skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Incorrect, optimized (but non-critical) code that fails .1% of the time

Only if it fails in known, predictable ways. In that case, I think it falls under the accuracy tradeoff where you define a narrow band of acceptable correctness (99.9% accurate), and correctness is "merely" orders of magnitude more important than performance. If your code fails in unpredictable ways 0.1% of the time, you basically cannot use it. It doesn't matter if it's non-critical: an idle clicker game that has a 0.1% chance of bricking the user's computer or deleting some random data from their system is not usable.
The problem with Baseball is that games are so long and there's so much down-time (in between pitches, in between batters, in between innings) that commentators feel the need to fill the air with chatter, which I find to be annoying.

The Brits do soccer (football) play-by-play very well - it's often times 1 guy - not even a color commentator. It's done in a very monotone, factual and dry way, which is all I really need. So-and-so wins the ball in his own half, and passes the ball to such-and-such, who takes a shot from X yards, and it's saved by the opposition goalkeeper. Occasionally a small bit of relevant color commentary is thrown in for context by the main announcer (so-and-so wins the ball from his international teammate or academy teammate or former club mate; or such-and-such has scored X# goals this year). The color commentary is usually a former pro who gives insight into tactics or the seasonal narratives or the officiating or whatever.

Here in the USA the soccer commentators don't do that well, and blur the lines between play-by-play and color commentary - and to make matters worse, there's usually 2-3 of them in the booth at the same time. No thanks.
I have wondered if you could use simulation based on actual driver behavior to quantify the impact when a single truck moves from the slow lane to the second lane from right. You get a huge number of cars that, themselves, should be the slow lane, but still need to pass the truck. Many will, as they are instructed, get over and pass the truck on the left. That's what I do for the most part. But it makes an amazing impact on traffic to have twice the lane changes, and many folks, once they have gotten over to pass, remain in the "passing" lane.

This truck behavior is a recent change, the last ten years at most. I have certainly noticed that when merging I essentially never have to speed up or slow down for a big rig. It's certainly easier to merge with a light truck or car!

But the organization of traffic has almost completely broken down in the San Francisco Area. I have heard that the California Highway Patrol more or less refuses to enforce any traffic regulation that isn't driven by safety. And to be fair, I rarely see CHP cars, so they may well be spread so thin that they can barely keep the flow of traffic from going 20+ MPH over the limit.
Requiring a site to display what you say is a pretty high bar.

That is pretty obviously breaking the first amendment right to say what you want to say.

Doesn't mean it can't happen but legally the bar is quite high to justify that.
> This is slavery

Pretty amazing definition
I apologize, I may have not expressed myself clearly. What I meant to indicate was that the bits being distributed the way they were was the likely reason we were able to rip dvds based on the fact entities trying to quash distribution of they key stopped.
Ask HN: PDF format sucks. Why didn't the alternatives catch on?
PDF is full of bugs. Editing PDF files (even a simple task like replacing a font with something else) is painfully difficult, ugly, and hacky.

Why hasn't the industry just switched to better solutions yet? Is it because PDF is the thing you get regardless of the typesetting program you used (e.g., Word, Latex, Markdown, HTML->PDF (Save as PDF), etc.)? It seems to me that there must be a better way.
> In this post I’m going to share the what, how, and why—why it’s time to go beyond seat-based pricing when trying to monetize a data infrastructure product.

It seems "beyond" here means "in addition to" rather than "migrating to"
As someone who has worked on private in-flight entertainment systems I haven't heard of the story you mentioned about the GPS coordinates but I can confirm that controlling the plane would take a lot more than just getting on the RS-232 or RS-485 read-only busses the FMS sends data on.
It means requiring the age restricted device to validate against the existing rating headers “Adult” websites already set, versus requiring the client to upload their personal information to validate their own identity to the “Adult” site.

FWIW, iOS already does this. If you have parental controls enabled and a http request is made with a response that sets ‘rating: RTA-whatever’, webkit will refuse to render it.

This is a good thing. The texas law blows, same general category of “harass the user instead of embrace the platform” as cookie banners.
I actually do use the Vim extension in VSCode, it's excellent
We have a 2.5 year old. Hello to all other HN toddler owners^H^H^H^H^Hparents.

Regarding screentime we are pretty strict. He is not allowed more than 15 minutes a day, and that is from a selection of some farm videos. He's also got his own iPhone but it's not on WiFi and it's only so that if he wants to take photos. They learn very quickly at this age.

Whatever you do, don't let your toddler browse YouTube or something like that on their own, it's like a continuous endorphine kick and they'll just want to do it instead of healthier activities like being outside.
Even more terrifying for the uninitiated back in the day: fatal error
Ground speed and airspeed are not the same thing. You need to measure airspeed directly. And I think there are generally 3 pitot tubes on planes.
How things work and if they work are very different problems that science can help us solve.

