skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sure he may have already aired out what Boeing was doing, but he was only talking about general actions. But given that DOJ is looking into a criminal investigation that means he can name names, and testify against individuals which would bubble up the chain since lower level management just follows upper management’s direction. Also there could have been key information unsurfaced that he may not even know the importance of that the legal team would have spotted.

I mean why would someone who has given up everything to blow the whistle and devoted the past 7 years trying to get something done about it all a sudden kill himself in the middle of a trail and before a potential DOJ criminal investigation?

The man had a mission, why would he do Boeing a favor and kill himself so that he could not testify at a criminal hearing?

Imagine this in a criminal trail he would testify against his direct managers who would then just say “hey, I was told by my boss to tell him to do x” and then it bubbles up the chain to the executives.
Cost of two monitor stands? Sounds very reasonable.
From positive perspective,it is surely that our thinking/mind is not just language and always faster than sentence formation.
Slow speech may indicate cognitive decline more accurately than forgetting words
Tajikistan's embassy and consulates are situated in 5 out of 6 Western districts of Russia, guess why.
I would like to offer a different perspective than the one you are getting from a couple other folks. Not being in the room it's hard for me to be sure, but my guess is that both of the following are true:

1. The person you tried to help could have taken your suggestions in the spirit intended, rather than leaning on a threatening or insulting interpretation of them.

2. You could structure your response in a way that would make your good intentions clear and make the other person more open to the information and less likely to feel threatened or slighted.

It could even be that, from some reasonable perspective, the other person is 100% to blame for the negative outcome, and still, at the same time, you have the ability to avoid such things in the future by adjusting your approach. It's like defensive driving: I'd rather not have accidents at all, and if it's possible to avoid them, I adjust my driving style accordingly. Regardless of how poorly others drive and how much to blame they'd be for accidents I prevented by being defensive.

That way, we can hopefully get the enjoyment of helping others, and the gratitude of those who are more inclined to be grateful, without the trouble of unintentionally angering those whose response is more... complex.
Yes about 10% heavier than the N95 and P1i, but the confort difference is neglible compared to strapping something to your face.
Author here. I do, in fact, have an engineering degree.

But I guess your comment is more about yourself rather than me.
Because it’s not profitable to build fiber out to many places.
I actually find that aspect of classical music really frustrating, subgenres are really useful to identify the particular elements of music that you enjoy.

I've come across plenty of classical music that I enjoy but I don't know where to begin to find more of it.
> Orrr just buy a domain and get a wildcard LE cert?

If you have dozens (or more) of locations that need a cert, then on a yearly basis you have to run around updating things.
I get the point about different idioms or patterns and having discussions and organizational guides around those “don’t catch bare Exceptions” kinds of things.

But for actual “tabs vs spaces” or “opening bracket on same or next line” discussions? These days those are a total waste of time. Just run Black, prettier, godfmt, whatever your language has - that removes like 80% of coding style-related discussion.
Enlo loves his Cryptocurrencies like he loves his Women;

i.e. He cannot stick to 1.
Can I now sue my realtor to claw back commission I had to pay on the purchase and sale of a house?
Any reason why an enemy might care about them?

Battleships and carriers have a lot of firepower that needs to be neutralized at the start of any war. This will probably take a few hours in any major conflict.
Exactly! It's a growing ecosystem including things like https://transparency.dev, the Go Checksum Database, https://www.sigsum.org, SigStore, and even key transparency solutions like WhatsApp's.

One thing you end up needing to deploy tlogs is a way to reassure clients the tree is not forked, and for that you mostly need witness cosigning, where a quorum of third parties attest that a signed tree head is consistent with all the other ones they've seen. I've worked with the Sigsum project and the Google TrustFabric team on an interoperable specification for witnessing (which Sunlight interoperates with), and I am now working to develop a public, reliable ecosystem of witnesses.

Once you have witnessing, running a log can be as easy as hosting a few files in a GitHub repo or S3 bucket, updated with a batch script. I am very excited to make it possible for any project to get better-than-CT accountability for ~free.

(You might want to catch my RWC 2024 talk about this once it comes out!)
Frequently
Considering the low bar for what gets allowed as forensic evidence, I think they'd have to try really hard to make things worse.
IDK. I think sometimes people lean into the idiosyncrasies of their own ADHD. I have ADHD, but I get sucked into writing code because it lets me focus in a way that dishes and laundry do not.
Your approach seems like the worst of both worlds: a single codebase with mixed styles.

I work at a large tech company, and while I don't really participate in style wars, I do care that there is a single enforced standard across any particular codebase.
Based only on the OP: It seems like a 'trust the magic computer' scenario, a prime example of the misuse of AI and its great risks:

If it the output is wrong, innocent people go to jail, the guilty go free, and families are confused with misinformation about their loved one's death.

