skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Boeing is like most big companies part of the capitalist system where shareholders expect an annual rate of return of 5 to 8%.

Boeing is the most governmental company there is. They are heavily subsidized, for example to “create jobs” in poor areas where social peace is needed (and I’m only talking about massive incentives they pocket from local governments, not even starting on defense contracts).

That frankly means they hire factory workers going in and out of prison. As you may imagine, those are not the best employees. If an airframe is cut at the wrong place, they still put it in the plane, leaving gaping holes representing more than 50% of the extruded structure (it had happened in 2013 on …80 planes).

> I think politics is the only way out of this.

Boeing keeps receiving subsidies from politicians. It’s the exact opposite of a private company, it’s the symbol of why meddling politicians with USA jewels ends up as an eagle’s fest. The FAA seems to be bribed all the time. At the same time, it’s a giant geopolitical asset to project the power of USA onto the world, which is why it’s protected from any inquiry upon its corruption.

Partisans are always prompt to blame it on the stock exchange and speculation and claim it should have more ties to the political powers that brought it there. American politics will not do anything about it. If anything, I can only see the EU forbidding Boeing planes from EU soil that would begin to solve the situation.

Heck, USA should forbid Boeing planes from USA soil.
> My recommendation is that you don’t look at blog writing as just something people do to work on their “personal brand”. It can definitely help with that, but first and foremost it is a tool that people can use to up their game and take their knowledge and critical thinking to the next level.

These both seem like extremely bleak, unimaginative ways to view writing.
To back this up, here is a link to a leaked audio recording, showing the head of the ADL complaining that TikTok was (in his view) responsible for Israel's usual propaganda not gaining traction anymore:

https://twitter.com/SweatieAngle/status/1725897178038595901?...

Lo and behold, now AIPAC's congress want to ban TikTok, effective immediately...
Upcoming launch: Starship's third flight test
Thank you! Well, it's hard to say, because the first version of Trangram differed significantly from what you see now. Additionally, I've been involved in various projects over the years.
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Excuse me, Apple started it? That's absurd. Apple have been running their little fiefdom mostly unchanged for almost fifteen years and it's only in the past few years that the EU has chosen to intervene in their marketplace. The EU started this fight; Apple is just doing whatever they can to resist change.
Good buddy of mine in Vietnam has been working on a company around this as well:

https://www.alterno.group/
Feeeed is a reader app that goes beyond tracking RSS feeds
> But for some reason web folks and especially HN seem to hate the few parts of the web technology stack that actually work well (Javascript, NPM)

Actually, the parts that are "awful" and "unfixable" work great. You still need a DOM to render anything whether its CSS or JS. Without all the parts that make a browser, well, a browser (that you seem to hate), you have a glorified JS engine.

But maybe you are a guy who likes doing everything in their own custom graphics engine, you can have your canvas and javascript-based UI (ew, hard pass) and render everything like molasses except on 24 core monster desktops...

> Reimplement almost all of the things that are currently implemented as browser builtins as web components instead, move them out of the core rendering engine and into what are effectively polyfills-in-reverse; make the actual "browser" piece only implement div/span/canvas or something

There's no reason to do that last part, and in fact its really terrible news for not just compatibility but also any sort of accessibility. I guess you don't care about blind, disabled people, or people in different markets, 24 core video game guy... or maybe you do and you'll re-implement the browser...in your browser! What a great idea...

Now, as far as web components go, we should have default impls of nearly everything. You can, and probably should, have some ability to customize the render of individual elements (what web components brings to the table). But you don't get to change default behavior _because you feel like it_. There's no point to writing web-apps otherwise. You are far better off just writing in a "native" language where you have full control anyways.
Idk, I feel like corporations are always willing to throw away capex dollars, but are loathe to spend any opex, even when it would actually save money overall.
Isn't the whole point of em that you don't have to do this?
Any recommendations for how to deal with this cycle? I find I fall into the same pattern you describe.
>Many of the parts that make up our planes are built by suppliers from all over the world and we just assemble the final product.

This part sounds very naive.

Where does this stop? Are they going to build the instruments, the sensors, the rivets, the aluminium, the carpets, the entertainment machine, the coffee machine... A coffee machine once caused a depressurization of a cabin after all.
Ah the exuberance of youth, I do not envy this person's impending descent into pure cynicism.

That being said, these problems are not new. These specific things don't really matter. What matters is culture.

Admiral Rickover, responsible for the nuclear navy, wrote a speech called "Doing a Job". It is worth reading in it's entirety and it speaks almost directly and presciently to what is happening at Boeing right now:

https://govleaders.org/rickover.htm

> Human experience shows that people, not organizations or management systems, get things done. For this reason, subordinates must be given authority and responsibility early in their careers.

