skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>Also, the kind of issues we are seeing do not point out to any short term profiteering.

They cut 900 QA jobs, I bet this was doen for short term profits and I bet is realted with the issues we see.
https://eu.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2019/05/06/boeing-...
This comment doesn’t make any sense. Installing a deb file is done with apt, what are you actually referring to when you say “apt-get install”?
> And then wait minutes for things to start up, even if things reopen to their prior state perfectly. As compared to seconds to lock/unlock.

The price of security is always wasted time.

> The majority of scenarios, none of those folks are able to do much to a locked machine without powering it off

But they are able to unlock it if they saw you unlock it yesterday.

If you have an encrypted hard drive and the key is in a usb you carry with you, they can't do anything.
Here in Germany we only have flat fines for standard traffic infractions. If you make it all the way into crime territory we have the concept of Tagessätze (lit. day fines). The court sentences you to X amount of Tagessätze. The actual fine per day is determined based on your income, usually equal to the amount you make after taxes per day. The judge is free to either estimate your income or can require you to declare it.
True. Honestly they should have taken the second bet in the 2010s and come up with a clean sheet 737 successor. It would have been bold, but the company would have been in far better shape today
IMHO this type of rapport traces back to playing "The Dozens" although many who participate do not consciously know this.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dozens_(game)
I separate Boeing the business entity from the private capital that receives the cash.
The way to fight this has been out there since before most of these companies and products have existed – use FOSS. If you want more convenience and polish then just remember that you are trading it for privacy and autonomy. There is no middle option.
> an operator is often too much freedom

While that is true I'm a bit afraid that we might be overselling the concept of limiting freedom past a certain point. Limiting freedom has the upside of giving us some guarantees that makes a solution easier to reason about. But once we step out of dumb-yaml I don't see that making additional intermediate trade-offs is worth it. And there are apparently some downsides to introducing additional layers as well.

The main downside of limiting freedom seems to be the chaos of having so many different ways to do things. Imagine what could happen if we agreed that there are two ways of doing things; write yaml without templates or write an operator. Then maybe we could focus efforts on the problem of writing maintainable operators.

Things should be either dumb data or the kitchen sink I think.
What is the real impact on companies that suffer breaches like the ones in that list?

Does it really hurt them? Does even the reputation produce any hit on them?
There's plenty of choice for _small_ planes; it's really 737-size and up where it's a choice of two manufacturers.
It's a software issue, but many routers are sold as appliances where the average user does not choose what OS to run. Therefore, a common recommended solution to bufferbloat is to replace the router with one whose software has more modern buffer management algorithms.

OpenWRT, for example, can be flashed on many older routers and will be able to solve bufferbloat without replacing the hardware.
1. Distancing themselves from Boeing

2. Managing fallout from obvious losses from groundings

3. Showing investors that they can continue without Boeing should it regress further.

4. Kicking off bidding war between Boeing and Airbus. Boeing will give them an insanely good deal, especially if they announce their PO soon. Airbus is obviously also very keen on getting a foot in the door with United.

5. Sending a message to Boeing that they have had enough of this shit and it will really hit the fan if they don't get their act together.
I'm not saying aliens....
It's more than just a bit clickbaity. There are probably dozens of us on HN who've compiled our own combo DB. This is what dehashed, snusbase, and hibp all are.
I don't think you understood me. I meant the drink gets cooler.
I can’t even see the page without that giant banner blocking it, clicking “not now” just send you to the home page, if someone is liking your blog, they will follow even if you don’t have that email newsletter, absolutely horrible design idea.
I'm really disgusted at what's happened at Boeing over the years to lead to this situation. But it's systemic in the boardrooms across the country that profits come before anything else.

In a more ideal world, the people in management responsible for this mess would be brought up on criminal charges and forced to disgorge their performance-based pay that was based on fraudulent practices that harmed passengers, the workers of the company, and the economic growth of the USA. But, I'm afraid the best we can hope for is civil lawsuits brought by shareholders that will settle for a fraction of the economic damage wrought.

Undoubtably the FAA will be increasing its scrutiny of the company. But that will probably fall by the wayside if the Republican Party regains control of the government. The decrepit management team will probably pursue a sale of the assets at fire sale prices so that they can prop up their stock price and retire to a golf courses in "anonymity".
Make Python Doc Executable
But the very fact that people buried them proves how sought after they were.

And of course if something is buried, and everyone involved dies before retrieving it, then it survives. But a lot of circumstances have to line up for that to happen.
This doesn't seem to be an ordinary GPU however. It needs to process input from all the sensors and produce some low-bw output (positioning, object detection from lidar etc). They probably have enough RAM to buffer/post-process whatever they need from the sensors.
Separate generated content from maintained content. Works for me. But on the specifics here, from a very python POV.

