skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Except it's not like today's taxis, busses, trains or planes. It's more like riding with a friend who's never crashed their car, but sometimes will tell you "I can't handle this right now, take the wheel." and you don't have a choice.
...and if it continued, it would probably repeat in a continuous cycle of order and chaos.
> sit down with our kids and teach them how to build Pong with Pygame.

Or maybe take a really simple existing game, and try adding things to it. Let's add a new enemy? Something useful to the UI?

I mean, you could even take your kid all the way through even submitting a pull request back for it. I'm sure there are like a bijillion Tetris clones up on Github in every language imaginable.
They eat certain carbohydrates (such as fiber) [0] that we consume and aren't able to digest by ourselves. This is why it's recommended to eat fiber [1], which many people do not eat enough of. [2]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gut_flora#Metabolism

[1] https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2016/11/161117134626.h...

[2] https://www.webmd.com/diet/guide/fiber-how-much-do-you-need#...
I'm not suggesting deceiving users. I'm suggesting a spinner isn't much proof of the app not being hung. Some kind of updating status or progress is, assuming it's not complete bullshit. I can see cases where "slightly bullshit, but somewhat true" is better than just a spinner or unresponsive UI.
I would take that news release with a grain of salt considering within the first two sentences there are glaringly obvious grammatical mistakes.
Remote? I live in SF; we don't have a Walmart, and our only large retailer is Target, which is a 10 min drive (plus the pain of finding parking) or a 25 min walk (which limits what I can carry back with me). Even when I lived in a suburb (still Bay Area), retailers would be a 10-15 min drive minimum.
Oh I know. I noticed and thought the same. Just thought it would be helpful to have the company's response for context. When I read the FAA release, it sounded like they were forcing TapJets to shut down, but that doesn't appear to be the case.
MQTT. Kafka. InfluxDB. SQL. IoT Harmony
In addition to what everyone else has said: even if we did we wouldn't necessarily know what to look for. I have a friend who's PHD is trying to figure out what ancient dams look like in order to find sites of ancient agriculture. But that's the thing "what does a 500 year old dam look like" is a lifetime worth of study and is only just now possible.

"Just scan the fuck out of it and look for wierd stuff" is the dream but at the moment (as the other comments point out) we can't just scan everything but ALSO we don't know what's wierd.
Did you read the press release?
>According to TapJets' response, these were unpaid test flights undertaken for friends and family during development of the app to test it

That changes nothing, and makes it no less reckless. Airline regulations are written in blood.
So they admit the offence? This is a guilty plea.
KIO does some similarly magical things e.g. click a URL to a jpg file, and it opens in your picture viewer app instead of the browser.
Since this study found biofilms in colon cancer, I'd like to point out this recent discovery on the involvement of bacterial phage in biofilm formation:

https://biox.stanford.edu/highlight/dangerous-liaison-bacter...
This was absolutely unsafe and illegal. Regardless of whether they were conducting a flight for friends or not, they were operating an aircraft that requires two pilots at all times (per the FAA) with just one pilot (and a student pilot).

That's unsafe and illegal, even if the plane was otherwise empty. Even worse with passengers.
Not the person you are responding to, but as someone who probably feels the same way, I'm ok with someone disrupting my local taxi monopoly by having someone who is not certified driving the car that is taking me to the airport, because I can largely agree that most humans can drive a car. I'm much less ok with the person flying my airplane not being certified.
The FAA is the antithesis of "move fast and break things", and their threshold for "unsafe" is justifiably very very tight.

Claiming this has anything to do with "disruption to the commercial airline business" requires some extraordinary evidence to back it up.
> I have heard reports (but cannot confirm them obviously) that machine learning techniques are already creating trading strategies that exploit weaknesses in other trading system algorithms.

That was being done in HFT long before ML came about. In fact, it's supposed to be the primary source of profit.
>“There is so much money now (in the tech sector). You need to have a bigger war chest,” said a Hong Kong-based investment banker familiar with Sequoia’s strategy.

