skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
An important piece of context is the bolts found loose on a United plane:

https://www.reddit.com/media?url=https%3A%2F%2Fi.redd.it%2Fm...

there are three visible on the right in that photo. These bolts don't have a cotter pin and they look like they are essentially part of the plug door assembly itself. It sounds like they are never intended to be loosened for installation, opening, inspection, or access. They bolt the collar that goes around the guide cylinder to the plug door frame itself.

I think if these bolts become loose, then 1) the collar will be free to move upwards, assisted by the spring that you can see in that photo below the collar, and 2) the door plug is basically mechanically untethered and just held in place by friction and air pressure. If the plug door frame itself were nudged up about an inch by the collar spring action, or any other force (like turbulence), it'd push right out like DB Cooper.

In the NTSB briefing, the chair said that the NTSB had offered party status to Spirit Aerospace (who I think make the frame and the plug) and the machinist union.
Obviously the charge per download attempt was moronic, but unity was already losing hundreds of millions a year.

Imo they always needed a revenue share, the license model wasn't enough. I believe epic charges 5% for unreal, so it's hardly unheard of. Though doing it retroactively would also be unacceptable.
On my induction range, the buzzing only happens when I’m pumping 40 amps through a pot and its contents. The range boils water so quickly that I don’t find it annoying. Ymmv
But it surely will sooner or later. Probably sooner. Bans on abortions haven't stopped women from trying to get abortions since pre-modern times.

If I am to guess the first victim will be someone who can't afford to go to a another state. Yay for the war on the poor.
I assure you, they have enough money to rent a home or apartment. Most are not homeless. To say even 1% of illegal immigrants are homeless a year after arriving would be a stretch.
Why is hitting on a woman inappropriate behavior?
Does this question need to be asked when there are countless (even very successful) SaaS companies that do something that can be done with a 100-line bash script.
Actually it should be #23 on that list but is split up into two items with roughly 0.6% each. Seems to be a bug.

Search the page for 3090 and see for yourself, it's on the list twice.
I see no sign that that's the case, the article ends on:

> Legal has taken over

Which would imply there were probably consequences.
Svelte Tenets (Rich Harris)
I have ported a few internal libraries to polars from pandas and had great results.

I never liked pandas much due to its annoying API, indices and single thread only implementation (we usually get a 10x performance boost at least and for me that also means improvements in productivity). Also, pandas never handled NULLs properly. This should now work with the pyarrow backend in pandas, but we can’t read our parquet files generated by PySpark. With polars it mostly just works, but we use pyarrow to read/write parquet.

Overall I can recommend it, conversion from/to pandas DataFrames was never an issue as well.
OP here, I've read this book a while back. Now I'm thinking that it might (among other things) have very well influenced this blog post :)
There is no way to effectively pretend to be smart without actually being smart.

This comes up a lot in things like science fiction, movies, etc...

E.g.: an author can state that a character has "superhuman intelligence", but the author themselves would need to actually posses this superhuman intelligence to write the actions or dialogue of that character.[1] Because authors are "just human", they obviously can't be superhuman, so they generally avoid directly demonstrating the actions of superhumanly intelligent characters. I.e.: the "tell, not show" instead of the usual "show, don't tell."

The current crop of AIs are 100% "show". They demonstrate intelligence directly, by answering questions instead of just talking about how they would answer questions, which is what fake intelligence would do.

PS: Next time you see a politician promise to deliver a solution, but not actually state what that solution is... well... now you know what's going on with that particular situation!

[1] There's a degree of cheating available to authors, because they have information that the in-world fictional characters don't. Similarly, they can set up the question to lead to an answer they already have. The chat-based AIs can't cheat like this, they have to answer the questions given to them.
Frankly I miss these annoying outlook calendar notifications, these days nothing comes close to be that invasive )
Ask HN: Why did jameda ratings become so good?
I noticed that the ratings on jameda became very good. Some years ago this was not so.
Watercooling or passive cooling with external heat sinks.
Research paper is also an executable x86 program [pdf]
This is also beside the point. I think both of you are trying to warn against the dangers that lie on both sides of this coin: people can invest too heavily in a specification and waste an enormous amount of time, and people can immediately jump into coding and code something that does not do what it was intended to do. Like with all things in life, there’s a balance between these two extremes that’s correct.

