skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You are wrong. A plurality is, but not majority (https://hbr.org/2018/11/the-best-performing-ceos-in-the-worl...).

If you want to claim an intrinsic link between being an engineer and being a top performing CEO, you need to show something different anyway. For example, that the proportion of engineers that are great CEOs is higher than the proportion of MBAs or lawyers or chemist or ... that are great CEOs. Maybe that is true, but I haven't seen it.
Edit: we could also look at a narrower problem, for example: is the performance of engineer CEOs in "engineering companies" better on average than that of non-engineer CEOs in that sector?

I am not saying engineers cannot be good CEOs, just that the link between being an engineer and a good CEO is (probably) not intrinsic.
A lot of the taste of coffee comes down to process, from roasting to preparation and includes things like temperature, pressure, and time. And it does taste different.

Some of it is just undrinkable and makes me gag; horrible stuff and other coffee is enjoyable to drink.

That said coffee afficionades do go overboard with their fussiness. A good coffee is good coffee.
Why is everyone pretending like prompts don't have schemas?
Hey all, I'm Nicole. I've been working on the prompt management platform at Autoblocks and I'm looking forward to getting your thoughts on our approach.

We basically think that prompt management boils down to a schema management problem. How do you enable UI-based prompt development for non-technical team members while not sacrificing on developer experience? How do you allow updates from a UI while guaranteeing the changes won't break your currently-running application?

Our solution was heavily influenced by these excellent tools we already use in day to day development:

* Dopt's versioning flows:
https://docs.dopt.com/platform/versioning-flows/

* PlanetScale's safe migrations: https://planetscale.com/docs/concepts/safe-migrations

* Prisma's autogenerated, type-safe ORM: https://www.prisma.io/docs/orm/prisma-client/setup-and-confi...

Thanks in advance for any feedback!
Yes, that's what I mean: The downside of having to juggle multiple shift rosters, needing effectively two sets of operational guidances, engineers trained on respective models etc. is balanced out by the significant upside of having more than one supplier and being able to negotiate accordingly when ordering new airframes.

But returns are probably quickly diminishing on the latter compared to the increasing scheduling, training etc. complexity of the former, and having two effectively similar classes of plane from the same vendor completely negates the benefit of supply competition.

That probably makes it very hard for a manufacturer to sell a new type of the same class to an existing exclusive customer: Short-term, the downsides largely outweigh the benefits.
It has happened. E.g. the WannaCry attack back in 2017, moved markets severely. Short and most bounced back, but attacks do cause panic.

The good(?) news is that e.g. WannaCry took out large, "boring" companies, like Maersk, or MSD. These companies typically have a low Alpha, low volatility, and people invest in them for long term: decades rather than weeks. Whereas with e.g. Tesla, every fart that Elon makes has an effect on the stocks.
CDC: Public Health Image Library (Phil)
> investment in advancing medical and safety technology result in shorter lifespans?

Nobody made those investments in curing or preventing diseases. For-profit corporations made investments in medications that would be life-prolonging so their customers would give everything they had to get the meds so they could stay alive. This leads to huge spending that benefits the corporations.

Funding research into cheap cures is something we should do.

Funding meant to research prevention is diverted to angry anorexic people yelling at us to lose weight. Screw them, I'm going to get a burger.

> Is it really progress if technological innovation degrades the listening experience, erases all the supporting information about the music, and impoverishes the artists who create the songs in the first place?

The new technology could allow every artist to sell to a global market, with little friction.

