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> Boeing was able to gain FAA approval for the MCAS system with one angle of attack sensor and pilots as backup.

Over the years I've designed/ implemented small scale industrial systems and whenever there was an important set of data to be read in via sensors, there'd always be a backup, or ideally triple redundancy. Sensors are cheap & using multiple can simplify a whole lot of issues.

Even once, I made an uber simple 'level' sensor on a front end loader (using two slightly rotated Mercury switches). It's only time I didn't consider redundancy, because it was not important at all if it failed.

What I don't get is how the engineers at Boeing didn't use redundant sensors. Have I misunderstood something? I just assumed that working on aircraft means that something like sensor failure should be baked into all decisions and implementations because of the -ve ramifications of things going wrong: like 2 planes dropping out of the sky!
How exactly would anyone in the EU prosecute someone outside of it for running their own website if that individual does so outside of the EU and does not have any organization or company they are affiliated with. Just because something is accessible from the EU does not make it under their jurisdiction to police.
Yes. If the organisation/company/service is processing the data of the users, GDPR applies.

https://gdprexplained.eu/who-has-to-comply/
The EU is not a monetary union, the EMU is. The UK is not a member of the EMU and never has to be.
The teeth is what bothers me
As I understand it using FIDO (including FIDO2) for SSH requires some pretty heavy lifting at the protocol layer.

FIDO tokens only want to do two things: Provide you with a cookie and a public key, then later as often as necessary take a cookie and give you proof they still know the associated private key. Very narrowly conceived, on purpose.

SSH public key auth has the client start by proposing "OK, I can prove I know key X" and then the server either says "Fine, do that then" or "No, what else do you have?". An out of box OpenSSH server decides which to do by examining the ~/.ssh/authorized_keys file. A FIDO token needs the _server_ to begin by saying "OK, here's a cookie, can you prove you know the corresponding private key?" so that it can get the cookie, otherwise it can't prove anything.
Well for polyphony the "which note goes where" issue could, with creative sequencing, be solved by using different channels for each individual note to override the synthesizer's configured behavior [also enabling the use of simple pitch bends for the effect] - but I guess any good solution here will end up requiring even more hardware or software to allow this [it looks like this is essentially the goal of MPE] and, as you imply, arguably be a "nonstandard hack". But music IMHO is often about finding value and personal expression in the nonstandard along with the standard (perhaps I'm a little biased from too much jazz, because admittedly this isn't the case for all players in all styles). And musicians have certainly employed MIDI to use these techniques for decades.

Regardless of my possibly misguided attempts at defending a 36-year-old spec, I absolutely still agree with you, however, that an improved standard could certainly make having more creative control simpler and easier, requiring fewer "hacks".
Congrats on the recent PS4 release! I’ve been a fan of PoE since closed beta.
Which is still nothing compared to the increase in Boeing’s market cap since some three years ago.
As someone who's done a bunch of human factors design training for critical situations in a previous career as a UI/UX designer and now works as a systems engineer doing a bunch of alerting, 40 seconds is too short of a time to troubleshoot the issue.

When this situation happens, five things happen at once. MASTER CAUTION (whoop, whoop noises and a big red light!), ALT DISAGREE alert on the MFD, Incorrect Airspeed on the MFD, the stick shaker goes off, and by the way, if you take the time to look down at the throttle section of the dashboard with all those other alerts going off, you'd see that there is suddenly a lot of trim on the APL trim indicator but the trim wheel doesn't actually move (which would provide an audible 'click click click' that would probably trigger that there was a problem with trim.

Each of those things has a separate memory checklist that you have to run down, and subtract ten seconds to register them, prioritize, communicate with the other pilot, and start executing them.

The worst part here is that they've added another alert and then changed how the airplane will fly in the middle of an emergency. While the extra alert narrows down the number of branches from the "prioritization" part of the checklist, I'm not sure that's "fixing" the problem.
You’re replying with a discussion of sovereignty in response to a parent that’s discussing trade deals.

Braxit was generally sold on two main pillars: sovereignty and making vastly better trade deals. Sure, there are sovereignty issues that make sense to drive Brexit, but it is the second pillar that never made sense.

The U.K. is not a very large country by itself (no longer a global empire) so it is puzzling at best to think that the rest of the world is dying to give it amazing trade deals. The U.K. has friends who would be happy to trade with it, but a market 1/10th the size of the EU is unlikely to get many trade deals that are better than the EU.
A Step Towards Compiling TypeScript to Native Machine Code
Some servers, and some clients, only support one of them. I’ve run into servers without sftp and subsequently stopped using it, as scp always works.

