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Trump's personal pilot nominee (John Dunkin) was not qualified.

He was the man in charge of Trump's presidential campaign’s air fleet.
There were multiple incidents. One of the pilots was convicted violent felon that had to be fired. The landings were constantly so horrible that press joked that nobody survives covering Mike Pence. It all ended with serious incident where one of the crews overshot the runway resulting shut down of Laguardia airport. Mike Pence was on board.

I mean what it tells you about a man who can't even hire competent pilots in America.
To deal with no-show airlines, I'd be (darkly) amused if airports sold somewhat more slots than their gates could physically accommodate.
Show HN: Coronavirus Tracker for iOS with Map and Charts
The Unintended Beauty of Starlings
The relay attack (which is not what this article is about) relies on an erroneous idea in the design of keyless entry and keyless ignition systems.

Signals from an RFID device don't travel very far. So, (here's the error) if the keys can receive and respond to a signal from the car they must be very close to the car.

But signals can be relayed. Crook A stands next to your car. Crook B walks up to your front door.

Crook B is relying on the fact that most people leave their car keys on a key hook, or in a bowl, or maybe even in their outside jacket, which they leave by the door because that's convenient. You have done this.

The car is sending radio pulses. "Hey, are you my key?". Crook A has a relay transceiver, it doesn't need to understand this pulse, just relay it to Crook B. Crook B has another transceiver, and when it says "Hey, are you my key?" the key, on the far side of a locked front door, says "Yes! I'm the right key, see! 023483109" and Crook B's transceiver sends that right back to Crook A. "Yes! I'm the right key, see! 023483109" the one-time code from the key matches, the car unlocks. Crook A gets into the car and starts it. Crook B walks over and gets into the passenger seat.

In a few seconds the car will discover that the key, which was apparently right there, has somehow vanished. But for safety reasons it is unsafe to suddenly lock everything and shut off. The thieves will ensure that by the time it decides it would be safe to lock itself, it's inside a chop shop and that's too late.

So no, the attacker doesn't "have" the key, they just need to be able to stand relatively close to it.
Other reporting has called MCAS the product of a systemic failure, and asserts underfunding of the FAA to be among the ultimate causes. Underfunding being "worked-around" by delegating the work to Boeing:

>(ARs)—Boeing employees who are granted special permission to
represent the interests of the FAA and to act on the agency’s behalf in validating aircraft systems
and designs’ compliance with FAA requirements

Others have pointed out that the conflict of interest inherent in this must pervade AR's daily work environment, and indeed the report pays brief lip service to the contradiction:

>4) Conflicted Representation. The Committee has found that the FAA’s current oversight
structure with respect to Boeing creates inherent conflicts of interest ...

So why do it that way, and why do my searches of the investigation's PDF for "funding", "budget", and "staffing" come up empty?

Consider, then, that responsibility for setting the operating budget of the FAA belongs to the House -- the very same running this investigation.

https://www.transportation.gov/sites/dot.gov/files/docs/miss...
In a lot of cases to divert funds to private companies. There are companies setup to extract federal resources for states. However that many in many cases ends up in the general fund and not to help those in need.

https://nyupress.org/9781479874729/the-poverty-industry/
They could solve this easily by having the airports “freeze” the current quotas till things achieve some equilibrium... else this is unnecessarily wasteful.
Either that or she's lumping together two separate issues, or both.
Fossils of rangeomorphs, which dominated the oceans more than 500M years ago
1. Yes, it would affect other things. This is just an illustrative example.

2. Green threads have lower overhead, but it's a false economy if it causes you to do needlessly redo work because of timeouts that could have been avoided.

Which it seems it must because the kernel doesn't have the insight to know whether a green thread is doing that epoll because it's ACTUALLY idle or because it's not but it's willing to try to juggle a second (or third) thing while it has something on the back burner. So the kernel indiscriminately assigns work to threads without regard for whether they are juggling a lot or nothing.

Whereas with native threads, they never ask the kernel for more work while they're blocked on something else because they are literally blocked and thus won't be making that epoll system call.

(The article also mentions something about LIFO policy, which exacerbates the problem because it favors assigning work to the process which is likely to already have most of it.)
The ASGI spec came from the Django project as part of their Django Channels work. "There are active efforts to support ASGI in Django" is selling them a bit short, methinks.
Those PPAs removed today?
> A biological virus (whether it is a true virus, an endogenous retrovirus, or a transposon) can literally lay dormant in a word document as a string of As, Ts, Cs, and Gs.

Literally, huh? In a word document?
Airline margins are highly cyclic. Making "billions" in one month, might be countered by huge losses in the next.

Evey yearly numbers don't tell the full story - you have to look at multi-year trends in profitability.

