skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
the idea of a 'virtual' strobe tuner is a curious one - a strobe tuner being such a material thing. I'm not contesting that Peterson's is the best, but the 'strobe' aspect of it has to be marketing guff, doesn't it?
Thank you, I am considering it. It was 2m for 15%. But terms are not founder friendly.
Spotify has had a pretty awesome public api for a while
Does the German law also fix the price of used books? If not, then I could see how a thriving (but expensive) new book market could lead to a robust used market which could help readership.
Okay. It would be worth mentioning that now. E.g. "free signup for the first 2 years". Otherwise it feels like a bait and switch.

Regarding the percentage: have you broken down the costs of everything you need to pay for, and still make enough of a profit that it's worth someone's time investing? That would be useful to an investor.
Good idea! It's just so crazy, it might work!
> What would be the advantage of the replacement compared to TeX/LaTeX?

In my experience, LaTeX is pretty clunky, unintegrated and poorly documented. To do any kind of useful typesetting I have to depend on at least five or six third-party packages, and that’s assuming that I don’t need anything ‘fancy’ like nicely formatted references, customised lists or tables, diagrams, hyperlinks or — God forbid — code blocks with syntax highlighting. (Though to be fair that last is a bit difficult in any typesetting software.) If no package exists for something I want to do, then I have to make it myself: a forbidding task, given the complexity of LaTeX’s internals and of the TeX language itself. Besides, TeX is getting old now; it was created when computers had less memory and power, and it shows. A fresher, more coherent typesetting system retaining all the listed features would be clearly better than LaTeX — no mean feat, considering how much better LaTeX is than its main competitors.

(Admittedly, other TeX-based systems do solve some of those problems. LuaLaTeX makes some things a bit easier to accomplish, and I hear that ConTeX is somewhat more featureful out-of-the-box, though last I tried it was nearly impossible to get working on Windows and was documented even more poorly than LaTeX. Either way, both of these still inherit the problems inherent in TeX itself.)
Mollie [1] is a smaller PSP that doesn't have a minimum (also Dutch).

[1] https://mollie.com
Strictly speaking (disks), yes, but people often say "disk" and format partitions instead.

As the partition table and the MBR/"EFI system partition" exist outside of the realm of normal partitions, formatting normal partitions doesn't help in this case.
I do find this interesting too. As if this affinity comes from wanting to understand the cultural circumstances around one’s birth. I wonder if that can be extended to nostalgia for the era of one’s parents childhood as well?
Thanks god, been waiting for this concept to be implemented in a better way
It's also not based on TeX, just inspired by it.
One counterargument is that space is finite, and so your choice of n is greater than the volume of the universe. (And so sigma-additivity doesn't apply, since your choices of cubic inches are not disjoint.)

But sure, if you're assuming an unbounded space with finite measure, a uniform density across that space must be identically zero everywhere.
Thank you for this. This is not an airbnb competitor only, I want to have Nomad be a place where landlords and tenants can pay/exchange rent without legal contracts, credit checks, etc. Make it easier to stay long term, without all the legal bullshit.
If IntelliJ stuff were not GUIs and instead terminal apps I suspect that would be a pretty big performance boost, too.
Airbnb’s killer feature today is brand recognition, which helps renters and landlords recall the name of the marketplace. In many cities, you can get exactly the same room on other sites, and many are literally hotel rooms you might find on booking.com. (In most cases, the deals are better on those sites in terms of refunds and perks).

Even with strong insurances, you’ll need to attract the trust both customers and inventory. You’ll need a strong brand name, endorsements, advertisements—or even some gimmick or feature—to differentiate yourself from the pack of other wannabes.
doctors recommend colonoscopy based on age, not whether you have any factors that might indicate colon cancer.

That's not completely true. As a Crohn's Disease sufferer, by doctor has been making me get them since I was a teenager. The indications are high for me. For "normal" people, the general wisdom (apparently based on intuition more than any quantitative analysis) has been that the risks catch up with the general population around 50.
I am not sure if most people would agree VRBO is better than Airbnb...at least not in my experience.
> It's for fun; "should" doesn't apply to projects written for fun.

