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>The worst part of these revelations is that the aviation industry is exalted as the standard other industries should look up to when it comes to safety.

I don't see why that's "the worst part". Flying is the safest mode of travel, and among airliners the 737NG is one of the safest planes in aviation history. The fact that cracks have been discovered doesn't change that, and the routine inspections which have discovered these cracks and will lead to them being fixed is precisely the reason why these aircraft, and the aviation industry as a whole, are so incredibly safe.
I think that people are arguing, and I agree, that "2 years old" doesn't qualify in any way as "old". I'm using a 10 years old smartphone and a 6 years old laptop, and only in last year or two I started to consider that oldish, so I'll probably replace them soon.

Also, iOS is genuinely uninteresting for many people because of its locked down nature. There are whole categories of applications that won't ever pass through App Store gates. Heck, we're talking about a platform where you can't even have a different browser than what Apple provides - you can just switch browser shells. Jailbreaking definitely can bring a huge value to at least some people.
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The benefit for me is I get to see pictures from my son's class, of him doing stuff in class, which as a parent, I greatly appreciate the teacher taking the time to take and post pics of what they're doing in class. They also send messages regarding homework, upcoming quizzes, what they're doing for the week, upcoming field trips -- and I can contact my son's teacher at moment's notice without going through the school. What's the benefit of that? There was a potential shooter situation last year and all classes were locked down, and teachers could post to classdojo that they were ok.

I've never even seen this points system used. Its a communication tool between teachers and parents. My kids are 2nd and 1st graders, so maybe it changes as kids get older?

My biggest complaint - there is a lack of standardization by schools on what app the teachers use. In the past year, I've had to install/set-up Class Dojo, Bloomz, ClassTag - which all pretty much do the same thing, and now all have info and pics of my kids. I never even heard of the apps until the teachers said they were using it.
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> Estimates on the cost of doing that range from 10x to 100x the cost of creating plastic out of raw pre-cursor chemicals. The reality is that there isn't a market for $20 coffee cups over $2 coffee cups because they are "100% post consumer".

Plastic cups cost about a penny to manufacture (at least I can buy 1000 for £10). Many people will certainly pay 10p for recycled cups, and possibly more.
I don't know if I should be reassured or concerned that the insularity and provincial-but-seemingly-worldly spirit of journalism professionals is apparently equal to that of technology professionals.
As I've mentioned below, I'm not talking about students who aren't "interested in education", I'm talking about classes that are fundamentally dull to the point that students find it reasonable to find distractions rather than focus on what's being taught.
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I have spent a few months this year trying to wrap my head around FM synthesis. Unfortunately I don’t think the DX7 is hard to program just because of the user interface. I have read up and thoroughly understand the theory behind FM synthesis. I have followed various tutorials to design patches. At the end of the the day FM synthesis is powerful but it is inherently much less intuitive and also much easier to get horrible ugly sounds out of than something like the subtractive synthesis seen on most analogue synths.

The reason FM synths need to be digital is that very precise pitch ratios between oscillators are important in order to get good sounds. For example you may want to modulate the pitch of one oscillator with another exactly a fifth up (3 to 2 frequency ratio). It can easily sound terrible if the fifth up oscillator goes slightly out of tune.

These sort of precision and nonlinearity in output are also one thing that makes FM synthesis a lot harder to use.
When you buy a car, you don’t get an airplane. Maybe you can figure out how to make it one but don’t cry when you can’t.
Unemployment had been steadily declining for like 6 years before the tax cut. You can't just attribute the continuing drop in the U3 rate to the tax cuts.
So what? Does the fact that the current adminstration is criminal mean that legal loopholes are meaningless and that closing them helps nothing?
It is very common here in India. We have paid counselors who recommend colleges and courses and help you study for SATs, etc. and write essays and stuff.

Some (but not most, I think) of the counselors have tie-ups with a few foreign universities/colleges and get paid I think.

But by far, most make money by charging students for their services.
> As someone trained in economics you should already be aware that everyone chilling isn’t a stable equilibrium.

Wow TIL.

> As you can see, the less everyone else works, the more value your extra work is.

It's surprising someone like yourself subscribes to the Labor Theory of Value.
>There is a lot of discretionary flying, but there are place whose connection to the world is plane.

Are you talking about far away towns in, say, Alaska? Those may not be the kind of planes for which we're discussion scarcity, but alas.

