skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Director of technology is usually not. There is no direct reports. What I've seen is this role existing alongside a director of engineering role which does deal with management.
MH-370 was a suicidal pilot who deliberately disabled tracking mechanisms, my dude. Not sure if you got the memo
I think the site is currently experiencing the hug of death, but doesn't have an archive.is link :( .
>>because differences in funding costs, risk preferences etc. can lead to inefficiencies in the real world that a state actor could bridge.

I don't understand, could you elaborate?
So why can't we have aircraft screams some data in a last ditch effort?
Wouldn't Starlink lower this cost tremendously?
Me too. I was annoyed on a recent trip that they were charging for food, but I realized that the food was never very good to begin with. I would much rather have a lower ticket price and buy what I want.
3 days ago | 65 comments - "NL national security law to grant automatic permission for targeted surveillance" - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36229557
Less than 30 minutes after a post on HN and it’s not accessible. Lol
Who decides who are the mobsters anyways ? Invading and occupying sovereign nations and stealing resources from them doesn't make the US a mobster apparently. Human rights and sovereignty is only grandiosely trumpeted when it is in the favour of the US.
That was Spore - and the DRM was an issue even when the game wasn’t running. I had an iMac I chose to wipe & reinstall rather than play whack-a-mole deleting its kernel extensions and background processes.
This mentality is not helping. Corporations will continue to act badly if there are no consequences.
The hype about AutoGPT from the technowatermelons on twitter was unreal. Is it able to do anything remotely useful? Apparently a glorified while loop will get you 140k github stars in a matter of weeks in this environment.
For me, I would have no problem paying for open source software, and have a few times. The problem is I have to have an invoice I can submit to corporate accounting to an actual business entity. I can not "donate" company funds to some random person on the internet.

Many open source projects only have donations based funding, no way for be to download an actual software product that I am invoiced and pay for.

Package the binaries and sell them to me, I will happily pay with company money...
What are examples of hidden fees? Tickets are generally extremely clear on luggage policy, and these days you know you're paying for food on domestic flights. I haven't encountered hidden fees but maybe it depends on the country?
Or "we have to be more careful next time not to get caught"?
> Do they serve as proxy for a more general wage database? I’m guessing there’s some disclosure law for h1b

That’s the idea. At least in theory, H1B salaries are meant to be in line with what native workers are paid.
Right? There is no shortage of workers, just a shortage of workers willing to tolerate bullshit. Let industries that operate like this this bleed out until they change their ways.

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/05/19/us/politics/semiconductor... | http://archive.is/4iazV
That's why I'm always cautious when game developer advertise "game within a game" like this.

More modern examples would be both Pathfinder games with mediocre kingdom management minigame in first, and bad HoMM clone in the second. Thankfully the main game was still good.

On other side there are games that successfully pulled it but usually it's a some simple-but-satisfying minigame, not some big element of the game.
> If you find any faults that can really change the results in the analysis Rootclaim made, I would be interested.

This is an interesting way to analyze the problem but the set of criteria and weights applied at each step are made up.

The flaw is that you can use this form of analysis to reach any conclusion you want.

For example, the "Already well adapted" section -- a "2x" factor for lab escape. We wouldn't even be thinking about this virus if it wasn't well adapted to spread among humans. So that's baked into the ground and isn't a factor of anything.

Then take "Furin cleavage" -- a whopping 8x factor for lab escape relative to zoonotic. This is the same thing as already well adapted, so now we've got a combined 16x for something that should be 1x.

The weight for "Chimera" -- another whopping 8x for lab escape relative to zoonotic -- seems really high for something that is found both in nature and in labs that merely "seems less likely to combine in nature". We should probably be arguing about whether this is 1.5x or 2x.

The real conclusion is we don't know. The Chinese probably do, but it would be a very closely guarded secret and obviously they would never admit to a lab leak. I lot of people hate ambiguity and want an answer, but in this case it doesn't seem that we are going to get one.
E.g. https://archive.is/www.nytimes.com/2021/04/30/business/japan...
I think fundamentally, if you have incomplete information and have to make some actions or judgements, either you are:

1. doing things to reason about or uncover more useful datapoints to increase certainty

2. you are accepting the probability that you are right/wrong at face value

The direction in which you decide to uncover datapoints is the "bias" that they are talking about. This process if further influenced by institutionalized assumptions or priors you are working with.

I really don't like lists like "Strategic Assumptions That Were Not Challenged" because they are factually true but also reek of survivorship bias.
There's no evidence for that whatsoever, it's just bullshit conjecture stemming from hope and a tenuous idea that third party app users are "power users" and therefore must be eminently important.
My hot take on this is craft is not the most important thing in engineering. Especially if you are making anything remotely significant in size. As soon as more than one person is involved in the work, ability to actually collaborate becomes more important than how brilliant each individual contributor is. The myth of genius asshole is my biggest pet peeve, if you are an asshole on purpose (like because you dont care how the other person feels) your genius is not useful and doesn't belong in any decently sized organization.
I was wondering this wheb I realised Amazon's FireStick does not actually sleep like you would expect an Android device would. My monitor / display stays switched on, the stick is working in the background according to CPU monitor.

