skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
First electronic devices + headphones provide significant isolation from what’s going on. I’ve seen people miss fire alarms in an office environment. So it’s possible for someone to actually miss an evacuation not just fail to respond for fractions of a second.

> It took well over 10 seconds for the plane to even finish its landing roll-out post-collision and come to a stop.

Panic and confusion can last considerably longer than 10 seconds. Having even a little head start to process the situation is meaningful well past the initial event.

> taking the brace position is something you do with forewarning and instruction from the crew, and the circumstances that lead to that forewarning are very capable of capturing attention.

Most emergencies aren’t preceded by anything particularly attention grabbing. Someone engrossed with a device can easily miss what’s going on long enough to cause issues.

> Staring very hard at the seat in front of you or out of the window "in case something happens" is not paying attention to anything but your own anxiety. You can be prepared and be ready for alerts without literally sitting and doing nothing; the human brain may not be capable of a lot of things, but it is very capable of that much.

Not all tasks are equally distracting. A kid eating a candy bar is more capable of processing what’s going on than that same kid engrossed in a game trying to ignore all outside stimuli while aiming for a high score.
No distraction? Do you need sub 500ms response time? I'm pretty sure that even someone watching a movie with noise canceling earphones was aware of an issue just because of physics…
> Mercedes just released a level 3 car.

Which only activates on roads mapped extensively by Mercedes.
with what... a stack overflow error?

(pun... just in case anyone didn't get it)
Well, I can say why I don't expect coverage of this. As far as I know, mobile OSes already allow the user to navigate to whatever web page they want. There's nothing to unblock.
Because they want to make sure Microsoft/X gets the priority, so they can pretend we have an "open market" ;)
I was just told today that my team is being cut in half soon. No idea if that's going to include me too.

As far as I've been told, the funding for most startups is gone right now.
Looking in from a European perspective, the congressional hearing blew my mind in several ways.

Calling for the genocide of a demographic is permissible?

When such a thing happens, it's "bullying"? Bullying!? Are you kidding me? Imagine being the target demographic, attending school every day. A mob is outside calling for your death and everybody like you. I would not experience that as a case of "hurt feelings", I'd be terrified. Fearing for my life.

By comparison, this type of speech likely lands you in jail in many countries.

And the inconsistency. These universities are well known for being supremely protective of their favorite minorities. Less favorite minorities though can be threatened to be eradicated just fine? It's an open admission that identity politics is very real.
While you’re correct that GNSS is not 100% accurate (like everything in the physical world, it comes with error bars), I think the point stands that the error is unrelated to the movement of continents.

Ultimately GNSS is just measuring your position relative to some celestial objects using the time it takes for signals to propagate space (and some other info: their ephemerides, and a shared-ish clock). The fact that land exists, and where it exists, are not relevant

Your error corrections might be thrown off when the base station moves, but that’s not an issue of GNSS that’s an issue of RTK
Likely as an extension eventually. I know RDS has a variety of postgres extensions you can use. Pg_vector is supported, so likely lantern could get support as well.

[1] https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonRDS/latest/UserGuide/Postg...
In case you were wondering what N was, their first experiment involved 16 undergrads psych students and the second experiment involved 12.

https://link.springer.com/article/10.3758/BF03206939

Edit: I believe this linked survey is not the subject of the OP.
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There's no technical reason this needs to be true though.

It's wild that I can use a full-featured spreadsheet instantly on the web on my laptop, but on my phone someone wants me to download a 100mb binary to order a pizza.
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> This, in turn, will enable competitors to replace app stores with directories of Progressive Web Apps.

> Work is also underway to give competing browsers a chance to facilitate PWAs that can install other PWAs. Web App Stores would then become a real possibility through browsers that support them, and we should expect that regulatory and legislative interventions will facilitate this in the near future. Removed from the need to police security (browsers have that covered) and handle distribution (websites update themselves), PWA app stores like store.app can become honest-to-goodness app management surfaces that can safely facilitate discovery and sync.

