skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I use python more often than tools like awk, which I often forget the syntax of, so I made pyxargs to quickly run python code in the shell for small tasks like this

sp current | pyxr -0 -g "(Artist)\s+(.+)\n(Title)\s+(.+)" -p "{3} by {1}"
FWIW, "Prince Jim" McNerney, who most of the article's ire is understandably directed towards, is no longer the CEO. He directed the 737 MAX's development, but retired before the scandals; his successor, Dennis Muilenburg (a 30+ year Boeing employee who started out in engineering), was fired for the poor quality of the 737 MAX despite it being developed under Prince Jim.

That being said, the current CEO — Dave Calhoun — is an old exec from from GE, where McNerney started out; I hope he's different from Jim, but I wouldn't bank on it. Unlike Muilenberg and pre-merger Boeing CEOs, he doesn't have a direct background in aviation. He's retiring at the end of the year, and I hope his replacement is more like the pre-merger CEOs than the accounting-focused recent ones.
That's not a killer app. We already have money transfers.
You may be right.. your comment reminded me of the formula from Fight Club. Maybe the airlines made that calculus, reasoning that, after all this time their planes were safe enough, and the chance of an accident were low. Even still, it was cheaper to settle lawsuits.

"A new car built by my company leaves somewhere traveling at 60 mph. The rear differential locks up. The car crashes and burns with everyone trapped inside. Now, should we initiate a recall? Take the number of vehicles in the field, A, multiply by the probable rate of failure, B, multiply by the average out-of-court settlement, C. A times B times C equals X. If X is less than the cost of a recall, we don't do one."
In addition to the architectural and performance benefits, this is the big deal here, IMO.
I worked at a used bookstore for many years, and this is what the owner told me how he managed to stay in business for more than 40 years in the same building. Especially since moving all your stock to a new location if you rent is a big pain.
Why would anyone strap a couch to the top of their car, when it would be better to buy a new pickup truck and transport it in the back of that?
I have zero patience for fools who are allegedly knowledge workers, yet complain about popups and ads in the year 2024.

The ads are obnoxious, but they are there for the plebs, and we need to put obnoxious ads the faces of plebs to fund the internet. If you are not a pleb, you already have an adblocking solution installed, so please use it. If however, you are a pleb, please consume mass quantities of the product which is being advertised. There are a lot of adware developers who are counting on you to buy their next Porsche.

Or, invent a decent micropayent solution so we can get rid of the damn ads.
The bottom line is that you failed to achieve the goal you set out to achieve and got laid off.

How is that ”speak in their defense"?
Can you think of an alternative approach that would have delivered the result over time without you loosing your job?
On the other hand the paperclip optimizer AGI factory game went viral
For anyone else wondering: celestial navigation (by the stars) apparently works during the day as well, as the stars' infrared light remains "visible" [0]:

> The new systems use infrared rather than visible light for locating stars, allowing daytime navigation. The stars shine just as brightly in the day sky as they do at night, but their light is masked by sunlight scattered by the atmosphere. The scattering is strongest at short wavelengths... But glimpse that same sky with a filter that allows only infrared light, and the sky suddenly becomes dark - and filled with stars.

[0] https://www.popularmechanics.com/military/research/a36078957...
sorry if I misread your comment, but you seem to be indicating that LLMs such as chat gpt (which use gpt 3+) are bag of words models? they are sequence models.
It's a good idea, but Russians could learn how to trick it, knowing what assumption it makes. It's not too hard to detect stationary phones either or silence them so that they don't relay.
He used to be a pastor and one of his followers had given it to him. I did ask him but his answer amounted to “passing it along I thought you’d be interested”. Of course I spent a long time wondering what his deeper message to me may have been. Perhaps I’ll never exactly know his intent but that’s ok for me. He quit and took a job at a shoe store , but stays in touch with me 5+ years later.
It's confusing because we went from "decentralized" meaning "an inverted hierarchy" to "decentralized" meaning "a hierarchy seen from the other direction".
This is neat. I was curious about the demand for steel that wasn't exposed to atomic explosions, making this a kind of treasure map for scavengers.

However, Wikipedia says that there's much less need because there haven't been anywhere near as many atomic explosions recently.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Low-background_steel
On a previous HN discussion, plenty of people here believed it was fully possible that someone at Boeing essentially pulled the trigger and gave plenty of examples, even from a huge successful Silicon Valley company, of corporate folks doing stranger nefarious things than would be believable in film. As someone who has known multiple people who committed suicide, I'm not sure I can feel as certain as you that this was a suicide without more evidence.
amazon.pl doesn't have English version. Auto-translated titles and descriptions are atrocious.

amazon.de on the other hand has English version and stuff is sent from warehouses in Poland anyway.
1) That's not how index funds work: they attempt to track a target market index. At most, it happens indirectly: get your company into the major indices by a short-sighted depletion of capital, and you can get some level of lift from index funds blindly purchasing your stock (though IIRC it's not a huge effect).

