skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't think there's any need to cut Boeing any flack to point out that the regulators did fail to do due diligence.

It is understandable that regulators would take a lighter hand to a company which has shown good ethics — which was historically the case of Boeing (more of an issue if that is because of not being able to handle the load), it's a problem if they go completely hands off.

I don't think the FAA is the sole culprit here either, we've not heard much of non-american regulators. While it makes sense that the FAA would be the primary regulator for Boeing, that regulators would cooperate internationally, and that non-primary regulators would have to be careful e.g. around the risk of being called out for trade restrictions, I still feel non-US regulators should have been a lot more involved with and suspicious of Boeing following the MCAS mess.
Or in this case, since it's mechanically a GM Ultium vehicle (a modification of the Chevy Blazer), it's a prologue to Honda producing their own EV from scratch?
It feels even worse than that if you consider with this being widely known, competitors could make a point to attack Netlify customers knowing it may bankrupt them.
Miracle WM, a new tiling window manager built on Mir
The Obama administration opened the doors for private companies to do what they're doing now. NASA is moving more to the roles of regulator, purchaser of services, and deep space science. Seems to be a better path now than the one we were on before opening spaceflight to commercial entities.
OVITO: open scientific data visualization tool for particle-based simulations
sure just as long as you shut down your dumb video games and movie distribution network.
And some of that domain knowledge will still rely on deep knowledge of computer systems, networks and the like.

This headline is being shared far and wide, don’t teach your kids computer science. Though I’m sure that would benefit NVIDIA in the medium term to have a generation fully reliant on services which use its products, it would definitely bite us as a species long term
From https://www.amazon.de/Lexikon-St%C3%A4dtebeschimpfungen-Bosh...:

"Zürich ist doppelt so gross wie der Wiener Zentralfriedhof, aber nur halb so lustig."

(translated: "Zurich is twice the size of Vienna's Central Cemetery, but only half as much fun.")
@KyleJune

I would consider extremely difficult to setup a reliable system that could listen to webhooks and pause projects.

My main concerns are .. how can you test it and how can you be sure that it is working in all future.

..

Are you able to find the twitter post you mentioned?
> And don't optimize without measuring

This is of course excellent advice

> Make it work, make it pretty, make it fast

While I agree somewhat with the sentiment, I dislike the implication that "fast" is somehow not relevant to whether something "works"
Maybe the ultimate engineer would have an MBA and a PhD...
Because an airplane doesn't move its wings like a bug or helicopter, and it's wings aren't shaped like fan blades. One might look at a plane and conclude that since the wings and engines are parallel to the ground, it must only move laterally.
Next year is totally the year of Linux on the desktop!
A new aspect of Google's spying
GPUs are already relatively fixed-function though - they're already designed with only graphics goals in mind, which is why they're so efficient at them. The reason why they were so suitable for AI was kind of a happy coincidence, because the way they work as processors and their high memory bandwidth (both required for good graphics performance) was also perfect for AI.
80% of the U.S. population is urban: https://www.census.gov/newsroom/press-releases/2022/urban-ru...

Of the remaining 20%, it seems unlikely that they’re evenly distributed in areas which are not suitable for rail travel because American history since the early 1800s followed rail lines (and prior to that, canals) because people followed transportation corridors - it was only with mid-20th century subsidies for car travel that people got so casual about ignoring the energy cost of travel.
Snapdragon X Elite laptop outperforming Intel Core Ultra by up to 10x in AI
This blatant ageism is ridiculous. 60 year olds are just as capable of understanding that words in English can mean more than one thing.

Someone 60 today was 20 in 1984, when small "home computers" were already widespread.

Stallman is 70. Larry Wall is 69. Guido van Rossum is 68. Eric S. Raymond is 66. That young student Linus Torvalds is 54.
Are you taking angel investors? Throw in that it comes with an AI chat assistant or a special vectordb so you can raise money and I’m in
The fact that Ehrlich is still highly regarded in many circles in spite of being almost perfectly wrong points to some underlying appeal behind his worldview. People almost want it to be true, or think it must be true, because it confirms some underlying world view that isn't stated explicitly but is kind of implied.

