skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> all inequality is caused by racism, sexism and other -isms

All inequality is caused by... all examples of inequalities? As a class reductionist I dislike wokeism as much as the next guy but this statement is meaningless.

its impossible to actually respond to any of the arguments you're making because Marxism = class war and capitalism = more money displays a complete lack of understanding of basic economics. Its not even clear what you're arguing against.
Southwest tries to send more flights per day by reducing time at the gate. Most of the time it’s great, since it means cheaper flights and less time as a passenger waiting around for folks to find their seat number. They have lots of hubs, so it’s easy to find a flight that fits your needs.

But when things go wrong en masse, error propagates through the system fast. It’s the same failure mode as just-in-time manufacturing. There just aren’t gaps in the schedule for lots of things to go wrong, nor extra planes to pick up the slack. I’d recommend Southwest still, but not if your schedule is tight and the flight is can’t-miss.

I suspect there are some other problems in their tech stack and personnel they have to sort out too.
> Actually the Firefox and Chrome date pickers look... exactly the same

They look nothing alike though.

Are you trying all three on iOS? On iOS Apple only allows a single rendering engine (WebKit), so Apple dictates what the <input type="date" /> entry dialog looks like, and there's nothing other "browsers" on the platform can do to fix it (since they're just shells built on top of WebKit).
I never played FarmVille, but some friends did, and FarmVille sent notifications to your friends as well. Only a handful of friends playing FarmVille meant 1-2 daily notifications from that game.
Notifications were effectively unusable at that point, until Facebook separated game notifications from other notifications.

After that, it never really got any better, for me at least. Notifications tended to be less relevant than before and I disabled them on all devices.
Right then other things they could do:

- provide some helpful text explaining to users how to switch between years

- use an external library with a custom date picker

The reason why I wouldn't recommend the approach they went with is because there's all sorts of aria-related properties and semantic meaning for screen readers that type="date" carries. This is especially relevant for the target audience they're talking about. I guess the third option is

- what they did but actually try it with a screenreader yourself. Make sure your aria labels make sense and is navigable for both keyboards and screenreaders (two separate issues). Also make sure you're replicating the validation logic that type="date" gives us for free. Basically replicate all the complex HTML5 logic and semantics
Here you go!

https://snipboard.io/8fL9Kl.jpg

That 2018 and the top left gives you a selection for all of the different years
I know it's not the fashion now, but the jQuery UI date picker works really well, can be configured for various situations And let's you type the date instead.

I wrote code on the back-end to also parsing. So just type 11 for the 11th of this month, or 11/11 for 11 Nov this year. Or 11 Nov. Or next Tuesday. Or tomorrow of yesterday etc.

It also only treats the screen format as a suggestion. Like it wants dd/mm/yyyy, you can type in 1945/12/6 and it'll figure it out. (it uses the suggested format to resolve ambiguities)

Computers are good at this, and should do more if it. Don't get me started on Web sites that reject my credit card number because I type in hyphens or spaces. With specific messages like

"enter the number as 16 digits, without spaces". WTF????
Yeah, I can hardly tell the difference between the Pfizer vaccine and the control here.

https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/nejmoa2034577
Hmm I'm on a macbook. I assumed the component was a browser implementation, but maybe MacOS somehow overrides that?

Would you mind providing a screenshot of how it looks on a different OS?

Edit: I've google around and I'm only finding UI that looks the same so now I'm very curious about what UI you're seeing that looks different. What browser and OS are you on if you don't mind me asking?
Yes, this is the fundamental premise of the simulation hypothesis.

If you read Bostrom's original paper it goes over this.

https://www.simulation-argument.com/simulation
off-topic, but MDN needs to be a case study in how to write great documentation. it is such a delight to read their entries.
I wonder if the ongoing siege of Gaza counts? Counting 15 years. Or does it not count without any active fight back OR because Gaza is a part of Israel and thus Israel has laid a siege on itself?
Better yet use the in-app or website self service functions to rebook yourself without waiting to talk to anyone. It is truly a race to grab the remaining seats on the next few flights.
I've been using daterangepicker [1] for ages, and it's one of the reasons I still just default to jQuery for web apps (the other being jQuery's custom event chain). Works well, very readable, easy to pass functions to disable individual dates which is important in reservations apps, ties in nicely with moment.js. More to the point, finding a decent calendar that didn't baffle users was such a pain for so long that I never want to have to do it again. And of course, with native browser components who knows what your user's going to see next year?

