skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm not sure I follow.
I'm assuming the easy mode is something you have to explicitly select or at least have to the option to change to and from.
Could you not have simply ignored the option of the easy mode and continued playing the way you had done before?
Depending on the mode of operation, the pilot will or will not be part of the redundancy. The trick in this type of application is the management of mode transitions.

When sensors fail, the system will transition to degraded modes of operations where the pilot will have more responsibility.

The safety case will rely on demonstrating that transition to such degraded modes is low enough to be compatible with the human rate of errors.

A modern system should not be declared safe if it relies on pilot _whatever_.

Not sayin’ it did not happen in the past. Unfortunately.
Unless you have been doing deeply corrupt work for them for years you are not going to be making any change at that megacorp. I know someone who worked there and they just remove anyone who does not conform.
This.

I studied Electrical Engineering and in my experience, the only thing my classmates cared about was the technical aspects of the field, and often they couldn't see the big picture. Great talents of course, but more like robots, not even capable of understanding the humanitarian aspects of life. Such a waste.

Disclaimer: It's just my experience, not necessarily true for all engineers and engineering schools.
Iview is the one I'm talking about. YouTube DL basically downloads the unencrypted video direct from the server but the website doesn't work until you enable drm
At the same time, you help Facebook do what it currently does, i.e. unethical stuff. I dont think an individual engineers ability to influence a company they dont own outweighs their contributions.
It’s been years since I first heard of sam and acme. Perhaps I should try them. Is it possible to run them in MacOS/Linux/Windows? Or perhaps a virtual machine?

BTW, does chording work well with mice where one of the ”three” buttons is the scrool wheel?
>Kind of the barrier you develop in the west pretending to not know where or how your hamburger was made.

Is there any data about how widespread this issue is ? I know plenty of people who know perfectly well from where their meat comes from, and are not bothered by it. Some even want to know, think Ron from Parks and Recs, who refuses to eat anonymous animals. On the other hand, I'm totally ok if other people do not want to have to think about it. A succesful society should provide for both needs.
Heads up: the boxes are drawn in the wrong places using Firefox 66 on Ubuntu 18.04. https://imgur.com/a/4d51spv

A bit confusing as the drawn boxes don't match the text. Works with Chromium though.
I think you're conflating snoozing with reminders. Snoozing allows you to hide emails until a later moment in time, whereas reminders allows you to add arbitrary items to your inbox (e.g. "Visit dentist") which you can then also snooze until the appropriate moment. The experience might be replicated by sending an email to yourself and snoozing that, but that involves far more friction.
> It's a pity that a man with such influence has no message that he wants to spread

There's some people who think the cult of personality is a bad thing to promote and then there's people who wring their hands and cry about people who aren't using it. You can't win.
Do they really though? I don't know any numbers, but i would imagine that the airports at least make up some if not all of the cost of equivalent railroads? I get that the airport can service a lot more destinations than a trainstation( overseas etc ), but i'm not totally convinced that rail infrastructure is that much more expensive than for air.

The cost of airport security etc should probably also be thought of as infrastructure costs.
People will argue that you should be able to convey your message clearly in plain English but those people don't realise that:
- Not everyone masters English (even when it's your mother tongue, not everyone has access to the same education to be able to use it perfectly)
- Languages are complex, we don't talk with words only, we use facial expressions and gestures, emojis help mimic those when only words are available.
But the service is free, so it’s definitely worth a try
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Chinese Investors Make Record on Forbes' 2019 Midas List
Using it as lumber will only extend the time period when the carbon is sequestered, but won’t sequester it permanently. You need to bury it for that, and bury it deep enough so that it doesn’t decompose.

More importantly, the actual lumber consumption is trivial. America consumes half of a single tree per capita annually[1]. Even if you assume that this half of a single tree gets sequestered permanently (which is not realistic), that’s a far, far cry from 150 trees yearly.

Really, this is all so silly: if you can grow so much biomass to offset all carbon emissions, why wouldn’t you burn that biomass instead of burning fossils and burying the biomass? It makes no sense, like most of the feel-good green plans.

[1] - https://www.fs.usda.gov/treesearch/pubs/50895
No, a lot of this guilt-tripping and politicizing is actually contributing to the self-destruction - it divides people more, makes them less likely to care about each other, and sucks out the oxygen in the media, so that the big problems cannot be discussed productively.
Facebook demanding the password of personal email accounts for verification
> Suddenly you'll be forced to either accept a code of conduct, or actively choose not to do so.

Funnily, it would allegedly require me to be active to not accept a code of conduct. I would disagree with that.

