skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What's missing from that explanation is that Virgin got horrific lease terms on their fleet because they were a fledgling airline. Had Alaska been the one to lease them the terms would've been much better and the financial benefit to dumping them would've bee much smaller.

As Alaska is based in Seattle, they've been pushing this ridiculous all-Boeing nonsense for a while. Horizon still exists as a wholly owned subsidiary of Alaska. Their fleet is all Embraer. In fact I'd be hard pressed to think of a time when Alaska was ever all Boeing.
Wow. I had not seen this clip before. What an insightful couple of minutes.

Thanks for sharing!
I don't think that they were confused or in denial about whether it was necessary for purposes of a legal requirement. It seems that they were agnostic on that, and saying that it would be better if the law itself didn't require that emotional distress be asserted and proven.
I'm not so sure – I don't think it'll impact it positively or negatively. Personally, at least, it's never impacted my willingness to watch a movie. Seven Samurai is an all Japanese cast, but it's still my favorite movie of all time.
> They can't really shut Google Cloud down and still be charging people to exit.

I'm not quite sure about this. Obviously they don't do it now, but I wouldn't have put it beyond them.
> Companies following the lead of other companies (CEOs not thinking for themselves, just looking at what others are doing)

Layoff usually negatively affects company's image. It makes sense to do it when everybody's attention is on someone else. Then it looks like nothing special.
I think 3d printing using organic semiconductor filaments will be the way to go.
Usually it's more like skipping breakfast and not snacking after dinner. Skipping lunch isn't much of a fast if you're eating breakfast at at 7am and dinner at 7pm. But eating dinner at ~7pm and having your next meal be lunch is ~16 hours without eating.
You just mentioned three pieces of technology.
I do not have any faith in Alexa OR Google home, despite Amazon on paper being a juggernaut of market share and Google being a juggernaut of AI. How they are fundamentally architected is bad. Cloud-based services that run over a single WAN connection? That basically guarantees Google Home and Alexa are bound to be only ever used for frivolous things you don't really need because the smart assistants are fundamentally unreliable.

Initially I didn't think this was THAT big of a deal, but the more experience I got with smart homes the more I'm thinking the ecosystem's are doomed to plateau while Homekit keeps trucking past them since its reliability problems are not as severe. Amazon and Google are building castles on sand.
Even if they don't leave, I was at a company that warned us 3 months before a 20% layoff, and basically everyone treaded water for 3 months until they knew if were staying. Huge company loss of productivity.
> which kinda makes sense given what broad ACLs most employees have

I've never even once seen an employee in engineering go rogue after getting fired.

I've been exposed to this US reality since early 00's and never quite understood where it's coming from. It doesn't seem based on evidence.
If that's the case, then they should just say that.
I certainly am unused to it!
maybe I’ll ask some advice:

I’m trying to build a circuit simulator. It’s got two main problems to solve: placing and connecting drag and drop electrical components, and the simulation itself.

How would you go about this? The existence of the sim means there’s already guaranteed to be some global manager that understands the current layout and can compute from it. What I don’t know is if that means most things should be handled that way.

Should components be heavy, and make their own changes to the tree, and then let manager read the tree in and build up its schema that way? Or should components be just emit everything to the manager, who then can both build the tree and a state representation.

The second feels cleaner for this use case, but it feels not standard for Godot. Maybe it’s a bad project to start with.

I did build a basic platformer too, and found the distributed logic much easier to deal with there.
What's happening to Boeing isn't really remarkable lots of dinosaur conglomerates rise and fall.

I'm just a casual follower but it seems their glory days are from the 60s and 70s and they've been coasting along since then.
Who has ever said that solar/wind or any other form of power is going to be 100 times cheaper than what we have now?
Matt Walsh is an idiot.
would that light be sufficient in the 1:30 minutes you have to make a difference, in between the cacophony of alerts and data feeds ?
Until it doesn't. On-demand streaming services anyone?
Maybe you identify your best and worst before, and after giving heads up you sit with the best and tell them they are safe?

