mplanchard

It’s worth traveling to see totality if you can swing it

It isn’t. I’ve seen both total and partial, and it’s (literally) night and day. There’s no comparing the two, in my opinion.

See the footnote in TFA

Seems like an instance of Betteridge’s Law, so long as there’s a camera (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betteridge%27s_law_of_headline...)

Although I do agree with the other commenter who says that, sans camera, there’s little to no creep factor.

Did you miss the part immediately after this where the author then explains why that journalist’s take is incorrect?

This seems like exactly the kind of attempt to blame a single person rather than the system that the article is arguing against. Yes, the helicopter pilot was a major part of the series of mistakes that led to the crash, but there were many other points where, if someone had done something differently, the crash may never have happened. This includes:

- the instructor who let the helicopter pilot keep flying through dangerous airspace despite her being clearly disoriented, and who ALSO failed to appropriately consider or respond to ATC’s request for visual separation

- the FAA employee who refused the helicopter chart updates to make dangerous areas clearer

- the ATC who failed to respond appropriately to the alarm by giving the helicopter a specific instruction - the supervisor who failed to separate the local and helicopter duties when the level of traffic was high

And that’s just specific individuals, to say nothing of the military bureaucracy that kept aging fleets with poor equipment operating in close proximity to heavy commercial traffic, or the idiocy of the FAA reclassifying reagan as an airport where controllers get paid less despite a heavy workload and thus increasing the incentive for controllers to leave as soon as they could, preventing any building of institutional knowledge.

Assigning all the blame to one individual, no matter how critical their role in the accident, robs us of opportunities to make the system safer. That is always the point of Admiral Cloudberg’s articles, but especially this one.

This is an insane thing to publish, and I can’t believe their legal team signed off on it. Save it for the courts.

Just want to say, thanks for writing this! It was lovely to read this expounding upon the depths and contours of the original statement. The point seemed so obvious when she expressed it that I skimmed right over it in my reading, but your post helped me see how profound it is.

In addition to what others have said, the OP posted their rationale in a comment along with the post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49135427

Yes, indeed. I was being sarcastic

Search input box is at the bottom, yes

Can’t land a good partner on your own merits? Globalism means you can go to a poor country and find someone whose position on the “poverty vs living with this asshole” scale tips heavily in your favor!

After all, why have a partner who loves you when you could instead have a partner who needs you in order to escape their living conditions?

Yeah, what could we possibly have done[0] to justify an attack on our water supply?

[0]: https://www.commondreams.org/news/iran-water-desalination-pl...

Google seems inflated: I feel like the meaningful range is between 4.5 and 5 stars, so 4.5 stars is just okay, and as you get closer to 5 stars it’s more likely to be actually good. Yelp does not feel as inflated to me.

Agree that NYC has great ramen. One of my favorites (in LES) was in fact in TFA.

Loved Tatsu-ya when I lived there. If you like Japanese food and you haven’t been yet, you should check out Asahi imports (on Burnet, not too far from Komé, which is also great, although I heard they [Asahi] also have a location in South Austin now). Great fresh onigiri, kara age bento, etc. I used to go like twice a week.

brb gotta add literally every pizza place in NYC

But seriously, this is great, and has already given me some new spots to try for lunch. Hopefully it takes off! I’d imagine it’ll be easiest to get a good engagement loop going in the big cities, so maybe worth focusing on them at the outset? ~80 places in NYC is a good start, but it’s the tip of the iceberg.

Edit: oh yeah I know we all love the web, but this would be nice as an app

Not going to reply to all the comments, but so glad I posted this! Lots of great recs I hadn’t heard of to check out

I have been too nervous to really try using the phone as a passenger in a car, but it has also activated for me on trains and planes, where I suffer less from motion sickness anyway.

Not enough experience yet to say for sure whether they work, but the dots look so cool that I will keep it on regardless.

Unrelated, but all I want is a letterboxd for books, with the light social aspect, the ability to log a read multiple times, and with a great interface. I read my hope for this into the title of this post, unfortunately.

I stopped being precious about mine after stripping and reseasoning some real gnarly ones from thrift stores. Knowing that I can always start fresh from zero made me worry less, and ironically worrying less has led to better seasoning over time.

That’s way more than I do with mine: hot water, nylon brush, throw it on the heat till dry, wipe with paper towel already oiled from constantly doing this.

First use is always over easy egg, which doesn’t really even dirty the pan enough to worry about if I’m going to just cook again later.

Buy a good metal spatula with a sharp edge and a slightly flexible business end. This is my favorite spatula by far: https://products.radacutlery.com/collections/kitchen-utensil...

I’m convinced that 90% of people’s problems is they don’t have a good spatula that they can really scrape the pan with. Metal pans deserve metal spatulas.

On my cast irons, I only need to use a tiny pat of butter. In stainless, I use a bit more, or add some oil. Don’t overheat the pan.

Excepting when the egg comes out broken, my success rate is essentially 100%.

I love seeing all these posts from NixOS newcomers! It seems anecdotally like LLMs have really given it a boost recently, I guess by reducing the intimidation factor of the language and the unfamiliarity? Of all the positive and negative outcomes I have imagined from LLMs, NixOS becoming popular was not one of them, but I'll take it.

> Development environments are still a pain. devenv.sh is great for web and backend

Weird, development environments are one of my favorite things about nix. I don't use anything like devenv.sh, just add a `flake.nix` to the repo defining a devShell, and then add `use flake` to `.envrc` and let direnv activate it. Every major and most minor editors have support for direnv, and if they don't, you can just launch them from a shell in that directory. This makes the only system dependencies for a great dev environment nix and direnv.

> I'm increasingly concerned with AUR-like trust issues

Once you've done it a few times, most things are pretty easy to package yourself, and you can just check those derivations into your git repo for your machines and use them. Especially if you're using LLMs, it shouldn't be all that hard to package what you need in most cases. For stuff that's more complicated or difficult, it's more likely there will be some kind of de facto standard flake for it.

I'm no AI booster by any stretch of the imagination, but it's not "run[ning] ... computer systems" in this case. Your NixOS setup is defined by declarative config files, and nix builds or updates a working system from them. AI in this case is just writing the config files, which you'd then (hopefully) read and at least vaguely understand before applying them.

I'm on year 6 and still feel the same way, using NixOS for all my machines, and also for my homelab servers (building on the main machine and then deploying over SSH). Everything else feels primitive by comparison. Rolling back is incredible.

I have one github repo with a top-level flake containing system definitions for all of my machines. Much of my config is modularized, so it's easy to take custom stuff from one machine and use it on another.

It's nice to hear that AI tooling is making it more accessible for people.

Hasta* (it’s spanish)

Yes, reading this I was thinking about how many of these problems go away with a nix environment. Certainly not all of them, but it’s a great way to get a reproducible build environment that includes direct specification of system dependencies.

So many. The sibling comments, plus GitAI, plus empathic, plus many others

I don’t know. I mean, I agree with you overall, but it seems like tons of engineers, especially here on HN, have been more than willing to go all-in on AI for at least the past year, with many dire warnings of “coding is a solved problem,” “if you’re not programming swarms of agents, you’re going to be left behind,” and so on.

This has not been my experience with my fellow engineers IRL on average, but I do feel like there is a significant contingent of us who are ready and raring to yield engineering in its entirety to the LLMs.