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The flight control software wasn't worked on by the infamous $9 an hour engineers. That was the multi-function display, on which one could only actually get as far as possibly contributing to not displaying the AoA disagree warning if I recall correctly.

What it does demonstrate, however, is Management's ruthless devotion to chasing the bottom dollar. What further probing may have been done by someone more deeply invested and dedicated to the task? I don't at all blame someone only getting $9 dollars an hour for "Yes-manning" it. I do, however, blame the exec woefully ignorant of the environment and effect on overall culture that has. When you start engineering for the sake of financials like that, you intentionally invite writing checks your work culture can't cash down the road.

My two cents.
Btw, there's a 737 MAX update Sept 24 from blancolirio about Boeing and the FAA hammering out modifications to training and systems that will eventually put the idle birds back in the air.

https://youtu.be/zpQUTa-8j9c

FAA Administrator Steve Dixon & Deputy Administrator Daniel Elswell will personally crew a 737 MAX next week:

https://youtu.be/ObSLEiefHcE

The EASA is aiming for November recert. FAA was last aiming for a no earlier than October for a final published AD to bring it back.
> Assume it's French cheap staffing companies (90% of the employment market there)

This is caused by overly restrictive and rigid labour law. Companies offload that problem to staffing companies. This is a way to go around restrictions and to increase flexibility in the marketplace, but actually employees (at least very qualified ones like engineers) do not really benefits.

That being said, it is possible to find permanent positions and I never worked for a staffing company ('SS2I' as it used to be called) when I was in France.
https://www.kucoin.com/news/en-kucoin-security-incident-upda...
I consider any set of self-consistent rules to be mathematics, even if aliens invented them.
A machine that we can ask any question and get an answer, aghast! Fun to realize what was top level science fiction at the time is now our mundane daily life
I'm obviously in my own bubble, but I don't understand people complaining about WordPress.

WordPress is by far the worst CMS you could possibly use, every other single CMS is better in every capacity.

Let's go through why

- Uses PHP 5 spaghetti code with a handful of garbage event listeners and output buffering

- Has no integration with composer at all

- Doesn't have any form of content types without plugins

- Has no cache, no theming engine, no multi-language, etc etc

- Beyond a media library it has literally no aspects of a "content management system"

It's built for a simple blogging platform and for that purpose Gutenberg is amazing.

Why do people continue to try and shove weirdly hacked on garbage plugins on top of basically a glorified blogging platform is beyond me.
Pay scale is great, but at least in the US, benefits cost can be a significant difference.
I've seen offers 15% higher completely wiped out by a difference in benefits cost. It makes negotiating very difficult. Often the hiring manager or HR people have no idea what the costs are, because they are single and you are looking at the "family" benefit costs.

I'd love to see some sort of database showing benefit costs at different companies. The information is out there, it's just hidden. It's often a paint to get clear costs during the interview process. God forbid you're negotiating near the end of the year, because the costs change every year.
Hey all: we build a ton of websites in Craft and I've presented technical topics at their yearly conferences before. Happy to answer any technical or other questions about Craft here or via email, if anyone is curious to learn more.

In my opinion it's a great CMS and a good choice for the W3C site. It's content author-friendly, is also very developer-friendly and supports modern development/SDLC processes. You'll be pleasantly surprised if your only PHP-based CMS experience is with other CMSes.
Not as precisely as mathematics can as shown by F = ma or E = mc^2.
Math is a language that describes relationships between quantities of different things.
Or not. We've been using the energy stored up in the Earth over eons as if it's infinite, and now realised it's not. We've gone from Ader and Weisskopf to multiple nations having space programmes off the back of a dependency on fossil fuels.

Those fuels are running out, and we have to stop using them in any case before we kill the planet.

To my view the C19-20th has been a unique period of growth. We're going to need to be much more resource and energy conservative until {and even when} we develop new technologies (fusion? some sort of zero-point energy harvesting??).

It seems renewables might be able to satisfy our current energy demands, as long as we don't do something like thinking we can continue along the curve we've been going on, particular wrt population growth, but also wrt our expectation of a bottomless pit of all elements.

Our next revolution needs to be extreme longevity of goods/tools/appliances and full reuse/recycling. IMO that's incompatible with Capitalism, we need producers who are invested in _not_ selling more products than are needed and investors who want to achieve goals beyond extracting liquifiable value from our societal systems.

