skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> But the cyber attack thing has not happened and tbh probably won't.

You mean because you live in a country that has never been (and probably won't ever be) unstable or targeted by someone? Have you ever heard of NotPetya and its global consequences (which could have been much worse, to be honest)?

We are connecting more and more critical stuff to the Internet, pretending that security is not an issue. That is a problem.

> It's similar to premature optimization or overengineering stuff at work. There is no need to overdo it.

Sure, I agree that there is no need to overdo it. Now if we need to talk about the state of the software industry, I feel safe in saying that most work is "underdone" these days. I haven't had an issue of premature optimization in a long time, but I have issues of "very bad code thrown out there without care" on a daily basis.

Similarly, being paranoid and doing nothing because of security concerns is probably not the right way. But not caring about security at all is on the other extreme :-).
I would be interested to hear what all the people who avoid the MAX are doing specifically about food poisoning, their exposure to polluted air, lightning strikes, and attacks from wildlife.
Notably they've quit building regional jets

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

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

which will eventually lead to a crisis for small airports like

http://www.airnav.com/airport/KITH

It's already a big problem in economic development that many cities are stuck with airports with terrible service. Many organizations in Ithaca believe that the airport is a competitive disadvantage. Airlines are refusing to adopt next generation small aircraft like

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embraer_E-Jet_E2_family

even though the lower operating costs and better comfort (e.g. people who are riding an E2-Jet to get on a 737 would be shocked that the regional jet is a lot more comfortable than mainstream narrowbody airliners.)

Since regional jets are going extinct there will be a market for something else, maybe electric aircraft, because the competition from legacy aircraft isn't there. See also

https://www.raa.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/1Q23-Small-Co...
That might be true of C++, but I don't think its true in Rust. Furthermore, I don't think the performance concern is as dire as you believe - both Scylla and Redpanda, two high performance C++ databases both use shared_ptr with their async framework Seastar.
I find that it's a kind of public secret in academia that a paper being even in a "reputable" journal doesn't mean much, and trash is everywhere.

The demands to publish and the ensuing volume are just way too high. If the system demands at least one paper (with novel exciting groundbreaking results) per year to keep a career going, an avalanche of bad papers is inevitable.
Hah, i had the same desires a while back. Didn't end up trying anything, though. Still hoping Nickel manages to integrate fully, it looks nice
Pay-to-play, wine-and-dine, sponsored issues, etc

It all is a variation on a continuum that ends in bribery.
Honestly, it is a lot more burdensome to hire in different states within US than your home state where business is registered. Hiring internally is relatively easier because you can do a B2B Contract and use W8-BEN-E for IRS. For hiring in a different sate, you will need to register your entire business there, setup Unemployment insurance accounts (on their shitty websites with no standards), deal with payroll/withholding taxes and quarterly reporting, sales taxes (if applicable) etc etc.
See my top level reply on Scheme for Max. By I have managed to hide the Max bits when working in Scheme so one gets essentially a Scheme api for Ableton. I have plans to release more features for this when Live 12 goes public...

As someone who works in all spots on the spectrum, I would personally never say "just learn to code". My music rig includes Live, Max, C code, Scheme, and eurorack. There are parts in each layer that are vastly more efficient to do in that layer. (Many years ago I did do it all in code, and wouldn't go back)
“Man I’ve crunched all the numbers, and I just can’t figure out why stereotyping people might be annoying to them!”

If race wasn’t important to the article why mention it at all?

Where did the OP say the article was racist? (as opposed to just being rude, annoying, unnecessary, etc.)

I got the impression from your comments that you’re American. You also seem to think Americans don’t have weird and problematic opinions about race. I further noticed that you take pains to capitalize “Black” and lowercase “white” when describing a person’s race, a weird and problematic habit that only American leftists have. Can you elaborate on that?
With Boeing and Airbus making so many mistakes of late I'm curious why Embraer isn't floating an idea like making a plane that would compete with or replace the Boeing 757. Airline makers have been demanding a 757 clone for a while and Boeing is maybe, kinda, possibly considering making the 797 to fill that spot. Neither the 737 MAX 10 nor the A321XLR really duplicate what the 757 did... seems like everyone is leaving money on the table to not hit that spot in the market.
Surprised how many there are on order (7,623; 1,420 of those already delivered).

