skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Any social sentiment can change with a persistent media campaign lasting 10-15 years, people are impressionable and don't form their own opinions.
Unsealed Michael Cohen, mostly unredacted search warrant documents [pdf]
This is not true, on the released FDR data, it shows clearly that the pilot flying corrected the MCAS system's trim down adjustments at every cycle (each 10 seconds) for most of the level flight. So at least the PF must have been aware of this. It's a bit weird if they didn't talk about it though, maybe it was obvious to both pilots and they were concentrating on if they were keeping altitude and airspeed at all (the most important factors that would keep them flying).
Did the U.S. Just Lose Its War with Huawei?
This is why I refuse to listen to these things when they're released. The thought of eavesdropping in on someone's frantic hopeless fight for survival just doesn't sit right with me.
When pigs fly: optimising bytecode interpreters
The article does mention that they studied subjects who had their "first episode of psychosis". You could still argue a person predisposed to psychosis can become a cannabis user as self-treatment even before their first episode happens, but that would be a stretch unless explicitly proven true.
> That's because it's going to cause frustration in users. I guarantee it.

Which users, exactly?

The ones who don't know what chrome is other than "my google"? Or even, "my internet"?
I don’t understand why this sort of thing doesn’t permit US citizens to seek asylum as political refugees in slightly less fckdup countries.
Sure. PayPal making arbitrary account shut downs is a known.

But is it known that a competitor can kill your business with one short phone to PayPal without you having done anything to violate their TOS?

That seems like it could be the issue here.
>Now they are stuck because they feel they can’t change and have some planes that (dangerously) average the inputs, and some that are physically linked.

This is a really weird way to construe the situation. The accident report doesn't conclude that the handling of dual inputs was a factor, and it's clear from the transcripts that it wasn't. Airbus has no reason to change this.

Merely linking sidesticks would be pointless in any case, since sidesticks don't have an identifiable position (but are used with brief movements away from center). It's hardly any easier for a pilot to passively observe the movements of his own sidestick than it is just to look over at the other pilot's stick.
The same plane had an identical uncontrolled-dive problem
the day before, [...] and somehow that incident didn't
ground the plane or even result in any effective advisory
to the next crew.

This is the problem with the Boeing blame-the-pilots-for-not-switching-the-stab-trim-cutout-switches approach.

If the pilots fear near misses will be called pilot error, and they'll be called incompetent/dangerous or punished for endangering passengers, that would do a lot to discourage near miss reporting.
Protective antibodies also found in premature babies
"particularly frustrated" over a one time question once every 3 years ?

I'm sensing BS here.
guess we dont have the same first link, waiting for someone to archieve.is- it
This isn't email, so I don't see how that is applicable.
Most dev laptops are still running with 8GB.

2GB for a cache that isn't required by alternatives for the same result just feels bad.

And don't get me started into turning build scripts into full blown applications impossible to decipher what is going on without some kind of debugging process.
An iOS audio recorder in 4 lines of code
No, the captain would not, because only one pilot has their hands on the controls in any given instance (with the possible exception of rotation at takeoff).
Which country comes to your mind with high usage of cannabis and not a crisis? Looks like the Netherlands (which came to my mind) has rather low cannabis use.

There also wouldn't be a statistic if people do not report to a doctor about 'hearing voices' for example.

Also the Netherlands has shown the increase in schizophrenia

https://www.who.int/substance_abuse/publications/cannabis_re...

For a deeper discussion see

https://theconversation.com/if-cannabis-is-getting-stronger-...
Sure. But it’s not here now. It’s not a viable alternative to patreon for people who wishes to leave today.

So until that is all sorted out, content-creators are stuck with what they have.
This is significant for one very specific reason. This was not a law that was hastily passed. This was ISPs applying blocks with no real legal threat. I would presume the reason for this is because there is a real fear here that if they didn't act, laws would have been brought in. This is a justified fear, there have been a number of laws brought in over the last 10 years which have caused a significant burden to ISP, most notably of Metadata Retention. The latest Assistance and Access bill drives the point home. Australian legislators are happy to push these bills through without adequate consultation with the stakeholders who will be most affected (monetarily).
It's not really an either/or choice. And it's not really defence.

The vast majority of American personel medically airlifted from the gulf & afghan conflicts, made their first stop "out of theater" in Germany. Not because they weren't wanted in the US, but because it was one third of the distance.

It's very much a logistics network as much as anything else. Consider the US "head office", bases in Germany, Japan, etc become regional warehouses, and forward operations become local hubs.

