skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"Specific designs for specific roles" is a general engineering thing. Any engineer knows that it's easier to get good performance (in whatever dimension you're measuring performance) if you're designing for only one use case than if you're trying to be everything to everyone. Designs that try to do everything end up being overconstrained and then having to make (often irrational from the POV of any one user) compromises to fit reality.

Software monopolies face this on a daily basis. Much of what we see as "enshittification" from a consumer standpoint comes from single products that need to serve the needs of 3B consumers. The idea of "unbundling" that was en vogue in startup circles from ~2013-2016 is just that startups which serve one use case for one customer base are able to eek out efficiencies that consumer tech giants cannot.

I'm not in aerospace or military so I can't comment on whether the JSF itself performs poorly. How would that even be defined, though? It doesn't have a whole lot of competition to measure against. (Seems like a common thread in these discussions...)
It is but it's still not up to date with their more recent carnage.

Is this just an aggressive PE firm or what?
Impossible here in Texas.

I strongly dislike sports. It is extremely difficult to find other men that do here. By "extremely difficult," I mean "you're going way out of your way to find them"

Meetup was a great place to find those people, but the platform seems mostly dormant.
Things are complicated.

To be fair: Everyone I've worked closely with in research has gone above and beyond not to cut corners and produce high quality data and research.

What I have in mind here is a situation where people are actually quite careful but can still end up in a place where they don't know what happened because they don't have good systems for creating datasets and storing code.

For example, graduate students are not always taught to work in a reproducible way. It's definitely gotten better from what I can see, but it was normal for people to get source data and work that data into its final form in a lot of different steps, but not always reproducible steps. E.g., data comes in from secondary source or other provider. It gets cleaned. That file gets saved as something like "clean data 011234.csv".

More work is done, it gets saved again.

Time passes, things are revisited, and a handful of files exist that likely with some care could lead from point A to point B. But the exact process, to say nothing of the dozens, sometimes hundreds, of small decisions data preparation decisions get lost to memory.

Code doesn't go in version control. People get new computers. USBs get lost. Universities migrate to new data systems and so on.

All the while, these students and researchers were very careful while doing the work. They were just never trained to use good version control and pipeline processes. They basically do what they did with papers they write. Save and backup while working through the paper and move on when it's done.

This is made worse when data is proprietary or not legally shareable.

So people aren't necessarily being shoddy or doing bad work, they're just not using good systems.
It seems to me that nuclear and fossil energy is heavily subsidized almost everywhere. So affordability is kind of a tricky metric.
It’s their emotional support software.
Bought with work education fund. Read it in a few hours on a flight. Like others have mentioned, it is a lot of common sense, but seeing techniques on paper was useful to me. I learned a few new things and it reinforced the things I have already picked up in my career so far.
Trade, the Sea and Great Powers
(Title of "Trade, the Sea and Great Powers" taken from author's intro paragraph.)
3 of our 15 devs write Fortran, but we don't find them through dev job sites. They have PhDs related to hydrodynamic simulations and many of the people in the field know each other through conferences.
They were probably used to having unlimited funding in the past and now that military purchasers finally woke up and decided to limit spending on projects with fixed cost caps. Boeing doesn't know how to bud with the actual cost. Can't nid low and then go ask for addtional budgets.
"- The emphasis on accepting what life has given you because that’s what logos/tao/gods have willed is a lot more palatable if you’re an emperor than his slaves. It’s great to accept what you can’t change. It’s not so great to accept the bad things you could change if someone hadn’t convinced you it was the way things were meant to be."

This is often read as a critic against Stoa. It's not really true though (though you might find a quote of some stoic somewhere that does agree). The tricky thing here is deciding what you can change and what you cannot change. Or in which way you can change things and how attainable that is and how much effort you want to spend.

Many situations and problems are not clear cut and require some attention devoted to them. Sometimes levers to change something are available where you didn't expect them. And sometimes you think you can change something, but it turns out to not be true.

