MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by inferiorhuman | 2025-11-20 20:59:56+00:00
The DC-10 had a number of other problems, but the MD-11 has always had a reputation of being an unforgiving aircraft especially when compared to the DC-10. It's less about training and more that the MD-11 was simply too many design compromises piled on to an old design.

The MD-11 had a pretty short service life as a passenger aircraft because it simply wasn't very fuel efficient compared to the competition, safety wasn't really the motivating factor. However fuel consumption was behind some of the poor design choices McDonnell/Boeing made. In broad strokes: McDonnell/Boeing shrunk the control surfaces to improve fuel consumption "necessitating" poorly designed software to mask the dodgy handling and higher landing speeds. This exacerbated a DC-10 design "quirk" where hard landings got out of hand very quickly and main landing gear failure would tend to flip the plane.

Yeah you can train around this but when something else goes tits up you've got a lot less leeway to actually recover safely.
by mrkeen | 2025-11-20 21:00:19+00:00
> Other bright sparks jumped in on the action: what if this separation did not rely on the personal hygiene of the programmers - something that should always be called into question for public health reasons - and was instead enforced by the language? Components might hide their implementation by default and communicate only though a set of public functions, and the language might reject programs that tried to skip around these barricades. How quaint.

Sounds like C.

When was the last time you did OO against a .h file without even needing access to the .c file?

> And so, the process/network boundary naturally became that highest and thickest wall

I've had it both ways. Probably everyone here has. It's difficult to make changes with microservices. You gotta open new routes, and wait for people to start using those routes before you close the old ones. But it's impossible to make changes to a monolith: other teams aren't using your routes, they're using your services and database tables.
by no_input | 2025-11-20 21:00:20+00:00
The law is not on the citizens' side and never has been. Driving over the limit (even the smallest increment) is technically illegal. Driving under can be considered suspicious and warrant further surveillance (or more likely incite road rage from other drivers) in which you will likely make a mistake. Nobody follows every traffic law perfectly and in all likelyhood cannot. Every cop I have ever known has admitted to this fact and there are even more examples of former(or current) law enforcement officers going on record saying the same thing.
by jfengel | 2025-11-20 21:00:31+00:00
(Right now "computers that aren't 100% accurate" are all the rage, even without quantum computing. Though a lot of people are wondering if that's any good, too.)

They're especially good for oracle-type problems, where you can verify an answer much faster than you can find them. NP problems are an especially prominent example of that. If it's wrong, you try again.

In theory it might take a very long time to find the answer. But even if you've only got 25% accuracy, the odds of you being wrong 10 times in a row are only 6%. Being wrong 100 times in a row is a number so small it requires scientific notation (10^-13). It's worth it to be able to solve an otherwise exponential problem.

Quantum computers have error bounds, and you can use that to tune your error rate to being-hit-by-a-cosmic-ray level of acceptability.

It's still far from clear that they can build general-purpose quantum computers big enough to do anything useful. But the built-in error factors are not, in themselves, a bar.
by dingaling | 2025-11-20 21:01:00+00:00
The entire MD-11 project was a budget-limited rush-job to try to capture some market share before the A340 and 777 came into service.

It produced an aircraft that failed to meet its performance targets, was a brute to fly and was obsolete the moment its rivals flew.

Douglas* by the early 1990s was a basket-case of warmed-over 1960s designs without the managerial courage to launch the clean-sheet project they needed to survive.

* as a division of MDC
by pphysch | 2025-11-20 21:01:17+00:00
For your average enterprise it really is that simple. Register some IDPs. Connect a backend. Add some clients over time.

Yes, you need someone to wear the IAM admin hat. But once you get it configured and running it requires 0.1 FTE or less (likely identical to whatever your Okta admin would be). Not worth 6+ figures a year and exposure to Okta breach risk.
by sipofwater | 2025-11-20 21:01:30+00:00
"How to Install Windows XP on Android Using Termux (complete commands guide)" by Saad Maqsood: https://www.learntermux.tech/2025/11/how-to-install-windows-... (www.learntermux.tech/2025/11/how-to-install-windows-xp-on-android.html), https://archive.ph/US56l
by decimalenough | 2025-11-20 21:01:45+00:00
While basically everything about PNRs described here remains unchanged (as it has been since the 60s), government data collection on top of PNRs has become far more extensive since this was written 12 years ago.

