skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I find it amazing that there is no mention in the report of this fact. The investigators obviously know that they turned the cutout switches back to normal mode. Assuming there really was no mention of it on the CVR strongly suggests that it was the very inexperienced first officer who did this (the switches are on his side) without getting concurrence from the captain.

If you carefully study the graphs in the report, the plane was really not in bad shape up until this point. They were 7000 feet above ground and climbing. They were going too fast, but again, this is the fault of the crew. If they would have not flipped the cutout switch and taken stock in the situation and backed the throttles down, it is quite possible this flight would have ended very differently.
> the obvious example being transgender women destroying biological women at sport.

If trans women were destroying cis women at sport, maybe, but in general that's not happening with any consistency.

This (journal) article goes into some of the issues and why it's not always clear: https://bjsm.bmj.com/content/39/10/695
EFF Threat Lab Dives Deep into Surveillance Technologies–and Their Use and Abuse
So, do you know as a fact that plots in other countries are less passionate or have less training?

Option C: crew resource management and by extension culture. Take a look at one of (if not the) worst aviation wrecks in history: the Tenerife disaster. A Dutch 747 (KLM) and American 747 (PanAm) collided and became engulfed in a gigantic fireball. The biggest factor was that nobody was willing to speak up or acknowledge in either cockpit that there was uncertainty and an unsafe situation. Yes these are two western countries, but after the wreck western aviation culture changed dramatically as a significant emphasis was put on what amounts to "see something? say something!!" (a.k.a. crew resource management, CRM).

CRM has been very slow to trickle down to, for instance, East Asian airlines where deference to authority has a much stronger hold. Take a look at the Asiana wreck at SFO. Two pilots in the cockpit were repeatedly calling out significant mistakes, but the pilot flying ignored them. Neither of the other pilots took control of the situation and the plane was flown straight into the ground.

Training, as well, seems to be something American pilots are pretty prickly about. After a Continental regional airline (Colgan Air) wrecked the solution was deemed to be requiring more pilot training (despite the fact that experience was NOT the problem in this crash). For all the belly aching about the guy in the left set of the Ethiopian Air jet having only a few hundred hours — up until 2013 the FAA only required 250 hours of experience to get a certificate allowing commercial flight (ATP). The requirement now is 1,500 hours, but it sure doesn't seem like American air travel has become dramatically safer since 2013.

I don't think passion is the right word, but the USA has a much stronger general aviation culture than many other counties. Someone living in America is going to have many more opportunities to fly a civilian plane than someone living in, for instance, South Korea. The military experience may even be detrimental as it's often going to focus on strict hierarchies (see CRM) when this may create safety problems.

Edit: I want to add that Indonesian aviation is notoriously unsafe and most Indonesian airlines have been banned from EU airspace (with some allowed back more recently). Lion Air, in particular, has a bad record of wrecking planes and lots of allegations about falsifying maintenance records. Hell, there is that one Lion Air captain who posts cockpit videos on youtube (including at least one showing some startlingly sloppy behavior). But if you look at flight 610 specifically you'll start to see a lot of things that would put even the best pilots in a bad situation. Even looking at the data from flightaware should've provoked a bit of an "are these pilots REALLY that bad?" response. A certain amount of initial suspicion was warranted, especially since pilot error is an extremely common cause of crashes even in western countries. A more continued drive to vilify the JT610 pilots or excuse Boeing's behavior is, IMO, out of line.
Facebook Got Caught Phishing for Friends
You realize that "being wrong" is not the same as "lying" right?

Every news source reported on the inconsistencies in Jussie Smollett's story, and continued to update their reporting as the facts turned against him.

They're newspapers, not oracles.
Because the preliminary report contains data showing that electric trim was re-engaged.
Slack Outage
I think they do, but I suspect that their goals are bad, which is why we have the world we have now.
if anyone's curious about the unspecific complaints here, it transpires that the actual complaint is synapse had a bug where it some endpoints were called with a trailing slash when the spec said it shouldn't have one... it got fixed in https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/pull/4840 and https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/pull/4935.
I was a national level 5k runner in Canada

I often have doctors tell me that my resting heart rate was too low for the machine to read. The lowest I’ve clocked is 34 bpm.

I assume there’s a safe limit to how low a heart rate can go, which makes me wonder what the limit to cardiovascular performance in running is.
Would it be that the very fact that we are observing it, is making it chose a direction (Which can only be forward) --Might it be possible to exist in a state where observation does not affect the observed?
1.5M for a brand new house in Mountain View ?
That's a bargain.

/s
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Really? I feel like I have similar uh reasons for needing this. Thank you for letting me know that it's possible!
But it's hard to argue that flying a plane load of passengers on autopilot from the same 4 airports for hours on end remotely gives you the same skill level as flying low level, in high performance and often in formation with other aircraft would.

