user who signs into Spotify with their Facebook account, "I can't sign into Spotify" means Spotify is down, not Facebook.
I never actually tried to implement anything like that, but the idea has occurred to me before, and I - for one - find this wildly fascinating. If you make anything open source or anything, or have any write-ups on your work, I'd love to see it.
> Android was designed with security and privacy at the center.

Right. That's why ostensibly local apps can make unfettered connections to the internet without my having any knowledge or way of stopping it, right?
I think it's reasonable to assume that Boeing has a great deal more to lose than anyone else in the decision chain. The idea that they would bet the company if they felt there was a safety problem is extreme. If there is another crash or two they are toast. Certainly any rational business decision maker would take that into consideration as far as grounding or not an entire fleet. Given that, it's actually amazing that they don't just err on the side of caution in the off chance there is another crash even if that crash has zero to do with the plane or any defect (since it would not be known right away if that was the case).

Lastly as someone in another comment made the other day not flying a 737 Max 8 means potentially flying an older plane or some other circumstance that in theory is more risky (even driving).
The article does not talk about climate change in depth. It briefly mentions climate skepticism as an example of "Social media platforms have supercharged battles over scientific evidence" and implicitly compares it to the CFS activism which is the subject of the article, as well as anti-vaccine and anti-GMO activism.

Proving the point of the article with respect to climate change would have involved posting the consensus view, and that starting a toxic discussion. But you just made a toxic post from the get-go.
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Print? Who does that nowadays with all these great software and large, high resolution displays? I have banned paper from most of my life years ago. It is nice to have a support but it invariably ends up in a non copy-pastable, non searchable pile of junk.

Also, printing from a text editor isn't very sexy, you'd want at least a bit of styling and page layout, and that's well outside the scope of a text editor.

Anyway, your point of view may be different but for that, I think there are packages for printing.

I suppose it wasn't included because it is a rather difficult to do it right and few people are interested. There are many things that can go wrong: OS compatibility, page layout, fonts, color or lack thereof... I implemented printing in software once and was a real PITA.
You mean that they cut ethical corners to get ahead in our competitive free market economy? Someone stop these mad lads!
You need to build a pretty big system for ease of builds, ease of deployments and CI/CD to become easier with microservices.
Back in the early days, browsers used to prompt you for every cookie:

https://i.imgur.com/FThIFHe.png
Thanks - I'm glad I didn't spend time reading the whole thing just to see that it says "and we know nothing".
yeah I'm pretty sure of that timing hence my usage of the phrase 'widely known'.

Sure, there were face detection projects before 2001, with much lower quality results, and maybe not even familiar to the creators of CC.

Controlling a fetus' DNA is just getting ramped up, but of course there has been a good deal of academic knowledge of the possibilities before hand. Do you think there may be some laws or contractual formats worked out in the last few years that might apply in the area, yet have not adequately taken the implications into consideration?

Time's arrow being what it is I expect there are.
Ironically as I've been checking this post HN has been experiencing errors loading new comments.
There’s a common misconception that any cookie of any type needs a pop up.

The rules are actually only concerned with tracking cookies. Session cookies and user preference cookies aren’t within its scope. They are still perfectly acceptable to use without explicit consent from the user.
Apple would never have had a monopoly selling $700 phones and Apple would never sell low margin $225 phones (the average selling price of Android phone). If anything MS would have been more successful.
I don't think I blame the author at all. I'm not sure why you would start with microservices, unless you wanted to show that you could build a microservices application. Monoliths are quicker and easier to setup when you're talking about a small service in the first place.

It's when an organization grows and the software grows and the monolith starts to get unwieldy that it makes sense to go to microservices. It's then that the advantage of microservices both at the engineering and organizational level really helps.

A team of three engineers orchestrating 25 microservices sounds insane to me. A team of of thirty turning one monolith into 10 microservices and splitting into 10 teams of three, each responsible for maintaining one service, is the scenario you want for microservices.
Good analogy. Seat belts were an extra cost "feature" when they first came out.
THIS is another reason to complain to EU regulators [1], regarding Apple's unfair trade practices. Never before in the history of computing, has a company so blatantly suppressed the competition and gotten away with murder. V8 should not be the one needing re-architecture to meet anti-competitive iOS App Store rules, the rules need to make common sense, and treat the competition fairly.

[1]: https://techcrunch.com/2019/03/13/spotify-files-a-complaint-...