skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Read about this here first: https://www.telecomstechnews.com/news/2024/mar/28/fcc-denies...
What billions of dollars.

The man had already been on film. He already has written statements everywhere. The FAA already agreed that what he said had happened.

He was in court for AIR21 case... to get money out of boeing for himself, for 10 years of early retirement. Candidly Boeing was probably paying more for the lawyers they were using to fight him than they would have paid just settling.

There weren't billons on the line with this.
It took work by a large parent company. And I don't know how third-party websites can trade those, but it must mean either Valve is managing an API or people are doing something hacky to work around that.
The best psychologist of all time has died. RIP
I hear a lot about the energy efficiency of animal brains in comparison to e.g. GPUs. However, as far as I can tell most of the numbers reported are for adult brains, which effectively have been sparsified over time. Does anyone know of how the picture changes if we consider baby animal brains, which as I understand it have much denser connectivity and higher energy consumption than adult brains?
people only enjoy reading something when it’s written several levels below their actual highest obtained reading level.

So anything that goes beyond a 6th grade reading level is going to have an exponentially smaller potential customer base.
I've never stopped :(
What is up with my posts being flagged?
What was his testimony in a civil (not criminal) lawsuit which had already been given many times before both in public and in other lawsuits going to unravel? Especially given the number of additional investigations going on?

Why would I just assume that it exists?

And why would it ruin the chance of future whistle blowers coming forwards? Was he supposed to imagine that everyone was going to start believing conspiracy theories about his death?
I'm not sure it's exactly what you're looking for, but there is a book "How to win friends and influence people" by Dale Carnegie - despite it's cheesy title and being pretty old, it's still very good advice. Turns out, people nature don't change that much !
Yes, all the possible length extending custom instructions you can think of. I can get some reasonable length responses out of it, but I've never seen them go over 1 page worth, and multi-shot example prompts using multiple USER and GPT exchanges to define the format. Seems like GPT4 has a hard limit as to how much it will output when you click "continue", and Claude Opus never goes over a page either. Another user pointed out using the API, which I have done in the past, but it's been a long while, and I can't really justify the cost of using the advanced models via API for my general use.
> Your skills and experience are what get you ahead truly

In a decade of working in the industry I have found this to never have been the case. Every promotion I've ever gotten except for maybe the first few gimme promotions was because I was on the radar of someone important enough to make that decision.
> The "unbanked". This is the market Ethereum wants to serve

M-Pesa got there first, and without the taint of cryptocurrency. It's a real, deployed, working system at scale, and has been for years. The idea that a "hope to serve" after a bit more crypto tech innovation will open an untapped market ... well, I wouldn't take it seriously. It's wishful thinking at both ends of the supply and demand equation.
My paternal grandfather worked for Boeing as an airfoil modeling engineer (figuring out the right shape for wings and creating computer models) from 1960s-2000s. As a nerdy kid he had some of most entertaining engineering stories. One of my favorites was when a coworker brought a boomerang to work and due to some union/budget shenanigans at the time, all the engineers were at work with nothing to do. So they designed and machined a 3 foot boomerang out of clear acrylic. They went out to the field and gave their heavy new toy a good throw, only to have it promptly vanish out of sight on a sunny day. After a moment to process what just happened, they all hit the dirt as they heard it whoosh overhead.
Don't you need a large flat area to land safely?
Because the entire rewards system is built around short-medium term financial gains.

It is a very old story. People build a company with deep knowledge and caring about what actually makes great products. Financial managers get involved to manage the money aspects of the business. Financial types want a lot more control to make the company more profitable.

The financial management has no actual clue what makes the company valuable. They only know what makes more or less cash flow in this or that direction. But, credit where due, they DO know how to make that work.

They start financially 'engineering' the company for near-term profits and higher stock prices. This works. This works fantastically well. Everything looks leaner, teams of younger workers are sometimes orders of magnitude cheaper than the highly experienced teams, and no one can tell the difference from outside. Profits are higher, stock prices hit record high after record high. Cash is spent on stock buybacks and not R&D or retaining institutional knowledge. Warning flags start showing up in product and service quality indicators, but are ignored and even suppressed. The problems start multiplying at increasing rates, then exponentially increasing rates.

Eventually, it starts to get serious. But by then, the "financial geniuses" have long since cashed out and the core of the company's workforce, ethos, and institutional knowledge has been so gutted that there is no recovery. The death spiral starts in earnest.

The only questions are whether for Boeing, being a critical keystone in the US aerospace and defense industry can or will be allowed to fail, and, if not, if there will be an actual engineering-based turnaround, or if it will be a Soviet-like zombie company for how many years?

