skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
On top of that there was a single angle of attack (AoA) sensor active that was complained about and failed hundreds of times. [1]

Not only is that a single point of failure, it is more easily sabotaged or easily damaged.

Besides the fact the plane has engines too big for it and needed this MCAS system simply to retrofit and route around regulations and deal with that by constantly checking the AoA to trigger nose down adjustments, this is bad engineering/product design by management.

The software now takes two sensors into account in case of a failure of one but is still a problem potentially. Not sure if software can solve this.

[1] https://www.cnn.com/2019/04/30/politics/boeing-sensor-737-ma...
The replacement CEO was previously the chairman of the board. So while they did change personnel, I am skeptical about how different their actual management practices are.
What's so special about computers?

Should car manufacturers be forced to use interoperable wheels, lights and other proprietary components? Maybe so.

Take a basic 36V drill, companies such as Black and Decker and Dewalt use different methods to lock the battery onto the accessory. Should the government also mandate these are interoperable?

The list goes on - construction tools, consumer electronics, appliances, etc.

To what extent should the government force industries to do things?

By the way, I personally would love if the answer to the questions above were yes, but I wonder how successful the government would be in pursing these things.
And just so GP understands—I felt the need to downvote their comment explicitly because of that line at the end.
Yes, but it's also a good point!
Might Sir be interested in ISO3103?

( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_3103 )
Ryanair were notable for also placing a large order for the 737 NG in January 2002, which was rumoured to be in excess of 50% of list price, as Boeing had struggled to make any sales and was having lay-offs.
An operating system?

Check out my blog post, Challenging projects every programmer should try:

https://web.eecs.utk.edu/~azh/blog/challengingprojects.html
Most of the good discussion here happens without much mutual upvoting or downvoting. Frequent downvoters fit other users into political/technical/social narratives that wouldn’t make sense to anyone else, and the downvoted would reflect that.
Has anyone been able to get Arch to work on a PB? I know they have a version of Manjaro, so I'm curious about what the install/life is like for a typical Arch setup.
"the greatest teacher failure is"
Demonstrably false and wrong.
https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2019/11/success-failures-lear...

https://www.futurity.org/learning-from-failure-2196272/
Amazon has a non-trivial ad business...

(Still does not mean this is not a problem)
Not only unemployed, but potentially unemployed in a new city, and liable for returning the relocation package. There is zero leverage in such a position if a company alters the deal, and tells you to pray they don't alter it further. Thankfully that that didn't happen to me, but it was in the back of my mind that after moving, I wasn't in the greatest of positions if there were to be any objectionable clauses.
Hmm. Set up a command line store. That would filter out people looking for a deal!
Can you expand on that? "shares the sky"?
Well there was the whole 300% tax on Bombardier debacle, boeing got them punished without even having a competing aircraft!

https://money.cnn.com/2017/10/06/news/companies/boeing-bomba...
Make Your OS Run More Lisp
CatGirl GNU/Linux attempts to push forward the cause of LISP
Machines in popularity and efficacy. Its components are:

EMACS; if it runs on EMACS, it runs on CatGirl GNU/Linux.

X11;

EXWM.

The GUIX System.
> You just shifted the goal post.

Arguably. I don't see it as such though. I see it as: if my phone would be fine in a deposition then I don't have to worry about work spying on their device. But if I have to worry about what work might find out on a device then I'd be a lot more worried about what might show up in a deposition.

What's said in private is supposed to stay private. It helps to demonstrate that it has stayed private if it can't be compelled especially from unrelated circumstances. Whether "private" means discussions with your family, your friends, your coworker, your boss, your commander, your patient, your client...

...it's very important to keep work separate.
> I probably won't spend $15k for electricity for all of my life

Living in a two bedroom unit in Sydney my last quarterly electricity bill was over $500.00 which comes to over $2000.00 a year.

