skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Why does anybody continue to trust anything manufactured by this company now? How many incidents/lives is it going to take before airlines just blacklist this manufacturer?

Forget the fines. Leadership at Boeing needs to be criminally prosecuted. Send them to a federal penitentiary. Send a message to those wanting to cost cut on mission critical items. Regulators in this country are asleep at the wheel
Oh agree, it's all anxiety and insecurity! It's a catch-22 in that sense :).
Because some of those students will eventually have to maintain systems written in C, that unfortunately will never be written into something else.
I grew up ranching and completely surrounded by dairies/farms. It's even more physically demanding than they say and long hours, but in many ways I would prefer that type of work and miss it and it might allow me to enjoy coding/math for fun in my spare time again. If you HAVE to depend on it for your income it's usually another story though. Farming at a small scale usually leads to a meagre income that can fluctuate wildly with the markets and you have no safety nets from company health insurance and other benefits(if you get sick, no PTO or medical leave and your farm starts failing while you recover). Farms are massively consolidating and you're competing with corporate megafarms that can be much more efficient due to scale. Your suppliers like John Deere and Monsanto are becoming notorious for their abusive relationships with farmers and price gouging. Your fellow small scale competitors aren't paying a fair wage to hired help like you would aspire to, but mostly relying on illegal immigrant labor with below poverty pay, and you can't compete if you don't do the same or work triple time to compensate. When crop prices cratered or there were crop failures due to drought, other weather, and/or insects and plant diseases - and it's common for something like that in a given year - you would hear about a couple of the farmers in our community committing suicide. Be careful before you leap into it full time, although it can be rewarding on the side or after you've accumulated enough wealth to not fully depend on it.
This suggests, more than ever, that human curation and review is absolutely crucial. The sad thing about this is that it just lends more power to monopolistic publishers and renowned critics and away from people who, without access to such esteem and networks, have to work tirelessly to produce self-published works. All in the hopes of earning a pittance and finding a way to thrive artistically within capitalism. It's strange that AI, contrary to what true believers say, may not end up democratizing information, but instead it will make us more reliant on centralised and assured sources. Perhaps the journalism industry, and other ostensibly old fashioned institutional vestiges, are about to see a renaissance.

EDIT: Tangent: I run a book recommendation platform and am envisaging having to implement a pre-2021 lock-in/time-freeze as my data is about to get massively polluted by the AI Boom.
That is a good summary, but nevertheless I believe that you have not described with enough details the proposals of McCarthy and Hoare, which have been the most important innovations included in the discussions about the future of Algol and which had a great influence on the evolution of many programming languages.

In the proposal of John McCarthy from December 1964, "Definition of new data types in ALGOL x", besides the overloaded operators mentioned by you, an even more important proposed feature were the "union" types, as a better language feature than the Fortran EQUIVALENCE.

Algol 68 has incorporated union types and overloaded operators in a form close to McCarthy's proposal, but C, even if it has taken the keyword "union" from Algol 68, unfortunately it has used it only with a meaning similar to Fortran's EQUIVALENCE.

In C. A. R. Hoare's proposal from November 1965, "Record Handling" a large number of new programming language features have been proposed, besides "records" and "record classes".

Both "record" and "class" are COBOL 60 keywords. COBOL 60 used "record" for what later PL/I will call "structure", a term inherited by C, and it used "class" for what ALGOL 60 called "type". SIMULA 67 has taken "records" and "record classes" from Hoare, but it has abbreviated "record class" to "class", a term inherited then from SIMULA 67 by all OOP languages.

Hoare's proposal also included "Declared Reference Variables" which PL/I has taken from Hoare and it has renamed them to "pointers", which is the term inherited from PL/I by most later languages.

Other new features in that proposal: "new" and "destroy" procedures for dynamically allocated records, a special reference value "null", i.e. the null pointer, what are now named constructors, for initializing the records, and "Finite Set Declarations" i.e. what are now called enumerations.
I'm raising money to make a Flash FPGA on my profile as well as Sram and other FPGA chips, where if one wants to read any values from the Flash FPGA chip, the Flash FPGA chip would only give it what it wants to give to the operator.
Fuuuuuck I hate that talk by Benno.

Mostly it strawmans the opposition, says its because they dont like change primarily.

Then he indicates that macos’s launchd is an improvement, despite it being one of the most painful parts of advanced macos administration.

Its a talk that comes up often in these threads but it completely betrays the idea of having a fruitful dialog about the pros and cons of this design and the situations where it can be beneficial.
Exactly:

Today you expect the likelihood of a quality book title to be much higher from O’Reilly than, say, Packt Publishing.

