skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't know about NYC, but in my territory the public transit authority shares live and real-time data with Google. It's exposed in Maps with a very nice interface, such that I don't even need to install the buggy, bespoke app provided by the transit service.

They also have an SMS query service which seemed to always be inaccurate or lying. I stopped using it, it was so unreliable. But Google Maps can tell me exactly where the next bus/train is, how much delayed, how crowded it is, whether security is on board or not, because Google polls actual passengers about these parameters.
A manufacturing mistake which makes it into service is a failure of QA and testing systems design. (At least above a certain threshold which varies depending on the industry etc. etc.)
My experience has been that it can be relatively faster.

That is, the last time I filed online it took I think practically a year before they got to it (I think the year of the pandemic)

I figure there's so few people filing by mail these days that they're able to process them faster than the huge amount of online filing.

I'm guessing they're separate teams (online vs mail). However I have no idea.

Regardless mailing has worked better for me the last couple years.

Additionally I do not have to use the third party ID verify thing (might just be for accessing information on irs.gov) that I am just sure is going to have a breach and can not for the life of me fathom why our government (Federal) needs a private company to verify the identity of a citizen via government (State) resources.
If you use synthetic oil, the interval is 10,000 miles or 1 year, even for your Sienna.
Probably they refer to Tesla, Full Self Driving feature but the small print explains that is not "full self driving" the name is just an aspiration, the advertisement statement are also false because are also aspirations etc.
AFAIK there is soem kind of investigation about the mode this feature was advertised and I expect that sooner or later the people that were tricked to pay for a FSD would demand their money back since the promises were not kept.
About their safety, the human must pay attention all the time so we can judge the safety of the software because the human intervenes when the situation is to unsafe and prevents the crashes, with the exception when the humans do not pay attention and the car kills/injures them.(any idea what happen with that software guy killed in a Tesla? did the family pursue the cause in justice or they got money to give up?)
Somewhere in the suburbs south of Portland, possibly near Metzger.
I have seen a few on the road in Costa Rica as well. There are not a lot of electric cars on the roads down there despite the tax incentives because they are too expensive for the average Tico. You also seen a decent number of Cherry, Geely, Great Wall and JAC on the road down there as well...among other Chinese makes.
Religion is supposed to be about guidance for people and how to live a good life as a part of the whole. Dealing with ethical codes, coping with the human condition of stress and suffering, familial and social bonds etc.

It's all just mythology that also have some moral guidance, some of which is incompatible or purported to be incompatible with existence of people I care about.

It isn't made for you and me today. It's made for people who lived thousand of years ago with their concerns and values.

Science on the other hand, at least hard science, is focused on making predictions about the material world. The two have very little overlap in general and trying to mix them I fear will not result in good science or good religion.

Science is one of our most valuable and most reliable way to answer questions about reality. As such, it will always be a useful tool to help inform our moral questions, even if it's basically mostly silent on that question.
Just have the user calculate an average difficulty integral. If he/she succeeds they are of legal age or very close to it. Even if they use Wolfram Alpha that still denotes some level of maturity which is consistent with legal age.
You can imagine an end user has some structured document created by some other program 10 years ago and they need to look at it. Unfortunately in one place it violated the spec and a field type is wrong. Two ways to deal with it.

My way. The program catches the error, notifies the user, tries to mitigate it and display the contents it can extract to the user.

Your way. Program exits.
trains are exclusively fixed point-to-point. many cities are not constructed for walking and/or are 110 in the summer. respectfully, screw walking.
I would be more worried about AI enforcing laws that don't actually exist.
Yes well that’s basically what I’m working on the rest of my life.

