skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
United used to have a feature called "From the Flight Deck" where you could listen to live radio communications between your pilots and air traffic control.

Unfortunately, it's now only available on a few routes and planes:

https://www.flyertalk.com/forum/united-airlines-mileageplus/...

I found it very comforting to listen to it during an entire flight, because you could find out what the pilots of your flight were actually saying about turbulence and flight conditions, including their ongoing efforts to avoid turbulence purely for passenger comfort. You could also hear from other pilots who had recently flown through the same region, discussing how turbulent it was and how long it was likely to last. Among other things, this can reveal that the pilots are aware of the situation and don't consider it threatening.

Part of the scary thing about turbulence can be wondering "do the pilots realize it's so bumpy?" or "are they concerned about this?" or "what are they doing about it?". Most U.S. flights don't really make a lot of passenger announcements about these questions, but if you listen to the ATC communications, you can get real answers (usually "yes", "not at all", and "trying to get a clearance for a different altitude").

In many regions there's volunteer ground-based coverage for live ATC streams:

https://www.liveatc.net/

It's obviously more complicated to identify the particular ATC region that your flight is in (and then manually change to a different stream every time you're handed off to a different controller!), but if you buy in-flight Internet access, you might be able to listen to some of these communications from the air even if you're not on a United flight with channel 9.

The biggest challenge is that ARTCCs (the high-altitude ATC facilities) have subdivided their airspace into sectors with different frequencies.

For instance if you look at

https://www.liveatc.net/feedindex.php?type=us-artcc

you can see the Denver ARTCC (ZDV) is subdivided into more than a dozen different sectors (and there's no guarantee that this list is even complete). So if you wanted to listen to these communications this way, you'd have to take a rather active role in selecting streams and accept that your flight would probably pass through regions with no streaming coverage.

(Edit: for example you might hear "(your flight number), contact Denver center one two eight point three two five, good day" in which case you would want to switch over to the "Denver Center (Sector 14 High): 128.325" stream. If you succeed in switching in time, you should then hear your flight call "Denver, (your flight number) with you at (altitude)". But if you missed this instruction, you might have to spend an inordinately long time listening to random streams in the hope of hearing your flight's callsign, or do significant research on FlightAware to figure out what sector you might be in. Quite a chore compared to United's service...)
Which OS do you run on your XPS that you cannot run on your MBP?
> while a longer 11.3-mile trip lists a cost of $19.15. That’s similar to the cost of a ride from Uber Technologies Inc. or Lyft Inc., and cheaper than a local taxi.

I’m really curious to learn more about the economics of this price. My understanding is that the lyft/uber pricing is subsidized. If Waymo can do the same but at a profit, then that will make them hugely competitive.
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It's actually reversed. People in developing countries are actually more savvy in many ways, as they entered into the Internet during an era where there was no Facebook or Facebook wasn't the dominate player. It's really only in the US where people are so illiterate that FB is a primary destination. But that doesn't make it a monopoly.
There is a simple algorithm called "Five Minute Phobia Cure", which can alleviate phobias quickly and permanently.

Unfortunately, it's difficult to find good information on it on the Internet (there are both bad descriptions and other things with the same name out there.)

However, since you should engage a knowledgeable practitioner (rather than just reading about it online) to learn about it, this isn't a huge problem.

Just so you know what I'm talking about if you go looking for someone to do this with, I'll sketch the algorithm:

A typical sequence begins with imagining you're seated in a movie theater, the movie screen shows the events you describe, the flight, the turbulence, etc. from a disassociated viewpoint, meaning that you see yourself on the screen (as opposed to seeing what you saw at the time.)

Next, you imagine being in the movie projection booth, watching yourself seated in the theater, watching the movie. This is a double-disassociation, an important point.

Then, you run the movie in reverse.

This process should be done with an experienced and knowledgeable practitioner to guide you.

For some reason[1] this double-disassociation combined with reversing the original event stream completely erases the phobic response.

[1] It would be nice if somebody "did science to" this process, but in the meantime if you can find someone who knows it you can eliminate your fear of flying in about five minutes.
That has always been the case from the beginning of vector layers. If anything was crippled, this isn't it.
It’s funny, the downvote wars going on, I’ve lost karma for a comment that’s innocuous. Just comes to show the world we live in where solipsism is pandemic.
I do the same thing, no store, telemetry, cordana.. Just windows the way it should be.

Besides, windows store is bullshit and its going to end up as the same crappy experience as Google and apples app "stores".

LTSB for life.
Consider that maybe one reason you're so afraid is because turbulence is asynchronous and that maybe makes it less tolerable than if you knew exactly when it would come. So when you feel that startled shock when the plane randomly drops a few feet, remind yourself that this is "how it's supposed to be" and it's not actually an unexpected sudden failure of the aircraft.

