skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If Boeing really cared about their customers, they would tighten the bolts on outgoing planes to make sure that they wouldn't lose doors and windows and stuff. Maybe Alaska does really care, but I must confess my first thought was also "cagey PR move."

I've seen many products and services clearly making their products worse in order to make more money. Airlines have done similar things with passenger space and various fees, it's not so hard to imagine them cutting corners only to be surprised that they've gone too far and inadvertently impacted airplane safety.

Sure they care about customer wellbeing but isn't making money higher on their list of priorities?
Castellated nuts and wire?
While I'm not a demoscener, I know enough about how they are generally made and have my own share of award-winning small programs. So I'm confident that they don't make a good example of non-bloated software.

Every demo is really amazing when you encounter them for the first time, but AFAIK 64K demos were hottest around 2000 when Farbrausch revolutionalized the scene with .fr-08: .the .product [1]. Since then, 64K turned out to be too large because most 64K demos can be divided into multiple parts---engine, data and compressor---and each part can be individually developed. There are many 64K demos but far less engines and only a handful number of compressors in this level. It also means that there are only a handful number of people that can actually make engines and compressors. It's not a fit software, it's rather an unhealthily thin software. They are still awesome but they can't be a model.

[1] http://www.theproduct.de/
This “it’s their fault for sharing information” is a terrible externality/unaccountability argument. As a company, you are responsible for the safety and privacy of all your direct and indirect users. I don’t have a facebook, but I’m in there for sure, and it’s the company’s responsibility to protect my privacy.

I know this is not 23&me’s case, and sure, the front door keys weren’t stolen from them, but they allowed the whole museum to be robbed without triggering one alarm. If a bad actor gained access to my account, he/she would still need my device to deobfuscate card info or make transactions.

I mean, it’s a solved problem!
You're welcome to your own opinion about what you think is a bad idea, but I don't share it. I won't call you paranoid if you don't call me stupid.
You're not adding the +nightly switch and the required flags to compiled std. Just setting panic=abort in cargo.toml isn't enough.

One can get binaries pretty damn small (low-mid tens of kilobytes for a basic cli program doing something like hashing of a file).

Problem I've found with manually compiling std (which has ancillary benefits of being able to compile to a specific uarch) is it can break the compilation process when bringing in third-party deps. The config.toml (stored in $PROJECT_ROOT/.cargo) overrides cargo's behaviour for all dependencies as well - which may break those compilations.

Tbh, it's one reason I don't particularly rate the rustc+cargo toolchain - but for most people writing regular applications: just being able to do ```cargo build -r``` and not care about binary size, uarch optimization or custom llvm/rustc optimizations (PGO etc), most won't care.
it's 2024. let's stop having this conversation
(I made WaterwayMap.org)

> What's interesting and somewhat amusing is that this map has determined that the section of the Soar that joins with the Trent just north of Loughborough is apparently unnavigable

The boat views only use the OpenStreetMap `boat` tag. If a section of river is missing from WWM.org, then it's likely the tag is missing from the OSM waterway. You can fix that!
Why? I think this would only be true if negative inflation is the goal. Since the inflation rate is computed relative to last year and as long as salaries do not increase, after a year or two of inflation the average employee has less and less disposable income left, so they can spend less unnecessarily and accordingly the inflation could go down to zero despite full employment.

As an example, if I can buy 2 units of a good this year (so demand is high) and then high inflation persists for two years and now I can only afford one unit (so demand is low) - my salary being the same, then an inflation rate of 0 in year 3 would mean everything stays the same. I can still only afford one unit and that should push prices down or at least keep them steady which is what zero inflation would mean.

Maybe the assumption is that decreased demand will necessarily cause unemployment, but this seems to be true only for domestic demand (questionable for the software industry) and in any case following this line of thought would mean the more employment the more inflation which seems absurd.
> I flew on a seaplane between the US and the Bahamas, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chalk%27s_International_Airlin... . It was a fun touristy thing, but not touristy enough to maintain a commercial seaplane service.

