skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Uh oh, you posted something factual that invites questions. HN not going to like this...

>>>Facing pressure to diversify an overwhelmingly white workforce, the FAA began using a biographical test as a first screen of candidates. Minority candidates were fed “buzz words” to bump their resumes up to top priority. Apparently saying your worst subject in school was science served as a golden ticket. Correct answers to the take-home biographical questionnaire were given in their entirety. These questionnaires were later banned. This was dumb, but it’s not the problem.<<<

Ok, besides the fact that this, along with the evidence that the magic keywords were given in secret to special groups, is blatantly illegal, after they banned it, what did the criteria become? What is the criteria today?

Did they switch to a primarily merit/skills based assessment of candidates?
Did they lower standards and if so, by how much?
Have they tracked their assessment performance against real-world performance across the ATC pool?
You can't just demand a general strike, you have to work for years with actual labor unions. Tech workers largely aren't unionized (and have no incentive to do so)

so good luck, but unless you do the sustained ground work it'll be the same call i've seen for the past decade with no meat behind it
Is it just "We refuse to work until the country conforms to our left-wing ideologies"?
Related:

Partnering with U.S. National Laboratories

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42881641
Converting the excess energy into hydrogen is a really inefficient way to store the energy.

Hydrogen ruins whatever it's stored in, it requires a huge amount of energy to store the hydrogen in a space efficient manner, etc.

Heat some sand, pump some water, compress some gas.

"I'm gonna go split up some waters to get some hydrogens" is fun as an experiment but ultimately not a practical way to store energy.
Really feel for the author. My parents intentionally threw up obstacles to my learning because they assumed they knew what was best for me even as they actively rejected people trying to help me. As a result I fell years behind where I should have been and had to catch up quick though it was easy to do so when I was no longer under their control.
It's the same thing as Jim Crow era voting tests.[0]

Here take the test yourself and tell me it's not rigged.

https://kaisoapbox.com/projects/faa_biographical_assessment/

[0]https://allthatsinteresting.com/voting-literacy-test
eBay users are getting back at scalping bots by listing pictures of the RTX 5090
So walk me through how the Microsoft lawsuit benefited consumers? How will splitting up Google and making them divest Chrome help consumers? How will putting more money in the pocket of the play to win game studios help consumers?
The Matrix Cookbook
Does Dell just have one campus? Are teams typically homogeneous near one campus?

I'm thinking about my own employer, where I have been WFH since I got hired. My team is spread across 5+ states. I'd be the only person from my team in the office nearest to me were there an RTO mandate. I think there would only be one or maybe two other people there who I've even worked with on anything, in my several years of employment.

No 30-second chitchat opportunities.
Yeah I'm sick of this. Did you know you can't even use ext2/3/4 together on the same partition? What a mess.
Tangent: In win10 when you right-click the menu is massive, it's the full height of the window not sure if that was a bug

Edit: menu as in "open link in new tab"
When you see racial/women's/LGBTQ rights and Gaza in the same sentence you know how out of touch these organizers are.
The sense of doing something useful? Maybe it gets lost, but I think that going home knowing that you were part of safely getting people and aircraft where then need to go would be fulfilling. Also very stressful though, knowing what the consequences of a mistake can be.

Developers can always fix their mistakes. Very, very few would even even possibly result in the loss of life. I'd think pay for controllers should be much higher, but like anything it is subject to economics. If people are willing to do it for $X, then that is what it will pay.
Be sure to wear PPE and a respirator the whole time because you may be a symptomless carrier for one or more viruses that most of the population had no immunity against.
Airlines already shut down service to small and less profitable airports, nothing is preventing them from doing just that.

