skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
To improve airline performance and reduce customer anxiety, align the incentives:

Automatic partial ticket refund based on when the flight actually arrives versus the published arrival time. Sure, there are factors beyond an airline's control; but an airline, far better than random passengers, is in a financial position to model the risks and hedge against them appropriately.

Automatic full ticket refund if the passenger doesn't receive a published amount of legroom and width. Oh, the airline would rather sell the same spaces to 2 people, hoping they will work it out and fit? Sure, but then only collect money from one of them, not both.

Automatic partial ticket refund if the luggage isn't at the carousel within N minutes of arrival. Thus an incentive to keep a few more baggage handlers on shift, making their work more better also.
patients also had a "higher self-reported mental and physical health"

I think that's a heck of an important thing to mention here. Costs didn't change much, but health was improved.
Isn't this the 22nd year of the 21st century? :)
I think some of the point is that the government does not want people to simply put stimulus checks in their bank. They want people out spending it on as many small businesses as possible. We did not get stimulus funds and that is fine as if we had, it would have just gone into our bank account and sat there with the rest of our savings.

I appreciate a debt card makes it a challenge to convert the stimulus into a rent or car payment, but for almost everything else it seems like a good way to spread the aid around.

Hopefully people were able to offset their checking account spending by paying for the things you could pay for with the debit card.
I'm starting to think that the degeneration of society into a 1984-style dystopia may now be unavoidable. We need to take power back from big tech and we need to do it now.
It's a very interesting point that I hadn't noticed before. Of course, this relies on assuming (believing?) the universe is a giant simulation run on a computer with limited resources.

I did not get your last sentence though. Could you elaborate?
I wouldn't be so quick to retract: According to that wikipedia link, while costs may not have changed much, mental & physical health were improved. Essentially, the cost per-unit of overall patient wellbeing was decreased because costs remained the same while patient care increased.
Can you provide a source? Thank you.
I like William Gibsons version of interactions with the past, as featured in The Peripheral.

Since no-one altered our past we can't be in a timeline where people from the future had influence on the outcome. Therefore any timelines after the point of contact run parallel to ours and we cannot change our own present by traveling back in time.

Interesting to imagine the different "solutions" to the paradox though.
I just bought threema out of the blue and to see how many of my friends are using it (and make themselves be found).
I'd say 10% of my contacts, mostly tech-savvy, are there already and no need to convince anyone.
From your link:

"The fiber optical link would then be used by the crew to verify the target, confirm the intercept and perform battle damage assessment."

This thing is literally dragging a fiber optic cable behind it, with a sensor package that is apparently left behind at the sea surface when the missile transits into the air, that allows the submarine to see the helicopter target before and after missile impact, and to abort the missile strike if necessary.
> and we were appalled thinking this won't ever happen again,

Abu Ghraib, Bosnia, Guantanamo
A low repetition thump is not the same as a low frequency sound.

A thump can be a pulse of high frequency sound.
> got a light?
zsh: no matches found: light?
AFAICT, the planes AN-1 planes might as well not either; the article doesn't mention landing at all.
So, it's a mess to navigate, but in general at the beginning of the RFC you have a list of other documents that update or obsolete it, and also list of documents updated or obsoleted by it.

As an example: https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc6126. The document starts with "Updated by: 7298, 7557".

Regarding HTTP, if you pass by the wikipedia article, you have the list of RFC on the menu on the right: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypertext_Transfer_Protocol.

RFC 1945 HTTP/1.0 (1996)

RFC 2616 HTTP/1.1 (1999)

RFC 7540 HTTP/2 (2015)

RFC 7541 Header Compression (2, 2015)

RFC 7230 Message Syntax and Routing (1.1, 2014)

RFC 7231 Semantics and Content (1.1, 2014)

RFC 7232 Conditional Requests (1.1, 2014)

RFC 7233 Range Requests (1.1, 2014)

RFC 7234 Caching (1.1, 2014)

RFC 7235 Authentication (1.1, 2014)
I guess mRuby missed the train again.
Programmers and computer scientists tend, in my experience, go for what is sometimes called Ha-Ha-Only-Serious (“HHOS”) type jokes. Meaning, statements that are true, but so piercing that they also are humorous.

