skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
An article posted below:

https://www.alaskasnewssource.com/2022/04/04/cancellations-c...

> An Alaska Airlines captain, according to a news release from the airline, averages about $341,000 a year, but pilots say it’s not just about money — they also want work rule changes, job security and scheduling flexibility.

So, money doesn't seem to be it alone...

> work rule changes

interesting.
They're legally required to offer health insurance plans for full-time employees.
Lots of fresh YC content on Youtube now
The headline “set to” here means they could. Or “things are pointing in the direction that…” or “multiple signs seem to indicate that…”, or similar. Nothing strange in this reporting at all.
Can you give me some examples of what you'd consider to be free software projects?
I do systems software engineering. What should I learn in order to become an ML engineer?
Haha agreed
Right seat != left seat. Check salary of first officers.
One way of addressing this is to use the intended method, which is to Hide the application instead of minimizing it. Cmd H hides the application away, and it pops back to the front with a Cmd Tab.
San Francisco closings hit the national news a few months ago -- what's the state of it now? Any reopenings?
Well our train service is highly privatised, and in a way that does not engender competition.
It’s a question of economy of scale. The amount of road vehicle that has been built over the last 150 years vastly supersedes the amount of train over an even longer period. More train, means better train. Hopefully advances in computer aided design will allow some narrowing of that gap.

EDIT: There is also an inherent feature in trains that greatly reduces the rate of progress. With toad vehicles there is very good decoupling between the track and the vehicle, from a design pov. With trains the chassis design is more coupled to the track design. And since you can’t really upgrade track easily, on both train and road, there are more constraints in new train design.
Ha I had one of these and used it for like a day before it went in to the junk drawer. Cool idea though.
You don’t really need a block chain, you can just register serial numbers on a legitimate website. This was solved early on with cd keys.
The options for package management on macOS aren’t great in my experience, coming from using Linux on all my personal machines. Homebrew exists but it always feels bolted on and I’ve had things break in interesting ways using it. Nix might be better, I don’t have much experience using it on macOS.

Also, tiling window managers.
I do this. It's absolutely insane that it's the easiest way to do window management in MacOS. We have regressed to the point of not having windows anymore.
Family plan health insurance premiums on open market is $33K/year in New England (US). With group plans that goes down to $28K/year. A full time employee at $15/hr is $30k/year. The US healthcare system is fundamentally broken...
Relating Transformers to Modes and Neural Representations of the Hippocampal
Did you tell the person you're selling it to that they'll be able to make 10x what they paid on it in a year as part of your pitch?
That experiment existed, it was called the Concorde
> there are at least two solar eclipses every year

That's only if you consider them globally, as a solar eclipse (especially a partial one) covers only a small part of Earth. A single particular location e.g. Ancient Greece would see a full solar eclipse roughly every 360 years and some kind of partial eclipse roughly once a century, so that's quite a big difference, making a solar eclipse exactly during the winter solstice in Greece a very rare once in a 10000 year event.
This article is about a adult man who was on drunk, on drugs, and driving an electric vehicle on a public sidewalk. How is this comparable to public education?
Usually the first bill arrives 30+ days after the service. And by the time you get final notice to pay it will be 6-12 mos after the first bill. Not defending Intuit or MC here, but this situation is not exactly as it is painted in that Tweet.

Considering there were no more publicity about this since tweet date (November 2021), it wasn't a big deal.
UN has a specific definition of genocide: it's "acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group."

https://www.un.org/en/genocideprevention/genocide.shtml

The reported mass deportations of Ukrainian children are included in this definition.

The definition says nothing about Iraq war.

Intent? Documented:

https://web.archive.org/web/20220405204214/https://www.washi...

But a “substantial part of the populace” is “also guilty” and would require “reeducation” and “ideological repressions” lasting “at least a generation” and would “inevitably mean de-Ukrainization.”

The intent to destroy Ukrainian identity, and the actions taken so far, is what makes this look like a genocide. Not the relative number of victims.

Of course until "an official body" declares this a genocide - which is not 100% sure - we can always pretend it's just "a normal war".
My favorite: I'm sitting quietly while some group around me "discusses" something. I get asked my opinion. I give it. Someone gets angry because my opinion differs from theirs.
Once the "fastest possible" is broken zeppelin travel offers significant energy savings - it can ride the Gulf Stream and spend most of the actual energy positioning itself correctly there. They could even be designed as sails to catch more.
Those who used to do no evil, but gave up on the idea as not profitable enough.
And more information automatically means better?

Look at covid and how dumb people were on that.

