skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The article mentions they only plan to do this starting at group 4...
So that's

1. All pre boarding (military, families with small children, wheelchairs, etc)

2. Global services

3. Group 1

4. Group 2

5. Group 3

6. Group 4

7. Group 5

I also think Group 2 often seems to me to be the most populous one... that may just be my experience.

I guess now I can see why they'd only save 2 minutes.

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There are some things that you can only do once everyone has boarded and skipping steps in the checklist is a recipe for disaster.
Yes. Charge $50 per carry-on and make checked baggage free, and boom, you'll double the onboarding speed. Too many people dragging armfuls of carry-on baggage onto the plane, struggling to heft them into the overhead bins, and fighting for space.
Magnetic Chemistry (2020)
I feel like first class passengers would strongly prefer to be last in and first out. Less hassle is the premium experience. Who wouldn't rather relax in a comfortable lounge and board when the plane is ready for them and then be first to get off the flight and get on with things?

Economy should be first in and last out. More hassle and waiting.
The landscaper that lives down my street goes up and down the street full throttle without any trailer attached six times per day and several more in the evening. I'm not sure if he believes it contributes to his manliness but the sound of that car is off the scale and should be outlawed.
Feynman's Nobel Ambition [importance of *play*]
I do not understand why airlines don't seem to get this. Make sure I have a reserved overhead spot (not the same thing as checked luggage) and I'll board in any order you want me to, including being dead last.
It works for the market Southwest serves, but that’s not the same market United is going after.
What puts you in jail is the combination of laws and their enforcement mechanism. Having everyone’s DNA makes enforcement of any law (good or bad) a lot easier.

Your argument only makes sense if you believe you are innocent of all present and future crimes, which is an impossible fact to know by the very fact that you do not know the laws in the future.
Sniperwolf?
You've asserted this first-encountered-bin idea twice in this thread that I've seen. I always fly economy so I'm generally on after most others have boarded, but I don't think I've ever seen the behavior you describe at least on US domestic flights over ~20 years flying now. From observing while departing the aircraft it seems the vast majority of people place their things above their own seats. Is this something that you see often personally or something you heard / was observed by somebody else somewhere?

Edit: I guess I'll have to keep a sharper eye out from here on to see if it's actually as common as you claim.
Look for a new job.

Your choice not to play his game is like forfeiting a game of chess on the very first move.

In case you're inclined to think rationally about it: suppose there are three of you, you have three times the ability to bury him with paperwork and he has 1/3 the ability to dig out. With a factor of nine he just can't win.

I know you don't want to waste time, so don't waste time with trivial problems that are easy to fix, instead look for race conditions, problems with key structures, and other things that will require major rework. Need skills for you next job? Learn how to use a tool like

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_fuzzy_lop_(fuzzer)

to knock holes in his code.
I'd give merit to the horoscope before I did any "mild pro-labor action in response to years of value-mining and management neglect maneuvers benevolent monopolies into situation that could only be solved by raising customer prices" story.

And Jesus played Scrabble.
I’m curious if you tried Lightroom.
Man #2 reminds me a lot of the mechanism by which Cambridge Analytica exfiltrated so much Facebook data. I wonder if the 23andMe CEO will be dragged in front of congress for the next 10 years.
This kills the game engine devs dreams.
Looked through the comments from anyone with experience as a cabin crew, but didn't find one.
Just wanted to shout out the PreenFM2 here, I'm not affiliated in any other way than being a big fan and owner of the FM2 and FM3, fantastic little DIY synth made by a passionate French dude.

https://ixox.fr/preenfm2/ // https://github.com/Ixox and you can either DIY the PCB and acquire all components, build a kit, or buy a pre-made from https://vandaal-electronics.com/ . There's even a eurorack version of the FM2. FM2 & 3 do MPE as well. Here's a review of the FM2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5yG9uahcizs and this is the best video I could find showing the FM3 interface https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vu-W7J511to . I had no trouble importing from Van Daal to California but they also pop up on Reverb from time to time. Great price for such an FM powerhouse too.
Do you know how many sports competitions are run every year?
Do you see how low level these competitions are?
How many are at the national level?
How many would you expect if there was no performance difference between trans women and women?

