skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I could imagine commercials, in movies they have this bow and arrow guy the arrow shoots towards the viewer then the logo appears

Here it's a baseball pitcher or that spinning throw (not discuss, they use a ball) then it says "Spin Launch"
While the downsides of this are obvious, I wonder if in the long run this would push our cities towards better designs, by encouraging the mixing of residential and office buildings, and by encouraging improvements to implementing public transit that can quickly and efficiently move a dense population between their homes and their jobs. It probably wouldn't work, but I can dream.
Correct. Only the current addiction economy.
In the UK I know traffic is indicated with a relative position and altitude: “traffic at your 10 o’clock, 2 miles, altitude 1500 feet”.

The ATC for the Reagan crash did not indicate a relative or absolute position, only referencing “the CRJ”, which might be hard to identify in the dark, and the helicopter pilot may have assumed he “had visual”, but was looking at a different aircraft.
Most people with a formal ADHD diagnosis are likely to require some medication in order to make it through the training for a career in healthcare. There is typically a lot of study and rote memorization required. Even a relatively simple job like phlebotomist requires an ability to focus and consistently follow fixed procedures without getting distracted.
Simple enough to be safe, at the cost of performance: uncompress and compare to the original.
That specific example feels like it might be ok? Presumably you have a very slow process by which customers are identified as VIP white-glove whales. Hard-coding the account representing X% of revenues is not going to experience a lot of churn. Just make it a collection variable, so you do not repeat yourself in multiple places.
They are talking about titanium ions.
Add to encrypt, so 32 is always Z.
I agree with the "take" that this article isn't going to get discussed substantively and thoughtfully on HN. You needn't look far to see why—the current thread demonstrates it.

The commenters insisting that this is the wrong call don't seem to have fully taken in the intended purpose of this site, because they're actually making a case in favor of the flags, not against them.

Btw, it's not true that every political post gets flagged. HN's approach to that question has been stable for a long time, even though there can be strong disagreement about specific calls. If you or anyone wants to read about what the approach is, there are lots of links at https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&so.... In particular, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22902490 and
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21607844 are good places to start.
The empty homes are largely where people don’t want to live.

You have cause and effect completely backwards. Housing has become an investment vehicle BECAUSE it is expensive.

And it is expensive to build because government policies make it expensive to build. Safety codes, building codes making previously common types of housing illegal, environmental reviews, zoning, “affordable housing” requirements, development permit fees and delays.

I’m not saying all of those are bad but they have a cost but the legislators and bureaucrats who impose them don’t have to pay them.
I mean, hosting downloads that have been compressed with this seems fine. I have the original, I just want a smaller version for those downloading.
Ha, I'd recently asked about this here as well, just using some high memory AMD setup to infer.

Another thing I wonder is whether using a bunch of Geforce 4060 TI with 16GB could be useful - they cost only around 500 EUR. If VRAM is the bottleneck, perhaps a couple of these could really help with inference (unless they become GPU bound, like too slow).
I have no academic basis to apply to a top school, and to be honest the more annoying part is that I missed out on 4 years of the college experience that I got to watch my friends have from the sidelines.

I don’t understand your point about who pays for it, sorry.
I think there's no better proof than this that they stole a big chunk of OpenAI's model.
You seem to have mistakenly put quotation marks around something that the linked article doesn't contain. Please allow me to fill in the correct quotation:

"Fidelity discloses what it believes is the value of its shares of X"
> I think there's a reasonable middle ground-point between having feature flags in a JSON file that you have to redeploy to change and using an (often expensive) feature flags as a service platform: roll your own simple system.

The middle ground is a JSON file that is copied up and periodically refreshed. We (Sentry) moved from a managed software to just a YAML file with feature flags that is pushed to all containers.

The benefit of just changing a file is that you have a lot of freedom of how you deal with it (eg: leave comments) and you have the history of who flipped it and for which reason.
I just want them to not have reasonable reasons.
This kind of thinking is why AI hype is dangerous.
Honestly I think this may be part of why compression in flight has been a growth area in compression lately. If your transport encoding becomes garbled people notice immediately. If you manage to serve a few billion compressed requests without any incident reports then maybe you can trust it for data at rest.
And what do you do if it doesn't match?
> For safety-critical systems, you probably want something deterministic, and doesn't break when faced with novel situations.

Humans are not deterministic and can break for many reasons. It's not plausible that an AI could handle "route this aircraft for landing without any right turns" ?
Lots of similarities here. Getting diagnosed rocked my world, because I finally understood that other people experienced the world differently.

> the therapist said that she had rarely been more certain of a positive ADHD diagnosis

> my utter failure as a student, the huge highs and lows of my professional career, my distrust and lack of respect for authority of any kind, and my pride in my achievements as an autodidact

Oh yeah. I'm with you.

