skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Apparently he was an engineer sometime in the past, now his job is to push anything that will benefit members of the union, which is what he is doing here. He has no specific information about the MAX to offer.

The executives of Boeing have pushed anything to benefit the company throughout this story, changing their narrative multiple times. Boeing has handled this entire saga so poorly that I truly don't understand the POV that the union is somehow responsible.

The cost savings hindsight argument doesn't address that this was an entirely preventable failure that was caused purely by miscommunication, disorganization, and greed. It's not like the aircraft experienced some unforeseen phenomenon that engineers have never recorded, they introduced a haphazardly flawed feature, they failed to clearly communicate the feature to clients, they failed to properly train the pilots, and people died.
You're right, the article makes too strong of a correlation between the affects that Zebra & Quagga mussels have had and Lake Erie's recovery. But I'm curious, does that totally discredit the article?

No doubt, if left alone without any government policy, Lake Erie may not have recovered from purely natural means, such as the introduction of an invasive species. I believe, like you, that government policy has helped in the restoration, at least has helped speed it up.

But I don't think that's the author's real point. The point he is ultimately making is stated in the article:

> "Our culture — meaning here the collective culture of modern Western industrial society — is obsessed by the false belief that nature can’t adapt to our actions."

and:

> "Our habitual way of dealing with Mother Nature assumes that we talk and she listens, full stop, end of sentence. [...] What we need to recognize, rather, is that we’re engaged in a conversation with the old broad. We said “pollution,” she quipped “zebra mussels;” we said “internal combustion engines,” and she smiled and said “coastal flooding.” We can listen to her responses and learn from them - or not, and find out the hard way what else she has to say."

I think the author is suggesting that nature will, in the end, restore balance and that we, as species, could possibly help by simply getting out of the way or maybe working with natural processes. Understanding nature's process rather than fighting it is likely the best way out of the messes that we've created for ourselves.
I do not really understand what you mean with "The rest is inevitable", for example I do not know what exactly you mean with "the rest".
I don't disagree with your point. It doesn't really have anything to do with the question at hand though.

All I'm saying is that these tools are clearly doing a useful job and pretending like false positives are an insurmountable problem is a bit silly.
> From a shareholder perspective, Boeing’s approach to its business has been wildly successful. The company is enduring its second worldwide grounding in recent memory.

> However, worldwide demand for airplanes is riding a high. And Boeing has diverted cash flow into dividends and share buybacks that have helped boost the company’s stock.

I started my career in IBM in the early 2000s, and this sounds incredibly familiar. As the years passed, company messaging and all-hands meetings increasingly celebrated the stock price, stock buy-backs, and later earnings per share. Meanwhile, the engineering teams and products around me felt more creaky and short-staffed, and the quality of many products (and, gradually, the technical leadership) seemed to be declining. Also, layoffs appeared to be picking up steam, and my salary was stagnant. I eventually left in 2010, giving myself a big raise in the process.

Right after the time I left, IBM rocketed to all-time highs and became the darling of the Dow, while everything else all around was still in shambles from the recession. I had a hard time reconciling the macro performance of the company with the facts on the ground as I experienced them. It was only much later that I think I understood what was happening, after reading a Sam Palmisano interview (having a hard time finding it).

The way I rationalize what I experienced at IBM is that the company leadership decided to raid the coffers and cash out on value the company had built up over the decades. It's like cashing in your chips at the casino after deciding you've played enough. The way they did this was to cut costs relentlessly and employ "financial engineering" to inflate the stock price. It was basically a transfer of wealth from the investment in the products and the people to the owners/shareholders in the form of higher share values and dividends.

I suppose one can interpret this sort of company decision as a bet against future growth, and an admission that the investment to some degree had run its course. Also, a company like IBM (and Boeing) has built so much value over the decades, that even after raiding the coffers and cutting costs, the embers still burn hot and the business is still huge, though perhaps now hamstrung and unable to grow. Of course, this creates a pretty dismal situation for us grunts on the ground, and the work product undoubtedly suffers, while the brain drain picks up its pace.

The difference of course between IBM and Boeing is that the cost cutting in Boeing has ended up costing many human lives, and the consequences are much much sharper in blood and reputation, and maybe in regulation as well.
I wonder if you could invent a pool filter powered by zebra mussels? You’d obviously need a good way to keep them contained in the filter area and out of the piping and pool proper.

Can it be done?
Huh. That’s not at all clear, and strikes me as weird. I think you’d have to pair it with some visual indication...
I saw this book at the bookstore precisely one time. Made a note to look into it in the near future. And then was never able to find it again. Will have to look a bit harder maybe.
In Portugal, after harvest in the Winter, we cure olives in water and salt, sometimes some herbs. This produces a fermentation that allows for preserving olives for a whole year. Around Easter they'll be good.

