skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you are right, the problem will fix itself. So just relax (unless you still believe in herd immunity: i certainly do not after the crappy C19 vaccines)
Yeah - the fee should always be quite punitive. I’ve only had one host cancel on me last minute and it was very disrupting to our trip because nothing was available. We had to book a horror story of a place on VRBO (which I would say is much worse than Airbnb!) and then caved and spent 3-4x what I planned by stating in a hotel.

I find Airbnb while not perfect allows travelers who are on a budget to find places. If you’re looking for whole houses or apartments then it’s usually not cheaper than a hotel but I’m usually booking rooms in an apartment or house - and in those instances it’s usually cheaper.
That's a hypothetical, not an example. An example would be "US has been worried for years that Russia has been influencing US politics, now we see Russia invade Ukraine and US supports Russia"

Instead, what do we actually see? We see people claiming for years that Russia has been influencing US politics, yes the US has contributed more than the entirety of the european union combined to aid Ukraine in war efforts. In fact, some accounting suggests the US has donated more to Ukraine than Russia has spent on the war itself.

So where are these examples of successful spying/data turned into action or battlefield advantages? There's certainly no shortage of spying.
My goodness that must have been a huge milkweed! I had three 2-3ft tall plants a while back and they were decimated by 9 just caterpillars.
Patrick Stewart, in a wheelchair(X-men), wearing his Starfleet uniform.
> I wonder if this cost discrepancy is due to pork or too many middle managers.

The cost "discrepancy" is due to cheap offshored mass manufacturing for most everything consumers buy, plus social media validating uninformed off-the-cuff opinions. $11,000 is about a month of a welder plus designer. Is it terribly hard to imagine that the process of building a prototype with a few refinements would take $11,000 worth of time? Frankly, based on experience with the cost of engineering time, that seems like a tiny project.

FTA:

> When mass-produced, the cost per can will drop to an estimated $2,000 to $3,000.

Keep in mind this is still likely using small-run domestic labor, which is "costly" (ie economically sustainable). Tractor implements have similar simplicity, similar inputs (metal plus welding), and finished good prices are similar.

If anything, US citizens need to be embarrassed that we've allowed our society to be hollowed out by disposable mass-produced crap and policy-deliberate inflation.
"He mentioned the head of the project doesn't know I exist"

This makes me wonder if maybe you working remotely isn't exactly kosher and your boss is covering his and your behinds until you are in the office.
Interesting article. The part that caught my attention was:

"Even more mind-boggling is that quasicrystals are crystals from higher dimensions projected, or squished down, into lower dimensions. Those higher dimensions can even be beyond physical space's three dimensions: A 2D Penrose tiling, for instance, is a projected slice of a 5-D lattice."

I've been working on creating digital mandala software for the past 10 years, and have created countless digital fractal mandala patterns during that time, and I've noticed that something really interesting can happen when you do that with a tool that enables quick and recursive creation of this kind of images.

After creating a pattern for 4-5 hours for example, after that the patterns would continue be visualized inside my eyelids once I would close my eyes, evolving into new patterns that I did not draw on the screen, in a seemingly intelligent way, finding new shapes and patterns that I could not have created by myself, but some part of me continues visualizing these shapes into new, alive feeling forms inside my eyelids.

Many times these patterns would continue living inside my eyelids when I go to sleep, and even sometimes continue right away when I awoke after that night. And this completely sober even.

This effect can be magnified exponentially when combined with some mind altering entheogenics, but it works completely sober also.

It is hard to describe, but the feeling has been many times that I am looking at an "2D shadow" of something that lives beyond this current moment, like I am seeing a slice of time represented in 2D about a higher dimensional form that is not possible to visualize with current tools.

This article would push towards confirming my theories about forms existing that we only see parts of in slices of time, but somehow we can connect to those higher dimensional versions through the act of mandala creation.

