skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What a great run. I remember the IPO party in 2016, very early in my career, and being in disbelief that a texting API was used by so many people. It was my first time writing code for systems that operated at _real scale_. While the last few years have been a bit rocky, you can't understate the impact that jeffiel had on the developer tools ecosystem.
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The gauges really only have two "advantages" that I can easily see. One is that your periphery vision can actually see a general "pointing in the same spot" arrow better than you can read a number without focusing on it. The other is your periphery vision is similarly good at seeing movement, without having to read it.

This does not argue against numbers being better if you are looking directly at them. I think I agree there, though I do not have any data to confirm it.
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I've never owned an iPhone (never will either) but I'm in the opposite boat these days. Cases degrade my phone experience and result in more waste to throw away. These phones are seemingly built like tanks now. I'd be hard pressed to break the screen on this one. It's survived falls on concrete no problem. Generally I don't let it fall because it's too expensive to aimlessly drop.
Also memory usage. An interpreter per active request would chew through RAM. I forget which Python project it was, but it introduced forking per request, and man that saved a lot of memory.
That wasn't my statement. Let me try again.

A 5 year software engineer may have more perceived value per cost than a 20 year software engineer. Sure, if they have the same salary, you hire the 20 year engineer, but they don't. The 20 year engineer expects more pay, and (rightly) won't work for 5-years-of-experience wages. So you have to find an employer that perceives the additional value of the additional 15 years of experience.
I have family working as a UN advisor on sustainable food chains and she says the entire ecosystem in the oceans could potentially collapse in 10 to 20 years if we don't stop large scale fishing entirely, especially trawl and unreported fishing destroying the seafloor and acidity going haywire.

I have no idea if this is correct but i'm pretty sure around 1 billion rely on this food and can't imagine what would happen if this somehow got removed from the system.

Does anyone know if it's really that bad?
Not to direct attention away from the issue at hand, but how do these collected fines get used? I can't help but wonder with such exorbitant sums of money if some organization secretly does not want these fines to go away...
It makes sense that retrofitting is expensive - that's labor and plane downtime for 5-7k commercial jets.

This airplane was brand new. It should be using something more modern.
It's such a weird standard to hold. Why does "there is no evidence" have to be perfectly true? It's a falsifiable claim that anyone is free to disprove, so do your own meta analysis and present the counterclaim. Science has to try to be objective and thorough and that gives it credibility.

Compare that to the unfalsifiable claims of conspiracists like "China engineered the virus but covered it up so well we have no evidence". And then the same people accepting suggestions of a much weaker claim that it escaped from a lab, as proof that what they said all along has been proven correct.

"No evidence" is a perfectly acceptable scientific claim, as open to refutation as any other.
> Why would anyone think a two-hour buffer for something so critical would be appropriate?

For the most severe incidents, recording stops at the end of the incident. The current two hours is an increase of the previous 30 minutes. The old 30 minute limit made a little more sense at the time considering the mechanical nature of the recorders at that time.
I'd say it illustrates that the Space Shuttle program wasn't actually worthwhile. When push came to shove, the supposed benefits were less than a rather piddling amount of astronaut life value. We have no trouble continuing to risk lives in other activities (the military, for example).
Agreed. I only played Cyberpunk on the Deck for a few hours, but I was impressed how well it ran. 40fps worked fine for long stretches, and the text size wasn't an issue in the slightest.
Let's hope brain uploads never get figured out, otherwise my uploaded self will be breaking copyright with every thought
> The comment directly above you on the page right now gives an example of people getting the trade-off wrong, so your dismissiveness is pointless.

I was only dismissing the way the article presented fraud tolerance as something deeper than a trade-off. I did acknowledge that the trade-off exists and in my other comment stated explicitly that I think discussion of how one finds the right trade-off is interesting.

On your COVID example, I agree that in an emergency it's worth pulling the lever as you put it, i.e. grease the wheels and get the stuff we need. But I wouldn't expect the extra spending to be directed disproportionately at cronies of the government, fraudulent or not.
Looks great! By the way, I use Apple Books (also works in Kindle) to do something similar - if you press and highlight a section of text, you can translate it, which has done wonders for building my vocabulary in context.
The vast majority of GPT4's learning (in terms of compute time) isn't reinforcement learning, it's training the transformer to predict the next token in the sequence. Doing this with sufficient accuracy requires it to build an internal model of the world. We don't know exactly how human brains learn internally, but if we treat it as a black box, then like GPT4 it takes in words/texts and learns to output words/text that make correct inferences about the world.
People in another spot were complaining that the auto lock maximum is apparently 5 minutes. It seems odd that this number isn't customizable.
I think this is orthogonal to cache maintenance and cache eviction. Instead this is having a background process periodically refreshing the data in the cache to keep it hot.
You probably need to interpret this as saying "the system is written in such a way that the application developer needs to take extra steps to secure their applications, compared to how it could've been written".

