skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I rented cars in Europe, Carribean, Israel and the US. Some things I've learned:

* In the US, Hertz with corporate discounts and status is usually the cheapest and most convenient option. Walk to the car, pick your car from the President's Circle, drive off. Absolutely the best experience I've had with rentals.

* Without status, it's a coin toss: Avis or Hertz, with Avis generally having worse service across the board.

* In Europe, Avis was the worst. In Israel I think it's a franchise, it was all manual entries, long waiting lines. In Portugal I had to wait in line for 1.5 hours to pick up the car because I wasn't Preferred. Their Preferred booth was empty the entire time. All I had to do was validate my drivers license, and they still refused to accept me at Preferred because they print the preferred customers in the
morning. Almost missed my flight.

* Europcar in Israel - cheaper but I wasted an hour in line to _return_ the car.

* In Aruba (I think), Avis doesn't tell you they run shuttles to the airport and you have to wait 30+ min for the shuttle to come around and pick you up.

* I rented 26' trucks from U-Haul twice. Both times went well, though the first truck was very bouncy and the second truck's engine light was on, but otherwise I got from A to B with no issues.

But this all pales in comparison to this car rental company in Moldova (Eastern Europe) that took $100 to book an SUV a month in advance, and then when I arrived they said "we don't have it". The only car they had was $50/day more expensive and instead of apologizing and giving me that car, despite being more expensive, they told me that my only option was to pay more to get this car. They were fixing the A/C outside while I was trying to explain to them that it was a ridiculous demand. A bunch of crooks. I walked away. Sixt was a better experience there, and cheaper than Avis, though 4rent.md is definitely the best option with great customer service.
I don't think we should be coercing their government to do anything, we should educate our own citizenry, build infrastructure to protect against it, lobby the international community to make a legal process for it, or all three
This all worked without this approach, this is why interpol and fbi have collaborative projects.
>Remember where you heard it first.

I first heard it in a book written in 1986. It showed debt growing exponentially and forecast hyperinflation and economic collapse. People have been crying about that particular wolf for quite a long time.
For at least some types of retail products, it seems like a system of standardized, reusable containers could be workable - the same Amazon, UPS, USPS delivery vans that bring a constant stream of packages to my apartment building could collect and return them without much additional energy expenditure.
Have had a look at both Borg and Restic, but even Restic which is supposed to be faster iirc, was extremely slow on my computer.

Been much more happy with my tries with https://kopia.io which also includes an optional cross-platform GUI, in addition to the CLI.
If nothing else, it definitely violates the spirit of the second amendment. My digital self should be as secure and protected as my physical brain under the eyes of law.
> It's hard to craft good law when the mismatch between public stated desire and public behavior is so wide.

Some people would also sell their right to vote for $5 if that was legal. It's not hard to make such a law. You simply could make it illegal e.g. to offer money for PII during a purchase that doesn't strictly require it. Or to not respect the automatically transmitted cookie choice. Those who oppose such laws are the lobbyists of the big companies, not "the people".
You may still be considered just as conscience, but I'm not convinced you would be the same consciousness as before.
I can't tell if you're being sarcastic or not.

I was responding factually to the assertion. I didn't state whether I thought it was right or speculate on the motive. On that though:

I agree that medical workers should have received priority for supplies they need, both because they obviously need to be kept healthy to help everyone, and because it seems fair to do so.

I doubt the CDC would base their guidance on that though, although it does say that medical workers need them more, their statements imply that normal people didn't need to wear them to prevent the spread of the disease, which is what the CDC was after, not necessarily stating that it wouldn't help people to wear them, although I think the assertion was also somewhat that it wouldn't help people to wear them. Of course, this changed as they learned more. Even today, I believe this is the state of things, masking helps you somewhat, but it's even more beneficial for the people around you.

