skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Is Flutter Desktop not still in beta? I'm not sure, the dart website looks like it would be finally released as stable, but we all know how it works with the big G and their projects ;)

Missing lib's are a big point, but we have to take the age of both languages, the size of their communities and the intended purpose into consideration.

C# was released around 2000 massively pushed by Microsoft with Desktop as primary target. Dart was released around 2010 or 2011 and was more or less intended to be a web language like JS/TS IIRC.
It's a very cool list!
skyscanner still seems to be better.
This is certainly the bucket I fall in. I feel we are sliding into the same future TVs have arrived at: You get the 'smart' version whether you want it or not.

I like the idea of a self driving car for most of my trips, but I also love to just go for a drive sometime, and it feels like the later has its days numbered.
My mom has arthritis, so they bought an elevator chair.

It definitely has reduced the risk of falls, but like other people in the thread have said.. maybe it's decent exercise?
That's one way to look at it. Another way to look at it is being solution-focused.

Tech megacorps often behave badly yes. But what can we realistically do about it? Discussing that just puts into yet another pointless political argument. Even in the best case situation it may take a decade to actually do anything, assuming whatever gets done actually works the way we hoped.

Maybe we should do something like that one of these days. But meanwhile, the OP has an actual problem right now. They would probably appreciate something they can directly do to fix it now or ensure it doesn't happen, instead of moving the discussion to the 50 billionth political argument on the internet that does nothing to help them.
> Hipmunk was the absolute best

Not sure I would put it as strongly as that.

Hipmunk was OK, one of "the better" free tools out there.

But I'm afraid it never had anything on ITA Matrix. ITA always had copious amounts of extra special sauce.

I extensively tried all competitors I could find (including Hipmunk) on a variety of real-world scenarios. Nothing ever came close to ITA and I was very worried indeed for its future when Google bought it.
Bur-auto-cracy?
Maybe I haven't kept up with the eink market but this seems super impressive especially the video part around 14:33. I have a Remarkable and it's pretty slow to switch pages but I assume that's to prevent ghosting. With a little bit of computer vision magic, they might be able to add a content aware feature that swaps the modes based on what's being displayed.

https://youtu.be/oBfWkxOfUfQ?t=873
How about this?

| singular | plural
nom | legum | legi
voc | lege | legos
gen | legi | legorum
dat/abl | lego | legos
The couple of months of schooling at home wasn't really a hard lockdown when compared with other countries in Europe.
> For this I introduced the k^2/vv ratio.

Just use a log scale. It's a normal way to handle unbounded variables of the "the more you do, the more likely you'll do it more" kind.
A friend of mine used to take the rotor arm out of his Ferrari when he left it for any time. I can't imagine any thieves coming along with a spare.
This is great feedback, thanks! Maybe I should open-source the code.

Actually, fuck it:

https://gitlab.com/stavros/deep-dreams

I'll implement your suggestions (or as many as I can), thanks!
The Hard Drive That Brought Down the Chancellor
"The search engines run on databases of flights, prices, and seat availability, provided electronically over private networks by the 800 or so airlines of the world. The data is not directly available to the general public and access often must be negotiated with individual airlines. Flight data is updated daily or occasionally more frequently in the case of unexpected cancellations. Prices are updated about ten times a day, and seat availability continuously. A large portion of the flight, price and seat availability data, called published data, is used by all the major search engines, but a significant amount of private data is restricted." [0]

[0] http://www.demarcken.org/carl/papers/ITA-software-travel-com...
That's the core beauty of Lego, I think. There are so many meta games one can decide to play with a single bucket, and at least one caters to pretty much everyone under the sun.

And then you get amazing synergies when people who play differently combine their efforts.

Which is one of the reasons I'll admit I cried during the first Lego movie ending. They nailed that aspect.
Right. Session is stored either in cookies or in Local Storage. Both get cleared when you "clean cookies". If there is no device session, next time you're trying to log in, service will ask to show the second factor (so that hacker can't steal your account through finding the password on some other website).

