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There is an extreme difference in the number of hours and required training between your SPL/PPL/CPL/ATPL. Eg: For fixed wing, you can get your PPL within 35 flight hours at a Part 141 School. Your ATP comes at a minimum of 1500 hours, and you are required to know much more about emergency recovery. The regs in place regarding minimum requirements for carrying passengers and performing commercial ops are there for very good reason. Even when having your PPL(or other license for that fact), there are currency requirements on when you are allowed to carry passengers on Part 91 non-commercial flights.

In the aviation world, even having your commercial is considered a "license to learn". Having your PPL simply implies that you can fly an aircraft in good weather conditions, should have the better judgement not to fly beyond your weather minimums, and have the ability not to kill anyone outside of your aircraft should conditions deteriorate while in the air. Even with my fixed wing PPL, I am extremely cautious with passengers knowing that I don't have nearly as much knowledge and experience as someone with their CPL/ATPL.

Source: PPL w/ instrument Fixed Wing & CPL-H
I have long joked that vegetarianism is about hating plants, not loving animals.
Did you guys recently just change your pricing structure? I remember it was per card a while ago and thought it was too expensive. But not it doesn’t look that bad!
I've heard just the opposite from someone I know at Amazon. I've heard that they still gather a lot of their data by doing Sql queries.
What's the reasonable test surface for a new type of brake or tire or electrical system? These are things that you can reasonably well do some fundamental engineering analysis on and say "that seems like a good design" or not. It's also something that you can test in a way that gives you a high confidence that your tests are sufficient to provide high confidence in the design. And even then there are problems that slip through.

Switching from a human driver to software automated driving is a much bigger change in automobiles than has ever come before. It's also one with a much larger reasonable test surface, by orders of magnitude. Systemic risk? How about meltdown and spectre vulnerabilities? The failure mode of most new hardware in cars requires either edge cases or corner cases to result in the worst case scenario of a crash at speed. And yet that's a very common failure mode in autonomous driving. You can't realistically have a car that can autonomously drive itself 90% or even 99% of the time, it must be nearly exactly 100% of the time to be worthwhile and safe.
When someone says they're a "vegetarian" but eat fish" I always think, "ah, it's the IQ school of vegetarianism: you'll eat anything you think is as smart as asparagus."
Less stuff in an image means a smaller surface for bugs and security exploits.
I'm pretty sure Buffett doesn't use that stuff. Although he reads the papers so he may pick up on things other people have done.
Exposing kernel bits via the filesystem makes less sense the more you think about it:

* You have to build a state machine inside the kernel to handle cases like applications reading a file one byte at a time.

* If the API is complex, you get to build parsers (aka, the easiest way to introduce buffer overflows in C) in kernel-mode.

* Programs now have to deal with malicious applications capable of managing mountpoints giving fake results via the filesystem. I could link to /dev/random to /dev/zero, how many programs are going to check for that?

* You can't let the program go into a chroot jail if it needs to read the kernel's magic filesystem.

* You have to mingle filesystem access bits with kernel security checks for process capabilities and the like.

It's definitely not a simple interface for the kernel to implement, and, quite frankly, it's much more complex for a security-minded application to poke at the kernel through a filesystem than it is through a syscall.
Do you have a proposal for a cryptocurrency without proof of work?
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This stuff drives me so nuts. It also seems to be something that I've only ever noticed being done by religious people who follow done monotheistic believe. Does anyone know if any destruction of a culture and its artifacts had happened by someone not motivated by monotheistic delusions?
Sometimes I forget the USA centric nature of forum until I read riding without helmet is legal... :0

I've see motorcycles without helmet last time I was down south in the fall and it scares the absolute beejesus bonkers out of me :/

(I've been riding for a decade, do occasional dirt trails, and have doing motorsport rallying a while back, but never enough of a daredevil to mount a bike without helmet and armour)
Its Act 20 act 22. Basically, you can avoid paying personal income tax and capital gains by becoming a resident of Puerto Rico (I.E. living there for a documented 183 days out of the year). Also incorporating in PR and hiring at least 2 locals you will qualify you for substantial benefits as well. It's honestly one of the best places to be as an investor or anyone starting an internet based company from a tax savings and financial standpoint.
So only a little off topic, but does anyone here use the Wolfram language and Mathematica for research and common coding tasks? I've been pleasantly surprised so far with the depth of the language (the import statement is a single unified way to import everything from CSV, text, excel files, mathematical optimization (.mps) files, graphviz dot files...etc). I'm just starting to use it and the fact that you can wrap a oneliner in a single command to turn it into an interactive widget with a slider, or convert it to C code, JIT it, or run it in parallel or on a GPU is crazily well integrated. I love python (open source and free instead of proprietary and expensive), but in Python every one of those things is a separate library if it exists. I've always known about Cython/Jython/PyPy, but that requires a lot more effort to utilize in the same way.
I can see a case for artificial delays in some cases, so the user can comprehend everything relevant that is happening. But... trying to also use this time to employ tricks to give users "false confidence" in your software is taking a questionable turn.
This is false. The weights of the largest constituents of the index are set by active traders, not passive investors.
He's still doing well in the current world.
you don't buy on a dip, you buy after the dip is finished and it starts going up again
> When the sector first started emerging, Facebook could have battened down the hatches and played a defensive hand. Instead, it did what the bravest companies do: it decided to disrupt itself before the competition did.

