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Show HN: FlyOnTime–A Chrome Extension that helps you book better flights
Ever been frustrated while traveling (yes, of course you have). Knew that Delta was probably a better bet than Spirit, but succumbed to the very low drip pricing of Spirit? Wondered whether it was worth it to wake up at 4AM for an early flight? Or, perhaps worst of all, had a flight delayed for two hours or more (NOT due to weather), or even canceled?

I think most people, especially on this website, have a nightmare travel story.

The shrewd of us check FlightAware or flightstats to check the historical delay data of a flight. While this gets us 60% of the way there, it's not perfect because it works with Flight Number as the "key" (to use hash table parlance). But flight numbers are shuffled around often—flight XYZ42069 might leave at 7PM on a Friday (terrible, TERRIBLE time to fly) but used to leave at 7AM on a Tuesday (great time to fly), lulling the shrewd traveler into a false sense of security.

FlyOnTime cuts through all of that by only looking at the five variables that seem to matter: airline, origin airport, departure hour, day of week and month of year.

FlyOnTime does not use any "fancy" methods such as "machine learning" because it is not needed in this use case — five dimensions in, one dimension out. We are not dealing with images, videos, text or audio. It is a simple extension that could have been built weeks after Chrome Extensions were launched in 2009.

The plan is to keep it free for a long time. If people actually use it, I can then think about making a premium version for power users (travel agents and executive assistants). This would perform complex calculations for connecting flights, as well as incorporate an element of the time value of money (for example, a CEO could probably justify spending 3x more to reduce the probability of massive delay by even 7%, because her time is worth so much). Definitely open to ideas and collaboration though. Like I said, my sole goal for the time being is to empower travelers to know what they're buying better than before.

Methodology is here: https://flyontime.substack.com/p/flyontimes-methodology

Disclaimer: Only works for US flights. I have scoured the web for EU data, which is usually pretty good, but have been unable to find it how I need it (at the flight level with fields for flight date, origin, destination, departure delay). Please please please let me know in the comments if you know of this dataset's existence as I'd love to extend it to Europe.
And yeah their police office is already much nicer and larger than even the City of Atlanta's
Amazon, Microsoft, and India crack down on tech support scams
OT: great domain name
Yes. And I am questioning whether those models make sense.

Maybe they are from before 2008 when printing money was considered a "slight background noise" and not a doubling every few years like we see now?

https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/BOGMBASE
I think parent is saying the opposite of what you think. No tracking, no VR. Just e-ink screens in sunglasses

> moving with you when you turn your head

As in, unlike vr it doesn't stay in place- much dumber tech. just Kindle on your face
But if more chargers support NACS then Tesla cars can charge at more places. A rising tide lifts all boats. Tesla, as an exclusively electric car company, will only benefit from an increase in EV infrastructure usability.
I lived in multiple places in Texas had mysterious small skin lesions that took years to heal and left scars on my arm and neck and am now wondering if I actually had this and not a form of eczema. When I was googling the symptoms at the time, I would only find things saying eczema (which I have had forever but never had caused lesions before) or some psychological disease. All the GPs I showed them to blamed the eczema... but the lesions are now healed and I still have eczema.
REXX is still available for many different OSes including most flavors of Unix: https://regina-rexx.sourceforge.io/

There is also an "Object Oriented" flavor called OORexx and one that works with Java for scripting purposes called NetRexx etc., all listed here: http://rexxinfo.org/downloads/index_downloads.html
Looking at the document about protective orders that Iowa distributes, it seems like protective orders in Iowa are not some casual thing. They require court hearings and can't be filed against random strangers (like that Letterman incident referenced elsewhere in this thread.)

https://www.iowacourts.gov/browse/files/1c1d1ecd62dc41a78794...
It's a scary world we're living in...
Please see my other comment. I will explain my original comment.

In the first case, climate models don't usually do that. You couple them to biological models that predict habitat expansion or contraction. (I think this is probably what the authors meant.) In the second case, well, it's not exactly an extraordinary finding, which would make it absurd to put in the article except in the spirit of Carthago delenda est.

Being involved in climate discourse does not have to be a humourless exercise.

P.S. non-anthropogenic biology does play a part in climate models (and the climate!), but over a much, much longer timescale. Think chalk cliffs and the Great Oxygenation Event.
Telegram Is Leaking User IP Addresses to Contacts
The protective order in this case is from a former girlfriend.
I think the creative differences stuff may have been ginned up. That is, Jon's people could see that this wasn't going well, but instead of calling it a failure and quitting they instead pushed hard on China stuff in order to trigger Apple's policy.

I chalk up any weird timing issues to the recently-ended writer's strike, which would have thrown off calendars for taping etc.
I think you're missing several orders of magnitude on that math.