Even give them reinforced contracts to make them at ease?
You are very kind Adam. This just made my day. Drop me an email -- would love to catch up.

Edit: I shared this story with three guys my year who were also in that class. You'll be happy to know:

1. They all remember you.

2. No one remembers the trash can.
It is not. I definitely use months-old bash history through !? shortcuts.
> no corporation ever feels that the option exists for them to squash a person's First Amendment rights

But the article states: "The employees in question were fired by eBay shortly after the incident."
In a large company, it's more likely for a manager to inherit an employee than to hire them. Often long after this six-month period.

At that point, the manager is just stuck with the net-negative employee.
There is a reason why layoffs always happen as a surprise and kept a secret. Now everyone thinks they might get laid off. The folks who are easily employable will switch. This might be the end of Pixar.
Doing that has a big chance of backfiring from a PR perspectives and I’d be surprised if a good lawyer couldn’t find an argument that the agreement did not extend to bad-faith claims or, depending on whether things like the WARN act apply, illegal acts. I would be surprised if they tried that because as soon as they sue, she’d be able to request a lot of information under discovery and the odds are pretty high that would reveal something which they’d like not to have public. Nuking a former employee with no assets is not worth the NLRB or similar getting interested.
I really wish Tuya would just sell products and provide a way to flash them, because under the hood the platform is quite sensible: serial controllers for core functions with a wifi daughter board.

So if you can chip swap them, and ESP can drop right in with ESPHome. If they'd just let us flash custom firmware without needing an exploit then you'd be able to run ESPhome without any fuss on the raw chips (the Bekan firmware is included in ESPhome now - it's great).

They're sitting on a pile of easy "family and friends" recommendations if they'd just drop the ecosystem aspiration.
Also, let's not forget - let's not forget, Dude - that keeping wildlife, an amphibious rodent, for uh, domestic, you know, within the city - that aint legal either.
Can you please elaborate? It works when the internet is down?
I saw this collection when it was installed. The guided voice tour is narrated by none other than Steve himself.

It was clear from how he spoke extemporaneously about the works that he's an educated and passionate art lover, not just a rich guy collecting paintings.
This is delightful, thank you.
This is how we do it in our framework, which we started in 2011 and have been using continuously and improving until now: https://qbix.com/platform/guide/tools

We define "tools" to add/remove behavior to/from existing elements. The tools are added by an HTML5-compliant microformat. For example:

<div class="Q_tool Q_columns_tool">
<form class="Q_tool Q_form_tool">
</form>
</div>

Tools can contain other tools, and you can specify them when you attach event handlers, for example, so the handlers get removed when the tool gets removed, e.g. when its container tool is removed:

event.set(handler, tool); // no need to remove it later

As a more complex example, here we have a chatroom, which has extensions like calling people and mentioning people:

<div class='Q_tool Streams_chat_tool
Streams_mentions_chat tool
Media_call_chat_tool
any_normal_classes_too'
data-streams-chat='{"
publisherId": "abcjwuqk",
"streamName": "..."
}'
data-media-call-chat='{
"livestream": {
"private": true,
"max": 3
}
}'
some-other-attributes="" >

elements may be empty or have some existing content

</div>

And we also support Handlebars helpers:

<ul>
{{#each list}}
<li>{{tool "Streams/chat" publisherId="abc" streamName="..."}}</li>
{{/each}}
</ul>

Finally, we can also activate them dynamically via Javascript:

Q.Tool.prepare(someElement, "Streams/chat", options);
or
div = Q.Tool.prepare('div', "Streams/chat", options);

Then we just call Q.activate(container) which traverses the container and activates all tools inside it. At any point in the console you can type Q.Tool.active and it will show you all active tools.

You can see it in action for example at https://intercoin.app

PS: I used to originally call it the "Q" Framework but because of people on HN constantly complaining that it was conflicting with the "excellent Q library for promises", I finally relented and called it "Qbix Platform"... now the Q library for promises is obsolete but we still call it Qbix... so maybe it's better for SEO though? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6053211
German here. I think what we now see is what local nerds always warned about: US Big Tech is strategically making us dependent on them and when they play the end-game, we're fu*ed.

