skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not an aerospace engineer, but this seems like a weird way to measure airplane life. A transpacific plane could have 1/10 the cycles but equal airtime, and one would think that the stresses of flight are worth considering. Wonder why it's not measured in hours, like say, tractors, or miles flown. Do we measure any other engined vehicle this way?
I don't know what you're talking about but also don't know how you can coherently make an argument that people both have freedom of association and can't "cancel" people. Is "cancellation" simply what you call it when people exercise their freedom in a way you don't approve of?
The primary reason why air travel is so safe is that each and every failure in production becomes a major news item for days.

So the system broke somehow, and the news will keep hammering it until someone somewhere learns their lesson. We hope.

Yes, they will go after a bunch of false positives too in the process, but the thing with weeding out the true negatives reliably is that you have to be paranoid about the false positives too.

Cutting the margins too fine and skipping the 'paranoid, inefficient' checks is how we got here.

Focusing a really big spotlight on the entire industry is part of the feedback loop.
When these people title themselves that way it's not inaccurate to use.
https://sociology.fas.harvard.edu/people/nathan-robinson

“He is also the author of _The Man Who Accidentally Wore His Cravat to a Gymnasium_, a children's book about fashion and conformity.“

And he speaks with a British accent but grew up in the US.
Juniper reveled the Screen OS backdoor with a quiet patch over Christmas. Within a month the backdoor was fully understood.
I worked in Amazon which has a similar view to on-call to Google. Usually one person is on-call for the team for a cycle of every week or fortnight. There is also a "follow the sun" model wherein another team in has your nights covered. I do recall that SWEs also had the responsibility of being on-call, since teams are usually a mix of SWEs and SREs.

Naturally a team with a high ops load was shit and made your life hell. After my time there, I vowed never to do on-call unless it was after hours and specifically for emergency response. My opinion is - if there's an issue during work hours, the leads or the entire team should be on it - and collectively fix it.

Anyway, Google has written a bit about this in their SRE book: https://landing.google.com/sre/sre-book/chapters/being-on-ca...
I'm not sure how they're meant to draw lines for other people; if they don't have a critical mass, Stallman can simply ignore them. If they do, he can't lead effectively, and it's their own personal lines that are the problem.
Yeah, that's bad. It's important to use the canonical URL, among other reasons so the site name shows up correctly. Changed now.

ingve is an excellent submitter who doesn't normally do that, so I'm sure there was some reason.
He's homeless now, many "friends" turned their backs on him, he's undergoing virtual lynching on social media and likely views his life's work a complete failure. Even without any prior history, it takes just one impulse to go over the edge; think of Aaron Swartz.
I had the question "how much mass does it take for a black hole to have 1G at the same radius as its event horizon" and the answer appears to be about 10^12 times that of the Sun.
> If you suspect your device has been tampered with and need a guaranteed reboot, just let the battery run down and don't use it until it has.

Just a (overly paranoid) thought: a sophisticated attacker could simulate a drained battery and subsequent reboot, no?
The media lynch is documented here: https://sterling-archermedes.github.io/ Stallman wrote: the most plausible scenario is that she presented herself to him as entirely willing.

The Daily Beast re-contextualizes this as that she was, not presented as, willing. And the title includes "defended Epstein" and "victims", plural, both of which are entirely fabricated, and not reflected in Stallman's writings.

In short, The Daily Beast is lying to you, and half a month later has not bothered to clarify or correct their article. You should assume anything else they print is utterly unconcerned with the truth, and spun however they like. I can't begin to put my contempt for them into words.
Not positive of aircraft used, but flights may be as short as 2 minutes:

https://www.tripsavvy.com/the-worlds-shortest-scheduled-flig...
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Since you also want protection from Apple, you actually don't disagree: right now, Apple can put your phone in DFU mode and "upgrade" its software to a new build which gives them not just root access (which isn't terribly useful these days) but complete control over the kernel. (They still can't steal your data unless you help, due to disk encryption, but that's an unrelated topic.) I want a phone where Apple can't do that; but I mean, someone has to be able to do that, as otherwise the software on the phone can't be upgraded. So I want the person in control of that to be me, the owner. If I so choose, I can trust Apple's software. Or I can choose to not trust Apple's software and trust software from you. This concept of software trust eventually comes down to a root certificate (just as it already does), which should be controlled by the same secure enclave as the disk encryption (so the software itself can't alter my trust roots in case of an exploit). There: not only easy to be equivalent to what you have, not only able to give people like me actual control, but more secure than the status quo (as Apple can be locked out), not less.
That’s the worst example you could’ve used. Pro sports leagues are monopolies with a large percentage of potential players/workers being left out of the market.
Can you elaborate on this? Does it mean to position yourself as a person who can solve the problems that your business is throwing lots of money at? Or to avoid the problems that are being tossed to contractors since the business might not see them as long-enough term issues to hire employees to solve them?
I've often wondered whether or not a sufficiently well worded warrant could require that the warrant canary remains published unchanged, rendering the warrant canary useless.
> It doesn't matter whether they're sending you to a website;

It does matter for this discussion because this is about Google showing two sentences of an article as preview. And the accusation is that Google somehow steals money from publishers by doing so. I don't like Google, but this accusation is just outright nonsense.

