skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think the underlying problem was the irresponsible amount of air traffic that has been allowed in that space. It sounds like the pilot made a mistake any pilot might've made and truly it was just a matter of time until something like this happened given the overcrowded nature of the air traffic in the area.

Operator error is only the first 'why' in the 5 whys for this incident.
> I mean, no? Not really? There's a whole history of people who do not have a definite sex

Phenotypical sex characteristics do not define sex, and developmental disorders tied to one's sex do not somehow refute one's sex. This talk of "appearances" is exactly the kind of confusion I've been trying to argue against. Biology has a more rigourous definition for sex to avoid exactly these confusions. I do acknowledge that even some biologists have fallen into this trap lately, to our detriment.
Trump wants the US to land astronauts on Mars soon. Could it happen by 2029?
But we trust them with billions in military hardware and defending the nation.
How is it funded? That is your answer.
The APL Challenge
This is what Trump campaigned on and he won.

"It's a democracy when I like it and a coup when I don't!"
Huh, I had not heard of Caral. This culture is apparently much older than the Incas. Like, 2000 BC rather than 1500 AD.
because all your friends are 10s
It doesn't sound like GP is saying we have to do away with audio, just that it's absurd to stick to _just_ audio. Great to have a screen that shows "Clear for option 25R etc etc". I think I saw the latest Cirrus planes have something like that, doing live transcription of tower/ATC calls.

EDIT: I will add I get that adding something like that to a general aviation cockpit is much easier than putting it on a commercial 787, but that doesn't mean we shouldn't try.
> If we want more female representation in STEM - focus on education.

You also have to introduce rules for hiring – unless you want your interventions to have an 80-year delay on them. (Or we could make unqualified 18-year-olds responsible for hiring decisions, I suppose.) If you're training children up for careers they're going to be kept out of, you're doing everyone a disservice.
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I do not get it. Do you really need an app for that? Are your family and friends so disconnected? I would sent email and made a phone call to the rest not heaving email. But I am not from US so it might be the difference.
You're shocked by how many billions go completely unaudited?

okay then...how many billions are completely unaudited?
Yes, right now we're ranging from 0.75-3 seconds for the translation to start, and we're hoping to move the average time lower with our next updates. There will always be some limitation to how fast we can translate (different languages have different sentence structures and phrasing), but for livestreaming usually you'd have even a bit more wiggle room for the latency.

Also in case you're interested in the logistics of using us for livestreaming: If our current platform won't work for your use-case and you need to use OBS + a virtual camera, it's on our roadmap.
Luma and Partiful are really good.

This Apple thing is going to turn into a "green text" social signalling thing all over again. If you have an Android, you won't be invited.

More scummy Apple social engineering bullshit. Kids that already hate on those having Android colored text bubbles are going to bully each other even more. And of course kids need the latest iPhone, too.

Apple is playing into this brilliantly and it's disgusting.
Like this one?

> Roc's compiler has always been written in Rust, and we do not plan to self-host. We have a FAQ entry explaining why, and none of our reasoning has changed on that subject.
It never was a buy out, and everyone should stop referring to it as such.
Arrests need warrants. And if you're thinking about the police, that's also part of the executive, mostly. Judges can't do anything unless some other branch of the government asks them to.
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The false equivalence is so tiring. It’s okay to admit things are unprecedented.

When asked about the news on Oct. 5 that new border wall construction would indeed commence under his administration, Biden told reporters: “The border wall — the money was appropriated for the border wall. I tried to get to them to reappropriate it, to redirect that money. They didn’t. They wouldn’t. And in the meantime, there’s nothing under the law other than they have to use the money for what it was appropriated. I can’t stop that.”

Trump intended to build the wall with no environmental assessments or permits and congress wrote in a waiver since the border was “an emergency” but Biden chose to rescind the emergency declaration and follow the long-established federal construction process instead of using the waivers which does indeed slow things down.

That’s nothing like what is happening with Musk “deleting” entire departments or unilaterally stopping funding because he doesn’t like the phrasing of the grants.
I'm not familiar with Cursor, but I've been using Zed with Claude 3.5 Sonnet. For side projects, I have found it extremely useful to provide the entire codebase as context and send concise prompts focusing on a single requirement. Claude handles "junior developer" tasks well when each unit of work is clearly separated.

