skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This narrow view of addiction is also missing the fact that smoking has many positive effects. I smoked from age 13 to age 38, and I’m pretty sure smoking made my life better overall.

Besides allowing me to socialize more easily, it’s an incredibly potent stress reliever which allowed me to deal with sensory overload and other stressors (I’m autistic). Nothing comes even close to how quickly it can defuse stressful situations.

The fact that something nudges you to take a break and a few steps every hour is also something I miss tremendously. I always joked that I was the in-house bug hunter and hard problem solver because I’d walk the stairs every hour and would solve the problem on the way back up.

Now that I’ve quit, many things in my life have become much harder. I need to be conscious of my stress level at all times and plan for mitigation through cardio, ear protection, fixed schedules. A 1h run achieves the same result as a 2 minute cigarette break would, and I have to set an alarm to remind me to take breaks. Because of Covid and consequent work from home, this has all become manageable, but I don’t think I could function in normal society very well without picking smoking back up.
>Firstly, many people, even smart ones are bad at mental math. The idea extra charges are added at the end is literally a dark-patterns used to trick people into spending more money because they are bad at doing this.

You are making a fair point that most people can't math.

On the other hand, people who can't do very simple math have bigger problems to worry about than tips.

>Next, why do _some_ waitstaff make a lot of tips, and not others. You don't acknowledge how in almost every biased way possible tipping promotes some people, and punishes others.

At least in theory, the point of tipping is to reward good staff and punish bad staff. The whole point of tipping is to create an income gap, with the hope that staff will be incentivized to be "good" staff so they make more money and be on the better side of the gap.

It's not unlike good employees getting paid better than bad employees, the only difference is that the incentives come from your customers rather than your employer.

>Lastly, I personally find tipping and therefore your slightly aggressive defense of it, kinda gross? It's a power-trip at the end of the day to control someone else's actions with your money. Sure, that's life, but with tipping it's so blunt.

Even without tips we are all going to engage in "controlling someone else's actions with money". That fancy restaurant that just billed you 3 or maybe even 4-digits? That money is so the staff are incentivized to treat you like nobility, among other luxuries you just enjoyed.
Can you not just sign into the iTunes Store without signing into iCloud? They’ve always supported that for legacy users that shared a single Apple ID for all their purchases with their family.
This very interesting, will go through it. Thanks for sharing.
Really like this tool, glad to see it here.
The transition in case is from IDNA 2003 processing to IDNA 2008 processing. The internet was and is rather late in adopting the latter. Just ten years ago it wasn’t a sure thing that it would be adopted in the WhatWG spec and in browsers:

https://annevankesteren.nl/2012/11/idna-hell
But we also see universal healthcare in most developed countries. The US has moved somewhat in that direction, and has been there for decades for everyone over 65.

Speaking of which, Medicare would save enormous amounts of money if it made anti-aging meds available to all of its recipients. Mass-market drugs aren't the most expensive ones, and anti-aging drugs would have to be pretty expensive to outpace heart surgery, cancer, and extended hospital stays. My mom for example cost Medicare a million dollars just for her last year. The government also pays a lot of nursing home expenses, which would also mostly go away.

Then there's retirement. The world is facing an enormous demographic crash, because it's been urbanizing and urban populations have fewer kids. Birth rates are below replacement rates, in some cases far below. China's is around one, and its population started shrinking last year. It's going to be harder for governments to pay for retirements from shrinking tax bases. If people were healthy enough to keep working, that problem goes away too.

Shrinking populations aren't great for economic growth either. Wealthy people tend to have a lot of money invested in stocks, and if they want them to keep going up, they'll support anti-aging for everyone.

There are some other reasons for them to support it too. One is that no anti-aging treatment will be perfect right out of the gate. The more people are using it, the quicker the problems will be found and fixed. If the elite keep it to themselves, they'll be the ones encountering all the problems.

And finally, if you're not aging then accidents and violence are much more prominent risks of death, percentage-wise. Having anti-aging tech and not sharing sounds like a great way to get yourself killed by the envious masses.
Multiple server vendors now have Ampere offerings. In 2U, you can have:

* 4 Ampere Altra Max processors (in 2 or 4 servers), so about 512 cores, and much faster than anything those Raspberry Pi have.

* lots of RAM, probably about 4TB ?

* ~92TB of flash storage (or more ?)

Edit : I didn't want to disparage the compute blade, it looks like a very fun project. It's not even the same use case as the server hardware (and probably the best solution if you need actual raspberry pis), the only common thread is the 2U and rack use.
No, they don’t make a difference.

Generally credit scores falls in wide bands that give a general credit risk.

573 vs 605 are both very high risk and you’re getting slammed regardless.

