skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"They will not be allowed to fly over crowds or main roads."

I know this is specific to the current set of guidelines, but if I imagine this service launching in my part of the world I'm unsure how it would even work with this requirement. To go from one side of my city to the other you have to traverse a number of main roads. If you're setting up base stations all over the place to launch from to keep from breaking across main roads I can't see how this solves the distribution problem (though it may solve the "we have to pay humans to deliver packages and takeout food" problem...)
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I wonder if we can't take all these advanced sensors for self-driving and use them to help LEO fairly detect unsafe driving in order to increase mean driver safety.

Ironically the parent was probably technically going over the speed limit, though everyone goes over the speed limit there. Whoever builds automated traffic violation software would need to be very fairhanded in order to not upset the status quo.
System was implemented as cost avoidance.
Why nobody sue this criminal ?
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The former- before the regulations in the 1800's there wasn't even really a concept of 'third-world levels of corruption' as it was universal to every government.
>I think the problem with nuclear energy is the overall number of people who die per incident.

IIRC those numbers are very, very, low. Your village should worry about the dam upstream, not the nuclear power station upwind.
You think Amazon cares? They will happily eat this as a loss-leader. Neither MS or Amazon is fighting over this for a measly $1B a year. They are fighting over this for $100s of Billions of contracts with other parts of the government.
Lane splitting at more than a walking speed is quite dangerous and illegal where I live.
Why would I want to own a "far more expensive" self driving car? I would love to get rid of my car and rely on fully autonomous Uber/Lyft. Even factoring in car rental for travel or moving or whatever I think it would be far cheaper that way. My car is a never ending money pit with insurance, gas, maintenance, registration, tires, it never stops.
I believe a full TLS stack has more scrutiny than your self-built DSA-check.
Do people from the South (that aren't a part of traditionally discriminated groups) get discriminated against actively because of their birthplace? Does Joe Redneck lose jobs because he was born in Georgia rather than California? What do those Southerners say about people like me living in San Francisco, CA?

Not trying to be aggressive, I just want to know why you think the cultural discrimination against white Southerners is equivalent to that against Chinese ethnic groups that are being actively oppressed, or some other group that is being actively oppressed.
>> % change in total volume lifted over time

How do you define volume? Total reps per workout? Total reps x total weight per workout?
I had the same issues in a Tesla. I adjusted the following distance down to dissuade people from jumping in front of me, but that felt even more unsafe. Seemed like there was no good solution.
Sorry to burst your stereotype, I'm getting this from such "alt-rightists" as Greenwald, Maté, Taibbi, Caitlin Johnstone, Jimmy Dore, etc. We don't want Trump reelected; we didn't want him elected in the first place. Unfortunately the self-interested news media have at this point made that inevitable.

I've already donated to Tulsi. Have you?
I've recently read that they often find missing children drowned in outhouses because a huge portion of people in Russia doesn't have access to normal WCs.
The Polestar is not shipping. I had a brand new S90 rental last year, and the software was.. not great.

Tesla's just starting in that mass market segment. The prices are very very close to the ones you cite.
The alternative to prosecutorial discretion is 100% enforcement of all crimes big and small. In either situation, the government would go after these people for their small crimes so the outcome for the targets you're mentioning is the same. Also, Capone was convicted by a jury on evading (in 2019 dollars) millions in taxes, so 'small' is relative only to massive corruption scheme and murdering he wasn't convicted on.
After pushing electrical cars? I don't believe so.

It's too costly
I disagree. For many in the African American (and others) community, the war on Drugs (I'm referring to Marijuana especially), has been just that.

Of course, the US doesn't call them 'camps.'
Chinese have different sensibilities than westerners. It's completely normal and accepted for them. They have a word for self-important westerners who are obsessed with politically correct speech and behavior - baizuo. It's a different world there.
Fascinating to see a comment from one of you guys. Any interesting news/insights?
I remember seeing video of ISIS actively using Google Earth images in order to coordinate their attacks, and they were not the only one in Syria using this Google product.
I don't care what people "would do" in C++ today, because my whole point is that C++ started down this bad path years ago. I'm not criticizing people for writing such code. I'm criticizing the standards-makers who made such hacks (seem) necessary. It's not about having put thought into it either. Lots of people had put plenty of thought into it when the various versions of C++ were standardized. This is about making the right choices from among the alternatives available, and that was not done.

