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That's not remotely true. The fatality rate from air travel is so low that taking alternative jets will be much safer. The new plane's selling point is efficiency so it's used on long haul routes which nobody is going to drive.
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What does that statement even mean? No one is saying they will work for free. Given two equivalent job offers, however, I would definitely pick the company that has a more casual atmosphere, better management dynamic, no dress code, flexible hours, more vacation time, free meals & snacks etc. over toiling in a toxic workspace a couple thousand more dollars a year.
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All the open standards are still out there. Just because now there are 2 billions slaved to walled gardens doesn't mean all the good stuff disappeared. It just seems like everything is walled garden because the wall-to-unwalled ratio has decreased. IRC still exists, email still exists, just because whatsapp also exists and because a lot of people use it doesn't mean the web has gone down.

all your film cameras don't stop working when digital came out.
Not to mention you have cheaper housing options in a commute to Oakland.
I’m thinking more about perf and trying to set up the minimal thing.

But I guess your point still stands. If you have this huge machine making tiny super fast general chips, what’s the point of trying to go specialized
Mission oriented for-profit companies is an oxymoron. Profit comes from competing in markets and markets determine what you end up doing. That’s why I’m always skeptical of Don’t Be Evil types of missions because when you’re starting you can’t even imagine what market pressure will end up making you do.

Between the market pressures from investors, employees, competitors, to what extent can a company really stay true to its business and deny potential profit that conflicts with it.

Also, it’s hard to root for specific for profit companies (although I’m rooting for capitalism per se).
FAA not grounding 737 MAX 8's; Mandates software patch
Windows has powershell which I love on my arch so far and find vastly more powerful than bash ;)
The replacement should be written in a memory-safe language. Including the TLS library.

"There is more to life than increasing its speed."
A first-person engine in 265 lines (2014)
I don't pay any more attention to ads on facebook than I do to ads on billboards, or flyers in the mail. It all goes in the trash figuratively or literally.

My brain has been effectively trained to pattern recognize advertising and filter it out, as it is so ubiquitous and so very rarely actually useful.

Old propaganda distribution channels might be dead men walking, but the new ones are just as much (anecdotally).
> A true high-level language

I doubt you'll find many people who are would say "C++ is intended to be a true high-level language".
Google paid former executive $35m after sexual assault allegation
You might find a problem with that arrangement when you need to buy something that Amazon doesn't or won't carry, and there's nobody else in town (because they can't survive on such products alone). Or as a manufacturer who makes a new and better product compared to something that they have, but who can't find a sales channel for it. Or as someone who is unhappy with some of Amazon's practices - say, how they treat their employees.

And competition doesn't just show up out of thin air - you need a healthy free market for companies to get to the point where they can challenge the market leader. If you allow the monopolist to dominate the market, they will never get there, and there won't be anything for consumers to easily choose from.

In general, concentration of power is dangerous. Few people dispute this with governments - it's not like we wait for them to become authoritarian, we write constitutions that have arrangements that deliberately cripple their ability to do so (separation of powers etc). Why should it be any different for large corporations, when we know from history that monopoly abuse is the most likely outcome?
Another workplace had a similar scheme: an unlocked machine was an invitation for the person's neighbors to send email on the person's behalf. It was all fun and games for a while (fake product announcements, silly questions posed on the internal mailing alias, fake resignation notices) until someone got really upset when it happened to them and then it sort of died down.
I had to think a lot about what you are saying. I think I agree. The world is in a worse place overall than it was before with respect to freedom. The warnings that people like RMS made have come true. However, I still think that doesn't invalidate the idea that freedom in in a better position than it was before as well. It's just that non-freedom is growing at a faster pace.

Now that I think about it, though, there is definitely one place where we are losing. It used to be, despite the lack of popularity, free-as-in-freedom software was by and large better than other software you could get. GNU was much, much better than the proprietary Un*x collection of user land tools. Linux was much better than the proprietary Posix kernels (though you can argue whether or not BSD was better, it doesn't matter since it is also free-as-in-freedom). Development tools were much better and when we talk about compilers, interpreters, reuse libraries and frameworks, this (at least) has accelerated. Even going later on, Asterisk was head an shoulders better than any proprietary PBX (not that it's saying much). I would even argue that IRC and Jabber, et al were dramatically better than the proprietary offerings. But especially in this kind of telecommunications field, we've been overtaken.

I'm not sure if making a better X will promote adoption of "free X", but I'm sure that allowing the proprietary gang to own all of the high quality software in the area will result in "free X" always being an impossible dream. In telecommunications, I personally think there is nothing (with the possible exception of Mastodon) that's even close to the proprietary competition at the moment. That's a massive problem. I would concentrate on fixing that before I tried to do anything else.
I suspect employees also have the option of not working there if so inclined.