The one thing the US military really excels at like no other, is force projection. Everyone gets hung up on the "force" part - it's a lot more dramatic, photogenic, holywood, etc - but the "projection" part really can't be overlooked. Armies live and die by their supply lines, and most of the US's bases on friendly territory form the logistics network that are their supply lines.
Neither does post-scarcity economy. Even post-scarcity economy requires finite supply of goods.
There are worse things in cigarettes than nicotine. In a similar way there are worse things in bunker fuel than hydrocarbons.
> There's already two AoA vanes mandatory on every plane

And all Airbus types have three or four. Boeings only have two, even on the 787 ( on which one is vulnerable to damage from jetbridges ).

It is disappointing that a manufacturer would cut corners on sensors for a $100 million aircraft.
Does this mean that I only need a new reject rule in my spam filter?
The Lion Air directive has instructions on page 41 of their preliminary report that include:

5. If the runaway continues after the autopilot is disengaged:

STAB TRIM CUTOUT switches (both) ... CUTOUT
If the runaway continues:
Stabilizer trim wheel .... *Grasp and hold*

This may be an overabundance of caution, or to cover other runaway events, but it reads like "you may need to physically fight the computer even when it has been disabled". Not exactly heartening.

EDIT: A comment below points out haptic feedback to disengage as a reason to grab-and-hold.

https://reports.aviation-safety.net/2018/20181029-0_B38M_PK-...
> Isn't it normal for off-duty pilots to ride in the jump-seat?

Absolutely not, I know several airline pilots and they deadhead in economy seats.
How National Enquirer Got Bezos’ Texts: It Paid $200k to His Lover’s Brother
From the reports I've read it was 2.5 degrees, even though Boeing had produced safety docs to the FAA only mentioning their initial design when they were only applying 0.6 degrees per activation.
Probably because entering a "dangerous nose dive" is the correct way to avoid an impending stall, which is what MCAS is supposed to do.
This type of networking will become more feasible with 5G because it has unlicensed spectrum and better support for radio convergence. 5G home routers might need just little configuration.
Like all the lightbulbs blowing in your house at the same time, they have a lifecycle and since a decent number of them were installed in the same timeframe, they're probably coming due a replacement at the same time ("same time" being the split across the 7 years referenced).

Since you're planning on having a multi-year infra project on the go and getting the expertise rolling, it's probably worth extending it across the network (even the newer ones), as I'd assume there's some economies of scale involved in parts and labour.

Judging by other comments in the thread, they're reaching their natural life.
> doesn't share lost of the performance penalties of Groovy

That's a bit of a myth these days. Groovy may even be more performant than Kotlin when used with static compilation.
Everything can be sold if you can find the right buyer. When it comes to browsers Google is the customer, and users are the product. When doing free open source software, your product can not be the software itself. People don't pay for software, they pay for solutions. What problems are your software solving ? How can you package and sell that solution ? People less smart then you are packaging water and selling it in bottles. A lot have to do with branding.

When going from free to paid, consider the probability that the only reason people use your service is because it's much cheaper then the alternatives.
> Having someone in a Devil costume is going to be scary, confusing or offensive to many people

No it isn't. People sell devil costumes to children for Halloween. Almost no one is confused or scared by the sight of someone in a devil costume, just as almost no one is going to see someone dressed as Thor and actually likely believe the god of thunder is walking among them.
Cynicism is when this self-defence enters a degenerate state. This kind of negative outlook is an actual precursor to various kinds of psychosis widely studied with causal links established. You should check yourself.
It is possible to make 6 figures driving a truck but not very likely.
Debian, Ubuntu and the vast majority of their derivatives use systemd.

Fedora and Red Hat and the vast majority of their derivatives use systemd.

OpenSUSE and SUSE and the vast majority of their derivatives use systemd.

In most production environments bar custom distributions used by Google & co. (and those are a minority), systemd is used, presumably with the systemd resolver.

I'm not sure I'd call all users of commercial Linux distributions "laymen" :)
I'm not sure that's accurate. Other descriptions of the MCAS system state that it will continually modify the trim on the horizontal stabilizer for up to 10 seconds at a time.

http://www.b737.org.uk/mcas.htm
Court: Germany must press US over Yemen drone strikes
I think this perspective on accidents needs far more emphasis.

Many accidents are unavoidable and not the result of some person failing to do some thing.

The world isn't a story, people don't have much agency, and events do not happen because people want them to.

These "narrative explanations" are mythological just-so stories that attribute the complex interaction of systems to individuals, organizations, etc. in naive agency-based ways.
The armed-machines idea is dependent on humans being able to author stable and predictable software.

As time goes by I’m progressively more convinced we’re not capable of that.

It’s quite possible I only believe that in an effort to comfort myself.
But did we have any of them before we invented the shower?
It’s like manual allocate/deallocate. Only that the compiler will insert free (or drop, in case of Rust) for your variables when it reaches end of scope.
Netflix does the same. If I owned my device I suppose I'd be the one to make decision about when I can screenshot and can't.
Court rules Germany failed in duty to protect innocent civilians from US drones
Portugal decriminalised on specifically health grounds and it has been an unmitigated success.

