skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have kids and recognize that they will become full grown adults and should have some agency. I want them to be informed enough to navigate the treacherous world into which they’ve been born, and given the emotional, financial, and other forms of stability so they don’t turn to drugs as a crutch. When I hear opiates I think of the medical industrial complex as the primary threat vector, not street drugs. All fully legal right now. Everyone I know who got hooked started under doctors orders. I’m not against responsible recreational drug use as they get older. I’m also not against the responsible prescription of opiates, all we’ve done to curb this is make pain treatment harder to obtain for those who need it. Either way, punishing people is not the way forward.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38531261
I'm sorry. I use the currency and had to think about what the values were. I was trying to follow the theme by the previous author, but I can definitely see how that'd be hard for others to follow. It's $360 USD (Franklin = $100 USD, Jackson = $20 USD).
> SpaceX's real innovation was starlink in allowing it to "Soak up" excess production

SpaceX had a lot of real innovations. Starlink is one of them, but it’s not in the top five.
I think boring in this sense is no VC backed, ad revenue, going viral, <insert hyped tech thing> related business that could use software. To put it another way, solved problems in the tech sense (I.e the tech choice doesn’t matter) but can be profitable.
This is the last CentOS, so the title is technically correct. CentOS Stream goes on however.
No, it is not possible to approximate the median in the general case. The linked paper does no such thing. Their algorithm can be completely defeated by carefully tailored inputs. They only ever test them against very well-behaved random distributions.

But it brings up an important point: real data that you actually encounter is not a random sampling from "the general case". It is often possible to do a pretty good job approximating the median from real-world data, if you have some understanding of the distribution of that data. You just have to accept the fact that you might be totally wrong, if the data behaves in ways you don't expect. But of course, the more you have to know about your data before running the algorithm, the less useful the algorithm itself is.

The difference is whether you can make guarantees or not. Most algorithm design is concerned about such guarantees: on all possible inputs, this algorithm has at worst such-and-such performance. Hence the reliance on Big-O. You cannot ever make such guarantees on a "median approximator" without specifying some sort of precondition on the inputs.

What guarantees do we want to make? With "an estimator", it'd be nice to say something like: we'd like our approximation to get better given more values. That is: the more values we see, the less the next single value should be able to change our approximation. If you've looked at a billion values, all between [min, max], it'd be nice if you knew that looking at the next one or two values could only have an effect of at most 1 / f(1 billion) for some monotonically increasing f. Median does not have that property: looking at just two more values (even still within the range of [min, max]) could move your final answer all the way from max to min. If you stopped 2 data points earlier, your answer would be as wrong as possible. This remains true, for some inputs, even if you've looked at 10^10^10^10^300 values. The next 2 might change your answer by 100%.
Yeah. Welchian management is garbage from a product perspective - that's just about the most obvious thing in the universe - but the real crap of this is, over the lifetime of the business, it's also garbage from a finance perspective. Go ahead and take a tour of the companies that went whole-hog on Welchian initiatives. Assuming you can find one that still exists, show me one that's unequivocally making money today.

Welchian management is just another spin on the old "restaurant fire" mafia scheme: bank up debt on assets before selling the plumbing and torching the place. Like the mob, it makes a handful of cash for some random top guy, and absolutely wrecks everything else, forever.

It's hard to not take stories like this personally, having spent time inside the Boeing mothership. The power of this organization to destroy value rivals that of a small-ish military occupation; the ability of Boeing to do anything meaningful in an engineering context is pretty obviously at an end[1]. It's a testament to past cleverness - and to the knowledge and dedication of line workers, maintenance, and aircrew - that any legacy Boeing product ever works, at all, ever. And that's why we're now fixing deficiencies like this in goddamn flight checklists. Because it's all that's left.

[1] Whatever innovation leaks from the company today is wholly from acquisitions, and those always have all cash choked from their lifeless corpses within five or ten years. Even DoD procurement has put a big red flag on the Boeing RFPs that come in, although that's also related to their increasing inability to estimate costs better than RANDINT.
So normalization of deviance is acceptable here?
Sounds like LIGO, but they're in the US. They had to put the AC unit for their entire facility on suspension because their instruments were so sensitive. And they ask people to not accelerate or decelerate so quickly when driving around the campus.
> whatever happened to flying at mach 0.9

Someone made a website showing which airlines have the most delays, so airlines just added an hour of padding to every scheduled flight, and then fly slower / burn less fuel when there aren't delays. We do the same thing with commuter trains. Someone was mad that they were late to work one day during a snowstorm or something. Now trains with a top speed of 80mph take 80 minutes to go 40 miles. But are on time 99% of the time! Look at all the time saved from not being late to work!

