skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> If the total ticket price goes up, it's called “gouging”.

Or just rising with inflation. Or the business deciding to raise prices for their own internal reasons.

Do you consider it “gouging” every time a business decides to raise prices? What’s your definition of “gouging”, exactly?
Agents still need a fair bit of human input and design and tweaking.
It's Air Canada specifically. As a Canadian, I avoid them at all costs. Actually, I just avoid flying within Canada as much as possible (and especially avoid any transit through Toronto Pearson). I fly to and from Europe regularly (4x or so per year) and to the US now and then to visit family, and there's no hell like dealing with Air Canada or Canadian airports.
Thank god LLMs' training sets didn't contain any examples of lying.
They all do it, just in different amounts.
The majority of airlines operating in Europe and the majority of flights taken are on low cost carriers where this is the norm. It’s not just RyanAir there’s dozens of them.
> but the amount of detail on sytse's cancer makes it seem otherwise. I'd noticed he wasn't as often active in Gitlab related threads, and I guess that explains that too. Hope the recovery continues to go well.

OP got to that.
I might be splitting hairs here, but they say $85M in profit, not revenue, so presumably that would be margin on top of whatever they paid people to do nothing, and the fine is a portion of revenue that otherwise wouldn't have gone to them, of which $85M was profit.

Otherwise though, McKinsey was awarded $209M in federal gov contracts in Canada over 12 years, so the numbers themselves don't seem relatively outrageous in terms of what McKinsey makes news for.
> The loudest opinions surface. I wouldn’t take lack of public sympathy to mean that the average American condones this type of behavior.

I'm not sure I agree with you there. The indifference in some quarters, celebration in others, across either side of the political divide insofar as I've seen, leads me to believe that in some cases, the well of sympathy is running dry – or, worse, has run dry.
> Given that airlines have low profit margins

Low profit margins but companies like United can pay their CEO ~20MM?
Looking into running models locally, maybe a 405B parameter model sounds like the place to start.

Once understood you could practice with a private hosted llm (run your own model) to tweak and get it dialled in per hour, and then make the leap.
I think this is great, but I doubt it will cure all blindness, but maybe most.

For example, blindness due to glaucoma. From what I understand that is caused by damage to the optic nerve. Maybe fixing the optic nerve is part of it(?).
And having cheaper economy means it is accessible to more travelers.

For some reason people think you can just force companies to offer things at a loss. Requiring all these things you want as mandatory in economy doesn't mean that people with less money will be able to get them. It just means that there will be no airplane tickets they can afford at all.
You understand hyperbole, yes? It's a throwaway comment on a silly article about Pavlovian self-conditioning using an Internet-connected dog feeder.
By that logic beginners can never get into programming (or really any other field) because there's some complexity on the deep end.
Just basic inflation over time will make it feel true even if the increase is inflation and not "corporate greed"
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Is that why people crowd the gate three boarding groups too soon? It's super annoying. I don't want to cut people in line, but it's hard to tell whose turn it is when everyone is crushed up at the front.
> I would say: don’t do these things?

That becomes a much fuzzier question in the context of Turing complete collections of tools and/or generative tools.
How much damage could he do if no one worked for him?

Yeah, the leader is worse than the rank and file, but they're just enabling him.

Do you think we shouldn't have killed rank and file Nazis when they were implementing hitler's plans?
So what? Are airlines obligated to provide more luxurious service to people than they’re able to pay for? Why exactly? If you think traveling with a carry-on bag is some kind of human right surely the state should be paying for it, not a private business.
Django is really thought out and polished in terms of devx.

Take ORM for example. You write a model and you get out of the box:

- migrations to create the model and to apply schema changes;
- form validation for crud;
- admin with permissions to edit it;
- helpers to get model by id or throw 404.

Phoenix kinda is in the same market, but you write your migrations yourself, admin panel is a package somebody slapped on top, etc.

