skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> “Prince Jim”—as some long-timers used to call him—repeatedly invoked a slur for longtime engineers and skilled machinists in the obligatory vanity “leadership” book he co-wrote. Those who cared too much about the integrity of the planes and not enough about the stock price were “phenomenally talented assholes,”

Decline in attention to quality at Boeing is a known thing. But this attitude towards engineering and specially to machinist is just utterly f*king stupid. Especially to machinists, because experienced one are hard to find, not even talking about toolmakers. It seems that the starting salary for machinists isn't that great and many shops lost to outsource. And experienced folks retire leaving a wide gap behind. Of course, this does not excuse such an attitude toward engineers either.
Is the US similar to the UK where he will very unlikely serve anything like 25 years in prison?
In the many, many years they have spent building a pile of gibberish tech, traditional finance has begun transitioning to T-0 settlement on centralized platforms. FedNow is going to replace ACH and wires and allow 24/7 real-time transactions.
I'm not against cryptocurrency at all, but you're saying that Dr. Liskov was researching algorithms for that purpose when she really wasn't. Byzantine fault tolerance has lots of other applications, in fact if you search "currency" in the paper she worked on, you'll only find a single match: "concurrency."

https://pmg.csail.mit.edu/papers/osdi99.pdf
they did not. this article and many people are sensationalizing it to get attention and push whatever their angle is. it was short-sighted, stupid, greedy, and wrong, but not intentionally suicidal (let alone homicidal!).
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The refrigerator is a distraction, the toaster is the real threat.
Am I the only one who is scared by the entire ecosystem of "drag random crap and dependencies off the Internet from who the hell knows"?

I've had a couple of minor incidents with NodeJS dependencies over the last few years on this front which sort of opened my eyes to running untrusted code. I tend to err on the side of distribution packages since, with the restrictions that imposes on what I do.
Recruiters were part of my professional network irrespective of whether they are part of yours.

We all have different types of luck.
I don't know if this is still the case, but -m string used to be resource intensive, because it has to parse each packet for the string before passing it on to other rules.
i18n was a mystery for the longest time. a11y was just dumb for me until I learned what the numbers meant… last year, after what, two decades?

Btw txn is similar, but they didn’t bother with numbers, they just replaced the middle with an x.
I agree. Although it was certainly imperfect, I think that nobody has ever done moderation as well as /. did (during their heyday, anyway. I haven't been there for years so don't know if it's still the same).
Very interesting.

I hope some of that progress will eventually trickle down into e.g. civilian aviation – GPS jamming seems to be a growing concern there.
"For encrypted networks, [the owner of the network] MITMing the encryption breaks the security."

What security, specifically. Security from who/what.

Let's say a network owned by C comprises computer A and computer B, A is connected to B and B is connected to the internet.

Computer A runs "apps" controlled by D and not trusted by C. B runs only programs trusted by C.

Both A and B, i.e., the programs runing on them, are each capable of encrypting traffic.

Let's say the approach C takes on C's network is to let B handle encryption. Not A.

The apps running on Computer A want to encrypt traffic but, in C's opinion, that "security" is for the benefit of D not C.

Computer B encrypts all traffic bound for the internet and decrypts all traffic received from the internet. C does not need D's apps to perform encryption.

It is C's network. Is there a reason C should not control encryption on C's own network.

Is there a reason D should be able to run its "apps" on C's network and encrypt traffic that D cannot inspect.

Would D allow C to run programs on D's network that encrypt traffic so that D cannot inspect it. (Reciprocity.)

One could imagine the encryption by D's apps running on Computer A is security against D, the owner of the network.

Any other "security" provided by D's apps encrypting traffic on A is already provided by B.

(Given the existence of B, encryption by A is unnecessary and redundant.)
I can't remember phone numbers either but I can use a device suited to remembering them to look them up
I can't remember phone numbers either but I can use a device suited to remembering them to look them up.
> Recommend revoking app install privileges.

I don't believe it supports time by site inside a browser, even with Safari.
You can't leak users' data if you don't hold it
https://internetcomputer.org/

A YT video about this:
https://youtu.be/wk3FxuA5DKs

I am still very sceptical about this because it looks very slow, but it seems to work.
Jamba-v0.1-hybrid-MoE (16x6B?) is like giving a big NOS boost to a mixtral 8x7B tier LLM. If true 256k context, 3x longer, faster & cheaper than anything else, it should mean an end to the One Model To Rule Them All mindset for now. The big boys will have to offer some version of it as separate but close side-kick integration to their hero offering.
We'll probably just work our personal networks harder.

Personal networks didn't work as well during bubble/ZIRP times because everybody good was employed and either they already made more than what you were offering, or were holding out for a company that paid more.

