skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't think anybody was suggesting that the union is responsible, just that a union exec is not a "boeing engineer" as the headline claims, and whistleblowing by an actual engineer who worked on the MAX program and has actual knowledge would be a very different story than just more armchair criticism.
This was a good article, I concede the point.
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Anyone knows, what the composition of the team was like? Where was development based? Who was heading it?
We hear from CEOs constantly and that’s normal, down to what books billionaires like to read, but god forbid someone representing workers gets a chance to be heard.
"Clearance" is used in many ways to indicate that a clearance has not been granted yet (or has been revoked). From the ATC Job Order manual [0], examples include: “continue, expect landing clearance two mile final” and "CANCEL TAKEOFF CLEARANCE (reason)"

What you might be thinking of is the guidance against using "takeoff", which is "Avoid using the term “takeoff” except to actually clear an aircraft for takeoff or to cancel a takeoff
clearance. Use such terms as “depart,” “departure,” or “fly” in clearances when necessary"

[0] - https://www.faa.gov/documentLibrary/media/Order/7110.65X_w_C...
I'd prefer the reverse probably.

Or forget go and just write lisp in lisp, as McCarthy intended. ;-)
It's not just that your math is ridiculous (as you acknowledge), it doesn't make any sense.

Greenland has almost no economy, a mere $2.7b in GDP, and few assets. You can't use negative $22 trillion as the basis with the US while ignoring the $110 trillion in household wealth and massive corporate & government assets (stacked against $50t-$55t in total debt between household + corporate + government). That's the part that makes no sense.

The asset value of everything in the US is at least $150t in the positive after you remove all debt. That's while ignoring additional value that should be applied to the annual output of the economic activity - and considerations for future gains - within the US territory and any other fringe benefits that go with it all as a package deal (USD global reserve currency, US military, 50 top universities, etc).

Greenland has 56,000 people producing a GDP per capita of $48,000. The US has 330 million people producing a GDP per capita of ~$63,500 or so (about 119% higher than Europe's $29,000 per capita). You get the people with the territory in the US, and they're among the most productive on earth in terms of per capita output.

A better number would be $65,000+ per acre before you include consideration for annual output and other benefits. If you count everything, it'd be far over $100,000 per acre.
It's such a bad move to move senior ranking staff away from junior.
Funny how the opposite can also be true. In 1985, Disney Animation was moved off the Burbank lot to a cluster of buildings about 2 miles away. After the success of Beauty and the Beast, The Little Mermaid, Aladdin, and the Lion King they moved back onto the lot. Their new building was literally next to where the executives are in the ABC Studios building. I've heard complaints that executives would walk over and make creative decisions whereas being 2 miles away they were mostly left alone.
You don't remember the US even as recently as the mid 1970's.

One of the big reasons for using the Interstates was the fact that gas was available at reliable intervals. But it could take you 10-15 minutes to get it.

It wasn't until the likes of 7-11, Sheetz, Circle K, and all the other "24-hour convenience stores" started doing gas that getting a fillup was fast and convenient.
My strategy used to only play perfect blackjack strategy at the very rare $5 or more typically $10 table. But it's not even fun when people get pissy about when they think you "messed up the cards." I've tried to explain and realized not even worth your breath.
None at all.
According to his LinkedIn he left his position at Boeing as a physicist in 2000.

https://www.linkedin.com/in/stan-sorscher-4573b57/
Wild idea: I think we should turn Greenland into an into a new frontier nation with completely open borders for refugees and people who are up for the challenge of settling a new place. Sure, there's nothing there, but if you want to build something and there's nowhere else for you, have at it.