[1] https://daterangepicker.com
Oh jeez, yeah that's bad. What Android version and browser are you on?
Define "legal". Calling glibc memcpy with overlapping arrays worked right up until it didn't. The general contract of react hooks is that they may break in unexpected ways if you call them conditionally. The current implementation of useContext happens to not break.
I think we should give everyone the benefit of the doubt and be kind.
Yup saw it on my house. Repriced by over 10% over last year.
> Cloudflare and other anti-DDoS products stems from the overly casual egress filtering of various ISPs

This is just a natural consequence of IPs lack of a security model or access controls. If OSI had won we would be living in a world with locked down data services.
One of my favorite games of all time. There is a full HD re-release with more levels: https://store.steampowered.com/app/1607670/Secret_Agent_HD/
Was just at the airport. Waited 2.5 hours in line to be told that ticketing will show up tomorrow at 7 am. Then went home and was on hold for 4 hours. You are lucky if you call and don't get a busy tone.

But my story isn't bad. Hearing other people's story at the airport in line was shocking. Family with kids stuck in connections for days. No hotels, little food, crowded lines. Bags? Somewhere in the country.
When the date spans a wide possible period, like birth date, this approach doesn't solve the root problem.
Does anyone have recommendations to get off of Gmail? I've tried in the past, but I get so much junk mail that not having gmail's auto-categorizing makes my email unusable.
Lol what?

Both companies are raking in money. As the article points out, Google uses gmail to sell more profitable business products. Alphabet Inc made $75 billion profit, so if it costs them $5 per user to run, it will be about a $10 billion cost.

Which is a fraction of their profit - and makes for great advertising.
They're getting tons of customer service calls though. Objective data always beats subjective, and the objective data here is that a bunch of customers are confused and unable to use the website.

I have no doubt that 9/10s of people reading HN would be able to figure this out if not more. But what is the figure like out in the normal/non-IT world? I miss when Microsoft had their accessibility research lab that tested stuff like this scientifically and released tons of great papers. We need more of that, I'd love for Apple to invest in stuff like that.
Paris will drive you mentally insane.

Aggressive, dirty (I am sorry, but people are used to outright peeing in public; lots of litter everywhere etc), very expensive (I just check pap.fr, the rental prices are Bay Area level per unit area; imagine the salaries!), high taxes, low salaries, periodic strikes, general dysfunction, least tolerance for English among those options you mentioned, rampant petty crime, high bureaucracy, etc.

I would stay away from EU. If you absolutely must, Berlin will be my choice. Government offices such as KVR are efficient and well organized; people speak English to some extent.
This is what caused me to delete the app in favor of Instagram and fb messenger. Not sure if they changed notifications or if I simply never enabled them, but my fresh install of the fb app is less annoying
Still the problem here is we don't _really_ know whether this is genetic or shaped by our upbringing even when it comes to the most egalitarian societies. I'd like to see the same study done on the little left hunter-gatherers bands.
There is a line in "Don't Be Fools, America" that I had wondered at:

Екатерина, ты была не права.
"Catherine, you were wrong"

Apparently George had written Catherine for troops to send to the colonies, and at first she (or her rep) had agreed (what uppity subjects!) but then none were never sent.

So the colonists got support (of omission in this case, not commission) even from an absolutist monarch because they were underdogs, who stood a chance at blackening John Bull's eye?
Clashes with Kyoto Common Lisp.
Not a siege in any sense. What sieges not only allow the besieged to conduct import/export but actively pay for the besieged’s supplies?

Leave the ideology somewhere else
Show HN: Sideproject.guide
> If you are able to find alternative transportation to your final destination- DO IT. Another airline, bus, train, Lyft, rental car, ANYTHING. Southwest WILL NOT be able to get you to your destination anytime in the next few days.

That's damning.
Well I mean you don't. And you know that. And 95% of internet users know that. It's just an issue with elderly folks not being familiar with this UI

Maybe the real solution is a simple explanation for how to use a date picker component. It'd help those users not just on this site but on many other sites in the future.

Tbh I don't really know what improvements could be made to the picker itself. It looks pretty consistent with the implementation of most other browsers and OSes and even most native components I've seen

I'd love to hear actual thoughts on improvements though
One interesting alternative (that I can’t remember actually encountering, but just occurred to me when reading this) would be to have an Age numeric field before the calendar, entry in which would jump the calendar to the corresponding birth year.
The industry wants to keep burning fossil fuels, polluting the air, and killing people due to particulate emissions because it doesn't risk profits.

A random mechanic may also volunteer their opinion that they "hate" EVs that they haven't even examined.

The actual silent majority also want to keep eating meat, ingesting massive quantities of HFCS, ignoring homeless people, and pretending far-right white nationalism isn't a cabal of terrorists.

This is were leadership and government regulation must make unpopular choices for the fate of the species and many other species. Fuck what people want: survival overrides the "freedom" to commit individual and industrial planetary omnicide. You are not free to be a terrorist, not permitted to overthrow the government, shout "fire" in a crowded theater, or dump sewage randomly onto neighboring properties, and so it is inconsistent to allow polluting the air like a sewer in the sky.