In this vein, I can recommend the book The Tao of Programming by Geoffrey James. There are also collections of funny anecdotes like “COMPUTER-RELATED HORROR STORIES, FOLKLORE, AND ANECDOTES”¹, “Computer Stupidities”² and the pre-MacOS X Macintosh-related collection of “folklore”³. There is also the classic “AI koans” collection⁴.

If what you want is something more like a personal biography (like the classic Feynman books), I can suggest The Network Revolution: Confessions of a Computer Scientist⁵.

1. https://www.cs.earlham.edu/~skylar/humor/Unix/computer.folkl...

2. http://www.rinkworks.com/stupid/

3. https://www.folklore.org/

4. http://www.catb.org/~esr/jargon/html/koans.html

5. https://books.google.com/books?id=6f8VqnZaPQwC
Wikipedia's definition also describes it in terms of who owns the means of production and what motivates production.
Finding a man in a remote Gambian village with only his first name
Something I didn’t realize until recently is that the decision to force all passengers to wear a mask throughout the flight was not made by the airlines, but by the flight attendants union. Everything you hear is that the airplane is the safest, most sanitized, place to be, but yet we have to wear a mask. Some airlines have also chosen to block off the middle seat, but that didn’t last long. On my recent flight from San Diego to Seattle all the seats were full.
I do love the simplicity of Go's UTF-8[0] approach, though this did also burn me when I was first learning the language and did not really understand the implication of it.

I translated an x-face encoder from js to go for one of my introductory projects and initially couldn't get the correct output from `b64.StdEncoding.EncodeToString` due to the fact that x-face strings are single-byte ASCII ISO-8859-1 encoded[1].

[0]: https://blog.golang.org/strings

[1]: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/43461679/escaping-of-hex...
DevKinsta runs based on Docker (Docker app and not VirtualBox + DockerMachine). This approach will probably be more scalable and extendable in the future. There is also an integrated inbox in the app. So the user doesn't need to setup manually Mailhog.
Also, Linux is going to be supported in the future.
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The joke's context is Genesis chapters 1-2, so it wouldn't make sense to include a lawyer. Satan only shows up in chapter 3.
Taking the Initiative
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This is a new type of money that is going to play a crucial role at the intersection of money and government. It is not a different level. It is exactly her level. It may be several years or even a generation, but people in jobs like her will eventually need to understand and incorporate cutting-edge cryptocurrencies and other decentralized technologies or those governments will simply be completely obsoleted.

The lack of understanding and integration now means that current governments are obsolescent.
I don't know what grayed-out text means on HN, but I hope it isn't flagged. This is an interesting response and pretty much sums up how many people are feeling. No, it isn't empirical data. No, it doesn't pass a 'sniff test'. But it is honest, and the state of Covid information is absolutely spot-on (Covid debate at my house! Bring your own data points!).

Lockdowns may work. They may not. Nobody has a clue, despite all the studies, due to so many confounding factors and ways and means of measurement.
Employers are currently liable if workers get covid on the job. Its one of the things Trump wanted to get out of in the last relief package. If they're liable it makes sense employers can enforce vaccine.
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I think threema is a great product and at the same time a core reason why they haven't grown bigger yet is because they don't experiment enough with pricing models. Successful apps I know offer some standard functionality for free, get users to use the app and then offer additional functionality that a certain amount of people will buy after they have fallen in love with the product. There is no chance competing with all the free messengers otherwise.
Unless every single civilization out there is made up of inert sand particles, that's not a solution for why we don't see anyone. You're right of course that we tend to assume somewhat similar properties to ourselves, because that's what we know, and we tend to assume that we're at least in some ways "normal" - or at least not unique.

