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We run dependabot on a different fork and then merge periodically to reduce noise
I don’t think it’s a mistake that the headline is intended to make Boeing sound uncaring and wrong-headed. The headline is intended to provoke discussion. However, if you pick almost any problem in any industry, the solution invariably is less human / more automated. It’s not hard to see how we got here - I can imagine when Boeing asks pilots what they need the answer is something like reduce distractions so we can fly. How do you do that? More automation. Take almost any operational role - everyone is asking to reduce distractions and highlight things that need focus. I’m not arguing to absolve Boeing from fielding the Max. But I can also see a logical argument here.
Since you brought up writing business emails...

For writing emails and structuring presentations I've found the Pyramid Principle [1] to be quite practical. (apparently McKinsey consultants are trained to do this, along with stuff like MECE, etc. Whatever we think the actual abilities of McKinsey consultants may be, they are generally pretty good at making million dollar PowerPoint decks :)

The idea is simple:

1. Start with the answer first.

2. Group and summarize your supporting arguments. (not more than 3)

3. Logically order your supporting ideas. (chronology, structure or priority)

The article below makes the point that "this “top-down” structure is counter-intuitive for many of us with a scientific or engineering background", but I've observed it is exactly this structure we must adopt for impactful business writing.

[1] https://medium.com/lessons-from-mckinsey/the-pyramid-princip...
Most actors aren't millionaires

Which is why I specified millionaires. Let the actors who are working paycheck to paycheck or earning a middle-class wage, or working second jobs as waiters or whatever join a union. But when an actor is making $10 million for a movie, they don't need a union. They have an accountant and an agent who take care of them.
In that same vein: learning to pronounce Hangul (Korean writing system). You won't understand a thing of what you're saying, but it's kinda fun anyway.
Way to introduce a false dichtonomy into the public conversation to save the company from scrutinity. More or less automation is irrelevant to the conversation and even with all goodwill, was never the motivating factor for Boeing designing the MAX system as it did. Don't be blended by this PR spin!
At work we are on Windows 10 Enterprise. Updates are installed by the business. I've only ever been prompted for a reboot once and it was for a 0-day mitigation that was deployed as an emergency change.
> and well trained personnel

that are soon to be unpaid
You're not wrong, it was more complaints about food he saw as objectively delicious. His go to would be him clowning around like "wah they had this cut of steak but I like filet more."
The car still worked and managed to limp to the dealer, so it's not close to the same event. C&D is stating that they had never had a car become 100% useless while parked and turned off, and that every other luxury brand had offered tow service and a loaner. That's what made this particular event article worthy. I'm 100% sure that had this happened to any other brand, they would've done the same. You're not a C&D regular if you think otherwise to be honest, they'll happily love one model of a brand and absolutely detest others. They love electric cars. You're just spewing out accusations with no basis on fact.
> You're right - ideally if you can create a profitable startup there's no need to knock down doors for a job.

Exactly with both you and the parent. This path saves you from spending your valuable time, skills and energy on leetcode/hackerrank puzzles just for a job and there's no need to do this or knock down doors for one if your startup is profitable.

I would rather create a startup with a solid business-model which requires limited funding that later pays itself (I know it is easier said than done) than to subject myself to frivolous whiteboard programming tasks that are never used in practice. But note that raising too much capital, trades in more control to VCs to decide the fate of your startup.

I find it worth the risk to carry on with working on a startup to bypass the interview games. So please keep going with your startup plans.
And in fact: Just knowing that the doomsday of 2020 is a saturday, I was able to construct the entire one page calendar with pen and paper in a couple of minutes.
Thank you, I never made that connection! (not being sarcastic)

So the government allowing usurious interest rates is a ploy to incentivize working for employers, similarly to how employer-provided insurance works.

So one of the steps to liberate us from corporate work is to limit interest rates along with offering public healthcare.

Not saying this is good or bad, just something to keep in mind while viewing the issues from alternate perspectives.
The Interstate Highway System, manned spaceflight, and National Parks come to mind.
And that’s precisely what most operating systems other than Linux do: use adaptive mutexes as the default mechanism, not spinlocks.
I think you mean tax evasion. Hyperbole is completely different.
I'm as confused as you are. He's doing Trump's signature move, pointing at the evidence and saying: "see, there's no evidence"
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Why do you see it as bad? It's really not. I know multiple people who did as youths (though they could be thought as the more successful end of the spectrum, they're all doing well now and were doing well then).

Not all "runaways" are homeless, though, nor are they even necessarily in a worse spot after doing so.

The idea that a person should stay with their guardians until 18 is a recent societal invention, and is probably more harmful than not.

It's harder than ever to die in America, though it's also gotten progressively harder for youth to get an independent start.

