skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Even a decade ago I heard Jr Linux Admins -- 20 year olds -- who dropped out of college talking about how the juice wasn't worth the squeeze.

Like, they live around Northern VA, get a job working in a data center, snag a couple of certs, and then run with it. Maybe get an Associate's at the NVCC or via online orgs like U-MD.

Having done hiring in that demographic there was definitely a difference in the Jr Admin population who had real 4-year brick-and-mortar school degrees vs. those without, but I wouldn't be surprised to see that trend decreasing.
Ah cool. I messed around with this a while ago: https://github.com/ericlewis/swift-playdate
"free of charge" is pretty clear, but IANAL.
I have seen Unicode Separated Values. I don't like Unicode and I even more don't like USV. I like ASCII Separated Values, which can encode each separator as a single byte, and can be used with character encodings other than Unicode (and, even if you do use it with Unicode, does not prevent you from using the Unicode control pictures in your data; USV does prevent you from using those characters in your data even though the data is (allegedly) Unicode).

What they say about display and input really depends on the specific editors and viewers that you are using (and perhaps on the fonts as well). When I use vi, I have no difficulty entering ASCII control characters in the text. However, there is also the problem with line breaking, with ASV and with USV, anyways; and they do mention this in the issues anyways.

Fortunately, I can write a program to convert these formats without too much difficulty, even without implementing Unicode (since it is a fixed sequence of bytes that will need to be replaced; however, it does mean that it will need to read multiple bytes to figure out whether or not it is a record separator, which is not as simple as ASV).
Do you really need an independent peer-reviewed study to know if inhaling brake dust is bad for you or not?

At some point, it's important to trust your instincts. I don't think you need a medical degree to understand that inhaling tiny particles made of nasty stuff leads to bad health outcomes.
I am curious from someone who uses fig every day - what’s the rundown on its value?
> Flight control incidents that cause injuries are not hard to find on avherald.

Exactly. But the takeaway here is that "notable" and "newsworthy" are slightly different ideas, and the latter is more subjective.

This is absolutely the effect of the "Boeing Narrative". If the media is faced with data like this[2] in the face of a frame that says "Aviation is extremely safe and getting safer every year", they'll likely skip over the outliers. If they need to sell articles into a market that knows "Boeing Planes are Unsafe", they're going to have a much harder time with that notability analysis.

And that's 100% on Boeing, not the media. At the end of the day if your business depends on people believing your products are good products[1], cutting corners on the reality undergirding that perception is a disaster. Boeing had almost a full century of goodwill they've now flushed.

[1] Which is true for almost every business where the consumer sees the competition. Maybe not if you manufacture gaskets or capacitors, but airplanes and laptops for sure.

[2] Editted to add: it also hands out an easy scapegoat. We really don't know if there was an instrument failure here or if it was pilot culpability. We just know what the pilot said. And we have to recognize that the pilot might have lied knowing that Boeing made an easier target.
As an entirely irrelevant aside:

There's a Youtube channel from Australia I watch of a guy who does heavy machining and welding in service of construction equipment. In the most recent episode (working on the boom of a crane) at one point a cute little brown snake crawls out from some metal and aggressively chases him, eventually crawling under another pile.

He calmly tells us this thing (an eastern brown snake) is the second most venomous snake species in the world, and he wonders if the much bigger mother is around somewhere.

This felt like peak Australia to me.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DalniFq6WHI (around 29:50)
Airbus has other types of disfuntions.

It's ridiculous to consider the problems with Boeing started now:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boeing_737_MAX_groundings
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/2013_Boeing_787_Dreamliner_g...
Do you have a link for info on that? I tried the changelog https://lineageos.org/Changelog-28/

edit, found this - only for for microG Companion/Services
https://review.lineageos.org/c/LineageOS/android_frameworks_...
There's a spread of things that can happen in phishing; I would expect that it's a lot harder to get a user to run an actual executable outright than to open a "data" file that makes a trusted application become malicious.
Not just the US. UK passport control going from France to England by ferry is on the French side of the channel.
Isn't a Chinese international office called a consulate? Why would it come across as strange that they would have them?
One of the two likely works with CSVs for a living, and it's definitely not the person suggesting "What if it just was hard to eyeball/edit".

If you don't understand why something is the way it is, it might be better to start with a question than with a statement implying the tech misses existing tech. Chesterton's fence still applies, and ignoring it means you're outsourcing your work to others. RTFM is a perfectly valid answer at that point.
I don't disagree with you. It seem the difference here is that it's a foreign app/entity, and governments seem to have the authority to decide unilaterally on giving such entities access to it's people/economy/etc. This is done by every country, democratic or not. Think import controls, tariffs, and direct bans. The fact that people will lose access to said app is a consequence, but I'm not sure we can claim it's infringing on a freedom. Telling you not to use the app would be infringing. Banning the app is not really. Now, it'd be a different issue if they banned Facebook. The freedom infringed here would likely be facebook's and not yours.
Sure, I agree with everything you said,and that is why I think it is annoying, but not a scam.

