skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's interesting to try to fit what is often talked about as "future-proofing" and "reusability" into the development of a general-purpose CPU, since CPUs are in a sense the ultimate reusable system.

In an overly simplified textbook example of designing/building a CPU, you have an ISA you're building the CPU to support. The ISA defines a finite set of operations and their inputs, outputs, and side effects (like storing a value in a particular register). Then you build the CPU to fulfill those criteria.

In my experience, designers that want reusability usually don't have enough precision in how they want to reuse a system so an ISA-like design can't be created.

And practically, it's the rare (I might even say non-existent) day-to-day business problem that needs CPU-like flexibility. Usually a system just needs to support a handful of use cases, like integrating with different payment providers. An interface will suffice.
I think most common languages you can either choose between a combo adjective like

Alice es activo(a)

Or alice es activ@

But honestly as engineers, we should follow the advice of making the stilted constructions. We're already trained as users to expect that anyways from all the other apps.

If it's just a monolingual app. Sure go nuts, make it read super fluidly. If you have to localize, just do it the tried and true way
> A brief interruption to their airspeed indications, lasting less than a minute, had thrown two trained Air France pilots into a state of paralyzed agitation.

I'm generally suspicious of technical solutions to human-factors problems. But I can't help wondering if some combination of voice stress analysis and measuring pilot coordination might be able to produce a warning that would have prompted the flight crew to see that they had stopped flying in an orderly way.

Easy to say speculate, though, when you're not in that situation.
G.M. Will Add Backup Power Function to Its Electric Vehicles
That’s still not going to crack 10Gbps.
Yes it was. For those that didn’t see it, in the middle there is a headline:

> Ass holes in Australia
Yep: https://github.com/supabase/supabase/pull/13745
> Anyone who wants to run their own instance is welcome to and people do and thus find it useful. The idea that the world would be better off if we made it closed source and prevented that... is just nonsense.

How does making something closed source automatically mean someone can't run their own instance of it, even for free? Closed source does not mean 'You can only download this if you pay us', just as open source does not mean 'You can download this for free'
https://archive.ph/r5cvA
Yeah I'm in my 30s and I've noticed the generation above me is less awkward and the generation below more awkward.

My personal pet theory is the explosion of homework and the reduction of opportunities for kids to play together is making people awkward which makes it harder to make new connections.
I haven’t tried anything unfortunately.

I understand that the money piece might seem irrational, but yeah, I will never spend more than a few thousands of my own money (borrowed or not) on a risky venture. My portfolio is my lifeline, it makes me financially independent from corporate servitude, so I am going to treat it with the uttermost respect, which for me it means diversified index funds, and never run into the risk of squandering it.

I do not see spending my time building tech as time that I cannot make back, because it would be a perfectly fulfilling use of my time.

Thanks.
If you liked this article, definitely consider checking out other articles written by Kyra (Admiral_Cloudberg). She has done a ton of articles on almost all notable (near)crashes, including their root causes, investigations, and subsequent effects on the airplane industry.

For some crashes that have interesting causes (at least from an engineering perspective) beyond "maintenance failed to identify a problem before takeoff" or "pilots fail to identify problem or take wrong actions", I strongly recommend the articles on TWA 800 (1996) [1] and the near-crash of SmartLynx Estonia 9001 (2018) [2]. The first goes into great detail exactly _how_ the FAA discovered the root cause, whereas the second one involves a logic oversight in the flight computers of a modern Airbus plane.

[1]: https://admiralcloudberg.medium.com/memories-of-flame-the-cr...
[2]: https://admiralcloudberg.medium.com/the-dark-side-of-logic-t...
>The simple answer was to tax the companies you want to pay, and then give the money to the people you want to give money to.

The problem is that they don't want to impose a general tax, and imposing a tax on social media companies only looks suspiciously like a shakedown, so they made this rube goldberg machine to launder it.
It’s perfectly normal to not agree with everything the people you voted for does.