Of course, other Airlines are free to step in and schedule flights there. The average cost per seat might go up, but so will the number of ATCs.
Genuine question, why are labor union strikes so effective, and why are companies like Amazon so against unionizing if they're not effective?
I can run the 671B-Q8 version of R1 with a big context on a used dual-socket Xeon I bought for about $2k with 768GB of RAM. It gets about 1-1.5 tokens/sec, which is fine to give it a prompt and just come back an hour or so later. To get to many 10s of tokens/sec, you would need >8 GPUs with 80GB of HBM each, and you're probably talking well north of $250k. For the price, the 'used workstation with a ton of DDR4' approach works amazingly well.
That one can handle up to 200B parameters according to NVIDIA.
Also, depending on the Order, some really good wine or beer.
They f you up, your mum and dad.
They may not mean to, but they do.

They fill you with the faults they had,
And add some extra just for you.

But they were f'd up in their turn,
By fools in old-style hats and coats,

Who half the time were soppy-stern,
And half at one another’s throats.

Man hands on misery to man.
It deepens like a coastal shelf.

Get out as early as you can,
And don’t have any kids yourself.

- Philip Larkin, This Be The Verse
I don't think this is a "modern" phenomenon. Proprietary software has been doing this for ages. And the web is also full of user-hostile tracking with questionable cookie-dialogs.

If it's an option for you, consider Linux or one of the BSDs and the associated software ecosystems.
So, for people who are paranoid about using the services that are designed for these sorts of sharing, like Dropbox, GDrive, GPhotos, and a million others? These theoretical people would suffer the frustrations of setting up and managing their own db for the added privacy? I wonder what they have in those photos and meeting notes that is so sensitive?
And this has been my pushback against RTO, ironically enough. Team camaraderie is important, yes, but so is independence and comfort. I found that a single week or two a year, with my global team sharing a conference room, three square meals a day, and even non-work activities like volunteering or offroading, built a stronger working relationship than simply cohabiting a space together five days a week or working entirely remotely.

We knocked out big room planning and upwards of eighteen months of work scheduling in that brief week. We executed successfully on everything we planned for that entire year.

Teams absolutely need to meet in-person at regular intervals to remain effective, but they don’t need to be full-RTO. By making such meetups focused and organized, they become important events we want to sink our time and energy into. We relish the next opportunity to meet one another and build better stuff as a result.
"DEI initiatives are reasonable "

Are they though? Racism is still wrong even when you use it for what you consider worthy goals.
Just install the binary package from whatever distro you use? Why do you need to build it?

But if it matters, FreeBSD has a pretty trivial BSDmake build of it:

https://github.com/freebsd/freebsd-src/blob/main/lib/libzstd...

https://github.com/freebsd/freebsd-src/blob/main/usr.bin/zst...

You could easily do something similar in GNU make or whatever without the dependencies on the FBSD build system. It's basically just the classic "cc -c a bunch of C files, then link them."
We used an open source collaborative text tool earlier, the name of which eludes me, but during COVID, I think we generally realized that shared Google Workspace docs actually worked pretty well for a lot of things we used to use big whiteboards for. For certain things, aspects of being able to have a hallway conversation easily were absent. But really we adapted pretty well IMO.
I know no such thing. A high GDP per capita might not be required to have a thriving society in the modern world but surely there is a lower limit. It should be possible to at least roughly quantify that limit. Could we still have a thriving society if GDP was cut to, let's say, $10000 per person?
Thanks, that's interesting. I never thought to look it up before.

Though most people I've worked with for some reason insist on pronouncing and sometimes spelling it as 'depreciated', which I guess makes a little sense if they're thinking of it as 'valueless.'
> That should not be a reason why to adopt a feature flag platform

It's one of the two big reasons. First is the ability to rollout features gradually and separate deployments from feature release, and second is the ability to turn new features off when something goes wrong. Even part of the motivation of A/B testing is de-risking.
Same, I only update my bank app and 2FA app. For years I didnt have a bank app installed and only logged in on a laptop.
Race as a surrogate for guilt is entirely-consistent with the lazy ethos.
There is no RTO push. There are also no layoffs. What's happening is salary renegotiations. If people leave, they need to renegotiate their salaries and then the employer has the advantage.
I come from an engineering angle and am only superficially familiar with https://dspguide.com/ which I found useful for my field.