Stoicism is not about being passive, it is about being active. See what you would like to have changed, and in which way can you change things. And no, complaining endlessly, as is common in our society, does not bring much change ;) That is passive behaviour where you set out to be dependent on someone else bringing change.
And here it is as a typing exercise: https://www.typelit.io/chapters/Meditations
> Does it make sense to assert that since wind farms are generally beneficial that we should not worry about drastically reducing or even eliminating golden eagles in California?

Yes. Boiling our atmosphere will harm bald eagles in addition to everything else. Bald eagles are cool birds, unless you live somewhere that they’re as common as seagulls and 20x as annoying. If forced to choose, I’d rather have a healthy world with few bald eagles than Venus with none.
Defaulting to search or YouTube feels like a money / metrics grab.

No longer displaying commute time to work, but you can check it on maps? So, they're removing the assistant part into a search box.
Normally when you buy a static IPv4 address you get a single "1.2.3.4". OP is basically saying they have access to something like "1.2.[0-3].[0-255]". /22 is a fancy way of describing that kind of slice in CIDR notation. So they have 256*4=1024 IP addresses in total.
We're building a better PostHog community by closing our public Slack
Meta: Multi-Source Test Time Adaptation
I think those issues could be overcome by using encryption and checksums for the logs with the decryption key held by a third party that would read and release the data on request by the owner or in criminal cases where the owner was a victim.

The more likely model is that the insurance companies own and provide the black boxes in return for reduced premiums from the owner.

The current situation is that some drivers run their own dashcams and can choose to provide video evidence, but that could be open to abuse if someone very carefully edits the video and no-one spots it.

I agree that the drivers shouldn't be forced to self-incriminate - the police should be using their own evidence which could well be from other drivers submitting their own driving data/video.
After decades of advocacy, suicide deterrent comes to Golden Gate Bridge
While it may not work for all use cases, there is a Postgres PL/pgSQL function that is easy to install. It is being kept here for now:

https://gist.github.com/kjmph/5bd772b2c2df145aa645b837da7eca...
> Are Boeing planes really that much more dangerous than Airbus ones?

The 737NG is the safest airliner ever produced. Boeing is having a rough patch, but anyone counting them out is foolish. They've had rough patches before.
It's not a new one, but also good to get the shingles vaccine if you're over 50. Even under 50 might be a good idea as cases—although still uncommon—are increasing in younger people[1]. (Unfortunately where I live they won't let you get it if you're under 50, even if you throw money at them).

From what I read it's thought that kids being vaccinated (a good thing) have reduced adult exposure to the virus, decreasing the immunity we received from being infected as children.

[1]: https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/nova-scotia/shingles-under-ag...
If we cared about birds we would be talking about reducing car traffic and saving more areas for wildlife. The argument against Solar and Wind with regards to wildlife preservation is almost always a distraction.
App stores (or generally moderation) is a complex thing to get right.

Once you have humans in the loop, you have bias. Not even humans can follow the set ambiguous guidelines and the appeals process is mostly broken.

AI can somewhat help but language models are just that - language models - they don't have any deep understanding.

Fundamentally I believe moderation will always be broken until we get algorithms capable of understanding the deeper meaning of things and apply them uniformly.
> significantly

You must be comparing two specific airframes.
Localstack: Functional local AWS cloud stack
Not sure I understand the objection. The research this article is about compared Wind vs Oil/Coal effects on birds. The title seems in line with the findings of the research.

> I find the question "what is a reliable, clean and affordable energy source?" much more relevant and productive.

Seems to me like examining externalities of different energy sources is a part of the nuance of this question. Feels like you're being a bit of a hater.
It can provide text messaging levels of bandwidth where there is no reception but isn’t competitive with terrestrial towers
I think it's very user friendly. As a user I can easily access functionality when the application's modules are organized as a little taxonomy of commands. Hierarchy is good.