Zed makes it trivial to attach documentation and terminal output as context. To reduce risk of hallucination, I now prefer working in static, strongly-typed languages and use libraries with detailed documentation, so that I can send documentation of the library alongside the codebase and prompt. This sounds like a lot of work, but all I do is type "/f" or "/t" in Zed. When I know a task only modifies a single file, then I use the "inline assist" feature and review the diffs generated by the LLM.

Additionally, I have found it extremely useful to actually comment a codebase. LLMs are good at unstructured human language, it's what they were originally designed for. You can use them to maintain comments across a codebase, which in turn helps LLMs since they get to see code and design together.

Last weekend, I was able to re-build a mobile app I made a year ago from scratch with a cleaner code base, better UI, and implement new features on top (making the rewrite worth my time). The app in question took me about a week to write by hand last year; the rewrite took exactly 2 days.

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As a side note: a huge advantage of Zed with locally-hosted models is that one can correct the code emitted by the model and force the model to re-generate its prior response with those corrections. This is probably the "killer feature" of models like qwen2.5-coder:32b. Rather than sending extra prompts and bloating the context, one can just delete all output from where the first mistake was made, correct the mistake, then resume generation.
The actual news here is a 25 year old learned COBOL! :)
"Confirming your beliefs prior to posting would be useful here."

That edits the swipe of "spreading misinformation", which whilst accurate is charged and puts the reader on the defensive, as well as the more egregious "you know what you are talking about" which is nakedly aggressive. HN discussion is highly sensitive to nuances of tone, a point dang makes frequently:

<https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7905762>, <https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23047709> and <https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17689715> especially.

(That last isn't too significant for a well-down-thread comment such as yours, but still plays a strong role, especially in politically-tinged discussion, and especially in the present environment.)

(I make a point of confirming information I provide in comments, largely through inline links or footnotes. Of which I am ... inordinately ... fond: <https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu...>. I've more than once changed my comment significantly on discovering my initial beliefs were false.)
It's pretty good on Chromecast, though some of the media player design patterns don't quite translate to non-apple.
I think this is a naive way of looking at the problem. People that start working in banks, generally do that as a starting point. ATC is the end of the road for that career.

Working in a bank is the start of a quite lucrative career, working as an ATC is the end.

Indeed, we can offer more money to ATC, but there is not a lot, progression wise.

Honestly, how would a junior ATC look like, compared with a senior?
These don't make sense for high volume. They are competing with ADI data converters + FPGA combo on PCBs, which are expensive. Comparable ADI ADCs are 10k+ usd/SKU. Unfortunately for these applications cost and compactness might not be the biggest priority. ADI has great customer support for example, which is really useful while developing such an high end product.

Funny thing is that these ADC/DAC/RF front-ends aren't ghat uncommon. A lot of wireline or wireless SoCs have such high performing blocks, but they aren't general purpose. They are rather optimized for the application and the performance far exceeds this kind of general purpose stuff.

Oh, also, these days one can buy IPs from companies like Socionext or OmniDesign which are in a similar space. These have IPs in 16/7/5nm typically. Anyone willing to spend 30 milion+ usd can have an SDR chip in volume production in like 4-5 years, which is a typical development cycle.
> If victims of Fentanyl die much younger than victims of heart disease, the total # of lost years of life can be of the same order.

It can be even without that if you are looking at quality-adjusted life years and not just raw life years.
I'm trying to understand the point of the affix "as a staff engineer", but I cannot.
Definitely has lowered the entry cost.
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> There's also a cultural difference between Japanese and American businesses, but that's far more nebulous.

The abstract cultural differences might be difficult to articulate, but many of the effects are concrete: Toyota still maintains lifetime employment for Japanese factory employees. And Toyota factory workers in Japan are represented by a union, AFAIU, though like Germany the relationship between unions and management is less adversarial in Japan.

Interestingly, the change in union employment in Japan seems to have tracked the US, from a high of over 50% mid-century to 16% today versus ~35% and ~10%, respectively, in the U.S.
I lived in Colorado for 10 years until very recently and this was a very emotional debate. The ranchers submitted claims that exceeded the reimbursement fund but if I remember correctly some of the claims were questionable and reaching.

My partner worked for Colorado Parks & Wildlife and that organization was largely in favor of this for obvious reasons.