I recommend getting a window seat so you can distract yourself and watch the beautiful scenery. Plus it can feel more "synchronous" when you see your plane enter a thick cloud, then feel a few bumps. And as another poster said, don't drink caffeine.

Your bad experience was probably a 1e-5 event, so it probably won't happen to you again.
>As far as I'm aware there hasn't been any Russian-created content found that supported Clinton.

Well, there is the Steele dossier, which FusionGPS was paid twice for - once by a Republican PAC, then second by Clinton's Perkins & Coie - before providing it to the FBI directly. You could say that it's MI5/MI6 (once a <three letter agency> operative, always a <three letter agency> operative, amirite?) intel, but the unverified parts of it are from Russian sources.
Every person I know is using an ad blocker so I guess they do care. And yes, publishers care as well:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-switch/wp/2016/05/27...
I'm surprised by this, 35 cents is less than the IRS deduction for mileage at about 55 cents a mile which is supposed to represent depreciation and direct expenses, how would they get so much lower?
The hardware will surely be commoditized... so the big differentiator seems to be software. Software is one thing that Google surely does well.
Heh I thought this was for landlords to track tenant data. I was excited for a second!
I suspect there's lot of bullshitting happening around "UX analysis", with third-party "experts" offering analyses which may, or may not, show something significant. As long as everyone in the chain can convince their customer/superior that their work is useful, the money will flow, whether or not the work is actually useful.
When I said "anyone else" I wasn't referring to government inquiries, which very obviously have a much higher level of access than any member of the public, including the press.

So, again, Is everything stated by an intelligence agency true? No. Is everything false? No. So you evaluate the claims they make. This isn't complicated.
It's because they use systems that identify the client via js to deliver the most "expensive" ad possible. It's complete garbage of course, Google/Facebook should be held liable for what they advertise, not run massive automated systems full of fraud. If Google delivers malware they shouldn't be able to throw their hands up and go "well, section 230!".
https://www.google.ca/amp/s/www.forbes.com/sites/china/2010/...

See above for a more full analysis, Chinese govt. could have given preferential treatment but it was Ebay that had adverts all over Chinese buses and had blocked Taobao from advertising on Chinese web platforms through exclusive partnerships.
The same code is in PSP, and it only slows down specific operations.
Ya, getting self driving cars for the automative industry is the equivalent of rockets landing themselves for the space industry. How do you compete with that?
Can you explain how these differ from ordinary callback functions?

I haven't done any web development to speak of, but I've done a fair bit of GUI stuff, doing things like this snippet appears to in languages that don't have "events" as a separate category of thing.
Always look for that extra gratituitous detail, a common trait in fabricated stories.
> If the NT Kernel is "Doing Linux better than Linux", that's a fascinating statement, because the NT Kernel is also running Win32, UWP, and all of its own chores at the same time. What's the Linux kernel doing? ;P

Microsoft, the former juggernaut, would say "Linux, who?", and then proceed to throw their sales and marketing weight around.

> a testament to the underlying NT kernel, because the NT kernel doesn't care, it's still chugging along doing its thing and doing it well.

It must be advantageous for Microsoft, at least in the short-term, to open themselves up and decrease friction between themselves and the Linux community, especially on the server-side where Linux won, than to innovate and compete on Microsoft-centric features and functions - to create something new that's more compelling.

Also, Microsoft risks seeding their own destruction when they create compelling new technologies like XMLHttpRequest that, once appropriated by their competition, reduces the compelling nature of any other technologies Microsoft created for platform lock-in. I can understand innovation fatigue setting in for management when they have enough institutional XMLHttpRequest stories to go along with the endless failed software project investments and evaporating markets.

I assign meaning to the decisions and directions that individuals and companies take. Microsoft paved a gilded path for application development that points AWAY from the Windows platform. Yes, there is novelty and a definite technical achievement there that one can appreciate. But I choose to focus on the motives rather than the technical achievement, and I am disturbed by what I perceive is Microsoft's capitulation in the consumer software/platform arena.

If Microsoft is soon to be the SAAS and Cloud company and not the Windows/Office company, then the software world is worse-off because competition is good.
Yeah, but maybe a little spark of interest could re-lit the flame :)
Ok, I'll accept that, but you have to admit it looks like you're responding to your comment there. If you want to engage in constructive conversation you have a bit of work to do. Start with A) realizing you probably don't know as much as you think you do, and B) don't get so emotional when someone disagrees with you.
Well, the languages I'm using are Ruby, Python, Elixir, JavaScript so I definitely like not to write types. Still, I don't know how types work in Grain. The documentation doesn't say anything about it or it's very well hidden.
I can't agree more with the points you make, I've spent a decent amount of time and effort reducing the overhead of my blog, for example - https://goose.us/thoughts/on-the-purpose-of-life/

That page includes images and "embedded" youtube videos, but loads 454kb of 3,187 words with 10 requests in 450-600ms - if anyone has any suggestions on how to reduce that further, I'd love to hear.

