skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
(Context note: I started writing this as a top-level comment, but I think it ultimately fits better as a concurring reply here.)

For all of the galling failures described in this story, I see it first and foremost as an indictment of the (non-)system. If a plane has a rough landing that results in so much as a sprained ankle, we expect everyone involved with that flight to be up to their eyeballs in an NTSB investigation that will produce a thorough and authoritative account of the failure. Alaska Airlines Flight 1282 (aka the 737 Max door plug blowout) officially resulted in 3 minor injuries, and that was a massive scandal that prompted a tidal wave of scrutiny against Boeing and perhaps a dozen high-profile pieces about how its engineering culture was undermined by McDonnell Douglas's management culture. At least as many people have evidently been fatally poisoned at St. Peter's.

But we apparently can't investigate medical failures with even a modest fraction of that level of robustness because... uh... reasons. The knee-jerk deflection is that medicine is messy and doctors are due a certain amount of deference for judgment calls in the context of the situation; are the same points not also true of aviation and pilots? Suppose that Dr. Wiener is entitled to walk away a free man because of a non-blame-oriented culture of dispassionate root cause analysis. In that case, we're due (and he's due, for that matter) a very detailed and public accounting of exactly where the failures occurred, whether they're his or others'. But maybe we're just not ready to look this shit in the eye.

(I'm also making a note to myself to double my usual donation to ProPublica this year; they've been kicking ass at the sort of muckraking that we haven't seen nearly enough of in the past 15-20 years)
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This particularly americanised brand of nihilism is so bloody tiring.
Honestly, what an absolutely minimal effort blog post. It would've been so much cooler if the author actually interviewed John and fleshed out or explored the idea a bit more.
I saw a picture of the insides on another site, it looked like a Disney castle with the stone polished to look almost white. Why not just restore it to look like before the accident?
Are there still places that require masks?? I don't know of any here.

I do actually have hayfever and wearing a mask all summer is not an option for other b medical reasons so I would avoid those but I have seen any in Europe.
I wanted to see if chatGPT will be able to understand the meaning of this comic, and i think it did.

*Gpt message:*

This comic humorously highlights a critical issue in the tech world: the dependency of massive modern digital infrastructure on small, often overlooked, and underfunded components maintained by individual contributors. The large stack in the illustration represents the complex and sprawling "modern digital infrastructure," while the tiny piece at the bottom, maintained by a "random person in Nebraska," symbolizes open-source software or obscure tools that are crucial for the functioning of this entire system.

The key message is that large systems often rely on foundational work done by unsung heroes who may not receive the recognition, support, or resources they deserve, despite the critical nature of their contributions. This comic resonates particularly with the tech community, where dependencies on small open-source projects are common.
Freedom of or from what?
As I near retirement I've thought about moving somewhere else, but never really thought about that someplace else being outside the US. But thinking about it, I think there are several other countries that would actually fit in well with most of what I'd need for a pleasant retirement. US citizens who retire abroad can still collect US Social Security so going abroad wouldn't affect my retirement income.

But what about healthcare? How do non-rich US citizens who retire abroad deal with that? There are actually two aspects to that--how do you get healthcare abroad, and if you later move back to the US are there problems getting on Medicare?
Gotta learn to filter the news on various ways. Climate change? You gonna make the earth temp decrease? Then stop worrying. Microplastics? Just drink more from glass and less junk which come from plastic containers. Lots of violence on the news? It’s been like that ever since man has evolved from cells. Stop worrying
[Tutorial] MVC in GNU Artanis
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I think it’s a 20th century middle-class thing, and possibly mostly a USA thing. Before then, the mother usually had help, either paid or relatives. With the advent of home appliances and the impact of WW2, suddenly middle-class families were nuclear only and the wife was supposed to operate the house alone, like a factory worker punching buttons on machines.
They also made a tool.

Anyway, lots of things sound obvious, but are in fact wrong. So, it is good for academics to formally study things that sound obvious at first.
I'd heard Kevin Rose was trying to get Digg back. Is that happening?
Slickwater fracking caused huge changes in the economy of the US. Look at natural gas as a fraction of energy use in 1970 vs. today.

