skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Interestingly, there might be something similar for the US:

> If your flight is cancelled and you choose to cancel your trip as a result, you are entitled to a refund for the unused transportation – even for non-refundable tickets. You are also entitled to a refund for any bag fee that you paid, and any extras you may have purchased, such as a seat assignment.

From https://www.transportation.gov/individuals/aviation-consumer....

Though compensation for delays, not so much.
This comment is low effort defamation. Why don't you link 3 pieces of alleged covid misinformation the Brownstone group published. Should be easy, since apparently there is lots of it and you claim to be in the know.

FWIW, I never heard of Brownstone group before, so I have no opinion.
Thanks for this, just installed it and when I click to enable in my settings, I get an Attention message:

"OpenBoard may be able to collect all the text you type, including personal data such as passwords and credit card numbers"

This appears to be from Samsung, trying to deter users from using keyboards other than their own.
16 days a year is 1.3 days per month; not exactly a lot. Most companies offer more than 16 days a year in vacation.

Long before Covid I worked at a co-located office that allowed WFH for logistics or “heads down” days. Employees there regularly racked up 5-8 days remote a month. And it was a nice office to work from, all things considered.

> Compared to my old employer that's a ton.

The issue is that after the pandemic the standards have changed. Most of us have spent 1-1.5 years remote now; for those that want to work remote 16 days is now badly substandard.

Personally it’s my belief that if a company is going to remain in the office and offer flexibility, the minimum seems to be 1-2x a week.
The exorbitant gas fees should be largely resolved by L2s and other L1 scaling solutions. I am a huge crypto bull, but that is based in part on my belief that those scaling issues will be solved over the next couple years. I don't think anybody believes that crypto will be successful if those scaling issues are not addressed.
They’ve wasted a decade of innovation in us financial services. Crypto does little
I know SMS is not 100% secure, but you can easily get SMS recovered if you lose your phone. How do you cover Authenticator if you lose your phone?

I always keep both.
Yes for CPU, no for RAM. You can buy a computer with terabytes of RAM just fine. It's just expensive.
This seems to happen with all of the big companies. Their customer-base is so unbelievably huge that even if you are a paying customer they just can't help you.
>Only legislation can give power back to the users. It shouldn't be necessary to put up with this level of surveillance by big corps in order to function in society.

Don't worry, after about 7 years there will be a low key class action suit and we'll miss the $7 payout and lawyers will collect the leftover millions for the sake of symbolic justice. Then perhaps big industry won't ever learn it's lesson again.

Congress has already proven that they're the Rip Van Winkle of IT awareness unless it pertains to boosting their personal investments.
Honestly if 5 families could go in together, purchase land, and build community homesteads, you could build homes for everyone for 10-20k a pop, and maybe share tools, printers, and other big ticket items not worth owning in tiny quarters.

Professionally constructed homes for 400k, or for 200k you can get homes for 5 families (maybe a lot more depending on the land deal).

Then each family can easily live the 50's lifestyle w/ one parent working one taking care of kids... I hope more people start doing this, and as much as "tiny homes" are trending on youtube, etc I don't think it's a stretch to think it might take off and maybe even lift up renters, and bring down rental empires.
CRCs have the awesome ability to be composed, and are many times faster to compute than SHAs with the best hardware acceleration.
China's WuDao model had 1.75T parameters and Google's Switch transformer had 1.6T. How is this the world's largest then?
Darwinism rocks!
Amazon doesn't pay competitively.
A team that has strong reading and writing abilities and a culture that promotes documentation and decentralization of work through tickets or some other form.

Vs

A culture that will always prefer an hour long zoom meeting to a 2 minute exchange on stack. A zoom based culture is one that hasn't fully walked away from the office.
There's also public statements from the JAX ATC saying that their absentee rate was normal and that most of the employees that were out that day were out because of mandatory time off for _getting the vaccine_.
Were you saying "there is not shortage of toilet paper" in March, 2020?
There are roughly as many comments here about subpoenas, litigation, and naming everything with "Edge" as there are total comments on

"Android phones are sending significant amount of user data with no opt-out"

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28830328
You could make the same argument about noisy neighbors having house parties late at night. Does their right to play loud music supersede the neighborhood's right to a good night's sleep?

There are many ways to socialize and build community. Why do they need to pick this specific way?
May be that their perception of engineering, as they believe their target audience sees it, is sufficiently far away to make Boeing seem insane.
Nothing along those lines, more to the point that what makes a good drug (say Ritalin) versus a bad drug (eg cocaine) has nothing to do with pharmacology.
Ask HN: Why is Taiwan such a technology powerhouse?
What is being learned in Surfside is this:

- according to two recent independent structural model calculations based on the original plans, the building that collapsed was deliberately designed to meet only 100% to 115% of the original static loads to save money, but not the dynamic loads of rolling vehicles or interior upgrades like granite counter tops and marble wall displays.