You need some level of specification so you know what you’re building, but you have to keep in mind that the final code defines what the behavior truly is. Sometimes, that behavior unintentionally becomes part of the specification because users begin to rely on it.

I do like the fact that you both used hyperbole to succinctly illustrate the dangers of veering too far in either direction though :)
Something that this brings up is the idea that we are going to "bring manufacturing back" to the USA. I don't think we will do that, and I certainly don't think this is a sign that we will do that.

Bringing chip fabs back is good. It is a strategic move that ensures we have control over chip security for critical devices. But it does not follow that bringing chip fabs back means that all manufacturing is coming back.

My local hacker space is struggling to keep its doors open. All my local electronics shops (in the Bay Area!) have closed down. The small independent hardware stores are closing down too. People who actually want to build things are having a harder and harder time getting it done. Everything is owned by private equity firms who raise the price so high that people not already making a profit are getting squeezed out, which removes space for learning, prototyping, and risk taking.

Compare all this to Shenzhen where you can get everything you need fabricated in a small area. It is important to keep in mind that Shenzhen was built relatively quickly, so perhaps we could do that here. But will we? I admit I only know the basics of the creation of Shenzhen but it sounds like strong political will to create it was an important part.

Do we have strong political will to create something like that here? I honestly don't think we do. I am concerned that our political system is so overrun with corruption, infighting, finger pointing, and empty gestures meant to get likes on Twitter that the work needed to actually make manufacturing happen here would never get done.
A good day's work in software development delights the end-user to at least the extent of a well made craft cocktail. That seems like a good standard to hold for yourself. There just tend to be just a few more users for a software product than the capacity of a neighborhood bar on a given evening.
I remember being very excited and applying for a position here a month ago. I was expecting a positive response given that I match the requirements very well but got nothing.

I am 100% convinced these roles are ghost positions and not intended to be filled. Similar sentiment expressed by others: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38101261

edit: grammar
1. Set your page margin to 0px.
> experimental attempts emphasizing ease of use

yes, i would define them very much as experimental
If your devs aren't good what are the chances of your QA team being good enough to make up for their short comings? The dynamics laid out by the parent comment will just hit even harder. Your best bet is to enforce basic practices like continuous integration, coverage goals and maybe a coverage ratchet as a merge gate. Training and education on areas were the team is weak is also a must.
I think with parallelism that difference is realistic, definitely not in single core performance though, most of pandas is implemented in numpy which should be pretty fast.
There are tabs inside the device that change color on water intrusion for that.
Diablo IV coming soon to GeForce Now
(Not affiliated with any of these companies, I just really like GeForce Now and use it every day, and have waited a loooooooong time for this to happen, hoping that Microsoft will do us a solid. They finally did!)

Thanks to Microsoft's acquisition of Activision (and them handing cloud streaming rights over to Ubisoft [1]), Diablo IV will soon be coming to Nvidia's cloud streaming service, GeForce Now [2].

GeForce Now offloads rendering to the cloud and makes your computer/tablet/phone act as a thin client that just receives the rendered frames and sends back control inputs. It's similar to how Google's failed Stadia program works, except Nvidia's offering uses your existing Steam/Epic/Xbox/etc. library, offers much more powerful hardware, and utilizes a lot of Nvidia-specific optimizations that Stadia never had.

Between DLSS, Reflex, and the upcoming cloud G-Sync, the game will likely run better on in the cloud than many desktop gaming PCs. The GeForce Now Ultimate tier comes with a RTX 4080 GPU, which is out of reach for many gamers due to its high price.

