skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I know this isn't causing this particular incident, but what is it with the completely un-understandable speech cadence/articulation of virtually every ATC/pilot I've ever heard? Considering that they're already talking over very lossy radio channels and communicating life-or-death information, you'd think they would all be going out of their way to speak very clearly, enunciate slowly, etc.

Instead, these conversations are completely unintelligible, presumably why videos like these require subtitles. It's not because of the jargon, it all makes sense when I see it spelled out. It's just the way they're slurring and mumbling everything. The very first sentence in the video (at ~0:26) when he's saying "Delta 29 Heavy", I cannot for the life of me make out a "nine" in there. It sounds like "twanna heavy". Just picking on this example because it happens to be the very first syllables in the video, but they're all like that. If I gave these audio clips to a completely native English speaker they would probably be able to accurately transcribe about 15% of it.

How do more mistakes not happen in ATC? Why does everyone insist in talking this way? I'm asking non-ironically.
Other guy lost interest, but a wheel being able to regen brake just means theres an ungeared electric motor on it. It's basically free for the manufacturer to add the feature, so they all do it. Mechanical brakes are seperate and still required for harder braking.
I have no idea what you read in my post to come to such a conclusion. I was talking about career because the blog post was about career. I am not singularly focused on work, quite the opposite. The older I get, the more time I invest into my numerous hobbies and my wonderful family instead.
Which they might have now that they have a running business...
(just doing roll call here with initals WW)
Not a quibble at all. The redshift I'm referring to is the kind of redshift due to gravity, as opposed what you're describing which is redshift due to the Doppler effect.
> so I must conclude that plants are just dummy food put in nature by God for humans to eat (divine intervention)

Honestly no idea what you’re talking about, here.

> When you say vegan stuff like that, you should be more precise: people do not need to eat meat to survive. Survival and good health are on the opposite end of the spectrum.

I needn’t be more precise. Meat is not required for survival or for good health. Exception being if one’s situation demands eating meat. For somebody reading/commenting on HN, eating meat is almost certainly a decision, not a requirement of any sort.
Thank you Juraj!
i also find it difficult to find data on how much they're scaling but anecdotally, i've been seeing a steady increase in waymo vehicles all year, here in tempe i encounter at least 3-4 every day it seems, driving in some pretty impressively heavy pedestrian traffic and on freeways too
Faith Deconstructed or Reconstructed
It’s good someone said ‘the spying wasn’t actually going to stop’. An opinion may be that they would find any other means to do it; publicly or privately.

After the 2008 lapse and the fight over this one there is probably a signed paper in a safe authorizing a list of alternatives.

>>To be clear, the spying wasn’t actually going to stop. As Sen. Mike Lee (R-OH) pointed out on the Senate floor on Friday afternoon, the FISA court recently granted a government request to allow the program to continue until April 2025.

Sen. John Cornyn (R-TX) claimed that the FISA court’s extension of Section 702 certification “doesn’t mean the program can continue uninterrupted for another year.”<<<
For sleep, I really enjoyed Matthew Walker's book "Why We Sleep".

It really helps cement the need for sleep, even if you _think_ you don't need it. Not getting enough is going to kill you in the long run, both mentally and physically. And no, you're not "built different" if you think you don't need 7 hours of sleep.
Try again. More like comparing Excel with VB macros (cloud) to a programming language. Artificial proprietary restrictions and inexplicable intricacies.
My conjecture is that some research requires a type of out of the box thinking that is not readily available in current technical solutions.
Waymo does not sell cars. They are in a different business.

I don’t really know the numbers but Waymo adds something like 50k worth of hardware into the cars. That is not a viable approach for consumer cars (Mercedes, Tesla, etc).
Really? I feel like whenever a doctor sees that I have really good insurance they feel the need to use every single machine they have as a diagnostic. I generally don't care because my copay is generally the same regardless and I figure it is good to be thorough, but I do realize that is probably driving up the costs for everyone in the long run.
Maybe a hard topic? But as balanced and mutually respectful as two sides of a coin
The thing is, users don’t care why the currency lost value, just that it did. Fixing one reason for that is only a start.

