skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
While I don't disagree that it's a long time, the lack of further incidents in 2019 suggests it was well mitigated early on, and the lack of incidents at other airports suggests there wasn't an imminent threat to flight safety. So the primary purpose of the investigation and report is as a learning exercise for improving future safety.

For pilots there isn't a lot to learn here, since the possibility of failing to capture the LOC is already known, trained for and monitored for during flight (which is why the incidents didn't result in flying into a mountain), and the reason for the failure to capture the LOC doesn't really change the actions taken in response.

For software implementors, there is plenty to learn [0], but given the relatively small number of organisations implementing autoflight software for transport category aircraft, it's likely they were already well aware of what went on here. So the final report is then to some extent just ticking a regulatory box (and informing the public).

[0] I'm actually somewhat surprised they don't have automated tests that simulate every single STAR leading to every single approach at every single major airport worldwide. Or maybe they do, but the simulation lacked the accuracy to simulate this aspect.
> What was the source or cause of their misery, and how sure were you that the correlation wasn't spurious?

Great question!

In their words, the legal work wasn’t that interesting, the business side (rain making) could be infuriating due to cultural differences, working in Japan wasn’t that interesting after the honeymoon period, and living in Japan wasn’t something they wanted to do long term with their family.

I will add that some ambitious folks who worked in firms that had locations back in the US kind of felt like second class citizens in their own firms, even though they were driving quite a bit of revenue at the time.

Having worked in Japan myself (since I spoke with them), I can add some things that they probably thought but didn’t say:

1. Trying to explain American anything to someone who thinks that the Japanese way is the best way and should be the only way around the world gets old after a while. These folks existed in Japan in droves at that time (90s). It’s better now, but they still exist. Note that this knife cuts both ways — trying to explain Japanese ways to Americans who think the American way is the best and only way gets old as well. I’ve done both. If you want to get technical, it usually boils down to the “international” person being at a higher stage of adult cognitive development than the local (see Robert Kegan for an example of what these levels look like). Given that some US legal concepts seem counterintuitive or even unfair even to Americans, you can imagine how added layers of a different culture and a different legal system might meet some resistance from Japanese clients.

2. Raising a family in Japan, even in Tokyo, can present challenging issues. Even if everything is covered in terms of cost (housing, schooling, travel, etc.), there is still the issue of the constantly rotating cast of characters of your co-workers, friends, classmates (for kids), etc. Also, some spouses get very antsy and/or dissatisfied for a variety of reasons. If costs are not covered, it takes a lot of money or a lot of compromise to make things work.

3. I’m fairly certain that one or more of the folks I spoke with actually didn’t speak much Japanese — they were top notch legal practitioners who had interpreters do whatever speaking needed to be done. While one could live in Tokyo fairly well without speaking a word of Japanese, it would be a very shallow experience, imho.

There are a lot of things I could say about the legal profession in general. They aren’t related to Japan at all, but they may have contributed to the misery these folks were experiencing.

While certain areas of law fascinate me (Berkman Center stuff can be quite interesting), I’m glad I didn’t become a lawyer in general, and a lawyer in Japan in particular.
I'm a firm believer that American elites manufactures enemies to distract the American public from this "heist".

They'd rather have you blame foreign enemies than them.

The biggest travesty is elites convincing regular people to go to war over "freedom". People should fight for better income equality - not freedom. More freedom comes with more wealth.

I'm not much of a conspiracy theorist. I hate conspiracy theories. This is the only one that I'm willing to believe in.

Note: I believe all elites around the world do the same - not just American elites.
Assange didn't "imprison himself." He had asylum, because the world's most powerful state was out to get him. It has even come out that the Trump administration seriously considered kidnapping or assassinating Assange. As it turns out, Assange's fears of being handed over to the US were 100% justified.
> > The R6, the power is all up top, it’s gutless down low, you have to be up near the top in the rev range for it to go, engine screaming away

With the introduction of ride by wire in the early 00s the electronics became king.

You can customize the throttle ride by wire system according to your preference so the torque area becomes much larger and spread out on the throttle when you move your wrist.

Once the problem of wrist sensitivity has been solved by ride by wire customization the high revs you mentioned are much more manageable.

And also you say engine screaming away like it’s a bad thing.

1) a 4 cylinder in line at 10000rpm is music for an enthusiast ears

2) It makes people aware that you are there , which is a feature not a bug, motorcycles are notoriously invisible for car and truck drivers
It's a curve. Your goal isn't to convince people who are deadset on never stepping foot in an office again. The cost to try and change that mind is so extreme that you're only reserving that value to executive or fellows anyway. Who already have that flexibility.

