skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have a personal theory (based on the graphs from the reports from both crashes) that once the stabilisers go far enough out of trim at high enough speeds, that the even electric trim motor isn't powerful enough to move the stabiliser.

In both crashes, after repeated activations of MCAS has pushed the stabiliser almost fully down, we see the pilots do two quick presses of the trim up button. The graph shows the stabiliser barely moving (much less than a press of the same length earlier in the flight).

I suspect the pilots pressed the trim up button, heard a loud noise from the electric motor straining, or a fuse popping, or something? So they stopped pressing trim up.

Even worse, only trim up was failing, MCAS was still able to command more trim down.
I am well aware that human moderators are currently treated like crap by Big Tech, and that their mental health is suffering as a result. When I say "throw more money at the problem", I mean, hire a lot more of them, and treat them all better.

The alternatives are

1. Algorithms, which always going to fail in human rights type "edge cases" like the ones described in the article, and which really shouldn't be seen as edge cases IMO, or

2. Bury your head in the sand and allow terrible content to exist.

Do you have any better ideas for how to deal with processing traumatic content at scale?
Bloomberg has been making lots of dumb tech articles lately...

This one, "the big hack" fiasco, and another one like 2 weeks ago I can't remember the title of...
I don't think your interpretation of the latter case is quite right. In my understanding, the Archive is willing to disable display of the site content retroactively due to a new robots.txt, but they won't delete that content. It will still be present in their files.
There was no reason to leave GitHub.

People started boycotting GitHub before GitHub even did anything wrong.
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Deleted or not made available?
Kind of like how some countries have Prime Ministers and a President, but all of that is rolled up into one role in the U.S.
Probably because there is no automated translator from WEB? And unlikely there will ever be.
It doesn't need to be monopolized, oligopolized works too. And it's not impossible for a monopoly to care and focus on these things, it's just highly unlikely.
Well, I had to re-install Windows 7 many times due to what I believe is VisualStudio. After many updates it just fills my hard drive with the library redist packages etc. Then things stop working correctly. When I got a new machine for Windows 10 I didnt not install Visual Studio, no more problems so far.
Why the need to add "today", has news ever been any different in that regard?
Rethinking CSS Frameworks with Toucaan
They've recently made the process intentionally more annoying. You used to be able to exclude a site you control via a robots.txt file. That wouldn't actually delete archived content and would merely hide it from viewing. They no longer honor that approach. You now have to send them an email and specifically request content removal.
Not only the transflective LCDs are still LCDs, but the transflective LCDs tend to have most pronounced effects of extreme temperature. On the other hand such effects mostly means that the display looks ugly and updates really slow, but is still somewhat readable.
I will definitely concede that Tesla's cooling is insufficient for track use.

Track mode pre-cools the batteries when you enable it (among other things), which allows you to go for longer, but it only delays the inevitable.

I'm interested to see if the Model S Plaid edition and Roadster 2.0 have better cooling to make them better on a track.
> Why are legal documents recorded in a format that requires expensive software to access?

Because lawyers can afford it, and don't really feel like expending effort evaluating software alternatives instead of just doing their work. And because of legacy/network effects. And because no one has pitched an alternative right for that audience.
It’s barrel processing. A modern example is Intel’s Larrabee; it had 32 4-wide barrel processors, each of which could retire one 16-wide vector instruction, one load or store (fused) instruction, and 0-or-more scalar instructions per cycle.
http://archive.is/ZbJnx
Heaven forbid I ever accidentally click on or get interested in some random talk show video, video roughly about video games or a big media news video. All of my normal engineering, business, programming, guns, history, and mechanics recommendations go right the fuck out the window. For the next week, half my recommendations are just filled with dogshit because of one accidental video. I stopped watching movie trailers because of this too. For some reason if I ever choose to watch a movie trailer, youtube thinks I want to watch makeup tutorials by teenagers. Drives me insane.

YouTube is better off with meta tag recommendations instead of their fancy little AI.
I don't know about bankers and scientists. I do know about the contracts I have with my clients as a freelance web developer. They agree to pay me X for Y service. I perform that service, they pay me. That money is morally and legally mine, by virtue of the fact that the client and I have agreed upon that transaction and nobody else had a say in the matter.

Now, the fact that I need to remit a portion of that money back out to government entities in the form of taxes, as part of living in and doing business in this country, does not change the situation on the ground—I get money from my clients, then I must remit a portion of it to the state and federal tax entities. I wouldn't argue that means "taxation is theft" per se—but to argue that the money was never really mine to begin with is ludicrous.
I think there are two "axes" here:

One is:

- A: a list of functions or similar items, vs

- B: a description of a model, its operations, and terminology

The other is

- X: "the only job is to describe, as clearly and completely as possible", vs

- Y: "a chance to relax and step back"

My reading of the "what nobody tells you" article is that it envisages a reference which is A and X, and an explanation which is B and Y.

