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Airplanes don't have big red buttons that turn off all automation because it's always the wrong thing to do.

You can't press a button without understanding how it will affect the plane. How do you know the automation is at fault? Maybe there is mechanical damage and the only reason you're in the air is the automation? By the time you understand if the red button can be safely pressed, you understand what is generally causing the problem. So you can disable that specific automated system, which you can do today.

Also, automation is very very rarely at fault, it basically never happens. But accidents are often avoided, and many accidents would have been avoided, if pilots let go of the controls and let the automation and the inherent stability of the airframe return the flight to normal.

I can't think of a single time when that big red button is a good idea.

Boeing just recklessly didn't tell these pilots what to watch out for, what automated systems existed, and to save some money didn't include the basic safety equipment they needed.
The theory seems well supported. Unless the ‘evil demon’ of epistemology is having his way with us...

I’m not sure that’s settled.
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> Is this fake recycling happening on any kind of scale?

Unfortunately yes. Here's the article I was thinking about.

https://www.wired.com/story/the-worlds-recycling-is-in-chaos...

If you look for "recycling crisis" or similar on Google News you'll find many more. I kind of knew that recycling wasn't as eco-efficient as it should be, but I had no idea just how bad it has been and it's getting worse. :(
A C3 spinal cord injury has interfered multiple times, especially with finances and insurance.

My advice?

Automate as much as possible; Ansible, Docker, Kubernetes, and kubespray are great.

Build what you can, when you can. Try not to stress when you can't.

Learn to meditate by focusing on your breath. A calm mind is very helpful for productivity.

Establish a routine. Stick to it as best you can. (When my routine is thrown off, I'm very unproductive. Meditation helps reset my focus.)

Buy an Echo Dot. Use repeating reminders to remember the day-to-day stuff (e.g., meds) so you can stay in the zone without neglecting your health.

Keep well-named, well-organized bookmarks relevant to your illness; searching your browser history with a cloudy mind when sick is a PITA.

Learn systems biology. View it as a FSM initially so you can properly debug your body and communicate with doctors when it fails you.

Those are the tips I live by right now.

My coding work won a startup competition a few years back, but the terms of the deal weren't favorable to me due to my disability, so I turned it down.

One grand mal seizure a few months later, I forgot that I was a coder with ambitions. (The flip-side to that: I forgot that learning to code was so much fun, so I focused on languages I previously avoided.)

The project from the competition is almost completely rewritten to be nearly autonomous.
mate, seriously. fuck you and your alt-right cowardly ideology.

you ignorant, autistic, bullied loser.
I was afraid of having to do exactly that, create a new app with a new name and move all of the customers over...

I ended up fixing it eventually by somehow clearing all versions in alpha/beta channels and uploading a new fixed version without the SMS permission with increased version number multiple times, and then bubbling that up to production.

For reference, we only used READ SMS permission in this app to improve the phone number validation process so it was easy to remove, with the downside that now it is harder for our users (mostly over 45) because they have to switch to the SMS app and back to complete the validation. Our helpdesk has seen an increase in support calls about the validation process since then.
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Anyone know how long it takes for your general $2000 laptop to have the power of a past super computer?
> JS has only grown in ubiquity and maturity of the
> language.

Well… if you say so. In my eyes a couple of sugarcoating patches do not make language mature.
Standard library is still nowhere to be found.
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MVC is not OOP (at least not what OOP was originally) and it's a shame that corruption of the idea was allowed to creep in.

I do like your use of the word "anemic" to describe the method free classes that pass for objects these days.
> Cigarette makers are making an awful amount of money and nobody is even talking about them.

I don't think that's true. The maker of my favourite cigarette (I haven't smoked a cigarette in years, but I have nothing against smoking a cigarette every once in awhile) doesn't even distribute in this country anymore, due to massive lawsuit expenses.

> They have a huge influence on media, so many indirect advertising everywhere.

I believe that a single cigarette will get a movie an R rating (and that movies nowadays prefer larger audiences to more sophisticated ones, and hence avoid R ratings), and that cigarettes are completely forbidden on prime-time TV. Perhaps I'm wrong?

> Overhead on health care and even the environment that is all on taxpayers (smokers and non-smokers)

Last I heard the health costs were dwarfed by the Social Security savings due to regular smokers dying younger.

You don't hear as much about cigarettes now as twenty years ago because the anti-tobacco forces won. Smokers are nigh-universally looked down upon. The only people who will smoke publicly are the poor. It's just not worth the social cost to smoke tobacco any more.