But if they really do care about RTO and they want to incentivize people with a modest commute to come back... make the office better.
Thanks for the nice summary!
If this is true, I stand corrected.
The Highly Ridiculous Over-Engineering of the Diamondback Nozzle [video]
> skinny waifu girls

I think the idea of the images was a Lama (the animal) and a model (the girl) - Lama models

> The guide itself seems fine

The piece is informative for those new to the subject, but not much beyond that.
Can you elaborate a bit regarding the -mflat compiler option? Why does it improve timing jitter etc? I am not sure I understand the description from the GCC docs. Is it disabling the register windows? Isn't that one of the big selling points of the SPARC architecture?
In contrast to … ? Systems of government in your utopian visions?

You have made a sport out of oversimplifying complicated matters before attacking them unfairly. These “governments” you are so fond of attacking are the best we can do in the present and they require enormous, continuous support from regular civilians. It behooves us all to be mindful of this.

These “bureaucrats, politicians, judges, police, and other officials” are normal people, probably including members of your family. The enemy you are envisioning might actually exist, but I believe you are pointing your sword(s) in the wrong direction.
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Not sure about Denmark, but in the UK part of the MCS signoff to allow you to export to the grid and receive payments is fitting of an generation meter. It's a holdover from the old FIT days (because you were paid per kWh generated), and has never been deprecated - your actual export (and any payment per unit) is recorded on your smart meter anyway.
I think it’s possible to go to a function level, but you basically need to stop using the file system. We come back to the question of storing code in some sort of db based storage, which can then contain all these tools built in. I can see this type of system being used more and more with the lambda / edge / micro service systems where it simplifies data synchronization. However git / nextBestThing will keep on being used as long as we write code in text files.
The Reals are ordered right? Any two elements can be compared.

I'm guessing you might be referring to infinite sets of reals being potentially unordered under zfc w/o the axiom of choice. In that case, you made up this word 'infinite' so you have to say what it means. I guess calling that a word game is one way to think about it.
I've evaluated some models. The best ones are based on llama-2. Good is for example
codeup-llama-2-13b-chat-hf

Uncensored (partially) is nous-hermes-llama2-13b
How much of what "that"?

I said the opposite, that in China they automate just as much as western factories (if not more, see the sibling comment).
It's more like a 52 hour work week for me. I think it depends on your personality. I have a hard time stopping my work, but I still think the benefits outweigh that.
All those videos are having an impact
> (1) Lab origin: Covid was discovered close to the WIV, while it was researching gain-of-function on coronaviruses.

COVID-19 was discovered by Chinese scientists because they were studying this virus and were familiar with it, whereas in other countries, this virus was overlooked as a complication of a common cold. Research on virus strains shows that the COVID-19 epidemic began 2-3 months before the epidemic in Wuhan. Therefore, the evidence for the virus's laboratory origin should look like this:

(1) The virus's high adaptability for human transmission indirectly indicates human intervention in its evolution.

(1) Studies indicate that the global spread of the virus started from the World Military Games in Wuhan, indirectly pointing to the involvement of the military or a military laboratory.

(1) Research shows that the virus's spread began two to three months before the start of the epidemic in Wuhan, indirectly suggesting the involvement of the Russian «Vector» laboratory in Novosibirsk, which experienced a serious security incident (explosion and military incursion) during this period.

(2) Zoonotic origin: Covid was discovered in a wet market, where past coronaviruses have been known to evolve and leap to humans.
First: Yes, while comparisons to nazis can become tiresome, China sincerely does fit the bill, at least as far as the Nazi state before the second world war goes. Imprisoning and socially repressing millions of uyghurs can be described in few other fitting ways. Maybe Stalin's mass repressions of nationalities fit too, but that's hardly a morally better comparison.

Second: I don't give a shit what the west did in its past or how anyone is ignoring that. It doesn't change the basic realities of how the Chinese state, now, today, treats a certain minority in its borders (and outside them too) and how it controls the rest of its population. The history of the west is irrelevant in the context of condemning a current repression and to say that this repression shouldn't be called out because of some past event by another culture to which someone belongs is ridiculous.

As for "westplaining" what the hell are you even talking about? What a cheap label for shutting down legitimate arguments about specific real events happening now that fully deserve condemnation.
That jab is at editors, not journalists. Journalists (as individuals) can make mistakes, but if you see three or four different papers or media channels propagating the same type of "news", you can bet the error is intentional.
Nobody these days would believe how enthusiastic I was about the early internet. The best ideas will win bla bla...
I am glad open software is eating the world. GNU/Linux, Python, JS, Postgres
I'd wager pretty heavily that Asimov, with a doctorate in chemistry, would have been exposed to Boyle at some point, what with the ideal gas law bearing his name.
Is there a better article explaining how vector DBs are used with LLMs exactly? This 4 point description raises more questions than it answers for me.

