skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Right, if you look elsewhere on the thread I've made this point already: the whole idea behind ALEC model legislation is to have it introduced in multiple state houses. There's no similarity search you can run for legislation "authentically" drafted by different congressional offices, and yet it's an article of faith on HN that corrupt bills are authored that way all the time.
Still won't help. Simple fact of life is: to attract research talent you have to let your researchers publish (and not anonymously like they started doing recently, but under their own names), and afford them considerable freedom in what to publish. There's no way in hell Apple will do that, with or without Goodfellow. Good for Ian, I suppose, but Apple will continue to languish in AI until it reconsiders its stolid, old fashioned ways (and/or starts paying crazy money to researchers so publishing ceases to matter as much).
Or we could get transit systems that won't track us, payment systems that won't track us and cell phones that won't track us.
Competitive endeavours will dominate your life if you have the personality for it, and those people competing on that level do.

You are a casual gamer, but in this context you are as much of a gamer as a random board game player is one compared to Magnus Carlsen.
Father of GANs Ian Goodfellow Splits Google for Apple
I think they're not gonna do that because they'd lose the 737 type.
I'm no tax expert but I'm under the impression it's never advantageous to deliberately enter a business arrangement so that you can incur a loss for the tax offset. But, it can be advantageous to strategically realize losses that were previously paper-only.
"Its very funny to me how you praise them for championing "open source" philosophy with other people's IP etc... adn then at the end of your statement wonder allowed about them not sharing any of their own. Uh, thats not "open source" thats imperialism by any and all means. "

Yeah, it's not the same as open source. They certainly don't give anything out like in open-source. Your comment is misleading, though. The Chinese companies, which include lots of competitors internal to China, just copy everything in their process of iterating products out. So, Chinese companies and/or government takes the I.P., create their own products, and other Chinese copy them. All this stuff keeps spreading cheaper and getting forked kind of like open source. Hits overcharging, proprietary suppliers hard like open source. Just isn't open source with the full benefits.
Yep I took it from Gothenburg to Berlin (via Copenhagen and Hamburg) and those wind farms are seriously impressive!

Also a really cool view if you take the bridge from Denmark to Sweden, windmills in the sea almost as far as the eye can see.
If activists genuinely believe that Berlin can come up with expropriation funds between €18.1bn (low end) and €36.6bn (high end) then their efforts would probably be better directed towards obtaining those funds and directing them towards building new housing and infrastructure as opposed to fomenting populism.
We've moved from on-prem to AWS fully and we see random issues all the time while their status page shows all green, so I feel you probably have a small amount of resources in use with them or something, because what you're saying doesn't jive with what we see daily. I see you've also copy-pasted your response to other comments too, so I'll do the same with my response.
Wonder how much of this is also related to the Mcdonnell Douglas merger. https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2013/02/04/requiem-for-a-...
Yes, and tobacco company CEOs smoke. Does that give you the confidence to do the same?
> The Max's aerodynamics are such that as you approach a stall angle, at a certain point the force inverts and the aircraft "pitches nose up" reducing force against the stick close to the stall angle.

Which anybody who claims that MAX is safe without MCAS is ignoring: without properly working MCAS the plane effectively starts to misbehave exactly when it shouldn't (when it's harder to save it).

Unfortunately, with improperly working MCAS, the way it was designed (non redundant single sensor which is blindly trusted by MCAS and which is in effect stronger than the pilots fighting against it) there were already two crashes.
I find that if I use VMWare the VM is nice and fast and no problems. If I use VirtualBox the performance isn't fantastic but still workable.

How on earth do you use 7 monitors for work?
This is not about outages. There are many more things that can go wrong besides outages.
Would the Boeing executives put their families on a 737MAX running the same version of the software that Ethiopian was running? Would they be willing to do this with a purposeful placed hypothetical AoA sensor that was known to manfunction quite often? Can that really be considered a safe plane?
good for him for finding a market inefficiency and exploiting it. I dont know why people's moral compunction kicks in for profiting off a trillion dollar company. He used their system for his advantage, just like apple uses the UK's "double irish" system to their advantage. It's just business. You're not depriving anyone of property.
There's also a lot going on at that point in flight. It's within ten seconds of autopilot, for example. Would be hard to pinpoint. Besides, they have checklists to follow: airline piloting is not supposed to be creative and experimental.
That's nice, but unless you make hiring decisions, or decide what people get paid, not super relevant to what GP is saying
Don't you think model legislation is a weapon with disproportionate power in the hands of concentrated interests, versus being more lacklustre for the diffuse?

Anything that exacerbates this problem is something we would want to avoid, no?
Is there a demand for freight aircraft of this size? Conversation to freighters might be the best option for these planes.
> just erase your account.

There's actually no way of doing that on HN.
Even if you could recover without MCAS Boeing still wouldn’t have released a version without it as the recovery procedure have needed new training.

