skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My understanding is that it's a bit of both. This Slate article[1] described it as both a design flaw and an effort to paper over that design flaw by tweaking the autopilot system.

>Boeing swapped out the engines for new models, which, together with airframe tweaks, promised a 20 percent increase in fuel efficiency. In order to accommodate the engine’s larger diameter, Boeing engineers had to move the point where the plane attaches to the wing. This, in turn, affected the way the plane handled. Most alarmingly, it left the plane with a tendency to pitch up, which could result in a dangerous aerodynamic stall. To prevent this, Boeing added a new autopilot system that would pitch the nose down if it looked like it was getting too high.

Because of the changes to the autopilot system it functions differently than pilots expect it to during an emergency situation on this particular plane.

[1] https://slate.com/technology/2019/03/ethiopian-air-crash-whe...
when the store also controls the ordinance it lives in and makes shoppers approve several big red "THIS STORE IS UNSAFE" banners if they even think of shopping anywhere else, then yes, that store having a monopoly over its shelves is an issue.
If you want a conspicuously "Low Tech" design aesthetic, follow this guide's steps in imitation of https://solar.lowtechmagazine.com/.

If you want to make a web site that loads and renders quickly even over slow network connections and on low-resource hardware -- ostensibly the goal of the Low Tech solar website and of this derivative site -- there are better examples to imitate that don't mention carbon dioxide at all.

These sites' main offense against efficiency is the use of small-palette indexed images with heavy dithering. Dithering impairs efficient image compression. Many of the images on this page and on the solar Low Tech site would be more efficiently represented as non-dithered indexed images, perhaps using a larger palette to compensate for the lack of dithering. That's what should have been done with all the charts and text-heavy screenshots. They would look more like the source image and require fewer bytes for storage and network transfer. As it is, this "low tech" page loads 380 kB of PNG images. It's especially egregious when the source image is obviously a continuous-tone photograph, like the image at the top of the article. It should have stayed as a JPEG.

I'm reminded of Intel's environmentally dubious installation of wind micro-turbines on the roof of one of its campuses a few years ago:

https://www.mercurynews.com/2015/05/21/intel-catches-the-win...

In 2015 small wind turbines were already known to generate far less energy per dollar and per unit area than small solar arrays. Intel didn't need another experiment to determine if small wind is better than small solar. The rooftop already had a small solar array. Why didn't they just add more rooftop solar?

The answer is in the photographs about the turbine project: the small turbines stick up over the edge of the roof and would be visible from the ground. The superior solar array is not visible from the ground. The superior option is an invisible commitment to environmental considerations; the inferior option is a visible commitment.

Low Tech magazine (and now its imitators) are embracing a technically and environmentally suboptimal web design approach to ensure that you see their environmental commitments all the way from the parking lot.

https://www.tripadvisor.com/LocationPhotoDirectLink-g33046-d...
I think what it comes down to is the appropriate amount and type of regulation that suits the market. As market concentration happens, those corporations must necessarily become more regulated to ensure consumer choice and employee rights.

The less concentrated the market, the less regulation required because natural market forces will have larger impacts. Once a corporation reaches a significant size, they largely outgrow the market being able to influence them in a large way, hence the need for more (and stricter) regulation.

Monopolies, if well-regulated, aren't as evil as they seem.
The FAA hasn't had a confirmed director since the last one's term expired in January of 2018. I wonder what effect that has on their decision making.
I love this article since the first day I lay my eyes on it. The first time around I wasn't so much of good programmer to try and implement it myself, I now feel more confident, as soon as I get some time I'll get to it. I made a 3D version of a similar "game" some time ago using three.js, but it's not the same. I love those old graphics.
>The NTSB and America in general used to lead.

Correction: America used to dictate.
Very deceptive to call what Tripp posted to Twitter "a trove of confidential internal documents." There were:

- Photos of trailers parked outside the Gigafactory full of potentially hazardous battery waste.