> When doing a job—any job—one must feel that he owns it, and act as though he will remain in the job forever. ... If he feels he is only a temporary custodian, or that the job is just a stepping stone to a higher position, his actions will not take into account the long-term interests of the organization.

> In accepting responsibility for a job, a person must get directly involved. Every manager has a personal responsibility not only to find problems but to correct them. This responsibility comes before all other obligations, before personal ambition or comfort.

> The man in charge must concern himself with details. If he does not consider them important, neither will his subordinates. Yet “the devil is in the details.” It is hard and monotonous to pay attention to seemingly minor matters. In my work, I probably spend about ninety-nine percent of my time on what others may call petty details. Most managers would rather focus on lofty policy matters. But when the details are ignored, the project fails. No infusion of policy or lofty ideals can then correct the situation.

> It is a human inclination to hope things will work out, despite evidence or doubt to the contrary. A successful manager must resist this temptation.
> Not necessarily - the game engine code is also independently copyrightable separate from the story the game is going to tell. Writing a completely different game using that code - even if you just distribute level files - might still be an infringement.

1. Don't conflate the game engine code with the assets made available by the game engine.

2. Depending on how the third-party levels are designed, the third-party levels may infringe on the copyright of the original game's levels, but can't infringe on the copyright of the engine code, unless the level files bundle the engine code. Copying (or similarity that almost resulted from copying) is a prerequisite to copyright infringement [1]:

> To win a claim of copyright infringement in civil or criminal court, a plaintiff must show he or she owns a valid copyright, the defendant actually copied the work, and the level of copying amounts to misappropriation.

If the terms on the game engine restrict what people can make with the game engine or how people can share what they make with the game engine, then the terms on the game engine go beyond the scope of copyright. An EULA can do that. Any contract that isn't just about copyright can do that.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Substantial_similarity#Substan...
That's already considered
Problem is software engineers are replaced with juniors/contractors that probably do not know any better and are only one part of a system that has failed in its entirety.

What sane person would willingly put up code that can kill others on purpose... so we're left with incompetence.

Accountability, if implemented, should be company wide.

Right now issues have passed design stage, implementation, qa... with this sort of failure you have management to blame for not putting up processes in place so its caught / hiring and keeping competent enough people.

This is sort of expected as they optimized cost to the detriment of everything else.
Show HN: Pi-100 Challenge
Some people climb mountains, while others run marathons. Challenge yourself to calculate Pi by hand. For Pi Day, I created an IOS app that guides you through all the steps needed to compute Pi to 100 decimal places. Surprisingly enough, this doesn't require any complex math -- just basic addition, subtraction, multiplication and long division. Each page presents one problem to solve. Complete the problem, and move on to the next step. Take the Pi-100 Challenge, sharpen your mind, and calculate Pi.
We have to start somewhere, and not having it under the control of a hostile foreign government is a good first step.
Ask HN: How do I grok networking concepts, as a software engineer?
I am a run-off-the-mill software engineer, very much junior, graduated a run-off-the-mill "computer science" degree with what I thought a good enough understanding of networks and OS.

I know stuff here and there about TCP, UDP, Port forwarding. kind of understand NAT, ping, traceroute, firewalls. But I keep seeing new stuff like "NAT traversal", "TCP head-of-line blocking" or "bridge network" my head will spin.

Is all this stuff part of standard computer science curriculum? If so is there a standard textbooks or courses to learn these basics?

Or does everyone learn this kind of stuff on-demand?
OpenAI should make an AGI that trains itself on whatever data it decides then launches new products. It’s called “plausible deniability”
It is still inexpensive, they just steal a lot
> for the same reason that Wikipedia didn't exactly replace traditional encyclopedias

It didn't?

Compare https://www.worldbook.com/world-book-encyclopedia-2024.aspx :

> As the only general reference encyclopedia still published today, The World Book Encyclopedia 2024 provides authoritative content on almost every topic to learners of all ages
Indeed. Put another way, how would lifting Apple's restrictions result in an improved wheat-to-chaff ratio? I can't see how it would increase the amount of wheat, nor can I see how it would reduce the amount of chaff.
Very relatable. What helps is just starting out a prototype immediately in stage (1), not caring about thinking it through deeply first. Then that "new evidence that changes the equation enough to require a different approach" arrives faster and is easier to incorporate. Plus, you get to be seen as "working" all the time (from the point of view of others, which would otherwise consider your pure thinking stage as 'slacking')!

