skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A boss-type one time: "When I was with X, I built four datacenters"

Me, with a career that overlaps a time when one or two people building a datacenter with a little help from contractors for e.g. the electrical work and hvac, wasn't unheard of, for about three seconds, in my head: "Damn, that's pretty impressive"

Me, by the end of the three seconds: "Oh, he means he told other people to build four datacenters and that was very likely the extent of his involvement."
If you were building a supercomputer the CBE’s peculiarities (specifically the SPEs) were what you wanted.

And the 360 didn’t use SPEs, it has a pretty standard 3-core CPU built out of the PPE. The weird-ass structure of the CBE was not why it switched (although PPC might be).
Yup, if anything is killing CL, its Facebook Marketplace which is sad because Facebook Marketplace is an awful user experience even before you consider the scamming and spamming.

- The search doesn't support basic boolean modifiers such as AND, OR, NOT, or quotation (try to find a "day bed" without getting flooded with "bed" results)

- their filter complications (e.g. vehicle year) are completely hardcoded (try searching for a motorcycle instead of a vehicle and you completely lose vehicle specific filtering)

- they untoggle "local pickup only" whenever possible to force you into seeing "ships to you" results

- They will deliver you an infinite number of results even when the number of relevant results is few, including in violation of the filters you set like distance or vehicle make.

- More relevant results will end up interspersed with very irrelevant ones, forcing you to keep scrolling to find what you are looking for.

All of these things coincidentally have the result of keeping you on the site longer and seeing more ads in opposition to the implied goal of connecting buyers and sellers effectively. This is particularly bad in my opinion because every failure of FB to connect a buyer and seller is both a potential purchase of a new piece of junk and a potential trashing of the old, still functional piece of junk.

FB Marketplace is an amazing example of social network effects and the power of social networks to use them to demolish competition with a (intentionally? imo, yes) worse version of the service.
All else being equal it's still potentially meaningful stimulus. There's no way it doesn't translate if you're training wrapped in a way that would stimulates hypertrophy or strength increase - it's an offset upwards, sure, but the muscles will still respond to the work.
Yes.

https://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=bbc%20news%20dying%20w...
even though it's relatively close to a monopoly and sometimes there are literally no other options

That's wild hyperbole. Hotels, motels, hostels, B&Bs. Plus all the hometstay alts, like VRBO, Flipkey, Vacasa, CouchSurfing, etc...
There are two ways differential equations can involve more than one variable.

dx/dt = stuff

dy/dt = stuff

OR

dt/dx = stuff

dt/dy = stuff

Require very different approaches.
Management Time: Who’s Got the Monkey?
What Environmental Regulations Mean for Fab Construction
>One of the last examples I remember is about 18 months ago I noticed everyone, everywhere, as if coordinated by some unseen entity, started replying "oof" to everything. Maybe this really is just a variant of the Bader-Meinhof phenomenon (another one of "those little memes" you mentioned, heh).

Maybe but I think it is just more social signalling, to either show you are part of the opposition or to highlight the comment for like minded people. Similar to other comments : Yikes, Wrong side of history, a bad look, etc. Most of these comments are made on highly political threads, highly controversial topics such as system-d don't seem to evoke these kind of comments. That leads me to think that they are more emotional in nature than analytical.
> You could just not buy from Apple.

The hardware scene is, in practice, quite monopolistic. This is especially true nowadays that Apple’s chips are vastly outcompeting others. I don’t know if this is because of some nefarious schemes or not, but even if it is a natural monopoly, it’s still a monopoly that might take years to be undone.

There is no reason to extend this hardware monopoly to software as well though. Apple can enjoy their great margin on their hardware, without also controlling everyone’s most intimate devices.
This seems unrelated to your original point about safety of baggage handling workers. The purpose of a max single bag weight is to facilitate handling. The purpose of a per passenger baggage allowance surely is to manage total plane load, hence high excess charges.

