skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"Boeing" is not a cause. Things like their safety culture can be a cause, or lack of good process control can be a cause. The reason why Boeing is catching a lot of flack is because they deviated substantially from best practices. This is related to your other comment so I'll just respond here.

There is a general hierarchy when it comes to controlling hazards (remember, Boeing already identified MCAS as hazardous): remove the hazard, engineering controls, administrative controls, and PPE. We can apply a little thought experiment to see the gaps in what you're advocating when it comes to the MCAS issue. (Admittedly, this is contrived to just illustrate the point within the confines of a forum reply).

1) Remove the hazard: They could have redesigned the airframe to adjust the center-of-gravity to remove the stall issue that MCAS was developed in the first place. Why didn't Boeing do this? Because of cost and schedule pressure to have a new plane ready, after threats that American Airlines would take their business elsewhere.

2) Engineering controls: MCAS was an engineering control, but an incomplete one. Because MCAS was listed as "hazardous" in the hazard analysis it required redundant sensors. Why didn't they put on redundant sensors as the default? I can only speculate, but considering they were sold as optional, profit motive seems likely. (This also ignores the fact that MCAS should have been categorized as 'catastrophic' meaning they didn't fully understand the impacts of their system)

3) Administative controls: this was the training piece that you're hanging your hat on. This has multiple problems. For one, even though MCAS changed the handling dynamics of the airframe, Boeing pushed hard to reuse the same certification to avoid additional pilot training. Again, this was a business decision to make the airframe more competitive. Secondly, administrative controls are an inherently weak because of human factors. There's a lot that can go wrong if your plan is to have humans follow an administatrive procedure. You claim "it's not hard". Sorry, this is just a bad mindset. Usually when I hear people say things like "it's not hard" or "all you've gotta do" when they're talking about complex systems, it indicates they take an overly simplified mental model. In this case, you may be ignoring the chaos in the cockpit, the fact that the plane has handling characteristics different from what the pilots were trained on, human factors related to stab trim force at speed, conflicting or confusing information (like why the MCAS comes on at changing timeframes, time criticality, etc. Having adminstrative controls as your main mitigation is bad practice, and setting the system up for failure.

4) PPE: this isn't particularly relevant to this case, but a silly example of PPE control is giving everyone parachutes and helmets in case things went south.

You can obviously see PPE is an absurd control. But your main point is that the main control should be administrative, which is the next worst option. Boeing ignored good safety practice to pursue profit. So they probably deserve some of the heat they are getting.
I presume the only people you're hurting by downloading gigabytes of docs are the people on the plain that paid for the service. Maybe the company providing the service because those people experiencing the slow connection might never buy again. You're probably a also costing stripe for their upload bandwidth.

And here I am, avoiding downloading things on cell service because it might negatively impact other people around me.
> The only one who is confused here is you. You're trying to make it sound like this is somehow a big issue or a dealbreaker, when in fact pretty much no one who does actual work with these programs cares

Seriously? You don't feel it's ridiculous to say this when just above I posted links to people begging for this feature on the forums since at least 2017?

> You can hate on one application or another

I'm not hating on it - if I hated Affinity I wouldn't even be wasting my time to point it out. I love Affinity and want it to succeed, hence all this.
The foresting practices were among the first things i noticed flying to Tallinn. Instead of carefully picking trees to harvest selectively from a wider forest area as i am used to in most of Germany, there seems to be whole football fields of forest just cut down completely and then regrown as a whole in a plantation like fashion similar to how crops are grown. I am not an expert by any means but i thought this practice was being phased out since the late 70s for environmental, resilience and biodiversiuty reasons. I feel as described by the article as being an expat living here and benefitting hugely from the life enabled by estonia and feeling nothing but welcome it is not my place to criticise, but i would support any initiative helping transformation into modern tree/forest planning.
I don't think bait cars would constitute entrapment unless the police were directly telling the thief to go steal a car.
Torontos police budget is over 1 Billion :) look what you get for that money? They bought a couple more helicopters though!
Like the Radxa one? With samples being sent out, hopefully not too much longer.

https://bret.dk/radxa-rock-5-itx-first-look/
I loaned my kindle keyboard to a coworker for a trip and it was stolen from them in mexico. The joke was at the time it was probably the oldest working kindle possible, so I assume the thief just took whatever was in the bag.

Later I found another kindle keyboard for $20 in a flea market but it only worked for 6 months before the battery died. I still have the body around - I wonder how much it would cost to get a replacement battery.
Instacart's AI-powered smart carts are coming to more U.S. grocery stores
Friction or cold/vacuum welding at that point?
>but that input water is mostly embodied in their feed, not their drinking water.

