skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I agree with TFA, it's the ecosystem. You're not entirely wrong that free is a component, because impossibly draconian licensing terms means no ecosystem.

I still maintain that Python, when evaluated strictly on its merits as a programming language, is the most ass of the "scripting" bunch, but its ecosystem is such that it more than makes up for the difference and I always end up using it for side projects or personal stuff.
Like a tesla
Current LLMs can not summarize books even if they are in their training set. It is only possible if the training set also includes human summaries.
I use systemd-nspawn as a built-in alternative to LXC/LXD.
Someone pointed out that if you normalize from "fatalities per passenger mile" to "fatalities per trip" the airplanes don't look quite as good.
This post should be retitled to indicate that the author is referring primarily to "Amazon self published" ebook sector.

Authors today can't be invisible. They have to market their work, which they do by going on podcasts, giving media interviews, some kind of social media presence as well. This filters out most of the AI flotsam.
Fowler has a longer article on the topic of modernizing legacy systems that discussed this. I found it worth a read, even though it appears to be in flux:
https://martinfowler.com/articles/patterns-legacy-displaceme...
Yes, the main problem I've seen with focusing too much on length (of functions, files, or whatever else) is that people start spending tons of time rearranging the big messy drawer into n smaller messy drawers while totally avoiding the difficult work that needs to be done to actually organize the drawer(s).

All other things being equal, smaller functions and smaller files are a little bit better, but what really matters is architectural and conceptual complexity. Keeping those in check is all about using the right data structures (and doing painful refactors when you realize you've got the wrong ones). It has almost nothing to do with how files and functions are organized.
Allow me to illustrate the difference:

https://www.aclu.org/news/immigrants-rights/the-u-s-governme...

Targetting people to arrest and deport them, to use violence against them. That would be a practical example of government privacy violation.

I work at a telco, and they also do this for debt enforcement, locating not-up-to-date-on-payments cars, tracking down kids who ran to their parents from youth services is also done, ...

THAT is a real problem.

Suggesting it's time to buy a present for your wife because of upcoming wedding anniversary is targeted advertising.
That's my personal rule too. The problem is that those rules are only for Arabs. Israelis get a free pass here. This is the double standard.
If you’re public enough about it, other passengers who overhear might decide to join you. If that becomes even semi-regular and trends on social, that might be the most effective change agent.

Right now regulators are increasingly broken (under-resourcing, revolving doors, political pressure, etc), so grassroots refusals are potentially the only proactive pressure we can put on airlines to demand more from their vendors. Otherwise we’ll just have to wait for reaction after there are too many incidents to ignore.
In many cases a front end is just a view of some API call which can be much more than a db query. Some times it is the other way around where the the front end is just pulling data and all the business logic is done in the browser. So I guess it depends on your needs.
The complaint that too many books are being written and that most of them are useless nonsense is indeed as old as time -- or at least, as old as books.

Montaigne (1533-1592) famously said il y devroit avoir quelque coerction des loix contre les escrivains ineptes et inutiles ("there should be laws against stupid and useless writers").

This was about just a hundred years after the invention of the printing press.
What if what was recorded or photographed, you don't want your identity associated with it due to its contents - e.g. whistleblowing classified government/state documents exposing horrific crimes against humanity? If no digital signature then it's automatically fake?

It doesn't seem to matter at the moment though anyhow, the corrupt establishment so far seems to be a good enough job suppressing what they don't want out and maintaining control.
Loginctl/per-user systemds are for managing interactive sessions. System services with User= is exactly the way you'd go for isolating background daemons.
But South Korea was pursuing rational economic policies. Especially that Vietnam and China eventually turned to capitalism anyways, what was the point really of fighting a bloody civil war over communism and enduring decades of stagnation? If they had just worked with the US peacefully they could have achieved similar results way earlier.
> I sincerely believe that systemd solved a problem that nobody was willing to solve

What problem was there which nobody was willing to solve?

Also, "solving" a problem by creating a mechanism that in itself highly problematic in other ways does not necessarily count as a solution; it is a shifting-around of problems.

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The systemd "holy war", such as it is (mostly complaints on forums and in blog posts and in personal chats; don't remember any violence in this war) - is due to four reasons:

* The significant problems which systemd introduces.

* The way systemd has been developed and managed as project (including some grievances with individuals).

* The fact that distributions have not only adopted systemd, but made it effectively impossible to opt out of.

* Faults with the process in which systemd was adopted as a required default by all of the main distributions - bypassing wide opposition without addressing its criticism. So, the adoption of systemd exposed technical-governance/power-dynamics problems in the Linux distro world, with systemd serving as the symbol for those.
I have never had my car door fall off mid road trip though
There are no absolutes…in the extreme…

Really?

