skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think MCAS was one of those organizational failures. I could see myself implementing something like that. I imagine the conversation would go a little like this:

"We need to replicate the pitch performance of the 737-800. These engines pitch the plane up when accelerating and it messes up go-arounds."

"What if we have the computer just pitch down to compensate? We know the angle of attack and the engine thrust output."

<implements>

Meanwhile in another conference room:

"United is telling us that Airbus is giving them an A321 for 10% less than us. What can we cut?"

"No regulation requires us to have 3 angle of attack sensors. We could get by with 1 and stick it on the Minimum Equipment List if it fails."

"That sounds great."

Then the 1 angle of attack sensor fails the system that was designed for 3. Was it the engineer who agreed to hack 737-800 handling emulation onto the 737 MAX that failed here? Was it the engineer that agreed that the AoA sensors didn't need to be redundant, perhaps before MCAS was even invented?

These complex failures are rarely the result of one individual failing. Everyone did their job; the business saved United 10% (I actually have no idea who their launch customer was), the engineer saved thousands of pilots from being pulled off the line for re-training. But combined, it was a tragedy. Ultimately, it's the organization and its processes that failed, not an individual. As a manager, you own the organization and the processes.
> And adding these slight changes is not trying to "hammer" javascript into being "more typical OOP".

this is disingenuous and I'm ending it here. MS spent years trying, and initially failing, to get javascript to work in a more traditionally OOP way.

describing that as slight is something else.
Every day the idea that people (or even corporations!) can own ideas becomes more and more absurd to me.
Yes Arno was very interesting! Gonna read up more on the Big Bang and his work now, thanks!
Agile Has Failed. Officially
Same mechanism, different frequency.

Microwaves and radiant heat are both primarily EM radiation at different frequencies.

The frequency of microwaves was chosen due to the resonant frequency of water and thus is absorbed in the area near the surface of most food items, with radiant and kinetic heating spreading to the interior.

There is some minor differences with convection but a conventional stove heating element doesn't care if it is the air or the food that absorbs the photons it is releasing.

I guess the near surface of the food being directly heated vs nichrome wire producing infrared radiation can be considered 'very different'

But the need to preheat a conventional oven for even cooking is because it is mostly radiant heat transfer of infrared radiation.
Related:

Gambas Basic – A Linux Basic Flavor in the Spirit of VB - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37481718 - Sept 2023 (1 comment)

Gambas Almost Means BASIC - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35361192 - March 2023 (47 comments)

Gambas: Visual Basic on Linux - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22574385 - March 2020 (82 comments)
The probability of that is really low though, theres not a lot of area with dense population when looking at the whole earth. And for your redirection to work, you would need really precise trajectory predictions while still very far away so a small impulse is enough.
I'll go yet another step further, and say that the main opposition to having a better technical system of government identification is because we're lacking a comprehensive privacy law akin to the GDPR. As it stands if the government started say issuing smart cards for identify verification, then every business would gradually force their customers to identify themselves, for helping the commercial surveillance industry track everything they do. This is the current dynamic with mobile apps, phone numbers, and existing static identifiers, and it's only held back because one can feign not having them and/or being worried about giving out that info. Whereas with actually secure technicals, that friction basically disappears. And so the only way to prevent this dynamic (and make it so better identification isn't itself a security vulnerability) is by gaining the legal right to inspect/audit/reject the collection, use, and storage of such information in the first place.
I’ve been that junior engineer more than once (and not always junior), and I’ve had to deal with it more than once. The proof is in the pudding, and the pudding is that there are at least four distinct significant mechanical issues; three have led to major emergencies on board.

The second element is that this particular junior engineer has seen enough to know not to share his name. Naivety goes both ways, and the rhetorical engineer tends to leave identifiable information if they don’t think getting caught is a problem. This one does. He’s asked internally, and the answer wasn’t reassuring. I’ve been on the receiving end of “What do you think we should do about this?” and hard trade-offs; if the manager knows what they are doing and they are not pushing bad stories, the junior engineer learns something.

The last element is that this is not new: very senior engineers complaining about penny-pushing MBAs ruining the company and “that won’t stop until someone gets hurt” are as old as the merger with McDonnel-Douglas.

Would I trust the technical details and the recommendation of that particular engineer? Lord No: I know nothing about airplanes. But I know what a dysfunctional operation sounds like, and that sounds like the bassoon—but there’s the strings, the brass, and the percussions playing the same tune.
Yes they made decorative objects, but those objects were written about and depicted in art. these aren't.
I like the security device theory: it’s a bag lock or something like that and rope(s) was going through of it in a certain pattern. So couldn’t be tampered with.
It will be in major cities and that’s what the bet is.
I see. And how have you determined that?
The server-free architecture described at the end of the article does not seem to involve syncing data to somewhere else — it seems the data would only reside on the user's local device.
ha that's so funny I just heard about this from my friends a few days ago. They are all pretty loyal Pokemon fans despite being in their 30's.

