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Boeing says that it can again fix the software to avoid the problem the FAA just found. It is doubtful that this will be possible. The software load is already right at the border, if not above the physical capabilities of the current flight control computers. The optimization potential of the software is likely minimal.

MCAS was a band aid. Due to the new engine position the 737 MAX version had changed its behavior compared to the older 737 types even though it still used the older types' certification. MCAS was supposed to correct that. The software fix for MCAS is another band aid on top of it. The fix for the software fix that Boeing now promises to solve the problem the FAA pilot found, is the third band aid over the same wound. It is doubtful that it will stop the bleeding.

The flight control computers the 737 MAX and NG use were developed in the early to mid 1990s. There are no off-the-shelf solutions for higher performance.

Boeing's latest announced time frame for bringing the grounded 737 MAX planes back into the air is "mid December". In view of this new problem one is inclined to ask "which year?"

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Ouch...

Introducing a new CPU into airplane like 737 will require another whole series of test/certifications.

And right about now, Boeing management is thinking we could use some of those senior engineers we laid off because we thought they were not needed as our products are now mature.
A good resource for url shortened links: http://checkshorturl.com/
Nix/guix might be a better approach. Ansible and chef describe part of the desired state of a system and require a very large definition to cover the whole system. nix aims to track the whole system state and allow you to supply changes which again combine to another whole system state
Done: https://github.com/comntr/comntr.github.io/commit/af35
I have been there too. When you are injured or ill, your duty is to survive. You can flourish and achieve when you are healthy again so don't go on holding yourself to what you can expect in other contexts.
Counters are a series of flip-flops anyway, right? And a few latches for reset and load.

https://easyeda.com/normal/74161X2-4qkCwOIZh.png
There’s shelf tags just like every other store you’re used to.
I live in Switzerland and for a small number of items I can usually be in and out of my regular snack supermarket (a regular supermarket, I just use it for snacks) within 120 seconds.

It's just walk in, pick up a drink and a snack, walk to the self check kiosk and scan both barcodes, tap a few times rapidly (you can just hammer a button in the same place a few times) and wave my card. If I had to guess I'd say the entire checkout process takes ~10s, most of which is getting my card out of my wallet.

This differs from a US self checkout in a few ways:

- I nearly always had to queue in the US. I nearly never have to queue in Switzerland, at least at this store. This may be because:

- Swiss self checkout kiosks don't weigh the bagging area like US ones do. In the US there's always a small delay between scanning items while you bag the item and wait for the checkout to detect it. In Switzerland you just scan it and the kiosk doesn't care what you do with it afterwards.

- Payment is extremely fast, like sub-second end-to-end fast. You literally just wave your card at the terminal.

- There are usually 15-20 self checkout terminals in the larger supermarkets you find in the city so unless you're there at a really busy time, they usually have more than enough throughput to deal with traffic. In the US I'm used to seeing <10 self checkout terminals.
Is the 80286 still in production? Or is it old stock on a shelf somewhere that is used?
There might be situations like macros where the classical notation is easier to read and understand. Sweet expressions are an optional extension of the language so you can just use them in ‘normal' situations
You said you lived in the desert (and, here, imply an unpopulated area), not by airport tarmac which retains heat and reradiates it all night. You specifically chose the airport as your data point for this comment, and even it doesn't have 110F nighttime temperatures with any frequency.
> Still, it's not so bad as the Windows XP-7 epoch, when eldritch nightmares walked the land.

You are speaking like an Apple fanboy. Days of XP are in the past and even Windows 7/Windows 2008 fairs better than Apple OSX and iOS. This is especially bad as apple sells a false sense of security when they fail to build even the basics correctly.

Their walled garden is paved with expensive ibricks.

Edit: Those who think I am speaking rubbish can refer this link.
https://www.cvedetails.com/top-50-products.php
Blocking vs. non-blocking HTTP servers performance
> Being raised in Brazil, on a urban environment there are basically two seasons: Summer and Winter, the rest is just transition between them.

Agreed. This has been bugging me for a while.

Over here in Poland, between the yearly variations in temperatures and the differences between urban and rural areas, I don't see how the concept of "Spring" and "Fall" make any kind of sense. Not when in a small city where I live "Spring" starts up to month later than in a large city 70km to the north.

Why not switch to two seasons, Summer and Winter, and use equinoxes as split points? The seasons would at least have a nice definition then: summer = days are longer than nights; winter = nights are longer than days.

