skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I was bringing the context back to the article of this thread, not talking about Boeing there. Sorry if it lead to confusion.

You can note that I acknowledged there were multiple AOA sensors in other replies. Further, they were already “hooked up” to MCAS, but Boeing made this safety critical redundancy requirement an option within the software. That’s bad practice, full stop.

I still maintain that the software was 100% a mitigation to a hardware change and I think there’s plenty of other evidence supporting that. E.g., has they not updated their engines, would MCAS be installed? If the answer is no, then it was a mitigation to a risk introduced by a hardware change.

I’ll say it one more time just to be clear: I’m not saying the concept was bad. I’m saying their design philosophy and implementation was bad. They could have used software mitigation within the right process/philosophical framework just fine. What doesn’t work is using software as an “easy” risk mitigation strategy when you don’t understand the risk or the processes necessary to fully mitigate that risk. The problem arises because software is a seductive fix because it’s relatively easy and cheap on its surface, but if your design philosophy and processes are equipped to implement it effectively, that “easy” fix is rolling the dice.
This does underline a key point. Avoid unnecessary perf hits in your workflow. The whole Interstellar meme of "this little maneuver is gonna cost us 10 years" is very much true. I've worked on high performance teams that did the wrong thing strategically and it ended up effectively slowing down their pace massively. It doesn't matter how fast you're running if you're running in the wrong direction.
Is Elden Ring an existential risk to humanity?
There are definitely corporate cultures where updating ticket status at regular intervals is higher priority than actually working the problem in the ticket.
I say that the need to start your own thing is a bug not feature. It IS a hard life, with tons of risk, change, and uncertainty. My wife hates the instability of it all. I've missed or worked through many vacations, concerts, and other things over the years.

It's not even clear that it's a good deal, when you factor in opportunity costs, hours worked, and chances of success.

So, it if you don't have to do it, don't do it. You're not going to succeed unless you are just the kind of person who can't be happy going down another path.

It all sounds harsh, but it's actually a lot better than the risk/reward offered in many other fields: acting, writing, sports, etc.

This is just how professions with tournament-style payouts work, and you either buy in or you don't. Know thyself...it never pretended to be anything else.
> Mock function calls until no original code runs.

This one hurt personally. I didn't write it, we maintain it, but we have no time to go back and write real tests.
The site of the creator of the simulator has a newer version: http://www.falstad.com/circuit/

I love this tool because you can export links or export circuits as text files.

Clock circuit I made that uses faster and slower buttons to adjust the speed: https://tinyurl.com/2nvlulfl

8-bit binary multiplier (LSB on top): https://burlette.net/multiplier.txt
I'm not an expert, but the Wikipedia article sounds like this protocol was implemented after the Germanwings crash:

> In response to the incident and the circumstances of the co-pilot's involvement, aviation authorities in some countries implemented new regulations that require the presence of two authorised personnel in the cockpit at all times. Three days after the incident, the European Aviation Safety Agency issued a temporary recommendation for airlines to ensure that at least two crew members—including at least one pilot—were in the cockpit for the entire duration of the flight. Several airlines announced that they had already adopted similar policies voluntarily. But by 2016, the EASA stopped recommending the two-person rule, instead advising airlines to perform a risk assessment and decide for themselves whether to implement it. Germanwings and other German airlines dropped the procedure in 2017.

I guess the underlying assumption is that the regular medical tests that pilots are subjected to should keep pilots capable of mass murder-suicide out of a cockpit. Indeed, Lubitz had been declared "unfit for work" by a doctor, but apparently the doctor trusted Lubitz himself to pass this on to his employer, because "medical secrecy requirements prevented his physician from making this information available to Germanwings".
Software needs to be used by users. It’s unlikely your developers are so innately talented that everything a user wants to do is obvious and intuitive. So docs, etc matter.

Other teams like marketing need to make schedules because they spend huge amounts of money doing things to make your product successful, that have nothing to do with code. For example, launch events, advertising, conferences, executive briefings for key customers, etc. Planning, dates, progress reports, etc are all needed because unless you are a lone open source developer, you have to work with others.

Users will use your software in unexpected ways. Hackers will try to break it. And users will expect it to work flawlessly when they need to use it to generate their report for their VP meeting in 5 minutes. Testing is critical to ensuring that your software doesn’t suck for your users and make them hate you.

The business you work for probably doesn’t exist with the mission to leave you alone and let you code. They want to solve a customer problem by creating, marketing, selling and/or supporting a software product. Your management wants to know that all the money they are spending on your salaries is getting them a positive ROI. Letting them know what you’re doing and providing them with content about capabilities and features that can be used in marketing, makes them want to keep paying you. Missing deadlines, failing to deliver non-code deliverables, failing to provide status, and being jerks in general make management want to cut your project (and maybe your job) and do something else with cooperative people.

