skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
How does digitization, touch screens and card payment help a laundry?

Are people willing to pay more per load for that? Does it make them have more dirty laundry to do each visit? Will it attract people from further afield, who currently go to other laundries?

Most businesses are constrained by location, rent, demand, customer acquisition, etc., don't make the mistake of thinking that improved operating efficiencies will help much (I learnt this the hard way. more than once.)

In comparison to SPY, any brick and mortar type business will require a bunch of actual hands on work, dealing with emergencies, hiring people, finding vendors, etc, etc, and is also not diversified at all. It is totally exposed to a single location, neighborhood, industry, etc., so it could win big, or also get totally wiped out. It's high risk, high reward.
With OP's perspective services like Cloudflare, Akamai and anyone else trying to mitigate malicious traffic should just give up.

This extremely nihilistic view is not productive, and ignores that 99% success in mitigating bad actors is much better than no mitigation.
> I'm beginning to think they might not just have been about ad blockers.

Did the first line about regretting the comments not indicate that pretty clearly?

I really don't want to accuse you of being deceptive for rhetorical effect, but are you actually "beginning" to think this? Am I completely misreading your comments?

Edit: This comment was a waste of space and I didn't express myself well but I was half a minute too slow on the delete button.
A number of studies have found a correlation between changes in the bacterial population of the distal esophagus and the onset of symptoms consistent with gastro-esophageal reflux disease and/or Barrett's Esophagus.[1][2][3][4] Your average practitioner doesn't necessarily keep up with trade journals, so it's unlikely most of them have any idea this is even a possibility.

What likely happened is as follows: Taking antibiotics that wipe out the comensal population of Streptococcus Mitis (read: oral bacteria) in the process of treating some other ailment created an opportunity for an invasive species to colonize your distal esophagus, thus leading to your observed symptoms. Subsequent application of additional antibiotics led to a temporary reprieve of your symptoms by virtue of partially (or even fully) wiping out the invasive species... only for them to subsequently recolonize your esophagus when no S. Mitis appeared to recolonize the area.

Prognosis: shrug Unless and until medical practitioners become aware of this correlation there's not a hell of a lot to be done. Ultimately, however, the solution would be to obliterate the invasive species with suitable antibiotics and then recolonize the area with S. Mitis or some other suitable species.

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[1] https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/16437628/

[2] https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/23496929

[3] https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/15104362/

[4] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4120752/
There are already places where people who are healthy can sell their poop. They're apparently very selective. And some people do these things themselves at home out of desperation-- so there's also a sort of underground market for the stool of healthy people who never took antibiotics.
we simply need to be more creative in coming up with punishments. Perhaps we can look to Islamic jurisprudence here, rather than stick rigidly to custodial sentencing
Ah ok; Namespace support before XPath 3.0 with Q{nsname}localname would make cli tool like this a bit too verbose. Of course you could store ns-prefix to ns mappings to conf file or environment variables...
I think you touch on a valid point about changes in the way content is presented online, but I also think you're really underselling just how utterly transformative the Web has been.

Like, you say you don't click links because you use Google instead... but Google search returns links. It could not even function without links. Keyword search is even one of the listed goals in the proposal, because prior to the Web, there was no singular place to find and retrieve information like that:

> At CERN, a variety of data is already available: reports, experiment data, personnel data, electronic mail address lists, computer documentation, experiment documentation, and many other sets of data are spinning around on computer discs continuously. It is however impossible to "jump" from one set to another in an automatic way [...] Usually, you will have to use a different lookup-method on a different computer with a different user interface. Once you have located information, it is hard to keep a link to it or to make a private note about it that you will later be able to find quickly.

That's how utterly different the world was without the Web. You couldn't open ten pages from different sources in one application and then Google for something in a new tab. Every single way of accessing information would've been its own distinct application, without much overlap or interoperability between them. Any attempt to build a search engine like Google or a content aggregator like HN would've been stymied by the sheer variety of formats and standards for presenting information.
Honestly it’s best to visualize a n dimensional system by a bunch of sliders that can have various values. Like in 4d to visualize that system you have a rotation slider similar to a movie but the axis isn’t time.
This was always a Ponzi scheme, and SBF was incredibly open about it being a Ponzi scheme, and yet people still tried to beat out the Ponzi scheme. Here's SBF back in April (just a small excerpt, the full section is far more damning):

> SBF: So, you know, X tokens [are] being given out each day, all these like sophisticated firms are like, huh, that's interesting. Like if the total amount of money in the box is a hundred million dollars, then it's going to yield $16 million this year in X tokens being given out for it. That's a 16% return. That's pretty good. We'll put a little bit more in, right? And maybe that happens until there are $200 million dollars in the box. So, you know, sophisticated traders and/or people on Crypto Twitter, or other sort of similar parties, go and put $200 million in the box collectively and they start getting these X tokens for it.