EDIT: Speaking of the article, I can't imagine how this super fine-grained classification could work. The usual four seasons have already so much variation in when they start vs. when phenomena associated with them actually happen; I can't imagine e.g. "Geese fly north, the first rainbows of the year appear. - Apr 4" working as anything but "April 4 ± 1 month", which kind of defeats the purpose of this classification.
Serverless for PHP Developers
Happy or not, I'm not sure that too many people seem to appreciate the data leakage that happens through WordPress and their affiliated products (such as Akismet). Considering how much people comment negatively about Gooogle Analytics, I'm always surprised that WordPress & co manages to slip under the radar, constantly. From https://automattic.com/privacy-notice/ (the owners of Akismet):

> Site Comments: When a visitor leaves a comment on a Site, we collect that comment, and other information that the visitor provides along with the comment, such as the visitor’s name and email address.

> Technical Data from a Visitor’s Computer and Etcetera: We collect the information that web browsers, mobile devices, and servers typically make available about visitors to a Site, such as the IP address, browser type, unique device identifiers, language preference, referring site, the date and time of access, operating system, and mobile network information.

> We may determine the approximate location of a visitor’s device from the IP address. We collect and use this information to, for example, tally for our Users how many people visit their Sites from certain geographic regions. If you’d like, you can read more about our Site Stats feature for WordPress.com sites and Jetpack sites.

> Akismet Commenter Information: We collect information about visitors who comment on Sites that use our Akismet anti-spam service. The information we collect depends on how the User sets up Akismet for the Site, but typically includes the commenter’s IP address, user agent, referrer, and Site URL (along with other information directly provided by the commenter such as their name, username, email address…oh, and the comment itself, of course).

> A cookie is a string of information that a Site stores on a visitor’s computer, and that the visitor’s browser provides to the Site each time the visitor returns. Pixel tags (also called web beacons) are small blocks of code placed on Sites. Automattic uses cookies and other technologies like pixel tags to help identify and track visitors and Site usage, and to deliver targeted ads

> We also collect any other information that our Users provide to us about visitors to their Sites. For example, a User may upload a directory or other information about Site visitors and customers to the “backend” administrative platform for managing the Site.
How We Use Visitor Information

> We use information about Site visitors in order to provide our Services to our Users and their Sites. Our users may use our Services to, for example, create and manage their Site, sell products and services on their Site, flag and fight comments from spammers, and collect information through polls, quizzes and other surveys.

> We may also use and share information that has been aggregated or reasonably de-identified, so that the information could not reasonably be used to identify any individual. For instance, we may publish aggregate statistics about the use of our services.

Then there's Gravatar, which is another method of user tracking and I'm sure there's a slew of other ways.
WordPress vs. Umbraco
My first language! Learned in 2001? Especially the form-builder was really nice!

Later on (2006-maybe?) I preffered writing in java, i.e. generics and for-each and checked-exceptions were awesome in my opinion, I think I solved like half of my programming problems by just importing TreeMap :D , but I still missed the VB6 form-builder :)
Node.js vs. Python – Software House That Helps You Innovate – Neoteric
What is complicated about linux Mint or even Debian?
P.S.

>> example.txt

this one (with a double > ) could replace touch in this application case: it's less readable but more efficient.
Yet C++ community has adopted RC on the standard library, COM/UWP uses RC, and the most sucessful AAA game engine middleware uses a C++ tracing GC.

And yes, RC is a GC implementation algorithm as per CS reference papers and notable books.

C might never come close to any form of authomatic memory management, but in a couple of decades it will be relegated to surviving UNIX clone deployments.
Does this mean that one of the reasons MCAS relied on a single sensor could be the already saturated CPU? Mindblowing.
AFAIK, Airbus has stockpiled huge amounts of legacy CPUs in climate controlled conditions. Boeing must have done the same
It can in theory be solved, but the more important question is: will it be solved?

I used a bunch of one-word-answer questions for over a decade now for sucessful spam prevention — trivial for a determined attacker with the time and resources to circumvent (and similarily trivial for me to replace with something else).

This also means for a decade I didn’t ship my user data to google.

Unless you are a really juicy target fending off the bots is enough.
It is low - my initial take was this law was written in the 1970s when US expats were rare and only the really wealthy lived overseas. I was thinking of the people I've read about who had 100k etc stashed in Swiss bank accounts and the like. The problem is the potential fines if you get caught not filling out the forms - I forget the exact numbers, but it's like 50% of the balance (or all your assets?) and a fixed fine ... It is pretty much an attempt to borderline bankrupt you.

In reality, however, enforcement is lax - the IRS is getting decimated thanks to Trump and co. and so going after the small fry is not cost effective. High profile cases, e.g. Boris Johnson who has American citizenship, are just as much for PR purposes as enforcing the law. The IRS went after him because he was selling his house, something like that, and so it was profitable to get him for avoiding US tax law.
For those who are wondering what happened, British Airway’s website had malicious JavaScript included in some files they were using. Compromised third party libraries (in this case, the Modernizr library) was the attack vector. The malware would take sensitive data off the webpage and send it back to the hackers surreptitiously.

