To my knowledge, at no time since the founding of NATO has any member of Congress considered such a bill necessary to protect other NATO members from the U.S. executive branch's own aggressions. But these are the times we live in.
It's also the case that e.g. Amazon will rarely show the exact product you search for, and will instead promote an equivalent product that pays them for placement - often extremely similar looking. Web searches are getting worse too, with AI-generated content letting scammy alternatives look more professional than ever. We're circling back to links being king.
People are downvoting comments about the impact of this bill on LGBTQ+ people, but “protecting minor children from the transgender [sic] in this culture” was literally the stated motivation by the senator who co-introduced KOSA: https://www.nbcnews.com/nbc-out/out-politics-and-policy/sena...
If courts can look at the statements of bills' sponsors when interpreting laws, it's not unreasonable for us to do the same when thinking critically about a bill's likely implementation.
One of the challenges I imagine you'll face as you move towards active advisory is that the more an alerting tool is relied upon, the more an absence of a flag from it is considered a positive signal that things are fine. "I didn't hear from Enhanced Radar, so we don't need to worry about ___" is a situation where a hallucinated silence of the alerting tool could contribute to danger, even if it's billed as an "extra" safety net.
I imagine that aviation regulatory bodies have high standards for this - a tool being fully additive to existing tools does not necessarily mean that it's cleared for use in a cockpit or in an ATC tower, right? Do you have thoughts about how you'll approach this? Also curious from a broader perspective - how do you sell any alerting tool into a niche that's highly conscious of distractions, and of not just false positive alerts but false negatives as well?
Yes, fair points. In talking to controllers, this has already come up. There are a few systems that do advisory alerting and controllers have expressed some frustration because each alert triggers a bunch of paperwork and they are not 100% relevant.
There are lots of small steps on this ladder.
The first is post-operational. You trigger an alert async and someone reviews it after the fact. Tools like this help bring awareness to hot spots or patterns of error that can be applied later in real time by the human controller.
A step up from that is real-time alerting, but not to the main station controller. There's always a manager in the tower that's looking over everyone's shoulder and triaging anything that comes up. That person is not as focused on any single area as the main controllers. There's precedence for tools surfacing alerts to the manager, and then they decide whether it's worth stepping in. This will probably be where our product sits for a while.
The bar to get in front of an active station controller is extremely high. But it's also not necessary for a safety net product like this to be helpful in real time.
I have no doubt that we'll see stories about niche industries still built on the backs of Skype that are scrambling to adapt. Nowadays, I suppose it's likely a rounding error compared to other ways that geopolitical forces are disrupting various industries... but we should all be aware of the implicit commitment we make to users when releasing any B2C service, and how people will build entire livelihoods around the simplest of services in ways we can't anticipate.
Hi there, inventor of the kebab plugin for traindeck here. I'm afraid I was the one who introduced the concept of kebab case, way back in the early 1990s. Back then, trains didn't have enough processing power to handle full cuts of meat, so I thought I'd introduce kebabs as a hack, and it ended up taking off! Didn't expect anyone to still be using it. It's always fun to share stories on HN - you never know who you'll meat here.
And going beyond this: my layman's understanding of biology is that the way in which genes are expressed can be highly nonlinear and modulated by all sorts of different pathways. If you have some clarity on how these pathways work, probabilistic programming might be a helpful tool here in a Bayesian context.
> Hi. I'm the Netscape Navigator marketing guy. Please forgive the
temerity with which we submit this new proposal from Netscape to
the W3 and IETF for enhancements to HTML 3.0. It pertains to
functionality called Frames.
...
> The NAME attribute is used to assign a name to a frame so it can be
targeted by links in other documents (These are usually from other
frames in the same document.) The NAME attribute is optional; by
default all windows are unnamed.
> Names must begin with an alphanumeric character. However, several
reserved names have been defined, which start with an underscore.
These are currently:
_blank Always load this link into a new, unnamed window.
_self Always load this link over yourself.
_parent Always load this link over your parent.
(becomes self if you have no parent).
_top Always load this link at the top level.
(becomes self if you are at the top).
To my knowledge, at no time since the founding of NATO has any member of Congress considered such a bill necessary to protect other NATO members from the U.S. executive branch's own aggressions. But these are the times we live in.
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