DSP is a broad field, from audio design to high speed communication to image processing. An introductory book (see above) will touch many subjects, but to go deeper you will have to find books dedicated to that specific field.
The main problem with them is they are not working yet and there are not enough people working on improving that.
Yes, non-commercial planes crash far, FAR more often than commercial flights, at the tune of about 200-300 fatalities a year, you can play with the data a bit here:

https://injuryfacts.nsc.org/home-and-community/safety-topics...

The fact that the incident you talk about was reported at all was exceptional.
Au contraire, it's an incredible efficient way to gain high level insights into a new field that I just don't have time to dive into otherwise. And HN spans all the layers, from low level instruction set developments to the commercials practicalities of hosting your own AI. There is no comparable source of distilled wisdom that I know of.

Of course if you just hate AI instinctively like my wife then yeah, I'm sure there's way too much AI content.
Also beer.
Yes, I have heard that as well, because having people on the office is going to magically ramp up sales, as that is the missing factor why they aren't taking off. /s
It's an interesting idea but doesn't really sync up with my experience.

If recurring communal activity has a positive psychological effect then why do people (myself included) seem to have such a disdain for meetings.

"Check in" meetings really are the worst. They're often a very cut-and-dry "here's what I did last week, here's what I'm doing this week" kind of thing and I get the sense that almost everyone hates them.

Maybe the difference here is that in the monasteries the "meetings" are not personal. Nobody is going to a chapel to talk about themselves, or be put on display. It's very much a low-pressure communal environment which IMO makes all the difference.
I don't doubt that most engineers are hugely unproductive, but I'd wager it has less to do with where they physically are and more to do with the fact that most companies have carefully, almost clinically undercut their employees' faith and independence. Do you know how long it's been since I even saw a single job listing that was searching for an exceptionally strong candidate?
The evidence is shortages and safety incidents and that hiring scandal. Now we're able to use instinct and "innuendo" (as you call it) to find more rot
This may be a little on the nose. I am slow. I read this but not sure what it means for me.
Because of laws allowing labor unions to achieve control over the workers a company can hire.
FAA is leaderless, likely because he dared to give fine to Elin Musk. So yeah, it will affect things.

Also, looking how twitter ia shell of itself and looking at Musk knowing even less about goverment ... it will fail spectacularly.

And after that fail, they will blame women and non-whites hard.
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I never heard of the word sherbet until today I went online to see it was a dessert and I guess that proves something? ohh sh*t...bots can go online too... am I a bot? Could I be AGI?
I know I shouldn't get my news from Reddit, but the consensus there is that the entire FAA crisis (and both recent crashes in the US), is Trump's fault. I don't know the details, but apparently he "gutted" the FAA last week, on the first day he took office, leaving the FAA unable to protect the flying public.
With that level of, uh, following implications, "Democrats" are smug because they believe other schools of thoughts are pro-dictatorship, "feminists" are hateful because they believe anyone else is anti-women, "romanticists" are mad because they think everybody else hates love, etc.

It's possible to embrace a label without saying "everybody else is the literal opposite of that label".
The ext4/3 filesystems, notably, can read/write ext2 (and for ext4: ext3) filesystems in a compatible way.
Why would they remove any datasets?

Also calling SVI obscure is quite hilarious.
In plural, sure. Never in singular.
This is amazing, the small iTerm wrapper I wrote for my portfolio/resume tui is going to be a lot easier to maintain/enhance!
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Not sure what those qualities have in common?

I like to think of myself as a good troubleshooter and would probably have made a good police inspector or FAA analyst. I usually have good intuitions and find root causes pretty fast.

But -- I don't think I would survive two minutes as an air controller even if my life depended on it. This is the job I probably feel the least able to do and the one that impresses me the most. Not just the pressure, but the ability to hold so much information in one's head at the same time, and hold a conversation with many different people talking to you from moving objects which you need to understand the exact location of, switching context constantly -- that's crazy.

