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>Making poor architectural decisions or writing poor quality code isn’t tech debt.

I compare technical debt to debt.

You may go in debt because you looked at the housing market and decided that now is likely a good time to buy a house with low interest rates. You take on a large load of debt, but it is done wisely based on currently information.

You may go in debt as a business operating on credit to fund an expansion that should pay off quite nicely in a few years time. Maybe it will fail, but it isn't a bad risk based on current knowledge.

You may go in debt for an education. Depending upon the degree and extent of debt this could be good or bad.

You may go in debt by spending beyond your means on a credit card. This is generally unwise.

You may go in debt because of a medical emergency that is entirely beyond your control (especially in some countries, but even some countries with universal healthcare it is possible to need treatment that isn't covered).

All of these have something similar when dealing with technical debt. Sometimes it is a wise investment. Sometimes it is a risk that may or may not pay off. Sometimes it is beyond one's control. Sometimes it is poor planning that will be regretted later.
So past history tells us the 737 was marred by multiple fatal crashes cashed by bad rudder design.

Recent history tells us the 737-MAX has also been marred with some serious design issues relating to it's MCAS system, which have resulted in multiple fatal crashes.

That history suggests passengers should be wary of boarding a 737-MAX any time soon.

I for one will give it a few years before taking up that boarding pass.
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.

Disney’s revenue was three times that and they just added Fox.

Revenue means nothing without profit. Netflix’s total profit last quarter was less than that of either one of Disney’s last three Marvel movies.

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’s not about the talent. Both Black Panther and Captain Marvel were made by unknown producers. Disney has multiple franchises that have been popular for decades.

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.

People are still buying Disney movies from decades ago. Kids will watch the same movie repeatedly. A lot of Disney movies are considered classics.
Or what Canada does, which is rebate over the year based on your income level and assumed consumption.
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I think Microsoft or Apple for example, made their own programming languages in much more ethical way than Google's sceptical which is: "ohh we are going to make our own language and get the help from the open source community." Everyone knows that companies are "exploiting" open source today which is really sad.
Actually, another way to look at it is, are you going inside work culture as a broken person? Meaning, do you have a choice to be healthy and balanced in life? And if you don't, what is standing in the way of that?

If the answer is "hustle", then you ought to take responsibility rather than crying about it.
Yes, I use it often. My Debian installations use Tor for installing updates. Just as an example.
Make it a double decker single-aisle 2/3 seat split and name it A280.
Ask HN: Anyone remember post about best tech/gadget you buy?
been searching but no result yet
If there was one thing which was going to accelerate RISC-V development and adoption at Huawei, this would be it.

Edit: Though thinking about it, even though RISC-V is an open ISA, how much could it be considered a "US origin technology" given its roots at UC Berkley? Anyone more knowedgable care to weigh in?
The same "authorities" who told you before they were safe to fly?

You have so much believe in authorities that even if proven they didn't do their job, you still trust in them with your life?
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Watch it next April.
Paywall bypass link:

https://www.wsj.com/articles/always-on-work-culture-creating...
I worked for years in a role that was "always-on". To the point it cost me more than I gained. I've lost years of my life through that experience, and only towards the end could see the toxicity of it all. I'm finally free with a healthy work life balance and can't understand what I was thinking, if I was thinking anything at all.
That's not an assumption but a reliance for IFR. You clear your path with air traffic control before engaging the autopilot. Collision-avoidance is not part of the autopilot in aircraft. And the pilot decides on the path.

In conclusion there are few similarities between an aircraft pilot and driving assistance in cars.
Just because they'll have to fly two types eventually doesn't mean they want to spend on making the switch now, especially not with an airframe that is an incremental improvement in fuel economy. (Not to mention that other OEM offerings suddenly look a lot more viable for operators wanting newer generation narrowbodies if they're forced to change type certificates regardless)

Genuinely new types that might offer a step change in operating economics that's worth all the hassle carry the risk of more aircraft programme delays and early operational issues anyway.
I hope they don't. But Boeing not being trustworthy does not mean that Airbus isn't.
A mate and I thought we'd create a comedy sketch show about the goings on in crypto while we wait out the market
"Apple has patched this vulnerability in iOS 12.2."

FYI
> They're also clearly doing the exact thing they're accusing China of themselves here.

Indeed, it's widely known that Cisco/Juniper is pretty much in bed with the US intelligence, and so is Microsoft.

It is also not very smart to antagonize a world power that you also need for a lot of critical components, including lots of modern fabs.
It could also be Chrome OS…
Thanks for the advice and description, added to my read list.
No reason to be nervous, all 737 MAX are grounded worldwide.

