skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It is surprisingly cheap to buy out politicians.

We just need to crowd source them away from Industry/Oil&Gas interests.

This is way easier than political reform against lobbying/corruption/nepotism.

Find somewhere near you and get involved:

https://citizensclimatelobby.org/about-ccl/chapters/
Out of curiosity, I took a look at the author's commits on github[1] just to see how bad a person's commits can be when they think "Commit Messages Don't Matter" ... Surprisingly, most of his commits were not bad at all. In fact, most of them started with a clean, short, one-sentence imperative summary in present-tense, followed by multi-line detailed explanation when needed with short line length. They are a lot better than the average commit quality I see in many FOSS projects.

1. https://github.com/search?q=author%3Ar2d4
Criminality wasn't part of the question.
FYI: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_data_structures
> Maybe U.S. is not anymore entitled for this title.

The term is a Cold War relic in any case.
I’m saying that “If only we didn’t eat beef” is not a workable solution.

What’s important is that people realize they are proposing solutions that sound good but are not helpful.

Half the Amazon will be torched before you realize this?
> [...] I think it's something outside the box of both hard links and symbolic links.

Absolutely agreed – given your examples and all the other challenges around backwards compatibility with decades of application code, I'd also assume it would be something new entirely.

But my guess is that it would be able to meet the existing use cases of both.
Here's the case I'll make:

The radical Mormon sects, to my understanding (which is limited to Under the Banner of Heaven[1]) have somewhat strong textual justifications for their practices: it's a matter of historical fact that the early Mormons were polygamists, were vitriolic racists, &c.

This is in contrast to both reactionary evangelicals (who do not make up all evangelicals) and Hasidic Jews (who are do not make up the entire Orthodox community), where both groups have largely substituted contemporary doctrine (as a conservative religious expression) for historical (and even canonical) interpretations. Compare evangelical interpretations of capitalism (and the "doctrine of wealth") to descriptions of wealth and charity thoughout both the Old and New Testaments. Similarly, Hasidic interpretation to pillars of Jewish doctrine (Pikuach Nefesh, Tikkun Olam).

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Under_the_Banner_of_Heaven
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> Are you talking about how the Federal Reserve targets 2% inflation?

Specifically 2% inflation defined in terms of a consumer price index where the cost to produce manufactured goods is continually dropping. Draw a diagram of the feedback loop, and you'll see that the only way to make that target happen is for the cost of non-offshore-manufactured goods to increase much quicker than 2% to compensate.

Put another way, manufacturing was offshored with the idea it would lead to cheap prices, and then the Federal Reserve went and deliberately stopped those cheaper prices from happening. This left Americans with fewer jobs but also no increased economic power to make up for it.

> It's important that nominal prices increase. Otherwise, people just old on to their money and the economy slows down

I understand the orthodoxy, but the computing industry has had four decades of overwhelming deflation and has been quite vibrant the entire time.

Re: sheet metal, how much is the tooling cost to create a die for 1/4 inch steel? I don't have much experience, but at the relatively low quantity a municipality wants CNC plasma might still make more sense. That seems to be the case for tractor implements.
I managed to get like 800€ back through PayPal after the company I bought something from went into bankruptcy, although that was probably because they never actually answered PayPal's inquiry. No idea what would've happened if they did.
Having worked briefly in military procurement, I can tell you the system is set up in a very bureaucratic way.

Certainly there are companies that the military wants to buy from. For all the shit about the F-35, Lockheed Martin probably employs some of the greatest engineering teams on the planet.

The C-130, for example, is probably one of if not the greatest aircraft ever designed.

Anyways, there are certain companies that make things militaries want to buy, but for more mundane things like computers and pens and chairs, either there's a negotiated standing offer that legally has to be the first point of procurement, or it goes out to contracts. Unfortunately winning government contracts is a bit of a skill in and of itself and some firms have that skill and others don't.
Robert Sedgewick has a great explanation in his Algorithms book. He has gorgeous diagrams alongside his explanations.
... but that window is a 2D lattice, with a 2D shadow.

