skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There's a common GA plane (M20) that moves the entire tail for trim, both the horizontal and vertical stabilizer as one piece.

Basically conventional (not a canard) stable (not an F-16) aircraft have the CG in front of the center of lift of the main wing so it wants to nose down. The tail then acts as a counter balance, pushing down to keep the nose up. Because airspeed over the smaller surface effects its downforce and the center of thrust is not always in line with the center of drag, they add trim to prevent the pilot from having to maintain constant control pressure. Some do it by biasing the control surface itself, either in the control mechanism or with a tab that aerodynamically moves the surface, or by changing the angle of attack of the horizontal stabilizer.
What exactly did they do to earn our respect?

Shit out software I'd have been ashamed of when I was 16? Sell us to advertisers? Build walled gardens to keep us locked in?
The trim system on this aircraft is not stronger than the input the pilot can make via the pitch control system (the yoke and its trim override switch)

Edit: clarified about switch
IANA doctor, but my understanding from years of trying every antidepressant on the market is that we don't currently understand why SSRIs help (some people) with depression. We know the mechanics of what they do, but not why that function has an antidepressant effect in some people. We don't really have a good idea what mechanically causes depression at all - in some cases, it's related to serotonin, in which case an SSRI might help. But there are a lot of other cases that aren't so obvious, and as far as my understanding goes, the "lot of other cases" is enough to make those who might be genuinely helped by SSRIs' mechanical function (as opposed to a placebo function, which is a whole 'nother issue in this research) be effectively invisible in the data.

A very rough metaphor (and again IANA doctor or scientist, just someone who's struggled with this personally for two decades) would be, "Stitches help people who are bleeding!" Yes, that is true in some cases and under certain circumstances, but what we've been doing with antidepressant drugs is roughly the equivalent of treating every possible bleeding wound with some variant of stitches or butterfly closures. Very effective for some, not helpful for others, actively harmful for a minority.
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None of 9/11 hijackers were victimized by the US. Islamist militants don’t need drone strikes to hate the US.
It's not. I think there is more acceptance in European culture for that. I learnt the somewhat hard way when I came to the US after a couple of stints in Europe. I used to think nothing of having a beer or a glass of wine at lunch with colleagues. But it did earn me a few frowns in the US. This is almost 18 years ago - so pretty sure things have changed significantly.
Then maybe he should have written the book!

I know this sounds unreasonable, and perhaps it is, but I have a non-trivial amount of bitterness stemming from regret at following articles like this that, in retrospect, did not apply to me.
This is not correct. You are not obligated to agree to the arbitrator your company selects. More on this:

http://help.legalnature.com/arbitration-agreement-faqs/how-a...
I have some thoughts but I'm going to tackle the numbers first =>

1. I believe you should focus on finding the most talented people no matter where they are. Pre-planning a division of labor ignores an organic movement to the way that the team works best together.

2. Always incrementally. Theres a reason we develop this way now.

3. See above.

4. Let people grow into their level of responsibility. Leaders lead first and then pick up things like titles, raises, etc

So here's my $0.02:
Having talented hardworking people that work well together is a priority over where they reside. In the most recent Stack overflow survey the top perk that Devs would like is Remote opportunities - so I would consider "in-house" to be a hinderance more than a benefit for the business. Additionally, (inferring here) you already have a system that works well for remote work, meaning there is no additional overhead to keeping the system the way it currently exists

From a management standpoint you always want to incrementally grow responsibilities, and grow your team. Ask any high growth company that has to hire fast. A lot of mistakes are made in hiring when you have to hire, or when you have to give responsibilities away to soon. Reducing these mistakes goes straight to the bottom line. Leaders emerge naturally and they will be better at leading the team if you allow them to emerge naturally. Additionally the number one reason that people leave a job is a bad boss (https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/employees-dont-leave-companie...) so handing it over to a Lead/ Architect type before they prove themselves is a dangerous proposal.

On the flip side you seem to be giving these things thought... so a feather in your cap for being conservative, and waiting to pick a strategy.

My closing thought => your priority should be to find the single best person that you've ever worked with or ever will, hire them first and now... and if you are able to do that... then the next person you hire should be even better than that person.
I didn't ask about everyone else, I asked about you.
What's your scale ?
I meant, more than 50% include those who are ineligible to vote due to being under age,imprisonment or being an immigrant (legal and illegal).

Giving a holiday is just an easy way for people to plan an extra long weekend.
> not get any useful feedback to work with either.

