skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
so its worth clarifying something because 'plug door' is a confusing term as it relates to the bolts. The issue here isn't about trusting workers to do things, its about systems and processes to ensure they know what the right thing to do is and they know how to do it correctly. You CAN (and SHOULD) use things like checklists to ensure people do each job correctly. There are tens of thousands of 'jobs' in an assembly like this - no one knows/remembers exactly how to do each one correctly, nor should a system expect rely on them doing so. Here's how that happens without anyone doing something 'random' and following their instructions as they understand them:

There are doors on an aircraft - you enter through them, they have inflatable slides attached. Then there are plugs - plugs that fill a space (this is one, there are a lot, basically any penetration of the pressure vessel). If there were a space where a door could be but isn't on this model, you need to plug it (hence, door plug or...plug door). In terms of assembly, maintenance, operation, etc. they have different functions and those functions have different documentation and traceability requirements. Doors are meant to be opened and closed - that is different from being removed (i.e., 'taking the door off its hinge'). That leaves us here:

* Doors can be opened and closed (this does not require documentation because it is part of the normal function)

* Doors can be removed, which is different from opened and closed (requires documentation because it is not part of its normal function, requires inspection after reinstallation)

* Plugs cannot be opened and closed (opening and closing them is not part of their normal function so...to whit...doing so is impossible within the vocabulary/concept of documentation rules, they are not designed for regular use)

* Plugs can only be REMOVED (documentation required, inspection required just like a door removal)

Where does that leave the door plug? is undoing the bolts and pushing it up off the stop blocks opening it or is it removal? In the minds of Boeing and the FAA - that is removal. In the minds of line workers, opened a door.

Suddenly, door plug and plug door become potentially different concepts. One is a plug for a door and is discussed and documented like a plug. The other is a door that serves the purpose of a plug...and is discussed and documented like a door. What seems to have happened is that workers opened the plug , which isn't 'possible' - meaning they 'removed' the plug and treated it like opening it. That meant it didn't trigger anything about a required set of procedures to do so, didn't trigger inspection, didn't trigger documentation, didn't trigger inspection, just got closed up and moved down the line.

I've dealt with a lot of these...a personal favorite was a company I worked with having someone who couldn't read be responsible for recording each serial number he stamped on each federally tracked part in our factory. He relied on his memory of the last serial number he did the day before.
I have doubts as well. "Almost" may be carrying a heavy load there. People are just really good at communicating, face to face, over difficult barriers, particularly when they share cultural underpinnings. But I don't speak any language in the family, and can only go on what they say.
Combo of devs and QA engineers. Are there companies where devs write no tests and those are all QA written? AI helps both of those.
It may sound banal but the more i live the more i see it’s true.

Learning basics never gets old.

Philosophy, logic, seeking truth, foundations of math, of basic nature laws etc.

Whatever skills gonna be needed in future- you’ll adapt, if you’re smart and flexible.

And only seeking the truth keeps you in shape, exploring basics helps you get smarter.
As a user, I have to pay for iCloud storage for apps that use it. There is a free tier, sure... which most users will fill very quickly just with device backups and photos alone.

I don't recall ever playing for cloud storage on Steam, though.
The best tidbit is the precomputed graphql queries. Just... why. One of those "not even broken, but for the love of potatoes why".
That sounds like it has some obvious ways for the NTSB to play along:

"Alright, sounds good. We've scheduled preliminary interviews with the 170000 employees. Here's the list of 5-minute appointment slots at our office. Please make sure your employees are on time, we expect the first batch of 28800 employees next week. We'll ask them a) whether they have anything to do with the door b) whether they want to report any other unethical practices, then schedule follow-up meetings as needed. No, we can't do this via Zoom."

Optionally one week later: "due to the concerning number of reports we've received during our preliminary interviews, the planes are grounded until we finished the interviews".

However, the article doesn't support your claim. They provided a list of everyone "on the door team", so probably a much smaller number, and they claim they can't figure out who did it because their documentation is incomplete. Which might be real, but also has an obvious solution: Ground all potentially affected planes until they're able to ensure their documentation is accurate.
I was required by biology to eat and had no choice over the available food. The requirement for energy might be discountable as a fact of reality to just deal with, but my parents decided what food I got to eat.

To be clear I don’t think this arrangement is a problem, and if you were describing this in academic terms I mig even agree with you and have been too harsh. Unfortunately the word “collectivism” is used as a perjorative dog whistle and so I was pointing out how common behaviors most people would think are fine or even ideal can be cast in a “collectivist” light to point out that it’s not bad.

I’m assuming by the vote difference in our two comments that multiple people had the same assumption
Things look a bit different if you are one of two for example electric utility companies in the country.

You can't deny someone service just because they said mean thing about you.

