skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Very interesting. I love seeing PCBs abused for other purposes.
For that matter there are still plenty of DC-3s in active service, and those are all over 80 years old at this point. Not nearly as big a deal as it might sound - the biggest wear item on a commercial plane is actually cabin pressurization due to the long term fatigue characteristics of aluminum. DC=3s aren't pressurized.
Consider the possibilities when the screen-glass camera view could be different for each of the participants on your videoconference screen - so as you shift your eyes from one to another, they get different experience of eye contact.

Staring into your camera on a multiparty call means everyone feels like they are getting your eye contact, which devalues it. Eye contact moving between participants is the gel that holds conversations together and it's why video calls are still stuck in the conference call era in terms of talking over one another.
This point is repeated many times throughout the article. It’s not picking, unless you mean I should ignore half the article.
Or...they need money to fuel their addiction which is simultaneously preventing them from finding gainful employment.
It's an average, so of course it says nothing about the distribution. I don't find that to be misleading, or at least I did not intend to insinuate that the USA is a perfectly distributed wasteland! It shows that while the EU and US kind of look similar in size, actually their population density on average is wildly different. Just look at a population density map of both continents side by side. It's fine to talk about certain parts of the USA being dense and able to support passenger rail. But when we talk about country-scale rail systems, that's where I have a bone to pick.

As I said, there are areas of the USA that are perfectly suitable to rail, and there should be more.

My criticism is the notion of "you can technically take a train from Madrid to Berlin, so you should also be able to take a train from Boston to Minneapolis". Trains in Europe go long distances, but most importantly they connect a lot of medium-sized cities along the way.
I agree with you. I don't agree with the tone of the parent commenter that implied that people who try to solve the problems of drugs use, somehow try to impose on others what to do with their body.
Settings -> Messages -> Tap the "iMessage" toggle so it's off.

Don't even have to scroll to find it (at least on mine).
> precisely because humans learned that consequences quickly

Which is exactly my point. Things like corpse burial and fecal sewage management and plague isolation and smoking regulation were all done because the evidence of their effect was clear and measured! They did the science.

All the freakouts in this subthread might be true, but right now they are sitting just above the noise floor. All I'm saying is that we should recognize that and not apply moral reasoning that ignores the distinction.

It is almost certainly not true that the pthalate linings on your bean can or whatever is as bad as the black plague (we started with smoking, but sure, let's go where you took us). And arguing as if it were is hurting the discourse and making a solution less likely. To wit: please be serious about this stuff.
Are CPUs really staying asleep for more than a second when the screen is on? I doubt that.
> But let’s substi­tute a different phrase: “learn to cook”. People don’t only learn to cook so they can become chefs. Some do! But many more people learn to cook so they can eat better, or more affordably. Because they want to carry on a tradition. Sometimes they learn because they’re bored! Or even because they enjoy spending time with the person who’s teaching them.

This is actually why I think more people should learn some coding (and why there should be more HyperCard-like environments for non-professionals). It makes the computer or phone a tool to do the things they want, not just what some programmer in SF wanted to write and try to market.
The 8s and 9s have the exact same issue and the FAA already approved the exact mitigation in those aircraft. Having different fixes for the same issue is more deviance, not less.
Where are you located? I thought LSD was fairly widespread in most places and relatively easily accessible.
Traintraveling in Europe is amazing. Mainly Germany is the problem. And noone knows why. Maybe it’s because the have the longest distance to travel and share the same network with the short travel trains.
Btw short train travel in Germany is mostly on point. And the problem with the delay is mostly along the rhine river . There is an excellent talks about German train delay from Daniel Krisel on the ccc
The Heroes We're Allowed (2022)
I like to think we could quickly create a next-level AI (maybe AGI?) if we simply model it on the Pixar movie "Inside Out". The little characters inside the girl's brain are different LLMs with different biases. They follow a kind of script that adapts to the current environment. They converse with each other and suggest to the girl what she should do or say.

I'd try the idea myself, but I have a job. :-)
Even sugar would be a better comparison than coffee.
Perhaps they are good individually but as a whole the whole continent not so. It is not about West shipping food, it is about African nations buying food because they simply lack enough local supplies.
It would be nice to be able to take a long-term view of your career like this, asking what you could do over the course of a few decades to really pay off big time.

Alas, nobody has that kind of visibility into the future. And if you did, you'd find that after your hair turns grey, your skills which you've spent a lifetime honing to perfection are going to be viewed as completely worthless.

The fact that somebody who is able to work 3 jobs can still get laid off from 2 of them, pretty much says all you need to know about the rationality of having 3 jobs. Get as much money as you can, as fast as you can, while you can.

