skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> At the end of the day, if crew A and plane B are in wildly-unexpected places, no amount of computational prowess can correct that reality.

I think that’s not wrong, but one of Southwest’s efficiencies is that they only operate one “type” (term of art) of airplane. So theoretically any crew can operate any airplane.

So, in theory, it doesn’t matter which crew is at the airport as long as they meet the rest requirements. You could just use the greedy algorithm and assign the first available crew in the queue to the next flight at each airport. And, since you need a crew to get the airplane to the airport, there are usually crews in the same places as airplanes. (But you have to know that an available crew exists at that airport to do this)

Where that breaks down a bit (and where you need a smart algorithm or more compute) is that you can end up with crews at an airport, but the crews are all timed out. So while the airplanes are mostly fungible, the crews are mostly not.

The complexity is really filling all the planes for the next-n rounds of flights with crews such that none of the crews times out up to your time horizon. But that only works if you know where all the crews and planes are (and how much time each crew has left)

Also, keeping a backup crew at each airport isn’t super expensive because crews are only paid for the time they are operating the airplane while the doors are shut.
Correction: It will buy us a year or so, if we can get the entire world on board, and immediately take all those vehicles off the road. Any policy that lets people keep driving their gas guzzlers just doesn't do enough.
I don’t really see your point, sorry? In arbitrary dimension, you rotate in an oriented plane (aka a bivector up to a positive constant) around a fixed point, if anything; I meant to call that an “axis” by abusing the terminology a bit (it’s an oriented line in three dimensions and a point plus an orientation, i.e. either “clockwise” or “counterclockwise”, in two).

Not all isometries with a fixed point will be “rotations” in that sense, though—some will be products of them, as in

/ cos u sin u 0 0 \
| -sin u cos u 0 0 |
| 0 0 cos v sin v |
\ 0 0 -sin v cos v /

with non-boring values of u and v.
Forgetting is a wonderful gift. "remember no more" the low parts of a relationship is a goal.
Ironic that the techradar article is also chock full of ad cancer. Doctor, cure thyself!
Or they would not be supporting the development of Headscale.
Thanks!

If I understood correctly, the second graph indicates that this is nothing but a local maximum. Therefore, the main argument is that the change has been abrupt? The problem I see is that it's only in the last 150 years that we're able to measure these changes with precision. We'll never know how many times in the past has climate changed abruptly.

That doesn't necessarily mean that we should do nothing about it. It's only that we don't really know.
It does take its toll, though.

I've been living in a big European city for more than ten years now. I can kinda forget about the noises surrounding me, but I always tend to feel less tense when I leave for the countryside. And when I get back, sure enough, I hear all the random noises again. Upstairs neighbor dragging a chair when sitting at the table. Other neighbor taking a piss. Neighbor from across, blasting his TV or his kid crying for whatever reason.

There is never a moment of respite in the city. You wake up, you got your neighbors doign their thing. On your way to the office / park / groceries, you got the traffic noise. At the office: the AC hum and useless office chat. On the way home, traffic again. Back home? Neighbors are back, too.
Apple music popping up everytime I accidentally hit play on my keyboard is a far more annoying ad than anything windows is doing.
Supposedly you can define which apps are logged, exclude private browsing, etc.

Looks like they are sending a subset of the local data to OpenAI, which rules out most corporate use.

Hopefully Apple will support the open-source devs working on LLMs that can run entirely on Apple Silicon devices.
I don't see how we get them to accept a "No" when they know they can make more money by relentlessly badgering the users until they say "Yes".
And? Lawyers have argued cases for the benefit of far worse groups than Coinbase, without tainting their reputations and impartiality.

It's not the case that a lawyer argues - everyone who needs legal representation deserves to have it, it's how a lawyer argues it.
The monthly cost of a dedicated server includes everything: bandwidth, power and hardware.

How do you figure a $5k annual cloud spend is cheaper than ~150€ per month?
> IMO, the real tragedy here is not some threat to Drake (he’ll be fine) but that some dude who wrote an original song had to pretend it was written by AI to get it heard.