Also the low rates of smoking in NL undermines you because it directly demonstrates that legalisation doesnt lead to high uptake.
> On the server-side, customers use mostly Spring/Spring Boot these days to make Java's overengineered stack usable, using even more over-engineering and metaprogramming.

There was definitely an era of that, but over the past decade or so it's been acknowledged as a problem, and there's been a lot of effort put into making things simpler and more vanilla. Modern Spring is much much closer to plain old code. (Of course it's still possible to write in the XML/setter injection/afterPropertiesSet style, and always will be - that's backward compatibility for you - but it's very possible to migrate existing applications to a better style in place, which very few platforms manage).

> Same with maven/gradle, which turns what should be a developer-focussed build system into an enterprise XML mess.

Maven is pretty close to the perfect build system, it's just taken a while for knowledge and practices to catch up with it. All the stuff people love and praise Cargo for, Maven has been doing for 15+ years.
If a router isn't nearby, the phone will try to find another Volk phone to use as a hop, until it finally reaches a router.

If my volkfi phone is acting as a relay for someone else's phone to hop to an available router isn't that going to run my phone's battery down? That's not going to be a nice experience if I'm unlucky enough to be a relay for a lot of people.
A monopoly on the use of force is the very thing that defines the State
"The nerds hated microsoft for making them pay for an operating system."

The nerds hated microsoft because microsoft was (and still is in many ways) mandatory.

And they remained that by vendor deals, government contracts etc.

So everybody learned in schools on windows computers and with microsoft office and so on and so on.

Thats the reason, not because of money - it was allways easy to crack windows (I believe intentionally, rather a cracked Windows, contributing to the monopoly, than something else)
This has reminded me to enable it on my blog (temporary testing). Thanks @adtac for creating it!
What you're describing there sounds like normal anti-money laundering regulations that they are required to fulfill. Due to the nature of their business there will always be a certain number of cases where they have to investigate and seek documentation to show they're not just mindlessly laundering money, as they scale up those processes will scale up to. In the UK you basically can't deposit money into an online gambling website without submitting a photographic ID - it's just regulation.
Centre for Data Ethics (CDEI) 2 Year Strategy (UK)
it's naive to assume that millions of Germans are not smoking already and that the numbers would rise significant if legalized.
The performance benefit is huge.

I understand not wanting to learn another build tool, but I have no regrets where I've moved to gradle. It's so much faster on a project of any size it's stunning.

90% of maven projects don't do anything terribly complicated. Porting them to gradle leaves them uncomplicated and unexciting. I just wish there was a standard release mechanism. Poor as mavene-release is, at least everybody uses it and understands it.
> How is it responsible to fly it without understanding the issue?

There is not only "the issue" there are a lot of "issues" happening all the time. The problem is even knowing which are "too serious." That the single faulty sensor which didn't affect anything on the previous planes could mean the difference between the life and death was specifically not reported by Boeing.

How it is responsible to certify the plane without properly analyzing the MCAS implementation?

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/19/business/boeing-elaine-ch...

And how it is responsible to claim "everything is OK everywhere" after the two crashes?

https://www.barrons.com/articles/faa-not-grounding-boeing-73...
Yes, this is one example of useful comments. It's just that, for my site, those tended to be over email, which I generally respond to immediately, so it's equivalently useful.

Comment sections are especially good for sites which the author doesn't update, so you can read the correction in the comment.
Moonlight Tower
Looking at the situation in Venezuela, I do often think about Iran. Like, on the surface, they seem to be in a similar situation geopolitically. I would think, that if Venezuelan regime displayed at least the same level of competency as Iranian, they wouldn't have been in such a mess.
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Just use GPG like everybody who knows what they're doing.
Our approach at NYC Mesh is to give each donor of home internet a router which VPNs all mesh traffic through our ASN. This boosts privacy and neutrality for our mesh users, and protects transit donors from their ISP's interpretation of the traffic.
Thats also true for multiple choice tests as opposed to real-world programming.
It was dead the moment they put it on Github. Their blog post[1] claimed:

> E2EMail is not a Google product, it’s now a fully community-driven open source project, to which passionate security engineers from across the industry have already contributed.

But looking at the commit history[2] makes it clear that was not the case at all.

Although this post is by Tutanota (and I can't tell if Tutanota supports PGP), Protonmail does support PGP emails.

1: https://security.googleblog.com/2017/02/e2email-research-pro...

2: https://github.com/e2email-org/e2email/commits/master
I don't think so. You need a non-maxed out mainstream credit card (gift cards or prepaids won't work) and still you're locked out of a lot of functionality (e.g. k8s in AWS) unless you are willing to actually pay. Also any trial period comes with an expiration date. That might be a low barrier but it is not a zero one. I know a lot of people that are still out of cloud due to all that.
The article has a point but do know that Tutanota is using their own custom encryption scheme. I can understand they don't want to support PGP if they have something better but judging from their FAQ [0] they just replicated what PGP already can do [1] [2] effectively reinventing square wheel.

