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John Kay talks about Boeing in his book Obliquity (and before in this essay) [0]

> ICI is not the only company for whom greater emphasis on corporate financial goals led to less success in achieving them. I once said that Boeing’s grip on the world civil aviation market made it the most powerful market leader in world business. Bill Allen was chief executive from 1945 to 1968, as the company created its dominant position. He said that his spirit and that of his colleagues was to eat, breathe, and sleep the world of aeronautics. “The greatest pleasure life has to offer is the satisfaction that flows from participating in a difficult and constructive undertaking,” he explained.

> Boeing’s 737, with almost 4,000 planes in the air, is the most successful commercial airliner in history. But the company’s largest and riskiest project was the development of the 747 jumbo jet. When a non-executive director asked about the expected return on investment, he was brushed off: there had been some studies, he was told, but the manager concerned couldn’t remember the results.

> It took only 10 years for Boeing to prove me wrong in asserting that its market position in civil aviation was impregnable. The decisive shift in corporate culture followed the acquisition of its principal US rival, McDonnell Douglas, in 1997. The transformation was exemplified by the CEO, Phil Condit. The company’s previous preoccupation with meeting “technological challenges of supreme magnitude” would, he told Business Week, now have to change. “We are going into a value-based environment where unit cost, return on investment and shareholder return are the measures by which you’ll be judged. That’s a big shift.”

> The company’s senior executives agreed to move from Seattle, where the main production facilities were located, to Chicago. More importantly, the more focused business reviewed risky investments in new civil projects with much greater scepticism. The strategic decision was to redirect resources towards projects for the US military that involved low financial risk. Chicago had the advantage of being nearer to Washington, where government funds were dispensed.

> So Boeing’s civil orderbook today lags that of Airbus, the European consortium whose aims were not initially commercial but which has, almost by chance, become a profitable business. And the strategy of getting close to the Pentagon proved counter- productive: the company got too close to the Pentagon, and faced allegations of corruption. And what was the market’s verdict on the company’s performance in terms of unit cost, return on investment and shareholder return? Boeing stock, $48 when Condit took over, rose to $70 as he affirmed the commitment to shareholder value; by the time of his enforced resignation in December 2003 it had fallen to $38.

[0]: https://www.johnkay.com/2004/01/17/obliquity/
IAM, complicated ? Hardly. You want simple RBAC like the good old times ? You can, just use the "owner" role and move on.

You want any kind of overly thin privileges, for whatever reason ? You can too.

IAM has no complexity per se: the only complexity come from what you want to do.

Saying that "IAM is bad because we can do lots of things" is like blaming a programming language because you can implement whatever you want with it.
China is not the US.

If the point of fighting our enemies is to become our enemy, then why bother fighting?

How do you think countries like Iran, North Korea, etc justify censorship of western content? That exact line is used.
Will Nevada Kill End-to-End Encryption Next Week?
Fair enough, forgive my imprecision of terms. But the NAR established and enforces the MLS data and management standards among its member associations that make aggregation and dissemination viable.

I will hazard a guess that the biggest and most active MLS's are run by NAR-associated groups.

https://www.nar.realtor/handbook-on-multiple-listing-policy/...
He talks about the Montreal effect, and says it's a problem when it shows up in code.

The title was changed, the one here on HN is wrong.

He doesn't say it's a problem for Montreal, so he doesn't need to explain that.

As a montrealer I think thee effect isn't really present here but whatever, if it helps him make a point.
He will deserve every year of that sentence.
I just like to thank you (again) for how much you've made a lot of what is required to get duckdb up and started (esp on AWS) much easier.

Interesting to watch the similarities (duckdb wasm) and differences (python vs js) between your SQL IDEs in the browser. Exciting stuff.
Correlation is the inference I draw from my experience? That's one of the more nonsensical things I've ever heard.
Faster and Fewer Page Faults
Bookish Death Cleaning: On What We Keep, and What It Means
Ironically, technology also makes gatekeepers the rent-seekers that collect without value add.

