skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Even the greediest capitalist executives imaginable would not take a gamble on there being a second wave of problems with that plane.

Well I guess the downvotes happened because this statement seems to be totally unsubstantiated.

Did you see any signal of transparency and accountability at Boeing so far? Any personal consquences?

In my opinion this shows again a flaw of late-stage capitalism. No one in Boeings leadership gains anything from transparency or really "fixing" Boeing´s problems and culture. In the opposite, these steps would cost lots of money and would probably cost the current leadership their job (and bonus). This really is a principal/agent problem and a problem between (not-measureable) long-term goals and (financial) short-term rewards.

From my point of view, its absolutely not understandable how Muilenberg still has his job. Even if the whole development happened before his time, at least the second crash is 100% his responsibility and there is no way a manager with his record would still be in charge in all other western countries (e.g. Europe or Japan).
> Unfalsifiable information would not (and should not) be apart of the system.

Then that's not human discourse. We are people, not robots.
> “Ways of Hearing.” It’s a podcast — recently transposed into a book

> I’ve been pushing “Ways of Hearing” on my loved ones

All podcasts are bad, but a book about a podcast is okay because I can sell it.
Yeah, but this one, if he exists, does. Crack open a piggy bank, find enough money to buy safecracking tools.
libvirt-the-software is tens of thousands of lines of complex code that doesn't really add much. libvirt-the-project does contribute patches in to qemu, and a lot of the reason that libvirt-the-software doesn't add much of value is because libvirt-the-project worked to get capabilities in to upstream qemu.

The libvirt team definitely does view qemu as malleable, and bends it to their needs.

The problem is that the libvirt authors contributing to qemu look at qemu as a machine-interface (to be consumed by libvirt), not as a human-interface. Many of the more poorly documented or otherwise difficult-for-humans flags were contributed by the libvirt team. And they're useful! They make it so qemu can do things it couldn't do before. But they're also kinda the reason qemu is difficult to use without libvirt.
> Airbus continues to be required to have triple redundancy says a lot about their respective regulators (EASA Vs FAA)

Remember the 737 MAX has both FAA and EASA type certificates, issued separately.
Working with PDFs in Python: Reading and Splitting
That's why even the no-frills Nissan Leaf S has multiple seat warmers and steering wheel warmer. It's as much a range extender as a luxury feature.
Please read the thread, where your "defend it or lose it" point has been rebutted several times.
MongoDB to Acquire Realm
At one point a couple of years ago, for testing purposes, I created a brain wallet (that is, a short phrase that when hashed would yield a key pair) in Bitcoin testnet so that a group of people could each have access to them for testing purposes. It was just a simple substitution -- a common enough word with 3's and !'s mixed in. For testnet coins, which are worthless, it seemed harmless enough.

It was "stolen" literally minutes after first depositing the coins at the address; we assumed by someone running a monitoring daemon looking for a large rainbow table of bitcoin addresses, and testing out there efforts on the testnet. I wonder how many bitcoins they managed to extract once they put their system into production.
Risk aversion, patience and intelligence: evidence based on macro data [pdf]
Why not a language that has types, perhaps C or Rust? Even if they use TypeScript then still why not go something more lower level?
The author doesn't mention GMOs because they don't matter. The end product is the same.
I have used pandas extensively, it was my main statistics environment for a couple years before I switched back to R for tidyverse. At the time chaining was not well supported or idiomatic; multi-indexing was all the rage.

I still occasionally use pandas with seaborn when it's not worth it to switch out to R. I don't think it can match the tidyverse+ggplot combo for quickly exploring and making beautiful plots. But this discussion has inspired me to do some googling and it seems like some people are using tidyverse-like workflows in pandas (https://stmorse.github.io/journal/tidyverse-style-pandas.htm...). Doesn't seem quite as smooth but I'll definitely be trying it out next time I'm working in pandas.
It was a joke.

