skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Interestingly absent is a discussion about bots abusing these booking systems. GDS' usually have a look-to-book ratio threshold with their airline customers. If the airline (via end users and bots on its website) does too many computationally intensive searches without booking a flight, that airline pays overages per their contract with the GDS.

You can imagine how a third party entity would make constant searches for seat and flight availability, spurred by all the possible permutations of airports and flight schedules. This flurry of activity rockets up the number of "looks" to the number of actual "books".

These third parties might be Online Travel Agencies trying to get around their own contractual limits with the GDS, or it might be companies that sell the schedule and fare data as competitive intelligence.

For now, the GDS' and airlines try to solve the problem with anti-bot solutions to keep contractual overages low.

If someone could instead solve the underlying structural problem (computational intensity? cost of compute? cost of running a GDS? offer free fare and schedule data to all?), they could probably crack open a multi-million dollar market opportunity.
But what are the side effects of blocking a response causing inflammation, which was meant to signal that repairs are needed in lung tissue?
Interesting. I’ve never heard of a 100 miler or a 24 hour run. I have so many questions.
This message displayed before allowing app access contradicts your statement:
"The developer of Bouncer will receive the text, attachments and sender information in SMS and MMS messages from senders not in your Contacts. Messages may include personal or sensitive information like bank verifications codes."
As an iOS dev of 7 years, year to year changes are generally mild and impact is generally low, particularly if your app is built with UIKit.

For the past 4-5 releases the worst I’ve seen in the apps I’m responsible are a small number of minor non-breaking quirks… think things like a button rendering slightly oddly. It’s never been beyond what a single dev could handle.

Android on the other hand…
I have always appreciated https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~NatProg/papers/Ko2008JavaWhyline.pdf - an empirical analysis of debugging and a tool based on those findings, and an evaluation of that tool.
You can still have weird issues with pagination if the data set you're paging through is mutable.

Reddit used to struggle with this back in the day. The way they did pagination was to say "show the next page after id postId=xyz123". Since the algorithm kept re-sorting the posts on the front page, the content moved around quite a lot and you'd see the same things re-appearing on page after page, and sometimes post xyz123 was deleted and then everything broke.
This is a really elegant point.

> Doing upfront authorization of powers is relatively efficient, and is also pleasingly self regulating. If an agency overloads or confuses its ex ante regulator, they simply won’t get permission to do things. This provides a strong incentive for clear and concise requests to the regulator.

It is very easy for regulators, even well-meaning, to focus on what they require of an individual transaction. But we live in a world where automation and dynamic workforces make it possible to break every expectation about how a system will be used.
But is that an empirical paper?
Still pretty embarrassing when Microsoft maintains backwards compatibility for decades.
The issue is the other end of this is Microsoft having essentially eternal backwards compatibility for everything in Office and Windows and the major security risks and code baggage that come with that.
It’s not gone, it’s out there waiting for unsuspecting developers to pounce on.

And what are you going to do, ask during the interview if the company uses UML? I mean who doesn’t use a little UML in a mid to big software company?

Seems safer just to accept that one will come in contact with it and prepare for that day. I use it to document designs quite a lot myself.
What they could also be used for:

- Allowing people to become unproductive and still get paid.

- Protecting sexual harassers.

- Blocking marginalized people from joining the company.

- Enriching union bosses.

- Propping up organized crime.

If you think “but that would never happen”, American unions have a long, long history of doing all those things.
AstroNavigation – Online module for celestial navigation
To me, there's Hacker News, Stack Exchange sites, and the Fediverse.

When Reddit chose to cater to "normies", I was fine with it. But when they started to become hostile to techies (the insulting mobile and new web experience, and the decay of the old UI), I just visited less.

I also stopped visiting Facebook since they didn't let me paste links in IceCat. The message field would break in strange ways.

