skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hotels in general do check IDs of people when they check in.

Most rooms within a given hotel just aren't that different. (ADDED: And to the degree that a room of a given size with a King bed might have a better view/light than another room, large hotels basically make it about the luck of the draw.) The main price discrimination is based on date. Businesses will eat the $400+/night rooms in SF when there's a big event at the Moscone. (Though there are also room blocks and negotiated rates.) Individual tourists will, in many cases, just go a different week and/or scour the listings for an AirBnB that's hopefully a bargain and not a too good to be true.

Airlines have a lot of levers related to status and price-sensitivity for products (seats) that don't have markedly different costs to deliver. Airlines could presumably offer business class seating, even internationally, for much less of a markup than they do. But the average family going to see grandma probably isn't willing to pay even a 30% markup much less a 2x one. So you do different classes and even levels of service within classes.
What's wrong with pass-by-value structs? Yes, I'm aware that long ago there was a problem on SPARCs where Sun Studio and GCC handled struct value returns differently, but not pass-by-value. ABIs can and do define how to do pass by value of values of struct types.

The bits of C that need to be avoided in APIs are:

- bitfields unless no bitfield crosses a
byte boundary

- struct fields of enum types (because the
size of the enum type is implementation
specific)

The spec should fix this, damnit.
That's great, but unfortunately I still can't buy one because they still don't ship to Spain. Any ideas when? I'll need a new laptop by Christmas, so after that I'm giving up and buying something else.

Apparently HP also makes an easy to disassemble laptop these days.
> two spaces after a paragraph has been a dead convention for years by this point.

It's "a dead convention" among people who care about the aesthetic pleasure that they get from the visual beauty of the paragraph and who don't like the "ugliness" of the extra spacing.

People who care more about serving the reader are less dogmatic about two spaces after a sentence, and even prefer it for legal documents, because two spaces makes it easier for a skimmer to jump from sentence to sentence.
> Do you see how different this was from the infinite scroll of current social media web sites and apps? The idea was that your newsfeed would be updated periodically. Maybe hourly, maybe only once a day. And the goal of your newsreader was to let you be caught up and finished before the next time it updated.

How is that desirable? Why would you want to finish reading something that might already be obsolete?
Yes, I wish someone would explain this to US Marxists. Go to any university and see what the Marxists club is like.

>I'm a bi trans demi boy who is disabled due to anxiety and also the president of the society. Anyone who doesn't sleep with me is transphobic.

>>Ok but what about helping organize the proletariat?

>Ew, they are reactionary bigots who we need to deplatformed.

>>...

>You seem problematic. You're not allowed back here until you write an apology for the original land owners and sleep with me.
He literally posted a photo of a nazi?
I can see how people would forget to include them (2nd order thinking is hard!). But how would they underestimate the effects when there is t really a clear way to accurately quantify them?

It makes a big difference if word of mouth was 1% increased versus 20%.

(And then there are 3rd order psychological effects - people tend to increase their perception of how valuable something is when they pay more. that’s kind of the BMW strategy!)

What we’re left with is a world where we make decisions on easy measurements. That does not necessarily mean including 2nd order effects would change the calculus. And if you’re doing 2nd order, how can you make smart business decisions that aren’t just your gut?

Human psychology is really complex, situationally dependent, and cannot be generalized from our own experience. That’s why companies rely on data, even if it’s incomplete.
slow ram and low quality graphics. also i dont trust build quality considering apple’s recent history. had issues with my macbook pros, and mac mini. keyboard is decent but bluetooth seems to stutter for whatever reason every now and then when wifi 5g is on, same for the mouse. the mac mini 2018 encryption chip just failed out of the blue one day. i did consider buying a brand new maxed our macbook pro but i am seeing more and more reasons for not pissing 3600 gbp in the wind…for a one tb laptop with lame graphics. better quality builds out there for a better price.

but i really really like the os.
It would also benefit a lot from a dedicated external multiport USB-C Hub with recessed ports so they can be used to plug more expansion cards than the ones the laptop could allow in its own ports. That could also allow to set some standards for the development of bigger expansion cards carrying hardware that needs more space.
That is a much better choice of words, yes. I’ll edit my comment.
While the first sentence is correct, the rest is just nonsense based on misinterpretations. What evidence do you have that voting is largely lower caste?

