skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't know exactly what he was referencing but the easiest way to verify the authenticity of points on issues where there tend to be two sides saying mutually incompatible things is to look at the overlap of what they both say is true. That is going to usually be true. And all it takes to find that is to look at sources for both sides.

Expert vetting doesn't even touch the underlying problem, because the pursuit is not expertise, in and of itself, but objectivity. And that's something far scarcer than expertise, and increasingly fleeting in today's world. A Chinese expert is probably going to have a different perspective on e.g. the Uyghurs than an America expert on such, even if both are in no way trying to mislead but giving their most sincere analysis of the situation.

Even on topics that are not conventionally controversial, you'll find a similar issue. Ask two astrophysicists of different worldviews on dark matter, and you are going to get two very different answers that, in many ways, will be incompatible. Simply "believing" one over the other doesn't really make any sense, nor does randomly polling astrophysicists and taking that as the definitive truth.
It’s for my parents and others.

I just know the idiots like Verizon will start preloading their own App Store on the phone and make a mess of things with all kinds of garbage.

I’m shocked at the crap that is preloaded onto android phones whenever I see one.
This is a practice happening here in the Netherlands, due to employee contract law.
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Good point.

I used UNIVAC mainframes, not IBM. They had a different control language which wasn't too bad.
OK, I've replaced the title with the first subtitle, which may not cover the entire article but at least is more accurate.
Planes don't land like that. And 75 ft is a lot closer than shown.
Definitely give them a go, we use fine-tuned ada a bunch for classification work for example; I personally think the smaller models are overlooked and don't get enough love - if OpenAI increased the context window of a model like babbage to 8k tokens I feel like that would be as much of a big deal as making a marginal improvement to davinci, purely because so many use cases rely on low-latency, many request models.
> Just getting a highly available storage with any kind of performance requires you to overprovision by something like 12x (3 boxes with raid 1+0) which is frankly insane.

I'm not saying 100% uptime on bare metal is cheap, I'm saying 100% uptime is frequently not needed.
The Southwest crew here is also to blame, they knew a plane was on short final to their runway in terrible visibility and for some reason took their sweet time taking off.
I wonder if they nerfed their assistants because paths that are too autonomous too easily wander into PR nightmares. Carefully curated results and behavior isn't going to spontaneously generate content actual human beings would consider offensive or prejudiced. People are pretty eager to pull out their pitchforks, and "Big Tech Builds Vile Hate Bot" make a excellent click-bate headline every time.
Isn't Peter's style a bit of a meme these days?
I use torrents heavily despite subscribing to 4 different streaming services because I live in Canada and we don't yet have Hulu or HBO Max. Plus I also like watching some older movies via 2160p bluray rips and torrents are just the easiest option to do so. That plus it has everything.

I use Transmission for torrents and then https://airflow.app/ to cast movies from my Macbook to my Firestick/Chromecast, which I find just as easy as using a streaming service.

When I a) can't find it on streaming and b) don't feel like waiting for torrent d/ls (even on fiber connection) I just use https://soap2day.id/ and mirror via Chromecast casting, which seems to have every movie/TV show ever. Quality is pretty good, usually 1080p or 720p.
What if there's pressure from airlines to reduce late flights and increase the amount of traffic airports can handle resulting in ATC cutting margins on separation? Would it really be the controller's fault if their job performance is dependent on getting planes into the air as quickly as possible?
Buybacks dont just raise the share price, they also entrench the ownership of the company. It should be heavily taxed.
Me too. Usually the pilots will mention it if they receive an RA, though. I think TCAS might even be disabled (or nerfed?) at low altitudes like this -- not positive, though.

From what I've read, it sounds like this airport is not equipped with the ATC-equivalent of TCAS -- which I think would have been sounding all kinds of alarms (how early?) in the tower for a scenario like this.
patio11’s posts: https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=patio11
I have. It is hard. It gets easier the second time. I have no data on a third.

No regrets.
I think Microsoft is entering a potential market just by chance based on vague, if at all, product ideas.

So far GPT has been trained with data generated by humans. Curious how the quality of it's output will change once it gets fed with AI generated data.
Thanks - we used to use a bunch of k-shot prompts (particularly with our previous idea before we pivoted when we got into YC), but with the davinci model we were sending ~3.5k tokens per invocation, which in the long term was costing far more than finetuning!
Knuth is credited with the matrix representation. Iirc he offers it with no justification whatsoever.
I think you're going to find people are less and less tolerant of semantic drift with the term "lynch". "Witch hunt" is a better term to use.

