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Boeing is failing because the government let it "self-regulate". This is directly related to the MAX tragedies. The assumption that a company will do the worst possible thing as a "citizen" should always be the starting point.

Air travel did not become one of the safest ways of transport out of the pure, intrinsic will of the industry to be better. it took decades of beating them into doing what's right.

Why don't we still have video recordings of cockpits for the Black Box? It would dramatically help in solving accidents, but the industry has been fighting this tooth and nail. "It's expensive!". "Safety" never comes up - that's the government's job.
You don’t need to do that anymore!

You can just buy batteries that will do USB-C PD.

Then you get a versatile external battery solution for charging multiple devices!
https://twitter.com/vxunderground/status/1847885968809906221
Software requires hardware that can bit flip with gamma rays.
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It’s not just CPU either!

The GPU and other I/O makes a noticeable difference to quality of life IMHO.
> Historically, hydro has prevented for more CO2 than nuclear by a wide margin.

Hydro is not evenly distributed and mostly tapped out outside of a few exceptions. Hydro literally can not solve the issue.

Even less so as AGW starts running meltwater sources dry.
But people driving manually kill people all the time too. The bar for self driving isn’t «does it never kill anyone», it’s «does it kill people less than manual driving». We’re not there yet, and Tesla’s «FSD» is marketing bullshit, but we certainly will be there one day, and at that point, we need to understand what we as a society will do when a self driving car kills someone. It’s not obvious what the best solution is there, and we need to continue to have societal discussions to hash that out, but the correct solution definitely isn’t «don’t use self driving».
Undoubtedly interesting but still hard to take at face value given Harvard’s recent issues and retractions in cancer research.
You have already assumed that “judges” are somehow better suited to make such decisions than “regular people”, even though they are simply cogs in the wheels of social machines, and will mostly automatically approve anything up to mass murders if “general direction” of the society is like that. But it's convenient for you to believe that they have certain qualities.

Needless to say, when people are so brainwashed that they are ready to pray to actual machines, decisions of those machines won't be questioned. It would just be inconvenient.
You underestimate the perversity of boarding school. The important thing is that you are woken - nobody actually checks that you got up, however, until your absence for assembly is noted. If you were good at wriggling into full penguin in 30 seconds while running down the stairs, you could sleep in until 8:38.
What you say makes sense, but this isn't the first time he's acted this way at any of his companies and they're all still going well. At some point you have to admit either his methods work or there's more to him than what you the general public see.
reminds me of this: https://stanleykubrick.neocities.org/barrylyndoncandles
I would too, except all the bikes I had a special connection with were stolen. I'm so happy for her. Keep on riding, granny!
> presentation, 1979

= Presentation, 21st Century

A computer is not alive. A computer system is a tool that can do harm. It can be disconnected or unplugged like any tool in a machine shop that begins to do harm or damage. But a tool is not responsible. Only people are responsible. Accountability is anchored in reality by personal cost.

= Notes

Management calculates the cost of not unplugging the computer that is doing harm. Management often calculates that it is possible to pay the monetary cost for the harm done.

People in management will abdicate personal responsibility. People try to avoid paying personal cost.

We often hold people accountable by forcing them to give back (e.g. community service, monetary fines, return of property), by sacrificing their reputation in one or more domains, by putting them in jail (they pay with their time), or in some societies, by putting them to death ("pay" with their lives).

Accountability is anchored in reality by personal cost.
I had the good fortune to have a Catholic upbringing and attend Jesuit school, and then to end up not believing in religion.

The Church officially takes no position on the authenticity of the Shroud of Turin. I suppose the authorities have no reason to make an official declaration either way. The Church has suffered embarrassment before trying to prove doctrine with science, or disprove science. Galileo comes to mind.

The "dedicated office for investigating miracles," now known as the Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith, formerly the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, and before that the more familiar Inquisition, investigates claims of miracles. It accepts relatively few, between 2% and 10% depending on the time period and the type of alleged miracle. I don't know if that implies that "charlatans are not tolerated in the Church," though. The Church has tolerated quite a few charlatans over its long history, and quite a few frauds and people who bought or extorted their way to bishop, cardinal, and pope.

While you got it right that Catholic doctrine does not encourage or require unquestioning belief in everything, it does require faithful Catholics to believe what the Church tells them is true. Historically asking too many questions would land a curious person in trouble. These days the Church does not have the worldly power it once did to enforce its rules.
Yes, but doesn't change that it is 100% state owned and controlled with a mixed mandate (business/public service - see art 87e GG). No reason to absolve the owner and the associated politics from their responsibilities.