Also, there were a few 12" columns, no column caps, and not enough shear wall areas or elevator core tie-in to resist twisting from wind loads or prevent domino column failures.

- any number of events could have started the collapse because there was no safety margin, including water intrusion and previous hurricane wind loads, but it was probably vehicles rolling around the lobby level near the pool.

To answer your question, it would cost more than the building was worth to replace the columns and slabs. The 40-year review for that building really meant a teardown had they redone the structural model. The owners were already looking at a $100,000 to $200,000 bill each for cosmetic repairs. Because of absentee owners (lessors and airbnb), that level of investment for a rebuild doesn't fly.

It's believed that the former building inspector gave a positive building review speech so that cronies could continue selling units, as negative news would have to be reported to potential buyers, killing any sales.

Note that builders who looked at the post-collapse photos even one day afterwards all wrote, "Nothing looks right in those fotos." What bothered them the most were the columns that punched through with no debris stuck to the top (pejoratively called "those toothpicks"), and yards of rebar bundles that also looked too clean.
I find it quite strange that on the Azura landing page they don't have even one photo of a yacht. Just renderings.
Not really. Simple basic company structures are preferred when possible. Hot stocks get funding regardless.
That's a generic warning that shows up on all flavors of Android, including AOSP and LineageOS, when you enable any new input method.
There are more than a billion people in China. You could find 100 examples of any group misbehaving and it wouldn't prove anything.
Currently, mostly buying currency in Mir4. Apparently, you're going to be able to buy and sell characters soon. Mir4 you can mine currency in game and convert it to crypto or vice versa. So, I did the latter. That took two exchanges, multiple wallets,
and multiple days for a less than $50 purchase.

The other games I've tried (Gods Unchained, Axie Infinity, MyCryptoHeroes, Splinterlands, Sorare) are either too expensive or not fun.

Augur (prediction market) is pretty interesting, but it's off limits in my region. It's also Ethereum based, so high transaction fees.

I've also bought a few pizzas, gift cards, domains, supplements, VPN access, that sort of thing as well. I still check for a crypto option at most places I shop (including SaaS services), but I don't see it most of the time.
> Every community has the right to build, or not, as they chose.

The problem with this way of thinking about it is that communities are not people, and they do not "make a choice" in an organic, unified way. Instead, questions about development get resolved through messy, often complex political processes, with the outcome often reflecting specific subsets of the community rather than the whole.

In addition, there's the time preference problem, in which the decisions and choices of today's community is given excessive weight compared to those of the many different future communities that could emerge with different decisions.
> It’s common now for liberals to deny the influence and power of social justice politics, for inscrutable reasons

The reasons are very scrutable: the most essential part of the narrative is that social justice politics are powerless, oppressed, "speaking truth to power", in a fundamentally racist, white-supremacist society. Their legitimacy is based on there being a powerful, omnipresent oppressor that they valiantly oppose.

If you admit they have power, the entire house of cards collapses, and you have painted yourself as their enemy.

They're not the only group to operate this way, hostile to anyone that hints at their power.
They are not innately bad, but they are implemented in a bad way. A system of hydraulic control lines cannot be locked behind copyright. They can be physically fixed. A cracked manifold can be welded or replaced. But when fixing a modern electronic system you must have the permission of the manufacturer before replacing a part, or even opening some boxes. Any mechanic can see leaking hydraulic fluid. But modern electronic systems can require special/expensive tools just to read the error code telling you which part has failed.
I'm glad Princeton has decided to host this. It seems somehow worse that MIT cancelled a science talk since if one of the most respected engineering schools cannot resist calls for censorship by a twitter mob then who can?

Thinking about why academia is especially susceptible to this, it seems like most faculty and staff there are in a position not unlike a high priest or clergy member in that they wield a lot of power as long as they are in the organization but have little or none in their own right and if they lost their position the likelihood of regaining it is very small. So what they all want to minimize is the risk of gaining the attention of a vengeful twitter mob. Its not like there is really a corresponding gain to the individual for standing up for academic freedom to balance the equation.
You're in luck! We're in the midst of a transition to a brand-new architecture. You're going to love social credit.

Expert social engineers (sociologists, psychologists, economists, environmental scientists, et. al.) will be chosen to define "well being" using the latest scientific research and data. Money won't exist. You'll have a social credit score from 0 to 1000 depending on your overall value to society, the economy, and the environment. Higher scores will qualify you for better food, housing, and transportation. Lower scores will subject you to various restrictions or even imprisonment. Purchases will deduct different amounts from your score depending on their true overall societal cost; prices will include all economic externalities as determined by the experts.