You would expect 1% of competitors to win 1% of competitions but the numbers you are showing are nowhere near there.

Also these are pathetically low level competitions to base an argument on, I want to reiterate that point. Most of these are just local disc golf competitions or masters golf tournaments. Is there a signal top tier Olympic competition represented in your list.
I have done 50s of flights and encountered it about quite often (at least 50% of the flights I have been on, likely close to 100%). Esp in the second half of boarding, people just want to be safe not sorry.
This is how I feel about WOW Airlines. No amount of savings is worth that experience. I did WOW long-haul SF to Frankfurt. Never again! One side of my seat didn't even have an arm rest.
I recently saw people get rejected at the gate when they tried to board ahead of time in Frankfurt, so it sounds like they are starting to enforce it.
So, this is a fairly interesting innovation. With what looks like really good results. The paper sort of buries the lede IMO, in that xVal looks like it could possibly be something that turns next-gen LLMs into zero-shot numeric prediction models.

The big idea is to take any corpus and instead of making tokenizations for numbers that are digits (GPT-2 era) or weirdo floating point range things, instead every number goes to a single token: [NUM]. They then keep a shadow tensor/vector where the [NUM] is given an actual floating point (maybe fixed point?) number.

When the model predicts a [NUM] token, there's a number prediction layer that chooses a number. This lets them train against predicting whether or not a number will be next in a generated text (the model turns out to be really good at this, not surprising). And, how cool -- their loss function can check the actual number created by the number layer, and give a high quality result as to how good the number guess was.

This works really really well out of the box for a bunch of math problems up to 5 digit multiplication, like super human levels of accuracy, and vastly beats SOTA from other Foundation models.

They then go on to throw fine tuning tasks of scientific data at it, and it absolutely does not shit the bed. Which is extremely profound to me, and something they do not make a big deal of. I would expect some scaled up models using this tech could be generally highly useful for a broad range of numeric / stats / prediction in the same way that GPT-3 and on have been highly useful as "text calculators".

Worth a read.
They almost certainly aren’t driving them to 100% physically possible, just like they aren’t draining them to absolute zero.

The cutoff points are going to be picked to balance lifespan and capacity.
There's just not enough room for a dedicated carryon space per seat. And carryons i've seen lately are massive they don't even fit long wise into the compartment.
In my experience, it’s super common.
iOS already does something like this. After the phone turns off from low battery, it’ll still allow you to use Apple wallet for a few hours.
Even crazier, phone books where I lived had a Do NOT List arrangement with Telco providers that was actually respected and bulk leaks of DNL numbers | addresses names were almost unheard of.

Even stalking LEO ex boyfriends | former husbands mostly left a paper trail if they requested a DNL number.
Is AI enough to increase your productivity?
The original Star Trek sets made a lot of use of gobos, patterned metal shadow casters placed in front of lights. You can see some uses of them in pictures here:

https://www.trekbbs.com/threads/mudds-gobos.276831/#post-113...

https://startrektour.com/photo-gallery/our-beautifully-recre...

and you can take the above tour and see them in use yourself. They were made of metal because the lights were hot. Some sources for them, if you want to play with your own, are old metal pot holders and small cast iron table tops. They usually welded a rod to them to attach them to the light fixtures using standard lighting rod clamps so they'd be stable. Cast iron is heavy, aluminum pot holders are preferred and they disippate heat better.
Is bigger always better? Surely "bigger is better" is at odds with "garbage in, garbage out". But I am not an LLM modeler. IOW can LLMs be improved by improving the quality and/or even *limiting the size of their "corpus"?

Could we instead use, as corpus, a select body of knowledge primarily based on Western sources such as those texts a student might read as part of an excellent liberal arts education?