EDIT: Out of curiosity, I started looking at Greenland on Google Maps and found this sweet shadow of the buggy they used to street view (dirt-road view) it: https://www.google.com/maps/@67.0111595,-50.7379435,3a,75y,9...
That's why every well-designed language lets you put an extra commas on the last line.
Sounds like you worked in a literal 1984 scenario
The idea is you profit on acting on cross market trading before anytime else can. It's not about latency to any single market.
I hope this makes it into chromium-browser. A lot of sites push so much background tracking nonsense that it is easy to crash the Raspberry Pi. Especially when a video player is involved.
No kidding. Sand is one of the cheapest substances you can buy, and always has been. If it increases enough in price, builders will use something else. They're still using sand...
It seems useful, but tricky to monetize. But if you gave priority to hft traffic then you could charge more as it would still have a small advantage over a standard StarLink plan.
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"take issue with the profitability and lack of reinvestment"

The problem is lack of re-investment. 92% of Operating cash flow of being plowed into repurchase and dividend is high even more mature company like Boeing.
^ this. Reasons why I teach basic Bayes to my first-year law students. If at least one of them becomes a competent defense lawyer...
That could be a solution for the asylum seekers in the US, too... settle them in the Alaskan wild. If you’re willing to go from Honduras to Nome that’s a clear cut sign that what you’re fleeing is a very real danger.
Alright, it's clear that you'd rather be insulting than discuss this rationally. I guess I touched a nerve.

Let this be a lesson to me.

"Answer not a fool according to his folly, lest thou also be like unto him."

(I don't even use Elm. Sheesh.)
We're not talking about negotiating, not at all. You can absoluutely ask them what they mean by a clause and then chose not to sign. I find it kind of funny that people in this comment thread seem to think that Grubhub is something unique as if Uber hasn't been pushing their drivers into poverty for years now. Yes, the terms of the contract are likely to be onerous, that's kind of what these rent-seeking business models are all about.
For my home IP I use cname to a dynamic dns service provided by my router manufacturer.

There are free dyndns services, that integrate with many home router brands. Then you don't need to automate the main domain A/AAAA record changes, which can be cumbersome, depending on the provider.
> Every time I read stories about how polluted our (US/Canada) streams and lakes are it makes me shutter to think of how monumentally bad China must be with little to no environmental protection!

We were that bad. The EPA (signed by Nixon!) is what turned that around.
Whenever I type on my original/2012 "retina" MacBook Pro it is a revelation. When I type on the 2016 model... I try to use an external keyboard.

I'm pretty sure the 2015 non-butterfly MBP was the best laptop Apple has made to date.
Any progress on spying on the spies? I’m waiting for data leaks on Chinese politicians, and citizens tracking abusive police.
I really like to see the differences in flavors of common snacks. These triple-onion potato chips in Sweden (something I feel like I'd never see in the US) were very good: https://imgur.com/a/nx3cTCI
One might argue that the US, as a matter of national security, should forcibly fix Boeing. In my mind, the US’s major defense suppliers are too consolidated and too dysfunctional to adequately support the military.

Arguable the US should develop more in-house capabilities (as in government employees producing their own technologies) to compete with Boeing, etc if for no other reason.
the FTT page is hilarious. It's also something that speaks to every person who has run a website for an organization, when I was webmaster for a convention, I had a text file with canned responses, 8 of them or so, that answered 80% of the questions received, all of which were answerable by reading the website.
Very informative, thanks.
I feel like I need to both cut my losses short as a co-founder and be supportive as a brother, which is a delicate thing to do.
For about as long as the parts on both sides of the join stay flat. And therein lies the rub. Permanent cold welding works just fine on small contact areas, but on anything large you're at the mercy of thermal movement, etc. How much can that be? Quite a bit, actually [1]. That's just breathing on a braced precision straightedge, and the difference in temperature across the piece is easily measurable.

[1]https://youtu.be/UG6LV8v8W-0?t=1922
uummm 'we' already do. NZ for one has a carbon credit for forestry.
"Article" is being generous.
I think the task of making a public statement from the engineering point of view, that could be career limiting, is exactly the kind of thing that a high ranking engineering union official should be doing as part of his job representing those engineers. If he is NOT speaking publicly the POV that engineers are grumbling to each other privately, he's not doing his job. This kind of statement is exactly what he should be doing.
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Cost trade offs need to be made in a well reasoned way though.

I have no idea if this applies to Boeing. But a "cost cutting culture" can be due to the internal market within the company. The widget department wants to make enough money to meet its budget. So it unilaterally makes changes to the process that affect the quality of the overall product.
>incidents that plague C Unix-likes

Do you have a specific language in mind that offers improvement? Or am I reading too much into the sentence?

