skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I almost never check a bag, everything I need fits in a ~35L duffel bag and 20L backpack. If I need prohibited or oversized tools or toys I ship it to my destination by UPS.

I also end up near the back of the plane all the time, because those are the available seats that don't have a higher price tag.

The delay is just a waste, but unfortunately the airlines aren't incentivized to make boarding or deplaning quick, they're trying to upcharge for more expensive seats. All the engineers are sitting at the gate for 15 minutes wondering why everyone's in a rush and paying extra to get "priority boarding" onto a cramped plane, then at the end of the flight, they're sitting in the back of the plane wondering why it takes 15 minutes for everyone to get off the plane, and how this wasteful process could be made more efficient.
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Destroying ourselves, as measured by population, which is the highest in the history of our species?

Or measured by longevity, or leisure time, or other living standards, all of which are drastically higher than they were only a few generations ago?
How on Earth anybody signed off on that design

Will people buy it?

Yes.

Let's make it, then.

Design is always driven by business considerations.

If it made money, it was a good design.
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You could try to use an AI text-to-speech to get a different voice? I wouldn’t judge based on voice (or the lack of it), but I also understand hating the sound of your own voice when recorded. ;)

Maybe even just short gifs/videos that show features in action alongside where you currently have some images?
That feels like an American thing, I fly in Europe and my luggage is almost always above my head or across the aisle. Do American fliers put it in the first space they see in the overhead luggage?
The 4600G supports two channels of DDR4-3200 which has a maximum memory bandwidth of around 50GB/s (actual graphics cards are in the hundreds). While this chip may be decent for SD and other compute-bound AI apps it won't be good for LLMs as inference speed is pretty much capped by memory bandwidth.

Apple Silicon has extremely high memory bandwidth which is why it performs so well with LLMs.
> without any of the crypto nonsense

I'm curious, what do people mean by this? How is the bank's financial system any less "nonsense" than crypto? Second question: when the banks start using crypto in not too long (via CBDCs), how will that crypto be any less "nonsense" than crypto?
This idea is perpetuated by Isaac Arthur who assumes any such civilization will be digital with only their computers and automatons required to sustain them existing in the physical realm.
Do you have a random bullet points lost or example code for what the language should look like?

Taking on perforce seems more reasonable than git at first for sure.
Manufacturing a whole new vehicle with a huge ass battery that is more cost intensive to manufacturing than a comparable ICE, a vehicle that due to contemporary trends has to be a 5-ton lifted SUV, a vehicle that is going to be used by ONE person to commute to work along a fixed predetermined route, a vehicle that is going to be replaced after 3 years because this person have to have the newest four wheels on the lot to project status to attract a status obsessed mate, all that is ALSO EXTREMELY energy inefficient.

If you truly cared about energy efficiency you'd proposition the ban or severe limitation of private car usage in sufficiency dense localities. Public trams and busses, cycling, walking, and maybe even very small private vehicles would be extremely more energy efficient.

There is nothing about a 5-ton EV SUV that says energy efficiency.
Several times I have attempted to turn Ethica into a graph notation form that I could then run through query tools, in multiple translations even. (Most recently in my first couple weeks at RelationalAI where I began to encode it into their graph-relational Rel language.) I never finish. It's too much work.

But I think this is actually the missing piece. Reading it as a text end-to-end is just pain. I'm sure Spinoza himself was able to mentally "browse" the text and it all fit together for him, but this would require incredible discipline.

Having nice tools to query and analyze it and project it to be readable in multiple forms would go a long way with that text (and maybe others written in the 'geometrical' form).

Maybe I'll give it another whirl in a Datalog variant like CozoDB etc. And maybe just restrict my efforts to the first section only. And maybe something like ChatGPT and/or CoPilot could help.
Honestly I wonder how much time could be saved on an ultra low cost airline by just permanently locking the above head compartments that people have to stand in the aisle to use. That seems like the biggest hassle.

You could even up-charge for above head storage, but only allow seats at the tail of the plane to choose that upgrade. They board first, and they deplane last, ideally holding up no one.

This sounds like hell but hey… if it saves a few bucks a seat on a really short flight because they can deplane in 5 minutes… I’d be for it.
You misunderstand. Online retailers need this behaviour because if people didn't feel that they could return things, it would increase friction to sales that would likely kill the industry.

Do you not think online retailers factor this into their analysis?
There's more article than my short excerpt; I'd encourage you to read it.
As others mentioned this only works if we assume no seat classes and people not flying in groups.

First class, golden carpet diamond supreme customers won't tolerate waiting for someone from the back of the plane to exit. Their head would explode probably and they'll vow to never fly that airline.