This will also finally allow Mac gamers to play Diablo IV without Crossover (which has poor performance) or Whisky and GPT (which often breaks and stays broken for weeks at a time [3]). GFN has much more powerful GPUs than even a M3 Max.

For Linux or Steam Deck gamers, D4 is already Proton Gold rated and Steam Deck verified [4], but GeForce Now should allow you to play it on much higher graphics, using less battery, and without using the fans.

[1] https://www.theverge.com/2023/10/13/23915780/ubisoft-activis...

[2] https://blogs.nvidia.com/blog/CES-2024-geforce-now-activisio...

[3] https://github.com/Whisky-App/Whisky/issues/682

[4] https://www.protondb.com/app/2344520
I can understand, though. For instance, with new security rules like x^w page protection, it becomes much harder to write a self-modifying Forth on MacOS - I gave up a jonesforth port because of this. I'd continue if I had a way to turn off these protections, but this seems hard-baked into the new M123/OS versions now. It's maybe easier for JIT compilers that don't actually modify the core compiler itself (something FORTH definitely does, and which makes up a big part of its allure. It's the ultimate foot-gun).

As a side node, I think that since the FORTH community seems to so strongly advocating for small stand-alone systems that are bootstrapable, it's annoying that there don't seem to be forth based IP stacks out there. Most forths have a C-based layer for networking, which feels a bit like cheating to me. I think there should be an open source forth-based network stack out there. This kinda doesn't give weight to the argument that "Forth is all you need".
haha. Good idea, I might steel this theme for the next post ;)
Joke aside, I have problems doing "nothing," and I believe that doing nothing can increase anxiety when you feel stuck.
Arm's length of the front bumper, but about 1-2 car lengths of the front door.
Cheers, the 4070 TI certainly hits a certain sweet spot for sure.

I got a 4090 a few months ago before the prices increased, and I'm beyond stoked with the performance for (typically triple qhd simulation) gaming. It's just a beast.

I have a 2nd PC I'd like to upgrade too though, and the 4070 TI looks like it would be fantastic in this.
Well the only place I use Windows is at work. I went the Linux way and I will kill myself if I had to get back to Windows.
Picking the Widevine Locks: Acquiring and Using an L3 CDM
A little writeup on Widevine DRM and generating CDMs with Android Studio.
I think Unity still has a large moat. There are many amazing features of Unity that a lot of people take for granted, and its not until you go shopping around that you realize how far ahead Unity is.

Don't get me wrong, I would rather be working on any other engine.

Unreal is great, but its very heavy, and blueprints - yuck.

The core team at Godot don't understand the needs of developers and it's very buggy. You wouldn't choose it if you don't want to be in the business of fixing bugs in your engine.
You're thinking of fans.
The lightning port detection of "liquids" in my old iphone was never once right.
That means there was a short in the cable
This is one of the most ludicrous non sequiturs I've ever heard. DRM exists, therefore any minute now it's going to be illegal to charge your phone using power from fossil fuels? What thru-line of logic is this?

(Also, your basic claim is false. Who ever said DRM was never going to exist? That would have been an absurd claim to make at any time. Long before personal computers or the internet, the music industry was already trying to make cassette tapes illegal because they facilitated home recording. It was a no-brainer that they would attempt to extend this same control into the digital realm)
$39 is the cheapest offer (well, beyond free ones). If you want to cover your mortgage, your charity giving, savings, maybe a little stock investments, maybe some side gigs, then you very quickly get to $100. And of course state is extra (my tax return, if I choose to file with Intuit, would be at around $120 with current prices). It's not all people, for sure, but in those 10% that need non-trivial filing, those would be much more frequent that "one salary, nothing else" fold. For the latter - the pre-baked offer would be the way.

BTW, that's the cheapest offer TurboTax now does, where you do all the work. They have full-service offerings now, there it could be 3-4x from that easily. So I don't think their business is much threatened.

