skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
None of the incentives line up in a remotely rational way in academia. It's a large-scale boondoggle.

Gullible young adults take on tens or hundreds of thousands of dollars of non-dischargeable loans, ostensibly in pursuit of either knowledge or certification. Most achieve neither, leaving severely indebted with (maybe) a few solid drinking buddies.

The liberal arts professors, themselves the small subset who did pursue knowledge but have now discovered the market for esoterica is vanishingly small, attempt to eke out a living by doubling down on their wasted time. They produce documents only a tiny minority of their peers (or the next round of dupes/students) will ever read, desperately hoping thereby to secure one of a tiny number of available tenured positions, succeeding in the equivalent of a Ponzi scheme measured in hours, not dollars.

Professors in science or technology fields, having failed to find another model to subsidize basic research, endure the tedium of teaching hungover classes of mediocre minds, genuinely convinced that a breakthrough discovery might be just over the horizon, finally legitimizing their single-minded focus over decades.

Both sets of professors prop up the "peer-reviewed journal" scam, which has somehow convinced people that such publications indicate intellectual or academic merit, despite failing every reliability test anyone has attempted.

And then, for good measure, there are also...administrators and athletic teams, for some reason. I can't even figure out what the incentive is for administrators, nor can I understand why a university athletic system makes more financial sense than a minor league system, except maybe as a publicity stunt for the whole apparatus?

In the end, I can't actually think of anyone in the system who does seem to be getting what they want from the arrangement.

Let it crumble.
Because there was a real shortage of Linux distros
> safest airliner ever built ... very low production numbers

If one model has 5 million flight hours and zero crashes, and another model has 500 million flight hours and 50 crashes, is it possible to say which model is safer?
You asked for an example, I gave you the last example I am aware of: https://apnews.com/article/tesla-strike-union-sweden-labor-d....
> The kit will "ideally" retail for one-third to half the price of a new diesel truck while providing estimated savings of 30% on fuel.

I don't think there are any new 3/4 or 1 ton diesel trucks that can be had for less than $60k. So, $20 - $30k for this kit, under "ideal" circumstances. A nice 12V[0] Cummins rebuild can be had for $10k, plus figure another $2,500 to install.

So, your engine blows up and you decide you want to either replace it with one of these kits for $30k or a get a nice rebuild for say $13k. Over the life of a light duty diesel engine (which to continue with our 12V Cummins example might be 750k - 1m miles,) @ 15 MPG, 30% fuel savings amounts to around 20,000 gallons of diesel fuel, which at $5/gallon is a $100,000 savings.

If you believe these kits will be as reliable and long-lasting as a diesel engine, they might make good enough economic sense to increase the...not large... number of diesel pickup owners looking to go electric.

0 - A "12V Cummins" is a 5.9L 12 valve diesel engine made by Cummins. They were used in Ram 2500/3500 pickup trucks between 1989 and 1998, and along with the Ford 7.3L Power Stroke would be a potentially popular target for the kit discussed in the article.
Is there any detail anywhere on what exactly is being inspected? Just the bits of airframe around the where the panel that failed? Can a broader issue with how the airframes were manufactured be ruled out at this point?

The cynical part of me wonders if this isn't just a bit of PR to 'ground' the planes for 'inspections' without actually addressing some kind of root cause.
As I mentioned in the sibling, there's multicast/broadcast (classic multiplayer games used it) and you could do IP scanning.
He is not a populist, he is an apolitical demagogue.
Generative AI and Vector Databases [video]
"Useful" is very relative. I work with python daily and I try typing everything I can, but it can be such a pain in the ass compared to TypeScript that I want to throw my computer at the wall sometimes. And I can't imagine using Python's typing even 3 years ago, as many essential features that I constantly use are very new (typed kwargs for example). Many people that like typed languages just don't bother and don't use typing in Python because of how cumbersome it is.
Why in the world would either of those ever be assigned in an economics class?

