skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
i honestly have a hard time believing this. i've flown southwest multiple times a year with my family for over a decade. we never pay for early check-in and we're always able to sit together in pairs, often no more than a couple rows apart. i can't remember the last time i checked in within an hour of check-in being unlocked and didn't get a B or even a high A. maybe it depends on the route?
Greyhound didn’t innovate. The buses look like they are super old. No wifi. Exorbitant prices. It’s a terrible experience. Pay a bit more and you can take a train.

I’ve been on a government bus in Thailand. The seat reclines into almost laying position, comes with built in massager, video games and stewardess service. The cost of non-stop 9 hour ride was $20.
Just yesterday I was watching his interview from a couple of years ago (in Finnish, sadly he doesn't do many of those any more).

He credited having a fair amount of free time during his 8 years of studying at University of Helsinki being a fairly big enabler of how Linux happened (or how he had time to work on it). I found that interesting
Pardon me for mis-paraphrasing a 300 page book. The key I left out was that Linux went on to compete with the likes of Microsoft, and is used on a significant number of internet servers.

I'm pretty sure it was one of the first to start so small and acheive so much.
I agree with this. It is likely that something else would've filled the void. Maybe something much better. Maybe we're missing on a lot because Linux popped up :)
That device won't have security updates. So you just dismessed a major part of OP's reasoning: they don't want an insecure phone and don't want to hand one off to their kids.

Maybe that's what you meant by important?
> That would just turn the issue in to an accounting problem.

...A type of problem which government agencies the world around have extremely powerful tools to manage and prevent abuse in. Sure, abuse still exists (some of it significant--see "too big to fail" etc.), but such oversight is massively better than nothing, especially where direct to consumer social media/marketing platforms are concerned.

> A much simpler and easier legal solution would be to tax companies based on the number of users (based on an independent audit)

That's just another metric upon which you have to trust an oversight agency. Users might be a better metric than revenue, but it's still going to result in highly imperfect (but, again, better than nothing) regulation.
Twilight of the Racist Uncles: How Facebook is melting the minds of our elders
Your comments all over this thread kinda just make it seem like you have an ax to grind against Apple.

I'll assume you're not really interested in debating my motivations for posting here. That sounds like a good way to just get into a petty internet argument.

Other than that, you make some good points.

No, I don't see Apple innovating in ways that matter to me, to be honest. Of course, that's a messy argument. They have changed plenty of things since SJ passed. Those products appeal to many people. So I don't know how to quantify it. They've certainly made a lot of money, so there's that.

As for services and Apple's focus on it: is it helping anybody? It doesn't help me. Instead I get nag screens and advertisements I didn't used to get. I get pushed to a "subscription model" I don't want. I get second rate versions of Spotify, Google Maps.

And I've seen Apple evolve from eWorld through iTools through dotMac, MobileMe, iCloud... I'm not the only person whose mouth those services left with a bad taste.

If Apple truly is, first and foremost, a "services company" as the OP pondered, then I think they really have their work cut for them.
I think the reason is just that modern times has people needing to travel less. And there's a critical point where it's no longer profitable to run a bus at all.
Yeah, that was me before. Then I got super into it and earned a ton of miles, and used them on some some really cool experiences. Like 25+ int'l business class flights, 6 int'l first class and some more. UK x 3, Finland, Middle East, Japan x 2, Singapore, Hong Kong, Australia over a few years.

Did what would have cost like $300k in flights and hotels for maybe a few grand across 5 vacations and still have like a million miles left over.

It was a huge time suck though, keeping up with blogs, subreddits, secret Slack groups etc. Booking the really outrageous first class flights is hard to do unless you are constantly checking availability and can take a vacation like anytime you want.

Would do again, a little too busy to now though.
Google does have vegetation and desert data, but you can see that it starts to fade around zoom level 5 in the US (at which you can only see a number of entire states and the names of major cities).

If you go somewhere else on the planet, e.g. along the Amazon river, you see that the vegetation data reappears, only to start fading again at zoom level 11 or so. It's too irregular and following satellite imagery too closely to have been drawn from human sources such as parcel data. It must have been built from imagery.

So it looks like it's a deliberate choice on Google's part to only use human-derived features such as a park's outline at most zoom levels, on most of the inhabited surface of the planet.
I would hope that they aren't doing that calculation for every sprite every frame. It strikes me that most of the sprites and probably most of the light sources are static, so most of the information could be precalculated and cached, which would leave just the moving sprites and lights. I would probably look at some kind of spatial partioning and marking sections dirty to prune things further. If it turned out to be significant enough that it was hurting framerate, anyway.
Because if you don't spend all your budget, you won't get more next year. How are you going to spend all your budget if you're paying fair price for things?

