skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/El_Al_Flight_1862
I want to share something important with everybody.

I read a long time ago that the Boeing CEO was cutting costs by outsourcing as much as possible.

He said that this was the way forward and was financially wisest. This was before the MAX problems.

I think we can compare this to the massively vertical integration of companies like Tesla, or even US steel back in the day.

Does anybody think there is a link between vertical integration and quality? That maybe all this outsourcing messed things up?

I’d love to hear your thoughts.
> Single income families get a tax relief

That's basically already the case because of progressive tax brackets.

For example: Two incomes of $200k in CA. You're only getting half the marginal income from one of the people.

Take home: 68% / $273k.

One income of $200k. Take home: 73% / $146k. That other $200k income would've only netted $127k.
Lots of paint software has been adding AI. So why wouldn't Procreate in particular?
They are Some Intel N100 based boards in the pi5/OrangePi/BananaPi price range. They are more powerful and can have their power consumption capped to that of the Pis. What is still the value proposition of the pis?
Did you miss the next sentence?

> A study by the Center for Automotive Research found that the GM bailout saved 1.2 million jobs and preserved $34.9 billion in tax revenue.

The whole point was to avoid the economic fallout of a GM collapse (and with it, yet another bank for the FDIC to deal with).
How was tech different then? We've been working on AI for 70 years now, seems comparable.
Supercar hire businesses do exist though, and I can certainly rent one for a day in many places all over the world.

Regarding Netflix - I’m referring to OG Netflix which really did seem to aggregate everything under one subscription.

In any case, I do agree that micro transactions for articles mostly do fail, hence my leaning towards a more “Netflix”-style approach that lowers the risk for consumers. I don’t expect to get what I want here, but publishers also can’t simply get what they want either.
I had it installed in my 2014 mitsubishi. I can't imagine not having it
Kagi. Kagi replaced Google.
Why do people have this idea that it's the language's job to protect you? C is a small piece of a much larger puzzle. That puzzle includes things like the memory page protection in your CPU's MMU. It includes things like SECCOMP BPF. It also includes things like ASAN, UBSAN, TSAN, etc. If you work in defense it might even include ASICs. The list goes on. Whatever language you believe in probably depends on C. You live in a C world. The value prop of the programming languages other than C/C++ for systems programming is that they build cohesive social communities and C is in the background serving them all. The whole "we're going to save you from the bogeyman" is just kool aid. No one will be saved.
Nonsense. The government took a $10.5B loss when it converted the loan to equity. At one point the government owned 61% of GM. Wild.
Yep.

With the popularity, one would assume we'd be able to get a CPU that's not a decade behind smartphones. Mine is now gathering dust; it's inefficient for the power it consumes.
I just really like ram, fomo, don't want to run out. You're already spending $50 + tax, $80 for 4x more ram is a bargain.

I grew up on machines chronically starved, think 16MB for Mac system 5-7, and 32MB for win98 :) (which leaked like a mofo, reboot required every 20 minutes.)
That's good to know, thank you! It's a dream I hope to pursue someday soon...

I didn't know engineering firms hired developers (what for? CAD stuff, or...?) That's a great idea, though.
A big brain move. First, they cut CarPlay/Android Auto because they want to provide a full custom experience. Second, they fire the people who are supposed to be responsible for that experience.
> But there's no question that LLMs are already seeing extensive use in everyday office work and already making large improvements to productivity.

Are you referencing something specific here, or is there something you can link to? To be honest the only significant 'disruption' I've seen for LLMs so far has been cheating on homework assignments. I'd be happy to read something if you have it.
> If Boeing did fail, that leaves Airbus as the only commercial jet manufacturer?

