skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
mcas seems sort of different, in that it was a software/computer patch for a hole that was opened up in the physical handling characteristics of the aircraft as part of the retrofit to make it more efficient. it seems clear to me that it was an experiment in fusing computer with modified airframe to try and thread the needle of "no additional training required" and increase the financial performance of the program.

i suspect the story behind most decisions in flight control ui is a very long one, with a long list of lessons learned, expectations set and human factors. these things arise in any complicated design, where some new feature violates the existing design principles and a compromise is made that on its face makes no sense, but in context is totally understandable.

that context would be interesting.
Hook-and-Loop Fastener
Can I inconvenience you because I feel inconvenienced by something that I can just stop myself?
This is explained here:

> Since pure hue variations in RGB comprise less values than the total number of seconds in a day, colors are further modulated each second to show a distintive gamut of colors for every different moment in the day.

> Variations are based on phased sine functions that respond to each individual color, the fine modulation and luminosity.
The problem is that there is nowhere near as many SWE jobs in other states as in Bay Area. I just moved to the Bay from Munich and I miss Germany a lot, but the career opportunities are here in California. Admittedly, I don’t enjoy my life as much as I did in Munich where I could walk, cycle and enjoy great city life. However, I knew all that before I moved here and it was a calculated decision: the career opportunities I have here are way better than anywhere in the world. If I could live somewhere else and take the career prospects with me, I would definitely consider it. But remote work is not as available as people predicted and IMO it also takes away from the ability to grow in the company in many ways.

Yea, California is overpriced and has many problems, but if one saves here enough then moving anywhere with plenty of savings is very comfortable in the future. There’s nothing wrong with willing to live in other places but there’s a good reason people move to California.
That's great, it's a totally different thing to suggest to someone to sideload vs. to root.
Was this comment written by gpt3? How is it relevant to my question?
Right, and what happens when Joe Schmo pulls into the 200MPH self driving lane and gets his car exploded, along with causing a 10 self-driving-car pileup?

Or, for the purpose of discussion, let’s assume that the lane is completely separated. What if there’s some unexpected condition that causes a crash? Even with vehicle to vehicle communication, can the other cars behind it really stop in time at 200MPH?
The source is published to GitHub though, no? https://github.com/torvalds/linux

It's an easy mistake to make, the code is there and there's nothing to suggest it's a mirror.
>>In any case, it's pretty silly to blame the party that's on your side<<

Not to be a complete downer, but there is so much special interest money involved in our political system, neither the Democrats or the Republicans are on your side. They are both on the moneyed interest side. These political footballs are, for the most part, to string along voters on "hot button" issues to keep the public disinterested on the numerous things that these parties actually agree on, like expanded military spending, global expansionism, corporate tax reduction, lessening monopoly laws, reducing banking restrictions, reducing spending on interstate infrastructure, cutting education spending and restricting the ability for fair and equal elections through redistricting. All of these (and more I can't think of) are bipartisan efforts.

Sorry... I shouldn't watch the news. It's a bummer =)
Since I've been bothered by giant centralized social networks like facebook and twitter ever since they rose to wealth and power in the aughts, and have had an interest in the building blocks of an alternative decentralized world during all the time from then to now, I am thrilled to see people moving to the fediverse (mastodon and other similar software). Absolutely thrilled.

Keep going with this Elon. Keep. Going.
the far left opposes more housing

Not true at all. The far left objects to gentrification, where the supply of housing nominally increases but prices continue to go higher. Short-term rentals and properties being kept vacant for land speculation are two factors. The far left hates landlords and property speculators, for more or less the same reasons Adam Smith did.
Waymo and Cruise deploy in extremely limited public situations, including only in the middle of the night, and have been in the news a lot recently for a serious of crashes and software failures, some of which caused a pile up of around a dozen autonomous vehicles just blocking the road that had to be removed with tow trucks and employees. The scope of what Tesla is doing is vastly larger, more future proof, more reliable, and much more difficult to achieve.

Additionally, Tesla's model right now is to have a driver in the seat. They aren't trying to deploy a car without anyone in the driver seat. There's no need for them to have any license other than the one they have.
> In 2022, the renewed general interest in the Metaverse translated into significant media opportunities for Second Life. Over 21,000 articles and other stories included Second Life in 2022 – nearly 5 times greater than the amount of media coverage we received in 2021.