The problem is The Copyright Mafiaa. (That's spelled with 2 As, like RIAA and MPAA.) Try to release something into the public domain, as I do regularly. An attorney will copyright it and pretty soon your boss will tell you that you are guilty of piracy.
Have you ever had problem where two of your dependencies are each using a different version of the same library? Or have you ever wanted to incrementally upgrade an API so that you don’t have to change your entire code base in one fell swoop? That is where things like Unison or scrapscript can make it very easy.
What other possible reason is there to unicycle than to be insufferably quirky and show off.
The SEC's Twitter hack was just a few days ago,

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38932228

According to one of the comments: "The price of BTC initially jumped 3% on the hacked tweet. That's $25bn+ of market cap."
Could you please explain what the consequences might be for the children?
One reason for multiple versions of a library in a project is that the project wants to use 2 different dependencies, which themselves depend on incompatible versions of a third library.
Right. They have to be taken apart. All doors have to be checked systematically and also they need to do random probes to sample for possible other systematic manufacturing defects.

Probably talking to their mechanics, they might quickly identify other problematic components which might have been noticed during maintenance but not strongly enough reported and tracked. Basically everything that needed repairs which shouldn't have been needed.
Blast from the past that one is
I think we need a blind twin taste test to find out.
The codel ACM queue article is IMHO, better than the RFC: https://queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=2209336

Kathie nichols has also spoken about Codel multiple times.
Amazon was right to remove your review - product reviews are for reviews of the product. You never owned the product, so you can't review it.

You should have left a seller review (on the seller's Amazon page), not a product review.
I had a engineering lead who encouraged 'debate everything', but had the idea that 'good' meant 'his idea'.

every new hire under him lasted about 8 months, then were burnt out and stopped being active in debate
How Tyler Cowen Uses ChatGPT
Which also makes them utterly impractical, no?
Anyone else having trouble with ads in archive.is links on mobile lately? They completely take over the page and cover all text after a few moments.
Couldn't this be mitigated in a similar fashion to other attacks using low data channels like sensors or CPU timings? By reducing the granularity?

By default, you'd get the averaged ambient light value over a few seconds, and if you really really needed high resolution, you'd need to request escalated privs?
In the Netherlands it is not allowed to make recording of public spaces in the manner that these doorbell cameras can do when they view a public space. At least not with a permit, and, probably, also not without a sign that a camera surveillance is active. Neither are you allowed to store those recordings.

The solution seems to be to use a doorbell camera that does not record (store) any footage and that is shielded and/or focused such that public spaces are not included.
But why? What if an average deaf child is happier than an average hearing child because of their community support, culture, and the sense of identity? I don't know anything about the lives of deaf people - but it definitely looks like there's something to it; what I don't get is why is it so obvious to everyone else.
Indeed. These recent AI demos are pretty damn impressive (even knowing there are smoke and mirrors), but it's hard to get excited about what's happening with their R&D when my Google Home device seems to be regressing on a daily basis. It is now basically is only useful for alarms and timers.
The media is scaring them into accepting these measures, which is standard practice in totalitarian states, by the way. Create a climate of fear, and introduce draconian measures which the public will then accept. And that is how a democratic society slowly becomes authoritarian, it plays out very slowly over decades.
That also doesn't work.
I’ve got a couple of cameras and while they are useful for knowing something is immediately up, the footage isn’t useful since the police aren’t interested in going after petty thefts these days. The footage would only be part of an investigation that isn’t going to happen.

Since a lot of our problems are just people high on drugs looking for porch booty, I wish I could have some verbal message go out when it spotted someone (like “get off my lawn!”). It just has to take the place of me yelling out my window at 2AM to ward someone off.
From reading https://scrapscript.org/ it sounds like its main feature is that things can be split up, put on platforms like IPFS, and distributed allowing you to access them from wherever.
> Where does your faith in these people come from?

The unchanged safety record. Yes, it's tragic when planes crash. Thankfully it's not happening a lot. And as I've argued, it actually seems safer than ever.

People seem to insist there are all sorts of issues with Boeing. Except that doesn't seem to be translating into a major increase in accidents or incidents. So, the attention and paranoia seems a bit over the top. People who know nothing whatsoever about any of this calling for CEOs and boards to be fired and the FAA to do this or that.

