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> They could have just kept flying. They weren't in any immediate danger and had time to reach out for help. Worst case scenario, you fly straight for the next 30 minutes while ascending to 20-30k until you figure out what's going on.

The stabilizer's trimmed down. The pilot is repeatedly requesting the co-pilot's assistance in maintaining elevator trim up, and says to the co-pilot at 05:43:04 that the pitch is not enough to keep the plane level. They're well above Vmo at this point.

Per the Seattle Times coverage, a Swedish pilot simulation of the conditions could barely control the column to stay level: https://www.seattletimes.com/business/boeing-aerospace/boein...

> In the test, the two European pilots in the 737 simulator set up a situation reflecting what happens when the pre-software fix MCAS is activated: They moved the stabilizer to push the nose down. They set the indicators to show disagreement over the air speed and followed normal procedures to address that, which increases airspeed.

> They then followed the instructions Boeing recommended and, as airspeed increases, the forces on the control column and on the stabilizer wheel become increasingly strong.

> After just a few minutes, with the plane still nose down, the Swedish 737 training pilot is exerting all his might to hold the control column, locking his upper arms around it. Meanwhile, on his right, the first officer tries vainly to turn the stabilizer wheel, barely able to budge it by the end.

They're absolutely not climbing 14,000 feet in that condition. The control forces on the column in this situation are absurd. Their arms couldn't have held them level for more than a few minutes max.

Retracting the stabilizer was their only option.
What vkou did can easily be done with either a used car or a new car -- go to a dealership, see the inventory, test drive the car, buy it and go home with it all in the same day.

In fact, it is easier to do this with new cars because the dealers are more likely to have a car with your preferred combination of option packages in stock.
Do you actually know what rent seeking means? Hint: it involves the government.
Apple can probably poach all the AI people that don't want to work for a weapons contractor. Doubt Apple's going to be moving beyond consumer products anytime soon.
The author recently quit Google[0], so I believe he's unemployed. I think that's the joke (also, he really likes his memes).

[0] https://mobile.twitter.com/mcmillen/status/10863837264504053...
My predictions?

- Boeing will lose 10s of billions of dollars because of this in damages, lost contracts, and redesign costs.

- Their CEO will resign.

- The FAA will revamp many procedures to vastly increase certification costs and not allow these types of same-class-rating bullshit.

- The FAA or similar EU agencies may slap some fine against Boeing

- The families will sue and win a large settlement.

- One or more engineers may commit suicide. (which would be itself tragic)

- Middle management will pay zero or nearly zero price.

- No one will be internally fired by Boeing as the problem is systemic.

- No criminal charges.

Many of these things will only happen with a sustains public relations compaign against Boeing, congressional hearings, persistent news articles, documentaries highlighting the harrowing crash, etc.

EDIT: I’d say there’s a small chance even that a system called MCAS never flies again, even if that means the entire MAX concept has to be shelved.

If the MAX can fly without MCAS but just under a new type rating, that could be the way they go. Boeing simply has not been successful introducing computer-moderated flight controls and envelopes the way that Airbus has over the last decade (and those lessons were hard learned too).
50% off is understandable ? Where can I find such forgiving clients? My clients lawyers would eat me alive if I would start to bill them in such manner. They dont want to hear about uncertainty - they are buying professionals and this kind of estimations looks to them like we dont know what we are doing.
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A perverse incentive I've noticed at almost every company I've worked for is that the guy who spends every day slugging it out in a bash terminal to keep a ten year old service running won't ever get promoted. However, but the guy who tries to rewrite it in Apache Flamboozle and AWS Fuzzworks will get promoted long before his house of cards tumbles down.

The end result is that not only is the routine stuff boring but it's also career-limiting.
I use ebooks and physical books, but I am regretful of some physical books mainly because:

1) They take a lot of space. I have bookshelf's full of them.

2) They can get damaged by humidity and mold.

3) I am prospecting travelling/moving/migrating, and I will likely sell/donate my books in this case.

That being said I want to support the authors I read, and wish I could buy the digital book directly from the author (100% of the money goes to him/her), and get an electronic copy.
Curious, in what region was your prior experience with this scam?

Because I'd heard this was rampant and sophisticated in China – with fraudsters being very advanced in their ability to make "junk inside" devices indistinguishable from authentic broken devices, via any cursory/external analysis. But, until this story, I hadn't heard of it at scale in the US. (And here, as well, it seems the high-quality fakes are coming from China.)
It seems the easy win here is for everyone who gets packaged to walk into the studio the next day and say "cut out the agent and we will take the agency's 20% and give you back 5%"

If acted on like a union (Equity) then the whole process would stop in a month
If they were buying authentic used iPods why is it fraud?
Scientists say they can make light travel 30x faster
All jets with low wings and underslung engines (most modern airliners) experience a pitch-up moment from engine thrust, and trim is used to compensate. When the plane is being flown in some steady state, pilots adjust the trim until no force on the controls is required to maintain that state - they're not getting a specific setting from a table or memory.