Further, would it not be possible to limit the corpus text (and consequently later, queries) to grammatically correct language? That is, must we include all the "errors" of common speech in a corpus, such as occur especially in fiction? Indeed, could we not exclude fictional works altogether, esp. if the model is to be used for scientific work?

I'd be curious to see an LLM trained on "The Great Books" plus a college course plan of textbooks. But again, I am not an LLM modeler.

Anyone experimenting with such "Small Language Models(SLM)"?
> I get most of the books I read from the public library.

Best Buy will no longer be selling physical DVDs soon. What happens if publishers stop selling paper books and only sell licenses for ebooks?

Edit: https://time.com/6266147/internet-archive-copyright-infringe...
I saw it on a couple flights, not most. It's a train wreck. The first people take the first bins, but sit in the back. Then people getting on who sit in the front have to walk back, find a bin, then walk back forward against the traffic. It's about as much of a clusterf as you'd imagine.

I don't know why FA's don't watch and ban the practice...
For the uninitiated, namma yatri is built on an open platform ONDC[0] (which itself is supported by the Govt of India) . There are parallels between ONDC and UPI. UPI has made inroads by removing Visa/Mastercard fees for merchants. With Namma Yatri (and by extension ONDC), the aim is to remove/reduce dependence on Uber/Ola so that the service providers (cab drivers) get more revenue and presumably commuters get lower prices.

A bit of anecdata: I booked an Uber back in Bengaluru a month ago. the driver was on Namma Yatri as well. I asked how things were. He said he's making more on Uber because of incentives. I presume Uber incentives are powered by IPO/VC money. Interesting to see how this will play out once Uber decides to stop burning money

[0]https://ondc.org/
I really agree with this take. I think the software and designs people stumble upon when they do things for fun and pure curiosity yield can yield interesting and thought-provoking stuff, that you wouldn’t have otherwise encountered when in “productivity” mode.

Do things to explore the design space, explore the most-unconventional idea, do something because it sounds hilarious, because who knows, you might just come up with something awesome, or your work/thoughts/failures/successes might inspire someone else and in turn they get the bump they need to solve some new problem! I don’t think this is limited to just “writing software” either, I suspect it applies basically everywhere.
It was suggested that neither Go nor Python would be chosen if language features are what you are after. Pointing out that both lack a certain feature only reiterates why one would not chose either of them.
No they don't. Southwest is not the cheap airline option, that would be Frontier/Spirit/JetBlue. Southwest is often cheaper than United/Delta/American by a bit, but it's not that much.
I recently flew Alaska, and if I had had a carry on bag that needed to go in overhead, I would have been _pissed_. They told us that the last two groups needed to gate check their bags. I assumed this was because they ran out of space. NOPE. When I got on there was still a _ton_ of space in the overhead. Almost definitely enough for all the remaining passengers who they had had gate check.

Like I said, this didn't affect me, but I had second hand anger. And I can't even think what the point was of it. I have to imagine that they have just gotten used to there not being enough space and they didn't bother checking if it was the case on this flight.
Couples and families get enough advantages in life. As someone who is usually a single traveler with just a carry-on who prefers the window seat, this sounds awesome. Kinda joking, kinda not. ;)

I do imagine this will cause some chaos in reality. What might be better is if flight attendants carries cattle prods to punish the all the boobs who don't find their seat and stow their carryon in a timely manner. Way too many flyers behave like no one else's time is important.

On the other hand, maybe carry-on items shouldn't be allowed except for personal items. That way, boarding takes far less time because no one has to stow away anything.
These discussions are always baseless.

Could Apple have enabled this feature for all phones? Maybe

Would it have provided any use to older phones? Maybe

How much lifespan does it actually add? No one knows

Did they do this as planned obsolescence? Maybe.

There we go, the whole discussion finished.
Sure, as long as you don't mind messing up / sacrificing the IP69 waterproof seal integrity.

