skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Considering the way you explained your situation, it doesn't sound like you'd be taking away anything from anyone more deserving. You sound like you need that valuable capacity as well.
Would it be more insane than a self-driving car? Because to me, who knows nearly nothing about planes, it seems like it would be significantly easier to make a self-flying plane than a self-driving car. But obviously if something goes wrong the plane crash would be much worse than the car crash.
The Boeing 737 max 8 software couldn't keep a plane in the sky with an army of pilots fighting to save their own lives.

I wouldn't get in one of these until there are better controls on this kind of software, it's not the same as autopilot.
Today's autopilots are designed to be as simple as possible.

The intention is that a pilot should be able to fully understand the complete autopilot algorithm and understand exactly how it should act in any situation.

Today's autopilot can't handle any emergencies at all, they are designed to disconnect when they detect something weird. They don't even understand aerodynamics.

I don't know where Airbus' new system lies, but if we actually designed a fully autonomous plane using modern traditional AI techniques (so no machine learning or neural networks; Just decision trees, adaptive aerodynamic models and predictions) then it could handle a wide range of emergencies.

It should be able to handle bad weather and engine out emergencies just fine, and should even be able to land in the Hudson River or anywhere else it has detailed maps.

These are all documented flight emergencies that any programmer of a fully autonomous plane would know about and test their software against in simulations.

The main areas where such fully autonomous planes would have issues are avionics failures, misleading sensors, emergency landings in areas with substandard mapping and unexpected aerodynamic failures (beyond what their adaptive aerodynamic model can handle)
I can almost hear all the fragile tooling built around `master` branches in git screaming.
By the time we can prompt large models and it gives us everything we want, then our work is clearly done. Before then, there's still work left.
Have you heard of their infamous How to Build a PC video? The Verge has a very low reputation for a reason.
That's right. Before I went, I spent at least a 18 months hiking trails in Colorado with similar profiles to the one we'd do on the 1 day Inca trail which led to a 2nd day at MP. I also ski a decent amount every year here in CO.

I can say with certainty that it wasn't enough to keep up with our Inca guide or even to tackle the hike with no complaints. While I'm sure it helped considerably to prepare for months ahead of time, I personally feel that there's some other unquantified difference between here and there that makes it just a bit harder. But try it and let me know if it was just a walk in the park. Just don't drink the coca tea the night before you start your hike like I foolishly did.

We also did hyanu piccu, which is absolutely amazing and an additional hike that is like a sprint at the end of a difficult race. It doesn't take long, but at the very least can give you a great carido workout.
Sure, ERISA has led to a series of rules about minimum contributions.

But there are bunch of games corporations can play to reduce or avoid minimum contributions. Principle among them is to fund too much of the plan via contributions of the company's own stock (limited in scope but large enough to underfund the plan). If the underfunding is limited to 90% of the fund's liabilities, it can take 3 years before an increase in funding is required.

But rather than focus on the rules, I prefer to look at the actual on-the-ground situation. Many corporate DB plans are underfunded. It's not enough to say "the rules say they must fund liabilities as they are accrued" when many corporations demonstrably fail to do this.

Anyway, most people recognize that corporate DB plans are more or less over, so the comparison between corporate pension provisioning and public versions is going to get less and less relevant (probably).
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More than 650,000 people have died so far around the world, more than 150,000 people have died in the United States. This is despite a massive economy-rocking effort to "flatten the curve" and an unprecedented-in-100-years effort to mask up and isolate and avoid interacting with other people.

Blaming "media" for any part of this, or for exaggerating its horrors, seems so wrong-headed it's unclear where to begin.

You tout a conspiracy theory even while linking to Snopes demonstrating that said theory is nonsense.

I hope that neither you nor anyone you love ends up fighting for their life again COVID-19. Wear a mask, and stay home.
Yep, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Instrument_landing_system

It does require hardware on the runway though.
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Above 20mph, you’re mostly hearing tire noise as far as I can tell. And I’d say most driving is above 20.

Most people kind of forget about tire noise when purchasing tires. I don’t think most people put much thought in tires ever anyway.
> A company which sells that much software can certainly afford to re-implement an AGPL component; or at least implement a good enough stub implementation to make the software run acceptably.

If you ever work at a software company, you'll understand that you never have enough time to do what you want, and you have to pick and choose the most valuable tasks and go with those. Rewriting perfectly working code is never valuable.
Ask HN: What could be the real world applications of Snowden's revelations?
I was just wondering if someone without the credentials of Snowden told you the applications of mass surveillance would you believe him?
> And the API is barely above exposing the file-format. Nothing like "load this parquet file" into some object which you can then query for it's contents - you're dealing with blocks and sections and other file-format level entities.

Yes, it's just a building block. The easiest way to use Parquet on Java is to use Spark's integration with it, because it provides the query engine for you. But, if I'm not mistaken, it's much bigger than Pandas.

