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I was thinking about this topic earlier this week. I think it's really misleading to defend your accomplishments with "hard work", especially given not all "hard work" is the same. I "worked hard" but have gotten a fraction for it than many folks I know. I have also "struggled a lot less" than quite a few folks I know while getting better results. It's ultimately a meaningless dodge.

Maybe success shouldn't need to be defended. I'm not sure.
>- Ships with anything other than Windows (Linux, OSX, BSD, etc)

It doesn't exactly sound like it would be any kind of a problem for you to install your own OS if you're willing to accept a manufacturer supplied BSD.
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Sure, but hope never really cares about statistics.
> The rule of thumb I use is "would I trust this government entity if my respective political party is only in control ~50% of the time?"

I'm surprised that you'd use 50% as the threshold. I would use 0%.

There are plenty of government agencies and functions that I trust even though my affiliated party is never in control.
> Come to a doctor with a bad cough, get a prescription for Paracetamol.

Good. Most coughs are viral, and that's the appropriate treatment.
I've given the only examples I wish to give - short and ugly people are somewhere down the order of 'things we advocate for' Probably near the bottom.

'How you see' was actually the clearest part of your post, the second half is what threw me off.
Half of Newt's career was built on minimizing government (or at least that's the claim). So, it fits the pattern.

As far as how I feel about it, my political views are closer to Ron Swanson than Leslie Knope, so I'm not too unhappy about it.
The general idea was that pilots would correctly recognize large amounts of undesired and uncommanded trim being runaway trim and perform the checklist to resolve that issue that they are expected to know by memory, since there is a need to execute it fast, without paging through the Quick Reference Handbook. This is not a checklist that was introduced with the 737 MAX, but one that has existed since the introduction of the 737 in 1969. I haven't gone and checked but IIRC a similar checklist exists for all Boeing jetliners and I would expect Airbus as well.

In any system failure there is a chain of events that leads up to the ultimate failure, concentrating solely on Boeing's mistakes in these crashes overlooks all the other points at which they could have been averted:

1. In the Lion Air crash, there were some significant maintenance issues that lead up to the replacement for a failing AoA sensor with a used part older than the aircraft failing as well.

2. There were some significant failings in Crew Resource Management in the accident flights.

3. There appear to be issues in the pilots abilities to deal with unexpected situations. This is why simulator training exists, so that pilots can encounter unexpected issues and deal with them correctly.

4. The failure that lead to MCAS being activated also caused a whole ton of warnings to be activated, which may have been a situation Boeing was not expecting, and therefore did not put into the minimum baseline training they create.

5. The flight computer system and MCAS was implemented problematically, relying on one input because the expected control authority was very low, and then when that was not changed the system was not re-architected.

6. Boeing's designs reflect a US-centric expectation of pilots. In the US we expect pilots flying airliners to have spent at least 1500 hours flying before they can even sit in the co-pilot seat. In other parts of the world I have heard numbers as low as 240 hours, so pilot testing will need to reflect this going forward.
Yeah that was my thought too. Like 'signpost' movies that split the audience in 2 and would mean with a few key movies you could make predictions for everyone.
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There's also the 'Snowden Problem' which is contractors that act on behalf of the feds don't have the same requirements and protections as the feds.

And around 95% (my assessment) of 'federal employees' are contractors.
From the original post...

You get to truly disconnect/recharge, prevents burnout, I get to spend more time with friends and family, my stress/anxiety

At this point in my career, I wouldn’t let a job lead to any of the negatives nor would it stop me from spending time with friends or family.
> It would be ridiculous to have every school policy passed by state and local legislation. That power is delegated to academic reagents.

The point in this case is that it isn't. Both the policy and the procedural rules are imposed by federal requirements.

If it was actually a policy of the school then it would be non-uniform and students could avoid schools with unreasonable policies, or push for changes to the local policy that are more achievable than it is for an individual to change federal policy.
So your argument is that there's nobody both technically competent and willing to work in an important role for the government? I can tell you for a fact you're wrong, and if you don't believe me, you may want to widen your social circle.
> I have never felt targetted or fear because of [..] gender

You should have - 77.8% of murder victims in the US are male: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homicide_statistics_by_gender
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> I'd amend this a bit. I'm happy with digital read-outs, however driver input should in most cases through an analogue knob or switch.

Yeah, I can agree that some digital readouts are okay. It's really difficult to communicate succinctly what I don't like about modern digital car interfaces.
Contain the floating point naming explosion [pdf]
That question should be "is this better than the alternative if my respective political party is only in control ~50% of the time?"

An argument can be made that a biased OTA is better than no OTA.
You know, I bet the TIS-100 wouldn't even be all that tricky given a) way more cells and b) a compiler to abstract a bunch of stuff.
> "Not being able to track ad spending by political parties, governments or individuals opens opens a huge opportunity for political corruption."