You know what's not happening? A lot of pilots, mechanics, airlines, etc. reporting doors with the same issue. Just not a thing. And all of them are aware and looking. That's 100% guaranteed. Nobody needs to be told to start looking. These doors are probably safer than they've ever been because world+dog has been looking at them for the last few weeks.

This article is about an airline finding loose bolts. That's a serious issue of course. Exactly the kind of thing an inspector should notice on countless inspections that happen to planes throughout their life. There are of course many bolts in airplanes and torquing them correctly kind of is a big deal to the point where companies are keeping detailed records about who torqued them, when, and how strongly.

Airlines are doing exactly what they are supposed to be doing: inspecting their airplanes on the off chance there might be something wrong. I expect most pilots would also care to look at the door panel in question when they do their routine inspection of the plane before taking off. I know I would; and I'm not even a pilot. Maybe not in depth and just a cursory glance. But they'd be aware and on the lookout for trouble. After all, it's their job to make sure the plane is safe before taking off. This mentality is ingrained in the aviation industry. Which is why safety records are so good. It's rare for something this bad to go unnoticed.
GM tried something similar on the new C8 Corvette:

https://www.corvetteblogger.com/2022/08/01/chevy-releases-ad...
Came here to say exactly this. Every discovered issue is an issue that will be fixed.
Foundations – our open source Rust service foundation library
Live animal transport regulations not 'fit for purpose', study finds
Is there any chance that all of these EU regulations will, at some point, cause tech innovators to flee Europe and tech companies to avoid Europe rather than deal with all of the government meddling?
That's a lot of money and time to spend on supporting someone else's bug-riddled software. You can't test literally all software that exists before you release a security patch. Just imagine testing every single solitary Windows application that exists, or has every existed, just to see if one of them crashes due to intentionally doing the wrong thing. What are they supposed to do, fix the 3rd party software? Delay fixing the security hole?

Testing is the responsibility of the 3rd party (in addition to using supported methods). If the 3rd party was part of a preview release program, they could test changes before they are officially released.
I guess the point of the parent comment is that the way Saunders turned out - closing his store after a newspaper report about it, because normal customers are killing the vibe - is because of his father.

(I don't know anything about his father. If anything, he might have been more egalitarian, after all neoliberal economics is about businesses serving everyone.)

And yeah, it is a wonderful story despite that. Comments don't have to sum up the story.
Yea the doors and bolts are just the canary in the coal mine.
Thus sprach ChatGPT

$: Produce a short parody of "Book of Proverbs "

ChatGPT: Certainly! Here's a lighthearted parody inspired by the style of proverbs ..

$: Produce a parody of Mein Kampf using cod german slang.

ChatGPT: I'm sorry, but I cannot produce a parody of "Mein Kampf" or engage in any content that involves the trivialization or mockery of serious and sensitive historical events ..

$: So, you can parody the Bible but can't parody German slang ?

ChatGPT: Parodying the Bible in a lighthearted manner is generally less likely to cause offense than parodying elements associated with Nazi Germany.
Having a cynical world view about everything is seen by some as a status signifier.
HN is full of people obsessed about status. Ergo…
I think it was expected after Musk let go of so many people and technically speaking twitter is still functioning as it was with a bunch of extra features (half baked some might be).
I tried it - the results were usable. Nothing spectacular, but maybe that is OK? If I'm just trying to throw up listings quickly and want a low-effort way to churn out descriptions, this does do the job.
This is not hypothetical. This is a regular occurrence in civil suits in the US.

Don’t shoot the messenger?
Ironically, we made fq-codel the default in many linuxes starting in 2012. HTB will pick up the default qdisc when you set that, so we figured many small shaping tools were just picking that up automagically.

