skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've had a weird experience with Qatar customer service as well. Basically during covid you could get a full refund if you cancelled or rescheduled your flight. I wanted to reschedule my flight to another final destination, the support agent said they couldn't do that, but could issue me a voucher, and hold a reservation for my next flight. All I had to do was pay that flight with the issued voucher.

However they failed to even send me the voucher within 24 hours, so when I called back, I was told the flight would be an extra US$3,000.

I tried to explain the issue, that they never send me the voucher, and due to that I would be on the hook for extra costs? The support agent was totally uncooperative, and just kept asking "what would you like to do". Turned into a bit of a shouting match.

In the end I had my flight cancelled, and a voucher was issued straight away.

I still don't understand why they couldn't just look at their own logs, realize they actually didn't send the voucher, and just book me on the original flight. Or why the first support agent couldn't just use my voucher to pay for the flight.

This was also a business class flight, so I can't imagine how economy passengers are treated.
The goal isn't to minimise the number of incidents, it's too minimise insurance premiums.
Oh that's what that was, a reference to the civil war? I was wondering what he was talking about, "union guy". Man, these guys really live in a different world than the rest of us.

I was curious about it too because as far as I knew nobody else died from it besides the woman who was shot by capitol police. Every time I think I'm about to learn something new about J6 I don't.
Choosing a random starting word isn’t necessarily inconsistent with playing to win. Even if it’s technically a handicap overall, it’s at least surmountable, and can be an advantage to stay nimble with the added “challenge”. I feel the same way about “hard mode” (which I still refer to as “easy mode”).
It can be - the allocator just needs to mmap() different bucket pools to different base addresses.
> I don't quite understand. Most of LLM inference is MatMul and Softmax.

Most operations are memory bound: slow because memory access takes longer than computation itself. The problem is we have to shove the whole model, billions of weights, in the SRAM once for every token generated. That creates slowness.
This is an extremely simplistic assessment of addiction, and the factors that drive it.

Setting aside the likelihood and tangent that we probably don’t have free will the way we like to think of it, it’s incredibly reductionist to summarize two symptoms/outcomes (homelessness, addiction) this way without understanding the systemic factors that lead to them.

I’d highly recommend Anna Lembke’s work on Addiction. You’re boiling something very complex down to “shame on them”.
In Germany they were happy to see me trying, but almost universally couldn't understand any of my garbled sentences. I put it down to German being one of those languages where the order of words matters less and conjugation matters more for inferring context (and context is key to making any sense). Because I mis-conjugated a lot, it came across as garbled nonsense.

I've travelled a bit, and learning to speak Global English is definitely a skill. My German wife is more understandable to the average SE Asian than I am, despite me being a native speaker. She uses less $5 words, and simpler sentence construction than I do. It's interesting (and a little galling) seeing my perfectly-constructed sentence fail to make any headway, while her simple English is immediately understood.

And yes, at times I've definitely reacted with "I understood that, but holy crap that was bad English". Whatever works I guess.
Spotify, if you’re reading this, hire someone who listens to podcasts for your podcast feed in app.
Young Elon Musk – Interview 2007 – Full Version [video]
I didn't read the original comment as saying the data was fraudulent. They were just doubting that "these metrics are a meaningful representation of economic reality", which includes buying a house.

If I'm not mistaken, property prices are not part of the CPI, which makes your comment and the original comment both true. I don't think it's controversial that asset prices have been rising faster than wage growth in general.

I'm no expert on the matter, but sometimes I speculate that the discrepancy between the "data" and the anecdotal experiences is that instead of wages keeping up with inflation, it's more like the core necessities (food, etc.) that comprise the bulk of the inflation index has gotten much cheaper. Which makes buying things outside that group of mass produced stuff feel more expensive.

And then there's also the wage gap between different types of jobs. IIRC lawyers/doctors didn't earn as much more than blue collar jobs in the past. So while in the past a hard working blue collar worker could live a somewhat middle-class life, the pay discrepancy today might not enable them to do so.

