skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Read that page again. The link you put in [1] also includes the link to the "New refund regulations" (which is what I linked). Reading the Introduction paragraph, it sounds like the page is from 2019 and has not been updated to reflect the new regulations; the newer one should be read and considered in addition.

I itemized all receipts and even had to provide USD/CAD/JPY conversion on every single one but funny enough the only thing which did get reimbursed, the stroller, was based on the current Amazon CA price for the similar model. In the section where you provide documentation you can provide a narrative, which I did along the lines of "I would request the maximum compensation based on my interpretation of X-Y-Z but be satisfied with the minimum reimbursement for itemized additional expense". Sure, the CAD$700 per passenger that the APPR mentions would be nice but the taxi ride seemed obvious? I figured it's one or the other because the point of reimbursement is to cover those extra things without putting the burden of receipts and claims on the customer.

I also noted that in the APPR it states "If the situation is within the airline's control (whether or not it's related to safety)" which led me to question what makes a safety issue in or not in the airline's control? I imagine this is common knowledge to those involved but again, would've found the judgement more credible if my question/claim had been addressed directly.

> I think you're overestimating how much the airline knew.

They submitted documentation showing that they were aware of the issue ~2hrs before our scheduled departure. From there, I think there are many reasonable steps they could have taken all of which are not pretend it's a catering issue while holding people in the airport for 6+ hours after scheduled departure and offering no assistance whatsoever.

I tend to approach these sorts of issues with very little expectation that my interpretation is right (even if it is reasonable), that I'm owed anything, or that other parties will do any more than uphold the minimum required of them. Still, it did not increase my confidence in CTA helping consumers when airlines somehow do not fulfill their own obligations.
1. Steven Koonin - professor at NYU, Under Secretary for Science at the U.S. Department of Energy in the Obama administration.

2. Michael Shellenberger - an author and journalist who writes about politics, the environment, climate change, and nuclear power. He is a co-founder of the Breakthrough Institute and the California Peace Coalition.

3. John Clauser - Nobel prize in Physics (2022) and Wolf prize in physics (2010) recipient.

4. Judith Curry - President of Climate Forecast Applications Network (CFAN) and former professor and Chair of the School of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences at the Georgia Tech.
Keep advocating for security, until it turns against you.

Insecurity is freedom.
Email is a wonderful thing for people whose role in life is to be on top of things. But not for me; my role is to be on the bottom of things.

-- Donald Knuth
This is great. Thank You.
yea indeed, but think ai music as a collective mind of human music creation, does that make you feel better?
Higher vacancies increase the utility of housing by reducing noise and crowding (quite a valuable quality for some), which counterintuitively may push back some against drops.
At most of the companies I've worked at, requests need to be submitted to a Ticketing system and we're told to remind people to submit a ticket if they didn't.

Looks like the author has a similar approach.
> The first example is why `UPDATE CASCADE` was implemented. So it's possible to use natural keys as identity without the fear of children table. At least in most databases it works.

This is only true in a system using a single database, not replicating data in external services, and not offering APIs.

And while it might work today when the service/website is still fairly small and self contained, the requirements might change at any time. So the title (You will [future] regret it) still applies to this solution
Your question raises the important point that communication involves constant negotiation of different attributes (time, medium of preference, tone, etc.). Those who are good at it will read the room, and sometimes make exceptions so they don't come across as draconian or out of touch.

Did somebody gently redirect you to email instead of Slack when you felt Slack was your medium of choice? You can always respond with, "Sorry, email doesn't work for me because [reasons], please reply here, thanks!"

Everything is a negotiation. Get good at negotiating and these issues become trivial.
Hell yea! What did you like most about it?

We're actually working right now on adding real videos and audio to the tutorials. Should ship in a few months.
> Housing prices are still set by supply and demand

If the government's allegations are true, in markets where RealPage landlords control most of the rental supply, prices are not set by supply demand due to market failure.

Given how expensive many cities make being a landlord, it makes sense there will be some where commercial landlords control most of the rental supply.
You've agreed to use Slack for communicating and organizing...everything?

I know that's probably what their marketing department would like to hear, but that sounds horrific unless you're doing something quite mundane.

Which...if you're reaching out with a request time-dense enough that someone asks it be forwarded to email...it sounds like you're not doing mundane stuff.

etc
System users often don't have a real home directory, but need somewhere to write files too.
Which consonant merger is that?
Discussion [0] (27 points, 5 comments) [1] (15 points)

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40446764
[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40455338
Yes, it's not applicable. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Entropy_(information_theory) for something more applicable.
In that case, using this natural datum as an ID is a contradiction, because we are now removing the uniqueness constraint. It's fine to model the real world, but the real world also includes your data, and you may want to identify unique _records_ as it is not a universal truth that data can be corrected on entry.
>There would be little reason to for humans or hobbits to commit violence

There's little, if any, reason for humans today to commit most of the violence they do, but they do it anyway. People don't usually commit violence for some understandable reason; they do it because they have psychological deficiencies. It's little different than a pitbull that randomly snaps and attacks a child in the family it's living with.