I also strongly dislike the Hadoop coupling (hey, it's called parquet-mr for a reason...), but it's more or less an invisible annoyance if you use Spark in an environment like Amazon EMR.

I think you'll get a lot of confused responses from people if you want to try to build an application that reads Parquet directly. It's the disk format for a bunch of distributed database engines. They'll wonder how you plan on querying it.
Is there any advantage in writing a custom file system for a niche purpose? It seems like most file systems are just different variations of managing where/when files are written simultaneously. Could a file system written specifically for something like PostgreSQL cut out the middle-man and increase performance?
Actually this leads to an interesting point..as far as I know cargo ships are not automated sooner. It seems that it's just as open as the sky...potentially the sea is much less forgiving?
They should be showing videos like this at town hall meetings:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-8nqnOcoLqE

(warning: the intro is very loud)
So was the person who dubbed statistics ML
Cache is King (or at least helpful)
Afaik from talking to pilots, your statement isn't even true, takeoffs and landings are done by a person.
I think most important thing is not which branch name we chose, it's that we all chose completely different ones. I'm going for "principal".
When driven normally (or considerately) the engine noise of a petrol car is barely perceptible above the noise of the tyres on the road. EVs are heavier than petrol cars so will produce even more road noise. Also, in many places EVs will be required to produce an artificial sound in addition to the road noise.

The thing with sound is our perceptible dynamic range is huge. If you live in a city you probably don't think regular car noise is that bad. That's because your noise floor is really, really high. When you're out in the countryside with no wind, a single car is the loudest thing for miles around.
from edmundhuber:

> Airbus's materials (linked) do mention "self-piloting", but I can't imagine that they are thinking of the scale as BusinessInsider is when they write "self-flying". No one's proposing getting rid of pilots, having a computer fly a plane completely would be insanity.
Comparing winter excess death peaks, where government interventions (like lockdowns) didn't occur, with COVID19 peaks doesn't tell you what would have happened without the interventions. You (I think) say the interventions caused the peaks (or maybe that they're no worse than winter flu peaks so govts shouldn't have intervened, you're not clear on your exact view). The experts say the interventions stopped the COVID peaks from being higher. They also reduced flu deaths as a by-product (https://twitter.com/AdamJKucharski/status/128766013743239577...).

> Again, there's just no evidence of anything unusual happening here.

In Switzerland, something unusual certainly happened compared to 2017, namely a peak outside winter flu season (https://www.bfs.admin.ch/bfs/en/home/statistics/health/state...). What caused that, in your view?

In Sweden, where the government stopped short of a full lockdown but messed up care homes by refusing to hospitalise people with COVID19 symptoms (https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-52704836), excess deaths also peaked (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/COVID-19_pandemic_in_Sweden#Ex...). Were the Swedes also panicked into not going to hospital? What did the care home deaths die of?

To return to the question which started the thread, the PHE stats in the UK overestimate by including people who died for other reasons after a positive test, but this effect cannot have caused anything like the error in the statistics that you claim: a back of the envelope calculation based on typical lifespans (http://julesandjames.blogspot.com/2020/07/mountains-and-mole...) gives 20 wrongly-counted deaths per day. If you're claiming that the panic lessened that life expactancy by keeping people out of hospitals, I'd note that even if every single missing cardiac case dropped dead, that's 250 people per day, no where near the 1700 we were seeing at the peak. If PHE continues to count old positive tests now, it will matter, because there are many fewer deaths in total.
I feel you. I'm going through the same thing. I'm an introvert who recently became extrovert and I can't do 90% of the activities that made me an extrovert.

Here's how I'm coping:

1. Reactivated my introvert side with

a) Reading more books

b) Learning to play music

c) Online singing lessons

d) Exercising at home: i) Strength ii) Following through Supple Leopard (book)

2. Going outside once a day for a walk. No exceptions.

3. Chill at the emptiest park on the weekend.

4. Going on a hike during on some weekends.

5. Small talk and saying Hi to random people on the street.

6. Cleaning the house
Probably one benefit is having flights available and running 24/7, human pilots can only fly so many a day
And when there's zero visibility?

ILS presumably - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Instrument_landing_system

So would it not make sense to tie the two systems together in an intelligent way?
Any rough guesses on when that could happen? Weeks, months, or next year? Depending on the plans, I'd consider waiting for a Workers-based solution for an upcoming project instead of working on a Cloud Run based deployment.
Maybe one day we'll have pilots reserved for emergencies, but only on the ground like drone operators. Hotswapping between flights that need corrections as problems occur.

