MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by AceyMan | 2025-10-10 16:19:19+00:00
Under FAA rules this was a screwup. [edit: see my own reply] (However, the rules are subtle, so they can be partially forgiven.) However, I'm not only a dispatcher but also a philosophy BA, so I've found a good way to explain it.

Your reserve fuel (the "extra" fuel over what the actual flight burn) can of course be used (hello, that's what it's there for) but—and here's the rub—you can never plan on using it.

That is to say, in this case, when they missed their first or second approach, they CANNOT say, "We'll use our reserve fuel and make another go at it" because that would be intentionally planning to burn your reserve.

You may only dip into your reserve when you have no other choice. In this case, when the only fuel they had left was reserve, they are obligated by law to proceed to the alternate airport, which clearly they did not do [correction: they did do the proper thing; see my 2nd reply below]. No bueno.

[this is a slight simplification (minor details omitted for brevity) but the kernel of the issue is properly described]
by jacquesm | 2025-10-10 16:19:22+00:00
Anything less than 60 minutes would be looked at by the airline, anything less than the legally required amount (30 minutes for a jet of this type iirc) will result in a very serious investigation. Note that for slower aircraft (for instance a turbo-prop) the time requirement goes up not down because they may have to spend more time in the air to reach an alternate (or secondary alternate, if things are really bad, like what happened here).
by leakycap | 2025-10-10 16:19:23+00:00
Yep! It's basically just a button that tells the OS "open the system calculator"

~~

I looked it up, the Human Interface Devices usage "Consumer Control" code assigned to "Application Launch - Calculator" is 0x0C0192 or 0x192

This keypress is sent as a scancode/keycode, not an ASCII character. On Windows, this opens calc.exe by default, but you can change which app opens in response to the calculator key by editing the media key mappings in the Registry
by bluGill | 2025-10-10 16:19:27+00:00
Sure, but the flight was a lot longer than planed. How much extra do we need. They declared an emergency, and thus put themselves at the front of the line. They had 6 more minutes to do that touch and go around if that happened, and since they were already in a low fuel emergency they get priority and so there is enough time to do that if they needed. (edit - as others have noted, 6 minutes with high error bars, so they could have only had 30 seconds left which is not enough)

They landed safely, that is what is important. There is great cost to have extra fuel on board, you need enough, but it doesn't look to me like more was needed. Unless an investigation determines that this emergency would happen often on that route - even then it seems like they should have been told to land in France or someplace long before they got to their intended destination to discover landing was impossible.
by WinstonSmith84 | 2025-10-10 16:19:48+00:00
Yes, she dedicated her prize to Trump, and that's easy to understand. It's a way to flatter his ego so that:

1- He doesn't turn against her or try to undermine her (he certainly would otherwise)

2- He publicly supports her cause.

3- His attention stays on Venezuela .. I really doubt she wants a full-scale US intervention.
by psunavy03 | 2025-10-10 16:19:55+00:00
The point is that the unions are there to allow the pilots to advocate for all kinds of safety-of-flight related things like fuel reserves, crew rest, and so forth that management would be happy to cut to save money. And to do so without fear of retaliation.

And if you don't think the airlines would love to lobby Congress about the regulatory backstop, well . . .
by toomuchtodo | 2025-10-10 16:20:24+00:00
Ahh, Microsoft's AI capital investment sunk cost fallacy, certainly, I agree with that. The stock will be punished when the investment does not show cashflow returns for sure.

MSFT: Microsoft CEO Offloads $75 Million in Stock Amid AI Boom - https://finance.yahoo.com/news/msft-microsoft-ceo-offloads-7... - September 5th, 2025
by dahart | 2025-10-10 16:20:31+00:00
Non-programmers and the lay public do not assume what source available means, nor what open source means, in terms of what you can and can’t do with it. Most lay people would assume that if source is available, then you can do what you want with it. This is what a lot of programmers assumed before OSI and FSF existed. Saying that many people think these two terms (open source, and source available) mean the same thing does not imply that anyone is suggesting that you can’t use code professionally or commercially. It’s a negative assumption on your part to accuse people of weaseling just because they don’t know your industry term of art definition.
by freedomben | 2025-10-10 16:20:44+00:00
I'm 40 and have gotten to the point where after a workout, the target muscles are sore for sometimes 5 or more days, to the point where I can't really exercise other muscles. I've "pushed through" the pain a couple times and it usually ends up causing either an injury or is otherwise quite counter-productive. May I ask, what do you do for recovery that allows you to lift every day?
by traceroute66 | 2025-10-10 16:20:46+00:00
> But it was a valuable lesson learned in speaking up before you get to that point.

