skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>You are putting a lot of stock into a PR piece...

No, I believe that absent contrary evidence, the simplest explanation is usually the most likely. I've seen virtually every other US carrier experience a cascading failure due to weather or computer failures at least once over the past 10 years. I've also seen how quickly certain politicians, who stand to benefit personally from casting doubt on vaccine mandates, have jumped on this event.
> The only thing in the realm of speech that can truly hurt me is the risk of misled by moral busybodies who think they know what is true and virtuous

A bit weird how you started off with a tirade about the real world consequences of publishing a fake paper (I think we actually agree that was bad) as well as an insistence that in engaging in ridicule and fact checking was "miscommunication" breeding public mistrust then. Stop pronouncing speech had harmful consequences, you moral busybody! And how dare the Lancet take that paper down!

I'm sorry you're scared about my confidence in the future of scientific research not depending on Invermectin partisans (or anyone else) being able to publish stuff on Facebook.com without content warnings. Personally, I'd see much more reason to be scared if I wasn't confident in my pronouncement that scientific research will go on regardless of how Facebook chooses to filter its newsfeed.
I think scientists really do a terrible job of explaining that. When you look out the window, it appears the atmosphere goes on forever. Why not burn coal, let cars exhaust, and generally treat the atmosphere like a cheap sewer?

In reality, the more I've thought about this, the more appalled I become.

Many people have issues at 10k feet elevation. The FAA starts having different o2 requirements at 10k feet. 12k elevation gets very challenging to climb.

Yet I'll drive 12k feet to go to the grocery store and never thing twice about it.
If it was a sickout why was only this company affected? The mandate was federal.
Russia will gladly sell/build nuclear plants to Germany or any other country. I can imagine that it's politically infeasible. But the capacity is there.
Primary reason is money. Weather and millitary ATC etc are "acts of god". no refunds. Sick out etc refunds and pay big.
I'd argue something better was there in the form of Socialist Yugoslavia - an economically successful country, with social freedoms and freedom of movement (only passport that was able to freely travel both blocks during the cold war!), greater economic self-determination than today's capitalist systems (all companies were worker-run coops, competing in the marketplace with leadership elected by workers).
Unfortunately, ethnic strife and nationalism brought it to an end.

I also think that line of reasoning ignores the opportunity cost of not trying - it's easy for us to condemn other systems for killing people when we are not part of the millions in the global south being killed by capitalism _right now_. Try telling a person living in the Congo, ravaged by warlords fighting for resources to sell on the marketplace, how capitalism is "the best system we've ever had" and see how they feel about it.
You and I don't win when amazon becomes the sole supplier and they have no reason to undercut competitor prices anymore and jack up their prices and they no longer have any incentive to innovate. This business practice of theirs is not solely done with resellers, but with manufacturers as well. It is ridiculously unfair that they are the market, they see what products sell quickly and for what prices, and that they are then able to take over the ones that have great margins. The end state is Amazon eats all profitable business lines and everyone else fights for scraps. That will be good for shareholders and no one else.
Best resources to spend company's learning budget on?
Hello, I am a developer and most companies I worked for offer a "learning budget" you can spend on videos, courses, conferences relative to your job to keep your skills sharp. I have always appreciated the benefit but I have always had trouble finding good quality material. What do you guys suggest is a good way of spending this money?

I liked uncle's Bob videos (https://www.cleancoders.com/) and found some good courses here as well https://ui.dev/.

Do you have any other suggestions?
> The FAA even released a statement contradicting SWA's official excuse.

Where? They're on record supporting the weather and staffing explanations.

https://twitter.com/FAANews/status/1447249660884754441

"Flight delays & cancellations occurred for a few hours Friday PM due to widespread severe weather, military training, & limited staffing in one area of the Jacksonville en route center."

https://twitter.com/FAANews/status/1447708023724679175

"To be clear: None of the information from Southwest, its pilots union, or the FAA indicates that this weekend’s cancellations were related to vaccine mandates."

