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Can you provide some concrete evidence to back up your claim that unions treat everyone the same? Unions exist in hundreds of occupations in the US that have clear career progression. Police, teachers, pro athletes, pilots, manufacturing, and many many more utilize unions for labor negotiations.

I don’t buy this sweeping generalization argument at all.
are you kidding? do you know how many subsystems that people take for granted are using UNIX? furthermore, how do you get simpler than UNIX? it's not complex..
They're too vulnerable to fly during the day because they're so big and fly so low.
It's also worth noting that the noted stoic philosopher and emperor Marcus Aurelius had completely worthless personal relationships, especially a son who ended up being remarkably poorly-raised. I saw a lot of folks who adhered to stoicism raise their kids very poorly: I don't know whether that's correlation (I think proximate causal factor is never seeing their kids) or causation.
How about a version of this that just uses a’s (or A’s), based on the number of a’s in the URL?
That's a bit of a misunderstanding. MCAS is needed to satisfy the certification requirements for an aircraft under part 25. It only makes the 737 Max more like the 737NG in that it also makes it more like any other certified aircraft.

To put it another way, the alternative to MCAS was not more training for the pilots. It was the 737 Max not passing certification.
Seems like a lot of money for dog toys.
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PPP is worthless for a business. i totally agree. that's why i was asking the parent comment about what does "rich" mean for him.

but I agree with you that from a business perspective the US is de facto the place to be.
The 'replacement specs' supposedly exist in an unofficial capacity:

* https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/17236/a-10-replacement...

An older article talking about the current Warthog limitations and what a "Warthog 2.0" should have:

* https://warisboring.com/what-will-the-next-a-10-warthog-look...
* https://nationalinterest.org/blog/the-buzz/mcsallys-case-let...
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>good engineers will step out of their box

Malignant cultures can do a lot to reduce this. The platonic ideal engineer will cross any number of organizational boundaries to deliver a needed piece of information, but there can be a lot of pressure to leave those boundaries un-crossed. Depending on how political the organization is, a strange engineer (or their manager) dropping in from nowhere to tell you a mistake was made may even be seen as a bad thing.
The problem isn't whether there is "a" way; the problem is there's a multiplicity of ways and we don't know what the best one is. Part of the reason we don't have any idea what the best is is that we can't even construct any of them from a real brain, that is, the "brain scanning" technology the techno-rapture-style Singularity expects to develop does not even remotely exist right now. So we have nothing to experiment with or gain any experience with. The only ones we'd even remotely have access to right now would be some rather brute-force encoding of neurons and connectivity strengths and we pretty much know that such a thing must be incredibly redundant, but we have no ability right now to remove that redundancy. And we can't do it on a very large neural set.

It has been done on small models, though, at least to some significant extent: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenWorm
Somewhat off-topic but this has been bothering me: Several years ago I was in a program review and ended up in an argument with the lead Boeing software QA person for a particular group. The disagreement was because the person made a blanket statement that their QA process ensures there are no defects in their flight software. My response was that such a statement is absurd and that all software beyond some minimal complexity has defects. (A statement that I still agree with even though it is hyperbolic.) None of this has any direct relationship to the 737 Max issues as this wasn't even an airplane program but I think it points to what might be a cultural flaw if this attitude is widespread.
I’ve assisted to a speech/demonstration by an employee in my lab and while the system was nice in principe the non-openess and internationalization let me a meh impression. It is used in Mongolia by the country post so it addresses a real problem but concerns rising in the blog post are real.
I had never heard of this until I read the criticism, maybe this is some kind of corollary to the Streisand Effect.

Also, it looks right up there with Swatch Internet Time.
The only "Kong" I know of is the one that makes rubber pet toys. I was very confused when I read this headline.
I had noticed it, but the voice sounds female to me even when dragging the bubble way down into the "male" region.

Dragging it all the way down left sounds like a woman with a deep voice.
How did you read negative emotions into that? Most of it was "oh, cool! I wonder if..." or something like that.
We need a viable 3rd alternative.
Well that sure makes my pneumatic tired hobby seem financially sound.
Not exactly the same thing. A 35 year old in 1981 would have entered college in 1964; "computer designer" would not have been a career path most people would have been familiar with. The entire field was relatively new, so it of course tended to trend younger. We tend to forget that virtually the entire history of our industry fits in one human lifetime.
> psuedo-iron-age

It's not, it's just phonetic transcription of modern urban English with some SMS-style typing errors thrown in.

Really disappointed with the crappy low-effort linguistics in that book.
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No. We still have a poor understanding of the exact way neurons code information and store information.