> Among other things it makes the shell’s ! commands harder to use.

How so?
at least you have that. Here, it's mostly churchgoers and "business networking"
When has Drew said he was a fan of DDoS attacks? When you make claims like these you should really bring receipts.

SourceHut doesn't blackhole content. It is in their terms of service and documentation what they will not accept on their website.
They should call it the "Enshittification Log"
> GP assumes the goal is to do just enough to keep the product alive.

They wrote "mature and don’t need a lot of work". Why would anyone put lots of people on a product that is mature and doesn't need a lot of work?

> This usually means a degraded customer experience.

Why? If the product is mature, works well, then surely you need fewer people to keep it in good shape and support customers?
Fwiw, Haskell is not from Microsoft Research.

The Haskell 1.0 specification was published before Microsoft Research existed at all.

(I worked briefly on a Haskell compiler in those days.)
To be fair, since the LGPL part of VLC is FFMpeg there's zero chance that they can produce a working product without LGPL code.
Apple undergoes its biggest board shakeup in years
In 2008 banks made behind closed doors deals with the government and some won and some were not invited (Lehman brothers, etc). We are still seeing the effects of that.
well, his junk mostly
We Know the Full Extent of Space Destroying Astronauts' Red Blood Cells
He lost his sock, shoe and iPhone on Alaska Flight 1282. The phone still works
Meetup had a way to do this: make it opt-in by organizers, then increasing organizer price later on, perhaps even drastically, to incentivize the new structure. Over a year, say, even on organizers who didn't opt in, they could likely double their revenue per subscription with minimal churn.

Instead, their messaging strongly implied that, while it was still being tested, this would be mandatory, destroying community trust. An absolutely flubbed rollout.

https://www.theverge.com/2019/10/15/20893343/meetup-users-fu...

https://wptavern.com/meetup-com-introduces-rsvp-fees-for-mem...
>It’s always a safe bet to book seats at the front of the plane to be sure that your seat doesn’t magically disappear when you are at the gate

Why? Do they bump the rear seats first?
And some phd's don't write unit tests... So you're completely blind in case you want to refactor/rewrite code.
> And you're basing this on what?

My knowledge of what I could do as an employee if I were to go rogue.

> Because someone in the US compromising an OT network with ransomware is going to prison for a LONNNNG with little to nothing to gain from it?

If they were caught.

> Go ahead and link some of the OT environments you've seen compromised by USB drive in the US.

There aren't many, but it's not because it's a difficult attack to mount. It's because there is a lot of lower lying fruit. You don't have to outrun the bear.
I recently had five hour a first class flight (lucky upgrade) on a brand-new Delta 321Neo, it was easily the best flight I've ever had. The 321Neo is just a brilliant plane that outclasses any 737 in my experience.
wow. Looks like Amazon is doing very little or anything at all about it.
Everything in web-decker is drawn to a canvas using a custom software-rendered imgui-style UI toolkit. I considered this approach essential for maintaining fidelity across platforms and implementations, but it does come with notable accessibility and performance tradeoffs.

There is a native version of Decker implemented in C using SDL2. It's fairly easy to build from source for Linux[0], and I offer periodic Windows and MacOS builds on itch.io[1].

[0] https://github.com/JohnEarnest/Decker#building

[1] https://internet-janitor.itch.io/decker
The description is written by the software developer. The "Information" section near the end lists requirements for supported devices. iPhone and iPad say "Requires iOS 17.1 or later and a device with the A17 Pro chip or later", and the first iPhones with A17 chips or later are the iPhone 15 Pro and iPhone 15 Pro Max.
Show HN: Hacker News themed Arc Browser Boost for Reddit
There is already a very popular audiobook service [0] for nonfiction book summaries which was a surprise to me but also not. It feels like just the result of our sped up life, you need to watch this, you need to read this, you need to play this. Of course you don't _need to_ but for some people this is life in the 21st century. And I bet they also happy about it, just read the testimonals ('the concept of being able to grasp a book's main point in such a short time truly opens multiple opportunities to grow every area of your life at a faster rate.')