The regulation of and phasing-out of CFC's was and will be effective at stopping and reversing ozone depletion to pre-1980's levels by 2075. The same must be done with ICEs, methane emissions, and industrial processes. It's not a "should" or a "nice to have", it's an absolute nonnegotiable requirement for survival.

Then, to reach and maintain net negative emissions: bio CCS. The world must collectively and efficiently invest around a few 10's of trillions on oceanic biomass growth and sequestration. Life, and specifically life in the oceans, are the most readily scalable processes for capturing massive amounts of carbon.
Chase sapphire cards and anything competing with that. FWIW getting reimbursed through my capital one ventureX card took over six months and was a major pain. Claims were handled by eclaimsline which capital one told me was part of Visa not themselves, it’s the only time I’ve used it so I don’t know if that’s common for other cards like Chase. Maybe they handle it it house and do a better job.
OK, so here's the key bit:

"Twitter executives did not fully capitulate to the Biden team’s wishes. An extensive review of internal communications at the company revealed that employees often debated moderation cases in great detail, and with more care for free speech than was shown by the government.

...

But Twitter did suppress views—and not just those of journalists like Berenson. Many medical and public health professionals who expressed perspectives or even cited findings from accredited academic journals that conflicted with official positions were also targeted.
...
There were three serious problems with Twitter’s process [bots, contractors, and biased decision making by top level execs]".

This seems to be more a story on the complexities of content moderation than anything. There WAS a LOT of misinformation about covid, and a lot of it could cause real harm. At the scale Twitter operates at, false positives (incorrectly labeling things as misinformation) are impossible to avoid. How do you moderate at this scale without bots and contractors? Well, you can moderate less. But then, should Twitter have opted for more false negatives than false positives? I don't think so.

That is not to say this is article does not share useful information, but the headline is rather misleading. As before with the Twitter files, it shows that the government leaned on Twitter to do what it wanted but not able to mandate it, and that Twitter had internal debates regarding how to moderate these sorts of things. That seems reasonable?
I'm confused. Why link what you seem to consider "propaganda" showing no genetic predisposition to alcoholism rather than link the clear proof you claim exists?
> There may be no good exit strategy for Google

Just start charging for gmail. Problem fixed.
John, thanks for the detailed write-up. Much appreciated. Unfortunately, they are out of stock now. I have the tab pinned and will refresh it daily until it's available. Did you order the last 5? :-)

I have a Hakko 888 as well and while I like it, there's a bit of a set up as I'm limited on space. So when you said it's as good as your Hakko, you sold me on it.
I am surprised no one mentioned chatGPT or GPT-3
There are a multitude of different ways to bridge from mainframe (IBM Websphere MQ/Host integration server) systems or to make file based systems look mostly online (small, frequent batch files). So technically it is possible and done pretty reliablly for banks and the like.

Extending use cases to cover behaviours that were not covered by the original software is where things get exciting. You will end up with a hodge podge of systems & processes that try to implement multi-step work flows and deal with failures through manual or equally complex automated methods to compensate.

Generally most industries are pretty terrible at evolving the solutions they have or completely replacing them. So you will see a multi-generational set of systems that are in place to provide an acceptably current set of behaviours.

This situation can arise due to varying commercial pressures, however Developer and Engineer's inability to communicate what the system currently does and what is easy and hard to change in no small way contributes to following paths that result in poor system outcomes over the lifetimeof systems.
LOL. And now HN is "moderating" the debate on this. Why change from "Rigged" to "Moderated"? Maybe Elon should buy HN next.
I've heard rumors that the US has only one party (with two right wings).

They call that than "democracy".
The memo is dated December 21, 2022 and today is December 27, 2022.

I don’t remember if the North American winter storms started before December 21, on that day, or after.
Looks like confirmed true by Southwest PR.
https://kdvr.com/news/local/southwest-airlines-declares-a-st...
> … just to elevate a highly restrictive proprietary platform.

This is the attitude I’m referring to when I say “hardcore FOSS”. You can choose to see it as a judgement if you want, but I view it as an implementation detail precluding my use of Guix.

“It’s hard and it’s not worth my time” is totally fine, I don’t expect projects to cater to my needs; but it’s worth calling out that it really seems like your chief complaint is that Apple is not FOSS (aka: proprietary).
Heck, forget Facebook. Just start calling up customer service! Bonus points for hiring former arise contractors to form a call center.

"good magical morning! thanks for calling Disney cruises"

"hi, this call is being recorded for quality assurance. am I speaking with a contractor for the arise corporation?"

