skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In Minority Report we saw a guy controlling a computer interface by waving his arms in the air, and ever since we've had people talking about how cool it would be to have that in real life. Well, actually, no it wouldn't. In practice your arms would get tired as hell pretty quickly. A mouse on a table surface is actually a pretty great solution, which is why it's lasted.

People are drawn to things that look cool and innovative for the sake of it, but we're not good at thinking ahead to how well they'd work in practice.

I've been searching the web for so long that it's like breathing. I type a few keywords, hop between the first few results very fast, get what I need and get out. Maybe I have to repeat. Few searches are more complicated than that.

I've tried replacing that flow with AI. It's slower to input, slower to get results, the results are opaque with regards to where they came from and how trustworthy they are. And the results aren't better, in my experience as someone for who finds search to have been solved and painless for many years.

Even asking one question of an LLM takes more time and effort than a traditional search, and the problem is compounded when I have to iterate on a search.

(Also it sucks to cede the kind of power to search providers that gives them leverage to force us to be logged in and monetize what's always been free, but those are just random complaints.)

So, going back to your question. My guess is that Google has always known this isn't a better overall experience, once you get over the initial wow factor. But maybe they underestimated how much that wow factor would allow true competition to materialize before the rest of us would figure it out and lose interest.
These plants are all 40 years and older, which means they are EOL or close to it anyway. You could do another costly overhaul and squeeze a few more years out of them, but the bottom line will be same.
"Restroom?" is a valid english sentence.
As a formerly very frequent traveler, not having an assigned seat sounds completely awful to me. Not that I've had much reason to use Southwest since I lived in the South, it's unlikely I would ever fly them barring unusual circumstances for that reason.
Maybe deep down, users love dark patterns! Our judgement is powerless to determine; only the objective data can tell us!
Texas to Hawaii, the long way
Korean has a crapload of complex speech patterns (degree of politeness - that's sheer madness) but the nice(?) thing about it is that it all comes at the end. So you can start your sentence without even deciding if it's a statement or a question.

E.g.,

오늘 그 식당 열어요 Today that restaurant is open.

오늘 그 식당 열어요? Is that restaurant open today?

오늘 그 식당 열 것 같아요. I guess that restaurant is open today.

오늘 그 식당 열 것 같다고 들었어요. I heard [someone] saying that restaurant is probably open today.

오늘 그 식당 열 것 같다고 들으셨다면서요? I heard that you heard that the restaurant is probably open today, is that true?

오늘 그 식당 열 것 같다고 말한 분이 누군지 찾아서 좀 따져야겠어! I'm going to find whoever told me that the restaurant would open today, and set the record straight!

오늘 그 식당 열 것 같을 리가 없잖아요! There's no way the restaurant is even open today!

In fact, learning English as a native Korean speaker, one of the greatest difficulty was asking questions - you can't just start your sentence and make it a question later, you have to mentally pause, construct your question in your head, and then invert the first word! It took me years.
That explains the new Uber-branded perforated condoms.
Because you like the mission, and having a palpable impact, and dislike bureaucracy, and busy work.

The equity equation for startups changed over time because the abundance of venture capital made it possible for startups to avoid going public to raise capital, and the attendant scrutiny. But this meant that workers' equity stayed illiquid longer. I do not think startups conspired against workers.
… sounds like classic Google Graveyard

https://killedbygoogle.com/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35219490

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33973607

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31368497

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31153986

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21944855

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30353028

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21400885

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24215739

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27010713

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27765151

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23077358

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24460854

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10497425

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19874192
The ability for gamers to run their own servers on their own networks is sadly the reason we are where we are. I understand the business model of why, but from a common sense perspective it’s better for the game if you let people police their own groups/matches/membership like we used to.

Instead, only “authorized providers” are allowed in most cases, that charge you a lot of money for the privilege of having a dedicated host, if at all. Worse is when the game company themselves provide the servers without the ability to choose.

When we could host our own, at home or at school or in the work IT closet as a “storage controller”, we could control the experience. This is why Minecraft because so popular, mods yes, Twitch Personalities, probably also, but the ability to host your own world with friends and hold them accountable for blowing up your house at school the next day was why it became a phenomenon with kids.
Hydrogen fuel is basically here already. It will be used for grids shortly. And saying that it will be 2080 before it happens is the same thing as saying no (real) climate change policy will happen until 2080. Even Tesla admits we will need it for grid energy storage. It is no longer something anyone can deny anymore.
Sure you can - you just do it. You just make the necessary fix.

But you do it quickly, within a short time of launching it. Anyone who was able to make use of it within a couple months, will be able to adapt and fix things.

Once it's been there for a year, then sure, people rely on it. But there's no reason to take so long.
i've started flying recently a lot and in this one particular circuit i see loads of dark patterns.

