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I am only about 20 hrs into my flight training, so take what I say with a grain of salt.

I still have yet to hear anyone offer up an explanation how AI will integrate with our current air traffic control system and other aircraft. Right now if I want to fly through certain kinds of airspace (basically any airspace around a medium sized airport, civilian or military) I have to talk to air traffic control, and they tell me what do to. As a pilot in command, I have final authority to deviate from these clearances for safety reasons, mainly because it is my ass on the line.

So if a drone flight is flying an instrument flight plan from point A to point B, how does an air traffic controller command them? Part of the advantage of verbal commands being given to aircraft over a common frequency is that other pilots know what aircraft are doing around them. If a drone is being silently told to avoid for traffic, that doesnt help me if I am the aircraft being avoided. If a drone is told to hold but doesnt have enough fuel, or to divert due to weather, can it recognize a command that would create a state of emergency and over rule the air traffic controllers directions? Since air traffic controllers have need to communicate with aircraft in their airspace, how will these comms be authenticated so someone doesnt spoof ATC to make a drone do something stupid?

I know NASA is working on these problems with the FAA, but I havent heard anything yet. However, aviation isnt a "move fast and break things" area. Regulations are written in blood, and I dont really want to be the guy who gets sacrificed so that the FAA can retroactively fix an issue that someone dismissed as "psychological".
> They make respectable money on major carriers, though, and a lot of the regional pilots are probably trying to advance to those positions.

Only after spending 10-15 years gaining seniority.

> Also, how many years of lead time and training do you think is necessary before piloting a commercial aircraft?

About 1500 hours, and close to $100k (I have a private pilot, IFR, and multi engine certs). Only within the last few years did Congress increase the mandatory number of hours from a few hundred.

I know because I flew a few hundred hours and spoke to too many pilots before deciding to stay in tech and continue making a tech wage, instead of having to wait another decade to get back to that pay grade (with no guarantee you make it, based on macro air carrier finances; air travel slows and the public can't afford to fly? you get furloughed indefinitely with no pay).
I'm pretty sure one of them has a PhD in physics, and the other is a rocket scientist (I think for NASA). So, these guys understand science. What they do in their YouTube videos is bring science to the masses-- not always in the most disciplined form. They've interviewed some of the world's leading scientists, have taught Neil deGrasse Tyson a thing or two about hellicopter physics, etc. I think they are doing a lot of good, in the same vein as Bill Nye.
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As long as they have an inflatable Otto in the pilots seat, I can't see it being a problem.
If I was a company looking to break into the automated passenger/cargo carrying drone business, I would focus on ferrying people and supplies to offshore drilling sites and remote mining locations. That way you are flying in uncontrolled airspace over water or unpopulated land. You can get more regulatory clearance that way and thus prove out your system, and those industries are much more likely to promise you a recurring service contract.
People use what they use. So if they use base twelve or base sixty or binary or octal or hexadecimal or base five because they have a simple way of counting in that grouping then that's what you'll see them using. Just because we don't use it today doesn't mean anything.
Don't persist the stream. The problem gets a lot easier if you stop thinking of a message bus as a data store.
> most of the world thinks pilots in commercial aircraft turn on the autopilot and can then go for a sleep

They can go to sleep and the plane will continue to fly itself. However, if anyone found out they were sleeping heads would roll.

Autopilot electronics on a plane is trivial. Autopilot for a car is damn hard.
It's called the internet. That's what it does. Do you ask why bacon is delicious?
> I think you're observing Pournelle's Iron Law of Bureaucracy

This sounds like a special case of the more general law of survival of the fittest (where 'fittest' means 'most self-sustaining').
An automated scanner may be more accurate, but given that it will perform far more scans, I could imagine the total never of false positives being higher.
Such a progressive lesson to get from a guy who, in less tender moments, beheaded people who wouldn't make sacrifices to the gods.

Humanity is weird.
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As commercial aircraft incidents are well-documented, it might be possible to make some rough estimate of the change in accident rate if current airliner control systems were used as the basis of full automation. Off the top of my head, I would suggest relatively recent incidents that might well have ended in fatal crashes without pilot intervention include the Qantas flight 32 engine disintegration and fire, Qantas QF72 uncommanded pitch-down incident, and the British Airways flight 38 fuel icing non-fatal crash. On the other hand, crashes that might have been avoided include those of Asiana flight 214 at San Francisco (power mismanagement on approach) and Coglan Air flight 3507 at Buffalo (mishandling of icing and the resulting stall.)
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The top 25 legacy airline executives make, cumulatively, a bit under $90 million/year. The average annual wage per airline employee is about $60k/year. The median pilot wage is ~$120k/year (the average is ~$80k/year).

