skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In aviation you want to avoid unnecessary complexity. You really want to avoid single points of failure. Most small aircraft are controlled via cables and pulleys because they're simple, can be redundant, easy to verify, and unlikely to fail.

What's your backup plan when your flight control computer crashes? Or if you have an electrical failure?

(There's an argument to have computers provide additional assistance on top of the manual systems, but we usually stop short of fundamentally remapping flight controls. And even then, we have to be careful otherwise we end up with situations like MCAS.)
Robert's Rules of Order ensure that everyone has a chance to speak, and make it difficult to bully people or shout them down.

I fail to see why these things are bad, much less "white supremacy".
We feel the same way about auto gyro based cargo delivery

https://www.mmist.ca/cq-10.html
Or phrased differently,

Why should [different religion countries] care less?

(I cannot imagine that there's any good answer to that question)
Interesting, I will continue to use it as I think it still demonstrates the point. I have never in my life heard of a cookie being used in a racist way. I've heard crackers being used in racist ways though.

Regardless it's a weird world out there!
> Also, if I can answer your problem in less than a minute then you didn't even google it.

Don't undersell this ability, it takes years to develop, and honestly is part of the value a "senior" person brings to the job. If you don't believe me, just watch a beginner searching for the answer to their question on their own. They'll use overly-broad terms, click irrelevant links, and spend several minutes looking at non-useful answers.

As someone more experienced, you can look at StackOverflow answer and instantly see it _was_ the right answer in 2012, but is no longer compatible with some other thing and trying to implement it is going to result in a world of hurt. You'll also know what search terms to use, what to avoid, and little tidbits like "SQL Server" refers to Microsoft's, or that the answer involving a sysv script probably isn't relevant to your issue with Debian Bullseye.
Section 230: Its History, Impact, Problems (Real and Imagined), and How to Fix
After providing an overview of Section 230’s history and reviewing exceptions to the law, common critiques, and other countries’ approaches to the issue of intermediary liability, this series of short articles reviews the major proposals that have been advanced by advocates on all sides of the issue to assess which would be most likely to succeed.
ASIC doesn't work well when a lot of RAM is required.
Here's a video of a Gyroplane "bunting over" or "pushing over" once the rotors become unloaded... the final impact is not shown but it's implied the pilot died:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CfjBzrSDrV0

An explanation:

https://www.kitplanes.com/gyroplane-safety/

> Fatal Sequence

> As the rotor is unloaded, both control thrust and the drag of the rotor disc fall off rapidly. With a high engine thrustline (relative to the vertical c.g. and center of drag) and/or with a momentary gust that can increase fuselage drag, the gyro can pitch forward and tumble. Such tumbling, also known as bunting over, can occur almost instantly. There is no possible recovery, and bunting over is invariably fatal.
> Should that not be the "end" of it?

Yes 100%. As soon as the "vulnerable" have received their vaccine we should remove all restrictions even if the vaccine doesn't 100% prevent the "old fat cigarette smoking weak people" from dying from this cough virus because after the vaccination there is nothing more we can do.

Vaccines are the single most effective way to prevent disease after clean water. It is the cherry on top of a cake in terms of what humans can achieve medically. A vaccine is literally the dream to achieve for any illness which could affect us. As a result, as soon as we have deployed our best and most effective weapon against this virus we must open up again. If the vaccine doesn't prevent fat people from dying then nothing will and we just have to accept that fat people will die due to their own wrong doings. After all that's how the world is designed to work.
interesting thought, isn't gitlab-ci-runner only pulling jobs to be executed and then pushes back logs? shouldn't be that hard to implement.
A bit reductive, the point the author makes about how what's able to be stored for the public record greatly reduces the functionality of the medium they're meeting over.
The fact the chat transcript, or emote usage can't be stored with time stamps seems like a misstep on zoom's part. Perhaps stored as closed captions?
That's why I said "in most places".

And that article is from December.

https://www.covid-georgia.com/today-in-georgia/hospitalizati...
You can't eat a television.
I would have loved to see the upwards view of the delivery drone from the rover to see it control boosters slowing and controlling the descent. It's still an amazing progress from the original delivery mechanism (big bouncy airbags). Back then controlled drone technology was considered sci-fi...now anyone can have it in their backyard.
America's failure is about a lack of social responsibility
In deep space the banana would be frozen rock solid and would likely shatter if dropped. So, it seems the sky crane lowers the rover, and the rover lowers the banana.
You don’t pay me for what I do, you pay me for what I know.
Traffic routes in and between China, HK, Singapore and Japan all carry much more traffic than any London or NY based routes: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_busiest_passenger_air_...

