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3 Incidents this week

"A United Airlines Holdings aircraft ran off the taxiway into a grassy area after landing at Houston Friday, the third incident this week involving the airline's Boeing planes. From a report:

United Flight 2477, with 160 passengers and six crew, had just landed at George Bush Intercontinental Airport about 8 a.m. local time Friday when it veered into the grass on a turn. No one was injured, and passengers left the plane on a set of stairs before being bused to the terminal, the airline said.

The incident follows the mid-air loss of a tire from a United Boeing 777-200 Thursday, just after the plane took off from San Francisco on a flight to Osaka, Japan, and an engine fire on a United flight from Houston to Fort Myers, Florida, earlier this week. The plane in the Houston-to-Florida flight had to make an emergency landing after one of its engines burst into flames 10 minutes after takeoff. The 21-year-old aircraft was also a 737 -- but an earlier version than the Max, according to FlightRadar24.
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Just dived in and found this one, highly interesting. EU tracker for contaminated imports

https://webgate.ec.europa.eu/rasff-window/screen/search
> Montreal has become unaffordable for the workers who support the tourism

That's a self-correcting problem: either tourists pay higher prices to keep attracting workers or the higher prices scare off tourists and fewer workers are needed.
According to the article it was because Epic met with Apple and gave better assurances that they'd play ball rather than deliberately break their contract like they did last time.

Regulators don't seem to have had anything to do with it.

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So what changed? Apple tells 9to5Mac that it has held further discussions with Epic. The result is that Apple has received proper commitment that Epic will play by the rules as legally defined.

“Following conversations with Epic, they have committed to follow the rules, including our DMA policies. As a result, Epic Sweden AB has been permitted to re-sign the developer agreement and accepted into the Apple Developer Program.”
While it's absolutely true that corporations are amoral dictatorships, not democracies, companies like Google spend an awful lot of PR time and money virtue signaling otherwise (and I use that term not in a derogatory way, but a literal way - they are deliberately signaling virtue, often in conflict with their actual actions.)

If Google want to pretend their founding principal is "do the right thing", and put that front and center in their employee handbook - well, I'd say they have limited ability to complain when employees act on that, at least without being exposed for hypocrisy. Google can't have its cake and eat it too.
Ask HN: What's with the Flagging of Upvoted Comments?
I’ve noticed a concerning effectiveness to brigading/flag spamming that will get comments taken down. My reply to a comment:

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> My old manager put it best: No politics and religion in the workplace

I wish all the diversity, equity, and inclusion teams at work who host women only events and talk about gender pay gaps over lunch would be considered politics and banned. But for some reason those teams have flipped a middle finger to the no politics rule and have been rewarded for it.
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Flagged with +3 upvotes.
737 MAX can land with missing or damaged tires as well. It's a legal requirement for large passenger planes
I really shouldn't have to explain this, but that statement wasn't directed at you specifically.
As a designer/developer with a lot of expertise in UX and front-end technologies, I would love to go this route. Do you have any suggestions on where to start in terms of tutorials, tech, books, etc?
So one needs to be an authority to present a personal statement?

I also found it pretty lacking in emotion (although it seems that was what they were going for) and prolix.
>> Are North American mooses more aggressive than European?

The plural of moose is meese, similar to goose -> geese.
Every company benefits from not being beholden to the App Store and Apple's sales tax. I couldn't care less that Epic is not a perfect messenger, as long as Apple gets the message.
Ah nice! I am writing a job queue this weekend for a DAG based task runner, so timing is great. I will have a look. I don't need anything too big, but I have written some stuff for using PostgreSQL (FOR UPDATE SKIP LOCKED for the win), sqlite, and in-memory, depending on what I want to use it for.

I want the task graph to run without thinking about retries, timeouts, serialized resources, etc.

