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Most of the comments here are gloriously fact-free. Please read the interim report of the Ethiopia Airlines crash before you form an opinion.

Those pilots were systematically under-trained in a school owned by the carrier that almost exclusively graduated men. The male gaze may prevent you from seeing it, you may be literally blind to it, but in 2019, if you are graduating almost exclusively male pilots, you have a big fucking social problem that is going to get played out in the cockpit. Arrogance, superiority, testosterone, no effective CRM, and a social club for the sons of the rich and famous do not produce an environment where teamwork and professionalism are likely to take over in a crisis.

The guy in the right seat hit the 737 Max cockpit with 98 hours of total flight time. That tells you everything you need to know right there.

These accidents can be reduced to a runaway trim problem. That's all. Easy to deal with for a well-trained flight crew with a good interpersonal dynamic. There was no need to die.

However, if you violate the flight manual and all sanity and reason by re-enabling the runaway electric trim when you are low and 50kts overspeed because you can't fly the airplane manually to save your life, expect to crash immediately.

Boeing is just the target du jour. Every airplane has a trim system that can fail. To understand how to deal with such a failure is to be a pilot.

These arrogant untrained men were not pilots.
Other than then Obama, it was said every potus start a war. Potus really has limited power. Starting war is the only way to have power. Power corrupt ... once you have a taste ... even if it is in the interest of USA in a sense.
> The value of life is not infinite.

The whole western civilization is standing on the assumption that it is.
This, but I think the more general point here would be that the system preferences panel is for dead simple stuff, and Apple does provide more powerful tools (namely, Automator and Applescript) if you need them.

I love Applescript. My entire home entertainment setup basically runs on Applescript—each button on my Harmony remote triggers a different script.

There's no equivalent on Windows—you can use Autohotkey, kind of, but without any sort of Apple Event-esque specification it isn't nearly as useful/nice.
I agree. We can't control China's behavior but the tariffs do a good job of controlling our own behavior since they punish us more then China. So if you are single sourcing everything in China you will be punished more then those who have more sources. Challenge is the next President will back right off and we will be where we were before.
I've never heard the term, then again I've only ever purchased bagels from grocery stores and bakeries. We have an Einstein Bagle shop fairly close by, but I've only ever had them when someone brings them to the office.

I've heard of lachsfisch (sp?) in German for salmon, and I think the Swedish term is similar, so if I ever heard the term, I probably attributed it to German. I've certainly had a lot of smoked salmon spread and smoked salmon by itself, I've just don't recall ever hearing it referred to in English as anything other than "smoked salmon".

So yeah, I recognize that word as German or Swedish, not English.
You want to kill babies if they have a low quality of life?

Would it be OK to kill a non-baby as long as they have a low quality of life? Who would decide quality of life?
So the reason they look the same is because designs became standardized to make it easy to meet requirements AND cost. There are still some really great things at some playgrounds. A park near me built a new playground and it has a post and rope dodecahedron that must be 15 feet high. Kids climb and sit at the top. Falling could be pretty bad, but it looks cool af and kids like it.
Exactly. If we start censoring now, where's the Schelling Fence [0] between this and censoring mainstream political opinions?

I already see active attempts to re-define and re-label bog-standard Republican positions as "Far Right" and "Fascist." I've already encountered many people who want to throw the fact that such positions were mainstream, "down the memory hole."

What logic used to censor things here won't be used to censor more things later?

The effort to censor more things has already been ongoing.
The mom, or parents.

Other animals kill thier young if they feel they cant rear them as well.
Letting them build sounds good to me. Nuclear power is safe when you want it to be, and we need more of it.
A 60-second TOTP code is a fully deterministic function of a permanent, unchangeable secret. That's why you and the server can agree on what the code should be without needing to communicate beyond setting up the code originally.

This makes it identical to a password from a theoretical perspective. There's really no difference between a TOTP secret that you keep in a TOTP app and haven't memorized, and a password you keep in your password manager and also haven't memorized. Both are "something you know", and nothing else.

You're correct that leaking a temporary code from a single login attempt doesn't compromise the TOTP secret. That is an artifact of the login process, not of whether the mechanism is labeled "2FA" or "password". You can do the same thing while calling the secret a password: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secure_Remote_Password_protoco...
My firefox 66.0.4 doesn't trust the certificate for the website you posted.

Edit: Oh wait the link doesnt work for me even!
Pah hahahahhaa!!! It's kind of funny to see what "thinking of the children" actually looks like in a genuine Think Of The Children thread.