So it's not about tech it's about gatekeeping, though tech forces changing of hands.
Esims are a great idea, the problem wouldn't exist if there was a mandatory delay in migrating. Like 3 days from request to the card being generated, with daily reminders that this is about to happen.
Justice runs on a log scale, and the base is left for individual jurisdictions or judges to decide.
A sibling comment convinced me, this was probably flagged correctly. Not that the title statement is not important, but that this piece specifically is an especially shallow article and not up to standards.
Chart the course, set the pace, hold the line
I don't really think that's too relevant to the core concept of using fewer bits for the most common codes.

That's really a problem inherent to binary streams in general, not just Huffman encoding.
Snake tastes nasty (in very limited experience).

Chickens have a broader range of input feeds, and turn that into human edible calories much more quickly and probably more efficiently.
General advice is first scope at 45, or if family history, 10 years prior to their onset. I was recently diagnosed at 40, so I wished my son a very happy 30th birthday in advance. He didn't find it funny. Good news that he will be able to get tested regularly long before he has to open my gift.
A federal inmate can theoretically get presidential clemency.

Obama granted almost 2000 clemencies. Biden, so far, about a dozen + 6500 for simple possession of MJ. Trump was in between with something over 200.
They plead guilty, which would have been the smart thing for SBF to do even if there was no deal on the table. At least he'd have avoided annoying the judge with hours of blatantly dishonest testimony.
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Why is it acceptable to let people go so lightly just for snitching? They commited similar crimes.
No, but again, the map you linked doesn’t either. It says nothing about density of occurrence.

That map would report 75x more cases in California than Wyoming, even if actual frequency was identically.
Sad to see that the cut off is just after 6700 XT which is what is in my desktop. They indicate more devices are coming, hopefully that includes some of the more modern all in one chips with RDNA 2/3 from AMD as well.
I am running the 7B and it gave:
Q: "Sally (a girl) has 3 brothers. Each brother has 2 sisters. How many sisters does Sally have?"

A: "If Sally has 3 brothers, and each brother has 2 sisters, then the total number of sisters is:
3 brothers x 2 sisters per brother = 6 sisters
So, Sally has 6 sisters in total."

Closer than 9 but no better.
Right, there's a lot of stuff relating to the circumstances that certainly suggestive, and I wouldn't fault anyone for holding presumptions entertaining the possibility of undiscovered details.

But that said, it's still important to keep it clear dividing line between what we think and what we know for sure.
Question here: What is the purpose of a sentence this long?

I understand that for this type of crime the goal is deterrence rather than rehabilitation, but let's say we had a habit of locking up corrupt billionaires for 20 years instead of 50. I'd argue that the lost opportunity cost for people that wealthy (or really for anyone) that 20 years is as much a deterrent as 50 years, but at a lower cost to the tax payer.
It’s because most devs nowadays are new devs and probably aren’t very familiar with native compilation.

So compiling the correct version of llama.cpp for their hardware is confusing.

Compound that with everyone’s relative inexperience with configuring any given model and you have prime grounds for a simple tool to exist.

That’s what ollama and their Modelfiles accomplish.
So lightly as what? They haven't been sentenced yet
No, they really don't.

"Pretty much anyone in the US" doesn't have the ability to set the value of stocks they are about to buy.
Thank you! It’s really great that the in-browser data analysis ecosystem is really firing up… Exited to see what others build
It isn't interesting or useful because conspiracists fail to interpret "don't know" or "unsure" appropriately given the context of polling. It doesn't mean "I have reviewed the facts and I am undecided".

> Certus poll found that over 30% each of Democrats, Independents and Republicans believed it to be murder.

I believe the Certus poll found that of those who believed him to be murdered, that was the split along political lines.

> That is not a tiny fringe as you claimed it to be.

Three in ten is a tiny minority – winning a vote with 70% would be considered a landslide – but you're right it's a scarily high number of loudmouthed imbeciles.

