skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I spent a couple thousand hours over several years flying the MS flight simulator for a small plane. I signed up for flying lessons. On my first-ever real flight I started the plane, got tower clearance, taxied to the proper runway. took off, and flew to the practice area. I did all of this without comment or discussion with the flight instructor.

After a few minutes he said "my plane" and asked me to "put on the hood" (for those who don't know, you wear a hood so you can't see anything but the instruments). He whipped and flipped the plane around for a minute. Then he said "your plane"... so I looked at the instruments, found that I was in a vertical dive. I cut the throttle, centered the stick, and kicked opposite rudder. The plane leveled out.

He commented "that was an ok performance but you could be better". I asked him if this was standard testing for a first-time VFR pilot (aka newbie). He was upset. He thought I was an instrument pilot and already had my VFR license.

The hardest part about flying the actual plane was steering the plane on the ground. You do this with your feet and I had no practice at that.

Besides the simulator I also have a bookcase full of flying books and videos, from mountain flying to flight engineer. I HIGHLY recommend https://www.amazon.com/Stick-Rudder-Explanation-Art-Flying/d...

For a real education read https://www.flyingmag.com/tags/i-learned-about-flying-from-t...

Also, I don't know if the FAA program still exists but they used to encourage pilots to visit the tower so you could see the kind of pressure they are under. I spent many hours trying to sequence planes and clearing them for landing (talking to myself, not the actual planes). Those guys are AMAZING. You can't imagine how hard it is to keep track of a dozen planes you can't see, keep them in order, talk on the radio, and do it flawlessly for hours at a time.

Later I flew a CAP-10B (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mudry_CAP_10)... Flying a Cessna 152 is like riding a bicycle while drunk. It "responds" with a LOT of lag. Landing the Cessna is like wrestling a soft mattress down a flight of stairs. Flying a CAP-10B is like driving a Formula-1 racing car. It responds to your heartbeat in a heartbeat. I landed the CAP-10B "on the numbers" on the first try. There is no comparison.
And any small set of functions is an API.
I would consider data to be an argument in favor of the big three. Tesla only sells about 100000 cars a year. Ford's top-selling model, the F-series, is almost eight times that. I'm assuming you mean some data that Tesla is currently collecting that Ford cannot, but it would be a matter of not much money for them to do so. They can add whatever sensors they need in the next year's F150 and within a few months have more data than Tesla has collected in its entire existence.

It's not clear to me that Tesla is in the lead on driverless cars, or that driverless cars will initially be all electric. The economic benefit of being electric might outweigh the fact that it will spend a quarter of its time charging, or it may not. If we move to an Uber Style On Demand model of car usage rather than ownership I am not sure.

And I'm still not saying that Tesla won't succeed, or even that they will not at some point be the most profitable automaker. But their share price is so inflated that you have to believe they will do it very quickly to pay it. There's a very strong chance that the market as a whole is going to outperform TSLA even if they succeed for the next 5-10 years first
I have heard it argued that Grant's success as a general was directly tied to his alcoholism, for much the same reason. He also knew what slaughter (of his own men as well as the enemy) would be necessary to conclude the war, but drank himself numb enough to go through with it.

I am not a historian, don't take this as truth.
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Hack: You can search for a book (The Mythical Man-Month) and see who all recommended it.
You can't really look at power and performance in isolation, given that you can trade one for the other by modifying their clock speeds. It would be better to say that from the milliwatt range to 20W socket draw or so ARM is more performance and current x86 designs are more performant above 20W.
> That is a feature

Agreed
Hi, data engineer here. Other comments have a lot of good suggestions. I especially agree with ideas like avoiding high powered frameworks in the beginning, and learning to write effective transform wrappers for different kinds of weird input data. One thing you'll find is that (for enterprise situations at least) your source data is going to come from extremely odd, old fashioned, or very poorly documented sources. Be prepared to find twenty and thirty year old manuals on formats you've never heard of at times.

That aside, the other side of the coin that is very important is to get very familiar with how folks talk about their data problems. Managers, analysts, etc. will often request a specific solution that they've heard of or seems popular--sometimes it is what they need, often times it isn't. To get a solid footing in this space (not that it isn't for all types of SE) it is critical to have very strong understanding of business requirements, understanding the work of many other roles in your org, and being able to communicate with business folks in ways that allow you to develop a rational plan for a solution while getting them to realize what their needs really are.

Best of luck!
After reading the WSJ version of this article, I can see the argument in-favor: quarterly earnings reports put more weight on hitting short-term goals over long-term investment. That's just basic human nature, I suppose.