Obviously not going to happen tomorrow and needs more robust communications infrastructure over the deadzones of the planet but it's fun to imagine. I trust machines more than people, unless they're made by Boeing.
Programmable blockchains in context: Ethereum’s future, by Vinay Gupta (2017)
Huh, from reading the article I came to the exact opposite conclusion, the author feels that Hacker News has not decayed as much as reddit and never will as the incentives are different.
I personally hope this won't catch on because some third party library still expect master to be the default branch. When main is used, I have to monkeypatch some script I use to work aroud it.

edit: I fixed the script to use branch [0] instead of branch master (using GitPython).
Or 0, eventually
In An Introduction to Mathematics (1911) Alfred North Whitehead wrote:

By relieving the brain of all unnecessary work, a good notation sets it free to concentrate on more advanced problems, and, in effect, increases the mental power of the race. Before the introduction of the Arabic notation, multiplication was difficult, and the division even of integers called into play the highest mathematical faculties. Probably nothing in the modern world would have more astonished a Greek mathematician than to learn that ... a large proportion of the population of Western Europe could perform the operation of division for the largest numbers. This fact would have seemed to him a sheer impossibility ... Our modern power of easy reckoning with decimal fractions is the almost miraculous result of the gradual discovery of a perfect notation. [...] By the aid of symbolism, we can make transitions in reasoning almost mechanically, by the eye, which otherwise would call into play the higher faculties of the brain. [...] It is a profoundly erroneous truism, repeated by all copy-books and by eminent people when they are making speeches, that we should cultivate the habit of thinking of what we are doing. The precise opposite is the case. Civilisation advances by extending the number of important operations which we can perform without thinking about them. Operations of thought are like cavalry charges in a battle—they are strictly limited in number, they require fresh horses, and must only be made at decisive moments.

John Allen Paulos discusses the power of notation in his book Beyond Numeracy:

A German merchant of the fifteenth century asked an eminent professor where he should send his son for a good business education. The professor responded that German universities would be sufficient to teach the boy addition and subtraction but he would have to go to Italy to learn multiplication and division. Before you smile indulgently, try multiplying or even just adding the Roman numerals CCLXIV, MDCCCIX, DCL, ANDMLXXXI without first translating them.

Numbers may be eternal and invariant, but numerals, the symbols used to represent numbers, are not, and the above anecdote illustrates how easy it is to take for granted the Hindu-Arabic numerals we use today. The history of numeration systems is a long one extending from prehistoric times to the adoption in the Renaissance of our present system. The heroes of the story are the nameless scribes, accountants, priests, and astronomers who discovered the principles of representing numbers systematically.
Not necessarily true. “Your user” is not one person, but potentially many. You may want to store the data in multiple locations to benefit them all.
GDPR is "supposed" to hold companies responsible for breaches and bad access controls. This is a different beast than liability protection for content.
The impression I got was that the call centre/apps were taken down as preventative measure by their own IT dept. It was probably best for a PR standpoint to keep the call centre silent rather than having a defacto-inoperable call centre inundated with calls about the broken service.
That's true, but I don't think GP was referring to those special cases where the risk is to the brain, even though those are the what the linked article of course discusses.

As their parent comment said, any sport that compels you to reach for the extremes of physical human performance carries a risk of injury and wear that's obviously greater than just exercising for health and casual fitness. In most cases that's to something else in your body than your brain.

But that reaching for the limits is also what makes those sports enjoyable to some people, and nothing else might quite equal the experience.
> So you should "just be following orders" if that has a positive impact on you? I hate to Godwin things here, but that's really how your entire comment is coming across...

You came up with a reading that was completely opposite mine. I had thought that the gp referred to the ideals of the pinnacle of proper behavior, not self-gratifying behavior.
...in terms of only the worst case numeral.

Common numerals like II III VII VIII have worse length,
while I IV VI are same,
and V X IX are better.

And factoring in per-digit cost, Roman numerals up to 999 have 5 distinct digits, 46% more cost per digit than base 3, making it worse than base 3 in almost every case, information theoretically.
(You could win some back with a huffman encoding, though)
That seems like a _very bad_ habit to get humans into.
My child goes to a small-ish catholic school and coming up with plans for childcare and other services have been a big focus, at least on a contingency basis as everyone expects that school will not remain open in-person for long. Utilizing PTOs and such have been a big part of that.

It's tough that school districts and municipal gov are all on their own to plan things, and the lack of consistency makes it impossible to collaborate.
Founder here - We recognize that Slack certainly isn't for everyone which is why everything also works in our CLI and also soon by public API. Slack have a great uptime and regularly stay above 99.9% uptime according to their status pages - that said, if you wanted to bypass Slack and still run cloud native workflows using CTO.ai, serverless-ly, we allow you to also do that via CLI or API. This means you could build your own client and just leverage us for inexpensive compute.