Even going back to feudalism I fear we've fostered into power the sorts of people who will never choose the trajectories we need but will always go for personal wealth. It might already be too late to correct that.
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The question still remains - Was the malfunctioning of 737Max flight control software developed in India? If yes, was the development in charge from the US? If no, why is there a repeated insinuation of liability towards India?
https://www.reddit.com/r/netsec/comments/iyoovi/zerologoncve...

https://media.cert.europa.eu/static/SecurityAdvisories/2020/...

https://www.cert.ssi.gouv.fr/alerte/CERTFR-2020-ALE-020/

https://www.bsi.bund.de/DE/Presse/Kurzmeldungen/Meldungen/Ze...

https://www.secura.com/blog/zero-logon

https://www.darkreading.com/vulnerabilities---threats/6-thin...
Even within HN, I'd say it's only a small but vocal minority of Americans that express these kind of views. From what I can tell, the underlying causes are animosity about the H1B program, misconceptions about migrant workers, and latent racism.

But to be clear: plainly not all negative comments about H1B or outsourcing fall into the above category.
> Lithium ion inherently needs a lot of care in charging and discharging.

For longevity this is true, but even the while overcharging the risk of a fire isn't that high nowadays (from what I've seen close to 0 with cylindrical cells). Some pouch cells are even fine when punctured.

Of course I want these issues to be fixed to keep Pinephones working and AFAIK the batteries in the Pinephone are of an older model, so maybe they're a bit more dangerous. The author definitely has a point.
Everything is a hot potato when your basic needs are met and you’re bored and more importantly you desperately feel the need be “right” about something, perhaps listened.
It's pretty clear this is a huge witchhunt. I wouldn't side with assange as some of the stuff he has done is questionable, but this whole nonsensical effort to extradite him has a singular target: to scare off future leakers. Same with snowden - he's hundredfold proven right and has contributed not just to global security but also to hold the US gov to account. But of course the US can't tolerate any challenge to their way of running the show.

China, the US, Russia - these are all today just autocracies with an elite serving itself. The US has a chance to get back to sanity as its democracy is still not fully gone, but this whole duopoly of two nearly identical parties that only disagree over a few issues (both would be on a European political spectrum on the far right) prevents any real questioning/challenge of the status quo.
Quite an astute observation. I’ve been thinking about this quite heavily recently. It has odd occult references too in the sense of “nothing creates something.”

That which is measured, exists.

No measurement itself, as in of itself as a thing, is a thing that exists. You can measure 3cm but “3” and “cm” don’t exist. Virtual values assigned by consensus. All axioms are agreements. Truth or existence itself is convergent and resembles certainty only in the majority agreeing to it.

Imagination allows nothingness (imaginary things) to be measured.

Imagine any unit, give it a “rule” and now it can be measured!

Pretty interesting bridge between the “imaginary” and the “real.”

There’s so much nuance on what existence is, and isn’t, or even not is nor isn’t is depending on if you subscribe to classical logic based on what we currently describe as mostly Aristolian or if you use many-valued logics which are making a come back yet rooted in the Vedas...

I find this extremely profound and it’s one of my top focal areas of study right now.

It’s also related to my observation of disagreement, chaos, and behavior of the human animal. It seems the zeitgeist of the egregore lacks the ability to adjust perspective and see truth depending on the “rule/roles being played” (all disciplines are games/acting in a way).

Tons to unpack.
> I can imagine an intelligent species that has a structured set of logical rules that looks very different from our math but still be able to make useful models.

but can you imagine such a set of rules?
The authors are obviously very proud of their clever algorithms, but as a user my main concern is not the implementation details. My main concern is what can this tool do for me?

What are the new and amazing features I can use? Or which operations go faster?
> You can get pretty far with just ACF, a contact form plugin, an optimisation plugin (how is page caching still not built into WordPress?), and coding small features into themes directly.

This. I work on large, high-traffic WP sites a lot, and we're essentially keeping a hand full of plugins and writing everything else ourselves. Lots of plugins are complicated because they want to enable ordinary users to customize their behavior, which you don't need if you have even basic php skills. And from a code quality point, I prefer our own over most plugins.

If anyone builds sites for clients and uses a lot of plugins, it's because they don't have anyone that can write code.
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Trump, not "US"
Not a couple of years, but a valid point. I've always told myself I'm focussed on my compensation integrated over 10 years. This can allow for some trade off between money today and money tomorrow.
Sure, but I explicitly restricted my comment to university grads. And I literally said “there’s obviously privilege involved”.

My point is that people often talk like nobody could do businesses or be independent except the top 1%. But it’s actually a fairly broad swath of the educated class. I would guess a majority of the people reading the posts here could work like they don’t need a a job. And yet many also do not.