EDIT: (crew is the lowest component of per hour flight time)

B757-200 FOC

Costs per block-hour of operations (avg. 186 seats):

CREW $ 489

FUEL $ 548

MAINTENANCE $ 590

OWNERSHIP $ 923

TOTAL FOC $ 2550 per block-hr

Ref: https://www.icao.int/MID/Documents/2017/Aviation%20Data%20an...
> airlines were one of the first of many industries to use fees, line by line cost breakdown, obscure deals and a baffling purchase process to strand customers on an island of price comparison and nothing else

I'm one of those Americans who doesn't buy the cheapest ticket. I buy comfortable seats at convenient times with airlines I'm loyal to. Guess what I see none of? Any of those things! My bags are free, my drinks are free, I get to go to the front of the check-in line and, many times, security line. On occasions where I've been charged a change fee, a quick phone call gets it reversed. I board a 6:30AM flight tomorrow and am honestly looking forward to a few hours of cool views, relaxing reading and maybe a touch of alcohol.

Airlines tried competing on pitch and leg room. Their behinds got handed to them by travellers switching to budget airlines. If you want better service, there are business class tickets available at prices cheaper than pre-deregulation fares.

Note that this effect isn't constrained to Americans. European non-business passengers' demand for air travel is also extremely elastic with respect to price [1].

[1] http://dare.ubvu.vu.nl/bitstream/handle/1871/48303/140307.pd...
> it's the novel way

This is usual in Lisp (compilers/implementations) and i wouldn't be surprised if it was invented on the seventies once large (i.e. 36-bit long) registers were available.
I don't know the regimen of tests players go through in professional sports, but I've thought for many years that players who depend more on mental sharpness than physical performance (For example a QB in the NFL) are doping to improve mental performance. It always seems the investigations and testing that I hear about or read about in the news revolve around (a) illegal drugs, and (b) drugs that improve physical performance. I've never heard of a case of testing for drugs that improve mental performance.
You can also use C++ and DirectX for 3D applications.
Totally seconded. One of the principles he had that I really like is, "Don't move information to authority. Move authority to information."
You call Java, C# and Kotlin "unused"?
Prop it up against the wall next to my backpack.

Nobody steals a longboard. They’re afraid of riding them and the used longboard market is weak.

Plus there’s gym cammeraderie.
I'm against crowdfunding that masquerades as investment. People should know there's a high chance of 0 return and complete loss of principle with something like Kickstarter; it's better to think of it as patronage of artists you like with a small chance of something back.
>The US doctrine have always been fleet warfare with large formations of US ships sailing alone on the open sea or in some water they have complete dominance over

One of the problems with the US Navy over the last 70+ years has been a tendency act as if they're still fighting WW2. It shows up in a lot of places in interesting ways. Another example is the USMC's fixation with hot beach amphibious assault, a tactic which is completely outdated with the advent of modern air power, and which hasn't actually been utilized since the Incheon landing in 1950.
Downloaded. Very clean. Feels streamlined

Will use this over Coincap
Because it sold well, as compared to non-Satanist/non-gore Heavy Metal? Definitely would like to see the data you used to draw that conclusion. And how inclusive your definition of "gore imagery" is.
We have seen that story over and over in the last few years. it goes from 1 to 2, then from 2 to 4, etc...
Yes. Although in talking with doctor friends, it turns out there's an interesting counter-force. A major source of errors is handoffs.

I've certainly seen this when in the hospital with family; new doctors would frequently ask me for historical information, including about what other doctors had said or done. I was fine giving it, but what if I hadn't been there?
A less cynical take on the taking away of individual judgement is that it arises from the need for individuals to be replaceable rather than solely as a means of deflecting blame ...

Coastguard ships for example cycle the entire crew every two years. I imagine it must be similar in the navy. There is very little institutional memory retention -- and so the "process" emerges to try to direct all the human cogs as they pass through ...
Would removing the pilot allow that magnitude of reduction?
Late states of some progressive diseases eventually affect eye movement too (ALS, for example) - so there are some use cases where EEG recordings could be important.
I believe you're being slightly unfair to those institutions. As one example: the US Government, as a policy, never lies to the American press (and, by extension, the people). They may sometimes do so to the foreign press, or they'll deny comment, or they'll give you an answer that doesn't actually answer your question. But there used to be a line they dared not to cross.