I recommend that the reference should be A, B, and X. Having an explanation which is B and Y is a fine thing too.

So basically the bit I don't like in that article is where it says the reference should not attempt to explain basic concepts. Maybe it doesn't need to try to teach concepts, but it very often does need to define them.

(Also, I think rationale fits well in the "describe as clearly and completely as possible" document, especially if you're in a position to separate it a bit from the main text.)
The agreement in MS Word

Consider yourself lucky. There are still legions of legal documents in WordPerfect.
On my end I saw 40 things blocked which must have included both all ads, that cookie accept garbage, and any other nonsense. Ublock origin + firefox 71. Even scrolling seemed to be pretty normal on the normal page although its even nicer with one click to view in reader mode.
I wasn't surprised that they got so many applicants, but I was surprised they got so many quality applicants. I guess it was because it was a remote position with a not too many restrictions about where the candidate had to live, so the applicant pool was much larger.
That would be really great. If Nato had anything to get their forces into space, that is.
Also Computational Photography:
https://www.udacity.com/course/computational-photography--ud...
Gut microbes regulate neurons to help mice forget their fear
This isn't what I'm proposing at all. I do get his points, which are sincerely made, but I have also been thinking about this for decades and put in a lot of time in participation and advocacy at all levels of the political process.

I'm proposing getting rid of legislatures and the whole legislative process and having the legal code publicly accessible for editing by the public. It would be on a blockchain (for verifiability purposes), and there would a derivative graph (for functional evaluation purposes - quite necessary because the whole meaning of a law could be changed by a relatively tiny textual edit like 'you must do X' -> 'you must not do X').

Up to now most network analysis of law has been applied to the legal infrastructure that grows around individual cases and treating legal code itself as axiomatic; consider, rather, analysis of the code's own network properties as tremulously explored in section VI herein: http://digitalcommons.law.umaryland.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?...

The most immediate benefit of fully graphing the constitution/code/cases ecosystem would be the possibility of a serious pruning, to address the problem first pointed out in The Republic of a surfeit of laws that grows to such complexity that it crowds out confident understanding by the citizenry.

We are quite a long way from replacing our existing legislative technology with a publically edited version, but the time to start exploring this is now, given the increasingly precarious state of our institutions and the widening asymmetry between our technological and legislative capacities. Put another way, we are innovating aster than our legal or political systems can keep up, and absent a consensus or voluntary dissensus on the social deployment of such innovation, it is more likely to be weaponized than any other outcome.
We are not mainly talking about the same thing, but on the specific subjet you evocate I actually kind of agree with you, and that was in a way what i meant by stating that security must come with usability. However, I'm not sure about how you can come to your "worse than nothing" conclusion, from a security point of view. Sure if the model let the user authorize nearly anything, they have the power to do it. Sure, if this englob both bening and potentially dangerous modifications, the user can be desensitived. BUT if it still technically achieve its designed purpose, then it is better than nothing in the sense that by nothing, I meant that it would be equivalent as if "yes" was implied all the time. And I find it hard to make the case that mandatory yes all the time and complete lack of access control is better than giving the choice...
> however, it's possible to "entangle" multiple qbits together. The orientation becomes fuzzy. In this fuzzy state is possible to create quantum gates that again do math, but these results become "fuzzy."

The fuzzy results, in my understanding, are a property of quantum mechanics and don't require multiple qubits. A single electron has some probability of spinning up and a complementary probability of spinning down, and until you go ahead and measure the spin, the actual spin value hasn't coalesced to either of those states, instead being some fuzzy intermediate probability spectrum.

Entangling multiple particles means (again, as far as I understand) that their measurements cease to be independent -- if I have several pairs of entangled electrons all with spin of 50% up / 50% down, then I might expect the results of measuring the spin of those pairs to look something like this table:

+/+ 25%
+/- 25%
-/+ 25%
-/- 25%

when in fact, because these are entangled pairs, I will either get

+/+ 50%
+/- 0
-/+ 0
-/- 50%

or

+/+ 0
+/- 50%
-/+ 50%
-/- 0

What am I missing here?
China is full of these stories and it's indeed impressive.

But I also often come to think: It's just the power of never ending supply of cheap, un-unionizable labor [1], with no political self-determination and thus close to zero binding building restrictions nor environmental ones.

[1] of course, in a socialist state there is a union. One, and only one, that is working for the government.
>Some workplaces are really open and support their employees.