Essentially you'd be doing the "thinking" by actively coding (at least a minimum solution), instead of thinking about the problem abstractly first. Though I often do it just like you described it, with all the issues you mentioned.
>Boeing is the most governmental company there is. They are heavily subsidized, for example to “create jobs” in poor areas where social peace

I thought Boeing received subsidies to keep it alive, because it is in a strategic war industry? I thought the social stuff was a side effect.
See my comment to the parent: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39701128
They are definitely aligned with the desire of autocracies. They may not realize it, but doesn't mean it's not the case.
Arnold is very influential especially in "Russian math" pedagogy/philosophy, which could be contrasted a bit with "French math" where Bourbaki was very influential. I think anyone interested enough to read the Bourbaki article might be interested in reading about him since his wikipedia page has a few references pointing to interesting discussions about Bourbaki's influence. I should have mentioned a little details in the original comment, sorry!
> The obvious solution is to actually have librarians correctly classify the videos

Which videos? The 500 hours of video uploaded every minute?
this could be an alternative to fandom.com
Another great lecture from Tadashi: https://youtu.be/pkfDYOZ1p4Y

This interview with him on his life and background is also fascinating: https://youtu.be/qrJCm10ajJw
It absolutely trades salience for verbosity. If it can be boiled down to " 2ndscreen-attention arms race leads to lowest common denominator content replacing controversial art." Streamers have incentive to produce attentiontainment that vaguely appeals to many, as opposed to thrilling a niche few (who themselves dont have clout or sway of the masses.)

Part of drumming pop acclaim now is putting effort towards generating the right kind of social media controversy; creating shows that pit factions against each other in a debate that forces the uninitiated to peak into what all the hubbub is about; instead of creating shows that advance the form but sacrifice universiality. Something too unfamiliar, inventive, and out there, will take too long to get recognized. Streamers need to capture todays attention today.

So what is the solution? If I were designing the antidote, it would be to emulate book clubs. With all the data they have on individuals and demographics, "rerelease" shows on a weekly trickle, to new generations. Figure out a way to better promote the best of archives, instead of refilming the old drivel nearly identically, but worse. Get better at generating press cycles about the best of. Catholic church repeats the same curriculum on a cycle, why not netflix?
Google doesn't run email, map, and search in China due to Chinese censorship laws but their build-and-profile-on-every-internet-user-so-we-can-target-ads Google Ads mechanism is running and is a major revenue source for Google.

Here is their Chinese Google ad pitch:

https://ads.google.com/intl/zh-CN_cn/home/

And some open jobs - mostly sales in Shanghai:

https://careers.google.cn/teams/sales-service-support/
Which ceremony was that?
Taking the time to debug your model of reality is bleak and unimaginative?

Wouldn't the world be a better place if everyone did that?

Can you suggest a better use for writing? I love fiction for example, but people becoming less wrong (and by extension, more skillful in the world) seems like one of the most valuable ways for people to spend their time.
The Mathematical Movie Database
I use playwright to run an automated test every time I deploy to staging.

I don't think it's caught any real bugs yet because I haven't actually broken anything but the playwright script keeps running reliably it includes a login and fills out a big long complicated form. Works great. Very quick. Selenium was slow and unreliable.
Hacktoberfests will not be stopped by trivial friction, but small important doc changes will, so it's pure waste
I probably don't have nearly as much experience as you do, but I have used VHDL, Verilog, and modern HDLs like Chisel and SpinalHDL. I think the main advantage of a modern HDL is to have the full power of a traditional programming language when it comes to generating hardware. This especially helps when making deeply parameterizable and reusable hardware in a fraction of the lines compared to SystemVerilog, and which sometimes is impossible to do in Verilog.

From a first impression, your language doesn't look all that different from SystemVerilog. Does it have any features that make parameterization easier than SystemVerilog? Can I, for example, easily generate hardware using higher order functions and other functional programming features like those available in Rust and Scala?
Classic scenario in legacy finance tech: the hotshot trader or investment banker shakes his fist furiously demanding to be given back his Excel spreadsheets and the entire tech department be fired.
> profit doesn’t come from thin air (or does it?)

It doesn't. Its supposed to come from your operating costs (cost of living + insurance costs). That is supposed to be where the prices come from, the problem is the insurance...if the cost of insurance approaches infinity due to infinite uncertainty, then "dark patterns" become "coping mechanisms". Not that I'm saying airline booking websites are in the moral right here, or anything - but someone thought they needed a raise, or to provide stock holders with a quarterly increase, because of rising cost(s) (or greed, but that's just another way insurance costs increase).
> Eminent domain is not cheap to use given the fair market value compensation and the almost guaranteed legal fights.

I don't understand what point you tried to make.

Fair market value is what you expect to pay anyway, and the point of eminent domain is not to fleece property owners.

Legal disputes are also not a problem, and quite expectable. It's part of the checks and balances of not having corrupt government officials just steal property to hand it over to the highest bidder.

The key factor is political will. Government officials need to fight to get this sort of project through, and be able to invest their time and effort to navigate political chicanery.
The same way as you do logging on Kubernetes.

Unlike Kubernetes, unikernel images are way slimmer and faster.
You know, he has a video on that too. If you want GPIO, a tiny PC is not the answer (for example).
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Most traditional encyclopedias ceased to publish in the book form. Online encyclopedias are pretty much alive.
That’s my point, yes.