Inelastic supply means the price depends entirely on demand, so it will shoot up and down when demand changes. This is a speculator’s playground.

But another word for the situation causing a price increase is a shortage. Stability comes from elastic supply that responds to demand. Algorithmic stablecoins are snake oil, but they do appear to have more stable prices until they collapse.

To prevent that, there needs to be someone willing to buy back the currency when demand collapses (losing a lot of money in the process) rather than running away like everyone else.

Does Bitcoin have enough die-hard believers to do that? So far they’ve been able to stave off complete collapse and come back stronger, but in the future, who knows. When investors get spooked and sell off Bitcoin ETF’s, what happens?
It does make things tougher financially for the union but certainly still doable. Especially if you have a big national like UAW that can step in if need be. My guess would be if 70% voted in favor you'd see around that amount paying dues.
What if you make the hyperlink a dot or a zero width character? What if you place it adjacent to a legitimate link?
I don't get it. What's it do?
I’m sorry for implying that was your background, but I don’t think that blaming the worker for taking shitty jobs is remotely fair. The jobs aren’t shitty because of the workers; they’re shitty because the owner/upper hierarchy of the company, the people who make every single decision about the company’s structure and large-scale actions, want it to be shitty. Blaming people who need to work somewhere to feed their family or escape poverty for taking a job with a crap company that pays good money just seems completely backwards. Glad you could avoid that, but in the absence of good alternatives (similarly paying, non-shit companies) I don’t think we should blame the person who takes the bigger check when people have good reasons to need money.
If electronics and software manufacturers were held liable for their products, we would not deal with this stuff very often.
Check out the book "Why We Sleep" by Matthew Walker.
Corruption of our intelligence agencies to the point they've been weaponized against our own elected officials.
Given the reporting requirements, how sure are you that these incidents happy every day?
A PR lie.

Watch a Tesla FSD 12.3.4 video, then one of Mercedes and see for yourself.
I doubt they're profitable though. From Bing:

> As of the latest available information, Waymo is not yet profitable. Alphabet’s Q2 2023 earnings report indicated that its “Other Bets” category, which includes Waymo, had revenues of $285 million and an operating loss of $813 million. This was a decrease in operating loss from $1.34 billion in the second quarter of 2022, but still significant. Over the last five years, “Other Bets” has generated $3 billion in cumulative revenue but incurred $20 billion in operating losses, with Waymo constituting the bulk of these losses.

I just don't see the end game. Are marginal rides not profitable even at Uber fates? Uber for instance was losing money because they were taking rev from profitable cities to give incentives and build up drivers in the new markets. But Waymo doesn't have that problem. Is it just GPU spend that they can eventually stop?
I wouldn't say "teach". But you're right that docs are forced to obey insurance companies. Not only in the US, but everywhere insurance companies are a thing. Yet, docs are almost always the main target for complaints, while insurance companies act in a very capitalistic way by optimizing for C-suite bonuses.
Nope, currently it's very dummy calendar which just shows dates. I have vague plans to integrate it with Google calendar at least, but there is not ETA for that
Price. Smart TVs are cheaper, whether you care about the "smarts" or not.

https://www.statista.com/forecasts/1283880/global-television...

The average TV costs $333. Put another way, the average consumer is spending $333 on their TV (I think that's a correct inference?). At that price you can get a pretty large 4K LCD panel supporting HDR.