...and, indeed, they aren't great for the industry as a whole. Most nations operate a national carrier at a loss.
I don’t have any concern about the appropriateness of my behaviour. I care a lot about the people I work with, I want them all to succeed, and I want them all to feel good about coming to work. The problem is that it’s very easy to paint personal discussions as being inappropriate. Take an example of a discussion related to family. This could be a perfectly ordinary personal topic for two colleagues to discuss. But you don’t have to think very hard to come up with a reason that family could be a taboo topic of discussions with female colleagues. Why is he talking to me about family? Does he want to know what my plans are? Is that why I didn’t get that promotion?...

> I mean, sure, some woman might maliciously make some accusation against you. That’s certainly possible. It’s also possible that a man makes a false bullying accusation.

It sure is. But if I catch the ire of a malicious man at work, it’s much more likely to just amount to the regular office politics nonsense. Even if a man were to make a more outrageous accusation against me, I’d expect to be treated to some reasonable form of due process. With the same accusation from I woman, I absolutely would not have such an expectation. I would also expect that such an accusation could follow me around for perhaps the rest of my life.

Now, I’ve worked with some very talented women, and I’ve done what I can to support them. But sadly I don’t feel as though I can do as much as I would like. You’re free to criticize me for that, but from my perspective it’s a perfectly rational risk avoidance strategy. It’s motivated by cultural factors that are entirely beyond my control, and it’s a perspective that I would guess is shared to some extent by a non-trivial amount of people.
Companies are only profitable because they serve their users better than their competitors.
My very elementary (just skimmed some blog posts about it for a few hours this morning [1]) understanding of why Zettelkasten is a game-changer is that: its a system of organizing notes in a bottom-up, atomic fashion, instead of the usual top-down categorization where the notes don't lend itself well to reviewing or linking with concepts you've previously learned. Basically, a graph (where links are bidirectional) instead of a tree. The power of such a system is that it maps closer to how knowledge is stored in our brains, and that the more you use the system, the better benefit from "network effects".

In traditional note-taking systems, the category is the most obvious first-class citizen. In ZK, the little ideas take precedence, because some little idea that belongs to category A can easily end up belonging to other categories B, C, D, ... as time goes on and you study more subjects/discipline.

I'm sure the idea I'm describing is nothing new, groundbreaking, or unique to ZK - but this is the impression that I got, and I've had the pain of having very poorly managed knowledge via Evernote/OneNote/Notion/etc. before. I also dabbled with Anki and mindmapping. I believe the optimal solution is to combine all 3, since mindmaps have the "graph" structure part down; Anki only focuses on recall, but not conceptual understanding/linkage; and traditional notes, while obviously storing more information, are usually organized in hierarchical top-down structures that don't lend themselves well to reviewing or building a deliberate map of knowledge.

Another alternative to mindmaps is something like Jerry's Brain [2], where irrelevant nodes are collapsed until you explore them. Jerry has given extremely compelling presentations because he's used it for something like 20 years.

I am aware of a bias as I write this: I simply might not have had enough discipline when using traditional note-taking systems before, and am going through a bit of a (pre) honeymoon phase with this new ZK stuff. Just my 2 grains of salt.

[1]: https://nateliason.com/blog/roam

[2]: https://www.jerrysbrain.com/
So let’s play, if you can guess the align method I’ll open source it :)
and what are executives making?
Researchers find another vulnerability inside Intel CPUs
Good for execs, bad for Europe (is perhaps what the grandparent comment meant)?
There are few blog posts that make it to the front page of hacker news that don't draw sharp criticism in the comments and that criticism is quite often the top comment.
Your conflating military aid with this contract. When we provide military aid, it's in the form of credit for purchases from approved U.S. countries, pending Congressional approval. This was a straight military equipment purchase.
Not who you asked, but I did neuroscience programming for a bit. If you're looking for open-source software to contribute towards, check out PyCortex and the SPM Matlab package. We could really use some kind of "SPM for Python", or some other kind of fMRI pre-processing pipeline in Python.
I think dnautics was just talking about the US, so there are only 19 deaths so far.
I have a similar setup (also at common desk! heyo....although with silicon valley bank and Walmart IT housing corporate offices at CD it's perhaps less science fair-y that it used to be). I use it on the weekend and once to maybe twice a week on WFH days. It's nice to have a place to sit and work.
I bought a D7000v2 second hand recently to replace the piece of crap ISP router I had. Of course it's got a critical vuln and of course it can't really run openwrt
well Tesla model 3 can be unlocked with your phone and the key is no bigger than a credit card so it is the best of both worlds for me.