There was an article recently about how science can regain its reputation. I think that the issue of smoking is a prime example of how things should have gone differently: the role of science & scientists was simply to point out that smoking causes cancer (and other diseases) & reduces quality of life. That's it: no recommendations to quit smoking, and certainly no recommendations for laws against it. Science is capable of making predictions based on data; it's not capable of deciding what should be done based on those predictions (that's a matter for ethics or philosophy or religion or morality or whatever).

In the case of smoking, the debate should have been: given that smoking is bad for people, is it reasonable to use State violence to prevent them from smoking? I argue that the answer is clearly no, but certainly others would argue otherwise. The key thing here is that science has no input into that argument.
Or related, Air France Flight 447, where the best thing to do would have been no immediate pilot intervention[0].
[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Air_France_Flight_447
This sounds a lot like regulatory capture [1]. It's becoming more and more clear that the institutions that were / are(?) great at ensuring the safety of the public have been undermined by special interest.

For a really striking example of regulatory capture, look no further than the FCC.

One way to make sure that regulatory capture does not happen, is to ensure that money is not part of lobbying. But that's another discussion.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regulatory_capture
Corporations should tokenize the digital assets they already have
Karen Uhlenbeck, founder of geometric analysis, honored with Abel Prize
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Well framed and this is what we all learned and moved to: There are new paradigms out that just make so much more sense and which are followed by the majority. When I read the original submission, I mean just the title, I was facepalming in my mind.

Rails had its time and there were reasons why people liked it. But when I see that people post that Rails is still great in 2019, I'd like to stress following issue because those people might confuse newcomers who have to decide which ecosystem they gonna join.

The problem is that being in a big or biggest and still growing ecosystem makes life much easier. Once an ecosystem is on the decline you get less good libs or libs are not actively maintained anymore and the best people who shape tech are also moving to new ecosystems. I don't want to bash Rails but just an example, I didn't see any proper http/2 support in Rails-land. Now, you could say who needs http/2 (it makes a huge difference btw). But the point is that it arrived in one of the biggest ecosystem just recently and not every lib there supports it out of the box. And that's just one of many examples. People repeat that Rails has so mature 'gems' but I don't see a lot of new stuff or a big variety, tech moved on but without Rails. Just accept it.

The real problem behind all these discussions and threads. Imagine there was a time, where Rails-guys were rare and Rails was the biggest thing. I had to pay such guys $200,000/yr (8yrs ago and not in the valley), not because they were outstanding. Actually, there were average, they were ok in Rails but missed a lot of other checkboxes (often devops or SQL). But the market demand forced us to pay such salaries. Rails brought them a good life and imagine demand was declining, so they had to get into other tech, start again at zero or smaller salaries OR went to forums and rant/try to convince people why Rails is so great.
I had the same issue with salt. I added so much salt to my foods that they were nearly inedible to anyone else but myself, and likewise normal food always tasted bland unless I added extra salt. I quit using added salt, and in the following few months my tastes noticeably changed. I still crave salty foods like olives or soy sauce, but I can now eat a meal and enjoy it without reaching for the shaker.
Politicians are not being supported by the spammers themselves, but by the telecoms that do not want to make costly changes to their network to stop or enforce this problem.

This couldn’t be more obvious in our fcc chair who is basically against any kind of government regulation.
Ignore what you have read about the new engine making the MAX unstable. It’s more nuanced: It’s unstable near stall.

Commercial aircraft are not fighters. They don’t need to be unstable with computers making them flyable. An unstable airliner would be an uncomfortable airliner and hence a commercial disaster.

What has changed is whether or not there is a manual connection between the yoke and the control surfaces. For reasons of cost, that connection has been going away.
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A single sensor for an automated system that can control the flaps?

No redundancy on a system that can control flight. A system that is supposed to help avoid a stall scenario.

That alone is a crazy oversight, let alone differences between safety analysis and actual capabilities.

This stinks of truly awful management - the rules of the sky were written in boood. Ignoring them has shown serious consequences, because we already knew not to do this.
Except they do this and intentionally. They call, hang up as soon as it rings, and call right back. You are deceiving yourself if you think they are going to change their habits to avoid getting caught. They don't worry about getting caught, because no one catches them. One carrier shuts them down, they pick another. There are plenty to choose from, and plenty of greedy CLECs look the other way or join in.
> the numbers are a bit fishy

Good one. :)
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What you actually see if you study aging carefully is that it isn't anything like accumulation of damage the body cannot repair, it's the accumulation of damage the body can repair.

In fact, among the most consistent things you can see is the accumulation of iron, and to a lesser extent other minerals, such as calcium. The body seems to have a really big trouble regulating those minerals, it doesn't even have its own way to get rid of excess iron, the only way you can get rid of it is blood loss.