>We already have the tools at our disposal to do magnitude greater secure software

Mind sharing more details on the tools? Specifically with respect to System / OS Level programming.
MoviePass Suspends Service Citing Technical Problems, Plans to Recapitalize
Dumb question alert. Could the common cold be fighting off early stages of throat or mouth cancers whenever we get sick?
They have servers in both locations. If you see that a stock starts falling in London you have a time window where you can still sell it at a higher price in say New York, until the price drops to the same level thus closing the opportunity for arbitrage.
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We humans benefit from a stable environment.

In stable-ish conditions, ecosystems evolve towards stable configurations where the sun's energy can be optimally tapped.

Those disruptions bring unstability (boom-bust cycles of high amplitude) and thus danger for us.
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How would that be hard to monetize? You literally just charge people for internet access.

* HFT firms will pay for it if the latency is lower

* Online gamers that play with other people around the globe would also probably be willing to pay to get their ping down.

* Maybe they could have a LEO CDN.

* People like me who travel a lot would be willing to pay for it. It would be especially sweet if I could somehow ditch my phone plan and just have global satellite coverage and use VOIP via Google Voice or something.
For those interested, there's an Ask HN thread about this now too: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20361651.
Well now you still need to know, or else it doesn't work. How do you choose if they all look the same?
They are expanding their network worldwide at an incredible pace.
Hiding shit behind AT-commands not disclosed to the public is one thing that sucked with Intel modems.
Its already ruined his life and pushed him back to the bottle, I doubt I could entice him to do anything relating to Boeing.

Edit: Here is a piece New York Times did on exactly what I'm talking about: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/20/business/boeing-dreamline...
Here's my question: which type of trees would be best? I assume the trees that convert co2 to o2 the quickest, which means the trees that grow the fastest, right? Maybe is it better to plant trees that are more disease resistant instead.
Having NDAs (you still find the information) on AT-commands is one reason why they sucked. But Qualcomm is not any better.
I'm sure a3n didn't mean literally "the first two words." I think they meant it as a figure of speech.
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Yep, that's what I always thought was the mechanism behind this action. Separating such precisely contacting surfaces creates vacuum, resisting the separating force.
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Yeah those are good examples. I didn't even realize that discord was so big for the younger generation. Your Wario forum looks cool - definitely the most hilarious character from the franchise.
Really no video?
Again... we're talking about an area bigger by orders of magnitude than that of the Earth itself, where plastic is still not covering the entire surface of the earth or the oceans.

This is simple math.

I know people here are emotionally fixated on their dystopian fantasies, particularly where Amazon is concerned, but no one is launching so many satellites that they will blot the sun and stars from the sky. Aside from probably being physically impossible, there's no practical reason for even launching that many satellites.

"Welcome to the dystopian future where no human anywhere on Earth can look up and see an authentic sky, as their ancestors did?" No... that's just silliness.
Historically, there was some effective climate action in the pre-internet era which led to the Montreal Protocol[0], a climate achievement which the post-internet era has yet not matched.

[0]
https://news.nationalgeographic.com/2017/09/montreal-protoco...
I was actually thinking about B rather than micro-B, though I guess both my description and your explanation apply either way!
Why are there people investing so much money on these things, filling up the space, just for some stupid trading. Why is humanity doing this ??
>This kind of statement is exactly what he should be doing.

which is kind of my point - he's just doing his job and making a completely predictable and expected statement. I'm not trying to say he shouldn't, but it isn't interesting or newsworthy.
How would you compare the relative effects on culture, of the executives moving to Chicago vs. the merger with MDC?
I am not getting the part why ZFS felt bolt on? And worst offender?

I think we are missing some context here?
Boeing is trading some 20-25% from its all time high. I find that amazing.

The stock market is basically telling us that this is all just a bit of bad press that will pass.