I haven't listened to the song in it's entirety or very closely but an actual Drake or Weeknd song usually has much better production and songwriting. Not saying it's not good or that Drake songs are good but from my amateur ear there's a difference in quality.
There's an unfortunately common take on AI that goes basically like this:

"I tried it and it didn't do what I wanted, not impressed."

My suggestion is to tune out the noise and really try experimenting with these tools – and know that they're rapidly improving. Even if ultimately you have criticisms or decide one way or another, at least really investigate them for your own use-cases rather than jumping on a bandwagon that's either "AI is bad" or the breathless hype-machine at the other end.
Zapping insects spreads a lot of germs into the air. There are newer versions that suck the insects in through a fan.
Is there a domain list if I wanted to crawl the hosts myself? I see you have the raw crawl data, which is appreciated, but a raw domain list would be cool.
Very similar to background queues but the load balancer holds the request and dispatches it to a waiting worker, or waits until someone comes to serve it. While the worker handles the request, the load balancer proxies.

The request serving is the same, the way the work is dispatched is just inverted.
and yet there are competitors with far bigger budgets who can't seem to poach those engineers doing the work. Or for some reason refuse to hire the engineers that are kicking their ass. So Musk is either a better manager(getting more done with equal talent) or better at finding talent that Boeing and Blue Origin reject. If Musk is actively impeding SpaceX, why can't these companies seem to beat him? SpaceX engineers should be jumping at the chance to take their knowledge to Boeing/Lockheed/Blue Origin/Europe and work for people who are better than Musk(according to the media)
Automated Insights: streamline user test analysis with AI assistance
My bad, I didn't even realized I was hijacking the back button. It should be fixed now. Thanks for all the comments!
Good to know, thank you! Totally fair on language, I assumed that a person moving to a country will have to learn (or, better, already know) a language.

Do kids from other countries tend to be accepted well in schools? I heard that at least in France schools can be very clique-ish and coming from the outside the kid can face significant hurdles. But I am just parroting what I heard elsewhere.
Sharepoint is the worst piece of software I've ever used.

I think its central problem is that it doesn't know what it's supposed to be, so it tries to be everything, and feature creep has turned it into a slow, bloated mess.
They do. I use Linux exclusively recently and in the last year I played:

- Slime Rancher

- Stanley Parable

- Fallout 3, New Vegas, 4

- The Forest

- Counter Strike

- Heavily modded Minecraft

- Arma 3

- Insurgency

- Insurgency: Sandstorm

- Squad

- Red Dead Redemption 2

- The Witcher 3

- Kerbal Space Program

- Papers, Please

- DOOM

- My Summer Car

- Portal 2

- Others I don't remember

The number of games that don't work on Linux is shrinking every day, DXVK and Wine are getting way too good. Take a look at proton DB for reference on compatibility [0]. You can input your Steam profile and it will show you how many of your games are playable and in what state. Currently in the Top 100 played games on Steam 78% of them are rated either Platinum or Gold. In the top 1000 that drops a bit to 75%, with only 3% of them being unplayable.

Oh yeah and all the games I've listed I played on Wayland (except the competitive shooters) :)

[0]: https://www.protondb.com/
Why wasn't The Weeknd reprimanded for mimicking Michael Jackson? He "stole" his sound.
Lots of Windows hate on HN this week. It’s largely well deserved.

Unpopular Opinion: I still prefer Windows to both macOS and Linux by an extremely wide margin. For both normal use and development.

I’m extremely annoyed at all of the ad crap. And I probably wouldn’t recommend anything other than an iPad to my mother. But for devs Win11 is honestly somewhere in-between “just fine” and “ pretty good”.
Well it’s not “nothing to do with” cars or density. The only reason American cities attempted (really, converted) into Euclidean zoning is because cars made it seem easy enough to transit zone to zone to live your daily life.

