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It's just a few config flag flips.

This is a bizarre naming. They could call it Blaze installer 2.0 for Blaze 1.
Hi, Darren here - PDM for Runner (deastman@gitlab.com). Yes - as we mention on this page, https://docs.gitlab.com/runner/commands/#limitations-of-gitl..., there are limitations with the current exec implementation. We also have this issue https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-runner/issues/2797#prop... open on this topic. In reading the threads here, I will update that issue on GitLab with our latest thinking regarding implementation challenges, ideas, etc. At a high-level today, the Runner is really just a job execution engine for want of a better description. The Runner is focused on taking a job and executing it. So as we look at this problem of executing a pipeline locally, we have to think about all of the logic that's happening in the GitLab CI Rails app - stuff like artifacts passing for example. Then we have to figure out how to parse the .gitlab-ci.yml file. Ideas like, do we do this in the context of a specific project, or a connection to any GitLab API. So tons of pros and cons to consider for sure. Given the in-depth discussion on this topic, its clear that I and the team need to refocus on this topic sooner rather than later. In chatting with one of our lead backend engineers, his point of view is that " I totally agree. I use exec quite often and I'd love to have this command a first class citizen again." So I am going to spend some time in the next couple of days capturing some of the thoughts here and updating the issue in GitLab with our latest ideas and proposals. We definitely need to get this done, so any help from the community is welcome, as we think solving this is going be a bit of work and make take a few release cycles.
Hush money, right?
Such press releases are usually much more subdued, with the ousted CEO absolutely not replaced by the board but "voluntarily deciding to quit in order to spend more time with his family".

It's pretty rare that the press release explicitely says the board ousted the CEO.
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4 and 7 were the raison d'être for MCAS in the first place. Clearly above engineer level.
I would agree. Also this CEO of 34 years is an engineer.
I assume, due to their connections, they are best positioned to “win” more lucrative orders from government.
While it's not surface light rail, I'd argue that the Gautrain in Johannesburg & Tshwane counts as a modern urban rail system, especially as it incorporates substantial subway sections.
they're weebs
If you don't click on the image in the 'message view', but instead click and hold you can select save from there.

I'm the opposite, I didn't even try to click on the image and save from the screen that appears.
In light of your earlier blatant misstatements about Hadoop, I don't think I'm the one with a knowledge problem here.

The original post here is entitled "Scaling Etsy". The ultimate solution that Etsy used, to solve the problem described in those tweets, was to move to sharded MySQL. With no database-side foreign key constraints. This architecture has served them well for over a decade now.

By your rigid definitions, Etsy isn't using an RDBMS, which would seemingly make all your RDBMS-related comments off-topic.
I guess my question is whether or not the New York Times considers the US to be a wealthy authoritarian government.
I have zero experience in music composition and would be super slow and terrible, what are some good music generators?
Open Letter to UK Gov: Suck my balls, thanks.
If that was all that's needed 737 Max's would all be back in the air by now. There is a fundamental problem in the design. The plane tends to pitch up when accelerating. Under certain circumstances this can cause the plane to stall and fall out of the sky. This was fixed using software.

Most planes have airframes that are aerodynamically stable in and of itself. The 737 Max requires software assistance to be at the same level of stability.

That, to me, is a fundamental flaw. In a multilayer system each layer needs to be safe in and of itself. The purpose of higher layers is to add functionality not to fix flaws in lower layers.

Given the fundamental flaws in design it was obvious there was a cultural problem at Boeing and the CEO needed to go. "We can't solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them." -- Einstein.
blogspam(?) of the Stanford article, already discussed here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21854973
Cohort studies cannot show causation, indeed, but that's not very relevant for what's being claimed.

And what they are saying with "finding was independent of other factors" is that they adjusted for demographics and health conditions.

Yes, there are countless factors that could impact the results, the adjustments are not perfect, but cohorts are useful clues and in the large scheme of things, if you are optimistic, this shows you have a higher likelihood to live longer.
That's because you were a child and simple things looked more complex.

CYOA movies are called video games. Bandersnatch was structurally interesting because it was done on a video platform, like VCR/DVD/YouTube Games of the past, instead of a game platform.
This is one of the most fun things I've seen in a while. Congrats.
> Chairman David Calhoun will take over as CEO and president, effective Jan. 13, the company said, adding that a change in leadership was necessary to restore confidence in the company.

If they wanted to restore my confidence, they’d have picked an engineer, not an accountant.
It's not exactly a secret.

Japan is super racist. They outright will often refuse services to foreigners/non-ethnic Japanese.