It's ironic that this article criticises tech media for sleeping on web apps and focusing on app store competition only to envision Web App Stores.

There's no need for app stores on the web. We already have discovery (Hacker News) and search (Google). I could imagine a subreddit specifically for web apps, but is even that necessary?
> It may be for consumption only by the app, to avoid the need for polling a remote server.

I don't want this to happen, either. Does disabling push notifications also disable this use of them?
Only if you work at a company that values their developers, and sees the value in improving the software. Some companies will say "good enough" and concentrate on other things, like new features, rather than performance or security issues. I'm not saying that's right, just how businesses see development.
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This site about glue comes to mind: https://www.thistothat.com/
This is a very strange question, since one will not have bearing on the other. Django wont impact Tailwind
I've always assumed it was by design, because you can't use ad blockers or privacy addons in an app.
>I would advise the opposite: "Is this needed? really needed? nerd out on why it's needed."

In almost every company I've seen "Is this needed" is always followed up by some c-level saying "Of course it fucking is, we've sold the product for $X million to $Y company and now we need that feature working"

HN has a fair number of commenters that live in a dream world where they get to implement the features they choose, but for the vast majority of programmers it's going to be the features sales chose.
Maybe a few things changed since 2012.
What AI jobs?
Two different mobile oss tried exactly this and they both failed. Three if you count webOS from palm.
Not to mention the fact that when it encounters a situation never seen before it just "freezes" - happened a few times and caused traffic jams.

What I give these cars is their ability to react "instantaneously" to emergency situations like automated emergency braking when there is an obstacle in the front of the car or the car in front suddenly brakes.
Tax laws as well as other laws, need to have a requirement to be rewritten from scratch and re-approved every 10 years or so, such that no law or regulation is complex enough that an elected official can't describe it in full before voting on it.
> This was an actual debate in the early days of app stores. Facebook was the most prominent company that decided to go with an HTML5 app instead of a native one. Doing so was one of the biggest strategic mistakes they've ever made.

That was over a decade ago. Back then, Youtube was still using Flash (the HTML5 beta was only around a year old), JavaScript engines were way slower, Chrome was still using WebKit... HTML5 today is not what it was in 2011.

Even putting aside the fact that the web was "slower" in part because of the decisions mentioned in the article that are intended to encourage native app design, it's not a foregone conclusion that the same is true today.
>The pressure to stay alive eliminated the genes needed for long life. Citing reptiles and other animals with a much slower biological aging process than mammals, de Magalhães hypothesizes that during the Mesozoic Era, mammals either lost or deactivated genes associated with long life.

I can accept a hypothesis which surmises that in a cut-throat dinosaur era, small mammals which mature quickly enough to reproduce could be selected for as mammals which needed longer maturity times might never get to reproduce. However, this also implies there were longer living mammals which were selected against as the answer, rather than there being biological differences cold-blooded animals and warm blooded animals that might also affect longevity. Warm blooded metabolism is faster than cold blooded and also more complicated.

How much of this proposed effect is just due to how different cold vs warm blooded biology is?
Regime Change Comes to Harvard
Or dead because Trump cut off their welfare.
Public Libraries Reveal the Most Borrowed Books from 2023
An elevator is many orders of magnitude less complex than an airport, though.

Total automation can be done quite safely in some domains. Between that and a completely manual/human-operated system lies the area of augmentation, which can both be a boon to safety if done correctly, or deadly if it leads to automation complacency or false expectations around the types of situations it can successfully handle.
I love the low level .NET stuff Michael Strehovsky makes. Microsoft has built a feature-rich and easy-to-use environment, but it makes .NET developers think there is only one way to use it: create csproj and call dotnet build.

But underneath the covers, there is an extremely powerful compiler (Roslyn) and build-system (msbuild). Combine that with the flexibility of C# and you can develop pretty much anything.
The state of the art 12 years ago and the state of the art today are generally quite different things.
Thanks!

> What's the minimum compiler you target?

