skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> not an incident that should meet with curious blameless fact finding

The NTSB "fact finding" is intentionally and necessarily blameless, because if it becomes a prosecutorial investigation then you lose cooperation of everyone involved. If you lose that cooperation, you can't work out what caused an accident, and so the same accidents keeps recurring.

The entire point of the NTSB is to find what caused the accident, and that's not going to be "Sarah was tired that day", "Frank was distracted by his kid's academic struggles", etc. That might be relevant (a common action by budget carriers use to be frequent schedule changes for line pilots, so that they had "sufficient" sleep by the law but were being forced to work through their circadian low, etc - stopping that took multiple crashes where the NTSB said "this is the cause"), but it isn't going to be the cause here. Afaict it takes multiple people to install the plug, all of whom failed to do or check the bolts, Boeing has a lot of cross checks, none of them caught this, Alaska did an acceptance flight and had performed maintenance, but did not catch this, etc.

Firing the mechanics involved doesn't tell you why they messed up, it doesn't tell you how this got through checks, it doesn't do anything other than provide retribution. It doesn't even do anything to the people who presumably created the environment that allowed this to happen.

So instead of trying to get retribution, we try to discover what made it possible for this to happen, so we can stop the same thing happening again in future. That is how flying got as safe as it is today.

People who cause accidents due to criminal behavior, or corporations that cause the accidents due to criminal behavior, can be charged or sued, but saying "I want people punished so lets sabotage the accident investigation, and inhibit our ability to prevent them in future" is counter productive.
Actually you could argue having one of your biggest defence contractors behave like this is a bigger loss to American power than holding their feet to the fire and trying to develop a more engineering focused culture.
Because migration doesn't add or subtract people, it just moves them around. So the average between an overfilled city and the empty country side results in the overall rental market only changing very slowly.
To put it simply: Postman is for everything but what curl is for. Sure it also performs the actual request somewhere under the hood but that’s mostly irrelevant. Having a single integrated user interface (it could also be a text UI) to craft a request, sometimes sending JSON, sometimes a file, then sending it to inspect the result, then modifying the request then doing it again is very powerful. Not to mention OAuth/OIDC support and the like.

Sometimes, you have to find out how an API works, exactly. Sometimes you want to test your own APIs in ways the regular clients do not allow.
why one?
You could likely also combine the LLM with a coverage tool to provide additional guidance when regenerating the fuzzer: "Your fuzzer missed lines XX-YY in the code. Explain why you think the fuzzer missed those lines, describe inputs that might reach those lines in the code, and then update the fuzzer code to match your observations."

This approach could likely also be combined with RL; the code coverage provides a decent reward signal.
Just curious, what’s your gripe with Insomnia? I find its UX a little clunky at times but haven’t found anything limiting my use cases.
There is specifically block storage service (EBS) and falvirs of it like EBS multi-attach and EFS that can ne used if there is a need to port software/databases to the cloud with low level filesystem support.

Why would we need to do it on object storage which addresses a different type of storage need.

Nevertheless there are projects like EMRFS and S3 file system mount points that try to provide files stem interfaces to workloads that need to see S3 as a filesystem.
I mean, there are observable differences between the two. An obvious one is to have an infinite recursive function application as a parameter to a function. Depending on whether CBV or CBN is used, you either get non-halting code, or a meaningful result.
Thought crimes are on the menu boys. Today it is extremist gamers. Tomorrow it will be people who disagree with women, because misogyny.
It's a matter of a client UI implementation. You can't delete a non-empty folder with POSIX API on common filesystems or FTP too.

However, there are file managers, FTP clients, and S3 clients that will do that for you by deleting individual files.
I know that it sounds like a chicken and egg problem, but in my personal opinion, the best showcase is an actual result of a solved problem, for example: "i proposed this approach to team and afterwards our development speed increased by 30%" or "i had a personal problem, so I made this solution and made it useful for other people". Please note that I'm talking mostly about hiring here, as it can be very useful to gracefully outline your prior experiences. But once you're in, it's just natural, you solve problems, you don't hide the results, you talk about it, people acknowledge our skills.