> That was when you don't have a taxpayer-subsidized competitor providing an almost-as-good service for free.

They already have the platform and 99% of stuff implemented. The only thing they need to do is year-to-year updates. True, it's some work, but as I just shown, their potential market is in hundreds of millions of dollars. Every year, recurring. I think many VCs would look favorably at such potential - and here we're talking about already established companies with all sunk costs already processed and paid off, needing to spend just on maintenance and recurring updates. I don't think it's as bad as you think it is.
> Making the ports waterproof would be pretty easy, since they can do that on iPhones

iPhones are not waterproof, they're IP68 water resistant. Apple even describes the port as being a liquid egress (and thus ingress) point in their public "oops I dunked my phone in water" support documentation.

Dry your iPhone:

1. Tap your iPhone gently against your hand with the connector facing down to remove excess liquid. Leave your iPhone in a dry area with some airflow

https://support.apple.com/en-us/102643
Uh, first part of the bath tub curve is driven by manufacturing defects... That's not a counter point at all.
Yes, I'm a nuclear engineer in this area. I'm quite familiar with what's going on in it.
Recently repaired the drive in my 2nd gen iPod (FireWire 400) and I'm loving it. It's so purposeful. It only does one thing.

Do I need an old Mac mini just to sync music to it? Yes. Is it worth it? Also yes.
When the lid is open, I can see what appear to be vents. There is no active cooling, but I believe there are still holes where air escapes.
While I've heard that Win2k didn't run games well back in the day I never actually had any problems. DirectX worked fine. Perhaps the caveat pertained to DOS games where NTVDM is lacking compared to running more or less directly in DOS.
Is this done with gpt4? In one go?
Correct. Although my definition of success is: 1. no partner/employee — total freedom 2. building apps all day 3. that have a purpose/use case
Somehow, I'm already there and have no intent to do much more
I guess that site is serving completely different graphs to me and you.

Or one of us sees what they want to see.
Why would I want to do that? With ever-changing technology, keeping yourself intentionally behind will probably hurt your future job prospects. You won't be able to relate to younger employees (which helps pass interviews) and many companies utilize new technology like phones.

I've gotten lots of my experience not on the job, but just playing around with technology in my free time.
> It would be nice to have a ripgrep without libpcre2.

Blame your packagers for that, not me. PCRE2 is an optional dependency that isn't enabled by default. If you bothered to read the README, you'd know that.

Your packagers probably enable PCRE2 because nobody gives a fuck about a MB or two. And if you do, compile your own damn software.

> It also would be nice to use BRE by default and make ERE optional, similar to grep.

Disagree. No thanks.

> What would compiling ripgrep from source entail. Would it be as easy as compiling ired.

cargo build --release

Read the docs maybe?

> ired compiles in seconds and compiling requires less than 1MB of disk space. No connection to any server is required to compile the program.

I don't care. Go talk to the Debian people. They know how to build Rust software without connecting to the Internet. Cargo supports that workflow, but it's not the default.

ripgrep isn't minimalist software. Never was. Never will be. If that's a requirement, then tough cookies.

> The answer is no; I am looking for context.

And who knows if you'll find it with ired given that it doesn't implement substring search properly. I demonstrated this with a simple example days ago. You continue to ignore it. This is why your commentary is dishonest. You keep looking for other reasons to prop up ired. Shifting goalposts. And not even bothering to acknowledge that I already told you days ago that ripgrep and ired are two different tools. They don't target the same use cases.

Go back to the start of our conversation. All I did was correct an erroneous complaint about perf where you snubbed your nose. Since then, you've hemmed and hawed and tried to turn this into a broader discussion about whether ripgrep can replace ired. I never said it could. rg -o might be able to hit some subset of ired faster than ired, but I don't claim anything beyond that. I mean obviously ripgrep works better on line oriented data. It is a grep!

