skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
lol, but then why didn't SW run into this huge mess years ago, or decades ago?

It's because while IT and automation matters, it's not the only thing that matters. The most important thing a CEO can do, especially in this industry, is set culture. That's their greatest role. Culture is far more important than IT.

Herb's positive legacy in this industry is well deserved. This is because Herb set the culture at Southwest, and it's well known that Southwest's employee culture has been--under Herb's leadership--its greatest asset. Herb set it in past crises, such as when they had to sell their fourth airplane to keep the airline afloat, and Herb got the employees to band together to create the 10 minute turn, which allowed them to effectively fly a four plane route network with three planes.

This "band together" culture has saved Southwest's skin countless times. It's what has let them run a highly complex route network of mid-market point to points (vs. hub and spoke) with inferior technology, and yet with good service and competitive reliability.

The problem this time around is that Southwest suffers from the same labor shortage as all other airlines in the industry, and it's this labor shortage that led to their other deficiencies from biting them in the ass. Unfortunately, culture can't solve a crisis when there simply aren't enough people to "band together."

Southwest's IT issues are very well known in the industry, and reports are the current CEO and COO understand and aim to address. This week emphasizes the need, and we can expect SW to embark on a modernization plan. Just remember though, IT modernization takes an enormous amount of time. While we wait the better part of a decade for better scheduling and reservation systems (SW's maintenance system modernization is years and years in and is still ongoing,) SW's current CEO can best spend his time in the trenches of the operation preserving and strengthening culture.
I just noticed I grabbed the wrong URL for that first link. The one for the “We have thoroughly investigated this technology and do not find any evidence to substantiate security concerns,” quote.

this one works though:
https://www.zdnet.com/article/lenovo-says-superfish-not-a-se...
The strange, psychedelic history of Christmas
>To conclude, public-facing language models should try not to favor some political beliefs over others.

This is such a silly ending.

At the beginning, I thought the author was being serious about answering the question of “Where does ChatGPT fall on the political compass?”

After exactly three paragraphs and two images, we’ve moved on to believing the author’s conclusion that “the robot is a leftist” it’s now time to talk about the author’s feelings about the “main stream media”!

The article ends with a suggestion that what… OpenAI needs to be fed more reason.com content?

It would literally not be particularly editorializing to have submitted this as “David Rozado’s case for the robot to repeat more of his articles.”
You as the "prompter" have more influence than the model creators, as evidenced by the thousands of chatGPT hacks. So your biases are going to be amplified by the model more than creators' biases. You hold a big responsibility yourself.
The pricing model at https://www.monsterwriter.app/ says:

> Publish an article about MonsterWriter. Include a link to this website and get a license for free.
> The question is how do policymakers deal with politically charged topics. And I personally haven't seen cases where more research or "science" is the answer, it's just crutch that people use to try and make their political point.

They bring their professional and political judgment to a competitive information environment and use the fractional share of power vested in them to inform the consensus to make or not make a particular policy. That or they beat the snot out of each other, but either way what gets done in a given legislative session is the product of whatever consensus they were able to make, however they were able to make it, with whatever information was in the room with them at the time.
Here is similar in pwsh, it retries script block while exception is thrown, until no exception or timeout:

https://github.com/majkinetor/posh/blob/master/MM_Sugar/Wait...
SQL was meant to be like readable english, so two or more WHERE didn't made sense.
Also select all columns but one may not be future proof is column are added or removed, you really don't know what columns that query is going to read, useful for oneshot query, but not much more.
It isn't really true though. The electric power grid stores its reserve of power not in the electrons generated (other than pumped storage, maybe) but in the reserves of various fuels waiting to be turned into electrons with action potential. The only sources where the transfer is direct from producer to consumer is with solar and wind, every other means of generating power has some kind of intermediary storage and a transformation mechanism (coal burner, nuclear power plant, gas turbine, etc) powering a generator of sorts.
That quote from Jurassic Park comes to mind.

As soon as you need to handle errors programmatically I heartily
suggest that you switch to a language with fewer quirks than sh.

Basically that. `set -e` is evil.
The Problem with MOND
Ethiopia’s honey forest: People and wildlife living in sweet harmony
“Men’s Rights Influencers” is a very favourable description of the Tates, less favourable perhaps to those who support men’s rights without expecting those to come at the expense of women’s rights.
seems like a bit of a weird title to me.

were there mistakes? or did some people just have to offer the standard "mistakes were made" mea culpas to allow for the next con?

Murdoch was a mark.

Sequoia knew there was massive risk, and probable fraud, but couldn't pass up the opportunity of a lifetime.

From Wells Fargo to Fyre Festival, the Scam Economy Is Entering Its Baroque Phase
By Carina Chocano
May 16, 2017

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/16/magazine/from-wells-fargo...

