skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's not a bad practice to automatically dismiss any pilot who ejects from a plane (other than test pilots) except in cases which are wholly obvious equipment failures. It will ensure that for these planes which cost hundreds of millions of dollars, the pilot doesn't eject unless, yes, they really fucking need to eject.

Will this mean you accidentally fire some great pilots? Yes. But given the cost of these airplanes it is better to spend some more money on training a few more pilots.
Indeed. But the equipment inside has fans and must move air around. The enclosure is most effective at high frequency noise and so what's left is much more tolerable (and reduced). I suppose you'd need to go to liquid cooled to do better? Or are you aware of a more effective enclosure?
> How do you even read code without types?

We're not going to settle the preference for dynamic vs static types here. Its probably older than both of us, with many fine programmers on both sides of the fence. I'll leave it at this: well-informed programmers choosing to write in dynamically typed languages DO read code without types, and have happily done so since the late 1950s (lisp).

The funny thing is, I experience the same "how do you even??" feeling reading statically typed code. There's so much... noise on the screen, how can you even follow what's going on with the code? I guess people are just different?

> LLMs will make fewer type errors, and more errors that are uncaught by types

The errors I'm talking about are like "this CSS causes the element to draw part of its content off-screen, when it probably shouldn't". In theory, some sufficiently advanced type system could catch that (and not catch elements off screen that you want off-screen)? But realistically: pretty challenging for a static type system to catch.

The errors I see are NOT errors that throw exceptions at runtime either, in other words, they are beyond the scope of current type systems, either dynamic (runtime) or static (compile time). Remember that dynamic languages ARE usually typed, they are just type checked at runtime not compile time.

> perhaps that gives the delusion that the LLM is doing it completely without type system.

I mentioned coding in JS with cline, so no delusion. It does fine w/o a type system, and it rarely generates runtime errors. I fix those like I do with runtime errors generated when /I/ program with a dynamic language: I see them, I fix them. I find they're a lot rarer in both LLM generated code and in human generated code that proponents of static typing seem to think?
Why is the executable named ./a.out and not ./lolno? Why are warnings disabled by default? What if you need to use <math.h>? And that’s just for a single file.
Who are you responding to? Cause it’s not my comment.
Ironically every time someone proudly assert the existence of F-35 C++ coding standard [0], I am not sure if they actually understand the impact.

The software mess from F-35 would it be even worse without the standard, or has the existence of the standard hardly improved the coding practices as usually gets told.

Not that the answer to this philosophical question solves the issues for everyone affected by the F-35 software problems.

[0] - http://www.stroustrup.com/JSF-AV-rules.pdf
The latter.

(I really liked both movies by the way).
There is no link here
Yes I think you're right about that. Most teachers are not good at teaching. You have to wonder why they need special certification to be a school teacher when the result is so bad. I know that most teachers were bad because I had a few excellent teachers and the contrast made it obvious. I failed high school math, then I went to university and did a more advanced math course; I got distinction. I didn't even invest more time. The difference is that, at university, I was mostly skipping the lectures and reading directly from the textbook.

Math at school was just insane; it was an endless stream of; if you see this problem, use this formula. If you see that problem, use that formula... But nobody understood what they were doing. Nobody learned math from first principles.

It's weird though because in university, as I was doing well in math, I came across John Von Neumann's quote "In mathematics, you don't understand things. You just get used to them."

To me, this suggests that some gifted people have the ability to apply complex rules without understanding them from first principles... But that was absolutely never the case for me. I'm the opposite of that. I can't apply something before I fully understand it.
and Dark City was its name?

On a serious not The Matrix was a fine film with fantastic effects but on a scale of Punch & Depth per $ spent on production Dark City delivered more bang per buck.
As a native Spanish speaker, I often used ChatGPT to improve my emails in English. It was very time-consuming having to type the same prompt multiple times in a day to set my writing style and format. That's why I decided to build an app to simplify my process. You can set the style and format just once, and with a single click, you can improve your text. You have the option to include the email thread or any relevant context for a more personalized improvement. Additionally, I've included features designed specifically for non-native speakers, like tone detection and the ability to request a few different alternatives for any word/phrase. And of course, you can talk directly with the AI to create a draft or modify the text. Check it out: https://talktext-ai.web.app/
You can definitely disable the "swipe left" thing on the launcher.
Finishing up my PhD thesis on low-resource audio classification for ecoacoustics. Our partners deployed 98 recorders in remote Arctic/sub-Arctic regions, collecting a massive (~19.5 years) dataset to monitor wildlife and human noise.

Labeled data is the bottleneck, so my work focuses on getting good results with less data. Key parts:

- Created EDANSA [1], the first public dataset of its kind from these areas, using a improved active learning method (ensemble disagreement) to efficiently find rare sounds.