There is no discussion of the system's accuracy or an attempt to determine it empirically (possibly an omission by the article and not the developers). It does say,

> At present the model offers a range of days within which it is 80% confident the true pmi lies ...

Taken literally, that is the AI stating the AI's accuracy instead of an empirical test against known real-world outcomes. And look at the training data:

> About 1,800 of these are real-world cases involving the discovery of a body. The rest are drawn from forensic experiments at so-called “body farms” in Texas and Tennessee, in which corpses are left to decay for weeks and months under varied circumstances.

Yet elsewhere they say that real-world cases are highly unreliable:

> Working out when a person has died is the most basic (but frustratingly imprecise) part of a forensic investigator’s work. For decades these specialists have had to rely on intuition, combined with observations of the state of the deceased and clues such as temperature, both of the dead body and the environment. Different bodies decay at different rates, however, and individual circumstances can throw off the most careful pmi calculations. A body found in a ditch in northern England in 2004, for example, was given an erroneously late time of death because the ditch was shielded from sunlight and the colder-than-expected conditions had helped preserve the corpse. / Forensic-science journals are full of such cases ...

It would seem that you are training the computer to make the same errors with the same biases that the foresnic investigators already make - unless they have some objective source for the actual time of death in those real-world cases.

Hopefully, it's just a limitation of the article, not of the actual software.
And not to mention a potential criminal trail from the DOJ. He would be a key witness against individuals for a criminal case that bubbles up to the top brass.
If a non-native English speaking 5 year old said "I goed to school today" people would say they are native level. (Even though they used the non-word "goed" as the past tense of "to go" instead of "went")

If a non-native English speaking 15 year old said "I goed to school today" people wouldn't say, "wow, they are a native speaker" nor would they say "wow, they are natively speaking like a 5-year-old" - they would say they still needed practice.

That's my point - speaking like a 5 year old as an adult wouldn't be considered native by anyone but a 5 year old. As you get older the standard is higher: speaking like a 10 year old is much harder than speaking like a 5 year old.

So for a 10 year old just learning a new language it may take longer than the 5 year old to get to their age level. That doesn't necessarily mean the 10 year old is worse at learning languages though since they have so much more to learn to be considered "native".
Or remove features and don't let someone else implement them because you don't want to add in any configuration options.
> Nowadays it is quite accepted for earbuds

Hard disagree. Except for brief interactions like ordering a coffee, I don’t think it is at all socially common for people to keep headphones on when they talk with others. Maybe it varies by culture, or social circle.
Use of a risk assessment tool to determine the origin of Covid-19
Could you briefly explain the process and any hang ups you have to deal with?
What's wrong with AR glasses in a form factor akin to actual prescription glasses? It seems from my perspective a cool way to augment our perception about the world, not to diminish it.
Boeing whistleblower Barnett tells friend before death 'It's not suicide'
Don't love the source but this doesn't look great.
if one followed the case at the time Reiser seemed very much the stereotype of the really superclever person who figured they were smarter than all those dumb folks who were never going to catch him and it all fell apart real quick.

Then when it fell apart he dropped back to arguing he just looked guilty because he was too smart to look innocent or something https://yro.slashdot.org/story/08/02/23/2218256/hans-reiser-...

https://www.eastbaytimes.com/2010/08/02/review-from-a-report...
>He thought he was smarter than everyone else, but ultimately he was not
Quality is not necessary for a good to be a luxury good. Only for demand to go up disproportionately with increases in income. Practically this means luxury goods are purchased to convey status. Consider Range Rover or Jaguar, which are known for being low quality but luxury brands.

Premium is the word that means paying extra for an increase in quality. Consider a Toyota vs a Kia.

These things are often correlated but don’t have to be.
One of the things that I wanted to try doing in emacs is the following: Considering a javascript project using prettier, when reading a file from disk, apply my personal prettier config before showing the contents in the buffer. Whenever I run the save action, apply the project’s prettier config before writing to disk, but leave the buffer contents the same.

I think this could be an interesting experiment. Maybe choosing a style to save that is better for reviewing/diff-ing, then being free to have your own personal preferences when editing.
What is the human predicting there? Why would it need to be a prediction task at all? How about a dada-ist poem? Made-up words and syntax? If it is prediction but the criterion for "what is a good next choice" can totally be made up on the fly - what does the word "prediction" even mean?
I have spent millions on the top social media ad platforms. Reddit is the worst performing and has the lowest engagement.
There can also be human handles and touch points and mechanical interfaces for direct manipulation.
Backdoors that let cops decrypt messages violate human rights, EU court says
Hidden cameras. Bad drivers. Bodily fluids on beds. I can go on and on.
Code style is easy to discuss, thus it sucks up the oxygen in the room that should be used for design discussions.
Curious if they survey the drivers too, the people who are affected by this. I see no mention of this in the article. I'd think they should have a major say.
ADD/ADHD diagnosed for >30 years now and I was actually curious if some new ADHD friendly web format had been discovered after my years in web engineering, turns out the answer is no.
Still very low resolution though :/
I think you're viewing it from the programming bubble. He's not that vested in AI success for programming. Even if AI code generation completely failed, NVIDIA's business is still more than OK because LLMs have a lot of other uses, killing Google search for example. That's not a small niche.
If they move 3,000 blades for ~10MW turbines then a 20% improvement in capacity factor alone is worth 3,066,000 metric tons of CO2 year. Edit: (Ops 10Mw * 1,000 turbines * 0.5 tons from natural gas /MW * .35% capacity factor * 20% improvement * 24 * 365 hours, coal is roughly double that.)