I think there is a positive correlation between access to information and vaccine denial.
Oh completely agree regarding the survival bias - I think the over-arching plan was to make it more accessible to more than just dev teams, and it seems to have worked. "Like MS Word" was thrown around a bit.
DOS, where /arg was the way
If you consider the time-money spent in security checkpoints and riding taxis it’s a wash. Amtrak is able to charge more because it’s a better experience than a flight! But only on the NY-DC route.
Man, it doesn't even cover CGA displays (200x160,16 color)!
Bad idea in mi opinion, this is a solved problem, overhead wires, the amount of energy lost between the converting water into hydrogen and then back into water to get electricity can be as high as 70%, it's just a bad idea when you can use that energy directly using wire to get the same job done
Sex and gender education banned for K-3 in Florida
I think you'll find most startups that engage with the hiring threads here lean towards system / API design interviews or take home projects.
What's interesting is how hard people struggle to force a narrative that isn't there.
> what are they producing Hydrogen with and how is it more efficient energetically and emission wise?

Even if it is just Blue hydrogen being burnt here, the splitter plants can have some carbon capture in it which would be impossible to install on a moving train (beats diesel and also direct LNG burning).

That said, with trains there's no real argument against electrification. The wheels have been electrically driven for a few decades now. It's not like they need to come up with motors or work out batteries.
I can confirm. I myself or our teams find compiler bugs every year or so, going from pure compiler crashes, to generate code that segfaults yay. Bugs are everywhere. Ada helps you with some categories of bugs and crashes but saying you can't segfault an Ada application is laughingly untrue. I manage that frequently on legacy codebases. And BTW, for the customer, a segfault or an uncaught top-level exception have the same effect. A crash.
I'm pretty impressed with India opening dedicated freight corridors. It's double-track that is optimized for longer, heavier freight trains. It seems obvious that the different operational patterns of freight and passenger rail means they each should have their own tracks. The only thing they did "wrong" IMO was to have level crossings where cars & trucks can get hit by the trains.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pd6EW9QsRto
I argue that there is a larger effect: Bill Clinton making the decision that the Democratic Party turn its back on blue collar workers and the middle of the country because just having Wall Street support would be sufficient to win elections. He was not wrong, but it has had a bad effect because the republicans also started to ignore the working class in favor of the financial class.

Nationalism, something to be avoided, occurs when the underclass is not represented in a political system.
All Network Rail railways: £4479M / 20,000 miles of track = £140000/km

Strategic Road Network: £700M / 4,436 miles = £98000/km

Not included: cost of pollution, injuries and deaths on the roads.

Not considered: potential and actual capacity of the roads vs the railways, potential for historic underinvestment meaning higher current costs, whether these statistics mean a single track/road lane or all the tracks/lanes, usage costs for passengers and freight.

A breakdown of the railways costs would be useful for a better comparison, i.e. major lines only.

https://www.networkrail.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/Ann...

https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/...
I like that in Windows I can copy-paste the location from one File Manager windows to another one. Something that you cannot do in MacOs File Manager
But if a library is among your dependencies, I'd wager you're going to call some of its functions.

So you run a maven build, maven retrieves the library, maven runs your tests, your tests call functions from the library - and the library code you've just downloaded gets run.
nano is a surprisingly capable code editor. I like using it for quick edits or when I'm on a remote server. It's indentation can be configured (tab or space, how wide), it has optional line numbering, undo / redo, copy/paste (line based or more fine-grained), a very efficient search and replace that can cross files, syntax highlighting (a bit limited at times). It's fast. I know how to use vim and like it but haven't become proficient with it and its modal editing still gets in my way. I haven't tried Emacs. I have written sizable chunks of code with nano. I usually prefer Kate most of the time though. I've tried VS Codium but I find it too sluggish. I'd use it for some refactoring tasks but with Kate gaining LSP support (and true multi cursor mode), I have even less incentive to use Codium now. My muscle memory has been trained with Kate for 15 years now.

Rachel from rachelbythebay.com notoriously uses nano FWIW [1]

If you don't expect a very powerful editor, nano can be a good companion, but it is actually more powerful than most people think it is.

> Also I'd probably get pissed for using vim over ssh session to program when sometimes the network could sporadically slows down my cursor movement.

Also think of using screen or tmux or one of their alternatives in case your session breaks. It's bad enough being slowed down by a flaky connection, losing the session is very disruptive even if they produce backup files. There's also Emacs which comes with a server, I would expect it to survive connection losses but don't quote me on that.

[1] http://rachelbythebay.com/w/2018/12/21/env/
Right seat is the first officer / copilot. Not the pilot. You must spend a long time as a copilot before advancing to the pilot role.
While that's almost disingenuous, specifically, the belief that there is no truth, especially one that is separate or meaningful from official power narrative, is nihilism. A close relative of it used to be called "the banality of evil," which was about thinking in similar self justifying cliches.