Clearly, based on Tolkein's depiction of them, hobbits are simply far superior to humans in this regard. And to be fair, the humans in Middle Earth don't seem to have so much of this problem as real-world humans either. Instead, I'd say the orcs sound pretty close to how many real-world humans today behave.
So why don't they use RealPage to jack up Atlanta rents to Los Angeles rent levels if they've cornered the market so much? They're leaving money on the table!
Yeah, have had to switch to home made sometimes because the SDK for instance didn't use connection pooling, and the server on their end was slow setting up new tcp connections.

Or that they have opaque logging in their own weird format and don't properly hook into a common log interface, so don't know what's going on inside the SDK. Which is bad if it's a big component of the app you're making.
People who buy property want to protect it and increase its value, so they have every incentive to vote for and support zoning and construction regulations. This is similar to immigration. People who immigrated earlier are the most vocal supporters of stricter immigration rules for future immigrants because they are afraid that a fresh influx of immigrants will reduce their competitiveness.
Millions died due to their rulers in the decades before the Communist Party, too.
Meanwhile, in places building enough apartments, rents are dropping:

https://www.redfin.com/news/redfin-rental-report-april-2024/
Of course, this heuristic fails for weak passwords.

And it fails for passphrases like 'correct battery horse staple', which have a large enough total entropy to be good passwords, but have a low entropy per character.
>without some hackery that made the system think third party apps were first party menu extras.

Good old MenuCracker
Exactly, and for engineers also a good way to display web development skills, I think even if it's not related it can still showcase variety in technical skills.
Well, that was fast! I’m glad it was disclosed
How do you 'buy' votes?

In most systems voting is secret and anonymous. So even if I wanted to sell my vote, the buyer can never be sure that I actually voted as promised.

Or do you mean 'buying' in the sense of politicians making promises to enact certain policies that specific voters like, if elected? If yes, that seems less like 'buying' and more like straight up democracy working as intended to me. (Even if you or me want to disagree with the outcomes.)
That helps part of it, but there are still places for problems to pop up.

- you need to do an adhoc query to look something up so you have to type in the key in a where clause

- Or you used different sanitation methods in two different databases and you need to join things now

- you try to join the table that had the sanitized email key to a different table that just so happens to have email but it wasn’t sanitized because it was an optional field and not the key
TikTok fixes zero-day bug used to hijack high-profile accounts
Let's say the grammar forces a JSON like this:

{"transaction_number": <number>}

Is this also problematic? My understanding is that the model is first forced to generate "transaction_number", which then hints to the model that it must generate the number of the transaction, not something else. I understand that maybe the model didn't want to start writing "transaction_number" without enforcing the grammar, but after being forced to, it has to only continue the generation.
Fixed https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/tiktok-fixes-... and previously https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40576054
interesting! can the similar measurement be applied to finding redundant code (like low entropy) with extra works?
> Just opt out of staying on top of email and similar things.

People who do that go to the bottom of my "would hire again" list. I like working with people who communicate in a timely manner. Nothing wrong with replying, "I' busy today, I'll get back to you after the weekend" if you want to get off the hamster wheel of replying in a timely manner without being a jerk.
Seems like BitLocker is highly compromised… too bad it was a good concept
I think it is more accessible than the mountains of literary analysis would lead you to believe. It's a fun read even if you didn't dig into every single line, it's short, and it's funny.

But popular fiction it ain't.
Sounds like RealPage makes it easy for landlords to identify market prices so they can charge as much as the market will bear. That's arguably scummy, but I don't see any evidence that RealPage is somehow affecting the market price itself.

The market price is as high as it is because we have a housing shortage. RealPage just helps landlords take advantage of an underserved market.
I transcend this problem by making all my database passwords 'abcd'
It's possible that rents would be dropping more if this platform were not used by landlords. That isn't to say it should be illegal or is unethical, just to say that the fact that rents are dropping doesn't mean this platform isn't having an effect everywhere it's used.
ZKP2P: Trustless EUR-Revolut to USDC swaps on Ethereum using cryptographic proof
If the resistor values are distributed as a Gaussian where the tolerance is some confidence interval, then the total resistance of resisters in series would be distributed as the sum of those Gaussians whose tolerance would be the root-sum-square of the individual tolerances: sqrt(tol1^2 + tol2^2 + ... tolN^2), or if all the tolerances are the same then sqrt(N)*tol.
Several things can be true at once.

