skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Outsourcing is lame, and unwinding outsourcing can cost you money

Apple (TSMC, Samsung), ARM (all fab), Microsoft (hardware) and NVIDIA (TSMC) each outsource critical parts of their value chains. The opposite of over-outsourcing is NBH syndrome.
AOT is currently only available in CLI apps. It's expected for WinUI 3 apps using WASDK v1.6 closer to the end of the year.
NASA delays next ISS spacewalk until end of July due to spacesuit leak issue
we'll have to see how that goes this time around. there was this brief glorious moment with pidgin and xmpp, but it did not last long. maybe this time will be different
If the PoC can be built by those with strong domain knowledge, providing the basis for a detailed spec, that seems like a win to me.
Exactly. The user base for "people who want Pipes" is likely to disproportionately want RSS as a way of generating data they can consume.
Code Comments in the Age of AI
Yeah, but the author was talking about ASCII. ASCII takes constant time.
Good engineering quality can't save a business, but the reverse isn't true, we just usually don't attribute the failure directly to the software. Instead we would say things like "the company ran out of money" - even if the underlying reason is that engineering was expensive with low velocity. Or that a disruptive competitor brought the company down, even if this could have been prevented if the architecture had permitted eg. relatively easily updating to a more modern UI.
My reading of the situation is that no - Airbus will only take factories that produce components for Airbus planes; Boeing will do the same; and the rest will be spun off.

As an example, the Northern Ireland complex will be split (something the union explicitly didn't want because it's unsuitable for it and will lead to job lesses, according to them)
After my question. Thanks.
Does Caltrans have any history of developing profitable mixed used properties around new stations, like with the MTR Corporation?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MTR_Corporation
What is 'AI washing' and why is it a problem?
Yes, but Apple has a habit of also shafting its outsources, like what they did to the UK designers back in the ipod era: as soon as chip design could make them more money they disintermediated. And now deal direct with the foundry.

ARM holdings annoys me. I wish they hadn't stopped doing fab. The potential weakness for the West dependency on TSMC worries me.
Shift left: Proactive security, embedded early in development
High quality article with some new advices.

> Read more documentation than just the bare minimum you need

I wish I practiced this before, I'd be as good and quick as some of my brilliant colleagues.
Apple's Shortcuts seems heavily inspired by the visual programming language that Scratch uses: https://support.apple.com/guide/shortcuts-mac/intro-to-how-s...
IRC ? :p
I would work on generating phishing emails based on public information I could collect about colleagues/managers. Bonus if you manage to trick the CEO. Call this an "AI-powered security audit".
Fair enough I'd say :) The concern is understandable, but I honestly think Pipes is different.

The operations Pipes can do are at the same time very generic and very targeted. It's stuff like "Download this url" and "Filter this feed for that word", and it gives you a selection of blocks like extract and insert with which you can manipulate the data in the pipe (or the feed, depending how you look at it) a bit more freely. There is surprisingly a lot that can be done with that, especially with a replace block that supports regex, but it's not a deep abstraction layer above things that are not mappable to rather small operations.
> its private equity owners

Spirit is a public company [1].

[1] https://finance.yahoo.com/quote/SPR/key-statistics/
Basic hygiene practices often mitigate such infections. I wonder what is being neglected here? Without further data on the demographics and lifestyle of those infected, its hard to make any conclusions.
What if you have to make the actual choice of paying them what can be afforded ir not paying at all?
The people who made the dumb mistake that led to the Alaska Airlines blowout that could have been deadly quite easily were all union members. They worked around the system, removed bolts, did some work, forgot to put back bolts in. (I say they because Boeing, negligently, has no records of who did what, so the whole team of 20 people is responsible).