But overall the problem is that people fly in groups and they like to sit together. Sending the kid out while the parent waits for the next column to deplane will never happen. Should the people in groups wait then, but a good part of the plane will just stay waiting and it's back to the existing algorithm anyway.
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Vacancy rates are quite low. Don't have national numbers but in nyc they're below 4%. Getting below 3% is pretty much impossible due to repairs and people moving so I would say landlords having vacant units is not a problem right now.
> Unresolved Issues:

> How to educate passengers

The author vastly overestimates peoples willingness to do literally anything that benefits the group rather than themselves.

It does not matter if every single person goes through a six week course on why this system is better: at least 20% will still ignore it to get themselves off the plane sooner. "I have a connection! I'm in a hurry! My Mom is waiting for me!".

You want a better system? Design one that works best when everyone is greedy and maximizing their own benefit.
The simulation assumes that ONE person in the status quo has a 0 second assemble belongings step, and just waits "minBuffer" time - so in the simulation on average this is 2 second delay rather than 5:

https://github.com/josephecombs/fill-flush/blob/fc0fa73b5879...
Gaffer's tape works better for me than electrical tape did.
Trying to leave slavery is against the law, and those who helped slaves escape were imprisoned.

Escaped slaves had bounties placed on their heads and were often captured and placed back with their owners.

Fugitive slave laws

https://infogalactic.com/info/Fugitive_slave_laws

Now do you see how preposterous your point is? It's important not to live in a far left shithole state, where property rights are not taken seriously, and which do not have stand your ground laws.

(also, your link has nothing to do with squatters, it has more to do with laws surrounding intruders. In Texas the homeowner would not have been charged.)
It exists, but only unless if your an enterprise house or have some sort of contract with Microsoft.
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Hi everyone :) I'm a student at UWaterloo in Canada. My friend and I made a site that can automatically dub videos to different languages: https://www.dubbah.co .
We use Whisper with Speaker Diarization, GPT and some voice cloning models. Would love to answer questions :)
There is an already pretty old (2013) study from Fraunhofer, which shows how 100% renewable energy in electric power and heating is possible in the medium term future (2050). Their ideas for storage are battery storage (52Gwh), pumped storage (60Gwh) and methane storage (86Twh) on the electric side.

See [1] for a very short English description and [2] for the German original.

[1] https://deepresource.wordpress.com/2017/09/16/blueprint-100-...
[2] https://www.ise.fraunhofer.de/de/veroeffentlichungen/studien...
Pretty faces: Easy on the brain? (2006)
[ I work on Dart ]

We're still working on this, and you can find updates in the language repo. One reason we're taking extra time here is that macros / static metaprogramming can blow up compile times and hot reload.
Exactly. This proposal entirely ignores human nature, and the author has obviously not done any research into the problem beyond being annoyed while waiting to exit an aircraft.

There's this 2015 article on doing essentially what he/she is suggesting:
https://www.vox.com/2014/7/8/5877863/it-takes-forever-to-get...

There's a paper on solving the problem by assigning passengers to seats so that their luggage is evenly spread throughout the overhead bins:
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S096969971...

There's a paper here on other methods tried, including creating "pre boarding" areas for passengers:
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/269466040_Speeding_...

The first step in any scientific endeavor should always be a literature search.. see what's been tried, and what worked and what didn't.
Thin, grassy, acidic espresso is a sign of 'third wave' coffee... the idea that you could roast the beans juuust enough to convert the sugars and keep a bunch of neat flavors in a mild and bright cup. But they walk the line of juuust enough roasting very close, which often results in under roasting especially in copy cat producers. Underroasted coffee is marginally ok in pour over / chemex, but is horrible in espresso.

There is a 'fourth wave' coffee pushing back on this trend that anchors more to big dark espressos sometimes even using robusta beans for extra creama and caffeine.
Could AI-generated images be used to blackmail a politician?
Yeah, Worldcoin is totally a solution because you can’t buy up heaps of identities from poor African people. /s
Disregard the price of your purple line, for I, a taxpayer, paid for the road you wish to paint. My car registration fees paid for it too. Don't dare assume it's OK to prevent me from driving on this public infrastructure.
A couple year ago, politicians reduced a central thoroughfare through our city from two lanes to one, where a dedicated lane now exists for busses. This was profoundly unpopular and has increased congestion. Which of the one remaining lanes would you like to paint purple now?
>If you have multiple browsers open side by side

Interesting. I have never had a need to not have the browser take the full width (at least on my 16" MBP. What's the use case / workflow?
From the article I linked to:

> "Today we're announcing that the next Windows LTSC releases will be available in the second half of 2024"
Skimming isn't really possible for people that rely on screen readers. I think effective summarization would be useful for them. Whether this is an effective implementation, however, remains to be seen.
The big problem is getting bags out of the overheads. So I think the best way to get people off planes quickly would be to prevent as many people as possible from carrying on luggage.

