skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
a per use toilet fee seems like an obvious way to boost profits
Why housing shortages cause homelessness
I wouldn't consign it to the graveyard that quickly.

It's a lot easier/more common for Google to kill internal projects and small acquisitions.

A $16B write-down is far less likely, especially when many Googlers internally realize how much a threat Microsoft is with GitHub + VS Code.
The wife saying that the threats to his life were "something about coverage?" sort of hammers this point home.
Catching a criminal is usually a much bigger story than not catching a criminal. And criminals that get caught are tautologically "dumb enough to get caught."

We're biased to believe that criminals are dumb because we only catch the dumb ones.
>I absolutely refuse to check in carry on because they have lost my bags or I have had to wait 2 hours for the bags to get on the carrousel.

I've never had this problem. But I've also never flown with Air Canada; is this a problem you've had with Air Canada specifically, or air travel in general?

I have read in recent years a lot of negative stuff about Air Canada from unhappy passengers. It sounds like it's even worse now than the worst American carriers.
People love to joke, but the reality is that people don't value the things that are being removed -- that's why they're being removed.

WestJet, their main competitor, did this ages ago. People weren't switching en masse despite roughly the same route network. Ergo, it didn't matter to people, so removing it was reasonable. This gave them the ability to lower the sticker price, and makes them more competitive.

Airlines have awful margins. Literally, awful. AA's net margin in 0.5%. AC's net margin is around 10%.

[edit] I'm super tall, and I love flying LCCs like RyanAir and EasyJet, because they charge virtually nothing to get on, and then a low, reasonable fee for an exit row. I pay for what I want, and they're super timely. Economy is economy. On the premium cabin side, sure, there's room to differentiate.
What really triggers me is that private healthcare operation costs are so high in the US. Ok, 5% operating margin. So for every 100 dollars paid to private insurance, you should expect what, 80 dollars to be paid for medical expenses ? It's less than 70.

Honestly I bought into the 'private sector is more efficient' quite a bit. In healthcare this simply isn't the case. In my country, depending on the year, for every 100€ the state give to our public insurance, between 88 and 93€ go to pay for medical expenses.
Good luck finding a website where people are not happy about this shooting in the comments.
Fungible cloud compute and storage: AI training on any cloud
Frontier Models are Capable of In-context Scheming [pdf]
As someone with optic nerve degeneration, if anyone who works here is looking for a CS person to help, let me know. I'll be watching this (pun intended) with great interest.
I would be happy to pay for carry-on if it meant guaranteed space.

On the other hand, checked bags should be free/at a discount.

I have not understood why the pricing was inverse.
I guarantee rebuilding your whole site in htmx was more effort than installing React 18 when it came out three years ago.
NYC votes to approve City of Yes upzoning plan
You mean the “… in the rat” part? Indeed that phrasing has fallen out of favor, though I didn’t notice it until reading this comment.

We still say x causes inflamation in the liver instead of in livers, but also causes y in unhealthy livers… wonder if there’s a valid grammar rule for these.
This wasn't a random employee, but the CEO of a health insurance company. The person directly responsible for the actions of a company that defrauded its customers. Let's not muddle the issue.
Was it? If that's the case, why do the majority of M4A voters say their support is conditioned on them retaining access their existing private insurance?
See comments in

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42321673

Re c-suite

And for a positive counter example think Louis V. Gerstner, Jr. (1993 - 2002) when ibm was in a jamb.
Or double type ‘-‘ and in many apps it’ll auto transform the two dashes to emdash. However, the method you’re describing is far more reliable, thanks!
I don't think so. Comments about PyTorch or llama are always extremely positive.
I’m actually kinda surprised. People will pay extra money for the “nice” option many times, even if it’s probably worse than the lower priced options.
I don't think this is really a problem, at least in the case of client->homeserver connections. The homeserver should not be trusting the client's sent timestamp. The homeserver should consider the message sent at the time it receives it, and the client should know this and update the sent timestamp displayed to the user when it is finally able to connect to the homeserver, and the homeserver acknowledges receipt of the message.

