skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Did you actually fly all of the airlines above, or you just hate LH because you normally fly Singapore Airlines? (perspective is important in those discussions).

Nice try. I've been flying a lot in the last 10+ years.

But yes. I have flown with LH enough. I've flown with them on their own tickets and UA award tickets. They will act like shit, and they will defend each other there at all costs. UA looks like an angel in comparison, even with the Dao punch out. Heck when, you offer to help them offload 2 pax and help with their equipment swap (as this LH leg is a connection and not the final).. they're respond with "WHO TOLD YOU THIS!".

What happens on an flat tire situation:
Many times UA will try to help you out, even if it's a mixed ticket with US Airways.

What happens with LH: You will be repriced and expected to pay, don't expect for the agent to communicate accurately. Their behavior is that this is your fault and will be puzzled why you did this "intentionally". (That stance also goes to their own equipment downgrades, WX problems, staff issues on their side, not liking their own hostile/aggressive staff, or even if you want to fulfill all of the requirements of bringing your dog)

That is their stance, and their willful ignorance of the business. This is a "full service carrier" who acts worse than a LCC.

Airline stacking from what I've flown with:

Best EK, UA, TK, TP, KLM, US

Good: WN, BA, AM, CP, AA, LATAM, Alaska

Questionable but good: SAS, Agean/Olympia, AR, Insel

Garbage: DL, LH, EasyJet
Related: https://nepx.github.io/halfix-demo/
In the 1970s it seemed common for tv shows to be shot on video in the studio but on film outside, perhaps because video cameras were too large or sensitive for outdoor use. The audience simply became accustomed to the large difference in appearance between indoors and outdoors in tv shows. IIRC, Doctor Who and Benny Hill went through this change during episodes frequently. It also reminds me of the first time I went over to a friend's house who had a large tube standard def tv after I had switched to HD. The scanlines that had always been invisible to my brain were suddenly very obvious. Funny how we adjust.
>Well, they've directly protected me from disease at least twice.

i'm glad for you, but somewhat skeptical of the knowledge. How does one even determine that? Exposure events that didn't cause symptoms, or lessened symptoms encountered when affected?

It's a genuine question; I don't really understand how one would separate immune system effectiveness from vaccine effectiveness with a sampling of a single person given that not every exposure results in illness and the fluidity of the expressed symptoms across the board are so all-over-the-place that they're difficult to compare.
That's not the way it is everywhere. I'm a volunteer firefighter and I'd say at least 19 times out of 20 my calls are for a fire. The other occasions would be traffic control at an accident or assisting EMTs with lifting a person.
I am a ~single-user Mastodon instance admin. It is a big hassle to get set up, but then I never have to really think about it day-to-day.

That said, there are also a lot of other good instances, and I am jealous of folks with a nice local timeline, so the general advice (for anyone else reading) would be to just move instances.

I don't know if this has an ergonomic read-posts-from-other-instances setup. If you try it, write up what you think somewhere? :)
Such is the paradox of tourism. We want authentic experiences but depend on experts to define authenticity. Walker Percy captured this well in his essay "The Loss of the Creature." He wrote it in the early 20th century. Presently, it seems like people have a tough time enjoying something unless they gram it.
This misses the elephant in the room: sustainability means fewer humans.
> what happened to the 5th person?

They weren't convicted. I feel like the fact you weren't able to figure that out suggests I need to work through this example a little more slowly in the hope you can follow:

In the village of Example there are one hundred people, that's too many for me to name so I'm just going to number them E00 through to E99.

It so happens five of these people have stolen some candy, with our god view of the world we happen to know that it's E09, E14, E43, E44 and E90, but this information is not available to the other Example villagers or to a prosecutor, judge etc regardless of whether they live in Example. We have this god view, they do not. No real world prosecutors know for sure who committed which crimes and in many cases it's even unclear whether a crime was committed.

In system A, three people are convicted, and they are, let's say E14, E44 and E90, they are actually all thieves.