Chalks suffered a tragic structural failure, likely caused by corrosion, which mostly ended the company.
All coffee and all wine tastes the same to me, can people really tell the difference or is it mostly an upper class pantomime?
> I just wish they had more useful evolution in the last 50~100 years.

Diminishing returns / asymptotic change.

I think the last major advancement was the coaxial escapement in the 1970s:

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coaxial_escapement

and as per a sibling comment, the spring drive:

* https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HoEorK6elZM

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spring_Drive
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> 4) Changes in the US tax code for how software dev costs are attributed. I don't fully understand this but seems pretty plausible.

Can you elaborate on this point? Does this mean companies can’t afford software developers?
Transmeta lived on in Nvidia's Project Denver but Denver was optimized for x86 and the Intel settlement precluded that. It ended up being too buggy/inefficient to compete in the market and effectively abandoned after the second generation.
It's a shame eBay got their "marketplace" lunch eaten by Amazon.

I remember when shopping at eBay was sort of sketchy to normies and Amazon was the trusted retailer. In the intervening decade Amazon has done everything to dilute their marketplace to be as wild wild west with fake goods / junk / stolen good fencing / disappearing sellers no better than eBay.
(I made WaterwayMap.org) The data is 100% OSM. You edit it to fix it yourself.
I see, thanks. And I'm also assuming I would need to get some special license to sail a Narrowboat? As a non-UK citizen (EU/Swiss), do you think it could be complicated to get a Narrowboat and live on it for half a year or so?
Two planes crashed. That's four years ago and that was root caused to a single issue which has since been addressed. Before that the 737 had a great safety record. In fact it still does. Not perfect but pretty amazing considering it's the most widely use plane ever produced. After that there have been a few incidents, including the non fatal one with the door. But nothing out of the ordinary.

Here's a list of all the incidents with the 737 over the years.

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

If anything, this decade is looking pretty good so far.

I'm not saying there's nothing going on at Boeing in terms of management and quality control. But hadn't it been for the issues a few years ago, this would barely register in the news as anything else than the minor incident this was. But because that was in the news, now any Boeing related news is causing world + dog to panic. And that apparently includes FAA leadership and management at major airlines. They are apparently more worried about how it reflects on them than about the actual facts.

I think the grounding of the aircraft has much more to do with politics and appearances than with actual safety. It was premature and probably overkill. People insisting on expensive audits and other draconian measures have basically persuaded the FAA to do what they otherwise wouldn't dream of doing: ground loads of planes over an issue that can probably be excluded with a simple, straightforward inspection. There hasn't been a lot of detail about what exactly went wrong. Nobody waited for that to be revealed even. But I bet it's something straight forward like a missing bolt or something similarly easy to check and verify.

If you are an airline and you own anything even mildly resembling a 737 and you haven't at this point checked if the bloody doors are fine, you should not be operating planes at all.
At least, claiming ignorance after all the attention in the news is not a thing. You shouldn't be waiting for the FAA to tell you to do this as it's both obvious and you are responsible for your fleet.
Edgar Allan Poe's story that taught me about cryptography
See my longer comment above in the thread.
(I made WaterwayMap.org) The data is 100% OpenStreetMap, and updated daily. Something missing on WWM.org means something missing on OSM. You can fix that yourself!
Well yeah, I mean no one forces you to use Explorer for file management under Windows. I'm an old-time Norton Commander user, and when Windows came around I switched to Total Commander. There are open-source alternatives too, even cross-platform ones, like this one: https://doublecmd.sourceforge.io/.

That being said, no one forces you to use Windows either - except maybe your employer or the software you are using, but this is getting less and less of a problem fortunately (web apps, Proton etc.).
A similar idea is a camera that can capture images around corners:

https://www.analytech-solutions.com/analytech-solutions/blog...

