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> You don’t want to make hotels surf r unlimited liability for a guest’s belongings.

Why not, within the otherwise generally-applicable rules of tort liability? Capping liability for failures to meet the expected duty of care encourages failure to meet the expected duty of care.

Why should a negligent hotelier be any less liable for the harms they cause through their negligence than any other negligent actor?

(Certainly, if there is a cause for a limit, it shouldn’t be less than the cost of decent new valise for each valise and its contents, and capped at 4 times that per guest; were I to suggest a limit, I’d probably do it per room, and have it be something like 10 times the maximum daily rate from the posted room rates required by Civil Code Section 1863; I’d probably also reverse the consent requirement, so that presumptively there would be unlimited liability, but the guest could consent in writing to the reduced liability. Since the hotelier is a merchant in a particular line of businesss, it is much fairer to assume that they have notice of the special legal conditions applicable to liability in that line than the guest, so the default conditions should favor the guest, with the written notice and affirmative consent required to alter it.)
The problem seems to be how do you choose what studies to publish? And how do you find anything in the mountain of papers? Or is there a separate journal of failures for each discipline?
Then I'll just pull it from the processes memory directly. It's security through obscurity at best.
I would put your choice (2) to be the healthiest. In my experience when you change jobs the social circle from work gradually atrophies.
The Tokyo rail system begs to differ :P
Correct. I also see no value to someone’s enjoyment of punching others in the face. I am perfectly fine disrupting and invading their lives to force them to stop punching others in the face.
> You’ll learn a lot by playing the tourist once a year.

Different take: you will be fooled by the tourism mafia.
These days I’ve found the office is so empty that none of the normal downsides apply. It seems like an unstable equilibrium because why would they keep paying rent for this giant office but I’m enjoying it while it lasts.
I guess you don't mind hiding your wealth online! #humblebrag.
This person has no idea what they are talking about on the advanced point. The other points are a critique of Cargo not Rust, or just plain superficial nonsense.
Is there a journal that only publishes properly reproduced results? I mean, a scientific paper is basically a draft until others manages to reproduce it, only at that point is it reliable, so it seems like there would be great value having such a journal.
Look at any FAANG/MAANA and ask the same question.

If I had to guess, most of them have so much cashflow that mid and senior level managers are able to do engage in organizational silo-ing by hiring a large amount of expensive engineering talent without much pushback.

If this is the case, there's likely a large pool of talented and highly compensated employees doing work that doesn't touch on either a profit center or high-impact research & development. And what work is being done is likely influenced by Parkinson's Law.
Your rankings make no sense to me. I don't understand why you deem someone who has separate social circles inside and outside of work as "less healthy".
I'll be #5 no matter what. At least WFH I can see my daughter when I'm not working.
I have a m3 Surface Go 2. It's making a fairly decent Linux tablet with Arch using Gnome 42 (Wayland) and the mainline kernel. The camera doesn't work well, but everything else does including LTE.

It's actually a ton faster in Linux, but with a bit worse battery life.

The biggest flaw with using Linux on the earlier Surface line was the shit Marvell Wifi. That would drop out all the time. So glad they switched to Intel for the later ones.
A Shortage of Affordable Rental Homes
Wait... Walmart is too English? It's been a while and I barely remember life from before the pandemic anymore, but I'm pretty sure it was still Canadian Tire and Target, not Pneus Canadiens and Cible.
Alas there is no relationship between an income tax and personal consumption of spatial services. There is absolutely no coherent reason to do as you suggest, and every reason for the land to pay the cost of delivering those services, along with the rest of the rental value of land.
It's not going to be the norm for a while. MAGA aka The Big 4 have all announced RTO plans for the majority of their workforce.
The article claims 3x more efficiency in a confusing sentence:

”Their prototype generates drinking water at a rate of 0.3 liters per hour, and requires only 20 watts of power per liter.”

So the unit only produces 0.3 liters an hour but if you wait 3 hours and provide 20 watts of power (7watts/hour), you’ll have a full liter.
Great list, but:

> To keep young kids behaving on a car road trip, have a bag of their favorite candy and throw a piece out the window each time they misbehave.

That's terrible advice. Treat children with respect! They are very smart, they just lack experience. If they "misbehave", talk to them and explain why this is not good. If you can't find an explanation, chances are you are wrong and you should reevaluate your position.

But never, never, never willfully hurt them by throwing away their favorite candy. So wrong on so many levels.

This was a big surprise for me in this list as I mostly agree with the items before it. Or, to use a previous item:

> You’ll get 10x better results by elevating good behavior rather than punishing bad behavior, especially in children and animals.