With the advent of AI Generated Books, reputable sources will count more and more than they already do.
https://archive.ph/G7H9s
We have yet to see if AI can produce good, new content the way humans can. I'd consider it a problem if mass-produced AI stuff makes it even harder to surface that content.
These often don’t apply to Preferred Stock.
I wonder how unreliable a specific model of commercial aircraft would need to be in order for it to no longer be the safest mode of transportation.

According to [1], commercial planes are about 3 times safer than buses per passenger mile (edit: passenger hours, sorry). That doesn't sound like a large enough margin to prevent certain more accident-prone models from earning the "deadlier than a bus" badge of shame, especially since the average is skewed by extremely reliable widebody models like the 777, A340 and A380. Meanwhile, commuter planes already suffer from a higher fatality rate than pickup trucks, while private planes are second only to motorcycles.

[1] https://turbli.com/blog/the-safest-transport-modes-ranked-by...
> I simply do not trust the people who designed this aircraft.
I read lots of sci-fi and this story doesn't sound right.

Are you sure they weren't just modern sci-fi authors you haven't heard of?

Sci-fi has never been stronger and it makes sense the most popular wouldn't be what you read way back when.

That's doesn't mean they are written by bots.
I also read multiple books at once, with almost the same mix as you. Business, history, and fun (usually science fiction). It works well for me, because no matter how good a book is, you sometimes need a break.
>They are also less productive when coding than the scientists because they care too much about the quality of their work and not enough about getting shit done.

Ultimately I’d say the core issue here is that research is complex and those environments are often resource strapped relative to other environments. As such this idea of “getting shit done” takes priority over everything. To some degree it’s not that much different than startup business environments that favor shipping features over writing maintainable and well (or even partially) documented code.

The difference in research that many fail to grasp is that the code is often as ephemeral as the specific exploratory path of research it’s tied to. Sometimes software in research is more general purpose but more often it’s tightly coupled to a new idea deep seated in some theory in some fashion. Just as exploration paths into the unknown are rapidly explored and often discarded, much of the work around them is as well, including software.

When you combine that understanding with an already resource strapped environment, it shouldn’t be surprising at all that much work done around the science, be it some physical apparatus or something virtual like code is duct taped together and barely functional. To some degree that’s by design, it’s choosing where you focus your limited resources which is to explore and test and idea.

Software very rarely is the end goal, just like in business. The exception with business is that if the software is viewed as a long term asset more time is spent trying to reduce long term costs. In research and science if something is very successful and becomes mature enough that it’s expected to remain around for awhile, more mature code bases often emerge. Even then there’s not a lot of money out there to create that stuff, but it does happen, but only after it’s proven to be worth the time investment.
It’s hard to find an airline not deploying them in their fleet but most do provide the type of plane you will be flying in prior to ticket purchase.
I'm not sure of the situation in France, but this is starting to happen readily on Amazon. Lots of physical books you can buy that are completely AI-generated nonsense.
Maybe I'm exposing my own stupidity here, but why would it be bad to advertise the position? Is it because they used LinkedIn or is the mere action of advertising the position instead of trying to fill the position in secrecy the bad part?

I'm guessing that $TODAYS_ENEMY would know about the position being unfilled no matter if it's posted on LinkedIn or not, which some "former submariner" complained about.
Tangential, but those who love the language used in the Egyptian Book of the Dead, surely know about the opera Akhnaten by Philip Glass which used some of the text, both translated and in Egyptian. (Warning, opera, and especially Philip Glass' operas, are not everyone's cup of tea. You may like it or hate it. The point here is to showcase Book of the Dead text).

Hear the opening verses in English here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hRyauSlnP54

Hear the opera scene in Egyptian with subtitles here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XENvMGyy4J8
"...The writer Umberto Eco belongs to that small class of scholars who are encyclopedic, insightful, and nondull. He is the owner of a large personal library (containing thirty thousand books), and separates visitors into two categories: those who react with “Wow! Signore professore dottore Eco, what a library you have! How many of these books have you read?”* and the others — a very small minority — who get the point that a private library is not an ego-boosting appendage but a research tool. Read books are far less valuable than unread ones. The library should contain as much of what you do not know as your financial means, mortgage rates, and the currently tight real-estate market allows you to put there..."
I _think_ I'm good at identifying AI images, but part of it is you can never be sure.
>If someone alters a video, the original would need to be viewable.

What exactly do you mean by "need"? This system doesn't stop anyone from distributing edited or staged or otherwise bogus media, because that was never the intention. It does allow someone to demonstrate - with a fairly high level of trustworthiness - that the media they're delivering is raw, unedited footage taken with a particular camera at a particular time in a particular place.
Your link also has an extra feature that the OP does not.

When I open https://www.timezones.digital/ it asks permission to get my current location and then displays the time for my location. And it even got the city name correct. This is great on mobile.

