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Should we limit our discussions of software to only free software, or not discuss Apple’s new laptops until they are giving them away? Or is journalism the only thing that you feel deserves this treatment?
That winglet design is not specific to the MAX aircraft. That CFM engine is also used on Airbus NEO.
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I feel the same way. This says a lot about the 737-Max but it also says a ton about the company. This whole thing has shed a light on Boeing that I personally have a hard time overlooking. I know my opinion matters little in the grand scheme of things, but it doesn't seem like many people are in the same boat as me.
Did exactly the same thing when i went away a few months back, my trip just after the second accident but not before the grounding i believe. Not sure what the options are if you get stuck on a plane you don't exactly want to be on.

My trip just after the second accident but not before teh grounding.
I would say it especially applies to heterosexual men by doesn’t need to specifically applied to them. It’s certainly one of the causes for low self esteem among men, especially developers.
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As I answered to another reply, you would also get a much better reception as a foreigner than as a local. Especially if you're tourist with money. Not because they make a cynical decision to appear hospitable, they're sincere in their sympathy to you: you're not a threat or a competitor to them, unlike another local.
You can look up the plane your due to fly on online using the flight number.
What tools are needed to make a presentation such as this?
Terminal text editors.

Aside from incremental improvements like async plugins Vim and Emacs have largely stayed the same.
You still have the FAA and related regulations issues, this kind of unsafe behavior should have been caught early. Is FAA regulating other companies and products? those also would need investigated
I too didn't know this, not that I have any decent knowledge of economics/business in the first place :(

One thing that I wish more people (including me) realize is - these big problems (taxation, immigration, protectionism etc) have multiple angles and many nuances to them, and it is just dumb to reduce them to a simple yes/no type binary question. All this to say, many people including those shouting at each other on television, probably don't know enough to argue one way or the other
My line is that I want the latest upstream packages with as little delay as possible while not breaking things. It’s a vague line, but that’s how it is. Arch Linux has generally managed to hit that line consistently and I haven’t experienced any breakages in years. Most of the issues I’ve had were due to Antergos screw-ups.

Unfortunately, I have seen out of date (1+ month) packages without any response from the maintainer, so I guess it’s just something that happens. My reasonable expectation is that I do have the latest ones, and I’m annoyed if I don’t.
I think that 99% is probably more like 95%. That still doesn’t sound very significant -- only 5% of passengers bother to check! -- but given the slim operating margins of airlines, 5% lost revenue would be a huge blow.
I like http://507movements.com/mm_398.html which is a programmable drive system. Constant rotation input can give you a cyclic but irregular and arbitrary output movement.

Another good programmable mechanism is a spring made from sheet metal. Take a flat piece and cut a spiral with the width of the material proportional to the force you want at that part of the spring's travel. Stretch it out to form a little tower, with the base on a solid surface, and the load carried on the center of the spiral.
That’s a good point. In my company they have started to solicit ideas and even ways to fund them but this breaks down because it’s still the execs deciding on the winners and there is no financial benefit for the employees who provided the ideas. So as employee you become very cynical when you win a contest and the only thing you get out of it is some pizza with a VP and more work.
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I know. My response was in the context of (paraphrased) “why are systematic deaths of Asians, Africans and Native Americans at the hands of Caucasians given a free pass when the same crimes against Jews were correctly prosecuted?” — and that is a difference of skin colour.
Nope, risks are insignificant. It's extremely irrational to be scared to fly on Boeing.
We live in the wild west of data privacy and security. We'll look back one day at this time and wonder how things were so broken.
If it's displaying on your site, and cheapening your brand, it's your responsibility to fix it. You allowed the ad to display.
In the U.S., any condition that you have CAN BE AND WILL BE used against you - either by insurance firms, employers, etc. Even if in some cases it is illegal to be used against you, the U.S.' environment is such that those with power over you will use such info against you...so you can unfortunately consider the U.S. in the 1% of the countries that you cited. </sigh>
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The way it works is that accelerometers, gyroscopes and magnetometers all have some degree of systematic error from the manufacturing process so phone makers calibrate them at the factory. This attack is able to derive the calibration values from about 1 second of sensor data. As these values are unique to each phone, they can form a fingerprint that's impossible to erase or alter.
That overlooks the long history and cultural norm of borrowing or copying to advance. Chinese culture does not place the same value on pioneering as the US. If China does become a tech leader it will have to shift those deeply rooted cultural forces first. That, and their government that is capable of long term planning is also incapable of tolerating diversity, dissent, and free thought. I do not think China will become the technology leader you’re hypothesizing.