There's several smaller players in the regional market, like Embraer, Comac, Tupolev, but none of them have long range or widebody craft.
I recently dusted off piles of CDs from my wardrobe to put up for sale. Was really chocked that they go for around €30-50 each, one sold for €90! It is mostly semi rare electronic music from the 90s so I would not expect the same from pop/rock. But do check out your old CDs laying around, could be worth quite a bit
Cutting 1000 software engineers doesn't necessarily mean they won't be needing the services of 1000 software engineers. They could just be moving to contract out the work instead of having more in-house staff.
Cars, planes, house hold appliances, engineering projects where all going to make use of fission. Energy would be revolutionized. Yes, we made large, expensive power plants and had a nuclear arms race. No, we didn't end up powering everything else with nuclear fuel, as you can see from climate change.
Both readily available on DVD still thankfully, although Existenz is selling for about twice what they want for strange days for some reason.
the worst part about ai is that the entire internet, even building it, will become pay to play. It really sucks.
Their obvious goal is everyone buys a Vision Pro.

Obviously they could make a foray into enterprise hardware. They did it in the past. They have no interest. The addressable market is too small. As I already said, when Apple makes a product they want to the addressable market to be everyone.
Spine is fantastic for artists, and it's integrations with various engines is really good. My biggest complaint about it is that it's very CPU heavy. A spine runtime that has less features but uses GPU skinning would be excellent, especially if it runs on the web. Ages ago I had to write a JS shim to the C runtime compiled to WASM and it worked well, but I still wish it used a lot more GPU and less CPU.
Boeing could certainly be broken up, think AT&T.

Also I don’t think Airbus would have a problem with Boeing going out of business.
https://archive.ph/KfjxZ
I must have missed the memo. Where could I get the free money? "a few years ago" we had a global pandemic. Are you claiming that markets will be very picky compared to that time?
I'm not sure where they are getting their data, but just based off women's volleyball (who took silver) the school's are all wrong according to the NCAA
https://www.ncaa.com/news/volleyball-women/olympics-2024/202...
Maybe I’m confused on the jargon here, but aren’t unit tests assertions?
That’s not what you said. This is what you said:

> It's not the job of the lawmakers to follow the constitution.

It is exactly their job to both follow and interpret the Constitution in executing their function as legislators and upholding their oath of office. You only go to Court when there is a case or controversy concerning the law, sometimes implicating the Constitution, but willfully passing a law which you know to be unconstitutional is breaking your oath of office, as is signing in such a law if you are the Governor of California or POTUS.
"Meanwhile, the EU is threatening the owner of X, Elon Musk, with severe consequences if he does not abide by its arbitrary definition of what defending us all against "misinformation" and "hate speech" looks like."

As a German I'm happy that it's illegal to push Antisemitism and the holocaust here, and call for violence against Jews. It's not "arbitrary".

If you live in a free country, say "fuck" on TV. Working for a US company one person (European) in a phone call said "fuck", and got into trouble for it. Free speech?

"this authoritarian crackdown."

Or try to drink a beer from an open bottle on
Times Square. Or sit on the lawn. I can run around half naked. No problem in Germany, authorities mostly get out of your way, in the US, you step out of line and the state slaps you. Authoritarian anyone?

Whenever I'm in the US, it feels like a police state. Police everywhere, you step out of line you get into conflict with the authorities. And not only with the police, authoritarianism is deep in the culture. Once I skipped an empty line in a museum, I was forced to go back and go the long zigzag way even if there was no one except me (Metropolitan Museum of Art). Once when not getting into a straight line after waiting (though I was second by arrival), a security guard forced to get to the end of the line or I could not go on the Manhattan ferry. Whenever I go to the US I have to fill out long forms that feel like right out of 1984. Once I was asking customs a question, was shouted at, handled like a prisoner and nearly denied entry.
The other big aircraft company, Airbus is quite a distributed operation: https://simpleflying.com/airbus-commerical-jet-manufacture/
They don't have to pay you benefits of course, but you can always market yourself at a rate that more than compensates for that. So it's not an automatic financial shafting for the contractor (unless they don't take this into account).
I wonder how closely this is tied to the current (rather shaky) government, and if he'd reverse if Labour got back in.

