skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think a lot of it has to do with the challenges of validating changes to aircraft as safe. Additionally, the B-52 is relatively simple and inexpensive to operate.

As a lay person I imagine that the high wing of a B-52 vs the low wing of a modern Boeing might have something to do with center of gravity given the relative density and dynamic weight changes of bombs during a sortie vs stable passengers and luggage on a flight.

Since aircraft operate at much higher speeds than what we normal humans are accustomed to on a daily basis, there are significant concerns having to do with things like vibration [0] that may not be obvious.

That isn't to say that people aren't trying to reuse more commodity hardware over bespoke. For example, I understand that the P-8 Poseidon [1] is considered a successful program. It uses the 737 frame and does launch munitions, albeit not as many as a dedicated bomber aircraft.

Your idea of taking a sawsall to make a bomb bay door is not far off from the C-130 Harvest Hawk, which mounts bomb racks to existing cargo ramps.

0. The engineering required to fly fast (GVT): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sZGo-R2mtb8

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boeing_P-8_Poseidon

2. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lockheed_Martin_KC-130#Harvest...
Conceptualized is a perfect word.

The claim that it was designed in a weekend is like those “overnight success” stories that ignore the decade of work that someone put in to get to that point.
Modern brake systems are so good though, they're cheap, powerful, reliable, and easy to service. I am not sure that the juice would be worth the squeeze
I have only used Disney+ on a smart TV and Apple TV. It is on par with any other app on these platforms. I have seen several children work it without any instruction.

Perhaps their UX specialists are focused on non-web platforms?
I've also had two cars lose brake pressure. I'm very thankful that the cable-operated parking/emergency brake was functional on both cars; it saved one of them from going through the back wall of the garage.

The cable-operated E-brake definitely doesn't stop the car anywhere near as well as the power-assisted hydraulic brakes, but having two different braking methods can be a literal lifesaver when one system fails. (And all systems fail! I'd previously had two other cars where the E-brake didn't work.)
I got everything frozen over a 10k payment by my employer which the bank had the contract and prior transfers (same amount) of. I had to come to the bank office to clear it up; I was (of course) on the other side of world then trying to pay for my hotel room. Great fun.
They all are. Netflix's UX is garbage, as is Amazon Prime. And Now TV manages to be even worse than all of the rest put together.

I'm convinced that nobody in any of these companies actually uses their own products.
I have never grokked written or verbal explanations of countersteering. I have been riding bicycles and motorcycles for almost 5 decades now - I do it all the time in practice. But explaining it makes it weird.
A public funeral is, well, public. Everyone can come to the “celebration” and “celebrate” however they want.

If the family wanted to control the show, they should organize a private event with only invited guests who signed a code of conduct.
..for certain definitions of "new" (last built 60 years ago)
There's been a few proposals over the years to do just that, but they haven't worked out mostly because the Air Force wasn't looking for a new bomber at the time and/or already had enough bombers to do the mission. It's unlikely that the Air Force would have ever taken a civilian plane as a bomber though. While there are some civilian derived planes in use, like the KC-46, P-8, smaller cargo, VIP transport, EWAR aircraft, and in other countries AWACS planes, all of those are designed to be used in relatively safe areas. A bomber on the other hand should be able to fly in contested airspace, possibly at low altitude at high speed, with intensive maneuvering, and a whole bevy of sensors and jammers to stay alive. Plus, modern bombers need to be stealth as well, which isn't something that can be retrofitted to an existing design
> Half of the known exploitable bugs in Chrome are use-after-frees

> graph showing that 90% of high-severity bugs in the "Browser" part of the Chromium code are memory safety errors

I'm going to bite the bullet here and mention the elephant in the room: the vast majority of these errors are virtually absent from Rust codebases.

Logic errors happen in every language, but as the article shows, the majority of safety exploits come from memory safety errors, not logic errors, and memory-safe languages exist.

I realize that Chromium is a pretty big codebase and they're not going to just switch to a different language, but at some point I feel like we should be acknowledging that maintaining a large-scale C++ codebase in a domain where exploits are highly sought by intelligence agencies is extremely unsafe, and solutions like this are just another layer of band-aids.