Elon's goals are fairly well publicised.

If you do not agree with them you're not being forced to work or continue working there.

I for one whole heartedly support his approach to change....if not for Musk then who? I suspect it wouldn't be hard to make the case that if not for Tesla the electric car space would be years behind where it is today.
nope but install of antergos is always borked in some way. Its actually faster to install arch linux from the command line and fairly easy anyway.
Well, there was the Bell System. But arguably that didn't work as planned. And it probably couldn't happen today.

But regulation as a public utility might work.
Yes, but if you are storing the output of zfs send for each snapshot (incrementally) you won't get the benefit of it using a merkle tree on the storage side of things (obviously it's used among other neat algorithms to figure out what the delta between snapshots is).

If you are using zfs recv on the remote server you will get basically the same features as restic (minus content-defined deduplication, and full-repo encryption -- ZFS has extent-based dedup and its built-in encryption is not "full-disk" since it reveals ZFS-level metadata). And you get real atomic snapshots which is better than what restic can give you because it's a userspace tool (though you can always use restic with ZFS).

I'm not sure we're actually in disagreement on how ZFS works, it's a question of whether you can get the practicalities of the benefits without having a ZFS server which holds your backups. If you just store the out of zfs send then it's also hard to expire old backups, and restoring would require applying all of the saved send payloads rather than just doing one 'zfs send' from the remote server.
Antergos is not a standalone distro though. Its just an installer for Arch.
I think I'd rather see it regulated, then broken up.

How are you even going to break it up?

And how do we know it won't just be a matter of time before another single, central social network takes hold?

Social Networks have this property where they are only useful when other people are also on the same one as you. To me, this property will just guarantee that we would end up back in the same situation.

So it would seem smarter to me to just regulate it, so we can limit the bad, and enjoy the good.
If you followed the path of a one dollar bill, it would be covered in drugs. I guess that's like a social network.
Going back a few generations, the earlier 737s were plagued by crashes as well, relating to rudder issues:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boeing_737_rudder_issues
> As mechanical engineering students at my college, ... always the culpability of the engineer is placed first and foremost to us

In college we learned about the engineering & product decisions that led to the challenger disaster. There's a famous line that is rumored to have been said at one of the last design meetings before the disaster: "lets take off our engineering hats and put on your management hats". Personally, I doubt this sentence was uttered, but even the rumor conveys the point.
This works in environments where infrastructure can support it. It can be downright blissful!
I was in this exact situation and chose the one that looked like office space. We don't really have a dress code and there's a reasonable selection of snacks. But the other place was all open and glass and they had lunch catered every day. Not that I don't like those things, but I'd say all the amenities in the world aren't worth more than a $5k salary difference to me at the most (excluding the monetary value of the actual lunches in this specific case). My priorities are to 1) like my work 2) like my coworkers 3) make a good salary, and 4) work in a nice place, in that order.

Of course we can't know what exactly the survey in question asked, which is key. If someone offered me a prettier office for a $100 a year pay cut, then, sure.
I bought two (2) unicycles that I didn't even realise I needed!
It's great when you're fresh out of school, single, and want to bury yourself in the work.

It's unbelievably annoying after a few years when you're just trying to have dinner with your wife without overhearing someone talking about raising a round at the table next to you.
Are you aware Trader Joe and Aldi are sister companies and owned by two German brothers? In fact, the Trader Joe parent company is called Aldi[^1]!

[^1]: not the same Aldi though. There is an Aldi North and an Aldi South. Aldi North owns Trader Joe (American name only, globally Aldi North chains are also just Aldi). And Aldi South owns the Aldi stores in the USA.
Here's a pilot describing the MCAS system on the 737 Max:

https://youtu.be/zfQW0upkVus?t=220
Some statistically significant percentage of xbox 360s are starting to red light for customers running a certain model number. Microsoft assures customers that there's no need to panic as this particular model has been reliable for a long time, and it could just be a statistical anomaly. Microsoft is currently investigating the issue but consumers are weary about paying full price for a product that might break.

Substitute xbox 360 with PLANE, substitute microsoft with BOEING, substitute "weary about paying full price" with "dying in a horrible fiery death".

I'm not sure why this is contentious. Be on the safe side and wait for the investigation to complete in case there's some kind of unexpected single point of failure caused by mechanical defects.
Ping pong tables are cheaper
Ask HN: Are you using Solid or Solid PODs, what are you building/using?
It would be interesting to know about projects HN is building around Solid, or how is HN using Solid/PODs.

For the uninitiated, Solid is web decentralization project led by Tim Berners Lee. https://solid.mit.edu

There is massive friction for PODs to become mainstream with inherent network effect. I'm personally interested in understanding the kind of issues Solid is facing while being usable.
What percentage of the population can write for a newspaper or appear on TV?

