skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
44 here! This is what it’s to be middle aged!

To me it’s not weird to do some Rust programming out of work.

What is weird is if people believe it would be some sort of virtue.

If it’s fun for the person, great! If it’s not fun and you are not getting paid for it - maybe rather find something you like to do.
It's not as if I haven't been exposed to his laws of motion in physics courses. I just think of them as more math (or heck, even philosophy) than science.
Why isn't it relevant? They obeyed the exact same rules and regulations (FAR Part 121). That's the exact same part of theregs that applies to Delta and United. They weren't a charter or sightseeing operator.

They were, prior to the their closure, the oldest operating airline in the US and something like #3 worldwide, post-dating only KLM and one of the other European flag carriers. (Lufthansa, maybe? I don't have the list handy)
What if schools had a minimum-level lottery system based on standardized tests? E.g. "you must score XXXX to be eligible for entry to a T20 school, and you will get in randomly". XXXX+50 for a T10, XXXX+100 for a T5, XXXX-50 for a T50 etc...schools could tailor their minimum score to whatever they desired.
They still might do B, but use proxies to determine probable race. This can be determined based on scales they apply to different high schools. Of course the underlining issue is US socioeconomic fabric that is the root cause of this issue.
Not any more! Yippee!
> Also, it seemed that learning and understanding wasn't their primary goal rather than having beautiful lecture notes.

Bingo.

I commented the same thing and someone else even suggested solving exercises in latex. Wtf what's wrong with people here.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39260895
Technically Norway should be much colder on level of Canada cold. They aren't because Gulf stream. Same for UK, which usually does not even have winter like Southern Europe, just endless autumn.
EKS + AWS CNI work great and will get you pretty darn far. Scaling ceiling is really just your cidr range space. If you're bumping up against that you may be outgrowing EKS, then cillium i guess
POV effect: object exists only in motion [video]
Career Transitions: A Step-by-Step Framework
What can those customers do?

The airlines that have lots of 787 max have a vested interest in being able to use them.

The whole max mcas debacle happened because of the high cost of pilot re-certification. So what are they going to do, re-certify all their boeing pilots to fly airbus?

Airbus won't even have the capacity to take over all of boeing's market share. And the US can't let that happen anyway from a strategic point of view.

It's not like customers picking a brand of detergent on a shelf.
The BBB is an extortion racket and I cringe anytime they’re brought up as some trustworthy source.
as someone who just went through this, the process to getting mixtral running in python did "just work" (pip install the interface, download the model, run the sample)

The process to get it running on the gpu wasn't there yet.
You deciding that need is a misreading is you assuming what other's lifestyles are. If you have one of your listed caveats, you need that amount. Your suggesting that it's not needed It also has to do with the person's metabolism and other factors.
568,145 is not a small starting number.
Where is the digital highway heading? (1993)
I am definitely curious for feedback from people after using it for a while. I felt the same in the beginning, but after writing a fair bit of it, I rarely find myself wanting it. I could imagine for more casual or new users it could be helpful at least for the transition.
I do agree. Though it is interesting to try figure out why openscad (and similar projects) haven't become more prominent in the industry. It feels like some aspects about code to hardware have to be tweaked for it to become the standard way to design.
Sad that some of the folks behind Weave didn't get a possibly life-changing exit.
The counter argument being donald trump, where every other sentence is some admission of guilt.
It's fine for them to cover the costs. They just have to include all the price (except sales tax in the USA for some reason) in the price tag just like every other company. You don't go to McDonalds, order some food that says $5, and then pay $5 for the food, $3.99 for being allowed to eat it, and $0.99 for processing the transaction.
No, read the post to which I actually responded. It didn't say "pilot, any pilot, anyone with a ticket".

>> also be a pilot with the suitable type ratings to fly the stuff they build.

