skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Aren't most modern constitutional monarchies just a veneer over a republican democracy anyways?

it's the other way round, by the time of the rebellion absolute monarchy was long gone, the things the colonists didn't like were being passed by parliament

the US then gave its presidency more power than George III would have dreamed of

(in practice the presidency also seems to be prone to dynasties)
EASA generally respects FAA activities unless something's extraordinarily fuggity fuggity boop. The reverse is also true, so you can get EASA auditors in a US plant. . but woo boy, there is no way to express the sheer panic we would all feel when we learned our pet FAA DER was going to be replaced by some steely-eyed Aryan bastard from EASA with his micrometers and tiny little notebooks. Those guys did not screw around. Speaking anecdotally, of course.

I suspect that the EASA/EUROCAE guys were often "accidentally" brought in when FAA was getting sick of us trying to slip stuff by them. Sort of like, "Try that Consumables trick with me again, and I'm sending Hans"
Some important context that might be useful for fellow confused readers:

A new four-part dramatisation about the Horizon scandal aired from January 1st - 4th in the UK.

As a result, the scandal became a popular topic for discussion publically and in the media, as well as introducing the issue to a whole bunch of people who were unaware

I was a bit confused myself as to why this was getting coverage out of the blue until I learned about the ITV series yesterday

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mr_Bates_vs_The_Post_Office
GPT4,AI Realtime Code Scanner,Autocomplete for JavaScript,Python,TypeScript etc.
Yes that last row looks swapped to me as well.
if the C# docs have a flexible license , then you could add them
Thanks for writing this one Simon, I read it some time ago and I just wanted to say thanks and recommend it to folks browsing the comments, it's really good!
Well, as long as the evil is properly banal and expensive, I guess we gotta give them a pass. ?
Have you seen any good translation tool from video to text yet? I'm trying to find something for Estonian to English and having little luck
Right, ELE, extinction level events. We are living through one. Is it inevitable if one species becomes too dominant on earth? We are earth after all.
I don't disagree that the 737 crashes involved tons of systemic issues at boeing. I just don't think that federal inspections would've helped. There's almost no way a federal inspection system would be more effective than even the lacking software inspection Boeing had.

You could get the systems to comply perfectly well with standards and certifications, like the 737max did, but still have issues. I don't think the 737max didn't meet federal standards or requirements (which a hypothetical federal inspector would have to apply and check for). the issue was more so that they weren't enough in those specific situations.
It seems like it's a two-way street, isn't it? If American devs are more likely to say "no" and push back, then American managers/bosses on some level come to expect that behavior.

I wonder what it's like at Indian tech companies with Indian engineers. Managers there must have a cultural way of dealing with this that works.

IMO, that's the big problem with offshoring. It's rarely the case that the company that offshores stands up an office in the other country and staffs it with people who were held to the same standards in hiring as candidates for U.S.-based jobs would be. If companies did it that way, they might be more successful at navigating cultural differences, but most of the time they use subcontractors instead.
Ask HN: What's the Best CMS
Looking for something like WordPress, but more Web 2.0
ah, quite right, none-the-less, missing a clock or a cacheline is incredibly consequential meaning optimisations turn out to be pretty... high risk.
YIKES, thank you for the FYI.
Yes, but it’s been known Amazon has been commingling inventory for 10+ years.

It’s just an AliExpress with a better return policy, which is worth something when I need something cheap to solve a niche problem.

But my serious purchases all happen elsewhere.
How YouTube's algorithm works and what everyone gets wrong about social media
> you've got zero effective political strategy

That's you. You keep asking me to do your work. I've got plenty of ideas, energy, direction, and action.
No argument, no fallacy. Logic 101 son.
What do they know of C++ who only C++ know?
Rolls Royce is big in big engines. Not so much in smaller single aisle aircraft. Boeing 777 and 787 have Rolls Royce engine options. The Rolls Royce Trent engine family is advanced in having three spools compared to the usual two by competitors.
I was recently looking around at jobs in a different country and at least one place had a FAANG style interview process. I currently have 10 years experience in software engineering so I wasn't too keen to do it but I am considering doing it because they offer higher salaries than other companies.
Props to Glasgow U for showing exactly that. It takes confidence to show how you make sausage.
Why would any sane person allow accepting connections like this from any device? I don't even want to allow anyone from my contacts blindly just because I have saved their phone number. That isn't an automatic "I trust this person implicitly" flag.