Basically here in Sydney we have high electricity prices and my washer, drier and air conditioner love to chew up electricity.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CIC_(Nintendo)
I've ended up treating PHP like shell scripting, with that mind set it becomes much more bearable for writing new code in... much like bash, you don't dare write anything too complex, yet can appreciate it for being a well positioned language for the specific type of task (and I say that having written lots of quite long but well composed bash scripts).

Unfortunately PHP is more capable as a language than shells while still having all those poorly thought out parts that will make you hate it if you try to exploit it to it's full capability.

Of course this mind set doesn't help much for existing massive code bases where all of the application logic is written in PHP.
You like punch-cards? Because that is how you get them!
But old people have Medicare. Health insurance for old people hasn't been the problem.
Windsor.io – A User Feed Built for Founders
Hey HN,

I'm one of the founders of https://windsor.io. There are so many analytics tools out there to choose from, but when working on our previous project with 5 users at its peak, the graphs didn't make any sense to look at. We wanted to see what each user was actually doing. It's the same data that analytics tools had anyway, but just presented in a way that was more useful.

The first version was a CLI tool for ourselves - and now we have a fully fledged event feed. It looks a lot like Whatsapp or FB Messenger - A list of users on the left, a stream of messages/events in the middle, and the users profile + other actions on the right. Everything is realtime. It's kinda addicting to watch our users through Windsor everyday and see what they're doing. It's become the basis of all our conversations with users, our customer support, and now it's even a daily ritual where I run through some of our segments everyday (new users who signed up, or churned users who opened an email I sent out).

I would absolutely love to see what HN thinks. I understand that all you really have to go off of is the landing page at https://windsor.io, but if you sign up for an invite there, I'll get it out to you within the day so you have better feedback and hopefully a ton of value.
If they did that after the person turned down other job offers and possibly incurred explicit financial expenses in reliance on Google accepting the redlined changes - assuming they highlighted the changes when they provided them instead of trying to sneak it past - Google could possibly be liable for damages caused by that reliance if they were to be sued or arbitrated against.

It says really bad things about the corporatist labor culture in the US that Google doesn't have any reason to fear that type of lawsuit in practice. (I.e., they could make it too expensive to win, they'd still hire without a problem going forward, and the person who sued them would have trouble getting jobs even if they win.)
> How do they have a monopoly when there are many other messaging apps?

Monopoly is with respect to a market. If everyone on the East Coast uses AT&T to the exclusion of any other provider, and you could only communicate with AT&T customers by becoming an AT&T customer, that's a monopoly on the customers on the East Coast. Even if everyone on the West Coast used Verizon.

The fact that the Facebook customers aren't all concentrated in a specific geographic area doesn't really change anything. If the only way to communicate with a large population of specific individuals is to use Facebook, they have a monopoly on the market for communication with those individuals.

That wouldn't be true if they were using a federated protocol -- like the telephone network is in real life, but like Facebook is not -- because then you could sign up for some other service and still "call" the people on Facebook.
Push doesn’t work with cache, so that strategy was less efficient than just concatenating everything.
Maybe they should (I have no idea if they are already doing so) invest in renewables
If they put it into contract, would it be legal? (I'm not in EU.)
And AFAIK those employees were fired because that is against NSA policy and tons of laws.
I guess I never really understood the problem that wasn't just solved by old-school tcp keepalive and pipelining HTTP requests for more assets/files from the CDN
I dunno. I have an autoimmune disease. I was COVID-19 positive without any symptoms. It has been some time now. Everything is fine. With regarding to the vaccine: I do not want to risk it, when I know that I went through COVID-19 without symptoms and may just do it again and again after 6 months? They say I have 6 months of immunity.
> By the way, I personally would love if the answer to the questions above were yes

I was about to say... :)

Remember when cell phones all used proprietary adapters and you had to buy expensive chargers if you lost yours? This is one of the great things governments can do to protect us. (I think we owe Europe for that one.)