I'm not sure it was a lesson learned per-se because the captain was merely doing his job as fundamentally defined.

A captain has ultimate responsibility for the aircraft.

However there is a side question in relation to your post...

When you say "declared an emergency" in your post, the more interesting question would be whether it was actually formally declared by the captain (i.e. "MAYDAY") or whether the captain was merely "working with" ATC at a lower level, maybe "PAN" or maybe just informal "prioritised".

If the captain DID declare "MAYDAY" earlier in the timeframe then yes, Kennedy would have a lot to answer for if they were spending excessive time vectoring around.

But if the captain did not formally declare and then came back later and started bossing Kennedy around, that would be a different set of questions, focused on the captain.
by klustregrif | 2025-10-10 16:20:58+00:00
> Just. Fork. It.

The “outrage” is literally just people saying they’ll use a different project instead. Why would they ever fork it? They don’t like the devs of datastar they don’t want to use it going forwards. Yes the developers are allowed to do what they want with their code and time, but people are allowed to vote with their feet and go elsewhere and they are allowed to be vocal about it.
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by pikaiqiu666 | 2025-10-10 16:21:32+00:00
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by C6JEsQeQa5fCjE | 2025-10-10 16:21:53+00:00
> What war did Trump create that you claim he's ending?

He allowed Israel to break the last ceasefire immediately after the first phase of prisoner exchange was over, and to subsequently act with more brutality than even before. He started that chapter himself, whether through psychopatic indifference, narcisstic business fantasy of a future riviera with his name, or being a completely weak man who couldn't say no. Whatever the reason, he started the next 7 months of slaughter.
by jeroenhd | 2025-10-10 16:22:01+00:00
I don't know about LiveJournal, but I don't believe you can host any interactive content on substack (without hacking substack at least). You can't sign up and host a phishing site, for instance.

User-uploaded content (which does pose a risk) is all hosted on substackcdn.com.

The PSL is more for "anyone can host anything in a subdomain of any domain on this list" rather than "this domain contains user-generated content". If you're allowing people to host raw HTML and JS then the PSL is the right place to go, but if you're just offering a user post/comment section feature, you're probably better off getting an early alert if someone has managed to breach your security and hacked your system into hosting phishing.
by aylmao | 2025-10-10 16:22:24+00:00
She's a vocal Trump supporter [1]. Last time Trump was president his administration did attempt to coup Venezuela [2]:

> Tapper returned to Bolton’s remark about having helped plan coups.

> Bolton said: “I’m not going to get into the specifics.”

> Tapper asked: “Successful coups?”

> Bolton said: “Well, I wrote about Venezuela in in the book and it turned out not to be successful.

> Before Bolton joined the Trump administration, it was widely reported that Trump wanted to use the US military to oust Maduro. In August 2017, Trump told reporters: “We have many options for Venezuela, this is our neighbour.”

> “We want as our principal objective the peaceful transfer of power but I will say again, as [Trump] has said from the outset, and Nicolas Maduro and those supporting him, particularly those who are not Venezuelan, should know, all options are on the table.”

[1]: https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politic...

[2]: https://www.reuters.com/world/us/former-senior-us-official-j...
by MyOutfitIsVague | 2025-10-10 16:22:55+00:00
My experience with HDR has been pretty abysmal on a $500 4K TV. Badly tuned HDR is way worse than no HDR at all.

I have 20/20 vision, and I really can't tell the difference between 1080p and 4K for video games and movies. I will never do below 4k again on a desktop, but 1080p is more than fine for a TV. Higher framerate makes a far bigger difference than higher resolution for video games too.
by kstrauser | 2025-10-10 16:22:57+00:00
> I'm often the only person on the team who cares about performance, so I am drawn to these performance-related challenges... and it has really hurt my career, because I am then often perceived as some kind of person focused on optimization rather than delivering features.

Pro tip: always turn that kind of thing into a dollar value you can put on your annual review. "My update to X let us use Y fewer EC2 instances, saving us $Z per year." Then it's not some Don Quixote obsession, but a clear fiscal benefit to the company.
by mikeyouse | 2025-10-10 16:23:08+00:00
I love how the TDS is used to describe the vast majority of people in the world who see the obvious faults of a geriatric narcissist intent on authoritarian rule and not to describe his supporters who blindly subscribe to all manner of contradictory and previously loathed positions simply because he changes his mind.