It’s not that Phoenix isn’t usable, but getting on that level takes time and effort
This press release makes a big deal out of them counting "more than 50% of the Fortune 100" as customers, which goes a long way towards explaining their decline in favor among devs. They're not interested in your sale any more, they're only interested in large enterprises, and are apparently doing very well in that market.
> Switch to single payer, dump the middlemen, and have our taxes pay for essential services (keeping us alive and healthy). Seems simple enough but…

... But you still have group A (patients) paying group B (doctors) with group C's (taxpayers', or currently insurers'/policyholders') money.
> I'm also happy to see systems like this that run without exotic water cooling and 240V power.

Always funny to see 240V power described as exotic (or at least exotic-adjacent). It's the standard across practically the entire world except North and Central America!
Drone + gun + trigger widget?
They will usually start offering to gate check some time before mandating it.
typescript people want types on everything cuz it feels good that way.
BiOhAcKing as advanced as a paper sticker!
Depends on the specific dark chocolate. Yeah, Hershey's dark chocolate is mostly sugar. But a lot of people prefer dark chocolates with much higher cacao ratios.

85% dark chocolate has something like 3-4g sugar per serving. That’s less than what’s in a typical slice of bread in the US. Which may say more about the bread than about the chocolate — but the point is that you’re probably getting more sugar in your “healthy” lunch sandwich than in the morsel of dark chocolate you have for dessert afterwards.

(P.S. the chocolate also has more fiber than the bread!)
o1 seems to have some crazy context length / awareness going on compared to current 3.5 Sonnet from playing around it just now. I'm not having to 'remind' it of initial requirements etc nearly as much.
The entire health care system is broken but insurance companies tend to be the pain people experience so that's what people lash out at.

But you don't expect someone dying from losing health care to shut up until they come up with rational cost management system? The point isn't that the average person needs to how to portion blame but that the health care system needs to stop treating people in the fashion it does.
Caves of Qud has hit Version 1.0 – Live and Drink
GitLab Premium already integrates with HashiCorp Vault [1]

GitLab supports storing the Terraform state and includes Terraform templates however they are moving to OpenTofu in 18.x [2]

1. https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/ci/secrets/hashicorp_vault.html
2. https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/update/deprecations.html
Ryanair proposed removing the seats to have a standing room area. Seriously. Definitely beverages can be removed. An inch or two more leg room could be trimmed. The 10th percentile femur length still can cram in to the seats as it is now, might as well make it 25th percentile.
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Some insurers yes (and even then it takes several tries), but at least one has said outright no.
Yeah, sounds good to me
OSDev Wiki for practical knowledge, operating system design and computer architecture books for the theory.
South Bay, but Adobe from what I've heard.
I think that view is overly generous. On flights where free check in luggage is offered there’s plenty of room for carry ons in the cabin, so a good amount of people clearly opt for check in when it is free. When they started charging for check in is when it became the norm that people where then pushed to gate check their carry ons for free once space was getting full. People were shifting their behavior to avoid the fee. The result, not surprisingly, is that fee avoidance is too common so the airlines make it more difficult to do so.

It is, of course, a “hidden” price hike with the advantage that your flight remains ranked higher when sorting by price.
This seems like the kind of thing that laws and regulators exist for.
Been looking for someone to remove an rfid tag in my right hand from 2005.
Compared to CEO's directing their companies to legally murder people ("law abiding citizens") instead?
Certainly less miserable to look at inside than it was 20 years ago. Much better than the brutalist hell that is most of Portland.
It looks incredible and I'll take the first chance I get to go check it out, but the cynic in me bets that the international arrivals/layover/security
check area is still just as dull and depressing as any other in the states. 2 people barely churning through a line of 150 stressed travellers that need to get to their next gate in 45 mins. I'd consider paying a fair bit more if I have it next time to not transit through if I can avoid it, always feels like hell. But that is admittedly very cynical and I'm sorry.
If there's enough usage/interest in litdb I plan to create a similar migration solution to our C# OrmLite DB Migrations: [1]

[1] https://docs.servicestack.net/ormlite/db-migrations
> There are few situations where you don't need carry-on

I have taken tons of flights where I didn’t need a carry on. Either because I already needed to check a bag, or because everything I needed fit in my personal item.

