skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Literally none of this is true.

"land totally on its own" suggests autonomy. In reality it's a three part certification: pilot, plane (autopilot), and runway. There is only one zero visibility landing system, and that's the ILS CAT IIIc.[1] If there's no ground capability for the runway (does not exist or is down for maintenance) then the plane can't do a CAT IIIc landing.

In practice there is no such thing as landing without an explicit clearance to land. Clearance is given by ATC to the pilot via AM radio. The autopilot has no language listening or speaking skills at all. Numerous clearance modifications happen during a flight, given verbally.[2]

The plane also doesn't taxi itself into position, and it doesn't retract or subsequently deploy landing gear. Many tasks aren't available to the autopilot, nor are many transitions between tasks.

About the last statement, FAR 91.3(a) The pilot in command of an aircraft is directly responsible for, and is the final authority as to, the operation of that aircraft. You could construe FAR 91.13(a)No person may operate an aircraft in a careless or reckless manner so as to endanger the life or property of another. as requiring the pilot to use automation if the aircraft manufacturer requires it in certain situations. Otherwise, no, and I have only ever heard of autopilots needing to be disabled in high wind situations.

[1]
Example instrument approach procedure. Scroll to the bottom and you'll see it explicitly requires ground navaids and a certified crew.
http://155.178.201.160/d-tpp/1709/09077I35RC2_3.PDF

[2]
Example STAR which most airports don't have, but when they do you'll even see these are really just designed to allow ATC to "plug in" a smaller subset of data like an altitude or speed, without having to recite the entire arrival instructions. Can it be automated? No, because the variables are delivered by voice. The STAR is useless without the variables, and variables are useless without the STAR.
http://155.178.201.160/d-tpp/1709/09077POWDR.PDF
Define better. Hyundai makes everything from toilets to aegis equipped war ships. If i would have the money i would buy tesla. If i would have to choose i would buy hyundai genesis or sonata. If someone was offering free hyundai or bmw i would pick bmw due to its resale value not quality
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Punishing people who willfully concocts false information and disseminates for the purpose of spreading racist/intolerant views are very different than what you've highlighted.

Thinking a group of people is lesser than you because of the arrangement of their skin color pigmentation, and crying freedom of speech is being attacked, is not going to get you a lot of sympathy, especially when you now try to actively shut people up who are calling you out on it.

> freedom of speech means freedom to mislead

sure, but don't get all up and mighty when you get called out and shut down.
What would excite me about VR is a game like Morrowind. While it is first person, it's not exactly a shooter. The only teleportation is fast travel, but that could even use a World of Warcraft style where instead of teleporting you just ride the animal to get there.

Put me in a foreign world with several varied environments. Let me explore it without artificial restrictions. The combat could be minimized with most potential enemies being non-aggressive by default (a change to Morrowind's mud crabs or cliff racers). For this style of game I would even expect to still have to use a controller both for combat but also for inventory management, etc.
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Why did they decide they could sacrifice frame-rate when the first generation of PC VR - after extensive study - decided it was the one thing you should never sacrifice?

Did somebody in sales overrule the engineers?
Possibly. I think it's more likely that systems get good enough that you can turn over control to them on certain limited access roads. Perhaps construction zones are required to transmit some sort of alert signal that requires a driver to take over within 60 seconds or something along those lines.

This could be a big improvement for both safety and driving comfort and seems as if it would be a much more amenable to solving over, say, a 10 year horizon than a cross-town Manhattan taxi ride at rush hour.
my point is that anyone who explicitly refused to reprint Benjamin Franklin's writings on the realities of the US because they were declared fake and treasonous deserved to be called censorious and biased against freedom of speech. Mind you, more than a couple of his articles were actual fake news meant to stoke discussion on British policies.
> Participation numbers alone don't tell you about bias

Well, if "bias is the answer, what was the question?" is your "scientific" approach, then they obviously don't matter. However, it turns out that neither chemistry nor physics are "tech" and the gender ratios in the physical sciences are fairly even (even for chemistry, slight male skew for physics last I checked).