- Photos of shoddy workplaces within the Gigafactory and precision work being done with crude implements like Dremel tools.

- VIN numbers of cars which Tripp believed had been fitted with batteries with possibly punctured cells handled by the defective GF machine.

- Some entries in the accounting system which Tripp claimed supported his argument that waste was not being accounted for correctly.

- Photos of internal emails with Tesla execs (including Musk) where he tried to raise concerns about scrap and the general chaos at the Gigafactory.
Personally, I've moved to Searx due to similar issues with DDG results. Hopefully someday Chrome will allow you to use it on mobile.
Well, the automatically picking it up thing arguably is some Chrome magic.
737 Max Fix possibly delayed by government shutdown
I read a response of his saying that sabotage wasn't ruled out, when someone first asked him about the rocket explosion before they had ruled it out. Do you have a reference/quote of him saying outright he thought it was sabotage?
The place where I was surprised to learn there's no bridge is between Kinshasa and Brazzaville, capital cities of their respective countries, with populations of about 11 million and 2 million people.

I've then heard that the lack of a bridge may be more due to politics than to engineering problems, but how hard do you think it would be to bridge the Congo in that area?
Some of these app names sound like malware anyway...
It had been blocked by webrender if I remember correctly, now the work on fixing this issue has actually started. Markus Stange is a capable engineer as well so there's hope.
Boeing was a big employer, contractor, etc. back in 2013 when the FAA grounded the entire 787 fleet.

https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2013/01/16/169555027...
that's like saying it's impossible to have a monopoly in a country because you can just move countries.
Cells seem to decode their fate through optimal information processing
Well damn... I have my dev environment running very nicely in a Pixelbook via Crostini and love it.
It’s way more complicated than that. The diagnostic criteria changes over time, for many diseases with psychological components, in ways that make formerly pathological behaviors now healthy and vice versa.

Placebo doesn’t actually help you, obviously, despite what the outcome you’re measuring suggests. It represents a slack (something not quite an error, but not quite a useful measurement) in the outcomes based measurement regime. It’s a “cosmological constant” as a side effect of the limitations of enumerating causal and contributing factors.

People believe acupuncture is a placebo, and in an evidence based medicine regime it seems reasonable to prescribe it. But it depends what you’re calling pathological. Today, a population of video game players versus a control will score better on many psych outcomes. Tomorrow, they’ll change the tests, subtly, to account for “factors” better, and the results will reverse. The USMLE study book in 2018 pathologizes “video game fixation” (they can’t call it an addiction) before such a test change has occurred. The simple rule is that whatever society determines to be pathological will trickle down to the field of medicine, and placebo effects are the loudest signal of the limitations of an otherwise most superior way to administer therapies.
I thought "The Left Hand of Darkness" was great. It had a sense of realism and presence that I normally find most fiction lacking.
I did read it some days ago, it's real https://www.democracynow.org/2019/2/20/headlines/haiti_polic...
With such a small fleet in service, for such a short time, with 2 crashes already, I fail to see what a "less safe aircraft" could be among those currently flown nowadays.
Companies break up all the time. Sometimes as a "spin off" where a part is let go on its own. Sometimes a division is sold to someone else who wants it. Companies are in a constant process of changing size based on what they guess is the best place to be next year.
Google is their own worst enemy in cloud.

They raised pricing on Google Maps and have a reputation for dropping services.

Now they require a $75k third party audit to have an app use Gmail API’s.
Have 8 products with over a billion active users. Fastest growing smartphone brand US. YouTube TV fastest growing of the TV streaming services.

