skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I live in a country where this is fully legal for many years now. Access is non-trivial and there's a formal procedure with checks and balances. You don't need to be terminally ill, but you do need 3 doctors to agree that you are in a state where you're suffering can't readily be solved. There are also waiting periods as well as a psychological screening. Afterwards, each case is also reviewed by a national board.

Most importantly: even to the very last second, the patient's decision matters and is final. And procedure requires to iterate reminding patient's agency over and over again.

Having that moral debate out of the way, far more interesting is that euthanasia only ever has a place in a functioning healthcare system and social security system that puts the person's interests in the center. That is, by the time an elderly person do becomes eligible, it's never because they are a "burden" to their families or society.

In fact, it's extended to psychiatric patients as well. People with severe clinical mental illness can be eligible. Paradoxically, it's been observed that a sizable chunk of patients do have the paperwork, but actually don't go through with it. Just the mere thought that it's a non-controversial, accepted option which negates taking matters in your own hands is enough for them to keep going. Again, it's not a "get out of jail free" card. You do need to go through a lengthy procedure with many evaluations, and only after all other options are exhausted, before you become eligible.
Interesting article, albeit 4 years old. Has anything changed?

It does make me think twice about ever using them again. They do have competition.
Much worse things happen at hotels
When your only innovation is a cut out hole and always on display, both of which have been on other phones for years, your only play is the color in which the messages appear.
> "If someone tells you a fact you already know, they’ve essentially told you nothing at all."

The reality of zero information transfer is more subtle than this quote makes it sound, and covers the point you raise. In reality, you must not just know the thing you are being told, but you also have to know in advance that it is the thing you are going to be told. So if I tell you "the sun is shining" when you already know it is, there is still information being transferred if I could also have said "yesterday it was raining". Only if "the sun is shining" is absolutely the only thing I could have said is it a zero information statement.
> there are university economic courses and textbooks on central banking

There are more people who would benefit from knowledge of the system than those for whom it makes sense to pursue those courses. The books suggested by the article are a good start. Anything focussing on Bretton-Woods is not.
Which shows why bans with no reason given (as is popular with many tech companies, citing that they don't want to tell abusers how they got caught) are so problematic for both sides: It will lead to the banned person speculating, usually incorrectly, and often publicly because a shitstorm on social media is the only remaining form of appeal.
Not entirely sure but op wanted advice on a laptop, not a phone
> basically the deeper theory is that any given personality type is similar to an illness in a lot of ways.

Yet oddly enough just about everyone has at least one MB type.
There’s always BEEN a lot of ANNOYING click-thirst content on the INTERNET but there’s something very META about so much clickbait “anti-scrollbait” winding up on the FRONT page of HN lately.
> But we have been noticing an unfortunate trend that some developers have chosen to work contrary to the component model, creating strong links to their own host runtimes. Going this route results in platform lock-in on one hand, and the pointless re-authoring of the same code (tooled for slightly different hosts) on the other.

Oh dear lord. This is such a twisted narrative. The Component Model is a proposal that is only supported by one runtime out of the 20 used in production, none of them in the browser (don't look for it in v8, SpiderMonkey or Javascript Core, Wazero, Wasmer, Wizard Engine, WAVM, ...). So if there's anything that actually locks you in... is probably that!

Even when Wasmer tried to add support for it on wit-bindgen (precursor for the Component Model), the same people from the Bytecode Alliance who are working on the Component Model proposal rejected it [1]. Do they really want collaboration and not lock-in? One begins to wonder.

It gets even more funny when you continue reading the article and you also realize that all people in the WasmDay committee that decides what get's in our out their CNCF conference are also part of the Bytecode Alliance. When the only competition they "cheer" is the one that comes from their approved friends.

I would highly encourage everyone to read some of the practices of the Bytecode Alliance that the AssemblyScript community has redacted, it might be eye opening! [2]

[1] https://github.com/bytecodealliance/wit-bindgen/issues/306

[2] https://www.assemblyscript.org/standards-objections.html
>> I’m a free marketeer. I believe that voluntary exchange is not just a good method of incentivizing people to provide their labor and talents to society, but a robust moral system — goods and services represent tangible benefit to people, market prices represent the true value of goods in society, and wages represent the value that a worker provides to others. Absent negative externalities or monopoly effects, a man receives from the free market what he gives to it, his material worth is a running tally of the net benefit that he has provided to his fellow man. A high income is not only justified, but there is nobility to it.

This author is thoroughly analytical, and explains in such good detail why consulting is the work of the devil. Yet, he doesn’t apply any of that to the tenets of American Free Market Capitalism, which proved over and over to be the enabler of both the business model he’s decrying, and the end reason for most of his misery.

This, ladies and gentlemen, is how efficiently capitalism is able to self-preserve itself.
Free market as a framework for the definition of value has proven to create distorsions and inequalities never before seen in society, but we still gotta drink the cool aid because… because there just nothing better than free market and it’s a dogma!