But before this, one needs to put them in water that is changed every now and then - this gets rid of the bitterness. If one wants them ready for Christmas, slicing them slightly is necessary to speed up the process.

There are naturally black olives: the Galega variety is usually black, with shades of dark green. They're the best in my opinion, but only for eating. They have lower levels of oil than most varieties.
This reminds me of brexit : if the brexit vote had only been open to younger voters, "stay" would have won by a landslide.

Which makes me very uneasy, the people that won't have to feel the negative consequences of Brexit are the ones that voted for it.

Same for climate change.

I guess my reflexion will just end up in "democracy is the worst form of Government except for all those other forms that have been tried from time to time" since I don't see a solution to this.
City planning documents have also consistently focused on the need for housing options for teachers, firefighters...

I’ve got an idea. Both of these jobs are considered essential for a functioning society and are paid by taxpayers. Why not just pay them more? There is no reason that teachers and other public sector professionals should be “low income workers”.
Cost control or cost-benefit trades are certainly a critical aspect of engineering but saying "Engineering is about cost cutting" is way overstating the case. There absolutely is a difference between a short-term cost-driven engineering culture and one that weighs costs with a strategic view. I am actively involved in remediation of an engineering program that suffered from the former. It will cost significantly more money in the long run to have done it that way, assuming the program survives.
I remember seeing all of the warning signs about zebra mussels when I was growing up there.
Office environments (and perhaps most companies) tend to optimize for the appearance of work getting done rather than actually getting work done. As a result, most of the time spent in them causes stress without creating any benefit.

Moreover, forcing yourself to "work" when you are tired or simply done for the day also tends to create negative returns.

If your work requires sustained concentration, a typical office environment full of people (especially supervisors) and continuous interruptions from noise and other distractions is not the place to do it.
Honestly the world needs more unique-looking cars. Every 4-door sedan made after 2000 or so looks like the same boring identical “bar of soap with wheels”. With only a few minor differences (headlight and tail light shape, grill, etc. from a large distance only car experts tell any of the major brands apart visually.
Most car companies today are really engine companies. They stamp and weld the bodies and build the engines and everything else is out sourced. EVERYTHING ELSE! So the original commenter is correct they would have to lay off half their people to convert to electric motors.
The fact that you would even consider comparing the controls of a video game to vim probably means it’s not the most intuitive.
I also wasn't sure about the exact meaning of ad hominem. But I found this definition (which is a bit more detailed than Wikipedia's) on Rational Wiki [1], and it seems to match our situation:

> Premise 1: Person A makes claim X

> Premise 2: There is something objectionable about person A

> Conclusion: Therefore, claim X is false

raxxorrax made a claim on what he would feel if he was a minority (probably implying that this is how some of the minorities might feel right now, I'm not sure if this was part of his point). My understanding is that you objected to his claim by saying that he can't imagine what minorities think because he isn't a minority.

[1]: https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Argumentum_ad_hominem

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A couple of times I had similar arguments with my friends, when I said something about how I think minorities should think or act, and my friend would say that I can't understand minorities, because I'm not one. My friends had a reason to think I'm not a minority, because I'm a white male living in a country where my ethnicity is prevalent (> 80% of the population).

The thing they didn't know is that I grew up in a different place, where my ethnicity was a minority, and I went to a high school where > 90% percent of kids were of different ethnicity and religion. And this all happened in a provincial town in Central Asia, where people don't care much about diversity and tolerance, especially if they are your teenager classmates in a boys-only high school. So I think in some points of my life I did experience certain stress and discomfort because of being a minority, although right now I don't feel myself being a victim or anything of that sort.

This is why I got triggered by your first comment, and made that remark about ad hominem. Because of its resemblance to a situation I was in a few times. And actually, for me it isn't such a big deal to start a new argument about whether it's an instance of ad hominem or not.
Ask HN: What other problems or purpose is Google Search solving for you?
Most of us use google search for finding something on the internet.
Apart from searching i do use it for 'auto correction' of sentences. I do this by copy pasting small sentence into search bar and letting google search correct spelling mistakes or grammar.

If you are using google search for other purpose you can share them below so others can use it.
Didn't take long for the classic US whataboutism bashing to show up in an article about China.
Interestingly it is, but more because of the associated costs. Extra panel efficiency means you need less land, less mounting hardware, and fewer installers for the same power solar farm.
> > The folks that want to roll it back are so naive that they must be monitored by the rest of us for their own safety and ours.

> Can't tell if this is sarcasm or not? I suspect that it is.

No, it's not. Not even a little. I am "as serious as a heart attack".

Someone is going to occupy the "God Room". It can be good(-ish) guys or bad(-ish) guys but it can't be nobody.

The NSA are doing their (difficult and necessary) jobs.

> those of us against surveillance

...only have to fuck up once. Make one mistake and you're nicked mate.