If anything, the voting system in India is among the best, most transparent and most accessible in the world and that is really something amazing.

Beyond voting, India is largely an electoral autocracy and their idea of “democracy” is really stretching the definition so you are accurate there.
The screen has been figured out. Misapplied Sciences is already installing these screens in airports for a trial program with Delta.
What I am saying is that upper caste don't need to vote because they have complete control of the country. Democracy confers power to the people because you would assume people who vote can affect policies to their favor but this is not the case for the people who vote in India. They are totally disenfranchised and marginalized.
> If you asked me to describe it from the first picture, I might say, “It’s a picture of a monster in front of an Ikea store,”

Well I wouldn't.

> since it looks super obvious like it is supposed to be an Ikea store

It's supposed to be similar. But trademark isn't an issue unless there's real potential for confusion, and a single glance at a photo where the building is 80% blocked doesn't count.

When someone has a pear phone, it's obvious what that compares to, and it's also obvious that it's not the same brand.
The work is impressive, but I think you're putting up some straw men (or inaccuracies):

> It is impossible to build a NEW browser given the complexity and huge history

Building some browser is certainly possible. What's difficult/impossible is to build a browser from scratch which runs 99% of existing websites correctly.

> browsers need to rely on JIT and other tricks

... to be fast in today's JS-rich websites. I believe that as well.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1096677

I wouldn't write this today either - it was a much, much smaller HN and a smaller nerd internet. Although amusingly enough, the Rails release notes were edited after that showed up on HN but I don't think Signal is going to give you even that satisfaction, sadly.
Being cool doesn’t last
C's variables always scale to use the underlying hardware in the most efficient way in terms of performance. There's always sizeof() and macros to get the size of the variables you have.

This is why C is mostly portable with minimum effort unless you do hardware specific things, or use the variable to their limits. In that case you can always define fixed size types.

I don't get why people love to bash C. No language has an obligation to do please the programmer in its default modus operandi. Programming languages exist to interface hardware with humans, and C operates in the realm of the hardware, and that's perfectly OK for me.
Just give me notepad and a compiler. Modern programming has way too many tools.
Nothing is "inherently or automatically bad". Good and bad are matters of opinion, not fact.

In my opinion, all ads are bad, and the world would be a better place if advertising were strictly limited to publishing product details in some kind of directory (think along the lines of a phone book).
Have to agree. Anyone who has lived in a third world country knows that a formal job is better than a no job, and that many would absolutely love to work for, say, Foxconn for a steady paycheck.

Some of those stories about workers at Foxconn committing suicide also neglect to mention that the factory town has 1M workers who all live and work there, and that the suicide rate is actually lower than that for a city of equivalent size, or that 1M people living together might hurt themselves for any number of reasons (debts, unrequited love, adultery, etc), not just work.
Are there any plans to get at least some of the BIOS fixes to the 11th gen? I know it wasn’t sold as Thunderbolt compliant but the experience is pretty rough and I would appreciate anything that could offer hope to address some of the issues I’ve had.
If this helps ... Framework have refurb models which are extremely reasonably priced.

