skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's not out of a desire for vengeance.

It's out of a desire for them to actually prove the aircraft is safe to fly and operates the way they've claimed it does.

A standard the 737 MAX has already flunked multiple times, with deadly cost.

Modern US Aviation is so incredibly safe it only makes the MAX more abhorrent.
At one point the official App Store guidelines outright included a threat to not complain publicly about Apple's policies, because why not.

"If your app is rejected, we have a Review Board that you can appeal to. If you run to the press and trash us, it never helps."

https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1580732/000119312514...

They may have removed the text but there is still the silent understanding that they hold grudges.

It's incredibly petty and other companies should take lesson. Oil companies should refuse to sell you gas if you talk about global warming. Musk should disable your Tesla if you own him on Twitter.
Epic isn't squeaky-clean, but Apple is making dangerous and dumb decisions in this whole debate.

Banning third-party payments was one thing, but then Apple banned publishers from TELLING people about the ability to pay through a Web site.

That is not just unnecessary from a business standpoint (since the vast majority of people opt for the most convenient thing); but it's so offensive that it invites crackdowns, implemented by ignorant politicians and legislative bodies... hurting Apple's bottom line.

Apple is tarnishing its image and earning it a place among the true offenders of "big tech," a place it mostly doesn't belong because it's not a gatekeeper to huge swaths of the Internet and commerce the way Google, Amazon, and Meta are.
Watching that, I couldn't help but remember my father (who hasn't worked for Boeing since before I was born) saying in the mid-90s:

> McDonnell Douglas bought Boeing with Boeing's money, which is a great trick if you can pull it off.
I looked into it further and it seems "Class 1 solvents such as benzene should not be employed in the manufacture of drug substances, excipients, or drug products because of their unacceptable toxicity. The guidance notes that if benzene use is unavoidable to produce a drug product with a significant therapeutic advance, then its levels should be restricted to 2 parts per million (ppm), unless otherwise justified."
This is a good strategy that is an excellent complement to applying cold.
What matters most from the journalists is their video reports, especially the live ones

In the current situation I don't think Hamas can exert very much control on the population, anyhow.

The handful of times that other journalists managed to enter, by the way, they confirmed what had been reported (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SdIZmZr29L0)
They've already rolled out in international testing, but yeah the comments here make me think there are going to be some massive cheating if they don't tighten things up.

"you are not allowed to bring any electronics into the testing center (except a computer that you own, possibly running a VM)!" isn't likely to deter cheaters.
> APL just has a small handful of symbols with really simple definitions

> Scheme actually has a ginormous dictionary by comparison

Oh, and also, I should point out that Scheme has no symbols to learn. Quite small compared to the 50 odd that APL has. The reason for this is that users already know all of the symbols in Scheme. "log" exists as a concept in people's brains already because it is a word and also the name for the function it describes. You know the word "log". You can start typing "log" and it will show up in auto-complete. ⍟ (circle with small star in it) doesn't exist in people's head and you can barely make out what it is without a special font and you cannot type it without a special input method. People do not know the word "⍟". It is an entirely new concept for something people understand perfectly well and all it does is reduce the length of a line by 2 characters.
> I genuinely wonder if you realize the consequences of this drastic a decision.

Well, among other things, an increase in the general public safety vis-à-vis commercial air travel. Plus, I suppose, some kind of material incentive for Boeing and other airliners to take quality control seriously.

Seems like a win.
Androidland at Telstra (2011)
The Oracle version is basically doc 817-1984 from Solaris 10, and yes it is very good.
I migrated to windmill.dev a couple of weeks ago and couldn't be happier. Honestly the product is simply better than Airplane. I looked at Windmill.dev a 18 months ago when I adopted Airplane, and it was less mature - but it was open source and I wish I'd given that more weight.

For my shop this was not really a big deal - we did not leverage Airplane's apps or workflows, we just used it to productionize some scripts that support edge cases in our platform and the migration for that is not too bad. Of course, I didn't feel that way when I got the email on Jan 3rd.
Well he was a copperhead[1] which didn't make him popular with a lot of folks in the north.

And the CSA was almost defeated. The USA had been waging total war. Sherman had already marched to the ocean. Lee's army was small, damaged, and shedding deserters. So Johnson would likely be the VP who defeated the CSA, which meant the enmity of everyone else, north or south.

But if he didn't do the job, maybe someone who'd be harsher on the confederacy might end up with it, so he couldn't step down.

I'm not saying I particularly like Andrew Johnson but I think he had damned good reasons to self-medicate.

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copperhead_(politics)
I had to squint to see the actual content
And for all that nothing can stop anybody from just googling the answers on another device.
I don't think voice control is a good replacement because I tend to play music in the car.
To be fair, the importance of those tweets in shaping the public conversation might also die because of that. In the high old days era of the 2010s I could go and read what interesting people were thinking about today on Twitter. Now if I pick a random account I know is active I see what they were saying in 2022 for some reason.

