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Thatv may be true but, for healthcare, there is an important difference in favor of you: a car is replaceable, a life isn't.

If you don't do routine maintenance, the engine breaks down and _you_ have to pay for it.

If you don't do routine checkups, you get sick and insurance has to pay---and also, if you die those sweet premiums stop coming to them. Insurance actually has a vested interest in paying for your checkups and screenings, just like in countries with socialized healthcare.
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And yet, when the Asiana accident happened the complaint was that the pilots were relying on automation too much and didn't know how to properly hand-fly the airplane anymore.

Not all runways are equipped for ILS landings. Sometimes the ILS equipment gets taken out of service for maintenance. And even autoland has its limitations.
The "Where's this guy going" unidentified person on the channel prevented the worst accident in aviation history. Great Job! Give that guy a medal and a movie.
I was talking about visibility. They are internationally renowned.
I agree the only people being protected here are Daudi Were, and the board members Juliana Rotich, Erik Hersman and David Kobia. These are the local directors.

You might recall that Hersman was adversely implicated last year during the Angani scandal.
Okay, but do military-grade systems use AM like this too? I imagine their needs aren't any less than those of civilians, and I imagine they've gotten their communication systems to work just fine. So what's the issue?
Elon Musk is the Christopher Nolan of Tech.
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What do you mean pretentions? Was it the female board members who were calling female employees while masturbating furiously?

They are not the only ones at fault.

Also try and reason rationally before replying to this. It isn't hard.
Typical front end dev drivel.
> The whole idea behind "breathing" is to regulate the CO2 in the blood

True, but two devil's-advocate what-ifs come to mind.

First, the system isn't so responsive to a lack of oxygen, and in many of the "low ventilation with people" scenarios, higher CO2 correlates with lower O2, because that's the conversion going on.

Second, might the body down-regulate mental resources as a response to chronically higher CO2 in the environment? As an adaptive or precautionary measure, helping keep that blood-concentration correct?
Agreed. It's difficult to discuss things like this in a fast moving discussion forum like HN, plus the fact that making a witty or ironic point that might work perfectly well at some times ends up being confusing or alienating at others.

I feel we're at a complex historical moment in terms of not just US politics but global trade relations, questions about the future of finance and economics, the pressing problem of climate change, and competing but radically different philosophies of national and global destiny.
We are trying automate the entire loan application and processing. So, this involved a lot of character recognition stuff as our target group have their financial documents as hard copies. Helping them autofill their information would make their task easier as well as avoid human errors while typing. So, after reading a few articles, I first designed a OCR using google’s OCR library tesseract. The classifier produced good results when it came to reading standardised documents. But, as the complexity of the document grew, such as reading a cheque, it became challenging to achieve considerable accuracy. So, to avoid the complexities of training a custom classifier and deploying it on the cloud (which would require significant amount of computations) we decided to use Microsoft Azure’s Vision API. It provided us the coordinates of all the texts and all we had to do was look for texts similar to an Account number and IFSC from a cheque book. Using some regex it was easy to find closely matching strings.
Later we extended this to read bank statements, this is where even Azure failed to read everything in the image. We had tried google vision’s API earlier but the output wasn’t satisfactory. So, decided to work on making the image more readable. I came across a lot of image filters whose main motive was to convert the image to only black and white, no other colours. I tried out a lot of them, some of them were the mean, median and gaussian thresholding. The one which worked best for us was a custom designed filter using Otsu’s Thresholding principle.
Ah, I think you are picturing something like a HUD (heads up display) that they have on fighter jets? That would certainly go a long way towards solving the issue, but commercial aircraft don't have a HUD display system (though I believe the 787 has a partial HUD display now).

Commercial aircraft have a HSI (horizontal situation indicator) located front and center on the panel in front of the pilots. This instrument presents about 12 distinct pieces of information to the pilot, but once again, on short finals, the pilots is mainly concerned with (1) airspeed (2) altitude (3) rate of descent on this instrument. All of which are displayed on the left and right edge of the HSI in the form of moving bars. The information in the centre with relation to position and orientation is discarded as unnecessary 'noise' under this extremely high workload.

You are right in that the co-pilot has to work in conjunction with the pilot to ensure safe flight. Indeed, in many cases, it was the co-pilot (or non flying pilot) that alerted the flying pilot as to an imminent danger. But that doesn't always happen either. Take the case mentioned elsewhere here of the worlds worst aviation disaster. In that scenario, the junior co-pilot of the KLM jet notified the Captain (who was one of the the most senior pilot in KLM at the time) TWICE that he thought the PanAm jet was still on the runway, only to be ignored.
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> Indians for some reason have fancied middle management bureaucratic roles above real work almost forever.

