skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What about the software developers? A data entry problem or file corruption should not lead to a production outage! Robust software should gracefully reject bad input, show or log an error, and continue on. Those contractors should be able to feed emoji or line noise into the system and not cause an outage. This is why we fuzz test.

If the take-away from this is “contractors should follow procedure and not make mistakes when entering data” then the FAA has not fixed anything.
Uh.... what? Unless something drastically changed in the last couple weeks Windows does not go out of it's way to prevent you from running executables unless they are cryptographically signed by Windows.

There's no reason to do windows code signing unless you're writing a hardware driver(?).
Does it work with Arm?
NTSB: Cloud shot up vertically in front of plane before turbulence
And if everyone does this I think it really encroaches on natural world. Take the 18 million people living in the NYC metro area and give each one enough land to be "off-grid" and I think you're disrupting a large amount of natural space.
Recursive Partitioning for Heterogeneous Causal Effects
"We covered the grandfather of most modern file systems, BSD FFS; the
fast and unsafe grandchild, ext2; the odd-ball cousin, HFS; the burly nephew,
XFS; and the blue-suited distant relative, NTFS. Each of these file systems
has its own characteristics and target audiences. BSD FFS set the standard
for file systems for approximately 10 years. Linux ext2 broke all the rules
regarding safety and also blew the doors off the performance of its predeces-
sors. HFS addressed the needs of the GUI of the Macintosh although design
decisions made in 1984 seem foolhardy in our current enlightened day. The
aim of XFS is squarely on large systems offering huge disk arrays. NTFS is
a good, solid modern design that offers many interesting and sophisticated
features and fits well into the overall structure of Windows NT."

Thanks for the link to the book!
I mean, ext3 did eventually get merged, I think into ext4 just with some features disabled. But yeah, it is an interesting design choice.
Selling support.
Cycling is the obvious example - it's completely reasonable to go into a race as a support rider but end up, say, in a breakaway group that was successful while the team captain stayed with the main peloton.

It's not possible to win a whole tour that way, but if you build up a lead over your captain in the first few stages, your director might decide to switch tactics and have the team support you after that.
Byung-Chul Han: “I Practise Philosophy as Art”
I feel like you are talking about ‘MQ’ in general term, but you’re describing a pretty specific one. One that is not very flexible and requires you to bend your system around it to make it work.

Not all MQs are the same. Some offer a plethora of options to fit your need (ack policy, replay policy, max outstanding, etc) Give NATS a look: https://nats.io/
> majority of my suggestions were Jordan B Peterson

I'm interested in psychology and philosophy, so I'll watch videos on those subjects every so often. Naturally, the Algorithm™ becomes obsessed with recommending me Peterson videos soon after. I'm 98% sure the "Do not recommend" and "Not interested" buttons are just there for show, because I keep seeing those suggestions whenever I wander off into psychology and philosophy videos.
I've also been working in JavaScript for 20 years and TypeScript for 5. You will have to claw TypeScript out of my cold, dead hands. You shouldn't need to type obvious things in most cases, TS should be able to infer it. In my experience TypeScript has prevented many bugs, makes coding more enjoyable, clear and faster, and best of all, refactoring becomes like a super power. I've yet to do a large refactor in a good TS codebase that caused a single regression. The word "good" here is a pretty strong caveat though. TS is only as good as you make it, and overlaying types onto a dynamically typed language (especially manually) can cause issues for sure.
Anything is dangerous if you are reckless, i bet druguse with proper guidance would be way better than the advice you get in the trailerpark.
It was observed that people get attached to Ikea furniture because they assembled it and it contains tiny bit of their labour.

May be it could work with software? Like you've executed some scary command to enable this software to work, now you attached to it.
I've been taking pictures of manhole covers for around 10 years now. Well, manhole covers, drainage gates, square access covers, and so on.