This page shows some of the current theories: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neural_coding#Hypothesized_cod...
Don't fool yourself into thinking US allies are unilaterally wanting the F35. There's heavy lobbying and strategic pressure underneath.

If on only one example, in the recent Belgian Tender (which led to adoption of the F35) appeared a wholly new operational requirement for the Air Force to do stealth-requiring missions, such as SEAD (suppression of enemy air defense) [1]. Up to then, the Belgian Air force was not trained nor expected to do such aggressive undertakings. It seems this requirement came from NATO.

[1] https://www.latribune.fr/entreprises-finance/industrie/aeron...

PS : Apologies for my source being in french, there might be some english versions of the story somewhere. The guy reporting the story is Stavros Kelepouris.
The OWASP definition is correct. The gist of a MITM is that each end of the transmission trusts that the malicious actor in the middle is the target destination. When this occurs at the application layer it is almost universally centered on encryption. Keep in mind that in TCP/OSI terms the web is an application riding the internet. Without encryption how do you trust that the destination is who they claim to be?

MITM can occur on routers if the router is compromised by someone malicious or if it lacks integrity from the service provider. Routers are layer 3 devices that connect different networks. If a router is compromised so that traffic is sent to a different network with spoofed domains and content. One resolution is that form of attack is IPSEC. IPSEC is not often used across the public internet, because much of the public internet is still IPv4 and still reliant on NAT and PAT to compensate for a shortage of IP addresses.

Even more rare than that is certificate spoofing. This is hard to execute, which is why public certificates are usually good for as long as a year, but it does occasionally happen. This is why there are certificate revocation procedures.
What if it doesn't? I can see two ways in which they risk ending up with "major" problems

- They need to make changes that means it's no longer a 737 for certification.

- They need to make changes that delay production and even mean recalls of built plane, say moving engines rearward which in turn would mean big airframe/landing gear changes to manage ground clearance. These would be very expensive, cause tons of cancelled orders, and possibly also cause the same issue with certification as the above.

Any of those chnages would maybe kill the whole MAX program. And that would leave Boeing without a competitive plane in the most common class?
Is this a possibility?
https://developer.android.com/reference/android/view/WindowM...
No, 200% APY in waves is expected as it becomes the reserve currency. Then it grows in value at a rate equal to the growth in productivity, closer to 0%.

States think positive inflation is good, because it's a hidden tax that they profit from. I think 0% inflation is better for all participants.

Yes, I think growth in waves is a great start for a money. Same thing happened with salt, gold, and other commodity monies.
> Seems odd to define a thing by how it's packaged and consumed rather than the content itself.

You mean like TV shows? And radio shows? And newspaper comics?
Exactly... it's not clear if the author of the article is even an engineer, and he's speaking authoritatively on something. good engineer doesn't even speak authoritatively outside their specific area of expertise.

And the author's source is someone who is not an aeronautical engineer and has never flown any airliners apparently.

As a software engineer, I would never consider myself qualified to declare an airframe good or bad.
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In general terms, what was it?
When is a startup no longer a startup?
I know this sounds like one of those useless philosophical questions - bear with me.

I returned yesterday from a job interview. My wife, who is naturally skeptical, asked how it went. "Well, they're a Series A startup. Maybe 50 people. The problem they're solving is really interesting..."

She immediately gave me the stinkeye upon the mention of the funding, then said "OK, fine. Whatever. So when does a startup quit being a startup? Is it when they get (insert eyeroll here) Series Z funding? What's the definition?"

I'm not really expecting an answer. I'm more interested in the points at which HN readers realized that their shiny new company was no longer shiny.

Honest question. Thanks for your thoughts.
> There is no problem with a voice assistant sounding male or female; what's the problem with some other voice assistant sounding genderless?

This is literally the whole problem. It's less that it's genderless in a robotic sense and more that it's a hybrid manipulation of actual voices. It just sounds wrong.

> Maybe you're used to all people sounding male or female, so sounding like neither seems unfamiliar.

Maybe so. We try to make our robots imitate humans, so of course they sound male or female. From what the website said, it might also be flipping between. But even if I am just used to it, so what? That's how I'd prefer my voice assistant to sound, if I ever got one. It's nobody's place to tell me what I should prefer, or say I need to get some creepy-sounding thing just to be woke.
If we put a cockpit and a pilot in it the X43A would have broken the crewed record at Mach 9.6 back in '04 but there was no need because we have computer controls now for these test flights and there's not a huge number of uses for having pilots in these insanely fast planes partially because they're just so insanely fast.

