skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't see it mentioned, but I am convinced there's shenanigans with seat assignment as well.

I have to reserve my work flights through the work travel app, so of course the airlines know I am on business travel and who I work for. When I select an economy fare, I've noticed when I am finally assigned a seat at the airport, it's usually at the goddamned back of the plane. Most other seat assignments are paid upgrades, even within the same class of tickets. Yes, you can upgrade from economy to economy.

Another thing I have noticed is that after takeoff, they now care where you sit. Probably related to the possibility of upgrading within economy. You can't just move over to another open seat within your ticket class - but they used to not care about this at all.
A bit more generally, they also ran into dynamic pricing or as it existed in every transaction before the 1870s, namely haggling.

It was only after the rather recent invention of the price tag that consumers themselves were commodified which always involves a level of abstraction and smoothing over of differences, in this case, by price.

Make no mistake, the reason it feels deceptive is that "Bargaining is always adversarial."[1] When one's economic milieu is the egalitarianism of being equal before price, of course bargaining feels deceptive, slimy, and wrong.

1. Bill Sanders, Frank Mobus, Creative Conflict: A Practical Guide for Business Negotiators, Harvard Business Press,2021
The person who was pressured by the false statements of ticket scarcity
yes, but the same suppliers seems to have a suspiciously cheap 5G card too

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0C5X9ZZR9/ref=sspa_dk_detail_1?ps...
They're not saying there's only that many seats left on the plane - you can get a sense of that by pulling up the seat map. They're saying there's only that many seats left at that price point. It's incumbent on the buyer to know that I think. That information is not hidden.
>The fuller employment, the less need employers have to compete for workers on wages.

I think you have that backwards.
Were you getting these different prices on the actual airline websites or on the aggregators such as Booking, kayak etc.?
Did we do anything wrong? Did we do anything right instead or in addition?
Even if they do, it seems like a small price to pay for effectively acqui-hiring a crippling amount of OpenAI's staff.
As for sitting next to a partner, if you don't absolutely need to guarantee it, then you can wait til you get to the airport and ask at the gate if they can move you to be beside each other.

If the plane is totally full you'll be out of luck, but if there's space then the gate agents will happily reassign you.
I highly doubt it is that simple. It's an opportunity cost of potentially selling those same credits for market price.
And those phones died instantly from even a relatively small splash of water. Now they don’t. You can shower with a modern iPhone if you like.

It works like this. Pick two:

* replaceable battery

* ingress protection

* small size
I'm having trouble imagining the level of conceit required to think that those three by their lonesome have it right when pretty much all of the company is on the other side of the ledger, and those are the people that stand to lose more. Incredible, really. The hubris.
Never traveled with family?
Your brain is dripping with paranoia. No sarcasm intended whatsoever.

I don't buy into the attendant far right libertarian whackjobbery, so not sure the new president is the answer to anything, but clearly if things have been so bad for so long, especially with the same hard left ideas one that have historically shown to end in the same place over and over again, radical change in the opposite direction looks very attractive.

And it might off in spades, if not pursued in the same stupid ideological manner as the socialists, but it's high risk. I hope it pays off for them bigtime. I'm not wedded to any ideology, unlike some.
Adam had style. Quite seriously, that can’t be underestimated in the big show.
In one fell move he demonstrated he had neither conviction nor any foresight, ouch. I'm starting to believe this was just a unthought out ego emotional reaction by Ilya. Dude is like Walter White, he just "had to be the man"
Also Managed ChatGPT, ChatGPT/CLR.
Nobody is resigning and giving up their openai shares to go be a cubicle wage worker at Micro$oft
This is silly, setenv() isn't reentrant for the same reason that getopt() isn't reentrant: there's no valid reason to use it except at the very beginning of the program.

The most common misuse I see is changing env before forking a child: nobody has to do that, execve() lets you pass arbitrary envp to the new process without changing yours.

