skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The head of Boeing's 737 programme has told employees that the discovery was "absolutely unacceptable".

That's fine, but what action did that person take other than saying that? Or does anything else need to be done at that level?

I recall reading about Andy Grove on the topic of management, and maybe the point of people at that level really is to just push down "company values" in a sense. I'd rather have someone up there shouting about this than constantly shouting "shareholder value" or "just deliver", at least for products like this. Maybe the bad culture there is changing ;-)
Is pybind numpy aware? This is interesting. Having never used pybind, where can I learn more?
Was it good when they did it, though?
Opening a web browser is way faster now. In 1983 it took ten years.
A Highway (Used to) Run Through It
Why do you think it's the "current regime" that's going after FB? Before Barr, the "current regime" couldn't even launch investigations into fake "dossiers" and things of that nature, and this stuff with FB started back in 2016. Could be the deep state. Could, in fact, be both, competing with each other. Not being able to control public opinion is a pretty terrible thing for all of them. In the good old days you could resolve all this shit quietly by having a few conversations with the owners of the "free" press. Nowadays Zuck is less compliant.
> why must it be this way

Companies used to have Ombudsman; literally a board member who did nothing but listen to employee complaints and help them e heard. This tended to lead to unions, which reduced company profitability, and was replaced with the current HR model, which is now giving way to out-sourced HR models.
If he was Russian, this would be so uncool.
Worst thing is that new commercial plates do have "Open for Business" on them. Fun fact, a lot of those black license plates on pickup trucks are commercial-style plates, meaning all the redneck truck-driving coal-rolling Conservative base will be cruising around with "Open for Business" on their trucks once the new plate designs come into effect.
moar US/UK propaganda, moaaar

your golden age is about to end
I find the idea of AI-based image compression rather fascinating. In theory it seems like a great fit for AI;
"perceived quality" is exactly the sort of fuzzy metric AI tends to be good at optimizing for, and a compression algorithm possessing an understanding of high-level visual features like shapes, lighting, etc seems like it would have a lot of potential.

Taken to the extreme, a sufficiently advanced AI compression system could theoretically end up storing representations of high-level features like faces in the compressed data; which could lead to some really bizarre looking compression artifacts when the system breaks down.
Had a dog that would press her nose right up to an ipad screen and move her face around to follow the squirrel, bird, or dog that interested her. She would get very excited about it. She also watched TV. At one point sitting on hind legs trying to elevate off the bed to be inline with the center of the image.
> If we look at data from a major internet traffic exchange point (AMS-IX), we see that at least 20% of packets transiting the exchange are the maximum size.

He’s so optimistic. My brain heard this as “only 20% of packets […] are the maximum size”

What are all of those 64 byte packets? Interactive shells, or some other low bitrate protocol?
C# can only go so far down the road towards F# without introducing currying and partial application. I can't see those ever being introduced into C#.
Transaction isolation repeatable read in PostgreSQL vs. MySQL
No, as I don't believe there are 4 instances of sexism towards men.
Five FinTech Companies Disrupting Banking and Finance
Why wouldn't it be? The salience of the topic, as well as the generally pro-inclusivity point of view in much of the IT world (as far as I can tell) would make it a prime topic of weird conspiracy theories to a brain that is prone to creating them.

EDIT: also it's still fair enough to be critical about these things. schizophrenia is no 'excuse' in that sense.

I'm not defending said theories at all, just saying that my experience with schizophrenics is that they are very much influenced by the topics that are relevant in their surroundings.

It's easy to empathize with the mentally ill as long as they don't personally affect you and/or your high horses.
And the Internet is just another form of the same old communication we have always done.
Here are a few links that contain some pointers:

NYTimes Blog: Coca-Cola Funds Scientists Who Shift Blame for Obesity Away From Bad Diets - https://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2015/08/09/coca-cola-funds-sc...

Endocrine Web: The Coke Controversy: The Marketing Message That Could Spell Trouble for People Dealing with Diabetes and Obesity -
https://www.endocrineweb.com/news/diabetes/coke-controversy-...

