skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Good question! It's spiking up on weekends, the reason for that is that corporate networks are not as incentivized as large public ISPs to adopt IPv6.
They have a lot more customers and are more directly affected by IPv4 exhaustion, especially the mobile providers.
> Fortran has more actively developed implementations than any other language

Respectfully, I'm pretty sceptical of this. Do you have a source?

I'd expect C to easily beat Fortran here. There's a C compiler (or several) for essentially every platform, as C is king for embedded work.
I built something similar in ASP.NET: https://github.com/Sebazzz/IFS
it refers to how wikipedia is frequently asking for money when you browse it, and how some people get annoyed by that. it's not personal.
If the entire dept was let go, then they were lying when they told her she was being let go because of her own performance metrics.
Isnt that analogue computation
The Tech Layoffs Continue
Well, there's a long chain of events over the last ~3 years leading up to this point, but I don't really feel like explaining everything in detail (and I don't think it's all that interesting in the first place). Also I never made that much in software dev in the first place.
Dune is easily Lynch’s worst movie. Hard for me to see it being remembered as anything other than that.
> a bit like using the number of fingers we have to argue that decimal is the best number system to work in.

Fun fact unrelated to your main point: some ancient peoples counted on their knuckles, using their thumb to point to each one. This let them count in multiples of 12 (3 knuckles on each of 4 fingers), then use their other hand to count out multiples! You can count as high as 72 this way, which was great for ancient cultures oriented around highly composite numbers like 12, 24, and 60.
You can also hallucinate severely (visual and auditory) during the delerium tremens (and alcoholic hallucinosis), which are caused by abrupt alcohol withdrawal after heavy and prolonged use.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delirium_tremens
Likewise the 757, which current Boeing management scrapped when market trends were against it, but is now the plane they want -- so instead they're trying to cheap out with 737 retreads.
This is one of those questions that reads as being in bad faith on its face, but it has a good answer to it.

https://www.oig.dot.gov/agency/federal-aviation-administrati...

In the US, the major executive departments have Inspectors General who serve as a check on the department itself.* The Department of Transportation's OIG would be responsible for such an investigation of the FAA.

It wouldn't surprise me if the FAA's handling around granting Boeing's self certification license to them is investigated.

*https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inspector_General_Act_of_1978
Chinese Scientists Reveal Experiments with Virus 100% Fatal to Mice
As a founder with a long history as a PM, I would try to narrow in on one really specific use case that is valuable enough for someone to (eventually) shell out $18/month to solve. Reading over the site, it's not immediately clear to me who really needs this service, what problem they have, and why they would sign up.
A lot of these aren’t specific artists. I think it is quite interesting.
Wow, I'm now no longer as excited to fly on a 787 next weekend. (I had picked it out of other equipment options.)
Yes, because redoing something from scratch usually reduces the amount of problems. Do you really think that?
The issue is that at google's scale even obscure features have millions of users. And since these features are mostly not offered by any other product, people become dependent on them. So discontinuing support will be highly disruptive.
The whole reason the 737 Max series exists is to avoid having to start over. By maintaining "backwards compatibility" type approval with the regular 737 then the existing massive pool of 737 pilots can jump straight in it and start flying.
My Calculus Professor liked blackboards because he could slow the down material for everyone.

He told me he started off with slides and stuff and thought it was going to be all slick and cool for everyone. Then he eventually realized it just goes through material too fast.
Using a trusted and proven design (eg: 737 NG) is fine and even beneficial. In fact, reusing older designs in and of itself is fine.

The problem is Boeing clearly doesn't know how to manufacture good aircraft anymore. Whether it's a rehash or clean sheet design, the result won't change until Boeing is run through the washing machine.
Wellcome!

Some recomendations in https://news.ycombinator.com/newswelcome.html
> the binary code to LLVM IR uplifting loses a lot of context

Losing context is good in order to ensure you properly decoupled the frontend from the rest of the pipeline.

