skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I see a huge problem here with "Everybody Knows", even among the people who sound like air transport professionals.

Lufthansa Requirement: Instrument landing

SFO Preference: Visual landing

Reason for Lufthansa requirement: IFR/ILS is safer than visual

Reason for SFO preference: Visual allows more planes with lower separation, leading to better throughput.

More context: Lufthansa would be using their instruments anyway, without declaring instrument flight rules landing. Declaring ILS in some generic sense is "safer", but specifically it means that the controllers cannot clear them to land in a degraded ILS environment, where perhaps some beacons are offline.

The SFO preference is not just something that the airport or the controller decided - it's also good for the airlines and the flying public. More planes land faster. The planes took off with the expectation that they would be able to land at a certain rate; otherwise they wouldn't schedule them to arrive so frequently.

The problem with "Everybody Knows" is that you really don't. The controller may assume that Lufthansa means "hey are all the beacons on?" when they say "IFR landing". Lufthansa may assume that IFR clearance means that the ILS equipment is operational, but that they can still fit into the VFR sequence.

In this case, those assumptions probably would have worked out Ok. But if "Everybody Knows" is part of your work culture and you work on life critical systems, than someone will eventually die, as you can see from the history of investigations into air transport incidents.

If you feel like someone is saying or implying "Everybody Knows" in a safety critical or life critical system, that is bad culture. Start documenting.
"The same level of scrutiny" doesn't imply the same agency doing it.

Stronger federal and state privacy laws are probably needed to curb the current abuses.
Does any cache imply invariance, which DbC like icontract can be used to check for really only within one program execution?
Please do not link to stories claiming gerrymandering without showing maps. Whatever map is the closest to a bunch of little squares is the fairest.

https://duckduckgo.com/?q=map+of+texas+state+congressional+d...

Compare that to other states:
https://duckduckgo.com/?q=map+of+new+york+state+congressiona...

https://duckduckgo.com/?q=map+of+newcalifornia+state+congres...
Every step updates shared databases (frequently plural). In the case of the fulfillment step, the following systems+databases were involved: ERP, WMS, Shipping.

Typically, in end to end testing, tests are run within the same shared QA system and are semi-isolated based on choice of specific data (e.g. customers, products, orders, vendors, etc.). If this test causes a different test to fail, or vice-versa, then you have found a bug.

If we call that entire sequence of steps a "unit" test, would you start with testing the entire sequence of steps, or would you recommend testing the individual steps first?

And if we did test the individual steps first, we would give that testing a different name? Like maybe "sub-unit" testing?
To my surprise I just faced a similar problem on Windows when I was implementing additional user-based isolation for my p2p cloud gaming service (the main one is VM boundary).

Apparently when you create a process as another user on Windows by default the new process inherits parent's environment variables even though they belong to different users. That includes user-specific paths such as $TMP or $APPDATA. So most programs immediately fail because they try to write to the temp directory of parent's user.

Solved this with a combination of LoadUserProfile and GetEnvironmentBlock.
'Molecular jackhammers' can rupture melanoma cells' membrane, study shows
not exactly, the court found that

1. The constitution grants broad authority to states on how to run their elections. This include voter qualifications, how the process is performed, and if candidates qualify. This is the same right granted to states that allowed for the rapid change to mass mail-in ballots during the pandemic and requiring ids for voting. Both parties rely on this state level authority for arguing for and against eligible voter agendas.

2. When you look at the language in the 14th, you find very similar language in several other amendments. They found that by and large, 14.3 is self-executing despite 14.5. To rule the opposite would have undone a ton of precedent and created chaos in the larger legal system. That being said, Congress can vote, with a 2/3 majority, to over turn a disqualification. They cannot however adjugate how a state determines qualifications, minus a few federal rules like age and being a citizen.

On the finding that Trump had engaged in insurrection, the lower court found there was ample evidence in Trump's public statements (tweets & speeches) to say he engaged in insurrection. The CO SC confirmed this finding. Team Trump argued there was no due process, thus it is unfair to reach this conclusion, they do not dispute the facts, just the inference. The petitioning side argued that this is a judicial review of an elected official in doing their job, thus a jury trial and all that is not required.

I think one way to make an analogy here is to consider OJ Simpson, who was found not-guilty in a criminal case (trump's criminal case is ongoing) while he was found civilly liable and lost all his money (trump is disqualified)
As someone who has been playing a few times a week for a year and stuck at 350 ELO, this was written for me.
AR Prototypes: Realtime Fluid and Smoke
Doesn't it take, like, 100 lines of code to call a kernel in OpenCL? Compared to Nvidia's 1?

