skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I'm not sure how relevant that is to air traffic control.

Well, they got the e-mail about resigning the day after the DC plane crash, so that probably didn't help morale.
There probably is a world where you get paid per line of code or story point, but you might not like it. When an employer pays a salary they are buying out your entire professional capacity. In a creative field like ours, part of that price encodes a bet that you might be one of those rare workers whose contribution exceeds their cost many times over. If everyone is able to titrate their contribution to the exact level of management’s expectations, like by context-switching to childcare or another job when their assigned workload is done, then the budget for the role is going to be exactly what that bare minimum is worth.

What could break us out of this jam is either radically more individualized compensation structures, or other costly signals of commitment and engagement that are as meaningful to the firm as transporting your physical body to be somewhere for 8 hours a day.

I think there’s an interesting world of co-presence technology beyond the Zoom call that could be relevant here, but explorations in this area are also a stone’s throw from rather dystopian employee surveillance regimes, so it’s hard to say.
Interesting. Thanks for the links.
The air traffic controller shortage long predates Trump; here [1] for example is a statement about it from 2015.

[1] https://www.natca.org/2015/12/09/natca-discusses-air-traffic...
Haiku has had an X11 compatibility layer for a few years now.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31167562

https://www.haiku-os.org/blog/waddlesplash/2022-01-10_haiku_...
> diagnosis [...] are waste of time

> schools will provide evidence based help

In many places you need the former to get the latter.
I thought it was funny in a "This email could have been a meeting" type way...
I'm not that up on the US stuff as I'm a Brit but it's the only case I'm aware of of let's make up a new crime to get the guy that's made it into the British press. I mean Trump is probably guilty of real crimes, especially the confidential documents one but the stuff he was convicted of is kind of lame.

I'm not a Trump fan but as a strategy to stop Trump getting elected it didn't work very well.
You're misunderstanding what was said. It's about costs/income. RTO (probably) doesn't increase income - but people will (most likely) quit, reducing costs. Thus the ratio gets better.
That wouldn’t be enough to stop smartphone addiction though
Which distro uses systemd-networkd as standard? I am genuinely curious. I could see using it on a server, but not on anything desktopy.
Often these 3rd party offerings are feature flags PLUS experimentation with user segmenting. Depending on the style of software you build, this can be extremely valuable; it’s very popular in the SaaS market for a reason.

Early on at Notion we used simple percent rollout in Redis, then we built our own flag & experimentation system, but as our needs got more complex we ended up switching to a 3rd party rather than dedicating a team to keep building out the internal system.

We will probably hit a scale in a few years where it makes sense to bring this back in house but there’s certainly a sweet spot for the 3rd party version between the 50-500 engineer mark for SaaS companies.
It would not be that slow as it is an MoE model with 37b activated parameters.

Still, 8x3090 gives you ~2.25 bits per weight, which is not a healthy quantization. Doing bifurcation to get up to 16x3090 would be necessary for lightning fast inference with 4bit quants.

At that point though it becomes very hard to build a system due to PCIE lanes, signal integrity, the volume of space you require, the heat generated, and the power requirements.

This is the advantage of moving up to Quadro cards, half the power for 2-4x the VRAM (top end Blackwell Quadro expected to be 96GB).
This comment will be very down voted. It is statistically likely to invoke an emotional response.
That last quote is saying that if tank hits the ground but it's not compromised enough for pressure to escape, disturbing it could cause it to release all that pressurized fuel at once ("explode"). Hopefully in the original context they explained that this is not very likely.
https://www.ntsb.gov/about/foia/Pages/default.aspx

https://foiarequest.ntsb.gov/App/Index.aspx
It's very easy to have rose colored glasses when remembering the 90s.

I'm not trying to discount your entire point, but rather, argue that what was true in that economic climate might not be the same today.

Do I believe people were enthusiastic, collaborative, and highly productive when it seemed nothing could go wrong and the economy was booming? Absolutely. It's a lot harder to pull everyone together and knock out projects at an "insane" rate when the backdrop is the post-2007, post-covid climate. Stock market aside, there's something off about the purchasing power of the dollar and most young people feel it deeply. It's demotivating to say the least.

I think that's why you're seeing such a strong resistance to RTO. If massive wealth growth isn't an option like it was in the 90s, then give me comfort.
Show HN: ESP32 RC Cars
This is a projected I started that blends both the fun of playing a split screen multiplayer driving game and controlling real rc cars.

The cars can also be controlled via bluetooth gamepads and is meant to be easily hackable.
Yup. The LLM-AutoDiff is just getting started. But it has proven generation-only without explicitly doing few-shot samples can be even more effective and create shorter final prompts
Well the concept hasn’t received the same amount of government investment or subsidies or private capital either. So I think it’s unfair to compare it to the more mature state of battery electric vehicles. Infrastructure could be built at cost, hydrogen production could be enabled by nuclear energy sources, etc. I think it is too early to write it off, especially because it does come with advantages over batteries like faster refueling.
This article has a good explanation of TCAS limits.

https://www.twz.com/news-features/heres-what-air-traffic-col...
Honestly, I think the appeal to ancient simplicity is a bad take.