Nowadays everybody knows someone good who has been laid off or is worried about being laid off. Or maybe they made major lifestyle changes during the pandemic and now they'd have to move a small family from Omaha back to the Bay Area.

As for screening questions, there's never going to be an automated way that detects AI or AI-influenced answers, for obvious reasons. There are countermeasures I have in mind but I'm not sharing them here.
I made it like 4 seconds before I hit back
If you take the Overton Window as a simple parabola, with an up swing on left and right side of curve.

I'm finding more and more that it has become more like a Mandelbrot Set and on any given day I'm not sure if I'd be considered Left or Right by any random other person who I also can't identify if they are Left or Right. It is almost like Left and Right are so confused now, that they have lost all meaning. Except when they vote, but they can't explain why they voted the way they did.
The FCC doesn't test the transmitter. The device is only tested to comply with Part 15 unintentional radiation rules (just like any other consumer electronics device).
Interesting. If I search for something, what is the ordering of the results? Looks sort of random.
tl;dr: Pournelle's Iron Law.
> Try hanging up a call on your smartphone and your counterpart hanged up a a fraction of a second before you. Now you call someone (pretty deep down) in your recent call list.

I do this daily and it infuriates me.

I am also a fast typer on both touch and physical. As a result I often type into an auto complete box (e.g. kagi, gmail, etc) and see the result I want come up midway through my type. As I'm going to click or tap it, I am often in the 200ms window where that result is replaced by another or the list is reordered in some way.

Dynamically loading webpages are also a plague of the last decade for the same reason. They load an initial layout, often interactable. Then as you're going to click or tap, they dynamically load other elements or content, reordering and moving things around the page!

If you don't have anything n̵i̵c̵e̵ ̵t̵o̵ ̵s̵a̵y̵,̵ ̵d̵o̵n̵'̵t̵ ̵s̵a̵y̵ ̵a̵n̵y̵t̵h̵i̵n̵g̵ ̵a̵t̵ ̵a̵l̵l̵ ready to load, don't load anything at all.
This is where regulation steps in. A regulatory body should make the cost of certain failure scenarios so painful that companies are incentivized to make better choices. We probably don't need regulations about the color choices of t-shirts, but safety & testing for mass-transit vehicles might be warranted.
If you want there to be a marketplace for your collectibles, NFTs are the most open way of doing that, and a lot is prebuilt.
Mixtral 8x7b runs well (i.e., produces the correct output faster than I can read it) on a modern AMD or Intel laptop without any use of a GPU - provided that you have enough RAM and CPU cores. 32 GB of RAM and 16 hyperthreads are enough with 4-bit quantization if you don't ask too much in terms of context.

P.S. Dell Inspiron 7415 upgraded to 64 GB of RAM here.
wxWidget's wxStyledTextCtrl is based on Scintilla, too: https://wiki.wxwidgets.org/WxStyledTextCtrl
Here is a quote from Dept. of Justice

"Four major goals are usually attributed to the sentencing process: retribution, rehabilitation, deterrence, and incapacitation. Retribution refers to just deserts: people who break the law deserve to be punished. The other three goals are utilitarian, emphasizing methods to protect the public."

Given the scale of fraud, the money involved, and the nature of SBF at trail, I would disagree.

https://www.ojp.gov/sites/g/files/xyckuh241/files/archives/n...
Here's one possibility... https://craftofcoding.wordpress.com/2020/05/28/fibonacci-and...
One of the fundamental problems with organizations, no matter what economic system you live under[0], is that you cannot give your boss a problem that they don't want to deal with. So if your job is to find problems, and your boss does not want to deal with problems, then your job will suuuuuuuuuuuuck.

0. I acknowledge that capitalism has caused a lot of problems, including Boeing problems.
The airlines brought a high-quality aircraft. Up to the first failures of the Max, there was no reason at all to expect Boeings to be badly done.
Came here to post exactly this. I searched for Barcelona, and the most widely known Barcelona was 6th in the list: https://i.postimg.cc/tJyLvCbk/Screenshot-2024-03-28-at-5-19-...

Not a huge deal, but some type of weighting like what maps and flight search apps have might be a good addition.
> the stock market as a system for promoting value creation is an imperfect approximation of an ideal value creator

yet

> See for example the state of hospitals and schools, and the rising rate of individuals with crippling medical and college debt.

Ummmm. State hospitals and schools are not traded on our stock exchanges. If there's a failure here, it's not with equities markets.

There's an obvious common denominator between the examples you give, and that these are the most highly-regulated industries in America. My first guess as to where to lay blame would be on those regulations - although we'd really need to dig into whatever the specific failures you're thinking of, if we want to be sure.
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I'm not getting on a Boeing plane again. More on principle than fear of my life. And yeah, I'm probably in a group that is not statistically important.
Source?

