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They had a lot more that 4-10 seconds. The second LA crew corrected the trim 25 times over several minutes. The EA crew corrected it twice.

The runaway trim procedure is also a "memory" procedure, meaning the pilots have it memorized in order to save time.
Haha, I'll admit I did this with several accounts. It was even possible to build up a good feedback by buying cheap stuff. Then start to sell whatever you want.

Easy way to avoid the ridiculous holds on funds and limited PayPal accounts due to "not enough feedback".
In the article they clearly state that adjustments need to be made within 10 seconds. Boeing suggests not doing this would be “catastrophic.”
If he kills thousands, for sure. No difference between thousands or millions, it is the same evilness rate. After some point, there is no difference in cruelty.
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You can’t replace flying to Hawaii with driving there. Further, short flights which may be directly comparable are vastly more dangerous per mile making the overall average meaningless.

Thus it turns out if your going on a relatively short trip ~300km or less taking a bus at ~0.04 deaths per billion passenger km is safer.
You seem to be talking about Mt. Gox, based on https://bitcoinomics.net/if-youre-going-to-get-into-bitcoin-...

I am one of those fools who "lost their life savings": $11k, that my father worked diligently to gather for me over many years. It still haunts me today that I squandered years of a person's life with such a decision. And yes, I would be happy to recover some of the money -- I supposedly am owed 7.7 BTC if Mt. Gox pays out.

Now, all that said, I am really not happy to see your comment here. And since I paid $11 thousand dollars to be in a position to reply to you, I think I will: it wouldn't matter if he murdered someone. You can't just come up on a completely unrelated thread and be like "It makes me sick to see you here on HN."

Ultimately, we have all made our choices, and part of those choices involved taking risks. That's why it's called a risk. I theoretically would have gained some ~$100k from my risk, but instead I lost my father's hard work. But I consider myself much richer for the lesson: I can pass this knowledge on to my own children so that they will be better positioned not to make similar mistakes.

As someone who has spent countless nights agonizing over such things, my advice is this: make peace with yourself. Externalizing like this only makes everything worse. If Satan himself wanted to leave a thoughtful, relevant HN comment, Satan should be permitted to do so without being harassed. There are very few communities where such an important rule is the norm, and it's worth preserving that culture.
Probably not. However, pointing out what many may consider a minor falsehood could set yourself for an easy counter.

If Walker wanted to discredit your essay. He could give a sound bite like:

“Ok, yes, yeast. You’re right, but that’s not something most people consider relevant to sleeping rhythms. Haha. The essay is nitpicking minor technicalities but on a whole my research is unblemished.”

If I were his PR rep, I’d advise as such. You’re essay is too good to be vulnerable like that.
> Did you read in the article where Captain Sullenberger said he couldn’t do it in time in a simulator

I did read the article, and that isn't what he said. Furthermore, Captain Sullenberger is an Airbus pilot and hasn't flown 737s in a long time and is not rated on the 737NG.

I don't know what runaway trim procedures are on Airbus airplanes.
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This post is really timely. We're going through a wave of innovation in how we ship software but in that we're having to reason far more about the infrastructure. I think we might be reaching the end of that phase and the realisation that none of us really want to touch containers or kubernetes, we just want it to fade into the background. Because at the end of the day software development is still software development and not much has changed there despite the underlying platforms being completely rewritten.

I'd argue that we might once again be on the cusp of true serverless but in a way that might become ubiquitous. If we could unlock a shared platform like GitHub but for running software we'd be in a much better place.
>> They had a lot more that 4-10 seconds. The second LA crew corrected the trim 25 times over several minutes.

That doesn't sound like anything was corrected to me. It just kept pushing down, over and over.
Won’t most of these cause more wealth inequality? I think economics should be focused on improving peoples‘ lives, not just increasing the GDP.
Sorry, but this is a naive understanding of aviation safety. Have a look at "the Swiss cheese model" as a starting point to gain insight.

Of course many accidents have a "pilot error" component, the central issue is what made the pilots do the wrong thing. This needs to be analyzed on a systemic level, i.e. was the training good enough, did the pilots receive adequate information, did the aircraft system provide the pilots understandable feedback, etc.

For the pilots to do the right thing, they first need to identify the problem. That can be very difficult when a lot of visual and auditory alarms -- sometimes contradicting each other -- goes off at the same time. The aircraft manufacturer has to account for the human factors.

Boeing failed miserably in this regard: 1) MCAS didn't work as intended, 2) they deliberately left out essential info about the system from flight manuals. In addition the FAA failed in their oversight of Boeing.

The deaths are on them, not the pilots.
Sully Sullenberger's opinions is that the MCAS failure is not a "normal" trim runaway failure:

> These emergencies did not present as a classic runaway stabilizer problem, but initially as ambiguous unreliable airspeed and altitude situations, masking MCAS.

http://www.sullysullenberger.com/my-letter-to-the-editor-of-...

