skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You should do some basic research on how many people are falsely convicted. It's a LOT, and that's even allowing for the fact that many of them you'll never know about because they don't have the money to appeal or ever have those false convictions overturned.

No, police do not generally just go grab somebody and prosecute them. But they do regularly go and look for people who might be tangentially connected, determine they are guilty, and make up a case to prove them so. I've seen it happen personally, a good friend of mine spent time in prison for a crime someone else committed, I testified on their behalf at the trial to no avail.

Police and prosecutors want to win. Police get promoted by "solving cases" which has no relation to whether or not the guilty person went to jail, only whether someone went to jail. Prosecutors make their political bones on the backs of people they put in prison -- again, whether they are guilty or innocent doesn't actually matter.
i've read that they will be reimbursing some people for their meals/lodging/rebooking, which can be a huge burden for people with bad/no credit or savings. i also believe that DOT is only able to provide enforcement of reimbursements or vouchers for southwest because southwest had made promises that they would in the past

i'd like to see all airlines required to provide the sort of compensation that southwest is providing here
I think you just left out the most important bit of the story... What exactly did you do in order to reduce it from 25 hours to 30 minutes?
A journey through the apocalypse with this scrolling net.art
I have used an old ipad as a streaming deck using UpDeck. Very useful for recording. I use it for training videos for our product and it's really handy for moving between OBS screen layouts (switch your recording headshot from left to right etc)

https://8up.uk/
How is that? I expect an app to quit immediately via cmd-q.
Capitalism hasn't failed us, we have failed capitalism.
I have to imagine that they are bleeding money from this self inflicted wound. How would fines have helped if the threat of total chaos and huge losses didn't do it?
> an incomplete feature that results in false positives more often than not.

It doesn't.

> The article directly mentions that none of the calls have been actual emergencies and that it is absolutely tying up resources.

None of the calls in this small town in the middle of multiple skiing resorts. The feature works pretty well in general and has saved multiple lives. It just unfortunately produces an increased number of false alarms for an activity (skiing) that is done very geographically concentrated, and on top of that impedes responses to confirmation calls (because the phones are kept in the pockets of thick clothes).

> Automation that is not accurate is a real problem. Humans will quickly calibrate to it being wrong most of the time. This has occurred time and time again.

Even if they did that, they would do it only in skiing towns, leaving the feature useful elsewhere.
The pokemon bd/sp games suffer from a similar issue.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fB2C8q42X64
Three ways Big Tech got it wrong
I remember this feeling well. If I heard birds chirping or children playing I was very upset that I wasn't outside experiencing life.
New U.S. Control of TikTok's Censorship, Report Criticizing Zelensky Was Deleted
I think you’re misrepresenting your story in your original comment. If you want to be an SDE at a Tier 1, you have to leetcode. There is no persuading the interviewer to pass you without testing your leetcode.

If you are comfortable taking a non-SDE role, then there are opportunities at tech companies that don’t require programming skills or leetcode.

I’m happy you have found an alternative career path, but you’re comparing apples and oranges.
I don't buy the narrative that inadequate technology is the main reason for the Southwest debacle. We must ask, why did this happen now and not before? Southwest has previously been able to better deal with disruptions like this. While the weather event did happen in the middle of their network, it wasn't unprecedented.

I think a more obvious reasons is because of staffing issues brought on by covid, layoffs, and the vaccine mandates. They lost experienced employees who were able to wrangle the bad scheduling software. Throughout 2022, Southwest was having hiring issues because they were still mandating the vaccine through at least the summer for new employees. Their pilots association warned about this causing disruptions after a bunch of summer cancellations. Do people forget how flaky Southwest was during summer 2022? Southwest just recently reached staffing levels that matched their 2019 high. This "inadequate technology" narrative just seems like a convenient scapegoat.
The argument that contact with and spreading knowledge about Indian (as Mann settles on calling them, after evidently being repeatedly dressed down by actual indigenous folks for trying to use more currently-PC terms) societies and systems of government played a major role in kicking off enlightenment political thinking isn't so far fetched.

