skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It actually is. I interned at a civil aviation authority where I had to implement a GUFI generator, and they all pronounced it 'goofy'.
ansible has what I think is a sort of similar system, where a role can define default values for its variables but they can be overridden in a fairly deep hierarchy of successive priorities; it helps that the lowest tier is literally labeled "defaults" so you automatically expect it to be overwritten, though in the upper layers I still have to look up to see which thing takes precedence.
10 updoots for u kind sure.
Have you been paying attention to Google’s moves the last few years or are you just here to blast Apple?

They’re not the forever-open platform you’re purporting them to be.

Look at the increasing push for device attestation via SafetyNet or whatever it is called now.
I prefer this video of A* pathfinding on a real map (Chicago and Rome):

https://youtu.be/CgW0HPHqFE8?si=9aw_eHy3IedXY1Ro
Nobody cares. Source: Am Californian living in the Bay Area.
Fascinating links, I had almost forgotten about these engines.
Well, they may be cheap, but that alone doesn't seem enough to me. I guess different people look for different things.

I had a Asus ROG Zephyrus G15, and I'd rank it as one of the worst laptops I've ever owned (edit: don't even think it was that cheap). Including the awesome "feature" that it can't be run in clamshell mode, otherwise it will overheat and shut down. That took a while to debug.

I also know of at least 2 other people who were not happy with the thermal performance. They were able to mod it, which is cool (pun intended), but it's disappointing that's even necessary.
I mean, he said he could put rockets in space much cheaper than the governments and defense contractors and he did. He said he could build the first new American car company in several decades and get people to want to drive electric cars, both of which seemed insane at the time, and he did.

He’s always overly-optimistic about cost and timeline and he’s got a whole host of issues due to his mental illness but the dude did do several extremely impressive things that nobody thought would happen.

Compared to what he has accomplished you can understand how “a car can drive itself without LIDAR” seems easily believable. It may be wrong, but it’s not as hard to imagine as Starlink was ten years ago.
Depends on the time active. If it was like the day before (2023) that pretended to be an MMO but couldn't even do that for 3 days, then yes. That should be punished. If it's your average games as a service that stays actively updated for 2 years and then shuts down I don't know if I can call that a "rug pull". That's still 2 years of actively updated entertainment, which isn't something most offline games can muster up.

I guess it comes down to how long is long enough for that 60-100 currency. I'm sure greybeards who stuck with WOW for 20 years wouldn't feel swindled if the game shut down tomorrow. Devestated, but a huge chunk of lifetime entertainment is far from a rug pull. Meanwhile you can feel betrayed by stuff like Babylon's fall that didn't even make a year (even if very few were optimistic to begin with).
Is this some kind of new clickbait title? Something "can" "sometimes" do something (already 0 information) - ooor sometimes it also does the opposite. The only possibility not allowed is that it would not make any difference, but this one is actually also possible. Sigh.
Death of humor.

I expect laissez-faire to settle all markets. They are after all running these platforms.
Person-Level Website Visitor Identity
A pretty scary new startup that deanonymizes website visitors for sales.
Because some of them are backed up by powerful people. Most of the time this kind of action is just posturing, and not really fixing the problem
> "The only cheat bit is to get the keyboard input and display output working I had to hook up go channels to speak to the outside world via GLFW..."

What I learned from Ben Eater is that a non-cheaty solution would have been to write a simple UART serial "device" and then interacted with the CPU via serial communication with a terminal.
So long as they don't prevent users from switching to Google, I'd honestly like to see that search engine. And on the grand scheme of things, maybe it's good for Google to have some pressure against making choices that lead to search results quality decline.
> Instructor took over and punted the plane into the air.

Sounds like you told the instructor about your car-racing experience.
I thought so, and yes, the resolution on them (at least as experienced while driving) is not high. They can see in several directions at once, so that’s good.

