skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think that any new tool just changes what's possible. At the start, we're all just rehashing the things we used to make, but faster (and possibly lower quality). This is the part that's scary for current practitioners, because the tools now do something basically for free that used to require a lot of human skill and it devalues our current skill set.

However, at some point there are people who really master the new tool and open up an entirely new range of possibilities because of what it can do. The value of craftsmanship just changes as the tools develop, it doesn't end. I don't know what new things will become possible with AI, but I'm confident that there are people with vision out there who will raise the bar on what can be created now that it's a thing.
Limited use case, but Limelight Vision[1] supports Coral boards for their FIRST Robotics cameras. Accelerated vision pipelines for object detection in an FRC game[2].

[1] https://limelightvision.io
[2] https://docs.limelightvision.io/docs/docs-limelight/pipeline...
No really related, but I personally dislike GaussianBlur as the default noise removal method in all CV articles. In a lot of cases is more useful to filter by color (like BLACK letters in a white paper) otherwise bilateral filter (also available our of the box in OpenCV) usually works better especially if you want to do edge-detection (gaussian also blur edges). Yeah, GaussianBlur may be better performance-wise, but that is something you should consider if you real-time app is short of cpu-power.
FAA Increasing Oversight of Boeing Production and Manufacturing
> Plan9 is probably the only OS that really went for "everything is a file" to the utmost degree.

Plan9 took the "everything is a file" metaphor and extended it to "everything is a file in the filesystem". A file doesn't necessarily have to be found in a filesystem, even if that does add a level of convenience. If we look back to what a file is, a system to keep track of all of your punch card boxes is clearly useful, but if you scatter those boxes around the office haphazardly they are still files.
All abstractions leak like a sieve. Being a developer at ANY layer of the stack without knowing what's happening underneath you is default gross incompetence and a recipe for eventual disaster.

Are we cool with surgeons not knowing what mitochondria are, or how cells work? All you gotta know is where to put the scalpel, bro. I'm sure it will work out just fine.
The article says exactly why:

> Prof Rostain says he was warned against this research at the start of his career because scientists believed no ancient groups had lived in the Amazon.

> "But I'm very stubborn, so I did it anyway. Now I must admit I am quite happy to have made such a big discovery," he says.
Probably a bash function rather than an alias.
Of course, if your neighbor has a good turbine spot and you don't, you have to look at it while his property's utility rises over yours.

That, cannot be tolerated. They're free to move to industrial zoned land if they want to be a power plant.

(Neither the ag-backwoods voters controlling their zoning nor capitalists installing them are hyper concerned about sparrows getting chopped up. It's a ruse.)
Another description:

https://www.gutenberg.org/files/66685/66685-h/66685-h.htm

Geological conditions existing in the middle of the Strait were, up to that time, almost entirely a matter of surmise, based on observations made on the British and French sides of the Channel, and in the process of finding out more about them, [18]Thomé de Gamond decided to descend in person to the bottom of the Channel to collect geological specimens. In 1855, at the age of forty-eight, he had the hardihood to make a number of such descents, unencumbered by diving equipment, in the middle of the Strait. Naked except for wrappings that he wound about his head to keep in place pads of buttered lint he had plastered over his ears, to protect them from high water pressure, he would plunge to the bottom of the Channel, weighted down by bags of flints and trailing a long safety line attached to his body, and a red distress line attached to his left arm, from a rowboat occupied also by a Channel pilot, a young assistant, and his own daughter, who went along to keep watch over him. On the deepest of these descents, at a point off Folkestone, Thomé de Gamond, having put a spoonful of olive oil into his mouth as a lubricant that would allow him to expel air from his lungs without permitting water at high pressure to force its way in, dived down weighted by four bags of flints weighing a total of 180 pounds. About his waist he wore a belt of ten inflated pig's bladders, which were to pull him rapidly to the surface after he had scooped up his geological specimen from the Channel bed and released his ballast, and, using this system, he actually touched bottom at a depth of between 99 and 108 feet. His ascent from this particular dive was not unremarkable, either; in an account of it, he wrote that just after he had left the bottom of the Channel with a sample of clay

... I was attacked by voracious fish, which seized me by the legs and arms. One of them bit me on the chin, and would at the same time have attacked my throat if it had not been preserved by a thick handkerchief.... I was fortunate enough not to open my mouth, and I reappeared on top of the water after being immersed [19]fifty-two seconds. My men saw one of the monsters which had assailed me, and which did not leave me until I had reached the surface. They were conger eels.
I think "presumed to be operating normally for certain devices is certain oversight and testing requirements are met" is reasonable.

Definitely ought to be open source.

I wonder whether the black boxes insurance companies like to push would provide the evidence required?
> For large endeavors (building a plane) it is impossible to formulate all contributions to all quality criteria/cost and constraints into a technical engineering optimization problem.