However I do feel for some of the ranchers. Some are barely scraping by and wolves in the area is an additional stressor they have to worry about. Though I do think they are over exaggerating the effects this has had to some extent. The richest ones with the most land won’t be affected nearly as much as the small guys.
Oh, the one that Trump heavily distanced himself from? Project 2025 was something skeptics pointed out as being the game plan, but Trump denied (or agreed, then denied).
He became very popular to hate on in the past midterms because his position that "government IS the problem" is more popular than ever given the last administration. It was a vain effort to preempt what they knew was coming.

Seriously, why else would the name of a president who hasn't served in 40 years suddenly be brought up all the time?
I believe it's the responsibility of every citizen to _use_ their vote. Sometimes, the best way to use it for a given political outcome is to abstain.
A mix. For a given asset class I look at expense ratios and underlying indexes.
That's an interesting point, and something I thought of when reading the parser combinator vs. recursive descent point

Around 2014, I did some experiments with OCaml, and liked it very much

Then I went to do lexing and parsing in OCaml, and my experience was that Python/C++ are actually better for that.

Lexing and parsing are inherently stateful, it's natural to express those algorithms imperatively. I never found parser combinators compelling, and I don't think there are many big / "real" language implementations that uses them, if any. They are probably OK for small languages and DSLs

I use regular expressions as much as possible, so it's more declarative/functional. But you still need imperative logic around them IME [1], even in the lexer, and also in the parser.

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So yeah I think that functional languages ARE good for writing or at least prototyping compilers -- there are a lots of examples I've seen, and sometimes I'm jealous of the expressiveness

But as far as writing lexers and parsers, they don't seem like an improvement, and are probably a little worse

[1] e.g. lexer modes - https://www.oilshell.org/blog/2017/12/17.html
They cover over 20 chapters per episode. Any fewer episodes, and it would be difficult to keep track of what you've read, by the time you listen to the episode. They also play games based on the contents of the chapters, and answer listener questions, to fill out the episode.
I've toured a couple of ATC towers recently and my impression was they were surprisingly low tech. A tech upgrade seems like the most viable solution at this point. There are processes for writing and testing software and hardware for environments such as this, but the government needs to be willing to make the investment.
I used to feel they just served as a great auto complete or stack overflow replacement until I switched from VSCode to Cursor. Cursor's agent mode with Sonnet is pretty remarkable in what it can generate just from prompts. It is such a better experience than any of the AI tools VSCode provides, imo. I think tools like this when paired with an experienced developer to guide it and oversee the output can result in major productivity boosts. I agree with the sentiment that it falls apart with complex tasks or understanding unique business logic, but do think it can take you far beyond boilerplate.
People who are defending against an existential threat today don't have the luxury of worrying about contamination tomorrow. I think at this point Ukraine will take a Pyrrhic victory if the alternative is their end as a fully sovereign nation state. And let's be clear about the current situation: if Ukraine and Russia had a mutual agreement against using those weapons then Ukraine would probably have already lost. Landmines in particular are extremely effective as a force multiplier for outnumbered defenders.
I might get absolutely destroyed for this but here goes. We have video games like Fortnite that can handle collision detection across a hundred players with bullets flying everywhere. Is it that much of a stretch to use similar technology and things like text to speech to help air traffic controllers do a better job? Genuinely curious about the technology advances in this space and if I am completely naive about the challenges presented.
Those democratic processes stopped working decades ago. They're marginally more effective than the "close door" button on an elevator, but not by much. Everyone in Congress is either too bought or too old to listen to you. The Presidency is a glorified popularity contest that the Democratic Party[0] has figured out how to consistently lose with razor-thin margins. And the judicial branch was never democratically accountable to begin with.

Elon was never going to follow democratic processes, that's not how moneybag men think. Do you think he ran X.com, PayPal, Tesla, SpaceX, or Twitter as democracies? Hell no. Musk fires or buys-out people who disagree with him. Same with the healthcare CEO Luigi assassinated. There is no process in the current version of America that would allow the people to counter the power of billionaires. The people have been routed.

The difference between the two is that Luigi targeted a thing that actively hurts people and, in any democratic world, would have been illegal. Elon is burning down the things that stop him from hurting people.

