skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You have to view all US regulatory goings-on wrt Boeing through the lens of Airbus-Boeing/EU-US trade rivalry (plus China's COMAC as a new entrant).

Boeing is the US's largest exporter (defense + civilian), and also the 65th largest US stock overall. Any US regulator action against Boeing would affect all that, plus US stock markets. You have to wonder how independent the FAA head can afford to be from Congressional interference, in the current setup. In the US, the FAA head is appointed (or, in recent admins, left vacant) by the Senate.

Back in the 2018/9 first 737MAX scandal [0], it was the Canadian, EU and Chinese regulators which were more aggressive about investigating and grounding, meanwhile the US FAA dragged its feet on taking action against Boeing while its donees like Congressman Sam Graves (R-MO 6) [1] continued to blame foreign pilot training, which was dishonest and adding insult to injury.

PS consider also in 2020, Rep. Mike Garcia (R-CA 27) secretly sold $50K Boeing stock ahead of his committee's damning 737MAX report; then avoided election scrutiny by simply blowing the deadline to report the stock sale... When he finally did disclose the sale, it was two weeks after the 2020 general election votes were cast, and three days after Garcia declared victory. He won by 333 votes. [2]

There's some scrutiny of Congressmen insider-trading biotech/pharma stocks esp. which their own committees (gasp) regulate, but really not a lot of scrutiny on aerospace. [3] Compare to George Santos, who wasn't implicated in a coverup that actually killed hundreds of people.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boeing_737_MAX_groundings#2019

[1]: https://www.opensecrets.org/members-of-congress/sam-graves/s...

[2]: https://www.thedailybeast.com/gop-rep-mike-garcia-secretly-s...

[3]: NYT 2022/09 : These 97 Members of Congress Reported Trades in Companies Influenced by Their Committees https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2022/09/13/us/politics/c...
On the other hand how much of the things Google has built/bought and grew today we enjoy could exist without the firehose of money that ads represented? I'm not sure Youtube happens without the ad money.
Yes, I know about that. It has a limited subset of the functionality I mention - for individuals. Does not exist for businesses.
So…they know very little actually. We just got a nasty tax bill from the IRS because when my wife gets an RSU grant, her company sells some stock to pay income tax for that grant. Little did I know, that generates a 1040 for the stock sale (to pay ordinary income taxes) with a cost basis of zero! Instead, you have to adjust the cost basis to the entire sale (or even more!) via supplemental information. Annoying, so I had to learn a bunch of tax rules over one day on the weekend, and in the end the amended return said the IRS owed us money.

It’s crazy stuff like this that means the IRS can’t really calculate your taxes for you.
Consider comparing to gyms that only offer classes. The gym might offer 10-20 time slots per day. Whereas self sufficiency enables infinitely many start times. Very useful under certain circumstances. Examples: finish work very late (when no classes are scheduled), intend to train but shortly before class recognise a need for more of a warm up (I've heard this happens with experienced gym goers, not just newbie folks like myself). With a class you can't always turn up late and you almost certainly can't delay its start time. But with self sufficient training, you can start late if your body requires more warming up; it can start any time you want it to.
If that standard library would be written in JS, a new browser (or rather a new JS engine being a part of the browser) could just use some existing implementation (a reference implementation maybe?), no need to reinvent the wheel in every part of the browser.
I was surprised to learn that scooters can report when they have fallen over. Every time I encounter one blocking a sidewalk, I move it off the sidewalk and knock it over. I am pleased to know that this might show up as a metric when customers fail to park them courteously.
The ancients reached for divination methods when reason failed them. You on the other hand can write a quick python script with a random number source in it.
I've been thinking the same thing.

Boeing is doubling down on its disgraceful behavior with shit like this: https://www.seattletimes.com/business/boeing-aerospace/boein...
I have been looking for a viewer exactly like this for so long! Visidata is nice, but way more complex than what I was after. This will fit perfectly into my workflow, thank you for sharing!
Show HN: New RISC-V emulator for Computer Science education
Just released EGG, an emulator created for teaching Assembly and microprocessors (designed to suit the needs of the Microprocessors classes, at Universidade Federal do Paraná, Brazil). The emulator will support multiple architetures in the future, but currently only RISC-V is implemented.
I don't think that it makes a ton of sense to draw an ideological difference between shorting and buying in the secondary market, where buying is 'Investing' and short selling isn't. Both are valid contributors to price discovery. The initial investment already happened, you're not actually adding capital to the company when buying shares on an exchange.
After watching this I'm actually scared as a software developer. What an incredible programme. It has definitely opened my eyes to the effects our software can have in the real world.
They also don’t have dealer networks or unions, almost no debt, and have somehow maintained those high margins despite their low debt and rapid growth. It’s possible that by the time they start making the $20k car their margins will still be relatively high compared to other cars in the same price range.