Since the score asymptotically caps out at 1000, all economic inequality problems will be solved. In addition, there won't be the bureaucratic corporate management overhead of the current institutional patchwork because an expert-tuned AI management system will give you instructions on what work you need to do to help your score (including diet and exercise), using your mobile device or neuralink.

Luckily, there won't even have to be a violent revolution to reach this utopia, because just about every world leader at the UN, WEF, IMF, BIS, major political parties, large corporations, and so on are ALL on board with this.
If they’d demand higher wages and healthcare collectively or force austerity on the stock market, they’d have those things. It works for teachers unions, and the like when they strike.

But like you said, we demonize working people instead of empowering them, for a reason.

The goal isn’t perfect mind control, but to avoid thinking in alternatives and enabling the self made nonsense. Convincing everyone they’re temporarily embarrassed millionaires. Implant reasons to ignore alternatives and hammer on them; it’s not how it works for tradition, for country… one reason after another why we can’t politically just be decent.

It works not because people are lazy but mirror neurons. Biology. The public must be the one to do different so the public sees itself do different. Knows different is doable.

Relativity has some deep network effects we don’t often think about. We can’t experience otherwise doing the same all day.
this does not refute my personal experience. took me 3 days to trade on ameritrade, and I could withdraw $ in days too. Coinbase req.photo ID tons of other stuff to withdraw crypto. way different.

>Most of the stuff you list is simple stuff done to meet KYC rules that most exchanges were initially delinquent in implementing and only did so when it was pointed out the obvious liability they were taking on not implementing them.

That is my point. they were. not anymore.
The very first bullet point states that it has Discord compatibility. Also, that isn't Discord's logo. I'm not sure if it's "legally distinct" enough, but it isn't stolen.
I'm torn about your thoughts. One part of me says: you're describing how it feels to think, and how it feels to think you're thinking more clearly than other people. There are people who have come to the opposite conclusion on every issue you raised, also due to what they see as their ability to think more steps ahead than the average person. I also think there's something seductive about characterizing suffering people as shocked. If only it were so satisfying for us, the correct ones. A lot of people do know that something in their life is limiting them, maybe even slowly killing them, but they're also not fixing the problem. Others are thinking really hard but not seeing their own suffering or cruelty at all. The idea that smart people who think deeply might still be suffering or hurting others can be a frightening idea to play with, because opening up our reality to that idea means potentially realizing that we ourselves are suffering or hurting others in a way that all our HN-quality cleverness can't save us from. It's a tender seam for "gifted kids" to start mining, there can be some half-healed wounds in there. A lot of people on here probably had to protect themselves or people they love with their minds, or still have to.

I do think you describe beautifully, with the car story, how people exist now in systems that offer them an overwhelming number of choices, and how these systems are large and confusing enough that people are cut off from the consequences of their choices: maybe because their choices hurt someone else, maybe because the consequence is delayed, maybe because they just don't see clearly in the blur of everything happening. Many outcomes are dissatisfyingly murky and multi-factorial even when people are paying close attention and conducting scientific research.

Thanks for your post, it made me think.
Way to Find a Random Point in a Circle [video]
The assessment is ridiculous time commitment anyway. You have to set aside a 2.5 hour block of uninterrupted time to do it, and from what I hear it's pretty brutal anyway.

I get pinged by Amazon recruiters almost every week right now, and once I discovered the assessment was 2.5 hours during my last job search, I had trouble finding the time and energy to fit it in amongst all the other job search requirements I had to do.

Ended up getting so far along the process with 6 other companies that I just didn't bother to take it. Still ended up with a job offer with a 60% bump in pay and what seems like a better environment than Amazon would have been, without any threats to force me back into the office or needing to relocate.
It's bought, and developed in ways that would/will not be stoppable by regular NIMBY-style activity, because the SFH etc. model is well inside current zoning.
Awesome.

Just note that in the demo video, the user is 'writing' everything mirrored.
Ask HN: How do you get a job as a software engineer if you've been cancelled?
I don't want to go too much in to things, as it makes me sick to re-hash it and type things up again. Long story short, I was "cancelled". Someone who has hated me for years convincingly mis-attributed decade old chat posts that contain vulgar, unsavory things to me, and convinced my last employer that it was me. Defamation would be one thing, but it has spread beyond it to social media and now my name is forever ruined. I admit, the evidence is convincing to the onlooker. This took place about 6 months ago and I am unable to get a new job since. (They never say the reason for not moving forward, but I know why) Until this, I had no problem switching jobs. Am I going to have to do odd jobs forever, or is there any hope of me returning as as the skilled software engineer I know I am? Would appreciate any and all help.
Left AWS two months ago to confound a startup. Can only say good things about my personal experience (SDM at AWS Professional Services). On the other hand I know personally people who work in teams that due to no fault of their own, have a culture that, to say mildly, isn’t necessarily everyone’s cup of tea. Amazon as an employer, is generally great. But you really can’t underestimate how “it depends on the team” matters there.