Boeing builds airliners. The "pilot" in the context of this threat a pilot rated to fly the "stuff they build".
I think this is a separate issue, where officers routinely lie in interrogations to steer the person being questioned. This isn't perjury, because it doesn't happen in court.
> LOL. Police officers are never prosecuted. And do you know who is prosecuted even less? Prosecutors. And even less than that? Judges.

At some point you have to have someone who is unprosecutable, or you have people who can be influenced.

The king, at the top of this heap, is the jury itself; they cannot be prosecuted for their decision, even if it is obviously, manifestly, completely, pants-on-head-insane.
It would be great if HN automatically added a "wayback machine" link for articles over, say, one year ago.
It's basically the question of Turing machines and universal calculation. As a lay person I just wouldn't expect an LLM to be good at intelligences using other than sequential symbols.
A text to slide based online course video with images workflow.

I’m working for an edTech company. Some students prefer video. So I built a Django app that takes a block of text and formats it into a set of slides, each with a title, some bullet points, an Dalle-3 generated image, and a voiceover.

It then compiles that all into a video.
Yeah, strongly agree. The lack of batteries in the Rust stdlib is by far the biggest mistake in the language.

The first reason is because the stdlib is the only thing you can always count on being there. People are often in situations where they can't download library packages due to security procedures, and have to rely on just the stdlib. People like to complain about urllib2 still being in Python even though it's not really used any more, but I've been in situations where urllib2 was the only thing available and I was damn glad it existed.

The second reason is because the way Rust does things is horribly confusing. What's the best crate to use for X? If you are a regular in the community you probably know, but a newbie is going to have no idea which of the many available options to pick. Whereas something within the stdlib is always a reasonable choice, even if it isn't the best choice.

I really hate that the Rust community in general is so dogmatic about this topic. Having so much functionality outside the stdlib makes the language worse, not better.
People contain multitudes. While I would agree that Elon has more of an engineer mindset than other CEOs I’m still not convinced that would amount to much.

A look at Tesla build quality, or that ridiculous demo where the Cybertruck window smashed are just two things that immediately come to mind to cast doubt on Musk’s commitment to engineering. I think he’s a big picture guy, I absolutely think issues like those we're seeing with Boeing could happen under his watch.
I guess that's my problem, I don't have a lots of friends. Don't know how to make them. And I work from home so that's one avenue closed.
In what decade was this? Stories like this seem super rare from where I'm standing - boots on ground in 2024. I meet maybe two dozen founders per year - can't think of a single actual bootstrapper who doesn't feel like they need capital to compete. (There's something wrong with the economy right now ...)
Most (but not all) services that use 2FA allow you to set up backup codes so you can recover your password. There are plenty of options for non-smartphone token generators available. It would depend on your needs and what is available to you.
OKCupid. I'm male. I'm not ugly or out of shape, but not particularly attractive (IMO). I filled out a decent profile. My (now) wife messaged me first.

In general, I had success during the dating phase by looking at the woman's profile, finding something interesting, and then making my initial message reference that. Gets a conversation starter, stands out from the thousands of "hey" messages. If there was nothing interesting, I just moved on to the next person.

One thing I consider important that I did was to make a list with 5 categories: "No-go" aspects that I'd break off a potential relationship over, "must have" aspects I would require, "prefer not to have" traits I'd rather avoid but would compromise if there weren't many, and "prefer to have" traits where I could accept the absence if there weren't many, and lastly "don't care" traits. The list wasn't the important part, but evaluating my own preferences & deciding what I truly cared about was important.
I read it as '[…] you don't leak internal IDs at all […]. It is rare to find people doing that [i.e. not leaking internal IDs]'
Yeah, when I was first reading the title, I was thinking "how can they possibly generate good fake id that people can just print, id has holograms and magnetic strips and what not. But generating a realistic photo of an id is whole different kettle a fish. An easy kettle!
Interesting that Grove’s company would go on to provide some of the best evidence that putting an engineer at the wheel is no magic bullet.
Apropos of nothing, I added this function so I don't have to leave the command line to see the PDF.

pdfpage() {
convert -resize 0x1000^ "${1}"[${2}] -background white -flatten sixel:-
}

You can probably deduce it assumes you have a Imagemagick installed and you're in a terminal with sixel support.
That's quite circumstantial evidence though. Nothing in that story tells me you've accurately concluded that it was the green tea.