> with no physical artifacts of "civilisation"

I would not be surprised if there are quite a few intelligent organisms out there that are not tool users. Earth itself has a few, as well. These would potentially make great candidates for a visit, if we could detect their biome from afar.

> just not at the pace and scale we are accustomed to

I don't disagree that these are probably out there. But that's not the same as asserting that every single culture besides our own is on a completely different and imperceptible scale than us. We'd expect at least some organisms to build tools that we can detect, that is unless we're one of the first civilizations in the universe. Another solution would be that FTL travel is possible and/or thermodynamics can be at least partially circumvented, but even if such techology existed, it would have to be ubiquitous in order to explain why we don't see anyone.
You don't get to tell me what and how I do things in my home, I'm sorry.
I don't get the idea of requiring people to take vaccines. If people don't want to catch the thing, then they take the vaccine. However, taking the vaccine does little to prevent others catching the vaccine unless you go for a draconian 'everyone must vaccinate' measure. But then we are back to 'if you don't want the thing then vaccinate'. The logic doesn't make a lot of sense to me.

Note: I am not an antivaxer. I think vaccines are great, and it is a good idea for people to take them, just like working out and eating healthy. I just don't understand the logic behind mandatory vaccinations to protect other people. It doesn't make sense to me when people believe others not taking a vaccine is somehow a significant threat to them.
And I am not saying the logic is incorrect, merely that I do not understand the logic.
Theres a few species classified as endangered ants on the IUCN Red List.

However didn't aliens crush humanity to make space for a Intergalactic Super Highway in Hithchikers Guide to the Galaxy? We aren't even endangered according to those ruling fictional aliens who epitomise the "not interested in humanity" aspect.
I was under the impression that Firefox doesn’t not support PWAs, so much that the feature request was even closed?

Has something changed? Last time I tried, it could not create dedicated dock items like Chrome.
Surprised that survival analysis wasn't mentioned anywhere. Cox regression would have been my go-to approach.
We have tired old arguments in the US about mandate versus incentive. They're two schools of thought and I'm not really sure which is better, when given maximal effort.

Consider this map: https://www.fcc.gov/health/maps

You can mandate that the internet become a utility, much how water can be a private utility, and tell a company that for every segment they get in a popular area, where they'll make money, they must establish presence in an area where they'll lose money in the name of service. There's also price approval activity and probably some subsidizing that happens there. This certainly might work.

The other is for incentives to be drawn and invested in routinely that draw providers to less populated areas. These would have to be monetary, and you might be able to reason their subsidies look much like agricultural subsidies.

Another argument is wireline providers are just not sufficient for scale in the more rural areas. 5G won't work because coverage is abysmal. Starlink and other engineering solutions may be appropriate.

I don't really care how it's done, but being out here has made me realize exactly how awful this problem is.
Netflix's customers are users, not vendors. Just because the vendor doesn't care, doesn't mean the vendor's users don't care. In fact, the vendor and the vendor's users may well have competing interests.
Are workers even able to get a vaccine any time soon? Right now it seems only healthcare workers and >65s are eligible.
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Office 365 is a subscription service. With it you get a rolling release of Office.

I rebooted the whole PC - not sure if the Wine layer specifically would have been sufficient.
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Changed the title a little, hard to get it right :)
I have four 'siberian' breed cats and two in the past. none of them have responded to catnip even one bit.
I felt a bit crappy after my first. My colleague said it was much worse for them after the second. All anecdotal of course.
I think you’re right, but given the topic of the article, I had assumed “ports of call”.
On a related note, the shipping costs have spiked around the world (approximately it is thrice as expensive to have an item shipped from China, today, than it was in May 2020).

Some color in this article from Barron's:
https://www.barrons.com/articles/shipping-rates-are-soaring-...
I know about Microsoft's Tay. I assume that's what you're referring to, for the US example. Which bot was trained on the Chinese internet?
#MeToo always felt awkward and not well thought out.
Ah yes, what would amateur radio be if my name and address weren't published for all to see.

