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> Investors are assuming the stock is on sale and this only impacts Boring for, what, a few weeks?

Reminds me of the Equifax breach. Stock tumbles then recovers. Overall, it validates that breaches are not a liability; therefore, additional resources to address future problems could be seen as a moot point.

Same with Boeing. If there is no impact to the company, then why change the business model?
I'm on an IEEE AI ethics standards working group and I can tell you that these kinds of boards, without deep expertise in technology and logic/philosophy don't end up producing anything of much value.

Human ethics is hard, messy and forever changing. Codifying human ethics into systems that can be tested and implemented are what politics and economic philosophy are all about. It's ungodly hard and not something that can be taken lightly.
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I read and replied to didibus's comment pretty carefully. You are just muddying the waters.
Crossing my fingers for you that GCP won't shut down your account because some mysterious Google AI decides so.
It just came to mind Jason Fried's Getting Real chapter titled "Scale Later". Page 44.

"For example, we ran Basecamp on a single server for the first year. Because we went with such a simple setup, it only took a week to implement. We didn’t start with a cluster of 15 boxes or spend months worrying about scaling.
Did we experience any problems? A few. But we also realized
that most of the problems we feared, like a brief slowdown,
really weren’t that big of a deal to customers. As long as you keep people in the loop, and are honest about the situation, they’ll understand."
People with that mentality aren't rational. If MS offers the best product, which they do for an awful lot of tech, especially once you start valuing integration & support, you should use it. It's actually pretty tough to beat, even if there's guys like that who don't believe in using "best of breed". Using "what you know" is usually best from a developer standpoint, but Microsoft has many best-of-breed products, much to his dismay.
It's true in the case of the 737 MAX where the pitch-up moment caused by the engines exceeds the elevator authority in a low-speed, high-thrust situation if the pitch trim is also set too high.

MCAS will evidently work with less maximum nose-down trim than the current version has, as the proposed update places a limit on it.
"Do no evil." Ba-ha-ha-ha-ha HA!
On many computers it did not run faster just differently. Regular quake and glquake were two totally different programs.
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Well in the hypothetical, whoever takes their advice would need to make a synthesis of it somehow. E.g. most perspectives agree so let's do it this way. Or this question doesn't matter that much from most perspectives and according to this one it matters a lot so let's go with that one. Or even just ignoring them from time to time.
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What a power move on Mozilla's part... "No, YOU'RE spamming US." And then they add insult to injury, directing you to read about how their server should be configured... classic
Is that a good thing?

Instead of a single postgres this there will be a lot of subtle or very different variants, all needing completely different tuning, like it happened with MySQL. May well fragment the ecosystem significantly.
1) Galilean relativity actually plays a role in deriving the Schrodinger equation (at least convincing yourself it’s correct. See the books by Commins and Yaglom).

2) QM without statistical mechanics/thermo seems an odd basis to make prognostications about time or reversibility. Time isn’t an operator (see the classic Mandelstam-Tamm paper)
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> The Boeing CEO has no idea how much he is in the center of attention for his clients right now.

Do you really think this?
I wonder if this strategy was posted to dark webs somewhere.

I recently heard of a friend of a friend who bought his mom a Tesla with profits from buying used iPhones on eBay and repairing them.

Maybe he was just submitting them to Apple with this same hack.
The lack of second order thinking seems to be the essence of what ails modern medicine.

"I have an infection!"

"Time for antibiotics!"

Don't bother to ask "And then what?"

Some populations are given antibiotics so regularly that it isn't uncommon for them to develop antibiotic resistant infections and even lose their colon to E. Coli.

We are given drugs with a multi page handout covering side effects, the doctors take credit for short term improvement -- "Look! Your latest infection got better!" -- then blame your condition for long term decline. No one stops to wonder if it's the drugs -- even though in some cases we absolutely know the drugs caused X.
I don't know the last time I had an instance go down. Not because it doesn't happen, but because it's sufficiently unimportant that we don't alert on it. Our ASG just brings up another to replace it.

Many applications won't be as resilient. That's the trade-off. We don't have a single stateful application. RDS/Redis/Dynamo/SQS are all managed by someone else. We had to build things differently to accommodate that constraint, but as a result we have ~35M active users and only 2 ops engineers, who spend their time building automation rather than babysitting systems.

If you lean in completely, it's a great ecosystem. Otherwise it's a terrible co-lo experience.
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Starcraft Broodwars is 20 years old and there are still professional tournaments being played in front of large live audiences (a large tournament recently ended and a new one is starting in about two weeks), and players are making a living out of streaming and playing these tournaments.
Nice article. I would be interested in learning more about the rendering pipeline. Is anybody aware of a more detailed description? Or an online datasheet?

