skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Or a competitor used the handy correction feature to mark the business closed?
Every single aircraft flies with inoperative parts and known issues deferred until the next maintenance period.
With the weird creepy dream-like nature of these little AI video gen samples, I'm perpetually disappointed that none of these papers ever include a "dreaming of electric sheep" prompt as an easter egg.
The White House has its own pharmacy–and, boy, was it shady under Trump
That's _your_ takeaway from the article?
Generally FAANG/etc. resignation packages seem to be a lot better even in the US than what would be legally required in most/all European countries.
I wonder how many of the samples from this demo video are authentic:

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2023/12/googl...
Anecdotally, I have seen decorative plates hanging on walls, spinning wheels, ships wheels, oil lamps, etc all used decoratively in contemporary settings.
Totally useless as a webapp.

More useful to me would be an UI for mysql_config_editor [1].

I should definitely make myself a TUI tool for it to go along my Go module for reading and writing ~/.mylogin.cnf [2].

[1]: https://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/8.0/en/mysql-config-editor....

[2]: https://pkg.go.dev/github.com/dolmen-go/mylogin
palworld: 4 millions licences, once. pokemon: ~ tens of millions copies at each pokemon game release.

I wonder if they will bother.
It's not that. It's the fact that Boeing is letting an Airline do this. So now what? Every Airline is going to send their team to check their own Max planes during production?

And if an Airline doesn't send a team to check on their plane, does that mean quality control is worse?
How does this normally work when a Korean business needs to downsize? Is there sort of a cultural understanding of the need and the employees sort out together which ones with accept the resignation offer? Five employees sounds like a really low limit and like an affected business could be quite small, so what happens if business slows down enough that not all 6 employees can be paid, but none of them want to go?

Are the rules different too when the business itself needs to close? Or do the 6 employees have some kind of opportunity to take over the business if they don't want to be terminated?

I'm really interested in understanding more about this model, because it's so different from the "at-will employment" that I'm used do, and used to seeing higher-ups in companies defend as the only workable way.
Given how bad the Benz Patent-Motorwagen was, I think the DIY/"open source" LLMs would count as equivalents of that, and that OpenAI, Stable Diffusion, and Midjourney (especially given their popularity and economic disruptiveness to buggy whip manufacturers/artists) are equivalents of the Model-T. Cars have become more efficient, comfortable and safe since then, but the utility is similar.

But I also think cars are a terrible analogy. Internal combustion engines collectively are probably more apt, and for that case: OpenAI's various models may well be the 1776 Watt steam engine — a basic useful tool that displaces manual labor, which has a direct influence in its own right, but which would also see categorical replacement several times over.
I mean it's not needless, it's for clicks and money.
Boeing is in bed with the DOD, this is never going to happen.
OBS Merges FFmpeg VA-API AV1 Support
Ask HN: Would anyone recommend GraphQL over REST for teams just starting up?
I'm working with a team building out our first MVP, which is a basic iOS App with about 12 screens. So far, we have built out REST APIs (about 15 APIs support our entire MVP). We are now moving toward building a v2, which is a significant change and we were wondering if we should consider GraphQL (with Hasura) instead of REST. Has anyone been in a similar situation and decided between these options? How did you make your decision? What were the parameters you evaluated?
There’s already a trial of CO2 capture at a trash burning facility in Oslo. I could see trash burning + CO2 capture becoming viable over time. Especially if that CO2 capture is paid for by carbon credits. (Yeah, reuse and recycle first, but eventually everything degrades and burning is in the end the best option , especially as modern processes lets us filter out heavy metals and toxic chemicals circulating in our materials)

I could also see e-fuels become competitive for larger remote islands that would otherwise import fuels. Could make them self sustaining. If they don’t go all-electric that is.

The jet fuels will be largely offset by battery electric flights IMO. Most miles flown are short range. It’s still a couple of decades out but I’m certain battery electric will be viable for short range flight eventually. The main challenge is designing the plane from the ground up to get the efficiency advantages of electric flight.