So long, and thanks for all the dysfunctional JavaScript.
Uh, have you looked at the demographics of intersectional activists and of people preaching stoicism lately?
The short of it is that for the past two decade or so the us govt has been rolling out a new signal that the latest series of GPS satellites transmit that uses 1. more bandwidth, 2. more transmit power, 3. in a protected region of spectrum, 4. using modern encodings and error correction. This makes it a lot easier to pick up the signal from noisy environments.
I work at a big 2nd-tier tech company and corporate security policies prohibit beta versions of OSes. Our ios and android apps are a huge part of our business yet the only way for devs to work on updates is to subvert corp security like figure out how to proxy client certs or bridge the corp network from their laptop to their personal equipment.

Its a huge fight every year that never gets resolved
"But their senior civil servants quit if they try."

Why does abandoning ship when the ship is set on fire or under threat to be set on fire save the ship?

Worse if the abandoners are the good ones to be replaced by more fire starters.
"Are just administrators"

A bit of a casual comment. Current Twitter CEO was the CTO before. Satya nadella and sundar pihai both were fairly technical when they started. Even Zuckerberg won't fit your definition because he coded facebook initially in PHP/Mysql but what it is today is probably s lot more technically complex.

And anyway, the job of a CEO of a large public company is not to be technically competent. They just need to understand technology.
Here’s something crazy.

Rewatching early Simpsons episodes as someone who first saw Flanders post Flanderization:
He’s a less compelling satire because it’s so nuanced, complex, and narrow.

He’s not the obvious bad person that Marcy D’Arcy is, but he’s also not the aspirational zen master that Wilson from Home Improvement is either. He’s just kind of a normal-ish OK guy who’s not a compelling foil to Homer.

Take his funniest characteristic (calling reverend Lovejoy at night) and make him a broad vehicle to satirize American Protestantism, and he’s actually a compelling character.

On the other hand, Lisa’s evolution kind of sucks.
That’s why the Microsoft mobile operating system is so much more successful.
The US alone has lost three nuclear weapons which have never been recovered [0].

If you search Broken Arrow you’ll find several lists of past incidents and recovery operations.

[0] https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20220804-the-lost-nuclear...
"Um, yes". As a catalog grows, past items get pushed to later pages making page-linking useless.
https://yunohost.org is a much more mature project, with a larger app ecosystem. Give it a try, you won’t be disappointed.
I’m not so sure that’s true reading through the privacy notice when enabling SMS filtering it reads “You can install and use third-party SMS filters. If you do, the filter provider can access all of the text and content included in incoming SMS and MMS messages that you receive from unknown senders.”

That doesn’t sound like the same thing as the content blocker api it sounds like it provides plaintext access to sms messages. And it’s enough of a risk that I decided not to install it.
I kept seeing you on tiktok and you kept reminding me of someone I met years ago and after a while it dawned on me that we met at a hackathon something like 11 years ago. Small world! Love your content.
Klaus Schwab strikes again. This is not the professor's idea. This is astroturf. Beware the great reset propaganda.
>Paid volunteers? Aren't people who do that called employees?

Further, recipients must now answer a question on their income tax return whether they received digital assets during the year other than by purchase with money. It is taxable income.
No, Marx wasn't against mass production. He was against a small number of people owning the mass production.
There's no loading animation, but it shouldn't take that long.
Williams Textbook of Endocrinology is a real gem as well
Understanding Michael Porter: The Essential Guide to Competition and Strategy

This is a commonly cited book about “strategic thinking”. But despite that, it’s one of the few business books that I actually read every page (as opposed to spotting fluff and selectively skipping pages), and it had a notable impact on the way I think/write/communicate.
For the “jhub but for any container that speaks HTTP” use case, you might find our Spawner project interesting: https://github.com/drifting-in-space/spawner

We don’t have support for volumes yet, but I’m open to ideas.
the Unbanking of America - the author does a deep dive and recounts first hand experiences of lower income Americans dealing with banks. I would say this is required reading for anyone interested in Fintech/neobanks that target the lower income segment
Wonderful, don’t worry about polition, just take this pill… I know it’s cynical take but we should take pollution way more seriously in the place
I uninstalled it immediately when I saw that.