Companies should be forced to service law abiding customers.
>I've seriously considered a Bambu

I've been there, I've told my Ender 3 Pro (plus lots of upgrades) that if it Fs up ONE MORE TIME I'm getting a Bambu. BUT... A friend of mine recently got a Bambu, partly because of my saying this, and he's been having problems with it: the LiDAR is having issues and support is being unsupportive.

In the mean time my E3 has been super reliable and I've finally gotten it really dialed in (only took 4 years). I took a nearly year long side quest, replacing my original Sprite extruder/hot end with a second unit, until I could get the giant clump of plastic removed after a failed print, and apparently that second Sprite shipped with a bad nozzle. I finally happened on replacing the nozzle and things got instantly better.

I've always wanted to build a Voron, but this set of problems tuning my E3 have left me burned out.

On the Bambu front: my buddy wants to print primarily carbon fiber parts, so his use of it is more demanding than what mine would be, but it really gave me pause about my plan of getting a Bambu.
It's crazy that they still detect Firefox user agents and deliver the old ultra-basic call experience, where half the time you can't see the same thing that everyone else is seeing. When content is "spotlighted" or when there's a bot or app installed in the call, Firefox people just can't see it, and there's not even any messaging saying as much.

Of course if you spoof your user agent to be Chrome or Edge, all works perfectly well. I would bet Microsoft have ended up here out of ignorance more than malice, but either way it's not very nice of them.
There's Plastic in My Plaque
If we as a society collectively decide that they are, then they are.
Are there FOSS licenses which can mandate some kind of "non-commercial" open source use or ethical-use clauses of some type? Seem to recall this being something that some folks were either trying to make happen after the Palantir / ICE boycots.

(cue someone getting upset about "politicizing" licensing or cancel culture or whatever, as if the entire concept of intellectual property isnt political at its core)
There is a difference between aptitude (intelligence) and academic success (grades). There is also the underlying issue of equity.

If someone with a high aptitude but low academic performance is put into a situation where they have more access to resources, they will perform better than someone with low aptitude that has the means to make up for it in their academic success.

For instance, the popular college prep hack is take the SAT three times. Study for a different section each time, and colleges will take your highest score of each section. That’s not possible without the moderate financial means to take the test multiple times.
Yes, those would be amazing

Haven’t been able to get it down though. I’ve tried a few prompts in those lines, but I never really like the outputs

The iteration is still very helpful in fleshing out a good personalized resume/cover letter, but I feel the app needs something a bit more automated/straightforward for the users

Any ideas on how to structure good prompts or a workflow to make it work well in terms of user experience?
Doesn't certain licenses (like MIT) prevent exactly that?
>The MGS is an inertial guidance system which directs the flight of the missile. The guidance system operates continuously while the missile is in alert status, thus enabling the missile to be launched in less than one minute.

I wonder how often the missile is in alert status? Presumably regular testing?

For those just skimming the guidance system info (for Minuteman III) starts on page 49. Looks like they miniaturized it some and that giant moon lander backplane seems to be substantially reduced?

Amazing pics, thanks for sharing!
Coming from the original wooden ultimaker v1..

If you just wanna print and get on with your life get a Bambu.

If you want to play with printers, build a voron, modify an ender 3..

I have an X1C with AMS (local wifi only) and I literally treat it like a traditional A4 paper printer. Press print and leave the room. And the AMS is great for printing supports that snap easily..
Another reason they are sometimes different is because there is a lag in the CGM data. It's estimated the lag is about 12 minutes.
There is also no testing or vision rechecking requirement, so there are just a lot of people on the roads who should probably have their license taken away.
If Reddit were in the kind of market-dominant position than Apple is, then yes, absolutely, it should have been a right.
I like this. It's a little bit like the Hammurabi code. It's a very simple way to ensure compliance - assuming that the board member on the plane is competent enough to judge that the plane is good enough to fly on.
Few of them. As you get older, if you want good medical care, you likely want to see the same doctor at a well equipped facility. Ski towns can rarely provide those (mostly rotating staff, just essentials, potentially costly air transport if you need to get something non-trivial)
> Hopefully changing law

the problem with having consumers take action is that they are completely shortsighted and will take the path of least resistence - a path that the companies will have charted out to make this transition as smooth and painless _for the consumer_ as possible while retaining as much monopolistic power as possible.