It's obviously possible, SpaceX vs. NASA is an existence proof. Maybe you have something specific in mind when you say "technical engineering optimization problem", like a formula you can minimize mathematically to account for every little contribution, but this often isn't necessary. Like when solving physics problems using approximations, you often only need to minimize the first and second order largest contributors to the cost and you'll be in the right ballpark.

This also means you don't need to find the literally absolute minimum and capture literally all of the contributors to the cost during the design process. And of course this is what happens in the real world already, do you think accountants and pointy haired bosses guiding a bunch of engineers are going to find the absolute minimum? Of course not, they find what looks like a minimum from their limited view of a project after the engineers estimate the costs of producing parts and the labour required. Just close the loop without the accountants and bosses and engineers can do this optimization themselves.
For low mileage trips, why not Uber or take public transit?
Strangely enough, maybe? It would be easier to see that as the cost of the product on its own rather than a bundle. Still a bit rich for my blood though I think when other services are cheaper and don't have ads as part of the content.

No slight against the creators, of course make that cash, but paying for an "ad free" experience is difficult when you're still getting ads. Sure you have the ad free patreons etc. from individual creators and we're right back to the mess of paying for a thousand different streaming services.
There’s undoubtedly great engineers at Boeing but the management sound like most software organisations I’ve worked making random decisions to obtain bonuses or favours with bosses. In software this can just get 900 postmasters jailed, in planes this manages to be considerably worse!
If they use Numpy in Python they surely use Fortran under the hood.

Did you work in HFT? I would be very surprised if they used Python for that, and almost equally surprised if they all dismissed Fortran as an option.

Besides the things you named, quants also use Excell (of course) but probably less known is K, which is an APL type language
I get the sense that Boeing has been zombified by finance suits. Is there any truth to this?
> per capita coal emissions in the UK peaked more than 100 years ago. Some of that fall represents the offshoring of industrial processes, with the coal choking someone else, but most of it reflects the use of cleaner, more efficient technology.

The UK's global empire existed 100 years ago. Not a knock against the UK, I think they've been by and large doing the right thing, but their policies over the last century has been managing the decline and dissolution of their civilisation in as graceful a way as possible.

They're an inspirational case of a group of people regressing to the mean politely. But I'm doubting the intelligentsia can pull off the "this is really an improvement!" line. There is a lot of anger in the EU on the subject that we see in things like the Brexit vote and I suspect the AfD's polling in Germany is reflective of similar policy choices in Germany. France had the Yellow Vest protests. People don't like it when their energy access gets choked; it does a lot of real-world harm and this intellectual burying of heads in sand is unhelpful.
Fifth Update on Framework Laptop 16 Shipment Timing
You need to add references for all these numbers. I find it hard to believe Microsoft has a gross margin of 71%.
For someone not familiar with the acronym, what is CBE?

A quick search shows me 371 different matching acronyms, ranging from the "Calgary Board of Education", to "current best estimate", to "Central Bank of Egypt".
Yes. The Post Office historically was wholly owned by the UK Government, so maintained its own private prosecutors instead of relying on the Crown Prosecution Service. This is why it was able to fight so hard to get convictions, they had the funds to pay their own expensive lawyers to do it.

This meant those that fought the charges and lost were then forced to "pay back" the money they "stole" and also pay the Post Office legal fees and being sent to prison. The scandal is sickening on literally every level you can imagine!
Aaah, Ludology! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Game_studies
Not the parent, but obviously if the cost of CloudFlare protection is $XXX million, a protection racket can say: pay us 10% of $XXX M to make this problem go away. It's routinely deployed against highly profitable online businesses like gambling, but I doubt even at a 90% discount (and assuming SourceHut were willing to pay off criminals, which I doubt), they are not likely to be a profitable target for extortion and some other motive must be at play.
Tesla owner created a folding solar array capable of charging 20-60mi per day
The speed is within your view in the top right corner of the big screen. It’s not as bad as people make it out to be.

I thought the lack of stalks and a center screen was going to be an issue. Now I feel like it’s overblown and YouTubers/the media need something to complain about.
30 years ago you could do a lot with 8-16 mb ram and no internet connection.

Nowadays... unplug a modern computer from the internet and it's mostly useless.

Want to write a simple document, using a basic word preocessor? You're going to need at least 1GB ram, mate.

VisualBasic allowed writing GUI-enabled applications that would be essentially be standalone, shipped as executable files sized at (usually) less than a megabyte that would mostly "just work". Nowadays most people write GUI app in the form of frame-less web browsers displaying html and running Javascript, requiring more than one cpu core and 2-4 GB of ram to be barely usable.

Yeah I definitely can see how "The quality of your average tech worker has completely nosedived in the last 10-15 years".