But in system B, four people are convicted, they're E09, E20, E43 and E90. Unfortunately E20 wasn't a candy thief, we know that with our god view.

I claim that system A is better than system B. Your claim was that system A isn't better because, apparently you feel that a better system must catch more of the thieves, and you've offered no argument for that beyond that you don't seem to see a difference between "more" and "not less".
If you anything about Japan you wouldn’t say this. Japan’s criminal justice system is so bad as to rival Central America, not the US.
>with no prospect of ever owning your home.

It's strange to me how often this gets repeated as if nobody can look at Zillow and do basic math.

I just checked a random suburb of Detroit (you know, since we're talking manufacturing) and in Warren MI right now there are 64 houses for less than $100k. There are hundreds more in the city of Detroit, but it's dangerous so people may not want to live there. Plus, there are a ton of factories in Warren, so what better place to look?

No prospects of ever owning a home? Or no prospects of moving straight into your dream home in a hip downtown area near the coast at 26 years old? Let's call it what it is.
I can't recommend Ted Chiang's stories enough.
they talk about holistic systems and then just hacked some shit together like everybody else, very let down. "hubris" is an apt choice of name.
A lot of those that don't pay the firefighters still pay the fire department. Volunteer fire departments are usually tax funded.
>Video on demand, which supports any framerates

I don't think so, majority of displays are still 60Hz without VRR.
Pretty cool, thanks for sharing. I have no personal experience with k8s, so from what I gather seems we could achieve something similar with serverless functions instead of containers?
A reminder that the Supreme Court is hearing a case on wetlands & could decide to vastly rollback the Fed's reasonably longstanding regulatory capability over watershed & wetlands (because of course this court would). Current division of power is that states have right to regulate land usage, but feds have regulatory power over water & wetland, but Supreme Court could disrupt this capability. Whether a state lile Alaska or Washington would potentially be more regulatory is an interesting question.

There's another somewhat adjacent submission on water regulation that seems worth noting (headsup, I know nothing about the repytation/biases of the Alaska Republic newspaper),

Rewrite of federal fisheries law navigates rough partisan waters

https://alaskapublic.org/2022/10/04/rewrite-of-federal-fishe... https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33145996

Of course, water regulation might not be enough, if the whole ecosystems here are being tromped on by climate change. Maybe maybe maybe we can change out find some new nutrient supply for the fish if their normal food sources can survive, but whether it's that or any of a dozen other problemstic factors doing the bulk of the harm: no one knows.
I agree, I started looking at setting up a mastodon instance and didn't get very far before looking at alternatives.

Thanks for the suggestion. I don't really want to run another Wordpress, but Gnu Social looks promising.
Equivalent to a milli library
>Imagine if everyone acted this way?

I imagine paid services may improve to compete. Regardless, the actual implication is fallacious. "One should only do what would cause no harm if every human did it" is not only unrealistic, but moot as long as not everybody is actually doing it. There's no intrinsic [im]morality in it.
That's an extremely short sighted opinion.
ActivityPub is an extremely versatile protocol that resembles a lot like speech.
Some guy made a bunch of "smart" devices communicate with eachother through his own GNU social instance. Essentially making his house a "smart" home.
The interface is definitely responsive... but tracks I was presented to swipe on were all not my taste at all.
TypeScript doesn't entirely prevent you from doing that, even if you have to stick in a few "any" keywords here and there and ignore whatever linter warnings you might get.
I'm happy for individual devs to work like that if that's what works best for them to get their code going - but I'm certainly not happy for a shared codebase for a large complex project with dozens of devs on it to operate the same way.
All about Industry 4.0
I agree, but with programmers in particular it's seen as a badge of honor and sometimes even as an expectation from employers to just "eat, sleep, and code" all the time. We have things like "the crunch" or hackathons, but the dark side to it is the lack of labor laws surrounding computer work.

In fact, computer programmers have special exemptions under the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA).

https://www.dol.gov/agencies/whd/fact-sheets/17e-overtime-co...