Sounds vaguely like a job interview. I'm reminded of the guy who wrote homebrew, yet couldn't get hired at Google.
Quote: "An overwhelming amount of evidence points to this simple fact: a single human brain, on its own, is not capable of designing a greater intelligence than itself. This is a purely empirical statement: out of billions of human brains that have come and gone, none has done so. Clearly, the intelligence of a single human, over a single lifetime, cannot design intelligence, or else, over billions of trials, it would have already occurred."

What an incredibly inadequate argument. Obviously, none could have done so in the past. Because the required resources simply weren't available. Breakthroughs are being made right here in this era, with Jeff Hawkins' being one of the latest.

This guy reminds me of Richard Smalley, who, against better judgment, attempted to make irrational arguments against molecular nanotechnology, as envisioned by Drexler.

Also, he can't be a software pioneer. He's too damn young.
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Actually I think there's good reason to think the opposite; that the "special sauce" missing in current machine learning approaches will in fact be very computationally intensive.

I am thinking of two things in particular that current ML approaches lack; that are ubiquitous (well arguably for the second...) in neuroscience: feedback and modeling uncertainty

A proper Bayesian approach to uncertainty will be akin to an expectation over models; that's an extra order of magnitude.

Feedback is also likely to be expensive. Currently all we really know how to do is 'unroll' feedback over time and proceed as normal for feedforward networks.

Also keep in mind that inference and training are pretty different things; inference is fast, but training takes a lifetime.

> and it's not unreasonable to think they can already do this with a performance on par with the human brain.

I disagree for the reasons stated above; we know we're missing a big piece because of the lack of feedback and modeling of uncertainty.

I do happen to be a neuroscientist and an ML researcher... but I think that just means I am slightly more justified in making wild prognostications... which is totally what this is... But ultimately I'm still just some schmuck, why should you believe me?

Nothing I have said in this comment can be considered scientific fact; we just don't know. But I have a feeling...
A couple of these had smaller max valuations than amount raised this seems independent of year founded.

What's the explanation? Several funding rounds with high burn rate? ...
For those of us who don't have a supported device, there's an android app called [Termux](https://termux.com/) which provides a surprisingly linux-y experience. I sometimes code on my 10" tablet with a small (60%) keyboard.
It's controversial because it's selectively applied and advocates for D&I know it.

There are plenty of Asians in tech (men and women) and yet we're always hearing about a "diversity" problem. This is why tech no longer uses the term minority - they use "underrepresented minority" instead.
They still are using their old CF manager.
That's a great point; I'll look into it. Thank you
Women and men will always be different. No matter how hard we try to push engineering to 50%/50%, it will never be. And that's ok.
Something like Project Linda then? https://www.razer.com/projectlinda

It is still a concept, but Razer's two phones have been the same size, so it remains a possibility.
The patients don't, but doctors[0][1][2][3][4] and drug manufacturers[5][6][7] and distributors[8] do.

[0]: https://edition.cnn.com/2018/03/11/health/prescription-opioi...

[1]: https://www.healthleadersmedia.com/strategy/doctor-tied-insy...

[2]: http://www.waff.com/2018/08/22/doctors-indicted-overprescrib...

[3]: https://www.kansascity.com/latest-news/article214834685.html

[4]: https://www.hsph.harvard.edu/news/hsph-in-the-news/opioids-d...

[5]: https://www.vox.com/science-and-health/2018/9/7/17831710/ric...

[6]: https://www.masslive.com/news/index.ssf/2018/06/mayors_join_...

[7]: https://www.usnews.com/news/politics/articles/2018-05-16/6-m...

[8]: https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2017/09/opioid-...
I applaud your attempt at civil discourse. You deserve a medal for patience. Thank you for posting as I think discussions like this could use more of your style.
I'm in the same boat. I've spent a lot of time getting my company's deployments set-up on Now's Docker offering (which was awesome). I'm not looking for my app to be serverless. And I'm also not looking for a "Majestic Monorepo".
Yeah rental ebikes don't scale down very well. You should be able to buy a bike that fits you well, and add ebike capabilities via a kit (yourself or have someone do it).

I haven't used a balancing unicycle, but based on experience with other balancing vehicles, I doubt I'd feel safe going as fast as on a scooter. Sounds like you might own one?
I don't think it's about money, more that the Danish government has control over healthcare and they're incentivized to not over-prescribe medication.
>it sounds like it took a pretty big leap of faith to go from heuristics to cost-based optimization

Im pretty sure cost-based optimization is common enough and practically proven effective enough that its not really fair to call it a “leap of faith”; eg im pretty sure mysql and postgres both do it (and you can it see it in their EXPLAINs), and I imagine most commercial dbs do as well

Its more of just a natural progression as the db gets improved

Its a good article/work nonetheless, but nothing out of the ordinary in db implementation afaik
How do we know our brain creates our mind? That is a materialist assumption, which is just an assumption.
>I'd much prefer a policy where everyone gets to decide in advance how many drink tickets they want

Then you would get people like me, asking for lots of tickets as you can just discard those when you are done but you would not be able to ask for extra ones. At that point, you could just remove the ticket system as it doesn't work anymore
Many universities offer scientific ethics training for incoming research students. (The NSF actually demands it for projects they sponsor.) The purpose isn't to make them walk the narrow path of goodness, it's to enable them to spot temptation when it comes, as it inevitably will.