People's experiences inside their head are amazingly different, but society treats them the same. Some have inner monologues, some don't. Some have aphantasia. Some have prosopagnosia. Some are left handed, which was once considered evil ("left" is "sinister" in Latin, from another autodidact).

We used to label people as one of: normal, genius, retarded. We are becoming more nuanced now and exploring "neurodivergence". The label you have been given is ADHD. One day it will be much more nuanced.

Embrace it. It's not negative, it's society recognizing you and me and our type.
Maybe, but the car can also simply refuse to drive if the conditions are bad.
Well, until you made that sarcastic statement, nobody in this thread insinuated that it would increase sales, hence my comment
You could have bugs that show up on different hardware or compiler versions. So the round trip is table stakes but not a guarantee.

Edit: someone deleted a response that said that if you can read it back then the data is there. I think in a data recovery sense that’s definitely true, if it’s consistent across inputs. But building something that simulates the undefined behavior or race condition - if it’s symmetrical between read and write could be pretty tricky. And you’d have to decode based on file version number to know if you need the emulation. So possible but terrible to maintain, and the interim versions from creating and discovering the bug would still be broken.
I have read much about Yogic traditions, and always thought that people with ADHDs are particularly well-suited for spiritual progress as laid down in core texts and aligned literature.

> In ancient times the Raja Yogis (basically wizards) preferred to recruit from those with ADHD. They called them "habitually one-pointed".

I never knew this. Can you please site some sources/supporting literature? I would like to read much more about this.

Another thing I thought- to be an Advaita Vedantin, to see God in everything (both 'data' and 'code' of everything), one benefits from ADHD, as such person will have expertise or knowledge in many areas. This is helpful, if not required to see an emerging "grand pattern" in things.

Also, if you have somewhat deep knowledge of each school of thoughts of Indian Philosophy, you also begin to see patterns, and get all these divisions are illusory and limited. And hence Bhagavad Gita 4.11.
United Airlines alone has around 15,000 pilots, about the same number of FAA ATC.

So those pilots. Even their new pilots (First Officers) make more per hour than ATC.

(ATC here, opinions are my own and not that of the FAA.)
Why there a hidden JavaScript code within the <div id="6775"> element in this webpage. This code repeatedly makes hidden iframe requests to https://minecraft-mods.4lima.de/?param=... This domain then redirects to various Modrinth mod pages.

What are you doing here ? Are you trying to get page views to your own mods ?
Rutherfordium has relatively stable isotopes (up to 48 min) [1] and is definitely agreed to exist. This article is about extremely neutron-deficient isotopes and their excited states.

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rutherfordium
Galaxy S25 Lineup Missing Important Android Feature
To be fair to Facebook, the language of these example posts are promotional messages that act and look like advertisements. And it’s not unexpected for Facebook to want you to pay to run something that is essentially an ad on a platform that only gets revenue from paid ads.

I think this would be different if the author was an individual merely talking about Linux. But each of these flagged messages are quite literally promotional. They want the audience to proactively do something that has value to the organization posting the message.

It’s not just some individual saying “oh my gosh I finally learned how to do XYZ using awk.” It’s an organization putting out a call for action.
I had bzip2 eat some files some years back and ended up loosing them. I don't trust bzip2 for backup files and I wouldn't trust bzip3 either as a result.
A shell script to run a checksum on the original file, compress, uncompress, and verify output integrity should be trivial.
I suppose the point of open source software is to edit the source code and make your own version. If you can't build it, you can't do that.
But what evidence is there that the shortage was caused by those 'DEI' policies? For example, in 2013 the FAA Academy was shut down for most of the year (April - December) due to the sequester. They had planned to hire more than 1300 controllers that year but hired fewer than 600.

Additionally, part of the changes that brought along the biographical questionnaire had another major change: they opened up positions to the general public--meaning a candidate didn't need to go through one of the college-affiliated programs anymore. However, that also meant that people had to find their way through the on-boarding process, which at least initially was not well developed and many candidates failed to complete the necessary steps to move the process along.
Yes, a number of smaller airports are staffed by contract tower controllers.
AI Designed Computer Chips That the Human Mind Can't Understand
While the headline seems a bit extreme, I thought this was very interesting.
I don't have a problem with wanting to rename the Gulf of Mexico to Gulf of America but I do have a problem with Trump and a lot of other people using the term America or American to refer solely to the United States. That is not what the term means and that's not the name of our country.

We could be called America if we want but someone would have to propose a name change and it still wouldn't completely co-op the use of the word America to stop having it refer to this entire hemisphere. We all understand that Columbia is a country but Columbia is also a term to refer to this hemisphere which is why we have a place in the United States called Washington district of Columbia. No one confuses that as being a part of the nation of Columbia.