> For every quasicrystal, there's a higher-dimension crystal that it is a shadow of.

So what's the 3d crystal whose shadow is the Penrose tiling? The article says it's a "projected slice of a 5D lattice", which I really struggle to visualize.

Or perhaps easier, what's the regular 2D pattern of which the Fibonacci sequence is a projection?
Credit card fraud protection? Try calling them and tell them how your credit card was abused by ovh?
Working YouTube URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=edTgi7f1NlY
In all fairness, the situation OP described did not immediately strike the idea of a biking hotspot to me.
Could you point me to any resources on the mod for the 2020? I also have an i5 MBA and am interested in this. Google gave me trash results!
The last few hotels I've stayed at, including one in Seattle, didn't do housekeeping unless you were staying more than 2 nights and then only on request. They would happily send up more towels or whatever you need but were limiting the number of rooms they actually entered each day. Covid was the excuse but really I think it was short staffing.

Either way, I'm shocked that they would refuse to clean your room for a week. Of course, if you didn't ask, they won't.
I know someone who has been sick with polio for all of her life, she's really old now. Her body is broken, although not completely paralized. That virus is a nasty piece of work.
Ultra orthodox is just another term for extremism. Extremists are not rational. Even within something that's irrational like religion they have even more absurdly irrational views.
I am reminded of the recent experiment confirming quantum mechanics: reality does not exist until it is measured, but once measured it is a shared reality among the observers[0]. And what is measurement? The assigning of names such that the name can be shared among observers - and once the names are assigned, you can manipulate the names in a more (mathematic) or less (poetic) rigorous fashion (there are, of course, gradations in rigor). So: Anglo-French rationalism is true, at least for pure mathematics which explicitly disclaims application to any specific real-world object - but once we start discussing experience, perception (an accumulation of measurements, again, more or less rigorous) must occur so that reason can be applied. Until each of us has multiple universe-size supercomputers available, mathematical rigor cannot be applied to to the most important aspects of life, such as love (and even then, only if it escapes a Goedel-like undecidability).

[0] https://www.science.org/content/article/reality-doesn-t-exis...
Z/w sex chromosome elements.
Cheap junk flooding Amazon has brand names like MOFFBUZW
Nuclear power plants are struggling to stay cool
> Unexpectedly, the battery life improved too.

Is this because the fan isn't used as much? I generally assume that anything involving moving parts uses lots of energy, comparatively speaking.
> Do you expect Paypal to go to OVH, knock down their door and demand the money back?

Normally that's what Paypal is for. They're not going to burst through any doors but if a vendor wants to keep using their services they surely have a lot of leverage.
He's saying he's morally opposed to dispute resolution methods that Paypal can't ignore and wants a way to resolve this dispute using a method that they can ignore.

Makes total sense; I don't know why you'd question it!
If your family owns a business, it’s pretty normal for the children to work there. And if that business is a farm it’s going to be pretty hard work, harder than us office dwellers probably ever worked.
+1. Metrics for systems have very clear benefits. It lets you know what's wrong and because systems are technical things, they (generally unless you run up against a work political boundary) have clear solution paths. People are nothing like technical systems.
Where can you rent a desktop? Or do you mean cloud services?
You're almost there, but not quite.
ACA incentivizes the disease insurance companies to spend more on disease care (machines, drugs, processors, etc.), not to ameliorate costs. Executive bonuses, marketing, overhead, almost come from 20% of total costs, so the only way to get a bigger bonus is for the whole pie to grow.

Even before that, litigation encourages the same.

Companies (hospitals and the like) in the US resell (or used to) perfectly good equipment abroad with a huge discount after it's been used so that it can be replaced with the newest model with the shiniest bells and most expensive cost to avoid a lawsuit.
I'm not a professional in the biz, but I always figured a poisoned pot could be catastrophic. What I mean is, once something has been accepted into the model, when it is discovered to be wrong or even malicious, it would hard to get rid of it if a lot of other "learning" has occurred before the problematic bits were noticed.