The big problem is we've financialized housing, a basic human necessity. This is wealth extraction and, really, state violence. People buy into this model because they think they're building wealth. For the vast majority of people they own only their own home so they're not really growing wealth at all. After all, they can't just sell their house. They have to live somewhere.

And no, this isn't a supply issue. We have enough housing.

Second, landlords can form an effective cartel by all using the same tool that spits out the same numbers to all of them. If a company bought up 80-90% of the housing supply and jacked up the prices we'd all recognize the anticompetitive behavior. There's simply one level of indirection here. It's naive to think that cartel-like behavior is an unintended consequence.

But taking out this one player won't fix the underlying problem.
WWDC Boycott of Feedback Assistant
Piss off Trudeau. I’ll pay 10x as much as the tax to get a vpn and watch US tv
It was a little tricky because they do actually request that you provide all relevant information and then a narrative for how they relate to the claim. From my reading of the regulations, I should be eligible for EITHER a partial refund on each ticket due to the delay (CAD$700 each) OR reimbursement for itemized expenses. I reiterated in the narrative that I felt as though we were due one or the other depending on how CTA ruled on the original situation causing delay and Air Canada's handling of it (not providing adequate notification, etc.). I tried not to double dip, ended up (almost) empty.
If they're simultaneously jacking up LA rents, then ATL will never catch up!
This is honestly a really cool and unique concept that appears well-executed!

继续加油！
Just to add on to the CPR number. As mentioned it contains a birthdate and a gender identification as well as a checksum.

Since many refugees don’t know (or can’t prove) their birthdate, they are given first of January. And enough first of Januaries are handed out that for some years there aren’t enough valid numbers, so numbers that fail the checksum are handed out too.
> what really happens from a business perspective? Does FB/Zuck still retain ownership? Or are they forced to sell?

Taking Standard Oil as an example, the entity Zuckerberg retained control over would have to sell its stakes in the others, i.e. Zuckerberg wouldn't be allowe to own or control the others [1].

[1] https://billofrightsinstitute.org/essays/ida-m-tarbells-crus...
In the 90s … the federal government actually hosted child porn just to see who would download it
This was a very interesting read! I will try finding an algebraic proof of the addition function in my time.

The author mentions that this is frequently used in optimizing compilers and program analysis but does not elaborate on this statement. Can someone provide more context?
Security is often a cloak for anti-consumer measures for companies. For another example, Netflix and friends have adopted the “we noticed suspicious activity on your account” phraseology to dress up their password sharing crackdown as something consumers want.
> The US SSN is not guaranteed to be unique

The cases you listed do not mean SSNs are not unique, unless there are people who share the same SSN. You can still define a unique index for the SSN column. A column can be both nullable and unique as each null is different in SQL.
This is a pretty weak case.

If the FTC considered this material information, they should have asked to review it back then. If they requested it but Meta didn’t provide it, then it is an issue.

However, if the FTC didn’t consider it important at the time of the merger, it can’t go back and argue that something is valuable because the acquisitions turned out to be more valuable.

For example, if India and Brazil decide that WhatsApp needs to be able to see messages and break e2e, WA instantly becomes less valuable.

Or Snapchat could have eaten IG’s lunch.

Would FTC still have made the same argument?
I think it would be better upload it as the title of "Show GN: DPULSE - Domain Public Data Collection Service".
I think it's entirely possible that it does have a small effect. A percentage point or two.

And a percentage point or two across thousands of people renting adds up to real money they are helping to skim. I don't see any downside to going after them.

That said, no, one company is not to blame for soaring rental prices across the US. It's mostly supply and demand.
Precisely. And if I have a surrogate key to identify “a car”, I get to define what makes a car unique for my purposes. Maybe that really is the VIN. Maybe today it’s the VIN, but tomorrow it’s whatever vehicle is currently being driven by its owner. Maybe it’s something else.

Some day I may need to track multiple VINs for a vehicle (maybe it’s got parts from multiple VINs and I want to track that). I can still always decompose that table and have an n-to-1 relationship between cars and VINs without migrating the rest of my data model.
If they've cornered the market, they can just set all the rents in Atlanta to LA prices, no?
> why don't they use RealPage to jack up Atlanta rents to Los Angeles rent levels if they've cornered the market so much?

They'd make less money [1]. Demand for shelter is close to inelastic, but demand for shelter in Atlanta is not.

Consider the extreme: they mandate rents of $1mm a month. Assuming no government interference, they might land a couple tenants at that price. But the vast majority would balk, thereby leaving them with less profit.

[1] https://www.e-education.psu.edu/ebf200/node/247
What an insanely dumb take.
Housing isn't something you buy off of a shelf if it's worth the price. Living somewhere is a requirement. You must pay.
> unless there are people who share the same SSN

That happens all the time. First of all people steal SSN's and use them (and you are not the police, so it's not your responsibility to do anything about that). Second people make up fake SSN's because they don't want to give you their SSN.