If traveling into the US from overseas, you need to disclose a whole bunch of info to get your ESTA, and for the flight itself there's APIS: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advance_Passenger_Information_...

And for any flight that even overflies the US, there's Secure Flight:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secure_Flight
by mritchie712 | 2025-11-20 21:01:58+00:00
For pure duckdb, you can put an Arrow Flight server in front of duckdb[0] or use the httpserver extension[1].

Where you store the .duckdb file will make a big difference in performance (e.g. S3 vs. Elastic File System).

But I'd take a good look at ducklake as a better multiplayer option. If you store `.parquet` files in blob storage, it will be slower than `.duckdb` on EFS, but if you have largish data, EFS gets expensive.

We[2] use DuckLake in our product and we've found a few ways to mitigate the performance hit. For example, we write all data into ducklake in blog storage, then create analytics tables and store them on faster storage (e.g. GCP Filestore). You can have multiple storage methods in the same DuckLake catalog, so this works nicely.

0 - https://www.definite.app/blog/duck-takes-flight

1 - https://github.com/Query-farm/httpserver

2 - https://www.definite.app/
Show HN: Case Study on Software Requirements Specification
by ZoePsomi | 2025-11-20 21:02:21+00:00
I recently recorded a lecture on Software Requirements Specifications (SRS), using my project Cloud-Based Multi-Service Platform for Smart Event Management as a case study.

In the video, I walk through:

Functional & non-functional requirements

Technical requirements

Security considerations

Testing strategy

System architecture

Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C4tE1kZNrX4

Full SRS: https://github.com/UlyssesAlves/case-study-smart-event-manag... Article: https://zoepsomi.com/en/technical-art-software-requirements-...

My goal is to show how an SRS looks in practice and why it matters for real-world projects. I’d love feedback from the community on how you approach writing and applying SRS in your own work.
by BirAdam | 2025-11-20 21:02:22+00:00
I don't support any politicians. Trump may be more blatant about things, but nothing has fundamentally changed. Civil liberty was aspirational at the start of the USA, was once almost real, and then immediately began reversing.

A person in the USA has approximately zero of the rights guaranteed in the Bill of the Rights. The average person is relatively free, but the government can change that at will and the target of government power has little recourse.
by bigyabai | 2025-11-20 21:02:53+00:00
Sure, and Charlie Kirk was murdered by a US citizen. It's okay for us to correlate a rising trend in political violence with something other than immigration.

It's not as pleasant or vindictive as saying "the nonwhites did it" but it certainly seems to hold true when the political pot boils over. It's rarely the immigrants taking potshots at the president or storming the capitol, but instead deluded ideologues who are naturalized Americans.
by sipofwater | 2025-11-20 21:03:01+00:00
"Motorola moto g play 2024 smartphone, Termux application, and QEMU running under Termux: Booting "Debian GNU/Linux 12 (bookworm)" with debian-12-nocloud-amd64.qcow2": https://old.reddit.com/r/MotoG/comments/1mkyers/motorola_mot... (old.reddit.com/r/MotoG/comments/1mkyers/motorola_moto_g_play_2024_smartphone_termux/)
by HelloUsername | 2025-11-20 21:03:01+00:00
It seems many people here seem to misunderstand you need the original files yourself; you don't. If you read carefuly: "import an archive containing *.mix files from a web URL." They provide you this (archive.org) URL! Simply click the Download button and start playing. Also on Firefox.

And, unfortunately, Chronodivide does not work with Yuri's Revenge expansion; apparently that game is build differently.
by Nemi | 2025-11-20 21:03:05+00:00
I feel like I am going crazy or missed something simple but when I use the Gemini app and I ask it to edit a photo that I upload, 2.5 flash works really well but 2.5 pro or 3.0 pro do a very poor job. I uploaded an image of me and asked it to make me bald and flash did a great job of just changing me in the photo but 3.0 pro took me out of the photo completely and just created a headshot of a bald man that only sort of resembled me. Am I missing something or does paying for the pro version not give you anything over the 2.5 flash model?
by ActorNightly | 2025-11-20 21:03:20+00:00
Its been proven many times over that the majority of "illegal" immigrants, whether they come US and either overstay their allowance, or manage to skirt by on refugee status, are all predominately doing it for financial reasons, willing to work jobs for lower pay that Americans will never do, which is a huge benefit for economy.