> you don’t get to see all the fees until you commit.

Not true in my experience. Whenever I’ve booked basic economy it seems like they’re very clear about what’s not included.
Correct. HTMX doesn’t deal with client-side state and updating UI in response to client-side interactions. React, on the other hand, is all about that stuff.
Saving it under a mattress is not investment, as "investment" is normally understood. It's just savings.
Nah, its been lacking since inception, with people trying things like chroot jails and suid bits decades before Linux was a twinkle in an eye, and we still regularly fail at running untrusted code.
The ACA mandates that insurers spend 80-85% (depending on the particulars) on healthcare. If they don't meet that target, they have to issue rebates until they do.

What, exactly, should this man have done differently? I guess you could say he should have gone above & beyond the law, maybe pushed that up to 90%, but how do we know that this would have been enough to solve the problems people are complaining about?
worked for tom cruise in minority report so sounds good to me
I look forward to 2025, when the US poor stop subsidizing world state-managed healthcare

Can you elaborate on what you mean by this?
Any? I fly CSA, Air France and KLM regularly. Carry-on is included. Granted, there are budget airlines where it isn't. But it's definitely not "any" European airline.
Air Canada has 20x higher margins than American airlines? Wow
It didn't cost me anything, my employer paid for it. Math for my employer is odd because our use of LLMs is also R&D (you can look at my profile to see why). But it was definitely worth $1 in api costs. I can see justifying spending $200/month for devs actively using a tool like this.
You could also argue that it's better to have some minimum level of service that is useful.
This was my understanding too. Would love more people to chime in on the limits and costs of larger contexts.
Good thing class components are not deprecated. Where’d you get that from?
I wish we all could avoid this much in Taxes.
Though the spinal chord is far thicker, the optic nerve is far denser in neurons. So the number of neurons in a cross section is roughly the same. If they can regenerate a section of optic nerve maybe they could reconnect spinal chords too. That may be the toughest part of a head transplant.
Erm… yes? What fraction of United’s total revenue do you estimate 20 million dollars is?
Then it seems any study about any emotion or subjective interpretation is also bogus.
If it fits under the seat in front of you you're fine. So things that used to be carry-ons like 20 years ago...
> This would not, by itself, be enough to level Germany's demand.

This is exactly what I said. There's not enough industrial-grade energy storage capacity in the world to even out the intermittency of "renewable" energy. You currently must supplement it with "always on" power generation.

> The better solution would be electrolysis to make hydrogen...

It's my understanding that roughly zero of the industrial-scale hydrogen production operations use electrolysis. They process _natural gas_, and _coal_ to get hydrogen. From <https://www.energy.gov/eere/fuelcells/hydrogen-production-na...>:

> Today, 95% of the hydrogen produced in the United States is made by natural gas reforming in large central plants.

While it is true that we can work with hydrogen and can burn it for power, hydrogen will not save us. It's notoriously difficult to contain, meaning that it leaks out of containers and piping at the drop of a hat. It is the second least dense known substance in the universe, meaning that its energy density per cubic meter is dreadfully low. It's also energy-intensive to produce and store. The way all industrial-scale hydrogen production works means that the process to produce hydrogen produces more CO2 than if we just burned the petrochemicals used to feed the process. [0][1]

The energy consumption of electrolysis doesn't matter at all if we have more electricity available than we know what to do with... but that's very definitely not the world we live in right now.

> ...even sticking with their existing nuclear plants would not have gotten them off fossil fuels...