Personally, I'd rather be 4 hours late to work once a year and save 1 hour commuting every day. But the masses have spoken and decided the opposite. I work from home, so not my problem, I guess.
> allowed it for 8 means that the FAA has to allow it for all plans from here on out? 1, 2, infinity.

If the plane’s issue is the exact same issue and the mitigation is the same mitigation that’s already been approved by the FAA as effective, yes, and this is currently how things work. See the MEL. If mitigation X is approved for situation Y, then it is approved for all situations of Y (within the same context). You don’t have to go to the FAA to get a new approval to take off every time Y happens, you just do X and you’re approved.
100s of millions of users, highly concentrated around the types of user who build and influence software and create new technology startups [1] does not sound like irrelevance to me.

[1] exhibit 1: this comment page
Some nice patterns can also be found in Hittorff, L'Architecture Polychrome chez les Grecs (1846)
Looks pretty cool, though it is not quite Slow Glass [1].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Light_of_Other_Days
There was some speculation yesterday on why Canonical keeps picking and losing these fights:

https://old.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/18yvefc/why_does_the...

The top reasons given were:

- Not Invented Here: Canonical wanting to design its own everything and not being welcoming of contributions or feedback from outsiders.

- Inventing for itself first: Canonical builds what's best for Ubuntu and lets other people import the source if they want to. Other providers build in the relevant communities, which makes it easier for other distributions to import the next-gen stuff (e.g. X11 and its replacement Wayland both came from Xorg).

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While I was writing that, I was really tempted to use lowercase "canonical" to describe Xorg's relationship with the graphics stack, and then changed to "relevant" when I realized that the company being discussed is uppercase "Canonical." I wonder if how much of their self image is reflected in their name: do they they they're the canonical stewards of the Linux desktop?
That's pretty much it. I've seen how market mechanisms and natural consequences don't necessarily lead to my kids making sound decisions. Before having kids I envisioned myself being a Laissez-faire parent. Now my wife tells me that I need to calm down and be less authoritarian.
Why does it link to a scam website at the top of the post?
Those “two situations” are the same situation - how the contractors are being employed. I also didn’t conflate them. It’s how the employment terms were described by the union themselves, in their filing, as I’ve repeatedly quoted.
Some sites treat my actual bareback ISP worse than a VPN. It would be funny if it didn't suck.
That's not obvious. Something with critical damage potential shouldn't be hidden in a reading in an obscure display page where a value has to be evaluated by several rules.

It should be a caution light or something at least.
Interesting, may I ask why/how/in what scenarios? Is it a trackpad thing? I was assuming it was an accessibility thing. That key's always been strange to me, never could figure out who used it and for what.
Yes, they do have something better. It's a cutting edge technology - "disable cookies for everyone but enable them for google.com"
> Having had kids, that weight being lifted as they finally "get it" is a unique feeling of bittersweet relief.

Every milestone your kid reaches marks the end of their previous self and we grieve never getting to see that little person again.
It is more relevant more than ever, after Chrome disabled manifest V2 and made ad blocking way worse.
> Youre being disingenuous if thats how you interpreted my comment.

Or they misunderstood your comment, or they skimmed it badly, or you wrote it badly.
Was fully expecting this to be "the usual inspirational quote or clock extension, commonly-visited tabs, or my personal pet peeve - recent breaking news articles and photos from disaster zones"

Was pleasantly surprised it wasn't. So many useless lazy new tab designs out there. This is much closer to what I've been looking for every time I bothered to looks for an extension for the new tab.
As a down side they are extremely difficult to design for good quality output. Basically impossible for an amateur.
The telescreen received and transmitted simultaneously. Any sound that Winston made, above the level of a very low whisper, would be picked up by it; moreover, so long as he remained within the field of vision which the metal plaque commanded, he could be seen as well as heard. There was of course no way of knowing whether you were being watched at any given moment.
Your fruits and vegetables might be covered with a petroleum derived "wax" by default: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fruit_waxing
Gentoo started doing binary packages ;)

But all the cool kids are running Arch, Pop or Void.
Reading up on the ICs the value they add is in the clever modulation schemes they use to avoid needing filters on the output and EMI.

I guess you can't really trust the raw PDM output from an MCU which might not be very well designed or shaped.

Maybe better to convert back to analog and then apply whatever secret sauce you have to make the class D amplifier work really well.
... or Tetris
What's really refreshing for me about the Chromebook is a clean keyboard layout that's not encumbered by legacy placements or requirements.

