skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
ET302 (the second crash) is worse in some ways. That crew correctly diagnosed the stab trim runaway, (eventually) executed the stab trim cutout procedure, got the aircraft somewhat under control (albeit still at full thrust), flew for a time, then (somewhat correctly) judged that unless they were going to pull power, they needed to use the electric stab trim (the manual trim was difficult to move because of the high airspeed), turned the stab trim back on and commanded electric nose-up trim (which the airplane did), then for some unknowable reason stopped commanding nose-up trim while leaving the stab trim powered, whereupon the aircraft MCAS commanded the final round of nose-down trim that they couldn’t overcome.

They were this close to saving the airplane, had ID’d the issue, patched it, largely recovered control, and lost the airplane subsequent to that.

(This is not meant to denigrate the crew. They were dealt a bad hand, including continuous stick shaker activation which surely added to confusion and likely led them to leave the thrust at max. Additionally, they were getting split airspeed and FD command bars for the crew. It’s frustrating how tantalizingly close they were to saving it even with those hurdles.)

https://aviation-safety.net/database/record.php?id=20190310-...
> The ability to make Aluminium would be alien technology to the ancient Egyptian culture.

The pyramids, on the other, employed perfectly logical building techniques for that age of human development.
you might not "need" it, but sellers need to innovate to beat their competition.
> a country where road laws are merely friendly suggestions (and considering the chaos of driving in those countries, the rates are actually surprisingly low)

I wonder how well self driving algorithms would compare if tested in such a "hostile" environment? Perhaps we shouldn't allow them on more "friendly" roads until they can consistently surpass human performance under such adverse conditions.
Thanks for pointing that out ... Here's the link I copied from the page:

https://www.nytimes.com/live/2021/11/29/world/omicron-varian...

I am not sure why but the submission URL is missing the last part.

Here's the content:

> The Israeli domestic intelligence agency has been granted temporary permission to access the phone data of people with confirmed cases of the Omicron coronavirus variant in order to trace who those people met recently. The agency was given similar powers during earlier waves of the pandemic.

> Using emergency legislation, the Israeli cabinet voted on Sunday to permit the spy agency, the Shin Bet, to track Omicron patients’ phones until the end of the day on Thursday — but not to access the phone records of people infected with other forms of the coronavirus.

> The Israeli Parliament is expected to vote this week on new legislation that would extend the permission by another two weeks, and allow it to be renewed every two weeks thereafter, a spokeswoman for the Israeli prime minister said.

> The government and its supporters said the decision was necessary to quickly identify potential virus carriers who need to be tested and quarantined, in order to curb the spread of the new variant.

> “We have indeed reached a point at which we do need a ‘Big Brother’ keeping track of where we go,” Limor Yehuda, a criminology professor, wrote on Monday in Maariv, a centrist newspaper.

> Critics said the move infringed civil liberties and contravened a Supreme Court decision last March. The court ruled then that the agency could use phone data in this way only to track people who had refused to comply with contact-tracing procedures.

> “No other democratic country has chosen to use its security service to track people,” Gil Gan-Mor, a rights lawyer, wrote in Maariv on Monday. The renewal of Shin Bet tracking was “a terrible, illegal decision,” he added.

> Critics of the step pointed to government data showing that, during an earlier wave of the pandemic, the overwhelming majority of coronavirus patients were located by human trackers, rather than through the Shin Bet monitoring program.

> Other parts of Israel’s response to the Omicron variant were shaped by the experience of a governmentwide coronavirus “war game” earlier in November. In that exercise, senior government officials, including Prime Minister Naftali Bennett, tested potential responses to a hypothetical new strain of the coronavirus.

> Keren Hajioff, a spokeswoman for Mr. Bennett, said that the participants realized during the latter stages of the drill that they should have closed borders far earlier in the exercise. “So those insights were taken into account when they made the decision to close Israel’s borders to foreign tourists” on Saturday night, soon after the discovery of the Omicron variant was reported, Ms. Hajioff said.

> — Patrick Kingsley
Taking your analogy: that doesn't make going to bowling alley as an evil alternative to video games? We should all acknowledge that's a straw-man argument. But this is the kind of argument you hear against PoW. For all we know they are driving electric cars to the bowling alley. Does that make the scenario different? How's that different from PoW powered by solar?
That law is silly because you should always verify statements made on the internet.
I never knew this but this makes the Desktop concept so much more intuitive.
your argument requires that advertising is cost effective for the advertiser.
what if therre was a competing ecosystem, in which advertisers pushed up prices overall in a bid to out-compete each other? essentially, the cost of advertisments is added to the cost of consumer and all other goods. advertising increases cosumer costs, and decreases consumer choice.
Anyone here used grommunio? Your comments and thoughts are much appreciated and your experiences.
Anyone following Twitter's monetization journey?