It’s not hard to imagine a car having better visibility than a human with cameras. But I don’t think they do yet.
https://www.ig.com/uk
If only the world was so simple and one dimensional and we never needed to compromise. Lets have 5 phones, each representing the pinnacle of a single attribute I care about, none of them actually meeting my needs.
Let me try to explain: On routes with high frequency flights, airlines will generally issue a different flight number for each unique departure time to a particular destination. E.g. YY500 departing at 9am to LAX on Mon/Wed/Fri and YY502 departing at 9:05am to LAX on Tue/Thu/Sat/Sun. It's unusual to have the same flight number YY500 apply to either the 9am or 9:05am flight. But if there is no collision (i.e. 9am and 9:05 doesn't operate on the same days) it seems a sensible optimization to reuse the flight numbers. It's just not very common practice in the airlines I regularly fly with (NZ, QF, JQ etc) so can understand why it seems remarkable. Air New Zealand for example only 'reuses' flight numbers for their flagship (e.g. NZ1, NZ2, NZ3, etc) flights whereas their NZ5xx NZ6xx series flights for high frequency domestic flights generally are unique in respect to departure times and rarely do they reuse a flight number for a different departure time.
Haha I'm never going back to Debian family.

I used to think Linux was kind of a cheap crappy knockoff OS. Nope, just Debain-family distros.

After using Fedora, I continue to feel like I'm in the year 2030. I genuinely feel bad for Windows users because they havent tried something as nice as Fedora.
Not hard to understand. The visualization is more or less the computation graph that PyTorch builds up. And the einsum code is even clearer.

There’s definitely a practice effect though. I know people who aren’t used to it will have their eyes glaze over when they read einsum notation.
Those are not incompatible statements at all.

Obviously, defaults matter to some degree. They have a price. Google and Apple are companies with market caps in the trillions, and at their scale the default has a price in billions, since a small shift redirects a ton of ad revenue. That's fine.

But they're not "incredibly powerful", which implies that most users won't change them. As I pointed out, most users do change from Edge to Chrome.

If defaults were so "incredibly powerful", Edge would be winning. Obviously, therefore, they're not. Defaults have a small-to-medium amount of power. (Which, at Apple+Google scale, happens to be a lot of cash.)
They've been trying to make a car for the past decade, arguably an easier task than making a search engine.
What happens now? We unbundle search results? Sounds cool!
The original commenter is correct, though.

Any "unsafe" block within a rust source code potentially corrupts the entire application as undefined behavior has no bound and will/may leak right out of the unsafe block.

You are arguing something else. Enumerating all unsafe code is a good feature, but when one of the fundamental building blocks of your security is marked unsafe, it raises questions about its overall benefit.
No, I’m supposing that Apple knows they have more control if they obfuscate the ability to switch. And more control is more valuable to Google or whoever else wants to pony up to be the “default”.
I've yet to find a _good_ laptop. There's always something wrong with them, from 'poor trackpad' to 'nonexistent linux support' to 'doesn't have a decent GPU'... and of course the crowd favourite, 'nvidia GPU randomly fails to shut off, sucking 10W extra at all times'.

I don't know where I'd even start. I've bought several that had excellent reviews, yet didn't work.
Great article—I love that the author tried to reach out to the original creator of the game "Below the Root," even though they ultimately failed to secure the rights.

I'd encourage anyone with a desire to create an homage to a game they have nostalgia for to just reach out to the original authors. You'd be surprised at how often a simple request like this can lead to you being able to breathe new life into an old game.

Story time. A favorite game of mine as a young child was an old DOS game called Redhooks' Revenge. It was essentially a graphical naval adventure where each player would take turns rolling dice and moving their ship. Landing on ports would allow you to conquer them Risk-style, and at various times you would be asked a maritime-themed trivia question depending on the square you landed on. Answering correctly would give you bonuses like rum, water, extra cannons, etc.

My sister and I used to play it for hours on end to the point where we'd basically both memorized all the quiz questions. Decades later, I was messing around with the files, attempting to figure out a way to add additional trivia questions. I ended up reverse-engineering the weird binary format of the asset file to randomly inject customized trivia into the game every time it was started. You had to be really careful when injecting the questions not to accidentally alter any additional addresses in the file; otherwise, the game would just crash.