So the criticism stops at BCG, and not at the freaky system that made BCG possible.
You can add the names and emails of the friends you're traveling with, both so they can receive a copy of the itinerary and so the host can see it. It's not required, though, and in my history with Airbnb the host never cared.
Any Windows laptop older than 4 years should be obtainable for a song and work fine.
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Where do the photons come from?
Yes, this is a purely theoretical observation, and not relevant to any practical compression scheme.

In "algorithmic complexity" the time taken to run a program is not taken into account. There is another interesting complexity measure, Levin complexity, which does take time into account. See http://www.scholarpedia.org/article/Universal_search#Levin_c... .

Regarding "information for free", I think your thought about the program that prints all strings is absolutely correct - to count as an encoding of a string the program must print just that string and then halt.

What is uncomputable (in the general case) is the length of the shortest program that will encode a given string in that sense, IOW the "Kolmogorov complexity" of a string is uncomputable.

See [1] for a proof of this. Roughly:

Imagine a function K that computes Kolmogorov complexity, suppose the function occupies l bytes. Then consider a simple program P using this function which evaluates all strings until it finds a string s with complexity equal to l plus 10000000, then prints s and halts. Then P would have length less than l + 10000000 (because it is a tiny loop wrapped around K). But then the Kolmogorov complexity of s is equal to the length of P, because P simply prints s and halts, and P is shorter than (l + 10000000) - a contradiction. So there can be no computable function K.

1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kolmogorov_complexity#Formal_p...
Ahh, the ole' "go viral to get support" route.

Very good course of action, assuming you can go viral.
Foxpro was my jam. never liked anything but Foxpro, before or since.
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Its primary interface with user/developer is indeed JVM based languages. However, Android is more than that. It is a capability-based microkernel-like OS implementation on top of Linux. Everything in Android goes through IPC. Every process is heavily isolated using SELinux and permissions including drivers.
I’m living in a body I didn’t conceive.
Usually hotels have no kitchen you can cook something at, no desk I can work at, no sofa I can comfortably sit in, and often I can't even open the bloody window or control the temperature.

I think this is an important reason AirBnB took off: hotels are just horrible to stay at.
Because there's an essentially unlimited amount that's recoverable from seawater and more is always being added into solution from rocks. I gave a link already to one article on extraction from seawater, it's easy to find much more about that.
Do a bit of research on whatever you plan to buy though and see if someone has successfully gotten Linux to work on it. There was a recent period of time where the bargain bin laptops had totally bizarre configurations like a 64 bit OS support but 32 bit BIOS, or bleeding edge Intel SOCs with bad Linux support. I think things are better but still can't hurt to double check.
> Is there some secret menu I have to go to or something?

Kind of. See the setup section: https://www.quippd.com/writing/2022/01/26/most-wanted-add-on...
> I love and admire my species, living and dead, and am totally dependent on them for my life and well being.

This almost sounds like a Buddhist vow.
> https://twitter.com/airtel_ug/status/1499288905446739973?lan...

Airtel, for example, said it was work in progress, as of March this year.

Seriously, when it comes to application of new technology, the world isn't as behind the US as US might think. Often times, they actually get years ahead. I think you overestimate how long it's gonna take Africa or Asia to get eSIM up and running. They have a clear incentive now, as it's only a matter of time before Android manufacturers start to copy Apple in that regard, too.
Or Messenger. Strangely, Messenger is more popular than WhatsApp in Europe. Got the context though
I like the visualization. There’s too many hyperrationalist over analytical minds here to appreciate it.

Tesla could imagine his inventions and leave them running in his imagination and if they still worked a few weeks later he knew it would work in the real world. Allegedly anyway.

Your visualization reminds me of some geometry I’ve seen and studied in ancient Vedic architecture/temples. There is this cavern with what looks like something is poured into in a cylindrical room, with holes in various places. The Egyptian story is also peculiar as some areas also complement this visualization. Especially the granite statue that was “never completed” and has a hole on its side next to a trench and is quite long vertically. Probably for water, but either way just reminded me of what you said. I personally think you’re onto something with the pinch.
Does anyone recognize where that photograph was taken?
Your argument is very weird.
Most of the time, if you are in location without cellular data, it is that you don't even have a good cellular coverage.
In that case, especially, people are used to always use wifi and so use WhatsApp, signal, telegram, Facebook, instead of unreliable sms.

Also, if the goal is to have rich communication, like sending video and photo. If your network provider does not cover you for cellular data, I don't see how, the same content will go through anyway as it needs data...

The only difference of RCS compared to messaging service is that you use your phone number and the service is provided by your mobile telecom provider, but otherwise it is technically similar.