Texas because NH has that libertarian/don't tread of my mentality.
New Jersey because of the commercial development / build up (you're never more than 20 min from a Lowes unless you're in the mountains)
Florida because crazy shit happens in NH, and people go to HN to do crazy shit (source: I have family members and friends who did crazy shit there)

As I said, it's a joke and shouldn't be taken seriously, NH is a lovely place - I skied there this winter, and visit regularly but I'll always be a Mainer, and now that I'm a "flatlander" Masshole I have a whole new set of jokes!
Very much so - they've got a very weird position on the right, and have done for some time now.

There's an interesting article at the LRB that explores the Spiked/IoE/related nexus: https://www.lrb.co.uk/v32/n13/jenny-turner/who-are-they
Nobody used Ruby before that.
You'll pardon me, I'm not holding my breath - there are many logistical challenges to solve, most of them have not been solved yet.
The current Mustang is on the sixth generation, it got a new chassis in 2015. So, while not as aged as the Model S, it is getting towards the end of this generation, yes. The seventh generation is planned to hit streets in 2021.
heres a live link. And paper. Sorry I'm on mobile.

FWIW, they are sending observation sequences marked up as some custom JS, and an onboard interpreter will turn those into C&DH sequences and spool them out.

That decision seems arbitrary, given most onboard executives use a ... more standardized markup lang for sequences.

https://www.google.com/url?q=http://www.stsci.edu/~idash/pub...

https://mobile.twitter.com/alteredq/status/80085890885198233...
The alternative is not that many commands: https://blog.elastocloud.org/2015/07/qemukvm-bridged-network...
The paper "Event-driven James Webb Space Telescope Operations" (doi: 10.2514/6.2006-5747) seems to confirm the information.

Also previous discussion on HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13009598
Which is honestly what they need to do, to make .net core truly next level. It was such a drag to so C# on non windows machines, and it’s becoming less and less so.

Visual Studio still has some perks, but with the dotnet cli it’s actually decent enough to use .net core on a Mac.

What I don’t get is why they aren’t focusing even more on VS Code, I mean, why bother making Visual Studio for mac when you have an all-platform alternative?

The only bad thing about VSCode is that it has made me really, really hate the dark-theme in visual studio because the code one is so much better.
Stealing Fuel Data
A click bait title from the author. Reads like he is just upset that the direction chosen wasnt his. Personally I think being unique in your values, and giving the finger to US News, is a rational choice for a mid tier college.

And who can argue that colleges haven't failed to adapt to today's economy? Literally some small schools have larger Latin departments than CS.

Maybe this experiment will work. Maybe it won't. But, as long as students are informed in their choice, I think it's worth trying.
Same. Never had to repair anything in the first three years of a new ICE. If it weren't for mandatory visitations (in order to keep the guarantee) I'd have never see the dealership from within again.
The mission critical stuff is not JS. Sequences are encoded as JS.
That's absolutely the case.

> Now, when the pilots applied power to the engine, the aircraft would have a significant propensity to “pitch up,” or raise its nose. This propensity to pitch up with power application thereby increased the risk that the airplane could stall when the pilots “punched it”

> Worse still, because the engine nacelles were so far in front of the wing and so large, a power increase will cause them to actually produce lift, particularly at high angles >of attack. So the nacelles make a bad problem worse."

https://moneymaven.io/mishtalk/economics/boeing-737-max-unsa...
but that's literally putting cost over safety.

Which seems to be fully in line with Boeing's business model and their behavior after the Lion Air crash.

Even after the Ethiopian crash they did just about everything to deflect, blame and obfuscate until this behavior was just no more maintainable based on the known facts.

Switching then to a "We apologise if your dead" marketing shtick.

I find it hard to believe, based on all the evidence, that this company put lifes before profit.
Every time I've bought tickets it has shown me what plane I'll be flying in for each leg of the trip, and so far they've never switched planes on me either. Sample size is ~10.
2015 it got a new chassis, that was the year Ford switched from S197 to S550. They will introduce a new one in 2021, the S650.
Win this $25 bounty: Fix react native menu component
Open-source budgeting software (built with Electron)
The only thing that would make this right is:

(1) Add a third AoA sensor, with voting among them.