Walking 8 miles to the grocery store is clearly untenable, so never would’ve happened without widespread cars.
Suicide rates in men are highest in rural areas, which also have highest Church attendance. Does not track. From experience, going to church doesn't necessarily mean you'll connect with other families. At most I've seen extended family co-mingling at a family member's place or resto after service. Living in the city, there is no shortage of ways to connect with others on the physical plane, should one choose to do so. Though it's hampered by zoning and the convenience of the virtualization of all experiences.
Why don't you read the article which contains an explanation of why sales tax is regressive.

> Sales tax is already notoriously regressive—that is, it places a larger burden on low-income taxpayers. There are no brackets or marginal rates in sales tax. Whether you make $100 or $100 million, your sales tax in Cupertino is 9.125% of the taxable purchase. The result is the portion of individual income that goes to paying sales tax is invariably higher in lower income individuals than it is in higher income folks.
Or you need a niche application that's only available on Windows, or you don't want to rebuy it or a near equivalent for the Mac.
In British English it’s a strong no.
Yet another linter.
Access to contacts seems like something that would be handled by the likes of owncloud.
Radiolab (https://radiolab.org/) is my go-to favourite and great for when you're with other people with various interests, since it covers a wide range of topics and you'll always find something to please everyone. (They're all good).

Here are my favourite epidosdes:

Colors - https://radiolab.org/podcast/211119-colors

Elements - https://radiolab.org/podcast/elements
The ingenuity you exercise to overcome limited resources (whether money or information) is a telltale of your determination to succeed.
Totally random question that I was recently thinking about: can reuse of LUKS passphrases undermine security?

Yeah, yeah, I know, reusing passwords/passphrases is bad and all, but consider only this use case: you have PC and have a laptop. Or you have a PC where you accidentally written your passphrase twice in two different slots (if that's possible). Does that weaken protection? Or it would not help attacker in any way provided you kept passphrase safe?
Or don't want to buy a Mac when you already have a perfectly serviceable PC.
I definitely agree on the false dichotomy between performance and readable code.

> 1) Most code, i.e. at least 80% of the code in a codebase, will never be a performance hotspot and does not need specific optimizations (i.e. as long as the code does not do stupidly inefficient things, it's probably good enough).

The hard part is knowing what "stupidly inefficient things" are. If you never do excessive optimization, its easy to drift towards less efficient over time because your baseline for what performance is possible slows down. Knowing how to do performance optimization that is not worth it and knowing what the best level of efficiency to shoot for is the mark of a good engineer.
XP was the best OS and I miss it. You had to switch it to use the classic 95/97/2000 skin, of course :) I haven't used Windows since.
Maybe it was written by ChatGPT!
>Source?

Odd that somebody who is trying to school me on the realities of renewable energy is unaware of this, but here you go:

https://energycentral.com/sites/default/files/styles/og_meta...

>>if grid scale storage were prohibitively expensive or impossible.
>It's currently both

For something that is prohibitively expensive and impossible we sure are seeing a lot of it rolled out.

>"Cheapest" option is pumped hydro storage. To cover Europe's need you only need to build 70 1.5 GW hydroelectric stations at a cost of $92 billion

Meanwhile, Hinkley point C is projected to cost $28 billion and for that we will get just 3.2GW.

Europe used 2785 TWh last year. Even if you assumed that storage is free, that still requires a minimum of 317GW, which would require about 100 Hinkley Point Cs, which would cost $2.7 trillion to build.

$100 billion would be a bargain.
In a lot of industries, there really aren't, unfortunately. Sure, there are other options in some cases, but they come at the expense of productivity, so they're not really better.
That sounds like quite a distance.
If you encounter US companies that share that mindset fully depends on the bubble you live in. Ever dealt with credit card schemes?
Apple has a similar problem. On setup it wants me to set up siri, payment, etc. My options are to setup now or do it later. There needs to be a third option that I will never setup these things and never ask me again.
I use linux mint and everything works like a charm. Fonts are cool too in KDE. You can download macos fonts as well from apple’s website. It really has come a long way. I am amazed by it.
Signapore is a terribly bad example. It's geography meant it was a ready source of money. Barring an absolutely terrible level of mismanagement, or chronic worldwide economic depression, there was no way it won't become rich.
They said favorite products, not podcasts. However, good podcast suggestion.
I just want an OS where; out of the box, I can play any game made in the last 20 years, change my mouse scroll speed, or set my background to a solid color.
Even with trains, commute isn't free.
I use the newest version (Alexandria) of C++ Builder everyday in my job since other developers in the company have legacy software from the 90s.

