skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
When a business does a stock buyback, the business receives the stock, not any executive(s).

The business might pay the executive with stock per the board approved compensation package, but a CEO does not wake up and say “I want to give myself 5M shares so let’s do a 5M share buyback”.

A buyback benefits all shareholders equally by reducing supply of the stock and therefore increasing its price.
How is this reassuring?! Are you sure you don't mean "vindicating" or similar? Hard to understand how anyone could feel reassured by this.
Because there's already UNIX file permissions which prevent applications to reach places they shouldn't. Confine a daemon to its own user, chroot it, and it's a sitting duck in its own universe.

You add more layers with cgroup/AppArmor/SELinux in Linux, Jails in FreeBSD, unveil on OpenBSD, etc.

You harden as much as necessary. Not "drowned by default".
Note sure. Each Roadrunner is "Low six figures" and claims to be completely reusable if it doesn't hit it's target. Since you only need them over a certain area, they can move from ship to ship so you wouldn't need say a dozen per ship. But maybe 200 total.

I'm more curious if it is technically feasible for something like that to take out a missile traveling at 300m/s.
Maybe when airlines start advertising that they don’t use the new 737s.

The more likely scenario is that the Chinese or Europeans will ground the new 737s until some very expensive fix is put into place and not accept any workarounds. That would probably make a difference.

FYI: https://qz.com/1569865/china-grounds-737-max-8-after-ethiopi...
I wonder what implications this has on distributing open source models and then letting people fine tune it. Could you theoretically slip in a "backdoor" that lets you then get certain outputs back?
Ah I just have a nasty habit of using GRE words with no benefit to precision and some loss to comprehension and accuracy!
> Based on analysis of US Bureau of Labor Statistics data by Janco, news that the IT industry added just 700 jobs following an estimated 262,242 jobs lost amid mass layoffs is shocking, but not surprising.

So it isn't that only 700 jobs were created, it's that despite the massive layoffs everyone is reporting on and focusing on, there was actually a small net positive in job growth.

> Currently, there are almost 100K unfilled jobs with over 101K unemployed IT Pros – a skills mismatch.

Staying current with skills is always part of an IT professional's job. Additionally, I suspect that a lot of these unfilled positions are either paying too low, or aren't real jobs.
I see a third causality option.

Both « being successful » and « doing these things » could be caused by a single root cause: a leadership team playing the long game.
I never heard that before, fascinating. Thanks.
Or it means the torque specs were a little too low, or too high and stripped, or the bolt threading was defective/spec’d wrong. Or bad metallurgy. Or the spec didn’t specify which order to tighten the bolts, so which direction you go causes different outcomes.

Lots of stuff is assembled consistently and carefully “wrong”, but as specified.
I guess it has always been like this in Unix, but also in other Operating Systems.
My assumption is the decompression event would have put the velocity of that decompression on the door/bolts and they are going to be weaker - and the addition of a window into a plug/door like this adds structural mass to add to that which is being sucked out via the decompression putting them over spec load for that area - but since it was a plug, the surrounding structure was still sound - just that thing couldnt handle the load.

EDIT: Maybe the bolts have a really high shearing tolerance, but not as good of a tensile pull?
It's very difficult in practice to shift the blame to the website. Even though the browser would be right in refusing connection, the net effect is that the user would just use another browser to access that website. The proper workaround (Firefox shipping intermediate certificates), doesn't actually damage security. It just means more work for the maintainers. That's a fair tradeoff for achieving more market share.

It's the same reason why browsers must be able to robustly digest HTML5 tagsoup instead of just blanking out, which is how a conforming XML processor would have to react.
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Where’s the follow up? I want to know what happened next with legal….
I've read that Hezbollah does not take orders from Iran, and that Nasrallah's thinking and decision making on strategy is given a lot of weight (just like Britain did not take orders from USA in WW2):

https://consortiumnews.com/2023/11/04/asad-abukhalil-nasrall...

That article has a few quirks (e.g., derisively referencing George Soros), but I found some of the small details in it add to its overall credibility, like how a portrait of Nasrallah was visible in Soleimani's house when Soleimani's family members were mourning his death.

* I usually treat references to George Soros as antisemitic dog whistles, but the author is normally a strident opponent of antisemitism, so I don't know what to think in this instance.
This whole book is a fascinating read of the origins of the PC industry. There was nothing like it when I read it 1986, except for maybe Soul of a New Machine by Tracy Kidder.
as a first order effect, sure.
but do you agree they have resulted in the inflation which causes our debt-burden/GDP to rise?
I suspect IAAI (I Accidentally AI) is going to become more and more of a thing...
Less performance and more security. Lots of ameteur images use a secret file or inadvertently store a secret to a layer without realizing an rm or other process in another layer doesn't actually eliminate it. If the final step of your build squashes the filesystem flat again you can remove a lot of potentially exposed metadata and secrets stored in intermediate layers
At the rate AI is improving it won't be long before we ask if a human wrote the spam.
Super cool. When I think about accelerating teams while maintaining quality/culture, I think about the adage "if you want someone to do something, make it easy."