- Explored other low-resource ML: transfer learning, data valuation (using Shapley values), cross-modal learning (using satellite weather data to train audio models), and testing the reasoning abilities of MLLMs on audio (spoiler: they struggle!).

Happy to discuss any part!

[1]https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=AH-sLEkAAAAJ&hl=en
That is only happening thanks to the way US view on the world has changed, and the remote kill switch used against Ukrainian jets.

US has killed the allies trust.

Had these two events not happened, and most likely sales would not have been cancelled regardless of the F-35 issues.
Defense companies with workers in congressional districts and bribe politicians – I mean, make campaign contributions in exchange for huge contracts. Congress oversees the military. The officers who don't help politicians get what they want don't get promoted. The officers who do, get rank, status, book deals, and lucrative jobs at defense companies after they retire.

It's disgusting but it's not that hard to figure out how it happens.
Like committing actual crimes tried by a judge and convicted by a jury of his peers? Lol yes truly an indictment of our system.
> Beyond that then yes you will need to get into details because any engineering discipline is tricksy!

When you have multiple files in your project or are using external libraries, pretty much any other programming language will know what tt do. Only C requires you to manually name them in the compilation command even though they’re already named in the file you’re compiling.
> C toolchains are the most painful to set up in my experience and have incredible bloat. Familiarity is not simplicity

What are you comparing it to? C++? Java?
The entire story is pretty interesting, actually.

When the pilot ejected and landed, the 911 dispatcher goes through some sort of flowchart like a call-center guy in Calcutta except at approximately 0.25x the pace https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JCk3yk_38Fc (seriously, it's like watching an LLM execute on CPU).

Then there's the plane that no one could find for a while

Then the military said the reason they had to demote him was that while a normal pilot could have done what he did, he was a test pilot and they're supposed to run closer to the redline.

Overall, that combined with the contemporaneous Secret Service gaffes that nearly had the President whacked while they stood around in photo-op poses, really made me think: What if these people are all playing at their roles and they don't actually know what to do? I know it's general Millennial jokes that "nobody knows what they're doing; we're all just making it up as we go along".

But that's not true. I kind of know a lot of what I'm doing. There's a whole bunch of things where I can just execute with low error rate. These guys are doing something more important and their ancestors did it better. Which makes me think that they're not so good at what they do.
Adding a link for context (too late to edit, was short on time earlier). Government admitted to doing the above and then, after the fact, named the agencies involved in tossing people into unmarked vehicles, taking them to undisclosed location, questioning them and later releasing them without charges or more information.

https://www.npr.org/2020/07/17/892277592/federal-officers-us...
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This was discussed four months ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42098475

From my memory at the time, I was initially fully on the side of the pilot, but after reading through the discussion, I wasn't really sure anymore.

He didn't try to see if his flight controls (pitch, yaw, roll) were still responding, he didn't make use of the backup instruments, he didn't try the backup radio, and he had enough fuel to land elsewhere. The letter of the procedures may have said that he was in an out-of-control flight condition, but the procedures were too vague, and he should have had the experience to second-guess them and ascertain if his plane was actually out of control.

Sure, maybe all those things wouldn't have worked, and he would have had to eject. Or worse, they wouldn't have worked, and he would have spent enough time trying them that it would have been too late and he would have died.

But for better or worse, the actual outcome does matter: the plane was still flyable, and either a) he would have likely been able to successfully land, possibly at an alternate location with better weather, or b) he would have had the time and flight stability to try a bunch more options before deciding to eject.

I do find the circumstances strange, in how long it took for Marine brass to decide to relieve him of his command and torpedo his career. But I have no frame of reference for or experience around this, so perhaps it's not unusual. If he were just a rank-and-file pilot, he likely would have kept his position and continued on, perhaps with a bit of a bumpy road ahead. But he was given the command of an important group, a group tasked to refine flight procedures around this plane, and that comes with different expectations for his actions in the scenario he was in.
Realtime translation is not one of our problems.
Watch the first half of it, then turn it off.

If you like late 90's / early 2000's M. Night Shyamalan, the first half of the film is brilliant. But after the reveal it falls apart like the last season of Game of Thrones. It's as if Lana stopped caring.

It would have been fantastic to have timed it with the release of the Matrix MMO game. It's as if that had been the plan all along.
> I know that parents have sheltered their children to varying degrees throughout history but now it seems way more extreme than it's ever been before.

In my case, definitely yes.

Not related to the analog/digital only, but I come from a "macho-ghetto-gansta-hood" culture. This is embedded in my community and, more or less, my city.

I will not only shield my children against it, but I will fight to the fullest extent to prevent them from even getting in touch and thinking this is attractive.

