skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I also think most of these businesses are over engineered. These aren’t really tech businesses. Tech is just a conduit. You really don’t need that many engineers and data scientists and UX designers for a rental service.

The problem with these businesses is that they raise money as “tech businesses”, which gets them much higher valuations, but also makes them spend way more on engineers to justify that “tech” tag.
Sure, but the amount of leakiness varies a lot. And in practice, most of the time we just don't need to care.

Of course the canonical, annoying examples of the leaky abstractions involve software stacks, where we end up writing a bunch of code, and find that things work great until weird edge cases happen, and then we get upset and have to dig through the abstractions to figure out what's going on.

But the leaks in a lot of real-world abstractions just don't matter. Like the accelerator pedal in a car. That one does leak a bit in some places: for example, pressing the pedal isn't linear. On a (usually ICE) car with a geared transmission, pressing the pedal hard when in gear one gives you different results than when you press it hard when in gear six. But then you switch to an EV and the response is different. Or even switch to a different ICE car with a different transmission, and the response is different. But ultimately that doesn't really matter; the person driving gets used to it in very short order. The leaks in that abstraction just don't matter all that much.
I didn't mention it since I'm yet to implement it. I think I'll release Plume's beta in around two months, so I've got plenty of time to work on those. And yes, the Kanban is work in progress, but I'm nearly done[1].

[1] https://imgur.com/NIgDLOU
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I assume by tech you mean web dev right? Since planes are also technology.
What Is a Model Registry?
Yes, children under 18 should not have access to a smart phone or social media.
Originally cpu but can do gpu too
Does anything else support grammar?
The diff from the first parent. This isn't breaking any symmetry between the parents, since git already treats the first parent as special.
you couldn't make those data conform to an interface and have the algorithm work on the interface ?

in those scenarios i usually either work with interfaces, or composition (struct embedding), or as a final resort to codegen for things like generating bindings to database tables. the codegen is usually quite a good solution and makes debugging the generated code very straightforward, since it's all there, in the _generated folder, instead of in a temporary file generated by the compiler. it also makes the generator code a separate project, which IMHO is a better solution than using all kinds of macro and complex meta programmation directly in the final project.
From elsewhere in this conversation, asimpleusecase linked https://www.alternativeairlines.com/airlines-not-flying-boei...
No smart phone and no social media for kids society wide and we go back to good old fashioned bullying in person. That’s much easier to curtail.
> it is an MBA culture.

The MBA program should include more ethics courses and perhaps an adapted version of the Hippocratic Oath.

--> MBA Oath : https://mbaoath.org/
Sure, but in terms of understanding what to expect git to output, the two points of view should be equally valid.
Yeah. I am looking forward to going back to the gym but I don’t stop reminding my parents that there’s nothing like iron because it’s hard to find anything as heavy and compact.

It’s not the gym what I miss, but the iron barbell
I think the only way to know is to have the experience. I'm with you - it sounds too farfetched. It can't possibly be true... on the other hand, almost every single book I've read on the subject, including by people I've met, talk about such things.

In Indian yoga these abilities are known as siddhis. But as they seem impossible the only way I could be convinced is if they happened to me.

Healthy scepticism is the point though. If we were content just with belief, we'd never need these practices.
I read an article in the Financial Times about how there is a major shortage of CPAs (licensed accountants) in the United States. Something like 65% of CPAs are 55 or older. This sounds like an opportunity to me.
> There is nothing within the Jones Act itself that currently prevents an innovative and enterprising American entrepreneur from building ships at a lower cost.

There is. Without the Jones Act an innovative and enterprising American entrepreneur could build ships partially or wholly outside the US.

She could sell them to a re-invigorated domestic shipping industry. The re-invigoration coming from (1) lowered costs by being allowed to hire foreigners, (2) lower cost of capital, because foreign ownership is allowed, and (3) from the foreign competition spurring on productivity improvements.

