skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Do you think the executives care about your letter?

Some do.

A few years ago I flew with $EAST_ASIAN_AIRLINE and had some complications with my checked baggage. The gate agent was courteous and patient in understanding and resolving my issues. After everything's sorted out, she gave me the typical "if you're satisfied with my service, please write or call ..." As the interaction was positive, and I've got nothing else to do on the flight, I wrote a brief e-mail expressing my satisfaction with the earlier service.

Maybe a week later, I received a reply stating that they were pleased that I had good service, and said gate agent would be commended. Of course I have no way of telling for sure, I don't believe that it's a canned automated response, given that it was sent days later, the reply's formatting's simple, and that the reply's grammatically correct but stilted.

In contrast, I flew with $US_AIRLINE last year, in first class. I went to the airport early and requested if I could be re-booked for an earlier flight. The agent "helpfully" re-booked me, but in economy. It was clear that the agent had overlooked that I was flying first class. It couldn't be re-booked and I got a look of "well it's not my fault and you shoulda told me ¯\_(ツ)_/¯" Fine, I thought, but at least I still get express security lane and lounge access, right? I was assured that they'll call ahead so there shouldn't be any problem. That turned out to be a lie. The security agent didn't know what I was talking about when I got there. Same deal when I try to enter the lounge, but I guess the lounge agent took pity on me and "did me a favor" -- not "I apologize for the errors so far, and this is the least I could do" -- and let me into the lounge at least.

I should emphasize that at no point did I raise my voice nor disrespect the agents I'd spoken to, though by the time I was at the lounge I probably did sound slightly upset.

There was no WiFi on that flight, but you bet I wrote a lengthy complaint when I got home. I didn't even get an automated response back.

> Stop going to the place that treats you badly [...]

I agree that's likely the most effective approach. I no longer fly with $US_AIRLINE unless I absolutely have to.

I've not had a bad interaction with SWA thus far, and was in fact planning on flying with them sometime in February. Perhaps I should reconsider, but the alternative would be $$$ more expensive (and I may have to fly $US_AIRLINE), so I might still risk it. That's the rub, isn't it: when it comes down to it airline passengers, including myself, are quite price sensitive, so it's totally rational for airlines to optimize that over everything else.
Ha yeah, one of the largest financial firms doesn't have access to any useful information regarding their investments. This is quite possibly the most ridiculously ignorant comment I have read on HN.
Amazon does the same thing by using third party delivery companies and geographic dislocation with their support staff.

The proletariat can be taught to take their class problems out on the customers. I assume that the third party delivery companies' leadership even encourage their drivers to take out their class frustrations on customers that complain about problems.
> What would "tested in the US courts" look like? Would the federal government take an entity to court, demanding that they put their warrant canary back up, as a form of compelled speech?

The warrant canary exists because disclosing such warrants is illegal and carries some penalty. I imagine the federal government would bring a case to apply that penalty, and the courts would have to decide whether "removing a canary" === "illegally disclosing a secret subpoena." If so they can freely apply the penalty, and the penalty will carry legal precedent for being applicable to warrant canaries, and it will have a chilling effect on sites that wish to use one.
"National security" are magic words that nullify the effect of the Constitution within their AoE when used. People who do not comply with an NSL's order forbidding disclosure that they received an NSL may be found guilty of a federal crime with e.g. secret evidence brought against them that their defense team doesn't have access to.
Nice, but why not just put an image-stabilized telephoto on a camera? I've lenses for my Fujis and Nikons that do the same as the Canon binoculars---and it _is_ cool when you see stabilization in action---plus you can take pictures.
I am 90% sure that there is some business school that has taught that you should build brands with quality, and then once you have market penetration you "loot" the brand name by selling crap under the same name.

Restaurant owners build a successful restaurant and then want to start a new one that they devote their attention and care to.

This means a lot of products/brands follow a parabola of quality over time, and what you're asking is pretty similar to How do I find out what's good before most people?

To which the answer is: Find a forum of enthusiasts and page through it.

If you don't want to devote that much time:

For restaurants, google maps is the reigning champion, while Eater is pretty good at finding whats trendy.

For stuff, googling for what you want and appending "reddit" and then selecting "within the last year" from search tools is still the reigning champ.

For TV/shows, google search shows 3 different ratings, and while I rarely agree with the ratings as an obective measure of quality, those ratings tend to be consistent with quality (although not scaled properly to quality).
The seeds were planted long before 9/11. I was born in the 80s, and even I saw something wasn't right. The Nancy Reagan War on Drugs and Stranger Danger were there already.
You can do KYC with a KYC specialized company and agree on some way of not having the social media company getting hold of that info, just ‘user4639284757483858 is a real human and they are not already on your platform’.
Newark is full of those horrific ipad stations. If they were only used for orders, that would be one thing (still a bad experience), but the fact that every seat at every bar and table has these things flashing bright and distracting ads throughout your meal is just dystopian.

