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I agree with everything you said until you dissed the flashlight and camera buttons.

I use those all the time, via muscle memory. Getting to the camera and flashlight ASAP is critical.
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While your message has surface truth to it, if you've done any type of engineering before, you'd know that your designs #1 shaper is your time and financial constraints.

Engineers told to "make it happen" while all safety backdrops they have get undermined by from the top business mandates end up having to make bad decisions.

I'll accept that the engineers involved had the chance too say no. I won't, however, accept the assertion the business/sales people do not share some level of blame for not realizing that they were making impossible demands, and that the resistance from engineering was not just something to be worked around by busting the union, or misleading customers and regulators.
Why does anyone need satellites? This might have been a relevant question in the 80s.
The issue is it doesn't change the problem: the MAX programs exists for political and (lack of) ethical reasons: companies wedded to 737s (like Southwest) which want larger and more efficient planes without type change (without having to re-train crew). And rather than refuse to work on this, Boeing's management asserted they could do it, then left engineering to square the circle.
I remember those CYOA/RPG books well. Anyone know some of the titles or how to find them in print these days?
That's all conjecture. Queueing theory can plan spare capacity for any level of utilization. The higher the utilization, the lower the cost to the individual rider, ie. the more sharing that's allowed or encouraged, the lower the cost. The sharing equilibrium is almost certainly not 10%.

> The same lack of incentive and benefits to use transit applies to shared cars.

Sure, but the increased convenience of not needing a shared meetup/dropoff of transit is considerable. The biggest cause of traffic into and out of a city is the 1 driver commute from the outlying regions. If car ownership were more expensive than ride sharing, most of these people would use ride sharing because it has the convenience benefits of car ownership with the efficiency benefits of transit. The ride sharing equilibrium in this model would be upwards of 70% for rush hour, at least.

Non-rush hour times would have fewer cars on the road because the cars would park themselves when utilization falls. This is more efficient and more convenient than transit.
The answer to your question is, "because of men like you".
I'm glad there isn't another UAE based app that stores billions of messages on its servers, effectively in plaintext, including all group chats, all desktop client chats, and overwhelming majority of one-on-one chats that aren't opt-in secret chats. /s

"BuT TelEGram HasnT beEn ComPRomIsED iN tHe wILd haS it???"
Hm... your first inclination was to think you "must be missing something".

Why not follow up on that thread?

What you're missing is all of the context around this, both historical and current, which advance the idea that women ought not to even have the opportunity to compete in darts with men. More generally, women have very often been denied opportunities afforded to men across the board, based simply on their gender.

(Personally, I don't have a special interest in women's issues, but I do have an interest in fairness and justice and basic human rights. From that perspective, breaking down a bullshit barrier keeping a group down based on superficial traits is awesome.)
You write that, as though you don't lock your cubicle door in private rest rooms.
That was my general point (without making the wording too complex)
Yeah, I'm relatively new to Python as a JVM dev, but am finding myself (accidentally) in the realm of Data Science/Engineering and am looking to Python as opposed to Scala simply due to better Libraries. I do like that Python is really easy to be productive in, but the challenges of scale I guess will be learned as our team gains experience.
> If the two fisherman can’t get in an agreement for the greater good and they both die, so be it.

Literally this is what the EU fish quota fixes - although in that case it's the risk of the fish dying out.

> When we demand that countries lower their emissions what we are doing is forcing them in poverty, hunger and death.

Not reducing emissions also does that in many cases. Large areas of Bangladesh are predicted to be physically underwater, for example.
Interesting the article doesn't talk about nicotine. Nicotine was my savior from one sided-headaches that accentuated by continued computer and screen abuse.

I have found nicotine to be a major relief and hardly addictive (though this is probably very person-specific, so tread carefully). I could go on for a month without smoking but if I'm working with a computer, I could not pull off more than a couple hours without my vape device close.

Sometimes I wonder if smokers are actually addicted or suffer from other unrelated-pain that makes them reliant on nicotine for relief.
That's a fair point as well, although the fee is generally quite small.
> and I believe there's a site guideline about assuming good faith.

... so, you are trying to game the system by taking advantage of site guidelines?
I'm not sure what you mean? Much of my core.async code deals with things like network requests.
It’s funny how people treats unions as panaceas to all problems.

It’s strange to present them as some sort of solution in this case, where there was widespread engineering and management cultural
issues, and would therefore somehow have prevented major air disasters.

