skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>How many decades do we have to suffer through this broken scheme and this technical debt until the right owners realize that they're wasting their time and their resources to push a system that only serves to make it harder for legit clients to consume their contents?

Where did you get the impression that this isn't what they actually want? The goal is control over users, not acquiring non-users (pirates).
This was both helpful and inspiring to read, thank you for sharing.

- after thousands of lines of code, we realized our Edtech startup did not have product market fit,
so we pivoted to building a Mixpanel competitor focused on segmentation*
- 6 product iterations later, nothing was working. We were trying to decide between a group trip
planner and what eventually became Segment. It was a dark time.*

I'm curious.. when validating ideas, when do you know it's time to move on?
Suprised to see this here since YOLO has been out for a while now. Shameless plug, I wrote an article on how to use use transfer learning on your custom dataset with the pretrained weights [1]. One of the downside of YOLO is that it uses his own deep learning library darknet. I find that the Tensorflow port dark flow easier to use but it haven't seen a v3 port yet.

[1] https://www.powu3.com/ml/yolo/
One thing is sure, is that the Snowden leaks really made me realize that countries won't bother with morals to improve national security and advance its capabilities, but in the end, it's just another debate that Machiavel has answers for.

I think that communication technologies, and high speed internet becoming so widespread, created a big new battlefield which is particular because it's not so violent and ugly.

There aren't clear military laws about the internet like there is for other battlefield like the geneva convention, and that's makes all of this so interesting.
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Yea sure, I suppose you could compare typescript to C++ from 1983. That's certainly not the original comparison (or one anyone would assume), though.
What do find ironic about it? It's two entirely different types of discourse, so it's an apples-to-oranges comparison.
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> If you know what's going on, MCAS is quite safe - there are two highly visible switches that kill electric trim completely (thus disengaging MCAS) and allow the pilots to take manual control. Activating these switches is a memory item (i.e. pilots have to memorize the checklist) for runaway trim and would be universal across 737 variants.

> Unfortunately, it appears that both the Lion Air pilots and the Ethiopian Airlines pilots did not recognize that this was a runaway trim issue at all (or until it was too late). If the Ethiopian Airlines disaster turns out to have an identical cause to the Lion Air crash, one has to question why the pilots did not take this simple corrective action.

Not quite:

While the runaway trim checklist is a memory item, the symptoms that pilots train on in simulator presents runaway trim as a continuous event (the "classic" runaway trim being a relay becomes stuck and the trim just extends continuously).

So while they've trained on the correct response to save the plane, they've never actually been exposed to the symptoms that an "MCAS runaway" presents (stick shaker on the AOA too steep side when the plane is patently not in stall combined with speed warnings and an uncommanded nose-down that goes away for several seconds when the stick is pulled back).

The "backs off" part is critical when combined with the speed warning alerts and lack of continuous trim, because this makes the nose down easy to interpret as coming from the 737's speed trim system, which has existed for decades, and the net result is that the combination of symptoms seems to overload/confuse the pilots.

We have, now, at least 3 documented examples of "MCAS runaway" -- the two downed flights, and the prior Lion Air flight in which a deadheading pilot in the jump seat did suggest to cut the automatic trim, but ONLY AFTER several minutes of confusion in the cockpit. And even after disabling it, they re-enabled the auto trim initially and only re-cut it out when symptoms re-occured.

Which all boils down to: The MCAS system is in no way "quite safe". Safety is not a single line of defence, and the fact that at least 3 sets of pilots have struggled to identify the correct response to the MCAS issue indicates that the design of the system is flawed, because no system is safe when its sole and only fallback relies on humans 100% providing the correct response to a never-before-seen set of symptoms.
So from what I’ve read (happy to be corrected) the very odd thing here is apparently all of the 737 MAXs do always have two sensors installed. This was purely a software difference as to whether the AoA disagree option was software enable. This feature cost more money but it seems it exists entirely in software. The indicator is even just drawn on the LCD displays, it’s not a special light on a panel.

This blows my mind and reeks like other product management decisions I’ve faced in my particular industry where someone said “make that a feature we can enable so we can charge for it”. And they did charge more for it. Now everyone will get it free.