Interested to look at your particular approach.
Leaner on the source code side. The developer wrote that nobody is building it. If it were in obvious use, they could not even propose removal, Linux promises not to break existing systems by upgrading to a newer kernel.
I agree, it’s quite the scathing indictment. This is nothing to be proud or excited about. Unfortunately, if there’s one thing politicians lack, it’s shame. Also, what does that say about Georgetown’s program?
It's not an AI thing. It's an organization thing.

Two big breakthroughs were needed to create organizations bigger than one person could own and run - the corporation, and the org chart.

Daniel McCallum invented modern business organization in 1854. [1] He ran a railroad. The railroad became big enough that one person couldn't keep track of everything that was going on.
A railroad has to have tight coordination, or it won't work. There are many things happening at different locations which depend on things happening at other locations. Some things had to coordinated on a scale of minutes, some on a scale of hours, days, or weeks.
A railroad needed a distributed system which could, in a sense, think.

This was a new problem. Before that, there were few inter-city organizations, and the ones that existed, such as post offices, governments, and shipping lines, were very loosely coupled.
Each location had a boss, who was mostly autonomous. That didn't work for railroads. Unlike ships, the moving trains are totally dependent on a fixed infrastructure.
Different people deal with the rolling stock, the track, the freight, and the passengers.

McCallum figured out how to make that work.
McCallum came up with daily, weekly, and monthly reports, exception reporting, and line and staff management. This made it possible for ordinary people to do something no one person could comprehend in totality. Most organizations still follow his general approach.

That was the point at which the organization became bigger than any one person.

We're not there yet with AI. Coordinating large numbers of AIs is an unsolved problem.

[1] https://www.mckinsey.com/capabilities/people-and-organizatio...
I Didn't Migrate My Minecraft Account – Here's What Happened [video]
Immigration went up by a lot in 2022 it's true, but Vancouver's housing situation was already at crisis levels before 2015, before increased immigration, and before this federal government even.

What we've seen in the last few years is that the existing crisis that started in Vancouver has spread to the entire of the country, and it's no surprise because housing policy in the rest of the country is not really any different than Vancouver.

An example of the future is already here, just not evenly distributed I guess.

The problems of systemically not creating enough housing hit Vancouver first, but it was inevitable that they'd hit everywhere else eventually.
I partially/mostly agree, I think it's more of "it's good enough because it's either good or it's close enough to not bother speaking/complaining/doing anything about it". Eg targeted ads are accepted, but banning them takes massive effort and "people can use ublock anyway". But yeah that's splitting hairs.
Also, an analysis shows that Dias' thesis was largely (21 percent) plagiarized [1, 2].

1. https://www.science.org/content/article/plagiarism-allegatio...

2. https://www.science.org/do/10.1126/science.adi2603/full/dias...
Yeah, duopoly is a better word.
> My old manager put it best: No politics and religion in the workplace.

No politics for you. The corporate strategy, governance, hiring, dealmaking, etc... will all be politically informed. All your work will contribute to the political beliefs of leadership. It's such a strange abstraction to believe that you're somehow separate from that.
FAA gives Boeing a free pass
It won't end, Apple is too big now, the alternatives are:

1. Split Apple into smaller companies
2. Operate Apple like an utility company

They did this to themselves, and it's only downhill from this point.
We implemented the subscription a few hours ago, and still hold a very generous free tier. Unfortunately, we learnt that it's not possible to have an uncapped free tier, we saw several abusers use our API to run their own apps which is obviously against the spirit of a coding copilot :)

JetBrains plugin is on the roadmap, soon!
Is insurance the villain on this one of the hospital charging insurance 26k for an MRI?
All three of the incidents referenced in the lede were United Airlines flights, and to my uninformed eyes seem just as likely to be maintenance issues as manufacturing ones. Boeing is in the title because it understandably gets a lot of clicks lately, but in this case I wouldn't be surprised if these are a sign of bad maintenance on United planes.
Epic and Apple famously had a close relationship. A few years back, Epic was onstage at every Apple keynote. They were showing off games on iOS on macOS, talking about API development. I understand why Tim Sweeney felt like they were getting ripped off, but it seemed like they had a strong relationship.