Yet flat out abolishing them seems a terrible price to pay in terms of transparency. Perhaps a middle ground, based on the size of the company in terms of revenue? Or some other (less onerous, I guess) means of reporting -- in quantifiable terms -- the health of a business each quarter?
I appreciate the criticism, but I really don't feel that my child's cognitive development has been devalued in any way due to his occasionally being able to communicate with the Echo. The vast majority of his communication is with other people - which he loves participating in. I'll concede that these devices do probably attempt to sell us stuff, but up to this point, I have not seen anything from the Echo that I would consider nefarious or that seems like it might cause harm to my child's growth. In fact, my experience is that the Echo is basically harmless, especially compared to the behavioral problems that I've seen in children who watch TV or Youtube extensively (which I do not allow).
> How hard is it to guess what countCustomers(list) or incrementCustomersScore(list, n) is doing?

The correct comparison is:
1. what is the cumulative time wasted when people guess wrong?
2. what is the cumulative time spent writing out a meaningful name?

When I'm conservative in my estimate of how good people are at guessing my intuitions, I always find that #1 seems to dwarf #2.
I'm saying it would have likely been destroyed, just as early Christianity destroyed Roman statues. Just as Arabs preserved Roman texts.
Heh, what you said I find it absolutely true. Now instead of being influenced by their political opinions I find their tech opinions dodgy. They work like anti-influencers on me.
I always find that recommendation websites suffer in the long-term because the incentive to just keep adding more stuff (to keep the site not seem stagnant, thus make people come back) is greater than the incentive to strictly filter only super high quality things. How is this site going to tackle that problem?
Literally indefensible in the sense that the natives defended against the US Cavalry and howitzers and lost.
You generally do want to run the reference (BSD licensed) Trusted Firmware though. It implements PSCI at least.
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It ultimately comes down to balancing priorities - bringing in tourist money vs keeping up diplomatically.

Both India and China have realized this - India allows an eVisa and China allows you to transit visa-free for upto 144 hours.
> "where are all the adventures and stories of how you learned XYZ or struggled with dealing with incarceration?"

It would be a downer. People want to be uplifted and read stories about people's successes. My life isn't there yet.

> "what HR is doing to potential employees is even more unethical"

This comes back to culture fit. If my presence would make anyone uncomfortable, simply because of my past, then it's not a good fit for either them or me. Plain and simple.

> "Throwing all your eggs in one basket, one client, is just a disaster waiting to happen, especially with your financial situation"

Which is why I'm mentioning my availability and services in hopes of getting more work for when his runs out.
The issue of "at what point land in history did stealing land become something illegitimate that we should reverse" is extremely fraught. It was a major part of both the UN and the League of nations to delegitimise this, but it wasn't systematic.

Israel's seizure of land at the Six Day War seems to be the exact point at which nobody can agree. It's the last of the settler states.
Nowadays I'd recommend HyperApp over mithril.js.
But those were different times, when companies could get away with militant operations. To say nothing of strike-breakers, African rubber plantations, or what-have-you. Most companies we know of (esp. American) can't get away with those sorts of things now, at least not in the public eye.

Soft power is the new militant occupation. Facebook is taking cues from Pablo Escobar (minus the violence, we hope).
If you want lucid dreams, slap on a low dosage nicotine patch before you sleep.
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> I will gladly pay a higher portion of my salary if it means the general populous can think for themselves, has a means to climb if they wish to, and the base level of education of the people in my country increases.

No one is stopping you from doing so. Donate some money to local youth or a scholarship fund.

However, it seems like you want to force everyone else to pay a higher portion of their salary to this cause.
Uncompromising focus on people.

I don't mind if the site is stagnant.
I've had over 100 lucid dreams.

Keep a dream journal. This will improve dream recall and help you identify patterns in your dreams. Identifying patterns is good, for example, if I find myself in a classroom I know I'm dreaming. I never go into classrooms awake, but occasionally find myself in one while dreaming.