Study: Coca-Cola – a model of transparency in research partnerships? A network analysis of Coca-Cola’s research funding (2008–2016) - https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5962884/

Union of Concerned Scientists blog post: How Coca-Cola Disguised Its Influence on Science about Sugar and Health - https://www.ucsusa.org/resources/how-coca-cola-disguised-its...
Sure, I mean that's what pMTUd is all about. One big difference with IPv6: Routers can't fragment packets. They either send or they don't.
Not only is Elon brilliant but he also has a great sense of humor.
> an incandescent-bulb-lit house slowly pulses from light to dark

This sounds amazing to me, but also confusing. My understanding is that an incandescent bulb works entirely by heating up the filament. There should be no way that the filament is cooling down and heating up in anywhere close to the rate that it would require to get some kind of wagon-wheel effect, which is what it sounds like you're describing.
My understanding of lossy compression like JPEG may be limited, but wouldn't this ML network be guessing the eigenvectors to put back into a matrix that were removed because they weren't dominant enough?
Always fascinating to read about the almost-successes of any field but scientifically, it's all the more fun. Astronomy is a complete mystery to me so seeing a man make such a grand discovery only for it to be deemed 'wrong' is amusing. The sentimentalist in me hopes that if that the planet does exist it will be named after him, as a small Easter Egg of sorts. I can't judge his input on any grand scale, having little familiarity with the field, but I'd assume a bright mind shouldn't be forgotten just because of a mistake, particularly one that he wouldn't have made if he had access to modern tools. Plenty of greats were wrong about things, being wrong is halfway to being right after all.
I'll take my "internet-connected abomination" over having to wire in a dimmer switch that might change the tone of the light as you dim, make buzzing sounds, cut out the light early, or shorten the lifespan of the bulb.

Hue has been the first dimming system that actually works well. I have a few colored bulbs, but rarely need them, the biggest benefit to me (aside from automation: dusk auto-on/off) is dimming different shades of white/yellow. Great system that has no real analogue competition.
> Huh. I'd say the examples are perfectly good and on-point. While dealing with autoexec.bat and random BSODs wasn't fun, it's entirely orthogonal to the fact that a DOS-era POS still offers orders of magnitude better UX than current-era browser POSes, or than most web apps for that matter.

I know of an ERP system that somehow manages to take about 15 seconds to search an inventory of ~100k items. If you export all those items to CSV, with all their attributes (most of which are not searched), the resulting file is about 15 MB.

It is boggling how they managed to implement search this slowly (in a C++ application using MS SQL as the backend). 3.5 GHz computers, performing plain text string search at about 1 MB/s.

It is even more surprising that users feel this is not an completely unreasonable speed.

(They managed to pull this stunt off by completely not using the SQL database in the intended way, i.e. all tables are essentially (id, blob) tuples, where the blob is a zlib compressed piece of custom TLV encoded data. All data access goes through a bunch of stored procedures, which return data in accordance to a sort of "data extraction string". Search works by re-implementing inverted indices in tables of (word, offset, blob), where blob contains a zlib compressed list of matching IDs; again processed by stored procedures. The client then is wisely implemented using MS SQL's flavour of LIMIT queries which effectively cause a classic quadratic slowdown because the database engine literally has no way to fetch result rows n...m except by constructing the entire result set up to m.

Unsurprisingly the developers of this abomination claim to be competent. They also invented a funny data exchange format involving fixed field lengths and ASCII separators - some time in the 2010s.)
Divorce rate is per marriages - "how many divorces per 1000 married women". Here is graph and article from sociologist https://timeline.com/divorce-rates-going-down-d85477f83055

Mostly, attitude toward marriage changed. People care more about selection of partner. They marry later and when they are able to form stable couple - finish college and find jobs. Poor people marry less, but form couples that live together and don't marry.