Out of random curiosity, I looked up the original company, ImagiSOFT, and got in touch with the author, who happily gave me permission to develop an official sequel, Redhook's Revenge II: Call of Booty.

https://specularrealms.com/redhook
If I look at the crop that isn't useful for pollinators, and occupies the largest amount of land area in the US, the result is not corn which is sprayed with insecticides: It's lawns. The Kentucky bluegrass or fescue that is cut so short it never seeds? Might as well be concrete as far as insects are concerned.

But we not only allow, but often mandate that acres upon acres of land are kept that way, or the owner gets a fine. American suburbs make more space ecologically dead per inhabitant than anything else we do: The greyest of cities at least take less space.
It was wild. It was literally like nothing else. A breath of fresh air.

I'm surprised there's no Max Headroom VTuber right now...
Totally agree with you about online ads, I worked in that space for years and that's not the goal with Ads. Years ago it became clear that Google was shifting towards taking over the lower level advertiser markets and providing services and automated systems to use Ads without requiring a marketing agency while providing higher levels of data analysis and tools for agencies to tap that market. Has nothing to do with stealing from advertisers, and a lot of Google's internal programs will likely drive more money to these smaller players.

> iOS and search both generate revenue by making the product they're actually selling more effective

In the abstract, sure.

The problem starts with separating financial incentives internally from product improvement and aligning it with short term revenue increases. Then you start separating the financial side from all other aspects of the business entirely, a la Jack Welch. That's where a lot of major US corporations are right now. When that happens, you end up with a conflict between what is best for the company and what is best for the people running the company, and you end up with product quality decreasing.

Right now from an outside perspective it looks like there was an internal conflict in the Search team at Google and the more product oriented leaders were pushed out in favor of the finance guys over the last year or two, with a side effect being lower search quality.
My personal experience has been that the “smarter autocomplete” in the IDE is the bulk of the value add for me. It handles a lot of the really rote stuff - “create a struct that matches this data structure”, “add an accessor for this property”, “make another unit test with a slight variation on this” and saves me an enormous amount of time typing.

I’ve had basically no luck getting code from the chat-style interfaces, though. The bugs often aren’t even subtle, and it’ll either argue with me that there’s not a bug or apologize and produce exactly the same code again.
They have nights where you can look through the big telescope. As far as I know it's the biggest telescope that still has a viewfinder. It was fun looking at Saturn and Mars with such a big device.
Seems sad it should be a question, reminds me of that kid asking on reddit if it was legal to create a dnd group with friends.
So we’re already too late by about 20 years to fix the issue properly.

Undoubtedly we’ll push the issue forward for another 10 years before realizing that the next best time to start was today :/
Come up with a ~1PB array with a copy of Anna's Archive and/or LibGen, and we can talk.
x86 is the same way for programmers. All the renaming and so forth is completely hidden from the program. It is only detectable through performance differences.
Eh, there are Zen+ APUs that'll use that much by themselves. I think you can expect 75W from any given full-size/wired PCIe slot.

One can have a desktop that's as efficient as a laptop... but you lose part of the exchange; mobility for power. The consumption/heat is less of a concern, solar aside. Plenty of room for cooling and components :)

I had a system that would idle at over 150W, not counting the three displays that cumulatively match that. Transceivers use mildly less power than 10GbE Ethernet... but still consume a bit of your budget.
Indeed. In the same vein, Jerome K. Jerome's "Three Men in a Boat" has made me laugh out loud more than a century after it was originally written.

