skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> And so, while it is true that flying today is much safer than it was in 1974 — passengers today need not worry about their planes crashing because of badly designed doors — the same basic factors that led to the DC-10 cargo door saga still exist and still cause accidents.

I guess we still do have to worry about the doors and door plugs today. Maybe the 737 Max is the new DC 10?

> All systems intended to ensure that the door was properly closed had now been overcome […] Countless side characters stepped in and out of the picture, from the engineer who certified his own work and missed a clear design flaw, to the Turkish Air Force officials who wanted to use the DC-10 to carry troops to Cyprus, each of them unwittingly playing a small but possibly crucial role in the buildup to disaster. It wasn’t just a door — it was the system itself which failed.

This article totally reminded me of one I read in the Atlantic many years ago analyzing a different airline crash. I’ll try to find the link, but the author or one of the main interviewers had argued that in airline safety, Murphy’s Law is the exact opposite of what happens. In reality, if anything can go right, it will go right, and we only get catastrophes when every part of a system fails, and a whole chain of events conspires to go wrong. They made a compelling case in the article, and this one backs the argument up completely. Fascinating.

Edit:

The Lessons of ValueJet 592

https://web.archive.org/web/20230103195248/https://www.theat...

“The ValuJet accident is different. I would argue that it represents the third and most elusive kind of disaster, a "system accident," which may lie beyond the reach of conventional solution, and which a small group of thinkers, inspired by the Yale sociologist Charles Perrow, has been exploring elsewhere—for example, in power generation, chemical manufacturing, nuclear-weapons control, and space flight.

“The people involved do not consciously trade safety for money or convenience, but they inevitably make a lot of bad little choices. They get away with those choices because, as Perrow says, Murphy's Law is wrong—what can go wrong usually goes right. But then one day a few of the bad little choices come together, and circumstances take an airplane down. Who, then, is really to blame?”
Reddit has an enormous amount of "creative writing". I don't believe any story posted on reddit any more.
Juris-M: Zotero with support for multilingual and legal citation styles
Apparently there's "radar data" indicating location. <https://www.opb.org/article/2024/01/06/alaska-airlines-737-l...>
Saving Private Ryan and the Matrix are some of my favourite films.

I enjoy media that has a political message or meaning.

Get Out was my favourite horror film of that year, and that very clearly exists in a world with a strong political undercurrent.

I'm saying right now, I want more media that is not drenched in political ideology, left wing or right wing. I (like the majority of people) live in a shit world with a shit job and a shit life. But it could easily be worse. I would rather not be reminded how shit everything is even when I just want to be distracted for a short while.

> 90s happiness

I want escapism, it doesn't have to be happy.
hmm did you read the entire thread? comments like «The problem is that _AP itself_ is hard to implement correctly and nontrivially in a way that scales», «I was surprised at how difficult I found the spec(s) to read compared to theoretically more complex ones I've read in the past,» «something went direly wrong in the standards realm sometime around the OAuth2 RFC, which says verbatim that following the spec as it stands will produce implementations that don't interoperate. ActivityPub has the same nature and when we complained about it last year we got a bunch of dweebs telling us that the activitypub spec is fine because it has optional protocol annexes that "all the real implementations" follow»…

and basically all the comments. including yours.

I wasn't specifically endorsing Bluesky, but it would not be surprising if a professional, clean slate protocol based on the "learnings" of the past would be simpler to implement and just all round better. I think the use of DIDs opens up to many interesting options, none of which need to use a blockchain.