Workers rights and forcing higher wages might be great for the working poor and it might actually make economic sense in certain niche industries where protectionism can prevent the companies entire business being eaten by Chinese/global ones without the myriad of rules and restrictions that unions being - rules that go well, well beyond wages. But it is not some grand solution to high level engineering problems caused by stupid cost saving priorities made by C-class executives and other weakness in quality down the line.

Further, non-union companies are more often the default these days, and tons of these companies are producing high quality American engineering and manufacturing products.

Even in the romanticized history of US labor only a minority of working Americans were ever in unions even during the hayday when it actually made sense to have unions (when America had tons of factories and manufacturing but little global competition and plenty of protectionism to artificially keep them alive).
Well obviously if fusion were a thing we could all switch too I don't think anyone would argue. Unfortunately the reality is for the foreseeable future, fission is the only way to generate power. If you're talking about building a reactor in the next 20 years, you build a fission one.

If somehow we have a breakthrough in fusion technology to make it energy positive, then I have no doubt we'll see a huge increase in people trying to use it.
I’m pretty sure that’s the post-facto explanation, but in reality it was kept out of the manual because putting it in and trying to explain the way that it operates would have been a blaring alarm siren of how horribly fubar the system was designed.
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> I think that the social dynamics of being stuck with 20 to 30 same-age same-rank peers for many months is highly unusual.

This. Whenever people ask about "socialization" WRT home-schooling, I always tell people that you never any social situation like you do in school -- where:

1) Everyone is exactly the same age
2) Nobody chose to be there
3) People have little chance to change their situation
4) There are very few consequences for poor behavior.

At your work, if someone is being a bully, then either management will fire them, or you can look for another job. At school, you have to almost murder somebody to actually be expelled, and most kids have very limited ability to change schools or classes if they're unhappy.
I 'love' when board acts lightning fast on publicity rather than on the long lasting problems.

They sure look being a 'reliable' and 'competent' gang now.
How do you know the brand wouldn't have recovered from the 27% loss anyway?
It was removed when the articles about this first surfaced, by both Apple and Google. Thursday for Google, Friday for Apple.
It turns out that reforming hiring practices for D&I goals gets good PR and doesn't cost so much compared to providing decent work conditions and pay...

It doesn't follow that the latter was preventing the former.
“It’s entirely possible, as far as I’m concerned, psychedelics are another yoga” Ram Dass in “The Only Dance There Is” page 47. Published 1970

November 26, 2019
The FDA is fast-tracking a second psilocybin drug to treat depression
https://www.popsci.com/story/health/psilocybin-magic-mushroo...
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> I can hypothesize that all that exists in the world is views and a process that continually makes new views out of old views. That's what I call the causal theory of views.

That's a decent description of how simulators work too. If reality also works that way they may be indistinguishable.
Don’t forget a “normal” car is typically front wheel drive. I’m fairly certain drifting like this is nearly impossible with front wheel drive.
The Terminal/NSUserDefaults system is useless for navigation and discoverability of optional settings.

How would I see all the options available for an app? We're back to googling and peer support.

> For some reason, Apple has now decided that their simple platform needs to be as capable as the more advanced platform.

Because they were getting crap for it.
We like to think of rationality as objectively true, but it’s not. Rationality is based on axioms that “feel right” and even the idea of being rational “feels good”.

Is it rational to believe the parallel postulate? In unchanging laws of physics? In using logic with creatures who tend not to share your axioms?

It comes down to a feeling. From a rational point of view, if rationality were always helpful it would be highly selected for, yet it is not.
There are manufacturing lines which aren't the MAX.

The 737 NG remains in production.
A Designer’s Guide to the Terminal
The failure of our society to turn into a nuclear based society will be looked laughed at in the future.

People in a 100 years will say 'they had invented everything they needed in the 1950-60 but failed to do anything'.

Its embarrassing for the human project and in time everybody will realize this.

Many a doctoral thesis will be written about how a whole society can be so dumb an short sighted.
Can we please not go into divisive politics here?
Gratitude Goes a Long Way to Increase Creativity and Innovation
Tesla lands $1.4B from Chinese banks to build out its Shanghai gigafactory
I wait in silence as my world falls apart
Why on earth would the next CEO be incentivized to do anything other than wring all the money out of the company that they can? The punishments for failure are insignificant. They get to keep millions and millions of dollars even if they wreck the company.
And the field in the United States is 'nuclear medicine', a specialty of 'radiology'. And, well, an 'x-ray' is called an 'x-ray' not a 'bone selfie'.
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Lua yes, and since the 90s, but Nim? I've not seen that yet. What games use it?
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Google and Netflix are horrible for this.

