skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Uh, every airline I know sells round trip tickets at least a day apart. A considerable portion of their business is short, business trips. It is unreasonable for a service to have an SLA that allows outages larger than the duration of the service.

Sure weather is hard to predict but it is good enough to alert you the 3-4 hours before your flight so you would know prior to arriving at the airport. Computer systems can be made fully redundant, etc.

I agree that it's pointless to expect customer service to handle the load during these crisis precisely because these events should either be one per decade type events or at least be handled in a planned, graceful manner.

What would that look like? For every flight let customers at least check what the probability of delay/cancelation is - the airlines certainly have a number.

When a flight is canceled; book first and business class on alternative airlines/flights. Let economy/other customer's select alternative flight or request refund via zero human/robocall interaction process. If more than 50% of the flight's capacity has already checked in then alternative lodging should be mandatory and meals should be provided.

It's painfully obvious that the airlines know that as long as all of them provide terrible service then none of then will be expected too.
> What are all of these gains in productivity supposed to be for?

For the shareholders, of course.
> How exactly do you shorten trails

You do not go all the way in.

Or pick shorter trails.

Or allow more time.

> race courses?

You may do less lapses.

Or pick a different (shorter) race.
> Knocking off at lunchtime on a Friday, leaving at 3 or 4pm, etc. The only people I've seen working a full 40 hours in Australian companies are the people who own the company, and foreigners.

Are you implying that this is a bad thing? Having time to actually enjoy life seems to be very underappreciated here.
> 100 - (600000/350 million) = 99.9982857143% survival rate

Right... so that's how many people are still alive right now with most people never getting infected, many still hospitalized, vaccinations, mitigation measures, etc., etc.

Disease survival rates are computed based on how many people survive long term as a percentage of people who develop the disease.

But you knew that.

What's amazing though is your case for NOT doing a thing is based on stats that are optimistic even if one DOES do the thing.

Go ahead and compute the mortality numbers if everyone in the country gets infected. Then compute the rates of people who need long term medical care. Take a look at those numbers and then figure out how you make a society function under those circumstances.

> Most of what you said is false information and the idea of a 'having my bell rung' appears to be a subtle violent threat!

It was not a threat. It was a reference to pre-existing "critical thinking bells" in your brain. It was a subtle implication that perhaps you weren't thinking straight because you'd been hit in the head, and that was the bells ringing in your head. Clearly I didn't phrase it well.

I'm sure you feel that I'm wrong about everything. It's even possible I am wrong. Consider the possibility that you might be wrong; I mean, you were wrong about the "having your bell rung", so anything is possible right?
I've seen lots of people follow what I think are stupid things. You think national healthcare is a good idea, I don't. (I think we went wrong by making health insurance come from your job, and all the things you hate about our system are a result ofthe current system being good for the employers)
ISPs should be run by governments, just like other utilities are or should be. Market forces don't make better infrastructure.
So...not out of the box.
I would say underwhelming.
> still find it funny that you would defend a particular decade in the early noughts

If I came across that way, it was unintentional.

I appreciate the counterpoints to my comments, especially the thoughtful ones like yours. I think I don't really come to HN to convince anybody else of my opinion, but rather to convince myself that I have given my position a decent amount of consideration. The more I have to defend my thoughts, the clearer they become. To me, at least ;-)

For policy, I think we should make data PI data collection transparent to the targeted person. Just like I have the legal right to see collected information in my credit file, I think that legislation should be expanded so that it applies to other forms of data collected about citizens by private companies. Everything from Best Buy's contract with a private company that keeps a 'refund score' (I don't recall what it is actually called specifically) on each customer which it then uses to determine whether or not to reject their product return, to this kind of 'public' data collection Google is engaging in. In some ways the horse has already left the barn, and there is already a serious amount of data which has been collected, but I hope that before it gets used for nefarious reasons we can figure out how to muzzle it. We need a clear definition of what constitutes my data, and public data, which is adapted for modern technology.
From a symptoms and virology standpoint, COVID-19 is closer to being like a really really bad cold. Several of the people I know who had it literally used those words to describe their experience. Several other endemic human coronaviruses also cause colds.
Yes but who knows about that?