This is a totally reasonable way to run government budgets and not insane at all! /s
Does the web version keep login credentials well? I tried the desktop app, but it was taking an insane amount of storage for some reason.
so when my bank put me on hold for 30 minutes, it means they think im a peasant?
Subtitle tells the whole story:

> A man spent millions on an enormous plot of land near Reno. Now he wants to build a community based on the blockchain technology introduced by Bitcoin.

He could have joined up with the Bitcoin mining group in Wenatchee WA, where they spent millions building custom "mining pods" to house the ASICs.
> I suspect I'm getting downvoted because some people are passionately anti-circumcision. And that's fine! Nobody is going to make you get circumcised.

Yeah, the problem is that this "science" is inevitably used to justify performing an invasive, unnecessary procedure on babies because in 15+ years it will reduce his risk of acquiring HIV during unprotected sex with an HIV-positive woman from 4/10,000 to 2.4/10,000.

Maybe that's worthwhile in certain cultures experiencing pandemic levels of HIV, but in the USA it's borderline medical malpractice. There are only about 250,000 women in the entire country with HIV.
> Greyhound didn’t innovate. The buses look like they are super old. No wifi. Exorbitant prices. It’s a terrible experience. Pay a bit more and you can take a train.

I don't think this is salient to the discussion specifically of Greyhound shuttering service in rural Canada. There are no train lines that operate connecting most of the outposts described in the article to urban areas.
In this particular case, the thing is that both political sides have tried to do studies to prove their point. Most of those studies, as you say, are too biased to pay any attention to - they either cherry-pick data, or conveniently ignore some unrelated variables that could reasonably explain the effect, or involve convoluted models with a lot of subjective assumptions in them.

But every now and then, you get studies that don't do any of that. And then a funny thing happens: correlation disappears, regardless of who commissioned the study. Both sides vehemently object to these findings, which to me is a good sign that they are closer to the truth than anything else.

I am pro-armed-self-defense personally, and regularly carry concealed. But it would be a delusion for me to think that by doing so, I contribute to crime reduction.
The phones keep resale value that way.
I am a 59 y/o male and an "Intactivist." Tomorrow morning, I'll be flying from my home in Kirkland, Washington, to Orlando, Florida, to join my colleagues in protesting non-therapeutic circumcision at the site where the AAP is hosting its convention. I routinely join the Bloodstained Men and their Friends in their various protests / education events. I also carry my various signs in front of a local hospital (Evergreen Hospital, Kirkland, WA) which performs NTC on healthy male infants and neonates when their parents request it. I also routinely speak against NTC in the public meetings of the Board of Commissioners for EGH.

I'm currently contemplating what kind of legal action I could take against the Board of Commissioners of the Public Hospital District that oversees the EvergreenHealth organization.

Over the last year, I have been sharing information with them. The management team of EGH has been relying on the AAP 2012 Circumcision Policy Statement as their justification for offering the harm they offer to parents. I have informed them that the Policy Statement expired in 2017, but they continue to defend the offering of this harm. I also submitted copies of a statement-by-statement refutation of the Policy Statement written by Dr. Robert S. Van Howe, who was (may still be) the Interim Chairman of the Department of Pediatrics at the Central Michigan College of Medicine.

If anyone has any suggestions for me as regards what kind of legal action might be considered, to compel / encourage the Board of Commissioners to do the work necessary to decide for themselves whether they are harming healthy infants and neonates by continuing to offer this harm, I would appreciate it.
“When you think about what has happened in commercial space, and the amount of money that people have spent to develop commercial space technology, it’s this perfect situation where we should leverage that,” said Defense Secretary Patrick M. Shanahan
the fact that they only fly one kind of plane must help at least a little. maybe this gives them a little more leverage with the union, since the pilots are individually interchangeable?

as an aside, when i fly, i usually travel with my dad, who is a big general aviation enthusiast. he often remarks that the southwest pilots make by far the smoothest landings.
Mortgages are tricky.. consumers either shop around for the best deal or they use a broker to do so (who may not work in your best interest per se)... Then the loans get bought and sold all the time and your servicer will change.. There are some perks with having a mortgage with your bank though..
Even if some humans are not reliable, it's still better than having no gatekeeper whatsoever.
Early US pioneers. The Uk, European, Japanese experiences aren't in this.
After taking a look at SF, it seems to me that there really isn't enough space for additional street names without losing something else. So I believe your complaint is more about the prioritisation among streets, or of streets vs. other entities?

The first would seem valid, if Mission St is, as I gather, rather important. FWIW: after searching for Mission District, the street is now visible far more often. It's labeled even at a zoom level where the water on the east and west are comfortably within the frame.