Firefox didn't work, because person deleted session and didn't have second factor (nor backup auth methods). Chromium worked, because it still had device session.

I'm traveling and using TOR and VPNs just like everybody else and haven't faced any issues. There most definitely is a problem with communicating security/accessibility tradeoffs to the public though, so I'm not putting blame on the op here.
I'm solidly in the 'if it ain't broke don't fix it' camp on that one.
I bemoan having gone from being a bucket person, to shelf person, to not even playing with Legos anymore person. Adulthood kinda has a way of doing that.

My friend and I wanted to start a Beer, Brats, and Bricks night, but right when that was gonna materialize, the plague struct. I should hit them back up. I still have buckets on buckets.
I feel you. My father just passed at 86 last year. I told my family the only way he was leaving that house was feet first, and he proved me right. As others have said, get your parents' financials in order. You don't mention where you live. In the US, offering to do your parents' taxes for them is an easy way to get a handle on all their finances without hinting your concern about how long they have.
Here's the challenge we are facing, all of us, these days. Modern medicine has extended life, but has not extended quality of life. Our parents really did not have to deal with their own parents spending decades in decline. In particular, they did not have to deal with their parents' cognitive decline. If they had, they might have a very different perspective on the burdens and worries they impose upon their children.
My mom and dad kept each other company. Yes, they were frail, and my mom's cognitive decline has been progressing slowly over the last decade. But they had each other, and could watch out for each other, and call for help when needed. Your biggest concern, at this point, is your parents driving, if they've gotten to the point where driving is dangerous.
It's a much bigger deal when one of your parents passes. The other one is then alone, with no one to call out if something happens. About a year after my dad passed, my mom was able to acknowledge that living alone was no longer viable. My brother took her on a tour of several independent living facilities near his home. They found one where the residents seemed happy and friendly. Included in her lease is a spacious one bedroom apartment, three meals a day in a group dining room, scheduled shuttle service to church, stores, and the occasional outing. She gets a little wrist buzzer she can press that alerts the central office if she has a problem. This makes me feel a lot better than services where, essentially, EMTs will have to break down her door to get to her. And she has company. The cost of her lease is covered by a combination of social security and income from the rent from her house.
This facility also has an assisted living wing. When the time comes, we are hoping they still have room in that side of the facility.
I will tell you one of the challenges, which perhaps your father is aware of, on some level. My mom has been in her new facility less than half a year. Already, she cannot remember what the house she spent 50 years in looks like. She confuses the place she raised a family with the place she grew up. Losing anchors like this can be quite disheartening.
Pandemic Legacy is probably the best known, and I think there's a version of Gloomhaven that is massive, but also single-play.
I loved this! And the fact that I was parsing its lyrics for meaning suggests I’ve become too immersed in the culture for my own good
Not at all. Domestic dogs, coyotes and wolves can all breed together.
The HN crowd generally looks favourably on Fastmail.
I saw a term in the comments: AFOL. I had to look it up: Adult Fan Of Legos.

I loved legos as a kid and would spend hours building stuff. Now the kits seem more like models to be assembled and put on display and not touched rather than “a paint brush of blocks” where I can use my imagination. It lost my interest. My attention is now on software where I feel I can build anything. I liken it to my lego experience as a child.

I don’t necessarily think there’s a right or wrong thing here. It’s interesting to note how our mind changes as we age and grow older. The ”do anything” mentality get displaced with something else. This would make for an interesting PhD topic. :)

I found another quote from a related article that captured this feeling.

“It’s like a blast to the past, straight to our childhoods,” said Deason, 40, who lives in Connellsville, Pa. “It took me by surprise, but it makes sense: Life is so structured. But with Lego, you can do anything.”

Deason has a few million Lego pieces, which she organizes by type and color. The Star Wars and Architecture sets, she says, are the most popular among adults, who almost always look for the instruction manuals.