Maybe a T instead of a B.
The IDF released the recordings in the first place. Are you claiming that they're a reputable source?
> If you’re on the board of an organization like that, settling for a second-best CEO to save a 7-figure sum just doesn’t make sense.

The idea that boards can effectively determine between first-best and second-best just doesn't make sense to me. Ranking job candidates is hard enough in much simpler circumstances.
First thing's first, taxes on capital gains should be much higher, and always higher than taxes on wages.

Second, loans require repayment. Even if the bank accepts your stock directly as payment, there's a taxable transaction. I don't understand how loans evade taxation.

Third, marginal tax rates used to be MUCH higher than they are today. Example from USA Today: "For married people filing jointly in 1953, for example, any income above $200,000 was taxed at 90%, above $300,000 at 91%, and above $400,000 at 92%."
As far as I understand, this idea of notability also adversely impacts science publishing, it's not published by reputable journals unless it's notable, which skews incentives and also means there's probably some useful information out there left to someone else to rediscover.
Firefox profiles are not a user exposed feature. If you want to use multiple profiles at the same time then you have to use the command line to manually start multiple Firefox processes.

I hate to admit it but Chromes profiles are far superior for me to keep different “Personas” separate. They run in the same process but in separate windows.

By far the easiest way keep for example work and personal browsing separated. I give the profiles a different theme so that their windows are easily recognized.
What does TOFU mean in this context? I haven’t heard that word related to tech before OpenTofu just recently!
Rust ships static binaries fwiw You can even statically link your libc.
The car dependency in Tallinn is definitely not helped by public transport being much inferior to just taking your car everywhere. I've tried to reduce my dependency on cars in Tallinn, and yet I often discover that an hour-long trip via public transportation in Tallinn can be done in 15 minutes or less via car, often due to infrequent departures or due to the unreliability of the schedule. There's also one road that I frequent that has 4 lanes, and yet buses get stuck in traffic jams because of cars clogging the road up, and there are no bus lanes in that part of town.

Bicycle infrastructure is also very inconsistent. You can end up riding on a nice, physically separated path, then find yourself driving on painted gutters that are bumpier than the surface cars ride on. Connections between bicycle paths are also awful. One time I just found that the bicycle path just stops with a dead-end, and the only option was to continue driving on the road alongside cars.

Car usage rising has a lot to do with city leadership not taking steps that actually discourage car dependency. Making mass transit free or very affordable is good, but it has to be accompanied with steps that actually make public transportation a better option compared to cars. The most convenient option wins, always.
It sounds like by the time she knew about the problem, it was too late; the top floor was already fully flooded.
It also kept him on the map as a Russian politician. Even though his practical communication abilities are pretty limited because of that.
All that reading and they couldn’t take the time to mention what exactly he said that was so bad?

Nope, not gonna share that info.

Just feel outrage, dammit. Words are violence. Silence is violence. Be mad. Feel rage, demand blood sacrifice. /s

Edit: https://twitter.com/paddycosgrave/status/1712790539844612553...

I don’t mind the downvotes, par for the course and showcases my point.
Registry Redirection with MS MSIX
It is difficult to tell from the article what impact free public transport had, but it's clear that, when Estonians had the option to take no-cost public transport or spend a ton of money on a personal vehicle (and incur the maintenance associated with it). They chose the substantially more expensive option. This is driven home by the fact that ridership fell "transit’s share of Tallinn commutes has fallen from over 40% in 2013, the year fares were eliminated for residents, to under 30% last year."

Whatever services public transit was offering failed to meet the needs of many Estonians. It doesn't matter how inexpensive your product is if it doesn't deliver what people want.
You'll like this then: https://github.com/philipl/pifs
Human bodies are normally at temperatures higher than fungi like to grow in. But as climate warms, more fungi are developing tolerance for these temperatures. https://arstechnica.com/health/2023/09/how-climate-change-co...
This saddens me. Part of the blame is on the side of product namings like "Azure DevOps" which indicates to inexperienced devs that this is some kind of operations role if all they ever use are the build and deployment features. Then again, many junior devs start out as devs without ops experience so they don't have much knowledge about end-to-end development in state-of-the-art teams. Some even start out in shitty teams so they never learn much of the established best practices.
> To be fair, Twitter has began pushing algorithm mess onto their users far before the Musk take over. We really can't blame him for that.

I don't think this is a very fair and honest take on the toilet flush spiral where Elon Musk placed Twitter. Screwing up the timeline made available to non-registered users is a recent development, and one that lands squarely on Elon Musk's rule over Twitter. So does the shitshow that was the verified badge policy changes and opening the floodgates to racist and anti-semitic content.

In fact, I dare say that there was not a single change to Twitter that spawned from Elon Musk's takeover that had any positive or neutral impact on the company in general and service in particular.
> Virtue signalling is when you do something menial or deferent to target a specific population. Like when you'd modify a film to remove certain flags or introduce story-beats for an overseas audience.

