skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
More straightforwardly, the reputation for being massive cheapskates gets its target market of people who don't care about airlines at all and just want a good deal knowing who they are and going straight to Ryanair.com to buy tickets when they need to fly.

Which means that (i) they'll lookup the price and be upsold a package on Ryanair.com rather than finding the price and a different hotel deal on some other price comparison site and (ii) they'll still buy tickets from Ryanair.com at non-promotional rates when they're actually not the cheapest airline offering a viable route and time. And of course (iii) he can fill his flights without sharing revenues with online travel agents and other affiliates, though other low cost airlines without the reputation for taking things to extreme lengths manage that.

Although part of it's probably just his style. Not sure there was any strategy to his comments that "I don't care if no-one likes me. I'm not a cloud bunny or an aerosexual. I don't like aeroplanes. I never wanted to be a pilot like those other platoons of goons who populate the airline industry..."
It is a delicate balance between open conversations (that allow to build and maintain a clear internal mental model) vs propaganda (in order to improve public perception).

Gerald Ratner made a wrong tradeoff in one case [too much openness and honesty for the audience that does NOT appreciate openness and honesty enough].
Apparently, there are more tigers in captivity in the US than there are in the wild. https://www.worldwildlife.org/stories/more-tigers-in-america...
Yeah, it's hard to secure a system where paying someone involves giving them your name, address, bank account and routing number, and signature.
Sure, they are not the top dog anymore. They can't get away with insulting people the way they used too.

Business as usual.
I don't really have a particular desire to be the public face of any organization (although, having joined some pretty small groups lately, the odds of this happening have increased from 0 to >0), but a lot of the other examples in this article reinforce for me the advice about phrasing your criticisms constructively or as a value statement.

It's harder for someone to blow them out of proportion or context when they are phrased that way, although people can still play the hypocrisy card.
> Maybe one day we get physical switches that power off cameras and mics

That day could be quite soon – the Purism Librem 5 is supposed to ship at some point in Q3: https://puri.sm/products/librem-5/

More about the physical kill-switches: https://puri.sm/posts/lockdown-mode-on-the-librem-5-beyond-h...
Well, the issues I'm aware of: Ryanair pay their staff poorly. And that is not cheap enough, so they also employ them under employment law from "cheap countries", to try and circumvent income taxes and other charges of the local countries they service.

Ryanair demand subsidies from local governments to fly to far-flung airports. They can hold these governments hostage, as often the airports fail if they stop their service. Of course, this could be seen as simply "bad management" by our local governments.

And to finish, though this is something that applies to all airlines : no VAT or "eco" tax, that the rest of us have to pay.
Heathrow is in the London borough of Hillingdon, in TFL zone 6 on the underground, and served by London buses 24/7
> if we could store more then 5MB on the client.

I recently stopped using Slack because their web client started storing 600MB in local storage. If gmail did that too, it would be the last nail in the coffin. I absolutely do not want random (or not-random) websites using my computer to store their data.
I would agree with this assessment in most cases. The problem is it's hard to determine which language features perform worse than C. But usually the cost of being wrong is low or inconsequential for modern hardware.

But it is not true for embedded systems. And the industry disagrees too, and continues to use C because of this.
It is an excellent point about "code-speak" as a tool to be open with experts without pissing off clueless customers.
TSA was only in small part a nationalization of existing airport security. Private airport security pre-TSA only did a fraction of what the TSA does now. They don't have the same purpose either... I'd say the TSA exists to expand authority of the federal government as much as it exists to protect travelers or secure air travel infrastructure.
FairTube ultimatum expires: YouTube invites unions to talks
Meanwhile, poorer unfortunate kids whose parents kick them out get caught in the gap where their parents won't pay for college, but the college considers them dependents and won't give them financial aid.

Source: Was one such kid. Took 2 years of paperwork and phone calls before I qualify for aid based on my own finances.
OMG, I can't believe we finally have a cross platform read/write disk format. At last. No more Fuse. I just need to know when it will be available for my Raspberry Pi.
I obviously don't know the details, but it sounds like proper whistleblower protections and channels would've helped? Ideally OP could have reported it, and stayed anonymous/not have his manager find out. It's probably not so simple in real life, but having to use existing management chains makes it harder, because they're usually not well equipped to deal with such situations (or worse, might have a hand in it).
This is such a valid point. We owe so much of our privileged opportunity to those who have served and continue to serve. They are an absolute thin line protecting us against people who want to do us harm. I think it's appropriate to leverage our gains in technology to help keep these brave Americans alive.
That may be the reality, but I don't believe that was the narrative then, or common knowledge now. Certainly I wasn't aware of that, although I'm also not too particularly invested in it so don't follow things that closely.
They said they wanted to see if I was a good fit for the organization's culture. Technical interview went really well, so they did not cared that much about the test results. But they requested me to take the test again hoping I would get better results. What a joke :)
Entity that compromised a system completely and can read the unencrypted messages... can read the unencrypted messages?