It's a shame about ActivityPub, I think Linked Data is a really important tech that hasn't been picked up enough, but from what I hear it's a really half hearted implementation at best.
I'm a pretty liberal guy, but this smacks of government over-reach. The market can sort this out on its own.
As a Brett Deveraux subscriber, for me it depends on how often he posts updates. What with the ongoing book project and job hunt, I don't begrudge him if it's sometimes more than a week between posts, because when they do come out they're really high quality.
I feel like we need to put a banner up that says "We don't apply the same standards to AI that we do to people because AIs are software, not people." And we can just point to it instead of wasting time mentioning what should be obvious, instead of entertaining these constant reductio ad absurdum arguments based on false equivalence.
I wonder if things would be different if someone else posts these depictions on social media—-if the arbitrator saw that a comedy or acting routine was posted anonymously.
Lol nothing to fear except the death penalty if employees you never heard of 5 reporting lines below you screw up badly enough?

Where do people come up with this stuff. If you want a mass exodus from airline management and sudden collapse of the entire industry that would be a fast way to do it.
In particular, how is Boeing apparently exempt from antitrust? Shouldn't there be more than one large airliner manufacturer in North America? I guess regulators consider Airbus to be sufficient, but when each has its own government comfortably in its pocket, I'm skeptical.
"CO2 is also a greenhouse gas and makes our atmosphere store much more energy than it used to which destabilizes ecosystems in which those plants you want to grow bigger actually live. So yeah, they’ll grow faster, and then they’ll all die."

There may be a delay but then the CO2 gets absorbed and stored in the plants, and then in more animals that will be added mass to the cycles - the plants dying then goes into the soil, to support more growth, and eventually over millions of years that Earth gets compacted - turned into rock, then arguably more oil will be formed.

Your point doesn't argue anything because you stopped-didn't think exponentially through the cycle after they "die" part in the cycle - what happens next?

"The rest of your argument is orthogonal to the issue. Taking CO2 out of the atmosphere works globally, it doesn’t matter who does or doesn’t reduce emissions."

So you don't think the West "being responsible by reducing CO2" - getting hurt by costs going up - while the East massively increases CO2 production and gets rewarded by doing so, doesn't have an impact?

Please actually address my specific points, rather than just making a general claim if you want to continue discussing this.
"Unlimited free trial"

I finally found the pricing page (it's strange only having it in the footer and not the top of the site), and I guess you are referring to the free tier. Which is both NOT a trial (it doesn't expire) and NOT unlimited (there's a 10K block limit).

The copy there is confusing since it's actually the opposite - a limited free tier.
> Mozilla has been a consistently positive presence in the modern Web.

I don't disagree. What I'm saying is that it would be amazing if they could create a Firefox of RSS or at least bake RSS back into Firefox. Cross platform syncing, no ads and telemetary, free as in beer and freedom, excellent UI, feeds synced across devices, integrated with Firefox somehow, perhaps even some well thought through social features, etc.

Social media displaced rss, but now that so many recognise that social media tends to be toxic, addictive, exploitative, you name the evil, it's a good time reverse this move. RSS is the best way to follow the internet without losing your head.
Why don't you use clickhouse or some columnar storage for the logs? You get indexing or querying for free.
In my experience, it's surprisingly helpful to have knowledge of Java libraries and an understanding of Java classes, objects, etc... when working in the JVM with Clojure. Otherwise, one would need to spend time understanding streams and readers and writers and the typical mutable java collections, etc... It's also helpful to be able to find a free Java library and to know how to interoperate w/ it and wrap it up behind a nicer functional interface (knowing the connection from Clojure to the host VM).

In terms of 'useful for employers', I don't think there's anything more useful than having written and deployed Clojure programs that solve real problems. I'd say write a Clojure program, see if it's fun for you, and then go from there.
I am more impressed than you.

A general purpose robot can learn new tasks in a modest amount of time.

As you argue, fluidly chaining sequences of learned tasks together is tricky, but current AI technology is capable of solving nearly all those problems within a handful of years.

With centralized learning labs, over-the-air updates, and a 2x or 3x improvement in execution speed of precision tasks, I think this type of solution is going to be ubiquitous within the decade.
Someone forgot the url:

https://juris-m.github.io/
That still wouldn't be valid, since either unsigned integers wrap around on addition (the default behavior of most languages), in which case nonzero values can still sum to 0; or unsigned integer overflow raises an error, in which case the transformation is dangerous unless the integers are both strictly bounded in magnitude.

