skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Because people are incredibly entitled and want to have their cake and eat it too.

So you bought an iPhone knowing you can’t download apps and then go cry because you can’t download apps?

Then your argument is that well, all my friends have iPhones or there are some other good features, or whatever else you make up?

So you obviously find value in the product, it’s missing a feature, but you will consciously buy it anyway, it doesn’t make any sense.

Does the standard simply change when a company is big enough?

Imagine ordering a steak salad even though the restaurant doesn’t allow modifications to the ingredients, then throwing a temper tantrum when you get it because it has steak. It’s unbelievable.
In my experience, the cultural differences due to socioeconomics explains a reduced chance of having to tolerate rowdy children. Those children in first class will be better behaved on average, or the parents will be more likely to heed complaints.
True, though the situation isn't exactly equivalent.

Using another real estate analogy -

Imagine you bought a house from Fruit Builders company. The house came with a pool.

Now unlike every other pool in existence, this is a very special pool that just really cares about your privacy and security a lot.

It won't let you use any random pool toy (it has lasers), no it must be a well-behaved toy that is rigorously tested and officially notarized by Fruit company themselves (= non-employee contractors taking one look to make sure Fruit's cut is not being circumvented).

So you go to the supermarket, purchase a marked-up toy, the toy company reports its earning to Fruit, and Fruit takes their cut.

All for your safety of course.
https://www.timescolonist.com/business/airbnb-not-behind-can...

There were multiple studies from McGill and UBC on that subject, and I cite those numbers from memory. I read them back then and it's striking how low those numbers are.

One study with the online PDF https://cjur.uwinnipeg.ca/index.php/cjur/article/view/274/13...

page 123.

There were totally 73K active AirBNB listings in Toronto, Vancouver, Montreal areas combined between May 1, 2017 and April 30, 2018.

Dived that on total number of houses and apartments and you are in the sub percentage category.

Those are pre pandemic numbers, Airbnb has declined since then because of variety of factors like COVID, additional taxes and outright bans is most condo buildings.
Cryptographers, teach me how to shuffle cards
Shuffling cards is hard, some methods need skill or are to hard for children to do, others don't shuffle the cards well, sometimes the same cards easily stick together.

A solution I found is to shuffle cards by distributing them into 4 piles one by one, and then putting the piles on top of each other. It usually does the job of splitting cards that were together previously, and even a child can do the procedure producing a relatively well shuffled deck. But for some card games that doesn't work: like Skip-bo where the cards end up in sets of 12 making this method terrible. I tried adding some randomness by randomly picking the piles to place the cards into, but I don't feel like it is a good solution.

So, Cryptographers, use your hashing and encryption knowledge to come up with an algorithm that could be taught to a child, doesn't take more than 2 passes through the deck, but that best eliminates any kind of patterns out of cards.

As criteria I will set "being able to shuffle a deck of cards that is sorted or has a repeating pattern" while "requiring the minimal amount of logic and movements from the shuffler."

Maybe, I phrased my entire question badly, but I hope it can be understood.
You could have picked a better example to counter the OP. It was the ‘war machines’ of ‘death and misery’ that began and enabled a war of such scale, and it was attrition (specifically Russian attrition) of soldiers and arms that brought it to a close.
Given airport food court pricing you might be surprised. Plenty of people pay 3x the price for 1.8x the space.
Our options are not determined by what we want, but by what the ticket-buying population as a whole has demonstrated is its actual (as opposed to merely stated) preferences. The marketplace for travel is not perfect, but it has never been more efficient.
Also, gaming isn’t an issue anymore.

I think when I started using Linux 20 years ago, Wine was already one of the most impressive "feature" of my first Linux distro (SuSE 9.2 from a magazine btw) and I’m still impressed by this project. But Proton, that’s another beast.
yOUaREwRONG1!
Features lost across versions of macOS
Dating myself, but I flew TWA back in the day and we got a complete bag lunch with sandwich and a few other things, complimentary. It's been downhill since then, but maybe that extra cost is why they're not around anymore?
Technically, one bit less, which is insignificant for strong passwords.