Wonder why airlines aren't cancelling orders. Do passengers just not care. Or are the cancellation penalties so high airlines would rather chance it.
"A computer can never be held accountable, so has increasingly been used to make management decisions." — IBM slide from 1979.

AI didn't wrongly convict anyone. People leveraging AI did.
Mamba is a new model architecture based on SSM's.

Mamba: Linear-Time Sequence Modeling with Selective State Spaces
https://arxiv.org/abs/2312.00752

https://github.com/state-spaces/mamba

Vision Mamba: Efficient Visual Representation Learning with Bidirectional State Space Model https://paperswithcode.com/paper/vision-mamba-efficient-visu...
This argument is iffy because it seems to also equally well apply to being down 8 in the first quarter yet no one would go for 2 in that scenario.
I had a crippling fear of flying and I still have anxiety about it. One way I got over it was by learning a lot more about aviation. Now I'm really not afraid of anything happening on a plane short of a. catastrophic failure like a wing snapping off or b. uncontrolled fire in the cockpit. Most other things are recoverable, and those problems are very unlikely.

The flaw that caused the fatal 737 MAX crashes was something that that better trained pilots would have been able to overcome. And this would likely be the case for most problems. The recent door plug blowout did not cause a crash, for example.

So I would not be afraid to fly on a 737 MAX from a major US airline over US territory. It wouldn't be my preference but I wouldn't be afraid to.
One of the more memorable parts of paying for a deluxe interview preparation course on interviewing.io was the coach emphasizing "There is no place for honesty in a behavioral interview. No one is going to check on your story."
I wouldn't say it worked "fine" for 25 years. It's still there all the time taking screen space. You can hide it but it will re-appear if you move your mouse to the now cleared screen real estate.
The reason I need taskbar hacks is that I want one feature they never added: hide the taskbar permanently until I explicitly ask to see it (for example by pressing a Windows Key). For me it doesn't matter much if the taskbar is horizontal, vertical or goes through the screen diagonally. Just let me hide it and keep it hidden. I am ok with full screen taskbar as long as it only appears when I ask it to. I see not adding this obvious feature as manifestation of "you will have it our way and you will like it" attitude of Windows UI team (or whoever is responsible for it).

To add a bit to this rant, here is a script that mostly solves the problem:
https://github.com/CrypticButter/ButteryTaskbar

It isn't 100% reliable but it's good enough for me. Now I hope to find something that prevents Windows 11 from dimming my screen when on battery after a few seconds of inactivity. Pretty please?
> The point of the post is that abstractions are inevitable and you choose your own level. And: you can be a great programmer without knowing C.

Absolutely, but I get the feeling you're taking the common statement "learning C can be a great experience" and bastardazing it into a straw-man "you NEED to learn C" that you then argue against.

I just think it's an obvious statement and it reads like you're being nagged by people to learn, but you don't want to learn C and defend your position. For me nothing has taught me so much about development than a weekend hacking in C and stepping through the code with Valgrind or reading the binary output did. And I recommend all my peers do the same, most don't and that's okay. But I think it's a shame that people in general don't seem to care that much outside of work.

I did enjoy the read though, even if clickbaity.
> even with Mozilla's financial support

I wonder how much was spent on browser engine versus determining what sneaker designers has to say about colors on the modern web, and other such things

https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/stories/joy-of-color/
I personally don't think sex positivism has done the general population any favors, so I think it's quite toxic to make an app explicitly to facilitate friend hookups. It's just going to create hurt feelings and destroyed friendships when one of the parties wants more and the other doesn't.