Plus leasing in the self driving race. Flutter already over 50k stars GitHub.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/brookecrothers/2019/02/09/googl...
[Update] Google Pixel Is 'Fastest-Growing US Smartphone Brand'

https://www.cordcuttersnews.com/youtube-tv-is-more-popular-t...
YouTube TV is More Popular Than DIRECTV NOW, PlayStation ...

https://github.com/flutter/flutter
flutter/flutter - GitHub
Thanks to recent FCC rule changes, the answer in the USA is: "For Now...."
To be honest... yes, it is rather much. You are in the price range of full fledged IDEs, whole operating systems, and office suites just for a text editor, even though it is quite a good one. As the sibling comment mentioned, I'm sure many personal users just use the unregistered version to the point that they'd probably make quite a bit of extra revenue if they offered a more attractive price point for those users.

On a separate note, a friend described their backwards approach of validating licenses on every launch of their app, which creates a de facto 'telemetry' system since license hash is submitted to their servers and they obviously have access to other info such as IP.

So even though I quite like the software, I've discontinued use due to the high cost and also due to the inability to opt out of external communications that'd allow them to keep tabs on you and your usage. To be fair, I was not keen on Microsoft's telemetry in vscode but that can be disabled and even better, vscodium removes it completely.
I use duckduckgo and protonmail. Works fine for me.
I don't think this really changes anything. It's more important to Google that DuckDuckGo users don't disable Chrome's prediction service, that way they can still collect search data on them. Adding DuckDuckGo as a search engine option whilst they leave the prediction service option intact means that this is nothing more than a publicity stunt. It's actually quite deceiving for many users who do not realise they are still sending data to Google.
It also depends on whether the healthcare worker is able to help or knows of any treatment.

Sometimes a healthcare worker’s treatment options are honestly exhausted. “Mental illness or psychosomatic” doesn’t mean the patient isn’t suffering, it just means that doc has no idea what to do and that others should be consulted.

It doesn’t it stop the condition from being a mental illness.
I don't think Amazon would invest almost $1b into a company just to pressure Tesla. I know there are a lot of EV vaporware companies out there but I don't think Rivian is one of them.
It's the publishers.

That's a fair point, and I should have phrased it that way in my post. Too late to edit now, but I agree, it's not all on the authors.
If you say the wrong-think loud enough, Twitter will be the least of your worries. When the credit card companies and banks start refusing to do business with you, you're completely lost in modern society. This has already happened for some people.
So, Google makes (specifically subcontracts out) the Pixel (but it is their branded device). It definitely is not the most popular Android phone out there.

Google makes the Pixelbook. It is definitely not the "best" laptop when you consider less expensive alternatives, and it is not the best seller.

But, Android would be called a successful strategy.

And, Chromebooks would be called a successful strategy.

What I'm trying to say (and would love to hear comments suggesting otherwise) is that these forays into hardware might just be to guarantee a baseline level of quality for vendors of the products to aspire to. And, in that light, even if the hardware divisions aren't making a dent in the Google's reported revenue, they still serve and were effective in their goals.

These cutbacks are just evidence that Google wants to optimize the way things are done, not evidence that they were failures.

GCP is a different beast, however. :)
Is Ireland in such bad shape? I thought they were a big success story during the 90s and 2000s.
> Bloomberg conveniently left out the reason why "Tripp has since changed lawyers". It's because he published on Twitter a trove of confidential internal Tesla documents. Once he did that his lawyer knew they had no case anymore. Tripp only deleted the documents after his lawyer was able to get in touch with him. This showed that he did in fact access internal Tesla systems and he did in fact exfiltrate this information. But somehow Bloomberg paints Tesla in a negative light, as they always do.

Whistleblower complaints are for obvious reasons typically based on exfiltrated documents. There may be liability against the whistleblower for that, but generally that does not impair the merits of the case against the company (except to the extent the company can use threats of legal action over the documents to keep the whistleblower quiet). And in some cases there are specific legal safeguards for whistleblowers whose complaints are based on confidential documents, especially in the case of public companies: https://www.zuckermanlaw.com/court-rules-whistleblowers-can-...
I believe it's about the type of product you're paying for -- the Spotify site specifically says Apple doesn't allow _content subscription_ services to be advertised through apps. In addition, I bet Prime gets away with it because it's not _purely_ a content subscription service.
Your link does not really help prove your point at all. Do you have a real source proving your point?
At least according to Southwest’s pilots union SWA has seen no MCAS issues in its fleet (edit: this may not be correct - see reply from antsar) and its pilots are prepared to handle any MCAS issue were it to occur.[1]

I think a worse scenario is if the Ethiopian flight crashed due to some other not yet known issue specific to the Max.