The cherry on top was when I walked to one of the self-checkout stores, grabbed a bag of chips, scanned it myself, and was then prompted for a tip....at a self-service kiosk.
Which is why "proper" canaries are signed and manually updated with an expiration date.

Refusing to add a new canary past the expiration date has the same effect, but is only done through inaction.
I doubt Knuth would claim for "solving" the problem, but I do get the impression that it is a solution. In particular, it does tackle hyphenation of words. Is where I learned of the re-cord versus rec-ord problem.

I'm curious what you mean regarding complex shapes across spaces. If it is related to the displayed bug regarding how words like "office" would be split, I don't think TeX ever had the bug as described. Though, I could be wrong, easily. (Incidentally, what a fun bug. Kudos to who found that one!)

Edit: I also had the impression that TeX would adjust intercharacter spacing as a whole to keep things looking a bit more uniform. Essentially, the goal was to act a lot like a human would when setting out the characters. If needed, you could adjust spacing on all characters within a margin of "not going to be noticed" so that you could expand a line of text to take up the full width. Without just having more space between a few words.
In Brazil you have 7 days to return any online order, no questions asked. You can use the product and return if you don’t like it, provided the product is not scratched etc. Companies might try to bullshit you and say that the ToS states that they only accept returns for products that weren’t opened, but they always cave after I send them the exact part of the consumer laws that support me. They have to refund the full amount, including shipping.
Related to the OP and many of the other comments, how much of what has formed your very strong opinions has been from real life, versus online, interactions?
I dont know about Canada, but here in the US people often misrepresent these provisions. i.e "places could pay subminimum wage to service staff under the assumption that it was covered by tips" in the US a place can pay submimimum wages provided the over all gross pay IS MORE than the minimum. Not the "assuming it will be" it has to actually be counted, and be paid more than. If not the business has to make up the difference

This is done (in part) to incentive the business to ensure their workers are reporting their tipped income, it is not uncommon for people to try to evade taxation by not reporting tipped income
TLDR: they talked about it.
It would be interesting to see a company implement this on the individual account level, rather than for the service as a whole. As it stands, while certainly interesting from a legal standpoint, I'm not sure this achieves much other than confirming that secret warrants are in use, and perhaps giving some vague indication of their frequency.
You sound like that pay-as-you-go is the only model at your company. Why not both?
Reanalysis of mRNA trial data [video][14 min]
The guy’s name is literally Musk. His offices are not going to smell like roses.
EHR systems are not medical devices and fall into a different category than pacemakers, spinal nerve stimulation, and similar.
Breeze Order Manager: Batch print your PayPal orders. Been running this for over 7 years. http://breeze.humbersoft.ca
Author here. Certainly part of the ugliness of wlroots-rs is my fault (unsafe code + macros is not a fun combination).

However, I tried quite a few ways to make this safe and ergonomic. Perhaps some better way exists that I missed, but even if a solution exists the work needed to implement it is very, very boring.

wlroots is very much a C API, but I admit I was expecting it to be easier to use from Rust and is my current biggest criticism with the language.

Normal Rust is normally not this inscrutable - however it does have a lot of features that could make it as hard to read. It requires a certain amount of discipline that you don't see in simpler languages like Go. I for one never write macros if I can help it anymore.
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In it’s heydey those people
stepping away were a group
I'll be darned. I stand corrected!
That is an incredible thought, I think it would have to be done independently though.
> Airlines operated PtP for decades

This is only really true prior to deregulation in 1978.

After that, Delta began hub-and-spoke out of Atlanta, and the majority of airlines followed them.

These days, as far as I can tell, Southwest is the only major carrier that doesn't follow this approach. It has its downsides. You don't have pilots sitting "on reserve" at bases ready to fly at a moments notice if there are gaps in the system. There isn't a need to shut down and esentially "reboot" the airline when there is a major disruption, which is what Southwest just had to do. Delta had the second highest cancellation rate due to this winter storm, and that was at 10%. Southwest had to cancel 70% of their schedule.
That sounds insanely slow.

I think it's fine to like Python as a scripting language, but arguing that Python is fast is simply laughable.

I forsee Python's reputation going the way of PHP's (< 5, not modern), and statements like this will definitely contribute to it.
Just for other people arriving from Google who might think this is too much work, it seems to be enough for my use case to just type

ssh user@host "cat foo.txt" | pbcopy

from my Mac terminal.
As long as theft is less than minimum wage it’s financially viable.
> In total, Zulily’s team said Castro had sent over 1,000 items sent to his house.

> In an interview with police, Castro claimed the orders that came to his house were the result of a mistake during a test and he forgot to return the items and did not notify Zulily staff about the orders, the report states.