One could argue they have the right idea. At most companies (tech or non-tech), the career advancement path for a software developer pretty much ends at "Senior Software Engineer". Some places offer a "Staff Software Engineer" or "Principal Software Engineer" but your career growth is pretty much over once you get there, unless you want to jump into management, where the sky is the limit.
I'm not a pilot, or real-world ATC, but I was one a _virtual_ air traffic controller, on VATSIM[1]. I was a member of the virtual Indianapolis ARTCC[2], and have worked positions from Dispatch up to & including Center.

Listening to the LiveATC clip, the important bit is the phrase "visual 28 right", meaning the Air Canada pilot had been assigned a visual approach to runway 28 Right. The clip sounds like it's from Tower, so you're not hearing the point where the pilot was assigned that approach (that would've happened with Approach).

A visual approach is pretty simple: The controller sets you on a heading & altitude. Then, the controller confirms that you have the runway/field in sight, as well as any other air traffic that may potentially pose a conflict. Once the pilot verbally confirms those things are in sight ("traffic in sight" / "field in sight"), the approach controller will clear the pilot for the "visual runway XXX approach", also issuing appropriate warnings regarding wake turbulence.

Once the visual approach has been cleared, and the pilot has acknowledged, it is now the pilot's responsibility to navigate the plane to the runway, while keeping the plane clear of the traffic that has been pointed out to them.

If the pilot were assigned an ILS, LOC (localizer), LDA (localizer-type directional aid), or RNAV (area navigation) approach, that approach would have included a lateral component, which would have ensured that the plane was lined up with the runway, and not the taxiway.

So, why do a visual approach, when you have so many other options? Mainly because it allows more planes to be put into the same space. If a plane is on a different approach, or is enroute, or is being vectored by the controller ("turn right heading 350"), the controller is responsible for maintaining proper lateral (3 or 5 miles) and vertical (500, 1000, or 2000 feet) separation from other traffic. But traffic cleared on a visual approach does not have that restriction. Visual approaches are an important part of maintaining the high flow rates that Class B airports (SFO, ORD, etc.) want.

This comment's gotten pretty long, so I'll post another one with another possibility as to what may have happened! I'll leave you with the FlightAware radar trail, where (if you zoom in on SFO) you can see the go-around taking place.

[1]: https://www.vatsim.net
[2]: http://zidartcc.org
[3]: https://flightaware.com/live/flight/ACA759/history/20170708/...
I am still trying to wrap my head around the idea of a Roman Catholic Pakistani-born Canadian named Rodrigues.
they're still going to be grumpy about how to test and set up development
I'm not that familiar with Rust but, as far as I can see, it makes sense to say that Rust's borrow checker is an interface to a O(1) garbage collector (as fast as no GC at all), that the programmer has to implement at compile-time for all values. All the borrow checker-code is compiled into a no-runtime-overhead garbage collector, that is embedded into the resulting generated code.

In the world of Haskell, the -> arrow embeds a GC (with runtime overhead) into the genrated code. A similar interface to Rust's borrow checker in Haskell (no runtime overhead) would be the ⊸ arrow from LinearTypes (in a future where GHC's GC is able to take advantage of this).

It looks, to me, like the arrow (⊸) notation is a lot simpler inteface to a no-runtime-overhead garbage collector -- or the absense of a traditional GC, in other words -- than Rust's borrow checker. But I'm looking forward to seeing how it plays out (it will probably take years before it becomes reality).
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This is like Sully all over again, but with only seconds to extract story from instead of minutes!
Except people can be generally shitty to you for most of your life regardless of your race or gender or any other label, so one more experience of a person being shitty isn't evidence of any of those things. It's what the parent post meant about "control experiences." There's no accurate baseline to judge true prejudice vs general terribleness, because it's all being viewed through the lens of oppression. From people who play the race or gender card, I cannot recall ever reading about them ever blaming any experience on people just being baseline terrible, even though "privileged" people experience that baseline terribleness every day, but have nothing politically correct to blame it on (speaking for myself, nor would I want to blame it on anything besides human nature).
This removes one of the major reasons to use a Mac for Linux development. Many people used Macs because they had nice hardware that just works, as well as a Unix (but not Linux) environment. Now, you can buy a Windows laptop and have Windows manage all the tricky bits like power management and graphics while having a bona fide Linux distro for development. Plus, you can also play games :)
Airlines don't need military systems which are used more for confidentiality and OPSEC than other things. In the field, militaries tend to avoid radio communications for various tactical reasons. Submarines are a great example of this.
I will never understand this mentality of Silicon Valleetards to take something that already works rather well and make it 100× more complicated for questionable benefit.
Military-grade systems may not be any "less" but their needs and priorities may be different (e.g. secrecy). So different technology may be used, without any contradiction to why the current one is good for civilian air traffic.
Generally, yes. There are some digital systems used for aircraft to aircraft communications and for a tactical datalink, but yes its AM for landing.
I've been bouncing a similar idea with the GM of my (sporadic) tabletop game and would be interested to hear more about what others would want in such a service.