Ultimately he isn't going to be "living" in NZ permanently any more than any Billionaire can be said to live anywhere. He has a bunker in the south island. A bond lair. If the milk supplies run out in the shop he can probably afford to get the Antanov to fly a new shop in, or he could rent 10,000 hot air balloons and fly his bond lair to another location with a woolworths.

Why does he like NZ? Because the air is clean, and he can hold mainstream anti-union cooker ideals without offending the sheep.

Contrast with Matt Demon, who genuinely seems to love Australia, comes here frequently, and one could imagine in the future being a citizen: he has tolerably well grounded reasons to be here. His mate Chris has a nice beach house at Byron and he can relax with his fam and only minor amounts of Paparazzi annoy him assuming he ventures outside the block.

Thiel needs to fly in the hoardes of government flakes who want to buy Palentir services. He has a stack of kleenex boxes for them to stand in, and a fake beard to become Howard Hughes as needed. Presumably when he makes the landing strip for the Antonov to deliver a new milk bar and petrol station, he can also construct a private monorail to the lair, and a shark-tank to dispose of the ones he doesn't like. I don't think Matt needs that, Hollywood green screen them in as needed.

TBH much though I love Oz, I think we deserved Thiel more than NZ and NZ probably deserved Matt more than us. Nicer people with the nice Kiwis and nasty people in a land absolutely packed with .. Cookers (seriously: Oz is full of them) although, now I've written that, two of the nicest cookers I know are in fact .. Kiwis. So it maybe is aligned.
> Seriously I am a 2x coder compared to what I was because of this.

You probably shouldn't advertise that.
An automotive special interest group concluded that a $10.5B bailout for the automotive sector was a good thing!
You were already downloading movies in the 90s? What kind of bandwidth did you have?
Exactly! I find many (not all) younger developers respond extremely well to this more present mentorship.

Also let's be real, the average project now is 10x the complexity of the projects when I was getting started in the late 90s. I remember my mentorship was little more than being given the pocket guide to Perl and told to read it. Also told to use emacs.

But we had no code review, version control, docker, container orchestration, no React, TS compiler, no HTML+CSS+Tailwind, no build pipeline yml, no ORM, no OOP, no unit tests. We "deployed to prod" with ftp. We ran jobs with cron.

We had a maybe 1000 lines of Perl scripts and a production database.

So it's not like there was a lot to learn. Of course a year in I still barely knew what a function was. After a year I learned PHP and made a basic website that talked to a MySQL database I on our one server.

The expectations were extremely low, there was plenty of time to putter and rework over and over.

So I try to be empathetic that this is a job that needs an extreme amount of on the job training.
I've done a couple rounds through aerospace or aerospace-adjacent over the years.

This seems to be a certification test (https://www.seattletimes.com/business/boeing-aerospace/boein...), aka the "make-or-break, 0-failures allowed test before we get final approval to sell this aircraft, and we are 99.999% sure this test is going to go flawlessly".

Failing is a pretty big deal. This should have been found far sooner in the process.
It's on the backdrop of the 777X being delayed like 4 times so far.
I’ve had a lot of corporate clients this year

Large and small, entire development teams are completely unaware of the basics of “prompt engineering” for coding, and corporate has an entirely regressive anti-AI policy that doesnt factor in the existence of locally run language models, and just assumes ChatGPT and cloud based ones digesting trade secrets. People arent interested in seeing what the hype is about, and are disincentived from bothering on a work computer. I’m on one team where the Engineering Manager is advocating for Microsoft CoPilot licenses, as in, its a concept that hasnt happened and needs buy in to even start considering.

I would say most people really haven't looked into it. Work is work, the sprint is the sprint, on to the next part of the product, rinse repeat. Time flies for those people, its probably most of the people here.
Probably just increasing the number of Accenture and Infosys offshore engineers and H1Bs they're using. Most of these jobs are probably old school IT.
> I use a text-only browser.

Which browser is this?
what about if you were buying 100 of them?
I had a Dodge pickup with the most basic radio package, no screens or infotainment. Per the law it had a backup camera, the screen for which was in the rear view mirror. It was perfect.
Ok? Don’t tell me, tell the person who chose the license that states otherwise.
You're describing two very different concepts at the start.