“The younger kids come in and it’s all about their imaginations — playing pretend, building zombie towns,” she said. “But at some point that gets lost. The adults seem to value the final finished project. That’s where they get their satisfaction.”
Just imagine the French as the indigenous peoples of this area. Oh wait...
I honestly don't understand this article.

Why exactly can't the parts shown be taken apart by reversing the action?

Could someone explain it for someone who have never played Lego other than simple bricks.
ITA Matrix is still my go-to for booking flights:

https://matrix.itasoftware.com/

Playing with this version, it's a little easier to use, but I don't see any functionality not in the regular version. Still, if it means Google is investing in Matrix, that's a good thing. I always worry at some point it will be killed.
Aha that was different than I expected
As someone who has done some of the most extreme/risky forms of travel hacking (serious FD's with 1X + sX for those familiar with lingo), Matrix lost a huge amount of its value when it disallowed searches that start from multiple countries. It's tedious to have to break up a search. Of course, this is not necessarily what they intended it for, so I can't really complain too much.

And covid uncertainty these days has made proper flight hacking a bit of a pastime.
Are you implying that contrast and color is disrupting your focus, and that full-screen flicker during movement increases your focus?
I follow medcram on youtube, he's a doctor and dives into COVID related topics. He gives his opinion, and provides sources on the papers he references. Generally the research presented made a case that getting COVID provided better protection than the vaccines, until Delta.

Similarly Omicron seems to have a higher breakthrough rate for vaccinated folks than the previous variants.
A bit unrelated to the article -

An (initial) portion of my academic experience was researching Interactive Storytelling systems[1]. I was particularly interested in the methods for ensuring certain qualities of the plots, and modeled some constraint solving problems -

but I did had the absolutely outstanding opportunity to interact with researchers in this area, and to read the seminal works on plot structure, Aarne-Thompson's index, Propp and other very, very, very cool stuff

With no false modesty I can say that I had a 'knack' for writing from a young age, but after studying narratives in-depth, what they share, how they 'move', fabula and syuhzet, I became a much better writer - even a technical writer.

Turns out explaining a formal method shares a lot in common with telling a story. One of this days I'll try to pinpoint that overlap and write about it.

[1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interactive_storytelling

P.S.: this is a good resource: http://tecfalabs.unige.ch/mediawiki-narrative/index.php/Narr...
I have some bad news: a draft would not magically make people eager to become soldiers or willing to go to war. In the US, I expect it would have quite the opposite effect.
It's been around since early google days, and that seems to be when most of the HTML was written. Every single page has several HTML errors... so definitely needs help there. Basic things like HTML tables are not closed / switching <td> and <tr> around etc.
Which airline has a luggage tracking system available to passengers?
Linux will annoy you due to honest-to-God bugs, misconfigurations, or other genuine mistakes. The authors of the software would like it to work effortlessly and they're trying their best, they just didn't quite get there.

As a developer, I can sympathize and put up with the occasional afternoon spent hunting down firmware patches or whatever.

Windows >= 8 will intentionally annoy you because Microsoft is trying to squeeze as much money and data as they can from you. It is a truly hostile piece of software and I resent each single minute spent trying to turn off the malware far more than I do all the hours spent clashing with the Linux bluetooth stack or whatever.
> There's something very affirmative about it

My girlfriend has a similar but more questionable opinion that cars were more fun to drive pre power steering.
Well, grandparent poster is arguing this is a backdoor. Sure it is, but for me it's an acceptable backdoor, not comparable to encryption backdoors that governments want, for example for messaging apps that use E2E encryption.

And of course just like any backdoor, the thieves seems to have managed to exploit it so they can steal the car without having the owner's key.
What Are the Odds of Success for a US Seed Funded Startup?
Yes, yes we were.. and it's the last place we want to find ourselves again.
TLDR:

For companies that wish to hire talent of all political stripes, or to reduce the frequency of campaigns to fire employees for political nonconformity, we offer the following advice.