They just don't want to be blamed for the cascading failure that took days to resolve.

https://www.mynews13.com/fl/orlando/news/2021/10/11/southwes...

"No FAA air traffic staffing shortages have been reported since Friday."
Pre-PMF Looking for feedback or advice
Hy What advices you have for a product pre-PMF ?
All I know pre- PMF is that you have to run experiments. We are iterating our product based on the few requests we had so far.

I've launched at the beginning of the month on PH. We got about 200 new users. No upwards trend.
[Product] Ikuna - Create a personalised, 3-sec launchable workspace for every project.
All your tabs and apps coming together exactly the way you want them to.

And lastly, thank you for clicking on my post.
It means you either know something about PMF or are interested in the comments. Both ways, welcome.
> Doesn't seem like a sound argument for perfect immutability. Sounds reasonable as an argument for better immutability.

It is a fact that Ethereum's developers altered the consensus rules to revert the DAO (after touting "code is law" for some time prior to it), and it is a fact that Bitcoin's developers have done no such thing. It is also a fact that subsequent Ethereum hard forks have altered the token emission policy, whereas no such alterations have occurred on Bitcoin. Furthermore, it is a fact that the whole selling point of using a blockchain -- a very slow, inefficient, expensive, power-hungry, unforgiving time-series replicated database -- to implement world-class financial instruments is that in principle, the code decides what happens, and alterations to this arrangement only happen with the support of a majority of network voting power (e.g. hashrate, stake). The Ethereum project's behavior is in violation of this core principle, whereas the Bitcoin project is not.

I'm sorry, but your attempt to convince me that Ethereum's behavior here has been in any way comparable to Bitcoin because "nothing is immutable" comes across as weak nihilism. It's like saying that Ethereum's decision doesn't matter because eventually we'll all be dead and the heat death of the universe will render mining inoperable. Like, yes, this is true, but it's also not germane.

> Ethereum is the second largest cryptocurrency. To imply that it hasn't been successful is disingenuous.

Where did I say that Ethereum wasn't successful in an absolute sense? All I said was that it isn't as successful as Bitcoin, and that I don't think it will never be until these unresolved governance questions get addressed.

> I guess its $400bn of irrational market participants then.

Okay, two things.

First, if everyone sold their Eth right now, would they collectively receive $400bn? Is the buy side of the market actually that deep?

Second, you're actually correct here -- markets are irrational. The crypto markets are especially so, since they lack many of the hard-won investor safeguards that traditional markets have gained over the years to defend against the bad consequences of irrational behavior. Also, markets can afford to remain irrational far longer than either of us can remain solvent, so caveat emptor, DYOR, and so on.
This post is an excellent reminder that even HN is not immune to rampant conspiracy theorists and to take everything with a grain of salt. HNers are not uniquely intelligent nor capable.
"Vaccine Mandates Lead to Mass Firings and Mass Walkouts from State Troopers to Hospital Workers" (https://cmsedit.cbn.com/cbnnews/us/2021/september/vaccine-ma...)

As of Sep. 28, CBN could find only 843. And, oh, look, they linked to https://www.fiercehealthcare.com/hospitals/how-many-employee...

Kaiser Permanente and Northwell Health were the largest with 1-2% of their workforces, although Kaiser's are on "administrative leave".
There is absolutely nothing independently governing and monitoring whether performance is correct on ads. It's all done in private, and you're forced to compete against SEO and many other things to succeed on a daily and even minute-to-minute basis.

This is the real price of a constant threat to Net Neutrality, and allowing one monopolistic company to dominate mobile devices, web browsers, search results, and the largest video service on the entire Internet.

Their plan to corner and manipulate what everyone's freedom of choice and to secure their funnel of permanent revenue is considered cute to investors, but no one realizes how bad this will get in 5 more years.