Seems like they've taken forever to build an actually decent business out of the platform, despite widespread use.
Optical illusions are a sort of adversarial approach for humans, but we're advanced enough that it would be a bit harder to weaponize. In a course I've taught on propaganda though, about 30-50% of the class always fails my example on implanting false memories & "dog whistling"

Humans are absolutely susceptible to a wide variety of adversarial attacks.
I think the biggest lie I have seen the news on the MAX make "true" has been that MCAS exists to make the MAX fly like previous 737s and that it could have been omitted if the aircraft were a new type...

Of course:
1. The MAX can't be a new type, it would have to be clean-sheet at that point just from all the grandfathered items.
2. That view grossly oversimplifies how type ratings work for pilots.
3. MCAS exists to conform to the FARs (control force curves), not some "make it fly like a 737NG" thing.
They still do this. For example, it's "do something with iPhone" or "Try iPhone today". Although they refer to "an" iphone in the singular, it's never "the iPhone".

Adobe also has some similar rules, for example, they prevent partners from using "photoshop" as a verb.
I pretty much just use Audacious on Linux/UNIX these days. I think its a descendant of XMMS, and basically the same user experience as Winamp of old.

The problem I have with most "modern" players is that they seem to want to be a total music library manager, insisting on doing it all based on their interpretation of the metadata in your files. I'm never happy with this experience, so I'd rather something that lets me simply pick music from a directory structure I decided on an organization scheme for.
Only Office: https://www.onlyoffice.com/ compatible Office, connects to NextCloud, Android and iOs, open source… (didn't try but I see organizations using it)
I was building Chromecast most often, not Chromium itself. So can't really recall. For Chromecast, from clean, it was around 10 minutes.
Software made by developers who don't care about the product. Willing to sacrifice thousands of people to eliminate a pain point from their dev workflow.

That and resume driven development. It's not about the product, it's about your resume.
Making it very expensive to do a thing still reduces the chance of someone doing the thing. How many more murders of passion would happen if murder wasn't illegal?

Laws against murder don't prevent murder from ever happening, but they ensure that committing it is weighed against very high costs.

Perhaps there are other ways to reduce the chance of bad things happening, like reducing opportunities for the bad thing to happen in the first place (eg. not overly relying on computer vision).
That is a good point. My perspective was too pessimitic as never having real money from OSS projects in general.
Interestingly, the early suffragette movement didn't do a great job of shaking off the nutjobs. The violent rump is acknowledged in academia even now. As an example, the famed SCUM manifesto is a vile and hateful piece of work, and its author was convicted of attempted murder.

But supposing that your message is not vile and hateful, the trick is to ignore the lies that people spread about you and speak the reasonable truth until you build a core audience. (Having fuck you money helps.) You will be labelled as a nutjob and outcast, but who cares, if your message is getting out?
An improvement in testing (accuracy + turnaround time + cost) would also help significantly. But there's been little talk in investing in such a tool. That strikes me as a red flag. Instead, we're betting on the jab, and apparently that's not working out well. At all.
books on how to negotiate better
If they integrated completely vertical (their own cloud, k8s and remote machines) that would be so nice. Almost what Salesforce did for years if not decades, but less sucky!
Loading was automatic. Cross-segment calls were done using a system trap that brought in the code, locked it in memory and called a function at the specified offset in it. IIRC, unloading told the OS that the memory block containing the code now could be moved around or freed at will.

Those cross-segment calls were slow, so distributing one’s code over various parts was a black art. You wanted a single segment for performance, multiple segments to leave more memory available for user data.
I was thinking maybe CockroachFlowy
I guess I’m just not fussy enough about some of these things. I’m more focused on the task and less on whether the appearance is fixed or dynamic. I’d much rather have the current finder with tabs than the old single window interface. I keep a consistent set of tabs open to folders that I interact with frequently. Each one can have it’s own view style, so maybe that is how I deal with the difference.
I'm curious why Brave crashes on CalyxOS (degoogled Android) any time I try to view my wallet balance.
Review: Netgate 6100
I also didn't understand until I saw his username. It's the story in The Cuckoo's Egg, which he wrote: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Cuckoo%27s_Egg_(book)
The whole first page is ads. It's pretty disgusting. The entire apparatus treats every query as having commercial intent, or even if it doesn't, force commercial intent, on users. The abject hunger to monetize literally every interaction you will ever have with a computer is what finally turned my stomach and I really couldn't take it anymore.