Now Ford lets you in your car with a pin code on some and there are suggestions you may be able to start their Mach E EV with just a pin as well.
It's actually even worse than that:

https://nyupress.org/9781479874729/the-poverty-industry/

> foster care agencies are hiring private companies to help obtain disability and survivor benefits from abused and neglected children. Rather than using the funds to help the children, the money is diverted to agency revenue or to state general coffers. Some foster care agencies take even more, such as taking Veteran’s Assistance benefits belonging to a child after a parent serves and dies in the military. The Maryland foster care agency drafted a regulation allowing it to take all resources from foster children
Good. Developers deserve to be compensated for their work. I hope we see more of this.
Plus or minus shouldn't make any difference as long as your input distribution is symmetric around zero.

A simple transformation shows you can get the same effect by just flipping the input the output and the weights. The weights are initialized from a symmetric distribution, so the only difference may come from having the input nonevenly distributed around zero.

y = x - relu(Mx + b)

-y = -x + relu((-M)(-x) + b)

y' = x' + relu(M'x' + b)

Have you tried normalizing your input to have zero mean?
> I don’t hold this opinion strongly, but do lean towards async/await syntax for sake of explicit is better than implicit

I guess it's a question of where the line that defines "too implicit" should be drawn. I'm totally fine with implicit gevent yields, yet sometimes when I need to do heavy Python meta-programming, I wish things were more explicit around language semantics, namely everything around inheritance handling inside meta-classes (for instance, see the current implementation of enum.Enum).
It's not a cryotocurrency. It's a private blockchain. As I understand it, it incentivises nodes to play nice.

Signal's requirement for phone numbers is an absolute red flag for me. And using contact lists seems insane.

I've been playing with it a little, using the Linux app, and it was extremely intuitive.

But then, I only chat with people who I know online via other channels. With zero meatspace involvement. So if I care, I can cross authenticate. Using GnuPG even.

I'm 0525c5ba8a4bc6fc6f107b637b5107b6b7abfd1153ea042b5e9fe474acb5d9cf35 if y'all would like to chat.
Congrats on the launch. This is a really interesting space that I think has a ton of potential - I'm watching pretty closely to see what comes out of it.

Have you heard of Outlier (https://outlier.ai)? Do you have any thoughts? How does Orbiter compare to Outlier?

(I haven't used Outlier but see it come up in anomaly detection discussion a lot recently).
Note that both your examples are

a) criticising content rather than delivery/tone

b) not the primary conversation around these two authors

Look to Linus Torvalds for a male example where delivery rather than content is often the primary conversation. That is how egregious the delivery must be for a male to get the tone police called on them
Of course it will be fail open. The car will unlock when it does not detect the correct cell phone nearby.
And it is also usually focused on content
The point being that apparently it is standard practice to not provide the source code, in many cases.
I think your concerns with having to check up on your kids because they have tons of questions stems from the teacher not being prepared for this.

I'm sure their teacher has materials based on the fact that they will be in class in person and can answer any questions and explain things better. If this teacher had more time, I'm sure they could structure their coursework to fit the online format much better
I've been a Linode customer for the better part of a decade. Primary reason is that their egress is quite generous compared to any other provider I've looked at. Also, their customer service is exceptional and over the years the hardware has been upgraded without being charged more money.

They're now rolling out a Kubernetes service which I'm in the beta of.

Been working on migrating a high egress service over to k8s for the last month or so. So far so good.

I'd recommend you take a look at Linode's offerings.
I'm softly quitting social media
> we’re lucky she takes the time to put hard-earned lessons on the net for others to benefit from.

I genuinely don't see much of a lesson to learn from this particular blogpost, and it appears neither did many others in HN. If there is one, beyond "don't use x", it's hard to find it.

I get the impression that this particular post is being upvoted to the top of HN because of who the author is, not necessarily because this post itself has value. This results in a whole bunch of others reading it, wondering why they're wasting their time with such a rambling post.
Slack is working hard to prevent this kind of interoperability; the incentive for them is to push ahead on features, and being abstract-able behind bitlbee or libpurple impairs that. They have deprecated the API token (called a "Legacy Token" on their site) that bitlbee uses, and there's a sunset date of May 5 2020.
> how do you classify Israel as an ally?

Because the US government classifies them as an ally.

According to the official, military experts and generals, they treat Israel as a military ally.
This is only a badly embossed law proposal, which has not been approved yet. Its release to the news, is a huge mistake and it is aleeady causing havok all across the country. People are hoarding trains to go away from the supposed red zones undoubtfully spreading even further the virus.
What does this even mean? Of course they could if the law said so, which is what the GP is asking.
Why should I consult a Finance Expert?
That’s not what it’s dictating.
>politically

Boeing is too big to fail and too powerful to punish so nothing will really happen. If it was a Chinese company it would be banned from the US. As a US company it will go on like nothing happened. Well maybe the engineers who refused to sign will be fired. Give it some time and a "fix" will be made and the MAX will fly again.
Did you try reading these papers? If you want to start from the simpler one, go for the Uber one first. Though, in my understanding, the original paper should be accessible to math/cs undergrads.
Are you running the new Windows Terminal (Preview)? If not, and you try it, is it any better?
> The latter will get more and more common: Quotes and references, where the reference binds you together, not the shared knowledge of the original source.