This idea that border control somehow failed is a lie sold to you by republicans. Also Trump killed the CBP funding bill in early 2024 that would have addressed a lot of issues.
by Theodores | 2025-11-20 21:03:38+00:00
You clearly are not a multi-drop delivery driver, a chef, a customer service advisor, a nurse, a sales assistant or a barman.

As it happens, I was working in production AND engineering AND finance all at the same time. I will leave you to guess what roles are in the middle of that Venn Diagram, however, that was a while ago when one of my clients was Lehman Brothers. I had deliberately tried to avoid working in the city, so I was reluctant to work with them, however, they hired my intern for mega bucks. That didn't last long though, as we all know! Ah, the shame...

It is precisely because I do the technical roles that others are scared of that I know most people don't need to know maths beyond basic arithmetic.

One huge advantage of this is that I never treat the maths illiterate with condescension. Unlike some I don't sneer at those that are just trying to get by in life or those that have found there is more to life than maths. Condescension is just plain ugly and there is no need for it.
by ztp123 | 2025-11-20 21:04:03+00:00
Thanks for the thoughtful breakdown.

I completely agree with you on Suno’s “musicality over fidelity” profile. What surprised me most was how well it adapted to lyrics I wrote without any melody guidance. I didn’t prompt it with line breaks, rhythm, or phrasing; it just grabbed the vibe and built a whole arrangement around it.

I’ll check out the model you linked, I haven’t experimented much outside Suno yet. I’m curious how far fidelity can be pushed while still keeping that kind of intention-aware musical structure.

I can definitely imagine this becoming part of a normal songwriting workflow: not AI music as the finished product, but as a way to sketch ideas or generate demo material much faster.
by DoctorOetker | 2025-11-20 21:05:00+00:00
The ERA5 seems to give hourly data, i.e. nyquist limit would thus give decent oscillation amplitudes for waves with periods of about 5 hours or more, whereas I am more interested in faster timescales seconds, minutes, i.e. wind gusts.

Calculating the stability and structural requirements for a super-chimney to the tropopause, would require representative higher temporal frequency wind fields

Do you know if I can extract such a high time resolution from LENS since a cursory look at ERA5 showed a time resolution of just 1 hour?

The advantage of an ML model is that its usually possible to calculate the joint probability for a wind field, or to selectively generate a dataset with N-th percentile wind fields etc.

If its differentiable, and the structural stress assumptions are known, then one can "optimize" towards wind profiles that are simultaneously more dangerous and more probable, to identify what needs adressing. Thats why an ML model of local wind patterns would be desirable. ML is more than just LLM's. What one typically complains of in the context of LLM's: that there's no error bars on the output, is not entirely correct: just like differentiable ML models for physical and other phenomena they too allow to calculate the joint probability of sentences, except instead of modeling natural phenomena it is modelling what humans uttered in the corpus (or implicit corpus after RLHF etc). A base model LLM can quite accurately predict the likelihood of a human expressing a certain phrase, but thats modeling human expressions, not their validity. An ML model trained on actual weather data, or fine grained simulated weather data results in comparatively more accurate probability distributions, because physics isn't much of an opinion.
by gosub100 | 2025-11-20 21:05:22+00:00
just saw this [1] today where the police chief was using license plate readers to stalk and harass "multiple victims". This is why you don't collect the information in the first place. I am sure the lawyers are one step ahead, but I think Flock should pay these victims directly (in addition to the PD) for failing to stop the misuse of their technology.

https://www.fox5atlanta.com/news/braselton-police-chief-arre...
by fhd2 | 2025-11-20 21:05:33+00:00
> Sounds like C.

Data hiding is just one of the concepts of OOP. Polymorphism is another one.

