skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Those of us making web apps don't have the same safety critical nature as anything carrying souls. Working in aerospace gave me a great appreciation for the complexity of ensuring safety, the engineering hours poured into it, and why regulations exist.

The CEO was quoted[1] as:

> “We only have one button and that's it,” Rush said in the CBS report. “It should be like an elevator.

What an example to reference. Early elevators resulted in many deaths [2] and safety regulations and mechanisms needed to be invented to prevent them [3].

Similar regulations existed for submersibles, but he decided not to take all those lessons learned. I'm thankful building elevator operators do not have a cavalier attitude towards safety like this.

[1] https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2023/06/20/david-...
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_elevator_accidents
[3] https://blog.ansi.org/history-of-elevators/#gref
> I would bet that quite a few people just guess when they find this type of question too difficult.

Psych research is such garbage. Of course people are going to start guessing if the problems are boring and they can't solve them. They tried to account for this by comparing timings of only correct answers. But on a multiple choice test, even random guessing will be correct (and fast!) sometimes.
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I mean, what rule do you actually want here?

ChatGPT has been RLHFed into a pretty distinctive style, but there's no reason to think a better LLM wouldn't have a more natural style. If AGI is possible, then HN will end up with AI users who contribute on an equal basis to the modal HN user, and then shortly after that, more equal. Should all AI be banned? Should you have to present a birth certificate to create an account?
I'd gladly take the L if it meant having a quarter share of a multi-hundred-billion a year industry.
Nowadays, as compared to...?

I guess you mean the period in human civilization where there was widespread literacy but also a high cost of mass producing and distributing texts, assuming people with money to invest in reporters can't be stupid or misinformed.

https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/literate-and-illiterate-w... Depending on where you draw that line, that never really happened (I would call 'widespread' around 80%, which happened in 2000 but then there was already an internet, although it was a niche and playful version of what it is today).
Norfolk Southern derailment: Safety warning unheeded, NTSB says
Sure, but the long-horizon pessimism is back to what I was saying re: isn't that just being pessimistic about capitalism writ large? I don't think that's a wrong position to take, but it doesn't feel healthy or helpful to look at every banal or even positive thing a company does and immediately jump to "but because of capitalism, they're probably going to ruin it all later on."

There's no decision you can't make that statement about. It's always true that a capitalist company will have incentives that cut against the user. Pessimism is what it is, but at some point it feels like texting your friends every morning with "another day closer to dying." It's not wrong, but why do you feel it's important to bring up?

If anything, the part of your original statement that I most disagree with is that this is "the encroachment of enshittification". It's only an "encroachment" if you see pretty much any decision by any company as being a step towards enshittification. The only thing that wouldn't qualify is closing the company down.
a lot of people are using 360 fps now, which may actually be unnecessary.

playing on 240 fps feels extremely different. it’s about how the occasional rapid movement feels. spinning around, or making a series of edits in a fight.

in a typical interactive movie type game with a controller, the maximum delta-v of camera or character is very low. 60 fps feels smooth the same way movies are fine at 30, a lack of low latency high delta interaction.

in fortnite with a 24x48 inch mousepad, delta-v peaks pretty high, and when frame time goes above 4ms, you notice.

low latency interaction makes the world feel more real in a way graphics can’t. graphics are important, but secondary.
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I'm not getting your logic.

AppleTV was supposed to be a new thing with people developing entertainment apps and games that fit with a TV, not for general computing.

The watch added to the iPhone and had unique apps to take advantage of the sensors.

Neither of these were tied heavily to a macbook or other general purpose device. Unless you mean computing as in anything digital that runs code. Which I wouldn't really call a platform.

VisionOS feels closer to an AppleTV. New hardware with a different paradigm that needs a unique API and new apps built for it.

That said it does seem more like a supplemental device to your macbook + iphone. I doubt many are going to buy it with the intention of it being their main means of computing.

Maybe define what main platform of computing and core product mean if you could?
On a multiple choice test, does it really matter if they filter to only correct answers? Guessing will still result in fast answers, and be correct 25% of the time.
Very true, it is a known factoid that submarines sometimes bump into each other because they can't tell that another sub is there. Doing so much noise as to be spotted from aircraft is crazy.
IME many web developers do know, but don't do anything because of incentives. Leadership rarely uses the surfaces you make slow, and people don't generally report an extra half second of latency. So their incentive structure looks like:

1. They will not be rewarded for going the extra mile

2. They will not be punished for making the site slower

3. They will be punished for shipping the feature slower

Point out "X will be slow" to a lot of devs and they go "I know, but I don't have bandwidth to prioritize the extra work"