Now, what does it mean? One thing, the body doesn't really makes much distinctions when absorbing metals so that when there is excess iron, it cannot absorb other divalent metals without poisoning itself with iron. So it cannot absorb manganese without absorbing too much iron, and manganese is essential for preventing oxidative damage.

A second thing is, the experiments on rats show that lanthanum (and possibly other rare earths) change the homeostasis in the brain so that the amount of iron decreases, while it normally accumulates with age. Multiple rare earths have been shown to bind preferably to proteins, usually over calcium, but possibly also other metal ions, zinc seems to be a kind of universal element that can bind to almost any place that isn't taken. Neurons even seem to dramatically increase in capacity (with each neuron carrying its own signal, instead of many almost exactly the same thing over and over) as the concentration of lanthanum increases in vitro. (it's worth noting though, that lanthanum has been seen as an essential nutrient for decades in China, so if it cured aging, it would be known)

I thing we need to consider the possibility that there is no such a thing as aging, but is the result of some sort of imbalance caused by early agriculture, metallurgy, or whatever human activity that changed the environment in a way that our bodies, and other mammal bodies have no way of dealing with. The rumors of longevity from history and various isolated places are seen as myths, but they may not all be.
Ask HN: Starting a Software Development Consultancy. Need Advice
Hey guys,

I’m starting a software development company. I have 4 people in my team currently all based remotely around North America.

We have experience with technologies like React, React Native, PHP, Laravel, Python, Flask, Django, Ruby, Sinatra, Angular.js, Vue.js, Node.js etc.

All of us have decided to form a company and try to get work as a company/team. Currently, we have a lot of inbound work coming to us via LinkedIn but those are as jobs at existing firms. We're looking to scale it up.

We would love to work on project to project basis and that’s why looking to build the software company.

Any advice on how we could market the company and find clients would be great and really appreciated.

Thank you so much in advance.
In the uk to get round this sort of tax its common for buildings to have their roof removed.
It's tricky when it comes to software systems though. Imagine you had to inspect a new Boeing. It would be ok to look at the construction and see it was stuck together ok but hard to understand all the software systems unless you'd helped write them. Normally with software written by others you find the problems by using it and seeing it have bugs or crash, not by inspecting the code.

In this case I imagine someone at Boeing knew moving the elevator jack 2.5 degrees based on one sensor was unsafe hence them selling an optional upgrade that made the system safe. That seems kind of criminal.
Your only comments on your account defend the organization and you have not disclosed your apparent affiliation: https://words.democracy.earth/@paulaberman
I will.

Although looking through his tweets, this doesn't look very promising:

https://twitter.com/iyad_elbaghdadi/status/87367361002783129...

He's making up a strawman "reject Sharia" argument, whereas most criticism is clearly meant (and usually also worded) as "reject Sharia law". Pretty dishonest (although that's how politics works, if it's not divisive propaganda nobody listens).
I am not aircraft specialist, but I have seen similar things in IT/telecommunication.
I think this is competence issue. F.A.A don't have people and tech to really understand/analyse anything that is going on with modern plane.
More broadly USA specifically likes usage of contractors, some other countries at least try do have technical competence in govermental agency.
So that is mostly question, why F.A.A don't have third party, like Lockheed Martin, to audit Boeing, but that is probably against Boeing (and reverse situation Lockheed Martin) commercial interest (like trade secrets).
The release was pushed from Summer 2019 to Fall 2019.

I was in the same boat as the grandparent. I ended up getting a cheap phone that I could put lineageOS on, I installed F-Droid, and I didn't install any of Googles Apps. Its working out very well actually.
You have correctly described what happens to start a graveyard spiral, and when you say "the plane's behaviour is basic aerodynamics" you are correct - but it is the aerodynamics of an airplane undergoing the onset of spiral divergence, and it is that spiral divergence, together with the pilot's failure to notice what is happening and correct appropriately for it, that leads to the increasing bank and falling nose. The bank increases despite the fact that the airplane has some static roll stability and despite the fact that the pilot has taken no action to command it.

"Three types of airplane motion can result from the interaction of yaw and roll:

1. Spiral divergence results when the static directional stability is great in comparison to the static lateral stability (dihedral effect). If a wing is lowered, the directional stability is greater than the roll stability and the aircraft will not sideslip readily. Thus, the dihedral effect is weak and the wing will not rise to the level position. The airplane tends to enter an ever-tightening spiral dive commonly called a graveyard spiral.

Flight Theory and Aerodynamics: A Practical Guide for Operational Safety (Charles E. Dole & James E. Lewis), page 274.

https://books.google.com/books?id=8DkA9ZcrcisC&lpg=PA274&ots...
Except for the fact that they really like to throw their customers and pilots under a bus if it's convenient to them.