A repeal of the Jones act would lower the costs of our American ship building entrepreneur directly, and increase demand for her products, by lowering the costs of her customers.
The correct way to safely drive a car is intuition – not a "mental model" of anything.

That's why experienced drivers drive so much more safely than novice ones. It's certainly not because in the meantime, they somehow learned how the throttle works internally.

The same basic lesson applies to software. The best design is the one that lends itself most to human intuition. Because when saving a photo from an image editor, users sure as hell aren't thinking "now an inode is created with this and that metadata".
> is “how Git implements it” really the right way to explain it?

>> Of course not,

As long as the user is a software developer I would disagree. If the developer cannot understand the implementation concept style of explanation, I don't want to use or review their code either. I am saying implementation concepts as object storage, branches being pointers to objects etc. Of course implementation details and optimizations like packfiles don't matter.

Every user-friendly explanation will have its limits once we get merges, rebases etc. For software developers it is important that their mental models don't hit such limits.

If the user is not a software developer you have a point.
I've driven in mountains (I'm actually in the mountains, with snow on the ground, even, right now) and for 15 years drove manual (I sometimes miss it, but mostly do not, in the same way that I run Debian now and can't be bothered to run a distro like Gentoo anymore), but I literally never thought of pressing the gas pedal as "regulate the intake manifold". I honestly don't even know what an intake manifold is, though I'm sure if I cared enough, Wikipedia would tell me.

Certainly my understanding of it is a bit more nuanced than simply "accelerate", but ultimately.... "press pedal harder, car moves faster" is... fine? Sure, you have to consider road conditions and (if driving manual) your current gear, speed, RPMs, etc., but... I dunno, I still think "press pedal harder, car moves faster" is a useful mental model to have, to some non-zero level of approximation.

Put another way: if I were to think of all the details of what the accelerator of a car actually does under the hood every time I pressed it, and consider the implications of it and allow that to inform how I press the accelerator, I would have precious little time to actually drive the car... like, the things that actually matter, like steering and staying on the road and avoiding other cars and people and whatnot. When I press the accelerator, I think about the effect it's going to have on the car. And I have a good idea of what effect it's going to have based on my experience driving that car (or any car, really). Not based on any knowledge -- knowledge that I lack! -- of what pressing the accelerator actually does.
Why would you shower before exercising and not after?
Why? What's so magic about manufacturing?
Only because of the amount of abuse performed using it...

I have fond memories rewriting sendmail.cf and mc files on BSD. Ran servers on pc hardware and mirrored hdd drives; they pushed mail like nobody's business.

If the Exchange box fell over at the weekend, sendmail would sit there patiently waiting (screaming DEFERRED silently to log) with tens of thousands of mails until it came alive again, and push them out in minutes, faster than Exchange could receive (I remember spamming #sendmail -q and you could watch the disk activity freak out on exchange ) .

Confident sendmail is best mta ever. Do the big players use something else these days?

--
Edit to add an ai poem for my favourite mta -

Sendmail is not a simple mail app
It's a mighty mail transfer agent that can adapt
It can process SMTP commands and deliver mails
To any destination that it can access

Sendmail is flexible and extendable
It can be modified to fit any goal or role
It can sort, redirect, transform, and control mails
With its intricate rulesets and macro code

Sendmail is better than MS exchange
It's more secure, dependable, and swift
It's the default MTA for many Linux systems
And it's free and open source, unlike its rival's gift
It's just an awkward social situation, and most people just want to be left to get on with their work when they're on the clock.
There seems to be varying info on this... The BBC article claims it wasn't "installed" for AS, but this article:
https://www.flightglobal.com/the-737-story-the-long-stretch/...

"Provision for the new exits – which boost the exit limit capacity from 189 to 215 passengers – “will be structurally installed as standard in all -900s, and will allow operators to decide if the door should be activated or deactivated”, says 737 chief project engineer Mike Delaney."