In other news giving someone root access to your machine gives them root access.
I do not really see the point of providing docker containers for tiny command line programs. I feel like an old curmudgeon that cannot make sense of the modern world; at all.
Okay, so I presume that:
- development of Tridactyl stops?
- there is no way to run it on fresh/updated versions of FF on Win10?

That sucks.
Just FYI, you're "We're Hiring!" link is broken.
The Julia team overall did an amazing job with this.
Checkout fswatch as a watch replacement. It triggers on file changes. I automated a few things for monitoring using that and found it to be a much smoother experience since it’s updated immediately and only as needed.
this makes total sense. If Tesla cars are safer than most, then the insurance price should be lower since there would be less accidents in general and Tesla owners don't have to pay for the "less safe" cars within the same insurance umbrella.

It also makes sense for Tesla to have their own insurance company if they want to someday have "insured" self driving cars and deal with the fact that in case of accidents where cars are not driven by people but by algorithms.
Great, (very) deep dive into a well-known cartel. Also a lesson in the power of marketing, advertising & PR. But from 1982... I'd be interested in hearing about contemporary outcomes of the events described.
Calling Out My Rapist
I work with React Native:

1st I setup a script to start an emulator (iOS and Android), build and deploy an app to emus, start development JS server, open vim and split the window to have a terminal ready for anything else.

2nd I automated asset creation when I receive SVG from design - it automatically generates 3 different asset sizes (as required by iOS), compresses them, moves them and names them correctly.

That's just the beginning...
As I noted in another comment, a majority of Hong Kong people did not identify themselves as “Chinese” when given the choice.⁰ It is rather implausible to claim that over three million Chinese people are “sponsored by black hands from America and the UK”. Moreover it is quite unlikely that the majority of them are “abject outcasts.” And, finally, as a Marxist, I should like to know in what sense you consider your remarks to be compatible with the compassion for “outcasts” that animated at the very least Marx: “we should not abandon Marxism-Leninism;”¹ “[a]ll Party members must…be firm in their commitment to…the Marxist view on development;”² “[w]e must adhere to Marxism.”³

0. https://www.hkupop.hku.hk/english/popexpress/ethnic/eidentit...

1. XI Jinping, The Governance of China, p. 10

2. Ibid., p. 23

3. Ibid., p. 25
Doesn't MacOS Mail show the unread count in the Dock already?
I've definately been eating less meat, but not for environmental/ethical concerns. I do it because of Health concerns.
From experience, there are fare less libertarians in the "Silicon valley crowd" than many believe. Silicon Valley average tech. employees crowd is largely made of left-wingers, most of which are as far away from classical liberalism as one can be without being a card-carrying communist.
Well, and just being ancient. LLVM is good too, but a lot cleaner. For instance (from GCC's docs):

> Reload is the GCC equivalent of Satan. See [gccsource:reload.c], [gccsource:reload1.c], and [gccsource:reload.h] if you have a brave soul.

https://gcc.gnu.org/wiki/reload
This is also a non sequitur response. Doubtless many people would pay back their loans, for personal moral reasons. But a BK on your record from ages 21-28 is not a meaningful practical deterrent for ruthless default, because those are ages when personal credit history is not especially important; the BK would come off your record years before most people take out their first mortgage (the median age of first home purchase is 42, but a mortgage in your early 30s would be easily accomplished after a student loan default).

There are annoying consequences to having a BK on your record --- it would be harder (though not impossible) to get a credit card, and your first couple apartment lessors might want cosigners (though it is extremely possible to get a lease with terrible credit). The problem is that these consequences are far less onerous than shouldering student debt, which takes most people decades to repay.

What's worse is, the incentive would likely be to default as quickly as possible, since that's what starts the recovery countdown. Not defaulting right after graduation would be a significant gamble on your ability to either repay or practically default later in life, when you're more exposed to the credit system.

Obviously, an important part of this analysis is that student loan amounts have gotten significantly larger in the last 2 decades. Another easily-made observation is that student loans stopped being dischargeable because of widespread ruthless default, even with tuition rates less than 1/3rd what they are now.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6xs6MTwMTbo
he explains the joke here.
People seem to be using the economic word “externalities” as “things I don’t like”.
Most software developers ignore user behavior.

