skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If I remember correctly: Due to sensor issues the plane dropped out of autopilot and switched into a different control mode ("Alternate law").

The pilot had to suddenly take over and had a wrong mental model of the state and configuration the plane was in, and likely didn't realize the consequences of the different control mode, among which is that it doesn't provide the same level of automated stall protection as the normal case. Since automation normally works, the pilot wasn't trained or experienced in flying in this mode.

While in the end the operator made the wrong decision, these automation ironies fit very well contribute to why he made those decisions or wasn't prepared to make the right ones.
For some plants, there is a great variance in behavior between the parent plant and a plant grown from seed.

Apples for instance, if grown from seed, likely will not carry all the properties of the parent plant. E.g., the fruit will not taste the same.

Apple trees mostly have desirable fruit bearing tissue grafted onto plain understock.

Also, some plants show different growth characteristics in mature tissue than in young tissue, but I don't know if that applies to the redwoods.
So I went and read the Pinker's "rebuttal." He just casually avoided the claim about the entire base of their infographic being bogus, then went on to calling mild centre-left socialdemocrats "far leftists". Why is _anyone_ treating that guy seriously?
I've thought about automating my Facebook "Happy Birthday!" messages, but that seemed like the act of a evildoer.
Kaepernick? Oh, please. He barely had the arm (and that ended with his shoulder injury) and never had the mind (as was ultimately revealed by the whole checkdown-sequence talk being a fabrication and all plays instead being specifically scripted). He took a Super Bowl caliber team and ruined it with basic mindless play.

I say this as a 49ers season ticket holder who saw every game and training camp he played.

Every NFL bad actor with talent gets lots of second chances. He simply lacked the necessary mindset.
"The reason is climate change."

The reason isn't climate change.

The Central African Republic has just come out of a civil war. Of course things are going to improve rapidly, because that farmer that was in a refugee camp can now go home and grow enough to barely feed his family.

You can't extrapolate that out to the CAR overtaking first world countries in a generation simply because that farmer hasn't been educated to do the jobs that the economy would require, neither probably will his children.

That's before getting into things like infrastructure, rule of law, etc, etc, etc.

Edit:
To clarify, I don't disagree that climate change will probably hurt the poorest countries disproportionately though.
This is the guy who claimed subsistence rural leaving shouldn't count as poverty, and that we really can't say anything about poverty pre-1981. Come on! How is he credible.
[video]IBM Project Debater
It's kind of mind blowing how primitive medicine was back then.
Her baby died just after birth and her husband died of tuberculosis.
Supporting employees engaged in open source
Rosner, Pinker and Co fell into the same trap they critiqued others - belief in destiny. They try to counter pessimistic destiny narratives with positive destiny narratives and selecting data that fits the narrative.

You can't extrapolation the future from current trends. There are discontinuities and challenges that can change the dynamics.
> and delivery are creating impediments to our happiness and well being.
> I have often wondered what a delivery U-Bahn might look like

Instead of having delivery vans on the sidewalk, you'd have U-Bahn-to-store forklifts on the sidewalk.
> *We can end poverty right now simply by making the rules of our global economy fairer for the world’s majority (I describe how we can do this in The Divide, looking at everything from wages to debt to trade).

Well, that's a pretty bold claim. Anybody have a TL;DR that doesn't require forking out 5 days of UN poverty-line income to read?
Successful founders of the company prepare a five-year financial plan, a technology development roadmap and a combined sales funnel. With many funding options available, raising seed funds can be a confusing and somewhat overwhelming exercise.
Here I found an article there are few things to avoid while raising seed funding: https://mobinspire.com/blogs/5-things-you-should-avoid-while...
BP ? HR ?
But unlike Unreal, the source code license is reference-only (yeah it sounds ridiculous, but you are not allowed to modify and recompile the source code.) Someone sent a pull request to the code (a bugfix which solved a lot of GC performance issues), only to get rejected because of the license (although it later got patched internally in Unity)

https://github.com/Unity-Technologies/UnityCsReference/pull/...
The problems you point out can't be solved by more money for public transit, and are not what people in countries with better public transit than the US complain about.
The author, Gerd Gigerenzer is a giant in social psychological research into bounded rationality, and especially heuristics. His books are worth a look. He provides an interesting counterpoint to Kahneman and Tversky, other giants in the field that you may know better. As usual, maybe start with Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerd_Gigerenzer

Edit: and here's a great HN comment with more detail on this from 18 days ago, which I just came across - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18988316
That's a fair point. Generally grad credits are 2-4 times more than undergrad, though GA Tech is not adhering to that model.
> The word is a portemanteau of the English “Gadget” and the German word “bahn”, which means rail or train.

