skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> unsavvy customers ... should expect to pay a premium for simpler pricing structures.

That is both inaccurate (with regards to airlines--you can't tell how much of a flat-fee ticket with baggage included is devoted to that baggage, because ticket prices are widely variable by airline and time, so straight-across comparison is not reliable) and . . . well, just awful; "do your research so you don't miss out on cheaper alternatives" is a reality sometimes, but saying that this is a desirable property of an economic system seems like an inhumane and, if taken to extremes, systemically dysfunctional position to take. It seems like it incentivizes deliberate complexity in pricing structures--and the theoretical backpressure against those trends (competition by organizations with simpler structures)
seems to only very rarely be the equal of its opponent.

The alternative isn't "hold everyone's hand through all cost decisions"; the alternative is don't make things worse/more confusing unless you absolutely must.

Edit: typo.
Dialog actually tried to get out of Apple dependence but lost their bid for Atmel to Microchip.
You have to live in the world and resist anonymously.
There's no solution as long as you are dealing with companies whose business is to sell information (the "publishers").

The only winning condition is to deal with people who are willing to exchange information. FOSS, Wikipedia are projects based on this model. They have shown that throwing contributors at the problem can achieve decent results.

Part of the solution is to use a distributed file system for this, so that users who don't contribute to the content however support hosting and transmission costs directly and automatically.

We don't need yet another commercial or non-profit social network. We need non-commercial contribution networks.
How will the alcohol ‘leave his system’ in the 4 hours it takes to fly to Dubai from India?
Yahoo!Pipes was awesome at this. You could give it a feed, pull the page for each item and generate a new feed with the full content. There was also ways to specify what parts of the page to get by using xpath or regex.

I miss it dearly.
When I feel burned out, I take a contract position with a BigCo. The pay is still good, the problems are still relevant, and the slower pace is quite restorative. Plus it leaves merely a scar on your resume instead of a gap.
SpankChain Hacker Returns Stolen Ethereum, Earns Reward
Optical Illusions as CAPTCHA?
If the article is correct and AI has a hard time generating or understanding optical illusions, could they be exploited to determine human from computer?

After typing that out, I'm not sure I could actually answer a question about the referenced optical illusion [1] in the article. For example, what direction is the full wheel in the upper-left turning? Who knows, but I have a headache now.

Edit: it seems this has been discussed before [2], [3], [4]

[1] https://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/u2fqwmgguf...

[2] https://security.stackexchange.com/questions/116612/using-op...

[3] https://arstechnica.com/civis/viewtopic.php?f=23&t=59240

[4] https://qz.com/1047988/amazon-amzn-has-a-new-captcha-that-yo...
Sounds like making the perfect the enemy of the good. Why bother to do any checks of anything when a random flip-flop could go metastable forever and brick your system?
this is absolutely begging for regulation
What is wrong with that?

There are numerous entirely private systems that require such subsidy; are you claiming that any amount of subsidy for others' habits is objectionable (i.e. the libertarian hardline)? Or are you making some other point?
Fair point, I don't know that the poster lives in San Francisco. But it's not the only big city in the Bay Area that works for this argument - Oakland and Berkeley with their multiple train lines would like a word about that!
Some of those tweets are over the top.

"Fill me up with your frosted flakes daddy"

How do we know that these people are not simply 4chan trolls and not legitimately furries?
I suspect you have the cause and effect backwards. It's not that people weren't willing to pay the cost of the included checked bag -- back when every airline did include 1 (or even 2!) free checked bags, it's not as people wanting to fly were going to travel sites and saying, "If only the cheapest flight here was $25 less than it was, I'd buy a ticket, but guess I'm stuck with Greyhound now." Instead, by not including the checked bag in the cost of the initial fare, an airline got to have a lower number in the list of ticket prices when customers checked on aggregation sites like Orbitz and Expedia, and most other airlines quickly followed.
It would be more sensible for the airlines to be permitted to ban them (which they all would,unless they are insane) than to have the FAA ban them.
At that point you're starting to deal with some serious transaction costs.
> ask you to gtfo if you don't like it. GDPR allows for this.

No, it explicitly does not.
After V1, the accelerate-stop distance, the pilot is committed to continue flying.

The cargo area of most airliners is not pressurized, so the gash is not an immediate problem.

In a case like this, the pilots would want to climb to several thousand feet and evaluate the situation before landing.

Looks like the pilot did a great job once it was realized the airplane was damaged of remaining calm and flying the airplane.
But isn't the point that you require treatment alongside the drug? And yes, supporting addiction over decades is hugely damaging.

Also, please be more empathetic towards your fellow human. Giving up on someone doesn't help.
Yup! You can't get away with that in the international market.
Rands work was a direct criticism of communism.