And in fact, is almost identical in principle to the concept of "dual photography" from almost two decades ago:

https://graphics.stanford.edu/papers/dual_photography/

Dual photography takes the idea a step further and allows for interesting relighting if you capture the scene with more than just a photoresistor.
With news titles like these... in other news, large numbers of people are shorting Boeing stock today.
Still cheaper than the ordinary houses in my home country of Switzerland. :D
Short tech writing style guide for developers
Eve the robot can cook, clean and guard your home
VMBoot Proof of Concept
And laser microphones. There's a whole range of technologies out there that people mock as unrealistic when they appear in SciFi, but turns out we can make.
At the end of the day GitHub is a web app. I don’t think it’s worth complaining about unless it’s something like Wikipedia that stops working.
Yeah, that's exactly how I read the question, i.e. analogous to "does anyone still code in assembly, or has everyone switched to using abstractions?" and I think it's a very interesting one.
So what exactly would the CEO have to have done to "build planes"? Some wiring? Screwing in things? Ordered parts? Quality tested a component? Why not the need to also piloting a plane to understand how it works? What specific part imbues the required understanding?

What if CEO build other things than planes?
This is a canary in a coal mine.

At some point in the future — in our lifetimes — every newborn will have DNA taken and tested — and banked permanently.

You say "No way, over my dead body?"

>Kuwait: New Counterterror Law Sets Mandatory DNA Testing (2015)

https://www.hrw.org/news/2015/07/21/kuwait-new-counterterror...

>Kuwait: Court Strikes Down Draconian DNA Law (2017)

https://www.hrw.org/news/2017/10/17/kuwait-court-strikes-dow....

In the US, a blood sample is taken from all newborns to test for a panel of diseases that are treatable and cause serious problems if not treated within a few days after birth.

The sample is not taken by federal authorities, but by medical staff, usually before the infant goes home from the hospital. The individual states, rather than the Federal government, mandate the testing. The sample consists of a piece of paper with a few or several spots saturated with drops of blood. After testing, the samples are stored for a period of time determined by each individual state. In states where the samples are kept on file for an extended period, those blood spots could be considered a DNA sample.
TIL: GitHub was readable w/o JavaScript prior to a few weeks ago.
I think companies used to be able to deduct "R&D time" which was a very vague definition for programmers and the IRS has tightened that up.

https://www.eisneramper.com/insights/tax/impact-174-software...
dumb policy decisions

Musk took a baby step in the direction of free speech, and immediately the order went out for major corporations to stage an advertising boycott.
This matters a great deal as the coffee crops are under threat from climate change and if they are to survive at scale will need broad domestication. Large scale effort is going into it as it is a very important cash crop.

Understanding where they get their flavor and how to replicate it can only lead to better success in this effort.
Counterpoint : projects/products usually take years to die from neglect.

Every large company that handles IT as a cost-center has a host of zombie projects they believe are still well, but actually are understaffed/funded, and will eventually fail unexpectedly. When the failure is perceived, the usual decision is to start a rewrite, and have both an old, unmaintainable product and a recent product that isn't fully-featured yet.
> if someone steals credentials from a subset of users and can use that to gain access to nearly half your customer base

If someone gets access to my facebook account they can read anything my "friends" have marked as "friends-only". Lots of users want that kind of restricted sharing (both with Facebook and with 23andMe).
Using abbr Element with title Attribute
I've been using this for ~6 months and I never saw an ad.
Try it, let me know, maybe it has to do with other settings on my pc.
Of course they are now that I have one.
In the current situation, sending your own engineers to the manufacturer is the best way to ensure an independent check of the whole production chain. Much easier than having your mechanics take the airplane apart after delivery.
Have a look here. Fantastic perspective on "why" FOSS, and why people do it:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qVMo54BUqEA
>>How in the world do you think that the FBI wouldn't bag and tag stuff if they planned on using it in court at a later date? Any fresh out of school lawyer could get that tossed in a heart beat.

