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So you're going to complain about the software breaking and also complain about them pushing a hotfix for it?

This whole situation isn't ideal but it's absurd to me that people are upset about hotfixes for a bug that they found extremely inconvenient. Do you like the bug or not? The option to turn off the system they used for hotfixes is right there in the privacy settings and they even show you what it's currently being used for (and what it was used for in the past). Like it or not, as far as I know every major browser (maybe not Safari?) is doing the exact same thing except they're less transparent about it.

I have literally no idea how to identify what experiments and rollout flags are quietly turned on for my install of Chrome and not for other people because it's not documented anywhere. At least in Firefox the option is right there and so is info on what the option does.

"No opt-out telemetry" is a great idea that doesn't function in the real world. If you ship online-connected software with 1m+ users that doesn't have a way to deploy hotfixes or a killswitch for dangerous features or basic telemetry, that is incredible negligence because all it takes is a single bug or a single unanticipated act by a third party and you're DDoSing someone or causing other kinds of mayhem. I'm quite serious. This is why most vendors operating at Mozilla's scale have the same set of tools at their disposal, even if they don't tell you about it. You cannot deploy large-scale connected software in the real world without doing this. It's one thing to go 'Word shouldn't have any telemetry' (okay, sure) and another to go 'this app that connects to thousands of servers, is left open all the time, and runs remote code should not have any telemetry or automatic update mechanism'. The latter is naive on the level of 'just don't write any bugs and your software won't need updates'.
The state can build housing then if it's not profitable. Housing is a public good and a right, it should not be a product or investment.
A couple of questions here, purely reasoning about the math:

It takes something like 400k to be in the top 1%. That's a decent FAANG developer 10 years into their career, that's not exactly Andrew Carnegie level of wealth. Are those people to be taxed more? 35% federal + 10% state tax in CA. Will more taxes on that bracket make that much of a difference to the country as a whole?

Let's say we were to skim a billion off of all the billionaires in the US. That's about 500 of them. Does that solve the problem altogether? The government makes 7 trillion every year, that's a one time increase of 7%. Does that make that much of a difference?
Most of the time when you're slipping close to the ground you're going to also have flaps deployed, in which case the MCAS is inoperative. Your AOA sensors will definitely disagree, but at least the MCAS won't act on them because it doesn't act when flaps are deployed.

If you're slipping without flaps I guess it could still be a problem if the disagreement is outside the epsilon spec. I'm not sure if [normal] slip could ever cause that much disagreement.
> Physicians could diagnose patients just fine since before the days of Papyrus Eber, but the treatment options were very limited.

Can you elaborate on this? Until germ theory and lesion theory, western medicine lacked the concept of etiology of disease, limiting the ability to accurately and consistently diagnose disease. Doctors operated within a Galenic framework and relied heavily, if not exclusively, on uroscopy for diagnosis (hence diabetes mellitus -- to pass through sweet urine).

> surgery was the only field of medicine that actually worked

"War is the only proper school for surgeons." -- Hippocrates

Doctors, following Hippocratic and Galenic traditions, would refuse to perform surgery, due to its usage of knives and causing harm to the patient. Even the study of anatomy by means of human dissection was discouraged until the 16th century, when Vesalius and others published their landmark works. Prior anatomical publications (such as those by Leonardo da Vinci) likely presented dissections of other animals as if they were human, due to the presence of structures such as the rete mirabile.

In the absence of antibiotics, surgery was a risky, and frequently lethal procedure. One surgery famously led to the death of 3 people. Before the advent of chloroform in the 1800s, there was no way for surgeons to effectively anesthetize subjects. Consequently, surgery was not looked upon favorably, nor considered a reliable medical practice.
This is an interesting insight. Do you live in Singapore or did you conclude this from elsewhere?
To be fair, X11 sans extensions is stable, but those extensions are how they provide a lot of the more complicated functionality that's been built since X11 was born.

Wayland originated, AIUI, because we've got layers upon layers of complexity and indirection to bend X11 into what we want on a more recent environment, and building a system with more awareness of what the constraints are in recent systems lets you implement things much more cleanly than those levels of complexity (or, at least, not much worse, if you're using XWayland).