Kind of like being an instant translator in multiple languages at the same time and if you make but one mistake, hundreds of people die.
I'm not a fan of single-reason causes but in this case I suspect the harms are explained in this one quote.

Instead, they [parents] relied on discipline as the only solution:

All of my sons had behavioral issues (less than me tho). ADHD was a common factor.

What did I do? Maybe I punished them(singular). Maybe I took them out of school for a day we spent together.

One solution will be a wrong solution most of the time. Kids are continually a new person and continually need new approaches.

Since society has moved from muti-generation families to just ≤2 parents, it falls on those ≤2 parents to perform the roles of many different adults. We can't ever stop rethinking our methods.
"I know I shouldn't"
--> then don't
Yeah. Latterly, some of the economic headwinds in tech led to a lack of in-person meetings even after the worst of COVID was over. I pretty much just gave up even knowing who most of the people on my extended team were because I just wasn't invested in it.
Yeah, I wouldn't encourage anyone to spend their time reading it.
That's not an answer (and neither are downvotes). Why are humans still doing tedious work that would be utterly trivial for computers?
So AI has come a long way since NextGen was conceptualized. Training an AI on the historical flight activity for an airport seems .... doable? Would it be better than human controllers? We know it would not be subject to fatigue or emotional stress, and the domain is so limited that hopefully hallucinations would not be a problem.

How realistic is it to have ATC performed by an AI?
I understand what you’re saying but while artisan printing and calligraphy are visible articulations of the craft, skill, care and attention that go into their making, do you think the same can be said for “artisan, human-crafted code”?

It’s a genuine question, and whether your answer is yes or no I’d be interested to hear your opinion on why.

My opinion is it’s unlikely that human-crafted code will have the same inherent value that human crafted typography does, for all sorts of reasons to do with the way we can consume physical artefacts of language vs the way we consume code.

But I’ll also admit that my thinking in this - as regards code - is not particularly nuanced because I commission code rather than write it, so I’m interested in “does it do the job effectively” vs “is it inherently beautiful”.
That's a shame. I suppose you'll need 4 of them with RDMA to run a 671B, but somehow that seems better to me than trying to run it on DDR4 RAM like the OP is saying. I have a system with 230G of DDR4 RAM, and running even small models on it is atrociously slow.
I wish they would stop adding anything to the language and document what they have. I constantly need to reverse engineer how things work. For example, I just had to integrate AccessorySetupKit and the docs are laughable.
Hi HN, Garage youtuber here. Wanted to add in some stats on the wattages/ram.

Idle wattage: 60w (well below what I expected, this is w/o GPUs plugged in)

Loaded wattage: 260w

RAM Speed I am running currently: 2400 (V likely 3200 has a decent perf impact)
This is a dumb argument. Humans frequently fall for the same tricks, are they not "intelligent"? All intelligence is ultimately based on some sort of statistical models, some represented in neurons, some represented in matrices.
I have no idea what your argument is at this point. You claimed one thing without any evidence, and now you're saying it's like something else. Please state your point with evidence.
LLMs are the way computers were always supposed to work!
Someone should tell them that the US Social Security system will run out of cash in about a decade.
IIRC from another HN conversation, non commercial-airline flights crash pretty regularly. Maybe something like 1 ever couple of days?

Commercial airlines have different, far more strict regulations.
The Origin and Pronunciation of "Ghibli"
Please refresh my memory, what is LOAF?
"wrapped in the flag and carrying a cross"

If not necessarily a religious one here, still a (utterly false) proclamation of martyrdom.

It's seriously scary that the valent powers about have so much money to throw nussiance lawsuits of no real merit against speech & newspapers they find inconvenient. Free speech is definitely under attack, by Jim Jordan, by Musk, by the people crowing the loudest.
I don’t buy your history but we seem to agree on the conclusion.