When I say dissemination, I'm not just talking about elites. If the average Joe wanted to reach out asany people as they know and tell them something, tell me how they should do it?
> I would argue it's probably even safer to be on a 737 MAX these next few days since every airline and their pilots will be on edge with that particular model

You're assuming that being "on edge" is sufficient to prevent a systemic design flaw. Without a proper investigation, it's not clear that is true at all.
You're doing a fine job right here. But Twitter seems to be a far better option than Facebook for that kind of scenario.
I have implemented an extremely similar protocol for a side project game.

In my implementation, step 4 happens in two phases:

4a. All members submit their secret values to the server.

4b. Once all secret values are submitted, they are all sent to each member at once.

This ensures that members cannot determine the outcome before anyone else.

What you are describing could actually be an issue if there is no server involved, however something like commitment encryption (rather than hashing) utilizing secret sharing could help resolve this issue in a p2p environment.

Another option would be that all possible outcomes are randomly shuffled with their positions encrypted and distributed to all members prior to the game beginning.

My protocol implements the latter... all possible outcomes are encrypted and publicly available on IPFS to members before and after the game.
There's another thread on here about this article that discusses one potential issue that's being looked at:

https://theaircurrent.com/aviation-safety/what-is-the-boeing...

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19365179
Might as well build an OS in the web browser at this point and then you can have an OS within your OS. A sandbox within a sandbox. Next step is getting three levels deep.
If the 737 MAX anti-stall system has a flaw of course it should be fixed. That's hardly an argument against anti-stall systems in general. The accidents prevented by anti-stall systems don't make the news.
> If my routine maintenance breaks the steering wheel linkage in my car, does the resultant crash mean that the manufacturer did not build enough safety into the vehicle to protect it from steering errors induced by negligent mechanics?

If it happens repeatedly, then probably yes.
I interpreted "workspace" as not including things like management dynamic, vacation time, or lack of toxicity
Facebook even blocks links to social-media startups like Minds.com for being "unsecure"..
I know, but they're completely different stores in terms of design, inventory and pretty much everything else. I'd happily shop at Trader Joe's if there were one near me.
Armor Games → Data Breach Notification 2019
And before someone comes and says that I want to police free speech, no. Not at all. I simply want curation which means a set of processes that are followed for certain categories of speech, and the labeling of potential speech as incorrect or untrue. I don't want to lock anybody up for posting fake news (though wouldn't mind if they were banned)
Exactly... unless the work is open source, they are just another centralized solution. Reminds me of Telegram.
> Elastic [...] started developing new features under a proprietary license [...]. The idea was to prevent their work from benefiting a competitor. [...] Elastic is the rare company that truly is committed to open source (at least at the current moment in history) and Amazon is, well, Amazon.

I know there's more context here, and I'm sympathetic to Elastic's position, but "Elastic loves open source so much they made proprietary features to hurt their competitors!" is a bit....Orwellian as far as defenses.

I don't think this comes across as pro-Elastic as you think it does. :)
Because it was clickbait junk, no true scientist makes statements like

"Beyond the “missing five ounces” of female brain — gloated about since the nineteenth century — modern neuroscientists have identified no decisive, category-defining differences between the brains of men and women."

Gloated? Who's gloated? Is this proven in a study? I've never even heard of the missing five ounces let alone heard people gloating about it.

This is purely emotional, the endemic 'gloating' probably made up (It doesn't pass the smell test) and has no place in educated discourse.

James Damore stated facts, they might have been one sided, however they didn't stoop to this level.
A step on the perhaps unintended path to first-class library installation into browsers, rather than relying on CDN caching for shared code? Will deploying on the web might look like deploying to the desktop, just one step abstracted? :-)
Maybe. If your goal is just, like being able to say you "have documentation."

Or if you are already a lucid, efficient writer.

But if you aren't, or if quality and usefulness are more important than ticking a box... It's probably time well spent.
Totally with you here. Not a neuroscientist. But I am a computer scientist. Lots of strong opinions, not a lot of strong facts. The analogies are interesting but they break down quick.

"We don't create representations of visual stimuli"..."We don't retrieve information or images or word from memory registers" Neither do computers in many cases. It's as if the author is saying because in the brain isn't a tape recorder or film camera then it doesn't work like a computer. Nope. Studies show that much like a computer we encode information as we store it. Because we encode it fancy ( or weird :-) doesn't mean its not encoded or retrieved. The Dollar Bill example is a red herring.
Just ppitballing here: What if, instead of creating an image for the dollar, the subject's mind created a visual'thumbnail' and 'hash' of the real dollar. The thumbnail she can recall easily and lets her draw 'enough' of the bill to be vaguely recognizable. The hash, lets her recognize the real deal whenever she sees it. She simply compares the hash of this new object with list of hashes, and if its a dollar the mind finds a match. Of course, it far more sophisticated, but these simple methods, cleanly account for what the author observed.
In my personal life I am a Linux-onlyist. But Windows pays my bills so...

