skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
First they employed software engineers to put an end to 20 years of unprecedented aviation safety. They fired those guys and now the pilots just drive the plane into objects on the ground, like the good old days.
Then how do the classic driving GPS devices work? I'm thinking here good old TomTom models, mine must have like what, 10 years?

It typically claimed (not using it much lately) to have GPS reception after maybe 20 or 30 seconds since power up.

I believe it cached the position of the GPS satellites, or something similar... could that be it?
> I 'wash' my rice several times before it goes in the rice cooker. I wonder what percent of the arsenic I'm removing.

Very little apparently: https://youtu.be/H_Lui1v2A1M?t=135
Good read. Curious about Elixir. Why would one use this over ‘plain old’ Erlang / OTP apart from the Rubyesque syntax, which might appeal to RoR devs?
I'll offer a contrasting viewpoint - I'm scared to see people propagate opinions like these though I see why people might believe these things. (In no way do I mean any disrespect to you. Power to you for being brave enough to post what may contribute to an interesting discussion.)

For one, these opinions are essentially a list of judgments based on a biased set of observations. There is a difference between making an observation and making a judgement:

For example, perhaps you observe that there are few replies on this thread and therefore judge that people are disinterested. Perhaps you observe China is a rising power and you judge that it is gathering power for the purpose of undermining Western countries. Perhaps you observe that Chinese people have copied a lot of Western ideas and you judge what they are doing to be selfish stealing. Perhaps you observe that China doesn't have due process, free press, etc and therefore judge that Chinese authorities are "happy" to jail people.

These kinds of judgments tend to attribute intention to behaviors. Such judgments aren't falsifiable nor testable, are too narrowly focused, and they put people at risk of committing fundamental attribution errors. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fundamental_attribution_error)

I suspect people who post opinions like these tend to have some less-than-virtuous private psychological desire they want to fulfill. Perhaps they are projecting their own life metaphors onto abstract geopolitical entities - which I think is often silly. Even though we all know China is a country and not a person, people often personify the abstract entity of _the whole of China_ as “wanting” things or having "values" or being "happy to do anything". Perhaps they think life is supposed to be fair and so they frame the actions of countries in terms of fairness. I don’t think it is always correct to think about countries in terms of these metaphors.

Sometimes I also suspect people who have these kinds of opinions to be low-key racist since they are quick to turn observations into more than they are. Perhaps they believe Chinese people are only good at copying people and not making anything original of their own. Perhaps they think Chinese people live in inferior ways and are too inferior to come up with a superior way of living. Perhaps they think it is only natural we should always be drawing negative attention to divergences between what those people do and what we do. I can sympathize with these views but I wonder what the end goal of propagating these views are - is it a war based on an obsession with something related to identity? Or are people calling for help in finding some way to peacefully coexist? Or do people just want to stroke their own ego?

It is no great intellectual achievement to come up with a political narrative. Many narratives aren't falsifiable, some are psychologically driven, bias driven, and many should never be considered politically-actionable. It is one thing to be disinterested and another to be informed yet cautious about jumping to judgment.
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An incredibly short sighted solution to an incredibly complex problem.

Trees have been around for a very, very long time; much longer than we have. Complex evolutionary forces have shaped trees and forests into their current robust configurations.

Trees are intimately connected with their ecosystems, and interact with their surroundings in both known and unknown ways. For example, it has been discovered recently that trees communicate with one another through chemical, hormonal and slow-pulsing electrical signals, including through the air, using pheromones and other scent signals [1][2]

Mother nature is complex. We do not have enough understanding of her complexity, and neither enough computational power to reliably model and subsequently change diverse ecosystems.

[1] https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/the-whispering...

[2] https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01C9116AK
As a symbol of racist misogynist hate of marginalized groups, not a statement against a totalitarian leader. What exactly are you comparing?
What is an application-layer proxy?
SF Planning Commissioners ready to take on single-family zoning?
Yeah, gee. Fake news. I bet you're right.

Me? I'm really worried about fake news.

Fake news is at the root of it all. Fake news killed my dog. Fake news was our downfall. Fake news is what caused all these problems.
You have access to all of libc and Foundation; was this not enough for you?
US next please!
There's no reason to think the human brain learns things using purely statistical methods, and then turn around and try to argue that evolution cannot encode the same information into the structure of a baby using those exact same methods. Humans have lots of instinctual knowledge; geometry, facial recognition; kinesthetics, emotional processing; affinity for symbolic language and culture, just to name a few. What we don't have is knowledge of the specific details needed for socialization and survival.
Companies can win targeting younger versions of the most valuable customer
Like vampires, sucking the soul from your body.
Transmission losses are not negligible, so power generation generally needs to be near people.