Maintaining great READMEs, documentation, onboarding docs, etc, is a lot of work. If Auto Wiki can make this substantially easier, then I think it could flip the calculus and make it much more common for teams to invest in these artifacts. Especially for the millions of internal, unloved repos that actually hold an org together.
Assembly was loppy, management either ignored or, even worse, encouraged it while QA was asleep. Which is really bad...
Indeed, Stockholm is in EU
That’s what you want from a company that suddenly has access to you and the rest of the countries personal health data where you can’t opt out?

This isn’t a cryptocurrency company. It’s at the core of a public service handling some of the nations most sensitive data.
It doesn't clear every two hours, it's a rolling two hour recording. Since the plane was still operational, it continued recording and it was just over 2 hours before maintenance crews disabled the recorder.
The whole point of priors is that everyone can have different ones.

If the priors don't affect the results too much (due to a huge amount of evidence), then you can just get the same results using frequentist methods.
I’ve worked for Boeing during these last few years and love aviation history and Boeing’s role in it:

Before you suggest that the reason for the disparity is fanaticism, you ought to consider that this may be because in the last decade or so Airbus planes have generated less criticism… because there’s significantly less to criticize.
> 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

How big is this conspiracy? Hundreds to thousands of engineers leave Meta every year, and 0 have blown the whistle on this. The actual FB whistleblower from 2023 didn't allege anything similar to what you're suggesting.
Hallucinations are a problem waiting to be solved. What happens when it is?

NYT isn’t the only source affected by this. All content created and posted on the internet is subject to being used by ChatGPT. Their goal is to provide answers to any question you might have, as an alternative to browsing actual sources.

If OpenAI wins and ChatGPT continues to improve, there will be no financial or social motivation to create honest content for the internet. The death of the organic internet will accelerate and all content that remains will be created by bots.

Of course this is a dystopian view that may not fully realize, but if all it takes to avoid it is preventing a single corporation from succeeding, then I’m all for it.
Instagram has been recommending me nothing but controversial political posts from Threads. I've rarely been so repelled from signing up for a service that I might have otherwise tried using.
Par for the course on Firefox I'm afraid. Every time I give it a chance it lets me down.
Can you expand on this? What is the current co tender for LLM inference that is ~on par with Apples offerings?
I know of a pretty famous car tuner in the US (I won't get too specific for various reasons) and despite most people in my community going to him for service over the years, multiple people have come out and proved he rarely if ever torques anything to spec. For the longest time he even allowed customers to watch in the shop space as he worked on their cars and he'd hand-torque many things that the car manual was very clear needed to be specifically torqued for safety and operational reasons.

The fact that people would share this and it didn't curb the amount of business and referrals he got just proved to me what you've said for the longest time.

People don't like to be troubled with details and they'd rather be ignorant of them.
It's "reassuring" in the sense that I'm reassured I've been making the right decision... but yeah, "vindicating" is probably a more appropriate choice of word :)
> It means people were careless and sloppy during assembly.

Maybe. Could also be incorrect torque specs, bad parts, unexpected vibration in that area, etc.

Edit: Yes, none of these are good either. Just saying there are many possibilities.
I found it interesting that Boeing did proactively tell airlines to inspect 737 MAXs for a possible loose bolt in a different part of the plane (rudder section) at least 8 days before the January 5th event. Example story: https://www.reuters.com/business/aerospace-defense/boeing-ur...

Unfortunately, Boeing did not know they had other issues with the plug door bolts.
We will never escape rankings because the point of going to college is only partially the education, it's also a way to sort people into iq castes. There isn't a huge difference between the education you get at an elite school and any accredited school, yet people bend over backwards to get into good schools because you'll forever be in the elites of society if you graduate from one. If you squash U.S News there will simply be other methods people use to compare colleges. In truth, the current system is probably better than using legacy and reputation to rank schools. We just need to find better metrics.
Indeed, in America most voters only research two candidates. That's a big problem because the best person to be president is probably neither Biden nor Trump.

A bracket would allow us to process thousands of candidates while only requiring each individual to research 2 candidates.
There are some very significant current events providing context that perhaps you're unaware of?
> Google allowed their engineers 20% time.

