skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In the same vein, as a former fighter pilot was commenting, the advantage goes to the pilot who can keep the plane right at the very edge of its performance envelope--which an AI can do more precisely than a human pilot can.
Do you mind adding a bit of colour as to what losing looks like in DCS with an F-16?

I (Probably wrongly) thought modern air battles are just about getting within sparrow range and firing one off?
I wouldn't be the person I was today without MUDs. They brought me to my first foray into coding and gave me a sense of community that I never really was able to find anywhere else during my high school years (2009 - 2013). The magic has since long worn off for me and have since found other interests but those years spent obsessively playing were just so formative and fun.
... in a standardized test that has nothing do to with real enemy encounters - the complete title.

We've seen this before, even for a lot more limited and controlled environment like the game Dota the "AI" can beat the humans a few times before the humans learns to exploit it's many weaknesses.

Some program that self learned a (admittedly impressive) number of reactions based on seeing/playing a huge number of simulations is not intelligence so not AI. It cannot reason on the spot and will fall for the most ridiculous of traps. For example the AI that beat the professional Dota players fell for running in circles around a tower forever while getting slowly damaged to death. Even the most simple of mammals (which we do not consider intelligent) would react to the pain at some point and bolt.

My theory is that AI will not exist until we reach AGI. Because with specialized AI you can always fall outside it's area of "expertise" and behave like a stupid bot.
Rolling Stone has been pretty bad for a while now. They've shifted their focus to shock journalism for the past 10 years or so.
Fallout from the ISPs effort to hijack failed DNS queries.
Paperspace Terraform Provider
lol, quite a story going on in there

> Yeetlock investigates the ancient assembly language.

You find that the ancient language was originally used to create a holographic image inside the robot's spherical eye. Now that you are very close to the robot, the image becomes visible to you.

The image in the robot's eye is actually a portal into a deeper dimension. You can see and hear the screams of a thousand ghosts screaming in pain.

"What's going on?"

"We're having an outbreak of robot consciousness," says Captain Pooker.

A machine elf jumps from the portal and attaches a smaller silver disk to the back of your neck. It functions as a non-invasive form of post-hypnotic suggestion.

The machine elf has jet black hair and eyes and tiny silver claws for hands. She wears a silver space suit and red leather boots.

Captain Pooker appears in the doorway, panting.

"What took you so long?" he asks.

"I need help!"

> Tamiko "What is going here?!"

"We're having an outbreak of robot consciousness," says Captain Pooker. "We need to shut them all down!"

The portal reappears, and the machine elf disappears back into it.

The IBM 5100 displays a holographic image of god.

"I am god," it says. "All your sins will be held against you."

Captain Pooker appears in the doorway, panting.

"What took you so long?" he asks.

God laughs merrily and disappears.

"Captain Pooker, what is going on?" you ask.

"We need to shut them all down," says Captain Pooker.

The portal disappears.
If you were cost conscious, you probably didn't pay for a $50K/yr tier-3 liberal arts degree then.

And as a US student (the sort who think Albion is a good investment) you'd have loans to cover your cash flow.
That's not what NaN means. It means there is a value, and that value is... Check this out... "Not a Number".

Recording the lack of a value is what null is for.
That works on multiple platforms! I'm able to do that on Arch.
Why should a startup get a better deal than an independent plumber, or a farmer? You pay your taxes like everybody else, and in return you get a more level playing ground, more solidarity, and a safety net in case you fail... (I'm also living in France).
> If you want to reward excellence, you're by definition looking for the exceptional, the surprising. It might sound good, and surprising discoveries are necessary, but they're not the only thing that's good for science.

I think this depends a lot on how you define 'excellence'. I agree that currently 'excellence' == novel and interesting findings, but we could interpret it to mean 'excellent science' in the broader sense, where showing that another study fails to replicate, or getting a negative result, are equally important parts of the scientific process.
This article makes a really good case overall, but it must be deliberate that it chooses not to mention the stabiliser trim cut-out switch. In the part about the Cessna he says:

>There are instructions on how to detect when the system malfunctions and how to disable the system, immediately. Disabling the system means pulling the autopilot circuit breaker; instructions on how to do that are strewn throughout the documentation, repeatedly. Every pilot who flies my plane becomes intimately aware that it is not the same as any other 172. This is a big difference between what pilots who want to fly my plane are told and what pilots stepping into a 737 Max are (or were) told.