Locally, the challenge is an interesting, somewhat artistic, usually (but not always) urban picture. I've already taken a picture of most designs I see, after all. In any other city, I'm catching the design first. (Tromsø, Norway has a reindeer!)

I'm not all that surprised there is a website to catalogue them and am always kind of happy to be reminded that others have the same fascination.
If I take a million copywritten images from magazines, cut them with scissors, and make a single collage, I would expect the resulting image to be fair use.

That’s not how it works. Your collage would be fine if it was the only one since you used magazines you bought. Where you’d get into trouble is if you started printing copies of your collage and distributing them. In that case you’d be producing derived works and be on the hook for paying for licenses from the original authors.
The difference is that computers create perfect copies of images by default, people don't.

If a person creates a perfect copy of something it shows they have put thousands of hours of practice into training their skills and maybe dozens or even hundreds of hours into the replica.

When a computer generates a replica of something it's what it was designed to do. AI art is trying to replicate the human process, but it will always have the stink of "the computer could do this perfectly but we are telling it not to right now"

Take Chess as an example. We have Chess engines that can beat even the best human Chess players very consistently.

But we also have Chess engines designed to play against beginners, or at all levels of Chess play really.

We still have Human-only tournaments. Why? Why not allow a Chess Engine set to perform like a Grandmaster to compete in tournaments?

Because there would always be the suspicion that if it wins, it's because it cheated to play at above it's level when it needed to. Because that's always an option for a computer, to behave like a computer does.
$100 a year means that no one makes applications for Mac OS on a whim, etc and it ensures that all the applications come from a purely profit-motive driven persons. It commercializes the entire OS and prevents software for people, instead of software for profit, from even existing in the ecosystem.
Paper (open access): "Tomography of ultrarelativistic nuclei with polarized photon-gluon collisions", https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.abq3903

This news from Brookhaven National Laboratory itself: "New Type of Entanglement Lets Scientists 'See' Inside Nuclei", https://www.bnl.gov/newsroom/news.php?a=120816
Tell HN: macOS Apps are not focused after waking up from sleep
> Which is a direct response to your original point which was an absurd hypothetical about how Tim Cook should be allowed to make as much money as he wants

Dude you’re so deep in your own mind hole. Read the post again to see that no such point was ever raised.

OP “I can’t see why anyone would do this” and I tried to help add a perspective so that they might be able to get a little bit more from the world, as if lending a magnifying glass. It was a question and answer about human motivation, not govt policy.

At no point do I assert that someone -should- do something or that some position is morally justified over others.

You might consider that you get into ~200% more arguments than you actually should and your combativeness turns would-be allies into enemies.
Filter can't control the source, only what to come through. "Garbage in, garbage out" is harshly true. I wish for a lot of Show HN and its traction gains.
I tried uploading GentiumBookPlus-Regular.ttf from GentiumPlus-6.101.zip into the site on Firefox Mac, and the tab hung.
i thought this was the one that mark thatcher got lost in (but was unhappily found again) but unfortunately it was not.
Indexing an array isn't low level number crunching, and whatever you produce from that is going to be the result of a branch unless you jist don't boubds check arrays ans return some random bit of memory (or crash because you indexed out of program memory.)

Honestly, ideally you have dependent types and index out of the array is a type error caught at compile time, but where its not, “NaN” is not the most logical result, even for floats, because very often you will want to distinguish “the index given was out of the array” from “the index given was in the array and the value stored was a NaN”; special values IN the domain of the values stored in the array are fundamentally problematic for that reason.
> Will you be running YouTube in the background when you’re sharing a bed with a spouse?

My wife and I both do this.

> Will you be wearing headphones with constant babbling going on, disturbing your sleep patterns?

No more than the babbling in my mind disturbs it already. If anything, a coherent message is easier to fall asleep to.
> it's never a compiler bug

Back in the days of ISO-8859-1, you could make gcc crash by having the string literal "ä" in the source code...
The failure was in a technical organization architecting a solution that allowed a simple human error in data entry to take down the entire system. This is classic system design and process failure. Bad input should have been caught before it got pushed to prod, before it got pushed to backup databases, etc. There was clearly no testing, no change process, no backup verification, etc.