That said, I wouldn't approve of the CDC giving false guidance about masks to protect medical workers. Even if medical workers should get priority, and the government had to enforce that, the CDC should be trustworthy, and shouldn't lie, even if it's beneficial.
Wow, this brings me back. My son is now in 9th grade, but I remember having to go to the principal's office of his private school in 4th grade because he'd "hacked the school tablets to install games on them" and, in doing so, rendered the tablets inoperable. After talking to the principal and teacher (IT guy was on vacation, apparently) about how serious and disruptive it was, I still had no clue about what he'd actually done.

Later, when we got home, I asked him what he'd done and he let me know that he learned that if he turned-off WiFi via the physical button on the tablet, dino game would appear in the browser. Naturally, he showed his friends, and they all made the great decision to play the game in class.

The next morning, I dropped him off a little early so he could show the teacher how to access the game and how to turn WiFi back on.
>This creates a steep marginal tax rate (100%), which still results in a disincentive to work.

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This is not the system being described.
This is very nice and thorough.
I sense that many people consider organizations and groups of people as a definite thing. A country, the Google, the Facebook, etc, talk about these like if they were a reliably formed predictable object or entity. While those are an ever changing blob composed of ever chaning composition of people with ever changing views, intentions and agenda in an ever changing environment. Any relationships with those are momentarily only. Relying on promises from those? Like building a house on a solid cloud. No such thing. The saying is especially true in case of big entities formed of humans: a promise is like a fart, you hold it while you can.
This (and other product like this, like copilot, ghostwriter, etc) was inevitable.

With the rise of meaningless jobs [1] it was inevitable that the writing and responding to non-productive emails, PowerPoints and blogposts would be outsourced to AI before we as a society could admit they were non-productive, that is, not making any goods, discoveries or any happiness.

Now, we only need to wait for an AI that kan duplicate a perfect likeness to stand in for us on Zoom or Teams calls.

[1] Bullshit Jobs: A Theory is a 2018 book by anthropologist David Graeber that postulates the existence of meaningless jobs and analyzes their societal harm. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bullshit_Jobs
Currently I'm dumping everything to Chrome-bookmarks and Notion in broadly categorised pages(like income, physics, fitness, etc).

I move the most interesting ones to my Google-Keep, which I use as my short-term daily checklist.

I'm planning to eventually migrate all of this to Obsidian for a unified lightweight solution and setup live-sync across my devices.
Are there a standard set of benchmarks these python JIT projects use?

I’m very interested in adding something like this to some projects but it needs to be 10-100x faster to be worth the hassle. Otherwise, for our applications, it’s a better time investment to rewrite in Go and get the speed and pro tooling than to further optimize python.
Yeah I recycle glass, cardboard, metal, and "high quality" clean plastic (mostly bottles). Bags, wrappers, envelopes, food containers, any sort of foam, and other similar packaging/padding material goes to the landfill.
Recent and related:

Massive Southwest Airlines disruption leaves customers stranded - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34145286 - Dec 2022 (102 comments)
Farming Robot Kills 100k Weeds per Hour with Lasers
Prolonged non hostile exposure is what prevents conflict. Otherwise you get radicalization.
When Algorithms Rule, Values Can Wither
At one point I worked on the very systems they used (dialers, PBX, internal CRMs), with the carriers that enabled it. This wasn't an opinion of mine, I was merely passing along real-world information from someone who worked in the industry (me). Many in this thread completely underestimate the volume these centers call at. We aren't talking hundreds of thousands of minutes per month per center. We're talking millions of minutes. Cost per minute is a massive cost
even at 1/6 increments. The call center we ran, that was direct marketing / support typically had telecom bills well into the 6 figures every month at the height.

Their scams are purposefully asinine. It's not profitable to spend time and effort into tricking the wise into an unwise act. It's far more profitable searching for the unwise to act in kind. So when you throw your hands up asking "Who would fall for that!?" The answer is typically: Someone who'd be willing to buy a gift card or share bank account info. This contradicts your last point that a given locale is more or less likely to be scammed given the native language.