He bases that opinion on having flown the scenario in a professional full motion simulator (explained in the rest of his letter).

What's your response to that?
Both the LA and EA did make the adjustments within 10 seconds. They then did not throw the cutoff switches.
I just switched my pet project to Cue. It did take me cca 5 days to get familiar with the language, but the result is much more elegant than the original Kustomize configuration. I'm looking forward to using Cue in future k8s projects and discovering new use cases for the language.
Money will buy everything. Even comments on HN. It's not even new.
Discussing strip clubs in front of your colleagues is bad. Isn't worse because they are female.
They used the column trim switches to override the trim and restored the trim setting to normal, per procedure. The next part of the procedure is to throw the cutoff switches, which they did not do.
the flight crews are supposed to follow their training

They did follow their training. Unfortunately they had been trained to fly something that was actually a completely different plane.
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OK but since we now have tech like CRISPR why can't we have house plants that do?
I instantly remembered my informatics teacher's first maxim: "Not Number Is a Number"
I think socialization is a bit broader than 'spending time with peers'. School is a microcosm of society - full of institutional logic, dysfunction, and perverse incentives. It's a perfect training-ground for teaching people how real organizations work. If you are socialized in well-functioning groups with shared interests and common purpose, you miss out on all the hairy stuff - and you can end up expecting a lot more from the institutions you encounter as an adult than they'll actually deliver.
"What happens is, men put on bright red hats, and they go out in the woods, and they shoot at each other. There's no penalty for this, and it's a lot of fun. Once in a while someone even shoots a deer!"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MQyoSLOlglw
On bigger items Argos do (or did at the time) free one day delivery, I ordered a new TV for Christmas a couple of years ago at 1pm and was sat watching crap Christmas movies with my family by 9pm, I mean Amazon can’t compete with that here yet.
Are you talking about $60K/Month? Because I'm barely making that a year over here in the old world :(
>Good people in a bad system is still a bad system.

That line right there is essentially the same response I had for the Langewiesche's piece. It is not an excuse to pawn off the accountability for a catastrophic loss to the pilot when even the basic design is as fraught with failures to deliver even basic sanity checks as the MCAS system was. Make no mistake either, the issues that were found were basic. FMEA was not performed once, but never updated because it wasn't legally required, nor was a full fault-tree enumerated or kept consistent through the system's lifetime. Either of which would have forced a consideration of what would happen in the event of a sensor failure. Furthermore, the overall architecture of the flight computer failed to comply with design requirements that require no single point-of-failure which would have been revealed by doing what amounts to a textbook case of "what is the worst conceivable bit flip that could possibly happen right now?"

This is one of the few points I tend to respectfully differ from WalterBright on. I don't give a damn if every pilot were a Chuck Yaeger or Sully clone. That plane was dangerous by design.

A dangerous plane flown by a Good pilot is still a dangerous plane. There is no place in something manufactured to be deployed in a careless or cavalier manner, and the MAX rollout checks every box for organizational negligence in my book.

I'll let blame rest with the pilot in so much measure as it is do, but a machine that will actively frustrate its operator, while endangering the lives of everyone using it is a machine whose place is in a scrapyard; not in the sky.
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If you're interested in an alternative to dbt that's a little more analyst friendly, check out Dataform. A lot of teams are using Dataform between the warehouse and looker, to handle transformation logic using pure SQL, but in a more user friendly format than Airflow. Get in touch if you'd like to chat! dan at dataform.co
>The psycho redpill has been replaced with a version for women.

Can you elaborate on this?
According to the writeup this trick was invented in December 1999, was it known before?
Car risks grow linear with length of trip while plane risks are concentrated especially at takeoff and landing. If you only count deaths/trip, it would discount much relevant information.
micro.blog is something like this, federation for personal blogs
In my experience these are PDFs that embed JavaScript. I don't think there is much of an appetite for building yet another JS interpreter into the desktop...
It's a game I describe as "addictively boring". I'm about 300+ hours in. It's my version of a rock garden.
I got my life together and now I’m constantly bored
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Huh. Was listening to an archived Skyrim Addict podcast episode last night, and two of the hosts agreed that this update that destroyed all their hundreds or thousands of hours of work so that they could never play it again, but they recommended it to players who had never played it before.
IMO the right solution to this is not spending a bunch of time upfront trying to design your warehouse. You just want to adopt a tool that makes it easy to continuously refactor into more optimal formats as your warehouse scales. Happy to discuss more if you're interested! dan at dataform.co
I suggest reading the short story version, which came first.
"These emergencies did not present as a classic runaway stabilizer problem"

Since the LA and EA crews both successfully countered the runaway trim with the electric trim switches, this statement by Captain Sullenberger is inadequate. Furthermore, I have no idea what "classic runnaway stabilizer" is. When the trim starts erroneously pointing the airplane down, it's runaway trim. There is no other kind.