>Nobody can be expected to know the particulars everywhere they go, while businesses are legally required to know in order to collect.

Which is why they tell customers exactly what the total is and fee/tax breakdown before purchase.
I am deeply steeped in the history of computers and the biggest three things I can point to as the reason (MS-)DOS won are:

- Licensing: Most computers either had custom operating systems that were not shared with other hardware vendors, or in the case of BASIC frequently, were licensed themselves.

- IBM letting the genie out: The BIOS on the IBM PC 5150 was cloned, quickly and legally, and other companies started making compatibles. This caused an explosion of computer variety in a few short years for a single platform.

- Microsoft: DOS usually means "Microsoft DOS", Microsoft also was responsible for many of the BASIC environments of early systems as well. The ability to buy your OS from someone else lowered the pressure on hardware makers. IBM also favoured Micorsoft's DOS over CP/M-86 and stopped supporting it quickly.

All this meant the PC compatible ecosystem with Microsoft DOS became easy to make from a hardware side, and lacked a single point of failure like Apple, Radio Shack, Commodore. Atari, etc. There were other MS-DOS compatible DOS's out there, but MS-DOS was usually the one shipped with computers to be as "IBM compatible" as they possibly could and gained dominance through that.

EDIT: To those who may not be aware, BASIC did become more OS like before going away. HP BASIC was extremely feature packed before HP-UX replaced it and was more capable than MS-DOS in many ways. It evolved far beyond just a programming language.
Thanks so much for the thoughts! Happy to respond.

-Schema: We agree. After seeing how many times it has asked to see the database schema when working on a task, that is definitely something we will be adding.

-Manual / RAG: We did some RAG magic in the first two iterations of our product and found it was really hard to get right when the task was not well defined and as the size of the codebase grew. We found that our users were watching it do the search for the files and basically saying, "Let's see if it finds the code file I already know we need." So, we decided to go manual so at least the user isn't unpleasantly surprised by the results while we determine the right path forward with RAG. Or maybe even combine both where the user gives an "entry point," and the AI figures out the rest of the files

-I think you're right to be skeptical. In our experience, the LLMs are really best at breaking down a task to be just one notch more specific. So, I think the output here wouldn't be the best for a more high-level task. Our plan to handle this is to allow plans to be solved recursively, where you continually create a tree of subtasks, and only when you get to a specific enough "leaf" do you actually go through with generating code.

-You're right; I think we used the term "technical design doc" more generally to steer people's thinking toward software design in English rather than code. I like that you mention diagrams, though, because we would love to incorporate diagrams into our documents as our tool and LLM's capabilities increase!

-This is a very interesting idea! We used a version of this (a select set of elements of the AST that we tried to rank in importance) in our initial RAG system to give the AI a "starting point" for the RAG code search. It worked pretty well. My concern would be that the quality of the search might then depend on the naming/structure of the code (I'm thinking some 1000-line mega functions or something)

Thanks so much for the thoughtful questions!

EDIT: I see Maks also responded and I think we both offer similar messaging with slightly different delivery :)
I think there's kind of an easy fallacy to slip into with any sort of growing or breeding, where you see it as unique and different from other businesses because they're self propagating - it's "free" money!

It's almost like the money equivalent of a perpetual motion machine, except that it sort of does work sometimes, just not typically for a random given layman, and it's not usually worth it compared to literally any other way of making money.
The first versions of the Dreamliner had some kind of software bug that ended up generating a requirement of a hard reboot every X hours until it could be fixed. I don’t know if I would have the guts to board the plane after seeing that!
..no? I guess that means I'll never be Tim Cook and might have morals, but it just reeks of craven profiteering.
Research software engineers are paid what they are worth. Typically a bit more than a postdoc, but not that much more. The problem is that the academia is a cash-starved environment, and everyone's work is worth much less than similar work in the industry.

Another problem is the PI-centric model. Most of the funding goes to individual labs. If a typical grant is $200k/year, you are not going to pay competitive salaries. And you're probably not going to hire a software engineer, because then you won't have anyone doing the actual research.
All I'm gonna say is if you reduce and optimize this design, you will end up with a round about.
D'oh! Too late to edit now, but thank you.
In theory yes. You’d need a sufficiently high refresh rate (1000 Hz or better I would guess) and corresponding brightness.
Do you consider the usage of oligopolies optional? I could live the life of stallman, but this decision kills an amazing user experience for subscriptions.
Or maybe the pilot made a mistake and is trying to save face by blaming the instruments. I suggest waiting for the investigation to figure out what went wrong.

