skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
“The performance of the prime manufacturer can never exceed the capabilities of the least proficient of the suppliers”

Software connection: this is known as SLA Inversion [1], the phenomena that you can never be more reliable than your least reliable component. There are ways to get around it, but they involve having multiple redundant but independent paths to achieving a successful result. This is difficult for structural components of an aircraft because each redundant mechanism adds weight and decreases performance & fuel economy.

It's somewhat shocking to me that there are no redundant failsafes to something as critical (and potentially error-prone) as a loose bolt in a door plug, though. Or maybe there were and we'll see compound errors in the final FAA report, which will definitely be interesting to read.

[1] https://sookocheff.com/post/architecture/stability-antipatte...
Well what I mean is that maybe a decade or so from now any one of us can create such a thing on our home computers.
Being in position to take advantage of opportunities is the luckiest thing that can happen to someone.

Lucky for us, it's turtles all the way down.
That’s a losing attitude. To make the most of life, you’ve got to take charge of it, luck or no.
Here we go. The inevitable mainstream media freak-outs over the usual background noise of airplane issues. This is how I know my YouTube recommendations are going to be extra awful for a while.
The problem with some of these abstract arguments is that people forget to carve out exceptions for circumstances, and shifting norms.

Nobody likes busybodies who calls the cops for the most mundane of neighbourhood infractions. But what happens when a bunch of people with different values move in? Will the people who just mind their business say anything? Do anything?

Agree with both Gelman and Pinker here, around expectations of people having “an opinion”. But what’s missing from Gelman’s critique of the other fellow, is that you do also need leaders to enforce some norms. There should be some values. And if you can’t agree to what those values are, there definitely is a problem.

Times have changed, there’s too much lazy tolerance now, and people do need to organize around some common values that isn’t just what is the progressive de jour.
Bringing attention to the existence of a thing isn't juicing, it's a necessary part of making something useful. If you build something that's potentially useful but no one ever hears of it, it isn't actually useful until someone hears of it.
There are a whole lot of different kinds of Christians. I am a traditional Christian (not a fundamentalist) and tend to be more outspoken.

But doesn't that prove my point? You say that if I said an opinion, I made an action, so you are saying that Source Hut is right to ban me for opinions.

But you and I fundamentally disagree: banning someone for their opinion is not inherently conscionable.

You may find yourself with a "wrong" opinion someday and be banned from places you find important. Will you find it conscionable then?

By the way, expressing an opinion was not the kind of action I meant. I meant doing something that might harm others. My opinions do not call for harm (in fact, they call out what I see as harm), so my opinions cannot cause harm except by some broad definition that "speech is violence."

So why is it okay to ban me? Free Software needs Free Speech. SourceHut, as Drew has admitted, is not the place for that.
Why does it read as bad faith ? All the problems were signed off, not further than November were they considering more exemptions...
I dug into the hash key thing - of course the US Mac has a 'hash key' as SHIFT+3. However the UK Mac (from 2015 anyway) replaces it with the £, requiring SHIFT+ALT+3 (or something like that) for #. This was mind mindbogglingly annoying for software dev.
You cannot determine how likely something is to occur in a universal sense. To be accurate, the headline should read "young drivers who fail test 20% more likely to be in crash than those who pass". As it stands, this reads like an advertisement for a test you can give your teen to decide whether or not they should be allowed to drive. A 20% improvement in predictive power is not worth the money, since it probably shouldn't change your decision.
It's also not specific to Boeing. All airplanes get cracked windows sometimes.
IMO: the majority of people has become stricter. Not everyone, but most people.

But here's the catch: different people have become more strict about different things.
A lot of this is simply that people are far more replaceable in their jobs than they believe, so a lot of firing is not that they did something terribly wrong, but rather that replacing them is simpler than dealing with minor damage.

So I suspect that if an affair made national news, the chancellor would be fired as well.

Any change to the current ways of doing things would need to be societal, as otherwise whatever institution is employing the person would pay a high price.
I believe what he's pointing out is prioritizing identity politics over experience is a problem, especially in certain industries. Agree or disagree with his statement as you see fit, but at least represent it properly.
I follow a similar approach -- top-level dependencies in pyproject.toml and then a pip freeze to get a reproducible set for applications. I know there are edge cases but this has worked really well for me for a decade without much churn in my process (other than migrating from setup.py to setup.cfg to pyproject.toml).

