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Airbus uses software to enhance safety. MCAS is trying to fix a very specific and a potentially dangerous issue while keeping it from the pilots. So, I'm not sure if there's a good analogy there.
Just to spare others from the search:

Before 2004, those Boeing technical employees who worked safety on behalf of the FAA were called “Designated Engineering Representatives,” or DERs. Though paid by Boeing, they were appointed by the FAA and reported directly to their technical counterparts at the FAA.

What changed since 2004 is that safety engineers, now called Authorized Representatives, are appointed by and report to Boeing managers.

The opaque bureaucratic name for this new structure — Organization Designation Authorization (ODA) — masks the significant change: Instead of having individual Boeing employees authorized as FAA reps, Boeing now has an entire organization within the company so authorized. The individual FAA Authorized Reps — Boeing engineers — report up the chain to their Boeing managers, not the FAA.

source: https://www.seattletimes.com/business/boeing-aerospace/engin...
Interesting read.
Honey pot (and honey trap) have been used in espionage, and related fiction, where a target is seduced sexually. The infosec version of this is essentially the same approach though.

Also it's been used to describe vaginas and male sex toys.

noun: honey-pot

1.

- a container for honey. "an earthenware honeypot"
- an enticing source of pleasure or reward. "massive increases in government -- purchases became a honeypot for the unscrupulous"
- a place to which many people are attracted. "the tourist honeypot of St Ives"

2. VULGAR SLANG

- a woman's genitals

I guess the definition we are used to is the metaphor "an enticing source of pleasure or reward."

But with the added nuance that you're intention is to trap the enticed in honey...
I am not saying that motorcyclists in general are reckless people. I am saying that all the motorcyclists I know who have tried to claim that they have a loud motorbike for safety reasons are at the reckless end of the spectrum, regarding the motorcyclists that I know. And I find this contrast pretty funny. To the extent that I have had to previously explain why I am giggling to someone who looks like they could rip off my head with one hand. After pointing out the bare arms and jeans that they often ride in, they admitted I had a point, said they actually just like loud noises and started giggling too, thankfully.
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> I can’t help but think that Apple was eventually right...3D Touch

I say this as a 3D touch user (which is basically a right click, a concept foreign to Apple for some time), but one of the few features missing from the iPhone XR and present in the XS is 3D touch. Rumor is they're going to removed it in the next model.
> If you don't feel like a criminal in today's society, you are complicit.

Which society exactly are you referring to? What crime are you claiming that every single member of this society is complicit in? How does feeling like a criminal itself absolve someone of complicity in this crime?
You seem to be saying we should take on guilt for something precisely in order to free ourselves of this guilt. This seems like a paradoxical admonition. Could you please clarify?
How do I know what physical trackers are being used before entering a physical location? I use my eyes.

Business often count foot fall with IR or laser; it's generally on the door. How do I know that using a businesses with cameras claiming to only count traffic are not actually gathering a whole lot more information to use/sell/change their mind later?

I have no skin in this game but the original comment was more focused on "we've decided to bypass your adblocker because we feel that our interests outweigh yours"
I was just watching Thiel talk on a topic that touches this - the parallels between the academics and the priesthood.

There was a time when the Catholic church was seriously powerful; and that time was marked by important people wanting to have family in the church. The days when the Medici, for example, boasted of family members being Dukes and Popes and the church was strong in its broad influence. That is a far cry from today, even if the Catholics are still quite important.

Academics is similar in that it was once composed exclusively by people who were either clever enough to be sponsored or people wealthy enough to be able to afford to put their feet up and get educated for a few years. There has been a serious push towards a vision of universal education in the last 50 years. In a sense, that is driving a dilution of the level of wealth and power to be seen in a normal university.

It'd be fascinating to have some sort of historical compendium of wage, salary and social connections of the Arts Professorships and PhD students in the Arts. The trends would probably be quite revealing of something. Education is an area where culture is critical as both an input and an output, and there are clearly some massive cultural changes afoot there even if they are only partly quantifiable.
> Maybe Swift will gain it, one day.

Maybe not.