The legal form doesn't determine whether something is state owned or private.
Building a new app at work using Web Components and WebSockets for dynamism. I’m using Bulma for CSS, which is still about 300KiB. However, the site loads instantly. I’m not using a Javascript framework or bundler or any of that (not even npm!), just vanilla Javascript. It’s a dream to program and I love not having the complexity of a framework taking up space in my brain.
> Dogmatic FSF people think that hardware that has proprietary blobs stored in ROM is "free"

Do they? Or do you think you might have exaggerated their position to make your point? I seem to remember they consider it as undesirable but inevitable, whereas passing around non-free code helps to normalize it.
"I'm a technologist, I know a lot about computers," Musk told the crowd during the event. "And I'm like, the last thing I would do is trust a computer program, because it's just too easy to hack."
No, she has an important point. We internalize the way we are treated. It may be as simple as height: I have known several very tall people (>= 6'4") whose notion of themselves was skewed by the unearned deference that they received from average-height persons who, on some subconscious level, were afraid of them.
What? I used the term "sensoral" after thinking about what I wanted to communicate. I have no idea if that is a pop psychology term, I didn't google it. I was attempting to communicate that I often think in visual, aural, tactile or olfactory modes, not just visually or via inner monologue, especially when recalling memories.

You're just projecting at this point and stalking previous comments to start arguments. That is exceedingly immature and absolutely against Hacker News guidelines. You need to reevaluate your behavior. Please refrain from continuing to start arguments on previous posts.
What docs-as-code means
All rolls up into one 100% owner and having a lot of subsidiaries isn't unusual.
KeePass as an ecosystem (and possibly other file-based ecosystems) is something I’ve used for around a decade, and while it’s not perfect, I am 100% sure it will be there for me in another decade. I want to own my passwords, and KeePass feels like a safe pair of hands that won’t turn hostile when I’m not looking.

IMO, the secret to keeping the passwords synced with KeePass, is to make sure your client has a direct feature to sync the passwords database to a remote server - SFTP, DAV, SMB, etc. Then all you need to do is to set up a single remote file share to serve that file. Or sync manually, assuming your passwords change slowly - KeePass 2 can sync changes automatically between KDBX files.
Debian Changes OpenSSH Packaging
just comply and get the money, then move homes and offices someday
At one of my previous jobs we did very few unit tests (basically only pure functions) and tons of behavior/integration tests (ie. run the service with a real database, real queues, etc. but mock the HTTP dependencies, call its API and check we get the correct result and side effects) and it was the most stable and easy to work with test suite I’ve ever seen. It was extremely reliable too.

Not mocking the database and other pipes is the single best improvement everyone can make on their test suites.

We also had a test suite that followed the same principle but started all the services together to reduce the mocked surface, it executed every hour and was both incredibly useful and reliable too.

The test pyramid is false wisdom.
No, because every driver thinks they are better than average.

So nobody will accept it.
Of course it's not the origin of the usage, but I always found Lovecraft's quote from Lactantius to be pretty adequate:

"Demons have the ability to cause people to see things that do not exist as if they did exist. -- Lactantius"
Elon Musk's Fake Sites and Fake Texts Impersonating the Harris Campaign
can't wait for ecmascript 12 to support part of that :p
I've never gone to the ER with a just a broken bone. We're generally showing up with potentially life-threatening issues, and we still wait an hour -- and sometimes much more: I was trying to be fair to the ERs we've visited.
This repo still has AGPL… and another license…

Not sure if AGPL covers all areas of the codebase?

https://github.com/gravitational/teleport
I'm not disagreeing with your experience. But if it's as bad as you say, why aren't we seeing tens or hundreds of FSD fatalities per day or at least per week? Even if only 1000 people globally have it on, these issues sound like we should be seeing tens per week.
Show HN: I gamified remote workers efforts and make them feel recognized more
There is no risk of going to prison. It just doesn’t happen, never have and never will, no matter how unfair that is. Board members and CEOs are not held accountable, ever.
Do you understand quantum mechanics? It's one thing to be smart, it's another to use your ability.
Hello everyone!

As a remote software engineer, I often felt disconnected and unrecognized. After talking with colleagues who felt the same, I built a tool to change that. It uses gamification—team members can give recognition, earn points, and collect badges. Leaders can send surveys for feedback, and everyone gets Slack notifications for recognition and surveys.

Similar to how language learning apps like Duolingo and Memrise make studying fun by tapping into the brain's reward system, this tool brings that same concept to the workplace. Instead of the old, boring ways of recognizing co-workers, we added a game-like experience, focusing on making recognition more engaging and rewarding.

I hope this helps others feel more connected and appreciated. I'd love to hear your feedback!