Language barriers are a part of the issue, yes, but these centers are capable of calling and speaking a number of languages. Cost and regulation are the big factors here. Just like any other business model. I got out of the business (telecom / direct marketing saas) right when EU started raising fees and coming down on some of the bad actors. Unfortunately for the US, that meant those bad actors focused even more in the US.

Also, the scams really aren't as profitable as you'd think most of the time. They generally can't afford more than a $50 CPA at best. Again, they have to turn heavy volume to get to their target market. They also rotate "offers". You hear about the big "wins" a lot (Grandma scammed for 50k+) but those are outliers. Typically it's $20 here, $100 there. Again, volume.
Phone companies make money by the minute.
Experian Vulnerability Shows Any Report with just SSN, DOB, ADR
Right, so what for are the US military bases on European soil then? (Please spare me the part about protecting Europe from outside threats story). Would they leave if we asked nicely enough? Like Pretty please? Would it really take just that?
> These two in conjunction allow you to verify trust.

No, they don't. They only allow you to verify that some entity that possessed some private key made some claim about some set of bits. It tells you absolutely nothing about whether any of those claims are actually true, including whether the possessor of the private key is who they claim to be.
Please don't take HN threads into nationalistic flamewar. It's not what this site is for, and destroys what it is for.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
There is a fundamental reason why this might not work out.
We might be getting close to information theoretic and thermodynamic limits of computers with modern transistors.

For example, photons don’t help if it’s theoretically impossible to dissipate heat any faster.
Health care in canada is limited by availability, and there's often a wait to be able to see a doctor. If a patient has waited in line to see a doctor, but the doctor they draw fails to treat them, a referral allows the patient to see another doctor instead of being sent to the back of the line again.

A doctor should not be able to impede or delay somebody's legal right to medical care just because they have a personal objection to it.
Periodic tests of joints and valves to ensure they aren't leaking or stuck, respectively. Servicing the air/water separator so that the stored air is dry rather than moisture laden, causing condensation and rusting inside the piping and storage tanks (see: stuck valves). Changing the compressor oil. Making sure no one stuck a metal blank on the emergency relief, making it useless. Hydrostatic load tests of the storage tanks. Things like that.
Are they blocking you outright or are you required to do captchas?

From a 2016 post CloudFlare states they don’t block Tor traffic and don’t let their customers block the traffic either but they will put restrictions such as captchas in place [1].

1: https://blog.cloudflare.com/the-trouble-with-tor/
To ensure the American government passes EU friendly laws
This is just deflection followed by a statement without evidence.
You don't really need $70K, the idea is to keep up with inflation (by investing) and overprovision enough to protect yourself from market volatility (big cash buffer, bond ladders, etc)

Most people right now will probably be considering annuities to offload some of the risk
What’s the deal with Cisco devices in `file` output, anyway?
> Disabled folks and veterans are put through the ringer daily for no good reason.

And if you have the audacity to navigate the phone tree to a human and accidentally get off script (i.e. ask them a question that's literally not on their script, which you as the random disabled citizen can't possibly have visibility on), you had better check your privilege. Because they are not going to help you any more. You fell off the last leaf node in their knowledge graph and are now something foreign to them. It can get very Kafka-esque.
Voice revenue has been replaced by cellphone bills which are mostly broadband.
I will attempt to explain, and I describe myself as "right wing" although it may be more accurate to call myself "romantic conservative":

It is typically useful to ask yourself the following questions about any version of society:

- Can you keep your stuff?

- Can you do what you want with your stuff?

- Who has the weapons?

- Who won't be punished for making you do something?

Right wingers tend to go on and on about "freedom", but through examination of these four questions it becomes clear that they don't mean it. They don't want you to keep your stuff if you acquired your stuff through theft, so they support a legal system that can prosecute "thieves", meaning that they decide what's "your stuff", and you can't keep it if they decide it's not yours. They don't want you to become trans, abort babies, start anti-national propaganda outlets, etc. so you're not allowed to do whatever you want with your stuff. They only want people who aren't criminals to have weapons, meaning that there are some people who shouldn't have the option to revolt if they want to. They are mostly unwilling to punish police officers even for major transgressions, so they want the martial caste to be immune to consequence.

