skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
But the board is there to advise Google on hard questions, not easy ones. Is it unethical, for instance, to use AI to detect and block potential child pornography and flag it for potential referral to law enforcement? Probably not, but anyone can tell you that. Is it unethical to use AI to identify "gender ideology propaganda" and refer that to law enforcement in places where it's illegal? Depends on whether you think such laws are ethical. If the council can't answer that, what use is it?

(If the point of the council is to tell you things that anyone with a functioning conscience could tell you, then the fact that it's needed is a serious indictment of Google management. I'd like to think the council is here for the hard questions.)
A good book on the topic is "Thinking in Systems" by Donella Meadows [1]. It's a catalog of common system patterns and how they behave to give you some tools to answer the "then what?".

[1] https://www.amazon.com/Thinking-Systems-Donella-H-Meadows/dp...
we hit the energy per mm^2 limit.
And you couldn’t use VPC logs?
On Collusion
The obvious comparison to the GPU arms race is the VR hardware arms race. Same number of companies rising and falling in about the same period. Carmack is at the forefront of both, too.
The western world rejoices the improvement in life conditions and lifting people from poverty. Criticism of the government structure and its powers is largely a ideology battle than proving its effectiveness.

If you want to count productivity or expansion of borders or some positive statistic about Nazi government, there are many. But that is a largely different discussion. Note: I’m not implying Nazi rule to PRC, just trying to make a point.

I feel like you have an inherent bias of being Chinese and you want to see your home country improve and be proud of. That’s fair and a natural reaction. But your ideas and points are alarmingly irrational in my view. What you’re advocating is essentially justifying dystopian society that always, __always__ promises the good of the people. You should really read 1984 by George Orwell.

There is no such thing as a benevolent dictatorship or authoritarian government. When a man is given unlimited power, we are stupid monkeys that get an insane jolt by this “power trip” that’s its impossible to stay benevolent. Who is to say the next guy after Xi is going to be benevolent. Human nature and psychology is actually quite scary in certain situations (The Stanford Prison experiment, Milgram experiment).
Such good memories. I spent all of my first few high school job paychecks on a Diamond Monster 3D. In retrospect, adult me says I should have bought $AAPL, but 16-year old me is still pretty sure it was the right decision.
Please don't introduce new acronyms like UNPHAT when we have something like YAGNI that works just fine (and probably there might be something, a rule of thumb, before Fowler, or Ron Jeffries, or whoever, coined YAGNI).

Secondly, extreme YAGNI and extreme future-proofing are two ends of one of the considerations on how to approach writing a software. Neither extremes is good. In reality, the best location on that spectrum would depend on the situation at hand.

There is no silver bullet. And I'm sorry but I didn't learn anything new from this blog post, something that is already not part of the software engineering vast body of knowledge.

edit: I know UNPHAT is not an "exact synonym" of YAGNI. But what you're describing is a problem solving approach. That's probably even less new. Please look at Polya 'How to Solve it' if interested.
That doesn't really prove anything though. The risk to a specific flight is still quite low. The risk that is concerning is the risk of any 737 Max flight crashing. It would be like a lottery detractor saying "I'll prove that no one wins the lottery by buying a ticket every day, and never winning." Chances are that person won't win. But chances are quite high that someone will win.
I had a Diamond Voodoo card. When I first fired it up on GLQuake, it absolutely blew my 16 year old mind.
Don't bother with the "you don't know my politics" shtick, your overly sensitive reaction leaves the writing all over the wall on that point. You wouldn't be so defensive if it didn't strike close to home.

This would be less silly if what you were pretending is so obscure and nuanced was not actually as plain as day.

I took your invitation to reread, and only needed to go as far as the second paragraph: "In some shots, the teens appear to be shouting “build that wall, build that wall.”"

This is false. Not an opinion, not a narrative, a plainly false statement.