Pretty much everyone sucks.
* Your time is worth something, even if your employer isn't making the best use of it

* I'm surprised he waited 7 weeks before submitting a bill (especially given the hurry up and wait circumstances).
I recently terminated my PhD - a very hard decision after 4 years of study. But my mental health hit rock bottom, after it had continually declined so much over the years. Worst of all, when I seeked help from my universities student wellbeing services, I was told to 'google my issues'.
Do you guarantee that the legal items one would normally transport in a car will be allowed on public transportation?
Flashes are distracting. IMO, it's not the delay that's the problem, but the fact that it lasts eight seconds. The limit should be 500 milliseconds, at most.
Sounds like another example of the cobra effect: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cobra_effect
The core issue is that the number of days per year is messy, so it's not possible to have a 'nice' number of seconds in a day and also in a year.

The best solution is probably just to use a nice number of seconds per day and accept the fact that in 100ish years summer will start in March, not December. It's not like we need to build our entire society around planting and harvest any more.
I think he might be referring to the slide with 20 ft drops made with two pipes...as in the Darwinian versions shown here....

https://clickamericana.com/toys-and-games/dangerous-old-play...
>But even ignoring that, to give just a couple of concrete examples: shutting down coal-fired power stations in America would save Americans billions just in the cost of electricity. That's completely ignoring pollution and climate change.

And they are shutting down, because they are becoming economically unviable. Natural gas seems to be much more efficient, but both of these have a significant impact on climate change.

>Every single projection suggests that electric cars will be cheaper than their ICE counterparts due to their massively higher efficiency, again even if you ignore local and global pollution. Yet there's an organised lobby fighting against that move. Is this because they're worried about poor people?

It's not about being worried about poor people. It's about being worried about getting votes. If you're the person that doubles the prices, then you're going to be unpopular in the future.

Aside from that, electric cars are projected to be cheaper, but they are not yet cheaper. Electric cars can't even fulfill the same needs that a normal car does. Say you live in an apartment, like many poor people do. They can't charge their car overnight. Not only that, it takes a lot longer to charge it at a charging station. The car also doesn't have the same range.

Also, keep in mind that electric cars will only matter if those coal plants that are replaced by nuclear or some renewable. Otherwise it matters little. Yes, it reduces the impact, but we need more than just the reduction of the impact.
WoW, your app is exactly what I had been looking for, most budgeting apps have gorgeous Graphs and stats but keeping it updated is really annoying, using SMS as the medium is genius. In fact, when I got some free time I'm going to make my own version but with WhatsApp or telegram on top of the SMS.
In the US governments are only interested in photo enforcement when it's profitable. When laws permit cameras but prevent them from being a revenue source, the cameras go away every time.
Right, you should have charged her more. If you pick a rate that seems reasonable for the amount of work involved then she'll wonder why she couldn't just do it herself. You also need to price in all the learning and experience you needed up to that point, otherwise the client will think you're doing a cheap/half-assed job.
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We kill with science, do we kill in the name of science?

But even so, that doesn’t make all the killing in the name of religion less bad.
I basically can't understand a thread on Twitter

I don’t think Twitter understands threads on Twitter, and they never have. They built something over a decade ago, it took off for reasons they never fully could fathom, and they’ve been afraid ever since to futz with what for them has been a good thing.
If the U.S. were serious about any of this they'd be funding initiatives for open, verified hardware and software. Other than INRIA, the French research group, and CSIRO, from where seL4 comes, where else is this work being done?

I don't just mean theoretical work. I mean production ready stuff that is useable, like most commercialized solutions are, but also actually secure. Doing both is difficult. seL4 is useable and in fact is being tested in U.S. drones. Why didn't the NSA do something like seL4? Instead we get seLinux which isn't even secure--anything running on Linux is as a practical matter exploitable on the first day it ships.

Our communications and control systems are so fundamentally insecure it hardly matters whether it's sourced from Huawei or not--it's six of one or a half-dozen of the other, except one of those cartons is at least substantially cheaper than the other.

The fact of the matter is that the commercial industry will never develop and deliver secure products on their own. They've never done this well, and are probably fundamentally incapable of doing so because most of the benefits of a secure product inure to the public generally. Commercial vendors can't capture the value provided by secure solutions. It's up to the public--government, academia, open source community, etc--to invest in and develop the fundamental building blocks of secure systems.

Importantly, the entire stack doesn't need to be secure. We can write secure networked systems for the Internet because we presume the network is hostile. There's no reason that cellular radios should be a trusted component of a wireless cellular network. They are because (1) it's just cheaper to do it that way (see above) and (2) the U.S. government spent decades sabotaging cryptography generally and cellular standards specifically, which means even 5G standards are fundamentally broken from a design perspective.