If your solution to creating margin is being anti-competitive / anti-consumer, there's something fundamentally wrong.
Cookies that are required for the site's functionality (like login, shopping cart, etc) are allowed without even an opt-in dialog
That’s exactly what GitHub Codespaces provides: https://github.com/features/codespaces.
I think OP was being sarcastic....
Question - Did Facebook become a monster because it was forced to go public?
Anybody who thinks this isn't being done as a way to stop people from MITMing traffic, just like they did on Android, is fooling themselves.

A few years ago google started to move into the "extinguish" phase, and it's only becoming more apparent every time they announce a change
This fills me with such bittersweet nostalgia and, I dare say it, homesickness. The internet is such a different place than it used to, even our computers don't feel the same. I'm brought back to countless dark nights spent awake, roaming IRC and learning as much as I could about all the topics available online with such intensity you would think I was afraid it would suddenly blink out of existence. In a way, it did.
This actually makes me glad I never got a google job
Wow that CPython course looks interesting
If this seems unavoidable maybe the government should require all but trivial changes to aircraft to go through the same process. That said, airplanes are still very safe even with these tragic incidents.
What about crypto assets that do not have custodial wallet solutions?
If they are too big to fail that already is implying monopoly and unfair situation for their competitors.

It can't be good for innovation or the consumer if a giant established player is getting preferential treatment.
The equivalent is a detached turbine blade, or sudden failure of cooling water pipes/intakes/pumps. Unexpected failures happen all the time.
Those two questions are closely related here by a very simple transformation: if the expected number of occurrences is N over many independent tries, then probability of 0 occurrences is approximately 1-e^(-N), or 99.96% if N=7.75.

Note that for N close to 0, 1-N is also a good approximation to 1-e^(-N).

For large N, it's generally more convenient to talk about the expectation rather than the probability of 0 hits—I'm sure many readers implicitly converted 775% to the expectation in their heads.
Saudi Arabia sees the writing on the wall and that is why they are investing heavily into renewables. They're aiming to inject some $30 billion into renewables over the next five years. They're also looking to diversify into other businesses besides renewables.
Working with a similar device (PineTab) the experience is awesome. Once you get it installed you can just install any setup you like.
Ask HN: Could you give feedback about my experiment?
I am working on a very early idea: applying virtual reality in software engineering. My first try is this. I represent in VR the data that can be retrieved from TravisCI.org using its API v3. Your feedback will be very valuable to me. Thank you very much colleague
I wouldn't so boldly claim they won't go poor, you trust in good management and no internal misfortune or subterfuge. Though their savings buy them considerable time to figure out an economic path forward, the loss of their profit center will surely affect the weight of their currency and political influence.

Oil won't go away of course, once the huge capital investment no longer makes sense it will become less abundant as fewer companies will be extracting and refining it. So they could see profits from oil as a niche resource in a post oil world.
don't let perfect be the enemy of the good. The anti-trust lawsuit took a lot of wind out of microsoft sails and probably played it's part in helping to break its browser monopoly.
There were locks then and there continues to be locks, stronger locks, nowadays.

IIRC, Codemasters and others discovered the magic numbers necessary to include in the header of the NES cart in order for it to boot, and went on to release unlicensed games; like Micro Machines. I'm hazy on the NES-specifics.

EA reverse engineered the Genesis development kit and released their games in their own carts in large part because they refused Sega's licensing terms; in retrospect, it's similar to Epic/Apple today. Sega eventually caved.