Spend the trivial bit of time it takes to learn modern C# syntax and you'll be able read any C# fine. You'll get to use modern tooling built on a language designed along with the tools, as long as you embrace it.

On the other hand, you can spend the time it takes to learn the idiosyncrasies of every different C codebase you encounter and how they handle all the little problems differently for trivial things that would be well documented and baked into C#.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trappist_beer
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> But they could have even less!

Driven by the most direct, tangible cause of the capitalists pursuing their own narrow interests. And AI fits in there as well ($500B funding to AI says Trump).

> What would it look like to face these issues but more directly?

Socialism. It doesn’t matter that jobs are automated away under socialism since there is no capital/worker social relation. If jobs are automated everyone just works less.

> Ending capitalism and competition?

You put those two together for some reason.

Capitalism and the state sector have lead to amazing improvements in the productive capacity of society overall. A lack of, at least from our First World perspective at least, doesn’t seem to be an issue. Instead the problem is (1) unsustainable growth (climate change) and (2) directing the productive capacity towards pro-social goals. So yes a change is long overdue.

Productive competition happens under capitalism. And sometimes it doesn’t. There’s plenty of accusations of Big Tech being anti-competitive on this site.
Limiting socialisation for short time to focus is one thing, but a complete ban on reading outside the curriculum is hugely damaging to a child's education and happiness.
World Economic Forum Future of Jobs Report [pdf]
My migraines turned out to be related to my wisdom teeth. Once they were removed (for a different reason), the migraines stopped.
Makes you assume the article is also at least partially generated by AI
How often are tech advancements artificially slowed, meted out in quarterly or annual releases to keep the growth metrics up?
Thanks for actually reading and providing genuine technical feedback! I'm new to writing about my work so I appreciate you sticking through the meandering. Also didn't expect this to get posted here by a cross-post bot.

Definitely agree with your point about redis. This was explicitly a learning exercise for me to learn redis. For other hobby projects I'll keep using in-memory structures to keep things simple. For more serious projects I'll stick to postgres. One thing I did appreciate about redis though was the sorted set functionality which made it trivial to implement the top 10 page. As far as I know most SQL databases don't have an equivalent structure?

The Uuid from the request-id header was actually used internally to associate a submitted number with a pending request, so it served a double purpose along with monitoring. I probably should have realized that the header could be overridden to a non-Uuid. Using the unwrap() there surfaced the issue pretty quickly and it was a straightforward fix once it came up, but returning an 500 would have been surfaced just as easily and not caused the server to crash. I've now learned my lesson about keeping unwrap() far away from any server code when I'm writing other web applications in rust.

The lack of any sort of input validation was mostly intentional as I only expected friends to play with it and wanted to see what they would do with the ability to submit arbitrary-length strings. Once it got a bit of attention and more people started trying to break things is when it became a problem.

Mostly I just wanted to share the silly ways people managed to mess with the site once it got a modest audience between just people I knew personally, but hopefully other people can learn from my mistakes like I did!
which drastically reduces its energy density
I wonder about Amazon reviews right now.

Part of the utility of writing a review is that it is read, but the primary search for keywords in reviews now requires the user to wait for AI generated responses first.

Then the user must tap through another link and then expand an individual matching review. It’s absolutely buried.
Isn’t atmospheric carbon capture far less inefficient and more expensive than hydrogen production?
The so-called "DEI" hiring policies currently in effect, however, were instituted under Trump: https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/01/30/faa-dei-t...

The party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears...
I'm not sure how any of the current initiatives will lead to a balanced budget, to be honest. Here's a site by the Congressional Budget Office, which will likely be more reliable than the Treasury going forward.

https://www.cbo.gov/publication/60843/html

- Over FY24, revenue ran to $4.19 trillion, while spending ran to $6.14 trillion – leaving (up to rounding before calculation) a deficit of $1.95 trillon.

– Of all of this spending, ~$4.10 trillion is likely untouchable politically, since accounted for by the DoD, Social Security, Medicare, and interest on public debt. This leaves us with ~$2.04 trillion worth of spending to cut $1.95 trillion from. I think you can see how feasible that is.

Federal salaries and benefits are _peanuts_ compared to the trillions of dollars involved – I think around 8.6%, although the CBO doesn't have spending broken down by cost objects.