"Running away" (it's more aptly described as "leaving," running implies cowardice) in itself isn't an issue, it's just a symptom of a greater problem: guardians are frequently bad, and the infantilization of society has rapidly progressed to a ridiculous point.

This is a controversial opinion, but one that's shared by almost every close friend of mine: labor laws for adolescents (I hesitate to call them "child labor laws," because infantilizing adolescents is the thing that caused the problem to begin with) have had a disastrous effect on society.

Even in the modern day, a guardian can still rob an adolescent of their earnings in America, codified by law. By any other measure, a person who can force another to work and can take their earnings is a slavemaster.
AFAIK FastAI courses are well recommended for their Deep Learning stuff but they also have ML course[0]
Another usual recommendation is Elements of Statistical Learning book. Another option is finding a MOOC that you enjoy and following it.

[0]http://course18.fast.ai/ml
As a student pilot in a Cessna, I kept thinking how much even simple automation could help. Why do I need to deal with carb heat for example. The answer in almost every case is that things are simpler and probably safer the way they are. Once you start down the automation path, you also want fail-safe redundancy and systems that cooperate with each other when there is a problem. I can see how it can quickly get out of hand. The more complex something gets, the harder it is for human to intervene when there's a problem. I can now argue either way about it.
Further, they claim that the majority of plastic is from drinking water. Call that at least 2.6 grams per week. Say that someone drinks 3 liters of water a day. There should be more than 120 mg in each liter of water. Cover a tall glass of tap water with a cloth and let it evaporate, and there should be a highly visible layer of plastic left at the bottom. Boil a pot of water to dryness, and there should be atrocious smoke from scorching the residual plastic.

Run a faucet with a filter system attached, and in minutes there should be multiple grams of plastic trapped in the filter. You'd expect clogging by plastic to be the lifetime-limiting factor of a faucet filter and of circulating filtered water fountains for pets.

In reality, I have never seen visible plastic residue in evaporation residue or trapped in household water filters.
The thing people misunderstand with the government not being able to figure it out is because there's a huge variety of complexity that is truly individual based. Did you make a contribution to a tax deductible IRA? Did you make a retroactive payment to that account in the following tax calendar year? There's a ton of variables going on here, where the government doesn't have this all-seeing system where everything gets accounted for across the vast array of income sources and employment statuses, dependents, filing status, and all the increments and decrements to those things through time. There's no one central source where all this information is collated and waiting for someone to turn the crank and grind out a number from. Folks have to remember that nothing is implemented by default.

The effort to reduce the complexity of the 1040 into 6 new schedules was a great way to factor out those with complicated situations such that the majority of tax payers are oblivious to those nuances. The crux of the matter is that legislators passed into law all these onerous mass of rules to turn various levers to entice and discourage certain things and bite those with progressive tax rates. It is precisely the existence of these rules as to why the government doesn't know what tax valley you land in that huge parameter space. It will not presume to know your specific circumstances but assume that you being aware of your own money and circumstances are in the best position to know these things. At the least one thing I learned is that with tax laws if you have no idea what a thing is it probably in not applicable to you.

Needless to say all of this would be much more simple if we just pay a flat tax on all income for all people. Nothing simpler than that.
Shocking stats about trying to exit vim:

> In the last year, How to exit the Vim editor has made up about .005% of question traffic: that is, one out of every 20,000 visits to Stack Overflow questions. That means during peak traffic hours on weekdays, there are about 80 people per hour that need help getting out of Vim.
Especially considering that the recent tax law changes are phasing out some fringe benefits that corporations could previously deduct. Regular meals provided for employees on site is one of the deductions that has been nixed.

Obviously, the kitchen salaries will be deductible. But none of the food cost and other ongoing expenditures related to providing that food.
> if a site owner receives a DMCA notice and believes the content is not infringing they can just do nothing and / or tell whoever sent it to get bent, sender may escalate to the courts

The site owner in the case of TF receiving the request is Google, not TF. Google probably automatically acts on the DMCA request and TF has to go through the process of contesting it. So TF can't just sit around and do nothing.
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200 hours of yoga practice.

Maintain a consistent weekly running mileage. (>15)

Various Crossfit skills (handstand pushups, double unders)

Learn to swim again.

Pursue another degree.
Everyone knows what bad sensor data is until they have to write software to identify it.
It was moved to April: https://pyfound.blogspot.com/2019/12/python-2-sunset.html

https://www.python.org/psf/press-release/pr20191220/
"Our automated system crashed several planes, when the pilots were not able to disable it before it could erroneously trim the vehicle into terrain.

"Clearly, we need to remove the human pilots and double down on the automation."

[This is where the people using shallow analysis go nuts. But wait.]

