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Ask HN: Unblockable Google Search Ads?
So I tried Edge (the Chromium one, or was it always Chromium?) and gave it a fair shake, looking for an alternative to Chrome. As part of that i tried bing as well. While I thought bing was better than google on some searches, the first party inline ads, essentially unblockable, were a non starter so I didn't do a very deep comparison.

Fast forward to Safari 17 which got profile support, and now I almost exclusively use Safari. I haven't found any fault with its content blocking system wrt blocking ads, even if it's more limited than what FF and Chrome extensions can do.

Well, lo and behold, today for the first time I am getting first party inline ads from Google in the search result for [grafana aws]. They aren't set off the way the normal ads were/are. They just have a Sponsored tag in bold.

There are 3 ads that take up all the vertical space "above the fold" and then some. At least with bing the ads were compact vertically. Bye Google.

Has this been going on for awhile and it's only now I've hit a search term that triggered it, or is this a new thing, maybe coinciding with their push for FLoC?

Is there a blocking solution for Safari?
I don’t feel like hull loss without context is a meaningful metric of anything. At the end of the day they are airplanes flown by pilots. You could have a less safe design flown by highly competent pilots and never lose a plane, or an incredibly sophisticated, technically advanced aircraft where the pilot makes a decision resulting the destruction of the aircraft.
> 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. ;)

Crashed, by Adam Tooze was a very very good retelling of the GFC, and I did read all the newspapers at the time and still found lots of interesting stuff.

More generally, I'd argue that modern historians probably have the highest chance of producing useful new insights recently.

If you accept fiction (and like fantasy fiction), I'd argue that the Malazan books of the fallen and/or the Nine Worlds series are serious works that are going to endure. Ask me again in a century, though ;)
Yes, exactly. Like Uridium, Katakis, Delta. It sounds like a sequel to one of them: ULTIMA!
this seems like the visual equivalent of 12 tone serialism
I have ADHD but growing up we didn't know that. I threw a lot of tantrums and was yelled at until I cried almost every day. I was grounded for months on end, which is now considered child abuse. In my house yelling was the norm.

My mom decided I must have bipolar disorder just like my grandmother. At age 10 I was put on psychiatric drugs and that persisted for over 20 years. Any time I exhibited any intense emotion I would get yelled at and then it would probably trigger a fight.

As an adult I began to describe my experiences in my own words and doctors quickly undiagnosed me. 2 decades of doctors appointments, drugs, emotional abuse, dismissal, confusion.

There is no moral to this story.
Honestly a website for this wouldn’t be a bad idea. In future flights if I’m going to look if there is a 737 max I’m gonna change my flight .
usually for a response to be considered a counterpoint it has to be more than simple ad-hominem
Many years ago, I used the python kernel / API to build a headless asset production pipeline for creating custom 1080p photo slideshows from user images set to produced music. The entire project took less than a month from keyframe generation with Pillow and then using Blender VSE to stitch the static assets together into what was a very polished product for such limited dev time start to finish. I had only briefly used it in college playing around while getting comfortable with linux and the fact it was OSS, and linux compatible was always a shining light for attention to cross-platform development best practices.

By virtue of exposing quality, "developer" first capabilities, Blender in my mind continues to set an extremely high bar for technical product quality and makes it a top candidate when I consider any digital asset project. I'm inspired by the continued dedication of the development community and sponsors and wish the team another 30 years of continued success. Things seem to be picking up every year and massive rewrites / expansions of performance capabilities come every new version.
Show HN: I built an automatic film development machine
Remember that old cameras on which you cannot preview the picture you've just made? Cameras that can't shoot more than 36 pictures in a row, and those pictures are on film which needs to be processed with chemistry? OpenAutoLab allows to automatically process those films at home.

What's done:
Two prototypes are built and tested by developing lots of films.
All necessary 3d-printed parts and electronic schematics as well as source code are published.
Most of build and usage instructions are written and published.
A short video introduction is cut and published.

What I will update soon:
Missing pictures from build instructions.
Full length video of building the machine.
Full length video of using the machine.

What needs to be done:
Public testing. Can't wait when someone else builds this thing.
This is par for the course for me: I want to run this software

https://github.com/danbooru/danbooru

and the compose file “just doesn’t work” because it is a few years old and not compatible with the docker compose version installed with Ubuntu. I took a crack at updating the config file but didn’t find a lot of documentation to help…. And remember I’ve frequently had “simple” Docker installations become a matter of “download files for hours, have the installation fail, repeat…” so engaging with that monster at all seems like a risky time sink.
The point is, it's not prioritized since it's not rewarded. Grad students are incentivized to get their publications in and move on, not generate long-term stable engineering platforms for future generations.
They should also work with companies and have an opt-in for automatic filing since a lot of people just have one job. Not only do you have pay them a chunk of your salary but you have to also do the work to report it accurately according to a complicated system.
Web0 Manifesto
As far as we've been able to determine, almost all macroscopic objects can be behaviorally described in terms of classical physics, and this includes neurons.