This is not correct. You're describing pandering.

Virtue signalling isn't when you do something meaningful for a target audience, it's when you don't do something. It's limited to speech.

From Cambridge Dictionary[1]:

> "an attempt to show other people that you are a good person, for example by expressing opinions that will be acceptable to them, especially on social media"

Only expressing outrage and doing nothing with is would certainly be virtue signalling.

In this case, the outrage can and should lead to people watching less Apple TV+ or rethinking their relationship with Apple as a whole.

1. https://dictionary.cambridge.org/us/dictionary/english/virtu...
I've unknowingly been training for years for this.
The "conspiracy theory" take is that the failed shoe bomber was just an excuse to ratchet down the controls and normalize it. Boiling the frog. I've also heard the even more plausible theory that TSA is just a jobs program anyway so that's another reason to "sell" its existence.
Some people write jokes better than delivering them.

Jon Stewart was great on the delivery.

Clearly by his new show, he needs better writers.
Trust On First Use
> They are not lagging behind, they made multiple bad calls, betting on the wrong horses and are now paying the price.

They make cars as fast as they can sell them and have a backlog of orders. "Paying the price" is one thing they are not doing.
It's bad for the stock market because the support for equity erodes as capital rotates out of equity and into T-bills & bonds. It also drives up the interest requirements on returns on capital thats loaned out to companies therefore compressing their margins, which in turn puts pressure on their equity. With less money to spend, businesses are more strategic in their capital spend (reducing B2B product purchases).

It also should be mentioned that 5% is actually just above inflation so that yield is nominal and not actual returns. Inflation (Assuming at 3.7% going forward) that 5% is more like 1.3% real return on money.

Worth reminding though the stock market IS NOT the economy.
> Colbert had to back pedal to toe the party line.

Stewart referred to the party line as logic in that clip. The part where they should research it. So, not sure if you oppose investigating it (the "party line" as you call it), or if you think it's already been proven and doesn't need any more investigation, despite not a single US intelligence agency agreeing with that sentiment.
Show HN: Labelformat – Python package for converting computer vision labels
It doesn't have to stay that way. You could work to build connections locally as well.
Trust On First Use. No relation to OpenTofu where Tofu is a word play in TerraForm.
Likely they made no mistake. They reported on a Hamas presser in a way that was designed to generate clicks by capitalizing on anti-Isreali sentiment to trigger outrage.

Nothing they said was factually incorrect, and the changing narrative could just be blamed on "changing news"; as if the objective truth of a matter is unknowable or worse, based on what you choose to believe at any given moment.

Mission accomplished.
Not only do some papers not support the claim at all (I found this to often be the case when I used to read the news regularly), but there is often a critical detail left out of the abstract that is key to how the study should be interpreted. The vast majority of people citing papers, by my measure, are relying solely on the abstract even when the entire paper is available for free.

This is often the case outside of Wikipedia as well. Truthfully, I'm a layman because I don't have an advanced degree that suggests I'm qualified to interpret papers, but things are bad enough IMO that part of me wishes people would stop trying to communicate science to the public until this broken system heals at least somewhat. On a related note, it doesn't help that folks like Andrew Huberman are normalizing this idea that one or two studies are good enough to form conclusions about how average people can "optimize" (micromanage) their lives in ways that are clinically relevant. This isn't to take away from the good that Huberman does, but I think it send a the wrong message to people who don't actually have any experience reading papers.

One thing that might help is forbidding abstracts and conclusion sections in papers published in journals, which might cut down on some of the misunderstandings and make it harder to pass off a paper as support for a claim.

> Trying to correct these articles is some times like going to war with editors who refuse to admit they were wrong.

There is virtually no point in trying to fix Wikipedia pages until Wikipedia fixes themselves. They have an extremely hard job, but their prolific editors are too bully-like and contradict themselves all the time.
Figure – General Purpose Humanoid
While not general to all Americans, there's a minority subset of couples who do not combine household expenses. There's a bunch of reasons for this: if you are divorced, it can simplify some of the processes around alimony. If you had a bad relationship due to finances in the past, some people prefer financial independence, or if the couple have other complications that makes combining household finances complicated (like trusts, or property owned with a different party).
Cool, thanks for the hints. I'll dig more in that direction :)
hence the TSA's mandate of "take off your shoes because one person tried something with their shoe one time" that another poster mentioned on this thread.
That is definitely my biggest worry ocean-wise. I haven’t read many acidification papers but the impression I get is that ocean absorption of CO2 is relatively slow so we will only start to see noticeable changes on the order of centuries. If these problems occur faster than we can decarbonise then we will need to geoengineer ocean chemistry. Although this is a plan B, we will be able to implement it before there are significant enough changes to cause a collapse.
Is it a stretch to think these police officers are trying to make things as painful as possible for this teen, even if they know a court is going to eventually throw them out, because he called them out on their outrageous behavior?