When we talk about literature, of course, it's very important, as it makes learning things faster than just imperial trial and error, but practice and theory should be side by side.

I'm frankly sure, that you've been doing some practical stuff and not just reading about someone's experiences. I mean, it's easy to study and understand how facebook became so successful, but repeating that success is nearly impossible.

Sorry if I misunderstood your point, please correct me, if I'm going in the wrong direction.
I found it uncomfortable to watch it making a request once someone pointed out to me that it highlighted letters in the order SOPA when waiting for a response
Or you just don't know, because there are no means on iOS to figure it out.
If I assume they are trying to trick me, what blinding procedure could be added to convince me they are not?
This is fascinating. Where can I learn more about this?
Very excited to look forward to a future where the entire Herpesviridae family is wiped out (whether it's Epstein-Barr, HSV-1/2, whatever). HPV too. Really exciting time. I tend to visit /r/HerpesCureResearch every now and then to see the progress. I imagine something like this would be a gamechanger on so many levels.

One day I hope that HIV is also finally vaccinated for.
In S3 each file is identified with a full path.

Not only you cannot rename a single file, but you also cannot rename a "folder" (because that would imply a bulk rename on a large number of children of that "folder")

This is the fundamental difference between a first class folder and just a convention on prefixes of full path names.

If you don't allow renames, it doesn't really make sense to have each "folder" store the list of the children.

You can instead have a giant ordered map (some kind of b-tree) that allows you for efficient lookup and scanning neighbouring nodes.
Amazon doesn’t market S3 as a replacement for file systems, that’s why EBS exists.

Also, is S3 really “very expensive”? Relative to what?
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Chasing Passive Income, Americans Turn to Vending Machines
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n32YMFjMZFc
Nitpick: Bloomeries generally don't melt iron. They are just hot enough to reduce iron oxide to iron. Melting iron is a relatively young technology. From Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bloomery):

"Inside the furnace, carbon monoxide from the incomplete combustion of the charcoal reduces the iron oxides in the ore to metallic iron without melting the ore; this allows the bloomery to operate at lower temperatures than the melting temperature of the ore."

and

"As a bloomery's size is increased, the iron ore is exposed to burning charcoal for a longer time. When combined with the strong air blast required to penetrate the large ore and charcoal stack, this may cause part of the iron to melt and become saturated with carbon in the process, producing unforgeable pig iron, which requires oxidation to be reduced into cast iron, steel, and iron. This pig iron was considered a waste product detracting from the largest bloomeries' yield, and early blast furnaces, identical in construction, but dedicated to the production of molten iron, were not built until the 14th century."
The human immune system is the most complicated biological system we've made any significant progress in understanding. But I would be prepared to listen to a contrarian who's spent several months deep diving the literature. Sadly, I've yet to meet such an individual.
> A big loss to Boeing will be seen as a big loss to American hegemony

I mean if USA will decide to isolate itself as trend suggest, then they will lose that hegemony anyway. So at least they could have safe planes
Insomnia has an open source fork from before all the cloud bulls*t: https://github.com/ArchGPT/insomnium
Don't feel sad. There are many people in your situation, who wonder why there is so much backlash to their ideas even though you have done due diligence and are working in good faith and genuinely think that your approach/idea/invention is a boon to humanity.
If a customer makes an IT decision as big as running Hadoop or RDBMS with S3 as storage ... but does not consult at least a Associate level AWS Certified architect (who are doke a dozen) for at least one day worth of advice which is probably a couple of hundred dollars at most ...

Can we really blame AWS?

I am sure none of official AWS documentations or examples show such an architecture.

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Amazon EMR can run Hadoop and use Amazon S3 as storage via EMR FS.