(Though, to be clear, the amount of effort Google poured into defense-in-depth for Chromium and achieving an acceptable level of safety in practice is nothing short of amazing)
Also working perfectly for me on Firefox, once I remembered to turn off LocalCDN.
Indeed. Anti-racist is not code for anti-white, despite 4chan and Elon Musk and the alt-right constantly beating that drum. Twilio is doing the right thing and making sure they aren’t blithely doing a racism like HBOMax did recently: https://www.thedailybeast.com/laid-off-hbo-max-execs-reveal-...
Conceptualized, but also pondered upon, and considered worthy of further effort. A conceptualization can be done as fast as a single second, but it can take ages to weigh it against alternatives.
It doesn't even use that, the Chivo wallet only uses LN for external transactions, everything else is a plain old centralised app.
I wonder if there is a way to make it legal. Like turn it in as found and after a period if Google doesn't claim it.. At a minimum I would consult with a lawyer.
The video says "by many bike riders"-- actually all! The only way to steer a motorcycle (or bicycle) at speed is to countersteer, even if you don't realize you're doing it
Tiktok is the only good music recommendation engine (maybe YouTube’s related section for more niche genres)
Spawning a process consists of basically three steps: create a new process, twiddle attributes of the new process, and load the new process image. And for this, we (presently) have three choices: fork, vfork, and posix_spawn.

The cost of fork is proportional to the complexity of the spawning process (e.g., the size of its page tables), not the spawned process. The talk gives an example where fork takes 7ms, although I'm not entirely clear what it's doing (I only read the slides, not listened to the talk).

vfork and posix_spawn allow you to avoid that complexity. However, this comes at a price: posix_spawn only permits a very limited set of process attribute twiddling, and vfork is so unsafe that it's difficult to sanction its use... well in general.

From the slides, the intention is to provide something like vfork except without the inherent unsafety of vfork. It describes vfork as "Effectively a thread with no synchronization running with the same stack as the parent". Meanwhile, you can look at io_uring as describing a kernel thread that does a limited set of tasks... so why not implement something like vfork on top of io_uring? Of course, the interesting question is what process bits can be twiddled in io_uring_spawn, but unfortunately, there's no examples from what I can see to get a sense of how powerful it is or isn't.
Check out mubi.com for a more cineastic approach to streaming
This is a popular idea among many people with domain expertise (in this case, developers), but it doesn’t hold up to scrutiny.

By this standard, a CEO would need decent expertise in every aspect of running their business, which as a business scales becomes impossible.

Businesses are collections of people and need to succeed as such. The whole point of hiring people is to grow the skills available to the business. If you know enough to micro-manage all your staff, you’re either not very senior or you hired poorly (or both).

Management is more complicated than just fact-checking and BS-detection. In fact if you’re significantly worried about detecting BS by your staff, you already have a management problem.
ShellCheck: Shell script static analysis tool
Reverse racism doesnt exist.

Its just racism.
I want to echo this sentiment:

Change in society depends upon privacy. Women’s suffrage would not have happened without the ability for women to meet in secret to plan public assembly. This is also true of the civil rights movement. Gay marriage required gay relationships which were also illegal at the time.

Imagine how much more oppressive the in-crowd can be with perfect surveillance of financial transactions.

To be clear, I think money and speech are different. I also believe that a fully financially surveilled society is a totalitarian state where free speech is impossible.

We have to find a compromise where we retain some semblance of privacy in the digital banking era. To lose any hope of privacy is to accept tyranny.

It is possible for us, as technologists, to build systems that both comply with the law and create privacy for the customer, at least in the US as the laws are written today. The danger is the incredibly rapid expanse of surveillance powers as they relate to finance.

Please take a moment to research what is happening in the US right now. This is the front page of Bloomberg from a couple days ago: https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2022-09-12/china-....
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why did GPM die?
Yep, a shocking amount of ad-hoc processes and standards held over from the 70s and earlier. Also, most surprising to me, very few people in the industry actually understand how it works. Most people have never met an actual banker. The people in your local bank branch are sales people and technicians. It is nearly impossible even to find someone who really knows what is going on under the hood, let alone get a meeting with them. And there is no documentation, no primer you can read to bring you up to speed the way you can learn about emacs or Javascript. It's all a good-old-boy network, and even finding an actual member of the club to talk to is nearly impossible.
I pitched to an engineer that worked on Facebook newsfeed ranking that they make a setting to let me hide all reposts because my feed was entirely political links and meme images. He didn’t buy that life updates from friends was what I wanted to see, very adamant that if I used the “I don’t like this” button, eventually it would find content I liked.
You don’t claim as income something which is not income. There is no question here. It doesn’t matter if the bank report it. This is not his money. Google won’t 1099 you for money they shouldn’t have wired you.

I mean technically if they fill a 1099 for this, the money is yours. Congratulations, you are now 250,000$ richer and owe back taxes to the IRS.
From my original post: "for a major player in the tech market". Where IT isn't just a cost center.
Did you think they were referring to a company other than Twitter?
It can happen for tons of reasons. Some coincidental, some were initially benevolent.

Imagine a company with an office in Atlanta, that hires a disproportionately large number of black employees relative to the rest of the company due to the proximity to more diverse engineering talent. Then they close the whole Atlanta office and lay everyone off.

Or

Imagine a minority tech influencer that does a great job of recruiting underrepresented people to the part of the company they work for.

