skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sure, but you get a huge amount of the labor cost reduction just by going from 2 to 1 and probably have a much easier time justifying it. Labor costs are already a pretty small part of air freight costs, for instance, so proportionally, the improvement in total costs (in both absolute and relative-to-total terms) from going to 1 from 2 pilots is about the same as going to 0 from 1.

EDIT: Just to illustrate... a 777 Freighter can fly a 5000 mile route at like 500 miles per hour carrying about 100tons of freight, I think in one shift so you only need a pilot and copilot. That’s 50,000 ton-miles per hour. Air freight revenue is about $1.40 per ton-mile, so in terms of revenue, you’re talking $70,000 per hour. Pilot and co-pilot wages are much lower per flight hour than you’d imagine, around $20-50/hour, so combined, they both contribute about $70 in direct labor costs per hour, so already just on thousandth, or 0.1%, of the revenue from the freight they’re carrying. Even eliminating the pilots doesn’t reduce costs much!

Much bigger difference for smaller and slower regional air freight routes.
Children don't spend inordinate amounts of time learning words. In fact, past the first months, children often learn words from hearing them a single time.
I think you are 100% right here. Wow, thanks so much. This really is amazing. I'm going to begin work on this soon (just need to get some sleep first!)
I see the lack of consistency (diversity) to be a good thing. This is a unique situation, doesn't it make sense to try many things and then converge on what works?

Education has been mostly unchanged over the last 100+ years, it's probably time to try some new ideas.
There are already automated trains in Paris (one metro line), and I can think of several places in Japan with automated train lines as well (not the main ones). It's already proven technology.
We already have satellite communications for media and voice, but iirc they have fairly limited bandwidth constraints. I think figuring out a way to get the flight recorder data to operators in realtime would be the first problem to solve, and I don't think it's been done yet for commercial flights.

There was a startup around like 5-6 years ago (gone now, can't find any info on them, their name was "Flamingo" something or other) that had a proof of concept solution but they burned out quickly.
A bicycle is louder than a Tesla Model 3 at low speed, so that doesn't make it a pressing issue.
Make sure you're not blocking cookies - if you have cookies blocked, you'll get that error.

(Not that I agree that you should need to allow cookies to watch a video, but that seems to be the reality of the internet right now).
A Lesson in Timing Attacks (Or, Don’t Use MessageDigest.isEquals) (2009)
I think it would be more accurate to say that a small urban class was fairly westernised.

Sometimes, such a class starts a trend, and everyone follows. IMO it helps a lot if there's real economic growth, I mean from useful jobs not from oil etc, so that country bumpkins can live out the dream of moving to the city & having nicer things. But it's not a sure thing, sadly.
Wouldn't it be a good idea to "fix" the AGPL in order to make it clearer?

It seems to me that every time there is a discussion around GNU licenses many people have no idea how to interpret them and then decide not to use them out of fear. It does not seem to me that this is in the interest of the GNU project. Why not fix this?
Ring Buffer Logging For Fun And Profit
Intel Reorganizes in Wake of 7nm Woes; Chief Engineering Officer to Depart
Tradition being up to the present, actually, in large parts of the world. (Repeating a comment to another article:) I suspect that people living with family until 20s/30s is likely to be much more common than people here expect, and that not doing so is an anomaly of the current age occurring in only certain cultures, with a possible return to norm in the future.
I don't know, probably not, but to your point about people's fear being irrational, I can see people strongly rejecting the idea of dying to a software glitch they don't understand.
This is for landing without visual contact with the runway (i.e. instrument flight conditions), typically the pilot is still controlling the aircraft, and looking at an instrument that tells him/her how to adjust the controls, although many aircraft can land automatically using these same systems.
Most of the automated railways operate on closed tracks. Many of those even on closed platforms. Here in Germany, my hometown Nuremberg, it runs one of the first underground railways with open platforms and combined with man operated railways. It needs a lot of safety electronics and I know some guys who were responsible for certification after install. (Yeah, I am somehow from the business.)

Don't try to compare closed tracks to open tracks. A closed track is more like an elevator.
I think the awkward thing about ethics courses and training is that they are effectively initial state only in the pipeline. They are to be "overridden" by incentives and selection when possible. It seems to be a "trade" of slower start up time due to inculturation to undo it to unethical standards in exchange for ass covering. Even if they had say yearly ethics course requirements the actual incentives dominate in practice.