For example what is the difference between a "chunk vector" and a "prompt vector"? Aren't they essentially the same thing (a vector representation of text)?

How do we "search the prompt vector for the most similar chunk vector"? A short code snippet is shown that queries the DB, but it's not shown what is done with what comes back. What format is the output in?

I suspect this works by essentially replacing chunks of input text by shorter chunks of "roughly equivalent" text found in the vector DB and sending that as the prompt instead, but based on this description I can't be sure.
Portfolio Quiz: New Approach to Developer Portfolios
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> Er, no, they're right.

Er, no, they are wrong. It's not a gene therapy, and it being the first large-scale application doesn't make it experimental.
It's not about purity or dogma. It's about keeping complexity out of the language as much as possible, which is much harder to do. Language designers always make a tradeoff between making programming tasks convenient, and introducing more complexity that makes the language more difficult to maintain and less approachable, and programs written in it more difficult to read and reason about.

Being productive in a language is not just about using every convenience at your disposal, and typing less. It's about producing code that is easy to read and approachable for others or yourself years down the line. The more language features one needs to be aware of when writing or reading code, the less approachable it is.

Having less features also forces the programmer to rethink their solution in a less clever way. In dynamic languages like Python and Ruby it's very convenient to use some fancy trick to write less code. In languages like Rust or Raku, you can (ab)use some obscure feature in a non-intuitive way, and feel good about the "elegance" of the solution, but a fresh pair of eyes might struggle to understand what the code actually does. Considering reading code is much more important than writing it, as we literally write code for humans, not machines, optimizing for simplicity and having less features in a language is a more productive long-term approach.
If I’m being honest, none of you would have made the archive happen. Presumably, you would have been troubled by the copyright implications. The kind of person who does that would probably also do this. There is no perfect stopping point. Everyone fantasizes that they would have sold GME at the top, run a business to the point it was at its best and no farther, and pushed a law to bend only as far as it can.

The evidence is in the action. The archives are available yet none of you even host a mirror of this supposed treasure. Of course you are flabbergasted: you would have been flabbergasted anyway. What use is the surprise of the peanut gallery?
I don’t know. It can be difficult to breathe for some people, it can be itchy, hot, build up bacteria, fog up glasses… you also have to carry enough of them wherever you go. So it’s not exactly doing nothing.
They got rid of RSA KEX but it was explained that using static DH you can still implement TLS monitoring. So they came out with ETS [1]. I'm sure there's vendors out there implementing this.

[1]: https://www.etsi.org/deliver/etsi_ts/103500_103599/10352303/...
Terraform moves from MPL to Business Source License
> Just think about how massive these costs are. How much feature delivery will have to be delayed or foregone to support the additional architectural complexity?

I don’t know if the author has worked with micro services. MS solve a communication issue. If implemented semi-properly teams stop blocking each other and the overall result is _faster_ and _safer_ feature delivery to production because the scope a team (or tribe, etc) will be working on a smaller, isolated codebase. The challenge _usually_ is that now developers have to take the environment into consideration introducing new patterns (retries, structured logs, time outs, circuit breakers, possibly SLIs for other teams, distributed tracing, metrics, etc). Given a large enough org, someone will either adopt or write a micro-framework to handle all or most of them.

To re-iterate if introducing MS stalled feature delivery, then it is a premature decision. YMMV, of course as there are other reasons to isolate part of the code base (e.g. compliance).
I have a super low end Xiaomi that is 4 years old and feels just as snappy as when I bought it. I am very sensitive to lag of any sort. Been advocating for 120 Hz screens (on computers and TVs) back in 2000.

What, exactly, is your point? Phones should get faster hardware because the UI is slow? Clearly not a hardware problem. Hasn't been one for at least a decade
Please, nobody else waste your time with the article. This single paragraph comment is better than the news page.
I would prefer that you didn't set yourself hard time-based deadlines for security features. If this product is going to be around long enough for enterprise to trust it, that you did this in two weeks won't make any difference. Unnecessarily rushing yourself to meet an arbitrary deadline helps nobody and hurts the product. Especially if, as noted by GP, you don't have a good track record.

It's also worth noting that you're doing this in the wrong order. The "We can test it all later, ship! ship! ship!" strategy works fine for trivial apps, not security software.
This is very well-trodden ground at this point, but the reasons people use and like Tailwind have nothing to do with an unwillingness to think or name things.