[1] https://swaparesources.s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/assets/pdf...
What you are describing is a systemic flaw in the aircraft.
The irony of all this being, when I use Facebook marketplace with a specially-created public profile that has no discernible photos I get accused of being a spammer. Maybe Facebook could implement some kind of trustworthy algorithm that says "we believe this account is not a scammer". And I don't have to deal with not being able to fully use online systems that assume a photograph==trust.
It is not in fact more exciting than that.
I don't doubt it, but I also don't use those stations. I've never even seen one in the few airports I visited.
B advised that the Tweets by Mr. Tripp yesterday were issued by him on his own accord. Mr. Tripp has clearly been impacted emotionally by what $TSLA has done to him.He is very concerned about being gagged & wants to protect the public, more than his own personal interest. ++

https://twitter.com/StuartMeissner/status/103013836984050073...

It is accurate that we no longer rep M.Tripp in any matter.Nor do we have a need for any connection whatsoever with his attys in his Nev civil action.There wont be further comment on this.We still rep K.Hansen with re to his SEC submission & do have confidence in his submission

https://twitter.com/StuartMeissner/status/107295281670310297...

Also Mr. Tripp's Twitter account WAS NOT suspended/removed by twitter this AM. He himself voluntarily terminated his twitter account on advice of myself, so that there will not b any more confusion re if he has published anything or not. There is enough confusion re $TSLA already

https://twitter.com/StuartMeissner/status/103013943327684608...
That is exactly what autocrypt (https://autocrypt.org/) aims to do: define a protocol to effortlessly encrypt back and forth with no input from the user
Wow that's interesting.

Thanks for bringing this concept to my attention.

During my master's three years ago I did something similar to literature based discovery, but manually and obviously in a much limited scale.

Glad to know that there are people working to systematize the process and automate it.
You lost me at

However, I also want to be able to turn that prototype code into production ready code

Invariably the chances of this not coming back to bite you in the ass is zero.
> Well a lot of our policies are based on the tabula rasa theory.

I don't think very many policies actually are.

> Gender or racial imbalances between professions for instance are attributed to cultural bias and discrimination.

That's not based on tabula rasa theory, that's based on actual experience of (often, until quite recently, overt and direct) gender and racial discrimination. It certainly tends to involve a belief that certain traits (whether or not genetically determined) are not intrinsically associated with gender or race (or, sometimes, when there is evidence that such an association does exist, that the association is not strong enough to explain the outcome difference.) But that's very different from, and entirely neutral toward, the question of tabula rasa vs. genetic determinism.

> partisans of the tabula rasa are pretty powerful, particularly in academics.

The closest thing I can see to "partisans of the tabula rasa" in the real world, with any kind of power, are religious conservatives, who have a very strong incentive to believe that things for which there is already very strong evidence are genetically determined are choices, so as to ascribe moral virtue to certain traits and moral vice to others. But plenty of them have over time adopted a model of accepting genetic predisposition in (at least some of) those areas while still finding a moral command to act in a certain way regardless of predisposition, so even with them I don't see things quite so irreconcilable as the upthread characterization.
Well, except for WebAssembly. But even then, it's still fundamentally possible to hijack control of whatever changes the pages from RW to RX.
That's ETOPS. Engines Turn Or People Swim
I feel like that would solve the problem that GP was referencing but just create a whole bunch of other issues for users and developers.

"Find Spotify on [list of ten app stores here]." One of the advantages for users and developers is that if you want an app on iOS (and for the most part) Android, you know exactly where to find it.