Ask me how I know *cries softly*.
You wouldn't drive a car because you're worried about what other people may think of you because they don't like the CEO of the company that made the car that they see you driving in?
Interesting. I wouldn't want my bag out of reach and out of sight (it has my laptop in it) and as a rule people seem to use the bin closest to them. On the plus side, since COVID I haven't had to fly at all and that saves a ton of time and irritation. (Most of my flights in recent years have been within the EU, before that a very large number between the US and Europe and Canada and Europe, rarely within the US domestically).
10 minutes turn around sounds unbelievable. I fly Southwest all the time and just disembarking takes 10 minutes. Were these small planes with no carry-ons allowed?
Legacy auto gave up their UI to Google and Apple, they gave up a lot of value. Top tier new auto EV companies are going their own way, Tesla and Rivian have very high quality UIs. Tesla does a little better, rivian is catching up.
You're overreaching. Can the Chinese government force WeChat to provide data to the government? Yes. But WeChat is a private product built by a private company. In addition, WeChat has a ton of competitors inside China as well. These competitors can overtake WeChat. The government isn't preventing competitors from competing directly with WeChat.

WeChat is literally just Tencent. I'm staying at a hotel next to Tencent office right now in Shenzen. There aren't any military people working here. Just engineers.

Read my post within this chain for why I think WeChat has a lot of power when it comes to getting Apple to create features it needs.
Same. I always wondered why people fight to sit first, sitting on a plane is torture. I'd get on right as the plane door is closing if I had my way.

Apparently it's because people fight over the bins? I've never used one, seems like a hassle. Every flight I've ever taken has offered to gate check my stuff, for free.
> Good luck cutting down a 60 year oak tree with an 18v electric chainsaw, or aerating a lawn going back and forth with a heavy steam roller-like machine

Yeah because this is what the landscaping crews do every single week on my street. Not.
I will say that Costco’s baskets are definitely an outlier. When I go to Walmart, Target, Kroger, Safeway/Albertsons/Wegmans flavor of the day, all of those baskets are the same size. The vast majority of people in the USA shop with the roughly same full size wheeled cart or the handbasket in my experience. Perhaps a few cubic decimeters of variation but not much. I haven’t been everywhere in the States, but I have been to all of the contiguous ones and aside from the Costco cart, which is in fact larger, I have not seen much size variation beyond that.

And the flat platform types, are you referencing the kind that are normally seen in Home Depot? The ones typically that go 6 inches from the floor and look like a pallet jack? With those again you can find them in Sam’s club and Costco but you won’t see them in a “typical” grocery setting
or CSAM
I was thinking the same thing. Either you go Amazon or you don't get it for some book. It is pretty dismal experience to be honest. Of course there are "other places" you can find them and not deal with any of the hassle. Search and download an ebook in about a minute.
First class doesn't care about the plebs
Thank you for making hacking on AOL punters and proggies accessible to a middle school kid in the 90s. Your project is the reason I’ve made an entire career of writing code.
> I also set a geofence around the cell dead spot at my house to enable airplane mode.

How?
Seconded. I'm mostly a LibreOffice user now (since I use the Linux desktop almost all the time), but Word is an extremely capable piece of software.

Sadly, the atrocity that is the ribbon interface manages to obfuscate or hinder most of this advanced functionality.

A lot of people told me "I wanted to do X in Word but it cannot be done...". Yes, it can be done, you just have to discover that functionality and learn how to operate it. Used to be easier ("Just go to Tools > Mail Merge, and follow the wizard"). Now you have to learn which tab of the atrocious ribbon interface, and in a completely unintuitive way.
I've had people sitting in the window seat while it was mine several times before, but upon telling them, they always moved away. I don't see how this would get worse with a rule like that in place.

Sitting in the middle can be pretty bad if you're a tall person. I once had a ~10 hour flight in the middle with a morbidly obese guy sitting on one side, and a ~200cm tall guy sit on the other. It was torture. I'm 188cm myself, so I'll be pretty crammed either way. I somewhat envy my girlfriend in that way, as she's asian-sized and can comfortably sit anywhere.