Clearly, I'm of "a certain age" where I don't blindly trust anyone for anything. It's amazing how quickly the concept of trust has been tossed aside from tech
> rigorous A/B testing

Also known as unethical, non-consensual human experimentation for profit maximization purposes.
I know this is the wrong takeaway from this post, but how lazy are these scammers? A simple regex would have caught this and saved them a huge amount of embarrassment.
Can your cat operate door locks or something? It really isn't difficult to keep a cat indoors only.
In this instance it was thousands of years though:

> "Not only did polar bear survive these two extended periods when ice-free summers prevailed, but the Eemian warm summers came only about 10,000 years after the bears arose as a unique species. This makes polar bear survival through the Eemian even more impressive than most scientists acknowledge."
I mean, yes it sucks to get laid off but also these people that are on the call aren't the ones that made the decision.

And sure it's a shitty situation but I'd be upset if my coworker published a call I had with them on social media, that's just as unprofessional.
Tons of great little UI details and interactions as part of this release. Really, really good stuff.
I don’t think society has yet realized the cascading effects this will have on fertility rate and compression of the demographic pyramid.
If it was Skynet everyone would already know by now...
That's my experience, and yes I am in an urban location. And returns are so easy too. In fact, I tried to return something the other day, and they said it was not returnable so they were like you just keep it and we will refund the money.
I don't know if there's anything better than a zip. For our website[0] which includes a bunch of docs for our game engine, Zig packages, etc. we just offer a link "offline version of this site" in the footer which is an ~80MB zip file.

I think the challenge with zip files is.. do you want all the images? do you want all versions of the docs, or just a specific version of the docs? It's hard to tailor the zip to the user's desire. But zip still seems to be the best.

[0] https://machengine.org/
Those emails from recruiters is also spam.
Because just like Walmart, they're trying to get a price as low as possible to kill off competition. Amazon isn't "flooded" by these brands, they are purposefully seeking these sellers out and helping them.

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/11/style/amazon-trademark-co...

> A seller in America might start with a brand idea and need to figure out how to get it manufactured; a seller connected to a factory in China’s manufacturing capital needs to figure out how to sell to Americans, which Amazon has been working hard to facilitate.

> “If a Chinese factory is able to give a better price than a seller in America, Amazon is happy with that,” said Kian Golzari, who works with marketplace sellers and corporate clients to source products from China.

If amazon sells a push broom for $10, why would would someone buy a push-broom from the local hardware store for $20?

Local hardware store struggles, eventually goes out of business...now everyone has no choice except to buy online, and guess who dominates that?

And now you're reliant on Amazon for everything.

Same thing Walmart did to endless communities across America. Dump stuff cheap in an area to starve all the local businesses to death, and then everyone had no choice but to buy everything from, and work at, walmart. And if anyone gets uppity about unions, close the store and now everyone within an hour has to drive even further to get anything...so everyone is terrified of any sort of workplace organization.
When I consider how much specious, fallacy-riddled reasoning is produced by EAs, all hunkered in their AI bomb shelters praying for and against the end, I suspect that the "problem" that Scott's friends face is not learned epistemic helplessness, but the simple fact he cites that other people just don't want to spend the time on their apocalyptic verbosity.
Fair point. This is the original article in nature.

https://www.nature.com/articles/ncomms2380?WT.mc_id=FBK_NCOM...

"Methods:
We searched JSTOR, Google Scholar, and the Web of Science database [...] within the Web of Knowledge search engine [...] to identify studies that document cat predation on birds and mammals"

"We initially focused this search on US studies, but due to a limited sample of these studies, we expanded the search to [...] other temperate regions. We also searched for studies providing estimates of cat population sizes [on] the contiguous USA and for US studies that estimate the proportion of owned cats with outdoor access and the proportion of cats that hunt wildlife. [Our] search terms included: ‘domestic cat’ [combined] with ‘predation,’ ‘prey,’ ‘diet,’ ‘food item’ and ‘mortality’;"

"We estimated wildlife mortality in [...] USA by multiplying data-derived probability distributions of predation rates by distributions of estimated cat abundance"

"[]" edited by me for clarity

Data-derived distributions based on a poor sample were extrapolated to every ecosystem in US?

Data with a special focus on temperate areas were extrapolated to temperate and non temperate? Have deserts the same amount of birds as forests?

Assuming that preys are equally distributed on USA would need to assume that every ecosystem is equal, or that cats are equally successful chasing birds in all terrains. This seems unlikely. To start because birds migrate and its distribution is patched. Cats can't migrate. Taiga in winter don't has the same birds as Florida in winter
Nvidia's RTX 40 Super GPUs deliver more power without price hikes
To be fair, such devices would prefer 2.4Ghz any other Wi-Fi frequency cries at a view of a single wall.
NYSE is a for profit entity owned by Intercontinental Exchange. They also own Euronext. And they're regulated by the Sec, but carry out their own regulation efforts too. The parallel isn't that far off.
I want to see a personal AI revolution to echo the Personal Computer revolution.

Tools that people own-- capital, almost--that work for individual own best-interests.
No, I'm just annoyed when someone bleats on about any fallacy and doesn't understand it. Your willingness to attack me in the same way is amusing though.