I really do not believe that peoples' short-term impulses are at all aligned with what they want in the long term. Frequently they're opposed! Most Big Tech and Internet startups are based on giving people easy access to their short-term impulses and then claiming it's a useful service even when it is bad for the users long-term. An explicit hookup app is no exception.
It's being picked up again though: https://www.theregister.com/2023/09/27/servo_returns/
> How much positive impact would occur if we loosened air travel safety controls?

Almost none? I can't think of what positive impact could possibly result from that.
So many things went wrong here, on so many levels. Our systems are falling apart and we're not doing enough about it. We definitely shouldn't be relying on companies like this to fill the gaps.
Boeing is also a major defense contractor, and has facilities spread out across many states. No politician of either party is going to call for the shutdown of a major employer of their constituents and a key component of national security.
sorry but none of this makes any sense.

these are the assumptions they are attempting to debunk:

- All 2-point conversions are equally likely to succeed.

I have seen no evidence that all 2-point conversions *aren't* equally likely to succeed, and even if they were two bites at that apple gives you better odds than just one

- You will stop the other team from scoring.

regardless of whether you choose to go for it or kick the XP, you still have to stop your opponent on their subsequent drive. if they do so much as kick a FG it's game over already, so it doesn't matter.

- You will get a touchdown on the subsequent drive.

you have to score a TD or the debate doesn't matter so it's irrelevant to this argument

- The clock expires after that.

again we have to assume we are preventing the opponent from scoring any additional points because the debate makes no sense without that caveat

- There are even odds of winning in overtime.

getting to OT in this scenario is the fallback, while it's the best outcome of just kicking the XP twice in a row
Very nicely done & useful. I do see folks in Twitter/X posting problems. This is a better solution instead for those hobbyists.

Is there a way to share a single math problem as a link in social platforms?
Honestly, I would be willing to fly, but I also do have a rather risk-affine mindset. So, to me the question is similar to "From a pure risk profile [i.e. ignoring money and regulation issues]: would you go parachuting?", which I would also answer with "yes". I bet that parachuting is much more dangerous than flying on a Boeing 737 MAX.

In short, on a forum where lots of writers could imagine founding a startup, you will find quite some people who are much more risk-affine than what is common in the general population. :-)
No, that's a terrible take on what's happened here.

The headline is not only was he arrested but also raped.
“Nah, man, you’re just paranoid!”

My buddy recently learned about AI, something clicked in his mind (not sure what) and he absolutely seriously asked me to delete his everything from the internet. Who’s paranoid now.
You can examine the contents of the shell script yourself -- but how is this any different from running the rest of the application without examining the source?

Do you just draw some arbitrary line to say, "running easily readable shell scripts is bad, but compiling and running code I have never looked at or completely understand is okay."?

Really the only logical answer here is to adopt a zero trust security model and just assume every line of code is compromised. Run it in a VM, in a container, firewall it, jail it, sandbox it, etc.

Otherwise you're whispering sweet nothings to yourself if you believe piping unknown scripts to shell is the most vulnerable thing you can do here.
Microsoft crosses $3T in market cap
> For a server process the best reaction to a panic would mean abort and clean restart.

That's often infeasible, and creates a major DoS/reliability problem.

The server may be processing hundreds of different requests at the same time, and panic=abort will kill all of them. That creates a visible failure to other unrelated clients of the server, not just the offending request.

If you try to fix that and retry aborted requests, you'll retry the panic-inducing request and cause another failure (and it'll take several restarts to bisect out the offending request).

Plus a restart may be costly, require loading data, warming up caches, etc.