I don't recall his claiming that they had military tech that was anywhere near as developed as Europeans, and most of his coverage of thriving, complex, urbanized (by the global standards of the time) societies in the Precolumbian Americas is focused south of the Rio, for the simple reason that that's where most of those seem to have been (though he does cover Cahokia and related sites in the modern US, as well)

The closest I recall him coming to claiming Native Americans were more advanced than Europeans was that Europeans simply failed to recognize some patterns and practices as deliberate and well-considered, as was the case with certain crop management patterns in the Eastern forests and heavy use of fire-as-a-land-management-tool all over the continent. But that's not exactly a claim that they were more advanced. Oh, and he does mention repeated contemporary reports that the natives seemed remarkably tall and able-bodied compared to Europeans, and makes some efforts to figure out why that might have been (and some of that does tie back into government and social structures)

I'm fairly sensitive to bullshit revisionism of the "noble savage" and/or "ackshually Europeans were the backwards primitives" sort, and didn't get either vibe at all from Mann's 1491 or 1493. In fact he explicitly counters the former in a lot of ways, similar to what you see in anti-noble-savage works like War Before Civilization.
> they see word "trap" in reference to a person [..] they think about some murderer from 80s

Maybe I'm showing my age but in my mind trap has a singular meaning, it hasn't changed since the early 2000s, and it has nothing to do with a murderer from the 80s. When did that change?
This is one airline out of several. Also, what other mode of transportation doesn't use scheduling software? Certainly not rail or inter-state buses, they have very similar headaches.
Haven't noticed anything, but TBH I also haven't looked as I've had no need to question things - the rest of the OS runs fine alongside, with dozens of browser tabs, plus both Amazing AI and Draw Things running (though only one actually generating at once). And with about 50 iterations I'm losing around 1% battery every couple of images so it doesn't seem particularly taxing, whilst running cold.

Edit: It isn't obvious with Amazing AI but it may in fact be doing what Draw Things makes explicit in the options, which is generate at 512x512 and use your choice of upscaler to get to 2048x2048.
Startup AI: Searches the Y Combinator Podcast for Answers to Your Questions
Inspired by Huberman AI and All-In On AI. I used Golang to download the episodes in .mp3 format. OpenAI Whisper to transcribe. And a combination of Pinecone and OpenAI API's to generate the answers. Frontend is NextJS and Tailwind CSS. As someone who is still trying to land their first full-time developer role, this project was challenging and very rewarding. I really think gone are the days when we have to digest content on 1.5x or 2x speed just to get through it all.
Yeah that’s not been my experience, that’s just what they put on the req.
You bastard. Now I’ll never be able to listen to it without thinking “everybody’s doing a brand new dance now…”

It’s spot on. Never noticed that before.
That's absurd. You can learn how to butcher a hog in an afternoon (I'm not including curing ham or bacon in this statement).
I’m way more worried about having a wreck while distracted by some horrible touchscreen interface than I am about a bug causing a wreck.

When will auto companies wake up and realize that physical controls are better in every way?
Hmm, not ideal but I’m pretty sure if you just go through that prompt it sorts it out. The iPhone becomes another listing in the webcam list but you can pick the built in one and it won’t prompt you to switch.
I've told this story a few times, but maybe 10 years ago I had a cross-country JetBlue flight that was delayed perhaps 6 hours hours. It was a few days after a major storm. Like Southwest here, JetBlue didn't have much flex capacity and relied on the daisy chain to keep on chaining. Our plane had gotten stuck somewhere, so they had to find a different one at some far-away airport and fly it in, which took hours. But the kicker was that when the plane finally landed, the crew already onboard couldn't man the flight because that would exceed their duty limits. The airline didn't realize this ahead of time, so they had to gather a new crew (like literally call them in), which added a couple of hours to the delay.