(2) Add an easily visible "AoA disagree" warning for pilots.

(3) Reduce the maximum stabilizer deflection to its design levels, instead of the 4x levels it shipped with.

(4) Add specific MCAS training for pilots.

(5) Have the whole thing re-certified - by FAA, not by Boeing itself.

All of this should be at Boeing's expense, of course. I'm still trying to make up my mind on how big a fine they should pay on top of that, and whether specific individuals should be barred from the industry. There should be serious consequences for this level of malfeasance.
Front Lines of the Autism Wars
Like the TSA private partner screening program [0]. They didn't have any staffing issues during the shutdown, because they're not a magic money Government entity. I don't have the source handy, but I believe they're more efficient and do a better job than the TSA at catching contraband.

[0] https://www.nerdwallet.com/blog/travel/tsa-screening-partner...
Running Solaris 2.6 (sparc) with QEMU-system-sparc in Linux x86_64
I agree if we are talking about legally theft. If people are going to turn to the state to protect their crypto, what is the point of crypto? Just use state backed money in that case.

IMO it's a little different on if it's morally wrong/theft.
Stripe New APIs for EU Strong Customer Authentication (SCA) Laws – From Sep 2019
My apologies, I meant to say "This American Life in podcast form", or take Serial as an example that's often quoted.

But it basically stresses my point. It could very well be that it was a direct inspiration for the first podcasts, but nowadays it's used as "audio content, often episodic". Also people often name the production value and other criteria of the big ones. But my point is that podcasts are on average not high production value or even done by companies or in the type of certain radio programs. I'd even say a sizable chunk is just the same people talking about the same or related topic(s) - I don't think I've ever heard that format on a radio station. (Except the same person interviewing different people, if that counts as "the same topic".)
>The fact that Boeing is able to skate by with two and a software off-switch if they disagree, while Airbus continues to be required to have triple redundancy says a lot about their respective regulators (EASA Vs FAA). I'm sure "cost" was discussed given the 350+ aircraft already produced and how impractical it is to add a third AoA sensor, but that's literally putting cost over safety.

Looking at this image here:
https://qz.com/1461400/pilots-werent-informed-of-risks-of-bo...

My biggest doubt is regarding the symmetrical left-right placement of the AoA vanes. Isn't it realistic that they may freeze in the same position, thus not disagreeing, but still wrong?

I'm not in aviation, so I'm not sure about this, but without deeper knowledge this seems like a realistic reason to ask for a 3rd sensor with a different placement at least.
Been running 6.5 snapshots in my travel laptop for some weeks and everything just works. The laptop is a ThinkPad X200 which is a bit slow for my needs, but upgrading it to ThinkPad X230 later this week should help.

I really enjoy how simple the system is after all these years with Linux. I will always continue using Linux in my main computers, but for surfing, some hobby programming and as a travel OS OpenBSD definitely won me over.

And I guess it runs quite nicely in the X250 and T450 tier already, maybe even newer ThinkPads. And when I say runs, I mean runs much nicer than many Linux distributions with their default installation.
One aspect that would be interesting is: I would expect that after an insurance payout the stolen coin would be legally the property of the insurance company. The stolen coin would accumulate on the books of the insurance company, which could then pay a premium to a recovery agency to get it back.

Of course the anonymity factor would make it all difficult, but on the other hand you can't ever truly abscond with the cash. If they could trace the movement through the ledger to a legitimate business entity that respects the same country's laws, they might be partially recoverable.

At a small scale it would be a waste of time, but on a large enough scale it might work.
Possibly, but there are counterexamples. In particular, the Lockheed Elektra.
The Assignment Problem and the Hungarian Method [pdf]
It seems that Boeing now is in a series of quality issues that started with the 787 Dreamliner. This is the first plane that was developed after the merger with McDonnell Douglas and a major change in their engineering and production processes, see e.g. the Al Jazeera Investigation on https://www.aljazeera.com/investigations/boeing787/ (from 2014)
So, on the topic of misleading regulators, is Boeing being taken to task for that? I'm following the mainstream media coverage, so I may not be privy to details, but is that being made into a big deal. It feels like it should be because regulators signed off on their impression, then Boeing changed the control authority of MCAS without informing regulators.