No, I don't care about ham, I care about the many other things you need a ham license for, such as flying drones in some configurations. I never said any of this was an accident, and the cryto stuff is absolutely cold war legacy bs.
I'm not saying I agree with him, but I'm on a 15Mb down 2Mb up cable modem, and everyone's experience got a lot better once I got an OpenWRT-capable router and turned on Smart Queue Management. I frequently have two Rokus streaming 1080p, two laptops on youtube and an old machine in the basement running torrents, plus my phones connected to a PBX hundreds of miles away, and no one complains that their videos hang or their phone calls stutter (that was the real problem before, poor-quality phone calls).

I don't honestly understand how it works, but it's amazing[0]. I'm okay with the packet loss in that graph, because I think that's how traffic control does its job?

[0]https://imgur.com/a/1vDAtyR
There is a HAML connection (https://faq.treenotation.org/#how-was-tree-notation-discover...)
The equivalent metaphor is autonomous vehicles. It would be as if a transportation secretary's only comment about self-driving cars was that they were dangerous.
Sure, but that does not apply to the case we're discussing - which is a government paying clinics for procedures. You could substitute "a billionaire philanthropist" for "a government" and the outcome would be exactly the same.

Now if you want to talk free markets in general, then I want to point out that in the real world, a free market cannot thrive without some sort of government that ensures social stability and enforces contracts. Without such government, the market would quickly degenerate into trading violence alongside currency, and either disintegrate or... end up producing a government. Ultimately, "private enterprise" and "public governance" don't have a clear boundary between them - they're two modes of the same phenomenon, people negotiating with each other.
Thank you, I wasn't familiar with Ellis. What a delightful chap!
I spent two and a half years on one.

No it is not.
What for blocking the Chinese embassy? Nah, they should have done this ages ago.

I think Twitter is even firewalled from the PRC, so why they let PRC propaganda propagate on their servers is beyond me.
>You really think these limitations are so overwhelming that practically no civilization could expand exponentially?

Yes, including the set of all civilizations that chose not to continue to expand exponentially as well as those that tried and eventually failed, due to any number of factors.

I think interstellar expansion (to say nothing of infinite exponential expansion) turns out to be just that hard and, for the relatively few civilizations that may actually advance to the point of even being capable of considering the effort, not worth the effort.
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is the threat of punishment for wrongdoing not enough?
What did the girl function say to the boy function?

I just don't see this recursion going anywhere, we keep having the same arguments. Please don't call me anymore.
Electric megaphones amplify sound. Acoustic megaphones direct sounds, much like what the article describes.
> They say they used the U.K. biobank, but otherwise do not tell how they selected upon “European ancestry" in that bank.

The UK Biobank study is linked (and also has its own wikipedia page in any case).

This is simply how science research works. They are not repeating the information given in the source.
The programmer sets two cups on his nightstand, one full of water in case he gets thirsty, the other empty, in case he doesn't.
The sound quality for phone calls is fantastic - I prefer Threema calls over regular mobile phone calls because they are just so much clearer. (Provided one has a stable Internet connection, of course.)
I hear you, I just don't think it's as common to hire a team of bodyguards as media portrays it to be, and yeah I generally do think the only reason Bezos remains safe is because nobody has earnestly tried, not because he's got some hyper-sophisticated security apparatus at his command (and even if he did, I still think it's largely theater, and a person who actually manages to get a gun in proximity of Bezos/any person generally won't have much of a problem using it at that point). People just aren't looking to kill one another, generally, even the more polarizing people.

But message received -- Jack Ma probably would have a team of bodyguards, and the people who could get past that probably wouldn't need to manipulate markets using his appearance on a conference call to make money.