2) You can effectively remove certain companies from an index using derivatives in addition to the index fund. Alternatively, look into direct indexing, where you attempt to track an index by directly owning an appropriately weighted basket of stocks, though it tends to be more complicated, have greater tracking errors, and have higher fees.
Gemini is a poor choice, rather useless. They recently bought some AI company, so scratch that.
Maybe think of money as embodied energy. If you realize that he stole 15 years of retirement from thousands of people then it may make more sense. 15 good years of your life turned into 15 bad ones, repeat thousands of times.
Any idea why this fork has the support of the linux foundation in favour of any other?
The stock market is all about near-term gains, and as a result it is often irrational and rewards destructive behavior.
> The only way to counteract this frequently terrible incentive is by us people (the government) creating the incentives that work for society. That could mean huge, costly fines in these situations such that the only way to get money for shareholders is to make quality products, since what should be a market incentive has gotten so messed up.

The US government could also get more aggressive about blocking mergers and breaking large companies up for being large. If you blew up Meta as an example, you'd force all of its ventures to compete with each other on the open market again. If you blew it up in to regional or state-level companies and prevented them from merging with each other they would all have to figure out how to work as they each invaded each others' markets. That "inefficiency" of the market would naturally create jobs and upward wage pressure as companies attempted to hire each others' staff away from each other.
You’ve yet to produce a single bit of evidence supporting the claim that Trump is somehow more likely to pardon him than Biden, which if you could read you’d know is what I contested.
Based off looks and speed, I've always assumed Npp was pure win32. So the only portability layer is Wine.

That said, from memory, it actually works well in Wine, but plugins can be iffy.
Minerva Research Initiative: Supporting social science for a safer world
Eh, you sort of had agency with that game. At least in the sense that it is possible you could screw up and it would take a long, long time to get over that. Buying too much of resource A, when you should have saved up money for resource B, that sort of thing.
yes; I had the impression she was famous for musicals, but I found her musical numbers the opposite of accessible...
I’m beginning to think that idea needs to be applied to a lot more than just ships.

I’ll write more about it once I figure out why my smart refrigerator is showing me porn instead of the weather.
This is great. Is there something for crates.io?

Does the safety-oriented Rust community do this _automatically_?
Having an operating system run for 4 years is cool, but let's not pretend that's service uptime.
> Why does the stock market reward idiot shit like this?

Well at a first order, the answer is that the stock market as a system for promoting value creation is an imperfect approximation of an ideal value creator, and more and more we are beginning to see the myriad of ways this concept produces antisocial results. (See for example the state of hospitals and schools, and the rising rate of individuals with crippling medical and college debt.)

More directly there has been some criticism of the stock market for rewarding short term gain over long term value, which among other things has led to the creation of the Long Term Stock Exchange:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long-Term_Stock_Exchange
Missoula's Bag Man
So do most of my peers, and I'm 40.

A few of us wear suit jackets now, but I think that's just to stand out from the crowds of jeans and t-shirts that became my generation's accidental dress code.

(Though perhaps I'm just projecting; on the rare occasions I wear a suit jacket, that's what I'm thinking).
I admit that I haven't thought it all the way through, but in general, all error-correction codes I'm aware of have a simpler erasure-code version available too.

Reed Solomon traditionally is an error-correction code, for example. But has common implementations in its simplified erasure-only code. (Ex: fixing "lost data" is far easier than fixing "contradictory data").

I'm fairly certain that LDPC erasure codes is as simple as "Is there only one missing erasure in this particular code??" and "answer is LDPC XOR (other data) == missing-data".

EDIT: The "hard part" is the exact composition of (other data), of which there's many styles and different methodologies with tons of different tradeoffs.
it always reminds me of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35701785
(edit couldnt find it from years-past but this link is basically what i remember)

companies are rolling in profits, and they spend their profits (instead of making more easily available content) on DRMs, lobbiest, ect to squeeze out every ounce of money from everywhere they can.. cuz they can afford it
There's more than enough circumstantial evidence to support the allegations of foul play here. When people kill themselves, they usually do it somewhere private and personal to them, like inside their home, or their car. Not in the parking lot outside a courthouse.
And formatting! Don't forget language-aware formatting and maybe even syntax coloring.
If they're putting life changing amounts of money into a company they should be doing a modicum of research on it. If someone gives $100k to a Nigerian prince, I don't think the US government should be spending thousands of dollars of resources on attempting to recover that money.