Part of why it's so important to make the right thing easy.
True - but I’ll choose to err on the side of being sad about the loss of life even if I don’t know all the details.
I'm not sure if that argument holds water. You have Azure which is hugely successful, and Linux is still not anywhere close to becoming a standard desktop environment beyond the type of people you find on HN. Microsoft contributes quite a bit to Linux now, because they see the future. Becoming a leader in open source gives you the ability to steer where technology goes, and Red Hat definitely was able to play that hand as well (but under IBM seems to be losing quickly).
> There's no absolutely safe way to dive that deep,

No, but using a vessel built the same way as the one James Cameron used would be safer (he did 33 dives).
For everyone. And yet I don’t know any single person who have ever drank among all of my relatives.
An attempt at an ExplainLikeImFive answer:

In a sizable volume of gas the air molecules have a lot of room to bounce around. Moving molecules and them hitting things is heat. So suddenly having a lot less room results in much more frequent impacts. Frequency of impacts is heat, so it becomes hotter. We'd sort of normally consider it the overall average velocity of the molecules, but if they never hit anything they never transfer energy, and aren't measured (or measurable). But when they hit things they transfer some of that energy and it's measured as heat as an aggregate.

So biggish volume of gas, suddenly in a tiny volume: huge spike in heat because all the molecules now slamming into each other and the people inside.

I'd say it would be very unpleasant, but it's so fast and so violent that exceeds the speed of human thought, so they felt nothing and just sort of stopped existing as corporeal beings faster than they could possibly comprehend the change in circumstances. They were. And then they weren't.
If you have a truly great idea. Write it down.

Just writing it down, will help you remember. If not: You have the paper.
Right, but they are general purpose monospace fonts. I would think something like a Haskell font or Python font would go beyond that and provide tailored designs for those languages. I wouldn't be surprised if those exist, but haven't seen them.
Great info. Thanks! I wonder if that contributed to their susceptibility to drought.
For every guy like you there’s 10 guys driving an F150 who think that’s cool. So when you go to the polls, who do you think gets voted in? The guy who’s going to force people out of their trucks?
Just chiming in that I spent many hours playing this game.

And there was also a text based one about breeding cats...
No problem, our state funded media can be our new echo chamber.
I was sent one of these SMS today. I usually ignore but today I was in weird mood and started pulling apart the site. Stuff I found:

Google is the domain registrar. (reported)

Hotlinked to ups.com images, logos and css... Opportunity for some fun here UPS! (reported)

Uses hCaptcha on the landing page. (reported)

Nginx server with Plesk, and a plesk login page, no obvious stuff like ssh exposed, all latest versions, I'm not much of sec hacker so I didn't get very far. Started sending malformed and large requests to the credit card processing endpoint to see if I could break it, slowed it down a little, but then the captcha got blocked.

Of all of those hCaptcha was the first to respond and act, they've already banned the site's account within 5mins of my email... and this renders the site useless, so here's for hCaptcha! fighting fraud while the behemoths are slow and complicit... I know it's whackamole but it was a little bit of fun.
Agreed.

By my estimation he committed manslaughter with his recklessness. He's every bit as bad a drunk driver that kills 4 people in an accident.
Small things, e.g. insignificant rebellions, ah, gaps, do add up.

I see a problem in stress loads so. Titanium and carbon fibre composites behave differently under load. And at those depths, they are under a lot of load. These small differences induce additional stress at the critical joint between bulk heads and submarine body. That stress causes, over time, material fatigue.

That's why those components are, in most othee use cases, fatigue tested to their breaking point. Knowing that point, allows you to define a save service life for those components and replace thek way before they fail.
Amazon (and Microsoft) offering a Linux distribution is about (a) raining in the explosion of distros their various teams depend on that they don't themselves control, and (b) answering insistent cloud customers requests for "What distro do you recommend? Do you support {distro}? Do you auto patch {distro}? How come update to {distro} broke your service/product? Do you not work with {distro}?

Last year many services on Azure went down because they all used Ubuntu and Ubuntu pushed an update that broke for a DNS configuration that Microsoft uses. Having your own distro won't guard you from fuck-ups of course, but you can imagine the difficult conversation Microsoft had to have with their biggest customers about how Canonical can take down your 40 billion dollar business globally?
"Military grade" is another one of those marketing phrases that pisses me off. What does it even mean? That it is green and is more expensive than it should be?
They went from alive, to clouds of molecules faster than humans can perceive. So effectively, yes.
I can believe that 60 to 120 is a noticable difference to the careful observer.