In an alternate measure, we finally see a NY-based trip enter the list at number 8, with the countries listed above remaining much busier: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_busiest_passenger_air_...
If you listen to Alfred Lin on Acquired he actually says that abundant capital has always been a problem, so it definitely feels like this isn't a new problem necessarily
I don't think it's too late from a "technical perspective". We could absolutely change our behaviour and priorities and fix the problems that will ultimately end us as a species in the near future if we do nothing. We have that capability.

But since witnessing the pandemic and how the human race has responded to it, rapid vaccine development notwithstanding, I have pretty much zero confidence that will happen. At this point when I look at climate change and other impacts from our insistence on exploiting and trashing our planet and its ecosystems, I would be shocked to learn that humans were around and thriving a couple hundred years from now.

The difficult reality for me is not that there's nothing we can do, it's that there are things we can do, but a sufficient portion of the human population will simply not be convinced to do those things before it's too late, even as the impacts of the very problems they are being asked to acknowledge and accept are destroying their own lives.
A quick plug for ddt here - it's a tool that lets you define your data model transforms and store in source code. (Then use that in your transformations in your warehouse.)

https://www.getdbt.com/
It's pretty contagious, to be fair.

Still, I think you're right when you say perhaps unnecessary: some countries have successfully suppressed COVID without eliminating it. That said, it's some but not many countries.

I'm a bit ambivalent. Regardless, it certainly wasn't necessary for NZ to close their border to asylum seekers.
Always remember going to clubs in the US around the turn of the century and this was so popular. “One More Time” was played at every club.
1C should exclude students, truck drivers, waitresses, etc which are groups you likely don’t have much contact with during lockdown.

Now people are going to game this stuff, but the distribution is wide enough that it’s not really that import to be completely precise.
Is anyone selling (or open sourcing) a solution like this? I would love to feed our company's reviews into a program that could generate a bulleted list like this to summarize what our customers are saying.
I would pay so much more than this for help with random Pytorch/Tensorflow questions throughout the day.
If their product app could sync existing pictures or pictures display preview with any performance it would be a great product....
The Source Code in Dragon's Lair (NES)
I would like to point out that in my experience the hn admins respond much faster and friendlier than I had ever expected. I think in this case it is very nice thar "just email the admins" leads to experience like that, although I have no idea how they manage that for a site at this scale.
Sounds like they did it with paper.

I think the general understanding of paper filing systems vs. computer systems is less specialized!
A trick question. How heavy is your gearbox, and not a motor?

Getting ridiculous power to weight ratios on electric power is not that hard if you opt for super high RPMs.

By my standards, what matters in electric motors are their torque per weight.
Texan here: while the situation was far from satisfactory, Texas is not a poor state, and has the resources to fix things. Mostly, it will require:

1) inspection of power plants to confirm that they have "winterized", i.e. prepared adequately for winter cold, rather than just advising them to

2) installation of much more power storage capacity, akin to what Elon Musk's company sold to Australia (https://www.popularmechanics.com/science/a31350880/elon-musk...), in order to adapt to having a much higher % of power capacity from wind and solar than in the past

3) when the National Weather Service says, more than a week out, "you're going to have record cold coming up", get all of the power plants which were shut down for the winter back into service. For example, Austin had a biomass-burning one which sat idle through the whole thing, because during the winter it is normally not needed so it was idled. It takes time to start it up again, but we ought to be able to do so when the NWS gives us more than a week notice
but (and I believe the GP shares this question) where is the insight? There are lots of reasons to not just state a commonly accepted strategy and cherry-pick some examples. All I see here is a verbatim rehash of the same ideas and a very confusing website.
- Apps running with your user privileges inside a sandbox by default. I'm very uneasy knowing that a PDF reader has unrestricted access to my entire $HOME, and so every code run by "pip install", "npm install", etc.

- A different concept of package management, that you can freely install any version of applications and libraries, coexisting together, without the rigidness of Debian, Ubuntu and the likes, and the fast moving-target of Arch Linux. This would partially make solutions like Docker unnecessary, because the packaging pinned versions of dependencies would not be a problem anymore.

- A damn system-wide desktop mouse wheel speed configuration, so people would not resort to hacks like imwheel...
Ah, yeah, that's true. Though some developers use it without that context to really just mean "unrelated".
I not qualified to comment on most of this article but I vehemently disagree with that statement:

The very idea that speaking individually, in turn, is the best way to go implies valuing individualism over collective values.

I really don't understand how respecting everyone time and speech is a sign of valuing individualism over collectivism. When I was in college, there were openly marxist students organization that used the "code morin", a derivative of Robert's Rules tailored to the francophone context. If marxists can use a derivative of those rules they cannot be that biased towards individualism.
Interesting question! On helicopters, you can use autorotation to land safely even when your engine broke.