Edit: here’s a source for the claim that there’s always two physical AoA sensors installed anyway: https://aviation.stackexchange.com/a/61109
> Considering that Apple is a US company, and that millions of US citizens use Apple products, US intelligence agencies should be securing these devices. Not compromising them.

You're absolutely right! It's unquestionably the job of the US intelligence apparatus to help secure American interests.

With that said, Apple is a multi-national company, with millions of units used by people of all nationalities. And a vast amount of American military superiority is based on superior technical intelligence.

A carrier group can solve, at great expense in blood and treasure, a problem that intelligence can often solve more quickly and at an earlier point in time. With that in mind, it seems reckless to not take seriously the value of intelligence.

Again, you're completely correct in every way. Apple is an American company! It's just perhaps possible that there could be a bit of subtlety to this.
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Would you be able to comment on how Microsoft is allowing these sorts of projects considering I imagine it would cut into Visual Studio (paid version) revenue? I've almost completely switched over to VSCode from Vim+Ctags and it's also converted a few of my Linux using friends over as well. Essentially, how in the world does this fund your team? Not that I'm complaining, but it really does seem like a monumental effort.
See the recent Worldwide Threat Assessment Report [0] page 7, titled "ONLINE INFLUENCE OPERATIONS AND ELECTION INTERFERENCE."

Our adversaries and strategic competitors probably already
are looking to the 2020 US elections as an opportunity to
advance their interests. More broadly, US adversaries and
strategic competitors almost certainly will use online
influence operations to try to weaken democratic
institutions, undermine US alliances and partnerships, and
shape policy outcomes in the United States and elsewhere.

[0] https://www.dni.gov/files/ODNI/documents/2019-ATA-SFR---SSCI...
Maybe look at how Firefox does it? Seems to have no problem downloading and running Widevine on-the-fly (it even sandboxes it).
Regarding browser extensions, the Firefox "webextensions" API is (mostly) compatible with Chromium's, so with relatively little effort you could target both the Firefox and Chromium families of browsers.

Firefox compatibility is valuable because Firefox extensions don't have to be distributed through the Mozilla add-on store (they do need to be signed by AMO, but provided your extension isn't doing anything illegal, that should not be an issue).

Finally, you could try redistributing unbranded Firefox or Chromium with your extension pre-installed. Waterfox (a Firefox fork) can have DRM — it's disabled by default, but it can be switched on — and I don't think they put a great deal of effort into it, so I think that your "version" of Firefox could also easily have DRM. (I have no idea whether the same holds for Chromium.)
Paypal has APIs that support that. Example: https://developer.paypal.com/docs/classic/express-checkout/e...
Got any source on that? Carbon generally isn't released without burning or so I thought. Though, this article seems to suggest that composted wood releases it's carbon which is at odds with what I thought I knew.
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Nobody said the interstate system doesn’t benefit people. I merely pointed out it invalidates the argument that investing in green transportation infrastructure is too costly because “the capital expenditures of doing so would be very large, and its return on investment in terms of direct monetary savings wouldn't materialize for many, many years.”
AFAIK, the 'Look Once' part refers to other systems that re-ran a section of the frame at a time through an object detector, resulting in a lot of reprocessing.

You could still look only once, but have that look include multiple sequential frames. Or do something like an LSTM of frames.
Though I suppose I've gotten accustomed to using double quotes to specify mandatory search terms, perhaps we can get back the `+foo` search syntax that was so unceremoniously taken from us and reappropriated for Google+?
That sounds too usable, how about a one time pad? ;)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One-time_pad
> how Ytterby, Sweden managed to get four (!) elements named after it

Those four elements are yttrium, erbium, terbium, and ytterbium. The short answer as to how a small village could get so many elements named after it is that rare earth elements are so difficult to separate from each other. So the compound that was thought to be yttrium was actually a mixture of several of them. (Cerium provided the other group of rare earths--this eventually resulted in didymium, which was considered an element for a few decades until people realized it was actually a mixture of praseodymium and neodymium). Terbium and erbium were the second and third elements found from yttrium.
I suspect they meant "in the spectral color space".

Claiming that it is no color in general is actually a pet peeve of mine: You're right, of course black is a color, in the right context. Colors are not singularly defined as some point across the spectral scale, where there is indeed no black and white, but can be interpreted through many other common, reasonable, and useful definitions as well.