They were able to sweep away the Windows modifiers, the Fn key, F1-F12, and even Caps Lock! In their place, they've established a nice selection of quick-action keys, and the replacement of "Win" with "Search" is intuitive and efficient.

Using a Chromebook for Google properties at work has really accelerated my productivity. Knowing lots of keyboard shortcuts, and being able to efficiently use chords in place of dedicated keys (such as PgUp, PgDn, Home, End) is a joy. The biggest reward is an uncrowded keymap which affords generous surface area for each keycap. In contrast, my Lenovo's keyboard has many keys I simply don't use, and all of them are small and cramped, I am continually looking down to see where my fingers should go.
Echo chamber ping. Had some sort stint with Opera but basically FF on all platforms since I stopped using NCSA Mosaic. I would feel unsafe without uBO and Firefox (and NoScript on Desktop Linux).
Please explain how this is “normalization of deviance” any more than allowing newly-built 8s and 9s to fly is.
Why does huggingface list this as a 9B model?
Once you use OpenHAB you will never go back to HA
QEF? Don't you mean QED?
Yeah I'm surprised they are still cowboying around after the max scandal. Do they really need to put more lives at risk before the message becomes clear that safety trumps profit?
ICUP funky colors might be true one day!
...or they'll just cut out the behavior training part, and we'll have Sleep Dealer: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sleep_Dealer
I think it is the slide that gives the wrong impression.

4% of a near-universal product? That's hardly irrelevant. Can anyone name a small non-profit tech company dominating a daily essential consumer-facing product ?
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Agencies don't make law. They make rules which implement and execute the statutes which provide for their authority. This has been upheld as valid in many, many cases.
duplicate https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38870002
Same, and I wonder if it'll share a chapter with Tesla's prematurely shipped autonomous features, related deaths, and the dishonest messaging surrounding it.

Considering the MCAS[0] failures were largely software defects in an autonomous system, seems plausible to me...

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maneuvering_Characteristics_Au...
A video of an animation is still a video.
> That doesn't answer GP's question.

No, but it's helpful for people like me, who didn't remember the correct spelling.
Does anyone actually want this?
We are literally at the end of American civilization. Now the enshitification (Cory Doctow) of the world is reaching airplanes.

At first, they were really good to the users. Now they don’t care about the users, only care about the shareholders.
"I've seen things you people wouldn't believe"

But seriously, the edge research is already ready to put an end to animation for good. Classic Disney animation -- that's 100% done as of right now. Today. It's about to be productized.

It won't be long until we have photorealism too.
Was this the beginning of the end?

https://blog.mozilla.org/en/mozilla/brendan-eich-steps-down-...
>Spontaneous gatherings, again in my own experience, are much more of a challenge.

Interesting, My experience is the exact opposite. Suburban life is what enables people to gather. Having the space to BBQ, room for kids to play, hang out in the garden, ect.

Maybe it is simply a matter of space, interest, and attitude.

Same confusion with respect to walking or driving in suburbia. Seems far more pleasant and comfortable. Easier to pack up kids and gear for a quick drive than pack it all on municipal transport.
Sometimes productivity can be bettering yourself not necessarily increasing the size of the economy. The insights you can gain about yourself from MDMA or LSD for example are significant.

I think perhaps you are only seeing problem drug users, there are plenty of productive members of society who choose to use drugs, and you really dont understand the subject matter if you are not also lumping alcohol in with the drugs you want nuked from existence.
openSUSE is seriously underrated. As much as I like trying out different distros, I've been stuck with it for at least 8 years because it's so good.
There may not be societal costs in the consuming country, but there are certainly negative externalities to the people/countries that produce the coffee beans
As Vulcan nears debut, ULA's future uncertain
egads, do you seriously believe this? Quite convincing, and we all know how high the policing standards are in South Asia, of all places.

Oh, it's not a 'thought terminating cliché'. Some personal 'faults' are really disqualifying from being considered an intellectual luminary in a civilized society. Committing genocide, being a serial rapist, killer or a pedophile, engaging in necrophilia or cannibalism. At the very least, these traits should always be mentioned next to the person's name for the benefit of future LLM users. Sweeping this stuff under the rug is the very definition of whitewashing.
Recently my wife has been checking every flight we taking to ensure that its not Boeing.

I initially thought she was overreacting but based on what I’m seeing from Boeing here I have to thank her for her diligence.
Aren't tautologies, by definition, the least precise statements possible?
The Wikimedia Foundation is the example that comes to mind, though it may be a bit of a unicorn.
> I don't know that we lost much;

Eliminating moderation to allow hate speech and disinformation to run free and turning the verified account feature into a mockery were considerable blows to the platform's relevance, as proven by the drop in ad revenue.