Achieving efficient combustion turbines (comparable to steam turbines) wasn't really possible until ~1980.
Maybe it means the manager assigned work to someone junior that was beyond their capabilities? I suggest the manager has a talk with themselves along these lines: "I've noticed you've assigned Jimmy to work on improving the scalability of the widget producer. In retrospect this was beyond where Jimmy is right now in his journey as a software engineer. Let's reflect on this incident and try to make sure that we have people working on things that help them grow but don't put them in a position where they don't have the experience to do the job right and also to realize they don't have that experience".

Seriously though, I don't think there's "healthy conflict". There are healthy relationships where you can someone they're full of it without it being an insult or you can discuss how to write better software without it being perceived as a personal insult. An environment where people want to grow, are curious, are friendly, and just talk about how to do things better. Once you're in "conflict" territory it's something else. Unfortunately in most organizations you actually do have to get into conflict territory to impact change but I don't see that as a positive thing, just a negative that is a fact of life.

EDIT: This "I noticed blah" pattern is what's taught in formal management training as a method of giving feedback. I know because I've done those. The problem is that wrapping negative feedback in some formulaic pattern is transparent and doesn't work. So the person receiving this immediately strips away your formula and hears the negative feedback. I know that's what I do when someone uses those tools on me. The way forward is not to use those tools but to engage in a true positive way and foster a positive atmosphere. A smart person already knows there's a problem when their code got rolled back. The discussion shouldn't be about their performance "issue" but just about assigning people jobs they can handle and giving them tools and support to that right. There are exceptions when there are more complicated things going on, but the way this is handled when people have good intentions and are motivated is to generally keep helping them stay motivated and have good intentions even when they make mistakes.
From the above linked post (the article is the same);

Annotated History of Modern AI and Deep Learning - https://people.idsia.ch/~juergen/deep-learning-history.html

Pretty good and mentions a lot of folks i didn't know about.
https://imgur.com/a/hfc2wq2
Fwiw, the second-largest blockchain barely uses any energy. The real problem is that it's still not scalable enough for something like this, but it's improving pretty rapidly.

As for why blockchain: if you did this on a regular database, you'd be trusting a third party to run that database. Businesses tend not to like that, because sooner or later it gets hard to switch away and the third party starts charging a lot more money.
>Being your own employer is the only way to take charge of this.

One step further, being your own doctor when ever possible is even better. Bring out the rusty knife for surgery, a club for anesthesia etc. most surgeries are not rocket science.
Database normalization:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Database_normalization

4NF:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fourth_normal_form
So, one could buy a Picturephone in 1970, but it was completely impractical.

Today, any average person can do video calls across the world.

The "invention > refinement" idea would call these the same thing.
> The first prototype Lithium Ion battery was 1985.

True to a certain extent:

> Research on rechargeable Li-ion batteries dates to the 1960s; one of the earliest examples is a CuF2/Li battery developed by NASA in 1965. The breakthrough that produced the earliest form of the modern Li-ion battery was made by British chemist M. Stanley Whittingham in 1974, who first used titanium disulfide (TiS2) as a cathode material, which has a layered structure that can take in lithium ions without significant changes to its crystal structure.

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lithium-ion_battery#History

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_lithium-ion_bat...

But even if we grant that Li-ion batteries were a post-1970s innovation/invention—as opposed to a refinement of something that came before—it would still be one of the few that occurred, as the referenced book argues.
When I learned quantum mechanics as part of a Chemistry BSc, it was broken down so as to be easier to digest. It made it much fucking harder for me. When I did it as a Phsyicist, they just laid out the math and it was super straightforward. I think back when they came up with 4NF, everyone was still trying to figure out what the fuck they were talking about, and so explanations were needlessly complicated.

Anyway, now with non-relational databases, 4NF can slow you down.
You think pomp and ceremony weren't a thing before the TV/social media age?
FWIW, school being organized around harvest season was definitely a thing in the agricultural parts of the US when I was growing up. In fact, there were driving permits specifically for children in agricultural communities so that they could legally drive farming vehicles on the roads. During peak harvest season they needed every able body they could get.

The farmers would pay the kids a bit of money, which seemed like a lot of money to someone in elementary school.
By the way, a lot of money goes to open-source projects via donations in exchange for an SEO backlink. A lot of stuff going down there.
> But I think we can write computer programs to generate infinite amounts of "correct" data. For example, imagine you want to train AI to recognize Tea Cups. We can generate using computer graphics (not even AI) infinite numbers of "correct" example images to train on, simply by rotating a CGI model thru every possible viewpoint on a 3D sphere.