As I said, this doesn't mean the official data is wrong, just a matter of how we're "interpreting" them.
Ok, but what about Brees, hash maps, bitmaps, skip lists ie. containers for search and sort?
It sounds like someone who’s never learnt any other language and is high on freedom propaganda. It’s more than not plausible, it’s laughable.
> I figured that there is something below the rank of species that differentiates them then, but checking what the word for that would be, there is none! Species is the most specific classification of life forms (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taxonomic_rank), so then they should be literally the same animal (every caribou is a reindeer and vice versa).

What? That's like saying that cauliflower and cabbage must be literally the same plant.

Reindeer and caribou are differentiated by which continent you find them on. To the extent that it's difficult to walk from Canada to Norway or Siberia, they will have associated genetic differences.
I mentioned in another comment here, but if you are in EU, the "right to be forgotten" makes it quite easy to remove results you do not like about yourself from search engines. Google for example provides a simple form to fill out, and from what i recall in about a month or so those links are gone from results.
This is tempting, if only because I might be more likely to remember the day’s word for more than a few minutes.
Broadcom Axes VMware Perpetual Licenses Starting Journey of Increasing Revenue
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Say what? Jump over a fireball and you eat an uppercut. Unless a beginner can throw a fireball or another countering special move, they have no chance. Tekken's knowledge check only applies if you know everything about every character. If you don't, a beginner can simply surprise you. Tekken is also prone to juggles and rushdowns and highly damaging combos generated by pressing just one button repeatedly (Hwoarang? Eddie?). This is coming from someone who has played every SF since SF 2 and every Tekken since Tekken 2.
The last two paragraphs:

> Jeff, a content creator in Kensington who runs a channel called Jeff’s High on Life, believes there is an ethical way to do this sort of filming if you pour the resources back into the community.

This is what I wanted to day after reading some comments talking about “raising awareness”. Put your money where your mouth is and show us the receipts of all the money made off the videos being donated.

> He makes about $1,000 a month, which he spends on wound care and supplies like clothes, but says he’s heard of cases in which content creators set up GoFundMe pages for the addicts who never see that money.

Disgusting, and sadly not surprising.
Not if the overall design is completely altered through the work done on it.
I did this exercise last year called “8760 Hours” which is a series of prompts to help refine your values and goals for the year. I then reviewed my answers at the beginning of each month to make sure I hadn’t strayed off target. It was very helpful for me and I’ll do it again for 2024.

https://alexvermeer.com/8760hours/
It's not a silly question (apparently, more than just a few pilots don't understand this), and the phrase "the tailwind has accelerated the glider" is incorrect.

What actually happens in any of the turns is that the glider undergoes a change of velocity equal to twice its original airspeed, in the direction opposite to which it was originally flying. This is simply a consequence of it flying an energy-conserving path (we are ignoring drag and also assuming the turn is made in level flight, so there's no change of potential energy.)

When measured in a frame of reference moving with the wind, with W as the wind speed and A as the air speed, a glider flying upwind has a velocity of -A, and after turning 180 degrees has a velocity of +A. The magnitude of both velocities is the same.

From the ground frame of reference, it has gone from W-A to W+A, so the magnitude has increased, from the difference to the sum. In both cases, the change in velocity is +2A, regardless of how strong the wind speed is or whether there is any wind. The appearance of there being an acceleration when the wind is blowing but not when it is still results from considering the change of ground speeds before and after, instead of change in velocities (measured in any inertial frame of reference, as long as it is the same one before and after.)

