skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Especially if someone has already booked flights that may be non-refundable

At least when the lockdown first kicked in during the spring, my impression is that most airlines let you cancel your tickets for a full-price credit that you could use later. That's what happened when I cancelled my "non-refundable" spring break tickets.

I got an email from Alaska Airlines recently saying essentially the same thing. They'd rather let people cancel in return for a credit than have people simply not book at all out of fear of needing to cancel. Hell, they'd be happy to take your money now for a plane ticket in the future. It's basically a loan to help them weather the pandemic.
I was in Puerto Rico for a wedding several years ago and made it an absolute non-negotiable must-visit during that trip. No way was I going to be that close and not go see it. So glad I did. It felt like mecca for science nerds. I bought all the souvenirs I could. So sad to see it go.
I don't understand why. If one works with customers there are two possibilities. One, their company has strict protocols that keeps them safe and so they should still be worried about getting it from guests. Two, their company is lax on protocols and so they are the ones risking the lives of their guests.

Either way, I am surprised to see this comment on HN, I would expect people here to not look at it at the individual level, and think in terms of probabilities.
I think the obvious response is that working customer-facing jobs isn't safe, but is necessary for many people to pay for important things like food and shelter.

This criticism seems similar to the common one of "why are grocery stores okay but not concert venues: surely the virus doesn't know the difference?" Of course not, but buying food is, at least in the short term, more vital.
>and old PHP projects which haven't advanced since the early 2000s.

Hmm, I think things like phpBB or SMF are still alive.
Reminds me a little of the Silicon Valley Napkin: https://archive.computerhistory.org/resources/access/text/20...
I agree that we have too many people who add a lot of value to our society without getting much back, or easily become too burdened trying to manage something for which they do not have enough resources, even if they are actually getting something.

What you say does make some sense, but I don't think the problem is that people is unwilling to pay, but rather that you don't want to pay until you actually determine that something is useful (and this is actually positive, as you would remove a lot of junk from the world that only looks fancy for the first 5 minutes), but afterwards paying is often too burdensome (because you already have it for free, you have to go to the donation page, have to decide how much money to donate, etc (yeah, all this seems absurd, but it is adding friction to the process, and this happens for so many software tools that we use in our day to day, that we just decide to ignore it)).

To me, it seems like it would be better to have a fairness system, where you put some money limit per month, you can see which free software tools are you using (or bands are listening, or many others) and which ones could use some money, usage of each element is automatically monitored, and every month you pay automatically. You could specify how much money you make and get automatic feedback based on whether you are giving too little or too much for your use of those resources. I've seen multiple companies that have tried to do this "fairness" thing... but the most popular one is still patreon and that's too much manual work. There are many hard problems with this proposal, mostly how do you do the communication/monitoring of the elements you want to donate for and this system, and how you determine if what software developers / artists / whatever are asking for is fair or not (this is the really big one), but it doesn't seem so far fetched. What we all really want is a fair distribution of the rewards for our efforts. We have to solve this at some point, and the obstacles are friction, the previously mentioned determination of "reasonable compensation", and consensus on the tool to solve these two (which should be funded through itself).
Have you never been to a large family dinner?
My understanding, Linus Tech Tips did a breakdown of their revenue, is that Youtube premium subscribers get more money to the creators than ads.

With that, the day they bring adverts into Youtube Premium, is the day I stop paying for it. That would be them going the way of cable companies all in.
For many people (especially those who travel), Thanksgiving isn't "a few hours at dinner" but "stay with relatives at least overnight and maybe an entire long weekend".
Maybe you could try to send and email to Jeff Minter before giving up
this makes me sad, and is a clear indication that American's are losing their independent spirit.

I neither need or desire the government to give me permission to go, or cancel my plans with family.

if you do not want to attend a family gathering due to COVID or anything else, just tell them you do not want to attend.

Hiding behind Uncle Sam or big daddy government as in excuse is pure cowardice
Is there even ever going to be an ARM / Apple Silicon version?

It would be a huge amount of work to add ARM support to VirtualBox. I would be surprised if Oracle were interested in making that investment.
No one is defending him and whataboutism is not a real argument. You are just another Space Karen
It’s by the rest of the industry figuring out how to collaborate on delivering similar gains without vertical integration.