For my part, I don't concede that there was anything like a witch hunt here. I don't know enough about it to have an opinion, or to evaluate your own opinion. I did some reading, read the complaint in the guy's lawsuit, and none of this is clear to me. All I know is that I mentioned the guy's name near some biotech people and got "no mercy for anybody who Photoshops their western blots". I don't know what that means, so take it for what it's worth.
I would not call it revenge but yes, if you do nothing because it is low value or not important enough for your time, bad people will do bad things more because they are not punished. I try to report spam to the registrar and hoster and I report fraud to the bank for that reason.
One issue with that is that "aviation" includes a lot more than commercial airliners - it also includes inexpensive, Spartan general aviation aircraft. The cost of such a system would be prohibitive.

Just look at the rollout for ADS-B In/Out if you're curious how difficult that might be to implement.
The same is true for monoliths, like Linux kernel.

You definitely can decouple teams to enable them to move independently in their software development lifecycles with monoliths too. Our team definitely do that.

And in realm of programming langages, the state management is a differentiator. For what it worth, the very difference between Turing machine and lambda calculus is the ability of computer (a human computer at the time) to rewrite some part of state when using rules of Turing machine.

Again, for what it worth, when you have arbitrarily modifiable state not all things are possible: https://www.mail-archive.com/haskell-cafe@haskell.org/msg797...
The irony is that some tech workers seem to be frustrated about the natural outcome of free market while exactly enjoying the outcome of free market when it works for them.

I did not see these people jumping out when a coding boot camp guy got paid 200K/year two years ago while people with 20 year experience in other industries only get 100K .

Company has a positive revenue does not mean they don’t have to optimize their cost structure. They have to pay off people just like they need to hire like crazy when the market is good.
I'd love to get an informed answer to this too.

Is it more accurate to interpret inferred distances derived from redshift as an average estimate? If so it would be great if popular science reporting also included the confidence intervals
Your metabolic rate is determined by your body mass, so increasing mass increases metabolic rate. Obviously strength training is a huge component of muscle-based body mass. You can definitely work out, increase body mass, increase metabolism, and thus "look better" on the same diet.
Yes definitely give this a go, for us with our use case davinci is prohibitively expensive in production so we literally cannot use it given the number of requests we make - interestingly I saw some OpenAI documentation the other day at the YC event which basically said that with a large enough dataset (I recall >= 30k examples) all of the models (yes even ada) start to behave with similar performance, so bear that in mind!
> Would it really be the controller's fault if their job performance is dependent on getting planes into the air as quickly as possible?

Yes. Their primary job is safety, speedy traffic flow is secondary to that objective. Cutting corners would mean abandoning pretty much the entire purpose of bothering with ATC versus letting pilots figure it out themselves.
FlexiRaft: Flexible Quorums with Raft [pdf]
@dang this sarcastic comment is a racist trope,

"Britons were running around the forest worshiping trees when Indians had indoor plumbing."

Could you please address this?
> Seems like it's totally possible that something could be 4 billion light years away, or 8 billion light years away, and have the same red shift.

In theory, of course this is possible. But in our actual universe, that's not what happens. In our actual universe, there is a close relationship between how far away something is and its redshift. Or, to phrase it in terms of direct observables, in theory we could have an object that was 4 billion light years away and an object that was 8 billion light years away, both with the same redshift--but they would be very different in terms of other observables like apparent luminosity and angular size. So in the general case, in theory, we would not expect any particular relationship between those variables.

But in our actual universe, there is a close relationship between all three of those variables: redshift, apparent luminosity, and angular size all vary in concert and are closely correlated. That kind of observation is what leads cosmologists to conclude that our universe is expanding.

> I wonder if it's pretty common to observe objects that are more blue shifted than something that is clearly closer to us.

It's not only not "pretty common", it never happens except for objects very close to us, cosmologically speaking--for example, the Andromeda galaxy is somewhat blueshifted, indicating that it is moving towards us, while the Magellanic Clouds, which are closer (they are satellite galaxies of our own galaxy), are not, AFAIK, blueshifted. But all of these objects are in the same local, gravitationally bound group as our galaxy, so their relative velocities don't tell us anything useful about the large scale behavior of the universe.
I know a fair few solo developers that don't test Safari compatibility because they don't own Apple hardware. And Safari only runs on Apple hardware (with the exception of Hackintosh).
I'd argue is both cost-effective and fair to be as unbiased as possible.

But then it really depends on the nature of the fraud you're mentioning.

Is it people lying about their qualifications for entitlement?

Not declaring income?
Because adding more technology doesn’t always makes things work better. I like this idea but the problem is you’ve just added another point of failure.

Sure it may avoid this situation, but how many aircraft lifted off and landed at airports in the same day? In America I’d hazard a guess at aground the tens of thousands. Any new system has to reduce the complexity or risks of flying and that’s very hard to do.