My "contradictory sources with at least the same level of journalistic respectability" is any of the videos of the event themselves, is that a credible enough source for you? The full-length video was available at the time of the writing of this article and Vox did not make any effort to verify what they wrote against it.

They lied, period. This is not that difficult to understand. Do try to keep up.
Amazon Is Making a Rival to Apple’s AirPods as Its First Alexa Wearable
One of the biggest pains of Upwork (until this new thing) was that you have to bid on a project based solely on the description of the job. There was no way to ask for aditional details or clarification before placing a bid.
https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2018/02/the-more...
I think lack or major crashes in recent years made them complacent and emboldened them to roll the dice. Then hit snake eyes. Then also may have looked down on the foreign pilots are the airline. Had this been a Southwest plane they may have grounded the plane.
Mozilla is ethically compromised at the highest levels. They’ve made a shift over the last few years from a scrappy, low-rent, nonprofit dedicated to helping the web to just another data mining tech company. Just try setting your Firefox browser to a blank page with no requests on startup and watching the Wireshark log if you think otherwise.
Yeah, I need to ditch Safari altogether and start using Firefox as my default browser. Disappointing to learn Apple's doing this though. They keep slipping further away from what I want.
The took the necessary steps and it was working until they went off script. Whether or not their hand was force because the script stopped working remains to be seen. IMHO, there's little to do except to wait for the full report to come out. The speculation about the crash was wildly wrong and the preliminary report coming out didn't really stop that.
Are you saying those Googlers wouldn’t be enraged if she had a salary to be on that board?
My first 3D accelerator was a Voodoo2, first used on Quake 2. The cast light from the moving rocket on the floor is unforgettable.
Exactly.

When CEO said "We're taking a comprehensive, disciplined approach, and taking the time, to get the software update right.", I wondered if they would characterize their initial design the same way.

It's shameful to even try to pin it on software. The fundamental problem is that they didn't want to do the right thing by admitting and teaching pilots that this plane has different flight characteristics and they need to train for flying a similar, but different plane.

As long as this MCAS software even exists on the plane, I'll never fly on one again. If they take MCAS out, certify, and train properly then I'll fly on them. Otherwise, no.
Just "planning" seems adequate to me.
No. I dislike JavaScript. Because it bloats pages, slowdowns page loading and you always need libraries to do the smallest thing.

I try to avoid JavaScript as much as possible. There is some on this page to flip the screenshots and that annoyed me.
I disagree with your premise. There are people on the margin who decide to drive or not because of the traffic (or who are forced to queue unexpectedly). If the roads and parking garages had infinite capacity, then there would be hundreds of thousands more cars on the road in Manhattan. It’s implausible that all the people who remain on the road today are purely inelastic.

I also disagree that the tax would be incident on those with the lowest paying jobs. Higher-paying workers are more likely to pay more, since people with price-inelastic demand for driving are more likely to be those who value their time more highly.

Finally, I don’t think the primary purpose is to raise money for the government, but instead to manage the road resource so that the throughput is high.
I agree. I'm only trying to show that an electronic ticket and not being personally tracked are compatible, unlike suggested upthread. All it takes is to buy / refill an electronic ticket with cash.
Simply increasing supply only temporarily ameliorates the problem. Eliminating landlords addresses a fundamental inefficiency in housing.
We're still in a boom period, where many start-ups/VCs are operating with deep pocket books and instructions to scale fast at any cost. During the next bust, lean will come back in fashion.
Not sure this is entirely true. Compared to some of the previous petitions / walkouts, this one was relatively minor, and was mostly the whiny ones.
MCAS only operates with flaps up, though, so it's actually irrelevant during most departure stalls at low altitude.
I feel like an extreme view would be to say any ethics board is better than no ethics board.

If you disagree with that statement then I think the question is: Was this ethics board bad enough that it was worse than no ethics board?

And, I trust that you're being charitable enough to believe that the people that wanted the board removed asked the same, very basic, ethical question.

