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Is someone trying to steal credit for inventing the eTicket?
The eTicket is what we use for flights today instead of physical, paper tickets printed on special paper.

My understanding of the lore is that it was invented by Southwest Airlines or a company they acquired. That's what I heard on a How I Built This podcast episode with the founder of JetBlue. It's also mentioned in this research paper here https://www.researchgate.net/figure/Historical-adoption-of-e-tickets-by-IATA-airlines-Data-sources-IATA-and-Peter-P_fig9_268425966

Strangely, when I was googling I found what I suspect to be planted misinformation in a Bangkok Post article where someone named Joel Goheen claims to have invented the eTicket on JRG Airlines (https://www.bangkokpost.com/life/social-and-lifestyle/388116/a-ticket-to-ride#).

JRG Airlines does not exist, and appear to be just the initials of Joel R Goheen. However, he appears on a U.S. Patent for eTicketing for 1994 the same time they started using eTickets. (https://patents.google.com/patent/US5724520A/en)

I think it's really strange. I did some googling of his name and eTicket and there appears to be what to me looks like a lot of planted answer on websites stating Joel R Goheen invented the eTicket but with weasel words and no proof to actually prove that.

On one hand, CNN and other major news sources and articles credit SouthWest with first using the eTickets. and JRG Airlines seems clearly fake or at least completely lost to history. But, this gentleman owns the patent. Could he be a patent troll?

I think there's more to this story. Does anyone have some insight?
Value production is needed, because the value we produce is fleeting and healthy societies grow.

How much value is needed is determined by the society through a free market.
It's still queen's day to me in the Netherlands. Women in respected positions is cooler than men anyway
Ignoring the technical and UX complexities the desire is somewhat obvious. Particularly for things like ::default().
I think that you have made the right decision.

One of the most common and high-impact failure mode is crashing when parsing a leap second that is represented as "23:59:60".

Jiff is able to parse leap seconds, and beyond that, I doubt that there are many scenarios where you care about leap seconds but not enough to use a library that supports them.
>When was the last time you saw someone showing their amazing workspace, the free food, the amentities and all that? A few years ago they were everywhere. Now? Nowhere.

I have all that but I work at a prop firm and they're VERY secretive and compliance would fire my ass if they found out
150% a troll, likely a parody of Woke Right by a Woke Left.

- Claims that are obviously wrong

- Brief survey of Apple TV shows this is 100% false (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41037962)

- repeated invocations of 'my feminist wife said its okay' (indicating Woke imprinting showing itself in a false flag)

- slowly hopping around subthreads, only moving on from one after generating 2+ more replies. took 30 minutes and 4 replies to name a specific show
Accurately identifying whether any change is a semantic difference involves solving the Halting Problem, right?
More specifically, the `function` keyword version of an anonymous function preserves the keyword `this` whilst the arrow syntax anonymous function does not. Arrow functions also cannot use the `yield` keyword nor be used as constructors

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Refe...
Everything about regulating Big Telecom. They didn’t want to run lines to people, drop long distance, increase broadband speed, etc. Each time, the behavior was countered by regulation or the threat of it.

Splitting MA Bell into the Baby Bells also helped for a while. Then, they started merging back together. Then, the oligopolies made service worse again.

If left on their own, they collude to do a minimum form of competition while cooperating on profitable ways to cheat customers. That’s called cartels. It’s as big a threat to the free market as governments.
They didn't innovate there! Safeguard Global and plenty of others were doing the same middlemanning for years before. Just because they interact with employment doesn't mean they're as important as the whole concept.
I wish that show had focused a bit more on technique/training and less on personality, but it was super entertaining regardless.
Right now, there is nothing to build around, though.

When you have an engine that consistently provides torque better and cheaper than humans or animals, you can literally build a factory around it. ML tools are currently something you occasionally try in case it gets you on track faster, but you need to have a fallback to rely on. There is nothing consistent about it.

At least yet.
I kind of like going to the office, but it was pretty depressing to work from a share office for a few days only to realize the work environment there is so much nicer because they actually need to compete on that…
The team I work on was created at the start of covid, as we didn't all meet in person for the first time until 2 years later too - it was really funny to learn that one person on the team was like, 6'4! Nobody knew!
> Maybe that Axios journalist isn't the smartest

You're both right. Real wages are down from the pandemic, but that's because they spiked massively due to the stimulus spending [1]. Real wages today are where they were in Q1 2020, which was the highest they had been since at least 1982.

Both the Axios and Journal charts are confusing because they're taking the first derivative of a complex curve.

[1] https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/LES1252881600Q
That indeed adds up. In old Sanskrit texts numbers are spelled out in words, units place first then the higher powers of tens. Arabs took the system but it had never occurred to me what caused the switch in endian order.
Yeah, I meant the house: it would be much in the majority's interest* to leave the position vacant through the election.