Edit: Why don’t you ask the millions in the re-education camps how advanced China’s education system is?
At least you get pilots trained witht he proper manuals and simulators and also add the extra buttons needed like a button to turn off MCAS that you can't add now because you need to create new manuals and simulators and retrain pilots.
You pay for a service when you wish to be the customer rather than the product.
BA tell you the model of plane that's scheduled when booking.

I've actually selected a different flight a few hours after another so I would be on an A380 vs 747 because two hours extra waiting to come home is worth it for the comfort on a longer flight, and feeling more refreshed the other end, especially with a long drive back from the airport waiting for me.
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I would be extremely hesitant to ever fly on a 737 MAX again because, even when MCAS is fixed, software is being used to fix a fundamental physics problem. I'd fly on other Boeing planes without worry, though.
To be honest, if the American government got involved to protect Boeing, that would be even worse for Boeing, and nearly fatal to the authoritative status of the FAA. It would pretty much confirm what most air travelers are thinking. That the US government cares a good deal more about keeping Boeing afloat than it cares about our safety.

At the same time, Boeing and the FAA have already taken pretty big hits. So game theoretically speaking, why not go all in?

Tough to say which is the worse tactic for the US government to follow right now? (If we're talking about landing in the best position long term.) Taking the high road? Or just letting the corruption show?
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If you're an ally, that doesn't matter that much.

Coming from eastern europe and seeing what happened in Ukraine, I see trigger-happiness of US as an advantage.

If Russia comes banging at our doors, I don't trust Germany or France to do more than issue a stern letter. China? I'm pretty sure they wouldn't give a fuck. US of A? That's our only bet TBH.
Apple claims that their iOS is "Secure By Design". They use that exact phrase. (See https://www.apple.com/business/resources/docs/iOS_Security_O... for example.)

Does this mean anything?
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I had not seen the split winglet on non-MAX 737s. I stand corrected. I did mean the CFM engine as a distinguisher between 737 models, not as a identifying feature for 737 MAX vs all other 2 engine smallish jets.
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> Provide me one legal use case better suited to cryptocurrency than the US dollar.

Sending money to people overseas without extortionate fees. Surprisingly not everyone overseas is linked with international terrorism as you imply.
As far as I know this is one of the rare few, read I can't recall one, occasions in which EASA didn't accept FAA certification. Usually it is cross- certification between the two. Things are getting interesting and not necessarily in a good way as cooperation is reduced. That it makes sense in this special case is only further proof.
What platform do you use for prediction markets; is it open source/publically available?
Airlines like Delta show very clearly what type of plane you're supposed to be on. Of course that could change because of maintenance issues, but it is easy to check at least what is scheduled.
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I'm not sure.

First of all they will not capitalize on this. Airlines as well as manufacturers never use (lack of) security with a competitor as a marketing argument.

Moreover. Order books for the main competitor, The A320NEO and derivatives, are full until something like 2025.

It's possible that it's an advantage for the A220 (Bombardier C series) as some commenter pointed out. Which, incidentally, is a fantastic passenger experience for short - to medium haul flights.
I still want to know what a plunk tool is.
How do you feel about streams/lambdas with Java's checked exceptions?
Or maybe IP theft is retaliation for the opium wars.

It's silly to look at a centuries long geopolitical struggle for hegemony through the lens of fair play as though it's just a game among friends.
What is the benefit of running this instead of using tools like Chef InSpec (https://github.com/inspec/inspec) or Cloud Custodian (https://github.com/cloud-custodian/cloud-custodian)?
Similarly Rust is Mozilla's language. If you want a real open Language, use the open source F# or C#.
Interesting. I switched to an archive.org link.
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> The last thing I personally want to see is Go being handed over to the community to be designed by committee.

I'm thankful for exactly that. Go is developed by Bell Labs people, the same people who bought us C, Unix and Plan 9 (Ken, Pike, RSC, et al). They took the time to think through all their decisions, the impacts of said decisions, along with keeping things as simple as possible. Basically, doing things right the first time and not bolting on features willy-nilly simply because the community wants them.

Reminds me of Joe Armstrong's quote: '''I remember thinking “how simple, no qualms of conscience, no soul-searching, no asking "Is this the right thing to do” …''' source: http://harmful.cat-v.org/software/OO_programming/why_oo_suck...
Boeing has a lot of work to do to restore their image and I will avoid the MAX where possible. They seem to have been on a mission to cut back on expenses without the necessary review and supervision which is worrying. I'd prefer they start caring a bit more about "the box" again. [0]

[0] https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2019-05-09/former-bo...
And how are they going to be held accountable?