I've left my city because of it, not because I am superior or special, but because I know how pervasive and deep-entrenched and poisonous this kind of culture can be.

It will affect the way that you speak, the way that you dress, and the way that other people see you, and not only does it have this perpetual victim mindset, but more importantly, you do not know that you've become socially handicapped due to this.
Back when I had an iPhone 6, visiting Fandom sites was completely unusable because it had ads that automatically spammed the app store open. I had to be fast just to close the tab or the app store would get forced open again, regardless of whether I did anything or not.

I needed the info on the wiki page I was using though, and got around the issue by disabling the app store through parental controls.

Apple allowing that app store opening nonsense single-handedly made my decision to go to Android.
Switch probably doesn't help since many games size their text and UI for docked mode and display on a large TV screen.
I still like the characters that Spacey portrayed. I admire his work I don’t admire him as a person.
Thank you for the acronym correction.
Seems useful, why isn't this more popular?
Including Hacker News, presumably.
I loved Joker 2! They spent an unbelievable amount of money for the audience to have a really really awful time and awful feeling in the stomach afterwards. Recommended it you want to have a bad time - with a film that just aims at that.
I released an iOS app last October for users who use Apple Watch to record their workouts - https://mergefit.itwenty.me

It lets users merge two or more workouts into a single one. There have been times when I have been out riding, hiking or whatever and accidentally end the activity on my apple watch instead of pausing it. Starting a new workout means having your stats split across the two workouts.

The "usual" way to merge such workouts is to export all of them to individual FIT files, then use a tool like fitfiletools.com to merge the individual FIT files. You then have a merged FIT file, which is difficult to import back into Apple Health. This process also requires access to the internet, which is not always guaranteed when out in remote areas.

MergeFit makes this process easy by merging workouts right on device and without the need to deal with FIT files at all. It reads data directly from Apple Health and writes the merged data back to Apple Health.

The app reached a small milestone a few days ago - crossing 1000$ in total sales.
I have a feeling if the current administration had a problem with your social media posts, maybe you said something about Tesla that they could construe as supporting the current protests and/or vandalism, and similarly venue-shopped for a federal court, say East Texas, (using the U.S. v Mackey precedent to claim jurisdiction because some fiber carrying data might go through it) where the 12 jurors would be on team red, you would not feel like it would be a fair trial if you got convicted.
Because optimizing for security is sometimes specifically decreasing convenience.
In the original (first) article some of those considerations are discussed.
Implicit in this view is that a pilot’s life has a cash value and that value is something less than “hundreds of millions of dollars” or a single digit multiple thereof.

The plane in this incident was valued at $136M USD.

He was in reality about 1900 feet AGL at the time of ejection. Planes fall around 160 feet per second when stalled.

How much money would you accept to not pull an ejection lever for a few more seconds in a zero-visibility setting without instruments in a falling/stalling plane that you personally are sitting inside? How about at 1900 feet AGL? That’s 12 seconds before impact on a good day.
We call them iPads and smartphones now.
> BlackRock, State Street, and the Vanguard Group all own substantial shares in each other

Not relevant to whether they’re private equity firms.

Large institutional asset managers own shares in everything publicly traded. For most of their funds, they don’t vote and have no choice as to what they buy or sell. They can’t threaten to sell because they don’t like something because that isn’t how index funds work.

They also run discretionary funds, but those funds aren’t the ones that have large holdings in either each other nor TV media outlets.
Hi,
I've got open-source project(s) focused on low-level C/C++ mostly around kernels, toolchains and boot infrastructure.

Check it out: https://github.com/amlel-el-mahrouss (it's on the pinned repositories)
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> navigating the maze that is picking a C runtime, a libc implementation, a compiler or potentially compiler frontend and backend, a linker, a build tool, a dependency manager, and then figuring out the linking, figuring out the dependency management, figuring out the building process,

You're misrepresenting this somewhat: all but two of those items listed need you to only "pick" a compiler and (as parent said) use Make.

The dependency manager is a problem yes, but lets not misrepresent everything.
Makes perfect sense. The things you do to look for a job don’t help you do the job.
I think you linked the wrong thread, this one is about DOGE.
Show HN: Fake Broken Screen
> the remote kill switch used against Ukrainian jets.

Could you provide some references to this? A quick search only turned up denials that such a kill switch exists.
It's on educators. It started well before tech.

They want kids to do homework, so they give a few free marks for doing it. Kids cheat and ignore anything not marked because that's how people respond to incentives. Then the lecturers wonder why no-one is doing stuff that isn't marked, and try to fill in the gaps by marking more things until they run out of capacity to police it all.