Patient had unknown liver failure and drank a ton of green tea. Liver failure went away while still drinking tons of lower quality stuff. He proceeded to limit high quality green tea without it coming back, but if it was unrelated it wouldn't have come back regardless if he limited green tea or not.
Or: Having a high IQ isn't enough anymore, you also need to have - and prove - that you have doggedly high Conscientiousness. Preferably in a way which aligns with traditional prestige seeking, like debate or math competitions or football.

That's probably a good thing imo. It indicates that our overall expectations for our elites is on the rise, which translates to better outcomes on net down the line when they actually get fast tracked into positions of power. Those of us who are smart and lazy similarly benefit because many more of us are able to find less taxing jobs plying our expertise at the right hands of these elites for very comfortable wages, rather than being forced into the millstone of the C suite ourselves.
Personal Branding Engineering, of course
It adds up though... Personally, I'm fine with Deno in the path and scripts with a shebang in practice.

If reach one of my scripts was a separate build output from Deno that would be several GB of space.
In New York, 1 in 4 residents now live within a half-mile of a mega warehouse
Boo hoo. Own it.
The Public Defenders system is already chronically underfunded, understaffed, and far overworked. Sadly I don't think they would be the best avenue for trying to hold the police to account.
My mobile phone account has a bogus number (not generated by me!) as my SSN. Fortunately I know what it is so can recite it on a call. Which is why I don't want them to have my SSN in the first place!
I'll spare you my gay saga, but to cheer you up:

Thanks to medical strides and our indoor-loving HN crew [0], hitting 30 is simply not a crisis. The phrase "30's are the new 20's" is something to live by.

You've got loads of time ahead, no worries.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vjqt8T3tJIE. Explores why previous generations looked older when they were our age.
So let the billboard say $5+tax. The price tag in the store should still say $5.99 - the state border doesn't go down the middle of the checkout line. If it's online and you know where I live, it should say $5.99 too.
I haven't pirated content in a decade but I'd estimate I'm a year or two away from going back for the reasons you stated. So sick of the rate hikes and fragmentation. Once ads become common place I'm out.
> So getting laid off from a FAANG is like twice as bad as getting laid off from <other tech company>

Except you've had however long collecting an outrageous salary and stock that dwarfs 95% of people working in tech, much less other industries.

Yeah, it sucks for the people who are laid off, and I don't wish them ill or anything, but it's hard to have too much sympathy if they were financially irresponsible with their enormous compensation. I don't have a whole lot of sympathy for lottery winners who lose it all in 1-2 years, either.
Happens quite often in airlines that operate a range of types. E.g. Airlines that operate both the 320 and 321, 777-200 and 777-300, etc often swap aircraft between pair of similar types but slightly different number of seats to match demand but still draw from the same pilots/crew due to common type ratings. But I've also had 320 to 777 swaps, 757 to 321, etc do it does happen especially on routes where they operate a range of different aircrafts. Yes some tickets may need to be reissued but that's better than cancelling the fight where all the tickets have to be rebooked onto other flights. Some changes are due to low demand so in those cases no ticket reissue are needed. It also depends on the airline, you'll see swaps more often on airlines that operate many different kinds of aircraft and also depends on the route as some routes can only be served by a particular aircraft (e.g. ultra long haul routes, airports with short runways, etc) while other can be served by a wider variety of aircrafts lending itself to operational flexibility. YMMV.
I'm not sure I understand your comment, this article is specifically about KoBold, a startup which has just received venture funding (semi-recently) from Bill Gates and Jeff Bezos. It isn't implying that they owned the mine or were able to build their businesses from the gains from the mining. I assume both of them funded the company because sourcing minerals necessary to transition to renewables is a priority, whether for personal or business reasons.

https://news.crunchbase.com/ai-robotics/cleantech-kobold-bil...
In any case Carbon is a research project, even if the Internets give it more spotlight than the authors themselves.
For real?
I'm asking about the entire industry.
Maybe voice an opinion after you get your second job.