Having control of this data is way better than SIM swapping. This seems like a terribly risky thing to install, security-wise.
My field of study (what I really like to think and learn about) isn't my field of work, but I like the question so I'll spill some thoughts.

I spend a lot of time thinking about philosophical-ish stuff, so here are some books that have had the strongest residual effects (whether that's changing how I think, changing what I think about, changing my values, or simply getting the thought ball rolling faster):

Ishmael (Daniel Quinn)

1984 (George Orwell)

Brave New World (Aldous Huxley)

Godel, Escher, Bach (Douglas Hofstadter)

The Republic [imp. "the allegory of the cave"] (Plato)

The Genealogy of Morals (Friedrich Nietzsche)

The Social Construction of Reality (Peter L. Berger, Thomas Luckmann)

Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus (L. Wittgenstein)

Dissemination [imp. "The Pharmakon"] (Jacques Derrida)

The Quest for Reality (Barry Stroud)

Languages of Art (Nelson Goodman)

The Structure of Scientific Revolutions (Thomas Kuhn)

Concepts (Jerry Fodor)

The Web of Life (Fritjof Capra)

Foucault's Pendulum (Umberto Eco)

Naming and Necessity (Saul Kripke)

Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance (Robert Pirsig)

There are others, and a lot of essays (by thinkers like Bertrand Russell, Carl Hempel, Hilary Putnam, WVO Quine, Karl Popper, Alfred Tarski, Gottlob Frege, David Chalmers, Daniel Dennett, Michel Foucault, Jean Baudrillard, Mikhail Bakunin, CS Peirce, and David Hume, among many others), but these seem apropos as they most readily came to mind.
My problem with eSIM only is as a private network architect (working with open source LTE EPC stuff, for instance), I don't know exactly where the hell I can go to get an eSIM cut for our test networks.

I can't figure out what eSIM personalization/etc providers will even take on such a small use case like myself where I just need to have an eSIM provisioned and get my authentication values to throw into the core network.

This is going to screw over a lot of private LTE deployments on CBRS if there's no good way to cut eSIMs for this use.
Yeah, you can point out ae many flaws as you want, but popularity, longevity, and inertia are the main business priorities. Before React, angular js was popular for this very reason despite its well known issues and digest cycle headaches

Technical merits are secondary concerns and only become primary when software engineers are empowered to make these decisions
If you think about it, all of those niches were naturally unbundled. The people who were looking for vacation rentals had no need to also look for gig work within the same product. The same isn’t true of enterprise transactions - everything is always related, with cross-function impact. There is always a GL that needs to be updated, you need a common vendor list, budget allocation constrains procurement, and on and on.
My father in law used to describe this as “the older you get, the more you are boiled down to your true essence”
Why would SBF particularly care about proof-of-work, when he can make plenty, maybe more, from proof-of-stake?

He's donated to climate-change charities & declared FTX to be carbon-neutral.

He might even see an angle for profit in helping suppress proof-of-work!
No, the analogy isn't perfect. It was just intended to show how both types of scanning are different. If someone agrees that installing a secret camera in a private bathroom is worse than in a public one, they should also agree that scanning files in someone's personal device is worse than scanning files in one's own server.

I think once you give someone else your unencrypted data, anything that happens to it afterwards is fair game. I assume at some point a human will snoop around my files.
I don’t think it’s crazy for any company to want more than 3 months to support a new OS.

This specific situation is unfortunate, but I’d expect many other companies to have a mildly broken app for a few months. In particular, the punch hole gimmick was kept a secret and I’d expect apps who expected no touch target in that area to have to rethink a bunch of assumptions.
More Jacob Rees-Mogg than William - it’s important that there be absolutely no discernible substance, skill or wit behind the voice.
If alarm bells didn't go off when free speech became a dirty word on the left I don't know what to tell you.
#2 seems to kinda square with the article that Lorna Gibson wrote here: https://www.commonsense.news/p/will-i-ever-see-the-36-millio...