After trying to migrate everything to pipenv and then getting burned, I went back to this and can't imagine I'll use another third-party packaging project (other than nix) for the foreseeable future.
In the US its not required after a certain age and more drivers are waiting and skipping it
How far does that stretch? Can one question the effectiveness and safety of COVID vaccines outside of work? How about protesting for (or against) Palestine or Israel? BLM? Can your employees have an "its OK to be White" yard sign?

is this a case of closing the barn door after its been filmed in the Senate Hearing chamber?
I own a couple of unicomps not just because they are buckling spring, but also because they (at least used to) have the option of swapping the location of control and caps-lock like old Sun keyboards had, which I personally prefer.
The problem at Boeing is a sort of cultural decay in which safety and quality have been lost. Musk isn't wrong that changing their promotion criteria from safety/quality to safety/quality/climate/diversity is going to inevitably reduce the safety/quality dimensions. That's the whole point of changing the incentives - to cause a refocusing onto those other topics.

Some people will probably deny this, and claim that it's all additive. If your employees were 100% focused on safety and quality before, then adding more stuff just means they're now 200% as focused and nothing has to lose out. This is obviously incorrect.

The real question here is not whether climate/diversity focus over quality is bad because it obviously is. The question is whether it's a symptom or a cause of their culture issues.
If you like that https://youtu.be/TpqwY7QL7r8?feature=shared
I think the bar for what constitutes unacceptable outside of work behavior changes significantly as you move up the responsibility ladder. Once you are in any significant leadership position where credibility and moral authority matter, doing things that land you on the front page in situations that make you look highly partisan, or immoral, or just plain stupid, in the eyes of much of your constituency - employees, customers, or community - is a real tax on your ability to lead. It justifies firing. And, to be clear, if Gow really thinks his porn appearances don't impair him in his job as university Chancellor in small Wisconsin city, he's probably also too social judgement impaired for the job anyway. Chancellor is not a back-office job.
If you do that, how does it respond to "forbidden" queries? If non-answers are in JSON format too, then it would defeat the purpose.
Regarding mentats, in Lynch's Dune, we had Brad Dourif as DeVries, who stole every scene he was in, and Hawat, with his own very memorable character arc, improved by that very disturbing heart plug subplot and a cat.
Neuroscientists Discover Source of 'Wave of Death' at End of Consciousness
Have you tried Tailwind?

Answer: it’s super fast to write, easy to read, and has really great defaults.
I think sterile is a good description. I couldn't place it but that is exactly it: beautiful, expensive, but empty and with no life outside of the actors faces.
For one off for technical folks on both ends I like the magic-wormhole cli tool. https://github.com/magic-wormhole/magic-wormhole
The previous CEO was an aerospace engineer. As was the CEO who moved the company's headquarters from Seattle to Chicago. So I'm not sure an engineering background is any guarantee they'll do better.

But perhaps the company's recent problems will give an engineering-minded CEO a little more leverage to steer the company back toward engineering excellence, even in the face of pressure from the board and shareholders.
Yeah, very badly worded sorry. It's almost always at your "probationary review" when you either lose your job or get your position confirmed (or your probation extended in some cases).

Completely agree with your comment about any surprises being a big fail. I made a similar point even. Not well done
How many times are you going to copy and paste your comment. I count at least 3
Here’s the company behind this and a description of the experience: http://www.diagnosticdriving.com/how-readyassess-works
All of our errors with "AI" will be the fault of our own foolishness.

https://snafuhall.com/p/aioracle.html
Playing the lottery versus not playing the lottery doesn’t change your luck, it changes your odds.

If two people play the lottery the same amount of times and one person wins way more than the other, You would say one person was luckier than the other.
> STOP, DO NOT DO THIS

Of course Google will shorten this article and provide that list...
That sounds like a whole lot of effort. Just buy iCloud.
Of course it was never always like this. The CEOs todays CEOs look up to were having olive and martini lunches and finding company on paid business trips
> Gelman announces he has changed his mind and now agrees with Pinker that university administrators should shut up and do their job

No, that's not what he said. This is what he said:

"The problem is not with academic leaders “having a foreign policy” in the sense of expressing opinions and seeking to achieve political change; it’s with expectations or demands such as Emanuel’s that academic leaders should have a foreign policy, that it’s part of the job, that it’s a matter of leadership."

In other words, condemning atrocities is fine, but it's optional, not a required part of the job.

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EDIT: The title of the article is clearly tongue-in-cheek. If you don't realize that, and you take the title 100% literally, you've missed something crucial. It should be clear when the author begins by talking about "wearing earth tones, driving Priuses", which he still thinks is an absurd stereotype by Pinker.

Also: "So here’s where I agree with Pinker. Or, to be more precise [emphasis mine], where I agree with his implicit point [emphasis mine]."

Further quotes to show what the author is really talking about, which is the demand that university leaders make statements:

"The trouble is, there are so many issues out there? How much “leading” does he demand that university leaders do?"

"But then there’s the question of where to stop, which atrocities to condemn. You wouldn’t want a university president to become the equivalent of an outrage-of-the-week blogger."