<shudder>
The slowness of Python meant that nobody thought "it'll be easier just to write this routine" as opposed to looking to re-use existing (most often compiled) code. And if you are doing science, the less time you spend re-inventing code, the more science you will get done.
Are those books from real publishers or from Amazon's Print on Demand service?
Wasn't the lower class overwhelmingly pro brexit? They are xenophobic.
Code location (+) provenance/authorship (+) data flow analysis for adjacent sensitive code.

I would add it to my review tools fwiw.
Don’t forget its two friends — the long-handled Torx and the screwdriver with the 10M resistor and the alligator clip, to bleed the charge out of the CRT.

Fun machines. I still have two SE/30s, including my upgraded SE from childhood!
This is the reality for me now. I have a charging station about a mile away, and another a couple miles away. But I’m still supposed to find an additional 1-2 hours per week to charge my vehicle?
Why does your sentence start with but as if that’s a bad thing?
> Linus said it was okay long ago

You and I have a very different understanding of the very long text at that link.
ignoring various questionable details here, the one main point is correct: Boeing and Airbus are strategic industrial assets of USA vs EU and have deep implications for strategic security for both US and EU and their clients. For example, servicing these machines provides access to sensitive infrastructure all over the planet to these two companies’ employees & “certified” 3rd party consultants. If you are sitting say in UAE, buying Boeing vs AirBus is a political decision as well as a practical decision.
You can't download an entire work, you can only view HTML pages of chapters. You can indeed read the texts online but the site seems designed to prevent downloading an entire text, try Project Gutenberg or the Internet Archive first if you want a local copy.

"Q: Why all the short files? I want to download the entire book in one file!
A: Sorry. The short files are for technical reasons which greatly reduce the cost of hosting the site. Newer books typically have a one-file text-only version, which is optimized for screen reader software. Look for the links on the index pages that say 'Text'"

There is no text file for the I-Ching on sacred-texts, if you want to download it here's the archive.org versions:

https://archive.org/details/I-Ching

Here's the James Legge translation of the Tao Tey King in one text file:

https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/216/pg216.txt
Yeah they really are. I would have paid Google $3 a month just for them to keep them online on the odd chance I want to read them. Shit Google, make a usenet service for me to subscribe to, it'll be the only thing you'll have with me giving you money.
Some are here: https://www.vice.com/en/article/m7b4nq/fired-comedian-ordere...
I was interning at Exxon when the Deepwater Horizon oil spill happened. The mood really changed as soon as BP threw a binding agent into the oil spill, coagulating the oil and sinking it below the surface (a recommendation that Exxon's upstream research arm was proud to have recommended).

I also lived near the Alabama gulf coast and had friends that lived on the coast. Those globs of oil washed up on shore for a long time, years if I'm not mistaken. I don't know if there was any good research done to see if the environmental impact was better or worse but it would be interesting to see how it would have compared.

The PR value was huge though. Its amazing how quickly the popular sentiment can chill out when the problem is no longer easily visible.
It's really nice (as a very long term user - and lover! - of Ableton) to hear that they're a great company as well as a company that makes great software. This makes me happy. Thanks for posting :-)
I have watched some of the previous tutorial, but I don't have enough "need to know" to continue at the moment.

The donut tutorial does appear to be quite a popular means of learning Blender though.
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If you can’t charge at home it’s an issue. Charging while running errands again will not work (what if you do almost everything online? amazon fresh, etc)

The only way this works is reducing 0-100 charge time to 5 mins.
Quoting the article makes it clear the author doesn't understand the problem space. "Just keep things as simple as possible" is not an architecture.

> For the front end – use whatever technology your front end developers prefer. Just keep things as simple as possible.
Does this have real-time positions, or only scheduled positions?

Personally I prefer TRAVIC, which has nearly 100% real-time coverage for Switzerland and also includes busses and trams:

https://travic.app/?z=9&x=921422.5&y=5949724.5
I could be wrong, but I think almost everything in those examples exists in news articles, although to be fair, those articles are often long-form, and some are sourced with reporting from the books you mention. I've never read a book on either subject, but I maybe presumptuously think myself well-informed. ;)

I do think, as time goes on, and things are declassified, we'll learn more about e.g., the Iraq War than we know now. To a point, things become clearer with distance, which often renders books written on contemporary subjects outdated. But a book published today could be a decent summary of events for people who didn't live through them, or were too young to pay attention at the time. Unfortunately, one recent why I don't pay them too much mind is that most of the genre is hopelessly partisan, one way or another, and I don't know that there are any really great historians to write something timeless. But either way, I would say the insights you can glean from those books are still readily available if you're watching events critically today. Not much has changed, and if it has, it was usually for the worst. Maybe the most interesting part for many people would be the reminder that many of the same people directly responsible for those disasters are still considered respectable people today and help drive policy. E.g., Bill Kristol didn't go into some kind of exile - he's still considered a very serious person and has a lot of influence and is out there shilling the same type of thinking in a different context.
This is true but, in general, I don't think it should be. One can moralize endlessly about war. Even in this thread you can see somebody arguing that the Vietnam war couldn't have been that bad because it was against communism, which he thinks should always be opposed. And one cannot say he's wrong - it's an opinion.