To nitpick bahn[0] can refer to these concepts, but actually has a wider meaning. The most well known of these is of course the Autobahn.

I've always taken it to be closer to the British English word 'way' as used in railway, motorway and right-of-way.

Perhaps Gadgetway would be a more consistent term, or even Gerätbahn if we're going for a full loanword.

[0] https://www.dict.cc/?s=bahn
England, what's with the clown show you've got going on at your unis? First the naked Brexit lady now this guy.

1) subsistence agrarian lifestyles were not better than our industrialized world. If Mr Hickel disagrees, he should lay down the pen and pick up the plow.

2) decreased child mortality and increased lifespans (thanks industrialized medicine!) means more people alive but not necessarily economically useful => lower GDP/head. Stop having babies you can't afford. This leads to a longer debate about the issues with food aid both raising subsistence levels and pricing out local farmers.

3) China, Singapore, Vietnam, etc saw huge improvement because they went balls to the walls with the forced industrialization this quack said was the problem.

4) Income inequality increasing doesn't matter because the the entry price for modern technology is decreasing faster than income inequality is increasing.

This guy's a keyboard warrior who's never been in the field and shouldn't have cost my 5 minutes to read.
> The official position of the government of Taiwan is that all of China is one country, whose rightful government is currently based on the island of Taiwan, but whose land is 99% occupied by Maoist rebels.

> it's completely understandable that you shouldn't formally recognize as a nation anyone making such a ridiculous claim.

I've heard more ridiculous claims. As a matter of history, this is completely correct. It's just that the rebels have really entrenched themselves.

This position is fundamentally identical to the position of a king-in-exile. Sometimes they made it back home. Sometimes they didn't.
The Myths of Voter ID
> so in just one more lifetime they'll be where the world leaders are today.

You are extrapolating the current rate, but doing that is dangerous:

https://xkcd.com/605/
So it would take about 20 years to pay for the Billion dollar stadium.

Except it's actually a two billion dollar stadium. Double the fun!
London used to have a subway dedicated to mail https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/London_Post_Office_Railway

Chicago too https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chicago_Tunnel_Company

Many cities including New York had pneumatic tube mail systems https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pneumatic_tube_mail_in_New_Yor... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pneumatic_tube#In_postal_servi...
Do any of these debates (by Pinker, Gates, etc) about neoliberal globalization address the elephant in the room that is the history of CIA interventions, and IMF and the World Bank and structural adjustments?
You misunderstood - the user wrote that the improvement probably won't continue due to climate change (which is expected to negatively impact developing countries more than developed).
What I mean is that I’ve never found a case where a purchase was required to get a quality app for some use case. I have a lot of apps on my devices, they are just all free apps with no ads and data collection disabled, presumably made by hobbyists who find that either the projects help promote them to get jobs or just find the satisfaction to be reason enough, and don’t seek financial compensation.

Given how ubiquitous free, non-ad-based apps are, it’s surprising to me to hear that people prefer different paid apps more to such a degree that the average spend is about $80.

Looking in the data it’s heavily skewed by gaming apps, so I’m guessing that is what drives my surprise. The average dollar spend on other types of apps is much lower. I suppose gaming is an area where it’s harder to find free, no-ad apps.

But for music, video, photography, podcasts, writing, sports, productivity, security, banking, etc., there are such high quality free apps without ads that I don’t get it.
Probably “Blood Pressure” and “Hans Rosling”.
> People will avoid a fight they could easily win until it becomes a fight they will have to win. (By which time it might be too late.)

There is a good reason for this. There could be a thousand potential fights, all of which you would easily win.

But if you had to fight them all, you'd get worn down, and probably lose one of them.
Beijing’s Global Media Drive a “Threat for Democracies”
Meta: this is a dupe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19141001.
Why do people have children? To my mind it's a similar tradeoff: giving up a lot of your freedom, wealth, time, ability to travel... for the sake of a better future not for you but for the generation after you.
I'm from Stockholm, so it's not part of what I see if I go outside on a random day. But I've seen it enough (edit: never in Stockholm), it does NOTHING with me. Meh!

Maybe it's me just knowing that "we" have it that makes me not care. I don't know.
How might one do speaker (voice) recognition?
> It would be one thing if the trend was clearly toward things getting worse because of climate change. But it's not so far.