The main theme for Boeing in the past few decades has been lowering costs. Be it by forcing the hands of unions to lower salaries and benefits, or moving production to non-union places (787s in South Carolina), or offloading as much design and manufacturing work to subcontractors as possible, spinning off "unrelated" business such as manufacturing. Most of those were absolute disasters.
trust but verify translates to trust no one but don't be a dick about it
> potential weakness for the West dependency on TSMC worries me

TSMC, in turn, outsources the entire front end of its value chain to its customers.

There is nothing wrong with outsourcing. Boeing is just bad at supply chain management.
Airplanes were developed almost as soon as piston engines became available. Steam engines were too heavy for a plane. And even the early piston engine had a bad power/weight ratio. For french speakers, there is a video of a retired Dassault plane designer where he mentions (among other things) that developments in plane design basically followed developments in engines.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lu4V9zn0wZ4

Also highly recommend his previous video about the design of the Rafale, it's basically a lecture in plane aerodynamics.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XrpsptSLt90
Two experienced Go devs tackle the same task, and their code will look almost identical.

Two experienced Rust devs tackle the same task, and their solutions will be worlds apart.

(I write both, but I do love Go for its simpleness)
worktrees are pretty great but they make some things a bit more complicated conceptually compared to just checking out two copies for some people
All sorts of things break in odd ways, because Apple doesn't really test for this and all the APIs die. TCC is definitely hosed, I've heard of things like Chrome crashes and ADB failing to connect, etc. You really don't want to do this.
I only read HN via RSS, and it is one of around two hundred feeds I filter, summarize and read every morning…
Yes, in MacOS.

https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/393689/how-to-stop...

99.5% of users aren’t developers and will not attempt to modify anything.
Thank you for highlighting that, much appreciated.
They eating pelmeni - the most tasteful dumplings if you consider just salt, black pepper and onions are available. It's in the special shape of the dumplings. Chinese jiaozi taste different even when using same ingredients. Just mine 2 cents :)
> which is to say that these are companies that are, in essence, controlled by the US Government

Shanahan was in government for two years under a different administration, after 31 years at Boeing, and then returned to the private sector at the helm of a publicly-traded company. Nothing about this screams “controlled by the U.S. government.”
To me, it's rather a postcondition instead of precondition.

Trust that a person will do the right thing, but verify that the right thing has actually been done.
Ukraine's 'people's satellite' wreaks havoc on Russian targets
No, I collect all the items, save them to SQLite, and then batch them to Azure Open AI, generating a summary feed where each item is a set of summaries grouped by topic. One feed turns into 2-3 items a day in 8 hour windows.
Leonardo Da Vinci lacked good propulsion. But otherwise people have been toying with replicas of his designs and getting them to fly. Compact, petrol engines did not emerge until late 19th century. And they weren't very light. So, that was indeed a factor. Putting a steam engine on a plane was not going to fly.

Though, they might have invented some kind of functional glider and used a steam powered winch. But, I'm guessing the aero-dynamics weren't that widely understood yet. And making stiff lightweight air-frames also took some time to happen. The contraption that the Wright brothers flew was a bit flimsy. And it barely flew. It was more of a proof of concept. Things like thermals and other updrafts that make gliders work weren't that well studied probably.
Apple TV+ Turns 'Neuromancer' into a Series
C++20 for the Flight Software – language study and coding guidelines
Tested Geany Editor on Windows the other day, it uses GTK, great editor but horribly slow on Windows, just scrolling a small file (less than 100 lines) was sluggish.
Definitely a personal favorite for me to. Excelled introduction to MCMC methods, lots and lots of python programs and nicely filmed against a green screen.
I can't judge the economic impact of that for you. But with a service like this, it's just so easy to do that you might want to prioritize it :) If your model is pull based, you create a second endpoint that puts the data you'd normally output directly (otionally minus the JSON dressing) into the content field of RSS items. If it's push based, you could even write into an XML file on your server somewhere and let users access that. In the end, RSS is just some XML dressing around your data, and can be as easily implemented as a html template. Storing your old data (a RSS feed should not contain only one item) might be the biggest hurdle, if you don't do that already.