If this isn't illegal and fineable, I hope the outcome of this makes misleading regulators in this way a criminal act.
TypeScript didn't exist when the decision on the language was made. And nobody will launch anything into space that didn't see a decade of testing and then it still needs to be integrated into a craft that will launch 10 yrs in the future.

They wanted a scripting language, likely to make updating stuff around the craft easier, it's high level control so low level languages don't make that much sense.

You'll likely see Rust and other modern languages in about 15 years or so flying into space.
EASA relied on the FAA certification. Just like any other agency.

That was based on FAA's stellar reputation, they built up in decades.

And essentially fucked within three days. (That's a simplification, but essentially true).

I'm not sure that other certification agencies will rely on the FAA's rubber stamping in the future and see a political storm brewing here.
Isn't it the same for every opinion poll ever, though?

Even with a small sample(1100 according to the article at BI), does it really matter if it's 60% or 40% instead of 53%, to show that people would be worried of flying on this plane?
I think you have to look at the reality of the situation. The last 10 years have created a legion of developers who are really only familiar with JavaScript. They have never used a proper programming language and have either never learned or have forgotten what it takes to make solid software.

But in reality, that's fine. They'll muddle through on something like this, finally getting it to work through endless tinkering, and it'll be fine.

Remember, the entire internet now pretty much runs on this premise. And it's fine, right?
> minimal QEMU command-line"

> -nodefaults

Once you add `-nodefaults`, the list of arguments grows because now you must add a bunch of things that were there by default. If by "minimal command-line" you mean "the simplest list of arguments", then your example is wrong. If by "minimal command-line" you mean "command-line that gives the minimal VM", then you're being misleading, because that's not how people will take it.

Most of the devices added by libvirt would be included by qemu automatically if you didn't say `-nodefaults`. libvirt uses `-nodefaults` and specifies its own defaults, so that it doesn't need to keep track of changes in Qemu's defaults between versions of Qemu (since libvirt cares about the nitty-gritty more than most humans do).

PS: You have too many "t"s in the "htttps://" in one of those URLs.
Or they were a whitehat wanting your problems to be caught in testing.
"Gardener's Question Time" on the BBC is the same kind of soothing listening

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gardeners%27_Question_Time
The Completely Ordinary Case of Clojure Contrib
nope. the design of the plane was already flawed from the start due to the placement of the engine, and that's why they needed MCAS to fix it.

if MCAS is taken away, the plane goes back to being flawed. but since MCAS itself is a flawed solution, it's a lose-lose situation.

I wouldn't fly in a MAX 8 if you paid me to.
Added to the list, thanks.
> ROP mitigations in clang(1) have been improved, resulting in a significant decrease in the number of polymorphic ROP gadgets in binaries on i386/amd64.

Does anybody know if there's a writeup somewhere? Or what are the commits to look at.
I don’t think that distinction is helpful in this context.
I think comparing js to a highly specialized, well constructed, ruggedized, and well loved machine is a bit off. It's more like mowing your lawn with whatever you can grab from the gas station on the way home. Something surely ubiquitous, familiar, convenient (for you), and completely unsuited given we have tools for it.
I'm glad you made this comment. The article's author made wu-wei sound like "do whatever comes natural". But, that misses the thousands of hours of deliberate practice bringing you to wu-wei.
Not 10-15m but quite a few are sub 30 minutes, e.g. 99 Percent Invisible to give one example I listen to. Personally, I find 20 to 30 minutes about ideal a lot of the time. Too much shorter and I have to queue multiple podcasts together and too much longer is just a bit long, especially if it's not a produced podcast with multiple segments. An hour is usually too much for a single 1:1 interview IMO.
Literal gatekeeping - I just get a paywall when I click on the link.