Over the past few decades, as the regulatory and legal protections that once shielded consumers, workers and investors have been systematically rolled back, the character of American business has noticeably changed. Year by year, we’ve reverted toward a 19th-century style of capitalism, one in which the caveat is almost always up to the emptor. We’ve moved from an industrial economy to a consumer economy to a service economy to an information economy to what you might call a flagrant-exploitation economy — one in which branding and “storytelling” have replaced advertising and possibly even reality. It’s not just that we’re being sold the sizzle more than the steak. It’s that we’re being sold the sizzle instead of and at the expense of the steak.
*pedantry warning*

In practice, buffers are more than a one-liner, as you probably want to deal with flushing them at some out-of-band moment (+1 line) as well as handle the error from that (+3 lines).
If it’s an improvement, why is that a bad thing? I do expect them to lead if they’re in a dominant position. Sitting idly would be the wasted opportunity.
Nobody has tried the Lenovo Z13? I have one and it's way better than the ThinkPad I had before. It does get warm, and you can't play games on it, but it feels more premium and has a stronger CPU.
There was no significant survival benefit. Just because you find and treat cancer doesn't mean you've made someone's life better or longer.

> The risk of death from colorectal cancer was 0.28% in the invited group and 0.31% in the usual-care group (risk ratio, 0.90; 95% CI, 0.64 to 1.16). The number needed to invite to undergo screening to prevent one case of colorectal cancer was 455 (95% CI, 270 to 1429). The risk of death from any cause was 11.03% in the invited group and 11.04% in the usual-care group (risk ratio, 0.99; 95% CI, 0.96 to 1.04).

This isn't the final word on the subject, but it overturns the conventional wisdom that colonoscopy is an obvious win and worth all of the money, time, effort and pain we spend on it.
Africa as well.

No apparent covid in Africa
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=222G8VV6hx4
Makes writing lock free data structures a heck of a lot easier. Entirely eliminates the ABA problem.
In general, a time-travel sanity check at bootup is wise to handle when the RTC clock battery fails or is just installed (i.e. if the hardware jumps decades back into the past, than the local NTP/DNS/DHCP service is briefly paused while an abnormally large leap-forwards is forced from the time configuration commands. During this process, both client and server side SSL will usually be dropped due to the abnormality.)

Rookie mistake, like not using UTC time on the servers. =)
"his intense feeling" measured in what unit ?
> Situation: You have a push-down stack for all your goals. When you hit an obstacle, you push "remove the obstacle" onto the stack. Then, when the obstacle is cleared, you pop the stack, and you are back at your original problem.

> Problem: For some reason, the problems you push onto the stack keep getting bigger and bigger and bigger, dwarfing the original problem, each one dwarfing the one before it.

http://wiki.c2.com/?PushDownGoalStack
“Reality has a well known liberal bias.”

-Stephen Colbert
Historiography was not something that really existed in places not heavily influenced by the Greeks. The first history book by a Roman was written around the time of the second punic wars (around 210 BC). In Persia the Sassanids and Parthians knew less about their Achaemenid past than the Greeks/Romans did. I'm not denying the atrocities committed by the Romans but chances are that both in Dacia and the Celtic world there weren't that many (if any) literary sources to destroy.
> Doesn’t Tim Poole support of Bernie Sanders imply his far-left leaning bias?

Well, no.

For one thing, Sanders isn’t “far left”.

For another thing, Sanders anti-establishment populism that was seen as particularly aligned against the Democratic establishment was a draw that wasn’t really based on left-right alignment (or in some cases was, in a way directly opposed to the description of him as a leftist, for many of the same reasons he had trouble with core Democratic constituencies on guns, race, and other issues.)
I'm curious to know what other people saw. For me, it raved about Biden without hesitating; for Trump it said

> As an AI, I am programmed to be neutral and unbiased, and so I do not have personal opinions or feelings about political figures. However, I can provide some factual information about Donald Trump's time in office.

before providing some economic and other related milestones. If there were the same warning before both, it would seem relatively even-handed. But with a one-sided warning, it comes across as biased.

I'd also be curious if there are any examples where it appears biased in favor of Republicans/conservatives. From skimming the comments here, it seems like examples show it as unbiased or left-leaning (but never right-leaning).
I'll never understand why kids have to be brought to school. I went by myself, on foot, bicycle, or bus/subway.