Yes, buying all the competition.
Your question is excellent and gets to the heart of the matter.

How could Facebook, in a neutral way, cull crap and promote quality?

I wish I had robust answers. All I have at the moment is opinions.

• Algorithmic methods can't deliver near term solutions. Algorithms embody the biases of their human coders. I doubt we currently know how to algorithmically evaluate inputs for quality in the Facebook or "fake news" context. We need more time and effort to learn how to do this.

• Promoting quality currently requires humans, who are expensive. If Facebook really prioritizes feed quality, we'll see serious hiring. If we don't, then evidence of commitment is lacking.

• I believe (no proof to offer, mainly intuition) quality can eventually be algorithmically determined, but it's a hard problem. It will take years, lots of smart people and $ to figure out how to make it work at scale.

• I don't think Facebook's announced path, which is to solicit those who are arguably more susceptible to "fake news" to be arbitrators of quality, will succeed.

Facebook, like others, is caught between maximizing 90 day quarterly profits and becoming a persistent human resource. I don't envy Zuckerberg at all. I hope he can do the right thing.

We'll see.
Repeated collision of your skull, even if it doesn't result in concussion.

Linemen are the most prone.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/leighsteinberg/2017/07/25/cte-s...
Reminds me of, I can't remember which mathematician it was, that came in late one day to a lecture and copied two assignments from the blackboard. He handed them in late saying "they took longer than I thought."

It turned out they weren't homework assignments but unsolved problems in mathematics, and he had solved them (and later used them for his thesis).
I wouldn’t overthink it, it’s just a metaphor :)

I also don’t think that GraphQL will replace REST, the two work great side-by-side
Planetary boundaries, Limits to Growth and the climate debate (2013)
Well, I would argue that eating animals is morally superior to cannibalism :)

So why can't eating plants be morally superior to eat animals.
So many fond memories of TSN.

In 7th grade, trapped in the house during snowy winter nights, it became a real place to hang out. And unlike say, CompuServe, there were a lot of kids my age there.

Way ahead of its time.
More like a "how-to and why for 99% of Docker use cases" tutorial I can point people to next time I hear the words "we need to use Docker."
Just eat roadkill and naturally fallen fruit. Also breastmilk.
"The following is a small, but interesting and illustrative example of a game state that has only one logical solution, but you need to take into account the entire game state to find it:"

Is that really true? You can induce that the squares in the corners are free just by looking at their surroundings.
Bear markets last much longer than a few weeks.. think at least 2 years. There is no rush when it comes to waiting it out.
> deterministic source of randomness

There is a manifest contradiction here created by this choice of words.
BitCoin is not useful as a payment method; it's too slow and wasteful (the hardware and energy requirements are absurd) and the transaction fees are too high.

BitCoin is not useful as a store of value; the price is incredibly unstable and open to manipulation.

BitCoin is not secure; if you're a victim of fraud there's no recourse. There have been so many heists I can't even keep track of them all.

It's not private; if your wallet address is ever associated with you, everything you ever did is laid out for all to see.

What is it good for? Why do the believers still believe other than they have lots of money tied up in it?
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Even if you believe that plants are conscious eating plants instead of animals is still more ethical because it takes around 7kg of plant feed to produce 1kg of meat. So you’re responsible for the death of the animal and all the plants it ate.
Do you deal with drive warranties?
If the software is at all accurate, using that kind of AR google on me should result in retinal scarring.
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It was common in the ancient world -- "we won because our god(s) are greater than your god(s)."

Look at the (pagan/polytheist) Romans' actions in the seige and destruction of (monotheist) Jerusalem, for one example. Or (pagan) Viking raids on English/Welsh/Irish Christian monasteries for another.
> Are there any really good papers, projects, or products that show where FPGAs provide a major commercial benefit over a GPU?