Assuming Elon's run the numbers, he'll be perfectly aware that trimming down the federal workforce won't do jack shit to get the US to a balanced budget. His motivations are different.
+1 this was exactly what i came to comment
This sounds like mixed messaging. The head of the FAA was forced to resign because he fined SpaceX for safety violations and President Musk did not like that. However, I've been hearing about ATC problems my entire life so around 40 years.
We use gpt4o as the backward model. But I’m excited to try deepseek r1 as it has explicit reasoning available.

We are continuously adding more benchmarks to the paper with UTAustin.
Just saw Lennart Poettering speak at Fosdem and perhaps it’s even more Unix-y then system V init :)
Not to be that yt'r that shills my videos all over, but you did ask for a low powered desktop build and this $350 one I put together is still my favorite. The 3060 12GB with llama 3.2 vision 11b is a very fun box that is low idle power (intel rules) to leave on 24/7 and have it run some additional services like HA.

https://youtu.be/iflTQFn0jx4
>Not once have I ever had to interact with these technologies in a way that would benefit from my application using the same language.

You haven't had to or refuse to? I've interacted with plenty of C# teams in my career and getting them to step outside the box to solve an actual technical problem in a reasonable way is _painful_ for this very reason.

They'd rather set up a meeting or hire more consultants and stonewall a project for over a year.

Most programmers can learn and pick up C# in like a day, but Windows-based developers seem to have a lot of trouble going the other way.
WWII was an invasion into Europe, not a civil war.

Every time we've intervened in civil wars, the outcome has been bad, with one exception -- Korea.

The problems with your thinking are:

#1 It's how the neo-cons think and is the justification for all of the US terrorism in the past 40+ years.

#2 Who are you to say what the best outcome for another people are? Which people? What group in Syria will have this great outcome now that it's controlled by Isis?

#3 How many people did you get to kill to experiment with nation building? Do you really understand the internal power dynamics of countries like Syria, Iraq? Or are you practicing a form of Imperialism?
Especially if anyone has tips for getting Zoom-like annotation support in Teams!
Wow, didn't know the boomers had a no nut november equivalent.

I feel we are very close to a tipping point, we will get to 90% awake screentime, then 99% then 99.9%. At some point we'll start increasing our efforts to revert that on a massive scale until something works
How to Solve the Rubik's Cube
I disagree that using feature flags to de-risk deployments is a symptom of bad deployment pipelines.

There's several aspects of deployments that are in contention with each other: safety, deployment latency, and engineering overhead are how I'd break it down. Every deployment process is a tradeoff between these factors.

What I (maybe naively) think you're advocating is writing more end-to-end tests, which moves the needle towards safety at the expense of the other factors. In particular, having end to end tests that are materially better than well-written k8s health checks (which you already have, right?) is pretty hard. They might be flakey, they might depend on a lot of specifics of the application that's subject to change, and they might just not be prioritized. In my experience, the highest value end-to-end tests are based on learned experiences of what someone already saw go wrong once. Writing comprehensive testing before the feature is even out results in many low quality tests, which is an enormous drain on productivity to write them, to maintain them, and to deal with the flakey tests. It is better, I think, to have non-comprehensive end-to-end tests that provides as much value for the lowest overhead on human resources. And the safety tradeoff we make there can be mitigated by having the feature behind a flag.

My whole thesis, really, is that by using feature flags you can make better tradeoffs between these than you otherwise could.
When your app starts to get bigger and more complex, the idea of needing to restart a process to pick up any new kind of data starts to seem silly.

Have seen the pattern many times:

Hard-code values in code -> configure via env -> configure slow things via env and fast things via redis -> configure almost everything via a config management system

I do not want to reboot every instance in a fleet of 2000 nodes just to enable a new feature for a new batch of beta testers. How do I express that in an env var anyways? What if I have 100s of flags I need to control?

In other cases I need some set of nodes to behave one way, and some set of nodes to behave another way - say the nodes in us-west-2 vs the nodes in eu-central-1. Do I really want to teach my deploy system the exhaustive differences of configuration between environments? No I want my orchestration and deploy layer to be as similar as possible between regions, and push almost everything besides region & environment identification into the app layer - those two can be env vars because they basically never change for the life of the cluster.
I have bad news, your company doesn’t need you. Accepting this is a start to a healthy work relationship.
From the inside, RTO feels more like a way to reclaim leverage from highly paid technical employees who have become too uppity. Summoning us back to the office is about putting us in our place - but in the social hierarchy, not physically.
We don't know, but I think step 1 is recognizing the issue, and we are not all there yet.

Jumping to the solution feels underestimating the issue, and demanding a quick fix. Par for the course for the malady.
So is someone making jokes of our reality? No really, think about it:

RONALD REAGAN AIRPORT has a disaster because of decades-long crisis of too few air-traffic controllers available?

Reagan fired thousands upon thousands of ATC because they dared to ask for proper wages.

That seems like an odd place to put his name.