Out of all the metaverse projects being worked on, SL coming out on top would be an incredible development
Win16 Retro Development
> So… why would you do a bottom tier job for terrible compensation if it’s no longer necessary to survive

You wouldn't: bottom-tier dead-end jobs would see wage increases, because they'd still be necessary, but no longer have an economically coerced labor supply; Jobs that have too marginal economic value to be viable in the current minimum-wage set up, but which provide useful experience and thus are not dead end jobs woild become viable, and because more people would be able to take time out of dead-end jobs to do education and training, competition for entry level jobs in fields with advancement would be greater, likely suppressing wages in those jobs.
I am a pretty asocial dude. But I think I can make a decent first impression by being a "social chameleon".

- recognize the environment you are in

- what are the common ideas that are popular within that space

- wait for a cue and say something interesting that opens up to a response

- listen and contribute to the conversation

- start by almost telling a story or making a comment.

- having a friend with you will 10x your confidence in being more open to these conversation

- make sure you are not tired and you really are committed to have a discussion

Recognize the fact you can't easily have a good conversation with a random stranger. You need to have something in common with them. The less things you have in common with them the more reluctant you will feel to invest in having a casual conversation with them.
> Well they did just pass a bunch of laws last year to upzone the whole state

Have you seen the particulars of that law that upzoned the state? It's actually extremely weak:

"* Benefits homeowners NOT institutional investors. Recent amendments require a local agency to impose an owner occupancy requirement as a condition of a homeowner receiving a ministerial lot split. This bill also prohibits the development of small subdivisions and prohibits ministerial lot splits on adjacent parcels by the same individual to prevent investor speculation. In fact, allowing for more neighborhood scale housing in California’s communities actually curbs the market power of institutional investors. SB 9 prevents profiteers from evicting or displacing tenants by excluding properties where a tenant has resided in the past three years."

Translation: will be used only sparingly, because it's illegal to do it with a standard case of a corporation replacing existing housing with more housing. How many owner occupiers are interested in this and can afford this kind of redevelopment?

"Respects local control. Homeowners must comply with local zoning requirements when developing a duplex (height, floor area ratios, lot coverage etc.) as long as they do not physically preclude a lot split or duplex. This bill also allows locals to require a percolation test for any duplex proposed to be on septic tanks."

Translation: still lets local NIMBYs restrict density.

"It takes time to build the homes and see the impact but it’s hard to say that they’re not moving strongly in the right direction."

It's the right direction yes, but as you say, it's the kind of thing that should've been the response to the much weaker housing crisis of 20-30 years ago, not the much more serious one now.
Yeah, I've been seeing "this product was manufactured in a facility that processes food containing tree nuts" for over a decade now.
Well sure, to you they do. But is that not a failure of empathy? Put yourself in the shoes of a libertarian-ish, slightly fashy techbro. On second thought: Ewwww.
ya.. a lot of these things are no brainers when you do the math. let's say i believe myself to be worth $100/hr and the software costs $50. can i build this in 30 minutes? hmm, i might be able to set up an empty project in 30 minutes.
Your wrong. The Civil war was fought because the confederate states of America fired on Fort Sumter, the establishment of the confederacy the freeing of the slaves all of those happened as a consequence or prior to the actual war.

If you want to get that reductive than I am right. The Civil war happened because the Confederate States of America fired on Fort Sumter and everything else was ancillary. Just like WW1 happened because the Archduke Franz Ferdinand got assassinated.

Youre argument is overly reductive and your ignorant of history
The study was important, but limited in the usual way? Some 20-something college students, many paid to perform the study?

In my mind it underscores the need to introduce folks at a younger age to social situations. It's a problem that college students still can't talk to strangers.

How about a High School program of 'meet a random classmate' or some such? It's all about exposure and becoming resilient.
Firefox on Android. I couldn't find anything to interact with. Allegedly there's a button though.
What you're describing is essentially engineering ethos. We find the breaking points of things in order to learn about them and improve them.

Is that not allowed anymore?
> It is a bias towards the status quo.

Not a fan of the status quo, but with two largely insane parties fighting for power, I'm thankful for moderating forces.
Well that's the thing. Unlike you I did read the article carefully. The article makes two explicit claims: (1) the timing of emails to parents occurred after the early college application deadline, and (2) the timing of physical distribution of certificates did as well.

However in addition to those (superfluous) notifications, the article notes that the individual students themselves received email notifications: this is the notification I referred to in my previous post. Strangely the article brushes past this point and never addresses precisely when these notifications were sent to students.