It was a bit of a shock for me to figure out that much of my early success in software boiled down to a few things I was doing that nobody else was, and one of those was watching other people work and doing something - anything - more with that information than simply writing it down or complaining about it. Most of those people have been coworkers, not even customers.
Quite possible for Europe to charge landing fees based on ghg emissions for all planes arriving/departing.
Because society, which had decided poorer families should be able to access college, doesn't have to stand for abuse. This kind of "what about"-ism requires admission of unethical behavior. How can anyone try to justify it after saying they're just as bad as the other guy?

And these people aren't "smart" for discovering they can deceive the government for gain.
exactly. We know the opposite happens too, being attracted to powerful people. We'll never know the truth and claiming you do know one way or the other, or that one of those possibilities isn't possible is intellectually dishonest imo.
The people also voted for a parliament.
In a negative-interest-rate environment, gold is also more attractive, since 0% interest is better than -X% interest.
That seems like an incredibly selfish reaction. You're mad that you had to provide testimony about a neighbor's murder? How would you feel if your neighbors were complaining about helping with your murder investigation? And I say this as someone who recently had jury duty and watched dozens of people make fools of themselves because they simply didn't want to participate in their civil duty. This is what makes/breaks a society.
Businesses use ACH extensively to pay each other same-day (and debit consumer bank accounts). But it has never caught on for consumer "push" payments.
I see that can be so in the US where hiring decisions seem to be more business oriented. Not sure if it works like that in every country. In Germany, professors have great freedom in choosing who to hire. For example phd student applicants directly contact and interview with the prof. Probably there is some form of veto from above though, but rarely exercised.
notably firefox has a few modules implemented in rust.
I used to use Ryanair... until I found out how they treated wheelchair users. I'm happy for myself to be treated like a piece of meat. Not other, more vulnerable users. Screw Ryanair.
Well, mcDonalds draws maps of where their workers put their feet, and then designs the kitchens to minimize the number of steps the workers needs to take to complete their jobs.

One way to use Excel telemetry could surely be to minimize the number of cognitive steps workers needs to take to complete the tasks they are trying to do.

Another could be to use telemetry to see at which point a smooth flow suddenly takes a longer time - and perhaps split an action into two actions which are faster (in time) to accomplish

I could go on all day.
If you mean just a vertical split, that's not what I want. Because the message/thread list is still a table with columns (Subject|Correspondents|Date|....). Not sure who thought a table is needed here, I don't need to sort by any of it, I just want my latest messages. If I want to search for something I can use the search feature.
> One of the five demands is that Youtube make its content sorting decisions more transparent; for example, explain why a video is sorted into a certain category. Also included is a demand for disclosure of the reasons for the demonetisation or deletion of videos and channels in the future.

transparency is really something that google is lacking nowadays, or at least it feels more and more obvious.
> Banning whole groups of users, regardless of the size of the groups, can result in outrage in the hate community and allegations against social-media platforms that rights to free speech are being suppressed. To avoid that, policy 2 instead recommends banning a small number of users selected at random from online hate clusters.

So give the appearance of unrestrained speech, when in fact it is tightly policed. I suppose the authors feel it is okay to actively mislead users, if the purpose is just.
Thanks MS. Would also like to see ext4 support in Windows and better NTFS support under Linux. Then the turnaround (on the technical side at least) will be complete.
>> I would argue that you are misusing the web

What? I built a music player, like Pandora. How is that misusing the web?

I don't want to build a native app. This is a side project for me - I don't have the time, resources, or desires to rebuild my app in proprietary technologies.

> I don't want garbage running in the background

If you're using my music player app, you absolutely want it running; otherwise the music stops.

> There are plenty of audio/radio apps on iOS using native technologies

I don't want proprietary native technologies, anymore than I want Flash or Silverlight. I want the open web.

> A playlist would be a hell of a lot cheaper than trying to run arbitrary javascript.

My app isn't a playlist. It's an app, akin to Pandora.
This could be changing with FedNow https://www.federalreserve.gov/newsevents/pressreleases/othe...

You may want to read the findings of the Faster Payments Task Force (FPTF) https://fasterpaymentstaskforce.org/
Three Prominent Video Game Developers Accused of Sexual Assault in One Day
You hand out your bank account information every time you give somebody a check
So this is just typical media hype? Just wanna make sure I understand your pov
I heard they found the remains of his chariot on a small island on the pacific...
I always chuckled at the joke: Who makes more money off of the sale of each Android device, Google or Microsoft?
> The US has 4,909 banks ... This necessarily makes setting up inter-operation between banks more complicated.

The EU has 6,250 banks though. Each with different countries. With 28 different languages, cultures and governments, with far more differences than the states in the USA.