1. Expand your definition of diversity to include diversity on perspectives, function and political views

2. Reconsider what colleges you hire from, including large state schools and even people who have not attended college at all.

3. Orientation: Be direct with candidates and new hires. If you decide that you want your organization to be politically neutral or self-consciously politically heterogeneous it’s a good idea to say so in job postings, and to introduce that idea to employees from their very first day.

4. Make sure your human resources department understands that employees are expected to deal with each other and navigate a way of getting along, and that they should only come to human resources if it involves something more serious.

5. Use real data from anonymous employee surveys to determine if there is an unwelcome environment. Don't rely on social media.

6. If a social media firestorm demands that you fire an employee, slow down. Social media firestorms lose energy quickly so even having just a mandatory two-week cooling off period can get you past the critical period.

7. Don't make firing a first or preferred punishment. Consider something short of firing. As a society we should revive the virtue of forgiveness, and learn to accept apologies again.

8. Ask yourself "where does this end?" If you have an employee who other employees want terminated, and you do terminate them, you have set a precedent for what counts as a fireable offense. Over time, that line tends to shift in one direction only. Eventually, you may be left only with employees who share a narrow ideology and a punitive orientation toward all but the most doctrinaire speech.
>Is it supposed to create FUD around the dangerous world we live in now that we have AirTags?

I think you are correct.
Show HN: Irchiver, your full-resolution personal web archive
Usually, I can guess when a site is likely to suck without adblock or on a different browser, but here my expectations were completely subverted.

On Firefox (desktop) with uBlock Origin and a Pihole, it was a pleasant read. The site loaded quickly, and it worked nicely with a system dark theme and in reader mode.

There are no obvious gaps where sponsored content would be inserted. The header and sidebar look complete yet unobtrusive. It looks like a well-made page that should cooperate nicely with a mobile browser. I'm sorry to hear your experience was so bad!
I actually had a situation where the dealer disabled the electronic keys entirely (and by accident). They had disconnected the battery for some electrical diagnosis and neglected to re-enable the locks.

When I noticed this, many days later (!), I had to take the car and both keys back for them to reprogram. I expect the car was programmed to accept the keys, and not the other way round.
That's fine, but please do install UBlock Origin in any case. Future you will be thankful.
Oh, good idea. I'll do that!
> I'm quite aware of what you can and can not do with wood

yes, I'm sure you are. you always seem to know everything about everything when it comes time to argue.
Indeed this is not a second factor.

I assume this restriction is against automation. As a complete guess on the heuristics: If the phone number you gave them is a "virtual" one, you are out. If it was used too frequently for recovery, you are out. If they are already familiar with it as belonging to someone else who is unlikely to also own the current account, you are out.

With those heuristics you need to provide a "fresh" phone number that likely belongs to a real person and costs real money to purchase and you are unlikely to want to "burn" for just 5 out of 5,000,000 of your automated attempts.
There was a community project like this years ago where they submitted tens of thousands of 10 second clips and random beats they made just to get back at all the record companies claiming they own 10 second sound samples. I guess it's unsurprising the lawsuit goes after the small guys and not the big companies that have been doing it forever.
There's typically a button to toggle it on/off somewhere near the steering wheel.

I got a new car a couple of months ago that has this, and was experiencing similar issues on rural Texas farm roads. I just had to look up where mine was and turn it off temporarily.
No, we can't call Lego instructions "software design" because they're simply not comparable to software in any meaningful sense. They're nothing more than step-by-step instructions on how to assemble a fixed set of pieces. There's no varying input or output, no calculations being done. They're the same as the instructions to assemble a bookshelf, just with more pieces and steps.
Not to mention he even mentions an obvious fix - "Production problems are simply hand-waved away — services are just to be restarted when they misbehave. "

Even if my telemetry doesn't tell me all I need, if it's easy to reproduce, I can reproduce it in an environment that has all the debug stuff I want (and I can futz with it to my heart's content safely, too).