Strict YAML is easier to maintain than json if you have deeper than one or maybe two levels of nesting, multiline strings, or comments.

So, I build my config systems to _generate_ YAML instead of “templating YAML.”

PyYAML extensions and ruamel.yaml exist—Though kind of out of date, and more new projects are using TOML. (From project description: “ruamel.yaml is a YAML parser/emitter that supports roundtrip comment preservation”)

Confession: but yeah, not when I use ansible. Ansible double-dog-dares you to “jinja2 all the things” without much in the way of structured semantics.
Well, the real problem with regards to housing is that we just didn't build enough houses IMO.

Cheap houses in particular get voted off of most city councils or other local politics. It only costs $20k per trailer in a trailerpark IIRC, and so trailer parks can build hundreds of housing units for under 10-million invested.

Or various apartment buildings can be built with similar cost-efficiencies. Or Row-homes, or multiplex homes, etc. etc.

The issue is convincing the public that low-cost housing is to the benefic of society and that its a good thing to build. Most people see them as ways of attracting drug-dealers, black people / minorities, or turning a neighborhood into a Ghetto.

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So build enough low-cost housing. Build enough medium-cost housing. Etc. etc.

The problem is that in most municipalities, people are only happy when high-cost housing is built. But that's just not sustainable.
> Ivanti Connect Secure, which allows employees to remotely connect to work
Any building above about seventy some floors gets taller by ego, not financial value.
Of course some people really wanted to teach it to say new things, and figured out how to swap out the audio files (among other modifications): https://github.com/Jeija/bluefluff

Fun fact: If you mess up and need to reset the furby, the procedure is to turn it upside down and hold down the tongue while pulling the tail for ten seconds.
Aggression and building rapport aren't mutually exclusive - a lot of this is subtle negotiation for relative status. Just because all parties are okay with these as a way to get to a reasonable common ground (and if done right, can lead to strong rapport and relatively equal status) doesn't mean aggression isn't there. I don't think most of this is conscious, but you will also see conspicuously high-status people use self-deprecating humor to lower their perceived threat level, or conversely, people targeting other conspicuously high-status or threatening people to take them down a notch (to some extent, this is what we're seeing here). Or in a more hierarchical situation, high-status people might target lower-status people to reinforce their higher status.
I wish there were legal protections against this kind of thing. Even worse, I’ve had updates break stuff that might never get fixed. For example, I have Roku TVs and a recent update broke CEC.

The updates aren’t for my benefit, because my TVs worked fine from day one. Instead, the updates are to push more and more advertising and recommendations. It’s to the point where my TVs are slow, bloated, half broken trash. They’re definitely not what I bought off the store shelf.
It's a reducto ad absurdum argument. Either consciousness only emerges in living things, or it exists in everything. The brain is made of tissue and tissue is made of matter, therefore, it exists in all mater or doesn't exist at all.

I believe this is the thrust of panpsychism/panentheism.
The icosahedron and dodecahedron are duals of one another: each vertex of one corresponds to a face of the other and vice versa. All convex polyhedra satisfy the property that V + F = E + 2, and since the dual polyhedron conserves the quantity V + F, consequently, dual polyhedra have the same number of edges.
Bufferbloat can be a hardware or software problem. The fix is always to move the bottleneck to a device you control and can configure to not have bufferbloat at that bottleneck. For consumer hardware that means implementing AQM in software.
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> spent 40 years believing that house prices were fine because the debt load didn't matter because interest rates would go down forever

We spent half a century engineering scarcity. Falling rates were a nice add-on. But they were never a central part of the thesis.
>There is no material difference in our definitions of computers.

Yes, there really is.

>Here's my argument in simpler terms that you may understand:

No need to be condescending about a disagreement in semantics.

>Across all objects in the known universe that have an end-user accessible either shell or javascript language interpreter, I claim there are more objects that have the javascript interpreter.

You'd be wrong. And you're being purposely vague. You haven't proven anything towards your assumption.

But lines need to be drawn. Is a phone a computer? If a phone is a computer, then so must an IoT device be a computer, or a managed network switch, and then your argument is falling apart.

I'm setting some goalposts since you don't seem to understand that goalposts are required to win a pointless internet argument.

I'm saying that if you include phones then you must also include other types of devices like routers and networking equipment and many other "objects in the known universe", and then there are many more devices that have a shell that do not have a web browser, and then you lose.

So set some definite goalposts if you want to continue this pointless conversation.
Sort of random question: how difficult is it to write a decent Prolog interpreter? I read somewhere that you need to implement the WAM to get efficiency, but I don't know if that's true, and if it is true, how difficult is it to write a WAM?
Last time I looked at this (late last century), results scaled inversely to class size (so one might consider oxbridge 1:2 recitations as almost optimal), but for polities that don't prioritise educating their children, somewhere around 1:12 seemed like the knee of the curve.