Someone tell Fiji, I'm sure they will be happy to hear that:

https://unfccc.int/news/how-fiji-is-impacted-by-climate-chan...

https://www.salon.com/2012/09/19/first_village_relocated_due...
Do you think companies are going to choose "security" issues wisely? Do you have an actual solution that doesn't involve government, doesn't have the companies deciding themselves, and that the general public can do?
Yes, that seems like a very good idea, the market seems to be incapable of regulating itself on security issues.
I stopped reading after he began with that GDP point and spent so much time on it. Felt like a manipulative attack to dismiss an entire argument (“your argument is so laughably wrong, you can’t even get basic facts right.”)
Agreed. I replaced mine when I found out it couldn't be put behind a router fronting 2 pppoe connections. Somehow it broke pmtu-d trying to send data to Google (config backup? Who knows), and caused meltdowns constantly because of it.
I found transitioning to full project billing extremely satisfying.

The main downside is not clear project requirements, scope creep and you said / I said issues.

One way I found very helpful in mitigating it is getting a prototype of the UI, with some comments about what's unseen.

Getting an "idea to prototype" thing done is not expensive in context of any 25k+ projects and gains are huge on both sides.
I wasn't using it as an example of being deprived of property, but as an example of how infringing on other people's freedoms leads a system to be less free than one that doesn't.
> The official position of the government of Taiwan is that all of China is one country, whose rightful government is currently based on the island of Taiwan, but whose land is 99% occupied by Maoist rebels.

According to the same government in Taiwan, Mongolia is not an independent country, it is a part of "the Republic of China". See its official map here [1].

[1] http://www.chinayouth.org.hk/China/rocmap.html
Baidu made a smart cat shelter that uses AI to tell cats and dogs apart
> true. Those of us old enough remember a time where we didn't have the luxuries we have today. We had a choice of three channels on television, paid exorbitant long distance fees to call our family abroad and rarely traveled by plane.

The same people always seem to forget about this when they complain about not being able to afford proper housing or to sustain a family on a single income though.
I believe the point (excuse the pun) is that it may well be a mathematical theory but it's not (yet?) a scientific one.
This is a story of competing narratives.

Pinker says the world is improving by most measures, and this is a credit to our global system (though of course there is always room for improvement).

Many people, including Jason Hickel, strongly object to Pinker's characterization. They think the global system is fundamentally broken and flawed and we should be ashamed for letting it happen.

Ultimately it's a capitalism vs. socialism fight.
I want to second keepass2 here. I'm using it for a years and the database format is uncoupled from the client. There are many different clients (I use the official one for windows and Keepass2android, but there are also linux and macOS clients available) and addons that make it better. E.g. "kee" previously "keefox" automatically fills in passwords to webpages and saves new logins, if you want to and use Firefox (which is definitely worth a try after the big upgrade last year if you are currently in Chrome).

The database file is strongly encrypted and you can lock it with a keyfile and a password. It's easily synced with Google Drive or Dropbox. Keepass2Android even provides direct connection with a Dropbox or Google Drive database file. Conflicts are easily resolvable in case an update didn't get pushed until you change something at another device. I sync the 1024bit keyfile using usb sticks (only needed when setting up new devices) and a long password (the only one I have to remember).

You can even import passwords from your local firefox password manager and from 1password (though import from 1password seems to run through unencrypted csv files.

And you get all that for free.
A brilliant paper. IMHO one of the cornerstones of computer science. I can warmly recommend it. 'pg has a good explanation of it here: http://www.paulgraham.com/rootsoflisp.html?viewfullsite=1 (Windows users might want to use an online converter to convert it from Postscript to PDF.)
Who is in the position to allow or disallow China from doing what it wants to do?
For me it looks like this in JavaScript:
const [a, b] = permutations(array1, array2).filter(([a, b]) => a*b === 8).slice(0,2);
As a Raiders season ticket holder, I can assure you that their division games (Chargers, Chiefs, Broncos) don't draw well. The visitors that draw, when you get them, are Steelers, Pats, Cowboys, maybe Chicago if their uptrend continues. But being Vegas is a wild card; there will be an attraction to Vegas, though not necessarily the stadium, on game weekends.
The books that mattered most to David Bowie, bibliophile
Also a big chunk of Kik.

Also note in the 1980's the Japanese were buying up a lot of Hollywood.
It's reasonable because it's their own decision to make.

What you (or any of us) think about it in moral or ethic terms, is irrelevant.
Those things might improve life for a lot of people. But "freeing them to make rational choices"?
So it's possible we're wrong about such predictions.