Also rsync does not exist on windows, for instance git bash has only scp AFAIK.
Mapping one's infrastructure is pretty common parlance. It's not even a pun, really.
A Story of Rust at Zalando
That 40 second quote is a bit misleading. As I understand it, if the pilots do absolutely nothing then they only have 40 seconds until MCAS has adjusted the trim the maximum amount. But the Lion Air flight flew for several minutes with the MCAS firing; the pilot manually counter-intervened each time. It was only when he handed control to a co-pilot that the plane nosedived. Theoretically they could have flown indefinitely while they debugged the problem.
Kevin Lynch's The Image of the City is the classic work on cognitive maps of urban environments. It's influenced a lot of the good urban planning in the US over the last fifty years (i.e. Ed Logue not Robert Moses).

http://www.miguelangelmartinez.net/IMG/pdf/1960_Kevin_Lynch_...
> Any competitor wanting to get its foot in the door would only need to pay Google enough money to get itself listed there (which is to say, Google can enter this market for free whenever it wants to). N

That assumes that the feature in Maps not only exists but is widely used by consumers in preference to individual service apps; my impression is that that is not really the case.
It depends. Every case needs to be analyzed and calculated the costs.
Too bad there’s no rsync for windows
The atmosphere is totally unhealthy, wages stagnate or fall for most of workers, and there is no optimism for the future.

In some areas Russia still becomes a better place to live, but if you compare it to Europe proper it still lacks in so many ways and the gap is not closing anytime soon, if not getting wider.

And the only news which come is about new restrictions on public life and political free speech.

As my colleague said to me 5 years back, "all of my canaries are now dead"
Ask HN: Is GitHub excluded from european internet upload filters?
Art13 exception is only valid for 'open source' code hosting platforms:

https://juliareda.eu/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/Copyright_Final_compromise.pdf

"Providers of services such as not-for profit online encyclopedias, not-for profit educational
and scientific repositories, open source software developing and sharing platforms, electronic
communication service providers as defined in Directive 2018/1972 establishing the European
Electronic Communication Code, online marketplaces and business-to business cloud services
and cloud services which allow users to upload content for their own use shall not be
considered online content sharing service providers within the meaning of this Directive.
"

Considering that Github has many repos without an open source LICENSE file, does Github have to install copyright filters?
> was frankly actually undemocratic

The referendum was infinitely more democratic than the decision to join the EU, which was taken by PM John Major and his colleagues when they signed the Maastricht Treaty in 1992.

No-one asked the people.
There should be a ranked or Condorcet vote and the winner should be enacted. It should have happened a year ago at least.

I agree, but how many legislatures around the world actually work like that? Certainly not the UK or USA.

Who knows, maybe this fiasco will spur on voting reform in the UK parliament! Apparently they already use STV for committee positions, so it’s not unthinkable. I thought Wednesday’s use of approval voting in the main House was a very promising step in the right direction.
> This works to some extent, but does not account for consciousness.

True, although consciousness itself is rather poorly defined. There are also other related issues like qualia. But I'm not sure it needs to 'account' for those things. To observe that there are certain mental phenomena that are evident at different scales.

> A mind, at the very least a moment of experience, is a coherent whole.

That rather assumes your conclusion. In the example of a divided brain, a stimuli may be presented to only half the brain. How would one know whether one's experience of 'coherent whole'ness was accurate?

> Thinking of neurons as entirely discrete units makes the binding problem insoluble.

No more than thinking of base pairs in your DNA as discrete units makes higher order phylogenesis insoluble. To recognise that discrete units are simple does not mean that large aggregates of them cannot display fundamentally different dynamics.
sure, but there were other forms of cooperation before. UK joined EEC in 1975. It's not like there were sovereign countries and all of the sudden in 1993 they decided to create European Union.

Also one cannot forget why EU and ancestors was created. To avoid another war in Europe and in my opinion it was pretty successful.
Well... unlike with Russia, Americans could actually vote Trump out if they wanted to.
Interesting. I always found Django so much more productive than rails due to the auto admin panel being out of the box. If I’m starting something new than its nice to have a place for non devs to enter data immediately.

Both do quite a bit better for cleanliness and setup time than any of the other platforms I’ve used for web development.
A few weeks ago I was in Basel, Switzerland, which is uniquely positioned at the cross of the Swiss, German and French borders.

There are suburbs of the city that are in German and French territory: Basel trams and buses will get to either side, with no notice you are crossing a national border.

You can cross the Rhine from Weil am Rhein (Germany) to Huningue (France) through a footbridge, with the only thing marking the cross being a German and French flags side by side, on the French side of the river.

https://en.radreisen.at/data/thumbs/_data_pic_Frankreich_Reg...

No border, no checks, even normal police nowhere to be seen. 75 years ago (and pretty much over the course of their history) these two countries were at bitter war between themselves.

I cannot fathom why people would do anything that could cause returning to those times a possibility.