The decision of de-emphasising street names for the benefit of landmarks/museums/event locations etc. is rather subjective: I often use Maps for purposes other than directions, such as getting a feel for an apartment's neighbourhood, finding restaurants, exploring places in the news, or that appeared in books or movies, or even just "sightseeing".

For all these purposes, the style of Google and Apple Maps is obviously far better than traditional folding maps.

You seem to do direction planning the "old-school" way of manually planning a path from A to B. But that mode has been somewhat deprecated, because typing an address and getting a specific route happens to be far better for this purpose. It's not so much decreasing skills in map reading the luddites so often bemoan: In unfamiliar locations, Google has so much more information, such as both typical and real-time traffic, specific expected times to negotiate every intersection, up-to-date road closures etc. Plus a slightly better shortest path algorithm than eyeballing it.

To get back to shrubbery: I rather shrug. Because you're right that it's less important than roads. But by its nature as just the background colour, I believe it does not actually compete with street labels, at least not in the way that other labels do.
I agree it is a deliberate choice and may even be necessary. The problem is how they identify "clutter". To Apple clutter seems to be street names or useful human scale landmarks. To me clutter is the name of a coffee shop four blocks away that happens to be highly ranked on Yelp when I haven't recently searched for coffee shops.
Not sure about Canada, but in the US the Chinatown busses have impacted the formerly very profitable routes to many destinations.

A legit company has to expend money on maintenance, etc, while the quasi-legal busses are fairly unsafe and fuel all sorts of illegal and quasi-legal activity.
You can rephrase that as inflation benefits borrowers more that savers. And borrowers benefit lenders. In the opposite paradigm, savers benefit savers and savers benefit investors. Think of a scenarios that is made up of an economy of a single currency, that is deflationary and everybody saves as much as they can, but they have to eat, so trade still occurs. Those that can save more accumulate more purchasing power until they think it wise to invest and get a greater return. Assuming all perfect investment execution, wealth would tend to aggregate as we see, but overall everybody benefits and see the rising tide lift all boats.
"I can genuinely say that I haven't had an Apple product that, in the end, didn't live up to the cost I paid for it and then some."

I think this really hits the nail on the head. Granted, this is all anecdotal, and for every positive story I'm sure there is a negative one, and we'll never really have these statistics, but I'd kill to know what percentage of long term Apple users feel this way about their products vs users of other companies. Not counting the Apple II's inherited from my stepdad as a kid, I've had a clamshell iBook that I ran Debian on in high school, a ~2008 Mac Mini that I developed my first iOS game on, an iPhone 3G, 4S, 5S, 7+, a ~2010 and a ~2014 Mac Mini at work, and my 2016 MBP, and every single one is either still in use, or was used basically to obsolescence.

FWIW, I don't use the entirety of the ecosystem by any means. I literally don't use iCloud, Apple Music, Siri, and probably a myriad of other tech they offer. And yet, I still get an enormous amount of value out of each product I purchase from them.

Full disclosure, I was primarily an iOS dev from 2011-2015, and at least 50% of what I do now is still iOS development.
You login with a QR code from your phone.

I don't think WhatsApp even has accounts - just phone numbers.
Around LA it's really extreme how wide the roads are vs. sidewalks if they even have one. Even far out roads often have four lanes or at least easily could fit four.
Apple launches vintage repair pilot program
> pandas is heavily influenced and inspired by R.

Is it? How so?
i suspect people's opinions about airlines are severely skewed by their home airport and choice of route. i mainly fly between two southwest hubs, and only occasionally is there a delay of 30-60 minutes. when i fly the same route on united, it is delayed more often than not, sometimes by hours or even cancelled entirely.
It is, of course, reasonable to make a "waste of money" argument if you are a pure capitalist.

In any case, this does not constitute an excuse for paying women less.
Identifiable Images of Bystanders Extracted from Corneal Reflections

https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal...
So annoying they didn't link to the full articles, in it's various forms.
Identifiable Images of Bystanders Extracted from Corneal Reflections (2013)
Circumcision of children should be banned entirely. If adults want to do it, fine.
All of the current situation is his own fault.

He is a very sadistic overworked animation director who created the good movie at the cost of stressful low wage workers like they are expendable assets. The workers under the Hayao's lead quickly burned out so nobody followed his path.

That's why he can't retire but back to work to create more movie. The market should eliminate these inefficient overworked idiot. But current technology can't beat the good hand-made animations so the bad situation continues.
My feelings on unbundling: it's less about the product, and more about product-market fit.

Air travel was a premium market product for many Americans well within living memory. The old regulated-pricing model helped to reinforce this: airlines used to sometimes advertise "we're the same cost as the other guys, but our food is better/planes are faster/experience is superior." So people traditionally expect a certain degree of basic services and features.

