skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's a very interesting phenomenon with the butchers (and about 1/5th of the American retail economy in my experience), but it's not what's happening in airline services.

Airlines have jacked up the prices of comfortable berths people can sleep in on long haul journeys to almost 10x the price of shrinking torture chairs that most of us buy. For a long while business class and coach drew apart in price even as business got more luxurious with flat beds and fancy wines while coach seats in Boeing's newest, most advanced 787 jets are the narrowest trans-oceanic seats ever sold and Spirit/Frontier domestic seats don't even recline anymore.

But that difference was driven by corporate executive passengers whose employers were paying the 10x prices and getting tax breaks for doing so. Corporate sales is complicated and charging more can actually sell more units so the airlines carefully eliminated mid-priced options to force businesses to pay far more for the very profitable business class seats than their marginal cost.

And economic rationality has reasserted itself. Premium economy seating is now common on airlines outside the USA without such easily gamed large corporations to scam. The premium economy is similar in quality to old-fashioned business class seating at prices that middle class leisure travellers can afford. Mostly you can't buy it from the USA without paying a steep premium, but anyone flying to the USA from abroad has been able to for about a decade. Carriers refused to sell it at the same prices in the USA because running the game on corporate purchasing departments is so lucrative. For example, JAL and Cathay Pacific round trip fares between the Far East and USA in premium economy have been about $500-1000 more originating in the USA than in their home countries.

But Delta and American are now outfitting planes with premium economy because it's the most profitable use of space for carriers that have it and supporting the corporate business class sales inflation scam can't hold it back anymore. American is flying the new class on planes already. Even CX and JL prices are starting to rationalize.

So the key variable in airline discomfort has been American corporate purchasing culture irrationality and not the natural division of markets into tiers. Corporate purchasing irrationality and cartel pricing to exploit it are also the drivers of advance-purchase fares, last-minute price gouging, saturday night stay requirements, steep premiums for one-way fares, and lots of other paradoxical and nasty pricing strategies.
>Technology influences expectations but we can choose not to be a slave to it

Only at the personal level. We can't easily control what others chose, and this thread is all about what others expect from IM (instant responses).
I'd like an early 2015 MBP with 32 gig, faster processor and SSD and no fancy light bar....

Oh wait, that's a fancier horse...
That is a bunch of completely unproven assumptions. Of course immigrants increase the demand for labor. Even the illegal ones.

You can't think of a direct route? Try the obvious ones: Who cuts their hair? Who fixes their car? Sells them groceries? It's even more obvious for legal immigrants.

What's wrong with a general economic boom?
I feel the need to point out that what "ships" with elementaryOS is basically meaningless. You can install what you want, easily, and the default configuration is a recommendation. Welcome to Linux-land. https://www.distrowatch.com/
I still prefer CoffeeScript because of its clean syntax.
How do you figure "pure neglect"? What are the features you're missing in the current Mac lineup? Which products from other manufacturers make a meaningful improvement on Apple's offering for "devs"?
Are you sure that is cheaper?
The article is about humans
"Fake news" is a brilliantly positioned term that is meant to imply that somehow mainstream media is not mostly fake.
According to that article, 75% of capital income does not go to the rich. Significant chunks of capital income consist of (unrealized) increases in the appraised value of homes.

At this point, if they work, it's because they're choosing to - which is proof that passive income does not inherently slow productivity.

Is this really correct? Do you think that a trust fund baby would not become more productive if they lost their trust fund and needed to find a job? Do you really believe that exactly zero rich people choose not to work because they don't have to?
I would say a shy person doesn't fear social situations, but might be at the beginning a bit reserved, needs a bit more time to warm up with foreign people and might be a bit overwhelmed when meeting to much foreign people at once.
Linqpad's amazing "dump" isn't to be found in scriptcs or anywhere else, so far as I'm aware, however. Which really does make working with a C# REPL a million times nicer.
Bitcoin passes above $1,000 for first time since 2013
This saga started with "Russian hackers penetrated U.S. electricity grid through a utility in Vermont, officials say".

Then we got "Russian operation hacked a Vermont utility, showing risk to U.S. electrical grid security, officials say"

In summary, (i) the U.S. electricity grid was not penetrated, (ii) the malware can be purchased online by anyone.