It is clear that all of the talk about "property rights", "liberty", and "freedom" is social posturing in order to appear more morally unimpeachable than their perceived opponents. Most people have semi-authoritarian views about the society in which they wish to live, and right-wingers are no different. Some of these ideals are noble in nature, but the actual implementation of these ideals in reality still requires authority prosecuting violations of rules regarding possession, trade, etc.

Therefore, there's no real need to be surprised when "property rights" don't extend to your own body per "right wing" politics; "property rights" isn't actually a meaningful principle among most right wingers, it's merely an ideal that they wish to use as the basis for certain portions of the authoritarian society in which they wish to live.

(Another example is loud music; if you own a stereo (your property) and your lot (your land) and you play loud music (your speech), most freedom-loving conservatives will do whatever they can to get the damn music off.)
It's a tough geopolitical situation, and europe does not protect itself. The US already has access to european data through datacenters anyway, so it seems prudent for the western world police to cooperate as well.
Javascript was famously rushed out in ten days, and ended up eating the world.
They already are in some jurisdictions.

It doesn't actually cost them much per item, but in aggregate they'll foist the cost onto consumers where they are allowed.
Show HN: Free video conferencing over WebRTC in Go
Never never had lidar.
And it is so hard to get back on the Disabilities list once you are removed.

My dad is in his 80s. He has an "90% Disability" in the form of hearing loss due to being in the army and manning missile tubes for his 20s. He kept us safe from the Russians, and he has a lot of great stories about German Women, and German Spies, and Russian Spies... to hear him tell the stories of being part of the first American military force in Germany since WW2... I know he really enjoyed it. But, training German soldiers, and running missile tests with loud sirens, left him pretty much deaf as a rock. Age didn't improve the condition.

Long story short, Dad was almost 80, and I had bought probably 4 sets of hearing aids before I realized, "Hey can't we get the VA to pay for these?" And yes, turns out we could -- but it took over a year of pestering the right people to get him qualified. The funny point here... Dad has a really hard time with automated phone systems. High-pitched voices, especially. And all these systems use female voices... When left on his own, he couldn't move the needle. "Press 7 to schedule an appointment..." yeah -- he can't hear to press the right button.

So it took a lot of my time. Lots of patience with the VA... and we got it.

The first thing we had to sign was a form saying, "No back pay, not responsible for anything in the past. Not gonna cover any past bills." OK, fine.

Then Dad offered to help a neighbor and help out at the cash register at a local gas station / bait shop over some holiday weekend. And he sold the guy at the store a horse trailer and an old pickup. And, not thinking, he just got one check for the "wages" and equipment.

Anyway all hell broke loose. Like the same people that take a year or more to get you in the door, will come down on you in a matter of weeks if you mess up. And because Dad couldn't deal with the phone calls, "Press 8 to speak to a real person to explain your claim..." he just ignored them. Dumb on his part.

So then 2 years later, we got Dad's disability payments back. They didn't offer to back-pay for the time they mistakenly kicked him off. Total shit show how hard they make it.

And the use of all this automated shit, when they know he's "90% disabled for hearing" -- no way around any of it. It's all pretty garbage. Best thing to do is just not need help. =P
Medical insurance alone would be $20k per year for most people in the US.
Spammers etc have the resources and the know how to detect shadow banning. Just use a VPN and perform a trivial check. The typical user who gets shadowbanned are the ones paying the highest price (posting into a void for years without knowing it).
The FIRE community were definitely extrapolating from a 15 year bull run and assuming they had the foresight to find the next FAANG for the next 40 years. I like a lot of the FIRE stuff but I didn’t the numbers held up over a long retirement when you factored in inflation.
Business can be conducted via webex and zoom ornon neutral 3rd party grounds if need be.