You could investigate and figure out where the poisoning occurred and then start anew from there, but the longer it takes, the more you lose.
Neat, has this been reproduced in laboratory?
> The reason AirBNB will always have garbage service is because the hosts are their moneymakers, not you. The host has the property, the host sets the price, the host assumes all responsibility (even if they often do not live up to those responsibilities).

I disagree. The marketplace is the moneymaker. It would be like saying that app makers are the moneymakers, and not the iOS/Android store as a whole marketplace.
Hmm, that's a point I hadn't considered. Thank you.
“At IKEA the security of our customers’ private information is of utmost importance [...]

It'd be nice if the companies slurping up and indefinitely storing numerous data points about the intricacies of my shopping/web-browsing/whatever habits stopped telling me they care about my privacy.

As a silver lining, at least in this case the only data they are reporting as leaked is the same data that has been leaked about 78 other times by other companies that also really care about my privacy (name, email, phone, postal). Yay.
I agree - that information is all copied with fidelity from the cited sources. Not my own.
In Oz, you can often and easily find rooms in an ordinary motel that has pots and pans, a little 2 element cooktop/oven combo & a sink. They're more expensive to rent of course, but they're very widely available.

We also have serviced apartments, designed for the longer stays, but are generally only to be found on the cities.
Apple cannot ‘location track you’ using Bluetooth. How do you imagine that’d work?
You are much kinder than I am. I believe it has much more in common with astrology than philosophy.

In fact, it is hard for me to differentiate between the two.
Great that you were able to build it.

Something similar https://www.sheet2site.com/

Also google search yeilds at least 5 similar services.
The person you are replying to is explaining why Apple doesn't do it. They didn't say anything about third party modifications.

Someone who modifies their own laptop is not going to sue themselves over it, so that concern obviously doesn't apply to that scenario :)
This is interesting because I run a SaaS service that uses PayPal for subscription payments (we don't do recurring payments, users must initiate each payment explicitly). Anyway over the years we have had various customers who for whatever reason decided they regretted paying us after the fact. Generally we just refund them but in a few cases the situation was pretty egregious and we felt the customer was not by any reasonable viewpoint due a refund. Guess what? in no case were we able to keep the money. In every single case PayPal gave our money back to the customer. So I wonder what magical power OVH has to get the opposite treatment.
Do you mean permanent infertility, or just for the sperm that are currently present? I have to imagine it's the latter, which is not a big deal for anyone not looking to conceive. If there were persistent effects (even short of full infertility), that could be a much more serious issue.
All those vaccinations will be the inactivated polio vaccine, since it's the only polio vaccine in use in the USA since 2000: https://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/vpd/polio/index.html
My brother in law still does exactly that.
I have used AirBnB on at least 20 different occasions and had almost entirely fantastic experiences (and maybe 3 sub par ones). So you can add that to your anecdotal evidence.
All these stories are worrying. Paypal used to always side with the customer (who is after all the one paying them) but it seems there has been a shift in policy.
I'm not sure if the article clarified, but I was under the impression the $11-20k was the incremental cost per unit. They said the whole project has spent $550,000. Hopefully they got more than 3 trashcan prototypes and a QR code to an online survey for that.
Increasing labor costs plus increasing energy costs has led to lowered productivity (productivity is the value of output vs. the cost of input).

No need for the OP to grind their axe.
It's really on AirBnb to fix this then. I'm sure if you created a support case with them and pushed for it being escalated that they would make it right. Annoying for customers having to go through that, though.
Carbon Language: An experimental successor to C++ – Chandler C. CppNorth 2022
Yeah, thanks.

