skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Actually, your pacemaker should be running code certified by unbiased, competent third party experts to be free of safety defects with the liability to match. That is what we demand of every other physical, electrical, chemical, and biological component of medical devices; seems only fair we hold the software to the same safety standard.

Open source is orthogonal to quality at that level. It may be a desirable, additional quality to ensure openness and prevent obsolescence, but is no substitute for actual verification efforts by trained professionals specialized in the field actively tasked with analysis.

All we have to do is look to critical software like OpenSSL and the Heartbleed vulnerability to see that “many eyes” is insufficient to achieve the necessary quality in even widely used, critical software. There is no guarantee of “any eyes”, and no guarantee they are competent or have sufficient domain knowledge (think of how long it takes to get up to speed on a new software project) to meaningfully assess the systems.

We must have known, active, unbiased, competent third party verification for critical software just like we demand of all other components and fields. And yes, I am aware of the certification process for Class 3 medical device software, and no it is demonstrably insufficient for our current use cases as seen time and time again.
Love the idea of telegram-style communication with the extremely chatty ChatGPT.

"ChatGPT, get me instructions for building an emergency igloo."

"Igloos are used to shelter from extreme cold stop Building an igloo is a vital survival skill stop ..."

"Just get to the point!"

"My apologies for the confusion stop Here are the fourteen steps to building an igloo..."

In all honesty, I love ChatGPT, but you'd have to penalize it for each additional word to make it cellphone friendly.
There has to be a high correlation between people who get bored and move on and people who can learn things fast (either by technique/personality or raw iq points or both).
In fields such as Math, Physics, EE, CS, and AI, "peer review" is already being replaced by open debate online. Cutting-edge research in those fields is now routinely posted first on repositories like arXiv, with supporting code and data made public first on sites like Github. The work is reviewed first online, in the open, in a variety of forums, including X.com (formerly Twitter). Anyone with something to contribute can participate, regardless of pedigree. It's so much better than the outdated system of "peer review," which actually isn't that old.[a]

The question is: Who benefits the most from preserving the dying "peer review" system? Who loses the most from the transition to open debate? Short answer: Publishing houses and conference organizations. Neither wants the status quo to change.

[a] https://michaelnielsen.org/blog/three-myths-about-scientific...
> The smart thing to do if you were going somewhere remote would be to have a

Personal locator beacon, PLB, on land; or an EPIRB, emergency position indicating radio beacon, on ocean.

Satphones and cell phones are luxuries but these are vital.

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emergency_position-indicating_...
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This is my purpose. If one person reads this piece and feels inspired to set out and try new things, or makes the tinest, subtlest decision that helps them discover their purpose or helps them find the courage they need to walk their own path, I’ve achieved what I set out to do.

Link (https://medium.com/educreation/my-journey-from-freelance-writer-to-finding-purpose-53db5c5e8897?sk=v2/64b30012-5d85-4709-a9f9-56b346b950e5)
As a remote worker you have to deal with an arbitrary and dysfunctional state and bureaucracy. Also international schools, healthcare and safety matter to workers, as opposed to tourists
I read everything I cite in its entirety. You can disagree with my thesis of course.
Asteroids have at least one advantage over planets - their shallow gravity well makes it much easier to come and go. Perhaps a little too easy. The sci-fi vision of a travel/trade network in space seems more feasible between asteroids than between planets.
Not everywhere anymore, unfortunately.

Germany recently banned SIM-less phones from making emergency calls, supposedly due to widespread abuse/hoax calls.

Here's a list of countries where it's still possible (according to Apple): https://www.apple.com/watchos/feature-availability/#communic...
Can someone elaborate on how this works? Is that like optimizing power delivery based on the fact that power lines will have different power losses based on weather/temperature/humidity?
I created a wifi network for most of the smart appliances at home. It's nice that Unifi hardware lets you choose some of the higher-level wifi protocol options per-network, so I have a modern roaming-enabled 802.11 5GHz network for most devices, and the legacy 2.4GHz one for the fridge and stove to make use of.
> survivor bias and all that

Even been to the Vasa Museum?
Progress tracking, diagnostics, temperature tracking, load unevenness alerting, remote disable if broken, etc.
Toronto's main airport has a free "monorail" that goes between the 2 terminals, but also to a nearby off-site hotel and carpark.

Sometimes I go there for my pickup and dropoff to avoid the arrivals/departures zoo.

It seems you save a few bucks (Toronto charges $4-$4.50 for pickups/dropoffs to the cars, and $15 for higher end pickups). This monorail loophole used to be the only way to uber/lyft from the airport before they made their arrangement in mid-2018.

I think I also get nicer drivers because they don't go through the queue that Uber/Lyft create for FIFO airport pickups. I just get someone that was on their way to that queue and got to jump it. Dropoff experience is better too.
> Do the emergency doors/door plugs have two bolts? Three bolts? Ten bolts?