They're relying very heavily on their existing network of users if that is not some weird thing that only affects me. I'd assume most readers don't create accounts.
The NTSB asked Boeing for the names of the specific people on the team that replaced that door, and they said Boeing hasn't provided that. In Boeing's response, they didn't say they provided that, either. They said they provided "names of Boeing employees, including door specialists, who we believed would have relevant information." If they had actually provided the names of the crew that did the work, they'd have said they did exactly that rather than giving a lawyerish sidestep. I don't even think that the people who'd have done the actual repairs were even Boeing employees. Isn't a big part of the criticism that this work is farmed out? Not positive, though: that could have been work for one of the other recent Boeing catastrophes.
The state of Rust GUI libraries
Currently paying for Claude 3 Opus, and it appears my disambiguator safety test is no longer valid since it's a pretty useful assistant! Thanks for changing my mind.
How do y’all avoid lawsuits and stuff? I always wonder that about Palantir and Anduril and all those other companies.
Did you have to ask permission? Or is this just a run it til there’s a lawsuit because you’re in a different industry thing?
I am not sure why you're focusing on what is instead of focusing on what could be.
That, plus worst case, you can pass through a lot of what be used for VM id.
The latest dotnet plays reasonably well with Linux and supports latest framework and language version.
“Naming things” being one of the two / three hard problems in software development is literally a meme. They didn’t pull it out of thin air.
Oh that would be quite easy for them since all these companies can ship the parts wherever ASML wants. They rely a lot of companies in Germany and Belgium, Korea, Taiwan, Japan, USA too.
It's unlikely they have records because they don't need anymore bad press after John Oliver barbecued them into carbon and pressed them into a diamond. They are on the back foot and now have little choice to cooperate as the path of least resistance while attempting refocus on their roots pre MD merger, camel memes notwithstanding.
I wonder how many of these groups went the opposite direction — creating the structure of those web pages by using an LLM?

I've (obviously, like almost everyone) experimented with creating stuff with ChatGPT, and… hmm. I was going to write "it made web pages like that", but: Clever Hans. I don't know if I might have subconsciously primed it to, because that's also something I like.
I don’t even understand why Google allows an extension to have its owner changed while remaining installed and active on users’ machines.

Changing the owner should automatically disable the extension worldwide and require manual user re-approval, at the very least.
I read more books before I was 12 than I read between 12 and 20... I certainly shared his dismay for what I was being taught.

(and I have consumed less (books) each decade. :/)
If the software you are using is so bad, or the distributor so untrustworthy, that you would classify it as malware, then I think it is time to switch to an alternative.

For example, it is now quite feasible to use only open source software in everyday life, which usually operates according to better ethical principles and has greater difficulty in enforcing problematic changes.
so when one software company does it to you it's good you say but when a different outfit does it goes in the trash. nice consistency you got there, bud.
> Feel like a Cheney

Rumsfeld
If the software doesn’t report that it suspects it’s in a vm at test taking time, but instead records data for later analysis the test taker is leaving themselves open for a lot of problems months down the road.
Yes but if you are already self-hosting it, it really isn't hard to keep it alive. It means there will never be a rug-pull with two months notice.
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You should take a look at Superblocks. I think you'll find our building blocks both flexible and extensible to solve you use cases.
> That software isn't gonna maintain itself if the cash runs out.

No, but you can maintain it yourself, or hire people to, or worst case you can at least run it and accept the bugs. You're not going to just get in one morning and find out they've turned off the servers and all the stuff you had in their system is gone.
Tax evasion. Bribes (sorry, I meant lobbying). In case of self-driving cars, literally running over people.
Can't her husband just stand in front of her, behind the laptop webcam? There's often ridiculously simple real-world workarounds these complex device security process
> actually prove the aircraft is safe to fly

And, importantly, the process of providing that proof must be open to the notion that it is not safe to fly. It is possible (and IMO very likely) that this aircraft is fundamentally unsound, by design, and that no amount of tweaks and fixes can change that. They made a dangerous aircraft, bullshitted their way through the approval process for commercial travel, and now must pay the price.
Yes es/os has been especially great to the louie.ai team. We need to deal with a lot of data - we handle talking to real-time news, logs, social media, alerts, threat feeds, etc - and these systems were previously already scaled for large document corpuses with rich metadata even before having the vector index added. Eg, imagine having to deal with hot vs cold storage for diff queries, and auto-graduating data.

When we looked at the pricing for vector DBs and less mature DB extensions, the real playing field shrunk down pretty quick. (And esp if you want managed & unified system wherever possible vs a NIH Frankenstein.)
no, the objection was from network administrators of very large networks aka the Internet.