By comparison a commercial jet takes ~20 years to emit 1 million tons of CO2. https://www.reuters.com/business/aerospace-defense/boeing-je...
I'm going to reply here about another comment you made elsewhere, because you're not only deadvoted - people dislike your comments so often that you're shadowbanned here and nobody can read or reply to most of them, but also because it's an absolutely hilariously stupid comment and it deserves to be called out.

https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=swozey#39709282

I'll go line by line:

> You simply over value your internet presence.

You have no internet presence. You're literally shadowbanned/deadnamed on hackernews and not a single person with default HN settings can read your comments. You provide nothing whatsoever to hn. Thats your internet presence here. You're a random, rude green name with [dead] next to it posting like you're galaxy brain v2.

In what world are you remotely the person to tell someone that THEIR internet presence, when you can't even maintain civility enough to not be banned, is less important than they believe?

> Everyone is basically doing the same thing so it has almost no value.

I'm a staff level SRE who works on super performant hpc autoscaling, distributed systems, cluster federations for cdns, massive media farms (think pixar rendering farms) and POPs. Am I a nuclear assassin? No. Do I hire people who do my literal job and know exactly how rare or not rare my skillset is? Yeah, I do. Are you logged into my Indeed and seeing the applications and interviews I'm getting? You're not, right?

Sorry you suck. Or your skills suck, or whatever it is that makes you just sound like the miserable low-skill person who wrote your comment.

You understand this is HN right? This isn't facebook? We're actual engineers who post our projects and work with one another. The first 4 people who wrote Kubernetes didn't go to Facebook and post it for your cat to see. They came to HN to post it for the other engineers who would build/use the project could be made aware of it.

> I think you also highly underestimate the possible negative value of companies finding your internet presence and not liking what they find. I have never read a Linkedin profile in my life that wasn't a total waste of my time because they are all exactly the same. Everyone believes they have something unique and helping them stand out when in reality it is probably doing exactly the opposite.

I'm literally the person who is hiring the people in this topic. This is an absolutely ludicrous and just bluntly stupid statement you've made here.

Something is wrong with your personality. You are hilariously rude and completely unaware of how ridiculous you sound.

Work on integrating into other cultures better. When I moved from the USA to Germany I had to really give people a lot of leeway because they tend to come off as extremely bitter and rude.

Now, when I googled "ecoquant" I was hoping to find your github and get a good laugh, but I assume because of how poorly you portray yourself online you don't want your presence to be easily tracked. Because yeah, if I saw your presence online I'd probably not hire you.

Kind of like someone who is projecting horrible things onto other people being the actual one to perpetrate those crimes. Interesting.
The alternative is usually a truss which tend to bounce like a trampoline over long spans. The engineered I-joists are really good, and the rim joist from the same company is ridiculously tough.
Watch is my go-to comparison for the Vision Pro. That took several generations before people started to buy in large numbers.
i haven't, but thanks for your thought. i have only recently begun to understand what the difficulties i am facing are and how they affect me, and how they were caused growing up, so i haven't been searching. i have also been coping reasonably well, in part because for a long time i was not even aware, which kept me from wondering to much. the only thing i noticed was that i had difficulties making friends, like some others here. so in a way HN is my tribe so far.

as for the challenge of making friends, for some reason, growing up, i didn't feel the need, but saw the benefit of not being submitted to peer pressure. i took my outsider status and relished in it, doing things that few others of my classmates did. i distanced myself and sought friends in after school activities. and as i was able to make a few friends once i joined university i felt that, given the circumstances, things didn't go that bad.

the making friends problem i am addressing by moving out of europe and living among people who are more welcoming than the average europeans, and also by applying this key understanding:

being a friend means to care about someone.
you make friends by showing that you care.

i show that care to everyone who crosses my path, and with repeated interaction some of these people become friends.
Haiku Activity and Contract Report, February 2024
Oops: Humira ($600/mo) -> Humira ($6000/mo)
Wukong: Towards a Scaling Law for Large-Scale Recommendation
It’s not socially acceptable to me. If someone talks to me with their AirPods in they are already at -100 in my opinion of them.
Form is function in programming, we can dismiss using stdlib feature A vs stdlib feature B as "style choice", but the moment someone electively adds that second style, the mental complexity of the code increases. The new contributor needs to understand more abstractions for no particular reason.