Of course the numbers are fudged when you consider how they've turned analytics on their once very useful platform into a confusing mess, and when they announced that they were going to retire the system after it has killed off competition, because they can simply gather any analytical report they want privately from their web browser.

Public front-end statics are no longer trust worthy because they can be manipulated to drive platform revenue and engagement. The best and most accurate stats are provided only internally, to executive leadership that owns platforms.

Because we now use them for email, video views, browsing, phones, etc, they have key insight that can even be used for corporate espionage, your ideas can literally be beaten to market because your virtual assistant caught you mentioning keywords then reported you applying for your patent and corporate loan.

Most people have no idea about how bad this all can get. We'll find out soon enough though.

When ad revenue drops on platforms, the platforms simply reduce organic visibility which drives the need for regular ad spending for companies in order to remain visible on social platforms... AirBNB is riding a wave of prior popularity and name recognition, I guarantee they will go back to a certain point of obscurity at some point because they reduced their ad spend, and then be forced to promote heavily as they did once before.

It's all creates a new cycle of financial deception and manipulation on platforms. For very profitable companies, advertising is usually manageable, but for startups, for small business, and for independent creators, this practice is devastating financially, and fruitless on top of the financial loss of paying for promotion. These platforms also made promises to woo users based on free organic growth, which somehow conveniently disappeared due to covert and convenient EULA updates over time.
There are several issues with this argument. It's making a statement about hypothetical Credible Fact Checks instead of the fact checks that actually exists or that can exist (the "no true scotsman" fallacy). As far as contents go, in early 2020 the Fact Checked story was that there's a wetmarket selling bats and pangolins, which the Chinese eat, which is where it came from. Similarly, the evidence for a lab leak was that the ground zero is close to the lab, the lab handles SARS coronaviruses and it performs GoF research on them in a facility with a Bio-Safety Level (BSL) that's not quite right for that work. This theory was generally conflated with the "the virus was engineered at a secret Chinese bioweapons lab" theory. Fact Checks asserted this was false and people talking about it got banned. Later it became clear that the wetmarket didn't handle either bats not pangolins and The Chinese don't usually eat bats around there.
That's ridiculous. Yes, airlines have slots, but schedule changes, weather delays, mechanical delays, happen all the time. It's not like if you miss a slot you're just SOL. If you're flying from A to B to C to D to E to F and there's a bottleneck at B, you can deadhead the plane from A to C (or even take the pax who were going from A to C anyway) and pick up all the downstream connections.

There are weather delays all the time. There are ATC problems all the time. But having either one of those turn into this kind of a mess is unprecedented, so there has to be something else in play here, and that "something else" is almost certainly SW screwing something up.
I don't think canceling an already tight military budget in favor of a power source that could be devastating when hit by an airstrike is a good strategy
Oh wow, JOE was the first editor I've used on Linux -- ages ago -- and it's still so much better than other very popular choices today. It's friendly, fast, feature-packed and the keyboard shortcuts (of WordStar heritage) are lovely.

JOE is one of my favourite software projects, one I can only look up to. I don't know anything about you, but thank you!
> Germany is in danger of missing its 2030 climate target, despite all its efforts

Which efforts? Germany might look quite progressive when it comes to renewables but lacks a holistic strategy. Energy storage is not discussed at all.

It's good that the Greens are part of the government again to put in larger restrictions but they'll be limited by the other 2 parties. Real change is probably going to be provided by companies like Tesla which actually provide a solution to the storage problem.

Also the article is behind a paywall and from Welt which is from the same publisher as the notorious yellow press publication Bild. Die Zeit (Former editor-in-chief of it is mentioned) hasn't put it on its start page.
Folks, hub-spoke, multi-hops, Florida hub, whatever - none of it matters when a simple 30 minute flight between Los Angeles and San Jose are being cancelled too[1].

Perhaps this LAX -> SJC flight happens to pass through Florida too? Come on... the crews flying these regional routes are the same crews that do it all day every day. Why are these flights impacted too?

