skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
during the riots there was some video going around where it was dark and you could here gunshots. the caption of the video said a 12 year old unarmed girl was killed by police. prominent people were spreading it...

it turned out later that it was a 30 year old man who had just murderer someone and had a gun in his hand
A few /thousand/ feet AGL is more than enough time for the autothrottle to recover without the autopilot (or the PF) needing to sacrifice speed to maintain the glideslope (assuming no other systems on the plane were damaged, of course). At even 1000 feet, you're still more than a minute from touchdown, which is enough time for the PNF to recognise the problem and run the engine shutdown checklist.

It would be much more severe if it occurred at, say, 300 feet. Not enough time to fully react, but still far enough from touchdown that sacrificing speed could lead you to a stall before you get it on the ground, or before the autothrottle can respond (on the other engine(s)).
It’s like the Liar Liar scene but with a jet pack.
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It seems crazy we don't have cameras recording at all times on airplanes. Even cars have dashcams.
What you call the slippery slope fallacy is really someone asking for a limiting principle on your argument. Responding like that strongly implies that there isn’t one.
This is one of the few times that I found the rambling anecdote relevant, perhaps because it dealt with a significant historical period.

Two things struck me: the Jewish census and the human smugglers. I would have to look up the origin and intent of the census, but the moral is that the existence of such records put people in peril. As for the smugglers, the lesson is that trusted people can use that information to betray you.

How this relates to the modern world is an open question, but the author goes on to suggest parallels: governments persecuting entire peoples, trusted parties collecting data; and solutions: being able to inspect what our software does.
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I don't believe LoS blocking is really an issue as you approach an airport runway from above...
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..."accepted correction"? What is this, some perverse elementary school?

I've noticed that whenever my friends talk about certain matters, it sounds like they've turned their brains off. They read some book by a self proclaimed expert, and just accept it on face value. And then they talk about how excited they are to be "learning" and "receiving instruction".

If that's what you mean by "accepting correction", it's far closer to "accepting indoctrination". We're all children at school again, we have no capability to reason, and must be taught with rote memorization.
> In 95% of programming activities, the traditional "real computer science (what is "fake" computer science?), algorithms, data structures, number theory, probability" are used surprisingly rarely

Yeah, unfortunately, the cheap webshits use reverse loops because they read in some medium article that comparison to zero is shorted, while repeatedly concatenating strings in an inner loop.

Doesn't help with things like - indexing on utf-8 strings is O(n) and often the compiler/JIT is not able to figure out all necessary loop fusions for you.

Basic algorithms, data structure knowledge is a must for every programmer. I don't say they should know how to prove a treap is 0.yz times more efficient than a skiplist. Now the next part.

> while the elegance of functional/mathematical reasoning ...

There is natural reasoning and there is category theory stuff that only serves to signal the dude has studied some aBsTrAcT mAtHeMaTiCs in programming communities.

A best example of this is Haskell. They bastatdized quicksort to show an "elegant example" on their website.

Another example is react. "React is fast omg virtual DOM". Not everyone will have latest macbook pro like hipster webshits.

I know, and I acknowledge the improvements in craft of ~~CRUD WEBSHIT~~ programming that came from FP camps. But there is also lot of bullshit there in FP camps.
Who do you think kids trust more, their teachers or their parents / elders? Education doesn't work if the student is unwilling to learn. You can only keep offering it to them. Even educated people are inclined to believe the things they are biased towards.

Also, educated people ON THE SUBJECT MATTER often disagree about things. Just look at Supreme Court rulings.
> they shoot because of a crime incident.

Even if all fatal police shootings were directly related to a crime committed by the person who is killed (they're not), we have to ask ourselves whether such shootings (or killing by other means, e.g. chokehold) are an appropriate technique for law enforcement.

Which crimes or actions warrant shooting or killing someone, in your opinion?

When we look at data that show killings by law enforcement officers by country, we learn that in the US people are fatally shot at 3.5 times the rate than they are in Canada and 9 times the rate as in France. You are more likely to be killed by the police in America than you are in Colombia, Egypt, Pakistan[1].

> you make it sound like the police are a murder cult.
I am not saying the police are a murder cult; I'm saying that they are here to protect us and that when innocent people are fearful of those meant to protect us, something's wrong.

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Sad that he later committed suicide
If you’re referring to this lawsuit [0], then the plaintiffs provided no evidence and the court dismissed the case with prejudice.