Want to switch which user account you're using? No problem, simply find the picture of the current user account that you definitely don't want to use, and click on it.
Boeing was still promising end of year FAA certification for 737 Max as recently as early December. Around that time, they had a spokesperson on CNBC who was asked directly how the outstanding steps (which indicated February at the earliest) aligned with their end of year statements and the position was essentially, 'we've been saying end of year and end of year could still happen.'

When your brand is suffering a crisis of confidence, you don't rebuild it by missing deadlines and dodging reality. The amount of hubris it takes to be so flippant in these circumstances is indicative of a deeply flawed corporate culture, and that falls at the feet of the CEO.

Also, how do you allow Starliner mission to occur without 100% confidence in ability of mission to be executed flawlessly? There are certainly complexities, but it almost seems like they passed the point when they could have quietly bumped the launch, and ended up in a literal PR gamble.
"...I added yet another, making the total dosage nine hundred micrograms–certainly not a dose for beginners. Then he threw all the pills into his mouth. My reaction was one of shock mixed with fascination of a social scientist eager to see what would happen.

He allowed me to stay for an hour– and nothing happened. Nothing whatsoever.

He just laughed at me."

Did the guru pull a fast one?

An hour is not sufficient time for a peak.
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“Playing hooky” is more about a particular “episode” of non-attendance, though. A regular person, who otherwise enjoys attending school, can “play hooky” because e.g. they want to stay home to play a newly-released video game. Futoko is—from my understanding—meant more as a sort of constitutional property. It’s something these children are, rather than something they’re doing.

It’s like the difference between “being depressed” and “suffering from depression.” One is a mood, that could be brought about by any number of temporary environmental factors, and really isn’t a “problem” so much as an often-expected reaction that will sort itself out. The other is a long-term state of being with complex etiology that isn’t expected to resolve without diagnosis and treatment.
> I think nuclear history has amply shown that people cannot be trusted to manage reactors.

Except that its the safest form of energy production in the Western world and the waste majorities of countries have not had a single death from nuclear power.

Your statement flat out contradicts all evidence.
Which would be a hell of an example of technologcial debt coming back to bite.

Boeing should have bitten the bullet on new designs long ago. They failed in this.

Some actions have consequences which don't materialise for years, or decades, or centuries.

Which is a principle weakness of the notion of market economics. The booked profits of the past 20+ years of the firm deserve restating.
That's rarely how these things work.

Most likely some PR firm working for Boeing fed some hints to the the Times.

Boeing then waited until it was released to have a coordinated PR push and put as much blame as possible on Muilenburg.
You're probably trolling but just in case - their planes not killing passengers is somewhat more important to society than the diversity of their hiring practices.
So a Professional Engineer, who would understand the implications of a single AOA sensor much better than an accountant, signed off on the design anyway?

It sounds like we need to find out who that person was and arrest them.
You're making a valid point, but you could probably reword it without the sarcasm.
Wait so China launched it from China, with China paying most of it's price.

How the hell is this "Ethopian"?
Often the background is actually counterproductive, in the sense that somebody from the “wrong” background likely had to overcompensate to be accepted in the “right” circles, and now might be more monarchist than the monarch, so to speak.
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Apologies - not sure I understand. But I think I agree that societies choose how to distribute their resources?
Golden parachutes are primarily handed out to those who are hired from the open C-level circuit into a house already on fire. They have the bargaining position to demand the "heads I win tails you lose" contracts that are known as golden parachutes. Someone who internally rose through the ranks never enjoyed that much bargaining power. He surely won't fall into poverty, but landing might not be quite as soft soft as you imagine. (not ruling out the possibility though)
Doesn't, imho of course. MobX makes creating and using global variables way too easy. One of the more nightmarish legacy projects included hunting down the culprit that sometimes changed some variable in mobx store. Abysmall tooling (compared to Redux) doesn't help either.

Currently my go-to store is Redux Toolkit [0]. Explicit store management, but much less verbose than regular Redux. Also, initial state, actions and reducers are all defined in one place (slice).

[0] https://redux-toolkit.js.org/
This is a trait that is pretty universal in my experience.
I absolutely love how EU sets corporations straight and advocates for the customers.

Meanwhile US govt, “we’ll give you bigger tax breaks, just keep on growing that GDP number, do whatever you want, walk over, track everything and manipulate visitors if you want, just give us your corporate billions when we run for elections”
I guess, cause in C#, you can’t have pointers to the middle of an array (when not using `unsafe` code). So I guess one would just check if the arrays’ pointers were equal, and if they aren’t, the arrays don’t overlap.