They already have several contracts which states victims can't sue the company. Maybe not everyone signed, but then it's about how much they can pay their lawyers.
Most definitely - and the way that FAA essentially outsources the approval back to the manufacturer is something that needs to change ... but is there the will in the Senate and White House to spend more on the FAA?
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Google has released AutoML service for structured datasets (AutoML Tables, currently in Beta). I've compared my open-source AutoML python package mljar-supervised with Google AutoML Tables on 6 datasets from openml.org. The results of Google AutoML Tables are poor (I was using 1-hour training). I think that the reason for poor results is a short training time. I think that the 1-hour of training on 92 machines in parallel is not enough for Google optimization algorithm. I believe they are using some Neural Architecture Search algorithm which is not very efficient. Maybe training for a longer time will give better results but the cost of 1-hour training is ~20USD so it can easily skyrocket.
I’ve never seen a NYT paywall in Australia. Maybe it’s geo specific?
The problem isn't where it is published but of institution and incentives and their impact upon career and their works. If looking for spurious correlations to get sexy results is the way to get tenure you are going to see a lot more sloppy science regardless of how harshly you punish it.

We don't (or shouldn't) trust in cases of major conflicts of interest. Being caught taking bribes to influence results would be a black list worthy move but institutions of all sorts effectively do the same thing with more indirection accidentally or otherwise.

Regardless of aims pushes can create bad science. Behind many private testing scandal was a blind push to improve throughput and expenses with no regards to accuracy.

I definitely don't have an answer to how to restructure it better - much less a way that is practical or able to get any political acceptance.
The fix for the 787s Lithium battery problems wasn't a whole lot better. Remember those exploding left and right and the 787 fleet grounded?

The fix wasn't to reengineer the large amount of electrical systems, lack of bleed air or use of different batteries.

The fix was to put them in a stronger container with a hole in it so they can vent outside when they inevitably blow up again.

That has worked well.
So far.

Kind of - https://aeronauticsonline.com/united-787-battery-failure-pro...
This is not the case. The 737 MAX has different handling characteristics to a regular 737, but there is nothing inherently unsafe about those handling characteristics. The purpose of MCAS was just to prevent the need for pilots to recertify by masking the difference.
You could say the same thing about Linux. If Linus doesn't like what you made, it's not getting into the kernel.
In my circle, roughly 30%.
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I got back, and this site still contains 500 errors.
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Instead of funny, your link provided the answer to a previous post that asked how MMS made money and what their motivation may be.

"These 'ropeworms' are often discussed, with images shared and claimed as evidence of successful detoxing, on autism forums and Facebook groups, where bleach enemas (for example MMS) are falsely claimed to cure autism.[6] In one group, 8500 members have allegedly been charged $60 to join, half a million dollars combined, leading to questioning of the leaders' intentions."
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That seems like a different issue.

Root problem seems to be: Software puts trim in an extreme position. It should never do that.

Aviation Week article: if you are in an electric trim runaway, you need to turn off electric trim, then in order to turn the trim wheel manually, you need to nose down to reduce aerodynamic forces. Seems necessary to train for which it suggests was not the case.

NYT article: Simulator doesn't simulate the forces on the trim wheel correctly (although Aviation Week suggests they were able to simulate something useful)

The NYT article really seems like the least of the problems.
GPU scales really well with transistor count and You can expect about double the performance with best of 7nm, and likely another double for 3nm. So you are looking at 4x the performance.

Of course this does not take into account about TDP, Clockspeed, Memory Speed, Cost of Die Size etc. What is technologically possible may not be economically possible. We are going to need much faster memory, GDDR7? or HBM3, how much would those cost?

And a 3nm ( Whether that is from Samsung or TSMC ) Nvidia GPU will likely be 2022 or 2023 at the earliest.
Flying -- even accounting for all the 737 Max crashes is still statistically by far the safest form of travel per unit of distance travelled -- the 737 Max is a blip just like 9/11.
Are we talking about the same China here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SGJ5cZnoodY
From what I read the FAA people were paid by Boeing in the past but they were reporting to FAA, it makes sense , you want your plane,drone other device certified you pay the expenses of the engineers that will do the checks, there should be no need to pay them with public money.
It still kills me that they let Boeing 'self-certify' their own airplanes.

I had a diagnostic medical imaging startup. You can't even imagine the pain the FDA inflicted on our bottom line before they would give an OK on anything. But the FAA is out there just taking the word of some company's engineers that "Yeah. We're good."?

I guess I just thought that all of the regulation, was like it was in the healthcare field. Guess not.
Netflix made over $4.5 billion in revenue last quarter and has been consistently growing it every year at insane rates. Disney? Not so much.

A blockbuster film costs hundreds of millions of dollars to make. How many companies have the money and desire to play in that space? It's Disney's and a couple of other studio's wheelhouse. Netflix is quickly reaching the scale to compete there though and they have demonstrated the ability to hire away talent from all the major studios and quickly put out content that viewers demonstrably spend time watching.