But what if it’s a bubble?
That's exactly what I had in mind, but I'm no expert. And just wait until they've got basic, fluid object recognition down. I've already seen some impressive, old work on coherent in-painting of images.

It seems like all these deep learning discoveries are relatively composable too.
Using a kind of dubious site because it was the first one I found with the 63rd% of income [0]. That clocks in right at $79,954.00. I would say that a significant portion of that 63% is poor money management as opposed to lack of income.

[0] https://dqydj.com/united-states-household-income-brackets-pe...
Well. Aren't Velvet Underground basically a Genghis Khan of 20th century western music, as in 95% of people who attended their shows started a band, and roughly 37% of contemporary bands carry their DNA? :)

That said, baity title but the subtitle is better in terms of Roxy not really sounding like anyone before (or since). Also grateful that the universe allowed Bryan Ferry and Brian Eno to occupy the same space long enough to make choice music without collapsing into a singularity.
Why not an enable/disable edit button?
Regent: a language for implicit dataflow parallelism
Yes, though in some cases the safety is only marketing fluff and cutting corners actually doesn’t contribute to any reduction in safety.

A safety arbitrage play means a company is attempting to turn a profit by selling a cheaper asset deemed unsafe at the same price as a safe one or a bit less.

If the unsafe asset is actually as 100% safe as the safe one, then they have played a valid arbitrage.

If the unsafe asset however is actually unsafe, then they are running a scam.

It’s a pretty common play in some developing economies.
> The eternal human obsession with death explains our intense interest in the experiences that come as close to it as possible.

You could argue that "existential crisis" is the fundamental bedrock on which we all stand. From eating to sex/procreating to jobs to addictions to sports to escapisms to you know name it, existential crisis lingers over it all.

And it's been posited that this all derives from a fluke of the brain/consciousness. The consciousness's mistaken assumption that the "I" exists ( aka Illusion of the self ).
Because the penalties to business for allowing this to happen are nowhere near high enough; instead, it's largely the problem of the individuals involved.
And fortunately commercial pilot licenses are semi-common too.
Nutanix Calm and VMware VRealize Orchestrator
As far as I know a lot of travel and hotel websites actually work kind of like that.
No one "gets into tech" ... a child explores and then becomes an adult and decides to explore more or stop and enjoy the fruits frim others.

Bruce Lee, Van Gough, Bill Gates ... are all explorers. Allow your kid to explore and you will see if tech is right for them.

Explore building (legos) , explore culture (food music) , explore spirituality (religion) ... your kid will choose you their affinity

Legos turns to physics which turns to civil engineering or software ... but your kid might rather build using sound (music) than algebra (code) ... let them build and explore... as the parent make sure its saftely
> That whole field wants to be Google though and thinks they have Google's problems

It's becoming a recurring phenonemon, isn't it? I feel the same with frontend web development: everyone wants to be Facebook.
Hotline Miami I and II were both in GameMaker (IIRC).
I don't see how HE helps, but I've heard of VRF (verifiable random functions) and I think there is something there to do.
By simply bothering to read the user manual beforehand, in fact.
Yea the photos made me think of The 8-Bit Guy videos and him showing how to create sprites using graph paper.
Are all SMTP servers set to complain if the RCPT TO address doesn't exist?
All of those things have a good chunk of a century worth of development (as well as trillions of dollars in R&D) put into making them more robust, building redundancy, etc. I think the parent comment has a good point in that this automated driving thing is a very enormous change with a lot of risk behind it that doesn't appear to be being well managed.
If TapJets was willing to do illegal and unsafe stuff with their own family and friends, think how much more likely they are to skirt safety regulations when providing services to strangers.
Omalu first found the syndrome in 2002 and published his studies of dead NFL players brains in 2005 and the NFL denied any link for ten years, sort of like the UIL of Texas does now.
https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontline/article/meet-the-real-dr-...
A more recent study confirmed the prevalence of CTE with autopsies of 100 NFL players.
https://www.npr.org/2017/07/25/539198429/study-cte-found-in-...