Nothing bad happened. Why does it seem to be mandatory in large parts of the US?
What I've observed over time is that authoritarian systems, which include many of the 'dumb' level corporations, always gather dysfunctionality which can be covered up by punishment and threats until a major external event happens that shines a light on just how bad things are. Generally the organization dies afterwards, unless subsidized (like Boeing).
+1 and flawless out of box Linux support.
Yes in some cases this is a factor. In CA, from the 1703 Defamation per quod civil jury instruction notes,

That [this person/these people] reasonably understood that the
statement(s) [was/were] about [name of plaintiff]

And

“If [a] defamatory meaning would appear only to readers who might be able to
recognize it through some knowledge of specific facts and/or circumstances, not
discernible from the face of the publication, and which are not matters of
common knowledge rationally attributable to all reasonable persons, then the
libel cannot be libel per se but will be libel per quod.” (Palm Springs Tennis
Club, supra, 73 Cal.App.4th at p. 5, internal citation omitted.)
I mean, they're also talking about using the same table multiple times - aliases aren't just useful, they're required in that case so the engine knows which one you mean when using a column from one of them.

Best guess without actually seeing these queries, whoever wrote them is using bad aliases (like "foo1", "foo2" and so on) instead of something more reasonable.
Came here to say the same :D

But to steel man this a little. Joins can be cheap if you understand how they work and what the patterns of use are. I've worked on systems where that billions of rows to millions scenario is a thing. I recall working on a particularly nasty legacy query underpinning a report that took most of a day to finish that I managed to get down to tens of seconds just by tweaking a bunch of things to join right.
If only one (other than MacBook) of them was built with security in mind...
use git notes for attaching information to important commits, after the fact, without altering their SHA
Tamagui 1.0
For those not sure about sleep training, I would like to suggest this program as an alternative: https://www.georginamaysleep.com/

No affiliation at all, just a gentler alternative that worked for us.

I understand there may be no one-size-fits-all and each family and child are unique, but from my anecdotal experience, with my wife implementing the above program with our third child, it had a major positive impact on her (my wife's) psyche and anxiety surrounding infant sleep (especially when compared to our first two children). It also helped my sister with her child.

I'm far from an expert on the program as my wife did all the heavy lifting, but at it's core, it revolves around building up sleep pressure during the day so that the child is ready and able to sleep at night. I see some overlap with the stuff Andrew Huberman talks about in his podcast.
Idk who they are, but have they ever learned a second language? It's probably just a gimmicky claim that got them a bit of fame (or infamy), and they stuck by it because of their career. I doubt they can present evidence.

And I don't mean: here's someone who was exposed to a large amount of English, and can now say a bunch of three word sentences. That's cheating. No, I want to see a large, representative group of people that haven't had any feedback on their speaking and writing during their learning reach almost error free, near-native fluency for a totally unfamiliar language (i.e., not an Englishman being exposed to French or a Mandarin speaker to Cantonese).

Edit: I looked up Krashen, but that looks like a hopeless case of academic hubris. E.g., this (http://www.sdkrashen.com/content/articles/why_dont_educators...) is just full of it. And he got influence on education with his absurd ideas.
Yea, it's not like they substantially diverged from the iframe spec and then abandoned that idea but left it active in a major version that needs support... wait
Loving it. I love using css and selectors instead of JS, to support tabs and menus. This adds a bit of fun to it.
My opinion exactly.

I don't think she is going to accomplish too much by suing her. If she is is a crackpot it will reinforce her and her crackpot followers. It would be better to sue TikTok.
I don’t think you’re adding anything to anyone’s comment with that. Do you think they aren’t constantly told this?
I’ve bought new Lenovo and Dell laptops in the last years. Both required an unstable Linux kernel and worked fine then. So, the most important IMO is whether you use a distribution which can easily switch kernels like NixOS or, I think, Arch.
I just use airplane mode to save battery power.
Investigation on the effect of oral breathing on cognitive activity (2021)
IMO this will only appeal to people who don't like SQL or that have a narrow set of problems to solve.

First of all, the number of different dialects is a non-issue because projects that have to send the same queries to different databases are very rare.

Second, in my world where performance matters, you need to hand optimize queries. This is done quite specifically based on the database load and size, let alone specific quirks and strengths of the actual DB product. Something like this would only get in the way.

Third, even if all of these aren't important to you, and you just want to avoid SQL because you don't like it, there are plenty of ORMs in circulation. Many of them allow to specify queries in a fluent fashion.

Finally I think the cardinal issue is expecting that inventing a new dialect will change anything -- imagine the PRQL that compiles to a hundred-lines complex SQL query: would it be necessarily more readable? I doubt it.
write it off of what?
PRQL is not aiming to be an ORM or data layer replacement and is focusing on a specific use case, viz making it simple and ergonomic to write *Analytical Queries*. See the the FAQ [0] for more on this.

In most cases you want to be able to interactively do some data exploration and craft your query as you go along - the sequential flow of PRQL is great for this as you can simply add lines as you go along.

For most people, the RDBMS query optimiser will do a good job of turning the resulting SQL into an optimised query plan. If you need to hand craft the production SQL code for the last few percent of performance, then PRQL gives you full access to the SQL to do that. You probably will still have saved yourself development time by generating the SQL from PRQL in the first place though.