This story is very similar to a story here on hn from just a few days ago:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20353342
The problem is that there is no content in this statement. No matter what the actual situation in the company, no matter what happens and without regard for any facts, a union representative is going to say that the best course of action is to stop using non-union labor and to increase wages for union labor. It is literally their full time job to say this whenever and in the most effective way they can.
And if instead of getting into a sweltering 330K car, if 300W was enough power to cool it to a reasonable 300K, that's still a win. Happy to start car to cool it down to a comfier 295K.
Please don't post unsubstantive comments here. Especially not unsubstantive ideological battle comments. We're trying for a more thoughtful sort of discussion on this site.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
I would say any plant that was built before maybe the 2000s, which is admittedly a lot, should just be decommissioned, with more modern plants replacing them. Our main risks with nuclear plants is that most of the plants are at or around the 50 year point, which not only is about their original planned lifespan, but also absolutely ancient in terms of design and technology. Yeah they have been improved, but only so much as an already built plant can be modified for cheap. When people talk about nuclear safety, they are thinking about plants designed only 15 years after we invented nuclear technology. Talking about the safety of Fukushima, or Chernobyl, or many other plants is the equivalent of discussing the crash safety of a Model-T instead of a 2010+ model car, and has people wondering if cars should even be allowed based on the Model-T's design.
Also, for some sightings, it could be a hunter/poacher
in a ghillie suit.
It is possible for something to be simultaneously (a) crappy; (b) expensive; and (c) the best option available.

Prior to 2006, I was a hardcore Linux (and then FreeBSD) fan, but I had to use Windows for a lot of work- and school-related tasks. When Mac switched to x86, I felt less nervous about investing in it, knowing I could go back to Windows/Linux if I wanted.

When I switched, what I came to realize was that Apple - and Jobs specifically - was mostly not content to just be the best option available. They thought through the last little details. They added accelerometers to hard drive enclosures to stop the disk if the laptop fell. They made power cables attached by magnets so you wouldn't send your laptop flying if the cord was pulled. They had a philosophy that the computer should Just Work and - for the most part - their execution showed how dedicated they were to that.

Apple is no longer in that league. Hardware failures, design failures, software failures including goto fail and root password vulnerabilities... Apple simply isn't a perfectionist company anymore. Sure, there is a litany of "What about..." comparisons you can make from times Jobs got defensive instead of being a perfectionist, but this is different. It used to be the exception. Now it's the rule.

That's why people are upset. Something that used to be reliably great is now merely better than the rest - a low bar.

For many, there isn't a better option to turn to. If you want a mostly hassle-free Unix experience with wide COTS software support, macOS is your best choice. But it's a lot sloppier than it used to be and that justifiably causes some angst.
The Space Shuttle disaster was a symptom of the US political process.
You seem to be asking for a single clear answer. Okay, here's one: node.js. Learn it. Live it. Love it. Use VS Code. Learn it. Live it. Love it. Is this the best combination? Many seem to use it (it's the current hotness that all the hipsters are using) so it must be good. If that's not a satisfactory answer, ask yourself why it isn't. As for the "software written faster and better will ... put its competitors out of business" quote, take a look at Microsoft. They were never the first to market, and often times, it took them three or more attempts to get something correct. Yet they're still a juggernaut of a company. Being first doesn't mean you'll win---just as often you'll end up with arrows in your back.

It really depends upon what you want to do. My own website [1] is written in XML and I use XSLT to convert it to HTML [2]. My blog [3] uses a mixture of C and Lua [4] because that's what works for me. A great craftsman can make wonderful items with average tools that an average craftsman with great tools cannot. It's not just the tools, but how well you understand them and what their limitations are [5]. Also, the industry changes. Hell, javascript didn't even exist when I started making websites. Nor did Java. I got taught CS 101 in Fortran of all languages. The only constant is change, so stop asking what's best, and just start working. You'll find out what works for you and what doesn't.

[1] http://www.conman.org/

[2] I wanted an easier way to maintain the links among all the pages (next section, previous section, next page, previous page, etc.) instead of modifying static files. XSLT was the new hotness at the time. I won't say it was a mistake, but I haven't bothered changing the underlying technology since.

[3] http://boston.conman.org/

[4] https://github.com/spc476/mod_blog

[5] I know of a bridge player (a card game) who took the time to learn x86 assembly language to write his own bridge playing software, and from my understanding, at the time it was a "best of breed" type program. Could he have been more productive in another language? Perhaps. Perhaps not.