skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Flights feel like they’ve gotten much slower, in user space time.

I remember as a kid in the 90s you could do a little metal detector, and sometimes not even that, and get on a plane.

The changes to cockpit doors solves the 9/11 problem. Other than that guy who lit his underwear on fire one Christmas, I don’t know what exactly all of this is pretending to prevent.

The TSA’s own internal tests have people getting handguns through.

I have pre-check. Maybe eventually everyone will have it and the vast majority of passengers won’t have to take off shoes or take out laptops. Then we’ll get back to where we were decades ago.
I've sometimes wondered why there's not a ballistic trajectory plane. Something that boosts upward into the upper atmosphere, soars above dense air for a majority of the trip, then uses engines for a controlled landing.

I kind of figured SpaceX or similar would cater to the billionaire class more by now.
"So most content you consume isn't funded by advertising."

You are conflating the content and the delivery method. It's like saying "most of the stuff you buy can be delivered by a bicycle, so interstate highways are not important.
> It is easier to make a flying machine than it is to make a machine that flies by the exact principles that birds use to fly

do you think that "flying machines" aren't simulated before manufacturing?
FYI, re the ranges in rust, you can do a range minus 10 in Ada, I use it in my SDL2 bindings.
The theory goes that checks and balances have broken down because Congress can't stop Trump, but actually I think they simply don't want to.
The default is quite the opposite. Whether fetch sends credentials is controlled by the 'credentials' option, which defaults to "same-origin".

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Fetch_API/U...
Okay, but there are people who hate Go but are stuck with it at work, and would like it to be more expressive etc.
Looks nice.

Would be better if all of the PDF's bytes where shown. Seems like `endobj` and `xref` are not shown.
Hand over control of nearly all my communication methods to someone as trustworthy as Musk, who has shown a willingness to ban/blacklist people from other services based on his personal feelings and ego, among his other less savory behaviors? Nah, no thanks.
I think it’s because leadership at large organisations doesn’t actually understand how things work on the ground, and also knows they’ll never be able to.

A blanket ban on newspaper subscriptions is a pretty easy way to save a few million dollars with minimal effort and relatively low risk.

Actually evaluating whether each employee who gets one needs one along with potential subscription renegotiations could be theoretically better, but requires a great deal of managerial time and talent in the context of a large organisation.
A lot of domestic flights, business is more like economy plus. Trans-Atlantic I don't really have complaints although red-eyes are still disruptive. (I pretty much always do London as a day flight even though it means an ungodly early start.) I agree it's not a hotel room although I often don't sleep well the first night in a hotel room after an international flight either. AFAIK, there isn't anything even on the drawing board that could do trans-Pacific non-stop.
What would interest me more is innovation at the airport end of things. Much faster travel links, much faster security. Or are airport perversely incentivised to not do this to sell overpriced food and trinkets?
Does ternary work for that? Inigo is saying "if ternary is working, leave it as ternary". I think you're talking about a situation where ternary wouldn't work, so Inigo isn't saying anything about that situation.
Agreed. Anki is awesome! I just was spending too much time creating Anki cards and created this for my self. Some friends saw how I was using the first gen (https://github.com/Amber-Williams/language-flashcard-app-gpt...) and wanted it as well. So I made it into an app and researched a far around learning that I hope to pin down an app others can use too.

here's a great article on the power of spaced repetition any anki lover will enjoy - https://gwern.net/spaced-repetition
While I dislike advertising a lot...

> Ads suppress customer choice, along with innovations. Can you recall any recent innovative carbonated drink? Marketing budgets of pepsi/coca cola make competition and innovation impossible.

...I don't think this is actually reasonable to ascribe to advertising.

This is a problem with hyperconsolidation.

Competition is driven by having many players in the market who are all within spitting distance of each other's overall size, however you want to measure it. Once consolidation shrinks the number of players down to a handful or less, that's when competition and innovation are stifled.