"wait, this call is what? that's my line. I'm not at liberty to..."

"yes, we know you signed a non disclosure agreement. as a matter of fact, we all are former contractors for the 'mouse client'. we are calling to inform you of your legal rights pursuant to the binding arbitration agreement between you and the arise corporation..."

a fantasy, I know, but I can't resist dreaming of such poetic justice.
A few…?

It's not my experience as a web developer. It's 'a lot' at best. And not only in js, but also in css or literal anywhere you might interact to.

It always requires a few workaround when I finished the page in other browser. Firefox or Chrome, in the other end. If your page works on one of them, it will pretty much just work on the other.

Safari is probably 50% of my bug ticket, almost equals to every others sums together.

Write a page for safari really reminds me the age IE is still a thing.
I was impacted by this. I had three flights canceled in four days. My bags are still somewhere in Denver. I ended up rebooking on American. I'm certainly going to try to make Southwest pay for it, once their phone lines clear up.

Southwest is going to need to go above and beyond to fix this or they're done in my book. I will choose a more expensive option over them. I'll choose a less direct route. This Russian Roulette but every chamber's loaded game has been an enormous, stressful waste of time.

None of the hacks suggested here work when the customer service phone line is down, the website doesn't work, and every other flight is cancelled or full.
Is the text input MM-DD-YYYY or DD-MM-YYYY though? Or YY instead of YYYY? Or no separator? How do min/max dates work? Left to Right Vs Right to Left text input?

Without user experience testing "I'm convinced" says more about the person saying it than the reality of what users in the broad will find easier and what will reduce friction.
So increase the price for new devices? Start charging a minimal subscription fee for new devices for more than 3 interactions per day?
Hey, I’ve been building that. It’s called A Personal Search Engine: https://apse.io
Even before then they were teaching front-end techniques like Sliding Doors[1] that now seem so elementary as to be expected knowledge.

[1] https://alistapart.com/article/slidingdoors/
Sooner, and perhaps more importantly, without all the violence.

cf https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33931615

(incidentally, I find the timing of the Monroe Doctrine slightly suspicious, coming as it does from a slave-holding President a few years after the Vienna Convention includes an agreement [as moral imperative] to abolish the slave trade)
Interesting read. Guess I've always noticed how HR deps. are mostly women, ie.

Reality is though, in many situations there is not much of a choice. You gotta eat and will take whatever job is available.

I personally have had jobs where I've been going in with pleasure and others when I would have rather stayed home.
Many acted like the internet was this weightless thing, now folks are starting to see that they may have to pay the bill in some fashion. This goes for the ecological factors as well.
The stock marget rewards profits, not happy customers. It’s not about the margins, it’s about maximizing the bottom line
And I've used this for a few years, courtesy of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10145362

I added the call to `ansifilter`:

function clip

if not tty >/dev/null

ansifilter | pbcopy

else

pbpaste

end

end
Pretty sure this was written by ChatGPT, haha!
The data in the article equally well supports a heading like “Males on average perform better than females on a ‘systematic thinking’ test”
Every episode of Trash Future has given me more insight than fud.
I just want to get where I'm going without having to charge the car every 5 minutes. My personal benchmark is 400 miles of highway range. That's enough for me.

The proper solution is better batteries. Batteries still need to improve in all metrics: more energy dense, more power dense, more cycle life, more calendar life, more recyclable, cheaper, safer, lighter.
Gmail isn't completely free. If you cross about 15GB of total storage across drive, photos, gmail and anything else ( youtube is exempt) you start paying.

Now, while the cost to provision a GB of storage keeps dropping Google's prices haven't been revised down ever (from what I can remember).

I pay for Google storage and know of a several others who do the same. I suspect the number of paying users is growing
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34102419
I like this as an alternative

https://github.com/mikepage/headlessui-datepicker
The only correct date widget is a second counter from epoch with a + and a - button.
It happened to me, and when it did I was met with outright denial of its most likely cause (Pfizer shot a week before) and thinly veiled accusations of being anti-vax for suggesting that. See my previous comment for details:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33599919
Right, I agree. What do you think would be a better solution?

The date picker in the image is basically the exact same as Firefox and Chrome's implementation minus some stylistic differences.[0] Most native components also look a lot like this. So this isn't just a Safari issue but an issue across web UI in general

[0] See for yourself: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Element/in...
Idea or Execution?
Previously posted just over two weeks ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33948741
While I don't claim that Org mode's `org-read-date` is ideal, I have yet to see a better date input UI.

Also, ISO-8601 not being universally adopted is a shame.
This is something really difficult to know, specially because genetic differences can shape behaviors that can be natural selected creating a reinforced loop that reflexes on culture and upbringing.