Okay, but why? Are you implying that it gives people some sort of advantage? If so, how is it any different to all the myriad other things that people could do that can effectively push or platform a campaign/political opinion? E.g. Biased reporting, speeches, skilled orators, organized rallies and their funding, etc.

And also, what is your definition of "political corruption"? Also, how is all this different to "campaigns", activism and general spending that is targeted at altering public opinion at the early childhood level? I.e. at primary and secondary schools.

I guess where I'm getting at is where do you draw the line, if any. We are, after all, part of a democratic society and one of the big supposed benefits is that it's marketplace of ideas where the best one effectively gets translated by the elected officials. Advertising/promoting such ideas should be part and parcel of such a marketplace.

Personally, I draw the line at propaganda and such aimed at developing minds. Till the past decade, I'd say the biggest movement that was doing this was the climate/pollution one. It's been heavily promoted and pushed at children way past the point of trying to foster environmentally-conscious and behaved adults that understand the consequences of some of their actions on the environment.
Hmm, feels to me like there's something Clojure related on the front page every other day. Transient enough though.
This SORT of thing was pretty common copy protection on Ataris. "I'm told" the 1050 "dual density" disk drives had a potentiometer on it that could be adjusted to vastly speed up or slow down the drive. That, combined with software to tell "you" when, could be used to purposely mis-copy sectors to a destination floppy to replicate the effect.
Ryzen SKUs with a 105W TDP have a power limit (PPT) of 142W at stock. 65W TDP SKUs have a power limit of 88W. I.e., while these CPUs are allowed to use more power than their TDP, it's limited to 35% above the TDP. This means that the advertised TDP is not just an arbitrary number they slap on the package.
Just a thought, but maybe the best way to attract talent is to not refer to them using pejoratives?
Well I guess we should just give up and not try to do it better this time!

Who says it has to be people with ties to the tech giants? You don't need to suckle at Google's teat to understand the underlying technology and advise on it. And introducing an enforced ban on lobbying for x years (ideally forever, imo) after their government employment ends would help curb corruption.
We did: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NERVA

Tested successfully (on the ground) in the 60s.

Real pity about its cancellation, too. It was considered for the "Grand Tour" that the Voyager probes wound up doing; they could've sent nearly 30x the spacecraft mass with NERVA rockets.
Such an error would be immediately obvious on code review. The idea is to make it obvious, not foolproof.
No, not really. We added "hen" who is short for "han/hon" ("he/she"). Some people want "hen" as pronoun as well which I think is awkward. I've only met nb people here who wants to be called "den", I guess from english "they". That is really hard for my programming since "den" is commonly used to refer to inanimate objects. It seem so inhuman to me that I have a really hard time respecting that. I try though. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Is Telegram going to find itself with issues similar to Kik's? https://www.engadget.com/2019/06/05/sec-sues-kik-for-running...
> It seems to be another golden age for iOS jailbreaking has came!

It's sadly limited to the A11 (iPhone X) chips and everything before that.
What's it really worth?

8 sec/load / 3600 sec/hour = 0.002 hours/load

If switching takes one hour [1]. Assuming you wait for Thunderbird to start 500 times, there's roughly equal time cost. Restarting Linux once a week at 50 work weeks per year amortizes one hour of switching cost out over ten years. [2] Ten hours spent switching puts the break even well into the twenty-second century. Automating Thunderbird initialization via your boot, session or login scripts is likely to take less time and produce fewer bugs/glitches/incompatibilities than switching email applications. Manual startup will always require more of a users time than automation. [3] [4]

[1]: It won't because monitoring this thread and investigating alternatives and setting up the new software will take several hours.

[2]: Of course some people restart their OS more frequently. That more strongly suggests integrating email startup into a boot/session/login script.

[3]: Personally, I find automation is often more satisfying than switching from one manual process to another manual process. In part because the problem just gets done. But that's me.
How about below-average pilots? Just-barely-good-enough-to-get-hired pilots?
This article is a step into the right direction. Useful. Thanks Aaron.
Not really comparable if it's only US and Canada.
Yay Clojure! It's such a natural tool once you go all in on it.
Haha lol troll!
I think the point that I was trying to make is that a test pilot probably has attributes / skills which make them well qualified as test pilots but perhaps wouldn't make them particularly good line pilots and vice versa.

An ideal test pilots should excel in stick and rudder skills and have the ability to work around mechanical / system problems.

For a line pilot attributes like organisational skills and planning, interpersonal skills and meteorology skills are much more valuable.
Oh, yes! Government employment, with all of the overhead that entails, like drug testing etc? And the job is to explain to ULTRA clueless users things they need to know and don't want to learn. People complain about supporting doctors, who assume their focused competence extends to all human knowledge. Politicians assume often their charm and power can substitute for understanding.