Whereas https://time.fyi/timezones does not currently request access to location and instead uses the location of my IP address. Which in my case is the location of my ISP and not of myself. Using the name of the city my ISP is in, which is halfway across the country from me.
Radio reporter fired over jokes is reinstated after arbitrator finds them funny
Why is inetd an anti-pattern? Isn't separating all the work of opening ports and launching daemons into a separate component (so that it's not mixed into every other component) exactly what separation of concerns is all about?
16GB isn’t enough for Windows. macOS is surprisingly more efficient - it’s not just swapping to their faster storage, either: lots of attention to detail everywhere means that you see less memory pressure across the board. Even using VSC, Teams, and Podman heavily, 16GB has plenty of headroom.

The reason you can’t update the RAM on Apple silicon is the engineering tradeoff they made to have it be faster. That required work on the software side – e.g. they added a CPU extension to compress memory pages and updated the OS to use it effectively – but they have the advantage of not needing to coordinate multiple internal feuding factions and outside vendors the way that Microsoft has to.
If you have a free account on https://www.expertflyer.com/ and attempt to create a seat alert (but don't go through with it) the Aircraft type will be displayed above the seat map once you type in the flight details.

This will also work for aircraft swaps (including last-minute ones) all the way until the plane leaves.
That's the difference between theory and practice.

In theory, sure.

In practice, there are lany chrome forks and they all chrome with a few features on top.

In theory you can beat usain bolt by just running faster than him.

In practice nobody does.
That's a fair point, children's literature (a wonderful and valuable genre) will certainly be under threat. I would probably suggest that nothing an LLM would come up would stay with a person for decades like (say) Were The Wild Things Are. I'm Swedish, so I grew up on Astrid Lindgren, and some of those books move me to this day when I think back on them. I imagine many Americans still find Dr. Seuss hilarious in the same way.

> We are also reading Little House on the Prairie which I consider a little more “high brow”, and the girls really like that, too. But kids are easy to please and it has been interesting.

Yeah, that's kind of my point :) do you think an AI could write Little House on the Prairie? I don't. Sooner or later the vapid and nonsensical plots from LLMs stop being that amusing, and you need to feel real human connections to the things you're reading. That's the reason you read books, after all.
I always appreciated this presentation for being a reasonable and balanced take, if you're interested in other examples: https://youtu.be/o_AIw9bGogo
And what will they want to say that they are so afraid of?

Kill all Jews from the river to the sea?

Or they want to peddle some Hamas false information story e.g. their experience?

I would recommend everyone study Iran revolution and how Muslims hijacked it and killed everybody else.
I would say that contemporary literature can't provide any insights, by definition. Because it's a slave to its zeitgeist. Anything touching politics, history, economy and especially society will be tainted.
We just had a house fire over the holidays. It started in the basement, I was to the flames in 10 seconds, using an extinguisher another 5-6 seconds later. That failed... I spent another 30 seconds scrambling for anything that might suffocate the flames.... then I had to get out. I was 'upwind' of how the flames were spreading, but was not prepared for the power to suddenly cut out in a room now quickly filling with black smoke.

The whole ordeal was 1-2 minutes before I had to evacuate the house and watch it all burn, helplessly.

Even a good plan isn't always enough; most don't have any plan.
Such a subtle issue! And I lay the blame on our obsession with abstraction.

Once we give up responsibility of the machine architecture to a compiler, we then have to chase issues like this. What gestures can I make to my compiler, to make it use better machine operations? It's maddening. Like a game of charades.

Sure abstractions gain us tremendously, are an invaluable aid to quickly conceiving of an application and creating something safe and understandable and even beautiful.

But we lost all hope of making it fast, or small, or 'efficient' in any physical way.

My favorite example from my lifetime: On the Dell Triton our app programmers had a main loop that included a call using complex types. The entry point had, and I disassembled to see, five constructors and destructors called to coerce the types into something the API needed.

It consumed the entirety of the embedded processor hyper-thread. They were unconcerned, as it worked as designed.

I added a little casting in the call arguments, which reduced the CPU time to something like 15%.
You mean India would still be a colony? That seems far fetched.
journals, research universities/institutions, and grant orgs have the resources and gatekeeping role to encourage and enforce standards, train and support investigators in conducting real science not just pseudoscience, but these entities are actively disowning their responsibility in the name of empty "empowerment" (of course because rationally no one has a real chance of successfully pushing through a reform, so the smart choice is to just not rock the boat)
Here here I was just about to post the same thing!

Boeing needs to be held responsible. Absolutely no way should the FAA grant Boeing an exemption for these planes under ANY circumstances. The planes have proven themselves to be dangerous and Boeing is doing nothing to fix them because it would hurt their bottom line.