I wonder if something happened behind the scenes.
How about oligopolist?
Kind of Iceberg Effect.

All these safety issues, might be 'minor'. What we can see.

But having a big up-tick, and you wonder about the 'big-one' about to happen, that is still the submerged part of ice-berg.
Google is literally getting a cut of these scams through their ad revenue. Google should be responsible for preventing scams being able to buy their way to the top of the search results.
Last I checked about 15 to 20 percent of all US workers were in the health industry. It's basically a patriotic duty to pay your medical bill, because you have to pay all the insurance industry workers, and all the hospital administrators and CEOs, and all these people, and there might even be a few bucks left over for the doctor in the end. I don't see how healthcare can ever cost less until we simplify these systems and eliminate a lot of jobs (which wont be politically popular).
Or even both.
> an unacceptable humanitarian tragedy that is a reaction to an unacceptable attack.

I think this is important to reiterate. Because forces us to pay close attention to the details. There are extremely reasonable justifications for both sides because both sides have committed atrocities. This conflict goes a long way back and I'm in no position to claim who started it. But I can recognize that one atrocity does not justify another. I can recognize that justifying or dismissing the committing of an atrocity only further enables the conflict. Whichever side you land on, if you do not take a highly nuanced approach you are only further enabling conflict. For that's a key reason the conflict continues today. War always includes psychological warfare because you have to convince humans to do the inhumane. There is no such thing as a righteous war.

War isn’t Hell. War is war, and Hell is Hell. And of the two, war is a lot worse.
There are no innocent bystanders in Hell. War is chock full of them — little kids, cripples, old ladies. In fact, except for some of the brass, almost everybody involved is an innocent bystander.
- [0]

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GUeBMwn_eYc
You can say „lau“ but it either refers to lukewarm water or to mild/agreeably warm weather outside.
The ones I frequent tend to ask to remove the small liquids, but I don’t do that anyway. It almost never comes up, which somehow makes it even worse.
EU Tracker for imported food products
Just found this one when I started diving into this Hackernews Article https://usrtk.org/pesticides/chlorpyrifos/
My interest is kind of into food-related depression and I've been collecting these kind of articles for a while now.
Codeium Launches Context Pinning for AI Code Autcomplete
Besides reasons put forth by others, most of their employees can also afford to be fired.
I have a TUXEDO Pulse 15 - Gen1 for almost 4 years now. And I am running Debian. Works great for me.
That last part is a bit of a myth, or at least it's something that doesn't consistently happen, at least nowadays. Binning parts is expensive, and for something like a resistor it's rarely worth it, so it's much more likely it's just a well dialed-in manufacturing process and design which stays within that tolerance.
> But that isn't GPU memory right? On the Mac it is.

They call it that but it's really LPDDR5, i.e. normal DRAM, using a wide memory bus. Which is the same thing servers do.

The base M3, with "GPU memory", has 100GB/s, which is less than even a cheap desktop PC with dual channel DDR5-6400. The M3 Pro has 150GB/s. By comparison a five year old Epyc system has 8 channels of DDR4-3200 with more than 200GB/s per socket. The M3 Max has 300-400GB/s. Current generation servers have 12 channels of DDR5-4800 with 460GB/s per socket, and support multi-socket systems.

The studio has 800GB/s, which is almost as much as the modern dual socket system (for about the same price), but it's not obvious it has enough compute resources to actually use that.
Google says the AI-focused Pixel 8 can't run its latest smartphone AI models
It contains telemetry but it's not clear whether it collects your prompts or not
I suspect, somehow, that this is stupidity with the bank's processing core systems, which ... things are weird with financials.