People trying to avoid surveillance leave holes in the dataflow that pinpoint them.

> it will be a constant battle that becomes more and more expensive for the watchers

Hardly. We see it becoming exponentially cheaper in front of our eyes. Given two exponential processes in a race, the one that's faster pulls ahead exponentially. (And whole new technologies open up new methods, e.g. terahertz scanners that can read mail without touching it. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terahertz_radiation )

Nevermind that the vast majority of people simply do not care.

You really think "Anonymous" is getting better at what they do? Maybe that's why we don't hear about them much anymore? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anonymous_(group) Forgive the sarcasm, but I hope I'm making my point?

Thinking that the "Goonies" are going to beat the NSA is so foolish that anyone who believes it is dangerously naive. Especially because the NSA is on your side. The NSA are the good guys! (By Earth standards.)

Let me ask you this: would you give up your right to privacy to prevent e.g. kragen's friend's rape by the police? I don't know about you but I would live on live webcam the rest of my life gladly if it could prevent even half of e.g. Amber Alerts (child kidnapping.)

That's the trade-off: Privacy for massively reduced crime.

My point is that the Ubiquitous Surveillance system must be recursive to prevent it's own abuses (or we will wind up with techno-dictatorship.) That's all.

Cf. Peelian principles

> In this model of policing, police officers are regarded as citizens in uniform. They exercise their powers to police their fellow citizens with the implicit consent of those fellow citizens. "Policing by consent" indicates that the legitimacy of policing in the eyes of the public is based upon a general consensus of support that follows from transparency about their powers, their integrity in exercising those powers and their accountability for doing so.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peelian_principles

> In a world of 7 billion people, we simply can't afford to feed everyone, solve the issue of climate change, manage the global economy in a way that avoids war, and maintain an effective global surveillance state in the face of active resistance.

Actually we can. Bucky Fuller calculated that we could fix all our problems for about 25 billion dollars. We literally had all the answers by the mid-70's but no one fucking listens.

Anyhow, the flow of information increases wealth, ubiquitous surveillance is a net gain. We will get the "UbiSurv" capabilities as a side effect of economic development.
I can’t speak for everyone, but it’s not so much the quality that puts me off, it’s the appearance. I personally think it’s ugly and there’s way too much “noise” in its aesthetics, for lack of a better term. But as the previous commenter said, to each their own. I’m sure it’s a fine car. It’s just not the aesthetic I’d go for, especially as far as BMWs go.
Denmark's people and (especially) leaders value what Greenland represents in terms of geopolitics. Greenland is a seat at the table for the Danes. Without it, they'd be like Luxembourg. With it, they're like Norway. This isn't mysterious.
If you have a really good product, you'd probably survive without GrubHub. But yes, with the advent of these apps (and the decline of going-to-eat-at-the-restaurant experience), we are seeing the commoditization of what's for dinner. It's a tough place to be, with thin margins. But there still are other platforms.
I'm well aware of the cuts to legal aid and have lobbied against them. It is worth noting that the changes to legal aid have primarily affected civil law, with the effects on criminal law being primarily limited to means-testing for high earners and an 8.25% reduction in overall fees paid to legal practitioners.

Although it is clear that the cuts have significantly impacted family, immigration and welfare benefits cases, it is not clear that they have affected the fairness of the criminal legal system.
So what it's gonna be like - latency and bandwidth?
He could be. But, as it happens, he's not. He hasn't worked for Boeing since 2000.
I'm not a PayPal fan myself, but my POV was similar... It's kind of bullshit the guy just assumed it was free money.
> but the truth is everyone has their own little version of political correctness

Personally - I'm ok with you saying whatever you want. Any word, in any context. If I don't like it that's my problem. You can burn a flag too. I don't care.
Who else thinks these systems deliver wireless high speed Internet faster than 5G?
Sounds like that plastics industry talking about disposal in the 1970's. Now look where we are.
Reminds me so much of Apple!
The Lakes and the Peaks are in the same boat too, probably the other national parks.
I should add that I don't claim any extreme benefits of this kind of practice other than feeling a bit better and more relaxed and the intrinsic niceness of the states. Surely it's a good base for "insight meditation." At the very least twenty minutes of peaceful bliss seems like a decent part of a morning routine.
Elm's package management.
In elm if you change your API you must change the version of your package following Semantic versioning.

1.1.2
Major.minor.patch.

Or better:
Break.feature.fix

And that comes from the language and package manager.
Power supplies are notoriously failure prone across all possible uses.

1. By definition, they're the device with the most current running through it, and typically generating the most heat. Switched mode power supplies have efficiencies up to around 80%, linear mode power supplies closer to 50%. They need to be cooled, but typically aren't or have insufficient cooling.
2. They're typically chock-full of electrolytic capacitors.
3. Power supplies have been engaged in a race to the bottom for decades. You're almost always getting the cheapest part from the cheapest factory.