This company needs to be investigated to the fullest extent by the FAA. The fact that this newest plane was only just rolled off the factory assembly line 2 months ago… a plane doesn’t just rip itself apart in less than two months. Something is seriously wrong at Boeing.
(The article basically asks why there are so very few billionaires in the U.S. - when any family that got decently rich 50 or 100 years ago, then had enough brains to park their money in an index fund, would end up as billionaires today.)

My take: Billionaires are just pretty-bright, really-aggressive people who also got lucky for a while. Imagining that their families somehow inherit their smarts and luck is just plain delusional. If you read a bit of history - that sort of belief is the foundation of the whole "kings, princes, dukes, ..., gentlemen" social hierarchy of long-ago Europe. And history records just how reliably (and how badly) the "$Descendant of $Great with also be $Great" theory has proved itself wrong.
Exactly-once or not, atomic broadcast still impossible in Kafka, anywhere (2017)
This is a general problem with art, music, movies, books, etc. There is just so much!

Performances and storytelling was pretty much ephemeral before printing presses, records, and now computers. Now it’s cumulative. All the writing and art of the past several hundred years is out there.

Kind of creates an overproduction / saturation problem.
Depends on what exactly you're looking for.

There is certainly a tremendous amount of religious-feeling material that references modern physics by name - Deepak Chopra possibly being the most (in)famous example. Some of it is quite popular.

In particular, it seems a lot of pseudoscience/mythology is arising around the concepts of "Energy", "Vibration/Frequency", and "Quantum".

There is also a lot of work always being done by enthusiastic internet-dwellers with penchant for capitals and blink tag in retrofitting these aspects into ancient texts.

One's ability to consume such content may depend on how much attention they paid in high school and other factors :-).
It is, but do you really want your windows to have integrated cameras? You can't just add this on to a window because the light is transported to the edge of the glass and that is inaccessible in normal windows.
Seems like the hug of death already reached the site. It returns a "Error establishing a database connection" message right now.
What has changed is that the big tech companies are starting to fund the effort regularly.
Proving that you're delivering the raw unedited footage requires retaining the raw unedited footage (i.e. whatever was originally signed by the camera body), and distributing it to anyone who asks to check your proofs. This is inevitably a different (and much larger) file, to whatever ends up streaming from social media platforms.
The issue I have with age verification and End user agreements is the following.

There is no legal binding to who signed the Eula in normal end user accept. This differs from a paper contract where the signature is person identifiable.

Your cats paw could have clicked on the Eula accept :). Who is liable then the cat?

I think that if Eulas was taken to highest court of law they may not hold through screening.
It’s a valid measure of the amount of code. 10 bugs in 100k LOC speaks of a very different quality than 10 bugs in 1k LOC.
I wrote a short thing about working with Fortran for AI recently: https://www.marble.onl/posts/fortran_llms.html

I'm a big Fortran now for anything fast. If I was doing EDA or any one-of data science stuff I'd be more likely to use python though (or coreutils and gnuplot depending on the circumstances).
I live in Europe so I guess this is significantly easier over here (except for Ryanair of course)
Wouldn’t this apply to all literature then? Because it was all a product of its time.
A LLM trained once can be instantiated a million times, while each human instantiation requires individual full training.
View it online https://digitalcollections.tcd.ie/concern/works/hm50tr726?lo...

The queues to see it in Dublin can be long.
I'm enjoying artix linux with dinit. I tried a couple of other alternatives - s6 and openrc - although I wouldn't say I was that fair on openrc.

dinit may lack many things - I don't know - I haven't had any reason to be unhappy with it and it seems to work in a fairly understandable way. I defined a new service (for minidlnad) and that appears to be straightforward.
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^^ you dropped this
Thank you!

Perhaps this URL should be in the linked repository? I read through it and was waiting to understand what it _did_. I almost gave up, but now that I've seen this, it is exactly what I've been looking for to help manage my outdoor plant "guilds".

I also figure that I could use this to catalogue local wildlife as well to get a sense of what is where, and when. Put that together with particular plants and that's some really nice longitudinal data!
I hear what you're saying, the real world is often complex. However, I don't agree that means banking examples aren't useful, because they do lay out the problem that all banks have to consider, one way or another.

There are many ways of solving the consistency problem, but understanding what consistency and serializability is means that you'll be better educated in coming up with solutions.

Also, I believe that all else being equal, you would want serializability. It simplifies everything. There's a new [financial database under development named TigerBeetle](https://docs.tigerbeetle.com/design/consistency). They chose to implement strict serializability by default because:

> Strict consistency guarantees (at the database level) simplify 1) application logic and 2) error handling farther up the stack.

So the banks of today may have to deal with inconsistency, but that doesn't mean the banks of tomorrow want to.
I don't get it, people actually have "sudo tmux *" enabled and thought it's something safer than root shell?
_Bool isn't part of stdbool. It's a language keyword. C23 introduces full support for bool with true and false as keywords.