skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The "How we got here" section blames pilots leaving (or being forced out,) covid illness, and storms.

Then it goes on to cite a "picketing" event--that, hand to god, didn't cause any cancellations--while everyone knows it was a walkout.

Now, mind you, Alaska supports BIPOC pilots. Can't leave an opportunity to signal that hard on the table.

And, finally, Alaska has the best pilot remuneration. So good that the union and the company have been deadlocked for 3 years.

They simply can't resist the urge to write up this bunk. Nobody appreciates it. But everyone does it anyway. This could have been one paragraph that says there was poor management that led to a compounding effect. We don't have enough pilots. We should have adjusted the routes, but we just let it.
The point was that if train was cheaper than flying OP would fly less. Of course that means we'd have fewer airlines.
what do you mean by "mouse scroll toggle"?
You can activate Mission Control with Control-Down Arrow. After that, you can use the arrow keys to navigate, but then the pointer is significantly faster and you don't have to "think."
>nonsense about Mac fans being blinded by their love of the brand is the edgelord meme that will not die.

Thank you for the completely unemotional comment that totally does not add to the notion I was alluding to that some fans are a bit sensitive about criticism.

Joking aside, our points are basically the same. I totally agree that nothing we create is intuitive "by definition"; that's my whole point. I would never claim that Linux or anything else is intuitive "by definition", and yet I see a lot of Mac fans claiming that. It might be perception bias, but I think not.

My first contact with a Mac was some 10 years ago. I struggled to turn it on -- contrary to _all other similar devices_, on the Mac the power button was very faintly beveled, and tucked in an invisible corner on the back of the screen (it was a desktop). I get that people might like this, totally fine. I just don't accept that this is intuitive design.
My top hobby project involving vintage electronics was spoiled when seeing, in eBay photos, vintage assurance labels about the level of X-rays emitted being safe.

I don't know how much to trust that assurance from decades ago, and I don't know whether old and possibly damaged units are still within spec. in that regard.
Communication on All Levels
The cloud is just someone else's servers.

3-2-1-0 Applies to all data, at all time, in all places
The gold is already dug up. The ferrari is already built (even if it's not, like it's got custom features or w/e, they're going to build it whether you give them money or not because that's what they do). Real estate is a heavily regulated market precisely because it's an investment. None of these are like either the web3 nonsense or your hypothetical with my caveat added on.

If you're offering to build something with someone else's money and you sell it to them as something that will grow in value over time, that is exactly selling someone an investment.

And the fact that it sometimes happens without triggering regulatory oversight doesn't mean it's not in that category, it just means sometimes people casually break the law (which is true anyways).
On the contrary, the BBC has a major right-wing bias and regularly downplays - and even often outright chooses to not report - pieces that reflect poorly on the UK Government (which becomes striking when you read some European or American dailies that report much more freely on such stories).
Just posting to agree, and in the real world I think most people do. I don't agree with the bill because this kind of heavy handed approach is just and escalation and doesn't solve anything. But it is an escalation, it's not like the bill has come out of nowhere, and I can understand why there would be immense public pressure to shield young kids from the ideological battle (and mostly trolling as I've said many times) that is going on.
I write code and attend meetings
The bill doesn't forbid sex education in general.
Direction of travel can make a big difference. If it impacts one side of the earth, the leading side in the earths orbit around the sun, then you need to subtract the earth's orbital velocity. On the opposite side, you need to add earth's velocity to get a true representation of the object's speed around the sun. The earth is also spinning. The atmosphere is moving at basically the same speed as earth's rotation. That too has to be accommodated based on the direction and latitude of the impact.

Lastly, something that this paper doesn't address. There is a chance that the object was local to our solar system but had been 'flung' out onto an escape trajectory. Our solar system is a giant multi-body problem. Things can be flung out into space. This rock might have been accelerated to escape velocity by our moon or some other body. So rather than an interstellar object, it may have been a local rock on its way out that just happened to hit earth before leaving the solar system.
They think we don't know they're cursing the president, we know they're cursing.

They also call it the "Brandon Administration", so "let's go" actually appears patriotic.

It's a monumental testament to bootlicker intelligence.
Inertia is the worst justification for alcohol I have heard yet. If I could wave a wand and remove the most dangerous drug on the planet it would probably be alcohol.
- Not everybody knows how to read a scientific paper, especially when there are so many conflicting studies. I wanted to hear from someone who better understands this subject than me.

- Wine, in general, has much lower alcohol content, and so some don't even consider it as an alcoholic drink.
> Is it normal to have sex education at 8 years old in the US??

> In the UK the first sex education we had was maybe one or two lessons at 10-11 years old (all I remember is a video of hairy naked people... and likely there was some discussion of sex/procreation...).