Well said.
Most people that want a new aircraft for GA for less than 6 figures are kit building them. Also there’s the “sport” flying market and ultra-light market as well.
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I don't know of an imperarive GCed language with a reasonably expressive type system

Well, we have no idea what you consider to be imperative and what you consider a reasonably expressive type system to be.
Which boot camp do you work for?
> training in private flight schools and then working as flight instructors themselves

Who attends those private flight schools? Unaffordable aircraft obviously won't improve things and seem quite likely to make things worse.
> 90% of everything is crap. If you think you don’t like opera, romance novels, TikTok, country music, vegan food, NFTs, keep trying to see if you can find the 10% that is not crap.

Meh. Finding the 10% is not free either - and the benefit of finding it not very tangible either.
That's a bargain, $2k for 5 weeks in Baja Sur?

I've been near Todos Santos since January and the prices on Airbnb are, frankly, ludicrous for monthly rentals.

But then again that's the new normal, sky high rents everywhere.

Hopefully the infection hasn't spread to India, Thailand, Vietnam, etc.
You're not in situation (5), you're in (3).
> Panic isn't something that you can remove by training nor train for.

Of course it is. It's probably 50% of training.

Panic increases the impact of mental workload and induces a kind of "tunnel thinking" similar to tunnel vision: you become fixated on one problem and one solution, without considering other parameters and options.

But panic is caused, many times, by surprise and lack of competence.

You avoid panic by becoming more familiar with specific emergency situations.

And you fight panic by learning to recognize it early, reduce mental workload, organize and follow procedures.

I find it worrying that this incident shows a lack of professionalism from the crew. When something unexpexted happened, they simply jumped on the controls at once, didn't communicate and simply blamed the plane. This is amateurish, and somehow... quite French (I am French).
Hempcrete is great for many things, but it produces very thick walls -- like a foot or so.

And they're pretty solid, so snaking a power or network line through the walls after the construction is done -- that's not really very feasible.

And it takes a long time for the hempcrete "bricks" to dry. Although once dried, they are sprayed with a mixture that makes them pretty waterproof, IIRC.

If you can design around the very thick walls, then I think it's wonderful. But you've got to make some changes to your design and assembly process to accommodate the building material in question.

I think Matt Risinger has some nice videos about hempcrete on his "Build Show" channel on YouTube.
Tell the kids this as well? If they care about animals and birds they won't misbehave!
Destroyed?? That seems a bit overblown.
> In 2022, a standard library should at least contain the following packages:

No it really, really shouldn’t.
VR Researches Simulate Kisses with Ultrasonic Transducers
Good point. You can never be more secure than your IT crew. Unless you treat the LAN as hostile, which you totally should.
For another interesting take on this: https://levels.io/async/
Why is the top comment on an open source game always about 0ad :(
Yup, exactly! I am up to a little over 6 kilowatts peak and 20 KWh installed and I haven't drawn from the grid in months.

My next stop is 14 kilowatts peak and 36 KWh. With any luck I'll be able to leave my pool warm for 6 months of the year and remain off-grid.
https://blog.rust-lang.org/2019/01/17/Rust-1.32.0.html#jemal...
agree , this read like dated boomer advice from someone who lucked out

tons of obvious counterexamples to his advice
> I feel there’s a caveat to this. If this happens in MANGA companies what’s to stop smaller cities from raising the cost of living higher than most of the locals due to having a small amount of high wages/large city types moving in.

If it's a small number of folks, there won't be much impact on anything that doesn't actually have a constrained supply.

For example real estate prices won't be affected much unless the new folks are bidding against each other for the same properties. Without a steady stream of folks coming in, a few sellers immediately getting their asking price will only bump estimated values of the surrounding homes for a while. To get a more permanent RE price bump everyone would have to move into the same neighborhood to get their kids into the same school, or to get the same view, or they all want riverfront property which is in short supply, or something similar.

About the only scenario I can plausibly construct for a real cost increase that actually affects locals (from a small number of well heeled folks moving in) is if all the newcomers move in at the same time and renovate or build their homes simultaneously, then the local cost of construction labor will go up temporarily.
If you want to build to PassivHaus standards, you're going to need a lot more than that.

Matt Risinger has some nice videos on examples of doing that on his "Build Show" channel on YouTube.
Are you speaking from experience or just making shit up? I can’t imagine this going well for some of the kids I know personally. (And kids that I do know who have done this have been “problematic” during these things)
The Magnusson-Moss act prevents arbitrary voiding of warranties.
I have it configured so that the touch bar just shows F keys at all times. It's a really technologically advanced row of F keys for me, only difference being this extra advancement has no tactile feedback.
I think we agree? If you're saying that software should be more "easy to use tool" or "craftsman tool" and less "use latest flashy tech concept to replace people", then yes.
So you wrote "does not count" and nothing else. How are we to interpret that?
> Aim to die broke. Give to your beneficiaries before you die; it’s more fun and useful. Spend it all. Your last check should go to the funeral home and it should bounce.