I don't know the design. But I'm sure it is not one where one bolt failing will cause the door to come off.

> If the manufacturer and/or the operator is not capable of making sure that all the bolts are always appropriately tightened, what is that claim actually worth?

The process also has to be redundant. One mechanic tightens the bolts, and an inspector checks it and signs off on it. If there are loose bolts shipped, then the inspector has some 'splaining to do.

> So from that we learn that failures can stack, just like like redundancies?

Zipper failures are not supposed to happen. Any crash is the result of an unexpected zipper failure. The whole airline system is extremely complex, and finding every potential zipper failure is nigh impossible, though everyone involved tries to anticipate every scenario. When a zipper failure happens, then each event in the zipper is corrected.

This is how airline travel, an inherently dangerous activity, has become so incredibly safe.
A lot of A380 development went into A350 and new techniques going in other planes.

Including 787, actually.
From the FAQ https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html

"Another kind of job ad is reserved for YC-funded startups. These appear on the front page, but are not stories: they have no vote arrows, points, or comments. They begin part-way down and fall steadily. Only one is on the front page at a time."

Reason is that comments on job posts are usually low-quality or better asked to the company directly (for example "do you allow remote work?")
Can you? Pull through cache is awesome but I have been leaning on harbor registry to implement it. Harbor is great but is a full featured registry application. Would be sweet if pull through can be quickly spun up ad hoc.
I could imagine a situation like, "I will be out all day and only return in the late evening - if I start the wash cycle when leaving, it will sit wet in the machine all day. But if I start it when I return, I will have to stay awake to put it in the dryer. I'd like to start it on a timer so the wash cycle finishes just as I return." But that's both pretty contrived and most non-smart washing machines can do that with a timer anyway.
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Some secondary reading, I've referred to FHS at times. It's the 'Filesystem Hierarchy Standard':

https://refspecs.linuxfoundation.org/FHS_3.0/fhs/index.html

They provide guidance on how a given filesystem path should be used.

This has informed the default SELinux policies greatly; familiarity turns hassle into informed assumptions/ease.
The odds are less than one in a thousand that they'll be next. They only have to be above the 0.1th percentile of Google employees.
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Sounds like what we took in the 90's. Doesn't sound like what was sold as acid in the 2000's, 2010's.
To be fair, if you make life decisions based on listicles on the website of a printer manufacturer, you might love living in Luxembourg. And if you're white, middle class, and hate having interesting experiences.

For everyone else there's Berlin, Lisbon, Prague, Milan, Copenhagen... Essentially every exquisite city in Europe is missing from the list.
> Equally, of course, I'm aware that my reaction to this passage also says something about my own conditioning.

All other issues aside, this sentence reveals a self awareness that I strive to achieve. I am saving this comment for inspiration, thank you.
They have four bolts. Two at the top and two at the bottom.
I can't find any information on how these are powered. Do they partly use current flow from coronal discharge? Or is it some long lasting battery?
I was doing constant things in my spare time until I had kids.

I mean, I still do, just not a lot of it involves learning something technical. Controlling a hoverboard motor is maybe the biggest hobby project I have, other than that its been MTB:ing, working out, and lately I got the genealogy bug. And I realized that for some reason I love that kind of work. I remember being 4 years old or so, and being fascinated with phone books! I mean really, really fascinated over all the names, and all the people they represented.
Latvia here, 256ms according to FF
It's been over 2 whole years since they removed the confederate stars and bars from the state flag, why always with the prying questions?
This works while there are four food chains and they all completely independently decide that prices should be a little higher.

Even without cooperation that isn’t allowed, let’s say 5Guys comes in and see that the market will bear higher prices. Why wouldn’t they take advantage of that?
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Why would we think the productivity of those resources would be higher for manufacturing?
I criticized the approach some in [0], after writing the BQN compiler in a similar style. Pioneering the array-based compiler paradigm is a major accomplishment, and if you did any programming with Aaron, you wouldn't question his ability. The Pareas compiler demonstrates that an APL-like language isn't required to do it though. And while the research may be applicable to other problems, I have serious doubts that it will be useful for speeding up optimizing compilers, which spend time on very different things than simple ones. Also possibly worth mentioning that Co-dfns still doesn't self-host, which I believe means it can't run on the GPU. I'm still unclear on what GPU program was timed in his thesis, a hand-translated version?

[0] https://mlochbaum.github.io/BQN/implementation/codfns.html#i...
What makes you think any lifeform from Earth will ever independently live on another planet, much less one orbiting a distant star? Goldilocks conditions appear to be rare, so far as we can see. And therefore very unlikely to be reached in any organism's lifetime.
I can’t do that either because the notifications pile up and cover the button.
> In contrast, Lynch's doesn't look anything like his other films.