The market pivoted quite quickly towards "we're promoting the lowest price we legally can by means of unbundling features", and obviously, they're not going to trumpet the second half of that premise.

Either cnnsumers aren't quite ready to adjust their expectations that far downward, or the product is now so hollowed out that even the new lower price feels too high for what it is.
I'm going to inject some cynicism and say that what a number of them find unsettling is how famous they aren't.

They always think they have a big idea. It's never some minor correction to a big theory, which a PhD would be happy with (as long as it's major enough to be publishable); no, it's Shatter The Foundations or nothing. Therefore, they're being done out of their fame and fortune by some grand conspiracy, which, in itself, proves how important they are: If they weren't right, They wouldn't be conspiring against them, now, would they? That mindset certainly sells books, and helps on the lecture circuit, too.

I'm sure there are some honest crackpots, but I wonder how honest you can be when you come upon a bit of well-accepted physics you can't understand or simply don't like, and conclude that everyone else is wrong, and you're the only one who's correct.
> it shows me where there's a public park I might visit

Google's map shows a relatively tiny bit of land that it labels as the regional park.

Apple Maps, meanwhile, highlights a much larger area that it gives the same label.

Based on the fact that Apple Maps is explicitly highlighting this area, I'm going to guess that it's correct and that entire highlighted area is, in fact, the regional park. So if you wanted to visit Garland Ranch Regional Park, wouldn't you prefer it to be accurately mapped, instead of represented as a tiny slice of green?

Or if you meant that tiny bit of green in Caramel Valley, Apple Maps has it too, it just has a lot more green too that might be interesting if your goal is to visit bits of greenery stuck in the middle of towns.
> Linear optimization

Did you mean linear regression?
Linear optimization isn't a use case that Pandas covers, but there are other tools that I can recommend.
The comment thread is everything. Wow. shoot the messenger and "after the first sentence because I disagreed with it I didn't bother reading or thinking about anything else" and "TRAITOR" shouts.
Peppers Ghost is a hologram?
I'm surprised to see AT&T acting so aggressively with its Time Warner purchase so soon. The government argued that the merger would harm consumers and competition. I expected AT&T to wait a year or two before starting to milk extra profits - especially since the DoJ has appealed its loss.

After the merger, AT&T removed HBO from its lower-priced wireless plan, raised wireless prices, raised DirecTV NOW prices, and now this. Frankly, I would have expected a year or two of AT&T saying, "see, nothing bad happened! If anything, we're giving consumers more!" Then a couple years later, "because of inflation, costs, whatever, we're raising prices...it wasn't because of the merger at all!"

It just seems like AT&T decided to forego plausible deniability. And the merger is being appealed to the DC Circuit court. Literally the DoJ argued that AT&T would have, "both the incentive and the ability to raise its rivals' costs and stifle growth of innovative, next-generation entrants that offer attractive alternatives to AT&T/DirecTV's legacy pay-TV model—all to the detriment of American consumers," and that AT&T would have more power in negotiations with competitors. Now they're proving that.

I'm just surprised that AT&T couldn't wait 18 months. 18 months later, the merger wouldn't be on people's minds as much and they could argue that the market had shifted (production costs, more competition from YouTube, whatever). Doing these things so soon makes a really clear cause and effect. Waiting gives you deniability.
Agreed. At the very least, when you pull up directions, every road that you have to turn on should have the street name should be visible (at least without too much zooming).
Some airlines do this.. like Wow.. or Ryanair. They usually start the other way with cheap first then really expensive but sometimes you can find them still at the cheap level.
You remind me of a lot of tech these days. Too much computing power, far less usable value. Especially when moving.
Now Thiel has made his crore, he's too busy protecting the heap like Smaug, to want to risk the heap on new ventures.
It will be difficult for engineers to wash their hands off this level of surveillance, as they are building it.

All the dissent is coming from other places, we have not had any protests, resignations or even leaks to warn the public about the level of surveillance underway.

This betrays an indifference even support among engineers of invasive surveillance that others find abhorrent.

There is a sharp contrast between the unequivocal indignation and outrage similar stories generate on other countries as a reflection of something greater while here they seem to dissipate into a factoid with no larger implications.
When it's done on a woman, we call it "genital mutilation", but when done on a man it's "status-quo"
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"Buy on the rumor, sell on the news" is a tradition for Apple's Quarterly reports going back to at least 2004 (by my own memory).
The original Google Maps was pre-rendered in a gigantic MapReduce. It had many fewer landmarks.

The modern Google Maps does a lot of the layout and rendering on the client or on the fly, with a differing set of constraints and tradeoffs. It also has many more landmarks.

You can see this in action by going to https://mapstyle.withgoogle.com/ and playing with the "Landmarks" control.