It's by no means a dealbreaker, but something to consider.
Not always, actually. V8 came out in 2008 and didn't have an interpreter until 2016. For the first eight years, the non-optimization execution was also a JIT, just a simpler one.
Yes, but from an anti-trust perspective, 'a monopoly on this thing I built' isn't an issue - arguably every company has a monopoly on that. It becomes an issue if 'this thing I built' captures an overwhelming economic sector, to the extent that consumers have no choice.

Currently consumers do have a choice - and more chose Android than Apple.
I don't like JS very much so I wouldn't want to use it anywhere it could be avoided, that being said it's pretty clear why some people think otherwise, regardless of the qualities and defects of the language.

Using JS in the backend means that you don't have to learn a new language if you're already familiar with it in the browser. Given that webdev is extremely popular with new developers these days, it's not surprising that they might want to reuse the technology when they have to write backend code instead of learning a whole new language. Similarly companies can reuse their pools of webdevs to write non-web applications instead of hiring new personnel or having to retrain the existing coders.

It also means that you can reuse code from the browser in the backend.

Sure if you find JS a clunky and subpar language it might be disappointing to see it spread the way it does but hey, at least it's not PHP!
Wonder how many "contractors" (aka mercenaries) are hanging around the Colombia-Venezuela border right now.
I liked "Always Coming Home". And "The Lathe of Heaven" made a big impression when I was a kid.
Can an argument not be made for EU and China grounding the aircraft as well?

The EU produces the only real competitor (Airbus A320), and China is in the middle of a 'Trade War' with the U.S and is trying to create a serious airplane manufacturer of their own.

>Boeing is a major defense contractor, providing transportation, weapons, and other supplies to the US Military.

I don't even know what that has to do with it, do you think if the FAA grounded 737's Boeing would... cancel all existing contracts with the World's largest military?
I literally do not believe you. I'm not saying he's an unsuccessful business man. Hes literally not a rocket scientist. What kind of silly nonsense is that?
After being acquired by Spotify, Gimlet’s staff looks to unionize
Greenland Was Once in the EU, the original Grexit
Fresh $273M fund for university startups
really interesting to me. i don't write, but it shares a lot of commonalities if i read this with other large / long term projects one can do (which i think a lot of IT people / programmers can relate to). thanks for sharing this interesting piece!
Kleptocracy kills.

The current "admin" is full of Boeing people. Also, there's no one doing anything at the FAA.
I agree with possible psychological components is several health conditions. But saying that all acupuncture treatments are placebo is contradicting your first point, besides there are scientific studies that explains mechanisms behind acupunture.
This could have changed, but my initial impression was that you could "remove" content by blacklisting it at the http gateway, but if you used the IPFS native client instead of the gateway then the content was still accessible.

I thought this was clever--let the lawyers file takedown requests and feel pleased that they can't see the content anymore, but it's always there if you know where to look (as long as somebody still has it pinned).

This is probably the way to handle it in Radicle too, let the project maintainer provide a white/black list of issue hashes (something like a .issueignore, or .issueinclude file at the root) and have the client only bother fetching the ones on a list.
Suicide is a weird statistic. It can almost be a indicator of progress and prosperity in some respcts e.g. suicides rates are high in places like Sweden and Japan and low in places that are very deprived parts of Africa/Asia. Theres a cultural component, a chronological one, a climate one, a psychological, phsiological one etc.

I found the whole article pointless really.

Plenty of intersting things can be said about the Troubles/Irish Financial Crisis but comparing the Troubles to the austerity policies in the Republic during from 08' to 12' isn't that useful nor does it produce insight.
Russian Nobel Prize winner for physics Alferov dies aged 88
nest of dependencies which is hard to
explicitly reproduce on other systems

Not if the other system is using the same OS.

A good way is to call your setup script "setup_debian_9.sh" for example, so it is clear which OS it was tested on.