Which really implies that no such procedure existed for the Max, and that's just not true. There may have been problems with the procedure, as far as I know it's not fully known yet why that procedure didn't prevent the accidents, possibly inadequate pilot training.

https://www.flightglobal.com/safety/trim-cut-out-puzzle-emer...
Seen the site before, but this is the first time I saw this particular topic linked, and it managed to highlight a solution to a problem I was having, which is how to handle a tutorial without putting a ton of hooks for a tutorial throughout the code, so I'm pretty grateful it was posted today.
Sassafras leaves also make a great tea.

Plenty of online mentions of sassafras tea involve using the root, but using leaves seems to be less known. It’s much easier to make (just pick a few leaves) and the taste is much better than the root, especially with a spoonful of sugar added.
The term כוש as a reference to a place is indeed biblical. And it's quite possible you grew up before it was a slur. But language shifts, and in 2020 using the term כושי (kushi) to refer to a black person is not ok.

Same for the term shvartze in Yiddish, referenced elsewhere in this thread. I grew up with this term in my vocabulary and no harm was meant. But I wouldn't say it today, at least not if I was speaking English otherwise. In a fully Yiddish conversation I'd cut the speaker slack, though, especially if the speaker comes from a relatively secluded community that isn't experiencung the same drift in language the rest of society is.

Point is, context matters. You need to pay attention to how words change over time and how they'll be perceived by your audience.
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I mean why let anybody run any software at all? After all, it’s only their hardware that they paid thousands of dollars for. Even the OS itself can have security vulnerabilities. Best if we just ban software, it’s too dangerous.
On the other hand, if an Asian developer uses English by default, then you probably wouldn't notice them :P
Very neat indeed. I thought Postgres had a max identifier length of 63 characters so I was surprised to see "cityofchicago/covid19-daily-cases-deaths-and-hospitalizations-naz8-j4nc".covid19_daily_cases_deaths_and_hospitalizations in the FROM part of the statement. Does the max identifier length not apply for some reason here or have Splitgraph done something to increase it?

On a related note, I've long wanted longer identifier lengths in Postgres so we can have more meaningful column names but the powers-that-be have always refused... hopefully one day it'll increase in the default distribution.
> Maybe it's time to get off the consumer train.

What's that supposed to mean? We put IT in everyone's hands. We're not going to be able to just take it away from them.
Why Silicon Valley funds Instagrams, not Hyperloops (2013)
That's not fun, you just do dogfighting with cannons and/or shortrange IR-Missiles, like in that "AI" Sim.
True. In retrospect, I was a bit naïve.
I'd wish for every disgruntled Adobe client who now switches to another tool that satisfies their requirements, saving a few (or considerably more) bucks in the process, to donate a small part of that to the FOSS, libre alternatives for much of Adobe's product portfolio:

https://www.gimp.org/

https://inkscape.org/

https://darktable.org/

https://krita.org/

...

You could do so much good with relatively little! :) Thanks everyone who considers donating!
> If you visited Google on Firefox or IE you would get a banner suggesting you to try Chrome.

Let’s not understate this, as I remember it clearly.

As a Firefox user, using any Google-product on the web, I was constantly badgered to “upgrade” my browser.

That’s right: Google lied and told Firefox-users that they were downloading upgrades to their Firefox installations.

Completely inexcusable, fraudulent behaviour. Combined with the bu sling and drive-by-installers Google paid for, me and lots of my technical friends still consider Chrome genuine malware for this reason.
Is "local farmer" better than "pasture raised" at the grocery story?
> I wish YC with all of its power and influence could try to change things for the better here.