Even in rare cases where quantum effects are seen, such as photosynthesis, or radioactive decay, it's extremely localized. The fact that a plant's efficiency of conversion of light to chemical energy appears to use quantum effects doesn't affect the rest of the plant or turn it into some "Schrodringer's cabbage" thought experiment. We can still understand the rest of the plant in classical terms.

Even if it were to be discovered that neurons are sometimes (or even always for that matter) behaving randomly due to quantum effects, that would not mean that we have free will and are not automata. It would just mean we are non-deterministic automata.
If you don't want negative feedback, don't publish anything. You need the negative feedback; what you don't want is toxic feedback not aiming at you, but at other readers, and try to steal eyeballs for themselves.
At Lehman Brothers development doom was then heralded by the project acronyms being the best part of the while package (FIRE and PIPE are etched in my memory)...
divide by the # of passengers...
Thorium is a fork of Chromium, optimised for speed.
Well, why not? There's a market for big, overpriced barge trucks.
For me, first thing in the morning. I have three small kids and by the end of the day my energies are spent.
It will inevitably come back in some form in the long term as air traffic keeps increasing. It's much harder to build a new runway and a new terminal in busy airports (ask Heathrow) than to add a floor to a plane.
My kids carry a ton of books, I'm a large guy and find their bags weigh a ton, it's awful for my kids. I have a 5'3 100' daughter and her bag weighs a significant portion of her own weight.

And their Chromebooks are not the tiny svelte high end ones. They're the chunky cheap and heavy ones too. And they're Middleschool, so can't leave them in one classroom, they get toted around, and back to home for homework every day.
I hope I'm just misreading sarcasm there, but they are very much choices and that itself should be empowering because people can just as easily make a different choice.

If choice is so easy, anyone can pick up a textbook about mathematics, barring deficiency in cognitive capacity, become knowledgeable about mathematics. That doesn't happen not because people are stupid, but because the task is genuinely hard.

If choice is so easy, you would be able to able to choose to not to eat for three days and achieve that. For some people, it is extremely difficult. For others, that is easy. I have experienced both situations.

Real freedom, then, is to understand that your own mind has their own cause and effect and how to manipulate that to achieve 'freedom of choice', and the corresponding training to be able to do so.

To have whole societies exercising, then, is to understand the causal factors involved and the knobs needed to achieve that, and the organizational capacity to do so.

That is why to say that you 'have a choice' to not exercise or exercise is a defeatist attitude and to consign whole group of people to early death. What people need is not 'choices' but solutions to achieve those choices.

I myself continue to struggle. I have lost weight and then regained. There are time in which I can exercise for hours. There are times in which I achieved physical fitness that I at time I never thought I could. I will keep trying, but clearly I do not yet have mastery of my own mind.
And it's not like driving is especially safe. It's just that traffic deaths are so routine that they're not generally widely reported, while pretty much every major issue with an airplane gets national attention. In the US, traffic deaths amount to the equivalent of a fully loaded 747 lost with all hands every couple days.
The statement pointing out that it’s a manufacturing error (I’m guessing) was not intended to be solution to the problem. It pointed out that those problems have less to do the certification of the design and more to do with a manufacturing defect. If the manufacturer created parts that were up to specifications, these things would have not been a problem. This is a very important distinction because a design flaw is a much bigger deal for this aircraft type than that poorly manufactured components.

Boing is still at fault, yes, but we should exercise restraint in becoming too reductionistic on complicated engineering problems.
RIP Microsoft WordPad. You Will Be Missed
This looks like manufacture cost cutting - an issue no amount of good design/engineering can fix.

Boeing is no longer engineering focused. It’s a numbers business pumping out planes as fast and as cheap as they can get away with.
At some point it has to be simple liability for the final seller, ignoring all subcontractors.

Otherwise there’s too many shellgames you can play.
And even so, sucked the shirt right off the boy in the middle seat! I shudder to imagine how things would have gone 20 minutes further in to the flight.
Comment OP here. Most of the people who were my clients were artist types who moved to the public transportation fringes of Brooklyn where rent was the cheapest (at that time). They were barely skating by and usually had pretty roachy apartments.

A large percentage of these folks were very into drug use... in a way that it hindered achieving the goals that they moved to NY to accomplish.

I took on these clients specifically because my store was going to fleece them and not fix their problems whereas I could and reasonably quickly. As broke creatives with broken computers their lives were likely to spiral into a dark place otherwise.