"Again, my problem is not with university leaders, or business leaders, or church leaders, etc., expressing views, but rather with the idea that this is what they are supposed [emphasis mine] to do."

The coup de grâce: the author says in the P.P.S. that he was still right on this one, this one being a link to an article titled, "Steven Pinker is a psychologist who writes on politics."
Just look for "Z" or old Soviet CCCP patch on the uniform.
Perhaps they're thinking: "if we were in an Airbus a crack is no big deal, but we're in a Boeing 737, so who knows ... maybe next minute the whole windscreen blows out ... lets just get back on the ground while we're still alive".
Who says I’m not taking charge of life? I just know the role that luck has to play in life as well. That way when I’m not lucky I don’t keep all that blame on myself or when other people are unlucky I don’t blame them for their failures. Because who the hell knows?
AI-Generated George Carlin Drops Comedy Special
> You can increase your opportunity, but your luck never changes.

Exactly. Congrats, you have realized what the point of the article is.
Wine runs on Windows too!

https://reddragdiva.dreamwidth.org/607714.html
https://avherald.com/h?search_term=cracked+windshield&opt=1&...

Most of them are Boeing it seems:

14x Airbus
35x Boeing
5x Bombardier
3x Embraer
So do guests need an account?
We've now reached the stage where every non-story is interesting because it has "Boeing" in the headline. While you think this hurts Boeing's reputation, I'm not at all sure that's how it plays out. It desensitizes people and reminds them that the news is just about clicks and outrage. Then they'll not be paying much attention if there is real newsworthy revelations.

The fact that it's getting so many upvotes on HN is kind of sad, but not unexpected.
>Laminar organization of neocortical activities during systemic anoxia

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S096999612...

Abstract

The neocortex is highly susceptible to metabolic dysfunction. When exposed to global ischemia or anoxia, it suffers a slowly propagating wave of collective neuronal depolarization that ultimately impairs its structure and function. While the molecular signature of anoxic depolarization (AD) is well documented, little is known about the brain states that precede and follow AD onset. Here, by means of multisite extracellular local field potentials and intracellular recordings from identified pyramidal cells, we investigated the laminar expression of cortical activities induced by transient anoxia in rat primary somatosensory cortex. Soon after the interruption of brain oxygenation, we observed a well-organized sequence of stereotyped activity patterns across all cortical layers. This sequence included an initial period of beta-gamma activity, rapidly replaced by delta-theta oscillations followed by a decline in all spontaneous activites, marking the entry into a sustained period of electrical silence. Intracellular recordings revealed that cortical pyramidal neurons were depolarized and highly active during high-frequency activity, became inactive and devoid of synaptic potentials during the isoelectric state, and showed subthreshold composite synaptic depolarizations during the low-frequency period. Contrasting with the strong temporal coherence of pre-AD activities along the vertical axis of the cortical column, the onset of AD was not uniform across layers. AD initially occurred in layer 5 or 6 and then propagated bidirectionally in the upward and downward direction. Conversely, the post-anoxic waves that indicated the repolarization of cortical neurons upon brain reoxygenation did not exhibit a specific spatio-temporal profile. Pyramidal neurons from AD initiation site had a more depolarized resting potential and higher spontaneous firing rate compared to superficial cortical cells. We also found that the propagation pattern of AD was reliably reproduced by focal injection of an inhibitor of sodium‑potassium ATPases, suggesting that cortical AD dynamics could reflect layer-dependent variations in cellular metabolic regulations.
Even though you are not even trying to construct any kind of coherent argument, let me respond with an article by a computer scientist that you apparently so much despise:

https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2024/1/8/lewis-reaping-wh...
My point is that it was their job to catch this before the plane was commercially used. While I expect no one to be perfect, I do expect some introspection as to why this went through the cracks. Why is this unreasonable ?
The whole narrative of "Open source = bad" is totally f****d up and absurd. I'm sick of nobodies being portrayed as high-IQ all-knowing tech overlords. F**k them. In the grand scheme of things, they will be remembered as great enemies of human progress or better - completely forgotten.

I mean David Evan Harris from Business Insider’s AI 100 list, what a laugh. The guy is nobody, his opinion is of ZERO technical relevance.

LinkedIn:
University of California, Berkeley, BA, Political Economy of Development & Environment
Universidade de São PauloUSP, M.S., Sociology
Civic Integrity Researcher at FB - what does that even mean!?
"As Research Manager of the Responsible AI team, I led a team of quantitative and qualitative researchers focused on AI fairness, inclusion, governance and accountability." - Jesus Christ, if I had a company and someone with those words in their resume appeared at my door, help me god, I would SteveJobs them with the chair or monitor or both.

Please.

The guy is of the professional fog-selling NGO managerial class, that has almost eaten up our SF.

