skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>> I needed to figure out the real reasons why repeat passenger levels had dropped and why the airline ranked #18 for on-time arrivals.

> You know what makes me anxious? Missing my connection because the airline is late AGAIN! I'll suffer through any number of in-cabin discomforts. I'll get out and pull the aircraft back from the gate with a rope. I'll climb in and out via ladders. I'll shovel snow off the runway by hand. I'd even pay a premium on if doing so meant the flight arrives at the time indicated on the ticket.

Part of the problem here is that airlines measure departure delays that go into their On Time Performance stat based on the time they leave the gate, when what really impacts customer experience and the potential for missing a connection is takeoff time.

So, airlines are willing to have their planes full of passengers stuck in their seats wait on the tarmac indefinitely at the start of the trip, for hours sometimes (US federal rules allow up to 3h for domestic flights, and 4h for international) to halve the impact on their OTP, when passengers would clearly rather the extra time at the start of the trip be spent in the terminal.

Now, some of this is unavoidable when any delay (regardless of cause) ripples through the whole airport's landing and takeoff queues (though insufficient slack in the queue is also a cause) but measuring On Time Performance stats in a way that can and is clearly gamed in passenger-hostile ways absolutely makes it worse, and more importantly helps disguise the entity ultimately responsible for the arrival delays that cause missed connections.

Based on the simple principle of "you manage what you measure", there are a couple of basic changes that would help to fix this, one is to track stats for takeoff and landing delays, another is to split OTP into separate arrival and departure stats.

It would also be nice if airlines were required to track passenger-minutes sitting on the tarmac (though this can be derived if the above changes are made), the % of passenger missed connections, and delay passenger-minutes (so getting bumped to another flight, whether from overbooking or flight cancellation, is still reflected in the stats).
No more of a truism than a statement about the continuity of Earth's rotation :)
FAA Files Reveal a Threat to Airline Safety: The U.S. Military's GPS Tests
That sounds like a submariner's joke alright.

I used to hear that "Navy nuclear submarine personnel are the top 10% of the Navy!" They would repeat that shit over and over to us at Sub School. After a year onboard the USS Honolulu, I remember thinking, "If this is the top 10%, I'd fuckin' hate to see the bottom 90..."

I did end up spending some time with the bottom 90%, briefly. After the Hono, I was transferred to Patrol Coastal Crew Charlie. At the time we were still attached to SOCOM, so it was a really great, if hard, life. The last 6 months or so of my time in the Navy, we got folded into "Big Navy". Not fun. At the time, each crew simply flew to an available PC boat, usually to relieve another crew, as 3 PC crews generally operated out of Bahrain and Kuwait at any given time. It was cheaper to ferry most of the PC boats over by large ship instead of trying to sail them, as you generally need to refuel a PC boat every 7 days, give or take.

Having to actually do maintenance on our equipment instead of spending hours every week at the range shooting and hours at sea practicing on the twin-50s and the 25mm autocannon was a real drag. I'm glad I got out when I did. It was all of the fun with none of the work, and then become all of the work and 5% of the fun.
I think it's a tongue in cheek project that isn't meant to be used in any production system.

I'm pretty sure you can already put emojis in the text fields of postgres. (or at least I'd be surprised if you couldn't)
The title fixer messed it up, I’ve fixed it.
Why should South American companies do business which overseas firms that lie and simply use them to launder their location instead of open up offices in the country which is what they want in exchange, probably to help with economic development?
As an aside, she apparently has a speech impediment, so had to rehearse the delivery quite a bit. There was a quote from her about how hard it was to rehearse that much while not sounding robotic.
Good job guys. Awesome read.

Pretty recently read that Linus was wanting to run Linux on new Macbook Air with M1, but he though it would be too much of a pain in the ass. I imagine we will see it soon.
http://archive.is/mMMcx
I agree. At the same time, the BBC and CGTN fall into materially different categories with respect to editorial independence. So does PBS, for that matter; while they're funded in part by the taxpayer, their coverage of the Trump administration has been anything but subservient, and indeed at times quite critical [0].

Putting these organizations in the same class of media bias seems to erase some important, and measurable, distinctions.

[0] https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/january-6-2021-pbs-newshou...
Predicting the Future of Venture Capital (2018)
Don’t you think that the main reason Canada et al recognized Guaidó, was precisely because he was the Americans’ favoured choice?

You’re really not making the point you think you are making.
Related pull request: https://github.com/bitcoin-core/bitcoincore.org/pull/744
Corellium Ports Linux to Apple M1 Mac Mini
Imagine a curve. On the x-axis is amount of censorship. On the y-axis is opposition. A slippery slope corresponds to a flat part of the curve, where a large increase in censorship causes a small increase in opposition.