Forkin' MBAs, they'll kill it every time.
What a plot twist
You can't believe how people can think intent matters?
"It is unclear at what point these ‘counterfeit’ stamps have entered circulation, and their source — or whether they are genuine and Royal Mail’s scanning technology is at fault."

Given the precedents from the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Post_Office_scandal, I think the second option is plausible.

My experience in the UK is that dysfunctional organizations try to hide issues by bullying their own customers.
One of the underappreciated reasons both Bell Labs and PARC worked was they actually hired a lot of people who had already established themselves. One of the problem with young researchers, no matter how nobly minded, is that they will play the game. A PARC today would have almost no chance to avoid becoming a trend following mess.

This is part of how they avoided the ROI catastrophe (researchers with enough cred could argue that there was a long term potential) and the publish or perish issues.
Yes, and "banality of evil" is famously misunderstood:

https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/2016-10-12/ty-article/th...

(Eichmann was a Nazi through and through, fiercely antisemitic, knew exactly what was going on, and liked it. He didn't just "go along with it" in the banal sense, he chose evil knowingly.)
256k is huge dude. that is like 1/2 of the average non fiction novel

i think at least 200~300 pages of PDF

im not complaining here and it also fits in GPU
I was reading the part about making employees sign a declaration about taking responsibility for their work and thought that was pure genius. Sounds like managers should also sign something like that.
The Culture series is some of the best scifi I've ever read - and indeed, very hopeful and optimistic. Thanks for the other recommendations!
Is anyone else surprised at the straightforward collections implementations? From reading this site (and leetcode interviews) I expected to find advanced data structures under the hood. This is not a negative comment, I'm pro Mojo, just wondering who the heck is using the fancy stuff we get quizzed on in interviews if not stdlib devs.
Do you have inside industry knowledge here?

I’m in an adjacent industry, with less risk of death or commercial loss, and the compressor backups only output to SCADA. The pressure regulation is all relay based and the on switch is a manual secondary contactor.
I agree with the core idea, avoid saving info so you can't ever leak it. I personally think our legal framework should be based on consequences to encourage this mentality more. If you are hacked I don't care even a little that you did everything right, I just care that my information got taken. You should be held liable even if you did what the industry thought was right.
At Roll20 we just released a beta version of our new VTT engine which is powered by Babylon. The devs on the team have really enjoyed getting to use the modern workflow compared to the legacy decade-old stuff we were using before. Thanks Babylon devs!
Funnily enough if SBF hadn't been found out the investments probably would have recovered enough to cover the deposits and he'd still be a hero.
Probing lunar seismology with fiber optic cables
Scientists are perplexed that seismometers placed on the Moon during the Apollo missions revealed seismic activities on the planet's near side, but there's silence prevailing on the far side.
It’s a scandal engine that occasionally delivers mail. No accountability, no repercussions.
Or it could be a bug in the printing, there have been cases before where things were accidentally duplicated that shouldn't have been.

https://www.mycurrencycollection.com/blog/1-2013-new-york-du...
Right so you’re saying Vienna’s approached worked but we would have to change things to make it work for us. That is exactly what I am saying too.

I’m also saying that it could be worth considerable effort to try to make those changes, because the reward is a much better system.

For example we might introduce bills now that help stabilize (reduce) housing prices by limiting large scale corporate speculation on housing, such as these two bills [below] introduced into congress. With cheaper housing available, the need for social housing goes down and so does the cost to build it, dramatically lowering the total cost to implement.

https://projects.propublica.org/represent/bills/117/hr9246

https://projects.propublica.org/represent/bills/117/s5151

> everyone would be screaming communism

Yes and part of what I’m saying is that we might want to stop doing that and think about what is actually going to fix our problems, even if gasp the government is involved. Nobody can afford housing and our planes are falling out of the sky and we’re having a cold-war political debate while every other major country offers cheaper medical care and education.
I don’t think the article really answers this. All these decisions you’ve made to not store data are decisions that you could unmake.

To put it concretely: if everyone at Matter tomorrow became malevolent and wanted user data, what happens? For example, if you push an app that sends home my private text, how would I know? Could you?
Yes it is fraud, and yes it is besides the point. If people are investing their life savings they would have lost that money one way or another eventually. It's unfortunate the loss was caused by a fraudster, but if it wasn't SBF it would have been someone else.

I am not saying this is an either-or, I am saying that fraudsters like SBF should be thrown in jail and left to rot and people should be taught better how to handle their money.

Yes deposits made with banks still carry risks, but you know what? Most banks are backed by the government (or at least they are in the US, I assume similar setups exist in other countries), meaning depositors generally will not lose their deposits even if the bank loses money. The failure of Silicon Valley Bank is a recent demonstration of those safeguards for peoples' savings at work.

