skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I know better than to read between the lines on a press release like this, but can't help but notice that it falls far short of accepting responsibility for the problem.

He admits that MCAS "activated in response to erroneous angle of attack information" but doesn't admit that this alone directly resulted in the crashes. Rather, he implies that this sets off a chain of events which the pilots are unable to deal with ("pilots have told us, erroneous activation of the MCAS function can add to what is already a high workload environment") which puts undue blame on the pilots rather than the system.

If you'll excuse the analogy, it's as if they installed a new griddle in a restaurant kitchen which randomly gets ten times more hot than it ought to be, with no warning. The cook doesn't know it's too hot until the eggs start burning. Now the manager is saying that since the kitchen is so busy, the cook can't flip the eggs fast enough in response to these randomly fluctuating high temperature events. We're being told it's the cooks' fault.

I don't like being bullshitted and find this sort of dodgy language completely inappropriate when 300 people died.
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You should do a show with this script. Educational and fun. Well done.
I don't doubt that Boeing will fix the MCAS problem, but the bigger issue for me is what other systems were hacked into place in order to rush this plane to market to compete with Airbus? The whole philosophy behind the design of the 737 MAX is what has me unsettled, not necessarily this one particular issue.
Email to myself with a tag: [bookmark]

Example:

Subject: [bookmark] Some cool link that I found online
Body: URL + some notes on what makes this worth bookmarking.

Sometimes I find a link to a product but I don't care about the product, I care about the landing page design so I add notes specifically about the design.

If I want to revisit previous links related to design I'll do a search in my inbox for the [bookmark] tag + any specific words I'm likely to have used concerning design.

It's not an instantaneous process but that means I don't bookmark everything I see. I'm picky.
I wonder if this means that Apple's positioning as the privacy focused choice is coming to an end.
Would you throw out your computer because of a bad hardware driver? This is effectively a software issue, that will eventually be solved
Nothing but blank pages in Firefox without Javascript, which I disable for non-HTTPS protected sites. If your site needs Javascript to display a simple image on an HTML page, please consider your users and their accessibility needs.
Volkswagen was used for war manufacturing pretty much as soon as they started and never manufactured commercial passenger vehicles until years after the war.

If you made that point about Daimler or BMW you might have a point, because they actually made cars before being turned into Nazi war manufacturers and bombed into oblivion, but Volkswagen was never anything but a Nazi war manufacturer until the end of the war.

> You've not disproved the underlying meaning of my statement really.

What, that learning how to manufacture large numbers of automobiles is a lost art from the 19th century? The underlying meaning of your statement is absolute garbage because there's half a dozen East Asian companies that figured it out since 1960, some of them even since the mid-1980's.
I'm not in academia or at a FAANG, but I think that talented professors should always have applicable skills. A professor successfully running a research lab is basically running a small company. They need to raise grant money, and then deliver results, all while needing to mentor their employees. Because most of their workers will be students and leave after graduation.

So if you define top talent to be research lab or publication success I think that top talent will always be attractive corporate RD, assuming there's a match in the research area. I don't really know how these companies are evaluating their RD, so delivering business value is another question.
Preventing a stall is not what the job of MCAS is.

(edit: clearer language)
> They're white, wearing MAGA hats...Teenage boys are about the nastiest form of human being there is.

Good grief, you're such a bigot! And proud of it, too!

But it's okay on HN, because you're a "founder" with 12k karma.

I hope that you wake up someday. And I don't mean, "get woke."
The point of standup isn't to report status or get unblocked. Even in a large team or for x-team blockage, you can just talk to the PM.

The point is to keep social pressure on weak performers.

One of the main points of Agile (as implemented) is to push the team to perform. Otherwise natural habits of slack creep in. One or 2 people failing to deliver destroys all the good work of the strong performers. This is the real reason for standups.
> overwhelmingly likely to serve the interests of an ALEC sponsor corporation

In a number of cases, corporations have only been publicly identified as having ties with ALEC when they publicly cut ties with ALEC.

Aside from corporations that seek recognition as sponsors or have people in active public roles on ALEC committees, there's no systematic disclosure of ALEC ties. ALEC membership is confidential.

> On the flip side, if Purdue Pharma spends several years and several tens of thousands of dollars lobbying a conservative congressperson, who later amends a health care bill to serve Purdue, what indicator do I have that the amendment they sponsored was "sponsored" by Purdue?

The documentation of the duration and expenditures on lobbying (and any donations), a thing we don't have systematically, with legal penalties for failure to report, with regard to corporate involvement with ALEC.
Not only could the panelists themselves not work together constructively. Googler's were so enraged by the inclusion of certain people that any recommendation with those people's sign-on would have been DOA.
Right, I'm a little concerned that I'm giving the impression that I think ALEC itself is a good thing, which I do not. Yes, of course, we should be suspicious of bills with ALEC origins! But at the same time, progressive (or centrist or reasonable conservatives or libertarians or bicyclists or home distillers or what-have-you) should be drafting their own model bills, not alarming themselves that other model bills exist.