Unless you find yourself in a position of always being a victim, and are perpetually contrarian just for the sake of it, you’re not likely a conservative.

We don’t have a “conservative” party that targets slow, but calculated progress.
I don’t agree with the greed and runaway capitalism that drives it, I’m just observing it exists.

People tend not to like it because it’s restrictive to the point of being off limits in many real world use cases. Bob works on the platform team at at GigaCorp. He’s overworked, and found a great OSS product that does exactly what he needs and could save him weeks or months of effort. Except because it’s GPL, he can’t touch it.
> What counts as "human level"?

IMHO if it can do every single human job at a level of competency that's consider acceptable if a human did it, I would consider that "human level" - frankly, it's implied that when people say "human level", they mean the average human.

Seriously though, arguing over semantics is just a waste of time. It's what it can do and the consequences of what it can that really matter.

> That implies AGI must be an expert in every subject, surpassing the average human.

Doesn't have to be the same AI "instance". We can have multiple copies of the AI with different specializations. That would still count - I mean it's how we humans do it.
am in the same boat and the ppl responsible for the issues are always busy denying . Some of these ppl have also got into management, so they have got management cover. The only way things get solved is if some other team takes over the codebase maintained by them, but the actual culprits are failing upwards and moving into management.
Branchless?

You need at least 1 branch to exit the loop.
Yeah, that's fair, but there really should be a lot of companies that fit that criteria. There are a lot of large companies that offer hosting, but there seems to be little price competition and most are not signup-friendly in the way that AWS, GCP, and Azure are.
> "Not much new" is a real achievement when you're talking about the most general ideas.

> It's not true that there's nothing new under the sun. There are some domains where there's almost nothing new. But there's a big difference between nothing and almost nothing, when it's multiplied by the area under the sun.

Definitely something to keep in mind when someone attaches the modifier 'almost nothing' or 'not much new'...
If you have so much experience, maybe you can share why

print("The white horse")

is such a horrible example of code that can't be internationalized.
oh wow, wonderfully explained. it feels like crossplane might be a terraform killer then, assuming k8s has won, which it seems to have.
Review of the Attacks Associated with Lapsus$ and Related Threat Groups [pdf]
Whether they lost the popular vote is not really that relevant as that's not the basis of elections. They were elected to the presidency, therefore they got to make appointments. And I'm not sure the Supreme Court should be considering what polls say on most subjects if they're ruling on matters of law.

Anyway while I think there is some merit in having judicial appointments which won't/can't be undone by the next administration I think the whole lifetime serving thing seems...unwise. 16 years would seem like a decently long tenure. 36 years is the current record and Clarence Thomas may well beat that if he's not somehow done in for corruption.

Given how heated US politics is becoming (in rhetoric anyway) it's only a matter of time until the justices require presidential level security teams.
Fair, reimplementation would have been a huge project. But I would've been excited because the official implementation is so slow :)
It was never decided by a single person. We always did a 5-15m debrief, consisting of about 4 people (hiring manager, 2 interviewers, hr to facilitate and maybe a shadow 2), between interviews on the day.
It feels a bit like contemporary physics has caught up to the concerns of 18/19th century philosophers.

Descartes, Leibniz, Hume, Kant and others, while disagreeing with each other in major ways, all agree on one big concern: We're fundamentally limited in our knowledge about "things in themselves" outside of our consciousness and the perceptions we receive.

Naively we think "oh, looks there's a flower!" but for these philosophers a big question was: how much can we really know about the actual thing that is the flower, beyond the (potentially suspect) information that our mind receives through the senses and our mental models (include the concept of 'flower').