The good news is that you don't have to worry! Adults are in charge! Hundreds of thousands of smart, capable people are employed to investigate things like this, and will cheerfully tell you that it's far more likely that the unmonitored and illicit phone call made by Epstein directly before his suicide was him being told to have another go or risk the lives of friends or loved ones. (What with that being fucking orders of magnitude easier to do than having a hitman break into solitary confinement in a prison.)

> just as was your unnecessary projection of opinion of using an Insider poll.

Business Insider is right up there with Yahoo Answers for robust, disinterested polling data.
I was thinking of Go when I re-read that article. Unlike many here on HN, I am not a fan of Go because I find it far too opinionated and untrusting of its users. While technically it might have been written for Pike's and Thompson's friends, it does feel to me like a language designed to prevent poor programmers from making mistakes.
> It will probably cost you a lot of money to figure out how to bypass the DRM though

This is the reason I think we've been "allowed" to get some right to repair laws passed. The legislators are a decade behind and, now that tech is good enough to make bypassing impossible, the lobbyists are letting the government pass legislation that gives you the right to do something that's technically impossible. The legislators are like a younger sibling playing with an unplugged Nintendo controller.

And, even if someone can figure out a bypass, the barrier to getting there is so high that they'll most likely charge a huge premium too.
Cute, but a bit gimmicky and too basic.
It's hard to tell what deals were cut by the Feds to get Bankman-Fried. Sometimes people get a relative slap on the wrist and it's because they provided a bunch of ammunition the government needed for its case to get the top target/s.
Not yet: https://github.com/ollama/ollama/issues/2637
Because they collaborated with the prosecution. Without collaboration it's entirely possible that no one would've been found guilty.
Looking around, developer is bilingual in French and has video tutorials for Kaboom.js:

https://youtube.com/@jslegenddev

Resume link, but it's to a template currently [pdf]:

https://github.com/JSLegendDev/Resume/blob/main/JSLegend%20R...
Mistral is _very_ small when quantized.

I’d still go with 16gbs
Berghain has quite a few regulars. I don't know so much what the mix there inside is anymore. I went a handful of times in its earlier years, and never really loved the place, but haven't been back since the last 2-3 times I waited in the line I didn't get in (which never happened before). There's kind of two poles in Berlin techno style and aesthetics kind of represented by Berghain and Kater / Bar 25, and I was always more in the Bar 25 camp. Berghain is very dark and industrial; Kater is more playful with lots of bright colors and odd objects. The music coming out of their labels is different in the same way.

I think the yelling at tourists is mainly going to be if you're doing something stupid (though some of those are non-obvious: e.g. taking pictures in clubs is mostly a no-no). I probably wouldn't mess with trying to get in to Berghain. Other places you'll have a decent shot. If you want to go like a pro, show up from 4-6 a.m. instead of midnight with the tourists. The pros come out late, and the lines are shorter and the dancefloors are less packed -- if you actually like to dance, later is better. I'll sometimes even go out on Sunday afternoon.
From the Anthropic logs looks like 1827 input tokens and 1038 output tokens.

I'm still on the free trial API plan, but at Opus price of $15 per million input tokens and $75 per million output tokens that comes to about 10.5 cents.
Edited it out of my original comment because I didn't want to seem ranty/angry/like I have some personal vendatta, as opposed to just being extremely puzzled, but it legit took me months to realize it wasn't a GUI because of how it's discussed on HN, i.e. as key to democratizing, as a large, unique, entity, etc.

Hadn't thought about it recently. After seeing it again here, and being gobsmacked by the # of genuine, earnest, comments assuming there's extensive independent development of large pieces going on in it, I'm going with:

- "The puzzled feeling you have is simply because llama.cpp is a challenge on the best of days, you need to know a lot to get to fully accelerated on ye average MacBook. and technical users don't want a GUI for an LLM, they want a way to call an API, so that's why there isn't content extalling the virtues of GPT4All*. So TL;DR you're old and have been on computer too much :P"

but I legit don't know and still can't figure it out.