I personally think it's racism and eugenics.

I remember watching a documentary in grade school about overpopulation. When they wanted to convey the problem they always showed the same sorts of shots: seething hordes of mostly black and brown people in places like India and Africa. Meanwhile the scientists and other experts interviewed to argue the Malthusian case were almost entirely white men.

I recall even back then (9th or 10th grade probably) thinking this had a racist vibe, and I'm a white male who isn't particularly hypersensitive to such things. Strip off the intellectual veneer and it was literally a bunch of wealthy educated white men complaining about there being too many poor colored people. Wish I could remember the name of this doc, I bet it would come off even worse through today's eyes.

Of course today the new hotness is to panic over underpopulation and demographic collapse. That's got a huge undercurrent of racism too. Desirable countries can easily compensate for any concerns over population decline by importing population, but the depopulation zealots seem to freak out even more over that. We can't just let people immigrate... because... they never quite seem to finish the sentence but you know the reason.

Population panics just always seem racist. Overpopulation panics are about too many of the "wrong" people, while underpopulation panics are about not enough of the "right" people.
I'm sure from their perspective you are the one that stood still lol
Oh I didn't realize, sorry about that. I think it's free on iOS, or it was at least when I downloaded it a few years ago.
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There are providers that change you for connection speed and have no limits besides that. They're more expensive.
Everyone jumping on AI now is a good opportunity to do something different.
RankScience (YC W17) is hiring to automate SEO for startups
Looks like Wisconsin has lower than average natgas prices vs. rest of U.S.: https://www.eia.gov/dnav/ng/ng_pri_sum_a_EPG0_PRS_DMcf_m.htm
Just been thinking about your remark about "gray". Like am I really so
dull? Wow! I just realised that people who use some regular browsers
see down-voted comments as kinda faded out. That's really sinister but
also quite funny and in character with the dystopian creed.

How about adding random characters and line noise to unpopular
comments, or replacing odd words to make them seem more deranged and
subtract credibility? That wo ld g1ve the "hacker-like" #eel 00f
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hippopotamus hatstands sleep furiously

Can you hear me?
I thought tailhooks predated the f35. Did they need a different design on this aircraft for some reason?
Thanks! We've changed to that from https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/swiss-map-secrets above.
Astranis relocating hobbled debut satellite from Alaska to Asia – SpaceNews
But they do tell you the pricing structure, right?
RDDT: Popular social platform Reddit to sell stock in an unusual IPO
Look up SPEEA
If you're in the US at least there are still bill collectors and the like which I wouldn’t want to deal with personally
On its own, the Turing-completeness of PostScript is not a vulnerability, per se. But it does mean that anything that interprets or renders PostScript might take an unbounded (or infinite) amount of time to do so. So PostScript-handling software — even things like virus scanners — have to be coded to handle timing out and interrupting/cancelling PostScript interpretation. (Where PostScript/PDF rendering is often the only format among many "document formats" or "image formats" handled by such software, that imposes this requirement — so when multi-format "reader" software first adds PostScript- or PDF-handling capability, it often finds itself suddenly needing to rearchitect from using single-threaded bounded-time blocking calls to parsers, to needing to use async, concurrency, timers, etc.)