Fine, I'll argue that. Southwest pilots do just that because Southwest is primarily a short haul airline. They do more takeoffs and landings on a daily basis than nearly any other airline and often from relatively small airports. If you're flying for them you're going to routinely practice the most dangerous parts of the flight. IIRC Southwest is less draconian about mandating autopilot usage than many other airlines.

They have a reputation for being aggressive about timing (as my friend put it, you never want to be stuck in front of a Southwest pilot) and yet they have an enviable safety record.
Your argument would be more interesting to read if it didn't include personal attacks (which are against HN rules).
Google to pull plug on AI ethics council
Nginx uses a similar optimization with a configurable threshold defaulted to 1kb.
Being 14 years old and getting to experience and see it evolve first-hand with a Commodore (at home), the Apple II (at school) and 286, 386, 486 and Pentium era with a Diamond Multimedia 3dfx Voodoo card was amazing. People who missed it either being busy with other things in life or weren't born yet, believe me, as a technologist being there from the beginning of the home computer market till about 2000 was amazing.

One thing I'm very thankful for in life. It hasn't been the same since around the turn of the century, the magic and mystery is not like it was with PCs or game consoles in decades prior. The advancements were just leaps and bounds every few years.

It sparked your imagination more than things today, because creativity for some reason reduced without technical limitations. Today, within any reasonable definition, an artist's vision can be fulfilled. There's really nothing left for the end user to imagine or fill in the gaps (think Zork).

Not to be crass but this is a relatable example for many I'm sure- it's no different than finding a Playboy magazine back then, as opposed to extreme, explicit hardcore websites today. There's no mystery at all there, and it's not really an upgrade from your imagination being used at least a little bit.

I've actually rediscovered books because most media today (as in movies and sitcoms, not THAT sort of media) is so poor quality. It's really all about the writing, and I struggle to find games and films that are at the 20th century or prior quality level. Books can be exquisite entertainment, and leave plenty for your imagination to run free with. Which for me, is what it's all about. That's the joyful part to entertainment, or at least a part of it that I find critical.
Yep thanks! I've been taking a combination Calcium+Phosphorus+Magnesium+VitD supplement [1], which seems to have been beneficial.

Lead seems to be related to both calcium and phosphorus deficiency, so supplementing both whilst detoxing lead seems worthwhile.

[1] https://iherb.com/pr/enzymatic-therapy-calcium-with-magnesiu...
The root problem seems to be FAA not having qualified engineers to thoroughly test the planes Boeing makes.
Boeing pays better, so it hires the best engineers. FAA pays less so it gets second-grade engineers. And we all pay by flying in unsafe planes.
What's wrong with Chromium?

It's a honest question. I understand you'd say that about Chrome, but I thought that Chromium being open source it isn't exactly in the same bag.
What's wrong with chromium?
Second order thinking was thought further by Hans Jonas [1], a philosopher known for his contribution to environmentalism. In his book "The Imperative of Responsibility"[2] he argues that because of our technological breakthroughs (e.g. medicine) it's so easy to make impacts beyond your control that thinking through whatever you do has to become the core of a new ethic.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hans_Jonas

[2] https://www.press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/I/bo59...
Same w/ my Voodoo2. I keep meaning to frame it.
fly into the ground at 40 degrees doing 600mph will do that.
Dan Robbins, artist behind paint-by-numbers phenomenon dies at 93
> Thanks! Really appreciate it! Yeah eventually we'd like to provide a writeup of the data and algorithm that is accessible - something like: https://algorithms-tour.stitchfix.com/

Whoa never saw that before, fancy as. Yeah, I feel that a nice writeup would lend credibility to your algos.

> Did you find the scoring and guided experience helpful or would you rather just a big list of criteria you can filter from? We played around with the former but think the latter may actually be more appealing to more people. That way compatibility is binary, either it matches your criteria or not.

You see this is where it gets tricky. The people that hang around HN tend to be more technical and likely used to more convoluted UIs that allow them to be efficient and flexible.

At the same time your market is likely to be less techie so I fear that my opinion may be biased and even harmful.

That being said I supposed having a clean and simple default with an advanced alternative a click away would satisfy both crowds though the latter can wait post-launch so you can see what the feedback is like.

As a quick note I think even the simple version would benefit from 'justification' behind the recommendation, i.e., we suggested Hawaii because while expensive it has top-notch surfing (assuming they selected that), is safe, LGBTQ-friendly, etc. Even if you skip the numbers you make it easy for people to compromise on things and rethink their choices before trying again. Otherwise I feel it'd become an arduous trial-n-error for people to get the confirmation bias they're looking for :P.