I didn't defined any (yet), but shouldn't be too hard to add to the CI.

> Any big long term plans?

First preventing it from dying and getting removed from distros. Then it depends of how much free time I can dedicate to it, but at least maintaining it.

> Fuzzing?

I would say first adding some of the other browser tests suites. That should catch a lot of rendering issues. But yeah, fuzzing would be interesting, specially for the custom HTML and CSS parsers.

> Moving to 'modern' build system like CMake?

Yes, I had to modify the configure.ac and that was very painful, specially targeting a lot of platforms. It is also broken for cross compilation. I have to check also how is the support for cmake in other systems, so we can safely remove Automake and friends. But I didn't want to introduce any big changes before 3.1 is released.
Harvard President Gay resigns after rocky testimony, plagiarism allegations
When most paragraphs and the whole post start with "I" it's a good indicator that this should be in your diary.

Nobody is forcing you to put baby pictures online. Nobody cares about other people's kids.
Mate, have you driven in Mumbai? Hell, even in Rome? SF is nothing.
You'd be surprised how often "US-only" includes Canada.
You are nitpicking at this point.

A runway may be clear when given the clearance to land. And that happens about 4NM from the RWY threshold. In the meantime a incursion might happen. Given low visibility you may not see it as you land a big airplane whose nose is a bit high up because of the flare. And even if you see it, it takes a few seconds for engines to spool up to full power in order to do a go-around.
Ammonia Airship Cooling: An Option for Renewable Cooling in the Tropics
Show HN: Hacker News Year in Review: 2023
Maybe if Apple didn't purposely deliver a slow, dated browser and force it to be the only one.

The cellphone duopoly is using their power to make sure the web cannot match native. That's how they make their gobs of money that hasn't been subject to real competition. They get a free rake off of the innovation of others.

If you allow web downloads of apps with no store and no scare wall, companies will develop better / native-level browsers. They'll happily chip away at Google and Apple.

With WASM, we have the tech. As soon as it goes multithreaded, it's game over for native apps. (So long as the DOJ clears the runway and forces these companies to allow fair competition and progress.)
The Dillo+ (Dillo-Plus) project has already added Gopher and Gemini support to their port (they don't use the word fork) of Dillo:

https://github.com/crossbowerbt/dillo-plus

https://github.com/crossbowerbt/dillo-plus#gopher-and-gemini...

Edit: Newline formatting. Edit 2: Wording (port not fork).
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Email was solidly established on the internet before email spam existed.

The emergence and frowth of spam has greatly reduced how much people use email, though. It appears that spam is well on its way to effectively killing it.

Marketers do seem to eventually kill anything they touch.
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Viet nam entered the room. A huge robusta coffee economy who value single origin robusta as well as the slightly odd egg coffee.

I'm still waiting for my black helicopter with attentive babe moment (if you know Vietnamese instant coffee brands you'll know)
I’ve long assumed something like this existed in a corporate lab but hadn’t been made public (or, ahem, “open”).

It’s an obvious move as open source models get bigger, really happy to see this out in the world - especially with a HF author attached.
> offers acceptable performance for most users

Most users accept it because they have no better choice. If an app is terribly slow but a lot of online communities and friends use it, what are they gonna do, just not interact with others? You want to play recent Nintendo games but don't want to regularly replace the controllers due to an unfixed issue that affects roughly 50 million people and has a perfectly working solution for over 20 years? Too bad. But I guess Nintendo calls it acceptable for most users because it's not quite bad enough that people stop using a product they paid for.
In companies, software exists to serve business and customer needs, not the other way around. SWEs are typically shielded from the business side so many don't understand this and treat it like an art form, which it can be, but that is not its primary purpose. If Electron didn't work, people wouldn't use it. If it takes 2x as long to make native apps while your competitors use Electron, they will supplant you.
Can't edit anymore so.

I guess I should also add with the new year (happy new years everyone) I'm actually looking for good projects. Ideally a time-boxed with an output that can actually affect the business. That shouldn't need to be said, but too often does.