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"Attempts", when it is a success you won't hear about it.
I appreciate your eagerness and positivity but I fear it's not a solution. After all, who defines 'hinder', 'adware' or 'spyware'? (I'm reminded of the phrase "one man's terrorist is another man's freedom fighter".) Any company willing to make adware/spyware probably isn't above ignoring a plea in a license agreement. There are laws against burglary, assault, embezzlement, murder, too, and even with very harsh penalties (e.g. death penalty) they are not always sufficient to deter all criminal behavior.

A $1B limit? no problem - "we'll just send this over to our little 500M subsidiary."

the root problem is the consumer doesn't care and there is a cultural lack of care and trust and humanity. I don't know of any solution to this but the problem runs extremely deep. In fact, there may be no cure, as these problems are noted as the cardinal sins the Christian bible documented and Dante' famously illustrated : Lust, Gluttony, Greed, Sloth, Wrath, Envy, Pride. Solve that and the rest comes easy.
I imagine that for people who bought the cars, the other characteristics outweigh build quality.

Separately, you might be interested to know that apparently the build quality has gone up quite a bit recently: https://youtu.be/TOrrdqje9Og
Thomas Paine's "Common Sense" and "The American Crisis" would have been considered "misinformation", "propaganda" or "harmful content". These are considered "the two most influential pamphlets at the start of the American Revolution, and helped inspire the patriots in 1776 to declare independence from Great Britain" (Wikipedia)

So many of the great discoveries in science were controversial in their time. "On the Origin of Species", expanding universe, microbiology. Do you really want the government deciding what is acceptable? No, we don't. We fought a revolution to have the ability to think for ourselves.

I'm not that worried though. Even if platforms are subjectively regulated by companies or the government, life seems to find a way. There are plenty of other mechanisms to publish scientific breakthroughs.
Satoshi Nakamoto apparently did it.
They say left and right as others have noted, but the main boarding doors on planes are supposedly on the left for the same reason the left is called the “port”. It appears to be a relic of the flying boat era of aviation.
If you value privacy and want to post your voice anonymously online, then don't use or even support tools that you cannot understand. Who cares if things dont look "professional". If they are professional then they probably were created by someone you don't know with intentions you don't know. A perfect blogging site in my mind is one that you own, hosted using a domain with privacy protection and is written in code that you can understand. Basic code knowledge is a must if you want privacy
Dont under estimate what the military get up to. The MK1 Lynx helicopter (Westland Lynx) didnt have a black box flight recorder, and as it had the world speed record, many pilots when entertaining new recruits would attempt to scare the wotsit out of them by flying over the mountain tops of Wales before nose diving the chopper towards the valley floor to see how fast they could get it to go. Noisy! On a par with flying with The Blades who are ex Red Arrow pilots.
Actually, organizations like corporations or especially states have their own psychology.
How is it 2020 and no one got a video of this. Hopefully some airport security camera got it, and they will release the video at some point.
But the Elvis was the one and only "King of Rock and Roll", and these are sex workers (for the lack of better word) who don't have anything that isn't already provided by thousands of other sex workers (or rather millions).
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"You defend the principle, not the man", or something to that effect.

The legal system is convoluted enough that it requires a guide and domain-specific expertise. That doesn't mean the public defender's goal is to get them off, simply to serve as that guide and offer them the ability to understand their challenges and options.

Sometimes you're guilty as shit and it's unambiguously on camera, so the defense attorney's job is not to magically get you off -- that ain't gonna happen -- but to ensure you don't get utterly fucked over by a shitty plead deal and/or that mitigating factors are taken into considerations; e.g. "normally offenders with no record who did $crime only got $sentence; why is this twice as high?"
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Well at the risk of sounding pedantic, things on rails - railways, metro/subway etc. are not in same category.
I imagine the radar signature of a wingsuiter is pretty small, even if they have an exhaust-belching rocket strapped on the thing.

How well do those show up on radar?
> I used to be a controller at Los Angeles Center in the 90's, and worked Aspen SR-71's (and later under the NASA callsign when they flew them out of Edwards AFB). They could hear ATC but not other aircraft, because civilian aircraft are on VHF frequencies, military on UHF, and anybody above 60,000 feet (like the SR-71's) were on a separate, center-wide UHF frequency so they wouldn't have to switch frequencies constantly. So the SR-71 and F-18 pilots couldn't have heard those other aircraft requesting groundspeed, or heard each other for that matter.