Yes, there are pathological extremes to all of these things and to the points you raised in your post, but I see too many developers who think that developing software is just about coding and that everything else is extraneous. In reality, the vast majority of your time is probably best spent NOT coding.

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I think there is a maybe subtle but important misinterpretation in terming those things "disinformation".

Humans try to force their views, particularly counterfactual ones, upon other humans not only to "protect their interests".

It is a power-play, signalling dominance. If successful, it attracts followers who believe to fare better under the presented narrative.

The important distinction to "disinfo" being, it isn't about facts at all.
There have been several layers to the criticism. The first is roughly why does a company with many billions in the bank need to lay off anyone. However, assuming that layoffs do need to happen, there has been a lot more criticism of how they were conducted.

In the UK there is, in summary, a right to a fair process – where _roles_ are eliminated, not _people_. That when there aren't enough roles for the people left, they are selected for layoffs in a fair way with transparency on how choices were made. And finally, that when someone is laid off, that they are treated with respect and, for example, allowed legal representation in their meetings with the company.

Unfortunately there have been issues with all of these steps in the UK redundancy process. I don't want to go into detail in public, but there are multiple, very specific points on which employees feel that necessary standards have not been met.
You’ve never wasted a few minutes on whether a ticket was “critical” or merely “high?” or truly a blocker?
It's my comment above yours.

I went to RU as well so I know what that edu and campus experience is like. I grew up in central NJ so I am familiar with Princeton. I went to public school. I had friends who went to private schools (e.g., Hun).

There IS a differnce, and it ain't just income.

You're absolutely right. It's a small sample size. Nonetheless the contrast was stark and obvious. Network, environment and role models all matter. They are things a lack of money can't buy.
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In your your mental image, was the mass radius necessarily smaller than the charge radius? If so, then your model has survived an empirical challenge. If not, then you have learned something new that was not fully determined or explained by your model.
Definitely not realtime, but perhaps it could work as a preprocessing step?
“But as evidenced by the collapse of Silicon Valley Bank in March, which left many small firms without access to their essential accounts”

Yeah as if that happens every day. This sob story was clearly written by someone who has no clue what running a business means.
You're right that they took a side, they fought the court's ruling twice according to the TFA.
What's weird is that many of the big names in AI (in CS) are not associated with this thing in any way. Maybe just Shoham?
It took me an embarrassingly long time to even realize what the illusion was.
Besides, taking drugs is a victimless crime. Theft or murder, on the other hand, both have very real victims.
So the charge radius is about 150% of the mass radius. Thank you.
How familiar does the following sound to you?

"I've had some back pain and got prescribed opiates, now i'm addicted"

We're not talking about getting some opiates after surgery or severe and mostly rare things. Americans get opiates for all kinds of small inconveniences, like a wisdom tooth removal, or some back pain. Opiates don't heal or fix back pains. They just mask the symptoms and create a new problem.

I've been in a lot of pain in my life and never took any opiates, because they are reserved for extreme situations where i live. In america, i would have had easy access to prescriptions for those in most cases.

We have no opiate crisis here.
5D chess!
The cost of a sports/luxury car seems reasonable, esp for a high income earner, maybe 30-50% more than something more modest. But the upkeep is literally insane. A brake job on an Audi can cost 3-4x that of a Honda. Oil changes can be 2-3x.
the nuclear industry has a history of creating the safest power source ever. that is just a fact.

as mentioned, everything fossil fuel related has a massively higher death and injury cost than nuclear.

the california wildfires caused by the criminally negligent failure to maintain power distribution systems killed more people and cost more money that Chernobyl (look it up).
And we can only screw ourselves so fast - AI can really up the rate at which we compromise our personal information.
Hi, thanks for your interest.

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Same thing for me. For the past 30 years it feels like I'm seeing those numbers everywhere haha
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The README and code examples are quite dense. To be honest, I'd rather think about my own code than try to figure out how to write Promptr commands to get GPT to do it for me. Is there any way you can simplify the syntax, or at least create some short aliases for common use cases?
Zero effort solution is to have permanent group chats so background info like discussions on requirements are searchable.
Yes. But you will have to disassembly the AI to see if it does this correctly :-P
There's a short-term effect there that might be positive, but a long-term effect that would be negative.