On planes, I'm not so sure. I suspect most of the braking forces while flying come from the drag of the normal plane body, so you can't really capture them.
For reference, it's the guy in the black hoodie on the right side for the first third or so. Also his song plays at around 6m in, and you can see him rolling a join a bit later, hah.
Download7728.mediafire.com
I would guess the better cache locality of a much smaller lookup table could make the smaller table with more shifts and lookups beat the larger one in speed in real-world code (where other code also competes for cache lines)

If you go down that rabbit hole, however, you might want to check whether foregoing using the shifts and lookups for 7-bit ASCII is even faster, if (as is often the case), you expect those characters to be the vast majority.
The human isn't there to check the computer's work; the human is there to look for overriding special-case circumstances the computer can't understand, i.e. executing act-utilitarianism where the computer on its own would be executing rule-utilitarianism.

Usually, in any case where a bureaucracy could generate a Kafkaesque nightmare scenario, just forcing a human being to actually decide whether to implement the computer's decision or not (rather than having their job be "do whatever the computer tells you"), will remove the Kafkaesque-ness. (This is, in fact, the whole reason we have courts: to put a human—a judge—in the critical path for applying criminal law to people.)
Skype was cross-platform and free too.
Also, we are talking technology, their pricing strategy is a different problem.
I feel like this is horrible both for the person getting help and the person doing the helping.

The person getting help is effectively trained to apply a quick fix mentality to everything because nobody is going to pay by the minute to learn fundamental software engineering concepts, no matter how much they should know them.

And for the person doing the helping, the pay is below average plus they need to review call requests for free in addition to it. They'll probably also have to deal with entitled stubborn people line in every customer service gig.

I predict the result will be that capable developers will avoid helping, because they can have a better working experience and more salary elsewhere. At the very least, I'd avoid wasting my time on such a platform. I would maybe consider it at $300 per hour, but the pay needs to be extremely high to compensate for the free reviews and idle time in between paid calls.

That again makes the service less useful for people needing help, because all the truly capable developers are off the platform. So you pay to get a quick fix from a mediocre developer... Kind of like on fiverr.
UK data shows Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine first dose is effective against Covid-19
The visicalc niche may seem obvious and big now but the venn diagram of accountants who owned home computers and wanted to do their work on them was not that big 40+ years ago
It's not graphql that's the issue. it's another tool.

It's the fanboys, and more the people selling tooling. There's a guy who (was?) over at graphqleditor.com that was posting a whole bunch of articles, at least one of one said it was a mistake not to convert all your shit to graphql immediately.
Certainly a big part of the comfort of religion for me was making a monstrous, unknowable world (which had been poorly explained to me as a kid) easier to understand. I built up a number of mental barriers to shield myself from inconvenient facts. When I went through a real bad time, it gave me simple axioms and stories that seemed to help me persevere.

Stepping away from that comfort was difficult and took time. It's also isolating. Nonetheless, I could no longer make extraordinary claims without extraordinary evidence. I'd rather know the truth of things the best I can, while I can.
I wonder if the FAA should revisit its airworthiness decision on the basis that essentially an entirely different organisation is planning to launder the certificate.
Yeah, I thought the promotion of Agile was pretty lame in this context. But overall still thought the article was thought provoking and had some good points that would make an interesting discussion here.
to this day I can't wrap my head around the need to unwrap almost every single variable/function/whatever.

I don't get Rust. I got Go very easily.
Rust just doesn't make sense for me.

In Go I can just write down my thoughts and they translate to code easy.
I don't even know which mental game I have to play in Rust. And all the conventions in Rust are another step.
The final nail is the un-community of Rust.
I still have no idea how to write a simple RESTful http server with a mongodb backend. I've asked only to have been met with downvotes on Reddit. The official MongoDB discourse didn't answer either.

Time and again I want to do something with it but every time I just quit frustrated and irritated of the complexity of everything in Rust land.
> Isn't this clearly defined false imprisonment under Arizona law?

> Assumption being that a detention officer is not acting in good faith if they have a list of people who should no longer be detained under state law.

I agree with your premise and assertion, but I'm not sure that's exactly what's happening here. I'd like to preface this by saying I absolutely believe there need to be ramifications; I'm just not sure that it fits "clearly defined false imprisonment." I think a category would have to be added to the false imprisonment statute for "negligence" for this to be considered false imprisonment and let me tell you why:

From what I can tell, this article is talking about a couple of massive issues but the wrongful imprisonment bit is about a specific bug (SB1310) in ACIS that can't calculate an updated release date for inmates that complete special programs that award additional release credits as per an amendment signed into law in 2019. Since they can't automatically update a release date for individuals that have completed this program, they keep track of it manually. To me, the article doesn't read like they have a list of people who should be released but aren't being released because the software says so; from my very limited perspective it reads like there are certain programs an inmate can complete to earn extra release credits and since the system can't track these extra credits, the detention officers do it manually. I would imagine their manual process goes something like this:

1) Compile list of inmates that have earned extra release credits through the aforementioned release programming.