I wonder how almost $200 billion in debt at these interest rates might factor into your calculations? Or were you not aware of Toyota’s debt?

https://www.statista.com/chart/27743/companies-with-the-high...
I dunno if allocation speed is that critical to HPC... presumably in that environment, you're allocating big arrays up front and then reusing them. Maybe someone can set me straight on this?
which will never happen.
Airbus is a pan european political project asmuch as a competitor to boeing. (also, one which is hugely important for independence of european airtransport).
British private schools in China under threat as new 'patriotic' law comes in
A fair portion of large work trucks aren't moving all the time but require running. This is what Edison is shooting for currently. Jobs that have a lot of sitting, such as piles of things (ironically) in the oil industry and things in Welding applications. Municipal trucks can benefit by running full electric in sensitive areas.

Pure electric just won't work for any sizable portion of trucks getting converted, grid requirements just can't be met.
Thanks for the feedback :)

Ah ok, it's using Sendgrid (free tier) for the emails so perhaps that's impacting deliverability - I have found in the past the shared IPs can be hit and miss. I'll look at switching to a paid service and make sure there's a way to have the email resent if it doesn't deliver.

Sure, I'll look into cleaning up the error messages and providing a demo app next.
That is the definition of "failing upwards". It's the fashion of the past 50 years in business.
Read this: https://www.thebignewsletter.com/p/the-coming-boeing-bailout

One of the tenets of the article is that the breakdown of the once-impermeable wall between civilian and military divisions has resulted in disaster.
Process supervisors are inherently problematic because they are at the heart of a microservices model.
AFAICT it’s only found in the south park canon:

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0705934/characters/nm0005002
You could use a syntax highlighting theme where reserved words are gray for instance (if you want them to fade into the background).
JavaScript always stare back even when you close your laptop
Titanium fan disks, for example are all required to be inspected not just when installed but also at regular engine maintenance intervals. The inspection requires essentially complete disassembly of the fan (so it is required during particular engine maintenance events) followed by the application of penetrating dye and inspection at a narrow granularity.

This kind of maintenance and inspection actually can be required and performed, it just costs more time and money. If we want to be all market capitalism about this we could require tests necessary to ensure safety and let engineers, business people, and executives make decisions that price in the cost of dangerous and risky designs that require constant and invasive inspection and maintenance.

The only real difference with today would be regulators having a spine and/or more than pro forma power to enforce their decisions.
Is that a good idea? I always feel like the best time to fly a plane or airliner is after they've had some incident that leads them to being under a microscope.

That is, all the MAX 9s have been grounded, and I'm guessing they'll all be thoroughly inspected for this issue before they fly again. So if your concern is that you'll hit a repeat of this same issue, that seems like the wrong concern.
> This is described well in Atomic Habits. Train yourself to think “I am just not the kind of person who does x.”

Is this just basically willpower?

Or perhaps I should read the book to find out.
A friend of mine works in Boeing as a data scientist. His team has 10 people. Two of them can write code for analytics and models. The other 8 "manage projects", whatever that means. They spend their days creating processes, managing tickets, enforcing specific formats of tickets and stories and what not. Yet, none of the eight knew how to write product specs nor could be bothered with basic things like understanding how git works.

I have a hard time imagining how Boeing could survive in the long run with this level of bureaucracy.

Edit: Saw the summary of the book Flying Blind: "A fast-paced look at the corporate dysfunction--the ruthless cost-cutting, toxic workplaces, and cutthroat management--that contributed to one of the worst tragedies in modern aviation". One has to ask: where did the cost cutting go? What's cutting throat? It looks to me that the management of Boeing is grossly incompetent.
Sorry but I'm not your monkey. Go troll someone else.
They both acted in the same area. In case an important company is going under, you can merge it into a similar company to keep it running.
The (useless) sequel has a similar claim for 3d imaging. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Futureworld
yes exactly the same. Quite often I see the most beautiful solution with the simplest tools and solutions.
Electric cannot win in semi applications for the foreseeable future. We'd need many more terawatts of power in the to supply their needs.
you're not wrong about google groups being a major vector for spam, but it is funny to watch people approve of gatekeeping interoperability when it's the one THEY care about.

the imessage thing is the same as google groups, or if google ran an open SMTP relay, it's gonna result in a ton of spam and people don't care as long as THEY get a personal win.
An experimental research system does not have to be a complete practical system, it can focus on a few things to prove a point, support a scientific claim.
> isn’t entirely hobbled by US professional management culture

When the only competitor fully keeping up/overpassing Tesla on the EV side is BYD, and VW is cuting through it's workforce to "stay competitive", it gives a lot of pause on the ethics of the car makers in the field.