> Rome2Rio are definitely a company we'd like to learn from and partner with. There's a surprising amount of aussie travel startups (adioso, wotif etc) that have done well.

Lol something about living thousands of miles away from most destinations motivates that sort of startup I suppose :D.
No resistfingerprinting, or any meaningful about:config entries.
Cloudfront is similar [1]:

> The file size must be between 1,000 and 10,000,000 bytes.

[1]: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonCloudFront/latest/Develope...
There are other companies trying to put cell towers in space so you can use a regular cell phone.

https://techcrunch.com/2019/02/25/ubiquitilink-advance-means...

I don't buy that a cell phone has the power transmit to LEO even with clear skies and line of sight, but seems interesting.
a pretty meaningless metric without knowing what an "event" is.
this is just a total saving face scenario. he even mentions that after the lion air flight they knew about this (i would claim they knew about it long before that anyway) and have been working on a fix. then why the cold response still after the ethiopian airlines crash?

furthermore, this is summed up by just "we'll fix it in software". hurray, everything we touch including cars and airplanes are now subscribing to the "we'll fix it in software" approach. failed a safety brake test? fix it with software. kill a few hundred people by an automatic system crashing a plane? fix it with software.

i really hope society wakes up and SLOWS DOWN. we're trying to move so fast, with hardly any reason at all, and in doing so, we are throwing away all ability to properly design, build, and god forbid, think about things. i don't know what it's going to take, but it feels out of control. everywhere you look is people hurrying and hurrying to release, to productize, to ship it, etc. whenever i ask "why?" to schedules, there has NEVER been a clear answer. it always boils down to basically "just because".

in addition, we simply have too much laziness and greed taking place, which is what added to boeing's misstep here. they tried pulling a fast one on buyers (and basically accomplished it) to make a few bucks towards that everlasting capitalist dream.
fwiw, the linked MSC https://github.com/matrix-org/matrix-doc/pull/1915 solves the problem, is merged, and is implemented in https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/pull/4982.

Yes, it would have been great to have done this sooner, but unfortunately fixing a bug which only impacts deactivating accounts when using custom identity servers took a while to get to the top of the todo list.
Mind posting sources for your claims of ethical compromise?
Thanks! They definitely didn't teach us to do it that way when I was a kid, but that was back in the dark ages. I'll have to try it to see if it works for me.
Right around 2002. http://www.gotw.ca/publications/concurrency-ddj.htm
Do you not think that closed source software allows bug reports? That's news to every closed source op in the world.

Every news source has bug reports too. They're called "letters to the editor".
Fortunately modern Quake engines handle making it look closer to the software renderer in those regards...
Much as I am a happy user of Mozilla products especially Firefox, incidents such as this makes me lose respect for the organization.
U.S. blocks Amazon efforts to stop shareholder votes on facial recognition
I don't think the /s is really required. It actually is a bargain.
This site suggests IceCat, Ungoogled Chromium, Iridium or Pale Moon: https://spyware.neocities.org/articles/browsers.html

The also have a guide for enhancing privacy in Firefox
I believed you right until you said you let him use your personal Apple account...
On the other hand, if you're taking something from Google Translate and tattooing it on your chest, whether or not GNU Unifont is 100% accurate in its glyph rendering is the least of your problems, surely.
They're remarkably scummy. They swapped out advertisements for a cryptocurrency scam.

Maybe the browser itself is OK. I've never used it.
And a lot of the time keeping X running is simpler than configuring and tuning this service.
yea you can remove that /s....
... and I used to live in Darien, IL which was named after Darien, CT
I remember that, forgot about it, and now that you reminded me, hoped it turned out to be Mike Rowe from Dirty Jobs. Alas, it is not.
Why are you dismissing the data the report contains indicating that the flight crew was unable to trim manually, that the column forces were incredibly high, and that the captain repeatedly indicated he could not maintain elevator trim without the co-pilot's aid, then?

Your responses have been incredibly selective about which parts of the report you take as gospel and which you handwave away as "speculation".

From where I'm sitting it appears you've started out by picking a contrarian conclusion you like ("the plane was safe once STAB CUTOUT was set cutout, and the crew could have maintained altitude indefinitely at that point, but fatally fucked up by re-engaging electronic trim to try to trim the stabilizer"), and to maintain that a priori conclusion you've consistently ignored the data and parts of the transcript that indicate that was very likely impossible.
Following your line of reasoning, wouldn't the supposedly better engineers build more safe planes, relegating the poor dunces to only validating the designs from their intellectual superiors? In your hypothetical, they aren't paying more for safety dodgers.
> Just try setting your Firefox browser to a blank page with no requests on startup and watching the Wireshark log if you think otherwise

OK, so I just did this, and I don't really see what the issue is. Looking at Wireshark, I see requests for:

* detectportal.firefox.com, which is used to detect whether you're connected to a captive portal network and need to sign in before you can connect to the internet. As far as I'm aware, no personal information is transmitted as part of this request, and there's apparently a pref to disable it [0]

* A couple of requests for OCSP certificate validation [1], which seems like a useful feature, and is also pretty easy to disable if you really don't want it.