* I mean the way they seem to operate these days, where keeping the system running properly isn't considered important, and to a hardcore group is considered something to firmly oppose.
Maybe it's my subjective preferences, but honestly Apple TV+ kinda sucks content-wise. Also, the experience is subpar. It regularly forces you to relogin, but instead of just saying so, shows that you're logged in but all of the actual content looks like you're not logged in until you login again, and then you have to do 2-factor and re-acknowledge that all your info is correct and then go back to the apple tv+ site and login again. Maybe the experience is better if you're using apple products?
Or it means that despotism is a threat. I don’t see the inevitability.
Cards on the table: I think the vast majory of people would do less, and perhaps very little socially productive work without the current financial incentives.

> Would paying more to the people who now don't need to work, but are willing to, suffice?

This is not possible because you cant simultaneously pay workers more (as a whole) and have them subsidize the non-working.

I admit it may be possible to reallocate compensation among the workers so that some get more, while collectively they get less.
In my niche, platform engineering, grey-hairs is a positive indicator of competence.
Hi. I’m an artist. If you have a transparently idiotic startup idea and contacts with a lot of dumb money looking for unicorns to fund, drop me a line, I can use AI to create logos and promotional imagery for only a few thousand dollars up front and a small percentage of the VC investments you get.

The AI in question is Adobe Illustrator but if it gets us in front of more dumb money to say it’s the other AI then I do not care.
Yeah that's an unfortunate decision and that Sotomayor guy is a good writer, but the decision doesn't significantly affect people who live here and the dissent is not an accurate prediction of the impact. At the end of the day, congress has the power to impeach and elected law makers keep the president in check.

What do you think of the case that brought down Chevron deference? That should be a lot easier for you to analyze. Ie. "NOAA fucked around and found out"
> All the doom scenarios seem to rely on quasi-magical abilities springing from advanced intelligence

The amount of people who dismiss doom risk with some version of "I'm not smart enough to imagine what something far smarter than me might be capable of" is staggering. "I can't imagine how nanobots might work therefore they must be impossible."

>Then, suppose AI does somehow think itself into effecting human annihilation, what happens when all the humans are dead? At the current state of things, all electricity production on the planet goes dark in maybe two weeks. Nuke plants irradiate significant parts of the earth, chip fabs are bricked, metal production is toast. In short the AI necessarily dies too.

Smart enough to eradicate humanity but not smart enough to plan ahead to keep itself running. Ok buddy.

>The only way for this not to happen is AI controlled robots first gaining complete control of massive chunks of the economy. If AI is as useless as the article claims then that will effectively never happen.

"AI hasn't taken over large parts of the economy, therefore it never will." I really just can't even...
My favorite is 98.6F - your whole perspective changes when you realize that it's actually 37C.
With the recent "EGG" (e-graphs-good) library, canonicalization just becomes "member of the same equivalence class" which makes the problem a lot easier and less error prone to make a rewriting system based optimizer.
Yup, made it when I was just learning about ADHD while figuring out how many traits are applicable to me.

100+ pages in, I figured it's time to get myself assessed [1].

Went through the assessment three times with different doctors just to be sure; unsurprisingly, they all had the same conclusion.

Life has been so much simpler since then. Adderall is a great asset to have in the toolbox, but probably 90% of life quality improvement came from stopping to expect my brain to work the same way a neurotypical brain does, and adjusting my environment / lifestyle / habits / the way I do things to how my brain works, rather than the other way around.

That ranges from little things like having a pair of scissors at all desks and places where I use them (instead of perpetually looking for them) and trusting my partner's time estimates over my brain's — to bigger things like using body doubling[2] to get things done.

On that note, the online body doubling community ADHD Actually[3] has provided a very strong effect when I needed it the most (e.g. chugging through a less-exciting work project), and I can highly recommend it.

I'm paying for it even when I'm not using it just because this needs to exist.

It's made for and by people who understand our experience, and is based on time-proven techniques that all the therapists recommend for ADHD people.

Technically, one doesn't need an online platform for that; we've organized similar sessions with friends on Zoom... But in practice, the accountability aspect is much harder to maintain (...as well as getting people to show up consistently and at the same time as you).

ADHD Actually solves this problem; and paying a small fee also adds extra motivation to make use of the service and show up.

And the impartiality of people in the group is a big plus.

[1] https://romankogan.net/adhd#Diagnosis

[2] https://romankogan.net/adhd#Body%20Double

[3] https://adhdactually.com
I don't have polling data so this is just "personal vibes", but I get the impression that left-leaning people like me thought that the last debate was going to be more or less like the 2020 debates, where Trump ends up looking like a blabbering idiot and Biden comes off as reasonably snappy and charming, and that the election might be another shoe-in for Biden.