You're really arguing that it's harder to unify that in the homogeneous USA than it is in Europe? Come now.
I would say that there was probably a case that the BBC News coverage leaned against the independence cause. (I speak as someone who wanted Scotland to stay in the Union).

I would say in partial mitigation that the one bias the BBC probably does have is a bias towards the status quo.
There are usually no such thing as truly anonymous reporting. The act of reporting makes you a leper in the corporate structure and retaliation is pretty common, and difficult to prove in court.
I’m all for charging fees (especially when the chargee is not me), but fees don’t put CO2 back in the ground.
> this exact critique was brought up by many experienced Rustaceans

Just because they're experienced doesn't make it a great argument. Additionally they generally articulated more substantial concerns than "it looks weird."

To be exact my argument is that strange syntax does not increase the complexity of the feature. The complexity of async/await, especially when compared to features like the borrow checker as CJefferson complained, is in its semantics. You need to learn general async/await semantics like the fact that awaits always have yields regardless of which side of the expression you put it on among other things. And a number of rust-specific complexities that are very different from other languages (cold by default futures, executors vs reactors, pinning, etc.)
Xbox Live is down, bringing some apps and games offline
Fun fact: you can expose a Go library in the same way using the c-shared build mode.
That’s an extreme of course, but we have examples from other small communities which shun luxuries to some extent like mennonite and Amish communities. In any event we don’t need everyone to live barebones but even 30-40% volunteering or seeking this lifestyle could help against our mass consumption society. At least a significant portion of people wouldn’t live connected lives 24x7. Maybe 12x7. That could reduce energy consumption.
so how did you manage to not keep track of object lifetimes before? serious question, rust just forces you to do what c++ expects you to do, threatening undefined behavior at runtime if you don't. anecdotally i can say about myself that learning rust made me a better python programmer, of all things.
Birmingham airport is 1h06 from Central London

Brussels itself is only 1h54 from central London!
I propose you start by studying a small batch of users, documenting their behaviors, develop a set of theories, then look at whether the larger pool of data agrees with or disproves your theory.

Try to come up with theories just from data and you end up with the Texas Sharpshooter scenario. We are complaining about this sort of behavior showing up in the scientific community, let's learn from that mistake.
No but seriously, what is a gallon?
As an occasional Ryanair user they don't really treat you like cattle and he doesn't seem to despise his customers though if certain ones piss him off he won't necessarily cover that up. People are so snobby about it - I'd never fly a cheap service with cheap people - I'm better than that kind of vibe. Ryanair is run kind of like a bus service really - pay modest money and they ship you from A to B.
1% more.
Many cat adoption centers won't let people adopt cats if they'll let them outside. And those cats are living a better life than squirrels. I disagree with that, but the way I'd put it is, eating wild animals (modulo overfishing) is unquestionably morally right, but with captured animals, well, you noted that they're injected with hormones. That doesn't make the animals unhappy. I think you should concentrate on what the animal's mental state is, and not get distracted by aesthetics.
It's also a problem using discrete components for noise and EMC compliance, you need a shielding because you have a lot more higher frequency traces compared to otherwise. It's still possible to do without too much trouble but compared to doing most of it in a single devices there's just very little point in spending that much work most of the time.
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False. AMD supported VP9 decoding as of UVD6. Their APUs got UVD6 in Carrizo, released in June 2015. Some Volcanic Islands GPUs (June 2015) had UVD6, with a full rollout of UVD6 in all Arctic Islands GPUs. (June 2016)

Note that AMD didn't support HEVC (Apple's codec of choice) until UVD6 either.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unified_Video_Decoder#UVD_6
I completely agree.

To add to that, you could however also have created some people really thinking highly of you as well, especially for people appreciating such things as honesty and loyalty. That could be worth a lot as well. Not always enough, but sometimes a huge win.
Not to dismiss the pressure she went through, but Bill Clinton got impeached over it and basically went incognito for many years due in no small part to both the scandal and impeachment.

It's not a victim olympics, but I don't think anyone can claim the repercussions for him were small or light.
I'll believe Microsoft loves Linux when I can install Microsoft Office in my desktop Linux machine. Everything else is marketing.

Edit: to expand, the corporate world runs on Excel/PowerPoint/Outlook. Microsoft milks them on Windows/Office licensing and is very aggressive against organizations that try to do Linux deployments. They're a convicted monopolist that got away easily when at some point the option on the table was to split OS and Office into two different companies. If they want to continue to use Office to keep Windows dominant that's their strategy. WSL and their other "love Linux" efforts are all about making sure developers stay on Windows. If you want to do all that fine but don't patronize us by then claiming you love Linux.