Not all predictions are equal. We're a lot better at modelling things now than we ever have been in the past. That's not to say we're definitely right this time, but the probability that we actually are right is much higher than at any point in history.
Levi's Stadium doesn't get much non-football use. Even the Pac-12 Championship is moving elsewhere.
But when you’ve been treated the way modern startups treat employees, the employer has already communicated to you that they don’t value the relationship, at a deep intrinsic level. They don’t value your basic workplace health (e.g. open plan offices, poor hours, poor insurance), they don’t value your career goals (“sorry you can’t focus on data pipelines like you were told... shrug ... wear many hats”), and so on.

If you find yourself later in life needing a professional assistance from that person who utterly does not value you, this is representing some much more gigantic failure and a worry about having burned a bridge is too insignificant by comparison to care.

Having said that, I don’t care so much about the “fuck you” aspect as much as, say, writing an honest Glassdoor review so that job applicants may avoid falling into their trap, or giving them exactly two weeks’ notice and no more despite whatever circumstances the project is in, and simply not staying in touch with them.
The "West" has priced in a lot of economic growth into its debt. They are in no position to threaten China with sanctions, which could reduce trade. Need to keep those 10%+ returns coming for the underfunded pension funds. It couldn't even do anything about Russia and Crimea, much less China.
I've never been a fan of this sort of argument. If everyone decided to stop buying something, that still doesn't stop a regular batch of that thing being produced, or in this case it doesn't stop them from cutting down the trees with the assumption that they will sell. If they don't sell well, they can't un-cut the trees.
Incremental Learning – A continuous learning approach (2018)
What engineers? AFAICR the team was six marketers... because it was a marketing stunt/scam.
Kubernetes ndots 5 and long DNS search path
The connector allows higher voltages and currents. And here lies the problem, vendors have responsibility when the 60 watts shorts up and cause fires.

You can find 10 cent USB-C connectors from Alibaba, no problems in cheap connector production, perse.
Meanwhile the Russians used a cat flap[0]

[0] https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/fact-or-fiction-n...
Man, that slidedeck is frightening for someone who wants functional applications:

Well-designed and attractive typographymakes content meaningful.
Animation makes important parts standout and helps with micro-interactions.
Onboarding, common for web andmobile apps, helps more than traditional"F1" button.
Visual trends may change and it shouldnot be hard to update the UI withoutrewriting it all.

The result is what used to be described as "flash websites": everyone has their own UI, with custom animations that mean something entirely unique to that application which may or may not make sense to you.

But I could not explain this half as well as these articles about Flash. They also apply to HTML5.

https://www.nngroup.com/articles/flash-99-percent-bad/
It appears that his keyboard warrior friends have found this comment.

Down votes should really require an explanation.
This phenomenon is known as convergence.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Convergence_(economics)
Decent programmers are also context dependent. For example when ImageMagick's delegate functionality was envisioned (before 1999 - that's the earliest page I was able to quickly found that mentions the feature), IT security was not taken that seriously. Basically Mitnick was just arrested (1995), multi user systems were all guarded and watched closely by bastard operators from hell like dragons sitting on a mountain of gold.

And PHP was seen as harmless fun.

And malware was thought of as boot sector viruses and even though the first worm (1988, the Morris) worked exactly like what people are harping about (buffer overrun), no one cared, because C++ was slow to compile, and managed runtimes are evil.

And still no one cares. It takes some competence to stop using C, but it's easier to simply shout at those who point out the obvious.

And when someone brings out the good old Therac-25 everyone starts to fall silent. (Even if healthcare accreditation is very expensive, it's expensive exactly because the whole IT field is still full of unverifiable code.)
I get why it doesn't bother you, if you like the experience and think it's worthwhile. I also happily pay for Netflix, while a friend of mine just asked me, if he can use my account to save a few bucks. Everybody values different things.

But there are very good free alternatives out there like keepass, with clients for every major operating system, including mobile.
This is interesting and kind of weird at the same time. I think Google has missed the point completely with this. While it is true that the future of documents is API driven and task automation will meet document editors, this is simply not the way forward.

It's like Henry Ford giving people who are looking for faster and more economical transportation an assembly line instead of a car. Here is why:

- Task automation, by definition is supposed to save time and money. By building a developer API, you still need developers (whose time costs more money!) to build and maintain your automations.

- The underlying document model itself cannot be accessed. So what they've made is some kind of HandleBarJS way of creating documents and filling them in.

I'm working on something in a similar space (https://afterclass.co) and we've had to build our own document model and automation handler to work around these two problems. Would be interesting to see how this pans out :)
It's worse than that for other high-end phones. I bought the first Razer Phone from the Microsoft Store 1 year and 4 months ago (Nov 24, 2017). The last security patch was from July 5, 2018.

From what I understand, the CAT Phones (with built-in FLIR, etc) get even less updates.