Or said another way - wouldn’t “TDS” be better used to describe those who spent the last decade insistent on free speech as a sacrosanct issue, the national debt as our primary concern, political targeting by Federal law enforcement as a universal sin, and states rights as the Foundation of our liberties while the Admin works contrary to each of those points in especially galling ways…
by ben_w | 2025-10-10 16:23:19+00:00
> Google translate has nothing in common. it's a single action taken on-demand on behalf of the user. it's not a mass scrap just in case. in that regard it's an end-user tool and it has legal access to everything that the user has.

How exactly do you think Google Translate, translates things? How it knows what words to use, especially for idioms?

> Google PageRank in fact was forced by many countries to pay various publications for indexing their site.

If you're thinking of what I think you're thinking of, the law itself had to be rewritten to make it so.

But they've had so many lawsuits, you may have a specific example in mind that I've skimmed over in the last 30 years of living through their impact on the world: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_litigation#Intellectual...

Also note they were found to be perfectly within their rights to host cached copies of entire sites, which is something I find more than a little weird as that's exactly the kind of thing I'd have expected copyright law to say was totally forbidden: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Field_v._Google,_Inc.

> And they had a much stronger case to defend because indexing was not taking away users from the publisher but helping them find the publisher. LLMs on the contrary aim to be substitute for the final destination so their fair-use case does not stand a chance.

Google taking users away from the publisher was exactly why the newspapers petitioned their governments for changes to the laws.

> In Fact just last week Anthropic Settled for 1.5B for books it has scrapped.

In his June ruling, Judge Alsup agreed with Anthropic's argument, stating the company's use of books by the plaintiffs to train their AI model was acceptable. "The training use was a fair use," he wrote. "The use of the books at issue to train Claude and its precursors was exceedingly transformative." However, the judge ruled that Anthropic's use of millions of pirated books to build its models – books that websites such as Library Genesis (LibGen) and Pirate Library Mirror (PiLiMi) copied without getting the authors' consent or giving them compensation – was not. He ordered this part of the case to go to trial. "We will have a trial on the pirated copies used to create Anthropic's central library and the resulting damages, actual or statutory (including for willfulness)," the judge wrote in the conclusion to his ruling. Last week, the parties announced they had reached a settlement.

- https://www.npr.org/2025/09/05/nx-s1-5529404/anthropic-settl...
by TZubiri | 2025-10-10 16:24:21+00:00
As someone that reads official documentation instead of stackoverflow threads, I support this motion.

There's a couple other maladies that make for unreadable docs. Another is documenting only the last layer added by the Open Source collaborator and not documenting anything below, for example if I'm making an HTTP client:

http.get() makes an HTTP get request

http.set_tcp_params(param=value) sets the TCP parameter param to value

When you could do:

http.get() makes an http get request, which should be a read only requaest, that doesn't affect state of the server. Parameters are typically passed in the URL with ?param=value&param2=value2 syntax as defined in RFCxxx

http.set_tcp_params() sets parameters of the tcp layer, as defined in RFCxxx, these can include most importantly the MTU which is the max packet size, which might be useful for fitting webpages... (<-- actually the reason the function was implemented at all, but then it was generalized just as an added bonus)

One way to fail in this regard is to use one of those autodocs things, you just lost the battle.
by jMyles | 2025-10-10 16:24:21+00:00
...that regulation is text in a database. It can be changed capriciously at any moment, like they often are.

It takes people with ideas and a willingness to put pressure in the right places to be sure that sane policies prevail.

I think it's pretty obvious that as time moves forward, we need to rely on "regulations" less. The root and history of the word in the political context is to make things regular. But state actions increasingly bring irregularity to the world.

It seems absolutely fair to say that, in this situation, the people - the pilots in particular, but also cabin crews, ATCs, engineers, and their unions, are the backstop worth observing and celebrating.
by cyphar | 2025-10-10 16:24:46+00:00
> The Coca-Cola Company has been working to increase Coke Zero's popularity, and it is now much more popular than it used to be, but I think Diet Coke continues to be more popular than Coke Zero even now.

This might be a per-country thing -- Coke Zero has always been more popular in Australia ever since it came out (it can be hard to find Diet Coke in vending machines and for single-bottle sales here). Of course, Coke (and Pepsi) can taste different in different countries but I would say the Aussie one tastes pretty similar to the American one.
by jakub_g | 2025-10-10 16:24:56+00:00
Three weeks ago in Nice, France it was a fraction of a second away from two A320s crashing [0] and possibly hundreds of deaths, similar to Tenerife disaster [1].

Investigation is ongoing and many factors are at play (bad weather, extra work for ATC due to that, confusing lighting of runways etc) but also, from French media reports, there used to be 15 people per shift 5y ago in Nice ATC, now there are just 12, and traffic is higher.

Many people left the profession during Covid and haven't been replaced.