Or you just send your users to Pipes, they could use a download and "build feed" block to create a feed on their own ;)

Edit: Though I noticed that the endpoint of your loops can be specific actions, like a text message, that wouldn't translate of course. More a "put it into the feed" target action then.
> two companies making water cooled beds

Sleep Number aren't water cooled I don't think.
If it were, why wouldn't it promote longevity
Or another shot fired against the prevailing theories of galaxy formation. You cannot discern which one it is just from this.
Having witnessed faang in operation over the past few decades, I hold little to no hope for this. Even after they are dragged unwillingly into interop, the only guarantee is that they will find new and incentive circumvents in ways not yet considered.
> Let's face it, doing basically anything in the form factor of a smartphone just sucks

That’s just your opinion, and I’m pretty sure tens of millions of people disagree with it. There are tons of things that I prefer doing on my smartphone compared to my laptop or TV.
Was going to mention this :-)
This is actually the best case scenario: putting in some effort to find the root cause, having maybe a bit of luck and actually finding it, and then making a minimal change to fix it (hopefully) once and for all. Much better than the typical back-and-forth trial-and-error "I changed something, see if it works now" - which I suspect are much more common in the real world (especially if the reporter is a different person than the one fixing it), but are nothing worth blogging about...
yes, the image of that lone penguin setting off to the horizon with (what i read as) resolution had stuck on my mind. perhaps i was seeing too much of myself in it (and i think many others do too).
Denmark has had this for years. The code is 3 lines, each with 4 alfadigits. The code is valid for 180 days.
I don't think people take it to improve longevity. I take it because I have periods of times when I can't eat well enough and I can feel myself getting sluggish. Multivitamin actually help me feeling a little better in those periods (it may be a placebo but I would prefer a test on that specifically instead of longevity)
Yes you can. People vastly underestimate their bodies.
While most of them fly just fine, the economics need still to be proven.
Is there ar particular reason why VSCode does does not perform at these refactoring features? Has it something to do with the underlying technology or did nobody implement it properly yet?
TSMC‘s machines can build any kind of chip, once the masks are there, they have many customers and operate in highly competitive market where you can’t afford to fuck up and you can switch to a competitor more easily.

Spirit cannot easily build any airplane part, and it has very few customers and with very low levels of competition, so they can afford to be bad at their job because it is hard to switch suppliers.

The cases aren’t comparable.
Appreciate your answer!
Startup unveils ' largest aircraft' with out-of-the-box design
I see these $miniscule microcontrollers are being more or less the end of the road for ASIC's, apart from those that have high performance requirements.

Like you say - with 1kb "rom" and 48 whole bytes of ram you can make a TV remote, or the thing that debounces a switch, maybe something that decodes SP/DIF, control a battery charger, drive a vape ... all sorts of edge 'tasks' can become just one SKU and a couple of hundred bytes of code. Wild.
Well, what Lilium is flying is a demonstrator, not a prototype. The difference is that a prototype is close to the final product and test flights can be used in the early phases of the certification path, demonstrator flights cannot. Or to put harsher: all Lillium has is two model aircraft that have close to nothing in common with the 7 seater they are selling.

And one could call it a scam, when tuh product you sell has nothing to do with the product you show (and no, mock-ups at airshows don't count at all), and the product you sell has, so far, no clear timeline until certification. The aerospace version of vaporware. Whether or not it amounts to an actual scam woupd be for courts to decide. Right now it looks a lot like Nikola, without the option to use a hill to fake the product demo.

As a sidenote regarding test flights: last time I checked, those were unmanned, with a demonstrator and not a prototype and no longer than 6 minutes. Which is as far from what serious people in the field call a test flight of it could be. Good for PR and investors so, it looks cool.

Also, one can make everything fly, if you put enough thrust to it. Doesn't mean you have product that can sustain a business.
Did you have anything in mind? I must say, "we added LLMs to LLVM" is a scenario that fills me with horror.
isn't the US full of unhealthy food that is "fortified with vitamins" to distract from the fact that it is unhealthy?
> They closed the source, very suddenly.