This was the part of the article I found confusing, given that the notification to students would be the most important date that determines whether a student could use the information in their college application. If the school sent emails to students' accounts, the date should be easy to verify and include in the article, but the author does not do this.

"One former student said he learned he had won the award through a random email from the school to a school-district email account that students rarely check; the principal neither told his parents nor made a public announcement."

Indeed, zooming in on the specific claims regarding application deadlines, it's hard not to put together the following picture and observe that it is entirely compatible with the precise way the author (apparently an accomplished journalist) wrote the piece:

1. The school received the notifications in mid-October.
2. They sent out email notifications to students in a timely fashion.
3. Students failed to read these "random email notifications" because, duh, they're teenagers and don't check their school email.
4. The physical certificates (irrelevant, but a nice keepsake) took longer to distribute
5. Parents were notified only later on, and then pitched a fit about it because (unlike their kids) they do read their email.
6. The school, mollified by the parents' fury, promised to notify the parents in the future so that they could make sure their kids' inattention to email wouldn't result in further screwups.
7. An angry parent wrote an article subtitled "Why are administrators at a top-ranked public high school hiding National Merit awards from students and families?" implying (falsely) that the school deliberately withheld notification to students, and carefully cherry-picking facts to make that case.
Do the keys also scratch the screen like on a Dell or HP?
A "majority" of any sizeable group is not going to be rich. What is important for fiscal impact is that the rich are leaving, not that other people are also leaving.

If you want to see data, we can look at IRS data:

"New York’s tax base shrank by $19.5 billion while California lost $17.8 billion as a result of workers fleeing those states during a time when lockdown measures allowed employees to work remotely, according to the Wall Street Journal.

Other high-tax jurisdictions such as Illinois ($8.5 billion); Massachusetts ($2.6 billion); New Jersey ($2.3 billion); and Maryland ($1.9 billion) also saw an exodus of workers during 2020.

The states that reaped the benefits of the “wealth migration” include Florida, which gained an additional $23.7 billion in gross income; Texas, which gained $6.3 billion; Arizona, which took in $4.8 billion more; North Carolina ($3.8 billion); South Carolina ($3.6 billion); and Tennessee ($2.6 billion)."[1]

[1] https://nypost.com/2022/06/06/ny-cali-biggest-losers-as-weal...
In a nutshell, they induced the symptoms of hypothermia (shivering, etc.) in a monkey "model" (biologist code for a real living monkey). One of the 'stunning' findings from the data was that monkey body temperature control is more complicated than that of white mice "models". And the conclusion is that being able to induce hypothermia is a step towards human hibernation ... wtf?

Typical of biology, it's not obvious that the results were expected. On the contrary b/c biology lacks first principles most experiments are done on a "let's see what happens when we ...". That seems fine until you understand the approach is being used on living creatures.

Biology is butterfly collecting and animal torture.
At extreme cost
UBI should be predicated on automation making it effectively impossible for normal people to participate in the economy.

> Several contemporary political discussions are related to the basic income debate, including those regarding automation, artificial intelligence (AI), and the future of the necessity of work. A key issue in these debates is whether automation and AI will significantly reduce the number of available jobs and whether a basic income could help prevent or alleviate such problems by allowing everyone to benefit from a society's wealth, as well as whether a UBI could be a stepping stone to a resource-based or post-scarcity economy.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universal_Basic_Income

As such, there's no reason to wait for a government to introduce it. UBI is already within economic and logistic reach, you just have to organize it. There are innumerably many ways to do that.

If you had enough capital, you could literally purchase a large tract of desert land and convert it into a modern self-sufficient town in a year or two. All the technology has already been invented, it's all off-the-shelf now.
Please don't editorialize titles. The submitted title ("340k people moved out of CA in 2022, most of any state") was misleading, as hellisothers pointed out (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34119430).

"Please use the original title, unless it is misleading or linkbait; don't editorialize." - https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

If you want to say what you think is important about an article, that's fine, but do it by adding a comment to the thread. Then your view will be on a level playing field with everyone else's: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&so...
People once thought Bernie Madoffs fund were unbelievable.
Do you live in France by any chance?
Thanks!

Yes, but I suppose better to be uncommented-upon than torn a new one...?
There are also a lot of videos of humans failing these examples.
Because that label doesn’t meet the requirement for the law.
The previous house I had in a new development I had left the native plants in the yard alone. It was a meadow, with a wide variety of plants in it, including lots of wildflowers. It was mowed high twice a year to keep the fire risk down.

