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> I can't grasp how everyone involved could fail to realize that this statistically makes it less safe than only having one sensor.

This design is bad, but it makes sense as a update of the 737. The flight computer setup is each pilot gets a computer under their chair, each computer gets its own set of sensors and the computers take turns each flight. The flight computer is generally safe (i don't think it's been implicated in any crashes?), but that's because in case of issues in flight, the system usually will disengage and alert the pilot, or if the system takes poor actions, it will disengage when the pilot opposes it, or the pilot will disengage it.

Adding MCAS to the flight computer makes sense, the flight computer needs to be aware of it. It's understandable, but negligent, to add a new feature to the computer without considering the original design. The problem comes in when MCAS was not disclosed to pilots, doesn't disengage on errors, doesn't disengage when pilot input opposes it (partially by design), and can't be disabled except by disabling electric trim, which is more or less needed to recover from the error condition MCAS puts the plane into.

I think this is fixable, but the public information on the current fix doesn't include being able to turn MCAS off, so it doesn't seem like they've really done enough.
Pulls in metadata. I use the metadata's external url to open the track in spotify.
Does anything have a recommendation of how to learn Morse today? maybe an app? the app the author recommends is only for iOS and I have Android
Your points are well taken, and I have thought about them at length because I like to build startups in areas where this situation is the norm.

One unorthodox strategy, which I've discussed with investors, is funding early stage such that you can pay comp that BigCo can't easily compete with -- their scale works against them. In early stage, the absolute amount of capital is trivial (and there are trillions sloshing around these days), but the quality of the initial engineering team will have an enormous impact on the success probability of the investment. A few extra million in wages can have enormously high leverage in generating billions in returns. Imagine poaching literally the best engineers in FAANG and the kind of core team that would give you to attack markets no one has attacked before.

I'd like to see top engineers in tech compensated like top professional athletes. Investors pay the wages for athletes because the returns justify it, the scale of the wages is not material if you are chasing results. I believe that model applies in tech as well.
Of all the bogus teachers of the 60-70s, Ram Dass was the real thing. He overcame a lot, thanks to the example of Neem Karoli Baba. Be Here Now was consonant with and a testimony to The Perennial Tradition.

We live in times where that tradition - except where it's still living amongst people close to the Earth - is completely blanketed by bogus substitutes and diversions. Too bad, because we could sure use a macrodose.
I don't think playlists are market specific so I'd guess that was either just human error or some automated script on Spotify's part going wrong. Google cache confirms that the same playlist ID was used for the one you are looking for.
I have a couple of the original lytros with many ideas for execution but only a little progress. I managed to get a somewhat mangled image out of old Matlab code but didn't get to the point of being able to reproduce the image processing myself.
Ideology works because it is genuine. When it is said that some idea prevails because it benefits some group (== it is an ideology), it does not imply that the group does not genuinely believe in it.

Usually, political leaders are selected among those who truly believe and have fewer personal benefit (by those who believe less but benefit more), but that's not always the case, and ultimately that doesn't matter. What story we tell ourselves (how genuinely we believe) is not very relevant at the end of the day, for we do not make a living in the world of stories (but for martyrs).

So one must be very cautious, when reasoning about society (or anything really), each time ones line of arguments crosses ones self interest. How much genuinely we believe in what we benefit from is no better an argument than how much strongly an addict feel he needs his fix.
Game AI and scripting is very into state machines in general.
Yeah, every EE program that I’m aware of has lab courses where you build things on a breadboard, learn to use the oscilloscope and logic analyzer, and probably accidentally let the magic smoke escape from a couple ICs.

However, you’re often working in groups, so it’s not uncommon for one person to really “get it” while the other members of the group nod along but don’t fully understand the choices being made. In addition, TAs in the lab probably don’t have industry experience, so there are basic practical circuit design practices that aren’t taught or enforced.

Labs are a good way to get initial experience, but I think there’s a lot that you inevitably have to learn on the job. There’s a reason you can’t earn a license as a Professional Engineer until you have 4 years of work experience.
History hijacking
Any specific reasoning here? My understanding is that virtually all recent vaping injuries were caused by grey-market oil-soluble (e.g. THC) products, not from water-soluble nicotine products.