"S3 mountpoints" are a feature specifically for workloads that need to see S3 as a file system.

For block storage workloads there is EBS and EFS and FSx that AWS heavily advertises.
It's for building things on top. If you want to rename/move/copy data, implement a layer that maps objects to "filenames" or any metadata you like (or use some lib). If you want to write logs, implement append and rotation. But I for example don't and won't need any of that and if it helps keep the API simpler and more reliable then I benefit.

being a conventional filesystem for S3 would be either a very leaky abstraction or completely different product
Useful! Wish I had this when I started reverse engineering pbf map tiles a few months back.
I think what you’re describing is simply not a hierarchical file system. It’s a different thing that supports different operations and, indeed, is better or worse at different operations.
This would only be relevant if the American empire were losing dominance to rivals that didn’t also have computing and networking etc.
Great point! And if you see, that there are already working competitors, don't give up, it probably means, that these products already have market fit, so your idea can potentially work. Of course, you need to perform at least some market analysis to know how are things looking (size of the market, existing problems, willingness of customers to adapt, etc.)
> But you have plenty of cells. Really quite a lot.

We have also a lot of cells that do not divide such as neurons, or some cardiac cells.
isn't the entire premise of this article flawed? the feigned indignity at their clients lying...when it's pretty much required for them to receive any semblance of effective defense:

There is a kernel of an exception that is almost not worth mentioning. The Rules of Professional
Conduct 3.3 obligates me with the duty of candor. I am not allowed to present evidence that I “know”
is false, which encompasses witness testimony. Some jurisdictions make exceptions to this rule for
defendants testifying in their criminal trial (correctly, IMO) but not all. So assuming that a
client truthfully confesses to me, assuming we go to trial, assuming they decide to testify, and
assuming I “know” they’re going to lie, then yes, this could indeed spawn a very awkward situation
where I’m forced to withdraw in the middle of proceedings.
I don't know anything about zip trees, but I'd think in a common scenario the memory addresses are reasonably consecutive. Would that be a problem? If not, why not just assign consecutive ranks in the first place?
If you look at the widely-circulated video, someone was sitting one seat over next to the hole. I believe seatbelt use is what prevented them from being forcibly expelled from the aircraft. This is another event that shows why keeping your seatbelt on whenever you're in the seat is a good idea.
Why 3000 BC?

Isn't it true that if we applied today's knowledge it could also be built millions of years ago?

I can understand it means something like: it could be built with tools and materials they had 3000 BC, but isn't it also true that knowledge was able to create different tools and different materials?
I don’t know a whole lot about LucidLink but Weka basically uses S3 as a dataplane for their own file system.
Thanks, yes, we are pretty early setting this up, you can find me here: https://www.linkedin.com/in/skaersoe/
I think what you are getting at is usually called piping. Some languages have it inbuilt (usually as a |> operator).
Yeah this isn’t just Boeing, it’s the senators who don’t want Boeing jobs to be risked in any serious consequences is my interpretation of how this seems to work
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1) Many times qe had "liberal" governments trying to fix it: Alfonsin, De La Rua, Macri. Even the de facto dictatorship tried to open up the economy. All of them failed.

2) Argentina is not poor. It's a rich country and their agriculture industry is one of the best in the world.

However, it's an industry with very little trickle down dynamics, compared to other fields like electronics or the service industry. You don't need that many educated people to export crude oil and unprocessed goods to the world.

A "pure" agricultural Argentina would be very financially stable, at the cost of having horribly high levels of inequality, with a (from my POV) inhuman quality of life for the average person.
And no country in the world would favor that.
We have always had musical notation, though what we have today is much more complex than any surviving records from clay tablets and such of ancient times.