I learned about technology more in 5 years there than my entire (20+ years) career. Smart people, always got help when I needed, always were able to keep work life balance (it’s many times up to you to know how to disconnect and say no, people respect it).

It will make you a better decision maker, much better writer (it might make you hate writing narratives but you’ll get dangerously good at it).

If you join and you got into “one of these teams”, use the wonderful tool of internal transfers. It’s one of the best things about Amazon. There are no minimums and no manager approval required to find a better match.
TL;DR It was always a sham based on exporting Western garbage to low income countries. China, one of the largest garbage destinations, closed its doors, oops.

My 3 cents:

1. Products are not designed for recycling.

2. Too much cheap plastic everywhere. See 1.

3. Too much cheap electronics everywhere. See 1.
Microsoft Authenticator is one of the authentication apps that can backup online.
> One of the idea (please, give it a try as well!) is to have a decentralized network of adversarially cooperative evaluators for this (in a system that cross-validates itself and economically aligns estimation accuracy).

Isn’t this Adam Smith’s “Invisible Hand”?
FlorisBoard is really nice. Among all of the FOSS Android keyboards, I've found the gesture typing on FlorisBoard to be the most accurate.

https://github.com/florisboard/florisboard
SO the US military is heavily reliant on GPS, and they know it, and so do professionals on the other side. There is a lot of good reason to think that if the US gets into a Large State action, which is relatively unlikely but. . . , then the opposition will employ GPS jamming to negate some of the more smart and collateral damage avoiding systems. I've been out for almost a decade, so I don't know if secondary powers have reliable and ubiquitous GPS jamming capabilities, but I'd bet dollars to donuts IRAN has spent significant funding to acquire GPS jamming. All of this gives a a context for why the military both uses training aids (marker blackout over GPS, manually disabled data links, and whatever more high tech the have devised) and real operate in jamming training, possibly as final training, certification training/exams, if my experience in sibling forces is any guide.
The video itself could be mirrored.
Glad at least someone is standing up to Twitter mobs. The special is a statement against Twitter mobs, and how dangerous they can be for innocent individuals just expressing their opinions. Chappele’s trans friend most likely committed suicide because of intense Twitter bullying for defending Chappelle. We can’t keep letting Twitter mobs destroy people’s lives.
I don’t know why this is downvoted. This is very much true. Outside of a handful of largest cities, Europeans are as car-dependent as Americans, and if they drive less, it’s mostly because they are poorer, while cars and gas are more expensive: instead of replacing what in the US would be car trips with public transit, they simply travel less and stay home more. As European nations get wealthier, car ownership rises, and people drive more kilometers. If you use public transit outside of a handful of major cities, you’ll find that it’s full of students and retirees, instead of commuters.

Seems to me that many people here simply project their tourist experience while vacationing in London of Paris, as a result getting a wrong image of how people in Europe actually live their lives.
>but they couldn't be full, your party had to be small, and you wouldn't be there at night.

Ah yes, the craziest restriction of all, restricting things from being open at night. That way, everyone goes at the same time increasing crowding. But since less people are allowed in, everyone crowds around waiting to get in.

So now a place that would have 1 person an hour over 10 hours, instead has 2 people an hour over 5 hours, eg. Does the virus not spread at night or something? I'd think it would make more sense to mandate businesses open more hours, that way people are dispersed across more time and thus less crowded.

I don't understand, there must be an obvious reason I'm missing though (most likely!)
I've worked remotely for about 15 years. It isn't what it is cracked up to be.

But TBH, after the pandemic hit, I found written communications to be far better than they had been previously.

That really leveled the playing field for me. But from my point of view, I've derived much of my communications from mailing lists, forums, listservs over the years. When people get around the water cooler and and I am just hanging around Thunderbird, I'm at a big disadvantage.
No. All the examples you listed at best make things cheaper, not better, and in some cases they can only do so by sacrificing quality (airlines, walmart) or by destroying profitability in one sector and funding the business somewhere else (carmakers only make money via financing, ride shares only survive due to Softbank, Amazon's "your margin is my opportunity" and AWS, etc)

> It's exceedingly unlikely that the COVID mRNA vaccine could have been invented by a company with the scale or capitalization of a Basecamp.

Certainly not. It would take several of these smaller companies, working in different parts of the research chain and all collaborating organically (without any central planner). The real question is whether it would be faster or slower to develop it in such a scenario, and also if the trade-off is acceptable.