skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's not what those lights mean. The warning was for a malfunction of one of the triple-redundant pressure control systems.

> Homendy said investigators have learned that before the Friday flight, the “auto-depressurization” warning light came on during or after three previous flights, at least one time while the aircraft was in the air, and once while it was on the ground. Each time, the light was checked out, and Alaska Airlines reported the light turning on was a “benign” issue.

Homendy addresses this in the media brief: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0jeO5fwRXLo&t=257s
I don't think you can treat those as equivalent. The arguments against airplanes were about physics, which is comparatively easy. The whole point of this essay, and KSR's companion novel Aurora, is that people who get excited about generation ships tend to only think about the physics and engineering problems, and handwave away the problems of ecology, biology, sociology, ethics (!), and politics (!!) because they don't find them interesting, even though these problems are actually much harder to solve. His complaint is that by sweeping the hard problems under the rug, people are making this out to be a much more feasible operation than it actually is.

In order to prove him wrong, you'd have to really grapple with the question of how to have a self-sustaining ecology in space. This is something I basically never see in online space boosterism, and note that empirical attempts to answer it like Biosphere 2 ended in complete failure (and those were on Earth, which is orders of magnitude easier).
Antarctica and international waters already have sat phone coverage. Don't think it'll save any lives in those places. Remote regions of populous countries with a long tail of sparse rural infrastructure maybe. Brazil, India, China.
>No, non-prescription reading glasses do not make vision worse. In fact, ophthalmologist Michelle Andreoli, M.D., says that reading glasses from a drugstore are safe and can help you focus up close.

Source: https://www.google.com/search?q=do+non-prescription+reading+...
Show HN: Forecast your finances with a single script
These are the first steps to opening a wide universe of possibilities.

The things that Kaze Emanuar [1] has pulled off with Mario 64 are amazing.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/@KazeN64/videos
D isn’t “big” (as in “reddit big”), and any web-1.0 forum that I remember from 2000s worked like that on old hardware. If you’re curious how a single SQL database can serve so fast, it’s caches and invalidation when a thread CrUDs itself. Old boring tech.

Edit: the tone was a little sharp, edited it out, my apologies
Despite being someone who wrote x86 assembly for years on DOS in the 90s before learning C (and even continued in at&t syntax on Linux for some time), I find this to be a silly exercise in time wasting beyond its academic and comedic/entertainment value.
Nope. This is not the job of the website.

There are plenty of other ways to more efficiently save bookmarks.

Also, one of the most advantages of HN in particular is its simplicity and minimalism.
Then what’s the point of taking a shot at someone barely out of training to say it was their fault?
Doesn’t this same thing happen with geological processes all over the world? Like when a volcano explodes or forms under water?
Beautiful work and great magazine. Thanks for sharing
I'm always happy to see one of my own projects on Hacker News. Let me know if you have any questions.
One of my pet peeves is the description of "great weather"

What's great weather for some is literal hell on earth for some other person
If not using papers as a basis for policy then what? Making a committee of academics from a selection of prestigious institutions every time you have a question that needs answering?
Dear AsmBB.org admin: Have those be turned off by default. They're annoying even when they don't occlude the entire screen.
anything external is possible

anything internal is impossible

ie make money ez

lose weight impossible

got to be some kind of psych issue
TBH modern music also bears a lot of negative vibes.
Ooh, this should be interesting. There have been tons of articles “private equity takes over nursing homes, hospitals, rental properties” on the one hand this will cause some chaos and pain as they have to show short term returns(higher prices lower quality services) On the other it’ll probably slow the mad dash to consume everything.
Writing Components That Work in Any Front End Framework
Meta: I would love to see “It’s Time To…” added to HN’s list of automatically-edited-at-submission title clichés, like “How…” and “The Story of…”
> vaults of a few publishing houses for their personal profit

Because they made it, it wouldn't exist without them, and others value it. If this data wasn't objectively valuable, we wouldn't be having this discussion.
Yes. He also plays at least two other roles in that, a common Lynch trope.
They also have second book miniseries so definitely worth a look!
No, I’m not confusing requiring a DockerHub account to even install Docker. Though that is an excellent example of it’s non-openness, thank you.
I love Stellarium. It got me into stargazing. I didn't realise at first that you can play with time, speeding it up, or go to specific times in the past or future to watch certain events like transits.

There was another free software program that I thought of as a companion to Stellarium that let you fly through space. It used logarithmic scales for everything to make it manageable and really gave you an idea of the vastness of space. But I can't remember the name of it nor has searching brought it up.

I'm hoping somebody here knows what I'm talking about.
> doesn't require redhat specific projects around it.

that is like saying oh no docker requires docker (company) specific projects around it

and as far as I can tell docker in recent years mainly cares about docker desktop and swarm which are less open then podman given their business model
Lockheed has considerable logistical arm, though mostly unrelated to feeding people anything other than lead and depleted uranium.