Here's a quick few results:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethnic_issues_in_Japan#Ethnic_...

https://www.scmp.com/week-asia/politics/article/2123539/no-c...

https://asia.nikkei.com/Editor-s-Picks/Japan-Update/No-forei...
The problem with Boeing isn’t MCAS. The problem is that the company was capable of shipping such a flawed design and then pretending it was OK even in the face of hundreds of deaths. How could you ever trust the output of such a company, especially with your life?

Just firing the CEO isn’t enough, they need to root out everyone complicit in this crime.
Flip that around, what's unsound with such a design?

There are lots of things on planes where "if you don't do this" then "the plane crashes and burns". Having to adjust horizontal stabilizer trim as you gain speed is a minor addition.

MCAS was problematic because of how it went about doing so, and how pilots weren't properly trained on the change in how the trim needs to be adjusted. The idea of adjusting the trim doesn't seem fundamentally flawed to me.

(Not that I think the design is necessarily sound, see my direct reply to gp for why).
It is worth more than a downvote to mention here .. even if what you say is completely accurate, it is not the right time to say this, for really a lot of reasons

To address the content of your ill-timed comment, I enjoyed the book "Holy Madness" by Georg Feurstein. Details on request...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georg_Feuerstein
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You invested in other people's future. That doesn't seem like a bad thing, and it seems like you could afford to do it.

Don't beat yourself up over not having a lot of money in the bank, it seems like you've still got your financial life mostly in order.

I often have to remind myself of this, as I send a significant amount of money to another country to help my spouse's family -- It's a significant amount for me, but it's generationally life changing for them to be able to get advanced education. Doesn't really make me feel happier when I look at my bank balance, but there are other things that are more important than a bank balance.
So therefore it must not be to anyone else right?

Is this some kind of variation on Works for Me(tm)?
https://iot.mozilla.org -- can easily install the WebThings Gateway on a Raspberry Pi, or in a Docker container, or CLI install to a Linux box. It runs locally in your home. No cloud account, no cloud data center dependency, command and control accessible from the web UI served up by the home gateway. Local voice commands are possible too. My "home smart home" stays in my home. :)
I can easily see how any of these items could be explained by "pressure to deliver" and "reduction of costs".
There is some historical context that a lot of people outside of China don`t know. China is a big country with a huge diversity in development as well as Chinese people( You believe Chinese are diligent? You are wrong. Not all of them. Even Han Chinese). Many places used to be historically poor areas for very long time. China used to have a very socialist policy for long time before late 70`s which resulted in the associated mentality. The policy of "helping poor" was mostly donations. This was a failure policy that resulted in the poor area stayed in poor. There were many stories such as the people kill the donated plowing ox for meat because they know next year donation will come again. The people in developed areas often feel upset about the wasted donation. The "helping poor" policy changed later towards encouraging entrepreneurship, vocational training (Sounds familiar?), etc. In other words: The policy of giving fishing tool instead of giving bread works better.

That's why most of today's "Chinese Influence" are bound with conditions like business deals. It's a better way to help others in addition to capitalist selfish greediness described in many media. It's mutual beneficial. The approach was from hard lessons that donation can not stimulate sustainable growth.
Yes, fixing the MCAS software should solve the problem of the 737 MAX. But with all what happened, authorities are extra thorough before allowing the 737 MAX to fly again. Probably all what is needed is a few more months of patience.

On the grand scale of things, the bigger issues with Boeing are how they do business and all the problems with their facturies that have surfaced recently. Beyond getting the 737 MAX to flight status, they have to resolve all the issues and the management problems which lead to them.
Somehow I can’t find in myself one single bit of sympathy for him. As opposed to the people who, you know, literally went down with the planes. What’s the value of one rich man’s career in the face of that? Exactly zero.
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I don’t consider secret courts like FISA sufficiently comparable to independent judicial oversight. It’s oversight theatre.

The FISA rulings and arguments never become public, most of the domestic surveillance warrants are justified merely by the fact the people will never find out they were surveilled and therefore won’t be “harmed” by such behaviour (this was the exact argument which Yahoo was given and lost trying to fight it in one of the only public FISA rulings available online).

Most importantly only the NSA government lawyers gets to argue the grounds for surveillance is justified. There is never a point in time where it is critical analyzed by outside parties so we put 100% of the trust in the FISA judge panel doing their due diligence and standing up for American citizens rights.

But as we saw with the recent Carter Page FBI investigations the feds can feed the FISA courts complete crap and they’ll sign off on it anyway. Multiple times.