BTW, I worked for three years on the 757 stabilizer trim system. I know what runaway trim is.
I'm not an expert here at all but

> An Airworthiness Directive was issued [...] and then throwing the cutoff switches

So the response was "there's a known-lethal fault in our product X, when it happens, do Y"

but not

"there's a known-lethal fault in our product X, withdraw X from use immediately"

Edit: given C programmers have many, many of opportunity to learn "not to do that" in an unsafe language, instead you wrote D. That's silly, why not continue to tell C programmers "don't do <dangerous thing>"? I mean, you could have completely saved yourself year of your time writing a new language which makes it hard to do <dangerous thing>, right? Just tell them not to make mistakes is better, right?
At least it has a Linux client. 1password cannot justify its price for Linux users when it only offers a browser extension…
Listen to you. Yes the second LA crew managed to couteract the malfunctioning system 25 times before they finally succumbed.

What's your argument? "Real pilots need to work against the aircraft's malfunctioning systems 26 times" ? Oh these poorly trained Lion Air idiots, only prepared to counteract the badly programmed airframe 25 times
Are you using Dataform Graham? I don't think we've spoken if you are, I'd love to chat!
dan at dataform.co
> They did follow their training.

Nope.
I wish CUE really all the best, but every senior dev can tell you that the problem of too many config languages isn't solved by yet another config language to rule them all (insert obligatory xkcd 924 reference here).
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I replied to this in another message here.
It has been nearly 5 years, so I don't remember specifics. But I do recall people asking the same kinds of questions that would come up on HN around controversial product decisions. Eg, product cancellations, etc. I also recall people asking about differing working conditions between the core Google and acquired consumer products companies..
Leaving aside the politics, Fauda and The Americans are excellent in terms of being gritty and attempts to make the tradecraft a bit more realistic than typical spy stuff. I still think there is a long way to go for someone to make a really realistic intelligence series - there would be some great stories from the Northern Ireland conflict for example.

The documentary "Inside the Mossad" is also very interesting.
Sometimes there is no problem to be solved, all these tools just complicate everything.

Do this instead:

1. Use flat yaml files. No loops nor conditionals, no complexity.

2. One (single) yaml file templated by ansible just for secret/sensitive stuff.

3. Done.

Boring is better and is easy to diff.
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The EU has similar cases occur. For example between Lego and Best-Lock over what features of lego are copyrightable versus which are functional (and their competitors' minifigures are also designed to "interoperate" with lego bricks)

https://thetmca.com/equitable-estoppel-defense-denies-lego-f...
Also would be interesting to know the scale of air pollution fatalities & similar side-effects
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It sounds to me like you missed a pretty big memo. There is no such thing as meaning in life. Meaning is just a human created construct to achieve certain goals, primarily ones that we ourselves consider important to us. Because every human mind operates independently no global meaning can exist. The upside is that there is no central god like entity that arbitrarily defines meaning and you can do whatever you want (within your own cognitive framework). What you are doing is to simply impose your own selfish values onto other people.
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Does anyone know why that's the case? Is it just that piston engines (and single-engine planes) are less reliable than commercial planes with redundant jet engines?
I too think we should reinvent the discipline of statistical analysis in this thread.

For example, richer people fly, should we adjust for that?

I love these dim headlines
That was done too, of course. There’s so much to get done in these big systems that it’s often most efficient to take the quick win and move on, especially when, as I mentioned, the world is expected to fix the problem for you for free.
"Cyprus, which asks for an investment of at least €2m, gave citizenship to Jho Low, the fugitive Malaysian businessman at the centre of the 1MDB sovereign wealth fund scandal." ... "Cyprus has made about €6bn issuing about 4,000 passports since the scheme was introduced in 2013."
Being the best violinist isn't meaningful to me. If he pursued that goal then maybe he would actually reduce his meaningfulness from the perspective of someone else.
> Sorry, but this is a naive understanding of aviation safety.

Very few aviation crashes are the result of a single failure. Usually, they are a combination of failures, all of which were required to produce the crash.

These crashes are no different:

1. the design shortcomings of MCAS

2. the refurbished AOA sensor on the LA airplane was not calibrated properly

3. LA put the plane back in service despite the failed AOA sensor

4. The crew of the LA flight were not informed of the failed AOA sensor

5. The flight crews did not follow the memory runaway trim procedure

All of these had to happen. A typical NTSB crash report dispassionately identifies all the contributing factors to an accident and issues corrective action recommendations for each of them.
That's not how humor works.