Any policy in the middle of the slippery-slope is not stable. Political alliances are easiest to form advocating either side of it.

In this case there are few people who want Trump banned but think banning Venezuela's National Assembly is a step too far.
Architect (singular) and Gelsinger didn't rehire - his move back as CEO was a factor in the individual concerned's decision to rejoin.

Pretty disappointing headline from Anandtech.
Yeah, the only “free speech” Parler allows for that Facebook/Twitter don’t is racist bigotry + insurrectionist content, so I’m pretty much entirely on the side of “wipe them off the web”
Im reading "The Time Patrol" by Paul Anderson. It describes that even if an individual is killed, it's unlikely to matter much because a species is more like a collective DNA wise. They even go hunting in the past, have possible children there, etc. It's only in very specific cases that the time patrol has to step in to make sure that "X" specific significant event happens the way it's "Supposed to"

I haven't finished the book yet though :)
I actually doubt the economic equality argument too cause I think it misses the point.

The truly angering thing is when there's systemic self-dealing in government/big business, which is probably best described as crony capitalism. Too big to fail, etc.

There's something more precise and outside the scope of "economic equality" when we have Pelosi with a fridge stocked with $100 ice cream and nothing to show in Congress in terms of relief while Americans are missing rent payments. I'll use Pelosi as an example cause she's visible but the same argument is easily applied to McConnell and everyone else too.

Cause at the end of the day, Pelosi doesn't really represent industry. There's a world of difference between, say, Amazon and the US govt. I'd trust Musk or Bezos to get me a vaccine or working covid test any day, over the mess we get from the federal govt.

She represents truly useless and asinine government that constrains and leeches off ordinary people. Not only is there historic debt spending, but there's practically nothing to show for when Americans need help the most; what're we paying fortunes for?!
How did LACNIC handle this? There's almost no information in the article except that it took a few months. It seems you're making a judgement based on speculation that there was no due process or investigation just because the article didn't mention it.

But how would krebs even have visibility on internal LACNIC processes?
If you only allowed the speech you didn’t have a problem with, then you wouldn’t need the concept of free speech.

On the other hand I hate all fascists too and they are violent terrorists so there is no point in pondering philosophy for their sake.
When Diversification Backfires
Don't underestimate the amount of propaganda flowing around out here. We're not as bad as reddit, but the general tactic online has been for nation-states to astroturf and gaslight to new extremes.
A. Good joke.

B. I hate how applicable this joke is to my life. Except I'm the friend asking, then has to figure all the shit out because all the people around me with degrees cant tell the difference between their ass and a hole in the ground.
Ah yes, freedom[0] of speech[1].

0: https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20200630/23525844821/parle...

1: https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20200627/23551144803/as-pr...
If you don’t want your IPs revoked, maybe you should follow the local laws and regulations that govern keeping those IPs? Just a thought.
Couple quotes for those that don't enjoy spending hours in the gym:

> “You do not need to do many different exercises to get strong - you need to get strong on a very few important exercises, movements that train the whole body as a system, not as a collection of separate body parts. The problem with the programs advocated by all the national exercise organizations is that they fail to recognize this basic principle: the body best adapts as a whole organism to stress applied to the whole organism. The more stress that can be applied to as much of the body at one time as possible, the more effective and productive the adaptation will be.”

> “There is simply no other exercise, and certainly no machine, that produces the level of central nervous system activity, improved balance and coordination, skeletal loading and bone density enhancement, muscular stimulation and growth, connective tissue stress and strength, psychological demand and toughness, and overall systemic conditioning than the correctly performed full squat.”

― Mark Rippetoe, Starting Strength: Basic Barbell Training
From the article:

> I subscribe to the Dropbox Tech Blog and now it clicked: You are compressing the files on the client with "Brotli", save bandwidth, storage space and money on your side, make it in theory faster to download (because no recompression has to take place), but this whole concept just crashes under its own overengineered weight! You named this "Broccoli: Syncing faster by syncing less" and state your "zero-crash policy" ... well i can make it crash 3 or 4 times a day.

1. Is what this person is saying about compression true? Not sure how they'd be compressing files "on the client" when it's sitting in my ext file system (perhaps I'm misunderstanding something here).

2. I've personally never had any issues of the sort, and I'd consider myself a relatively heavy Dropbox user. Has anyone else experienced this constant crashing?
As far as anyone knows, catnip is completely nontoxic to cats, but ethanol certainly is toxic. Cats also simply don't like the smell of alcohol.

Eating very large quantities of catnip can give them gastrointestinal discomfort though.
I use buttons in VR all the time?
How can technical and vocational education help with future pandemics?
I'd be thrilled to hear how the energy consumption under Linux would compare to native Big Sur - obviously with the M1 Macbook Pros in mind.
It’s interesting to see the kinds of mental gymnastics these threads attract from folks seeking to defend their favourite nazi site.