The WaPo seems to be more concerned lately with pursuing a certain agenda instead of quality journalism. Another example is a recent article in which they give credibility and rely on an organisation called PropOrNot; this article even became "one of the most widely circulated political news articles on social media". [1]

And organisations such as the WaPo are supposed to shield us from fake news and "fact-check" Trump.

[1] For a good discussion, see: https://theintercept.com/2016/11/26/washington-post-disgrace...
The entire point of VAT is that it takes care of situations like this one; is there something funny about VAT for fuel?
I agree that we should err on the side of civility. But in this case, I think it's important to call out u/strainer for his mistake. Note that I said "mistake" and not "lie", because I do think it was an honest mistake, but a major one that was made in a rush to judgment.

No big deal. Me and u/strainer are just two people opining about things we read on the Internet on a late Monday night. But that's kind of the bigger picture, isn't it? If the allegations against Mr. Gottesfeld are materially true, but we assign the best of motives to him, then he himself is also just another guy who read something on the Internet. Except, instead of just opining about it, he allegedly tried to shut down an entire hospital's IT.

u/strainer wants to believe in the narrative that Mr. Gottesfeld is competent and knowledgeable enough to know how a hospital's IT is configured. I'm of the belief that maybe Mr. Gottesfeld is overconfident of what he knows about hospital IT. And perhaps he was overconfident of the issues regarding the plight of the girl and her family. Because it's easy to miss even the big details when reading things on the Internet.
This simplified notion of "Supply and demand" does not work with immigration and labor.

The obvious solution to your problem of lower wages would be to legalize illegal immigrants to give them equal rights and empower them to seek higher wages.
I'm sure we're coming at this from very different perspectives but I can't quite understand how it would be better to reduce regulation on food safety than to give people enough income by default that they can eat and have a roof over their heads. At least from my perspective giving people a choice as to what they do is worlds better than forcing people to take (often multiple) unsatisfying, poorly paid, jobs just so they don't starve to death.
<rant>People worry too much about what they use to host text editors and terminal windows...</rant>
Trust me when I tell you that refactoring is nearly always the better solution. Consider that rewriting from scratch doesn't necessarily yield a better result than what you have already.
In Berlin, so many companies are relocating developers that majority of HR have done the visa thing 4 or 5 times so they're used to it. Also when the job ad says they don't care about your academic degrees that means HR has been informed not to care.
How social media interactions have changed our lives
Or the other way:

Finding an Alternative to Windows 10

That non-optional phone-home, non-optional updates, ads on startmenu, little QA (buggy like never before) - Windows up to Win7 was so nice, since Nadella everything went downhill, so sad, but true. Good that Win7 is supported until 2020, and promising alternatives are around the corner with Google Android/Fuchsia, macOS, Linux - although, the transition will be painful and but necasserry. It's a little late and all trust is gone, but maybe they fire the CEO and make a u-turn.
> Until recently, a Hackintosh was a time-consuming way of producing a somewhat worse Mac.

Oh? What has changed?

> This level of risk is fun but not for the faint of heart.

Read: as soon as a new patch comes out for macOS you are either running around with known security vulnerabilities (as well as missing reliability fixes), or you're a guinea pig entirely unsure if it breaks anything and if so how much effort it is going to take to get the patch applied. Why? Mainly due to drivers.

Besides, good luck finding a well working laptop with good macOS support.

I gave up and bought a MBP 2015 instead. Very nice machine. Expensive, but nice.

For a workstation or MP replacement it'd make more sense. The MP hasn't been updated for 4 years and with physical access to the quick machine its easier to fix issues. You're also guaranteed not on the go, so you got all the tools you need at your disposal. However there is still a risk for loss of productivity and worst of all you can't plan it. Because you don't know when Apple does release their software updates.
I've thought about this a lot. Wouldn't Steve have realized this inherent contradiction? Is this an understood reality at the top levels at Apple?

That is, does Tim see his role now as maximizing revenue from the current position, with the goal being to hand off a healthier company to a "visionary" successor?