They buy someone out, and now there are two systems. Glued together with duct tape. Then they release a new web product, or mobile app, or whatever, and that gets taped on too. Duct tape and spit all the way down, with everything eventually limited by the most broken part (if you're lucky).
There are many other possible explanations for this person's abilities, and regardless of whether you are correct or not, it is their business. A drive by comment to label them as 'different' is unneeded, unwarranted and in poor taste.
I have vague memories of Dune 1 gameplay, but very vivid memories of the music as well.
Show HN: Charmed AI- end to end tools for 3D video game art
Hi HN, I'm Jeremy, the founder of Charmed AI (https://charmed.ai). We're building tools to make it way easier to build 3D content for video games.

In our 1.0 release, we're providing all of the tools needed to go from idea to game integration for an animated 3D game asset (walkthrough: https://youtu.be/ZjkFfGUJxCM). We offer apps for creating new 3D models, re-painting the surface of those models, and animating them. It's all organized around a cloud asset manager for team collaboration.

Something that makes us a little different than other 3D AI tools is that we're focused on the full 3D art production process. In the future, I don't anticipate magic command lines that summon forth content from sparse description. Instead, we're building toward a future where small teams of experts move much faster in an iterative process of creative discovery. For 3D art that means breaking down the barriers that have caused it to be a serial, waterfall process with long schedules, huge budgets, and many missed deadlines.

By using AI to enable a parallel, continuously-integrated art process- one where changes are automatically updated downstream (you added a tail to that lizard creature? Great, we'll re-produce the textures and animations and remove a painful, manual task)- 3D art will be produced in a fraction of the time and at a fraction of the cost.

Beyond the days and dollars, a 10x speed-up will allow studios to produce new kinds of content. South Park is an inspiration here. They parallelized the process of producing animated shows allowing animators, writers, and voice actors to work at the same time, while being able to view the state of the episode every day. Cutting their production time from 6-months to 1-week allowed them to talk about current events and pop culture- something games can't do today. It seems unbelievable, but making a new skin in a AAA game is a 6-month PM led program today.

These are the early days of a long journey, with many needed features and quality improvements yet to build. If you take a moment to try out Charmed, we'd very much appreciate your feedback!
This is generally just a de jure rule, very very rarely put into practice. In the vast majority of races, there are enough motorized “race committee” boats which render aid where needed, so the other racing sailboats wouldn’t be much help and don’t need to stop.

Long-distance coastal or offshore races it would be somewhat more likely as race committee boats generally are only at the beginning and end of the race. But even then, after hailing mayday, a good samaritan motorboat is far more likely to reach you first than one of your sailing competitors.
> They did this to themselves

What...by being successful?
>If you personally think

How am I supposed to know a direct reply to my comment, saying "if _you personally_" is not actually directed at me personally?

If it wasn't directed at me, I'm not sure why you replied to my comment at all.
It precludes a great many people.

In my example, the US won’t grant security clearance to a foreign national. Even if you are a permanent resident, you don’t get clearance without citizenship.
Could use some examples of the improved output. It shouldnt be that hard.

What are each models strengths? I know GPT4 has a strength with code.
This was my first introduction to Dune. In 93 I was in 3rd grade and this game blew me away. The weird politics and characters. The desert sands and worms. The flying ornithopters and sietches and Fremen.

I never made it too far in to the game, I would always get lost with some of the strategy in trying to mine spice or I would drink the water of life and die or lose fighting the Harkonen.

More than anything I loved it for it’s world building, atmosphere and exploration of a strange world.
That's still easily solvable by getting the government out of the way of the market building sufficient housing to meet demand.
> The solution is not allowing any one person to collect more resources or power than the rest.

How are you going to "not allow" them? By being more powerful. "No it'll be a committee of shared power all the way up." You'll end up with Stalin, one of the most powerful single humans the world has ever seen.
Same, my wife works a 10 hour day, comes home, gets yelled at by neurotic patients for an hour, then does paperwork for another hour.