Lots of non americans read this forum but a lot of this is actually easier outside america as COL is so low. Again, for those in the class I’m talking about.

My point wasn’t “anyone can do this”. Obviously there’s privilege involved. My point was that a larger swath of people can work like this than you’d think.

Also, university grad is not a prereq for, say, trying to start a business. A majority of young americans now live with their parents. This is in some ways a gloomy statistic, but it likely also indicates their living costs are very low in most of those cases. Most people in that circumstance can take 1-2 months to fiddle with an online business idea with no startup costs.

If you tell people “something is impossible, only the rich can try” then a lot of people won’t even attempt something, even if their life circumstances actually permitted them to do so. What frustrates me about discussions on these topics is people assume the level of privilege needed is much higher than it actually is.

https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2020/09/04/a-majority-...
I had a look at this. So, I’m renting a bike.. where am I renting it from?
Some kids do (I did).
Let's be specific, then, and exclude any software that is built with GNU make? First thing that goes is the Linux kernel (which can only be built with GNU make). As far as I know, Alpine still relies on the Linux kernel, so that's out.
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I went twice. I posted a bunch of videos http://joshuaspodek.com/summary-of-north-korea-videos. That post also links to the top ten of many posts I wrote on the experience. I studied strategy so wrote a book describing my view on why North Korea remains so stable for so long and why there seems no way out no matter how powerful someone attempting change may be, though I suggested a few ideas https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B006PMDXTM (self-published, not scholarly, but I think I shared a few meaningful insights).

It's like walking into 1984 the book. Nobody who visits believes we're seeing the country as people there live it. You go where they let you, though we did take a detour when a road was blocked and saw parts of Pyongyang outsiders don't get to which felt like seeing the back of a movie set where you see behind the facades. Everyone in the group wanted to take pictures but we all agreed not to for the sake of our guides.

Since I tend to look for similarities, not differences, I was more curious to see how people lived under such a different culture, so disconnected. My two biggest takeaways

1. A greater sense of empathy for all people for seeing how similar people were under the most disconnected culture I've come across

2. Culture shock hits you when you return, seeing things that used to seem normal from a new perspective. Seeing Times Square after seeing their giant statues of their semi-divine Great Leaders. I still can't shake seeing Times Square as a bigger sanctuary that we kneel to, representing a comparable submission, devotion, subjection, and permiation into our lives and minds.
Bennu will be very close to Earth in around 150 years and there is a very tiny chance it might hit us, but part of me wishes we had the means to capture it in Earth orbit as a lower moon.
I think all you did was whatabout, with a little disclaimer that you're not really whatabouting.
'HN is and has been passively aggressive towards Indians, I think anyone who browses this forum for a month would know that, it's hardly news.'. --- This is a generalization unsubstantiated with no data or references. I find no evidence of this
Pardon my ignorance but I really don't know why kids should not be allowed to watch porn. I tried to look it up, but all results I looked at either claim it is ok for children to watch porn or just jump to teach you how to prevent your children from watching porn while assuming you already know why porn is harmful. Honestly, I doubt that there will be significant damage, especially if the people watching are already 16 or 17 years old.

However, that is not my expertise, so I can't say for sure that it is completely ok for teenager to watch porn.

Nevertheless, for the sake of this conversation, let's say, it is indeed really harmful for underage people to watch porn. Then, why don't Google or Apple just make a toggle? Or, since you already need an account to use Google Play or iOS App Store, just filter out all the porn apps when the users are deemed to be too young to properly enjoy porn. The fact that it is dangerous for a 6-year-old to drive a car does not mean cars should be banned for the entire humanity.

On the other hand, if watching porn for young people is indeed that harmful (enough for justifying banning them altogether on the largest 2 mobile app distribution platform), the future of humanity is already doomed, because they can already open up Google and search "porn" and start watching them.
but I believe anything is true if embedded in a metamodel making it so. I mean aliens might think in hyperwave cofields from the get go and to them our atoms might looks totally absurd.
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I wasn’t suggesting you can observe them with your naked eye and, in fact, one of the definitions of ‘see’ describes deducing from information. So sarcasm quotes are not necessary.
Like PHP in general, it was easy to get started with and now there are tons of developers pushing it in the ecosystem. Now that so many people know it, it's self-perpetuating at this point.
Yep, I suspect I'm going to have to.
It’s startling the huge amount of resources thrown at this. The fact that they booked flights to visit the victims home is creepy and disturbing.

The police reaction seems quite competent.