Even first class passengers can't turn up with unlimited luggage but, in my experience relating to families flying between London and the middle East, have household staff who make arrangements and coordinate with carriers.
A lot of people buy a car every n years. For them it doesn’t matter if it lasts longer. How do you quantify how much longer cars last? Maybe people use them longer because cars are better or maybe they use them longer because they can’t afford new cars.

The paper towel is a bad example because you clearly can quantify the number of sheets. It gets more tricky if you say new paper towels are more absorbent so you need less so there is no inflation although the sheet costs more. How do you measure that? These metrics are way too easy to be gamed. Next is apples costing twice as much but they are crunchier so no inflation?
Sony actually officially supported it at the time... and then realized that since PS3 was sold at a massive loss, selling thousands of units to bulk customers who would never buy any games was costing them millions.

Subsequent consoles dropped the "sell the hardware at a loss, make it up on games" model, they only lose money during a brief window at launch and then economies of scale take over and most of the console life it's profitable. It's likely that other kinds of hardware also share this model but we just don't hear about it - steam deck is running tight margins and day-1 sales are more expensive than the "average" unit sold mid-gen or late-gen, so similarly they are probably selling day-1 units at a loss even if they make a profit on the expected cost.

https://www.extremetech.com/gaming/325504-sony-finally-turns...

Of course... even though sony is selling the hardware at a profit, they still maintain the lock-in, just like apple/etc. The linux feature never came back even though the reason for the removal went away.
By the time I started playing it was more common to ransom & kill than just to ransom.

Repeat custom is a rarity in the pirate business
When someone asks for a trade, my typical response is that I will trade them for cash, then they can use that cash to trade for the other thing they want. It usually makes the point of why money was invented.
Fission.codes: Elliptic Curve Cryptography
This sounds like it could become dangerous for guests. e.g. a host doesn't want to host you, but they also don't want to lose $1,000. So you show up at their house and they convince you that it's in your best interest to cancel the reservation on your end... or else.

I've had >1 Uber driver call me and ask me to cancel the request on my end because he realized he couldn't get to me for X reason, and he didn't want the cancellation to negatively impact his driver account.
Rust MSRV Policy for Libc Crate
> Old

Rolling your eyes for the term of a kid /J

("Kid" being originally "young goat".)
> 800mg is prescription strength

Makes sense that my dr/nurse friends are the ones that told me to do 800mg when I use it (and it worked much better). I typically don't take painkillers, and ibuprofen isn't something to be taken everyday anyway.
Personally I see this as indicating it is dominated by learning method.

The autism end is highly skilled individual learning, either intrinsically or because of social deprivation during development. This does not mean they can’t learn socially, but that social learning is a net loss for them and they become a commons (in the tragedy of the commons sense)

The schizophrenia end is predominantly social learning, where either individual learning skill is not as high, leading to bad outcomes and seeking confirmation, or early social opportunity is atypically high, leading to a bias for social interaction.

This can be either based on skills/ability or more simply on differing intensity of affect as experienced in different settings.
why on earth would you move back to NJ?They didnt make you suffer enough the first time around?
Ibuprofen or other NSAIDs taken in high enough concentrations for long enough can lead to peptic ulcers, and depending on the person those concentrations can be within the recommended dosing limits.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5478398/
My company sponsored a coding livestream recently that featured a dev integrating with our product and I was astonished at how excited folks were to have a chance to win a t-shirt.
In situations like this Airbnb usually helps the renter find comparable accommodations as a replacement. My guess is that this will give them more leeway to find replacements that are more expensive, and offset the cost onto the cancelling host, which feels very fair to me.
Why are people still rolling the dice with AirBnB.

I stayed in one once, in 2018. It was a neutral experience. But certainly not better than a hotel. Unsure of the price as I didn't personally pay for it. Getting in initially was more work than a hotel, but not horribly so.