Considering at least 150+ million devices have been sold (not sure if that includes Fire TVs) and most of these devices stay switched on even when the TV is switched off. Just a single watt of saving may equate to a coal power station. The power bricks are rated for 5v x 1a.

I do wonder if the developers knew how big an impact they have when developing a device used by so many.
ChatGPT Plugins Don't Have PMF
I took it more as the strange pointlessness of the children of the global elite.

They have enough to survive, be hip, hang out, but no motivation to do anything with it. It’s the modern problem of the wealthy’s progeny — but unlike the 1800s there is no social structure for them to fit into. They want to be “normal” but don’t need to do the work or be a part of the normal working/family world. So they are adrift in places like Brooklyn.
diagonalization, recurrences, system of equations, etc.

there are many ways to do it
I would have thought that title would go to Airbnb, Dropbox, etc.
Easier on my general well-being to just assume positive intent. (As is obvious from my comment history I don't always succeed there, but I do try.)
Nice catch, I say “men” when saying something hostile and “humans”, “people”, and “her” as a soft form.

Thought control is a white American men conspiracy. These have waged a genocidal secret war on humanity, wiping out entire generations of “other kinds of people” who are aware of and could even perceive their presence.
> since consciousness appears to be an emergent property rather than a thing that can be pinned down and measured.

Emergent properties can be pinned down and measured. Molecules have measurable emergent properties. The viscosity of water is an emergent property and you can measure it.

https://www.britannica.com/science/systems-biology#ref121807...

Much of science deals with emergent properties. Strange that you'd say science cannot pin down and measure such properties.

Neuroscience will one day what self and consciousness is by showing us how the collective parts of the brain interact to bring about the emergent property of consciousness/self. That is if computer science doesn't do it first via generalized artificial intelligence. My best guess is that the self is an illusion/lie resulting from consciousness that gave humans an evolutionary advantage.
The fear in this regard is more about overreach and stalking by officers twisting the law for their own agenda. Dunno whenever that's a widespread issue with the Dutch police.

As an example: It's doubtful they could get a warrent for their neighbors girlfriend, but now they've got another legal way in.

It remains to be seen wherever that's actually going to happen though.
Rice, rice, baby. - Vanilla Ice, on Chinese political anthropology.

Come 'n try to snatch my crops. - James Scott, on Zomian political anthropology.
That's probably a given; Android firewalls have to either be a VPN or use root, on account of Android not supporting that functionality.
> Hell, I barely remember our wedding.

I have a generally good memory, but a whole lot of stuff happened at the wedding, and it was a long day and a late night. I remember bits and pieces here and there, but I remember a lot more about the planning and preparation than of the event itself.
Do you have more info about this? Sounds like a interesting design decision (I'm not a aeronautical engineer).
You make it sound like needing to make 10x more money justifies keeping execs that are 10x dumber. I'm not sure that's how it works.
game that was expected to be shit and turned out to be shit is not a success
An odd item to post to Hacker News. Now if there was an embedded sensor that could quantify the intensity of the exercises and prompt you on your Apple Watch when you've done enough for one session -- or to prompt you to do the exercises -- that would make for a great Tell HN item.
So what do you think is the real reason?
Having been in this situation myself, no they did not give a lenient time. I got a letter stating that they would shut off my electricity and gas. I had a mere couple of days to sort it out.

In my case it was their fault. I configured automatic payments and they migrated their online system and subsequently dropped my data for payments. Still, they were ruthless about it.
I have no financial involvement in Tesla, owning neither shares nor shorts.

And even if I did, my motivation for speaking up does not affect the fact that a crash happening does not mean autopilot was at fault.
In that case, there's no reason to cite ChatGPT at all, just as you wouldn't cite Google. Cite the actual references, which you manually checked.
cf https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operant_conditioning_chamber#/...
Open Weights
Must admit I wasn't quite sure what the point of the first one was. 0xBEAF is literally just 48815, as is 0x_B_E_A_F, as the numeric literals now ignore interleaved "_", and you just format it as a float after-the-fact as normal in an f-string. So why? There's nothing particularly special in the use of syntax here, so hardly a curious or weird artifact, let alone abuse.

> * has a completely different meaning

I'd personally rephrase this, as the idea around splatting is that it symmetrically can "gather" and "spread" multiple values, albeit with the syntactic limtations of starred expressions (likewise with *).