There needs to be public institutions with the backing of the state to enforce property rights, including purchased devices.
Company that plans to bring back the mammoth takes a key step
This should just be a feature in Chrome. They should be disabled when owners change if you have this option enabled, which should probably be the default, and you get prompted to ask if you want to enable it. Ideally ownership change should require an accompanying statement explaining the change which is then presented to users in this process.
Battery prices collapsing, grid-tied energy storage expanding
Scientists warn of AI collapse (Sabine Hossenfelder) [video]
True. It turns out, it also applies for the two body problem, as long as one body is much more massive than the other.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orbital_period#Small_body_orbi...
Is he the person after the Yi LLM model?
Boeing seems to think dealing with the NTSB is like dealing with the FAA. Would love to be a fly on the wall in their lobbyist's offices rn.
Technically a function body needs at least one statement. A docstring is just an expression statement (a string), so a function definition with just a docstring is synctatically valid Python. I've seen people say multiline string literals are Python's version of multiline comments, but that's really just convention; it's a noop expression statement. Same as doing

def foo():
4

Which is also an expression statement as a function body, and also does nothing. Contrast to actually using a comment as a function body; comments aren't statements (nor expressions, so they can't be used as an expression statement):

def foo():
# this doesn't work

> IndentationError: expected an indented block after function definition on line 1

Of course, this doesn't really matter at all, and I get that it feels strange. I've just been thinking about grammars and syntax lately, and it's been interesting to now have the vocabulary and mental model to understand these unintuitive things :)
$2600 for the OS/2 2.0 SDK in 1990

That was a standard price structure for a platform SDK at the time.

I purchased the NeXTStep SDK for $3000 in 1993, and I believe in 1995 I got the Microsoft Developer Network (MSDN) subscription, which had stacks of CDs for their entire platform collection, that was $2000 each year.

These Software Developer Kits were massive, representing a significant percentage of the total effort of the company behind it. The printed documentation was 25 kilograms of paper. That AT&T C++ compiler shipped with the documentation in three-ring binder notebooks, I literally had to get another bookshelf for it.

Thousands of dollars.
These companies will not be stopping the use of items until they have a replacement. I don't understand how we can't just test the items intended as the replacement rigorously.
Using a paper bag is especially fun if you have young kids since a kindergartner can stir the kernels with oil in a bowl, pour them into the bag, add salt, and shake vigorously. I think it was almost as much fun to make as it was to eat.
Ketogenic diet: potential therapeutic targets for schizophrenia
Indeed. "Why won't more people play the games I like after I've been snarky about the games most people enjoy?"
It helps them root out the source of the problem. I doubt if they're out for blood. Was it a lazy tech? was it ridiculously long work hours? was it a manager pushing his employees to do fast & sloppy work? They want it to not happen again. From what I read about the plugs, the engineering of them is sound if implemented correctly, so it likely lies in faulty processes.
Resolved ALMA observations of water in the inner AU of the HL Tau disk
Ask HN: What were your tech predictions 10 years ago?
There has been such a flurry of technological progress in the last few years, it seems to me this is a good moment for reflection. What did you think 2024 was going to be like 2014? What did the future look like to you then?

Personally, I distinctly recall this feeling that Facebook would be the largest and greatest tech company in the world for some reason. That obviously has not turned out to be the case, no offense to our many esteemed friends at Meta. Clearly the popular culture of the 2010s was not capable of predicting the future of our industry with much accuracy, and social media networks seem to have sufficiently saturated the world now.

My second distinct recollection is my belief that we were in the midst of yet another AI winter. Although this seems patently false in retrospect, as many things do, I remember this was not a fringe opinion on even HN at the end of the decade (now it is clear to me that the pioneers in this emerging field were busy hacking instead of posting). It was thought that attention and the transformer were the great breakthroughs, and that we would have some marginal improvements to Google Translate and other such applications that seem quite humble in comparison to what is now being released. To claim that advancements would be made so rapidly that the goalposts on AGI would shift on a daily basis would have been preposterous!

I don't intend to rant too much but it is remarkable how as a young programmer and computer science student it was really quite difficult to foresee how unpredictable and varied the development and use of my art would be. I only humbly suggest that we once again be cautious about the obviousness of our current predictions for 2034.
I believe that is called getting "zuckered".
ASML may be looking to leave the Netherlands
The Gamewell boxes are very much in use in the Boston area. My town has dozens, they're tested regularly and work if phone/cell networks are down. Love 100 year old tech!

https://www.instagram.com/p/C3taQTugqD2/
What is the connection between being at risk of diabetes and hypoglycemia? Wouldn’t a pre-diabetic be very protected from hypoglycemia?
Sounds like universal appimage
> There are more important things to do for them.

Well yes, because right now society disincentivizes people from ever spending their time from anything that doesn't earn them at least a little bit of money. Kind of to my earlier point that "FOSS" projects with a monetization angle dicincentivizes people to contribute their time, to make someone else money. Well, except for the fact that it's almost a requirement for people in certain geographies to have FOSS commits on their portfolio, due to economic disparity. Yay free labor pool.