For example, privilege elevation in Linux is a very complex and complicated mechanism. The famed "sudo" command has a very long history of bugs. To the point that I remember RHEL peddling their own version ("ksudo" if memory serves... I cannot find any mentions of this, it was some 15 years ago). It's very hard to get things right. Especially, to prove that you've done things right, if you are after security.

The system interface is designed "for comfort" rather than "for security". Many things could've been a lot more secure, but very tedious on application programmer (imagine SeLinux, but in hyperactive mode... that's every sysadmin's nightmare).

In practice, with a lot of community effort, tools like "sudo" eventually reached a point where they are mostly reliable for what they are expected to do. So, to face practical threats, today, the system may be OK, but this isn't the testimony to its design, rather it is a consequence of how much effort was spent plugging the holes.
Policymakers might not want to subsidize Chinese industrial might when it comes to realpolitik, not all decisions are about optimizing EV adoption, some may try to slow rate of tank production.

The max speed of the BYD seagull is 80 mph, which is safe highway speed in my area of the country as everyone drives 10 over, can these vehicles maintain 75 mph for 30 minute intervals without over-stressing the internals?
Maintenance union then. It does not take a genius to see the incentives playing out. All it takes is a pilot saying "fuck these shitty planes I'm never flying one again"... err Earl can you go take one of your legendary shits and then go get the flight recorder? Wink You got it boss! Wink Really I didn't mean to make a dig at unions because you can get those same incentives without a union, however the pilots union is arguing against longer recorder times.
Did any of those layoffs coincide with the global layoffs?
Can you name the brand so we know never to buy from them?
The fare is 18 credits, please.
> There are some studies here from Germany that suggest that heat pump systems can lead to higher total CO2 emissions than using alternative systems. (I think it was compared to an infrared heating system with solar installed.)

Is solar + infrared the most common form of heating in Germany apart from heat pumps? Otherwise it's a dishonest conclusion to say heat pumps can lead to higher CO2 emissions. It's possible that another system is even better. Anything driven entirely by solar probably has no operational emissions. But what if the heatpump is also driven by solar?

The honest way to compare is to compare these various alternatives to the most common form of heating, which is probably still gas.
Easy, its all orchestrated from Iran.
> Fortunately visonOS is a macOS fork

Is it? Source? This doesn't align with everything else I've heard about the dev environment (and my thoughts).

I think people have incorrectly wishfully been thinking of it as a general purpose computer, rather than just an iPad with a fancy display.
A cynic would say that the right-wing isn't about efficient use of resources, it's about a justice where some people deserve to be kept trodden down even if it costs more to do so.
Except it's not, due to being a crappy walled garden
in terms of systems design it looks pretty decent: 32 gprs, 51 instructions, load-store architecture, 20 megahertz, one instruction per clock for alu instructions, hardware floating point coprocessor, can do fp and memory concurrent with alu instructions, hardware multiplier, delay slot bit in branches, separate instruction and data memory buses. the big thing not specified in the manual is the price; a 20-mips processor costing US$10000 in 01988 is different from a 20-mips processor costing US$10. but of course what killed it was powerpc

apparently the mmu was a separate chip? with the cache on it? and that's why this manual doesn't document the page table structure? so it was only questionably a microprocessor
> Sometimes “no evidence” means that we haven’t found compelling evidence yet.

Most of the time when no evidence is used, it's to drive political or business activity. For example:

“There is no evidence that Asbestos is unsafe.”

I wish that news media would just be honest, or tell us when research is ongoing so people people were not panicking over something that is simply just not known.

“Researchers have good reason to believe that masks will help prevent the spread of COVID-19, but research is ongoing at _______ to determine if COVID-19 is airborne, and how effective masks are in preventing the spread of COVID-19.”

Unfortunately, the truth is boring and outrage and panic drive clicks.
I bought this some time ago: https://www.amazon.de/-/en/gp/product/B0CNQV8MLC/ (MINIS FORUM BD770i) and though I'm using it as a homelab server, it's a pretty capable desktop machine. Not sure if it fits your GPU requirements, of course.
QALYs are generally how this done, and don't need to be limited to medicine: https://www.sciencedirect.com/topics/medicine-and-dentistry/...