Well it make sense when you understand that the FBI is not about seeking "justice", it is about enforcement and punishment.

The process is their goal, to make peoples lives miserable and to do "street justice" not to win in the court system and get a conviction

Further in this case, was also "Policing for Profit" which is what the entire civil asset forfeiture scheme is about.

This naive view that the FBI, or law enforcement in general, today is about "protecting the public" and "getting justice for victims" is laughably absurd
The problem is that there is an annoying delay in loading the filelist which is very disruptive, the ux uat team probably fell asleep at the wheel
Given the relative costs of their own inspection, the cost of the plane and the cost of a crash or downtime, it seems to make perfect sense.

Plus the fact that these machines have a 30 year working life.
It’s important for your boss to frame that differently if it’s truly optional.

They can’t leave it at “do you want to do this project?” They need to follow up with, “It really is optional, I won’t be hurt if you say no.”

They also can’t do it with a big decision first. They have to frame small decisions that way sometimes, to build trust that when they say you have the ability to decline, they mean it. Then, they can ask that way on big decisions.

If a decision isn’t optional, they should phrase it a different way. I use something like - “I need you to do this project - how does that make you feel?” I want them to tell me if it’s a hardship, but I don’t want to imply that I’m leaving the door open to a different outcome necessarily.
All of these quotes are saying to use 2FA (besides security questions, which are a horrible security measure: https://security.stackexchange.com/a/224271/10863). That sounds like a good suggestion, though it costs business because it adds friction. Maybe now that they need to save their reputation, and they're an established business with plenty of customers already, it makes sense for them to add, but a new entrant to the market would simply not do it and I'm not sure whether they can be fully blamed in a competitive market
People have the ability to decide what does and does not run on their machine. I'm sure a major motivation is to stop annoyances (e.g. ads, sounds, video players, etc).

That being said: There is a certain entitlement that comes along with it, while they're absolutely entitled to decide what runs on their machine, they have this expectation that sites should dedicate engineering/QA/time/etc to this niche. In essence give a sub-3% user base a disproportionate amount of attention. IE11 has a higher usage, and you likely shouldn't support that either.

Sites should both morally and legally support ADA users. But screen readers and other accessible technologies have had full JavaScript support for going on 20-years now. If you're spending energy/money on this no-JS cause, you're doing it for a small handful of contrarians who won't thank you.
Building Our Lite styled-components
> significantly more profitable for builders to build bigger, more expensive houses

This is also the reason why car buying also sucks so much now. There is more profit it bigger higher trim cars full of features than smaller reliable basic cars.
Tesla plans to build new electric vehicles in mid-2025
DAMN! Take this announcement back just 2-3 years and it would have been MIND BLOWING.

I know we're all used to new releases like this coming very soon and very fast, but I'm amazed. I can't wait to have a software with this abilities. edit: nvm, it's by Google. I'll wait for an open source to be released.
Editions of this fascinating book run from USD $100 and up. Sorely tempted but wasteful for something I’ll read only once. Certainly “The Whole Earth Catalog“ opened my eyes as a wee lad to things I never knew existed and certainly couldn’t afford.
747, 787, 737-600/700 (EDIT: not the 900), 777 (ish)

Pretty much most except the MAX...

https://www.airlineratings.com/news/boeing-publishes-its-ann...
Isn’t it true that it’s already widely known that some US states (or the US itself; can’t remember details) stores DNA of anyone ever booked by the police even if not charged or charged and acquitted?
Graceful cancellations: How to keep your application/workflow state consistent
With graceful cancellations, it is now possible to stop service invocations and workflows while keeping the overall application state consistent.
enshittification just hit another website. expected.
It sounds like you're under the impression that the data that was leaked for half the customer base was people's full genotype? Because the kind of matching that you're talking about here isn't possible on the coarse data that the attackers were able to leverage compromised accounts to access.
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Let's not pretend that 23andMe didn't voluntarily give access to the data to law enforcement and wanted to sell it as well to insurance companies.
Billions I might believe over their history. Trillions id need to see some evidence of. Especially if “lost” is including combat losses
eBay to slash 1k jobs, scale back contracts
that is totally unsurprising, i would use javascript to build github too. why is this on the front page?
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See also playlist from Tim Hunkin's channel:

* https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLtaR0lZhSyAPLuoSbMA29...