Makes it sound like they're always installed, and airlines can opt to activate them or not...
Microsoft just changed the license of phi-2 to MIT!
Is there any particular liveatc channel/location that offers a representative view of actual quality?
My understanding is that they have developed an import substitution plan for the jet and are resolved to keep producing it. [1] For instance, they are substituting the original SaM-146 engines with fully domestically produced PD-8 engines and I understand they are already, or close to testing the first prototype with the new engines (they already tested an earlier prototype with other import substitutions but which still had the old engines). [2]

[1] https://asiatimes.com/2023/09/russia-defies-sanctions-with-h...

[2] https://tass.com/economy/1699907
Even that, in term in term of cost it's not much. And what's the likelyhood of scratching the car? (It never happened to me with rentals)
There is a point at which you end up re-writing the entire universe yourself for smaller and smaller gains
It may be better to merely use a versioning field and allow some entries to be hidden by mods (published/draft/hidden indicator.)

Rollbacks at the database level will make things harder to understand and prevent future reference to disputed entries.
(Mods may want to deliberate or keep for future reference.)

Besides, wouldn’t you want access to old revisions?
But did they have access to 24/7 always on social media shaming and bullying?
As I see it, this is to point out that attempts to change sexual orientation are doomed to be unsuccessful - and these are, in most cases, either forced or caused by peer pressure. I personally haven't heard of any case of a person doing a full 180 degrees from gay to straight who would not be motivated by religion.
https://archive.ph/hlMcz

"accused of"

"they involved only a few paragraphs of a 330-page thesis."

Systems like Turn-it-in gives you a % plagiarism score and it is usually >0 as it includes your citation text etc. and any direct quotes. So for a 330 page thesis a few sentences will not really make a difference. Your assessors wil let it slide as, on balance, it's not a sufficient problem compared to your original work.

So this looks like a hit job to turn the Gay incident into "see, everyone does it" so they can bring her back later when everyone has moved to the next thing.

We all know it is nothing to do with plagiarism but upsetting certain people.
Sounds delicious.
Confirming you have no idea what you're talking about.
then reinstall the landline and ditch the cellphones

this isn't hard
Should all companies expand to the whole globe?

There are plenty of well-off places with mild climate where using a scooter all year around is feasible.
A diff like this is perfectly valid:

-foo
-bar
-baz
+foo
+bar

Although I don't know any tool which would actually generate such a diff.
Yes I interpret it as guiding light inside the glass such that the sensor is on the lateral aspect of the glass embedded in a glass frame perpendicular to the target image.

Sounds like they embedded a light splitter with some sort of periscope style lense inside a glass pane.

So not actually bolted oblique to the glass as GP suggested.
What about FAA execs? This is their job to make sure this cannot happen
I live in Seattle too. I've been here for twenty years, driving and biking and walking, and by far the most real close calls I've had have been on foot, from cars. A few on my bike too—in particular, I was hit by a Porsche SUV U-turning out of a parallel parking spot last fall, and received permanent ligament damage in my shoulder.

> Seattle drivers seems to understand the idea of pedestrians.

I used to have to cross a semi-busy road twice a day on my walk to and from work. I crossed at a marked crosswalk, but about 90% of the time cars would not stop unless I forced them to by entering the road myself (essentially playing chicken with them), and more than once they blasted through the crosswalk while I was still in it, speeding past inches from me. Never mind that the law says pedestrians have the right of way. This experience is not unique to the crosswalk in question—in fact, it is essentially universal. I find your assertion that "Seattle drivers seems [sic] to understand the idea of pedestrians" utterly baffling. Perhaps you are posting from a parallel universe, or one of the wealthy outlying neighborhoods that are Seattle in name only.

> the "self-entitled idiots" that I see on a weekly/daily basis, for more than a decade, are bicyclists.

Just today, on my bike ride home on the stretch of the Burke Gilman between Fremont and Ballard, a red Jeep Cherokee blasted through a stop sign right in front of me, without so much as tapping the brakes. The onus was on me to account for his gross negligence, despite having the right of way. This sort of thing is so common I barely notice it anymore.

