skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Only limited areas of the USA, as evidenced by my recent trip.

For Tesla chargers, that might be the case, but there are a lot more multi-standard chargers supporting CHAdeMO, CCS1 & 2, etc., than Tesla chargers in the USA. Tesla has the biggest single-owner network, but that doesn't actually put them ahead in infrastructure supporting their cars, because they are the only ones relying on single-owner infrastructure.
I hate it when news outlets and movie production companies focus on individuals and ignore the team effort and dynamic, and it's not because I care about distributing credit. I want them to tell more stories about teams and communities working together to build things, not more lone genius stories.

I get it. I truly do.

But consider the context: This picture of a blackhole is going around along with an iconic picture of a woman with a ton of hard-drives that resembles the iconic picture of Margaret Hamilton with a stack of papers. Put yourself in the shoes of someone who knows little to nothing about this project. What questions do you think people have?

Headlines have to create irresistible questions that lure people in and this one is using the tried and true "Who's this genius?" formula.

Once they've grabbed this casual reader (see headline), they're not going to dive too deep into the project. This isn't serious science journalism, this is a human interest story in the science section.

Why did they pick her? Because she lead the team and was a key figure in conceiving and implementing the algorithm. Because she was already the face, spokesperson and active promoter for this project. Look at her TED talk from 2017.

I get it. Tons of people deserve credit. More importantly, the story of how this team collaborated should be told. But that's not what this profile piece is about.

But let's get serious. You're critiquing the accuracy of a very casual profile piece for average readers. Most of them really don't care what statements are slightly hyperbolic, they just want to understand the gist of the project and her role.
You've articulated the idea underlying a nascent field of research: algorithmic accountability.
Your analogy only makes sense if Buzzfeed stopped using the same practices. If you continue to murder people while shouting "murder is bad" then you might be correct but you're still a hypocrite.
There was also a talk about the low level storage service and the performance isolation work that allows it to mix batch and latency-sensitive traffic on the same drive, but it doesn't seem to have been recorded: http://www.pdl.cmu.edu/SDI/2012/101112.html

Gory details are in the patents, 9781054, 9262093 and 8612990, which I'm not linking directly, because your lawyers might not approve. There's even a follow up, 10257111. It's so new, from two days ago, that Google Patents can't find it, while Justia can.
No added benefits? People don't have to own cars commuting drivers regain hours of their life.
Everyone seems to be tripping over themselves in excitement about these qualcomm SOCs. Qualcomm has a history of being pretty hostile toward everyone, because of that these have a pretty low chance of being used in any kind of device that will be able to run current software for more than a few years.

Meanwhile we have devices based on freescale IMX chips that run GNU/Linux with X11 and whatever else you want (including firefox/iceweasel) right now, they probably just don't have the on board peripherals and connectivity you want.
What about Somerville? I've been there a few times and at least the parts I was in felt more like a small city than the suburbs. Everything was well-connected with mass transit and walking seemed to be a very popular mode of transportation (which it isn't in the 'true' suburbs I've been to).
There will be no Google-comparable response. Amazon and Microsoft are very different companies and cultures compared to Google. Microsoft and Amazon have much smaller, diluted blocks of the culture that spurred the infighting at Google.

If Bezos says they're going forward with it, they're going forward with it. If a couple hundred AWS engineers mutiny, Bezos will gladly show them the door and replace them. That's how it would work at Amazon for better or worse.
Do you think the hiring process at Microsoft somehow selects fewer people with strong political views?

Or perhaps the employees are the same, but the corporate executives and culture encourages or discouraged certain behaviors?
You put up separate lights, where there is a red turn arrow for the cars and a light for the bicycles, just like Europe. It's taken a couple of years for drivers to figure them out, but at this point you almost never see someone turn against them, and when you do, it's usually someone with grey hair and an out of state plate who has no idea what to do.

Another side of this puzzle is that we don't require drivers to update their education or competence on a recurring basis. If we required all drivers to update their education and demonstrate their physical fitness to drive safely every couple of years, this would all go more smoothly.
Occam's razor applies here. Your theory is that she had 1. intended to assassinate Assange, 2. attempted to cover it as a joke and then 3. further covering it up by implying she doesn't remember this statement.

Let me offer you another theory: she's almost certain that she didn't say it, but she couldn't remember every word she's said.

Which theory do you think is more likely?

Now I am not saying you are wrong, but you'd need external evidence to support your theory, until then, Occam's rule apply. If you agree that my theory is more probable but do not like it, then it's possible your current belief is skewed by your prior belief.
The AoA sensor that MCAS uses, as well as the nose pitch monitoring adjustment due to the larger more powerful LEAP engines that causes a pitch up on the nose, is external and in the front [1][2].