Side note: C# 8’s ranges and indices return an IEnumerable, so I wonder how those vectorize. Can IEnumerable’s even be vectorized?
There has been some discussion lately about how latencies have increased over the decades.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15485672
China is the African continent's largest trading partner.

Worth noting is that China's been trading with Africa since at least 200 BCE.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Africa%E2%80%93China_relations
>Biases are irrational, by definition.

Not all biases are irrational...in fact most biases are in rational predispositions based on knowledge and/or first hand experience. Basically its an attempt to apply logic/rationality to unknown situations.

Bias is always framed as a negative word/trait, and it certainly can be (like racial prejudice), but bias should also be looked at as an evolutionary tool humans can use to apply past learned experiences to similar situations in the future.

Just as an example, motorcycle riders may have a bias against certain types of vehicles because of their training/experience, and they apply this bias when making decisions that impact their safety on the road, even though the specific vehicle/situation may not pose a danger. In an evolutionary context, maybe you saw a fury 4 legged animal kill one of the members of your tribe, so you apply a bias against all 4 legged fury animals. Now you don't know if all fury 4 legged animals are dangerous, or pose a threat, but at the same time its no irrational to apply the bias because in potentially life/death situations it may be better safe than sorry. Obviously its good to keep and open mind, maybe you can train such an animal and it may even turn out to be your best friend, but nothing wrong with approaching the situation with your bias either.
I’d guess lack of trust at this point - they lied and denied responsibility for a while when the crashes happened.

They seem to have some serious cultural issues, I wouldn’t trust them to do the job correctly. I’d suspect in the end what your suggesting is probably what’ll happen.
They need to do a better job of making the assumptions behind the design of the tools clearer then. Because, from what I can tell, many people get the idea that the path to success is to do what Google does (even knowing about the meme that people just try and copy Google). This doesn't just apply to their software tools, but also to their corporate processes (OKRs, etc).
I think the main strategy was to simply ban all alternative apps:

> The government blocks specific functions of apps like WhatsApp and Skype, a reality that has made ToTok particularly appealing in the country.
Specially since the actual people that was ultimately responsible for the things that happened is the Board of Directors.

Everybody here in Hacker News who has had some relation with a company board knows that the real decisions are done at the board level. The board is the one that ultimately decides the strategy to follow, whether to be pure profit seeking, quality seeking, etc.

The CEO can bring his humanity-responsible strategy to the quarterly meetings, but if the board does not agree, he is SOL. If this happens a lot with "cofounder CEOs" who have big chunks of company ownership, of course it also happens with a hired CEO, who has extremely little leverage with the board.
Fusion solves nothing you can not solve with fission.

With fission you can easily go down to 300 years of storage, this has been known since the 60s but that's often ignored.

Waste is only a significant problem if you want to make it a problem.
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Thanks! I'm going to dust off my old joystick and try it out!
I agree, I also think FSMs + 3D vector graphics (bezier surfaces etc) with 3rd dimension for time, can replace a lot of javascript code, and any remaining requirement for turing complete languages should be explicitly apps, instead of websites, so the web can start clean up the javascript hogging and tracking mess...
This is a very confused comment. Yes, people should be evaluated as individuals, especially where doing so is very easy (such as figuring out how accurate you are at throwing darts). No, surprise at an elite member from population x outperforming an elite member from population y if both have similar standard deviations but widely different means (with x worse) is not indicative of badly understood statistics. You might want to try plotting some Gaussians and ponder the exponential in them, and how it affects the size of the pool past some threshold.
> And there is no indication so far, that a 737 MAX with a fixed MCAS isn't safe.

At this point, that plane has no goodwill whatsoever left to it. The onus is on it proving that it's safe, not on its critics proving it's unsafe, because the only sensible assumption is that it's not safe and that Boeing does not and ill not self-regulate (big duh).

> I think Boeing should have created a true 737 successor long ago and should do ASAP

They announced that back in 2014, and probably several times beforehand.

Issue is demand has seen Boeing push the 737 into 757 territory (years after the 757 got cancelled), it's not that they haven't created a 737 successor it's that their customers don't want a 737 successor, they want 737s so they can just buy the frames and put existing crew on the new plane without retraining.

That's what the 737 MAX is about, and why it's broken. It's the 4th generation of 737 (original, Classic, Next Generation) and the frame can't take it anymore, but 737s is what e.g. Southwest want, because that's literally the only thing they fly.