So the whole Huawei controversy deserves a giant eye roll. All of the arguments about why Huawei can't be trusted are irrelevant. Huawei shouldn't be trusted, but neither should Qualcomm or any of these other vendors. Rather, we should set transparency standards and verify that they're being met. But doing so requires a ridiculous amount of work up and down the software and hardware stack, starting from the design stage; work that the U.S. government isn't actually doing but, in fact, still sabotaging!
If your bad idea is better than doing nothing and nobody can come up with something better, you could do it.

The problem is youtubes recommendation algorithm, which rides users ever deeper into weirder and more outrageous videos, if they are susceptible to it. It's a bit like balancing on a knifes edge, and that very system feeds directly into those generating revenue from it. It is a system that rewards cheap outrageous lies over intelligent and balanced truths.

In today's age where every truth will be declared to be just an opinion while every opinion will be presented as the truth, we don't need such a social experiment.
Mostly yes. The thing is that what we see in 5G with China is also happening in other areas as well, both in IT (think of how much of our stuff is produced in China!) and outside of IT (Belt Road initiative).

When it comes to China and Russia, what they are doing is a plan of the sort that can only be done in an authoritarian, controlled state.
Yeah, but so what?

Companies need to trample on your human rights to make money.

Now the government? Yeah. That's a whole other issue.

False. Freedom of speech outweighs property rights and the right of corporations' "Freedom of association."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marsh_v._Alabama

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lBozijndSLc
> "...trying to make swings do a 360 (yes, I tried that, never succeeded)."

ha, my childhood friends and i used to try to do that too. we settled on swinging as high as we could and doing backflips out of the swing. i don't know how not one of us got injured that way.
Some people used to feel this way about IRC.

I'm afraid the reality is probably that you just don't have the motivation to figure it out, for whatever reason. No mass-market product like Twitter could succeed if it was as confusing as you say it is.

There's also the fact that a subset of computer programmer types have low tolerance for all sorts of "noisy" things that the average person doesn't have a problem with.
Hey HN, I'm a reporter at the non-profit newsroom ProPublica. I used to be a software engineer in the Bay Area, but now I work primarily with data and code for news investigations.

We published a story today that found that a lot of the firms touting their ransomware decryption services actually end up paying the hackers (often behind the client's back) and then tacking on a fee.

Though you all would find it interesting. A great tidbit that my reporting partner Renee uncovered: a former deputy FBI director was paid to promote MonsterCloud, while knowing that they paid bitcoin to cybercriminals.

He's also a former TSA director. So of course, he partnered with their CEO on a side biz to put massage chairs in airports. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Anyway, thought this would be a story that HN would enjoy. Would love to hear y'all's thoughts since this is the community with the expertise & experience to comment. If you have things (ransomware or otherwise) you think we should look into, would love to hear as well. :-)
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Does the decommissioning process for a nuclear plant involve returning the space to other uses? Does it become a permanent dead zone? Half-lives of thousands of years are no joke. Practically infinite is a long time.
Aren't NSOs employees as liable as Raytheon, Boeing and Dassault's employees (that is - not at all)?

A company is an organism whose goal is to maximize shareholder value - you can't really blame its executives for doing that. At the end of the day, these companies operate within the confines of the laws - and both the US and Israel have export regulations which clarify what's right and wrong. Isn't that really the issue?
> Move any jumps in time to once a century (or millennium).

You hear a lot of people remarking that Let's Encrypt has made things better by requiring certs to be reconfigured more often rather than less. I know they're not exactly the same as time in general, but as a general idea, knowing that you need to do some fiddling often and automating it, might be better than growing complacent because nothing needs to be done for 50 years.

Might be setting things up for a lot of work when that next change comes due.
We don't and we haven't for thousands of years since farming and the states, empires, and concept of ownership which sprung up as a result of that. It's almost impossible to be a hunter gatherer anymore... and those who still choose to practice this sort of life style are far an between and often prey to other actors who exploit the fact that they have little representation in modern society.
I tend to think of it in much more brutalist terms: what's the desirable or appropriate ratio of population to housing units for housing to be affordable for everyone? If the ratio in one area is too high, upzone. If it's too low and that's somehow causing problems as well, downzone.
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Sorry, I think we’re talking past each other.
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It's a social class marker; plenty of people have it, but if you're hanging around a college with a lot of upper middle class teeth gritting cheesebags and hangers on, you may never hear it.

I grew up with a western mass accent, which is a sort of lighter version of bahston with less non-rhoticity. I can turn it off, but lately choose not to, also for social class reasons.
>Here in Germany it's very popular to talk about, chastise and silence "Nazis" (be it real or assumed), which sort of makes sense knowing Germany's history.

