skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think you would find pushback from far more than just Boeing. Airbus, APA, ALPA, etc. Nobody in the industry would find it reasonable to broadcast something that isn’t meant to come out.

I think the reasons for the missing data need to be established before we go calling for sweeping change.

EDIT: It appears the recorder had continued operation and thus overwrote the data. This is a failure in procedure. Procedures are in place for securing evidence in incidents such as this and for some reason the ball was dropped.
There’s much, much worse things to get excited over. Anthropomorphic cats seem kind of benign.
> It's an interesting model, I remember folks on HN calling for more companies to try it since it seems to have had some success in Germany, but I predict a lot more security bugs and unmaintainable code in the near future.

German here. The secret sauce behind the Duales System is that it's, as the name suggests, a split system - one part of the training is at government-run schools ("Berufsschule"), and the other part at the company that trains and pays you. And since the curricula are virtually the same across the schools, even if they're a bit outdated, they still produce decent graduates.
Yup, oops! Retracted, thanks.
Sears used to sell bike adapter

https://www.flickr.com/photos/62288126@N04/7632590860
> I think the common notion is that the survival of the individual is exactly what natural selection is selecting for.

when we reproduce, do we make copies of ourselves? no we don't. It's not survival of individuals. Read the Selfish Gene and it will change your thinking. You as an individual are a piece of clothing for your genes. Your genes reproduce, you don't.
It's pretty much just an alternative to SQL that's a lot easier/natural to use for more hardcore data analysis.

You can much more easily compose the operations you want to run.

Just think of it as an API for manipulating tabular data stored somewhere (often parquet files, though they can query many different data sources).
Damn. I guess there’s no point in trying it because that guy wrote a fiction novel portraying it as bad.

OTOH bodybuilding (the part people care about) and some strength sports allow PEDs. Some people do die young from steroid abuse, but not a lot of top dogs.
> In 2023 The Verge described the business model of the company as "publish[ing] content designed to rank highly in Google search for "high-intent" queries and ... monet[izing] that traffic with lucrative affiliate links.", with a particular focus on financial content such as credit cards.[16]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Ventures
I can't speak for GP, but "safety critical" is the term relevant to this thread I think. Any situation where people die if you screw up, where that includes screwing up at a higher level, such as introducing ill-thought-out process changes.
Fair point, you are correct in your inference that there are some bad actors in my workplace. However, I’ll argue that the fundamental dynamics of bifurcating the responsibility of quality from software leads to a steady state where all QA departments end up as a liability shield given enough time.

This is driven by Pournelle's iron law of bureaucracy [1], which says that people who promote the bureaucracy rather than the mission of the bureaucracy will get promoted within the organization and come to dominate its decision making.

For example, in schools, administrators make more money than teachers. This is despite both groups having similar levels of education and intelligence. The reason for this is that administrators know the laws and regulations of the environment they’re working in and ensure the continuity of the organization. Despite not directly contributing to the organization’s stated mission of education, they are in charge of the organization and take more benefits from it.

Software QA has similar dynamics. A QA department may start out making good faith contributions to the organization. Eventually there are product failures, eventually leadership needs a scapegoat to show they’re doing something, and eventually QA takes the blame. People get moved, demoted, or fired. QA realizes its risk, and takes steps to mitigate it. They create a highly systematized workflow and process, adopt or introduce standards. Then assert that following process equates to good outcomes. When bad outcomes occur, they point to their strict adherence to following process as evidence of innocence.

If the process does not support the work or mission, that is a cost they are happy to impose on other functions to deal with. This is the final state until a system disruption happens.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerry_Pournelle
At this point, I believe Boeing needs to suffer the corporate death penalty, because it no longer operates as a net benefit to the public. It needs to be dissolved, and its assets sold off. Criminal charges should be pursued to the maximum support of the law against all of the corporate officers.

Those in the FAA and other oversight agencies who failed to properly oversee them should also be prosecuted.

Failing the above, perhaps it's time to revive an apocryphal custom of the Romans. The engineer of a bridge was required to have his home below it, as a means of enticing them to make sure it was well constructed. We should require that Boeing board members, and their immediate family, only fly in Boeing planes of same variety sold to carry paying passengers.
The anti-SEO article on the Verge is an elaborate SEO linkdrop
A lot of the “value of life” calculations are “at what point are we probably killing somebody else”.

You can place an infinite value on a human life, but killing five people to save one still doesn’t make sense.