So? The feed doesn't magically appear. It requires water. That's the entire point.
This subthread assumes that the blog is popularizing math concepts. If so, why can he not be bothered to write:

Let P be a set of programs that print all possible answers to the proposition P==NP . In this case, the possible answers are {"true", "false", "undecidable in ZFC"}. Then there trivially exists a program that can print the true answer to the proposition.

Everyone understands this. The amount of support he is getting here for the poor presentation is astonishing.
> The Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry has quite a bit of power, and there’s an obvious conflict of interests in having the double portfolio of both protecting natural land and exploiting it economically.

When writing the article, multiple people I spoke to said the same think about the RMK here in Estonia. I believe preservation and exploitation should be separated.

> they have never seen real, ecologically diverse woodland with ongoing natural succession.

Yes! And even I have only rarely. It only happens with time and care (often, to make it faster in terms of restoration of forests, specific caretaking/treekeeping actions) though. And the time is decades to centuries.
Reporting? Surely overtly criminal activity is beyond reporting to airbnb.
If you can ssh to the remote, you can simply use Emacs (dired and trump). I suppose the advantage here is that once you turn a machine into a file server you can access it from other devices.
No plans. That said, independently I have been thinking about this quite a bit since Deno has demonstrated that there is interest in stuff like that. Unfortunately to make that work in Python would require significant changes to Python itself.
This is neither prescient nor particularly insightful. Private equity metrics have been down for a while: fundraising down 20% since 2022, distributions down 11%, deal value and count down 60% and 35% respectively, exit value down 24% YoY.

PE is fueled by interest rates, and the entire thesis has flipped from revenue/growth to EBITDA. The shift is exposing some dogs: both PortCos that can't hide fundamental business model issues behind cheap capital and PE firms that can't lead operations and financing in a new environment. The correction is well underway.
Careful, there may be 2nd order effects there.

And that's also a "maybe" -- ruling could go the other way and get even worse.
"The company, through its representative, was supposed to comply with a court order to quantify how many complaints or reports had been made to Airbnb by people who had been recorded by surveillance devices since December 1, 2013.

The Airbnb representative came to the table with a number. Her testimony revealed the company generated 35,000 customer support tickets about surveillance devices in the preceding decade."

That works out as a roughly ten support tickets /per day/ about surveillance devices over the last ten years! (EDIT: that's not a very useful statistic since we don't know how their overall usage grew over that ten year period)

For full context, the next paragraph reads:

"In the deposition, the Airbnb representative sought to downplay the significance of the number of tickets, testifying they could reflect instances such as a malfunctioning doorbell camera or a tablet with recording capabilities left out on a coffee table. The representative did not provide any statistics detailing the number of claims she suggested were innocuous among the 35,000 tickets."
> car manufacturers have made cars far, far harder to steal than they used to be.

Literally, just watched a video of a bunch of kids breaking into a Kia and driving off with it with nothing more than a screwdriver and USB key. And the USB key wasn't being used how you think. It could have been a chunk of wood. But in this day and age a USB key is easier to find.
If true, that's really great that it's contributing to math! I'd heard a lot of negative things about String theory in that it was a waste of time for everyone involved and resources used as well. Contribution to theoretical math is well worth it, in my opinion (I confess I might be biased).
except Southwest is easily the most expensive carrier these days and other carriers have also adopted flexibility

hopefully their new changes such as allowing their fares to be indexed will make them close to being competitive at some point. but today you really only get near-competitiveness (it's still bad) if you're going to check both pieces of luggage and have no way of getting free luggage on any other carrier.

even buying and throwing away tickets, depending on your probability of travel, might pay for itself in one trip.
Umm, "people and slaves"? Do you really consider slaves to not be people?

Also, originally Iceland was uninhabited. The Norse created a colony there of - as you put it - "people and slaves". That equivalent history surely does not affect the legal status of the descendants of those people now living in Iceland. Why should it affect the people now living in the BIOT?
Only in the US, due to lax regulations.

(and greed on behalf of the manufacturer)
If this is true-- I have no idea!-- and you are young and working this is great news. A crash is a good opportunity too.
These are usually powerful and organized criminal gangs. They are not small time, put-food-on-table-because-it’s-the-only-way.

If you interact with criminals, they are not the ‘noble poor,’ they are predatory and see their victims as deserving. And often they hurt the other low income people around them.
Not sure where you're from originally, but crime rates have been historically pretty damned low here. The kind of street level routine enforcement that people might be used to in American cities hasn't typically been a thing.