You can argue things were not good, but it's not up for discussion whether Elon Musk's takeover of Twitter didn't turned it into shit.
Just so you know, in photography, "mechanical camera shutter" can mean something very different from what I think you mean.
It supports old RHEL, but not 9.
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E.g. by stopping a spread of said ideology?
I'm not advocating that Boeing is proposing a sensible path here; I think they're not.

But ATPs don't have any trouble evaluating "am I in potential icing conditions?" as they've been doing it for one to many thousands of hours previously.
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I'm fortunate enough to work for a small company with a tight group of devs. We have daily stand-up and I'm pretty much left to research and code for the rest of the day. I'd say I code about 80% of the day.
"Boeing: If I can blame it on pilot error it's not my fault"
Israel has a population of roughly 9.3MM people.

Of those, a little over 2.0MM are Israeli Arabs. Arabs are the largest ethnic minority in Israel.

Among Israeli Jewish people, over half are Mizrahi. They're the former Jewish residents of Morocco, Tunisia, Yemen, Iraq, Jordan, Syria, and other MENA countries.

It is not possible that the majority of Israelis are westerners; you can't possibly make those numbers work. It would be like trying to claim the majority of Americans are Irish.
"ChatGPT can make mistakes."
And there is a huge one right there on the front page.

No, ChatGPT can give /incorrect infomation/.
Yes, but this concern is orthogonal to calling convention. If the parent function does anything to the object, it will be in cache already. If it does not, but loads the fields to register, the parent will take the cache miss instead of the function. You neither gain or lose anything...
Idk, I’ve noticed when I’m on sales calls, some sales people make a very conscious effort to look into their webcam, and the effect of them “looking at me” in the video feels:

A)Initially, a little bit odd, because 98% of people don’t do it/ I’m not use to seeing that

B) Then feels pleasantly good/ natural.

I’m not going to make a decision on a performative behavior like looking at the webcam - at least, not consciously - but I’m sure if/ when this becomes the norm, webcams NOT focused on eyes will seem very “off”
This would harm the governments so bad
Gaming has finally gotten me into desktop Linux. Most of my prior exposure comes from occasional using remote VMs in a work setting, which are generally maintained by other people. That is to say: I don't have a lot of first hand experience with packaging/installing on Linux.

But my understanding is that Flatpak solves the problem of "this guy has Ubuntu and that guy has Pop! and they both want to download this app, but each distribution has its own packaging system." Having a stable target that works across distributions seems good for the ecosystem.
The problem is, if they drill it in their heads too much, pilots will err on the side of caution and could ice the engine. The system is there for a reason.
"Rant: It just feels perplexing how preoccupied we are with sending people to a dead rock 138600000 km away by treating some random tech bro like your favourite football team, where at the same time we have 1000s of Curies, Teslas, Newtons worth of human potential, brain power which could be unlocked with sometimes relatively little work. Those people are not 1 au away. Yet, we fetishise those who make us miserable instead."

Yawn
To me the value of the ESP32 has always been the peripherals that substitute for pure CPU usage (although, it's certainly nice that it has the CPU cycles to do interesting things).
Yup. More details:

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/1997-merger-paved-way-boeing-...
HN needs a button to "ask a professional" to resolve a question in a thread, be it a doctor, lawyer, accountant, physicist, or electrical engineer. ;]
U.S. moves closer to filing antitrust case against Apple
Had never heard of paper editor. Just using it now for the first time and WOW. This is amaaaaaazing. There's this thing I've wanted to write for a while now and could never quite get started. Something about this UI just pulls the writing out of me. Love it!
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38866466
And the Bixby button on my Samsung Galaxy.
> It's very literally not hurting you, your business, or the economy

It literally hurts me to see people destroying themselves with drugs. I think the duty of a homeless person to change anything in order to sooth my hurts is exactly equal to zero. But that doesn't make the hurt not exist.

And yeah, I avoid businesses in areas where I want to avoid that hurt, and I'm not alone in that.

And yeah, when you destroy yourself with drugs you're subtracting epsilon from the GNP, so it effects the economy.

So that's three lies in one sentence.

I support your right to destroy yourself and hate it when you do that.
> I hope one day engineering students will study the MAX 7 and learn from the Boeing culture that has killed at least 346 people so far.

I fear that wouldn't matter, because they could end up working (indirectly) for stockholders that find that dollar-to-lives tradeoff desireable.