Given that this is the topic that we are discussing, I do not find her ideas to be fantasy at all.

Stalin and Mao killed many millions of people, both intentionally, and through mere neglect. Probably more than the Nazis. So given that this is the topic, her criticism of a collapsing society doesn't seem that ridiculous.
The ILS is not necessary for landing in VFR conditions, although non-USA pilots tend to rely on it as a crutch.
Ask HN: Best 19“ rack for home use?
not the cheapest, but the best 19" rack for home use, where 'best' means easiest to maintain, access, and manage home servers. something closed to keep the kids and pets out of it. ideas?
I'm all for discounts for less bags. But there needs to be a standardized price to make comparisons on cost for travel.
Blocking cookies from the paywall content providers' domain is alternative approach that doesn't require an extension.

I've done this successfully for medium.com and nytimes.com. If those content providers' start being more aggressive on the client-side via JS, you could go with the nuclear option of disabling JS for the provider as well.

If you want to trial this approach on Medium, an easy test-case is to click through some of the "Recent Stories That Members Loved" located on https://medium.com/creators before and after blocking cookie
Like Twitter or Bitly clones. There's nothing technically interesting or unique to write, but just try getting a userbase.
Not a pilot, and not trying to be an armchair pilot, but why would he have ascended all the way to 36000 feet? Isn't there a real risk of depressurization with hull damage?
Anecdotal: Most people I know have dropped FB altogether, along with Whatsapp and (partially) Instagram.
> It’s just like binding arbitration clauses. In many industries, like mobile phone service, you can’t “choose” a market participant that doesn’t have such a clause because all of them do.

I couldn't agree more. What you are describing is a cartel, or, at a later stage, a monopoly-ish entity.

Markets "where the barrier to entry is so high" sometimes snap into existence as a function of what they do, but also sometimes appear simply because it's easier to collude than compete.
"rm -rf / is a completely software operation. It should completely wipe your system."

To me saying it should completely wipe your system implies that people sometimes type it on purpose fully expecting it to do what it does. Is that actually true? If not, I think there's something askew with your worldview.
Well a single layer, unreinforced brick wall isn't really that strong, especially near the top edge. It's perhaps plausible they didn't feel anything or at least nothing very alarming. I mean, the gear presumably still retracted properly and deployed later for landing, so it wasn't damaged too badly.
I imagine things meant to site on servers for as long as possible without detection that might expect weeks/months had a different defense strategy than something targeting a website that sees a lot of public traffic. If you expect discovery withing hours anyway, a lot of the benefit of keeping a low profile may be negated.
As a crypto ignoramus - Why is the random data from each side necessary? Why can’t things just be encrypted with the PreMasterSecret directly ?
Umm.. no one is commenting on the Office of Spaceports?? This is really freaking awesome! I hope that they get it right. The spaceport in New Mexico is a great idea, I just hope things like this get more growth as we commercialize and exploit the vast resources in space.
I remember flying under the old heavily regulated airline system, where the FAA set routes, etc. Flights were often half empty. That practically never happens now. Flights are much more convenient and cheaper as a result.
Since there's no mechanism for conditional voting or enforcing promises, a lot of horse-trading among politicians happens within the context of a single voted-upon item.
Pl000p !!!!!
> How's that working out lately? I think ought to look at the way social media has already become a vector for genocide as in Myanmar.

One of the only ways the public (in the west) was able to find out about this was through the use of social tech. It just wasn't on anyone's radar before that. Once they are aware, people can bring pressure to bear to stop the genocide, which has been happening.

I also believe that the role of social media as a "cause" of genocide was overstated. That said, I do think that modern social media is flawed and won't last too much longer in its present form.

> Here in the US we're currently allowing some kinds in immigration detention who have been separated from their parents to be permanently adopted by American families, which (by the very international standards we helped to establish) is a massive human rights violation.

How is this related to the discussion?
What a load of bullshit. Sure it's extra code, but browsers are ginormous anyway.

Removing Live Bookmarks is fine. But why get rid of the RSS auto-detection? It's a good advertisement for an immensely useful open technology.

Also... RSS is out and Pocket is in? Ironic.

I thought Mozilla was the one fighting for the open web? Well go fuck yourself Mozilla - that's what I'm feeling right now.
This is the announcement that popped after updating Nightly:

https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/live-bookmarks-migratio...