Do you have data/studies suggesting the claimed extreme danger of vaping commercially available nicotine products (especially considering their obvious use as smoking cessation aids)?
Common trope against libertarians, a super lazy no-thought argument. Feudalism is owning people which is clearly unethical. I'm not against government, I'm pro-freedom with a government that does the minimum possible to ensure a non-coercive society. Liberals take the absolute craziest position and say, "Durr that's what libertarians believe!" Completely ridiculous.
Hard to say for sure, since I don't know you or the company and can't see the test myself. It is a legitimate skill, especially in higher-level engineering positions, to take a huge pile of code or schematics or whatever and get a high-level understanding of what it seems to be doing without getting too bogged down in over-analyzing any particular sub-section too soon. Some things do tend to jump out easily when you have a sufficient level of experience with the overall domain.
They don’t really have a choice if they want funding. Also that’s why the terms are usually good for founders and it employees.
Juuls in particular give you about 3x more nicotine per puff than a cigarette, and they marketed directly to kids via free handouts at concerts. Juul is the thing that isn’t about getting you off cigarettes, it’s getting you on even more nicotine so it’s even harder to stop.
>Another thing I really want to do is offer a 4-day work week with the promise of sabbaticals and/or remote work. That might not be attractive to everyone, but it's something that would speak to me and that I would want in addition to equity and salary.

I think this would be a very strong advantage in the hiring market (assuming you can raise money from investors who're okay with it).

I'm not your target market (I'm just an in-demand software engineer who happens to be learning ML, not a top computer vision researcher), but this is something I'd be willing to accept substantially lower comp for.

Unfortunately most startups seem to require even higher work output than big tech.
As a reformed smoker who moved to vaping, I'm terribly concerned at the current marketing of vaping to teens, and the uptake within that age bracket in my country (NZ).

I switched because my nicotine addiction isn't an easy one to break, and vaping is significantly cheaper (our government increases excise taxes on tobacco annually, so currrently $30 NZD buys me a pack of 20 cigarette that I smoke in a day, or it buys me a bottle of vape juice that lasts 2 weeks).

And I'm a big fan of vaping for the economic and (so far as we know currently) health benefits for smokers.

But what really concerns me, is the number of young people who would never smoke due to the (successful! and good on the Ministry of Health for doing so) demonisation of cigarette smoking, who are instead happily vaping away.

It seems apparent from the marketing that Big Tobacco has realised where their next big market lies - young people who don't want to smoke, but will vape if you tell them it's healthy and cool. At the end of the day, you're still getting people addicted to nicotine for money. Yes, bonus that there's less cancer involved, but it' still a monetised addiction.

My preference would be for vape liquids containing nicotine to be prescription only for recovering smokers. If kids want to blow watermelon vapour out of their lungs, go nuts, just don't do it with a known addictive substance in the mix.
One big problem: Pirates.
For peddling addictions to children.
> how much of the plagiarism is to be expected when you're an academic

Last I checked academics have the same rights under copyright as the rest of us.
>AI is linear algebra that costs x1000 because of the brand name.

Sure, but we've learnt to apply linear algebra to achieving things we could only dream of 10 (or even 5) years ago.
True. you are free to do what you want, except restrict other people's freedom.
The reason they don’t is because they already gave 50% to the investors. And it isn’t uncommon for companies with $30M or $1B exits for the founders to get nothing. I heard about a company recently where the company sold for $40M and the founders only owned 4% after years of raises. I doubt the founders got anything. Most of the time these companies are having trouble scaling sales.
There's been a bit of a resurgence with the lower solar cycle, for mobile radios such as the KX3/2 and FT-817 which top out at 15W, having a mode that concentrates most of its power in ~500Hz of bandwidth(vs ~3kHz for voice) is a huge advantage.

Aside from FT-8 and related digital modes it has an impressive ability to punch though when few other modes will.
I wish we were taking a much more harm-reduction focus like they are in the UK.

From the NHS website...

Leading health organisations including the Royal College of General Practitioners, British Medical Association and Cancer Research UK agree that e-cigarettes are far less harmful than smoking. Based on the currently available evidence, Public Health England and the Royal College of Physicians estimate they are at least 95% less harmful.
The Instagram story-esque design is an interesting take. I'm viewing this on a desktop but I'm not sure how I feel about it. Usually I prefer scrolling but I suppose it works well with the high-res photos.
Android has a Morse code keyboard option.
> "faster growth as a founder" idea seems to be conditioned on the assumption that you'll succeed enough to pay yourself more than you make now, and/or be able to exit at an amount that will make up for the opportunity cost of getting paid well in the meantime while having a sane work/life balance....

I posit its even more than that. It's a meme / propaganda by the survivors with their bias and those who hope to follow in their footsteps.

Also what's also interesting is you posted your comment to a throwaway while the others parroting that talking point were happy to reveal themselves at least pseudonomusly.

I'm pretty sure why. You don't want to burn your shot if you want to have another go at the startup thing and have people be able to read you saying you wouldn't be fully committed.

I fully respect that.

The only reason I point it out is to show how Silicon Valley the larger VC ecosystem is an echo chamber around this ethos.