You say it yourself: the problem isn't that there's advertising. It's the marketing budgets of Pepsi and Coke. Which are (probably, didn't look it up) larger than the annual budgets of some countries. That couldn't happen if they weren't utterly unchallengeable juggernauts.
Your own source would be a good example. That study is 'p-hacked' to create a headline. They inexplicably limit the group they're talking about to those who say that they are unlikely to ever have children, which is a subset of the people who are not having children. It looks like they had to cull off about 60% of their sample. So a more accurate headline would be "people who don't plan to have kids say they don't want to have kids."

Most people are going to think they're talking about all people, as you did here. The age sample is also probably intentionally biased. Having the age range be 18-49 is illogical. The reasons for an 18 year old not planning to have kids matter far less (from a social point of view), and have far less meaning/certainty, than an e.g. 30 year old saying the same. Most studies are broken into reasonable age buckets because of this. 18-49 is not reasonable for fertility issues.

Even with their heavily biased sample, they only get 57% of their "young" group saying they just don't want to (and only 31% of the older group), whereas you get 79% saying they want to "afford the things they want", 75% saying "saving for the future", and so on.
The first gen is https://github.com/Amber-Williams/language-flashcard-app-gpt...
It's our punishment for allowing national security to function as a get-out-of-congressional-debate-free card.
I am always confused about the terminology. I know RangeTypes or RangedTypes from Pascal, but I think in Rust they are something else. The talk mentions SubTypes in the ADA context which I know from an OO context, but again it seems to be different. Then there are Refinement Types which seem to be more powerful but subsume the others. And now we also have Pattern Types.

Can someone bring order in these concepts?
I think a lot of people have lost trust in doctors. You need to do your own research if you want to get the best treatment (especially when dealing with dentists). I don't think it's unreasonable to use AI as part of that research.
> For example, a conceptual diagram that complements the actual "as implemented" diagram. One is a big of a "here's what we were thinking" and the other is "here's how we translated that to actual architecture".

It maybe could have been clearer in the article, but the intent wasn't to discourage "here's what we were thinking"-style whiteboard diagrams. Those absolutely have their place. The article is trying to discourage people from making "here is how Kubernetes works" or "here is how microservices work" diagrams, since you can easily find those online.
Back when (90s) I did fly the Atlantic frequently for work, I would have preferred to sit in comfort in Virgin Atlantic Upper Class (although 747s are pretty fast) and take some time about it rather than be squashed into a Concorde with nothing much to look out of. By the time you have factored in the hassle of getting to and from the airport, comfort (for me at least) takes priority if someone else is paying for it.

I never got the choice and I must admit I would have liked to have flown Concorde once, just so I could say I had done - a beautiful aircraft, but then so is the 747.
Ask HN: Is it me or we almost stopped using Google because of LLMs?
Hi,
simple question: is it me or we almost stopped using Google heavily as before because of LLMs?
Yes, I wrote something like this for a personal application and it's life changing.
No, that's something you dreamt up for no good reason. There are a lot of constraints on corporate communication, especially for publicly traded corporations. This does not mean "the government control[s] all communications coming from corporations".

It's common all over the world to regulate content in advertising. In many places corporations manage to self-regulate, in some the state steps in instead. Ads aimed at kids being prohibited is an obvious example, ads for gambling being heavily regulated another.

That's not an ad in the sense I've discussed, but yeah, if you ask me you should pay for the cars.