The bigger problem is how to handle homeserver<->homeserver comms. My initial feeling is that the homeserver where a destination room is hosted (let's call this one "A") should have the final say, and if there are people on another homeserver ("B") that have joined the room, and are chatting while there's a break in connectivity between the two homeservers, then A should just append all the messages from B to the end of the record (with correspondingly "later" timestamps) to the "official" record, when B is able to communicate with A again.

But this feels messy too; presumably all of those new messages (a conversation that may have been going on for tens of minutes or hours) would be smooshed in to have their timestamps all appear nearly at the same time? No, that's not great either.

Or perhaps B just shouldn't accept messages for that room while it can't communicate with A? That doesn't seem great either.
That's not all of the reason (some of it is higher cost of living, compare G20 vs G7 and the gap narrows a bunch). Some of the reason is because of US education costs, and immigration policies that make it harder for people to come and work in healthcare.
I guess this is the crux of it. The law does not hold anyone responsible for your death, and nobody is responsible for providing you life saving services.

These are the laws that your fellow citizens have chosen and established.
I don't know. My response was based on the other users response. I wasn't looking to sum up DEI or anything like that.
Wasn’t the topic scorn?
What if muscle tension is sometimes signal jamming?
You might not like it, but “we’re living in the worst aspects of capitalism” is an exaggeration for needing to pay to bring a bag on a form of travel that used to be a luxury only for the very wealthy, and has seen explosive growth and huge increases in accessibility to the broader population in the last 30 years.
> Meanwhile the assassin needs a name.. the Midtown Hilton Shooter? The 3D Killer?

Sickario.
Faux Friendship (2009)
Aer lingus started doing this and it’s… fine. It makes sense really, carrying a bag on is nicer than checking one. IIRC you can now check a carryon sized bag for free, which is useful if you have liquids, etc.
Because the US is a class based society.
What precisely is your point?

I'd rather have the Sackler family show up for a dinner than the Manson family, but if we're being honest, the former is responsible for several orders of magnitude more deaths than the latter.
Companies are people. People need to do stuff to justify their jobs. If they’re doing the same as everyone else, then it’s a safe change. Nobody thinks the changes are good for business, but they think they’re good for their own careers.
Hooks do a nice job of encapsulating the impurity. Not the only way to do it, but it’s pretty slick.
It’s true that, due to its volatility, Bitcoin is currently not a good store of value, at least in the short term. There’s an underlying truth, though, which is that Bitcoin is a potential store of value. In particular, it has all the necessary qualities of a monetary good, among them durability, divisibility, portability, verifiability, and above all scarcity.

Buying Bitcoin right now involves speculating that others will also see this potential, which is why it’s accurate to describe it for the moment as a speculative asset. The reason buying Bitcoin is a smart bet is that its monetary properties are so good that it has the potential to store a significant percentage of the world’s savings. Once that happens, its volatility will be much lower, so it will be a good store of value. And of course its purchasing power in current U.S. dollars will be much, much higher, which is why it’s a good idea to buy some now.
But that’s why we have Haskell, as a little holiday resort for type theorists to get their fix in while not affecting working programmers too much. Looks like they’re trying to escape again.
Oh, you mean what they did with GPT-4 to make o1 look better and then push everyone to anthropic?

Eh… probably everyone moving to anthropic.
How ironic, due to my Internet situation I was greeted with a "prove you are a human" prompt.
Rosa Parks also was a handpicked woman of unimpeachable character who deliberately chose to break the law that day. Various civil rights organizations had guaranteed her family that they would replace any income lost. Still a brave woman, but it was not a random decision on her part.