Demanding a solution that is both applicable to C++ as it exists today and yet not in C++ today is demanding two contradictory things. It's demanding that the same thing both did and didn't happen. It's dishonest. You want a suggestion? Adopt "defer" for the next version of C++. It's the best we can do. We can't change the past, but we can learn from it if we don't get stuck trying to excuse past mistakes and attack those who point them out.
I’m not sure how factual reporting on what is in China is invalidated as China bashing because similar phenomena occur elsewhere on the planet? Aka the what aboutism logical fallacy.
I guess you were faster than time itself.. lol. All your challenges are almost non existence today. Our only challenge then was internet speed which is still a challenge Ironically but generally, it's a better environment today even though it's an over-saturated industry.
No - not getting enough bang for the buck at all.

- Price for similar spec PCs is almost 0.5X. 10 years back, one could argue that Macs offered better build quality and reliability, but not in 2019!

- Apple's slow creep into everything I do on my Mac and iPhone is unacceptable. Macs have been secure enough without the recently announced intention from Apple to prevent non-signed apps from running, in upcoming Mac OS releases. No sirre Bob, this is not about security, but greed from Apple to control execution of apps on a computer that I legally wholly own!

- Mac OS quality is consistently declining. From the password bug a year ago, to a string of software issues with High Sierra, it feels like Apple has let it's good down on software.

So no - it's rather buy a premium PC with much better specs and build quality, and run Linux on it, or even Windows 10 with WSL.
China: A Path Less Traveled
That is really an interesting point on sabotage. Will these planes be cleared to take off without the sensor functioning though? I think the sensors failed after take off in these crash cases.
Sending distance commuters underground is the best way to minimize big deadly metal boxes on the road, and thus the best way to make pedestrian use of the streets safer, more convenient, and faster. Transportation planning should be based on minimizing door to door times.

"Without tunnels we'll be in traffic hell forever" - Elon Musk
> work protected by US copyright law.

Only within the US jurisdiction. US law does not superpose or replace the laws of other jurisdictions.
Now if only the Chinese implement quotas, restrictions on speech, affirmative action, diversity initiatives, trigger warnings and identity politics, to protect the discriminated of course, they can look forward to the same harmony, cohesion and mental well being the US currently enjoys.
There certainly are examples of sensors failing or providing conflicting data, and pilots using prescribed backup systems to rely on in order to get home safe.
> Most developers nowadays only develop in and test in Chrome

Fail. I have no sympathy for laziness. If you are getting paid to do this work this is a core responsibility. Worse is that it isn’t hard to get right.
> Google (and to some extent FB, Microsoft and Amazon) is where the danger lies.

You can't point to any single company and blame them for this mess, because the problem is in the interactions /between/ companies. There are hundreds of companies you've never heard of whose entire business is the gathering and merging of data, then trading it with others. This isn't a surveillance state, it's a surveillance market, and that's a much harder thing to track.

Sure, it would be good and valuable to make the Big Names less dangerous. But it's important to understand: if you just cut G, F, A & M out of your life, you won't be much safer. Most of the data about you is being gathered from sources with which you have no easily-manageable relationship.
I'm just amazed by how poorly this was implemented. Software engineers expect hardware to fail. This wasn't just the work of a newb (or I hope it wasn't). This was planned; both the requirements and the failure modes. Then implemented by another team, and the quality verified by another team, even a 3rd party. There wasn't even a cutoff if it started operating outside it's expected range, surely one of those people would have noticed the shortfalls. This software should have the same level of engineering as other systems/ parts of the plane.

Every phone I've had in the last decade has come with GPS (which includes altitude), giros and even magnetic compasses. So they can work out the angle of attack without the need for additional sensors, or at the very least a backup!

Is this a wider issue with software development in general? My guess is that many businesses are moving away from the waterful model, which can often go overboard with planning (not really a problem in aerospace..). To 'Agile', which I don't think many people truly understand (especially some managers), often sidestepping the planning and documentation to software that appears to work fine, and senior management are overjoyed with the progress and become complacent.

This software wasn't even a crucial feature. It was only needed when high power is applied to the engines (like during takeoff) to stop the nose feeling too light by existing 737 pilots. This wasn't a jet-fighter, which would become unstable without the aid of computers. It's a shame 338 died because of what is effectively a 'schoolboy error'.
I grew up on a council estate in a post industrial Northern town.

It's not classism.

I don't want to be rammed into a bus. I like buses that are at capacity, it's relaxing.
AoA vanes not just failed, they failed because of incorrect maintenance procedure.

