skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No it's not 100% false, it's about 70% correct, refunds are in (expiring, non-transferable) flight credits not money-back. The preceding poster said "your money back" not "flight credits".

Flight credits expire (with US carriers, typically in 12 months, sometimes within only 3 months (Spirit), with European carriers, sometimes up to 3 years), and cannot be transferred to any other passenger [0], unlike even airmiles; and using them with partner airlines can be restricted; many passengers are unaware of much of that and airlines do not point it out, and rely on the fact that passengers may not realize till the credit has expired.

(In 7/2022, Southwest did uniquely eliminate expiration on flight credits unexpired from July 28, 2022 onward.)

Just because an airline only initially offers (restricted, expiring) travel credits, doesn't mean much; in some cases [1] passengers may be entitled to an actual money-back refund: (a) canceled flight b) passenger has documented medical circumstance c) cancellations due to Covid d) possibly other circumstance).
One excellent advocacy resource is [2] Elliott.org 12/2022: "The complete guide to using your airline flight credit now".
EU regulations are more pro-passenger than USDOT.

Southwest in 3/2022 unveiled its long-awaited new fare category "Wanna Get Away Plus" whose key perk is the ability to transfer flight credits, which Southwest calls travel funds (which sounds like intentionally misleading language, but anyway). But again, SW charge more for WGA+.

> Southwest Airlines... refund policy for refundable flights is a full refund up to 10 mins before the flight.

But that's the minority case: only Southwest's Anytime and higher fares are (money-back-)refundable, and they are typically way more expensive (2.5-4x) than non-refundable WGA fares. I can't find data but AFAIK most SW non-business passengers are WGA fares.

So the statement:

>> Tickets are nonrefundable because otherwise the network doesn't work, financially.

is in the general case true.

(One well-known travel hack with SWA for frequent travelers who didn't know their departure dates 3 weeks in advance used to be to buy 3+ different non-refundable tickets spaced out by say a week each, then refund whichever tickets you didn't end up needing. This was still cheaper than one Anytime fare.)

[0]: https://www.usatoday.com/story/travel/airline-news/2022/03/2...

[1]: https://www.usatoday.com/story/travel/advice/2020/10/09/flig...

[2]: https://www.elliott.org/ultimate-consumer-guides-smart-trave...
Can you please share your code?
JPM decided it was more profitable to buy single family homes instead of apartment complexes. I'm not sure it's as simple as "more apartments = more money".
As I don't live in CA, explain to me how this would work? As an outsider, it sounds on the surface a lot like those people who advocate for a flat income tax, IE: you and I both own a half-acre, but I have a single-wide trailer and you have the Hearst Mansion, but we are both taxed the same amount.
I can remember two examples. One was wife's friend's kid. That was a very problematic child - cussing, bullying, making nasty tiktok vids, and often verbally abusing her mom in front of us all. That one was a little hairier but that kid would make my blood boil to the point of wanting to smack her mouth, we talked it over, and decided the friend nor the kid would be over again.

The other was a neighborhood kid, we just told ours she could still play with her, but not come over anymore. That one wasn't as bad, I just remember our daughter crying and coming in and telling us her friend didn't want to play anything and was just playing with her phone.
Sounds like he's just inventing a slower, less native version of React Native.
Ahh, thats cool. Thanks for the link
There's a cost/benefit curve here.

Having data can undeniably be useful. The question is, how much ROI does the insights in the data provide, relative to the cost to build the organizational infrastructure capable of extracting these insights?

And there's a bootstrapping problem, because often it's hard to calculate the potential ROI without actually going through the work of building the infrastructure to process the data.
Supply & demand are not some type of fundamental laws of the universe. They are always changing and based on greed.

If I produce 100 widgets and am perfectly happy selling them for $10 and barely think I'll sell 10 of them.. but then they are highly popular and everyone wants them, you might see me constantly increasing the price because people like them and want to buy them. But that is literally greed in action. I did the math that I would make a nice profit at $10. But now that rich people decide they will pay $50 for each one just because they have the money and don't care, the people that could only afford $10 are priced out. And now the price has been increased and only people with a lot of disposable income can afford it.

Yeah, look at that "supply & demand" in action. Greed and and an excuse of "but wut could I do, the curves I plotted forced me to increase my prices even though I could have left them alone!"

The above is exactly a ticketmaster type example. We let "the market" set the price because people are willing to pay more and more, but those are the small percentage with a lot of disposable income that then get to have all the fun while people sit back and say "no one has a right to go to the concert [except those that can afford to keep on paying more and more]".

