skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
People keep paying because there's no other choice on certain routes, short of driving or taking a bus.

This isn't an upgrade or anything, people who wanted to pay to reserve seats could already do so. You could have also not paid, and picked whatever was available, switch with your neighbors, and so on. Obviously, since Ryan Air figured out that they can extract some extra bucks out of that, you're now assigned a place and can no longer just pick whatever is available once you board. This is a standard rent-seeking behavior with no advantage for the customers.
Wonder what they're using for the motor motion control software? eg g2core, TinyG, GRBL, or something custom
Pretix is awesome, we used it for 4 conferences and workshops so far and had nothing but good impressions. Highly recommended!
Yes, it's a standard that is already supported by several apps, including Samsung default messaging app. Which makes complaning about google making an app strange.
> Please don't insinuate that someone hasn't read an article. "Did you even read the article? It mentions that" can be shortened to "The article mentions that."

Source: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Well, not as much as you think.

Perception is structured by concepts which are learnt. Perception is the prototypical mechanism of understanding.

Insofar as we talking about "abstractions" we are just using language to model the conceptual structure of perception; and then higher order concepts to model the structure of these "perceptual" concepts.

We tend to think of understanding as being equivalent to the linguistic act of accounting for a higher-order concept, when this is really only something humans can do -- and then only with tremendous difficulty needing quite significant methodological assistance from others, etc.

This is the mistake Socrates makes when he asks for "definitions", as-if the dog doesn't understand the geography of where he lives only because he has no linguistic model of the concepts he's using. Or as-if the general has no knowledge of justice because he has no precise linguistic model of it.

When Potter Steward said in the pornography case, " I know it when I see it " he was literally correct. The concept "pornography" is part of seeing pornography, it is knowledge which structures your perception. The lack of perfect linguistic model for that is neither here nor there, and a bit of a blind alley for AI (and socrates).

Animals, including humans, understand a great deal more than any one person can model linguistically. It is this which structures our perception and allows even trivial engagements with our environment.
This country was also founded on the principles of race-based slavery. Attempts to suppress the deep-seated racism of the US have not been completely successful.
Same. This came from the python compiler in CMUCL, in the 80ies.
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They're not arbitrary, they are well know and well documented, to the point of being really, really annoying for those of us who knows we don't want them. They were perhaps a bit unconventional ten years ago, but perfectly middle of the road today, even for legacy carriers.
I remember trying to play a little with node and vue.js a few months ago (I'm a devops/backend developper by trade). Having seen the size of my node_modules directory, nearly 1GB, I was kind of horrified (to be fair, I checked most of the testing options, so a lot of the libraries were coming from that).
How quaint. Is Google Fax still in late Beta and will be released next month?

But seriously - Is 'SMS replacement' even a thing now? I think I only ever chat to my wife via SMS these days because she won't install third party apps on her phone and has no social media accounts. All my friends, colleagues and kids send messages to each other via about 3 different chat apps depending on age (kids) and context.
Plus you can take food with you if you need, and drinks from the airport past security, though those aren't necessarily cheaper.
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renting out an apartment when you move does affect your options however because as such you will have the legal obligations of a landlord, and if not that because you have signed a deal with someone else to have those obligations on your behalf you will still need to pay those people and keep track of them.

Owning things adds friction one way or another.
Ok, I'll bite.

I think the issue with the quote from Domingos and your substitution is that regulation is a very blunt instrument.

He says he would like Facebook's algorithm to maximise not only engagement (which isn't how these systems actually work, but ok), but also the how truthful it is. Now you're left with the question of how to measure how truthful something is, and we don't know how to do that, so usually you come up with some metric that you do know, maybe you decide that authoritative news sources are truthful and things by your friends that talking about non-controversial things are ok, and maybe you throw in a few more heuristics and you get some ugly proxy for truth, how much weight do you put on it vs engagement?

The same question could be asked of how some regulation on capitalistic greed should work; though I would argue that the regulation we have on greed is taxes, where we can let companies optimize their profits, but then tax the profits (either at the company level, or at the individual level when the profits becomes real(ized) gains), and then we provide a whole host of institutions that are the ones we want.

I would say the challenge with regulation is not saying whether we should have any or not, but figuring out what good regulation would look like. Maybe the real regulation we need for Facebook is what we did to Microsoft (the other network effects behemoth) and force them to be interoperable with other platforms so that users could migrate without having to migrate all of their friends.
What do you mean by "this"? I'm in Europe and all my bank accounts are very "closed", as in really difficult to build an API on. Good for security but hopeless for anything else like expense tracking.