On the other hand - it might be easier to think they didn't ask or think about that question and discard their position based on what could frankly be called a strawman.
I would be curious to read the source for this.
> The FAA also lost a lot of trust, for rubber-stamping this.

From documents I've seen (which I cannot find the links to now), it appears that the FAA let Boeing themselves do some of the certification work and sign offs.

Putting the foxes in charge of the hen house, so to speak.
These became so distracting that I applied an Adblock filter to hide the “Hot Network Questions” div, lol!
I guess the idea is that for all the people using MapReduce, most would be better served by a different paradigm than MapReduce. Because in most cases, there's a better paradigm than MapReduce.
But, helpfully, semi-known means.
Every MAX already had two AoA vanes, MCAS just wasn't hooked up to both in software.
I'm interested to know why they didn't move to Google AppEngine instead, which offers a better experience and more advanced features overall. Especially considering that AppEngine is a direct competitor to Heroku than Kubernetes engine.
I created https://www.homepagr.com

It is meant to replace the "new tab" page in the browser.

Nobody seems to feel it's worth $1/month, but myself and my wife use it and we open scores is tabs a day.

(If anyone has suggestions to make this more interesting it profitable then I'm all ears!)
Which small country? Ethiopia has 104 million people and Indonesia has 264 million.
Cutting-edge consumer technology that is widely available in the USA, but not in Europe:

1. Weapons. There may be a few exceptions in Europe, such as the Czech Republic, currently fighting the EU. There are certainly exceptions in the USA, such as California. Overall though, availability is superior in the USA.

2. Private aircraft. If you want to build an experimental airplane in your garage and then fly it, you can do so in the USA. Licensing is pretty easy, especially if the aircraft is lightweight and doesn't carry much fuel or many people.
In a similar vein, I'd appreciate it if Mozilla would stop using updates to Firefox as a mechanism to re-enable misfeatures I've explicitly disabled like Pocket integration and the "recommend X feature|extension while you are browsing but don't forget we totally respect your privacy!" settings. :-/
Futarchy: Vote Values, But Bet Beliefs (2013)
Google dissolves AI ethics board just one week after forming it
I had the same reaction. Comes off as being quite callous.
>Which anybody who claims that MAX is safe without MCAS is ignoring: without properly working MCAS the plane effectively starts to misbehave exactly when it shouldn't (when it's harder to save it).

MCAS is there to prevent stalls at high thrust and AoA. It's also disabled when flaps are down. Meaning that it's turned off for take offs and landings where you'd most expect high thrust and AoA as well as the worst times to stall. It's hard to square that with MCAS being necessary for safe operation.
The desired mode of operation for a plane is to keep flying, without crashing. MCAS did not save anybody. By that logic steering wheels are also saving billions of people because without a steering your car would veer off the road.
No it’s not as safe as previous 737s. The new engine and its position on the wing has changed the whole balance of the aircraft.

Like putting a very big engine in a small car: it’s a different car.
Little great things about Visual Studio 2019
If you self-host your own git service, you could email everyone e.g. in a specific organization very easily. On something like GitHub it's nearly impossible, but when you own your data its just a database query + email away.
Yes, two. The standard for critical systems is 3.

Two isn't good for much, if they give different readings you don't know which to believe. Either that kills you like in real life, or it kills you because of the stall problem it was invented to fix.

Edit: And yes, you could do something more sensible than what they did, but that doesn't "fix" the issue, it merely mitigates it to some extent.
The article does not mention that WikiLeaks claims the expulsion is punishment for revealing corruption within high levels of the Ecuadorian government. [1]

> "WikiLeaks cited the unidentified person as saying the planned expulsion is a response to the organization’s recent tweet linking to a website that alleged money laundering and corruption during Ecuadorian President Lenin Moreno’s time as United Nations special envoy for the disabled in Geneva." [2]

[1] https://twitter.com/wikileaks/status/1113923253150670848

[2] https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-04-05/ecuador-t...
The post has a whole section called "Why Kubernetes?"
I see emergent behavior as something that we didn't think of before (maybe because we didn't think about it enough), rather than something that is inherently impossible to predict.