That said, Shakespeare's humor, as an example, lands more flat with me. English idioms and grammar have changed quite a bit since the 16th century, and though I can intellectually approach his plays and recognize the humor, I rarely laugh out loud to it because there's additional mental load required just to understand what's been said. I suspect that may be true of "Who's on First" in another couple of hundred years, too. I'll report back in 2224 and let you know!
That is very cool. Too bad it’s not open source.
Adult ADHD and pathological narcissism: A retrospective-analysis
I don't think the pilots were correct to blame the system either, however I do think some of their decisions to put the aircraft in a dangerous situation were influenced by a belief that the computers would keep them out of trouble. Airbus trying to market the plane as uncrashable probably contributed.
I’m guessing you’ve got opinions about 4’33”, too.
On the contrary, I've had terrible luck with Asus laptops. Most of my issues have been with their gaming laptops but I have had at least one Zenbook die on me as well. But I've had four other gaming laptops, from multiple different market segments.

Desktop hardware I've had better luck with, but between my own experience and the multitude of reports online about warranty issues people have faced with other products, I can't in good faith recommend them to people.
We lost the entirety of MySpace, which was a significant cultural moment.

I know people who have almost zero photos of their entire childhoods because they were all digital and stored on computers/online and have been lost to the ether.
where my narcissists at? People with 'attention deficit hyperactivity disorder' (ADHD) are ten times more likely to also suffer from narcissism, a study suggests.
People would buy Windows. That was one of the few things I bought
I'm speechless. Such a fantastically discoverable UI, a tribute to Douglas Adams. How did I never find this?
Tim Cook is merely out to keep the stock price going up just like every other business. Because they had a longer runway from the era of Steve Jobs, they look better by comparison but they will try and do every trick that everyone else has done to keep the next quarter going up.
Biotech company Cepheid lays off 635 in Bay Area, slashes manufacturing staff
Dwarfium – App to Connect Dwarf II with Stellarium
That's so clever! I would have guessed that film reels would be too fragile for that sort of continuous usage, though I'll confess that I have no personal experience with them.

I was really curious about how they would handle 'rewinding' a film reel between plays; assuming 16mm film, I figured, it would have been about 30 meters of film, so I wondered whether you could splice it together into a full loop and concertina it inside the cabinet so that it doesn't actually require rewinding between plays, and can instead just keep playing it continuously in a forward direction, and... after a bunch of Internet trawling, I found a forum post by somebody who had purchased and restored two units, that's exactly what they'd done! (I had my calculations about the length of the film wrong, though; apparently the full film is only about 10 meters long, which would definitely make it easier to wrangle the loop!)

The world of these older electromechanical arcade games is seriously cool; so much history and ingenuity here that I hadn't been aware of!
A CIWS probably doesn’t have enough stopping power for a GA aircraft so the burning wreckage will still crash into you. Need to go full AA gun, 12 DD stamps included with your purchase.
50% seems very unreasonable here, if not in the wrong direction overall.

Ikarus C42 at about 86 knots will use 13 L/hr, for a two-hour flight, it's 26 L fuel and 8.31 kg CO2/gal avgas[1], this comes to 57 kg CO2 to cover 320 km (and this is assuming it immediately starts covering flight distance and not using gas for climbing/approach, etc.).

An average new car in the EU uses 6 L/100 km in 2019[2]. To drive 320 km, this comes to 19 L of gasoline (8.1kg CO2/gallon finished motor gasoline[1]), which is then 41 kg CO2.

Even if you had to make the auto trip 400 km because roads aren't as direct, this comes to 51 kg CO2.

Nevermind that airports are rarely your final destination, nor in the city centre like train station would be, which adds significant distance to your overall trip.

[1] https://www.eia.gov/environment/emissions/co2_vol_mass.php
[2] https://www.iea.org/articles/fuel-economy-in-the-european-un...
My understanding is that air traffic control is extremely computerised even though direct control is still done over analogue VHF voice radio. The flight numbers are essentially only human-facing (both passenger flight numbers, and ATC callsigns). When flights are handed off between different stations or different flight information regions, their computer representations must conform to the Flight Information Exchange Model (that's the FIXM in the website I linked above).

It's a very top-down initiative by ICAO and all the large aviation authorities—quite unlike the rest of the software development industry.