* picked them because they're the most recent example of a genuinely democratizing tool that goes far beyond llama.cpp and also makes large contributions back to llama.cpp, ex. GPT4All landed 1 of the 2 vulkan backends
Hard to square with the lack of consequences (for those responsible) for the 2009 financial crisis.
The biggest curse in this industry is being so obsessed with titles and ladders that they forget that ultimately - none of it matters.

It doesn't matter to the business that an Engineering Manager title is hands on/off. It doesn't matter if a Staff title is leading/not leading.

What matters is identifying problems and self-organizing teams to solve those problems REGARDLESS OF TITLES.

It it the obsession with titles that causes Directors to spend an enormous amount of time judging people whereas the company actually really only wants the Director to organize their team solve problems. But no, the director will spend time judging people instead of solving problems because the career ladder doc says so.
It appears that the cut off lines up with HIP SDK support from AMD, https://rocm.docs.amd.com/projects/install-on-windows/en/lat...
200mb of data is not a large file, and chromium tabs have a memory limit of something ridiculously low so actual large 20-100gb datasets render this useless.
I understand I'm just designing for a world that doesn't quite exist but is technically possible.

I'm designing for a future that is as far out that I both see it and achieve on the scale of an 8 unit apartment building.
It's been many years since I've had to use an Oracle db, but they definitely allowed SQL developers to forcibly specify a query-plan - called "query hints", wherein you could specify it to prefer using (or avoiding) certain indexes, certain join-strategies (hash, loop, etc) - this was done via comments immediately before the SQL query - see https://docs.oracle.com/cd/B13789_01/server.101/b10752/hints...

Postgresql doesn't have this, however, I've rarely missed this feature - tables with good indexes, regular db hygiene, etc, almost always perform excellently. The query planner is very, very smart nowadays.
> new paradigm like AI and vector databases.

they have several ways to write extensions: extensions and fdw, so you can build your cool AI stuff without digging into PgSQL sources much.
> Do you need to be mindful of self-dealing regulations? Of course. However, there are many investment opportunities available to non-wealthy people which can be pursued via self-directed ROTHs and LLCs owned by them.

The very fact that you're having to be "mindful" of self-dealing shows that people like Thiel are self-dealing, just with more layers of indirection.

If it wasn't self-dealing, you'd not need to be mindful of such regulation.
If you didn't write your application with multi-tenant in mind from the start I would expect you would need to review almost every line of code that touches a database to make a transition like this.
Ah gotcha and totally agree.
I heard second hand that the MD managers who got promoted in Boeing after the merger decided to not build any new modules in house at Boeing. They were able put a lot of pressure on their new suppliers who were small compared to Boeing and made a lot of money. Over time many Boeing suppliers lowered their quality to stay in business and others failed outright.

Since then there has been a lot of consolidation of the suppliers of Boeing, to the point where Boeing has much less leverage than it once did and often has only one option left for many of the parts in needs. I'm not sure how much this has contributed to its current issues, but it seems a systematic issue that Boeing doesn't make its own planes anymore and has to rely on suppliers who are scraping every ounce of margin out of their production processes.
I care about style. If I’m reading the same code day in and day out I want it to look nice. Not nice code is a distraction, maybe it’s an OCD or a ‘visual misophonia’, but inconsistency is one of the first things I notice. I truly don’t understand why some people don’t care how their code looks.

I have noticed that some people will present tidy code during interviews and amazingly drop that habit once they’re employed.
Are you also against makefiles, on the same grounds? “If they can’t be bothered to run each build step by hand, you probably don’t want them around anyway”

That’s much closer to being “the way infrastructure operates” than formatting is.

I suppose 100% of IAC is right out, then.
It’s makes it harder for organizations like this to exist in the future. If you and your co-conspirators knew you were all getting the same sentence, no matter what, you’re not likely to snitch.