And for weak passwords... Well, it's not like that one extra bit would have made a difference.
You can't tell, that's the point.

Not to mention the stories are usually wildly dramatised as if the persons involved are TV characters.

10 years and you didn't once think something was wrong with the computer? LOL
> The airline industry body declared that sandwiches had to be “cold… simple… unadorned… inexpensive”

Lol, it reminds be Robert Sheckley's "A Ticket To Tranai", where they were looking for innovative ideas how to make robots worse on purpose.
ChatGPT doesn't respect word count
How is scraping fish different from a million other services?
I’m excited for this - even if right now all I get is “There was an error processing your request.”
Being a net creator means foreign investors are less interested in investing inside your country than your own population is interested in investing outside of it. In many ways it’s advantageous, but also a sign something negative is going on.
Does the square footage take into account multiple floors? What's the source? It can be misleading, because you don't know the compute density of what's inside. Using just public data, power is a more accurate proxy. Until at least 5-6 years ago, Google was procuring more electricity than Amazon. Before that, it had a further advantage from lower PUE, but I bet the big names are all comparable on that front by now. Anyone that has worked at several of them can infer that FB is not the largest (but it's still huge).

As for the dollars, were they just in 2019 or cumulative? The Google ones seem low compared to numbers from earnings.
Boston's too expensive, so "alarming" number of young adults plan to leave
In the same way as a theorem that says "the sequence of prime numbers is infinite" can be finitely long, or a theorem that says "the square root of 2 is irrational" can be rational :-).

If the theorem just said "everything is incomplete", maybe that would be a problem, but that isn't what it says.

Goedel's (first) incompleteness theorem says: if you have a formal system with such-and-such properties, then there have to be statements it can neither prove nor disprove. The theorem itself isn't a formal system with such-and-such properties. It isn't talking about itself. (Amusing though it would be if it were, since one of the neat things about Goedel's proof is the way it gets mathematical statements to kinda-sorta talk about themselves.)
First class is always full. If you have status with the airlines you can get free upgrades to first class now. So they start releasing upgrades like 3 days ahead of time for the best statusholders. Then 2 days before they release upgrades for the middle tiers, and same-day or day before is the lower tiers. They basically try to shift everyone up a tier in the flight and the extra coach seats that those people left behind will get filled with the basic-economy fliers, which is why they don't let them reserve seats: they just use them to fill in the gaps on the flight.

You are more likely to have an empty seat next to you in the back of the plane than in the first class.
Yes ("premium"), between Chevrolet and Cadillac.
I’m bothered too. I’m looking forward to the first viral app distributed in an alternate App Store with a zero day that can infect iPhones that do not have that app or store installed. I bet Apple will be blamed somehow.

There’s a correlated relationship between open platforms and security but people in this thread seem to imply this has zero security implications.
This is honestly pretty great. It's the official scalable version of those browser add-ons that let you recursively block people, block twitter blue users, block anyone who's posted in x subreddit, masstagger. Big fan of making programmable blocklists a first-class feature.

I don't think it's going to save them from https://www.techdirt.com/2022/11/02/hey-elon-let-me-help-you... this kind of drama but it's nonetheless welcome. It will be interesting to see how people react to ending up on a popular 3rd party blocklist.
Non-toxic!
> Shareholders deserve to know project spending and efficiency

One, shareholding is a bad analogy for democracy.

Two, shareholders—and voters in a republic—delegate responsibility, including the responsibility to protect secrets. Our spooks would kill for China or Russia’s air force service records, and for good reason: it lets you exploit patterns and limitations.
Just came here to say, please don't do this to your users, or your business.

Also, can someone please tell me that Facebook doesn't really do this?
> Interesting and significant software is beyond the capacity of any one person to build alone in a reasonable time frame.