The non startling part, the higher ups moved on and are fine while the low level contractors are in trouble.
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I like to think about it as this: numbers are a human invention, but quantity is a property of the universe. The laws of physics, including all types of conservation, take care of that. Quantity takes care of ensuring many derived properties (rules) that numbers show and which can be expressed abstractly (complex math). Studying the properties of a complex self-consistent system is interesting, and sometimes, when it reveals an interesting resulting property, it can be traced all the way back to the original natural property of quantity, and applied in a practical way in the world. Other times, it can't, and it remains a curious interesting fact in the realm of the abstract system.
No I'm not touching it with a 10 feet pole. Besides the fact that I would need new hardware for that( it's a core 2 duo system) which they are unwilling to fork the money for, anything that happens with it in the future will be my fault.
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Higher cost does not equal higher quality.
13 years later, the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charge-coupled_device#History would appear.

The Telemite might have been tiny, but recording units were a bit larger: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ampex#Quadruplex
> I think you can safely say the vast majority of people working at those companies don’t want to see bad things happen to the United States.

What makes this "the key difference"? I think you can safely say the same about Chinese tech companies. VPN usage is higher among tech-literate people for obvious reasons, and while having access to uncensored information doesn't necessarily instill love for the US, wanting "bad things to happen to the United States" is a pretty extreme level of nationalism.

I wouldn't be surprised if Chinese tech employees in China had a more positive attitude with respect to the US than Chinese tech employees in the US, due to "the grass is greener on the other side"-type effects.
You’re right; I was thinking of the text-only terminals that were widely used in the 70s and 80s. I believe those are where the green/amber/white on black aesthetic originated, because they couldn’t display anything else. But I could be wrong.
For example because BSD POSIX utilities lack some particular flag that you want.
In that case, you would need to be the only actor who has the technology. Otherwise you have to worry about all the issue you cited again.
There are some core questions in ethics that might be considered so fundamental that they almost don't seem like religious question at all.

The Observer Problem is a good example. I experience life from this singular human's perspective. Why this specific one? What mechanism dictates which human my "observer" occupies? Why even a human and not an animal?

The word "soul" is a poor descriptor because it is associated with so much more, but the Observer Problem is real - or at least it might be.

I heard a theory is that there is another higher order time dimension, and all of our "observers" are actually the same one living in some sequence "simultaneously". ...but that doesnt really solve the dilemma either because even that sequence would need some mysterious ordering mechanism.

...but in all that there are core questions about what is time, what is space, what is energy, what happens to the universe... etc

One thing I tell me daughters is that death isn't scary. ...because we exist inna limited space and time. We should be no sadder to not exist in the future than not existing 10m to the left. We cannot be eternal, but if you recognize that time is just a dimension, then our existence is permanant in the history of the universe. Nothing can undo what we did and who we were.
It sounds like Pine should at least issue guidance around these specs for distro devs, even if they don't participate in actually writing the software or configuring the kernel.
You're absolutely right - especially the second point. With that said, I often find the xenophobia here a bit disturbing, but (and thats a massive but) to say those are "typical American ethics" (like above) tantamounts to a sweeping generalization. One which does not represent American values at all.
What is the use case except swiftUI?
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This kind of anti american propaganda is spreading thru TikTok
https://www.tiktok.com/@flamecatcher2/video/6871036098341014...
I am positively in love with the idea of a Pi-like device but in the “ready for your pocket” form factor. And I love the limitations of the hardware.

I want to get a device like this and write some fun little Rust gadgets that uses the internet in some way. But I’m not sure if this device is for me. Is it lower level than that? Do I need to understand FPGA programming?

Are there any similar “ready for your pocket” devices?
HN readers are not so friendly to pro-China comments or even those thread that tells the reality in China that they don’t want to believe
I get that everyone’s cheering for FB lose a lucrative market but this seems really stupid on the part of EU regulators. This is just the EU taking a jab at the US government via Facebook than anything to do with Facebook itself.

If they actually go forward with this the “it doesn’t matter where the servers are” parts of the GPDR go out the window because, apparently, the EU can’t be sure that foreign governments (i.e. the US) won’t undermine data protection laws.

Which of course is literally true but if that’s your threat model then surely you can’t do business with any foreign based company since the US could just force FB to give them access to the EU data centers.
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Do you think there's never any inefficiency in a system? It's possible they could lower cost but keep the same quality. There's an incentive to do that.
Currently using Drupal 8 with a decoupled Next.js frontend .. works very well. Seem less upgrade to Drupal 9. Advanced CMS editing tools, moderation tools, media management, componentised content modules, content library, all content exposed via JSON:API, multilingual by default .. built on Symfony.

To say it's more complex than WP is true .. but to completely discount it, is foolish.
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