Btw - already EDO DRAM favours reading entire memory blocks/lines. My suspicion is that the trick in increausing memory bandwidth is not only based on interleaving, but also on block transfers with on-chip caching. Especially critical for texture reads.

The Voodoo is a nice example of how much execution matters. They were not the only ones to follow this path back then, but by only concentrating on the core functionality they managed to beat all others to the market without compromise. (Compare to S3 Virge, Matrox Mystique, Nvidia NV1, Tseng, NEC and many others)
> "decided to move the engines forward making the aircraft dynamically unstable,"

I don't believe that's true. Per Mentour Pilot, the 737 MAX and the 737 NG are both very stable aircraft that are not prone to stalling[0]. That there is a difference in performance characteristics that creates a difference in how an escape from stall maneuver is to be performed, and the MCAS is meant to paper over that difference.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TlinocVHpzk @16:25 "[...] The 737 MAX and NG are equally less indicative of getting stalled, okay? They are very good, very nicely flying aircraft. But once they're in a thrust stall, they have slightly different characteristics. [...]"
What browser would you suggest instead? I feel a bit cornered, especially now that literally every alternative is based on chromium.
You cannot be serious. VR headsets have not been evolving at the pace of hardware back then. The resolution of headsets does not double every year or something and VR today is not much better than one year ago. Nothing comparable.
> Could have disable it, but didn't? We don't actually know yet whether they did or when they did, and if they did if it was already too late. Critically we don't know their mental state, as we don't have transcripts yet.

'Could have' in the purely mechanical "we think this would have been possible and allowed the aircraft to survive" sense, not the "the pilots knew how to do this" sense.

> As for why MCAS is triggered below 1500' AGL in the Ethiopian Airlines case, that is a very good question. I have not seen the altitude above which MCAS is supposed to apply, and I haven't discovered how that trigger altitude is determined, radar altimeter?

It's not altitude limited, but flaps limited - so would have engaged when flaps were retracted sometime after reaching 1000' AGL. (at least, 1000' seems to be the altitude mentioned in the procedure summaries I've seen for other 737 models - things might be different for high altitude takeoffs) And as it turns out, ET-302 reached FL 140 ~5 minutes into the flight, so there goes that theory.

> Most of the facts we still don't know.

And hopefully we'll eventually learn them, and write some new rules with them.
We are happy with GKE, but have gone from Cloud SQL PostgreSQL back to self-managed PostgreSQL VMs. Cloud SQL is still stuck on version 9.6, and still has no point-in-time recovery ability. It's disappointing because the rest of the GCP offering is pretty well thought out and making rapid progress but Cloud SQL seems not to be getting much love.
Maybe it was the voodoo 2, but I seem to recall that 3dfx cards could render into a chroma-keyed window, not just full screens. In any case the main problem with them was they made your 2D desktop look like junk for the 99% of the time you were not playing Quake, due to the extra analog-digital-analog conversion.
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If you stack your council with people of entirely one viewpoint, there's little point in having a council at all. Create a board entirely of Muslims and it's going to say we should fast during Ramadan. If Google tries to cite that board as an ethical authority to justify a policy of mandatory fasting, they're not going to convince many people.

With a diverse board, the answers to some questions are going to be inconclusive. But that doesn't mean the board shouldn't exist at all. And it certainly doesn't mean we should eliminate all diversity in the board.
It's about mass marketing spam, not people you know. People you know will call from a consistent phone number, and you can use time tested methods such as not answering instead of making them pay 0.10 to talk to you.
The fact that the recovery procedure doesn't work proves that the FAA should pull the MAX8 type certificate. It isn't the same aircraft.
Brave seems ok, has a pretty good built in adblocker
I would choose a MBA because it can open doors to some good careers, plus the connections can be valuable.

A Bloomberg is rather useless imo. Anything you can find there is already public information and you just are on the same level playing field as everyone else with no edge. no thanks
I couldn't put it down. I think they unnecessarily skimped on things like animation frames, the amount of badges, maybe one more level... but it still came across as an earnest effort by 7 people working remotely on a budget.

It had a fraction of the budget and development man hours of Yooka-Laylee and yet came out better in pretty much every conceivable way. The controls may not be as tight as Celeste's but it's the best 3D platformer I've played in years.
context:

"PLUGGABLE STORAGE IN POSTGRESQL" (2018 PGCONF.EU ; Andres Freund)

pdf: https://anarazel.de/talks/2018-10-25-pgconfeu-pluggable-stor...

""Why?

● ZHeap – UNDO based storage, address bloat and write
amplification problems

● Columnar Storage

● Experiments

""

"PostgreSQL has long prided itself in being extensible. But for a number of years people have wished for the ability to not only introduce new datatypes and functions, but also to add new forms of storing data. The introduction of foreign data wrappers (FDWs) allowed to satisfy some of those use-cases. They however are not fully suitable for native data storage, quite fundamentally they don't allow for index creation, foreign keys, etc.