Because the flawed system was only installed for the purpose of avoiding the expense of retraining human pilots to a new model of aircraft! In a fully-integrated automated piloting system, there is no separate trim-compensating subsystem. The trim parameters are plugged directly into the aircraft model, and the automatic pilot has access to all the sensors in the craft to make its trim decisions, instead of just the angle-of-attack sensor.

Instead of re-certifying hundreds of pilots, you just validate one new aircraft data model.
Assuming you're a traditional W2 worker, yes. But many people have other income sources such that the IRS doesn't know how much you owe until you report it.
One minute of latitude for those wondering how this works.
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Twitter can be fine, it can be priceless. The problem with Twitter:

Their client is bad and they mostly killed off good third party clients. I build my own client to solve this, most people can't or wont.

I want a client that prioritizes the things I follow and read the most (i.e. everyday), @newsyc50 or @newycombinator, @zerohedge, @arstechnica, @techmeme, @pkedrosky. @kdnuggets, @reuters, @variety, @politico. @zerohedge is the controversial one of the bunch. My client shows counters on unread messages for each so I know when new tweets are available and they are one click away.

Next I surface trends from the larger body of follows I'm interested in but don't have time to read. I process everything through spaCy and use its increasingly very good entity recognition to find the trending topics in my feed, much better than Twitter's BS trending. When something is tweeted from 5 or 6 places its a trend I may be interested in. I can adjust this threshold up and down.

I lookup each entity in a local Wikipedia database so if its someone or something famous its one click to read about them in depth. If there is no match its probably someone or something new to the Internet which is also interesting to know.

You need a critical mass of follows for this to work, like several thousand. It is a chore to find several thousand interesting people and organizations to follow. Most people aren't going to do this work which is why most people hate Twitter. Following that many is also noisy so you need a client that prioritizes for signal.

Don't read replies to a tweet unless its really interesting, there are a few interesting replies but they are usually pointless, noisy and/or toxic.

Filter out replies by people you follow most of the time. Most of the time. though not always, these replies are noisy and uninteresting.

I have a smooth scrolling feed I just look at to see what everyone is talking about. It was a bit of of a pain to implement when they killed off the stream API, though I replaced it by polling the feed just below rate limit.

I poll everyone I follow if the client has been off for a while to fill the holes in my timeline.
And they released a patch for CVE-2019-0708 on Windows 2000, that doesn't mean Windows 2000 isn't EoL as of 2019 it means a one off decision was made.

ESU is for businesses not end users and requires professional or higher.
I'm not an expert, but I had heard lots of good things about Fast.ai's online course/content:
https://course.fast.ai/

I've started/stopped a few courses with Georgia Tech's OMSCS program as well which might have been useful, but I still feel like I'm missing some of the mathematical foundation to allow me to make more sense of those courses so Fast.ai's approach seems like it could be a better fit for someone like myself that's more interested in the practical aspects of using it (I just haven't made the effort to go through their content myself).
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Healthcare comes to mind since we're discussing US politics.

Roads might be the canonical example but I'm not familiar with any examples of privatized roads.
Thanks so much for sharing. I wasn't aware and will try it this time.
I’d suggest:

https://fast.ai - good intro on practical neural networks.

I wrote a guide to ML based NLP. We identify if a sentence is a question, statement or command using neural networks:

https://github.com/lettergram/sentence-classification

The truth is you don’t need to understand all the math right away with neural networks. Mostly it’s getting an understanding of why you use a given layer, bias, etc and when. Once you get some intuition then I’d learn the math.

That’s at least how I instruct others. In any case, there are lots of guides for any flavor. I’d start with deep learning and focus on the “practical” then move to the “theoretical”.
For me, what happens in the world affects how I direct my (short & long term) investments. The sentiment on recession probability has led me to tweak my long-term investments, and the trade war news has impacted several day-trading actions (it's a hobby).
I spent a good 20min building little towns. Nice post.
>This is a controversial opinion, but one that's shared by almost every close friend of mine: labor laws for adolescents (I hesitate to call them "child labor laws," because infantilizing adolescents is the thing that caused the problem to begin with) have had a disastrous effect on society.

I am in full agreement with this opinion. At 14, I was ready to WORK! After school AND during summer! Yet "Child Labor laws" and related bullshit prevented me from contributing to society at a time when I was fully able and willing to.
Thanks to Rupert Murdoch whom is the main news media owner there and also the source of a lot of false narratives here in the US with Fox news passing what are essentially drama shows as actual news.
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I would say that framing a business problem in engineering terms will lead to an unclear understanding of the problem. The executives were attempting to thread the needle of a potentially business killing competition with Airbus and were willing to make compromises to safety to save their skins. No engineering methodology can save you from motivated reasoning and systems level problems like that because management will force exceptions to whatever process is in place.

