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Standng by in a Tesla and standing by in an airplane are two very different things. You cannot compare them.

When a typical civilian passenger plane throws everything up and yields control to its pilot, the pilot gets 10+ minutes to fix it, helped by a copilot, mountains of checklists and a direct audio line to air traffic control.

Nothing to do with the 5s you maybe get when your Tesla yields.
This seems to be a known bug if you have used the old version of send in your profile that may be fixed now. If you try it in a private browsing window and it works, it's probably that bug.
How did these “sanctions” help foster competition and create the players that are dominant today?

Microsoft is still just as dominant in the PC operating system market and the desktop productivity market as it was in 1999.
And whats more, even the Russian jets are 'not russian enough' so Iranians could buy them[0].

"The US approval for the transaction was needed, as Sukhoi aircraft contained more than 10% (22%, according to state news RIA) of American-made parts."

[0] https://www.aerotime.aero/ina.hladyshava/22228-not-russian-e...
Right, that's an example of Simpson's paradox (I think).

I agree two crashes in six months seems abysmal, but it could also be an awful coincidence with different factors at play. If it's so obvious that Boeing should ground this plane and they aren't, might it be due to something we don't know?

Yes, this could be another Challenger-type situation of executives overriding engineers, but the incentives don't make sense to me for that to be the case.

Anyway, I've played devil's advocate enough here. I'm just trying to understand the situation too.
No, it's just typical Twitter/Facebook era reactionary writing. The author is likely in some type of bubble, probably behavioral science, possibily behavior nutrition, and feels an artificial need to right the wrongs of an algorithmically generated appearance of a wrong on the world. In this case, that people are not as aware of behavioral science as the author and others in the bubble the author consumes their media in.
Sorry for the dumb question, but given the total calories are the same, does this mean that it is generally healthier to eat one big meal per day rather than 10 small ones?

Given my current understanding from all the intermittent fasting hype lately, it is indeed better to eat big meals rarely rather than small meals frequently. For some reason, your post got me slightly confused because I lack the necessary knowledge to have a proper model about nutrition in place.
I've never really thought that elastic search is all that great, to be honest. I use it every day at work for an application that does a ton of aggregations.

That said, I can't shake the feeling that we could get the same level of performance with RethinkDb with the benefit of a better API and less overhead.

Assuming that the use case does not require large quantities of full-text search, is there really any reason to choose ElasticSearch over RethinkDb? ElasticSearch does have a larger ecosystem, but with how good RethinkDb's API is, I'm not entirely sure any 3rd party packages would actually be necessary.

Add to that RethinkDb's ability to do joins and changefeeds and this decision becomes a no-brainer for me.
I agree with you, and felt the article was well-written. While reading the first half of the article, I was mentally preparing the comment I would leave, thinking that the author was casting a false dichotomy: that, in keeping with the exhortation of Yoda, all one must do to achieve anything is cast aside artificial mental limits.

"Of course willpower exists," I thought. "The fact that it's limited is a symptom of the fact that we are physical entities, and like a muscle, we can exercise it gradually over time to expand that resource."

A few paragraphs later, the author directly addressed the "muscle" analogy, and tore down the points I had intended to make.

I would say the author does point to several concrete examples of superior approaches, including the powerful tools of reframing, moderating physiological response, self-distraction, and building tolerance to and managing negative emotional response.

I felt that the author's examples of how the concept of willpower has been used to shift blame in society were powerful, as well. I think that evolution has given us a strong bias toward the idea that if trying something doesn't work, trying much harder will. Extinction bursts are one example of this. The counterproductive flicker of rage I sometimes feel when working with uncooperative, small, delicate parts, which insists I should use large amounts of physical force, is another. Large amounts of physical force are seldom the right solution in modern times, but in the ancestral environment, it likely was.

I am glad I finished the article. It fits with most of my beliefs, but has also changed my mind, which is the hallmark of a great think piece, in my humble opinion.
Thx. Good to know. In that case, selective usage seems like good policy.
While it could certainly be the same issue, I've seen enough airline crash stories to know that your first assumption can be wildly incorrect. Typically people who investigate these things try to have no pre-conceived notions of what it could be, not much different from debugging a software crash.
I feel this myself. I used to run an ejabberd server on the same domain as my email address; that, along with a multi-network client like Pidgin, let me chat seamlessly with just about anyone. The number of people I could contact through those two tools eventually became so small that I turned them both off.