This is one of the smartest things I've seen on HN in a long time. This is exactly what has to happen if the other companies don't want Apple to eat their lunch.
On safari, clicking a job doesn’t load a description, just moves me to the top of the page. Tracking protection on
At the bottom of the first post: https://forums.puri.sm/t/comparing-specs-of-upcoming-linux-p....
What a clean interface. We need more website to look like this.
Yeah I'd like to read about some experiences as well if anyone has blog links!
We are finally just starting to see a contender for web3.js to get the same functionality without a bloated package size
Microsoft gives Linux a security boost with these new attack detection tools
Interesting (but not too surprising) figure, but overall disappointing lack of detail about the methodology and what was found. Many follow-up questions on what exactly they included and excluded, how vulnerabilities where counted, ... (especially automated audits tend to count any vulnerability related to a thing included, even if in codepaths or components that are never used, which is highly distorting)
probably things are different now, but in the "old days" school assignments didnt consider internet sources to be "real" sources and you had to use books etc for your reports
Sex is a biological imperative entrenched in our DNA through countless generations of evolutionary selection all the way back to the dawn of sexual reproduction millions of years ago.

Thanksgiving is an American secular holiday about eating turkey.
It's going to explode because of a synchronized nation-wide spreading event, not because of the weather.
Arquero: JavaScript API for querying and transforming array-backed data
Elasticsearch is a search platform. A "database" but meant for search stuff. It's not part of MySQL.
By single screen do you mean creating a snapshot of what the product should look like?
May seem pedantic but those little gains do add up. A missing favicon also has a surprising impact.
Royal Navy Hostages in Iran – What Happened
Dentists. Doctors in general, but especially dentists.
> There is also the Square Kilometre Array (SKA) coming online soon. This is phased array format, similar to VLA, and covers a similar frequency band as Arecibo (unlike VLA). I have to wonder if this factored into the calculus to let Arecibo go.

In some sense I'm sure it did, but the USA is not a part of the SKA collaboration, so it's not a direct replacement.
what if those experiences could be provided with a smaller footprint? Try to think bigger than yourself. It would no doubt be faster but also would consume less bandwidth, less storage, less compute = less power meaning good for the environment.
> There are several videos showing flying objects and several people reporting that jets were flying. [...] I will say it again, there exists SEVERAL different videos that show this.

Where are these videos?
Writing Makes You Smarter (Backed by Science)
But you’re still stuck with a collapsing ecosystem. $100 isn’t even close to the cost of testing an app in the App Store. The App Store doesn’t scale - you need humans inspecting the program and using it and they need a bit of time to do that. For decent testing you’ll pay $100/hr and it’ll take a few hours at least. I don’t know how you’d do an all-in customer-protecting test round of an app for less than $2000. Which means no more free apps. Or, you continue to subsidize free apps with income from non-free apps which means taking a cut of things like in-app purchases.

I’m not saying that 30% is the right number - it’s probably way too high (maybe?) - but if you want free apps, you can’t let anyone use their own payment processors because it’s a revenue hole and you literally won’t have any revenue that doesn’t go down it.
So many US astronomers will have trouble getting funding to use it, so it doesn’t replace Arecibo for that group, and a very large number of radio astronomers work at US institutions.
Using a Genetic algorithm to train a Neural Network – Car learns navigation
I'm ok with trying to be excellent at a few things and good enough at everything else.
Only three significant Wodehouse threads on HN?

2020 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23494599

2016 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13135934

2013 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5122663

Surely there have been others...
Yes sounds like you used the older RLS plugin. Which currently has 717K installs.

Try the newer and future default plugin, rust-analyzer (currently only 110K installs).

It’s much better and improving each week. With RA and VSCode the rust developer experience is fantastic.

Link: https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=matklad....
Equivocation and blame games.

COVID is bad, passing it to people is bad, wearing masks and distancing almost guarantees it won't transmit, masks and social distancing are nearly impossible at social gatherings where people eat or drink, so halt social gatherings so we don't overload our hospitals and get a bunch of people killed a few months before a vaccine is available. Really not much more to it than that.
Totally unrelated, but I refuse to buy an HDPI monitor until someone makes one at a resolution that can use integer scaling. Fractional scaling will _never_ look good. Even Apple, who controls their entire stack, doesn't like fractional scaling and exclusively makes monitors and displays that support 2X scaling. Everyone looking for good fractional scaling support is going to be looking for a very long time, no matter what compositor they use.
There's a huge difference between chronological sort of posts, versus the nested discussions weighted by karma that Reddit uses.

It's infinitely frustrating because I find chronological sort to make the most sense, but social media sites destroyed chronological timelines and discussions because doing so results in intermittent reinforcement[1], a powerful type of conditioning.

[1] https://www.alleydog.com/glossary/definition.php?term=Interm...
That is a brilliant site, thank you.
> Fauci made a recommendation based on data at the time.

It's incredible the amount of slack this total incompetent has gotten, just by contrast of standing next to the president.

There was no change in available data on mask efficacy on either side of the great switch in recommendations.
I've never seen family members yell at each other. Is that a thing?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25152925
From what I've seen it's quite the opposite, at least for "basic economy" style tickets. I bought tickets (which I will definitely not be using) and every extra bit of space on every page of the airline websites was filled with big warnings that nothing related to COVID is a valid excuse to get a flight change or refund.
Are you sure?