1. there was this snow season last month and the roads stopped working and suddenly the air prices skyrocketed. (as is now expected), i had to buy a ticket in emergency which i paid 4x the reasonable rate with all websites saying "oops, the fare has increased" trick.

2. many websites did the "just 1 seat remaining" trick and i jumped the gun.

when the next day i traveled, the plane was half empty.

what happens is, travel agents buy up tickets well in advance and then sit on the bookings, they either sell directly or wait for online portals to sell them.

these travel agents having purchased tickets in bulk then say "oh, the ticket is priced $100 on kayak, i will sell it for 95. lets give you some discount" all the while having purchased the same for like 20.

these people are willing to forego tickets because its more profitable to keep the prices high
Fewer protections, more opportunities.
Musk is not an engineer, let alone a "lead" one.

If anyone doubts: https://twitter.com/pwnsdx/status/1605442608603463680

Musk suggests rewriting all of Twitter, can't answer any basic questions about the tech stack, gets angry when challenged on technical specifics.
Labor laws in various countries tend to push companies toward one end or the other of a spectrum. One end of the spectrum is hire fast/fire fast, the other is hire slow/fire slow. The US is very much toward the hire fast/fire fast end of the spectrum, relatively speaking.

For tech companies in particular hire fast/fire fast seems to have worked well. It creates a more competitive labor market. That makes sense because tech is a new industry where things are changing all the time, skills are evolving, so it benefits from a labor pool which can adapt quickly.

Is it good for workers though? Many people would say it isn't great. You become an employee for the sake of stability and in a hire fast/fire fast culture, you have less of that. It's not so good for quality of life when you're always afraid of losing your job.

The counter-argument is that in a situation where it's hard to replace people the cream doesn't necessarily rise to the top and there are less opportunities for top performers to get paid what they're worth (a common complaint in European tech). If you don't mind getting out there and marketing yourself and playing the job market aggressively, you can make a lot of money. If you would rather avoid all that it's a source of anxiety and something you want to avoid.

One place where I think the US system has it wrong though, is in tying health care to employment. This is catastrophically bad from a quality of life standpoint and bad for keeping the labor market fluid as well because it creates perverse incentives which are unrelated to whether someone's actually good at their job or not.

Overall I'm personally of the view that it's good for different parts of the world to have different ways of doing things, and if you truly can't stand the overall package you're getting on a particular continent, maybe you should move. (I did and I don't regret it. I might do it again one day. I am continually surprised by how many people seem to utterly hate the place they live, and yet don't leave it!)
Very bad first impression is what this game excels at, but it gets better. In any case that's in the past and it looks like their music rights expired, that why it was pulled from Steam, not because of some special kind of malice to an old game. Situation still sucks though.

https://www.gamesindustry.biz/segas-rights-as-publisher-of-a...
A million americans died and you think the reaction was extreme?? What we know worldwide is at least 18 million excess Covid deaths and at least 65 million people with Long Covid. The entire Western world has completely failed in its COVID-19 response. If you think this was extreme, you are being gaslit. Too little was done and way too late. Communication and leadership complete failed.

There is a lot of money going into making you believe what you believe. Next time maybe there won't be lockdowns because of this campaign currently being wrought and then many more millions will die. Someone will win perhaps but guess who. Hint: it ain't you.
From my experience around one in twenty rides the driver tried to pull some sort of scam on me. In Portugal the service was awesome, but in Austria, Hungary, Poland, South Africa and Argentina the experience was very mixed (ranging from great to poor).
In several European countries, that's really not hard to find online:
https://www.reuters.com/article/booking-hldg-hungary-idINL5N...
https://www.politico.eu/article/dutch-privacy-watchdog-fines...
One does not click on Chuck Norris, Chuck Norris clicks on you. With his boot.
It’s quite common in Europe, at least on budget airlines. EasyJet, Norwegian, Ryanair all do it. I’ve also had back boarding on domestic flights in India. I know in Europe it’s literally because the airports charge extra for using the jetway and the budget airlines, not wanting to pay that, have everyone on the tarmac anyway so why not just toss another stairway up and get people on faster. This is especially true when the weather is garbage and they don’t want some tweet from someone complaining about having to stand forever in the queue in the freezing rain to get on their plane when there’s a perfectly good back door sitting there.

I’ve lived in the USA for most of my life and I don’t think I’ve ever done back boarding, and have perhaps deplaned from the back once. It’s very rare here.

It’s quite crazy to me that people don’t do back boarding more often, but perhaps the YouTube comment on the CGPGrey video above was telling: a pilot said that boarding isn’t actually the bottleneck, it’s getting everyone’s checked baggage on board. So even after everyone is taking forever to board there’s still more to wait on, so why would airlines even bother to make it faster when it’s not the real bottleneck.
In fairness we still don’t know that reusability is going to work. The heat shielding is afaict a big unknown.