I once heard that this was more like 120% time? Meaning, 'extracurricular activities' on company infra was allowed and encouraged, but not at the expense of regular productivity/output.
Aren't you sitting down 99.99% of the time and standing up 0.01% of the time? How isn't leg room the hugely primary concern over the ability to stand up?
Things like this happen all the time.

"Shadow IT" is the official name for circumstances that lead to this and it's the consequence of:

A) Deprioritising "non-urgent" but "important" tasks consistently

and

B) IT being bureaucratic and/or unable to allocate budget

I had a Mac Pro (trashcan) at Ubisoft that was the only way people were able to play our studios live game from within the office. (Ubisoft had a "NO OUTBOUND CONNECTIONS TO INTERNET" policy for Studios)

That same Mac Pro was running our internal slack bot to run Maintenances (and, insult people).

I left Ubisoft 5 years ago, as far as I know that Mac Pro is still plugged in on my former desk chugging along, last time I asked my former manager about it was last year.

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At another company (now owned by Oracle), we had an internal IRC (this was before Slack) and nobody thought about it.

One day it went down, and traceroute had indicated it was in our server room; after checking every single server we could not find it, until someone noticed an ethernet cable that went through a run into the floor but didn't come back out.

After opening the suspended floor we noticed a laptop running Solaris. That was our IRCd and the OS had an uptime of close to 8 years.
Makes you wonder if there was malice involved?
They have this in Netherlands: https://mijn.overheid.nl/about-mijnoverheid/
Also curious! But even that does help to appreciate what a 1:4800 chance something is. I really like that frame of reference.
OK, what you're saying is that the 2 hours of audio leading up to the crash were overwritten by the recording having continued for another 2 hours after the incident? So, it's just poor wording in the article?
This is a shame. Castro is (was?) the best podcast app from a UX perspective, IMO. I have used it almost daily for years. I never upgraded to the paid, premium, version though, which I guess could be a clue to its demise. I guess it’s hard to monetise podcast apps.
Certificate issuance transparency logs are public.

Every time a CA issues a new certificate, it gets logged in a public log.

Every time someone sets up nextcloud.example.tld, and gets an SSL cert issued by a CA, that gets logged in public. If nextcloud.example.tld resolves, and responds on tcp/80 and/or tcp/443, you’ve got yourself a potential target.
i immediately thought of the 2^20th examples. I often marvel at the 2^10th is 1000ish coincidence

but people say things like "1 in a million" because it sounds incalculably rare, so I'm not sure I understand the goal here? to make an exaggeration sit on an intuitive scale as if it was meant literally? if successful that will make being "literally one in a million" fall out of favor just as literally has.

one thing I took away from modestly extensive study of linguistics was, people need to stop thinking that words have strict definitions, and realize that words adopt definitions to suit what people are trying to say. What did they mean is more important than what did they say.
I have a T14 at work, but I actually prefer the second-hand T480 I bought for home use.
This doesn't really guarantee fewer bytes per connection. In the worse case, the preloaded intermediate set is still insufficient and the client has to resort to AIA chasing instead (which is both slower and leaks the client to the issuing CA).

I understand this behavior from a "make the spurious user bug reports go away" perspective, but it's still pretty gnarly :-)
The A320s do seem bigger now that you mention it.
On the other hand, I do really enjoy the blue ambient light in the 737 - can’t really explain why, but it’s comforting.
I use it daily
That assumes the prevailing theory of malicious pilot was correct. Indeed if he did manage to turn it off early it might have contained something.

However if that theory is indeed true, it's clear that he wanted to disappear without a trace. In that case it would have made sense to keep it running especially because it only keeps the last 2 hours.

But yeah if it had been longer he would have turned it off in that scenario. It would be best if the CVR had a backup battery (and internal protection is that shorting out). In fact I remember reading in several admiral Cloudberg articles that the CVR and CDR data was incomplete due to bus power loss during accidents.
It's worth noting AMD already included minimal GPUs in the desktop line for the Zen 4 generation, including video encode/decode. These, with the exception of the 8300G model, simply have larger GPUs but smaller cache and this might not be a good trade off for a NAS. The exception is the 8300G which is a good budget option having only 4 cores and no parallel in the desktop line.
Your linked studies said nothing relevant. Are you going to address my comment or not?
> Spanish research centre achieves first tank-bred Atlantic bluefin

> This article is more than 4 months old

In fact it came like ten years late. Probably more.
Kubernetes specifically is in go because google invented go and also invented Kubernetes. Their internal teams have a lot of go engineers due to the whole inventing it thing
That is not what I said

But when you have a quota, then you must ignore better qualified applicants in order to satisfy the quota. It's a mathematical fact.

I am not saying this is the reason why Boeing is turning to shit. But it's an interesting observation.