Honestly, I don't know for sure. I didn't go to a public school until 5th grade (10–11). That year we definitely had "family life" for an awkward couple days. And I'm sure the subject was at least covered the prior year if not before. However I recall there was very little about "sex" per se, it was mostly babies, bodies, and biology, etc.

IIRC, my parents had "the talk" with me much earlier. Probably preschool or kindergarten.
I agree with you. I just like wildly speculating in a way that at least maintains internal consistency so that the "path" laid seems plausible. Mostly for fun. ;) But I get it, the more twists and turns you add to this path that don't have empirical support, the more "out there" you get. Shrug.

> Humans are really good at dealing with weird events. We're living through a climate catastrophe, a pandemic on a scale unknown to previous generations living in less connected worlds

last I checked, we are NOT dealing well with these things: https://www.economist.com/graphic-detail/coronavirus-excess-..., and the psychological impact: https://www.kff.org/coronavirus-covid-19/issue-brief/the-imp...

> I can't imagine that it wouldn't very quickly become just another part of our lives

There are so many people driven by fear and paranoia right now (see: many conservatives, if you'll permit the stereotype for a minute, but there IS some science to back that up at least) that the paranoia itself would be dangerous. It's like how the Khwarazmian Empire got completely wiped out because they were deeply suspicious (without basis in fact) of Genghis Khan's multiple trade envoys, who they simply assumed were spies, and who they managed to send back missing most of their heads (gravely upsetting the Genghis, and the rest is history). All it would take is for a few rogue states to send nukes up at some "monitoring" mother ships (just look at Russia with its pre-emptive "NATO-fearing" war) and that might be the end of that...
Yep, and it's not even hard to find examples of businesses that are not paying a living wage and/or are actively abusing people. Just walk into almost any restaurant or retail location. Pretty much anywhere below the highest end establishments of either kind will have both things going on.
> While I find projects in those other languages to also have too many dependencies, it's no where near what happens in JS apps. I'm thinking of projects I've recently worked on in Rust, PHP, and Java.

My experience with these new languages is such that this feels a bit unfair. It's like insisting that a disaster with 1000 fatalities is "much worse" than one with "only" 200. It's ... true ... I guess, but there's something uncomfortable about making the comparison. Something has gone badly wrong if the comparison even needs to happen in the first place.

What I'm getting at is that e.g. Rust has an enormous problem in this area. It's not uncommon for me to see Node projects with over a thousand transitive dependencies, but on the other hand, I very frequently see Rust projects with over a hundred. And the Node projects tend to be more complicated than the Rust ones; they do more.

Take the last Rust program I tried to use, tealdeer. [1] If you don't know, tldr is a project that provides alternative simplified man pages for commonly used programs that consist entirely of easy to understand examples for the program. [2] What a tldr client needs to do is simply to check a local cache for each lookup, and if necessary update the cache online. It's a trivial problem that can be, and has been! [3], solved in a few hundred lines of shell (if you're being extremely verbose). How many recursive dependencies would you guess tealdeer uses? Depends on how you count, of course, but as of today the answer is ~133 deduplicated dependencies! For a program that's a glorified wrapper around curl!

Or another Rust program I looked at recently, rua [4]. In Arch Linux, the AUR is a repository of user maintained scripts for building and installing software as native Arch packages. Official tools for building and installing software already exist for Arch, but it is common for users to use a wrapper around these tools that makes fetching and updating the software from the AUR easier. It's a relatively simple task that (once again) can be done with shell scripts. rua is such a wrapper. As of today it uses 137 deduplicated dependencies!

These Rust programs are simple terminal tools to do tasks that are almost trivial in nature. And yet they require hundreds of constantly updating dependencies! The situation may well be better than what you'll find for Node, but it's undeniably disastrous compared to either simpler languages without a built in package manager (like C) or more complicated batteries-included languages where best practices continue to prevail (like Python).

[1] https://github.com/dbrgn/tealdeer

[2] https://tldr.sh/

[3] https://github.com/raylee/tldr-sh-client/blob/main/tldr

[4] https://github.com/vn971/rua
> The plans simply reflect the cost of healthcare.

Anyone who works in healthcare and looks at billing can tell you this is not actually the case, prices are not based on any reasonable metric and are rarely actually paid by insurers anyway.

>The companies that sell the healthcare have profit margins in the sub 5% range.

Point of contention here, these companies aren't selling healthcare, they're reselling it. Which is a service which should ideally not have any profit margins, and would be best suited for a large, collective entity that everyone paid into according to their financial ability, as opposed to smaller social-class exclusive pools.
I like how you claim that deaths are up, yet somehow the data doesn't exist yet. And then you're being melodramatic in other comments about not being able to questions vaccines.

Maybe it's because you're casting doubt without actually considering the evidence in front of you.
> Reality is a consensual process.