No particular style is important, but design centralism and simplicity is important. Tools like Gofmt and black/isort I make sure are baked into dev environments, and I aggressively question the addition of new dependencies. Why are you importing superl33thttp when we already have requests?
>A good example might be Oregon completely walking back their drug legalization

Links to an article about how Oregon is partially rolling back their drug decriminalization policy.

1. Oregon never decriminalized drugs and
2. The policy was supposed to implement treatment programs that never materialized.

Further as an Oregonian. No one voted for people to be able to openly use drugs wherever they wanted, but most didn’t realize that once possession was decriminalized, smoking fentanyl on public transit was suddenly not in violation of any law on the books. No one voted for that, they just didn’t know it was on the table.
Spoken like someone who didn't lose a chance at a house or a college program or a kid or medical treatment or a job due to a thing like this.

Fine, how about we give him a pony, it will be nicer. Hey this is cool, hyperbole is the best. So much easier than trying to actually figure anything out. Thanks for the tip.

Were his actions accidents? Mistakes? Understandable human foibles we all might make?

Is it physically possible for him to make all his victims whole by paying back money and un-fucking all the countless missed opportunities and plans etc?

The answer to both of those questions is no. So what then? Prison already is the tempered response.
That makes sense. They need lots of weird long rig components.
AI worm that can automatically spread between generative AI agents
> there's no good way to know which conditions to use in which scenario

A start could be this even if does not address your scenario of calling twice in a row. I will discuss that one further below in the comment.

aws iam simulate-principal-policy --policy-source-arn arn:aws:iam::ACCOUNT:user/Paul --action-names "ec2:CreateNetworkInterface" --context-entries ContextKeyName="ec2:Subnet",ContextKeyValues="subnet-12345678",ContextKeyType=string
--resource-arns "arn:aws:ec2:REGION:ACCOUNT:subnet/subnet-12345678" > simulatedIAMOutput.json

> I've run the same CreateNetworkInterface request with the same parameters and IAM role twice in a row and by looking in the "encoded authorization message" that was returned with the failure in each case I found that in one case the resource was a security group while in the other case it was a subnet.

Well EC2 would process these requests by first verifying subnet-related permissions before moving on to security group permissions. Variations in the error messages could reflect the point at which the request encounters a permission issue?
Walmart is way too careful for any of that so they’re not playing in those realms.

The point you should take away is that there is no actual distinction between the coercive capabilities of corporations and those of the state or in absence of a state, the ruling landlord/gang/dictator

Smedley Butler wrote about this in detail in the 1930s (1)

This is well documented in the Banana wars

States are, and have always been, the corrcion arm of the largest employer in a sovereign territory

https://archive.org/details/WarIsARacket

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Standard_Fruit_Company
I'm actually working on a chrome extension for reviewing emails/other written language for fluency and giving suggestions and feedback if you'd like to give it a try when I deploy it. (It's of course an LLM backed thing lol). I've been using it for my written French while working on it and I've found it helpful.
Thank you this link is so much better than the wsj article anyway. You get the whole idea scrolling a few images and text.
My assumption is that this expectation will shift as time passes.

I can see a future where people use AR, there's a setting that indicates "full focus" vs "distracted", and people will ask others to stay in "full focus" mode when talking. This would minimize the number of notifications the user receives in an effort to lend focus to the conversation.

It'll be the same general expectation as what you're describing, but with a step towards concession and acceptance of the tech.

There will also probably be an in-between period where people who remain glued to their phone try to take the morale high ground against those who are using AR goggles by saying they're giving more focus to the conversation :)
Seems the market is ripe for the taking at this point. Tesla is at total market saturation in the US, and the brand has taken a complete nosedive thanks solely to the actions of one individual. As the target demographic and someone who dreamed of owning one one day, I will never even consider it at this point, and their stock price is reflecting that reality. I'd be calling for blood if I were a shareholder.
I have used it in multiple projects and it works great. The Npgsql.EntityFrameworkCore.PostgreSQL provider is always quickly updated when new versions of EF Core are shipped, and its primary maintainer @roji is also extremely talented and responsive. All around has been a pleasure to work with!
> Launch high-definition room scanning and unlock teleportation using technology that has existed within Oculus Research for several years now; it is time for Meta to make this future a reality where people can be remote but feel truly present by visiting each other’s home, office or favorite place.

This teleportation/telepresence is the thing that struck me the most. I'd love to pop into a friend's living room for a beer without worrying about them living in another country.