The scores are no more arbitrary than the requirement that bankruptcies roll off your score after 7 years. It’s not 6 years, or 6 years and 364 days, it’s 7 years and yes being on either side has a massive impact.
Benchmark it once on each device. Then have a user-friendly slider.

"Do you want your security to be:"

a) "It only secures pr0n from my aunt" (1s for fetching a password)
b) "Not great, not terrible": (5s for fetching a password)
c) "Pretty Good Protectivity": (10s for fetching a password)
d) "The CIA haunts me and my name is Edward: (24 minutes for fetching a password)
This is because nobody carries any cash around anymore. And it's not socially acceptable for waiters to ask customers how much they want to tip. You just tap your card on the portable terminal.

As for the service being terrible, it can be. But British people generally don't like to be interrupted during their meal. So the waitstaff have a tougher job to be present but not harassing.
Thanks for the warning, but tell me dang: what leverage does society have against those who would destroy it? What do you do when some people operate beyond accountability of any sort? How is that advocating for spitting on a sociopath who'd ruin thousands of lives for a buck is more offensive than advocating for ruining thousands of lives for a buck? You're right about dog bites man; I addressed that. And then, I wondered out loud about the (fundamentally technical) question of how to bring accountability back to those that don't have it. Frankly, if I was a billionaire I'd much rather get a corrective signal like getting spit on than a corrective signal of being taxed into oblivion.

But fine, I'll stop advocating for soft power expression in integrated communities, and start advocating for the wholesale dismantling of the billionaire class. Is that okay with you?
Safari is way faster than Chrome on iOS
Fighting Apple's monopoly behaviour around Safari is not fighting for chrome.

Since you asked, Firefox is the browser to use if you do not want chrome.
Perhaps we should prepare for this by building nice, user-friendly sandboxes that run Chrome inside it.
"These things are insanely noisy to the point of being meaningless."

Goldstein and Spiegelhalter did a paper on league tables for organisations (e.g. schools and hospitals) along the lines that noise in the data made the results questionable.[1]

Perhaps the idea transfers to individuals within an organisation that uses stack ranking?

[1] https://www.bristol.ac.uk/media-library/sites/cmm/migrated/d...
“no results” page is a goldmine: use it to drive your product
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> site that loads fast

What are you talking about. It takes over a second to load everything and the content jumps once or twice as it is loading. If this was a static website, not a 'web app', it would load faster without jumping around.

Now don't get me wrong, the design is amazing for a coffee shop, but it certainly isn't fast.
No, why would homes be more affordable? Credit would tighten up immensely starting with those who don’t have sufficient income.
those things are insanely expensive though, I priced a 2core machine at 20,000 EUR without much ram or SSDs.

I'm keeping my eyes open though.
I think it's important to point out that I didn't "call" any swath of people anything; I flipped the accusation of engaging in antisocial behavior that's routinely leveled at childless, hedonistic smokers on its head, and made the counter-argument that our impact is relatively small compared to people who willingly have children. That is definitely an unpopular view, and I'm proud to state it. You can totally consider it unproductive and debate it on the merits. As to the feelings my point of view engenders, 1. my comments don't really matter and you are free to ignore them; 2. you're free to discuss or debate them; 3. you don't need to take them personally, because I'm just one person with my own opinion. As unpopular as it is. You can't expect everyone to only write things you love and agree with, especially those who aren't directly responding to you or didn't know you existed until moments ago. I'm sorry if my thoughts hurt your feelings.

[edit] Taking a break from the internet is never a bad idea, though. I could probably use one myself. I could use another trip. I do wish the alternative to staying home wasn't getting on a plane with everyone else's children... only slightly kidding.
Yes, service is added as a 20% charge based on the total bill. This is to offset the absence of tipping. If you simply add 20% to menu prices, it has other adverse consequences that reduce employee income in practice.
And the saddest part is that our youthful years are also frequently consumed with emotional tumult, angst, poor decisions born of inexperience, financial insecurity, and more. Probably middle age is the best of both worlds we can have now.

But living much longer is definitely something to be desired, and I don't see why people have a problem with it.

Imagine having a young body into your 100s. People do change their mind with experience and age, mostly for the better, so I think it will be a net good thing. Having a long time at your physical best would allow the world to benefit more from the experience, wisdom, and skills acquired.
> They own 0.5% which is nothing compared to other investors

But it is still a signal to manipulate the job market. If many tech companies agree openly to fire employees that will have consequences, if many tech companies just happen to get the same signals from some investors about firing people then is not that just a happy coincidence that may depress the market and lower salary without any manipulation to be blamed for?
No, that is not correct.

All AMD CPUs since the first Opteron in 2003 until before Bulldozer had a 64-bit integer multiplication throughput of 1 per 2 clock cycles.