It also sucks hilariously and if you think F-35 had avionics problems then you're just not ready for Lockheed-Martin quality in logistics.
Heavenly Bodies – A game about cosmonauts, the body, and the absence of gravity
> Sometimes though, your paper hits too close to home for them, then they will try not to get it published or will slow walk the review so that their own work can come out before yours or at the same time.

How often does this actually happen? Can't say I've heard of people doing this.
If you really think these elites doing these things will mean a damn thing against the scope of global annual carbon output (the vast majority on an industrial scale for industrial purposes), you have sommething of a misunderstanding of the scope of the problem and its solutions. Elites doing any of those things is little more than bland symbolism and virtue signaling.

Bear in mind that it matters little if you use a bike yet at the same time live a largely modern life of comforts that all alone involves connecting yourself to a vast underlying system of production that uses colossal amounts of carbon.

If such logic is the general idea among commentators here, it's hard to take their ideas seriously.
FWIW I think array language communities are generally very friendly and helpful too. Not many programming languages/companies employ people to help people in chatrooms.
> devs that are sitting around and doing an hour of work a day

I think for a lot of people this seems nice on paper, but in the past I've realized that you can be so bored that you actually start doing work.
https://digitalcommons.usu.edu/smallsat/2023/all2023/72/
Not to mention that the article attacks the currently known technology with reasonable extensions, and treats those as a Ark or cruise ship that somehow has to get to another solar system. Rightfully skeptical there.

But there's so many other ways, ways that our descendents will think of that were beyond our imagination. Think tiny robots and gene bombs, or peppering interstellar visitors with inert payloads, etc. Once you abandon the meme of a brave ship full of sailors, it's fair to return to an optimistic future millennium where humans are sending life to the stars.

And that's completely without considering all the very real possibilities in our solar system, which are more challenges of degree, rather than kind. Perhaps human lifespan in orbit is 30 years at first. It wouldn't be the first time a population took root in a hostile area.
I discovered APL/APL2 in the 70's (using actual overstrikes on a paper terminal) and fell instantly in love with it. But when I later discovered functional programming with ML and Haskell, I realized that what I really enjoy about APL had little to do with arrays, but more with its ability to compose functions.

Haskell is so much better at this, being completely pure and typed throughout, and is even more fun and powerful than APL; I've used it to write a lot of small and medium-sized projects, prototype LLVM Flang's parser to prove the concept of using parser combinators for Fortran, and do Advent of Code each year in a few hundred lines of code total. If you like APL, try Haskell.

Today, I think that the whole "notation as a tool of thought" aspect of APL is a rationalization for excessive brevity -- which can be a good way to demonstrate the power of composition, but which can work against clarity.
> function exponents

Including negative exponents, namely automated computation of the inverse function!
I'm very against developing uploading tech, because it allows an unprecedented level of power over a person. Simply put, someone can repeatedly resurrect and torture an upload a million times a second, and if it's done on a private computer then nobody else will know. More generally, my position is the "butlerian jihad" one, that having any kind of intelligence in machines (AI/uploading/whatever) enables way too many bad outcomes, so humanity shouldn't develop such tech.

Biotech seems like a better way. "Have robots grow us", maybe with predesigned adaptations to local conitions.
If people would actually _measure_ the outcomes of peer review instead of talking about it, I think it would meet a swift end.

Empirically, I find no improvement in reproducibility between arxiv and journals. The costs are incredibly high too.

Like many things in our world peer review is a short lived extrapolation which doesn't resemble it's origins but is regarded as immutable gospel. It matters most if what you need is the respect of academics.
I find myself writing a great deal of C++ these days, building jank (the native Clojure dialect on LLVM with C++ interop). Even with modern practices, and Rust-like semantics (i.e. `result<R, E>`, `option<T>`, etc), every large feature implemented is followed by some period of debugging. None of the GUI debuggers I've tried, on Linux, have been compelling. Most either require IDE setup for my project or still look like they're from the 90s. I just end up using gdb, with some improved configs, in my terminal.

So far, the most exciting project to follow for this has been Cutter. However, I'd be easily sold on this once it gets Linux support. Thanks for making it open source. :)
Yeah I agree. The only good system is one where I judge the validity of the work. Especially if its something I don't know about because then I have no baises.
Blackboards also stop working eventually. What the means is that repeated writing, erasing, occasionally using water to clean them completely, makes tiny little holes in the paint. Then when you write, the chalk gets into the holes and it doesn't erase well with a standard eraser. So you have to use more water, which causes more damage...