Easier said than done, and I find this is bad advice. You don't really know how much runway you have in front of you and in a situation where you may have very limited income, your best bet is to save as much as possible. Also you will have unforeseen health-related expenses as you get old. Following this logic incurs a risk of make yourself depend on your kids or your family members before you die.
This is a problem across the entire composting and recycling ecosystem.
I've wondered if much of the gender discrimination in the workplace can be attributed to height discrimination, as women tend to he shorter. Is there data on how men and women fare adjusted for height?

(This is obviously separate from any sexual harassment etc in the workplace -- I'm referring to compensation and promotions)
I never said it wasn’t practical or realistic. It’s still dangling a carrot though for the people that really care about this though.
I’ve been curious what the oldest year tag applied on HN is.
The worst genre of HN comment is “single childless dude questions others’ parenting”. It’s not just this thread.
Would dry regions that need water have enough cloud coverage for that to be viable?

My guess is that any place with sufficient cloud coverage is already getting enough rain water to satisfy their needs.
"Animal Liberation" by Peter Singer, a Princeton bioethics professor, is probably the leading academic treatment.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Animal_Liberation_(book)
Where is that video from?
Interesting that the limiting factor is energy and wind. I wonder if you could devise a locking mechanism or something purely mechanical to solve it. Something closer to gears in a watch.
> The suitcase-sized device...can also be driven by a small, portable solar panel,

> Yoon and Kang used machine learning to find the ideal combination of ICP and electrodialysis modules.

These bits feel like they were added because ML and solar power will get more clicks.
> I'm wondering where that money went.

I was wondering the same about the $1M donation they got in 2018. Turns out they misallocated a significant portion of it to things like social outreach programs.

There is nothing wrong with having SRPs if you're a multi-billion tech giant, but a underfunded open source product shouldn't be wasting money on social programs when their primary product was broken (which, in 2018, gnome3 certainly was). At the very least, they could have used it to hold proper user-focus groups to find out how their users actually used their product.

I think the organization is suffering from a serious mismanagement issue.
I want to bring my two cats from Tokyo to California. Only possible choose is American airlines where I can bring them beneath seats. I'm interested in another ways.
I believe the "bootcamp followed by effective indenture" model has been widely favored among the regional airlines that act as feeders for the big players, dating back well before the software industry first happened upon it.

If I recall correctly, Patrick "Ask the Pilot" Smith has had some things to say based on his own experience here. In any case, whether or not that model is actively used today, I would be entirely unsurprised to see it spread widely in the next couple of decades, and maybe not only in the airline industry.
> One thing that I think could be updated in the 12F approach is the use of env vars for config, especially secrets.

The 12F section on config already mentions quite prominently the use of config files.

Taken from https://12factor.net/config

> "Another approach to config is the use of config files which are not checked into revision control, such as config/database.yml in Rails. This is a huge improvement over using constants which are checked into the code repo, but still has weaknesses: it’s easy to mistakenly check in a config file to the repo; there is a tendency for config files to be scattered about in different places and different formats, making it hard to see and manage all the config in one place. Further, these formats tend to be language- or framework-specific."
You probably would agree that reducing suffering inflicted upon humans is generally speaking a good and ethical thing to do, right?

To understand why many people think the same re. animals, perhaps trying a different starting point might help: why single out humans? There's fairly good arguments (https://www.animal-ethics.org/the-idea-that-only-humans-are-... and the linked papers are a good resource) to be made that many other species have a similar capability to have positive and negative experience (sentience) which are not just citing 'common sense' or similar weasel-words, instead actually looking into the neuroscience of pain and other suffering.
That's a different conversation entirely about what you think of boarding schools and your reasons for having children.

Hopefully your reasons for having a child are compatible with the child spending time away from you cos that's going to happen eventually. Your comment suggests you're making a lot it assumptions about what it means for someone to be in a boarding school...
The idea that web APIs are designed with thought is counter to my lived experience as a person who's been building websites for 20 years.
> It’s fun to think about it now since 0% of the tricks still work but you could have called him for free fairly easily.

Ironically the tricks don't work anymore, but today you can call anywhere virtually for free.
I totally agree. Literally every point is "what if Rust did this thing that bugs me the Golang way?" Granted, it's a sort list, but it seems like the patterns are precisely golang influenced.
You need to add the cost of your time into sourcing those parts, assembling it all, troubleshooting issues and then any long term warranty issues that come up.
This applies to new hires too. Pay tiers are now country level.
> Why would US patent law require both non-obviousness and lack of prior art, if the two are the same? The fact that claiming obviousness without prior art "never works" in the USPTO is just evidence of its deep dysfunction.

In US patent law, the word "non-obvious" refers to differences between the claimed invention and prior art. See 35 USC 103: https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/35/103

I agree that this conflicts with the colloquial use, which may be why European law says "lacks inventive step" instead of "non-obvious".