Fun fact along the same lines: Homer Plessy (of Plessy v. Ferguson) had one African-American great-grandparent. He was of mostly European descent and would have been unnoticed had he not declared to the conductor that he was “colored”. He was sponsored by the railroad, which wanted to save money by not having to have separate cars for “white” and “colored” passengers, as it was rare to have a full complement of each.
I don't agree. There's no technical reason why the different API endpoints can't return the same ordering. The current top comment here[0] is from someone who has implemented this (IMO) correctly in a different homeserver implementation.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42325737
> - help load and unload the checked luggage for extra loyalty points

I would legitimately want this; I have a big fear of my luggage going missing (so as much as possible, I try to do only carry-on if I can cram everything in), so being able to personally load the luggage in the plane I'm flying in would actually be extremely anxiety reducing for me.
I would actually take most of these for lower fare (except the last one)
> The problem is that the universal implementation is that the "no-frills" tickets end up being the same price as they were before when they included things like carry on bags while tickets that include such "luxuries" end up even more expensive, leaving every single passenger feeling ripped off.

Do you have any evidence for this or is it just vibes? Given that airlines have low profit margins and customers are extremely price sensitive it seems unlikely to be true.
They should work on something that connects people with similar interests and problems based on the chats. First 5 connections free. After that you pay.
Hrrm. That german standard is(or was) a bit ridiculous, because it's based on pre-WW2 tech. Meaning powered by a 'dynamo'(generator driven by friction from the wheel, usually side-running, sometimes integrated in the front-hub, sometimes pressed against the back-wheel). You don't have that, except for so called 'city-', or 'commuterbikes'. With e-bikes, or 'ped-elecs' it's different, but I don't need that shit, so don't care.

Anyways, if you wan't 'german' standards, search with german words, like 'Fahrradlicht' and 'Fahrradbeleuchtung' and maybe you'll find some fitting pieces, though they won't be cheap.

That standard btw. is 'StVZO' (https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stra%C3%9Fenverkehrs-Zulassung...) as applied to any bicycle above 11Kg weight.

Common brands offering stuff adhering to the StVZO or otherwise reasonable specs are:

https://axabikesecurity.com/product-category/lights-427/

https://www.bumm.de/en/

https://www.cateye.com/intl/

https://www.knog.com/

https://www.lupine.de/eng

https://sigma.bike/

https://supernova-lights.com/en

https://www.garmin.com/en-US/c/sports-fitness/cycling-bike-c...

Or try:

https://www.amazon.de/Radsport-Beleuchtung/b?node=235162011 and see what's there.

Or there:

https://www.bike-discount.de/en/bike/electronics/lights/

Or here:

https://www.bike24.com/Bike-Lights.html

Amongst countless others, but I'm lazy, and dilligently deny delving deeper to deliver your data. :p
Look at the biggest software tech stocks. They generate enormous amounts from exports. Same for pharma. Same for AMD, and most of their final product is manuf in Taiwan, Malaysia, and Korea. Made in X will most often be seen on clothing and cheap consumer goods. Those are low value products, produced in poorer countries. Even the iPhone is mostly assembled in China, but where do most of the profits land? With Apple.
A backpack can be; it depends on whether it's your only item and whether it's small enough to fit under the seat.
Economy is economy, sure, but “economy” hides the fact that it is the only option for the vast majority of travelers. Almost everyone here has the financial security to spring for comfort if they want it, but that is not true for the broader population.
So, private insurance companies ripping off patients is such an injustice that we are arguing that a literal murder could be (somewhat) justified - in HN of all places, where "it's the evil billionaires" was never a popular position - as if we are in total desperation and everything is on the table.

...when it is simply a consequence of America's system and the solution (public health insurance) is implemented in every other places.

Have we all got drunk on libertarianism until we would rather see CEOs murdered on the street than admitting maybe, sometimes, government managing its own citizens' welfare is an acceptable solution?
Seems to be related (although competing?) New funding could make whole-eye transplants a reality (11 points, 3 days ago, no comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42301313
A piece of this (after just plain greed and enshittification) is inflation.