> The insane amount of money they extract won't benefit content creators and anyway it ending in the hands of a quasi-monopoly can't be in the public interest.

Ah, so it is a matter of principle to you. Taking away from the beast is a good thing. Off with it's head!

It nearly sounds like you think that no matter the means, it is always good to just hurtle laws at the quasi-monopoly.

That is a dangerous stance, tannhaeuser, because mindlessly throwing stupid laws at the beast might make it stronger, just like it does in this case. And the smaller competition might be crushed before it even existed. But, hey, at least you could take that fork and torch for a spin!

I'm all for cutting down Google, Facebook and Microsoft a couple of notches in favour of smaller competition, but I'm dead against using stupid or even dangerous means. This law was put into place by people who hate the internet, and they would set it all aflame if they could. Don't blindly follow destroyers.
People have literally written the same thing about me and DNSSEC, both here and on Twitter. If you don't want to pay attention to Sarah Mei, you don't have to. People are allowed to decide what they care about, and to advocate for those things.
https://outline.com/9LpW2E
Sequestering in a landfill could work, but why not melt the plastic into bricks for building? Sequestered and structural instead of all in one pile.
This is actually the Vuetify dashboard rather than the angular one. Its built on a fairly straightforward web pack/vuetify configuration and I quite like the arrangement.
JD800 came out first.
> I also have nothing to hide :-)

That's not your decision to make, as to whether you have something to hide or not. That will be decided by someone else. It's entirely out of your hands and - depending on where and when you are subject to such scrutiny - may be arbitrarily decided, which is in fact a requirement in all authoritarian systems (the law has to be heavily subjective and arbitrarily enforced so it can be directed against anyone at anytime as so required, such that the population is kept in constant fear).
RMS is an important historical figure.

Having his inevitanle departure reduced to collateral damage of Jeffrey Epstein is a shame.
You can still hire someone who knows how to collaborate and teach devs how to ops and teach ops how to dev.

But I think the article does point out the many ways "hiring devops" can go wrong.
well i guess i just remembered it for over 8 years for literally no reason then ¯\(°_o)/¯

.. ok :)
I remember Google trying to swindle me into an SRE internship when I applied for SWE. I politely declined because I wasn't spending $60000 on a degree to do ops work.
Yes, but you don't have to be within the Roche limit to have substantial tidal effects, which could destroy habitability at a much greater distance. Just look at Io.
> The fact the consumer didn’t do any due diligence doesn’t change the situation.

It is the reasonable expectations that differ. Customers are not expected to ask for (and will not be granted) financial information or proof of collateral. It is completely unreasonable to give those customers the same level of risk as creditors who are expected to ask for (and receive) such information.

> It is fraud if the company racks up large numbers of unusual expenses just before bankruptcy is declared.

So when a company does not currently have the financial ability to fulfill a purchase (say without obtaining a government bailout), how is it not fraud to sell a product and collect money without informing the customer of that risk?

> As for dine and dash there is a difference when there is no intent to pay.

I'd like to see you try telling your waiter "I'm a bit tight on money right now, you'll have to wait for next month for me to pay my bill." Let's see if they call the cops and you get arrested. Your argument is rather ridiculous.
Resignation notices should be short. Their sole purpose is to provide notice of the resignation. If anything more is said, there could be grounds to refuse the resignation and/or invite legal action.
Does not need to be inaccurate in order to make other people assume that you are yet another alt-right nutjob and avoid engaging in discussion with you.
Stallman's "defense" of a serial sex trafficker (applogogies for the poor transcription, I just did some minor corrections to the OCR from vice):

"The announcement of the Friday event does an injustice to Marvin
Minsky:

deceased Al "pioneer" Marvin Minsky (who is accused of assaulting
one of Epstein's victims

The injustice is in the word "assaulting". The term "sexual assault"
is so vague and slippery that it facilitates accusation inflation:
taking claims that someone did and leading people to think of it as
Y, which is much worse than X.

The accusation quoted is a clear example of in?ation. The reference
reports the claim that Minsky had sex with one of Epstein?s harem.
(See [URL that didn't make it through OCR])

Let's presume that was true (I see no reason to disbelieve it).

The word "assaulting" presumes that he applied force or violence, in
some unspecified way, but the article itself says no such thing.
Only that they had sex.