But if the option of plea deals is ever present, you’re more likely to get whistleblowers. Any single whistleblower make the whole thing tumble.
My personal McDonald's data-security history: having been part of Hacking in Progress '97 in the Netherlands where I got a coupon for a free burger at McDonald's. Not being a regular - as in never going to - McDonald's I thought I'd give it a try as there happened to be a McDonald's drive-through in Lelystad which was on my route home.

(Maybe this is where I should explain that I was cycling home with a cycle cart behind my bike filled with computer and camping hardware, wearing wooden shoes)

I entered the drive-through lane behind a car but when it was my turn the woman behind the counter said 'only cars allowed'.

That was close to the first and thus far the last time I went to a McDonald's. It is also a good example of correlation without causation...
That is my take, after having written in many languages over many years.

I also think this is more of a Zeitgeist thing, to be honest.
Postgres really took off when Heroku became popular in the late 00s.
Can you be more specific about those responsible?
XDG is the freedesktop group I believe. https://specifications.freedesktop.org/
Its because you cant see the effects. Consolidation is good lots of times. In the US they had an insane banking system regulation that resulted in the US haveing 10000s of banks. This lead to a lot of issues and was incredibly inefficent.

I can name lots of examples. Before 1982 there were like 20+ companies who wanted to produce video game console.

Did we need 10 different commercial unixs.

Also, the consolidation results in companies that have the capital to invest. Having LM, MC, Boeing and Airbus all making widebodies didnt make sense and resulted in issues for both tri-jet producers. Airbus was the winner in that situation because neither company could invest in twin-jet widebody.

The idea that the economy would be awesome if there were only small companies doesnt really hold up.

So just saying consolidation bad 100% doesnt really hold up.

The telecom are special because they were all state owned then privatized, they are mostly not the result of consolidation.
International Monetary Fund email accounts hacked in cyberattack
Does this work in languages besides english?
Those would be considered basic type systems. For "fancy", you gotta dive deeper into the lambda cube (tho generics I guess in 1999 would be fancy and one step in).
I'm not american but if most people in America can right now classify as low income (paycheck to paycheck) then open up the floodgates on low-income housing everywhere?
In an ideal world, yes, but we live in a world where making the spreadsheet number go up is the ultimate goal for a lot of people, especially if it's your own personal spreadsheet. For these kinds of people, customers with wishes and demands are often an inconvenience that stands in their way.
GitHub: Incident with Actions and Pages
They have 2 active incidents.
Get them too
The promise of FRP was to solve this problem. It makes "state change" a first class object, and organizes your code around it.

The problem is that nobody made an usable FRP system yet. It's not obvious why it's so hard, and everything feels like it should be easy. But everybody just keep failing.
Not all tech is fun, some is just glue.

Can you name any games built around the Y-combinator, CRDTs, or PCA? (Please oh please let there be games about principal component analysis.)
> The whole meme that companies exist to maximize shareholder value is just that: a meme, and a recent one at that. Boeing is the natural outcome of believing it like a zealot.

Admittedly I've only been in the workforce for a couple decades, but isn't this precisely what large, or at a minimum publicly traded, companies operate on?

I've worked for multiple public companies and this is a universal theme among any I've worked with or for. Legally they're even required to do what is best for shareholders, nothing more.
Security footage of Boeing repair before door-plug blowout was overwritten
Zig, Rust, and Other Languages
Mercedes is trialing humanoid robots for 'low skill, repetitive' tasks
Since my comment, I have also found some supporting evidence. My God, the Anglo-Saxons are getting nervous about their land based aircraft carrier in the near east.
Genuine question, what are you doing for 10 hours a day in there?

Can you comfortable code all day in that? If you don't mind my asking, is it purely novelty or is it genuinely better than coding on a 5k monitor?
Love this. And that it works so well on mobile web.

Some suggestions:

Touch controls are sensitive. Add some kind of specific control pad area instead of the entire screen. Kept running into the same objects over and over and getting the same dialogs.

Don't show the entire dialogs again and again. Provide some kind of prompt like "Read?"

Hitting "Close" should stop the dialog rendering immediately vs waiting for it to finish every time.
Classic Mistakes (1996)