I'm very surprised that there aren't any projects based on the last available open-source version. This sort of thing usually happens when the company behind an open-source project that has a large community does something stupid to the project. Mapbox is one such example.
Nerve (Ryan Novel)
Not cancer. Because it's, again, not the nicotine that causes the cancer. Snus does NOT increase cancer risk.

It decreases cavities by a lot (presumably because the bacteria doesn't like the environment anymore), but also destroys your gums. All in all, depending on your dosage it could be a wash or even positive for your oral health.

It's absolutely disgusting, but it's not dangerous :P
There is also furnace[0] and mmlgui[1]. Which are recently developed programs that people have been using to create chiptune music for retro video game consoles. Including being used by Yuzo Koshiro[2].

[0] https://github.com/tildearrow/furnace

[1] https://github.com/superctr/mmlgui

[2] https://x.com/yuzokoshiro/status/1800554520256360794
I think all your other examples are healthier because each step has multiple customers. The Boeing/Spirit arrangement looks more like an accounting gimmick than actual outsourcing.
Besides from the impact of bacteria on entrepreneurship, the behavior of exploring/foraging bees[2], I think the most likely reason is actually losing one or more senses and relying on other senses which happen to lead you to travel in straight lines (e.g. magnetic) - just as moths use the Moon to travel very far in a straight line. Why these journeys begin and end is another question. Serotonin and dopamine might be involved.

[1] https://hbr.org/2022/07/a-common-parasite-can-make-people-mo...

[2] https://theconversation.com/some-bees-are-born-curious-while...
Show HN: I outsourced my child's bedtime stories to AI (Don't Judge Me)
Hey folks,

I made this app for my child and nephews, they really enjoy it and I thought some of you might find it useful.

It started because I was struggling with bedtime stories for my kid. You know how it is, fried brain after 8 hours work, complete lack of imagination, and there I am repeating the same horrible story over and over again.

In the app, you specify a few things like your kids age, a plot, characters and a place, if there's a message you would like to convey (sometimes i've no idea how to touch certain topics) and it will generate a story with images and optional narration based on those parameters.

I've been dogfooding it for a couple months now, and it's been pretty helpful and engaging. Thought maybe other tired parents out there might want to give it a shot too.

It's not perfect, and it's definitely not meant to replace actual parenting. Just a little assist when imagination runs out.

If you're curious, feel free to check it out. I'd love your feedback and if you have any thoughts on how to make it better, let me know!

Thanks for taking a look!
Something that strikes me about this model is that it's bottom up - sensory data feeds in in its entirety, the action centre processes everything, makes a decision, sends a command to the motor centre.

There's a theory that real brains subvert this, and what we perceive is actually our internal model of our self/environment. The only data that makes it through from our sense organs is the difference between the two.

This kind of top-down processing is more efficient energy-wise but I wonder if it's deeper than that? You can view perception and action as two sides of the same coin - both are ways to modify your internal model to better fit the sensory signals you expect.

Anyway, I guess the point I'm making is you should be careful which way you point your arrows, and of designating a single aspect of a mind (the action centre) as fundamental. Reality might work very differently, and that maybe says something? I don't know haha.
You thought your work life will be an exciting adventure. This is misguided expectation, as it only happens for a very small minority of people, most of whom are privileged (born in advanced countries, very talented and hard-working, having a LOT of luck to end up in a spot which is genuinely satisfying). I think you need to go through the grieving process that will end up with acceptance that your life will not end up being what you had hoped, and then find a new purpose, other than work and career.
> Failing tests indicate the presence of bugs, but passing tests do not promise their absence.

If only :)

Far too often I find myself working with tests that patch one too many implementation details, putting me in a refactoring pickle
> Spirit cannot easily build any airplane part, and it has very few customers and with very low levels of competition

The first two factors should increase Boeing’s leverage.