So I really don’t think we’ll end up needing all that much CO2. It’s basically fuel for a subset of planes and ships, and feedstock for some chemicals. That’s a minor part of the oil/gas usage and CO2 emissions today.
Yes, but AMD was only able to push AMD64 as an Itanium alternative for servers because they were having something of a renaissance with Opteron (2003 launch). In 2000/2001, AMD was absolutely not seen as something any serious server maker would choose over Intel.
Read the article ! As it says : "We explain these concepts below."
The Guardian boosting the public school-educated son of a neoliberal economist and supporter of eugenics, whose most lasting achievements seem to be artisanal coffee, cheese, and cosmetics empires that serve very comfortable middle class people, is the most Guardian thing ever.
Actually have they collapsed ? The Germanic king actually follow Roman rule practices. Strange argument I knew. Especially after the famous history of the fall of the Roman Empire.
The negative comments here shock me. This is the most amazing text-to-video we've ever seen, by a longshot. It's good enough for many uses. Absolutely mindblowing. Great job to the people who worked on this.
It’s got a lot of details wrong… it took us five real years (plus one fake pandemic one) to visit every nook and cranny, and they’ve implied things are navigable that sure as heck aren’t — just try and get on the Dee from Chester without a crane except in a lethally high flood, the lock was disassembled years ago — and unnavigable that definitely are (it’s got the Manchester Ship Canal on there, but not the Mersey we crossed to get to it).
It's no surprise, just speak to some of the pilots and they'll tell you all sorts of stories.
Wow, even adjusted for inflation that's like £40k. You'd be struggling to find a warehouse anywhere near central for £4M these days.
A popular move with ai / ml folks: Use GitHub to publish information about a thing that is not open. Then "It's on GitHub".
I mean, yes! Games are on the opposite end of the spectrum, where uncompressed assets fly around and 100 MB sounds like very small. These are what I refer to "low-hanging fruits"---I expect a moderate effort can halve the total size for most cases. (I did work on asset file formats back when I was a gamedev.) 400 KB executable is not really a big deal compared to that.
I love this because it combines my favourite things! Nice work. Can you share what your income is from the sites combined roughly? Is this your side job or is it your main income now?
Or you know, assess people fairly face to face.
Not sure how relevant this is as not really my field, but possibly interesting! 'A feature selection method based on the Golden Jackal-Grey Wolf Hybrid Optimization Algorithm' https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal...
US just turned "bad" racism into "good" racism. They turned "bad" discrimination into "good" discrimination.
So you don't do pair programming and you don't have some testing/quality assurance process in place?
Behaviour Driven Development in Ruby with RSpec
as in, fewer people will have to take care of more work (for same pay) means more $$$ for the company
Yes, that is the best time to build a GraphQL API. It will save you many hours later. Like it or not, eventually if you are building a mobile app, you will move to GraphQL eventually. It's a massive pain to do it when you have everything running.
GraphQL will save you from embarrassing errors on the client and improve performance for sure. My recommendation is — Build API and expose them using REST or GRPC. Use a solution like https://tailcall.run/ to create a GraphQL facade on top of it for your clients to consume.
please read my reply again, I was talking about AI companies (e.g. openai) are going to build their own vector database when there have a large enough team.

for your question, google built spanner (that was like 12 years ago) and leveldb when it had about 30k people. Meta/facebook forked leveldb and started building rocksdb when they had less than 30k people.

no one is saying any banking, insurance, retail companies with 30k employees should be building their own databases/search engines. They shouldn't. That is actually my main argument - those companies shouldn't get too involved for infra like that, they should just take the offerings of the big tech companies.
A little off topic maybe, but you could visit Fossdem in Brussels: https://fosdem.org/2024/

It has about 50k attendees each year interested in, working with and/or maintaining foss!
Indeed. Exactly.
Here's the thing about business models in this domain: You don't win by generality or working for as many tasks as possible. You win by being the best at something.