But after what they do to the housing situation, the numerous shitty hosts sometimes doing blatantly illegal things, things like the above, etc. I'd rather not have all that on my mental plate while trying to find accomodation. Book a hotel, call it a day. Hotels exist to solve the problem or temporary accommodation. They've been doing it for decades.

The only way I'd use an AirBnB is if the choices for hotels didn't exist for some reason. Like with Uber/Lyft and Taxis. Uber is still useful in some scenarios, but for the most part, take a Taxi if you're in a city.
If you push this far enough then you can argue inflation away from almost anything.
The Art of On-Premise Development
I repeat that it’s final price and no-negotiation etc. This is stated in all communication. I have a good hourly rate so inconveniences quickly stop being worth my time. Lowballers don’t read. They’re professionally annoying for a living and there’s very little you can do about it if the marketplace allows it. Also Lowballers ask ridiculous prices, like 90% off an already 50% discount, they know what they’re doing and it must work for them often enough for them to do this seemingly full time.
I think history (if there is any) will judge harshly the decision to allow the use of neonicotinids.

In addition to general habitat destruction, the indisciminate obliteration of insect populations is going to bite humanity on the ass in ways we can't even imagine yet.
Are these the same type of Monarch butterlies found in NZ?

https://www.stuff.co.nz/environment/127540958/new-zealands-m...
I see, thank you! Very interesting!
Better late than later I guess

But this was long overdue. Some cities are rife with Airbnb scams

You can pretend only the technology matters but customer service can sink or swim a service. And I don't get why Airbnb is not apparently paying attention to those issues
Hey, thanks for the recommendations! These sound great.
Sounds super cool. Also great to have you sharing this on HN. Really adds to this thread.
Of course, but as parent comment suggests, not everyone knows this.
Internal plumbing is largely unchanged. Sure, there's more flexible pipe, and a lot more plastic pipe, and a lot more quarter turn valves, but thread pitch and pipe diameters are largely unchanged and unchangable.
me too. Large, even medium-large private bureaucracies may have also made it a challenge.
That's what I said too. The article seems to describe scales rather than dimensions. They specifically say there's just one flow of time. But as one the comments below says, there are two time-translation symmetries. Which in certain contexts can be thought of as multiple scales. It is also very common in the real world
Do we really know that? I’m guessing it will give Airbnb the leeway to rebook people in more expensive accommodations as a replacement if needed. It’s not in their best interests for people to be left high and dry.
Yes, it is best if you use the "unique ID", available in the source HTM in case the URL contains a "human readable" version.
This is weirdly confrontational, my therapist would not recommend writing an email to a professor who wronged me even on some abstract level. That's not how a psychologist counsellor would suggest confronting one's grief.
Apparently not in this case. But Greg Egan (of course it's Greg Egan) has written an entire novel about a civilization of sentient creatures inhabiting a universe with a (+,+,-,-) metric – time is still one-dimensional in their universe, but one of the spatial dimensions is hyperbolic: https://www.gregegan.net/DICHRONAUTS/DICHRONAUTS.html
Rereading their statement, these are platform fees, of course they go to Airbnb. Not guessing, just reading between the lines.

https://www.airbnb.co.uk/help/article/990/host-cancellation-...

It's plain as day, the fees are charged to the host, and thus Airbnb takes the fees.
China’s Top Chipmaker Achieves Breakthrough Despite US Curbs
Interesting, I also had this dream 10 years ago and did it, but for my programming language ACPUL.. and ACPUL can be easily converted to Lisp. Here is a demo https://vimeo.com/manage/videos/732098541 and there is much more than a web browser here :)
Craigslist is one of those silent tech companies which are making bank (1+ bn in revenues) by flying under the radar and having very few employees.

Does anybody know of other websites like this, perhaps in other countries?

VK.com essentially gets by just by copying American social media companies functionality and offering them to people living in the former USSR.
We're talking the basic case. I visit website X, look at item Y, purchase item Y, then get advertising for item Y for the next Z days.