You're inventing consequences for restricting ads that are quite unnecessary so I'm not so sure I'm the one with a nonsense problem.
I also could not get past my outrage about this, how about a link to the content in a format suitable for the old and cranky? Even raw text would be better than this.
Great feedback thanks. Will have a look into these.
I'm seeing a lot more Ada posts on the front page recently. Was there a big investment in Ada recently or an acquisition where its marketing machinery is starting to chug along? Or was there a meaningful release or something?
Advertising is "worth it" in the same sense as sites with JS crypto miners. 10¢ of resources are wasted to cover 0.1¢ of operation costs.
I ve stopped believing any of this PR from AI companies that are trying to justify their huge valuations with some nebulous societal impacts that we have yet to see any trace of. Stop talking about the damn thing and show me the thing
Btw:
Why I could not upvote or login from my currenty albanian IP (I had to turn on VPN with an EU IP).
I cannot warn folks against using q/kdb+ enough. Use Polars or DuckDB, get the job done, and enjoy your life.
This has a simple benefit:
There are cases where better quality medical services can be received with less cost (time and money).
Sure that's a great idea
Not commenting on his protest here.

As far as I know us gun laws aren't generally based on your ability to behave or use them responsibly (outside of some specific extra situations).
In pragmatic terms, I can be in a tiny town in Virginia at 4am, and then be in another tiny town in Washington state in about 12 hours...how much faster does it have to be?
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TSA allows a shift of liability for insurance purposes
I think there are at least two different issues here:

1) the general UX of terminal emulators. Which as the wording suggests is about emulating some severely obsolete, at least half a century old hardware, including weird limitations that came with those. Most modern terminal emulators work hard to undo some of that. But it is weird that we stick with these being emulators for stuff most people here would never have touched in their life because they are not at retirement age yet. I just turned 50 and I remember having some slightly less fancy terminal emulators to work with (xterm basically) on hpux, sgi, and some sun workstations we had at university in the nineties. Even then the whole notion was basically obsolete. All those came with xwindows, xterm and some basic shells and other command line tooling.

2) the general UX of cli software that you would use from a terminal. Which is a bit all over the place and generally not great.

If you use something reasonably modern, the terminal environment is not completely horrible. I use iterm2 on a mac, which is pretty nice. There are a few competing products. What I like about iterm2 is that I can use cmd+c and cmd+v for copy paste so I don't have to think about having to hit the shift key just because I'm in a terminal window (like on the Gnome terminal). Also nice is that two finger scrolling works. Even when using less/bat/more/whatever. There are a few other nice things that they solved but that solves a few basic UX issues.

The second issue is harder to address because it basically involves fixing a lot of tools that have been around for decades, which is just not going to go down well with those that have used those tools for a few decades. There are some nice modern replacements for some of those tools. For example, I use eza instead of ls (via an alias of course). And there are a few similar rewrites of classic cli tools that offer some nice features and performance. But mostly those aim to be drop in replacements.
Thank you for the links (you, and the person who replied to you)!
sorry, you've typed "[em][en]h[Cyrillic]lp", try again
That's only a problem if your favorite method of representing uncertainty is in-band signalling via a technique like significant figures.
Supersonic flights up to 50% faster with no audible sonic boom
Growing, too much work to do. Every year the list of projects with really solid ROI gets longer.

AI can't troubleshoot technical issues with private company data. AI can't run a project. AI can't negotiate scope of features. AI can't make decisions on what work to do. AI can't architect system integrations and talk to all the teams involved.

AI is good at pumping out text when you give it good instructions and sometimes its even valid output, sometimes its not.
My dad got upgraded to Concorde once for some reason. His reaction was pretty much that it was cool to have done it once but he probably actually preferred his first class PanAm and getting a good dinner rather than arriving in London at rush hour.
I'd say Electron apps would exist regardless of the native toolkit quality. The business case is that you're probably already building a website, and if that's the case, why not offer native apps too with almost no added development time? The value of Electron is that you don't have to hire development teams for each platform.

And yes, Windows development is a mess. Mac less so. KDE and Gnome have their strengths and weaknesses. Ask around the average Mac, Gnome, and Windows user what they think of Electron apps. Windows users are probably the most positive, because their desktop experience is garbage anyway.