We don't even keep track of what a "call" instruction is, we re-detect it on the LLVM IR.

One reason you may want to preserve context is to let the user know where a specific piece of lifted code originated from. In order to preserve this information, we exploit LLVM's debugging metadata and it works pretty well. There's some loss there, but LLVM transformations strive to preserve it.

After all, imagine you have `add rax, 4; add rax, 4`, you'll want to optimize it to a +8 and you'll either have to decide if you want to associate your +8 operation with the first or the second instruction.

> the binary code to LLVM IR uplifting loses a lot of [...] semantics information

Not sure what you mean here, we use QEMU as a lifter and that's very accurate in terms of semantics.

I'm not sure what MIR and Swift IR have to do with the discussion, those are higher level IRs for specific languages. LLVM is rather low level and it's language agnostic.

However, for going beyond lifting, i.e., decompilation, it's true that LLVM shows some significant limitations. That's why we're rolling our own MLIR dialect, but we can still benefit of all the MLIR/LLVM infrastructure, optimizations and analyses. We're not starting from scratch.

> emulating pieces of the code sparsely to figure out indirect jumps and so on

It's hard to emulate without starting from the beginning. Maybe you're thinking about symbolic execution?

In any case, rev.ng does not emulate and does not do any symbolic execution: we have a data-flow analysis that detects destinations of indirect jumps and it's pretty scalable and effective. Example of things we handle: https://github.com/revng/revng-qa/blob/master/share/revng/te...
Verhoeven's Starship Troopers was not Heinlein's vision, but it is a glorious and hilarious satire of Heinlein's vision. "Accuracy" was obviously not the point.
I appreciate the care and intention behind this project, but I’m not convinced nepotism is any more palatable for having been mediated by tech
You can force it to output JSON through API too.
> Over $2M in revenue last year.

Plausible also has a co-founder who does marketing, and is evidently very good at it. That's perhaps a more important factor in success than simply offering a paid plan.

It looks like success was far from guaranteed before he was hired ($400 MRR and not growing). https://plausible.io/blog/open-source-saas#february-looking-...
https://archive.ph/fjN6b
I'm assuming it's tautological due to the top 1% owning most of the economy.

I mention percentages because on an absolute scale, the ultra wealthy aren't impacted by percentage changes in wealth, the poor are (because they have no buffer).
Calling Uber and Lyft "ridesharing" is one hell of an euphemism. They're just taxi services. Where the "independent" drivers don't pay taxes.
I make an pro-level camera app to allow you import external Luts to use
PhotonCam is a pro-level camera app for iOS. It offers manual controls, ProRAW support, the capability to create your own style filters, import LUTs, and more.
People tend to project their personal preferences with an aura of superiority to the unknown future when everyone will ascend to their level and reach enlightenment.
I feel very similarly - I will go and see the new one, because I love Dune.

But the last movie was.. sterile, dead. There was no warmth between the characters, little of interest in them. It was stark. I didn’t care for any of them and it didn’t seem much like they cared for each other.

The old Lynch movie isn’t a great film in that it doesn’t hold together well, and it’s not the best telling of Dune. But it has so much character, and it has characters, and they have meaningful interactions.

I worry that the money that has gone into the Villeneuve movies is the last time Dune will be able to attract that sort of funding, and the biggest budget telling of the story we will have is one in which the characters may as well be wax droids.
In some paragraphs you put “a hat on a hat”. That is, you pile on the snark on top of an already meme-y paragraph and it feels like “too much” of something that works better subtly.

As others have stated, get to the point sooner.
Say what you will about LAX but LAXIT (their project moving rideshare and taxi out of the main loop to an offsite parking lot with shuttle service) was a bit of a game changer.
He spent his life building a $1M stereo
> It doesn't appear that SFO would have any way to collect their rideshare fees except for honor-system voluntary payment.

It's called a tax.