The idea of communicating sounds via physical marks was there, but it clearly lost out- why bother writing a message that needs to be sounded out, then translated to a spoken language, when you can skip the translation step with something glottographic?
There's got to be some miscommunication between the researchers and the journalists as to the contribution. I know anthropology undergraduates who years ago had whole courses where they had to make and use their own stone tools.
While I agree with you and understand that the data is local only, we can only use tools approved by the company. I would like to suggest that my team take Bruno for a 3 – 6 month test drive (since Postman was unable to check the boxes) but cannot without approval….
> the real mystery is how a single guy working alone could come up with all this in just a few days of casually doing an online challenge with a T-shirt and a coffee mug as a reward.

Why is that a mystery? There's still people out there who actually know how to program a CPU and actually understand what they're doing. The real mystery is the lack of deeper understanding of most people who call themselves programmers, combined with the fact that they don't appear to be knowing that they're seriously lacking.
That's surprising! So say I buy a bunch of produce from a farmer for my shop in Portugal. In the case where I sell it I'd expect to pay VAT on my margin. But how would my accounting differ between putting it in trash bags and putting it in a box labeled "free"?
As I said, I dislike Apple because they are deceitful.

They are useful because they put on a show of principles. That helps
remind people that privacy and security are valuable even if Apple's
products do not in fact deliver. They are useful politically if not
technically.

The rest of your reply seems lazy. If you've something to say then
please have the courage and good manners to speak up and say it.
Jack Welch is a great case study in corporate psychopathy, but I feel like the Boeing chapter would address different aspects in the future MBA’s reading list. This is something more along the lines of the Postal Service scandal in the UK.
I was contemplating adding "to at least one person" at the end of that sentence, but then it definitely would be the null set.
Care to share a link to an example?
CEOs often talk about accountability. Would this extend to Dave Calhoun going to prison?
Ok, yes - I'm with you.

I now realise how this statement could be misleading.

> To mark a function as idempotent, simply wrap it with the idempotent function.

When initially writing it, I thought it was a "given" that the wrapped functions are the responsibility of the developer. Now I realise this can also be interpreted as "we make your functions idempotent".

Thanks for the detailed breakdown. We will work on the docs to make it clearer.
This is a propaganda op [0], all that's being done is keeping up a facade.

[0]: https://www.rferl.org/a/gutterman-week-in-russia-mariupol-uk...
John Oliver recently did an episode on the Boeing shitstorm. And while I would take anything a comedian says with a large grain of salt, the undercover staff interviews seemed pretty damning. I'm not sure if it's criminal negligence on Boeing's part, but it seems pretty obvious that engineering excellence isn't on the top of their minds.
It's interesting you would mention Jack Welch because he said:

> Shareholder value is the dumbest idea in the world.

There is myth about how corporate directors have a legal duty to maximize "shareholder value" and short term corporate profits at the cost of everything else. This is false. No such thing exists in corporate law. While Burwell v. Hobby Lobby is a deplorable decision, there is a rather remarkable sentence in there:

> modern corporate law does not require for-profit corporations to pursue profit at the expense of everything else, and many do not do so.

https://www.law.cornell.edu/supremecourt/text/13-354
Call me ignorant, but I am extremely put off by products that blatantly rip off naming schemes and essentially position themselves as a copy of another product. Granted, "Orange" went through a number of itereation and is now less similar to the product it originally copied.

From the article: "Like many, it is let down by its software support..."

Well yes, no news. This was always the strength of the original Rapsberry Pi and is the reason why most of the impulse-bought copied products end up in the parts bin.
Every other review on the channel - manufacturer supplied and supported - is glowing with praise.
We have flying cars - the Cessna 172 and the Robinson R44 both qualify, they’re just expensive and require training to operate. You don’t want the average jackass from your commute trying to land on the road by your house.
Physicists invent new method for assessing trust in text classification
Sure, its possible, not exactly great experience though.
> You can easily practice Buddhism in the modern context without the baggage.

An excellent book on this exact topic is Buddhism Without Beliefs by Stephen Batchelor[0]. Very readable & super short. Recommended!