These code are nothing new and formerly often called something like netiquette or something. Some guidelines a community agreed upon and could be leveraged for common ground in cases of disagreement.

The difference to modern examples of COCs is certainly that they were mostly not mandated upon users. At that point, they become as interesting to users as terms of services. Somthing not on your mind you pay no attention to.

Since most COCs also include some drivel about strict enforcements, learning processes and other completely unrelated topics, I tend to just passively ignore them.

Many of these are also blatantly lying. What better way to champion inclusivity by banning behaviour deemed inconform? While even underlining that conformity is required? I would require an explaination here.

I wonder why people that tend to argue that everything is political are so keen on my and others conformity? What should I answer to that? Sorry, I cannot comply, I need to champion diversity?
Lessons learned from getting featured on HN
Even if you're OK with your own government having access to your current location at all times

I'd say most Americans have voluntarily installed multiple apps on their devices that leak location far and wide.
Yes, but we have 50,000 years of evolutionary practice understand what a smile means in real life.

And we recognize that we still don't all interpret those smiles the same way, as is evident in many legal codes not enforcing "handshake" deals, and written agreements almost always supercede oral ones.
I mostly agree but don’t underestimate the effect that drinking the kool-aid can have on your ability to tell if something is wrong or not.

I’ve worked in these megacorps and I understand how easy is to believe everything they do is awesome.

“We’re just doing it to make it easier for our users” or “we’re Facebook, we know how to securely handle their passwords”

It’s very easy to _believe_ these things when you’re in the inside being showered with money and being told how amazing you are all the time.
We've just upgraded our London to Scotland sleeper service recently. It's not cheap but's it's fun!

If you want to get into the Highlands it's a lot more convenient, too: Fort William is hours from a major airport.

Going from Edinburgh to London it's really useful as you end up right in the heart of the London.

https://www.sleeper.scot/
> Some people, initially excited by the convenience of the sharing economy, may have now experienced the anxieties and pitfalls of navigating the rating system, Belk said.

This is exactly why I hesitate to use Uber or any other apps that allows rating.

When I was in US, I had to depend on ride sharing for 3 months since USCIS was finding all sorts of reasons to delay visa extensions for Indians thereby preventing me from renewing my license. I rarely carry cash with me. On my first Uber ride, I saw the driver had a tip jar with some cash and a note saying 'tips are welcome'. I told him 'I will tip in app' which, as I later found out from /r/uber, was a grave sin. My rating was 4.9 before and came down to 4.82. I followed everything that I saw in internet: wait for driver at an easy to find spot, say hello and engage in small talk despite being really miserable because of visa issues, ensuring I don't smell (I bath twice a day, wear deo, always fresh clothes), close the door gently, no touching anything in car and so on. I absolutely hated it when my rating again dropped to 4.74 (most likely because I used Uber after grocery purchase, I had 6 bags and tipped in app). After that, I used mostly Lyft for almost 1.5 months because I won't at least see my rating. At some point, I started tipping in cash in Uber whenever I couldn't find a Lyft. By the end of 3rd month, my rating came back to 4.9.

I had couple of bad experiences with Uber-one guy dropped me and wife in the 4th lane of a 5 lane road while waiting in a signal, one lady left the rear windows open while driving at 70 mph, one had really loud music with a weird navigation voice, another yelled at me because I wasn't standing at the proper block in New York and didn't know how to tell him where I am (I was a tourist and thought gps would be accurate). I still rated all of them 5. But the Uber drivers seemed to be looking for any reason to rate me less. Normally, I wouldn't have cared, but if /r/uber is to be believed, drivers would reject rides from 4.7 and below especially at night.

I really hated the whole experience, and I try to avoid these kind of apps whenever possible. Same reason I don't use Swiggy (like Uber Eats) any more. The delivery guy rated me 3 out of 5 in front of me because he wasn't happy with my directions to find my home.
Reputation, brand, accuracy is still important.

We might laugh at BuzzFeedNews, but probably millions of people grew up on BuzzFeed, and for them it was probably more reputable than let's say the NYT.