Unless the integers were unsigned big-integers, in which case performing the long addition with carries would take Θ(n) time, as opposed to the simple Θ(1) operation of just checking both their bit-lengths.
This isn’t meant to totally disagree with your point (there’s some stuff I agree with in here) but I’m having trouble seeing the point about regressions.

To use another example, a new NoSQL DB not having joins is a regression. Does that mean no one is justified in releasing a new NoSQL DB?
I have been able to find equivalent plans in 3 states, usually BCBS ones that are the same as any self insured or employer group plan. Might not be as good as the employers with especially high portions of young, healthy, higher paid office workers, but for most people, it should be comparable.

> If you end up needing a hospital stay, you could be in trouble if the "wrong" doctors do a drive-by.

This is not true since the No Surprises Act went into effect Jan 1, 2022. Everything is considered in network in an emergency, and if a doctor works in an in network hospital, then the doctor is considered in network too.
Why would you filter any sender with a ".gov" domain (in the US, at least) to spam.

Also, don't you check your spam folder? Or, do you just straight up delete everything once the "pile" gets too big?

Sounds like a "you" problem, not a delivery problem.
> Nobody is using Go for any of those, as far as I know.

Quite a few of us are, fwiw. I personally have done all three, Tailscale uses Gio UI for their mobile apps, and a fair amount of games have used https://ebitengine.org to release for Xbox/Nintendo Switch/Mobile/Webassembly/Cross-platform PC.
Yeah, that's probably the unsaid motivation. I just haven't seen it actually turn out that way with the small sample size I've people I've known who signed up for Equinox.

The other thing about Equinox, and expensive gyms in general, is that a gym's price and amount of equipment doesn't closely correlate with fitness success. You can't outrun a poor diet, genetics explains the vast majority of a person's physique even if they get their body fat down to <13%, and only maybe 6 different exercises will work out all the major muscle groups. Setting aside the dirtiness or crowdedness of certain gyms, every extra dollar you spend at the gym is a diminishing return. As a regular guy, I simply can't justify paying that much for Equinox no matter how hot and motivated those gym goers will be because I already have the motivation to work out twice a weak at a cheap ass (yet clean and uncrowded) gym that's closer to me anyway.
I think anyone not addicted to their daily two minutes Elon hate, got strong clickbait hitpiece vibes by 50 words in.
This comment made me realize the historical term in the headline actually, for once, refers to the term’s historical namesake, unlike “VHS” and “Datasette” of late

“VAX” referring to VAX. Not to be taken for granted!
Yes but as arses tooting is funnier that interpretation will always take precedence

At least it's not as bad as Bluesky's skeet, I'll give it that

E: returning from a rabbit hole. Looks like Mastodon retired toot back in 2022 anyway (and skeet was never officially sanctioned by Bluesky)

The toot is moot.
Sorry, I don’t see the logic here. Any battery will be able to supply less peak current as it ages. Throttling the SoC is clearly a better solution than just having the device randomly brown out. Fundamentally, that’s why it’s the solution that Apple adopted. We can speculate about Apple’s motives. My point was just that the batteries were not defective.
More of a parallel universe that didn’t work out caused by the same VLSI revolution.

It is what you get if you think computers need to advance by going parallel, meaning making it far easier to build whole systems out of lots of CPUs arranged in application specific topologies, and taking advantage of VLSI to put all the hardware on one chip to do it. The inspired part was using CSP as the formalism to define how this should work, which is where things like the channels in golang ultimately come from. The transputer has microcoded instructions for interprocess and interprocessor channel i/o.