When I moved into my current job automating sysadmin work for an enterprise I discovered the joy of PowerShell and an analysis of my enterprise Bitbucket account shows that I have committed more LoC of PS than any other language.

PS is a joy to code in and would rather write programs in PS. But I still would prefer BASH for oneliners and CLI use.
That's true, but you'll find that most of the senior GP's still work on Sand Hill, because the vast majority live down there.
Trader Joe's is an Aldi subsidiary. Two brothers split their inherited Aldi company into two, Aldi North and Aldi South (or Nord and Sud) and split territories, both operating in Germany and each getting a selection of countries to operate in. Both operate in the US, Aldi Sud as Aldi and Aldi Nord as Trader Joe's.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aldi
> Aren’t such deals usually banned as anticompetitive?

I wonder who would bring the suit if they're divvying up the world country by country. Who has jurisdiction? The EU?

Giving this marginally more thought, maybe the agreement is simply on use of the shared brand name, and that's what the agreement covers? I note both are active in the US, but under different names. That might just be enough to keep regulators happy.
Its the same for clubs who may have a website but for event details you have to check Facebook.
Fair point, looking at Facebook as a platform and product I think it has far greater impact than Twitter.
> xbox 360s are starting to red light ... substitute "weary about paying full price" with "dying in a horrible fiery death" ... wait for the investigation to complete

Paying full price and dying a fiery death don't exactly seem like comparable substitutions.
You can always opt to not discuss anything about them.

But the fact that you wrote this very comment tell us you want to.

So what really is there to complain about their PR strategy?
Seems like it's not clear how much time involvement they're expecting? Mentors get a stipend of $500, and writers get $6000 for three months of work?
Only after step #5 is the value valid, i.e., after everybody has broadcasted their value. This includes everybody who broadcasted anything in previous stages. As long as the dishonest clients have not all broadcasted theirs, the procedure is not done and there is simply no consensus yet.

One could argue that the dishonest clients could use this to basically abort the procedure before the value is determined (by not broadcasting their values). But once the procedure is complete, being dishonest does not mean anything.
I disagree. This is a cautionary statement for other people in the same situation as the parent post - if your boss has it out for you, HR is unlikely to have your back. Polish your resume, get an offer somewhere else, be explicit in your exit interview and don't sign any NDAs.
Amazon does give back code in this case right? They are re-implementing part of Elasticsearch essentially. Unless Oracle finalizes the Win against Google on the API copyright, I think what Amazon does here is confrontal, but not very controversial.

Disclaimer: Ex-Amazon Employee.
On the specific note of ping pong tables: I hate them with a passion.

I hate ping pong, I have no desire to play it, but people get upset when I don't want to play it with them. I'm happy to sit round, drink a couple of beers, and talk shit on my Friday afternoon, but I just really don't want to play ping pong.
And then best of all, because of the low SKU count, you can do your entire regular grocery shop in three or four aisles which is convenient.

And because the canned tomatoes they do stock are of good quality, I rarely have to worry about it—at least for most staples. There are rare exceptions where I prefer a particular name brand product but I know what these are so I save them up for a visit to the traditional large supermarket every other week to "fill the gaps".

Also, I am affluent enough to not be price sensitive, but I do like being able to pick up canned tomatoes without the mental load that goes along with seeing many brands of the same product and pretending that I can judge the difference in quality by the aesthetic of the product packaging.
If you can afford more lawyers you are always at an advantage. Even the “regulations” against theft or harming other people have a bigger impact on people with less money but we still have them.

So saying “all regulations are bad” is just not very smart. Without regulations we would be living in a polluted world with child labor and unsafe workplaces. Every piece of food you buy may kill you. The wheels on your car may be falling off at high speed.

I agree that there is room for improvement but regulations are a big part of what makes a modern civilized society.
And now it seems like we know why OP isn't really answering any questions or interacting in any way.
Yeah, you're missing a lot of background info on this topic. Start by reading here: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/02/03/world/asia/lion-air-plane...

MCAS is not autopilot, and is not affected by autopilot system status. Indeed it is only enabled when the autopilot is off. And typical things you'd do to override autopilot, like applying stick input, do not override MCAS. The pilots did literally what you suggested their first reaction would be, and it wasn't sufficient to prevent fatal crashes.
Risk on taking “alternative old plane” is super low and “Boeing 737 max” is super high, so who are you trying to lie to?
Warren is ALOT
How does a random person become part of this scene?
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