Wait...military planes only have a single radio receiver? Military spy planes only have a single radio receiver?
Somewhat OT, but can anyone remember a language that was posted around here a while (maybe a few months ago?) I seem to recall it was a quite nice, modest-looking little language, I think a lisp (but I'm not even sure about that), but not a scheme or a common lisp, with inline C interop. I meant to have another look at it but I've completely forgotten what it's called.
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I am not firm with US law, and there is something I just do not understand - but would like to.

If YT is just some form of medium, not the "speaker"/provider and by that not allowed to remove content under its own freedom of speech, why is it then allowed (even forced) to block my content under copyright laws if it infringes someone's copyright.

Why not just route the DMCA request to me and I would need to react. Isn't YT treated as provider/publisher, when forced to react to DMCA requests on my behalf, if I infringe on some copyright?
Reminds me of the guy who taught his girlfriends dog to raise it's paw when it saw hitler talking or when it heard the phrase "heil hitler". He did it as a joke and put the video on youtube and ended up going to jail over it.

Which I very strongly disagree with. It was perhaps in poor taste, but hurt no one.
1993 it would appear:

https://youtu.be/Sn0f0vpn8jE?t=7m50s
> Port/starboard is not used in aviation

Some things seem to have been carried over though - you still almost always board an aircraft from the port side, don't you?

And port/left is still a red light, and starboard/right is still a green light, on aircraft.

A good way to remember all this is 'port is red and is passed to the left'.
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The entitlement is astonishing!

It’s his name, so what? Boo boo!

My name is taken by some big footballer from Australia I never heard of. I’ll never get it, as he is crazy famous. And it’s my fault for not getting it back in 1997.

What next, am I entitled to my birthday as an IP address? Should my government ID by a free domain?

It’s free market, he bought other variations on other TLDs. This isn’t 1994 when domain prospecting became a thing.

Domain squatters aren’t squatters, they are investors. If you want it so bad, you need to either pay up, or try to get it when it releases.

If it were cheaper I’d just buy it out of spite.
Those are a lot cheaper than I expected them to be
We made the experience that its very cheap and easy to do things on barebone metal by yourself IF you have the knowledge in-house anyways. By cheap, I mean 10% of the costs. You might add another 10% costs to have an external backup service running (for example the Backblaze B2B).
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Lenses, actually. The Lick Observatory is home to the second largest refracting telescope in the world. It’s a sight to behold, and the road is a stunning drive in it’s own right as noted.

ETA: it’s an ass-kicker going up on a bicycle. It’s 22ish miles up, with like one brief respite near the county park.
I can't help but think of the stories from before stock market colocation was a thing. Nowadays the stock exchanges have a fair setup where people can put their machines in the same data center as stock exchange. And everyone gets to connect with an equal length wire. But before this modern solution, it was a free for all with companies trying various tricks to rent space as close as possible.
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> predicting which people might commit crimes, based on social media surveillance

Well that's terrifying and more reason than ever to get off social media.

But even still- if some system can say "This person has a strong likelihood of committing a crime", maybe we should get right down to the personal level, and send someone who can help prevent the crime.
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Yeah there were a lot of auxiliary interviews that corroborated the story, going back like for the entire morning with radar operators tracking multiple objects. Still, since it feels absolutely crazy that the navy wouldn't investigate more closely in that situation and then just "leak" 20 seconds of it, suggests that it's some kind of intentional or unintentional hoax..
I think it is a perfectly natural and very human reaction. But that doesn’t make it any less in the realm of superstition.
I would bet the president could easily pass a polygraph on even some of the most ridiculous claims (thousands and thousands of people cheering after 9/11[1], etc.) You can pass a polygraph test if you believe your own misinformation.

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It’ll never happen (in the United States at least) but this then sounds like a service that should be run by the local government, or perhaps something more global. People on HN often talk of making the internet an actual public utility, perhaps something like centralized online identify would follow a move like that
I have been reading about them lately. What's interesting is that some studies show about a coin flips chance of it being correct while others show upwards of 85%.

Obviously what I said would never work but I've been trying to think about a technical solution to lies and misinformation.
I'm not sure there is going to be one.
>>The police have shown us that they don't act in good faith.>>

There are ~650k police officers in the US employed by ~18k agencies. Can you provide more detail on how it is that that group has shown us a lack of good faith?
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I strongly disagree. Free speech is a cultural ethic. In an enlightened liberal society, we have a shared value that self-expression is a fundamental human right. And, it is wrong to take away someone's human rights. The first amendment exists to ensure the government never violates that human right. But, companies and individuals have a cultural/moral obligation to protect/not violate that right as well, imo.
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