Mind if I shoot you an email about this? :)
Yes. (With an aspergers boy and Lego became a necessity during his kindergarden. It has done and is still doing wonders to improve his attention)
You act as though the dynamics of internet flamewars weren't painfully well-known and obvious. If you want "civilized and intelligent discourse", posting like this is certainly not the way to obtain it.

We detached this comment from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14741492 and marked it off-topic.
ILS does not entail automation -- it provides guidance to humans operating the controls.
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I don't understand what is so wrong with the transmission quality in that MP3. The issues I hear sound like they are simply due to trying to transmit from an extremely noisy environment (the cockpit of an airplane); they are mitigating the pilot's voice being entirely drowned in the background noise by placing the microphone right next to their mouth, but that then causes the sound of their breath to be extremely noticeable. I am not sure how to fix these issues but they don't seem to have anything to do with the usage of AM radio.
"Military-grade" systems use complicated techniques like frequency-hopping spread spectrum. They're designed to be encrypted and resistant to jamming. The jamming resistance is not something we care about (if someone is jamming the signal you just make them turn off their radio), and the whole point of encryption is to prevent interoperability when you don't have the right key.

So sure, you could pay a bunch of extra money for military features and end up with a product that is even less what you want than AM radio. And then you'd have to retrofit everything with these systems.

AM is wonderful. You put a bunch of people on the same channel and it just works.
He also has what I imagine to be 'Howard Hughes' heroic-visionary-craziness (from before the pain relief medication turned Howard Hughes actually crazy). Like most people here I was not around when Howard Hughes was, however, having an Elon Musk around on planet earth right now does make you wonder what times must have been like at the start of aviation or motoring when there were apparently more popular visionary geniuses around getting stuff done.

I also think Elon Musk is reminiscent of the early railway pioneers - Brunel and Stephenson's son spring to mind.
Very excited! Been using the WSL for a bit now to do tensorflow and python stuff. Just a bit of tweaking to get it all to work (less than an hour), and I get to dual boot less frequently now.
> Safety margins are wide when pilots don't screw up. But this one did. Royally.

And the safety margin was wide enough to absorb that screw up.

This is _why_ we have wide safety margins. So that one screw up doesn't absorb all of it. People will always screw up, and policy accounts for that fact.
Ironically, it is mainly because of reliability. Every system on an aircraft HAS to have double or triple redundancy by law, and a lot of these systems ARE antiquated by usual consumer standards.

A lot of pilots these days have iPads in the cockpit to assist with this, but in nearly all airlines and aircraft types, these are unauthorised devices that are not part of the certification. Generally they are used for non critical things like manuals or checklists, but I know of pilots that use them for situational awareness as well. In an accident though, this may work against them, badly.

Yes, it is the old legal and liability issue. Aircraft systems should be upgraded, but the cost of upgrading an entire fleet is prohibitive for most airlines that are already operating on the smell of an oily rag. New generation aircraft are getting better at it though. Like I mentioned before, I believe the 787 now has a HUD of sorts, which is long overdue.
The moral of this story for me is: be that "another pilot." To be clear, "another pilot" of another aircraft. Not as clear as it could be just like the title of this article is ambiguous.

The moral of this story for me is: call out immediately if you see something off. He's the real hero. Even if the ATC controller immediately saw the plane being misaligned at the same time - that feedback confirming another set of eyes on something that is off couldn't have hurt. All 1000 people on the ground needed that feedback. Always speak up in situations like this.
That's a reverse first bug :-).
In the early 1960s, a pilot mistook a WW2 airfield for Heathrow, and landed his 707 on it, barely stopping before the end of the runway.

The runway being too short to lift a 707, mechanics stripped everything out of it they could to reduce the weight - seats, interiors, etc. They put barely enough gas in it to hop over to Heathrow, and managed to get it there safely.

