skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
More fundamentally they ought to go back in time and change it so instead of making the 787 they made a 737 replacement.

The trouble w/ the 737 MAX is not just that it is dangerous but it is inferior in every other way. It's deafeningly loud in the cabin and for people on the ground and even louder in the cockpit. The 737 needs more runway than other airliners that have 4x the passengers: when you read that "airliners can't take off in Arizona because temperatures are too high" it really is "737s can't take off..."

If you rode in one of these

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embraer_E-Jet_family

you'd learn that "widebody comfort in a regional airliner" isn't just a marketing slogan but something you can experience. The reason why your neck locks up just thinking about riding in a 737 is that the 737 has a human-hostile circular cross section that was the best they could do in 1967 but even a much smaller 2004 airliner feels huge on the inside in comparison... And the E-Jet itself has been superseded by the E2-Jet and A220. In a better world somebody would start a new airline based on the Southwest playbook that entirely uses modern jets and once you tried it you'd have a very hard time ever flying in a 737 or A320 ever again.

People don't realize what a technological backwater domestic aviation has become: instead of upgrading technology they keep making excuses for deficiencies like https://www.alpa.org/resources/aircraft-operations-radar-alt... and https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/2023/10/1... because there is so much regulatory capture. As it is Boeing probably imagines it is going to be making a starship for NASA in 2070 but to still keep making the 737.
Just because it's not literally "total war", does not make it limited in scope.
How do I wash this textile?
In general software developers are already highly (or completely) dependent on permissively licensed open source software; this would at its worst produce more of it no?
The thought of fining or even jailing the homeless just for being homeless scares me. It's a more like criminalizing the poor and it would be a total waste of taxpayers money.
The author also published [1] an email he wrote at the beginning of his tenure. It is amazing how alien and out of place early Google sounds in today's corporate environment. They have completely eroded the perception that Google is this kind of place:

> Google is the opposite: it's like a giant grad-school. Half the programmers have PhD's, and everyone treats the place like a giant research playground [...] Every once in a while, a manager skims over the bubbling activity, looking for products to "reap" from the creative harvest. The programmers completely drive the company, it's really amazing. I kept waiting for people to walk up to me and ask me if I had declared my major yet. They not only encourage personal experimentation and innovation, they demand it. Every programmer is required to spend 20% of their time working on random personal projects. If you get overloaded by a crisis, then that 20% personal time accrues anyway. Nearly every Google technology you know (maps, earth, gmail) started out as somebody's 20% project, I think.

Even if this was only half-true back then, there's very little you could do to convince me that it's true at all now. This culture and the public perception of it has been squandered.

[1]: https://social.clawhammer.net/blog/posts/2005-09-25-FirstWee...
It's more like two committees in fact.

There's the not-quite-randomly-selected people who interview you, and write feedback. Then there's the completely separate set of people on the hiring committee who make a decision reading the feedback and other stuff (referrals, resume, etc). The latter group doesn't talk to the former group though, just the written feedback.
I didn't even notice the difference in printing quality on that part of the ball, I just assumed it was part of the normal variation for such things and didn't think it had any meaning beyond that.

However that being said I think the analysis in the original article is probably as valid and likely more so than mine; I was having fun trying to bullshit-lawyer what was clearly the consequence of a hasty mistake into the work of over-thought intent.
There are over 1000 of them in service

https://simpleflying.com/boeing-737-max-airlines/

The OP post gets a bit ranty or biased at times, especially at the end
It's actually modeled very closely after Vulkan, but I couldn't think of a clever re-wording that would fit that and "Fury" together. I would have taken Vulkan's API as-is, but the hardware itself is fixed-function and does not support shaders, which Vulkan's API takes for granted; if you've seen Vulkan applications, it's nearly identical except that the pipelines do not include shaders. The way Vulkan (and D3D12) build and submit command buffers very closely matches how the hardware actually works, so it felt like a good fit.

If the hardware were ever to support actual shaders, I would be writing a full D3D-driver stack for it as Windows would then be able to utilize the GPU as a "real" GPU, rather than as just a display controller. As things are now, Windows has no idea that the device can do anything other than display a pre-composited desktop. When an application wants to utilize its 3D rendering capabilities, the driver actually does a mode swap similar to how the old Voodoo cards used to work - the OS still thinks it's rendering the desktop, but the hardware is actually displaying the application's content.
To be pedantic, that wasn't an insinuation, it was an accusation. I also believe it is a false accusation, since Apple has many happy customers and employees on HN, but he is within the letter of the law.
A year ago LA voted to end phase out oil extraction by 2045.
Wheezy stuck in my mind. Good to finally know how it came to be! Funny that Wheezy is a penguin!
Because parity of expected returns is achieved roughly when interest rates remain roughly proportional along the risk curve, and of course subprime loans are particularly sensitive to repayment risk as rates go up, it's absolutely possible to get priced out of payday loans.