Well because this was the only big budget film Lynch ever worked on and produced by none other than Dino De Laurentiis.

> beside that there is a sterility and cleanliness, a monotony in how the images are handled

Not sure what you're referring to. Maybe you're missing the analog feel of shooting in film? Dune 2021 was shot in digital (the newer digital Arri IMAX cameras) and Dune 1984 was shot in 35mm.

It's totally fine to not like digitally shot movies.
Well per their comment there is now such a cultural norm and it's ok to cuss out with your body language and attitude to treat customers as such. That worker does it to others per Facebook comments about that jersey mikes. 7 months later she is still there so just maybe this is the new norm ..not one that makes sense but Covid changed the game some to a lot.
And that's before AI really took off + their attempts to enter search and ad business + before they have started producing their own ARM chips enmasse.
Just for a bit of background, transmission companies want to know the temperature of transmission lines because the dynamic clearance of the line to the ground as the current heats the wire limits the max current. Surprisingly complex to model accurately as it is quite dynamic (sometimes the conductor is pinned with the insulator and it swings, or sometimes it can slip through, etc, etc).
Most important role is not letting managers attend points setting meetings IMO :D
Oh wow! I've been looking for something like this. Thank you.
I get significantly cheaper electricity at night ($0.12 vs > $0.50/kwh, stupid California). Being able to schedule saves money, not that WiFi is necessarily required.
I'm using podman-compose for my homelab, which is obviously fine.

But even for small-scale single-node production use cases, I suspect that podman-compose with systemd doesn't have the same concerns as docker-compose does. Since you're registering the workload with systemd, it'll restart with the node as easily as any other service, and rootless containers are a big win for security.

Where you can't keep using (podman|docker)-compose is when you have to scale up a service beyond a single node.
What convinced you to cross over to thinking it's not crazy?
Clickable Link: https://medium.com/educreation/my-journey-from-freelance-wri...
95% (number made up, but it won't be too far wrong) of abortions are not life or health of the mother, and are therefore not "killing in self defense". They aren't killing in war, either, which is the other "it's not murder" category. Killing another person for my convenience is not a right. It's murder.

So there's a real issue here, not just "strawman anti-abortionist" stuff. It's something that actual anti-abortionists believe. Not just a few, either.

You're not going to persuade them by telling them that "murder is a social construct". (In fact, that argument is completely off-point, because "legal" is a social construct, and the argument is whether abortion should be legal.)

And if you think that there is a right to killing that goes beyond self-defense, they're not likely to agree with you. (I'm pretty sure I don't, either, unless you can be more specific about what kind of right you think that is and why you think we have it.)
Agreed. Dune is essentially an exploration of Middle Eastern cultures, in which a peek into is something that could benefit Hollywood and their audiences, especially in modern times.
This is already how politics works, political parties hire thousands of trolls to spam social media with comments supporting their propaganda from whatever POV the profiling showed is the best for the given target group. This was measurably important in Trump election and in brexit.

LLMs might make it so cost-effective that social media will have noise-to-signal ratio of effectively 0.
> I'm not sure I understand how Alice could be unsure of her own readiness. If she's not ready, then she would have said "no, everybody is not ready to order."

You don't understand how someone can be unsure if they're ready? Have you never been kind of anxious or indecisive before? (The answer is definitely not "you're not ready until the anxiety and indecision are gone".)

> Because the riddle is "how did he [Bob] know?". We are told from the start that Bob is right, and asked to explain why.

There's a reason I said "in the real world".
How easy is it to grow an atmosphere on Mars? Either for the whole planet, or say for some 1km x 1km bubbles?
I think he had plenty of experience of Russian communism during the Spanish civil war, even if he never visited Russia.
I also wish private businesses would stop using the orange roadside signs to tell me how much money I can save by buying a trailer from them. They're distracting. It's normally important to read them because they normally contain important information on the road in front of you.
I think I need to rewatch it, so I am grateful to this thread for that!!
It’s like the difference between SpaceX Starship development and faster-than-light spaceship development.

We know that we can make a bigger reusable rocket, it’s just a matter of working out the details. We have no idea if FTL is even possible, let alone how.

I feel like AI is at the same point: technology demonstrators have proven that there is a way forward, now we just need oodles of computer power to make it happen.

Chat bots that can answer complex English questions used to be pure science fiction just a year ago!
Sometime in my late 40s I got really tired of learning the "next great thing" only to realize that some young developers had reinvented the wheel. Again.

Since then, I have learned new things, but not because they were "relevant" or "important", bit just because they were fun.

Python is a crappy language, and always has been. It's just a happy accident that the ML folks glommed in to it. Most frameworks suck, seriously, they are awful, victims of their own success.