Which is why they colluded to suppress wages.
There's a whole story behind that: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ufer_ground

This works most easily if you are pouring a concrete foundation and can incorporate the grounding electrode during the pour.
What you’re describing may have been a recent change that I wasn’t aware of. If so, it’s at least some consolation. We could still do better.
yup.

had a control system installed where the rod was driven into a granite slab and was not sufficient
Again, why would you believe them? Use a couple of brain cells and realize that maybe, just maybe, the things that corporations say aren't exactly true most of the time.
The trading bots work in mysterious ways.
Zen and art of Motorcycle Maintenance is the most readable book on philosophy I've ever read.
Yep, I was at the popup theatre event where the teacher showed up and upgraded his grade!
There are significant technical barriers to what you're describing.

For starters, how do you limit edits to citizens? How do you verify citizenship? How do you handle racing commits? How do you determine "buy-in"? How do you store the data securely? How do you secure the authoritative single repository of all law for your jurisdiction? If distributed, how do you determine the authoritative source? How do you trust change commits coming from external sources such as the other distributed stores of the liki?
+1 gloves
> Borders would work just fine if CBP could only require identification at the border.

No they wouldn't. In many cases it's impossible to put a border checkpoint at the literal border. That's why they're often at choke points in the transportation system near borders.

I think there's a reasonable debate to be had about whether those choke points should be on highways dozens of miles from the literal border. That's not the situation here.

> In fact, I suspect if you were to poll Americans, most probably think that this is already the case. That's why this was an issue to begin with: presumably if the man had known he was going to be detained if he didn't bring his ID, he would have done that.

How people expect border crossings to work has no relevance. The question is what is an "unreasonable" search and seizure under the fourth amendment. The Constitution uses the fuzzy term "unreasonable" precisely because it acknowledges the legitimate need of the government to search and detain people without a warrant. Effectuating the nation's sovereign right to control its borders is one of those reasons. A rigid mechanical rule that only permits searches of people as they cross the literal border cannot be reconciled with the much more--well, reasonable--language the fourth amendment uses.
https://www.indiehackers.com/ is a great source for this sort of question. They provide various filtering mechanisms as well such as revenue, number of employees, business model, location, etc.
The microbiota regulate neuronal function and fear extinction learning
Maybe I should've said not-for-profit.
I've experienced this several times, and it's very frustrating. I know you really can't do anything about it when you purchase with App Store credit, but I'm curious... does anybody have experience with doing a credit card chargeback in such a situation. It would be good to know if that can be a successful means to resolving an issue where Apple puts up unjustified roadblocks.
No one working at Newsweek can tell me why it still exists
I've also heard rumors of things like 4-way SMT. Of course, that's still a ways off (if it ever materializes).
They are, and now this is just an additional thing that's inspected for and dealt with as part of the regular service life. Every plane you've ever flown in has had an unexpectedly high failure rate of some component that wasn't discovered until it was in service, which resulted in a modification to the published inspection/maintenance/replacement routine.
CBP doesn't need "cause" to detain someone at the border. That's the whole point of the border search exception. One of the very first things the framers did in 1789 was to set up a system of searches and seizures at the border that, unlike searches and seizures elsewhere, required no "probable cause."
Man what a career.
The sheer amount of pro-Chinese government moderators on Reddit is absolutely insane. So much dissent being either erased or forced into "megathreads." This is not how we should be reacting to genocide.
Unfortunately the safeguards can also kick in with high altitude balloons which have no speed beyond ambient wind.
"I quite like some of the BMWs."

GRILLs, Grills everywhere!

Yaawwwwhhhrrrrr! Grrrrrrrrr!

Grills == BBQ == Manly!

Sorry, I'm just poking fun. There are so many auto style people that go ga-ga over something that is fundamentally inefficient aerodynamically.

I'd like to note that Fiat and Citroen, based on my rather sparse knowledge, are basically not even bothering with EVs at the moment.
I like your "dream machines" - reminds me of one of mine:

8 stacked cube ThermalTake V1 aka megacube (supposedly they are designed to do this)

best mini-itx mobo in each with highest-end CPU per and max RAM; 7 as netboot, 1 as master

highest-end NVidia GPU in the master, with the remainder filled with the best NVidia TPUs or whatever instead of video cards

fans and lights as needed/wanted

Essentially to end up with one helluva nice TensorFlow box.

I just can't justify the space, power, cost, etc that it would take to build such a beast. It would really be "for show" because it honestly could be made much smaller with probably better cooling and such with a proper case.

I haven't really priced it out - just a dream that will remain so.

Now - on a different level - and something I do intend to try - is what I call my "Poor man's Jetson TX" design:

Basically take a cheap Mini-ITX motherboard, drop a decent CPU in it (something fast with 4-8 cores), put 8-16 gig of RAM in it, then take a NVidia 750 TI SC Mini and mount it horizontally over the CPU and such (use a 1U server cooler for the CPU), using one of those flexible PCIe x16 risers. I've got all the parts to try it.