I think the hypersonic planes will all be drone munition delivery (or just munitions themselves) for a long time. Maybe some day they'll carry people but there's no supersonic aviation much less hypersonic and even then the piloting at speed will probably be all automated.
I was really keen on the Awair, but the necessity to be connected to wifi to function was a deal killer for me.
From what I've seen this will never change which is disappointing.
There is another big problem with W3W that Terence doesn’t mention: it isn’t scalar.

From another W3W-criticism blog post (https://mwfrost.com/space-is-scalar.html):

“An addressing system is successful insofar as it enables us to execute the suite of cognitive tasks that constitute navigation. Associating a destination with its location on the earth is only one of these chores.

“If you have a powerful computer in your pocket, and you want to use your brain to remember and then use your voice or a text message to share a geographic location with someone else who also has a powerful pocket computer, what3words has got you covered. If you want to infer how far that location is from another location, or which roads might connect to it, you are out of luck. Building an addressing system is difficult, expensive work specifically because legitimate addresses embed so many levels of hierarchical categories and scalar proportions for us. Remembering coordinate locations is cognitively burdensome, but the signifiers retain some meaning relative to one another. You can tell the search and rescue team that you’ve twisted your ankle at ringleader.kilt.comedians, but as soon as you’ve moved 3 meters east, you’re at since.duplicates.backswing, and the technologically-enhanced mnemonic crutch has exhausted its usefulness. Augmenting one cognitive task in a manner that debilitates the constellation of surrounding faculties is not the right way to apply technology to our problems.”
The emojis one have the nice property that close addresses share some words.
Sure, it wasn't a thing yet. You could probably also say there were only 14 social media influencers back then too.

In all seriousness it has been common for a long time for attorneys who are solo-practitioners to share an office front and receptionist, but nobody ever called it a co-working space.
If you don't think employees matter, that is an issue.

It is overly reductionist to say that a company exists solely for the benefit of the shareholders. Such a model is a rather incomplete description of reality.
There's a private car club that does daily runs on one of the commuter rails lines in Chicago. I used to see it from time to time when my commute took my over the line it's on.
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Maybe they'll start mandating a half-decent device security update policy in the name of security. I've had a few too many two year old devices stop getting updates.
I don't quite understand this move? Was there a big issue with founders getting accepted for an interview but then not being able to travel to the US for the interview?
A day in the life of an Indian tech guy - excitingly clicks a HackerNews link relevant to India - "YC Interviews in India"!

Finds a flame war on Bangalore vs Bangaluru - wait what?

True Story!!
Well , besides Rust currently I would consider Nim , the core team there is getting many things right .
Yup, you have to sort of go on offense I think and say "I've got experience, that's an asset, here is why."
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Thank you so much for that list of tech to check out! There are clear limitations with tone.js (mainly me not understanding js syntactic sugar) . I'll check out algoraves too thank you again!
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Same-level railways crossings are increasingly rare in Netherland. It's safer and less disruptive to have trains elevated a level above the car traffic. Tunnels are only useful when they have to go through extreme dense areas where there's no room for rails above ground, like in city centers.
Yep, and the same can be said for “real engineers”. Most EEs, civil engineers, etc work on boring stuff as well with negligible risk of doing any harm.
Hassled for the rest of your days is a bit much. You email, send them a letter or call them or I think there is actually a website that you can register on which remove's them questioning you needing the license or not. I did it and i've not heard from them since. Not exactly rocket science.
F-35 is far more capable than the Gripen and only costs around twice as much.

In a war with Russia, there is no amount of fighter planes that would keep Denmark safe. Russia has nuclear weapons. Denmark is just too small to do it without the rest of NATO. Buying the F-35 maybe helps coordination with other NATO countries?
Well, good for them - now can I log on with Firefox again? Somehow, in the last few months whenever I try with FF I get redirected to an openid xml file...
But the article's point is that its social ethos consists of just justifying the way things are. Two millenia later, we figured out that we can improve many of the way things were, we nearly abolished chattel slavery, we abolished a few diseases, we replaced debt slavery with bankruptcy...
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> By deplatforming these people and driving them further underground and paranoid, we limit their ability to attract people through social media, for fear of exposure.

Do you have any evidence to support that statement? Would you expand on why you think so? I would estimate that by driving them more underground, you make them seem more cool in the eyes of angry teenagers. You also make them more radical because underground their opinions are not exposed to contradicting views. In my opinion, we should do exactly the opposite - we should give them platform to speak and oppose them. Isn't that what open society is about?
I've never used Ada, but some of the graybeards I talk to have said that it's sort of like a predecessor to Rust, at least in some of the same concepts of safety with an emphasis on performance.