Just wanted to share some thoughts on the subject, it is not something I claim to understand at all. If you want to test this out yourself, we have a trial version of our software available at http://www.OmniGeometry.com :-)

Would be interesting to hear if you have some thoughts on this subject. The act of creating mandalas is something many spiritual traditions also have utilized to connect us to the coherence of the greater patterns, like the tibetan monks creating sand mandalas and then wiping them away.
How do you know it's too slow, what's the RPI's fabric clock?
> Please let me know if I need to make any changes - To: Boss, CC: everyone

DON'T DO IT. You are cornering your boss, implicitly showing your conflict/concern. It'd backfire on you
> (I'm going to take a lot of karma damage for this, but i believe it has to be said)

I don't think you have anything to worry about, HN is well-known to be highly tolerant of a variety and even dissenting opinions.
Regarding trains, it might be law, but my god they try hard not to take of you sometimes.

Often station staff will try their best to get rid of you and send you on to another station to make it their problem. And station managers can be hard to find. And they have sudden amnesia about the law etc
Those are actually the good ones.

I'd love to work at those. As opposed to the monstrosities I often see in some unicorns and well-funded places.
Posted this in our Discord :-)
Agreed. I don't know what is responsible for this, but it's increasingly difficult to find shows that try to develop characters that are interesting and encourage us to care about them instead of just pulling something new every week from a grab-bag of dramatic twists.

As a counterpoint, I really enjoyed Dog Day Afternoon, which is basically a masterclass in taking a single situation and a fantastic actor and just letting it play out.
No, this is entirely correct.

You have to look at things at the right level of abstraction.

Bosses "program" people, they set them to work on things that need doing. They can be more or less involved in the actual process, but ultimately they're responsible for delivering the thing.

Developers write all the code. Some may feel that they built the whole thing (I have been that person) but that neglects the role others play in figuring out what needs building and actually making it happen.

Edit: I don't believe it's right for others to take credit for someone else's work. I just think that when an executive hears a boss "built" something, they don't think "wow, what an amazing coder". They don't think about code at all. This person delivered a thing that was built. They built it in the organization. That's all it means.
Or fine double market rate for nearby substitutes.

Bonus points if they make it so that the host can't book anything on the days on and around the cancellation date. After all, if the host cancelled, then it has to be because there's a major issue preventing the place from being use by guests, right ;). Maybe a two-week blackout period.
Looks like an opportunity for some abstract graffiti that looks different depending on your angle.

This is stupid. The people of San Fran should be reimbursed the million dollars this cost. By who, I don't know.
>the puberty blocker exists solely to give them the time to choose, it's not the same thing as transitioning itself. Denying puberty blockers is letting nature force the choice.

Giving puberty blockers (steroids) to children cause irreversible developments (undersized genitalia, irreversible higher pitched voiced, etc. to males) and absolutely should not be given. Not allowing children to go through puberty is a crime against their humanity.
I went to school in the '00s. After irreversibly breaking the Office installation on my home computer while tinkering, I ended up doing all of my IT coursework, which was required to be done with Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Access, using OpenOffice instead. For production use, the differences between the office suites may have been significant, but for schoolwork, it was more than good enough. We were to take screenshots of the application windows while we produced our work, and the assessors were happy enough with my OpenOffice screenshots.
Paracetamol and alcohol is actually not a dangerous combination at all as far as the liver is concerned. That is why there is no warning against combining the two in the information leaflet that comes with it. Paracetamol is not toxic, but its intermediate metabolite NAPQI is. The enzyme that converts paracetamol into NAPQI is the same that breaks down alcohol, and it has a higher affinity for alcohol meaning that it will be too busy working on the alcohol to turn the paracetamol into toxic NAPQI.

Long-term alcohol abusers will develop more of this enzyme, so they are more likely to get liver damage from paracetamol though.
While it's archaic now, I actually can't think of a better icon that fits all modern meanings. At least it has historical use on its side, even if it's never accurate anymore.