Nowadays the first conversation I get to have upon meeting a new person is a long negotiation about what baroque, proprietary messaging app I will have to use to reach them. Sigh. At least we still have email...
I think you can mail "hn@ycombinator.com" for title change. You might also ask for their input.

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Compare and contrast with "Neurosexism: the myth that men and women have different brains" (https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-019-00677-x, discussed here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19316221). Not to deny that gendered socialization makes differences (it does, as any activity). Still, I am puzzled by the dogmatic "there is no nature, there is only nurture; and don't dare to ask questions!" (maintained by some, including people I know personally).

Vide

- https://quillette.com/2019/03/11/science-denial-wont-end-sex... (discussed here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19360744)

"Not a week goes by without yet another research study, popular science book, or mainstream news article promoting the idea that (a) any differences between men and women in the brain are purely socially constructed and (b) these differences have been exaggerated beyond any meaningful relevance. More recently, this argument has evolved to contend that (c) there are, in fact, no brain differences between the sexes at all. Eliot’s article appears to subscribe to a hodgepodge of all three perspectives, which not only contradict one another but are also factually incorrect."

- https://slatestarcodex.com/2017/10/23/kolmogorov-complicity-... (discussed here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15539675)

"Did Giordano Bruno die for his astronomical discoveries or his atheism? False dichotomy: you can’t have a mind that questions the stars but never thinks to question the Bible. The best you can do is have a Bruno who questions both, but is savvy enough to know which questions he can get away with saying out loud. And the real Bruno wasn’t that savvy."

And pretty much as a side note, while some social differences ARE due to sexism, some others are because of more gender equality (and people being able to choose what they prefer, regardless of their gender):

"As women have more equal opportunity, the more their preferences differ from men" http://science.sciencemag.org/content/362/6412/eaas9899 (discussed here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18379943)
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On that we agree. Where we seem to disagree is whether that would be a good thing when applied to the tech industry.
Its far simpler than that! For the proper scientist, there is only one question with regards to Willpower:

Can you design an experiment which demonstrates the concept of willpower?

There are "concepts" of Willpower that people believe: does "Willpower" run out when you keep using it? Or does "Willpower" get stronger the more you exercise it? Or is Willpower just completely wrong and completely a red herring?

That's how the field of Psychology ACTUALLY advances: with people performing experiments on hundreds of people, to determine fundamental facts of how the human brain / human behavior works. The first two questions ("exhaustion of willpower" and "willpower exercise") can potentially be experimented. I'm wondering if any studied Psychologist knows of any experiments which can answer those questions.

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Without experiments, the field of Psychology death-spirals into pseudoscience. It is EXPERIMENTS that ground us back into reality (Pavalov's Dog. Skinner's box. Etc. etc.) That's my lesson from Psychology class.

Operant Conditioning exists and is 100% reproducible. Slot Machines and Loot Boxes are designed to follow Skinner's experiments on conditioning. Perhaps we can define "Scientific Willpower" as the (theorized) ability to resist conditioning, and develop experiments in that direction.

I mean, people CAN quit slot machines, and give up on video-game loot boxes eventually. Why? What causes people to leave the Skinner-box? Is it an internal-force (ie: "Willpower")? Or is it an external stimulus? Skinner's experiments only studied the addiction-part of the cycle, it seems like the "quitting" part is still an open question.
Before I saw this submission I posted from Chronicle of Higher Ed. But I don't know if it's paywalled or not since I subscribe to that (and to WaPo, fwiw).
I disagree with your assessment of the article. The Victorian definition of willpower is the same one my friends/family and I use today. Now that I have read the article I will be more mindful of how I use the term "willpower" compared to other concepts (like the cognitive strategies).

The author makes a great case for how we use the term willpower is different scenarios to mean entirely different concepts. While the marshmellow experiment willpower is similar to interpersonal bargaining willpower, the difference is important for defining scientific vocabulary. The author is not talking about colloquial use of willpower. And these two separate use cases of the term need to be rectified.

Granted, the author doesn't discuss solutions. But it seems to me a discussion of solutions would be better as another article.
That's not what this website is for and continuing to do so will get your account banned.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Sure it does. FB is a communication platform that adheres to the principles of free speech or it isn't.

Here, they are demonstrating (among other times) that they do not believe in free speech. It is their right. Just as it is their right to collect user data and resell it.