The pilot who landed there was cashiered.
Maybe I have a wrong notion of what is an "object" but in this context, I would at least expect it has a non zero mass.

The article is simply about entanglement of photons:
"To perform the experiment, the Chinese team created entangled pairs of photons ... They then beamed one of these photons ... They kept the other photon on the ground"

Using an ad hoc 3D printer to send a copy of a virus hundred kilometers away, as in Craig Venter's book "Life at the speed of light", would be a much greater achievement.
As far as I can tell, one still have to run an Xserver on Windows if you want to do graphics (set display to localhost:0) and so no acceleration, hoping that changes at some point.
> And the safety margin was wide enough to absorb that screw up.

Barely.
Funny thing is that NONE of the links are scientific papers
Sure, maybe. Probably you're right.
Oh, and aircraft DO have moving maps etc. now, but these are usually dialled out to show a range of hundreds of miles in cruise, and are not usually adjusted to show distances in mere metres when on final approach.

Once again, because these displays are usually on the centre floor console or located below the HSI, they are outside the 'scan zone' of a pilot on short finals.
I wasn't complaining about the transmission quality, I was just trying to understand the parent comment. The person who complained about the former was someone else.
I would ask your intended audience. You're going to get a big bias against social accounts on here that you wouldn't get elsewhere.
uBlock Origin + EFF's Privacy Badger have resulted in a really quiet browsing experience.
Wow, did not know. Thank you.
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Once I had compiz working, it's been gnome exclusively.

Fluxbox was easy to configure with multiple monitors and customize in general. Just tried xmonad with xmonad --replace, and crashed X. Which has been my only experience with xmonad honestly.

Edit: I do like gtile and some other gnome extensions.
> "Military-grade" systems use complicated techniques like frequency-hopping spread spectrum

Note that that technology has been around since World War II. And fun fact, while we're on that topic, this page is worth a read: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hedy_Lamarr
I'm 25 and had to zoom to read and even then it wasn't comfortable. (not the OP)
For the sake of completeness:

"Microsoft has a majority market share" Bug #1 (liberation) reported by Mark Shuttleworth on 2004-08-20

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-Agreed, intelligibility is pretty good.

I've been into amateur radio for ages, presumably that has trained my ear. I routinely copy voice signals which are just a garbled gibberish to innocent bystanders. (Same obviously goes for ATCs and pilots to an even larger degree, being exposed to comms several hours a day)
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Are you saying there's a way to use haskell without the GC or other runtime overhead?

I like rust because it doesn't have much in the way of runtime requirements (almost zero, like C).
Does anyone know how much the automobile directly and indirectly contributes to the heat island effect?

Not only do you have thousands of vehicles burning thousands of gallons of petroleum, you also have low-albedo asphalt parking lots everywhere.

Do car-friendly cities have a bigger heat-island effect than transit-friendly cities?
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ILS does not necessarily indicate automation, but about 5% of ILS approaches are autolandings.
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Thanks! That's nice to hear.

From what I can see, there are three reasons why they are in a worse position to create a new, successful product than any other startup or big company.

1. They are already pretty big and successful. It's extremely hard for companies to really shift focus unless they're truly desperate. Opportunities that are great in the long term usually seem painfully small, or impossibly distant, in the short term, and it's hard to attract and motivate talent internally to these projects.

2. They seem overly confident. This is annecdotal, but they do seem to have a culture that breeds and rewards a bit of cockiness. That doesn't bode well for them rewarding people who push a humbler view of the company and empathize deeply with new kinds of users.

3. Their grand vision isn't very good, and that likely reveals a deeper lack of understanding about life and human nature. From what I understand, their guiding mission is roughly to help people share experiences in real time and more or less live in the moment. The thing is, most people don't want to share all that much of their lives with many people - most people want to escape their own lives most of the time. And for those who do want to share, there are many different more or less equally good ways to do it. Snapchat's core functionality is easily comoditized. There's no benefit to scale for Snap's users, given the company's vision. Yet they don't seem to realize that or care. And that's a critical mistake. It doesn't exactly build confidence in their ability to execute.

That said, the fact that they see themselves as a camera company does bode well. I suspect we will be a much more camera-centric culture in five or twenty years than most people think. And their playfulness is a great way to overcome the creepiness of cameras. They may end up in the right place at the right time to ride that wave.
Those fixed wings people are unflappable.
Inertia wasn't the problem for that accident. It takes several seconds for the engines to spool up, and they didn't have any seconds to spare.