You do seem to confuse syntax for semantics: [][:] = [...] is a semantic trick to avoid binding a sequence, if you did a = [][:] = [1,2] you'd find a == [1,2] because it just passes along the reference to the right hand side, so without another layer it's just skipping binding it, and that's the major trick with the second one, being that it "discards" the first value when destructuring this way (so long as that first value is a sequence). This can be done "better" with _, *_ destructuring, which probably weirds more people out to discover that shadowing in a statement is legal (and the unused/shadowed variable is "better" as it works even when the first value isn't a sequence, making [][:] more fragile). People with knowledge of other languages might get confused by _ being a variable, but that's a known stumbling block.

Naturally, everyone has their own journey through discovering Python (or whatever language) and may or may not touch upon many parts of it syntactically and semantically. However, as far as "weird" syntax that has valid semantics goes, I'd say this is far from esoteric or unusual (where's the walrus?), and some parts are just the natural expression (such as with the splatting). Really, the only code smell I find here is the inlining of everything and redundancy (i.e. splatting a generator into a list)!
Yup. As teenager back then I stopped being hyped for video games as much after that, such a disappointment.
> as you may inadvertently set expectations higher than you can possibly achieve

The expectations were mostly from the GDC video, I believe?

Gameplay starts around 12:30:

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ofA6YWVTURU
This is all true, but what does it have to do with my comment?
The bagel bit maybe alludes to Tao Lin's style
We are on leaded fuel precisely because FAA makes it too hard to certify new GA engines. Private companies have every incentive to use better, cheaper and more reliable tech, and consumers want them too. Without FAA, we’d long be flying on automotive diesel engines.
> The (yawn, apologist, anger) was created as a playbook,

To be pedantic on this one point, I don't think that's the case. Warrantless surveillance of citizens not suspected of a crime is a divisive activity. People will reasonably stake out a position. I certainly did and do.
They give the version as a month and day without a year.

Maybe they should think that through a little more.
I’m with you here.

I spent ten years in my 20s grinding to become great at engineering. I don’t regret it at all. And then when I did get those skills, many people in my life around me didn’t give a fuck, because I was leaving money on the table by not chasing status and management promotions.

It’s allowed me to get to a really good position at an advanced R&D company.

But I still hear the acclaim afforded to those who continue to ascend the ladder, and it stings a bit.

I suppose that is just people needing to believe in those things, and I should let it go.

It’s complicated.
I’m not sure why I knew it as midtown then, but the area I’m talking about is the north side of Central Park where Columbia university is. Harlem is the closest train stop to get to Westchester county. According to wiki it’s called the upper west side of Manhattan.

It could have been by girlfriend’s apartment was actually in midtown and I’m misremembering it’s proximity from the university? But even the more northern point is considered Manhattan, so I was mistaken on that count (even if it was on the border with Harlem).
Anyone know the year?
Not specific to Japan (rather, the US) but this book might be a good read if you're into that sort of stuff. I imagine there are more similarities than differences:

https://www.amazon.com/Secret-Life-Groceries-American-Superm...
> What really happened.... an ambulance would come to “deal with you”

At one point, LA had to resort to Fire Trucks because ambulances were unavailable.

If you don't think health care services were severely stretched, in some cases beyond breaking point (incl. staff unavailability because they themselves were sick), I really don't know what to say. This happened in New York as well.

Of course there are also other places where that wasn’t the case, so there you could be less conservative with restrictions, but you may not know the risk in advance.
...probably because the spin-off flopped

Also still need to invent fun game to do with your created monstrosities.
In the Philippines, you can pay for your bills on any 7-11 store: electricity, water, phone, cable TV, internet, even pay for ship or plane tickets (because not many Filipinos own credit cards).
No worries!

For what is worth, I was not considering Dialyzer as part of my reply. You should be getting many warnings related to typos from the compiler!

Anyway I agree with the sentiment: we have a high ceiling but we are currently far away from it. If we had a Dialyzer that runs all the time, is fast (Erlang/OTP 26 already improved here), and has good error messages, it would already be great.

We are currently researching a proper type system into the language. Fully integrating and improving the Dialyzer experience would be our plan B.
165M
> It requires 200m litres of water to allow the passage of a single vessel along the canal, water that is largely generated from Lake Gatun in the centre of the waterway, which is drying up fast.
The difference is that a trie over the hashes doesn't preserve lexicographical key ordering or support range queries, which are typically expected from key/value stores. But you're right - if you just need `get` / `set` / `delete`, you could just do that!
Your experiment has a confounding variable—it broke the penultimate guideline.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Spying seems indistinguishable from the investigative work that undercover detectives do regularly. I think there’s a proper non-zero place for that in society as well. (There’s also improper possible applications, but the proper is not the null set.)
+kb remoquete
All the ways AI is going to change (not steal) your job
> It requires 200m litres of water to allow the passage of a single vessel along the canal, water that is largely generated from Lake Gatun in the centre of the waterway, which is drying up fast.