People in senior management positions are at fault for creating a broken org and product. At a private company a failure like this would see the CTO immediately fired and even the CEO having to beg the board for forgiveness and keeping their job. The fault is not with the two contractors, it's with the bad engineering that enables a mistake to destroy the product.
I'd assume the precedent would be about sharing encoder data, which would be covered in bittorrent cases.

"Training a neural network" is an implementation detail. These companies accessed millions of copyrighted works, encoded them such that the copyright was unenforcable, then sell the output of that transformation.
The bias is not 'pro drugs', the bias is 'why am I expressing pro drugs to you'
but.. childern of older fathers live longer.. (?)
It is not in itself an offence to possess this document on your hard drive in the UK
Once you are down to one picture, collisions become feasible given the right environment and resolution of the image.

Pretty sure this is nitpicking about an overused analogy though.
Since you've brought out the power tools*, may I ask you to briefly (2-5 min?) consider the last paragraph of
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32617344 : "if we think geometrically" et seq.?

advThanksance

* Galois connexions subsume, among other things, Dijkstra's weakest preconditions/strongest postconditions.
Nope. Stop using the medical word addiction in contexts where it's highly inappropriate. The Internet isn't even a single thing. It's just a collection of content. The types of content on it are extremely wildly varying.
Internet addiction is not a thing. See how stupid it sounds when you say it like it is?

Outside of lampooning how absurd your comment sounds, I don't think it's your place to call if something is a valid addiction or not, and addictions don't have to be strictly medically defined to be considered as such. Just because there isn't some ICD-10 definition for "YouTube addiction" doesn't mean it can't exist, because addiction fundamentally just means a dependence or habitual occupation with something.

And so, is Youtube addiction as debilitating as something like alcoholism? I think most people would say absolutely not, but presumably it's distressing enough to the writer of the post that they have formed a habit around watching (a lot of) it, perceive it as a negative, and want to change it. I would colloquially consider this an addiction.
This just sounds like really fancy, really lossy compression to me.

Compression that returns something different from the original most of the time, but still could return the original.
One idea I had was to try to recreate the original using a prompt. If you succeed, it should be obvious that the original was in the training set?
I agree that the ultimate root fault isn’t the recent data entry.

> At a private company a failure like this would see the CTO immediately fired and even the CEO having to beg the board for forgiveness and keeping their job.

That part doesn’t match my experience at all.
This was just step one: https://www.nytimes.com/2022/11/04/technology/elon-musk-twit...

Many more let go since, and many resignations as well. Perhaps you’re nitpicking layoff vs fire, but the company has far less employees now than before Musk took over.
It this Windows only? Clicking download gets me a .exe binary.
Benzos are also misused and highly addictive, i lived with an addict once and the moodswings where crazy when those were in the mix, tried it myself once it makes you very confident until you mix that with alcohol what a rollercoaster, never again im happy it can be used for good tho! :)
I feel like fixation on e-sports is what ruined the entire OW experience for the rest of us. I can't even play OW1 anymore and I paid full price for it.

In my estimation, this is also what ruined whatever soul existed in League of Legends, et. al. I still recall the crazy, emergent gameplay that would occur by stacking item effects - and everything else incompatible with high-brow competitive play.

The effect of esports on the gaming community itself has also been extremely catastrophic in my estimation. There is now a ubiquitous notion that you could be banned from a game for playing "off-meta" wherein "meta" is defined loosely as "not the way I'd personally do it because of this one clip I saw on tiktok".