You're welcome to use whatever works for you, but don't assume that anyone who prefers an alternative approach is mentally lazy.
Ways I Expect AI Regulation to Increase X-Risk
Problem with all these UI kits that they are almost copy cats from each other, nothing unique and just a reskin. And funny how they always assume the dashboard you will build is a business/KPI/stock centric, as this is the only type of dashboards out there.. what if you are looking to build an engineering one with video streams and/or some widgets/guages/indicators? Or one where you can add some 3D visualization? Or maybe at least some unique data representation other than bar charts?! Tough luck! Build it from scratch.
Or perhaps it's the market-based economy, supply and demand - a feedback loop that, by its very nature, optimizes away any average surplus a society accumulates, in the same way a DC filter will remove energy from a signal until it averages to zero.

I'm increasingly convinced this is a direct consequence, a flip side of our economic system - i.e. the very fact that people can freely compete means prices will go down to near production costs, as competition minimizes everyone's margins - but at a larger scale, it means the market will grow and change to consume any surplus, which, since nothing here is mathematically perfectly uniform, necessitates the existence of poverty and affluence - income inequality that can have arbitrary amplitude, but averages to zero.

> There are plenty of studies of Indigenous peoples whose societies are much more equitable than ours

Please name three. As far as I've read, all the various indigenous tribes past and present tend to have the same problems as every other group of people, including modern civilization; they're just earlier on the problem complexity/sophistication ladder. That, and they tend to have pretty horrible alternatives to what we've learned to solve via taxation and the rule of law.
Maybe the author was surprised of the ridiculously high pricing of AWS in general, and that it was the only way to get access to the processor.
Correct, according to the Hashicorp license change FAQ - https://www.hashicorp.com/license-faq#How-does-this-impact-t...

And I checked the contribution guide for the aws provider, no mention of a CLA there. I wonder if Hashicorp would be able to pull the providers under the same BSL in future ?
> There are no downsides to wearing a mask.

I’ll never understand why people keep repeating this. I know multiple people who seriously struggled with the mask. Ranging from basic stuff such as “it fogs up my glasses so I can’t see well and it gives me a headache” all the way to “I get a panic attack if I wear one for longer than 5 minutes”.

These people all pretty much stayed in the house for as long as the mask mandates lasted. That’s a long time to look at the same four walls!
"critical because it’s systemic"

Good, I would hope the government basis it decisions on science.

"people have lost their jobs,"

I assume you mean people who didn't get vaccinated. That's their decision, a decision based on misinformation, emotions, or politics.

"because the father expressed doubts about a scientist, to be later revealed that doubts were correct"

What what were his doubts based on? Just because he later turned out to be right means nothing unless his claims were based on something substantial.

"The amount of harm done over this science is unbearable to see."

Covid killed 1.2 million people in the US. Your right wing self inflicted suffering over vaccines means nothing compared to this.
It would be interesting to know with more specificity how the bug in the 787 AFDS is interacting with the VHHH 25R localizer. One would expect that all localizer beams conform to a single specification and wouldn’t require the autoflight systems to behave differently. To wit, one of the commenters at the site mentioned anomalies of the VHHH ILS 25R.

An aircraft I flew regularly some years ago would sometimes fail to capture the localizer at reasonable intercept vectors or swim around the extended centreline but I never experienced this uncoupling of lateral and vertical guidance. That’s insidious.
I wish you guys the best, but I think you’re being a little self-congratulatory here.

The first feature is not optional - it has been a feature of i18n systems since the 1990s, possibly earlier. I’ve seen cludged-together in-house solutions that can do it without breaking a sweat. It is currently not feasible to use Fluent to localise any substantive, dynamic content in languages with case or gender - which is the main challenge an i18n package exists to solve. (I note the issue you link is five years old, dismisses the problem as not significant, and flat out states it is not being worked on.)

Translation files are generally made by translators, not programmers, and the fact that Fluent falls over in a slight breeze makes it difficult to imagine a translator being able to produce working Fluent files. This is not a ”subjective” problem. Translators do not, and should not, work for free. Using Fluent adds considerable (and needless!) complexity and therefore expense.

As you point out, you’re working on a new data format, so it’s unclear why anyone should adopt (and pay for translations in) the current moribund format.

I genuinely do wish you guys the best, and I apologise if I spoke too bluntly above, but it is not merely a matter of personal opinion that Fluent is de facto still in alpha.
Moving the goalposts isn't going to make things any better. Maybe just apologize?