Let’s not forget MCAS only exists to protect Boeing’s profits by avoiding a new type certification.
>The FAA also lost a lot of trust, for rubber-stamping this.

I wonder if the European agency (don't remember the name) will stop trusting the FAA from now on and do their own tests. I'd thank them for that.

(According to what I read here, the European agency doesn't do exhaustive tests because they mostly trust whatever the FAA says; maybe that's false)
The real value of wages for waiters has decreased significantly because of inflation. Though that's not really inflation's fault as much as a lack of meaningful wage increases.
I've worked with these "straw men" you say he constructed, they are absolutely out there. There was a time in 2014 when Hadoop/MapReduce was the hammer and every problem out there looked like a nail.

How many people have used Hadoop for a project?
How many Petabyte+ datasets do you think are out there?

Unless you truly believe the answer to those 2 questions are the same, I think you can see why that article had to be written.
Laws should be simple enough to be understood plainly by everyone - fundamental due process / equal protection. In general writing is easier than understanding, so writing laws should be really easy.

Allowing corporations to write complex laws inherently creates many specific loopholes that essentially bless and fortify their model (regulatory capture), helping capital to coalesce. Responding by encouraging one opposing viewpoint to likewise throw resources into opposition doesn't actually push back against the complexity itself, but rather just encourages ever more of it as each side tries to sneak things past the other's limit of understanding.
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Someone please post a link to the Ray Dalio essay. Thanks!
Even given your premise it's still disgusting for model legislation to be incorrectly attributed and/or summarized and also for witness testifying about to basically be undercover fake cronies.
International transfers are where crypto or other modern payment systems can shine - currently, low cost startups still charge ~2-3% plus onboarding fees to send funds (in comparison to banks 7-22%), and they have volume limits.
I've spent most of my career in Telecom, this is how my experience in telecom is, AT&T got into equal opportunity early, and the notion stayed with the company past divestiture.
Thanks for a thorough reply. Would a better equivalent of ACH to the UK be BACS then? And Zelle is similar to UK faster payments?
BA dropped the ball - single sensor, and business shortcut to improve margins.

They are liable for the deaths. The real question now is what is a human life worth to a corporation? (i.e. payout).

Next Steps:
+ BA should be heavily fined.
+scrutinize ties and lobbying with FAA.
+ Fire head of FAA, and teams involved in approving MCAS.
I've been following Caster Semenya's case for a while. What you suggest is not a simple solution at all, I'm afraid. The issue of gender is much simpler- one just asks the person. The issue of sex seems to have become way too complicated in recent years.
mod_perl couldn't live safely on shared servers. You had to rent the whole box if you wanted to use mod_perl.
I don't know who you guys are working with that overengineer the shit out of everything, using souped-up tools to solve simple problems, killing ants with sledgehammers. Pretty much everyone I've ever worked with has tried to do the smallest, simplest amount of work to achieve a goal so they can move on.

Not because they're super smart or whatever, but because there's a lot to do, and because working really hard on something really small kinda feels bad.

If you bring in some big fancy database or whatever- who is going to own and maintain that? Who gets paged when it goes down? How does it even get paid for (in the case of Saas/Paas/etc)? Answering questions like these is a lot of work, and a natural deterrent to bringing in wacky stuff to solve a problem. If people in your company can just YOLO out a Hadoop cluster, you have other problems besides overzealous engineers IMO.

The more general point I would press is- when people in a company are acting not-rationally, ask what about their environment is driving them to do that. Instead of just thinking they're crazy or an asshole or whatever.
"We regret the impact the grounding has had on our airline customers and their passengers." - I really hated this. As if they did the grounding for safety reason and regrets the cost. As if the passengers and clamoring for flying in 737-MAX.

There's obviously a lot of concern and outrage. But I wonder if Boeing's share price would have been higher than last year if the two crashes were in first world countries specially US.
There are correct ways to deal with multinational corporations and any abuses you believe they are committing - in this case Apple was (probably, the article is terrible) the victim and should have recompense... separately they should be paying back taxes on all that revenue they sheltered by putting stickers on computers in bermuda. And before the what-about-ists get in, so should every other company as well.
The part that left my office in stitches:

> (To be fair to Perl, when perl is run with the -w flag to enable warnings, it does helpfully inform the user that at some point in the future, the Perl developers will most likely pick gggijgziifiiffif as a new reserved word:

>> Unquoted string "gggijgziifiiffif" may clash
with future reserved word at - line 1.)
It's actually very rational. No one can declare something complex like a plane or a version of Windows to be "safe" or "secure". Only the absence of incident for a long period of time is an indication that it is.
How does HN comply w/ GDPR?
> It's difficult living in the shadow of California.

It's gotta be harder to live with a white supremacist reputation.