Sure, they will disable the data collection and gladly obey the rules we put in the contracts (how do we know?). But they'll make sure that we're paying extra money for it. They're sucking away our now even more valuable tax money[0] and our idiotic leadership of panic throws more money into this black hole.

[0] A "Kleine Anfrage" in the German parliament to the Bundesregierung in December 2023 made it public (but mostly ignored) that the German Bundesregierung will pay 6bn EUR to Microsoft and Oracle in the upcoming years. Source (in German): https://www.zdf.de/nachrichten/politik/deutschland/it-open-s...
> and it became clear that the 737 MAX had some serious design problems that they had tried to fix in software.

It could be argued it was an appropriate design.

The critical error was in that 737 MAX has two angle of attack sensors that feed data into the cockpit; however, the MCAS software only used input from one of them. In the Lion air case the one considered sensor had been improperly calibrated after being flagged for maintenance by the crew.

The fix is fairly comprehensive. If an angle of attack disagree occurs between the two sensors the system is inhibited from activation.

> Why are airlines so eager to buy such a compromised model from a company that destroyed its reputation?

They don't see it as compromised. The purchase price was set based on the fact that airlines would _not_ need to retrain existing 737 pilots for the new model, that it was type equivalent.

With the software changes and with additional training there are cost implications but not necessarily safety considerations with the model.
I hated working in Britain with the BS months lying time and getting paid monthly. In the USA you get paid fortnightly or twice monthly and are paid for the period just past.
It is not just a chatroom when done correctly.

And yes, I've been in chatrooms for literally ages (since the early 90s,) and Discord is amazing technology. As an example, the ability for multiple people to share video at the same time seamlessly is unmatched.

From my POV - the joint experience, with friends, is the best combination of party line / group text / watch party / joint experience available on the planet.
To elaborate on some of the items others have mention, here are head counts for Pixar's most recent film, Elemental, based on the credits on IMDB:

1 director
3 writers
20 voice actors
5 producers
1 music composer
2 cinematographers
12 editing
5 casting
1 production designer
2 art directors
2 production managers
14 art department
42 sound department
85 visual effects
68 animation
46 music
1 continuity
77 additional crew

That's 387 people. These kinds of movies take years to produce (7 for Elemental), although not everyone works on them full time during the full length of production.
Associated blog entry: https://blog.regehr.org/archives/2148
The 20% savings is compared to a 737 NG. On longer flights it still uses more fuel than an A320 NEO. Scroll down to page 23.

https://www.aircraft-commerce.com/wp-content/uploads/aircraf...
Seems like if you do this over and over and over again under different brands - say on like a staggered Decade schedule - you optimize your profits, milking as much out of your market as possible while severely cutting cost and quality and competence.
> it’s best for everyone to end things quickly rather than hanging around

Definitely, but not by escorting people out of a building or sending an email and cutting their Slack access without notice... which is what we see all the time.

Just give the person at least a day to say their goodbyes?
Your ageist take is unfortunate and certainly an odd one. The last 30 years(around the same time of the last Concorde flight in 2003), we have witnessed an explosion in private jet travel by the wealthy and elite. Would that be "peak millenial", "peak-genX", "peakest Boomer"[1]? The Concorde sat between 92 and 128 passengers, four abreast. I'm not sure how that qualifies as "individualism." It was practically a sardine can. The Concorde also had very limited service and routes. It also wasn't allowed to fly supersonic over land.

[1] https://weareyard.com/insights/worst-celebrity-private-jet-c...
SWEs are overcompensated, and offering big companies a single lever (the leadership of a sector-wide labor union) to push against all of us would be only too handy for them; negotiations would have nowhere to go but down.
Tilt.dev. You’re welcome.
Apple being a less bad company must be some alternate reality.
Sounds like I'm going to need more PCIe lanes.
> When I’m traveling for work and need a car, it’s usually for smaller quick trips where I wouldn’t even need to refill a tank of gas. For these types of trips, a single charge on an EV makes sense.