An old Game Informer article about EA and the Genesis:

https://bluetoad.com/publication/?i=73272&article_id=773681
My assumption is that any US lawsuits against US tech companies are just song-and-dance to maintain US technological hegemony worldwide while also looking like we're doing something.
I feel like that's the point of the game, is it not? I always thought of Shenzhen I/O as a hacking game, not an engineering game. The best solutions are elegant, but in a kind of fucked up and convoluted way. This, to me, is the appeal, but I can see why it turns some people off.
Except that modulo very specialized software, those apps exist or they are consumable as web apps from nearly any OS.
I wasn’t literally suggesting insurance but using it to address concerns of compliance. Liberty is implicit trust that you’ll do the right thing. Can’t we have that?
I disagree, if this is passed, everybody break it and call your congress person / senators and complain that it was passed.

disclaimer: also not a lawyer.
Psilocybin Treatment for Mental Health Gets Legal Framework
Here's a clickable link: https://windsor.io

I didn't realise links in the post wouldn't be clickable
That’s a shame, I guess? Ubuntu exists though, so if you want definitive control, you can have it. If you want Brand X commercial software that only runs on Mac, you can have that too. I don’t see why Apple should be required to facilitate both.
I'm going to try to choose airlines that fly Airbus instead for a few years just to be safe.
Physical dominance found many abstract gutters to empty into, and necessarily so. It was literally destroying the world with violence.

The Roman identity was literally built on conquering. It took a long time until we were able to say ‘yeah, why can’t this small little land mass be it’s own country?’. Why would a country have to fight for independence? Can you imagine that in today’s society? It’s absurd. Yet, many of our countries had to ... fight for independence. What kind of world was that? A world where dominance wasn’t an undercurrent?

Intellectual dominance hasn’t found socially acceptable gutters, it literally pays in society. Esports and video games is a band aid. The underlying trait is dominance. I can’t prove my thesis in two paragraphs I suppose, but you’ll have to forgive me for that.

Dominant behavior is dysfunctional, and since it is an underlying human trait, it reincarnates itself constantly. Racism and classism are all forms of it, under the umbrella of elitism.

Why can’t my unfit brother go to the same gym I worked hard to get into? Sounds crazy right? Well he’s fat, he didn’t earn it, etc. We don’t even contemplate this anymore physically. Yet, why can’t someone also work at Google because they aren’t the best? Intellectualism at the moment rejects ‘it takes a village’, and it rejects ‘the hand cannot say I am not of the body’.

So be it, it’s just the dark ages. One day we’ll figure it out, as we did with the other manifestation of dominance.

My most serious point is this - the nonsense cannot and should not affect people’s livelihoods. Find the abstract gutter for the nonsense already, and do not fuck with people with your meta game.
Yes, good point. It's also formalized in basic probability theory. The set of number sequences a human would find interesting or surprising is smaller than the set of all number sequences. If all number sequences are equally likely, by the third axiom of probability you're more likely to draw an uninteresting number sequence than an interesting number sequence.

However that does change the problem statement; we do still expect "123456" to occur equally as often as any other sequence, interesting or not.
Right Dao, a new independent search engine that doesn't track users
The Law of Pointless Reward systems states -

Any random reward system produces community.

If the community has no shared goal or purpose, the random outcomes the reward system produces will be tolerated.
(Disclaimer: Self Promotion)

Today, Google accounted for 92% of all Internet searches. Google and Bing together occupy 96% of the search market. Most other search engines, including the popular privacy focused ones, simply get the search results from Google or Bing and reorder them, because developing a search engine is neither easy nor cost effective. Consequently, the few big tech companies control what people see.

Right Dao is different. We are a fully independent search engine, and we have the infrastructure and build the technology from the ground up. That enable us to show the search results free from search engine monopoly's manipulations.

We invite you to have a try, while we are constantly improving the quality and adding more features.

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FAQ: open source?