As flawed the EU is, it has been instrumental in ensuring decades of peace. The (partial but undoubtful) loss of sovereignity for individual members should be considered a fair price to pay.

"Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it."
The idea that the U.K. was getting used is an interesting one considering they are the only one who get/got a rebate on their EU contributions: relative to their GDP the U.K. is/was objectively paying less than other members (when looking st the last couple of decades - the U.K. was struggling economically when the rebate was negotiated).
Right, they wanted to keep the type rating but it clear flies differently and now we have two crashes and hundreds dead.
I've been saying for a long time is that plastic bags were the single most important factor in the decrease of infectious and mold-caused diseases in the 20th century. Storing food in containers like paper bags that are easily penetrated by bacteria and spores is pure stupidity. Along with the prevalence of anti-vaxers, I won't be surprised if California will become the least healthy place on earth in the near future.
Fulcro do everything that "relay" do, but:

1- you can (and it's easy) to manage the state when you need

2- operate with multiple remotes

3- talk with graphql remotes (using pathom on client)

4- easily talk with many rest remotes (using pathom on
client, or create a pathom server)

5- use the components on server(JVM or Node) to SSR

6- easily use any npm deps (shadow-cljs should help), including any react component lib

7- share client and server mutations on the same file (via clojure reader macros)

...
Beginner's Guide to Postgres Database Server with Docker and Flask
Have you talked with any stake holders in a hospital? They each tend to have their own requirements for deployment. Most likely you will have to operate on premise.

Beyond HIPAA, if you intend to recommend treatment, you need FDA approval.

I'm currently working on the DevOps for a competitor of yours, ML models in the hospital, moving towards a marketplace and ecosystem. Fun stuff because in some hospitals, you can't even get remote access. Everything installs from a USB stick.
Start with Hawaii instead of Florida. Maybe having a different policy might make more sense because they are so close to China, Brazil sort of.
That's just hand waving. If the duration increases it makes absolutely no sense not to attempt to get the cheapest way to manage the condition.

People do it all the time if they are on a hook for payments -- that's why we have drugs being grey important from Canada, Europe and India, especially if those drugs are not covered by the US insurance. Suddenly saving $200/mo per type of a pill becomes important. As soon as it is covered by insurance it becomes "Whatever, insurance pays"
1. It depends. If I’m learning a new framework, language, or technology, I’ll generally watch a video to get an overview. This will generally tell me the what. When I start working, I might not remember the how but I’ll look that up. Whether it’s fair or not, a lot of companies look down on learning on the job - especially watching a video. I’ll ususlly watch videos at home and just read docs for specifics at work. Most of the time you can cobble together the template of a solution from code you find on line and modify it if you know what you are looking for.

2. The poster said “Their work is good...”. If their work is good, why does it matter the how?
>>could have such dramatic consequences was frankly actually undemocratic

The consequences of joining were far less dramatic than the consequences of suddenly leaving.
India’s strike on Balakot: a precise miss?
Ironically I think that would be coincidence: http://www.isitironic.com/
I think that the article is missing the point of what it was about and what was learned from it, maybe 'Steve Bannon' isn't what was needed.

A better primer on the BBC news website:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/magazine-41151951/building-a-n...

An interview with one of the participants, clearly she learned a new perspective concerning her place in the world.

Originally it was told by the media as a project for a prototype space colony. There are those with ambitions to get humans living on Mars and beyond, but it is not going to be as easy as sci-fi ideas of the 1950's would lead us to believe.

I would say Biosphere-2 was actually a really good experiment even though it is mocked for the lack of any good science. We learn a lot through follies, the delusions of grandeur that others have and how naive we once were.

What I would like to see is some original press from 1991 with the likes of BBC's Tomorrow's World or Horizon presenting the thing seriously, particularly when it comes to 'Space Colony'.
The Death of External Storage: Where's Google?
> The way security and surveillance is developing globally is incredibly worrying.

It's always been that way. We're just more aware of it lately.
This is a really bold statement that sounds like it’s coming from someone who is afraid that their knowledge of C++ is going to be obsoleted in a few years.

C++ 17 is still a mess. You still lack a proper package manager, type constraints, modules, sane lookup rules for function calls, thread safety, a proper monastic future type, I could go on.

Also most people won’t see C++ 17 or 14 for another decade. Even if the language decides to start bolting on more features the ecosystem is still very slow.
> I cannot fathom why people would do anything that could cause returning to those times a possibility

What has Brexit got to do with that?
If the ranked vote produces a clear winner, I think the hope would be that (given the short deadlines and immense public pressure) it would fairly easily pass a straight aye/no vote too. Why would a majority want to vote it down? To the contrary, you’d expect some naysayers to switch just to get it over with and to end up on the winning side.