(Of course, it's not implausible that in 20 years or less, we'll think of Wayland as requiring lots of kludges and hacks to do what we need then, but you can only plan for known knowns and known unknowns.)
While NYC certainly had a street crime problem then, video from a fictional sci-fi movie where New York is converted to a lawless prison island for criminals is a remarkably poor way to support your argument.
7zip uses a vulnerable RNG. It was posted here a while ago.
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Doesn't look very hand rolled to me. It's standard HMAC. The only unusual thing is the timing-unsafe comparison[1], which probably needs fixing. It looks like an attempt was made at a constant-time comparison (|= ^ pattern sure looks like it), but the early return breaks it again. I'm not sure if much can be gained from a timing attack in this particular instance though, since the key fully depends on user input in the first place.

(By the way, even Microsoft's own documentation doesn't use constant-time comparisons for HMAC[2]!)

[1] https://github.com/nrosvall/ylva/blob/2a4afcfb3727151fa09fdd...

[2] See the example on https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/api/system.security....
just out of curiousity if that's not a secret, what did you which got you deported?
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From the website: "A performant systems programming language that feels like a scripting language."
Perhaps biased, but my initial thought when I see the word "launch" (without context, such as this title) is a software product launch of some kind.
If more people knew how to do this I think the phone companies would finally crack down on bogus caller ID. Right now there's no incentive.
When I was working at Google I had to go through some training videos that explained that you should never bring corporate devices across the border for this very reason -- that they could be searched, thus breaking the NDA. They'll ship you a clean laptop instead.
Maybe you should tell us who isn't part of the class you are describing. I think it will be a pretty small group.
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notice the boats along the port side near the aft gun. And, forward of the aft gun, and between the deck houses, are several grey rectangles. Each one has 4 Tomahawk missiles. Those "coffins" are roughly the size of tractor trailers.

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Is it safe to say that, if the conditions of the lower and middle class are perfectly favorable, people are living healthy, productive, happy lives and there is upwards mobility for those who are willing to do whatever it takes to dedicate their lives to it, then wealth inequality in and of itself isn't the thing we need to optimize for?

Wealth inequality seems like a proxy metric for "the lower classes are struggling". Is the correlation (or causation?) between the two well established?
Yes. I bought my parent's thier phones and so they are on my plan, with very similar numbers.

And at work, all company phones are on the same first digits.
Pollen is cheap and male trees overproduce it to get an edge over other male trees. Most polen just fall to the floor, a tiny part is lucky and reach the flowers in the female trees.

That's why many plants have nice flowers and use the help of insect to transport the pollen from a plant to another plant. (By the way, the yellow balls in the legs of the bees are pollen that they collect and take to the hive, for food. They "stole" most of the pollen, a small part drops in the other flower.)

Also, the link in the article in the sentence "The pollen grains do not just get to the female trees by accident; rather they are drawn there by this mutual attraction." is not a good justification of that "fact".
Most people won't type in https://www.irs.gov/ directly

I didn't type that directly either. I just typed irs.gov and magically wound up in the right place. :)

But you're right, most people don't grok the WWW enough to go directly to a site. Which, as an engineer, drives me crazy. I don't want magic, I want to understand what's happening. I need to understand what's happening.
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In the case of disagreement the only sensible option is to disable the MCAS and alert the pilots. Simply ignoring the secondary sensor is not a valid solution.
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How 5 dollar wrench won't work in this case? Isn't administrator going to follow his order, so he can made to call the administrator and reset keys etc..?
Someone decided to spoof my cell phone number to spam call people. I don’t know how they filter spam calls from legit numbers without a new approach akin to DKIM/SPF where the number sets what carrier a call can originate from.
At this point I feel like it's fair to call Boeing's actions malicious. You charge for safety features that cost you nothing to deploy? Yeah, that's malicious. They knew people could die, but they wanted more money, so they let people die. Now, the company needs to die. Buyers of aircrafts would be clever not to trust Boeing ever again, and buyers of tickets would be clever to avoid flights that use Boeing planes. If everybody acted cleverly, Boeing would die and other aircraft manufacturers would take note. I doubt everyone will act cleverly, but repeatedly informing people of their malicious actions could help facilitate it. Not flying on Boeing planes would help too, but unlike a traditional boycott you have an actual selfish incentive to do so (not dying). Just like a traditional boycott, your individual participation is statistically meaningless unless you're actually in a position to buy a large number of aircrafts. I honestly don't think I'll avoid flying on Boeing planes in the future, but I'm also probably more willing to gamble with my life than most people are; I never said I was clever.
Personal computers (and cell phones) contain more information than people could have ever imagined when polices around searches at borders became a thing. It's really unfortunate that there's no desire to respect that. You could find more from someones smartphone than you could via a search of their home with a warrant.