That being said, in combination with exploitable vulnerabilities in particular PostScript parsers used in software like Acrobat, the Turing-completeness of PostScript makes it much harder to detect such exploits. 0days in PDF readers are "nice exploits to have", because a PDF virus can be coded such that it's represented in code inside the PDF in an unbounded number of different ways, foiling signature-based virus sanners.
Beg to differ. The counterbalance to mass upvoting is downvoting not flagging. Flagging removes a submission entirely from the listing and impacts future submissions from the same user. Flagging is what people use when they want to silence something or to prevent abuse/junk from staying listed.
See also: https://www.reddit.com/r/LOLHackerNews/
It's weird that people are acting like commodities are under some sort of license when they are purchased. As far as I know they aren't. A world that tries to regulate this scares me more than one where people participate in futile hashing.
One thing that stood out to me - based on the narrative here the tail hook never could work in real world conditions. The blog mentions that the computer model used by the manufacturer was wrong.

Does that mean that manufacturers don’t field test the hardware? If so, that is scary.
Now US marines have access to surströmming!
What do you know about "⌘"?
Related:

Cartographers Have Been Hiding Covert Illustrations Inside Swiss Official Maps - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22407413 - Feb 2020 (1 comment)
Please do a two-player version!
> Our species is better off in just about every measurable material way

Ahh, I smell Pinker Bullshit in the air. It is true that if you only measure things looking for positive change, you'll only find positive change.
SoftBank founder seeks $100B to build AI chip behemoth to rival Nvidia, Intel
oops, hadn't thought of that!
as a javascript developer, I want to know what is the main difference between Rust and JavaScript regarding memory safety.
- javascript utilizes a form of automatic memory management known as garbage collection (GC). The purpose of a garbage collector is to monitor memory allocation and determine when a block of allocated memory is no longer needed and reclaim it.

what about Rust?
This article may have made sense in the heady optimistic end-of-history days of the late 90's, when climate change and global ecological collapse were not nearly is far along. In 2024, however, this kind of thing is just delusional. It should be filed alongside similar techno-economic-utopian nonsense by people such as Bjorn Lomberg.
This is really cool, thanks for sharing. What's wild to me is that the program started in the late 90s and only now is the F35 fleet up to originally specified? operational capacity.

Since then I graduated high school, got a degree, got married etc etc. The time span is mind boggling. Would be interesting to see how continuity is maintained for so long. In software it feels like if a project is more than 6 months old, we throw it out and rewrite it.
There used to be SimAnt.

The game worked great when you simply let it run itself without actually playing it.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/SimAnt
Your average company will dump you at the drop of a hat if it means their "shareholder value" is improved. If you're lucky, you get a couple months of severance.

If the private sector wants loyalty and commitment, it needs to start by being loyal and committed to its employees.
Zerg vs Protoss is pretty close, but we need something new!
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I wish they would just freeze the definition of C++ Language for a couple of decades. Just because something is "neat" and "possible" does not mean that it must become a part of the language. C++ today is a syntactic hell.
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I just take some sheets of aluminum foil, fold them into a hat, and then jump inside and hide from the world.
The author says the design was constrained by the space available for it when stowed in the airframe.
Agree with all of this - Caddy is a great project.
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A huge chunk of canadas population in Quebec, Ontario, prairies, and BC see -20 for weeks on end. -40 is more rare but happens every year. Huge chunks of the mid-western USA see those as well. At -30 my furnace is basically on continuously.
Complete anecdote here, but I live on a park that is about two acres big. Its filled with large old (~100 years) trees and lawns, though it does also cram in a basketball court and two tennis courts. In the summer heat, when we walk around our area, the temperature astonishingly drops about 5 degrees once you get within 2-3 blocks of the park. Its striking in how noticeable it is. I have no idea why, but it seems even a bit of green space can have a big impact.
Fracking has made natural gas extremely cheap in the U.S over the past several years. Apparently, right now its at the lowest inflation-adjusted price since 1990 per the WSJ: https://archive.is/8wEi7
In the movie she makes up the lyrics of a song https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CxahbnUCZxY
I was trying to do FIRE as a student making only about ~10k a year, and managed to save most of my income despite having a low income by just living really really cheaply for over a decade. By the end of my PhD program I had saved up ~100k when most people would have been that much in debt.