No. It is the exact opposite of that. Reality is what, when you stop consenting to it, does not go away.

Your delusions can't hurt you if you don't react to them. (Unfortunately, other people's delusions only depend on them reacting to them.)
I've got an ultrawide, and everything full screen isn't really a viable strategy, but I generally agree about like just having workspaces and shifting between them instead of keeping a bunch of windows floating around.

That said I would really prefer to use a mouse and one handed keyboard shortcuts in place of the trackpad, but when you transition applications/workspaces with the keyboard in macOS it plays the full (slooow) duration of the transition animation and you cant interact with anything until it finishes. Absolutely insane choice. On trackpad you can swipe faster and it changes faster.

I end up using my laptop with a mouse, but then using the trackpad to do gestures. It's crazy, and I really wish I could do something about it.
mostly yes

The cost is tooo high

not to mention buying the patent rights by them as indeed these're their right for inventing so many tech related stuffs to solid state batteries
Huh? What does that have to do with anything? Now you’re just being totally ignorant
Most employers in the U.S. over about 1,000 employees are “self-insured”, meaning they hire the insurance company for the network and administration, but the company actually does directly pay out claims. At over 1k employees, I expect MailChimp was already self-insuring, and Intuit definitely does.
Lots of people leave the profession before becoming pilots at a major carrier.
That's what killed deep learning in the 90s right? The ideas were there, they were just impractical, and now they're Python libraries on a laptop. Could be similar here albeit I don't know anything around the viability of their HTM layers!
Meanwhile, red/blue partisanship has declined and more independent (non-partisan) voters emerge.

The article is blowing smokes up where the sun doesn’t shine.

Meanwhile, http://www.stevenwwebster.com/negative-partisanship-rabid.pd...
Insights for Force Design from the Russo-Ukrainian War
I haven't ever seen it be as perfectly done as you've described. It is always shades of gray across teams and companies. They have most of what you described, but not uniformly across the company.

e.g. versioning may be enabled, but not cross region replication because it is cost prohibitive. Someone runs a job to clean up a bucket that includes deleting old versions. They point it at the wrong bucket or wrong path in the bucket. Or a malicious user does it on purpose. Monitors and alerts really tell you after the fact that you now have a major problem.

Also limits (like cross region concurrency) may not be known about until it is time to actually do a mass scale restore. DR tests might have been done but only in isolation of one app at a time. By the time you realize your mistake you're dealing with physics. Maybe AWS can bump it a bit to help you in that particular circumstance though.

No idea what happened at Atlassian. My only point is it is very hard to get it right without a huge amount of effort.
Show HN: Oregon State University Class Data Explorer
FWIW, I never minimise windows, just hide them (Cmd-H). Works fine (and you can Cmd-Tab to them).
Oh, sure, we can do that. And often we do. But mistrust is absolutely not an excuse to inflame culture wars and spread misinformation.
PG is implying that the phenomenon of getting shunned for having said something right-wing on Twitter is new/different enough that it implies some shift in societal attitudes. I'm arguing that it is not, and the 1985 equivalent would be a progressive being shunned for being, let's say, pro-gay-rights in small-town Missouri. The mechanism changes with technology, but the cause has not changed since Hester Prynne at least.
Talent as Leverage
There are many videos of teachers and kids books that are... pretty crazy. I too expected these teachers were so few/extreme that they'd be losing their jobs when their shenanigans are exposed (but that's not what's happening, seemingly it really is systemic).
https://twitter.com/libsoftiktok/
Remember these same groups fought teaching straight sex education at any grade level.

That this prohibits non-age-appropriate instruction means it will be used as a backdoor attempt to ban sex education.
I'm not sure why you think this is a legal grey area. If you have a clause that says no other employment... and you have other employment, that is not very grey. Especially if one of them comes with FAANG compensation, the courts will hardly buy an argument that you were not compensated for that limitation.

IANAL, so I could be totally wrong, but this does not seem grey at all. You broke a contract. The question would be about consequences, not the contract.
We’re living in a society where it’s now common enough that a few kids in your class may have two mothers or two fathers. Some kids may not understand why that is, & I’d say as early as kindergarten sounds enough to have a teacher explain why their friends may have a different family structure than their own.

To my knowledge, this bill makes it so you couldn’t. Which is bad.
Well, sure, they're ionizing radiation. Of course there's an increased cancer risk, one that becomes more noticeable with increasing exposure. Normally we trade that off against their beneficial diagnostic properties, but this was an era when people didn't always think the tradeoffs through completely.

X rays are the least of your worries with this project, though... this was back in the day when men were men, women knew their place (except for that uppity Marie Curie broad), and engineers wired headphone jacks directly to high-voltage B+ supplies. (See the schematic in this very article, in fact.)