My personal answer fluctuates depending on my daily gut feeling about human nature. And how many times sourcekit crashes.
I don't even want to know how much revenue I brought Apple by "word of mouth" alone as I've been one of the gazillion fevered and outspoken Unix converts (Darwin fan since 2004). Friends, family and random people in every potential "evangelizable" context – don't even get me started on how many fellow netizens, students, sysadmins and developers I actively tipped over as well (these often were the hardest actually).

Macs or later iPhone, it didn't matter we had to tell everyone that those nice and shiny devices were the real deal and we kept showing and telling until the last potential convert saw the light as well.

I have been buying a new Mac and iPhone almost annually for about ten years now – even (or especially) after 2011 and 2013. I honestly was thrilled by iOS7, I loved it from the moment of its introduction and only saw potential.

All that said, no "OSX" release has made me happier than Snow Leopard unfortunately and I am still convinced that "Losing the Functional High-Ground" by Marco Arment channeled an important message about a pattern most of us likely still see across the whole product line-up even though many things got better since.

Why else have we slowly but steadily stopped recommending Macs over the last two years?

When will that happen to iPhones or iPads? I'm still recommending them left and right but it somehow also is getting harder in a way, especially when people keep losing their safe-in-the-cloud data (in some cases even those precious moments with iPhone – photos).

Unfortunately Apple does seem to need a (kool-aid sober) benevolent dictator with taste and wholistic understanding of their core product/business (what is that going to be btw?).
> needs a dongle to connect to iPhone

What's wrong with the USB-C to Lightning cable?

http://www.apple.com/uk/shop/product/MK0X2ZM/A/usb-c-to-ligh...
I think it's just incomplete writing (and it's the guy's blog, so no big deal). Author also doesn't elaborate on why ElementaryOS based on FreeBSD would be ideal, though FreeBSD is certainly rad.
> torture chairs

Maybe part of the problem is the tendency to hyperbolize.
I switched to Windows 10 (Microsoft Surface 4 Pro) after ~15 years of using Linux and 5 years of MacOS.
In Bash (based on Ubuntu) 99% of utilities just work. I can use npm, install modules and they still work. For me in Windows 10 - everything just works.

Though I still miss:
1. MacBook's touchpad :-(
2. Emacs-like keybindings everywhere in OS (like MacOS has).
There's a concept of an 'ambivert' too, which sits in the middle.

The popular understanding of introversion and extraversion has necessarily simplified the whole set up to 'loud, socialising people', and 'quiet, solitary' people.

Neither are true - both are caricatures of the truth.

I think it comes down essentially to how you recharge mentally - you do it in company by bouncing off others, or you do it alone.

Neither precludes the capabilities traditionally ascribed to either camp - introverts are perfectly capable of being social, as much as extraverts are perfectly capable of being cerebral.
Again, I'm not trying to provide an exhaustive survey of AI or ML applications. Merely point out that the fallacy of using past failures of AI and ML to conclude that they will continue to fail at tasks against which they have thus far made limited headway.

Bear in mind that in the 90's only a handful of supercomputers had teraflops of computing power, where now you can get an 11 TFLOPS Titan X Ultimate for $1200. Compute power continues to grow exponentially, yet it has only recently reached a level where certain kinds of approaches are truly practical. As Heinlein said, "When it's time to go railroading, people go railroading."

It's interesting that you should talk about antagonistic systems, since Actor-Critic Models, dueling architectures, Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) are an extremely hot area of AI/ML research at the moment.
This rumored Galaxy S8 feature would be nothing you’ve ever seen on an iPhone
>Or is the current wave of discontent wrong and overblown?

Obviously the latter. Let's see the quarterly results...
How did Google find your contact details in the first place?
Were you employed prior to them contacting you? If so, your situation is pretty different from the parent's.
It's because most airport security in the US is theater - they're trying to reduce the perception of risk.

I'm an American and I travel back to the US as seldom as possible, in large part due to the bullshit you have to go through to travel there. Every time I go back I feel like I'm treated like a criminal, with my only crime being that I need to get on a plane.

And as bad as the normal procedure is, it's much worse if you have to book a flight on short notice - two of the last three trips I've taken to the US were because either a family member had died or was dying. Honestly, when you're just off a 10 hour flight and you don't know whether or not your mother died while you were on the way, the last thing you have patience for is yet another asshole border control guy asking you question after question.