[0]https://www.amazon.com/Buddhism-Without-Beliefs-Contemporary...
Since these are realistic, to me it means that the artists had an actual model if front of them. This what I find very interesting considering we expect that the environment was very harsh and it perhaps gives some weight to the 'queen' hypothesis.
I'm not aware of russia doing nuclear rearmament. Do you have any source in that sense?
>Persian Muslim polymat

What is the relevance of religion in this context? I rarely see religion being mention in connection with other scientists.
If an archeologist from the far future finds these, they'll be utterly confused
My family lived just down the road from Bell Labs in Murray Hills, NJ, in 1978. One of my fondest memories of that period is visiting Bell Labs for an open day.

We saw displays of their research work and got to talk to some of the researchers. Some was fundamental semiconductor physics (which my dad loved, as he had a PhD in the area). Much was about the practicalities of running a telephone network. And a few displays were a glimpse of the future. Using the prototype video phone felt like being in an episode of the Jetsons!
> Orders of magnitude variation in phonon energy is a thing though You can do the basic statistics of waves in the open ocean and show that waves will never get high enough to crest an oil rig in the North Sea. Then go search for "rogue waves" on YouTube and watch it actually happen.

Not at that scale. 10m waves are common. 5 orders of magnitudes from this is not a rogue wave, it’s a wave that goes higher than the moon. I understand you are convinced you had a bright new idea, but if you want others to be convinced as well you need more solid arguments than “it could happen”.

Again, the kind of stresses at the atomic scale in materials are a few GPa. You need much more than that, on top of a few million kelvins to have deuterium fusion (hydrogen is even harder).

> So we absolutely should expect "rogue phonons" that have energies orders of magnitude above average phonon energy, enough to overcome Coulomb barriers and trigger D-D or D-T fusion reactions.

We really should not, after just basic napkin maths. The energy given by 1 GPa is around 0.001 eV. The energy barrier for a deuterium-tritium reaction is 0.1 MeV. The difference is not an order of magnitude or two; it’s 8. It is just not going to happen in anything that looks like a solid, which is exactly why we do it in confined plasmas.

But even if we take this for granted and think a bit about the consequences it gets even more absurd. The same deuterium-tritium fusion reaction releases 17 MeV. This is going to first, melt the crystal close to where the reaction is taking place; and the shred the structure of the material over centimetres.

> It's a freak occurrence, and if there is a way of making it predictable or enhanced in some way, that solution is not obvious.

Or rather, it would be a freak occurrence if it were happening. The likelihood of this being in the same realm as a wave putting some water on the surface of the moon.

> But it should be detectable with very sensitive equipment, and would be a wonderful experimental physics result.

You don’t need very sensitive equipment to see the damage caused by 17 MeV neutrons in a crystalline material. Fairly standard electron microscopes are enough.
Show HN: Simplify the CI of your CMake-based project with this script
This is not quite a project, but I think this is useful enough to be posted here.
It's a simple CMake script you can drop at the top level of your own CMake-based project to perform the tedious bits of the configure/build/test cycle.
CMake unfortunately doesn't set sane defaults for you when running via CTest (most annoying of which is the CMake generator), so the script serves to detect said defaults.
The script works as a CDash dashboard submitter as well. It supports enabling clang-tidy, memcheck, coverage, customizations, etc, in a simple manner.
If you want to try it out, just drop the script at the top level of your project, create a CTestConfig.cmake and .ci/config.cmake (optional) as appropriate, make sure to include(CTest) at your top level CMakeLists.txt, then call

ctest -VV -S test.cmake

If you don't have a CMake project to try it out, just use XRootD itself.
The docs on how to use this script are here:
https://github.com/xrootd/xrootd/blob/master/docs/TESTING.md

You can also see how the GitHub Actions workflows look like when using this script here:
https://github.com/xrootd/xrootd/blob/master/.github/workflo...

I hope you enjoy!