Me and my colleagues were flown for training from Oregon to one of our offices in California, this week. So was the trainer. There's still a lot of room to optimize the need for air travel.
I understand that HN's demographic is likely to be skeptical of this, but I submit as proof the changes to these laws and conventions that happen when they begin to effect white communities. The most infamous of late is, of course, the War on Drugs and the response following the onset of the crack and opioid epidemics, respectively. Cruelty, in the name of deterrence, was 100% the name of the game, until the face of the crisis changed, and suddenly compassion was a more efficacious strategy.

Likewise, gun control is now a serious topic, where for much of the past two decades it was not, even for the left. This change is due mostly to an increased perception of susceptibility to gun violence, which was largely isolated to the black community for years.
I don’t know for these. C-checks for 737NG are performed every 730 days and include corrosion/wear checks for the most stressed parts, but not all parts (which are checked at D checks): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aircraft_maintenance_checks
I do appreciate your very well-thought-out feedback. For the record, I don't think anyone here can diagnose my effectiveness and contribution to my company from a few dozen words in a HN post.

As I recall Joseph Campbell once highlighted, the Japanese have a have a distinct tense in describing what they do as roughly equivalent to the English phrase "to play at." The idea isn't to make what you do overly templatized or rigid. When I talk about approaching an interaction as a "game," what I mean is that I try to stay fluid and engage in a non-formulaic manner.

Like it or not, candidates will almost always try to present a perfect image of themselves. However there's a "real story" under every veneer, and it's always a challenge to figure out what that real story is. I know plenty of interviewers who complain about never getting any real signal from their culture fit interviews, and when I dig deeper on why, it's because they came in with a set of questions, asked those questions verbatim, and wrote down the responses verbatim (as another reply to my comment suggested is the "right" approach). Most of the time, the candidate gave a guarded and carefully filtered narrative to all the questions. Nothing genuine makes it onto the table.

My argument is that the less effective results tend to come from a failure to "play at" interviewing! And it can be done completely respectfully and tactfully, leaving the candidate with a sense of having really connected with the interviewer.
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Some important cancer treatments also cause other cancers.
If we're comparing executives at top companies vs. not, it's a fair comparison.

Most executives don't make it into the "big league", and those that do are paid pretty much like their pro athlete counterparts. In the U.S., the NFL is in the $16-25bn in annual revenues; NBA is ~$3-5bn; MLB ~ $11bn. Think about how well players are paid relative % of revenues.

Google is at $110bn. Microsoft $125bn. Apple ~$258bn. There are "pro executives" that pull in big paychecks because, just like their pro athlete counterparts, they make a difference. We just don't get to watch them at work and score their every move with easy-to-track-stats.

No one bats an eye when a pro athlete is paid $10m+ (besides other pro athletes).
It's weird. I never used to be afraid of flying at all, but the 737 MAX crashes sort of "triggered" the fear for me. I still fly frequently but I find the experience terrifying now.

As a data scientist, I know the odds of something going wrong are extremely low, but unfortunately I'm not able to rationally control my emotions during flight; the fear is involuntary and difficult to suppress. It also doesn't help that I work at a large tech company and see how many bugs are in the codebase (even with some of the best software engineers in the world), and the fact that airplanes are increasingly run by software makes me feel kind of queasy.
> If you pay cash, I guess you might need a paper receipt, but it should be optional to receive the receipt.

This is how it is in most places in India. Even the card machines will ask if you want to print a customer receipt. Most people say no.
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> I'd love to hear about either a possible alternative government structure in which there are no politicians or a way to attract the smartest people in governments.

In all seriousness this is the aim of all historical anarchist movements. Despite the propagandization of the term "anarchism", that philosophy has a long history of attempts and writers and thinkers, and it has more often than not "failed" when a powerful state entity violently disbanded the efforts or killed prominent leaders. In other cases anarchism has not failed at all but has existed in tribal communities in different ways long before european thinkers wrote on the subject.

In particular anarcho-communism or the more detailed Communalism of Murray Bookchin (The Next Revolution, 2015 https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/239261/the-next-rev...) looks totally plausible to me.

The biggest issue with state-less society is the conflict with the existing state powers this philosophy creates. However the method of governance has found success in present day Mexico with the Zapatistas:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ww46lxIc6-w
As well as Rojava in Syria:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LcndZ0nZ0mo
> it's possible enough to tear through our binaries

No, it's not "possible enough" and I strongly suspect you fully realize that.

A backdoor doesn't need to be in a form of an IF statement or something comparably obvious and silly. It can be a weakly seeded PRNG that would allow a "determined party" to brute-force the key exchange in a reasonable time. That would take man-years to fish out from a binary, and that's without considering that you may (be forced to) distribute an altered binary on demand and to specific targets only.