'You just think X' is silly. You know nothing.
Clever use of language can get around most any problem, as it is anyways.
How long is long enough to recover from burnout?
I've been the Founding Engineer of a startup for almost 9 years. Over the course of 9 years I have become extremely burnt out for a variety of reasons. I can't exactly quit the company and don't really want to, but I need to figure out how to recover from burnout. It's affecting my home life, happiness, anxiety, nearly everything. It's to the point where I don't feel capable as a developer anymore and have lost all confidence in myself. I am seeing a therapist but haven't really had a breakthrough yet. I have seen several other therapists as well with the same outcome. So my long winded explanation comes to a single question: In your experience how much time off was enough time off to recover from burnout?
The real question is if you're still not allowed to use iTunes in nuclear weapons.

(answer is yes, that's still banned! https://www.apple.com/legal/sla/docs/iTunes.pdf )
Because the idea that airplane travel is safer than passenger vehicle travel is propaganda/marketing. Flying is safe, but in practical terms the sentence "flying is safer than driving" is not only nonsensical but also false.

If you could magically replace every passenger vehicle trip with a commercial airline flight, including the quick trips down the street to the grocery store, there would be more fatalities. Because, statistically, flying is less safe per trip.

The reason why flying is safer for long trips is because the "danger window" of a flight is generally takeoff and landing, while the "danger window" for driving is basically the whole drive.

You can slice this another way. In the book Freakonomics, they discuss that "per hour spent traveling" the passenger vehicle and the airplane are approximately the same risk level.
How long until OpenAI's ChatGPT is astroturfing all debates on social media? Many in a year or two most posts to reddit will just be ChatGPT talking to itself on hot button issues (Israel-Palestine, Republican-Democrat, etc.). Basically stuff like this but on steroids, because ChatGPT makes it way cheaper to automate thousands of accounts:

* https://www.cnn.com/2019/05/06/tech/facebook-groups-russia-f...

* https://www.voaafrica.com/a/israeli-firm-meddled-in-african-...

I sort of suspect AI-driven accounts are already present on social media, but I don't have proof.
Taking a guess, based on experiences with using Google Assistant extensively:

What do you do if you have statistics saying that, say, a feature is used by a small fraction of users, and 40% of the activations of the feature were in fact not what the user wants, and instead were misunderstandings of requests for something else?

Ambiguity is a massive problem.
In theory this is Costco. I have a membership to both Amazon and Costco, but for some reason keep using Amazon. I assume this is because 1) habits are hard to change and 2) Amazon is guaranteed to have what I’m looking for, even if ultimately it’s not very good.
Last time I tried to totally banish Windows (it's only on my gaming machine), Linux hated my ~3-year-old AMD card (as in: a known-that-whole-time but unfixed driver bug that reliably made X and Wayland randomly crash a couple times a day, and more often if you tried to game on it). Buy a new card and hope I don't overlook a similar problem in my research, or reinstall Windows. So I reinstalled Windows, having lost about a day of my time, over a week or so of trying to make it work, all for no benefit whatsoever.
I wouldn't take chances with the 83(b) election; extra-caution here pays off, just because the stakes are so high. To make founders' lives easier, we automated the whole process at file83b.com – you can prepare, sign, and file the election online (and include your spouse too if relevant by toggling the form).
I already use jupytext to store notebooks as code but the improved state management and notebook-as-app features are pretty compelling and I'm trying it out.

Unfortunately, I'm quite used to very specific vim keybindings in Jupyter (https://github.com/lambdalisue/jupyter-vim-binding) that make it pretty hard to use anything else :/
All that website says is some vague description about what it is without saying what it is and a downloadable and download counter. Awful website.
Saw it on Twitter about 15 minutes ago.

I worked on a personal finance management tool for about 8 years, never knowing what to make out of it, so it never saw light.

I believe that the PF market is lacking a very well-made tool. Everybody uses something, but nobody is 100% happy with their tool.

From the pictures I saw on Twitter, it looks incredible.

Best of luck Josh, hope this time it will go better.
Give it a try. The demo version runs for a few minutes before it forces you to restart it. Long enough to figure out if it will run well for you.
I do either, depending on the situation. For me, verbalizing things, internally, is like writing things down - it allows for more organization and review. (Consider https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rubber_duck_debugging)

It's clear to me that the main ideas come non-verbally first, and then I translate into words.
Stop paying them. If you pay, you'll actually become a better product rather than cease being the product.
Garry Tan trying to bring the TK-style greed and aggression back to SF: http://techbrosf.org
Over thousands or even millions of years, that's right. Unlike what we're seeing right now.
> Is it inevitable if one species becomes too dominant on earth?