A couple applications that come to mind:

- RF, including cellular base station hardware and radar

- ASIC prototyping

- Low production run computer hardware, including some RAID controllers
I really like the subtle emphasis on traditional engineering, whereby we tend to use the simplest methods to produce something predictable, and can therefore recognize it as "unnatural". It ignites the imagination to think of what an unpredictable, "natural" engineering scheme may produce for us in terms of beauty or unexpected utility. For example, I always thought it best to learn outdoors and that 90-degree angles hinder me, they make me anxious and tense. What about a classroom with smooth, round edges, walls of varying but somehow synergistic colors schemes, and beams of varying lengths, textures, and widths, like what you'd see in a natural setting? All precisely calculated and predictable, but the effect would be abstractly beautiful rather than concretely unexpected.

When I was a kid I lived on a street with a hill and field and some very large deciduous trees growing out back. There was a windstorm in summer that broke off entire limbs from these trees which collected in a loose pile by the trunks. The branches fell in such a way that you could go inside the pile, like a little hut. The neighborhood kids and I moved some around and made a more secure version, but the base structure was the same. It inspired us greatly, I think we slept out there for two days.
Blockchain is interesting technology, but it is not the basis for easy money, since there's no product or service that is in high demand. All of them are ponzis. Bitcoin just lost half of its value. Seriously, this is delusional.
One thing that I like about reddit is being able to choose subreddits to appear on home page. I choose funny pictures of the day and a few tech topics, no politics.
I would argue that there are lots of valid reasons to eat lower on the food chain, many of which can be framed as having a moral impetus. But the idea that it is morally superior based on plants being stupid is repugnant to me. It opens the door on questions like "So, is it okay to eat mentally retarded people?"

Some moral arguments I can agree with:

A mostly plant based diet is less resource intensive. Since most wars are about scarcity of resources, eating less meat is voting against war in a tangible way. It is about promoting peace globally.

There are health benefits to eating less meat.

Meat is very water intensive. Water shortages are a big deal globally at the moment.

There are no doubt others. Just quick and dirty off the cuff thoughts.
> “Plants are not just robotic, stimulus-response devices,” said Frantisek Baluska

I don't see how this follows from the finding that sedatives can prevent plants from responding to stimuli. It just means that there's a shared mechanism behind plants' responses and animals' responses, which wouldn't be overly surprising.

Of course, that doesn't mean that plants don't have a lot more going on than we usually realise, just because it happens at timescales so much longer than ours. There's all sorts of cool stuff happening in rainforests with cooperation/competition between plants.
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This seems like the kind of defense a guy caught at a massage parlor would use. "That tip is for the massage, not the sex."
http://faculty.ucr.edu/~eschwitz/SchwitzAbs/USAconscious.htm
Yea he is obviously smart getting his doctorate at a young age and the prestigious MacArthur grant, as well as making some important contributions to the CA field, but his best attribute might be being a businessman making millions selling a good product. Part of that involves self promotion, but it does make me uncomfortable how extreme he can get with it (I'm thinking his NKS book). Cellular automata are cool, but I'm not seeing the explosion in the field and how they're being used for everything like he keeps saying (hopefully someone on here can confirm/deny this who is active in that area).
I hold a commercial airplane rating ...

The PPL is about 40 - 60 hours of experience at the time of rating, and CPL is 200+ hours. New PPL holders do not have an IFR endorsement, while most CPLs do. So the qualifications are vastly different.

In the industry, we say that a PPL is "a license to learn."

I read both press releases and the missing info is which aircraft were being used with the unrated pilots. If it was a plane requiring a SIC, and the second pilot was a student, then that was the real reason for the revocation.

Also, the catchall "recklessness" can be used at any time. Flying pax without a rated SIC would be an easy complaint to win.
This is what https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jain_vegetarianism is all about. (The scruples of the Jain are outlandish, but also worthy of serious respect. You won't meet many new-agey types who are as serious about compassion and nonviolence.)
Putting a strong magnet next to my old mechanical watch causes it to "pause" too. Clearly I'm sedating it.
There's also survivor bias.

If 10 firms start out, and 1 survives to profitability, that single firm's P/L will show gains, but the industry net won't.

That's not true profit, but a probabilistic artefact of essentially winning a sequence of bets.

There may also be gains possible if the survivor can increase scale of operations and/or start mitigating risks that smaller players cannot. This is another path to monopoly advantage that is based, again, on effectively winning early chance-based trials, and then ratcheting in an ever-larger risk advantage as compared to smaller players.
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I wonder if there are any companies aggregating some sort of book of faces.
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Prime is worth it to me even for just prime video.

8.25/MRC is way less than my Netflix subscription.
What are the consequences of cutting off any other car today? There will still be people in those self driving cars, you know. Perhaps even people with a horn.
Can you construct a complete human diet out of fungi (mushrooms, truffles, yeast, etc.)?