I heard once that some young children thought it was actually a picture of a refrigerator (which makes a sort of sense as a real world analog for saving something for later) so maybe this issue has magically solved itself.
I'd say one thing in favour of an AirBnB type rental is having a kitchen where you can cook your own food... I find on holiday sometimes it's quite nice to just have some "normal" food at home rather than eating out all the time.

I'd rather book a proper dedicated rental flat from another platform than someone's random flat on AirBnB these days though, after all the horror stories (personally I've never had an issue).

Edit: I read another comment lower down talking about hotel rooms with a kitchen. Personally never encountered this, maybe it's a US thing, but that could be an OK solution if it included all the stuff you need to cook a basic meal.
> [M]y vote behind Guards! Guards! as a great starting point.

That was my introduction, when it came out, but I recommend Hogfather to most as it captures the wide breadth of his writing. There's a lot of great comedy in it, but also some serious and scary moments.
> better presentation

Note how very very good Steve Jobs was at presentation.
Request a chargeback at your bank and accept that PayPal will close your account.
I remember getting this in an interview without ever coming across it.. basically, fuck union find.
I think that NT people are more likely to notice that they are taking it too far and let go of being right in order to maintain a good social atmosphere. I think that autistic people often won’t notice when they should concede. On the other hand, in text based discussions both NT and autistic people don’t know when to stop. I would suggest the hypothesis that this is because the social information that NT people use so heavily has been lost
I share games if they are fun. I do not share anything manipulative. I do not share pay-to-play. I do not even complain about them to friends.

On the matter of UX, etc, one of my favorite games is https://www.decisionproblem.com/paperclips/

Told everyone and anyone about it. Look, I'm doing it again.
How Craig Barton wishes he’d taught maths (2018)
https://github.com/lizrice/ebpf-beginners
Border Wallets – a new way to quickly and reliably memorize Bitcoin seed phrases
The fins are actually kind of brilliant. Looks like it will hamper both paint markers and knife scratchers. The spray painters will just have to be painted over, though. Two out of three ain't bad!
Our ability to simulate the world is in direct proportion to our ability to prevent existential risk.
Hosts don't necessarily know all of the events that will bring in crowds.

So they book early for a guaranteed $x. Then if they see that market rates for nearby units rose to n*$x, it makes sense for them to cancel and rebook at that rate.
Just to counter act these negative stories I’ll say that airbnb saved my ass once when I was traveling in new zealand and massive flooding took down the road ways and filled up all flights. I needed a quick place to stay for a week or so and in a few taps I had a bed. This felt powerful. Before and after this I stayed on airbnb many times without any issues. Obviously some are better than others, but I also feel hotels do a pretty good job jipping me out of a good room like the one in the picture. Or charging me a resort fee separately on checkin or checkout. Or asking for $25/night parking.
> Demanding a whole OS change the way it works for bad/lazy/inept coders is akin to 2 people getting blind drunk and blaming the other person or the drink for the stupid things they did. Take some responsibility.

And if people were just more careful, none of rust's memory safety stuff is needed! Also, why do modern languages hand hold multi-threading so much, just give developers some mutex primitives and let them have at it, the good coders will be just fine!

Of course the rest of us will have to deal with machines getting pwned due to security bugs, but hey, at least the "well written" programs won't have those problems...
Are you talking about daily housekeeping or actual room service (food delivery)? In all my life, I've never ordered room service as it is criminally expensive.
> Maybe rust devs could end wishing that things were written in rust and start writing things in rust

They are, though. Like, I don't even disagree with the cost of rewriting, but there are very much active efforts to rewrite things in rust (ex. coreutils - https://github.com/uutils/coreutils , OS - https://www.redox-os.org/ ) or to add rust to existing projects (Linux, Firefox and Chrome both (https://chromium.googlesource.com/chromium/src/+/refs/heads/...)).
Exactly, the commentary should be framed in whether people are achieving their expected goals, and that's really a discussion to have with individual teams and team members.
I don’t think anything is claimed about the existence or non existence of a corresponding physical dimension
I'd be ok with anything that doesn't include "USB". The interface has nothing to do with the concept.
I came across a 1940s Edmonton Journal a while ago and one of the most remarkable differences from a modern newspaper was at the bottom centre of the front page was a number detailing the number of traffic deaths that year similar to a sort of "x days since this factory has had an accident" sign.