I think you'd be hard pressed to find a competitor at that price point, and I'm guessing you spent significantly more than that on your setup. I'm sure that choice made sense for you, but you're not the average consumer.
Someone should show this to Squarepusher's brother (aka Ceephax Acid Crew).
I looked at my site analytics and realized this is where it was coming from :-o

I should turn on international shipment, but Stripe doesn't support auto calculate rates. CNC machined from aluminum. USB C. I did test it with powerpoint just now, works!
Many baby boomers own homes that are too big. Can they be enticed to sell them?
> used for self-serving purposes

That is inevitable. If there is an easier path to a goal some human will use it. It doesn't matter if the goal is against the people.
I'm less optimistic. Unlike the 80s we are quickly approaching the limits of node feature sizes. Barring radically new designs and materials, I think it's reasonable to assume that we are reaching the power:computational limits of silicon.
What, you don't have backup nodes in a rad-hardened cabinet under your house?
The angle is about 9x10^-5 radians. If you were to take a meter stick (or a yard stick) and stick a piece of paper under one end, that's the precision within which it can point the dish. (While the earth is spinning, and going around the sun!) The actual width of the beam is about 5 times that angle.
And because he built actually useful things.

I never worked with Solaris and the like, but it's my understanding the GNU tools were useful enough that they got routinely installed on the commercial unixes before Linux came along.

This is sadly something that seems to be getting lost. GNU tooling doesn't seem that competitive anymore, and the trend is to write newer, fancier replacements, like ripgrep for example.
It sounds a lot better in the tower and cockpit. Much better receiving equipment, much closer proximity. The tower doesn't broadcast at high power because it doesn't need to. These ATC recordings are only available for us to listen to because someone volunteered to record and upload them; that someone probably doesn't live in the airport.

That said I still made out Delta 29 Heavy just fine. Maybe it's years of listening to these recordings.

Edit: Notice how the plane inbound and 4 miles out sounded a lot better? They were probably a lot closer to the person recording. That's how it should sound.
> Caching is a pretty reasonable thing for software to do.

Every software that saves something needs to have a way to deal with too many things being saved.

It's called testing software. Maybe Microsoft should try it.
I do run a pretty similar setup for some projects, and in general I tend to agree with the author, especially when bootstrapping cloud services can cost quite some bucks for mediocre performance.

There is, however, one big disadvantage one should be aware of, and that is downtime. There will be downtime when you

* push a new version of your project

* install package updates for docker, postgres, ...

* install a new kernel and need to reboot

* need to upgrade the base OS because you can't stay on Ubuntu 16.04 for the next 10 years (this one can take hours)

Of course there are projects which can live with that. If your target audience is 9-5 office workers, some downtime at night might be acceptable. At least if you don't have customers in other timezones.

IMHO, the sweet spot would be to have two identical servers with automatic failover, but I did not find a good solution for that yet. Would be very interested if someone here has a solution for that and is willing to share.
> Surgeon get immediate feedback if they make mistakes because their patient might die or get severely disabled, but is there any feedback to GPs about the effectiveness of their work?

I disagree with this. If a patient dies from a surgical complication, it is often weeks or months later, on a nonsurgical service because there are no surgical options left for the patient.

> Let's say someone is not treated that well by his doctor for a chronic condition. He gets to the emergency in a different hospital and probably dies. Does his GP get to know about it?

Yes, they get to know about it. But ascribing cause and effect in a chronic disease is difficult.

Eventually everyone will die, even if they get perfect treatment. I'm not saying there's no such thing as medical error - in some cases there is clear and obvious error - but what's much more common is a situation of "Did I do the wrong thing, or did I do the right thing but they were so sick that they died anyway?" And there are often many years separating cause and effect, which muddies the picture even further. That's why learning from specific patient outcomes is tricky and why doctors lean so heavily on evidence based medicine, which means learning from large medical trials with rigorous statistical controls.

> For example, many doctors in my country believe that Left Ventricular Hypertrophy (LVH) on an ECG is nothing much to worry about, as long as there is no anatomical LVH showing up on an Echocardiogram. Yet, study after study online concludes that ECG LVH is a serious marker of cardiac pathology distinct from (but related to) from anatomical LVH.