What about if you add milk and eggs?
Not really seeing any connection beyond the jungle part. Mayan world and religion doesn’t appear to share much with Tolkien: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maya_religion vs https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elf_(Middle-earth)
> Do you think Nature will eventually hit on a global optimum?

No. At least not in the way described. Optimal as considered by whom? Us? We look at something and say this would function better than that, but is something that is optimal perfect? Basic microeconomics shows that perfection is sub-optimal due to the law of diminishing marginal return. Perfection is wasteful and unsustainable. What do we know to be optimal? From what I know, “adequate enough to reproduce” may not be perfect, but it might be brushing up against optimal in its “good enough and no more” / lagom nature. Mollusks have mollusk eyes. Can we know that humans would be better off with mollusk eyes without rewriting our evolutionary lineage for us to be more like mollusks in other imperfect ways?
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...and Amazon went ahead and forked it, in addition to CyanogenMod, Paranoid, Copperhead, "HALFB4kedMod 0.9Beta2(No camera)"[1] and so on. Android's openness is not just empty words.

1. Until the developer changes phones and loses interest. Nevertheless, thank goodness for XDA.
Does everybody on HackerNews have a subscription to the New York Times or something?
It's impossible to determine the corner squares are free solely from their immediate surroundings.

For instance, take the 2x2 section in the top-left of the board. Although the top-right and bottom-left squares of this section are mined, it could also be the top two, or alternatively the left two.

Therefore a more complex algorithm is required to solve this board.
And how would you go about doing that? Can’t think of how you would go about that, we did search around a lot for security advice
Two mobile devices I worked on, at different companies, ended up with fake progress bars for boot-up. We engineers wanted individual bar segments for kernel load, filesystem mount, daemon startup and so on -- but wiring up the necessary instrumentation to the GUI would have been significant work, and management wasn't going to allow anything less than a show-stopper bug to delay code freeze.

So in the real world, time-to-market beats UI truthfulness.
Use incognito.
GridBagLayout is an AWT, not Swing thing. The most obvious difference seems to be that people actually like CSS Grid.
I think you've put forward an important point many don't consider when debating why companies won't open source.
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Alan Watts has talked about something very similar with regard to what is intelligence and how exactly do we measure and define it. Here is a short (1m20s) youtube clip of it:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LgZ73Lc5VS8
> It irks me that this is used so much for comparison, since combinations of things are so overwhelmingly larger than collections of things that it feels like a category error to compare them.

I think this is the core of the issue. "Atoms in the universe" is only such a relatively 'small' number if you assume that the way they're arranged is unimportant.
These all seem fair- I've been mostly looking at large scale FPGAs in a data center, a la F1 or Microsoft's Catapult. I hadn't given much thought to use as low-run hardware, at which I'm sure they excel.
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Can we please forget about this word called bubble? Do you like recession? There are certain set of people who are constantly posting about it from last 3-4 years. It has not happened and it ain't going to happen so let's move on.
IIRC It is entirely deterministic, if all parties are in cahoots with each other and sharing their secrets. But, if they are not, then it is effectively a non-deterministic random.
If you buy into Pansychism [1], bacteria are very conscious.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panpsychism
K sooo to (kinda) answer the question: depends. What's your definition of consciousness?

Now as for the implication that anesthetics sedating plants has ANYTHING to do with this/whether or not they are conscious: no. No sorry, not buying it. Need more science.

This just suggests we may have similar inhibitory biochemical responses to certain organic compounds.

That's not surprising since were all made out of hydrocarbons & many anesthetics have relatively simple structures.
I think the devil's in the details a bit here. For example, for the first 251k miles driven in 2017 (71% of the total) they had 1 disengagement due to a "software discrepancy."

Then over the next 43k miles they had 8 disengagements due to software.

And then none since October.

Looks like a regression bug to me.

Similarly with "perception discrepancies" they had 14 disengagements for the first 175k miles driven (50%) and then 2 over the second half.

Also only 24 of the 63 incidents were "failure detections" where the vehicle immediately handed over control of the vehicle; the rest were handed over "safely" (I assume this means the driver took over control voluntarily.)

Also they don't say what the criteria is, but I suspect given what we've heard about the cars' conservative natures that "disengage for unwanted maneuver of the vehicle" is code for "the car is going too slow / being too passive at an intersection, etc."

So all in all I see positive trends above and beyond the overall numbers. But I'm bullishly biased about self-driving cars, so get out your salt grains.
"Crop the beaver"? Seriously?
It also says "Shave the beaver"!
Is it me? Is this thinly veiled high school innuendo?
I didn't know about the --init flag to docker run, thanks! Looks like that was added last year with 1.13.0. Going to have to try this myself, now.