The power supply should always be the part you troubleshoot first, even if you see something else smoking. Chances are pretty good the reason the other thing is smoking is because the power supply is putting out too much voltage.
If your friend wanted to go on record, i'm sure there'd be plenty of reporters eager to hear about it. As long as the only whistleblowers about Boeing's quality control are union execs and anonymous friends of internet commenters I have a hard time giving that too much weight.
> How do we prevent/contain states go rogue ...

By using different fuels. The fuel we currently use (enriched uranium) was chosen because we could also use it to build weapons. A different fuel (i.e. thorium, etc) could be used that couldn't be used in making weapons.
In the 2017 French elections, younger voters' top two candidates were Mélenchon and Le Pen:

https://twitter.com/Yascha_Mounk/status/856228943464210433/p...

I wonder if the appreciation for younger voters extends there too.
I think, in hindsight, it will turn out to have been an exceptionally good call to retain Greenland.

They have an interesting setup - there is no land ownership other than by the state, and you can only get permission to build by winning a lottery. There are minor exceptions for building small hunting cabins in the fjords, but this is negligible. The reason is to prevent private ownership from hindering possible opportunities for the state in the future.

So, why a good call?

Climate change.

1) Greenland has vast reserves of fresh water. This resource will become increasingly valuable as clean fresh water grows scarcer globally.

2) agriculture and habitation. If Greenland continues to melt, in centuries to come there will be vast planes of glacial till - good, fertile land. As the climate warms, the arctic waste will potentially become far more hospitable than (dis)temperate latitudes.

3) strategic dominance. The Arctic is going to be exceedingly important as ice clears for both transportation and resource extraction. Greenland has vast untapped mineral reserves, never mind the territorial waters.
There's also Sono Motors, a start-up from Munich, Germany. They aim at delivering something they call a SEV (Solar Electric Vehicle) in 2020. They have an interesting concept and more than 10k reservations. https://sonomotors.com/?lang=en
Update Your LinkedIn to Tell the World the Work You Want
Don't forget one small nuance: own website requires much (MUCH) more time for initial setup, than any other solution as service which is suggested instead. Especially if it's not a simple static site. And probably for maintenance as well (but it's debatable). Even for tech guys (especially those, who's not in webdev).
I think your response to my comment is fair. Interpretation being required is why I disagree with a simple count function of gender pronouns. In rereading I did see what you were talking about with the make manager being discussed. I personally agree with your conclusion and could have worded my initial comment better to be clearer, it was early morning for me which is not when I'm at my peak mental faculties, so I apologise for my lack of clarity.
This keyboard has been a disaster for a few years. If it’s true that Ive was the one pushing it then it would be ignorant to think that this failure hasn’t had an impact on his standing within the company. This is a massive failure. We are talking about a part that experiences more physical wear and tear than any other in the computer and that requires a logic board replacement as part of the repair process. That’s absurd. How do you think it impacts the margin when a significant number of units are coming in for one or more repairs? Executives get fired for these kinds of failures all the time. Depending on some of the dynamics behind the scenes, I might want him out for this or at least put on a leash if I’m on the board.
There are already thousands of medical and industrial sites which contain material arguably scarier and more susceptible to accidents than what would be in a small reactor. The most recent was several months ago at UW Harborview: https://www.kiro7.com/news/local/hazmat-response-for-radioac...

I think your last reasons are probably more influential. Nobody knows or seems to care much about sites like where the above incident occurred. And so far such incidents have been fairly contained, at least in the U.S. In some other parts of the world neighborhoods do become contaminated on rare occasion.
The first is an AvE video, the one that introduced me to Wringing.

There's also a Cody's Lab video where he sees if they will wring in a vacuum: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jNEvS_bjKIo (using AvE's blocks)
I didn’t realize Boeing’s stock had done so well! Now that’s shareholder value.
Ask HN: What's the lifespan of posts on HN? Or How often should one check HN?
I think that "How social media is fueling the rise of fake cancer cures" is a better title. Sometimes the recommendation is to use the subtitle when the main title is not very informative. I think that in this case the second part of the title looks better.
Thiis is literally the only keyboard where I've had keycaps break, and I started on Sinclair ZX81 which maybe gives an idea how many keyboards I've used. I learned touch-typing at school on mechanical typewriters too.
I've broken several with spills, but this is the only mechanical break.
National territory has a psychological and strategic value that cannot be bought and sold. Countries have gone to war over infinitesimally tiny pieces of land (Gaza, Falklands, Northern Ireland)... we do not need to look to a crystal ball to see why Denmark holds onto a gigantic landmass like Greenland.
But they would be good for measuring graphical changes and some weather. Though NOAA has a lot of this already covered and better.