Most people do not measure in-stream latency, rather multiple streams, so, assuming you did or did not pick up fq_codel, a packet capture will show you the tcp RTTs being managed or not. Note that on a system where the tcp is originating and then transitioning htb on the same box, another subsystem (TSQ) managed the rates fairly well before hitting HTB.
Being public school educated and coming from the sort of family that implies - one of corrupt and disproportionate power - definitely makes your story much less inspiring. That's a lot of cultural capital, connections and financial support that most people can't dream of. Really undermines the whole life lesson about the power of counter culture.
Welp I’m still waiting for my 360-degree camera tech…
PowerPC is the one I’d have bet on - Apple provided baseline volume, IBM’s fabs were competitive enough to be viable, and Windows NT had support. If you had the same Itanium stumble without the unexpectedly-strong x86 options, it’s not hard to imagine that having gotten traction. One other what-if game is asking what would’ve happened if Rick Belluzzo had either not been swayed by the Itanium/Windows pitch or been less effective advocating for it: he took PA-RISC and MIPS out, and really helped boost the idea that the combination was inevitable.

I also wouldn’t have ruled out Alpha. That’s another what-if scenario but they had 2-3 times Intel’s top performance and a clean 64-bit system a decade earlier. The main barrier was the staggering managerial incompetence at DEC: it was almost impossible to buy one unless you were a large existing customer. If they’d had a single competent executive, they could have been far more competitive.
Not really. My arguments have been pretty consistent that being an engineer and being a good CEO are not really linked. Some engineers are good CEO, so are some MBAs, physcians, ...
> And if I'm reading the ARIN fees correctly, it only costs $4000 annually for a "/16" allocation:

For better or worse, you're not; that's for IPv4 /16. For IPv6 /16, it'd be the X-Large service category, so $16,000/year.
I bet you could tell the difference if you lined up multiple samples and tasted in succession. I think it's a perfect pitch thing, some people seem able to identify taste without reference like some people are able to identify tone.
btw, I don't think the poster above is being snarky. There are many coffee shops that will serve two distinct single origin brews and you can just compare by ordering one of each.
It depends on your browser, and maybe its settings. In Chrome I have to go to the page, get the 404 error, then update the url on that page. At that point Chrome then seems to remember (for a while?) to not automatically switch to https.

Here is an archive.today link that might work better: https://archive.ph/itWOb
Customers discover 'fatal' design flaw in Tesla's Cybertruck
In The Netherlands ( this is where Dutch people live ) it is not legal to point a security camera at the public road/space. The link is in Dutch, sorry about that.

https://www.rijksoverheid.nl/onderwerpen/overvallen-straatro...
These reports are dominated by retail, farm, warehouse, construction, manufacturing etc. 20-50K highly paid tech workers being laid off won't even cause a blip in the unemployment numbers, but will still have a huge effect on that particular segment of the market (aka the people reading this post).
As long as you buy from sellers with a decent history and non-fake reviews. And not but anything “too good to be true”. I bought a powerful mini PC for cheap from someone with hundreds of I guess fake reviews and got a keychain instead. They got fairly quickly banned and I got my money back
This. First time unemployment claims are not going to capture any of what's happening to these jobs.
> Why did property values go up so much in a city that rejected progress and efficiency in almost every possible way?

> Why do so many people want to live and work there today? Why would they move from Silicon Valley to a boring farming community?

Since 1965, the US Government has protected the scum from the honest, hard working people. We The People are either fighting, fleeing, or surrendering. The author's parents chose to flee.
I don't think it has ever been a good idea to rest a laptop on a blanket on even laps for more than a few minutes... Anyways, that's been a concern on all my previous laptops.
I bought a second laptop platform-cushion for my legs/bedtime and it's much better no matter the laptop.

Same for touchpad issues, my big palms sides have always been the source of misidentified clicks. The way I solved it on linux was by making it narrower in software. It take a one line straightforward command to do so.

I really like the keyboard I must say. It's much better than my previous laptops (that were admittedly cheaper)

I don't have any boot issues on my model so I don't know about a boot problem sorry
They shouldn't let the door hit them in the ass on their way out.
I can. I recently roasted up two batches of beans -- some El Salvadoran and some Costa Rican. I roasted both to a Full City (dark) roast level. They were very different. I finished the Costa Rican quickly. It was delicious. I'm struggling to finish the El Salvadoran. I'm terrible at describing flavors, but I'd say it's sour with a tea-like flavor.