Does that make JavaScript actually better? Win32/WPF/UWP meet Angular/KendoUI/Sencha. React and Vue are slightly less messy, admittedly. But it's still a very fragmented landscape.
When I said "we ran every test we can think of" I meant we ran every test we could think of. Benchmarks were part of every standard diagnosis, not just the weird cases.

The problem with extrapolating this to humans is that benchmarks for people are wildly variable.

Given the specific nature of the authors complaints, I can almost guarantee that he underwent some standard benchmark tests.
> I personally think it says volumes about how those in the Trump-Musk group (Musk group?) see this.

It's more the Musk, Thiel, Vance Group. Trump is simply a tool.
Someone needs to make a data transformation benchmark.

"Here are a variety of personal documents about John Doe. Fill out the McDonalds job application with information retrieved from the document set."
Frost free zone, they can enjoy unsealed edges.
I don't care for their wonky LLM at the top of their search results, it's so inaccurate it makes me think less of google.

Having said that I haven't found a good pure search alternative.

As for using an LLM FOR search sometimes I do that but LLM's seem very fixated on maybe a dozen or so results in my experience and that's not entirely useful to me. LLM's seem really bad at iterating ... search for some reason. Code it can do but search it seems to just get stuck.

I'll ask it for a given application, open source, and it just spits out the same couple apps ... not open source and no amount of prompting will change that.
> You're assuming that there will be a successor, in a democratic sense.

It follows, since he's talking about democracies.
Take your Kindle and visit https://html5test.com/ and that should give you a good idea.

Spoiler: it scores pretty low but supports JavaScript, which is surprising.

PS: You could have gotten this answered more quickly by Googling.

https://nagekar.com/2018/10/testing-websites-on-kindle-paper...
I understand that defining advertising is hard, but "1 : a public notice" is so broad as to be almost meaningless as a definition.
By this reasoning, fighter planes shouldn't have improved either. We know that this is not the case. It's not the limits of physics holding us back.
These people exist, though much more rarely than they did 30/40 years ago when the genetic data wasn't yet fully in. It's quite a popular school of thought among Chinese biological anthropologists because originally, it was used to support the idea of China as the ethnic homeland for han people back in the 50s. Now it's just an idea that's become institutionally ingrained.
Thanks for noticing! You're right, I will fix that very soon.
> The only advertisement I can consider a good one is a shop sign on the shop/restaurant and perhaps a sign on a nearby crossing to direct me there.

You could argue that the original Google search ads fall into this category ( before they were changed to look more like search results ) - ie they much more likely to be directly relevant, indeed helpful, to the search activity.
> Let's see what happens. If they don't provide it, we'll start to see the results of their failures. Then we can push back. There will be legit programs impacted, we can pivot and get them back.

So what you're saying is they have no idea what they're doing. Just cut it and "see what happens" and if it's really bad, "we'll just bring it back." You realize that we won't see the true effects of lots of things for many months and possibly years? It's not binary.
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I get the sentiment of what you're saying, but being dismissive about someone's health concerns is cruel.

If anything, it's a bit sad that this person felt so let down by their healthcare system that they decided to build software that glues their EMR and LLMs together (maybe that was therapeutic in and of itself)
> fortunately lots of that book is now obsolete

I have read and re-read it. I would, coldly and seriously, say that significantly less than 50% of it is obsolete.

Yes, some parts definitely are. Many of the specific technical details that are attacked are.

But the architectural points, the design points, the usability issues -- those mostly remain entirely valid.
Security prevents routine hijackings. During the late 1960s there was one attempted hijacking every 5.6 days.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aircraft_hijacking
You win! Whitney was just out of graduate school at the time, and had worked some with APL at I.P. Sharp but was implementing "object-oriented languages, a lot of different LISPs, Prolog"[0]. Next was the more APL-like A around 1985 and K only in 1992.

[0] https://queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=1531242
I'm not sure what you mean by "modern backups". Have you done a "modern restore?". Urgh.

I backup once a week. And both the machine and the disk are encrypted.