At that time, TCP/IP itself was also failing to scale, so I imagine there was a lot of blame in every direction. "Heroic" efforts at cleaning up different aspects of TCP/IP and then DNS are the only reason we have a world network now.

chattyness on local networks was not awful, and you can read here how UCLA and others managed fairly large networks after Appletalk 2.0x zones were implemented.
I did. Mostly because I kept finding myself on dead end projects. I'm not sure why I kept getting into that situation. After 2001 or so I had better luck but still usually switched gigs every couple of years. In my 28 year career starting in '86 the longest I stayed at one corporation was 7 years and I was on four different projects. Shortest was one month. Signed on and found they really had no plans for future projects. I'm not sure why they were hiring.
It’s worth a lot to a small subset of people, but that’s an issue today. The biggest way the group you’re referring to cheats will not be made worse by having the system online (bribe proctors, have someone else take the test, SAT training, etc.)

Your average high school student does not have thousands, let alone tens of thousands, of dollars at their disposal to cheat on the SATs.
I have no intention of changing your mind.
Chinese national arrested and charged with stealing AI trade secrets from Google
> It's still true that complex carbs, usually having more micro nutrients and being slower to metabolize are better for us.

So your friends are correct, even if their reasoning is wrong.

> If the cookie is made with oats, butter, and nuts, it may actually be much slower than the apple in provoking an insulin response.

This claim requires evidence. My understanding is that the slower digestion preventing the insulin spike is due to the apple's sugar being embedded in the fiber.

Also, even if this claim is correct, then your friends are "only" right about practically all cookies.

> Toast with butter and brown sugar and cinnamon produces is better than just toast.

Massive citation needed.
Gotta love the arrogance of "We're Apple, we can show up and upset industries" (which they did with the desktop computer and phones, under Jobs btw), but not having a clue what that would mean with cars. I doubt a fully self-driving van would make a significant number of car enthusiasts/users say "I need one of those!"..
The problem of fitting the Hubble Telescope into your fantasy setting is one of storytelling. You simply don't refer to it as the Hubble Telescope. It’s a bizarre artifact. The fantasy world is already full of bizarre artifacts, so that’s fine. It’s not magical, yet constructed using techniques and materials unknown to any artificer or wizard. To anyone in the world, it’s just a giant tube with a curved mirror in it and some thin sapphire plates on the side. Does it say “NASA” in giant letters on its side? Yes, but no one in the game knows that. It’s just some indecipherable script that literally no one, regardless of level, can decipher because not only does NASA not exist as a word, the Latin alphabet doesn’t exist.

The real world and fantasy world interacting is a trope that has existed for centuries.

A friend of mine played a D&D game where the party got sent to real world Earth. None of their magic worked. After they killed the first cop that stopped them, the half-orc barbarian promptly accident shot himself and died while examining the dead cop’s gun.

My friend said the adventure was hilarious.
Do like ChatGPT - Hallucinate :-P
This is what we're working on building at AutoMark (https://automark.io). We're currently building grading tools for teachers, but eventually want to build out a tool to accurately monitor a student's performance over time. There's a lot of potential for AI to disrupt the education system from high school to college to a career.

Currently, a GPA and a few test scores (SAT, ACT, etc) are the most in depth view into a student's high school performance that colleges have, but in the future, we hope to see continuous tests throughout high school that don't just show a single letter/number, but a holistic view of a student's progress, effort, etc. (Obviously the data should be controlled by the student) These could also help a student decide where to focus their study efforts.
It's arguable that one of the issues Android has in this regard is it has become less open as time goes by, making it look just as bad in regulatory eyes.

More locked down and more core functionality being put into proprietary apps in the play store in the name of timely updates, they could have achived the same effect with open source apps in the play store but chose not to.

Yes they are now quickly pivoting to allow side-loading to be simplified but if the EU wasn't cracking down on such things I imaging they would have eventually removed side loading in it's entirety.
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When I was an undergrad there was I think one bus route I took in 4 years because it was marginally quicker than walking an extra 15 minutes to catch the subway depending on where I was.

My preference within the city when I'm there these days is subway or walk. But the connection to the subway really only works on a commuting timetable and, if I'm going to park on the outskirts anyway to catch the subway I'll mostly just drive in.
This is a nice ideal to strive for, but until everyone goes through the same education system there will always be a need for some form of...standard testing across the board.

I think the closest we’d be able to get to this is maybe smaller, more granular standardized test that do a better job of testing multiple specific dimensions over an academic career vs a big bang at the end.

Somehow that actually sounds kind of creepy, but if that’s what you meant that’s the only way I see this done more effectively.

In your experience, what other ways or ideas have you heard?
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this has probably been the first and only new features added to a product in years, that's actually been useful to me personally.
Google engineer indicted over allegedly stealing AI trade secrets for China
> It was pointed out to me awhile back that the 'slave states' that utilize this kind of labor need all sorts of low-level nonviolent crimes to lock people up with.