Do we need to go through a dark age again before ever getting out of the tunnel ?
Isolated cookies is not 3rd party cookie blocking.

Based on commentary I think google has done a good job of misleading people.

ITP and isolated cookies are a response to companies like Google and Facebook developing mechanisms to defeat/undermine 3rd party cookie blocking.

Google's "tracking protection" is something Safari did from the very first beta two decades ago, Firefox adopted 3rd party cookie blocking more recently, but that's all google is doing right now, and (presumably because) it's a tracking mechanism that they have already defeated.

They're calling it "tracking protection" to try and launder the "tracking protection" terminology of actual privacy mechanisms and terminology of other browsers, rather than actually acknowledging that what they're doing now was insufficient years ago (when safari and firefox had to introduce a bunch of very complex logic to continue to actually protect user privacy).
Thanks for letting me know… does it say why?
My computer was barely up to playing U VII and unfortunately I played it over summer break the year it came out, and a bit the following, and never finished it.

Instead I got all the spoilers for Starflight from Usenet and finished it.
Screw TikTok. It's a cesspool of shit, compounded by its idiotic aspect ratio.
it works the same way the other way around no? airbus planes are still flying in the US even though they are currently eating boeing's lunch.
I believe that’s the joke, yeah.
> which is divorced from reality in general.

It's not exactly divorced from reality. You can synthetically create the very same position. While it sounds like what they're doing is attacking markets and economy, that's just not the case. Unless they made both the options and derivatives markets illegal and also made borrowing and lending stock shares illegal, shorting the security is a position that can easily be created. It was organically discovered at the Amsterdam Stock Exchange within like a couple years after it was founded. The exchange didn't invent it and start offering it either. The traders simply realized that if they could borrow/lend and buy/sell, then they can take an inverse position.
I tacked a strip of metal pigeon spikes to the apex of my roof and ran some wire to a ground rod. It's more repellant than protection, which is good enough for me.
Boeing is in deep trouble. $16B underwater ($134B assets, $150B liabilities) [0]

Turns out focusing on profits over quality leads to neither.

[0] https://valustox.com/BA
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How does one structure memory and programs for a whole waver soc? I assume the heat forces the chip let's to go dark in waves?

So memory is shoved to the next and new code, data is preloaded for dark silicone?
I am not an educator especially not with kids, so I take everything I say with a big glass of salt water.

I'd explain the basic constructs of loop, functions and statements, and then ask them to think how they could make the game work (looping part) and render.
Sure they do. At this rate the planes will stop working well enough to take off, eliminating accidents forever.
There's also the engine-nacelles-melting issue.
This browser looks ok, but stuff like this turns me off from using it.

Single-developer projects are always risky. What if the dev just decides to stop developing it? Or there's a massive vulnerability, and they're on vacation with no internet?
All the manufacturers of key pieces of military advanced weapons are on that list. Fighter jets are on the very top. When corporate America is now more about "business" than engineering, making a good plane is very expensive. It's just business :|
I was actually a Python lover for a long time, but so many changes have made me look otherplace.
If you were in a position of power to effect change, what would you do about it?
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The vehicle also wades in water up to 1000mm (1400mm when lifted), so that snorkel may be useful under those conditions and not when floating.
NASA Worldwind: an open-source high-res satellite globe for web pages
Exactly, no I can't get any of the libraries I want to work on TinyGo though, but that's another thing :)
These only make sense when there's significant discussion there otherwise they're just links to nowhere, e.g. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38873944
Exactly. This plane was created as a modernization of a several decades old design clearly just to be easily approved without major scrutiny by the FAA. There are many bad decisions made to create this plane that we don't even know yet.
As someone who uses the older Usenet material to maintain some ancient computing equipment, we have been backing up as much as possible to the Internet archive.
https://archive.is/OCuQK
STB: Single-file public domain libraries for C/C++
ClearCred: Transform Your Credit Cards into Debit Cards
It's safer to have a new airplane design behave like the old one. There have been many crashes due a pilot being stressed and automatically doing something that would have been right on a previous airplane he was familiar with, but which was wrong for the current airplane he is flying.

All jet airliners are aerodynamically unstable and use active controls to "paper over" that. There is nothing inherently wrong with doing that.

The MCAS problem was not due to its purpose. The problem was the software for it had too much authority, and did not shut off when the pilot countermanded it. A worse problem was the pilots did not follow emergency procedures for runaway trim.

For reference, the emergency procedures are:

1. restore normal trim with the electric trim switches (which overrides MCAS)

2. turn off the trim via a switch on the console
What do they consider to be an "LLM of this size"?