I’ve been working on ASI for two decades and now as we’re going to achieve it, I’m switching to working on alternative socio-economic systems to capitalism so that ASI doesn’t control human systems.
Except it's not true. You can't wizz through a roundabout because the road is curved, you are physically unable to drive through it with the same speed as you drive on a straight road. It's by design. When traffic is very light then the traffic lights can be simply disabled (for instance, at night). Not disabling them is the failure of the people responsible for the traffic lights, not some inherent unsolvable problem.
They have those on watches too. Water proof for 1 hour at 200m or whatever.
It's very inefficient for the people who are currently stealing those $5-9.
I agree BI did a great service, but not because I disagree with Rufo'a agenda and think it needs to be pushed back.

BI 'poked the bear' and provoked Ackman into putting resources into shining a light on some (albeit limited) aspect of the problems with the academic establishment.

Assuming he follows through, we will all get a bunch of interesting analysis, without spending a dime ourselves!
At the end of the article there's an embedded video showing the vehicle doing a tank turn on pavers. The tire manufacturers will love it.
The troubling thing to me here over and above these issues is if they (Boeing) think some of these things are ok to the point that they ask for an exemption, what else is there that would fail rigorous safety checks but has been deemed ok by management, and has not come to light yet? We may never know until it’s too late.
The Chinese DF-5 ICBM and DF-4 IRBM are filled with liquid hypergolic fuel. Newer missiles are solid fueled. I'm sort of surprised that the old liquid ones haven't been retired.

I thought the silos where lids don't work are more interesting since China has building lots of silos for newer ICBMs.
I have not seen any crypto ads, but my stream was not what it use to be.

I try to follow STEM teachers and I use to have a good volume of posts till just before Elon took over.
This is exactly it. The skilled politicians are the reason why the company failed in the first place. They then take over the acquiring company from within like a virus and destroy that next. Rule of thumb: If a company is failing and you purchase it, fire everybody. Either the culture or the people are poison, and they will infect you.
What's the back of the envelope on whether the 737 Max is more dangerous than driving?

1,300 aircraft have been built since the first started flying in 2017, with two deadly crashes. I don't know how many miles those have accumulated, but presumably it's of order 4k miles per day per aircraft, and maybe 3 years (1000 days) of flying to date per aircraft on average, giving a very rough estimate of a few billion miles? So maybe a deadly crash per billion miles, in comparison to a bit over one deadly crash per 100M miles for cars.
In the immortal words of Hugh Greene, responsible for WDR’s predecessor organisation NWDR until three years before the founding of the Electronic Music studio here:

> We are going to use this organisation to change the way the rest of the country thinks. We want them to see stuff they don’t like. We don’t really care if they complain.

Granted, it’s what he said about the BBC, but he did it in Germany too, to a level of success that deserves greater recognition.
LinkedIn is reverse Tinder: hot girls chasing nerdy guys and getting ignored :)

Sorry, I had to...
I'm not sure what the illusion of it would even mean. A known true statement for me would be "I appear to be experiencing something."
Yeah, historically, and even now, there were good reasons for not talking about altered states of consciousness too much. It seemed like a good way to end up being executed.

Now describing some of the experiences that are supposed to accompany altered states (hallucinations, strange abilities, etc) could still lead to reputational damage. Hopefully things are changing though, as Western scientists are beginning to study spiritual awakenings:

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

https://psycnet.apa.org/record/2012-34730-006
For anyone interested in why the system looks the way it does, I recommend patio11's insightful recent blog post, which is nominally about payroll systems but ends up discussing the history of taxation in the US because that's the origination of many of these systems: https://www.bitsaboutmoney.com/archive/payroll-providers-pow...

A relevant quotation for much of the discussion here:

> And, relevant to the question of whether Intuit controls U.S. tax policy: it can’t, because that would imply they have wrested control from Norquist. Norquist considers a public filing option a tax increase by stealth and opposes it automatically.
This thread made some people question their no-bugs-allowed ideal, which is apparently a misanthropy…
I think that's a Rite of Passage.

It'll be interesting to for you to look back at 40 and 50. I think you'll be saying almost the opposite, that most of those new ideas have been discarded, and that you've only kept a few.