Going to bookmark that txti.es service for the future, definitely seems useful for publishing simple content without needing to fit it into a blog theme.
I don't think Tesla is really considered a serious competitor in the self driving car industry by anyone besides Tesla.

Which is probably fortunate for all the other players since all of the Autopilot issues get attributed mainly to Tesla rather than to self driving cars.
Why though? Dont you want that control? What id your favorite app turns into spyware?
If OP is at all involved in using or developing for Linux, it seems justifiable... Their approach to linux support has been anything from "poor" to "outright hostile" for a long time. AMD and Intel do a far, far better job of enabling and contributing to open source development and drivers, using standard kernel APIs, etc.
I don't disagree, and it's not facebook's responsibility to teach people how to identify manipulative content, but that viewpoint is too narrow. People blindly trust facebook because it is positioned as a safe place on the internet. Users let their guard down and don't think about what they are seeing critically enough to not let themselves be manipulated. And that's exactly what facebook wants from an advertising revenue perspective. It is in their gross negligence of responsibility in keeping user data safe and out of the hands of bad actors that their complicity lies. If facebook wants to assume ownership over our data, then they are responsible for it, and by extension what others do with it.
Revolving around a sun and rotating at the same time needed?
The PC Master Race thing grew out of a Zero Punctuation video. It’s more about comparing PC games to consoles.

Those I’ve spoken to in the industry have all praised Blender but say they use various commercial tools because it part of their pipeline and they pay for support.
You want to compare plain text to a newspaper, which even in paper form, people expect to contain pictures and advertisements.
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I was in a similar spot as you: rationalizing an irrational fear I knew was irrational from an understanding of statistics and just common sense. How many planes did I watch fly overhead yesterday? How many actually crashed? Why am I so special that the plane I'm on will crash? It helped.

But I would always have this uncomfortable worry while flying. Any bump would jolt me from an uneasy sleep. I got over my that by facing my fears and fighting the irrational ignorance that came with it by educating myself. I went to my local private airport and asked about a discovery flight. I sat up in the cockpit and saw how a plane works. I asked the pilot what those bumps are and what those sounds are when they happen. I saw his process for taking off and landing, and preparing the plane for each configuration. It contextualized all the noises and horrifically scary (and in hindsight silly) moments where I was certain that the plane slowing down to extend its flaps for landing (like the most normal thing a plane can do) meant we were crashing.

I ended up with about 12 hours of stick time, but I had done enough takeoffs and landings to know that bumps are normal, you don't freak out when your car drives over a pothole, you shouldn't freak out when your plane flies over a patch of bumpy sky.
I had exactly the same issue. And i think what got me through was flying more often. It didnt get me completely anxiety free but i kinda sometimes forget about the fear. And also researching and flying only airlines that are considered safe. Its a bit more expensive but to me worth it. And also choosing driving or train when possible. Lots of options just try everything you can, we are all different something will work for you. Or not and you'll be afraif forever ... then use drugs
T580 - some SKUs.
IIRC, it reduces certain noxious components of air pollution like particulates at the cost of more CO2
You might consider looking up the word "sarcasm", while you're at it.
That must have been terrifying. Can you talk more about what happened between the moment the engine failed and the plane landed safely? How long did it take? Did the captain communicate with passengers frequently? How about flight attendants? What went through your mind? I'm nervous about flying and knowing what happens in this scenario may help me prepare.
The way it's implemented has several "benefits":

- It externalizes resource usage - the waste happens on users' machines. Who cares that it adds up to meaningful electricity consumption anyway?

- It makes it easier for marketing people and developers to independently work on the site. Developers can optimize, marketers can waste all that effort by including yet another third-party JS.

- It supports ad auctions and other services in the whole adtech economy.

- You don't have to do much analytics yourself, as the third party provides cute graphs ideal for presenting to management.
A lot of the GNU userland used in macOS is _ancient_ I think this is partly due to new GPL3 incompat? Then the BSD userland is _also_ ancient... for no apparent reason... Then there is no native package manager, so you have to use stuff like brew - which kinda sorta works but doesn't really feel anywhere near as consistent, integrated and up do date as basically _any_ linux package manger.

Then there's MacOS itself... which is just getting more annoying, I quit after 10.6 (which was best version IMO), everytime I use a mac now I compare it to the relative simplicity and stability of this version, and it's just so much worse. I'm sure others who have more experience with up to date MacOS can give more detail on this.