>One of the contributing causes was incorrect maintenance procedures which allowed water to enter the angle of attack (AOA) sensors. During fuselage rinsing with water before painting, three days before the flight, the AOA sensors were unprotected. As specified in the Structure Repair Manual by Airbus, it is mandatory to fit a protection device on AOA sensors before these tasks.

In this case several failures all happening at the same time cause the crash: software, pilots following protocols and maintenance.
The former. Google the "spoils system."
This is further compounded by how Gov employees are compensated. Gov IT is not a meritocracy with RSUs, so "efficiency" and "performance" are not intrinsic goals.

To truly succeed in Gov contracts, solutions must be aligned with the retirement and pension goals of procurement officials who want to "ride out" long-term projects to the sunset.
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That's a one time cost. If we get the technology working building more self driving cars will be much cheaper than building new trains.
It's okay, the people who turn to the unregulated and unscientific supplement industry weren't ever going to read this anyway.

edit:Can I have feedback about what I have wrong or have misunderstood?
Emigrate to the Netherlands. No, seriously. Vote with your feet.
The worlds first >legal< Fully-Automated Hydroponic Cannabis Home Grow System.

I have been building such systems for years, of all sizes.
fully automated greenhouse ranges or self contained growth chambers.
Its easy stuff, and the plant side of it is easy as well.
The hard part is getting the end user away from misconceptions about culture of plants.
I don't know the statistics for the US, but here in Germany 75% of the accidents between cyclists are cars are caused by the car.
> Wikileaks is reliably anti-institution, regardless of what that institution is.

.. unless the "institution" is Putin's government, of course.
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In terms of the incident itself, we will publish an update shortly. Summary is: an attacker accessed the production infra that runs (link: http://matrix.org) matrix.org, hence the rebuild. Source code & packages are unaffected. We do not think user data was targeted, but are playing it safe.`

Assange and this today. Huh.
They have put more than 1 million Uighur muslims in camps, but go off
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Not sure why you posted something so specific and fairly recent, it was easy to find more data. They could put you in prison for this dox.
One thing that is often not accounted for is car seats. Do you have to bring your own?
One of the faculty at my university has conducted some detailed analysis on the practice of electronic voting in the US.

I believe this is the most up-to-date publication on the subject: https://cse.sc.edu/~buell/Public_Data/2019_VotingMachines.pd...

I would also recommend the documentary "I Voted" (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt4081950/).

These aren't about the 2016 election in particular, but it would seem that there is strong evidence that the security practices in place by many US states are inadequate, and there is often no "paper trail" to verify that results were tallied accurately after the fact if a recount is needed.

Considering the poor security, if the 2016 election was targeted, it is likely that the attacker(s) succeeded.
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Apologies - can't edit the post, sadly, maybe a moderator can?

I haven't heard of these ones before, but excited to check them out, thank you!
It sounds to me like it's a very poorly designed intersection that isn't actually protected, then. I know some intersections like that here in NYC and yeah, they suck (one example being 2nd Ave in Manhattan through midtown at the bridge and tunnel). When there's a reasonable alternate route available I'll tend to take them.
Take a bike on public transportation for longer-distance routes. I don't know what sort of barbaric backwater you live in, but in my bike-friendly city, all the buses and light rail have bike racks, and bike commuters regularly use them for the longer legs.

In a super-dense city like Cambridge, it's even more true. Less need for long travel, more need for bikes in the congested center.
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The 7d cross product is almost certainly not useful for physics. It's not uniquely defined! e_1 x e_2 can equal any of the other basis vectors.

The cross product in physics is the wedge product. (which is also featured in 'geometric algebra', as another commenter mentioned, though I would contend that GA is the wrong approach). It produces area vectors from two vectors, and happily extends to any dimensions. For instance the electromagnetic field tensor is a bivector (F = d_u A_v - d_v A_u) which is basically a 4d curl of the 4-potential A, and has bivectorial components for each (uv) plane in spacetime.
Thankfully I don't live in the USA where asinine things like that would work. Pretty sure there isn't a single school here try and enforce a web filter other than "Let's agree not to visit pages that are not allowed [OK]". I'm hope I'm not naive, maybe just not super-accustomed to the "tHinK oF tHE ChiLDRen"-narrative for pushing filters (or other things) trough.
> In addition to that, making handset UX from scratch has shown to cause a lot of fun bad experiences as seen with the (much more mainstream-appealing) open Linux handset attempts.

At this point I just want X11 back. At least that worked.
It's not like that's going to happen next year or ten years from now.

Insurers like boring, happens at a consistent rate, human error accidents so long as their slice of the population is not making them at an appreciably different rate than the competitors' slices.