If the power could be used to create and concentrate ammonia, much of needed generation could be shifted to farms. Of course farms have other uses for sunlight, so wind is a better choice there.

Generating ammonia with wind power eliminates the problem of intermittent availability. You only produce ammonia when there is power for it.
There used to be this series about "guerilla gardening" where people would throw all kinds of seeds in an urban area and weeks later it would be over-run with beautiful flowers. You could do the same thing to plant trees with a drone and even water them. Throw in some IOT sensors and incentives, and you've got yourself a crap coin for tree drones that might actually help the environment.
Rather eccentric article...

On a related topic - I recall seeing a documentary about two twins of eastern origin that both had freakish long distance running and specifically VO2 max ability. Anyone recall a name by chance?
From where? Takeoff runway is 31L, reportedly from intersection KE, therefore 04L isn't a factor, and it puts rotation around intersection PA. No one is going to be at takeoff power over there and not on a runway. Idle power wouldn't do this.

If there's an uncommanded roll before V1, I'd expect aborted takeoff. So it's more plausible this happened after V1, and before Vr, which means the instigator was present for some distance.
It's 100% the syntax. It appeals to ruby devs and also I think it's a lot easier to grok in general. But you can write Erlang code directly in an Elixir file, you can use Erlang libraries directly in Elixir, and Elixir compiles to the same BEAM instructions that Erlang does, so there's functionally no difference in terms of capabilities or what happens when they run.
I'm confused as to why there would be a sign anywhere near the flight path of an airplane.
> It's not just that the vast majority of Chinese are quite apathetic about politics (though they definitely are)

What? You have a source on this? Last I checked, people were jumping out of buildings to commit suicide so the gov put nets around the bottom. Things may have gotten better, but they are far from the ideal anyone wants to live in. I think the "apathy" you're referring to is actually "resignation" to the fact that they feel they can't do anything about the problem. Their country is dying off, and all they can do is watch. Miserably sad. :..(
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There are lots of niche directories out there - if you consider Reddit wikis, "awesome" lists and so on.

A few of us out there are also working on small directories:

* https://href.cool (mine)

* https://indieseek.xyz

* https://iwebthings.com

The thought is that you can actually navigate a small directory - they don't need to be five levels deep - and a network of these would rival a huge directory, avoid centralization, editor wars, single point of failure.
I bet if I shoot a person I will not be put on paid leave for the duration of investigation.
Many folks seem to prefer Elixir to "Plain old Erlang" because for those who come from an imperative and / or object-oriented background, picking up Erlang means taking on a significantly steeper learning curve.
Curious about how you'd scale with data versioning.

In any type of realtime, high bandwidth feed, I feel like what you're suggesting isn't cost effective for the benefits it provides.

If you need absolute reproducibility and back-testing or your feed is lower bandwidth, it maybe makes sense. But not for larger systems.
well better unicode support too
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I routinely come across coyotes in my neighborhood. Just this past week, I was out walking my dogs at 11AM and had one emerge from the bushes in the middle of a residential neighborhood. It was being harassed by a Blue Jay. It came within about 5 meters of my dogs and I, while we stood off the to the side to let it get past us and head towards the dry creek bed that they use to navigate the area. They're in our neighborhood for the rabbits.
I’d be very cautious as to what from my home directory I’d be ok with going online, even after I died. Much of the material might still have relevance to others, and they might not want it published…
You get used to things working the first time when you use a strongly typed language like Haskell or ML. Still need to test for off-by-one errors and that sort of subtle bug, but it really is true that your program will mostly be error-free. Highly recommend investing some time in such a language if you are able to.
Yes, fascinating. The first one makes sense. My wife does that to me often. Except, in her case, she's trying to help. But more often than not, her advice just ends up distracting me.

For the second one, I gotta say "N=1". Most of the time, "watch this" doesn't turn out so well.
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I love how diverse all of these things are! Very cool.
Worth noting that most of these criticisms also apply to existential types, which are fairly common in functional languages (e.g. Haskell).
> you can absolutely get a nuclear explosion from a reactor, there is some suggestion that Chernobyl might have been a small one in fact (paper)

An explosion that's too weak to even blow apart its own assembly doesn't count.
aiohttp isn't just a client---its also a server library, and framework for creating async applications.

Because of this, its a bit easier to use requests since that's a dedicated client with all the design choices done to suit that use case.

Also the issues are closed because the project hasn't been released yet. It's being developed in the open, but its not ready! Documentation isn't even written for the new features.
Two Factor should have deployed before we hit mass market. It's much easier to fill a vacuum than push technology aside (mike lesk, he did uucp)
The ecosystem is not really mature.
I agree both or all sides engage in self-serving agenda and bad policies. Nobody is perfect.