If you perform a double blind trial that throwing a brick at the back at someone's head will most likely cause a concussion or major injury you don't really have to understand the mechanism to get the result, just repeat the treatment.
It's been a loong time since M$ cared about user experience at all.
Ah, I'll admit I know a lot less about the EUPL, I'll do some further reading on the subject.
Intel was vulnerable to Meltdown and Spectre. AMD was only vulnerable to Spectre.

Meltdown arose because vulnerable designs delay memory protection checks until as late as possible, after illegal accesses could have already affected state. This is a questionable decision, as it is playing fast and lose with the most fundamental building blocks of security. Most companies wisely chose a more cautious approach.

If an investigation found that watermelon is carcinogenic, that would be a problem. If that same investigation found that Andy's Farm sells watermelon that contains benzene, Andy's Farm couldn't defend itself by saying all watermelon is carcinogenic.
this was my gut feel about it, FAANG hiring process other than Amazon really puts no emphasis on actual product/business skills. Google is the prime example of what happens when you have a bunch of people really good at leetcode with minimal focus on entrepreneur type skills. Results in a bunch of stuff getting built and then shut down a few months later
How we evaluated LLMs in production
>I see the benefits of this in theory but in practice I worry that it will just cause more IRL bullying and isolation.

I have to disagree. There was plenty of bullying and isolation for kids before social media, before the Internet and, I'm sure, even before the printing press.

Kids can be very cruel to each other. This is (mostly) due to an understanding of the world that only includes a limited understanding of cause and effect.

That's not new, nor is it particularly profound. And it has nothing to do with computers or "social media."
The United States has an estimated 57 million Spanish speakers, about 42 million being their native language - that's more than both Spain and Argentina. I'm unsure of how growth in Spanish broadcasting suggests it's not from within the United States.

You also currently have the Leagues Cup being broadcast on AppleTV which is a one month tournament of every LigaMX (Mexico) and MLS (USA) club with a $40-million prize pool.

My uneducated guess is that it's a mix of Leagues Cup, global superstars signing with MLS clubs, young stars such as Thiego Almada in Atlanta who just won a World Cup, and MLS beginning to overtake LigaMX in quality that is drawing more and more viewers recently - many of which are likely Spanish speaking.

I'd point toward tonight's quarter-final elimination match against LAFC and Monterrey as an example that is likely to draw a ton of Spanish commentary views.
He spends a lot more time shitting on the pilot then he does talking about this, that's backwards IMHO.
Yeah. Sometime around 2021 I believe. I’ve been here since 2012.
> Avoid social media until at least age 16

I think it depends which social media, and this needs to be audited. I was using forums/IRC from about 14(and these are pre-cursors to social media) and there was benefit to being able to discuss things that you might not have been able to IRL.

I think the issues come with image based social media where it's not about exchanging ideas/talking about things but with "living your best life" and curating your public image.

> predators use online spaces to find and groom children.
> each your kids to never ever take an inappropriate photo of their bodies.

I think in this day and age it's essential to teach kids how to stay safe online (once they reach an age where the internet is an appropriate place to be). I see people talk all the time about the internet being a dangerous place and it needs to be restricted but not as much about how to manage this.

i remember many discussions about meeting someone form the internet and how to do it safely. i.e. Get a verification photo with today's date, meet in a high-traffic public space, tell a friend (or your parents) where you are going and who you expect to be meeting, ask for a check in at a specific time etc.
Yeah.

I’d love it if I could buy a device for my grade schoolers that auto-locked the screen if it saw that the next frame of whatever youtube kids video is being played contains porn or vivisections or whatever is sneaking past Google’s censors this week.

This could happen on-device, and be an opt-in, paid feature.

(The above are real examples, so we simply haven’t given them access to youtube yet.)
Not really.

Cigarettes were forced to cover, like, 40% of their box with warnings about their ability to cause cancer, harm fertility, and impair breathing capacity.

The FDA strictly regulates what medicines, as well as unapproved medicinal products, are allowed to say on their box. Multivitamin? You can say it supports health, but not that it improves health.

General electronics? You'd better have that FCC logo on it, showing that it was tested and certified, if it has any wireless radios in it. And if you're in Europe, CE belongs on basically everything.

Fireplaces? Anything with fire? Plumbing? Power conversion? Power delivery? Better have a certification from a Nationally Recognized Testing Laboratory (NRTL), like UL or CSA.

Why are websites of any kind unique? In principle, the government can compel speech on products.
Target market seems to be more VPN alternative in environments where VPN usage is prohibited/banned/tracked.
I just watched the intro and conclusion for the Platforms State of the Union and cannot see the pro focus we’re talking about.