Add in psychology, and using this study as a proxy for engineering or tech is just malpractice. Which means par for the course for gender "studies".

Anyway, it looks like people have a bias for the underrepresented gender in a particular field, as the following study shows:

"The team found a bias in favor of women in math, physics, and philosophy, which increased with the degree of male domination in the field"

"They found about a 10 percent bias in favor of female test takers in the non-gender–blind oral tests in math, physics, and philosophy. The opposite was true for fields where men are traditionally underrepresented: The team found a 3 percent to 5 percent bias in favor of male oral test takers in literature and foreign languages"

http://www.the-scientist.com/?articles.view/articleNo/46681/...

Which is kind of what you would expect humans to do (slightly favor the group that is underrepresented), and surprise, that is in fact what humans do.

And when the underrepresentation is stronger, the bias for the underrepresented population increases, see the 2:1 hiring advantage for for women for tenure track positions in STEM found by Ceci/Wiliams. Stronger effect, much larger sample, more careful study, much less quoted than the "lab manager" one, which to remind everyone only saw an effect for mediocre candidates (so people you didn't want to hire in the first place) that were calibrated to be exactly equally qualified.
>Market timing improves the risk-adjusted returns

Unless you've got a crystal ball, market timing isn't something you can count on for investment returns.
I switched to iTerm because I can no longer use TotalTerminal to get my hotkey window. :(
I wrote a bot that did something similar on the cryptsy exchange - it didn't pull in any new cash, it just tried to re-balance every time it ran.

It was making a small profit until cryptsy got hacked and lost all of my coins :(

Here's the source if anyone is interested though: https://github.com/nfriedly/Coin-Allocator
Yes, there was an intentional campaign to conflate news that people didn't like with sites that were literal fake news, not mistakes or biased coverage, articles made up whole cloth to smear people and such.
Incredible that only 48% of people got out of their car to shovel the snow... how can you feel good about yourself, sitting in your car, watching somebody else clear a path for you, and not helping?
Maybe the most minimal, but not the most efficient, and C's minimalism is only useful because it lets you be as efficient as the hardware will be. Without that goal, the Lisps are more minimal than both C and Objective-C.
>They "trust me". Dumb fucks.

-Zuckmeister
"Bitcoin investing" sounds a bit like an oxymoron to me (more like speculating).

Anyway, dollar-cost-averaging looks like a great strategy if you are very bullish on a asset which also happens to be quite volatile.
This has already started - look up the discount some insurers give to owners of Subarus that are equipped with EyeSight. The numbers show their collision avoidance is making roads safer.

Also, interesting fact: Subaru is achieving these impressive stats using stereo vision, not lidar.
Jokes are primarily about conflict between expectations and reality.
One that that needs to be emphasized is you only perfect preparation for about 2 weeks of the worst case, after that you need must less.

Lose your job for 6 months, cut your budget and use your emergency savings, but most of your supplies are not used (tap water is still safe to drink).

Complete collapse of civilization? 2 weeks to enough to understand how bad it is - when the power isn't coming back that implies such a reduced population that you don't worry about looting: in fact you should be with the few remaining people looting what there is. Break into WalMart for clothing. If you live in an area where you cannot support yourself farming break into a dealer's safe, get the keys to a new truck, and break into gas stations tanks along the way to fill it up until you get someplace you can survive long term. (the truck will be abandoned once you are there: fuel goes bad quickly).

On those lines, you don't need to move to a rural area and practice survival skills now. All those massive corporate farms: at best they have enough fuel to get in half the harvest so they need your manual labor now. Get out of the city and you will find rural areas with plenty of food in desperate need of labor. Almost nobody knows how to harvest corn by hand. Few people know how to use a horse. they need your help to figure it out. Make yourself more valuable by bringing seeds for vegetables that are not in the fields.
It's spookier than 1984. There was no prediction of "Big Data" and how prevalent addiction to an omnipresent internet would be.
Yes, if you were concerned about battery life, you'd typically not update until input or app state changes.