Arguably a continuation of their post-civil-war Black Codes [0], where--if you had a certain skin color--it was effectively a crime to ever leave/lose your abusive "employment", then that crime led to fines, then the fines led to more fines from compounding court costs, and once you were in prison, you were forced to labor for private interests. Perhaps even the same "employer" you tried to leave.

[0] https://www.history.com/news/black-codes-reconstruction-slav...
They stopped requiring road tests? Man, seems like that would cause a bunch of cybertrucks to drive into hotels or something.
> I don't think they're being emotional about it

It's hard to read it as anything but emotional. It's pure display of power, Apple is willing to hurt iOS users to make a point to other developers.
I'd say doors flying off aircraft, while the manufacturer is unable to pinpoint the cause, is a clear indicator that the planes need to be grounded.
"Left unquestioned, assumptions and expectations could have caused us to miss one of the most impactful changes we’ve made to our operational defaults in a decade"
China too, it seems.
I’m on mobile so it’s tough to look up the details, but IIRC at least Windows?

Implementations of the standard library mutexes are here https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/tree/master/library/std/sr...

And of course it’s pthreads on Linux.
What do you honestly expect someone to reply to this comment?

Yes, and?

Developers tend to do bad things sometimes. It happens. That’s the reality.
In much of the U.S. this is totally normal. Most people aren't even aware that situations like this exist, as they never walk anywhere themselves.
Why do people get so attached to pet linguistic theories of all things that they feel the need to make up informants, forage sources, and generally lie in order to “prove” a claim that has literally no value if it’s not true? It’s totally plausible that the languages are related, and that’s awesome! But the evidence for them being mutually intelligible just isn’t there.
IIUC, "it is missing" was used in the sense "it is missing the forest for the trees" -- as in, the Big Picture is that search results are turning to garbage steadily, but if you shrink your perspective, hey at least you're not being tracked ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
It seems like they're currently focusing on orbital dynamics problems, but I'm also curious if there are plans to simulate other physical phenomena (stresses, thermal effects, fluids, etc.)? I realize demanding a full multiphysics simulation environment is a tall order but one can hope.

EDIT: answered in a cousin comment.
That’s just straight false, or at least I have never seen any evidence showing a strong correlation. What has been shown is the negative advantage minorities, impoverished, ESL, disabled people have when taking the test and the advantages that wealthy people who can pay for tutors have.
Even then, it was the OS rendering the image directly into the framebuffer, while applications that included raster graphics still had to output them via an API exposed by the OS. The only thing that's going directly into the framebuffer is the fully rendered screen, which in a GUI environment usually contains much more than the contents of a single PNG or SVG file.

In the context we're discussing, where the image is an inline PNG on a web page, the browser has to download the image, decompress it, apply relevant transformations defined by CSS or element attributes, render the HTML including the image, then pass the rendered window output to a display API exposed by the OS.

Far from just dumping an uncompressed raster image directly into a framebuffer -- although that sort of thing was definitely common on single-tasking non-GUI platforms in the past.
That hasn't been my experience at all, honestly. But I also have the advantage of having decades of experience. It might be different for others.
> I'd invest in hiring a whole bunch of humans to curate a search index that is actually useful.

This is going to be a honey pot for the antitrust authorities. Google's main defense is that its ranking is done in an algorithmic way and human rating can affect the result only in an indirect manner following their rating guideline, which is carefully reviewed by lawyers. When you add some subjectivity from random human, they occasionally make some unfair mistake then it makes all the way through the media outlets, you know what's going to happen.
"So what makes you think you're a good fit for this job?"

"I already have it."
Really telling quote:

> I was completely taken aback by the failure rate of GPUs as opposed to my experiences on TPUs at Google

Should be "I was completely unaware of the failure modes of GPUs, because all my career I've been inside Google and used Google TPUs and was well-acquainted with those failure modes."

I've used GPUs mostly, and when I tried TPUs the jobs failed all the time for really hard-to-debug reasons. Often the indirection between the x86 chip and the TPU device caused hours of hair-pulling, stuff you never get with x86+nvidia+pytorch.

10-15 years ago, Google minted many $10m+ data scientists (aka Sawzall engineers) who also ventured "into the wilderness" and had very similar reactions. This blog post is much more about the OP hyping his company and personal brand than contributing useful notes to the community.
As to the reliability of some more reputable news sources, anyhow... https://www.theguardian.com/media/2024/feb/04/cnn-staff-pro-...
It wouldn't solve it, but at least an update couldn't get instantly pushed and run by all users. These extensions are JS rather than compiled binaries, so they're not too hard to inspect (and if the code is intentionally obfuscated rather than just minified, you know something is up).