Yes, it’s now directly talking to developers, but with a tone of “Here are new APIs and features we decided to make. Use them how we designed them.” (like talking top-down to a workforce)
I like the standard way that most Linux distros do this: default to a pretty loading graphic, but you can hit esc to see the boot scroll.
I hear this a lot but I'm still not convinced it's true. Iirc Redis still takes 20 minutes to provision on both Azure and AWS (unless they optimized it in the last couple years) and doesn't provide much value. The creator of the software should be in a much better position to offer a rich product experience than a 3rd party can.

Elastic is even more interesting here. There are plenty of anecdotes about Elastic purchasing being complicated and confusing. In addition, for the first few years of existence, AWS Elastic was missing some basic features (afaik you couldn't scale your cluster or something similar). In fact, AWS is now maintaining their own fork of Elasticsearch.
The error page just says 404, the image isn't critical.

And if the server has broken so badly it can't send out that image, then I have much bigger worries than an ugly 404 page.
Wow, did you use ChatGPT to write that? I actually enjoyed reading it knowing that it was going to be fluff in advance.
oh yeah, that one's good.
Seems cool! One thing I noticed listening to one of the PG essays was that it changed voices for one of the pull quotes, which was a nice touch!

Might be cool to have a feature that read out the source too, like someone would if a human was reading a quote from a book. Hard to control for everyone's different annotation style though I'd imagine.
Misleading? This is outright wrong:

> this is not free domain, this is free subdomain

A subdomain is a type of domain.
So you can only legally watch Youtube videos when and where you have a fast and unlimited internet connection? That sucks...

Let's say you only have a cellular data plan, but it has a data cap, or your cell coverage is slow. So when a friend sends you a link to a video, you go to a library or coffee shop to download it to watch later. Is that "acting in bad faith?" I guess it gets in the way of Youtube's "right" to shove ads at your face, but avoiding the ads was not the point.

As was pointed out elsewhere in this thread, they failed to outlaw VCRs back in the day, so hopefully this nonsense will also get slapped down.
The NHL has similar issues. There are regional blackouts and it's a pain to figure out what you can watch, where to watch, and how much everything costs. It's just too much hassle for a lot of people vs an IPTV sub with everything for a couple hundred bucks a year.
> Ask your translators to do a global once-over QA pass once in a while to detect inconsistencies and weirdness. Once I dealt with a product that had three tabs, and two of the tabs were translated identically. Each tab header translation made sense on its own, but as distinct tab headers side by side, it made no sense to use the same word.

Even the very big ones get this wrong. I believe AliExpress still uses the same translation in Dutch for the word “register” as they do for “login” (both can be translated as “aanmelden”). Kind of an important distinction.

Seems like this should be so easy to detect (look for duplicates on the right hand side of the translations where there are none on the left).
The FDA has started requiring this for some products:

> New Food and Drug Administration (FDA) rules specify that the label on any food package that contains between two and three servings and that could be eaten in one sitting must provide nutrition information both for a single serving and for eating the entire contents.

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/some-food-labels-now-tell-you-t...
> Get a router that gives you good controls for total time and time schedule.

Or searches. With very young kids, you never know what they're going to look for and find. I'd be wary. For as little time I expect they'd be on a laptop, I am more tempted to set up a "family computer" in an open space like the old days. Really, still don't know how I'd navigate this one because it's a real concern.
Doesn't California require every brand to post that "what this item contains can cause cancer"?

I generally agree with you, but I think that ship sailed back in the early 1900's with the push for the FDA, USDA, etc.
Reminds me of getting the "illegal operation" error from Windows when I was a little kid and wondering if I just committed a crime.
> Call it paranoia, I don't want some medical file marking me as having a disorder or being mentally ill

Not paranoia at all, I had a bored psychiatrist showing a wildly unprofessional amount of skin diagnose me with Bipolar type II after a single 15 minute interview, and now I have serious issues getting life insurance. Even with several other psychiatrists giving opposing diagnoses.

Much better to suspect (and apparently trigger some people's disdain) than let someone write something down in permanent ink.
I have been enjoying Linux Air Combat for almost 2 weeks now and I have to say it's really good! It reminds me of the original Aces high from about 2005. Cockpit graphics are not at all realistic because it's all digital like a modern jet fighter. But the terrain graphics and clouds look as good or better than Aces High 2. Not as good as Aces High 3 by any measure but good enough to completely absorb my imagination.

The feeling of flight is what I really enjoy. It just feels right! And very smooth response to flight controls.

After several days studying online docs and practicing offline I finally tried the online missions yesterday. Wow. Very very fun and absorbing. When you're the only online player they automatically send in prerecorded enemies from earlier online battles so you get drawn into the war against them and you can shoot them down if your good enough. After a while another player joined in with me. At first he was on my side but later he switched to the enemy and we went after each other for a couple hours. I died a lot but I loved every minute of it and I learned a lot.