Did Mark Zuckerberg know in 2003 that his dorm room creation would affect elections? Probably not, but I also wouldn't say it was impossible to predict.

A complex system is chaotic for sure, which definitely makes it hard to predict emergent behavior, but it's also not completely random. I wouldn't claim that you can figure out all emergent behavior beforehand but you can definitely reason about some emergent behavior just by doing some nth-order thinking and systems mapping.

One example that I thought of recently:
Today most innovation with food is about innovating on logistics. It's all about getting your food faster and cheaper to your door. Let's say, in 5-10 years from now we live in a world where on-demand groceries are instant and cheaper than anything else, maybe even powered by autonomous drones or what not.

Would we still be going to restaurants and grocery stores? One emergent behavior may be that we get everything delivered with a snap of our fingers straight from warehouses and delivery kitchens. So is it wise to put all our money into Instacart and Doordash now that we know this? Maybe not, because what's the next step beyond delivery? What if there's a new technology to print your food, 20-30 years from now? Will Instacart and Doordash still be relevant in a world like that?

Emergent behavior would then be that innovation will be more about what you eat than when you get it (the innovation vector that we focus so much on today). The company that learns your taste profiles and can figure out exactly what you want/need will probably win in that scenario, so maybe companies that are solving logistics today (Instacart/Doordash) are not the companies that will win in the end (Google has a better shot when it comes to AI and data collection).
> My understanding of git is that there is a server, and users push/pull to the server.

Git is a distributed VCS and so doesn't need a (centralised) server to share code.

Sites like GitHub, GitLab or SourceHut let you host a git repository that you can push/pull from. It's a convenient way of sharing code, and collaborating with others.

But you can also apply changes to a repo using patches prepared by email.

> ....where there is no server at all and pushes and pulls are communicated completely via email.

I'd emphasise that changes to a repo can come from diffs or patches as well, not just pushes/pulls from another repository.

FWIW, Git book has details about how one might make use of patches received by email.
https://git-scm.com/book/en/v2/Distributed-Git-Maintaining-a...
https://git-scm.com/book/en/v2/Appendix-C%3A-Git-Commands-Em...
Big fan of https://pinboard.in
> Realistically and pragmatically speaking, you only ever get to have just one single shot at establishing and maintaining that kind of life/death level of trust. Fuck it up, and you're gone- quite literally, mind you.

I wish this statement was held with as much as accountability as this comment implies. But have any of the major outlets been discussing potential prison sentences for Boeing or FAA employees / executives or potentially even board members? If you want accountability in today's age it seems the pressure needs to be applied at the point where financial decisions are held with more precedent than safety of life.

Boeing stock was up today on the glimmer of hope that the "software fix was working". Investors are assuming the stock is on sale and this only impacts Boeing for, what, a few weeks? I said something similar in another comment but I think Volkswagen is going to do more jail time and have more brand detriment than Boeing or the FAA will. Egregious doesn't begin to describe the misdirection of conversation. Why is the focus not yet on who will be sentenced for death over profits?
You nailed it. I'd bet my last dollar that there were engineers at Boeing who objected (possibly not loudly enough) to the idea.
> The took the necessary steps and it was working until they went off script. Whether or not their hand was force because the script stopped working remains to be seen

The script required them to manually crank in the stabilizer, which wasn't possible. The script was manifestly not "working". That doesn't "remain to be seen" -- it's in the transcript of the cockpit
I still have my original Voodoo card. It's the one piece of computer hardware I've never been willing to throw away. I still remember spending 8 hours downloading the Quake demo and having my mind blown. The only other time that holds a candle to that is when I got the GLQuake version. No other game has ever taken me on a ride like that.
That's not much of a stretch there.
If I recall, this boiled down to the FAA not having engineers who could properly test these systems.
It's very cyclical. For reasons unknown to me, pilot unions have always negotiated a seniority-based pay scale. Where seniority is only how many years you been at the airline. How much total experience you have doesn't matter just how many years you've been with the airline.