In a very practical way I think we might be bumping into these limits. Which isn't surprising since what was driving these questions for those philosophers was concerns about the foundations of the then rapidly emerging scientific fields.
Perfectly said, that was the exact point I was trying to make. I've seen so many bad decisions made in the name of "future proofing". The the future comes and you are fighting those decisions. I wonder if people switch jobs and projects so often they don't get to see the results of all that future proofing.
Cookie Consent Design: How to Design an Effective Banner?
> Higgs bosons do mediate momentum transfer

The blog post you reference appears to say that this is true in theory (though impossible to detect experimentally as the effect is so tiny), but it would be nice to see an actual paper describing the specifics. For example, what do the Feynman diagrams for this "Higgs force" interaction look like?
The same author as the OP also has a great article on Helios 522: https://admiralcloudberg.medium.com/lost-souls-of-grammatiko...
> had his own ideological ax to grind.

I've read Gibbon (the abridged version). How would you describe the axe he was grinding?
>Make a better browser and people will come.

With magic money? Do you think mozilla employees and firefox employees should starve? Should they be making firefox entirely as charity?

The other browsers are made by a GigaCorp that extracts a tax from pretty much everything on the internet, especially if you want to do any advertising, and another Megacorp that has billions upon billions of dollars in cash just waiting for a need and also extracts 30% on ANY financial transaction using their hardware.

Imagine people pushing stupid hard for everyone to use Meta's MetaVerse instead of VRChat because VRChat once had an advertising ID in their code or something. Like sure, that's not awesome, but like, what the fuck is the alternative?
Aren't they using hardened CPUs on those? Those are more than a few generations behind anything in common use on the ground.
Seamlessly embedding user-generated content into template text is a losing battle. There are always going to be users who test the waters with emojis, zalgo text, l33tspeak profanity, SQL/XSS injection attempts, copypastas, and so on. In the face of such merry nonsense, linguistic idiosyncrasies like proper gendered forms are moot concerns.
Catching up with the Cosmopolitan ecosystem
I mean, everyone who uses any could infra tool ends up hating it for some reason or another, there's nothing close to perfection in that realm!
It has been changed after this incident. There is now an alert for dual input. The resulting Airbus system is better than traditional connected yokes, because it doesn't have the unexpected opposite input anymore (with the alert) but it does also have an override switch for the captain's side. Which means you can overpower the first officer with just a button instead of physically having to wrestle for the controls.

You can see it used here: https://youtube.com/shorts/nBmPXrBpp3Y

You hear the normal 50.. 30.. etc. callouts and then when the captain goes full thrust you hear "priority left" which is the override button being pressed to pitch for go-around.

That's much nicer than what we have teaching with traditional controls. Because at that point overpowering a startled pilot is a bit hard.
She writes one of these a week, and they’re all very high quality. I highly recommending subscribing. Seeing the new post is always one of the week’s highlights, just like how getting the “Money Stuff” edition is a highlight of every weekday morning (er, early afternoon).
Things like that are incredibly overpriced, you're paying almost $1000 per KWH of capacity.
There's certainly a wide gamut of creators out there, and the handymen I've seen have videos like you mentioned. I imagine the complaints above are about the far more commercialized channels that do in fact model their videos after YT's algorithm.
I haven’t done this but have read about idea generation and validation processes like this:

1. Start with problems, small or big. Write them down. Do it for a few weeks or months.

2. Go through the list and come up with solutions to each problem or discard it.

3. Choose your top 5-10 problems and solutions.

4. Now for validation, create a form that collects email addresses for each problem. Write some marketing stuff there too.

5. Define your target audience for each idea and create ads. Link to your forms.

6. After a few weeks or months, see which idea generated most interest. That is probably what you should work on.
Scale matters. Species are currently going extinct at a rate orders magnitude greater than the historical average, due to humans. This breaks normal feedback loops and is absolutely something to be concerned about, even if you value all non-human intelligent life at zero.
Yes, but don’t you think it might be little more diplomatic to say something like:

> While this is an interesting way to allow a translator to arrange the order of terms, there’s a great deal more involved, like … , so we should probably avoid using this technique, if at all possible. It’s always a much better idea to allow translators to work on an entire sentence or paragraph.