As for browser encryption Mailvelope [3] works and can even use local GnuPG (through NativeMessaging). FlowCrypt [4] is a little bit more tightly integrated with Gmail (through their API).

[0]: https://tutanota.com/faq/#pgp

[1]: "That's why we have developed a solution that is also based on recognized algorithms (RSA and AES) and that automatically encrypts the subject, the content and the attachments."

[2]: https://github.com/autocrypt/memoryhole#memory-hole-protecte...

[3]: https://www.mailvelope.com/en

[4]: https://flowcrypt.com/
That's pretty cool. Last I checked on my own site Disqus downloaded 1.3 MBs of bunch of stuff, which I think is just ridiculous. After caching it's only 2 KBs but it still bothers me - what in the world it's downloading? main.js seems to be 1.2 MBs and the main culprit. EDIT: well that was the ungzipped size, 263 KBs gzipped the CSS was larger with 353 KBs. But however, it works and has a free-tier so I guess it'll do. Maybe one day I'll try this out, but for now I can't be bothered with self-hosting.
Yes, but, its no excuse for relaxing operational rigor. Those who fail to learn from history are doomed to repeat it. And if you repeatedly ignore the lessons of experience then you are to blame.
What is that[0] then?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Attitude_indicator
I second this. Malaysia has a very good level of English, lots of nightlife and you can find a good spot for socialization. The city will probably cost around $1000 a month in food and rent, but I could probably recommend a few places out of the city, which are cheaper and accessible. Feel free to drop me an email.

You can probably save quite a bit and get a good monthly deal through Airbnb.

Bali is quite nice too.

Fair warning: we're facing a crazy heat wave this time of year, but there's plenty of air-conditioning. Take note that the humidity will leave you sweating up to 3 AM without an air conditioner.
> When lights are normally not lit and one lights up a pilot or other machine or plant operator should take notice.

The crew monitor the central EICAS display for fault indications, not random locations around the cockpit.

If you start bolting-on additional check locations you increase crew workload, particularly if it's not a 'dark cockpit' like an Airbus type.
Can’t Trust What Cops and Companies Claim About Automated License Plate Readers
Will this work only for Gmail/Gsuite clients?
What tooling? Being forced to use InteliJ, without any proper support on Eclipse and Netbeans?

Still not able to use several of Android Studio features available to Java, like incremental compilation and slim APKs?

Kotlin advocates seem to forget JVM will never be rewritten in Kotlin, the language is just yet another guest, with the usual syndrome to wrap existing libraries, having to take care about FFI for Java access, not having all features taking advatange of the latest bytecodes, e.g. lambdas implementation.

As for Kotlin/Native, there is nothing to worry about versus what Go, Rust, C++, Dart, D, Nim offer in terms of performance, libraries and in some cases tooling.

Having to buy CLion for a graphical debugger isn't a selling point versus the established alternatives.

Fuchsia is being written in Go, Rust, C++ and Dart, with the team now hiring for node.js support.

https://www.androidpolice.com/2019/03/19/google-working-to-b...
> What if yourcommandhere is shell syntax, like "for x in *.foo; do echo $foo; done"

Then you readdir, loop, println. no need to use the shell

> You said that Rust doesn't have a library function for calling the shell but only process execution; I'm showing how you make one in such a situation.

You're stating the obvious.

My point was that it has no footgun which automatically defers to the shell or does shell-like argument extraction from a single string when spawning child processes. Other languages have those things in their standard library which is a source of errors that rust avoids.
It does provide a regular gun which you can repurposed as a make-shift footgun by taking the conscious action of aiming down first.
Please don't use spaces to quote text. It makes it unreadable for some people.

https://imgur.com/a/jxVHTM7
From Shock to Awe: Documentary about PTSD Treatment with Ayahuasca and MDMA
> While it is possible to encrypt certain emails in Gmail with GPG, Google can still read all email meta-data such as email addresses and subject lines. Better use a Gmail alternative that encrypts your entire mailbox and contacts automatically.

This is nonsense. Any email service will be able to see the recipients (and senders) of your messages, because that's how email works. Subject lines too, again, because that's how email works.

E2E encryption of email is a good thing, GPG is hard. These things have be true forever.
A jury of your “peers” isn’t a jury of hacker news readers.

I’ve been on one jury, and I wouldn’t say the outcome of their deliberation was random, but it may as well have been.
Scooter Companies Split on Giving Real-Time Location Data to Los Angeles
Do we know, exactly, how much of the 737 Max 8's flight envelope was lost compared to earlier models? I'm getting the feeling that the instability happens far closer to the regular maneuvering envelope than is being alluded to in the press.