If it's hard to reproduce...then I don't know that I really want to spend time on it if a reboot will just fix it.

While there are probably some in between cases (hard to reproduce, unable to be caught by solid telemetry, we have an instance that is in a bad state that I could remove from the LB and safely futz with, and actually gain useful information from an after-the-fact debugging rather than inspection as it runs under real load), I'm not sure I can recollect one that fits those criteria across 6 or so different companies and domains. That said, that's hardly exhaustive, and I'll admit at only two of those were we using anything akin to a unikernel.
AFAIK the lawsuits were mostly about him using "Lego" as a part of his brand (Legoheld). He had to rebrand and now exclusively uses the generic term "Klemmbaustein" (press-fit brick) instead of the name Lego and also now mainly promotes other brands.

The story is pretty well known on the german internet.
The average man is taller in height than the average cow and shorter in total height than the average horse.

His cow is about the average total height of a cow at 160cm.

He has an oddly short man though at 165cm / 5'5".

And he says the horse is the same size, but that would be only 16 hands. That would be the withers size of an average horse, but the total height of only a pony.
iOS Safari now support “content blocker” extensions which means you can download 3rd party blockers (such as Firefox Focus).

It’s pretty non-obvious feature until you know about it.
Visidata 2.7 Released – Excel/CSV/JSON/DB/ODT/Awk in Terminal
Morality Is Scary
They are essentially SQL transformation at the reporting stage. Python is just the glue code, a lot of attention has gone into the connectors but no so much into the complexity within the SQL.

The problem I would like to address is complex SQL written as strings.
Some parts of these repeat over multiple reports, column transformations, look ups, joins with dimensions .....
Bureaucomputation. (Byur-ah-computation?)
It only begs that question for folks that mistakenly interpret "Smart Contract" to mean some kind of contract. In reality, Smart Contracts are no more "Conracts" than any other app.
I will say I've met a chef whose secret meatball recipe leveraged the cellular destruction caused by freezing along with salt to enhance the flavor.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J0dDTbA1fq8

https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/161936/pandemic-legacy-s...

https://www.amazon.com/Pandemic-Cooperative-Playtime-Z-Man-G...
Here's the wiki: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legacy_game
There are several re implementations and browser addons on github. They don't really seem interested, while the user base might be.
Thanks for the tip. I read now the basis. ie human psychology :)
It is now! https://gitlab.com/stavros/deep-dreams
You should install a blocker for security reasons.
I put the effort into the first one i met; she was named "Rascal" and one of the best dogs evar! (as they all are, of course :)

I had her when the next one decided she needed to try to be boss; and then that pup left to run a wild dog pack for a couple years. they were decent neighbors but didnt thrive. We'd put out food at their corner of the place and they'd sometimes accept some, she set and respect boundaries otherwise.

I tried to keep one of the great dane ones, she came after me at about 9mo old and >100lb; i still have scars. I put that one down then.

I had one other of the danes i wasn't sure about, so I placed it with a guy who does "police / guard dog" training and heard it responded well.

One of the more notional of the bluetick crosses got a job as a junkyard dog, where he didn't have to worry about people too much and vice versa.

We've got a local "no kill" shelter we've been to several times, they have several dogs i classify as "psycho" too. None of mine, and I haven't tried adopting any of them (though i have helped take them to the vet sometimes).

My view is that kind of dog can't be happy without a job and care and is unsafe to let roam where there may be humans for it to hurt. Shelter or dead and I can argue either side of "which is better". Having fostered the birth of a dangerous animal, I feel some responsibility to see it doesn't present a risk to others; and finding jobs for them, keeping them in a jail, or putting them down is a burden.
Maybe if you can make your VW think that you're testing its exhaust emissions, it will disable all those annoying safety features. ;)