As for #1, I'd need to the proof before removing skepticism.

Thanks for the input all the same!
Socrates never said that and he never wrote anything (that has survived, anyway).

"QI has determined that the author of the quote is not someone famous or ancient.

It was crafted by a student, Kenneth John Freeman, for his Cambridge dissertation published in 1907. Freeman did not claim that the passage under analysis was a direct quotation of anyone; instead, he was presenting his own summary of the complaints directed against young people in ancient times. The words he used were later slightly altered to yield the modern version. In fact, more than one section of his thesis has been excerpted and then attributed classical luminaries."

* https://quoteinvestigator.com/2010/05/01/misbehave/
COVID was brutal on medical here in Canada, and seems to have been the final push to send our health care system into full collapse. The unions basically abandoned their membership, taking no meaningful action beyond some wailing to the press.

At least inflation seems to be giving some impetus to take action, with BCGEU taking job action. Three years after COVID hit and only because every member, regardless of seniority and cushy position, is hit by the effects of inflation.
Old but good, there is a nice post by Joel Spolsky about Bill Gates https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2006/06/16/my-first-billg-rev... Strangely, it never has a big discussion here.
So problems in the clouds grounded their airplanes. How appropriate.
Caveat: MTW stalled me for the longest time by omitting two points:

- Tensors (as well as exterior and symmetric powers) have very little to do with differential geometry (and a fortiori physics) as such except for motivation—go study multilinear algebra first if the fanciful pictures of egg crates don’t help. Learn the coordinate-free definition of the determinant and rederive Cramer’s rule while you’re at it.

- Nobody can satisfactorily explain what the Riemann tensor is as a whole, though you can learn to work with it and understand some of the direct summands. (“A little monster of (multi)linear algebra”, as Gromov’s refreshingly frank book[1] puts it.) This is one of the rare cases where the worse meaning of von Neumann’s oft-abused quote is in force.

If you like the geometric viewpoint proselytized in the earlier parts of MTW before it gets to GR proper, try also Modern Classical Physics by Thorne and Blandford, which is that in doorstopper form (an early version[2] is available online though not advertised).

[1] https://www.ihes.fr/~gromov/expository/34/

[2] http://www.pmaweb.caltech.edu/Courses/ph136/yr2012/
I first came across Mix-A-Lot by winning a single of his at a school dance before "Baby Got Back" dropped. It was called "One Time's Got No Case" and was about being harassed by the police.

Such a talented fellow doesn't deserve to be an effective one-hit wonder.

I think PSY suffered from the same problem: the world (outside South Korea) wanted another Gangnam Style.
> "The country doesn't want crypto"

Crypto may be wasteful nonsense and no real solution to anything. But that no reason to ban it, when we accept that capitalism allows vast amounts of wasteful behaviour in many ways, so long as people are prepared to pay the market rate for their wastefulness.

If a government is elected with an explicit policy of a hard crackdown on wasteful energy use, it would surely have to extend way beyond crypto, and certainly affect those cooling mega-mansions and heating private swimming pools - but potentially even limit the power/performance of gaming hardware, domestic appliances, and power tools, amongst other things. But that's not what's happening here.

IMHO, the post-Covid world needs to somehow look past its tribalism and rediscover the importance of freedom in it's many forms, and also look back more critically at the Covid response and related events around the globe.

Covid has shown that there's a very high demand from an easily-terrified populace for centralised authoritarian power during a crisis. It has also shown that when that power is exercised, the resistance is likely to be minimal, and crushing that resistance causes little backlash beyond small outbursts of online anger.

We now face a perpetual crisis - the 'climate emergency'. And we should all be concerned about attempted solutions imposed by such centralised authoritarian means, and even more concerned about things done claiming to be about the climate, but actually being ideological in nature.
We just called Janeway “the bible” for short.