We need to go back to a more raw form of gaming where it is what you make of it. Trying to force these artificial constructs around fun is completely ruining the whole thing. Games like TF2 are still a good example of what you achieve by getting out of the way of the community and letting them do whatever they want. If the community decides they want a billion dollar e-sports ecosystem around them (they won't), allow them to construct it organically.
TBBOM was hilarious in middle school. But not nearly as funny as the "Bananarchy" text; a whole set of banana based explosives and weapons that was probably just a joke on the anarchist cookbook / the big book of mischief and their often not quite right "recipes". Things like making explosives out of banana peels or freezing bananas into ice bullets, etc.

Unfortunately I can't find the file anymore with a restaurant called "Bananarchy" polluting the namespace.
I think I can only do shows that I have watched a few times already. I can do that for The Office, but I have yet to see bersek, thanks for the link. I also enjoy GothamChess, and more generally video game speedrunning, playthroughs and analysis. When I am in the mood for music, I look live festival sets. I heavily favor EDM personally, Keygen Chruch has been pretty good, a "goth synthwave/metal/Baroque/Romantic, 8bit-tinged, pipe-organ-laden band". I have a hard time keeping up with these subgenres.

Here's my in flux playlist of what I call AmbianceLONG, 1hr+ videos that I shuffle through. I didn't know NasaTV is live on YouTube.

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLvszIS0bSTf5hfuCNd3cG...
After doing web hosting reviews for over a decade now... 99.9% of the people do any form of review are lying or manipulating things for affiliate commissions. The few that aren't, most don't actually know what reviewing/benchmarking/testing well looks like.

It's atrocious. And Google just pumps this garbage. I need to finish writing about all bullshit from big brands doing these reviews. CNET is just one easy example.
They are increasingly common in new developments in the US, but no one is spending money to retrofit old intersections (rightly so I think)
If I host a song I don't have license to on my website I'm violating copyright by distributing it to you when you listen on my site.

If my parrot recites your song after hearing it and I record that and upload to YouTube. I've violated your copyright.

If a big company does the same(runs the song through a non-human process, then sells the output) I believe they're blatantly infringing copyright.
TBF a lot of that was overvalued Tesla stock that has since fallen by 70%. It's a common misconception that if you have a net worth of $200B you can buy $200B worth of stuff - it's usually more like "You have 1B shares of a company valued at $200/share". If you went to actually sell those shares, it would tank the price, and you'd end up with far less cash.

The way to think about net worth once you get past the upper-middle-class wage-laborer level is "You have assets that the market currently values at $XB, and you want to trade for other assets valued at $XB, and the true value of the assets you currently hold is $YB < $XB [otherwise you'd hold onto them], and you hope that the true value of the assets you're buying is $ZB > $XB." Under this framework, though, it's possible to come out ahead even if $ZB < $XB, as long as $ZB > $YB. It could be he bought Twitter at an inflated price, but he bought it with Tesla shares and leverage that was even more inflated, and so it still works out.
The FAA had earlier referred to it as a "damaged database file". Which I suspect translates to something like a index file + data file pair, or a raw file for some kind of database. It sounds like the contractors accidentally overwrote something like that.

So, yes, the system should have thrown some kind of "invalid magic number" or "unable to read header" error. Though that would have probably only helped a little. They were still slow to recover even after they understood the issue. Meaning they are missing still other things, like procedures to start over using fresh data. They had, for example, lots of partners that already had all the "known good data before the issue", but no way to take that and run.
Ask HN: Have you tried FreshTomato on your home router? Would you recommend it?
It's a repl, so you build the final output incrementally. Testing becomes part of the development workflow like you would do in languages that rely on the repl like lisps.

For example, you start with the inputs and you apply the first layer of transformations, then check what it does makes sense. Then maybe you refactor it out in its own function and add the generated test for it. Then you move on the next step and so on until you have the final result.
Some time ago, a nice fellow HN user @boriselec wrote a browser plugin for, in the end, my personal use (as barely anyone uses it), that redirects all video links to their /embed variant.

