skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> From the late 1930s through the ’70s, the federal government regulated airlines as a public utility. The Civil Aeronautics Board decided which airlines could fly what routes and how much they could charge. It aimed to set prices that were fair for travelers and that would provide airlines with a modest profit. Then, in 1978, Congress passed a sweeping law deregulating the airline industry and ultimately abolishing the CAB. Unleashed from regulation, airlines devised new tactics to capture the market.

That makes it sound like air travel was great before free markets stepped in. The real cost of air travel fell by about half since then. Before deregulation, there weren't as many competitive incentives, and airlines couldn't experiment with routes. Air travel became much more popular and got much safer (this might be a coincidence). Granted, service got worse, but you can still buy service at 2x the price in first class. People just don't.

There are probably a bit too few customer and worker protections, but on the whole, airline deregulation shows just how bad command economies are at planning and allocating resources.
> I see that one gets around 30% less in countries like France,

What ends up in your bank account is about 20% higher in France than in Germany after going from brut to net though

https://www.valoris-avocats.com/comparatif-sur-la-remunerati...
I suspect that food deserts are also an attempt to explain certain health issues in certain areas, but I'm not entirely convinced that "adding grocery stores" will solve those issues.

In other words, we have two things, and want to make one the cause of the other, but that's not entirely clear. Maybe the grocery stores die in areas where the population doesn't frequent grocery stores for whatever reason, or maybe people don't frequent grocery stores because they died, or maybe a mix of both.
Vandalizing the maps is why we can't have nice things, like community input on the maps.
It's unclear whether or not ALS (any form) is an autoimmune disease.

Autoimmune diseases are typically associated with autoantibody production. These are in evidence in (-- at least some forms of --) ALS, but in an unusual way that makes their role highly uncertain. They are potentially beneficial. See:
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/25344935/
Yup. But it is true now though so hopefully they’ve added the test cases to LLVM to make sure things continue to work correctly in the face of more and more optimizations being thrown at code.
i have no google account so yeah!!!!
I've been using Polar Habits for the past few months.

Love the flexibility of being able to add goals like "3x a week"
It possibly matters because (at least in the U.S.) this specific data element has substantially different legal obligations than anything else that might be placed into a customer data structure:
https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/CFR-2012-title12-vol1/xm...

"(i) General rule. No national bank, and no director, officer, employee, or agent of a national bank, shall disclose a SAR or any information that would reveal the existence of a SAR. Any national bank, and any director, officer, employee, or agent of any national bank that is subpoenaed or otherwise requested to disclose a SAR, or any information that would reveal the existence of a SAR, shall decline to produce the SAR or such information, ..."

A bank might not want to aggregate data, within one IT system, if part of the data has the very unusual property that a subpoena must be declined.
>Running the LLM locally on some "AI PC" would satisfy that perfectly, and the types of organizations that care the most about this are also the ones with the most generous budgets for these kinds of problems.

There are far better solutions, today, for intranet LLMs, then having an AI PC on each worker's desk.
Sometimes we don’t use every possible tool for every problem, particularly when the mass externalities may be worse than the individual outcome.

An extreme example is nuclear weapons. You can win any single battle with nuclear weapons. But the world will end. Probably better to slog through trenches, and do the job “poorly”.

Labeling kids based of family situation will indelibly make their situations define them. Many kids living in dysfunction go to school as a refuge from their life. School administrators aren’t social workers, and aren’t in a position to provide psychological and social assistance to kids who need it. A lack of funding for those services doesn’t mean you offload the work to functionaries at the local school. Teachers aren’t trained in these areas either - their forte is education and no matter how much you liked your home room teacher, they weren’t trained in social intervention. But there’s another aspect, around that idea of escape - once you’ve labeled everyone according to their situation, when you walk in the room, you have to assume everyone knows. You can’t let your life at home disappear any more. And not everyone who has access to the information will use it in a caring unbiased way. Many people will see a kid who has various labels of dysfunction associated with them as broken, needing special education, judge outbursts or misbehavior more harshly than an unlabeled kid.

Finally, the entire point outlined in the article was to use information about their situation to flag unknown problems. Just because someone is on social welfare or a family member has a mental health issue, or even a parent is in prison, doesn’t mean they’re being sexually abused or whatever. However by labeling them administrators are explicitly intended to use the label to assume a likelihood of previously unreported abuse.

Many parents are accused falsely of abuse or neglect for normal childhood injuries. They go through the trials of the damned to get their kids back and fend off criminal charges, and criminal charges are indelible on your record and show up in background checks even if you’re found innocent.