If you need to change env in threaded tests... frankly I think there was probably a better way to do whatever you're doing, but you can just declare a global lock and use it. I bet you could even LD_PRELOAD a custom setenv() that uses your lock.

Nobody is pointing at concrete problems outside of Rust. Rust is just wrong here, sorry, the manpage has said this for a long time:

> POSIX.1 does not require setenv() or unsetenv() to be reentrant.

I think a more intellectually honest version of this article would have been "POSIX should have made setenv() reentrant", not "C is buggy": it's not buggy, it obviously complies with the standard. There's nothing to "fix", he wants to change the standard.
100% I recommend quiver (https://q.uiver.app) for commutative diagrams. Very simple interface, exports to TikZ.

Saved me hours in undergrad, was what everyone at Stanford used for quickly communicating ideas and typing up :)
Your second paragraph is pretty ironic given your first.
You want to travel somewhere and pay as little as possible. The airlines want to take you there for as much as possible. It's inherently adversarial.

It used to be the case that everyone bought a bundle that included a bunch of free (not charged at point of use) services. Whether or not you took 3 bags, you paid the same price as someone who did. Whether or not you chose seats all together at time of ticketing, you paid the same as someone who did. With the advent of unbundling (in part driven by online search), consumers could now decide whether taking 3 bags was worth whatever $X the airline proposed to charge. For people who did choose that, they paid more than people who didn't use that service.

https://link.springer.com/article/10.1057/s41272-022-00388-5 has some more information about the evolution of unbundling.

For me personally, I prefer the unbundled approach; it fits my sense of connecting my costs to my consumption (and probably saves me money in total).
But /proc/pid/mem is, if you like living dangerously! You'd just have to parse the dynamic-linker metadata to find where libc's environ is hiding. (Though statically-linked programs would be tougher.)
The remaining board members will have their turn too, they have a long way to go down before rock bottom. And Neumann isn't exactly without dents on his car either. Though tbh I did not expect him to rebound.
The OpenAI employees who are planning to resign en-masse for exactly this reason.
Do they have some sort of TV presence or its just internet?

I do not live in the US so have no idea, I do see their Youtube videos much alike a news broadcasters.
Sounds like a fun story, but only that - a fun story.
How does it look like that?
Maybe the modem costs $5 but the service will be much more. These costs are negotiated and the people who get good deals won't talk about them so it's hard to say.
It seems the getenv_s and GetEnvironmentVariable API functions are 100% equivalent; the API is only slightly different.

When you don’t know the length of the variable you query, you guessed wrong on the first attempt, and other threads are changing the environment in the background, you might need 3 of even more calls to either function (passing longer output buffers) to successfully retrieve the complete variable.
> You are literally putting forth arguments in favour of fixing the thread safety issue, and then conclude it’s not worth the effort.

Yes. I do. These two concepts don't contradict each other.

> No it’s not a performance problem. So we can make it thread safe, and the performance impact will be negligible

Who said anything about performance being the problem, or a reason not to change it!?

The problem is BACKWARDS COMPATIBILITY. The issue is that `getenv` returns a `*char` into the envvar array. Basically every application that uses this function relies on this fact.

So we have:

a) A potential issue that occurs only in very unusual circumstances, most of which will never occur in production code and on the odd chance that they do, they can easily be avoided. Documenting that well can help prevent time wasted in debugging.

b) A fix that may prevent a) but breaks backwards compatibility promises, and would necessitate reworking god knows how many programs, the vast majority of which were never impacted by the issue in the first place.

Of these 2 options, a) is just the better one. Yes, in an idea world, we could have pure, 100% bug free code, and spend an unlimited amount of time on fixing every last problem. That's not the world we live in however, and so a pragmatic approach is simply a necessity.
Archive of the WSJ article above: https://archive.is/OONbb
…or they disagree with you. Only in a bubble can complex facts seem so clear-cut.

I, for one, don’t agree that “we’ve seen time and time again” that cash handouts help.
Exactly this. It is still unclear if this is even possible to do, which means betting the company (GM and Tesla) on it is irresponsible.