People also make typo's, and you can end up with the same SSN.

An SSN is not unique in the real world.
Other good book series that put the book into the story, by one of my favorite authors, Gene Wolfe:

The Book of the New Sun

Soldier of the mist

In both, the author presents himself as a translator for a text he came across which was written by the main character of the story. In the first, the text came from the distant future. In the second, ancient Greece. They are both incredible.
EDIT - SSA claims that numbers are not recycled. But there are known cases where the same number has been assigned to multiple people.

Note that in less than 100 years, more than half of all possible SSNs have already been used…
That's very interesting food for thought, thanks!
That is what I thought, too. (There are probably more than one people working on it and some people want to do some of such things deliberately) At least some of the things might be deliberate (such as the working of the hidden service mode); others probably aren't.
I actually think the CPU and GPU meeting at the idea of SIMT would be very apropos. AVX-512/AVX10 has mask registers which work just like CUDA lanes in the sense of allowing lockstep iteration while masking off lanes where it “doesn’t happen” to preserve the illusion of thread individuality. With a mask register, an AVX lane is now a CUDA thread.

Obviously there are compromises in terms of bandwidth but it’s also a lot easier to mix into a broader program if you don’t have to send data across the bus, which also gives it other potential use-cases.

But, if you take the CUDA lane idea one step further and add Independent Thread Scheduling, you can also generalize the idea of these lanes having their own “independent” instruction pointer and flow, which means you’re free to reorder and speculate across the whole 1024b window, independently of your warp/execution width.

The optimization problem you solve is now to move all instruction pointers until they hit a threadfence, with the optimized/lowest-total-cost execution. And technically you may not know where that fence is specifically going to be! Things like self-modifying code etc are another headache not allowed gpgpu too - there certainly will be some idioms that don’t translate well, but I think that stuff is at least thankfully rare in AVX code.
Such regulation is rampant and as bad or worse in places like San Francisco and NYC where most are renters.
really divisionless random numbers
In microeconomic theory, it is still set by demand, except that they are capturing some of the rents, causing “dead weight loss” in the market as a whole (eg higher profits but less overall money changes hands). So there are still limits on the monopolistic behavior, but it is still bad for the buyer
So, you're saying that supply and demand are indeed real with housing.

You can realistically use something like this to maybe bump rents a bit, but you cannot use it to radically alter markets, because it is supply and demand that set market prices.
No, you haven't explained the contradiction, you just talk over it. Before E cores were a thing, HT was a decent approach to cheaply support more low utilization threads.
The only reason we live with Sql in 2024 is that the industry has stagnated. Not only the vendors: the users, too.

SQL was designed for a purpose it never fulfilled and never will: end user queries. The promise was that users would write their queries so IT staff would have to write reports. But the only users of SQL today are those same programmers, many resentfully or disdainfully. Every online database discussion is rife with misinformation or silly advice ("write SQL sentences"); rare is any discussion about the relational model or first order predicate logic.

And that brings us to the user-led stagnation, as it were. If more programmers using SQL understood the fundamentals, perhaps there would be some innovation. Instead we live through the constant reinvention and rediscovery of what SQL can do, and a perennial effort to make it "easier" with ORMs and such. Actual ease, using a better language, is never discussed.

The right language to express relational algebra IMO is Lisp. I don’t mean Lisp-over-SQL. I mean Lisp over data, where tables are fundamental Lisp objects, and modifying those objects updates the database. Lisp solves all of SQL’s deficiencies: verbosity, orthogonality, composability.

The would-be inventor of a better database query language faces a daunting problem, however: there is no free relational engine. No C library implementing relational algebra over a data store. So, not only does the language need invention, but the database engine itself needs to be engineered. Nothing has happened in this area since Berkeley DB, which is barely a start and has anyway been hijacked by Oracle.

The nearest thing to a free modular database framework isn’t very close. The original Berkeley Ingres DBMS is nominally free software. But it hasn’t been portable to, say, OpenBSD for decades, and the proprietary owners are understandably not motivated to make their product a toolbox for tinkerers.

So, it seems we’re doomed to another 50 years of SQL. We have met the enemy, and he is us.
But why is religion special in this regard? Why does religion necessarily operate at a level closer to philosophy but other things don't?
Once again Canada shows its true colours. I have not seen anything about that country which is in anyway exemplary. Mediocre down to its seams. Air Canada might be the worst of the lot. I had once flown in it's "business class" and it was like going in the lowest class of Etihad.

Also the airports are chaotic with luggage being misplaced and delayed almost every single time.
What's the best way to make money of all this LLM stuff before it implodes?