Especially on the history of economic thought! Marx has had about 0 influence on modern economics.

Sure he’s an influential figure in world history and should be taught there but in a class on the history of economics??? No way.

Graeber is an even less plausible choice.
Forget the Blood of Teens. Metformin Promises to Extend Life for a Nickel (2017)
Why not? The former enforces Walmart to do something they don't want to do and the latter enforces Walmart not to do something someone else don't want to do. There is a discrete difference between those two. I don't understand why you don't get this simple old idea?
> B was pressured to buy McD for 'national security' reasons.

Creating monopolies and reducing suppliers actually harms "national security." Our braindead managerial class in action.
Because it demonstrates a theft of tech and design, which puts their credibility and integrity in question. Is the derivative safe (actually safe, not government-of-China wanting a feather in its cap rubber-stamp safe)? Is the derivative actually comparable (i.e. is the marketing a lie)? Aside from that, do we want to reward companies that steal other companies' ideas?
Is the 9 really that different from the 8, other than being a few meters longer?
When all of that scrutiny stops finding issues, I'll not worry about it. Sadly, every time they look, they find new issues.
Who poisoned Netscape?
Has there been any push to break up Boeing?
Those drones can be launched from substantially more than 30-40 miles from the shore.

You might use gunnery to take out individual drones coming to attack you or the ships you’re escorting, but you are not likely to manage to hit the launchers/bases.
How it's implemented in git, yes, but I don't think that's useful as a mental model.

pointers to content, right. "Remember, git does not track changes, it tracks content." I kept telling myself when I learned how the system works.

As conceptually great as that is, in the early days of learning git, I found the terminology in the command-line interface VERY off-putting, and it played havoc with my mental model. (I say this lest you think I'm unconditionally cheerleading git or the implementation.)

BTW, perhaps because effective use of a VCS is so vital to programming without stress, people tend to think they can learn it on the fly, which leads to all sorts of insecurities about not really knowing how a certain operation works. (I've worked in toxic places, so seen how fear has myriad weird manifestations.)

Anyway, not intending to disagree or correct you, just offering my experience while I suffer winter flu.
Man I love this game so much. Wished there was a typing version of other classics like half life.
And not human friendly neither, don't want to be involved in an accident with such a car
I don't think its quite that simple, I wouldn't assume that car use is always a net positive for standard of living and more cars are always better. Reducing cars would likely reduce car fatalities and pollution, for example.

Vehicles are also expensive and can be stressful to maintain and pay for. Choosing to remove a cat from your life and finding a way to make that work can be a net positive long term. Obviously that wouldn't work for everyone, but if it works for some then we have to accept that more cars don't always equal higher standard of living.
And why not? Congress can choose to discard electors from states excluding candidates (as may happen next year).

“In the 19th century, several state legislatures elected senators in their late twenties despite the Constitutional minimum age of 30, such as Henry Clay, who was sworn into office at age 29, and John Henry Eaton, the youngest U.S. senator in history, who took his oath of office when he was 28 years, 4 months and 29 days old.”

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_youngest_members_of_...
Preventing Brittle Tests (2016)
> Unless you're dealing with foreign income, are a business, or do a lot of contract work for cash, I don't see much reason why the IRS can't just handle all the taxes automatically - apart from the fact that some company wants to charge me $150 a year to file my taxes and making sure that my tax situation (which would fit on a beer coaster otherwise) is as complicated as possible.

I imagine there are heavy software development costs, on par with what it might take to build Turbotax itself.

For instance, someone is going to have to figure out wash sales. Right now your broker does it, but you can wash sale across accounts, which requires you (or more reasonably tax software) to both detect this and track the adjusted basis in perpetuity. More complex events, like straddles, further exist, and even consumer-grade tax software won't handle it correctly.