This was, in my opinion, one of the most disgusting aspects of this whole sordid story. They had to cut back after the Ethiopian crash, but blaming everybody else seems a big part of their DNA.
Right, they have Amazon's app store which is arguably worse than Google Play (and I say that as someone who absolutely detests Google). Their "free forever" apps are only free because you're trading personalized analytics for them, which can't be turned off without removing the app in question.

That being said, Amazon Fire tablets are good cheap devices if you want to experiment with custom ROMs and truly Free app stores like F-Droid without spending a lot of money or sacrificing your main device. Just don't trust FireOS to be any less privacy invasive than Google's Android.
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Do you put off buying electronics knowing that next year's product will be faster than this year's? At some point you just got to say, screw it, I'd rather do this now instead of waiting for some hypothetical future where the cost-benefit ratio is at its highest.
2019 Abel Prize to Mathematician Karen Uhlenbeck
Ah I see. Yes, coming for non-native speaker, english is sometime confusing.

Anyway Islam seems like reactionary if you look at it from today standards and in need of a reform (which I believe it's happening right now). But it really had some progressive ideas for the times even compared to their neighbour medieval Europe.
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Scrum stand-ups prevent you from doing your best work and they do that every day
I think most people have learned. But every now and then, I'll get a call or text from a clueless individual. They are usually blown away to learn how my number (or a random unknown number) ended up in their call log.
Weird. I opened it in reader mode. Doesn't seem to be on the normal page. It's a screenshot, maybe a draft?

https://www.nvidia.com/content/dam/en-zz/Solutions/pattern-l...
Natural Gradient Descent (2018)
There are things you can do in larger cities that you can't do in smaller ones. The small-ish city I live in, for instance, has ~145k people in its metro area. There are exactly 5 restaurants that are worth going to; there was not a single sushi place until last year; the best bakery in town is -- of all places -- Aldi, a discount chain; and there is exactly one movie theater that periodically shows foreign movies.

The other big problem is getting to work. I'm lucky to have a remote career. If that was not the case I'd almost certainly need to commute 2-3h/day to the nearest big city.

From a business standpoint it also makes sense to go to where the action is: startups flock to SF because it's full of VC money, talent, and startup-friendly customers. Given this, the tax rate is just a cost of doing business. You almost certainly want an office in that area if you're intent on raising VC money.

As to the State level problems you describe, the US doesn't work like the EU. Part of the EU budget gets poured into its poorer countries and regions. The US equivalent would be to pour federal money into poorer states and counties. I'm not aware of any such direct cash infusions occurring, nor can I imagine any occurring in today's polarized environment. What seems much more likely, is states doing this work within themselves. Also, ND seems to be doing fine:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_highest-income_countie...
Same here, but unfortunately Apple provides no mechanism to do so. Even RoboKiller, a third party app, has limited success with neighborhood spoofing, as it’s called.

I’m perfectly fine with blocking the entire NNN beginning prefix of my number but there appears to be no way to do it (they can only do NNN-NNNN). RoboKiller says it’s a limitation in the iOS API they have access to.
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> lack of oversight

From the article:

> It turns out that the F.A.A., with congressional approval, has “over the years delegated increasing authority to Boeing to take on more of the work of certifying the safety of its own airplanes,”

This ran through Congress. Not that any of them or the bureaucrats at the FAA will face penalty.
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As I've written already ITT, the last thing I would want is for the attacker to receive even a shred of legitimacy - but I nonetheless think parent commenter raises a very good point! Because see, that individual would sure like us to think that Europeans are in some way the "rightful" inhabitants of New Zealand, the place where he carried out his hateful attack. Even a cursory knowledge of history would quickly evince to us just how nonsensical this notion is - yet he happily makes that argument anyway! And we are to believe that this attack was not in fact driven by the most heinous sort of murderous and destructive intent, with "politics" and "ideology" (even of the most radical sort one could possibly imagine) being merely the flimsiest of post-hoc rationalizations?
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Those statements are not mutually exclusive. Cutting down on the plastics we buy might still be one of the most effective things we as consumers can do even if fishing nets are an even bigger problem. Just like buying low-emissions cars might be an effective thing to do as a consumer even if most pollutants are emitted by industry.

The fact is that we need to address both fishing and consumer use. Over-focusing on either one could be seen as distracting from the other, but it's not particularly helpful to bash other environmentally aware people over it. The problem is the people who don't even know or care.
Modern aircrafts do not have a concept of manual control.
Lots of good looking material in here. Thanks for sharing your knowledge.

Semi unrelated, what's up with the script tags on the profile page?