I'm not really criticizing the story here, and if you look downthread you'll see a participant in it talking up some really interesting work they're doing to surface and trace model bills, which is great and valuable.
That's a terrible show of confidence. What are the chances that the next plane to have an accident is carrying the CEO? What is the average expected punishment to the CEO for getting it wrong? It's probably less risk than BASE jumping.

I would rather there be guaranteed liability: have the execs set up a legal system to refund the entire order book and voluntarily plead guilty to federal charges in the event of another > 10 MAX deaths. But frankly, if Boeing is at fault for 340 deaths they should already be doing that.
absolutely. I am _right_now_ fighting ELB because we see traffic going to it but not coming out of it. If it were MY load balancer, I would just log in and tcpdump.
> You can make an egg into an omelet, but you can’t turn an omelet back into an egg.

It's missing an asterisk:

* without expenditure of energy
you just rename it I guess.

Like, Fly-by-wire is not new, airbus has been flying this way for 30 years, and had some bad early accidents because of it. The name of the system doesnt matter very much, so I fail to understand how the name would ground the airplane forever
Ongoing DNS hijackings target unpatched consumer routers
You, as a non-expert, can absolutely take that stance - but when it comes to planes I am comfortable demanding that mechanical units can be provably safe and secure and that there is a reasonably exhaustive understanding of those unit interactions that assures safety at some point.

There has been the mention that the customization of planes in a certain way exposed this error - that's the bullshit part. Planes are complicated, the testing of them is complicated, allowing your marketing/sales team arbitrarily inject feature flags into your life or death machine to maximize profits is silly.

Make a thing and prove it is safe, if you wish to modify said thing, then prove the new version is just as safe - and don't allow corners to be cut with something as dangerous and expensive as a plane, these things aren't cheap and they don't need to rapidly iterate versions, they can move slowly and safely and be held to a standard of provable safety that I agree would be unreasonable for software like windows or instagram.

As an aside, I would offer more leeway to Cessna, given their focus on the individual consumer market and emphasis of customization, if someone ordered the plane equivalent of the small pizza with half sausage no cheese and no sauce[1], but not too much more leeway due to the danger these planes can have on others.

[1] http://www.thesneeze.com/art/loose_art/dom8.jpg
It sounds like right after the first crash they knew what was going on but didn't bother to ground the fleet.

This stands out to me, and I have severely lost trust in Boeing and the FAA.

This plane should have not allowed to fly after the first crash, and Boeing knows this!

What a disaster - I will refuse to fly in any if these MAX planes going forward. I will not step my foot onboard.
How the 1 Percent Is Pulling America’s Cities and Regions Apart
Upvotes are actually ideal for an in-memory service like Redis that fsyncs less frequently. Even if you lose the last few reads (highly unlikely, with some care), it's not the end of the world.
Epistemic Network Analysis: visualizing patterns in coded data
Domestic cats (Felis catus) discriminate their names from other words
"The major difference between a thing that might go wrong and a thing that cannot possibly go wrong is that when a thing that cannot possibly go wrong goes wrong it usually turns out to be impossible to get at and repair." -- Douglas Adams
Thanks for sharing this. My brother has had lifelong symptoms like these, and recently discovered that heavy metals, combined with certain genetic factors, may be the cause. In his desperate search for answers he did go a fair way down the path of kooky alternative medicines, even anti-vax due to the connection with mercury, so I have to admit that I was very skeptical when he shared this new lead with me.

It's encouraging to get detailed accounts of similar experiences that have positive outcomes.
Interesting that the ethernet cable is unplugged
Ooooooo.

Is there such a thing as SSMTP/SIMAP (i.e. something that is to SMTP/IMAP as SFTP is to FTP - i.e. an SSH-based thing that sends and/or receives mail to/from a mail server)? It'd be badass to be able to literally just use my SSH keys to authenticate when sending/receiving mail.
Setting Up Kubernetes from Scratch
https://www.are.na
You wont be paying them equally on all goods. The small good will gain a cost advantage over the large good. The digital good will gain a cost advantage over the physical good. The good delivered during non peak hours will gain a cost advantage over the good delivered during rush hour. The good delivered by drone will gain a cost advantage over the good delivered by land vehicle.
So the procedure is too complex or otherwise lacking. It should reasonably accommodate pilot workload and stress under the situation it would be used.