At the level of individual lenders, this looks more like all institutions shifting slightly toward lower-risk lending across the board than any individual lender choosing to buy t-bills instead of making payday loans. But then again, that's exactly what "maintaining higher capitalized operating reserves" means.
Sovereign-Wealth Giant Pursues Goldman Sachs, KPMG and Others over SVB Collapse
I think the main feature that's exciting for me is the gpgpu potential.
Even just looking at the ability to accelerate llms in the browser on any device without an installation is awesome

For example: fleetwood.dev has a really cool project that does audio transcription in browser on the GPU: https://whisper-turbo.com/#
I see. That's what I would have thought so I was scratching my head; that lack of sandboxing would turn all browsers into horrible attack vehicles, rendering botnets obsolete.
The article links to their source, which has a before and after screenshot: https://mspoweruser.com/google-updates-chrome-incognito-disc...
Venture capital's failure to address this flaw in the past 3 decades has basically soured everyone - the fact that it's a great tool for handling high risk endeavors, and also happens to be an even better tool for finding and establishing monopoly. There's a very big blurry zone between the first check in the startup and the last check before IPO where this goal becomes more and more explicit. And eventually it gets to a point where it's like cancer, where monopoly only exists to ensure its own existence and starts to suffocate everything else around it.
Vector clocks give a partial ordering. FDB version stamps give a total ordering by having a single process issue them for the entire cluster. There's a good breakdown here: https://blog.the-pans.com/notes-on-the-foundationdb-paper/
> I would not want a LLM telling me that guns are useful for self defence because from my cultural perspective they are not and owning a gun for self defence is actually a serious crime.

> Likewise I would not expect that perspective to work for many Americans. If you live in the middle of nowhere and there's no police for miles around, then owning a gun for self defence seems like an important right to have. It's just not a right that is applicable to my cultural circumstances.

I find this line of thinking to be exceptionally fascinating especially when taking into account the macro and micro political divisions around the world. While there are a number of things where so far we don’t have enough data to come to strong definitive conclusions, there are lots of culturally-incompatible facts that I would much rather an ML tell me the truth about rather than pandering to some set of values that it has inferred about me or my culture.

To your example, both you and many of the general patrol police officers are legally prohibited from carrying a firearm, yet the Prime Minister’s protection detail does carry firearms. They do that because factually a firearm is an effective tool for self-protection and neutralizing threats. If that wasn’t the case, militaries wouldn’t likely use them!

One of the things that worries me about today and the future is that values are frequently presented as facts, even if the values run counter to the evidence. This happens broadly across the political spectrum and seeing that tools like ChatGPT are going to start reinforcing that makes me worry that the problem is going to get worse.
The distinction between “seeing” code and “reading” it is right on point.
https://developer.apple.com/support/storekit-external-entitl...

And there is more to this issue than people realise.

Apple has had major lawsuits over the years [1] due to kids racking up large credit card bills via in-app purchases. And similar concerns exist for gambling apps. So this explains why they need to show such a large warning because they don't want to be held responsible for actions of a third party. Which is fine because most companies do this.

It will also likely be their argument (whether it's true or not) about why they won't allow developers like Epic to offer a third party, one-click, in-app purchasing system and instead force users to go to the home page and take deliberate actions to buy the product.

[1] https://appleinsider.com/articles/14/01/15/apple-settles-app...
Is it not? Honestly, it wouldn’t help, but ranting at the impersonal machine that is Google (or big tech) would certainly make me feel better.
there's a threshold you reach where it becomes necessary to externalise parts of your brain.

Sounds really dumb but the way your mind works (or at least mine does) is that "meetings" are heavy and contextual.

Similar to how you can't read a single byte of memory, trying to think of when a meeting starts will cause me to "load" a large amount of information about the meeting.

Fine to do this for a handful of meetings but when you have 5+ per day, it becomes difficult to do anything else.

Calendars suddenly become really convenient, it's very quick to make an entry and then "there is time", "I wont forget about it" and "everything has its time, or it will conflict and it will be immediately visible".