What's different is that at low speed, high thrust, and high angle of attack, the elevator of the MAX does not always have enough pitch moment to reduce the angle of attack.

I'm inclined to say having an elevator that's not effective enough to recover from all the stall conditions regulators test for without help from the trim is probably a flaw. Whether there's a good technical reason the elevator couldn't be more effective (probably just bigger), a regulatory reason (some rule says it's not a 737 anymore if they change it), or a non-technical reason (e.g. more shared parts to make it cheaper), I can't guess.
> Lung capacity can only be improved a little bit with training (we're talking 5-10% range)

Do you have a source for this, because it doesn't sound right to me. For one, the packing technique has been shown to add an extra 10-15%. So right off the bat, there's a training technique that can increase lung capacity by more than your figure. Also, my anecdote matches GPs...since I started training freediving, exercising my diaphragm on a regular basis and practicing three-zone breathing with the corresponding stretches, the amount I can exhale into a balloon has increased significantly.
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This isn't agile (or lite), this is just ad hoc development with 1 month timeboxing.
To me, it feels like the complete lack of a deliberative process implies that the legislators are not actually providing meaningful oversight in the slightest.

Sure, oftentimes special interest groups will understand an issue in much more detail than a legislator (who almost by definition must be a jack-of-all-trades). But, it should also be clear that lobbying groups will very often use this knowledge for their personal gain, at the expense of other stakeholders. In my opinion, a good legislator would critically evaluate legislation, make changes, consult with other stakeholders, etc. Changes to the legislation imply an interest in the effects of the legislation (good or bad). But to instead allow legislation to be signed with your name with no, or few, changes to the text, shows that the legislator is willing to give the lobbyist everything they want, with no deliberation or push back.

That feels particularly suspect to me.
I had a bad times with the genius bar too. I don't think it has anything to do with the scam.
Do you only use cash wherever you go? And no cell phone? Because you can already be tracked by credit cards and cell phones anyway.

You will be tracked, you might as well get some benefit from it, right?
Were you making a joke, or just fake-complaining? Five is not a lot either.
Model legislation is written by groups with money. It is pushed by groups with money. It is passed because moneyed interests get it passed; so that the laws get them more money.

Which laws should get passed? Should they be the best for the electorate, or the best for whichever company has the most money?

It seems like you want "experts" who oppose your best interests to make the rules. What an odd thing to want.
> Trust me, no programmer loves their work in the same way a gamer loves gaming.

I can't, sorry. I'm pretty into playing games (though by no means a "gamer" in the sense that it controls my life, etc.) but I will often choose to program rather than play games in my free time.
" there are few opportunities left for me (mainly due to age, mid 30s now)"

This is just not true, even in tech.
We're sensitive about these things. It's difficult living in the shadow of California.
> And as regards the malign influence of corrupt special interests --- at least model legislation is potentially traceable. How is it better for a chemical company and a legislative staff to strike a deal in a smoke-filled back room and then have the staff write a bill de novo?

If Chevron + Exxon + BP pool their resources to write model legislation, they can very likely create 'bulletproof' protections for themselves that can be pushed to all 50 states simultaneously (or as many as have receptive legislatures). If they're on a state-by-state negotiation, it adds friction that I personally feel is very healthy.

This is a similar argument about Citizen's United -- everyone has a right to speak but Goldman Sachs can afford much more speech than the average person...
>Whether they were harassing is a matter of opinion

The entire event is on video. The boys are waiting for their bus. They are repeatedly insulted by a group of adult men who use racial and homophobic insults against the boys, who do not respond in kind but do talk with the adults harassing them. Into the fracas enters Phillips, who approaches the boys, and bangs a drum in the face of one boy. Most mainstream news outlets then smear the children as racists who surrounded and harassed Phillips without regard for the events on film.

If you want to describe this as a matter of different opinions, then I think you're basically in the camp of just disregarding reality and making up whatever is most pleasant to your perspective.
>I don't know why it is but people seem much more interested in the tech than in the value they can create.

Well, for some engineers who don't have much say in product development, the amount of value they can create is bounded by the business specification/deliverables they have to produce (and maybe equity or lack thereof plays a role here). However, if the architecture is considered their responsibility, then there's a lot of fun in using _shiny new toys_ even if it's overkill and will incur unnecessary technical debt. It's fun to overengineer things.

Not saying it's a good thing or even professional behaviour, but I understand it.
What, you think they haven't already done that?

Many toll highways use license plate recognition to do billing for non-transponder cars.
No. The CCP has literal ownership in Chinese firms in the form of equity.
there's probably a correlation somewhere there. Usually if you do a big hit in the tech world, you have hard work in your DNA.
Estimates seem to be a common topic in replies.