The climate narrative is just one movement his organization has co-opted and used as a host - one that originally opposed him when it was a part of the progressive anti-globalization movement of the 90s that specifically called out his Davos cronies. Now, climate is just the logic of an idea, it is an exogenous threat that can be used to justify literally anything once you have decoupled narrative from accountability to truth. Most of it is just a bunch of gibberish theory designed to confuse, pacify, and above all, neutralize criticism and opposition to the underlying action behind it.

I would ask: Why should central banks be accountable to him and the organizations he controls? Why are he and others so indexed on zero-sum redistribution of carbon "rights" instead of investing in developing new energy technologies and efficiencies? Why did he coin the phrase "great reset" in his rambling book of the same title, designed to leverage a global crisis to reshape the world in his vision? The answer is always the same: because it puts him and his network in the center of the chaos they create, and invents new conflicts for the sole purpose of managing them.

It's straight political infiltration and demolition of existing successful economies using a network of fifth columnists he has groomed and orchestrated the installation of - which he has openly bragged about. His appeals to climate narrative are straw men, they have nothing to do with the technology and economics of energy use, and they all resolve to central global governance and a zero sum view of power over the entire planet. He, and his acolytes also believe there is no accountability to truth in discourse (I live in one of their countries), and they use words mainly as a distraction and a kind of perfidy.

Who is going to "make" those companies and central banks factor in his agenda to their decisions? Sounds like a technocratic rule by people who have seized the underlying service mechanisms of the economy, and one that cannot be left or escaped.

We live in a post-totalitarian world, and that means guys like this are going to periodically rise and be an ongoing threat to our species' ability to live and thrive. It is our responsibility to challenge them and call them out for what they are, because the 20th century showed us the consequences of ignoring them until it was too late.
What are you talking about? SuperCollider is licensed under GPLv3 [1].

[0] https://github.com/supercollider/supercollider#license
I don't get this - is the vaccine killing the pilots? Why is pilot deaths up 4x and what is the source?
E.g., you can set up a breakpoint in your own local module that your notebook is importing and get the full vscode debugging experience by executing a cell.
Devoted fan of A tries B, is displeased.
This seems poorly argued to me. You're making a number of assumptions here which I don't see why they would hold:

1. Amtrak ridership will barely grow, at most by a few hundred riders per day. If you're this bearish on trains then naturally you'll think nobody wants to take the train and you don't think Amtrak should build more trains. You're coming into this assuming that nobody wants to ride the train.

2. Building dedicated track between Chicago and Milwaukee would be cost prohibitive for Amtrak or otherwise infeasible. The majority of the cost for building track comes from acquiring ROW (so purchasing the land), grade separations, and utility relocations needed for laying the track. Chicago to Milwaukee in particular is one of the cases where these costs are probably _lowest_ as much of the ROW is cheap to acquire (outside of the direct Chicagoland area), the land is fairly flat so grade separations are rarely needed and utility relocations are cheap to build.

3. The opportunity cost in carbon for added vehicles on the road would somehow be less than the opportunity cost for rolling stock to idle. Even if freight rail continues to refuse to electrify in perpetuity, the added carbon from private vehicle emissions will quickly dwarf extra carbon emissions from idling freight cars.

I think you're coming at this from a "trains are stupid, here's why" perspective rather than an unbiased cost and carbon perspective. These arguments change in areas where ROW acquisition is expensive or grade separations and utility relocations are difficult, but Chicago to Milwaukee has very few of these problems. In particular the problem in this part of the US is that while rail works to move from city-to-city, most Midwestern cities (other than Chicago) have no actual transit to speak of. Once the Amtrak drops you into Milwaukee, if there's nowhere to go via train, then you're stuck, in which case you may as well drive the whole way. That goes back to the fact that rail/transit in the US has been historically and systematically underfunded, particularly so in the Midwest where Detroit had a lot of negotiation (read: money) leverage in the golden years for American auto companies.
Take the effort out of keeping your dependencies up to date with Dependabot
This is a pretty misinformed take when it’s publicly known that YouTube was already doing this (learn from what the user is watching and for how long) the year Bytedance was founded (2012):

https://blog.youtube/news-and-events/youtube-now-why-we-focu...
Wow. That's not a small thing to internalize. I guess if you use predominantly Go, then that's good and understanabdle, but if you have more languages in the mix (C/C++, Python, C#, Java, Rust), each of them have their own build ways and quirks (at least with Go/Rust/C# there is build single option (AFAIK)), but then do - do I need to clean now? Is this going to really get my latest change? Is the IDE going to see these new symbols, the debugger, etc.

I know people like when their language comes with build system, but that creates a cost when that language/runtime has to be used with others...
Whiskers. Every cat is perfectly aware of the rapidly accelerating wind rushing past its head. Then they have ears to hear that wind. Lastly they have eyes and some experience with life on solid ground. They see it coming and understand what that means... Unlike sperm whales.
> The employees Business Insider spoke with said they would be covered retroactively only once the paperwork was finalized, which left them on the hook to pay upfront fees.