It would be nice for running models for an embedded system, and costs way less than the real deal. I don't think it's as powerful, but I think it would come close. Nor maybe not as efficient - not sure. But cheap - very cheap.
I wouldn't want a web page having access to local storage or bluetooth either... shrug...
imho was still a fair question, no need to downvote. Not arguing with the index argument, but I've had finance "experts" trying to pull similar tricks on me by using weird years, etc.
And as a potential customer it's important to remember that you're the one paying that $6.7 billion.
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Pretty interesting huh? The qualified expert said no way.

A public citizen said yes way and pushed on the government to make it happen.

Back to ignoring the idea so I can push up the stock price.
One can equally think of the entire code base as a single document

No, you literally can't. They're separate files. A legal agreement is just one document. It makes a world of difference for version tracking.

Also, software has versions. If you have an issue, you can just rollback to a working version. Legal agreements don't have multiple working versions. They just have the one, and you don't get to update it, because if you change it, you have a different agreement that supersedes all old copies, which are now longer worth the paper they're printed or or the bytes that store them.

Sure, you could have needlessly more complicated version tracking for legal documents. But Track Changes in Word works fine, because the legal field doesn't need anything more complicated.
re the rain tax: if that means the mall owner has to open up some of those acres of asphalt to reduce stormwater runoff or landlords end up jackhammering the cement slabs covering the front and backyards (because spraying herbicide a couple times a year is way cheaper/easier than regular gardening service) then I fail to see the problem.
Your giant slabs of cementitious landscaping are contributing to my heat island effect so the tax is a small reminder to rip the unnecessary bits out and plant a couple trees instead.
Wow, this is going to be very helpful for me. I had no idea. Thanks! So if I install git on Windows and do `git diff MyWordDoc.docx` in the command prompt it'll open up Word?
I believe it is less about the tools to pick, but more about building the culture. Especially how to build the knowledge sharing culture among a small group of people at the beginning and spread it across the company.

But still, a good enough tool is a must.

We build knowledge base software Kipwise and have been helping various companies build their knowledge sharing flow.

Our focus is to help customers establish a culture. We start with the managers and seniors, and facilitate them to spread the culture among their own teams step by step.

It takes time.
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> Honestly it only ever worked once for me and that was when I showed the prototype to an audience and they kept me motivated to keep going but I have a feeling this is not the best way to go about it.

To me this seems like the way to go - build a prototype and get it out there as soon as you can. The feedback will keep you motivated, show you if the product is good/useful/needed, and guide you on what direction to go next.
you have done it so its not impossible.

>>the speech processing tool is not plug and play which creates a barrier to the fact that how many people actually end up using them<<

this does not have to be plug and pray, when a copyright holder converts one of thier works to synthesized speech, it is a master product that is distributed through whatever mechanism they choose with a great degree of amplification.
Only one person has to use it and create a portable media container that is in common use then provide it to the user base.

>>Thirdly, there are not many entities that offer this many voice choices based on accent, gender and texture<<

if someone knows how to use the available FOSS tools, what you have done can be replicated or exceeded.
the FOSS is, local, and does not require surrendering intellectual property pre-publication.

>> but the end product will generally seem like a rushed, low-quality , not-so-natural robot narrating your favourite content<< This Is Not True!

>>the task of converting ebook to text on your own<< this is trivial.
Implement web push notifications on iOS devices
Normally you version your events, uplift or convert a stream to a updated version.
It's interesting then, that the new Peugeot 208 range has identical bodywork across the range regardless of whether they have electric, petrol or diesel drivetrains.
Personally, I'm disappointed when a car isn't designed from scratch to take full advantage of the packaging options of an electric drivetrain, but see this as a reasonable compromise for manufacturers at the present time.
Ask HN: What does mid level product manager comp look like in SF?
I'm interviewing with a non-FAANG that gave me a range of $250-$350k per year in SF for a product manager role. Is that average or low? This is with 5+ years of tech experience
From the MLflow Models docs: "An MLflow Model is a standard format for packaging machine learning models that can be used in a variety of downstream tools—for example, real-time serving through a REST API or batch inference on Apache Spark. The format defines a convention that lets you save a model in different “flavors” that can be understood by different downstream tools."

Cortex is what they are referring to as a downstream tool for real-time serving through a REST API. In other words, MLflow helps with model management and packaging, whereas Cortex is a platform for running real-time inference at scale. We are working on supporting more model packaging formats and I think it's a good idea to support the MLflow format as well.
Also french Constitution here: https://github.com/Assemblee-Citoyenne/constitution-francais...
My favorite is that if you turn on "Focus Assist", which is suppose to suppress popups so you can focus, it creates a notification alerting you that you have Focus Assist on. Not just once, but every time you turn on your computer.