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'That’s why the San Jose City Council will consider a proposal this month to launch a design competition for a landmark “that symbolizes its power and reach...”'

They already bought one, in 1994, paying the present equivalent of $860,000 for it: the cast stone statue of Queztcoatl[0] that looks like a dogpile, which now resides at the edge of the Plaza... and even displaced the Firefighters' Memorial in the process.

[0] https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/quetzalcoatl-sculpture-p...
To me, the biggest contradiction (as it seems on the design of the system) is that it seems to rely on very fickle measurements to command big movements on the aircraft. So, in the case of Lion Air, you have 2 contradictory inputs and you're basing an automated decision on it?

Also, it seems aviation hasn't caught up with 20th century fluid measuring techniques. Speed of fluids in pipes can be measured non-invasively. With the biggest caveat that doing things inside a pipe on the ground is easier it seems we're still using 19th century techniques to measure fluid speeds and direction. Which didn't matter too much when their noisy/unreliable inputs were simply ignored or compensated by pilots and mechanical devices.

No real world scenario (at least not a surviveable one) can produce the sensor readings that happened in AF447 (sudden drop in airspeed) and in the Lion Air case. But this is being taken at "face value" (there is some filtering) and acted upon it (with no contradictory input from other systems - for example an accelerometers - and yes it's not so obvious how to put everything together).
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> Sure, the Nvidia driver is closed-source and a pain to work with for OS developers, but for the use-cases it's designed for (CUDA etc), it's far and away the best-in-class on Linux.

It's unfortunately a sad truth.

CUDA won, And is now the de-factor standard for almost every application that run over GPU. Nvidia succeeded to jailed the entire HPC community to their bloated, badly maintained crappy software stack and this is very regrettable.

Any admin / integrator that had to deal with NVidia bloatwares under Linux hate it, and for very good reasons.
The interns' goal is to learn the trade. The companies goal is to attract talent and/or get a ROI.

In my company an intern conducted research on scalability - creating tools to measure and monitor the software in the mean time. So not only does the company have some neat monitoring tools now, the intern actually found a bottleneck and improved the product. The company is now offering her a contract...

Caring about eachother doesn't have much to do with it.
The npm docs also state that the "files" property of the package.json limits what gets installed if you install that package in another project.

Ever tried installing a local package via a file path? NPM just symlinks it into node_modules, causing issues because you suddenly have duplicated dependencies. Yarn does the same, btw.

I have given up any hope regarding npm/yarn acting sensible long ago.
Google has a small office in Aarhus. I wonder if that's true of any other tech companies?
Don't you think this is a case of data science generalist creating good products?
> "I don't care what happens to this after I release it,"

That is completely wrong, even for Linus, but especially to the ones that came before who called it free software. They did care what happened to it. They wanted it to stay free such that it continues to benefit society and enables people to do computing freely.
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> If you have two sensors and one is acting up, how do you know which one is true and which one is false?

Typically it is possible to determine this by looking at reading stability. If one sensor is constantly stuck or changes values too fast (0-100% several times per second) or too slow, you know it's faulty. Those sensors should be engineered so that you can know if it's faulty. If you can't detect faulty sensor, it's just bad engineering.
In my experience being more effective at my job cultivates leverage to acquire substantially more salary, bonuses, and stock options.
Spring and "aspect-orientated programming" are completely ad-hoc! They use reflection and byte-code generation to implement various forms of runtime magic. This makes reasoning about ones code much much harder. IMHO there are much better ways to solve the dependency and cross-cutting concerns problems, unfortunately Java is not expressive enough to encode them. To be clear, I'm not saying Spring isn't useful, I'm saying the fact that Java needs Spring is unsatisfactory.

I wouldn't say my situation is great, most jobs are Java jobs :)
Somewhat related, many of the world's art treasures are mothballed in duty-free warehouses where they change hands without ever seeing the light of day. There was a great Planet Money episode on this a while back:

https://www.npr.org/sections/money/2018/02/09/584555705/epis...
> it's up to the pilot to recognize uncommanded trim and disable it by shutting off power to the system that moves the stabilizer.

You have other things to do on that flight stage (right after flaps have been set to 0)
This is annoying. Maybe npm can consider adding a confirmation prompt to publish if a new package is about to be created. Not sure if it'd prevented such ignorance though.
Obviously you can use the software. Of course you'll probably get away with a license violation if you're not shouty about it. Similarly, I can use a pirated copy of Windows XP too, with effectively zero risk of getting caught.

Nobody is suggesting that an AGPL licence violation would result in a criminal penalty, but if you got caught you may be forced to release any changes you made to the source code. And you could lose the ability to use the software in future—if your business relied on it you might be screwed.