It seems like half the bull case for Disney + is Endgame. How many people are going to pull out their wallets to sign up for a subscription to stream a six-month old movie that they've probably already seen if they're that excited about it? Seems like a stretch to me.
If the links dont work for you why not flag them?
I wish Boeing would rather FINALLY do the right thing, take their billion dollar earnings and putting it into R&D to build a new, modern 2020s design aircraft into the sky for the next decades rather than it's umpteenth warm-up of their 1960s design.
The Nazis were super-paranoid about public opinion, and made some fairly serious efforts to track it (on a population level, so not about individuals).
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I see a lot of people dreaming about Huawei needing to pivot to open source technology, but the overwhelmingly likely outcome here is that the trade dispute gets (partially) resolved to the extent that Huawei can operate as usual again.

Dreaming of Huawei backed RISC V SoCs is a pipe dream anyway, at least for mobile processors. For a mobile SoC you need a GPU as well. There are no viable open source GPU architectures, and all vendors are US-based (Vivante, Broadcom (?), AMD, Nvidia, Qualcomm, Intel, only the first three ever do licensing deals) or UK based (ARM (Mali), PowerVR).
On an inferior system, absolutely. On Windows, I run it either from an icon click or the Run dialog. No terminal invocation is needed.
The reason to have a Tor browser is that regular browser features aren't well suited to secure anonymous browsing.

The reason to have a regular browser is that you want those features, and the low latency of a direct connection.
If you read the architecture security documentation, you can see the lengths they have gone to secure the whole system.

The system was built with security as a first principle, not something added after the fact.

Since humans are not perfect, you could say the statement is effectively ‘Security as a Primary Design [Goal]’.
> Following our disclosure, Apple has patched this vulnerability in iOS 12.2.
They've had similar issues before.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boeing_737_rudder_issues
Time to extend the plane and make it an A320/738-8 sized A220-500!
> AKA. career or social suicide. Nah, not risking that. There's too good a chance that your boss never had that problem, and way too likely your replacement won't have it either.

Sure, this is definitely dependant on environment. You owe it to yourself to someday work in a place where they'll go: "Sure, go hack at whatever you want for a week, get it out of the system. We've all been there." But, to note, main effect of this (for me at least) is early acknowledgment of the situation in a safe environment and a timely manner. These things can spiral out of control and shaving of a day or two in its inital stage is very helpful. Additionally, I'm frequently surprised by responses of the type "What? We didn't even have those expectations you think we had. Why are you even worried?" Don't let your mind build illusory labyrinths.

> Could you elaborate on that one? Wrt. exercise, nah, I procrastinate too much on that :/.

It's pretty well outlined on wikipedia[1], and it's simple idea - some people have a literal need to do cognitively hard things, so piled up boring stuff will drain you in various ways. An alternative route, recently proposed[2], is to wear that out via physical exercise. That route is a bit at odds with my goals in life, but I guess there's some sort of healthy balance.

> I keep trying the insight meditation (vipassana) ever since I learned about it on HN & LessWrong close to a decade ago. It keeps not working :/.

I've never studied any formal approach to it so I keep it simple - whenever I feel "noise" (anxiety, neurosis, whatever), I sit (not any strange yogi poses or whatever, nor lying down, since I'd fall asleep) in a quiet place for 5-10 minutes, and try to tune everything out. I focus on breathing and heartbeat, as those are the only things you can't really tune out in a non-handwavey way. If you're in a noisy environment, headphones with some brown noise or similar help.

Also, I always welcome recommendations for "loud active cognitively-draining music". :) Just putting on King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard discography on album shuffle works really well for me last few months.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Need_for_cognition

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19606141

EDIT: Oh, I forgot one more for the fun bag - fasting.
I was plane spotting two days ago and saw a half dozen 737NGs with split wingtips.
There was also the Great War which they were instrumental at ending, and the Civil War which was propped up by other regimes. Way more bloody than the prelude to the revolution, which also included Tzarist oppression and slaughter of workers.
Awesome! I will check it out.
I think the GP means the moonlighting while his employer thinks he's doing work for them.
Are there any casual users of Tor around? Someone who does it not for the sake of safety, but just privacy?

I'd happily use Tor, but the last time I used it (which was ~5 years ago), it was terribly slow for regular browsing (not streaming, or anything considered bandwidth heavy).
This might be what makes me try/use K8S for some personal/side projects.. Appears it may reduce a fair amount of friction.
There are two classic jokes about praying for help:

https://truthbook.com/stories/funny-god/the-drowning-man

http://jokes.cc.com/funny-god/1gkcpp/the-lottery-ticket
In which case this move against huawei is "just business".

It's their problem now to figure out how to develop top tier hardware and software without stealing it from American companies and rebranding it.