Flight got cancelled? Send me a text, email, whatever. They have all of my information. Text me a link.

The reality is that they don't do that because they'd lose money this way. It's best to underprovide so people who don't want to wait just go elsewhere.

When covid hit last year I had to spend literally hours on the phone trying to cancel/rebook because Alitalia did not allow this online. The low-cost EasyJet instead *sent me an email* with a link to get a refund. It's easy. Nobody had to wait for disaster to hit to think of a solution.

These are just (anti-user) choices that companies make to save money. Some users will still call, but much fewer.
While growing up in India I knew some Parsi families - they are good at business, ethical and charitable. The Tata Group in India founded by Parsis , a 150 year old business conglomerate- is well respected and known for their philanthropy.
Where is the 50% number? Or are you linking to a random paper? (i.e. not the source for the claim)
I will add, it probably isn't the ideal device to learn how to sketch, because it isn't as expressive via pressure as normal pencils, or able to do different levels of shading, but at least I am trying now.
This is the sort of project that the "old" internet was best at. I miss these kind of things, so much.
Fine, then subjectivity I conclude they are liars. Since you don't accept objective facts you have to agree I'm right for me and we are done.
Ask HN: Thoughts on Salaries Posted on TeamBlind?
What are your thoughts on salaries posted on TeamBlind? How many of those are real?

The whole website content has strong negative connotations. I found that everyone is just asking TC which I imagine stand for total compensation? I don't understand point of knowing TC in each post.

Also, overall it appears that site is flooded by trolls, people from asian countries, and fake posters.

Have you seen salaries this high offered for real? What are your thoughts on salary data posted there and TeamBlind overall?
In my experience, especially when you've paid $10/fancy pencil.
> get customer service from many of these monopolies, you'll see plenty of consumers falling through the cracks

That's true of many non-monopolies too. And Amazon is widely known to have pretty good service. Conversely, no cellular company has ever had a monopoly in the US but a number of them are famed for poor customer service.
To add onto that, if we manufactured more here, it might raise the price of goods, but if those goods are of higher quality and they last longer it might be better for the consumer in the long run. You might even extend this to looking at the environmental wins of having better wuality products that stay out of the landfill.
Punishing felons is not going to directly make people feel safe. At best it serves as indirect deterrence for future crimes.

But much more effective ways of deterring crime are 1) pre-crime deterrence, like cctv, police patrol, etc; and 2) not letting crimes get away, and recidivism.
Could you not have both?

I'm not certain how mail-in ballots are counted currently, but it is certainly possible to have the ballots be in a sleeve, and the ballot itself only be exposed to the machine reading it. Put the ballot 'inserters' under camera if needed. It seems like a simple problem to solve.

Another commenter mentioned that a real issue is that the counting of ballots isn't transparent, which is true. When I vote, all I know is that the ballot scanner increments its 'scanned ballot' count. I can't verify that it actually voted for who I voted for, and they're closed source, so I have to rely on someone else's word that they are.

Maybe this is finally a use for blockchain? lol
It's not like she was dragged in off the street. She's an associate professor at Columbia Law.
Houses can indeed be landmarks. Why are you equating landmarks to surveillance. That makes zero sense. No one is surveilling you through your WiFi SSID.
> There is no such thing. I have no problem finding the SSID for "hidden" networks.

Yes I meant hidden networks, and I didn't know they were discoverable. Really? Why are are they called hidden then?

> The existence of the aggregated data on me is itself the risk, itself the violation of privacy

Yes it is a risk, but it is not in itself a violation of privacy. I think you are conflating secrecy and privacy a bit here.