It’s slightly risky but overall seems like a reasonable approach to me, in the circumstances.
Ah ok, it reads like you claimed your tweet speculates something similar to mikekchar's comment - that it's largely a currency trading scam.
> Also, I've never heard of it prior to today. Who uses this crap?

That is the darkest most evil sentiment to any product manager. It basically says a person cannot form an independent opinion and looks to their neighbor to derive credibility. If enough people think that way new ideas never enter the market. This is the opposite of merit.
I agree completely.

I simply believe that not becoming broke by a scheduled or unscheduled medical procedure is a human right and it's realistic to achieve. I'm not saying it should be free - I pay quite a bit of medical insurance to the state, but it's mostly transparent as it's included in the income tax deductions.
Oh, in Israel getting a doctor checkup or an ECG is free and most gyms don't have doctors or even a nurse (all gym instructors must get CPR certification though).
They were probably just testing the thrust it puts out in that atmosphere by measuring the force applied to the tether.

They could also test the stability by trying to maintain a constant force on the tether (by not simply pulling as hard as possible), but I imagine they have different ways to test stability.
A major factor in this is that they were told that this plane flies exactly the same as the previous 737. If you do the same "right" things you always do, how are supposed to know things are going badly when you've been lied to from the jump?
A dedicated team? Of course not.

But it's still worthwhile to protect oneself from being an easy target for a system which just scoops anything interesting off the disk it's installed on.
I'd not be that sure. My son (then 5 or 6 years old) managed to insert a CD exactly into the gap between two devices on a tower. He insisted on having the CD inserted although the CD player apparently was empty. It took me a while to figure this one out.
Well, if we are talking about IT specialists, it's becoming really worrisome that if you don't leave now you 1) won't be able to in the future 2) won't have the same work environment you are used to inside the country. For context, recent attempt at blocking telegram resulted in blanket bans of hosters networks like aws and digitalocean, some of those include IT sites. None of those have been lifted since btw. Now there is also talk of intranet isolation which a lot of people think has nothing to do with external threats, but instead is intended to control and block more of the resources for russian people. It is common knowledge that every provider is required to install government sanction devices(сорм) that route traffic through itself. Yeah and they started requiring vpn providers to block the sites they ask them to, or get blocked themselves.
clojure project from 2015
http://ctford.github.io/klangmeister/
> You can avoid Huawei devices because it's easy to say "this brand is bad."

You know for a fact not a single packet any of your devices have sent or received have traversed a Huawei device?
Show HN: GNUplot with sixel – Mix images, ANSI colors and plots
On Being a Free Software Maintainer
DragonFly uses git but it's only a package like chromium or xfce.
The full preliminary report from the LionAir crash is here:

https://www.flightradar24.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2018/1...

I've put the relevant figure showing the trim adjustments here:

http://nrg.cs.ucl.ac.uk/mjh/lionair.png
Honestly I don't find that hard to understand what's going on.

Basically, May negotiated a deal with the EU but the UK Parliament does not want it, mainly due to the so-called backstop. The backstop emerges because May has a red line that the UK must leave the single market and the customs union, and this is difficult (if not impossible) to reconcile with the Good Friday Agreement, which forbids a physical frontier at the border between the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland.

The fact is that, as Northern Ireland is part of the UK, it is simply impossible to make the (whole) UK exit the single market and customs union while honoring that agreement. If you place a border in Ireland, you violate the agreement. If you don't place a border in Ireland, then obviously goods and people can circulate freely, so Northern Ireland is effectively part of the EU for customs union and free movement purposes.

This is the very simple (not complex at all) reality that the UK government and parliament have been voluntarily ignoring all the time. To try to reconcile the contradiction, Theresa May proposed the so-called backstop: basically, Northern Ireland stays in the customs union until a technological solution is found that allows to have a non-physical border (yes, I know, bollocks. It won't happen. But Brexit proponents are like that). The EU signed this because May insisted and because why not, if no such miracle solution is found then Northern Ireland remains in the union so it's no problem for the EU. But the hardline Brexiteers in the Tory party (rightfully) pointed out... well, exactly that: that the backstop would imply that Northern Ireland would stay in the customs union forever. Hence, the process is stalled because May's deal has no consensus in parliament, but there is no consensus either for Brexit without a deal or for cancelling Brexit (all of this has been voted this week, with the result of "no" to everything).

If parliament keeps voting no to everything, then the default result is no-deal brexit.

Honestly I don't think there is that much complexity. It's just a very simple problem: that you cannot have Brexit including an exit from the customs union that involves Northern Ireland and the Good Friday agreement at the same time. That's pretty much all there is to it. If it seems complex, it's because the UK politicians don't want to admit it and just keep running in circles.