Over the last years people have on and off worked on making table storage pluggable. It looks like PostgreSQL 12 might finally get builtin support for that, based on work of Haribabu Kommi, myself and others.

This talk will go over the reasons why it is useful to make storage pluggable (my personal reason is to allow the introduction of zheap, a new undo based table storage that is nearly free of table bloat) and how the new APIs work, and what further use-cases the pluggable storage APIs have."
Okay, thanks! I am finally getting it.
I don't think this should be downvoted. I'm not sure it's 40% but it is quite a lot and pretending people who have different worldviews don't exists or don't matter is not workable in the long run. Someone just trying to point out reality shouldn't be downvoted.
"Files that are sent to the client are compressed with gzip, unless they are under 4096 bytes."

That's interesting. Is that a common optimization? I hadn't heard of any other web server doing that.
Yes, people are speculating this and like the previous speculation they're probably wrong.
It's worth pointing out that blindly hammering away on the wrong problem is a failure mode for many intelligent people.

The key is not just sticking to things, but also having enough taste to know when to drop a problem.
At the same time, I used to do speed dating and too often had to hear the poor guy next to me confuse "what do you do?" with "what exactly do you do day to day in as painstakingly technical detail as possible?" when the other party doesn't even know if they're an astronaut vs full-time dog walker.
this write-up boils down to saying that servers that don't uphold server ACLs (server-bans) will leak messages from banned servers.

it's a feature, not a bug; if you want to deploy the nuclear option of a server-ban in a room, you also have to ban any other servers which don't know what a server-ban is.
Referential integrity is the ~synonym for purity that is often used.
Thank you for the detailed response! [2] was an interesting read for someone new to medical imaging.

As you mentioned, it seems like it will be hard to get a referral for a full-body CT scan as a healthy person. The costs of scans also look pretty steep to quench a curiosity thirst :/

Nevertheless, I appreciate you sharing this knowledge and will try to print a segmented skull to understand the process better.
For self-contained architecture-specific server binaries, there is no practical difference between 240KB, or 2.4MB, or 24.4MB, or even, at a stretch, 244MB. It's not worth mentioning or optimizing for, except as novelty. I wish people would stop golfing with these numbers.
i didn't take it as them claiming anything. it seemed them just asking a question out of curiosity.
Perhaps the simulation isn't time reversible, but that doesn't say anything about the reversibility of the laws of physics and the reversibility of the universe. I.e., reversing the entire universe would still run the simulation backwards, correctly, because it takes place at a lower level.

However, I think the point of the article is that given a deterministic universe, even though it doesn't "run" forwards or backwards but just exists throughout space-time, observers inside the universe can still observe an "arrow of time" in the direction of more stability.
The ones you cite are hardly reputable journals, and are disregarded because they are junk science, not because of politics.

In "Brown", the paper was misrepresented as a study on trans people, when it was actually a survey of parents that participated in forums for parents that were upset that their children were transitioning.

In "UWA Cancels talk", that was someone from acpeds,

> Dr Van Meter is president of the American College of Paediatricians (ACP), a small conservative group known for its opposition to gay marriage, gender reassignment, abortion and premarital sex.

Journal of American Physicians and Surgeons is noted in wikipedia for some rather interesting views:

> The association is generally recognized as politically conservative or ultra-conservative, and its publication advocates a range of scientifically discredited hypotheses, including the belief that HIV does not cause AIDS, that being gay reduces life expectancy, that there is a link between abortion and breast cancer, and that there is a causal relationship between vaccines and autism.
It's called Regulatory Capture, and it happens to all regulatory agencies sooner or later.

They become primarily concerned with the interests of the companies they're regulating, rather than the public interest they're in theory tasked with working for.

Unfortunately, that is just how a regulated society works.
MCAS wouldn't have been active since the flaps were down.
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While your at it Mozilla, stop spamming the new tab page with your podcasts.
Read the narrative in the report. Why do you suppose that after they got the same initial signs of trouble that the Lion Air flight had (stick shaker on left side, disagreement in airspeed values, etc. immediately after takeoff) that the captain tried to engage autopilot and instructed the first officer to retract flaps and inform controllers they were proceeding to climb to FL 320 (32,000 ft). Why not instead turn back and land and hand the aircraft over to maintenance?

From the report:

At 05:38:44, shortly after liftoff, the left and right recorded AOA values deviated. Left AOA decreased to 11.1° then increased to 35.7° while value of right AOA indicated 14.94°. Then after, the left AOA value reached 74.5° in ¾ seconds while the right AOA reached a maximum value of 15.3°. At this time, the left stick shaker activated and remained active until near the end of the recording. Also, the airspeed, altitude and flight director pitch bar values from the left side noted deviating from the corresponding right side values. The left side values were lower than the right side values until near the end of the recording.