They have a right to suck and be evil.
Wow! That feels kind of insane, but makes so much sense.
The owners are recorded when the LLCs are filed with the secretary of state, however these states are simply willing to keep the identities of the owners private

How hackable/social engineering proof are these state agencies? How likely is it that they are already compromised by people acting as resources for federal and non-governmental organizations?
Glad you like it (I worked on it). Just a side note, the cloud service will be going away in the future, but the ability to save it locally will remain.
You prefetch what is required, and cache what is requested.

Assuming you aren't one of the sites that thinks it's appropriate to require `DOOM.WAD`, it can work out well.
I don’t think users are going to be happy with that approach in the long term. It’s well advised to control eviction behavior yourself. (Varnish learned this lesson ages ago, notwithstanding phk’s original paper.)

InnoDB’s buffer pool documentation is instructive: https://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.7/en/innodb-buffer-pool.h...
Surprisingly, even silly ideas can transform into great business ideas with the proper execution. A guy became a millionaire in the 70's with Pet Rock; you wouldn't think that anyone in his right mind would buy a rock as a pet but there you go, people are predictably irrational when it comes to financial matters.
I wish they'd show at least 99th percentile latency (if not higher) in the comparison charts, not the average. Average is the wrong way to measure latency.
UK, France and Germany Ban the Boeing 737 Max in Their Airspace
Some acquaintance of mine told me – which I really can't believe given the seriousness of aviation security – that there is in fact just one sensor.

If true than that's preposterous.
These "Linux isn't ready for the desktop" articles are mostly BS, and just keep repeating the same, tired garbage arguments. I'll refute a few points:

Notice that a lot of this one is about NVIDIA. The solution is simple: don't use it. Desktop Linux works great on Intel and AMD, where the driver support is excellent. NVIDIA isn't the only GPU vendor out there.

Printers work much better in Linux than in Windows, and it's been this way for a very long time. The exception is cheap, crappy inkjets. Solution: don't use cheap, crappy inkjets. Inkjets are a scam.

Games are always on this list. I don't care about games.

Many of the other points in your list are completely obsolete.

For business use, most of these factors are a non-issue. Being able to play AAA games is not important for a business computer, nor for many (most?) home computers. I know gamers can't conceive of this, but not everyone plays recent AAA video games.
Adhering to the letter of an agreement and not the spirit of that agreement is exactly the opposite I'd want to see from an org when I specify and they agree to x-hourly updates during outages.
I agree, why does it have to do a billion things?

I use it for, in this order

* Music

* Kitchen timers while cooking

* Setting simple reminders without having to go into a phone app or some crap (alexa, remind me to do X at 10am)

* Kids asking random questions (alexa, how many moons does jupiter have)

Other random stuff like weather maybe, when a sports game is on...

But this is all just pretty basic stuff you would expect from a voice interface... to me, it has all the "killer apps" built in with the above.
The fact that the safety record of the 777 was near perfect before 2014 honestly makes me more concerned about what happened to MH370 if it's an inherent fault.
"This should not be considered "willpower" because that term implies we have control over it, as was discussed in the article."

I gave the accepted definition of willpower above. The author trying to redefine the term doesn't make it so.

It's like the author trying to say that endurance is the same as free will, because free will can dictate whether or not you train it.

There is the understanding that people are just the result of their genes and environment - this is common sense. Then there is trying to say that willpower doesn't exist at all - it does, and it's medically defined.
It mentions "AWS S3 or compatible service". The S3 API is a de facto standard for object storage services, and there are numerous implementations of it.
Unlikely but possible. Two words: browser extensions.
The argument is that retailers take on risk by agreeing to sell a product since they purchase the product upfront. A marketplace like Amazon is different because they can take on 0 risk while still collecting all the data about what's selling and then turn around and undercut the vendor with an Amazon Basics product risk free.
5% can still be a decent number of users, and tends to trend even higher in certain segments (state and local government, smaller "old economy" businesses)
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They don't allow video streaming on their regular plans. How are you able to serve up videos on the $20/month plan?
Full-Time / Part-Time
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The Applications Developer designs, analyzes, codes, tests, documents and implements functionally appropriate, technically sound and well-integrated application systems of high complexity. The Applications Developer will work autonomously as the sole, onsite developer reporting to business leadership.