Initially the Intel CPUs had a much lower throughput, but they improved in each generation, until they matched AMD in Nehalem.

In Sandy Bridge, Intel doubled the 64-bit integer multiplication throughput to 1 at each clock cycle.

On the other hand, AMD reduced in Bulldozer the 64-bit integer multiplication throughput to 1 per 4 clock cycles.

The FPU of Bulldozer had the additional advantage of implementing FMA, but the total throughput in FP multiplications + additions of the 4 Bulldozer FPUs was equal to the total throughput of the 4 Sandy Bridge FPUs.

While you are right that calling Bulldozer a 4-core CPU does not change the user expectations about ST performance, it totally changes the user expectations about MT performance.

In 2011, the people were not as shocked about the low ST performance (though they were surprised that it was lower than in the AMD Barcelona derivatives), because that was a given ever since Intel had introduced Core 2, as they were shocked about the low MT performance, seeing that an "8-core" CPU is trounced by a 4-core CPU.

After being exposed to the AMD propaganda, it was expected that Bulldozer was unlikely to match Intel in ST performance, but it should have a consistent advantage in MT performance, due to being "8-core".
The thing is this is something which would only benefit application where your customers are using the API through your service somehow because it would be very difficult to control direct customer usage without any supervision of results for let's say a FAQ bot without strong guarantee of stupidity leakage
It's because it doesn't implement FIDO2 but only the older U2F standard. It's a bit of a dated key and I wouldn't recommend it.
> fuzzy fingerprints due to stuff

lol
If Apple was forced to compete on iOS for the dominant position that Safari holds, it would receive greater investment, add support for vital missing PWA features and potentially as a result grow its desktop market. I believe competition in the long run would break Blinks dominant position, and be better for both consumers and developers.
Epyc Embedded and possibly some Ryzen Embedded devices.
Tipping is awkward. I feel guilty of being an ashole in both cases: if I don't tip I feel like I'm a greedy asshole, If I do tip I feel like I am playing an arrogant aristocrat. I wish everybody would just rise the prices and pay their employees enough for them to be happy without tips.
That's "a plague on both their houses" but 75/25 split the crown estate profits go to general exchequer. Sure, French metric tonnes of money fund the royals lifestyles but the London property market is huge. Yuge.
I'm using Firefox on my Windows, Mac and Android, and I don't remember when was the last time that I had to open Chrome.
In Germany https://www.online-zahlen-mit-fido.de/ supports paying with Security Key.

In America I know only of https://mercury.com
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I (and many others I suspect) like web apps exactly because they cannot do what native apps can. If a web app was allowed to do what a native app why would I use a web app? It would just bring the bad sides of native apps to web apps.
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There are various options:

1) Instead of getting sick and feeble, enjoy your health until you've had enough, then take up free climbing or wing jumping, and enjoy that until you go out with a bang.

2) Save your money, and periodically take a sabbatical for a few years.

3) Find a job that doesn't seem worse than slowly falling apart until you die.
I pointedly refuse to add any tip when the only special "service" is ringing up my purchase. I've become resigned to accepting the unpleasant glares of staff as I dial their tip to zero. That I'm even put in that position is just grossly antithetical to customer service. So here's my tip to all you business owners: pay your people, make it transparent, and stop annoying and insulting your customers.

Tipping has become a burden and nuisance for most Americans. We need a plan of action to remedy this.
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I quit smoking the old-fashioned way so I don't have a first-hand experience in that matter, but I was thinking a lot about this once. I belive patches and gums may not work in every instance. Please let me provide some context.

I was smoking for around 7 years, from my late teens (jus a couple smokes per day) to my early 20' (1.5–2 packs per day). I haven't smoked in quite a few years, I think it's close to 10 years, I don't count anymore.

I have never felt addicted to nicotine. To cigarettes, yes. I was addicted to all those little smoking rituals, gestures, and to all that social behaviour around smoking. I liked going out on the balcony in the morning in my bathrobe just to smoke. Or go out to the garden with another smoker after a party and have a conversation that wouldn't otherwise happen. Hell, I even liked the gesture of shaking the ashes off a cigarette.

Smoking was also a way to deal with boredom for me, a bit like a smartphone now. I'm waiting for a bus that won't arrive for 15 minutes? That's a great time to smoke a cigarette or two.

To the point: would nicotine patch help me to quit smoking? Probably yes, on the long run. Would gum / snuff / snus limit my craving to cigarettes to the point where I could work in a completely smoke-free place? I do not think so.
Yes, he might just be the milky bar kid. Coolest pair of specs in the west.
Im a smoker, and damn the plane story sounds terrifying. In fact Im smoking now, in my bathroom next to a loud exhaust fan because my wife isn't here. A far cry from when my dad used to smoke next to me while I was doing my homework :D

In fact in my city, Hong Kong, they are now under 10% of the population smoking, and on the street, when I smoke at the ashtray reserved for that on top of the public trashes (yeah, it's not a luxury habit anymore), people wave their hands in front of their nose while passing, "loudly" signaling my alien nature, something I had never experienced in France where I come from.
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You couldn't set any if these alternative browsers as the default until fairly recently. That ensured their market share was kept to a minimum and people have gotten so used to Safari few people find it worth switching now.