There's already been studies that showed repeated low impact hits on the head (ala soccer) create a deficit in cognitive ability in young people - http://www.cnn.com/2017/02/14/health/brain-damage-dementia-c...

The only reason to keep asking for more studies is to stall so they can make money off of high school athletes, high school football in Texas in a racket as documented in the book Friday Night Lights (not the movie or TV show). Also, if you don't believe that book, James Michener wrote a book 20 years earlier called Sports in America that documents the same phenomena across America in all amateur athletics.

Also I grew up in Texas and no matter how podunk the town was, they spent bank on high school football stadiums then and tens of millions now. You wouldn't understand this if you dont know this.
Their app description:

“Hire a private plane fast and for good price with the help of Tapjet! Best pilots, best quality, safety . We offer best price for private plane rental!”
How many DECADES old is your hardware that an idling just-set-up Ubuntu uses 10% CPU?
Until recently none of the Ruby setups in the TechEmpower benchmark were configured even vaguely correctly. Previously they were comparing Sinatra running on 8 cores to Go running on 40 cores.

At my day job have an a prod analytics service with all the stuff you mention written in Rust + PG, and the Rust bit which handles data ingestion via HTTP and JSON is only about 5x faster than the equivalent Ruby code. Obviously, that was a big disappoitment to me.

Serialization performance in the default Rails setup is horrific but calling Oj explicitly on an ActiveModelSerializer instead of the Rails "render :json, @model" brings it much closer to "fast" languages than you'd expect, improving performance about 74x. I wish I was joking.

If the perf difference simply means buying 2x the servers then as a company you have to be pretty big before it's worth throwing out the entire Ruby/Rails ecosystem and getting stuck with far less mature libraries in newer, less widely used languages like Go or Rust.

There are tons of major sites using Ruby/Python for their web layer. Instagram, Stripe, Airbnb, Shopify, HotelTonight, GitHub, and even part of Netflix is powered by Rails.

If you look at the work Aaron Patterson and Shaun Griffin have done and are doing on AR, or what Peter Ohler has done with Oj, I don't think it's fair to say that either the Rails or Ruby ecosystem doesn't care about performance. They just don't put it before usability by default.

Compared to other scripting languages, even performance focused ones like Lua, Ruby's performance is very good, and will only continue to improve with MJIT coming to MRI Ruby, and an entire new high performance alternative implementation coming with TruffleRuby.
Supposedly KIO is what OLE was supposed to be.

Never seen it taken beyond KDE though.

Then again, KDE had/has many things that nobody seems interested in replicating. like how Konqueror could be divided much like a tiled WM, with each tile holding anything from (khtml driven) web sites, to local, ssh, smb or ftp directories, or even terminals (iirc).

One could basically create just the right tool for a local or remote file management job one needed.

Sadly i have abandoned KDE since the debacle that was 4.0...
Yet your dad (likely, I'm guessing, but many like him anyway) has a license and can legally drive. I hope one thing that criticism of computer driver outcomes leads to is conclusion that lots of human drivers should not be entitled to drive, and kill >1m people/year worldwide.
Ask HN: TTW paypal guy gets NZ citizenship: doesn't show up in HN
submit the link HN tells you it's been submitted but no link to it for votes or discussion. search for it and it doesn't show up. search HN for nzherald.co.nz and the most recent is 9 days ago (Rocket Lab launches a disco ball). looks like a duck and sounds like a duck.
The last 3 years of development to the language have been...momentous, to say the least.

Even if you just look at what's been done in garbage collection alone, it's leaps and bounds.
The FAA can't stop you from being a business, since that's not their charter. They can stop you from conducting air flights in the USA.

As an extreme thought experiment, the FAA could revoke Delta Airlines' authorization to fly, but Delta would continue to be a company- just without any way to make money.
Incredible video tour of the Hogwarts Castle model
I thought it was about passing variables into a class instead of an object, or some other Object Oriented technique I was unaware of...
From Lost Opportunities to Unfair Advantages – Bridging the Gap with Technology
> I am tired of people feeling like it is open season on me because the reason I am aware of these studies is because of my health issues.