That said, for non developers I'd still recommend a mac over windows, although in recent years it's gone down hill, and personally I don't want to trade my freedom for closed source OS that have their own agenda - I understand that most users don't have the luxury of really being able to use anything not as friendly to basic users.
You actually missed one half of the definition. Like, the accepted definition. The part that adds ", and that white people should be dominant over other races".

No, there aren't really many people that believe that anymore, to the point that it's enshrined in our law. For longer than you've been alive, even.

Being a bigot does not de facto make you a white supremacist. The term itself is _extremely_ loaded and automatically implies certain forms of political action.

It's starting to get really difficult to take you seriously anymore, guy. Though I guess that's what I should expect from someone who embraces being a sockpuppet.
This didn’t become public until after Trump was in office though.
Conjecture: for every quantum algorithm that is faster than current classical algorithm exists yet undiscovered classical algorithm that is equally fast.
Yes! A lot of private/instructional airports have what they call discovery or introductory flights. You sit in the cockpit of a Cessna with an instructor who takes you to a safe altitude and lets you do some turns and altitude changes in the plane, see the scenery, then takes you in and lands for you. The idea is you take this before you buy all the textbooks and commit to learning to fly to see if it's for you.
Ray Bans on Sale! Images haunt my facebook.
I actually just started full time 2 weeks ago. I interned there last summer.
My guess is by designing small electric cars specifically for this service. You could do away with most of the amenities conventional cars have and purely focus on making them cheap and easy to manufacture.
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The tone of his comment seems to me he's just frustrated a community of programmers took the conversation down the path of debating the merits of recommendation systems rather than exploring the more general applicability of the algorithm in other problem spaces.
Version 5 was also the first one that forced you to pay after the trial period was over. Did that have anything to do with your decision?
If you can’t compete then legislate... keep an eye out for incumbent friendly legislation in the coming months and years, no doubt preceded by a lot of FUD.
LOL, reminds me of these old 50's circuits where components were mounted vertically and sandwiched between two PCBs

http://www.cryptomuseum.com/crypto/usa/kw7/img/cordwood.jpg
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All abstraction is imagined. When someone uses the word God in this context, it's obvious the abstraction is about the root forces that cause reality to manifest.

There is no controversy here.
> Didn't we already discuss this? The answer is no.

We did, but you never made the case for the answer being no, which means the answer is still yes.

> GUI toolkits based on C/C++ could use userland-based cooperative multithreading to keep things responsive, but they don't. They use kernel threads

That's descriptive, not normative. You haven't said why that's the case, or, more importantly, why, in the absence of kernel threads, someone would want them to exist only for GUI responsiveness types of use cases.

Your earlier admission led me to believe they wouldn't:

> Cooperative multithreading isn't a popular model in C-family languages, but I can't see a good technical reason that it wouldn't work (after all, it boils down to something akin to green threads with finer control).
Do you ask that question when you hear Einstein's quote, "God doesn't play dice"? I suspect not, because everyone understands that it's a poetic way of expressing the belief that the universe isn't random. So why do you have such a pedantic and uncharitable interpretation of GP's comment, which obviously uses the word "God" in a similar way?

You seem to be having a knee-jerk reaction to the word "God". Your personal preference for the most secular language possible is not a valid reason to pick apart GP's phrasing.
This is certainly part of why their stock crashed, they explicitly mentioned in guidance that this would hurt their profitability in a major way.
Occasionally, you can find great discussions on HN because HN has a large amount of domain experts on various sciencey topics. Apart from that, I don't really think HN is that incredibly fantastic.

If you compare it with your average social media (facebook, twitter, mainstream reddit), then yeah, you could say HN is more intelectually sophisticated than that.

The realest, greatest and most fantastic forums are the tiny ones, ones dedicated to a very specific topic, attracting only those who have a major interest in that topic.

Think of various tiny dedicated subreddits, or Lambda the Ultimate, or a huge collection of sites no-one here has ever heard of...

HN's great, but absolutely doesn't deserve the title of "superior intellectual forum on the web". That's way too much.
I posted my comment after reading the article, which included optimized-for-windows results. Of course, others may have had it sitting around in a browser tab for a while…
This is one of the reasons I like Jekyll. No PHP, no bullshit. It's fast, pre compiled pages. You can use web fonts if you like, or keep it all local. Speed usually takes a hit with websites when people try to monetize or add fancy features..
Good question, I can't answer. The 22:00 party are supposed to be a different kind from the 20:00 party. Also, anecdata.
Security+ Just passed a few hours ago.
Hence the rant mentioning Molochian economy, under which we operate. And that reference explains in depth why this is a very hard problem.

I like the rant too. Except maybe the bit about sending content at the speed of humans - I for one would like to take lightweight, bullshit-free content as fast as it can be sent, to pipe it to further processing on my end, in the never-ending quest to automate things in my life.