There are 2 reasons people use carry-ons rather than checked bags. First, because its cheaper for people w/o status, and second because they're worried about the airline loosing their luggage, and/or they don't want to wait for their bags.

To negate the first reason for carry-ons using a carrot + stick approach, I'd offer 2 free checked bags to everyone regardless of status, along with charging $100 or more per carry-on.

The second reason might be harder. The airlines would need to re-negotiate deals with their credit card company partners (suddenly the free checked back with the Delta Amex plat. card doesn't mean anything) and change their frequent flier programs, and they'd need to get better at bag handling in general.
I am building a marketplace focused 100% on Magic: The Gathering, which I have played for 30 years.

Biggest issues are inventory and buyer-side bugs now. I wished I would have shipped a few months ago, got caught up on a feature I didn't need to engage users.

https://manapool.com
But if there was no patent, he'd have kept it under trade secret in perpetuity, and no one would have been able to make that improvement
In defence of self-help books (2011)
There is a great video from CGP Grey about the similar problem of boarding an airplane: https://youtu.be/oAHbLRjF0vo

Unfortunately, having flown many times, I just don't see humans ever being able to self organize to this degree, especially at the end of a flight!
I think that's because _in practice_ people don't waste their time working on intractable problems if they just want to get something done. There's almost always some way to avoid the intractable problem and approach it a different way.

It's sort of like how "in practice" it didn't matter for thousands of years that nobody understood electricity. Any problem that came up that would have required that knowledge to solve just got dropped, because they didn't have the tools to solve it.
In the time before COVID I frequently spoke at conferences and would go in person to several conferences per year, often in foreign countries.

This year is family visits and vacations.

My travel patterns were still rather low for self-conscious "frequent flyers", who would, for example, feel an absolute requirement to fly at least 50,000 or 100,000 miles on a single airline each year in order to "maintain status" so that that airline would reward them with various perks. I have "only" ever done this once. Of course, I expect even approaching the low end of a frequent flyer status is probably the top 1% carbon footprint in the world.
mullvad offers a socks proxy. i generally use the wireguard app, and only allow traffic to the socks proxy through the vpn, and configure firefox to use that socks proxy.

if you use their app it depends on your operating system how their whitelisting works, but you can pick apps you don't want to have routed through their vpn (but by default with their app all system traffic will be routed through the vpn except what you explicitly deny).
> In fact, in many places the price of gas is so low we just burn it off because it isn't even valuable enough to collect or transport.

Underrated comment. In fact, it's even worse than that: in places it must be burnt, because the CO2 is a less dangerous greenhouse gas than the methane itself.

This is a big problem in Turkmenistan where it's literally coming out of the ground on its own https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/jun/02/us-deal-...
That’s great! I can now return to YT app instead of using it via a browser with a complex custom blocking to remove recommendations.
That's why DRM is bad, not why HTTPS is bad.
I honestly noticed zero day to day changes when I moved my PC from Windows 10 to 11. No less stable, no more performance issues, nothing. Your laptop overheating makes me think it's a lemon.
Older mouse brains rejuvenated by protein found in young blood
Freezing / heating? Other than the risk of humidity as mentioned, not really. Unless the head crashes into the platter, it's unlikely to do anything that would permanently kill the drive.

That said, if you ever have a drive with absolutely critical, must-have data, don't bother with any of this and just ship it to professionals. You'll pay dearly, but they'll get your data out.
There were SSD's from an unnamed OEM that would brick after overflowing an uptime counter. Cisco and HP were both bitten by it: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32048148
The more obvious solution is to also use the rear door in addition to the front. Airlines could then charge a premium for those seats as well. No big coordination effort is needed, but it would require some new jetways or some terminal reconfiguration. Other countries do this frequently with no major problems.
Its rather difficult for the French government to pursue the owners of a site when they happen to be in Russia/China/wherever.
I'd like to see the inverse for dealing with difficult managers, including boxing them into similar reductive stereotypes like the "spineless doormat" and the "non-technical MBA."
No, it applies more to some laws than others.

A law against carrying a broadsword is enforceable before the broadsword is actually used in a crime, because it's highly visible. A law against a dagger isn't easily enforceable until it's actually taken out in some violent manner.

(Don't over-analyze the example it's just to show a difference in how laws work in practice as opposed to on paper.)
> Whatever happened to Servo?

Killed by Mozilla management and stripped for parts to improve Gecko.
I have a huge Rocket espresso machine that I haven't used for 3-4 years, ever since I bought my Cafelat Robot. Honestly, I appreciate the engineering in this post but it's just not necessary given how good the Robot already is.