Now... since COVID, hyper inflation in housing prices + opiate epidemic, this has changed. At least here in Hamilton which has always been a bit rougher, but not directly "unsafe" -- now I don't feel very safe downtown.

Though most of the crime seems either petty or internal conflicts, and not a lot of violent crime against strangers.

Car theft, yep. A bit mental.
Deforestation has gone wrong many times in human history, from early to current. Tree logging has the same issues all other types of farming has, soil erosion, chancing of biotopes, disrupting runoff etc. The bigger the scale the worse consequences of tree farming are. The mono-culture of tree farming is closer to a parking lot than it is to nature.
ive seen nestjs partnered with vue but never really tried it.
This is solvable too.

If an ad is 'annoying' and makes a customer install an adblock or stop using a website, then the website should be compensated for all the future lost revenue.

Thats easy for an ad exchange or publisher to enforce by simply subtracting a factor from all bids from an advertiser to 'pay' for the chance of future loss of revenue caused by said annoyance. That factor would be decided based on data of past customers who stopped using a site or installed an adblocker.

There are plenty of other similar factors already in use - they're typically aggregated into a "quality factor". They also encompass ads which make a promise but don't deliver ("Everyone wins an iphone!"), or otherwise generally leave the user unhappy (which, in aggregate is quite easy to estimate using bounce rate, dwell time, conversion rate, etc)
yes, its a redesign, that's all it is, a proof of concept, it isn't supposed to actually fetch data, I don't have access to the API
If you don't have a patent on an invention then how do you protect it from people who will just steal what you have spent time/money creating?
It isn't supposed to actually fetch data, I don't have access to the API
> That works out as a roughly ten support tickets /per day/ about surveillance devices over the last ten years!

What is that percentage wise from booking numbers?
Actually, the leaderboard says "family" beats "love". So there you go.
It's fun to think about the theoretical maximum in a multi-link scenario. One thing that pops out of the analysis -- there are diminishing returns to capacity from adding more links. Which means at some point an additional link can begin to reduce capacity as it starts to eat more into maintenance and uptime budget than it offers in capacity.
This city is totally out of control and needs a lot of help. I don't know how it got so out of control, but nobody seems to be in control of setting a tone and tenor here. I've had worse things happen to me and seen worse things happening on the street than I ever, ever saw in SF, and that's saying something.
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It's not a driver or hardware issue. Please concentrate more closely on the problem as I describe it, not as you believe it to be.

It happens with many different kinds of monitors, with many different kinds of docking stations, and 3 different laptops. I started encountering the problem on Windows 10, and continue to encounter the problem on Windows 11.

I'm pretty sure it has something to do with the fact that I change a lot of the taskbar's defaults. It's probably a setting that most Microsoft Windows engineers don't use, and an unusual enough corner case that either Microsoft Windows engineers haven't seen it, or are aware of the issue but haven't prioritized it.

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BTW: A lot of Explorer problems are not hardware related. Many software packages install Explorer plugins that crash Explorer or make it unresponsive. Ever have the right-click menu take forever to display? That's most likely a 3rd party plugin blocked on a network or filesystem call.

(I shipped a plugin and took care to architect the application so it wouldn't block Explorer.)
Why would they need to have free housing in SF? We can provide free housing say, a couple hous away. The problem with that is that many of them will have a social net in SF which they will need on their road to recovery, so we can just run school buses to and from SF/BART a couple times a day. I'm thinking of something like a cheaper, open-air mental institution with some privacy, and without people being stripped of their freedom as a rule, which would be a good guard against the abuse, and with a lower threshold such that people would be able to work for an income and to help run the facilities, and a high degree of separation between residents on the basis of stability and danger.

As far as mentally ill outsiders, you can initially restrict it to people who have some sort of history in California, and anyways many mentally ill homeless people come to California even if just for the weather.

Dealing with people who just want an appartment wouldn't be too difficult, on top of the psychiatric evaluation, you can charge for the apartments on basis of income - it would be free for homeless people, and for people making a decent SF wage, it would be more expensive than an appartment at a similar distance, with some kind of grace period for people who recently saw their income increase and were already living there. I strongly doubt that people would want to live in a village for people with extreme mental illness for a minor monetary advantage.
Agreed! About 5 or 6 years ago I wrote a library to demonstrate to my teams that JSX a) was not magic b) not limited to React. After that was done I became a little obsessed with making the library the fastest JSX renderer - which I think is still true: https://github.com/i-like-robots/hyperons
Something that was sustainable when heating few hundred million people won't necessarily be sustainable when heating a few billion.
Last time I checked you can't irrigate with salt water and the process of desalination is expensive at scale. I don't know how much fresh water their climate has, but it's definitely not "limitless"
> Lots of aircraft carriers have been sunk

Not a single aircraft carrier has been sunk in combat.
Ooh nice, that's new. Thanks!