Clearly, yet another example of the dangers of testing in prod! (Sarcasm.)
The highlight says it's < 17kB but bundlephobia says it's 30.1kB

92.5 kB Minified
30.1 kB Minified + Gzipped

https://bundlephobia.com/package/@tamagui/core@1.0.1

> Works completely at runtime, no compiler necessary.

So is the style part comptime or runtime? Because runtime is definitely undesirable.
I wonder about this a lot. I have a handful of similar stories about nearly dying as a child too, as do most of my friends. But none of us have any stories about knowing someone who accidentally died as a result of doing something dangerous as a kid, even though I'd expect a few of those given how dangerous we all think our childhoods were. Of course, with the reach of the Internet, I'm sure at least somebody reading this does have a more unfortunate story.

Anyway, it makes me wonder if maybe we were more aware of how to avoid danger as kids then we give ourselves credit for. Maybe only at the last minute, when instinct takes over and you cling tightly to a branch when you notice your balance shifting, or clutch your oversized stuffed dolphin to your chest when you trip on the newly de-carpeted stairs directly onto a large exposed nail that pierces through the dolphin instead of your lung.

It's hard to know how protective to be, and I guess I'd rather err on the safer side, where the consequence of being wrong is that my child is just developmentally stunted instead of dead. But either way, making the wrong choice kinda sucks.
When the act was first passed, most of us really wanted some kind of sunset provision to be included. At the very least “once the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq came to a close” clause. You could already, even then, see federal agencies salivating at the carte Blanche lack of oversight.
There is also pandas udfs, which uses arrow as the exchange format. I assume it still has to copy the data (?), but it makes the (de)serializarion fast, and allows for vectorized operations.

https://spark.apache.org/docs/3.0.0/sql-pyspark-pandas-with-...
This is a great read, but I keep getting pulled astray by the sheer volume of interesting links that the author has embedded in the text. I'm less than a third of the way through and have just finished my 3rd rabbit hole exploration.
>>McDonald's has replaced their cashiers with a kiosk

I cant wait until they open one of their fully automated places near me. I will be the first one through that line
Is there a particular reason to think any of this involved national security? The "standard" warrant canary is extremely broad, and would appear to cover any kind of warrant at all.
Lack of server side decorations in the core spec, and limitations of wlroots, are unrelated so I'm not sure what they're getting at (except to support the larger idea that Wayland is poorly designed, which I disagree with. However, I think I'm a little too attached because of my involvement)
Given the way this warrant canary works, in that it’s published daily, wouldn’t the government instructing that you cannot opt to stop publishing the canary equate to compelling speech, and be a fairly clear path to a First Amendment violation? I ask this as a total outsider to both the United States, and US law.
This number is total nonsense. It is derived from simply dividing the total cost of the program by the number of launches. This is useless. First, the R&D costs were sunk all the way back in the '70s. Second, the cost of personnel, operations, and facilities do not necessarily scale with the number of launches.

NASA put the cost of a launch at about $450 million in 2011, but that is pessimistic. That is simply the years cost divided by the number of launches in that year. The marginal cost, i.e. the cost of going from N launches to N+1, will always be lower. The Shuttle was designed to fly 24 missions per year and actually flew an average of under five missions per year. The lack of demand was a substantial reason for the high cost.

I find it tedious that every conversation on this topic has to start with the same tired old memes. No, the Shuttle did not cost $1.5 billion per launch. No, reusable launch vehicles are not new. No, not even reusable launch vehicles that land vertically under power are new. No, the price to LEO has not fallen by an order of magnitude. No, ULA is not dead in the water. No, neither is Ariane. Yes, the Shuttle program was badly mismanaged. Yes, the Falcon 9 is pretty cool.
If I understood, the 1000 items were worth about $40k, and he got $260k from diverting shipping fees to his account. Still not very clever.

I can see a cooler version of this, for example with Amazon where they try and steal shipping fees from you at checkout by defaulting to paid shipping when free shipping is available. A malfeasor could, whenever a customer is successfully scammed by amazon, just divert the money to themselves and make is seem like the customer actually clicked on the free shipping option.
There are a lot of hierarchies in the families of objects that discrete mathematicians are interested in. Inheritance is extremely natural in such settings.
I ought to spend some time documenting the code.

I prefer reading a description of an algorithm than the code of the algorithm. From the description I can work out how to implement the code myself. I might look at someone's code for ideas or compare how I solved a problem.

I too would enjoy a whitepaper of database design. I document all whitepapers read on GitHub profile (see my HN profile)

I have a simple btree here
https://GitHub.com/samsquire/btree

Farley Knight added an AVL tree to the repository that I need to change the unbalanced tree to use it.