I doubt they will be certified to fly without adding the triple redundant AOA sensors the A320neo has and that should have been included from the very beginning. If the FAA certified the 737 MAX without a mandatory upgrade (doubtful, given the glare of publicity), then yes, I'd be worried.
How to Master Intentional Dreaming for a Satisfying Life
A whirlwind tour of object-oriented code in F# (2012)
Go already has panic/recover which where explicitly proposed as an exception like mechanism for go.
This blog post proposes a "data" sanity solution (alternative external oracles, or "scoring" on probabilities, etc) but that's not really what the comment by Samuel Falvo II was about.

His problem was syntax getting broken and not about "questionable data". In the context of dynamic vs static compile, he's worried about scenarios like this:

x = customer.last_name // worked on Friday and x=="Smith"
- remove field customer.last_name // Saturday refactor
+ add field customer.full_name // Saturday refactor
x = customer.last_name // broken on Monday with a runtime error

With a static type system, the changes on Saturday would have told them immediately at compile time that the last_name field access by other client code was broken. (And yes, one typical answer for handling errors like that in dynamic type systems is unit tests -- but that's veering off into a different conversation.)

This essay is a "solution" to a different problem.
I think there's a big difference between not understanding the message, and not understanding the data (a message parameter).

When they get an unrecognized message, Objective C objects call their doesNotRecognizeSelector method, and Smalltalk objects call their doesNotUnderstand method.

And the object sending the message can first check with respondsToSelector in Objective C or respondsTo in Smalltalk, before sending the message.

But validating and sanitizing input parameters is a totally different thing than handling unknown messages, orthogonal to object oriented programming.
The west's stealing of silkworm (ca. 552) is a very interesting story. You can read about it here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smuggling_of_silkworm_eggs_int...
RISC-V was explicitly created to solve the problem of their being basically no open source architectures, and it's still fairly new, so it really is the exception that proves the rule.
Will it work without ARM?
And instead of blocking the import of those fake products or the ones that infringe some IP (hopefully after you prove that) the US is blocking Huawei because of security concerns and instead of trying to find if there are backdoors in Huawei products, discussing how can we detect this backdoors, compare this backdoors with the ones in US products we are trying to switch the narative to the cheap Chinese products that are imported by US companies into US.
You are right. With different Tor circuits, the attacker needs to control a lot of exit nodes to correlate the initial HTTP request to ssl-stripped page and the DNS query (to be a global adversary).
Congrats on the escape. Champion the idea of shedding toxic employment to others.
IINA has playlist support, FWIW.
Now I'm wondering what will happens to ESP8266/ESP32. ESP8266 is a Wi-Fi SoC which was extremely popular in hobbyist world, and its successor, ESP32, is widely accepted in industry too. Will it have any impact on companies that use ESP such as Particle [1] and Arduino?

[1]: https://www.particle.io/
Many international corporations specifically choose to put their EU HQ in Ireland because they have the lowest corporate taxes, yet it enables them to do business in all of the EU.

Many countries invest in their people, provide education, houses, jobs, services, etc, and as a result, they have a wealthy, educated population that is an attractive market to sell to. But if that country has high corporate taxes, and the company can sell to that market from another country, then they end up paying less taxes and not contributing to the country that invested in that market.

That's what I mean with a race to the bottom. Of course there are other reasons why a company might choose a certain place. New York, despite its bad roads and high property prices, is popular because it's close to Wall Street, for example. But companies that have no geographical ties to New York specifically, will probably put their main office somewhere else. Wasn't Delaware a popular state to register your company?
Looking at it the other way: America has state sponsored restriction of free use of knowledge. IP law is considered important by America (and it has imposed this everywhere), but it is not straightforwardly a good thing (and I think most people would argue that copyright protection periods are currently too long)
It’s worse than that, the FAA has begun to have an attitude that keeping Boeing’s profits up is important, as managers within the FAA constantly pushed to delegate certification authority to Boeing itself.
+1 for 'fractal of shit' - that is a keeper.
Smuggling of Silkworm Eggs into the Byzantine Empire
this is with this new Dev version or the conventional version?
IQ rates are dropping in many developed countries
Layers of ice-like gas hydrates may insulate frigid ocean worlds across cosmos
Vivante was a US company in name only (engineering in China) and after acquisition in China (by Verisilicon, whose founder and CEO is the brother of the founder and CEO of Vivante), it's not even a US company in name.

Also, other US companies with GPUs besides the first 3 in your list are are open to licensing if the fees are big enough. I can't give more details than that though.
Nobody is being 'told'. But every booking system I've ever used, whether it's airline-direct or an agreggator shows aircraft model.