People are less likely to marry due to social pressure etc.
I don't get it, is there some joke here?
Incandescent bulbs store thermal energy in the fillaments, lowpassing the signal in the same way as a capacitor would on an LED bulb. A 60Hz flicker would be perceptible and if incandescents had that problem nobody would use them.
My mistake. I thought they meant Piece-Of-Shit.
I have hard time believing that selling Facebook ads is a high risk (at least from a financial standpoint, maybe from a democratic standpoint yes) effort. In 2010, Facebook had 500 million monthly users and there wasn't even any kind of a serious privacy legislation like GDPR to curtail Facebook's plan on monetizing user data. I can't imagine there were many executives at Facebook losing sleep over this.
I agree with you. I mean, anon9001's approach could work... but it would make me have to become a manipulative jerk myself. Since the reason the toxic coworker is a problem is because of what they do to my mental health, this proposed cure looks as bad as the disease.
Maybe there's some problem with the voltage in your house? I have never ever experienced an LED bulb dying on me, not even dirt cheap ones.
The first paragraph already highlights the issue I have with it. I don't want to loosen my firewall, some countries and their IP ranges just need not access my server.
You have to almost be intentionally looking the other way not to see the clear sexism at play here.
Show HN: Robot Sumo in the Browser
Try running Google Maps on your 133Mhz Pentium.
Are you really blaming the US for Canadian politicians shitty behavior?

As a Canadian, I can assure you we're more than capable of coming up with that behavior ourselves.
Tossing a mobile (usually against something soft) can have similar emotional catharsis.
If that were the case I wonder if there is a frequency which the fly’s vision has a hard time adapting to.
Keybase Public
[ my public key: https://keybase.io/qsolo; my proof: https://keybase.io/qsolo/sigs/0NzbIcg6HB-S58dB2vyb0nL5ZVnkQniCiT8eqEISJDc ]
> As far as I am concerned, pretending that bad actors simply do not exist has allowed some of the greatest problems I've seen plague organizations

Absolutely. In my experience there are vicious cycles at play. Political people (that's my name for bad actors) seem on average better at identifying whether somebody is political or not. They are also better at reinforcing each other. Political people will tend to hire and promote political people since that's the game they understand. Non-political people might tend to promote more of their own kind, but they will probably be worse at spotting the political kind, hence they will make more mistakes wrt promoting competence.

Come to think of it this whole thing seems quite amenable to some sort of evolutionary game theory. Maybe in conjunction with social network theory. I'm curious if anybody studied this already.
Legal precedent is a portion of the law.

You -- or in this case, Facebook -- has one interpretation of what is legal, the enforcement agency has another. The court decides and everyone goes forward from there.

You and I can have opinion on whether these various international schemes are legal ways to avoid taxes, but ultimately the law going forward will be the precedent set by this case, and its appeals.
... and how exactly is developing code from scratch within 4 hours different from developing code a doghouse scratch within 4 hours?

Both require good thought, design and a plan to execute.

The only way to deliver a doghouse from scratch within 4 hours is to have a doghouse template that's prefabricated, ready and available.
Of course it's sales copy, but if this is what sells now, maybe we're heading in the right direction?

I mainly like this line: "They laid out a few principles to build by: a focus on relationships instead of Likes and followers, conscious design that won’t exploit people’s attention or weaknesses, no ads, and keeping all data private and in control of the user."

It would be great if this could be an actual thing.
Sure, but you buy in years ago when it was $3 not all time high. It's sure as shit not going to go 30x from this point in a few years. That's my point, AMD is so cyclical, it's scary right now.
TruffleRuby – GraalVM Community Edition 20.0.0
People looking at their personal income tax return: Woah, this is more complicated than I expected - should probably pay a professional accountant to sort this out for me

People reading news articles like this: Look at these stupid professionals arguing about how international tax law in the $XB range when one side is so obviously wrong, and the correct outcome is really straight forward.
Facebook does pay US taxes. That is not in dispute. But facebook does business all over the world. The question is about the proper handling of overseas income. How much of that should face local tax rates vs US tax rates?