By contrast a trillion dollars is a trillion dollars. And I think almost nobody could argue, in good faith, that near to any war is worth a trillion dollars. That's more than $7,500 per household in the US. That sort of money, for some sort of vague geopolitical ambition, is just beyond absurd. And the thing is, even when we initially claim that this war or that will "only" cost some billions of dollars, they all go this way.

Iraq "according to every analyst" was supposed to cost about $80 billion and last 2 years. 4 years later, the Congressional Budget Office estimated its cost to be about $2.4 trillion. That value is also not adjusted for inflation. These wars all around the world are just such an unbelievably tremendous waste of money. They have this magic trick that even Houdini couldn't hold a candle to - they can take trillions of dollars and just make it all disappear, with absolutely nothing to show for it. Nobody could ever rationalize this into being a good thing.

[1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gulf_of_Tonkin_incident
From 2021?
By using long range missiles to knock out laser platforms before they can get close.
I'm so old that Fortran was actually my first language. Over the years I've seen language bindings to the old Fortran numerical libraries we all rely on but Python/numpy is the first wrapper I've actually enjoyed using. It's more than a wrapper in that it brings a compact representation of slices and vectors.

However, if I didn't know how things work underneath I'd be a little uneasy. You can always profile after the fact but it helps knowing how to avoid inefficient approaches.
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Airbus is so much better than Boeing as of late. New Boeing planes are junk.
With 10% less anal leakage!
Unlike the military, you can quit anytime from these companies.
So this is one of those linguistic paradoxes, where flammable means inflammable, and midwinter is the first day of winter rather than the middle?

Ugh... I hate vocabulary.
> optimize for profit

So where are the profits? Boeing hasn't made money since 2018 and I suspect their revenue per employee is very low.

They are "too big to fail", part of the ministry of defense, and a large make-work program.

> they consolidate into monopolies

Indeed there are about 3 aerospace companies setup to server the US government. It regulates everything from how paperwork is stored, to what tests candidate employees must pass, and which parts they can order.

In the commercial sector all of their customer's requirements come from the government.

> Airlines are less regulated today

In what ways?
What’s the rationale that TinyLlama release played a factor?
I’m confused by seeing talk of vectorisation next to example code full of for loops
Though comparing GPT4 and people taking the LSAT, GPT4 has a purpose - it was built to answer questions, whereas the people - I don't know. Also GPT beats 90% of the humans on the test. To say the humans are intelligent and GPT not seems a bit speciesist;)
In addition to all the comments, it’s way easier to see what “army life” looks like nowadays from videos. Sprinkle some real footage from recent wars, to see the worst case scenarios, I’m not sure how I can ever be convinced to be a part of it.
I should have been clearer; it's not just ebooks that are exempt, but anything without an ISBN. You can make a paper book with Amazon print-on-demand that doesn't have an ISBN, and then you don't need to send it to the dépôt-légal.

Many people argue this is bad and should be changed. But it's debatable.
As long as writing code is not an actual engineering profession with the associated authority and liability -- no, you're wrong. The code was not written by (certified) engineers, it was written by programmers. And programmers do not have the authority to refuse their manager's orders.
yes, at least 5.

sysvinit, s6, openrc, runit and Solaris SMF
Jesus. And that accidental cinematography what with the video showing the 787 Max safety flyer in the filmer's seat pouch..
Working together doesn't always mean doing the same work.

Sometimes different teams with very different jobs still share some meetings and ask each other for help.

Honestly, if I had to guess I'd guess the same work same team thing is happening, but I don't think there's clear evidence in any part of the report I've seen.

> coordinate training, management, and work assigned to lower level staff

I don't see anywhere this was brought up until right now? But you'll have to be more specific on "coordinate". I don't think I'm unreasonably stretching when I say you can coordinate management, many types of training, and giving work to people with connected but entirely different jobs. Or have them resolve problems together. Like a plumber and an electrician on the same building under construction, to throw out another example.
> They are also less productive when coding than the scientists because they care too much about the quality of their work and not enough about getting shit done.