I dealt with way more desperate situations than middle-class people with regular computer problems. This was the "I pirated Adobe Creative Suite and have a deadline but the virus has taken over my computer" era.
I'd go further and say it's less obnoxious than the alternatives thus far. It has always bothered me for example, having to enter into some weird murky relationship with a private company as a third party, in my communication with the government. (That's also true for the categorically similar but unrelated outrage of a few years back where you could get a better response from some agencies by engaging them on Twitter than you could through their actual communication channels.) And say what you will, the piece of paper doesn't try to "cleverly" redirect me to some irrelevant paid service. It has no functionality. I'm the one with all the functionality. And just to amplify your point about how it's free - Yeah there's no way I'm ever paying one red goddamn cent for any of this; I'm already paying the taxes!
The ballpoint pen story _IS_ a military story first and foremost that went over western journalists heads.

TLDR is Li Keqiang used ballpoint pen as example of PRC industry at the time lacking precision manufacturing capabilities for defense. A few years later, PRC developed tungsten carbide manufacturing for advanced munitions. A few years after that TISCO, 10B+ state owned steel group decided to waste their time making ballpoint tips worth 20M imports per year in PRC (which was 80% of global demand), i.e. basically political sideshow for propaganda because the market wasn't worth being addressed without political pressure.

For reference only Switzerland, Japan and now PRC makes ballpoint pen tips. US didn't/doesn't (not can't) make ballpoint pens, but they can make advanced munitions. Which makes WSJ article extra ironic when it points out that it was PRC steel industry instead of pen industry that made indigenous ballpoint tip technology, but that was literally the point. The ballpoint tip saga is about PRC political pressure on state industries to rapidly develop advanced manufacturing capabilities for weapons. And they did, even before they figured out ball point pen tips.
Long live duckDB! Big fan here.
Back in 2014[1] Al Jazeera (the international edition) had a pretty good in-depth report of issues with the manufacturing line for the 787.

There are known issues regarding quality assurance at Boeing for a decade now, they keep going down the drain. The MBAs from McDonnell-Douglas won, and properly tarnished Boeing's image...

[1] https://www.aljazeera.com/program/investigations/2014/7/20/t...
Don't distinguish between Internet and pre-Internet. The paradigm of copyright has always been broken because it privileges publishers over creators, no less today than at any other time. The incentives of creators and audiences align; the incentives of publishers are completely opposed to those of creators and audiences. Publishers are businessmen; all they think they know how to do is drive prices up by creating artificial scarcity. At any given moment, they are only exploiting a handful of their properties, and hoarding the rest, actively seeking to prevent their circulation.
Whatever. It was the large plug put in place of where an optional door would be. This is not an important distinction.
Is there any copyright issue with the community editing and republishing as described in the README?
If I understand what you are saying correctly, you are saying that if two people are pairing and the one with the better idea does not successfully communicate their idea, either from lack of trying or lack of effectiveness, then the person with the lesser idea might "win" and that is what would be implemented?

If so, I would say that the appropriate response to that is to, as a team, work to improve communication and collaboration consistently -- every day, in every work item. Leadership should reinforce the import, exemplify it, and observe and coach.

In general, what it sounds like you are saying is that people who are bad at things do things poorly. Yes, that's true, but that's why we have all the tools we have available to us to help them do things better. We don't have to like in squalor, we can choose to help each other rise above it.
MCAS absolutely should have triggered a recertification. It's essentially meant to make the Max feel like the NG by slightly pulling down to compensate for the angled engines. And we all know how that ended when the plane's angle of attack sensor failed, the backup wasn't being checked, and the pilots didn't know their plane suddenly had an extra system pulling on the trim. Even with the autopilot off. This is normal and expected on Airbus craft and later Boeing planes like the Dreamliner, but not the 737.

Oh, and the indicator for your AOA sensors disagreeing? Used to be a physical part of the cockpit, and was moved to an optional addon in the Max. But Boeing then forgot to put the indicator in the glass cockpit. Presumably because their development aircraft all had the option.

None of the accident airlines had the option.
Vehicles sold by price and region is useful. Total # of vehicles sold is not. How many sold inside/outside of China? To put it gently, EV sales in China have had an additional boost from the government (which, btw, I think is good for the planet).

The newer BYD vehicles are more comparable to Tesla (and other manufacturers), but there's a long, long way to go before they prove themselves more than a manufacturer of cheap cars.

Tesla has never been a manufacturer of cheap cars. More recently, it has become a manufacturer of good ones.