For context. The geography of the canal: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/91/Panama_C...

And a horizontal cross section of the canal: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/258387615/figure/fi...

Gatun Lake sits upstream of the sea, so they can't just open the locks to "fill" the lake.

This stands in contrast with the Suez Canal, which has no locks or elevation. It's nothing more than a long horizontal trench dug through the desert.
this sounds so brilliant.

someone gets hacked, doesnt notice the first time until, a second time, sees the attack and goes medieval on the attacker#2[cops]

i anticipate clusterfucks ahead.

only a minority of people even recognize a hack beyond, having a slow computer, but those few special people will bork it.
The purpose of giving a source is to permit the reader to track/vet/verify the same.

ChatGPT does not preserve what it said, so there is no proof possible. Therefore, you might as well cite /dev/random.
As long as you trust the pilot with absolute authority over which equipment is running, this isn't going to happen. If something can catch fire (as in, any electronics?), it needs to have some kind of local breaker that the flight crew can switch off. The only trusted equipment there is one doing passive recording of some elements (the flight recorder).
I am considering these, and that's the thing - we shouldn't be so dismissive of the optimistic nor the pessimistic predictions about the future of AI. They might just come true.
the best attitudes are an acquired taste. losing is fun!
http://web.archive.org/web/20230611150725/https://vived.io/a...
The Shitty Tech Adoption Curve Has a Business Model
It says in the PDF: 2009
You're kidding? That's opposite to the spirit of engineering.
Design document on nullability and value types
Up next:
How to cite your internet provider
Are they the only suspects? I'm thinking of "Presumed Innocent", the Scott Turow book/movie.
not only this, it just decreases quality of life in the downtown. You want less space for cars, less traffic, less noise, less pollution, less parking and more bike lanes, public spaces, space for outside dining on former parking places etc.
Sysvinit also works. How is writing init files cumbersome? Writing startup dependencies is easy - there is the Required-Start header in the ### BEGIN INIT INFO block where you put the required services.
Curious what was your rationale to do this in Rust vs Python? Would be instructive to understand the trade-offs you considered. Thanks
Layman's explanation:

Canals take water to use. Not just the water that fills them, but every time a boat travels along the canal, a certain quantity of water is lost. That's because water has to be moved up and down with boats that go up and down over hilly terrain, but rather than using pumps to do this, gravity is used. But gravity only takes water downwards - if you want to have water high up again, you need new water.

This quantity can be reduced with careful design of the canals and there can be tradeoffs between water use and canal throughput - for example, if you only transport ships that require less water depth, then you can waste less water per ship.

This notification is saying that due to water shortages, they are having to do all these tradeoffs - with the end result being that some ships will be turned away, and the ones that do pass will have to be not fully loaded, and will take more days to get from one end of the canal to another.
Swapping variables around is also really handy for patterns like "alter list a until stable", especially with the walrus := operator allowing you to avoid declaring b outside of the while loop, keeping the intent clearer.
If We’re Not Careful, the AI Revolution Could Become the ‘Great Homogenization’
And an other that hugely disappointed when compared to hype. It had entire multi-year series of columns hyping it selling all kinds of various ideas and other stuff. With most of them ending half-baked and poorly done...
I’m about as liberal and “woke” as can be, and I agree. If we somehow managed to remove most guns from the US, we would still kill ourselves and each other with bombs, knives, poison, and our enormous vehicles. Driving into crowds seems to be getting more popular, for instance.
But is also an honest reflection of that worldview and one that maybe the author actually is in denial that he holds.

So he comes full circle to grudgingly appreciating it.
A section of I-95 in Philadelphia has collapsed after a tanker truck fire
To clarify with the false equivalence : when pressurized at more than atmosphere, the pressure pushes the hydrogen through containement easily. This is problematic, as we would need hermetic containement.

If leaked into a house, the pressure remains 1 atm - the issue is not with the pressure, but with the amount of atoms of hydrogen being close enough that, if one catches fire, it will spread to enough atoms to cause an explosion that will raise a block.

The atoms are not moving quickly to escape the house, they observe light motion as particles in the still-ish air of the house, so after some time they overcrowd the house without even having to reach the outside wall, they could all hang around the pipe.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flight_control_modes#Flight_mo...

If you read all the way down to "Direct Law", which is the most degraded of all the FBW modes, that's how a Boeing normally works.

The Airbus system really makes life quite easy in a lot of ways... the aircraft will fly the exact same at maximum and minimum weights, etc.
Dammit. I was hoping for candlestick-maker.
It's fine, Elon Musk is a good person and he knows what he's doing.
ChatGPT Changed How I Write Software
And what comes after the nuclear exchange?
A military conflict is 90% logistics. To rebuild, a nation that is well prepared for catastrophe will manage.