I run an adblocker, unapologetically. Even then, you notice the next level of distortion; the search engine will push you to over-optimized ad-laden, super-dumbed down and aggregated sites that are practically devoid of information but loaded with trackers and spying and ads. Google sends you there because it will inevitably send you to what is in its interest, which is either one of its own properties or something participating in the great ad sideshow, all of which are subject to its tax as the biggest monkey in the jungle.
Apples closed and heavily taxed ecosystem is the worst of the three.
Yep - in this, as in many things in life, expert knowledge is knowing what experiments and tests you should be doing as much as which ones you can avoid.
Hundreds you say? Think again, it's happened. (Well, 100)

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.cbc.ca/amp/1.5192656
Me too, Jack, me too.
Well this is fun! A while back I slapped together a script to create hilbert curves out of factorio belts, and it was fun pasting the blueprints into this tool: https://i.imgur.com/MnESYUX.png
Diana Deutsch studied this from essentially the opposite direction. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Zr9BU0bJoc

It's in our speech all the time. Preachers do exaggerate it. As do politicians and comedians, for example. But Diana pulls it right out of her own speech, and demonstrates that even children instantly recognize the musicality of it as soon as the bit of speech is repeated.
Control and certainty. There's a lot to unpack from that. It seems interesting but I'm skeptical. As in fulfill these core human desires and you will be successful. How am I to know this is a useful heuristic if nobody is using this?
Emacs Docs The modern documentation website Emacs deserves
Even if everything is working perfectly correctly, it is inevitable that some minority will win sometimes in a democracy. Even with universal mandatory voting and in an election system that satisfies the Condorcet criterion.

There are probably some pretty shocking "minority wins" that happen all the time, especially in smaller local elections that use FPTP. We just can't ever possibly know about them at the same level of confidence as we can the election results themselves.

I mean elections are really just a messy byproduct of living in the real world anyway. If we really, actually knew with enough certainty that 51% of eligible voters would vote candidate A over candidate B then we really should just save ourselves the effort and put candidate A in office. I mean why not? While we're at it, let's just skip all the popularity nonsense and Do What's Best For Everyone.
We don't have good words for talking about this stuff (ironically), but I didn't intend to imply that the emotional aspect was less important than informational. Maybe "logical" would have been a better word for the latter. It's all information.

Perhaps a better way to think of the split is that some of the audio content needs to be processed deliberately and sequentially—it has grammatical structure, words that need to be decoded, semantics, etc. It requires processing from the part of our brain that needs to deliberately pay attention to things. It's like reading or doing math.

Meanwhile, some of it can be processed more intuitively. It's where we pick up tone and emotional intent. We will absorb that even if we don't deliberately focus on it—you can tell that someone is angry when they speak even if you don't know their language.

Of course, understanding both of those requires integrating them together. The lexical content of their speech might tell you why they feel a certain way or what they feel that way about.

But one way to look at music is that it's a sound artifact designed to deliberately convey "I'm almost all non-grammatical, it's OK to not focus on me."

Again, of course, this is all pure conjecture.
I might be alone here but I still have Winamp on my Windows computers. From my 100 MHz pentium 1 to my bazillion core Ryzen, the only constant has been Winamp. Whether it was playing back mp3s, internet radio or ripping discs, it worked. I like the familiarity. Foobar and Clementine just feel so alien, I could never get used to them. Maybe it’s the compact, floaty UI, which first hog the entire screen.

I’ve since switched to mainly macOS but iTunes feels awful and sluggish in comparison, especially with Apple Music, I hate even starting it.
If I really had to choose, would rather have freedom of expression than AI cars. But maybe that's just me.
If I have to guess, it's probably to support operator overloading (printing custom data type) without requiring OOP e.g. must be a class that implements Writable
Wrong on every count.

> "movement within Google in pursuit of contractually obligated motto"

is factually wrong, and that's what my post demonstrated. They started a movement that had nothing to do with what "don't be evil" meant. It didn't mean "justice for immigrants."

> "The VP is mad, and gets revenge on you by getting you fired"

Also bogus. This sort of thing did happen, and the security guards were celebrated, not fired. Any VP who tried this would himself (or herself) get fired.

> "The problem here is "Don't Be Evil" is so vague"

Wrong. Contract terms are construed by the law. Since Google wrote the contract, their interpretation tends to govern.
The point is relevant whether that actual sponge on a stick came from a toilet or not. The contempt implicit in the giving is not at all clear if you don't know what a sponge on a stick was usually for.
nitter.net to the rescue
Python subcommands made easy (psme)
You're right, there are some outliers where micro managing have been successful, but I consider them just that: outliers. Because only a vastly minor portion of the population has that level passion and tunnel-vision of focus that is also right.
High school STEM courses have a very low bar, grades in them doesn't say much about someone. It is more about being careful and never screwing up than being excellent at the material since there are so many easy STEM courses in high school. For example, a lazy genius might get all A's in math but get a B in chemistry. There is no better grade than A in math, so a typical hard working high schooler with A in every course will look better in this study even if the other person is actually way better at math and aces the SAT and places well in math competitions.