I am fairly certain that this is the first time a single species has become too dominant across the entire Earth. Maybe single celled life forms? Diseases?
If said nerve gas was decisive weapon capable of giving one side absolute advantage chemists in USA or any other country for that matter would absolutely do it.
NYSE is a for profit entity owned by Intercontinental Exchange. They also own Euronext. And they're regulated by the SEC, but carry out their own regulation efforts too. The parallel isn't that far off.
So this replaces https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Lacking_proper_attributi... or runs in parallel? I see somebody added three entries on the wiki page today.
This is sales, working half an year in a company and not closing a sale, while actually even being 100% convinced of being a good performer is crazy to me.
The AI Timelines Scam
Just use a debloat script and it fixes a lot of this
Then let's start with the strays. Our cat was a rescued stray whose ear was docked when she was spayed. A block away from us is a house with a whole colony of stray cats that people have put up housing and other people come by and feed them. It doesn't look like those cats have been fixed judging by their ears.
Because there shouldn’t be ads on my desktop. It’s become so normalized that people have been brainbroken into thinking it is fine.
The thing is, often people cannot be convinced of some statement, not because they are so convinced of their own stance, but because leaving their stance feels bad and might even question their own identity (what they stand for).

Only after all those years i came to that conclusion, after a lot of arguing and debating.

And that relates to what the article says, we just nod and still keep our position because the other's arguments feel concise at first sight but just feel weird. Any rebuttal attempt very often feels futile and useless.
NASA X-59 Rollout Ceremony
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At best it improves the chow in the mess hall.
Not a complete answer, but I hope Markdown is or becomes the standard for offline docs and text for local/offline consumption. I only ever write in markdown anyway (usually with http://obsidian.md).

The closest thing I know of for a service like RSS to download documents is [Dash for macOS - API Documentation Browser, Snippet Manager - Kapeli](https://kapeli.com/dash).
The article literally said "the most talented". The top talent artists are certainly making art, and it is a fact they are driven to do it more than anything else. That's the attitude that makes them "the most talented". I am not romanticising it, it's just how it is.

> It’s not a moral failing to have a need to make a living, especially if others are relying on you.

Exactly. People make choices in what they do, it has nothing to do with talent being taken out of the market, it's always been this way. There have always been more profitable things to do than making art.
If you really know about supplier networks, government, military: this is a losing game that is better not played.
I do exactly the same.
Again, not required.
I've also read, they're using AI to declassify materials. Humans still make the high level decisions, language models tackle the boring work of reacting text and whatnot.
calculating the embeddings is still a mystery to me. I get going from a picture of an Apple to a vector representing "appleness" and then comparing that vector to other vectors using all the usual math. What I don't get is, who/what takes the image as input and outputs the vector. Same goes for documents, let's say i want to add a dimension (another number in the array) what part of the vector database do I modify to include this dimension in the vector calculation? Or is going from doc/image/whatver to the vector representation done outside the database in some other way?

edit: it seems like calculating embeddings would be something an ML algorithm would do but then, again, you have to train that one first. ...it's training all the way down.
Okay, but we're also taking her account on that at straight value.

I've had multiple coworkers or subordinates living in their own world and not understanding crystal clear feedback.
Look at all those nations you listed that are very homogeneous. I want a nation with significant culture tradition differences listed that is like that. American exceptionalist is mostly BS but we do have some ways that we are very unique as a nation and that is how many different kinds of major cultures we have hanging out in US. People handwave the US as all the same but that is very much not the case. Even for as good as American indoctrination is, nothing is gonna change that living in Montana is nothing like living in Florida. What rural urban even means in both states is so different. And we've been this heterogeneous.

I'm willing to accept your premise, but I want an example where there isn't one overwhelmingly dominant culture. I'll accept 2 equally dominant cultures.
I agree. But on the other hand, it has survived a pretty steady onslaught so far, with a significant plurality of the elected representatives trying to subvert it. There's hope yet.
This rational easily applies to sales positions as well, yet were all capable of having empathy with the woman in the video, regardless of the merit of her job.
The opinion that HN has particularly high quality comments is always surprising to me. Outside of the times where the person commenting is the actual creator of whatever the post is about I've found comments here to be a dumpster fire to the point where I often have fun looking at them specifically because they are often so wild and I love a good mess.

I assume people here will disagree but it's that exact stark difference in perspective that's so interesting to me
This seems to be very much the case for behavioral ads as far as I can tell. At some point Google et al convinced everyone that tracking the user's every move across the Internet made for better conversions than just providing ads that are relevant to the content they appear alongside and everyone just nodded along. Given that we now know that Meta (née Facebook) blatantly lied about the effectiveness of video content (which single-handedly killed various news sites who made hard pivots based on these claims) I'm not convinced behavioral ads really do perform that much better. The biggest value add of Google ads was that it provided some safeguards against abuse and a reasonable expectation of safety and moderation.
I appreciate that my search redirected directly to the incident report page.