What a remarkable thing to track in such a prime location. Clearly at some point someone cared quite a bit about traffic deaths. Not sure if this was some hyper local Edmonton issue for a while or there was broader concern around car deaths during this part of the 20th century.

At some point though this concern about the startling amount of traffic deaths clearly ended.
Really wonderful piece. I bought a Krazy Kat collection in college when I'd read that Watterson was a fan, I didn't realize it had such a reach.
This reminds me of the ongoing push to eliminate testing in school, based on the belief that one can master a subject while being unable to answer questions about it.
Host do set cancellation policies.

My point is that guests per stay should be able to set there own policies would be viewable to a host prior to booking or in a list of pre-approved guest policies. Host is under no obligation to book a guest with a policy they are not agreeable to.
I personally dont care about content from brands on TikTok, only content from real individuals.
This isn’t any sort of crank theory, I think this is basically what string theory amounts to: we experience a 4-dimensional projection of an N-dimensional space.

Also, in math, lots of things are projections of higher order objects into lower order spaces!
I know people who have a new house and say "When we built this house, blah, blah blah...", when I know they don't even know what a hammer looks like.
Most tech-adjacent subreddits (even sports subs) have tech products advertising for my user. Now a lot of this could be based off my activity as a user, I'm subbed to a few programmer subs that I could get targeted through.

That said all the ads tend to be from large vendors that seem to be targeting very senior engineering leadership. Not sure how great thats going for them.
https://www.armyupress.army.mil/Journals/NCO-Journal/Archive...
In VA hospitals it was not uncommon to give a patient N beers per day to match their typical consumption to avoid them going into alcohol withdrawal during their stay.
In the contrary, AirBnb only makes sense for a larger group of people. For solo travel, hostels or hotels offer much better value. But for a group of 3-5 friends, it's often significantly less expensive to book an apartment then multiple hotel rooms, and you get a kitchen to cook in to boot.
AirBnBs can have yards, kitchens, multiple bedrooms, and locations hotels don't exist. I think those are the main things that benefitted them as they grew, and that market is still largely only served by AirBnB and VRBO. I haven't had the problems that everyone else in the thread seems to have, but that could be because of the places I choose. They have filters for no-contact check-in, so I have never once had to meet the "host".
What's in This Course?
Welcome to the MS-500 course on GitBit! In this course, you'll learn everything you need to know to pass the MS-500: Microsoft 365 Security Administration. You'll also learn everything you need to know to secure your Office 365 tenant. Throughout this course, we'll be doing a ton of lectures and a ton of hands-on. For a hands-on experience, we'll be using a free Microsoft 365 tenant.

What's in the MS-500
The MS-500: Microsoft 365 Security Administration is a 40-60 question exam that includes multiple-choice, drag and drop, as well as, hands-on labs. It covers a wide variety of security and administration topics on Microsoft 365.

Here's a quick break-down from Microsoft on what's covered in the MS-500:

Implement and manage identity and access (35-40%)
Secure Microsoft 365 hybrid environments
Secure Identities
Implement authentication methods
Implement conditional access
Implement roles and role groups
Configure and manage identity governance
Implement Azure AD Identity Protection
Implement and manage threat protection (25-30%)
Implement and manage Microsoft Defender for Identity
Implement device threat protection
Implement and manage device and application protection
Implement and manage Microsoft Defender for Office 365
Monitor Microsoft 365 Security with Azure Sentinel
Implement and manage Microsoft Cloud App Security
Implement and manage information protection (10-15%)
Manage sensitive information
Manage Data Loss Prevention (DLP)
Manage data governance and retention
Manage governance and compliance features in Microsoft 365 (20-25%)
Configure and analyze security reporting
Manage and analyze audit logs and reports
Discover and respond to compliance queries in Microsoft 365
Manage regulatory compliance
Manage insider risk solutions in Microsoft 365
Yep.. showed up at my Airbnb in NYC around 8pm. Followed the instructions texted to me by the host, let myself in and waited in the living room with no one around, not sure which room was mine.