LACNIC really fucked up by enforcing their rules that require you to actually be doing business in Latin America, how horrible!
You can read it on a boat;
You can read it with a goat;
You can read it in the rain;
You can read it on a train;
You can read it in a box;
You can read it with a fox;
You can read it in a house;
You can read it with a mouse;
You can read it here or there;
You can read it anywhere!
Dangerous speech isn't free.
LACNIC did their own investigation and found out they didn't have any physical presence in Belize.

> However, none of the company’s employees are listed as based in Belize, and DDoS-Guard makes no mention of the Latin American region in its map of global operations.
That doesn't seem to match reality, where you have some men living past 100+ years. But I'm not a doctor so...
Curl or PSCouchDB?
> Still think generics are static typists admitting the shortcomings of a type system, without actually doing so, though.

Wait, what? Any static type person will readily say that type systems have shortcomings (though I'd probably prefer limits or limitations as a word with fewer negative connotations). It's just a matter of which limitations.
How to time it for the climax at 9:21pm?
In this case, the researchers admit and indicate they are doing multiple tests, but have not then done a multiple testing correction.

That's not even really a "p-hack" (where you hide that you have done multiple tests, in order to avoid a multiple testing correction and to report only the positive results): it's simply a p-mistake.

What they have said is statistically incorrect, judged on its own merits. Their conclusion is not supported by the research they have done.
No, one does not block another...but there are only 24 hours in a day.

Well, the symbol folks actually do block change. As you say, there are only 24 hours in a day, but it gets worse when dealing with politicians and their schedules. If they can be seen as doing something by doing a low-cost thing, it is do and move on to the next thing. When actual action is demanded, it is a time consuming thing. Bills are hard work even with a staff.

The path to change is attention of politicians to writing bills to address the root problem. PR looks exactly like change but is much cheaper and often removes the problem from sight.
Not quite.

> DDoS-Guard CEO Evgeniy Marchenko maintains the company has done nothing wrong, and that DDoS-Guard does indeed have a presence in Belize.

So they acted without any investigation because "uh oh, here comes the mob".
Advertisements have emerged on Substack's 'ad-free' newsletter platform
I was replying to "millions lost their jobs" as a reason for turning to violent crime.
It appears INTC is serious about correcting the wrongs and doing it right. I’d be worried if I am Lisa Su at AMD.
That's not quite the whole picture. Several industrial compilers for languages used by people for work are made by people who recognize that tooling is important. So the compiler is also a service or set of services with (depending on how you think about it) a database of information to query. It significantly increases the scope of the compiler and adds another dimension of performance and reliability to the system. For example, it may be a good idea to allocate a bunch of memory up front as a part of batch compilation to process some stuff. In a tooling scenario that can be a bad idea unless that large allocation routine is done in a way that the memory is pooled for the many, many requests it's going to get over its lifetime.
> Need to lose section 230 protection then. Can't be an editorial and have liability protection.

The entire point of section 230 is to enable editorial control so long as you aren't the content creator/submitter without the kinds of civil liability tied to “publisher” status otherwise, for both platforms and users on those platforms who are empowered to act in ways which have editorial impact.

And a one-sentence “you can't do X and Y” isn't really a substantive argument against Section 230.
It's just a static framebuffer that on the real MacOS is likely used for nothing more than a boot logo. All the graphics are software rendering.
Also went to Herrang, though it was after he passed. I was fortunate enough to meet and take a class with him at Pasadena Ballroom Dance Association (the sisters who brought him out of retirement)

:wave:
> Is it possible to bring fringe groups back into the fold of peaceful civil discourse

It's not really "fringe" groups that are the issue here; it's "extreme" groups - no-one is calling for the flat earthers to be deplatformed, for example.

> Does censorship, even if justified, fuel anger and distrust

Probably but I'd guess only among the people who are already inclined that way already.

> the population must always have their speech regulated

If you put "some of" after "have", it's the situation we already have.
Both apt and yum support installing to whatever directory you like as long as you have write permissions there.
All trading losses can be explained as losing traders not understanding and properly accounting for the risk of their strategy.

It is a safe bet that most retail traders are not at all systematic in their trading or use poor systems, which are moral equivalents in this world.

A good trader looks for arbitrage opportunities, or failing to find any, takes calculated risks.