Developer friction is huge. Don't discount the amount of boilerplate it takes to get started with something.
Pizza rat was still fairly niche. From my personal memories, the "global unified virality" peaked with Ice Bucket Challenge, Gangnam Style and maybe Harlem Shake. I have a feeling as recommendation algorithms became more prominent, it started to silo every "trend" rather than showing "most viewed things" to the people.
The current Canadian government can’t seem to screw up the Internet fast enough for Canadians.

Between this law, Bill C-11, and Bill S-210 they have gotten off to a pretty good start.

But who’s going to save the our precious “Canadian culture” if JT doesn’t come to the rescue?!
I said «malware on Android can generally do a lot less damage than on other systems» !

Since online banking is available on all systems, however bad a compromise of it might be it would be just as bad on smartphones than on the other systems, no..?

And by the way installing a banking app is (generally) a voluntary choice.

There's no need for banking apps to exist, and for that existence to dictate that smartphones need to dumbed down so much and have all these limits.
It's embarrassing that the issue was the accuracy of the intrusive, privacy-invading technology.
>That's what happened. It's the election of Donald Trump all over again. One of the few people who actually understood what happened in the 2016 election - and was able to articulate it - was a guy who I actually cannot stand politically, but who happened to be 100% right - Thaddeus Russell. That election was about the common people finally getting one over on the elites, and the elites freaked the fuck out about it.

Some people get it. From before the 2016 election:

<http://www.vox.com/2016/4/21/11451378/smug-american-liberali...>

<http://www.cracked.com/blog/6-reasons-trumps-rise-that-no-on...> (so, so prophetic in why the Rust Belt broke for Trump)

and after:

<http://www.cbsnews.com/news/commentary-the-unbearable-smugne...>

The New York Times pointed out after Trump's election stunned the press that <http://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/09/business/media/media-trump...>

>Whatever the election result, you’re going to hear a lot from news executives about how they need to send their reporters out into the heart of the country, to better understand its citizenry.

>But that will miss something fundamental. Flyover country isn’t a place, it’s a state of mind — it’s in parts of Long Island and Queens, much of Staten Island, certain neighborhoods of Miami or even Chicago. And, yes, it largely — but hardly exclusively — pertains to working-class white people.

In other words, it isn't just a question of The New York Times (and the TV networks, and pretty much all of the rest of mass media) completely ignoring the rubes out in rural Michigan and Pennsylvania and Wisconsin (which all, strangely enough, unexpectedly voted for Trump), but their ignoring the residents of their own city, just across one bridge.
> Is your concern that they're recording people in the store?

Recording via CCTV for security purposes is not the same as using facial recognition technology. Facial recognition technology produces data which may or may not be shared/sold to unknown (to me) third parties.
No ILS is not an ATC rule, it's simply a way to get more flights to land (increasing airline/airport profits) and putting responsibility on the pilot (not ATC). Lufthansa has the policy exactly so that pilots do not get bullied into taking a visual approach, by ATC.
Now that I'm thinking about it: we've been doing the chat bot thing for a few years now and outside of first-line SRE triage, I still can't think of a good example of a customer-facing one.
5 years is a long time in tech, it’s like 20, 20 years back
I think it's a matter of setting expectations appropriately. LLMs aren't chatbots by default, they're text prediction engines. Depending on the use case, the instruct-tuned models can be quite a bit more difficult to use.
Isn't setuid just another way to send a command to a process already running as root?
We don't test software systems in production either. Except we do.

We should be testing in non-production environments, but non-prod is not the same as production, so it is inevitable that you will be testing a system change when you deploy to prod. If your non-prod environment is similar enough that there are NO system changes when you deploy to prod ... then your non-prod env is actually prod, because that would mean that your non-prod network routing, auth, and database are the same as prod, because changing any one of those would be a system change.
> https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dead_Internet_theory

I find it distasteful that this article frames it as a fringe (conspiracy) theory of the present, rather than simply a theory of the future.

Is the Internet dead now? I mean no, that's pretty fringe.

Will it become so in the future? It's a very reasonable and thought-provoking hypothesis.

IMO the article should be reframed to take this into account, or a new term should be coined.
Because they were not using ILS.
I am not even arguing with you, just pointing out how Perplexity came to the conclusion. Your initial claim was something along the line of “ideological bias is bolted onto the LLM”, which I tried to disprove by showing that Perplexity is paraphrasing the top Google search link. Yes, that link may have bias, but that’s separate from Perplexity’s own biases.
You're the one on the verge of swearing to be fair. He pointed out your misunderstanding of the purpose of a telescope (to see things we need to see, rather than things we can see with eyes adapted to the heavy brightness of Earth) and that your complaint was unfair since you can always just build it yourself if you like to look at yellow featureless balls in the Earth-adapted light spectrum you enjoy.