EDIT: I want to buy, can't find a way :-)
TL;DR actually delivering serious quantities of bits to clients globally is kinda hard and costs real money.

The just-rent-servers scheme presents the following issues:

1) Won’t get you anywhere near as good a network of globally-distributed servers. [edit] I mean, maybe, but at that point you’re looking at a fair amount of cost in vendor management—you’ll probably need several hosting providers to even approach it.

2) You need minimum three good full-time ops people to build and support such a thing. What’s the salary on that over two years? Even with Polish salaries or what have you, it’s cheaper, but not cheap. Let’s say $300,000 fully-loaded cost over two years, just for a nice round number, for three ops/sysadmin sorts. Even in cheaper markets, that may be underestimating what it’d take. Halfway there already, and you haven’t rented servers or rack space yet. I’m not gonna claim that your infra will also work far less well and break more often than Cloudflare, because sometimes these sorts of set-ups do end up being rather stable because they can be far simpler and smaller-scale than an as-a-service product, but that is a risk if it’s not done quite well.

3) Server providers may drop you if you get too expensive. Get DDOS’d too much, just use their bandwidth too heavily but within your nominal limits. It’s a risk.

4) Those rented servers do cost money, and add to the operations salaries costs above. Buy servers? Also money, and now you need to rent rack space and bandwidth.

5) Peering agreements for server hosts are sometimes bad. It’s hard to know whether yours is bad until you do something at-scale on it and see support tickets roll in for consistently dial-up speeds for clients who really ought to be seeing better than that. This info doesn’t make service comparison spec sheets.

6) CDNs have usually put in some effort to solve e.g. China deliverability. You’re starting from scratch as far as political difficulties go.
You are right about it being trivial to solve but what you may be unaware of is solving this problem is exactly not what Canada, California, Maryland, etc states want to solve. Arrests would imply oppression. The idea is the only reason people are stealing cars is because the price of new cars of gone up and all car thieves are just Aladdin trying to feed their families. Even the notion of ownership is questioned in these municipalities.

Also, the proponents of these positions will disagree, incorrectly, with you that threat of punishment has any effect on crime. Even the so-called prosecutors seek to not prosecute criminals or even seek “non-carceral forms of punishment” even for crimes like murder.
Well, I (OP) was trying to avoid the political IQ assignment shenanigans as that would get flamey.

I just find the "genes influences political alignment" thing very interesting from a philosophical point of view as it seems to undermine democracy, ofc this is just a recent study - the thesis goes back several years at least.
> how afraid we've become

Widespread proliferation of pseudonyms modeling/nudging self-censorship is not a proxy for fear in humans-who-hack.
> I don't quite see how it can be architecture independent if it doesn't do register allocation. Does it use a small fixed amount of virtual registers which work on every target? Or does it spill virtual registers to memory if required?

If it's low level and platform independent, that probably means more that it provides the tools to the user to work on many platforms, rather than it does the work for many platforms for the user.

Jit libraries like this are building blocks, not a turnkey interpreter to native execution pipeline.
> “This airplane was designed by clowns, who in turn are supervised by monkeys.”

That feels like that would apply to half the software I use! Then again, it would describe some of the places at which I've worked. But I'm a software engineer and so I have lots of employment options. What's an aeronautical engineer, an aviation material engineer, or avionics expert supposed to do? They have limited options for employment - and that's why it's important to prosecute the executives.

It's bad for everyone that the DoJ offered a plea deal. I know that's SOP, but Boeing isn't a usual company, and this isn't a usual situation. We need to know what actually happened. Is this truly a failure of management as is being portrayed, or is this a failure of process? Has the complexity of design and manufacturing now exceeded our ability to ensure quality? These are the kinds of questions I would like to have answered and an actual trial would give us a better opportunity to learn the real issues.
The question was if it's costly to provide, not how much customers have to pay
While that is true, there are metals through which hydrogen can diffuse faster than helium, because the hydrogen molecules dissociate and ionize when entering the metal and the hydrogen ions diffuse through the metal individually.
The Business Source License allows for redistribution and modification of code. Calling it not open-source because it restricts third-parties from slapping a logo on it and selling licenses seems like a stretch. imo licenses like the BSL are really the direction that open-source should be heading in, because they allow the original author to retain their rights while avoiding exploitation by rando corporations.