Personally I think the AGPL is stupid, but people are free to pick whatever license terms they like for their copyrighted works. Whether I like it or not is irrelevant.
That just makes it sound worse. Why should Norwegian get better support from Boeing than Comair? While I have no doubt that FAA or EASA would have reacted with more expediency had the crash occurred in their jurisdictions, it scares me to think that Boeing treats its customers differently, depending on whether they are Western or not.
Hey! First of all, great work!

I hope it's okay if I give you a thought of mine. I built/am building a larger system but built-in is sending SMS's. I live in Israel, so Twilio works, but is an expensive option.

What I did is I have a sort of data access layer between the 'send SMS request' and many different API providers of the customers choosing. This lets them make a choice or, in my case, use a provider they already bought an SMS package with.
Wait, isn't the whole point of AGPL that the "user" entitled to the source code is now the service user, i.e. potentially everyone?
Infantalizing the workforce has proven to be very effective at pacifying and enabling them to not take their work seriously enough to consider the potential negative consequences for society, the world, and future generations.
Also lets not forget that time when you could send messages between almost all of those prividers including Gchat and Facebook messenger because it was all federated XMPP.
Because unless otherwise stated, they just aren't.
The main problem I see with the web is that we forgot about users. Dev's got so obsessed with means that they started to completely ignore the ends. I don't remember where I saw this phrase but I like it a lot: "make harder for databases, easier for the users". Alas, seems like desire to use the coolest tech or the only tech devs know trumps everything.
The main question now is should we use Redux or MobX. Not "should we user React at all here? Does this project warrant to be a SPA?".
And who needs accessibility anyway?
The trick is not to depend on pixel scaling (unless you have multiple screens at different pixel density), but to set the DPI for all toolkits ( GTK, Qt,...) to the correct value. See https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/HiDPI on how to do that. For most parts setting an environment variable is sufficient. Takes you a long way. Older apps can be often scaled by setting DPI in X and use XWayland.
But it isn't just operators. Singapore has banned all flights coming in and out. This is a busy, world-class airport (at least for passengers, but it's hard for me to imagine something that's run so smoothly at that scale for passengers would be a shit show for operators).
@pirocks, Don't you think this is a case of data science generalist creating good products? What kind of psychology makes you give a downvote? Why delete your comments again!
$200k in Federal taxes on $500k of W-2 income (i.e. a federal tax rate of 40%) is significantly higher than the reality.

With no deductions, it's closer to $135k (24% tax rate). The marginal tax rate on 500k of income is only 35% (plus FICA, but that's 2.4%).

$45k in state (i.e. CA) taxes is about right.

Source: https://smartasset.com/taxes/income-taxes#ntLwScKyxG
I recommend reading through this issue [1]. It's amazing how much the JS community is firing against a bigger standard library, just because stuff like lodash exists and everyone can make their own packages anyways.

[1] https://github.com/tc39/proposal-javascript-standard-library...
well Warren now knows first hand what conservatives have been saying for years - FB has no problem censoring those that they disagree with -welcome to the Club
I'm not sure which polls you are referring to, but I'l make you aware of a common tactic. You cannot believe polls in Israel, the questions and methods used are designed to return a specific conclusion.

Often polls will conflate the terms Arab, Muslim, Palestinian, Gazan, and a few other words. You will see that they will ask a question that is interpreted to the poll taker as "would you agree that Gazans who have bombed Ashkelon should be forbidden to work in Ashkelon" and then reported as "Ashkelon residents in favor of terminating construction of bomb shelters at kindergartens where Arab workers are employed".

The polls are _designed_ to present a specific picture, they are not designed to inform about the true nature of the situation. Just ask yourself, why are so many polls being taken, what is their purpose. You know as well as I do that there are no disinterested parties here, everybody has an agenda. At least I state my agenda and position clearly.

You'll also be surprised to know that I know not a single Israeli, not one, who has any qualm with the Iranian people. We're terrified of their nuclear program, but we remember the days of friendship between our countries and a significant portion of Israelis are of Iranian decent. Iran pretty much attacks us via proxy today (Hizboallah), but we see that as a manifest of their current religious regime and not as representative of the Persian people.
> malicious activity such as hacking and harassment

I don't know, but somehow I see hacking much less of a problem than harassment. I mean even the bad guys out there, trying to get into our ssh ports even minute we speak, are just a reminder to secure our systems properly. Harassment on the other side is a social phenomenon not limited to the digital world which has no upside that would be proportional to its downsides.