No need to call him an "ass" over it, just apologize politely :)
Does ATC know your flight plan? My recollection from the Channel 9 days was that pilots requested whatever landing clearance they wanted when they pinged the appropriate ATC, but I’m neither a pilot nor ATC, so don’t know if there were processes I wasn’t seeing.
> The people you - whoever you is reading this - just don't post there any longer because Elon took away their toys and they can't stand it.

Not quite. I used to get work through Twitter until Elon made it so you need a subscription to DM people. I used to get about one DM per week, but I haven't had any for about 3 months.
I find wading into constitutional law pretty interesting, and we ought to be informed citizens if we want our democracy to thrive

If we can talk about the case (it's a big one with big implications for the US), on merit and about the arguments being made, so that we might better understand how our country works, that seems like a valid topic to discuss within the HN community.
For the average person, the text completion mode is very unintuitive. Even my friend, who's a very experienced developer, had issues with the non-instruct model, even after I told him he needs to structure his queries as completions.
It cracks me up that in every article about HDR support coming to some application, the pictures are inevitably SDR JPGs.

It's just sad that we're days from 2024 and it's still impossible to create a web page with HDR photos in it that'll actually display correctly on... anything really.
> used in its best interest

I get the feeling that someday in the future, we're going to tell our grandkids how we used to go to the bathroom and water grass using clean, drinkable water and have them look at us funny.

I don't think the best interest of the public are important, water like every other resource on this planet should be used in the best interest of future generations.
You don't need to implement every nut and bolt in the application. Lot's of useful things can do the heavy lifting (Pipewire, ffmpeg, libplacebo, Mesa and so on). Linux isn't after calling it all using some uniform "DirectFoo" naming scheme, but tools are there.

Comparison is also invalid. Linux as a whole (not the kernel but OS experience) isn't controlled by some Big Brother who decides what and how it's done single mindedly. So such kind of composite result is somewhat expected.
There have been many occasions where I've been somewhere I know for a fact I haven't been before but can vividly "remember" being there, just as a still frame of what I was looking at in that moment.
It's popular among people who enjoy worse tooling and performance to put .NET in that weird box where "things I hate or don't understand about programming" belong as a scapegoat.

It's a stack they keep asking for and keep missing right under their nose. So the way FOSDEM presentations look like is not surprising. Sure, why do that when we can instead talk about Gleam which is a very good language if you really like how bitcoin mining was friendly to our ecology.
My favorite example of the lie-concealed-within-the-lie is the ‘Half-Life Alyx Bottles’ thing.

Like, watch this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9XWxsJKpYYI

This is a whole story about how the liquids in the bottles ‘isn’t really there’ and how it’s not a ‘real physics simulation’ - all just completely ignoring that none of this is real.

There is a sense in which the bottles in half-life Alyx are ‘fake’ - that they sort of have a magic painting on the outside of them that makes them look like they’re full of liquid and that they’re transparent. But there’s also a sense in which the bottles are real and the world outside them is fake. And another sense in which it’s all just tricks to decide what pixels should be what color 90 times a second.
>There are TONS of live streaming services to choose from, this one is meant to be for gaming.

Those ones have more competition, or less potential viewership, or a worse feature base than Twitch does. It's like saying "Yeah totally don't worry, just move from YouTube to Rumble! It's the exact same!"
Therefore people shouldn’t be allowed to install software on computers they bought.
People wear jeans like yours to do bad things and people will suffer for it.

People are worried that maybe your jeans are dangerous and should be regulated.
I guess the controller shouldn’t make recommendations but give choices. If the controller is saying “you must divert” they are give advice based on a very short conversation. Whereas the pilot has all the information.

HN understands this concept well. Look at any advice asking thread. People don’t tell the asker what to do.
Now, with the voice to speech button, it’s quite easy to get length. Substance is still tricky though.
bowing, or deferring, perhaps the US saved a bunch of money on legal fees

everyone pretty much thought it wasn't going to be allowed anyway based on the initial rulings. Adobe and Figma spent a year trying to find concessions to satisfy regulators and didn't, thus they gave up
Yeah, but, like, teeeeeeechnically, isn't there a "public" in "future generations"?
Can someone explain why a public university is giving money to Sam Altman rather than the other way around?

Or is this the primary/hedge-fund part of the university rather than the professional sports organization or the vestigial academic departments?
This is probably only suitable for write-once PC media as the timing would be quite tight for reliably modifying individual sectors in place.
Tell HN: Reddit is blocking access from AWS IP addresses
Trying to access reddit.com from an AWS device results in a 403 response, with a page displaying the following message:

whoa there, pardner! Your request has been blocked due to a network policy. Try logging in or creating an account https://www.reddit.com/login/ to get back to browsing. If you're running a script or application, please register or sign in with your developer credentials https://www.reddit.com/wiki/api/. Additionally make sure your User-Agent is not empty and is something unique and descriptive and try again. if you're supplying an alternate User-Agent string, try changing back to default as that can sometimes result in a block. You can read Reddit's Terms of Service https://www.reddit.com/wiki/api/. if you think that we've incorrectly blocked you or you would like to discuss easier ways to get the data you want, please file a ticket https://support.reddithelp.com/hc/en-us/requests/new. when contacting us, please include your ip address which is: <redacted> and reddit account

This occurs when using a browser with the default UA via remote desktop to an EC2, not just using cli tools like curl
> > So this controller, knowing the plane was near a fuel emergency, gave the pilots the option to either crash their plane with 240 people on board, or to divert to Oakland.