They do offer CSV export, not even sure if that's in any standardised way.
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Online forums tend to be dominated by the craziest people.
Switch banks, seriously, and tell them why. Banks are a dime a dozen. My local credit union exports in QFX, OFX, and CSV. Also has direct access (I use Ibank on Mac) so I don’t have to futz with exporting. As you said, it’s the 21st century. No excuse for this.
Yeah. Time on site, for example, might mean they can't find what they need; as opposed to getting what they need and staying for more.

Numbers are helpful, but sometimes they can be misinterpreted to mask the why.
> I personally do not care for the link preview feature as I am one of those people who like to hover over a link so I can see the url leads

But that's exactly what these preview popups are for! A bit heavier than the plain URL, but much more useful and friendlier.

(EDIT: I see there's a bug in that it displays the preview even if you don't stop the mouse there. Still, this can be lighter than requiring people to click through to the full articles, considering the preview can tell you what you need or that the link is not relevant for you, and slows you going down the rabbit hole to more links. Maybe it should be located at the bottom of the screen like the plain URL popup though?)
A quick reply to second your highlight of tech evolution in Summa.

I’ve been a Lem since my teens when I discovered a dozen of his novels in a small 1990s grocery store. However I didn’t read Summa until a couple of years ago.

As a fan of Veblen (theory of Business Enterprise, specifically) I have a tendency to view technology as force and product of natural selection. Lem handles this with more care than most if not all related texts u thread in uni.

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Yep, that’s where the ‘UTM’ in all the query strings comes from, Urchin Traffic Monitor I think it was. I used to have the standalone version installed which worked locally on servers and was completely independent of Google, but looked identical to Google Analytics at that time. Of course, Google realized they couldn’t mine any of the tracking data from the standalone version, so that was axed around like 2008 or 2009.
On most airlines, the seat is made to recline. If you don't like this, book a seat with more leg room, or book on a plane which doesn't have reclining seat.
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You don't need no AI/ML, no Blockchain, SQL works just fine... I see where is it going today on HN...
how about some combination of Merkle trees and HMACs? The person who writes the entry signs it with their private key. No need for PoW miners, a constant internet connection, having nodes compute the head of the blockchain, none of the extra nonsense that blockchains require.
They do not struggle - Microsoft have one of the more sensible and well functioning security organizations in the software world. This just is not a very important bug.
I feel like fivethirtyeight is like the Freakonomics of sports.
Oh, yes, SO's hot network questions is a hardcore distraction for me, too. Even for things I really don't care about! Like all those workplace drama questions (do so many people really think going to HR is going to do them any good at all?). The extension you linked is a very interesting concept, something I hadn't thought about using before. But I like the idea of paying a little bit of thought up front to help keep things from exploding down the line. Thanks!
Rachael's story aside, I think the idea of commodity PCs for mass storage only became feasible after the software to handle them as a system arose. The popular term was RAIN: Redundant Array of Inexpensive (independent) Nodes - when one box dies, the software spins up another and assigns some load to it. The advancement was that 5 or 10 sketchy PCs could be had for the price of 1 more reliable rackmount box, but you didn't care much about reliability.

This all got some press after the Bigtable paper came out, OSDI 2006, after they'd had it in production for a few years and weren't afraid of anyone catching up.

2006: https://research.google.com/archive/bigtable.html

2004: https://www.networkworld.com/article/2330258/tech-primers/ra...

2004: https://patents.google.com/patent/US6704730B2/en (search for RAIN)
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Paying for food is arbitrary?
I got upgraded on a BA flight once because the person behind me said he was too tall for me to recline my seat.

I'm not sure where this idea came from that tall people can stop people from reclining their seat. If I've paid for a reclining seat, I'm going to recline it if I choose to.
Interestingly, Ryanair claim that they do not overbook their flights, and claim to be the only airline in Europe which don't. See section 9 here: https://corporate.ryanair.com/about-us/passenger-charter/
iOS also does the same thing - if you turn on VoiceOver and go into your photo library it will read out what's in the photos
As the production costs with windpower decrease due to the technological progress, the question of grid storage and grid interconnection becomes more pressing.

E.g. in Germany, they frequently have days of negative energy prices, where producers need to pay to feed energy into the greed because of overproduction of energy on windy/sunny days [0](in German). Without storage and grid interconnection, there is only so much renewable energy from intermittent sources like wind and solar you can handle.