If i felt the need to do civic duty, I think I'd rather join the Army than take that job. At least there's the chance of shooting someone who deserves it there.

(Perhaps I'm still a little PTSD from my time supporting users)

* Edit: Calmer now; I have to say it's a great idea that Congress (and whoever else in government) could have a resource to tap for specialized knowledge in technical fields they currently lack coverage of. I can't imagine they can make the job attractive enough for me
Can you explain a bit more? I cannot quite square the fact that you had issues with sales (people) and the fact that you had no problem finding customers... Why do you need sales people, if not to find customers? Or do you actually mean customer support / integration people?
> Though I can’t help but wonder if this is a very subtle re-framing of the Max accidents to shift blame back towards pilots.

How so? The assertion that average pilots must be use implies that average pilots were not being used and that because of this the testing is flawed.

I think the point is that an average pilot would have failed tests and exposed a flaw in their training but because they used above average pilots any flaws in their systems were mitigated or avoided by the pilots.

I think we'd all agree that if a pilot landed a fully functional plane, that they were certified to fly, without first deploying the landing gear then we'd question that pilot's abilities. The rationale for testing using average pilots is along the same lines. An average pilot can reasonably be expected to have a certain level of knowledge and ability, therefore all testing should be to expose the gaps between what they know and what's needed to pilot a new aircraft. Using a more experienced pilot closes or narrows those gaps.
VGA and other display devices in QEMU
>The main suspect in the long-running investigation that led to raids on Thursday is a 59-year-old Dutchman who authorities believe acquired the former military bunker in Traben-Trarbach

I'm shocked because I've been given a tour of this datacenter by the man's sons, whose mother is friends with my grandmother, and whom I have known since a very young age. Like, the mother, the sons, my mother, my grandmother, and me, all toured a 6-levels deep NATO bunker & the surrounding buildings. It was an amazing sight to see. They did not talk much about what they were doing there, only that it was meant to be a secure datacenter. Their mom was just so happy that the father and sons were finally working together on something lucrative, and that they had a place to live (the bunker & surrounding buildings had a lot of facilities).

By the time of the tour, which was 2015, I hadn't seen them for several years. Catching up, I told them that I had a career a US federal gov contractor working in cyber security - to them, and I didn't realize it at the time, this was probably a red flag. I wanted to talk a lot about cyber sec stuff, but they seemed oddly quiet. Shortly after the visit, they went out of touch with my family. The final connection we had was one Facebook account belonging to the youngest kid - probably the 20yo one mentioned in the article. It seemed odd to me that he didn't use his real name, but now I understand why. It's been deleted.

These kids had an interesting backstory. Their mother was a black woman from the Dutch colony Curaçao. She met the father sometime during or before the 90s. Their children were mixed race, and were never accepted by their grandparents, who allegedly were Nazi-affiliated. The prospect of marriage fell apart, and this single mother had to raise the two sons on her own. Living in Westervoort nearby Arnhem, she met and struck up a close friendship with my grandmother, who became kind of a surrogate grandmother for those kids.

That NATO bunker is built upon a spot where Nazis would have used it during WWII. I thought it was an amazing turn of the tables for a black woman who was scorned by Nazis to now have a claim to it.

I had pictures of the inside of that NATO bunker, which was amazing to see, but the iPhone they were stored on got stolen later that year. I wish I had them. If I'm lucky, some combing through DropBox might uncover a few.
Anyone from Cannonical here?
When can we get official backports for LTS version of Ubuntu? Cannot really upgrade servers to 19.10
Thanks for saying this. I'll add, just as general observation from within the industry, that because of the shrinking profits and massive budget cuts insisted upon by a lot of corporate parent companies many outlets are short-staffed.

The enormous (and I've personally witnessed enough to suit the use of that term) reduction in editorial and arts staff at major outlets has stretched the surviving teams pretty thin. It gets harder and harder to source and confirm this kind of data, and then present it, within the timelines available.
sounds like it is a congress thing
> nothing but make my heart attacks much much more frequent.

What the hell? Pardon my ignorance but how many heart attacks is too frequent? I was under the impression that one or two is pretty much all a human body can take.
Couldn’t they use some other wire format that simply uses the same port?
> You're attacking her in much the say way

I'm not attacking her, but I understand why you think that.

Where do you think you might find sexism, misogynism, unsafety, threatening situations, in the US department of defence working with military personnel or in the office of RMS at MIT?

I think the odds are all in favour of the military, but this girl is happy to build drones for the military, while supporting the idea that RMS is a toxic man that need to be removed immediately.