Edit: I just realised what my username is here.
Wasn’t SAP mostly grown through development instead of acquisition? Oracle was the one hovering up companies.
Maybe they're still using FTP (support removed in iOS 16).
When i read your note about "or a different convention by bilateral agreement between the parties", i immediately wondered jokingly that if math was "picked up" by business years ago, it might go somerthing like: 2 + 2 = 4 ...or resulting in a different sum by bilateral agreement between the parties...! lol :-D
"Designing and Managing the Supply Chain" by Simchi-Levi. My copy is almost 20 years old but still covers all the fundamentals and most of the necessary details of how supply chains work.

"Logistics Engineering and Management" by Blanchard. The Integrated Logistics Support bible, of you go by some people. Also, the engineering and product development companion to the first book. It covers how good products are designed that can be builf, sourced, maintained and supported throughout their lifetime. Despite the title, actual logistics are not covered. A must for everyone involved in the development of non-consumer goods hardware with life times above 3 years. And also agreat resource for those consumer products. If you always wondered why defense contract are as expensive as they are and are usually signed for a couple of decades, this book gives you the theoretical basis for one part of the answer.
It’s not framed that way because that’s not what’s happening here.
You are obviously repeating hearsay libel, and thus demonstrating exactly why this ruling was just and necessary.

Of course people who have been libeled have bad reputations. That's the definition.
70 year old video games?
That's one of the purposes of government regulatory agencies. Laws could be enforced entirely through courts, but regulators can fine on behalf of the ordinary people instead of those wealthy enough to sue.
That’s quite a jump there.

One bank is bad at maintaining their app all the way to a blanket statement about rich people and technology.
> Support for Galileo and Glonass was touted maybe a decade ago, but there was never any massive improvement in accuracy. Same story?

Why don't you supply a source to go along with your bold claim? Instead, here is the first set of test results I found on google: https://rxnetworks.com/press-releases/test-confirms-that-gal...

It shows that using more than just GPS substantially improved accuracy in challenging environments. Dual frequency GPS should show strong improvements too.
Or just print more money...
The comment you’re responding to is talking about family offices.
How do you know there's less money in politics if it's gone dark in harder-to-measure ways?
I was working in other field where I was filling the niche with my skills. To this day I am seeing value from that time, and problems that need to be solved but nobody really knows how.

Go and work in industry where software is not in the centre of solved problems. You will know if you are in such industry when your local branch will not have software skills, and all software is built elsewhere in the world.
0. Why so anti-intellectual?

1. The algorithm you're attempting to describe in 1) above is either exactly PageRank or an approximation to it, so I don't get the point you're trying to make.

2. The point of jargon and well studied algorithms is that you can recognize when your problem is a problem someone else has already tackled. In the specific case of PageRank, if you recognise it's an eigenvalue problem you can

1) Find efficient algorithms to implement it. In the case of PageRank there is a matrix factorization that can make the algorithm much faster.

2) Find convergence bounds for appoximate solutions such as the power method, so you can appropriately tradeoff compute time versus accuracy.

3) Find numerical techniques to avoid calculating a matrix full of NaNs.

4) Benefit from the decades of work in optimizing numerical linear algebra.

3. When Google was first released it was clearly significantly better than the competition (mostly AltaVista). I assume that was due to PageRank. I wouldn't be surprised if PageRank is much less important to Google now, but to get this point it had to have that initial advantage.
It depends on if you think that a society that runs a successful plebiscite where its population votes to never have another vote remains a democracy. Voting for the central processes of government to be hidden from you, and for informed participation in them by the population to be made impossible, is a constitutional failure. It also creates powerful hidden parts of the government that can exert control over the public parts of government.
Offline Documentation with Webdoc
webdoc is a documentation generator for JS / TS and now the sites it generates can be cached offline with the click of a button! I go through how I did it in this post.
YIYBY, Yes in your backyard.
The Book of Why: The New Science of Cause and Effect