Rami.
There's a lot of other interesting biology besides propagation of electrical signals. Examples include: 1/ Transport of mRNAs (in specialized vesicle structures!) between neurons. 2/ Activation and integration of retrotransposons during brain development (which I have long hypothesized acts as a sort of randomization function for the neural field). 3/ Transport of proteins between and within neurons. This isn't just adventitious movement, either - neurons have a specialized intracellular transport system that allows them to deliver proteins to faraway locations (think >1 meters).
Example of an almost instant webpage today: https://www.mcmaster.com/
I was hoping to move to Bitwarden eventually, but unless I can find a healthy open ecosystem, that’s not happening now. I will keep monitoring to see how this develops.
Or alternatively, if Boeing uses wood screws to attach an airplane door and the screw fails that's on Boeing, not the airline, pilot or screw manufacturer. But if it's sold as aerospace-grade attachment bolt with attachments for safety wire and a spec sheet that suggests the required loads are within design parameters then it's the bolt manufacturers fault when it fails, and they might have to answer for any deaths resulting from that. Unless Boeing knew or should have known that the bolts weren't actually as good as claimed, then the buck passes back to them

Of course that's wildly oversimplifying and multiple entities can be at fault at once. My point is that these are normal things considered in regular engineering and manufacturing
Julian Jaynes has written on this verbal/non-verbal dichotomy in The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind, in which he literally defines god to mean those phenomena related to right hemispheric structures and activities in the brain that are communicated over the anterior commissures and interpreted by left hemispheric language centers as speech; hence the many mystical reports of "hearing the voice of god" as passed down through the aeons. Such phenomena have gone by many other names: gods, the genius, the higher self, the HGA... though this metaphysical and spiritual terminology is best understood as referring to non-verbal, non-rational, non-linear forms of cognition that are closer to free association and intuitive pattern matching (similar to Kahneman's "System 1" thinking). There even exist certain mystical traditions which purport to facilitate deeper connections with this subsystem of the mind; see for instance Eshelman's accounting of the western esoteric tradition in The Mystical and Magical System of the A.'.A.'. at [0] (currently defunct pending the restoration of the Internet Archive).

[0] https://archive.org/details/a-a-the-mystical-and-magical-sys...
Nice to see some SNOBOL again. I used it in college at Indiana University late 70s, and again a few years later for work at Arthur Anderson.
That entirely depends on what AMD device you look at: gaming GPUs are not well supported, but their instinct line of accelerators works just as well as cuda. keep in mind that, in contrast to Nvidia, AMD uses different architectures for compute and gaming (though they are changing that in the next generation)
'Beast Games' set issues highlight growing pains in YouTuber-run productions
"Just round the corner" (2016)
Crystallography
Was the Uber driver using FSD or autopilot?

Obstacle avoidance and automatic braking can easily be switched on or off by the driver.
CTO response:

Thanks for sharing your concerns here. We have been progressing use of our SDK in more use cases for our clients. However, our goal is to make sure that the SDK is used in a way that maintains GPL compatibility.

the SDK and the client are two separate programs
code for each program is in separate repositories
the fact that the two programs communicate using standard protocols does not mean they are one program for purposes of GPLv3
Being able to build the app as you are trying to do here is an issue we plan to resolve and is merely a bug.
Apropos. I made TV-surveillance unit when 555 was almost brand new. Maybe 1977. The start of a picture was long negative pulse, easy to recognize with 555, which triggered second 555, which triggered third 555 in unison with the horizontal scan pulse. Thus you had fairly accurate point selected in the screen, showing a dot, while camera info was sampled and compared to a preset value. Thus the watchmen could use few knobs and select a point in the screen, which would raise an alarm when illumination changed. Because it was so cheap, you could select multiple triggering points. No fancy microprocessors this time, which were too slow anyways.
I’ve always been a fan of really simple and boring solutions. Solve the business problem with as little technology as possible, so it is easy to understand, support, and maintain. Then move on to new business problems, solving them using similarly boring solutions.

Going with complexity and trends means re-solving the same problem again and again. This is something that would make my job harder, leave me stuck reinventing the same wheel each year, and unable to solve any other problems for the business.

The interesting thing about the job shouldn’t be technology for technology’s sake. It should be find and solving the business problems. Solving new problems is much more fun than troubleshooting and overly complex tech stack with a dozen other people, where each person only knows their little piece, and no one has the full picture needed to actually fix anything.
User error because mushrooms are not plants
Rust vs. Go in 2024
The responsibility doesn't shift, it always lies with the human. One problem is that humans are notoriously poor at maintaining attention when supervising automation

Until the car is ready to take over as legal driver, it's foolish to set the human driver up for failure in the way that Tesla (and the humans driving Tesla cars) do.
I think we need to stop making an argument about personal rights with the drug war and make it about what most of this document is about.

The drug war is empowering the most dangerous organized crime gangs ever created.
They could be destroyed overnight by law makers with a pen.

At some point we are going to have to make the decision that dealing with kid's coke and heroin addictions is easier than dealing with thousands of Al Capones that will chop your head off.