[1] https://flightaware.com/live/fleet/SWA/cancelled
I've been beating this drum for a decade.

I once even had a marketing department shut down with analytical proof. I got tired of the marketing department with probably 50x the IT department budget constantly jumping down our throats about how "IF ONLY IT HAD DELIVERED X BY X we could have had 100,000,000,000x /s sales this month"

I made a dynamic report dashboard in my first react project to analyze market spending and prove that even if you wanted to move around metrics to be comically generous the marketing was doing basically nothing to drive sales. MGMT got rid of them and literally nothing changed except everyone had better budgets.
Somehow I don't think we'll reach 0 emissions in 7 years, and somehow, I think life will go on.
As an apple fan myself, I agree that this type of practice renders the platform less secure rather than more secure. Everyone ends up losing.
"But what led to wind power's sudden fall? Statistics officials said the weather was partly to blame.

A lack of wind from January to March this year sharply reduced the amount of electricity produced by Germany's wind turbines. In contrast, stormy weather in the first quarters of 2019 and 2020 sharply boosted the electricity produced."

The wind might go at night, or it might not, or it might not for months.
A very nice chance listening industry leaders' ideas on this emerging area.
The venerable xterm and a lot of later physical terminals (those things with CRTs) can emulate Tektronix (Tektronix, that today makes instruments, also made computer terminals with fancy storage CRTs that were kind of e-paper-like, but green - and sometimes yellow - screen) graphics. iTerm2 and some others, as pointed out, can do Sixel graphics (a format designed originally for DEC dot-matrix printers that some DEC terminals also implement).
A short summary of Chapter 1 of Software Engineering at Google
It’s worth noting that you are confusing system costs and levelized costs of electricity.

Cheap wind and solar electricity is absolutely useless if it cannot be produced on demand.

Nuclear produces electricity 24/7, independent of weather with no backup required.

The kWh costs 30 cents in Germany, but 15 cents in France.
I'm surprised it hasnt happened yet. IT seems apple is possibly openly hostile and uses "red tape" as an excuse to obfuscate communication and frustrate those trying to do right by them instead of just posting it to github and calling them out on twitter.

Its one of a few reasons I have made some in-roads into moving off the platform.
According to the IPCC, we are already 80% of the way to 1.5c, and the world is quite comfortable.
Returning from "Space".
For want of a nail the kingdom was lost. Just pay the stupid bounty
Am I the only one almost offended by Braille not being ASCII?

edit: Yes. I miscalculated the dot density.

/me slaps forehead
> If the problems truly were caused by some temporary issues that have been resolved, why would they bother surveying customers about it?

Two reasons come to mind:
1) This weekend's delays might get sorted, but the underlying cause is still there. It's just not a pilot walkout, but an overall lack of resilience in their workforce and infrastructure.

2) The holiday season is coming. Southwest is already stretched thin and is probably trying to gauge what kind of reckoning is waiting for them if they have to cancel thousands of flights during the busiest travel period of the year (and one where snow delays are a real possibility for much of the country).
Not every night, no. But electricity supply needs to be reliable, not "only on windy nights."
> My position is that mankind ought to follow what I was taught in scouts: “leave no trace”.

This position isn't really coherent on its own, because with enough time, it doesn't matter what we do: there won't be a trace of us left. So really, you need to say what you mean by "trace" and on what time scale. Your time scale can't be zero, because then we couldn't build anything. But it can't be arbitrarily long either, because then it ceases to be any kind of restraint at all.
As an example of diversity of approaches, look at the Fast Grants program:

https://future.a16z.com/what-we-learned-doing-fast-grants/

It was created in 2020 to give grants for COVID-related research. Its big selling point was that it would give out money fast: very little paperwork to fill out, and yes/no decisions made within 48 hours. They were surprised to discover that even researchers at top universities were having a hard time getting funding out of the usual institutions like the NIH, which were adapting very slowly to the pandemic. They seem to have done very well in speeding up research, at least with the amount of money they had, just by giving out the funding in a way that few-to-none of the existing institutions would.
From Eternity to Here by Sean Carroll is a worthwhile read.