Personal computing arrived when I was about 35, around 1980. For about the next 4-5 years I tried to keep to the 'cutting edge'. I had to give up on that when I finally recognised that I just wasn't capable of learning enough, fast enough, to be able to stay on that 'cutting edge'. The field was growing too fast. There was just too much to take in.

I picked a couple of areas, and concentrated on those, instead of spreading myself too thin on all of them.
Please merge: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38893909
Literally anyone that owns stock could generate a wash sale.
On the other hand we have the proof that an Airbus can hit another plane when landing and deliver everyone fine.
>I do wonder that no one thought of it in even the relatively brief history of videogames prior to Ultima; it does seem a fairly obvious approach, after all. On the other hand, I can’t point to a specific example that would give me grounds to really challenge the claim. ... Ultima‘s tile-graphics engine was not so much the work of Garriott as of a friend of his who was the only other person to have a significant role in the game’s design and implementation: Ken W. Arnold (not the Ken Arnold who created Rogue).

I'll comment briefly on this as someone who spent a couple of years trying to build an Ultima-esque tile graphics game on the Apple II. Ken had a clever insight that eluded me completely: "Don't try to draw the tiles one at a time, dummy."

Ken's code was fast enough to be useful in an interactive fullscreen game because it drew an entire row of 280 pixels at once, then went back over the same row of map data, reusing the indexes for the next 14 lines in that row of tiles. There was less indirection and practically no overhead compared to drawing individual 2-byte-by-14-row block shapes.

Conversely, anyone trying to draw one tile at a time would have ended up with a low update rate, or would have been forced to draw the map in a small window. Either way, a worse gameplay experience would have resulted, especially if you were (as I was) comparing your work to Ultima.
They call it that because their plane is in fact not a 737 Max 8.

Ryanair’s aircraft is a different variant, made only for them, the Max 200 which is the same size as a Max 8 but has the extra exits for up to 200 pax.
The problem I've run into over and over with research code is fragility. We ran it on test A, but when we try test B nothing works and we have no idea why because god forbid there is any error handling, validation, or even just comprehensible function names.
SystemD was a topic the author talked about in a previous thread yesterday: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38889156
Python Exercises, an Introduction to Python
Indeed, and whatever code is used to publish a paper is a prototype, and unlikely to be reused, ever. Sometimes it is, but rarely.
Why Every VR Developer Needs a Hand Tracking Plan
Wasn't there also the whole runaway trim issue leading to un-commanded climb and stall?

Supposedly fixed with software when the root cause was retrofitting engines too large for the airframe leading to pitch instability under high thrust.
Or maybe he was talking about Trump nominating a new FAA head who illegally retaliated against a pilot who was a whistleblower at Delta regarding safety concerns.

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/02/business/stephen-dickson-...
The start implies there may be a prior article, is there?
When will you be happy to extrapolate? When the next incident has bodies? Or will that be another n=1 event?
Lego and Duck type view camera
Xoeing.
You mean like an 8-bit space shooter like Gradius or Blazing Lazers for Turbo Graphix?

If so, I definitely agree. Actually sounds way more dope as a space shooter, tbh. Like the "ULTIMAte" fighter spaceship. Would also explain why even a novice pilot with an NES controller can still annihilate 100 other ships before going down.
They’re already broken up. They consider themselves to be a system integrator. They design the planes, hire contractors to build most of the parts, and then assemble the parts. The fact that this gives Boeing most of the risk and the contractors most of the profit doesn’t seem to bother them.
I believe the above is actually a paraphrase of Jim Jefferies’s bit about the difference between Australian and American airport security actually.
Anyone that has owned DJI drones and compared them for quality and cost against US and EU equivalents should continue to be very worried about Chinas ability to build smart munitions at scale for warfare vs the West.

And sustained smart munitions manufacturing capacity is proving decisive on the battlefield in Ukraine.
This is a reversion to the old way where you could meet partners anywhere.
I mean, yes? I've said this for years.