You parents or close family posses a lot of private information about you and the very act of possession is not violation of privacy (but it does pose a risk that you have to live with, hoping and expecting they will respect your privacy).

Violation of privacy occurs at the moment this information is used in a way you would not approve.

Anonymity - you do not know about me
Secrecy - I do not want to share information with you
Privacy - I am OK to share my information with you and I trust you to not use it in a way that I would not approve of
if dolphins are at all Earth creatures. I mean it is quite possible that they are just avatar-style alien vacations.
When AI becomes child's play
In theory in the U.S. you are not found innocent-- the charges just weren't proven beyond a reasonable doubt by the prosecution.

In theory the jury could think you are a murderer, but they had a "reasonable doubt" so voted not guilty.
> 660 Third Street

> San Francisco, CA 94107

A local company.
So, say I were to attempt to swap out React for Vue 3, how difficult would it be? How tightly coupled is React?
In this particular case, one of the shooters was still at large. Do you not think the public has a right to information about a dangerous, armed fugitive who may be in their midst? I do.

Take the Boston Marathon bombers. Should the press have remained mum on the identities of the suspects? Now, I'm not saying that these situations are perfectly analogous, but surely you agree that, at some point, the press has an obligation to report imminent danger to the public,no? The question is, where is the line (or is there one at all)? I would argue that the press is duty bound to report just the facts, and all of the facts.
Sir Tim Berners-Lee to Auction the Source Code for the World Wide Web as an NFT
yeah they're nasty pieces of work sometimes as well. They slaughter wildly in chicken coop's. they often kill and eat just the tail and tongue of lambs in sheeping communities.

but I can't help but love how sleek and beautiful they are, the noises they make and their playful natures.
He's only 50. For reference, John Mayer is like 44.
Blackmail is an easy reach.
I just noticed that the author wasn't using the AirPods Pro / Max which Spacial Audio was designed in tandem with. No wonder they didn't find it impressive and are calling it a scam.

TBH, I'm sad I wasted my time reading such an uninformed opinion piece.
To play the DEI's advocate I'll call this sexism.
Love what you're doing! Happy to hear you have component libraries in your plans. I'd love to see this integrated with storybook
Everything in BotW has that formulaic/modular/cookie-cutter feel that a Bethesda game does. None of the side quests particularly stood out to me, whereas I’ll frequently recall hidden gem areas in OoT and Wind Waker with fondness.

It’s clear that it was a game that was produced highly in parallel, with independent parallel teams (of interns?) and obscene levels of modular asset reuse. Exploration is often rewarded with a cookie-cutter item, or (even worse) a Korok seed rather than an expansion of the lore or new stories.

Many of the things I hate about procedurally generated games or the recent spate of mass production open world games (ie Genshin Impact) are present in BotW.

On the opposite end of the spectrum are games like Dark Souls, with relatively little asset reuse and great lore-expanding rewards for exploration.
Framer, at least when I last tried it, was more of a prototyping tool. You could generally only one-way import React components into Framer, and then you could use Framer to assemble new components, but not in a way that allowed round-tripping. It's very possible to import production components into design tools, it's rare when a design tool can output production components again.

Largely because production-ready visual layout tools themselves end up being canvases that are shortcuts only to those who know what controls they want to use and how other layout controls work - they speed up developers, or those technically-minded enough to learn and compose new layouts with the existing controls and markup, but they won't make it easier for someone to design a new production-ready component from scratch when they don't know existing programming patterns, layout controls such as CSS flexbox, etc.

In that regard, Figma, Framer, and even Facebook's Origami are less about creating production code and more about assisting designers and product folks with rapid prototyping. It's not meant to be production-ready. It's not a developer-friendly toolset because the programming is secondary. And that's fine. Less to learn that way, but not instantly ready-for-production either.