But it is hard not to see that extreme ideology drives the agenda of one or a few sides, while most sides are willing to compromise with reasonable, evidence-based solutions that the ideologists reject outright. It is irresponsible to say in that case that both sides are being unreasonable - that false equivalence promotes an unhealthy stalemate and gives cover to those who blindly delay progress.
Please see SDS and the Weather Underground, in that case.
Which neighborhood? I'm downtown and I only ever see rats. I've never seen a coyote anywhere in the metro area.
This is human like intelligence as the resulting program can accomplish human like tasks of recognition without the need for context on what these images might mean.

That's a very limited subset of what I mean by "human like intelligence". And within that specific subset, yes, AI/ML can and have achieved "human level" results. But that same ML model can recognize cats in vectors of pixels doesn't know anything about falling down. It's never tripped, stumbled, fallen, skinned it's palms, and felt the pain and seen the blood that results. It's never know the embarrassment of hearing the other AI kids laughing at it for falling, or the shame of having it's AI parent shake it's head and look away after it fell down. It's never been in love with the pretty girl AI (or pretty boy AI) and been had to wonder "did he/she see me fall and bust my ass?"

Now giving a computer program some part of the experience of falling we could do. We could load the AI into a shell of some sort, and pack it with sensors: GPS receiver, accelerometers, ultrasonic distance detectors, cameras, vibration sensors, microphones, barometric pressure sensor, temperature detector, etc., and then shove it off a shelf. Now it would "know" something about what falling actually is. And that's what I mean by the need for experiental learning in a situated / embodied setting.

While it might be possible in principle to get that knowledge into a program in some other way, my suspicion is that it would be prohibitively difficult to the point of being effectively impossible.
I think that's a side effect of the modern expectation that everyone move cross country on a dime if it makes sense economically. Kinda hard to figure out ecological best practices when families can barely stick around for a generation and people constantly move into areas they're just not familiar or comfortable with.

It takes a long time for best practices to become accepted and normal, and there just isn't the geneological inertia to develop that anymore
The West was never a democracy until it suddenly was one. Heads rolled.
New York’s troubled wireless system has become a $900M money pit
We're a small company, and we have a company-wide NAS (which is backuped daily in a local backup server, and a S3 bucket).
In addition to regular index fund investing I trade options sometimes. Been doing it for about 6 months now and I'm up about 90%. I am a lot more conservative than most options gamblers but it's still pretty risky. I put all my gains into high earnings stocks (currently buying STX and LYB) and at this point since I've almost doubled my principal, I could lose basically all my money currently allocated to options and have only lost 10% from my initial investment. I do it somewhat as a way to earn money but mostly for the experience, since I think it helps me learn a lot about how equities are priced and how the market reacts to news and macro events.

Rather than continually making bets just for the sake of making bets I only make trades when I think a stock overreacted to bearish news (meaning it's likely to rebound to its old price given that the business' fundamentals are unaffected), was oversold due to underperformance of other stocks traded alongside it, or is greatly overvalued due to some irrational hype (Lyft and most canadian weed stocks). And I sell quickly if the option loses a lot of its value or if the option greatly appreciates to lock in profits and limit losses.
RIP Joe.
“Marketing is about being ingeniously inefficient.”
I think this may be another one of those swearing-in-church type opinions, but I think C++ is excellent as a compromise here. It's got its faults, but C++ allows use of objects when necessary or helpful without the ridiculously pedantic OO of Java. It is quite nice to be able to use it when convenient while not having to do so when stupid.
From a comment on avherald:

> It is being discussed at American that as the aircraft was at rotation, JFK Ground had cleared a heavy jet into the ramp and he used a great deal of power to get moving. His jetblast, coming from a 90 degree angle to flight 300 on takeoff, is being considered a factor in the roll of the Airbus as it lifted off causing the displacement from the runway and the wingtip drag.

> Powerful taxi thrust could most certainly be an factor. Many years ago I witnessed a DC-10 literally blow a small aircraft up and onto its nose, then onto its back during landing with the thrust of those DC-10 engines powered up while exiting the runway and turning 180 degrees.
Great to see another local tunnel sort of things.

Why is SSL/https not going to be done? Serveo does https. Besides ngrok. I don’t know of any others.
The wood has lots of hydrogen in it that is burned off, leaving most of the carbon.
> If most people in the world wanted "democracy" as it is in the United States, they would have chosen it.

Taking power from a non-democratic leadership is incredibly difficult, risky and almost always violent. And non-democratic leadership very rarely self-democratize. Unfortunately, we don't know if much of the world wants democracy as it's aggressively stamped out in many places and illegal to pursue it.
It's one of many languages where OO is optional.
If I worked on a side business now that wasn’t purely passive income, it would be doing side software gigs involving technology I was already good at. I’m not sacrificing my job (main source of income), my time working out, or my family. The only thing I could realistically give up would be filling in skills gap and learning more.