Flightaware and others show it too if you just search for the flight number
A330, A340 and A350 have the same type so the A330Neo almost certainly does.
Very nice. I realize that it currently runs in a shell, but one ingredient I would absolutely want is built-in charting capabilities - especially when running back-tests etc.
Human psychology is on a spectrum. Mental disorders are extremely common, as are minor physical disorders. We aren't ashamed of seeking remedies for high blood pressure or low muscle mass or high fat, all of which are extremely common physical disorders. We shouldn't be ashamed of seeking remedies for mental disorders either.
I own two of them. And a 2015 13” MBP with a Retina display. And a current iPad mini and an iPhone XS. And a BenQ 32” 4K display. And before that I had a 2009 13” MBP.

All of the non-iOS displays are calibrated via a munki.

The MBA display from this generation (my kids have the 11” MBAs with basically the same crap display) is the worst I’ve used by far. So bad it’s basically useless for photo editing. The contrast stinks. The color gamut stinks. You can’t look at it off-axis at all.

No no, I’ve looked at a lot of displays in my life. It’s my least favorite. The 2009 13”
MBP display was better.

That there are non-Apple laptop displays that are even worse is cold comfort.
What a strange conclusion. Not likely, but much more likely than that, is that they'll force foreign companies to use Go and other products controlled by US corporations.
That was written in 1989, but fair point; I don't think they'd started propitiating Jay-Z just yet.
Multipartite viruses actually don't work like that. The difference is here:

> researchers realized that a [biological] virus could be composed of two or more independent pieces, all of which were vital for infection

multipartite computer viruses are monolithic; when they infect a boot sector, if there is not enough space, additional segments of the virus are stored in other parts of the disk (eg. masked as bad sectors), but it's still a single logical unit.

It would certainly be an interesting idea for malware to break into independent pieces in separate logical locations (boot, files, etc.), but that's not how multipartite viruses traditionally work (or worked; I'm referring to DOS viruses).
Being conservative has little to do with consumption culture.
Wow. Not only does it look great on my phone, but it loads quickly and the movements are seamless. Compare that to the 360 view of furniture on any big box website or cars on a dealers website.
That's pretty much what I meant my casual -- Tor as main browsing tool.
PowerVR is now owned by Canyon Bridge, which is backed by China.
I'd argue that rationale was based on a very different economic evironment to what we have now, and arguing that today, a failing to know and understand the different challenges that are faced by the very people they may empart this idea to.
I use Tor/Tor Browser quite often. I use it mostly for privacy, but also to test a few thing like price of plane tickets and such.

The speed is much better nowadays. Unless your unlucky and you circuit has a slow node in it (which the protocol try to avoid if i remember correctly), you should have a decent web browsing experience.
Sure, it will be slower than your "normal" connection, but usually not by that much.

Although, if you plan on downloading large files via Tor, you will hit a bandwidth cap fairly quickly. You can look in detail here: https://metrics.torproject.org/torperf.html

Available bandwidth quadruple since 2014: https://metrics.torproject.org/bandwidth-flags.html?start=20...
Doesn't it feel like a bit of a letdown when the best excuse possible for actions of a country that built its image on freedom of speech is "China did it too"? Even during the Cold War there was some scientific collaboration between East and West.

Stop replying to email threads, erase the company from the website... 1984 much? :)

Less dramatically, I think this means two things. The leadership of powerful tech companies can now dictate foreign policy to some degree. There used to be complaints about the tech industry's lack of lobbying power. Look at them now. And second, the reason they have to resort to these tactics is they have run out of technical innovation and are desperately trying to shore up prices of what is about to become a commodity product.
I don't think so. Espressif is not Huawei.
Aha, thanks for clarification! It makes sense now, but I am looking forward to see what versions of Trident they are going to provide. It looks like they might completely strip possibility to download Windows VMs with IE [0], if they are going to roll out all currently available engines (IE8 to IE11).

[0]: https://developer.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-edge/tools/v...
And the most efficient way to keep people from reflecting on their lives, realizing how far from their "ideal lives" they are.
> Everyone knows that companies are "exploiting" open source today which is really sad.

Often enough it seems like companies go out of their way to deal with open source just for the "cred" and hiring opportunities that it brings. The open source itself is a just a drag on their internal team, which has to deal with tickets and contributions they don't want or need.
Isn’t this just another way of saying “higher gross margin”?
I think you're absolutely right. The approach on the MAX is horrifying.

But airplane tech moves kind of slowly, no? Non-MAX 737s can't really change, and so are as safe today as they were 6 month or 6 years ago. The MAX debacle makes me SUPER SUPER leery of any new airframe, though.
Now that we've got SURE for economics, let's do one for climate change.

After all, "publication bias affects every research field out there."

Vox is basically explaining fake news without any sense of irony about how this plays out in every other industry and field.

> "Let’s say hundreds of scientists are studying a topic. The ones who find counterintuitive, surprising results in their data will publish those surprising results as papers.