There are many reasons for this. Some will insist it's the morally right thing to do. But a better explanation is usually that it's in no one's interest: Career bureaucrats are simply never in a position where lying is a good option unless they're trying to cover up a crime they committed. They're risking their job, and possibly criminal prosecution, without any real potential upside. For elected officials, the same is usually true–with the potential exception of a lame-duck President who has nowhere to go but retirement. But at that point, they've probably gotten used to managing their office without lies.

Of course that's a description of the past, and the lower reaches of elected executive office (but not employees) have a worse track record, where many a town mayor with a coke habit has lied to cover his creative accounting. Nixon also comes to mind. But before you say "Iraqi WMDs", I'd say that was arguably a case of a government convincing themselves through wishful thinking.

Maybe they're just really good at lying? It's the old problem: is the revelation of a scandal proof of spreading corruption, or does it show that the system is working, and the bad apples are caught? It really seems to come down to personal judgement. I can only say that having interacted with governments on multiple levels, and seen a lot of, for example, the vast amounts of data they produce and decisions they make that are never the subject of the news, I have come away with the impression that the Government is usually trustworthy, and that decisions are often made with a surprising lack of emotions. For example, I once won a lawsuit against a local government. Yet a few months later, we won a tender that we deserved to win, even though the decision was made by the very same people we had previously fought in court.

If all else fails: even if government were corrupt to its core, saying so would be less effective than acting as if it weren't, and focussing on specific incidents. Because faced with a public that believes only the worst of every politician removes all incentives for them not to become exactly that sort of thoroughly corrupt politician. And if it's part of society's lore that all powerful people lie, that becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy when people new to government just follow the clues they got from popular culture.
Yes the primary commercial application found in the EEG literature seems to be fatigue monitoring for professional drivers. Certainly "control" BCI applications won't be the first Neurotech killer app.
The reason why humans are needed in the cockpit is not about handling the perfectly automatable day-to-day routine. It's about that one-in-a-million case when several things go wrong at once in a way nobody thought of before and a pilot's judgement call could save lives while an elaborately programmed AI would get totally and completely stuck.
Could be equipment that the teams don't have access to the data from.
> Imagine a passive system scanning fellow motorists for an abductors car that automatically alerts authorities and family members to their current location and direction.

Seriously? You jumped the shark from interesting tech, to think of the children it's ok to go all Orwell here.

First App I'd make. Cheating spouse app. Is your partner or Ex hiding from you. Pay here for tracking info. Part of which goes to the people collating data.
At least the general populace won't know right? Works for the marketing department.
This has nothing to do with illegal immigrants vs immigrants. Immigrants are targeted for deportation if they are convicted of a crime or as the article states if they are affiliated with gangs.

Immigrants are deported every day if they have committed a crime in the US. Illegal immigrants can be deported without having committed crimes over and above when they entered the country illegally.
Hey koolba dopeboy here. Great question and a huge point of learning for me as I posted this.

I'm not expecting to build a greeting bot. I'm not expecting a build a trigger bot. I'm offering to build something much more complex that might have a host of integrations and perform some form of sophisticated logic.

I'm deliberately keeping my scope wide so that I get some creative propositions. But to your point, it needs to be worth $5k and I'm willing to make it so.
Beyond the marketing there's the issue of who to blame when things go bad. These days the airline will always say "pilot error" is to blame. Once the pilot is gone that excuse obviously won't fly.
Define 'intrinsic value' though.

I don't think shininess counts.
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"The other day" = almost two months ago.
Also, apparently (this is one of those stories with three sides) he was holding a fake gun without an orange tip or similar. Police say he was brandishing it, others say he didn't even have it on him. Who knows.
It's more complex than that.

Despite the tragic result, the officers were unanimously acquitted of any criminal wrongdoing.

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2014/05/24/suprem...
ARM is their primary competition in the low-power low-cost CPU world
Powerbull: The Lottery Loves Poverty
> You are not free to say no to facebook.

Funny, that's exactly what I and many others did/do.
It does use the eliptical curve encryption with nsa magic numbers iirc
The ICOs enforce that, because there is no one who will stand in the USG's way from fucking them up if they don't.