For example, he could have slipped while climbing out of the seat and fell against the control column.
Bit more context - the Vitality here is a rewards program started by medical insurer Discovery.

One of those go to gym twice a week get a discount on something type of reward schemes. Also big on apple watches/step counters. And because its a program attached to medical insurance they have that data on medical side too.

So there is a whiff of PR & self-promotion in this, but they do also legitimately have access to good data at scale so probably not wrong
I don't see this as a perfect solution, but CSV is not great either.
A comma is super common in both text and numbers. Here in Europe we often use commas as decimal separator and use a semicolon as value separator.

As a result spreadsheets almost always fail to automatically parse a CSV.

I do like the idea of having a dedicated separator character, that would work right worldwide. And then just standardize the use of a dot as decimal separator in these files.
I also use uBlock but my filters are the default ones and I saw it without any problem but tbh this is the first time that I saw some post on the Web have HN as a share option or the first time that I was surprised seeing it. Maybe it has something to do with Google ranking "trusted human information and knowledge" higher than "non-human" information and knowledge[0] or simply some Meta software engineer loves and uses HN so s/he decided to include HN as well, idk.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39423949
I have a few handmade shirts that were all between $70-100. I buy the occasional oddity from Etsy and those things (the ones I buy) are all handmade and most of them are quite affordable – on par with shopping at Target for comparison. I’m 100% certain the artists are thankful they can be professional creators instead of becoming a wage worker or living off of some form of basic income
It's ironic to watch a video about IP and information freedom constantly marred by the Getty watermark.
Corporate rights aren't human rights, but the right to face one's accuser should be extended to any entity under the judicial process.

I don't think it's wise to just hand the government the power to dissolve corporations on evidence they got from... Somewhere, they don't need to tell you. Imagine how that could be abused by a corrupt executive or judiciary.
Where you live matters more. If you live near a mountain range, good luck getting accurate weather predictions.
IIRC there were other Airbus incidents and concerns. It's been so long I don't recall the details but I remember being worried about flying Airbus.
You mean like Android does?
Who or what is SRI?
Dev kits for consoles are so even more insanely controlled and costed.
I'm sure you know what your talking about, but pushing the point that what is "best" or worth talking about is something that changes like every month does not really help defend against the case that most of this is just hype-churn or marketing.
Losing Your Work
What a lawyer would "advise against" and what they "should be disbarred for doing" is not nearly the same thing.
Judge: How do you plead?

Defendant: J/K!!!! lulz!!!!!

Judge: case dismissed! <bang>

It probably depends on how wealthy the defendant is (if an individual), or the size of the the org defendant represents. If you're a LEO type of org, then I'm honestly shocked the judge didn't just dismiss with prejudice from the off
Apple laptops have remarkable hardware durability and performance for portable computing, largely ahead of everyone else. MacOS comes with the system.

Yet, when you replace MacOS on those well-engineered laptops, trackpad sensitivity and battery life suffers.

You can technically run other systems, but better to simply run MacOS.
The funniest thing is that Boeing is barely industry, with all the two-way regulatory ties and of course the monopoly, it's like a nationalized company that just happens to be nominally owned by investors. The only ideology that Boeing makes look bad is the Soviet system! :-)
There was an NYPD officer who was an active tong member in NY....
I thought 1000mSv seemed low.

I recently had a lung perfusion scan where I inhaled a saline vapor with technetium in it and I was the x-ray source for the imaging. When I got home I measured 43mSv/hr. I must be pretty close to the NASA limit. Too bad I'm not an astronaut though.

Would having a medical scan cause an astronaut to have a reduced usable lifetime?
Linguist John McWhorter has a fantastic course on human language on The Great Courses / Wondrium / Audible.

He specifically talks about this! Apparently the spoken word, the written word, song lyrics, and numbers are all processed in different parts of the brain almost as if they were different languages. He even mentions the same phenomenon as you and I think he also said this is the first part that gets hardwired into your brain as a kid, leaving you stuck counting in your mother tongue forever.
You just let off the accelerator. They have tuneable deceleration curves for the regenerative braking.

Think of it like playing a console game. When you hold the right trigger, your car goes faster. When you let off of it, it naturally slows down. Unless you opt in to harder difficulties, most racing games don’t make you brake much.