> Amid a teacher shortage, labor challenges persist in hiring tutors.

A teacher shortage sounds like insufficient teaching pay to clear the market, which suggests that attempting to hire an even "cheaper teacher" (ie, a tutor) would be difficult to do effectively.
Just noticed that pydantic made their doc executable (https://docs.pydantic.dev/latest/).

Following the JS, I was expecting pyodide to be used, and it was: view-source: https://samuelcolvin.github.io/mkdocs-run-code/run_code_main...

But on top of it, it's wrapped in this project specially made for mkdocs (an alternative to sphinx).

Very cool.
AWESOME!.

Just signed up, will report back. Why is this awesome to me?

I have had a passion for GIS as a hobby my whole life, but neer anything deep... until recently I have been doing a lot of art, and I want to make GIS Map art.

I have been using a number of various tools and grabbing open data from places like OpenTopography, USGS, municipality resources, etc.

Further, I love GIS based data science, and especially how informationally dense maps and GIS can be. They are wonderful. (think of how informative looking at a full 3d model of an games to see all the details of a level, objectives, risks, resources. GIS/Mapping is intrinsic to communicating the world around you.

So - I have been looking for the right tool(s) to use - and devour stuff like this.

Looking forward to coming back here with a review after I dive into this for a minute.

The community maps are freaking beautiful. I am sad I hadnt found you earlier!

Some of your community maps deserve their own HN posts, such as the global submarine cable map:

https://app.atlas.co/projects/ft2YpKbX2NgOZueSPSTa?loc=16.38...

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Your activate email link takes you back to the same page: https://i.imgur.com/0NKEeXG.png rather than logging you in.

Adblocker prevents it from loading (ublock origin) - so have to white list it.

Please partner with https://opentopography.org/about/partner

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I'd love to be able to duplicate a community map into my workspace and then do work on them - Maybe you can ask people when they make a "community map" if they can license it with "credit creator" appropriate license type?

For example - the ecological California map in hexagons is wonderful, and I want to duplicate it, and export it and print the hex version of California out with the topological height map applied to it...

https://i.imgur.com/YFXkgQh.png

https://app.atlas.co/projects/RHOMLpu0kDJLDsCNyLYI?loc=-122....
To me it looks like a paperweight / scroll holder.

The knobs are possibly for holding keys or other such items.

Perhaps it's an administration tool - used in hotels or for the army when they've received news.
I'm pretty sure that forced restart is from the snap package, and you don't have that without snap.
I'm not into winning debates. I just find interesting that conscious beings think they can imagine the absence of consciousness. For us consciousness is the fundamental reality.

Furthermore I find the verbosity of German philosophy nearly unbearable, to be honest.
Ah! I see another zinger. But I'm not trying to zing you. Frankly, I was trying to suss out how off-your-rocker you might be.

I mentioned Orwell because I was trying to throw you a bone. I was trying to show that I was engaging with you: to find some conceptual connection to what you wrote.

Looking back, this feels a little like the motte-and-bailey fallacy: you started off by making a ridiculous claim ("Copyright law demands that everyone play along with the lie that is intellectual monopoly"). Much later you "retreat" to calling it a metaphor.

You might have known it was metaphor all along, but if so, why did you double down? Why persist? Again, I think there is high chance that you like the reaction you get. It seems to me that people often seek attention in this way. There is a downside: many people seeing the kind of language you used will think "loony!" and stop engaging.

Attempting to convince people by exaggerated metaphor can of course work! But if it does, I don't think you really want to take credit for it. People that easily swayed are not a prize worth counting. Besides, if you only "win" someone's agreement by rhetoric, you can expect the next person will "win" that same mind by some subsequent emotional appeal. Careful choice of words might take longer but it has less blowback. Rhetoric is the fast food of persuasion. (Yes, I can use metaphor too!)

Nothing personal. For years, I've attempted to discuss things with people that seem puzzling and/or stubborn. Thanks for discussing.
Switch to android and become a happy power user! It's an open and better ecosystem for almost everyone involved - users, developers and phone makers.
Even if that's the case, some mystery remains, discussed at this point: https://youtu.be/76AvV601yJ0?si=JQi4K8w9ZvphZ1wV&t=460

Presumably you'd find similar jigs for finishing the glove nearby.
What online switch game is worth playing? I'm sure the mig will be decrypted, and they will just fake the signature for the homebrew games. I think that's how some of the older homebrew worked. The scene is pretty dead since smartphones exist though.