They were all excited for this game, and as a fan myself, I have to agree that it does look pretty cool.

There's already several copycat franchises that are obvious knock-offs of Pokemon, the biggest of which is probably Digimon.

How is this any different than Digimon?
I look forward to AI blocking ads after it gets tired of clicking through all of them.
I think it’s relevant, and you are basically saying you don’t like my argument therefore it’s wrong too.
For me the hardest part of learning ML was getting over imposter syndrome. It felt like I needed a PhD and hardcore math skills. That’s what made me so hesitant in learning it. I thought: there’s already so many people much more smarter and advanced for me. Why even bother?

It wasn’t until I was “forced” to learn it to solve a problem I was facing, that I realized ML is just like any other engineering topic - whether it’s devops or data engineering. You just need motivation, some patience and ideally a project/problem that you can solve while learning all this stuff.
> The degradation increases the amount of negative charge in the cell over time due to trapped electrons in the oxide and negates some of the control gate voltage, this over time also makes erasing the cell slower, so to maintain the performance and reliability of the NAND chip, the cell must be retired from use.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flash_memory

IIRC from when I worked making microcontrollers, there is a feedback loop on the erase that makes sure the bits all read 1 as they should. This takes longer based on how many write/erase cycles have occurred.

I’d have loved to find an actual data sheet to show you as an example, but here is something I found:

https://e2e.ti.com/support/microcontrollers/arm-based-microc...

> The erase time is worst case for a single sector when doing sector erase, or the whole bank if doing bank erase. In bank erase all the sectors are being erased at the same time so the time of the bank erase is equal to the time to erase the slowest sector.

> Erase time degrades with the number of write erase cycles. Sometimes during erase traps (an extra electron or hole stuck in the oxide lattice) are formed in the erase oxide. These traps make the next erase harder. Some of the traps will anneal with time and high temperature.
> My understanding from the book is that life is impossible in two dimensions

I recall that alien species specifically talking about making the transition to 2D. And that the gunner who used the weapon against Earth speculated that this is what their own government figures had decided to do (otherwise the gunner's superior wouldn't have signed off so readily on use of the weapon). I.e. it takes an advanced technology to make life possible in 2D, but it isn't impossible.
I agree, and this also applies to basically every venture capitalist backed venture these days. They are effectively pump and dump schemes.
https doesn't force you to pay taxes to CAs because they got into bed with OSes
It has literally been in San Fran for over a year where some parts are arguably harder than NYC.
Maybe, for my personal purposes it does not. Considering how I use, and intend to use a laptop, I wound not purchase the GPU module.

I'm judging the two as a replacement for my current laptop, and the GPU does not really affect that. The soldered RAM on the Tuxedo Pulse 14 laptop does indeed give me doubts, I'm not saying it's flawless, only that, at least to me, it provides a better overall justification for the purchase.
I would say they generally set up to corner the market in 2-3 generations.

First iPhone, first iPod.. didn't quite take over the market, but it was a quick path from there to being dominating 3 iterations down the line.

I don't think this is realistic for cars though. It doesn't feel like a good idea to me, but who knows..
Know what's already illegal? Passing on the right:

> Laws that cover passing when crossing the centerline of the roadway is not required (where there are multiple lanes in the same direction), often say something like this:

> The driver of a vehicle overtaking another vehicle proceeding in the same direction shall pass to the left thereof at a safe distance and shall not again drive to the right side of the roadway until safely clear of the overtaken vehicle.

source: https://www.nolo.com/legal-encyclopedia/free-books/beat-tick...
Rivian is considered to be in the "hyper-luxury truck" category.
Suv style vehicles are actually a lot more dangerous in the snow. Its so much more mass you are dealing with and damage when you lose grip entirely on ice under gravity power alone. On video clips of this sedans and such might kind of bump against a parked car and come to a stop while the big Suburban goes on to total a parked car with all the kinetic energy. If you want a snow tank, get a car that weighs like ~2500lbs, put on actual snow tires, and keep the transmission in high gear to engine brake. It also helps to learn to brake traction and skid with control in a snowy empty parking lot.
Why do you think they can't explain it with their own words?

What's the point of trying to write out an explanation of why a claim that has been debunked so many times is wrong when they don't know why you think it isn't or what arguments you may have heard before that you found unconvincing? What do you think justifies such an expense of energy?