Even implementing the tax code correctly for regular income is difficult. Examples of calculating Net investment income tax correctly due to ambiguous tax code changes (https://www.bogleheads.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=271074&...)
The Collected Essays of Keynes make surprisingly interesting reading even for a common reader.
Got to 666 (level 7) and wanted to stop, so I did. Of course, the problem is that when, as in this case, there are only two columns remaining, that limits how many letters it can throw at you at once and it actually becomes easier to keep up - you can theoretically go on as long as you want.

Maybe it also needs to be clearer that the key closest to the bottom of the screen must be typed first, that wasn't obvious to me immediately.

I think it's good to try random letter games like this occasionally as well as regular typing tests.
Let's also consider just how much worse this situation could have been. The door panel blew out next to the one seat that happened to be unoccupied, and it happened at 16,000 ft instead of 26,000 ft.
> 3) Time spent on documentation, optimization or anything else that does not directly lead to results is directly detrimental to your progress.

Here's is where I disagree. It's detrimental in the short term, but to ensure reproducibility and development speed in the future you need to follow best practices. Good science requires good engineering practices.
I hope we never find out whether China's military is a paper tiger or not. It sounds like Xi doesn't know either.
I also thought this was an actual harpsichord rather than a metaphor, until I followed the hyperlink back to your blog.
Check out the "Natural Number Game"[0], which is sort of a practical tutorial but leaves a LOT of things unexplained. I took a few proofs-heavy university classes among the math/cs/philosophy departments so the idea of proving arithmetic from axioms wasn't new, but the NNG still took me an outrageous amount of time (easily 100 hours) and I got nowhere near finishing. Perhaps I just never got things to click into place; I am still profoundly confused about what the 'tactics' truly are.

In my opinion, lean4 is not in any way "for beginners" as you mean it; it is a tool for experts in mathematics.

[0] https://adam.math.hhu.de/#/g/leanprover-community/NNG4
Do you have a source for that? I'm not denying it, just curious to read more.
> We tried the approach you proposed in the past and it didnt work.

You work at Boeing or aircraft safety regulator or something?

Can you elaborate on what exactly you've done?
> ...you need to take several steps back and to “strategize” it all together.

That was the purpose of the Goldwater-Nichols Act in 1986. The US invasion of Grenada showed clearly that the Army, Navy, and Air Force were not working well together. Its most significant reform was that operational command bypasses the service chiefs and instead the chain of command goes from the president, through the secretary of defense, to the regional combat commanders. The services are responsible for recruitment and procurement. In Central Command (CENTCOM) which covers the middle east, all Army soldiers, Navy sailors, Marines, and Air Force airmen report to the combatant commander. At the higher levels, the service chiefs have the joint chiefs of staff to coordinate their higher-level strategies. This system has been extremely effective since the 80s. The problem in Yemen is not that the Army doesn't want to go in so it's leaving it to the Navy to fix the problem, it's that there's political issues at higher levels that prevent the Army from going in. I'm sure CENTCOM has a plan right now for sending in troops that would integrate the Army and Navy together, and is ready to execute that if ordered.
No one said they got a vote, snark unnecessary.
Producing, what about “designing safe aircraft post-merger”?
The C4 compiler is certainly fascinating and worth studying but don't believe that swieros's C compiler is based on that judging by their code [1][2]. There are similarities of course but well they are compiling the same language after all using some similar standard techniques like recursive descent parser [3].

Anyways, C4 is also very cool and focused on minimalism. Swieros's compiler seems much more extensive and even includes #define as the other comment mentioned and va_args.

[1] https://github.com/rswier/swieros/blob/master/root/bin/c.c

[2] https://github.com/rswier/c4/blob/master/c4.c

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Recursive_descent_parser
Sure those are great textbooks. If you want the history of economic thought though you might be more interested in the people and times which led to the ideas in the book. You won’t get enough of that in mankiw.