The FLSA guarantees minimum wage and 1.5x overtime pay for workers in the USA. In other words, if you are a computer programmer in the US, your employer can legally work you overtime/weekends without 1.5x pay like other workers.

Of course, the US also has the highest-paying programming jobs, and it has the most software developers by a very wide margin as America invented software engineering. This unique position in the labor market has caused the rights of computer programmers in the workplace to be largely overlooked.
well they were right, learn exponentially! oh it's another spaced repetition blog post...
Ben Franklin:

> That it is better 100 guilty Persons should escape than that one innocent Person should suffer, is a Maxim that has been long and generally approved.

This builds upon an idea espoused by Voltaire, I believe.

Western philosophical/political systems have long held the idea that false negatives are a worthwhile cost to avoid any false positives.
G'day! It's a bit hard to understand what this is, because there's a lot of other stuff in the space. What I've written here is a WASI runner for the browser. I've also hooked up a terminal and virtual FS to it. WASI (WebAssembly System Interface) is a standard aimed at writing portable WebAssembly binaries that can run on servers, embedded devices, or locally on your computer. It's not really aimed at the browser. I went through and implemented the whole standard in TypeScript - then built this interface around that implementation so I could play with it.

One really neat thing here is how easy it is to write Rust that targets WASI. If you're into Rust, I'd recommend looking at the source of the demos and then trying out your own WASI binaries.

Here to answer questions if anyone has any!
Is this aimed at people from e.g China and India? They mention Visa-free travel though schengen countries as a perk, most first world countries already have that, and you could just go to Portugal or wherever and work there remotely, so the category doesn't really add much.

Also "Portugal is the next California" doesn't really sound that appealing
Sold to gangs, forced to run online scams: inside Cambodia’s cybercrime crisis
Bosses like office culture because it targets them. Everyone is nice to them because they’re the boss. If they have a gathering at a bar, many will attend because of his status.

Try this - have the lowest ranking engineer announce they’re going to go have drinks and see who follows. Track that number for ten announcements.

The many rest of the people are so socially aware of power dynamics they go because they like being near Big Boss, or feel pressured.
It's honestly pretty badass that we managed to smoke so many rival species.
You’re on native sonic, though, not ATT fiber, correct?
Hey, don't spoil it. I was enjoying the image of him standing alone, pulling out a sword and charging at a battalion of soldiers arrayed on a parade ground.
The first one that showed was a wrapper on localstorage, not sure why we'd need one of those but anyhow I looked at the code, no update since 2018. I spend a lot of time at work trying to minimise the amount of unnecessary crap we pull from npm explaining people that gaining 2 minutes by npm install something might deserve us in the long run but that's a massive uphill battle. The leftpad is a great example especially since there's a standard function for it (padStart) but most frontend people I am in contact with ignore those standard and first start by npm install whatever is available
Lets me check your list: Zero. Not. None of that I'm aware. None recently apart of the terrorist attacks in Madrid and Barcelona (hardly attributable to the west way of life). I never drive drunk and never meet anybody that was raped.

It seems that your image of the world has a few cracks on it, and is not so accurate as you think

Now tell me how many of those points can you check in your place.

Please don't dare to tell me that Islam countries are happy utopias were nobody is raped, there is not prostitution or mass killings and problems never appear. We aren't so gullible.

We know that Afghanistan is a main drugs exporter and mental issues by drug abuse are not uncommon. We are aware that half of the muslims want the other half killed and that some muslims have committed genocides towards other muslims at each single opportunity in their history. We are aware that in some places woman can't work or earn money to support themselves in any non clandestine way
The Internet Archive has lots of computer magazines from that era. It's interesting to plug prices from the advertisements into an inflation calculator to see what the price would be in current dollars. Lots of very simple games that cost about $80 in modern money. No wonder piracy was so rampant with teens and kids.
Airbus has always been a story of eventually competing in every Boeing segment as a matter of European pride.

All indications were that four engines were going the way of the dodo. Boeing recognized this too and the 747-8 was more to distract Airbus than a serious next generation.