As a system engineer... I have worked with some developers that constantly had memory issue ("I need more memory to run my containers, please increase the memory quota in the (kubernetes cluster) namespace") and reasoning about memory was just a non-existant skill. They just had no idea what was using memory in their software. Literally, their ass was mostly saved by the fact that process management nowadays is "good" at restarting software and managing retries on failures. Knowledge about the underlying operating system was also very very basic.

Such people, while surely filled with good intentions, were mostly useless without some random Medium article instructing how to apply some generic fixes, or without some stackoverflow question covering their exact use case.

But wait, it's way worse than this. There also are people that got promoted to managers, don't have a solid technological background (besides the little coding they've been doing before being promoted) and just can't understand the willingness to optimize and "geek out" on performance issues (and the value of such activities).

Oh and don't even get me started on nowadays a "senior developer" is somebody that is good at "delivering value to customers" instead of somebody that knows the ins and outs of the problem domain and has mastery over the technological stack.

Working in tech nowadays is a lot less about tech, it seems.
Congratulations! Looking forward to trying it out!

I was never quite sure what to make of ReScript, but after working on a larger TypeScript project, I understand the appeal. TypeScript's type system is just a little too loose and you keep fighting your colleagues who will try to insert `any` wherever they can. Just to get bitten by it a few weeks later …
The issue isn’t the length of the history. It’s that the history is written to at the end of the bash session. So if you have multiple sessions open then one session with overwrite another session log.

Even if your point was right though, I’d argue that because Bash is still being maintained, any defaults originating from the 80s should be updated. Yes, I know there are low footprint environments out there that still have writable storage in the region of a few megabytes (or even less), but we have other shells for those use cases.
Which police service? Some Military and Internal Security forces have the name "Police", eg. CRPF, ITBP.

If it was one of these forces within the MHA, I wouldn't be surprised, because it falls under "National Security"
> I could honestly kick Larry Graham in the balls for that.

Do you mean his introduction of prince to the Witnesses? I'm not really so familiar with their relationship or what happened. Was there more to the story than that?
Welcome to the club... Stripe is a scumbag company that treat their clients like trash/criminals.
Keep sending them emails via dashboard and also reply to their emails. Twitter/X may also be worth trying.
Find a serious credit card payment gateway, even if you've to pay more fees. GL.
Someone with integrity needs to inspect all Boeing and their contractors stuff, they clearly started to cut corners.
Show HN: I made an extension to keep Twitter from losing my scroll position
I want to believe, but this article is less than convincing without reading detail about the study’s methods.

I didn’t see a link to the paper on my first read. When I decided to go back and get the author’s name, Economist’s paywall kicked in.

If anybody can see the full article, it would be lovely if you put the name of the researcher in the comments so I can read the original paper.
David Davis mentioned this on News Agents. It seems like a holdover from when it was simply an arm of the state, where it made sense that it could just handle its own enforcement (since it carried the power of the Crown). It's absolutely something that needs to be stripped away in the modern day.
I have a feeling this will soon enough lead to some protectionist measures and new sanctions based on some suddenly discovered anti-competitive behavior.
> IMO, if you use --help, you also should be using -help, and -h --h

I tend to go by the paradigm of single dash for single character options, and double dash for full words (and common things like —-help should have aliases like -h).
To be fair, neither of the two organisations responsible for Horizon over the period in question - Fujitsu Services, formerly ICL Pathway - in any way resemble your pastiche of "YC Offspring" startups.

Indeed, they were the exact opposite: huge multinationals with presumably gigantic legal, infosec and HR policy departments who could probably jump through the various compliance hurdles required by this procurement process in their sleep.

By comparison the startups you're complaining about usually take years to reach sufficient maturity to take part in large public sector procurement processes like this.

Clearly in this case maturity and scale were not a bulwark against incompetence, opacity and mendacity. Indeed the opposite - as I type this the Post Office's lawyers Herbert Smith Freehills are making mealy mouthed justifications for witholding reams of technical evidence from the public enquiry for months. It's disgusting, and as someone running a small business and endlessly having to justify our commitment to information security, data privacy and transparency I find the hypocrisy infuriating.
Yeah, generally escalators are pretty bad stairs. Steps are too high and narrow for their height, which can be dangerous on the way down and quite tiring on the way up! In most places that have both, stairs tend to have about twice as many steps as the equivalent escalator.
DDoS-for-hire services exist. They don't have to build their own.
The Entscheidungsproblem should cover the rest
The GPL can't really overwrite the legal definition of derivative work, even if it wanted to. Of course, there is little case law actually going into the weeds, so it's hard to say for sure. However, the GPL's definition seems pretty reasonable to me as to what would constitute a derived work (anything linking with the GPL work OR anything passing very very complex structures between itself and the GPL work).