US citizens have never implicitly been allowed on these off-shore exchanges. You have to deliberately circumvent and lie to get an account.
Is there much demand for that power? Southwest Michigan has pretty well deindustrialized since the 1970s. A lot of vacation homes and agro-tourism these days.

BTW, I still remember visiting the Cook nuclear plant on a school field trip as a kid (20-30 miles south of this plant).
People need their mortality taken for future deterrence. Anything less is our collective moral weakness saying this is OK.
Can't anyone with some Bitcoins and some dollars be an exchange?
Also, here’s where some of my reference comes from, if a diagram is helpful. Downloaded from telegram and uploaded here: https://ibb.co/5rBnTsv
Do those themes mimic the Windows look or do they ask Win32 to draw butons, windows, menus, etc...?
I had an Android when the banks were doing this before Google pay took off. The banks are capable of jankiness all by themselves.
That's how ICBMs do it!

> Intercontinental ballistic missiles use celestial navigation to check and correct their course (initially set using internal gyroscopes) while flying outside the Earth's atmosphere. The immunity to jamming signals is the main driver behind this seemingly archaic technique.

Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Celestial_navigation
It depends where in Queens. The buses are actually not bad these days, they get you to the subway or LIRR.

Some parts of Queens are better than others. But infrastructure changes (which is what this is) always results in people finding new jobs or new homes.
You got your kids to pass a ham license test? Kudos.
"An analysis last year by University of Calgary economist Trevor Tombe found that if Canada had merely kept pace with U.S. productivity growth for the last five years, Canadian per-capita earnings would be $5,500 higher than they are now."

This goes back to the 90's when "Canada is open for business" and instead of getting international investment, international companies bought out Canadian companies en mass, and sucked all that value out. And that's why Canada can't even tread water.

You can see this in America with We Work and Reddit IPOs, basically the most value has been removed and the corpse is being dumped in the hope that retail and funds pick it up, only to get screwed.
I work in security and a use case I've had in the past and hacked together using a combination of Power BI and powerpoint (hey, license was already paid for!) was exporting tons of data from logs, load into Power BI to generate charts and metrics that related to security (especially vulnerability management). It was the same slide every time, just new data.

One thing that could be useful though is the ability to export a snapshot of what the slides would've been on any given day, for reference in the future (data might not be available in 2 years etc).
I've tended to hold that view as well, but a fellow circled-A enthusiast of my acquaintance pointed out that a challenge may arise when it comes time to enforce the will of the small state against the will of larger states.

I see the Meiji Restoration in Japan as a historical example of this. Japan wished to enforce an isolationist policy which the Americans were able to violate with their military advantage. In response, Japan chose to transition from a feudal shogunate to a centralized empire. My understanding is this was so that the military of Japan could be consolidated so they could negotiate internationally on more equal terms than they could when they needed to also manage relationships with the regional daimyo.

But as you mentioned in another reply there are examples of small European countries which have managed to maintain their sovereignty despite having larger neighbors, so there's probably still more to it (which I'm assuming can be summed up as diplomacy and probably some degree of being lucky with which neighbors you get).
I'm not following. State is a multi-dimensional vector and context is a list of tokens. State is perturbed by A and Bx(t), while context is appended to by sampling the predicted token distribution.
Blowing up satellites does not imply we'd be living in a nuclear holocaust.
Previously[0](63 points, 5 hours ago, 7 comments)

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39853463
Any time you need to make the same edits in multiple places. I use it to mass edit array items for example by using the highlight / add cursor to identical text feature in VS Code (Ctrl+D). I even use it to copy data out of the browser and mass edit it into data structures-- often there will be some pattern to the pasted data even if it's garbage, so being able to quickly set up multicursors around the patterns in the text makes this sort of task much easier, if you are luckily on how the data pastes out.

Multicursors are the number one editor innovation of the last ten years that developers should get comfortable with-- once you start to use them you won't want to use an editor without them.
Hence my explicitly noting that Dr. Liskov continued this research and grew it in scope long after it had become clear that one of if not the primary application was clearly going to be tamper-resistant ledgers of financial transactions.

It’s also why I gave the example of Dr. Wadler FRS FRSE as someone who even more explicitly did extremely sophisticated research well-received by the academic community unambiguously in this context.

I just do not understand what it is about this topic that turns a normally very thoughtful community of people with a generally very high regard for the research agendas of noted computer scientists into spinal-reflex, knee-jerk critics on a dime.

You hear all kinds of arguments but they generally boil down to some version of “blockchain is for cryptocurrency, cryptocurrency is for financial fraud and financial fraud has no place in our society”.

But every link in that chain is either incorrect or selectively tolerant of wrongdoing.

Tamper-resistant ledgers have applications outside of finance.

“Everyone knows I mean crypto.”

Ok, cryptocurrencies have complex outcomes attached to them, some positive, some negative.