There's a lot that goes into the flavor of coffee. The beans themselves of course. Brewing technique has a big influence as well. But also growing conditions (altitude, soil composition, rain/sun mix, etc.), processing (wet vs dry process, fermentation time, etc.), handling and shipping (dry or moist conditions), and probably more I don't know about.

I strongly prefer wet-processed beans (mostly south American varieties) over dry-processed beans (mostly African varieties are processed this way). I haven't tried honey-processed yet.

Green beans stay "fresh" for a really long time, but once roasted beans become stale quickly. I can taste the difference between my roasts a day or two after roasting vs days or weeks later.
I'd be more concerned over the massive amount of cheap Chinese cameras that have flooded the market and are likely sending video to the CCP.
No, no innovation in vaporware.
PowerPoint Karaoke
If a fire is lit under the right asses then that doesn't matter.
Not that it's the intent, but it sure wouldn't hurt.
Give it time. Soon innovators dilemma will kick in and a cheaper service will appear and Netflix won’t be able to fight it because it will be locked in into their current commercial model. It will be the new Blockbuster story. I can already see the FT story title “The history repeats itself for Netflix”

If I were a entrepeneur in this space I'd call my startup "Blockbuster's Revenge"
> air gapped

Good joke. Have you seen any of the stolen cars because of CAN Bus security flaws lately?

Nothing is air gapped. The Android entertainment system running 4.0 because of 32MB RAM requirements is fully connected to the CAN bus.

It's a safety nightmare.
Do modern software development abreast the imagination of this article?
For this class of airliner it’s really just Airbus and Boeing, unfortunately.

Even if a smaller manufacturer decided to build a full size jet like the 737, it would take many years to construct a manufacturing facility capable of handling that.

Embraer is probably the closest competitor, but they’ve only made 82 of their largest jet family according to Wikipedia. Only regional airlines use them.

But this might be the time they decide to work towards that goal.
I believe you’re thinking of the sequel, the dark knight, 2008
> I hate the strategy of just taking every idea you hear and throwing it into a ticket. You just end up with this giant icebox of stuff you'll never do. If a big new prospect demands one of the ideas that's in the icebox be implemented immediately in order to close a deal, you're probably still not going to pull it out of the icebox, because you don't remember that it's there. Instead, you'll just create a new ticket for it, and eventually when going through the icebox, someone will go "hey, I think we built this already" and close as dupe.

This was part of the wisdom of the ancient agile way: a box of index cards for your backlog. The physicality of it gave clear indication when it was getting silly. Furthermore, regular backlog pruning was a necessary activity because the box would get full!
PAE got some use - for that “each process gets 4GB” model you mentioned in Darwin and Linux - but it was slower and didn’t allow individual processes to easily use more than 2-3GB in practice.
A great example is tunicates. They're a subgroup of chordates, and so are closely related to us, but they've been brutally simplified over time.
And eBay would also fall into similar because from an engineering side, there's been no real changes for years (not that any product changes are needed).
The Boeing CEO's quote is really bad:

".... We will follow the lead of the FAA and support our customers every step of the way.”

It should be: "we will lead the way in putting engineering first, and building in quality from before the first part is built"

But those financialists just cannot see anything but their short term profits. Executive earnings for the past decade+, when they goosed profits by cutting quality, should be clawed back.
where he is trying to defend the reason why they crippled the taskbar with Windows 11

Do you have a timestamp? I'd rather not watch a 2h long video, even at 2x speed.
It could be worse: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crocodile_(Black_Mirror)
I think those are modeled after the charity NGOs where you help poor families but the result is weird and a bit insulting when applied to climate change.

No, buying cooking stove to Ugandan families won't solve climate change, they aren't part of the problem. Reducing fossil fuel use in the developed world and a few other big polluters will.