How that's implemented is another question. You can do OOP in plain C, several libraries kinda did that, like GTK. Other languages tried to support these concepts with less boilerplate, giving rise to classes and such. But OOP is not about language features, it's fundamentally a way of designing software.
by root_axis | 2025-11-20 21:05:38+00:00
> So, true creativity, basically? lol

Creativity is meaningless without well defined boundaries.

> it is most definitely NOT a purely mechanistic mental process.

So what? Nothing is. Even pure mathematics involves deep wells of creativity.

> Ah, I suddenly realized why half of all developers hate AI-assisted coding

Just to be clear, I don't hate AI assisted coding, I use it, and I find that it increases productivity overall. However, it's not necessary to indulge in magical thinking in order to use it effectively.

> The only job where literally writing down words in a certain way produces machines that eliminate human labor. What better definition of magic is there, actually?

If you want to use "magic" as a euphemism for the joys of programming, I have no objection, when I say magic here I'm referring to anecdotes about which sequences of text produce the best results for various tasks.

> Determinism. That’s what you’re mad about, I’m thinking. And I completely get you there- how can I consider a “flagging test” to be an all-hands-on-deck affair while praising code output from a nondeterministic machine running off arbitrary prompt words that we don’t, and can’t, even know whether they are optimal?

I'm not mad about anything. It doesn't matter whether or not LLMs are deterministic, they are statistical, and vibes based advice is devoid of any statistical power.
by WCSTombs | 2025-11-20 21:05:51+00:00
TL;DR: OOP is being replaced by microservices (and even more extreme ideas), which is much worse. Yeah, I have to agree with this author.

I will say that service-oriented architecture does have some advantages, and thus sometimes it's the right choice. Parallelism is pretty free and natural, you can run services on different machines, and that can also give you scalability if you need it. However, in my experience that architecture tends to be used in myriad situations where it clearly isn't needed and is a net negative. I have seen it happen.
by SilverElfin | 2025-11-20 21:06:04+00:00
Well at least post 9/11 unconstitutional escalation required legislation and the creation of agencies like the DHS and TSA. Now, a political culture that is willing to break norms and abuse technicalities is silently expanding powers to the max, and that’s far more insidious. But maybe it’ll result in a strengthened democracy in the long term if new laws or amendments are passed to contain this problem.
by quickthrowman | 2025-11-20 21:06:17+00:00
Most of the suburbs where I live aren’t old enough to need sewer/storm and street replacement yet. It can take 60+ years for major infrastructure projects to become necessary, I expect to see municipalities fail as the infrastructure burden cripples their budgets.

Suburbs that had the foresight to develop commercial and industrial areas won’t suffer as much, but bedroom communities that aren’t wealthy will suffer once their infrastructure starts aging. There’s a massive deferred maintenance backlog pretty much everywhere.
by metamet | 2025-11-20 21:06:53+00:00
> Likely due to lack of following through on these promises (rather than disapproval of the promises themselves)

No. Most of it has to do with the fact that masked, unidentified ICE agents are abducting and disappearing people with no due process.

American citizens are being taken away. People who are here legally are being abducted and sent to countries they aren't from.

Of the deportations, Trump said they would be targeted toward violent criminals. Over 90% of those who have been rounded up have no criminal history.

Masked men with weapons who refuse to identify themselves are shooting people and lying about it, directly refuted by video others took of the event.

This isn't some case where "Americans are upset Trump isn't doing what he said!". This is a case where Americans are finally seeing the reality of what he is doing and are sickened by it.
by newfriend | 2025-11-20 21:07:13+00:00
The border was de facto open since there was no serious enforcement. Because there was no space to detain millions of people, the majority were processed and then simply let go into the U.S. with a "Notice to Appear" set for 2030. Basically a free pass to stay for years.

On top of that, they had parole loopholes (like the CBP One app and CHNV) to legally admit millions more people.
by sroerick | 2025-11-20 21:07:43+00:00
I'm not really qualified to talk about either topic at length, but my impression is that the Microservice crowd is kind of a different group than the anti-OOP crowd.

As a total beginner to the functional programming world, something I've never seen mentioned at length is that OOP actually makes a ton of sense for CRUD and database operations.

I get not wanting crazy multi tier class inheritance, that seems like a disaster.