Even if you can't work 3 jobs at once, it’s a good idea to continually be in job search mode. Even while you have a job, accept another one before quitting and see if you really like it better. You can be damn sure your company. Is continuously hiring workers to see if they like them better than you.
I don't think that providing actual lists of top spenders is either "clever" or "disingenuous," but if you have a better way to empirically evaluate the claims being made about lobbying influence please share.

> He is talking about America's most powerful lobby FOR a foreign country.

I'm only interested in discussing the actual text that received (as of writing) 2.3 million views and is the subject of this thread, not your own revision.

> Also, your second list only includes official foreign agents, while most pro-Israel lobbying is not registered as such (notably AIPAC)

I was responding to a comment about the "Israeli lobby." Israelis are not Americans, which is why I addressed foreign spending. But since you're insinuating that AIPAC is a channel for foreign influence despite being a US organization with 3 million American members, changing its status wouldn't influence the list I provided, so I don't see the relevance of this argument to the larger question of lobbying power.
That's still prompt -> response. This is a discussion about mandatory responses to no prompt at all.

Although on reflection, that undersells the level of stupidity being proposed here. The pilots need to not only respond to no prompt, but be actively monitoring a condition changing state so that they can then perform the unprompted action.

So, in all seriousness... by what algorithm are the pilots performing this assessment that is not something a computer can perform? How on Earth is it not cheaper and faster to add that to the system than petition a government agency for an exemption? What are all the computers on a plane even for other than monitoring state changes and performing actions in response? Even high-assurance, safety-critical coding should be able to outpace a Federal bureaucracy on something like this comfortably.
A "state" is nothing more than an abstraction, a collective social construct. The monopoly on violence is a franchise granted by the people, not nature. Self-determination can't be a right which only belongs to certain groups of people (say, Americans or Israelis) but not others.
I agree: if you a part of a two-parent household, who lives in a home with off-street parking where you can add a charger, the best of both worlds is one EV (Tesla) and one plug-in hybrid (e.g. Prius Prime or Rav 4 Prime). Then you only go to a gas station on longer trips.

What percent of the US population falls into this demographic? And what percent of this demo already has one EV?
So you say 120-160 T€ base salary for good senior developers is normal in Germany? Where’s that, do you have any company names?
>Society has mutually agreed that if two people don't want to put in the work, they can split. Society has yet to really get to the next step of "living with kids is hard work, so you can just abandon the kids".

Society has decided that kids are a fashion accessory and the primary driver of population growth will be immigration - it's cheaper too no need to things like schools.
> ...finding enormous success as a statically typed (and an order of magnitude faster) alternative to Python.

An alternative to Node.js/{Java|Type}Script catastrophe

I have not written any go but I have been dragged into Node.js programming, and it is awful

I do not believe in rewriting systems (except in exceptional circumstances that do not apply) so I'm stuck. But for someone else's choice...
you should probably not read the rest of an aviation manual then. You ought to see what happens if you leave an air valve in a certain position too long.
> “extremely improbable”

Read: happens at least twice a week
2040 is as close as 2008.
> In their research, the ONISQ team focused on Rydberg qubits – a type of physical, non-logical qubits. Through this effort, they successfully developed techniques to create error-correcting logical qubits from these “noisy” Rydberg qubits.

- are these "noisy" in so far as they are only able to approximate absolute zero? At theoretical absolute zero, would there be zero noise? This sounds like a big opportunity for companies like Extropic [1] that are focused on thermodynamic computing.

[1] https://www.extropic.ai/
Agreed! There's some things we think customers won't care about, that we'd like to leverage in general (latency benchmarking for example), but not everything is that.

Our current thought process is to support two additional consent mechanisms:

1) An opt-out for sharing data which has no risk of exposure to customers (e.g. think about our fingerprinting algo - we can train better heuristics for that without giving away any of your data).

2) An opt-in mechanism for sharing data, in exchange for access to the functionality, for anything that goes beyond the above. This is less well defined, and internally would be our default stance.

Our big TODO at this point is to clearly define those, build the consent mechanisms, and determine what, if any, updates we need/want to make to the ToS before enforcing it.
The Babylonians had similar ideas. Code of Hammurabi, Law 229: If a builder builds a house for someone, and does not construct it properly, and the house which he built falls in and kills its owner, then that builder shall be put to death.
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> Is my phone a business, or hardware that I own? That seems to be in contention here.

It's not in contention: it's both of those things. It's just that some people want it to be exclusively one of those things.
You don't have to define the version multiple times. If you've specified it in dependencyManagement, you don't have to add a <version> under <dependencies>. If you do it in the parent POM, you won't have to specify versions in the child POMs either.