How many ICOs have you heard of with anonymous-only distribution?
Show HN: Compose your start page using codepen like widgets
There are lots of existing start page services. To name a few, start.me and www.netvibes.com are both great at what they are doing. The problem is that in the process of using these product I always find myself wanting some more flexibility.

Then I was wondering what could happen if I can use my CodePen/JSFiddle/JS Bin pens/fiddles/bins as widgets instead of choosing existing ones from service providers.

My initial idea was to build something just like that, where people can select their CodePen/JSFiddle/JS Bin snippets and put them to a “home screen”. I still think this is the best idea because they all provide great editors and fork/share functionalities. But in the process, I found they are not very friendly to work with when you try to integrate them in a third-party web application.

I was like, okay, let me grab some simple open source web based code editor and and a home screen to where I can throw my widgets in. And that’s exact what I did.

I build this thing which allows people to write widgets with css/javascript/html and place them in a home screen. Also, there’s some basic functionality which enables people to share and fork widgets.

This thing is still in a very early stage, and is buggy AF. For example, the editor might be too basic, and it only allows authentication through Google OAuth.

It was built with Phoenix 1.3 and React. Quite a (re-)learning curve for me. I Haven’t touched Elixir for a while, but find it still charming in the end.

If you are interested, please check it out here: https://unidash.io/

All comments and criticizes will be appreciated.
Facebook Needs to Splice TV into Its DNA
Ask HN: How do you set new hire engineering offers?
What are the effects of hiring engineers outside of the valley? How do you set pay / equity? How do you approach the conversation?
Are you saying dotn hodl?
Shouldn’t Schools Encourage, Not Punish, Students Who Hand Out the Constitution?
it would reduce the need for inherently-dangerous hot pursuits to follow a vehicle as the cameras would do that anyway.

It wouldn't really reduce the need for the infamous hot-pursuits because often in these hot pursuits, the car is stolen so the driver is not who the car is licensed to.
If your metrics for your web application aren't a good proxy for user experience, those metrics can drive you to make your application worse.

Focusing schools on testable performance leads to unintended consequences. My kids had heavy homework loads starting in first grade. They were still kids! and got robbed of much of the joy of childhood that should been afternoons playing at the playground and running around the neighborhood. All so the schools could pump up their test scores, by forcing their "customers" to carry the load.
We Called It Gutenberg for a Reason – Matt Mullenweg
I'd be far more okay with standardized tests if the requirement also banned homework until at least Junior High. Otherwise it's a race to the bottom to see which schools can suck up as much of the children's and families home time to help improve the schools scores.
Its an arbitrary psychological milestone. 5k is a lot of money for a "coin'. Of course the base is arbitrary. I'd argue for the programmers to do a 'stock split" so that new Bitcoin is 1/1000th of old and new price is $5, so it can again go up to 5k.
Maybe unrelated to OP's question but I have always felt that it is impossible to get a job in AI/ML without a PhD in that field (by getting a job I mean do something new/useful and not just coding algorithm devised by other people). I studied mechatronics in university and fairly comfortable with math (calculus, linear algebra and stats), I have even written a small neural network back then to optimise parameters for lathe machining. But that's no where near enough for a job in AI/ML. Unlike writing a web page, which someone can learn within a week to produce something usable, I feel like you need years and years of studying to barely get a start in ML/AI and there is no hope for us non computer scientist at all.

[Added] Of course writing webpages pays well enough, but I still can't shake off this feeling that I am missing something by not jumping on the AI/ML train though.
> Since the official announcement of Chrome Headless, many of the industry standard libraries for automated testing have been discontinued by their maintainers. The prominent of these are PhantomJS and Selenium IDE for Firefox.

Correct me if I'm wrong, but if I'm notm mistaken Selenium IDE has been discontinued due to lack of mantainers, and that has little if any relation to Chrome Headless.

The IDE is just a more effective way of programming test behavior; the Selenium webdriver is still up and working with straight code (as is the case of this tutorial).
Here is a common-lisp compiler using tagged pointers for some common objects. https://github.com/sbcl/sbcl/blob/master/doc/internals/objec...

That is how Lisps speedup list operations since it is the most used data structure.
>As a pilot in command, I have final authority to deviate from these clearances for safety reasons, mainly because it is my ass on the line.

I think this is the most crucial aspect. Machines are excellent at executing patterns and adhering to constraints. Improvisation, not so much. And really, in emergency situations when things go awry and off script, it's that "clutch" factor that makes all the difference.