Feel free to contact me and we can work something out.
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Crazy enough, that strategy really works! Barely got to 1000 by eating ghosts and easily to 5000 using your strategy.

I'd say there is even a (very slight) disadvantage to killing the ghost: As long as it's on screen (and preferably slowed down) you know where it is. Once you kill it, you don't know exactly when and where it will reappear.

Interestingly, the points you get for a kill are NOT tied to how many ghosts you've killed before. They only depend on the speed of the ghost, which in turn depends on your overall score.

So I think one addition to the strategy would be to try to keep the ghosts alive as long as practical early on, then start hunting them when you have, say, 1500+ points and kills can actually give a significant bonus.
This is already supported via plugins, check:

https://git.scuttlebot.io/%25n7g%2BJlKZjPV6CRfSQL5YUWk%2BxYg...
https://github.com/boomlinde/gemini.filter.dpi
https://celehner.com/projects.html#dillo-plugins
Most people don’t read the safety card or pay attention to the safety briefing either.
They made stimuli to be either cat-like or sheep-like, for instance, and asked them to pick the more cat-like. It wasn’t between cat and nothing.
You might take some inspiration (or some code) from https://github.com/htrefil/rkvm

I've used it and it works pretty well, is written in rust, and it has one big advantage - by emulating the keyboard and mouse at the linux evdev layer it avoids touching any of the desktop-specific apis. (It also has encryption, though over TCP so has issues with managing connections. I think your choice of UDP was a good one)
<non-cryptanalyst blather>It seems to me that in all but the most resource constrained systems any novel implementation of hashing for source file validation should be multi-algorithm by default, since typical processing overheads are minimal and IO is already paid for. (IO could/should be pseudorandom and non-linear, FWIW). Encryption however can be more complex and expensive and there could potentially be more risk of recombinant side channels.</non-cryptanalyst blather>
These days they will ask you to download 100MB of JS, CSS, HTML and assets to order the same pizza.
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> Excellent evacuation job

This couldn't be further from the truth.

From what I've read, this was handled terribly. There was confusion and no evacuation was ordered by the crew over the PA. The passengers managed it themselves. If it were a crew-directed evacuation they would have blocked the door leading to the still-running engine as you pointed out.

It took the firefighters over six minutes to respond to the site of the burning aircraft. In the US and Europe this would be unheard of, the fire brigade would be rolling as soon as the aircraft hit the ground.

The only reason hundreds of people are not dead is directly attributable to the Japanese being an overly polite and orderly culture.

If this were China or elsewhere in Asia there would be hundreds of people dead right now, trampled over in the chaos, while the remaining hundred or so survivors would be exiting with their roll-aboard bags in tow.
agree, this is a nice example of generating synthetic data, and I believe that the synthetic data is helpful for generating useful embeddings for RAG, but not including an ablation with fine-tuned E5 or another commonly used embedding model (to control for the 'bigger model wins' effect) is a glaring omission. this paper shares many authors with the E5 paper, why did they not compare on a fair basis?
Apple used to not allow ads in push notifications when the iPhone was first released. Sadly, that restriction was removed in 2020:

https://www.theverge.com/2020/3/4/21165087/ios-apple-push-no...
I didn’t get laid off, and my startup managed to raise more money during the height of the layoffs. However im starting to look for a new job and the market is definitely not what it was in January 2022 when I last looked for an engineering gig (and found one in less than a week.)
Additionally, it's not like Big Tech is somehow preventing PWApp Stores from being a thing. They're already a thing. https://store.app/
"My highly abstract cross-platform framework must be as fast as native code" is not a sane view on this.

A tonne of effort has gone into making spreadsheets work on the web; both in the browsers as well as the spreadsheet apps themselves.

The fact that the web works as well as it does is a huge feat of engineering, but in no way indicative of there being no technical reason that native apps can be better.
Patches to Tackle Vmap/Vmalloc Lock Contention That Can Yield ~12x Throughput
Bad leadership + weak board = lost decade.