Well ... it surely isn't an isolated incident. Seems like this town has quite an authoritarian streak.

A man showed up at a Newton city council meeting to share his thoughts about Galanakis's arrest during a public comment period.

He criticized the town's mayor and police chief -- and they had him arrested!

Criticizing the government in a public forum expressly designed for public commentary is probably the most iron-clad protected of First Amendment speech, but the town must think they operate well above the Constitution:

https://news.yahoo.com/iowa-man-files-lawsuit-being-17554478...
This is why I’m reluctant to put out a MacOS version of my hobby software. I don’t want the support burden, and why go where I’m clearly unwanted?
Wikipedia should allow more articles to have sections for viewpoints from different biases and agendas.
Not related to this post, but man his other project https://aussieplusplus.vercel.app/ is hilarious and ingenious :)
They don't have no fault child custody though, which IMO is a most important part of the divorce. In practice by far the biggest money prize in a higher income divorce is a big child support award, and there you want to fault the spouse as much as possible to turn your kid into a cash cow to "maintain living standards" while in your disproportionate custody.
Hyundai Motor Company (the parent owner of Hyundai, Genesis) has a controlling stake in Kia, but my understanding is that they pretty much let the Kia designers do what they want.
Depends if you believe it's the same god or not...

But if we both claim to know a guy called John Brown, but I say he's kind, generous, hard working but a little dim and you say John Brown is hedonistic, self-entered and brilliant, are we talking about the same person?

Normally if our descriptions are similar enough that we can chalk it up to perspective, we might think it is. But if our descriptions of the person become strongly contradictory, we must conclude that we are talking about a different person.

Now if we both claim that there is only one John Brown in existence, then we might be willing to overlook slightly more of the inconsistencies, because the alternative is that one (or both) of us is misguided/wrong/a liar.
The article in question about Israel identified the sources in the headline. What more do you want them to do?
You tell me, that's what I'm asking.
settling for a second-best CEO [..] doesn’t make sense

Is there any indication that the CEO was premier tier other than the size of his compensation package?
Here it is (I think...):

"Mr Cosgrave criticised the conflict in the Gaza region in a post on X, formerly known as Twitter, saying he was “shocked at the rhetoric and actions of so many western leaders & governments, with the exception in particular of Ireland’s Government, who for once are doing the right thing. War crimes are war crimes even when committed by allies, and should be called out for what they are.”"

https://www.irishtimes.com/business/2023/10/20/google-pulls-...
Similarly,a combat update for Dyson Sphere Program will be coming out in a month or so. I've found DSP to be satisfying in the same ways as Factorio but with some unique flair all its own. Particularly just how beautiful the game is, you'll just be minmaxing some component of your supply chain and you will happen to witness a sunrise filled up partially with your own contraptions. It can be stunning.

It seems like a certain kind of person can just hop between Factorio, Satisfactory, and Dyson Sphere Program to scratch whatever that itch is called. :D
You might not mind, but it's a papercut for a regular user wanting to use profiles.

The thing is that it's a also problem that can easily be resolved with some small UI tweaks. Everything we need for first class handling of profiles in Firefox already exists, save a more intuitive UI.
> You can even emit IL at runtime if you really need to.

I know, I already did that (generating mapping to industrial controllers from the config).

> The only C# generator I'm familiar with is for protobuf.

If you use .NET 6 you may use multiple source generator without knowing, it's very transparent.

For example, if you use System.Text.Json you may be using code generation.
>reliable mainstream sources at the national level

And does anyone actually believe this is applied consistently?

I'm willing to bet that there are countless Wikipedia articles about people in technical, academic, local political, etc., etc. roles/positions that wouldn't meet that criterion.
Yes, a VPN should do the work!
Gives me feelings of nostalgia for the early 90s and "ANSI bombs".
One use case that wasn't mentioned but is arguably the most important of all:

Keeping peoples' data protected from data hungry tools and processes, to protect people from penetrating queries that could leave them vulnerable and globally exposed.

The queriability of unencrypted data is just gonna keep increasing from here on out.

Cryptography is the only way to keep the digital world from collapsing in on itself. If there is to be any sense of locality, separation or closeness then cryptography is pivotal.

Cryptography wards off the "tower of babel" qualities of this new tech.
> A later MOU signed earlier this year between Deere and the American Farm Bureau Federation has a little more teeth but can become null and void if any state passes any law that is stronger than the MOU.

That is a shady way to get out of regulation.
Obvious racism is obvious.
The hospital had been targeted in that it was on a key list of locations that the IDF told people to evacuate from.
Elon Musk launches test to see if users are willing to pay $1 a year for X