Blackboards in universities are often painted over with new paint after a few years. Of course, this is relatively simple maintenance.
The scientific paper: https://www.hindawi.com/journals/bmri/2014/307106/
Poisoned a bunch of soldiers in a few separate incidents, then they shoot their way out when the occupiers come to arrest them killing a few more officers in the process and getting away? I would watch this movie.
> We had high hope that unlike SUN, Oracle will listen.

Sorry to disappoint (or not) but much of the technical leadership are the same people...

> please send a link to a video of a designer from Oracle presenting the string templates at a conference.

How about not one video but two, not of any designer but of the chief language designer talking about the feature not at any conference but at what is probably the biggest Java conference?

https://youtu.be/TIHx6MNt79Y?si=Qwj0ER-yxlS-Flxq&t=1972

https://youtu.be/DlTUMjg7DD0?si=6urFyuyF_jCtZ0H-&t=1099

> This is not Loom, there is no iterative process

a. you're wrong — the discussion and iteration have taken place on the amber-dev and the amber-spec-experts mailing lists — and b. I've received my share of accusations of "not listening" (and sometimes even worse) on Loom. It may not have been from you, though. :)

As always, feedback that follows actual usage is taken very seriously and has a significant impact.

You're right, however, that it's a much smaller feature than virtual threads, and so the public part of the design process didn't last for over four years but only for a little over two years (https://mail.openjdk.org/pipermail/amber-dev/2021-September/..., https://github.com/openjdk/amber-docs/blob/master/site/desig...).

> The syntax of C# or Python is also lightweight, fine by me.

Python has string interpolation but doesn't have string templates; Java has string templates but doesn't have string interpolation as a language feature. You're comparing syntax for two different features. As for C#, Java-like string templates can be mimicked [1], but the syntax isn't really lighter-weight. Instead of `SQL."SELECT * FROM SomeTable WHERE Age = \{age} AND Name = \{name}"` you'd write `SQL($"SELECT * FROM SomeTable WHERE Age = {age} AND Name = {name}")`; note that the method call to SQL is necessary to get a similar feature to Java's.

> I get that, but not using a constant like STR is an anti-pattern, as you said it's a virtual method call.

It's just a final field. You can do `final StringTemplate.Processor<String, RuntimeException> $ = STR;` and it's just as much of a "constant" as STR is. Of course, whether or not you should make string interpolation easier is up to you; after all, the reason we didn't add string interpolation to the language is because we think that making it easier is a bad idea given the vulnerabilities it has caused.

> Ask designers to go to conferences and you will get real feedback.

But they do. But just to clarify, feedback about a feature is from people who've actually used it; otherwise it's just a speculative opinion.

[1]: https://bengribaudo.com/blog/2021/04/13/5596/intercepting-st...
Companies existed of course, but they provided the building blocks of the internet and were not directly concerned with the processing of our data.
I submitted one, it may never be merged, but at least now I can say I tried. And isn’t that what open source is about?
Complain about the language or documentation, but array language communities are absolutely friendly to outsiders! This tutorial lists some active forums, give them a try: https://github.com/razetime/ngn-k-tutorial/tree/main?tab=rea...

Also, have to shout out the APL Orchard, where Adám will give any visitor a personal tutorial: https://chat.stackexchange.com/rooms/52405/the-apl-orchard
In the Moloch essay, there are several examples of 'capitalism' or 'libertarianism' that make the point that there is such a constant drive to cut costs, that humans will destroy themselves. And this drive is "Moloch", we are it, and also subject to it.

So to me Boeing is just another example in a long line of corporations just doing what corporations do, cut costs, no matter what the impact.

It sounds too blatant, who would consciously want to kill people to save a few pennies.

But what actually happens is just organizational, everyone has a budget to hit, there are layers and layers of middle managers that are getting squeezed, and they start cutting corners. No single corner seems that bad. But it is a constant slow progression towards disaster.

A thousand cuts. Some 'common joe manager' that has a kid in collage, a mortgage, and his boss is breathing down his neck, so he cuts a corner. -- But the problem is, everyone has a boss, no one is free, the entire organization/system is the beast, but we also comprise the beast.

https://slatestarcodex.com/2014/07/30/meditations-on-moloch/
I agree with you. I feel like I'm way more efficient at WFH. The most common argument I've heard in favor of RTO is a claim that it will boost efficiency. I don't believe it, but that's the claim.

Just pointing out that if someone wants to RTO but their office wants to WFH, that person will be slightly inconvenienced. If a person who built their lifestyle around WFH is required to RTO, they might face insurmountably major problems.