It shouldn't apply to any project. We shouldn't accept the Rust astroturfers injecting themselves into every thread here. Rust has problems, too, and there are many better choices for many applications.
Well... yeah? We earn money by literally trading our life-force and time for it. If we wanted to compensate the most vulnerable members of society, booksellers and authors wouldn't be the first place to look for anyway.
Yeah, the joke was that I'm even more uncultured.
I deleted my Facebook account years ago, and don't use it ever.

But that's a really bad way to determine the important of Facebook, for two reasons.

1. You've assumed that the only purpose of Facebook is posting, so a user making an average of one post per week isn't finding it valuable. Bad assumption.

2. You're counting a bizarre measure of market penetration, a standard that only air and food and water would meet. Many, many people don't use cars, and people who do often only use them five days a week. If you think that means cars aren't important to many people, try taking one away!
> But when the canal was dry, it still would have made a good footpath through a heavily forested area, Waselkov says.

I bet the canal would spend a pretty long time in an intermediary state - not deep enough for canoes, but not dry enough to use as a footpath. But maybe there was a footpath beside the canal, as there are for more modern canals (towpaths)?
Kitchen Renovation ideas animation using Stable Diffusion [video]
Using stable diffusion to generate and walk through different kitchen renovation ideas.
Maybe it was because of the recession? I've seen stories of this happening recently. Example was Coinbase a couple of months ago.
Super interesting. I notice that this is only about the UK, but I assume the same principle should work in every country, right? Are there any similar projects doing this for other countries?
Is Economics a Science? - https://www.investopedia.com/ask/answers/030315/economics-sc....

"Economics is generally regarded as a social science, although some critics of the field argue that economics falls short of the definition of a science for a number of reasons, including a lack of testable hypotheses, lack of consensus, and inherent political overtones. Despite these arguments, economics shares the combination of qualitative and quantitative elements common to all social sciences..."
Looked closer to me. I could be completely wrong, but I think it hit the roof of the low building immediately next door.
I was going to say just keep the job because the next one will be boring too.

But it sounds like you should look for a new job if management is that bad. Generally, a big company should be better for stability and benefits.
I don't think foam is that hard. There just isn't nearly enough of it. It seems there is barely 30 cm or something and people are hitting the bottom that is floor.
Ancient egyptians had 2d pantographs attached to linked turntables, enabling them to point in 3d.
This seems to be in the Boston, Mass., area.

Some related local background is that there was the Harvest Co-op chain until a few years ago: https://www.boston.com/food/food/2018/10/04/harvest-co-op-ma...

There's also the Market Basket for-profit regional chain, where employees and customers successfully stood up against some family business maneuvers to force out the head, and it's once again generally well-regarded AFAIK (including profit-sharing for employees). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Market_Basket_(New_England)#20...
> Please be gentle on me

Try not to take the criticism personally. I know when you post something like this online it can seem very disheartening, but much of it is good advice.

Based on what everyone is saying I think it's worth rethinking your business model to try and come up with some other features that would differentiate you from Airbnb.
This happens because bots dynamically change the price based on other bots, which creates feedback loops. Nobody is paying that much for a non-antique book
“It’ll just work itself out naturally.” - Bob Slydell
that the west is defenseless against them (they aren't).

The only defense we currently have comes from the threat of nuclear retaliation --- not our "current interceptors" which were never designed for this .

Both China and Russia have tested and deployed these weapons. Russia has used some of them in Ukraine. Any chance we have of "intercepting" them is still in the thinking stage.