So - yes, mass surveillance would likely catch more criminals. But it will also criminalize everyone, and punish many that are innocent. It’s better to disarm and slog through the trenches - and maybe actually fund social workers rather than surveillance startups - than descend into this morass.
Seems like a bunch of kids who were born into borderline fraudulent culture... and now damage control pieces (ordered from SBF's jail cell maybe, ha) are being tolerated... maybe with the tacit support of a culture which would rather think of these as things that 'everyone does.' Somewhat akin to the Stanford or Harvard data integrity issues, maybe? This is just business as usual and sometimes it spills over. Who cares as long as you are headquartered in the Caymans, right? To be sure, all of these 'oopsies! SBF is such a sweet, gentle soul' articles of late look a little weird. Dude threw his GF under the bus in obvious fashion.
Headlights let you see objects on the road in time to stop, but don’t necessarily allow you to distinguish holes.

If that’s the standard then driving at night is reckless behavior.
Sure, we’re talking in the context of fruits and veggies being shrink wrapped to avoid spoilage specifically, not produce vs meat though.

In that article it correctly states that the cost of transportation is small across all food types including beef, but in the context of apples specifically it shows the cost of transportation is not only significant to the total cost of the apple, packaging costs aren’t even visible. So the idea that packaging it in shrink wrap to avoid spoilage and transport of more apples actually seems to make sense?
> Source that they are they ignoring their core competency?

Have you flown on an airplane in the last 10 years? I'd rather drive 15 hours to Florida than deal with the fucking airlines
I just watched the whole video and didn't get that impression at all
Basics of Data Protection Online
here (just made it around the corner): https://runreveal.com/
RAG is more than just embedding search
It depends. Where I live the city owns a lot of roadbuilding equipment directly, and employs people to operate it. The roads they build are garbage. Uneven, bumpy, rainwater pools on them, etc.

Sometimes they have too much work and contract some jobs to private paving contractors. The roads they build are flat, smooth, and drain well.
I agree… but governmental actors prone to secrecy are in fact very very good at keeping official secrets. Their jobs and basically their lives depend on it, and they swear oaths ensuring not to break secrets as part of their work. There’s heaps we don’t know about that are kept top secret, by your logic we should know about absolutely all of it, and the proof is that we don’t. A good example being the work of Turing and Bletchley Park that was kept secret for a few decades after the end of WWII that nobody knew about due to the importance of the crypto skills learned in combatting the Soviets afterwards. Tommy Flowers even implemented the first programmable computer called Colossus to break German encryption, and it was ordered to be destroyed at the end of the war, leading the world to believe that ENIAC was the first programmable computer. Secrets are kept all the time.
They should be broken up to increase competition. European (and asian) airlines provide better service at lower cost. The US airlines get bailed out every 10 years and so there is no incentive for them to improve their companies at all.
> People just discover that the 200,000 miles they'd been working towards for years, now no longer even buys the ticket they thought it would.

Being able to continuously arbitrarily devalue them is the whole point of designing a rewards system with “miles” and “points” or whatever non official currency unit.
Strong response.

I'm not sure I would have been so generous to the author of the article this is in reply to. But I suppose that's a skill of a successful open source leader -- to turn interactions with critics into productive discussions rather than arguments, and perhaps even turn the critics into supporters.

It seems to have been that author who chose the FUD-ful title "Godot is not the new Unity". I guess there are times in life where you face a choice: be fair, reasonable, and intelligent, or... just try to get them clicks.

Well, that article got a lot of click. Good job?
> People have been saying this for years, yet most training and a majority(?) of inference is done in PyTorch.

The usual symptom of "cheaper to waste more resources than do it properly"?
Please get tested before you have kids. If you're a carrier, it's possible to avoid passing it to your kids using embryo selection.
Successful long term propaganda + political, auto and meat industry advertising aiming to build identity around use of product lines work. Defunding schools and changing curriculums also works. Even on normal people.
Of course apart from when you are limited from interaction with people on a different server, because you have your own server.
From my point of view, the biggest problem with the AfD is that there is a lot of variability in the political currents that it contains. Most of them are pretty normal and reasonable. Some of them make me a bit uncomfortable. All based on my personal views of course. However I'm also sceptical of taking random comments as proof that a guy has a shrine to the Führer in his finished basement.
DO NOT LISTEN TO OP!

Europe is awful and NA is a million times better. You do not want to even consider moving to Europe (especially Germany, Czechia, Poland and even Ukraine! Everything is worse, even downtown SF or India are better!

Stay in the USA and Canada or you will regret it!

OP please delete this comment and stop trying to convince people your life is great.
That's not really close to what's going on. There's the normal user's presumption that Google is up to date, for instance. And Google takes steps to fulfill that, for instance by providing live traffic data and other road hazards warnings. Not to mention that people stepped forward with evidence saying they informed Google.

Whether that nuance really matters is up to the courts I guess. But I don't think this is in the same ballpark as a decades-old map where the average user wouldn't presume it's up to date.
I wonder if there is an open source community for making cars. And if so, is it legal to drive such a car.