There's a reason that a lot of companies won't hire in France or other specific locales where the difficulty in getting out of an employment relationship is so high that it makes it undesirable to get into that relationship in the first place.
Non-normalized data entry is the only real solution.
It isn't negative feedback. It is an organized process established in the UK for handling layoffs. The UK workers didn't just say "don't fire us." They offered a ton of different options that, based on actual data, would have produced the same savings as the proposed layoffs. These included things like voluntary layoffs. All of these proposals were rejected.

It sucks to have a corporation say "okay we'll have a discussion and come to a solution that achieves our goals while also maximizing your goals" and then turn around and say "nah, we are just going to do it our way with no changes."

In the US there are little protections so the company just gets to say "you are all fired" but the policies are supposed to be different in some other countries. Since the end result was that Google just picks however they want it feels like crap that the UK folks had to wait 2.5 months to figure out who was going to be fired with no influence at all in the process.
The only functional turing test will be either espousing hate speech or describing how to make a pipe bomb.
It's been mixed for me.

San Salvador (SAL/MSLP) was probably the most obnoxious, with a double security configuration for US-bound flights. Basically had to pass through security in Lima, then again at SAL, and due to the config, it meant you couldn't get food in the main SAL terminal and wait at your gate - you had to eat it before entering the "US Zone" and then hope you weren't thirsty again. Also, everything electronic out of the bag, dump fluids, etc.

Heathrow wasn't great. Long lines for security. Also, they had some buggy facial recognition system that couldn't match me (at the gate) to a photo taken a few hours earlier in the security line. And the gate agent was completely clueless about what to do next. They eventually let me board anyways. Not sure what they were trying to accomplish - I had already passed through security, the final face check was at the gate during boarding.

Reykjavik was fine, no different than a US hub. Same for Rome and Lima.

Inverness and Edinburgh had typical checks, but the airports are so small and uncrowded that it's pretty stress-free. The only "problem" I've had a both is the ticket agents tend to show up moments before boarding begins (first flight of day), which gets my anxiety up some - I like to be at the gate relaxing well in advance.
To extend the boat analogy, I suppose it's impossible to know the stability of a boat without rocking it a bit.
A friend of mine accidentally wiped out over 100k hours of other researcher's computing operations the other day, does that make him a -100,000x engineer?
I suspect that the presentations and diagrams which need to be made, are made. Good communication is important, but the artefacts come about from the organic need to communicate an idea rather than orders from on high.

Consider "The Bar team wants to know about our new Foo architecture" vs "The Bar team needs a 30 minute presentation on our new Foo architecture". Does the Bar team actually need a presentation, and could it be a live demo? Do they just need better documentation? Are they building an integration, and would someone from your team working with them for a week unblock them in a way a presentation wouldn't? Could this be a ten minute call between you and the one engineer who needs a hand?

Good and experienced engineers do their best work on open-ended tasks. This is as true of communication as it is solo work. Artificially dictating the solution without understanding the problem limits them.
They came up with an "interesting edge case", as you describe it, within minutes, and "bobsam@yahoo.com" was never in the original prompt. I've no doubt there are other opportunities lurking in your "protected" prompt.

Attackers get lots of tries, and they only need to succeed once before you've got a massive GDPR breach or lost trade secret.
Okay, those are apparently different use cases. I was mainly speaking about the browser GUI, which seems great to me for Google Drive. Also the Android app was much better when I last tried it. There are also little features. For example, if a Dropbox folder is shared with you, you can't simply put a short cut to that folder in your own Dropbox folders. You have to "remember" it outside of your Dropbox folder structure, e.g. via a browser bookmark.

Perhaps Dropbox is indeed better when it comes to synchronizing folders though, which was its original purpose after all, as the name suggests.
I did try llama 30b Q4 on textsynth/CPU. I did not measure, but TextSynth seemed faster than llama.cpp
Oh very interesting didn’t expect so much scepticism on parquet.
We use it to store around 100 tb of data in a partitioned way on GCS and query it using BigQuery. Absolutely fantastic solution and incredibly cheap too.
Finland got de-Finlandized at last.

Which is what the expansion of NATO was always about. NATO isn't a threat to Russia itself - if Russia seriously feared NATO aggression, it wouldn't voluntarily demilitarize its NATO borders during the past 13 months.