My guess as to why is how would they recruit the next generation without that?
Sure. The basic idea is that there are always people who just "don't fit in" to society at large. Those people can stay and cause trouble, can be imprisoned, or can go through the safety valve to go live where they won't harm others. It also gives people opportunity for advancement; think of the many stories of families going west to find a better life. It allows societies to preserve a degree of individualism and a shared goal of expanding into the great un-known. I'm dipping my toes into deeper sociological waters here than I'm entirely comfortable with, but there's a broader concept of a "safety-valve institution" that can be viewed as positively helping maintain order or negatively keeping oppressed masses from rising up (the class warfare folks start beating there drums around here). Some more interesting reading:

* http://www.ditext.com/shannon/shannon.html

* http://www.ditext.com/robbins/robbins.html

* https://sci-hub.tw/10.2307/2716011

The obvious issue is that the treatment of Indians was unethical in the case of America, but space exploration might allow us to get many of these benefits of historical colonialism without genocide. I'll admit that I'm biased favorably towards this idea, as the frontier could, in some cases, be much closer to a libertarian utopia than a more heavily-organized society, but the up-side is that it provides options for those who want more and less state control.
Open source technology that requires 500k skills so all can share in cost
This is soooo true!
China-made UOS gets another powerful supporter
Amazon CFO killed after colliding with a van delivering the company's packages
The front end is a mystery to me, windows search backend is a queryable system, it's reliable, impressively fast, and suffers from none of the issues that have plagued not only the win10 search, but windows explorer as well.

I've never understood why it's performance has been deemed acceptable.

I'm on my phone right now so forgive the random sample, but this gives the gist of its usage. https://stackoverflow.com/a/34340288

The only issue I have seen is when the index corrupts, this was more common in win7, and in our research it was often the result from an over aggressive AV jamming up the process.

But I've written a number of systems that make use of this, and when comparing other ways to accomplish this sort of in depth search, it's the most reliable and manageable.

It does have the caveat that it works best on places indexed by the OS, and adding locations to the indexer via code requires some pinvoke stuff most people aren't comfortable with.
I think its a pretty cool extension, how do you identify the user on each web page?
Ask HN: How to get a job so I can fund my startup?
It seems like I cant find any part-time jobs that are relevant to my career, which is biz dev / customer success / sales startup roles. It seems to be theres only full-time roles, however I cant really afford to have a full-time job and work on my startup too since I wont have time for both.

Any suggestions?
The best way to view HN is by RSS. Items come in sequentially in time but you can sort and search however you want in your reader.
Don Shipley should check for this guy’s name in his database just to verify.

Meeting a SEAL is like getting struck by lightning because there are so many phonies out there stealing valor. I hope it’s not the case.
The best is G4FON's Morse Trainer, requires Windows, works on Wine.

http://www.g4fon.net/

Edit: You'll have to navigate to the Morse Trainer link from the main page.

Also, it's the best because it has knobs for all the variables -- speed, number of characters sent, even options to add QRM (interference) and variable sending speed (imitating very well someone with an unsteady fist).

As an aside, it's pointless to learn code visually. It's only really useable as an auditory messaging system.
I know, sounds too simple to be true. But it is

No, it's not.

So here's some context. Boeing installed known not-to-spec structural components on the NG. Boeing installed known to fail prematurely slat tracks on the NG and 737 MAX. Boeing installed (probably known) not-to-spec pickle forks in the NG and 737 MAX. Boeing falsified repair documentation for an Air Canada 787. Oh, and of course, Boeing hid any mention of MCAS. Point being Boeing doesn't have a lot of credibility left.

With that in mind:

Manual stabilizer trim can be used before and after the STAB TRIM CUTOUT switches are moved to CUTOUT.

As the Ethiopian crew found out: it can't. The larger instruments of the NG required the hand cranks to shrink while the stabilizer itself grew. With the resulting lower mechanical advantage and increase in force required to move the stab itself the wheels became unusable. Sure, the Ethiopian crew went over the "maximum" speed but they were still under the max diving speed (Vd). That means the cranks were supposed to work.

It works because the first incident of MCAS failure (Lion Air) was safely dealt with by doing just this.

It worked because the first crew got lucky and had a third set of eyes that was free to dig through everything in search of a best guess.
They aggressively market kids, making all their spiel about caring about reducing cancer deaths completely bullshit (as if there was ever any doubt).

Sadly vaping becoming trendy among kids has had the consequence of deleting a lot of the progress made in underage smoking. Because yes, after starting with vaping, kids are way more likely to move on to cigarettes afterwards.

What makes me really mad is that it does not seem like it would have been extremely hard to do not market to kids. That's an extremely low bar and that's already too much for scummy companies like juul.
They’ll run remember to run PTP or NTP before launch next time, won’t they?
Probably some survivorship bias, but ultimately how you dress and handle yourself is essential, and this is especially true for people who you are meeting for the first time.