Thanks for sharing your feedback!
>"perform normally pilot-flown maneuvers entirely on its own"

It's the non-normal exception cases where pilot expertise is really critical
Still feels like a "strict warning" situation. Again, I can see why they have to do it that way because this was just not previously part of the public interface to a function, but it is now, so there should be some indication that doing this name mixing is, in fact, Now A Problem.

I guess it can just be handled on a static analysis/code-checker kind of level, but the language already has a system for emitting these kind of "code standards" warnings.
I'm certain they paid, that's why they are making ambiguous statements. I hope they prosecute them for this payment. An indirect payment is still a criminal action in my opinion. If the mafia said they'd burn their building down or kill their ceo or whatever, and they paid them off through some abstract indirect transaction it would still be wrong.

This should make them a direct target now, they will pay you off. Among many many reasons allowing payments like this will just encourage these criminals to keep doing this bullshit.
You may be interested in a paper written by the Ceph team: "File Systems Unfit as Distributed Storage Backends: Lessons from 10 Years of Ceph Evolution"

https://www.pdl.cmu.edu/PDL-FTP/Storage/ceph-exp-sosp19.pdf

There are definitely some significant benefits you can get from managing your own storage, rather than using a filesystem.
Fixed headers are better than fixed autoplay ad videos.
Dang, you're right! This is a business I need to get into.
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Along the same vein, I’d love to be able to configure client-side hooks [1] automatically on clone.

[1]: https://git-scm.com/book/en/v2/Customizing-Git-Git-Hooks
Grab a megaphone with the siren sound effect and have some fun with them.
simulators might be good enough to train for most situations, maybe not to the same degree as if the pilot had been flying the whole time.
And yet, the US military has admitted that their own troops have had permanent eye damage done with this weapon. It would be legal suicide to every say that something similar had happened to enemy combatants even if it happened frequently.

The Red Cross still maintains that dazzlers should be banned. The human eye (depending on the person) magnifies light 100,000-500,000 times. The inverse square law means that only minor variations in distance can have large differences in effective light (laser irradiance conforms to this law). Rangefinders aren't perfect and the smaller they are, the harder it is to detect the range accurately. Laser damage happens in just 0.25 seconds, so even a tiny mistake can have catastrophic consequences.

There's a CEO famous for shooting himself and others wearing his brand of flak vest. That doesn't mean it always stops bullets (even in premium environments). It means they're idiots. The same applies here.

https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg21328516-400-should-p...

https://www.longdom.org/open-access/chorioretinal-injury-cau...

https://www.icrc.org/en/doc/resources/documents/misc/57jmcz....
It's not incorrect to say that automated technologies aren't always better than human operators. But that's not the measure we need to use. The question is does the net failure rate increase or decrease? Say the automated technology fails 2x as much in unexpected failure cases, but halves typical failure rates?

Say an airline experiences 100 crashes a year due to unexpected failures, but 1,000 crashes a year due to expected failures (immense crash rates for any real airline, this is just an analogy). Using an automated technology might increase crashes from unexpected failures to 200, but reduce crashes due to expected failures down to 500. This is still a net decrease of 400 crashes. Assuming other things are equal, namely the severity of crashes, this is good outcome.

Of course in practice, we know that people's fears are not rational. Things like shark attacks and nuclear meltdowns scare people in a manner vastly disproportionate from their actual impact. It could be that the public has a lesser reaction to a plane going down with a person at the helm than an automated flight crashing.

Also, I'm not sure how ML or AI relates to this. It's not mentioned in the article, and I'd be surprised if any part of this system makes use of machine learning or AI. At most, maybe parts of the flight control systems are tuned with AI. But even then I'd be surprised if that's the case - computer controlled flight controls has existed since the 1970s.
One example: librsvg was rewritten from C into Rust, gradually, while retaining the C API:

https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/librsvg
https://people.gnome.org/~federico/news-2016-10.html

(I do not necessarily endorse this, as I find the dependency on a Rust compiler of very recent vintage, to be much more annoying than depending on any decent C compiler from the last 7 years or so.)
What data types are available in Arrow?

Avro and Parquet can't really do timestamp with timezone, which is a major pain when processing data from geographically distributed locations.

But if Arrow can do it, then maybe there's hope for Parquet as well.
Is GPT-3 even a computer vision AI model?
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Such a low bar for a policy on retention, and yet one routinely not met. :/
I don't agree with the solution unless we as a society stop putting trust on any digital media but at that point, this is not necessary. Many governments would love to use this tech so they have incentive to stop others from using it and still let people believe in digital evidence by putting half assed solution like the one you proposed.

The cat is out of the bag. Digital media should not be trusted blindly.
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How many people will want to become pilots once flying (jets, fighters, etc.) is fully automated? Will it be difficult to find people to "take over" from the AI pilot in case of an emergency? I suppose you wouldn't need that many since it's unlikely there will be multiple emergencies concurrently.