I was wrong, I see that now!
Joe Shmoe's name and home address are published for everyone to see. To some people that is an insurmountable barrier to entry.
I don't know if you're wrong, but this is not evidence. As long as the Chinese embassy can put out press releases on their own platform, they're not being silenced. If anything, we need to break everyone's ridiculous dependency on a handful of platforms, not the platforms themselves.
It doesn't look like wifi or bluetooth is onboard. The ESP32 has similar I/O, RAM, and includes a wifi/bluetooth chip.
funny stuff. got the Nodejs (single threaded) and Erlang (message passing) jokes but not familiar with Haskell.. whats joke there ...
> That's not entirely true though. Press voice call in a client and you may end up with an embedded jitsi, some WebRTC thing, or nothing at all. That's exactly how xmpp clients started to diversify.

This really isn't an example of protocol fragmentation - it's behaving precisely as expected.

There is precisely one way to do a 1:1 VoIP/Video call in Matrix: https://matrix.org/docs/spec/client_server/r0.6.1#voice-over.... It hasn't actually changed since 2015 when we first added it to the spec, until recently when there's a proposal to improve it called MSC2746: https://github.com/matrix-org/matrix-doc/blob/dbkr/msc2746/p.... Now, this is a proposal to patch the spec - it's a Matrix Spec Change. It retains backwards compatibility with the current behaviour, and once the MSC is approved it'll be merged into the spec and the MSC will be discarded.

There is precisely one way currently to do VoIP/Video conferences in Matrix: you instantiate a 'widget', to embed whatever web conferencing service you like into your chat room (e.g. Jitsi). You use the widget API to control it. Widgets aren't actually merged into the spec yet, but are specified at MSC1236 (https://github.com/matrix-org/matrix-doc/issues/1236), which should get reviewed and merged in real soon now. So, as long as your client implements widgets, you can do conferences. In future, we have plans for native Matrix conferences (MSC2359), but this is vapourware.

Finally, if your client doesn't implement 1:1 and doesn't implement widgets (or if your don't have permission to perform them in that room) then obviously hitting the call button won't work. But that's hardly fragmentation; it's just incomplete implementations.

Now, if there were multiple competing ways of doing 1:1 calls, or of doing conferences flying around, I'd totally agree we were seeing XMPP-style fragmentation. But we're not, and if we did, we'd see that as a massive bug and jump on it to resolve the fork in the Matrix Spec Core Team, and ensure that matrix.org/docs/spec resolved the collision asap.

> Every time Matrix comes up, someone mentions xmpp and immediately the flinging starts about how broken it is and how those developers let it slide into obscurity.

Perhaps, but that's not me or the Matrix core team doing that (well, other than back in the very early days when I was still feeling a bit salty about XMPP). We can't control what randoms on the internet say though :|
Most rigs don't receive large amounts of visitors either so the high cost and low volume of helicopter rides makes sense. A rig working as a rocket port needs to move more people through it so the economics of figuring out a dock makes more sense.

Also they have the tech with actively stabilized gangplanks to make the link between the more stable rig and the docks.
CurrencyCloud might be another good option. https://www.currencycloud.com/

Disclosure: We (Apollo Agriculture) share an investor with them, so I've met a couple of their folks at social events.
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Great to see this here, I only got to meet Frankie once. Wish I were older so I could have learned from him more.
having worked for multiple dod contractors that did prototypes, lots.

Sad part is lots of the good ideas get culled when some head honcho doesn't like the dpt. it came from, or where the funding came from, because politics.

Lot of warfighters/ppl who are actually going to use the systems/products give us good feedback and then some O-6 comes on and doesn't like it or doesn't understand it.
Smart people tend to overthink things, i.e. looking for exercises that isolate smaller muscles. If you have neck, back, or posture issues the chances are you will benefit greatly from just lifting weights. Before I started training I had terrible back pains and spontaneous spasms in the neck, which went away within weeks of regular training. Moreover, if I ever miss training for too long the pain returns. Focus on building up the strength to do respectable weight on the main compound lifts. Your body will thank you.