Savings are, literally, savings. You should not be spending your savings, much less your life savings, on something as frivolous as investments which are all fundamentally gambling. Investment monies should come from your spending money, money you don't mind losing. If you are investing your savings, you are investing wrong and you need help from a proper, good accountant.
Disclosure liability insurance, low premiums if there was nothing to leak.

Of course, that assumes a different world where companies actually pay for screwing up in the first place.
im so used to seeing AGPLv3

apache 2 is a more generous license
>There's nothing immoral about stealing to eat.

Of course there is - being mugged(or having stuff stolen from you) can ruin your life, not even in any physical sense but psychologically it can be devastating. I've had a bike stolen from my house, I didn't even witness it being stolen or anything, just one morning I woke up and the house was broken into and my bike gone - relatively minor financial inconvenience in the grand scheme of things, but for the next 2 years I hated living in that place, I was uncomfortable in my own house and scared of walking around, I honestly felt violated in the sanctum of my own home and couldn't get relaxed around there again. Eventually we moved and in the large portion it was exactly because of that.

So please tell me, even assuming if that person stole my bike to buy bread - how can it possibly have been moral given the impact it had on the life of another person?
Bosnia and eastern and most of europe in general is certainly not cash-less nor do most people desire that
> Most of the world shouldn't be writing services that saturate their network links

Very strange hill to die on, and feels like a side attack towards a point that you chose to ignore: namely that classic multi-threading is fragile and does not scale well. Doing the async/await thing is objectively better. I get why people don't want to admit that they invested so much in something and are grumpy that this skill is now not as needed -- I was one of them in fact, I am coming from C pthreads and Java after -- but being a curmudgeon and trying to do a torpedo attack on a discussion about multi-threading vs. async/await is something that I can't endorse.

> "why is this a thing you think you need?" And then to either inline the service or employ horizontal scaling strategies instead of trying to stuff more cycles onto one network card.

Very often false, having stuff being only on one machine with 1-2 hot backups and a load balancer is the lowest maintenance I've done on systems for all of my 22 years of career. Feel free to disagree but (1) most programmers will never work on the scale of AWS and Facebook and (2) horizontal scaling / distribution comes with many, many new failure modes.

KISS is an art that is being forgotten, it seems.
The Great Rebus Craze of 1937
[dupe]

More discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39840286
> You don’t create a more efficient system by adding layers of inefficiency.

We care quite a lot about the form energy takes not just absolute quantities. $4 gets you ~200/kWh from solar enough to drive ~800 miles, or enough premium gas that to send an equivalent car less than 1/10th as far. Similarly, people happily pay 30c/kWh for 300kW fast charging because waiting around is it's own cost.

In comparison with bio fuels, green hydrogen is wildly energy negative wasting ~80% of input energy and you need to completely redesign all passenger aircraft.
These guys can't get anything right. I'd assume by default that their software is broken.
Figuring out the right amount of endowment is quite difficult, but you certainly need a LOT to get the outcomes like PARC. Are you running it off interest or burning down the pot? Also possible that we are simply in a different techno-economic and scientific moment than those researchers were (ie it was cheaper for them).

Also once you start framing it as investment or a biz decision in a big public company, the natural question is whether it's the best use of capital for Apple. It's not really about short vs longterm thinking either, it's about the deployment with the highest likelihood to return on any timeframe.
Is that address correct?
Given that we are now entering another crypto hype cycle and blockchain technology, discussions often veer towards crypto and the allure of embedded tokens. I’m going to stick to the realty and opportunity: utilizing blockchain in fixed income finance.

Having spent two decades navigating the complexities of Wall Street, I know the critical problem plaguing the fixed income market: the overwhelming amount of data generated during the origination of debt instruments and the subsequent challenges in reconciliation during clearing and settlement. Night cycles, calling Bloomberg to fix security master. Calling DTCC to settle trades. Blockchain is the best technology to solve this. Only if applied correctly. Otherwise, it’s a waste.

We started with a fundamental goal: to debunk the myths and misconceptions surrounding blockchain in the securities space. Despite the pervasive FUD propagated by the media, we have now proved to regulators that securities originated on blockchain are indeed securities – not merely speculative digital assets.

At its core, we are looking to address the root cause of friction in fixed income trading: the lack of direct origination and data quality across market participants. By leveraging a permissioned network, we have proved by recording of municipal loans and securities on our blockchain. While it may not be the flashy product that garners headlines, this milestone marks a significant step forward. We also trained all of FINRA’s fixed income examiners….

Our next step is to bring brokered CDs, directly to the investors, giving them access to negotiate with the issuers. From there the goal is to extend to real-time clearing and settlement, streamlining processes and enhancing efficiency across the fixed income ecosystem.

Here's how a trade moves through our system in current state…it’s a mental journey. https://www.chicagofed.org/markets/view-lasalle-street/us-re...
> A Royal Mail spokesman says: ‘It is vital we can investigate any instance where a person believes their stamps have been incorrectly identified as counterfeit or pre-used.