They won't help you with non-existence though.
A similar device, a monitor for trucks, was similarly quashed. My sister was working for the major tire manufacturer in the service division that managed fleet tire rotations and replacements. Suggesting a pressure recording and reporting device would be useful in accident investigation, the trucking fleet operators were uniform in their response: horror. It would be used incriminate them in traffic accidents, never mind the benefit to reducing such accidents.

Likewise, chipping tires never got past review. Too expensive (a few cents per tire) and it would allow unequivocal tracking of tires through their lifetime. Which would upset a vigorous ecosystem of tire black market sales. See, whole warehouses of inventory would be found to be empty when inspectors came around. Must be a paperwork problem! When in fact, they'd all been sold out the back door.

I'm astonished airlines were ever on board with flight recorders.
I'm particularly interested in how Egypt responds to this. They lose about $300,000 per vessel that diverts around the cape. In fiscal 2023, about 25,000 vessels went through the canal.
And it's also way easier for you to pull a Zuck and push the company into some dumb multibillion dollar decision that wipes out a ton of the value of said company.

Seeing the future is hard.
This is hardly proof for the alledged conspiracy between maintenance crew and pilot unions to cover up flight crew fuck ups by limiting CVRD to two hours...
It doesn't have any agency of its own, it just does what it's told, which in NYTs case was to complete the rest of a copyright article when it was prompted with a portion of it.
My bank has a similarly unhelpful approach, but at least the SMS code expires, and my phone never sees my bank password at all.
“It was still pretty clean, no scratches on it, sitting under a bush and it didn’t have a screenlock on it,” from the article. No information how big the bush was but it cushioned the landing.
You certainly don't have to lie, but there's no reason you can't simply calculate your age differently. The common 365 days to a year for age isn't a universal given.
> Planes typically use Inmarsat which provides better coverage.

Ask the families of MH370 how well Inmarsat works.
It's well established that intermediate fall heights are the most dangerous, since the phone doesn't have enough time to rotate into the optimal landing position and brace for landing. Or was that for cats?
SoundCloud was specifically good to find artists who didn’t exist on physical yet. That’s kinda the whole point of it, or was supposed to be before they lost their way.
Cost of retrofitting? This particular Alaska MAX 9 is a plane that was just built and delivered late 2023. The 737 MAX family only went into service in 2017.

Im starting to wonder if the yet to be certified 777X will store for more than 2 hours as it takes 16 hour flights.
It’s good to hear that PWAs are still on Firefox Android, even though they’re out of Desktop.

From my [fairly-out-of-the-loop-for-the-past-few-years] vantage point, Mozilla’s been a lot less invested in the PWA ecosystem since they abandoned their Firefox Phone / Boot2Gecko initiative, which was intended to create a middle tier between the expensive smartphones of the early 2010’s and ubiquitous and cheap feature phones (flip phones, classic Nokia candy bars), and expand access to the web across the world with it.

All the apps were PWAs, which made it simple to build out. Eventually Mozilla stopped the project, but KaiOS became a commercial implementation and it still runs on a fair number of feature phones to this day.

But without that pressure for PWA support in Firefox as a critical mobile feature, it was largely serving as an expensive bookmark launcher in the Firefox code base so that folks could alt-tab to the small number of sites that supported it on their desktops. Not a noble end for Mozilla’s support for what should have been / could have been an incredible leverage point for the web ecosystem and open development.
Can Yellen also declare peace for the world?
https://online.hillsdale.edu/courses/dantes-divine-comedy

it's OK. You might find a better one.
> I can almost guarantee that what happened was something unintentional

It's unintentional on paper because nobody is stupid enough to put in writing that they intentionally make the ban mechanism very trigger-happy in order to collect more personal information.

On the other hand, it works in their favor, so there will not be any attempts at fixing this trigger-happiness either.

> The number of privacy reviews to add a data collection around bans

The number of privacy reviews to add a data collection around bans would be astronomical

Just like the privacy reviews that ultimately get them to continuously do things that are in breach of the GDPR and that even a layman with no specific legal/tech knowledge would consider creepy/unethical/illegal?

> I would feel bad for that engineer

That's the thing, there is no single engineer working on this. There is no ticket "increase the amount of personal information given by people" - as per my first point it would be a huge liability to put something like this in writing.