You don't solve persistent corruption by ethics courses you do it by removing conflicts of interests, changing incentives, and enforcement. They may not be easy to do, free of costs or even within capability to change.

Ethics could still be useful of course but the institutions need to care about it and the incentives need to be changeable accordingly for it to be more than just a figleaf.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23965787

> you need to be the one to say something

This implies a moral duty to learn rhetoric.
There's patchwork public daycare from age 3+, but mainly only for poverty cases. Daycare costs less than a job though, so you don't really need free day care as long as minimum wage is high enough.
YES! Repeal the private express statutes. There's zero reason USPS should have a government granted monopoly. Allow them to set their own prices too.
We looked into this and spoke to their sales team about it. We could bring our own certs for a single domain, but Cloudflare wouldn't accept traffic from our customer domains unless we purchased SSL for SaaS.
Most accidents are due to human error, so you are taking way more chances by relying on the ability of pilots, statistics wise.
I would love to talk to someone who actually believes in the Chinese Room argument. To me it seems to be ignoring the existence of emergent behavior, and the same argument could prove that a human Chinese speaker doesn't understand Chinese either: his neurons are just reacting to produce answers depending on the input and their current state (e.g. neurotransmitters and action potentials).
But with pickling you can only read the data in Python.
Sure, but

> to detect ebikers (easy to tell from speed vs road grade) and weight their routes more heavily in deciding the best route to recommend.

seems like an anti-pattern that screws over people who don't have e-bikes.

If users can tell us that they're using an e-bike and we give a separate option then both e-bikers and pedalers can have navigation options that work best for the specific use case, rather than shoehorning both into the same option.

We need to stop assuming things using ML and pretend like that's somehow more user-friendly than the user directly telling us what they want. (See: constant griping about how poorly non-verbatim Google search is getting)
Do people generally learn what to say from sensory data? How would the sensory data impact our ability to produce meaningful information?
It’s a configuration change that I believe we can support on a per-user basis today. Encouraged Workers team to follow up here and see if we can get you setup on beta.
Suppose there was a basketball game between Athens and Rome (go Athens!) and you have a 3 digit scoreboard.

You would need 19 base 3 digits and only 15 roman numerals (plus N for zero) in order to represent every number.

In base three, you sometimes have all three digits equal. With roman numerals, you can reuse the same digit in different positions.
> This could make video games take up so much less space and have much more robust speech, especially from NPCs.

Maybe, maybe not. You'll see some of the model sizes I posted in comments above. These are quite large, and adding models for multiple speakers gets quite large. These have to live in memory and probably can't be paged in selectively.

Once we achieve high fidelity multi-speaker embedding models (where multiple speakers are encoded in a singular model), then we'll have something compelling. I imagine the models will become less dense over time as well.

Furthermore, if the models are deterministic, then the designers will know what each line will sound like exactly before it's produced.
> No, companies are not happy to discuss, modify, and sign new contracts every day. They are quite hesitant to.

[citation needed]

> And, what's more, the contracts we're talking about are all basically pro-forma.

I had very custom employment contracts with 2 well-known large tech companies. When asking to remove some clauses and add new ones they did not flinch at the ask and let me have meetings with their lawyers.

I have many other examples but a quick search on the internet can show how many contract-related discussions happen between large companies, suppliers, local governments & so on

Matasano is not the size of a FAANG and similar or maybe it has a small legal team by choice.
This is pretty much what the article is about.
Which is a completely closed track, much like an elevator.
Tangential to this is that calendar/invite spam continues to be an issue as well. Want to trick someone into visiting a URL? Just send them a calendar invite and chances are they will click it.
This is a highly underrated insight to autonomous system design. The use of autonomous systems in dense public spaces will usually be driven by programmatic constraints before technical ones.
It's a selfish motive, sure, but higher in this comment section, people are pointing to California as an example of people depleting groundwater. It's not just something that happens because of drug production, people are often depleting resources to live, especially in places that are less than optimal for human settlements.
I'm saving this to reread again later. Thank you.

Also some comments.
I have managed remote workers, and am current a new remote worker myself.

As a manager (of managers), I think the one on one meetings are the meetings not to skip. Certain not more than once. These are times to check in and get a sense of how people feel. To listen and to support often people just want to complain, or want to hear some praise. I insist on video for these meetings.