Or do you think any video can be condensed into one or two sentences that are sufficient to convince anyone holding opposite views that they are wrong?
> Anarchism by definition is not organized

No, anarchism can be "organized" (i.e. have structures). Delegation is compatible with anarchy, representation (i.e. "voting" on a representative for the group who then gets to speak on behalf of the entire group regardless of what the individual opinion of any member of the group may be on any given issue they speak on) is not. You can even have "leaders" (e.g. CEOs, captains at sea, etc) in anarchist organizations as long as their position is contingent on the support of those they "lead" (e.g. a captain may yell orders in order to steer the ship but the crew has to agree with the course they are setting).

There are antropological examples of non-hiearchical groups forming temporary command structures to tackle a crisis which would then be dissolved once the crisis had been averted or overcome. A well-known example are the Cherokee (pre-19th century) who had "red chiefs" (war chiefs) to plan and carry out hostilities and "white chiefs" to act as ambassadors and spokespeople towards other communities. But even those were contingent on communal support and were readily replaced if found to be inadequate or distrusted.

> pacifists

It's worth mentioning that pacifism as a philosophy is actually more complex than "not doing violence". There are pacifists who see self-defense as acceptable or would even make a case for defending others. "Pacifism" in political struggles is specifically a strategy based on voluntary self-sacrifice. It doesn't mean "no violence" it only means "no violence from me".

I'd wager that while most anarchists may be "pacifist" in the sense that they don't support the "propaganda of the deed" (i.e. political assassinations, bombings, etc to radicalise the oppressed against their oppressors - which has historically backfired) I sincerely doubt most anarchists believe in self-sacrifice by intentionally refusing any form of self-defense when targeted by physical violence (which has historically worked at times but been shown to be far less reliable in modern times).
I hope that all these insights about diffusion model training that have been explored in last few years will be used by Stability AI to train their large text-to-image models, because when it comes to that they just use to most basic pipeline you can imagine with plenty of problems that get "solved" by some workarounds, for example to train SDXL they used the scheduler used by the DDPM paper(2020), epsilon-objective and noise-offset, an ugly workaround that was created when people realized that SD v1.5 wasn't able to generate images that were too dark or bright, a problem related to the epsilon-objective that cause the model to always generate images with a mean close to 0 (the same as the gaussian noise).

A few people have finetuned Stable Diffusion models on v-objective and solved the problem from the root.
I don't think it has anything to do with resources. It's more to do with anyone in the galaxy can decide to end your planet, do you really want to bet your civilization on ALL other civilizations being friendly? It could be rational, game theory, "grabby aliens", religious reasons, etc.

The other issue is you could meet a perfectly sane looking alien civilization, but lose track of them, and before you check in again (say after 100 years) they could be a completely different civilization. Just imagine if the USA can go from far Obama to Trump in a year (or a day), how far you might get in 100 years.

Combine the high latency communications and impossible defense against a good offense (near light speed weapons) leads to the dark forest hypothesis.
This is why most anarchists are heavily invested in the idea of prefiguration, i.e. forming horizontal structures and support networks BEFORE trying to overthrow the state or creating autonomous zones etc. Because otherwise you just create a power vaccuum for other organized groups to move in and take over.

In other words, when anarchists say they want to "abolish the police" they don't mean just deleting the police and crossing their fingers because that's how you get organized crime taking over instead. What they mean is creating alternative systems at the same time as dismantling the police system (e.g. in the context of the state this could mean incrementally reinvesting police funds in social services, emergency health services, mental health crisis services, or even self-defense training programs; outside that context it could mean various forms of communal support networks and mutual aid).

CHAZ, to the extent it can be considered an anarchist project, was a hot mess from day zero. Instead of having pre-existing structures, it tried to build those structures on the spot. If you want to see successful anarchist projects the clue is generally that they don't try hard to label themselves as anarchist because the label provides no additional value. Instead you often find labels such as "radical democracy". Two major example are the Zapatistas and Rojava.

You'll also note that these examples always run into natural contradictions because of the environment they exist in. But ideologically, whether stated explicitly or not, the ideal they strive for is anarchist and their means to accomplish that ideal are measured by it rather than being allowed to contradict it as in vanguardist socialist projects (which historically always manifest as authoritarian hierarchical systems instead).
Why do you think this rate is not acceptable? I would say it's more than acceptable, even as a single data point. If someone's submission comes up as positive on two separate occasions you've pretty much eliminated the chance of a false positive.
No, the root of this branch of the cyclist discussion is the country trail; which was highlighted to point out cyclists are just as bad as any other group in their behaviour at times.

Suggesting it was to justify aggression and violence towards anybody is bad faith at best, a lie at worst. Please don't use such tactics here, and certainly not with me.
I've slept in kind of a modern version in Singapore like this https://www.alibaba.com/product-detail/Customized-Good-quali... They are quite a good solution for backpacker type accom. I don't know if they could be used for homeless folk?
The bet doesn't seem to require service in NYC. It says:

By "major cities" we mean any of the top 10 most populous cities in the United States of America.
It's perfectly legal in California to safely pass on the right on a multilane highway and in some other situations. What is illegal is using anything other than a normal traffic lane to do this, such as the shoulder.