“We have discussed in the passed using hybrid approaches like introducing a cycle collector, which runs less frequently than a GC would. The problem with this is that if you introduce a cycle collector, code will start depending on it. In time you end up with some libraries/packages that works without GC, and others that leak without it (the D community has relevant experience here). As such, we have come to think that adding a cycle collector would be bad for the Swift community in the large.”[1]

[1] https://lists.swift.org/pipermail/swift-evolution/Week-of-Mo...
Indeed. Hyperlinked serialisers are built in and super easy to use. And it makes so much sense when you use DRF's API browser too.
These days, you can't tell whether or not something's a button on iOS, and I've "lost" files in Finder because there weren't any scroll bars, and it was off-screen.
I feel like Apple's approach to UI/UX is one half care and consideration for the current user and the rest is "training" for whatever they intend next.

The design world at large gave them shit for excessive Skeuomorphism but it really did train a huge group of people young and old how to use a touch screen.
I doubt cyclical references are the only cause of inconsistent latency in mark and sweep.
There shouldn't be separate endpoints that take an owner's ID. That's bad design. The owner endpoint should contain a list of invoices, ie. links to the invoice endpoint.
There are ways to recycle trash indiscriminately. Basically, you have a graphite electrode plasma arc that turns the trash into plasma. Most trash is carbon bond stuff that will combust, so you get energy out of it - and not negligible amounts of energy (maybe 1-5% of per capita energy use for 1000kg /person/year). What remains is a kind of black slurry that solidifies into bricks or black wool that you can use for construction/insulation etc. If you have enough energy, you can continue to ionize the trash and accelerate the charged plasma through a magnetic separator (like a mass spec) to separate the trash atoms based on charge to mass ratio. The second part would consume way too much energy.
I was gonna say... How could a Seattle-based airline be all Airbus?
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The lack of circuit switching and bandwidth.
I don't know if desktops have a future, or if even local computing has one. Maybe a portion of "personal computing" ends up only done on mobile devices, and some of the rest of it moves to public clouds.

There might not be a business case for companies to produce chips & other hardware for desktops. So, lets equate buying desktops to buying low-end servers for all practical purposes. As computing gets cloud-ier, is there a business case for low-end servers either, when a high-end server can be virtualized to get the same result?

If we are stuck with power-sensitive mobile devices & virtualized cloud instances on high-end servers as the only businesses that sustain, FPGA's only play is on the servers. You'd expect lots of heterogenity in the workloads there, more than on desktops. Reconfiguring many FPGA's very frequently? Not sure it would fly, even with a small selection of applications vetted to not be damaging to the FPGA.

You can do personal computing with FPGA's with Adapteva boards. How safely can you reconfigure its FPGA, after you have managed to code for it?
> the set of standards around HTTP are a horrible mess.

That's not the problem at all.

It would be the problem if the current state of the art was actually taken into account and discarded for some reason.

Instead, the state of the art (or even basic standard practices) is systematically ignored, and we end up seeing the same old wheel being supposedly invented again and again by people who fail to perform the flimsiest cursory bibliographical research on any given topic, and instead invest the bulk of their time announcing their poor reinvention of the wheel.

The web is based on linking. It's a very basic concept. Linking resources is not a new problem. What line of reasoning can possibly lead anyone to believe that this specific problem has never been researched by anyone before us, thus it's a sensible idea to simply dive head-first into coming up with a proposal that completely ignores any prior work?
I read this again now, and I see way too many typos, can't edit it anymore though. Please excuse the messed up grammar and totally unrelated words in between.
At lease the functionality is still there using haptic touch or whatever it’s called.
This resonates with me. I just bought a Pixel 3a and you can tell they spent a lot of time and energy working on all the little sounds and chirps and lights and buzzes that the thing makes whenever it powers on or does anything. It really was amazing the way it did all those little effects in coordination.

And the first thing I did after finishing setup was to find the screen where I could turn all that crap off because really, why would I want my phone to buzz at me ever single time I pressed a key on the keyboard. I mean yeah, it’s delightful and all. But it’s also terrible.

It’s like the “torch mode” that TVs have so that they’re extra bright and colourful in the shop. The one that’s off by default on the one in the box because the tv you bring home needs to be able to display tv shows without burning out your retinas.
For a year after it is reinstated, my answer will be "yes, I'm changing my flight". Doubly so if my wife and child are on the plane.

Why? Because I'd be so unbelievably pissed at myself if the plane nosed itself into the ground, at least for the time it took to impact.

I also vote with my money.