This is the most fun I ever had flight simming on Linux. They have text comms and voice comms in flight. So far I have only tried text but now I'm gonna activate the voice comms. It looks like Wednesday and Thursday are scheduled with regular online groups so will be there.
Ok reading the comments seems .tk are still free!
That humans killed all megafauna is still very much a hypothesis and not the only theory out there, so take it with a grain of salt.
What decisions do you think they're basing RTO on that don't boil down to the production and costs of the business?
Blackout rules really need to be called into question by the government. It's dumb that if I want to watch a game and I live within like 3 hours of the stadium, I have to actually go to the game or pirate a stream. The rules need to be refined to a small area within a a half hour's drive from a stadium, and that's it.
It is not Google in the courts, it is Sony and Warner, the ‘rights holders’!
Downtown SF office building sells for 66% below assessed value
Many package systems have ways to select different packages with conflicting names.
I see a lot of Navy pilots say "fingers and toes" to ground themselves, prevent white-knuckling, and as a "reality check". I started doing it in moments in life where I recognize that I am getting intense or lost in the moment. I've even used the phrase to calm other people down.

Random example:

https://www.linkedin.com/posts/kim-kc-campbell_a-10-pilot-re...
> What is considered criminal depends on the jurisdiction, but I doubt making false reports to a private company is criminal in very many.

I live in the Australian state of New South Wales. I just looked up our state law on this topic. Section 314 of the Crimes Act 1900 says: “A person who makes an accusation intending a person to be the subject of an investigation of an offence, knowing that other person to be innocent of the offence, is liable to imprisonment for 7 years.” I haven’t looked at the case law or anything, but just going by the wording of the statute, it seems broad enough to potentially include false accusations made to private companies in its scope.

Of course, probably none of the parties in the case under discussion live in my jurisdiction, so its laws are irrelevant. Still, if other jurisdictions don’t have a law like this on the books, maybe they should
May be because they are not reselling anything. As far as I'm concerned, in a legal world you cannot get your textbook without paying first. Z-library gives you these books for free. If you reached your daily limit, you wait 24 hours. No one really forces you to get into membership and there are other, free ways to avoid the daily limit.
By your logic they either must provide copyrighted content for free and pay hosting out of their pocket or provide nothing at all since they don't have the moral ground to ask for money. Servers cost money, a lot of money.
While that may be true, it is not unconstitutional to write dumb laws. I'm not sure how they have a case here.
I do an unlimited screen time approach (this is a misnomer; most parents using this approach have some kind of limits). I limit content (especially content that seems to give a dopamine hit like unboxing videos and those annoying YouTube videos with constant cheering and sound effects) and have rules about no TV or devices while eating.

We do not use timers or set limits around how much time a day. My preschooler enjoys games, learns a lot through TV, has an exceptional vocabulary and a big imagination. They still enjoy spending time outside and playing with others. My hope is that they learn to self regulate early.
No responses is worrying. I’m also in the heavy rebase workflow pattern and would be huge problem if rebase breaks it.
There are multiple proofs for this, but my favorite simple, yet informal proof, is that there is no real number you can add to 0.999 infinitely repeating to make it 1. So mathematically, they are equal.
It’s been fascinating watching age in relation to sex do a 180 in just a couple short decades. When I was 13, no one blinked an eye at porn usage. Suddenly the question is one of the most important in mainstream debate. Funny how that works.

I’m not necessarily saying that the old ways were better, just that it’s interesting how much can change in one lifetime. I wonder what we consider harmless today that will be taboo in two decades.
> how many of these accidents can come down to the pilots forgetting the most basic things.

This is factually incorrect.

If you read the Final Report you will see that the FP1 (the one that have placed the abnormal inputs in the side stick) did not had the appropriate training; actually the scenario that happen has not even in the trainings (Nightly mid-atlantic flight with screen disagreement with one of the FP missing that I’m normal law).

At least for me, this accident was one of the top 3 most important in terms of safety measures and changes in aviation because the entire industry needed to think about the role of automation, training design, cockpit design, etc.
> We never open sourced our coordination server because Headscale beat us to it.

Can you elaborate? This sentence makes no sense to me. Headscale is not tailscale, so they didn't "beat you to it", they just released a competiting product.
The completeness is much better vs OpenStreetMaps, the brand and category labeling can still be improved.
I'm betting on leggings at this point.
Cognitive scientists on selfish coworkers: Why are they all friends?
Electric Vehicle charging orchestration as-a-service
VGA Text Mode
Can't they already just query from network providers?
Currently have a 11 month year old and he has had no screentime.
Following this thread.
The FBI can already subpoena this information from your cell provider. They would even do this back in the analog cell phone days--Kevin Mitnick was nearly caught a few times because they were tracking the location of his analog cell phone.
That too can be expensive.