> And now all of a sudden everyone's like, wow, people just decide to put $200 million in the box. This is a pretty cool box, right? Like this is a valuable box as demonstrated by all the money that people have apparently decided should be in the box. And who are we to say that they're wrong about that? Like, you know, this is, I mean boxes can be great. Look, I love boxes as much as the next guy. And so what happens now? All of a sudden people are kind of recalibrating like, well, $20 million, that's it? Like that market cap for this box? And it's been like 48 hours and it already is $200 million, including from like sophisticated players in it. They're like, come on, that's too low. And they look at these ratios, TVL, total value locked in the box, you know, as a ratio to market cap of the box’s token.

> ...

> Matt Levine: I think of myself as like a fairly cynical person. And that was so much more cynical than how I would've described farming. You're just like, well, I'm in the Ponzi business and it's pretty good.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-04-25/sam-bankm...
Basically, the FCC can slap you with an expensive fine when the local HAMs rat you out.
In the 80's and 90's Common Lisp compilers and editors were insanely expensive. The hardware was too, not even sure if those early implementations ran on x86... That's why they didn't take off. Easy to look back with rose coloured lenses now that we've had free implementations for awhile...

Meanwhile C/C++, Pascal and Java were all accessible and cheap if not free...
Sharia law may be the answer - no set laws for punishment, we customise it according the individual case. Prison only is a brute instrument, a failure of imagination
Awesome! Made a change to my profile as a result but I guess the site is caching generated profiles. How long is the cache?
I have no cavities/bad teeth but I don't think that'll last long due the acidity. My last visit at the dentist was a couple months ago.
It's not at all clear to me what the comments were, and I don't think the level of regret matters really at all to the analysis. If I punch you in the nose, I will surely regret it moments later, but that isn't going to save me much trouble.
It feels stuffy. I get headaches and get tired. When you open a window it’s almost like instant relief
I mean Go is the culmination of all this so it can't be that hard.
Most of the comments were on the Python extension on the Vscode repo about the quality of the extension, and the trend of moving towards closed source extensions.
Also: https://texmacs.github.io/notes/docs/tm-and-html.html
these are all tragedies and in which case create more criminals. Isn't the point of a criminal system to prevent crime, rather than seed future crime?
Hard disks can park themselves with an immediate power cut, whether that corrupts the filesystem is mostly about the filesystem but it's been decades since a head crash was a realistic possibility. SSDs even more so.

Contrary to your, frankly rather odd, assertion about digital media, they do not need power to store data. I did think tapes, DVDs, and USB thumb drives were common knowledge.

A Carrington event is probably not a big deal these days, but let's pretend all the transformers blow, and the grid is down so badly that rural parts of North America don't get it back for two years.

Data loss? Minimal. Any radiation which could get inside a hard drive or SSD and fry it, would kill us all, that's like a gamma ray burst. Some corruption from power spikes maybe, but for the most part, fuses and breakers work.
Doesn't this make all forms of bureaucracy (and hence, civilization) parasitic ? (Or are you just supposed to regularly "drain the swamp" ?)
Elon Musk says Twitter 'may face bankruptcy' as more staff quit
between this and twitter I'm smiling ear to ear, you love to see it
John Clark's "Ignition!" is back in print, as it happens. It's a personal history of liquid rocket fuel research in which there's a lot of chemistry of which I understood none, but the stories made it worth reading anyway.
> Oof. A missing equipment ground (the third pin on your outlet or its wiring) will not cause these issues. In fact, it’s legal to have an ungrounded three pin outlet in a retrofit situation as long as it’s GFCI protected and labeled.

I’m pretty sure that this is location specific and I don’t think this was pass where I am. Even outlets which aren’t RCD protected get a fail now.
No, it almost definitely isn't. The cost-benefit analysis of doing that completely fails at almost every imaginable level.

Not only would it fail to increase American nuclear strike/retaliation capabilities by any meaningful margin, but if discovered it would set off a massive nuclear arms race in space which would be massively destabilizing and benefits no-one which is exactly why all the major players signed that "no nukes in space" treaty in the first place.

> It's a great first strike weapon without a detectable missile launch. If terrorists are building a nuke you can drop it on them and make it look like they blew themselves up. Last ditch asteroid defense.

No to all points. Nukes don't just unintentionally go off and hypothetically if the did people on the ground wouldn't normally expect the very noticeable trail of a reentry vehicle screaming in from space immediately beforehand. That kind of thing is very noticeable, go look at ICBM test footage. If you want to nuke someone without warning you use stealthy cruise missiles because those don't tend to get noticed until they detonate. Any nuke carried by the X-37 also lacks the delta V to ever get to any dangerous asteroid you might want to try to intercept.
“I’m a total fraud, and sooner or later, everyone’s gonna find out.”