For example, it is perfectly reasonable to define "color" as a point in a 3-dimensional space, for example as RGB or HSV triples, which are very popular and useful definitions in many contexts. Black, then, is (0,0,0).

You can also define color as an element of a particular set of available colors. If you had a "black" car, and someone asks you what color your car is, would they seriously answer with "my car does not have a color, it is black"? (Even ignoring the fact that that would most likely be a lie according to the physical definition, since the car is most certainly not perfectly black in the physical sense, but then what would you call it?)
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Location: Toronto, Canada at present. Australian citizen

Remote: Yes (I was a remote PM for a large asset manager for the majority of 2018)

Willing to relocate: Yes

Technologies: Hobbyist-level Elixir/Phoenix and Python/Pandas/Django, but you probably aren't hiring me to code! With that said, happy to keep upskilling and contribute

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While not any HQs, Microsoft, Amazon, Google, Facebook and (pretty sure in some form) Apple are all in the greater Boston area and certainly have had an impact on salaries.

As for funding: https://techcrunch.com/2018/08/04/boston-area-startups-are-o...

I don't think Boston is as much as a slouch as you think, in fact it's is pretty well positioned for the long term in regards to overall industry diversity and pretty respectable funding (though not as dominated by software like SF might be)

Salaries are probably lower because overall COL has traditionally been lower here (though housing sure isn't far behind anymore). Most people I know working for the big companies are getting ~$250k total comp (8-10 years exp). Other large, if more under the radar, companies are not too far behind.
> are ceremony for the user, nothing more.

Only a small subset of users would be interested in those sites, and they likely don't come up in searches nearly as much as the original reddit post, so there's much more value to the deletion scripts than you are giving credit for.
A problem of such potential severity should not be happening with anywhere remotely like the frequency we've seen.
No, not mismanagement. Here’s my opinion:

There’s about 40 seconds before the aircraft becomes unrecoverable in these 2 crash scenarios. It’s not pilot error.

It’s design, software, certification subterfuge, lax FAA regulatory posture, and limited pilot awareness and superficial training. Roughly in that order.

Add to that desperation, in that Boeing was keen to catch up with the Airbus 320neo, and didn’t want to build (and certify) an entirely new aircraft.

Plus an extra sensor and related systems most US 737MAX’s have was an option, and at least the Lion Air aircraft didn’t have it.

Demonizing pilots or belittling the training of the LionAir and Ethiopian Air pilots is offensive and not supported by the facts.

This is going to get worse for Boeing. Their only saving grace is that the airlines and military need them too much.

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Saying that something requires training to be operated safely does not mean that it is unsafe. It means that it's a complex system that requires training to operate.

Place a random passenger into the cockpit of a modern commercial airliner without training and ask them to fly the thing safely and you'd probably have a 100% loss rate.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Green_Wall

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sahara_Forest_Project

Have you heard of the great green wall or the Sahara forest project?
The sort of person who grows a company from Show HN -> Series D is a very different sort of person than the sort of person who can join as a C Level exec.
I agree with everything you mention here. There just seems to be a disconnect here:

> Since there is no evidence the problems you are bringing up are actually problems

I didn't bring up any problems. I just said that the things you were claiming were true are not things we actually know to be true.

>In the strict sense of the term, we the public will never know. The same people who built the plane will provide a fix, the same people who certified the plane will do so again, the same people who were flying them will do so again, and we will trust them or we won't.

This is precisely true. Which is why I responded to you by describing the bunch of things we don't know. Chances are this will be fully fixed and we will get a very nice detailed report on how that was done. The actual engineering tradeoff of more inherent stability versus more control is something we don't even know enough to conjecture well about. That's what I responded to in your comment.
This is the single most important reason I still use Evernote. No other app could clip a page like Evernote. Tried OneNote but pages are blurry, not editable and just terrible. Those having issue with clipping try disabling uBlock or similar software. Sometimes it doesn't work I admit. But no other app can clip like Evernote. Maybe someone has other suggestions?? Also, this article is just what I have been thinking all along. I'm worried about Evernote. I like but but I wouldn't trust it with my life...
Great project, but pretty old now.
Just minutes into this thread and people are already talking about turning the _Sahara_ into a forest or constructing continent-sized artificial islands in the ocean in order to plant forests, as if (1) either of these things are remotely possible currently (they are not) and (2) either of these things won't be tremendously energy-intensive to accomplish.

