MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by hydrogen7800 | 2025-08-01 20:27:47+00:00
I thought that too until I read this

>Many readers familiar with the Comet disasters might be wondering why, with this article drawing to its close, I have yet to utter the phrase “square windows.” But the truth is that “square windows” never had anything to do with the Comet crashes. The windows were not and never were square — in fact, you can see for yourself in the above image, which shows a Comet 1 window next to a modern Boeing 737 window. Can you tell which is which? You probably can, but not because one is any more “square” than the other.[0]

[0]https://admiralcloudberg.medium.com/neither-money-nor-manpow...
by tylerappeared | 2025-08-01 20:28:00+00:00
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by thisisit | 2025-08-01 20:28:23+00:00
I agree. Sometimes people don’t know how to deliver bad news.

When I was laid off I appeared stoic throughout the conversation. Because lots of people were laid off so there was no point to discuss “why”. The only question was severance. But then the HR got curious about my lack of reaction. He started questioning if I had job offers at hand and if my access could be cut right then (others were given a week).
by avsn | 2025-08-01 20:28:51+00:00
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by nielsbot | 2025-08-01 20:29:49+00:00
"Why Nintendo's Satoru Iwata refuses to lay off staff"

> "If we reduce the number of employees for better short-term financial results, employee morale will decrease," he said. "I sincerely doubt employees who fear that they may be laid off will be able to develop software titles that could impress people around the world."

https://www.polygon.com/2013/7/5/4496512/why-nintendos-sator...

Just something to think about. I get that every company is different.
by BonoboIO | 2025-08-01 20:30:15+00:00
Tesla hid evidence and was probably punished by the jury and I hardly feel sorry for Tesla. Maybe next time they will not do that, but I doubt it. Transparency was never a thing baked into the Tesla Musk DNA.

https://lasvegassun.com/news/2025/aug/01/jury-orders-tesla-t...
by franga2000 | 2025-08-01 20:30:46+00:00
This is exactly how I recognise bad "pentest" firms and tell all my friends and clients the same. If the pentest contains report any mention of [screenshot, obfuscation, root detection, attestation] it's bullshit and you should demand your money back (you won't get it, but still, you should demand it) and tell everyone in your circle to not give another cent to them.
by hn_throwaway_99 | 2025-08-01 20:31:07+00:00
Do you have a link to that, I'd be interested to see their methodology. That confirms my experience. Even before the pandemic, I would often work from home one or two days a week when I needed to be in "heads down" mode and just knock shit out. It was more efficient for me because there were fewer distractions and it was easier for me to get in the zone. But then I still had plenty of time for in-person collaboration with my colleagues.
by naet | 2025-08-01 20:31:51+00:00
The argument is that if the driver was in a different vehicle he would have done just that, pulled over and picked it up, but because he believed the Tesla was capable of driving safely on it's own he didn't do so.

Normally I turn the steering wheel when I want to turn my car. If you sold me a car and told me it had technology to make turns automatically without my input then I might let go of the wheel instead of turning it, something I would never have done otherwise. If I then don't turn and slam straight into a wall, am I at fault for trusting what I was sold to be true?

If the driver has heard that their Tesla is capable of autonomous driving, and therefore trusts it to drive itself, there may be a fair argument that Tesla shares in that blame. If it's a completely unreasonable belief (like me believing my 1998 Toyota is capable of self driving) then that argument falls apart. But if Tesla has promoted their self driving feature as being fully functional, used confusing descriptions like "Full Self-Driving", etc, it might become a pretty reasonable argument.
by paddy_m | 2025-08-01 20:32:18+00:00
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by PluralRyan | 2025-08-01 20:32:37+00:00
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by jimbokun | 2025-08-01 20:32:48+00:00
No.

Absolutely, 100%, no.

A child could be playing out of sight of a parent, maybe a block away with friends, and get mildly injured in a way that requires minor treatment. Or just crying because of a negative interaction with a peer.

This DOES NOT mean children at a certain age and maturity level cannot be trusted to gain some independence and leave their parents line of sight for short but increasingly longer periods of time.
by atomicnumber3 | 2025-08-01 20:33:38+00:00
IME, the best engineers are in America because they have mobility and America is where they choose to be. If you pay someone a big chunk of money in their locale, in the kinds of places cheap enough for companies to be eager to hire there, the first thing they do when they have enough money is leave and move to a HCOL area. And the HCOL areas have a high cost of living because they are desirable.

We're already seeing this in manufacturing. The Chinese middle class developed and now manufacturing moved to Vietnam and India.

Offshoring is just exploiting temporary cost of living arbitrage opportunities. The market is going to naturally fix this as other countries develop and as the skilled labor relocates.
by mindslight | 2025-08-01 20:33:45+00:00
Thank you. We really need to stop letting the fascists/reactionaries cloak themselves in this label of conservative. They're a radical reactionary movement with the main goal of tearing down our societal institutions and effectively destroying America's standing in the world - the polar opposite of conservatism.