With the risk of having my foot planted in my mouth, how "systems-ey" is Ada? Could I conceivably write an OS in nothing but Ada (and obviously a bit of assembly to kickstart it), similar to something like Redox-OS in Rust?
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These guys are test pilots and engineers who have thousands and thousands of hours of flight time and have actually flown the F-35.

They can't possibly know what they're talking about, so this must just be a PR piece to cover up how horrible this aircraft is.

It would be so much more credible if they just interviewed a non-pilot/non-engineer tech journalist who can tell us the truth.

/sarcasm
The stick shaker is driven from the angle-of-attack system, not airspeed, because that's the least difference between physical world (the wing stalls at an angle of attack, not an airspeed). In this case, the differential stick shaker may have provided an additional clue to the crew. While I'm generally critical of the crew training and performance, particularly the Ethiopian Air crew, even I can't reasonably hang missing the differential shaker indication on the crew.

Your last paragraph raises an excellent point, and one which points to the need to put fully trained, but equally importantly fully seasoned, crews into large transport aircraft in passenger service.

(some) People in aviation cried about the implementation of the 1500 hour requirement to get an ATP (Airline Transport Pilot) certificate after the Colgan Air crash in Buffalo. To me, these two accidents [and others outside of US/Western European carriers] show the wisdom in that decision, especially the most recent one. I have right on either side of 1500 hours (all but 20 in piston airplanes, about 4 hours in 737 level D sim) over a 21 year span. If I went to and passed a type rating school now, I'd hold myself barely qualified to do the walkaround when it's raining, sit right seat, run the radios, carry the captain's bag, and eat whichever meal she didn't want.

350 hours is not an appropriate time (IMO) to have a front-seat position in a transport jet flying passengers.
Just how many 30mm shells do you think modern tank armor can withstand? The A10 carries a lot of ammo, all to be fired at the same spot.

Also, a tank without optics and sensors is pretty damn useless.
ohhhhh you betcha.

https://amiunique.org/

i ran this on my work laptop (windows 10 / firefox - mostly default settings). the "details" tab shows a full breakdown of each fingerprinting component with a "similarity ratio" (percentage of fingerprints that share the same value).

every entry is 20% or greater, most of them around 50% except for timezone (4%), canvas (1%), and user agent (0.12%).

so, yeah, user agents are still the largest source of entropy by a wide margin for fingerprinting scripts.
Agreed. Media queries need to be improved though. There are no good media queries to detect "touch screen" and/or "no keyboard or mouse/pointer, only touch screen", only JS hacks that attempt it. This can matter. But yes, improving media query (or input method query?) APIs for both CSS and JS is, I agree, the correct solution to User-Agent madness. It's just not entirely straightforward or obvious or easy, and as always getting all browsers on the same page is an issue.
Aaah, no. Thanks.
> ensures there are no defects in their flight software.

"Testing only proves the presence of defects, not the absence"

However, I think you are talking past each other here. The person you taled to was likely defining "no defects" to mean "all 1000 boxes ticked on the spec/testing protocol". They should call it "known defects".
What's this about "engineering incompetence", "engineering ethics" and "“cultural laziness” within the software development community"?

Do we have any reason not to believe that management is at fault? That management forced engineering to do things quicker/cheaper and cut corners and hack out a solution in those interests?
Something for the younger generations to look forward to.
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We have a new house--about a year old now--here in Texas with all the efficiency and insulation stuff. I noticed after working in my office with the door and windows closed I didn't feel so good after awhile.

I got one of those trendy Awair monitors and stuck it on my desk and hooked up the iPhone app. And sure enough, when I started not feeling well it was because the CO2 was over 1500 ppm.

I don't know about the accuracy of the actual CO2 measurement, but I figure the delta is at least good enough to spot trends. And yeah, those times I don't feel well is always associated with a rise of CO2. I "fix" it by either opening the door and/or window or running the fan of the central air system. Our system also has a "bleed air" adjustment for outside air. I turned that up a bit, too.

The Awair also does "chemicals" and PM2.5. I'm surprised our new house doesn't an issues with those, but I do see PM2.5 go up when the window in my office is open and "chemicals" fluctuates throughout the day but at a low level. I'm not exactly sure what "chemicals" means in this context; I haven't really looked into it yet.

You might consider the Awair; I've been happy with it. I have several thousand systems that need tending at work and, same as you, I don't need to come home and do more. My wife's Windows gaming rig needs enough of that as it is...
Nice write-up!
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It's odd to call the airframe "faulty" when (a) it flies and (b) the FAA requirements for positive static stability in the airframe itself don't forbid the 737 MAX from being flown.

Does the author mean the FAA airframe acceptance criteria are faulty?
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Is gatekeeping like this necessary?
True, but when have you heard a test pilot criticising his employer while still having an active career?