The only time you have to repeat the versions of dependencies is when there are related dependencies that should be the same version. E.g. dependencies with separate packages for modules, like Jackson or Spring. And if the dependency has a BOM pom, that's not needed either.
I’d love to get an electric car, but I’ve just spent too much time and effort clawing back a scrap of privacy for me to be comfortable driving around in a mobile telemetry collection machine. It’s not just electric cars, obviously, but I can’t buy an old electric car from the pre-surveillance age.

Maybe things will change between now and when my current car dies.
>>>"a solar panel array you can tow behind your electric vehicle to charge it periodically; you wouldn't be able to haul a large enough array to charge at the rate you deplete your batteries"

Power plant idea:

- Dig a giant Pit Mine

- Put a bunch of mechanically driven generators in the bottom.

- Build a F-TON of gearings to accept rotational inputs from Solar Paowered-ly Charged motors into a network of gears to drive the huge alternators... this will require Area-51 sizes of desert - Hey, Africa has a huge free space for this.
Looks promising - will look into it!
> Making a future version of C (as an example) unable to build those code bases is effectively branching the language, in much the same way (although probably to a lesser extent) than the Python 2 versus Python 3 split. If C compilers fully support the old version of C, everything is probably reasonably fine; even though the language has branched, old projects can continue to use the old language forever. If C compilers start deciding that they want to drop the old version of C because it's been a while, we are not so fine.

I just don't understand this fear that compilers are going to drop support for C89, like there isn't tons of this code around. Just because X11 is going unmaintained that doesn't mean compilers will drop support for C89.
So what you say is: this early prototype might be hard to see if it's not close up?

I mean, this will be worse if the tech advances no?
Ok. So let's consider PC gaming. There are many people out there who consider that activity to be harmful, and to not be a productive use of one's time.

So....are you going to give up gaming?

> And yeah I guess I don’t approve seeing people destroy my city with drugs and violence.

Sounds like your actual problem is with violence, have you considered advocating for better policing against that?
Yes. They've completely flubbed python-in-excel already.
Also of interest is the reallocation. For example, in the military, you can see the flight of Blue/elite America from the military in the steadily-dropping GCT scores: https://ndupress.ndu.edu/Portals/68/Images/jfq/jfq-81/cancia... Every year in this graph starting 1980, it goes down a hair on average.

(Yeah, I know there's some guys who claim it's due solely to a change in test procedure in the 1990s, but if they're right, you sure can't see it in the graph there...)
And I don't think these two things contradict each other.

Apple can't sell its watches because of intellectual property theft. So not only did they take features from a smaller potential competitor, but they lock their Watch buyers into the iPhone ecosystem.
No problem. I could see where the question came from.
This might as well be a patent for a perpetual motion machine… Until there's code, it's hot air.
> I know it seems absurd, but as an android user I really do get cut out of group message convos due to not being on imessage.

I'm a U.S. iPhone user on many "green bubble" (standards-based) group chats, as are my wife and kids. I don't think we're outliers in this respect. If you're getting pushback on this, consider that this may say more about your social circle.
I love this reasoning about the espresso machine because it highlights how easy it is to label humans as being irrational when you're just focused on one or two dimensions (cost), but it turns out that humans are generally very rational if you just don't evaluate them on a crappy, limited model of rationality.
Personally I think so. Type certifications should expire after some reasonable time, and require a full re-certification under current rules and with current design review practices. I think this would also have other benefits, by discouraging improvements to e.g. fuel economy or pilot procedures slightly less, since the cost of re-certification is inevitable rather than something that can be avoided.

Grandfathering aircraft that exist indefinitely makes sense to me, but I don't see why designs should be grandfathered indefinitely for new builds, when we have learned a lot and increased our expectations significantly in the intervening years.
https://github.com/exelban/stats is a solid open-source alternative to istat.
The “rotate-to-undo” gesture is so cool. It reminds me of the main character in Doctor Strange rotating his hand to turn time backward and forward.
I haven't tried that all that much but I don't remember that being my experience. PCGamingWiki has a list for games for which this is true https://www.pcgamingwiki.com/wiki/The_Big_List_of_DRM-Free_G... and you can check individual games if the steam store version has DRM and it feels like a small minority of games.
Their message app is kinda weird in that it seems to be impossible to see which number a messages has been sent from. I found myself messaging a person and asking them what their current personal phone number is because it wasn't clear from the app.
Totally agree with this article, there are no immediate consequences to bad CPU bound code. I am seeing the consequences of this at my current position as a Senior Engineer at a startup where a lot of things were written naively, pushed the burden to cloud costs to keep pushing out features.

Something that really taught me to look for things like the "HDD Light" or Fan speed was starting my career in embedded systems. 16 bit MCUs really let you know if you are trying to much on them. They also let you know if you toggle the wrong pin by going up in flames.