One last point is that, here, in Europe, people does not trust phone number as being a permanent reliable identification. Not so long ago people had to change numbers regularly when changing of provider or of offer.
The Chinese system also applies to companies and government offices. One could imagine in a similar system that Airbnb would get penalized for too many unjustified bans. Maybe this would be a solution to the robo-ban problem that we have with many large SV companies? Make the cost of a mistake higher?
Generally somebody should have explained somewhere. But it is not considered very interesting, because nobody seiously expects to ever need to solve it.
Sounds like a use case for a ChromeBook.

You would have to check which Chromebooks let you install Linux.

Also some of the cheaper Windows laptops would do. In my experience, they all let you install Linux.

What is your maximum budget? You can get refurbished ones for less than $100. If you are willing to pay $200, you can even get new laptops with up to 15 inch screen size:

https://www.productchart.com/laptops/for_less_than_200
I would add Lex Fridman's conversation with Saifedean Ammous. It would at least partially serve this purpose if you don't have that much time. Be aware that Saifedean's view is strong (well, this is obvious considering his book). So, take it with a pinch of salt.
I get the idea, but being pedantic if a system can be compromised using only externally discoverable information and no additional factors, I don’t think it was ever particularly secure.

It’s really difficult to guarantee the secrecy of IRL factors. Privacy should be valued, but I think it’s hard to reason about any system that attempts to rely on it for security, so they shouldn’t be considered particularly secure.
No, if they catch you they'll ban both accounts. They banned a conservative political activist's husband's account preemptively after banning her, https://news.yahoo.com/michelle-malkin-banned-airbnb-attendi...
I decided to call out the 'toxic culture' of CS
> A friend had managed to register using the wrong email address

How is that possible, since they send an email to your address before confirming your account?
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Airbnb processes are Kafkaesque and a malicious host can really screw you over due to their superior knowledge of the system. I stopped using them after a particularly bad experience this summer. The property is still up btw with glowing reviews, because to host managed to get my factual review expunged.
On slightly related subject what’s the best way to solve the shell path problem when you are using LDAP with the userShell attribute? If I create a user and set its shell to /bin/bash but that user logs into a system where bash is on another location (say MacOS or wathever)?
So, what does the scene look like today for realistic space flight sims (i.e. not KSP or Simple Rockets 2)? I remember Orbiter being the jam ten years ago, but I don't think it's even being developed anymore. Does FlightGear have any such capabilities? Anything else I don't know about?
My first bluetooth earbuds were the Sony Ericsson HBH-DS970 back in 2006. Back then batteries were bigger so it had a pendant that hung down, and on that it had a little display on it that would show the names of the paired devices and you could select one. It worked great.
When you book an Airbnb you can choose the number of guests that will be staying. The maximum Airbnb allows is 16 guests, but it’s up to the guest to set a limit. The most common I’ve seen have been 5-6 guests maximum.

Also, most airbnbs I’ve used have had a ring doorbell, and in one case a security camera pointed at the front door. The ring doorbell will alert them whenever there is motion at the front door, and they’ll be able to see who is coming into the property. There’s also usually clauses in their “terms and conditions” that state if you have more people than was booked well charge you extra blah blah.

Bottom line: if you run an Airbnb you’re going to make massive amounts of money and can essentially do whatever you want with it.
Oh yeah totally? Just luck! Wow, what a lucky man right? Probabilistically nearly impossible but hey? Statistically it’s still possible as a fluke. Super rational thinking that’s applicable to increasingly well understood mental modes of reality. Bravo!
Coal is "40%", less the energy used in mining and transporting the coal, less the energy used in coping disposing of the ash and coping with the environmental and health harms arising from burning coal.

For PV, a higher "efficiency" means less land is used for a given nameplate power output. Desert land is not in noticeably short supply, though.

Or it might mean that PV is economically feasible in high-latitude or chronically cloudy areas.
And there are 10s of EV firms with billions in orders.
Are you saying I can get 1000s of dollars for free here?
If you missed the news yesterday, https://istio.io/latest/blog/2022/introducing-ambient-mesh/ - Istio is moving to a "proxy per node" / "per namespace" model.

Chris has a video demo here (also featuring K9s) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nupRBh9Iypo

This is quite a revolution - similar to when the micro services got melted down into "istiod".
This is awesome nice work
Except a lot of people find helping others to be a positive thing for themselves.
> We’re becoming increasingly dependent on a handful of major tech giants to get through our basic daily routine. Imagine waking up one day and no longer being able to check your Gmail, buy things on Amazon, or book an Uber.

Stop using them, then! He seems desperate to be allowed to return to the AirBnB.

Says me who uses GMail...
Dollars are fungible. A dollar spent on X is manifestly not spent on Y, except by accident.
> Almost nobody that talks to each other regularly uses SMS.

OP claims no one uses SMS at, and your reply was "I agree, no one uses SMS except for all these reasons they message all the time".