2) Select inmate from list, possibly in order of original release date, earliest first.

3) Calculate the amount of release credits they received from completion of the programming.

4) Calculate the total hours those credits equal.

5) Deduct hours from release date.

6) Manually update the release date in ACIS (likely requiring warden and/or judicial approval, but idk).

6a) Since ACIS now has the appropriate release date, the inmate will be processed for release now (if the date has passed) or as they normally would be.

6b) Remove inmate's name from list unless currently enrolled in early release programming, in which case they are moved to the bottom of the queue.

7) Lather, rinse, repeat.

Being denied release because of a software error would be hellish for both an inmate and their loved ones... But because it doesn't seem like they have an actual list of people that should have already been released but haven't been because the software made a critical oversight, I don't think it fits the legislation as it exists today for false imprisonment. The tool is broken so they've switched to manual calculation until someone more important decides it's worth fixing.

If we add negligence to the false imprisonment statute, I'd agree wholeheartedly! But IA[very_much]NAL, so I'll confess I don't really know anything about anything.

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>Lots of consumers disagree!

I feel like there's a group of consumers like myself who do agree but aren't being given options.

I'm personally dreading buying my next car because everything is #internetofshit, software-locked features and shitty touchscreens that are totally unsuited for using while operating a vehicle.

My current car isn't connected to the internet and my next one won't be either. I'm hoping the companies come to their senses before my next purchase, but I'm not holding my breath.
CPI is objectively flat, you can look it up on the bls site. You might think CPI isn't well correlated to price inflation, but you'd be wrong there too.
I imagine he would make out really well with a limited quantity, sky-high priced, "expedite an existing order" button. And it's not too late for that. A small portion of the upcharge would easily fund a lesser skilled helper for non-critical/lesser-skilled tasks, so that existing orders weren't delayed.
“ No, we won't. A deeply flawed oped
https://wsj.com/articles/well-have-herd-immunity-by-april-11...
—55% of Americans do not have natural immunity
—2/3 of the US population has not had covid
—Wrong on T-cell protection
—Very high Brazil infection rate was not protective
—150M will not be vaccinated by March end”

https://twitter.com/EricTopol/status/1362513761383321602
I grew up in the US in the 90s and 00s, and I only used pencils and ballpoint pens. I've never used a fountain pen, I don't even think I've seen one outside of a display case of a fancy pen shop.

I'm also pretty sure I can now only write a paragraph or two before my hand starts cramping up.
Are Companies Interviewing Fewer Data Scientists?
https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/covid-vaccine-tracker-glo...

According to bloomberg the US has purchased 300M doses each of Moderna, Pfizer and AZ. That doesn't mean they actually have production capacity though.
Why do we have wasteful lawns instead of growing food on them or something ?

Seems like a social imitation of feudal lords who could flex by showing off how much land they could leave empty while still being rich.
Having served on a public body "governed" by Robert's Rules, there's one very important aspect of Robert's Rules that the author seems to be overlooking. While the default case certainly does constrain brainstorming, that is not a necessary case. Robert's Rules contains, at the very least, provisions for suspending or altering the rules temporarily for just this sort of reason.

I can't count the number of times the body I served on did just this. Admittedly, this was before COVID and the ensuing discussions were easier to manage in a live, in-person, format, regardless, Robert's Rules does allow for it.

As for public meeting's law, I can only speak for Illinois' Open Meetings Act, but yes, in fact, even email can be considered a meeting in some cases. In Illinois, what constitutes a meeting is a little more limiting. According to the OMA, a meeting occurs when a majority of quorum is present. In the 30 member instance discussed in the article, that's only 8 members (one half quorum plus one); In the case of our 8 member board, that was only 3.

Now, I understand the author's frustration, but these sunshine laws are important in keeping the public's business public, so, as frustrating as it may seem, these should not be relaxed.
Silver is heavier than copper.

That's why people were so upset when carbon nanotube yarns happened to be poor conductors.

People were thinking of super light motor windings.
> Any modern French electronic artist?

You mention Madeon which I think is more like "electro pop" or "nu disco" (I don't like that term but hey) so maybe you'll like the following if you don't know them...

Agar Agar:

https://youtu.be/wrCE6DjE6g8

or Kid Francescoli:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fdixQDPA2h0

or, more on the chill side, L'Imperatrice...

"Erreur 404": https://youtu.be/eyk-Sliy8RU

and say "Parfum Theremine": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Ksp63RJuaU
Cow Curriculum Becomes India’s Latest Ideological Battleground