That might make sense a lot of the time. But there's plenty of exceptions - for example winter time in cold climates can transform a single charge rental into several charges needed. Even with just a few short trips taken.
I agree that writing is going to become more important. I do not think it'll be done by AI. Good stories come from quality character development, empathy, and the ability to tell a story that captures the imagination. Having an incredibly animated story is less important than the story.

The story is everything and AI writing is just not there nor do I think it ever will be.
I don't buy the main thesis of the piece either (as it relates to Rock), though some points are good. But also not sure about your point:

> Linear radio was dead by 2000 no matter how the industry was regulated because linear programming sucks and people don't like it.

Sounds like you're are drawing a parallel to say Netflix vs. "appointment television". And yes on-demand is almost always better for TV.

But Radio? Not so sure... I listen to radio in the car or cleaning the house etc. Specifically when I want someone else to choose. If not, I'll cue a favorite album.

I still love Rock but it just got old and stuck, in the way Facebook got old. Long hair and shredding guitar solos is how we stuck it to the Man back in the day! What happens when it's now grandpa cranking Eruption? No longer the defiance it once epitomized.

Not to mention there's only so many ways to spin a four-piece band where every good riff is already copyrighted. The space has been completely explored over a 50+ year run. Glam to grunge, west coast soft rock to speed metal... add saxophone, synthesizers, or none of the above?

And the copyright problem has affected other genres. The top-40, electronica, or hip-hop I hear today is often devoid of melody or groove as well, leaving only atmospherics and chants. Probably also by design to avoid the cartel.

On the positive side I just saw Wolfie Van Halen last month at a downtown theater and it was packed and rockin'. Had a lot more fun than had it been at a large stadium like the old days.
And historically, grocery suppliers are not owned by the grocery store I go to, but it would be completely batshit insane for me to go to Kroger, buy a bag of potatoes, and then three weeks later get a separate bill from some potato farmer for it.
I'm raising my hand here. I'd have suggested that my wife quit her job to do childcare, but her job is much more interesting than mine and, with the way things are shaping up - software is "correcting" and "robotics" at an even sharper decline - I'll end up doing the kid stuff.

Not that I wouldn't adore spending time with my kids, but I'd have to deal with the ego death career-wise.
Are you talking about California based Pizza Huts? If so, they're replacing them with gig workers instead.
Haha don't want to sound like a freeloader, I definitely contribute!
Interesting, i didn't know this existed.
not to be confused with TreeJTV (Mac Miller): https://www.youtube.com/treejtv
Indeed. A slow, expensive, wasteful, and duplicitous database. Which is true of blockchains in general in nearly all cases.
I am the most loved coworker that ever walked the Earth. Because I don't micromanage people.
Best include the whole quote: >Some of these can be grounds for being denied insurance coverage in the event of a fire or other damage.

Honestly, I don't know and I haven't personally heard of anyone getting denied claims because of stupid things related to DIY repairs/modifications. I think this repeated wisdom comes from things that we read in HOA and rental agreements about DIY modifications.

I'll edit my comment with a [citation needed]. Thank you for the question :)

It does make me wonder: what if a fire caused by a DIY installation of a ebay gadget resulted in loss of life? If the aggrieved parties went to court, who would be held liable?

Here is another discussion: https://old.reddit.com/r/HomeImprovement/comments/7vwe23/doe...
The main source code for DSA is here

https://cvsweb.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb/src/usr.bin/ssh/ss...

You can see that the team did a big refactor of key handling about 14 months ago that required multiple rounds changes to the DSA code.

That's the sort of cost that legacy code brings - it's not about make changing to the DSA feature, it's about the cost of maintaining the DSA code when you make changes across the codebase.

In the original mail, DJM mentions that they'd like to explore a post-quantum signature algorithm. Adding that to the codebase is likely to require some broad changes to key management, and that will be less work if there are fewer supported key types.
> Then they launched their own ad tech service. It's obvious privacy was used as an excuse to make more money.