It happened to walk straight into the RISC revolution, which it definitely is not part of, and so the only commercially successful spin off of it was their formally proven floating point unit which ended up licensed to Sun (and others iirc).
Currently I would say that money is on the side of content producers, not the AI companies... As there is lot of parties that are extremely happy in limiting what AI can produce...
> I'm just saying; there is a really high correlation with thriving wealthy industries - like software - and no union presence

Correlation does not mean causation. Software is high paying because of scalability. It's not like past production or service work where the amount you can produce/serve has physical limitations.

Let's not fool ourselves. It would get worse if employers could figure out how to turn software into a more repeatable process and not have to rely on the craft of the individual. When that day comes the amount paid to software will go down and there won't be anything you as an individual can do to stop it.
> Nearly everything published

What a bald exaggeration
Looks awesome, but Lego will come after you for your logo.
> Another mega gym I used a few times in Southern California was pretty awful, though. I still remember the dirt under all of the machines and the caked dried sweat covering the handles of the ellipticals.

That must be the 24 Hour Fitness on Ocean Park Blvd in Santa Monica.
Did anyone else tried page embed? My attempt doesn't work.
But the news keeps telling me that EV demand is crashing... I guess I wouldn't believe in anything if it wasn't for my lucky astrology mood ring.
Ha! I stand corrected. That's definitely built in!
What London's Oyster cards reveal about central bank digital currencies
Intel doesn’t make a gaming CPU that runs as fast as the 7950X3D. They don’t even make one that runs as fast as the 7800X3D. Plus, their competing solution costs more. So I consider that lack of software to be not very much of a negative in that specific scenario.

No, the Nvidia control panel isn’t a good feature to me. I want a nice application like GeForce experience where every setting is in one place, not two different apps where one of them looks like a Windows 98 program.

I want easy driver updates because I play games. It’s critical I have the latest driver for the newest games. I don’t run them unattended, I just don’t want to have to go to the website every time. I want to open the app and click a button.

Your experience from 15 years ago buying a DOA card isn’t relevant. As far as hardware quality, Nvidia’s best quality and customer service AIB partner EVGA quit the market because of Nvidia’s abusive business relationship.

If your laptop is Sandy Bridge era it is beyond both AMD and Nvidia’s support window by now, that’s a 12 year old platform. That’s a platform that isn’t even compatible with Microsoft’s current OS. You can install the AMD open source drivers, stick with older ones, or get a new laptop.
That only incentivizes optimization for one use case. And the testing methodology matters.

I simply do not understand why a comprehensive set of basic tests aren’t performed, and I assume that’s my own ignorance. But I’ll say my opinion anyways… It’s not like creating a new car doesn’t cost a billion dollars. Is it really unreasonable to have a test suite that gives consumers accurate information across a spectrum of driving conditions?

AND that would FINALLY represent a significant gate to “cheating on the test” as it wouldn’t create the “single test” paradigm that’s clearly not possible for manufacturers to follow.
If they had told users (which they should have done) it might have lead to even more sales of new iPhones. Yes, some users would have replaced just the battery. But many others would have replaced the phone entirely, among them people who would never have noticed any slowdown from throttling.
Flowers Are Evolving to Have Less Sex
Inequality is on the rise globally.
It's a valid point. From a technical standpoint, I'd say over time the number of feature implementations that can be re-used across modules increases. You're right for now that nino has yet matched all the feature sets, but the path to reach there might not be as linear as you think.
No there's huge drive to do this in china. They are obviously inferior at it as of right now.

But that won't last.
By the standard that someone would need it more, vast majority of consumer spending is a lot more wasteful than just burning money.

I don't think it's clear whether the world would have been better or worse off if Gates would have just burned (or preferably /dev/null'ed) all his money.
No this isn’t likely. Chess has trillions of possible games[1] that could be played and if it all it took was such a small number of games to hit most piece combinations chess would be solved. It has to have learned some fundamental aspects of the game to achieve the rating stated ITT

1. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shannon_number#:~:text=After....
This latest debacle is obviously due to some schlub on the factory floor who was more interested in checking his Facebook than installing bolts. Guillotining the CEO won't help.