You can throw your hands up and yell impossible by looking for outliers with just about anything
Would it be ok if Facebook hired someone who was part of the Sinaloa Cartel?

If you hire ex-CIA, that tells me everything about your ethics (or lack there of).
Dominating? In the way a bacteria dominates a petrie dish until it exhausts all the resources and dies off?
Recovering former philosopher (well, grad student) here, can one of you say more about why "the split does seem irrelevant these days"?
whilst I completely agree the correct resolution is to speak to the boss about credit and move on if you're not in agreement, it sounds like the sort of story to be wary about mentioning in future interviews ("I left that company because someone else took all the credit for work I did" raises awkward questions about communication and expectations which "because I won't commit felonies..." doesn't).

On the plus side, if a project's gone really well and is very important for the personal prestige of your line manager and the line manager is a little bit nervous about being unable to maintain and expand the thing he's getting credit for .... that sounds like a good time to ask for a pay rise or other improvements to your contract. That might be far more useful than the boss publicly conceding how little of the work was his own, and he can even spin the outcome as how effectively he saved the company money by hiring such a good quality remote subcontractor at initially below market rates!
SNAP IPO'ed at $17.60 and it's close to 50% of that now, so this isn't just losing the covid-era gains.
The main problem with Rincewind is that the entry point for his story is The Color of Magic+The Light Fantastic, which as the first two Discworld novels are much weaker than later books in the series. Guards Guards is just a much better first book to read, that or Equal Rites is more representative of the quality Discworld would come to have.

Then again my first Discworld novel was Making Money and I loved it even without context (and the “Industrial Revolution” sub-series starting with moving pictures remains my favorite to this day), so you could probably just start at Sourcery and go from there anyway.
A book I found interesting on that is: How to measure anything [ https://www.thriftbooks.com/w/how-to-measure-anything-findin... ]

There were certain areas that seemed unquantifiable before reading this and it has some good suggestions for how to tackle things like measuring risk and other intangibles.
What a keeper!
Can confirm that. If you're drunk, drink as much water as you can, expel it and drink again; this will help a lot to soften and shorten the hangover, effectively reducing the amount of alcohol in the blood.
The host should pay the same penalty as the guest if they cancel. No refund policy for me? Then pay the full amount to me when you cancel.
It's not a scam, its capitalism. Supply and demand 101 with the gig economy.
That's a nightmare-level experience! The scary part about AirBnB is how differently hosts can handle things.

I've used AirBnB only once exactly for these reasons. That uncertainty is killer when I'm gonna be staying in a city where I don't know anyone who lives there and can help me get out of a jam. There's a piece of mind to getting a hotel and knowing for sure that I will have somewhere to stay. If something goes wrong, there's a company policy I can review that has explicit steps for recourse.
This has been one of my favorite shirts for years. I also did the same thing :)
If you've never read any Pratchett and want to try it out, rather than read one of the many Discworld novels, or any of his sci-fi, or the Bromeliad or Johnny Maxwell trilogies, I'd instead recommend the stand-alone novel Nation. It is my opinion that it is the most concise demonstration of everything great about Pratchett's writing.
> What happens when installing Facebook requires this setting to be disabled because it's only installable with their own App Store and rampant with privacy intrusions?

You can then add a regulation that all popular social apps need a web version that is fully functional. If the OS should support the necessary web APIs for a good app experience, people can choose that instead.

Considering the app permissions are still controllable via the OS, I don’t see how the app can become “intrusive” anyway. Just deny it the unnecessary permissions.
They're public now. No more undercutting hotels off the teat of venture capital. Now they're in the uncharted waters of having to make a profit.
One time they booked me for a place that wasn't even supposed to be listed lol. If I'm planning the trip it's always going to be a hotel.
Show HN: Formie – an open source (WIP) form website made with pure HTML/JS/CSS
Hey HN,

First time submitter here.