Learn a clean, new language. Use it to solve AdventOfCode, just for fun. Get back to the fun in programming :-)
I want to make a few predictions for the next 10 years:

- Godot will win over indie devs and start to become feature-comparable with Unreal and Unity. By the end of the decade, fewer corporate projects will choose Unreal or Unity and instead opt for internal forks of Godot. This is repeating the same formula the Blender-ization of 3D software packages did.

- Non-C++ engines such as Bevy will start to grow a large base of their own and step into the realm that Godot once occupied. Lots of use by hobbyists, especially those wanting to dive into lower level pieces and wanting to avoid C++isms.

- Epic Games Store won't reach a significant fraction of Steam's user base.

- Growth of Unreal and Unity will stall.
When I was in college, the machines in my dorm building’s laundry room would send you an SMS when the cycle finished. It was super handy, and would be awesome to have if your home is multi-level (or the machine is tucked away where no one can hear it scream)
It can but:

- They by default don't.

- It's only semi officially supported. It requires non official tooling, through they link to that tooling officially in their doc. But issues specific to rootless docker seem to not be much of a priority.

- roots less docker sometimes has some slight issues, but mostly minor stuff

The fact that they can make it save to use, but do not, is a really huge red flag. And it's not the first time they didn't take security on linux not serious at all.

To clarify what I mean with "make it save", the docker user group allows easy gaining root light access, which is a huge security no-go. And the alternative is using sudo or similar all the time which also is a security no-go (if you e.g. have a dev system, it's okay for starting docker images as services, but then limitations with systemd integration make podman often a better choice here anyway). And while there are ways to make it work without a security no-go and the daemon the last time I checked they weren't out-of the box and in my opinion too brittle.

Now if you have a single user system you maintain yourself and have a single user+admin+sudo right user or similar maybe then you don't care about docker group or using sudo too often. But if it's a company managed system with reasonable security requirements it's an absolute no go.
I wrote a song for Frank Sinatra [video]
I'm really curious about the ethical/IP side of this. I didn't sample him, he didn't actually sing my song in RL. It seems a bit like sampling, but not really.

I'm planning to produce a whole album of original material sung by known artists. If by chance it becomes popular, am I going to get a dozen cease-and-desist letters? Will youtube and Spotify take it down?
Yes, agreed. I was lumping them together in my head. I think my point still stands that people often get into trouble without cell coverage and without access to a locator or sat phone or whatever, but likely have their regular cell phone with them.
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I agree it will also be impactful in the US. Just saying not in Antarctica, where all 50 annual visitors already have a sat phone
Yes, Zigbee is the way to go. But the point is there shouldn't be any internet involved. Using the internet protocol on wifi is the stupidest way to do this kind of stuff and leads to dumb crap like your washing machine phoning home.
Yeah, I eventually found that, but only after I finally stumbled upon someone referencing the feature in a GitHub issue.

The --help is fine documentation for the people who have already installed the tool, but it doesn't help people like OP who just want a simple way to run multiple containers as a systemd unit and don't yet know that podman-compose has a solution.

That's why I said "poorly documented" instead of "undocumented". It's there once you know where to look.
Ehh this type of thinking is reductive.

The primary issues are a combination of nature vs nurture. The age of argument, the solution has always been some combination of both.

But when you look at our western society over the past 60 years or so, you see that -fundamentally- the nurture part of the equation is being heavily influenced by capitalistic forces. For example, news used to be once a day, then 3 times a day, now 24/7/365. There isn't more news now than 100 years ago, so how do you feel all that time and how do you keep someone engaged? (If you have been paying attention, you know the answer is selling fear, sex, violence, and other negative emotions are traits of the human species.)

But really, the easiest way to counter this toxic mindset was said best by mister Rodgers: just look for the helpers. Look for the guys running into the fray when everyone else runs away... Those people are just as human as you or me... They are the true character of the human species. For we are a communal species that depends on one another, we always have, we aren't a bad species... We are just letting our man made systems bring out the worst.
It’s not a big deal. It’s just a useful piece of documentation.

I’m not heartbroken because of this gap, I’m just confused why they wouldn’t want to add these docs to help users.
Fusion is possible, we even live near a star doing it right now! But there are so many challenges that combine to make it impractical for us to do on Earth. Overcoming them could consume so many resources most of humanity is forced back into the stone age, before seeing any positive output.

Permanent, independent residence apart from Earth strikes me as a similar challenge.
If these devices are designed to upload "automatic diagnostic reports" to a central tracker, it's possible this machine is stuck in a failure state that is generating massive amounts of error logs.
Airport taxis in general (and probably at SFO) usually have a long FIFO queue just to get to that prime real estate. Not worth cutting a deal when they've had to waste an hour of their time.

And in a lot of places, an airport taxi doesn't have a taxi license in the city, so they're largely stuck in that system.