In my case, I wanted to do CRUD endpoints which were programmatically generated based on database schema. Turns out - it's super hard without an ORM or at least some kind of object layer. I got halfway through it before I realized what I was making was actually an ORM.

Please feel free to let me know why this is all an awful idea, or why I'm doing it wrong, I genuinely am just winging it.
by hamdingers | 2025-11-20 21:07:56+00:00
They notably do not talk about modifying the systems of governance that have prevented us from accomplishing those goals, which they have been "talking about" nearly the entire 40 years I've been alive. If I were to ignore their talk and judge purely based on action, it certainly seems like Democrats effect less change than Republicans.

(to be clear about where I stand, when given a choice between a conservative party and a regressive party, I have always begrudgingly chosen the conservatives)
by VikingCoder | 2025-11-20 21:08:12+00:00
The thing I want is probably very stupid -

I'd like Zork I through III ported to Inform 6...

I don't specifically know why that appeals to me. I guess it's because I'd like to tinker with it and understand it better. And if I were going to write Zork I from scratch today, I'd want to use the most modern tools available. [checks notes] Okay, but not Inform 7. I have an aversion to Inform 7. I want my code to look more like code, and less like an LLM prompt.
by stevenwoo | 2025-11-20 21:08:14+00:00
Law enforcement has enormous discretion for probable cause and can give straight up contradictory reasons for different cases, it is what officers are taught to do (i.e. something like driving too fast, driving too slow, driving too rigidly at the speed limit). This allows individual bias to overwhelm any attempt at equal enforcement. It's pretty well documented in both The New Jim Crow and Usual Cruelty, the Supreme Court has made it difficult to gather data in the last couple decades.
by HelloUsername | 2025-11-20 21:09:10+00:00
> That wasn't the case when I checked the site a few hours ago, the autopopulated link is new.

Sorry, didn't know. That's very strange, I've never had that in all my times playing Chronodivide. Just in case the URL field is empty for someone: https://archive.org/download/red-alert-2-multiplayer/Red-Ale...
by FuriouslyAdrift | 2025-11-20 21:09:12+00:00
It is in some jurisdictions. In Illinois and Oregon, laws have been passed that prohibit law enforcement officers from using deception when dealing with suspects under the age of 18. Other states, such as Washington, Connecticut, Delaware, and New York, are considering similar legislation that may extend these prohibitions to all individuals being interrogated.

https://www.timesleaderonline.com/uncategorized/2022/11/poli...
by cogman10 | 2025-11-20 21:09:22+00:00
> except it's only one side supporting it this time.

I wish.

Very early on in this Trump admin there was a bipartisan bill passed which greatly expanded the capabilities of ICE to deport [1]. Democrats have been well aligned with the republicans when it comes to immigration policy. You'll find few that will actually criticize the actions of ICE/DHS.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laken_Riley_Act
by araes | 2025-11-20 21:09:35+00:00
The colorful basket lids idea seems likely. The Amaru had a lot of similarity with Quetzalcōātl. [1] "the wind, the guide and road sweeper of the rain gods, of the masters of the water, of those who brought rain" Lots of symbology with rainbows after the rainstorm. Also look like a colorful serpent across the sky.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quetzalcōātl

On the path extending in the field, it's possible, since it looks like there's a slight contrast difference in the fields. With modern archaeology tools like ground penetrating radar [2] it's possible that there would be revealed subsurface path structures or the remnants of holes and prior digging sites. Here's an example from a German Wikipedia (needs translation) that shows fields with contrast features vs what GPR picked up on a survey. [3]

At the top of the path it looks like it used to be wider and either broadened into a large scale feature, or split into two paths near each other. [4]

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ground-penetrating_radar

[3] https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kreisgrabenanlage_Velm

[4] https://www.google.com/maps/place/Huella+de+la+Serpiente/@-1...
by bluGill | 2025-11-20 21:09:38+00:00
The first suburbs were built in the 1880s (the streetcar enabled them). They have a long history of adding and replacing infrastructure as needed. It takes 60+ years, but not everything comes due at once and so it isn't a sudden bill all at once, it is spread out over decades. Roads tend to need significant work after 15-20 years.