> Stall sensors are common, but the MAX is the only 737 to have a blade-like sensor on the exterior of the plane that can automatically pitch the plane down when it detects stall conditions -- without input any input from the crew [2]

Not only is it susceptible to birds but it could be sabotaged as well from the location of it, if I were investigating it I'd check into maintenance/storage/possible sabotage just in case.

Since the nose pitch monitoring system and MCAS use the AoA single sensor it is a single point of failure, it also seems like a security issue.

About the single sensor and single point of failure[2]:

> Boeing's 737 MAX, the model being flown by Indonesia's Lion Air that crashed last October killing all 189 on board, had been criticized for relying on a single sensor to detect the aircraft's angle of attack, according to today's Wall Street Journal. A preliminary investigation by Indonesia's National Transportation Safety Committee (NTSC) blamed the stall prevention system (known as Maneuvering Characteristics Augmentation System, or MCAS) which relied on a the single sensor that provided erroneous data, causing the MCAS to misfire, leading to a series of events that put the plane into a nosedive.

> After the October crash, Boeing began updating the plane's software so multiple sensors would provide data to the stall prevention system, the company said in a statement on Monday.

About the external AoA sensor [1][2]:

> The 737 MAX with its larger engines mounted even more forward needed a separate sensor to sense stall, the nose up attitude of a plane that turns off aerodynamic lift over the wings. Stall sensors are common, but the MAX is the only 737 to have a blade-like sensor on the exterior of the plane that can automatically pitch the plane down when it detects stall conditions -- without input any input from the crew --according to Seattle Times veteran aerospace reporter, Dominic Gates, who is close to Renton, Washington where the 737 MAX is assembled.

> According to the preliminary report from Indonesia's NTSC and in a Boeing service bulletin, Lion Air flight 610 was providing erroneous data from a angle of attack (AOA) sensor. It appears the crew may have been fighting against: bad sensor data, a multitude of warnings and an automatic flight control system that seemed to be malfunctioning by automatically pushing the nose of the plane down repeatedly during the 11-minute flight. Ground control was contacted numerous times by the crew, who were repeatedly requesting permission to return to the airport.

[1] https://i.imgur.com/XTrf6EX.jpg

[2] https://www.engineering.com/ElectronicsDesign/ElectronicsDes...
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You can get from virtually anywhere in the USA to anywhere else in the USA using the supercharger network. The problem is you're expecting to see them on every corner like gas stations, but most people with electric vehicles charge every night. They wake up with a full tank. So they don't need charging stations for day to day use. Just longer road trips. So not as many are needed. They're also often tucked away in a hotel parking lot somewhere that you don't notice unless you're actively trying to find it.
The article isn't great but this paper it links, on applying "catalytic cooperation" to climate change, looks kinda interesting:

https://www.bsg.ox.ac.uk/sites/default/files/2018-09/BSG-WP-...
Maybe so. But if that is indeed the product of a propaganda campaign, it appears to have been pretty unsuccessful since I've seen virtually no discussion of any of this in a mainstream news source. And even on HN and Reddit those topics, while discussed, don't seem to dominate the conversation the way you suggest.
Taking a walk alone down a dark alley in a city at night where a rough looking person in a hoody is approaching you from the opposite direction with their hands in their pockets and happens to be a member of the race that is responsible for 90% of the homicides in that city may be enough to change your mind about stereotypes in the modern world...
Hi. This is Tobi Cofounder of Hubrif. Well, you have a point but honestly, we think building the platform at the earliest stage using the already solid foundation of YouTube would have been a better business sense. This is because we would have saved a ton of our cash on other avenues as to how to grow the platform most especially marketing, instead, we spent all those money on independent cloud storage for the contents.

In the long run, you are right by saying it wasn't a suitable solution but in the short run, it would have worked out fine for us while we figure out our long term strategy. Considering the fact that this was the exact same strategy Irokotv used to become who they are now. They started with a YouTube channel and after gaining enough loyal subscriber base, they then built an independent platform today they are what they are.
I don’t believe the progressive left have more support among common people. They have more support among a small minority of very vocal people on social media which makes their influence seem much larger than it is. I think we’ll see a huge backlash against progressives in the next election cycle.
I feel like I would be a lot more frightened of getting hit by cross traffic (with right-of-way) in the rare case where one mis-judges whether cross traffic exists. I've had enough close calls (or times when I mis-judged whether someone was going to blow a red light/stop sign) when driving a car that I feel like doing rolling stops on a bike is nearly suicidal.
All equipment on the plane has a potential for failure... the question is what systematic design and pilot training is in place to take action in the face of failures.
I bet it'll be more about money than lives. As soon as car insurance is an order of magnitude more expensive when "driving yourself", then we'll have self-driving cars as default!
Next step, it'd probably be userful add support for it to Libvirt.