There is some overlap though, for tools like Dev Tools, like Utopia, that need to be learned first (or customized into something like a CMS) but can be very visual ways of programming. As pointed out earlier, Xcode Storyboards and SwiftUI are both visual tools which output production code. It's unclear if this will follow the same standards and patterns that production code demands (such as styles, state management/mapping, shared components, and re-use across projects) but this programmer-friendly model is much more the future of visual programming than previous designer-first tools would allow.
You could say that about almost any explorer ever.
Yup. The "Bingo" episode was many years ago.
Interesting. I clicked into that site and found there is no GIF on the page. It turns out that all GIFs are blocked by the uBlock with cosmetic filtering.

Unsurprisingly, the blocking rule is simply `img[width="88"][height="31"]`
sounds like im just bad at the game then :)
As per data available on 16 May 2021, 100% of 36 early treatment and prophylaxis studies report positive effects (96% of all 55 studies). Of these, 26 studies show statistically significant improvements in isolation. Random effects meta-analysis with pooled effects using the most serious outcome reported 79% and 85% improvement for early treatment and prophylaxis respectively (RR 0.21 [0.11–0.37] and 0.15 [0.09–0.25]). The results were similar after exclusion based sensitivity analysis: 81% and 87% (RR 0.19 [0.14–0.26] and 0.13 [0.07–0.25]), and after restriction to 29 peer-reviewed studies: 82% and 88% (RR 0.18 [0.11–0.31] and 0.12 [0.05–0.30]). Statistically significant improvements were seen for mortality, ventilation, hospitalization, cases, and viral clearance. 100% of the 17 Randomized Controlled Trials (RCTs) for early treatment and prophylaxis report positive effects, with an estimated improvement of 73% and 83% respectively (RR 0.27 [0.18–0.41] and 0.17 [0.05–0.61]), and 93% of all 28 RCTs. These studies are tabulated in Table 1. The probability that an ineffective treatment generated results as positive for the 55 studies to date is estimated to be 1 in 23 trillion (p = 0.000000000000043). The consistency of positive results across a wide variety of cases has been remarkable. It is extremely unlikely that the observed results could have occurred by chance
> 4D chess is probably more "interesting" than regular chess, but people play regular chess because it's a good game that people know and understand. They could start allowing funny looking bikes, maybe off-road sections and, heck, why not an army style assault course?

That's an absurd comparison - it's not like we're talking about changing the course or the rules, and it's not like the UCI rules have people consistently using historical-style bikes (they rapidly adopted electric shifting, or novel frame materials, for example). In the world of fencing we have both sport fencing (try to win by whatever means within the rules) and historical fencing (trying to match historical materials, styles etc.) and both those are distinct and interesting disciplines. But adding ad-hoc rules to exclude some innovations but not others, as the UCI does, is the worst of both worlds.
Firefox shows a little “i” in a circle to signify “info” but it’s subtle and I didn’t realize what it was for a long time.
It actually doesn't take long to have high confidence vaccines work. Roughly 30 days. Day 1- inject vaccine. Day 15 - infect virus. Day 30 - know it works.

Human challenge studies were a ethical no brainer.

Even other studies if we gradually increased the number of people allowed to take them would mitigate almost any real risk. So you let up to 1k people take it month 1, 10k month 2, 100k month 3, and so on. Basically no meaningful extra risk but faster results.

Vaccines have a very good safety record and efficacy record, this isn't like cancer which is much more speculative.

Banning vaccines is not the answer. Most US deaths were completely preventable.
That kind of money (and I'm approximating here) is for a dog with all the documents and one that can be used for breeding (not neutered/spayed). So in a way it's an investment.

I'm very skeptical of the motivations in this case. Many countries use disease control as an excuse to implement economic policies. I doubt that the US is immune.
AND utilities … my electricity and water bill has shot up.
> This becomes a DDOS attack on the human attention span and has the potential to create disorientation more than anything.