There are upsides to continuous assessment, but it's effectively micromanagement and has all the predictable downsides. "I applied hard incentives to make people give me X and Y, so why don't they they game the system, and why don't they also do Z, shocked picachu face."
Do you think trying to mislead people with fake signs and numbers so their vote doesn't get counted is a thing people should be allowed to do by law? What about fraud?
> The idiocy that led to them obtaining the info was very much part of the story.

Yep. It’s the whole story.
Maybe this will start to teach people that being a cog in a giant machine that only pretends to care about you (while really doing everything to put you in service to its own strategic goals of mass murder) isn’t really a great life decision. More high profile
stories like this would be great, in my view.

The DoD spends tons of our tax money on advertising and marketing and partnerships (all those sports game flyovers are paid advertising to the NFL/NCAA by the military) to make it seem like you’ll be some sort of glorious hero if you join up.

> Time passed, and Del Pizzo’s trajectory through the Marine Corps moved upward and steady: deployments to Afghanistan, Kuwait and Japan; deployments to Bahrain for combat missions into Syria for Operation Inherent Resolve. He flew Harriers off amphibious assault ships. At the Pentagon, he was assigned to the Joint Chiefs of Staff working on Southeast Asia policy, and with Navy staff on amphibious expedition warfare.

I find it difficult to sympathize with those who actually perpetrate foreign invasions, be they Russian or American. It’s hard to care about justice for someone whose job and daily practice is to blow up people they’ve never met and never posed a threat to them.
> only happening thanks to the way US view on the world has changed

Sure. My point is it does become small enough to fail if its effective price to taxpayers doubles due to allies cancelling orders.

> remote kill switch used against Ukrainian jets

Source?
If you hate the long form filler and know what a fighter jet is, start (with the knowledge that the pilot is landing in poor weather) at "Suddenly, at 1:32:05 p.m", read until the first two sentences in section 2, then skip to section 5.

Edit: That said, there are no answers. It's just the long known story: A pilot ejects from a malfunctioning (but likely flyable) jet, gets cleared in the first two investigations because most other pilots would have interpreted the situation similarly, promoted, and then fired less than 4 months after moving with his family to the location of his new role. It remains unclear why but scapegoating to distract from the plane's issues is commonly seen as the most likely explanation, with all the risks it entails (pilots becoming more hesitant to eject or openly admit mistakes so safety can be improved).
Curious, what was the reasoning behind the block - or its revocation?
And upon failing the course, the students and their parents sue the university for failing to award a degree. They have, after all, been paying tuition fees of tens of thousands of dollars for the last four years. They damn well expect a degree in return!

In response, universities remove degree grading altogether. As your bachelors degree is now guaranteed, graduation is purely ceremonial. Matriculation immediately awards you the degree of Baccalareus Expectum which automatically converts to Baccalareus Artium after paying for 8 semesters.

These can optionally be paid in advance and, if so, the bachelors degree (or masters, if you pay for 16 semesters) will be available immediately. Attendance is encouraged but optional.

Backlash against a lack of real grades starts to build — without exams or marking, all degrees are the same. Institutions use actuarial tables and AI to determine what grade you would have achieved based on upbringing and family background. Dynamic pricing means the degrees costs less for the rich. Lower class families are able to buy their bloodline a ticket to the elite by proving they are worth it: paying full price.

If you think you are elite material, you can take out a loan of course. Why care about the burden of repayments when you’ll be the next superstar lawyer, programmer, analyst, quant, consultant, etc., right? Instead of an end of year exam to prove yourself you can instead prove yourself by paying off that student loan! Go bears!
Truly blows my mind anyone cares about this stuff, at all.

Must be a frustrating, expensive, kinda sad way to live life.
Yeah... There are exponentially more legacy applicants to colleges today than there were 30 years ago. By definition.

You could take every positive child development intervention known to man, and get what like, +5 IQ points?

But be related to a Senator, and you will be hundreds of times more likely to become a Senator (https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2015/06/21/wh...) Show me how phone use delivers a +/-10,000% affect on outcomes the way nepotism does, and then I'll start listening to all this nonsense about variables and dumber students.
The distinction is that in general “opening a box and extracting the value” makes no sense, as it's not a thing that can be done in general. If your box is a Maybe, there might not be a value to extract. If it's a list, there might be zero or multiple values. It only ever makes sense to map over the contents of the box, replacing the values with their image under the map.
That article scared me. The Cascadia Fault is a scary one. We are not (and arguably cannot really) prepared for an earthquake of that magnitude.
The only thing such a policy leads to is losing pilots, either by them not ditching when they should or them leaving a toxic work environment.
I think it's fair to call out a action reaction flow that got us here; but if we can't see we have swag into something far more destructive to free speech as the article outlines; I don't count this as intellectual honest discussion.

We are past the point of "everyone has their perspective on this" right and left have their own version of this etc. The system that protected people's right to have different opinions is being dismantled.