Naively, I'd assumed these kinds of things were handled in some sort of mission-control center with warnings from rule engines blinking on some big screen and a team of crack operators mapping out what needed done. But clearly that wasn't so: they were just making things up as they went along. Sounds like Southwest is in a similar spot, but this time on a much bigger scale.
I switched to Mac in summer 2021 after 23 years of desktop Linux in all kinds of flavours.

I run Docker Desktop on OSX on an M1 Pro and haven't had any issues. Yes, you do need arm64 builds of things; the x86_64 emulation is indeed apocalyptically, unbearably slow. But otherwise, the shift to doing local development in docker-compose has been transparent and seamless.
I like your breakdown! Mine is pretty similar

- 10 years LinkedIn, some leads and interviews but no jobs

- ?? years Digg/Reddit: probably just a waste of time (just a lurker)

- Facebook, 13 years, some minor use but barely use it now. My wife uses it a lot more though with mom groups in our city which is nice

- HN: Got a job, and helped me upskill!

- Blind: exposed me to what is possible in the tech industry, 4x'ed my salary so this has certainly been the biggest benefit! Also helped understand the interview process

- Some private slacks: also helped me get in touch with a few insiders who helped me do well at some top company interviews and get offers.

I agree that smaller groups are better, it is just harder to find them!
What really killed them (as in not CUDA) is no easy way to use them.

OpenCl pretty much broken on mesa so really amd is no better than Nvidia on Linux. And Nvidia killing it with CUDA where it works.
The sleep trick is something I do with my hobby projects all the time, without really deliberately coming up with it as a strategy.

By the time I get the kids in bed at night, I'm often out of steam. Sometimes I try to make some progress on a project, but I usually don't have the willpower to push through a stumbling block. After many many nights of staying up late and losing sleep trying to power through but not actually getting anything working, I finally realized it's better to just go to bed.

But I also feel sad if I go to bed early without making progress on something I'm excited about. So I started tricking myself by telling myself, "Well, you can just think about the project as you fall asleep." That's usually enough to get me in bed early.

And, lo and behold, quite often, I figure something out as I'm drifting off. Then when I wake up the next morning, I can get it implemented while I have my morning coffee. It's a really pleasant routine.
The main reason in my area is that a.) these fancy new efficient ones aren't available easily and b.) no contractors in the area to install/service them. I just got a new gas furnace and really wanted to add a heat pump to the mix but after several quotes all of them either said no or strongly avoided the question. I couldn't get a straight answer.
Id love to see a combined heat and power system that burns natural gas to drive a heat pump compressor, and recovers the combustion heat. I wonder what multiplier it would get on a therm.
> Unfortunately I can't think of any solution to this problem that isn't painful. Either we inflate the rest of the economy until a loaf of bread is $15 but housing is reasonable again or we let housing collapse.

Or we could build more housing?
how can you play with real vulnerabilities and be covered assuming you will return the exploited funds?

In the US you can't due to the CFAA. In practice most defi vulns don't require moving any significant amount of funds to demonstrate so the question doesn't come up. IIRC there have been one or two cases where harm was imminent and the contract owner couldn't be reached rapidly so a researcher notified the contract owner, "stole" all the coins, then returned 100% of them as soon as it could be done securely. This should be a last last resort though.
How does bitwarden’s backend being build in a gc language matter? There is also an api compatible project in rust called Vaultwarden if gc matters.
Is 1password and lastpass’s backend better in that regard? would be nice if he could elaborate on that point.
Note how things are grouped / structured in emacs. (beyond the tree, aka implied surrounding environment, current abstraction level, abstraction level(s) below current abstraction level.

lisp (.) notation works for nice compact level notation aka outside (.) is parent environment, inside (.) is various levels of () abstraction, evaluating pair of () gives result of the () application evaluated. Where something like the bash shell, the (.) is what happens in the shell file, outside of the (.) is the command line environment, and inside () may be multiple nested shell file abstraction/other shell file references. Note: can extend the (.) concept to spreadsheets, where each cell in spread sheet is shell file & spreadsheet is "file directory".