And the disk is entirely physically disconnected so there's no risk of cryptolockering it. And if that does happen, there's a 3 month rotation still on another disk.

This is not rocket science.
i think i misinterpreted your first sentence.
Someone needs to grep logs at OpenAI/Deepseek to dox the op.
I’m curious what you consider to be a smear. Are the items about his background & history factual or not? If true, it seems calling it a smear attempt might be disingenuous.
> Meanwhile, Nadella is applying serious pressure. Microsoft didn’t pour billions into OpenAI just to lose ground

This part especially doesn’t ring true. Microsoft started hedging their bets after the Altman fiasco and are moving toward an AWS like strategy where they are hosting every model that they can get their hands on. AWS is already hosting DeepSeek on bedrock. There is no reason that Microsoft couldn’t do the same

> Some even worry that if OpenAI collapses, it could tank the entire AI sector, dragging the U.S. economy into a deep downturn given how much Big Tech and Wall Street have bet on this.

This makes no sense either. The only company with any market cap that will be affected negatively by LLM commoditization is Nvidia.

Google still has a distribution advantage and Microsoft and Amazon will be glad to host any models. This only helps Apple and Meta is already open sourcing thier model.

This entire post reads like someone who doesn’t have the slightest grasp on industry trends.

Besides, why would anyone making OpenAI comp post thus openly? I would be hoarding cash as long as possible and I could think of a couple of ways to profit off of this information legally.
Came here to say the same. They feel much slower, not only because of the whole security ceremony but also because overall they got a good deal more inconvenient.
Just FYI this is not carnivore and I have mostly fixed this without eating pure meat. You can take methylated folate to fix this problem.

One of the subject genes is called MTHFR. It reduces the methylation of Folic acid by ~30-40%, depending on which paper you read. Tons of people have this. It was this AND a gluten sensitivity which resulted in me having actually low levels of usable folate.

To find out if you have this go to this link: https://you.23andme.com/tools/data/?query=MTHFR. You can enter various other SNPs there if you find any of interest.

You can download your DNA there and enter it in another site that can tell you the other genes that could affect this sort of thing.

There are other things that could affect other people in unique ways so of course this isn't the only one.

What I did is ask Claude "why would eating meat make me feel dramatically better" and it told me about these genes. And then I went to 23andme where you can see individual SNPs and then I searched for other related SNPs.

I also seem to have non-Celiac gluten sensitivity which affects my absorption of Folate (and other things if I have recently eaten gluten which was almost always until recently) which is why this was a problem for me. And zero doctors or companies have ever developed a test for this or even take it seriously, including allergists and immunologists that I saw.
F=MA^2

Going faster just simply requires more fuel, and fuel is a precious and limited resource. There are some optimizations we could make to aircraft design to improve fuel economy, but we've already done most of the optimizations given our constraints of safety standards and the general goal of comfortably transporting humans.
I don’t think any LLMs use dashes in the way OP is using them.

Some LLMs use dashes when doing lists but that’s not what OP is doing.
We do. And I believe that private is taxed more than commercial. Most of the FAA's funding comes from this.
I remember, in the mid 90s getting up at 6:00 am, taking a taxi to LGA and catching a 7:00 am Shuttle to Washingto DC so I could be at a 9:00 am meeting.
> The changes to cockpit doors solves the 9/11 problem. Other than that guy who lit his underwear on fire one Christmas, I don’t know what exactly all of this is pretending to prevent.

It prevents a lack of funding for security pork. The TSA is a massive funding boondoggle for many many snake-oil security salespeople.

Full agreement with the point here: lock the cockpit doors, and let everyone go through the same level of security checks as TSA Pre.
So reduce the fixed minimums at either end?

It's absurd that getting onto a 3-dimensional bus takes ~1.5hr more per end than a normal bus. The fundamentals of embarking and disembarking passengers and their luggage is unchanged beyond needing to have all the luggage in a pile before you toss it on for weight distribution reasons.