/embed links are meant to be embedded in other pages and do not show any UI clutter. As it happens, they also work perfectly well if (re-)directly opened!

Comment here:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23148026

Extension here:
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/youtube-embed...
Nothing is divorced from nature, we are nature.

With that said, I think people who live in cities tend to feel plants, animals and ecosystems that are not ours less, and therefore we may be quite ignorant to the destruction we are causing.

It's one thing to know in the mind that we are destroying other life forms and it's another to live in that destruction.

Sure, depending on the measuring stick cities are more efficient. But I think most importantly, they likely aren't conducive to creating the sorts of empathy required for us to make decisions that are more in line with preserving other forms of life.

I don't quite know the answer, like many things existential...it's complex, confusing, nuanced and hard to grasp. I hope that we figure it out and I hope that I answer the call within me to join in that figuring out.
While it's true that some of the simpler recipes will work, a lot of the others just won't work or are dangerous. From memory, the TNT and mercury fulminate recipes are wildly dangerous and omit key steps. Messing with stuff like this in any capacity is dangerous, even with proper PPE and good procedures, but if you must, there are much better resources available freely online these days.
Also Mercedes unimog is a beast
This is my favourite ‘always look down in London’ https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/the-buried-remains-of-li... - an old road running well below street level but visible through a grate
You still need to count sort, pull damaged and counterfeit tokens and do cash operations.

So the station management would count their tills, empty machines and prep the bags. They have a time deadline, and when the money train arrives they just roll the whole ensemble into the train. When the tokens went away the volume probably turned into a few sacks.

The volume is huge and the manpower for the armored cars would be nuts. You’re probably talking a detail of 200 police alone for a couple of dozen armored cars.

Cash operations work similar to this without the train. Usually there’s a regional depository bank with a contract with the Fed who centralizes money processing for many banks. I had family who worked in one in the 90s, it was pretty nuts. They would palletize the cash and ship out on tractor trailers. As the business has shrunk, the armored car companies have taken over and they are pretty bad at what they do as they aren’t as regulated.
Does anyone know which font supports Katovik numerals?
I don't get it. What's analog about this chess variant and the games you are mentioning?
> Apple TV will soon get ads and the experience will be much the same as the "Smart" TVs.

Which would completely kill the reason to buy it. I highly doubt that Apple is going to do that.
> Alley Cat

Thank you for bringing this back into my main memory. Spent so many hours playing this and completely forgot about it.

Quick search turned up a couple of sites where you can play this emulated online!
If you spent a decade trying to draw it, wouldn't your brain have the right "weights" to execute it pretty exactly going forward?

Except with computers, they don't need to eat or sleep, converse or attend stand-ups.

And once you're able to draw that one picture, you could probably draw similar ones. Your own style may emerge too.

Just thinking. Copywriters, students, and scribes used to copy stuff verbatim, sometimes just to "learn" it.

The product of that study could be published works, a synthesis of ideas from elsewhere, and so on. We would say it belonged to the executor, though.

So the AI learned, and what it has created belongs to it. Maybe.

Or, once we acknowledge AI can "see" images, precedent opens the way to citizenship (humanship?)
> the other will rip DVD's automatically?

Do you have a specific project in mind that does DVDs?
Changing my phone to black and white mode helped, I was previously watching 3+hrs of yt a day as was OP.

Also making a mental note of how long you spend helps, even if you don't have the willpower to stop then and there. Over time
You keep making that same note and eventually build up the fortitude to modify your behaviour / fight your addiction. Good luck to you all.
> None of this means that the article is wrong, but it is definitely not unbiased.

Who in their right mind would read this piece and think it unbiased? It is absolutely and unapologetically biased. This isn't journalism. It's closer to an op-ed, and is one person's account of their experiences.

Did you really think you needed to put in the effort to engage in this ad hominem? That readers would be so ignorant as to see this piece as one of objective, factual journalism when it so clearly isn't?