All when the obvious, immediate, and practical solution is to stop releasing so much carbon into the atmosphere.
Adapt Sahara ? It grew by 10% during last century and we can't stop its expansion (thing dunes, tall herbs and things like that to stop it) so I am pretty sure teraforming it isn't an option we have.
>There's nothing "misleading" about averages

Well, the fact that the average of my wealth and a Bill Gates' wealth is dozens of billions of dollars shows why averages are misleading -- and frequently used to give a false image with statistics.

Misleading doesn't necessarily mean mathematically or factually wrong. Something can be totally true, and still give the false impression, and averages do that.

And saying "people should learn statistics" wont change this. Even knowing statistics, the average doesn't tell me much.
> Wrong, the flight preceeding the Lion Air crash had the same issue, and the pilots managed it, by switching off the stab trim system as per the runaway trim checklist.

Which, notably, they did not run right away. The need to run the runaway trim checklist was pure guesswork on the pilot in the jumpseat's part. It took them several minutes of fighting with the controls before they finally killed the trim. They even re-enabled the auto trim after killing it, not initially recognizing that that was what had fixed the issue.

Not even the flight that survived correctly identified the issue initially. This really isn't a case of "see, these other pilots got it right". They got lucky.
> The plantation being cut down and then regrown has 0 net impact, just like trees dying and new trees growing in a forest.

That's logically equivalent to saying your car won't run out of gas because on balance there's always exactly as much fuel going in as being burned. It's missing the point.

The issue here is that a farm "stores" very little carbon, as most of it gets re-released at the end of the season when the crops are harvested and decomposed in some way back into atmospheric carbon. A forest, on the other hand, continues growing for decades as a net carbon sink. All the carbon it absorbs stays in the forsest as biomass (and metabiomass stuff like peat and logs and soil).

A mature forest, effectively, has a much larger "tank" for the carbon that doesn't involve storing it in the atmosphere, where we don't want it. Farms don't.
their automated systems are fine, but their actual service is terrible. anytime you need to do something outside of their "system", it is a complete mess and most of the time a complete dead end.

as an example, in the past year, i have had to return/replace greater than 50% of the books i received from them since the books have ranged from being damaged, torn, or just plain dirty. it may be less than 50%, but there have definitely been windows of time where it's greater than that. this is a MASSIVE inconvenience because although all i have to do to initiate the return is click a button, i also have to handle repacking the books and then physical driving or walking them to a dropoff point, all of which takes an hour round trip. i have contacted amazon multiple times, and i am not even able to get the point across. they see that i returned or exchanged the book, so the problem is solved from their end. when i explain that this wastes so much of my time and effectively negates the amazon prime benefit of one or two day shipping (since once the book ships, arrives, i see it's damaged, initiate return process, wait on new shipping which defaults to two days even for books that shipped in one day in the first place takes about a week), they offer a $5 amazon gift card. there was no escalation process whatsoever or even concern.

just this week, i have had to return two books back to them because both books basically arrived used, with dirty and damaged covers and stained pages. the box is in my car ready to be dropped of at ups. it's to the point that i am beginning to have no reason to shop on amazon for books anymore, and i am even considering canceling prime. i have noticed a marked dropped in quality of the books and packing, and i am also just tired of their terrible website. they were the originator of the online book sales, yet their website remains absolutely horrid for books, especially when it comes to multiple editions, releases, paperback vs hardback, etc.

earlier this week, i came across a product listing that had reviews that were clearly for another product. there is no button to report such instances of reviews. try contacting amazon and see if anything even remotely helpful is done. and that's a case of you trying to help them.

amazon, apple, and google are perfect examples of what you get at "scale": companies that treat customers as replaceable resources that should have interactions minimized. the less these companies have to deal with customers and users, the better, from their perspective.
I would say it’s more like C++/98, e.g. generics are already here (roughly equivalent to C++ templates).
For operations, you're completely correct!

Research, which is what this article appears to be primarily about, the CIA is permitted to conduct domestically.
>Note how heterosexual couples virtually never have to worry about HIV, for example, if you're unfamiliar with this concept.

Yeah, that's not how HIV (or heterosexual couples) work...
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