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> And it's important to realize that those laws passed with strong Democrat support

The dominant faction of the Democratic Party has for decades been center-right. (There are signs that a center-left faction may displace it soon, but that's uncertain.)

> and are still supported by the left-wing media,

Neither HuffPost nor, especially the Washington Post are “left-wing media”. WaPo is right of the dominant center-right faction of the Democratic Party, HuffPo is pretty much in line with it. And neither of those pieces you cite from those sources is even an editorial from the media outlet stating their position, they are outside opinion pieces of the type print and print-like online outlets that aren't narrow propaganda outlets tend to carry from a range of viewpoints that the outlet itself doesn't necessarily endorse.

The actual left-wing, or even center-left, media doesn't support anti-BDS laws, and it's not even clear to me that the non-left outlets you try to suggest do even support them.
> The original quote was attendance at a "top" school, not just a decent one.

I realize that.

> You want your kids to attend Harvard, not because they're smart enough but because you can pay full price tuition? Well, it's going to cost rather a lot.

Why is that even an option? The point was that there is no tuition in Europe (at least in the countries I know). If your kid is unqualified, it is unqualified, you don't get to override that just because you have money.
To be fair, chances are you and your friends are not representative of the mainstream. Just being on Hacker News makes that unlikely.

Michael Crichton is a famous enough author that people are more likely than not to see a movie based on his work because it's a "Michael Crichton movie" and neither know nor care about the source material. To most people, the Beowulf movie is just a fantasy movie where Angelina Jolie plays a sexy demon, not the adaptation of Beowulf they've been waiting for years to see, the way people were waiting to see (or dreading to see) the Lord of the Rings.

Beowulf just isn't that significant or relevant in popular culture - it just isn't. I don't even know why this is controversial.
Heaney's translation is bloody awful too.

Reading a chunk of Beowulf in the original was, along with learning Maxwell's equations and reading Gibbon one of the best things I ever did for myself. It's ... fairly obvious it's one person. The latter half with the dragon could have been an add-on.
That hasn’t been my experience. I have M.S. in physics at a shitty school and went into industry. (I didn’t fail anything, and actually had a 4.0 gpa, just didn’t want to spend more time in school). Eventually switched from material science to data science. Currently an ML research scientist at AWS. It’s been a fun journey. No one gave a shit about what I did or didn’t do in college. It might matter to HR people, which can be the resume gate keepers. But the hiring managers and peers don’t care. In fact, if you polled them, I would guess half would know my background is in physics, a third that I have a masters, and 0 which school I went to.
And there is also The 13th warrior, a screen adaptation of Michael Crichton’s ode to Beowulf, called Eaters of the Dead.
There's a technique called "IFLI" that leverages the analog characteristics of 60/50fps CRTs - it's basically switching between two colors each alternating frame to "mix" two colors.

However the colors look like C64 colors. The Goombas and skin of the turtles are pink. Except possibly the Mario sprite.
The real question now is whether 4:55 is still the fastest time the game can be finished.
I was also thinking about using canaries like this to detect database leaks - basically insert fake users into your DB with random emails and if you see that somebody is trying to email the accounts or log-in to their accounts you know you have been compromised. Not sure if anybody has ever used something like this...
> Certainly there must be some room for reasonable disagreement even if the experts are unanimous, given the patchy history of experts.

The patchy history of expert advice from the days before science was routinely used in medicine is not particularly relevant here. Today's expert advice about vaccination has a far stronger foundation of evidence than any of the superstitions you named. If we were talking about dietary recommendations or even psychology then it would be a lot less ridiculous to bring up leeches or phrenology, but in the context of vaccination you're being dishonest by implying any sort of equivalency.
How often people of non technical background go to science magazine with so little knowledge that they assume there's a way to find the universe's first molecule?
Jumping in for Max here. It was actually pretty tough for us to figure out how to name ACH as a payment method. One of our goals going into Mercury was to stay away from acronyms or confusing bank terminology as much as possible. Most banks hide ACH behind "bill pay" or use nonstandard terms like "electronic check" or "e-transfer" which are also confusing and don't describe the payment method clearly. We wanted to expose ACH directly but couldn't figure out how to get across what it was without confusing users further. Hours of debate in the office ensued.

Eventually we decided to just stick with the acronym after finding out pretty much everyone we talked to knew what ACH is.
Author suggests the 737 is fly by wire, by saying there's no direct feedback in the control stick forces as it relates to control surface forces, but are rather artificially presented by computer. That's simply not true.

Even in the case of MCAS, the side effect of stabilizer nose down trim is to make elevator backpressure on the yoke more forceful. It is not a simulation. That's presumably its design goal is, and why it was so simple without any safeguards for overcorrection or a failed sensor.