I’m not an aviation expert either but it’s assume that some form of system exists for this also in a more manual form.
Yeah, but at least at this airport, they almost always use separate runways. They COULD share, but that sounds like making perfection the enemy of improvement.
"Hello everybody out there using minix -

I'm doing a (free) operating system (just a hobby, won't be big and professional like gnu) for 386(486) AT clones. This has been brewing since april, and is starting to get ready. I'd like any feedback on things people like/dislike in minix, as my OS resembles it somewhat (same physical layout of the file-system (due to practical reasons) among other things).

I've currently ported bash(1.08) and gcc(1.40), and things seem to work. This implies that I'll get something practical within a few months, and I'd like to know what features most people would want. Any suggestions are welcome, but I won't promise I'll implement them :-)

Linus (torvalds@kruuna.helsinki.fi)

PS. Yes - it's free of any minix code, and it has a multi-threaded fs. It is NOT portable (uses 386 task switching etc), and it probably never will support anything other than AT-harddisks, as that's all I have :-(.
— Linus Torvalds"
That the network effects of everything only being tested on Chrome will mean that for some sites you have to use (eg Government, e-commerce you can’t do without), you’ll no longer have a choice of browser, and that that dominant position will be maintained even if Chrome starts to really suck, or Google decide to lean in to “you need a trackable Google account to use this”.

Google releases Chrome in order to show you ads.
Commenting so I can come back and see HN opinion
The bandwidth isn't much fun to pay for though.
Microsoft introducing the new Bing powered by AI
The Efficient Way to Prepare Seminars
In Dune and Terminator, AI killed almost everyone. So, AI was eventually banned.
> Either Samsung configured AutoModerator to require manual approval on all questions — and they just only approved ones they intended to reply to — or it went a bit haywire and they didn’t catch up with it.

> I’d be shocked if this was intentional removal by Samsung due to the content of the questions.

I’d argue that refusing to put the comment up based on its content is essentially the same as immediately removing it based on its content.
Agree about CarPlay. Siri is also pretty much indispensable for HomePods, though that's probably a minor product for Apple, and it plays an important role in AirPods.
One for your car, one for your wife's car, one for your weekend sports car and one for the maid.
you're saying AI can never win in a game theoretic or adversarial situation because AI can always nullify AI. but if AI is better than the alternatives to AI, you must use AI because it's the only thing that can break even. but since AI is so good (even if only evenly matched against anti-AI) there is no point in people participating on HN.

I don't think that's going to happen, but if it will, it hasn't yet. But please do me the favor of responding only in my style so I'll know it's really you.
> Could you expand on the “not a monad” part? Java’s type system with generics is surprisingly expressive, but it can’t have higher kinded types, so a real Monad interface is not possible as far as I know. But it does have methods to use it as you would use a Maybe in Haskell

People in the design mailing list discussion argued that those methods shouldn't be added because they didn't want Optional to be a monad.

> They correspond one-to-one with Result types

They don't, because throwing them is not a value (there is no way to have a variable that you can substitute for "throw e" and get the same behaviour), and because they're not properly integrated with the language's type system. Throws-ness is a separate parallel universe that behaves almost but not quite the same as expression type. Which is exactly what this is proposing to do with nullness.
For those of us who aren’t familiar, can you link something in the book to the OP?
Just got a S22 Ultra a few months ago, and man it's pure garbage compared to my previous phone (mate20 pro). Some of the issues I've faced though are seemingly normal problems - ui lag, low quality camera results, etc - which I thought I could go onto samsung user groups for help with to no avail.
Contractor for thirty years?
> Is it more accurate to interpret inferred distances derived from redshift as an average estimate?

We don't estimate distances just based on redshift. We use all three of the observables I mentioned--redshift, apparent luminosity, and angular size--as inputs to estimate parameters in our cosmological models, and one of those parameters is the scale factor--the "size" of the universe, which is what is used in the model to ultimately get actual distances--as a function of time. The models of course have error bars--no model is ever exact--and some of those error bars are due to variations of the motions of individual galaxies from the idealized cosmological expansion in the models. So in that sense distances given by the models are a sort of estimate, yes, based on the average motion.
Reminds me of a time in 1999 when a US Air crew at Rhode Island refused to takeoff in the fog when the controller insisted it was okay. Another aircraft had landed and was lost in the fog about their location, even saying they were on on an active runway and even said an aircraft just took off (over them).
Animation + text here if curious:
https://youtu.be/qUDFY5qlTSA
If only the world were as simple as it used to be. During my childhood, nobody pays anyone anything for childcare. Lo and behold, my MOTHER did the childcare thing! And the rest was done at school. Interesting past times those are!
That's fair, but if you're looking at say, coding up many many lines of Vulkan boilerplate for a new project, it does kinda make sense to look into WebGPU
This is going to get real nasty when you start getting into science of various sorts, where an increasing number of papers, particularly in the social sciences, tend to make extreme and outlandish claims, but then walk them back extensively in the actual paper itself emphasizing it's just a correlation, or otherwise demonstrating an extremely marginal effect.