It's just way cheaper to catch a panic and return 500 to the offending request. Rust guarantees to panic before anything terrible memory-corrupting happens. Even if you don't trust it and would prefer to restart anyway, you have an option to gracefully hand over the traffic before the restart.
The "fault" wasn't uncovered, tho. It literally caused accidents resulting in death and malfunction.
Doesn't this article basically show the exact opposite of what it's claiming? It cites simulation data showing that going for 2 here only increases the chances of winning by an absolute 1.7% and uses that to claim that that's a small increase, but it's actually not. The winning percentage of kicking for an extra point is already at 11.2%, increasing that by 1.7 is quite large (and is actually a larger increase than the relative 12% increase the article says is ludicrous).
Of course. Even below assembly language there are many layers on today's computers. As you noted pipelining, microcode, branch prediction, etc there is a lot more below it. And further below one gets electronics and then quantum theory and so on. So its a matter of what abstraction one can safely ignore I think. And today I think we at least need to go to the level of that sub-assembly stuff if one wants to write anything that does not perform badly. I personally also feel whatever layer one usually works in, one should learn the layer immediately below at the very least. So yes I think we agree.
But the euro cars have double the mpg (half the l/100km), sooo, it’s really a wash on that front.

(Ok, not quite that, but Portugal has the most efficient euro vehicles and uses 43% less fuel than average US vehicle: https://www.cer-rec.gc.ca/en/data-analysis/energy-markets/ma... )
It makes sense as it parodies the typical Airlines ads/videos showing the new features, services etc.

Yeah the fault is at Boeing but not like they do this kind of videos, or if they do most people wouldn't have seen them.
No. Why do you think that? There's nothing in the article to suggest it.
The wasmboy benchmark compared typescript compiled to javascript vs typescript compiled to wasm and the wasm code has 40-60% higher fps.
Even if 'most' people aren't falling for it, enough people are falling for it that it's very profitable.
It’s kind of insane that’s we have a justice system that’s so insane that it’s normal to receive “extrajudicial punishment” and that there are people who actively enjoy and secretly, and sometimes not-so-secretly, wish that this mechanism remains in place.

(We should also probably not rely on AI to put people in that place.)
No. They'll still likely have to pay taxes on those amounts. I don't think it matters who forgives the debt.
Sadly, this is not a US-specific result. It happens in prison systems, not only in developing countries, but other advanced countries too. That said, it's not as common as portrayed in movies.

Additionally, statistically most male-on-male sex in prisons is consented. For some proportion of the pop that engages in this consensual activity, may categorize it as rape to avoid stigma in their outside world group affiliation.

In the pen the biggest threat is severe beatings.
I made an Excel/Google Sheets course, hosted with smalltime Masterclass non-(competitor) called DAASS: https://learnwithyakir.com/daass. Does over $1k/month, for my commission portion.

No frills, 6.5 hours of digestible videos, 30+ functions/formulas, enough theory to help you learn on your own. Writing complex formulas in Excel was my gateway to proper software development. It's a useful skill even now as a developer, working with data in CSVs, making small tools for quick automation, things like that. (Just don't make a CRM in Excel, lol.)
Some features remain in nightly for years.

A very relevant example is `build-std`, which builds the standard library (and does LTO) instead of copying a pre-built one. This feature has been on nightly for at least a couple of years.
If we just do something about this horrible facial recognition software, only the guilty will be raped in jail awaiting trial.
> The same claims can be made about cameras made in the west

They can, and those are valid claims.
If you think this is bad (and it is), know that Facebook kept showing me, for months, ads from scammers pretending to be... Facebook!

This only shows how bad the processes (including algorithms) developed by these companies aiming at fighting these ads.

Is this by design? After all, it was clear these campaigns were pouring good money at the operation as they were showing non-stop for a long period.

Even more troubling, reporting the offending ads multiple times didn't help either.
There are a bunch of ideas that are more core and strongly supported (language is innate) which you use to explore more tenuous ideas about what the implications are and how they specifically manifest. Linguistics is an extremely nascent field compared to other sciences, Chomsky calls our stage of understanding "pre-Galilean", no one has claimed to have solved the basic questions yet so it isn't surprising that anything other than the core ideas are in constant flux. I haven't seen a good counter argument to the core ideas of universal grammar (or the minimalist program) and to refute an idea you need to actually present a counter-argument not simply say some sub-hypothesis has been refuted in the past so every fundamental idea has been refuted.