The book isn't particularly about the Big Bang (it's more about the nature of the arrow of time), but it has to deal with the subject in passing.

I can also recommend the video series The Biggest Ideas in the Universe [1]. These are a superb explanation of how modern science has arrived at the conclusions it has. You can jump ahead to the Cosmology video, if you must, but you're missing the full experience of building up an understanding that goes far beyond the usual crayon drawings the press gives us.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLrxfgDEc2NxZJcWcrxH3j...
Soon isn't a thing that happens with power grids in any normal sense. The big capex in creation means that you need big differences in cost to justify an early shutdown. You also have to the new working before turning off the old, contrary to political preferences to destroy the old and then try to make the new work. Plant modifications are smaller in cost usually - so swapping a coal plant to burn natural gas because fracking made it cheaper (not without its own costs) is a small step.

If wind and solar remain cheapest per MW*hr they will grow to saturation.
I’ll invest in some black and white Nikes. Will punch be served?
Aren't there newer nuclear technologies that use alternative fissionable materials that have much shorter half-lives?
Your appeal to authority reminded me of when "Architects & Engineers for 9/11 Truth" managed to sucker me into believing their conspiracy theories when I was in undergrad.
One aspect is that SpaceX actually succeeded in getting to space (orbit is what counts for the purposes of doing something useful in space or going any further in space, suborbital hops for tourists might technically check the box but is a dead-end) and Virgin Galactic and Blue Origin did not, despite starting earlier, making them at least in part actual "wannabe's" who have the desire to do what SpaceX does, but are not able to (at least for now).
One generally underappreciated aspect to nuclear energy opposition is the intrinsic link to nuclear weapons. Some of it is scientifically illiterate nonsense (a lot of people seem to think power reactors can have a nuclear explosion). And some of it is just historical association. But some of it is a lot harder to dismiss.

A world without nuclear reactors or enrichment facilities is a world without nuclear weapons. Any medium or large industrialized country with power reactors could build nukes very quickly. It's bad enough half a dozen already have. This notion keeps some people up at night, I think. If you consider nuclear weapons to be an existential threat to the species -- perhaps worse than climate change -- then building infrastructure that would allow their more easy construction might seem like madness.
Gwypass, wind does die down during the night.
> The part that the scientific method lacks is determining what a good implementation looks like.

That seems like a feature, not a bug, to me. Descriptions of good implementations are likely subjective and vary based on what is being tested. It may even change over time as human knowledge improves.
> Its far more concerning to remember that the US Federal Reserve cannot combat this round of inflation using the prime interest rate, as it never fully abandoned QE or Quantitative Easing from 2008.

Not only can it, but more importantly it can fight it without interest rates by gradually unwinding the remaining QE (which it is likely to do, starting either next month or December, from current indications)

> since the corporate lending market is now saturated with low or no interest loans, any attempt to raise interest rates at all will likely trigger a massive recession

Well, no not “any attempt at all”, but its probably true that the effect of any interest rate hike on slowing the overall economy and demand will be greater than it otherwise would be, for any given size of rate hike.

But that's positive for ability to fight inflation with interest rates, as it means each quarter-point increase in the rate target will have more effect on slowing inflation than it otherwise would, and that fewer of them should be necessary, even before considering the effect of QE unwinding which will start before rate increases.
I believe only two US airports are slot-restricted.
Amazon is not the sole supplier. Amazon buys from a variety of suppliers and distributes it via their online sales platform. Amazon doesn't have factories. They don't build widgets. They sell them.
Yep. Galileo got himself into trouble not for his work on heliocentricity, but for publicly attacking an authority figure in the church.

It's interesting to see how we today project our science/fundamentalism schism onto culture of the past, when in reality, there wasn't that much of a dichotomy before the Scopes trial in the 1930s.