I love when people act like this isn’t some rubber stamp
court and is actually sufficient to protect Americans constitutional rights. It so obviously isn’t and you’d have to be a serious military authoritarian hawk not to see through that nonsense.

These secret courts live and die because the average person doesn’t understand how it works and the government is just telling everyone to ”shut up and trust us”... including decades of congressman on the House Intelligence Committee.
I hope you're right but this reminds me of the very sad saying, "Bike lanes are painted in blood". Why can't we properly value safety over convenience and profits before there is a huge accident?
>BS! Which of these was done by the accountants?

HackerNews, generally, has a hate on for "business people", who are seen as evil, ne'er-do-wells, while the "engineers" are innocent employees, merely following orders.

I think it's because most people here see themselves as the engineer type, and this mindset allows them to feel better about the work they're doing, be it emissions scandals, ad-tech, building the surveillance state apparatus or phony medical devices: "don't blame me, I'm just following orders!"
Certainly having started from scratch at the company would help him as a leader as the rank and file knew that he had been in their shoes, at one time. But, yeah, being steeped in the culture may very well have been part of this problem as well.
The design of the plane was a financially motivated one and lead to the MCAS system being required in the first place. And your note on lack of redundancy and not providing additional training - surely the costs there are obvious?
There’s no network latency involved as it’s an in memory, embedded database.

Also, max throughput here is ultimately a sum of how fast the memory allocator is and memory bandwidth which, even with a poor implementation would be orders of magnitude more than what you can do with standard NICs and Linux kernel networking stack.

Moreover, as a consequence, far less context switching is involved.
Goes deeper than just that.

There is being born in the wrong 'caste':
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burakumin

Or the many Koreans who are in 'limbo' (zainichi) after WW2:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Koreans_in_Japan
Why don't they just kill the 737 MAX program and start on another aircraft? As a consumer it will build confidence and trust in me.
You mean like the guy they literally just replaced?
Actually it's important to remember that MCAS was not fitted to make the plane safer. It was fited to make it behave the same way as a 737 so that pilots don't need to be retrained.

If you would retrain pilots then the 737 MAX can be safely flown without MCAS. Pilots just need to be familiar with the different aerodynamics.
Wee niggle: it's toe the line, meaning "take your position", no matter which of the several suggested etymological origins you favour (track and field, school or naval parades†, international border, bare-knuckle boxing, etc.).

† A parade is an assembly of some sort; it may or may not involve a march past or route march.
The fundamental promise made to customers (a more efficient 737 that doesn't require new pilot training) seems impossible to deliver at this point, and probably wasn't possible from the outset.

At this point they could probably still turn the 737 Max into a sellable product, but it will be different from the one promised if it requires a new type certification for pilots due to the different flight characteristics (which Boeing was trying to hide/minimize with MCAS).
They say: "Our technical experts are confident that we can do so while defending cyber security and supporting technological innovation. We will take an open and balanced approach in line with the joint statement of principles signed by the governments of the US, UK, Australia, New Zealand, and Canada in August 2018 and the subsequent communique agreed in July this year."

on the other hand, second link on this paragraph is not found (https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/five-country-mini...)
FTA “Boeing considered the mcas feature to be so minor that it removed mention of it from the 737 max’s pilot manual.“ The accountants don’t write the pilot manuals.
Only if you take the pharmacological definition. The medical definition is exactly as I said.
Also note that just specifying the number of variables may not be terribly informative if you don't also specify the maximum clause size and the number of clauses.

For example I see some instances here with 120 variables but they are 7-SAT with around 10k clauses. Unless I'm mistaken reducing those to <=3-SAT will require adding about 20k more variables and tripling the number of clauses.
Look at spectacle for snapping windows to left half right half etc.
> The Apple TV app is a great example of half thought out design.

ugh the TV app on the Mac is riddled with bugs and BS.

Just trying to see all the things I get with an Apple TV+ subscription is a labyrinth of clicks here and there.

Or the episodes of a show. Multiple different pages for show, episode, downloads and unintuitive ways of navigating between them.

Only a single player window allowed.

Clicking on "Resume Episode" if it's already open in a player window, fucking closes the player!!
> No one is studying genetics and heritibility of traits using race. It's an outdated model that is broken. We look directly at genes now.

Who's disputing this? Certainly that doesn't contradict any claim I've made.

> And then can't provide any categories constructed by society.

All of them are constructed by the society of scientists, who are also members of a larger society. That was the whole purpose of pointing out that classification of "species" is arbitrary.