There's a difference between serious pathology and serious pathology you can do something about. I agree that LVH on EKG is a bad sign, even if the ultrasound is normal. But what is your GP going to do about it? There are many test results that are abnormal and/or correlated with bad outcomes, but only a subset of those can be labeled with a concrete diagnosis that is well understood medically, and only a subset of those can be treated.

All your GP can do for an ECG finding of LVH is advise blood pressure control, cholesterol control, exercising frequently, and other things that are generally good for heart health.

On the other hand, if there is anatomical LVH, then the next question is whether there's hypertrophic obstructive cardiomyopathy. That's a concrete diagnosis where we know a lot about the underlying mechanism, which leads to specific advice like avoiding strenuous activity. And some patients with HOCM can benefit from a septal ablation. That's why anatomic LVH gets more attention from doctors.
> or we drop support for Android TV before API-30, and all our users on TV API<30 can’t get fixes.

The answer to this one is obvious. Drop support for API <30. The older version of the app will work well enough for those users.

At present nobody is getting updates. Giving updates to everyone >=31 is an improvement to the status quo.

Don’t bother with the Windows Store or Mac App Store. Those users don’t need app stores.

I think it’s not up to the individual developers to make these platforms a good place for their users. The platform owners already control that fate. If your Android TV device becomes a brick with apps that can’t be updated after ~5 years that should teach the customer to find something else next time.
I don't know the answer, but there has definitely been a proliferation of YouTube channels that feature every single aviation anomaly. So, I suspect that it's at least somewhat the fact that a lot more attention is being called to these incidents than would have been in the recent past.
US House passes bill to ban TikTok if owners won't divest
Alright, yolo, I just did it. I did it because of these reasons:

> (1) "probably not good enough / won't get in" - you'd be surprised at how many people feel that way, whether because of impostor syndrome, lack of credentials, whatever—and often they turn out to be among the best founders. So this a terrible reason not to apply!

I have nothing going on at the moment. I am starting to apply to new jobs (have an interview with Google coming up). But I'm open to do the entrepreneurship thing. I always wanted to do it for years, strongly (I created my study program in such a way that it'd help if I'd ever do entrepreneurship). Nowadays it's not strong, I'm simply open to it.

> (2) "too early" - there's no such thing. YC looks for good potential founders—meaning anyone who can learn what they teach—and nothing else. You're already yourself, which is all you need.

Well, I don't have a project started. I have nothing. I did build stuff in the past and I do have a bunch of ideas, which I showed in my application. So let's see if there is no such thing indeed ;-)

> Some of YC's big successes start off as last-minute applications on a whim

Basically this.
In addition to what others have said about pricing, you need to compare Waymo with Uber Black, not UberX or shared rides. Waymo says they are aiming to be a premium service because the cars (Jaguar I-pace) are much nicer and, of course, there’s the novelty of not having a driver.
Again, not for you. Just because something undermines the tools of hegemony your comfy lifestyle depends on does not mean it's not a feature for other people with other priorities.
I'd love if my cellphone had a lateral button like old portable radios had to adjust the volume but with the sole purpose of scrolling. Scrolling on the screen is annoying, my finger covers the content and I must be careful not to click something. I really can't believe I'm the only one desiring such a thing.
Site doesn't even work on Android.
That's a cop-out. Sure, the methodical process of science doesn't, strictly-speaking, require induction, but we still have to decide whether to expect the result of scientific inquiry to be useful.
> Second, he starts with sudo. Where's that command line coming from? Who installed the OS? Who maintains it? What about availability zones and fast failover?

I've noticed most of these anti-cloud articles omit this exact point consistently. So we'll replace "the cloud" with docker compose! Because apparently docker compose just spins up resources ex nihilo.

There's also often the contrived assumption that "the cloud" means a bunch of huge bills because you automatically launch every service available and run them constantly. Also you run the largest instances because reasons.
I thought the universal consensus is that it's net benefit for the currently employed, where the product, company/shareholders and employment bears the cost. Zero sum game, with negative externalities.