So in the end all we have - realistically - is in fact just your word. There's no way for you to prove that you are trustworthy by pointing at some random binary. The only option is to distribute reproducible builds from an audited open source.
Here is a link to the Cleveland Clinic's NPP as an example. I'm not sure which health system the OP was referencing.

https://my.clevelandclinic.org/-/scassets/files/org/about/pr...

If you look under Authorizations for other uses and disclosures there is language around using healthcare data for marketing. Specifically:

> For example, most uses and disclosures of psychotherapy notes, uses and disclosures of health information for certain marketing purposes, and disclosures that constitute a sale of health information require your written authorization.

It is very likely that in the many pages of paperwork you fill out when you are starting to see a new physician, you agree to have the health system share your health information for marketing purposes.

There is also more general language around contacting a patient via email:

> Contacting You. We may use and disclose health information to reach you about appointments and other matters. We may contact you by mail, telephone or email. For example, we may leave voice messages at the telephone number you provide us with, and we may respond to your email address.

I think these would be enough of a defense if the OCR ever audited the practice around marketing emails received by patients.

At the core of it, I'm not sure that this is such a bad thing. For example, targeting diabetics with ads for more effective insulin treatments hardly seems like a bad thing. I just think it is wrong that the patient is so far removed from the picture.
It's a hell of a lot better than JSON and I like that everything uses it.
Would it not be possible to reuse that value?

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One example is that voice calls only ring on one side, sometimes (on the calling side).

Another is that when some rooms get updated, you can get unread notices from the old room and your client keeps telling you that you have new messages even if you don't.

Another thing that I think should be considered a bug, is that when you enable encryption in a room and you have multiple devices on the same account, you have to approve all your devices separately so that they will be able to decrypt the messages...

There are more bugs related to how the encryption process works and I stopped using encryption because of it (some might have been fixed by now...)
I don't see your point. I can usually choose not to rent. Income taxes I think are perfectly acceptable: a limited nonrecurring percentage is taken, ostensibly as compensation for society's contribution to your ability to earn an income. Usually the way income is received means you are never able to not pay.

But there are niggles. Under most tax systems value you produce, even for own consumption, must be assessed and taxes paid on it. This is problematic if you take a crop for subsistence farming.
My understanding of the situation is that recycled plastic is an inferior product, so there isn't much demand for it. NileRed did an interesting demonstration of recycling bottles here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xLftqtsiFBs and he goes into some of the details about the resulting product that the recycling process creates.

I think the solution is to be careful about what we make from plastic, and what kinds of plastics we use in that case. If we don't waste in the first place, there is no need to recycle anything. And if we do need to make something disposable, we can use something that is economic to recycle, like aluminum or glass. It's really just plastic that's the problem, glass bottles are easy to reuse and aluminum cans can be melted down into aluminum that's just as good as non-recycled aluminum. (Maybe the energy cost of all that melting is high, but I think we are making strides towards more and more renewable electricity, so we might be better off using electricity instead of plastic.)
We don't generally treat neoplasms, because we get lots of them, most are of no consequence, and treatments are damaging. We care about the malignant neoplasms where the biological cost of treatment is outweighed by the cost of allowing the malignancy to remain.

If you can reliably distinguish between those malignant neoplasms and "any growing neoplasm in the body", collect your Nobel and enjoy your well-earned message board karma from winning this debate. Since you can't, what you're really doing here is begging the question.
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Equal say is nice, but I want equal treatment too. (Both when it comes to trading [MFN rules], and when it comes to law, courts, administration. They are extremely far in both regards from healthy/sane.)

All the amazing gain and growth given to us by the free market worths nothing if it fuels oppression, if it raises barriers to entry to markets, if it pushes the whole economy toward monopolies and monopsonies, toward fragile centralization, and toward worse lives for the participants.

And no, it should be more cultural, not less. There are clever and efficient policy tools to manage healthy free markets. Allowing China, the US or anyone to make people forget/ignore these cultural foundations and all the achievements of good policy (as in political cooperation and economic competition; from the forming of the US itself from the individual original states to the contemporary EEA integration such as traditional/geographical origin protection and indication, Schengen border control union, emission quotas, common food and drug inspection standardization, etc.), just because some country is strong would be a folly of the greatest magnitude.
I assume the idea isn't "don't go to the bathroom" so much as "please use the bathroom before class starts." That isn't such an unreasonable ask if classes are relatively short.