A Dell XPS13 with 8Gb RAM 512GB SSD is $1,349[1].

An Apple MacBook Air with 8Gb RAM 512GB SSD is $1,249[2].

The XPS13 is great, I have one myself with Linux on. They're definitely in the same price range as the Apple laptops though.

I think the other points you've raised have been addressed else where.

There's no restriction on what software you run. You can even replace the OS with Linux if you like by configuring the security.

The hash key transmission seems to be used for malware detection, is optional and Apple have committed to not keeping logs of it when people do use it.

1. https://www.dell.com/en-us/shop/dell-laptops/new-xps-13-touc...

2. https://www.apple.com/shop/buy-mac/macbook-air
https://archive.is/wlpV2
I think this misses the point of a service mesh. Yes a library may feat your needs but if you need an old Java application deployed on premise that only has a VPN connection to datacenter A with a private connection to datacenter B a service mesh will help you make everybody talk to each other nicely without to make tricky configuration with NATs, route tables, BGP, etc.

The logging, authentication, circuit breaker, etc. is nice to have on top of that but I don't think it's the main advantage, or at least not the only one.
The "substances" are working exactly as intended. You are too used to being wanted as a customer everywhere, this time it's not the case.
But when you start this way, you quickly endup with the bloat that is modern software. Because each extra bit of waste seems justified at every steps along the way.
Fauci recommending masks in January would likely have wound up with the same end result - "no!" from a substantial portion of the population.
I don’t see why this would matter. All Disney needs to show is that they only bought the rights, not the obligations. It’s not their job to figure out who those obligations went to.
https://archive.is/m9zs4
"Intel caters to the entire market (one the M1 just noticeably shrunk) with myriad integrators, workloads, and users, and each has different concerns and priorities making accelerated algorithm blocks useless to some and not-fast-enough for others."
Which is why even if Intel does manage to solve their process problems, they are not out of the woods yet.

As you point out Apple's per core performance is impressive, but their ability to customize their hardware to optimize very specific compute tasks like the nsobject release example or floating for Javascript will be a lot harder to convince off the self/least common denominator parts like x86 processors have traditionally been.

I also think we are at the beginning of seeing the influence of "accelerators" such as the ML and neural engine cores. Accelerators beyond the CPU are nothing new - that's what a graphics card is, after all. What's interesting is these are on the same SOC with the CPU cores.

What if Apple decides even for the higher end Mac's to integrate RAM into or closely couple with the SOC? What if they decide on their own memory controller that lets you address all the memory chips at once. What potential could that have for performance? Maybe not enough to offset the cost/complexity. But if it did turn out to be on the right side of the cost/benefit equation now instead of having to convince multiple parties it's a good idea, at worst Apple just has to convince a few internal divisions to work together.

That is the long term power I see with Apple Silicon. Not raw specs or Moores Law - but unfettered access to the full Art of the Possible.
Family and social relationships are not entrenched in our DNA?
Blizzard already released ARM64 builds of WoW. More than likely D3 and Starcraft 2 as well. They were already fantastic supporters of the metal API so I imagine it was an easy transition for them.
> is anyone really training models on a Macbook or a Mac Mini?

In an academic environment, absolutely. Scaling is the second problem to solve, but iterating on model architecture is the first.
Paying a fee to disable ads is not new. I've done it so many times before, starting ages ago with Salon.com and continuing on into Patreon-supported podcasts. Why not for YouTube as well?

The best reason I can think of is becasue of this effect: https://www.npr.org/sections/money/2012/07/13/156737801/the-...
I don't think you understand what you're talking about. There are many databases that are made up of public records. Many aren't free, some are.
I switched to Fastmail 2 months ago. It's been painless so far.
You lose a key feature of ZFS, which is scrubbing. This feature requires multiple drives in a zpool, while you only provides one. Scrubbing generally happens once a month to prevent double or triple bit flips in the same location, however you might get bit rot with your service.
I don't think anyone is going to argue that there are sites that provide huge utility in exchange for their size. No one is suggesting we google maps should clock in at less than a MB. But the point is that there's a continuing trend of websites' sizes growing much faster than their functionality - often with the former to the detriment of the latter.
3.4 million out of several billion :-)

Sounds about right!
'Best' is something that ought to be defined otherwise it can mean anything.