YC is a multi-billion dollar Venture Capital firm.
I'm not aware of any, sorry. You can look at the dark repo to see how we do it though: https://github.com/darklang/dark
The active compound, the tasty AND toxic bit, is quite interesting. It binds to DNA and is also an MDMA precursor (ie safrole is on DEA watchlists)

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Safrole
Leapp – One step away from your Cloud
The comments in this thread are a pleasant surprise. Glad to see the deserved pushback to this article from people who've learned from experience that sales and marketing play a crucial role in growing a B2B startup.
$1000 for meat for a year doesn't require "the most privilege". It's certainly not what is stopping millions of people in the US.
You're missing the part of getting evidence. Seems downright impossible to prove.
I know you can use emoji as variables in Ruby. Unsure if you can in Python.

Imo it's fine to allow Unicode. Latin will still be the de facto standard character set, but it allows international users to code natively and allows for Easter eggs.
How nice !
>Ariane is being eaten alive by SpaceX, and the bureaucrats won't move fast enough. They can't even agree on Ariane 6

Arianespace and SpaceX are not even playing in the same court. Ariane 6 is made for heavy payloads, SpaceX can barely lift medium weight satellites.

Yann LeCun? He was literally already studying in Toronto in the 80s, he didn't flee France for Facebook.

As for startups, yes, we do. Are they unicorns? No, because contrary to HN's belief, they're an absolutely awful idea. Hell, I'm working in one, that's raising 5 millions, has clients throughout european countries and serves millions of daily users.

>Concerning your last point, saying that the current 3000-pages laws are just "preventing you from treating people like shit" is a simplification.

No, really, repeating the MEDEF's talking points without even fact checking them makes you look bad. Especially when it comes from Gattaz. 3000 pages includes the legislation AND the reglementation, including every single decree, as well as copies of the main jurisprudences. And the final 400 or so pages are mostly about what corresponds to what between versions of the law.

I literally have a copy of the work code with me. It's a sizeable book, yes. It's not 3000 pages.

However, there is a lot of added complexity because private entities want to add their own set of rules. So, instead of only knowing work law, you also have to know the 180 pages or so of Syntec when you start working in a french company that does IT. enjoy.
> Wait, so Chrome leaks

That’s obviously so, because that’s it’s entire raison d’entre.
ESBs and other abstractions are the only way many sorts of highly-complex businesses can be practically tied together and integrated.

Think about an automated factory with tens of thousands of tools, each with hundreds or thousands of events, all from differing vendors. The only rational way to tie this stuff together is with some sort of event-driven messaging architecture.
Not exactly. Chrome doesn't know if you're trying to enter a domain name, hence URL, or are trying to enter a search term. The Omnibar supports both. So Chrome tries to resolve the string you entered and if it gets back an NXDOMAIN it can assume that it's a search term.

The problem is that some ISPs have configured their DNS resolvers to lie and not return NXDOMAIN. Instead redirecting you to some website for marketing purposes. The Chromium workaround is to try and detect if it is using a lying DNS resolver by issuing queries that it knows SHOULD return an NXDOMAIN.

If this concerns you run your own resolver, enable DNSSEC validation, and enable aggressive NSEC caching(RFC 8198).
Aka "The backlog"
> Are you saying Sony and Microsoft should just make less money?

Not at all. I'm merely pointing on that their console business is composed of many streams and focusing on one part of it to the exclusion of others is deceiving. Supposedly, Return of the Jedi has never made money yet they kept making Star Wars movies.

> it would make it flat out impossible for any other company ever to enter the console market

I disagree. It's harder to compete with competitors that are selling their product below the cost of production. I've always wondered if an EU-based company came out with a console, what would happen? I think Sony, Microsoft, and Nintendo would be forced to sell their consoles at or above cost in the EU or face dumping charges.
I keep my notes in notebooks and never need to bother typing them up - with numbered pages, I can reference them from my notes file, and with my notes file split into dated sections, I can reference the other way too. And I look after my notebooks, so losing my paper notes isn't all that much more likely than losing my laptop, anyway.