Frankly speaking ATC is the only thing that really matters in the context of flight safety—ticketing, terminal operations, etc don't (and don't need to) deal with FIXM.
The headcount already shrunk massively in that office right? Can’t mean much in the grand scheme other than being symbolic?
I love the game aesthetics but the slippery controls make you feel like you took a bath in bacon fat.
I too confused art with craft for quite a long time. it's another framing of the difference between being interested in why versus being interested in how.
Awesome write up. Thanks for sharing.
2021 - Apax takes Tw public and gets really rich

2021-2024 - Tw proves it cannot manage itself and doesn't know how to sell. Sails the firm onto the beach.

2024 - Apax buys the company back for pennies.

Rinse repeat.

A shareholder class-action suit would not surprise at all
I bought the 2020 model of the G14, which has the absolutely cursed combination of both an Nvidia and AMD GPU. The fans never shut off, it randomly fails to wake up from sleep, the touchpad requires an inconsistent amount of force to click, and the battery life is really only 2 hours rather than the advertised 10.
Every serious retro collector has become an expert on power supplies and capacitors. It is very cool to see and I'm glad it is the power supply and not the more delicate components, at least so far.
Then what is Google paying others for?
There's some cities that are pretty strict about it, especially if it's in a fire area. But mainly just the stuck up gotta look "perfect" areas.
(heavily paraphrasing)

> [the core dump is supposed to be in the CWD, and named core, but isn't; what gives?]

Followed by,

$ find / -name core -type f

Is a sort of hilarious brute force solution. But it demonstrates a particular kind of problem, where

/-- requires -- evidence
| ^
v |
answer -- requires -/

These are pesky. The brute force search is a good idea, in that it breaks that cycle of almost needing to know the answer in order to discover it. (Unless you can surmise that the CWD is the crate dir, but let's assume that we don't want to depend on having such a moment of sheet "eureka!".)

> But there are also other bits of evidence that this theory doesn’t explain, or even cuts against. (This is what makes post-mortem debugging exciting! There are often contradictory-seeming pieces of information that need to be explained.)

I wish more people appreciated this; too many people are apt to sweet such discrepancies under the rug. This post does a good job on not just following through on them, but also showing how figuring some of them out ("why is our stack weird?") leads to the key insights: "oh we're using stacker and … $the_bug".

I do wonder how the author managed to notice that line in a 1.5k line stack trace, though. The "abrupt" address change would have probably gone unnoticed by me. (The only saving grace being a.) it's close to the bottom b.) most of the rest is repetitive, an artifact of a recursive descent parser recursing, and if we just consider that repetition "one chunk", it gets a lot smaller. I still dunno if I'd've seen it, though.)
The details of std::string at Facebook (2016) [video]
yeah this is bullshit, and when we spoke to our cyber dept about why we chose a product that allows this they said "all the top tier products do this".

I did suggest we turn off the proxy for the "air gapped" parts of the nextwork, and only turn it on when we're sure we're ready for it so the airgapped parts can get the updates they need. but seriously... since when is it acceptable to give a vendor control that YOU DONT HAVE over parts of your network.. crazy days.
The problem is that when you bundle products, you can maintain your market dominance even when competitors have a better product. Microsoft has shown this to be true countless times, most recently with MS Teams (vs Slack).

Furthermore it doesn’t cut it to be marginally better than Google Search when they’re the default search engine. You have to completely blow them out of the water and for that you likely need long term, sustained investment to pour into R&D. How many VCs are willing to play that long game and invest when you have an incumbent paying $20B+ to block user choice?

The creation of Firefox and Google Chrome are examples of competition that tremendously benefited consumers, but which took many years to play out, after the government ruled against monopolistic behavior.
Agreed. For more see https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2018/08/18/6395885...
Juiciest update I’ve ever gotten to share: https://www.nytimes.com/2024/08/05/technology/google-antitru...
i mean, theres rent...
This seems of particular importance to Mozilla and Firefox. The payments that support the company have been declared illegal.
Orion crashed way too often for me. I used Orion for a month or two and switched back to Firefox in early July.