This opens up the possibility of altering the meaning of the reference. As long as you refer to the original, errors in the reference can be detected by others who also know the reference. They can then point out the error and you can discuss it, or directly check the original source.

Hence, since an objective original source exists, it is always possible to recalibrate your references via feedback from reality.

So one step of increasing distance from reality may be two people exchanging Shakespeare quotes, who have both not actually read the play it is from, but who still know that it is from a Shakespeare play, and could look up the original source if they cared. In other words, they know of the existence of the original source.

Another, further step away from reality would be if those people also lacked the knowledge of the original source (e.g. the Shakespeare play it is from), or even worse, who do not know (or even ask themselves whether) there is an original source. They then take the reference as idiomatic, leaving wide open the possibility of others to attach arbitrary meaning to that reference, without an easy possibility to defend against such distortions of meaning.

Another interesting point is that if you know a reference from an original source, you most likely have additional relevant knowledge and context for its interpretation. Whereas if you have only "learned" the reference from others, detached from the context needed for correct interpretation, you risk misinterpreting the reference, basically mutating its meaning.

Sorry for going on a tangent here, but I couldn't resist this opportunity to apply some ideas from [0].

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simulacra_and_Simulation
Does Spotify not work on iOS? Is this the same Spotify that originally required a Facebook account to sign up?
Please don't mix national and worldwide numbers: WHO estimates 1,350,000 traffic related death worldwide [1]. That said, every single loss of life is a tragedy by itself.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_traffic-r...
Yeah. I suppose there is a point at which government should be truthful and also a point at which it’s better to act and then explain why.
The problem is that it isn't. The police have routinely conducted similar dragnets with racial profiling in the past.

Even in systems with less human intervention (e.g automated loan approval systems) bias is still being built in.

If anything this could provide people with the excuse of "see! it was the algorithm!".
It actually alot of background on why it doesn't work. The post could just be:

tl;dr: gunicorn doesn't know how to multiplex listeners and green threads will ruin your request latency.

The thing is, that post isn't very useful nor interesting. The point here is that the "simple" python architecture doesnt scale well at all so you might not want to use it if you're planning on scaling ever.
In Australia they're building a large number of inner city, and suburban apartments, and indeed they are doing what you suggest it seems - making rents affordable, and even purchase if you like. there are a lot of people that are against living in apartments - mainly older, but it works, and seems like a solution in Europe. The great thing about apartments is they create a close hub of people that can then be served with public transport, large suburbs you have to have a car.
Personally I'm sincerely grateful there's at least one company that gives a shit about my privacy. And I will never understand why some people choose to attack them for it.
For the downvoters - I also do not like Paul Graham and Sam Altman - they're the same as Rachel in every way. Little substance, lots of unsubstantiated filler material.

To extend this further, I also don't like NewYorker for this reason alone - I don't have time for convoluted novel-like stories that has the important bit buried somewhere in the middle of 6 pages. If I want to read beautiful and creative prose, I need to be in that mindset. Not when discussing Python innards.
Sure, but that is different from physical violence or threat of physical violence. Not to mean it is inherently less serious, but I would argue that they need to be treated as part of different categories.

I would also argue that emotional and psychological abuse should be considered a serious crime, but I am not convinced that conflating it with violence is appropriate.

I realize that my categories leave a blind spot for more subtle method of bullying, especially in intrinsically violence-free cases like cyber-bullying or "intense-gossiping" which can be seriously damaging.

Still I do not think that classifying that as violence in and of itself is an appropriate solution.
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Because it costs each innocent victim tens of thousands of dollars to defend themselves. If they are poor, they may have no defense. Next, they are plea bargaining to a crime they didn’t commit because that is the only reasonable option left.
The type of criticism matters. A lot. It's not about babying women. It's about pointing out different standards for different speakers.
How? Protecting people from Facebook-only logins is not a bad thing. You can still use your own auth. You just can’t force someone to sign in with Google or Facebook as the only choice.
What's truly amazing to me is the low cost of truly high quality kitchen knives available today.

Ikea sells a 3 knife set for $30[1] that is made with the exact same steel as high end German knife brands - x50crmov15.

IMO, the real problem with kitchen knives in most homes is they are woefully under-sharpened. A budget knife that's sharpened once or twice a month will completely outperform the most expensive knife that's never sharpened.

___

1. https://www.ikea.com/us/en/p/ikea-365-3-piece-knife-set-9034...
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Don't forget that a company internally is run like a Soviet Style planned economy. 5 year plans, no way for people on the ground to adjust plans, inflexible leadership. I could also mention things like total disconnect between communication from leadership and reality or motivational posters. It's all there.

It's not surprising they create similar behaviors.