[0] Which isn't democratic; nor is the Republican Party republican. Canada and Australia's Liberal Parties aren't liberal, either. Hell, Japan has a two-fer: a Liberal Democratic Party that's neither liberal nor democratic.
I’m expecting something to add to this sort of list:

Rap,
Country,
Electronic,
Funk,
Hip hop,
Jazz,
Latin,
Pop,
Punk,
Reggae,
Rock,
Heavy Metal,
Soul music and R&B

I’d even take Polka. My argument is we’re missing the kind of regional cross pollination that gives rise to such things.
Heh, you noticed. I was being a bit sneaky in my word choice [0] there - the commonly used measure is the CPI [0] which doesn't include wages - so in practice it would often measure "deflation" which is really just prices going down due to technology improvements and people becoming better off. Think what has been happening in the tech world for however long. If not for pro-inflationary policy the overall economy would tend to stable prices except for massive drops in the cost of tech goods, leading to measured "deflation" (not really deflation but error in the measure) and people getting wealthier.

That was why I said "prices go down" instead of "deflation" - because the measure in practices is a price basket which doesn't directly include wages.

> But if your wealth is in capital, that capital should fluctuate with the currency, and inflation doesn't devalue that.

In the abstract, yes. In practice, after you factor in the interactions with capital gains tax it actually means there is a wealth tax (transaction tax? Extra tax on the principle, anyway) which is relatively punishing to anyone trying to save for their old age.

EDIT [0] With benefit of 24 hours hindsight, it would have been more proper to say "consumer prices" to distinguish the CPI from inflation.
> Is this a joke? / What did you expect. People in moscow to starve also? "Lashings of caviar"? Give me a break.

You didn't read the article, did you?
You're almost right. The thing is that Congress absolutely has the power to impeach the president and strip them of all legal office. Of course, most of Congress is perfectly happy with what's going on, so this won't happen.
One of the president's main jobs is to direct how the executive branch is run. That's an authority vested on him by the constitution. So writing EOs directing various executive branches in particular ways (and in ways that aren't contradicting federal law) is entirely within his mandate as the elected president.

What we're witnessing is the weakening (and potential removal) of an effective 4th branch of government (what some call the "deep state"). I don't see that as a bad thing, as structurally speaking, this 4th branch does not govern according to the will of the people, since they are not accountable to the people.

What boggles my mind is this -- Democrats complained for decades about how Congress was ceding its authority to these unelected officials. I grew up in a Democrat family and cheered as Bill Clinton was elected. And now Democrats, who call themselves the "party that defends democracy", are acting as the primary proponents of these unaccountable officials and agencies. Make it make sense.
Analog in general is failing to attract new talent.
I think for Schur it really is the 'vibe thing' that works for him - he makes music that resonates with people. Spotify makes it so easy to like songs and every time someone likes a track it becomes more likely to be featured in the algo playlists and so the vibe snowballs.
My point was that complaining isn't enough and in my experience most people just complain but don't even take the smallest action in line with their views because it inconveniences them. Instead they lull themselves to sleep that something was done because they complained about it, and there's no need to adjust anything in their lives because they "did all they can do".

Instead of taking action they complain, set up an abstract boogeyman to take down, and then nobody can actually take action to make the world better (based on their point of view) because there's nothing anyone can do about Google the evil corporation because it's just some legal fiction. Bonus points for moralizing on the Internet and getting likes to feel even better about not doing anything.

But you can do something. If someone thinks Google is evil they can stop using Gmail or other Google products and services, or even just reduce their usage - maybe you can switch email providers but you only have one good map option. Ok at least you did a little more than you did previously.
Imagine your kid not getting invited to birthday parties because they or you don't use an iPhone. Apple knows what it's doing and shareholders are gonna love it!
Compared to default wikipedia traffic this should be a drop in a bucket right?
Yeah absolutely.

I find Copilot is great if you add a small comment describing the logic or function. Taking 10s to write a one line sentence in English can save 5-10 mins writing your code from scratch. Subjectively it feels much faster to QA and review code already written.

Having good typing and DTOs helps too.
You expect wrong. I think you're talking about Payment for Order Flow (PFOF) which Fidelity does not use.[0]

[0] https://www.fidelity.com/trading/execution-quality/overview
I think you may have captured the point best in the way you phrased this: "whatever-it-is Musk is trying to do now"

That it's not entirely clear makes it impossible to know if it might be something he could have success in.
That is not necessarily how this works. The only thing required to happen is that a super-majority of the miners running the bitcoin software voluntarily update to a new version. This is how changes have been done to BTC before.
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