I rotate the exercises. Right now it's squats, push-ups, sit-ups, and pull-ups. I've done variations on all those in the past. Like, squat variations can be lunges, jump-squats, etc. Since all suits add up to the same number, the association between the exercise and suit is just incidental. I was working on single-arm push-ups, but hurt my shoulder and had to go back down to just regular push-ups.

I'll rotate card decks too. There are some fun little games out there that you can steal card decks from. For instance, take the cards out of a Catan set and then assign exercises and values to them. Go get a 5 suited deck online. Or grab a new game you've not tried before at Target or wherever.

Recently, I've been using a Tarot deck. Minor arcana as I described above, major arcana as individual exercises. So 5 of cups is still something like 5 pull-ups. But the Empress is 10 burpees, the Tower is a 1 minute plank, that kind of stuff.

The key for me was the randomization element. Having the cards and exercises come out at random kept me from 'counting down the miles', so to speak. It keeps my mind fresh and guessing at the next thing and not just waiting for things to be done with.
> Especially since all the money from a console is from games sales.

Seems to me like that'd be more reason to offer a support contract and recoup some of the profits lost from the lack of game sales.
Hey, you're the one who brought it up.
You think IT likes it?

You think IT can fix the software?

No.

But if its antivirus or patching program. Come audit time:

"Hey IT, why isent software X installed on all computers?"

"Engineering dept found a way to disable it due to bugs in it!"

"rah rah unacceptable, you neeed to ensure this is installed, rah rah fix now etc etc"
Seems pretty obvious why, no need for such a click bait reaction. Keyboards and mouses connect via Bluetooth and accidentally turning these off can basically lock you out of your machine.

I like this approach and agree with it.
There is this religion that douses people with water or immerses them in water as an initiation ritual. This is called "baptism". If you think it is okay to do this more than once when it was first performed by the wrong people, you are an "anabaptist".
M1 MBA with academic discount?
> HN is generally okay with dissenting viewpoints.

No, it is not. HN is for more or less like-minded people and if you stay too far from the beaten path you risk the ire of moderators regardless of whether you are right or not.

Apparently this is the price of keeping it civilised.
I would be cautious of making group generalizations like that. If a couple idiots who call themselves physicists publish a terrible paper -- that doesn't indict all of psychics. Covid made every amateur virologist and wanna-be-scientist come out of the woodwork. Don't throw the baby out with the bathwater!
> In the unlikely event a Host needs to cancel your booking within 30 days of check-in, we’ll find you a similar or better home, or we’ll refund you.

Emphasis mine. A refund doesn't help when everything else is booked out and the only option costs 5 times more than your original booking.
Given the UK is falling as a world power and consumer market, won't this just lead to all major tech companies pulling everything out of the UK? I can't imagine Google/Meta/Amazon/Apple complying with this bullshit.
I think, at least for AB, that is (or was) one of the primary driving forces behind the low minimum age. Related; children of farmers used to get to start school a few weeks later than the children of non-farmers, to help with harvest and such. It's also one of the reasons for the low age requirement for driving license (14 instead of the usual 16).

But, at least in mine and my friends cases, we were working for fast food chains rather than family-owned businesses or farms.
You fell awfully quickly into deriding autistic people with a negative stereotype for someone who's not here to argue.
>> Phrasing a proposed bill as if it has taken effect is a standard tactic to evoke extra emotion resulting in extra clicks.

> A bill is a proposed law, by definition. You're assuming bad faith where there isn't any.

All kinds of crazy bills gets proposed that are DOA, especially at the state level. Evaluating some outrage-inducing one for clicks is still bad faith. The real question is "does it have a realistic chance of going anywhere?" If it doesn't, why is it being covered?

However, I can't really judge in this particular case, because the article is paywalled.
It seems that they are starting to make new releases again, only bugfixes...
> I opened as "order not received" because I canceled the instance before it got delivered.