Isn't that amusing?

If I didn't already know, I would have wanted to know about it!
The example of Brett Kavanaugh is curious. Yes, his high school is focused on getting its students into good colleges--that's why it is Georgetown Prep, not Georgetown Something Else. It is also focused on preparing them to get through those colleges creditably, and part of that is teaching them how to manage a workload. The husband of a sometime co-worker taught science at a well-thought-of state university, and said that more kids did poorly from lack of work habits than from lack of smarts.

Does getting your algebra homework done on time count as hard work on the same level as digging ditches? No. Does it count as work of a sort? Yes.
This makes a lot of sense. They need similar requirements for evacuation testing. Regulations say all passengers in a plane need to be able to evacuate within 90 seconds. As Americans get bigger and airplane seats get smaller the airlines "comply" with the 90 second requirement by conducting an evacuation test in completely unrealistic circumstances.[1] The test participants are all handpicked, fit, airline employees who prepare and practice for the drill. The test "starts" with everyone in their seat (seat backs & try tables up) and with their life jacket already on.

And in recent years the FAA hasn't required these tests as frequently. Why? Because even with all the preparation that goes into it, the mad-rush to the exits in a staged emergency, tends to be quite dangerous for the participants.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XIaovi1JWyY
What I'd love to see is something like the National Academy of Sciences, where you have an organization that year-round advises Congress, and you are elected to it by your peers.

So like the NAS has a lot of Nobel Prize winners, etc... this new "Academy" would have IEEE/ACM recipients, others that have a much longer view, pretty much what a lot of "distinguished engineers" or "fellows" do at private companies.
Yes, bracket, not socket. What are we talking about again?
What motivates somebody to make a comment like this, out of curiosity? Was my link to an article that some people might find interesting hurting the discussion?
We've been doing exactly that every ten years for the census, so it's not exactly an unsolved problem.
It's a long story, but I've been inside that Bunker while they were setting it up in 2015. The datacenter was still under construction. It was a magnificent thing to see, and quite a surprise to find in such a peaceful little town.
let is the right word given the historical background of functional programming languages.
Any kind of code signing that forces the end user to trust a third party and restricts how a person may use their own property needs to go.

The security benefits are real, but the implementations are poor. On Android devices, a locked bootloader guarantees your device will be e-waste within 2 years.
How is the author sure that humans are conscious? If he is going by his own personal experience, then he can be sure only of his own consciousness.
Pretty cool. Evergreen workshop debates about stress and meter were one of the things that drew me back to programming while I was pursuing my MFA years ago. Care to share what dataset you're using to identify meter?

The rhyme scheme feature is throwing an error in the console. And I initially had some trouble with the Show Meter feature on Firefox but it's working on Chrome. Neat!

When you've polished this up a little and worked out the kinks, I'd recommend sharing it on Show HN.
Do they actually use an engine now, or just throw up a random mish-mash of Netflix originals all over the screen? Most of them are in genres I've never watched with actors I've never expressed interest in, and yet there they are. "Netflix Original" is not a category that you should be using to link other movies to me Netflix.
Facebook Steps Closer to the Next Computing Platform
My Windows machine is admittedly more modular than a mini+eGPU would be. I can pull the CPU out and put in a new one whenever I want! But over the course of 12 years and 3 computer builds, I've never done that once. By the time there's a noticeable CPU upgrade available I'd need a new motherboard to go with it.

So I think there's a big segment of the "modular" market that only really cares about having GPU options and upgradeable RAM.

It's not for everyone, but the people in between the high end Mac Mini (6-core i7 + thunderbolt GPU) and the low end Mac Pro (8-core Xeon W and internal expansion slots) are a small enough slice that Apple doesn't care.
This idea that people who worked for a company can't be critical of it seems pretty unlikely to apply to Google, given all the internal political controversy they've gone through?

Maybe we should judge people for their own actions rather than who they once worked for?
Researchers Assembled over 100 Voting Machines. Hackers Broke into Every One.
Well stated, can confirm. You are far more likely to encounter fiscal corruption than partisanship in most agencies, appointed leaders aside.
Testing a large enough random sampling of people will include the lowest common denominator as well.
I don't know about earlier versions, but iOS 12 and newer definitely require a password (or Touch ID / Face ID) for starting a free trial subscription, and even for downloading a free app unless you turn that off.
These systems are all ultimately based on a foundation of trust. If you don' trust your government, its people and processes, then you have a problem regardless of how transactions are happening. This trust of course starts with how secure and safeguarded the democratic process is - and there is a constant war between democracy and bad actors trying to takeover the systems of the richest nations in the world, whether nation states or smaller bad actors indirectly working toward negatively influencing a society through regulatory capture, etc..