So instead of in two years being able to command 50% to 100% more as a cloud consultant/architect, I would still only be able to make what I’m making now. I will be spending a lot of time building instead of sharpening my axe.

Even worse, I risk being further behind technically in two or three years and not even being able to find a job in development in the then hot technology.

It’s like the difference between deciding to go to work right out of high school and postponing starting your career and going to college.
> I had the distinct sense that they were experimenting with (what they likely thought of as) voodoo.

Thanks for sharing. I've traveled several times and have sometimes heard people having entire conversations in what sounds like nonsense. You could be on to something here with an association between vacations and people muttering what sounds like nonsense. I've been lucky that none of that nonsense caused me to drop my phone.

Your story does make a lot of sense though. In a world where magic and voodoo exist, it would certainly be used to make sure that tourists drop their phones. I'm wondering if we should avoid vacations or if there's some kind of counter-voodoo that we can learn to defend ourselves. Phones are getting more expensive every year so it's prudent to take some kind of action if we can.
I think there are a few factors that would make this idea unworkable. There are two categories of issues, technical and economic, that prevent this from working. I'll go into more detail about the technical issues.

The top-level problem is fan-out. If you want to fan the query to the top million domains (far too few to match Google's retrieval depth, but enough to demonstrate the issue), you're going to need to implement some sort of multi-level fanout, since just one machine can't send enough HTTP requests -- nor even establish that many connections -- in a reasonable time-frame. There are going to be severe tail latency issues that will prevent you from gathering documents from potentially relevant sites. You will have to make frustrating tradeoffs about when to time-out per domain queries to provide a good user experience. And many more issues besides. All decisions that are unnecessary if you control the index. Also, internet bandwidth isn't cheap, and you're going to need a lot of it just to consume the top ten results from a million sites.

The next technical issue is that the inverted index is only a small part of what goes into information retrieval. Scoring is at least as important. Modern scorers are multi-level, meaning they do one pass over many documents on a simple, correlated representation of the data. Then they do a second pass on a more comprehensive form (i.e. the whole document, and metadata about the document), but over fewer documents. There can even be third and fourth passes. The data for the first pass is often embedded directly into the index, and it would be challenging to come to any kind of agreement among stakeholders about what data should be embedded. This goes double for the second and subsequent passes. Moreover, those second and subsequent passes often use data about the document, rather than data in the document. Data a site owner would be unable to provide or even incentivized to falsify. Not less than these problems is the issue of where to run the scorer code. If you're running it locally, you're operationally 90% of the way to the complexity of an inverted index. Why not go all the way?

Then of course there are the economic issues, which, roughly, are: "Why should I pay all this money to host an index of my site that nobody uses when Google will do it for free and charge me nothing?"
you probably ... middle class or above now, or in upbringing

So now suddenly it's a matter of class not race.

Sounds like a black guy in a suit will have much less problems with the police than a whitie white with a thick gold chain and pants half way down to proudly demonstrate his underwear.
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Western AI researchers partnered with Chinese surveillance firms
> 40 dollars to plant a thousand trees

Presumably these would be some of the cheapest trees to plant. When that space is used up but the first few billion trees, where will the next billion go? How much will that cost?
It's a runway marker sign. They are pretty low, and in the grass, and have breakaway mounts. This sort of thing: https://blog.klm.com/assets/uploads/2015/08/Signs_7.jpg

The aircraft would have been way off center of the runway, with the left wing literally dragging the ground.

JFK runway 31L is 200 feet wide, an A321 has a wingspan of 112 feet. The wings are 12 feet from the ground at the fuselage, and maybe two feet higher than that at the wingtips. The photos[1] show heavy abrasion under the left wingtip, presumably it was dragging the ground.

[1] https://imgur.com/a/rKu8cUC
To add to that video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4LOVLoWqD7E

Btw, the parts pertinent to our discussion in this video is about arsenic and other contamination in rice and other foods.

He also goes on to make observations about dietary changes in populations in East and far East, but knowing what we know about low-carb diets, those bits may be more controversial. He isn't wrong, he just provides a strong opinion without commenting on other methods of eating healthy =)
Discussed at the time: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19424311
Good observation. This makes me think of all the useful content Wikipedia doesn’t link to though.
Do you believe all the advertising?

Why poor people would?
The ad itself is supposed to be a tribute to photo journalists, highlighting the risks they're prepared to take in pursuit of the truth. I can hardly capture in words how incongruent Leica's actions are with their message.