Unironically I book focus time and time to read books too.

But this is since I became CTO, and I have partially diagnosed ADHD (unmedicated) so I've been using structure to keep me sane.
What about that image is a smoking gun?
I get why they changed it, but they could have come up with something better than a horned yoga ball to replace it with.
What can a bone-stock (16GB) M2Pro Mini do? Would it be correct to assume this takes 8x longer (on account of 1/4 memory and 1/2 GPU), or is training not even possible?
Case in point: the situationally inapporpriate emotional outburst indicative of damaged prefrontal control of emotions. You're life must be hell. Here's to getting some help.
You called me out for strawmanning, used the most extreme and atypical person you could think of in your argument (Alex Jones) in a way that only tenuously makes sense, while simultaneously admitting that your example is extreme?

Maybe you should have replied with a third attempt at something coherent. Third times the charm, as they say
> Steam does not do this.

It feels like this comparison only holds for the Steamdeck where Valve would have comparable control and you are staying within their offering/hardware regardless. There is of course no sensible equivalent for the desktop client which sees like 99% of the usage. A better comparison might be regular video game consoles which allow none of this.
If that option is important to you, why deeply embed yourself in an ecosystem that doesn't have it when others exist?
> that App Store policies forbid

Yeah...

That's the inconsistency I always bring up. One could argue Apple's massive cut and anti-competitive practices make sense if the App Store was some kind of idyllic garden, or even had the mediocre signal/noise ratio of Steam, but it absolutely is not and does not.
Is the typical pipeline homeless-to-opioid?

I’m asking because as a teenager I lived in motels and homeless with pill-mill turned heroin addict parents and my anecdotal experiences with the broader transient public suggest a downward spiral involving substances first.
> I always wonder why people argue about things like pronouns and immigration when a bigger issue seems to be the wealth gap.

Immigration is very much an economic issue and discussing it is absolutely reasonable and shouldn't be automatically painted as racism or a social issue (even if it is a social issue to some very loud people!). Guess who absolutely loves cheap labour?!

> someone who has an engineering mindset and prioritizes how to get common things done

Iran had a president who studied engineering and that wasn't awesome depending on your point of view. It's also really hard to get things done in the states regardless of your mindset in politics today.
> This is two big corporations arguing over which one makes more profit from you.

This slightly oversimplifies the situation, as Apple's policy is pretty clearly anti-competitive and, more importantly, anti-developer. As a developer, you have to bump your prices because of the Apple tax.

(And even as a consumer, prices are pushed up. Let's say you want to sell X for $10; too bad: you now have to sell it for $12 if you sell it in your Apple app to make up the difference. The consumer obviously eats that premium.)
I would guess a year or so, just because it takes a long time for law enforcement to put a case together and bring it to trial.
> I'm not sure why they feel so emboldened

Because they feel like they own the relationship between the user and the developer by virtue of it happening on a device they made, regardless of how much their contribution, if any, was to the formation of that relationship in the first place.
> According to AAA, the average cost of owning a new car is $12k per year

You're not forced to pay the average if saving money is important. My primary driver costs me ~2K a year total.

> All costs totaled, living in NYC isn't strictly more expensive than living in a suburb.

As someone who beat my head against the wall of trying to afford to live in NYC for several years and eventually gave up and moved to the suburbs, I assure you it's far cheaper to live in the suburbs.

(Sure, there are exclusive luxury suburbs that'll cost as much as living in NYC but you wouldn't move to those if affordability matters.)
Huge thread a day ago: "US developers can offer non-app store purchasing, Apple still collect commission" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39020365
With certain things like being laid off, being able to tap the sign is a lot nicer than relitigating something a couple of dozen times, which can be stressful.
Ok but the other three refineries in the Bay Area are not adjacent to low-income areas (I live next to one!). So what exactly is your point?
What a sad and cynical worldview. The idea that all technology, medicine, an innovation adds nothing to the betterment of The Human Condition. The idea that the only way Society can or has ever been improved is by stealing from others is laughable. I've never met anyone else that thought feeling and exploitation was a net positive for Global Society, so at least it's an interesting idea, even if I venementally disagree

If that's the case then plundering is a net positive, and the cause of every Improvement in the world. It should be in celebrated and encouraged
Saving Lives and Making a Killing (2023)
Fun fact about the sequel, it comes with a sticker that says "kids" that can optionally be used to cover up the Babies label, for those children who'd refuse to pick up anything that is targeted at babies :)
https://archive.ph/jk49B
U-boat nowadays is used almost exclusively for WW2 era German submarines
I'd also add that the homeless are often victims of abuse with pretty much no societal support. Several homeless people were murdered here and it was basically a "what are you gonna do about it?".