That said, independent sources, cross-verification of information is going to be a big challenge, especially as fakes/faking become more important. (Eg in a war zone. Was it a false flag or not? Did that rocket attack happened at all?) Even though AI cannot [yet] understand it, it's perfect for looking for similarities and similar posts. (So if someone sets up a system that ingests the twitter + FB + YT firehose for example.)
when a site identifies my ad blocker and specifically asks that i disable it, then i have to decide either to momentarily disable my ad blocker and view the content, or leave the site.
the Big Media people don't want to be so upfront about their restrictions. "if they don't know about the restrictions, they won't get angry."
VLA Makes First Direct Image of Key Feature of Powerful Radio Galaxies
I had no idea what you were talking about but I found the video and it reminded me of "Demo" from 1968 believe https://www.bing.com/videos/search?q=plan9+acme&&view=detail...
Buying drugs, avoiding taxes, money laundering, etc.
But managers rely on engineers to let them know when some compromise can be made and when it is absolutely vital not to do it.
I'd recommend them switching from Graphite to Prometheus in order to resolve problems with high requirements for disk IO and storage space. Prometheus uses less disk IO and compresses time series data points better than Graphite - 12 bytes vs 4 bytes on typical data.
Prometheus' local storage doesn't scale, but this may be resolved with long-term remote storage systems from this list https://prometheus.io/docs/operating/integrations/#remote-en... . I'd recommend trying VictoriaMetrics, since it is the most cost-effective solution for storing huge amounts of time series data.
I did read about him being philosophical before but it could be that "radical Randists" twisted his words [0]

I read this after I just read Atlas Shrugged and wondered how my convictions fitted into the objectivists' world view. Whether this was the real Linus or not, I liked his view, as I generally do. And it matches his down-to-earth-ness. BTW: Please don't butcher my karma again for mentioning Ayn ;)

[0] https://www.google.com/search?client=firefox-b-d&ei=6IOkXO2a...
"If it's good enough for immigration, it's good enough for account setup. Isn't facebook something like a nation?"

Maybe they hired someone who worked at border controls?
If it looks like a duck ...

Quack, quack!!!
Where on earth do you live where 3G is "unrealistic?"
The whole discussion revolves around video. You can't imagine a browser today that is "just a reader" (Mosaic? hahaha), no one would use a browser without video support.
Sure, I'll buy that Mathematica has its niche in (surprise!) math, but that's very different from the friendly article's claim that Wolfram has a superior approach to, well, everything:

Wolfram’s vision for computation is much more profound—to unify and automate computation across computational fields, application areas, user types, interfaces and deployments.

They even mention blockchain further down!
United Nations Publishes Handbook on Privacy Preserving Computations
Wanted to try this in Firefox, but the code is simple and easy to read enough that it was actually easier to convert it into a Grease/Tamper/Violentmonkey script than to package as a new addon.

https://hastebin.com/elonabobew.js
Seeing how slow and expensive both BTC and ETH are, micropayments aren’t really viable, tbh.

The mining and gas fees for BTC and ETH respectively are going to be higher than the cut a payment processor would take.

The one advantage that you might be alluding to is that bitcoins are divisible into satoshi’s, which are much more granular than cents.
>Her writings in the past appear to make her seem she is at least a little anti-social

Could you share some examples?
This is a clickbait title. The article clearly says "Rich Indians might be charitable, but not enough of them are philanthropists." So the title should be "Why India's rich don't give their money away to philanthropy"?

But going by the comments in this thread I guess the title has achieved in drawing the reactions it really wanted to.

Still as per the quoted report[0], private funding grew by 15% compared to less than 10% growth in US[1] (unfortunately drawing a parallel between private funding is kind of difficult).

Additionally, the article says "ultra-rich households have grown at a rate of 12% over the past five years". So, the private funding growth (15%) has kept up with the UHNI growth in past 5 years? Sure, we can make a case of more funding for UHNI but then the title makes even less sense.

Additionally, to add one more of the interpretations in the ring. Indians donate lots of money in temples like Shirdi, Thirupati Balaji which goes to some chartiable trusts. Though again the major point is charity vs philanthropy.

[0] - https://www.dasra.org/assets/uploads/resources/BAIN_BRIEF_In...
[1] - https://philanthropynewsdigest.org/news/report-projects-grow...
In blown-up version like this it's easier to see the upturn. In smaller renderings, like in Facebook & Google products on my desktop and on the phone (or pixelated copy-pastes of it on top of Facebook videos), the rendering sits squarely in the uncanny valley for me. It looks like smiling, but then it looks also like the face is in great pain, with all the muscles contracted, squeezing tears out of its tear ducts.
>When designing a critical system such as an aircraft, you must include human authority into it

This is where Boeing messed up big time. According to the article they only had 2 AoA sensor, completely missing the fact that what happens if one sensor fails and which is correct. Airbus has 3, but IMO a critical component like an AoA sensor there should be 5 + additional inputs from the artificial horizon should be considered.

>You cannot design an unoverrideable automatic mechanism.