I would like to know how SQLite VM works so I can write a database VM. I learned some things from crafting interpreters book and started writing my own programming language here

https://GitHub.com/samsquire/multiversion-concurrency-contro...
Please don't take HN threads on generic ideological tangents. They're predictable/repetitive and eventually turn nasty.

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&sor...

We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34192054.
> this seems very gimmicky in front of a judge.

It's always felt like engineers thinking they're outsmarting a much more mature legal system with humans built-in to slap away foolish gotchas.

The EFF seems to think warrant canaries would work, though, but under the premise that you can say "I've received some number of national security letters", just not "I've received this precise number of NSLs." That's an _entirely_ different line of thinking than every advocation of warrant canaries I've read.
i used to think it was 9/11; lately i’ve come to realize that, no, it’s just that i wasn’t alive for the same bullshit that has come before.
He abused kids and then wrote whatever he wanted about their reactions. Wrote some absolutely crazy leading questionaires that he doctored the answers to anyway.

Was a close friend of Marion Zimmer-Bradley's husband, Walter Breen, which is actually pretty easy to find in writings but is scrubbed from the internet very effectively.
This resonates with me
This is handled for example by fake-hwclock package in Debian (also RaspberryPi OS, installed by default) - it saves it in file, and even updates it every hour (so you won't teleport more than a hour back in time after unclean reboot). However, it of course does not work when you mount read-only because you don't want your microSD card to fail.
I would never advocate for piracy since it steals from the mouths of impoverished writers and cinematographers and so on, but if I were to play devil's advocate I might say qbittorrent mullvad eztv or nzb and a variety of made up words ending in *arr but again that's not a thing I would ever recommend and you should probably just pay 5 to 15 USD per month to watch the things your friend group talks about when they talk about things
Saw your flagged comment, but I have actually seen several games like this. Think I recently saw “Sex with hitler 2” trending on steam for instance. My suggestion for you if you don’t like that content, is to not consume it. For instance I chose not to use play “Sex with Hitler 2”
I believe they can't because of the legality, it would remove the secrecy of the warrant. The canary allows a company to imply they got searched without breaching the secrecy.

In this case, information got removed, which is not illegal because the information removed is not required by law.
Mostly things that are very widely used in industry are indeed no longer “in fashion”. Instead they were in fashion and actually proved valuable enough to have staying power (as opposed to most fashionable things that are junk). Charitably, anyway — sometimes it seems you can’t tell why something is still widely used.

Probably the mentioned hooks-based approaches are indeed fashionable now. Remains to be seen whether they’ll stick around.
Well, there's our general goodwill toward the US government for their history in not abusing "national security" as an excuse.
Judges in regular courts really don't like "one weird trick" style legal arguments. I'm guessing judges in secret national security courts like them even less. Hence the skepticism that, in this circumstance, they wouldn't just order the site to update their canary and threaten the operators with charges themselves if they refuse.
Yes, and this is the entire premise of warrant canaries. The GP is wrong and you are correct.

Disclaimer: IANAL
This seems like a chicken-and-egg problem. Wouldn't you need power in the first place (and therefore transmission lines) to even extract and refine aluminium locally?
I think the desire for batteries to be included is a holdover from the time of really really bad (or no) package managers. With a good package manager it doesn't matter if your batteries come included or not. It also provides a way for packages to battle it out external to the language -- compare Python’s `urllib` and `requests`.
Any politician running on a platform to repeal the Patriot act et al would have my vote, regardless of party and almost without regard to any other positions they hold.
It is a static analyzer built into Microsoft Visual Studio:

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/cpp/build/reference/analyz...

The only reason I know about it is that John Carmack rated it highly:

http://www.sevangelatos.com/john-carmack-on-static-code-anal...
As I understand it GPUs are patent minefield.
Anyone know that trope where the gambler hits rock bottom and he knows, just knows that if he has one last chance he can make it all back and so he steals from everyone who ever trusted him?

I’m not saying that’s what’s happening, maybe SBF (who just got out on bail and returned home to his room in his parents house where he surely had a backup) is just stealing the money, but it’s not out of the realm of possibility that we’ll see some half-asses attempt at redemption that ends in further loss and the true rock bottom.

They should revoke his bail and take all the collateral put up for his release. That’s what happens when the guy who’s out on bail commits more crimes right?

Who am I kidding the justice system in this country is anything but.
It looks cool. Unfortunately, your timing sucks because I just tossed money at Inoreader for a year of their service. Hopefully I'll remember you exist next December!
But if it were that simple, couldn’t a provider have a page (say /canary/<user>.txt) that makes a similar attestation on a per user minute by minute basis, thus directly disclosing not just that there was a warrant, but for who? If the legal basis is protection against compelled speech, then logically that should be “ok” as the government “can’t” compel you to update it. I realize this is question is bordering on reductio ad absurdum, but not intentionally.