You keep making the threads about your personal health issues, and couch all your opinions in that context. No one is dragging it there but you.
> This does not necessarily mean what was done here was in any way unsafe

> unlicensed pilots

> unauthorized/unregistered aircraft

> cavalier attitude toward regulatory compliance

Yeah, that sounds in no way unsafe. There are rules and certification/regulation processes for a reason.
Probably not but you can always Show HN: ... here.
You can't opt out of being stalked by these evil clowns, but there are ways to hurt them. Your employer probably uses something called "Work Number," which basically involves sending Equifax your pay stubs. When presented with repeated proof of Equifax's staggering incompetence, your company may discontinue the service. See https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/26/your-money/equifax-breach... .
Out of pure curiosity what took 300ms? Image composition? Huge JSON payload serialization?
I know this won't work everywhere, but if you know how much time the task generally takes, your progress bar can just be a timer for that duration. Still more informative than fake messages.
Interesting! This appears to be implementing Decimal32, Decimal64, and Decimal128 [1].

It's worth remembering that the "first" computer, the ENIAC, used decimal arithmetic. A decimal arithmetic package was one of the first things I wrote for my Z-80
homecomputer as I couldn't imagine anyone working with
money using binary floating point! [2] That said, isn't
Fintech mostly using scaled integers these days?

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decimal32_floating-point_forma...
[2] My horror was refreshed recently when I compared various mortgage calculators on the web. Not two of
them got the exact same amortization schedule :( :(
One option would be to require the linemen to stand up and prohibit helmet strikes.
I don't know where you are but that sounds like a cultural difference. Most American retailers have very good return policies. I was at Lowe's (big box hardware store) recently and witnessed someone return an open bag of beef jerky because they didn't like the flavor. The only places with bad return policies are small mom and pops.
Quick Demo of soon to be released readline library for Clojure/Script
No, they claim they were operating under Part 91 (non-commercial) rules since they didn't take money for the flights. Part 91 rules are less strict, in particular they don't require a commercial license.

I'm not sure which jets they were flying, but most business jets have a two person crew requirement, and a student pilot would not meet the crew requirements. It doesn't sound like their short response completely covers the FAA's allegations, but getting the flights to be considered Part 91 would be a big piece of it.
>If it was pretty much anyone else doing this.

Look at seL4, minix3, genode, helenos.
"Smaller than Walmart" rules out roughly zero stores.
what's wrong with giving older browsers a different experience?
Just to add a funny story:

The place I just got hired by is pretty much all Python. They half-joke about hating Ruby. I did all of my challenges/problem walkthroughs in Ruby because I felt like it best communicated the problem and problem solution in code.

The number of times I heard "that solution is so clean" or "this solution would be way more involved in Python" from my interviewers would take more fingers to count than I have hands.
In China I was part of a flight that got so delayed and had so many people complaining and shouting that they brought out free meals for everyone to calm them down.
In the loading animation of windows 98 there was a horizontal bar of moving colors. And if it stopped animating, you can be 100% sure that the computer is frozen. I wonder if we can do similar with cycling animations.
Thanks for your feedback, you do have some good points.

> Docker is not part of Kubernetes. This is what I was talking about.

Yes, perhaps I should have said Dockerfiles + k8s Manifests

> In short, efficient use of Kubernetes requires software without masters, controllers, or other stateful components.

StatefulSets + Persistent volumes solve this quite well: https://kubernetes.io/docs/concepts/workloads/controllers/st...

K8s is becoming (if not already) the default cloud native "OS". Write a manifest for your application and people can easily run it anywhere. The big clouds offering K8S as a service only improve this!
>Who you are in one situation is different from who you are in a different situation.

This jibes with an Alan Watts quote that helped me - "You are under no obligation to be who you were 15 minutes ago."