I wish I knew what would, believe me. I have to deal with the exact same problem, luckily in a factory where there is a lot less at stake.
Firefox reader doesn't work either which is surprising.
Like I said, then slop is what they shall get.
You're saying that the software itself should be held liable, instead of the people that created it. Meaning that the software would need legal status as a person (or equivalent) so that it can be taken to court, instead of the people that created it.

There is a possibility that you're not saying that, but it's the only interpretation of your comment I could come up with. Because your comment consists entirely of comparisons of software to human brains about whether or not something should be considered legal, and this only makes sense if the software itself can be held liable.
Information as Constraint of Behavior
> "The problem I had in mind was that of getting clear about the very nature of causation in biology. It differs from the problem of causation in the physical sciences. Organisms manifest a fluid, integral, harmonizing sort of causation that is more like a play of the multi-dimensional reasons for things than a set of one-dimensional mechanical interactions. It is more like the rich interplay of meaning in an unfolding poem than a rigid syntax or logic."

I don't think causality differs across different academic disciplines, and of course nature is indifferent to the political divisions found within academia. E.g., the life of a star is rather similar to the life of a dog, in many ways - birth, development, death - and so why this desire to draw this fundamental divide between 'living' and 'non-living' systems? Yes, there's the transfer of information from one generation to the next in living systems, but that's only possible because cells manage to maintain their physical integrity.

Some people might think this means everything is dead, mechanical, and boring - but one could just as easily adopt the philosophy that the entire universe is alive, dynamic and interesting.
> RSS is the best way to follow the internet without losing your head.

Egad, Friend! It seems that we are in full agreement. On the Internet, no less. ^_^

I used the Feedbro extension and find it good enough to recommend. When I am in a terminal, I also use a custom script.
Long-awaited, right. I'd bet the vast majority of people in the EU didn't care at all about mobile charging standards.
The Woman Shaking Up the $50B Instant-Ramen Industry
The differences between the original paper and the book are interesting too, I'm told that roughly reflects things he learned from the occam production effort.

In particular I suspect there is a useful correlation between synchronous message passing and maintaining program invariants which is obfuscated if your primitive is asynchronous queues.
I'm indifferent about Wordpad; always surprises me to read people don't regularly use Notepad.

I use it as a clipboard scratchpad. It strips RTF when copying between programs since Windows itself has no built-in way of doing so and you can also use it to clean up whatever you're copying. It loads fast and is minimalist.

Some programs on Windows vomit all over themselves when receiving RTF information, like Teams for example. I also read people use the Address Bar/OMNIBar in browsers, but that may transmit to the search provider.

I also use Notepad++ and VSCode. Notepad remains my favorite clipboard toy because it is so fast and light-weight. I use Notepad++ when I need to use its advanced search/replace and visualization tooling (e.g. View -> Show Symbol -> Show All) and VSCode when I need actual language colorization/structural auto formatting.

PS - Ctrl+Shift+V isn't a Windows feature and never was. It is a Microsoft Office shortcut that only 50% of Microsoft Office even supports (e.g. try it in Outlook). A couple of third party programs support it, but it is incredibly YMMV.
> they don't want to risk their lives defending it

Well, defending it is something else entirely. Being sent to a remote outpost in Afghanistan without even a broad objective for any US soldiers being there to complete is only arguably "defending" and quite a poor argument at that. The country, itself, is well defended without me.
Still a thing. Making money exploiting people's greed also still a thing.
“go mod vendor”.

That’s it. That’s all you need to do.
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I've left the Microsoft world. That said the dotnet environment is pretty frickin' cool. Not least of all for the mostly excellent documentation across a lot of libraries. And MS keeps throwing money at development. It's just not better enough to attract Linux devs brought up entirely in the Linux world. And I suspect most dotnet devs who jump entirely into Linux abandon dotnet because their new shop doesn't use it.