...

At 05:39:06, the Captain advised the First-Officer to contact radar and First Officer reported SHALA 2A departure crossing 8400 ft and climbing FL 320.

...

At 05:39:42, Level Change mode was engaged. The selected altitude was 32000 ft. Shortly after the mode change, the selected airspeed was set to 238 kt.

At 05:39:45, Captain requested flaps up and First-Officer acknowledged. One second later, flap handle moved from 5 to 0 degrees and flaps retraction began.

Bear in mind stick shaker and divergent instrument readings all this time.

Why not just return and land, leave the flaps configuration alone (which would have inhibited MCAS), especially since this is exactly how the Lion Air flight started.

I know this is easy to critique from the comfort of my chair, and the pilots are not here to defend themselves, but some things in this narrative just don't make sense.
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I live in a hole so I don't even really know what Tinder is. No offense is possible! Thanks for the compliment :)
Yeah, and they corrected the error themselves and published the correction. This is why they are trustworthy.

Making a mistake is not the same as lying.
Does gravity really affect our health?
I'd be surprised if it didn't exist in every compression middleware.

For example, https://github.com/expressjs/compression/blob/dd5055dc92fdea...
still chromium
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AWS is definitely better for managed PostgreSQL compared to GCE/Azure.
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Honestly, it's probably something that just got overlooked. I've only ever hated my caps lock key enough on a keyboard to rebind it once.
With companies. I don't have a lot of specific experience with AWS, except for the time when nobody mentioned that the default firewall rules are stateful, and there's a connection cap that's kind of low but scaled to instance size, and there's no indication about it, and the sales droid the assigned to my account because they smelled money didn't mention it either; but I'm not bitter. :)

Based on all the articles I see from time to time, I fully expect if I worked for a company that was built on AWS, I would spend a lot of time debugging AWS, because I end up debugging all the stuff that nobody else can, and it's a lot easier to do when I have access to everything.
Not choosing sides but have to say that he can still do that with his old now renamed account.
And yet it seems the majority of Americans don't understand marginal tax rates nor how refunds represent interest-free loans to the government. If the point was to educate the public about how taxes are applied, it's not working.
Why are you speaking authoritatively about what the pilot's did and in the same breath admonishing people for not waiting for the "full report"?
> At 05:40:35, the First-Officer called out “stab trim cut-out” two times. Captain agreed and First- Officer confirmed stab trim cut-out.

> At 05:41:46, the Captain asked the First-Officer if the trim is functional. The First-Officer has replied that the trim was not working and asked if he could try it manually. The Captain told him to try. At 05:41:54, the First-Officer replied that it is not working.

I guess the First-Officer must have been speculating...
I agree. They certainly stopped short of exonerating the pilots, and the airlines.
The screenshot in the post shows also a "optin" property, set to "true". Perhaps that should be set to "false" instead?

But anyway, "optout" ought to take priority IMHO.
If you only had or experienced IBM-compatible PCs. If you started on a Commodore or Amiga, the PC speaker to Sound Blaster/Adlib shift was more akin to just catching up. I wasn't completely happy until the 486 era because of this.

The Voodoo1 4MB which I had back then as well, was unprecedented. I agree that the Sound Blaster was great (in isolation against older x86 PCs), but 3dfx was the first standout example of the fruit in the IBM-compatible space, and a clear demonstration in the gaming sense as to why it took over the market.
I also noticed the same, having recently signed up for a firefox account (I'm a long time user, just signed up for the sync).
I haven’t thought about my Voodoo card in a long time, good memories
I favor Null Objects. It's a minority viewpoint.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Null_object_pattern
I think Mozilla's leadership honestly tries to be ethical, but their frame of reference is marketing. They seemingly think tactics that are only moderately scummy instead of flagrantly scummy represent a pro-user revolution.

The hell of it is that with the way ad tech has eaten the web, I'm not sure they're wrong.
24bit and 32bit both have 8bit per RGB color channel, the extra 8 bit are either alpha (for textures) or padding (for performance). All other things being equal, colors should look the same on both.
I mostly use the Mozilla Bookmarks menu. For anythink more complicated, and notes on programming i use my CatWiki wiki software, see https://github.com/cabalamat/catwiki
next step --> "ZHEAP" = a storage engine to provide better control over bloat:

* http://amitkapila16.blogspot.com/2018/03/zheap-storage-engin... ( 5 March 2018 )

* HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16526623
Good question. Other than Firefox, Webkit/Blink based browsers are pretty much the only thing usable on the modern web without crashing. That leaves ungoogled Chromium, which unless you're compiling it yourself (good luck) means just blindly trusting some random internet person for binaries. There's really no good answer at this point.