As to why the mankiw book is used at Harvard… maybe we should have a talk about monopolies… ;)

That’s just a joke it’s a good textbook but its status as the standard at Harvard is only partially related to its quality.
SEEKING VOLUNTEERS

Bionic-GPT

https://github.com/bionic-gpt/bionic-gpt

Rust, LLM's, RAG, Kubernetes. Generative AI.

Ideally for the over 50's but younger people also considered.
It is how it works for most people in both the countries (on different continents ) I have worked in. Only people with high incomes or investment income or who are self employed or similar need to file their own taxes.

There are also cheap systems even for business returns - mine cost £12 for the company and I will use the free HMRC system for my personal return. It might be easier to use more sophisticated software, especially if your finances are complex.
I’ll take the one with 50 crashes any time. That’s 50 times something went catastrophically wrong and 50 times measures were taken to fix the underlying problems.

A brand new plane will undoubtedly have brand new problems.
If this was not actually the case, would you necessarily be able to know? If so, can you describe the novel, literally foolproof epistemic methodology you are using?
> BYD are selling the most cars, and is the fastest growing in terms of sales in the country

Source? BYD aren't selling the most cars in Sweden.

> BYD beat Tesla - grew fastest in Sweden in 2023

Tesla sold 20K cars and BYD sold 3K in Sweden in 2023. How is that beating Tesla? They went from 1.1K cars to 3K, so had better percentage growth than Tesla
If a corporation can be "punished" to become a co-op, what incentive does that give the employees?
Important detail: BYD's "EV" sales numbers include gasoline-electric hybrids.
I'd love to see that broken down in a fair way. I've heard that a lot as well, but I've never seen any data.

It seems like the athletic programs at these schools directly impact a few hundred (ish) kids that are actually in the big sports, and otherwise exist as a machine that enriches the people running the athletic program.
in 2019 bought a serious amount of hardware. As an FL user - i tried to make it work in FL - it was a miserable experience. FF to a few months ago - bought an RME AES midi card - connect my physical synths to it....grab an ableton demo - fire up ableton - and with an extra piece of magic - the Novation Launchpad MK3 - im jamming, looping, combining patterns - all screen free...its the best of "dawless" and computer music production i've ever experienced.

I get the whole Live fanboying. It's really great for open ended production - and perfectly suites the fluidity and separation of "audio finger painting" - and "song finishing".

I have many gripes about it - which both FL and Reaper address - but i highly recommend it as a DAW for people who want to "play"/"bash stuff out".
You just have bad taste.
Dear oh dear oh dear oh dear oh dear.

Please read what I said again, more carefully, starting from the first word, and try not to be so contrary. I was referring to the fact that the shiny and new tooling will be what attracts users to a given platform / language / ecosystem, regardless of the latter's age. Other participants on this thread apparently seem to have understood this.

Happy new year.
I have a young family. My great grandmother was alive until about my highschool graduation.

People got married and had kids (age 15 for my grandma) early back in the day, not too odd.
> wearing seat belts

After the segment of fuselage fell to the earth, after the giant hole opened, after the kid's shirt was ripped away, passengers were standing up at their seats and in the aisle, and flight attendants had to plead with them to sit down and buckle up.
Please do tell me a company that has released something that is independently invented in its entirety with respect to “tech and design”

Such a ridiculous take on a technology forum.

It’s a waste of human energy to reinvent the wheel. Not to mention the example given earlier is irrelevant since it’s no longer in production anyway.
Thanks for the reply and apologies I don’t see noti for replies.

That’s really interesting, I must test it out sometime, 120ms is still pretty good. A previous test I did before was gstreamer (on an embedded nvidia jetson) sending to a laptop running OBS, latency as low as 40ms, but the problem is the need to use OBS on the viewer side (or gstreamer directly), but would love to integrate it within the webUI I made.
I have designed 2 web based code playgrounds that you may find interesting.

https://try.gambitscheme.org is a playground for the Scheme language (specifically Gambit Scheme). It has a REPL and a code editor that saves files in the browser local storage. It also has a tutorial for learning the basics of Scheme.

https://codeboot.org is a playground for Python (there's an old version that supports JavaScript and we may resurrect it at some point). It was specifically designed as a simple IDE to teach programming to beginners and is in use at the Université de Montréal. Aside from the simple and intuitive UI, it has two important features for teaching:

1) Fine granularity single-stepping of Python code to help teach students how the computer goes about executing the code. It displays a bubble containing the variables in scope and their values.