> cases aren’t comparable

Of course they are. They’re all examples of outsourcing. The conclusion is outsourcing isn’t bad per se.
Hehe, I was also tricked into thinking it's an 8051-compatible :-)
You will have to supply something to back up such a wild statement. Nicotine has been shown to be extremely addictive all the way from humans down to single neurons in a petri dish, for decades.
Yacine's LLM Nvim Scripts
Yeah, that makes the most sense. Take supplements if and when you need it. I think the real study would be if someone did trended vitamin deficiency data from all the subjects and then co-related the intake (for deficient persons) with health outcomes.
There’s more production systems on this planet running on a single node than ones running in a distributed setup. And SQLite is a rock solid database, deployed in more places than Postgres. The only thing here that could be taken when weighing production readiness would be the maturity and stability of this project itself.
No, it's field-programmable. But you can only do it once.
tl;dr

"We stress-tested our university’s examination system against AI cheating in a controlled experiment,” at the School of Psychology and Clinical Language Sciences.

His team created over 30 fake psychology student accounts and used them to submit ChatGPT-4-produced answers to examination questions in five undergraduate modules, covering classes needed during all three years of study for a bachelor’s degree in psychology. The assignments were either 200-word answers to short questions or more elaborate essays, roughly 1,500 words long.

Shorter submissions were prepared simply by copy-pasting the examination questions into ChatGPT-4 along with a prompt to keep the answer under 160 words. The essays were solicited the same way, but the required word count was increased to 2,000. Setting the limits this way, Scarfe’s team could get ChatGPT-4 to produce content close enough to the required length.

Even with no editing or efforts to hide the AI usage, 94 percent of those went undetected, and nearly 84 percent got better grades (roughly half a grade better) than a randomly selected group of students who took the same exam.

“We did a series of debriefing meetings with people marking those exams and they were quite surprised,” says Scarfe. Part of the reason they were surprised was that most of those AI submissions that were detected did not end up flagged because they were too repetitive or robotic—they got flagged because they were too good.
kinda related but does anyone know anything similar to yql, in the sense that you can query everything using the same syntax?
One of Hong Kong's "exports" is its subway system. The MTR is the corporation behind several cities' subway systems (Stockholm, Beijing, Macau, Shenzen, Sydney, Melbourne, and more), , so snark aside, its not an idea to be rejected out of hand. I hear great things about the on time performance of Japanese trains.
I'm more interested in finding out if multivitamins improve quality of life and reduce instances of disease. You can have both and not have an increase in longevity. For me, I feel as if I need multivitamin I take daily or I don't feel as well mentally or physically.
Once I had this vision in a strong ayahuasca trip...
I met "Mother Nature", but it wasn't the feminine caring image you'd think of. It was an unstoppable force of life that did not had any caring of right or wrong. It only wanted to create more life. It had more a feeling of millions of beings crawling over each other, like a beehive or ants nests. Just devouring everything with "life".

Like a "Squiggle Maximizer" with a vengeance and attitude. It was awesome, but made me seriously reconsider the "sacredness" of life.
What does Super PAC spending have to do with what the ruling was “about?”

The logic used and the wording of the ruling are what are important in SCOTUS decisions. The impact is what matters and the impact was a massive rise in spending by billionaires. It is a well known phenomenon that spending matters in campaigns and allowing a few people to control an outsized amount of that spending is what Citizens United paved the way for.
> In reality, the bank does not just store the money we deposit. It loans away/invests most of the money that people deposit. Our money does not sit idle in a large pile in a vault.

Nope. In reality the money doesn't exist. Amazing how many people think that somewhere a cartload of money is physically moving every month when they get paid. When was the last time you deposited anything in a bank? The abstraction is even higher than that. It's just numbers in a computer system. The abstractions work because banks are "too big to fail".
Nothing preventing you from building a versioned configuration system using a database or similar, especially if you build tools to actually change the configuration rather than hand editing text files.