Most sites still would have no idea if this were to happen to them today.

That’s why I’ve developed Enchanted Security (https://enchantedsecurity.com/) - a virtual content security policy that tracks the network requests and even blocks malicious ones. It’s like a firewall but running on your users’ browsers. This would’ve prevented what happened to British Airways. Get in touch if you’re interested in learning more.
Threads from 2017: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15002683

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14127543

2014: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8282923
Simple speculation: The software makes heavy use of 80286 protected mode and its quirks, which in an embedded hi-rel environment is fine. An areospace 80386 doesn't necessarily have higher throughput (remember, these are in-order-execution architectures), if run at the same clockrate. And you probably can't simply increase the clockrate, since some timing may depend on the CPU clock, due to busy-loop waiting, or some sensor readout/communication using the CPU clock for protocol timing.
> Hulu isn’t available outside of US.

There is Hulu in Japan, but with a different catalogue afaict.
PostgreSQL 12 Released
It’s already happening, just read this thread and similar ones here and on reddit. People are very open about it.
These others can achieve what's intended, but the entire flavour of the discussion is a dead ringer for pledge's purpose and interface, which is much simpler and very much internal to the software (a self-check of sorts).
Revenue Disparity Explains Pay Disparity Between Soccer World Cup's Men& Women
^This

On two of the three 4K monitors I own, I have no way of watching any films or TV shows at that resolution whatsoever. There is no mainstream content at all that can be consumed on Linux at 4K through any legitimate service that I know of. This is in spite of me subscribing to a ‘4K’ Netflix service, owning multiple movies in 4K in various forms etc. The only device that supports 4K legitimately is my Apple TV, which I bought simply to stream Netflix at native resolution. Now that I have it, I often find myself renting films on it, but the only options there are for watching on my laptop are piracy. And honestly, piracy is higher quality and a better UI (being able to download in advance, the press play with no worries about buffering).
Top+15+Symptoms+of+Anxiety+Mistaken+for+Other+Conditions
Utah Teapot
People who preach disunity have a pretty solid record in trying to consolidate power as well. Divide Et Impera.
This was 12 years ago, so things have changed, but man... when I first got here, landlords were wanting 6 months of rent upfront. The system was obviously designed (or it just came out that way) to make it hard for immigrants to initially establish themselves. These days, it is going to get a lot worse once Brexit happens.

Perhaps you misunderstood me or I wasn't clear - when I first got here, I tried to deposit a check into my account using another branch / office than the one I where I opened my account. I couldn't. It is not a matter of opening another account with _another_ bank. From the little I know of the banking system, things are or were not then, as wholly integrated as they were in the States. OTOH, the US is only now catching up to the rest of the world w/ Chip and PIN debt/credit cards....
Oh I get it but bells still (should) ring. They buy assets on the reference price and sell at market price. That works for relatively small amounts of money, not billions. You can fool USA is you're a Chinese or Russian businessman (hey look I made my money via x and y corp) but mother country should know by tracing to the original amount.
A thread from 2012: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4058834
The meeting that drove Netflix's founders to bankrupt Blockbuster
Exactly, its an autonomous response towards the market. Stability is always preffered in human decision making.
Calcurse – a text-based calendar and scheduling application
But you're happy to abuse me. So that is acceptable then.
Geary looks great, i wanted to switch to it years ago (from Thunderbird), but it had no support for PGP – https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/geary/issues/6 :(
> including the UK shortly

If you're implying the porn filter, no, the porn filter has been shelved 'indefinitely' because a) it's against EU law, b) it was May's personal project (she pushed heavily for it when she was Home Secretary, and it became a thing under her PM-ship).
There is no such thing as a "USWS forecast for Mojave."

Really? I just went to weather.gov and entered Mojave in the search box, and it gave a menu of options (more options for more detail). The top option says "Mojave Desert". Drilling down to the 10 day forecast shows the highest overnight low for the next 10 days at that top Mojave reference to be 70F.

Sure, microclimates vary, but you made a general reference.

https://forecast.weather.gov/MapClick.php?lat=35.41665000000...
Statement on the Information Commissioner's website: https://ico.org.uk/about-the-ico/news-and-events/news-and-bl...
Why is barebone UI a problem? What feature a UI looking like it's written in the 90's is preventing?
> and how that would vary when in a metropolitan area such as SF.

I've spoken with grocery store clerks in SF (at major chains like Walgreens) who were concerned that their stores might be closed because of truly excessive losses due to constant shoplifting. Of course the shrinkage is factored into the price, but you can only raise prices so much before it starts eating into your sales.