I agree he should just get an old one but aside from maybe not liking the mig guys I don't see a problem with the product. The amount of blood from mining in Africa for my minerals probably isn't too moral either.
You realise that there are already Airbus-only US airlines?

> If they outright said “we are thinking of airbus”, you get the government banning the purchase of airbus aircraft, as that would endanger Boeing

Er... if anything, the US government banning Airbus aircraft would endanger Boeing more than the alternative; this would absolutely beg for retaliation, and not just from Europe (China, remember, has its own 737-class plane, now).
It's a problem in various networking devices, in which those devices buffer too heavily rather than dropping packets. That behavior may be implemented in a combination of hardware/firmware/software. Among other things, this prevents other devices from being able to adapt to bandwidth limits (because dropped packets are the primary way to signal "slow down"), and causes high latency (because packets are sitting in deep buffers for a while).

Software such as network schedulers in Linux can work around that problem. But ultimately, it should be fixed in the various networking devices that create the problem in the first place.
I've worked with people smarter than I am but most of them absolutely sucked at producing quality results. I've only worked with perhaps two decent developers in my entire life, the rest were mediocre. I'm also mediocre but I'm less content with mediocre results than some of my peers so I've done ok. I really want to meet the "vastly better" devs but I think perhaps I'm just not good enough myself to work where they work.
I was mostly outlining where it came from, as in, what is the original design. Doesn't mean it can't do other things.

And actually it can, which is part of my initial proposal with the linked repo, and goes much more in depth in my pending, non-public draft.
Why not? If it was a common item, it would be natural that there a deluxe versions for e.g. the royal household.

The cheap and simple versions would have rotted away by now.
There’s plenty to choose from that support embedding: Python, Perl, Lua. Heck, even EMCAScript (JavaScript, VBA, etc).

As another commenter rightfully stated, this used to be the norm.

I wouldn’t say LOGO is the right example though. It’s basically a LISP and is tailored for geometry (of course you can do a heck of a lot more with it but its strength is in geometry).
Even if there was, and after a long, arduous class action where the company was found guilty, the penalty for violating it would have to far exceed the expected recurring revenue from forcing updates.
Dupe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39107575
I bought my Moka pot in October of 1971 for $4.99, new. It has been in continuous use since then, with the only maintenance being the replacement of the rubber gasket. Try that with your Nespresso.
Along these lines, if you haven't ever seen it, check out _Motel of the Mysteries_ by David Macaulay. (Yes, that David Macaulay!)
qdrant is open source. Being open source is not in opposition to running a company; it is part of their strategy.

There is still work to be done in vector databases. None of the products have perfected hybrid search yet, for example, and performance varies a lot between products; they are not fungible.
“ritualistic or religious”, and “ritual” has a very broad meaning. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ritual: “Even common actions like hand-shaking and saying "hello" may be termed as rituals.”

It almost boils down to “we can’t think of a way in which this got anybody (better) fed, clothed or housed”
Status of AI for Business
I manage a small team and we use ChatGPT and MSFT Copilot.

What another apps that are not industry-specific are used today in back office administration/ knowledge workers?

I'd like to be ahead of trends and development, but aside from ChatBot and sales/marketing tools, I don't see much.

Related question: any AI-powered ERP(s) out there?

Thanks in advance.
The problem I have with GitHub Actions is that I usually want to metaprogram them. I have a monorepo and I want a particular action to run for each "project" subdirectory. I've written a program that generates GitHub Actions YAML files, but all of the ways to make sure the generator was run before each commit are fairly unsatisfying.

The problem I have with infra-as-code tools is that what I really want is a pretty simple representation for "the state of the world" that some reconciliation can use, and then I want to generate that stuff in a typesafe, expression-based language like TypeScript or Python (Dhall exists, but its Haskell-like syntax and conventions are too steep a learning curve to get mainstream adoption). Instead we get CloudFormation and Terraform which shoehorn programming language constructs into a configuration language (which isn't strictly an objection to code-as-data generally) or things like Helm which uses text templates to generate a "state of the world" description or these CDKs which all seem to depend on a full JavaScript engine for reasons that don't make sense to me (why do I need JavaScript to generate configuration?).
I mean, I fix bugs. Rewriting half the program just to verify the bugs are fixed is overkill before opening a PR (you know, verifying the approach, validating assumptions, manual tests, the stuff you do long before actually fixing the bug, etc). But comments like these and others on this thread is exactly why I may not in the future. This is a rather toxic thread. People seem to treat this thing as a religious artifact without giving a single reason grounded in practical computer science and software engineering.
You're probably right about that. Mine hibernates after a few hours, and then it does take a bit longer to be ready to use, but I've never noticed significant battery drain in between usages.

My SSD is a SK Hynix P41, which I believe does support the lower power states.