I submitted it to HN right away, but it didn't get traction.
No one is asking for price controls, we’re asking for price transparency. The problem with baggage fees etc. is that they are tacked on after you’ve gone through the rigmarole of purchasing your ticket, and the advertised prices are just lies.
I'm currently dealing with this from jetigroup.?rg. The registry information is invalid, the contact emails I found for the guy who ran the company at one time bounce back, but a weak password on a mailman install let someone create a distribution list that allows every recipient to post. They broke the unsubscribe part of the script, so nobody can get off the list. Until I made a rule to kill all mail from the domain, the flood of "remove me, I'm contacting the secretary of state" messages were simultaneously hilarious, annoying, and sad.
Agree, it was on a long slide. I'd argue that the right leadership could have reversed it, but Lambert absolutely sealed it's fate.

Following the coffin analogy, I'd say it was sick, but the family wasn't even talking about coffins, but Lambert came in and upended the bed, threw the patient out the window, bought the coffin, put the body in, and nailed it shut all by himself. Now, he's off to bury it.
the cargo hold of a 737 is indeed pressurized https://aviation.stackexchange.com/questions/8252/are-cargo-...
Normally I wouldn’t recommend arguing with a flight attendant but just yesterday I was on a flight from PMC - PUQ (Chile on Latam) where I and another passenger had a boarding pass with seat 16-J. Because the other person boarded first the flight attendant basically told me “too bad”. I was standing in the aisle holding up traffic with nowhere to go. I had to get pretty blunt with her to find me another seat or I would continue standing in the aisle holding up the boarding process. What do you know, after I became serious they found me another seat.
"... [a]nd for other purposes."

A favorite tag-line for junk legislation included in sure-vote bills.
> Permanently breathing bottled air inside a housing in a desert planet, having reduced lifespan etc. is not fun

Before people go they should live on a submarine for a couple years to see how they like it.
IIRC Google also uses (or used) a similar system for deprecating old APIs.

Start with failing 1% of requests randomly and slowly ramp up from there.
Okay, I could be convinced that a Markdown-type format with HTML output and very restrictive formatting could work, as long as it really includes (nearly) all of the support for tables, images, and math notation that LaTeX does, and displays well in any reasonable browser/platform. But is there an implemented working compiler of such a format?

I sort of doubt it. (But if I'm wrong, please do post it.) Going back to Reddit comments again, even Reddit's version of Markdown (which only allows basic text formatting and simple tables, no images or math notation) is broken as hell in their own official mobile app (at least the iOS one). Tables are screwed up, and even bold/italic is somehow buggy. And there are (probably multiple) engineers paid full time SF salaries to work on Reddit's mobile app.

Also, there would still need to be a canonical print format for this to work with current conference/journal rules, which typically include page limits. And for good reason: nobody except the authors (least of all reviewers) want papers to be any longer than they are. (Sure, you could change to a word or character limit, but then you'd have unlimited images, which would incentivize stuffing tons of information and text into figures and using tons of those. So you'd have to bring in another requirement on total image size, or something. And you can see how this quickly gets overly complicated and you'd really rather just have a simple page limit.)
What if the comment is against the article? Are we using the YouTube algorithm, which counts downvotes as upvotes?
The AVherald article: http://avherald.com/h?article=4bedd321&opt=0

As some of the others have mentioned, the reason the plane survived is likely because that was not a pressurised area. If it had breached the pressure vessel they would've noticed it very quickly (lack of pressurisation).
Are influencers overrated? New Study questions effectiveness of targeting “hubs”
U.S. Robocall Data
Calories in/calories out is a simple pipe dream that conveniently ignores the deleterious effects that hormones can have on your metabolism.

There are tons of people out there intaking less calories than their BMR and not losing weight because they have thyroid issues, are insulin resistant, etc.
http://www.networksorcery.com/enp/Protocol.htm has a bunch of network diagrams for various protocols.

This website lays things out really nicely, would love to have more protocols :)
Keep in mind that running an open source company is squaring a circle. The money has to come from somewhere. One corner or other has to be cut. I'm not saying we shouldn't push back, but we should understand the position they're in. They do pretty damn well all considered, and they're one of the few large organizations holding the front.
It's funny you ask that, because I was just in the middle of writing an addendum to my comment about how people will react to observations I have about my sabbatical due to my "privilege", and "how dare you complain about being financially secure", etc. It's interesting to see just how mean/jealous some people get when they hear that I'm able to financially survive without a current source of income. Like the author did in his first paragraph, it seems that every time I talk about being unemployed I have to caveat it with some "I know I'm privileged etc etc but hear me out..." because otherwise people will summarily dismiss anything I say. You haven't explicitly done so in your comment, but others in this same post have (see bottom of the comments in particular), and I've even had people in real life maliciously accuse me of secretly being a 1%-er (I'm not even close).

To answer your question more directly: I've considered it, and that's probably the case for some of those interactions (see above), but the majority of the ones I'm specifically thinking of are interactions with people that I know for a fact are much better off financially than I and make just as much (if not more) than I do/did.
Windows has C-style, shared libraries just like Linux - DLLs. The entire Win32 API that is the backbone of Windows is implemented in system DLLs.