Edit:
I'd say overwhelming, 'tickets' are taken and resolved by people with no access to code, and no authority to make any fixes. The situation you are representing is a very small percentage of problems.
They cannot drop the aircraft. They simply have to keep using them. The only option is lawyers. The airlines could demand compensation from Boeing for any time/effort put into rectifying unreasonable issues with recently-delivered Boeing aircraft.
Google closed my decade-old Cloud account
I've been using Google Cloud for my multiple SaaS products, mainly because of Firebase, for about a decade.

Today, I received emails from Firebase that my projects changed from a paid to a free plan due to an issue with my billing account. (And no, payment was not the issue. I do not have any outstanding payments. That was the first thing I checked.)

When I log into GC, the top bar in red shows: Your account has been closed. You can no longer access Google Cloud. Contact support for further assistance.

My billing page shows: This billing account is closed. Reopen it to continue using linked projects.
But when I try to reopen it, it says: You can't reopen this billing account because this account is not in good standing.

The payment overview page says: Your payments profile is currently suspended because some information on your account couldn't be verified.

Pointing me to this URL: https://support.google.com/pay/contact/account_verification

So apparently, Google needed to verify something about me, and instead of asking for it, they thought, why not close the account first? What's the harm in that?
I've been using a combo of LLMs + live transcription to build a passive assistant that keeps track of talking points and can pull out data/tasks from a conversation you're having (https://sightglass.ai or here's a demo of me using it: https://www.loom.com/share/0220ca03bce341669d314d4254872226)

So far this is being used for:

- Sales -> guiding new recruits during more complex client calls

- HR -> Capturing respones during screening interviews

If you'd like to try this out feel free to DM me or email me at andrew at sightglass.ai, we're looking for more testers!
That’ll often not scale to millions of records. Letting the database optimizer find the optimal execution path instead of doing it procedurally elsewhere might result in “finishes in 5 minutes”, versus “doesn’t fit in a night”.
Ah, right, so on to the next possibility.

Bergamot contains a chemical, a sort of terpene, aptly named "bergamottin." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bergamottin

Bergamottin famously inhibits a major liver enzyme inelegantly named CYP3A4. CYP3A4 is responsible for metabolizing a huge number of drugs and other substances. (e.g., endogenous steroid hormones.) This is what's responsible for the "grapefruit juice effect." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grapefruit%E2%80%93drug_intera...

Bergamottin also inhibits CYP1A1, which metabolizes theophylline, and CYP1A2, which metabolizes caffeine.

The most likely possibility is that consuming that much bergamottin, together with caffeine, disrupted the metabolism of the latter, leading to caffeine-induced toxicity in skeletal/cardiac muscle. (Cramps, fasciculations, etc.)

But it could also be that the inhibition of CYP3A4 messed with the metabolism of something else the man was ingesting.
https://github.com/cheatcode/joystick
Reverse also worked for me, take (other's) typed notes and write them out
Five Stars: Samsung Galaxy S24 Ultra Review
I was helping out my friend who was teaching a drama class. A very cute woman approached me and we talked for ages. It was just instantly so easy to talk with her, although I wasn't actually attracted to her at first. I just enjoyed being around her and thought we'd be friends. And we kept enjoying being around each other. Still together nearly 25 years later.

I'm not good with dating and flirting in general. I had many friends who were just magnets; if they were around I was invisible, and they didn't seem to have to do anything. I can't replicate that.