However, one engineer working on the ban system might have its KPIs tied to the amount of "bad" people blocked, where "bad" can be deemed as someone who got challenged and didn't subsequently complete or pass the additional verification (the thinking is that a legit user would have nothing to hide and complete the verification, and indeed many do). This effectively encourages ban trigger-happyness and indirectly increases data collection while being completely deniable.

Remember that these companies are not stupid/incompetent - there's lots of money at stake to get this "right" (in their own way - aka beneficial to their business model). They just have to pretend to be stupid/incompetent in order to get plausible deniability and deflect eventual litigation/regulation.
Amusing anecdote - I used to eat octopus whenever I could get my hands on it, but always as an ingredient in a larger dish - e.g. chunks of octopus in a stew or sauce.

One day I ordered octopus tentacle from a tapas bar, and it arrived whole (and beautifully presented as a centerpiece of sorts). This surfaced many memories of nature documentaries demonstrating the wit and resilience of the octopus.

Looking at the delicacy artfully arranged on its plate, all I could think was "Jesus, that's _someone's arm_ we're eating!"

Took a bite, nearly threw up, and haven't eaten octopus since.
No machine yet created is self-aware. They’re just giant Rube Goldberg machines of simple components like transistors organized into logical units that just move electricity around and store it in little magnetic cubbies. Even the meaning in the data is arbitrary until it is made available to a human user, e.g. by being displayed on a screen.
At least one self-avowed professional connectionist here. I was coming to make similar critique here.

Connectionism isn't and never was about trying to simulate the biological neural networks and other anatomy. As you said, it's about emphasizing the network and network emergent phenomena over isolated pieces (e.g. "grandmother neurons" or strict localization of brain function). At the information processing level the contrast is to classicism/symbolicism that tries to explain cognition as atomic and modular operations on symbols.
It doesn't need to be a cheap aliexpress recorder. Couldn't they just drop in whichever 25hr recorder is used in Europe? Already tested and probably installed in the same type of plane
I did not criticize MiniPCs just for it's limited upgrade-ability though. My criticism was that limited upgrade-ability of certain MiniPC makes it a bad "investment" over the years as new hardware comes in since they are essentially laptops without monitors/peripherals. The same cannot be said for Apple devices since they have been known to hold their re-sale value compared to other devices (while being non-upgradable) - i think you will fine an article posted here recently that dives into this.
I don't think it's remotely feasible, but imagine how rich you could get by synthesizing viagra
The downside is for people disabled. Maybe they aren't a terrible dev but they aren't a great dev either. If they're on par with outsourced labor, they aren't so safe. But what else can they do?

If I lost my job right now, I'd be totally fucked. I'd end up working at Walmart. Masters degrees might as well be toilet paper.
Context for another way to meet "Made In" requirements:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knock-down_kit

> "A common form of knock-down is a complete knock-down (CKD), which is a kit of entirely unassembled parts of a product. It is also a method of supplying parts to a market, particularly in shipping to foreign nations, and serves as a way of counting or pricing.[1] CKD is a common practice in the automotive, bus, heavy truck, and rail vehicle industries, as well as electronics, furniture and other products. Businesses sell knocked-down kits to their foreign affiliates or licensees for various reasons, including the avoidance of import taxes, to receive tax preferences for providing local manufacturing jobs, or even to be considered as a bidder at all (for example, in public transport projects with "buy national" rules).

A semi-knocked-down kit (SKD) or incompletely disassembled kit (although it has never been assembled) is a kit of the partially assembled parts of a product. Both types of KDs, complete and incomplete, are collectively referred to within the auto industry as knocked-down export (KDX), and cars assembled in the country of origin and exported whole to the destination market are known as built-up export (BUX)."
> Way cheaper. Can’t get so fat and unhealthy.

But not nearly as tasty :-(

[UPDATE] Why all the hate? I thought I was making a serious point: food is not just about health, it's also about enjoyment. You can survive on beans and rice, but there are people, myself included, who would happily give up a few years of life expectancy for a more diverse diet.
Tokenization, or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Vault
I would call it "3d with parallax using sensor-derived depth data." 3d mesh models can be rotated and are still considered 3d, not 6dof or any new term.
It definitely expanded the market and help to make it mainstream. The ease of use and relative reliability of these devices really made all the prior stuff seem like trash.
Pescatarian diets are as healthy or more healthy than vegetarian or vegan ones, and much easier to adhere to in terms of getting the required proteins and amino acids.