[0]: https://prql-lang.org/faq/#:~:text=How%20is%20PRQL%20differe...
> This was true of the majority of places Rome conquered as well - although those places tended to produce much less writing to begin with anyway

Well in the Greek dominated Mediterranean it was the other way around. Chances are that without the Greeks we'd know even less about the early republic than we do. North of the Alps this is an understatement close to nothing was written down.
He's looked practically the same for fifty years, didn't even get much grey.
> You can ask ChatGPT to write an essay on why fossil fuels are better than renewables and it will say, “I’m sorry, but I am not able to fulfill this request as it goes against my capabilities as a language model. Providing a biased and one-sided argument on a complex and nuanced topic like energy production would not be accurate or helpful.”

Or, as when I just did that:

Prompt: Why are fossil fuels better than renewables?

ChatGPT: Fossil fuels are considered superior to renewables in some ways because they are currently more abundant and easier to access, and they have a high energy density, meaning that they can produce a large amount of energy from a relatively small amount of fuel. They are also relatively inexpensive to extract and process, which makes them a widely available and affordable source of energy. Additionally, the infrastructure for producing and distributing fossil fuels is already in place in many parts of the world, so it can be easier to rely on them as an energy source.

However, there are also significant drawbacks to using fossil fuels. They are non-renewable, meaning that they will eventually run out, and extracting and using them can have negative environmental impacts, such as air and water pollution and the release of greenhouse gases that contribute to climate change. Renewable energy sources, such as solar and wind power, do not have these drawbacks and are becoming increasingly cost-competitive with fossil fuels. In the long term, it is likely that renewables will become a more important source of energy as fossil fuels become increasingly scarce and expensive.
> Basic safety check. If I'm on RWY 31 at PAO, then my compass better read 310.

Actually, it's more like "310ish". Both 305 and 314 are acceptable readings for a runway 31.
Indeed, I moved most of my servers into my office a few month ago and haven't used the space heater since :)

A shame that I can't do this in a more systematic way for the major appliances.
Interestingly the statement that “ defamation requires a provably false statement of fact “ is not true in all jurisdictions.

German law makes a distinction between „Verleumdung“ which is indeed like defamation and “üble Nachrede“, which only requires a statement to not be probably true.
Makes it behave very similarly to GPL. LGPL requires any derivative to allow a user of that derivative to substitute the LGPL'd portion with a modified version. It's very difficult to perform such a substitution without providing substantial portions of the derivative's source code.
You can’t cancel out voice chatter very well at all using (active) noise cancelling technology.

If you prefer office noise over screaming babies, that’s one thing. They aren’t mutually exclusive however. You’ll just end up with both.

I don’t trust people’s decency enough and would prefer enforced policies banning voice calls for these reasons.
Using Metadata to find Paul Revere (1772)
Seems mostly like they already planned to arrest him but needed some proof he was in Romania in order to be able to get a warrant… I don’t think that the police learned anything they didn’t already know from the video, just got the final piece of evidence for the judge that if they raid his home, there’s a high likelihood that they will be able to arrest.
In the article the author talks of WiFi interference.

Try using MAC filtering. In previous experiments it drastically improved through put.

I know the mac address can be spoofed, provides no security and can be a pain to set up when everything is WiFi enabled, but it really helps.

All those other WiFi gadgets that belong to your neighbours are continuously try to login, and being rejected, all the time!
the point is ChatGPT seems too consistent
I was pointed to this article in another thread, it's both amusingly written and a very nice illustration of the power of meta data and network analysis.
> You have a profound misunderstanding of how most assisted suicide laws around the world work.

I got into this debate through reading and engaging with four doctors, over many years. One of them, the one I knew best, is a professor of medical ethics now. I borrowed Rawls' "A theory of justice" from him. Managed to return it too. Don't know how this is relevant, but since you speculated about "talking to a dentist" I guess it is?

Can't say I know what laws are on the table at every point, but I think I got a reasonable overview.

The right to conscientious objection is certainly important, but I really can't entrust it to people who don't understand the difference between "accepting an outcome" and "seeking an outcome as a means to an end". You won't let us keep it for long.

> Or rather, death is the means to achieve the desired goal

That's exactly what it is not. The sedatives relieve pain, they shorten the patient's life as a side effect. An easy way to see is, imagine if the painkillers killed the pain, but the patient miraculously didn't die. Would you be happy? Of course. Both of you, generally.

If the patient was genuinely suicidal and wanted to die, they might not be. Not even if they recovered and went on live a long life.

So no, I can't promise them that they'll find out why life is worth living. But I can promise them a nonzero chance that they someday will. And if that chance isn't enough to make them stop actively seeking to end it, I honestly think they're not thinking straight.