Like a lot of guru BS this could be taken a thousand ways, including as permission to be untrustworthy, but for me it meant that if you figure out the new, correct path, you don't need to expend energy reconciling your new behavior with your old attitude or behavior to maintain some kind of consistent narrative. Just fix it and move on. You are under no obligation to be who you were 15 minutes ago.
Except they had to spend the same amount of time walking. If presented as a choice I'd usually choose standing.
Or in "cool speak", I guess they could say they are disrupting the airline space by democratising flying? /s
It's a lot easier to fire off an email complaint than it is to do it in person, where it feels a lot more awkward.

Add to that, a chef made your food in a restaurant, broken WiFi on a plane isn't exactly the same kind of hand-crafted experience.
But the purpose of chess is taking part and having fun. The purpose of finance is making money. The comparison is weird. No one will give their money to someone to manage for fun if an AI could make more money.
"When you use an infrared sauna, you SWEAT out these fattening chemicals..."

No actual supporting studies are given for this claim or others.

Drilling down into any of the links just brings you to the author's e-commerce site.

Several claims are "footnoted" ("(1) (2) (3)") yet no actual references are given. The underlying Sunlighten site calls their product "clinically-backed" with no references given on the site that I can find.
That depends on if actual safety is in jeopardy or "safety" regulations that are often written for the expressed purpose to increase costs in order to be anti-competitive with no real safety impact
Well, it's not THEIR money. :)
> Would be nice to disable such animations.

Indeed. If you have an Android phone you can try turning off all kinds of animations from the dev options. I always do that and my phone feels so much faster.
It's the carriers (USPS, FedEx, UPS etc.) who leave your purchases on the street, not Amazon. Amazon can't micromanage their shipping partners to alter the way they do deliveries.

You don't have argue with Amazon. You press the "where's my stuff" button and send a message. They'll ship a replacement right away.

If you live in a sketchy area, don't order things. Similarly, I live in a cottage behind a big house. I can't hear or see delivery trucks, so I avoid any orders that require a signature.
US dropped ball on Navy railgun development–now China is picking it up
There is an upper bound to autonomous vehicle performance with our current roadway infrastructure and that is well below the threshold of full self driving cars. Once we retrofit the roads with sensors, remove the reliance on existing physical signage, and add guardrails to prevent unanticipated occurrences as much as possible, we'll see real progress. Once everything (cars, roadway, services, etc) becomes networked and talks to each other, we can get rid of the steering wheels. My guess is we're 10 years away from limited availability and 50 years away from full build out country wide. One question - will a new technology come along before then and render driverless cars as a means of human transport irrelevant? Personally, I'm waiting for human drone delivery ;-)
> It's so trivial to add ordering to UDP

Specially when compared with creating and using a user space IP protocol like was done here, or adding a new one into the kernel.
I don't think that is a valid comparison.

If a flight delay causes me to miss a connection, then I paid for a service (getting me from location A to location B by a certain time) that I did not actually get. Same if the Wi-Fi is out of service.

There is no implicit promise at a restaurant that you'll like your dinner.
No, I do not. Mentioning that I know about such things because of my diagnosis is not me making it about me. I cannot control the fact that other people focus overly much on that. I have tried various approaches. It makes no real difference how I frame things. Other people continue to rubberneck about my stuff. It isn't reasonable to act like I should not mention my diagnosis at all.

Here is the previous discussion where every single reply to me had nothing to do with my point and just chose to get into my personal stuff until I announced I was walking away:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16201406
preaching to the f'ing choir here mate.

The volume of material out there written to help people improve the performance of their React applications makes it pretty clear to me that folks aren't looking before they leap.

I've seen more than a couple dozen projects with ~20-40 lines of simple, performant, vanilla JS turn into multi-hundred line behemoths + _an entire React framework_ for exactly zero benefit to end users because of "best practices".
> a few searches to see who's got the best price on [x] right now. It's surprisingly often not Amazon.

That's definitely not "no energy" and is kind of exactly the OP's point. Amazon might not be the cheapest but they'll still be very close, and you save time by just defaulting to them.
Just had a little PTSD flashback moment there at seeing the words "Crystal Reports"