It's interesting that the flight with three pilots in the cockpit survived.
That's the opposite to the actual conclusion of this story! He intentionally tried to flare, but the Airbus flight envelope protections disallowed it, so they hit the water harder than they ought to have.
I rowed crew in college and swam on a swim team as a kid, IMO the big difference is that in swimming strategically holding your breath allows you to swim faster. With rowing there are brief parts of the stroke when breathing is physically impossible(right at the catch, as you mentioned) and you have to inhale/exhale around that. Outside of that rowers aren't deliberately holding their breath while rowing, ever.
I'm not pro-China by any means, but I think your comment leaves very little room for any civil discussion.
So what now? No ethics board at all and it just proceeds without ethics oversight?

Isn’t that state worse than having someone you disagree with on some principles but in theory provide constructive criticism where the politics don’t intersect?

I mean, making some jobs obsolete or making decisions on recidivism etc I think are distinct from what a panelist thinks about an unrelated issue.

Moreover this person didn’t provide s majority view. Presumably the other panelists would have good arguments against her controversial views.
There is absolutely nothing "anti-innovation" about saying don't use technology designed for problems you don't have, for reasons you can't articulate.

Innovation is driven by addressing problems people actually have with new ideas. Chasing taillights is a very poor driver for it.
I haven't seen any mention yet specifically, are they being held liable for the deaths and forced into some financial penalties or has this case been relegated to the right-wing "The free market will adjust and discourage consumers" sort of liability?
I'm a German citizen working and living in France, I think I have a pretty good perspective on how hard it is to file taxes in both countries. There is the theory of how to go through the process and then there are the countless small obstacles that make it hard in practice. You don't get a thriving personal tax industry and millions of people complaining (it really is cliché at this point in France) because a trivial web-form takes care of everything.
eh honestly a lot AI people might give up publishing for a little while to work with/around goodfellow.
? This isn't true at all. You buy them at vending machines in the station.

You _can_ add your name to them if you want. You don't have to.
I think that makes sense if you're an extreme libertarian (left or right) or an an-cap, but it doesn't seem like it would be persuasive to anyone else. One reason laws are complicated is because the world is pretty complicated.
This is one of the coolest things I've seen posted on HN.
Show HN: Deima – Decentralised Image Hosting Using IPFS
This is the cause of Googler rage: https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/273360/how-african-american...
This is how hackintoshs boot! Love the independent discovery of ACPI hacking :)
If the main reason for your switch from sql to dynamo is that it is managed why not use aws aurora, aurora serverless, or any other more managed sql solution?

Now when many sql databases support json I don’t quite understand why you would use a documentdb for anything else then for actual unstructured data, or key value pairs that needs specific performance.

I used mongodb for a while now I’m 100% back in sql. Document dbs really increased my love for sql. But I’m also long from being a nosql expert and I never have to deal with data above a TB.
Even if there was an existential threat to Boeing the people making the decisions should have decided "we can't do this safely". They were never forced. Maybe they wouldn't get their million $ bonus - well tough titties. Plenty of people didn't get a 7 digit bonus this year.
I'm the author of the blog post. My first time here on Hacker News...very cool that it was picked up! I did my memory testing inside of Linux using memtester. I honestly want to do more thorough testing at some point to prove that it's actually working okay. If some of the PCI hardware is still paying attention to that overlapped range, weird stuff could definitely happen.
What happened is that they hacked on an inappropriate engine onto an old airframe, then they hacked a hidden automation to fix the prior hack.

The engineering fix is obvious, but management is the problem.
Think of it like a map/reduce over rows in a database.
> If you use the tickets you pay more, if you don't register your card, good luck when something goes wrong with it(and it will).

Counterpoint: No it won't, necessarily. I've never had an issue with one of these IC cards (edit: in over 10 years of using them). I've lost one, that's it. I've lost more of the paper tickets _inside_ the station than that.

Do you have actual data on the failure rates of IC cards?
I mostly agree with that, but there are a handful of Dota 2 pros that used to play Starcraft 1/2 or Warcraft 3 at high levels. Like someone else mentioned I believe there are a few pros that moved to Overwatch from another type of game.

I think the teamplay and drive many of those players have
is transferable. You have to let the video game run your life, like any other sporting professional. The mouse movement, keyboard habits and reaction speed are also all mostly transferable. At the end of the day I think its mostly determination to switch and time.
The rules may not change frequently for IRL sports but style of play definitely changes and can have the same result.

Chris Carter was tied for the 6th most home runs in baseball from 2013-2016. If he was born 10 years earlier he would have been one of the highest paid players in the sport. Instead he was cut after the 2016 season, was only a part time player in 2017, and hasn't played in the majors since. He wasn't any worse as a baseball player, just the idea of what defined a "good baseball player" changed.

Similar things have also happened in other sports recently. Basketball has shifted to be faster paced and more about spreading to floor to shoot 3-pointers reducing the importance of traditional centers. Football has become more of a passing game reducing the importance of running backs and all but eliminating the position of fullback. I don't follow hockey, but I have heard that the enforcer role is on its way to disappearing from the game.
It's linked in the second paragraph.

https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/why-how-capitalism-needs-refo...
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Thanks this book also looks good!
I'm in Chrome with...I don't know, some add-ons, and the whole thing is basically broken for me.