As for building up to your own retained mode system: not really, at least not in my view. Whether you update at a constant rate, or update only in response to user input (or whatever), you're still doing the key things that differentiate immediate mode-type GUIs from retained mode-type GUIs: firstly, you're regenerating the entire UI from scratch each time; and secondly, you're handling the input events while doing the regeneration.

This is what makes immediate mode-type GUIs so easy to use in many cases. You never have to make sure each widget is linked up with whatever it relates to, and you never have to ensure the widget list is kept in sync with the list of things, and so on. You're always building the widget list from the (authoritative) list of things, and processing the related input events at the same time.
In the case of large responses, bandwidth out is a much more interesting metric. I'm sure their number sounds more impressive though.
> When I am thinking about a REPL the image I have in mind is of Jupyter Notebook and Clojure, Elixir, Idris, Haskell REPLs in Emacs

Thats my point is that the REPL case of using Emacs to run and evaluate your code is almost hardly different than letting an IDE run your unit test. With Java this evident because the IDE compiles incrementally and the debugger can hot code swap.

The power of the REPL should not be the evaluation portion but the input or the print otherwise you can just about do any quick evaluation for any language that compiles reasonable fast.

Other than Jupyter Notebook the ones you mention don't really have any amazing output other than pretty print. To the authors point it also helps for the pretty print if the language is homoiconic.

As for input there is even fewer that have Excel like rapid response feedback. See Bret Victor on this. There was a recent
company presented here on HN called Luna [1] who have a very cool REPL. Now that is where I think REPLs should be.

> P.S. I didn't get your point about python having nominal types, duck typing seems closer to structural typing to me and mypy seems to support both, but maybe I misunderstood you. Thanks for the thought provoking discussion though :)

For the most part you need to name functions in Python (lambda support I believe is even on the way out but I can't recall the status). In fact other than I guess tuples you need to name everything in Python.

But to your point structural typing means less in a duck typing environment particularly one with really late dispatch.

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14612680
Why doesn't facebook come out with there own online wiki and only allow stories based on approved of facts that have been vetted by members of internal fact team.

At least we would know what facts they believe and what facts they don't
if you discount all the Russia-provoked conflicts

Hmm. I'm not sure that is a great way of looking at it while Russia is still there.

Poland

I'm not sure about that. The Kaliningrad Oblast is a real problem - historically oblasts haven't been very stable politically.

Generally speaking though, I think most of those countries are NATO members (not sure about Albania?). That means that if any NATO member country is attacked they will all be dragged in.

If the US got dragged into a war on the Korean peninsular then I'm not sure Putin could resist the temptation of Estonia or Latvia. And I'm not sure what would happen then.

Or who knows what will happen in (NATO Member) Turkey. Three years ago they nearly got in a shooting war with Russia. Now they are good friends.. at the moment.

I've spent some great times in Central Europe, and I'm cautiously optimistic about the area. But that doesn't mean there aren't real, significant risks.
If all you need is text snippet replacements on your Mac, you can just visit the Keyboard pane of the system prefs. They'll sync to your iThings, too, albeit a little wonkily at times (like all iCloud syncing).
I love Spectacle but use Moom instead because it supports the same features that I used Spectacle for, but it also supports ignoring the gab (when maximizing windows and so on) that is created on the side of the screen the dock is at when the dock is set to auto-hide.

I hate that gap, and Moom allows it to disappear, pretty much.
The benefits of cooperation can't be modeled so simplistically, since the concepts of both long-term reputation and long-term retribution need to be taken into account.
What a petty thing to get uptight about.

This is how humanity works. Language is invented and re-invented for personal needs.