Could check out how treesitter is used in vim/neovim vs. emacs. and/or 70's tex & nroff put together things.

ed fairly barebones editor, one step up from command line sed.

Slightly more modern approach, search engine term 'text editor written in ' adding language of choice/familiar with after 'in' aka 'text editor writtin in bash'. play around with source code.
I think I'd have felt the same way up until I learned Rust in 2021, and now I just think "I'd rather solve this in Rust" almost always. Rust might have spoiled me for other languages. But yes, in general AoC is definitely a good way to learn a programming language. Since we probably don't need vast numbers of Rust programmers it makes sense to acquire say, Python, or Typescript or something if you're working in some discipline where programming might be useful but is not your core skill.

The initial headline of your front page intrigued me because I had noticed in surveying my own institution (the one where I studied, both as an undergraduate and as a postgraduate, and where I now happen to work) that while most of the undergrad courses of study we offer that require mathematics include at least an opportunity to program, Medicine does not. I reasoned at the time that the Medics have to cram such a large amount of other material into their brief time that maybe there's just no room to teach them to write code if they are to sleep (in my country they certainly won't have time to sleep once they're junior doctors)
> the A380

My worst nightmare, was pulling into a gate, and seeing one of those puppies arriving on the same concourse.

Immigration queues are bad enough, with 747s, but the A380 is much worse.
Jarre was definitely popular across Europe in the 1980s.

I was introduced to him around 1987 with Oxygène and Équinoxe, and always loved his 1970s and 80s albums, though I agree that he went out of fashion pretty early. As far as I'm concerned, he probably peaked creatively with Zoolook (1984), and I haven't really cared since Waiting for Cousteau. His later work isn't exactly bad, it's just the exact same formula he's been following for 40+ years.
The concept for this is awesome. I do wish I could get it as a plug-in to vs code in a similar fashion to how vs code handles jupyter notebooks
We do mandate safety in general. (Probably less so in some countries than others.) So you mostly can't choose to fly an airline that defers maintenance to cut costs.

Presumably the consequence of regulators making canceling and delaying flights expensive is that airlines pay more to reduce the likelihood of that happening and fares go up as a result.

Whether that's good or bad is a matter of perspective I guess. Regulators could implement a lot of rules that would make flying more pleasant. But prices would go up.
In theory, yes. In practice, I got delayed for a day on one of the flights from Prague to Paris (pre-COVID times) due to the flight being late by hours and me missing the connection. They gave me the hotel, but refused any compensation beyond that. I tried to get them to pay via AirHelp, they took 3 years and said they can't do anything. The law is one thing, getting it is quite another.
Except that it takes about 6 months for a gun from Earth to get to Mars.
It's hard governing a place you can't easily reach.

And if a Mars colony really is self sustaining, stopping supply runs also doesn't do as much as you'd maybe like.
Sending a gun(ship) might also be prohibitively expensive.

There's probably a lot of fiction written about exactly this topic. Maybe the Martians could buy their independence with Epstein drives.
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There are still a number of major airports that are slot constrained, especially now that passenger demand is growing again. It seems like there could be a profitable market for an efficient twin-engine airliner larger than the Boeing 777X. Perhaps even a double-decker?
> Instead Southwest has systems from the 80's they require crews and customers to call and talk to an actual live human...

From what I understand (from /r/flying) it's the reporting / fixing of issues which is manual. This means when the reporting / fixing is overloaded and not given a respite it can't catch up, keeps getting more overloaded, and ultimately the scheduling system completely fell over (it lost track of crews entirely is what I understand).