That way the large amount of cross-platform virt software around - much of which is written to use Libvirt - could interface directly with it. :)
Only in warm climates.

Also good luck carrying your children on your bike.
> Do we know anything about what these hackers accomplished / what effect they had on the election?

Reports of attacks that aren't repelled corrodes trust in the integrity of elections. http://time.com/5510100/risk-limiting-audit-election-securit...
Funniest thing I have read this week...
> 2.5 feet wide

no passenger seat or they all sit behind you in single file?
Thanks Nate. Very helpful content.
I used to think that. It's simple, right? Then i said so on the C++ Slack and got the hell beaten out of me. In modern C++, lvalue and rvalue simply don't mean what they do in other languages. Wild but true.
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.
Also, helium is for all practical purposes a nonrenewable resource. One drone wouldn't use a lot, but a few million refilling every day would put a dent in the world's helium supply.
You can watch the landing here [1] starting in 90min

[1]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HMdUcchBYRA
Most people grew up with cars, in most places in the US (other than big cities like NY, where having a car is a hassle). It is not going to be easy changing their attitude towards pedestrians and cyclists. It is going to be a slow, gradual process.

In a twisted way, many millennials not being able to afford cars (or not wanting to own) might help.
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I run Jive Search so I might be biased: How is DuckDuckGo any more private than Google? They are similarly closed source and just as opaque.
> The data they collected about you is their data.

That's my point. I don't think it should be. They can have access to my data to conduct our business transaction, but I disagree with the idea that my information somehow belongs to them just because they had access to it at some point.
SpaceX's goals of creating a Mars colony with millions of people moving there in 20-60 years andreducing most long-distance travel on Earth to ~40 minutes create much wider audiences with huge excitement attached to every move. Also, Elon Musk is a celebrity and drives a lot of SpaceX interest.

Israel's SpaceIL is much smaller, has much more constrained focus and draws a smaller crowd due to the less-epic plans and less-known personalities. Not to take away from their accomplishments - I love this news story - but are lots of reasons that this is less-publicized as compared to SpaceX launches.

We all know that each successful SpaceX activity gets us closer to a Mars colony and that is super duper exciting.
I don’t get anxiety from cities. I love cities. Your experience is common but not universal.
Not saying this idea is worth the complexity (sounds over-engineered), but I am pretty sure you could make like a 1"x2" can of compressed helium attached to a 3' balloon with a simple valve to pop open and inflate the balloon. Think of those little air cans that you use for refilling bike tires on the go. Only weigh a few grams, holds a lot of air.
"The US does it, therefore it's OK when China does too"
You seem to have a pretty high level of knowledge of avionics. Do I remember correctly that you worked in the field? If so, do you have any idea of what the allowable range of an AoA sensor might be?

i.e., on some systems I've worked on, we had a range that a sensor was expected to be in (normal, just do regular control loop), an outer range that was unlikely (stop reporting for a while/hold control output constant to see if it gets better or worse before warning operator), and a narrower range that was flat out impossible (notify operator of sensor failure/put system into a graceful shutdown).

I assume that the engineers designing this system had something similar, but given that MCAS activated with an AoA indication of 80 degrees (IIRC) and that's essentially impossible on a 737 (or at least would correlate with a hell of a lot of other warnings), was there anything they could do to warn the operator (pilot) that there was likely a bad sensor input?
So. Fucking. What.
The main attraction is that automation will make car ownership non-sensible. Even right now, taking a cab every single time is economically at break-even or better for many urban dwellers. If you take out the driver, then cabs can be much cheaper.

Second, what you call "freedom", is called a "chore" by a good chunk of the population. I can't wait to not touch another steering wheel ever.
Perfect for an non-handicapped person responsible only for themselves!
THIS * 1000
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...which doesn't invalidate the argument.

A charge of hypocrisy is a straight-up ad hominem. It might make you mistrust the person making the argument, but it doesn't say anything about the facts.
> MCAS is only required to maintain a positive slope to AoA - stick force curve.

You and other keeps parroting this line, I don't believe it to be true. MCAS is an anti-stall device, show me once source that says otherwise.

> Not because the aircraft is impossible to fly without it.

Not impossible, but possibly also not safe. The system was implemented to prevent stalls in the MAX 8 planes due to it's flight characteristics.
This is soft paywalled (you get few articles a month) so you are sharing text that is not freely available
Because they have fundamentally different ideas for how much control those institutions should have over individual people. The far left (assuming communism here, which is the historical far left, though "far left" in America today is somewhat more tame) believes that all citizens should have an equitable distribution of resources, and that it's justified to compel people to work to achieve this equality. The libertarian philosophy is that people should not be compelled to do anything. One of these necessarily involves the exercise of more power by institutions.