No manufacturer is omnipotent though. Boring entirely ceded the midsize market segment to Airbus, so now reliable Boeing customers are replacing dated 757 and 767 aircraft with Airbus models.
I'm able to sometimes but not always. Some research have been done on the subject, with various conclusions. One I remember reading about some time ago: "Individuals with pronounced schizotypal traits are particularly successful in tickling themselves" - https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S10538...
I have done (in order as far I remember): FoxPro, Delphi, Python, Ancient HTML/CSS/ASP, VB Classic, VB/C# .NET, OLD HTML/CSS/JS, Obj-C, F#/C#, and finally I'm doing CURRENT HTML/CSS/JS, Swift, Kotlin, Rust.

I hope this is the last switch. Also making one at https://tablam.org.

All of this have been for paying jobs, not counting any other auxiliar thing (like the 5 or 6 SQL dialects) or fun things/experiments I could have done.

But, I'm not "proficient" in all of it, because you forgot after a while, so only can claim some level of proficiency in the last batch.

Moving among languages is not THAT hard actually, in special if you stay around the same-ish paradigms and niches of programming (ie: Most of that languages were using doing the same kind of app: A part of a ERP).

Only moving into serious change of paradigms is rough, for me was: FoxPro -> Everything else (suddenly, making business apps is hard), Delphi -> Everything else (and now, Delphi/Fox were the last languages where making UIs was fun), F# (first touch of functional languages), Obj-C (first re-confirmation of everything wrong with the C family of languages), Rust (first time where I need to unlearn almost everything so far, but then come back with vengeance and now is the most efficient language I have used for non-UI task so far).

And Html/Css/JS, that have never stopped to be bad. And is getting worse. Ok, I lie: I use htmx/tailwindcss to resist as much to touch they...
> felt more like a LOTR themed fancy dress party than a film

Ooh, I experience this too. Great way to put it.
I get the impression that sleep doesn’t work properly on any current Intel laptop, regardless of OS.

I’d love to hear of a counter example. Use case is close it and stick it in my bag most nights, leave it plugged in and suspended others.

Acceptance criteria: < 5% battery drain per day suspended. Zero wakeups in bag, less than one failed resume from suspend per year (> 99.9% resume reliability). After resume, network / vpn reconnects without intervention in under 10 seconds, and no apps are janky.

Bonus: pressing the power button once when it is off must cause an led or screen to turn on within 1 second every single time.
This is a humbling read. Rn my company is trying to figure this out for PDFs in our domain. Any recommendations for saas solutions or libraries that we ought to explore?

(( if your answer is no because this is part of your secret sauce, I totally understand ))
Stingray is based on overpowering the real local tower. Good luck doing that from orbit.
It has been noticed that those with schizophrenia (not saying you have that) are able to tickle themselves.

The hypothesis is that people with schizophrenia are less able to predict their internal sensations - and because tickling is so tightly coupled exciting our brains expectation and predictions - they experience it as if someone else is doing it.
America was a democracy when we built the Interstate, TVA/Grand Coulee/Hoover, Manhattan Project, space program, etc. Many of these overran budgets and schedules, but they are there to see.

A bigger problem than our democratic system is our Republican ideology, which has lost the stomach for large-scale cooperation.
A Minecraft Player Set Out to Build the Known Universe, Block by Block
Haven’t you just contradicted yourself by acknowledging the 3-4 layers of added management but then laying blame elsewhere?
lol .. which hard product? I've been on LH flights where the cleaniness is competing with Air india.
> If you need to import all your raw materials then you're not really manufacturing anything

China imports a large amount of raw materials[1] and yet it is a manufacturing powerhouse.

https://commodity.com/data/china/
Not that I agree with GP, but it’s making a different (and compatible) argument. Using Tech X may not be an advantage, but not using it may be a disadvantage.
Yeah I think 95% of the time, the correct way to fix a problem with a PDF is to go back to the tool that generated it, and fix the issue in the input. But, sometimes non-ideal circumstances intervene.
THANK YOU!! This issue was in the back of my head. Someone even created a utility where you could curl and it would tell you what % of the time the header was getting flipped. I’ll search it out later.