"Mobile apps, and web portals and other technology" is orthogonal to the issue at hand.
All of these apply equally well to getting dumped.
Reminds me of Bytebeats [1]. My favorite being

echo "g(i,x,t,o){return((3&x&(i*((3&i>>16?\"BY}6YB6%\":\"Qj}6jQ6%\")[t%8]+51)>>o))<<4);};main(i,n,s){for(i=0;;i++)putchar(g(i,1,n=i>>14,12)+g(i,s=i>>17,n^i>>13,10)+g(i,s/3,n+((i>>11)%3),10)+g(i,s/5,8+n-((i>>10)%3),9));}"|gcc -xc -&&./a.out|aplay

It's incredible how much musical variation you can get out of such a relatively small function.

[1] http://canonical.org/~kragen/bytebeat/
Perhaps the most important difference is that expressions re-evaluate automatically on changes. You don’t have to go manually rerun all the dependent expressions, or wait for the kernel to restart, or worry that some of the results you’re seeing might be stale.
I second this. I went all in on the dream machine and some of its parts and it failed in an unrecoverable way, I sent it in for repairs; and it failed again in a different unrecoverable way. I just use the crappy Comcast router with a ubiquiti AP now.
Now we just need to get the list of the "Bahamas based" customers who had 24 hours to withdraw 100 million. I bet you a dinner the list includes some of your well known VC's...

At correct time: https://youtu.be/JfuY_8vYUl4?t=182
I have a 2016 Mazda and they had tactile controls then. What they did in 2019 was remove the touch screen feature on the center display, but there were always tactile controls to access the display. I have a 2022 Mazda and it's largely the same interface as the 2016 controls.
I found this a bit strange as well. A year seems a bit excessive. The most I've seen is 4 months, with an average of much less than that.
Does the deck run anything else than Windows or linux? Or is it vendor locked with proprietary drivers?
Build your front end in React, then let ChatGPT be your Redux reducer
Or that ridiculous quak-science with the monkey stem cells transfusion. The deduction stories were excellent, but some of the outlier-stories or the "nationalism" race characteristics are the insanity that gave us WW1 and WW2.
Agreed, in principle. There is an intersection on my commute that was almost certainly designed to look pretty and break up the monotony of the grid layout with some elegant curves. Sadly there are accidents almost every single week, most likely because of bad sight lines and how much turning goes on. It would be nice for them to "fix the road" by just straightening it out but it would likely require a staggering amount of time and money because of how much infrastructure has been built up around it. The city has already tried what it can, so I think having the warning in the app is the best we can do in the meantime.
If not a household name, at least a weekly household sound for kiwis as Oxygène was used in the title credits of Our World on a Sunday evening.

https://youtu.be/wnPR9IoaTFc
Ruby takes forever to start the application because it has to open all the files. 4-8 minutes IIRC before the first test would run in our Rails monolith on my M1 pro.
As stated, I think you’d find that would eventually kill someone from an airline tangling with weather that they shouldn’t.

There’s a reason we give airlines a pass for unsafe weather: because we don’t want them killing people.
I'm extremely skeptical that people are getting the actual prompt when they're attempting to reverse engineer it.

Jasper's CEO on Twitter refuted an attempt to reverse engineer their prompt. The attempt used very similar language to most other approaches I've seen.

https://twitter.com/DaveRogenmoser/status/160143711960330240...

There's no way to verify you're getting the original prompt. It could very easily be spitting out something that sounds believable but is completely wrong.

If someone from Notion is hanging around I'd love to know how close these are.
I see your concerns, but when the system was built, at the protocol level, to be heavily trust-assuming, but many individual users are untrustworthy, and you can't distinguish them without collecting information that could be considered privacy-violating, what is the solution?

I, for one, have a blog that I don't use Cloudflare for. There's a risk that my system gets hugged to death and I don't know until my service provider either notifies me or cuts me. And from a certain point of view, I might be considered a negligent actor because I'm not collecting enough information to know if somebody has breached my blog engine and turned it into part of the Low Orbit Ion Cannon. But I've chosen to value user privacy.

Point is, trade-offs. I don't think I'm in some kind of moral right space for my decisions, I've made them based on the kind of reader I expect to get.
That's a good point; you could definitely argue that the agreement was made under duress.