Every compiler that produces native binaries for Windows links with these DLLs (C, C++, Go, FreePascal/Delphi, etc.), either statically or dynamically, using C calling conventions.

COM is the Component Object Model, which is implemented in DLLs, but is something different:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Component_Object_Model

COM, or some form of it, is used heavily with .NET and the new UWP runtime, but those are newer runtimes that sort of sit on top of the Win32 API (to some extent, UWP is actually integrated into the OS itself, but, AFAIK, still uses the underlying Win32 APIs).
My free advice is :
Pack your parachute before you need it - at least two years income saved to call yourself "financially secure".

Contentment is important. Figure it out.

Learn at least weekly. Better daily. Not just monthly or yearly.
Fascinating! That makes excellent sense.
Pilots would have to blow 0.0 but that doesn't mean zero evidence of alcohol. In 4 hours you can metabolise around 4 standard drinks out of your bloodstream. It's not like drugs where any trace is bad because it's illegal.

That said, I'm not sure I am on board with the explanation. It could just be that with everything going on in a cockpit it wasn't noticed.
That’s the exact opposite result as the studies listed in the article I posted. Weird.
>I think RSS is dead

This is the most effective way to consume content. It's not dead and won't be until more effective one.
Walmart acquires online lingerie retailer Bare Necessities
This. It's the same reason American hotels are expanding and increasing "resort fees", and auto dealerships try to charge as much as possible for "doc fees". Businesses have essentially added their OWN taxes on transactions in order to lower the prices they advertise below what they actually charge. It's got a name: bait and switch.
This shouldn’t exist. The fact that some company I’d never do business with can have basically every single data-point about my life without my permission is the stuff of dystopian nightmare novels, but here we are.
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Ubuntu Touch OTA-5 released
I think it will work better for ya. Certainly you've run across sites that show some small access for cheap, and more access for more money, and "requests over X calls / transaction / users, call for enterprise quote" kind of thing..

I assume these businesses are mainly looking for those high volume / high price clients and or people with that kind of money to buy them out completely.. all the while making a cheap plan for people to tinker with, build an MVP and maybe scale up.. and perhaps get enough mid range sales to prove they are worth something to others..

Of course that's not the game plan for every service out there. Anyhow good luck to ya, glad to see people working on ways to do things more privately one way or another.
If the market is fair there is no problem. The moment you get quasi-monopolies the "market" is heavily tilted in favor of the airline.

For example if your flight out of Newark is only operated by United Airlines, what choice do you as a market participant do you truly have?

[source]https://futuretravel.today/united-airlines-should-go-out-of-...
It's almost as though he is "a great vampire squid ... relentlessly jamming its blood funnel into anything that smells like money."
This headline is almost a winner at overhyped tech jargon buzzword bingo.

Bonus game: take a shot every time there is mention of an internal or in-house system while reading the article.
>Because these are all the excuses people give when they were fired and couldn't find another job. Especially after 2 years, when the unemployed person has likely given up on the search.

Yea, I'm aware of that, and I don't necessarily blame the recruiters for that, but it does suck for me.

>But seriously, if you enjoyed the job so much, why leave? Why not just take a quick vacation and keep enjoying the job?

I didn't enjoy the job. I worked my ass off doing 60-70 hour weeks in a position I disliked with co-workers I didn't respect because I knew that sticking it out would get me early promotions and bonuses, which is what gave me the financial security to take time off. In doing so I guess I also proved that I am a good employee, which is why my company tried so hard to get me to stay (and has even tried to re-hire me a few times). But I didn't enjoy it, and would only go back as a last resort (unfortunately, because of the reasons mentioned in my original comment re: recruiting, it seems I may have to go with that last resort).

The specific company I worked for is actually known internally for being a place that people commonly work hard for 3-4 years, take the payday, and then quit to go do something else. But externally, it has a reputation of being a great place to work and I've had a lot of recruiters express surprise/disbelief that I would willingly leave it.
no ban on emotional support peacocks?
Right, there have been no incidents in privately run airlines over the past few years.
Agree with other ppl here, an unnecessarily violent rant, and the point the author makes is kind of lost in the title "Protobuffers Are Wrong". What they really mean is "I think Protobuffers type system could be better".

I recently saw a talk by Rich Hickey about Effective Programs [1]. The talk explains why Hickey favors dynamic types, with EDN [2] and transit [3] proposed as an alternative to more statically typed data exchange formats like protobufs and less structured ones like Json (the talk explains the reasons, nearing the end I think).

1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2V1FtfBDsLU
2: https://github.com/edn-format/edn
3: https://github.com/cognitect/transit-format