Simple answer? I won't be flying airlines that use the 737 Max. Stick to the NG or pick up some 320's. Between work and personal travel for our family, that's over $50k of gross revenue per year (we both travel a lot for work). Maybe nobody else cares? I'm betting there are more people like me and my wife.
I'm glad that you notice the spectrum of motives/rationale to the loud mufflers.
Further, does it pave the way for expansion? We don't drive electric cars because they are 100% renewable, but rather because they have the potential to be as the science evolves. Is it worthwhile to have the recycling infrastructure in place in hopes that recycling becomes more efficient?
Lots of airplanes do weird undesirable things at certain points in the flight envelope. Airplane design is all about tradeoffs. There is nothing fundamentally wrong with the aerodynamic design of the Max.

There are serious flaws with a safety system (MCAS) which was added to prevent the need for more training and a new type rating for pilots who are already rated to fly the 737. This needs to be fixed.
BeamU password manager/FIDO U2F in a credit card
Hmm. Why do you think so? Wouldn't such stance among you and your peers actually perform as a self-fulfilling prophecy and why not do something about it?
Kids are also graded on an easier curve than adults. Inevitably, skill is assessed in comparison to your peer group, so kids are doing well when compared to other kids their age. For any given activity, especially language, most adults participating in it have years of experience— an adult beginner will seem incompetent for a long time, despite being objectively better than a kid that has been learning for the same amount of time.
The airframe is listed at purchase. I won't be suing. I just won't be buying.
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The way the term is used is correct in the article. Security people use based on the common definition, it's just in security it is assumed that it is with the intent of trapping the person going for the honey.

I agree that domain specific terminology, general language and another domain's language is confusing.

I'm sure a developer at a toy company and management could get confused by a conversation about models.

Doesn't mean either of them are right. Language is frequently ambiguous and we avoid it internally in our domains where possible.
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I'm working in a Data Science Team and like my job a lot. There are some frustrating aspects, so, most of them rooted in the hype around ML / AI. Just some examples:

1. The massive hype around ML has produced unrealistic expectation.

We often face the issue, that customers are unhappy with our results, because their high expectations: "Uh, your model has only 78% accuracy, can't you do better?" (No, not without adequate data and resources!) You basically disappoint people very often.

2. There are lot's of fraudsters in the game, that might get the fame.

I have seen data scientists being applauded, because they claimed to get "99,7% accuracy" for an regression problem. How the hell did they calculate that? Accuracy isn't even a good metric for regression problems! Of course those models usually don't stand reality, but that doesn't seem to be relevant...

3. The work might not have a relevant impact.

Often, we do prototypes to tackle problems, that don't even have enough impact to ever become profitable. We are set on it, because some manager has been told to "Leverage AI to improve Business". As a consequence, when it becomes obvious, that the resources needed to run something in production will never create a positive ROI, the project remains a prototype. Of course our Team knows & communicates that often from the beginning, but it doesn't even seem to matter, as long as anyone can put "working on AI" on some PowerPoint slide.

4. Most of the work is "boring" data preparation.

The "cool" modelling part of our work, where you design architectures and evaluate algorithms usually is ~5% of our implementation time. Most of the time is spent in preparing the data to be suitable input for the model. (I myself actually like data prep as a part of the process, but I know lots of colleagues don't).

This is my experience from working in a very large but not digital native company. I'd expect it to be different at Amazon, Netflix, Google etc. And I'd be interested to hear if data scientist from other companies face similar or different issues...
I can relate to this. Not a product, but a blog I run gets just ~20 (out of ~200 page views/day) of traffic from HN, Reddit, Facebook, Twitter combined. Rest is organic and most of it is via Google searches.
Germany deals with most of its waste internally. Most paper is recycled for second-rate paper products. Metal is recycled. Some plastic is recycled. The rest (general waste, organic, most of plastic) is incinerated under corresponding conditions. Incinerating organic is already quite optimal–left in nature, things would rot and produce methane. Incinerating plastic is like burning gas or oil that was originally used to produce it. It has similar calorific value as coal and in Germany is largely used to substitute some part of it in coal power plants. I’m not sure about general waste, but I’d guess after subtracting methane production in landfills, incinerating it is still a net positive.

EDIT: Most glass bottles are in the deposit system and are collected by stores, washed, and reused.
Zoom and Facetime are pretty decent, but you are completely right. The fundamental problem is we have a huge stack of technologies that just barely work. It runs from USB to video drivers, to operating systems, to videoconferencing software to Wi-Fi to home/office routers to cable modems to cable infrastructure to TCP/IP to backbone network capacity, and back. Everything is pushed to the limit. It's basically the Richard Gabriel worse is better problem, compounded. Everyone gets their part to something like 99% reliability.