I get the impression that "prior art" to you means that the claimed invention was previously disclosed, which is a rejection under 35 USC 102. But that has to be exactly as disclosed. It's a high bar to meet.

> It smells like reasoning deformed by a broken bureaucracy, rather than sensible application of principles or the spirit of the law.

This speculation is neither necessary or helpful.
This seems a little too idealistic, I'm afraid. It'd be amazing to have friends from work with whom one could start companies outside etc. But most folks perceive a job as just "a source of income", nothing more. And that is healthy on its own, otherwise we're in a perpetual servitude of the employers, because we link our personal happiness to "the job".
It’s gotten pretty ridiculous in some neighborhoods. I don’t feel like a trend follower by leaving, and I don’t think random internet chatter influenced my decision.
> $3 per watt, installed on your roof is typical these days

Which is why I was so fascinated by someone saying that you could get panels at 250USD/400W=0.625USD/W; I suppose it's possible that all the other stuff (electrician, mounting, inverters) is the difference, but a factor of 5? That feels like an chance to do something hacky and come out way ahead (like, say, DIYing a panel to run your computers, thus cutting out rewiring the house and needing an inverter).
> And if they're at a boarding school, that really frees up your planning.

From the language you’re using, it sounds like you are saying this is a possible way for this snow bird to LA lifestyle to work for a family.

But that you have not tried it yourself. Is that right?
the best one ;^)
Time would be a primary reason to not build your own machine, though.
> Just making borrow checker violations into warnings for debug builds

This is an interesting idea. I wonder what class of borrowck problems could be ignored like. Some of them can't be ignored, I think, because they would allow catastrophic things like use-after-free. But are there other violations that aren't as serious?
The software written for the earliest versions of iOS are now basically lost to history. The software people run on iOS today will probably last for even less time. Decades from now, people will have virtually no insight into what it was we did on our phones all that time.

In comparison, the archived web will survive as long as someone maintains some version of some browser.

In the future, people might wonder why the mobile web was so limited on iOS. What they'll observe is the afterimage of the native apps whose APIs received Apple's attention instead, for all the good that will have done.
I was thinking the same thing...

Just need your location and the time (quarter/season, month, day, hour, minute) and you'll know where the sun is in relation to the location given.
Very good chance the Capital of Mars or some significant cities / outposts on Mars are named after Elon.

I think there is actually quite a good chance he is remembered in 1000 years. At least in a vauge recognize the name from textbooks kind of way.
Yea, I go with this one. It's the corollary defined as "the join over the golden rule, and "be kind to yourself"
Instead of living, I would say.
Assume you need "remediation actions", and that would have to mean sending somebody to climb inside and weld something. Do you shut it down and abandon it, instead? Who goes in?
What are the online resources for accordion that you like? You mentioned an YouTube author.
Thanks!
There is no logic or reason to animal rights. Lets say animals have rights to life, liberty and pursuit of happiness. What do we do when a mama bear kills a deer to feed her cubs? Arrest the mama bear for murder? What do we do when an ant colony takes over and wipes out a termite colony? Execute them for genocide? What do we when someone kills a mosquito? If we examine a bowl of salad a vegan is eating and find thousands of microscopic animal parts in it. Do we execute the vegan for crimes against fauna?

Like all agenda driven by emotion and virtue signaling, you can reject with a cursory look at the matter. Does that mean we should allow unnecessary cruel behavior towards animals? No. We should be the best stewards of animals, plants, etc on earth we can be.
You can also put your units inside the building to prevent it from being taken. For example a tower/turret that is empty can easily be claimed by your opponent. But if you put 5 people in there, it shoots more arrows and is much harder to capture.
Only dangerous if you coil it.
It seems to me in line with the comment that the post quoted:

> Ultimately, secrets need to live somewhere and need to be accessed as plain text. Just make sure that the access as small window is as [sic] possible, and try to obliterate it after use, if possible.

This is not an all-or-nothing situation; it's a game of mitigation. If the process needs to retain the secret in memory, true, there's not much you can do about that. But I don't think that minimizing where else you're storing it is just security through obscurity. Fewer possible attack vectors is still fewer possible attack vectors.
If you’ve ever been to AirBnb’s office you’d know it’s nothing like that. The AirBnb office is fairly open but it’s way nicer than most people’s homes.
Morozov would call Felix a ‘datasexual’ ;)
No one cares how many / what size TVs you have.
> Quality has not increased.

I'd say it's far more effective. Most people I know seem to have surrendered to it, given up on critical thinking, truth, and reason; and embrace post-truth misinformation and disinformation. They don't even ask or discuss if something is factual.

A large fraction of the country has fully embraced a disinformation campaign, seemingly not caring whether they believe it or not, just using its power.