This seems like many responses on HN are over reacting. Employees are not on the hook for previously insured medical expenses.

Almost all medical offices are happy to work with patients if the situation is explained before hand. For example my HMO has printed signs at every intake counter reading “Can’t pay? Call this number to discuss payment options.”

This situation sucks, but it’s really not much different from forgetting your insurance number and needing the front desk to front you the copay or deductible.
I never minimize windows at all on the Mac, perhaps because of this behavior. I hide apps with (Command-H) instead, and use multiple desktops for managing different workflows instead.
And yet layover flights are decreasing since the 2 engine restriction was "lifted". A 787 can fly non stop for as long as would be comfortable for someone to be on a plane.

According to Wendover Productions.
Yes, accesses from Russia are currently blocked.
I do hope that an SPF2 will allow defining subdomains. Until then, this is the best defence.
Sometimes throwing money at something… works
I think it’s more what you’re used to.

I use Windows and macos daily and I sorta prefer the mac’s window management, but they both work fine once you know what you’re doing. In some cases macos just has different keystrokes that the author doesn’t know yet, and in others you just manage windows a little differently (or use an app if you don’t want to adjust).
Overhead wires are not a solution on a large scale, and also an eyesore.
Probably because they furloughed a good chunk of them, and it gave them the time and space to decide they didn't want to go back to their miserable, underpaid job.
If you find that interesting, have you investigated why _people_ do it?
Fair enough. I still think people should read stuff like this with a healthy measure of skepticism.
I think it's worth watching the original clip (2 minutes) as it's more clear there. I got the sense that the company has decided work on other priorities at the moment and that the ability to move the taskbar is somewhere in the backlog.

https://old.reddit.com/r/Windows11/comments/tyflzp/microsoft...
How is this information relevant on a discussion about a pilot shortage affecting a major carrier?
>That's essentially what old-school furniture & home stores do. There's nothing wrong with that but I think that market is already at capacity, competition is fierce and margins are low.

Eh, I can't think of a directly comparable site. The closest would be something like Pier 1, but there's no customization there and it's all sold by Pier 1.
what platform? i have 4000 rooms and have no such problems on element on chrome, ff or electron on a new macbook pro.
NXDOMAIN at least has a TTL so it will not grow forever. What problem are you referring to, not being able to invalidate a cached NXDOMAIN? Or something else?
>The possibility of getting the first piece of interstellar material[...]

It's very likely that there's interstellar material already on earth from before we were able to detect the impact though, right? Question for the astrophysicists, is there something in the composition of objects that can tell us if something is interstellar in origin?
"Not all" is a big understatement... I would estimate that less than 0.00001% of published research does this. Every time I talk about this to someone (colleagues in adjacent fields, PIs...), they seem to give zero pucks. It's really mind-boggling.
Trains could easily beat air travel if they could skip the ridiculous security theater. Having to get to the airport 2 hours early is a whole lot of slack to let trains catch up.
The other thing with more parameters is that it gives the NN more ability to overfit. That means that instead of, say, learning what a dog is, it instead memorises all the sentences containing "dog" that it has ever seen.
Microsoft made the mistake of adding non-deterministic behaviour to MSI files, because without that the package format is pretty much everything I'd want out of a software packaging system.

I think companies wanted to stuff branding and ads into their installers, so MSI files fell out of use. Modern Windows seems to prefer msix and other weird UWP-based formats, but I don't think you can just install those.

What Windows is missing though, is a clean way to manage these MSI files. A reinstall or an uninstall shouldn't take twenty windows and four different "next" buttons to process. When Microsoft created the Microsoft Store, they neglected to also add a command line option for installation (you can manually install a package, but you'll need to do updates yourself from what I can tell). Just add a Powershell command like "MSStore-Install" and the entire ecosystem would be so much nicer to use!

I suppose this is what they're trying to do with WinGet, after forking AppGet and leaving the original project to die. For some reason they like to reinvent the wheel every time someone thinks of a new way to install binaries onto a computer.
You need to divide maintenance by the actual usage of the infrastructure. Railway can handle much larger usage of the infrastructure per km than a motorway can. You may need 4 motorway lanes to support the usage of a single train track in order to handle the same capacity. Per capita, rail costs tend to be a lot lower as rail can handle much more than 2x motorway throughput.
Most employers don't offer to pay the premium out instead of the coverage, so they usually offer a much better deal than the alternatives.

Like if your contribution to your insurance is a few hundred a paycheck there is a pretty good chance that the employer is paying in quite a bit more than that.

https://www.kff.org/health-costs/report/2021-employer-health...
I'd like to see trains and planes integrated to a greater extent. Many of the "hub to spoke" connections could be replaced by trains, that could actually arrive quicker than a plane. And trains are less affected by weather.

They could even check you into your flight while you're on the train.