“I’m talking about the fraud which is rampant and the main/only use case.”

Eh, not really, speculation isn’t by itself fraud, although it is true that markets (say, OTC derivatives markets) with a high ratio of speculation to other non-speculative activities generally have more fraud in them, so more or less rampant than conventional digital finance?

“More both relatively and absolutely.”

No. Neither. Trivially false. You think that because you have no fucking clue how much fraud happens either relatively or absolutely in conventional financial markets. Furthermore, the fraud that does happen is dramatically more likely to be investigated and prosecuted, and the victims of that fraud are dramatically more likely to be recognized as victims (unlike for example victims of predatory lending in 2005-2007 who lost their homes and got called criminals into the bargain”.

I don’t want to believe that it’s just the banal fact that we all know someone who got stinking rich speculating in crypto markets and we didn’t (I’ve never speculated in crypto markets and am not in the same galaxy as well-off: I went into debt when the tech job market collapsed last year, with uh, a little help).

But I’m really struggling here to find a more charitable conclusion.
To the multi-disciplinary point above, I think Kahneman's economic work is largely categorized as behavioral economics. That's not divorced from group dynamics, as it tries to understand how social preferences, social utility, and other psychological factors shape strategic decision-making behavior.
I think all that lingo just makes things more muddy here.

The "dataset" is a string, right? A sequence of characters.

Like "Dogs have two ears".

But what does it mean when you say "know where the data came from"?

If someone publishes that string on a blockchain, you know they published it. Because they signed it. And you know when. Because the blockchain timesteamped it. Fine. But "where it came from"? What does that mean?
> If I broke into a person's house and stole $1000, even if I didn't directly hurt that person, I could expect to get several years in prison, basically regardless of the state. Lets say three years to be conservative on this?

We are seeing this kind of crime on a regular basis in our neighborhood. The cops have pretty much given up. They also mentioned that even if they make an arrest, the bail is set so low, these guys would be out quickly. Overall, my impression is there is zero deterrence for these kind of crimes here (a pretty affluent neighborhood in one of the tech cities in the west coast)
> I agree that git is a blockchain

Wait, isn't git more of a merkle-DAG? I thought one of the defining features of blockchains was effectively branchless global state. My understanding is that DAGs are a superset of blockchains. Is this a wrong?

My comment about "blockchain junk" is mainly in response to the fact that it's nearly impossible to find any investment/involvement in the space without running into complete fraudsters and starry-eyed "entrepreneurs" who view blockchain as some sort of god technology that will lift us out of poverty and/or upend the corporate control mechanisms. AKA a bandaid fix by people who don't understand its actual limitations or the dynamics of the systems they supposedly oppose.

As a system for maintaining auditable global state/knowledge in the face of sybil attacks, yes, it's impressive. However 99% of the projects people reach for it do not require it, hence the term "junk." It's more a condemnation of the space surrounding the technology than the technology itself. I figured that would be somewhat obvious.
If you can't move, and cannot work remotely, there are still lots of other options including finding work literally anywhere in driving distance that isn't below 59th St in Manhattan.
Most public school teachers I've interacted with are apathetic powerless bureaucrats. My experience in private school is different. We had corporal punishment and other severe punishments there, and teachers actually had control of their classrooms and could teach effectively.

My point isn't that teachers are to blame. I understand that the issue is systemic and requires support of the school, parents, and teachers. I just disagree that controlling the classroom is "yet another thing" for a teacher to worry about, when it is literally priority #1.
The real fix is popularizing the notion that management is just as commoditizatable than those they seek to commoditize.

Note that in the recent dialogue about AI eating jobs, there's zero mention of whether it could come for management positions. Nothing. Curious, isn't it? Why wouldn't an LLM be good enough at this? I mean, it's really data-driven, right?
Or it's look at schools. See if any of the companies pop out and they spent some time there. Obvious exact skills match. The resume isn't too long. Whatever I can get in a 30 second skim.
Or how about pop-ups not take over my screen? I'm on a work computer without an ad blocker.
It's in the article.

Not just senior = higher pay. Senior = more likely to stick to existing (known good) safety/QC processes. Boeing didn't want QC at all - they wanted the guys assembling the planes to do their own QC (which is likely illegal per FAA regulations).

Toss in a side of union busting. And a dessert serving of outsourcing to the lowest bidder, regardless of that bidders history in the space.
I searched a while for the "Pricing" button.

Right before writing this comment, I noticed it is there, but it's called "Money". Being different is cool, but some basic UX principles are too tough to break.
It's kind of farcical when you put it like that. So much misery and sorrow is caused by the state of that database being problematic for some people.
You start playing right away in that game.
You could probably achieve better here by providing fake weak credentials and then getting an actual human to connect and check out the honeypot on as many IPs as possible.