> problematic system design such as business models that reward clickbait

This is a real problem. I mean, it's not just about the clickbait titles. It is about an advertisement. So what is advertising? In its essence, you present information to change the inner state of a human being towards a specific direction (e.g. my product is cool, buy it!). So what an advertiser does is to forge information sources. With books, it is not much different, but with the personalized advertisement, the effectiveness has increased dramatically. Nowadays, we have effective human manipulation machines which manipulate millions of humans every day or in other words, someone has managed to crack democracy...

> unintended consequences, such as aggressive or polarised discussions

Similar to harassment, I don't think the internet is the cause here, but merely the filter to bring those nasty elements of human nature out of the dark corners of our societies. After all, people quarrel/fight/kill offline too. We probably just have to learn as a species to not be afraid our own disadvantage but to embrace diversity and make the most of combined forces instead of trying to be just a bit better than our neighbor.
They did not switch to av1, they simply added support for it. H264 is still supported.
Proof SEC is clearly out to get Elon:
"it is rare for the agency to seek a contempt order. Virtually every SEC contempt motion in recent years
has sought to preserve assets, to recover money owed to the agency, to enforce a prohibition against
issuance of securities or solicitation of investors, or to enforce compliance with an investigative
subpoena. The SEC has not cited—and counsel has not identified—any prior case in the last
decade where the SEC has sought a contempt order to enforce the type of injunction at issue here"
> The value of your charitable donation gets subtracted from your AGI, so you really can get to zero task liability this way.

Of course, that's how it's supposed to work, because the reason it's set up that way is that if people actually do that, they have to donate $100K to charity in order to reduce their taxes by about a third that amount.

Assuming the charity has about equal effectiveness as the government in using the money to benefit society (note that this is not a high bar), allowing the deduction significantly increases the amount of money going to benefit society compared to if the deduction wasn't allowed and as a result the donation wasn't made.

You can argue about whether one organization or another shouldn't be considered a charity, but that's a separate question as to whether charitable donations should be deductible in general.
What Are Daring examples of guerilla marketing?
So, there's two possibilities here that I know of.

1. you are running this all as a sole proprietorship, with no separation of business and personal money. In that case? sort of. Your accounting is going to be complex as heck. if you have $100K of assets to donate, donating those assets can offset $100K of income. you are giving up an amount equal to what you are earning to avoid taxes, it's a lot like not paying yourself, and selling and living off of the assets you donated, except you avoid some of the extra taxes you would have paid on doing that. Also note, in this case, the stuff you have to pay FICA on is... complicated, and your charitable donations usually don't get you out of FICA (which if you are rich you don't care about, but we're talking about $125K/yr, and as you are paying employee and employer, thats 15% - without selling the company or without paying both corp income tax and personal capital gains for a dividend, it's hard to take money out of a company without paying FICA.)

Note, this is pretty unusual for people who know what they are doing. This is how I started out, and it was a real mess to untangle. Most people compartmentalize their businesses into several entities, and not just for liability protection (though that is nice, too) - Accounting works much better when your money isn't just one big pool.

2. this is the common thing. your businesses are their own tax entities. You have a LLC (often several) for your real estate, an S corp for your consulting/speaking income, C corps for a lot of your other businesses:

In that case? having a business entity I control that is taxed as a c corp donate a bunch of money is going to change taxation for that entity. Not for the personal money I pay myself.
A large vat at the store, with a spigot to refill the bottle you brought with you. I've seen this for cooking oils and honey, not sure it exists for cosmetic products.
> Aldi's gain is our collective loss, the widespread embrace of an insincere "good enough", either because our budgets are truly crunched, or because we don't let ourselves value our mundane maintenance desires.

Maybe as a German I have another view. Maybe I don't know the stores in other countries enough. But in Germany all of the big and nice retail chains were forced to introduce non-brand/own-brand discount product lines so that their customers don't flee to the discounters. And whenever I am at one of them I find myself searching the big aisles for exactly those products. Because most of the time, those products are exactly as good (as in exactly the same product with a different label) for a lower price. And they use many tricks to make buying the more expensive version more comfortable for those that don't care about their money. This is why I as a customer prefer the real deal.

If I feel that I need to pay extra for higher quality products, then I want some guarantees, such as the label saying something like local or organic. And surprise: discounters know that and offer a lot of organic products. But I don't need a choice of one and the same product just with differently "valued" brands.