Economics is literally based on the assumption and ACCEPTANCE that everyone is a greedy asshole like yourself.
How did you build it? It doesn't build with either gcc-12 or clang-15 on linux.
Sounds about right.. we're seeing the first steps toward a return of Madame Guillotine already. Reddit is flooded with populist rage subs like AntiWork. Angry populist candidates (Trump and Bernie) dominated the 2016 election cycle
Kottke is back!
Any engine can work, there are advantages with choosing engines that people build similar games with. I spent ~6mo "adding" core engine features(LoD streaming, etc) to a UE3 open-world title because most of the games on UE3 at the time were very on-rails shooters.

That said I agree 100% with building tiny games in an iterative fashion to understand the engine you're using, or taking a very narrow "vertical slice" to help flush out where the technical or game mechanic issues will be.

There's a wealth of good engines out there today where you're building on in some cases literally decades worth of development that can accelerate a lot of the work involved in building a game(and there is a lot of work there).
First, You could fix this, You may even got some benefits, for example, Jobs learned calligraphy and used it in design of Apple computers.

Now handwriting is sign of very respectful person, successful and smart, so have spare time to learn art.

Also, it is just good for mind, because hands connected directly to neocortex, and when practice handwriting, You activate Your brain.

Second, handwriting is extremely individual, modern tech could measure strokes and this could be used as biometry, to prove authenticity. Even clone will have different pattern of strokes.
> I'm a visual thinker. For me drawing things on paper makes any problem easier to solve. I would suggest you try the same. Keep a pen and paper near your computer and reach out for them before you start typing code.

I feel the same way. Of course it's easier for visual tasks like this one, but I tend to think of programs developing in space and time as trees and graphs, even for abstract stuff like complex algorithms and data structures.

Though I think most programmers are more language-oriented. It is often hard for me to find the exact syntax required for coding a particular problem which is fully formed in my mind eye as visual steps. Programming languages are oriented to represent each concept with a precise linguistic abstract syntax, instead of representing concrete changes in the program state, and most developers don't seem to mind.
I think it’s worth reconsider that because we have seen many examples of the same thinking throughout our society. The underlying problem is the same - hyper focus on short-term cost reduction even when it entails significant long term costs - but it doesn’t manifest identically in every sector. Once you see it however, you can recognize that pattern pushed by the same unaccountable consultants everywhere.
There's also the process worker pool model, in which a master process forks a number of worker processes to handle all requests. Unicorn (for Ruby) does things this way...in part because when it was released, Rails apps couldn't handle multithreading all that well. I think Ruby also had some trouble with it, so this was just the easiest/most predictable way of getting good performance out of your Rails app.

Originally, the way `php-fpm` works is pretty much how the entire web worked. Every request into a server would go through `inetd`, it would fork a handler process, and the request would respond when the process exited. This became very difficult to handle at scale, mostly because of the overhead for forking a process, so the next logical step is to have a pool of worker processes ready to go in order to immediately receive requests. This is great for applications that don't need to get redeployed very often, but as we moved into more of a continuous deployment workflow, it began to break down as worker processes would need to be restarted, going back to that whole "overhead" thing. Unicorn suffers from this problem a bit, if you try to `SIGHUP` and reload application code when workers are still processing requests, Unicorn will wait until those processes have finished responding to restart the process and load the new version. If a client is taking too long and hanging onto the process, it's very possible that the process will just never reload the code and you'll have weird errors happening every so often.

A solution to this problem is to move this pool of worker processes into a pool of threads, which allow the server to control a bit more about how the application code is reloaded, and not have to deal with the overhead of forking processes. I believe that's how NGINX, Node.js, Puma, et. al. work under the hood...there's a thread pool of workers and another thread that listens to requests. Everything is event-driven, so when a new event comes in, the listener thread just sends that event off to the pool of worker threads. Basically the same idea, but using an event loop as a model for better concurrency support. (Puma is a bit different because it does allow for worker processes in addition to threads, but this isn't necessary, it just allows for better performance on larger machines)
Pretty sure TeX considers horizontal optimizations, as well? I know it tries not to dangle a single sentence to a page, at least. (Well, I "know" that... I would be far from shocked to find I'm wrong.)
He certainly dominated the lineup of a major Austrian music festival a few years back. His act wasn’t even really good, but people just love him.
Rust noob here - is it common to see a struct lose Copy as things grow?
Reminds me of current HR departments and the thought leadership that surround them.
This article says it's not coming yet
Strange. This made a lot of sense during the time of cheap money. Less sense now.
Crime and homelessness spill into my neighborhood. Cars drive down my 25mph street at 45+. I have stopped neighbors kids several times from runnning out after an errant ball. A neighbor’s child had an abduction attempt against her just two days ago.