Personally I tried the System76 but I found the keyboard layout obnoxious. I'm not sure it was all models, but the one I picked up was unusable for me, coming from a mac. They tried to shove everything on the keyboard, like num pad, which wasn't necessary IMHO. Not sure if it was just a bad pick, or every model.
Look at research on stutters. There are treatments for stutter that involve replaying one's own voice back to stutterers with a delay.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delayed_Auditory_Feedback
Why are you supposing that I knew Ladybird was new, even after I said "Clearly I have no idea what Ladybird browser is" ?
For example, if the telco is already getting "a lot more than that from other tech companies", why do they also need Twitter's user location data? I understand "more is more", but the telco in the story sounded desperate to obtain Twitter's data.
see my reply to a different person in this thread: slow ram, low quality graphics, historic build issues, extreme pricing. apple’s selling an overpriced os on above average hardware - but still not superior.

edit: plus there’s limited support for other os’.
In the mid 2000s I thought Chavez was OK (democratically elected after all) and the criticism was mostly Bush Administration bullshit.

I don't want to presume too much of you. Do you speak Spanish?

Because what changed my mind about that wave of leaders was listening to them speak unfiltered in Spanish. They came across to me as not having any idea what they're doing. The ideas sound good on the surface (power to the people!) but they are corrupt, incompetent, narcissistic bullshitters. Like your sibling comment says, their inadequate leadership was for some time covered up by the high price of oil. When oil prices fluctuate, they have problems. They blame all their internal problems on the United States.

Many Americans (right wingers on the right, tankies on the left) mix up US politics with all this, or in the case of the left, believe this last point about how every internal problem is somehow caused by the devilish US, glorifying chavismo as some kind of "enemy of my enemy" thing; I myself was guilty of this last point in the past. But Chavistas don't need any help from the US in achieving poor outcomes. They do it themselves.

They do have popular support in their country. So does Vladimir Putin. So did Hitler. It just goes to show that it's OK to personally disagree with the will of voters in other countries. That is quite a bit different from a coup.
Crikey sci.electronics.design is a mess now (was active over 20 years ago on it).
I don't understand what Signal had to do SMS.

its mainly a Secure messaging app not an SMS client

And Telegram is the worst in terms of security and privacy.
I think it has more to do with it being a well designed product. I bought my wife a 11th gen 1 year ago and it has been great with the only bug being the mousepad was a bit "sticky" sometimes. That experience, and the thunderbolt capability encouraged me to just buy the 12th gen for myself for work, which is what I am typing this message on. I have an eGPU and running 2 monitors with the machine closed below my desk. Its an amazing setup. It has so many fan boys because its a good product.
It's so tough taking stances to defend things of 'intangible' (or at least hard to quantify) value like Apple has. I worry it's almost 'inevitable' for companies to cave in.
I feel like people just really love the product. I have a friend who has one and says its amazing.
Just run nm and grep for malloc or sbrk. That will tell you at compile time.
As someone who disables JavaScript while browsing, I find it disappointing that you are encouraging more developers to build web apps rather than a native experience.
Unfortunately, the cheapest solution has been to increase supply by burning down rainforests. Alternatives welcome.
It is like cars in a city in a way. You can build larger roads but then more people will start driving.
Create Simple Python GUI Applications with Gooey
Total Lunar Eclipse on November 7–8, 2022
In China they say you can get away with anything as long as nobody dies.

For example, in the 2008 Chinese milk scandal, two people were sentenced to death and three received life sentences.
This is wonderfully absurd in the best sort of way
Apologies, I think they established that there is a need to do a test on this. What I question, is that the 5% was such a specific choice for the existing tools, that I feel that it needs to also be established that that "chesterton's fence" wasn't picked by its own research. That make sense?
Building this for the first time on my laptop. Can I just say, they realy thought about the build. Even though they have non-trivial dependencies, the build for those just trying it out is really easy, just four commands.
We might all have to live underground in tunnels
C2 is error detection, not correction. C1 is the error correction. I think what wikipedia is trying to say is that the C2 error detection just points out something is wrong, even after the C1 error correction, and so you can't fix it. But a data CD has additional error correction, so it can correct more errors.
It is a feature of the Hue bulbs being worked upon, see: https://hueblog.com/2022/07/16/natural-light-new-function-no...
Same here. I severely undervalued upgradability when I made that decision.
It's still the case. I reached out for business purchase orders and volume but you still order one by one. Since supply has been an issue, we just make sure to order a few about 2 months in advance of anticipated new hires that don't want macs.
… but India isn’t successful on the same scale as China. India’s middle class is not secure nor are successive generations guaranteed to remain middle class. That wealth is just not there.