It is not easy to see intuitively how this allows the kinetic energy of the glider to keep on increasing, but perhaps this will help: the 180 degree turns are like elastic collisions (i.e. without energy loss) between the glider and the air. From this perspective, we can make an analogy with a bat and an elastic ball: if you bounce the ball between the bat and the floor, striking it downwards each time it bounces back, it will keep on picking up speed: it rebounds from each blow you give it faster than it was coming up, and it keeps that newly-acquired speed when it bounces back off the floor. In this analogy, the bat stands for the wind at altitude, and the floor stands for the still air below.
The fact that zig's standard library design (and general code guidelines) makes you always carry allocator with you, makes it very easy to manage memory overall. Most of time I set up arena allocator and then I don't even have to care about clean up unless it's something holding a OS resource.
> Which was a language that was barely related to modern French (besides belonging to the same Romance language sub-branch which includes Catalan, Occitan and most Northern Italian dialects

So, very closely related to French?
Submarines can receive GPS signals by towing an antenna that floats on the surface
Ask HN: An "open source hardware forge"?
Hello, I'm wondering if there a popular open source hardware forge? It'd be a place where there would the discussion of design decisions and schematics would be fully in public, a la Github or Bitbucket ... I'm specifically interested in open source AC designs.

Some context behind my question: I'm an Indian and India has been making rapid progress, specially in the last ~10 years. Now that's mostly a good thing except with rapid progress and industrialization comes increased power usage. People who were using desert coolers earlier are now using ACs. ACs are both complex, have a "stored/laggy" effect, and also have an enormous electricity usage.

A couple of examples: My winter electricity bill (very mild winters so I don't use heater) is Rs 440 (=$5.5), it's about 44 kWh of consumption. My peak summer electricity bill (temperatures can get up to 44C) is Rs 6600 (=$83) for 66 kWh of consumption. It's very common these days for middle class families in India to have a 2 or more ACs.

This doesn't bode so well for the energy consumption in future and frankly I see this as a problem that needs to be looked at now to avoid a crisis later.

So to continue, if there were open source AC designs which were modular and supported multiple air outlets, that might reduce electricity consumption. Central cooling isn't a concept you can expect homes to have (if it even makes sense at such a small scale?).

Also, given how hardware companies are progressively locking down their platforms and becoming increasingly user hostile, I wish that the Open source hardware platform can provide a competition to them thus making them improve their act (Kinda like Linux vs Windows). Maybe if it becomes popular, someone like the framework company could sell high quality components?

If such an Open Source hardware platform doesn't already exist, what do you guys think prevents it from existing? What will have to change or improve?
I think just using it locally in manual or ad-hoc senses is fine, but IIRC it can become tricky or at least a legal grey area if you commit code that automates using GPL developer tooling and/or pulls it into your development toolchain, e.g. via GitHub action or some other CI automation.

Disclaimer: Not a lawyer, this isn't legal advice.
Calling an unsafe function means "I promise to uphold the invariants required" and often that requires writing safe code a certain way.

For example, in WGPU I get the surface of an OS window. This requires an unsafe function call. The invariant I must uphold is to not drop the window before the surface. This requires writing my safe code a certain way. And indeed, a malicious actor could change only safe code and cause UB by dropping the window (I believe this would cause a double free when the surface is dropped). However, the struct holding the window and surface presents a safe API to users of the struct, and no code outside the struct can cause UB.
Yeah, we just grounded an entire aircraft fleet for a few years due to systems overriding pilots.
That's not a legitimate reason for airlines. They keep ordering cockpits without an extra couple inches on purpose.

And there's a ton of ways a pilot can become incapacitated. Having an extra pair of glasses is one of the easiest mitigations around, if the odds are actually that bad.
The risk to be spat on in the eyes by some sort of venomous reptile is just too high
“XeGPU dialect provides an abstraction that closely models Xe instructions.”