I also don't like the suggestion the plane is longitudinally unstable due to the engines. That is simply not consistent with FAR 25.173 (a). A central feature of this stability requirement is the plane will recover from a stall merely be releasing back pressure. Not all airplanes do this because not all airplanes are designed that way nor are they required to, but FAR 23 (normal category) and FAR 25 (air transport category) aircraft are required to exhibit this kind of stability as well as lateral static stability. Yet people keep saying the airplane isn't stable and MCAS makes it stable.

You can't have a damn switch that instantly makes the airplane unairworthy, with a damn airworthiness directive that tells pilots to solve one problem (runaway trim, or MCAS upset) by making the airplane unairworthy. If MCAS is there to make the plane airworthy, turning off autotrim makes the plane unairworthy. That's why I don't buy any claim that MCAS is there to make the plane airworthy, until there's a preponderance of evidence from reputable sources that includes an explanation how in the world such a thing is not a violation of FAR 25.

The sensible explanation is it's a stick force moderator, in order to ensure the FAA didn't require a type certification for this make/model derivative. A plane with a type certificate triggers a requirement in FAR 61 for the pilot to obtain a type rating to fly planes with that particular type certification. I do find the suggestion of conspiracy plausible, among Boeing, the FAA, and airlines, to avoid 737 MAX type certification different from prior 737s. Consistent with that, is this week's ass covering by an FAA board saying they see no reason for additional 737 simulator training for pilots to fly 737 MAX, i.e. paving the way for a software update only solution for the current problem.
The smooth scrolling is pretty hard. One of my favorite bits of Masters of Doom about id Software was when they hacked a port of Super Mario Bros 3 to the PC, but as history can tell, Nintendo didn't bite on that one.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1YWD6Y9FUuw
> They next song is a playdoyer for sadness, because I think that grief or sadness belongs to the emotions of humans, and that therefore one has to have the right to display this emotion openly and publically. Sometimes I was asked after concerts why my songs don't sound really optimistic. I thought about that for a long time and then I consoled myself with the fact that we live in the age of division of labour, and the rest is made by nearly all my other colleagues. I further believe that grief or sadness in certain situations and conditions can be a very productive emotion, because when a lot of people are sad about the same things, then maybe at one point they can also get angry together, and then something can change.

-- Bettina Wegner, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QZpIjg0UhxE
It could be, but here we only see a fragment of this person's life. I've often found that people who do this type of thing come from well-heeled families. And they conveniently leave out the details.

"I quit my $500k/year job to paint because mom and dad said I could convert the estate's 2500 sq ft carriage house into an in-law unit in case I don't become the next Andy Warhol" doesn't really sound inspirational and compelling.

What type of person throws his non-trivial money in his audience's face and gives an "Eat, Pray, Love" lecture? A clueless dolt. At least go the "Gospel of Wealth" route and tell us to found libraries and coding academies.
Sure, and yet mosquitoes alone infect over 700m people a year with various diseases, and rack up more than a million deaths each year. I find the Internet is surprisingly ineffective against malaria or dengue too. It’s also true that few people can or would wear a full body suit all day, every day. For god’s sake, we can’t even get everyone to wear a condom, never mind biohazard suits.

Still I respect your optimism, however unfounded it seems to me. I think the next really nasty flu will probably disabuse you of it, but I hope I’m wrong.
Come prepared in your daily stand-ups
It appears it made it through because Boeing didn't reveal that MCAS can incrementally mistrim until it has overpowered the pilots. They may even have added that capability after going through the initial certification.
I have no idea what a "thubgs" is, but I suspect it's a garden. Phone typing is clearly an art that not all possess.
Yeah, if anything anti-BDS laws is one of those cases where the mainstream right and mainstream-"left" support it, and the "far-right" and "real left" both oppose it (albeit for very different reasons: the far right because they dislike jewish people, and the "real left" because they view Israel as a right-wing apartheid state that is oppressing the Palestinian people.)

One thing is constant though, it's a subject that inflames tempers.
Yeah, but if randomness gets you 50, 56 doesn't feel that useful.
Oh, the memories. Giana Sisters was the first video game I ever seriously played.
The actual argument is that code cleanliness improves readability which in turn makes finding bugs easier and also eases the conceptualizing of what the code does. I'd say it's first line of defense against bugs.. tests could miss bugs too but that doesn't mean we shouldn't test thoroughly
To get hired, a designer might need to know “UX”, or maybe Photoshop, Agile or JavaScript. Is this list helpful to anyone at all?
Right, but I'm trying to get at 56% isn't great cause random is 50, and there's no clarify on correlation of the measure that gets to 56.
Have they applied this to Homer? That was another one I understood was supposedly multiple authors.
I honestly thought this comment was joking at first! In fact I'm still not certain... is it really so difficult to imagine doing something other than stare at a screen for 100% of your waking life? What do you think people did for the entirety of human history? You could be writing, or drawing, or playing an instrument, or listening to music, or baking cookies, or taking a stroll, or playing darts, or building a model rocket, or literally any activity ever.