A data diode applies to a specific connection. It's easy to have a serial port that goes one way.

Preventing any possible input to an already compromised device is much harder. But if your device isn't already compromised then it won't be looking at the input light levels for commands.
These days you can't be a respected news outlet if you don't regularly have an article/post/blog about AI losing hype. Wondering when that fad will reach its peak...
The remaining legacy, domestic auto manufacturers are just kind of circling the drain. They all have stupid problems and largely seem to have ridden the coat tails of an older generation that vowed to buy American.

Anecdotally, but my Ford F-150 has so many software bugs it’s insane. It’s mechanically reliable, but the software is terrible.

* backup sensor don’t work about 10% of the time

* backup camera won’t engage about 1% of the time

* main screen will boot loop a few times before it fully turns on about 5% of the time

* heated and cooled seats seem to choose random setting when the car is remote started.

* lane centering system will crash if you try to take it through a turn that’s too tight. Have to turn the vehicle off, open the door to fix it.

* my trailer system won’t remember custom made trailers. I don’t really have a use for the system, but annoying none the less.

* auto power folding mirrors often get confused about their state when shutting down or starting the car up. Annoying, but easily fixed.

* my digital instrument panel will occasionally not turn on

* my digital instrument panel will occasional forget all of my custom settings. Different problem than above.

* Not really a bug, but the car has soooooooooo many popup notifications. There will literally be status messages that are overlaid by an almost identical, but different message. Thank you, F-150, I know that I plugged my cooler into the outlet in the bed. Please stop asking me if I want the generator on. The car is running, I want the generator on.

The physical vehicle is rock solid and I’m extremely happy with that. However, I just want to rip out all of the electronics and replace them with the magic that Kia/Hyundai built in their vehicle.

I largely get this impression anytime I step into an American vehicle. It feels like it was designed by a committee of out of touch executives.
I suppose you are only looking for juniors, then?

There is not a chance I would leave a real job for a gig like that. I can't imagine many folks who have mortgages and families to support would consider it.
Are you searching subscription streaming services or digital movie rental/purchase services?

You can basically find any movie for rent/purchase on Apple TV Store (formerly iTunes Movies) or Vudu or whatever other similar service you want to choose from. They’re just not included with your Netflix/Max/Hulu subscription, which are the modern equivalent to basic cable. They may be on streaming services but only included on a rotating basis.

This “no one will sell it to me for a reasonable price” thing is kind of BS. You’re just not willing to pay at all, or you’re only willing to pay basic cable price for access to a catalog with a size that doesn’t fit that price.

It’s fitting then that the rental and physical media market collapsing now stops entire genres of movies from being made. As an example, people don’t rent comedies anymore, so they don’t get made and put into theaters.
How are you using AI to double your coding productivity? Are you using ChatGPT, or Claude, or GitHub Copilot? I am an AI-skeptic, so I am curious here. Thanks!
You’ve given a hint of the complexity on the programmer’s side of things but for Dijkstra’s claim to hold we also need to take a look at the mathematician’s. I think most people who are not mathematicians have no idea what they’re working on.

Take for example a single theorem: Classification of Finite Simple Groups [1]. This one proof, the work of a hundred mathematicians or so, is tens of thousands of pages long and took half a century to complete.

Fermat’s Last Theorem [2] took 358 years to prove and required the development of vast amounts of theory that Fermat himself could scarcely have imagined.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Classification_of_finite_simpl...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fermat%27s_Last_Theorem
you can do two solid/high impact boards on indigo 2. each will be a separate X display
>If Boeing did fail, that leaves Airbus as the only commercial jet manufacturer? I don't think anyone, including Airbus and definitely not any airline which has used the airbus-boeing dance during price negotiations wants this to happen.