With sexual harassment the line is much sharper drawn. If someone hasn't learned how to behave civilly and not to exploit a power differential in their early 20s, no amount of training is going to help.
Which, shortly after takeoff (i.e. shortly after ascending) could very well feel like a continuation of a leveling off maneuver.

Not to mention, in limited visibility you simply can't trust your sensation of G forces. In the absence of visual stimulation, your mind can hallucinate the feeling of movement that doesn't match your actual movement. You can simulate this by standing with your feet together and closing your eyes.
If you are considering other options take a look at Ramnode. My experience with them was great both with support and a little server with an uptime of 2 year or so.
I work for Microsoft, and the back of my employee badge says: Our Mission; Empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more.

To me, this implies that our engineering organizations, and entire company, need to have an appropriate amount of empathy across a broad spectrum of geographies, cultures, experiences, perspectives, and the like. You only get that by having a diversity of talent, and more importantly, inclusion in your engineering practices.

When I talk about diversity, I usually say; "There are two forms of diversity, DNA diversity, the stuff we usually talk about in terms of color, sex, etc, things you can see, and then there's diversity of perspectives and experiences. You need the diversity of experiences and perspectives. In some cases that's conveniently wrapped in some forms of DNA diversity, but is not exclusive to that".

I don't think the question is at all controversial, and we should not be afraid to openly talk about it.
People who are antagonistic resonate more with populist messages
I wish they partnered with Canonical to continue their work on Unity8. Would be great if they could adopt the project and build on top of it.
Hm. The mails my mailer-daemon account gets have a nearly identical message body but do not mention a specific password.

People do freak out and miss details. Kind of like what people say about 419 scams having poor grammar and spelling. This somewhat ensures that respondents are people who don't read carefully.
Do you not think the IO voltage reduction alone gets you that? Or are you saying its just not worth it?
Agreed. The one thing that is scary for everyone in these situations is the element of surprise. If you eliminate the "blowing through stoplights" or the hurry and brake fast behind a pedestrian, or worse, you eliminate 95% of the issues.
No they are kind being entitled dicks (and it will be 99.9% male offenders) - I did not ride like that in London in the 80's when there where less bikes on the road.
If only this wasn't an fundamentally flawed theory that isn't scalable based on computational complexity and information theory.
I believe seeing people re-implement libraries or popular command line tools is a behavior so common in rising in popularity programming languages that we might almost describe it as the default.
Around 5 hours.
Public policy should only be based on objective truths and not evidenceless beliefs or feelings. It's one thing to be for or against marijuana usage; it's another to still have a law on the books banning its use and sale when a growing plethora of science says it's far safer than substances already legalized and regulated (such as alcohol) and actually therapeutic in some cases (such as cancer). It's one thing to be against pornography being freely available on the Internet personally; it's another when scientific data (hypothetically) indicates that pre-adolescent exposure to pornography incurs long-term and tangible behavioral harms, BUT does not seem to harm adults nor their marriages.

"Appeal to disgust" is a fallacy for a reason, and laws should be rational.
You're right and this point needs to be emphasized.

Unless you know how to turn off the Flight Control Computers and the right moment to do so - which may or may not even be in the checklist (any pilot want to chime in?) - then even with autopilot disengaged modern jets will still operate flight control surfaces if a 'dangerous' configuration is detected.

Of course with bad data going in you get bad data out, so the FCC can take actions that put the aircraft in danger as it thinks it's in a situation is isn't really in.

As far as I understand it, you can't simply override these inputs with pilot input, you need to actually shut down the FCC to get back control.
It is likely they were not reallocated... Any idea what the ranges were or the names you registered them under? You might be able to dig them up with brute force whois or some google searches...
We built a website to automatically find smooth loops in videos
Happens to drivers all the time, but is not an interesting story because they did not do anything it of the norm to "deserve" it.
I would argue that creating a whole drink ticketing bureaucracy including a pre-scheduled drink ticket release procedure does the opposite of treating employees like adults. It sounds a lot like kids in a school lunch line.

