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As others noted, Dennis Muilenburg is an aeronautical engineer who has been with the company since internship.

His predecessor, James McNerney, was a cost-cutting business leader who had no background in aviation. And it was his decision to do this program instead of creating an upgraded model.[1]

Which kind of makes this choice even more bizarre.

[1] - https://www.thedailybeast.com/how-boeing-bean-counters-court...
Yes, exactly.

An interface can only ever have a finite number of discoverable actions. So choose what actions are core functionality, and make those discoverable. Hide what's left.
> snowflakes

what does that mean ?
> Now we are almost at the point of making not going to school illegal.

I'm fairly certain (at least for the US) it has been illegal. "By 1918, every state had a compulsory attendance law on the books." [1]

According to this table, school attendance is compulsory for every state in the US for specific age ranges: https://nces.ed.gov/programs/statereform/tab5_1.asp

[1] https://hslda.org/content/docs/nche/Issues/S/State_Compulsor...
What is “real food?” Are sausages, for example, “real food?”
It's also pretty unusual for the press release to admit that relationships have been damaged and confidence lost.
Don't know how you could reliably do it.

You could do something like "LoC from last version" + SemVer.

So, 1.2.3k to indicate Major 1, minor 2, 3k lines of code changed from 1.1. It would also possibly be a good way to say "2.0.3" meaning, we moved from 1.2 to 2.0, but only changed 3 lines of code. The breaking change is likely not going to affect you but it is there.

That might make magnitude changes easier to communicate.

I'm not sure how useful this would be for automated build tools though. Would you set bounds on how far drift would go before automated updates?
Especially if you include the Eastern Roman Empire which fell in 1453.
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I believe their sign in API comes with a ‘is this user a bot’ confidence value. They probably want real interests joining first, so they can train their models better.
OK this is a lot of money, but you really wish you had been involved with palantir? Like the company whose product is fascism?
One major issue is that the quote seems entirely backwards. In fact, Claude Shannon described how to optimally compress a string from a known source. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shannon%27s_source_coding_theo... As such, Shannon's results would suggest the existence of many compression algorithms.

(And conversely, I see no reason to believe that "Claude Shannon proved that generalized compression algorithms can't exist". I assume that result predates Shannon.)
Afloat, yes. But I don't think Boeing is at all guaranteed at getting international business, at least not on the scale they did before, if they don't do some brutal but effective restructuring of their corporate culture. They could easily end up shut out of international airliner business indefinitely, if they keep screwing up in the way they have been so far.
If a man is crossing a river
And an empty boat collides with his own skiff,
Even though he be a bad-tempered man
He will not become very angry.
But if he sees a man in the boat,
He will shout at him to steer clear.
If the shout is not heard, he will shout again,
And yet again, and begin cursing.
And all because there is somebody in the boat.
Yet if the boat were empty.
He would not be shouting, and not angry.

If you can empty your own boat
Crossing the river of the world,
No one will oppose you,
No one will seek to harm you.
This is a lot like saying not buying a winning lottery ticket "Cost you" the jackpot.

Opportunity cost is a very real thing, the vast majority of startups fail, or do not deliver any meaningful amount of equity to their employees (compared to the huge pay cut they take).

This is a blog by a VC so its pretty obvious where his interests are aligned on this.
That's funny, now you write a blog.
There's a LOT of survivorship bias in this article. I personally worked in small companies (30 - 200 employees total) and startups (4 employees, including myself) before ending up at a big tech company, and I would have preferred to do this journey in the opposite direction - that is, work a few years at a BigCorp, and then work for a startup.

Getting to see what works and what doesn't work in the context of a bigcorp is really valuable, and I think this post discounts that. A lot of technical mistakes I've made could have been remedied by simply seeing industry best practices, and there was no way I would have learned these things in school.
This isn’t delegating anything to the linter, it’s saying that a linter rule would help some people enforce particular styles (only walrus), if that’s what they want. I.e. the point of a linter.
> It’d be helpful if rustc had a mode where it could emit some sort of “core Rust” IR, that was all unsafe{} and had only the barest types, in the vein of early C++ compilers that emit C, or how the Erlang compiler works. Sadly, I don’t think rustc is architected in a way that’d allow this. (Though, paging steveklabnik to correct me.)

MIR seems to be the closest thing to a "Core Rust". You still have access to all the types, but everything is desugared down to the barest possible syntax. While and for loops are desuggared to loop+break, complex field accesses are split into temporary to ease borrow analysis, etc...

I'm not sure what happens to unsafe block, but I suspect those gets stripped as well, and MIR is assumed to be valid. There's a tool called miri that can be used to find UB by running the MIR - if you manage to trigger UB, miri will error out telling you what went wrong.