Feeling “like a fraud” can be an uncomfortable experience for anyone — especially if you’re good at what you do.

This applies to any industry you're working in and any situation that you might be in.

Do you feel like a fraud, sometimes? Or even most of the time?

I wrote an email issue on my substack about that to help you define if that's really imposter syndrome and also how to deal it.

Read it here for free: https://amineaouragh.substack.com/p/am-i-an-impostor

And if you feel generous today, you want to clear your mind, feel better about your life and move forward, you can subscribe here: https://amineaouragh.substack.com/subscribe.
this is a great history of the development of CSS up til Tailwind. I think there us one more subtle benefit to tailwind not mentioned:

Using "design system" values - every color and width variable comes with well chosen constraints!

(from my take on this https://www.swyx.io/why-tailwind)
So… we will solve global warming by running a network of computers with custom ASICs at 100% utilization, cooling them as necessary, performing useless computation, so a cabal of technobros can move imaginary internet money around 10 times per second?

Oh and increasing the power usage of this fire pile will, as you say, “improve the current situation”?

Your point is that the only way we can avoid burning methane is to use that to power bitcoin mining rigs???
Also ever since “driving while black/poor/not liked” became something you couldn’t arrest on they need another excuse.
I really don't think you can drop a nuke from space unnoticed.
While the CDDL isn't a terrible license in a vacuum, it is (according to its author) _intentionally_ incompatible with the GPL (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_Development_and_Distrib...).

This is, in my opinion, the most important part. It's not some unhappy accident that there are significant legal issues with ZFS and GPL-licenced Linux - that is (allegedly) by design.
I very much like the idea of FreeCAD as a FOSS 3D CAD Software. And I have actually used it to do some projects, but I have to say it felt janky at every point and quite prone to crashing doing many operations.
The parametric 2D moddeling worked extremely well, but as soon as you moved into 3D world it became quite unpleasant to use.
Except FTX wasn't a bank, it was an exchange.
Yes, but this would be like saying they're from "New York of the Yankees", since we know that Ur was Chaldean.

Little room left for doubt.
no one is arguing for subversion of justice. Holmes needs to be punished and made an example of as a deterrent to others. Can there be a way of doing this without egregiously damaging the life of the child, which 15 year imprisonment of the mother surely would? Lets think about it, what could we come up with?
Google and now Microsoft are also blocking domain fronting.

The other 'possibilities' are not necessarily guaranteed to be allowed for egress traffic out of an organization. That's why the cloud providers blocking it is a big deal - most orgs WILL allow outbound traffic on more than a few ports to these platforms
The limit of 15 seems rather low. Shouldn't it be hundreds or thousands, so that basically nobody would be able to remember that many passwords?
It stuck with me too. Who's going to write the stored procs and views? Unless it's all going to be tables only.

"Software Diffusion, infer relationships about these tables and create an explorer for me."

jancsika's comment [1] in a thread on The Cypherpunk Manifesto:

> There should be a sustainable solution to bootstrapping civic databases to archive and make available/discoverable all the shits citizens care about without waiting 70+ years for it to enter the public domain.

> It's absurd as it is now. We've got a scientific database duct-taped together by a fucking grad student in hiding, and AFAICT nearly every researcher uses it.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33555419
Instance admins ultimately control whether registrations are open, and can disable accounts of those users that aren't participating in the instance in a healthy manner.

Additionally, expecting Google to have the fortitude of the fediverse when it comes to social media is hilarious

We're coming up on year 6 of the ActivityPub standard, and there are plenty of half decade long fediverse participants like myself. If this were Google I would have been through at least one if not two major platform changes (where you generally lose features & your social graph) or a platform shutdown by now.
Oh wow. Elsevier alone has much more grip on global academia than any one company should have (what the article didn't mention, they also own Overleaf, so they have access to a non-negligible fraction of all STEM research before it is available to anyone but the authors). But I didn't know that it is part of an even larger conglomerate l (LexisNexis alone would make for a formidable Elsevier competitor).
Should iFixit give all laptops terrible scores for not being desktops?
I said in another comment, most of the comments were on the Python extension repo for Vscode, about the quality of the extension and feature choices, many people were criticizing as well, and the trend of moving towards closed source.
We never needed to track who was using the web sites since it was only our group and related researchers, so there was just one password and everyone had it. The data displayed was not very sensitive. If you are concerned about ownership transfer and long term maintenance then using proprietary products is not a good idea, you never know when the company might fold or be bought or decide to do a total revamp of their products. Open source means you at least have a copy of the code. Writing your own analysis code makes it easier to change. If you are using commercial analysis code you never know exactly what it is it does. I've never found a good live analysis product or open source solution, maybe due to the fact that we were a research group and our needs were not typical. For example, we collected a huge amount of data from a campus wireless network over a decade or more. The format sometimes changed as the campus network changed, so multiple custom processors were needed and the analysis we wanted was nothing like what a network manager would want for day to day operations (e.g., tracking the kinds of devices the student population used by semester.) We wrote parsers to extract and clean up the data, automatic feature extractors, we automated the generation of graphs and status data using gnuplot with the output automatically posted as a way to make sure the data collection was functioning ok. We used an open source principal components analysis tool and ran extraction and analysis scripts in batches to automate analysis. You can find some of the details here:

https://cs.dartmouth.edu/~dfk/research/project/wifi-measure/...