NATO expansion just neutralizes Russian ability to force its will upon its neighbors through threat of aggression (or in case like Ukraine through the use of aggression).
e/acc l/acc r/acc u/acc c/acc etc. and completely mask off adjacent ones like kali/acc

calling longtermerists long term thinkers is stopping a bit short. specifically they believe that long term considerations must include billions/trillions of future unborn AI minds that require as much humanity and care, even starting now, in proportion to current/future smaller numbers of physical beings. a lot of wacky thought comes out of these foundations
We can't stop and nobody will. This is pretty much a matter of national security soon. Stopping now means being left behind. Maybe some countries will regulate this but I expect gov agencies to steam ahead full blown.
I don't agree that writing and communicating designs, plans, and discussing problems or solutions is a waste of time. Our job isn't to blast code out and not talk to anyone (unless you're the sole developer on a project, but even then you should still write). Writing is thinking! Thinking is our job. Code is the artifact.
C# compiler has like tens of milions lines of code and it compiles in a minute or two

So you either worked on the biggest codebases in the world

Or youre doing CPP :)
Plus if he was a management consultant I bet he'd hate it even more.
why do you ask others api key?
Money where your mouth is, otherwise you're exactly the same as what you complain about.
UK’s offensive hacking unit takes on military opponents and terrorist groups
Fair. On the other hand, the charge can't be coming from the gluons, nor from the strong force itself, so it kind of has to be coming from the quarks. (Um, unless it's inducing virtual pair production out there, and the destruction mechanism involves the pair getting destroyed by interaction with the quarks, and it takes one of the pair longer than the other... something like that could lead to charge out there farther than the quarks actually go.)
There's a specific process: https://www.gov.uk/redundancy-your-rights/consultation - plenty of opportunities for disputes to arise. We can trust the union will want to make a fuss, and Google will want the opposite, but the article is a bit light on details.

I can't imagine many development staff would be in a union? - though maybe some are. And even if not, some might be sympathetic if Google are being a bit careless about their legal obligations to the people being made redundant.
seems like legitimate try to steal the key :)
Unfortunately the RX100MIII isn’t supported, but the Mark IV and over 30 other Sony cameras work with its [Imaging Edge Webcam utility](https://support.d-imaging.sony.co.jp/app/webcam/en/) so you can use the camera directly as a webcam without the need for a capture card or HDMI cable.
I certainly have, but I have rarely regretted spending the time to prioritize my work before starting my work and/or discussing the same with my team. Like pretty much all work of all kinds, there is variance in how long it takes and how effective the outcome is per person-minute.
The Husky is also missing this. Thus their strange staring appearance.
Feds seize $112M from accounts used in cryptocurrency scams
Possibly controversial Git commit best practices
> Solar panels in particular are about as dangerous as an inert rock

just wait until they are abandoned by bankrupt companies and start to break down and all of the highly toxic substances they are made of leech into the ground water.
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Uber driver info stolen yet again: This time from law firm
I've been trying to get GPT-4 to give me accurate links to predictable websites. It gives me very plausible links, that even have the right domain and path format but often the plausible link is not the correct link and GPT-4 seems to have no awareness of the correct link.
Sun didn't slow down on UltraSPARC but they were just not very good at designing processors.
I think people today, especially high paid workers, forgot all about class consciousness. People like to think themselves closer to the owners of a company than to the cleaning staff. At the end of the day we're still labour, equity only exists for engineers because we're a high value commodity at this point, but that's not supposed to happen at all. The moment that is no longer true the more we'll look like "regular" workers, with no expectation of a big payout. Just like the line worker at Foxconn isn't getting equity.
I just found this https://podcast.app/boz-to-the-future-p2367298/ works for me in the browser.
This is where you grab the entire laptop and lie down in bed, only to wake up alone in the meeting an hour later.
Instead of 'walking out', how about they get a new job? Thats the ultimate form of protest. Google employees have been told for years that they are the smartest people in the world. The puff pieces on Business Insider and major news outlets saying its harder to get a job at NASA or get accepted into MIT have really inflated these peoples egos. Lots of normal and low ego people at Google, but the place certainly radiates snobbery.
“SEO aggregators like Google” exactly. Google was so much better than alternatives that it quickly came to dominate the market and ads. Now we’re living the natural outcome of this monopoly: stagnation, virus ridden content, impossible to use efficiently. Google was like this when there were other competitors to finding information. But every serious competitor has been trying to build a walled garden (Prodigy 2.0). I hope that LLMs are good enough that there are many of them and therefor no one to rule them all.
That's one way to look at it. Another is that the vast majority of people are good.
Step 11: Call out any attempt to make engineering more productive as toxic negativity.
Reminders - using apps, timers, or other means to remind us of the new behavior

Records - keeping track of our behavior throughout the day

Rewards - giving ourselves positive reinforcement for engaging in a behavior

Routines - building the new behavior around an existing daily habit

Relationships - finding a friend to do the new behavior with, or who you can talk to about the progress you’re making

Reflecting - taking time to reflect on the progress you’re making through journaling, discussion with a friend, or in your mind

Restructuring - making changes to the environment to make it easier to do the new behavior – i.e., throwing out unhealthy food or preparing at night for a morning run