[0]: https://blog.energybrainpool.com/bereits-103-mal-in-2017-neg...
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I can't imagine that this is actually the reason. SMS has long been replaced by iMessage, WhatsApp, Telegram and similar services. Nobody uses or values SMS these days and the carriers know it, which is why the service comes free with pretty much any (european) contract.

So if messaging already happens outside of the carriers' reach, why would those carriers be upset if Google added another entry to the list of services that have replaced SMS?
The problem with SQL is that eventually you will end up with thousands of SQL scripts. Have you ever tried to debug a 100k SQL? It’s a nightmare. Some of the scripts used to be simple, but got too complicated due to new requirements like this article doesn’t mention how he would deal with multiple time zones, currencies, different type of customers, multiple promotions for repeat customers and etc.
Call it whatever you want. The key takeaway is the awareness of The 14% is nonexistent. The 14% is not part of the so called 99%, the 14% is on the wrong side of divide.
The application package delivers only the application payload and integration with the OS; it does not start anything unless it sees its own processes running, in which case this must be an in-place upgrade, so restart the daemon(s) to unload the old and load the new code.

It is the *-conf package which depends on the application package, brings on the configuration and automatically (re)starts the application.
This article and thread gives the impression that it’s dominated by people who don’t even have a rudimentary understanding of ML. If they think SQL is a replacement for ML, I’m really not sure what they’re doing in this field. ML is for making sense of data in a large number of ways beyond “hey let’s query a database for some trivial information”.
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The other option is to not go to that place. If you're starting in that place, the other option is to walk out and never go there again.
Thanks for the detailed response. Very helpful
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Not really trolling, think about it. Here in Europe we all have whatsapp that works right. Why would we switch to RCS, which is an inferior replacement (no E2E for example), and that does not even support all major platforms?

Back when RCS (under the name of Joyn) was about to be released everybody dreamt of switching to it, thinking that maybe, just maybe, telcos would make RCS free, so you wouldn't have to buy data to chat, like you have to do with whatsapp (back then many people didn't have data). That never happened evidently, and now most people have data because it's gotten much cheaper. So there's no way we will leave whatsapp, and yes RCS is dead.
Well you have some "servants" double dipping, some to the tune of hundreds of thousands per year. I realize this is not the norm, however, the system is being gamed by some which makes people like me very cynical. There was a post on HN the other day about a retired university president who was getting a pension of around $76,000 per month.
On the other hand, if you are a casual but regular follower the constant changes can make it more exciting - every other month it felt like "Holy shit! They changed X! This changes everything!", and my day would be full of in depth discussions on the implications with my friends.
I bought my first flat (got a mortgage on my first flat - £34.5k) in the mid nineties, I moved once, and now have no mortgage and a house worth £250k. If I had rented, I doubt I would now have savings to that amount.

Also I'm kind of a saddo who likes being able to change my home to how I like it.

People who rent often seem embittered by the experience, and angry that houses are too expensive to buy.
Yes, I'll make sure to never go home again. Good shout.
Rent can never be lower than mortgage payments for the same
property because then the bank would never give out
mortgages and would just buy up all the properties.

That's not how things work. Banks give out mortgages based upon the repayment ability and credit-worthiness of each borrower. The mortgage amount won't be too far out of line of comparables.

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Rent can be higher than the mortgage payment of a portion
of the house, but not to the mortgage payment of the
entirety of the house.

Who says so? Even one tenant in a multi-family home can pay for the entirety of the mortgage.

If you own and rent out a single-family home, you most certainly can charge rent higher than the entirety of your mortgage payment! Sometimes, landlords without mortgages rent out their property...
BEVs are vastly faster to refill in many cases if you measure what really matters (driver waiting time).

If you look at the current state of things, hydrogen cars are even more expensive and are impossible to own in most of the country. That might change in the future but it’s hard to match the infrastructure advantage of having millions of “fueling stations” in the form of electrical outlets, and BEVs continue to improve as well.
> When Potter Steward said in the pornography case, " I know it when I see it " he was literally correct.

Here you refer to categorization, not understanding.
From the article I refer to:

> “Deep learning is good at certain aspects of perception, particularly categorization, but perception is more than categorization and cognition or intelligence is more than just perception. There are many things that go into intelligence … And what we have made real progress on is perception, but the rest of it, we still haven’t made that much progress collectively in the field.”

Understanding, real understanding, the "aha moment", is the very basis of new discoveries and real evolution. What we see now are systems quite good at categorizing, pattern recognition in a given set once prepared correctly and so on. There is no relation whatsoever with real intelligence, as in being able to make a new discovery based on analytical and synthetic skills.