It's a complex area of tax accounting and there are a lot of judgement calls to be made. This lawsuit is about one of those judgement calls.
A tangent but still - what does make a printer fancy? Brother has models with every bell and whistle everything else has as well - color LCDs, wifi, airprint. What else is there that would make it fancier?
Light usually works. Fade out what's not supposed to be the focus.

I'm not particularly motion sensitive but agree that the animation was really jarring and threw off my focus every time it happened, which is probably the opposite of what's intended.

[EDIT] particularly, on revisiting it, I think the problem is that the animation doesn't flow from one point of focus to another, but effectively resets the user's eye every time it happens by coming in from "outside" of the screen. Fading out what's not currently important/interactive, or, if you must have an animation, making it move less-loudly from one point of focus to another would be an improvement. I think the former's both more elegant and more effective but either'd be better.
I mean, it's still a vastly, vastly better deal than college or other boot camps. It has no up front monetary investment, and you only pay for it if i works for you.
I think there's room to argue that intentionally shipping all your IP to a lower tax country then charging the main company (that developed that IP in the first place) high fees to use that IP as a way to shift profits from higher tax areas to lower tax areas could constitute fraud. Either they sold/transferred the IP for way to little or they're charging themselves way too much because it's advantageous for taxes.
I am also in quest to learn JavaScript & found this Derek Sivers link on the subject quite insightful:

https://sivers.org/prog
"Maybe the author never played Ultimate III on an IBM PC. It was sooooo slow."

You nailed it.
The article doesn't have any figure on a possible fine.
>But some apps have incredible UX.

Name 10. Some variety (Android, Windows, Linux, GUI, CLI) preferred.
Well, it seems like you and I live in parallel universes. I don't believe these attitudes are still in place and I believe today's people have nothing to do with what happened 500 years ago for example.

I am not responsible for what other people have done so I expect not to be treated as such. In my experience, men are subjects of sexism in the IT industry to a far greater extent than women are. We never hear of this since media is very female-oriented and don't care about bad stuff happening towards men.
Not only banks. I bought a house with the money I made on a Y2K project for a water authority's billing system. I doubt they've managed to work out how to replace that mess of COBOL without going broke.
The interview transcript is much appreciated! I hate it when random two-hour podcast has a 15 minute interview I want to listen to, and have to go hunting for it.
Right. You wouldn’t be able to tell by just walking around though. Every third cars has one of these plate darkener screens. And many cars also have windows so tinted you can’t even tell if it’s a man or a woman driving.
It's really crazy how many ways there are to implement FFI in Python. I started in the "old days" (Makefile, a bunch of CPython C code to implement argument parsing, etc), switched to swig (experienced both the good and bad sides), hoped that GCC-XML would make it easier to convert complicated C++ classes to Python interfaces (big mistake), then hoped that LLVM 'would solve the problem', saw Google release CLIF (still can't compile it from scratch on a modern linux system), and the large number of "late-binding" approaches. Of all of them, I was most skeptical of Cython but have slowly come to appreciate its sublime cleverness.
For a commodity, something where two units are essentially indistinguishable, it's really the role of governments, and probably more of the responsibility is with the producing government. It's impractical for consumers to vet commodity suppliers.
$1.25? How about a 60c LED light bulb teardown :http://rohitg.in/2014/10/28/Dollar-LED-Bulb/
If you don't mind a bit of custom work, FastLED and WS2812 LEDs is where it's at.