Where are the voices of the people in the trenches of ML algorithms research, CUDA Toolkit optimisation, Semiconductor/material sciences research etc etc - the ones that make a real difference?
Maybe the broader point is that whenever a new technology empowers people, entrenched players get upset and it's always possible to find a mouthpiece who will support the view that it's too dangerous for the masses. It happened with the printing press, encryption, etc.
You obviously have no clue as to the point of her video or the companies response. They could not give her an exact reason for the termination, which every employee deserves. Even the CEO admits what a crappy job they did, but all you got out of it was she was trying to argue out of being terminated. I think you should apply for a job at the company as you are great management matterall for this company...
Apple have compiler engineers who aren't at that site. Maybe they're currently only hiring for that one area, more likely it's divergence between what HR wrote down and reality.
I am referring to FPV kamikaze drone which is cheaper and far easier to use than a missile and costs way cheaper.
Tried to google it and found something about tap water with high iron content.
The list of recommendations at the end starts with a moratorium on open source AI until the following controls are implemented: you’re not allowed to release a model without a government license, you have to release your training data, and you’re liable for misuse of your model.

It also starts with a fawning review of the benefits of closed models only accessible via API.

David is a former Meta employee and is now pushing hard for global AI regulation.

Gatekeeping public access and innovation in AI leaves us with a world subjugated to powerful corporate interests and their lobby groups. We won’t even have the opportunity to teach AI or conduct lab experiments without a government license, being forced to release training data, and we’ll have to assume liability which will have a massive chilling effect.

This article asks for a global overreach based on the premise of “Those with wealth, power and influence know best and will keep you safe.”
World Word Z the book wouldn’t make sense as a movie. It could work as a mini-series though, with each chapter treated as its own episode.
Philly cheesesteak sellers in other locations often advertise they use real Amoroso rolls shipped from Philadelphia.
It's well understood that to read and enjoy most sci-fi out there you have to accept that women and sex will be written from the perspective of a 14 year old boy.
The Billionaire Next Door Driving Up Housing Costs for Everyone
$1.2B invested in carbon removal companies in 2023
No, I didn’t miss the point of the article, I’m expressing the fact that she totally negates luck in anyone’s life circumstances, that it is all about agency. After all, you have to have some amount of luck to have agency in the first place.
These are some good examples:

var $ = STR;
var $h = new HtmlTemplateThing();
var $j = new JSONTemplateThing();

var name = "John";

var s = $."Hello \{name}";
// HTML escaped
var h = $h."<b>\{name}</b>";
// JSON escaped
var j = $j."""
{ "name" : "\{name}" }
"""; // JSON escaped

I love this one:

var $db = new DBConnectionTemplateThing();

// SQL Escaped and processed
PreparedStatement st = $db."select * from table where name = '\{name}'";

Or:

var $x = new XMLTemplateThing();

// XML escaped and parsed
Document d = $x."<xml>\{name}</xml>";

This is pretty powerful. They selected \{ for the start of expressions because of the legacy of Java Expression Language (EL) which came from JSP and JSF.

Doesn't look that terrible to me.
>“manifest determination to make things happen.”

In my family, my mother always called this as "Reality Bending" (no relation to airbender) -- but they referred to Jobs' "reality distortion field"

My father had this to great effect.

My brother has it to a certain degree.

I used to have it in spades when I was younger - but I have become "will-power" complacent in my older years, which snowballs into to depression.

I certainly feel getting dumber as I age - which is in part to the fact that I had a vast amount of information relating to my job when I was younger in my head - but now a ton of the knowledge I once had on quick access is simply obsolete.

Here is a quick example.

When I was ~20 someone I knew had accidentally changed ALL the display UI elements in Windows 95 to black.

Just by memory I could hit start and navigate to settings and display and fixed it back to normal - all by memory.

I couldnt even tell you where any of those setting were as fast on W95 today even if I had the machine in front of me and access to google.
Skype for business is hopefully dead but they used to do nearest-neighbor-downscaling of profile images. Even chat apps can do stuff wrong with images if they try hard enough.
I found the instructions for the labs clear and at the right level of detail for me that I did not have questions about what was required for the solution. They have a hints section that really get you started enough in my opinion, sometimes I looked at those a bit too early in retrospect. Then for understanding the part of the codebase that the lab was extending the book was sufficient as extra material for me. There are even lectures online for the 2019 version, but the theoretical side was something I had at least familiarity with before, so I did not watch those.
I'm a little confused what you mean by this not affecting Russian profits. If India buys oil from Russia that they don't need so they can resell it to the EU then Russia is making more money then they would have. It is not like India would have bought as much oil as they currently are.
Ok never mind you did entirely miss the point of the article. Shame.