* A request to download.mozilla.org and another one to download.cdn.mozilla.net, which looks like it's checking whether an update is available.

I don't really see a problem with any of these?

[0] https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1307867
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Online_Certificate_Status_Prot...
Requests like what, updating extensions? Telemetry? There's quite a bit that ships on by default but that can be disabled in about:config. What proof do you have they're data mining besides FUD?
old rental skis as a bench... the list goes on and on and it's charming every time!

My only quibble is that for resorts like Winter Park (3000+ skiable acres) compared to Nordic Valley (100 skiable acres) the larger resorts and their expansive boundaries require complex interfaces and even then they're seldom all that useful.

I grew up in Colorado but navigating the runs and maps of the big resorts has become meaningless given the scale and my own human failings, and despite my historical experience and knowledge.

Nordic Valley could display the entire resort as a heatmap indicating snow-depth and skiability because it is a small and compact set of runs. While when you take a place like Brighton or Vail or Breck and the sheer scale of the resort makes displaying meaningful data very difficult.
> smarmy, narcissistic, rooting for blood, lizard brain, macho guy, flippantly, cheeky

Just letting you know about a blind spot you may have. These words I'm highlighting are the exact opposite of factual - they are all your opinion that the author of the article is full of himself, and for your personal growth, I'd encourage you to try not to assume that about people.
I meant division of functionality rather than horizontal scaling. For instance, all of Netflix consumer facing features making up the 'Netflix app' is a full 1.0. If we subdivide the functionality into pieces the number of functional pieces determines the fraction of the whole application it provides.

But.. if you have 10^6 total instances I don't think anyone would object to you calling them micro.
Everything you mentioned is covered in a Pluralsight video.

But you criticize AWS based on a few articles and hardly any real world experience?
FWIW older generations' experience with cars is that they are unreliable money pits after 10+ years. That was true until relatively recently.
Do you still remember the iPhone Slow Down Scandal? How much does it cost customer?
One of the best features of the Voodoos was that they were a cheap, early-adopter way to get dual monitor debugging. Full-screen debugger on one monitor. Full-screen game in a breakpoint on the other.
Newly developed robotic system can feed people who need someone to help them eat
A snarky attack on my professional ability is an excessive response to my offering another way of viewing the issue that your original comment had overlooked. This would be a case of first impression so no one has the answer. Not even you.

I appreciate your concern and I assure you my knowledge of antitrust law is plenty fresh.

But next time you're near a law library check out the Third Restatement of the Law of Unfair Competition. I helped write it.
That sounds like a bug to me.
Alpha Beta pruning results in the same answer as classical Minimax search.

Alpha Beta pruning is an optimization: there's no need to search the whole tree to know that a branch can be pruned (but still result in the same answer as minimax).

Minimax with Alpha Beta pruning gives you the best position for a given depth. ("Best" as defined by Minimax to the same depth without pruning).
"[T]he inclusion of a drone company executive had raised debate over use of Google’s AI for military applications."

Lovely.
Thanks for taking the time to write this!

As you mentioned, it looks like it will be difficult to get a referral for a full-body scan as a healthy person :\

Nonetheless, I found your explanation on printing such objects really helpful and the tutorials for 3D Slicer you've linked are really cool. While fully body scan looks impossible, I was involved in an accident several years ago and the hospital had taken CT scans of my brain to ensure it wasn't damaged. I will visit them to check if they can share the DICOM data of that scan (if they even have it by now) and will try to process it with 3D Slicer.
The value in the terminal is you get access to their chat rooms. Those are good, I am not speaking from first-hand experience but from what I saw other analysts doing at their desk and how they find trade ideas, but it's better to make some money through a career and use that to funnel your trading. The MBA would open many doors and can increase your salary, but with all careers, networking is crucial.

If you want to make money, come trade with me, no Bloomberg terminal needed. ;)
1.5 initial tag. If market picks back up, it will go to highest bidder.
I've never heard of Nicholas Fandos, Michael S. Schmidt, or Mark Mazzetti. I don't suspect them of anything horrible, but neither do they have "reputations" on which I can rely.

Two of these people have multiple Pulitzers between them. Schmidt is on tv practically daily. These are not low quality tips to no-name reporters - that 'fact' you made up to fit your preferred narrative. Or at least, did not bother to fact-check!