We seem incapable of long term planning though so I doubt we will do anything for decades yet. We are like a cancer patient in denial that this cancer is growing and spreading.
I agree, that's a really nice feature of Svelte. It can be done in .astro files from https://astro.build/ too but Svelte is the first place I saw it done, like you say, it's very nice to work that way.
RRR: A Succinct Rank/Select Index for Bit Vectors (2011)
> It's hard to wrap your head around some behaviors

I've got a React maintenance and development project coming up in a few weeks. I'd love if you'd expand a bit on these points and maybe point to some relevant docs. You could potentially save me days or more of tail chasing. Thanks.
Breweries/taprooms that do coffee in the morning are my new third space; no mobile orders, no drive-thru, no reason to rush because its not their peak time.
Route Planning in Transportation Networks (2015)
This is Autopilot, not FSD which is an entirely different product
Wonderfully written. “Warning: This paragraph is about science so, if this topic causes you undue alarm, please close your eyes until you've finished reading it.”
Having everything ootb is something I enjoyed a lot with Angular as well.

Interestingly, people chose React over Angular, because it gave you the freedom to not use anything.
I wasn’t imply it would, just covering the very short term.

Annual production from nuclear is getting passed by wind in 2025 and possibly 2024. So just this second it’s possibly #1 among wind, solar and nuclear but they are all well behind hydro.
Is it an LLM wrapper or not? As far as I can tell you haven't answered that.
And users clearly appreciate it. I was going over some bolt types with a design guy at my workplace yesterday for a project and his first instinct is to pull up the McMaster-Carr site to see what was possible. I don't know if we even order from them, since we pass through purchasing folks, but the site is just brilliantly simple and elegant.
Very nice. Got a small format glitch, but a bit of work cleaned it up. Also like the pricing options. Have you considered offering a super low cost tester account (say $9 for 5 sites lifetime) so people can test it out with minimal friction. I know it's free right now, but I'm assuming that will change soon?
I'd like that too, but there is no commonly usable platform where it's possible right now. AMD and Intel will not open their firmware. Apple stuff will always be proprietary. Arm from Qualcomm the same. This has nothing to do with advertising.

Wanting a free firmware for all components is just not realistic in any way today or in the foreseeable future.
Black Box engineering.

You can add the 555 Timer to an already completed design if it is later discovered that debouncing was an unsolved problem.

I don't think it is always appropriate to assume that code can be rewritten (or rearchitected) to fit your needs. Sometimes its easier to solve problems with a touch of extra external hardware.
Douglas Trumbull was the technician behind the special effects. He had been working making films for NASA describing future space missions.
Yikes, sorry to hear about that awful experience. I could be underestimating, but we've gone to the ER on at least... three occasions where the situation was clearly immediately life-threatening and seen the doctor immediately upon arrival. Then there are the times we've arrived not by ambulance and waited up to about six hours. I don't think we've ever waited 12+ hours, that's terrible.

N=5 (I checked in with my wife about two times she went to the ER in Nepal, and I went to Bumrungrad once in Bangkok), but our average time abroad has been under 30 minutes, and that includes the prescriptions in Portugal and getting eyeglasses in Nepal. Only one time was serious, in Nepal, and they saw her immediately then.
Talking about my country, it seems more young people prefer to be an influencer than a engineer, in the end most of them can’t become an influencer and so they also don’t become engineers
If you host a house party, and you invite a guy that sells meth. And someone tells you that one of your guests overdosed in the bathroom and died. Then you let the guest sell more meth, although it was reported to you.

Demanding you throw out the meth seller has absolutely nothing to do with "giving them rights that belong to governments". It's your right of house rules to throw him out. And it's your responsibility as the party host.

But who am I telling this... A Freedom-troll will never understand...
Yes they do. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29286715
Can you share it, i would also love to hear your journey building it. Pricing models is currently changing
How much software is written by crazy people and what are the risks of running software written by crazy people? These are questions that we should not even have to ask, but not only do we have to ask them, they are central.
Your first scenario is plausible, the second I'm not sure about. Due to the growth rate central routers had a very fast replacement cycle anyway, and edge devices mostly operated at layer 2, so didn't much care about IP. (Maybe the was done device in the middle that would have had a shorter lifespan?). I worked at a major router semiconductor vendor, and I can tell you that all the products supported IPv6 at a hardware level for many, many years before significant deployment and did not use it as a price differentiator. (Sure, they were probably buggy for longer than necessary, but that would have been shaken out earlier if the use was earlier). So I don't think the cost of routers was the issue.

The problem with ipv6 in my understanding was that the transitional functions (nat-pt etc) were half baked and a new set had to be developed. It is possible that disruption would have occurred if that had to be done against an earlier address exhaustion date.