Evilgenius has a level shifting board for the ESP32 or ESP8266 that takes a lot of the hassle out if you need many separate patterns.
What about hydrogenated vegetable oil?
let's say a global carbon tax comes to be. Where does the money go and who decides where it goes? Does it just sit in an account? Does the taxpayer get anything for their money?
Yes, I understand the logic of it, and I have heard of companies that include this requirement. I just doubt that this is anything like a standard industry practice. I've been in the industry for a very long time, and have never once encountered such a restriction, even at very large corporations. I would think if this were close to being a standard practice, I would have encountered it at least once.
> This happens more often in family business

It may be even more prevalent in large corporations. Wherever there are many layers of management there's a lot of room for people who like climbing the greasy pole.
Several languages on either side of the OOP vs. FP divide include both solutions to the problem -- for example, open subtyping vs. sealed case classes in Scala, and traits vs. sum types in Rust. There's more to both OOP and FP than the expression problem.
The only really safe bet is to avoid purchasing pre-made items, and make your own sauces/treats/cakes etc. We cook all our own meals at home, but buy shampoo + cookies + cakes + chocolate bars (as normal people do). We try to stick to brands we _know_ don't have any palm oil, but I'd wager that almost all our produce doesn't have any in it.

Except I just checked and my peanut butter (whole earth) _does_ contain it, even though I thought it didn't... You might have a point.
One thing to consider with the Tradfri bulbs is that some people (myself included) have experienced them turning on randomly. Internet says it might have something to do with automatic software update, but that is hearsay.

Also, for a smart bulb I find their control requirements to be weird. Pair with this device first, but only up to X devices, then pair that with the hub. Everything else I have is Z-wave so maybe this is par for the course for smart bulbs and I'm just not used to it.
>I remember using the Up/Down/Left/Right navigation (and full-screen re-renders) in Mapquest pre-google maps.

Web apps sucked then, and they still suck today. The only difference between then and now is the decades of development effort that has been wasted trying to make JavaScript fast enough to mimic old applications.

I used MS Streets & Trips[1] in the same era, and it was awesome. It worked offline (something Google maps only got recently, and it sucks pretty bad at it), the search for POIs along a route was wicked fast, and it supports the author's purported use-case of mapping out a whole trip.

This shit ran blisteringly fast on a Windows 2000 laptop w/ no internet connection & 256MB of RAM. Now I'm expected to have an always on connection & I need gigabytes of RAM just to accomplish the same thing inside a web browser. -- I've missed many a turn because "navigation apps" assume LTE coverage is perfect; which is just not the case for many parts of the midwest. So I'm resigned to using a dedicated GPS unit.

[1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4YO_KGdsUm4

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On the topic of library catalogs:

You'll click through results in these catalog apps and there's sometimes seconds of delay because they're doing completely unnecessary shit like querying inventory at peering libraries. It wastes cycles and network round trips trying to answer a question I didn't even ask. (Inventory levels of a given title.) -- Browsing a digital card catalog is literally the perfectly indexed dataset computers dream about, and somehow people have gone and managed to make that excruciatingly slow.

It's gotten so bad I usually just go talk to the librarian if they're not busy, since their interface to the library's inventory typically looks more like the one's referenced in the article.
The chance of an ordinary middle class person being audited by the IRS is extremely low. The enforcement division is severely understaffed, and pretty much only works on computers pattern matching clearly egregious returns.

A large proportion of the US population commits some sort of low level tax evasion- unreported income, deductions that never happened, personal expenses as business deductions, claiming dependents, etc. The vast majority will never see any enforcement whatsoever. By contrast the returns of a major corporation like Facebook are held up to an extreme degree of scrutiny.
Useful to know: the 'past' link underneath a headline on HN will show you past instances of the same URL being shared as news.

This is our 6th time discussing this topic, and we have become exceedingly efficient at it.
That's hardly a open-minded scientific attitude, now is it?

When I first encountered Reiki, it was just my scientific curiosity that was aroused. I've experienced electromagnetic fields (e.g. a Van De Graff generator, static electricity, and so on) and currents (touch a 9v to your tongue, once touched a socket that was improperly grounded, etc.) and I have worked with simple circuits. I grok Ohm's law. I'm well-grounded in modern science (for a layman.)

So, when I felt Reiki, whatever it is, I knew something serious was going on: either it's a unknown form of bio-electricity or something even stranger.

But you don't want to discuss it.