I would feel sorry if american tourists would need a visa for europe, as the americans which do travel and get aroynd are the nicest people, first timers get to see the world from another perspective.

I prefer if americans travel for holidays rather than....forgive me...in military uniforms.
EU compensation for cancelled flights is all of that plus a monetary sum: https://europa.eu/youreurope/citizens/travel/passenger-right...

edit: though there is an extraordinary circumstances exception below. I'm not sure if this would qualify as that given that it's a combination of an adverse weather event and a technical system collapse.
Needing $1M has not been needed to retire comfortably for a great many people. While Canadian-focused, book The Sleep-Easy Retirement Guide has good numerical examples:

* https://findependencehub.com/qa-with-author-david-aston-abou...

In Table 5-1, he lists some real-life example of couples spending, with the average basics (shelter, groceries, vehicles, etc) totalling CA$ 42K and with average extras (entertainment, travel, etc) going to CA$ 72K. A "modest" couple spends CA$ 56K per year, and an "affluent" example couple spends $112K. In Table 5-2 he does the same thing for single retirees: the average single retiree spends $27K on basics and with extras $42K total; an "affluent" single retiree spends $90K.

Then in Table 12-1 he lists what nest egg is needed for each of those: a couple with a modest income needs of $42K needs to have $420K saved to retire at age 60 and $150K to retire at age 67. A deluxe lifestyle couple ($100K) needs $2M saved to retire at 60, and $1.3M to retire at 67. For singles, an average lifestyle ($43K) needs $810K to retire at 60 and $510K to retire at 67; a deluxe single ($80K) needs $1.8M to retire at 60 and $1.4M to retire at 67.

The book gives the arithmetic supporting these conclusions. But for a quick example, for the 'basic' lifestyle ($42K) couple: the author assumes each person gets $18K/year in CPP (Social Security) and OAS, which totals $36K just from government benefits. This is a pretty reasonable assumption, as the average OAS is $600/mo and the average CPP is $700/mo, for $1300/mo ($15,600/year):

* https://www.qtrade.ca/en/investor/education/investing-articl...

* https://www.wealthsimple.com/en-ca/learn/how-much-cpp-retire...

Getting to $18K is not a stretch, if (a) you get a little above average, and (b) get more by delay taking the benefit to >65. For a couple, that is $36K per year, so getting to the desired $42K is "just" another $6K per year. With the common "safe withdrawal rate" of 4% we get $6K÷4% = $150K retirement nest egg.

A summary by the author is in:

* https://pmac.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/07-02-series-ari...

* https://www.macleans.ca/economy/money-economy/heres-the-real...

Fred Vettese, a now-retired actuary, also has two good books with similar conclusions:

* https://lifeworks.com/en/resource/essential-retirement-guide...

* https://lifeworks.com/en/resource/retirement-income-life

* https://rationalreminder.ca/podcast/104

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frederick_Vettese

A lot of folks also use the (supposed) rule of needing 70% of your pre-retirement income: in fact as little as 40% may be needed, per Vettesse:

* https://www.theglobeandmail.com/globe-investor/retirement/re...

* https://archive.ph/tQp2L
As someone else - you should be doing this even if you're staying on lastpass.

It's what I've spent the last few days doing (hundreds of passwords), but then again, I'm also moving to bitwarden.
Okay, so someone in a labcoat tackles me, gives me a shot, tells me it is for my own good, then runs off. That's ... okay?

The end result is irrelevant. It's the "she had an orgasm, so how could it be rape?" defense. The recipient must consent, and they must be in full possession of the facts for them to make that decision. Even if it is a decision you do not agree with, it is still theirs to make.
for Windows, Linux and Mac OS

Derivative of lite editor

Plugins

Lightweight:

We are currently around 3MB in size and takes about 10MB in RAM (can be lower). The whole thing is just Lua running on a rendering engine.