If you can accurately estimate how long a software task will take, you should have already made a reusable component or automation to generate that code.

Estimates are meaningless. I've seen PhDs waste endless hours faffing with estimate-calculating spreadsheets.

Fundamentally, the universe is unpredictable. Chaotic and complex systems require their starting conditions to be measured to an infinite level of precision to be predictable. The Heisenberg principle means this is, as far as physics can tell, impossible.

On a more practical macro level, a complex adaptive system becomes unpredictable once three feedback loops are present (the three body problem is related).

Modern computer systems are unpredictable because we cannot predict the interplay between levels of abstraction.

It does not matter how smart you are. Unless you have perfect knowledge of all levels of abstraction in the system below you, even in a macroscopic sense you cannot predict the future. Precise estimates will be inaccurate.

Confidence ranges and superprobabilities are of some use. Discrete and precise estimates are an utter waste of time at best, and are dangerous and misleading at worst.

EDIT

Written on a mobile waiting for plane take-off, hence lack of citations. For more on complex adaptive systems, I recommend the works of Murray Gell-Mann and the research output of the Santa Fe Institute, particularly Scott E. Page.
Half Bakery: Communal database of ideas for products/features
The light rail and trolleys in Seattle do accept cash at Westlake and similar large stations. Busses do as well...
This is, logistically, a superior solution. The trouble is collecting taxes: we're pretty bad at it. Even in San Francisco and Silicon Valley, transit is perennially under-funded by wealthy tech firms' taxes and over-utilized by their employees.
Oyster came first, and is still useful for tourists and other people who for whatever reason don't have contactless cards. And you can have prepaid season tickets on Oyster cards, which works for a lot of commuters
Yes, I too love paying exorbitant fees for the privilege of taking money out of an ATM.

I pay $0 for debit transactions, but anywhere from $1 to $4 for an ATM withdrawal.
I used to agree with this, but then I started to look for a new job without knowing en-vogue frameworks. Now I make sure I include some fashionable tech, its important for people's careers.
Not to mention the networked telemetry systems present in almost all modern cars. GPS is standard, as are "smart" entertainment consoles. Our cars already generate tons of data that can be used to track us, I'd be far more comfortable with recording a single data point on a toll road than I would having every single one of my movements tracked.
I'm not putting Tesla down for not making as many cars as century-old conglomerates. They don't even make as many cars as Chinese and Korean manufacturers that were founded in the 1980's. In fact, the century-old conglomerates themselves manufacture fewer cars than Toyota and Volkswagen.
even on something with dependencies? i.e., with a few requires or ES2016 imports?
> brief, repeated periods of 5-8Gs of longitudinal and lateral acceleration

Where does this acceleration come from? I'm sure the acceleration due to speeding up/slowing down is much less than this, as is that produced by turning?
Wow, that's, like, meta-weasel-words. Well done.

Absolutely, a story based entirely on odious unattributable anonymous innuendo like that we see here should not be published. If the "government officials and others" want this important information to get out, they can still talk to Rep. Schiff. He will repeat anything that hypes up RussiaRussiaRussia, and he's on TV all the time. If, in fact, he isn't the "government official" to which this piece refers in the first place.

I don't say this because I support Trump or voted for him (never did, never would). I say it because this whole multiyear journalistic dumpster fire has guaranteed his reelection. TFA is all about putting out the flames, which I do support.
>SQL can be managed with, say, RDS. Sure. But it's not the same level of managed as Dynamo (or Firebase or something like that).

It's managed at every shared hosting in the world.
I've been on HN for years, and lately some of the downvotes have really been blowing my mind. See this post I made a couple of months ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18937864.

Someone actually downvoted and argued against me that their dog's life is more valuable than "a stranger's". I have no doubt it's the same people downvoting your comment. I can't tell if these people are just really good trolls, or they truly don't value human life (including loss of life in an airplane crash).
> Standardizing a fare payment system just does the same for mass transit.

No it doesn't. Japan has a standardized mass transit fare payment system, covering close enough to the entire country, and you can get in on that with a card purchased, and topped up, completely anonymously in cash.
The costs associated with "maintaining" usually involve the possibility of a 3am call for whoever is in charge of maintaining. Orchestrating can be done ahead of time, during your 9-5, and that's super valuable. It's still a lot of work, but it's work that can be done on my time, at my pace.
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> Historically, those groups melted into a shared American identity

That list of originating cultures stands out to me for what it excludes: slaves and descendants thereof, native Americans and hispanics.

Perhaps that's what you're getting at, the American identity is risk-taking, ie those that would willingly leave everything behind for the chance at a better life. (Too bad for those who get left behind or the weak, if they're not part of our group they can just get trampled in the process.)

