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A big part is fees. OTAs like Booking sell the base part of flight from Ryanair and low cost airlines at the same price as the airlines but with much higher fees for luggage and extras. They hide this second part from flight search engines, so they appear cheaper when including luggage.

I'm sure that a lot of dislike from low cost airlines comes from shitty OTAs rather than the airlines themselves.

How is Microsoft stock down less than a percent?

The problem was Windows giving arbitrary access to the kernel to software that can be updated OTA without user intervention and allowing that to crash the kernel, right? Wouldn't this mean that Windows is considerably less secure and stable than assumed?

This is a fantastic website. Thanks for the link!

OsmAnd is great despite being so ugly, but for cycling I would should out Komoot.

It's made for long touring rides, but it works perfectly for shorter rides within the city and its routing is produces routes that are faster, more pleasant, and overall much better than Google Maps.

Is there a name for this simple style of writing?

It reminds me of the style of pop science books written in the late 19th and early 20th century. There's a nice charm in it, like it's trying not to be pretentiously complex.

I use it as a Downloads folder.

I always know where my recently downloaded files are, and I have visual feedback of when I should delete them.

I also use it as a temporary launchpad for sorting uploads.

Aren't the majority of US electric cars Teslas?

This is a crap article. Comparing the second derivative of cars in the road is classic statistical cheating.

I've been using this extension for years, and I can confirm it's fantastic.

Lots of configurability make it so that I can have the exact panel that I want. In my case, it's Auto-hide + app shortcuts + windows with no grouping + keyboard shortcuts all apps and windows and for unhiding.

The best thing about Linux desktops is personalisation.

If I understood this correctly, would this allow you to make an extremely good estimation of direction of velocity? If you want to use dead reckoning to estimate position, how would you know the abs of the velocity?

Then we are lucky they didn't decide to start their arrays at 1 :-)

Most of the bugs I got on numpy programs came from a variable with a different ndims as expected being broadcast implicitly.

Implicit type casting is considered a mistake in most programming languages; if I were to redesign numpy from scratch I would make all broadcasting explicit.

My solution to these problems is asserting an array's shape often. Does anybody know is there's a tool like mypy or valgrind, but that checks mismatched array shapes rather than types or memory leaks?

Has anybody here improved their day-to-day workflow with any kind of "implicit" generative AI rather than explicitly talking to an LLM?

So far all attempts seem to be building an universal Clippy. In my experience, all kinds of forced autocomplete and other suggestions have been worse than useless.

It's still a privacy nightmare. Your encryption key "never reaches Apple's servers" until the company that built your computer and signs your safe executables force-installs some binary that gives them data about every single backup you ever made.

Microsoft is not breaking new ground in killing your privacy. Customers already don't know or don't care that $bigcorp is watching everything you do and choose to give them all their data.

Dumb question: but how is this different from Apple capturing all your files in Time Machine for "convenience reasons"?

Both programs are a terrible invasion of privacy installed in all of their computers, but the backlash against Microsoft seems much larger than the one against Apple.

If it were a pointer, Microsoft's advice of copying the message would cause a segmentation fault.

Maybe a better comparison would be a weak reference to an object that's in line to being garbage collected.

AI generated images and video are not competing against actual quality work with money put into it. They are competing against the quick photoshop or Adobe Aftereffects done by hobbyists and people learning how to work in the creative arts.

I never heard HN claiming that Copilot will replace programmers. Why do so many people believe generative AI will replace artists?

Regexes are easy to test.

Bad developers do bad regexes, regardless of whether they used AI.

GPT-4 is better at planning than at executing.

Have you tried asking it to generate a regex to transform your list into a CSV?

I read an HN article about Bitcoin in 2011 when it was about $1 per BTC, and mining on AWS was still profitable.

I dismissed as a stupid novelty that's not worth the time to set up an AWS instance. Lesson learned: don't listen to HN.

> For instance, the difference between an Uber driver with 4.3 stars and 4.9 stars is consistently obvious.

Yeah, 4.9 drivers explicitly ask for a good rating. It's the same for 4.3 and 4.9 star restaurants in Google Maps.

Reviews make sense if you can read other people's comments, otherwise they are useless. I wouldn't mind if 5-star ratings in service apps were replaced with more detailed "I had a problem" forms.

You are saying "IQ" and "intelligence" to explain people's career prospects, but what you actually mean is "social class".

Same here.

My theory is that purchase tracking is done automatically via AI, while humans are on the loop to check the feed of people taking each item and verifying that the amounts are correct before charging.

It makes sense. Even if your entire AI system is 99.9% accurate, you want a human to detect and remove that one-in-a-thousand mistake.

But I cannot create a routine or change its time with my voice.

I can say "Alexa, set my alarm tomorrow at 7 in the morning". I wish I could say "Alexa, open my curtains at 6:45 in the morning tomorroe" instead of having to go to my cellphone and use the clunky Alexa app.

It just seems like a wasted opportunity for a routine. I'm sure a lot more things would be available if Amazon let developers use more features.

Amazon's failure is not realising that Alexa's best use is an universal remote control.

The interface with smart devices is good but clunky. While I can say "Alexa open my curtains" and I can go to the slow and bloated Alexa app to open the curtains at a certain hour, I cannot say "Alexa open my curtains tomorrow at 6:45am".

I would love an app that would allow better automation, like doing an action at a certain time and playing an alarm X minutes later. However, skills are voice-only and nearly useless.

Glad GCC is moving into the direction of human-readable parsing! Back in my day (like 15 years ago) any error would return a stack of unreadable template expansions.

Still, I wonder if GCC is the best tool for this visualisation. Shouldn't it be in the realm of GDB, Valgrind, or other debuggers?

IMO the style, formatting, and animations in 3B1B videos is what Coursera courses should have been about in the first place.

Andrew Ng's course doesn't use video effectively at all: half of each class is Andrew talking to the camera, while the other half is him slowly writing things down with a mouse. There's a reason why a lot of people recommend watching at 1.5x speed.

Online classes are online classes. If they try to make copy in-person classes, like most Coursera courses do, they will keep all of the weaknesses of online classes without any of its strengths.

Same here.

I'm currently listening around the final years of the Flavian dynasty and I'm wondering when these "couple hundred years of wine, revelry and decadence [in the post-Augustian Empire]" are supposed to arrive.

Back when I used a iPhone for work, I remember having Safari, Apple Music, Apple Rock Band, Apple Podcasts, Apple News and a lot of built-in apps being un-uninstallable and unremovable from my home screen.

Safari was the most egregious, since all other browsers had to use it as a backend.

Let me disagree with this thread.

I've used flagship Android Samsungs since Google stopped Nexus phones, and they were great. The hardware is fantastic, you can install and change any default app, and their performance doesn't degrade in time.

I can count 4 pre-installed apps that I forgot about. It has much less bloatware than an iPhone, that comes preinstalled with a dozen useless apps that cannot be removed from your home screen.

I was able to remap my Bixby button on my previous Samsung Phones. I usually put it to Google search and double click to the camera.

The newer phones (since ~2019) don't have Bixby, and Google Pay launches automatically when touching an NFC posnet.