rjvehn

"not really a team player, for some reason didn't want to be screwed by stock reappropriation when he was recovering from cancer."

I wonder how this relates to federated learning? [0]

[0]: https://federated.withgoogle.com/

There are a myriad of issues that put the planes at risk, but I think that the fact that when the control system (MCAS) is engaged causes it to ignore feedback is the biggest issue of all.

"But with the MCAS activated, said Fehrm, those breakout switches wouldn’t work. MCAS assumes the yoke is already aggressively pulled back and won’t allow further pullback to counter its action, which is to hold the nose down.

Fehrm’s analysis is confirmed in the instructions Boeing sent to pilots last weekend. The bulletin sent to American Airlines pilots emphasizes that pulling back the control column will not stop the action.

Fehrm said that the Lion Air pilots would have trained on 737 simulators and would have learned over many years of experience that pulling back on the yoke stops any automatic tail maneuvers pushing the nose down." [0].

If you bought a new computer, how pissed off would you be if you lost data not because of a hard-drive failure, but because of a weird design decision of the 1 penny caps lock key? Imagine spending the time to setup a proper RAID system and losing everything because of a design decision in the keyboard.

I mean if the media keeps reporting about the small stuff that's wrong, it's going to make people go "well planes are complex and things happen" and almost ignore the seriousness of a design decision that ignores user input.

[0]: https://www.seattletimes.com/business/boeing-aerospace/faa-e...

Seems like the infrastructure built with it requires it at a certain point.

https://medium.com/@arschles/go-experience-report-generics-i...

Well glibc kind of proved that individual maintainers can be just as bad for stewardship[0].

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7914022

My point is that excuses are being legitimized.

It is sad that British society is losing the belief in a stiff upper lip.

I think it is becoming accepted to make excuses everywhere. For individuals and groups, it is now seen as as okay to not to aim higher.

There are so many hard working people who were never handed anything, have actual physical disabilities, and they still work extreme hours to take care of their families and not be a burden.

I always think of how we construct Kobayashi Marus to tell ourselves and others that there are no-win scenarios, in some odd attempt to justify limiting ourselves to only grim options and schadenfreude for those who fail to echo acceptance.

What if this belief in a gritty realpolitik is an excuse for not wanting to think harder to achieve what is right? That individuals and groups willingly believe in a local maxima, because the hill climbing required to get the right outcome is accepted as fantasy?

Hey, kind of off topic, but does anyone here know anything about dealing with imported fire ants?