While this technique of scaling up an existing pre-trained model via fine-tuning is really impressive, it feels a bit unfair to compare what's essentially now an 8.3B model to mostly standard 7B ones, especially considering how important scale is in predicting LLM performance.
I love what you said here, this is exactly my feeling/experience when working in Go. I hate it because I can't use fancy abstractions like Python or JavaScript. BUT I love that everyone else can't use fancy abstractions haha :)
I had the opposite experience with FL Studio.

I think the problem is that there's too many different ways to do the same thing in FL Studio, whereas Ableton Live keeps it pretty simple in terms of workflow.

There's no session mode, but you get that sequencer instead. But to be fair, I never used session mode in Ableton, only arrangement.

But at the end of the day, DAWs are so personal. Everyone has a different preference for something different.
Slides:
https://cfp.all-systems-go.io/media/all-systems-go-2023/subm...
> there are rumors that a certain large middle eastern airline

Thank god there are airlines with standards. I'm certainly glad my Middle Eastern long haul option for a particular cross-continent journey does not have any faulty Boeing models.
The Breadwinner was a rough watch. Not Grave of the Fireflies level, but dealing with very heavy subject matters. Like an animated Kiterunner.
great observation :)
Show HN: Hacker News User Information on Hover
Hello friends,

It probably exists or someone made it before but I couldn't find it so I created one myself. I also noticed people check each other's profiles often so this might come in handy.

Screenshot of the usage (ignore the red arrow it doesn't come with the extension): https://imgur.com/a/gvJ93ne

This Chrome extension does one simple thing. If you want to check the user information listed in the profile including username, creation date, karma, and about. You just need to hover over the username. I was clicking on users before and it was a waste of time I thought and created this simple extension.

The delay is set to 0.5 seconds so when you move your cursor over users while navigating you don't send requests to the HN by accident.

Cheers.
Brazil's Pesticide Problem
Yeah, that's definitely the problem with Apple today. The products aren't bad at all but for the price asked they feel way too much like a better copy/version of whatever cheaper model exists in the same category.
Sure, the fit and finish is extremely good but they now have competitors that do just as well (or so close that it doesn't matter) but at a much better price.

I think the only thing still worthwhile at Apple is macOS but they have been on a killing spree trying to completely annihilate everything that made it good in the first place. In some ways it's still somewhat nicer to use than Windows but it matters much less now that their hardware prices have skyrocketed and the lineup only makes sense in a profit maximization strategy.

Their desktops do not make sense at the price they are sold at: what I would consider a minimum viable (16GB of RAM, 512GB of SSD) Mac Mini starts at 1200€ (but what you really want is the "Pro" 10 cores version at 1500€). The problem is that you can literally get a laptop that will perform similarly for the same price or even less money.
You could say that the laptop has a bad screen (the one I checked had a recent OLED so that's doubtful) or won't last on battery or whatever but in comparison you basically get it for free.

Their laptop could be good but the design is not great and the pricing is just insane when you consider the market. The minimum viable pricing for a MacBook Air would be 1760€ and a MacBook Pro 2230€. At those prices you get very underwhelming CPU/GPU performance considering.
For all the hype Apple Silicon gets, base versions of their chips are good for efficiency but when you consider overall performance it's not really a good deal. Again, what you really want is the "Pro" version, but it starts at 2.5K€ and at this point you realize that you could buy a more performant PC plus a decent laptop to carry around with about the same budget.
Now macOS is nice, but at what price?
wow this is next level haha :D
(2023)

Discussion from December: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38649554
Bulllllllshit.

The copyright violation falls squarely on the people who scraped the everloving bajeezus out of everything, then trained on it. Trying to put the liability on the prompter is just fishing for a pass to not have to develop a well defined process whereby training data is acquired without bothering with compensating the source.

Get back to me when all the sc-rapey types ask permission first. Then we can talk in good faith about loosening things up. No demonstration of such good faith has been hitherto done however.
Where are the competent people taking the job now?
1. Volume. They've sold so many 737s they're scared to upset the market. 747s

2. Target market. There are airlines like Southwest and Ryanair who use a lot of 737s and have optimised their routines around very specific aircraft, so want as little change as possible. In comparison the bigger aircraft are used more by the legacy carriers and flag carriers, who are more used to operating a mixed fleet and more willing to try something new.
omg, it get's better (or worse) here :D
For the same type (shared whiteboard) and kind (getting back into the game) I chose Flutter for front (web/mobile) and Rust for back. Had a lot of fun and it even kinda worked :-)
needing to move economics’ goalposts to the extent Marx is now considered irrelevant to the field of economics only goes to show how influential he’s been. The current practitioners disagree with him? Sure, fine, but to say he’s irrelevant is absurd. He’s easily one of the most influential thinkers in the space.
Stream to Chromecast with resolved, vlc and bash
And Soviet built airliners are known for their safety?
Would you be open to explaining the joke and the error?

I'm not able to decipher what went wrong from your comment right now (though it might just be me!).