I will pick the best tool for the job I'm doing, be that writing product descriptions, conversational agent, or tech support. Runner-up has a chance -- for example, by lowering margins, or simply by being subsidized by investors in hopes of moving into #1.

However, the difference between "unusable" and "fourth-best" is negligible in terms of business returns. I won't pick your product.

There isn't a snowball's chance of "safe AI" being #1, or even #5, for what you want to use it for. It might as well be unusable. It needs to be #1 in the niche it's targeting.

(The above isn't universal; there are places where bundling many types of functionality has synergy; this just isn't one of them).
Forgive me for my ignorance, but I understand that the only bolts which have been checked are those which secure door plugs. The checks have found that in many cases they are not tightened to spec.

I imagine there are hundreds of thousands if not millions of bolts on an airliner. How is it that the industry has confidence in the rest of them, and that the investigations are limited to the plug door bolts?
I don't think you need an engineer as CEO for that. Might on the margins help but other things such as ability to change processes or reporting lines might matter more.

If you want cultural change you need a CEO that wants that and knows how to get there - which is not an engineering problem.
> ChatGPT cannot do any of this. All it can do, is spit out text that it deems probable to belong to previous text it already generated. This is based on probability, but it completely lacks a reasoning part and a feedback loop.

50% of the time, if you give it source code and an error, it can fix the source code and tell you why. The other half I still get paid for.

> Show me a prompt that produces either one.

K, if I remember by the time I've done the higher priority things, I'll send you a repo with as much of it as I can be arsed to ask for to prove the point, along with the share link to the chat session.
Just admit your unfounded and incorrect conspiracy theories are complete nonsense and move on. It’s not a crazy thing to admit.
How Google Weaponizes "Diversity" to Silence Palestinians (2022)
Archived: https://web.archive.org/web/20231122081402/https://medium.co...
Now you rarely use basic MapReduce primitives, you have another layer of abstraction that can run on infrastructure that was running MR jobs before. This infrastructure allows to efficiently allocate some compute resources for "long" running tasks in a large cluster with respect to memory/cpu/network and other constraints. So basically schedulers of MapReduce jobs and cluster management tools became that good, because MR methodology had trivial abstractions, but required efficient implementation to make it work seamlessly.

Abstraction layers on top of this infrastructure now can optimize pipeline as a whole by merging several steps into one when possible, add combiners(partial reduce before shuffle). It requires whole processing pipeline to be defined in more specific operations. Some of them propose to use SQL to formulate task, but it can be done using other primitives. And given this pipeline it is easy to implement optimizations making whole system much more user-friendly and efficient compared to MapReduce, when user has to think about all the optimizations and implement them inside single map/reduce/(combine) operations.
Imagine if doctor did some operation from first result in google search. Without verifying that it is correct one or even presented correctly. Should they not lose their medical license?

Using LLM to produce document and then not verifying each part is wilful negligence. Either they do not care to do right thing. Or they are too ignorant. In both cases disbarring seems reasonable. They can always go to fast food or something after it.
Il popolare marketplace online Ebay ha annunciato un significativo taglio di personale con l'eliminazione di 1.000 posti di lavoro, rappresentanti il 9% della sua forza lavoro. L'obiettivo è posizionare l'azienda per una crescita sostenibile a lungo termine, rispondendo alle sfide del cambiamento economico globale.

Oltre ai tagli nella forza lavoro principale, Ebay prevede di ridurre i contratti con la sua "forza lavoro alternativa" nei prossimi mesi, adattandosi alle mutevoli condizioni del mercato.

Jamie Iannone, CEO di Ebay, ha dichiarato: "Nonostante le pressioni esterne, come l'ambiente macroeconomico sfidante, stiamo attuando cambiamenti organizzativi per migliorare l'esperienza complessiva e soddisfare meglio le esigenze dei clienti in tutto il mondo."

In un'ottica di trasparenza, Ebay ha chiesto ai dipendenti statunitensi di lavorare da casa il 24 gennaio per facilitare le comunicazioni tramite Zoom. Per coloro coinvolti, l'azienda ha promesso un processo di consultazione, ma i dettagli restano al momento limitati.