So in the terms of it being the Gulf of the Americas, It absolutely is it's not completely encompassed by one country. We as a nation need to stop calling ourselves Americans as an exclusionary term simply referring to United States citizens. All of us in this hemisphere are Americans but have a different nationalities.
That article makes a very valid point that they need new technology and training, but can't due to internal failures and the whims of congress.

What happened with this accident is a wake call but nothing will change -- the current administration is interested in destroying institutions, not building them up.
I don't know about you, but weird emails about a mass voluntary resignation program would take my focus out of any work.

If suddenly I have to worry about my job security and the possibility of losing a bunch of colleagues and becoming overworked there's no way I'd be able to be all there.
The XPS laptops used to be decent Linux machines. But they're not going to make them any more.
Any Android 16 device that supports AVF, which includes Google Pixels, but excludes Samsung.

https://www.androidauthority.com/android-16-linux-terminal-d...
I assume they are referring to this: https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/01/expa...
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/trump-says-he-will-instruct...
If work can only be done at the office then be sure to take Email, Teams, and Slack off your phone and leave your laptop at work so you don't break any rules.
It was worth 44 billion USD according to Musk.
The hiring age limit is due to the mandatory retirement age (56).
"I call people mister or asshole" is absolutely about respect. "I'm not going to change my habits of 50 years" is absolutely a generational thing.

How do you respect someone you disagree with? You find a way to live and let live. I'm not going to be more specific, because thinking through how that would work and coming to a decision is part of the process.

And to be clear, it goes both ways. Eg, if you look at my comments in this thread, you'll find my language is respectful if firm and that I don't make insults. That's not because of a lack of frustration. It's because I refuse to respond if my response would be disrespectful.
Well, how else are you going to prop up economies as birthrates fall? Get people to compulsively spend and never be satisfied with what they have. Sports, gambling, video games, substances, etc are all just distractions from our shitty empty lives.
oh, right. Thank you for helping a bear with very little brain.
I dug into one of the claims in the blog, and as far as I can tell, he's completely misinterpreting the evidence. The blog says:

> An FAA employee and then-president of the NBCFAE's Washington Suburban chapter, provided NBCFAE members with "buzz words" in January 2014 that would automatically push their resumes to the tops of HR files.

It's true that this person said that in the email, but if you actually look at the list of buzzwords, it's clear that this person was bullshitting and inflating his own importance (or maybe just fundamentally misunderstanding something). The list is on the last page of this document: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/17Vi9dDtZvbwHDafrygRG...
It looks like it's a page that was photocopied from a book about how to write a resume. It's a list of dozens of incredibly generic verbs like "manage", "analyze", "administer", "make", "improve", "design", etc. pretty much any resume will have at least some of these verbs. There's just no way you could build a system that would use these verbs to secretly screen in resumes of people who are in the know because everyone uses these verbs. A far more plausible explanation is that this guy was trying to make himself sound more powerful than eh really was.

The email this person sent is awful, but it seems to be one person's very misguided attempt to push an agenda, not some sort of secret plot by FAA.
This was on HN a while ago https://jolynch.github.io/posts/use_fast_data_algorithms/ and reaches the same conclusion. I am inclined to use Zstd even in cases where people would use lz4. Zstd is very fast.
Apple News is terrible. The fact that I can't remove the News.app from my computer MacBook Pro is crazy. It's considered an essential part of the OS. What?
Do the reasons for firing them (looked it up, over 11,000 !) even matter?

Because the remainder and future employment prospects for ATC simply looked at how they were treated and how they had absolutely no options and decided to NOPE NOPE out of that profession.

And so here we are:

naming airports after people whose actions eventually led to the specific reasons for the disaster
It’s not even just a matter of being all in the US, they would need to have everyone in a single office. The second teams need to work together between offices, the in-person pop-in chat is dead. Of course this doesn’t mean it turns into a days long email chain, in be a quick call.

People randomly stopping at my desk was a huge productivity killer when I was in the office. Working from home, that killer turns to meetings and group chats. Both arrangements have their issues when it comes to interruptions. At least at home I can control if those apps are open and allowing notifications, if I really do need to be heads down to meet a deadline.

When outsourcing across timezones, that’s when those quick chats, regardless of the medium, start to take days, because each reply takes a day.
What allegedly happened at the FAA wasn’t just “let’s try to have a more diverse workforce.” It was “let’s collide with racial advocacy groups to make a test that would allow us to deny white applicants because they won’t have the secret pass words.”