We're not even making money yet due to student loans. Sucks.
Hypothetical: I'm scared of what I'm building. What should I do?
Hypothetically, let's say that you are a software developer that has *spent the past 5-6 months working on what you believe might be a new discovery in the field of Computer Science. During that time, you grow more and more convinced, and concerned, that this might also be a pivotal piece of the first iteration of AGI.* Of course you can't know for sure, but you see a path that could potentially ramp up very quickly.

You've developed this all in what feels like a fever dream, and have compartmentalized away any concerns for safety in lieu of obsessively building this... thing. It is more than likely the most important thing you will ever do with your life. As delusional, vain, or egocentric as it may be, you are absolutely terrified that this might be "the thing" that a lot of people are worried about. Your plan up until a recent bout of reflection has been, "just throw it out into the world and let things run their course". It's become sort of a burden at this point, and you don't know if your mental is strong enough right now to do anything BUT dump it all and let it become someone else's problem. Even if that wasn't the case, who do you trust with something like this?

With all that said, this post has a purpose. Barring the obvious responses along the lines of "yeah sure some random guy on the internet made AGI lol", this thread is seeking advice.

You're some dude on the internet who thinks he might hold a solution for a very important piece of AGI. What do you do in this situation?
> embrace code generators.

You also don't need to limit yourself to the C pre-processor. There are other dedicated pre-processing languages, like M4, and templating languages you can use.
I mean he won, so maybe they had it figured out.
>"Mozilla, a project full of C++ experts, tried to write a parallel CSS engine in C++ twice. They couldn't get it working either time."

The fact that Mozilla can not do a particular thing in particular way has zero value for others not in the same boat. I am not Mozilla. Do not know their problems and do not care. Maybe parallel CSS is too complex by nature. I can only relate to my own situation. My commercially deployed systems work and serve bazillion of clients with no problems.
atopile – build electronic circuit boards from code
Municipal Plastic Waste Recycling Through Pyrogasification
Yep, I also got mine specifically for LLMs and ended up using it as a second desktop for other things; actually strongly considering making it my primary at this point.

I still wouldn't recommend it to someone just looking for a powerful desktop, just because $3K is way overpriced for what you get (non-replaceable 1Tb SSD is so Apple!). But it's certainly great if you already have it...
> You are the one claiming to have numerical evidence to support your conclusions and failing to provide it. I think it is unreasonable to expect me to give that which you cannot.

That appropriately applied animations are a valuable part of interface usability is not controversial. A four second google search will confirm that and I'm not going to do that for you just because you refuse to look. Anyone dismissing the idea out-of-hand based on their own preferences and assumptions has the burden of proof.

> Yet your opinions are also uninformed. Or you've done precious little to convince people otherwise. Perhaps you should make arguments instead of just saying you have experience and it makes you correct. Does acting conceited often convince people of your perspectives? No? Then why do it? Surely telling me your thoughts would be much more convincing than simply asserting that you've had them.

Yes. How conceited of me to not scramble to go grab citations for a bunch of people in a completely different field asserting that they know more about design than designers. Surely if you stumbled upon a bunch of designers making sweeping, arrogant, unsupported declarations about software development and the incompetence of developers, you'd trip over yourself to gather any evidence they demanded to prove your point when you corrected them on their foundational misgivings. Surely you wouldn't just tell them to go google it for themselves.

"Am I out of touch with the current state of design? No: it's the designers who are wrong."
renters.

Vancouver has near ~0% rental vacancy as does many, many other cities across the country. Most cities in BC are below 3% vacancy.

The fact that so much housing in Canada is being bought by investors is unsurprising. There's enormous demand for rentals and incredibly low supply.
Post-Open License: First Draft – Bruce Perens
thank you for being a dismissive jackass.
Everything Dune Took From Foundation (2021) [video]
It works in American courts, where you can file appeal after appeal, during which time you don't have to comply with the court's original verdict.