Is their ad technology invading user privacy like Meta or Google? I have come across nothing discussing this.
It's actually easier now then ever before. Buy smart bulbs for cheap off of temu. They all integrate with alexa or google home automagically.

I now never touch a light switch.

"Computer dim lights to 40%." I never bother touching a light switch. This guys set up is too complicated. The easy way to do it nowadays is to buy smart devices that integrate with the google or alexa echo system and you just talk to alexa or google to get it to do what you want.
> The UN is unfortunately not a credible source when it comes to this issue

This issue includes the second paragraph of the comment your replied to.
NLua: Bridge Between Lua and the .NET
This is how I see it as well. Many might have wanted to do it, but they didn't want to be the first. As soon as the big ones started doing, even just one or two, the floodgates opened and now everyone can blame it on "everyone else doing it", "it's the environment", "the economic reality", etc.
In europe they will not be able to charge egress at all starting next year i think. I wonder if that’s related development
Of course, even most free-market types don't belive this. After all, we collectively pay for things like national defense because it very obviously makes more economic sense than each individual trying to defend against a foreign adversary.

No, the "Each capable adult must be held accountable and responsible for themselves" is only trotted out against things a free-market ideologue doesn't like. It's a nonsense argument, and they know it.
What's wild is that all this happened even with the NSA conducting industrial espionage on Airbus on behalf of Boeing and M-D.
currently on penninsula it is significantly more expensive than that.

Foster City Odyssey Preschool for toddlers is $2100 for school day, plus $500 extended day until 6pm.

https://www.odysseypreschool.com/foster-city-admissions

Pennisula Jewish is $3125 for toddlers until 5:30pm

https://pjcc.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/PJCC-Preschool-R...
They did. They said it was for performance reasons and offered to book a longer, second call to talk about it.

Did you watch the video? She cuts them off several seconds into the call and doesn't let them even speak before she starts talking about her situation (hire date, no sales closed). They didn't even have a chance to say anything.

Once someone reaches this level of intensity (cutting people off, not allowing them to speak, cursing, making accusations before the other party has even spoken) it's better to slow down and reschedule a follow-up meeting after some time to cool off.

I know this is a difficult topic for HN, but this video is a good example of a TikTok performance designed to maximize engagement and outrage. I'm surprised to see TikTok outrage videos working their way into HN comments and that people are taking the situation as presented without stopping to listen to the facts.
Agreed. Once you open up the option for layoffs, it’s never going to be the same. The best way to do a layoff is to never have one
Fired for getting caught, not for what they did.
Depending on jurisdiction an employer might be obligated to announce a mass lay-off in advance. It gives more time for people to look for another job.
That is nuts. Queue up Space Balls: "MERCHANDISING!"

Well now though, I see a video game I never heard of "Dungeon Fighter Online". Here's one of the recent reviews from the Steam Store:

"I spent $45,000 on a relentless journey into the heart of darkness with Dungeon Fighter Online (DFO), a 2D beat-em-up game that has garnered both fervent enthusiasts and critical skeptics,..."

Holy Cow. I can't even.
> Because Apple is willing to play China's game.

They are forced to by their hardware business model. Almost every entry point to the Apple ecosystem is through hardware and nobody can meet QC and scale of Chinese factories. Too much of a risk to block China and risk supply chain disruptions.
Not if you have a SAHM or SAHF.
China spent ~15 years developing the C919, and it's finally entering
mass production. But it also appears to be sold out until the 2030s.

ahahahahahahahahahahah

no.

Since 2022 Comac has delivered a grand total of four C919s. The only non-Chinese airline to order any is owned by a rich Chinese guy. The rest are Chinese airlines that have been browbeaten into ordering some. Nobody outside of China is in any rush to order a Comac anything because:

1.) Comac hasn't gotten any non-Chinese certification

2.) Comac's support infrastructure is even weaker than Sukhoi and Bombardier (both of whom struggled to sell and support their aircraft that were actually certified in the west).
I don't think is socially acceptable in the West to mention the good parts of the other side of the Iron Curtain. You must always mention the Stasi.

Even though the Berlin wall came down 30 years ago, the End of History ethos remains.