Or

"We're staffing up our test engineering group, and we're making a new junior test engineer program that targets career switchers." => "Hey, we're getting especially good employees from underrepresented groups in this career switching program, let's double down the advertising to these groups." => "Times are tough, engineers can test their own code. Let's axe the whole entire test engineer group."

I'm sure you can come up with your own examples also.
Policies with no racial component often disproportionately target a minority group when metrics or properties that are purportedly race-neutral are, in fact, biased. Basing firing decisions on these qualities (arrest record, credit history, where they attended college) doesn't have racist intent, but it likely to have racist outcomes.
Philosophical issues aside, the Supreme Court is sort of ok with “fixing racism by being racist” if it’s done to compensate for historically being racist.
Isn't spawning a POSIX thread the same thing?
What's in it for them? Porn sites are the last I expect to care about responsible social media practices (except privacy, maybe).
Ask HN: Where are the good platforms for contract work?
I've been looking for contract work for the past couple months, and it's been dire. All the job boards are looking for full time employees, and on Hacker News the only recommendation is Toptal.

Is there really no other platform for decently paid contract work that's not a complete race to the bottom? I find I'm close to having to abandon 10 years of consulting because I have no idea where to find anything else than full-time employment.

The other two job boards I've been keeping an eye on are mostly about React and other frontend roles, with offers few and far between. Linkedin is similarly dire for contract work.

Is Toptal the only option for someone with 16 years experience that wouldn't want to work for peanuts? Or just going back to being an employee?

(In case anyone's reading that's looking for a senior Elixir/Rust/Go engineer/sysadmin, resume's in my profile. I'm based in London.)

EDIT: excellent responses so far, thanks. I like how many are suggesting going through recruiters, while the common motif on other similar posts is to avoid LinkedIn. I've started cleaning up my Linkedin profile this week, and I already have a dozen recruiters setting up appointments with me. I will try and explicitly request contract jobs with them.
> is this time telling the truth

The 1st Amendment and various diversity pledges are all public - you can verify them yourself, you don't have to take Reason's word for it. Or do you mean that the hypothetical example given by Volokh in the article is... a lie?

> You'd think after the first few of your writers deny the Holocaust

This article was written by Eugene Volokh, who is Jewish: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eugene_Volokh

Since this is your second post on the topic, and again the only objections you gave are ad hominem, may I therefore assume that you have no objections to the substance of the article?
Twilio to lay off 11% of workforce
Don't they know?
Rotary LTE Un-Smartphone (Video Overview)
Yes, it is. The current H generation has very little to do with the first build airframes so. Including certification.

EDIT: Those upgrade programs, e.g. the F-15 is currently at "X", are complete development programs and involve a certain amount of certification and re-certification. That in the case of the B-52 those upgrades have been applied to existing, tremendously old, airframes, doesn't change that. It does make it quite impressive so, the B-52 turned out to be a very flexible and upgradeable design.
For any of the Cloudflare team that frequents HN, curious if you have an eventual plan to open-source Pingora? I recognize it may stay proprietary if you consider it to be a differentiator and competitive advantage, but this blog post almost has a tone of "introducing this new technology!" as if it's in the cards for the future.
Layoffs are always heartbreaking, But thankfully they are proving good support

> - 12 weeks of pay + 1 week per every year of tenure

> - Full value of the next stock vest

> - Support to find new roles

> - Even more support to those on visas

> (Note from me: not much more you can ask for in terms of support + severance these days)

https://twitter.com/GergelyOrosz/status/1570049287605690368
Music Map is an excellent resource for new artists. Its part of Gnod. I found it from an old HN post https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11827808
That's awesome. Thanks for sharing!
>Do you watch only on Web? Or have you also tried their TV app?

This is the biggest one right here. The platforms that have the most viewers will receive the most attention from the UX team because the risk of a poor experience driving people away is much higher. I'm willing to bet that the average Disney+ subscriber is probably watching shows on their TV and using different methods of input such as a controller or TV remote instead of using a keyboard.
Once again, I'll stick my neck out with the contrarian pov. Disclosure: I'm divorced and I pay child support.

1) Kids cost money to raise. Nowhere is that reflected in the author's analysis. Curious...

2) It's difficult to put a price on being free from a shitty relationship. I wasn't very happy about child support, but I'd probably have paid 3x to have You Know Who out of my life.

3a) Just because some people pull this shit with premeditated malice, doesn't mean it's particularly common.
3b) No matter how many giant red flags, you're never going to convince someone that the person they're about to marry is capable of fucking them over. It's as big a waste of time as comments on HN ;)
I wonder if we'll see companies like Netflix try to bring some popular high-quality YT channels over to their platform.
You throw out some labels and then push an authoritarian solution. How long have you been a liberal?
A white guy laid off in that instance would probably feel relieved. To elaborate, white men already reference diversity metrics to rationalize why they were not hired so naturally they would do the same when laid off.
> It is ABSOLUTELY a regulator and a court system running wild. That's the whole point here.