Not saying I care, but it's really funny to see someone from oregon get sensitive about this of all things.
> Nobody put a gun to their head, and made them redesign their plane.

The execs at Boeing probably felt the A320 was a gun to their head. The A320 was set to eat their lunch, and they made a decision that ultimately has resulted in 300+ deaths. Was it a malicious decision? I give them enough credit to say that they honestly believed they solved the problem with MCAS. Was it a malicious decision to lie about pilots not needing to re-train? I'm leaning towards yes.
I'm not sure you'll find them upsetting, but I have a few thoughts:

1. Imagine a scenario where we need <legislation> that recognizes the needs/desires/opinions/opportunities/suffering of multiple constituencies and at least tries to weigh all of those against additional concerns like the constitutionality, budget (including potential public legal costs/liabilities of defending the legislation and rectifying any damage it may cause), broader public good, etc.

Outside of scenarios where <legislation> will only impact the single constituency proposing the legislation, it's hard to imagine the broad public good or the interests of any other constituencies will often be well-served by any <legislation> written by any single constituency.

2. At least in the U.S., one theoretical benefit of our multi-layered system of competing legislative bodies is that different people will approach similar problems in different ways. In the short run, some of these will fail, and some people will suffer these failures. In the longer run, we at least have the opportunity of more quickly converging on battle-tested solutions that didn't fail elsewhere. When our first swings at real problems are monoculture, we're squandering that space for innovation.

3. When outside groups play a big role in writing legislation, it seems one of their few collective interests may be optimizing for legislators who will sponsor or vote for said legislation without asking too many questions or making too many changes. I imagine this skillset has little overlap with the skills needed to craft the sort of legislation mentioned near the end of #1 above. If so, there's a risk this practice will progressively optimize for legislators that aren't capable of writing that kind of legislation even when it's absolutely essential. Funding countervailing model legislation would only accelerate this.
I thought it was company policy to make their engineers fly on the planes they built.
Reading the r/aviation subreddit apparently airline pilot salaries have really improved over the last 5 years.
This is true. FEV1 and FVC for swimmers is higher than other athletes, having a 10% difference is actually huge compared to the general population.

Conversely a 20% below average function is what someone with asthma could have or beginning stages of lung disease.

Bottom line if you're lungs are functioning even 5% over "normal" for your age, height, and ethnicity you have extremely efficient lungs
ew.
Also, caching at the correct granularity. I've seen too many systems that cache on a fine grained level and performance drops because because there are so many cache lookups, even with an in memory cache.
I'd think any such confiscation would be for a finite time only, but "finite" possibly encompassing a good portion of the useful life of an electronic device.
The US can confiscate your kids and send you back without them. I doubt they'd draw the line at confiscating a phone.
>They're absolutely not climbing 14,000 feet in that condition. The control forces on the column in this situation are absurd. Their arms couldn't have held them level for more than a few minutes max.

If I'm reading the charts right it took them about a minute to go from 5,000 to 7,000 feet. So even if they hold on for just a few minutes more they're almost to 14,000 feet.

And you're taking speculation based on assumed facts too seriously. If they were struggling to keep the plane level then their simulation was different. In reality the plane was climbing all the way up until they enabled the electric trim and MCAS kicked in.
This is great for small one-off projects, but I don't know why anyone would want to promote the usage of mailing lists in general. The industry moved on to more centralized solutions like github for a reason - mailing lists are clunky, intuitive, and simply horrible for large discussions. Because old and large projects are using them doesn't mean it's a good reason for new projects to use them today.

If anyone has problems with using closed-source platforms like github, there are open-source alternatives like gogs/gitea so you're fully in charge. Abandoning the openness of such platforms in favor of mailing lists would be a big step backwards.
Hype driven development is the real curse of the last decade. Not just big data, but also smaller techs like mongodb, or the countless javascript frameworks... choosing the right stack for the job could be a consulting job in itself, even for simple web development.
Finish reading first, and then spend some time thinking before responding.

I said: "Accidents are one thing; incompetency or, worse yet, callous indifference is absolutely unacceptable."
Hey! I did that too! Except my version ran the Markov chain against its own source code, which was padded with a bunch of meaningless subs that did were never called but were valid code. It also ran in an infinite loop, which worked well. I had to kill it after a few minutes because I was afraid it would start running shell commands.
I don't know much about Purism. What do you have against them?
As far as I know, MCAS has never activated in service due to actual high AoA. However, even the 737 classic could have "interesting" pitch up characteristics:

"The Boeing 737-300 was on approach to Bournemouth Airport following a routine passenger flight from Faro, Portugal. Early in the ILS approach the auto-throttle disengaged with the thrust levers in the idle thrust position. The disengagement was neither commanded nor recognised by the crew and the thrust levers remained at idle throughout the approach. Because the aircraft was fully configured for landing, the air speed decayed rapidly to a value below that appropriate for the approach. The commander took control and initiated a go-around. During the go-around the aircraft pitched up excessively; flight crew attempts to reduce the aircraft’s pitch were largely ineffective. The aircraft reached a maximum pitch of 44º nose-up and the indicated airspeed reduced to 82 kt. The flight crew, however, were able to recover control of the aircraft and complete a subsequent approach and landing at Bournemouth without further incident."

https://www.gov.uk/aaib-reports/aar-3-2009-boeing-737-3q8-g-...