Can they use a mostly modular tile? Can they hold the tiles in place with their current strategy? Will their approach to both of the above sufficiently protect the vehicle? How much will it take to reset the shielding after each launch?
Honestly, I don't think that this article is trying to do something from nothing.

From what I see - it's some recruiting agencies trying to cast wide nets to hire people for contracting jobs. By some random chance, fired people are getting offers for companies where they were worked previously.

It'd be different if people were targeted to offer job in the exact same team where they were laid off from, but I haven't seen this in article.

Personal anecdote: I was getting emails from Amazon recruiters while working at amazon.
There are a lot of problems of Uber in India for example, as a native, even though I know most of the routes where I need to travel a lot of drivers do the following which makes it incredibly annoying

1. They'll ask to cancel the ride if it's an online payment and then say pay me in cash and I'll take you. That ride is effectively void from Uber's end and the only recourse I have is to either rebook which takes very long (reason[0]), or take the ride, risking my safety.

2. They'll just reroute without asking, and not notify you. Wait too long at turns, red lights, just to increase the trip time. I've had 30min trips take 1hr and upwards. Which have increased my fare when I had to pay.

[0]: There's a common pattern when you book an Uber, they'll call you and ask you where you want to go, if it doesn't fall within their day plan they'll outright tell you to cancel and then not pick up the call. Cancelling from my end often results in a penalty since the ride has been booked, and that causes a lot of issues and a waste of time. This is very common when you want cabs to the airport since they're located well out of city limits and a lot of drivers just don't want to make the trip.

Edit: Thinking about this a bit more, God help any tourists who travel here, since Uber is their safest bet. Local *-rickshaws/taxis can charge you anywhere from 5-20x if they see you're not a local let alone a foreigner.
Well, let's hope it goes better than the N1.
a/b testing obviously drives these kinds of site designs. The business leaders get what they want, but eventually these over-a/b tested products open themselves to disruption.

I also think its funny when people accuse these companies of being immoral, but I think a/b testing is creating these bizarre amoral companies. And once they get lost they seem really lost.
It's likely that parent company (Sega Sammy Holdings) is the one who is buying/financing it. Sega accounts for less than 10% of their revenue.
The said geopolitical events have shown that Eurasian integration is a pipe dream. Unless we see geopolitical surprises with the opposite sign analogous to the fall of the Berlin Wall.
The arms industry?
If you visit Italy and are interested in this kind of architecture you should also visit Crespi d'Adda [1] a couple of hours of car to the East of Ivrea, past Milan. That's another UNESCO site and was created for the workers of the local textile factory. When you're there you should also hike the Adda river to the north, some hydroelectric power stations from 100+ years ago, nice sightseeing and some Leonardo da Vinci's works of engineering.

[1] https://whc.unesco.org/en/list/730
This is patently incorrect & whomever told you that didn't know what they were talking about. 'Varnas' i.e.. caste were method of social categorization & they are definitely much younger than Vedas. these were not intended to be genealogical distinctions but over long time ended up evolving into one. Also, there is No requirement to follow varna if you become a hindu.

ps: I am actually one of the middle caste hindu & my wife is upper caste. Inter caste marriages are not as uncommon as you think or what british media likes to portray, especially after the internet based 'discovery' came into scene.
This proves that GPT is not an actual AI yet, because my reading on the matter tells me "kill all humans" is the operative goal in such a situation.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/High_rising_terminal you can raise the pitch to indicate that you are asking a question
2011 is a long time ago, his opinion or view point might've changed.
Anyone who has spent time in both places will recognize this comparison as self-evidently flawed, probably for reasons underlying the statistical methods used.

A comparison of the human development index between US States and European countries produces a result more in line with the lived reality: https://i.imgur.com/jcHhVk4.png
> If we remove government restrictions to become a true free market that's going to be removing labour laws as well.

Yes, but it will also be removing all the sweetheart deals that companies now have with governments. (Btw, patents are a big part of this.) The power discrepancy you describe comes from those sweetheart deals. Without them large companies, being extremely inefficient producers of wealth, are open to all kinds of competition.

Btw, the labor laws you speak of do not actually favor labor. For example, minimum wage laws make it harder for people in that wage bracket to earn a living--because minimum wage laws prevent many jobs in that bracket from existing at all. Companies don't mind that: they just automate those jobs. The ones who suffer are the workers who now find jobs much scarcer.
They're actually going to phase out coal completely by 2038.

After 16 years of Merkel breaking renewables, they're being expanded again. An expansion which, in the past helped to establish this technology on this planet.