I don't mean to condescend, but man.
Many teams
Elevator probably isn't powerful enough to avoid the impending stall once you get there.
Wow, that took multiple minutes to run here.

Well done to the author of this hack on finding a way to dump massive amounts of data to firefox's sqlite store.
Have you thought about the possibility that our language has been constructed to give people like you more ammunition against others? And given other less ammunition to use against people like you? Words like "bitch", "bossy", etc. Also cultural norms for what kinds of emotions you interpret as "too much" if it’s a woman but “oh crap I should listen” if it’s a man, etc.

I have no idea who you are, so just a question about where you’re at in thinking about this.

And do I understand correctly your proposal? That we should all aspire to be unaffected by the words of others. And if someone is negatively affected by words it is their failure, not the failure of the speaker or the failure of the group they are in together.
The point, that you appear to have missed, is that the argument

> Your trove of personal data has monetary value. With a few pieces of info, your identity can be stolen. If a company gets hacked or an employee siphons data, it's sold and used, with you facing severe consequences and maybe them too.

is exactly the same as

> Your trove of actual money has monetary value. With a few tricks, your money can be stolen. If a bank gets robbed or an employee embezzles, it's stolen and disappears, with you facing severe consequences and maybe them too.

Yet we don't appear to have any issues with putting our money in banks.

> You're concerned with literal cash money, I'm concerned about personal data.

No, I'm concerned with things of equivalent value. If I have $1,000,000 in cash, I'm happy to entrust it to a bank. I doubt my personal information is worth that much, yet you appear to suggest that I shouldn't feel comfortable giving a group something much less valuable. In other words, your ELI5 about privacy risks isn't compelling, except to you, who is already concerned about privacy. But you're not the intended audience. The person who isn't concerned about privacy is, and you still haven't done anything to convince them, because banks.

Here's one argument against what I've said, as an example: information is not like money. Its very difficult, and often impossible, to "take it back". So we should bias away from doing so.
We were building a Bitcoin integration for person-to-person and one of our core use cases was allowing people to log in using their banking credentials for ACH transfers, but the issue wasn't charging them, but having us take our share, and transferring between accounts.
> A sixth was that, besides comparing redundant sensors, it could have compared what the other flight computer thought it should be doing.

If you mean AoA sensors, AFAIK, there was absolutely no redundancy at all the way MCAS was designed. Exactly one sensor was ever used for MCAS. And last time I've read the Boeing's reported coming software changes, they wanted to keep it so, but just to add the notification to the pilot when the sensors disagree.
But we got Commander Keen, which will always have a special place in my heart.
Do you remember the actual article? I can't find it and I love a good short story.
It's based on the reverse-engineered source code of the NES original, though.
Archive org preserves state and status at a specific time. If posts are removed, edited, or status changes, the state at the time of posting isn't retained. IA WBM however does

Much of the Web, HN included, is not a static record. As past experience has taught me, hence this practice.

As to your first assertion, we clearly disagree, and I'll posit the arrow of misunderstanding is reversed.
I think it is true to say that all low-slung engines produce a pitch-up moment that increases with power, which is a desirable trait, in moderation (for one thing, if the power fails, pitching up would be more dangerous than pitching down.) Also, all engine nacelles produce a small amount of lift when at an angle to the incident air. It's just that the 737 MAX has become so different from the original 737 that this has finally become a problem - the bigger engines further forward were the last straw (and it is the lift, specifically, that is the problem, hence a solution that takes angle of attack as its input.)
I don't know anything about HeH, but molecular hydrogen is actually quite hard to form. It's easily dissociated by UV radiation so can't form until a protostar has become concentrated enough so as to be self-shielding. A planetary nebula like the one they found the HeH in is not an environment conducive to formation of molecular hydrogen.
Shouldn't they be calling it another star system? Our sun's name is Sol, and whatever spins around it is in the Solar System. The point of the article is that these meteors don't originate in the Solar System.
This analysis is completely right, but in my opinion, focuses too much on the technical aspects.

Is MCAS a hack? yes. Is it fixable? yes. Will the 737 MAX continue to fly for two to three decades after all the items above have been addressed? yes.

But from an engineering perspective, putting an additional system to "fix" another system feels always a bit weird. Sometimes it's not avoidable (ex: cooling), but when it is avoidable, something is at least a bit wrong. A few hacks like that are manageable, but too many, and you dramatically increase the chances of one of these hacks misbehaving.