You can't solve the first 3 issues without having people who care about software quality. People not caring about the quality of the software is what caused those initial 3 problems in the first place.
Funny. I came to the opposite conclusion. I kept https://everytimezone.com/ after trying parent and a few others in the thread.

For eyeball time picks to drive min inconvenience for a group, every tz (after customizing for my tz of choice) was just easier.

Glad to have variety in this annoying problem space; more tools hopefully mean less bad scheduling of things.
Well you can feel better knowing that planes are designed to have tear off strips so if a piece ever rips off it only tears to a maximum small area and shouldn’t keep tearing. At least that’s how Boeing designed it…
This seems bizarre, insofar as it seems predicated on the assumption of there being a pool of eligible candidates currently unknown to the navy.
For folks who want to feel better: this particular design feature (the unused plug exit) dates back to the 737-900 which has been around since 1997

For folks who want to feel worse: Highly recommend "Flying Blind" (https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B08P98854S) - its a good book about how Boeing's engineering culture went to shit after the MD merger and the shortcuts used to get the Max delivered.
Isn't this a bit of a non-story? There's no evidence that they were forced to do anything. Nearly every senior job is advertised somewhere.

For example - you can apply to be Puisne Judge of the Supreme Court of Gibraltar if you like https://apply.judicialappointments.digital/vacancy/lQlCzxeR4...

The Royal Navy seems to advertise all levels of jobs on LinkedIn - and wider.

Surely having an open and fair advertisement is better than finding someone you went to school with and discreetly tapping them on the shoulder?
> You can either […] SEO […] OR die out in the vast ocean of other sites.

Not a problem if you aren't playing that game.

I've got a few things out three that probably aren't listed anywhere (they won't be anywhere that respects the robots.txt equivalent of “go forth and fornicate”!). They are there for me, friends, family, or to refer people to when relevant. Heck I might even mention one on public forums occasionally either due to relevance or just for a little mild ego-stroke. But I don't care whether or not they are listed in the first page of Google/Bing/Kagi/… so the general public can easily find them.

Admittedly the general public likely aren't even looking for them, I'm sure they are well served elsewhere, but that is beside the point.

Being massively popular doesn't necessarily imply fame & fortune. It might instead be fame and needing-to-find-a-way-to-pay-for-resources-to-keep-stuff-running-under-high-traffic (and dealing-with-stupid-emails-from-people-who-don't-know-which-elbow-they-are-sat-on!).
Well that de-escalated quickly!

One moment it's considered brave to even feature a single, intact heterosexual couple of married pigs in a cartoon, but when challenged on this being an insane take, utterly divorced from reality, we've fallen back to "sometimes the cartoon pig dad has humourous foibles as part of his character"?
Or just weird lighting and "Myspace Angles" (people photographing themselves from an angle above, etc)
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I don't think it's as bad as <0.001%. There's a larger volume of books published these days than ever before the 2nd world war, so there's a lot more crap to wade through, the nice thing about old books is that time has done the job of pruning out a lot of the crap.

I think people still write good books which can provide good insights into the human condition, it's just hard to find them in the present.
There still one good choice, just use less power. We're collectively running in circles trying to find a replacement for oil that allows us to continue to increase our energy use.

That's an extremely difficult challenge and one that paints us into a corner. The underlying problem is that energy use and GDP are directly correlated, and modern economics don't allow for a possibility of decreasing GDP. As long as we refuse to change that assumption we're left only with a future of using more energy from a different source.

I don't really think its a meaningful difference long term where we cause the environmental damage. If we really want to make a change we collectively need to embrace a future where energy isn't limitless and growth isn't the goal in and of itself.
> > Whatever happened to Boeing's "Engineering Excellence" ?
> McDonnell Douglas happened [1].
> [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McDonnell_Douglas

More details are in the book "Flying Blind" [2]. It shows how Boeing's culture of Engineering Excellence was gradually replaced with MD's rotten parasitic culture through the process that is better described as "reverse acquisition". Formally Boeing acquired MD, but in reality MD took over Boeing.

[2] https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/646497/flying-blind...
Yes, the big electronics box was a target. No thanks, I'll help myself to a black trash bag and drag it around like a crazy person.
Yes, the photographer in the video is digitizing an analog slide, as an example use case of this technology. Spotting that it is indeed a digitized analog slide doesn't disprove any claims.
Since you specified no object in your statement (eg. "knowledge") then "is" must be formally translated as an existential quantifier, eg. "there exists". My correction adds the missing object which properly restricts the quantifier.
Well, yeah, because airliners are extremely large. If you do the same thing for cruise ships, they surely look horrifically dangerous! "Heart attack fatalities per trip" are off the charts.

When a regular person asks "is this safe?" they mean "is it safe for me?", not whether someone else on the vehicle might get injured.