>Boeing literally can not be allowed to fail

They're too broken for America to repair. They should be shut down, and the pieces sold off to Airbus for pennies on the dollar. Then Airbus can take over the designs and start building better-designed aircraft at the ex-Boeing facilities. There should simply be a stipulation that none of the management is allowed to be American, because obviously they can't do it any more.
> Seriously I am a 2x coder compared to what I was because of this.

Isn't the energy consumption of this technology pretty catastrophic? Do you consider the issue of energy consumption so abstracted you don't worry about it? Do you do anything to offset your increased carbon emissions?
ChatGPT makes a user complain that a library is missing a feature it never had
I think most people outside of tech have barely even touched it.

Obviously there are some savy users across all age groups and occupations. But from what Ive see its just not part of most people’s workflow.
Care to expand on the "non-existent server" part? This is probably an oversight (missing tests) in the API impl.
Not true. A few exceptional vendors like Bosch excepted, manufacturers are increasingly in-sourcing development away from the tier suppliers. It's a lot of work managing them to get quality outcomes and that system has repeatedly bitten manufacturers hard in the past decade. It also lengthens development timelines significantly and raises the cost of mid-development changes, when they actually need faster, more responsive development practices.

The issue with companies like GM is that while most people recognize what I've just said internally, there's a lot of conflict between traditional management processes/styles/cultures and the changes they need to make to adapt. These kinds of layoffs tend to result from the financial fragility they've built up. When some minor event puts clouds on the financial horizon, management only understands one tool to make changes and that's layoffs/pay cuts.
How does it compare with Observable? https://observablehq.com/
Existenz is on the MS Store for some reason.
Ah no. To clarify I was highlighting mvkel's point by pointing out two lesser known films that future film historians would want to access to in addition to The Matrix.

Luckily there are plenty of DVDs floating about for those films, but you can imagine a situation where a cult classic released now will not have that physical artifact.
Paywall. Anyone have a copy?
My point was not about "x.y.0" (I mispoke), but "x.y" (or "0.x") that causes this problem.

Take a look at any random crates's cargo config, and you'll regularly see dependencies specified as "1" or "0.3" instead of "1.0.119" or "0.3.39". If another crate depends on this crate, and has a more precise version needed (say "=1.0.100" (perhaps due to a bug introduced in "1.0.101", but the included library relies on features introduced in some version after "1.0.100", then your library won't compile. Stating your dependency on "1" instead of "1.0.119" is what caused this problem.

This is not hypothetical - I've run into this quite a few times with crates that over-specify their dependencies interacting with crates that under-specify theirs.

Yes, the solution to this is pretty simple - check minimal versions in CI. That's something I do for most of my stuff, but it's not universal.
Probably other companies don't have staff offending people on social networks
More engineers doesn't automatically mean better software. Sometimes the opposite.
That is a very different situation, ESP8266 looks highly appealing if you need it in bulk. Optimize the app into a low resource C program and live happily ever after.

Look at what all the best volume manufactured custom and smart devices are based on these days.. it's ESP :)

Esphome makes life easy.
I used gpt-4 to generate ideas what to listen to. I just say "I like X, Y and Z" and it gives me interesting, motivated choices. No special recommender transformer, just the plain text one.
Good refactoring respects the idioms of the language and the culture of the organisation. Change to new methodology is thoughtful and probably slow, except when a revolution happens but then, its still respectful to the new culture.

Bad refactoring is elitist, "you won't understand this" commented and the owner walks with nobody left behind who understands it.

That the examples deprecated FP and preferred an idiom natural to Java(script) only speaks to the principle. I can imagine a quant-shop in a bank re-factoring to pure Haskell, out of somthing else, and being entirely happy that its FP respecting.

So the surface "FP patterns are bad" is a bit light-on. The point was, nobody else in that specific group could really be expected to maintain them unless they were part of the culture.

"If you unroll loops a la duff's device, you should explain why you're doing it" would be another example.
This is what I don't understand. Ok apple does not care or does not want to spend resources on the window management mess of MacOS for whatever reason (iOS is more important, MacOS does not bring services revenue etc)

Just open the API for the 3rd party developers to fix your mess!