We think search engine's code is a bit sensitive in general. The engine depends on many subsystems, including storage, scheduling, indexing, etc. If the ranking code is seen by the spammers, they could push their spam websites. We are not sure if there's a viable way to open source a search engine.
> MS is bigger and worth more now than it was back during the antitrust lawsuit

I'm pretty sure it changed their behavior for quite some time though. And wouldn't the relevant comparison be whether it outpaced the growth of the tech sector in the last 20 years rather than whether it's bigger than ever? Like if MS is 10x bigger now and the industry is 20x bigger then that would indicate to me that maybe they didn't choke out competition using monopoly power.
I'm old enough to remember GoPHP5 and the shit storm that transition was

Kinda funny having php devs shit on python backwards-compat
If geopolitics + trends is interesting to you, I highly recommend "Disunited Nations": https://zeihan.com/disunited-nations/
Holy cow, that's some monstrous reasoning. To paraphrase, you're saying that going in, before even seeing a contract, you should be prepared to agree to anything because it is your role to agree to anything. And then you go on to say that it is their own fault for not moving to a location that forbids it.

The choices are not just "like it or leave it". Another is to recognize that the options being presented are unreasonable, and that the entire situation should be changed to make it impossible.

I agree that the solution is stronger labor laws. I disagree vehemently that people should be forced to relocate as a condition of those stronger labor laws.
Not that this will ever matter for someone who isn't a circuit designer, but the "optimal" solution for the latch is actually really bad.

If you use a "select" block (which should really be called "mux") and tie the output to the input, you create a race condition. If the data input is 1, and you change set from 1 to 0, the output can actually glitch to 0 for a very short period of time, which is a big no-no. (If you draw the equivalent circuit out with just nand gates and assume they all have some delay between input and output, you'll see why).

A safer solution would be to cross couple two nand gates into an SR latch [0], use another two nand gates to control the Set and Reset signals, and an inverter to create NOT(data).

Of course in reality, a latch is usually custom built out of transistors rather than logic gates, but there are some cases where I've used logic-gate-latches to make things easier.

</pedanticism>

[0] http://electronics-course.com/sr-nand-latch
Doesn’t this depend on the size of each element? What if each element is 1 MiB?
You're not wrong but with the crashes an actual redesign is needed.
The inability of industry and academia (and the w3c) to create standards is what created the opportunity that enabled Apple to succeed.

If standards had been the solution, Apple wouldn’t have been able to differentiate themselves.

Turn signals are a great example of why this idea is dead on arrival. They have been around for close to a century and the government mandated them 50 years ago.

If you want the US computing industry to move at that speed, the government will make that happen for you.

We just aren’t at the stage in computing where innovation is over and we can afford to force everyone to adhere to a government mandated design.
This exact scenario with police was prevalent in NYC and Los Angeles in prior times. It didn’t stop there, of course. Everything old is new again.

I personally experienced a modern anecdote of this while I worked for a public works
project in northern CA. This project was estimated to bring a significant amount of economic activity to the area so we were all “bribed”.

Even now in the US it’s a lot about who you know.
> "chance per year", which you can interpret

Probably something like reciprocal half-life; 775% / yr is about 1 / 1.5 month ie, happens about once every month and a half.
> but when at home they were kept in the out house as they had no place when everyone was home.

But also so nobody can tell you're using it, who you're talking to or what you're saying.
Reminds me of the scene from The Simpsons:

When Bart, Lisa , Maggie and Marge were at the Mt. Useful Visitors Center, Bart went to a statue of Smokey the Bear. Smokey said "Only WHO can prevent forest fires ?" Bart then pressed the You button and Smokey said "You pressed you, referring to me, that is incorrect. The correct answer is you."
> Spiers did was perfectly within their rights

no that's not what the article says.

The article claims:
> NLRB has found Google’s policy against employees looking at certain coworkers’ calendars is unlawful.

Google claimed that she abused security notification system for websites to show a non-security related message (see https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/dec/17/fifth-google...). She could, within her rights, send emails to organize a company wide meeting, or write up a public document to talk about unionization. If google had banned this, then they would fall afoul of the law.

May be google is really using the excuse that she abused security notification systems to fire her. That's something I'm not privy to, and only litigation will reveal this (if it even does).
Probably the one that's full of fake apps and malware. Or you can write desktop apps and sell them however you'd like.