Host came after 30 mins to tell me he double booked me and that I had to leave. He could barely make eye contact with me.

!

The only thing airbnb did for me was to give me a coupon for my next booking. It was small, and expired before I was able to use it.
At the same time, it's not possible to eliminate all risk from life. Even if all cars disappeared overnight, pedestrians are still getting killed by cyclists for example. And with cars gone there would be a huge increase in cycling, thus cycling-involved deaths.

In such a world (where cars disappeared) would we be having this thread about a need to now ban all bicycles?

To some extent there will always be some risk, just need to find ways to minimize it while balancing utility.
It's not just Snap that does it. Instagram and Facebook did the same several years ago when I quit, and I haven't received any nag emails in a long time from them.
I understand where you're coming from, however this exact type of logic of separation of powers has only ever been invoked when trying to protect inhumane policies in the US.

For example, Colorado and other states have legalized weed. They don't need to wax poetic about separation of powers etc to defend their position, because everyone understands that this is exactly what the Federal system was designed for. To allow states to augment their economies and taxation systems as they see fit (going back to colonial era reasoning).

Throughout US history the most vocal proponents of states rights have been those who attempt to limit personal liberties. They first use the constitution as a jumping board, arguing that "it's not explicitly stated in the constitution!" because the constitution is limited and vague (The founding fathers intentionally kicked the can down the road for racial issues). Technically, the regressives are right here, but they are hiding behind legalism to protect their abhorrent viewpoints.

"If it's so popular then just vote on it then!"

Unfortunately it's not so simple. At the Federal level, a filibuster proof majority is required in the Senate (non-proportional) as well as full control of all three branches of government (president and congress are also non-proportional, although in a different way). So it's incredibly difficult to pass overwhelmingly popular legislature/amendments in the US. Which is precisely why we have seen most of our civil rights gains over the last 50 years be accomplished through the court system. At the state level, there is no filibuster (mostly) and so there is no mechanism for a minority to halt legislation at the state level.

This kind of game has been played out for the last 200 years. Yes rules are important, but the reactionaries in US history have typically "meta-gamed" the flaws in our system that were overlooked by the founding fathers in order to preserve horrendous practices. That's not to say that there is no benefit to our checks and balances, but when it comes to things like civil rights, gay marriage, and abortion, the opposing side is mostly meta-gaming and exploiting checks and balances negatively.

To sum up, corruption in the third world occurs by circumventing the laws. Corruption in the US occurs when you put someone in a position of power to interpret the laws the way you want them to. If you need sources, I can provide.

> No other developed country has approached the abortion issue by saying "pfft the rules don't matter."

The Roe decision was not made on "rules don't matter" it was an extension of the due process clause in the 14th amendment. The overturning of it was made on interpretations of common law going back to the 14th century, the main point of argument being that there was "no innate protection of abortion as a fundamental right".
Walmart certainly had 1,760+ PS3s in their warehouses at one point. So the Air Force could have just direct purchased from Walmart (or Target, etc.) if Sony didn't want to sell to them.

2010: 2882 US Super Centers + 608 Sam's Club + 1578 Mexico stores + 321 Canada stores = 5389 stores

People underappreciated the scale of big box national retail. ;)

https://corporate.walmart.com/newsroom/2010/11/03/walmart-st...
Are you not allowed to return ballots via the mail?