Also, it makes no sense to claim that no one uses SMS just because some people also use another means of communication like WhatsApp or email. It would make as much sense as claiming no one uses WhatsApp because they spend more time on Instagram or Twitter.
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Slightly apples-to-oranges comparison on the satellite count.

Unlike Globalstar, the Iridium network uses polar orbits which means they're covering a larger area and thus need more satellites to achieve comparable service in the limited latitudes that Globalstar covers.

(that being said, if you're going to be in mountainous terrain, higher latitudes, far from land, etc then Iridium will have better coverage)
this might help https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/df-youtube/
(just a happy user)
The H is silent only in specific dialects.
So to recap: dicking with giant, powerful, unaccountable corporations will most certainly end in tears? Who knew.
Yo wassup family, thanks for the feedback. Right now it's a cross-platform app. I only have it on Google Play stores because I didn't develop the RN app on a mac nor do I have the funds to purchase a apple developer account at the moment. However, I do understand your point about having to much friction to download the app, and I'll address the issue some time within the coming weeks. The plan is to buy a mac or maybe a virtual machine kind of thing for mac OS.
That's the problem with the article and Wikipedia. My definition is the only correct one. ;P
Oh no, I got ninja'd, I was just thinking of making something like this myself!

It looks very well done, kudos! What tech stack are you using for the webapp?
Add self replicating nano material with competing biology to the mix! (Viruses). Self replicants for everyone&
> That’s nice but it’s still going to be 10 years or more until it’s as convenient as SIM cards everywhere.

That's a bold statement to make. You realize that merely 15 years we didn't even have smartphones? How many random prophetic it-won't-happens happened in that time?
Don't dislocate anything patting yourself on the back.

Overwhelmingly more of success is luck than anybody involved likes to think.
> since they send an email to your address before confirming your account?

It wasn't always like that. They used to verify only your phone number.
Are noise levels commonly associated with suicide? If the noise levels around you are those of a bike, a dog, or music, then that's far from loud. In contrast, have you ever visited a construction site?

When you say that one of the things you've tried to stifle the noise is earmuffs, I wonder about the way you're approaching this problem. There exist so many noise-cancelling solutions out there, yet you choose to go with something warm over something effective. It makes me think about the cause of your suicideal ideation. Are your suicidal thoughts related at all to noise levels?

You use the phrase, "tiny corner of control". What are the core beliefs underlying this wish to control a tiny corner of space? And why does that have to do with safety? Does control imply safety?

In 12-step programs, we know that seeking control is what causes us to be sick. By seeking to control, we lose even more control of our lives. In your case, this dynamic plays out so that by trying to feel safe, you end up in a dangerous psychological spot. In fact, many schools of thought will say that the sense of control in life is an illusion.

You can feel better and learn to live with the noise. Please consider consulting a registered mental health care professional. In the meantime, consider learning the serenity prayer. It will remind you that control is not necessary to lead a good life. Finally, seeking help from internet strangers is a mixed bag. You may end up soliciting uninformed opinions, such as, "this is not The Telltale Heart noise shouldn't make you feel bad".

Good luck!
No.....there were commands that could be given that made it all run fine. That was 20+ years ago so I forget what it was.
Rent the cheapest server from Hetzner or equivalent, and get whatever laptop is capable of running ssh. (Which is all of them.)
Scientists glean new insights into how tardigrades can survive dehydration
Why do you want to start this in Singapore?

I can't offer much in terms of personal experience, but I'm in Singapore and happy to chat in general - email's in my profile :-)
I’m working on growing a minimal, batteries-included, privacy-friendly blogging platform.

https://bearblog.dev
>the frightening reality is that any individual user is completely disposable, without a shred of appeal to due process.

That is the gist. Of that story as well as of the whole new economy (the economy which is based on the 2 main pillars - "winner takes all" and personal identification/targeting).
Gotta love the "we apologize for any inconvenience"... Hey AirBnB how about you apologize for being giant f*kwits?
Thanks for the feedback family! And right now it's in testing and I didn't develop the app on a mac nor do I have the funds to purchase an apple developer account. So, If you do have an iOS device you'll have to run the app through expo/expo go for right now. However, I do plan to solve this issue sometime this month.
If you get that feeling out of leaving negative reviews, by all means my comment doesn't intend to detract from that.
Bullshit. One thing is uncomfortable - and that happens during homeschooling more than enough, so that's how you learn to deal with it. Another thing is leading a kid to suicide and/or homicide with the uncomfortable. That's way too much, and it's caused by the teachers not protecting the kids, since they simply don't care and sometimes it's fun to them too.

How is a kid supposed to learn to deal with the uncomfortable situations when everything they do is shut down and punished by a teacher but they don't care about the actual problem and it's perpetrators? How is a 7 year old kid supposed to stand up to the teachers?