We can imagine many scenarios, but the most plausible scenario is that
she presented herself to him as entirely willing. Assuming she was
being coerced by Epstein, he would have had every reason to tell her
to conceal that from most of his associates.

l've concluded from various examples of accusation inflation that it
is absolutely wrong to use the term "sexual assault" in an accusation.

Whatever conduct you want to criticize, you should describe it with a
specific term that avoids moral vagueness about the nature of the
criticism.
" [0]

As an aside. as discussed in the thread, it is not clear if any first party even accused Minsky of engaging in the alleged sex in the first place

[0] https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/9ke3ke/famed-computer-sci...
Sorry my bad, I suppose their dashboard looks amazingly similar with different underlying frameworks. Happy to hear that their other offerings are better structured.
You were responding to a comment that stated

> that whole thread is a pretty gross social lynch mob
You misquoted me. I didn't write known.

The whole point of my request was to show the absurdity of justifying spreading rumors about someone simply because their bad behavior is known.
> can obviously much more complex than "fixing" an individual's behavior.

My favorite "hate" on the blameless post-mortem's is when it comes down to altering a process that someone owns, because then you're not only fighting for time-budget to fix and issue but you're potentially fighting what is, to them, part of their job and existence.

To get tangential, this is also why I hate big-A Agile, because if you have a person who's job is "do Agile," the scrum (master|lord|bag|dumpster), any changes, deviations, or complaints end up feeling like you're attacking that person's job. Never a fight you want to be in.
Sabbath: Making Sense of History: Zerubbabel and Ezra
You're hyperventilating. I don't want anyone to sleep on the street and very much doubt Stallman will meet that fate. At the same time: Stallman has a reputation as a houseguest, and it is relevant to this branch of the discussion.
It seems pretty shallow to pin the qualities of an unhealthy union on all unions. Some unions are great, others are not, and healthy unions only require one simple ingredient: maintenance and attention, like most things.

Unions are just an avenue for bargaining. In my experience, which has only been in a healthy union with people who take an interest in the value it provides, it has been so liberating! It encourages us to discuss things in the open that would have always been closed-door conversations before, and I never worry about whether I am being taken advantage of. I honestly don’t even make much money for a software engineer, but I love the domain I work in and having the union has made my work relationships just feel less exploitative. It feels less like work.
A firsthand account is not a rumor.
Does this apply to all browsers on mobile?

Because I've never experienced this in Firefox on android
Only MLB is a monopoly.
So what does "freedom" mean, he uses so much? Is there a clear consensus on that?
I believe allmost everyone says he or she is for "freedom".
Slavers and Nazis used the term freedom as well as the actual slaves, workers, whatever.

So yeah, he also defined his version of "freedom", but labelling sounds very RMS to me. Also the strict wording of "ethical" software, meaning only the licence he favors is ethical and good and everything else, not.
But many more comments on the other one.
SAT solvers Wikipedia: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boolean_satisfiability_probl...
Execute misbehaving underlings
Amusingly, in his takedown of Elizabeth Warren, he equates time spent at Harvard to time spent working for Chevron. Just, weird dude.
"and carries its young inside its body like a kangaroo"

is fascinating for works.
The problem here is that when one person says something, it is an isolated incident, when a group says something it is a pile on.

Many people seem to have rms bad behaviour stories, but a quick glance shows that there there is no shortage of people to respond antagonistically to any bad word spoken.

I have only met rms once in the 90's, he made quite a poor impression. While it was nothing to condemn, it was enough to keep a skeptical eye on the cult of personality that surrounds him. Over the years that followed I encountered enough people who have stories that they were not prepared to share publicly because it would be more detrimental to themselves than rms.

In my opinion I am much less concerned about the hypotheticals shared in emails that precipitated the current situation. The issues that worry me are the stories of inconsiderate, manipulative, or outright bullying behaviour.

I have no accusations to make of my own, but I support those who feel like they now have an opportunity to be heard.
I was just reading an article in the South China Morning Post (from a year ago) that was making the case that it is not in fact just the US.

"In recent months, Germany, France, Britain, the European Union, Australia, Japan and Canada have all joined an unprecedented global backlash against Chinese capital, citing national security concerns. Dealmakers now wonder whether this dynamic will run its course or should be taken as a new normal."

https://www.scmp.com/business/banking-finance/article/216397...
That's a weird way too see things. You are pretty much saying that wearing a bulletproof vest won't save you from the bullet, but laws forbidding to kill people somehow magically will. Well, I suppose you also could literally say that and I kinda can see where are you coming from, but I think it's somewhat delusional.

Proper law enforcement (mind the "enforcement" part) can make a neighborhood safe enough so that nobody tries to shoot you and you won't need to wear vests. But in the end of the day, if you are messing with bad people in the bad neighborhood: bulletproof vests are real, laws are not.