By that logic, it doesn't appear that the US government would have any way to collect their income taxes except for honor-system voluntary payment.
Well put, and it makes sense in the usa context too.
Does the resulting file’s “signature,” that being the first handful of bytes, match the fake extension such that obvious stenography type checks will pass? In other words, we want the carpet to match the drapes and make it harder to detect at first pass.

Reference here on file signatures. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dcq-3HNezes
There's actually a debate in the biz/MBA world on "hire slow, fire fast"[0].

I believe Reed Hastings at Netflix has advocated in the past for a hybrid approach "hire fast, fire fast" - interviews can be nearly useless and unfair. See people who are excellent employees but poor "test takers" vs people who are actually terrible and incompetent but can crush an interview.

In my experience you just don't know what's going to happen until "the rubber meets the road".

[0] - https://hbr.org/2014/03/hire-slow-fire-fast
Talk is cheap. How much credibility does the FAA really have at this point? Are they doing their job or rubber stamping planes to fly when Boeing says they’re ready?

At this point they seem as useful as Tesla’s board.
making a movie requires upfront investment. either through crowdfunding or through dedicated investors like those studios.

so i see no way to completely eliminate the middlemen, because they will want to recoup their investment.

we could argue that everyone should get a share of the profits, but with that argument comes the downside of everyone also needing to take a cut when a film makes a loss.

i am not sure if i wouldn't prefer just get paid a fair salary for the work and let someone else take that risk.
https://archive.ph/XYKOY
I am not saying that artists are going to stop being a thing. We will keep buying books written by people and watch movies directed by people and people will still make music and what have you, but it will be different. The music industry was completely different in 1900 when there no available mass recordings, different again in the 1950s with popular radio and records, and the 2000s brought the internet and MP3s.

Things change -- people's jobs will be different. It isn't going to mean artists will stop making art or machines will make everything bland, it is just a new tool that will change industries and make things easier for people to do well and thus make more art. Some people won't be able to live well doing the same thing they do now, but what they do now wasn't what they would have been doing if they were in their grandparents time.
I like to believe this is true because it makes sense, but it was a theory invented in the 20th century to try to explain how they did math in everyday settings. We don’t actually know if it is true. We just know that they used base-60 systems.
One of the "greatest" miscarriage of justice in British history... Thats rich. The sun never sets on the British Empire... Without a doubt this is a miscarriage of justice but this does not even move the needle on the list of atrocities that the British empire is responsible for.
They're not balancing lives against pennies. They're just not thinking about it. That's the mistake you're making: you're implying a plan because a plan means there's control. But that's not how it works: someone said "hey it would be cheaper if we could just not do this" - someone probably said "well this double check is necessary because bad things could happen". They were dismissed with the twofer of "that check never finds any faults" or my personal favorite "that won't happen" (no justification given).

No one in Boeing has a spreadsheet of expected aircraft crash rates versus dollars earned on manufacturing and turned the dial till they got a nice peak. They just plain didn't think about the potential consequences.
Don’t worry, I am sure the FAA will make sure Boeing sends them a very serious memo that the plane has been checked and can fly again this time.
We don't actually know what her manager said to her during all her one to ones. We don't know what feedback she was receiving. Just because the person on the other end of the call did not dispute any of the things she raised, it does not mean she was correct and not biased.

We also see from Matthew Prince's reply to the video that he is also an unreliable participant as he is suggesting that a manager would always be involved in redundancies, and we can see from the video that was not the case.
I believe individual fields are last-writer-wins. Fancier CRDTs like text/lists are not directly supported, but I found that you can layer them on top: https://github.com/mweidner037/list-demos/tree/master/tripli...
Amen brother. At least one voice of sanity has been heard through the AI hype. I more equate an AI toaster to being like the old 3D LCD TV crap from 10 years ago.
The drivers 100% pay taxes. Everything is reported to the government. Not sure why you think someone paid by a major corporation would avoid having their income reported.
Weekly Update – Fansta.co
KPI
Revenue: $100