Turns out, it doesn't work for me.
The efficiency bar has to be particularly low when you consider that it is enforced by law. What incentives do they have to do anything differently when people HAVE to pay them or face consequences.

I'm glad they are at least now trying to have a semblance of customer service awareness.
I was just thinking that. Why would the 12hr one be the default? The tool looks slick in general, however!
The high end estimate would be for 25 million households and would mostly go to customer service [0]. It may well be too high, but "absolutely absurd" doesn't seem fair.

[0]: https://www.irs.gov/pub/irs-pdf/p5788.pdf#page=18
The light only means that having it fastened is mandatory. There are many reasons to keep it on during the entire flight, the most common of which is turbulence.
Writing a Simple JSON Parser in Golang
That car's exterior is uglier than Cybertruck
I flew a United MAX 9 last night, I was sitting in the window seat of a visible (Not plugged) emergency exit door. Landed a little while after this incident was reported. About an hour and a half before landing at SFO the pilot announced a hurried “Flight attendants check in” with no follow up announcement to the passengers. It was probably because of the turbulence we had been experiencing a few minutes before, but I wonder if the cockpit was giving flight attendants a heads up in case any passengers got word.
I wonder if Channing would be gratified to see the telegraph analogy survived to find new expression in 1970s popular culture:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ivk_irrH1WY

which means that there's probably a bunch of Gen Xers with this song still in their head somewhere (and since it's pretty catchy, some of HNs audience now).
China's EVs are already in the UK under the MG marque (SAIC[0]) and there's no reason to think BYD won't follow suit AFAICT.

It's just a matter of when, not if, from where I'm sitting.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SAIC_Motor#MG
Everything about dating, sexuality, having fun with typical life things finds the wrong audience here, where people love to dwell in front of their terminals.
Link to Pneumatic Lego project : http://rubens.ens-lyon.fr/turing-machine-v3/
> You can't expect parents to hover over their children 24/7

That's not what's being asked. There already exists software, and optional functionality on OSs/routers/browsers, that allows parents to restrict what sites can be viewed. This software covers more sites (and offer greater customization) than proposals involving sites verifying ID would, since:

* The software can trivially add sites to its blacklist regardless of whether they're outside of jurisdictions that would require ID verification

* Sites are more likely to identify themselves as pornographic than to implement ID verification, since it's a significantly smaller burden

* Small/obscure sites that could fall under the radar with non-compliance on ID verification can still be blocked by the software with statistical/ML methods

* For young children a whitelist of known-safe sites can be used

Neither approach is perfect. With ID verification, a child could use a free VPN to bypass it, or be shown a friend's older brother's ID. With filter software, a child could borrow an unfiltered device and find an unfiltered Internet connection to use it on. The question is: would ID verification be better to such an extent that it justifies the privacy invasion and increased risk of fraud, blackmail, etc.? To me, it seems substantially worse than existing solutions.
I've just avoided engaging with the LLM "race" and stick with free ChatGPT 3.5 when I want to tinker. The technology is not on my critical path right now, so I'll probably engage when it settles into more defined products.
That's a sweeping statement if I ever did see one.
I work in scientific computing and I'm a huge fan of nim. I started writing a few tools at work in nim and was quite quickly asked to stop by the software development team. In their eyes, they are responsible for the long term maintenance of projects (it's debatable how much they actually carry out this role), and they didn't want the potential burden of a codebase in a language none of them are familiar with.

It's sad, as I feel nim would be easier to maintain compared to a typical c or R codebase written by a biologist, but that's what's expected.
Nut Drivers vs. Nut Setters
Ultima VII: Part 2 is one of the best games ever made imo. I still remember waiting for the UPS truck to deliver it to my rural childhood home. One of the great things about these games is that they were packaged with real maps, ankhs, sometimes coins and other artifacts. Really pulled me in as a youth. I wore an ankh as a necklace for several years and still consider Garriott a personal hero.
Ask HN: Do you have any lightning protection at home?
We recently had a lightning strike near (or on? not sure) our house, and a lot of electronics got fried. I’d like to avoid that happening again.