India’s real middle class is just one financial disaster away from poverty. China on the other hand has been immensely successful at lifting millions out of poverty and securing them firmly in the middle class.

Also, if you think India cannot and does not make up numbers, you are completely wrong. See most recently their COVID numbers. See in the past their economic data that was treated at par with garbage by the global community.
I work for a Fortune 200 company. Our policy - publicly stated even - is to keep a large contingent of consultants on staff so they can be easily "adjusted" to right-size operations. That's a double-edge sword: consultants are the first to be let go but they're also the first to be hired.

I was a consultant during 9/11 and the ensuring economic meltdown, made worse by major Y2K projects wrapping up. Consultants were let go en masse. It was extremely difficult at the time to get new work because so few people were hiring either employees or consultants and for those that were there were hundreds of candidates trying to get that one job. Contrast that to a couple of years earlier where they were literally throwing around tens of thousands of dollars in sign-on bonuses.

Once you've been around this industry long enough you'll see this cycle repeat every 7 years or so (1987, 1994, 2001, 2008, 2015 - not so much, and now 2022). It's the IT boom-bust cycle.
exactly .... people here suggesting that putting any PHI into an office document is intrinsically a HIPAA violation are bonkers.
> Killfiles and Scorefiles

That's one of the most important thing most people ignore: they means we can have our PERSONAL aggregator instead of using someone else algorithms and censorship. Sure at usenet time (or back at Xerox time where these concept was implemented for the first time in known history) the level of scoring and self-censoring technique was limited but nowadays it's a CENTRAL point. Usenet is a decentralized network no one own, no one can really censor at a whole and aggregators who are needed for anything high volumes are personal things, posts can be archived locally so they do not disappear and so on.

Coupled and integrated (like Gnus offer) with RSS feeds mails and in the case of Gnus also HN (nnhackernews backend) or Reddit (nnreddit) we can have a CONSISTENT and LOCAL UIs for ALL our public information/communication infra in a robust yet simple manner. That's the classic nuclear war resilient internet vs the modern centralized and censored web.

Oh BTW usenet today it's almost abandoned, but some have rediscovered it for mostly piracy as an alternative to bittorrent. It's relevant because it means that while normally binary groups in a modern world are a bit odd they perform well enough for such big file sharing usage.

Or, long story short: evolving these tools we can have a modern classic desktop who happen to be a human PERSONAL exobrain, work desk, tool, with the human at the center. With the modern web and relevant WebVMs we get instead modern dumb terminals of modern mainframes.

Do you prefer owning nothing "and being happy" like the infamous WEF/2030 video OR you prefer own your small slice of the world peer between peers?
>They explicitly and unambiguously deny doing it; if that was incorrect, there would be a huge regulatory and public backlash.

Companies typically don't admit to the public when they're engaged in unethical practices. Purdue Pharma is a good example.
i tried it but i am genuinely against piracy. plus i wouldnt be able to use it in a professional environment. i appreciate the effort behind hackintosh but i think we should make linux more user friendly and good looking. i am considering sponsoring a nice little theme for ubuntu. may be cheaper to do so and buy a high end laptop than buying a new macbook pro.
You did a reduction to absurdity on purpose, thank you very much for clarifying that.

You also continue reduction to absurdity by suggesting that toxicity implies someone's death. Sometimes it did, but it takes much longer time than couple of months.

As we are talking about Elon Musk and quite short span of time, I think your suggestions are also manipulations in an attempt to cancel Elon Musk's Twitter [1].

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SmvmJonKqpI - "you will not belong to anyone!" a quote from Soviet classic movie.