Your tunnel vision is so intense you can't even realize that you're trying to rationalize the use of broken software. Who the fuck cares if it's fast or let's you show windowed context if it can't even report every match?

Fast and user friendly doesn't mean shit if it's wrong. The fact that you can't acknowledge that reveals the dishonesty in your commentary.
that's excellent advice! I do that too sometimes.
Somehow related: Putting a STOP-LOSS on your worries, as Dale Carnagie says in the excellent "How to stop worrying and start living"
Who owns the rightS to the generated images I purchase?
I asked a more in-depth question but for some reason it isn't showing up. I probably messed up somewhere I am using I'm using speech to text on an iPad due to my recent spinal injury.
Recently repaired the drive in my 2nd gen iPod (FireWire 400) and I'm loving it. It's so purposeful. It only does one thing.

Do I need an old Mac mini just to sync music to it? Yes. Is it worth it? Also yes.

There is something lost in ultra-reliable modern tech. Computers that would boot with a random driver suddenly failing or package missing would be annoying in the moment, but also a rewarding opportunity to fix.

These quirks gave old tech an organic flair, like an old Italian car. Like, let's see if this thing will start today.
They havent innovated on anything of significance in decades. They just sit on their cash crops and buy up startups.
Actually, even the polite men are being creepy. Hitting on someone you barely know, in a business environment, is just creepy cringe.

Yeah, sure, you're being a "gentleman" by backing down when she inevitably rejects such an inappropriate advance, but after the hundredth insta-suitor, it gets old and even stressful and anxiety inducing.
Congratulations on your geocoding skills!
How Google Perfected the Web
>Obviously, this would be inappropriate behavior if it was happening to an actual human assistant, and I would deal with it.

Unless one person has some level of authority over the other, I don't see why this should be considered inappropriate. Not taking no for an answer, or any kind of retribution for being declined, are harassment and shouldn't be tolerated -- but just asking? I think that's something any man or woman should be able to ask any man or woman.

For avoidance of doubt: Asking someone out when you know very little about them isn't smooth. It won't impress many people. But I don't see it as morally repugnant.
What are the other vehicles you’ve owned?

FWIW I bought a used RAV4 4 years ago and have also had zero issues
In the context of this article and GP post I think the teacher trying to coach students that the act of trying something/anything has the probability of the solution snowballing out of your head. But often students give up before trying and it's a marker's nightmare.

I've seen many people hand in a totally empty answer sheet (something I've also been guilty of in the past). During one of my organic chemistry exams, I saw another student break down because a lot of the questions were unconventional and I could hear the very kind invigilator trying to encourage them mid exam "if you don't try something you can't get more than zero".

I read another examiner report for a notoriously hard physical chemistry paper that it was too hard to fit examinees to a curve because there were too many blank answers and the marks were too low.
I’m looking forward to trying it
This seems at least plausible, and it agrees with my preconceived notions that a good chunk of LLM capability is driven by memorization and not computation[0]. Is there any substantive critique of the underlying idea from the other reviewers, and not just the (evidently terrible) presentation of it?

[0] For a good idea as to why I think this way, see https://not-just-memorization.github.io/extracting-training-...
That's easy, just write better software than she does.
I fell for the marketing and built a PWA for an app that needs to receive notifications even with the device in "deep sleep". It kind of worked, but not quite, which was a huge deal breaker. It took me a lot of googling to find an obscure Chromium bug report stating that this doesn't work as reliable as in native apps and is in that nasty "we will never close this ticket but we will never work on it either" state. Complete with many many howls of outrage from people like me who depended on this working right and now have to rewrite their app.
Will be interesting to see if they keep it going or shut it gown.

Google has a way of starting something and then shutting it down.
The 737 NG from before the merger has a much better safety track record than the 737 MAX.
In 2013, Avril Lavigne inserted a blatant ad demonstrating the Sony Xperia phone's water resistance:

https://youtu.be/uuNTO31FlY8?si=A8Ye7Nw1kpKUoonj