Well that's stepped up significantly, the regulator and the legal system running wild.

The courts offer a way of checking if the fine should really have been issued, and it should. In response to this you suggest unchecked sanctions applied to completely different industries.

> The commission narrowly defines a mobile OS market and excludes Apple through a selective description of these markets.

Seems extremely simple to me that these things are distinct based on the restrictions we're talking about. Google may have been able to tie everything together if only they made and manufactured their own phones. I'm not even sure that including apple would help much since Android has an 80% market share.

> Individuals on the committee

The regulator and the court involved in the appeal?

> As far as scientific advancement goes, you're hopefully smart enough to realize the contributions of all the intelligent work done not just at Google, but in the private sector at large

And anti-competitive practices hurt the private sector. Competition has been fundamental to the dramatic progress made, and I don't think that google trying to stop people building phones with different OS's on them is beneficial.

Compete on merits, rather than "might makes right", in my opinion.

Google was, for example, controlling what versions of android manufacturers could put on their devices if they wanted any devices they made to have the Play Store. That does not to me seem like a good thing.
I think this is insightful. It’s more reflective of the current moment of DEIJ hyperactivity than anything else. And there is a good reason it is happening, even if it is unsettling sometimes.

https://zeihan.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/us-population-...

I want to point out a population pyramid that explains a lot of the importance of DEIJ right now. It’s because there’s a big demographic transition happening in the US, and older managers and executives are not going to have the same demographics as the younger people with less tenure. The face of corporate America is literally changing and will continue to over the next few decades.
> if half the staff left a nursing home, it would be forced to shut down

This is only true when the rank and file employees have a relationship with the clients. National nursing home chains will be just fine if they churn through 50% of their staff. A local mom-n-pop business that runs because each of the employees has a strong relationship with the entire community will not survive the damage to reputation.
Rank and file programmers are replaceable.

On the other hand, an artistic endeavor without the creative source will fail (see new Metal Gear games or new Star wars movies). A field that needs technical breakthroughs will fail unless you have the 1 of the 10 people capable of making that breakthrough happen. A small-ish company that relies solely on visionaries as their identity will die without the visionary (Jobs 1.0)

I can't think of many other companies where the rank-n-file are not replaceable. Slow death is always possible, but the above scenarios practically guarantee failure.
Neutrality is not the principle of antiracism. I cannot assume positive intent, because anti racism explicitly excludes merely ensuring post-hoc that discrimination did not occur.

Anti-racist policies, are by definition (per Ibram X Kendi), not neutral. A neutral policy that does not intentionally benefit minority racial groups, is classified as racist under Kendi.

Edit: Further more, per DiAngelo, investigations should not see IF racism took place, but HOW. Neutrality is not an option. And per Kendi again:

> The only remedy to racist discrimination, is antiracist discrimination.

> The only remedy to past discrimination is present discrimination.

> The only remedy to present discrimination is future discrimination.

How ANYONE ever took these principles seriously is beyond me.
Counterpoint: I never use subtitles, I’ve never had trouble with focus/space bar, I can’t say I’ve ever wanted to search by director… I go to Disney+ I click on a Marvel movie I watch it I’m happy.

So maybe it’s a good enough UX for their user-base?
Kit by Justine Haupt, at https://skysedge.com/unsmartphones/RUSP/index.html

previously discussed at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31166026

This is a new video demonstrating the assembled final version
Ive copy pasted it twice, It's a thing, a value - "Be anti racist", we have support groups and communities and regular engagement built on this principal. This was an internal email , although they should have know that this goes out, even then I don't think they would anticipated it.

It absolutely does not mean they skewed the results or targeted to keep their diversity intact.

what hes saying is we made sure there was no bias , that's all. Although it might read like something else, anyone from twilio would understand as it's a common phrasing.
Here's Godot's current implementation of occlusion culling (sort of), though it needs some manual setup: https://docs.godotengine.org/en/stable/tutorials/performance...
They are useful for categorical variables. For example, is a record in the "Likes motorcycles" category? They are fast because (well, one reason) bitwise logical operations are very fast for CPUs to do.

Adtech is an example of a sector that benefits from this...they slice and dice datasets a lot to target ad campaigns and such. Being able to do that quickly is useful.
If the decision to fire is based on the demographic makeup rather than the individual's performance, it would still be discrimination (in a purely ethical sense)
> I would seriously consider moving content away from youtube and hosting my own stuff.

Most people offering courses already do this. So instead of useful information, they post spam videos to Youtube, atop which these ads will presumably run in the future.
We are planning on open sourcing it. That's mentioned in the post near the end.
I wouldn't exactly call them neutral since they have large stakes in Ford, GM, etc. So they do have a conflict of interest here.