I myself am a "minority/POC" and I'm also extremely competent at my job. So I'm not saying that minorities are incompetent, because I am not incompetent.

When I interview candidates I give zero fucks about their colour/gender/whatever. If they are morons then I won't hire them.
I’ve found the notion of a parent vector to be useful for parsing problems. I like to call them Apter trees after this article http://archive.vector.org.uk/art10500340, but it’s also the core idea in Aaron Hsu’s thesis.
In my experience, the places that don't have delivery services are rural and just don't have the population for it to make sense.
Unless there is a contract saying otherwise (or union agreement if in a union) you could show up to work at your job tomorrow to be told you’re fired and escorted out of the building.

For well paying jobs it’s pretty rare unless you do something bad. Obviously if they just did that to random people it would really hurt morale and other workers may want to leave.

But it’s legal. On the other side, with similar exceptions, on any day you can walk into your job and say goodbye forever and never come back.
What would be the "wrong" kind of exercise?
Agree. My comment was responding to someone saying "Why stop at 25? Record all of every flight and archive it."

There is also more nuance to the debate around the 25 hours change. Like you say it should only be used under specific conditions and in a controlled environment, but in the US unfortunately recordings have been leaked and have been used for disciplinary purposes instead of a blame-less investigation for safety.

Europe has had rules for 25 hour recording since 2021, as far as I know without any opposition. But European recordings have also not been misused before.
Obviously it’s a PR piece. And it’s for the same people that the New York Time’s article on their lawsuit was for.

Their legal defense will come in the form of a response to the complaint and a motion to dismiss.
How do you know those "people" aren't Tesla employees? How do you know Tesla isn't engaging in guerilla marketing? Also, what if it's being done by shareholders to prop-up share prices?
This is exactly the kind of efforts I wished were built into Ruby. No wonder lots of Ruby devs are now doing Elixir. It's shaping up to be an amazing language!
But there were other async APIs on Linux prior to 2019, why jdk didn't use them?
Counter battery only works if you know where to fire. If your first clue is they just launched their entire storage of missiles there is nothing to do. If you are fast enough maybe you can get the now-empty launcher, but modern military practice is shoot and scout so odds are against that.

Getting information on where things are stored is hard. It needs boots/spies on the ground (satellites can only get limited information and are easily fooled). As pointed out elsewhere, modern best practice is to not have a large warehouse that is easy to find and destroy, instead you scatter this stuff around in small units.
There are mutual recognition agreements between the regulators and if the europeans try something like that, the americans can create counter measures to even the field in a mutually undesired spiral. At this moment, the biggest enemy of Boeing is Boeing itself.
Should come in different colored LEDs: green for extravert, red for introvert, and maybe yellow for normal/average?

Also: 10% 20% 60% 80% 100% ?
Thank you for the clarification every source I found solely reported the number but not the rate
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I’m very excited by this. Always loved Elixir, but I have always had a hard time with code bases above a certain size when there’s no typing.

This will make it my default choice the next time I need to build a web app or service.
Not to mention that Sorbet is a pita to use!
This, I think, is a fair and well meaning criticism.

That said, you have to hold your own accountable for bad acts. Doesn't mean none will ever happen, of course. Nor does it mean that you cannot have legitimate concerns and claims. And your response to a terrorist act cannot legitimately be to try to minimize it. Nor is it a valid response to rapid fire old grievances, many of which are misrepresented or where the people involved were held accountable.

So, in spirit of your criticism, let's try and move past it. You don't know the best path. What are some valid paths?
Probably one of those guys that says "click!" whenever they tighten a bolt.
An American T-dropping conspiracy?
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The whole release of Grand Poo World III was one of the best things happening in the Internet last year. The chaos that broke smwcentral, how it beat Super Mario RPG in viewers on Twitch for quite a many days and how much fun every streamer seemed to have with it.

I can't get past the first jump though, but still, thank you barb!
I am thinking of using sendy, why is speed an issue? Aren't the emails delivered by SES? Can't you just send to SES a template and a list of emails and let them handle it?
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Can you point me to resources regarding these lockups? I regularly game on Linux using the FOSS amdgpu driver (kernel 6.5) with a 7900 XTX, which is relatively recent (i.e. RDNA3), and I haven't seen any yet.
Are the drones fire and forget? Why has EW countermeasures not effectively crippled their ability to target ships?
I wouldn't feel safe agreeing that of your definition.
On a 737, most short people have to as well. I don't really see how any narrow-body could be outfitted 6 seats wide and allow tall people to stand up straight at their seat, and still retain overhead compartments.
> request was denied

> mac mini proxy server

I love that the programmer's solution is more expensive than doing it the right way had OP's request been approved.