>The ones who find extremely standard, unsurprising results — say, “This intervention does not have any effects,” or, “There doesn’t seem to be a strong relationship between any of these variables” — will usually get rejected from journals, if they bother turning their disappointing results into a paper at all.

>That’s because journals like to publish novel results that change our understanding of the field. Null results (where the researchers didn’t find anything) or boring results (where they confirm something we already know) are much less likely to be published. And efforts to replicate other people’s papers often aren’t published, either, because journals want something new and different."

Very similar to my complaint on this issue: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19432720

Oh, and look, it's sponsored by The Rockefeller Foundation, the definition of globalism writ large:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rockefeller_Foundation#Beginni...
Pixel phones are also affected (and probably many others), and Google did not publicly patch them 163 days after disclosure.

To be fair, Apple had a 129 days head start, and took 234 days to issue a fix:

> How did vendors respond to this attack?

> We followed a coordinated disclosure procedure and reported this vulnerability to Apple on 3rd August 2018. On iOS 12.2, Apple adopted our suggestion and added random noise to the ADC outputs (CVE-2019-8541). Apple also removed access to motion sensors from Mobile Safari by default. This vulnerability was disclosed to Google on 10th December 2018. Google has contacted us and is investigating this issue.

https://sensorid.cl.cam.ac.uk/
I suspect it is a result of being afraid of cannabalising their subscription base and internal disputes between philosophies. I suspect the paywall leaks are a left hand vs right hand thing - if they make it fully accessible they get maximium click traffic but the boss gets pissed off about "giving money away". If they make it fully sealed Webspiders can't get there and this kills the traffic.
Correct, which would lead us to ask a pertinent question: Is this likely to happen in the next 10 years?

I would be inclined to say no, it's rather unlikely, short of apple somehow suddenly going bankrupt.
Love it ;) Upper deck is a business 1/1
Unit of distance is not the correct measure to use for safety because it skews heavily towards speed. The fastest means of transport will almost always look the safest. Consider if planes doubled their speed overnight (which they can, it's just a matter of gas/costs) and crashes remained the same - did they instantly become twice as safe? Definitely not, there is still the fixed risks of takeoff, landing, and being in the air for even a second, etc. The additional miles are almost free in terms of risk, but eat away a lot at the risk metric.

The better measure is time: deaths per hour traveled. And by that measure buses are actually safest, followed by rail, then air [1][2]. Cars are still 4x more dangerous, but that's much less stark than the common wisdom. And even that is misleading because with cars specifically, there is much more variability of drivers, car quality, maintenance, etc. If you are sober, responsible, educated, with a well maintained car, etc. your odds are significantly lower. Think drunk drivers who only kill themselves in accidents (this is a significant portion of car deaths).

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

[2] http://www.ijhssnet.com/journals/Vol_5_No_7_1_July_2015/15.p...
Similar but far less impact; I did the Community Emergency Response Training (CERT). It was a great experience. I met tons of locals, learned important skills, and learned a lot about myself and leadership. It was a handful of all day Saturday classes and I cant recommend it enough. It gave me a bit of an itch to get EMT certified, so your account was interesting to read.

My dad has been a volunteer sherif for decades (because of his background he does a lot of the local hostage negotiation) and I know how much he got out of that.
Time to introduce a new Postgre data type. (:troll:)
What is a laziness then? Does it even exists as "just being lazy", or it's all a spectrum of anxiety issues?
I'm no Trump fan but he actually did the right thing in this case (force the grounding of the MAX when the FAA was still in denial).
> Gopher will be dead when there are no Gopher servers left online and when installing a Gopher client takes substantially more effort than any other package.

This is an impractical definition of "dead".
I'd prefer we just standardized around Flatpak being installed by default on most distros. Once the base package is installed, you can also install Flatpak apps without root. AppImage's won't work either if certain base packages haven't been installed (by a root user), like FUSE.
Pomodoro and journals are part of ADHD treatment and that's OK. (There may be better behavioral therapies, like setting alarms and writing plans). The presence of a drug for a condition is not the same as the existence of a condition, and drugs are not always superior to behavior therapy. If you had low muscle mass, you wouldn't say "thank heavens it's a recognized condition that I can treat with steroid injections, so I can stop messing around with weightlifting!"
I'm super curious in the semi technology to create 3 nm layers or beyond. There's not many processes to choose from to begin with thats scalable with adequate uniformity. Do they use some sort of MBE process?!
Most chip credit transactions in the US dont use a pin yet.
I think you and @Kiro are in agreement. My interpretation of @Kiro's comment is that most of the world doesn't do employer-provided insurance, so that aspect of @ggm's comment would essentially only apply to the US.