> Starting with identitarian politics in the 60s that process has stalled

Identitarian politics, such as the civil rights movement? Women's lib? All a Soviet plot to destroy America, obviously.
> Most social networks would see rewarding early adopters as a benefit rather than a drawback.

But in this particular case, they weren't the early adopters...

The real "early adopter" was robbed of his name, for a (imho) is a lame excuse.
Funding legislation includes more than just writing it.
I call it S1 (simple 1, arrogant and ignorant) vs S2 (simple 2, which is elegant and informed), but I’ve only found it possible to attain S2 after navigating the complexity between these two points, which implies that I’m often guilty of S1 thinking as the genesis of getting to S2, if I have the sand for it.
It's not just Boeing, though (not that this exculpate them in any way), but cheap airlines insist in flying 737, but also have demand for more efficiency. This plane was trying to satisfy that impossible "I want the exact same plane but better" demand, so that the other greedy bunch of assholes that are airline execs wouldn't have to spend in training mechanics and pilots because the plane they're flying has another name now.
And people did. And other people celebrated. Context is a lot.
Just to add an extra element to what you've already said. It's quite likely that the pilots themselves would have been reluctant to accept another entry level narrow body jet. In the current climate it's often the pilots themselves who are paying for the type rating, at least the first one they acquire.
https://www.satcom.guru/2019/04/stabilizer-trim-loads-and-ra... does a pretty good job of summarizing it I think. It sounds incredibly difficult to do.
They could have had "check for AoA disagree" as part of the pre-flight checklist though - I read somewhere that in at least 1 of the MAX crashes, the AoA vanes disagreed on the ground before departure.
The point is with a managed service, none of your problems will be with the service. That's what the managed service is selling.
> However, a lot of the time you don't want the database to infer the joins because how you join two tables depends a lot on the specifics of your query.

Some 90%+ of the times, you want exactly the join the database would infer, but natural join is basically useless, so you must repeat the basic join all the way every time.

SQL did it backwards. The simple join keyword should mean natural join over a foreign key. A cross product should be created with the `product` keyword or something similar.
I have always said that Agile methodology, as it is used by most companies, is just a way to squeeze every drop of efficiency from an engineer and ensure that people aren't goofing off. Agile works assuming that you are able to drop features or push deadlines if needed but in my experience in startups and enterprise tech companies, this NEVER happens.
The important thing is that Larry say language developers get lazy because of IDEs, not programmers using the language.

A powerful IDE that automatically looks up documentation and guides you through writing a bunch of boilerplate lets a language designer skimp on figuring out ways to let you avoid writing the boilerplate in the first place.

Code generation in the IDE is a poor substitute for a well designed interface.
Your Athena data set are immutable S3 blobs of data however, while Postgres reads data that could be modified while it's reading them, concurrently.

Postgres has to deal with a transaction modifying 100,000 rows in a table, needing that transaction to then see its changes but then aborting, leaving the data exactly as it was before. Athena/Presto don't have to worry about any transactions, table files bloated by changes that need vacuuming, etc. etc.

So I don't think it's fair to claim PG does not scale, when you are comparing a transactional and analytical database.
This is an interesting idea, and well presented.

I think the conventional explanation of the low entropy state of the early universe is a brief period of “inflation” that resulted in an extremely smooth and uniform density throughout the universe. Does the theory presented in this article replace inflation?
Call me closed-minded, but I seriously hope something like this never makes it into Rust. Not only is the complexity overbearing, but the motivation for this solution is rather thin.
This one: https://blog.jooq.org/2016/03/17/10-easy-steps-to-a-complete...
They released a firmware update at one point and it started working with more RAM. I almost jumped for joy at the time.
Wikipedia says that E-ZPass (which is a transponder used for car toll collection) is accepted in

> Delaware, Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Puerto Rico, Rhode Island, Virginia, West Virginia
Have you observed the internet at all? If the internet were a country, hating would be the national sport. Does that mean this particular guy must be a hater? No, of course not. But there are tons of them out there. A twitter account is pretty mild compared to, for example, the guy who makes a hobby out of filing safety complaints with the NHTSA about random Tesla crashes he sees online.

I see no possible comparison to Theranos. HN was skeptical from the start and called out the fraud early. Theranos never had a product. Tesla may have its faults, but there’s no question that they’ve built and sold hundreds of thousands of cars.
Honestly this is why I have a homelab and side projects. If there's an interesting tech that I think may be applicable(or it's just interesting) I'll spin it up at home and give it a run.

Keeps me sharp and gives me an opportunity to explore tech that isn't in my day-to-day wheelhouse.
bucket name can't be duplicated under one zone?
I think bucket should be identified by account and name

I also seemed to have frustration with the authorization config, but I don't recall what that was.