In bubbling markets, FOMO makes people risk-seeking as opposed to risk neutral. They overpay for risk, the volatility becomes a selling point. The bet works out for some, but most will be burned. It is basic statistics.
> “It appeared to me that it was more probable than not that they got these 8,000+ IPv4 addresses by simply creating an arguably fraudulent shell company in Belize and then going cap in hand to LACNIC, claiming that they had a real presence in the Latin & South American region, and then asking for 8,000+ IPv4 addresses,” he said. “So I reported my suspicions to the LACNIC authorities in early November, and as I have only just recently learned, the LACNIC authorities followed up diligently on my report and, it seems, verified my suspicions.”

> In a detailed report released today (PDF), AFRNIC said its investigation revealed more than 2.3 million IPv4 addresses were “without any lawful authority, misappropriated from AFRINIC’s pool of resources and attributed to organizations without any justification.”

I'm not sure this qualifies as a "legal product". Seems to be lacking legality.
Yep! I was Los Angeles based but traveled (including Herrang) and SF area now.
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Rust is a bit notorious for its string-related complexity, and that's for the reasons you talked about.

The most common form of string you'll see is `String`[0], or its view type `str`[1], which are UTF-8 encoded. These have most of the string functions you'd expect to have.

Of course, as you mentioned, operating systems don't all use UTF-8, which brings us to `OsString`[2], and its view type `OsStr`[3]. This is the data type that string data from the OS is represented as. Both are basically bundles of bytes, with no specific encoding. You'll note that these are in the FFI namespace.

You then have `PathBuf`[4] and its view type `Path`[5], which are wrappers around `OsString` and `OsStr` respectively, and provide path-specific functionality.

All the file system related APIs take anything that implements `AsRef<Path>`, which is runtime-cost-free for all of these types. There's not many functions that take an `OsStr`, but those that do take it in the form `AsRef<OsStr>`, which like `Path` is runtime-cost-free for all these types. None of the APIs take `PathBuf` or `OsString`.

Return values are typically `PathBuf` for file system APIs, and `OsString` for other APIs. The only exceptions I know of are the functions for getting environment variables and command line arguments, which also provide functions that return `String` because a common use case would be converting them anyway.

[0] https://doc.rust-lang.org/std/string/struct.String.html

[1] https://doc.rust-lang.org/std/primitive.str.html

[2] https://doc.rust-lang.org/std/ffi/struct.OsString.html

[3] https://doc.rust-lang.org/std/ffi/struct.OsStr.html

[4] https://doc.rust-lang.org/std/path/struct.PathBuf.html

[5] https://doc.rust-lang.org/std/path/struct.Path.html
That was my initial reaction as well, but I'd like to hear some more explanation.
Presumably any company actually following the rules and having a physical presence in SA would still be happy to do business in SA? If you don't have a physical presence there, you shouldn't trust LACNIC to keep your IP assignments, but that's a feature.
I wasn't making a point. I was stating a fact.
Can we use interstellar hydrogen as a fuel for interstellar travel? (2014)
I'm well aware of what speech is and is not legal under US law. Parler's TOS are inline with US law.
If you have spinning drives, monitor the (raw) sector count stats. Add together reallocated sectors, uncorrectable and offline uncorrectable.

If you have good operations, replace when convenient after it hits 100. If you have poor operations (like in home use, with no backups and only ocassional SMART checks) replace if it hits 10 and try to run a full SMART surface scan before using a new drive.

For SSDs, good luck, I haven't seen prefailure indicators.
A swiss army tool for a font designer
NAD, but male. That's bad advice. Prostate cancer found in old men is likely to go untreated, but certainly not younger men.

Your bf should switch Dr's.
Deplatforming is a freedom of association issue.
How does this compare with parser combinators?
I'm not sure, I never thought I'd get this far.

Wanna say a Fire Tablet, for irony?
Yeah, only a few years late. Seems like a pretty fraudulent claim.
The American Fighter Pilots in China During WW2
> anyone we label violent extremists should be completely and utterly deplatformed

They've labeled themselves, though, by espousing violent extremist views.
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The real winner here is Gab. Their platform is extremely well built, and the UI is comparable to (arguably better than) Twitter's. Gab has staying power (completely self hosted with the exception of cloudflare ddos protection) and a lot of user funding.
Lemme see... 3 divided by 8 is 0.375, or 375K... In two seconds that equals 750K of data.

Yep, the math checks out!
> What point are you making?

That if you're worried about the harmful effects of guns, don't discount suicide just because those people aren't harming you.
> It'd be like "each time the neural net achieved AGI, the humans tore it down to refocus on the real goal, bombproof traffic sign recognition".

Except that if the entity who's running the simulation is itself AGI, it really does not have interest in discovering yet another AGI in its own simulation.
I find this point weak because we literally study ants and sell ant colonies for interested parties
> and no, none of know why it was named "Aqua"... our codebase is old.

The macOS UI is called Aqua, and has been for quite a while!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aqua_(user_interface)