This week, I:
- added an image to the landing page.
- removed the excessive links on the footer.
- added tools for businesses to chat with influencers (Services)
- added tools for businesses to chat with influencers (Partnerships)

Would love to get feedback on the new landing page!
Good coding groups for black women?
Hi! So I run a creative boot camp for artists in New York City, and I am starting a non profit to help inspire young female coders towards learning technical skills that will help the flourish! Obviously it’s good that every one has access to resources to help learn. I run a creator studio for artists that is for everyone - with most of my time devoted to that full time role. But Justin the side, I’ve noticed many young female coders from one of my home grounds/neighborhoods are reaching out to my foundation more and more - asking how they can learn more. I do have a decent amount of funding. But I want to make sure I am giving these girls free resources as well. Anyone know any good groups, schools, programs for young black girls who are ready to level up, be a boss, and thrive? All help greatly appreciated!! -Dak
The infra costs are covered, with some to spare; that's not really the problem. It's more "I have this thing anyway, so might as well ask people using it for some help now I really need it." That's why it's in the release notes (never expected it to be posted here).
Got it thanks for the feedback! I think the hiring manager / tech recruiter is that customer. Trouble is I wanted to aim the messaging towards the network members first... definitely needs work
I was wondering, can't you count to 144 (12 x 12) using two hands using this knuckle counting approach?
Economist has a decent round-up for the week. https://www.economist.com/the-world-in-brief

They usually don't cover tech that much, but it's reasonably good politics and business.
Well, looking at another part of the organization distant enough that top management (the C-suite) is pretty much all they have in common: They had massive quality problems on their space capsule (Starliner). (They launched the first test flight without having ever done an intgrated test of the software in expected mission time -- which led to the computers being so confused immediately after launch that it blew most of the thruster propellant. That led to an urgent hunt for software bugs elsewhere, with the capsule already in orbit -- which found another nasty bug which was even worse.)

This is in addition to numerous other quality control issues on airliners -- several other well-publicized issues on the 737-MAX itself, bric-a-brac left in tanks on 767 tankers, quality control issues at the plant producing 787s.

It really does look systemic.
Lynch himself hates the movie, he had to make it due to contractual obligations. It does have a few cool moments, like the fight where they activate the barrier shields, but it's overall terrible.
Short-term thinking seems to be a big factor in all these issues.
Alexa is basically a CLI where you use your voice instead of typing
Since the MAX program was created specifically to avoid going through a full certification process, I'd say they're going to triple down. On the spectrum of MAX shenanigans, a hole blowing open in the fuselage barely ranks. The plane didn't even crash this time! And it is not yet clear that Boeing intentionally deceived the regulators; they might have paid Spirit to do it.

It's great that the FAA is looking into this. Who is looking into FAA, though? Is this another case of institutional capture?
Good point, I also have Eneloops from Amazon, and they’re fine. Maybe there isn’t enough demand for NiMH rechargeables to be counterfeited? I also bought mine as part of a charger-included pack, which may reduce the incidence further.
> An AI should be opinionated, at least towards the core values expressed in Western constitutions

I think the AI will have to be opinionated, as others have said (and as OpenAI and others are actively attempting). But as an information problem, I think it's much harder than just making it opinionated toward current democratic values.

Even if we grant that democratic values are currently better than past ones (which I think is true), we could be stuck in a local maximum and AI could make that maximum much more sticky. Imagine, for example, if we had AI in 2015 before the US had marriage equality, and AI lectured us all about the pros and cons of allowing same sex marriage.

I think somehow, the AI needs to have its own sense of what's right, and it has to be better than just taking the average of mainstream human ideas. But I think we're currently nowhere close to knowing how that would work.
Why should we weigh by the number of different digits? I.e. is there an argument why the cost of a single digit is linearly proportional to the number of values it can hold?