It seems there's a counter claim that he didn't.

> Ross was smeared with unprosecuted, false allegations of planning murder-for-hire that never occurred, were never proven, never ruled on by a jury, and were ultimately dismissed with prejudice.

https://freeross.org/case-overview/
Yeah if they control the systems you use to navigate and assess the status of the ship you might not notice it isn't under your control for quite a while.
That is my point. Violent colonization can have wildly different outcomes and there's a lot more to the success of a society than predation.

That is a simplification that's often resting on emotional resentment to injustice but doesn't really define or predict how a country develops.
> “Ether as digital oil to power the blockchain”

This has made you less skeptical of what he’s peddling? That slogan is a series of red flags in only eight words. He could be selling actual snake oil.
Have to provide precise instructions to LLMs to get anything useful.

Instructions for operating the "Holy hand grenade of Antioch" from Monty Python and the Holy Grail are a good example:

''First shalt thou take out the Holy Pin. Then shalt thou count to three, no more, no less. Three shall be the number thou shalt count, and the number of the counting shall be three. Four shalt thou not count, neither count thou two, excepting that thou then proceed to three. Five is right out. Once the number three, being the third number, be reached, then lobbest thou thy Holy Hand Grenade of Antioch towards thy foe, who, being naughty in My sight, shall snuff it.'
excellent.

Jerry Morrison and I analyzed in depth what they should have done:

https://www.albertcory.io/lets-do-have-hindsight

Most people don't know that, in the 80's, they DID spin off a number of companies, where Xerox's only investment was a license to use the technology.

Had they held onto Apple and all those, they'd be one of the biggest holding companies in the world, if not the biggest.
Frankly I think ChatGPT 3.5 was already good enough to replace the majority of CxO positions
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That doesn't change the equation unfortunately.
But to clarify, for the purposes of amateur radio, "emergency traffic" is defined as:

> essential communication needs in connection with the immediate safety of human life and immediate protection of property when normal communication systems are not available

(47 CFR § 97.403)

That is, just because your communications are related to an ongoing emergency doesn't automatically give you the right to transmit without a license.
You realize Le Miz is fictional, right? No one needs to steal to eat, some people choose to steal rather than earn. Stealing is immoral regardless of the circumstance, don’t take your moral philosophy from Disney movies and broadway.
> however with software nobody dies

Eh, not a good hard-and-fast rule. Fujitsu's Horizon software drove some of its users to suicide.
Honestly, comparing billion dollar fraud to murder is a bit tricky for me. In the one hand we could try to give a dollar value to a life, maybe a million dollars. But I don’t know if stealing a million dollars is equivalent to murder, since money is fungible and people are not. The government can make the victim of theft whole. For murder, that is not possible.

On the other hand maybe a more reasonable approach would be to treat criminals as people who need to be quarantined for as long as they’re dangerous. If we could identify a treatable disease (a tumor for example) and know with 100% certainty that treating that disease could prevent further crimes, I personally wouldn’t have an issue with it. We have an impulse to punish evil, and severely punish very evil things, but it’s more of a primitive drive than anything productive. (Of course the exception is the extent to which punishment can deter crime.)
There is no need to turn the set of two cars -- it always has a toilet in the center so it's symmetrical.
A public hearing isn't going to change anything. Look at...well, literally any powerful organization or individual brought before Congress for excoriation. The pound of flesh they want is press and votes, and you don't have to change anything to get that.

It's not like they're going to break up Boeing. They can't actually do anything to improve Boeing. All they can do is wag their finger. It's not like there's an alternative American company to give our billions of dollars to. And it's not like other companies will suddenly fear being brought forward to be gummed to death by whining bureaucrats.

You want real pain? Have them pass a law that says the entire executive leadership's bonuses are forfeit, retroactively, if the company fails to maintain an adequate safety record. Shit will change there real quick. (That law will never happen but it's funny to think of)
It's interesting how the article spins that 'increasing distrust of institutions' will be driven by 'misinformation'.

Rather than the 'realize how broke they are' part.
Hot take. I mean, with TLS decryption, the company does control the endpoint, or at least what the endpoint trusts on a network layer. But people here are crying about that.
ESC (basically same actuator hardware as ABS) can definitely brake without user input and it's mandatory in all cars sold after 2012. Steering assist is mostly torque limited by design, you should be able to easily overpower it.
Oh yeah, I remember that one [1]. One of the bastards got five years in prison - one of the very very few exceptions to my general line of calling for prison abolishment.