* https://www.youtube.com/@timhunkin1

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Secret_Life_of_Machines

The theme song is Bennett's "The Russians are Coming" (a reggae cover of "Take Five"):

* https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i-fvwg9zy08
To actually have done something and contributed to designing and producing aircraft. To actually have an aeronautical engineering background. That's the business Boeing is in.

Putting inexpert people in positions of authority is guaranteed to damage a business, as Boeing is now finding out.
> give access to Government actors, sell their databases or just have them hacked/stolen by malicious actors

one of these is not like the other
Yes, it kind of is. But the whole article talks about the extremes but spends zero time describing what the desirable middle ground looks like.
To be technical, Rust deliberately splits out three elements: core (which is necessary for the Rust language and is always provided) alloc (which needs a heap allocator, not applicable if you don't have or don't want one) and then std (which expects an operating system, with features like files and sockets and threads and knowing what the time is)

C++ just labels a few specific features as available in a "freestanding" C++ standard library if you have one (on an embedded platform presumably you do).

This makes it very easy to know what you're getting in Rust's stdlib in #[no_std] because it's all of core, so e.g.

https://doc.rust-lang.org/core/primitive.slice.html#method.s...
vs.
https://doc.rust-lang.org/std/primitive.slice.html#method.so...

At first glance those are identical, but no, std is re-exporting every feature core had, but it also gains features, for example the stable sort function family only exist in std because they're using a temporary allocation whereas the unstable (ie equivalent items may be re-ordered) sort provided even in core doesn't do that.

Figuring out what you get in your stdlib with C++ often comes down to suck it and see.
I’m not the person you’re responding to but their claim doesn’t seem so contentious.

> Which governments are you referring to?

Any that has an intelligence service. (And probably most others too.)

> And how are they doing this?

They get the data from breaches like this or otherwise purchased from services like this.

> And how do you know of this?

I’d suspect less that they know and more that they have a reasonable suspicion. I personally have that suspicion because 1) it’s feasible and 2) governments would be interested in the data.
Have you compared single origin coffees from wildly different regions of the world?
> Could someone shed some light on this?

I usually just want a text from a webpage, and everything else is worthless to me. Or more than worthless, annoying, dangerous.

It would be great if I could somehow just get a text from a server.
Collectibles are an economic high wire balancing act between supply and demand.

Too many objects/supply and the price goes down.

Not enough collectors/demand and the price goes down.

To keep the market price at a high level requires a careful balance --- like what deBeers has been doing with the diamond market for decades. But they are now losing control.

https://fortune.com/2023/09/03/diamond-demand-falling-lab-gr...
Google Docs HTML Cleaner Open-Source Project
Source article on Techcrunch discussed here 3 weeks ago:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38856412

(261 points/20 days ago/371 comments)
Was my first idea upon reading the article. I remember being surprised when I was abroad and asked about nice looking tree, and it turned out to be a Rhododendron, which only grows as a medium sized bush in my country. Climate and soil make a huge difference, even at ±1500km. Coffee is grown all over the world.
Order's from who? Certainly Musk re-platforming hate speech (and lies) in the form of Alex Jones and re-tweeting antisemitic posts had NOTHING to do with corporations wanting to flee right?
https://breakingdefense.com/2023/11/with-trillions-at-play-p...

Billions were lost just in the humvees that were gifted to the Taliban recently.