In fact, I suspect that a legal definition of exactly what constitutes a derived work of a program may be more broad than the GPL's definition. For example, it's plausible to me that a program which calls `sh` as a fundamental part of its functioning could be found to represent a derivative work of `sh` per copyright laws.
Might be that AMD wants most gamers on these so they can sell their discrete GPU wares to the AI folks at double the revenue.

All the games market has been chasing graphically is diminishing returns in terms of pumping rasterized polygons. 4k gaming is kind of stupid.

Now the real time raytracing they are starting to do is interesting, but I noticed that has faded from the headlines as NVidia's stock exploded due to AI coprocessors.
It’s the same in the US. The US Postal Inspector is federal law enforcement within the post office.
> Airbus overtook Boeing as the world’s biggest plane maker in 2019 following the second crash of the 737 MAX that led to a global grounding and subsequent pause in production of the Boeing jet.

I’m not sure if these are connected but I wouldn’t be surprised if they are. Airlines are losing millions of dollars due to grounding their fleet and the fact that it’s happened again cannot help.

The only thing keeping Boeing in the game right now is likely the fact that Airbus is sold out for over a decade.
> I'm trying to decide how pleased I should be if Airbus is winning customers from Boeing.

Well, you have time to decide because that's not what TFA is about.
Made into a limited series with some very fine actors.

A starry cast takes on one of the worst miscarriages of justice in British history. They’re the ideal way in to skulduggery so terrifying it could be a Black Mirror episode

https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2024/jan/01/mr-bate...
Naming conventions can be inconsistent, and not every datacenter location has an airport. ASD is often used instead of AMS for Amsterdam.
https://www.judiciary.uk/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/bates-v-...

I have only skimmed this so far but it seems there were many bugs.

Also this stood out to me.

> 4. Fujitsu inserted transactions. These are injected into branch accounts by Fujitsu. They may be performed in order to ‘balance’ a discrepancy. These do NOT require acceptance by SPMs in the same manner as TCs and TAs.
I’ve seen this exact thing happen myself, I think you’re onto something here.
The MIT Mystery Hunt starts today, and Mathematica is my go-to language and environment for puzzle hunts. As the saying goes, it's the second-best tool for everything. Fast iteration on ill-specified problems, trivial visualisation and interactivity and so on, an unparalleled range of built-ins to perform extremely complex tasks, building up huge blobs of personal state that you're going to throw away entirely in an hour.
Horrifying half-knowledge in the explanation of annealing section:

> Annealing starts with a weak piece of metal. In such a piece, the metal’s atoms are spread unevenly: Some atoms are close enough to share magnetic bonds, but others are too far apart to bond. The gaps that are left lead to microscopic deformities and cracks, weakening the metal.

But the result is great! Beautiful algorithmic design work!
> Obviously, a zip archive containing A and B is a derived work of B.

It’s not obvious that any copyright attaches to a zip archive at all, any more than hanging two paintings on a wall makes a derived work copyrightable wall.

To be a derived work something still has to be a ‘work’.

A distribution license can restrict how you are allowed to distribute a work because it can directly restrict your behavior not because it propagates and applies to the container you distribute it in.

That is it can just say ‘you can’t distribute this bundled up with other things’, in much the same way as it can say ‘you can’t distribute this without the copyright notice’, or ‘you can’t distribute this on Wednesdays’.
Growth is fueled by energy. If we're not exponentially growing it's because energy is a limiting factor for some reason.

I find the table in the middle of this page illuminating:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Energy_return_on_investment

If you were to map human population growth against the energy technologies in the table, you would basically see that human population growth bursts with jumps in EROI.

There are a couple of elephants in the room on that table that warrant some discussion.

One is nuclear: the massive jump in EROI it provides and our comparative hesitant/tepid adoption of it.

The other is a lot of the renewables: the massive leap backwards they offer.
I just fzf through history, works like a charm
Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE)
This is awarded for having a prominent but lesser role at national level, or a leading role at regional level. You can also get one for a distinguished, innovative contribution to any area.
https://www.gov.uk/honours/types-of-honours-and-awards
How to Generate Immediate Consulting Demand
Had a similar situation with a /16 at a research institution. Deployed non-interactive, multi-service sinkhole type honeypots across the entire /16 and collected a massive cache of data. A lot of fun developing something that could scale on that size of network. We used Go for the honeypots and Clickhouse to analyze the TBs of data.
I will look into it but from my previous reading it was only storing that for the Teams functionality and if that wasn’t used it wasn’t stored.

Thanks though I will double check. If it is storing this I will need to move clients again lol.

EDIT: you are correct I misread the privacy policy. Deleting a spark account and moving clients again. I guess it’s back to the standard Apple Mail app for now.
Long Covid manifests with T cell dysregulation
Cogent is also a low-cost provider, and it shows in their customer service.
Tata Group Announces New Battery and Chip Plants in Gujarat