BTW, when I visited the Amazon Go in SF it actually seemed to have more staff present than a regular grocery store of comparable size.
Okay so ignore that part. It's a tangent to the actual point.
Something like that, thinking about it as a kind of senescence, arriving at a point where they realize that the system is depleted. It needs to be planned for.
Thanks for such a detailed comment :)

That is worrying that keys would stop working. I'd definitely be interested in a cheaper model with an ARM processor primarily for remote development on the go.
And having a 3.5mm jack, which only LG still does as well.
Not only is this false in the national sense, as the machinery and personnel of the state are not coterminous with those they rule over, but it is also false in this specific sense, as many of the people who were harmed by this breach (such as myself) were not involved or are not permitted to be involved with the regulatory body that is assessing this fine.

Many people who are not British subjects are customers of BA.

The ICO does not represent me, yet somehow they are getting paid for the misuse of my data.

It’s nice work if you can get it.
I've read many of the comments.

Lots of talk about removing the parenthesis, using things like Tree-Notation and such.

Really, all I can say is that you can pry the parens from my cold, dead, cantankerous hands. :P

Maybe it's because I've been playing with Lisp, in one form or another, on and off for several years.

But I never found the parens really all that bad.

It's no problem at all as long as you have basic paren matching support in whatever editor you use.

And if you happen to use an editor that supports the structured manipulation of S-expressions, well, it's a pretty neat experience.

I think the only time the parens bother me is if I print source code out. But even then, there are clear conventions on how Lisp source should be laid out and indented, so you adapt pretty quick, even in the "worst case."

shrug
There's a wide variety of time series data that is interesting to track: metrics, application telemetry, kpis, auditing events, log messages, etc. This is rich structured data. The richer it is; the more useful it gets. Many companies use different solutions for each of those and that creates a lot of complexity and devops overhead. I've seen a lot of projects where corners get cut and there is just the bare minimum of data. With microservices and serverless, the problem is even more acute because logging into individual servers and grepping through logs like a caveman is just not practical anymore. Running blind is downright irresponsible and sadly all too common.

When something happens, it's actually interesting cross examine all of these different things. When you do, having meta data to drill down and break down is essential and it's also essential to have software that can handle that that doesn't fall over just because you had a spike in usage. Having everything in one place and annotated with the right meta data is key. Another thing that is key is retention policies to keep the data volume in check. Done properly, you will be generating many GB in data per day. Left unchecked, this will kill whatever infrastructure you have in no time. And while historical data is sometimes interesting, it's usually the very recent past that is most interesting. So, you should expect to throw away the vast majority of data you collect after a short while.
http://archive.is/ws5GD
I've been thinking about hiring a remote PA/product manager for personal projects - just someone who knows enough about the projects and is able to spend 15 minutes each morning on remote standups to kick them along with me.

I think social pressure is a very beneficial thing in getting things moving
The story about 8675309 is pretty interesting, but I prefer 6345789.
Tesla will stop selling cars once full self-driving is solved, says Elon Musk
Show HN: Makepad for Individuals
Picolisp (https://picolisp.com/wiki/?home) is one such lang not many know about but it brings a lot to the table (batteries included). It's super low on memory and it's (almost too) fast for most people.
Damn, I hope those senior engineers charge Boeing an arm and a leg when they are asked to come back.
Not for all of them. All I had to do to get a Starling account was send them a video of me saying my company name
That's right, I haven't.

The puzzle will be sent as an SVG, obviously.

Em.. "off-the-shelf OCR" sounds neat, but anyone who knows such words isn't an average spammer. The goal of basic SVG puzzles is to block 99% of the spammers who just type dumb comments on keyboards. The rest 1% can be taken care of by human mods.

TBH, I don't like the reCAPTCHA-like solutions. They are just annoying from my personal experience and if they rely on any 3rd party service, I'll give them a hard pass for this reason alone. My approach is to use trivial SVG-style captchas with adjustable complexity, e.g. instead of asking "23+34", we can ask "log(32)/log(2)" and effectively filter out everyone except people familiar with math, or "md5(2615), first 7 hex digits" and let in only people familiar with cryptography. Forcing users to detect birds and crosswalks will just make them upset, IMHO.
FreeBSD Tips and Tricks
Please make a Show HN post or something similar when you feel your work is ready to share; I have a feeling that there are a ton of us around here who would be super interested in checking it out!
Scoundreller wanted a manufacturer producing "the newer biosimilar insulin for just $72-133 per year". That link doesn't appear to provide that information.
Remind us how the investigation and prosecution of this fine was funded?
To put it into the words of my father (Italy early 90s), "the Euro will be good for us because our politicians will have to stop stealing". But they didn't and we kept voting for them. This is the problem in Italy. Internal, not external. Then other countries can take advantage of it, that's the way the world works.