Might be worth looking into it :D
Thank you for a detailed and nuanced history. No doubt the industrial processed food supply was necessary for the population growth in the latter half of 20th century. The agriculture industry will need some massive overhauls to survive the next century

https://www.ucsusa.org/resources/hidden-costs-industrial-agr...
Why CornflowerBlue?
I disagree. Reading about psychology can provide you with a framework for understanding your own thought patterns and the behaviour of others. It's also often helpful to know that what you're going through isn't uniquely catastrophic; that it's part of the human condition which others have experienced and worked through. These may not work as fast or effectively as a therapist - especially in the acute phases - but they'd help considerably.
To be fair, he actually did join Palantir a couple years later.
I'm not saying it will happen, just that it's plausible. And that – in the words of Hillary Clinton – can be "horrifying". The main casualties of all this could be the members of the gun rights militias.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cP0G4vJ5OMw
Thank you very much for the wonderful and very insightful article.

Developing the humility and truly believing that we are all snowflakes and willingness to learn from the diversity around us is a big step forward.

I loved the analogy between leaders and bridge builders. I always considered leaders as those who build a pedestal or platform or ladder for the rest to use and grow. Very similar.

It gives me confidence and courage to take up a few courses myself and enjoy learning and not just go after grades.
Not sure what you mean, vegetable oils are hydrogenated, the lard or drippings we collect are from the cooking process.
Are you doing a semantic word-play thing, or are you genuinely curious about the food supply?

Edit: I see that you're a former lawyer. I'm going to assume it's a semantic word-play thing
Yes, I agree! My problem is with the juxtaposition of the new CEO's background and the statement from Boeing that states only that the CEO change is to "restore confidence" rather than something like "ensure a rigorous, confidence-inspiring culture and processes from top to bottom". PR can't have its cake and eat it too.
Evidence for an attentional priority map in inferotemporal cortex
There are many layers of caching within Bazel (remote/local, inmemory/disk), but the central functional incremental engine is called Skyframe [1]. Almost every computation within Bazel that can be incrementally executed is managed in this engine.

[1]: https://bazel.build/designs/skyframe.html
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I'm preparing for PMP exam. I know only one good website with sample questions. Please, share if you know more similar resources. https://www.erudicat.com
His "cost me $200m" is of a $20b company, so by the math he's suggesting he would've had 1% of the company after it went through all the dilutions on its path to $20b.

So yeah, if you have a chance to get nearly a cofounder's amount of equity in a company that will end up 20x a unicorn (which got that name because of how rare they are), then definitely go for it.
I saw that, I may have to try it sometime!

Out of curiosity, how much Ghee can you make out of butter (I.e. start with 16 oz of butter, get approx 8 oz? Or how much?)
Insulating CEOs and executive from failure is a good way to push them to take more risks, if that's what the board/shareholders want.

The issue with the 737MAX is that Boeing was too risk-averse: they should have made a brand new plane, but went with what they thought was the low-risk route with the 737 re-engine. The 787 disastrous development ($36B of deferred production costs I think) was certainly a huge cause of this.
Artificial intelligence could threaten white-collar workers' jobs
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Not buying Apple Stock in 1999 cost me $200M too.

Not to mention what not picking those winning lottery numbers cost me...
Groups by definition are exclusive, otherwise we have one group - everyone
Talk to, or talk at?

"What she meant by “safe space” was that she was happy to be in an environment where difficult subjects can be discussed openly, without the risk of disrespect or harsh judgement. This works both ways."
Hmm. There's been a lot of talk here about the Boeing culture vs. the Lockheed culture, and how the Lockheed culture took over after the merger. Yet the CEO was a Boeing guy, not a Lockheed guy.
They couldn't pull from their existing skilled labor pool because they didn't want the unions to get a beachhead. Having some experienced employees who already know how to make aircraft surely has some benefits when onboarding and training a new labor pool.
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Nah, I don't think many people would get much out of socializing if you made it mandatory to keep receiving their income.

I would like to see just less dependence on cars, but I have no way of foisting that on people either.

You could be like me and grow up a weird liberal in a red state, but that will give you a complex and I don't recommend it.
So write it. Make a deck of cards to use instead of the phone. Or a CYOA booklet. The phone part is fun but it doesn’t sound super necessary. Get the game part right is the important thing.

But also you could mock this up pretty easily, just rip the guts out of an old phone and replace it with a raspberry pi. Use a keypad phone instead of rotary, it’ll make your life way easier.
They recovered while acting ethically - I think a better thing to ponder is whether the company would have gained more ground without the initial setback from pulling the product.