If the order was canceled then how can it be claimed not received? The charge occurring on a canceled order is an unauthorized charge. I'd recommend to file that type of claim. They are different and OVH is being terse. It's something you can do before you call Saul.
A data breach simply means that in addition to that hundred of data brokers that ikea has contracts with, there will be another hundred that gets the same data for free.
Haven't done it myself, but here's a Reddit thread where someone walks through it: https://www.reddit.com/r/macbookpro/comments/ud73ve/thermal_...
That much more price just for 2" more? No way.
I absolutely adore the discworld books. I've reread many of them several times over the years, they are without doubt a significant contributor to both my world view, and my vocabulary. I can't wait to raise my children with them.

I typically recommend either Small Gods, Wyrd Sisters, Pyramids or Mort as an entry into the discworld. There are so many good start points though.

I can never decide whether to recommend reading a specific character arc, or to read them in publishing or chronological order. I've enjoyed re-reading character arcs a lot though.
BIP39 isn't perfect, but being able to relatively independently of all other information recover someone's wallet (next of kin, etc.) from some words is very nice. This system complicates things a lot -- a grid of custom construction which will possibly not be stored, ambiguity in specifying the graphical pattern, etc.
Thanks a lot about the "best"-link :)

(I use the "newest" from time to time)

I just became aware that "best" is apparently it's a hidden link/path, right? I don't see it listed at the top together with "new/past/etc...".
The problem is that assumed knowledge is so implicit. If you're not familiar with the norm, it's easy to get confused about what someone actually did. Add to that the inherent desire of our ego to over-inflate our own importance, and misunderstandings don't get corrected.

Personally, I prefer to call out leadership explicitly: "lead teams who built out four data centers."
I don't know if it's a danger or just the illusion of one, but one of the things that targeted ads supposedly avoid is that of influence. In theory if the floor wax I'm advertising in my hypothetical home improvement content decides that they have a personal issue with some of the ethics I have espoused, then there is pressure for me to change or lose the endorsement.

This could be either direction as well. We could disagree on anything from me showcasing work by a feminist or LGBTQ+ carpenter, to me making a statement about fair trade goods and one of their suppliers is in a country known for rampant human rights violations.

The problem I think is that life is full of compromises, and I don't know that the bargain we've made and are now experiencing the consequences of is a particularly good one.
I wouldn't expect that it's the sole cause of the current instability and troubles (there are a number of other obvious sources of perturbation), but it can't be entirely irrelevant that we've been going for ~50 years with minimal increases in real wages, and vast increases in income and wealth at the top, and then thrown in on top of it a global pandemic, a war in Europe creating supply shocks (particularly in energy), and now very, very clear signals that if you're not part of The Elect (rich non-queer white men), you're going to have your rights stripped away from you, including your (effective) right to vote (if you're a minority or queer in a red state) and your right to bodily autonomy (if you have a functioning uterus).

These things can have a real effect on how, and whether, people choose to spend.
Just buy a PC desktop or play on console... jesus...
In the end, Goonswarm is nothing but a tool for him. A way to make money and to feed his ego. I highly doubt this is anything but a tactic to move away from the limelight while maintaining tight control. The way Eve's mechanics work, he has to maintain that control or some fuckwad could tear it all down overnight.
Wouldn't have as big of an impact as you'd expect. A lot of airbnb's are dual listed on VRBO.
This reminds me of an incident a long time ago when we had issues with Compaq 386’s overheating. I came back from holiday to be told that they had solved it by adding a bigger fan. When I finally saw the offending machines they had their covers off and 15’ office fans pointing down onto the motherboard. Did the job though.
But what is the app store without the apps? What is AirBnB without the hosts?

It’s a moot point really anyway, because the important thing is it’s definitely not the users who are valued by the parent company in either case.
"But it's good for them to think about what public needs they can serve, even if the answers are sometimes surprising."

Oh, to this I can very much agree, also that compromises are important. There would be no use of closing everything down officially, to only then have people do it illegal with a worse impact. (but I am still dreaming of the day, when all the noisy engines are gone in nature..)