I disagree with that. VisiCalc, MacPaint, and many modern “significant” apps started out as 1 person projects. I agree collaboration and communication are vital skills but you don’t need to make this grandiose statement to defend that.
Do all the other illustrated books endorse the practice?
That's been happening long before the "AI trend" but it was still using what people call AI now. It's just called sabotaged search. Every big tech company does it as it improves profits.
What a false equivalency.

No, you can’t avoid capitalism, you’re born in the country your born and you don’t have that choice.

This is more like moving to a capitalist country and then complaining that you live in a capitalist country.
I’m talking in the last decade. I was closely involved with Manhattan electoral politics 2014 to 2021. It’s not a coïncidence that the outer boroughs elected an ex cop.
I believe it's Kurtis with a "K".
The journey of a thousand miles starts with a single step. Hopefully this eventually relegates the private tax prep industry to history.
I love the collective pant shitting in this thread.
Mapping as in.. drawing the outlines of buildings and computing the square footage yourself?
Ruby on RAG
Structured information presentation within embodied in vitro neuronal networks
That reads like a puff piece. There should be a list of correct predictions at the very beginning
I too got my start in 1984, when Santa brought me a Commodore 64. I'm not good at remembering things like anniversaries, so I'm glad not only to read this essay, but to be reminded of the occasion.
> as a foreigner

Sorry, which country am I supposedly foreign to?
The hardest thing in programming is not the programming itself.
A user can only have one password. How does entropy come into play ?
I think it is a tooling issue. It is in no way obvious how use LLM's effectively, especially for really good writing results. Tweaking and tinkering can be time consuming indeed, but i use lately the chatgpt-shell [1] and it lends well to an iterative approach. One needs to cycle through some styles first, and then decide how to most effectively prompt for better results.

[1]https://github.com/xenodium/chatgpt-shell/blob/bf2d12ed2ed60...
Of all the examples you could've brought up and you thought a person's right to control their body is a stretch? Try "qualified immunity" if you want an example of justices reasoning with their bare ass showing.
Whoa, let's not all freak out here (for this post and sibling posts). While I don't think I would personally do this, it only removes 1 bit of entropy because the case is swapped, and it only does that when checking the password. This does not imply they uppercase/lowercase the password prior to hashing at all, nor that foobar123 will work when the hashed password is FooBar123. Rather that fOObAR123 can be transformed by swapping case to FooBar123 and then checked against the hash.

Don't forget that the shift key makes things lowercase when Caps Lock is turned on.
The average/majority of the population were not going to navigate to shitty mobile websites or desktop websites on their mobile browser to download apps in 2008. If the app store was such a bad place to put apps then why did they boom? Why do people use the Android play store at all if they can sideload, if the need to do so is so highly valued.

I do think people forget that when the iPhone app store was released it was a game changer. The whole idea of a single place to download all apps and games was huge for most people including developers. It meant that everything was there, in the one place and managed through that one app.

Now a decade has passed and we're asking for change. That's fine, but we can't forget that when the app store first came out there wasn't this hysteria around the need to sideload. The app store as a place for developers to publish their apps was huge, Apple did the publishing for you. How that we all have more choice, we're expecting Apple to change to provide more choice.

But we can't forget how beneficial the app store and the "walled" approach was.

Now there could be an aspect of predatory behavior by Apple in the way they charge developers etc, but that's where I feel the problem should be tackled.
Wow! This is so cool! Scrolling, scrolling, and it makes you feel how vast the universe really is and how desperate we must be on the way to reach even our neighbouring stars. Our human life is truly a speck of dust; to think otherwise is simply absurd. Yet here we are, proud and busy with ourselves.

Will we ever invent faster-than-light travel? Without it, exploration of the galaxy is impossible.