If you're depending on 20 things, each having 99% reliability, the system has 82% reliability. Roughly speaking, that's what's happening. There is no silver bullet to fix this. Bringing one layer from 99% to 100% brings the system from 82% to 83%.
Someone needs to design vidconf hardware where (somehow) the camera is in the middle of the screen so you are looking directly into each other's eyes.
I don't know if FPGA's are a dead-end. Why did Intel buy Altera, the 2nd biggest FPGA vendor?
>fwiw my current vehicle is approximately the loudest allowable per federal regulations

I believe Dennis Leary wrote a song about this kind of thing.
It makes the idea of helping the environment more prominent in people's minds, thereby making them more likely to do more to help it in the future (although it could have the opposite effect for some, making them think that because they already recycle they don't have to do anything more).
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The article's recommendations don't achieve HATEOAS, because even though the foreign-key IDs are replaced with URLs, they're not actually links because they don't specify an explicit relationship.

Instead, the relationship between the response document and the URL's target is implicit, probably guessed from the naming of the key or maybe noted in the response document's definition.

The point of HATEOAS is that a client who understands the meaning of certain link relations (aka "rels"), such as ones in the IANA registry [1], can interact with these referred-to resources using the Standard Interface (of GET, POST, PUT, etc).

Only in the section where the article talks about ways to express links in JSON do link relations appear.

[1] https://www.iana.org/assignments/link-relations/link-relatio...
Didn't block me on my LG G3 on Lineage OS, which doesn't come rooted by default.
> BlueNalu is not looking to replace wild-caught or farm-raised seafood, but is aiming to become a third alternative for seafood eaters.

Since they are targeting “fish that cannot be easily farmed”, the whiff I get from this idea is akin to synthetic diamonds. This lab grown fish is an alternative to the rare and high-end fish that is harder (and more expensive) to get.

This is not a cheap replacement for standard consumers buying filets at the grocery store for weeknight dinners, but a niche offer for chefs and clientele wanting the experience of eating particular fish cuisine.

It would be disingenuous to say this is going to save the oceans. Fish are useful to the environment and it would be better if their populations rose, as overfishing is causing massive oceanic destruction.

Comparing this kind of lab grown fish to lab grown beef is actually an inverse comparison because a central point of lab grown beef is addressing the issue (and environmental impact) of humans farming too many cows for beef, whereas with fish we have the opposite problem where humans have decimated the populations so much we actually need to lift fish populations.
It's an excellent read.

The same thing that Apple does is also happening in the Linux desktop "department". Just compare GNOME2 and GNOME3. Back in the days I spent hours on configuring GNOME, and that was a lot of fun. Now I have GNOME3. I have to actually modify/hack its config files or even source code in the ugliest ways just to bring back something familiar.

I understand that GNOME3 was an (successful) attempt to attract more users which were intimidated by the more "tractor" or "steam engine" like designs of Linux desktops back then (edit) and they were right! You could break something with a Linux desktop tweak! "Yast!" was a common exclamation for me! It could break the whole OS and prevent it from booting.
Minority or not, if you use DDG, you will not see an AMP page.

What do you want, to search for stuff or to feel that you're supporting the winning team or something?
I agree but I'd also like to see tax paid on size of the vehicle because it's literally using more of the public highway. So motorbikes would still pay less, probably.

The SUV users say it improves safety. OK, they can pay for it.
Is this long press effectively or?
I'm just waiting for electric bikes to take off more to see the Akira prediction of Clowns vs Capsules.
The navigation gestures and movements on iOS are a prime example.

They're plenty intuitive, but they're obviously timed for the slowest possible user using them for the first time - so by the hundredth time you try to do something, you're getting really frustrated by having to make grand, exaggerated gestures to get the OS to understand what you want, and I frequently find myself having to repeat actions 2-3 times for them to "take".
I rather had the exploding engines of the A380 in mind, the flaming batteries of the B787, but we can also talk earlier B737 (rudder, rivets on early models), DC-10 (cargo door), C-5 (door lock), A340 (freezing pitot tubes) etc.
The pet does have an owner. It's another resource, however, whose location can and does change.
It's not the same. Haptic touch just provides a virtual click like sensation to the finger. 3D touch is an actual additional input on the touch area.
That's not necesarily an unsolvable problem. I know several companies in Denmark who produce fresh plastic from recyclable plastic, and they can't meet market demand for their product - primarily due to them not being able to get enough "clean" or uncontaminated plastic. So the reality is much more nuanced than that.

(I have a startup in the danish waste industry)