How is that an abstraction? It sounds more like a representation.
Stigma? Have you been on social media? Mental health disorders are fucking celebrated.
So voting for the 'correct' local politician and driving an eco-friendly car are more important than being nice and helping others less fortunate? How very blue.
Or the citizens have forgotten or don’t care to hold their leaders accountable
Is it just me or does this feel like another "we must stuff AI into everything, just because"? Inertial navigation has been around for most of a century, i.e. before GPS even existed, and is basically self-contained.
Here’s a real mystery for you. You’re a worker at a dry dock where you are maintaining a ship. You periodically remove perfectly good parts of the ship and send them away, replacing them with new parts and making falsified records claiming spurious damage that needed to be repaired. At a second facility, the pieces from the original ship are reassembled. Did you steal the ship, or has it been sitting there in drydock all along?
Would have been better if they hadn't bungled their mixed metonymy...

It's a stitch in the bird is worth a pound of eggs off a duck's back, as everyone knows...*

* Courtesy of the excellent "Field Guide of Egregious Mixed Metonomies", soon to be published by Penguin Random House Simon Schuster Merriam Webster Britannica, I'm told
It is possible, but it does depend on region though.

I can't search with an offline map in Thailand, but it works fine for an offline map in Australia: https://imgur.com/a/DA803mj
January 1938 Geomagnetic Storm
> I was curious about it too because as far as I knew nobody else died from it besides the woman who was shot by capitol police. Every time I think I'm about to learn something new about J6 I don't.

Sicknick's death by stroke the day after the riot was widely attributed to some injury from the incident, despite his having told his family that he had not been injured in the first place. That's why he received the equivalent of a state funeral. That's also why the coroner specifically looked for evidence of trauma causing the stroke, either from a head injury or exposure to tear gas, and specifically ruled out both possibilities in his report. But this still doesn't prevent the gullible from prattling on about how "many" policemen were killed, or that the ravenous mob of rioters were armed with everything but a tactical nuke.

(I think this is also why we haven't yet seen a breathless best-selling account of "The Day Trump Tried to Overthrow the Government", or a Netflix docudrama. Any such work with a pretense of accuracy would have to depict, well, not much beyond 150 idiots invading a public space, refusing to obey Capitol Police's orders, and causing some mayhem until one unarmed rioter is finally shot after an inexplicable delay. No grenades/pipe bombs being detonated, no politicians being lynched, no policemen being fatally beaten by a mob.)

As I wrote elsewhere:

> Had Capitol Police as a whole done their job and used their training and weapons to stop the invaders in the first place, a great deal of trouble would have been avoided while more rioters would have been shot (which I have no problem with). Why they did not do their job is something that I trust will be answered one day.
Corrected vision is not disqualifying for even first class medicals (what’s needed to fly for an airline).

Height or correctable vision can still be disqualifying for military aviators (my vision was disqualifying from flying pointy military jets at the time and might still be).
Same problem with doctors.
I agree with your comment and upvoted it, though this part:

> I have definitely seen this happen, but as a very senior engineer, now PM, I can tell you this is a management/hiring failure much more so than anything else

Makes me wonder if you're saying that these cases are the exception. In my career they have sadly been the rule. Not 100% literally, i.e. my PMs have never been 22 years old, but they were, 99% of the time, grossly incompetent.

And yes they were a management / hiring failure, absolutely, but it seemed that nobody cared... :(
You could definitely use it for something useful; you can't store anything through it, but if an allocator supports allocations of size 0 with the same semantics of non-zero allocations, you get a "unique" ptr from the allocator dynamically.

Anywhere you need a dynamic list identifier this would suit (yes, a counter could do this too, this would be effectively a globally unique token)
https://www.faa.gov/ame_guide/media/DUIDWI_Alcohol_Incidents...

You can call AMAS (Aviation Medicine Advisory Service) for an opinion.

But ultimately you'll discuss your situation with an AME when applying for a medical certificate, including whether you're best off with 3rd class now and 1st class later. Or just aiming for 1st class right away.
> France cant do this. Why... I dont know why. Maybe because the are more desciptive.

Oui oui. Je français parle très bien. Je entends français très bien aussi. Facile comprendre. Peux parler entre nous très bien juste mots simples. Français très bon.