The only thing that would be an appropriate counterweight is if the engineering staff refuses to put a defective design into production. A robust engineering process can make violations and exceptions clear, but if the staff still does what management says, it won't help.
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I unironically know.
There's a MOOC that uses 'Introduction to Statistical Learning' by the authors of 'Elements of Statistical Learning', here: https://lagunita.stanford.edu/courses/HumanitiesSciences/Sta...
However “cleared for takeoff” is standard.
What's the logic behind this statement? Airbus is known for its automation, they had some rough times but now they are doing very well. If anything, the most prominent crash that comes to mind from recent history of 737s equivalent a320 is the suicidal pilot of Airberlin.

I would love it when the planes are as easily operated as an elevator. It's probably more realistic than self-driving cars.
Unions are a hot-fix to problems with capitalism, but they are also something greater: the seed of a more democratic society that should be nourished and grown.
The problem is we don't trust Boeing to develop these automated systems, considering they developed a system with enough authority to crash the plane into the ground. essentially 0 sensor redundancy (alternating between sensors is non-redundant)
You just need effective leadership rather than ones that run away from their problems to vacation in Hawaii when their county is burning and citizens seeking haven in rafts and boats in the ocean and lakes.
Your last line writes the whole enterprise off, because politics and bureaucracy is a very real challenge. Google can automate away service workers in the same way they can fix their product organization issues, reduce fragmentation of Android, improve their hardware offerings, stop the endless churn of their products ending up in the Google Graveyard, etc.

That is, you can say they can do anything with their resources, but it’s a paper tiger because the organization simply does not have the will nor interest to engage in such efforts, not when they have other priorities they’re focused on. So perhaps they’ll simply pay their workers.
... And we'll tak a cup o' kindness yet,

for auld lang(uage) syne.
It seems it wasn't moved; the intention wasn't to make the final release on New Year's, but to have the release occur around PyCon. Rather it seems what they meant was that they'd stop fixing issues (except critical ones/blockers) past new year's.
Proof of correctness would be nice, but it looks like they failed at fault tree analysis or FMEA - both of which are common in aerospace.
First of all, I recommend that you turn on relative line numbers AND also normal line numbers. This means that the line the cursor is on will show the absolute line number, but lines above and below will show how many lines away they are from the current line.
:set relativenumber
:set number

This makes it really easy to get to the line you are looking at. You look at the relative line number, see it's 9 lines above, so you start out with pressing 9k to jump up 9 lines.

Let's say you're trying to get to an instance of the 'a' character. The character is to the right of your cursor, so you press fa to jump to the next instance of the 'a' character. However, it turns out that there are multiple instances of the 'a' character before the one you are trying to get to. So you repeatedly press ; to keep going to the next 'a' character until you get to the one you want. You've accidentally passed the one you want, so you press , to go back one.

So all together you something like 9kfa;;

Also related to the f motion are the F, t, and T motions. I use the t motion all the time. t and T are like f and F but they put you on the character before the one you specify. Very useful for jumping to the first character before the next parentheses and things like that.

purely for putting the cursor exactly where you want it there are more powerful things like the emacs acejump plugin or easymotion for vim but they aren't all that necessary IMO.
Heh, OK, that would grate more than a little, makes more sense now.
Basically, they figured out how to trick the female tree into producing fruit with viable seeds:

"Beever attempted to focus the tree’s attention—water and nutrients—on a single bunch of flowers.

After several trials, Beever found a way: a herbicide that mimics natural plant growth hormones. The solution, weak enough to avoid harming the prized plant, could help dissolve the hard exteriors of pollen grains to aid fertilization. Then, the hormones could amplify early signals transmitted by fertilized fruits back to the tree —think of tiny radio pings that say, hey, send more attention our way.

Such abundant indicators convinced the kaikōmako to unleash enough reproductive energy to develop mature purple fruits, less than a half-inch long, each containing a viable seed."
Apparently we need to have a firm talk with the grey whales and their coal-powered migration tools.

Seriously, though, I'm genuinely curious as to the real answer. Any ideas?
It's so insane to me that Grover Norquist somehow lobbied against free tax filing provided by the IRS. It escapes all logic that he didn't pay attention to what other countries do. It escapes all logic that he didn't think for a moment about what the cost would be to citizens in (more or less direct payments to Intuit) and that's not considering the incalculable cost of just gathering up all this documentation and put it into TurboTax.

Billions of dollars in lost man power? Billions of dollars in wealth transfers from middle and lower class people? Probably more like Trillions.

Norquist didn't succeed in drowning the government in the bathtub. He DID successfully manage to keep the entire US citizenry drowning in billions of hours of wasted effort and billions of dollars of unnecessary expenditures. Good work, Norquist!