People who see it the way you do are pitiable, to say the least. The perfect joke is forever a shifting target and us being the humans we are can only approach it by trying repeatedly and through different tacks. One of those is being an asshole which can be funny and is funny to pretty much everyone under different circumstances and environments - but it is offensive and will always be offensive. You can look at nearly any stand up comic and see that's the case. I think you and your ilk need to lay off and relax.

Just give it some thought. You take one joke but change the audience, the time, the place, the delivery, the intonation, possibly the surrounding comments around the joke itself and everything changes. As an example If I make a joke about drowning and some person's brother who's in the same group I'm in died five years ago because a random orca dragged him under suddenly I'm the asshole. Maybe you're laughing because you didn't know either. But maybe next year there's a rash of orca attacks and someone finds a youtube recording of me making a joke about people drowning. I'm screwed now. I'm never becoming a CEO. Sounds pretty outlandish right? I bet all of those people who did blackface probably thought the same thing back in the 60s or whenever.

I think you guys need to have some empathy for people who just want to make a joke. Attempts at humor are ok but Statutes of limitations should be applicable.

I'm not going to put my ethnicity or sexual orientation on here right now but I feel no distaste for those people who wore black face or made jokes about people with different sexual orientations or whatever you might think is super bad because I know that they were acting within the boundaries of acceptability back then yet trying to have fun. If they're still doing those things at a time and place when it's not acceptable it's a different story but copping some 'Holier Than Thou' attitude over things that happen in the past when IT REALLY WAS OK TO SAY THOSE THINGS really rubs me the wrong way. It's as if they'd never said anything at the wrong time to the wrong person or in the wrong company. You might as well not say anything at all and give up all attempts at humor.

We are human. We try to laugh. Try not to hold it against us in the future.
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How do you get a license for that? As far as I know you can't easily. You need to find a reseller and there's a minimum amount of licenses you need to buy so you can't just buy one.

I don't understand why Microsoft is doing this. There's basically zero effort involved in setting up a credit card payment form that gives out product keys, and there'd be at least some demand for it.
You’re referring to a bail bond.

Bail is just being released from custody with a promise to attend court later.

The US tends to conflate the two because of the US’s heavy use of bail bonds. This not something common everywhere.
>and Linux machines

They don't have a proper Linux client
One effect of a ruling that APIs cannot be copyrighted would be to make it more likely they can be subject to patent protection. That's probably better, but don't be surprised if we see API patents.
I'll repost what I posted on my Facebook timeline since it seems relevant to this discussion. One thing I'd like to add though: given how things have changed over the past decade, the culture at Google is no longer just a shareholder or employee concern: it is a societal concern. Companies like Google and Facebook own our lives and it is in humanity's interest that the company be under proper leadership. The alternative is more regulation on these kinds of companies (which probably isn't a bad thing in any case).

It has been a decade since I worked at Google, but this makes me really sad.

To be fair, the Google culture had its fair share of problems with whiny, entitled little shits and "brogrammers". And it has had its some spectacularly bad executives who are probably irredeemable assholes as well as executives who are too weak to keep their colleagues in line.

But even at around 30.000 employees it was a fundamentally good place to work.

Yes, it was competitive as fuck, but that's what happens when you have a high density of talent and ambition in one place. Much of the internal competitiveness was good. At least the way I saw it. I haven't worked many places where you start to work on something, only to discover that someone else is working on the same thing and this becomes a positive. You can collaborate and/or compete. And both can, and did, lead to better outcomes.

Of course, occasionally you'd have deadbeats that would game the system and use the efforts of others to promote themselves unfairly, but largely I think people deserved their success.

A few friends of mine still at Google have told me that the company I worked for is gone. It is a different company now. More corporate. Less open. Less creative. Less fun.
Most don't really talk about Google anymore. Be it in positive or negative terms.

TGIF was among the things that set Google apart. That even inspired other companies and led them to understand that it is important to bring the top and bottom of the company in contact with each other on a regular basis.

I don't buy that Google has outgrown TGIF. I think the problem is that top management simply haven't been capable of evolving. I suspect Sundar Pichai simply isn't able to lead the company in a manner that can preserve what was good about Google. If "only" 25% of employees follow TGIF (which would be a great turnout for most companies) that's on Sundar. That is his failure as a leader. It isn't that the company has outgrown it.

And that's sad, because when the soul of a company dies, eventually, so will its ability to attract talent and perform. It'll be a slow decline. But this is nonetheless a clear symptom of decline.

Sundar needs to get his act together or Larry needs to find a more suitable CEO.
Could you give a link to a paper?

I could take a unet and plug a classifier to it hmm. I tried something like that before but it did not work that well. Maybe what I did sucked and there is a better way