Anybody who was involved in this obviously has severely compromised judgment. Who can trust anything else they did?
Why isn't air traffic control run by the military in the US like it is in other countries?
I wonder why this isn't inbuilt into the program..
How well do you function days after the head of your company is unexpectedly pushed out in a hostile take-over, you have zero direction given from above, and you are sent an email from the person behind the hostile takeover, that doesn't work at your company and doesn't fit in the management structure in any way saying you should quit? Would you say you would function better or worse than prior to that occurring?
There was a way around that. I think it was A clean install instead of an upgrade with a couple console commands.

Even linux is abandoning x32 support
The real parallel is Walmart, Sam Walton and Bentonville Arkansas.

Walmart corporation owns half the land in Bentonville and anybody who lives in Bentonville or Centerton, which is the bedroom community for Bentonville, either works for Walmart or knows someone who does.

When I worked at the Walmart corporate office in DGTC, they gave us an orientation, covering the company’s history and the founder and his family and all of the CEOs since, and in the most recent episode, I experienced a similar experience with my family when they came for lunch.
It is labour intensive to optimise a prompt though. Particularly for smaller models.

Setting parameters for any ml model is easy, but we'd call it labour intensive if we expected people to do it manually despite having evals. Instead we have ways of searching for and optimising settings. The methods for that are obvious for small cardinality discrete values or continuous variables. Less so for arbitrary text.
< ai cant do math

< Let it direct airplanes
Can BWT be combined with zstd, which uses asymmetric numeral systems?
I heard there was this party that had the same weird hand gesture that President Musk did a week or two ago...
qv – My first (small) open-source project
I had time on my hands and thought quadratic voting (QV) was an unpopular concept. In the hope of letting people experiment with it, I coded this small project!

Code reviews and ideas are very welcome!

Direct link to try it out: https://qv.dlmw.ch/
The additional joke is that some companies reduced office desks because of hybrid/remote and now ask to people to come back. Ready for the "best" of both worlds ?
> Humans are not deterministic and can break for many reasons.

Yes. Humans can also self-evaluate about their state, and have culpability. It not surprising that non-humans are held to a different standard.
Oh yeah true
I’m old and have read 1984 many times. But to your point, it doesn’t mean everyone has. Your note provides useful clarification. Cheers!
Go has been shipping for more than a decade as a .tgz and does not have this stigma at all ...

Anyway, you probably missed the following

https://www.swift.org/install/linux/

I see packages for all major distros there.

But people will probably mention some distro not listed and say the mainstream distro support is a farce. For some reason people have set the bar for Swift incredibly unrealistically high and there will always be something wrong it.

Your loss though. Swift is amazing. Both on MacOS and Linux.
Thank you for the reference. I learned something new today. That algorithm is wild. If you had shown me the transform and asked if it had an inverse, I would have said of course it doesn't, it's too weird.
I'm something of an LLM researcher myself

I think opportunities to engage with the unfamiliar is one reason for HN’s stickiness among HNers.

If LLM’s are familiar at a professional level, then internet status points aside, engaging with LLM’s at a “lay level” is probably not why HN sticks for you.

Even if many other people are excited by them…particularly since endless-September is a feature not a bug on HN.

Submitting content that interests you is the most reliable way to get content that interests you on HN. Good luck.
Do zless, zcat and zgrep support zstd everywhere? And I mean everywhere? VMs? Alpine? FreeBSD? OSX? Openwrt?

Nothing is shittier than sshing into a box that doesn’t understand half of your command line tricks. Or the clever shell script you just tested six ways to Sunday. It’s like fighting with your hands tied behind your back.
I feel like I’m going mad.

Is ADHD a debilitating condition that can be consistently and independently diagnosed, with verifiable symptoms and clear criteria as to who _has_ ADHD and, more importantly, who _hasn’t_?

or is it a loosely defined group of behaviours that all people experience at different severities at some point in their lives, which have all been grouped into a nebulous so-called disorder (although many neurodivergent people now don’t like it being called that) so that doctors can quickly and efficiently work through the ever-growing mountain of patients who struggle with concentration in a world that is constantly and systematically trying to distract them?

I don’t want to insult people and I don’t want to be rude. But the more I read about ADHD, the more it feels like a meaningless diagnosis to absolve people of the responsibility to work on their concentration, and absolve them of blame if they can’t.
Also a very popular torture method. Not a coincidence.
How do you push the files to all of your containers? I’ve done this in the past with app specific endpoints but never found a solution I liked with containers.
I'd argue that in our quest to maximize income inequality, we've made many necessary careers non-viable from a living standards perspective.

These non viable careers include pilots, atc, teaching, and a large portion of the skilled trades and more. While a non viable career path will still have some individuals in the field due to sunk cost, passion, or inertia - a shortage is inevitable.

Supply and demand should rationalize this - but if training is long, wage visibility is low, and sunk cost is high, and negotiation power is low - its entirely possible for a employers to collectively push the prevailing wage below the level which makes the job worth it to enough individuals.