And if an organization is pushing a lot for this kind of hacks as Boeing did, the issue is not even technical.

The story of MCAS reminds me a little about the MD11. The DC10 as a tri-jet could not really compete with new dual engine airplanes in the late 80ies/early 90ies in term of fuel consumption, but McDonell Douglas try to anyway. They optimized the wings, change the engines, add winglets and more significantly reduce the horizontal stabilizer size. This made the MD11 quite hard to land as it needed to go-in with a very high speed for a wide body jet. It was a contributing factor in several accidents (Fedex 14, Fedex 80, Lufthansa Cargo 8460), and pilot training/technical fixes never fully compensate for the design flaw. And in the end, the aircraft kind of failed to reach the target fuel consumption. However, it's still flying today, and it's still a workhorse for cargo companies.
I don't know what the current state of the art is, but you should take a look at WaveNet if you haven't already - https://arxiv.org/pdf/1609.03499.pdf

While trying to search for an answer, I came across this list of papers, which has a section on speech synthesis - https://github.com/zzw922cn/awesome-speech-recognition-speec...
> But what if I ask whether a person without any tech skills can become a design guru?

Usability isn't something you just pick up, although a distinct lack of arrogance and reading some good books will get you a long way. The rest is experience, lots of. Has to be said that not having tech skills might be an advantage - from memory, the xerox parc guys when designing the Star user interface said that it was easier to take psychologists and turn them into programmers than the reverse ("the design of the star user inteface" - very highly recommended) Programmers (like me) tend to be crap at it. At least I'm aware of that; many aren't.

You will NOT get good UI design from a junior. They don't have the experience and they rarely have the attitude (they usually think they know it all and they invest their ego into their precious creation. TBH that's a difficult trap to avoid for the best of us).

CVcompiler doesn't distinguish between UX and UI, probably because they don't know what the difference is. Yes I'm being snide but as they're the top skills that should have triggered something for the author.

Elsewhere on the site they say "This data is based on the error stats ofCV Compiler, a tech resume analyzer which has already processed about 15k resumes". W00t! I recently worked on a system that had parsed well over 400,000. But actually the rest of that part is pretty good (https://cvcompiler.com/blog/what-happens-with-your-tech-resu...). Trouble with CVs is very much as outlined there; there's no reliable way to filter a good guy from a bullshitter. The only thing I noticed was really good people have noticeably quiet, understated CVs.

Always was amused by CVs that claimed they were "great team players with a huge passion for ((whatever))" - dja really think anyone's going to be suckered by that? And if they are do you want to work for them? Recruiters just tune it out. My CV just lists the facts and I make sure I can back up every single one of them.

Sadly it matters little how good you are. Drop into the average company and bad management will fuck you over. I really, really valued the few good managers I have had.
I still hope you got promoted though, you deserve it :)
Im in the military. Sometimes I sleep places that dont have charge points.
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Yes, as I said: teams are a superorganism, a force multiplier. But a team of coders isn't enough, you need a close-knit team of people with diverse areas of expertise, and those people need to be great at communicating.
> Saying there is a quantitative strength to a relationship is, to a regular person, meaningless.

That the average person would not understand a particular accurate description of a subject does not, in and of itself, make a completely inaccurate alternative description less wrong or even a good simplification.
This is normal big corp thought process. The CEO decides upon a growth area, gets some yes men to agree on a growth trajectory, and applies some standard investment/hiring metrics to assure they stay on top of the designated curve.

This all rolls down a few levels of mgmt to the first line guys, who are told your in a growth area, and we expect to need to hire X people over the next 24 months, who will be tasked with XYZ (frequently fancy words which when analyzed boils down to support the product we are going to sell).

This goes on for a couple years until the projected vs real revenue divergence is so large that even an CEO can't ignore the lack of growth. At which point the plug gets pulled and the next adventure starts somewhere else.

Sadly though, IMHO none of that is a problem, the real problem is that the CEO's can't actually tell or make strategic decisions about why these projects are failing to have exponential growth. (see intel & mobile chips/wireless connectivity, those are so strategically necessary for their growth that they need to keep trying until they die). So, they ax them, sometimes just as they are getting a solid product portfolio together. But they don't know that because they have been fed the same line for the past 24-36 months.
Soooo, build bathrooms and make them free (as in beer)?
Apparently, the creator of that algorithm literally and consciously added bias against females and non-caucasian to his program, which made it pretty much an open and shut case.

The modern approach would be to take some NLP machine learning kit, which would do a wonderful job learning and reproducing the human assessors' biases, without any overt evidence (because the reasoning is always opaque), without ever being explicitly instructed to do so, and possibly even without the author of the program being aware of it.