I love this phrase, it's applicable to all user facing applications!
So we'll have to trust Google's browser will respect all website's headers that request not to be included in the cohort tracking. Just like Google respected Safari privacy settings. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2012/02/time-make-amends-googl...
But they did. They used a lot of different indication for where islands were - bird migration, ocean currents, etc.
I like comments to be an "alternative" way to read the code , e.g. understanding the flow / logic solely by reading through the comments (and only having to look at the actual implementation / code when more details are needed).
Nothing like invading Afghanistan the heart of poppy production with a us army. You would imagine we could shut down the production fairly easy, if that's the point.
It mentions the CSS-styling formatting specifier, but skips over the more mundane "printf-style" ones.

const obj = {objection: 'overruled'};
console.log(
'console.log is the #%d %s API ever written %f\% no arguing! %o %O !!!',
1, 'greatest', 100, obj, obj);

I've tried to keep my example compliant but it's still a very tiny loosy-goosy standard, for example at least in Firefox you can write %.0f to skip printing the fractional part of the float, but the standard doesn't mention this.
You are equating religion with spirituality, most organized religion is a madhouse. Buddhism is an anomaly and IMO it's more a faith, and offers a real path to spirituality.
> The bipartisan move towards antitrust is undergirded by bipartisan grassroots discontent.

Depends on which companies you're talking about. There's widespread discontent about social media companies, but the left and right wing of the political spectrum have opposite and incompatible discontents, so I don't think it's justifiable to call it "bipartisan grassroots discontent". The non-social-media "Big Tech" companies remain extremely popular and well-regarded in surveys of the general public. Google, Amazon, and Netflix were 3 of the top 5 most loved brands of 2020, losing out only to mail carriers (and Google took second place, ahead of UPS). Google and Amazon each have two of the top 10 spots (Google + YouTube, Amazon + Amazon Prime). The idea that there is roiling popular discontent about the activities of Google and Amazon is entirely a media fabrication.

https://www.statista.com/statistics/995767/consumers-most-lo...
And accept a fraction of the salary! Which is what is meant by "party's over" I'd think. The big companies not only pay the highest wages but exert upward pressure on other employers who would like to hire the same people. There are also non-monetary benefits to working at a large employer, like the greater variety of available assignments, generally better benefits (OK, sort of monetary), greater number of educational/training opportunities, and so on.
Despite the fud, many of them are quite accurate. As depressing as it is sometimes to read TeamBlind, at times it's also great motivation to work harder.

I'm very confused as to why pro finance people (who don't do any code and barely pass as data scientists) have seemed to inundate Blind now?
All European developers are lower paid compared to their US counterparts. Except maybe Swiss ones.
Everybody who loves Bohemian Rhapsody!
> I'm also fairly articulate.

This is an extreme understatement. I can practically hear your voice coming through in your writing. When you're done with the rat race you should seriously consider writing, if you enjoy it.
Even opting out in Play Services would not be enough. Because Google tracks SSIDs, your smartphone location can get scooped up if you enable the hotspot feature. You'd have to rename your smartphone in order to opt out.
Do mutual fund investors accept that their money is on the line? As the saying goes, a financial crisis is when someone loses money and it's socially unacceptable for them to not be paid back. So perhaps a bubble is when you speculate with money that it would not be socially acceptable to lose.
Specially when if you do business from home you can charge certain expenses to business and get tax deduction. WFH should certainly allow some similar tax benefits.
I have heard a story that the CIA ordered a 55 gallon drum of LSD, by mistake, as part of a wider, earlier "what do psychedelics do?" research program. Then they had this stuff and everybody got to "play" with it; there was supposedly a period when LSD in the coffee was an office hazard there. Then it gradually leaked out a little further and helped spark more general interest and more manufacturing and the love children.

The appealing part of this story was the bit where Sandoz called them back and asked "did you want enough of this to light up the country?" and some ignorant bureaucrat said "that's whats on the form, ship it already." That fits my cynicism about government operations, especially unsupervised ones.

The stories about the government involvement in cocaine are less funny.