Of the current efforts, the only that I have heard very positive things about is Waymo.
> Children should not be poor

Nobody should be poor. It always baffles me why care and sympathy for other humans tends to disappear when they happen to reach an arbitrary age.

But perhaps you'll start caring again when they get even older? Should 80 year olds be poor? What is the appropriate age range to be poor?
OK thank you for the explanation.. This makes more more scared to bring in libraries :(
True Level 5 driverless cars that are fully autonomous and work in arbitrary environments, even in just the US, is just not happening any time in the next 30+ years if you ask me. Smaller more gimicky stuff in limited environments already exists though. And the level 2 stuff out there is awesome and a major value-add.

The technology that has been put out so far is amazing and the engineers behind it should be very proud of that work.

But there are too many "but if..."s for driverless to be mainstream just yet.

We need a system that can really think like a person can. Something that has very high-level abstractions and understands context, situational state and human behavior.

It's not a problem that can be just solved by slapping more and higher-resolutions sensor packages onto the car, though that will absolutely be necessary. (And until that becomes MUCH cheaper, that's a major roadblock as well)
HN Soaps.
They own TechCrunch and Engadget, among other things: https://www.yahooinc.com/our-brands

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yahoo!_Inc._(2017–present)
I didn't realize it was only occupied for 24 weeks; the ISS trounced that by err. not order of magnitude. It's been up for 25 years now.
Have you ever used Cloud Tasks?
Huh, I never thought too deeply about it, but I also never thought the equatorial band was "the trench."
Everyone? Inevitable? Maybe on the time scale of a 1000 years.
I haven't booked a flight in a while but any situation where I don't know the "final" cost of my ticket before I start the checkout process is a dark pattern in my book.

I don't want to see a $100 ticket before I start the checkout process but end up seeing $200 on step 6 / 8 because if I want to sit down and carry a backpack with me it's an extra $100.

That forces me to give them my data (I'm interested in a flight from X to Y, creating accounts, my address, etc.) even if I back out of the checkout process due to upsells.

Compare that to seeing the final cost ahead of time before entering in any billing details and if you don't agree with the price you can use a competitor with better rates. There's no contest in how much better of an experience and outcome that is for customers.
the concept can be scaled up to something smaller than a bus (let's say 6 pax) that you hail like uber pool. As the technology becomes commoditized it can be applied by metro transit authorities to run smaller buses with much shorter headways.
Yes. I DIY tons of stuff, instead of working more hours in my core competency, because the economics of hiring it out are all screwed up.

Sometimes it’s ludicrous, why the hell am I, a desk jockey, doing a brake job?

Why is it more cost effective to build a retaining wall myself, with basic tools, rather than working extra hours and paying someone that does it as a career? (Btw, that retaining wall is going to last 100years).

Income tax is a form of overhead. Not just changing the economics of “saving a dollar is like making 2 dollars”, but ups the price of things.

A corporation, mainly paying taxes on its profits, not all revenue, would never have this magnitude of dilemma between outsourcing vs in-house.

This is why I prefer shifts towards taxing destruction (like carbon taxes, stranded capital) instead of taxing production.
Didn't a ransomware gang just renege on a deal and release the data anyway. Seems like they are killing their own business model. If company X cannot depend on the gang delivering why pay in the first place. Boeing will have to pay for any fallout form the data breach - why have the added expense of paying the criminals for the privilege?
>I'd be tempted to guess that they've had a larger impact on reducing emissions than any other single company on the planet.

I need to remember the name of the book where I read that, but statistically the people who buy Teslas produce more global emissions than others, simply on the fact that manufacturing a Tesla vehicle produces nearly 2x emissions as manufacturing an equivalent ICE, and the class of people who can easily afford Teslas engage in a lot of environmentally damaging activities like excess consumerism, lots of traveling, etc. versus the people who can only afford to keep using their ICE car instead of throwing them away to buy a Tesla.