See statement from General Mark Milley.
I agree. I want to offer better customer service as my main draw.
Yeah, I meant the latest QED based on the lastest QFT.
I too have a (fairly) strong emotional bias towards pine products. I can tell you why. For one, pine is the only manufacturer I know of that managed to obtain and release real down to register level documentation for the hardware they use. We have very comprehensive documentation from rockchip (a lot of it in Chinese, but auto translation tools are good enough). They publish schematics for everything. They let you download source code for so called "proprietary" drivers that work with old versions of Linux kernel.

All this means, for a tinkerer/hobbyist one can do stuff that is simply impossible on any other hardware that has comparable performance (basically modern 64bit embedded systems like those in newest mobile phones).

Then there is all the time we(hobbyists/devs) spend tinkering with this hardware. When one invests so much time into some product it is hard to just let it go.

However, having said all that I would never use an unfinished product as my main phone. If I had a pine phone I woukd probably carry it as a secondary, but those devices are nowhere near the state people can rely on them in case of emergency.
And:

* Support for maths

Which is as far as I can see the single most unique feature of LaTeX… there exist various tools which cover many of your points, but LaTeX is the only one I know of with high-quality mathematical typesetting.

(Actually, even disregarding maths, LaTeX is the only tool I know of which covers most of your points. But I feel that its maths support is an important feature even so.)
> Did you read the article you linked?

Yes, that's why I asked. According to the CleanTechnica article, Mr. Hotz is specifically referring to "autonomous cars", not companies, being a scam.

> George Hotz, the serial entrepreneur who founded self-driving startup Comma.ai, has this to say about autonomous cars: "It’s a scam".

Going back to the original source I linked to above, "Even After $100 Billion, Self-Driving Cars Are Going Nowhere", still effectively says "self-driving cars are a scam", and Mr. Hotz's quote is still being used to support that thesis.

So I think you're incorrect, but I also think the article's original author took Mr. Hotz's quote out of its original context, and then the interpretation was mangled further during syndication.
> The actual reason is booking.com doesn’t want to hire people from certain countries anymore.

Can you somehow back that up.

I feel like a townsman from "The boy who cried wolf". Where is the wolf, i wanna see it right now or i wont believe it.
That would be a reasonable comment, and people have been discussing that in this very thread. The one I replied to is "I don't use autocomplete, so you didn't tell me what's good about this editor, except you actually did and I even acknowledged that". Pointless.
Yeah, you can tell be all the people trying to get the fuck out of there that witnessing this really does fill them with glorious patriotic bloodlust.
There have been 'catastrophic' Starlink outages in recent weeks in Ukraine
Did you speak directly with or survey users and landlords? Reddit doesn’t offer a great deal of confidence as research tool (it’s a start though).
Have you spoken to any AirBNB hosts that your $2500 month fee would be less than would they currently pay AirBNB, and if so, what did they say? How do you plan to deal with hosts that are unable to justify $2500 monthly subscription cost?
The high fees that airbnb guests are complaining about are likely things like cleaning fees imposted by the host - not the company.

From WSJ: Welcome to Your Airbnb, the Cleaning Fees Are $143 and You’ll Still Have to Wash the Linens https://www.wsj.com/articles/airbnb-chores-cleaning-fee-1166... // https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32879111
Isn't that 100% on the authors/publishers? Such deals exist, bundling the ebook version for technical books. Might be misremembering, but some authors (of tech books, fwiw) always were happy for that feature. But then again they usually don't live off the royalties, but are developers/consultants anyway.
Hackaday isn't the worst "repackager", but I always like to go to the original source for the article: https://www.messynessychic.com/2022/09/28/more-than-100-year...
The US doesn't know where they are..
As a kid, my family was part of a co-op. I grew up in the boonies, and there was one local grocery store that had horrible selection. The larger chains required long drives to get to, but even then they did not have the produce selections that is the norm now. Instead, each weekend a member of the co-op would visit the farmer's market in the Big City. We were no where near the size of the co-op in the TFA, but it made a big difference in the selection of produce we had. Now, that farmer's market is no longer, but now a series of condos with Farmer's Market as part of their name are there. I just never though that a co-op would be a viable thing in 21st century, so it was definitely interesting reading about how that's not the case.
Exactly. WhatsApp was fine before Facebook, and will be fine after Facebook. They only acquired it to stifle competition.
> But interestingly enough, I can't figure out how to get PDFs.