Though any speculation we have there is just that - pure speculation.
Whenever I read headlines close to this or a study that find such insane conclusions I automatically dismiss it out of hand. You can only get to numbers this extreme with lots, and lots of hidden assumptions that you need to totally spin your way to get there.

In a world with limited time you need to think about what to study and after many studies that I find totally unrealistic, diving into another one is just not what I'm gone be doing.
Putting aside the weird preface about observation and mathematics, which misses the point that science builds a theory, which is a formal system that recapitulates the relations among observations, the neural network stuff shows very deep lack of understanding. For example:

> an autoencoder (AE) is basically one of the easiest ones me to explain, implement and understand

Then a list describing it. But that list does not constitute an explanation unless you have a pretty good intuitive understanding of linear algebra and function composition.

> So essentially, neural networks become a sort of mathematical abstraction that isn’t very leaky.

I think what the author really means by "leaky" is "not opaque." Mathematical structures that you can analyze in a well defined way (not opaque/"leaky") like integrals vs mathematical structures that the tools to dig into in a deep way don't exist yet (opaque/"not leaky").

Except that such understanding of neural nets is a major current research program.

So to all the youngsters who might be looking at this, this article is the ravings of a crank who doesn't know what he's talking about.
Indeed. If Bazel had a slogan, it would be "Everyone who doesn't do things my way is stupid". That's probably great within Google, but trying to integrate it into a company that has already made conflicting decisions (for good reasons) is hell.
I've started to understand this better at some point. We're sufficiently bound with conditions now that to even start talking about privacy requires us to play by the rules - hence login requirement. Hopefully we're not too deep in the swamp yet, so we can get to the hard surface before it's too late.
really surprises me to see how many seemingly effective applications there are with favorable outcomes for ALK7, from just two pages of Google search results.

can basic web scraping produce something meaningful as a recommendation engine for research topics and focus, or are much larger data sets really necessary
To be clear, I'm not an engineer, software or otherwise.
The Starliner mission was a test. You wouldn't have 100% confidence that a test would be executed flawlessly. The purpose of the test is to find flaws in the system, and that's exactly what they did.
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A community is not a business. In fact it's hard for me to conceive of two conceptual entities further away from each other.

A business is interested in profit. Apple is no different. If you're not paying in, they're directly incentivized to make your experience suck as much as they can without crossing legal lines, to get you to do so.

I'm not saying I want to be in the fee-gating communities, I agree with you on that point. I'm just saying expecting a multi-billion dollar corporation to be interested in fostering that same sense of community is ridiculous.
Thanks, that's the answer I was looking for. I'm American, not English, so wasn't aware of the "baggage" attached to darts there. I first learned darts from my grandmother, and knew of them in a different context.
> I don’t consider secret courts like FISA sufficiently comparable to independent judicial oversight.

I never said they were, that's a different discussio. I said the concrete fact of abuse of the national security surveillance apparatus against political opponents when we didn't have even that is why we have FISA (the law, which involves a lot more than the two courts it creates.)
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This article was pretty confusing.

At one point I thought the main thesis was to take inspiration from software APIs to document the process between the design and development team, which already looked like a pretty horrible proposition, taking Anti-Agile to a new extreme in the Individuals and Interactions vs Processes and Tools spectrum.

But then ... I just got lost.

So is the idea to build a REST API to serve constants of a design system, such as colors and font sizes and have a single reference point?

Design tokens and standard formats seem to go in this direction, but honestly this seems like one of the last problems to solve, in the Design System space.

Please someone enlighten me if I'm misled somehow.
Nothing is "truly yours" at a national scale. Inventions happen everywhere and nations get concentrated expertise by either accumulating it by being on the receiving end of brain drain, purchasing it, or stealing it. This is purchasing, like buying a national course in basic space ops.
* Trip pricing (although Google also has it in some regions)
* Offline static maps for your city
* Step free and "avoiding rain" routes
This is the sort of adjacent controversy, a.k.a. flamewar tangent, that the site guidelines ask you not to introduce into a thread. The problem is that the topic has been gone over so often that there is no longer any curiosity in it. Curious readers move on, so only partisans—those who passionately identify with one side or the other—show up to comment. All they do is recite the same arguments that have been made countless times before, using stronger and nastier language against each other. We end up with https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21864054.

Since HN's guiding principle is intellectual curiosity, it follows that once an ongoing story has reached a saturation level of repetition, it's off topic for Hacker News until significant new information emerges. Once that happens, discussion has a chance to attract the curious again because there's something new for the mind to sink its teeth into.

Actually, one can drop the word "controversial" from the above: any story is off topic once it has been repeated to saturation level. But it's only the controversial stories that people feel compelled to keep bringing up past that point.