So if you stay with the airline for a long time you move up from first officer to Captain and then as years of seniority add up you start making a lot more.

The trouble is the pilots can't threaten to change jobs because if you move from one airline to another your seniority goes back to zero.

Also if an airline declares bankruptcy, all the union contracts are null and void. The airline then has a ton of leverage because the pilots are all out of work. The pay scale that comes out of bankruptcy is typically very low.

Similar if one airline acquires another airline. The pilots at the acquired airline typically get screwed in the pay scale and seniority calculation.

Also jobs like flying cargo planes or piloting for a commuter airline pay very low wages. It's mostly just the big airlines that pay well.
Please don't give this man a company.

I agree that smart, effective people do generally have a bias toward action. But not in the bull in the shop "thinking twice is a waste of my time" sort of way you're describing.
Dalio compares capitalists to socialists using the old saw: one has trouble slicing up the pie, the other has trouble growing it. More appropriate today from my experience working as a commodities trader: the financial sector eats the pie that the real economy bakes. I retired comfortably after only 10 years on the Street ... but I'm not proud of what I accomplished. And neither should you be, Mr. Dalio.
Its battery died. With a student discount and the cost of a new battery, I could (and did) upgrade to a new model by selling all the parts. Even the screws.

Some say the MacBook Air is highly integrated and unrepairable. They are wrong.
At least you didn’t by TDFX stock, like I did!
Except if your computer has a failed driver it won't kill you, why are you all over these posts so adamantly defending Boeing? OP had a valid comparison via car and plane, yours was simply asinine.
My flatmate owned a Voodoo2, was impressive though the market soon caught up and and when the following year I did get myself a 3500, after a month I sold it and got a Matrox G400Max as it did the 3D level I needed (more so the less demanding games of the time). But more so, the colour gamut was so much sharper and stood out on a CRT of the time.

I was curious so I had a dig on the specs to relive the decision of the time and can see the Matrox did 32bit colour whilst the 3500 was 24bit. Not seen any comparisons in performance but I certainly had no complaints and was happier with the G400Max on many levels (2nd monitor - no problem).

[EDIT ADD] This looks worth a watch for nostalgia circa 1999 graphics cards and compares the G400MAX, 3DFX 3500 and the TNT2 Ultra https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-4LvoGQ2lgI
I've read 1984. I dont know why you emphasize promise as I was quoting things that have been DONE.

I guess what I wanted to say to you is I feel this discussion will not be able to produce actionable or make ourselves more knowledgable on the matter.

As I said more pressure from western countries probably will not make China better. Chinese citizens hate the government to some degree, but if you think they are closer to western ideologies, value your version of human rights and freedom more than what current Chinese government provides, you probably need a reality check.

Since you have communication channels with other Chinese, plz go ask them whether they consider what's going on in Xinjiang is a big issue worth protesting for. Ask them if they would like to be provided better human right standards from western country governments on Chinese soil.

Plz watch this if you haven't https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rStL7niR7gs

I've read those experiments. But so what? They are not physical laws. I dont like dictatorship. But say if China becomes a democracy today, how do you prevent China becomes next Russia (electing Putin), or next Turkey? or next Philippine? or next Brazil?

Democracy cannot solve every social problems. I dont think most Chinese citizens have the appetit to swallow your approach toward governing although I dont have any better suggestions. Maybe the helplessness from me feels like I'm defending current Chinese government but I'm not. I'm just not good enough on social science to provide a better solution. If there's one I'd like it gone faster than you.
Neil Degrasse Tyson Talks About His Graduate School Experience