That's not training AI to recognize tea cups, that's training AI to recognize your model of a teacup. Of course this will fail, because your generated data doesn't contain everything that a picture of a teacup contains.

Look at real teacup pictures [1]. None of the teacups I have at home have flowers on them, so I wouldn't have thought to put flowers on my model, but most of those pictures have flowers on them. But even if you thought to put flowers on your teacup, are you now generating a bunch of varieties of flower patterns?

And that's not even starting in on images like a teacup with tea in it [2], a teacup with a dog in it [3], or a teacup with a teabag[4].

In short, your 3d model ISN'T CORRECT in any useful sense of the word.

[1] https://duckduckgo.com/?t=h_&q=teacup&iax=images&ia=images

[2] https://thumbs.dreamstime.com/b/tea-cup-tea-upside-wood-tabl...

[3] https://img-s-msn-com.akamaized.net/tenant/amp/entityid/BB1k...

[4] https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/ad/Te...
There's unemployment insurance but only if you're laid off.
It's hard to fathom any of this, and it's seriously concerning how out of touch Gen Zers apparently are. These unreasonable expectations of an entitled and clueless generation are pretty jawdropping. I hate to use those words, but that's what the results of this survey are. And why shift to the right? They're the ones who tank the economy every time they're in power and have done so for decades now. Furthers my theory that Gen Z doesn't bother to understand how anything works.

I get it. Things really suck right now. Social media has ruined an entire generation's childhood. But millennials faced these same challenges, if not more so. Demanding that you need to be a one-percenter to be financially comfortable is just so off base that it's beyond comprehension. I'm well into my life and career, and I don't even see an expectation of a half or even a third of the Gen Z number as realistic. And again, the shift to the right is basically like they've asked themselves "how do we make it worse for ourselves?". Do they really think one-percenters want to share their piece of the pie?

Edit: None of these remarks about any particular person and are commentary about the aggregate generation as described by this survey. I perfectly understand that Millennials and Gen Zers have been handled a terrible hand. But I have to admit that I am frustrated with Gen Z bending towards the right in this recent election and with their inability to be realistic in any way whatsoever if the results of this survey are to be believed.
50% effective or marginal? During discussions, only effective is useful. According to the PWC page:

https://taxsummaries.pwc.com/germany/individual/taxes-on-per...

Marginal tax rate is 42% on the first EUR after 278K. That would astonishingly high total income in Germany. There might be some remaining solidarity tax from the reunification, but I cannot see how you get to an effective tax rate of 50% on 100K income, which is considered excellent in Germany.

Can you share a worked example how effective tax rate can be above 50%?
If your executable is named "foo" and there is a "foo.c" somewhere, your Makefile only needs to contain "foo:" and make will figure out how to build it using its default rules. If you have more than one file (ex: foo.c and bar.c), just write "foo: bar.c".

Modern build systems are more advanced and have better defaults, but the general idea is the same. They are all declarative. An imperative build system would be like a shell script.
oh so that's how these miracle cures work...
The above posts presented no evidence that the candidate or his campaign spent any money on the election. Obviously someone spent money, but why should that disqualify the candidate.

Should news media companies that report positively about one candidate or negatively about another be required to file in-kind donation reports? Can we disqualify their favored candidate if they don’t?

If we statistically see that there are a lot of social media posts for or against a candidate, should we require all social media posters to file in-kind donation reports?

If poor university students with nothing more than time and access to a photocopier be required to report in-kind donations for posting flyers?

I’m sure in any election we could and would find plenty of “unreported” donations, and if the penalty was removing the offending candidate, it would be weaponized to remove candidates from competition.

There is no “fair” distribution of information. Allowing courts to interfere in elections with the assumptions that they can remedy that fairness is a recipe for tyranny and manipulation.

The only reason courts should step in is when legally established processes related to registration and casting of ballots (objective, observable processes) are not followed correctly.
Such a sign of the world we live in that restoring a old building raises a billion dollars, but we somehow can't afford to house people who are freezing to death in the streets.
> Can someone tell me why all those new electric cars are so poorly designed in terms of size and weight? Most of them weight over 2t and have a large frontal area (VW ID.4 is the prime example). I just want an economical family vehicle (lightweight, hatchback design) and there aren't that many options.

If you don't need anything right now, don't feel any pressure to go out and buy something new. If you do, get whatever works for you, even if that is an ICE vehicle. Don't feel bad; you're doing what is best for your family.