Right. The thing to do is to build more fission plants and "renewable" generators in tandem. Fission plants are ultimately a stopgap until we have enough storage and solar/wind/hydro/etc. to meet our current and future energy demands. But, like, even if we start honestly and eagerly working on this in earnest... today, we're absolutely not going to get there globally within our lifetimes. We're sure as hell never going to get there if we shut down existing fission plants and backfill by burning coal and natural gas.

[0] Search this <https://www.aiche-cep.com/cepmagazine/march_2021/MobilePaged...> for the phrase "Natural gas is currently the main feedstock for hydrogen processes, accounting for 75% of annual global production", and read the next couple of paragraphs.

[1] And search this <https://www.cell.com/joule/fulltext/S2542-4351(22)00416-0> for the phrase "More than 95% of global hydrogen production is currently based on fossil gas and coal with no carbon abatement."
> I also really don't get the apparent hate for react, usually from people who haven't used it all that much.

Same for people that have never used Angular, or only used the old AngularJS 1.x

I have more experience with Angular, but I don't hate any of the other frameworks, I've built apps with React, Svelte and tried out Vue.
If you prefer a video or want to see some of the construction techniques, the B1M recently did a video on Portland's new airport:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MRAkjoUdN_I

Pretty impressive how they pulled it off while minimizing impact on airport operations.
Hard to make a full comparison when go_transmuxer function is not defined in the source anywhere. Also might be more interesting if native I/O for RUST (safe, not unsafe wrapped) functions were compared.
Healthcare is private in name and profits only. You are required to buy their product by law, they set the amount they pay for healthcare, whether or not they will pay that amount, and they decide on a whim whether or not you need a lawyer to get what you paid for. That is not a private company.
Atlassian has their own Cloud offerings and their data center versions of Jira, BitBucket and Confluence are very good.

I don’t see GitLab replacing BitBucket.
As an alternative you could set up 2FA on their google accounts, and then they can have a 2FA app on their phone (not just google-authenticator, any app you trust can be good).

Then they would have a fixed place where they can find the 2FA code and not to mess around with the notifications. It's more complicated but more robust as well.
The hate wasn't always there. Pent up frustration for the healthcare system precipitated as hate when an obvious target hit the news.
... SPARC was terrible. Really just utter excrement. Having a lot of cores is not a good thing when the cores are too slow. This is an interesting CPU because the cores are actually usably fast.

Nearly all programs have a constant memory usage regardless of how fast the core running them is. If you deliberately make your cores half the speed, and double the amount of them, you have approximately doubled the cost of the memory you need. In aggregate, memory already costs so much more than CPUs that this is rarely if ever useful, even if it meant your cpu is free.

The starting point of a design that tiles a lot of cores just needs to be ones of the fastest cores available, or it is not commercially viable.
I never really thought about it, but yes, a fine without an admission of guilt is precisely a bribe. Consider the trade: you pay X dollars and in return they bury whatever evidence they have against you and you don't go to jail. Doesn't that describe a bribe to a cop or a judge or a prosecutor? As a corrallary I find it interesting that the media reports fines not as a fraction of net worth, but rather as an absolute amount. Clearly this serves the interest of both briber (who wants to be seen as punished more than it is) and the bribee (who wants the revenue, no matter how little it harms the briber).
I don’t think it’s actually true that people are “paying the same price for a worse product”. This is an area where one has to be extremely careful because it’s not the case that all the input costs are held steady so you’d see a decrease in actual fare when switching to price discrimination. One possibility is that input costs have gone up but the lowest price stays the same with worse amenities.
Oh I have been waiting for you! Thank you for this comment, now let’s see every single thing that’s wrong with it:

First let’s break down why your argument of “people complain when Americans aren’t in the room” followed by “Reality and Reddit are rarely the same thing” is ironically flawed. The number of people unhappy with any given system is measurable. That number is not proportional to the number of complaints about said system. For example if you have 100 people, and 20 of them are unhappy but 3 will talk to everyone of the 100 about how unhappy they are the number of complaints will be 100. See how the math doesn’t math? And whether people complain on Reddit or “in a room” doesn’t matter here. Lastly, “incredible numbers” is an amazing summation of what you are saying here. You are right, they are not credible.