Some infinities are larger than other infinities.
Perhaps I didn't make myself clear: I'm advocating for the increased ability of humans to harness more energy per capita, not that increased actual consumption of energy per capita is always a good thing (though I'd say the latter is almost always true).

That conscious privation in the face of abundance is good for you in certain cases does not mean that as a matter of public policy, we should strive for privation instead of abundance.
Try dropping it from 2 feet and watch the screen shatter.
The overseas subsidiary business model was happening well before 2007. I left a company doing it, in 2004, for example. And they had been doing it for some years before I joined. And they were not the only one.
Actually numpy has something called a structured array that is pretty much what what you described.
I don’t think this is quite true. I can expect semver to work correctly in about 70% of all instances (working with JS/TS every day).

Biggest issues are authors that keep their libraries at 0.x forever (every minor chance can be a breaking one) and the ones that release a new major version every other week.

The times I do a minor update and something breaks are generally regarded as a bug by authors too.
How would unions increase employment unless unions make employees less productive. You could claim that they increase employee's wellbeing, salary and make the job better, but it would likely have inverse effect for ease of getting the job. e.g. Film and fashion industries are unionized, but getting to them is significantly harder than software engineering.
I'd love to get an in-depth post-mortem-style experience report from the author on what gave them the most trouble. We regularly invite distribution packagers to give talks at our annual Akademy conference to provide this sort of feedback, I can't imagine an OpenBSD talk submission getting turned down!
FWIW I think df.column.value_counts() is better to use here in pandas.
But it doesn't have to be disposable.

All the major components for induction cookers are commodified (coils, IGBTs, etc), it's simply a matter of making the whole thing more modular (particularly, separate the UI from the induction control), and for someone to make an actually-good induction control microcontroller/firmware package as a module.
Kinda weird, I've found that Mario Maker 2, if you queue up on the next-to-hardest difficulty, is basically good? I've encountered plenty of "top quartile of SMW" difficulty levels.

There's some garbage in there too, but that's the game! There's definitely good sets of levels nowadays IMO.
Would you pay at least 2x for your software to have couple more nines of reliability? I’m gonna guess that “no”. At places where it costs $$$ to have bugs shipped to the end customer (e.g phones) or where there’re regulatory requirements they still have dedicated qa.
>Was this just a union-busting thing?

Yes, and to lower compensation because Boeing’s benefits are probably better than Spirits, and so if Boeing wants to pay the people that make the fuselage less, then having them be employed by someone else helps them pass non discrimination testing for pre tax benefits offered to Boeing’s higher compensated employees.

Also, lower unemployment insurance premiums if they want to reduce the amount of labor they buy, since Spirit would be the one laying people off.
I like this one, it's a little more subtle:
https://yeshello.org/
Companies can have internal intermediaries.

Suppose you go to a country and talk to a charlatan who tells you that they have many qualified people and they'll work for 30% of what you're paying in the US. You hire them and tell them to hire more staff there.

Then it turns out there are many qualified people in that country, but they don't work for 30% of what you're paying in the US, because it's a global market and actually they can command the same wages as their skills imply anywhere else. But there are plenty of unqualified people who will sign on for lower wages, and you've been promised workers for lower wages, so that's what you get.
Fair but under that worldview which I admit is likely in athletes, one is more likely to have sound advice and a medical team trying to do their best for them, the other less so. I’d speculate a US medical team keen on a gold metal is less likely to have the same morals as a privately paid one.
However one caveat, at this point I am far outside what I can substantiate via direct experience or data.
Because it’s like willfully choosing the more painful and difficult tool that occasionally stabs you in the hand, because you’re now used to being stabbed in the hand.

Continuing to choose it in the face of - in their own words - a better option, is a bit mind-boggling to me.
> it has a specific term: "concentration camp"

This is objectively false. Offering less-than-ideal free housing isn’t even remotely comparable to imprisonment in harsh conditions.

If you are going to be a burden on society, you shouldn’t be surprised when society makes decisions about how to care for you in a way that puts their needs before yours. Those who find this situation intolerable are, of course, invited to care for themselves as they see fit.
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> It's like, a fundamental misunderstanding of how power dynamics work

The misunderstanding is yours. Workers understand what you say just fine, but don't care about out-negotiating the company. They will never meet the CEO at the bar, so it means nothing to them. They want to be able to out-negotiate their neighbour so they can peacock dominance over someone they actually interact with.

The purpose of a union is to establish a brotherhood between metaphorical neighbours so that they don't try to be assholes towards each other. While that does, indeed, improve the overall worker position against the company, it hinders the power dynamic between them. And that's where you find the pushback.