See? We get to show off our expertise, without throwing shade on others.

BTW: I have learned, the hard way, that cultural and human sensitivity, as well as basic respect and kindness, are important, when localizing.

But I guess those values are kinda “last century,” and don’t really have any value, in today’s hyper-competitive world.
> Safari don't sorry(sic) add-ons at all

iOS and iPadOS Safari has supported extensions for a while now.

https://support.apple.com/guide/ipad/get-extensions-ipada7ca...

https://support.apple.com/guide/iphone/get-extensions-iphab0...
The irony is you (probably human) are replying to obvious satire, but were unable to see it.
Those are two ends of the spectrum of how to handle unknown errors, but ignore the other axis: known errors. The UI displaying a red text field saying "field whatever is required to continue" is just as much an error message, but it's clearly actionable. There are lots of reasonably actionable error messages in all varieties of UIs for expected error cases.

I don't know that there's a lot of useful middle ground between your two examples though. By definition, a UI can't really give actionable advice on how to fix an error that it isn't programmed to expect.
Yeah it's a valid point, podcast consumption is definitely synonymous to commute.

I'd say these are some reasons for continued increase:
- Commute has not fallen as much as we might think
- More quality content is becoming available, bringing in more audience
- Natural expansion from people enjoying the experience and sharing
+++
I hadn't set this back up after getting a new laptop, but it's great for any of the one-off things you might need to do like confirm that some webserver is down like someone on chat complained it was, or lookup an ip or dns entry.

So the real benefit IMO is that it then lets you keep your actual terminals more clean and focused, and not just interleave that kind of stuff with whatever you are doing.
https://safetyfirst.airbus.com/app/themes/mh_newsdesk/docume...

Section 6

> When a dual input situation is detected, the two
green priority lights located on the cockpit front
panel flash simultaneously.

> After the visual indication has been triggered, a
synthetic voice “DUAL INPUT” comes up every
5 sec, as long as the dual input condition persists.

According to Wikipedia, this warning system worked as intended:

> Confused, Bonin exclaimed, "I don't have control of the airplane any more now", and two seconds later, "I don't have control of the airplane at all!"[42] Robert responded to this by saying, "controls to the left", and took over control of the aircraft.[83][44]

> He pushed his side-stick forward to lower the nose and recover from the stall; however, Bonin was still pulling his side-stick back. The inputs cancelled each other out and triggered an audible "dual input" warning.

> ...

> Bonin heard this and replied, "But I've been at maximum nose-up for a while!" When Captain Dubois heard this, he realized Bonin was causing the stall, and shouted, "No no no, don't climb! No No No!"[85][44]

> When Robert heard this, he told Bonin to give him control of the airplane.[2] In response to this, Bonin temporarily gave the controls to Robert.[44][85][2] Robert pushed his side-stick forward to try to regain lift for the airplane to exit the stall. However, the aircraft was too low to recover from the stall. Shortly thereafter, the ground proximity warning system sounded an alarm, warning the crew about the aircraft's imminent crash with the ocean.
>The flip side of all that energy and intelligence - the sadness, melancholia and loss of self during a down phase.

On that other side, the positive side, is there a self?

>Another feature about this guy is his low threshold of boredom. He'll pick up on a task and work frantically at it, accomplishing wonders in a short time and then get bored and drop it before its properly finished.

Working frantically at a task doesn't sound like self-realization.
I didn't take notes when reading Meditations.

I tried a programme of taking notes every time I read a "serious" nonfiction book a few years ago and for me it sucked all the joy out of it.

Even when reading programming books I tend not to take notes – though I'll do practical exercises so that the skills stick.
The Telegraphs's nickname is 'The Tory-graph' as in the British right-wing conservative (aka Tory) party.

Nonetheless, it used to be a quality journal, despite it's clear bias.