Driving an EV is just like that. You only really brake for an immediate stop.
They can (and do) always pick and choose when to enforce the law.
We're arguing the same point. :)
Are there any cars that "cruise" (by which I assume you mean maintain velocity without applying a pedal)? Non-EVs mostly sort of do so, they still slow down gradually. I'd be interested in trying a car that cruises indefinitely. Sort of an automatic, always on cruise control.
Even if they were allowed to ask for a fee, they would not be allowed to set conditions that they can subjectively rule on. Particularly the "in good standing with Apple" is a blatant violation since it effectively lets them block anyone they want for any reason, which is in violation of the very basic "shall allow and technically enable" language of the DMA.
Nope. Simple computer vision / optical flow applied to radar image sequences.
cod develops over time, from an enforcement perspective, a rapid assesment of the situation may lead to a level of response based on perceived threat.

an experienced or well trained LEO may see a subtle detail indicating involvement, or not of other person, setting the tone for investigation or threat response.

an autopsy may turn that around if it ends up that a weapon was held in a position quite unlikely for decedent to achieve.

the overarching consideration is a planned murder is not in any way beneficial to boeings situation
An interesting pivot but I guess helping devs sync on multiple computers was never going to be a big market.
why are you comparing NYC police force to Ukraine military rather than Ukraine police force? The fact that anyone sees the roles as comparable is a lot of the problem.
The related acquisition thread a few months ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37296401

Edit: And the Launch HN from March 2021:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27277819
What was emigrating from Poland in 1981 like?
Aren’t turbulence / tailwinds / low pressure zone the only things that can cause a plane to suddenly lose lift and drop?

I don’t think there’s any control input that can cause that, this story doesn’t seem to make sense.
So it is the wrapper for wrapper (Drizzle) for Kysely?
As a native English speaker, I speak primarily Spanish in my day to day life (Spanish speaking wife and children) and have done so for about 15 years. I’ve had to purposefully build relationships in -both- languages in order to feel normal when speaking English with them.

I can’t even describe the absolute weirdness of saying “I love you” to my wife after building our relationship over years in only. Spanish. There is definitely some kind of personality disconnect when I learn language and culture by immersion as an adult.

And yes, numbers are problematic. Spanish me really, really, really sucks at math. Even trying to do basic subtraction or calculate a trivial tip ends up with internal translations to work out.

As a bizarre aside, Once in a while I can be nudged into a temporary unresponsive state by the right timing of a language change by my speaking partner.

When I “snap out of it” it’s like the words went into a que but nobody fetched them so I went into some kind of waiting condition. It’s really weird and makes me wonder if there might not be a lot of ways to trigger altered states through similar hacks.
An airplane doesn't suddenly drop out of the sky because its controls stops responding. So I agree that on the face of it it's either turbulence or some sort of aggressive manoeuvre, either initiated by the pilots accidentally or somehow initiated by the airplanes control systems, not simply "stopped responding to controls".
Since you asked for a hack, here's one that I use.

Once you find yourself in a moment of struggle with staying focused, getting into the "right state", etc., do the following. Put everything aside, grab a pencil and a piece of paper, and go to some quiet place. Sit still and quiet for 10 minutes. Do absolutely nothing - produce minimum entropy. Then start writing down everything that starts coming down to your mind: any thoughts, worries, ideas, whatsoever. Keep writing until you feel like nothing else to add. Put a date and return to what you've been doing. You can throw the paper away or hide it somewhere, but most importantly forget about it.

Call it brain dumping or anything else. For me it doesn't mater how it works unless it works. I have my own adjustments to this technique, but generally it's the same. Sometimes I get very surprising insights and get simple answers for questions which seemed to be complicated. Sometimes it just helps to clear up my mind. Anyways, I hope you'll find it useful. Good luck!

Edited: typos
The link mentions "our internal job scheduler" and how they had to optimize it for this work -- does anyone know what this job scheduler is called, or how it works?
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Control underscore is the unit separator character. (Some editors may require you to escape that character, though.)
> I think Siemens Germany is a nice example of just such a cartel. Nicely distributed in small chunks to abide to the letter of (labour) law.

Siemens is not a good example. If you're looking for better examples, there's Aldi. It intentionally splits its structure to avoid triggering stricter labor and reporting laws.
I think there is a great opportunity to use AI in design and development, as long as it is used correctly. Which is as tools to help engineers.

At my previous workplace I wrote a documentation bot which helps people find documentation based on vague descriptions of what they are looking for (like when you know you saw something but you don't know where exactly or what the keyword is). Or by specifying what you want to accomplish.

Mind, the bot would not create answers to questions, it would just ingest existing documentation and point people to things that are relevant to their searches.
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Add to the list that when we resized the window or went fullscreen the typical Flash app would keep its original size. A Flash app born for 800x600 screens wouldn't look well in a 1366x768 screen or 1080p ones. It became tiny as resolution increased and diagonals more or less didn't. Then Steve Jobs and battery life or removing a competing ecosystem.
But people read much less of what you type now.
Is that the only way the ACLU works? Can't they offer to cover the expense of the person with standing by either using their attorneys or footing the bill for the team already in place?
Unless humans themselves were tested on a benchmark, the benchmark data doesn't help us compare the model to human performance.

Of all the SWEs out there that draw a salary, how many do you think would improve on this 14% unassisted figure?