It's amazing our ancestors survived to pass on their genes. A lot of our would-be ancestors didn't.
For what it's worth, I highly recommend Randy Fromm's four-part class on CRT repair on YouTube:

I watched it just out of curiosity, and now I can at least claim to know another useless skill now.
In our high school physics class in early 80s, the teacher didn't care for calculators, so you'd have to do your calculations by hand, or learn to use a slide rule. I learned to use a slide rule, along with a buddy. I don't remember others in the class using slide rules, but looking back now, I have a hard time believing everybody else used pencil & paper. So there were probably others.

I think that teacher didn't retire for another 20 years, so he may have had kids in the 21st century still learning to use slide rules for his class.
There is this contemporary absurd narrative that businesses, business owners, and/or corporations only recently became greedy, and that this development (of greed), not the system itself, is the root of essentially all the problems with the modern economic system.

I think it is quite possible that you were more likely to find a benevolent feudal lord (partially because incentives were more directly, and forcibly, aligned) than find a corporation willing to put profits as anything other than first.
If I understand this correctly, inflation hurts working people and a recession hurts Wall Street. If this is correct, I expect to see huge efforts made avoiding a recession and caring much less about inflation.
The most annoying behavior for me is Alt-Tabbing an application whose windows are spread across multiple desktops. Alt-tab will not go back to the actual previous window, it will go back to the window of the previous application closest to the current desktop. Sigh. Luckily I don't have to put up with MacOS for very much.
COBRA wasn't that far off of marketplace prices for me. If I thought I'd use the better coverage/better benefits during the COBRA period, and I was confident my former employer would inform COBRA users of issues at least as well as they did employees, I might have considered it.

IIUC, COBRA rates are more or less the total employee and employer rate, maybe plus a limited administration fee? Also, I don't think COBRA pricing varies by age, but marketplace plans do, so if my spouse or I were older, COBRA might have been a good deal.

All that said, I think most people switching jobs keep the COBRA paperwork in case something big happens before they get new coverage in place. There's a grace period on the first payment, if you need coverage, you can pay until the grace period and get retroactive coverage; if you don't need coverage, don't pay. Some people even prepare the payment but leave instructions to send it in if they're incapacitated.
Isn't it the fifth book in the trilogy?
Well you’re just a user, what do you know anyhow? It’s not like paying money for a service entitles you to be able to have something which works and delivers what you paid for. In fact, if you look at the EULA I’m positive that it states you’re paying to access the almighty godlike code of Jira.
Also if you don’t like it, simply construct your own industry standard and train your users on it, maintain it, and keep the costs down!.

I think software companies need to have a serious “Come to Jesus” talk with their users about who needs to control what.
>> I'd imagine whatever has been traditionally included in "sex education" in these grades (aka "Family Life", meaning "how babies are made"), would still be allowed.

> Wouldn't that involve a sexual orientation?

Honestly? I highly doubt it. From what I can recall of from this subject in a later grade, it was all about babies, bodies, and biology. It didn't cover any kind social or psychological aspects of sex or sex acts.
Not all decentralization projects are based on scarcity, but those that do tend to get the most publicity - regrettably.
Overall I like the format and advice from https://keepachangelog.com/

We’ve adopted it at work and it’s nice to have a consistent format that is relatively noise free.
I think the idea is to paint Jan 6 as an aberration for which the participants were deliberately mislead by a foreign power and therefore somehow less responsible for their actions.

IMHO its a dangerous step to take. The rule of law is the founding bedrock of civil society where justice needs not only to be done, but seen to be done.

The US hasn't helped itself by having two justice systems, one for the elites and one for the plebs.

I don't think offering an olive branch to people dedicated to the overthrow of elections could possibly work. Not only would it encourage more violence, but it would be a disastrous failure of justice. This was not legit political discourse as some politicians are trying to paint it. Its just a good old fashioned illegal riot.
I've never experienced this idea of paying a provider 30+ days after the service. I've seen dentists, optometrists, PCPs, and whatever specialists PCPs have referred me to. If they determine that insurance won't cover 100%, I must pay the remainder to get any service at all. Sometimes I pay after the service is done but before leaving the premises; sometimes I must pay before service is rendered.

So how do I get that 30-day+ float?
> Whenever I’m on windows I feel hampered by the lack of virtual workspaces

Windows 10 actually has workspaces built-in. But I don't think workspaces are a replacement for window-snapping and a "superior alternative". It's two different things. Sometimes you just want to see two things side-by-side and workspaces isn't providing that.

BetterSnapTool was one of the first things I installed when I had to use a mac and I've been both using Ubuntu and Windows a lot before and always utilized workspaces on Ubuntu.
I bet it does not even blimp their financials

Sadly it seems society has assimilated vendors behaving poorly. Data breaches and incompetence does not seem to phase purchasing choices these days