At least in the current state of affairs.

Also it’s a technical view from someone who played/worked with AI for more than a year.

It may not be the opinion of upper management :) And upper management can survive a pretty long time after their own mess.
…they couldn’t think of a good Wikipedia scandal from within the last decade?

(The "why wikipedia is bad" bit at the start talks about things from 2005, 2007, and 2012.)

Anyway, this might be pretty "it's hard to make a man understand something when his salary depends on not understanding it" since I work for the WMF, but I'm not really seeing much appeal from federation in this area. It certainly seems less relevant than in social media, anyway.
Management that focuses on financial metrics only wants employees that don't rock the boat and aren't a risk of calling them out on their decisions.

It is management's job to fix it. Regardless of the actual problem.
Took me some minutes to find out: BIM is Building Information Model. EDIT: "building" as in "houses".
An RPA-team that does work for me as a client told me that with a certain system they just use a 20 second window between actions. The robot is not much faster than colleagues, but a lot more sturdy and appreciative of menial work. I curse all developers of bigcorp software that do not create an API for all functionalities exposed to users. Likewise, we don’t praise those that do enough!
Not from my pov. China has nothing too gain with backing Russia so directly. It's also not how propaganda works.

China has way more benefits of taking non-western stances on anything and spreading those.

Eg. If a terrorist organization would kill and rape, support those that are not defending their country through TikTok.
Alcohol! :)

Just kidding. (Well, half-joking only). I really don't know...
MOS: Smooth scrolling on the Mac for your third party mouse
I recently bought an ergonomic mouse after minor signs of Carpel Tunnel after years of using a trackpad as my primary navigation device. I was missing the smooth scroll of the trackpad, and this tiny piece of software is able to solve this somehow. Apple should really make the Pro MacBook not need tiny QoL additions like this, but I'm glad it is at least an option.
I don't understand the obsession with being young - when the SR-71 Blackbird had its first flight, Kelly Johnson was 54 years old. I'm not old, but not that young anymore, and from what I've seen, there's a spectrum of ability in all age groups.

And pay does not exactly line up with 'Value' produced (which itself is a nebulous concept)
Horrible rendering on mobile.
And screw those pyramid scheme (crypto“currency”) donation links.
It’s not the case. The SDK is a collaboration between OpenAI and Stainless.

https://www.stainlessapi.com/

As a Stainless contributor I can guarantee you a lot of thoughts has been put into the design, and it definitely isn’t written by an ML model
My thoughts exactly. Bring on the free beer!
Boeing used to control much more of its production, until factories were sold off and outsourced. Long-term damage to quality, but a quarter looks black on paper because there is an influx in revenue.
If someone asks an executive whether they do something illegal, and they reply that they don’t know; does it really protect them from anything or does it simply show negligence?
Just search for anything remotely political and you will find a lot of bias.
The analogy would be if Bill Gates put millions of dollars into a new non-profit entity dedicated to developing new royalty-free malaria drugs. Then after using his money to develop a great malaria drug, they transferred the malaria drug assets into a for-profit entity, sold half of that entity to Pfizer, so that Pfizer can manufacture the drug and sell it to malaria patients in central Africa.

If that happened, I'd be surprised if Bill Gates didn't sue them.

(As for my latter paragraphs, I was replying to something you said which didn't have anything to do with the merits of the case either. I'd like to think you could extend me the same courtesy you extended yourself.)
Jung's fault is well betrayed by his use of '«we»': well, get out of the pond and climb.

His idea ignores that clean eyes affect both the «intellectual» side and the «unconscious» one.
You've given the typical MBA answer - that link included - and dismissed OP as being "youtfully naive".

And perhaps he is, but more naive is you notion of we just need to change our beliefs with an article about what "real" leadership looks like.

Incentives drive everything! And our financial short term focus squeezing every last drop out of every quarter does not produce long term good quality.
"We won with Facebook, they're not allowed to censor whomever they want"
I'm sorry I don't have English source (existing articles were written mid-trial and are not about final decision), but FB/Meta was censured by civil court in Poland. The court found out:

- by blocking fanpages FB infringed on personal/moral rights of the organisation owning the fanpage

- agreement in FB's ToS to file any case in Irish Court is null and void even in case of organisation, and not consumer

- the case can be held in Poland and in Polish language (FB has Polish version, so they should be able to defend in Polish)

- FB is not allowed to block without justification and a way to contest the block

- FB/Meta needs to restore full page with likes, shares, follows etc

- FB/Meta is to post apology for their behaviour on the fanpage in question

The case started in 2018 or 2019. During the case court imposed interim measure reinstating the page and forbidding FB from removing it.

Also: https://www.rp.pl/dobra-osobiste/art39986731-wazny-wyrok-pol... (also in Polish)