The fundamentally simpler nature of EVs means they're rolling software platforms, and the software matters a great deal. Tesla has gotten good at the software side of the equation, and are arguably ahead of pretty much everything else.
Considering the consistent gross mismanagement of Boeing, who receive free bailouts just for being Boeing

Well, I was going to say that calling them “business oriented” is laughable, but I guess that running a business in to the ground then laughing all the way to the bail out bank is just standard operating procedure now around the world.
Yes you can, it’s called scrolling. And the items on the right of the screen are indeed accessible via scrolling, it’s the items on the left of the screen that are entirely inaccesible. There is no possible justification for this design, it’s pure slop. (CSSWG’s design, not this site which is hamstringed by their incompetence)
Well, that's an interesting thing. During taxi-in, the cabin altitude should be the ground altitude; outflow valves open at touchdown.

Hard to understand how an an incipient failure could manifest then (e.g. from increased leakage).

Of course, there's warning lights for excessive cabin pressure, etc, too... which would point to a different theory of the problem than a structural manufacturing problem.
In /r/Aviation they were talking like it gets installed from the outside.
ULA's first Vulcan Centaur rocket is ready to fly
Trying to submit this research article on Kundalini awakenings, but getting throttle for some reason:

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8417526/

Psychologists have accepted the experience as real. The American Psychiatric Association added a diagnostic category for religious or spiritual problems some time ago.
I never heard of Meshtastic. Looks very interesting. Going to read up on it for sure, thanks for sharing!
Show HN: Roast my idea to build a Node.js back end template as a service
You're not me. The tax situation covered by this initiative fits my needs perfectly. Fine, there's nothing wrong with you paying. Not all of us have that kind of money.
Officers Are Less Intelligent: What Does It Mean?
The moment Boeing breakup discourse entering public discourse all of their lobbyists retinue will shout "Airbus, COMAC, Great Power Competition"
Well depends where you live, but in the Bay Area a house big enough for a home gym would be like $3 million and outside most people's budget.
Crypto Industry Holds Its Breath in Anticipation of First Spot Bitcoin ETFs
The incentives of creators and audiences do not align. Audiences want free stuff and can’t be bothered to pay. Creators have to be paid.

You are correct about publishers being aligned with neither.

In media nobody is really aligned with anyone. The publisher wants to screw the creator. The audience wants to screw the publisher (and the creator). Other perverse incentives exist too, like bombing the market with ad supported free crap to win attention.

The creator has always been at the bottom of the totem pole. If artists were not self motivated to make the art for its own sake, nobody would ever choose that profession.
I'm currently reading a book about that topic! https://pragprog.com/titles/atcrime/your-code-as-a-crime-sce...
Oh. Yeah that's not great.
Boeing decided to outsource to Spirit, Boeing is responsible to attest the quality of what Spirit is delivering for a Boeing product.

If Samsung/Apple would outsource their batteries to Megabattery Company LLC and those batteries started to randomly explode we would all be blaming Samsung/Apple for not doing proper QC. I hope we all hold Boeing to a much higher level of scrutiny than cellphone manufacturers.
https://archive.ph/ke45h
CSX Labs Launches Office of Intelligence and Defense
But we also had syntax highlighting in the early 90's, so, using uppercase to denote language elements was already an archaic approach that hurt readability.
I think those are the most vocal opponents.
It may potentially harm the security of the nation's subject, but it does not harm the interests of the ruling elites - and that's the real "national security" in practice.
I have made the decision that unless I absolutely can’t avoid it I am avoiding Boeing for the near future entirely.

But a 737 max is full no go for me no matter what the situation is. I will do multiple stops before stepping foot on one.

Personally I fly exclusively JetBlue in the US and they use Airbus almost exclusively. They have a few of whatever that other brand is. No Boeing.
Oof that's a read... https://alex313031.blogspot.com/2024/01/the-good-bad-and-ugl...
Don't bother. "Nut setters" are drill or other mechanical drive bits, "nut drivers" are screwdriver handle, manually-powered things. There. That's the article's content. It's a mediocre article that uses too many words to convey the information it does.
NTSB will find it, they’re surprisingly thorough.
Not sure about killing, but maybe harming.
No you didn't get hit on - americans in the mid 90s were racist toward chinamen
> I don't get how this has been allowed to flourish

It has made Disney tremendous amounts of money. That's basically it.
No, this isn't a well-functioning capitalist system. Competition is a core principle of capitalism. What occurred in the aerospace industry represents a government-sanctioned monopoly.
Because you must be a natural-born citizen of the US.
I can see other advantages like having same maintanence rail cars, emergency rail cars, ability to divert traffic in case of accidents. I guess there are even more such minor advantages.
If you're referring to Free Fillable Forms, the error messages are not DB errors, but "business logic rules errors". They do look like gibberish, but buried inside them is a code that can generally give a pretty clue as to the error.

I agree that it would be much nicer if they said "The amount of line 29 of Form ABCD does not appear at line 18 of Form WXYZ".

Even nicer if you never had to manually transfer amounts between forms.
Meta at CCC, I did not think that was possible.
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