The “thus” is misplaced. Nothing was given from the elites. In two senses of the word: labor created that standard of living, elites took a lot of it, and then labor forced them to give a bit more of if back. And labor has always created that value.

And the future when labor is displaced? Does the fully automatically manufactured “largesse” of the elites dry up because the elites made it and they don’t have to give it to anyone else? No to the first part, yes to the second. Labor first created the value. Then the automation. Then they let the elite steal it wholesale.

So discussing the elites as having inherently something to give away is misplaced.
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This is a great A/B test. Since clearly it isn't necessary to all be in the same building to produce software or hardware (and hasn't been necessary since around 1994), and the companies that allow remote work get to hire from a much larger talent pool, we aught to eventually see the remote organizations thrive and the RTO ones die.
> since RDS read replicas were no longer transmitting enough data to stay up.

As an infra guy, I’ve seen similar things happening multiple times. This could be a non problem if developers handled the connection lost case, reconnection with retries and stuff.

But most developers just don’t bother.

So we’re often building elastic infrastructure that is consumed by people that write code as if we were still on the late 90ies with the single instance dbs expected to be always available.
Are you sure banning books outside the curriculum is proper parenting because what I'm reading is thought control.
Same. I’m 100% remote in a very technical field, and the thing I miss the most is to work out a problem with my colleagues at a whiteboard.
Politico reports that USDA landing pages regarding climate change were ordered to be deleted by a directive from the USDA's office of communications.

I think it is likely that orders to these other agencies follows this model. Many other datasets are being targeted via EO 14168 which has quite wide impacts but doesn't appear at first glance to apply to what i would expect to be a part of NOAA and EPA reports.

https://www.politico.com/news/2025/01/31/usda-climate-change...
I think that was a sarcastic jab at consumer capitalism.
Hard to tell nowdays..
I did, as I said, I went through Aid Access. I checked some of the others as well.

> Telehealth, looking to take Medicaid.

"Looking to take Medicaid" is a strange way of saying they currently do not accept any form of insurance.

Hey Jane is the only one I have seen thus far. And of course, there's a reason why they also accept eg. Cashapp rather than just taking CC/debit cards - they expect most of their customers will not want them to have any actual information on them.

And again, any prescription med promotion, including 100 legit prescription meds, require some byzantine bureaucratic process with FB themselves - not just being legal or de facto legal.
A strike of skilled workers against a specific employer can be effective.

A "general strike" of "laborers" is unlikely to have any effect. It's too diffuse, and there are too many other people who can step in as replacements.
Not sure I meant that to happen. I am sure I just went to tinyurl to make the link -- I don't know how it ended up this way.
Oh this is the old story of shadow layoff. Of course the more talented go away while the less talented one stay. They know this but don't care because the cost cut is immediate but the damage is long term.
The system idles at 60w and running hits 260w.
> Worse, it left me with a debilitating emotional and intellectual dependency on their approval.

I'm not a therapist, but maybe one can back me up:

The "thing" driving this emotion is essentially hard-coded in the author at this point, from early childhood.

More central than rationally spelunking into the nature of what they currently consider "breakage," the author would be better off acknowledging and accepting (i.e., sitting with) the feeling when it arises as part of their own rich emotional life. This, ironically, will dissipate the negative impact of the feeling over time. (But this doesn't count as "fixing" one's emotional "breakage" any more than accepting that humans have belly buttons makes belly buttons disappear.)

Am I close here?

Edit: get rid of unnecessary and false dichotomy
You've highlighted the core issue perfectly—Delaware courts suddenly seem to be changing long-established rules that companies have relied on for decades. The Moelis case is especially wild because it suggests that any minority shareholder can challenge a founder control structure, even when it was fully disclosed and priced into the stock.

And for what? Why now? Maybe this is about protecting shareholders. Maybe it’s just a gift to plaintiff-side litigators.
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