What an absolute POS gallery app.

Something wrong with using static HTML to display all of a couple dozen jpegs?
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/why-how-capitalism-needs-refo...
We moved some stuff from AWS back to on prems because it broke less often and in more obvious ways.
Reminds me of a scammer at work in the 90s (attws). She was ordering base stations 2 at a time, deploy 1, sell one. She made a couple million but kept going until someone noticed she should have a stock of base stations.
It was linked in the second paragraph, but here it is for direct linking: https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/why-how-capitalism-needs-refo...

To be fair, I think the OP should have just went straight to the source.
>eSports at this level reminds me of the old circus/carnival freak shows,

I don't think that's really a fair comparison. Most of the appeal of esports is just admiration for someone who's really good at something you enjoy doing.

If you played football or hockey competitively growing up, you have more appreciation of the sport than someone who never did and conversely, it's probably harder for someone who never played to really grasp the nuances or even understand the appeal beyond regional tribalism.
Datalog is much more reasonable than SQL.
Every time I have to write SQL more than 100 lines I go crazy.
I would love to know as well.
This value are relative to the individual, not everyone value human life and dog life the same way. That's just reality.
That's awesome! I'm not sure how I could have gotten Windows to work in that situation. :-) Glad you enjoyed the post.
Can you actually quantify any of this or are you asking me to trust you? What I gave is an objective standard, what you've given so far is "trust me I'm right".
Is there any real momentum for any kind of change at the US Federal level? Do politicians talk to you? What's the buzz?
I have written a quick proof-of-concept decentralised image host(ing solution) using IPFS' in-browser implementation[0].

It is, as you might guess, not as friction-free as one would expect from other traditional services (e.g. Imgur) but I found it surprisingly easy to develop and to use it. Check the repo I've linked and give deima a try yourself! https://boramalper.github.io/deima/image/#QmW8j8Dhhh3mhedGi2...

It's getting quite late here (2:43 AM) but I would happily respond to your questions & comments in the morning.

[0]: https://github.com/ipfs/js-ipfs
Hoping that that is like hoping for going back to when there was no income tax. The government gets too much benefit from the tracking, there is no way they'd ever give it up, just like the income tax.
I don't feel like copy/pasting all of our comments to each other, so I'd appreciate it if you didn't do that, thanks.
Men took their jobs. At the time, programming wasn't held in such high esteem by the general populace since it wasn't far removed from the menial busy work of shuffling around card stacks and tape reels. When it became more lucrative, the demographics shifted.
Looks like it'd be enough to add a "color: black;" right after the "background: white;" on line 13. I'm sure the page author would appreciate you emailing them a patch :)
Faster Mirror: https://web.archive.org/web/20190404234511/http://www.larryl...
btw, we are hiring research engineers here in our Dublin Lab. Send me an email if interested: luca.costabello@accenture.com
https://www.accenture.com/ie-en/careers/jobdetails?src=&id=0...
I recall the story was that the codes were turned over because some ships had been sunk. That fits. You got the codes late.
the attron() used is attron(A_REVERSE | COLOR_PAIR(n)). The OR operator is used to combine attributes in curses.
> But you should put on cologne after your shower.

I agree with everything else but this. The people that wear cologne I know ALL wear too much of it, and its really offputting. Don't trust that you'll be different, especially if taking advice from this list. Just be clean.
Yeah, I see your point, this is I suppose about what is called the destination charger network. This is a last mile situation with a lot of capital needed to build out a full network, which will make it more difficult for Tesla when competing with open standard charging networks. In Europe it looks a lot better, because the model 3 can use any CCS charger. I think we’ll end up with a few percentage points of all parking spots having 10-50kW chargers, especially for places where people tend to stop off on journeys. It’s starting to happen, but is a long way off what’s needed. It will be a lot easier in some places than others because of geography and population density. In some places plug in hybrids will undoubtedly be an important part of the market for a long time.

Where I am, 300 miles will get you almost across the country, so it’s a different calculation from yours!
So I've worked with AWS and with our internal clusters as a dev. My experience has been that I have to make work-arounds for both, but at least with AWS, I don't have to spell out commands explicitly to the junior PEs.

EDIT: I should be clear, our PEs are generally pretty good, but because their product isn't seen by upper management as the thing which makes money, they're perpetually understaffed.
So it's a bit like tinder with arbitrary notions and not just I like you. Pretty cool idea actually. (I didn't mean the tinder comment negatively, I also think Tinder is a fantastic idea)
Subspace communication?!
Sorry but if you don't know how to use/manage your AWS stack, that's not on AWS, that's on you.

A bad workman blames his tools.