On my last flight with United, I got assigned a window seat in one of the exit rows. I thought 'great' as they offer extra leg room, but again, there was a morbidly obese person next to me, and he took up about 20% of my seat (or even more.) It was hard to breathe so I mostly sat on the bump of the emergency exit door. A flight attendant flew by and asked me if I was alright. I gesticulated to the guy (who was sleeping on an opioid pain killer mixed with Heineken) saying I can't breathe properly while being squished between a 300kg guy and the airplane window. She just shrugged and said there's nothing she could do as the plane was full.

I understand it is probably uncomfortable to fly for "extra size" people, but I also feel like I should at least get the very limited space I booked when I have to fly.

... Not too related but yeah.
The cost of electric power would be no barrier. You can charge a whole car for less than the cost of gas and two stroke oil, never mind tune ups when the plug gets fouled. And somehow builders manage to plug in their tools. The emissions from gas landscaper equipment is very high compared to cars. Should be more tightly regulated.
Yes, apparently this is why "DO NOT TAKE YOUR LUGGAGE WITH YOU" is emphasised so much in safety announcements. 90 seconds still seems impressively fast to me though.
Someday when DNA synthesis machines have enough write length to be able to synthesize entire human chromosomes, someone with your genome data could clone you without your consent. Even if this takes 50 years to become possible, you still might not want unauthorized clones of you being made using data that you gave up when you were younger.
Glancing at some comments here mentioning the overnight charging feature working for them, am I in the minority by charging randomly whenever it needs it? My charger isn't even in the bedroom. Curious how my random on/off habits compare to overnighters in long term battery health.

I try to take it off around 80% so I was interested in this feature and confused when the update didn't include it. I don't like that it's in my "pros" column for upgrading when it could be available to everyone, would rather not reward them for that.
rebuttal: compute optimality matters https://arxiv.org/pdf/2203.15556.pdf
In all honesty, this is why I have no problem removing DRM from media. If it has a lock on it, someone can take away the key. Screw that. As if an individual author cares whether you removed the DRM.
Software unions are a good idea. Many SWEs don't need collective bargaining to command high salaries, so the value of unions is in providing better job security.

Forming a union at a software company is likely to be an uphill battle though. There is a lot of misinformation about unions, like the assumption that unions _must_ govern comp. And years of high salaries have enabled many SWEs to make investments or purchases such that they no longer depend upon a salary for their living; they're no longer working-class and unions hold no benefit for them.
I mean, clicking an app is a lot more convenient than having to turn the whole laptop off.
I always see people store their carry on near their seat. The only time people store their bag in the first spot they come to is if they are boarding towards the end, and have to take whatever odd spots are left.
I flew ZipAir earlier this year and I liked how they handled boarding.

Their "full flat" (the Business section) boards at any time because the seats are to the left as you enter the plane, but the rest of the cabin begins boarding from the rear rows first in groups of something like ten or twenty rows at a time.
> vast monopolies which have achieved regulatory capture

I agree that this is a key issue, but the solution is simple: don't give governments the powers they would need for regulatory capture to work. Unfortunately, this solution is vilified by the very same monopolies who don't want to give up their privileged position, so it is extremely difficult for it to get traction. (And as far as the leftist ideas of Varoufakis are concerned, they make this problem worse, not better: in the kind of system he envisions, the entire economy is regulatory capture.)
> 1) compromise some site to serve arbitrary JS 2) have it serve simple JS that requests other JS that contains the real malicious payload.

So… https://joshcsimmons.com?
First class seats are comfy and often you'll get a drink while sitting there watching everyone else board. First off in the end as well. If you prefer to board last, no worries you can do that and there will still be plenty of room for your carry-on. First class means flexibility.
100s of miles a day? Are these mowers going 20 miles an hour? That seems like a lot, 10 hours a day, driving on unleveled ground? Probably a lot smaller distance.
> store it in the first empty bin they encounter while boarding the plane

Interesting! I've never done this. However, knowing the problems created when I end up near my seat and have to store it in a bin behind my row, I probably should.