Twitter, being so far a nice place to work [2] on par with Google, suddenly became toxic place everyone needs to quit. I do not think this is really the case, even remotely.

[2] https://www.indeed.com/cmp/Twitter/reviews

Urging anyone to do what can cause them immediate (financial) harm is not good or ethical.
Nearly every single person alive today will be cancelled by future generations if future generations follow the standards of the cancelers today.
Me too. But nowadays you can define them with with something like a ascii table.

Also, check "massonary".

There are so many cool features in css being released today that soon that banner "Best viewed on Netscape 3 on 800*600 resolution" may be common in some niche design sites.

But more likely as "Best viewed on Google Canary xxx, on flip screen devices with 10 bit depth colorspace".

By the way, did you know there is a css spec for rounded screen devices?
https://hueblog.com/2022/07/16/natural-light-new-function-no...
This could be applied to the US too from the perspective of all the countries it destroyed.

So no I dont buy the CCP is bad and the US is good.
> 96W of drain will use up the maximum-size laptop battery in a single hour. It's not necessary.

When I work in blender, especially in larger scenes, it's necessary. When I play games, it's necessary. When I run a long build in Unity, with a render pipeline stage, and the fans kick on, and I'm maxing out my laptop running 120w+, it's not even adequate.

There's a reason the new PD spec goes up to 240w (2.5x 96w), and it's not because they felt like it - playing games absolutely is a workload that requires it.

It's not necessary, for you. For those of us who do more than edit text files, it's extremely necessary.
Even within my middling-fat red-state city, you can see very different size distributions traveling to different parts of the city. Downtown? Skews young and relatively fit. Most 'burbs, and out in our more-diffuse second business district? Average weight of an adult is a solid 50lb higher than downtown, and probably more like 75lb. Poor areas? Everyone seems to be either ruler-thin or very fat, young and old alike, in about equal measure. That one rich people enclave town with its own country club? A glorious place to drive through when the stay-at-home spouses are out for their jogs, let me tell you. You see the same sort of pattern visiting e.g. a coffee shop in that area, so it's not just selection bias of the activity of jogging.

Traveling around to various cities, you see this variation city-to-city, too. Some cities are just fitter (and, in some cases, way "hotter" all around—like you gotta re-calibrate your "10" scale, to use a crude but illustrative example, or you won't see anyone under a back-home "8" your whole visit) than my home city. Others are even fatter (largely in the deep South). Though in all cases you have to take into account that you may only be seeing their equivalent of the "hot" part of town and that may be skewing your overall impression.
A mix of 5500°k high-CRI LED and CFL in every room. Night is when I switch them off. Bang-bang control for the circadian rhythm !
And sizes. And layouts.
I used to feel that way re Ryzen, but 12th and 13th gen Intel has matched it (and with E-cores has exceeded it in many respects).
> It did almost nothing on the supply side

This isn't really true. Obamacare was integral to the push toward increased capitation. Health care insurance paying for services provided instead of patients covered leads to incredibly perverse incentives that have been a huge part of why costs are so high. Capitation solves that by aligning provider incentives with patient incentives; provide timely, high quality care and not unnecessary treatments.
Ask HN: Is it me, or is SharePoint needlessly complicated and annoying?
All I want to do is create simple text pages and add pictures to them, as well as maintaining a document library. But the amount of options, views, cutomization settings, "hidden" display settings is 10xing the amount of work that should be required.

I upload a file and neither myself nor my team can't see it. I see some text saying that files that are checked out by you are not visible to others. What? How do I check it back in if _I_ can't see it? What were they thinking?

One part of me thinks that it is designed this way so that it necessitates hiring a Sharepoint Developer or SharePoint Admin, which would provide for excellent job security...
Don't think of it as a dongle. It allows them to build a combinatorial number of SKUs off of a linear number of them. Basically, you get a fully custom laptop body.