(oh and this had nothing to do with DEI, just like all attacks on DEI are ridiculous and just people being trolls for entertainment)
I started with the first author on this paper, Simon Frieder, and found his page: he's a postdoc mathematician (and ML researcher) at Oxford. I don't think this was a particularly sharp critique.
Look at it as a typewriter that knows what you should say. Don't think about it too much.
Collaboration in person is a force multiplier. The problem is corporations and CEOs are the ones getting all the benefit from that. The average employee is no better off in RTO, so why would you expect them to want that?

For the record, I prefer being in office so I'm not arguing from my perspective. I'm merely trying to take the position of someone who advocates for remote work. It's not hard to understand why they might.
Nah, the whole executive branch is getting Jack Welch'ed. Hopefully your tap water cleanliness regulations are strong on a state level.
I think quotes like this should be attributed to the character (the secret police commissaire?) not the author?
honestly i like the HN UI as-is, the thing i would want would be some form of email / notification update when someone comments on a post i either submitted or commented on etc.

not sure if something like that already exists :shrug:
Apparently many people consider that to be a feature rather than a bug.

Just a reminder that the USA Federal Government hit the debt limit on Jan 21 and the Treasury is currently taking "extraordinary measures" to avoid a sovereign default. If/when this happens (currently projected for the end of March but much of the drama in the news could cause it to happen sooner), the Social Security Trust Fund (and your US Treasury Bills and FDIC insured savings) could be worth considerably less than before.
a minimal page with no in depth information and a bitcoin donation address. i'm skeptical it's anything more than an endeavor for the creator to profit off of the topic being in the news.
I assume the issue is that stock photography costs money.
Never a full-time developer but I had a ton of in-person interacting in the early years of my career--even though I've had significant remote (admittedly mixed in with a good bit of traveling for a long time). Maybe it's a lack of imagination but I can't imagine how working more or less full-time out of my apartment for my early career years would have worked.
Right, having a second chip functioning as a watchdog which doesn't share the same silicon substrate mitigates the latchup. If you can recover before both theoretically could get struck, statistically you'll be okay. For added safety, have an extra one that is not coplanar with the other two so a single heavy ion strike can't pass through all 3 chips.
This is actually great news. Now there is a reason for Perplexity to finally change their dreadful name to something much better for the general public to know them for.

Let's see if they will choose wisely on a renaming.
No, that was only ten days beforehand and focused on people at a high level. There's no good reason to believe it had an effect on this crash.
Well, it's not made up. I think it's fair to interpret it that way. The word 'loyal' literally appears in the text.

"Enhanced standards of conduct: The federal workforce should be comprised of employees who are reliable, loyal, trustworthy, and who strive for excellence in their daily work. Employees will be subject to enhanced standards of suitability and conduct as we move forward. Employees who engage in unlawful behavior or other misconduct will be prioritized for appropriate investigation and discipline, including termination."
There wasn't enough time for Trump to affect his specific incident. But longer term it's certainly not a good idea to send traffic controllers a letter asking them to resign (the letter went to all federal employees) and to interfere with staff for purely political reasons this way.
We need to look at data on near misses as well, to understand the trends better and prevent it from becoming potentially worse.
Yokoffing/Betterfox: Firefox user.js for speed, privacy, and security
way to FUD, leaking data out of the apps I choose is still a privacy violation.
>This is blaming the parents for society

Pragmatically speaking: I offer that society isn't going to read the article but some parents will.

And parents won't change the direction of society but they can parent differently.

That's where I see potential value in the article.
As self-proclaimed Neurodivergency Truther™, I support the general thesis of dear Ahmed's essay (and look forward to more of his work). I also invite him to consider his own parent's past and whether he can find any evidence of "forced assimilation" in their lives. I have a hunch.
Nothing really special that we use now. They are all SaaS tools we login to via SSO. GSuite, Notion, and LucidChart are all great for collaboration. Of course Slack and Zoom.
So cozying up to Trump means your businesses get preferential treatment. Autocracy has its perks.

Elon, Trump and the whole MAGA movement I’ll be very happy when they’re all exposed as the weirdos and their actions as un-American that they are.
I saw that. But it's laced with political overtones. The question is not just # of controllers, it's the quality of controllers.

Have they lowered the standards to get through ATC school? What is the truth?

Just asking so I have ammunition against right-wing arguments.
Plus lunch, yes. No way I could do anything that involves thinking for that long. Menial tasks maybe.
the opposite is "musk says". do you believe Musk over a bank?
You're a work colleague, and nothing more. I certainly have no interest in engaging with work colleagues outside of work. I have a life.
Google Maps reclassifies the U.S. as a 'sensitive country'
Your reading is wrong.
Yeah, if you are using Teams, I assume you are working for a “Big Enterprise” company. I work for a company that was born working remotely. We use GSuite which has great support for annotations.
How do you do software upgrades if you don't have a good system for handling process restarts without downtime?