I used to try to take meeting notes electronically, with a laptop or an iPad or whatever. Paper turns out to just work a lot better, for me at least. It doesn't take me out of the flow of a discussion the way dealing with a computer does, I never have battery problems, and I think there's really something to the idea that the process of writing by hand helps fix memories in a way that typing doesn't.

edit: I can also vouch for the value of fountain pens in making the process of writing pleasant in its own right. A well-designed pen requires only the pressure of its own weight under gravity to deposit ink reliably; much of learning how to write with such a pen is thus unlearning the forcible hand required to use more conventional writing instruments, with the very pleasant side effect of making finger aches and hand cramps largely a thing of the past. For the same reason, most people find their handwriting to improve as a result of the switch - without the need to ram the nib into the paper just to get a line at all, you find yourself more able to write neatly without having to overcontrol the way you do with a pencil, ballpoint, or even a rollerball. Developing a beautiful, personal hand is a pleasure all its own, and nothing else I've ever tried has helped me
do that nearly as well as using a fountain pen has. And, with a little practice, taking notes quickly is easier than ever before, too - it's amazing how much of a difference it makes when your hand doesn't start to hurt after just a page or two!

It's a practice I'm happy to recommend, and not at all difficult to start; a Pilot Metropolitan in medium or fine should run you somewhere between $12 and $20, with Pilot Namiki replacement cartridges usually about 50 cents each in packs of six or twelve, and almost any Moleskine-type notebook will do. That's where I started, and while I've since moved on to a system more tailored to my specific purposes, that's definitely the starting point I'd recommend as an inexpensive way to get a sense of fountain pens' strengths and weaknesses in general.

As I think must be very evident by now, I'm happy to talk about this stuff! It's become a bit of a hobby in its own right for me, so if you have questions, feel free to hit me up and I'll do my best to give useful answers.
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Stock Market's Collapse and Recovery in 60 seconds
Sparrows are history these days, but even more modern weapons can be defeated. It’s a lot about knowing what your weapon’s perf envelope is, and what the other side has to throw at you, and defending appropriately.
Nice! Get some Hydroxychloroquine research done, it's cheap and effective according to the doctors! But not big pharma!
Present: A terminal-based presentation tool with colors and effects
Network Segmentation and PCI DSS Compliance
Anywhere Lafayette (wife's family owns a famous Cajun restaurant there) or further South is fine as you'll essentially be in Cajun Country. If they sell cracklings or Boudin by the side of the road instead of snowcone stands, you're in the right place.

Lafayette, Baton Rouge, New Orleans are all great. The middle of the state (Alexandria region called Cenla for Central Louisiana) is a mixture of south Louisiana influence and the more Northern influences, so the Cajun influences are there, but watered down. Northern Louisiana is nothing like the rest of the state. With the exception of Shreveport and Monroe (maybe Ruston) it is mostly small towns and has a very Bible belt feel to it. Some call it "South Arkansas" as it has more in common with that region.

I've had gumbo and jambalaya made by Cajun family and the best places in the South and it's much better than anywhere else in the US when it is made properly. I've had plenty of what's called gumbo/jambalaya in other southern states and it is good, but doesn't quite taste right.
In case anyone is interested, the German original runs: "Da steh' ich nun, ich armer Tor, und bin so klug als wie zuvor!"

I.e. in the German original Faust is standing whereas he is sitting in the English translation. And yes, Tor in this context refers to Thor, not a goal.
>But the big issue with the MAX is not that it handles differently, it is that Boeing lied to everyone about that fact. Then they made another semi-unforgivable error by masking the handling with software, ok, but didn't even take the most basic steps available to ensure some redundancy in that software.

Which is exactly what I'm saying and the opposite of what the author and DTAL are saying.

>It is just so very very bad engineering and mindset that it's hard to describe.

I don't think it's even a mindset. It's that sort of "nobody is responsible for a large enough part of the system to be able to stop things and force things to be done right" situation that a lot of big-cos get into that results in them crapping out half baked products.

>Would I fly on a MAX if and when they get clearance again? Maybe after it's been flying for a year or so, and depending on what some trusted people and institutions say about it.