You can't really open old projects in new versions of the software. Some devs use VMs to develop on the old versions of Builder.

The documentation and the example code for the C++ side are horrible, because they are focused on Delphi. You must know Delphi to figure out how to use the libraries in C++. The documentation for Delphi also feels very light and outdated. The latest books about it are from the begining of the 2000s and there are very few Youtube videos about it.

Sometimes Intellisense stops working and you don't know why. Sometimes some access violation happens and the debugger gives you no hint why.

The price is also expensive. I think my company spent 2300€ for a single license and they expect you to renew every year.
If you're going to blame NIST for what NSA did in this case - you might as well say "don't even trust anyone for digital privacy" since the NSA already collects literally everything from everyone.

I think the implication that NIST lacks integrity is unfair.
He was at Facebook before Coinbase, seems like he surely likes challenges.
Experience AI: The excitement of AI in your classroom
It comes down to the Howie test. Matt Levine has written a fair bit on this: https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2023-02-13/the-se...
Cool way to imagine a room in a different way, and get ideas for a mood board you can hand to a designer. Of course, most of the stuff it imagines does not actually exist, and could not be purchased off the shelf. You'd need a lot of custom cabinetry and furniture work, next to which hiring a designer in the first place would probably not be much of an expense.
That's what prices in the US should have been like, but housing and food was kept artificially low for decades due to use of migrant labor. The US market could stomach stagnating wages because illegals did all of the work for at or below minimum wage.

Now there is a shortage of trades and COVID + "build the wall" anti-immigration pushes meant there are no migrants, so you're paying regular price for 1st world labor.
> People who are married with kids are insanely busy, with a robust and built-in social network, whether it's through interactions with relatives, or even making friends with other parents through sporting events, etc.

Grass is always greener on the other side, and busy does not mean someone has friends.
I suspect this is similar to Xerox with the graphical user interface
Maybe for individual/home/personal use but Microsoft rules the enterprise. It is easier to find IT admins who can manage a fleet of Windows boxes than MacOS/Linux. There is also a whole ecosystem around the use of MS Office tools.

The sunken cost fallacy applies IMHO, but too many corporate IT managers just assume Windows systems and Windows AD is the the only way to manage a large set of corporate users.
You asked for examples of existing harms from AI misalignment, and now seem to define AI misalignment so that, by definition, it excludes all current systems.
So tautologically the answer to your question will be "no".

Brian Christian's book "The Alignment Problem" contains many examples of harms from systems which people plausibly see as being based on precursor technology.
A new pandemic origin report is stirring controversy. Here are key takeaways
What I don't understand is since it's the same service can't we just run a performance test, determine the ballpark of the needed resources and just have them capped like in k8s? why would some servers be more powerful than others in the first place?
Windows is the foundation of their Enterprise Services, Server Products & Cloud Services, and Office Products & Services, which together (including Windows) comprise 73% of their revenue. If Windows disappeared off the face of the Earth, all of that other revenue would go with it.
This presentation from a few years ago says their x86 porting approach is based on utilizing LLVM (and clang for C++) rather than writing an x86 backend for their existing compiler. Has this been done by now, and is it the way it was eventually done?

https://vmssoftware.com/docs/2021-04-27-x86-Compiler-Update....
It made my day when my mother told me she was disposing of her desktop computer because she had transitioned all of her computing needs to her iPad. One less headache to deal with.
There are 4 different editions. $500/year is the cheapest of those 4 editions.

https://www.embarcadero.com/app-development-tools-store/cbui...
I play on my desktop and laptop and all my steam games run well, battle.net too. EA is the only that sucks. Cyberpunk, and other demanding titles. Really, not a single issue. I wanted to try linux as a desktop a few times but now it’s finally rather stable.
That's one thing that frustrates me about American society.