Then I had a kid, and couldn't find/afford childcare. So I ended up using my 'FIRE' savings to pay for childcare for several years, essentially using it all up. I was paying about 100% of my take home salary on childcare for two years straight, and able to make it through.

Basically the safety net I acquired worked awesome! I didn't get to keep my retirement savings like planned, but I was able to keep doing a low paying postdoc despite needing expensive childcare, which let me keep a low paying postdoc I would have otherwise had to quit... which ultimately led to a high paying and stable career where I've rebuilt my savings after all.

Basically, having lots of savings a la FIRE is (1) possible even on an extremely low poverty income- you just need to make hard choices like shared living situations, no car (or a very old car you maintain yourself), home cook all meals from cheap ingredients, etc. and (2) it gives you a safety next with flexibility and options for the type of unforeseen events you are talking about. Having a massive financial safety net is great, even if you end up not being able to use it to retire early, as I was not.

It's all about priorities... on almost any income level, you can ruthlessly cut un-needed expenses, and build a safety net/retirement. The poorer you are, the more likely you are to need this for some non-retirement financial emergency, which is all the more reason to do it, because those type of things are even more important than early retirement.
Farmers should be subject to monitoring on disproportionate use of vital resources. Such as alfalfa farms that are a backdoor to export US groundwater to China.
They've reached peak usefulness and are now starting the lawsuit business model?

Patent trolling when?
If you run on a single EC2 instance and you aren’t running an auto scaling cluster or anything of the sort, it would be pretty hard to get a huge bill. I much prefer that and the chance that it goes down then autoscaling or severless. Most serverless solutions have also gotten so config heavy or complex to make changes that most projects feel much better to me on an instance I can ssh into and poke around without having to call up support.
Great read. Looking forward to more!
I was once a Harrier mechanic, and I was told very often that I'd be learning to work on the F-35Bs during my 2002-2007 enlistment, which obviously didn't happen. So, as a former mech and current engineer, I am very interested in hearing more about it's development.
Japan's SLIM wakes up on Moon after month-long nap
> Don’t you think that ship has sailed?

No, those ships are setting sail with anchors down, and complaining why they're moving so slow.
Thos
Meh, be careful with the word successful. You have no idea how successful I am. I’m way better off than most people, way poorer than many folks on HN, but I could be a complete jerk, or someone who pissed it all away, or someone who abandoned his family. Those things and so many others would disqualify me as successful in my book.

To me if you’re living in alignment with your values and aren’t too much of a drain on society most of the time, you’re successful.
The only de-escalatory move right now is to do both - step on Israel hard to show that it's not about that, and step on Yemen harder to show that Thou Shalt Not Fuck With This Particular Thing As Activism.

Our support for this genocide puts the rest of the world in an impossible place and we shouldn't expect traditional international norms to remain unbroken if we're going through with it.
One thing I have noticed that a lot of devs don't know what a profiler is and even less know how to use it. They also don't have log files that would allow analyzing where the code spends most of its time.
The general problem is framed well in this essay:

> Our economy isn't one that produces things to be used, but things that increase usage
Those are big tanks.
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I love hearing about these engineering challenges. Media loves to point to these design iterations as proof that the F-35 is over-hyped or inferior to existing jets. But what I see is innovation and trying new stuff. Sometimes failing, but in the end making an amazing jet.

I just kind of wish we lived in a world where we didn't NEED a new fighter jet and could instead invest this time and effort into peaceful pursuits.
Caddy is indeed wonderful for straightforward and simple projects.

There are a number of complex configurations used by larger organizations that are well served today by Nginx Plus, HAProxy, and Traefik that don't seem possible with Caddy. And it's difficult to get a sense of whether the Caddy developers are interested in meeting those more complex use cases or whether they want to keep Caddy smaller and simpler.

But yes, by all means, for a simple project pick Caddy!
Im out of the loop, what obvious reasons?
I think there is more nuance to it than that. Not everything is a mistake, not every mistake is recoverable, and not all skills are trainable.