Yes, biologists are interested in biological justifications for classifying species, but again no such classification process is complete because species does not form a natural kind. Frankly, all of your arguments on this amount to a red herring because I've never disputed any of what you're saying, besides the fact that classification of anything beyond the fundamental ontology defined by physics is arbitrary. The point of contrasting these two was never to say that race was equally arbitrary in biology, but that all such classifications beyond the fundamentals are arbitrary, period, and so the common argument of dismissing "race" as socially constructed and arbitrary is not an argument against its use. It would only be an argument against its use in some domains in which there are better metrics, all else being equal.

> The methodology does not involve society deciding what is and is not a species. Just because a scientific methodology has exceptions to when it is useful does not prove that it is not rigorous or not based in biology.

"Based in biology" is itself an arbitrary metric to which you're ascribing meaning. It's useful and more precise for biological purposes, but that's entirely besides the point, because 'biological purposes' is itself arbitrary. What distinguishes it from chemistry or physics? Don't you see that these are all merely useful but fairly arbitrary classifications of varying coarseness, each of which carries their own utility in a strictly limited domain?

Studying causal influence of genes is conceptually no different than asking people to classify their own race and measuring their responses to various life experiences of racism, or even correlating race and IQ. These are all metrics of varying precision, predictive power and cost. I'm concerned with the scientific process as a whole, not biology specifically, so I believe you misinterpreted the point I was making.

> So what? Correlation is not causation.

Sure, and I never claimed otherwise. Race is a far less precise and less useful classification than genetic populations for biological purposes. These aren't our only purposes in the pursuit of truth.

My purpose in pointing out the arbitrariness of species as a class is that we should not be trying to stymie scientific exploration for political motives. Contra your claim, some scientists do have an interest in studying race (though certainly biologists have less interest), and the reasons could very well be have scientific merit, but that's irrelevant in today's political climate. Research whose data counters the prevailing narratives of the day are harshly criticized, and its scientists sometimes even punished.
Not only that, but it’s all more or less entirely legal. There’s very little in the way of civil rights protections like there are in the US, and what does exist is subject to the large, conservative leaning power of the judiciary.
fun fact, tax revenues in the US are projected to not even cover interest on the debt in the near future.

The concept of raising taxes enough to affect the budget would cause a revolt.
Didn't 346 people die in unnecessary deaths?!
Someone like Dennis Muilenburg then?

If the last one was an engineer, why would another engineer restore your confidence any more?
Down in flames is possibly an unfortunate choice of words here.
For what it's worth, I like that a bool is an int. It enables concise constructions such as

sum(is_true(data) for data in items)

to count how many items in an iterable satisfy a condition.
I'm really glad to see that there is at least some type of corporate accountability going on for so many people dying. This probably should have happened sooner.
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This really doesn't "fix" anything.

Mullenberg has been strongly criticized in part because he never accepted the buck stopping with him, didn't clean house, and acted as a mouthpiece, while saying nothing.

What people expect from Boeing is a gesture of humanity; an acceptance of culpability. An admission that something went wrong, and a genuine gesture of contrition and change.

The company culture needs a wholesale change, which means a hell of a lot more than the CEO need to be on their way out. Until you can rid Boeing of the taint of financial commoditization as a first order objective, Boeing is still going to suffer from a crisis of faith.

No one , or at least I don't, want to fly on a product of the "Boeing Corporation, stock ticker whatever". I want to fly on an aircraft made by the most committed people in the world to the challenge of designing and manufacturing the absolute best, most pilotable, most safe to be on, and most efficient/performant aerospace hardware in the world, all working under one group (if we take the over consolidation as a necessity in this day and age; I'm not personally sold on it). An engineering marvel built on human aspiration, commitment to good and safe work, and with profitability as an objective, but not an overriding principle. There needs to be a commitment to the nature of the endeavor as a physical struggle against the forces of Nature first and foremost, and an implicit understanding that the economic affairs of men must come secondary to the fulfillment of the requisite solution to the physical problems of aircraft making.

I know it's probably just a fiction in all likelyhood to expect all that. Some naive fantasy that I'm sure anyone whose run a business is shaking their head at. I'm not even sure I can wholeheartedly accept my own prioritization given the endless nature of the daily struggle with the balance sheet that is life, and the expectations placed on a publically traded company.

Alas, we have to accept that Boeing, and I think to a greater extent, any corporation should not be treated as primarily financial abstractions. We don't (or shouldn't be) running businesses just to make money. We should be out to solve physical problems first, with profitability keeping us from going overboard on the expenditure.

Sorry if this seems ranty. I always thought these ideas were a given; but the last few years have been real eye openers in terms of making clear that they are by no means universal, or at least universally applied.