Or perhaps some type of shrinkflation, just offering less services at the same price.
Genuinely curious to know. Nothing I’ve used comes close to Claude so far.
Unlimited — except you can’t use it to develop [business] models that compete
Oh and it's not the only one, there's also “Fighting Faults in Distributed Systems” [1] and several others from other students..! [2]

[1] https://decomposition.al/CSE138-2024-01/zines/zine-ali.pdf

[2] https://decomposition.al/blog/2019/06/29/my-students-made-zi...
Totally, so if cost is your primary driver, you would want the sticker price to be as low as possible right? Aren't those the people who are most willing to compromise on 'frills'? This gives them the opportunity to do that in a way bundled fares do not.
Work-life balance describes personal and situational priorities, a property of your needs and circumstances. It does not describe a property of a company.

Figure out what you need, specifically, to get to the work-life balance you want. With a child that may mean work from home, flexible schedule, good insurance, day care subsidies.

From my own experience as a parent working in the software field, I found that companies that employed many other parents in my age range helped. If no one else on your team has a family they may not sympathize with the demands on your time you face.
Curious, has anyone tried to use React without bundler like webpack, esbuild etc?
Whether or not the assassination is justified, I don't think it makes sense to call him a small cog. He's the leader of one of the largest health insurance companies in America.
I think you need to realize when it sort of hit a wall and go in yourself. This is why juniors with LLMs cannot replace a senior engineer.
An unmodified frontend will also function the same exact way until the heat death of the universe.
I love this. I fly a decent amount in Canada/USA on economy and almost every single time there is a massive line of gate humpers who haven't been called to board and are trying to get their oversized luggage into the overhead bins.

My greatest hope for airlines is someone starts a company focused on banning people. Bag too big for carry on? Banned. Wearing too much perfume? Banned. Got in line before your group was called. Guess what. Yeah. Banned.
And when CEO or presidents are allowed to snow the board via force of personality and (for lack of a better way to say it) good old boy mentality.

I've lived through it at multiple organizations.

It's the worst death for a company.
How’s it even possible to absolutely refuse to gate check a carry on? Whenever I’ve been told to do so it didn’t really seem like I had a choice.
It's just shrinkflation, except you can pay for the missing biscuits in the pack.
The real price of airline fare has been going down for decades, and aside from the Covid dip it is the lowest it has ever been.

In part thanks to changes like this
I almost never bring a carry on and it bothers me that I have to pay for it anyway on some airlines.
Newer planes do this, but broadly speaking airlines have no desire to give you overhead space. There's an established expectation that they can charge for checked bags, but anything they don't use can be sold as freight space for cargo. Air Canada does this and the money they make from it (~5% of revenue) accounts for a significant portion of their net margin.

Plus, the favorite pastime of Canadian airlines seems to be discovering how shoddy they can make their service before there are public riots.
Which is presumably why AC went "if they can do it, so can we, what are people going to do, complain?"

Because they can't. That's how lock-in works. Don't like it, fly someone else. Oh, you can't? Guess that makes this a "lol" then.
Using (from -> where -> select), how would you provide type hints on the where clause when your select includes non-table columns?

SELECT
COUNT(col_a) as count
WHERE
count > 0

Kysely uses (from -> select -> where), and allows joins and selects in multiple places, like (from -> join -> select -> join -> select -> where).
>UHG had $22B in profits last year

With revenue of $372B that is a profit margin of 5.9%. Which is frankly terrible.