Of course this does not excuse GP's practice where "I regularly pass people on the right and then cut them off getting back into the left lane..."

Unless I misunderstood GP's comment, that sounds like reckless driving.

Source:

CVC 21754. The driver of a vehicle may overtake and pass to the right of another vehicle only under the following conditions: (c) Upon any highway outside of a business or residence district with unobstructed pavement of sufficient width and clearly marked for two or more lines of moving traffic in the direction of travel.

CVC 21755. (a) The driver of a vehicle may overtake and pass another vehicle upon the right only under conditions permitting that movement in safety. In no event shall that movement be made by driving off the paved or main-traveled portion of the roadway.

[other subsections omitted here, see below for full text]

https://law.justia.com/codes/california/2022/code-veh/divisi...

https://law.justia.com/codes/california/2022/code-veh/divisi...
What does it mean to "own land" when there is no state or private army to manifest that claim? It sounds like you're thinking in terms of "anarcho-capitalism" which tries to maintain the idea of private property without a state. That is, by the way, why anarchists don't consider "anarcho-capitalism" a form of anarchism. Its founder primarily chose the label because they liked the sound of it, not because the idea had any but the most superficial ties to prior anarchist thought.

At best you can make a claim for land ownership through land use and even that is contingent on the consent of others. Humans are social animals. We may have created various fictions to justify hierarchies between us (e.g. divine right, private property, legal contracts) but at the end of the day the only thing enforcing them is the threat of physical violence at the hands of the state (i.e. police or military) or the ruler's private army (as in a monarchy). Without those, those fictions are only contingent on each individual's willingness to maintain them. Arguably the only function of the state is to manifest private property in the first place (whether to protect pre-existing claims or to allow the creation of new ones such as through intellectual property laws).
Disagree. Waymo is currently at level 3. From your link, emergency responders have the ability to put the car in a manual mode to get it out of the way if it is stuck. Waymo also has employees make decisions on behalf of the car remotely when it finds itself in a tricky situation.

Level 5 fully autonomous would mean the car is able to drive in icy and snowy conditions (adjusting how it drives based on traction), it would be able to respond to verbal commands from construction workers, and it would be able to detect when a hazard in the road prevents it from continuing, plan a new route, and detour.

There isn't much incentive for Waymo or its competitors to create level 5 autonomous cars when there is a plenty large market in places where there is good weather and good signal for an employee to tell the car what to do if necessary.
You may have pressed the button, but the actual commit action was done by GitHub's infrastructure, hence they are listed as committer. Think of it as an acknowledgment that maybe they were hacked and made to do the commit even if you didn't want it.

If you want to do the commit yourself, you can run `git merge` locally and push the result. They won't touch the commit (including the committer) in that case, because the commit hash must never change. I'm not sure if they track who did the push (or even what the sensible value would be if two people pushed the same commit to two different forks).
Personally, I think the visual designs in Digimon are significantly more distinct from Pokemon.
That is very true, with the caveat that FAA and NHTSA aren’t the fastest at putting out a report —by design, thankfully: I want that thing vetted. It’s been three weeks. That would be better if we knew much more in the next week or two. If not, we shouldn’t be too patient either.
What is level 5? Just widespread level 4? Because Waymo is definitely at level 4.
How does this handle 3D reality capture datasets such as las, obj, slpk/i3S? I saw support for 3D building tilesets but could not find anything else
Ask HN: Those making $500/month on side projects in 2024 – Show and tell
Got a side project? Making money? Please share! $500+/month show and tells welcome, cuz inflation. :)

Previously asked on:

2023 → https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34482433

2022 → https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29995152

2021 → https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29667095

2020 → https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24947167
Also, like most topics, there are multiple levels of understanding, and you generally don't have to reach the deepest layers to be somewhat productive.
these are the caliber of the American praetorian guard who owns our politicians.
COMAC has delivered 4 this far.
Hmm? What about LunarVim?
The NSA is not a military agency. It is within the dod, it provides combat support. But it is emphatically not a military agency.
Apple may be the way Chinese manufacturers get into the US market. Apple will make a lot of noise about their car being a US product, but it will really be made by BYD and Foxconn in Guangdong.
What would make such a person an official one?
Needed a new OS installed. Couldn't revert to Ventura, it won't let you downgrade. Also, it wouldn't even let me reinstall the same point release. Ended up having to install Sonoma (or wait who knows how long for a newer point release of Ventura... weeks, months?).
Original source: https://leehamnews.com/2024/01/15/unplanned-removal-installa...