Every city is different, it’s not a one size fits all approach. I’ll accept the downvotes for protecting my 5 year old. In two years this entire story will be different
Random trivia,

Here in Germany, we wish each other "Guten Rutsch" on New Years Eve, literally "(have a) good slide (into the new year)"

Guten Rutsch to all
I like Inoreader[0]. The web app is plenty snappy for me, and supports basic vim nav keys, which is a lovely plus. The free plan's 150 feeds are sufficient for my use case. The mobile app also performs well. Mostly it just gets out of my way, which is all I really want.

[0] https://www.inoreader.com
Seconded!

The thing that I think about from them is the 'Reverse Fermi Paradox'. We've been humans for ~200k years now. Just in the last 10k or so have we had 'civilization'. What were we doing for the other 19/20ths of our time here? Ice ages don't account for all that time and there were warm periods in them. What was going with us all that time?

I think about it a lot also in context of their reviews of different cultural models. It seems we spent a lot of time experimenting and trying out a bazillion different ways to organize and have families and be in a tribe. Since we've no record of it, I'm fascinated by how our deep ancestors lived as a culture and how different it was.
> What are some examples of proposed solutions that the progressive left would oppose?
> What if you have a dispute with this landlord - can you compete in court with their lawyers?

Bold of you to assume that they wouldn't just cancel your lease, share your do-not-rent status with the other mega-landlords, and hope that homelessness makes you go away.
The old “solution looking for a problem” problem.
> you can't have root access without unlocked bootloader, simple as that

Various EoP exploits for the kernel begs to differ. That said, even though your statement is broadly true, conflating unlocked bootloader and root access in the OS under an umbrella term of "root" is still sloppy terminology. The terms are related, but don't mean the same thing. For instance, many x86 PCs essentially have locked bootloaders by default (secure boot), but you can still get root access on them because the operating system explicitly allows it.
To your point, we don't have capitalism. We have Cronie Capitalism. The naming is genius in that it has little if anything to do with actual capitalism. It's so convincing that even those who should know better (e.g., Home Depot's Marcus) spew snake oil.
Folks, processors continue to give smaller and smaller gains every year. Something has to give. If you have critical path code that absolutely must max out the core, then this type of analysis (as pedantic as it is) is useful in the long run.
It's made by a company called Candy (EU) but unfortunately I don't have the exact model number. I can't say how it's going to hold up over time since I've only had it for around 2 years since I moved in.

The only advice I have in this regard is making sure you're loading it correctly and not overloading it to the point where water spray can't reach your dishes.

You've probably come across these videos already but just in case you haven't, Technology Connections released 2 videos on the topic of dishwashers that could be helpful:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_rBO8neWw04

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ll6-eGDpimU
Only 5%? That gives me hope for humanity.
Under what basis do you have to claim those "random" inspections "work very well"

Personally I believe they do almost nothing. Food born illness is pretty common and almost impossible to trace unless it is a wide spread outbreak.

Many cities only inspect a food establishment every 2-3 years and in some cases as long as 5 years.

I think reputation, and economics play a larger factor in safety then government inspections. Dirty places making their customers ill tend to close long before the government inspectors come around.
> They have no idea if:
Some professors more effective teachers than others.

What are you even talking about? Literally every course at most universities end with an evaluation. Obviously, there are other problematic ways to measure effectiveness (publications). How much that data gets used is another question and varies widely by institution. “People in tech businesses” love to exaggerate the quality of the data they have and its usefulness, hence the Subprime Attention Crisis that is rapidly eroding their cash on hand as the Fed’s cheap money and QE dries up.
How much of it is what your friend is ostensibly saying and how much of it is just the ever existent complaint about the laziness of the youth (lets face it you also sucked as a teen) meeting with the inflexibility of the aging? Aka the source of strife between generations since time immemorial?
> indifferent to knowing the facts is normal in ordinary conversation

...With that one is brought back to philology: that would be "normal" "descriptively, or according to frequency", but not "prescriptively, or according to norm" :)

> If you're going to call that lying

Not just me, I grant you, but a long tradition. Yes, not holding truth as a "ground condition" is regarded as lying (i.e. further distinctions have little matter).