Yes, it makes sense. Even a complete automatic mechanism would need functionality to override in case things go completely haywire.
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But frankly, when you think about it, the only amazing thing about FB is how it got popular, that's all. As for the user experience it's very far from amazing, in spite of all the tech used. It's slow, and on mobile not only slow but also resource hungry, it has several glitches, plus there is a ton of things that annoy users.

Now, I can understands that someone working for SpaceX can think they're all amazing, but if you work for FB? It's like working for MS in late 90s - maybe good for you cash-wise, and that's pretty much it.
In the case of a bounty hunter, they are typically pursuing bail jumpers who have signed away such rights to the bail bondholder.
DRM never really works.

The best implemented DRM makes it hardly any more inconvenient for people to use it, and people accept it most of the time, Steam for example. It always puts some people off, who end up pirating it when they wouldn't otherwise have, though.

Even the best DRM is always cracked by those that want to. There is no DRM system that has ever been created that will not be defeated, because it is trying to achieve the impossible. You have to give legal consumers access to the content to consume it, so they always have access to copy it. It will never work. If DRM didn't exist, piracy would be a lot less common.

Most people stopped pirating music when it became easily available without DRM.

Ultimately, all DRM gets cracked, and this is the only real response to it.

Annoyingly, DRM only doesn't hit sales harder because it is defeated. If it was impossible to defeat a particular piece of DRM, it would harm sales of content using it much more, but the harm to the content sellers is limited by the fact that it is always cracked early on and made available to consumers they have cut off. For example, I have a Netflix subscription, which I use in an otherwise open source browser, using the widevine plugin ripped out of Chrome. If this wasn't relatively easy, I would just not use Netflix. Netflix is only getting money from me because the DRM they use is easy to defeat illegally. If the DRM worked, I'd stop paying for Netflix, because I wouldn't be able to use it and it'd be much easier to watch the same content by downloading it from Usenet.
I have lost all sympathy for the big media industry. Pirate it all. Paying you just gives me a worse experience and you more power to make things worse.

It's a lose-lose-lose proposition.
This idea is quite popular in distributed / cloud systems nowadays, and there are tons of open source projects.

Every cloud vendor has a product that does it (AWS X-Ray, Google Stackdriver Trace, etc), and there are plenty of open source products (Jaeger, OpenTracing), as well as third party vendors (we're using Datadog ourselves).

Having said that, I completely agree with this being very important, and it is the backbone of our ability to debug issues. I would add that it is important to have the ability to correlate things as well, specifically your logs and traces ("give me all the logs that relate to this trace X").
How is this even implemented safely?

The passwords have to be forwarded over to the email provider, so they are flying around log files, unsafe in the database. There's actually a programmer somewhere who can read all of them and put them in a text file and take them home.
Because writing uses thinking processes while donating uses emotional processes. It’s easy to see that what we know intellectually (cigarettes are bad) does not necessarily translate into what we actually do.
That is a particularly good video of Leclerc's lap. I love that the telematics on his steering wheel are visible as well, and you can get a real sense of the speed and the gear changes needed.
And progress for the sake of progress isn't necessarily a good thing.

I've seen people fire off the first thing that comes to mind in a text message in a business setting and almost always realize they weren't as precise as they wanted to be and have to attempt to correct themselves with follow on messages. This mistake and ensuing retraction almost always sours the deal.

Edit: addendum (I'm aware I'm doing exactly what I just made a case against)

Mine, and the Court's right now, expectation is that written communication does not need to be immediate. And since you have a chance to think through what you'd like to write, your first message has no reason not to be precise and correct to your intentions.
For context yongfook is one of the origional 'digital nomads' from before people started calling themselves that with a straight face. He did the excellent opensourcefood.com and i suspect he has more of an idea of what makes a good product than the majority of clichéd responses on this thread.
"It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends upon his not understanding it!" -- Upton Sinclair

Quite literally, in this case.
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Not at all, it was pretty common even during the 60 and 70's, e.g. Burroughs and Xerox PARC systems.
Second that. Senna, Prost and Mansell had some major battles.

Always felt kind sorry for Mansell as you felt that he is on the verge of getting World Championship but never really got there on a consistent basis.
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Given the amount of analytics scripts in these pages, someone at these places must care about them.
>While I wish such leader can speak for values like democracy or human rights, it is just not possible to happen.

And I'm very much happy not everyone uses their influence to turn every speech into a political opinion. If I read a Linus piece, I want to read about Linux, software engineering, git, kernels, operating systems, etc. If he started rambling about democracy and human rights, it would only introduce noise for me.
Forgiveness is easier to ask for than permission?
I love to watch history documentaries from reputable sources. granted, might not be as detailed as a book, but then, easier to learn (for me) and I am going to forget the details anyway ;)