This subconscious memory caused me to look at SSL vs HTTP. It seems to be problematic on HTTP too. But oddly it’s not yet been an issue with curl http. But http in a browser is troublesome and inconsistent.

EDIT: found it.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25335936
Agreed, and this is why I compared it to the social media curation problem.

The thing I was replying to was the sentiment that this should have been solved decades ago.

Curation/moderation is never solved, only managed.
Thanks so much! I'll have a look.
No, I have not. I work in tech in the mid-western US and am a frequent and long-time HN user.
Man, how much Wonder these ads invited back then, purely from the novelty factor. Hard to get excited about tech the same way these days, because it’s all become so ubiquitous and banal, and there’s less and less novelty now. Sounds pessimistic I know, but where are the companies/ads that create new Wonder?
It looks like a rendering bug.
Open AI Whisper Model
I've done a fair bit of it in the past - the issues with missing spaces or substitute characters used for spaces certainly rings a bell. I know quite a few libraries in the .NET space for processing PDFs, including at least one open-source one (PDFSharp from memory) which we had in our source code repo, and made up something like 75% of the total LOC for our product, despite PDF processing being a relatively minor feature). We ended up abandoning that though, can't quite remember why.

The real question is how did such a torturous (once proprietary) format manage to become the only ubiquitous standard for paginated, self-contained, formatted text suitable for printing. In principle HTML could actually do the job, but arguably it's not the ideal tool either, and I've not seen an example of an HTML document that just prints as expected across multiple pages either.

Odd that this got posted almost the same time as https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33145498 btw...
They've just been talking about it to get us used to the idea, but the plans have been shelved until they can answer that question.
Frame rate screw-up story time:

Around 2009, my street flooded and I decided to record it and sell it to a local news station. I had one bite and I took my camera over to the TV station (CTV).

When I got there, I was beyond disappointed that (1) they didn’t have an HDV player and that (2) I forgot my FireWire cable. I rushed home, imported/exported it in FCP, burnt it to a DVD and rushed back.

In the rush, I forgot to ensure the right frame rate was set. When I got there, the techs were able to ingest it no problem, but my heart dropped when I noticed the import rate on a little VFD was 1080/50i. Fortunately, it worked out and when my video aired, it looked like it was from an international source because of the pulldown.

I ended up getting a cheque for $135 for 8 broadcasted seconds of video and a day’s work of rushing back and forth. I’ve extrapolated it to be my most valuable piece of work at about $60,000 per hour.
What would your criteria be for a holistic yet non-hacked-together boot process? How do you decide what layers/abstractions are needed and what are not?

(Also, user name checks out.)
I think you're overcomplicating things. This is not some personal attack, nor it "only makes sense" if the reader assumes that "that [you] think [you're] the only one who didn't know this".

I'll break my intent down to excruciating detail:

Your comment can be understood as a strong claim that you one can't make a forgery by adjusting for such detections (as the grantparent suggested), because there would be "10 other techniques we don't know about", and to support this you give the case of you not knowing about this technique as an example.

In short, I read it as "Since this existed and I didn't know about it, who knows how many other such techniques are in use that people don't know about. One can't make a forgery then, because he'd run afoul of one he doesn't know about".

Well, my point was that it's not like those techniques are some "industry secret" that nobody outside a select group can know about. They're still publicly available information (like this was). They're just unknown to most who didn't have reason to give this space much thought or researched it (like most nonetheless common practices in any field which laymen won't typically know about, but can always find out).

So, to sum this up, I read your claim to the parent as "you'll always miss some techniques, as you can't know them all, like I didn't know about this one", and my claim is "nah, you can pretty much find what all techniques in use are".
Thanks for this detailed comment and that above. Have you got links to any blog posts or code that we could look at to review in detail?