It drives me nuts when companies let a few bad actors ruin a loose policy rather than addressing the issue with the bad actors, but I know, legally, having a strict, spelled-out policy is safer (easier to defend against lawsuits) legally.
I wrote something similar from the opposite end of the ideological spectrum a few years back: https://jasonlefkowitz.net/2014/01/against-line-chart-libera...

One reason why I disagree with [technocracy] is because of a core assumption that is embedded deep within it, namely that public policy is at root a values-neutral project. In this worldview, there is an objective Good that we all strive towards, and our progress as a society can be measured by the velocity towards which we approach that objective Good. We can determine this velocity by taking measurements — by gathering Data. These data will then tell us if we are on or off course, in much the same way that star sightings can do for a mariner lost at sea.

This works for the mariner, because the stars are objective. It is not a matter of opinion where in the sky the North Star is. But “good,” in terms of public policy, is most definitely not objective. My definition of what is Good is informed by my background, my experiences, my ideology; my values. And your definition of what is Good is informed by yours. Your North Star, in other words, is in a different place than mine is — which makes trying to navigate by taking sightings of it a perilous proposition.
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Hi @rchaud, good question :)
Owwly vision is pretty define - build tool for Product Designers who want to present their digital products in one place. What you see now is, let say, MVP version :) My goal is to measure users engagement and check how they use Owwly.

Once we are convinced users like our product, it will be an indicator to start new phase. This Phase should include possibility to log in and add work to Owwly.
3 per year, not 30.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Israel–United_States_relations
What ARM chip are you considering this for? Is it a Cortex M?
Sorry, this is how capitalism works: if you earned the money, you are free to do whatever you like with them. Total control is the communist way
Is it only for HTTP or does it also work with WebSockets?
People with the most passionate opinions are most motivated to be vocal. A strong dissenting opinion is a strong motivator.
> Interestingly, they also predicted a fastest possible marathon time of 2h03:38

Currently standing at 2h01:39[1]. Not the best prediction, perhaps.

[1] https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/athletics/45539546
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You are 15 times more likely to be killed on Britain's roads if you ride a bike than if you drive a car.[1]

If you look at total deaths they may seem comparable to driving, but way more people drive than cycle.

Good on you for dedicating yourself to cycling, but you shouldn't ignore the increase in risk.

[1]https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/cycle-safety...
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Which countries in Europe would still buy Chinese goods if China were at war with the US?

Maybe it's my memories of being taught about World War 1 and 2 speaking, but it seems more likely Europe would side with the US than China, and kinda unlikely they'd let both parties import goods as they please.

The chances of it remaining an 'isolated' war where no one else gets involved would be low enough than action would probably cost China most of the European market along with the likes of Canada/Australia/etc.
I too have some resistance to the notion that we will see AGI at a higher level than humans within 50 years. I don't think the arguments he has make any sense. The technology simply did not exist and we're improving on so many fronts mostly because we're now capable of yielding huge neural networks we couldn't fathom having access to just a few years ago.

I don't think the technology required to build superhuman AGI exists yet at least at a reasonable cost to humanity. I don't think we will reach this level of massively parallel computing required for Superhuman AGI until maybe 2070 and that's only if we bring together all the world's supercomputers together in one giant artificial brain.
Wow. That argument can be applied to any invention or creation. There are bad arguments and then there are ridiculous ones.
Viewing infrared extends one of our existing senses. Kant's point was that could be attributes of the thing that do not, in anyway, relate to our senses.

These attributes can't have any effect on the phenomenal world, or they'd be detectable, and by definition, they're not detectable by us. Unless, of course, our free will is part of the noumenal world, and our actions in the phenomenal world are simply one way of viewing our will.
People looking for a second manual labor job are the mainstay of the gig economy (Uber, Airtasker, etc).
Buy a bike with gears then - and stop living out your velodrome fantasies on the road. Gears and proper brakes are good enough for pro road racers.

This is the weakest excuse I have heard for bad behaviour.
Sure but then if you over-indulge you're on record as someone who (1) requested way too many tickets and (2) wasn't capable of managing their own intake effectively or knowing their limits ahead of time.

The goal is to help responsible adults remain responsible adults after a couple drinks when parts of your brain tell you to drink more than you know you should.

The default of two drinks per night is a good starting point; my point is to let responsible adults decide for themselves ahead of time if more than two would be good for them.
Curious, why Paxos over Raft?
What really amazes me is that wpf was release 12 years ago with all these problems solved. Grid, alignment, center, Center!! You can center something in xaml and it'll just be in the damn center of the parent container. And surely xaml is far from being the first layout descriptor to actually work. But no, with browsers - we have to use fat framework to achieve the triviallest of behaviors.