0, https://www.blinkist.com/
have not fixed the search bar to bottom as arc does not allow to share boosts with js script.

works on old.reddit.com
I'm not sure it qualifies as argumentum ab auctoritate to say that a group comprised of Nobel prize winner's and renowned statistics experts are far more likely to be right about statistics than a solitary compsci professor.

Even if it does qualify, It's widely accepted that argument from authority is perfectly valid and often necessary when performing inductive reasoning.

I might even say that if you are not expert enough to judge the matter yourself (or willing to expend enough effort) it should be your default presumption that the more qualified speakers are correct, even if you have legitimate questions about their potential motivations.
Scientists Predict 2024 Will Be Our First Glimpse of Earth at 1.5°C
Yeah but the alternative / green energy industry is also worth hundreds of billions; [0] says solar will be a $373B industry by 2029, [1] says wind will be $278B by 2030, and [2] says nuclear will be a tiny $38B by 2029. My point is that the alternative energy sector's financial interests are at least as big as the fossil fuel industry's, but they put a lot of effort into coming across as The Good Guys That Will Save Our Planet For The Future Of Our Children, because that means they will get government funding and investments from new energy and infrastructure projects.

Disclaimer: I pulled these numbers from the first google search results. I don't know why they all look 5 years ahead. I am not an energy or financial expert.

[0] https://finance.yahoo.com/news/solar-power-market-size-2022-...

[1] https://www.renewableenergymagazine.com/wind/global-wind-pow...

[2] https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/global-nuclear-energy-market-...
Windmill farms have roads also. Traveling in Illinois recently and seeing some huge 300+ft windmills in the corn and soybean fields, I think that is a perfect place for them. The whole scene is quite artificial and totally human controlled. The windmills fit right in. I don't think they should be placed on wilderness type lands. Similar to a fracking operation, you have a dense network of roads and the moving, man-made objects are quite jarring on the landscape. And unlike oil or gas extraction those sites will likely be in use for hundreds of years instead of a few decades.
That eugenics was widely popular among academics, especially in certain disciplines like Psychology (the founding members of the APA were all eugenicists).

As an example I'm familiar with, the first generations of academics at Stanford University were socially-active eugenicists (see the founding President, David Starr Jordan, who hired people like Ellwood Cubberley and Lewis Terman).

Many buildings, awards, dorms, department chairs are still named after these people.
do you not know why Tor was actually created?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tor_(network)
> Calls made from speakers and Smart Displays will not show up with a caller ID unless you’re using Duo.

who the hell is using Duo
It was an ITV series which isn't a streaming service, as such.
You may be able to access the Radio series though which is well worth a listen.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000jf7j
Planes are fast though. Even if less safe that cars we would still use them.
You have an obvious bias given your username. Why should SourceHut involve itself with projects that are at a high risk of being a scam?
>"follow the money". The fossil fuel industry is a trillion dollar per year business and their interest is to keep it this way.

Meanwhile, the green energy industry is not-for-profit, volunteer, altruistic and unbiased.

That's incredibly naive. If you don't think the global capitalists are moving towards a green transition, I'm not sure what to tell you.
> Remember the endless…

I remember how the ACA was essentially a giant gift to the insurance industry, and that despite being mandated in most states, only increased the insurance rate by a few percent. Oh, and the vast majority of the increase in insurance was health plans with a $10000+ deductible. I remember how medical debt bankruptcies continued to climb after it was passed.

> Don't worry, most politicians will do anything to get some votes!

Before they get votes, they have to win the money primary. Then we get to decide which technocrat or self-funded billionaire candidate sounds nicest to our ear.