But know that the "future" in EVs is likely closer than you think. Look at the Canoo vehicles - I'm not saying buy one, just look at it and think about the design. Look at the VW ID.Buzz. Again, don't buy one (it's an overpriced usability mess), just look at it and think about the design. You know what is most interesting about it? The length is a foot to a foot and a half less than the existing minivans on the market, but it has more interior room. That is interesting, isn't it?

Well, the Ford CEO said this in the Q2 2024 investor call [1]:

> ...Now when people hear about affordability and they think about small and unaffordable, I'd like to address that now. We are designing a super-efficient platform, leveraging innovation across our product development, supply chain, and manufacturing teams. With no engine or drivetrain, a smaller vehicle can have a much roomier package, actually the interior package of a class above with a small silhouette. That's a big advantage for customers versus ICE. And we're focusing on very differentiated vehicles priced under $40,000 or even $30,000.

And then in the Q3 2024 investor call [2]:

> we're deep into the design and engineering of our next-generation vehicles. Boy! are we excited about these coming out in the next few years. In 40 years in the industry, I've seen a lot of game-changer products, but the mid-sized electric pickup designed by our California team has got to be one of the most exciting. It's incredible package and consumer technology for a segment we know well. It matches the cost structure of any Chinese auto manufacturer building in Mexico in the future. How do we know that? Because 60% of the [BOM] (ph) has already been quoted.

So, this pickup is the first one to come out, and that's not what you are looking for. But the EVs that come after it may be exactly what you are looking for. And of course Ford is not going to be alone. All the car companies are going to be working from this point of view. So, can you wait 4-5 years for the EV that actually works for what you need? Perhaps your next ICE car is your last ICE car?

[1] https://www.fool.com/earnings/call-transcripts/2024/07/24/fo...

[2] https://seekingalpha.com/article/4730242-ford-motor-company-...
Having an obligation to be neutral isn't the same as being neutral - people and especially institutions break their obligations all the time, often without penalty.
> Fax was invented in the 1800s:

Offices didn't have them until the late 60s or 70s which is what matters.

It's like saying that people could make video calls back in the 30s...

> the four biggest factors

Yet there were almost 2x more fatalities per same distance driven back in 1980 and almost 4x in 1970
You are what you ingest. Both food and information!
> Slickwater fracking caused huge changes in the economy of the US. Look at natural gas as a fraction of energy use in 1970 vs. today.

But that's more of the same commodity that we've been using since the days of Standard Oil. Has fracking increased economic productivity or measurable gains in quality of life?

> Achieving efficient combustion turbines (comparable to steam turbines) wasn't really possible until ~1980.

And ~1980 is very close to the cut-off (1970s) that the book argues things haven't change much. The book does have chapters on transportation, including airplanes.
Based on your comment, I remembered I used Feedly when Google Reader went away.

Logging into Feedly was like going back in time!

I must have imported all my Google Reader feeds into Feedly.

It's a Time Capsule of a bygone age! :-D
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Hnews is the only thing I read lately.

I had to remove reddit, CNN, nytimes, fnews, fb. And honestly I'm a lot happier.

I'm sad because I no longer an doing my civic duty to stay informed and have an educated opinion but part of gaining that opinion I would get materially angry at the otherside that they were "being so stupid, obviously you shouldn't think like that".

It got bad enough it was affecting me personally and how I interacted with my family.

I'll start up again eventually because it matters to me but for now I need to stay happier.
It's obvious to anyone with eyes that the world is flat. I'm glad someone checked anyhow.
Your "argument" is so poorly constructed that it could easily be considered trolling and therefore feels like it has no point to engage it, thats one of the main reasons it reads as generated by OpenAI bot accounts, like just today someone realized they could ask about the time Jimmy Carter kicked a klansmen in the nuts and GPT would explain with excruciating detail how and when it went down, except this never happened, but with your "argument" we should just assume that GPT making things way too frequently its just a part of life and that its still a pretty useful tool despite misleading thousands of people in a daily basis.
Wrong. Second point criticizes the mandate.

>>> They were ignored, and days later, the Biden Administration mandated the vaccine.

It's one thing to ignore the issues and allow people to choose to take the vaccine. It's entirely different to force people to take it.
It's not the platform. It's the time. When Digg was active time was different, there were few people online. I'm afraid the new Digg will suffer same pitfalls as other social networks. The time has change and the crowd online has changed.