It's much like you find in 'middle-class' neighbourhoods where you see households trying to outdo each either with nicer yards, or fancier BMWs, or whatever, all while racking up crazy debt to pay for it all. If they invested the money they pour into that stuff instead they would be way better off, but being better off isn't the motivation.
> Serious question: Why is the answer to firms automating everything "give me money for doing nothing" and not "get a different job?"

Because eventually, there will not be many jobs left that cannot be automated. Cleaning and some of the trades will remain as long as we get iRobot-style droids with dexterity and intelligence to match a human, as will politics and management, but everything else will get automated.

The question is, will we manage to shift our society away from the millennia-old model of "one's employment defines one's worth in society" to "everyone is worth the same in society" in time, or will there be bloody fights in the transition?
The nascent red line on the left side of the plot is both shocking and depressing.

Sigh.

:-(
> Otherwise phenomena like eusocial insects with sterile workers would not make sense.

These are often genetically identical with the rest of the hive, just on a different diet and with different treatment after the eggs are laid.
It could also mean their torque wrenches are not being properly calibrated and traced, and have become out of spec. Out of college I worked as a mechanical engineer at a torque testing firm. We made devices with high quality torque sensors which are calibrated against NIST certified weights every 3-6 months, and those sensors are supposed to be used to check every single torque wrench both before and after each work shift to ensure they are accurate. Someone could choose to ignore that process, if they were sloppily cutting costs.
What country are you talking about? That distinction between credit and debit cards doesn't exist in many countries.
The surprise to me about this, is that the design documents for the various WiFi standards focus on interoperability of any WiFi device with any other. It didn't occur to me that a patent on WiFi would be enforceable, given what happened with RAMBUS etc.
Ah, that makes sense. Still, you could use a single nonce per directory, plus an index per file.

As for brittleness -- some degree is unavoidable, since if you want to provide an inclusion proof for a file, you need to provide the (unchanged) file itself. I kinda assumed that the directory would be treated as immutable, but maybe that was premature since no one seems to have landed on the exact use case for this tool yet. :P

Oh, also -- since a BLAKE3 hash is itself a Merkle root, you could technically extend your proofs down into the files themselves; that is, you could prove that some 1024-byte slice of data was part of a file which was part of the directory. The blake3 package doesn't (currently) provide an API for that, though.
i dont dream of truly private ai like that haha. im a pretty open book. but very very glad to see more options in the local ai space!
Definitely don't rewrite all the code, I think it's worth adopting or evaluating in new code though. Especially with the very cheap pandas interop, you can zero-copy to pandas pretty easily if you use the arrow backend.
There is some truth in saying that science progresses one funeral at a time, and in political structures some of the most effective checks on abuse of power is that even the most shrewd dictator eventually dies.

Longevity has its benefits, but if the powerful people can become effectively immortal, then that does have some risks of dystopian stagnation. Like, imagine USSR if Stalin would never die, or Salazar and Franco still holding power in Portugal and Spain, because democracy only became possible when their health failed; and lack of change at top management of megacorporations and major privately held businesses because their owners and CEOs now can be eternal.
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Inspired by my own experiences in the tech job market, I wrote a front-end to who's hiring posts with React and Tailwind.
I don't think you know how manipulation works. It isn't a light switch you get to flip the second you learn something. I.E it is NOT that simple, lol.

It sounds like you have a security clearance and either really like the rules or feel really constricted by them and that's why you're so angry about this.
Nothing would make me happier than if something were built in America but I don’t want to give that designation to Chinese mass produced trash.
It seems that the main disadvantage of the current system is a 2-hour loop of storage, which can be overwritten in long flights and hence missing.
The change needs to be either longer storage which would be a approvals nightmare, or something like OP proposed which isn't too ridiculous. I have certain compliance paperwork that needs to be retained for 5+ years, why not cockpit audio also?
Keep uplifting your skills. You'll generally benefit from more practice, no matter when you get the first gig.

Follow these steps:

- Go and find an open-source project on GitHub that you find appealing and that makes you motivated

- Learn how to contribute to it (read its contribution guide, project setup guide, etc.; dissect its code quality settings); this is important; you want to be a good and respectful citizen and not waste anyone's time with super subpar contribution attempts. An added benefit for doing things that way is that when someone is genuine and honest with their work and contributions, people can feel it and will be more likely to provide you support beyond regular, e.g. more thorough peer review feedback that you will learn from a lot.