Click on the links for each item in the first column. On the details page, you'll get a pdf link.
The Cooling Economy
Of course, this is early days, its only been a week, and this is only a demo to show investors for a seed round
This was my same impression when trying out helix. Really nice and shiny, but all the shortcuts I've spent time creating over the years are gone and not easily reconfigured.
In some sense, overpaying a local bookstore for a book you came searching for because you like the fact they do unrelated events and activities is a form of charity coupled with commerce.
Ahah, I'm glad to see you here! I do enjoy the postfinance app, but I recently had to use the service.post.ch website, and it was one of the most unpleasant experience I had with a computer in recent times. I'm so sorry to breach all protocols of decency and just complain here, but I thought "if only I get a hold of the [derogatory term] who designed that website," and you are here!

The praise in this thread is clearly from people who never had anything to do with the modern Swiss Post.

I had to setup a mail "hold" order (in Switzerland you have to pay an extra fee and make a request to not deliver mail when you leave for a few weeks) and I found the UI to be very confusing.

I think the design of the site could be improved, here is what annoys me the most:

* The "clickable" button color being so close to the "disabled" color that it's very hard to distinguish when they are not next to each other (as most of the time) and very confusing when you try to click on a seemingly active button and nothing happens

* Calendar widgets letting you select every date, but after selecting the date, you get an error message

* communications in German despite the whole process being in French and the destination address being in a 100% French speaking canton

* downright bad French translation (hi from the 25% of the Swiss population) eg: "Reprendre" is *not* a valid button name, maybe use "selectionner"

* ending into a redirect loop when going back during the check-in step

The UI feels broken. There is a lot of "strange" space, or button layouts accidentally ending up on two rows eg: the login nag dialog (I could reproduce it on Firefox and Chrome).

It felt like a miracle when I managed to complete the process after about 1 hour (process that technically only requires my name, address and payment coordinates)

I'm used to computers acting up and generally bad software (hell, I use Linux), so I could handle it, but my mom says she has trouble with the website as well.

If you need more details, or a generous Romand QA tester, don't hesitate to contact me (domain of email address in my user profile).

I feel that good software is important, especially for a state-run monopoly. Because it's always the most marginalized people that end up eating up the hidden costs of rushed-up software.
Canoes are useful in very shallow water even if the people have to get out.

It’s much easier to float a canoe while walking next to it than it is to carry it.
I didn’t find it an issue either. However, I’m suspecting the author may be using it as a “document first” tool as opposed to a typesetting one. As an example, I had a rough draft of my thesis on paper along with the formulae that I wanted. I iterated over the LaTeX doc after that. It wasn’t slow and the good thing is I had different files for different chapters. I used Texmaker - open source, free and worked on Linux.
This may be a factor for brand new devs, but everyone who uses vim already has it setup, by definition.

One time setup cost is a small factor in choosing an editor. Stability and ubiquity are more important IMO.
If only DVDs were 480p. Its much much much worse: 480i (or something a bit higher but still interlaced)
I’m assuming they labeled it as quiet because it falls outside legislation such as the WARN Act.