When I was in high-school we had a few teachers who's motto was "Dress for success", they repeated it a lot, and we even had a dress-up day that people participated in. I took this advice to heart and have kept a close eye on both my appearance and grooming. I try and dress sharp, always slightly at or above the crowd but never below. This translates into 'business casual' for most software jobs I've been at.

Although it's impossible to measure accurately, I can say that in my personal experience, if you're the person dressed appropriately, the people who matter notice. I've been pulled into very important client meetings, ones that were way above my position, precisely because I was dressed much more professionally than the rest of my programming colleagues who insisted that a hoodie and flip flops were workplace attire.

I've also had the experience, a surprising number of times in my short career mind you, of seeing various clients and exec types come into my office, scan the room, and then decide to come talk to me. I asked one of them once why they came and spoke to me specifically as I was just a software dev. Their answer was something to the effect of "You just looked like you knew what was going on around here."

My thought on dress is simple; I am working to make my company/bosses look good. This means that I work hard and do a damn good job, and it also means that when a very important mucky muck steps into the office to see if they want to sign some big contract with us, I appear successful and confident. If I appear successful and confident, the client will be a whole lot more likely to feel at ease knowing they're not gambling their money or time away to someone who doesn't care enough to keep themselves groomed.
> The rich technically have less personal risk

It's silly to automatically assume that "investor" or "capitalist" is someone rich. Chances are, the VC get their money from banks and pension funds who, in the end, invest money of people who earn much less than an average startup employee.
I don't think this headline is true. First, this is an old story. Second, they're saying because it's an Ontrac van that it was delivering Amazon packages. It's just clickbait.
IANAL, but it's complicated because this was(?) produced as part of her employment by Stanford, so arguably Juul took Stanford's work. Stanford is private, it can do what it wants, but what about public universities? Should the public own the IP they fund? IP created by public employees in the US are often released into the public domain. What if a professor from a private school got a government grant? I'm not sure how settled any of this is legally.
You guys should definitely dial down on the marketing hyperbole. A good technical getting started documentation would be much better than forcing potential users to dig through GitHub and stumble their way in.
That actually sounds like quite a fun job, figuring out ways to trace the owner of luggage based on its contents, a bit like playing low stakes detective. I wonder if they learned a specific trade to work there?

Fun fact: In the early 90s, there used to be a whole German TV show around the concept of auctioning lost luggage from airports and exploring their contents, Koffer Hoffer [0].

[0] https://youtu.be/-qE--luAfAU
The headline should be changed to include that this happened in 2013
Sure. Upon re-reading my comment I wasn't very clear. What I meant was along the lines of: the past decade VCs have convinced startups that they don't need to be profitable for many years. That's a pretty recent aberration. It took Google less than 3 years to become profitable, for instance.

I think the argument is less between "startups" and "tech giants" and more between "profitable companies" and "unprofitable companies". Profitable companies can also grow quickly, after all.
The issue with that page is it assumes (1) that the reader is very familiar with CUDA and (2) has a feature checklist vs CUDA.

Eg, there is an "Important features include the following" section where a typical example is "User-mode queues and DMA". We've had user mode queues since Sedgewick's Algorithms in C. Or "Large memory allocations" which we've had since the introduction of the 64 bit CPU. Obviously these must be features in the context of a GPU, but they don't really have a lot of explanatory power for anyone not already intimately familiar with the field.

I suppose the obvious conclusion is ROCM is professionals only; but presumably those professionals are already perfectly happy with CUDA. I'd find it helpful to know what these professionals are expected to implement with all this so I can go figure that out.

Specifically for me I know Vulkan (aka OpenGL++) is a general purpose API for running things on a GPU. I don't understand if that supersedes ROCM, compliments ROCM or what. I'm assuming that Vulkan is all anyone needs and then ROCM is going to ... provide something, maybe libraries? ... as middleware to Tensorflow and related tools. But blow me down if I can find anything that fills me with confidence that I've got the right take. ROCM seems to be very low level which makes little sense to me given that Vulkan (and the slowly obsoleting OpenCL) seem to be where the compute work is being done.

If I wanted to summarise PyTorch it is "a Python API & library that provides convenience functions and data models for machine learning." Or CUDA, at a guess, is "a C++ API for highly parallel compute on Nvidia GPU". ROCm claims to be "the first open-source HPC/Hyperscale-class platform for GPU computing that’s also programming-language independent" and none of that means much to me. Doesn't hint what programming language I'm expecting to be using, and I don't think I even want Hyperscale computing. But I get the feeling I want ROCm because it is associated with PyTorch on AMD GPUs. Befuddling.

I dunno, the ROCm version of PyTorch looked complicated and convoluted so I'm just going to sit it out and wait for someone to explain who the circus is performing for.