2) It can bundle programs and the current state of execution in a URL that can be embedded in documents (HTML, PDF, PowerPoint, Keynote, etc) so that coding examples can be executed by the students in a single click. It also allows students to create simple web apps that require no installation and can easily be shared with others (because the URL contains all the relevant code of the app). You will find examples of this feature on the following pages:

https://codeboot-org.github.io/presentations/

https://codeboot-org.github.io/cegep/ (in french, but just click on the images)
What are the standards for plastic-free? I suspect almost every piece of clothing with zippers is using nylon thread and backing, as well as plastic materials tags.
> The Gospel of Thomas
Reputedly the writings of the apostle ‘Doubting Thomas’.
This text purports to be a collection of the sayings of Jesus. Traditionally Thomas was Jesus’ twin brother. This text shows strong Gnostic influence.

I'll admit I'm not deeply familiar with most religious traditions, but I am absolutely sure none of the major ones have any "tradition" in which Jesus had a twin brother. Yes, "Thomas" means "the twin," but not because people believed he was actually Jesus' twin brother.

It's hard for me to take any of the summaries seriously after that, and it's almost enough to make me wonder whether the collection would actually include accurate copies of the documents it claims to.
> Pretty sure BWD is the top selling EV manufacturer in Sweden, I recall reading that before the Tesla union shenanigans happened.

Source, please. VW and Tesla seem far far ahead of BYD. I am curious where this narrative started, since multiple people are confidently stating that BYD is outselling Tesla in Sweden.
It was only dumb luck that no one got killed because the adjacent seats were empty.

To give you some idea, a teenager seated across the aisle had his shirt completely torn off.
NuScale Lays off 40% of its Staff
The triggers are the most fun part of the experiments!

The composition of teams working on triggers might be a bit of an exception in the "engineer : "data scientist" ratio. Most of the talent is still from a physics background but there's more of an engineering bent where around half the team can probably write performance critical code when they need to. Elsewhere that ratio is much lower.

Determining which data to save is a mix of engineering, algorithms, physics, bits of machine learning, and (for better or worse) a bit of politics. Surprisingly we're always desperate for more talent there.

As you say, the goal is to try to stop problems before they affect the data, but it's not always perfect. Sometimes we discover sampling biases after the data comes in and need to correct for them, and in the worst case we sometimes blacklist blocks of data.
Meanwhile, less than 24 hours later…

https://www.kgw.com/article/news/local/faa-grounds-some-boei...
when i check the list of "programming language of the year" that is a little further down, you never ever see Rust appear there.

knowing how much Rust has progressed : used in Windows, Linux it is very strange to never see Rust appear there.

a tad hard but makes me think that list of theirs and what they're saying is mostly bullshit.
Idiocracy at its finest.
Lancet journal retracts article on hearing aids and dementia after prodding
> missiles filled with water

Do they mean it figuratively or literally?
man operator
AI Might Actually Enforce All Our Stupid Laws
Please stop moving the goalposts. Iterating on the past is different from thieving entire designs, and you know it.
And this is a problem because...?

Tesla's building their cheap car too, but it will not launch until 2025 earliest.
If they have some human asset (or SIGINT) this deep in the PLARF is it really wise to share it with the press?
We can still appreciate progress. And this is progress.

Although if the IRS is gonna audit when I under pay, they technically already know how much I owe. Why not just tell me? Reckon it's since people also over pay, and there's no refunds for doing that.