Responsibilities - Applications Developer (SQL):

Analyzes, designs, and develops viable solutions for business problems
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I know this so wrong, but my friends and play a game “hipster or homeless”. Where we attempt from pure subjective observation try to determine if the person is down on their luck, or intentionally dressing the way they look.

There is a fine line, between the two.

Full disclosure I have been homeless, but just because I was in an unfortunate situation, I still tried to be a presentable human being. The situation I was in should also not take my dignity as the two were not related.
This is really great but I was really surprised by that 230k number. Expected ~150k
In theory (not saying I agree), the "regain control checklist" is very similar before and after this change which is apart of why they did not see a need to communicate this until after the 1st crash.

Reviewing the video below - it appears to still line up with this. He doesn't mention the actual memory items changing. His explanation is the pilots starting using the wrong memory items because of information overload.

Example - They could have been going through the stall memory items instead of the runaway vertical stabilizer memory items.
I should have been clearer here; I was responding to the parent post's assignation of blame towards the airline/air authority.

Generally do agree with grounding the Max 8 fleet as a precaution, and also given the poor engineering smell around the MCAS.

But not keen to assign blame/failure and damage reputations until there are credible investigation results, or without providing references.
Replacing the cloud bits with Firefox Send integration seems a fairly obvious idea then?
... which is great until a consumer or replica decides to replay a topic/partition from the beginning, and forces all the recently-written data to be evicted, adversely impacting performance for all the well-behaved consumers :(
According to the article it certainly reads that way.
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If one of our reps told you that you are forced to upgrade then I would like to see that email because you will not be forced into upgrading.
I wish the article mentioned more about how John and Thomas are similar. Cause topic for me felt like "men without self=control" and gender is not mentioned once, baffling. Could not continue to read.
I feel like you're missing other commenters' points. The thesis of the article is not "willpower is poorly defined". The thesis is right in the title: "Willpower is a dangerous, old idea that needs to be scrapped". The chosen title and much of the verbiage would be ..very odd if the main thesis were what you claim. The article might successfully argue the much weaker latter thesis, but other commenters are rebutting the main thesis.
I've always wondered what the best concurrency approach would be for a fully compatible fully concurrent Redis. The single-threaded nature makes it naturally expose some strict semantics to the user, which is tricky. What are you planning on doing to push past the global lock for the hashtable?
> The problem is that Alexa is just a consumer voice command line. UI discoverability is impossible, and everything that you can do is just a utility that does something else

This is a really important point, and both a strength and a weakness.

The iPhone began as essentially a front end to existing services (with visual discovery, which a voice interface inherently lacks). I used to name mine "FEP" (as in Front End Processor) -- a front end to a subset of "real" computing or as I think of it these days: multiple windows into a shared computing space.

A watch (like the apple one) is really a crappy general UI device; discoverability is pretty bad because of the limited area and speed. But it's great in the role the phone had: subsetted interface to a limited number of "real" computing tasks (yes, it has a few of its own tricks too but mainly as data collection for apps on your phone).

Thompson captured this issue by talking about devices and software in terms of "the task it was hired to to". The problem is the voice assistants haven't figured that out yet.

The thing about this approach is it creates pressure to make more functionality available at the edge.

Alexa and google home tried to jump right to the edge in one go, which skips too much phylogeny.

Apple seems to understand this, but gets it wrong in the opposite direction: the iPad hasn't moved far beyond being "most of an iPhone but with a larger screen". And if you have an apple speaker, a phone, and iPad and call out "hey Siri, set an alarm for 10 minutes" you may get three devices chiming in 10 minutes. They don't act like a single device.
From what I understand, there were design decisions that were reworked to be more similar and keep the same type class as a requirement of customer 1, Southwest Airlines who is a major consumer of the max 8.
if they want these libraries to ever be used as default they need to have a stable api, so it needs versioning and the ability to link to specific version or versions in a bracket and the backport of security fixes across releases within a reasonable timeframe

why would anyone develop toward a library that doesn't provide those basic guarantees?

there's also no guarantee that your web app gets deployed to an up to date browser, so it's either you can specify which api level your app wants or we're all back to specify which browser version an app runs onto.
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I was a regular reader of ZH for a long stretch leading up to the 2012 election and in my opinion their content is toxic and fuels paranoia. Lots of "end stage capitalism" and "prepper" type content. From my perspective now it definitely seems like the type of content that could be considered intentionally manipulative in a very negative way. It was very fear driven and I don't think that is healthy.