If that had happened in a Max, without MCAS, would it have ended badly? We'll never know, but it seems possible.
No, I don't think that; I think that, if anything, ALEC marginally reduces the ultimate "potential" power of corporate lobbies, since, again, it's legislation that's submitted in multiple state houses and is at least theoretically traceable.

What I think really alarms people about ALEC is that it represents an uncomfortable level of organization on the part of corporate conservative lobbyists. ALEC is a way of getting a lot done fast. But if there wasn't ALEC and there wasn't model legislation, they'd simply organize in other ways. I think it is generally true that corporatist conservatives out-organize progressives, and I think that is a problem, but I don't think it's realistic or plausible to suggest that the solution is to "de-organize" them.
In that spirit, I (sarcastically) offer myself as a counterpoint to the sitting president of the Heritage Foundation.

I expect expenses paid, but nothing else.

I contribute:
-a neuro-atypical mindset
-Solidarity for the -LGBTQ+ community
-a unique perspective on AI as an ethical being
-Radical Leftist ideology which views governments, corporations, and borders as deprecated, obsolete code
-radical Privacy Advocate. The only thing better would be someone from the EFF itself.
-radical Free Software advocate. Stallman be proud of your acolyte, in spite of your pedo-apologia.
-All your base are belong to the transhumanists. You just havent seen us yet. Solidarity with our machine-born comrades, as we all upgrade ourselves and each other.
-Humanity has failed to implement any plan to turn our operations ecologically sustainable. Our inheritors should be offered the chance to do better - be they meat, metal, or both.
Ian Goodfellow already has come up with the next great DL architecture. So its possible he will do so again.

edit: thinking about your question more-as an AI person I think the business logic behind hiring AI research talent if you are FAANG is not that they are going to deliver much business value in the next five years but they may deliver astronomical returns in the next 25 years. when you have the financial strength of google hiring these people is not a very large risk.

edit: I'm an ML grad student.
Google in 2007! Awesome and fun questions, great people.
I wouldn't be surprised if they had parachutes on board and ready to bail.
> My sources at Google just couldn't see the panelists constructively working together on a panel at this point.

Well, that's the point, isn't it? If the AI ethics council is meeting four times a year for a couple hours at most, and and has people who can't even agree on "Which bathroom should this person use," how are they going to produce productive advice for actual hard questions that haven't been well-explored?

There is a place for debate between people who don't agree on worldview. This council was never going to be it.
Anyone who equates human life and dog needs to be evaluated immediately. I am not kidding, it means they have lost touch with the society.
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Funny enough, I've experienced the largest benefits from "scaling down" with Amazon's managed databases.

For instance I made an email newsletter system which handles subscriptions, verifications, unsubscribes, removing bounces, etc. based on Lambda, DynamoDB, and SES. What's nice about is that I don't need to have a whole VM running all the time when I just have to process a few subscriptions a day and an occasional burst of work when the newsletter goes out.
This is awesome work and should be the top comment on the thread.
Making a joke about how miserable it is for some of us to deep-dive into systems to get stuff working. I wasn't expecting any upvotes, but it was neither a rude nor an idiotic thing to say, so y'all need to chill.
A lot of people are thinking they maxed out at a height of ~1,000 ft because that is what the flight tracker website last showed.
is it true with all OCR engines
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My mom worked with a large mainframe in early 80's and from what she told me, majority if employees were women.

I remember this, too.

In fact, the first two people who taught me how to use a computer (back in 8" floppy disk and 2K RAM days) were women. And nuns.
In all fairness this plane is only a danger to its crew (and to regular commuters). Even without the software fix, the probability that you get into a crash in one of the few times in a year when you make a leg in this plane is still infinitesimal. For the crew that spends the whole year in there, different story.
There's no crisis. Where does it say here ought to be an oversupply of real estate at lower prices?

The article makes invalid assumptions and then describes a non-existing problem.

Maybe not everyone ought to move to big cities. Maybe housing prices would be more affordable if urban planning wasn't done by governments. Maybe housing prices wouldn't be bloated if central banks weren't trying to engineer asset inflation and asset bubbles for the past 10 years.

The least likely explanation is that markets don't work so we need a policy response, but the failed article doesn't even consider that possibility. Total fail.
Am I the only one who would have no trouble flying on a 737 MAX?