> Oh please. Fuel emergency is not when the plane falls out of the sky. It is calculated as when the airplane has just enough fuel to go to the alternate airport plus multiple landing attempts there plus navigational reserve in case you get lost on the way there. The plane was not there, but just thinking about maybe being there soon. You know what you do when your primary airport is unable to land (for any reason) you are approaching the fuel emergency line? You head to your alternate, that is what it is for.

Well the point was that based on the time estimates that ATC gave the pilots assumed they would be well on the ground before they get close to the fuel emergency line. The pilot could have just been a dick and waited for his slot and until he has to declare emergency (which would have caused lots of trouble for at), instead he asked.

> You know what crashes airplanes and kills people? It is not airplanes flying to their alternate. It is plan continuation bias, or in laymen terms “get-there-itis”. It is when pilots want to reach their destination so much that they make poor decisions. Such as for example delaying leaving for their alternate until it is too late.

You know what also crashes airplanes, ATC, airports and airlines prioritising profits over safety (like it was the case here).
I didn't say that all technology is beneficial. I think smart phones have been a disaster for society overall. They have brought a lot of productivity gains but has been a double edged sword.

Same for the internet too. Lots of benefits but now all the nut jobs can congregate and share conspiracy theories and the youth is exposed to a lot of insane stuff a much younger age.

I mean stuff that guys from the 50's never saw in all their life. So yeah technology can definitely be bad. But as far as productivity gains you can't stop it and the freight train is coming. It will bring a higher quality of life in practical terms but who knows what it does to society.
Agree and you have a very reasonable comment, and I’m not sure why others don’t agree.

Just one possible correction: the AirBnB guys were about 4 years later than the 1st batch. I don’t think any of them were in the 1st batch with a different startup like the Twitch crew.
You can't be serious. That's where people park their cars and put their lawnmowers, snowblowers, etc. Good luck getting a garage OKd to sell food by the health department. Not to mention literally no one is going to buy pizza out of someone's garage.

Where are you from that you think this is feasible?
Isn't this getting you to https://xkcd.com/1200/ ? Like, yeah you've protected root access - and it's a neat and probably effective solution - but if an attacker is in a position to rewrite package manager commands then I have to assume that it's already game over for anything important on your laptop
Do you have the money, connections, trust to hire someone to delegate 90% of the work you’re doing on your startup?
Please share some more information on this. I would like to know.
Some other git-in-python projects include Dulwich [1], gittle [2], wyag [3], pygit [4], and zit [5]

1. https://www.samba.org/~jelmer/dulwich/docs/

2. https://github.com/FriendCode/gittle

3. https://wyag.thb.lt/

4. https://benhoyt.com/writings/pygit/

5. https://github.com/jmou/zit

I'm not listing these to criticize the poster's project. It is interesting to compare these projects. git-like programs form a whole category which provides opportunities to experiment with design ideas and programming style.

In this same spirit, there are also several (many?) vi-in-python projects.
Some more details:

I am permanently traumatized by many sounds, including tires crunching on pavement, vehicles passing by, loud boom boom music from trucks, and the presence of cell phone cameras in public.

I am also traumatized by any presence of strangers when my bicycle has broken down, and due to T and H, I cannot be in quiet areas. I was diagnosed with a physical disability but couldnt follow thru on appointments for an untreatable condition while homeless.

I have persistent suicidal ideation. The stress has become enormous lately and today has been absolutely awful. I am shaking and angry, and become particularly stressed during rainfall.

I am outside of a closed starbucks attempting a hack repair on my bicycle brake, awaiting a time to commute without rain.

The long term effects of homelessless have taken a tremendous toll on my mental health and has put me in a state of constant stress and anxiety. I have deteriorated mentally over the years, especially lately. I wouldn't wish this on anyone.

I do not want any help.

Aloha.
I like the idea in theory. Even in the presence of SELinux and on UNIXes as far back as SunOS, I've always felt uncomfortable with setgid and setsid binaries and would like to mount all the things nosuid. Also, a general complaint is that sudo is far too configurable.

The danger though is being locked out on alternative init systems or those that can't run su because there's no root password or the root password is unavailable.
Opening up the NACS standard is nice too. They have a wall at the Deer Creek office full of patents underneath the next "all our patent are belong to you".