Yet the media tends to miss the internationally understated nuance and run with the claims at face value, which an LLM will then pick up on and state, "Yes scientists have proven that [x] does cause [y]. [1][2][3][4][5]" That claim then gets repeated elsewhere, and eventually that "elsewhere" goes on to become part of the LLM's new training material where it's basically training off its own output.

It'd be ironic if something that's ideally designed to make the breadth of human knowledgeable more readily available and accessible than ever before, ends up just making society vastly more misinformed than ever before.
That is mature, rational, considered, and completely wrong. What's exposed here is not a failure of process or education, its the fact that controller is an incompetent idiot who never should have been acting in a life critical capacity.

In the linked communication you can see that he knew both planes were incoming on the same runway and confirmed his brain dead plan repeatedly to both crews. Even telling SW that they could take off because Fedex was 3 miles out. At any reasonable speed this is virtually no time. At 165 it would be a little over 1 minute. Since the critical moment came around the 2 minute mark it seems likely that in addition to any other faults he also can't estimate distance.

Even after it went south or shall we say southwest he was never capable of recovering in any timely fashion as evidenced by the Fedex crew taking over his job. As a result of his incompetence everyone would have died. The only meaningful fact he could have ascertained in order to correct his plan would have been to understand that planes go fast. At this juncture retraining him seems like a poor decision. He's a hazard.
Good idea, bad execution
Apple has something like 2 billion devices in use out there. 15% of that would be quite nice: https://www.fool.com/investing/2023/02/03/why-apple-stock-wa...
Is there a difference between excluding null from a type and having basically syntactic sugar for ‘T | Null’ in the form of ‘T?’ ?
Hard disagree with the notion this adds a degree of failure.

From a layman's perspective, it replaces one primary degree (pilot-control coordination) with another (a technological solution) and delegates the staffers to supervisory roles. That is a risk reduction due to the increase of confirmations and the independence between the staff decision and the software's decision.
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Better comparison, the furthest visible galaxy is at 13B LY. Therefore it's like at 20% distance towards the visible universe's edge.
How do you retrain someone not to tell 2 planes they can use the same runway with repeated confirmations based on the fact that he thinks 3 miles is far enough away? At that point are we certain its not Alzheimer's?
I really like the tack sharp focus that Ansel Adams brought to the scenes he captured.[1] I later learned that he revisited the same places over and over in search of just the right mood, etc. I used to do the same thing when I worked in Chicago.

Myself, I'm into landscapes, time-lapses, and virtual-focus/synthetic aperture photography, though it's been quite a long time since I was able to venture forth and take photos. Here's my old "Top 100" folder from those days[2]

[1] https://flickr.com/photos/usnationalarchives/albums/72157623...

[2] https://flickr.com/photos/---mike---/albums/7217772029640662...
Oh yeah, bye bye Accessibility! Firefox has become mostly unusable under Windows if you are using a screen reader, in the past 2 years. And Android took almost a decade to catch up to what Apple did with iOS. So I am guessing, this new browser will need at least 5 years to be looked at by blind users :-)
Comments moved to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34669183, which was posted earlier (and arguably correctly rewrote the baity title, as the guidelines ask - https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html)
Kubernetes Multi-Tenancy with Sveltos
Presenting a Kubernetes multi-tenancy solution offered by Sveltos.

Sveltos is an open source project. If you like the idea, be aware contributions are more welcome Thank you
Are there aircraft with cat3 approaches that aren’t commercial? I don’t know any any GA that do that.
Here's the thing: you don't need AGI to have an alignment problem. It is predicting text, which is surprisingly closely aligned in most cases, but can fail spectacularly. As it becomes more capable and people give it more real-world responsibility, the blast radius for its mistakes increases. That might not be an AGI-level problem, but it is still a big problem.
I recently did a mobile app which de-warps live video from a fisheye camera. Admittedly, not a game app, but it uses OPENGL and Metal to do the job. I could not have done it without articles like this. I am fan of the way he explains. The scope of his articles go beyond gaming.

Thanks Gustavo.
Could you describe how these 2 were different from the rest? How did they act differently?
Since we are programming Von Neumann machines, at their core all programs are about state. Therefore it seems intuitive that all programming philosophies would reflect that.
> What else do people use torrents for from a consumer perspective?

We have three streaming services: Netflix, Prime and Disney+.[1] Not everything I want to see is on those services.

[1] And "youtube with ads", i.e. standard free youtube. Dunno if that counts though.
"Eschew flamebait. Avoid generic tangents."

This comment is exactly the sort of thing that site guideline asks you not to post here.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
It is pretty likely that nvidia engineers are also outliers compared to the market. It is FANG level compensation no?
Fabulous writing - I have tons of work to do tonight but read both parts, chuckling the whole way down and up the Mississippi.
Which robot is used in spray painting application?