Anyway, at the end of the day, no one cares about privacy. Any company had consequences by screwing up privacy I would love to know.
It generally is. It's best not to base life decisions based on anecdotes of extreme outliers from strangers on the internet.
When they're providing the desired result (food) for a reasonable sum, it's most likely fine. After all, if Walmart charged SNAP cards more for bread or whatever, we should be up in arms.
The Only River That Flows Into Both the Atlantic and the Pacific [video]
Show HN: Storiaboard – Faster and cheaper video previsualization with Gen AI
The problem is a cache needs cooperation with the backend for invalidation: Cloudflare’s robot check can apply to every page right before it talks to the backend at all
> Obviously it is the TOML way too? Hence it being the featured example. That another way to express it doesn't change that...

It's not even another way to express it. The example is a completely different data structure. The initial proposed "TOML way" is an array while the "INI way" is a table. The then corrected "TOML way" IS the equivalent table in TOML.

It's a ridiculous strawman along with several other oddities where the author loves to give INI the benefit of its weirdness but then rails against TOML's. The author loves INI and refuses to understand why people wanted and needed TOML to fix its deficiencies.

I'd love to tear this thing apart point-by-point, but I think it'd be more cathartic for me than useful to anyone else.
Respectfully, I've sat in meetings with 100s of VCs and most of them were far more "disturbingly brutal" than this.

There are serious people and unserious people.
Still, that's a very niche market, don't you think?
BTW "Ship of fools" was intended to refer to the human race generally, rather than Floridians or Americans in particular.
I'd question the common XHTML talking point too, why is it the browser's job to render content that you clearly haven't even bothered to proofread?
Depends on where you are in Texas. The boots and hats aren't impractical everywhere.

Also the boots are freakin' comfortable.
If it was NSA, you’d think there would be more back doors and so many millions of people wouldn’t be using it for drugs or fake ids.
'We' is the subsection of the fediverse that federates with the server I'm on. It's a sentiment that I see everywhere on mastodon, not from any particular instances.

The fringe-er instances are more likely to block by default. It's almost an issue of fediverse fundamentalism. A lot of people think large instances like .social are antithetical to what mastodon is trying to accomplish. We have huge, enormous centralized servers in the middle of a decentralized network. I think you can see how that sentiment would come about
The Gell-Mann Amnesia Effect applies to social media as well.
This... makes sense? Airlines provide air transport services, and the actual "hardware" is pivotal but not integral to their core business. Airlines are much more than just "flying planes" — there's route planning, crew management, fuel pricing and forecasting, regulatory and legal compliance, operational logistics, landing/takeoff slot allotment, customer service, marketing, etc. that the airline is responsible for.

Think of Netflix using AWS. Digital content delivery is obviously crucial to their business (DVD deliveries aside) but it's not vital that they own their own servers — they're first and foremost a video streaming service, not a CDN datacenter business.

There are also various types of leases [1], commonly "wet" or "dry", which are analogous to managed/unmanaged/raw metal cloud services.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aircraft_lease
Scary. Just having an EHCP (Educational Health Care Plan) is an indicator...
Is there a name for the law that all laws in contemporary democracies have titles that are the opposite, or at least orthogonal, to what they intend to achieve?

There are many good contenders, but I think the US Inflation Reduction Act is the current front runner.
I guess we will have to let it play out and see. I’ll take the bet that the same airlines that exist today will be there earning the same measly profit margins in 10 years (except JetBlue, which may not be around).
>having no ability to audit security vs running one "in the cloud"? Seems like the opposite to me.

By "ability" I mean, literally, ability.

If the customer is someone who does most of their computing in the cloud today, what value is a "personal secure LLM"? Can this person even tell if their local LLM is secure? Doubt it. For the average person, that is best left to "the cloud".
How do you drive of a multiple years ago collapsed bridge?

I mean shouldn't the road to the bridge be blocked/fenced off? If not isn't that clear neglience of the state not Google?

Sure Google routed someone to a path which didn't exist.

But so could have someone using an older map or who hasn't been around for years.

So either someone intentionally bypassed a road blockage.

Or the land/state massively messed up by not blocking of a collapsed bridge.

Through condolence to the family eitherway.
As I said, if you need to ask why his recent videos are unsound and you've watched them all, then I'm not sure what more I can say. It's going to be hard to have a fruitful discussion and your tone underlines that for me.

If it makes you feel better to think I don't know what I'm talking about then I can live with that.
Porsche is a hedge fund.

"Porsche yesterday revealed it earned three times as much money from trading derivatives as it did from selling cars"

https://foreignpolicy.com/2007/11/14/porsche-makes-more-mone...
Oh yeah for sure. I haven't had that happen to me, but when I dropped AstroNvim, I had a chance to start from fresh (on lazy).