Adding that to a computerized point system is what makes it seem creepy...
It is impossible to express how sad these events are... we had a new Socrates and we gave him the hemlock again, for reasons even more ridiculous than two thousand years ago.
I find it a bit circumspect that the article specifically mentions that a lack of adequate teacher training with EdTech tools is certainly to blame for its limited impact, but mentions it only once in passing and instead concludes that hitting the brakes is the solution.
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> It used clay pots, not plastics and its population of 200 milloin plus had plenty of fertile land to develop agriculture and cotton - the oil of the time.

It's not like Europe was using it either: the development of what we'd call plastic happened largely during the late 19th century leading into the 20th century.
I think CSOund's popularity with art projects and the elctoacoustic scene in general comes down to interface. CSound is great if you're supplying/inventing the interface or program to create the sounds/music.

Compare a CSound IDE to something like the Ableton Operator interface or even PureData as someone else mentioned. Very different (and both great for different approaches and people!). A lot of folks want flexibility in the sound by exploring an interface/instrument without having to come up with that interface/instrument themselves.
Are SWEs at Google expected to firefight especially outside of normal work hours? This is one thing I imagine SREs are expected to be doing that regular SWEs aren't. I think this is also why they require strong development background for the role.
The incinerators used in this case (claim to) recapture the emissions from the incineration. However, they do leave some amount of toxic ash, which requires special disposal.
This is why people have advocated for bottom up governance, where local groups make decisions and select rotating representatives to take those decisions as made by the group to larger regional councils, etc. In this way no individual has any real power. This is called democratic confederalism and is in progress in Rojava now but could be done in the US.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LcndZ0nZ0mo
Probably because it’s a bit misleading as your link shows. GDP per capita was low everywhere, barely above subsistence. Their % dropped when others started growing rapidly.
He's right about India being the richest, it's estimated that all together the British stole $45 trillion in wealth from India. I imagine the amount stolen from China is of similar magnitude.

https://cup.columbia.edu/book/agrarian-and-other-histories/9...
> The benefit for me is I get to see pictures from my son's class, of him doing stuff in class, which as a parent, I greatly appreciate the teacher taking the time to take and post pics of what they're doing in class. They also send messages regarding homework, upcoming quizzes, what they're doing for the week, upcoming field trips -- and I can contact my son's teacher at moment's notice without going through the school.

So e-mail?
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The author (Wenzel Jakob, also here on HN) is an absolute Legend, and coauthor of the famous 2nd bible of physically based rendering: http://www.pbr-book.org/

He also has his Mitsuba Renderer (for which this library was created), Nori UI library, ... guy is a machine, and extremely personable / friendly in person.
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Proper sleep, nutrition and exercise can enhance your ability to absorb knowledge 50% or more. If feel like you do, you might want to adjust your lifestyle. Start by reading “why we sleep”.
It’s feasible to think that additives would reduce the flammability of plastics to at or below drywall. Add to this that extrusion can create a beam that can take the place of the much more flammable lumber, and it’s worth exploring at least.
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https://www.reddit.com/r/USFballiveStreami/comments/dam19z/matchthread_porter_vs_spence_live_streamsreddit/

https://www.reddit.com/r/USFballiveStreami/comments/dam1a8/matchthread_porter_vs_spence_live_streamsreddit/

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5th grade classes typically have hours without interruption. I'm pretty sure I pee once before lunch too if I don't have a terrifying and dystopian social credit system docking me for the priviledge of emptying my bladder.
my kids teachers has always used solely as a digital communications tool. the points system is secondary and you don’t have to even use it to use the app.
Edit: I am re-thinking the liability associated with what I originally wrote here. Sorry to harm the discussion with this edit but I need to be careful.
I hope that tracker was recyclable.
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There's a good case to be made that we shouldn't be recycling (all) plastics but instead sequestering much of it in well-run landfill operations. The energy required to recycle it combined with the inferior product that results make it a net-loss operation. Especially when taking into account the high levels of contamination and processing that must be done to prepare it. Reduce, re-use (and ban single-use), then sequester. [1, 2, 3, 4]

Aluminum? Definitely. Steel? Sure. Glass? probably. Paper? Cool. Plastic? shrug.

[1] https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/aug/17/plastic-...

[2] https://www.nationalgeographic.com/news/2017/07/plastic-prod...

[3] https://www.forbes.com/sites/amywestervelt/2012/04/25/can-re...

[4] https://www.popularmechanics.com/science/environment/a3752/4...
>London is the crime capital of the world

Please don't irresponsibly spread this kind of inaccurate information. Crime in London is not unusually high.
In practice, the overwhelming majority of tests I see in dynamic languages are just checking things that get statically checked in a language with a good algebraic type system (e.g. Typescript, Rust, Haskell, etc.)