> 'To do this, we require any customer who believes they have been incorrectly surcharged to send the envelope with the barcoded stamp attached to us, along with the exact location of where the stamp was purchased.

So, refusing to "investigate any instance" unless the "exact location" of purchase is known.

Inexcusable.
In that case, the causality is easy to determine. But that’s not the case with more complex systems, so it’s easier to rationalize a bias (I don’t need this expensive QA)
I think you mean to say, "An uncle once commented about a cousin of ours that he demonstrated how it's possible to screw things up so badly that you can't possibly get away with it."
You could maybe call it a technical issue or an issue of adoption but the fact is that no one is scanning Monero wallet QR codes to buy coffee.
It's really hard to recover from a downgrade in culture. I hear the same kinds of things about IBM. I'm pretty sure there are other examples.

The tough part is - it is sad.

Read about boeing and Tex Johnston:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alvin_M._Johnston#Boeing_Compa...

and IBM invented the PC:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_Personal_Computer
> Google is also a multi-national company and would need to comply with laws in other countries too. If the individuals are represented as being minors (again, changes with jurisdictions) this gets into further complications in many places.

Why is this particular example is being singled out? Calling current conflict in Ukraine "war" or "invasion" is also illegal in one particular jurisdiction. Would Google also ban me for distributing draft of a book about it via Drive? How about a fantasy novel about adventures on Winnie-the-Pooh in China?

> That share links are neither checked for age nor jurisdiction, google would be liable for knowingly distributing sexually explicit material without proper checks in place to limit consumption by minors or in jurisdictions where such content is restricted.

As far as I understood the draft was shared with particular group of people. It is not like author uploaded porn video on youtube and made it public.
It's neither good or bad.

The idea looks like a common idea anyone can come up with and implement. This is like "let's build another social network that is slightly different from the current ones".

Of course, there will be a winner emerging among the losers. The ones who are able to get funding for this kind of ideas often need to have stellar background.

Some similar examples like: Marissa Mayer's sunshine app (https://twitter.com/marissamayer/status/1772664475331473680) and paritcle (https://twitter.com/pandemona/status/1763293705136681285)
Godot editor, a desktop app, is made in Godot itself afaik
I liked “Supercommunicators” by Charles Duhigg.

It’s not quite a word-by-word guide, but the examples are captivating and there’s practical advice on how to listen and ask better questions to create a connection.

One of the things he highlights is that a communication situation usually requires both small-scale experimentation and exposing some your own vulnerabilities to discover what might be relevant to the other person in that conversation. That means there’s inherently an element of risk-taking: you can’t stick to a single safe formula each time and expect to connect.
There are real problems at Boeing and those are real issues, but let's beware of the BS that comes with the kind of widespread pile-on that's happening now.

This article reads like an Internet rant to me, with the sarcasm, hyperbole, and ridicule. Those things aren't awful in themselves (though they've become very overused and tiresome to me), but they crowd out actual facts, details, nuance, complexities. If you write 'it's the worst thing ever', you omit where and how it's bad, where it's not, the consequences, the trade-offs, etc. I don't learn what happened, how, or why, just that you are really, really, really pissed off.

Examples:

* pieces are flying off the Boeing planes actually in use at an alarming rate

* to train the workforce to properly put together a plane.

* obligatory vanity “leadership” book - note the ridicule and scare quotes.

* suppliers, many of which lacked engineering departments* -- now using fonts for emphasis

* in a perpetual state of unlearning all the lessons it had absorbed over a 90-year ascent to the pinnacle of global manufacturing

* Qatar Airways had become so disgusted ..., coincidentally matching the author's emotion

* one of the most pathetic plea bargains in the history of American justice

It's like series of Reddit comments, and the world certainly doesn't need more of that. The author's and American Prospect's quality is no better than Boeing's.
Shopify for monero is an idea being kicked around, there are also monero marketplaces for non- illegal things

Monero could be used in a store and some stores do take monero!
Its quick, with low fees
Gambling, like finance, has rules. If I start a casino, and tell everyone that the roulette is fair, and then go ahead and rig it so no one ever wins, then yea, I should be sent straight to prison.

If SBF told everyone loud and clear "hey guys you can give me money and I will use it to gamble on my favorite crypto tokens and play board games with Caroline" then I don't think he would deserve a prison sentence (but he also wouldn't get any customers). It's the deception that makes it a crime.
Not sure, but the mouse was invented at SRI.
This is a good thing, they're being honest and letting employees decide if that matters to them or not. I guarantee a lot of places have this as a 'soft' unspoken policy and just don't say it out loud.

This is good for workers and good for owners. More places should put their policies out in the open.