You could look at it through the lens of positive vs. negative rights. The far left believes in positive rights (eg. the right to health care, the right to education) which require action by another party. If no party is willing to provide those services, the only way to guarantee that right is to force someone. Libertarians believe in negative rights (eg. freedom from violence, freedom from compulsion, freedom from taxation), which just require inaction. If you simply get rid of the institution, you assure the rights that libertarians care about - at least until some other institution crops up that seeks to infringe upon them. (Many libertarians make exceptions to their general anti-institutional bent to assure that no other institution crops up. For example, most support the government's monopoly on physical force simply to prevent some warlord from generating a local monopoly on physical force and using it to take away the freedoms from compulsion or theft, as long as that's the only purpose that it's used for.)
Did something like that: An organization with some boats, quite a lot of boats, some that might be involved in global nuclear war, maybe limited to sea, wanted to know how long some of the boats might survive. The ocean had Red and Blue boats and airplanes, and the Reds and Blues were looking for each other and trying to kill each other.

So, the state of the system was the remaining Red/Blue inventories.

Some work by Koopmans showed that the encounter rates were a Poisson process. So, the time to the next encounter had exponential distribution, depending on the current state.

At an encounter, depending on the types, could have the Red die, the Blue die, both die, or neither die. Then after the encounter, the state of the system changed. So, the state of the system was a continuous time, discrete state space Markov process subordinated to a Poisson process. That is, in part, a Markov chain.

Yes, there is a closed form solution, but the combinatorial explosion of the discrete state space size meant that a direct attack via the closed form solution was not reasonable.

But it was easy enough to do Monte-Carlo, that is, generate a few hundred sample paths and average those, get confidence intervals, etc. While in grad school working on operations research I did that. While the state space was enormous, the Monte-Carlo was really fast. On any computer of today, the code would run before could get finger off the mouse button or the Enter key. And running off 1 million sample paths would be feasible. For the random numbers I looked in Knuth's appropriate volume of The Art ... and used

X(n + 1) = X(n) * 5^15 + 1 mod 2^47

programmed in assembler.

Work passed review by famous applied probabilist J. Keilson.

Apparently the work was sold to some intelligence agency. I could guess which one, but then I'd have to ...!
Cool idea but how do I find out more aside from signing up? How does this save me bandwidth? What does using litewait look like?
Yes, but the more important thing is that murder is wrong, not that someone's a hypocrite. Hypocrisy is the most minor of malfeasances.

A smoker who writes a column that smoking is bad is still doing good writing.
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I'm confident that they would appreciate a pull request for your suggested updates. It remains a frequently cited resource for these sorts of discussions; if you feel it no longer reflects the status quo, it's important that you consider being part of the solution.
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Seriously.

Like I give a fuck about China.

LIKE.

I.

GIVE.

A FUCK.

ABOUT CHINA.
MIT says we’re overlooking a near-term solution to diesel trucking emissions
However, if you are able to land a contract or two, you have a lot of money pouring in. Maybe enough to the point where you don't need any further outside funding, or a reduced amount of outside funding. And since the contracts are for 2+ years and you have to really screw up to have it canceled, then you have guaranteed income for years. You can't run it like a consumer startup.
I guess the good news is that when Google inevitably cancels this project the barrier to entry for other companies is not very high.
Yes some anti-vaxers send threats, but the idea that they have managed to silence the mainstream scientific opinion on vaccines is ludicrous.

I don't read what he said that way at all. When one uses force instead of trying to convince, one has admitted to losing the argument.

You are trying to push your own ideological position (more "free speech" is good and will solve the problem) onto an issue, and it doesn't fit what actually happened at all

You're strawmanning here. Free speech is good and did win the argument. Your conceit is that "solving the problem" being the same as "winning the argument" is a false equivalence. Solving the problem is something else entirely.

No one in 2019 publicly defends drunk driving. It still happens. There are southern California communities of explicit white supremacists, but mainstream society shuns them. Those are examples of groups who have thoroughly lost the argument. However, "solving the problem" doesn't mean that the state and industrial complex gets to enforce their will over the populace to the point of creating "thoughtcrime."

I don't want to live in that kind of society. (Tired of having to argue? Looking for a solution which is final?)

I do think that exposing others to pathogens and damaging herd immunity is quantifiable, and we can pass laws around that. It's much preferable to legislate the tangible and physically measurable, instead of creating "thoughtcrime."
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Large enterprise customers can take just as long with an even less transparent process. It's not a particular problem of gov't, it's a problem that comes with size.