As a manager I am interuptable, if my teams needs me I want to be available.

As a manager I try not to interrupt my teams. Just because a question popped into my head, asking in chat will interrupt others, possibly many other, because I have role power and influence.

I like the concept of evergreen comms, but that's a hard reality to realise. Probably easier in small organisation, but in a big enterprise you will still have email, people create price chat rooms, people call each other and are not going to capture the content. Vendors and partners will use different tools. Personally I have WebEx, Zoom, Teams and Google something. I don't have much choice.

Anyway, good job.
Many future opportunities can't be predicted, but having savings is a good hedge for not being able to work for just about any reason.
Do the same thing as you did when cloud services took away all the ops jobs.
Unless a social justice movement prevents it on equity/diversity/inclusion grounds, as has been mooted at my company.
noob question -- what are some of the fundamental differences (may or may not help performance) between thrift and apache arrow?
Latency is probably the bigger issue for aircraft, but Starlink could help there as well.
that probably points them to the right direction. However, would be scared to trust Garmin with any medical or medical related data. This happening is a big no-go
"I forgot my password, please reset it for me."
There's a few one that existed before then. Quite crazy to think that some existed in the 70's, almost half a century ago: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Automated_guideway_transit
Intel Restructuring: Ann Kelleher Takes over 7nm and 5nm Development
Offshore wind in Europe won’t need subsidies much longer
Pashtuns make up the majority of the population of Afghanistan but the government and power has largely been controlled by the Tajiks. Pashtun culture is tribalistic and isolated. It's not wrong to say that it is a society rooted in tradition. It very much is. The westernization of Afghanistan was very much isolated to large cities like Kabul and Kandahar. Most of the country at the time (and still is to this day) smaller tribes of Pashtuns that remain largely isolated from even the happenings of their own government.
Ethan Hawke: give yourself permission to be creative [video]
> Can you give some more info on how you generated the models?

glow-tts and melgan, which are somewhat unpopular choices given the proliferation of Tacotron2/Waveglow. I chose these due to their sparsity and speed.

> I'm also interested in the tech stack you're using to implement this webapp... Would love some details!

It's a Rust microservice architecture. There's a proxy layer that decodes the request and sends it to the appropriate backend, and then there's the tts service that is horizontally scaled and is responsible for loading the model pipeline and turning requests into audio.

> ..What's next?

For me? Voice conversion in the near term. This takes microphone input and turns it into the target speaker's voice.

I'm also spending a lot of time on photogrammetry. I have a 3d volumetric webcam system right now that I have much bigger plans for.
YEs just bundle something with the Domain, like adding $2 per domain while give you $5 of Workers Unbound Credit.
Don't forget planes all file flight plans ahead of time so not only is there more space, but it is relatively easy to check for potential conflicts before flights leave the ground.
What are the drawbacks to automated rail? I had to look this up and was very surprised rail is not automated more in America. Is it safety?
I would be very happy to see automated trains, I often see an immediate jump to tackling the hardest cases in engineering before thinking about simple and efficient solutions. Almost everything about the Japanese rail system is something I want to see in the US
NASA, SpaceX preparing to bring Crew Dragon home this week
Is the most recent commit on this main branch called "HEADCANON"?
Sure it does once you run the original through a PR committee or two.
Nice quotes. The first one is how I think about programming languages as well. We've moved from binary/punchcards, to assembly, to imperative and declarative layers, to OO/functional code that can be statically analyzed, and systems designs that can be automatically verified. There's all sorts of memory management tools from manual allocation and freeing, to garbage collection and reference counting, and optionals to avoid nulls that can be statically checked. Each thing has solved entire classes of problems and we're getting more and more software solving different kinds of problems, faster.
Writing (Re-)Usable Code
Amazing, the nth level effects a superior notation can have in problem solving. The same consequences of a higher-order programming language.
Can Starlink work with a vehicle that is in motion? And at 500 mph? I had assumed that it only worked with a stationary transceiver.
Oh god. I got COMPLETELY derailed by this last month. My girlfriend's son was using my tablet (which is logged on my main Google account) and recently I was being victim of this, and suddenly he asked me "what's a bussy?"

I never logged my account out of an device so fast. Google needs to fix this crap.
Spammers, scammers, and marketers are abusing every possible system to get eyeballs and it's moved beyond frustrating.