Mass layoffs are supposed to be formally announced, well structured, and within a set of government-mandated guidelines.
The site actually doesn't use cookies internally only session and local storage to hold variables through visits. I'm not based in Europe so I'm not entirely familiar with GDPR and how it relates to affiliate linking and google analytics. Thanks for pointing this out, I'll be sure to do some research and fix up the site to accommodate it.
When money was "free or cheap" (low interests) and plentiful I believe many of these large tech firms added head count as a competitive strategy: "If they're behind our desk then they're not behind a competitor's!" Now that interest rates are going up and talk of tighter times are in the mix, "waste" reduction is the new and upcoming wind that these and all firms are adjusting their sails to. Additionally, keeping rumors of mass layoffs can slow and paralyze smaller firms that are looking to hire because many may be holding off longer to actually hire current candidates in hopes of, and counting on, many many more potential applicants in the near future. Plus with the influx of developers they may be hoping for a buyers (employers) market with regards to compensation in the next few months.
I see a lot of "staff recommends" on bookshelves when I shop local, with little blurbs about why the book has had an impact.
As documented in the article, Ebay and Etsy stopped selling Sodium Nitrate in lab grade purities because of this, Amazon has not. It's not at all weird for parents to let their children buy things on Amazon especially with their own money. If you're having trouble thinking of ways this could happen, you could read the article which talks about a few examples.
Yeah, this.

I'm working on an offline app and I'm probably just going to build it as a self hosted website since I never plan to distribute it and I already have a background in that tech (vs building a native gui).
This sounds like the kind of interoperability that I have been looking for ever since I started programming fifty years ago. I wonder if anything will ever come of it.
Out of curiosity, I read the COTS Space Act Agreement. It's a crazy good deal for SpaceX. They got their first $200 million just for doing presentations to the government and writing down requirements. This effectively front-loads funding because doing the qualifying milestones 1-12 are cheap (PowerPoint), yet $200M is certainly enough to actually build and launch an entire rocket.

See APPENDIX 2, milestones 1-12: https://www.nasa.gov/centers/johnson/pdf/189228main_setc_nnj...
>>Do you really think they have been killing their own people for years

It's not Russia killing their own people. It's Russia killing some unlucky pawns, whether in staged attacks or by forcibly "mobilizing" all the men they find there and sending them into the meat grinder.

To me Russia seems on a mission to capture as much territory from Ukraine they can and punish and destroy everything they can't capture. To cross the borders, Russia NEEDED a pretext and in order to justify their further destruction they continue to need these pretexts and I think they manufacture them - killing civilians in DNR and LNR. Ukraine does not need pretexts to defend itself nor to recover its legal territories. And yes, I think Putin personally is capable of nuclear false flag if that would enable him to achieve his objectives in Ukraine. He already sacrificed thousands of troops and billions in materials for some lame territorial gains he's not even able to hold. Putin would easily nuke 50k of his men if that would guarantee him Ukraine and remaining in power.
True, there are definitely people who don't place any importance on music but for those that do, musical taste can be very important in a relationship.

So, no music taste isn't ultimate be-all-and-end-all factor but for some it can be very important!

Tastebuds seems only to have a facebook login - hm, not everyone uses FB! Strange that they don't have a Spotify login, probably the same issues that other apps face when they start to store Spotify data.
It is a demo and investors have been nicer than people on here lol. They know this is the early days and they were impressed it was done in a weekend without any funding while working full time. They loved the pitch deck which was visually rich.
I've been using Dvorak on my computer and QWERTY on my phone since I got my first iPhone. Not sure if there's any point switching at this point, but I'm glad I can try it and see.
They are absolutely right to do this, and private users should be wary as well.

DJI's application (Mimo) has been banned from the Android Play Store for some time, with no explanation given by DJI. They offer an APK to side load, which is completely unsupervised, and requires access to your phone's accurate location and other invasive permissions no matter which of their products you are using.

This is an important detail. Your phone location might be helpful when using drones (though GPS should be on the drone, not your phone) but there is absolutely no reason to use it for something like a phone stabilizer, which it absolutely requires and will not let you continue unless you turn it on.

I did not reverse engineer their application but I will be surprised if there isn't a copious amount of data being sent to the back office.

You might not care as an individual, but then maybe ten years from now you will visit China, and they might know about you more than you're comfortable sharing.

As a side note, Aljazeera is comically ridiculous: https://imgur.com/a/HnbLy4O
Well you don’t just send a canoe for the heck of it. You put the goods, wood, or stone into the canoe.