Should we actually leverage our technology to share the bounty of post-scarcity we could have today, don't you think people would spend more time on passion projects?
Interesting. I usually think about it at a different scale; its much easier to write something small and clever than it is to read and understand it later.
It still does. Individual contributor is someone with no reports.
Total revenue is 30%, not 10%. For App store its only 7% tho.

https://www.statista.com/statistics/382175/quarterly-revenue...

https://techcrunch.com/2024/02/01/apple-says-eu-represents-7...
Not many places - and really not many big places in the US - need engine block heaters. Cold weather doesn't need special gasoline, although diesel fuel does have to be formulated differently (modern winter gasolines are formulated to meet various states' emissions requirements, not because it gels in the cold).

I'm from the South, so I've never had a car with a block heater, but I've driven in temps down to 0 F/-17 C without a problem. They had been that low persistently for about 4-5 days. Perhaps I did untold damage to the car by not having low-viscosity oil, but it worked well for the four years I drove it and the two after that when my sister did (until she wrecked it), and it was seven years old when it became mine. 13 years for a mid-eighties GM car was pretty good.

Given that the auto industry in the US and Canada was basically founded around the Great Lakes, I can't imagine that they wanted to sell things that wouldn't work in the cold weather of that region.
The problem isn't that they don't place importance in them. It's that there is nothing weeding out failure. Financial incentives in principle (although definitely not very well in practice lol) punish failure in a resilient way: you actually can't keep betting if you can't win. Where... I don't think that's true for prediction markets?

Anyway, I dunno. I also don't believe that people predict well even with incentives, and think the whole thing is a farce, so I'm just a pretty dogged skeptic.
i certainly agree that now uncompressed images are little used, but at the time i was talking about, when cpu load of still image encodings was a major concern, compressed image file formats basically did not exist

naplps is 01983, gif 01987, prodigy half a million users more or less, many fewer than fidonet, usenet, or university internet accounts at the same time

you may be interested to know that i reverse engineered a vector font from an imlac vector terminal from 01973 a couple months ago http://canonical.org/~kragen/sw/dev3/imlacparse.py

will have to answer more at length with a better keyboard. i appreciate your comments
I can't find any such comments (nor the user) unfortunately. What did they say?
Thank you! It’s been fun building it and I’m looking forward to keep improving it

I definitely want to add scrapers for more sources

Haven't tried workday, is it popular for tech jobs (ie. with people that use the command line)?

Do you have a sample url with listings you could share?
Except nothing in the US is a direct democracy already?

Your argument falls apart because the entire point is that we elect representatives. Those representatives can not do _everything_ themselves.

Even the most basic city government has elected and appointed positions.

Do you elect every single cabinet member into office? How about all the people that work in those offices?
Even when there's a list of what's in it, there are certain areas where they are allowed to not list them because of "trade secrets" or whatevs. Look at the ingredients for spices as an example. In skincare products, the fragrance is an example so it only says "parfume" or just fragrance, yet it's one of the areas for some of the worst offenders of ingredients.
If you like this site you'll also like www.ed-thelen.org (about Nike missiles)
The fact that living in big cities is a risk factor for schizophrenia seems to suggest to me that it is a disorder of excitotoxicity at the network rather than cellular level. It could be that many of our modern psychological ailments share this same etiology, and that the disease you ultimately arrive at is only determined by your genetic predisposition to prefrontal, medial, temporal, or occipital dysfunction.
Wow this is a fascinating thesis -- GLP1 was known to affect the stomach AND the brain, and it certainly does affect the stomach, but for the weight loss properties to be simply brain-driven might be a bit simplistic.

It certainly does explain the effects on other kinds of addictive behavior, but that effect is less supported by research (that I can find, anyway).
One of the best application of LLM!
Evidence indicates long Covid could be a brain injury
I’ve observed time and again how street width affects walkability and safety.

You’d think a wider street means more leeway to notice a pedestrian, but it also works the other way: drivers assume that pedestrians will see them earlier, and assume priority. (Compare to narrow streets in a dense city, where busy pedestrian can suddenly quickly cross from around a corner, requiring awareness.)

More often, though, stroads with many lanes that take a while to cross get traffic lights, and intuitively drivers consider traffic lights “enough”, so unless there is a speed camera & automated ticketing then between traffic lights anything goes speed-wise, especially on lanes further away from the sidewalk, and on straight roads that “anything” is sometimes a drag race, and once you’re going fast it’s so frustrating to stop so red lights are being violated frequently, etc.

It’s amazing how a strategic mess of narrower, often one-way streets can result in similar overall throughput to support denser population, require less car traffic due to better use of public transport and foot traffic, while being more safe and satisfying to navigate.
https://www.goldmansachs.com/intelligence/pages/even-as-ev-s... ("Lower battery prices are expected to eventually boost EV demand")