And I think that's why the WFH contingent, including myself, is so much more vocal. Even if it were true that there were roughly as many RTO and WFH fans, which I don't believe for a moment, the WFH group deals with way more hardship if they don't get their way than the RTO group would.
Look at the Yoga and meditation part please... seems like you have not read it!
It would be nice if there was a preventative concept, where the role of the creator being a predator, seeking and suing, would be mostly reversed, so that others would instead ask for permission, and maybe get the rights to copies through a fair exchange of money, like a license. We could call this "copy rights".
I work based on a standard labour law contract remotely and I’m not compelled to fulfil any quota of days worked from office.
Its open source iirc it uses MongoDB and redis for caching, worthy of noting is that you can also browse and download that entire board with a Newsgroups client. It also posts to IRC as well.
I don't believe I said that.
In my experience/opinion, most software companies don't spend the time/effort to properly integrate new features in a cohesive way that makes them "intuitively" discoverable while avoiding complicating what was already there. The product becomes degraded because no one spends the amount of effort needed to cleanly integrate a new feature which changes the model of how a person interacts with the software. Instead it's usually just tacked on, shoved in somewhere that it kinda fits. New button, menu item, toolbar tool, whatever. More stuff.
McDonalds is a franchise. Franchise owners set prices and promotions. The cost of running any given McDonald's is going to be different based on many factors. Hence the prices are different.
ah yes mastermind musk defense.

He is not 'lying' he is 'envisioning future to motivate engineers'.
Counterexample: All C++ in production. See also, existence of rust, swift, zig - literally all the "fast but not as crazy unsafe as C++" design space.

I wouldn't generally mention that (it's in the "sky is blue" class of interest). That a swift compiler role had this in the prereq struck me as hilarious.
They have to be able to adjust to whatever the local landscape allows. I know in places like Seattle they tax it heavily.
Well, you know, sunny and pleasant six months of the year, rainy for three, boiling alive for three.
Hah love the domain hack here.

But seriously, it's nice to see the number of decomps and disassemblies for old video games we're getting recently. First Super Mario 64 and The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time, now just about every other NES to N64 era Nintendo game you can think of. This will certainly be useful for mods in future.
Magic Balls aka temperature sensors that allow transmission lines to be overloaded based on environmental conditions, meaning more capacity across existing lines when conditions are favorable.
Symbol soup is just fine when you're working in a highly restricted domain with limited scope for novel abstractions - which may well suit the idiomatic usage of array languages. Math expressions are symbol soup, but a trained mathematician can read them quite directly.
> The door rests on the stops (on the inside) which transfer 100% of the pressurization load (from the inside out) into the fuselage.

No.

https://www.reddit.com/media?url=https%3A%2F%2Fi.redd.it%2Fq...

The drawing is from the inside of the plane. If it had been the other way around the door could have never gotten past the stops. And since it is from the inside that means that the stops themselves (which are stops, so they're not bolted into the door, just into the fuselage, the plug door is just resting against them) can't hold the door against the fuselage pressure any more than you can push on a rope. For that you need those bolts, they are the elements that provide the tensile strength counteracting the pressure in the cabin. That's also why the bolts coming loose led to pressurization warnings. If there had been no bolts the whole plug door would have come out immediately. The stops ensure that the door sits flush with the outside of the aircraft and it's the bolts that pull the plug door against the stops.
As a backend that ChatGPT is built on. There's layers of prompts, and other stuff on top, compared to the raw 3.5 or 4 models.
The thing is there's absolutely nothing wrong with any of those words.
Then please educate me:

1) for their own creative fulfillment. Generative AI makes no difference.

2) for enjoyment / appreciation from other people. Generative AI makes little difference here since the average person's art is likely to be mediocre with or without generative AI

3) as a way to earn their living. Here generative AI will make a difference in some art professions, but that doesn't seem to be the implied scenario of the comment I was replying to.
+1 Thank you.
Right, it's a low bar, and it's meant to be a low bar, and that's fine.

It's not no bar. Peer review adds some credibility to a paper. And the venue does as well. It's just less credibility than the popular imagination assumes.
> Why might Apple have a mandatory retirement age?

Apple is a private entity; I understand they are publicly traded, but not a govt entity. They can make their own rules for their efficiency
This is coming late and you might not read this, but I think you're reading too much into that quote.

Scott has an uncanny ability to cherry-pick facts, usually absurd ones to paint funny narratives. He even wrote a whole fiction book based on the concept, a universe that actually runs on Kabbalah. Here's a short self-contained chapter that showcases this:

https://unsongbook.com/interlude-%D7%AA-trump/

It's totally believable that Scott could use this skill with serious facts in a serious argument, and befuddle almost anyone. Doesn't make him smarter or more right, just very persuasive in this narrow method.
> bananapi do a lot of boards but their software story has been a bit poor

This is quite common with other board manufacturers too. I'd rather suggest to ignore completely their cobbled together distros, often also tainted by proprietary modifications, that become unmaintained in a few years, and see if they're among the many supported by Armbian or DietPi.

https://www.armbian.com/download/

https://dietpi.com/#download
Are you in New Brunswick? I know the Irvings own everything in that province.