--

So yes, I'm sure we can both fire off anecdotes about modal conflicts all day. I'm sure everybody who lives in a big city can. But I challenge you to show me with data that bicycles are any meaningful fraction of the public health hazard that large pickup trucks are. And, frankly—based on two decades of commuting throughout the city in all three modes at issue here—I would suggest that you are being intellectually dishonest with yourself regarding proportionalities. I can recall only a single instance where a cyclist put me in any real danger, and I would take being hit by a cyclist any day over meeting the six foot fascia of a modern pickup at the speed limit plus fifteen (since, as I'm sure we both know, nearly every driver exceeds the speed limit on a habitual basis).
It's so weird to me that he was already 7 when Pearl Harbor was bombed.
Source? Also, I think you may be replying to something I didn’t say. What I said was that installing batteries on each house is going to be less efficient than installing grid-scale batteries because you will end up over installing the amount of capacity you need initially so that you never go dark on the off chance you pull more power. Or you use a grid hookup as a backup in which case you end up kinda of parasitic where you don’t pay for the grid but rely on it being there to offload the responsibility of providing differential power when your home solution isn’t meeting your needs (this is expensive because the grid has non trivial maintenance costs that you’re not contributing to). Households will inevitably anlso under provision in the long term due to unaccounted for energy growth (eg EV vehicles). It’s also going to be more expensive because people who don’t have the capital to install their own batteries will be stuck paying the bill for grid scale batteries and maintenance anyway while richer households get to avoid that cost due to their own solar install.

As for grid scale batteries, they do remain prohibitively expensive - even nuclear with massive cost overruns handily beats solar + batteries. There’s also legitimate questions about whether we can actually manufacture enough batteries to have solar run as baseload power, especially with people adding an insane number of EVs in the coming decades to charge overnight. Remember - you have to recharge the batteries themselves which means you need a bunch of extra solar just to charge the night time batteries which means ~30% more capacity than is rated to handle daytime power otherwise. So 30% larger solar install than we’re building today + more battery capacity than we’ve ever demonstrated the ability to build.

But anyway. You can continue to believe in grid scale batteries as a way to make solar work for baseload but that has nothing to do with what I said about using solar+batteries for individual homes instead of grid scale power.

Have you considered that renewables don’t actually have a track record of replacing baseload power except for wind in some very specific and extremely unique geographic areas? And renewables also have a very poor track record in terms of having any reduction in fossil fuel consumption from the grid? Might be something to try on rather than making appeals to authority and claiming any skeptics are wrong.
Why would they? For the number of seats they had, the extra emergency exits aren't required. Installing the extra doors would mean more things to inspect or go wrong.

If you want to get hung up on the emergency exits, consider why every modern airliner has doors that are easier (power assist) to open in an emergency but the 737 has doors that are more difficult to open in an emergency.
Teardown of two Russian missile sensors
At least in my code, these nested loop thingies are rarely unique. If I have to do it once I probably have to do it many times. If I'm being mindful, I stop repeating myself and just write a generator so that I can invoke it like:

[foo(x) for x in nonempty(bar_mat)]

Mostly this is because I live in fear of ruff's complexity warning, C901.
- Fortunately, most democratic countries will be constitutionally prevented from enacting full-blown police states to stop kids from doing naughty things. Hopefully.

Constitution/law just transfer responsibility to other entity. Whithout responsibility, there is no freedom. State never bringing morale or ethics to society. I would rather focus on why kids doing naughty things, where they learn it, what are consequences of their actions, etc.
Just got into Zwift, after getting a Wahoo Kickr for my road bike.

This service is 100% amazing, highly addictive - and very affordable. Haven't even done a race yet, structured ERG mode workouts and hill climbs are so darned enjoyable.

Have my squat rack metres away; home gyms are amazing.
Alaska Airlines grounds Boeing 737 Max 9 planes after mid-air window blowout
A320 is the smaller plane, right? I've heard passengers love the A350 as well.
People absolutely provide specifics. How about the times he keeps firing people who disagree with him? Or when he sexually assaults people? Is that “just being a person”?
diff model - considered harmful

For me, the incongruity between the way git was supposed to work, based on the idea that it stored deltas, and actual observed behavior was maddening.