Il contesto economico globale, caratterizzato da inflazione e aumenti dei tassi di interesse, ha reso necessari questi tagli, con Ebay che si allinea ad altre aziende tech che cercano di adattarsi alle nuove condizioni del mercato.
> Alaska Airlines doesn't trust Boeing enough

They don't trust Boeing enough or their customers don't trust Boeing enough and it's a PR measure to calm the passengers' nerves. Could also be a bit of both.
The justice system doesn't really depend on free will. If the threat of punishment deterministicly alters the behavior of society in a productive way, then this justifies it.
A lot of current AI techniques are making people reevaluate their perspectives on free speech.

We seem to value freedom of speech (and expression) only to a tipping point that it begins to invade other aspects of life. So far the noise and rate has been low enough people at large support free speech but newer information techniques are making it possible to generate a lot more realistic noise (faux signal, if you will) at higher rates (it’s becoming cheaper and easier to do and scale).

So while you certainly have a point I mostly agree with, we’re letting private entities policies dictate the limitations of expression, at least for the time being (until someone comes along and makes these widely available for free or cheap without such ethical policies). It does go to show just how much sway industries have on markets through their policies with no public oversight, which to me is concerning.
Or 2037.
They never once mentioned the word Boeing. Every news article about the incident mentions the plane type, but not this skit.

The plane in the green screen backdrop at the terminal isn't even a 737. The side windows on the cockpit of a 737 are lower than the front, on an A320 they're in a straight line like in the skit. I'm pretty sure that's an A320.

Maybe the SNL lawyers were scared of getting sued and vetoed earlier scripts, or maybe they got paid off, or maybe my wife is right and I'm just a skeptic, but that seems suspicious.
There's presumably clauses in the contract that let Alaska cancel orders due to issues like this; especially now that the FAA and NTSB is involved.

Boeing might be willing to let airlines do things they won't normally consider, to try and save these orders.
As someone who doesn't know anything about aviation: is this really as bad as it sounds, or it's getting overblown?
It makes sense to Boeing. They now have a path to externalizing QA costs to the airlines.
At-home determination of 24h urine sodium excretion with chloride test strips
Thinking more of a scientific comparison with metrics. Definitely looks interesting overall, appreciate you sharing this library as open source.
Ask HN: Why is it even possible to downvote a comment on HN without elaborating?
I think most of us has been downvoted here at some point. Why not make it impossible to downvote something without actually telling you why ?

When you craft a serious comment and someone deems it "downvotable" it leaves you looking like a questionmark.

Otherwise flag a comment if it is found useless, but who is in a position to even decide that ?

It's not good enough!
We distribute displaying enabled docks. The UD22 just works.
in the past, this was because firefox was very dynamic loadable (i.e. not keeping everything it needed in memory) so when you updated, you were overwriting data that it depended on.

I argued that this was a positive reason for snap (updating the image behind the scenes and only getting the new version when you restart). However, snap designers (in my not so humble opinion) missed the boat (to put it politely), as one can only upgrade a snap image when the application is not running. So one has to exit, update, wait, restart. This is missing one of the primary benefits of container based delivery for desktop applications.
> Apparently, these stuffed critters learn from nearby speech patterns. That would definitely be a security concern."

Haha. So Alexa, Siri and Google are not "security comcerns". Only the "stuffed critters". /s
That is the weird part. My explorer.exe patch to disable flashing taskbar buttons was functioning with Microsoft Defender turned on for the whole lifetime of Windows 10 I used it. I didn't even need a UAC prompt to patch the memory. Nothing detects it, even though it goes and adds assembly instructions to three locations in the memory with WriteProcessMemory etc. It's not working by injecting DLL, it just modifies the running explorer.exe process memory so it will not modify files.