- Find a small task you can do in the project. Usually, the readme suggests where to start.

- Once you start with the open source contributions, just keep contributing to open source permanently.

- Look for a job. You don't have to wait to start looking for the first job.

You can do it
I'm happy with the performance of the UniFi APs, but their software updates constantly break, leaving me to ssh in and run update commands manually or even clear out log files. This has happened numerous times to me.
Is this just using HN for marketing? Prove me wrong.
Ask HN: Whispersync for Podcasts/Blogposts?
Whispersync is Amazon's tool that allows you to read a Kindle book, and then switch over to listening to the Audible version, fairly seamlessly. Is there any tool that does something similar for podcasts/blog posts?

I'm imagining a tool taking both kinds of input, creating a transcript from a podcast, or a synthetic speech audio file of a blog post, and allowing you to read and highlight, or switch into listening mode when you're cooking/driving/whatever. Bonus points if you can highlight text, especially if you can do it while listening like Snipd or Airr.

An e-reader pagination option for scrolling and export of notes would be icing on the cake. The ability to self-host it completes my dream version of it.

But does any such thing exist? I can read much faster than I can listen, even on 2x speed, and my retention is much better, so if it only went the podcast > transcript direction, I'd take that too!
i think he meant to be intwrrupted with technology.
That would be OK if they actually let you learn while doing, which is my preferred way of learning. But they ask you to give ironclad estimates for how long it's going to take to implement <insert completely unclear requirement in one sentence> in <technology nobody has heard of so far>.

They can go do whatever they want to themselves. Either tell me what cool new tech you want me to try out and what problems we might want to solve soonish and I'll see which of those and how it might be applicable to or you tell me you want to build <whatever it is> in whatever tech I think will get me there best and fastest. If you know so much, do it yourself. Oh you can't? Well then STFU (not you you but that proverbial manager type above you that seems to know so much)
So what do you think one should use if not Duolingo?
I think HN really overestimates the impact of events like this with the general public.

The very first A320 demonstration flight crashed, killing 3 people, allegedly due to software issues in the new fly-by-wire system, and then involved allegations that Airbus had tampered with the investigation. The demonstration flight was mostly journalists on the plane. [0]

The A330 crashed on one of its certification flights due to an issue with the autopilot, killing all 7 onboard. [1]

Both went on to be some of the all-time best selling aircraft, and meanwhile today in this thread you have people touting Airbus as a paragon of safety. Humans have a short memory.

0: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Air_France_Flight_296Q

1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Airbus_Industrie_Flight_129

I mention these two specifically because they're examples of high-profile failures attributed due to issues with the aircraft early in their lifecycle, but basically every single popular aircraft type (except the B777 and A350) have had serious issues and loss of life due to manufacturing defects, but still went on to be overall successes. Hell, people still flew on the DC-10 even after its _numerous_ issues like AA 191..
My anecdotal experience has been that it taught me enough words in Spanish to start talking to people at bars and then once I started doing that my conversational ability exploded.
Nah, in the software world, the truth is QA is where the people who can't get jobs as programmers end up. I've seen testers go on to become programmers, but I've never seen a programmer become a tester. Maybe it's different for real-time or life-critical systems, sure, but I can confidently say this is how it is in web development.
Running on a very high core count server? Polars in single thread applications definitely are faster but not 60x faster unless the work isn't comparable. Are you reading from parquet and only operating on some columns? That could also be it.

But yeah, polars is awesome, I'm all in on it.
Definitely not intended as a slight toward this project, just (what I thought was) a funny thought about that expression.
Kinda disappointed "Wrap in Time" is not a rap song...
FaceBook's features are just an example of how bad Twitter's targeting is; but also it is a zero-sum market. Nike has an advertising budget; if those dollars go to FaceBook they don't go to Twitter. Having worse engineering than your competition is a real problem.

However, my point is that the top parent's claim of Twitter's problems aren't engineering is wrong. Their targeting is god awful to the point that Advertisers don't want to bother with it anymore. If they had better ad targeting (aka Engineering) then Advertisers would sweep the problems under the rug.

There are also many non-engineering examples of this.

- "If Jeffrey Dahmer ran a 4.3, we'd call it an 'eating disorder.'"

- Russian Oil / Gas is still buyable by western countries.

- Lack of repercussions for Jamal Khasoggi assassination [1]

- Massive amounts of advertising on FaceBook post-Cambridge Analytica

- USA Companies selling your active location (to journalists pretending to be not-journalists).

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assassination_of_Jamal_Khashog...
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