More than once I completely ripped out a git repo just so I could get around the stupid merge conflicts I would end up with on a single user project.

We should always teach that git stores snapshots, and shows diffs as a convenient fiction for the user.
You have to add git and BSD. I don't really know about BSD but openSSH created by openBSD, one of distro in BSD community.
Great read, this guy is going on my daily RSS feed list.
Finally a comprehensive guide on how to arrange ones home/life once that YC deal goes through.

There's also the tip on bus station prey, should it not.

Great read (seriously).
Then you’re going to have to ground all the 737-900ERs (in service
since 2007) out there as well, since they use the exact same part.

Well, no.

a.) The -900ER has exit doors where the -9 has plugs blocking off the doors.

b.) If the problem was installation related then it would still make sense to ground the planes and inspect the potentially faulty aircraft.
Think the govs lost their vetoes a while ago. Airbus is now a play by American asset managers AFAIK. Since the market’s mature, it’s more attractive and profitable to buy up programs like the A220 and farm EU subsidies vs. betting on a Boeing turnaround.
Can you add a service worker and manifest to make this into a progressive web app that works offline? If there's a GitHub, I'd love to help add that feature because it'd be useful to me. If it's not public you can find me here https://github.com/gabesullice
Agreed, although I don't think this was a problem for me until I was in my 30s or so.
Adults ruin their lives by smoking tobacco, drinking alcohol... Also they ruin relationships by consuming porn. Maybe we should ban it completely?
Learning Bimanual Mobile Manipulation with Low-Cost Whole-Body Teleoperation
MeshCom – exchange text messages via LORA radio modules
> I don't think autocomplete is comparable with generative code processes.

It absolutely is. That's the main way Github Copilot works.

> Or I will be so slow that the management will oust me?

They probably won't oust you but they will notice that your colleagues are much more productive than you and your salary will fall behind.
Ah sorry I was referring to his experiences in his book [1]. He awoke kundalini without proper preparation and it nearly killed him.

I don't care for anyone's beliefs tbh since it's direct experience that matters. But in aggregate there are sufficient similar reports to convince me kundalini is a real, universally accessible experience (and now my own experiences are enough to keep me moving forward).

And I meant the techniques to awaken it were kept secret. Possible reasons were that it was viewed as too powerful for the masses, but also that without proper preparation it can make people think they're going mad (hallucinations, etc).

BTW if you do want to learn more, the best resources I've found are [2] (lessons) and [3] (for anatomical locations).

[1] https://www.amazon.co.uk/Kundalini-Evolutionary-Energy-Gopi-...

[2] https://aypsite.org/MainDirectory.html

[3] https://www.amazon.co.uk/Kundalini-Tantra-Swami-Satyananda-S...
These are nowhere near a replacement for weights or machines. I notice you didn't even mention doing pull-ups, the only body-weight exercise with enough resistance for you to actually build muscle from.

Can you point me to a bodyweight exercise that can sub in for 450lb deadlifts for sets of 6? How about for 250lbs bench for sets of 6? While you can build good general health and endurance i n 2 square meters in "the park," you by nature of the exercises are putting a (very) low ceiling on potential muscle mass, which is very important not just for looks but also for general metabolic health (muscles act as a glucose sink, blunting the effects of blood-sugar spikes) as well as preventing frailty/immobility in old age.
SEEKING VOLUNTEERS:

Project name : Exabase

Github: https://github.com/Uiedbook/Exabase

Exabase is a database DBMS for the future.
(shatters?)
It is a accessibility nightmare.
Good that it is gone
> I find myself wondering if there is a primitive consciousness on the cellular level

That seems to be obviously true to me. The alternative would be that consciousness simply appears at some point out of literally nowhere because there would be no lower levels from which it emerges.