But 120 to 240? Really?
The thing uses Bluetooth for mission-critical controls, so maybe assuming that they implemented best practices is not exactly correct.
They can be, but it’s a one way trip.
libgen (definite #1) + open courseware + youtube for occasional novel practicalities + open source scientific/engineering software and hardware communities. I've gained solid professional competency in entire branches of engineering with these resources. A teacher also helps. Don't be afraid to pay a consultant to mentor you in difficult areas with high iteration costs.
It turns out that cheap chip-scale optical atomic clocks would be a sensor revolution. They are sensitive enough to tell the difference between the first and second floor of a building by gravitational effects alone.
One lesson might be "We're mostly text and TikTok is video, therefore not directly competitive" might be wrong when evaluating how long Reddit will retain passive scrolling users.
As per the email situation it doesn’t have to be a problem. You can lean into the state of things and embrace it as an always current personalized flyer feed for stores and sites you might be interested in, but for only when you want to see it. Like for when you actually want to buy something.

For example I use 2 separate email inboxes. They are two separate accounts so the junk and trash folders don’t get muddled together. One has an address that uses a personable name that i give out only to people or things like my bank, and a second that is an alphanumeric combination that i give out only to companies.

- For the first inbox you can optionally set up rules that make it a whitelisted inbox based on who you know has it.

- For the second inbox turn off new email indicators / auto read everything by default, have it auto delete every thing older than 20 days, and then use search and filters to browse it like a catalog by company, or to see only the most recent promotions or notifications.
Your point 1 is the elephant herd in the room. If I were a paranoid person, I would think it’s by design - build in a way to compromise a system retroactively.
You got Tolstoy pretty good there!
Gonna need a source on why you think that bud.
> > Now, we aren’t at the point where it can conclusively be shown that those two unique features are directly connected

> I would take that bet.

And I would agree that that is where the smart money is, I’m just acknowledging that the actual specific cause of the disaster and any connection to specific cut safety corners remains unknown.
The thing about the Seattle tech community is that they have no idea about building submarines, so who they think is an expert on building submarines is irrelevant.

People really need to remember that tech bros aren't really smarter than most people, they're usually just more willing to take risks.
> to people speculating that the passengers may have drowned

In layman terms “drowned” simply means that you died under water. It is not a sophisticated statement about the manner of anyone’s passing. People in the know understand that on a submarine you can die of hypoxia (if they mismanage the oxygen), or die of hypothermia (if they get stuck on the bottom with an intact pressure vessel, but no electricity) or die in an implosion, or burn to death in a conventional fire. In an everday conversation these all would be described as “drowned” by virtue of dying underwater even though none of them are what a coroner would report as drowning.
MS owns Bethesda now so the next generation of Elder Scrolls and Fallout will be Xbox exclusive.

If MS also acquires Activision then Call of Duty also becomes an Xbox exclusive.

All 3 of those are massive franchises in the US Market (arguably much more than Weeb/JRPG content which is split between PlayStation and Nintendo)
36k to 250k in 20 years is some very steep inflation.
Military “whistleblowers” have been making UFO claims for 70 years
Intel to Spend Tens of Billions on New Fabs in Germany and Israel
How exactly does this trick work? Thing is, a URL can't have any non-ASCII characters in it. So this would only happen if the webpage or some app takes the URL and undoes the percent-encoding to try to make it more readable.
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It really doesn't. It's much harder in every ecosystem except the web. Just shipping software to people at all is harder on every other platform, before even discussing how it's built.
https://archive.is/WdRZX
It's important to note that Simson Garfinkel had to go through extraordinary measures to get the NeXT cube to catch fire.

Magnesium is pretty safe.
Wait, do you have a link for "hydrophones heard it implode at the same time it lost contact" part?

EDIT: Looks like the US Navy heard it happen, as per the WSJ:

https://www.wsj.com/articles/u-s-navy-detected-titan-sub-imp...

EDIT2: HN discussion:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36439661
I wouldn't be so optimistic. I'm sure facebook can't perfectly categorize every link into "news" or "not news", but I imagine this means Canadian FB will be full of nearly as much misinformation but less real information.
I can really feel how the collider works, my chromium is constantly at 100% CPU
I recently received phishing texts from someone pretending to be UPS telling me that my delivery had been missed and I’d need to pay to reschedule it. The website I was taken to was remarkably polished, it looked almost exactly like the real UPS site.

The thing I couldn’t stop ignoring is that it was perfectly timed the day before I was expecting a UPS delivery. It could have been coincidental but I doubt it.
Do you drive a car?
> So CoCs can be perceived as a shift of power away from technical merit and towards social skills

Towards social merit. If you can't/won't convince the new "powers that be" that you are sufficiently aligned with their dogma, then goodbye.
Is Hasklig not already such a font?