In particular, flexible employment is what allowed US to recover from covid much quicker than europe, for example.
There are two concerns I have with your reply:

* Everything I'm reading about education in North Korea indicates it is actually fairly intensive.

* A trend or tendency admits of exceptions, so finding one or two exceptions doesn't answer the trend.
The best part about the cloud for me is that it scales down to ZERO. We used to get large on-prem servers that could handle the worst case, only for them to sit idle 90% of the time. Now we just spin up the 5-10 EC2s we need a couple days a week when we receive new data.
have you raised any capital for this project? i think a lot of incubators could be interested in helping you enshittify this idea.
Very cool project! I like that you support REST API. That's something we don't have yet.
We actively decided to use Firecracker microVMs [0] instead of containers for hardened security.

> making sure someone doesn’t use your infrastructure to DDOS other folks
Agreed. And crypto mining!

> The pain point of all of this is dependencies
Would love to learn more. Can you elaborate?

Another challenge is how to make the whole product cost efficient for our users. You don't want them to pay for idle sandboxes running on E2B but only when they actually need them for serverless execution. Firecracker and its snapshots are really helpful with this.

[0] https://github.com/firecracker-microvm/firecracker
Thank you - you're right I did assume that. Plus the fact that my handbrake only actuates my rear drum brakes (and sends me into a fishtail drift). I didn't realize my foot pedal was also actuating that, but if so sounds like a smart design.
That's true, but teletext isn't theoretically more constrained than the Web is. There's nothing stopping, for instance, teletext operators from producing pixelated animations or scrolling text effects, just as there's nothing stopping Web developers from adding accessibility-hostile layouts.

In Britain, teletext hasn't been available for over ten years now, but at the same time, a department called the Government Digital Services do an excellent job of making public websites accessible - complete with ARIA labels, semantic elements, all of that sort of thing. I'd easily acknowledge that teletext was ahead of its time, but I don't lament its replacement with the Web.
Are you sure about that? If it starts raining or the sun goes down, the system isn't going to alert the driver to take over?
it just constantly scrolls down on your screen, its a gag product
But Popper wasn't saying that empiricism could be justified empirically, was he?

In his own words, in the section on the problem of induction in The Logic of Scientific Discovery:

"My own view is that the various diﬃculties of inductive logic here
sketched are insurmountable. So also, I fear, are those inherent in the
doctrine, so widely current today, that inductive inference, although
not ‘strictly valid’, can attain some degree of ‘reliability’ or of ‘probability’."

He then goes on to provide the (now contentious) falsification-based view of science after conceding that inductivism can't work.
I know a few doom scrollers for whom this would be incredibly tempting. The video looked like it requires a lot of rotations per screen tick. Can that be adjusted?

Now I am wondering if you can connect a bluetooth mouse to a phone to achieve the same effect, albeit in a less convenient package.
Could your share how do you use it for programming? Do you screenshare the dev apps from your computer, or run tools locally? If the latter, which tools?
How do you handle downtime due to project/package/os upgrades?
policy makers need to be informed to make smart policy, how else would we trust a bunch of polisci majors to implement climate and tech and ag policies? this is unfortunately too easy to game by hiring people to go put your thoughts in ears.

also, it's important to remember that there are lobbyists on all sides of an argument (some with much more paid time on their hands than others, but) its not hard to be one for an issue you want to impact if youre a subject matter expert.

i dont think we should or could be eliminating lobbying but tightly controlling how money/gifts/time are allocated to people who are speaking to politicians and policy makers about a particular issue
Most don't, but you can get a t3.micro RDS database and EC2 instance for less than $20/month, to service those two requests per second you're getting. I would assume most startup founders in the US can afford this. If they can but consider it too unlikely they'll recoup these costs, you're getting into "hobby project" territory rather than business.