I see nothing particularly American about that - all you've described happens in all 3 countries I lived in (Israel, Austria & Germany) and I'm sure this is pretty usual world-wide.
It’s bad because it discourages “off the record” tips given to police officers.

Not everyone who talks to a police officer is a criminal.
> This is an openly illegal practice that is only possible by the collusion of judges.

No, its been possible because, like many taxing authority, California sales tax authorities accept the information provided by taxpayers initially, until they have reason not to (or the taxpayer gets selected for a random audit), and Apple wasn’t audited on this until recently. Its in the news now because of that audit, in which this was identified as illegal. Up until now, no judges have been involved (and unless the audit findings are challenged, no judges will be involved), so the collusion of judges has not be important in allowing this.
With a 256GB SSD? Please.

Some of us use computers for creative work and don't want to pay absurd markups for soldered on SSDs and RAM.
Through all of this, I'm still confused on how the knitting was pertinent. Was she actually knitting with a morse code style pattern? It sounds more like she just used the knitting as a cover. If there was actual knitting, what was she knitting? Scarves, hats, blankets? How did the knitted item get into hands of those that needed it? Either my reading comprehension has gotten so bad that this makes no sense, or some details are sadly left out of the story and from links within the comments here.
If you need a truck, you need a truck, and there's no argument from me. SUVs do make sense for a lot of situations too.

Edit: I've seen exactly zero SUVs pulling trailers in my life though. Mini vans, yes. Trucks, yes (wish they were cheaper). SUVs, somehow I'm not seeing them. Everybody I know with an SUV considers it a car.

Towing though, sometimes I wonder if we're just too cautious. It doesn't take a Ford F-teen-thousand to pull a little something.

Before SUVs were everywhere, cars could tow. Admittedly, old trucks weren't near as capable as new trucks, and some of those old cars were just different bodies on truck frames.

A Jetta with a trailer is pretty standard around the Irish country side, I'm told. I've seen people pull 1000s of pounds behind a 2000 VW Jetta, which is a pretty small car. I'm not saying it'd pull that excavator, but I've seen a dump trailer on one.

I tried to find some towing capacity numbers for my 2013 diesel Golf Sportwagen. Some places say 3500lbs for a braked load. I found a lot of "not recommended for towing" in North America.

Did they build the Euro version better? Some safety standard that holds back the US? Maybe it is lawyers?
I actually bought Start 11 because of how annoying the default Windows 11 start menu was. This marks the first time I've ever bought software. Good work Microsoft.

I obtained copies of Windows through some University thing with Windows Vista and Windows 7 and then those keys have somehow just worked up until Windows 10 and then they gave me Windows 11 upgrade for free. In case you were wondering how I have not ever paid for Windows.
If you want first-class Office interop, or require industry-specific tools, you're on Windows. Next closest is Mac, and that's not a substitute for a PC for a vast number of people (not least because they're so expensive.)

Edit: When I started writing the response, parent had no replies. I didn't mean to dogpile.
Yes, life isn't fair and I don't think anyone argues otherwise. That's just human nature. People have to live with it.
My pet peeve is ones that make you say "Please". I don't know what they are thinking.
That’s unfortunate: https://imgur.com/a/3x5axjl
Machine learning models and the market for lemons
Sounds a lot like how everyone became a real estate “investor” when rates were low and no one was considering the downside of taking in more debt.
Developer mindshare. There are a huge amount of developers who want Windows (or really Visual Studio proper), and there is a meticulously tarred highway from Windows to Azure.

The irony is that this bullshit will drive developers away, because they are some of the least likely to put up with it.
I moved my whole family to Mac OS years ago. I primarily run Mac OS, But I keep a couple windows machines around just to stay familiar with the OS. I think I will switch my gaming desktop over to Linux at this point.

I actually enjoy Microsofts other products like VS Code, Xbox, Etc. But Windows has never been my favorite OS, and now I actually dislike using it.