I've had to dump phone numbers due to SMS, voicemail, and phone call spam. My spam box on my e-mail address (not hosted at Google, but still) is littered with bogus calendar invites, fake invoices, file sharing attempts, and so on.

I'm a little surprised spammers aren't putting ad messages in fields that get logged in HTTP access logs just so admins will trip over them somehow.
Doesn't this just mean that today the mechanical parts of a plane are pretty reliable?

It's not much of a comparison to flying software that isn't yet in use since there isn't any data to make that comparison.

Am I wrong? Are planes flown today without human intervention?
The 737 max was brought down by a classic autopilot style feature.

I imagine full automation will come to air cargo first and gradually find its way in passenger liners as the public becomes less hysterical.
It sounds like the marketing speak a defense contractor would use to describe something that simple.
The authors of AGPL packages are also not the size of a FAANG! That's the point! If they were, they wouldn't be negotiating AGPL with Google; they'd be negotiating an actual contract.

(I have zero problem with AGPL and happily use it myself for things, but I use it the same way I feel most of my peers use it, as an explicit "no, FAANG, you can't use this code, pay me instead" marker.)
Amazon EC2 Instances based on AWS Graviton2 with local NVMe-based SSD storage
> your arguments are irrelevant since you would have to make them in court

This is simply not the case. Relationship matters a LOT here.

Microsoft's license is not like the GPL/AGPL in that there can be many random parties to it. There's not 10,000 forks of Windows each with a different rights owner who might hop out of the woodwork looking for a quick buck. The only relevant parties to their EULA are you and MS. If you are an enterprise doing existing business with MS (i.e. you aren't already pirating Windows), you simply aren't going to end up in court over some contract technicality taken out of context.

The danger to the AGPL is that there's unclarity in the language AND some rando you don't know and don't do any business with could potentially exploit it.
It is very difficult to convert trains to run fully automated not because of the technology but because of unions that typically run the show. Don’t underestimate the power of the unions. They have decades of experience in getting their way.
The situations that call for a pilot rather than an AI can only be trained for in a simulator.

The (few) hours in a simulator are probably far more valuable in an emergency than the thousands of hours of real flight.
Oh Tabula, how I rooted for thee. Note, the graph is misleading as C-switch pivoted away from FPGAs way before Tabula died.

It is remarkable how difficult it is to establish a new FPGA company. I'd say Achronix seems to be doing well, but even they had to pivot from their origin (async FPGAs)
or a meat
"Russian jet crashed 'because captain couldn't land without autopilot"

https://metro.co.uk/2019/05/16/russian-jet-crashed-captain-c...
Are y'all hiring JS devs at all? I'd love to work for a company with such a great mission.
Elon Musk- Terrified of AI taking over world, most scared of DeepMind AI project
(same profile & problems here)

I started two weeks ago with #2 (a ~10 minutes walk in the morning) and it does seem to have a positive impact (more relaxed while working, less feeling of being "stuck at home").

Concerning #1a I started reading again some books that I already read in the past, but in a different language.

Additionally: cooking. I previouly used to cook just some veeery basic stuff but now I tend to experiment more and raise a little bit the difficulty level (e.g. Tom Kha Gai soup, fish cooked in the owen, etc...) => interesting, and it changes a bit your usual day, and it provides something about which you can talk to other people => nice (but dangerous - always have a plan B available, hehe)
In BART, in the bay area, I believe it is largely because of Unions.
It's a lucky thing that Sir Ulrich Von Liechtenstein was such a cunning champion in both the sword and joust or he might have ended up with all the brains of poor Wat.
The shipping industry is one where it could be extremely helpful, particularly in thwarting pirates. I've always wondered why cargo ships are not drones, full autonomous until it gets within a certain range of its destination.
Unfortunately there has been a prolonged campaign(ennui?) against rail in the US. I imagine lack of funding for innovation in legacy rail systems is to blame here.
>Even if they did pay, wouldn't it still be better to say they were restoring from backups?

Probably because that would be securities fraud? You'd be essentially duping investors into thinking the company is better than it is. eg. if there was a fire in your widget factory and the whole place got destroyed, you can't turn around and tell investors "everything's fine, the fire suppression system worked as intended", because you'd be lying to investors about the state of the company.
Yea. Same here.