The best way to keep a dream journal is to spend 5-10 minutes while first awake in bed thinking about your dreams and writing them down. That is the time and location dream recall is the easiest.
What worked for me was making it a habit to 'reality check' (looking at my hands/fingers, doing a double take on a clock) every day for several weeks. Then, entering a lucid dream state worked best when taking an afternoon nap, or waking up a couple hours before my usual wake up time and going back to sleep after a brief period of mild activity.
That was true for this system as well. How long until management fires these people ? How long until nobody in the industry knows anymore ?
I like it! You might consider reformatting the description to be more like /nick handle // sets handle because it's kind of confusing with the = for those that don't use irc much.
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I had a couple of resources I used, CodeAcademy and a basic Python course on Udemy. As far as books I used Python Crash Course and Blackhat Python. Blackhat was more learning to write my own tools for pentesting. I also looked at a lot of the tools other folks wrote on github to see how they structured things. And I asked a lot of questions. By no means try one thing when learning Python or any language for that matter. Best advise I ever got from anyone was to write code everyday.
The only thing that is pervasive in the US are creditcards and the less said about those the better.
I love the simple design and look of the site. Did you do that yourself?
This is ridiculous. I have a pretty new car (2015), with GDI, and I sure as hell don't have to "reboot" it. It's been perfectly reliable. The infotainment system does have a few issues, but it has nothing to do with the driveability of the car (the engine, and other critical systems are not tied to it).

Modern cars are FAR more reliable than anything made in 1978, this is a simple fact proven by mountains of data. Cars last far longer than they used to; you can easily go 200k or 300k miles with basic maintenance, and I'm sorry, but despite what you might want to believe, that was just not the case in 1978.

And BMWs are terrible examples; those cars seem to be designed for expensive and necessary maintenance, so they can extract more profit from their owners. Japanese and American cars aren't like this.
>Officials in China told Christie's, the auction house, that if the heads were ever sold off, there would be “serious effects” on the firm's business.

I admire the single-minded dedication to purpose which the unified central government brings to bear. With that kind of focus and coordination, the government often achieves its goals with little effort.
Well, the problem with making it free is that you're making it compulsory for others to pay for it.
I don't think there's many people that label the conquistadors as righteous.
Can't completely disable ME. There are still essential modules that we have no idea what they're doing.
Am I understanding correctly that the Danube always seeps into the ground near Immendingen (since 300 years), but if the conditions are dry enough there is not enough water to flow past this sink hole, so all of it drains into the European watershed?

It should be noted that this only the first few hundred meters of the Danube and it's relatively flat there so the exact way the water sheds is probably always subject to changes up there (at least across large spans of time). There are relatively small masses of water that flow up there, so things are not set in stone as much (literally).
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That's not the same at all.

It is (was?) easy to control your browser's history. It is impossible to control what these devices send to google/amazon.

Your browser's search history only gets populated when you, well, search. These devices are collecting information 24/7, regardless if you are actively engaged with them.
IIRC it also heavily depends on ARM's TrustZone architecture, it's not like they just "happened" to use ARM.
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And once again, you are putting the burden of reaching out on those who have been attacked. You are saying that those Damore said in his memo should be the ones to accept him, that those constantly attacked for committing the sin of not being a straight white male in this industry, have to not only bear the slings and arrows of that, but now have to be the ones to reach out.

No. From now on, it is the Damores of the world that have to reach out. They have to prove that they are the ones trying, instead of using junk science to claim that half their coworkers don't belong there.

You want to talk about principles? Then start by reaching out to those you put so much burden on.
In the sense that I first used X on Linux on a 486 in the early/mid 90's. It was snappy then and snappy now.

Also I like being able to minimize crashed windows, something other major OSs haven't done.
I find questions like this frustrating...do you know what intelligence actually is? I don't mean just a vague notion of it but an understanding of the principles behind which it works.

Nature had billions of years and a possibly infinite universe to figure it out. You don't have that long.
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What is the Rails framework of the Machine Learning world?
Rails is famous for being easy to get started. With scaffolding, helpers and the fantastic ActiveRecord library you can put things together in no time. Is there a high level Machine Learning framework in the spirit of Rails?
It may not be exactly what you're looking for but perhaps to get started without having to set up all the infrastructure you could use something like AWS Glue. There's some tutorials / examples in the official AWS docs: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/glue/latest/dg/aws-glue-programm...

Disclosure: I work on AWS Glue. Note: We're Hiring! Email me at: zaheeram <at> amazon dot com if you're interested in this space!
The puzzle of altruism
Not only France, but most of Europe, and by virtue of European colonial empires, most of the world except for the British Empire.
Ask HN: What is an example of a large Git rebase that you performed and why?
What is a large rebase you've performed and why rebase instead of a merge.
This gels with my experience.

I noticed I was dreaming and tried flying. It worked for a second, until “god” decided it wasn’t possible and I was pulled back to the ground by an invisible, irresistible force (EDIT: I think it’s called gravity?!). Trying to fight it just woke me up.