Yeah, I'm a bit bitter about airport security in the US.
> How about advertising for candy crush soda saga/minecraft, right on my start menu.

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I could agree with you one year ago. But after latest upgrade to macOS I got so many issues on my MacBook Air and MacBook Pro that I decided 'enough is enough' :)
Making sure the next generation doesn't grow up destitute and uneducated is hardly even an altruistic goal.

These children should be left out of this discussion. They didn't even have the opportunity to choose not to inconvenience you by their existence. They are US citizens just like you are. If there is a net transfer of tax dollars to children growing up in poverty - and there is preciously little of that - then all to the better.
Sure, let's add up the cost.

What is the cost of a human life? What is the cost of the welfare of children whose only crime is following their parents across a border?

I don't pose these questions to signal virtue, but to point out the absurdity of assigning something like a cost function to something as natural as wanting a better life for oneself or one's children.

It might very well be true that "uncontrolled" immigration has an impact on the livelihoods of poorer Americans. Does this really imply that we should hurt the former in favor of the latter instead of helping both?
When I worked at Nortel (formerly Bell Northern Research) they gave me a pension. After 5 years at that job I left and received a letter from HR to the effect: "We have cancelled your pension. You are welcome to sue us, but because the amount of your pension was small, we don't think it will be worth your while." A few years after I left, the company ran into trouble (including accounting fraud). At it's height, this was a company of over 100K employees. Once the company went into bankruptcy proceedings, it appealed to the judge to allow them to use the pension money to pay "executive retension bonuses". The idea was that since it was a sinking ship, all the executives would leave, meaning that no financial restructure would be possible. In exchange for pocketing the pension money, they agreed to stay on to the bitter end. True to their word, they did. And people who had pensions were invited to join the list of creditors (in a non-preferred position).

Don't rely on your pension.
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I recently saw the price of bitcoins rice above $1000. What are the benefits of investing in this virtual currency?
What do you mean by regulatory reform? So anyone can sell restricted and harmful items (i.e. cigarettes) as they see fit or make food without any oversight of hygiene regulations and sell to public? Most of regulatory laws are there for a reason, and as an European, I enjoy costumer protection provided by EU in a form of these regulations.
A killer quote from the article:

"To bring this home, it’s like negotiating your salary without specifying the currency you’re being paid in."

This part has always baffled me. Potential employees accepting X shares without knowing the total share count.
That won't work very well if nobody is buying those devices due to the lack of real updates.
>I've had more problems with Apple cables than any other brand - and Apple tends to make their cables sleeker looking. Coincidence? I doubt it.

Perhaps you had more Apple cables (an obvious branding) compared to any other brand? And your apple cables get more use than others (e.g. on your main laptop, compared to some cable left for years connected to a printer at the office, etc).

Except if you had e.g. an equal number of Dell and Apple machines, etc, or buy branded cables from a single brand.
If damage control is your standard operating procedure, we're not talking ethics, but lack of it. Doing evil until caught, and then apologizing, can be excused once, but not when it's a strategy.
There is already one being worked on by Casetext.

Just saw this posted to HN RSS feed by lever...

Maybe lever watches what's trending on HN and then puts job adverts? If so, NICE ;)

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Loudness wars mean you need fewer bits to store the resulting audio.
Sure, but rent-seeking, parasite lawyers will fight to prevent that, so that they can continue to extract money from the rest of us while being a big drag on the entire economy.
Diet. When I ate unhealthy food and or fast food a lot, I saw a loss in willpower to do things. I think proper diet has a lot to do with how my day goes. It defines my daily discipline.
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> you can switch back to default F1... keys

Why not just set Caps Lock to Esc? Works well with Vim and you don't wanna use Caps Lock anyway.

I use Karabiner Elements to set it that way. Karabiner doesn't work with Sierra.
This. The thing that made the MacOS ecosystem worth the pain and sacrifice was the quality and things "just working". What I don't understand is Apple has more than 10 times the developer resources they had 10 years ago yet quality has gone backwards. Do you really need to be a Stalin to ensure your company makes quality software?