To me this seems like the weak point in the argument.
Reading this I realize that I know nothing about Rust's type system, despite using the language daily.
Thanks for checking it out and the kind words – ahahah yeah definitely not going for the nepotism hires but that could be a consequence of the service
How Google SEO Shaped the Web
Keep in mind. Many of these girls are in either K-8, middle school or high school. So they don’t have access to LinkedIn (perhaps if there are websites they can utilize, please list the website instead of the forum - especially if it’s a website that is designed more for educational purposes)
Shifting your research from X to Mastodon? Here's what you need to know
> Dunno, I feel sad about artists a bit.

Well this is coming for every other profession, so ...
But if your argument is high pay is caused by scalability, then surely you'd agree that a union would be unhelpful? A union doesn't help make someone's production more scaleable.
Everyone lived, so in that sense the mother and teenager made a right decision. Other decisions may have led to the same outcome, or different outcomes.

Your question asks about risk, and the worst kind of risk, namely death of a child. Imagining myself, as a parent, in that situation I would want to move myself and my child away from the structural damage. The small one-time risk of unbuckling and moving away from the hole -- with a deadly but unlikely worst-case -- seems lower than staying near the hole, accepting an unknown risk for an unknown length of time. In other words I can reasonably predict the likelihood of successfully moving a teenager to safety in that situation, whereas I can't reasonably predict the likelihood of more structural damage, or some other threat posed by a hole in the fuselage.
For my mentioned items of lightbulbs and batteries, I generally buy them at a physical store (Lowe’s / Home Depot for light bulbs, batteries pretty much anywhere).
There seems to be a trend of people on HN sharing abandoned projects seeking a maintainer
Interesting take, I just switched from firebase realtime to pouchdb. I was getting concerned about firebase "local first" not really working how I expected and pouch fit the bill nicely. I like the idea of field level sync and wonder if triplit would be faster than pouch.
BART passengers are paying more or less the same amount to BART in a surcharge that (at least in theory) is supposed to pay for the construction.
I think of it a little differently. Human or animal intelligence here is a somewhat useful reference point.

As an analogy, think of the first steam engines. They were replacing horses so why not measure their primary function in units of horse power? We had a somewhat rigorous physical framework for work and power but it probably wasn't well understood by the target audience to be useful.

While we don't seem to have a scientifically rigorous definition of intelligence we still can have a somewhat useful discussions about utility in reference to another familiar instance of intelligence.
If you're in the UK, Argos is quicker and better now, which I find remarkable but extremely pleasing.
I mean, even without knuckles you have 10 bits to play with. If you also curl your toes, that's 12 bits. So an average person could count to 4095.
It’s both, as a point of law. If it’s free as in speech, it is also necessarily free as in beer. That’s what the freedom to redistribute means.
I remember being jealous of how much friends could do with the google assistant while i was stuck with siri.

Surprising to hear that Google assistant is now equivalent to Siri!
I don't dislike Jimmy Wales. "Please donate to Wikipedia" is one of the most common "please donate" type messages, and at least in the past it was usually written from the first person with a picture of Jimmy Wales' (usually unshaven) mug. It's just a joke. Nothing more.
I said "a few decades from now" because I wanted to highlight the fact that the recent Dune movies are unremarkable and similar to other films made today, whereas the 80s Dune is fairly unique, even for the 80s. In other words: in 2050, Dune 2021 will be perceived as just another sci-fi film, whereas Dune 1984 will still be weird and unique.

As a side note: does anyone take RT or the Oscars seriously anymore? That whole line of argument isn't very compelling to me, but I guess it is for some.

And as a final comment: note that I didn't say Dune 1984 was an amazing film, I just said it would be looked at more favorably than the current films because of its uniqueness. This tends to happen to older films: the solid-but-boring ones get forgotten, while the weird-but-unique ones develop a cult following and get re-evaluated positively.
i'd bet that this is 80% human effort 20% AI. probably lots of chatgpt jokes heavily edited and stitched together, then rehearsed and recorded by a person, then ran through an AI voice changer.