> rumor, gossip, and speculation

Not in context. Reporting rumors, in the form of "Some say X" or "Some say X under conditions C", is a normal statement with T/F values. A "gossipper" ("godsibling", "acquired relative") reports rumors about an "inner circle" and falls in the other case. Speculation works through hypoteticals, which in the form "There are grounds to state that if A then probably B" is again a normal statement with T/F (and TF/~T~F) values.
Several years ago, some friends at my then uni started organizing a special sittning [1] on the New Year's Eve, where the idea is simply to watch Dinner for One when it's broadcast and to drink the four served drinks in sync with Miss Sophie. For added challenge one can decide to go either "half" or "full James". It's something of a hilarious deconstruction of the entire concept of sittning, normally a three-course dinner party lasting several hours and featuring plenty of drinking songs and often other entertainment.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sittning#Student_sittning
Elon Musk’s Antics Hurt Tesla’s Democratic-Leaning Brand
I would encourage anyone curious to look into the beta for Readwise’s new RSS/RIL service, appropriately just called Reader.
Having multiple accounts log in from the same IP can also trigger a flag in Stripe's systems. They have a lot of anti-"fraud" triggers.
To add to this, the point it is it trying a full page optimization, not just single lines or words. Will it be likely? Probably not, but it can happen.

And I only used "record" as it was the example given to me. I'm sure there are others. Is a good example for how/why counting syllables can be harder than folks think. Well, kind of a good example; since you will get the right count, regardless.
He could have at least called it the Michael Bolton project
I don't believe that is accurate.

First - if git really didn't care about collision resistance, there wouldn't have been a need to switch to SHA1DC as the hash function. They switched because they care enough that they were willing to accept the performance penalty.

Second - imagine this scenario: a user creates two commits with the same hash, one with a valid change and the second with a malicious one. The collision could be created by playing around with some data in a binary file - so, this is a collision attack not 2nd pre-image. The user then submits the change to the upstream and gets it approved. The user maintains a mirror of the upstream repo into which they place the malicious commit. Anyone that pulls from this mirror will think they have the same code as the upstream, even if they compare hashes.

So don't use an untrusted mirror? I guess - but that is something that should be possible with a strong hash. And if git really didn't want you to do that, it would provide for better ways of tracking where objects were actually pulled from.

Anyway, collision attacks are real and can impact git. They just aren't as bad as a 2nd pre-image attack.
It's effectively the new risk-free rate. So whatever watershed where it stops making sense to put money in a mortgage instead of a viable, profit-making, problem-solving business.
I absolutely expect us to not achieve our usual Air Dominance when this fight with China inevitably goes kinetic.

While our pilots still possess the essential skills and munitions to peel back an Integrated Air-Defense System (seems the Russians lack both of those), I don't think we are prepared for the ridiculous numerical disparity we will face here in the First Island Chain, combined with the reasonable qualitative parity of Chinese assets.
>Never take notes when planning crimes...

The guy was clearly not very bright. This isn't some criminal mastermind big brain stuff. Any random dev with prod access could trivially execute something similar. But anyone with a brain knows that you'll be caught immediately. There's simply too many checks in the financial system to pull it off.
Can you please tell me which browser/os are you using? I'll look into it, although it works my laptop/phone.

P.S. Unfortunately I had some bad experiences with leaving contact info public.
The question is not what the government is limited to, but who is performing the limiting.
Right, but even without userspace root, you'll still have needed to go to Ring 0 and unlock the bootloader.
I was limiting my scope to hypersonics, which are hyped compared to more conventional threats.

I agree that in a US-China war, the US will stay very far away from Chinese land-based platforms. The surface fleet would mostly remain outside the first island chain and fly sorties to take advantage of US air superiority.
There's a spectrum of options between "total lockdown of machines" and "nothing is controlled". Also, at least the way the announcement read at the time... it felt like someone forgot that there might be a need by local admin to disable it, in fact.
> Security is not the only priority in existence. Sometimes people just want to access the information. And when that is the case, HTTPS can be a huge impediment.

I suppose you'd be fine if your government started replacing the content of Wikipedia with their own propaganda/removing critical information about themselves from traffic?
I don't understand how it's 99.9999% accurate if it's infinitely long
I'm not sure what "axioms" you're referring to, but "inequality" is usually not considered bad.

What is more often considered bad is "inequity", which is what prevents a lot of people from earning a good, decent life. Some people work very hard in life and don't make any major bad decisions, and still have a hard life. Other people work little and have a good life. There's both inequality and inequity in this picture, but they're not the same thing.

What people object to is not mere inequality: inequality is expected to exist anywhere money exists. What people object to is "excessive inequality", or distributions of wealth where the Pareto coefficient is "too extreme". The reason why this is bad is because it effectively makes the "American dream" impossible for nearly everyone, in the extreme case.
In some German universities, on December 6 (St. Nicolaus' Day) the movie "Die Feuerzangenbowle is" shown in auditorium maximum and tradition has it that students brew live fire tongs punch in the back rows.
What happens when Stack overflow gets a load of copypasta from these ChatBots

This happens: https://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/421831/temporary-po...

> The primary problem is that while the answers which ChatGPT produces have a high rate of being incorrect, they typically look like they might be good and the answers are very easy to produce