In any business the bottom line is king and time and resources are limited (in fact that's the way it is for about everything in life). You can still do your best while delivering a "workable solution". In fact being the best at delivering workable solutions is a very good and fulfilling aim. You can strive for quality with sensible design, least number of defects, etc. while delivering on time and within budget.
Content disappears off of Google as time goes on, too.
breaks. https://workrave.org/
It’s not a charity, but it’s also the standard platform bait and switch: provide years of great service to capture users and creators and gain network effects, then turn on the users and content creators to exploit them after there are no alternatives. Where else do we go now? When YouTube went down the other day, billions of people stopped being able to watch most online videos for a while
Well after Firefox 69 DoH is overriden by laptop's company policy so effectively if one wants DoH always on and free use of addons, 69 is the last usable version.
I think what we're saying is compatible. Youtube isn't really doing anything new, just putting out more ads. They're able get away with it because they have a monopoly.
The m1 macbook air reviews all say they don’t get hot, no matter what you throw at them, and they at most throttle down 15%. The macbook pro and mini stay cool and quiet and do not throttle, regardless of the workload. Any performance expectations you have from macs before the transition you should set aside, these are entirely new and come with very different characteristics.
Look up "satisficing". It's a wonderful concept.
Do you have a list or link to any mega projects you are currently excited about?
*distributed on cartridges
Fair point. Given where we were, I wouldn't be surprised if the whole floor had negative air pressure.
> Which is also a symbol of the degradation of human intellectual capability in the 21st century.

I don't think the human thirst for knowledge is lacking, but the political will, regardless of a project's economic profit, to support it is always in short supply. Much of the Cold War era funding for scientific ventures without a clear economic payoff was driven by the desire to beat the Soviets or approved on the basis that they would contribute to our Cold War defense complex. The Arecibo Observatory itself was borne out of a need to understand the ionosphere for the purposes of tracking nuclear warheads.

The Chinese are not approving these projects out of a love of science. They are doing what the US did 60 years ago: science as a means of national pride and prestige.
I've also seen a regulator refuse to investigate allegations of fraud from insiders because "the investigation would be complex and we would rather spend our funding on multiple smaller cases"
In addition to mask mandates, I've also seen copious amounts of hand sanitizers at store entrances, 6ft floor stickers and large plastic shields at checkout stations, and even thermometer checks in some store entrances.
Trump will lose protected Twitter status after his presidency
Here's the disconnect, which is why these "webpages need to be slim!" sites tend to make me think they're greybeard nostalgia for an internet that doesn't really exist anymore.

Your 1mb webpage is approximately 60ms worth of Disney+ streaming.

Your 1mb webpage is approximately 1.7s worth of Zoom chat.

Your 1mb webpage is approximately 1.9s worth of Tiktok video.

Unless you are specifically targeting low-bandwidth users, you need to worry about product market fit long before you worry about slimming your js bundles down.
Funny you should say that because they do have standardized tests. Any of three certifications qualifies you.

The other non-financial individual qualification is also objective. Are you a certain type of employee of an investment firm? If so you can invest in that firm. None of this is subjective.

If this were about whether you can absorb losses, then it would limit the investment amount based on your financial capacity, like the JOBS Act does. There's nothing stopping a millionaire from throwing too much of their savings into questionable investments, and plenty of millionaires have gone broke doing exactly that. They probably would have been better off if they had to pass those standardized tests first, like us po' folks are able to do now.
They could. Still wouldn't run 90% of the software I use daily.

You need ALL the pieces of a puzzle to compete.
You assume Christinaty.
Very interesting. All the new phones have lidar built in that works up to 30 feet away. In theory with the technology you applied here, it would be possible for them to eavesdrop without a microphone.This is almost as unsettling as the cameras that can visualize WiFi reflecting off human skin through walls. Its a matter of time before a commercial model hits the market. https://youtu.be/fGZzNZnYIHo what a brave new world we are about to live in.
>Industrial, UX and UI designers are manipulators now

Yes. When their hands are guided by PMs and marketing managers they are more often than not.
SA. I’ve been using it for, god, I dunno, 15 years? But I don’t think many HN posters will fit in.
Discussed earlier this year: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22420231

Also 2018: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17083807
One Reddit user estimated the monthly cost of this site at over $2000 USD. How are you funding that?

https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/jg4rkv/comment...
Microsoft programs get home sick and want to see some familiar file share protocol?
It drives me nuts that all the current forums default to closing threads. Reddit and Discourse are the worst offenders if only because they are so common. Answers to questions change, you need to able to leave a response years later that the info in the thread is out of date. Add to that over zealous admins that close everything as a dupe even though you the topic you want to discuss or contribute to is closed.

AFAIK the original reason to close old threads was comment spam but that seems like it's a somewhat solved problem or solved enough it's no longer a valid reason to close threads.
Their archive of police brutality during the BLM protests this summer is presented in an interesting fashion:

https://blmprotests.forensic-architecture.org/
My employer has a system for employees to invest in it. They explicitly tell everyone “we don’t recommend you do this because if we go bust you’ll lose both your job and your investment”, and limit the total investment to a reasonable fraction of compensation.