And when you are talking about government enforcing the laws that are supposed to forbid uncontrollable government agencies to do what they do: well, government kinda is bad people in the bad neighborhood.
Why's he so snarky about it? It seems like the design is intentionally low cost. It's not supposed to be luxury car. Could have been perfect at the time for people who just need to go a couple of miles every now and again. Just an enclosed golf-cart really. What's wrong with that?
He's looking for "interim housing" for two to six months, and apparently this is something he does all the time.

There's no evidence that he is homeless. Certainly none that he is suicidal. Please stop your concern trolling.
It's great to take an idealistic stance here. I just wanted to point out a potential cost to this approach.
Oh, I'm sure you don't want him to sleep on the street. It's just interesting that you're doing everything in your power to bring about that situation.
The comments I'm referring to are a part of the whole thread and are obviously not a "gross social lynch mob". "I offered this person a bed for a couple days, they stayed for months, and invited a stranger to live in my house" is a pretty straightforward kernel of useful information.
"According to the most recent SAG statistics, the average member earns $52,000 a year, while the vast majority take home less than $1,000 a year from acting jobs." - https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/hollywood-salaries-re... [2014]

This doesn't sound very similar to the market for Software Engineers where there is a shortage of skilled labour.
My friend had one of these in the 80s. Even though it was pretty clunky, I've wanted an electric car ever since, but nothing seemed practical until the Tesla.
Yeah, the they idea the unions are just for "fungible loosers" is worse than wrong.
One thing I love about HN is super thoughtful comments under names like gumby
Going by the original Sunday Times (UK publication) article[0], it looks like this headline relates to _upcoming_ data sharing legislation which UK Home Secretary Priti Patel[1], who took that office this July, is expected to sign in October 2019.

It's worth putting scrutiny both on the UK's desire to create these backdoors in social media apps (a path that many would argue could lead to eventual exploitation and abuse of that backdoor by unintended parties), and also WhatsApp's ability to deny the existence of such backdoors, now or in future.

[0] https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/police-can-access-suspect...

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Priti_Patel
He reviews luxury cars
AFAIU, ultrasound is far more typically used than x-rays, as the acoustic properties of fractured castings are more distinctive than their xradiographs.

Apparently induction testing is also used (likely on a similar basis to ultrasound: properties deviate sharply from norm/spec).
A cycle involves pressurizing the cabin relative to the atmosphere approaching flight altitude, and then depressurizing during the descent.

The pressure differential may not seem like much, 6-10 psi in most cases, but the cabins are quite large, so these forces become substantial. Advanced airframes like the composite 787 use that extra strength, in large part, to lower cabin altitude (i.e. keep higher pressure) because it has such a substantial effect on passenger comfort.

Cycles is absolutely the best way to consider airliner lifespan because that is the most significant stress on the airframe.
They treated him unfairly. He did nothing wrong.
Just declaring something legal or illegal is not sufficient to solve any kind of societal issue. The right laws need to be in place to be effective.

I have no idea what Germany did, but if all they did was one day say "hey, it's legal to be a sex worker now, go nuts!" ... then the outcome they got is not surprising at all. Even if they did more than that, it's a complex issue, and you need a comprehensive legal framework in place in order to ensure that exploited sex workers have a path to justice.

If the response from exploiters is "well, sex work is legal", and the law buys that and looks the other way, then the law was not made particularly well.
Have you ever worked a unionized job before?
Second time I'm hearing (what's for me) a mile-high comp number for kube jobs and I'm now really tempted.

Working as a data scientist - software engineer in a midsize company, I constantly battle amateur ops folk and "backend" fullstack jockeys from introducing kubernetes into a saas product I mostly created by myself (makes money but there are maybe ten users per hour tops, why would I need kubernetes for that?).

My org has seen multi-day downtimes for the entire eng team workflow because the eks cluster went down and they couldn't figure out how. We have four people dedicated in the infra team for this! I'm not really an ops person but I see where the failings of these folks and stacks are, and feel like I might be able to learn to be half-decent if I put the time. What advice would you give ?
Right. Of course you meant https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21100971. I've done that before myself.

We merged the comments into that one.
I don't have a feel for what is BS in the usual rhetoric, but I saw something interesting today - among the measures reportedly being contemplated by the administration are the elimination of "waivers" for Chinese companies that are listed on US stock exchanges without meeting US accounting/auditing standards.

Now, there may be nuance or whatever that I'm not aware of, but that actually sounds quite reasonable on the face of it. Why not require Chinese companies to meet US standards to be listed here? Maybe waivers were a type of corruption, even if well intended?
The film industry is the best example of why the software industry should be unionized.

A critical purpose of film industry unions is taking a responsibility for their talent. The software industry hiring practices need this very bad.

With the film industry, it is hard to get into the unions. It takes a lot of work and networking, and proving one’s self worthy, but considering the hiring hell that the software industry is experiencing, the film industry union structure would be a blessing.