See also https://ling.auf.net/lingbuzz/007363

The SciAM article you linked doesn't understand the arguments Chomsky makes when "refuting" them (e.g. they erroneously say that superficial differences between languages show that there is no universal grammar).
It doesn't mention (or I missed it), but I wonder what the idle power usage is on these. I know with Nvidia cards you can run nvidia-persistenced to keep it in a lower power state on idle, not sure what to do with AMD cards (if anything is needed).
It is an irrational fear. I used to have it too but I lost it after flying a lot for work.

Yes, the Boeing safety issues are concerning but the odds of something happening on your flight are astronomically low. It's riskier for you to climb on a ladder to trim your trees or to be on the road driving somewhere. Check out your comparative odds of dying here[0]

The FAA claims that it's Air Traffic Controllers handle 45,000 flights per day [1]. That is only the USA. Any accident makes the news. So, do the math.

One thing that helped me was reading about the engineering that goes into the airframe of the planes. For example, no plane has ever crashed due solely to turbulence. The plane frame and wings are engineered to withstand massive loads, lightning strikes, etc.

[0] https://injuryfacts.nsc.org/all-injuries/preventable-death-o...
[1] https://www.faa.gov/air_traffic/by_the_numbers
Let’s take the perfect paper as an example. This “impossible” paper is the product of Science Done Right. The authors previously registered their hypotheses and methods. The data are collected in the most rigorous fashion. The analyses and the data are all available to the public, and review shows that everything is in fact perfect. The conclusions of the paper are supremely consequential.

Does rational policy immediately change based on the conclusions of this paper? I argue no! Maybe discussions start immediately, confirmation is sought, probably many additional studies with the express intent of confirming the result of the first paper are launched. However, there is no such thing as one paper that needs zero additional support from the community.
This isn't an answer to your question but I recommend the Lovefly podcast with Paul Tizzard. It really does help with flying.
Sounds like something Philip K. Dick would right.

"Please scroll to bottom of Terms and click 'I Agree' to begin 7-day trial citizenship."
Because we’re here at all.

And it’s a simple bit of math.

Asteroid collisions with our planet (or any other planet) destroys the asteroid.

unless something is making ‘new events’ (creating new asteroids, which we know of little/no mechanism for), we’re currently left only with asteroids which have managed to avoid impacting us or another planet for the billions of years before now they’ve been floating around the solar system.

Over x billions of years, the 1 in 1000 events have all played out. The 1 in 1000000 events have all played out, etc, etc.

So we’re just left with the lowest odds events, aka the ones with the lowest probability/lowest risk of occurring. The long-long-long tail.

It doesn’t mean we won’t get whacked by a shoemaker/levy impact in the future, just that the odds of it occurring now are very very low compared to say several billion years ago when there were far more objects floating around that hadn’t terminated their orbits into something already.

Of course, we also have a lot more incentive now to prevent such an occurrence (as we have stuff we don’t want to have destroyed now) as compared to several billion years ago when we didn’t exist.

So worth investing into. But we’re not looking for common/predictable situations, we’re looking for very unusual occurrences and hoping for enough forewarning to make it easy to deal with the consequences.

If this was a matter of dealing with high probability events, we’d have a very different approach.
> Java ... found a small niche in server programming.

Lol, virtually all business server applications are running on th e JVM in the corner of the world that I see.
I was reacting to someone literally saying, "Everyone should learn C because it teaches you how computers really work." In my experience it's no an uncommon recommendation. Yes, people also say, "learning C can be a great experience," and I agree.
I don't think that was the plan from the start. There definitely was talk that it would eventually replace Gecko, not just be used for parts.
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Truth is irrelevant in politics and government.
You're intentionally being disingenuous to avoid talking about point #1 in my response to you.