This person isn't making anything that matters. They'll familiarizing themselves with a new landscape and set of terms.

The reality is, at least partially, they ARE having a unique insight into the field FOR THEM. That is, again, HOW HUMANS LEARN.

But sure, go on and extrapolate this specific situation into a generalized notion within the industry, based upon your anecdotal experiences. Cause there is a field and there are rigid terms that define what you seem to be talking about. But you're using them all wrong. How dare you.

> It seems, ever generation of CompSci graduates or so, someone gets the idea to invent something cool, which they've never heard of before, and proclaim that it is a unique insight into the field - whereas the fact is, its just a new coat of paint over an empty hole where the understanding should be.

So what?

It sounds like you're less interested in rigor in a general sense, and more interested in everyone talking to your understanding.

Formality only matters in critical applications, IMO. Medical equipment, rockets, bridges, and the software tools we use to design those.

We go through a psychosis like YOURS all the time. "Previous generations thinks the next generation is beholden to THEIR TRADITIONS -- literal or figurative."

Maybe you should stop considering every Medium and blog post where someone is all "All I made this new thing!" so seriously.
If you care about actually reading the nournals, as I do, and you had a very poor math education (as mine was abysmally opposed to both math and science as enemies of religion) then here are things I've determined I need to know to read journals:

- Core statistics. You need to be familiar with how statisticians treat data, because it comes up a lot.

- Calculus. You do not need to be a wizard at working the numbers but you do need to understand how to describe the process of differentiation and integration over multiple variables comfortably.

- Linear algebra. It's essentially the basis for everything, even more than statistics.

- Numerical nethods for computing. I constantly have to refer to references to understand why people make the choices they do.

- Theory of computation and the research clustered around it. Familiarity here helps a lot. Sometimes I even catch errors or am able to recognize improvements available. Also there is a lot of crossover, as one would expect. An example: everyone is remembering how good automatic differentiation is! And given that properly combined differentiable equations are also differentiable, AD let's you optimize over your optimization process. It's differentiable turtles all the way down.

My next big challenge is nonparametric statistics. Many researchers tell me that this is a very fruitful place to be and many methods there are increasingly making improvements in ML.
I'm talking about images like this: https://static01.nyt.com/images/2017/01/20/us/politics/trump.... You can count the lanes that run across the mall before you see any open space, and the photo on the right was clearly not taken any time near the actual ceremony because my memory of live video and recorded video during the ceremony simply doesn't come close to matching.

I really don't care how it actually compares to Obama, and I really don't see why Trump cared so much, but the fact is the pictures are clearly not "facts" either. Yet disputing them is still held up as a common example of "deniers".
Toyota got into autonomous driving late. Then they hired Gil Pratt from MIT. Pratt used to run the MIT Leg Lab, which Raibert ran before Boston Dynamics, but Pratt didn't do much there.

It's clear that autonomous driving can be made to work, because Google/Waymo is doing it. It's hard and expensive and it takes a lot of sensors. It also takes extensive testing. Waymo drives 25,000 autonomous miles a week. Volvo has level 3 working on some freeways in Sweden; their 100 users are not required to watch the road while in auto mode.

There are other startups trying to do it. There's the "fake it til you make it" crowd - Otto and Cruise. (Otto's highly publicized Budweiser truck delivery demo was on a nearly deserted freeway surrounded by chase cars.) There's the "it's just a small matter of software" Tesla approach. There's the "throw machine learning at vision and hope" crowd, some small startups. That's what you get if you take the Udacity course and start coding. 43 companies have California DMV licenses for autonomous vehicle testing.

Toyota has been making some bad business decisions lately. They don't make battery electric cars. (They're fixing that, but won't be shipping until 2022.[1]) Instead, they've been pushing cars that run on hydrogen. Toyota sells the Mirai in California, and has a few hydrogen stations so it can be refueled. They sell about a hundred cars a month.[2]

[1] https://www.reuters.com/article/us-toyota-electric-cars-idUS...
[2] http://carsalesbase.com/us-car-sales-data/toyota/toyota-mira...
I watched The Sandbaggers twice now. While the sets, props and circumstances are dated, the main ideas and principles still hold, imho.