I'm pretty glad I travel a lot and can afford a second phone as a total burner that I keep nothing on, and a new m.2 SSD and a clean install for my laptop. It's saved so much hassle, as the one time I was asked to look at them, it was an easy "Sure officer, go right ahead. I hope you're quick though, there's nothing on either."
You are a liar. Yes, you
> With different people operating from different mental models of the system.

But doesn't this take us full circle. If we start admitting that everyone has a different subjective model, and if we want to deal with this fact, then we have a whole population of subjective models "out there" in the world being part of "the system".
Flamewar and personal attacks are not allowed here, regardless of how wrong someone is or you feel they are. We ban accounts that do this, so could you please review the site rules and follow them? They're at https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html, and we'd be grateful.
The veracity of the suspicions aside, many smelled conspiracy given the timing of the action. It was seen as a political move by defenders of the status quo to punish Horie for daring to challenge them, and to discredit him and the business practices he had come to represent, which Horie's opponents considered distasteful and "un-Japanese".

I mean, considering we have been hearing a lot of stories about karoshi & the pervasive seniority culture lately, I think I am siding on his side a lot more, given that even people feels like the yakuza did a much better job at welfare sometimes.
What if you do not know the password for the computer (e.g. if you are transporting someone else's computer, or because it is damaged and need to be repaired), or if it is time locked?
Do you believe that wealth has to be distributed equally or do you believe that some people earn more of the pie because of their own skills, efforts, and risk taking?
For some things it is relatively easy. Charging for a booking would include the booking id and the amount, perhaps even the credit card number. This allows the customer/seller to hit charge multiple times but it will happen only once.

But more importantly, as far as I can tell, the ID generation happens in the preRPC phase and is commuted to the database. The RPC call is only done after the ID is persisted so if any crashes occur the pre and post logs can be automatically reconciled.

This system looks a lot like a combination of command and event sourcing with a nice library for putting the right actions in pre, rpc, and post.
> I think there is a real need for email equivalent of a VOIP solution where there is automatic spam filtering just like emails.

https://truecaller.com uses a crowd-sourced model to help you identify PSTN callers and spammers not in your contacts.

Besides, I think WhatsApp had the right idea around personal communication at least when Jan and Brian called the shots.

> If every cell phone has LTE and internet connection, why the fuck do we need traditional cell phone number?

I think with SecureElement now common in Android-based devices, eSIMs would be ubiquitous and may be SpaceX's Starlink would mean the end of traditional PSTN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19680412
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Yes. This thread is full of people proposing inventive technical solutions to genuinely prohibit your own access to the device while you're going through customs, as if border patrol a) knows the difference and b) gives a damn. These are all functionally equivalent to "Um, I forgot my password." (Or, if you wish for a more plausible but equally ineffective excuse, "This is actually my mother's laptop; I'm bringing it to her and I don't know the password.")

If an LEO (claims to) need access to something and you give him a dead end, it's his job to assume you're lying and find the next legal option available to him.

The real question you should be asking yourselves isn't "How would you outsmart the caveman cop in this situation?" Rather, it's "What can/will you do, as a citizen, to resist the erosion of our civil liberties?" Sadly, I have no easy answers here.
All those studies base there idea on revolutions long long time ago. Now we have high tech war machines and high tech spying software and machines.

Where you needed ten loyal people to keep 100 to not revolt, you now just need 1 to keep 10.000 silent.

I think the time for revolution is over.
> Similarly, there's not really a market for software that doesn't work.

Not sure you and I are in the same market, friend.

Engineers and doctors are highly commoditized compared to professional athletes and celebrity entertainers. We produce a fundamentally fungible good.

If you can pay the market rate, you can find a replacement engineer to work your software. If Taylor Swift's concert is sold out, you cannot see Taylor Swift. If Aaron Rodgers dies, there are how many quarterbacks in the world capable of replacing him?

These are categorically different things with categorically different market dynamics. Approximately no software engineers (or doctors) have a personal brand, nor an objectively superior skillset.
A few more details here from a couple links deeper: https://www.nasa.gov/directorates/spacetech/niac/2019_Phase_...