You can see the code here: https://github.com/Ciantic/DisableFlashingTaskbarButtons/tre... (there was also C version but I changed it to AHK)
Jamsocket (YC W22) is hiring a senior Rust systems engineer (NYC/remote)
how hard it would be to get from squeak a minimum subset of objects required for basic repl (excluding graphics and sound) for bootstrapping?
Did you mean "literate"?
Not necessarily. The moment these issues hit critical systems you'll see a change. DoD officials have already sounded the alarm on monopoly in general:

https://www.defenseone.com/business/2021/02/hicks-warns-agai...
The Doomsday clock is just a bunch of (mostly) old men flipping hands on a clock based on nothing but their gut, and attracting a lot of attention.

It is a total and complete embarrassment.
We will see the first feature length AI generated movie this year. If you think I’m crazy then consider that even way back at the dawn of cinema the average shot length was 12 seconds and today it is only 2.5 seconds.

There are a few important techniques to be refined such as keeping consistent subjects between generations but I could see many inconsistencies being made up for by applying existing methods such as separating the layers based on depth allowing more static images to be used or creating simple 3D models with textures where more depth is needed. With enough effort and skill someone could probably do it with existing technologies.
"The clock's original setting in 1947 was seven minutes to midnight. It has since been set backward eight times and forward 17 times. The farthest time from midnight was 17 minutes in 1991, and the nearest is 90 seconds, set on January 24, 2023."

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

I think 1947 was significantly more perilous than 2024. 1949 when the USSR under Stalin tested their first atomic bomb the clock was set to only 3 minutes to midnight. When populations are scared, they become irrational. Look at all the laws that were passed after 9/11. I'm glad people are starting to become immune to this sort of thing.

Unfortunately for them, this particular fear mongering mechanism has a numerical limit. In a few years it will be 0.05 seconds to midnight, then 0.005 SECONDS TO MIDNIGHT!!
I don't have a horse in this race, but a programming language that prides itself on "zero-cost abstractions" and then generates a Hello World program that is 90% wasted space doesn't leave a great impression.
As someone with two and a half -- yes, and a half -- felonies for computer trespass from when I was in highschool, at 17, freshly 17, in 2003...I feel for you. Longer story, obviously. But no one knew how to deal with the situation, so "Something has to be done!"

In the words of Governor William J La Petomane, one of Mel Brooks' characters from Blazing Saddles, "We have to keep our phony baloney jobs gentlemen!"
Boeing can’t even torque bolts correctly?! What on earth has happened?
Both. The risk to an individual passenger on an individual plane is overblown. The cultural changes at Boeing that led to a decrease in quality control that increased risk to all passengers on all planes is not overblown, and will take years and years to remedy.

Their reputation (and by proxy, United States’ manufacturing since Boeing planes are one of the most publicly known American products) will not recover for decades I think.
Was it sarcasm? You'd be surprised. Some people love complexity for the sake of complexity.
Perhaps it's changed since, but the one in top-level comment here is the same as what's actually in the OP, does it need to be combined with anything?

I understand not liking 'the forgotten genius' (tell me who) but personally I think 'changed British food' is more interesting (and what the article is actually mostly about) than 'Alternative London', which coming to the article I don't know what means, as a Briton who lived in London for almost ten years.
What negative comments?
That doesn't mean you have to block the merge to main. You can do code reviews on the trunk, you can do it on already merged PRs and you can block on the PR until the code review is done. The latter brings a lot of downsides, which we as developers seem to be taking for granted. It looks like developers can't even imagine not working with Github style pull requests.

It depends on your project, but i prefer having a coherent view on all changes on one branch, instead of 20 branches and one outdated trunk.
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Why not justify an upvote?
This reminds me of 12 years ago at NY Tech Meetup when some whartonites debuted a carbon credit marketplace and the first audience question was “is this a scam?”
The kind of person that needs a tool to give them a single command line probably would :)
Engineer's Hardware Is Inspired by the Brain
At least put a disclaimer that it's YOUR SaaS you're recommending.
The goverment might try to give Boeing back from McDonnel/Chicago to Boeing. As it should have happened years ago already. It's critical infrastructure for them.