Also, Safari has some super powers compared to the others on iOS (things the other browsers are simply not allowed or even able to do like Add to homescreen)
The crown estate belongs to the reigning monarch but it isn't their private property[1]. Income from the crown estate gets remitted to the government in return for the sovereign grant.

[1] https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2023/jan/19/cash-and-the...
Most hotels don't have a kitchen tho. Killer difference if you like making your own food.
Dick predicted all of this before many of us were even alive.

There is likely no escape from an inhuman future.
Same. They remind me of worse times. It was very clear to me as a child that smoking was killing my grandfather. It eventually did. I'm glad I never see these any more.
Finally!

Pity it is only for newest OS versions. : ((
>We're the only species to systematically (and of course casually) care for other species.

Homo sapiens are far from the only species that deliberately co-exist with others ("caring").

We humans like to put ourselves on a pedestal, that we're a special species. As far as I'm concerned: No, we're not special. We're animals just like our animal peers, and we're just another species to exist upon this planet. Humans might be (and are) amazing, but that's because life in general is amazing.
An open secret of the server hardware market: public prices mean nothing and you can get big discounts, even at low volume.

But of course the config I talked about is maxed-out and would probably be more expensive than 20k. It would be interesting to compare the TCO with an equivalent config, and I wouldn't be surprised to see the server hardware still win.
Could you please link to or expand about plants producing toxins that specifically keep animals from breeding? It's news to me, and a web search has failed me. Is that long-term pest control, or something else?
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It's not clear to me how to build a business based on RPi availability. And the clones don't seem to be really in the game. Are Raspberry Pis becoming more readily available? I don't see that.
Would it kill a popular mechanics magazine to maybe treat us like adults, and say how many in production, deployed, failure rate, rate of change, how it correlated to scale...
Very true, of course. People used feet and heartbeats because that was the only thing available. Even so, we need something in that timescale, and millidays are way too fast for a human to count. Feel free to suggest something better, as I have no idea.
As a nit, Arm does not make chips. There are no semiconductors you can buy that contain Arm processors and are manufactured by Arm. They strictly do business around licensing their various intellectual properties (i.e. designs for processor and graphics cores) [1] and let their customer integrate that and build actual chips.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arm_(company)#Operations
The ones who actually commit atrocities always start out as edgelords.
"We’ve developed an aesthetics of complexity: the sense that a good system is a complex one, that you should prefer a SPA over a web page, a distributed system over a simple one, a service over a config file, the idea if you aren’t on the latest technology you’re wasting your time, and potentially damaging your career."
In all fairness, your probably right. It's likely they're doing this to cut down on support demands regarding complaints. There's probably going to be a downsizing of their support teams soon.
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Like I said, my own language has accents and my own name has accents. I value practicality and being available, if I'm taking the time to create a website and host it. I would think the OP would be familiar with the fact that every single website in their country, even when the brands have accents in their names, do not use them in their URLs. Their choice is a novelty one. I'm not sure why you're getting offended over something that is purely practical and that affects me personally and I still do the practical thing.
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To me, this relates to a broader subject: the way prices are displayed.

In Europe, laws basically mandate that what you as a customer see on a price tag or price list, is what you ultimately pay.

You don't have to do any guesswork, looking at the fine print, compute anything in your head. You pay the price that is displayed, and there should be no expectation from any one that you pay anything above that.

When I go to a restaurant, I'm not like buying the food on the one hand, and the service on the other hand, and everything that the taxes cover above all that. I'm paying the restaurant for dining, which includes the food, the service, and whatever taxes the restaurant has to pay.

The details are none of my business... and I shouldn't have to do any contorsions to compare prices between restaurants!
Thanks for sanity.

I do understand the specific of the US situation, I’ve leave there since the last decade. In a very touristy city to boot, so a large part of my social network rely on tips.

But the lack of awareness from our US friends to understand that they are the exception, not the norm in that particular regard is a bit disconcerting.
A lot of DRM (especially game DRM) solutions don't care about reliability or stability.

If they figure a way that makes it harder to reverse or run or whatever, they will do it. Even if they are essentially rootkits bad enough someone really should try to see if CFAA would stick.
In fact, many Chinese sites use numbers instead. Easier to type, easier to memorize.

https://mediaoptions.com/blog/understanding-numeric-domain-v...