Now that we got that out of the way, let’s look at what does matter: metrics. With so many people, so many cases, so much money the law of averages lets us make conclusions about which system on average does better. There are two metrics I can think of: cost and outcomes. You can’t of course optimize for two variables at once: what if for nearly infinite cost you could have perfect outcomes? But let’s look anyways and see if we can spot a pattern.

First, outcomes: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_quality...

Notice that on any of these charts the US is not number 1. It is number 2 for one of them but the rest are far worse, including 31 out of 45 for cervical cancer!

OK so maybe we don’t have great healthcare but perhaps it is just so efficient because it’s so affordable. But you already know the answer to this: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_total_h...

Go to that link, sort in descending order and see how the US has total per capita spending at 50% higher in 2022 than the next most expensive country (Switzerland). The WHO estimate isn’t quite as dramatic but it still is a huge jump from Switzerland (you’ll need to look at 2021 since more recent data isn’t available).

In other words countries that objectively beat the US in outcomes ALL have cheaper per capita healthcare than the US. You cannot argue that because you have heard people complain that it means other systems are worse. But I can argue that given this data the US clearly is doing something very wrong. It pretends like the solution doesn’t exist and when the people point to the 30 countries that beat us at things like cervical cancer at a half to a third of the cost while also providing the peace of mind that you won’t go bankrupt due to medical bills, our politicians stuff dollar bills they got from insurance company lobbyists into their ears and keep yelling “la la la we are the greatest country in the world”.

Thank you for coming to my TED talk on my particular area of interest. Enjoy the rest of your evening.
The problem is that it is systemic, the CEO is just part of it, killing the CEO will just cause a new CEO to be appointed, maybe one who is even worse. If it becomes common for unpopular CEOs to get killed, this will select for CEOs who don't mind risking their life if the pay is worth it, essentially the profile of a crime lord.

Killing the system is much harder. If you want to go the murderous route, the idea would be to murder random shareholders, not necessarily the CEO, based on how much share they have. It may include the CEO, directors, or maybe you if that company is part of of your portfolio, directly or not.

The most effective way may actually be the most boring and frustrating: financial sanctions or outcompetition by a government elected by people who actually care. A systemic solution for a systemic problem.

Society has no shortage of nihilistic parasites, in fact normal people can act like this in the right circumstances. And by normal people I literally mean you and me. The problem is addressed by avoiding such circumstances.
When forecasting for developers and employee cost for a company I double their pay but I'm not going to say what I make and if I did or not. I also like to think that developers should be working on work that is many multiples of leverage over their pay to be effective. But thanks.
Exactly, which is why I suspect this feeling is based on vibes rather than evidence.

Also any number of other things can affect prices, e.g. fuel costs.
I think people value them, it's just that the alternative of flying your own plane has some pretty big costs involved, so you don't have much choice.
I am reluctant to engage with this, but... Sigh...

I have to ask... How do you explain the Anatolian languages?

Or what seems like a very clear progression: Sintashta -> Andronovo -> BMAC -> Indo-Aryan.

A long history in the subcontinent that predates BMAC does not imply linguistic continuity.

There's such an overwhelming set of evidence linguistic and materially... there's a reason why, yes, it's just Hindu nationalists/fundamentalists parroting this position.
If we're "unbundling"/giving into "free market" nonsense in a highly regulated area, I just want to be able to pay reasonably proportional fee for musical instruments and get a guarantee that they'll be carry-ons, and not destroyed in the cargo hold. My only other alternatives are buying first class tickets or flirting with the gate agent (...works remarkably well...).
I'm immediately reminded of John Mulaney's "Jerry Orbach's eyes" bit.
Good suggestion, but I think it's the investor, not public side, which pushed the needle there.