Amazon Kinesis looks interesting, it didn't exist when I was doing this kind of work. We had to process a lot of video at times which was used as ground truth for training ML algorithms (e.g., to detect when a person was eating). The automated tools at the time for processing video were not capable of that kind of determination so we used Mechanical Turk (or a Chinese equivalent). Kinesis does not seem capable of doing something like that, you'd still have to write your own ML algorithm to extract features (eating, not eating) and if you trust that well enough to be ground truth for training a ML algorithm why even use it to generate training data, just use it directly. For data streams Kinesis looks like it might make ingestion easier, but it is still up to you to create the data analysis tools. If you can use their analytics, then great, but if you are doing something new you'll still probably end up writing your own analysis code. And then you are tied to Amazon and are paying them for CPU time, network traffic, storage, etc. AWS and related services are probably going to be stable long term to some extent. Last time (6 years ago?) I considered using AWS for dealing with a lot of streaming data the network data transfer costs were too much for us. We would have had to move data in and out of AWS often and it would have cost us more than our entire grant funding.
I'm similar and ironically I think having exercise as a coping mechanism, if you like, is actually a way better motivator than for health reasons, and makes it easier to stick with. I think if people could get into a routine of exercising for mental relaxation, and see the benefits that way, it would make it more attractive.
Yes and no. If I'm nauseous I can take a little ginger, but there isn't really an comparable over the counter anti-nausea med. There's dimenhydrinate for motion sickness, but that's different. Ondansetron is a prescription only anti-nausea med that's very effective, but obviously much harder to obtain. So modern medicine is more effective, only for the proper indication and when a 'modern' treatment is easily available. Sometimes just grabbing some ginger ale is the smart choice.
Infrared too.

Infrared from the sun penetrate the skull and prevent inflammation in the brain. The effect is reduced dementia in people tha go outside. The infrared is reflected by the plants and thus walking in the shade of tree give increase of infrared exposure.

It affect every cell of our body (mitochondria in fact)

(Our biology has not evolved inside)
> A Ponzi scheme is a form of fraud that lures investors and pays profits to earlier investors with funds from more recent investors. Named after Italian businessman Charles Ponzi, the scheme leads victims to believe that profits are coming from legitimate business activity (e.g., product sales or successful investments), and they remain unaware that other investors are the source of funds.

Key phrases:

* the scheme leads victims to believe that profits are coming from legitimate business activity

AND

* they remain unaware that other investors are the source of funds.

Neither of those apply to cryptocurrencies. Nobody believes that Bitcoin conducts business activity, and everyone is transparently aware that other investors are the source of cash-out funds.

> There's net inflows of currency, and net outflows of currency

Commodities (fungible property of market value, like cryptocurrencies) don't have net inflows or outflows. Commodity prices are determined by order books which are in turn determined by supply and demand, not by capital flow. When a buyer and seller meet and exchange money for a piece of property (like a bitcoin), there is no "inflow" or "outflow", property just changes hands.

> there is a systemic bank balance at any one time of currency.

There is no "systemic bank balance at any one time of currency". That's not how cryptocurrency works. Where is Bitcoin's bank account, and what is Bitcoin's bank account balance?

> If outflows exceed inflows for long enough then the balance is drained to zero and the music stops.

Cryptocurrencies have no such inflows, outflows, or "balance". They aren't like investment funds or companies - they behave like physical objects, like beanie babies if you will. The beanie baby crash wasn't caused by any kind of beanie baby "balance" being drained to zero, it was caused by people collectively deciding that beanie babies were no longer worth a premium price.

> Madoff's Ponzi worked up until the 2008 recession hit him with redemptions and outflows and his bank balance got drained.

Bitcoin does not have redemptions, outflows, or a bank account. It's a series of rocks that people trade between themselves, sometimes at a higher price, sometimes at a lower price.

You seem to be confused about the definition of cryptocurrency. Should we go over that next?
Generically in the theory of phase transitions and critical phenomena the infinite dimensional case is easy because mean field theory works, but there is some dimension at which that breaks, frequently N=6, and you can write an asymptotic expansion in N-ε for the critical exponents which converges enough for most things that you can get the right answers in 3 dimensions.

We worked through this book when I was in grad school...

https://www.amazon.com/Theory-Critical-Phenomena-Introductio...