[1] https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2022/sep/29/ebay-exec...
They are not mistakes, they are crimes. Anyone who worked in finance for more than a week can recognise their actions as such.
Yes, large companies take a lot longer to fail than I ever imagined. A lot of time can pass riding on past excellence before the cracks start showing.
More privacy than having all your transactions stored in a publicly accessible database.
Sales and marketing - and financialization and capital efficiency. I got no beef with accountants, but I think companies need just enough focus on financialization and low to medium priority on capital efficiency (ie, look out for stupid wastes of capital).
While "local maximas" is wrong, I think "a local maxima" is a valid way to say "a member of the set of local maxima" regardless of the number of elements in the set. It could even be a singleton.
Most banks will print a sheet of 3 on demand at a branch. I think they're called counter checks? I haven't used a checkbook in probably about a decade, so when they've been needed for some reason, I just get those.
I edited my response... I hope it helps... my understanding is that the output gives probabilities for all the words, then one is chosen with some random thrown in (via the #temperature) then fed back in... which to me seems to equate to bag of words. Perhaps I mis-understood the term.
> Does any sane person on a Mac want to have a Windows look, especially when it comes to fonts?

Probably? There are a lot of Mac users.
Any chance you will add the ability to upload images into your character creator?
This: "Whatever happened to Xerox’s $1.05 million dollar investment in Apple in 1979? Had Xerox held onto this stake of the company, approximately 5-8% of the total outstanding equity in Apple at that time, their investment could be worth tens of billions of dollars today. Famously however, Xerox did not even retain their stake until Apple’s 1980 IPO. Instead, they almost immediately turned around and sold their shares for approximately $1.2 million, netting a return on their investment of around $200,000. Apple and their competitors, inspired by PARC’s inventions, would go on to generate trillions of dollars of revenue over the coming decades selling desktop personal computers with bitmapped displays and mouse-driven GUIs just like the Xerox Alto."

What a facepalm! >_<
So what you are saying is that twitter, oh sorry x, is going to break down completely in around 2048? :)
You're basically just describing fee-less digital currency. The problem is that achieving the fee-less part by using a blockchain makes some extremely undesirable tradeoffs. To name a few:

-Money laundering becomes impossible to prevent when no entity has control over identity verification of the users.

-All transactions are public, so normal users who won't be trying to lie about their identity lose all financial privacy.

-Undoing transactions due to fraud or simple error becomes extremely cumbersome and ultimately requires re-centralization of authority that crypto supposedly was created to avoid.

Digital fiat transactions operating in the current financial system are the best of all worlds, and unsurprisingly they are already extremely common.
I think you are reading the past with the eyes of the present.

"Student debt" was not a thing back in the 70's and 80's.

Secondly, PARC researchers were not paid university postdoc-level salaries. They were paid quite well. I would guess that's still true.
Ia he also demanding the purchaser submits?
It seems like this is the same pattern that we've seen happen more broadly in the tech industry over the past year--the big tech companies think they can juice the bottom line by reducing headcount, and the increased profitability will outweigh any negative impact on their engineering performance. It's a perverse incentive that seems very difficult to turn around once it starts happening.
Even most economists these days would agree that this is a really bad take (invisible hand). You should read more than the punchline of that Adam Smith book and you would find that even he would agree
Some people in organizations can't take no for an answer. They want to see their orders followed, and if they see you as a roadblock, you will be marginalized, sometimes with harm.

That's not always bad, sometimes employees drag their feet when they shouldn't. But in some situations (for instance, one arm of the company gaining the upper hand), the people in power are so convinced that their own perspective and goals are right, that they think they don't need to listen or understand the big picture.

Ad to this that sometimes an exec has sociopathic tendencies, and you have an explosive cocktail of harassment and destruction of valuable knowledge. The more resilient the company, the more entrenched this behaviour can get, and the more irreversible it will become.
If it isn't obvious already that cryptocurrency is one giant grift, then I don't know how many more stories are going to help. The SEC or Congress or someone with power needs to just make it illegal, or else this kind of thing will keep happening. It happened before we got our shit together in the early 20th century, but we collectively realized markets were actively doing shady things, and then we legislated to fix things. Will we do it again?
Monsanto also did some pretty awful persecution to scientists… there are plenty of examples in American contemporary businesses
"intentionally" is too strong a word here.

More -> intentionally cut cost by eliminating experienced people.

Not -> intentionally getting rid of knowledge. even the worst managers wouldn't admit to wanting to loose knowledge.
If you are reading something to decide whether it's interesting, that's monitoring
I like reading performance-related articles, or just thinking about performance. It feels so rewarding when you can make something use fewer resources, run faster or more efficiently.

It might be my competitive programming background, but I would rather spend 5 hours improving performance by 10% than doing sales that would actually bring in money...