Letting them continue to think of themselves as conservative assuages their own cognitive dissonance as to what they're actually supporting. It's plainly dishonest to call all of our institutions corrupt, point to some imagined rosy snapshot of the past 70+ years ago, and then claim you're merely conservative. The conservative slogan would be Keep America Great. Theirs isn't.
by sinisamikulic | 2025-08-01 20:34:17+00:00
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by psyklic | 2025-08-01 20:34:25+00:00
If you don't know the foundations well, you don't belong in a postgrad program. That's the reality and how it currently works. Undergrad teaches you those foundations.

Anyone can try doing research, even undergrads who half-know the foundations. However, trying research doesn't mean you have the background to do great research or to succeed in a postgrad program.
by AndyGravity | 2025-08-01 20:36:14+00:00
The poster thinks that knife crime can be reduced by making knives not pointy. An idea that is rightfully mocked by anyone with two brain cells to rub together. It is ridiculous on the face of it. Anyone believes in it is believing in something ridiculous. Believing in things that are obviously ridiculous is delusional. Therefore it is not name calling. It is a statement of fact.

Repeatedly sending someone a link to the rules do not in anyway stop this from being a statement of fact.
by LeafItAlone | 2025-08-01 20:37:00+00:00
Maybe. That could be true.

But doesn’t happen the same with other tools. I’ll give the same exact prompt to all of LLMs I have access to and look at the responses for the best one. Grok is consistently the worst. So if it’s garbage in, garbage out, why are the other ones so much better at dealing with my garbage?
by ToucanLoucan | 2025-08-01 20:37:08+00:00
Needing to cut 150 people suggests catastrophic mismanagement. I get that workloads change, orgs pivot, business has to do business shit, but if you've missed your headcount requirement for whatever work you needed to do by a HUNDRED AND FIFTY PEOPLE!? What even.

Management and leadership is practically a lost art these days, so many organizations are just filled with managers who haven't the first fucking idea how to actually manage people.

All that said to be like: "Well how SHOULD we correctly fire 150 people?" I dunno, to me that's like saying how do I hit a tree with my car in such a way as to make sure I'm not paralyzed? Like so much has already gone wrong to bring you to where this is a pertinent question that I don't think there's really a right answer at this point, there's just gradations of bad.
by esseph | 2025-08-01 20:37:13+00:00
If somebody is going to be uncritical I don't see how any of this actually helps, but that's totally on them.

I'm not going to argue with them saying that Fox News is right wing or that MSNBC is more left wing. "Duh".

Maybe we're looking at this from a different angle, or maybe we just use the service in different ways.

The "bias" part that is relevant is showing you the difference in headline and contents between dozens or hundreds or thousands based on historical leanings of the news org, and which ones are even reporting on a particular topic.

It's not saying a particular article leans a particular way, it's saying the source does.
by quietbritishjim | 2025-08-01 20:37:17+00:00
I've heard that counter-rumour before too but it never seems to make sense. The lengthy discussion by Admiral Cloudberg [1] seems to pin the blame on the corner of a window:

> De Havilland had calculated a maximum operating stress of 28,000 psi at the corners of the windows and doors, but investigators noted that this value was an average over an area of 2–3 square inches (13–19 square centimeters), meaning that in theory, highly localized stresses could be considerably greater. This “peak stress” could have been measured through the liberal application of strain gauges, but de Havilland had apparently elected not to attempt this, believing that any more precise measurements would be unreliable. Nevertheless, investigators measured it anyway, and from these data they calculated a localized peak stress at the window corners of up to 45,000 psi under normal pressurization conditions. Not only was this much greater than de Havilland’s predicted value, its relative proximity to the ultimate strength of the material (estimated to be 65,000 psi) produced an unfavorable stress ratio correlating to an expected fatigue life considerably below 10,000 cycles.

[1] https://admiralcloudberg.medium.com/neither-money-nor-manpow...

I think counter arguments come into one of two camps:

(1) when they replicated the problem in a pressure chamber at ground level it wasn't technically a window that failed but a "portal" (basically like a window but wires go through it instead of people looking out of it) - a pedantic technicality and not to say that all the failures in the air were for this same portal/window.

(2) The windows weren't don't have sharp corners anyway but rounded, not unlike some modern planes. True but you can see the failure was definely near a (rounded) corner.

Admittedly the Admiral Cloudberg article does seem to put more weight on the way the rivet holes were made than the angularity of the window corners. But it's still failing at a corner. I guess it depends how you look at it.
by xp84 | 2025-08-01 20:37:18+00:00
I realize that it sucks to be laid off. But business really is just business and it has nothing to do with how much any person values you. You would rightfully stop working immediately if your company can't pay you even for a week. They stop employing you if it no longer makes economic sense. It's the same thing in the reverse.