Small customized config also means smaller and more precise changes. I haven't touched mine in quite a long time, only usually to add that cool trick or plugin that pops up every so often.
Article 6(1)(e) of the GDPR states that data processing is lawful if it is “necessary for the performance of a task carried out in the public interest or in the exercise of official authority vested in the controller.”

https://gdpr-info.eu/art-6-gdpr/

I assume they would argue public interest … “protect the children” is the blanket public interest clause that allows all sorts of evil behavior.
Knowing that a danger exists within the offering of your product and doing nothing to mitigate or remove the issue absolutely makes you, in part, liable. Do others in this situation share liability? Absolutely.
I think you misunderstand humor :)
ClarisWorks would regularly hang my Mac Classic II. And with cooperative multitasking, I had to reboot the machine.
I wouldn’t put GitHub in the list: lots of people are annoyed that they use F/OSS code to train copilot.
But that assumes that Google would settle. Without that happening, you are looking at years before getting a result, thousands of dollars of attorney fees and a high likelihood that if they lost they would appeal.

This might be more of an emotional lawsuit than a logical one.
Any thoughts on how they could improve here? Seems like that would be challenging.
Elon specifically waived the ability to withdraw because of post-signing due diligence in his offer to twitter's board. It's one of the (many) reasons he had little ability to get out of the deal once he changed his mind.
Something that is non-obvious in this space is that some of this can be down to tax treatments and asset depreciation.

In a nutshell, when you buy an asset you can depreciate the value of the asset over the working life of the asset and in many tax jurisdictions (my knowledge/experience comes from the UK and US asset financing industry) offset that depreciated amount against profits, in the year the asset depreciates.

This means that you can essentially offset capital expenditure against tax, which is good business.

But if you don't make enough profit through the use of the asset at the right time, you end up losing the benefit.

But there exist large companies that make lots of profit, such that they can always offset the depreciation. And so _they_ can buy the asset, use the depreciation against their profits and then lease the asset to you. They might even be able to do this at a rate that ends up _being cheaper than you actually owning the asset_, depending on circumstances.
>> It's the entire reason Apple still exists as a company, for example.

Apple makes great product with great user experience. And I say this as someone who switched from Windows PC to Linux PC on my desktop 20 years ago. My family all went Apple though, and I can completely see why. I do have an MBA, and I'm putting Linux on an old (un-upgradable) iMac of theirs because the hardware is very nice.

Does Apple charge a premium for their brand? Yes. Does that mean they're on a hype train? Nope, they really do put together a good UX - with the exception of eliminating standard ports in favor of expensive adapters.
Consuming and producing everything as fast as possible without any consideration for our well being or the future
I lost two friends to ALS within the span of a year. Barring huge advances in treating this, which I don't see happening anytime soon, I fully plan to take the easier way out should it ever happen to me. Horrific doesn't even begin to describe it.

Medically assisted suicide should be a federal right. It's abhorrently shameful that we wouldn't allow a dog to die this way, yet somehow it's acceptable to watch a parent or spouse to go through this with NO HOPE of recovery. It makes me so angry.
Unreliable, at best. Could you explain why you think so?

The historical record since the current contracts were signed (in the seventies): The Soviet Union delivered reliably throughout the eighties conflicts about short-range nuclear missiles, etc. Delivery continued reliably when the Soviet Union split up. Delivery was reliable when the transit country Poland had what amounts to a revolution. It continued reliably through Germany's reuinification. In the fifteen years following, Russia's economy half-died but delivery continued without change.

These were wrenching changes to every country involved and one fairly substantial conflict. If this record indicates unreliability, what would it take to indicate reliability?
Apple iPhone 15 Plus review: Big screen, big battery life
It's also easy to buy your own for $x, to try and convince the world it has a value of $x. For assets that are not for sale, the price point of the last trade is often taken as its dollar value without question.
Yeah but if such a system can be invented and be spread simply, then they may as well do it themselves.
I think part of the problem is that using GDExtension is like a two-way FFI. You can call (C++) extension functions from GDScript, but the same interface and overhead are used to call (lib) Godot functions from the (C++) extension. AFAIK it's not like there's a <godot_impl.h> with engine functions that the compiler could inline.

Here's a good example (look, there I am!), although it's a bit old and actually led to perf improvement:

https://github.com/godotengine/godot-cpp/issues/1063
Yeah, "you are autistic" is probably false most of the time if you believe it, you probably really have schizotaxia which is the dark matter of mental health.
Vi-style binds are moderately unintuitive, but they are the lingua franca of keybind languages, and knowing them has value in and of itself. I'm glad I learned vi-style binds just before Kakoune and Helix gained popularity, as I use them in dozens of contexts other than my text editor.