The poor rendering of places I’m not meant to go to is something I noticed when I gained control of a dream and tried going into a random building that was a “decoration”. The inside was completely empty, and the walls were gray. It seemed like a polite “fuck you” from my brain.

In a normal dream someone threw me a ball and it followed an “uncanny valley” trajectory. Almost right, but so wrong at the same time. Nice try, brain.

Lately I just try to enjoy my dreams. Paying attention to details can spoil a fun dream (I have to be careful to never check my wristwatch in dreams!)
Haha. True. That should change once I add recommendations from people from different backgrounds. Maria Popova is not going to recommend The Mythical Man-Month : )
I don't know what "authoritative government" means either... was that supposed to be "authoritarian"?

I am not sure I follow the argument, though - yes, it's true that the Beijing could just pull the plug on Google Lite(tm), but there would be some international PR damage. I doubt it would stop them, but it would at least influence the decision.

But I do agree that the overall sense I get of Chinese citizens is not that they are chafing at the level of control they live under, it's all bread and circuses, cashless WeChat fun.
None of that is enforced today, those are stale laws if they still exist.
>Interesting for a dist focused on resource constraints to be using the new/shiny instead of old and small.

Lubuntu has shifted focus recently https://lubuntu.me/taking-a-new-direction/
if the European thieves returned the artworks?
There are 2 hard problems in computer science: cache invalidation, naming things, and off-by-1 errors.
It responds by profiling, grooming and manipulating them from a very young age.

"Aww look, my 3 year old is having a conversation with a massive advertising corporation, and has begun talking to human beings the same way he talks to an inanimate object. How cute!"
Quite the opposite, in sports a win is a win and the rest matters only as a tiebreaker, you'll start the next game from 0:0 anyway; however, in a war every little detail absolutely matters, if you could have won with a bit less casualties, or a day earlier, or with more devastation to your enemy before the next battle, or with less atrocities to your enemy making easier to reconcile afterwards - all of that could have been a meaningful improvement over a simple win.

As Clausewitz stated, war is the continuation of politics by other means. Whether an outcome should be considered a "win" isn't decided by military factors (e.g. manpower lost or who flees the battlefield) but rather by the political outcomes, how much the battle helped to achieve the political goals.
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"In the absence of a national ID system or local registration requirements (a la France), how do you tell the difference between a visa free entrant and an illegal resident?"

Are you asking 'how the rest of the world' does it?

Or how the UK handles non-EU visitors today that don't require visas?

Because I don't think it's a concern.

"ren't you uncomfortable with the idea that being domiciled somewhere for a couple of decades wouldn't come with voting rights?"

Not at all. Especially because 'a vote' won't hardly make a difference. What matters is the integrity of the regime in question, and Spain is 'good enough'.

If Spain wants to give local/municipal voting rights to those on long-term retirement visas, then that's fine - point being, it's the decision of the Spaniards, not some ruthless adherence to ideology such as 'freedom of movement', the harsh interpretation of which is tearing the EU apart and turning politics across the continent upside down.
Has anyone taken Chantix to quit smoking? I did about 10 years ago and it gave me the craziest most vivid dreams and nightmares.
If it was "constantly" happening, given the thousands of times I've eaten at restaurants that serve spicy foods over my lifetime, I should have seen this fairly regularly.

My theory is that servers are the same as retail employees--a small difference in behaviors between groups reinforces preconceived stereotypes, which causes them to overestimate the differences between groups.

Also, you're saying things like "in fact" based on what you think that other people think the frequency is.
Causality and morality are operating separately. Because of the Old China's Empirical Close Door Policy, they got invaded by Europeans. Because of the invasion, art works were robbed, the Old China fell and the New China was born. Because of the New China's destruction of the Four Olds, some art works were destroyed. Because of many art works were stolen, they got preserved and being stolen back to the New China gradually. Like clock work.

In morality, Who has the right to those art works? Invader robbers who unintentional preserved the art works or the new generation of descendants who are stealing the art works back? People can argue all day. It's much more difficult to see the result from a morality perspective...
This is what I imagine what would happen when a modern day progressive is sent back in time and told to try out 21rst century ideas: it lasts until he dies.
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Some would argue that the best generals are the ones that avoided war altogether.

If you want to say Napoleon was the most efficient at violently defeating opposing forces that sounds about right.
Google Cloud Composer, built on top of Airflow (mentioned by a number of people here) has a great Getting Started Guide to check out: https://cloud.google.com/composer/docs/quickstart

You can dive right in to Airflow here: https://airflow.apache.org/tutorial.html
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