These days maybe not so much.
Most teenagers are at least somewhat competent from the very beginning. The rest of the time is spent becoming confident.
This looks like a really cool idea. A question though: who holds the rights to the created audio? The user, or Wondercraft?
Oh fuck off. How is Mozilla supposed to build a browser that outcompetes two companies that literally build all in one corporate environments? Firefox could literally provide regular oral sex to the CEO and still be less attractive to businesses than whatever shlock microsoft has bought and re-sold.
> I replied that no authority does not mean that there is no "more or less wrong or right".

I never said there isn't right or wrong, only that what is correct is determined by broad usage.

> It is a .com :) , what did you expect?

Actually, it's a .google

https://ai.google/discover/generativeai
It's good for workers and our hiring and I wouldn't give our distributed workforce here up for anything.
Nah, I’m done here. Have a great day!
Geniuses are Generative
That's partly because we're doing it using a brain evolved to hunt prey, track herds or understand seasons, not the subatomic world.

The way to deal with that is to use mathematics. Once you yield to its power and give up trying to "understand" particle physics, things are a lot simpler (for certain values of "simple" ofc!)
As someone who also had this dream, and recently sold my first small company and now have a solo SaaS I’ve grown to $4k MRR, I can kinda answer this.

The hardest part is the idea. But rather than sitting and thinking about it, I found the best way is to start a consulting business (PG talks about this in his essays)

We started with a recruiting business, which not only taught me sales and general business skills, but more importantly let me discover a problem I could solve in software (www.Dopplio.com if interested)

If I had to come up with more ideas, I would just run more “traditional” businesses like dropshipping or digital marketing and see what problems I encounter.
Yes in fact Mozilla has a document about this specifically: https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/MPL/2.0/combining-mpl-and-gpl/

> When someone combines a file or files licensed under the Mozilla Public License, version 2.0 ("MPL") with a project licensed under the GNU General Public License or Lesser General Public Licenses ("(L)GPL"), the MPL's Section 3.3 allows distribution of the combined work (the "Larger Work") subject to the terms of both licenses, as long as certain conditions are met.
But “regular old apps” don’t do all the same things.

The whole point of properly developing web apps is that html/css indicates a certain level of semantic understanding which allows for different interpretation in different contexts.

If you build a web app well, you build it to be a good experience on a computer for a power user with a huge screen and a keyboard for shortcuts, good for a user on a tiny touch screen, good for a blind person who doesn’t use a screen, and good for robots to parse and index. It should even be good for someone on an iPad with a mouse or a pencil which interprets the whole concept of the mouse differently from the desktop user’s mouse.

The agreed-upon semantics of HTML and the separation of visual styling into CSS is what allows you to take a step beyond just building an app and add a layer of “say what you mean” such that human and non-human users can re-interpret it into their own devices, use cases, and specific needs.

Web frontends are at their best when you don’t expect to perfectly control the end user experience, but try to convey the semantic meaning as perfectly as you can so it can be interpreted into good experiences even in situations where the display is wildly different than originally intended.
You aren't assuming existence (math is abstract, none of it relies on things existing), you are assuming certain definitions of vector spaces, etc.
sometimes branchless code also stops timing side channel attacks, but it's not enough by itself
For me the post pandemic inflation has taken a much bigger toll. All the essentials cost too much and there’s not enough left to spoil my family or myself with. Makes working my crappy pointless job even more depressing.
This is some HW NSFW!! Wow!

I’m in a very similar situation when it comes connections, FW and needs. I’m about to get a backup line for internet and it’s between Verizon (just like you) or Spectrum (same price, 500mbit down).
What was your reason for VZW? Was ATT your only wired option?
It's a comically bad look. But screw Zoom. I've never been a fan of Zoom or Slack, yet somehow they came out on top of the pile of video/chat message platforms.
Multiple layers of metal and a 2006 date make reverse engineering this die more of a challenge then I want.