It’s time to stop thinking you can vote your way out of this. Our leverage is our labor.
I haven't personally found any advantage to using containers in a local dev environment. I probably never worked out how to do it right, but my experience is that using them just adds complexity, inconvenience, and additional points of potential failure without giving any noticeable benefit.
Autophage rocket engine consumes plastic fuselage for fuel
It is infinitely more competitive than no signal in many parts of the US.
If we cared about birds we'd be aggressively controlling the cat population.
> I heard the military relaxed restrictions that required Ada. So the F-22 Raptor was mostly Ada, but the newer JSF is mostly C++. No idea if true, but that is what I remember.

I think that's correct. IIRC, the JSF C++ coding standard document is floating around.
I would guess it would need to be something more along the lines of certain actions (taking out a loan against an asset) triggering realizing those gains as income.
I think a difference here is that for lots of people they can through the stack of things they use and find C. This is less the case for Fortran.
"Affordable" could also be taken as "doable". Which broadens the scope largely but misses the main problem: sustainability. This take is not just not helpful but, i would argue, actively harmful to the debate.

By definition, sustainability is a waste management, that allows recycling rates of 90% or higher. CO2 is just one of our waste products we totally didnt care about.
So Google AdWords performance absolutely tanks with the sunsetting of 3rd-party cookies…

It looks like this mostly happens because they lose the conversion signaling which is the most important input to their bidding model, making them pay for 4x as many impressions which still only concert to 1/10th the sales.

Is this the experience that all Google AdWords customers will be waking up to later in 2024? It sounds like Sentry is being pro-active and getting ahead of the curve, and not just cutting their advertising performance for purely benevolent anti-tracking reasons.

When this happened to FB they lost tens of billions of dollars. Will the impact to Google be even greater? If there’s anything that could truly disrupt Google, destroying AdWords ROI has got to be their #1 existential risk.

It’s not like their search experience is even that decent anymore. It would make me quite happy to see Google peak as a company due to internet privacy initiatives winning out over invasive corporate panopticons.
I hope Charlie does that then, but it depends on whether he cares enough about it.

I think it would be fitting if a significant percentage of other people with CBEs started to return them with public statements about them not wanting to be associated with the likes of Paula Vennells.
And rust ??? C'mon it's HN! :-)
They’re optimizing their apps for scrolling as many ads into the viewport as possible, hence pausing videos as they exit the viewport. Everything that is not an ad is a distraction from ads.
Both are to blame, but meat is more delicious than oil, so ppl prefer, with all the reason in the world to dunk on big oil. First we go and kill big oil, after that we can talk about killing big meat.
Housing is extremely expensive. I wonder how people pay rent, mortgage, and other expenses with so many layoffs.
Nobody, that’s why they’re using this opportunity to force people to it
> most of the discussions about him, the focus tends to be on him

Duh. They are about him. Want to discuss others, then start discussions about others. This ain't rocket surgery; Be the change you want to see, but stay on topic.
I wonder what went wrong woth the combat module concept. The Dutch who inspired this in the LCS are using similar modules just fine apparently on their ships.
>The quality of your average tech worker has completely nosedived in the last 10-15 years.

Initially this sounded right, but then I remembered all the trash that showed up during the dot boom and subsequent booms. It's just hiring booms attract a lot of people who want to make easy money and those people think programing is easy money (it's not). Bootcamps and even CS degrees are just step one of many steps and many people think step one is the only step and don't work to further their craft. Once it becomes evident that an org has way too many of these people, it starts to cull. Unfortunately, large orgs are very bad at "rightsizing," and just "mow the lawn."

The problem with tech is to be good at it, you have to be passionate about it to the point of near obsession. That's a requirement above and beyond just being smart or good at math, or even good at programming. You can fill a room with brilliant but dispassionate people and you won't get much done.

So you're right in a 15 year cycle, but this cycle has happened before and we're now in the the culling part.
"We have big goals"

translation: "we want you to work harder and spend 2 hours a day commuting to an uncomfortable office to make us more money"