I already had a type 1 whole house surge protector rated for 20 kA. I don’t know if it did any good—maybe the damage with have been even worse without it, maybe not.

I’m thinking about adding lightning rods. Curious what y’all have and what your experiences have been.
Boeing made the 737 NG until 2019. It also allegedly had issues with the contractor Ducommun making the airframe, including "hammering alignment holes into place". But it wasn't nearly as problematic of a plane.

The Max is a desperate attempt to compete with the A320 neo ("new engine option"). It is the aviation efficiency gain equivalent of a die shrink, except these engines get bigger, and while Airbus had space to spare under the wing of the A320 ceo, the 737 NG did not. So they angled it, changing flight characteristics. Thus, MCAS, because the entire point of keeping the 737 - a 55 year old design - alive is pilots not having to do an entirely new type certificate. Because given availability (not a given, the only reason Ryanair went with Boeing) and staff type certificates not playing a role, Airbus is the clear winner on every metric.
This is always my frustration when people suggest things for governments. You cannot design a government that relies on people being good. You have to design a government that highly discourages bad actors, make it easy to eject them, and operates while they exist. It's a crazy hard optimization problem and isn't going to work if people are just smart or good. And I never understand why people suggest fixing government by giving government more power and nothing else.
It's difficult to overstate just how influential D&D was in video games, I don't think there's anything else remotely at that scale. Ultima and Wizardry would inspire the creation of the first JRPGs, and on it went. Maybe it's partly because D&D was becoming popular among nerds just as personal computers were becoming semi-affordable.

And it's not even just RPGs, literally any game with the concept of experience points and levels ultimately owes some small debt to Gary and Dave.
> These arguments aren't new. This is good argument for why tech/science/stem need to read history, or 'older' science history.

Sure, but it is also important not to lend too much credence to these arguments, because they were devised from a position of ignorance. In particular, in 1879 we didn't have neurobiology, nor the theory of computation and complexity, and we barely had evolution. OoS had been published just 20 years before, and molecular biology was many decades in the future. There is value in studying Ptolemy and Aristotle too, but mainly to understand how they got things wrong.
Both but yes more interested in "religiously presented" science. Again, based on the assumption that most religions started as tools approximately explaining what was known at the time (or for defining and increasing adherence to local policy).
Tim Cook also has a high opinion of China[0], and Apple products are extremely well manufactured, so your point stands.

I just think that there may be some fundamental gaps in China's capabilities, or just systemic corruption/bureaucracy (like water-filled missiles) that aren't necessarily evident at this point in time and won't be known until China is really tested in a military type conflict.

https://www.inc.com/glenn-leibowitz/apple-ceo-tim-cook-this-...
The point in the outer comment was that the 737NG has both many flight hours and ... if I skimmed Wikipedia correctly, only 1 mechanically-attributed fatality.

For reference, the most-produced passenger/cargo aircraft:

16K Douglas DC-3 (1935)
11K Boeing 737 family:
1K Original (1967)
2K Classic (1984)
7K NG (1998)
1K MAX (2016)
11K Airbus A320 family (1988)

Different sources give oddly different numbers (more than I would expect for ordered vs built vs delivered; I didn't investigate deeply), but nothing else is above 2K. Note that plenty of small or military planes beat these numbers.
I haven't trusted Alaska since the Flight 261 crash, where they failed to do basic maintenance for so long that the screw threads in the stabilizer system wore away and locked the plane in the "straight down" orientation. And fired and sued a mechanic who reported the problem. 100% fatalities.
Grocery trips arent just for food anymore!

Trips to the coffee shop arent just for caffeinne anymore!!!!

Descents into the Warp aren't just Slaanesh anymore!

Business Insider you so crazy
U7 was my original introduction into what I now consider "good" games. Changed everything for me :D