The scrolling and zooming is so cool. How did you build the project?
No...they literally have the password you just entered. In plain text. They can change the case of that and compare against the DB hash twice. The entropy for someone trying to brute force the hashes directly is identical.
I'm sorry to hear
Autarkies are impoverished, societies that trade freely are wealthy. Your economic
impulses are deeply misguided. If everyone only bought local the world would be much poorer. It’s better (consumer choice, comparative advantage) to buy from the world and to let the world buy from you. The money doesn’t disappear when you spend it outside your locality, it flows both ways.
Anecdotal story/take: The Aegean Airlines (Europe) business seat has much, much better food in a 20-minute flight than the comparable business 5-7-hour flight in the U.S. (And for a lower price, but I'm not sure that is important to the point.)

But the article does take a weird take. Also not sure how collusion is claimed here. I guess CAB counts as a forcing mechanism, but I am not sure one can argue collusion when it is the result of regulation. Was the regulation in bad faith?
Imagine there are only two restaurants in the world and they both only serve steak, yet when you want a salad people say go to the other restaurant.
It's not a retinal phenomenon, it's a cortical spreading depression passing over your visual cortex. The fact that the aura moves through visual space in a regular fashion in one piece implies that the neurons in the visual cortex are spatially arranged in way that maps more or less 1:1 with the visual field. Which I guess isn't that surprising when I think about it, but doesn't seem inevitable.
All this compute and my Instagram Reels feed still isn't as good as my TikTok feed
No. I do fine when I end up in a rental ICE. In my EV, I still use the brake when I need more stopping. If I zone out and forget I don't have regen, at some point, I'll notice I'm not slowing enough, and hit the brake, just like I would normally.
> Apple does not even enter the picture.

Not exactly true, there are fragments of Apple intellectual property distributed with compiled binaries.
> scammy ads plastered everywhere is what I'd expect from Google products

This won’t fit with the manufactured popular understanding, but at the current time, Google protects you from fraud and scam better than anyone.

I have been unfortunate enough to be scammed recently from a bing search result (ad). (It was a new computer and I decided to use Edge and bing was the default search).

Apple, Microsoft etc. are rookies in this game. Google just has the benefit of experience and hence is much safer now than anyone can ever become in the near future. Because of this, scammers are much more likely to target other platforms… which happen to be Apple, Bing, Facebook etc.
OK, but governments operates computers, too, and don't want other governments to be able to break into those computers, so do they just not spend a lot on making it hard for the attackers from foreign governments or is defense different from offense here in that a government's inability (the US gov at least) to pay sky-high salaries does limit its ability to create and maintain good defenses?
I'm interested in this too. IMO there's actually a huge benefit to being able to concisely represent 3D / 4D data (i.e. xarrays, slices, datasets) in an easily digestible text format. Mainly thinking about this approach over e.g. the netCDF format or deeply nested JSON.
Thanks, I'm glad I wasn't the only one thinking this.

Airline food used to be AWFUL. Like you would honestly not even bother unless you were on a very long flight and needed it. My experience is that the last 10 years or so, most airlines have decent food. It is nothing to get excited about or to look forward to, but compared to how bad it used to be it is now quite good. I would rate a lot of the food I've had on flights as fair to average. Compare that to "i'll only eat it if this flight spans two mealtimes" of the 80s-90s and here we are.

Singapore Airlines is actually quite good (even in coach). ANA is also good. If you fly on a US Carrier, just know its all the same provider regardless of airline. Their food is meh: perfectly edible, but not good. Pasta dishes usually reheat quite well, so that's often the safe bet when choosing a meal option.

Trust us guys. If you think food now is bad... you don't know what they COULD be serving you.
What does it mean exactly to be an amateur at "submarine engineering"? It certainly doesn't mean you know how to build a submarine.
No, you don't ignore the case, you swap it and try again. This could be implemented as a browser extension:

- User types pA$$WORD1 and clicks Sign In

- Frontend sends that to the server

- Server responds "incorrect"

- Frontend tries again with Pa$$word1

- Server responds "correct" and user is logged in
To a librarian, Computer Science and Library Science are just different aspects of information systems, which are (a librarian need hardly tell HN) humanity's highest calling, thus justifying their shared Dewey classification of 0.
tried to get in touch with the email on your website but got a bounce-back about mailboxes not existing. any way I can get in touch?
Over 40 years and I never got sick of it. I am leaning new things every day.