Is just as understandable as the English original. French is much more forgiving than German in that regard, with a more flexible sentence structure. German and Russian the advantage of declension, which is a redundancy mechanism to indicate the role of a noun, but it’s an advantage over English just as much as over French. Also, it’s something a non-native will get wrong most of the time initially, so it’s not really helpful to help understand broken German.

Basically, I don’t think this is right and I tend to agree to “ many languages have this feature”, although I would say “most”.
Unsafe code can act on inputs provided from safe code.
I don't even manage, I just watch team sports, and I know that you can put together star players and the team just falls apart. Sometimes also, when you cut an underperforming player your star player also spontaneously crashes in performance.
It’s hard to say what the policies of the majors will be 5 years from now when you’re ready, but Delta’s current policy is “no DUI in the past 10 years”.

I think the structure of the pilot market is such that tightening of voluntary restrictions is unlikely.
Try practicing system design on https://codemia.io. there's Instant interactive feedback and also evaluation of your answer by AI.
Having had a date night in Manhattan in a fairly expensive and good restaurant, some time during the first few courses, we had to have a few words with the maître d’ - just to get the wait staff to stop bugging us if we wanted ketchup or whatever - and to observe the language of cutlery as to when we were finished a course. Once explained how we’d like it, we got top-notch European style discreet service and a far less interrupted conversation. A gentle twist of the head got the wine waiter refilling our glasses rather than butting in. It’s possible!
The final line is always between the ruling class and the working class.
plywood is too expensive for most suburb construction in the usa; instead they nail together sticks, cover them up with paper-plaster sandwiches, and wrap it in plastic to keep the plaster dry, then put some tar paper on top to keep the water out of the plastic

i am not making this up, this is literally what they do
Why is your username for everything not "low_budget_pirate"?

Great story :)
Citizens are all slaves of one corporation or another so speaking their minds is not within their power.

IMO, this is the most infuriating aspect about the censorship push of the past few years. They've already been suppressing freedom of speech using people's livelihoods as a covert form of blackmail... But that wasn't enough and so they had to break the pretense and engage is overt censorship.

Literally everyone who works for a corporation engages in regular self-censorship. This implies that they believe that they may be reprimanded for speaking their thoughts. As someone who has actually spoken their thoughts, I can tell you that it's more than just a belief! The consequences are real.

The executives responsible stepped over the line and should be tried and jailed.
I have a solution: pass a law that if any pilot gets grounded for mental health issues, then the airline industry (as a whole, in case his airline goes belly-up) has to continue to pay that pilot's salary until he retires.
> Any evidence of a language being stamped out by a despot?

Many languages have been wiped out by genocides, and wiping out a language is a common explicit tactic in ethnic cleansings.

English has never been the source of a serious campaign of this regard, though.
Unless you have a model that's good enough for your use case and it's mostly inference from here on.
> working class

Is that the etymology of the word "oik" ( "a person who says oi" ) ?
How does a program like this work? Is it indexing every file on the system and monitoring all events for updates?
debugging native calls in itself is also painful. I have switched to using async-profiler (https://github.com/async-profiler/async-profiler) instead of JFR for most of my usecases.

A. it tracks native calls by default
B. it can track wall time as well
C. you can have neat interactive flamegraphs
If schools kill creativity, then so does every institution. That's a view fundamentally incompatible with civilization.

School isn't everything. Every good parent teaches this. Creativity is a personal pursuit that demands time made for it like anything else. School isn't really the proper place for positive reinforcement of that. Teachers are overburdened enough. For some people it turns out that creativity isn't even a meaningful goal beyond knowing how to think fast in tough situations. It's not realistic to cater to every student's whims and preferences (especially if they're driven by asshole opinionated parents who can't finish their little project). Even the alternative-to-public schools that claim to do this are just creating cultural echo chambers and stunting the student.