So the only advice I can give is create opportunities to meet people, and don't stress about it too much. You will meet someone it clicks with eventually.
> Node, as far as I know, has none.

Atomics are probably the closest. https://v8.dev/features/atomics
> The JDK has a bunch of garbage in the JDK that people shouldn't use. That stuff has to remain due to strong backwards compatibility guarantees.

That is not actually a problem. Let it stay there, it hurts nobody and may actually occasionally help people.
Are you happy or each day is a struggle?
> Both this issue and issue with the door bolts were caused by Spirit

From what I've read, this is not what happened for the door bolts.

The New York Times report was that Spirit required access to some part of the fuselage masked by the door but did not work on the door. The Spirit request was granted, so Boeing workers removed the door, Spirit workers did what they intended to, then Boeing workers put the door back. There is a entry in the maintenance log of the plane about this. There should have been a routine check after this operation, but there was no mention of it in the maintenance log.
Project Azriel: Zombies Can Make You Think Better (2017) [pdf]
Did the cop show up to your court date? Did they provide any information to the judge? Did you truly not know the speed of the road you were on, and was that because the sign was obstructed, or is that the argument you made in court?

It seems like in this situation I could have honestly answered "no, I did not know the speed limit".

I mean, where I said I'd know the speed limit above, if it was truly obscured, I think I would be playing it safe and judge things on what the road looked like, whether there was a school there, and the weather and other ambient conditions.
Ask HN: Asperger, How to Get Funding?
I've been living with Asperger and without delving into the details too much, it makes some things way easier and some others way harder-- some people treat you like a genius while you fail to grasp things they seem to inherently know--

Working for others hasn't been great for many easily avoidable reasons that can be related to that.
I've consistently brought up solutions to issues that were going to be the downfall of a company or a project, for them to be ignored or acted on in insufficient ways.
Every single "I told you so" moment like this comes with a longer depression and a little bit more disdain for our society as I see people get hurt and enormous amounts of time wasted for reasons that could have easily been avoided. Every single time I get out of those depression phases by working on something I believe can succeed, either at a new job or a personal project.

I want to be done with that cycle before it makes me bitter. The solutions I see:
- Choose my employers way better
- Stop even looking for a job, make my own and build great things

I'd prefer to fail on my own terms, not someone else's and I've been working on a project on the side but have never felt quite ready to bring others along.

With all the recent waves of lay-offs, I see many overperforming individuals I've worked with in the past which I would team up with if I could.
This would require funding. Looking for funding seems to be a wall I can't figure how to begin climbing and I think it's mostly due to Asperger in many ways and I'm not confident I can surmount that one alone in time.
My main issue there seems to be some analysis paralysis, I simply do not know enough about the subject and it's preventing me from action, I see many opaque options I don't understand and haven't figured how to optimize through them and move forward and picking one blindly has too much potential risk.

I seek help, advice, mentoring, examples, solutions. From people that went through this before and know the road, or even hearing from some dealing with Asperger that overcame that in one way or another.

Since I think it matters for funding, I'm in Canada / Montreal area and I'm working on a game that I believe fills a large hole in the market that's been up for grabs for a long time, with players going from a game to another where they all fall short.
Do you know the “ending” of a piece of software before you write it?

Obviously it varies a lot, based on the type of project and your own personal methodology. Sometimes you might be able to say yes, sometimes you might have to say no. In some cases the question won’t even make sense. And in all cases you might suspect that the person asking the question is misunderstanding something fundamental about the working process.
I am sometimes amazed at how difficult programming was in the fifties and sixties.

I think the Gamma 60 (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bull_Gamma_60) takes the cake. It was basically like programming an Itanium with punchcards.
This is cool! I have a HN pipeline where I upvote things that I want to drill into, and a script I wrote generates PDFs and sends to my Kindle for offline reading (great for my pipeline). That uses Playwright's "to PDF" method which is over the browser and slow. I might look into replacing with this.

If there's any interest I might OSS the pipeline