I strongly disagree with: "Simple, obvious code is easier to write, easier to get to work .."

It takes real skill, time and effort to write simple code in any production setting. I am not talking about some 100 line algorithm some leet guy once wrote, but code that's been in production for years. It's only the simple code that survives.
Extremely fair imo
That’s nothing, suspend works 100% of the time when you close the lid if you clicked on Power off before closing.

Ah, the joy of opening the lid the next day to see it waking up on the logout screen, then power off then you discover the battery is empty. Such a hard issue for a 3 decades OS and a quarter of a century on laptops.

Even Linux never ever did that, and I can remember that sleeping haven’t always been a given under Linux.
Neat, I built one language when I was 12 or so, it was a ripoff of basic (and it was written in basic).

Parsing was hard, so commands were a single letter. The cool thing about it was that it supported windows and multi tasking (but no synchronization primitives).

It was rough and incomplete, but I always remember the moment I realized I could run one statement of each task to run more than one at the same time. I can still picture the first time I run two programs side by side in two windows.

Literature and information was scarce when I was a kid, so it was a true discovery (all my programming resources were basically the C64 manual). I could never get my hands on any lower level programming resources, many things I just found out by literally POKE-ing around the memory of the C64.

I still have a tape with the last version of it lying around somewhere, I called it LSP (Lenguaje Simplificado de Programación), not sure if it's still readable though.
Yeah, but that's a A380.. Normal airplanes, especially basic two row jets, doesn't have the same kitchen space.
This is a really cool idea. I love the "Spider Shield" example they came up with. I look forward to this being used for all kinds of moderation-adjacent things like spoilers, and topics you don't care to read about for the time being.
I've been listening to Blowback which is a podcast about USA's intervention in countries/wars they have whole seasons on Korea, Cuba, Irak, etc. it's pretty informative and can be sorta funny sometimes.

My only issue is that I wish it was less US-centric, I know it's the whole point it's just that I'm not from the USA and I wish I could find more like this for other countries.
Regex is easier to write than read so it seems not the best use of AI given you actually verify what it gives you and don't just take it on faith :/
Ice can do that too. And engine failure.
Pentagon said to end plan for $2.5B Intel grant
Why Adopting GenAI Is So Difficult
Can't do that: the pilot can't be allowed to control, or even know about MCAS, because that would affect Boeing's ability to claim the plane is "just another" 737 and that the pilots don't need retraining. Giving the pilot the ability to control MCAS means the pilots all need retraining.
What’s the practical advantage?

It’s easy enough to flip an x86 into 64 bit mode at boot. Surely, slowing down emulation of 32-bit operating systems isn’t a win (and neither is forcing pointer heavy code to ~double its heap size in the rare cases where that matters).

I guess it’ll save some transistors, but those are pretty much free these days.
Hopefully, this leads to a future where ios is a similar platform to Mac OS or Windows. Both are general computing operating systems where you have access to an app store as well as the ability to download arbitrary software from the web.
They're called auras (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aura_(symptom)). An aura without a migraine is called a silent migraine.

I have a couple silent migraines a year. When I was a teenager, an aura was followed by migraine headache and nausea which could last hours. These days, an aura lasts ~30 minutes and is annoying but no big deal. It ends when the visual disturbance leaves my field of vision (which I find quite interesting) and afterwards my head feels a little sore.
I like how in this scenario people are happy to quote particular areas of law or DMA to excuse opening up consoles. But when Apple do it people just simply want more freedom regardless of what the law says, which isn't that what would be the case with consoles too?
Only if there is perfect information for everyone, which never happens.
This is a great metaphor because if we accept it then the salad is the web, yet no one wants that.