I think the statement of "Trump won the debate" largely boils down to the fact that nearly every left leaning person who watched it turned it off feeling like "holy fuck looks like we're getting another four years of Trump".

Having watched it, it's not like Trump got "better" in any regard, he's still a blabbering idiot (maybe even more than in 2020), but he didn't "disappoint" me like Biden did this last time.
In general the subtitle experience is so poor. Bad positioning over the screen, syncing with the audio, or just the complete mismatch between spoken and transcription.
If a miraculous new technology that helps individuals grok any conceivable topic has “no economic impact,” you should probably question how you measure of economic impact - perhaps even your very definition of the economy, the nature of human labor and collaboration. Fundamental changes at the base of the hierarchy will always escape the attention of high level managerial class, because the one thing they’re never taught to do is to consider the possibility that their inherited power structure may become irrelevant.
I don't have a local bus or train, what I provided were examples.

> Do you mean it could crash at any moment? Or it is usually full of unsavoury characters?

Both. Buses/trains should be secure places and properly maintained at all times.
Absolutely nothing you said about her is based on any facts or analysis in that article. Don't fall into incel behavior here with projections and unfounded assumptions spouting them off as fact. Do better.
>There is nothing consistent about it.

Apparently you haven't worked with many humans...
Your last paragraph paints a dual vision of the world that just isn't accurate.

There are the two you mentioned:
1- small businesses that go out of business after a few years
2- ...ones that become big chains

But you are forgetting #3, the one that actually makes up the largest proportion of businesses:
3- people that quietly, successfully, run their businesses in a sustainable, family and community oriented manner (not financial growth focused but personal growth focused) and then retire quietly surrounded by loved ones.
I must be missing something.

https://www.bls.gov/news.release/pdf/nlsoy.pdf ("young baby boomers" age 18-56, years 1978-2020)

https://www.bls.gov/news.release/pdf/nlsyth.pdf ("older millenials" age 18-36, years 1998-2021)

The "Chart 1" in both of those seems to be almost the same logarithm and the 18-56 "baby boomer" chart at age 36 appears to be roughly the same number of jobs. It might even be slightly higher in the baby boomer chart at age 36.
For general compute yes, that is correct. A good chunk of the work that we do is making sure that that HostOS plays nicely with Linux guests and vice-versa.
There's a famous trainer, Ryan Flaherty. He gets guys ready for the NFL combine.

He utilizes the hex-bar deadlift.

He has his football athletes complete the concentric phase (picking up from the ground) as fast as possible.

They just drop the weight when they reach full extension at the top.

He claims that the eccentric phase (lowering) is when all of the micro-muscle tears occur. These tears cause muscle growth.

By dropping the hex-bar deadlift weight at the top, instead of lowering, you get most of the strength gain, without the muscle size growth.

This is an effort to increase leg strength (for speed) without adding additional body weight.

Getting faster by getting stronger but staying lighter.
Historically that is what people did.

When tenure at a job was 20+ years, and a house could be paid off in 10 years, it made a ton of sense.

The fact that such an idea is absurd now is not because the idea itself is absurd, but because how we have structured our economy is absurd.

People shouldn't be wasting their lives commuting.

In older books they have kids and the dad coming back home to eat lunch together! Heck I have friends who grew up in countries where 20-30 years ago that was still the norm.
The instrument playground is really cool, though I’m not sure who the audience for that is
I think that used to be true in the early wave of e-bikes.

Today, I regularly see e-bikes and scooters easily keeping up with traffic that is moving upward of 50 km/h.

If there are still e-things on the market today with speed limitations not related to their power capacity, people must be easily working around those limits somehow, with firmware patches or secret codes or what have you.

Most of the stuff comes from China, which is an uncontrollable entity that doesn't care about regulations in North America and elsewhere.
I wonder how many zombie firms we’re going to see fall apart when there is a significant economic downturn turn. A lot of companies calling for RTO are gutting morale and filling their halls with many contributors that are only too eager to leave the moment they can.

Selectively filing your company with dispassionate, or desperate devs may not be a good long term plan
I've never worked for Microsoft so I'm speculating, but I doubt their org structure supports that. The Windows team isn't going to be the same as the EDR team.

The EDR team might have more info about Windows internals than CrowdStrike does, but then again, maybe not; CrowdStrike already has to work pretty closely with Microsoft to get into the kernel in the first place, and Microsoft is (sometimes) pretty careful about 'bundling' antitrust concerns.
>if you follow industry best practices for software deployment, this is already something that should be considered. This is a relatively solved problem -- this is not new.

You have to ask the customer if they're okay with that citing "our software might failed and brick your machine".

I'd like to see any Sales and Marketing folks say that ;)

> I think that question is being asked right now by every company using Crowdstrike — what vendors are actually doing proper release engineering and how fast can we switch to them so that this never happens to us again?