[0] https://avherald.com/h?article=52d656fd&opt=0

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tenerife_airport_disaster
by flohofwoe | 2025-10-10 16:25:15+00:00
It's essentially a replacement for vertex shaders which map more closely to how GPUs are processing big and complex triangle meshes as small packets of vertices in parallel by doing the job of splitting a complex triangle mesh into such small packets of vertices in an offline asset-pipeline job instead of relying too much on 'hardware magic' like vertex caches.

AFAIK mesh shaders also get rid of (the ever troublesome) geometry shaders and hull shaders, but don't quote me on that :)

By far most traditional triangle rendering use cases should only see minimal performance improvements though, it's very much the definition of 'diminishing returns'.

It's definitely more straightforward and 'elegant' though.

PS: this is a pretty good introduction I think https://gpuopen.com/learn/mesh_shaders/mesh_shaders-from_ver...
by wbpaelias | 2025-10-10 16:26:25+00:00
If you're willing to let go of imperative syntax, Interaction Nets[0] might be interesting to maximize parallelism where possible. I think Bend[1] is probably the most mature implementation of that idea.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interaction_nets [1]: https://github.com/HigherOrderCO/Bend
by jeroenhd | 2025-10-10 16:26:30+00:00
YouTube hosts millions of videos telling people that they are the government/your bank and that you should move money/contact a scam center/buy cryptocurrency. Even worse is the fact you can pay to turn these videos into ads that will roll in front of other videos.

On the whole of YouTube, it's a tiny sliver of a percentage, but because YouTube has grown too large to moderate, it's still hosting these videos.

If Google applied the same rules they apply to the safe browsing list, they'd probably get YouTube flagged multiple times a week.
by fidotron | 2025-10-10 16:26:45+00:00
I have known former air traffic controllers that won't fly certain airlines because of a notorious habit some have for queue jumping by claiming they're low on fuel. If they are low on fuel is something else, but in any case when the ATCs have noticed a pattern then something is up.

This situation sounds a lot less nefarious, but it does also sound like they should have rerouted earlier.
by georgemcbay | 2025-10-10 16:27:03+00:00
The wall they built looks like its kind of a joke when you see it in context and the situation is a lot worse than just not having the "original peaceful quiet".

More Perfect Union did a video on this a few months ago that gives a better visceral sense of what these people are dealing with:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m7_WDzPyoqU
by C6JEsQeQa5fCjE | 2025-10-10 16:27:08+00:00
> I think trump genuinely deserves the prize if peace in the Middle East achieved

The current ceasefire proposal doesn't address the wider struggle for liberation of the indigenous people of Palestine, and as such it cannot be anything more than a temporary stop to a 2-year genocide against them. Settlements are still being built and fences around Palestinian houses are still being erected in the West Bank. Ethnic Cleansing continues. There is no peace until Israel undergoes the same transformation that Apartheid South Africa did when it turned into just South Africa (which requires efforts from the entire world to boycott it).
by groos | 2025-10-10 16:27:22+00:00
Any meaning associated with the Nobel Peace Prize was demolished when Obama got it without having done anything meaningful except running a campaign on 'Hope'. This was the person that subsequently ok'd 3,000+ drone strikes in Afghanistan, a huge number of which caused heavy collateral damage. Imho, the Nobel Peace Prize should have no money associated with it and be given only posthumously.
by whatever1 | 2025-10-10 16:27:24+00:00
Organizations now generate 10x the amount of code, because everyone can do it.

But we have exactly the same number of reviewers. How the heck are we gonna deal with it when we cannot use LLMs for sanity checking LLM code?

Like literally yesterday I had a not-technical person who used codex to build an optimization algorithm, and due to the momentum it gained I was asked to “fix the rough edges and help with scaling”.

The entire thing was trash (was trying to do naive search in a combinatorial problem with 1000s of integers, and was violating constraints with high probability, including the integrality). I had to spend all my day reviewing it and make a technical presentation to their leadership that it is just a polished turd.
Show HN: aicofounder – Make something people actually want
by felixheikka | 2025-10-10 16:28:02+00:00
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by alexchantavy | 2025-10-10 16:28:15+00:00
> They’re doing sweet battle with bots that are more interested in getting their newly-generated test suite to pass than solving the user’s problem in the simplest way possible.

Makes having good tests even more important. One technique I've found super helpful for coding with agents is to make the agent do TDD.

Basically ask the agent to come up with the test cases first, manually review those to make sure they make sense, then have the agent game itself to write code to pass the tests. I feel like doing TDD on my own manually is very tedious but having it be AI-assisted helps me move a lot faster.