But also from reading the article there are some takeaways, that could make you reconsider your position:

1. They don't waste employees on unloading boxes of products when their customers are perfectly capable of taking something out of a box. I didn't even notice this difference before reading the article and it never bothered me as a customer. Or waste employees on collecting stray shopping carts from the parking lot. Still they don't waste my time: I spend much less time buying the same than in bigger shops, where I have to search longer and walk more, because they try to force me to see everything they want to sell me.

2. Apparently they pay their employees relatively good, but don't need as many as their competitors. They do everything that is possible to make the stores as efficient as possible to make that happen.

In my view this is retail heading the same direction almost all professions did: become more efficient, value the people doing it more and free up the rest to do something else.
I understand and thanks for your reply.

> "must not discriminate against any person or group of persons"

Do you think "group of persons" is same as mentioning of a company name?

I am just trying to find a proper/correct solution to achieve this problem.
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First off, making $110k a year does not make you rich. Secondly, the article does not address the rich that live in California but make their money outside of California. Many truly rich people buy homes in California even though they have a "primary residence" outside of California.
Wow... looks like these investigations take forever. Hope Boeing patches soon.
Is there a particular reason this wikipedia entry is posted to hackernews?

I quite like Vivian Maier's work, but I'm at a loss to understand why this is deemed a worthy submission to a news bulletin board for tech news.

BTW, here's an interesting tech article on salad;
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salad
Love this story. What an innovative idea to create a game using American birds, their habitats and the sources of their feeding . With over 700 species in the US, the possibilities are incredible, and fun for all ages. It would be a great teaching device in schools to acquaint American children with the variety of habitats and birds in this country.
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> Why aren’t these same people who are talking about science denial never speak up and make a fuss about the denial of climate change...

Quillette published an article in January on just that: "The Right Needs To Grow Up On Environmentalism".
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That's some excellent bait and Facebook fell for it:

1. Put up a tiny anti-FB campaign that's not gonna reach anyone on FB

2. FB bans it because their reviewers have to adhere to the rules set by upper mgmt

3. Now you're the victim -> Backlash for FB

4. FB restores the ad

5. Now you're the victim AND the winner

6. The story spreads amongst anti-FB circles, where it was originally meant to hit, with a massive impact (for little money)
What I always found fascinating (from very far, mind you) is how unconnected the entire area is -- while you can drive from Fremont to Palo Alto in half an hour (outside of peak hours at least) or from Hayward to San Mateo if you try this with public transit, it often becomes the proverbial "you can't get there from here" at least not without going into San Jose or San Francisco. Is there a reason there's almost no public transit on the Dumbarton and San Mateo bridges?
It's possibly because Atmos requires DTS-HD MA (there's no free alternative), or because people playing on standalone hardware are more likely to support DTS-HD MA than FLAC. In general though, FLAC will compress to smaller than the equivalent DTS-HD MA.
A possible problem with this is that now the callback keeps this alive. A possible solution (in some situations) is to use a weak pointer and check if the object is still alive before using the callback, but there's some additional work to make this work nicely ...
Yeah, I got a small starter bottle. The biggest one I recall seeing was this beast, but I don't know whether it is still for sale: https://www.kleinbottle.com/meter_tall_klein_bottle.html
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We are the government (at least in the United States)
I voted for ping pong in addition to FiFa on the xbox at the office because I think it's nice to have a break where you move around a bit instead of just concentrated moving your thumbs and index fingers.
Plus, a socializing lunch break in the middle of a day cuts your space for deep work in half, which means you'll often not get any done in either half. That's why I always brought my own lunch and/or ordered stuff to the office to eat at my desk, and went with people to lunch only every now and then.
The only reason Linux doesn't have Dtrace is because NiH.

Same as with kqueue vs epoll and so on.
There's many comments here complaining that it's impossible to shop at Aldi because they won't have all the ingredients for whatever dish they were planning to make.

This is largely true, but I feel misses the point. For a grocery store to exhaustively and consistently stock all combinations of products you need for a given dish you have in mind costs money they need to roll onto you as a consumer.

Rather, the idea with Aldi is that like with a farmers' market you should see what they have in stock at that moment and then decide what to cook.
I doubt that the standards are the cause. I mean we have XMPP and companies use it to build products but if they prefer to disable the federated features (as WhatsApp did back in the day) you can't blame the standard.

The problem seems to be more along the lines of 'standards don't make money'. So the problem is that companies implement those standards and they do so after their purpose which is to create value for the shareholders.
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> said chief operating officer Troels Bjerg at ISS, a top facility services firm whose customers include most of Europe’s 25 biggest banks. Chief executives see attracting and retaining talent as their No. 1 challenge, according to data from ISS World, a Danish provider of facilities management, security, catering and other support services to companies globally.

The dude is selling his services.
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