I suppose ideally they would have 0% margin, but 5.9% is a shitty business to be in. The owners could just buy treasuries and get 4.5% with no work and no risk.
Not sure, but the price discrimination between “main cabin” and basic economy is fascinating. Literally any imposition that will make things better for people in the tiers above basic economy makes sense, even if it doesn’t directly save the airline money.
You know, the idea of so called coups, revolutions and so on is that they should be impossible to tie to foreign agencies, at least for the first couple of months. Ex. Iran-1953, Chile-1973, etc.
The problem with airline-level price differentiation is that it introduces too much congitive load that makes flying more stressful, so people will pay to alleviate the stress rather than get the features they want.
I am back to Cleveland from my vacation in Florida and this is the first time I refused to fly there, decided to spend 2 days driving with a night in Charlotte NC (didn't realize it is such a modern and vibrant city) instead. It ended up cheaper even taking into account a night in Sheraton than economy tickets + baggage for 3 people. Plus we got to see so much more, experience something else rather standing in line, insane charges for baggage, security etc.
Double check your home owner's coverage. Based on a conversation with my home insurer, when there is damage to my home, they will only pay out in cases where there I have clear evidence that damage was caused by a third party physically striking my property. Weather? No. Damage caused by incorrect installations? No. Damage caused by ground shaking from reckless construction next door? No. They would have to literally ram some piece of their equipment into my home for me to have grounds for a claim. In this situation, they're just a middle man for a lawyer taking up an easy civil case.
Right, it's effectively a spiritual port of our C# LINQ OrmLite library [1].

I've been using a lot of bun:sqlite [2] lately which has an amazing DX and lets you create lots of stand-alone .ts scripts (i.e. without deps) to access SQLite DB's. The only issue is that I didn't want all my SQL queries to be coupled to a single driver, so I created litdb to provide a RDBMS-agnostic API + Query Builders so all my queries could easily be run on different DBs.

TypeScript has an amazingly powerful type system which let me build the ideal abstraction I wanted where I could use expressive SQL Expressions but still have typed references to our App's classes (tables) / properties (columns) to benefit from static analysis/intelli-sense during development whilst making it safe to refactor / find references / etc.

Things that are hard/impossible in C# is easy in TypeScript, e.g. the QueryBuilders lets you have a variable number of generic args which isn't possible in C# also it was much easier to support composable queries [3] than trying to combine multiple LINQ queries with shared references.

[1] https://docs.servicestack.net/ormlite/

[2] https://bun.sh/docs/api/sqlite

[3] https://litdb.dev/#composable
You.com (search engine and LLM aggregator) has a team plan for $25/month.

https://you.com/plans
Are you suggesting that there's a correlation between what input formats provide best performance for an LLM input, and what sequence of tokens the same LLM outputs when prompted about what input formats provide best performance? Why would that be?
> mob rule lead to mass murder which left everyone worse off.

From your point of view was the "everyone left worse off" a short term thing, or did it eventually come good for most, or something else?
It actually doesn't matter. AI in it's current form is capable of extremely unpredictable actions so i won't trust it in situations that require traditional predictable algorithms.

The metrics here ensure that only AI that doesn't type "kill all humans" in the chat box is allowed to do such things. That's a silly metric and just ensures that the otherwise unpredictable AIs don't type bad stuff specifically into chatboxes. They'll still hit the wrong button from time to time in their current form but we'll at least ensure they don't type that they'll do that since that's the specific metric we're going for here.
Except when someone doesn't want to pay and you are trapped in an aluminum can with them for a few hours.
Don’t forget lavatories.

$5.99 per use or for $29.99 get the LavPass which gives unlimited use for 24 hours, or LavPass Max for $79.99 which allows unlimited use for one year.
Airlines need to make checking bags less awful and the problem of full bins goes away.

Why I don't ever check bags unless I'm travelling for more than two weeks:

TSA steals items from bags

TSA opens your bag and damages items

Airport staff steals items from bags

Whole bag gets lost

Whole bag gets stolen by airport staff

Waiting hours for bag to come out on the carousel

Bag gets sent to the wrong place

Bag doesn't make it on to the plane

They charge you for the privilege of all of the above
But that's not making the actual price lower. There are few situations where you don't need carry-on, so almost everyone will end up booking a "cheaper" flight, but then paying extra for carry-on.

In fact, obfuscation like that probably allows the airline to charge you more, because you don't get to see all the fees until you commit.
For funded startups, losing less can be a form of runway and capacity especially at the numbers they are spending.
Airline industry is Canada is hot garbage though. Just like telecom, it's over priced, and not competitive at all.
They should allow people with no carryon to board and deboard with priority.