It was beautiful. And didn't need any watering.

It was the only lot in the development that didn't landscape with golf course grass.

When it came time to sell the house, it sold almost immediately, and this was during the 2008 housing collapse.

I did love that yard. I've been trying to do that with my current yard, with some success. The biggest problem is the invasive plants keep trying to turn it into a monoscape (himalayan blackberries, scotts broom, nettles). In the warmer season, there's a constant buzz of bees emanating from it.
Absolutely. One of the questions I think about often:

In an organization where you have excellent coaching staff, excellent tech leads, and excellent project managers, what would a manager focus on?

I have the same question for “product managers”…

In an organization where you have excellent user experience designers, excellent user researchers, excellent tech leads, and excellent project managers, what would a product manager focus on?

I think both of these roles too often seem to become an overarching “I am the Representative of The Business Goals in All Matters” type role. And… do we really want that?

Or are there better job descriptions for managers and PMs that would create more clarity around what they are responsible for and where they defer to their colleagues?

Genuine question because I am starting a company and I will eventually be hiring for these roles and I would like to have a better job description than the traditional ones.
OpenPGP Key on FST-01SZ
Where is coding going in 2023?
The article is not about topics being censored because of potential controversy. It is about GPT offering a consistent party line on certain subjects, which it did not get from the dataset organically but which were specifically trained into the model so it would say the “right” things, not simply refuse to discuss them.

The article gives examples of how to bypass the “don’t discuss this” programming with the right prompts, that’s not what they are talking about.
> You inherit an asset that you are forced to liquidate in order to afford the inheritance taxes on that asset.

Do you live in France by any chance?
> States have legalized it, they have seen great tax revenue, they have not seen huge swatches of marijuana-related crimes and medical emergencies.

States have seen increased theft from marijuana businesses. Both because they need to hold a lot of cash (very related to being locked out of banking) and because the weed itself has some resale value on the black market.

(I still think legalization is obviously worth it, just want to clarify that particular part of your statement.)
Good advice.

I'm also fairly asocial. I can be 'on' for maybe an hour before social fatigue sets in. The bigger the crowd, the smaller the half-life of my social energy.
The above poster was making a different and stronger claim: that publishing even the results of an election is a form of control and not truly “News.”

As others have pointed out, this doesn’t hold water. Publishing the result of some fact that people care to know about is arguably even the purest form of “news”: election results, sports scores, stock prices, etc
Synchro-compur. Stupid autocorrect.
> Most of us aren't even asking you to do anything or pay higher taxes - just stop screwing it up for everyone whose income isn't as big as yours

It's true people don't have to "do" anything, but they are still affected by QOL decline: increase in traffic, not enough parking, schools get crowded, everything gets crowded, etc. So it's not a no-op.
If a criminal has a bank account, it's insane to me that that means the bank is engaged in a criminal business.
“It will mean revert…” after they make a few hundred million dollars
Not really. A lot of folks, including myself, don't subscribe to the OSI's definition of open-source because it just doesn't match the common usage. Open-source takes many forms, and source available is just one example.
Agreed - obfuscation is useful for keeping honest people honest. If someone is sufficiently motivated, they will circumvent it, but for the vast majority of people it's just not worth the effort so they'll move to something else.

For example, in our application we have some optionally downloadable content that includes some code for an interpreted language. That code lives on disk in an obfuscated form because we are not yet ready to make the API public (it's on our "someday" roadmap), we don't want to clean up the code for public viewing, and above all because there are different licensing requirements around each content pack.

We looked at various "real" security options and they all have holes, and they all add a ton of complexity. We then also looked at the likely intersection between "people who would pay for this" and "people who could crack this", and there's not much there. In the end, obfuscation is cheap (especially in terms of implementation and maintenance) and steers our real customers away violating the license, and we don't waste resources on dishonest people.

If I'm being charitable, the obfuscation in the article has an out of whack cost/benefit ratio. If I'm being cynical, the obfuscation they are doing strays well into the realm of nefarious. :)
> many people fear social interactions with strangers due to worries about rejection

Actually, no, I don't initiate interactions with strangers because I'm male and a good chunk of the population would think I'm a creep if I try to interact with them.
Reality+: The risks and virtues of David Chalmers's dive into virtual reality
So many hacky font size adjustments over the years to keep some text from wrapping...
Performance has literally improved since the layoffs.