The manual control makes it possible to do flow profiling with something like a Timamore Nano scale, by adjusting pressure in real time according to the flow rate reading on the scale. I've been making and drinking espresso for a long time and nothing comes close to the flow-profiled spro I've made using this method.
They obviously didn’t do the latter, so it must have been the former. ;)
I have been on flights where passengers are still finding their seats and arguing about overhead baggage locations while the plane is on the runway - and now you have the air traffic controllers moaning at the pilots (why aren't you taking off! You only have a 120 second slot!), the pilots moaning at the cabin crew, the cabin crew moaning at that one family who just can't decide what order to sit down, and dad of the family moaning at the daughter to sit next to her brother and stop complaining.

Ryanair even seems to have a way to communicate this. "cabin secure" means everyone is following the rules. "cabin secure, kinda" means we're gonna break the rules and hope everyone sits down before takeoff.
On Mulvad as well and I have run into quite a few unusable sites.
This article puts blame on government spending, but the problem is with unbalanced accumulation. Money can either flow in accumulative or distributive flows. It can pool or diffuse.

In order for the markets to function people need to be able to participate in them, which means people need an adequate supply of freely spendable money. How can money get to people? People with money need to give money to people without money. Without strings attached. That's the only way for people without money to get money that they're able to spend freely, is by getting it from the people or institutions that have money, no strings attached.

If wealthy people hoard money, for example if they hoard the entire money supply to the extent that everyone else is too sunk to participate in the markets, something's gonna give. There will eventually be a crisis in demand, a point where _people and organizations can no longer afford to participate_. They might not even be able to afford to get their basic needs met, to function or survive.

Without demurrage and/or adequate taxes on people/orgs with the most money, the only choice the government has to distribute money is lower the interest rate and hope that public institutions are finding excuses to give it to people ("jobs"). And then there is no way to deal with the ensuing inflation other than to whipsaw the other direction and constrict the money supply.

From my point of view the forces of accumulation and distribution need to be in balance. Currently they are not. It's not because of "the deficit". It's because we have inadequate tools for dealing with the hyperaccumulation, whether they be cultural practices or government tools.

Currency ought to be a collective good. If it's not serving coordination it's serving coordination failure.
> Since the library is meant to be used in a web app, how would the app be accessed without internet access?

Progressive web app (PWA), or containered webapps like electron & co.
I refer you to the organization diagrams in section 4.2.1.

https://gist.github.com/sharadhr/39b804236c1941e9c30d90af828...
My first Linux install was the Yggdrasil fall 1994, then took a hiatus (Windows) then moved to Red Hat version something, then Mandrake, then one day discovered Debian (Sarge at that time), liked apt a lot more than rpm and stuck with it. Today I also run Manjaro on laptops and Alpine on smallish things (older stuff, embedded, etc) but my main machine is and will remain Debian: it's the one I'm more familiar with when I need to do something under the hood, and does the job nicely. Happy Birthday!
Mozilla does business in France, I believe. They have an office in Paris, and likely employ French people. So, they could be regulated like any other business, and punished like any other business. Since Mozilla make the software, the software can be regulated.
Delete your watch history.
another fun "we had a better solution in the past!" is using the 60hz AC sine wave as a time signal. The timebase is actually corrected for this use-case! there is absolutely no reason to use a piezo timer in any circuit that is plugged in to AC and the drift that typically occurs with piezos is so frustrating.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Utility_frequency#Time_error_c...
So let's take those disasters and list the lessons that you would have learned from them. That's the way to constructively approach an article like this, out-of-hand dismissal is just dumb and unproductive.

FWIW I've seen the leaders of software teams all the way up to the CTO run around like headless chickens during (often self inflicted) crisis. I think the biggest lesson from the Titanic is that you're never invulnerable, even when you have been designed to be invulnerable.

None of these are exhaustive and all of them are open to interpretation. Good, so let's improve on them.

One general takeaway: managing risk is hard, especially when working with a limited budget (which is almost always the case) and just the exercise of assessing and estimating likelihood and impact are already very valuable but plenty of organizations have never done any of that. They simply are utterly blind to the risks their org is exposed to.

Case in point: a company that made in-car boxes that could be upgraded OTA. And nobody thought to verify that the vehicle wasn't in motion...
> because they want to feel like they have the answers

A huge pet peeve of mine: I ask a really difficult question that might be impossible to answer, then someone interprets it as needing ANY answer (rather than a correct answer) and they just start talking. Or they answer the surface level question but don’t understand how much deeper it goes.

Then if you respond to them to clarify they didn’t answer your question they either try again or seem wounded/hurt/offended when what I want them to come with curiosity and ask enough questions to make sure they understand the full scope of the question.

In the book Multipliers one of the things they say is that managers should be responsible for asking the right questions (rather than thinking they need to have the answers).
I don't think those are structural. So I think you could even remove vast majority of them entirely. Saving in weight thus in fuel.
If you don't think you'll change anyone's mind, and aren't trying to, then why are you posting?