And yet it doesn't even prevent the core of the problem, which is that the supreme law of the land is easily abusable as a weapon once the Nazis get in power (and if the German economy tanks to the point where people can no longer buy bread for a day's work, which was true in the Weimar Republic, they will).

Anti-speech laws have never been about stopping Nazis. It's all about the feeling that they stop Nazis, which (especially in majoritarian-biased politics) is all that really matters.
Not the Merry Go Round.

https://playgroundology.wordpress.com/2018/06/29/whats-in-a-...

A glorious, if occasional, feature of my childhood. We did refer to it that way, I think organically (perhaps just looking back and not at the time - I can't recall). I found the article about it by googling the phrase!

I'm not sure how I'd feel about my own child on it, to be honest. I'm more bummed that he isn't allowed to climb any of the disused locomotive engines that are still present (but now fenced off) at a number of playgrounds.
Just follow the CRAP rule:
Contrast
Repetition
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Proximity
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When I first read the story many years ago, Picasso's ask was $10,000.
I recently found that my favorite cookie manager for Firefox has a version for Chrome as well:

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/cookiebro/lpmockib...

I browse the Chrome Web Store occasionally, looking for interesting and useful extensions, but Firefox is my main browser, so Chrome extensions are not really a priority.
The Ars article has some more details: https://arstechnica.com/science/2019/05/researchers-make-the...

> Unfortunately, there's a big gap between what a DNA synthesis machine can output and the multi-million-base-long genome. The group had to do an entire assembly process, stitching together small pieces into a large segment in one cell and then bringing that into a different cell that had an overlapping large segment. "Personally, my biggest surprise was really how well the assembly process worked," Schmied said. "The success rate at each stage was very high, meaning that we could do the majority of the work with standard bench techniques."

> During the process, there were a couple of spots where the synthetic genome ended up with problems—in at least one case, this was where two essential genes overlapped. But the researchers were able to tweak their version to get around the problems that they identified. The final genome also had a handful of errors that popped up during the assembly process, but none of these altered the three base codes that were targeted.

So it sounds to me like the process wasn't quite perfect. They also note that DNA "redundancy can also allow fine-tuning of gene activity, as some codes are translated into proteins more efficiently than others".
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better find each other, legitimize each other, spread their views and recruit others to their causes?

It's allowed everyone to do that. That's why we have more acrimony today. Allow a level playing field, and the violent stupid losers will lose. Start taking away people's rights, and you've only given those toxic people a pretext. (Which is exactly what the Christchurch shooter was trying to do.)
I have read that all containers at Google run inside of a VM and indeed that article mentions that gVisor is in use in things like App Engine and their internal workloads.

So if containers on GKE were already being spun up inside lightweights VMs what does allowing customer's to select the gVisor runtime offer beyond whatever Google's existing lightweight VM already provides?
It works well enough for the 6 languages I use weekly. I'm honestly too busy doing all the other engineering tasks that don't happen inside Vscode to really care that it's not perfect. I don't live in vscode that much each week to really care.
> What is more, as far as I can see, this bug has existed since macOS High Sierra 10.13.4, almost a year ago, in March 2018, if not before.

Hmm, I still have my main machine on High Sierra due to nVidia drivers (and Mojave's Apple Event Sandboxing being a giant PITA), and I can't replicate this on 10.13.6. The bug worked on my Mojave machine, however.

I wonder if the author is mistaken regarding how long the bug has been present. Or maybe it was introduced in 10.13.4, got fixed, and then was broken again?
My recommended route: Harvard's CS50x on edx -> Think Python 2ed -> https://www.obeythetestinggoat.com/pages/book.html#toc

You don't need to take CS50, but it's the probably the best introduction to programming available online and will give you a strong foundation that will make the later books easier to work through.
That's not at all what I am referring to. With Android you are basically carrying Google's (play services) remote monitoring device.

For $150 device (whichever company subsidized that device) you are the product.
Yeah but it restricts speek on a media plattform. Believe it or not, in the past 100 years it was pretty much the norm, that certain contents would not be published e.g. in books or newspapers.

A lot of the stuff right wing extremists say on youtube today would have been censored on television in the past (depending on the country of course).
> If your bad idea is better than doing nothing and nobody can come up with something better, you could do it.

Where is the evidence that this is better than the status quo?
Mostly its just manipulating text files w/ bash, R, python.

The tools used by this particular study:

https://github.com/TiongSun/GenomeRecoding
https://github.com/TiongSun/iSeq