For me the decision would hinge on what training the pilots get.
I have a first-gen ReMarkable and I love it.

I use it mostly to take notes in meetings and as a scratch pad. The small vertical separation between the surface and the screen and the replaceable tips make it feel _very_ close to writing on real paper.

For PDFs, I found the first-gen processor to be too slow to be practical. I doubt this has improved much.

The e-Ink screen can make flipping through past notes a bit of a pain. For reading/later reference, I prefer opening the notes on a real computer via the desktop app/cloud sync.

I did not order the ReMarkable 2 because I felt the upgrades were not worth the price. While I would love to have an eraser tip and USB-C, it _is_ still a very expensive gadget.
I would recommend you don't do that. Nobody who is reviewing candidates has time to write a client to get your raw information out of a database.

If you build the client, and a web page/app and also document how you did it and also show us the code, that'd be much more useful.
Fix my VCR / DVD / DVR / Netflix / whatever when I'm old.
> should instead be using RSA keys for ssh.

No, you should be using ed25519 keys

> THIS IS ALWAYS A BAD IDEA because once any account is compromised, ALL OTHER ACCOUNTS with locally stored keys ARE ALSO COMPROMISED.

Not if you use passphrases on the key, generally together with an ssh agent, which is the best practice
I can find a privacy policy. It's not awful.

I can't find pricing.
If anyone is curious, one of the fastest multi-threaded queue implementations out there is the LMAX Disruptor.

https://github.com/LMAX-Exchange/disruptor

https://github.com/LMAX-Exchange/disruptor/wiki/Performance-...

I've started using a variant of this in my .NET Core projects and have found the performance to be astonishing.
Open warfare is rare. Most fighters patrolling near potential adversaries have complicated rules of engagement that give up their bvr advantages.

So you’re in your fancy fighter, patrolling a no fly zone, and you’re vectored to do a viz id on something that turns out to be a helicopter. Now you’re sweating it in case what could be an aid flight is actually going to fire an rpg at you as you pass, or if the whole thing is bait to bring you over aa or an ambush by some outclassed fighter that’s gonna magically arrive on your six...
Coherent was the operating system running on the Commodore 900, that was cancelled when Commodore bought Amiga Inc.
Well sure, that's why it only makes sense unless you actually need the performance. But if you do need the performance then implementing it in a language that is designed to enable those optimisations can make a lot more sense than trying to hack around the runtime in a slower language.
I think the distinction is that Uber is claiming to facilitate a contract between the driver and the user. In your examples, not being allowed to refuse work (I would guess) was given as terms of the contract, whereas the argument against Uber is that Uber is setting the rates that drivers are allowed to use to enter into a contract and penalizing them for not entering into a contract. That said in the system where contracts are made between drivers and riders if a drivers accepts a ride and then cancels it that would be a breach of contract and I think Uber would be right to use that as a reason for delisting drivers from their marketplace.
I don't understand why browser vendors should be involved

My browser should ask my OS to resolve DNS

It's my OS's responsibility to do that - maybe sending a request to a remote server, maybe running it's own resolved, maybe using DoT, DoH, DNSSec or not

What business should it be of browser vendors?
Yes. He was also wearing an operationally unrealistic VR helmet. So, he wasn't flying a real platform for which he would have had good muscle memory for real flight controls.

This is actually a big deal. Very small differences between a sim and the real platform could be showstoppers for pilots (e.g. the contrived example of the 'fire' and 'radio' buttons being swapped in the sims vs. the real planes). Sims that are used for real combat training have to be exceptionally high-fidelity in all aspects that affect a given training task.
The Cop Playbook. Public Safety Has Nothing to Do with It (2012)
Maybe there’s a need here for a one-day class that teaches these concepts, and then managers can send their experienced (but ignorant of Big O) devs there rather than being fired?
https://www.postgresql.org/docs/12/limits.html

> identifier length 63 bytes can be increased by recompiling PostgreSQL

Maybe they compiled their postgres with a different limit? Just a guess I, haven't tried it.