The fundamental goal is to distinguish between recoverable errors and those that are indicative of poor employee-role fit.
FTA: Even Osso, the former district attorney who first brought the case, said he could see the hypocrisy in the sentence. Six months of jail time is standard for a first defender charged with a third-degree crime, he said, but “the crime itself is very jarring.”
Wild. I’ve worked with a bunch of dev teams across FAANGs and smaller companies and never had a whole team of people on Mac even with a small 5 person team.
cppinsights.io shows expanded function templates as explicit specializations. It's built on LLVM, but I don't think that this tool is upstreamed.

https://cppinsights.io/lnk?code=dm9pZCBmb28oYXV0bykge30KCnZv...
I don't fully understand Netlify, but it seems though it tries to be a one-stop solution for everything it doesn't have to be - you could put free Cloudflare in front of it and probably mitigate this kind of thing?

https://docs.netlify.com/domains-https/custom-domains/config...
Amazon's silent sacking with Justin Garrison (Changelog Interviews #573)
Trust me, if that form came into the place where I work, 40 hours would be the tip of the iceberg. No novel regulatory request would get a response without compliance and legal review and interpretation.

In any case, this isn't a decision on the merits. It's just saying that the plaintiff has a reasonable chance of succeeding at trial; the "irreparable harm" occurs when the government forces you to incur unrecoverable compliance costs for something that isn't legally required - that's just the law.

The government could've avoided this by going through the actual hoops necessitated by the Paperwork Reduction Act, notice and comment etc. rather than creating the requirement as an "emergency".
This man to me is a modern day Da Vinci of the Web
Virtually all PS4 games. There are currently 6* PS4 only titles, none of which are especially noteworthy.
*https://www.playstation.com/en-gb/support/games/ps5-backward...
I have issue with the assumption that it is possible to know "everything" about anything. There's always more fractal levels of detail to find in the real world.

People who have mastered some pursuit will often consider their knowledge inadequate vs what remains for them to learn.

There was a time I was quite well informed about RS232 serial ports and the flavors of things that connected to computers using them; but that was long ago and I have mercifully forgotten most of that. Did you know the standard specifies backup signals? There were the occasional items that used some of those lines. They were robust early GPIO and if you were lucky you might even find a interface cards where the RI line could trigger an interrupt.

I am good at "cutting things up"; be that carving foods with knives or trees with chainsaws. (Felling trees with knives is laborious, but possible: good practice to build up autonomic level muscle memory.) The real trick is to see how a thing is made, and where the stress points are most vulnerable to available tools. That skill serves many other applications. I can still learn new things from a tough roast or a wiry bramble patch.
That guy maintains a shocking number of projects. Pghero, Ahoy, a ton of useful Ruby data / ml libraries.
Who says NASA isn't getting funding? They're getting billions of dollars for Artemis. If your complaint is that NASA is contracting out to companies... they always have.
One of the things is that ChatGPT can give some pretty radically different results even with the exact same prompt. None of this is an exact science. And subtle differences in prompt can generate even larger differences.

So I would argue you kind of need have make thousands of attempts. Merely a few tries just doesn't give you enough one way or the other.

This is one aspect what makes everything so tricky here, and how no one can be quite sure of anything.
Boom won’t die until the saudis give up on supersonic flight as a method to increase the demand for oil.
Apparently botanical is the preferred adjective for the garden that holds a bunch of plants.

Even worse than the article talking about botanical gardens, should it not have just talked about heavily forested parks?
Is there any analogous research on groundwater and tap water? Are sewage treatment plants that effective in removing PFAS?
I am willing to bet that people will still be arguing about self-awareness and consciousness (or lack of) with AI long, long after it has stolen huge swaths human employment.
The "spider" on the Eiger might be a reference to the feature of the same name on the Eiger's north face?

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/e8/Eiger_no...