I could be told tomorrow to lay off some or all of the people who report to me if we can't afford to pay them. I'd hate it, I'd cry and feel sick and not be able to sleep all night wishing I could avoid it. I know that from experience. Nobody wants that and even CEOs feel like shit when they implement layoffs.

The alternative to having the 2-sided at-will employment system would need to be a two-way commitment, which seems far worse. Would you want to work under a system where everyone was expected to honor a 3-year employment contract, and to renew it like a New York apartment lease? So that you can't accept a new higher-paying job because you're committed to your company for 2 more years? And if you quit your job "early" you could be sued or be ruled as unemployable by future employers?

I don't see how there is much practical room between "anyone can terminate the relationship at any time and it's not personal" and "2-way long-term commitment and neither party can."
by estebanrfp | 2025-08-01 20:37:34+00:00
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by ra7 | 2025-08-01 20:37:51+00:00
> “Tesla designed Autopilot only for controlled access highways yet deliberately chose not to restrict drivers from using it elsewhere, alongside Elon Musk telling the world Autopilot drove better than humans,” Brett Schreiber, counsel for the plaintiffs, said in an e-mailed statement on Friday.

Tesla had every opportunity to do the safe thing and limit Autopilot to only highways, but they want the hype of a product that "works anywhere" and don't want to be seen as offering a "limited" product like their competitors. Then they are surprised their users misuse it and blame it all on the driver. Tesla wants to have their cake and eat it too.

You know what else prevents misuse? Implementing safeguards for your safety critical product. It took multiple NHTSA probes for Tesla to implement obvious driver monitoring improvements to Autopilot/FSD. There's a reason Tesla is always in hot water: they simply lack the safety culture to do the right thing proactively.
by jesterswilde | 2025-08-01 20:37:55+00:00
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by knodi123 | 2025-08-01 20:38:02+00:00
to me? an infinite amount! So trying to measure it in dollar terms is already a pointless exercise.

If you want to see the hole in this argument, try looking at it from the other side- How can you arrive at the conclusion that a life is worth only $329M? Why so low? Why not a billion, or a trillion?

If you have to come up with an objective and dispassionate standard, then I doubt you'd find one where the number it generates is $329 million.
by bigstrat2003 | 2025-08-01 20:38:07+00:00
Different users. The users that GP was accusing of malpractice would be the Maxis devs in this case, not the end users who were trying to install SimCity on their Windows 95 machine.

Microsoft has a commitment to backwards compatibility that I think is going too far, but I understand why. Raymond Chen has explained that if a user buys the new version of Windows and their programs stop working, they will blame MS regardless because they don't have any way to know it's the program's fault. So MS is incentivized to go out of their way to enable these other programs' bad behavior, because it keeps their (Microsoft's) customers happy.
by RowanH | 2025-08-01 20:38:50+00:00
In New Zealand we have an absolutely shit employment law process where the company has to 'propose' a restructure (in a formal fashion). Then 'consult' with employees for feedback. Then 'consider' the feedback. And then 99% of the time it's all just the same and people get made redundant.

It is absolutely brutal as it invites the chance of hope during the downsizing - and implies staff will be able to provide alternative suggestions. Which is quite plainly bananas.

It's enshrined in law and if you don't follow the process as an employer you can get taken to task by the governing body around it.

It's just far easier, and less harmful emotionally, to rip the band aid and provide a good package.
by tialaramex | 2025-08-01 20:39:16+00:00
Perhaps better to achieve symmetry by ceasing to execute humans.

You're never going to make executing the wrong corporation as thoroughly wicked as the numerous occasions on which we've executed the wrong human, so you can't make the scores even but you can stop putting more on the total for human misery.

Historically it was impractical to permanently warehouse large number of humans, death was more practical = but the US has been doing it for all sorts of crap for decades so that's not a problem here.

The US would still have much harsher punishments than Western Europe even without the death penalty, because it routinely uses life-means-life sentences where no matter what you're never seeing the outside again.
by simne | 2025-08-01 20:39:36+00:00
Problem is another. To got additional speed from other body, you need to move very close to it and in perigee use some powerful acceleration to increase rotation speed fast, so could not use slow acceleration engines, like ion engines.

Idea of gravity-assist acceleration, mechanically is just rotation of pair tightly tied bodies (and cut tie in right moment, so one body got acceleration and other got deceleration), but as it is impractical to tie for example to Moon with rope, used gravity force.

What also interesting, gravity-assist could use not only orbital speed of large body, but also got some acceleration from rotation of large body, as for gravitation, large planet is not just one material point, but system of few smaller (sub)bodies, and closer (sub)bodies give more acceleration than others.
by richard_pepper | 2025-08-01 20:39:37+00:00
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