https://github.com/i-tu/Hasklig
Does it say anything that isn’t already common knowledge on healthy living and best practices? E.g., exercise several times a week, avoid processed food and red meat, eat mostly veggies and lean protein and fish, get enough high quality sleep, etc.
Ah -- I was confused for like 10 minutes by this comment, since technical divers have gone as deep as 1,000 ft without "anymore than a wet suit" and commercial divers go beyond 300 feet all the time. It isn't the absolute pressure that's the problem (in this video)
That idea makes no sense though. The whole Reddit corpus from before ChatGPT is already out there on the Internet, packaged, mirrored and ready for download. The content that was submitted after ChatGPT became publicly available is "adulterated" by LLM-generated text, to an unknown but growing degree. I.e. all the valuable data is already out, and whatever new data Reddit would want to gatekeep is losing its value with each passing minute.
How does Nintendo avoid any criticism in this topic when it comes to market share and exclusivity? All of Nintendo content is locked on their own consoles and they entirely control the kid and young adult market.
I think that's why this current issue is more relevant than ever. Red Hat is burning goodwill they had, which is going to eventually start to cut into the types of decisions they used to be able to make when they had more community "power". I've always enjoyed using Debian (or Debian-based) systems than Red Hat (or Red Hat-based) systems, and was unhappy when I had to re-learn init scripts, but at this point in time Systemd just seems to be easier with some features being "free" to restart or figure out systems that don't restart automatically.
Easy Diffusion is, uh, easily my favorite UI.

While it has a fraction of the features found in stable-diffusion-webui, it has the best out of the box UI I've tried so far.The way it enqueues tasks and renders the generated images beats anything I've seen in the various UIs I've played with.

I also like that you can easily write plugins in Javascript, both for the UI and for server-side tweaks.
Typical PC system memory bandwidths are on the order of 64GB/s with DDR5.

That’s 64 bytes per nanosecond, or 16 floats per ns, and hence 480 in the time needed for light to go 10 meters.

That’s the “base” performance. Caches and registers would improve on this significantly in realistic scenarios.

Again, this is why I like this thought experiment! It’s not a trick question. It’s testing intuitions.

People just think it’s a trick because their intuitions are so ridiculously out of whack with reality that they’re looking for the sleight of hand instead of reexamining their own notions.
"Only woke hulls implode" is quite a take to find at the very top of the HN page on the news event. Can we please not? Please?
If you have good enough performers, unfamiliarity with the language won't get in the way.

It might seem a bold assertion, but there's a reason that classically-trained Shakespearian actors are often cast in sci-fi shows (Patrick Stewart and Ian McKellen as perhaps the most famous examples). They're trained to convey more information through intonation and gesture so that you don't need to know the words they're saying, which translates well to performances in invented languages.
Its refreshing to see that classification is mentioned before forecasting. It has been a frustrating journey embarking on time series classification as it seems overlooked compared to forecasting. Will follow this project closely, and implement it in my next project!
There are two measures of intelligence: Correctness and Speed.

Correctness is the primary measure, and if two parties are correct then speed differentiates their level of intelligence. This is the only measure that has been quantified and scientifically correlated with many other attributes of human existence like success and happiness. This measure is is called IQ.

If both people get an answer correct, then literally, by definition, the stupider person will be the person who takes longer to arrive at the correct answer. Remember: IQ tests are timed.

This study is sort of a play on the very definition of what it means to be stupid. Again, IQ tests are timed for a reason.

The real title of this is should be:

Stupid people take less time to arrive at a wrong answer then smart people take to arrive at the correct answer.

This is sort of a useless study, because yeah, I can answer the hardest questions in the entire universe with the wrong answer almost instantaneously. Of course wrong answers will be faster.

The fact that most of you aren't noticing this says something about your intelligence. Maybe you guys are just taking too long to notice this, so in that case according to this study you're all smarter than a dumb dumb like me.
I did math competitions also, but I'm not really talking about the specialized tricks like fast multiplication or square root algorithms. I'm just talking about basic stuff, like computing tips or taking percents. Most people simply cannot add or multiply numbers in their accurately, by any method.
Social security benefits can be devalued in many ways. Expect future governments to:

1) increase retirement age

2) reduce purchasing power of money (print/issue/lend out excess money, resulting in inflation)

3) adjust “bend” points in SS benefit formula, making it more and more of a marginal income tax
Isn't implosion like the one obvious danger of being deep underwater?
I beg to differ, a clinical run down of which web sites use which fonts would be far more boring to read.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/live/2023/jun/22/titanic-s...

https://www.wsj.com/articles/u-s-navy-detected-titan-sub-imp...

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12224913/Top-secret...
There are a lot of tell tales in how the debris field is structured.

The fact that the two end bells are separated from the central cylinder and that the cylinder itself can't be located pretty much singles out the carbon fiber structure. The company was aware of problems with previous iterations of the hull of Titan which may have been rebuilt at least once and possibly more than once (this is a bit unclear in what I've been able to dig up about it so far). If the window blew first I would expect things to look a bit different.

I wonder to what extent gross negligence trumps the language in the consent waiver.
You're blaming this on the CEO ... hiring women?