And if we do look at stuff like SAT or math competitions then it is basically just men, very few women at the top there. So it looks like women do better when the ceiling is so low that the male variability doesn't show.
Embedded AI
Open source minimalist translation API
Occam's razor is a very very bad principle to bank on when reverse-engineering AI models because approaches which we consider "simple" (likely in a "natural" context) could be very different from what some high-dimensional statistical model trained on a large data corpus considers simple. Eg: If Occam's razor applied reasonably, then adversarial examples wouldn't be a thing.

Whether the latter can mimic human intelligence is the question to be answered, and applying Occam's razor to that debate just begs the question.
Are you on the autism spectrum? The hyper-logical, "feelings are a waste of time" persona makes me lean towards yes.
GPT is a joke but Ashby's various "Laws" and "Theorems" are just theories. As in, think "Jung's theory of archetypes". Cyberneticists cribbed hard-sciences terminology for their psycho-speculation freely, knowing their humanities peers couldn't call them to account about technical meanings. Theorem and law just sound engineer-y
Hopefully the final report on that crash will come out soon. It will probably be like the final report on the Lion Air crash where the training factors are downplayed in contrast to fixing blame on Boeing and noone else.

I worry that this obsession with fixing only the hardware is the industry trying to sweep the training factors under the rug in hope that the current trend towards accidents being a result of serious training deficiencies will remain widely unnoticed.
Airbyte – Ex-Founders
> "I think almost everyone treats the former statement, as meaning the latter"

First of all, that's debatable. Even if true, they're wrong.
One of the most insightful and nuanced analyses of the blockchain space I've read in years. Some highlights:

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"When a hard fork happens, stablecoin custodians cannot recognize both sets of tokens as redeemable for their money, since there are now twice as many total tokens (two full sets, one for each fork of the blockchain). They have to pick which blockchain is the valid one in their eyes, for which they accept redemptions of their tokens for money. And whichever one they don’t recognize as valid, has its DeFi and other stablecoin value eradicated."

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"The biggest challenge with these proposals is that the more features you add to a blockchain on the base layer, the less “small and tight” it is, and therefore the less decentralized it tends to be.

The question then becomes, are there shades of partial-decentralization that people will accept, in exchange for more features that the database can offer? And can those partially-decentralized blockchains survive attacks, disagreements, and other tests over the long term?"

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"And that’s not to say that all of the liquidity and price action is fraud. I don’t know how much is. It’s simply that, with the technology as it is, it is very difficult to distinguish what percentage is fraud and what percentage is real, and rising price action based on fraud can temporarily bring in real demand liquidity, making the difference between the two rather murky. This is not much of an issue for large cap liquid tokens but it’s potentially a big issue for non-fungible tokens."

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"Ethereum’s proponents often criticize (rightly) Solana as being too centralized, as their key defense for why Ethereum is better than Solana. But that puts Ethereum in a tight spot, because Ethereum’s proponents then have to criticize Solana as being too centralized, while also defending the fact that Ethereum has these centralized attack surfaces and greater complexity compared to Bitcoin. In other words, it has to justify what the right level of partial-centralization and partial-decentralization is, and that it has achieved this sweet spot."

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"The way altcoins market themselves, generally, is to highlight the shortcomings of Bitcoin as though it were old tech or “Boomer coin”, and then explain how they are better than Bitcoin.

When you dig into them, however, it turns out they are making tremendous trade-offs in one area to achieve additional capability elsewhere. They are sacrificing some degree of security, decentralization, auditability, and so forth, in order to achieve things like more features, more speed, or more throughput. And now the same thing is happening to Ethereum; newer smart contract chains offer greater efficiency in exchange for more centralization, and criticize Ethereum for not sacrificing more decentralization to scale faster."
You may want to check out Urbit. It’s philosophy is not far from yours.

For something less radical, Gemini
Staking is not any more rent seeking than mining is. Stakers calculate and propagate valid new states for the chain. I also don't see anything entrenching or perpetual about it.

It's not as though increased mining efficiency provides some net good for the Bitcoin blockchain, e.g. increased transaction throughput. It just provides a profitable edge for the miner. You'd just expect difficulty to increase, not energy usage to decrease. I don't think there's any particular reason to desire this sort of cross-miner competition that produces negligible societal gain.
Can you please expand on how mandatory voting has lead to harm? I'm genuinely not able to imagine how you can lay the blame for the current state of Australian politics on it
Direct links to the "Declaration":

https://womensdeclaration.com/en/
https://womensdeclaration.com/en/declaration-womens-sex-base...

> Sex is defined by the United Nations as “the physical and biological characteristics that distinguish males from females.’’ (Gender Equality Glossary, UN Women)

Hmmm, even if we set aside the ever so politicized semantics of "gender", and consider only biological "sex", nowadays science knows a lot about XXY and XY-minus (not too uncommon) humans. Who speaks for them?

https://medlineplus.gov/genetics/condition/swyer-syndrome/
https://archive.ph/FCRdw