There are quite a few voices in the community saying the opposite and maintaining that mimicking intelligent action is practically the same as the intelligent action itself, but there are quite obvious limits to what can be achieved in this way.
I was going to say something similar. I get that this was a very basic explanation of what load balancing can be but very rarely have I seen it implemented in such a fashion, as described - that is, 'serving toast, when finished with the toast, that toaster gets more toast, etc.'

There are so many types of load balancing, and so many different ways to guard, simply with best practices, against what this story explains.

I also found the 'quadruple hump' in a graph reference difficult to follow without more of a backstory of what the graph was representing.

I also don't understand why it would be so difficult to grep through the logs of that load balancer (or load balancers) and find that common fault on the backend.
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ob-ipython works really well.
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I think there's a clear advantage: boarding is faster, as there's a lot less competition (or even argument) over the nicer seats.

Ryanair are fairly clear about what you must pay for when booking, and there are plenty of routes where they have competition from EasyJet, Norwegian etc.
Or how they somehow can't bring some fruit or sandwiches in their hand baggage.

I think in general, people are very lazy and rather pay extra instead of plan ahead.
Yes - this seems to support that claim: https://conversation.which.co.uk/travel-leisure/flight-airli... This also mentions that EasyJet claims to limit its overbooking to about 1%. You are probably aware that overbooking has become a problem in the US - I don't know whether European airlines are allowed to do it to the same extent.
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That sounds very wrong.
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I hope this method is still effective given who's in charge of the CFPB. I'm pretty sure they're responsible for enforcing Reg E for the largest banks (correct me if I'm wrong).
Where are you based ?
Here in France, SMS / MMS are still the most widely used. More than any other third party app.
Most of phone carriers plans here offer unlimited sms / mms for free now, so it's pretty much THE default.
It would be interesting to see a messaging apps usage comparison, country by country.
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Data cleaning is reeeally messy. It requires a lot of training data to get a system that does even a bad job of it automatically. So you still end up needing a lot of clean data, and getting the system to that point probably isn’t worth it if you’re not one of the biggest tech companies (you can spend time creating a system to clean the data or just clean the data). But your other points are spot on. This article is garbage.
How odd to find an article in the NYT about my home town.
There's an old Kaggle competition[1] "Predicting Transparent Conductors" which had a similar objective.

There's a decent discussion of the 5th place entry[2]. Judging by a very quick read it looks like performance for methods like this could improve dramatically with larger amounts of data.

[1] https://www.kaggle.com/c/nomad2018-predict-transparent-condu...

[2] https://www.kaggle.com/c/nomad2018-predict-transparent-condu...
> North America's attitude towards people of colour, absolutely disgusts me. I simply do not understand why that a country that was founded on on the principles of freedom continues to act this way.

North america isn't a country. And the US wasn't founded on principles of freedom. Slavery existed back then ( slavery brought to the colonies by the british ).

> Yeah, the UK (my homeland) has it's problems, but in the main, racial in-equality is not one of it's major ones

Where minority soccer players get bananas thrown at them. Where masses of white children are raped and police do nothing because of fears of racism. Where a half black woman is paraded around by the british press as some lapdog of your "prince".

No country is perfect so lets stop with the finger wagging. Has the UK ever elected a black leader? Go read about or watch black people's/minorities' recent experiences in europe. They've been spat at, had racial epithets thrown their way, been discriminated against, etc.
I think it is a big mistake to introduce Video evaluation into footbal. Main reason is that you would just be taking away the authority of the referee and giving it to a machine and to other referees who will be evaluating the video. The mistake is to think that there is an absolute truth and we can arrive at this truth by introducing observational tools with more resolution. This is not true. As the resolution increases it becomes more difficult to make a decision. There is also the point of view of the referee. The referee cannot see everything. And this is the beauty of the game. Referees make mistakes but if all referees call everything as they see it this will average out for each team during the entire season. But referees are human too. And they have to control the game and control footballers with big egos. Also footballers are very sophisticated con artists and they continually try to fool the referee. All these are part of the game. Football is the game of mistakes. It's a huge mistake to try to get rid of mistakes by introducing technology into the game.
I don't fly further back than premium economy, which is how economy should be. Nothing as extravagant as a bed (although I'm in the process of upgrading next week's flight with miles)

However even up front their experience is lacklusture. I'd rather fly business on Qatar than First on BA, and certainly rather business on Qatar than business on BA. It's a tired product on tired planes and tired crew.
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