The disconnect between your fingers and what actually runs the code is becoming greater and greater for newer developers. It will be interesting to see how computing power keeps up with bad code (it had been doing a good job so far).
fwiw in this case iMessage is easily funded by all the profit Apple earns off of iPhone/iPad sales, app store 30%, and iCloud subscriptions. It's not as if Apple is being forced to let millions of Android users communicate with each other for free over iMessage - Beeper exists because people want to communicate with Apple's customers, who already paid them money.
Sure but I was commenting on the "too big" argument which I think we can say is just factually incorrect at this point.

To address your points I think it's a much more nuanced conversation. I'd argue that car-only infrastructure is actually a gigantic financial disaster as well but it requires additional examination.
I spent weeks and months taking a dozen different guides online in .txt format and combining and editing them together and doing my own editorializing. I carried this around on a 3.5 inch floppy disk and anytime my parents dragged me somewhere boring that had a floppy drive, I'd sit on whichever computer I found editing my guides while they did boring adult stuff. Usually at a family member's or friend of the family's house.
> And of course, Apple's contributions to and early support for USB-C were also industry-leading.

And still on the... bleeding edge. Most of the USB peripherals one can go buy right off the shelves at, say, Target are still USB-A.
While Audacity dominates the conversation for open-source audio editing, less commonly discussed is Mixxx. It's an impressive DJ software, fully open-source, and provides tools you'd expect in paid products like Rekordbox, but for free. It's fairly intuitive, with active community support, if you hit a snag. Worth exploring for your mixing needs without financial commitment.
Just how strong was Friday's jobs report?
Epic Games store only has a 15% cut vs Steams 30%
The HN hive mind is amusing as I came here to get to comment this exact post. It looks really interesting, and I'm also tired of giving up so much memory for just a SQL GUI tool.
I'm not entirely sure that spending and lobbying are synonymous.
This is one of the big issues with many tech stacks these days: the somewhat frequent churn of the libraries and APIs. Things change under your feet in a few months, or a year, if not weeks, forcing you change your code to adapt, and then test and release everything again, etc.
Except for Germany and the UK where trains are also quite bad, security usually doesn’t take too long. Boarding is typically 15 mins before the flight, but then again airports are usually more comfortable to navigate than train stations since you get rid of your large luggage in the first step
I’ve found stats [1] to be a great open source alternative to the iStat Menus system monitor app mentioned in the article.

[1] https://github.com/exelban/stats
> gmail keeps getting better

Gmail was always a parody of a mail client.
Damn, even the demo called Lotus Notes was better.
> That's really what confuses me about the people who use CentOS or Rocky, they want or need the stability of RHEL, so that they can run these crucial applications, that mostly aren't cheap, yet they refuse to pay for the development of the operating system they run it them?

Yes. Non-prod (or even prod and non-critical) servers usually outnumber critical prod servers, and it makes sense to not run RHEL on them and pay for support, but to run a 100% compatible distro.
I would be ok with that if such a position included a mandatory rolling retrofit of the existing fleet the next time they come out of service for one of the big every-few-years inspections.
I swear I saw on LGR a CF card adapter that made noise with a little motor to simulate the sounds of hdd access.

Not an edit:

Found it!

https://youtu.be/IZKttBr2Y8g?si=ij3eFlmtrpIsYrkf
I need a good way to cleanup a gmail account…
Agreed but figured I'd mention it
Not GP, but: yes, exactly. The old story about the Mexican fisherman and the American businessman on holiday. How else would we get billionaires? These people work to the bone on wealth accumulation far beyond a fortune that they could ever spend on themselves.
What isn't awesome is cross-border trains, it's always ad-hoc. I think there should be some grand unifying vision of complete cross-border (at least Schengen) connections. Possibly a new EU institution, whatever, because often it looks like every train company is playing in its own playground and cross-border connections are at best an afterthought.
It’s a bit uncanny valley though, right?
Because people will accidentally push the button and be sent to LinkedIn. Good for their stats. Computers are no longer being built to do what you want them to, but what the software maker wants you to do with them.
If you are trying to suggest that the stack is runtime unpredictable like a hard drive, overflowing it would be an error, not an exception.

Therefore, a sufficiently smart compiler just needs to ensure that you have done the proper accounting of stack use and handle the error condition if you are approaching an overflow state. With that, you can prevent it becoming an exception.

If you encounter a stack overflow exception, it is because you didn't do your due diligence. Technically your program is flawed. Granted, the pragmatic engineer probably doesn't care about correctness in that area. It turns out not all programs have to be perfect to be useful.

No fame for me, I'm afraid. There is nothing here out of the ordinary.