For a more up-to-date take, read Greg Rucka's excellent Queen and Country comics (the main, and mini series). Not only is it "inspired" by Sandbaggers, but it sometimes borrows actual plots and plays them out. I had fun time at a comics convention talking to Rucka about it, and he is a Sandbaggers fan :).
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The problem goes something like this: You have N number of bags of the same size but different (maybe) weights. You have nothing to write and only balances. The easiest way to sort them is to put them in a row, compare them two by to and swap them in order.
Yes, Coinbase supports daily / weekly / every 2 weeks / monthly recurring buys. They have fees on every buy though.
I do not believe they have an edge. They might be sticking to the few features = less moving parts = smaller chance to break but the materials are same cheap plastics and weak metals.
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Fair, but I doubt the probability of the exchange getting hacked in 5 weeks is meaningful. I agree that you should never leave your coins long term on any exchange, just to be clear, but there is a reasonable amount of risk you can take.
Two broad alternatives: because it's the best substitute ("somewhat like milk in some way"), or because it's good. It's not like "milk" in "<something> milk" has to refer to the taste of, or to cow's milk at all.
There was a fairly well-known Facebook page called The Disciples of the New Dawn. They purported to be a cult-like Christian Fundamentalist group, and the page served as a distribution channel for image-macros that seemed designed to get a rise out of people. Things like training children for the militia, eschewing medicine, interpreting pop culture as signs of the end times, etc. The page was also clearly satire, and to lovers of deadpan humor, frequently amusing.

I first learned of the page in 2013, and I noticed that Facebook had removed it for Community Guidelines violations some years later. The page appears to be back now, but they now have very clear disclaimers that the content is satirical.

http://www.snopes.com/politics/satire/facebookdisciples.asp
New York Police reportedly needs to replace 36,000 'useless' Windows Phones
Is this thing only for cars, or can you use it as a general battery for other things in the house?
> We believe that this mechanism is designed to meet a typical requirement of government agencies, which want to reduce the possibility of side-channel leaks.

Interesting that Intel will provide this to the US government for enough money, but wouldn't offer it as an additional $50 or $100 option for end-customers to disable the ME.

I think there are probably enough privacy conscious people who would be willing to buy a Skylake or newer platform from Intel if they could easily disable the non-BUP components of the ME for a reasonable fee.
If you don't mind me asking some questions:

How do you feel about working in this industry? Have you moved jobs a lot?

The reason I ask is my parents have been "working" or in their adulthood as parents/slightly before having children for roughly 30 years and for the most part have kept the same jobs. So as a new software engineer fresh out of school, they find the idea of needing to switch jobs for higher pay, new challenges, etc. to be a bit unbelievable and disagree that I should eventually do that.
Yeah the Python one was a stretch and I often use the Python REPL as a calculator (I have no real strong idea why but I guess because numpy is what I know).
Your reaction makes me think "mixed" is just the wrong word entirely for this product. To me, mixed has a slightly-negative connotation (mixed reception, mixed feedback).
> felt the need to protect the "fragile, young vulnerable women of tech".

I've seen plenty of men with similar frauds in the healthcare space. Theranos just got a lot more attention because it was a young female CEO. So, lots of attention on the upswing, which led to a huge fall. Reading Adam Feuerstein will show you plenty of white men in their 50's pushing similar BS while leading publicly traded companies. And the reporters exposing the BS get attacked constantly by duped investors on Twitter.
Speed and scale of speech do not impact whether or not it's got an equal seat at the table. It just means you're cool with any expression as long as it's not threatening. Which there's nothing special about, it's how basically everyone is by default. There's no principle there.