It's one of the reasons why despite the boom in EV adoption, global emissions are also skyrocketing with them. So EVs alone won't save this planet. In fact, according to that book, if we were to replace all ICE cars on the road with EVs, the manufacturing, materials and the mining necessarily to extract all the materials necessary for that to happen, would cause such an increase in emissions that would be catastrophicall to the planet.

So the solution is actually less cars for earth, not more cars except Teslas instead of ICEs. It was an interesting analysys that I need to find.

Self driving cars in the form of fleets of autonomous robo-taxis that you hail on demand, would solve that "too many cars on earth" problem since most cars stay idly parked all day anyway, but we're very far away from actually achieve that level.
Or documentation driven development.
You can also easily serve *.html, *.json, and *.md as static files.
OpenAI is/was critically partnered with Microsoft, using NVidia-based Azure for compute to the benefit of both.

There certainly appears to be a conflict of interest in Altman trying to create an NVidia competitor, and proliferation of AI, and seeing as he was seeking middle eastern funds it also raises questions about US limits on export of AI tech.
I think it boils down to:

- simplicity
- strict evaluation model
- devx
- faster runtime
- built in effect system

I love haskell and write it every day, but I have the feeling that the language is probably too complex to really cross over to the mainstream. I remain convinced that the advantages of a pure functional approach are so compelling that we will one day see roc or something like it be the default choice for most programming tasks, and am really excited to see so much progress being made on the language.
It is too bad MS doesn’t have the rights to any beloved AI characters.
You think he's safe living in Canada if he's found guilty for massive fraud in the US? Or you think China, who has also been cracking down on finance in their own country, is going to protect this nobody whose platform actively works against their financial controls?
Tuning the Linux kernel with AI, according to ByteDance
> I don't see why people with lower skillsets or utility curves that weigh leisure more highly than work activities should be allowed to leech off the productive capacities of others

First, this is an extremely toxic attitude.

Second, do you really think that people living paycheck-to-paycheck in jobs that are just barely tolerable enough to keep them from quitting are "maximizing their utility curve when compared to the opportunity costs"? Much more likely is they are stuck at a low local maxima because they can't afford to spend 2 weeks looking for a job that would better fit their skillset and preferred job functions.
What???? I thought sama was going to be installed as CEO of OAI?
>I think nuclear is cool tech but am doubtful it will play a big role in most countries since renewables are so much cheaper (1/3rd the price, so you can overbuild substantially) for getting to 90% emissions free generation.

Renewables (wind/solar) could be free and they wouldn't be able to support a modern economy - that's the problem. It's why wind/solar, today, do not even power a small city, much less a nation.
can they even be bought in Russia?
Maybe a nice analogy are the old trades: knitting, weaving, ceramics, glass blowing, woodworking, ... Still down for pleasure and a niche audience.
Job queues in RDBMS are always so controversial here on HN, which is kinda sad.
Not everybody needs insane scale or whatever else a dedicated solutions offer. Not to mention if you already have RDBMS laying around, you don't have to pay for extra complexity.
I looked at 8088 instruction timing, and add register to register instruction seems to use 2 bytes and requires 3 clocks to execute. Why didn't they make addition while fetching next instruction byte and get a 33% speedup?
@sama is now a wagie for msft lol
Dang I completely forgot that D'Angelo and Quora have a product that directly competes with ChatGPT in the form of Poe.

Wouldn't that make this a conflict of interest, sitting on the board while running a competing product - and making a decision at the company he is on the board of to destroy said company and benefit his own product?
This should be flagged as disinformation.

It is not trivial to find the commands to uninstall those programs. Many times the commands never end up working.
>There's no evidence that wages or employment are rising. [...] Wages haven't even come close to keeping up with inflation

BLS data begs to differ: https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/LES1252881600Q

Wages have been slowly creeping up for the last 2 years. Now, you might point to the giant spike during the pandemic and conclude that means wages are actually down, but that's an artifact of how the data is collected. Since the dataset only measures the wages of employed people, lockdowns hit the retail/hospitality sector disproportionately, and those sector also tend to have lower wages, eliminating those jobs bumped up the average. If you look at the last quarter before the pandemic (Q4 2019) wages are either very marginally higher or at least flat.
Right, I think airlines are a bad example of "dark pattern" and "junk fees" because ultimately the customers are the problem.