Edit (since the Astro-Turf downvotes prevent me from answering to even more falsehoods being posted here...): And no, they couldn't have phased out coal completely because NO party wanted to lose voters in those regions where coal is generated. Just have a look at the name and tasks of the commission tasked with the phase out: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commission_on_Growth,_Structur...
Farmed salmon can be sold never frozen for sushi. Wild can’t. It is one of the few fish that can be purchased that way because it has very low incidence of parasites.

But still her own graph showed it was well above 140C (the temperature at which parasites are all dead) and she was talking entirely about microbes.

So even if you purchased Never frozen farmed salmon and cooked it this way, you’d be very safe. Even if you didn’t cook it at all you’d be very safe, as evidenced by the fact that the government allows it.

Say what you want about our government’s food regulations, they are not at all risk tolerant.

I wouldn’t want to cook salmon in a dishwasher, but I wouldn’t hesitate to eat it for food safety reasons, and her video made me less concerned, not more.
It's only a mistake if you take it too literally and forget it's a model, e.g. "I measured the electron to have a mass, but I can't see how an excitation in a field would have mass so I guess I must've measured wrong."
Interesting ... Organizations can also have and inherit psychological traits inherited from the humans that compose them.
People say this and I don't believe it. At the airport, what I see is business travelers with their carry-on (roll-aboards are often unnecessary space wasters but that's another topic)--and generally they wouldn't even need to pay for checked luggage anyway whether because of status or expensing it; they just don't want to wait for baggage claim or lose the flexibility when flight schedules go sideways. It's couples and families who mostly seem to be checking half their worldly possessions.
Yeah, if you stream av1 to YouTube right now they transcode your content to vp9 for compatibility reasons
I think I just shut down the machine for demo.casaos.io. Sorry, I didn't realize the "Shutdown" button would actually shut it down for everyone...
> Printing money is a meaningless phrase

It is nothing of the kind. It is a perfectly valid description of what government-backed central banks do in all developed countries. It is also a very helpful description since it substitutes plain language for obfuscatory phrases like "quantitative easing".
There’s more to life than money. Autonomy, mastery and purpose. Those are the textbook three dimensions of intrinsic motivators that lead to job satisfaction, and it’s often much easier to find those in a startup. Working in a more established company can be soul sucking. Sure, you make more and you don’t have to worry as much about the whole thing failing and needing to find another job, but you’re in a position where you can meaningfully move the needle on the company’s success. You’re not a cog in a very large machine. You’re going to be given more freedom on how to accomplish things. And the mission of a startup can often feel much more compelling.

To some extent, it can feel very different depending on whether you’ve got a family to support. Having a family as a sense of purpose makes you want to choose something more solid in service of that. But to those without kids, finding purpose in work can feel more appealing and compromising on security and pay to get that freedom and sense of purpose can be much more compelling than trying to find purpose in money, which is just a losing proposition for most people.
It’s also a cultural thing in the west too, a lot of early green movement was built the same way, when half lives were incredibly long. The politics just hasn’t caught up with the science.
Originating in the United States, Vincent Price demonstrated preparation of fish in 1975 when appearing at The Tonight Show with Johnny Carson. Price presented the dish as "a dish any fool can prepare".

Here's a clip[0] of that Tonight Show episode, from Nov. 21, 1975. The fish in this case was trout, not salmon, but it -- and some zucchini, etc. -- were cooked in a dishwasher.

(The link below is cued up to just before they walk over to the cooking area, but the earlier part might be of interest too, as they talk about art-forgery, etc.).

FWIW, the guest from the segment prior to Price's said it was the best fish she'd ever tasted.

[0] https://youtu.be/aqORoVYCUIY?t=502
FTR: The Isar 2 plant‘s fuel rods are almost depleted. From ordering new ones to actually getting them installed takes 12-18 months. Second: Isar 2 is out of certification. Re-certifying will take another 1-2 years. Third: the 25% co-owner of Isar 2, the city of Munich, has already declared to NOT agree, as has the 75% owner, Preussen-Elektra. And finally - this would need fundamental changes in the German laws for which a majority simply doesn’t exist.

Söder is in the middle of his re-election campaign. This is just another round of his useless populism.

(I live in Munich and have been observing this whole process of shutting down nuclear since it started 23 years ago)

If you want to learn more about the history and implementation of the shutdown decision and process: https://www.base.bund.de/EN/ns/nuclear-phase-out/nuclear-pha... is a good starting point. It’s from the German Federal Office for the safety of nuclear waste.
Yeah; it is amazing how much nicer Southwest boarding is, with one free checked bag, than say, JetBlue, which charges for carry ons, then runs out of overhead space anyway, and tries to pay people (with a tiny travel vouncher; lol) to voluntarily check their carry ons.

For bonus points, they have to police the size of carry ons to make sure no one sneaks on to the plane with something that won’t fit under their seat.

Of course, their website obfuscates these terrible policies, so then you get to watch a line of people that look like they want to scream at the poor boarding agents.