Uber valid question and this BSOD incident might be a turning point for customers to pay up more for their IT infrastructure.

It's like: previously Cybersecurity vendors are shy to ask customers to setup Canary systems because that's just "one-more-thing-to-do". After BSOD: customers will smarten up and do it without being asked and to the point where they would ask Vendors to _support_ that type of deployment (unless they continue to be cheap and lazy).
We don’t manage anything else than transactional messages at the moment.

Do you have a marketing use case ? If so I would be eager to understand your main pain points.
"Anything that good hackers would find interesting. That includes more than hacking and startups. If you had to reduce it to a sentence, the answer might be: anything that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity."
I once had to take a 4 hour trip to France to go on site to debug a customer's problem. As soon as I got there, my contact walked me into a meeting room, and promptly started a Teams meeting with a team in Paris. At no point was I allowed anywhere near their infrastructure: I had to dictate commands to one of the guys in the Teams call, who would then execute them.

I'm so glad I no longer have anything to do with those clowns.
Same with all media to be honest. Literature, videogames, music. There's been an uncountable number of masterworks over the past decades and you could fill a whole lifetime with incredible content. We're drowning in slop and we don't need the floodgates fully open for another decade to find the occasional nugget.
> CrowdStrike's CEO's Fortune Plunges $300M Amid Outage

Those are pennies for him.
Some people prefer not to live in a dense urban environment. It's cool when you're young and single. It sucks when you have a family.
I don't know if I'd say it dilutes the value of the content per-se. But more that when you add it all up, to see everything, you have to spend quiet a bit in stream services. By the time you pay for Hulu, Disney, Netflix, Paramount+, Peacock, Amazon's PrimeTV, and who knows how many other service. We ended up in a space where to have access to most content, its gotten almost just as expensive, if not more expensive, than having cable.
Show HN: Realtime AI-generated insights and answers for every meeting situation
I often found myself wishing I had better insights or responses during crucial moments in business meetings. Sure, I'd review meeting transcripts afterward and use LLMs to analyze them, but I kept thinking, "What if I could harness this power during the meeting itself?"

That's when the idea for Hedy (https://hedy.bot/) was born. I wanted to combine real-time meeting transcription with the analytical prowess of LLMs, creating an AI assistant that could provide instant, contextual insights. Hedy runs on your phone during your meetings and classes, offering real-time answers, thought-starters, and ways to position yourself as the brightest person in the room.

Now, I can fire up Hedy during a Zoom meeting and have it provide direction to work through complex situations, analyze what's been discussed so far, and suggest ways to build better relationships with other attendees.

But it's not just about making professionals sharper in meetings; it's about leveling the playing field for students with learning disabilities, non-native speakers in international settings, or anyone who's ever felt that sinking "I should know this" feeling mid-conversation.

From a development perspective, building the on-device Speech-to-Text engine was the biggest challenge. I wanted to keep all audio processing on-device for privacy purposes and to avoid cloud computing costs, allowing us to offer the app with unlimited meeting time for a fixed cost. In the end I was able to build an STT engine does performs very fast on iOS devices by taking advantage of the Metal architecture. The Android version is still in development.

Specs:

* LLM: Anthropic Claude 3.5 Sonnet
* STT: OpenAI Whisper
* Backend: Google Firebase
To me (not an audio person), it was pretty obvious that the headline meant editing voice recordings.
I heard AOC talk about this and it does make sense. There's just a lot to learn about how things actually get done and only so much time in the day. It's not as simple as "Write bill, pass bill, job done". You have to figure out who are the people who actually have power in an agency, what their priorities are, how to word the bills so they will actually achieve what you want, etc. There's a lot to it.

The podcast with AOC: https://99percentinvisible.org/episode/the-power-broker-04-r...
Related: https://www.openresearchlab.org/findings

Also https://www.businessinsider.com/sam-altman-basic-income-stud... (via https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41037226, but we merged the comments hither)
Crediting people becomes awkward when it's done by outsiders though.
IMO this is more of a distribution problem than an OS problem.

If MS did a better job at supporting headless Windows distros to compete with Debian (and similar linux) distros, it would be more popular.

For 9/ 10 tasks, it's way easier to spin up Debian , install a web / db / app server and have a running solution.

With windows you're still running through dozens of MSI packages, setup screens. It's too inconsistent.

There are workarounds to this, but they are not as mature & familiar as the corresponding linux setup.

It's the UX not the platform.
Doesn't seem like a realistic concern given the current state of economies and the need for human labor.

Why are people in society B concerned with the majority working if they are unnecessary?
Comments moved to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41033005, which was posted earlier
I saw a video about that which claimed that 4-legged running is in general faster than 2-legged running. The video concluded that it might be possible for humans to "run" faster with 4 limbs rather than 2 limbs, if trained properly. Btw they also mentioned the record in 100m 4-limb running is something over 15s.