Every airline that has tried the premium model in recent decades has failed.

People have decided they've reserved the right to rock bottom fares and simultaneous complaints about quality of service. Or people have decided flying sucks no matter what airline they choose so they simply sort by price.

Either way, dollars vote and this is the outcome.
https://archive.is/PPs7i/again?url=https://www.bloomberg.com...
Yep, this is the most likely explanation now. There's only four people:

- McCauley: Doesn't seen to have a high profile or the standing required to initiate and drive this

- Toner: Fun to speculate she's a government agent to bring down OpenAI, but in reality also doesn't seem to have the profile and motive to drive this.

- Sutskever - he was the #1 suspect over the weekend, has the drive, profile and motivation to pull this off, but now (Monday) deeply regrets it.

- D'Angelo - has the motive, drive, and profile to do this.

Best guess: Quora is a ZIRP Shitco and is in trouble, Poe is gonna get steamrolled by OAI and Adam needs a bailout. Why not get rid of Sam, get bought out by OAI and become its CEO? So he convinces Ilya to act on some pre-existing concerns, then uses Ilya's credibility to get Toner and McCauley onboard. It's really the only thing that makes sense anymore.
The budget airlines are pretty strict on this, but the regulars not so much.
Yep they know the moment they figured out extra fees they changed the whole reservation flow to minimize defaults and turned a lot of previously unthinkable items into paid add-ons. Every airline across every segment of travel now does this and as expected it’s resulting in a windfall. Problem is they won’t be happy with this in a quarter or two and their investors demand more, what will they do?
Is that domestic? I keep hearing this but every time I look for international flights it’s never true.
Hacking a Washing Machine?
Has anyone here ever hacked a washing machine? I find Washing Machines to be one technology that has significantly degraded in my lifetime. In the 90s when I turn a washing machine on it was like a wonderful waterfall and there was no question at the end of a cycle if your clothes would be clean or not. Today I have used several brand new machines - and my clothes are frequently dirty. Even after multiple cycles. I find this frustrating and disgusting. I've subscribed to consumer reports and the "best new machines" are ranked by 1. Energy efficiency 2. water use. Two completely irrelevant factors to me. All I want are clean clothes. I'm afraid regulations may be written in a way to require low energy and water use - I can not find a washing machine that works in 2023.

Has anyone ever tried hacking these machines to use more water?
> fully automated luxury communism

It's actually "fully automated luxury gay space communism", all words are important there. Also, in the Culture series, arguably the seminal series about the "fully automated etc.", there's a whole scene about AI producing art (i.e. nobody cares or think it's interesting)
This. MSFT is dreaming of an OpenAI hard outage right now, perfect little detail to forfeit compute credits.
> we could probably get rid of >50% of all cars on the road

I've seen this argument before but it doesn't make sense to me. In some subset of situations, yes, this would be the case. But 8-9a or 5-6p there is a surge of demand in every major metro in America.

Developing self driving cars is not a fruitful endeavor IMO. We need to push alternative modes of transportation (transit, e-bikes, etc) which are way, way more efficient and cost effective.
Inversion founder here.

We don't want artists who don't need us much. Artists always have needs that they can't, or shouldn't, be handling for themselves. Even the top 1% of artists get services and support from their galleries or their own full time staff. But bridging the gap between starting to earn good money and being able to afford a qualified staff is very difficult, and it's the pivotal point in an artist's career where they may find themselves stalled because, with every new project, there are logistical needs that distract them from finding the next opportunity, or creating new, ambitious work.

We are working with artists who have achieved great traction but are not yet at the point where they can hire a full time studio director, etc.