After a FOSS related interaction required me to use Google Forms 9 months, I wondered on why no such FOSS tool existed and decided to build it myself. I aimed the site to be for people like me, so no telemetry and minimal JS was the goal. I know this is rather small and incomplete compared to other projects but I've thought you folk might be interested.

Not sure if it breaks the pure part, but the site also uses Flask.

If you're lucky, you might find the app alive at: https://formie.div72.xyz.
I remember the original twitter thread on the topic but haven't heard much about it since then. It would be interesting to see a nice arxiv submissions with some initial experiments across common tasks and architectures. Would also be interested in hardware efficient versions for fixed point data.

Here is some background and more thoughts/references on this on this topic:
https://github.com/brohrer/sharpened-cosine-similarity
Surprised but not surprised at how many commenters are fed up with Airbnb. After ~20+ stays with a few frustrating experiences, I had my breaking point about a year ago. After ~20 hours of flights, I landed in my destination city at 10pm only to receive a message from the host telling me to go to an address different than the listing. There were no pictures of the new place and it was in a different neighbourhood which was no longer walking distance to where I had work meetings. Plus, it just felt unsafe and sketchy. AirBnB eventually refunded me, but I still paid more for a hotel and lost many hours on the phone with customer service. I haven't used Airbnb since.
Matched Filters
Now that I'm reading all these horrible experiences, I'm wondering why there isn't a review system for businesses where I can read about such issues? I guess Trustpilot has a rating for Airbnb, but it's not very well known. How else could we make other consumers aware of such cases?
Depends on Proof-Of-Work method.
Its worth noting that on both the Rockland County and NYC sides, these outbreaks are largely contained to ultra-Orthodox Jewish communities that operate sort of adjacent to secular society.

Not that this excuses anything; much has been written about the challenges within and around these communities and the lives of people within them. But the issue is less that the modern public health apparatus has collapsed and more that there are large groups of people in these areas who have extreme religious views and generally seek isolation from the secular world - an isolation that extends up to and includes public education and public health.
For me the winner with Jetbrains is that I can see clear prices, the product is defined and I can cancel easily.

With other enterprise products it takes forever to get pricing, scope of what you buy and how to cancel.

A while ago we had to price Windows for 5000 custom devices and it was infuriating to go through a convoluted process with lots of different people, meetings and whatever.
I love the idea of Airbnb but have been burned by their terrible customer service so many times that I just get hotels again.
Chinese gamers are using a Steam wallpaper app to get porn past the censors
In Russian, it is called grib, aka mushroom
Having worked on both python and ruby applications in my professional life, I am shocked that anybody could claim that ruby is in any way ... readable.
Docs are critical! This article focuses on awareness, but if you create awareness but developers see out of date, missing or incorrect docs, they'll bounce.

I ran a twitter poll on whether devs would prefer missing or out of date docs; was interesting to see the results (N was small though): https://twitter.com/mooreds/status/1517508537945001984

That said, it's a struggle. Sure, there are some pieces of doc you can generate (API docs, for sure) but others are more conversational and can get out of date.
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Social media is great if it is not controlled by government, for profit corporations, and AI. This is why I run my own social media servers in the fediverse: Mastodon, Pleroma, Peertube..
The USAF uses them for Predator drone flying as well.

I'm not really a pacifist but there is something profoundly unsettling about real-life Call of Duty.
> Unfortunately, their poor vaccination culture caused Measles to spread to neighboring New York City, and then across the country.

Is it accurate to single out Rockland County?

Maybe my reasoning is too simplistic here, but I'd think NYC was only vulnerable if they too had a poor vaccination culture.
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He didn't write the paper I'm criticizing
How do we decide which cases to prosecute? Do we convene a grand jury for every miscarriage? Do you have any idea how many investigations this would be per year?

If you don't investigate every miscarriage, what's the criteria for getting the state involved? Do you wait for family or neighbors to report a crime? Do you track medical appointments and make a judgement as to when a birth was expected and didn't happen?

I'm not sure you've thought this through.