Aaand nothing of value was lost.
How Big Tech’s cozy relationship with Ireland threatens data privacy worldwide
The way I see any future problem in the Boeing 737 max problem go is this:

- Pilot notices plane going down

- Pilot radios Tower: "We are having the Boeing 737 max problem. How do I solve that again?"

- Operator looks at post-it note on his monitor: "Well, you do <step 1>, <step 2> and <step 3> to disable the faulty MCAS

- Pilot: Thanks

Joking aside, I think almost every pilot has by now at least heard about the problem, and will at least read up on it when they find themselves in a cockpit of a 737 max. If I understood correctly the biggest issue was that pilots simply didn't understand what was going on with their plane and why it was dipping it's nose. Now the MCAS is probably the first thing they will check.

I am not saying that the way Boeing is handling this is ok, just that realistically this issue is probably not going to cause another crash.
Sequences are often a markup language, and are (necessarily) interpreted on board.
Let's wait and see what other regulatory agencies have to say on the issue.

I see a political thunderstorm brewing in the not very far future.
"xxxx days since last serious crash"
This is a pop music critic, of all things. The quality of pop music from a culture and complexity standpoint has fallen through the floorboards like a chunk of radioactive debris and is digging to depths unknown.

People are listening to podcasts because they want to be entertained and informed. You aren't gonna get that by listening to the mumble rapper from Degrassi High. If pop music suffers from podcasts, then maybe podcasts aren't the problem... and if the best you can do is complain about the timbre in someone's voice or the quality of the studio, then you've lost the argument.
News is meant to be objective reporting of facts. Modern journalism has been corrupted by opinion and activism.

Hedging language would be discouraged by a system that rewards factual reporting.
Stratechery: Uber Questions
So what exactly makes a "proper programming language"?
> makes me sad, because that's a long time to go without Bluetooth

Kinda off topic, but you could always just get one of these: https://www.amazon.com/Upgraded-Bluetooth-Transmitter-Sumind...
Currently using it as part of a testing workflow in making my own linux distribution. It makes booting kernels with initramfs, as well as live images, super easy and painless. QEMU is great software! https://jrl.ninja/joy/1/
C++ finally made it. You're probably right about 2 decades for Rust .... mho.
Humans might, but computers don't.
You would be free to share opinions outside of the system.

News is meant to be objective reporting of facts. Facts must be falsifiable.
Thanks for the heads up - fixed!
The Mustang and Camaro are both pretty incredible cars, managing to stay fairly inexpensive* while gaining tremendous performance just in the past 10-15 years. I remember the year when the Mustang GT first matched and then exceeded the BMW M3 on the track. The rest is history, the current pony cars are amazing performers and excellent values.

* To be fair, both Mustang GT and Camaro SS are objectively not inexpensive cars except when you compare them to other cars of similar performance.
> to experiment with which ideas work, which don't

And this only works if people care about the results of the so-called experiments and use them to improve things. The GOP doesn't seem to care that trickle-down economics has never worked, and yet they still keep implementing it:

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trickle-down_economics

Most recently Trump tax cuts and the Kansas experiment:

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kansas_experiment

See also education cuts (e.g., Oklahoma) and economic growth:

* https://www.investopedia.com/articles/economics/09/education...
* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Education_economics#Returns_on...
I don't know what to make of this, but this all feels like a deliberate attempt to damage this company.

Here are some interesting things I noticed:

- GitHub has a lot of DMCAs each month and going through them it seems that all repos have been taken down by GitHub, but in this case the entire source code is still online despite it being posted here on HN for hours now and after they have been notified.

- None of the other DMCAs (some of them really interesting) have ever trended on HN

- The above linked repo has been forked more than 5k times, which is so much more than what any other DMCA reported repo has been ever forked from what I could see

- The repo with the source code put a link to https://996.icu in the description

- The person who posted the DMCA here on HN seems to be a new user who has only posted or commented on topics related to 996. Potentially the person/group has also gamed HN to get this link to the front page

There is no proof, but it feels like there is a very coordinated and deliberate attempt to harm Bilibili which is kind of sad.
You might like LeVar Burton Reads or Myths and Legends.