From some other (low quality) sources, it looks like the force of a diffractive sail comes from bending the light sideways, but I'm still not sure how passing light through the sail can be more efficient than reflecting it from a moment conservation standpoint.
Oh and I think with pointer swizzling (Java object references instead of references to the page-IDs in the buffer manager) we can gain quiet some speed :-)

And maybe adding memory mapped files in the future.
Why not reemove the drive and replace it with something basic with a plain os installed? It's quite simple even with MacBooks.
If I'm required an app for a "ticket", they can go fuck themselves.

Maybe that sounds simplistic. But I don't care.
Rebuilding Civilization from Scratch?
A long time ago, I came across a set of resources intended for use in the event of collapse of civilization. It consisted of farming, engineering, blacksmithing, construction technique, etc.

Is there such a guide for the bootstrapping of computation from first principles?
You can at least in principle distinguish between "no cases because it is never violated" and "no cases because it is routinely violated but never enforced."
The third amendment forbids the US government from doing something it has no desire to do. Professional armies just aren’t quartered in civilian homes anymore. If they did want to do it they’d find some legal justification to do so. Wickard v. Filburn[1] shows that being contrary to a plain reading of the law is no real obstacle to the government trampling roughshod over the US constitution.

Active enforcement of important laws may occasionally be rare but if you can’t pass legislation to keep the constitution of your state in effect you probably have an incipient civil war on your hands, or incompetence at a level that makes the Brexit Tories look like Bismarck.

The overwhelming majority of important laws are enforced regularly. People don’t have to hunt for laws to get thieves, murderers or slavers[2], they’re enforced multiple times per year. Theft and murder have been illegal as long as there have been states, and slavery has been illegal in the US since, what, 1864?

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wickard_v._Filburn

[2]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Contemporary_slavery_in_the_Un...
In general, people will put up with a lot of governmental issues so long as their own personal lives are fine. There are still issues with wealth inequality leading to some groups having an outsized influence in government which is a concern.
So you're going to complain about the software breaking and also complain about them pushing a hotfix for it?

The right way to do this is to push a new release, which they've done. The absolutely wrong way to do this is to silently push a fix through a back door that's open by default and rightly shouldn't exist in the first place.

Yes, you can do things more efficiently when you ignore the rules and subvert reasonable expectations. Generally though, society takes a dim view of this.

>If you ship online-connected software with 1m+ users that doesn't have a way to deploy hotfixes ..

That way is checking for updates, and then asking me if I want to install them. Most software does this and it works fine. There are no privacy implications for hitting an API for a number and checking locally if it's higher than a number I have. All clean, all above-board.

That way is emphatically NOT playing like a sneak and making changes silently and remotely without asking me about it first. I don't care what you think your good reason is, you don't have the ethical/moral right to make changes on my property without that affirmative consent.
You're lucky it went in three hours.

A couple of times I've moved between $17,000 and $40,000, and Chase sits on it for up to TEN DAYS before it will release received the funds.

Chase claims it's a federal regulation, but no one in the branch or on the phone can tell me which one.
You want us to... to actually carpool?! gasp
I dont think you'll be getting any advice here when you fail to mention what you did to get kicked out.
Telling is a whole lot different than doing something about it. And definitely not investing (and even giving advice about it) into Capitalism doesn't help.

But I guess, it's not replace but "reform". He probably wants to secure his spoils.
Get some remote work and move to bangkok .
The title is a reference to this famous essay by C.P. Snow about a split between the humanities and science: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Two_Cultures
> the engineers frequently work from 9am-9pm and then some weekends

Ironically, this could be because they have no tests...
What's worse: Last I read, they are planning a software patch that makes the system read from both systems. If the sensors disagree, MCAS is disabled.

Hopefully it doesn't disable itself when it's needed.
And I also have an idea how to save up even more space on disk/on the flash drive :-)
Yea, but not all at the same time, and not for a consistent period of time.
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Can you point out any survey which shows that Tesla customers are pissed? Because Tesla has scored extremely well for brand loyalty in every survey I've seen.
> Always use fork+exec to spawn the child processes

Why not posix_spawn?
... Like Warren Buffet? He has the choice of doing the right thing. And what does he do?

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