The saturation threshold for repetition is far lower than people who feel strongly about a story think it is. That is, curious readers get bored and tune out far sooner than partisans imagine.

It's not that such topics are unimportant. Usually they have large importance, which is why people feel strongly about them. Rather, this rule has to do with the HN community's limited ability to function within its values. Once we get out of the functional range of curiosity, the needle goes into the red, and discussion reduces to two sides firing at each other from fixed positions. It's not in anyone's interest for HN to host such degenerate discussions, because the more we do that here, the more we condition the site to have more of this, instead of the curious conversation it actually exists for. Keep in mind that flamewars are the default end state of an internet forum; curious conversation is not. So they aren't sideshows that have no effect on the main attraction—they are actively poisoning it and hastening its decline.

Each of us has at least one topic that activates us and throws us out of the curiosity range, so the only long-term solution is to learn as a community to manage these reactions consciously in ourselves, and not let activation energy propel us mechanically into posting.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
I would agree if these systems weren't being used to accost and prosecute people in the affected groups in the real world today. Considering that humans are willing to blindly follow these false results I'd say it's even more frightening rather than comforting.
I was introduced to Twine recently here on HN; seems relevant:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21771022

https://twinery.org
Sadly I have thought we were headed for a civil war for a while now. I hope that it is not the case.
It's not fully hydrogenated any more for that reason, though I couldn't tell you what it is instead.
At some point we (society at large) are going to realize these fluffy c-level people are toxic and remove value from companies - then, ideally, we'll move back to a default of promoting internally.
Yea this is awkward. It will then often show you a “partial” list of the available updates so you might have to swipe down a couple times to see the full list.

I also know the long press shortcut to get to updates, but often forget that. As well as the copy/paste swipe gestures.
Ethiopia is on a real tear right now! The prime minister, Abiy Ahmed, came into power about 2 years ago and the first thing he did was release 100% of political prisoners in the country. It's the first time the country has had no political prisoners in decades. He then grabbed all his opposition together and worked with them. The reforms he's introduced are incredible, and show how things can be fixed in a nation that's torn apart for years by dictatorship and war. Abiy is definitely the greatest leader of our modern era. The man took a totalitarian country at war with its neighbors and flipped it 180 degrees in 18 months. He ended the war, removed totalitarian policies, and the country's people can even admit that there were government funded murder campaigns, something that if you'd talked about previously, you'd have been murdered. A great story all around. He heartily deserved the Nobel Peace Prize.
But it is not racism, it would be if they had to change hair color because of their race, but they would all the same require japanese person to dye their hair.

If it is not based on race it is not racism, this case it is based on hair color so its "hair color"-ism I guess.
Can anyone answer whether "fossilized" is accurate in this case? An actual, real fossil can form in only 1000 years?
>I am still a bit puzzled how cheerful some people seem about a product that was unable to fulfill its purpose: Starliner getting to its intended destination.

Calling a space capsule a product and treating it like some kind of tech product launch and framing it's success that way is weird. It's a spacecraft and the mission was meant to test its capabilities and get data about it during an actual orbital flight, then go from there.

The reason everyone is trying to be so cheerful and optimistic is because it was a partial success - the capsule stayed together and landed, which were part of its mission parameters. But (clearly) the public perception of this mission is that it failed because it didn't get to the ISS, so I imagine people are trying to be cheerful to remind people that they're not upset cause they didn't fail, they just didn't fully succeed.

I'm no fan of Boeing or how they've handled 787 MAX or ULA or Starliner or their relationship with NASA, but calling this not too promising is a bit unfair.
Oh, I have dabbled in OS dev a tad already actually, although not in a long time. I think if I went for OS dev nowadays, I’d prefer to try and start as an EFI binary because I believe that way you get to start directly in long mode, and have some filesystem drivers to bootstrap with at least. Still, I don’t know if I will ever have the drive (and spare time) to push it as far as you have gotten Lilith.
So he ceded both the early options and the moral high ground? Lose-lose.
According to the old Tom T. Hall song, the secret to life is "faster horses, younger women, older whiskey," and "more money." Food for thought.
I would agree with this. Get the latest model T series you can with your budget.

I would avoid the E, X, L series as they are either too cheap(in quality) or either too expensive (X series) due to thinness. The T series strikes the perfect middle ground and it well known for available replacement parts and upgradability.
This is historically doubtful. The most famous anti-heliocentric researcher, Galileo, was a professor at the University of Padua. This university relied on the Church at least as much as a modern US university relies on the NSF. Furthermore the Church had vastly more power over publication than any institution in any free country today. Yet, the truth still shone through. If Renaissance Italian research funding had been greater, we would have gotten more empty treatises on heliocentrism, but also more chances at a Galileo.