Insurers really don't like hard to predict accidents that cause people to max out their collision and medical (which is exactly what would have happened in the Tesla cases had the customer not died) which is exactly the kinds of accidents self driving cars seem to be having.
Agreed. And it's pretty obvious too. If you ever have some serious misgivings about any of these IoT privacy invasions and voice it in a comment, a deluge of comments scolding you for being a Luddite start appearing within seconds.
They might be innaccessible from India without a VPN, but they're not removed from YouTube.
A lot of academic code is also written by students. For instance, I'm working on a project that ends up with code written by 6 masters' students. I'm trying desperately to get them to use Git or some other kind of version control rather than emailing me files, but it's only been partially successful. My last CS class per se was 18 years ago. They don't know (&(^ about programming -- at least I've been paid to do it in a production context in a company that has to make money to justify its existence -- and since they learned C++ first but we're programming in R or Python there are some ridiculous and unnecessary maneuvers and lots of for loops. I try to work through the code with them but I also don't have time for all of it, since I'm also teaching several classes etc. Sometimes it's easier to go with the crap I've got (that I've tested for correctness) than rewrite things.

If people have good resources I could pass to students about standards for Python code, for instance, let me know.
The difference is it's quite blatant and you can do nothing about it like the 996 work schedule. People of one province hate the people from basically any other province, sometimes one part of a province hates another part.
> The difference is that the U.S. is not targeting a regional majority / national minority using advanced technologies, and then placing them into re-education camps as a matter of policy.

Well, at least not overtly.
You can get 99% of the way there with extremely detailed maps. Where the road is, where the lanes are, what the speed limit is, where to find stoplights and rail signals, where to be extra-cautious, how to navigate through a construction zone, all can be pre-programmed.

A Waymo is basically just following a virtual track on an extremely detailed LIDAR map of the area, obsessively watching for pedestrians and following the rules of the road the best it can. It will never think a river is a road.

Not to say that there aren't a million little things to be concerned about with this approach, or that there aren't major things to overcome (like heavy snow on the ground making your LIDAR map useless). But I think we'll get there, and in many places soon. There's nothing that says this tech has to exist everywhere out the gate.
MCAS apparently exists for more than that. A few days ago someone posted a link and some quotes from the FAA regulations on pitch stability. They require that the control force must be positive up to and throughout a stall.

Without MCAS there would be a point on that MAX where you no longer needed positive control force to continue pitching up. Without MCAS or some other system to automatically counter that, so that the pilot needs positive control force to continue pitching up, the plane could not be certified even if they did go for a new type rating.
Hydrogen is lighter than helium, easy to produce, and if you're talking smallish blimp with no people on board, it's not particularly dangerous.
Lots of people will do that. Wikileaks included, probably. It is still the case that DoJ went to extra effort to print out and rescan an electronic file they already had in electronic form. They did that for an obvious reason; this document falls embarrassingly short of even DoJ's already low standards. Most DoJ personnel are not rabid centrist Democrats. The sooner everyone forgets about this tawdry episode, the happier they'll be.
This is the very proposal that my thesis made, which I defended just this week. We even did research in this area, and showed that people find being notified about their risks as helpful and made them more confident in making trust decisions.
If only there were quieter places, out in the countryside, where you could have Really Uninterrupted Relaxing And Leisure - hey, we could even call them that: R.U.R.A.L.
Apple's prices have been increasing while their quality has been decreasing, and both are happening at a rapid pace.

Root password bugs, data loss in APFS, goto fail, etc.... these are all unacceptable issues.

I recently upgraded my iPhone, but I'm going to start thinking about alternatives and planning toward decreasing reliance on the ecosystem.
Strictly speaking, the way the CFAA works is that if files stored on a hard disk are protected by permissions and not actual encryption or anything, and you load that hard drive into another operating system that ignores those permissions, you have accessed things you are not supposed to and in violation of the law. So yes, using a different operating system can be punishable

It's similar to a way the open window or door in your house does not suddenly make stealing all your stuff legal
Their claims about JEDI needing a "next generation cloud" and Amazon being a "legacy cloud" that they'll be tied into is laughable as well.

Oracle hasn't been next generation ANYTHING since the 90s.
Google Now Lets You Use Android Smartphones as Physical Security Keys for 2FA
> What would be the point of self-driving cars which were no safer than the status quo? That's just removing freedom from drivers and adding more complexity to infrastructure for no added benefit.

What?? Safety is a great side dish, not the main course. The point is to free up hundreds of millions of man-hours spent daily focusing on roads.