For good reason, many homeless also don't trust cops as they are just as likely to abuse or harass them as anyone else.

Channel 5s recent discussion on this is something everyone should watch to get a good picture of what they are dealing with.
Einstein was deeply concerned with Newton's bucket, correspondence over it is mentioned many times in Isaacson's biography of him but I don't remember the resolutions he came to or if it was prior to general relativity.
Well, it is limited in scope and they literally stated their territorial objectives when they set out. Full scale is mobilizing your entire economy towards the war effort and calling up millions. And it’s taking out the opposing sides military and civilian leadership and all of their critical infrastructure. That’s full scale. I really hope we don’t see full scale.
I'm not a fan of the Fed, but they've basically got one tool at their disposal - interest rates - and a mandate to, roughly, keep the wheels on the economy*. I think that since at least 2008 that's been the wrong tool for the job, but all the other tools are held by Congress, which basically refused to do anything useful for the economy out of principle. It's absolutely the case that lowering interest rates wasn't the best policy for the last decade+, and it's also the case that the Fed was the only entity actually trying to do anything, so interest rates is what we got.

* The Fed's got a mandate for price stability and employment, but broadly speaking the social expectation is that they're keeping the economy afloat, and I expect that's how they view themselves as well. I'm not arguing they're doing a good job or that that's what they should do, but I think that's the broadly-held view of their role.
Apple's hardware is unmatched unfortunately.
The methods section of the paper describes the training data generation as well as the model settings: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-023-06747-5#Sec16
It probably was an I, before the axe was used on it.
He’s on HN too I think. His mouth controlled sustain pedal was also really really cool.

Easily the most interesting channel on youtube.
Sounds like the story about there being no devs to hire without mentioning that they want the best for predefined salary bands. Those who would meet the hiring standard find the salary doesn't meet their standard.
And reading up after this comment led to me learning some people make a distinction that latches are level triggered and flip-flops are edge triggered.

I think I remember my digital logic professor using both. I don't recall there ever being a clear cut distinction like edge vs level set being made though. I wish I still had my notes.
Human-level AI will radically change everything, and superhuman AI would probably come right after, so he’s using his own definition of “change” here.

A virtual human that doesn’t need a salary? Doesn’t need breaks? Can work 24/7 at superhuman speed? Can multitask with ruthless efficiency?

That…would change the world much less than we think?

Intelligence as a bottleneck will be eliminated overnight, simultaneously, in all domains.

But sure, some things that we don’t like such as conflict and greed will still be around, and hence things will change less than expected if that’s what you’re hoping will vanish.
Amazing everyone loves free market capitalism when it comes to taking fees for their SAAS. But when someone else takes a cut after providing the platform which is optional to join or utilise in the first place, that’s not fair and everyone wants the regulators in.

As an end user I really don’t want to buy from anywhere other than the App Store or pay a subscription through anything else. Why? Because prior to it existing it was more difficult to cancel subs than a hooky porn site.

The tech industry are two faced hypocrites. And attention seekers.

You don’t have to play in the market. It’s not like there aren’t other ones. Innovate. Create a new market. That’s what you keep telling us you do.
There's also Andy Rubin. I think the difference is that Jobs and Gates are such huge cultural icons that we already know about their misdeeds- and in Gates' case he has become a new type of supervillain for a new generation- while Lasseter's are less known.
This is unfortunately very true.

Example:

At my work place we were made aware of some instability issues and the first place to look is of course the logs. It had apparently been happening for a while, but the most important parts of the system were not affected noticeably. This was early morning and we didn't have much traffic.

We noticed a lot of network connection errors for SQS, so one of the team members started blaming Amazon.

My response was that if SQS had these instabilities, we would have noticed posts on HN or downtime on other sites. The developer ignored this and jumped into the code to add toggles and debug log messages.

I spent 2 more minutes and found other cases where we had connection issues to different services. I concluded that the reason why we saw so many SQS errors was because it is called much more frequently.

The other developer pushed changes to prod which caused even more problems, because now the service could not even connect to the database.

He wrongly assumed that the older versions of the service, which was still running, was holding on to the connections and killed them in order to make room for his new version. We went from a system with instabilities, to a system that was down.

The reason was a network error that was fixed by someone in the ops team.